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" Andrew W. Saul "

DOCTOR YOURSELF Newsletter (Vol. 4, No. 5 February 5, 2004)

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" For schizophrenics, the natural recovery rate is 50%. With orthomolecular

medicine, the recovery rate is 90%. With drugs, it is 10%. If you use just

drugs, you won't get well. "

(Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D.)

 

The DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER (Vol. 4, No. 5 February 5, 2004)

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

 

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SHE SAT IN THE CORNER, silently. The 55-year old woman's face was in shadow,

invariably turned down and towards the wall. And that's where she stayed,

day after day. She had no appetite, and she never spoke to anyone. Her

family had tried seemingly everything. Yes, she was under the care of a

psychiatrist and yes, she was on medication.

 

" Actually, she's been on a whole lot of different medications, " her daughter

told me. " None of them has helped her, and several made her worse. She tried

to kill herself several times. Now she seldom moves from her corner, and she

never says a word. Is there anything you can do? "

 

At times like this, what you want is a wand to wave. But life so rarely

resembles a Harry Potter story. This was all too real. Maybe the patient was

past caring, but her family sure did. As I talked to one of her sons, the

living room started to fill with relatives. I don't know where they all came

from; the working-class neighborhood city house must have had a really big

kitchen. Presently, all the relatives had created a semi-circle around me

waiting to hear something profound, something encouraging, something good.

That, or perhaps they were merely intending to hinder any quick escapes if I

did not produce.

 

I felt uneasy, and who wouldn't? We all feel a little uncomfortable, don't

we now, when face to face with the entire family in an unresponsive, if not

downright despairing, situation.

 

But I had been called in to offer an opinion, and the time had come. I

suggested the best orthomolecular therapy I knew of: megadose niacin, in

multi-gram doses. Then, I mentally braced myself for their reaction.

 

There was no reaction. Nothing. But they didn't run off, either.

 

So I continued. " Because she is so sick, your mother might need an

exceptionally large amount of some vitamins, especially C and the B-complex.

But her foremost need is for niacin, really large quantities of niacin. "

 

" How large? " asked a male relative on my left. That question you can count

on.

 

" Thousands of milligrams a day, in divided doses, " I answered. " Possibly

even 10,000 milligrams or more, every day. "

 

They all listened. I got the distinct impression that they were weighing the

gravity of what must certainly have felt like a hopeless situation against

what must have sounded like a pretty simplistic solution.

 

But they still did not run off. Some of the family now sat down, on chairs,

the old sofa, and on the well-worn gray carpet. There were not enough seats

for everybody.

 

The inquisition shall now begin in earnest, I thought.

 

Not at all. I was asked a series of intelligent, commonsense questions about

the safety and administration of high doses of niacin. As best I could, I

explained niacin's low toxicity and the need for large and divided doses. I

told them to expect, at least initially, some pretty strong but harmless

" niacin flush " side effects. And, I presented the need to educate their

attending doctors as to what the family was now doing. Finally, I outlined a

therapeutic trial based on starting with 1,000 mg/day of niacin, and

gradually but steadily increasing the dose by an additional 1,000 mg every

day.

 

" How will we know when to stop increasing the dose? " asked a son-in-law.

 

" When she responds, " answered his wife. " Right? "

 

" Yes, " I said. " The goal is to give enough niacin to see good results. You

all will be the judges of that. "

 

" Will she have to keep on taking the niacin forever? " asked a different

daughter.

 

" Yes, but not necessarily as much as she'll need initially. We first need to

see if she responds at all. But if it works, why stop it? "

 

Everyone nodded. Nobody smiled. Tough crowd.

 

I left with a distinct feeling that I had contributed precious little to

that family's hopes.

 

Man, was I wrong. I got a call about two weeks later from a profoundly

relieved, and positively delighted daughter.

 

" Mom is just fine, " she said happily. " She's sits at the dinner table now.

