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DOCTOR YOURSELF Newsletter (Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 2006)

Mon, 2 Jan 2006 18:42:48 -0500

 

 

 

To for free: dy-update-

 

 

 

" And many have made a trade in deceits and feigned miracles, cozening

the foolish herd, and if no one showed himself cognizant of their

deceits they would impose them upon all. " (Leonardo da Vinci)

 

 

 

The DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER (Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 2006)

 

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

 

 

 

Copyright 2005 by Andrew W. Saul of http://www.doctoryourself.com ,

which now welcomes nearly two million visitors annually. Commercial

use of the website or the contents of this Newsletter is strictly

prohibited.

 

 

 

IN THIS ISSUE:

 

 

 

1. FIRE YOUR DOCTOR! Makes News

 

2. Review: MEDICAL MAVERICKS

 

3. Review: DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO CANCER

 

4. Feature Article: THE ANTIOXIDANT PARADOX

 

5. PHOTOS OF VITAMIN C

 

6. FAVORITE HEALTH SITES

 

7. SKIN INFECTION

 

8. FLUORIDATION DEBUNKED

 

9. Readers' Letters: ACID REFLUX; BREATHING PROBLEMS; COLON CANCER

 

10. DUBIOUS MEDIA ARTICLES

 

11. UNSTRESS YOUR LIFE: Part 6

 

 

 

 

 

SAUL'S NEW BOOK URGES, FIRE YOUR DOCTOR!

 

by Tom Rivers

 

(Batavia Daily News, Wednesday, November 30, 2005. Reprinted with

permission.)

 

 

 

Andrew Saul said the secret to longevity isn't tied to a good doctor

and prescription drugs. Instead, patients can ward off most disease

and infection with vitamins and good nutrition. Saul, 50, of Hamlin

is a former Holley resident and former Genesee Community College

professor. He has written another book urging people to take control

of their health and health care with good diets and high doses of

vitamins.

 

 

 

Saul's new book, Fire Your Doctor! (

http://www.doctoryourself.com/fyd.html ), gives an introduction to the

basics of vitamin therapy, and offers guidelines for using vitamins to

treat specific diseases. The book doesn't read like a medical

textbook. Saul uses a sharp wit in advocating for vitamins and attack

the medical and pharmaceutical professions, which he said benefit when

people are sick.

 

 

 

" There's very little money for prevention, " Saul said during an

interview last week. " There's money in disease. "

 

 

 

Saul runs a Web site, http://www.doctoryourself.com , that offers

hundreds of articles and thousands of references about using vitamins

and other natural-healing treatments to address a range of illnesses

and conditions.

In the site's early days about five years ago a few dozen visitors

regularly visited the site. Now, Saul said it receives 30,000 to

35,000 hits daily.

 

 

The 208-page book is a sequel to his 252-page, Doctor Yourself:

Natural Healing That Works, (

http://www.doctoryourself.com/saulbooks.html )

published in 2003. That book and Fire Your Doctor! are published by

Basic Health Publications of North Bergen, N.J. (

http://www.physicalmag.com/BasicHealth/doctorYourself.html ) Local

bookstores can order the books by customer request, Saul said.

 

 

Saul is trying to spread the word that doctors often make mistakes in

prescribing medication and with invasive surgeries. He believes

vitamins and other natural healing methods should be considered by the

public.

 

 

 

" No one has ever been killed by vitamins, " Saul said. He maintains

that American's nutrient-deficient bodies are vulnerable to disease

and illness.

Pharmaceutical drugs and surgery are not a good substitute for poor

eating and lifestyle choices, he said.

 

 

 

He is hopeful that improved nutrition and vitamins can help Americans

live longer and better. " This gives people practical information, "

Saul said. " It shows what they can do, with vitamins and proper diet,

to fight diseases. "

 

 

 

Saul, a former premedical student with a nontraditional doctorate,

embraces a holistic approach to healthcare. He also wrote A Guide to

Wellness Self-Reliance in 1981 and The Paperback Clinic in 1994. He

wants his books and Web site to help vitamins gain a greater

acceptance from the conventional medical community and also spur

Americans " to take charge of their healthcare. "

 

 

 

" If you want something done right you have to do it yourself, " he said.

" The fire-your-doctor approach is not about not needing doctors, it's

about not needing to go. The doctor becomes a consultant. "

 

 

 

To order your own AUTOGRAPHED copy of FIRE YOUR DOCTOR!, please go to :

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

 

 

 

Also in the news:

 

DOCTOR YOURSELF: Natural Healing that Works has now gone into its

THIRD PRINTING!

 

 

 

To order an AUTOGRAPHED copy of DOCTOR YOURSELF:

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

 

 

 

 

 

BOOK REVIEWS

 

 

 

MEDICAL MAVERICKS, Volume III

 

by Hugh Desaix Riordan, M.D.

 

(Paperback, 237 pages plus bibliography. Wichita, KS:

Bio-Communications

Press, 2005. ISBN 0942333136)

 

 

 

Reviewed by Andrew W. Saul

 

 

 

Like soldiers in battle, orthomolecular pioneers stand as warriors for

their patients' health. The trailblazers of nutrition therapy,

including Hugh Riordan, M.D., were warriors who stood up against

medical dogma. Their stand continues today. For a warrior, it is not

about living to enjoy the victory, but the mark you make in your time.

