DOCTOR YOURSELF Newsletter (Vol 2, No 25) November 5, 2002

October 21, 2002

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" After breakfast, I visited Linus Pauling, who was staying in the room next

to mine. When I walked in he was busy with a hand calculator. I told him

that on the basis of my fifty patients I had concluded that he and Dr.

Cameron were right, that vitamin C in large doses did improve enormously the

outcome of treatment for cancer. "

Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D., FRCP©

( http://www.doctoryourself.com/cancer_hoffer.html )

The DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER (Vol 2, No 25) November 5, 2002

" Free of charge, free of advertising, and free of the A.M.A. "

Written by Andrew Saul, PhD. of http://www.doctoryourself.com ,

a free online library of over 350 natural healing articles with nearly 4,000

scientific references.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO DR. ABRAM HOFFER!

(85 years young on November 11, 2002, and in very active practice)

People worldwide owe their good health to Canadian physician, researcher,

author and humanitarian Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD. Readers of this Newsletter

share some of their stories below.

BIPOLAR DISORDER AND WORSE

Dear Dr. Hoffer,

I " lost " my mind in 1997 after my third child was born. In 1999 I was

finally diagnosed with bipolar disorder and was put on lithium and Paxil.

For the next two years I lived life from the couch with not enough energy to

cook meals or respond to the children's needs. I cycled every three days and

dealt with almost constant horrible suicidal thoughts. There was a constant

war going on in my head even though my body was made lethargic by the

medications. My weight grew from 123 to 200lbs until March of 2001, when I

discovered nutritional therapy.

Originally I was interested in finding energy to be able to exercise to slow

down or stop the weight gain, but to my surprise in addition to the energy I

was hoping to find, my mental symptoms disappeared within just a few weeks

of supplementing. I was then able to get off the medications that were

making me lethargic, causing me to gain weight, and to not be able to care

for my children or home.

I have my life back, and my children have their mother back. Of course my

doctor thought of me as another " noncompliant " patient refusing to take her

lithium. I feel very fortunate to have your research and that of others in

your field to back up the " miraculous " healing that I experienced. It gives

me much comfort and assurance that I am not the only one being helped so

tremendously by megavitamin therapy ... and that this is for real and not

just a misperception on my part as my doctor would like for me to believe.

For the past 19 months, my mind has been at peace. I've been able to work,

and to homeschool my children. I have lost 60 of the 80 lbs I gained on

medication. I have the energy and mental capability to cook, make and live

by a budget, clean my home, cut my grass, and chauffeur the kids to church,

scouts, the library, playgroups, etc. We also have been able to start a

family home business which is successful.

My children and I thank you for the work you do and hope you have a happy

birthday and rewarding life.

Sincerely,

Marlena and children: Ashley (9), Heather (7), and Philip (5)

FAMILY HEALTH IMPROVES

Claire writes:

" Since becoming aware of the ineffectiveness of conventional methods of

treating illness, I fell upon the studies of Dr. Abram Hoffer. My older

sister was diagnosed as schizophrenic at 18 years of age. My father was

diagnosed with Diabetes II and had high blood pressure. He later had a

stroke and became disabled. My mother has arthritis and high blood pressure.

I have learned that these illnesses were, and are, caused by ignoring

nutrition.

" I began to take pains to build my life on a foundation of nutritional

consciousness. As a result, I feel that my husband, children and I are not

subject to as many illnesses as other families. I attribute this to what I

have learned about nutrition and vitamins.

" Thank you Dr. Hoffer. Your work has opened our minds and empowered us. And

thank you Dr. Saul for sharing your work with so many through the internet. "

POSITIVE HEALING ATTITUDE

K. A writes, after reading Dr. Hoffer's articles:

" Wow! You make me want to get up early in the morning and begin healing! "

MORE THANKS

" It is a privilege to honor a man who contributes so much to the health and

welfare of his fellow humans. I honor you for the work you have done to

relieve human suffering. What a wonderful world it would be if the majority

of others in the health professions followed your example of working with

the laws of nature. In so doing, you have provided relief from pain and

suffering while at the same time treating the cause of illness and restoring

a higher degree of balance to the patient.