She talks to us, talks like nothing happened. It's incredible. She's off all

medications. It's the niacin: it made all the difference in the world. "

 

" That is wonderful news, " I said. " How much niacin is your mother taking

now? "

 

" 11,000 to 12,000 milligrams every day. "

 

" Do you happen to remember at what level she experienced a niacin flush? " I

asked.

 

" That's easy to answer, " replied the daughter. " She never flushed at all. "

 

Wow. 11 or 12 grams of niacin a day and no flush. Makes you think, doesn't

it? But results are what matters in any therapeutic trial. A huge amount of

niacin, along with the other B-vitamins and vitamin C, had done the job. A

very big job.

 

" This is great! " said the daughter. " We have our Mom back! "

 

That was a beautiful moment.

 

Sometime later that month, the family took the fully mobile and now

positively talkative mother to see her psychiatrist. She didn't need to go,

but they all wanted the doctor to see the recovery with his own eyes.

 

I was not there, but I heard about it afterwards.

 

" The doctor told all of us that there could be some side effects with that

much niacin, " said the daughter. " Especially changes in liver function.

Also, he said that Mom's skin looked slightly darker to him. The doctor said

she should not take niacin because of it. "

 

" None? At all? " I said.

 

" Right: none. He told her, and all the rest of the family, that she should

be on medication, not on some vitamin. "

 

" It is medication that has the harmful side effects, not the niacin, " I

said. " And here is a quote from the world's expert on niacin megadose

therapy, Dr. Abram Hoffer: 'Niacin is not liver toxic. Niacin therapy

increases liver function tests. But this elevation means that the liver is

active. It does not indicate an underlying liver pathology.' If your doctor

wanted to do monitoring tests, that is one thing. But to take a successful,

already working therapy away from a seriously ill patient is another. "

 

It really mystified me then, and it still does today: just why are so many

physicians prejudiced against vitamin therapy? Decades ago, Frederick

Klenner, M.D., was so frustrated by his colleagues' flat rejection of

megavitamin therapy that he wrote that some doctors would rather see their

patients die than use vitamins.

 

I asked her what the family had decided to do now.

 

" We've already done what the psychiatrist said, and Mom no longer gets

niacin. She is back on drugs, three of them. "

 

The daughter then paused. I knew the worst was yet to come.

 

" And, " said the daughter, with a choke in her voice, " Now my mom is back in

the corner. "

 

Indeed, this was no Harry Potter story. It was, I am sorry to say, much more

like the medical tyranny illustrated in " One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. "

When doctors prefer patients to people, we have a problem.

 

We also have a solution: just say no. Fire your doctor. And take your

vitamins.

 

For more information on niacin therapy for schizophrenia, psychosis, and

related mental illnesses, please look at

 

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

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

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

http://www.doctoryourself.com/review_hoffer_B3.html

 

Or, do a search for (Dr. Abram) " Hoffer " from the main page of the

http://www.doctoryourself.com website.

 

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT:

Dr. Abram Hoffer, Dr. Hugh Riordan, and other outstanding nutritional

physicians and scientists will be speaking at the International Society for

Orthomolecular Medicine's 33rd Annual Conference, " Nutritional Medicine

Today. " It will be held at the Fairmont Waterfront Centre Hotel, Vancouver,

British Columbia, Canada, April 29 - May 2, 2004.

 

This year, I will be presenting a paper Friday morning, April 30. I also

have the honor of being the master of ceremonies for the Inauguration of the

Orthomolecular Hall of Fame, Saturday May 1 at 7 pm. May I have the

envelope, please?

 

If you would like information on attending, please write to the Journal of

Orthomolecular Medicine office at 16 Florence Ave., Toronto, Ontario,

Canada, M2N 1E9 (requires 60 cents postage if you are writing from the USA),

or you can email centre .

 

PHARMACEUTICAL DRUGS: DANGEROUS AND DEADLY

 

770,000 hospital patients suffer adverse drug reactions from taking properly

prescribed drugs in the prescribed doses. And this figure is just for one

year, and just for the USA. Furthermore, there are 140,000 deaths

attributable to properly prescribed prescription drugs, every year, say Dr.