Hugh Desaix Riordan has left an indelible impression, both in the

journals and in the layperson's understanding and appreciation of

orthomolecular medicine. One way he did so was through his three

Medical Mavericks books, each a collection of article-length

biographies of history's most important, and often most unorthodox,

medical innovators.

 

 

 

Although people often fail to learn from history, Dr. Riordan is one

doctor that clearly has. Hugh Riordan's joy in his subject permeates

his writing, along with a generous selection of superb quotations and

plentiful anecdotes. Mavericks III is so well written that you forget

it is a history book. That is no small achievement for an author.

Years of careful preparation make Medical Mavericks III a considerably

larger work than either Medical Mavericks I or II. Although lacking an

index, it is admirably presented including small but handsome

grayscale photos of each of its individual subjects.

 

 

 

Mavericks III is also more confrontational than its two predecessors.

Every physician or researcher profiled in Mavericks III is an

uncompromising, outspoken orthomolecular nutrition advocate. That

takes courage.

Conventionally trained scientists who have embraced vitamin therapy

know that they have forever crossed the Rubicon. As Hugh said,

" 'Orthomolecular' is not the answer to any questions posed in medical

school. "

 

 

 

" Hugh relished a good fight, " writes Dr. Abram Hoffer in the book's

introduction. " He was challenged legally when he wanted to treat his

patients with high-dose vitamins in the hospital. He won. Hugh was one

of the medical mavericks who fought hard and consistently on behalf of

orthomolecular concepts. In doing so, he became a member of an elite

group. "

 

 

 

While such a group is the topic of all the Mavericks books, in volume

three, attention is specifically focused on the 20th century pioneers

of nutritional medicine. Those profiled include Robert Cathcart III,

Emanuel Cheraskin, Carl Ebnother, Ruth Harrell, Abram Hoffer,

Masatoshi Kaneko, Linus Pauling, Carl Pfeiffer, Bernard Rimland, and

Roger Williams. The book also includes a chapter on Dr. Riordan.

 

 

 

Perhaps the most personal tribute is offered to Dr. Fowler Border

Poling, the brilliant but largely unknown practitioner who first

introduced Hugh to nutritional medicine and became Hugh's mentor. Dr.

Poling died in 1963 at age 48 as the result of a car accident. Hugh's

affection for his great teacher fairly rushes from the pages:

 

 

 

" Dr. Fowler Poling was not afraid to defend his beliefs. He was also a

man of supreme compassion and understanding. To this day, his

daughter's last memory of her father was when the two of them stood in

front of the picture window of their house one night, when the window

acted as a reflecting mirror, and he practiced his daughter's

cheerleading jumps with her.

This was their last experience together before he died. " Dr. Riordan

adds: " One additional factor is helpful for the Truth to prevail:

physical survival. "

 

 

 

This statement is all the more touching considering Hugh's own

untimely death at 72. I'd had a conversation with Hugh the very

morning of the day he would die. He called to tell me he was just

completing Mavericks III.

Later that day, he had literally put his pen down when he collapsed,

his last written words being these:

 

 

 

" What we learn from these superb observers and orthomolecular doers

can literally change our lives for the better. That is why Medical

Mavericks III has been written. "

 

 

 

General George Patton said that the only proper way for a warrior to

die is by the last bullet in the last battle. The last battle has

already been fought, has already been won, for all those who know the

healing power of nature and fully utilize the tools of nutritional

medicine. For every physician who has verified this, for every patient

who has experienced it, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann's words come to mind:

" And when you get better, remember. "

 

 

 

To order a copy of Medical Mavericks:

http://orthomolecular.org/mavericks3.shtml

 

 

 

(Reprinted with the permission of the Journal of Orthomolecular

Medicine,

2005, Vol 20, No 3, p 214-215.)

 

 

 

(end)

 

 

 

DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO CANCER

by W. John Diamond, M.D. and W. Lee Cowden, M.D., with Burton Goldberg

(Tiburon: Future Medicine Publishing, 1997. Hardcover, 1051 pages with

references, ISBN: 1887299017)

 

Reviewed by Michael Jolliffe, Doctor Yourself volunteer

 

By the end of 2006 somebody in America will have been diagnosed with

cancer every two and a half minutes, based on American Cancer Society

projections.

When President Harding said in 1921 that the country's 'present need

is not heroics, but healing; not surgery, but serenity', he could

aptly have been responding to that statistic. An equally worthwhile

response would be to buy a copy of Burton Goldberg's Definitive Guide

to Cancer.

 

 

 

It would be nearly impossible for any book to justify the title of

'definitive guide' to such an infinitely documented subject, but the

three collaborators who have brought us this particular guide have not

shied from trying. The book has been edited by two extremely

successful doctors and researchers. It contains 1452 scientific

references, mostly from peer-reviewed literature, and more than a

thousand pages of protocols and positive case histories. Perhaps most

importantly though it contains well nigh every possible treatment,

therapy or lifestyle strategy for cancer that you could ever come

across. From Gerson to green tea, from Issels to iscador, from Linus

Pauling to pau d'arco, no option goes without examination. The authors

should be highly commended for successfully completing such a massive

undertaking.