" In your many years of selfless service to the human community, I think you

have put in action the intent of this quotation: " All that is true and real

is always simple, natural, and life supporting. "

" May your work and life continue to flourish. "

Sincerely,

John I. Mosher, PhD

Professor Emeritus, Biological Sciences

State University of New York

And I'd like to get my own personal appreciation in here, too:

Dear Dr. Hoffer,

Having followed your work for over 25 years now, I owe you a most sincere

debt of thanks. I have found everything that you've

written to be extremely accurate and unusually helpful. It is difficult for

me to fully understand why orthomolecular medicine has been rejected so

thoroughly by the medical profession. My experiences in employing niacin and

vitamin C have been consistently successful. I'm not surprised that many

people still don't take my word for it, but it mystifies me that you, and

Dr. Pauling, and other highly qualified scientists, have been unjustly

ignored.

I hope the http://www.doctoryourself.com website is a productive, living

compliment to you. I thank you for the influence you have had on my career,

and thank you for your knowledge, which helped me raise my children all the

way into college without even one dose of an antibiotic, ever.

Respectfully yours,

Andrew Saul

A previous DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER devoted to Dr. Hoffer's 50 years of

practicing nutritional medicine is available for you to read at

http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v1n22.txt

Would you like to know a bit more about Dr. Hoffer's life story, in his own

words?

http://www.doctoryourself.com/life_hoffer.html

About Dr. Hoffer's dosage recommendations:

http://doctoryourself.com/hoffer_niacin.html

http://doctoryourself.com/hoffer_anecdote.html

About cancer and nutritional therapy:

http://doctoryourself.com/cancer_hoffer.html

http://doctoryourself.com/hoffer_vitc_can.html

http://doctoryourself.com/chemo.html

http://doctoryourself.com/hoffer_cancer_2.html

About cardiovascular disease and nutritional therapy:

http://doctoryourself.com/hoffer_cardio.html

About how to separate megavitamin facts from the myths you hear:

http://doctoryourself.com/hoffer_factoids.html

http://doctoryourself.com/hoffer_paradigm.html

About Dr. Hoffer's work and the media:

http://doctoryourself.com/hoffer_editorial.html

About a famous patient of his:

http://doctoryourself.com/CSF_endowment.html

About the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine:

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_JOM.html

Books Dr. Hoffer recommends you read:

http://doctoryourself.com/hoffer_reviews.html

About psychosis, schizophrenia, and other mental illnesses:

http://doctoryourself.com/hoffer_psychosis.html

http://doctoryourself.com/review_hoffer_B3.html

http://doctoryourself.com/hoffer_krypto.html

About vitamins effectively substituting for tranquilizers:

http://doctoryourself.com/hoffer_future.html

My personal experience using Dr. Hoffer's protocols:

http://doctoryourself.com/psychiatry.html

How about everything Dr. Hoffer has written?

http://doctoryourself.com/biblio_hoffer.html

Dr. Hoffer says:

" Thank you very much for writing and expressing your

appreciation of what I have been doing for so many years. I kept going

because I saw my patients recover when no other treatment worked and because

I have so many colleagues around the world who found the same therapeutic

responses with their patients. But the history of medicine is full of ideas

and treatments which are acceptable today but which were rejected out of

hand for 40 years and more. It is the way the medical profession has of

dealing with really new ideas. You are certainly going to help so many

people by sharing this valuable information. "

A. Hoffer

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and I am proud to be one of Dr.

Hoffer's most ardent imitators. Proof of this follows below, as I postulate

the Doctor Yourself Laws of Natural Therapeutics, which are derivative from

and/or inspired by Dr. Hoffer's book, " Hoffer's Law of Natural Nutrition

(Quarry Press, Kingston, ON, 1996).

THE DOCTOR YOURSELF LAWS OF NATURAL THERAPEUTICS

LAW: Most non-accidental illness is due to malnutrition.

This not only includes the chronic diseases, but also viral and bacterial

acute illness, which are greatly aggravated by inadequate nutrition.

Conventional physicians are still available to persons needing them for

traumatic injury.

