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> THE FLUORIDE DECEPTION

>

> It was an era of thalidomide and plutonium; school

> segregation and human

> experimentation; 24-hour SAC bomber patrols and

> classroom " duck and cover "

> drills; atmospheric H-bomb testing and DDT. The Red

> Scare dominated the news

> and physicians endorsed their favorite cigarette on

> TV. The " Atomic Genie "

> was out of the bottle and radium treatment was in

> vogue. And, of course,

> there was the latest of modern wonders, water

> fluoridation. Scientists of

> post WW II America promised the world. And, as with

> 3-D movies and the

> Edsel, the promise was far beyond what would be

> delivered.

>

> Fluoridated water was idealized as the ultimate form

> of 1950's failsafe

> social engineering. What could be more appealing

> than to be able to have

> your children virtually drink away dental decay? Yet

> like vaccination,

> municipal water fluoridation has never been

> satisfactorily tested with

> double-blind, placebo controls. But it hardly

> mattered to those in power.

> Like the lure of a quick war, with the troops all to

> be home by Christmas,

> dental publicists promised 75% or even 90%

> reductions in dental caries.

> Today, most of the strongest fluoridation proponents

> rarely offer expected

> benefits of over 35%. The real numbers are almost

> certainly far lower. There

> is little or no difference in decay rates between

> sister cities' caries

> incidence regardless whether they are fluoridated or

> not. And this, says

> Christopher Bryson, author of The Fluoride

> Deception, has been the case from

> the start.

>

> When Newburgh, NY's water was fluoridated nearly 60

> years ago, it was more a

> test to see if fluorine would hurt people than to

> see if it would stop

> cavities. Mr. Bryson traces the whole scandal, using

> recently declassified

> US Army and other genuinely embarrassing government

> documents. Fluoride

> pollution, much of it a byproduct of WW II nuclear

> weapons manufacturing,

> had opened industry and government to lawsuits.

> Fluoridated water was

> engineered to be an antidote to liability as much as

> to dental decay.

>

> Fluoridation rode a wave of politicized science, the

> dark side of which was

> the nuclear arms race. According to Bryson's

> publisher, " Documents

> discovered in the files of the Manhattan Project

> connect the atomic bomb

> program with the 1945 public experiment compared the

> teeth and health of the

> children of Newburgh with that of fluoride-free

> neighboring Kingston. It was

> the most significant of the early water fluoridation

> trials, purporting to

> demonstrate fluoride's safety in low doses. The top

> scientist who oversaw

> the Newburgh experiment, and the leading voice

> promoting water fluoridation,

> issuing reassurances of fluoride's safety in low

> doses, was Dr. Harold

> Hodge. Hodge is regarded as the dean of the science

> of toxicology in the

> United States. While selling fluoride to children,

> he was simultaneously

> head of the Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology

> for the Manhattan

> Project, charged with protecting the government from

> worker and community

> lawsuits for fluoride damage. Showing that fluoride

> was safe in low doses

> reduced the risk of lawsuits against the bomb

> program. "

>

> Blanket and blatant reassurances about safety is

> nothing new to the

> military. If you have ever viewed the documentary

> movie entitled The Atomic

> Café, you have seen actual U.S. Army film footage

> showing soldiers, shielded

> only by their cotton uniforms and a G.I. helmet,

> walking straight towards a

> still-rising mushroom cloud from an atomic

> detonation just a few miles away.

> It hardly ended there; from 1942 until the 1980's,

> uranium was added to the

> materials in dentures. No doubt this was to help

> Grandpa see them in the

> dark when he craved a midnight snack. Sounds pretty

> odd, doesn't it. Uranium

> in dentures. How very silly, we now say. Yet to this

> day, the American

> Dental Association, the FDA, and the U.S. Centers

> for Disease Control all

> maintain that mercury, a toxic heavy metal, is

> perfectly safe to have

> drilled into your living teeth. (1, 2, 3)

>

> Not surprisingly, they also all support fluoridation

> of water.