 

 

 

The first half of the book takes us through a wonderful meet-and-greet

session with some of the top physicians in the field of

un-conventional cancer treatment, along with a unique chance to

examine their individual protocols and the philosophies behind them.

There are some star names presented such as Emanuel Revici, Abram

Hoffer and the recently late Douglas Brodie. A total of twenty-three

medical and naturopathic doctors are afforded the opportunity to guide

us through the reasoning behind the treatments they employ. For

example, W. John Diamond, one of the book's two principle editors,

favors the use of high doses of vitamins A and C and selenium,

complemented by homeopathy and Chinese herbal medicine.

Lawrence H. Taylor, however, employs essential fatty acids, milk

thistle, laetrile and shark cartilage, while emphasizing daily

physical exercise and 'mental detoxification' strategies. Each

protocol differs because, dare it be said, there is not only one

successful non-conventional method of treating cancer but several,

tens even, and this book is proof positive of that.

 

 

 

Crucially, despite containing over a thousand pages, the book is never

an overwhelming read. Cancer patients and their families should not be

dissuaded by its size because each topic is broken down into very

manageable, well-written chunks, which are efficiently indexed.

Topical information is easy to find and the subsequent sections, 'What

Causes Cancer,' 'How Cancer Politics Have Kept You in the Dark,' and

the 'Complete Guide to Innovative Approaches to Cancer Treatment' are

simple and effective. Of course, for the book to be used to its

fullest potential its reading should be an interactive learning

process for, and between, patient and practitioner and its skilful,

easy style makes this possible.

 

 

 

Inevitably for a book first published nearly a decade ago in such a

rapidly changing field there are some areas that need updating.

Nevertheless, Definitive Guide to Cancer is still an extremely

valuable book, an attempt to bring a much-needed degree of synergy to

the masses of disparate information that make up non-toxic cancer

treatment. It is also a much-needed reminder that cancer is a beacon

of biological disorder that can be better understood, and often

undone. An encyclopedia of important cancer knowledge like this one

should be dropped onto the collective foot of the orthodox medical

profession each time the claim is made that so-called alternative

treatments have not been properly researched, referenced or

documented. There is an urgent need for a new cancer paradigm, and it

is with the publication of books like this one that our sense of

confidence in that new paradigm will grow.

 

 

 

(end)

 

 

 

FEATURE ARTICLE:

 

CANCER AND VITAMIN C: OXIDANT OR ANTIOXIDANT?

 

 

 

(Editor's note: Many DY Newsletter readers have been sending me their

questions about apparently conflicting reports on vitamin C and cancer.

Does vitamin C always help? Does it ever harm? I asked vitamin C

expert Dr. Steven Hickey to please provide a better response than I

possibly could, and he has most certainly done so.)

 

 

 

THE ANTIOXIDANT PARADOX

 

by Steve Hickey, PhD

 

Department of Biological Sciences, Metropolitan University of

Manchester

 

 

 

Dr. David Horrobin was an excellent pharmacologist. He identified that

the action of antioxidants can be paradoxical, in that they can both

promote and inhibit cancer growth. However, the mechanism he described

(1) is probably incorrect. In almost all circumstances, except a

fast-growing malignancy, antioxidants will be helpful. In the case of

malignancy, some antioxidants will be very beneficial, although a

level of sophistication is required in their selection.

 

 

 

One - Healthy and precancerous cells

 

 

 

The processes and signals that increase cellular proliferation make

cells more oxidising. Antioxidants inhibit this proliferation; hence,

damaged cells take longer to develop into a cancerous state when

antioxidants are present.

 

 

 

Two - Rapidly growing cancer

 

 

 

Antioxidants may have a paradoxical effect on fast-growing cancer

cells.

Malignant cells can increase their internal oxidative state to a high

level, which promotes growth. However, a proportion of such cells will

be driven towards even higher levels of oxidation. At these extreme

levels, cells usually commit suicide (apoptosis), rather than becoming

cancerous. The process of cell suicide relies on oxidative stress and

redox signalling. As the oxidation level becomes sufficiently high,

the cell takes this increase as a signal to kill itself.

 

 

 

Antioxidants can reduce the oxidative stress and relieve the apoptotic

pressure on such cancers. Thus, while antioxidants may lower the rate

of

cell division in healthy cells, they can promote growth of malignant

cancer

cells, by stopping these abnormal cells from dying.

 

 

 

(DY Editor's comment: Interestingly, the Gerson Therapy, which is

extremely high in antioxidants from huge quantities of raw vegetable

juices, is particularly effective against one of the fastest-rowing of

all cancers, malignant melanoma, skin cancer.)

 

 

 

Three - Kill cancer cells and help normal cells

 

 

 

At very high levels, some antioxidants, such as vitamin C or lipoic

acid, will kill cancer cells. Paradoxically, this is because they act

as oxidants, or free radical generators, in the highly oxidised

environment of cancer cells. In healthy cells, vitamin C and lipoic

acid continue to act as antioxidants. The possibility that vitamin C

produces free radical damage has been suggested as a possible side

effect of high doses. As we learn more about the process, it becomes

clear that the free radicals are only produced in cancer cells.

