EMAIL FROM ONE MD TO ANOTHER DETAILS SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS IN MEDICAL COMMUNITY

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An Email From One Medical Doctor To Another Medical Doctor

(Note: This is an email from Dr. William Wassell, M.D., to a fellow

radiologist who had published an article in a medical journal. It

details the sad state of affairs in the medical community. Dr.

Wassell has kindly allowed CancerTutor to publish it online.)

 

Doc,

 

This may be a long letter but it should be informative and worth your

time. Your comments in [Name of Medical Journal] about alcoholism and

obesity and disability are the stimulus. From the article I can see

that you are having some of the same questions about medicine today

that I do.

 

I finished Diagnostic Radiology Residency in 1980 and about 10 years

later I started having doubts about where we were going as a

profession. I had seen the technology side make light-years of

advancements while the treatment of disease had gone nowhere.

 

All medicine was about was parts replacement and symptoms management.

Prevention and medical indication were being removed from the

lexicon. Nutrition was becoming the " N " word of medicine. I started

wondering where in the world I would go if I should need medical

care?

 

For the next 10 years I only saw it get worse and began feeling that

it was bordering on evil to continue to make advances in technology

while ignoring cause and prevention. When articles would express

concern over mammographic exposures I would think - where is the

concern for chest CT which goes unregulated giving many young women

the equivalent of 18 screening mammograms with each pass! By the time

most women reach 40 they have already had breast exposures equivalent

to 100's of screening mammograms.

 

Then around 2000 a friend got renal cell and I started looking on the

Internet for potential new cures and things began to unravel. I found

out for true that medicine is a business and industry and lags behind

science anywhere from 50 to 200 years.

 

The first bomb that went off was when I found out that vitamin c is

not a vitamin but a liver metabolite that is made in large quantities

(50 - 200mg/kg) daily in the livers of all animals except for man,

the Guinea pig, and a fruit eating bat. This has been known by

biochemists since the late 40's.

 

In the early 50's it was shown in the guinea pig, who gets

atherosclerosis like man, that no amount of cholesterol feeding would

produce it if the animal was supplemented with vitamin c at levels

produced daily by the animals that retain the ability to make it in

their livers from glucose.

 

This is an inborn error of carbohydrate metabolism that has gone

totally untreated for over 50 years now. It is also a disruptive

science that destroys many medical industries built upon this error.

[Nobel Prize winner] Linus Pauling repeated the experiment and

presented it to a society of cardiologists in the early 90's. He also

discovered that lipoprotein-a, which only occurs in the blood of non-

ascorbate producing animals, is what starts the process.

 

Lack of vitamin c results in collagen fibers not being cross-linked

with lysine and proline and weakens our connective tissue throughout

the body. At areas of stress the intima cracks and these cracks are

sealed by lipoprotein-a which had proline and lysine binding sites.

Since this is a faction of blood cholesterol, lowering cholesterol

levels too low predisposes one to hemorrhage when these cracks are

not sealed--thus the hemorrhagic strokes it produces.

 

Researchers had known for years that vitamin c lowered cholesterol

and in 1986 an article published in The Journal of Biological

Chemistry showed how--by inhibiting HMG-CoA reductase activity. About

2 years later statins came out inhibiting the same enzyme. I wonder

where the drug companies got the idea? Even I can see a certain

chemical bond in both molecules that is peculiar and I bet it is what

binds the enzyme rendering it inactive.

 

Vitamin c however does not inhibit the enzyme for CoQ10 synthesis

which statins do. CoQ10 is in highest concentration in heart muscle

and is very important in cellular energy production in muscle. You

know what lack of it does to skeletal muscle and Merck even applied

for a patent to include it with their statins in early 90's but has

never exercised it.

 

Canada, by law, warns takers of statins to supplement CoQ10. The

heart failure epidemic that has been a puzzle to the internists and

written about in many medical journals is very simple to understand

when you pay attention to the biochemists!! The only branch of

medicine today that doesn't know this is the one we're in. Now,

doesn't that make you proud? Let me touch on a few other things

before I get to the obesity and alcoholism.

 

We give H2 antagonists and proton pump inhibitors to people for

peptic disease and reflux. I even learned in med school that H+ was

necessary for digestion and to activate gastric enzymes. Malnutrition

from malabsorption eventually results, and also it allows bacteria

and yeast to colonize the upper small bowel. Start taking a closer

look at these on CT and go back to older text books to see what they

should look like and you will find that what you have been calling

normal is really abnormal in many people.

 

Malabsorption results in so many deficiencies that it produces a hay

day for the doctor with his drugs to quell the symptoms while never

addressing the underlying cause. This involves discussion using

the " N " word which in now medically incorrect. I made a

gastroenterologist mad by bringing this up.