>

> History is stranger than fiction, and just as

> subject to revision. For

> decades, fluoridationists declared that teeth were

> strengthened from within

> by fluoride; it was supposedly a systemic,

> nutritional benefit. It is not.

> Fluoride weakens bone, increases incidence of bone

> cancer, and increases

> fracture rates.

> (http://www.doctoryourself.com/osteoporosis.html)

> Today the

> " authorities " have quietly flip-flopped, and now

> claim that dilute fluoride

> has a topical, perhaps bactericidal effect. Think

> about that for a moment.

> If fluoride has that kind of killing power at just a

> few parts per million,

> what are doctors doing wasting their time writing

> antibiotic prescriptions?

> Why not just tell patients to drink more tap water?

> If fluoride is that

> powerful, imagine the effect on the rest of the

> body. Indeed, fluoride is

> the most chemically reactive of all

> naturally-occurring elements. When Linus

> Pauling originated the four-point electronegative

> scale, fluorine was and

> remains the one and only top scorer with a perfect

> 4. All other elements are

> weaker. And this is the element you drink, without

> prescription, in doses

> that vary with how thirsty you may be on a given

> day.

>

> Most of the United States is now fluoridated. Most

> of Europe is not.

>

> (http://www.fluoridation.com/c-country.htm) Blinders

> on, everyone: surely

> America's scientists are smarter than Europe's.

> Scientific dogma lives in

> the sacred cow of fluoridation, and dissent over

> doctrine is enough to wreck

> a Yankee scientist's career in a hurry, even though

> fluoridation remains far

> more a matter of faith than of fact. " The addition

> of fluoride to water

> supplies violates modern pharmacological

> principles, " writes Dr. Arvid

> Carlsson, Nobel Prize for Medicine laureate. " It is

> my sincere hope that

> Christopher Bryson's apparently thorough and

> comprehensive perusal of the

> scientific literature on the biological actions of

> fluoride and the ensuing

> debates through the years will receive the attention

> it deserves and that

> its implications will be seriously considered. " Dr.

> Carlsson, by the way, is

> the scientist " who helped lead the successful

> campaign to stop water

> fluoridation in Sweden (and) argued that public

> water supplies were not an

> appropriate vehicle with which to deliver

> 'pharmacologically active' drugs

> to the entire population. According to Carlsson: 'I

> am quite convinced that

> water fluoridation, in a not-too-distant future,

> will be consigned to

> medical history. . . The addition of drugs to the

> drinking water means

> exactly the opposite of an individualized therapy.

> Not only in that the dose

> cannot be adapted to individual requirements: it is,

> in addition, based on a

> completely irrelevant factor, namely consumption of

> drinking water, which

> varies greatly between individuals and is, moreover,

> very poorly surveyed.' "

> (http://www.fluoridealert.org/basel.htm)

>

> Since the 1950's, we have learned a few things.

> Everyone now knows that

> nuclear radiation is dangerous; most know that heavy

> metals are poisonous.

> Although dentists still implant mercury into teeth,

> at least lead is no

> longer added to gasoline. You'll like this one: in

> his book, Bryson shows

> that " the man who reassured the nation as to the

> safety of lead in gasoline,

> Robert Kehoe, Director of the Kettering Laboratory

> at the University of

> Cincinnati, simultaneously reassured us of the

> safety of water fluoridation.

> . . . He testified in a federal court there had been

> no cases of fluoride

> disability in US industry. His own laboratory,

> however, had confidentially

> reported numerous cases. "

>

> What a story, and it's just one of many more to be

> found in The Fluoride

> Deception. Christopher Bryson's narrative has

> captured the feel of the

> progress-patriotism-and-profit postwar years with

> his comprehensive,

> interview-based history of fluoridation. The

> Fluoride Deception is genuinely

> interesting, impeccably referenced, and scary. For

> those who still believe

> that fluoridation is the public's passive panacea

> for tooth decay, here's

> the book that may finally set them straight.