LAW: Adding drugs to a sick body to cure it is like adding poison to a

polluted lake to clean it. Killing microorganisms, or masking the cause of

symptoms is no more than a temporary answer in either case.

LAW: Restoring health must be done nutritionally, not pharmacologically. All

cells in all persons are made exclusively from what we drink and eat.

Neither the chemical spraying a sick plant nor the chemical vaccination of a

sickly child can substitute for really good nutrition.

LAW: Nutrient therapy increases individual resistance to disease. Drug

therapy generally lowers resistance to disease. Healthy plants, healthy

animals and healthy people do not get sick. Doctors do not admit to this,

because healthy people do not go to doctors.

LAW: The quantity of a nutritional supplement that cures an illness

indicates the patient's degree of deficiency. It is therefore not a megadose

of the vitamin, but rather a megadeficiency of the nutrient that we are

dealing with.

LAW: The number one side effect of vitamins is failure to take enough of

them.

LAW: With vitamin therapy, speed of recovery is proportional to the dosage

given. As there is a certain, large amount of fuel needed to launch an

aircraft or a spacecraft, there is a certain, large amount of nutrients

needed to cure a sick body.

LAW: Vitamin C replaces antibiotics, antihistamines, antipyretics,

antitoxics, and antiviral drugs at saturation (bowel tolerance) levels. This

is the single most inflammatory statement in medicine.

LAW: The reason one nutrient can cure so many different illnesses is because

a deficiency of one nutrient can cause many different illnesses.

LAW: A vitamin can act as a drug, but a drug can never act as a vitamin.

LAW: With vitamin therapy, at any given quantity, frequently divided doses

are more effective.

LAW: The advertising of a given food is inversely proportionate to its

nutritional value. If you couldn't miss seeing it on TV, you probably can do

without it.

LAW: The price of a food is inversely proportional to its nutritional value.

Brown rice, beans, vegetables from your garden, sprouts from your own

countertop jars, fruits from your own trees and bushes. all are superior to

meats and prepared convenience foods that cost a fortune.

LAW: Media publicization of a nutritional research study is inversely

proportional to its curative value. The most popular news stories about

vitamin therapy tend to be either worthless, or negative, or both.

LAW: Being you own physician refers to your overall management of your case

yourself. It is about rights and about power, not how many diplomas you have

accumulated. " Doctor Yourself " is a practical philosophy, based NOT on your

mastering all aspects of scientific medicine, but based rather on the

reasoned application of effective health knowledge where you personally need

it.

LAW: The principles of natural therapeutics are fairly simple, but they are

not easy. What you need to do to Doctor Yourself is less than you might

think but more than you might want. Lifestyle changes (in diet, routine, and

choices) can be unpopular.

LAW: Health recovered is proportional to effort expended. You do not have to

live an inflexibly perfect life to have a much healthier life... but it

helps.

LAW: Health knowledge worth having does not go out of date in ten years or

even one hundred years. " New " does not automatically mean more accurate or

more valuable. " Old " research and clinical studies are often superior

references. What works is never out of date. Fasting, near-vegetarian diet,

use of nutritional supplements, and other non-pharmaceutical methods have

stood the test of time, as have Einstein's theories and the Bill of Rights.

Those unaware of the power of simple and safe natural methods are in this

position because of contradictory and confusing media reporting.

LAW: Most confusion over " what constitutes proper healthcare " arises from

partisans. A " partisan " is a highly one-sided source. Bias against vitamin

supplements usually proceeds from persons and industries who stand to lose

when cheap, natural health care succeeds. Hospitals, physicians, nurses,

dieticians, politicians, pharmaceutical companies and others have a vested

(cash) interest in disease.

LAW: Many conflicting reports about vitamin therapy come from natural health

partisans. These include vitamin distributors, individual supplement

companies, brands and even practitioners trying to corner as much of the

market as they can for themselves. Ignore them.

DO-IT-YOURSELF, 30 SECOND TRIAGE

What's wrong? And does it always matter?