D. C. Classen and colleagues. (Classen DC, Pestotnik SL, Evans RS, Lloyd JF,

Burke JP. Adverse drug events in hospitalized patients. Excess length of

stay, extra costs, and attributable mortality. JAMA. 1997 Jan

22-29;277(4):301-6.)

 

If overdoses, incorrect prescription, and adverse drug interactions are

figured in, total drug fatalities number over a quarter of a million dead.

This means that every two years, prescription drugs kill about as many

Americans as have died in total from AIDS in all years combined up to 2001.

(http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/stats/hasrsupp81.htm)

 

Prescription drugs are demonstrably one of the very largest causes of death

in the United States. The authors say, " An adverse drug event is associated

with a significantly prolonged length of (hospital) stay, increased economic

burden, and an almost 2-fold increased risk of death. "

 

There is not even one death per year from vitamins.

(http://www.doctoryourself.com/safety.html) Poison control center statistics

prove it. Even critics of vitamins admit it. (Rosenbloom M. Vitamin toxicity

http://www.eMedicine.com October 23, 2001.) Search for yourself and see for

yourself. For a definitive medical journal compilation of papers on the

safety and efficacy of vitamin therapy, please look at

http://www.orthomed.org/jom/jom.htm .

 

HOSPITALS: DANGEROUS AND EXPENSIVE

 

" During the study period, there were 247 adverse drug events among 207

admissions . . . of which 60 were preventable. " Preventable adverse drug

events added 4.6 days to the hospital stay, with an average extra cost of

nearly $5,000. " Moreover, these estimates are conservative because they do

not include the costs of injuries to patients or malpractice costs. " (Bates

DW, Spell N, Cullen DJ, Burdick E, Laird N, Petersen LA, Small SD, Sweitzer

BJ, Leape LL. The costs of adverse drug events in hospitalized patients.

Adverse Drug Events Prevention Study Group. JAMA. 1997 Jan

22-29;277(4):307-11.)

 

DRUG DOCTORS: DANGEROUS AND FALLIBLE

 

If you wish to consider actual errors in prescribing, be absolutely sure you

look at these important papers:

 

Leape LL. Error in medicine. JAMA. 1994 Dec 21;272(23):1851-7.

 

Wears R, Leape LL. Human error in emergency medicine. Ann Emerg Med. 1999

Sep;34(3):370-2. Comment on: Ann Emerg Med. 1999 Sep;34(3):373-83.

 

Leape LL. Institute of Medicine medical error figures are not exaggerated.

JAMA. 2000 Jul 5;284(1):95-7.

 

Keep your eyes on Lucian Leape, M.D. He has righteously raised public

awareness of what the medical profession sweeps under the rug every day.

Based on Dr. Leape's research, it looks as if they are using a big, big

broom.

 

Medical politicians (or political physicians) trying to discredit such

whistle-blowing are in for a hard time. Dr. Leape is on the faculty of the

Harvard School of Public Health. " Prior to joining the faculty at Harvard,

he was professor of surgery at Tufts University School of Medicine and chief

of pediatric surgery at the New England Medical Center. Dr. Leape was a

founding director of the National Patient Safety Foundation, the

Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Error, and the Harvard

Kennedy School Executive Session. He led the Institute for Healthcare

Improvement's first Breakthrough Collaborative on Prevention of Adverse Drug

Events. He was a member of the

Institute of Medicine (IOM) Quality of Health Care in America Committee. . .

Recent awards include the Distinguished Service Award of the American

Pediatric Surgical Association (1997), the Robert Wood Johnson Investigator

Award (1998), the Donabedian Award from the Medical Care Section of the

American Public Health Association (1999), . . . and the Pinnacle Award from

the American Pharmaceutical

Association (2001). Dr. Leape is a graduate of Cornell University and

Harvard Medical School. " (Lucian Leape and healthcare errors. Interview by

Pamela K Scarrow, Susan V White. J Healthc Qual. 2002 May-Jun;24(3):17-20.)