>

> The Fluoride Deception, by Christopher Bryson

>

> NY: Seven Stories Press, 2004. (ISBN: 1-58-322526-9)

>

>

> The DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER Interviews

> Christopher Bryson, author of The

> Fluoride Deception

>

> DY News: So, Mr. Bryson: How do you get along with

> your dentist?

>

> Christopher Bryson: Very well. He has no idea I am

> the author of The

> Fluoride Deception. I cannot abide those one sided

> so-called " conversations "

> in the chair, talking with a mouthful of metal.

>

>

> DY News: Questioning fluoridation is the kiss of

> death for many a scientist.

> Almost all of the over 5,000 fluoride-related

> scientific papers indexed on

> Medline are openly in favor of the practice. A

> search for " fluoride dangers "

> brings up only two papers; " fluoride toxicity " gets

> you a handful more.

> Where has there ever been any fair and reasonable

> discussion of

> fluoridation, pro and con?

>

> Bryson: Perhaps the most balanced review I came

> across was a long article in

> Chemical and Engineering News, from August 1, 1988,

> by Bette Hileman. (Vol.

> 66, p 26-42.)

>

> DY News: Agreed. That article that showed that

> fluoridated water reduces

> dental caries by about 1/2 filling per person per

> lifetime

> (http://www.doctoryourself.com/fluoridation.html).

> It is not indexed on

> Medline. There has also been what I consider to be a

> very good article on

> the cancer risk of fluoridated water published in

> the Journal of

> Orthomolecular Medicine, also posted at

>

> http://www.doctoryourself.com/fluoride_cancer.html .

> That is not on Medline,

> either.

>

> Now for a standard question: how did you come to

> write this book?

>

> Bryson: I was a BBC radio reporter in New York in

> 1993 and was asked by a

> London producer to find an American " angle " on water

> fluoridation. I

> interviewed two dissident government scientists,

> Robert Carton and Bill

> Hirzy, with the US Army and the EPA respectively.

> They explained that the

> science underpinning the US government fluoride

> safety standards for

> drinking water was fraudulent. At the same time I

> read an extraordinary

> piece of journalism, " Fluoride: Commie Plot or

> Capitalist Ploy, " from the

> fall 1992 issue of Covert Action Information

> Bulletin, by the medical writer

> Joel Griffiths. (The full text is posted at

> http://www.fluoridealert.org/f-industry.htm) He

> explained how industry had

> long manipulated health information about fluoride

> to launder fluoride's

> public image, with the secret agenda of defending

> itself from lawsuits being

> launched by workers and farmers alleging fluoride

> pollution.

>

> DY News: You researched and developed this into a

> major portion of your

> book. To shift gears: Is your community's water

> fluoridated?

>

> Bryson: Yes, New York City's water has been

> fluoridated since the mid 1960'

> s, when the father of public relations Edward L.

> Bernays secretly worked the

> New York's Public Health Commissioner Dr. Leona

> Baumgartner, to " engineer

> consent " as he put it, for water fluoridation.

>

> DY News: What steps have you taken, personally, to

> limit fluoride intake for

> your family?

>

> Bryson: I do not use fluoridated toothpaste, and

> have a fluoride filter for

> drinking water.

>

> DY News: In your book, one cannot help but notice

> how many personal

> interviews you conducted with your sources. What can

> you tell me about

> interviewees who did not wish to go on the record?

>

> Bryson: Most everyone went on the record. Some of

> them, I'm sure, had no

> idea that my book would be as critical of

> fluoridation. Director Jack Hein

> of the Forsyth Dental Center was reluctant to a

> formal interview, but was

> drawn out in a telephone conversation, and ended up

> telling me a great deal.

> Attorney Pete Johnson who represented the Reynolds

> Metals Company in the

> 2000 Hurricane Creek lawsuit did not return my phone

> call. Arnold Kramish of

> the Manhattan Project also declined a request for an

> interview.

>

> DY News: Your book, with its very commendable 110

> pages of notes, might be

> well described as sort of a " Fahrenheit FL. " What

> facts, what parts of your

> book are your critics specifically attacking you

> over?