Healthy cells get an antioxidant boost, whereas cancer cells are

damaged by this " side-effect " .

 

 

 

Four - Don't feed the cancer

 

 

 

Cancer cells are sick and require specific nutrients, in particular,

glucose. Cancer cells use less oxygen than healthy cells, and their

metabolism tends towards being anaerobic. This form of metabolism

relies heavily on the availability of sugar. The " wrong " nutrients,

eg. sugars and starches, feed the cancer and promote its growth.

 

 

 

Cancer cells absorb glucose using biochemical pumps. These same pumps

also absorb vitamin C, as dehydroascorbate, the reduced form of

vitamin C, which is chemically similar to glucose. If more glucose is

present, then less vitamin C is absorbed by the cells. However, cancer

cells that are deprived of glucose absorb higher levels of vitamin C,

which produces oxidising free radicals, pushing the cancer cells

towards death. For some time, Dr John Ely has reported that the

beneficial effects of vitamin C can be increased by reducing sugar

intake. (2,3)

 

 

 

Five - A targeted approach

 

 

 

Prevention of cancer requires a broad spread of antioxidants. A normal

diet can provide some antioxidant protection. However, many dietary

antioxidants that are effective against cancer have been isolated, and

are available in supplement form. To avoid cancer and slow its

development, a high intake of antioxidants is necessary, consistent

with the orthomolecular approach to nutrition, pioneered by Linus

Pauling and others.

 

 

 

Some people will be unfortunate and find they have a rapidly growing

and malignant cancer. With such a malignancy, there are two possible

approaches - lots of dietary antioxidants to prevent growth, or

specific antioxidants to kill the cells. High levels of selected

antioxidants, such as vitamin C and alpha-lipoic acid, will kill

malignant cancer cells or inhibit their growth (by oxidation). People

taking this nutritional form of cytotoxic chemotherapy should not take

other additional antioxidants, as these might work in the opposite

direction, preventing the free radical damage, which is needed to

destroy the cancer cells.

 

 

 

A new description of cancer

 

 

 

In our forthcoming book, Cancer: Nutrition and Survival, (4) we

explain the biology of cancer. This new approach describes free

radical reactions as core mechanisms in the development of the

disease. It also shows that anticancer agents are not rare and do not

need to be poisonous to the patient. Non-toxic antioxidants, found at

low levels in the diet, can kill cancer cells and prevent

proliferation. To a biologist, this finding is expected and is based

on solid science. It seems, once again, that Linus Pauling was correct

in his assertions that orthomolecular medicine would provide the most

productive approach to cancer research.

 

 

 

Beta-carotene

 

 

 

Horrobin's paper attempts to explain the problem with beta-carotene in

smokers. It appeared that the " antioxidant " beta-carotene could,

paradoxically, increase the risk of cancer. This finding is consistent

with the model described above.

 

 

 

Beta-carotene is unlikely to act as an antioxidant in the lungs of

smokers.

Carotenoids' antioxidant properties depend upon an ample supply of

high-energy electrons. For example, vitamin C can supply such

electrons to reduce oxidised carotenoids, returning them to their free

radical quenching function. In the absence of high levels of vitamin

C, as in the oxidising environment of a smoker's lung, carotene

radicals can propagate free radical chain reactions (5) Thus, we would

predict that beta-carotene would act as an OXIDANT in the lungs of

smokers (unless, perhaps, the smokers were taking several grams of

vitamin C every day)! By acting as an oxidant, the beta-carotene is

predicted to increase the risk of cancer.

 

 

 

1. Horrobin D.F. (2001) The paradox of antioxidants and cancer.

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 74, No. 4, 555.

 

 

 

2. Marks P.A. Bishop J.S. (1957) Glucose metabolism in subjects with

neoplastic disease response to insulin and glucose tolerance followup

studies. Proc Am Assoc Canc Res, 2, 228-229.

 

 

 

3. Ely J.T. (1996) Glycemic modulation of tumor tolerance. J Ortho

Med, 11(1), 23-34.

 

 

 

4. Hickey S. Roberts H. (2005) Cancer: nutrition and survival. (In

press).

 

 

 

5. Halliwell B. Gutteridge J.M. (1998) Free Radicals in Biology and

Medicine, 223-225.

 

 

 

 

 

EVER WONDERED WHAT VITAMIN C LOOKS LIKE? Crystalline photos for free

viewing

are posted at:

 

 

 

http://www.microscopyu.com/featuredmicroscopist/deerinck/deerinckimage12.html

 

 

 

http://www.microscopyu.com/galleries/dxm1200/vitamincsmall.html

 

 

 

http://www.microscopyu.com/moviegallery/chemicalcrystals/vitaminc/index.html

 

 

 

http://www.microscopyu.com/smallworld/gallery/contests/1978/15thsmall1978.html

 

 

 

http://www.microscopyu.com/smallworld/gallery/contests/1978/17thsmall1978.html

 

 

 

 

 

FAVORITE HEALTH SITES

 

by Robert Sarver, Doctor Yourself volunteer

 

 

 

Some of the sites below are commercial. It is prudent to carefully

consider whether a supplement or proprietary product sold at a

commercial site is really superior to other products. I usually

decide what supplements I want and then do an Internet search to find

the best price. I often save up to 50 percent on the purchase price by

doing this.