 

I find it especially interesting that neither JAMA, or Medline (the medical

research index and search engine,

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi) has seen fit to include

article summaries (abstracts) for much of Leape's most incisive work, nor is

there easy access to the dialogue the controversy generated. Leape drew

extensive heat from the medical profession. For a sampling of the brouhaha,

please see JAMA. 1994 Dec 21;272(23):1867-8; JAMA. 1995 Aug

9;274(6):457-460; author reply 460-1.

 

Perhaps we are known by the opponents we make. The good news is that

Harvard's Dr. Leape is on the side of truth.

 

POX, SPOTS, MEASLES & MUMPS

When I was a boy, measles was nothing much more than a free ticket for two

weeks off from school. Mumps, at least in the mirror, was kind of funny. And

chicken pox? The worst thing about it was the name. All these illnesses were

" cured " by doing nothing but staying home, eating chicken soup until it came

out of our noses, and watching game shows such as " Concentration, "

" Password, " and " To Tell the Truth. "

 

Are kids today missing out on all this? Now that there is a vaccination for

everything, I do not think absenteeism is any lower than when I went to

school, and it may be higher. In fact, I think attempts at artificial

immunity have denied children their birthright to a rough-and-tough natural

immunity. Today's kids (and tomorrow's adults) are the weaker for it. No, I

do not wish anyone sick.

 

But let's face it: First, real immunity does not come out of a needle. The

recent and spectacular failure of massive flu vaccination illustrates this.

And second, you simply cannot vaccinate everyone for everything. There are

too many viruses, and they are differentiating all the time. A strong,

general-purpose immune system is a necessary defense, a necessary

preparation against a world of ever-new, ever-changing viruses. You need to

temper the steel before you use the sword.

 

Speaking as an experienced parent and a multi-certified teacher who has

taught pretty much every grade from first to post-doc, I think vaccinations

fail to confer adequate protection. I do not think they ever did, and I do

not think they do now. The recent whooping cough epidemic near New York City

is a good example: over 80% of those with the disease had been vaccinated

against it. (44 of 54 cases of whooping cough were in vaccinated persons.)

Go ahead and get shots if you want to. But whether you get shots or not, I

think our primary concern should be to make our children's bodies strong so

they can fight off disease. We do this with good food, routine supplements,

and lots of vitamin C. If and when they get sick, they will recover rapidly

and without complications.

 

My kids were not immunized. They played daily with the neighbors' children

during the week or two before their entire household broke out in chicken

pox. Our kids were raised vegetarian-plus-dairy, and had every-meal

megavitamin C doses. They each had a spot or two, which went away in a day

or two. No other symptoms, period.

 

The best way to a strong immune system is through optimum nutrition and

ample vitamin supplementation. Trying to exist in a vaccination-blown bubble

is futile.

 

Clearly the State of New York disagrees, requiring some 30 vaccinations for

a baby before it is even a year and a half of age.

http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/immun/pdf/2378.pdf (Some are given

together, but count 'em all up and see.)

 

New York, and most likely your state too, obediently follows the dictates of

the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy Family

Physicians. Of course, those two guilds are made up of doctors who make

their living from shots and are very well paid to administer them. But,

compared to their overpowering emphasis on vaccination, (and on patent drugs

when immunization fails), these doctor-trade-groups largely ignore vitamin

supplements as prevention, and especially as treatment.

