The Hepatitis Epidemic - and natural treatments than may help

[Guest guest]

Tony Isaacs

http://health.oleander soup

 

Today, an estimated 5 million Americans are infected with Hepatitis C

- and most of them don't know it. That is 1 out of every 50

people.....and some will be people you know. One out of every 10

Veterans is infected, 62% of Vietnam Vets have it. Three people with

Hep C die every day, two of them are Veterans.

 

Hepatitis C is considered an epidemic and is now killing more people

than Aids/HIV...30,000 a year and it's going to get much worse. The

number of adults seeking liver transplants for hepatitis C infection

will skyrocket in the next 20 years. An estimated 10,000 to 30,000

Americans die from this disease each year. Deaths are estimated to

increase because of the increasing risk of infection, and the

resulting cirrhosis, portal hypertension, thrombocytopenia, bleeding

from varices, and liver cancer. Five years ago, 20% of hepatitis C

patients were candidates for liver transplantation and today the

number has increased to about 50%.

 

According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), by the year 2008

the cases of decompensation will increase 279%, liver-related deaths

223% and the need for liver transplantation 528%. Considering that we

don't have enough organs now and people die on transplant lists, far

too many of those precious lives will be lost. For those fortunate

enough to find a donor, the process costs roughly $300,000 during the

first 3 months, and can be painful and incapacitating. Add to this the

thousands of dollars for anti-rejection drugs and the costs of

aftercare more frequent visits to health care facilities. The other

option, debilitating and woefully ineffective chemo, runs into the

tens of thousands of dollars and more and has success rates in the

mere single digits

 

Hepatitis C is called the dragon, because it sleeps for many years and

one day, suddenly, it wakes up and ends your life (people who got

infected 20-30 years ago may just now find out). The Hepatitis C virus

is very old and very smart.....it doesn't kill quickly like the old

HIV virus or like the Ebola virus. Hepatitis C has chosen to infect

the liver. The ONLY organ capable of regeneration. It simmers for many

years, keeping its host alive. It is so smart it uses our own immune

system against us.

 

Nobody knows exactly where it came from. During World War II, an

unlicensed yellow fever vaccine was released to immunize our troops

who were going to the South Pacific. To stabilize the vaccine,

scientists used serum from Australian Aboregenese, hoping they were

immune to endemic illnesses and that immunity would then be passed to

our troops. Years later, it was discovered that 50% of the Aboregenese

had Hepatitis B and C. A study done by the Veteran's Administration

later PROVED that over 320,000 of our troops were infected. Thousands

of them fell ill with hepatitis and hospitalized or quarantined in

their barracks. When they came back home, they were encouraged to

donate blood. A monster, with the power to mutate, had just been

unleashed.

 

Hepatitis C is transmitted through blood only. That means blood

transfusions with contaminated blood before 1992 (because blood was

not screened), tatoos, body piercing, needle sticks, IV drugs with

contaminated needles, manicures that made you bleed (instruments are

not sterilized), sharing razors, toothbrushes, anything that could

pass infected blood to your blood. Even doing IV drugs once could have

given you the virus or sharing straws with someone that had nasal

sores or bleeding.

 

A mutating virus for which there is no vaccine. It has many strains

and substrains. By the time they figure something about it, it's

already mutated into something stronger. 70-75% of people have

genotype 1, the strain most difficult to treat. 95% of Veterans who

have Hep C have genotype 1. The success rate with traditional modern

medicine treatment is only about 50% and treatment is a whole year and

side effects from the medications are cruel. For Veterans, success

rate is only 19%....and sadly, even that treatment is approved for

only 11.8% of them.

 

The Hepatitis C virus causes diabetes (40% of genotype 1 have

diabetes), it affects the brain causing depression, it causes lung

problems, neuropathy, fibromyalgia, Sjogren's, cardiac problems, skin

problems, arthritis, stomach problems, anemia, fatigue, and of course,

cirrhosis. After cirrhosis comes DECOMPENSATION. The liver stops

working, the skin and sclera become yellow, your belly looks like

you're pregnant, you're unable to process protein, you get anemic,

confused, the kidneys stop working and many bleed to death.

 

Many of the people that are infected already have severe liver damage

and don't know it....and they are going to be looking at herbal

products to treat the symptoms they are having. What many people do

not know is that there are at least two excellent inexpensive

supplements that can be used for hepatitis. First of all, colloidal

silver has been been used by a many hepatitis sufferers who swear by it.

 

Secondly, there is an excellent herbal supplement treatment regimen

for hepatitis that is all natural, inexpensive and might be

extraordinarily effective. Most people in the United States are not

familiar with the Berkson Clinical Study on Hepatitis-C, a study that

was never published in the United States, despite Dr. Berkson's

impressive credentials that include Rutgers, the Max Planck Institute

and the Center for Disease Control (CDS) in Atlanta.

 

It has been suggested that the real reason the study has never been

published in the states is due to the fact that liver transplants are

highly profitable for mainstreams medicine, costing over $300,000 in

the first three months alone, plus many thousands of dollars

afterwards for anti-rejection drugs and aftercare.

 

In Doctor Berksons study, which was 100% effective in a limited study

on three advanced hepatitis-C women patients who were facing either

transplants or chemo, he used a combination of three commonly

available and inexpensive natural supplements, along with healthy

modificatioins in diet, exercise and lifestyle.

 

And what are the supplements? Milk thistle (silymarin), alpha-lipoic

acid and selenium - all commonly available and inexpensive. I have

used milk thistle for years, after reading long ago that it was deemed

effective at not only protecting the liver but also in regenerating

damaged livers by the German E Commission (their equivalent of the

FDA). Now I take all three supplements to help offset a fondness for

another natural substance - blue agave (smile).

 

A third item is one I often write about, oleander extract, which is

not readily available in the United States but can be made at home

according to the directions for " oleander soup " which are posted at

various locations on the internet, including the non-profit website of

The International Wellness Directory (formerly known as The Minnesota

Wellness Directory) at http://www.mnwell.dir.org

 

In treating any disease or illness, it is usually an excellent idea to

cleanse the body of toxins (toxins help promote disease and retard

healing). A liver cleanse is a very good procedure to use to help

treat hepatitis as well as a good one for anyone to use as part of a

healthy anti-disease lifestyle. And, since good health begins in the

gut, the same holds true for cleansing the colon. Liver and colon

cleanses are widely available online and at retail natural health

product outlets.

 

Live long, live healthy, live happy!

 

Tony Isaacs

http://health.oleander soup