 

 

 

http://familydoctor.org/x2589.xml is a site that includes a " symptoms

checker " that provides flowcharts that help the reader diagnose

medical problems. Simply click on the symptom on the left side of

the page and a flowchart is presented with simple questions and

answers to help give a name to a medical condition. It's easy to use.

After I have a name for a condition, it's easy to search

doctorYourself or other Internet sites to find more information about

the condition and treatment options.

 

 

 

http://www.lef.org is the home page for the Life Extension

Organization.

The Life Extension Organization does some original medical research.

Most of the information on this site is orthomolecular (nutritional)

but the site at times also recommends prescription drugs in a combined

treatment protocol. All of the Life Extension Magazine issues and

their articles are accessible at no cost. This site has a good search

engine. It's a commercial site.

 

 

 

http://www.vitamincfoundation.org is the Vitamin C Foundation with

excellent orthomolecular articles about the use of vitamin C (and

vitamin E) for the prevention and treatment of many health problems.

Don't be put off by the site's dramatic tone. There are links to

other orthomolecular sites as well as some free online orthomolecular

books. This is a commercial site.

 

 

 

http://www.mercola.com is Dr. Mercola's site with a search engine that

links the user to a huge number of mostly orthomolecular articles.

Dr. Mercola says he concentrates primarily on eating right but he does

promote supplements and other products sold on his site. It is a

commercial site.

 

 

 

http://lpi.oregonstate.edu is the Linus Pauling Institute's home page.

This organization concentrates primarily on food nutrition and disease

prevention but does have some interesting information about

micronutrients.

 

 

 

http://www.cforyourself.com/Conditions/conditions.html is the

conditions search page of C For Yourself that focuses primarily on

vitamin C.

 

 

 

http://www-hsl.mcmaster.ca/tomflem/altmed.html#herb is the Health Care

Information Resources site with many links for herbal information and

other alternative medicine resources. I have no experience with many

of the alternate therapies such as aromatherapy, massage therapy and

therapeutic touch and therefore I cannot comment on their effectiveness.

 

 

 

(Editor's note: For more guidance on surfing the 'net for health

information, you might want to consult

http://www.doctoryourself.com/healthquestions.html )

 

 

 

DOCTOR YOURSELF CASE REPORT:

 

SKIN INFECTION AND TOPICAL VITAMIN C

 

A person I know had a longstanding skin infection, with chronic

inflammation in and around the navel. In succession, he had tried

topical antiseptics such as iodine and rubbing alcohol; antifungal

cream; and antiobiotic cream.

Each in turn resulted in slight to moderate improvement, but the

infection came right back within days. With nothing more then

temporary relief, this problem persisted for many months. The

inflammation eventually became so prominent that there was some

uncomfortable, deep skin cracks on either side of the navel.

 

 

 

Low on options, he then tried once-daily applications of topical

vitamin C, as calcium ascorbate. His procedure was to first wet the

navel area with a very small amount of water, and then sprinkle on the

powder, which partly dissolved and adhered to the skin. The

inflammation was thereby reduced overnight, and the cracks healed in

the next few days. The area of redness and soreness decreased with

every day of use. He continued to do this procedure two days out of

three, the third day being used to apply vitamin E to soothe the

affected skin. Over a period of several weeks, the area healed

completely.

 

 

 

 

 

FLUORIDES AND FLUORIDATION: Evidence Based Science? Don't bet your

life on it!

by Darlene Sherrell

 

 

 

http://www.rvi.net/~fluoride/index.htm contains proof that the

Institute of Medicine has misrepresented their own scientific

references for the " adequate " and " tolerable " daily dose of fluoride.

NAS/NRC/IOM is the ultimate authority relied on by the CDC, ADA, WHO,

PAHO, and virtually all pro-fluoridation individuals and groups.

Images of the original source material show the fraudulent basis for

an increase in the recommended adequate intake from 1.5 mg/day to 4

mg/day for adults, as well as an increase in the tolerable upper limit

from 4 mg/day to 10 mg/day for everyone age 9 years and over.

..

If these fraudulent dosage figures were corrected, there would be no

justification for a maximum contaminant level higher than 0.5 ppm.

Water and salt fluoridation would be a thing of the past.

 

In short, there is no evidence-based science to support the

fluoridation of water or salt - even assuming a lack of adverse

effects other than mottled enamel. NAS/NRC/IOM cooked the books to

protect fluoridation! The proof is available at the URL shown above.

 

 

 

 

 

READERS SAY:

 

 

 

SAY NUTS TO ACID REFLUX

 

L. M. writes:

 

 

 

" I was reading your article on acid reflux and wanted to tell you what

everyone in my family uses for heartburn: almonds. It doesn't matter

if they are roasted or raw: they work! Next time you have

heartburn, chew 5-6 almonds. My sister, who had used antacids for

years, including Prilosec, has not used them for over a year since she

discovered the almonds. I tried it myself, and was amazed at how well

they worked.