 

VITAMIN A FIGHTS MEASLES

Let's consider measles and vitamin A supplementation. UNICEF says, " In

three separate trials of children hospitalized with measles -- one as early

as 1932 -- deaths among children given high-dose vitamin A supplements were

significantly lower than among children not supplemented. The consistent

results suggest that a change in Vitamin A status can rapidly alter basic

physiological functions concerned with cellular repair and resistance to

infection, thereby saving lives. "

(http://www.unicef.org/sowc98/fig11.htm)

 

Note that the therapy is described as both " supplemental " and " high dose. "

And that other word is " deaths. " Unlike finicky vegetable-dodging children

like me, third-world children commonly do not have the luxury of good food

to refuse. The answer is to teach all third-world families to grow their own

vegetables, and provide them with the land they need to do it. While

vegetables are the ideal vitamin A source, the fact is that supplementation

is cheaper. A malnourished child at risk of actually dying from measles

constitutes an emergency. It is time to open a bottle of vitamin A; you

cannot wait for the carrots to come up.

 

By the way, the source referred to above by UNICEF is " Vitamin A Deficiency:

Health, Survival and Vision, " by Alfred Sommer, Professor of Ophthalmology,

Epidemiology and International Health; Dean, Johns Hopkins University School

of Public Health; and Keith P. West, Jr., Associate Professor of

International Health and Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University. (London:

Oxford University Press, 1996.)

 

This book is described by its publisher as follows: " Vitamin A deficiency

kills even more young children than the half a million it blinds. Over the

past decade and a half, many studies have implicated vitamin A status as an

important determinant of health. The World Bank now estimates that vitamin A

intervention programs may be one of the most cost-effective health

strategies in all of medicine. "

 

I think the very same could be said for vitamin C. And Dr. Linus Pauling did

say it, going as far as to say that all drug packages contain this statement

on the front label:

 

" WARNING: KEEP THIS MEDICINE OUT OF THE REACH OF EVERYBODY! USE VITAMIN C

INSTEAD. "

 

Here follow the specifics on just how to do so.

 

TREATMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES WITH MASSIVE DOSES OF VITAMIN C

by Robert F. Cathcart III, M.D.

(Reprinted with permission of the author, and excerpted from

http://www.orthomed.com/mystery.htm#treatment)

 

" I want to emphasize first that the main reason that massive doses of

vitamin C work against infectious diseases has little to do with the vitamin

C functions as ordinarily understood. They work in massive doses because we

are throwing away the vitamin C for the extra electrons carried. These extra

electrons neutralize the free radicals (molecules missing electrons) that

mediate all inflammations and cause the symptoms and deaths from these

infectious diseases. It is not really a matter of medicine; it is a matter

of chemistry. Doses of ascorbate which are massive enough to force a

reducing redox potential into tissues affected by the disease will always

neutralize the free radicals.

 

" For maintenance doses, take an amount of ascorbic acid that is comfortable

for you about 4 to 6 times a day. Remember that the dose may vary depending

on how you feel.

 

" The better you feel, you take less. The worse you feel, you take more.

 

" Always, always, always drink water with ascorbic acid by mouth! Never let

yourself get seriously dehydrated which can happen if you are very nauseated

from the illness or medications.

 

" Start with pure ascorbic acid crystals or powder. Then after you learn to

read the needs of your body, switch over to capsules or tablets. Always take

these with water. Over a long period of time ascorbic acid powder or

crystals could cause topical damage to the enamel of your teeth. Capsules or

tablets will not do this. (Editor's note: Buffering dissolved ascorbic acid

powder with some sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) before drinking will

render it pH neutral. http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n4.txt Vitamin C

as calcium ascorbate is also nonacidic.)

 

" If you are exposed to the flu, increase your doses to very close to bowel

tolerance. If you feel a virus is threatening, take doses even as frequently

as every hour during the day and take an extra dose in the middle of the

night if you wake to urinate.

 

WHAT TO DO FOR THE FLU

" If you get the flu, take doses every hour, or maybe even more frequently,

until diarrhea is almost produced. Actually, the diarrhea is not that bad so

it might be better to tolerate a little diarrhea at first. If the flu is

causing diarrhea, this may be difficult but those with experience in taking

ascorbic acid can tell the difference between the flu diarrhea (which is

uncomfortable) and the loosening of the stools by ascorbic acid (which is

not usually uncomfortable).