" Vitamin C should be administered while the doctor ponders the diagnosis. "

Frederick R. Klenner, M.D. and Fellow. of the American College of Chest

Physicians

If you do not feel well, and I would go so far to say for almost any reason,

try this deceptively simple game plan. Go out of your way to promptly get to

saturation of the following four key nutrients: niacin, vitamin C, water,

and carotene. It is uncomplicated, fast-acting, and very effective on a wide

variety of illnesses.

1) GET TO NIACIN SATURATION, which is indicated by a mild, warm, pink-eared

vasodilation known as a " flush. " (Inside Windsor Castle it is doubtless

known as a " Royal Flush. " ) If you are feeling stressed, anxious, depressed,

worried or just plain ticked off, try this while you are pouring that double

shot of bourbon and counting to ten: Immediately take 100 to 200 milligrams

of niacin (not niacinamide) every ten minutes until you feel warm. . . and

happy. If you think this will not work, it's because you have not tried it.

I refer to the niacin, not the bourbon.

While we're at it: Some FEARLESS FLUSH FACTS

If I had a dime for every person worried about the " flushing " they

experienced when taking large doses of niacin, I'd be a rich man. Niacin

flushes are harmless. Some people (including me) enjoy them, especially this

time of year, as they are accompanied with some welcome warmth. Dr. Hoffer

says that the more niacin you take now, the less you will flush later.

Time needed to see improvement: less than an hour.

2) GET TO VITAMIN C SATURATION, which is indicated by bowel tolerance. That

means, take a few thousand milligrams of vitamin C every ten minutes until

you get, or feel like you are about to get, diarrhea. This will both clean

you out and jump-start your immune system. Vitamin C in quantity is the best

broad spectrum antitoxin, antibiotic and antiviral there is. Cheapest, too.

Time needed to see improvement: less than a day.

3) GET TO WATER AND CAROTENE SATURATION. This can be simultaneously achieved

by twice-daily juicing a big stack of vegetables, such as carrots and any

green or orange vegetable. Yes, green as well as orange veggies are

absolutely loaded with carotene. Yes, you really do have to drink it. What

are you afraid of? When's the last time a person died of vegetable overdose?

Saturation of carotene is reached when your skin turns a partial-pumpkin,

lovely orange-tan color. Called " hypercarotenosis, " it is harmless. Looks

cool, too, much like a suntan.)

Abundant water intake is guaranteed by abundant juicing. When your tummy is

full of juice and you have to urinate a lot, you are at water saturation.

Inside your skin, you are an aquatic animal. Water is good. Veggie juice is

better. If you are worried about getting enough trace minerals, relax: most

are amply found in the vegetables.

Time needed to see improvement: less than a week.

If you think I have lost what's left of my marbles, think again. I have

never been more serious. When I work with very sick people, the first

" homework " I give is to go flush, reach bowel tolerance, hydrate, and turn

orange. Sounds preposterous, doesn't it. But people who do so feel better

immediately. Their tests improve immediately. And they learn something of

lasting practical value.

YOU WON'T SEE THESE WRAPS IN RESTAURANTS ANYTIME SOON

This month's JUICING HINT: " Veggie Wraps "

Take one or two broccoli leaves (or cabbage leaves, kale, or even leaf

lettuce) and wrap them around each carrot that you juice. Send the wrapped

carrot through pointy end first. This reduces clogging and improves the

nutrient content of your juice. Taste? Better than you think. Fresh carrots

are pretty sweet. Of course the smell of pulverized broccoli leaves is a bit

of a jolt: sort of like a meadow after a rain, or the smell of new-mown hay.

Personally, I do not mind it. You'd expect that by now, wouldn't you. Pull

up a glass and join in the fun.

GRAVES DISEASE

" I usually approach Graves Disease by first giving standard solution

potassium iodide (SSKI) to control the symptoms (and occasionally fix the

problem right there). I don't like using kelp because you don't really know

how much iodine you're getting. For the SSKI, I usually follow the PDR

recommendation of about 30 drops a day (not all at once!) mixed in a healthy

volume of water. You get tingling if you take it too fast. I'll do that for

a week or two, depending on the response, then adjust or stop. Repeat later

if needed. But do watch it, for too much iodine can be toxic.