Just as well as anything on the market, cost effective, and good for

you also. I guess my grandmother was right all these years when she

always told me nature provides for all our ailments. "

 

 

 

(Thanks for the tip! - DY Ed.)

 

 

 

THE DIFFERENCE IS DOSAGE

 

L. V. writes:

 

 

 

" Even as a kid I had arrhythmia, but at that time it was not

considered serious. As I grew up, I occasionally found a little

discomfort in the chest area. At the same time, as a kid I had hints

of asthma and or allergies, breathing issues, etc. It all came home at

age 44. I was working a high stress job and eating only takeout. Got a

small sore throat--it just got worse and worse, rapidly. I went to an

M.D., and he just thought it was allergies. After six weeks, I

couldn't speak, and was coughing and suddenly throwing up on myself. I

was having asthma-like attacks to the point of repeatedly

collapsing--totally unable to recover my breath, even coughing up

blood. Three different MD's later: no help. Two of them didn't even

explain to me what they thought I had. They just gave me drugs. The

cough persisted with some attacks severe enough to literally put me on

the floor. I had even tried " very large " doses of vitamin C, like one

thousand mg/day. Then I found YOUR website. I tried two, three four

thousand mg. By the end of ONE day I had no cough. When it would start

to recur, I would take more C. I had also had angina symptoms, and my

heart had been palpitating wildly as well.

So I got vitamin E, and gradually worked up to over 2000 IU's per day.

The problems were 90 percent better. I next added magnesium aspartate,

and problem solved....for months now! The amazing thing is that I had

read about vitamins, and believed in vitamins, but you specifically

emphasize that if the dose is not large enough, it won't have

therapeutic effect; it will have nutritional benefit, but a certain

dose is required if one has a disease condition. I eventually saw it

as if I took just one mg of Tylenol, when a standard dose is hundreds

of mg. One mg will do nothing. The same is true for the vitamins. Thanks! "

 

 

 

(Good for you. Your letter made my day. - DY Ed.)

 

 

 

COLON CANCER

 

S. R. writes:

 

 

 

" My friend Mike now has severe back pain and constipation, related to

his colon cancer. He is scheduled for more chemo next month. One of

his friends mentioned that vitamin c intravenously can be very

helpful. Mike said he was skeptical, because he thought that double

blind control group studies were lacking. Anyway, if you know of some,

maybe that would help him? "

 

 

 

DY News Response: I can only wonder if Mike can afford to wait for

more studies. His life is not a placebo-controlled, double blind

study; he gets only one. Still, I think he should pay very close

attention to the following:

 

 

 

Riordan HD, Riordan NH, Jackson JA, Casciari, J.J., Hunninghake, R,

Gonzalez MJ, Mora, E.M., Miranda-Massari, J.R., Rosario, N., Rivera,

A.: Intravenous Vitamin C as a Chemotherapy Agent: a Report on

Clinical Cases. Puerto Rico Health Sciences J, June 2004, 23(2): 115-118.

 

 

 

Padayatty, S.J., Sun, H., Wang, Y., Riordan HD, Hewitt, S.M., Katz,

A., Wesley, R.A., Levine, M. Vitamin C Pharmacokinetics: Implications

for Oral and Intravenous Use. Annals of Internal Medicine, April 6,

2004, 140(7): 533-537.

 

 

 

Gonzalez MJ, Mora, E.M., Miranda-Massari, J.R., Matta, J., Riordan HD,

Riordan NH: Inhibition of Human Breast Carcinoma Cell Proliferation by

Ascorbate and Copper. Puerto Rico Health Sciences J, March 2002, 21:1.

 

 

 

Gonzalez MJ, Miranda-Massari, J.R., Mora, E.M., Jimenez, I.Z., Matos,

M.I.,

Riordan HD, Casciari, J.J., Riordan NH, Rodriguez, M., Guzman, A.:

Orthomolecular Oncology: a Mechanistic View of Intravenous Ascorbate's

Chemotherapeutic Activity. Puerto Rico Health Sciences J, March, 2002,

21:1.

 

 

 

Riordan HD, et al. High-Dose Intravenous Vitamin C in the Treatment of

a Patient with Renal Cell Carcinoma of the Kidney. J. Orthomolecular

Med, 1998, 13:2.

 

 

 

Jackson JA, Riordan HD, Hunninghake, R.E., Riordan NH: High Dose

Intravenous Vitamin C and Long Term Survival of a Patient with Cancer

of Head of the Pancreas. J. Orthomolecular Medicine, 1995; 10(2).

 

 

 

Riordan NH, Riordan HD, Meng, X., Li, Y., Jackson JA: Intravenous

Ascorbate as a Tumor Cytotoxic Chemotherapeutic Agent. Medical

Hypotheses, 1995 (44).

 

 

 

Riordan HD, et al. Coronary Artery Occlusion, Chelation and

Cholesterol in a 49 Year-Old Pilot. J. Orthomolecular Med, 1996, 11:1.

 

 

 

Riordan NH, Jackson JA, Riordan HD. Intravenous Vitamin C in a

Terminal Cancer Patient. J. Orthomolecular Med, 1996, 11:2.