 

" If you are unable to take enough ascorbic acid by mouth to control the flu

see an orthomolecular physician for intravenous sodium ascorbate. Ask the

owners of a mom and pop health food store. They will probably know the names

of physicians who will give intravenous sodium ascorbate in your area.

(Editor's note: I do not maintain a database of such physicians, and am

therefore unable to provide you with names or referrals. Trying a " Google "

search may help you.)

 

INTRAVENOUS VITAMIN C

" Sodium ascorbate intravenously can be given in bottles containing 60 grams

of sodium ascorbate in 500 cc of water, lactated Ringer's or normal saline

or half normal saline. D5W is OK but actually I like to avoid the sugar. By

the way, do not eat sugar when you have the flu. It is best not to eat sugar

anyway.

 

" If 60 grams of sodium ascorbate does not reverse the symptoms given over 3

to 4 hours, then 120 grams in 1000 cc or 180 grams in 1500 cc may be

administered. When enough ascorbate is given rapidly enough, it will

eliminate the symptoms because the symptoms are mediated by free radicals.

If enough electrons are made available through massive doses of ascorbate it

will eliminate the symptoms including all the inflammation. It is matter of

chemistry, not medicine.

 

" Children take reduced doses IV. Usually a 10-year old takes adult doses.

Sometimes you have to give chewable ascorbate by mouth in children. This

does not work quite as well as ascorbic acid by mouth. Chewables are

buffered of necessity to protect the teeth

and are not quite as powerful, but better than nothing.

 

" People who cannot obtain sodium ascorbate by vein (remember insurance will

not usually pay for this, because it works and therefore reduces the needs

for drugs) and who cannot tolerate bowel tolerance doses of ascorbate will

get some lesser benefit from more moderate doses of ascorbic acid by mouth

or from buffered C by mouth. They do not work as well against acute symptoms

but may prevent serious complications. Remember that those people who die of

the flu mostly have acute induced scurvy. If you take moderate doses of

ascorbates, they should prevent acute induced scurvy. With any physician who

does not believe this, have them take your serum levels of ascorbate when

you are sick.

 

" Children who are dying of the flu mostly have what I call " acute induced

scurvy. " Read the story about babies dying of acute induced scurvy in Dr.

Archie Kalokerinos' book " Every Second Child. " I, personally, treated one 2

year old who would not take the vitamin C I prescribed because of a viral

disease and a temperature or 104 F. In the middle of the night during a snow

storm, the mother called saying she thought her son was dying. I saw him

immediately in the middle of the night. The boy was almost comatose with his

back arched. I quickly gave him an intramuscular shot of one gram of sodium

ascorbate in 4 cc of water without preservative. In a minute or so he was

sitting up acting perfectly normal. The response was so dramatic that there

was no question that the mother would have the child take the ascorbate

subsequently. "

 

I cannot overemphasize the importance of Dr. Cathcart's exceptional website,

http://www.orthomed.com. There you will find many more articles like the one

you just read.

 

For example:

 

BIRD FLU IS FOR THE BIRDS: IT'S JUST ONE MORE VIRUS

http://www.orthomed.com/bird.htm

 

THE DOCTOR YOURSELF FLU-INSPIRED REMINDER FOR THE MONTH:

 

If your nose runs and your feet smell, you are probably built upside down.

 

IF YOU ARE **REALLY** SCARED OF BIRD-BORNE DISEASES, DO **NOT** READ THIS!

 

CHICKEN KEESTERS

There is so much colon bacterial contamination in chicken meat that there is

now a product to close off the bowels of dead chickens. It is called

" Rec-Tite, " and it is essentially super glue for chicken anuses. And I am

NOT making this up.