>

>

> Bryson: I don't know that I have any critics. If

> they exist, they have been

> profoundly silent, well aware that any attack would

> be good publicity for

> the book.

>

> DY News: I think your book is so tightly documented

> that they haven't a leg

> to stand on if they try. I noticed that there was an

> advertisement for your

> book in the NY Times, but am unaware that the Times

> ever reviewed it. Where

> may we find and read major media reviews of The

> Fluoride Deception?

>

>

> Bryson: Thus far, there has not been a single

> mention of the book in the US

> media, with the exception of Publisher's Weekly. I'm

> certain industry would

> love to keep it thus.

>

> DY News: The Publisher's Weekly notice (May 2004)

> was favorable, saying in

> part: " Investigative reporter Bryson revisits the

> decades-long controversy,

> drawing on mountains of scientific studies, some

> unearthed from secret

> archives of government and corporate laboratories,

> to question the effects

> of fluoride and the motives of its leading

> advocates. . . Fluoride in its

> many forms may be one of the most toxic of

> industrial pollutants, and Bryson

> cites scientific analyses linking fluoridated

> drinking water to bone

> deformities, hyperactivity and a host of other

> complaints. " Thank you for

> getting the word out.

>

> Bryson: Thanks for your interest in the book.

>

> MERCURY AMALGAM Quotes and Notes, referred to in the

> above review:

>

> 1. " Dental amalgam (silver filling) is considered a

> safe, affordable and

> durable material that has been used to restore the

> teeth of more than 100

> million Americans. . .The ADA's Council on

> Scientific Affairs' 1998 report

> (J Am Dent Assoc. 1998 Apr;129(4):494-503.) on its

> review of the recent

> scientific literature on amalgam states: 'The

> Council concludes that, based

> on available scientific information, amalgam

> continues to be a safe and

> effective restorative material.' The Council's

> report also states, 'There

> currently appears to be no justification for

> discontinuing the use of dental

> amalgam.' . . . (T)he ADA continues to believe that

> amalgam is a valuable,

> viable and safe choice for dental patients and

> concurs with the findings of

> the U.S. Public Health Service that amalgam has

> 'continuing value in

> maintaining oral health.' "

>

> (American Dental Association

>

http://www.ada.org/prof/resources/positions/statements/amalgam.asp,

> revised

> January 8, 2003, accessed July 31, 2004)

>

> 2. " No valid scientific evidence has shown that

> amalgams cause harm to

> patients with dental restorations, except in the

> rare case of allergy. " U.S.

> Food and Drug Administration

> (http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/consumer/amalgams.html,

> accessed July 31, 2004)

>

> 3. " The U.S. Public Health Service believes it is

> inappropriate at this time

> to recommend any restrictions on the use of dental

> amalgam . . . ©urrent

> scientific evidence does not show that exposure to

> mercury from amalgam

> restorations poses a serious health risk in humans. "

> (CDC/National Center

> for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.

> Oral Health Resources.

>

http://www.cdc.gov/OralHealth/factsheets/amalgam.htm,

> accessed July 31,

> 2004)

>

> VITAMIN DEPENDENCY

>

> (Andrew Saul's editorial as published in the Journal

> of Orthomolecular

> Medicine, 2004. Vol. 19 No. 2, p. 67-70. Reprinted

> with permission.)

>

> " Man is a food-dependent creature. If you don't feed

> him, he will die. If

> you feed him improperly, part of him will die. "

> (Emanuel Cheraskin, MD, DMD)

>

> Dependency is a fact of life. The human body is

> dependent on food, water,

> sleep, and oxygen. Additionally, its internal

> chemistry is absolutely

> dependent on vitamins. Without adequate vitamin

> intake, the body will

> sicken; virtually any prolonged vitamin deficiency

> is fatal. Surely this

> constitutes a dependency in the generally accepted

> sense of the word.