 

 

 

and especially this newest one:

 

 

 

Chen Q, Espey MG, Krishna MC, Mitchell JB, Corpe CP, Buettner GR,

Shacter E, Levine M. Pharmacologic ascorbic acid concentrations

selectively kill cancer cells: action as a pro-drug to deliver

hydrogen peroxide to tissues.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Sep 20;102(38):13604-9. Epub 2005 Sep 12.

 

 

 

HEALTH CLAIMS AND DUBIOUS MEDIA ARTICLES

by Paul Anthony Taylor

 

United Kingdom

 

" Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead

you.

Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to

live a happy life and how to work for a better world. " (Linus Pauling).

 

Living in the European Union, as I do, I have been aware for some time

now that there is a concerted attempt underway to convince us that

there are no such things as good or bad foods, only good or bad diets,

and that in a long-term varied diet, all foods can be included. In

recent years, even press releases issued by the European Commission,

the European Union's executive body, have begun to to this

most disingenuous, and even dangerous, of ideologies.

http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/health_consumer/newsletter/200307/1.htm

 

Disturbingly therefore, the European media now appears to be becoming

increasingly complicit in the spreading of this type of propaganda,

and is replete with examples of dubious scientific-sounding claims,

masquerading as articles, being used as a means of influencing our

food purchases. One recent report, for example, even went so far as to

claim that " cheeseburgers are good for the gut, " arguing that rather

than clog up the arteries high fat foods " can actually soothe

inflammation. "

http://www.nutraingredients.com/news/ng.asp?n=63108 & m=1NIEo11 & c=lmqbgluszkwtiej

 

Another recent report trumpeted the claim that walnuts are a source of

melatonin.

http://www.nutraingredients.com/news/ng.asp?id=62492 This one really

made me sit up and take notice, as over-the-counter sales of melatonin

were banned some years ago in the UK, where I live, on the dubious

grounds that they weren't safe. Upon reading down the article,

however, one discovers that the amount of melatonin in walnuts was

found to be between 2.5 and 4.5 nanograms per gram.

 

Now, a nanogram is 1 millionth of a milligram

http://www.ilpi.com/msds/ref/massunits.html which means that the

amount of melatonin in walnuts is very, very small indeed. Bearing in

mind therefore that the average walnut weighs around 5 grams

http://www.naturalhub.com/grow_nut_cultivars_walnut.htm and that even

the very lowest dose melatonin capsule generally contains at least 1

milligram of melatonin, this suggests one would have to consume well

over forty-four thousand walnuts (each containing an average 4.5

nanograms of melatonin per gram) to achieve an intake of just 1

milligram. And guess what? The research was supported by a grant from

the California Walnut Industry. Hmmm.

 

Meanwhile, the European Union is in the final stages of preparing a

very restrictive Regulation on Nutrition and Health Claims. Expected

to be passed in mid-2006, it will give the European authorities full

control over any and all claims made about food products sold in

Europe. Essentially, no claims of any sort will be allowed unless they

are specifically accepted and approved by the European Food Safety

Authority (EFSA).

 

Notably however, information provided in media articles of the type

described above will be exempt from the Regulation. As such, whilst

most health claims for dietary supplements will, in all likelihood, be

either rejected or at best extremely difficult to gain approval for,

European consumers will continue to be subjected to an increasing

barrage of dubious articles of the type that exhort them to eat

cheeseburgers, and then buy walnuts for their melatonin content.

 

Before anybody gets the wrong idea, I have nothing against either

Nutraingredients or its website. I to the Nutraingredients

daily newsletter, for example, and generally consider it to be a

useful source of information about the supplement and health food

industries. And just for the record I also like walnuts too, and eat

them regularly for their many health-promoting promoting properties.

 

My concern, however, is that Europe is currently heading at breakneck

speed towards an Orwellian world where truly life-extending and

health-enhancing information, of the type that consumers both want and

have a moral right to avail themselves of, will be banned, but where

the fast and processed food industries (and of course, the

pharmaceutical industry) will thrive as a result of their financial

power, political connections and easy access to the media.

 

Moreover, having just returned from a Codex meeting in Bonn, Germany,

and witnessed discussions regarding a proposed global standard, the

Draft Recommendations on the Scientific Basis of Health Claims, that

could potentially do just as much damage to natural healthcare and

health freedom as the Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food

Supplements eventually might, I know only too well the extent to which

we are now being hoodwinked on this issue by our politicians,

regulators and media.

 

As the old saying goes - unless we change direction soon we're likely

to end up where we're going. Well, we'd better change direction pretty

soon then, as from what I have seen recently our current destination

is looking increasingly worrying.

 

UNSTRESS YOUR LIFE: Part 6

 

by John I. Mosher, PhD

 

State University of New York, Emeritus

 

 

 

GET AWAY FROM IT ALL

 

 

 

Go to a peaceful place as often as you can. A relatively easy way to

do this is to practice the techniques that have been outlined in this

series.

(Editor's note: All previous installments of Unstress Your Life are

posted in the Newsletter Back Issues section at the Doctor

Yourself.com website. Search for " Unstress Your Life. " ) All these

techniques can, in a real sense, provide you with a portable

sanctuary: a sanctuary where you can go within and be with your Being,

that still point within, almost any place or any time of your

choosing. Having said that, I encourage you to create a special

sacred place to use for just Being with yourself.