 

Superglue Advocated for Preventing Fecal Leakage in Poultry

(Food Chemical News April 24, 1995, p 12) " Robert Cook, a consultant from

Alexandria, VA, complained that processes exist that would allow the

industry to improve the safety of its products, but that the regulatory

agencies, governed by laws written generations ago, have not yet approved

them. As an example, he talked about using Superglue to seal the vents on

poultry before slaughter to prevent the birds from reflexively excreting

fecal material at the time of death.... "

 

And from the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Ontario, CA, May 16, 1995: " Jim

Munn, president of Pacer Technology, Rancho Cucamonga, CA has been trying

since 1992 to get government agencies to approve his company's superglue

product " Rectite " for use in gluing shut the rectal cavities of turkeys and

chickens to prevent fecal matter from contaminating meat and cut down on the

number of birds required to be re-processed and re-inspected. "

 

Evidently, the approval process was successful.

 

Bon appetite!

 

MORE CHICKEN NEWS, ALL TRUE:

 

CHICKEN SHADES

Hens by the thousands raised in such claustrophobic, crowded cages that the

birds will literally peck each other to death. To reduce prison-yard

aggression in chickens, red tinted contact lenses are now marketed for

poultry workers to slip into the birdy's eyes. It takes a trained operator

just a few seconds per bird, the manufacturer claims. I do believe I have my

nomination for the World's Worst Job.

 

MIKE THE HEADLESS CHICKEN

http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/story.htm

 

VIRUSES THAT VITAMIN C WILL **NOT** STOP

This last virus outbreak (and I mean computer viruses, not the flu) has

demonstrated how many people have not done their computer-care homework! Is

there any clearer demonstration that everyone simply must have an

UP-TO-DATE-THIS-WEEK antivirus running on their computer? Well, you can be

sure that some won't, or just don't realize why. So we have to be certain

our computers are protected.

 

FREE DOWNLOADABLE ANTIVIRUS software (not a trial edition, no ads, free

updates, and I use it personally) is available from http://www.grisoft.com .

(Select " Download AVG Free Edition. " ) Remarkably, the very frequent and very

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

currently at update number 365, which I think illustrates the magnitude of

the computer virus problem. Recently, they had three updates in two days.

 

FOR THE RECORD

The ONLY mail I send out to my mailing list rs is this Newsletter

and **nothing but** this Newsletter, twice monthly. It is always plain text,

that is, it is NEVER in attachment form. If you receive anything else

purporting to be from " doctoryourself.com " it is completely bogus, possibly

a virus, and usually spam. It is most certainly not from me. Yes, spammers

and viruses routinely make up phony return addresses to attempt to cover

their cowardly tracks. I send NO advertisements, ever, and endorse NO

products whatsoever.

 

ATTACHMENTS

No, I never send " attachments " of any kind. You should never open

attachments from anyone, even from your closest acquaintances. There is an

increasingly high risk of computer viruses being contained in them, often

unknown to the sender. Yes, even a sender you know very well may be quite

oblivious to the fact that she or he is sending out viruses. It is up to us

to check our mail if others won't check theirs.

 

If you absolutely must send or receive an attachment, here's a safer way to

do it:

 

1) Make an appointment, by separate email, with the recipient. Announce and

confirm that you are going to send an attachment, what type, and exactly

when. (I will not accept any attachments.)

 

2) When you receive an attachment as described above, do not open it.

Rather, save it to your " Documents " file or to your desktop. Then, locate it

and scan it with AVG. You do this by right-clicking on the file and

selecting " Scan with AVG. " Other antivirus programs likely have similar

capacity.

 

Please use them, and urge everyone you know to do likewise.

 

HAVING TROUBLE SLEEPING? TRY THIS TOTALLY FREE TECHNIQUE:

http://www.doctoryourself.com/ayurveda1.html

 

OR BORE YOURSELF TO SLEEP, IF YOU PREFER, WITH MY OWN

HYPOCHONDRIAC BEDTIME STORY

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

 

OR, IF YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST, READ THIS:

A hiker goes to his psychiatrist because he can't sleep. " Doc, " he says,

" One night I try sleeping in a canvas lean-to, and the next night I try

sleeping in a nylon dome shelter. I can't get to sleep in either. What's my

problem? " " Easy, " says the psychiatrist. " Your problem is your two tents. "

 

 

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