 

Let us go on to type II diabetes. They say it's cellular resistance,

well what is the cell wall made of? Fatty acids. Could that be the

problem? Lets see, since 1900 omega-3 oils have been nearly

eliminated [from our diets] while omega-6, trans fats, and

hydrogenated fats have come to dominate. The biochemists know these

fats become incorporated in the cell wall making the cell wall stiff

and resistant to the passage of molecules in and out of the cell.

 

It was recently discovered that glucose happens to be one of the

victims. When this occurs the pancreas puts out more and more insulin

and compensates for a while but the insulin causes the body to store

glucose as triglycerides and inhibits the release of fats for energy.

Guess what, the person gets fat and sluggish and we have syndrome-X

which later becomes type II diabetes.

 

Now I finally figured out why all or most adult onset diabetics were

fat. This is text book biochemistry and metabolism, I am not making

this up. So if a person is lucky enough to have grandma around still

cooking real food he looks normal like you. If he doesn't and is lazy

then he balloons up depending on his individual biochemistry as to

how much. In other words it depends more on the source of the food

rather than the amount that determines how much of a balloon you turn

into.

 

Let's go to alcoholism. I only know the answer to this because of

personal experience. I thought like you that this was obviously self

inflicted and optional. I never could though understand why alcohol

was so important to me and not to everyone else who drank. I could

never accept the disease concept until I started doing my own

research on it.

 

First, it is not the alcohol but the first breakdown product

acetaldehyde that is the culprit. It has to leak into the blood in

just the right quantities to not make you sick but enough to cross

the blood-brain barrier. At this point it still may not work since

not all people have the same brain chemistry. If you do then it

condenses with dopamine to form THIQ (tetrahydroiodoquinolone) which

is a substance more addictive than morphine. It was synthesized in

the 40's as a cure for morphine addition but was found to be even

more addictive.

 

From my own experience I had known that whenever I was taking

narcotic pain killers I lost my desire to drink but I had never paid

much attention to this because I knew this was no solution to a

drinking problem. However, it did make me realize that only some

people with the right chemistry could get this high from alcohol.

This is obviously a genetically determined thing and thus a disease.

 

You know how people get addicted to any activity that increases brain

endorphins. Well, if drinking alcohol is the activity that does it,

then you drink more than others and more often. When I understood

that I was getting a completely different high than others from

drinking alcohol, it all made sense and the cure was simple--don't

drink alcohol.

 

There was no more of this stupid character [nonsense] and self

control issues to make up and try to deal with. I would say that this

fact is less well known than the causes of atherosclerosis and type

II diabetes.

 

It has taken me 3 years of research to compile the above to my

satisfaction with references to many different scientific journal

articles that back up the scientific facts that support my

assertions. For myself I don't intend to wait or have the time left

to wait for them to eventually make it into mainstream medicine.

 

Beyond the scientific ignorance there is the business and industrial

end of medicine to correct and I'm not sure that can ever be done.

The beast will eventually die from its own medicine--I just don't

want to be taken down prematurely with it.

 

One thing before I go. You know the vaccines we learned about in med

school that were suppose to contain a viral protein to which your

immune system would respond by making antibodies and thus immunity to

the virus. Well, what they didn't know was that many of the cell

culture proteins and even unknown viral proteins are never filtered

out of the final product.

 

These antibodies formed to these proteins circulate in the body and

if they find similar proteins and respond by attacking, then you have

the explanation for the autoimmune epidemic. As long as the profits

roll in the drug companies will do nothing until they're caught.

Vioxx is testimonial to this attitude.

 

Cancer is another big area where effective therapies are known but

not used and even actively suppressed. This is the area originally

that got my concern since I noticed without any outside input that

nothing had changed in the 25 years since I had graduated from med

school. The same barbaric treatments were still being applied.

Nothing was being done to answer the question as to why the cancer

rate had gone from about 1 in 50 lifetime occurrence in 1900 to 1 in

3 today.

 

The answer is obviously in something we breath, eat, or drink that

differs today from 1900. Nobody even is considering this, they are

looking instead for more deadly poisons to kill cancer rather than to

prevent it.

 

The smoking thing they harp on is [nonsense] and just a smoke screen.

If it is bad then it has to be something added to tobacco. People

have smoked for centuries and lung cancer was rare in 1900. Any

effort here is misguided to focus on tobacco, the focus needs to be

on what chemicals tobacco companies are adding to it. I have heard

that the companies have figured out a chemical formula to actually

cause the nicotine to free base when smoked for quicker high and

addiction. This seems to apply only to cigarettes since cigars when

inhaled do not produce the same effect as cigarettes.

 

Medicines marriage to the chemical industry will insure that both

suffer the same fate. Because of their money and control of politics

and research funds you can just expect more of the same in the

future. Turning hospitals into businesses for profit, and all the

wasted time and energy going into satisfying JCAH requirements has

put patient care in the sewer. All of the skills and talents we have

learned in radiology today are simply being wasted. To me today the

whole industry is just one big living joke.

 

I hope I have been helpful.

 

With kind regards,

WM Wassell, MD