>

> Nutrient deficiency of long standing may create an

> exaggerated need for the

> missing nutrient, a need not met by dietary intakes

> or even by low-dose

> supplementation. Recently (1), Robert P. Heaney,

> M.D., used the term " long

> latency deficiency diseases " to describe illnesses

> that fit this

> description. He writes:

>

> " (I)nadequate intakes of many nutrients are now

> recognized as contributing

> to several of the major chronic diseases that affect

> the populations of the

> industrialized nations. Often taking many years to

> manifest themselves,

> these disease outcomes should be thought of as

> long-latency deficiency

> diseases. . . (I)nadequate intakes of specific

> nutrients may produce more

> than one disease, may produce diseases by more than

> one mechanism, and may

> require several years for the consequent morbidity

> to be sufficiently

> evident to be clinically recognizable as " disease. "

> Because the intakes

> required to prevent many of the long-latency

> disorders are higher than those

> required to prevent the respective index diseases,

> recommendations based

> solely on preventing the index diseases are no

> longer biologically

> defensible. "

>

> There are at least two key concepts presented here:

>

> The first is, " Inadequate intakes of specific

> nutrients may produce more

> than one disease. " This exactly supports Dr. William

> Kaufman's statements to

> this effect 55 years ago, when he wrote that, in

> considering " different

> clinical entities one cannot exclude the possibility

> that they may be caused

> by the same etiologic agent, acting in different

> ways. For example, in

> experimental animals, it has been shown that the

> lack of a single essential

> nutrient can produce a variety of dissimilar

> clinical disorders in different

> individuals of the same species. . . (O)ne might not

> suspect that the same

> etiologic factor, lack of a specific essential

> nutrient, was responsible for

> each of the various clinical syndromes of the same

> tissue deficiency disease

> which is permitted to develop at different rates in

> different individuals of

> the same species. " (2)

>

> While amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, progressive

> muscular atrophy,

> progressive bulbar palsy, and primary lateral

> sclerosis are not all the same

> illness, they and the other neuromuscular diseases

> may have a common basis:

> unacknowledged, untreated long-term vitamin

> dependency. Therefore, each may

> respond to an orthomolecular approach such as that

> successfully used by Dr.

> Frederick R. Klenner (3) for multiple sclerosis and

> myasthenia gravis, half

> a century ago.

>

> The second key point Dr. Heaney makes is that

> vitamin " intakes required to

> prevent many of the long-latency disorders are

> higher than those required to

> prevent the respective index diseases. " This

> confirms Dr. Abram Hoffer's

> observations to this effect some 40 years ago, when

> he treated prisoners of

> war presenting severe, protracted nutrient

> deficiencies.

>

> Dr. Hoffer wrote (4) that when released, after as

> much as 44 months of

> captivity, " only 75 percent had survived. They had

> lost about one-third of

> their body weight. In camp they suffered from

> classical scurvy, beriberi,

> pellagra, many infections, and from protein and

> calorie deficiency. They

> were rehabilitated in hospitals and were given doses

> of vitamins that were

> then considered high. Since then these Hong Kong

> veterans have suffered from

> a variety of physical and psychiatric conditions. "

> However, " the history of

> a small sample, about 12, is much different, for

> they have been taking

> nicotinic acid (niacin) 3 grams per day. These 12

> have recovered and remain

> well as long as they take this quantity of vitamin

> regularly.

>

> " About 35 years ago (in the 1930s and 1940s) it was

> reported that some

> chronic pellagrins required at least 600 milligrams

> per day of vitamin B3 to

> prevent the return of pellagra symptoms. This was

> astonishing then and

> unexplainable since pellagra as a nicotinic acid

> deficiency disease should

> have yielded to vitamin (small) doses. Today the

> concept of

> vitamin-dependency disease has developed. It is

> based upon the realization

> that there is a much wider range of need for

> nutrients than was believed to

> be true then.