" Then I go after the autoimmune aspects by using protocols similar to those

from the Arthritis Trust

http://www.arthritistrust.org (click " Education " and then " Articles " ). Of

course, all patients start out with instructions for a healthy diet and

supplements--after all, you must get the basics right before you can expect

anything else to work. As for supplements: the basic multivit/multimin plus

omega 3 fatty acids, but that's for anyone that walks through the door,

regardless of what's wrong.

" Though there's more to add, this is a good start for most folks. "

Peace,

Tim Simmons MD

http://altdoc.250x.com

NOTMILK NOT-CREDITED

Sue writes:

" Forgive me for correcting you, but the

http://www.notmilk.com site belongs to a personal friend of mine - Robert

Cohen, not Dave Reitz. Dave is the webmaster, but the site belongs to

Robert. Just want to give credit where credit is due. "

(Editor's Note:

They both do a great job. Thanks for keeping me honest.)

Joe writes from Oregon:

Regarding your correspondent whose natural info on Graves was suppressed at

an internet discussion site: I have become aware that other groups also

suppress natural healing information. I felt censorship from the

Fibromyalgia and CFIDS groups, almost as if they were controlled by BigPharm

companies. If they're not, they've found some passionate true believers as

surrogates. Flaming of natural health posts is common. Even some

" alternative " sites seem to have been co-opted. "

(Others, including myself, have noticed just what you have, on 'net

newsgroups such as misc.health.alternative, sci.med.nutrition and

alt.health, for example. Keep right on posting what helps people get well.)

FROM THE NETHERLANDS

" I like your Newsletters, and yes, I got what you wrote in Dutch in the last

issue. Only: rule number one for any affirmation is that it should be

phrased in a positive sense. Words like 'no' or 'not' drop away. Therefore,

when you want to program yourself to be and stay healthy, the best phrasing

in Dutch would be:

IK BEN GEZOND!

(I am healthy!)

" For not being sick does not automatically mean being healthy. "

" Kindest regards,

Désirée L. Röver, medical research journalist

rovercopy "

(Editor's Note:

Dank u wel! You are absolutely correct: putting health in positive terms is

best.)

FINALLY: A GOOD REASON FOR FLUORIDATED WATER

Fluoridated water making better ice to play hockey on for the Philadelphia

Flyers, says the Philadelphia Enquirer (Friday, October 18, 2002)

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/sports/hockey/nhl/philadelphia_flyers/4/430

9979.htm

(If that long link didn't come through, just go to the Inquirer's sports

page at

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/sports ,click " Flyers, " and go down the

page to the seventh news item, " Flyers Notes: Tap Water Working Well " .)

Thanks to the New York Coalition Opposed to Fluoride for this and other

great anti-fluoride facts. Be sure to sign up for their free e-mail

newsletter at the very bottom corner (talk about modesty!) of their mainpage

at

http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof/

To read the Coalition's excellent, educational press releases:

http://www.enn.com/direct/display-by-affiliate.asp?id=1765

Also be sure to see

http://www.fluoridealert.org

The " LINKS " page at my website

( http://www.doctoryourself.com/links.html ) has more fluoride sites, and a

search for " fluoride " at http://www.doctoryourself.com/supersearch.html will

bring up my writings on this subject.

YEAST OR CANDIDA

Some people think that to avoid yeast infections, you should avoid yeast.

This sounds almost plausible until you think about it. As with sharks,

spiders, and snakes, there are all kinds of yeasts, but only a few of them

are troublemakers. Most yeast infections are caused by one particular

species, Candida albicans. These fungal critters, which are found in any

healthy body, are normally kept in balance by your other resident flora of

" good " bacteria and other microorganisms. But a low immune system, stress,

poor nutrition, and especially antibiotic use, can bring on a Candida

overgrowth.

You do not cook with Candida when you bake bread. You do not eat Candida

when you eat cheese. And even if you did, I doubt if Candida could survive

the trip through your highly-acid stomach. And your body is quite happy

digesting brewers' and nutritional yeasts, which are very nutritious, and

loaded with B-vitamins, trace minerals, and the Glucose Tolerance Factor

(GTF). I think categorically eliminating yeast from the diet is barking up

the wrong microbial tree.