 

 

 

Joseph Campbell writes: " This is a place where you can simply

experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is

the place of creative incubation. At first you might find that

nothing happens there.

But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will

happen . your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again. "

 

 

 

I also like to make sacred physical spaces out of doors. I created

such a space in the rather secluded southwest corner of our lawn. I

also have a space in a friend's nearby woods. I completely agree with

Henry David Thoreau when he wrote, " I went to the woods because I

wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of

life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not when I

came to die, discover that I had not lived. "

 

 

 

Being in nature and enjoying beautiful, quiet landscape is healing. A

lot of our illness, both physical and mental, comes from our

disconnection from the natural world.

 

 

 

I knew a young man years ago who was afraid to be alone in the woods.

His fear in general was so profound that he felt physically

debilitated in certain ways when in a strange natural setting. To my

way of thinking, this situation signaled the depth of his

disconnection from not only nature, but his true natural self. The

mind and mind-created ego were so powerful, through his mental

conditioning from home, education and society in general, that he

seemed out of touch with his true being.

 

 

 

I was more fortunate. As a boy growing up on a farm, I loved to ramble

the fields, hedgerows, woods and streams. I enjoyed seeing what was

going on out of doors. There always seemed to be some activity be it

bird, insect, deer, woodchuck, field mouse, or snake. All were just

being and following their natural patterns of life. Just being away

from people and with the wild plants and animals was a balancing and

comforting experience for me.

Over the years, without consciously realizing it, I used the time in

the out-of-doors as a stress management program. Fortunately my

studies, research and teaching in the biological sciences required

quite a lot of time spent out of doors. I think one of my major

experiences in finding my self occurred when I was studying Big Horn

Sheep in an unmapped wilderness area in south western Colorado. I was

camped near the snow which covered the mountain top. It was July, and

I was at about 12,000 feet above sea level.

I could see forever, so it seemed, and my only contact with the

populated world was the glint of sun from a metal roof on a ranch

about 20 or more miles away. I was alone and the only sounds were

those of nature.

Absolutely no human signs: just animal tracks and pathways.

 

 

 

In my early adult years, with the pressures of career and family, the

woods were my salvation. I had the feeling that there were ways of

gaining that benefit of nature when it was not possible to be out in

the woods.

Deep within me I knew there must be a way to live that was not so

stressful.

I remember thinking that there must be more to life than the everyday

pressures, and the treadmill of ego gratifying accomplishments in the

name of career and science. My reflective quiet time in the woods felt

settling and gratifying, unlike my career accomplishments. It seemed

that regardless of what one might achieve at the job or in the field

of research, the satisfaction from the accomplishment soon faded. It

was somewhat like being addicted to a substance: there is the short

term high but no long term liberation from the peaks and valleys of

the cycle. What I wanted was a stable, permanent happiness. At this

point I realized that pleasure is a short term, transitory experience,

whereas happiness is a basic underlying positive attitude toward life.

This involves cultivating the positive values of life such as

compassion, selflessness, tolerance, forgiveness and kindness, along

with having gratitude and appreciation for one's own life as

well as that of others. I found that adopting and practicing these

values takes self discipline and the need to remain mindful and

conscious of one's life situation. For example, if someone is

unpleasant to you, your initial reaction may be one of anger. But by

remaining conscious, you can acknowledge your feeling and then make a

conscious choice not to act on the feeling. You can use this life

situation to realize that happy people do not act unpleasantly. The

unpleasant person surely is in pain. There is an old saying that the

amount of pain one inflicts on another is directly proportional to the

amount of pain they feel inside.

 

 

 

Realizing the possibility that the other is unpleasant because they

are in pain allows you to practice compassion. Then, instead of

yelling or punching the person, you can say, " I'm sorry you feel that

way. " By doing this you have remained conscious and perhaps even

helped the other person to examine their own motivations. At the very

least, you have helped your self and in the most you have been

compassionate and understanding to another person, giving them the

opportunity to grow in their own realization.

 

 

 

Spending time in your sanctuary, be it a room, a park, a woods or

mountain top gives you the opportunity and the peace to put things in

perspective.

Just being in nature and allowing the noise and chatter of the mind to

be somewhat neutralized by the silence of the trees is beneficial. If

you have the privacy of a woods available, you might try letting

yourself be drawn to a certain tree. Go to that tree and lean against

it with your forehead and hands touching the tree. As you spend a

minute or two or more doing this, you will note a peaceful feeling

coming over you. You may even feel that you are experiencing your

surroundings differently than you usually do. It has been said that

trees function as a great antenna bringing in the coherent

energy of the cosmos. Perhaps the tree tunes up your nervous system;

who can say? Regardless of theory, the fact is that many others as

well as myself have experienced healing and feelings of well-being

from such contact.

 

 

 

We are stressed and restless, always looking for something outside of

ourselves to make us happy. The techniques, the sanctuary, the

practice of cultivating positive states of mind all facilitate our

discovering ourselves again and again until we are enjoying living.

 

 

 

(Counselor and professor of biology John I. Mosher, PhD, is the author

of several articles at the DoctorYourself.com website, all easily

searchable.)

 

 

 

 

 

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