>

> " A person is said to be vitamin dependent if his

> requirements for that

> vitamin are much greater (perhaps 100-fold greater

> or more) than is the

> average need for any population. The optimum need is

> that quantity which

> maintains the subject in good health, not that

> quantity which barely keeps

> him free of pellagra. From this point of view the

> Hong Kong veterans have

> become vitamin B-3 dependent as a result of severe

> and prolonged

> malnutrition. It is likely that any population

> similarly deprived of

> essential nutrients for a long period of time will

> develop one or more

> dependency conditions. "

>

> Thirty years ago, in another paper (5), Dr. Hoffer

> made this statement:

>

> " The newer concept of vitamin-dependent disease

> changes the emphasis from

> simply dietary manipulation to consideration of the

> endogenous needs of the

> organism. It comes within the field of

> orthomolecular disease. . . The

> borderline between vitamin deficiency and

> vitamin-dependency conditions is

> merely a quantitative one when one considers

> prevention and cure. " (p. 251)

>

> The differentiation between deficiency and

> dependency is dose. Every patient

> that was ever helped by high-dose nutrient therapy

> lends support to the

> concept of vitamin dependency. By the same token,

> symptoms resulting from

> inappropriate and abrupt termination of large doses

> of nutrients provide

> equally good evidence for vitamin dependency. While

> deprivation of low doses

> of vitamin C causes scurvy, abrupt termination of

> high maintenance doses may

> cause its own set of problems. Called " rebound

> scurvy, " this includes

> classical scorbutic symptoms, as well as a

> predictable relapse of illness

> that had already responded to high-dose therapy.

>

> Writes Robert F. Cathcart, M.D.:

>

> " There is a certain dependency on ascorbic acid that

> a patient acquires over

> a long period of time when he takes large

> maintenance doses. Apparently,

> certain metabolic reactions are facilitated by large

> amounts of ascorbate

> and if the substance is suddenly withdrawn, certain

> problems result such as

> a cold, return of allergy, fatigue, etc. Mostly,

> these problems are a return

> of problems the patient had before taking the

> ascorbic acid. Patients have

> by this time become so adjusted to feeling better

> that they refuse to go

> without ascorbic acid. Patients do not seem to

> acquire this dependency in

> the short time they take doses to bowel tolerance to

> treat an acute disease.

> Maintenance doses of 4 grams per day do not seem to

> create a noticeable

> dependency. The majority of patients who take over

> 10-15 grams of ascorbic

> acid per day probably have certain metabolic needs

> for ascorbate which

> exceed the universal human species need. Patients

> with chronic allergies

> often take large maintenance doses.

>

>

> " The major problem feared by patients benefiting

> from these large

> maintenance doses of ascorbic acid is that they may

> be forced into a

> position where their body is deprived of ascorbate

> during a period of great

> stress such as emergency hospitalization. Physicians

> should recognize the

> consequences of suddenly withdrawing ascorbate under

> these circumstances and

> be prepared to meet these increased metabolic needs

> for ascorbate in even an

> unconscious patient. These consequences of ascorbate

> depletion which may

> include shock, heart attack, phlebitis, pneumonia,

> allergic reactions,

> increased susceptibility to infection, etc., may be

> averted only by

> ascorbate. Patients unable to take large oral doses

> should be given

> intravenous ascorbate. All hospitals should have

> supplies of large amounts

> of ascorbate for intravenous use to meet this need. "

> (6)

>

> This need is especially serious for the cancer

> patient, whose exceptionally

> positive response to mega-ascorbate therapy, and

> dramatically negative

> response to ascorbate deprivation, is the very

> picture of vitamin

> dependency. Linus Pauling colleague Ewan Cameron,

> M.D., wrote:

>

> " Ascorbate, however administered, is rapidly

> excreted in the urine, so that

> administration should be continuous or at very

> frequent intervals.

> Furthermore, exposure to high circulating levels of

> ascorbate induces

> over-activity of certain hepatic enzymes concerned

> with its degradation and

> metabolism. These enzymes persist for some time

> after sudden cessation of

> high intakes, resulting in depletion of circulating

> levels of ascorbate to

> well below normal unsupplemented values. This is

> known as the rebound

> effect. It causes a sharp decrease in

> immunocompetence and must be avoided

> in the cancer patient. Clinical experience has shown

> that the best responses

> are observed when vitamin C is administered

> intravenously, so insuring a

> high plasma level. However, because long-term

> continuous intravenous

> administration is impractical, we recommend an

> initial intravenous course of

> ten days duration, followed by continuous

> maintenance oral regimen. " (7)

>

> In short, the body only misses what it needs. That

> is dependency.