For the various forms of yeast infection, I first recommend vegetable

juicing and a near-vegetarian diet, including plenty of unsweetened yogurt.

This helps get the entire body's microbe population back into balance.

Eliminating sugar is an absolute must. Candida love sugar, so starve the

little beggars. In addition, to help bring prompt symptomatic relief, I

suggest megadoses of vitamin C. Used in sufficient quantity, I think it is

superior to nystatin, imidazoles or any other pharmaceutical you may be

offered. You can expect to encounter widespread disagreement with this

statement.

Instructions for oral megavitamin C use, with references, written by medical

doctors, will be found at

http://www.doctoryourself.com/titration.html

http://www.doctoryourself.com/ortho_c.html

http://www.doctoryourself.com/klenner_table.html

http://www.doctoryourself.com/klennerpaper.html

ORAL Thrush (Candidiasis or Moniliasis)

Direct application of vitamin C is an effective antifungal treatment. Due to

where thrush is commonly found, and to the fact that ascorbic acid is, well,

acidic, it is recommended that for topical use you select calcium ascorbate,

sodium ascorbate, or any other non-acidic form of vitamin C. Adding a few

drops of water to a half-teaspoon of vitamin C powder makes a nice paste

that will adhere to the skin when applied with a " Q-Tip " type of cotton

swab. Another method would be to make a vitamin C spray, using additional

water and a cheap sprayer bottle from your local dollar store.

Homeopaths frequently recommend Borax, 3X or 6X, for thrush.

VAGINAL Thrush (Candidiasis or Moniliasis)

Some women have successfully employed ascorbic acid vitamin C tablets (250

mg) as twice-daily vaginal inserts. But you should get a medical opinion

before you self-treat. And if you want to choose a drug therapy, you go

right ahead. Ask around, check the library, do an internet search, and read

up on this to be comfortable with your decision.

VIRUS SEASON

is here again, and for netizens that unfortunately means computer viruses.

Be sure you have an up-to-date-this-month antivirus system operating on your

computer. Cautious people know that to help avoid computer viruses, it is

good policy to **never** open attachments to any emails you may receive,

even if they are from someone you know or from an address you recognize.

Viruses routinely fake return addresses, and absolutely anyone can be

thoroughly fooled.

You can get fully functional (not a trial edition) antivirus software

absolutely free from

http://www.grisoft.com . Select " Download AVG Free Edition. " Remarkably,

updates from the Grisoft website are also free of charge. They are currently

at update number 228.

If you wonder if a free antivirus program can be any good, consider that

this recommendation comes from a fellow who has used it, who publishes this

international newsletter. . . and who never opens or reads attachments, nor

sends any attachments to his rs. (And no advertisements, either.

Never.)

Taking care of your computer is much like taking care of your body: an ounce

of prevention is worth a ton of cure.

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October 21, 2002

There are " alternative " doctors that are telling people to keep intake of

vitamin C at 500mg or less. I've seen claims that excessive vit. C can

actually result in hardening of the arteries. I recently read, on another

health list, that plain ascorbic acid is of little use, because it isn't a

complete vit. C.

At the same time, doctors such as Linus Pauling and others, have told us

that vit. C in huge, megadose amounts is beneficial to human health, and

that there are many cases where megadoses of C have lessened and even cured

heart disease and other serious ailments.

Wow! What a mess this has become. Why this incredible polarizing of views?

How are people supposed to deal with these contradictory assertions?

Every time I read a new claim about C, I readjust my dose. I've taken,

daily, 500mg, 1gm, 2gms, 3gms, 4gms, 5gms, 6gms, etc. But I never feel like

what I'm taking is clearly beneficial or clearly harmful, because the

" authorities " are in great disagreement.

What we need, though I don't blame people for not taking on such a

difficult, dreary and complex challenge, is to identify the central

objections being made about megadosing with C, and address each objection

with sound argument and research. Of course, it's more likely that people

will simply do what they " feel " like doing, based on, under which " experts "

and other influences, they've fallen sway. That's certainly where I find

myself. I don't have any idea what to do about C.

-

" Frank " <califpacific

Sunday, October 20, 2002 8:11 PM

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