>

> The destructive consequences of alcohol and other

> negative drug dependencies

> are taught in elementary schools. At the same time,

> the consequences of

> ignoring our positive nutrient dependencies go

> largely undiscussed even in

> medical journals. Vitamin dependencies induced by

> genetics, diet, drugs, or

> illness are most often regarded as medical

> curiosities. The Hoffer-Osmond

> discovery that schizophrenics, forming about one or

> two percent of the

> population, are dependent on multi-gram doses of

> niacin, remains a

> psychiatric heresy. The Irwin Stone-Linus Pauling

> idea of population-wide,

> genetically-based hypoascorbemia has received

> negative attention, when it

> has received any attention at all. Yet, writes Dr.

> Emanuel Cheraskin,

> " hypovitaminosis C is a very real and common,

> probably epidemic, problem

> which clearly has not been properly viewed and

> surely not adequately

> reported. " (8)

>

> This is not a total surprise. It took decades for

> medical acknowledgement

> that biotin and vitamin E are actually essential to

> health.

>

> Simple cause-and-effect micronutrient deficiency, a

> doctrine long enamored

> of by the dietetic profession, is not always

> sufficient to explain

> persistent physician reports of megavitamin cures of

> a number of diseases

> outside the classically accepted few. Perhaps it is

> a law of orthomolecular

> therapy that the reason one nutrient can cure so

> many different illnesses is

> because a deficiency of one nutrient can cause many

> different illnesses.

>

> And if nutrient deficiency is basically about

> inadequate intake, then

> dependency is essentially about heightened need. As

> a dry sponge soaks up

> more milk, so a sick body generally takes up higher

> vitamin doses. 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. Orthomolecular practitioners know that with

> therapeutic nutrition, you

> don't take the amount that you believe ought to

> work; rather, you take the

> amount that gets results. The first rule of building

> a brick wall is that

> you have got to have enough bricks. A sick body has

> exaggeratedly high needs

> for many vitamins. We can either meet that need, or

> else suffer

> unnecessarily.

>

> Until the medical professions fully embrace

> orthomolecular treatment,

> " medicine " might well be said to be " the

> experimental study of what happens

> when poisonous chemicals are placed into

> malnourished human bodies. "

>

> References:

>

> 1. Heaney RP: Long-latency deficiency disease:

> insights from calcium and

> vitamin D. Am J Clin Nutr. 2003; Nov; 78(5):912-9.

>

> 2. Kaufman W: The common form of joint dysfunction:

> Its incidence and

> treatment. Brattleboro, VT: E. L. Hildreth and Co.

> 1949; Chapter 5.

> http://www.doctoryourself.com/kaufman10.html .

>

> 3. Smith L: Vitamin C as a Fundamental Medicine:

> Abstracts of Dr. Frederick

> R. Klenner, M.D.'s Published and Unpublished Work.

> Tacoma, WA: Life Sciences

> Press. 1988. Renamed in 1991: Clinical Guide to the

> Use of Vitamin C: The

> Clinical Experiences of Frederick R. Klenner, M.D.

>

> 4. Hoffer A: Editorial. J. Orthomolecular

> Psychiatry. 1974; Vol 3, No 1, p.

> 34-36.

>

> 5. Hoffer A: Mechanism of Action of Nicotinic Acid

> and Nicotinamide in the

> Treatment of Schizophrenia. In: Hawkins D and

> Pauling L: Orthomolecular

> Psychiatry: Treatment of Schizophrenia. San

> Francisco: W.H. Freeman. 1973;

> p. 202-262.

>

> 6. Cathcart RF: Vitamin C, titration to bowel

> tolerance, anascorbemia, and

> acute induced scurvy. " Medical Hypothesis. 1981;

> 7:1359-1376.

>

> 7. Cameron E: Protocol for the use of vitamin C in

> the treatment of cancer.

> Medical Hypotheses. 1991; 36:190-194.

>

> 8. Cheraskin E: Vitamin C and fatigue. J.

> Orthomolecular Medicine, 9:1, p

> 39-45, First Quarter, 1994.

>

> READERS SAY:

>

> INSPIRED BY THE " CARROT CAT "

>

> F. S. writes:

>

> " I love your carrot cat pictures

> (http://www.doctoryourself.com/cat1.html),

> and I love everything about your writings and your

> site! I sent a link to

> your site just now to my Kancer Klub (as only I call

> it), a support group

> for all kinds of cancers. I am doing so well with my

> non-Hodgkin's, that

> they are finally beginning to wonder what I take. "

>

> Good for you! That really is our cat, named Dolly,

> and she is indeed eating

> undoctored carrot pulp just as it came from the

> juicer. I have never met a

> happier kitty.

>

> CABBAGE CURE

>

> R. B. writes:

>

> " I am 25 years old, I have an ulcer, and I've been

> taking medication after

> medication. They never make it go away; the acid is

> usually just reduced to

> a tolerable level. I had given up going to the gym

> and other physical

> activity because of always being sick. I went on

> vacation recently and

> couldn't enjoy it because of all the acid and

> heartburn, even on the meds. I

> finally broke down and got a juicer, since I didn't

> spend all of my vacation

> money, on account that I couldn't eat very much

> anyway. So, I started

> drinking cabbage juice and in just 2 days I felt a

> difference! I only drank

> 2 glasses a day. I'm now off of the meds and I am

> going to start going back

> to the gym. Thanks! "

>

> It is a pleasure to learn of your success. Thank you

> for writing.

>

> More information about juicing, with lots of

> practical hints, will be found

> at

>

> http://www.doctoryourself.com/juicing_2.html and

>

> http://www.doctoryourself.com/juicefast.html .

>

> Why Cabbage Juice?

>

> http://www.doctoryourself.com/colitis.html

>

> GERSON CANCER THERAPY DESERVES A FAIR SHAKE

>

> " Orthomolecular approaches for the treatment of

> cancer have more evidence to

> support their validity from case and clinical

> studies than any credible

> evidence against them. Presently, no proper study

> has been commissioned to

> disprove or refute the validity of the Gerson

> approach - only much verbal

> rubbishing from the media. Rather than have the

> press dismiss approaches

> that may offer some hope to people in great need of

> hope, perhaps greater

> weight should be placed on getting the authorities

> to commission proper

> clinical studies to evaluate the benefit, or not, of

> that approach.

>

> " Many cancers are believed to originate from a poor

> or imbalanced diet.

> Therefore, it stands to reason that a nutritional

> approach to treatment as

> offered by Gerson may well have remedial benefits in

> at least an equivalent

> number of cases. At the very least, a combination of

> traditional and

> nutritional approaches are known to produce positive

> results in many cases,

> my eldest sister being a prime example. If you were

> to find yourself in such

> a position as to be receiving treatment for cancer,

> would you not want to

> try everything possible to help you make a full

> recovery? If told that

> conventional therapy had come to its close, would

> you not want someone to be

> able to offer an additional or alternative approach

> in the hope that it

> might work? Better still, would you not want these

> approaches to have been

> properly evaluated by the expert community so that

> if a nutritional approach

> could help you, you could commence it earlier in

> your treatment programme

> and increase your survival chances? "

>

> Julia Pendower

>

> United Kingdom

>

> Right on! Glad to hear from you.

>

> HUMOR, SORT OF

>

> A hippie walked into a health food store one day,

> stark naked except for one

> old, ratty sneaker on his left foot. The proprietor,

> who understood that

> these young people could be a bit odd, searched his

> mind for something

> polite to say.

>

> " I see you lost a sneaker, " the proprietor said.

>

> The hippie stared back at him, wide-eyed, and

> answered slowly:

>

> " No, man, I found one. "

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