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Proposed, Experimental and Theoretical, Non-Invasive

Do-It-Yourself Methods For Parasite, Fungal, Viral, Pathogen and Chemical Neutralization In

DIABETES & RELATED CONDITIONS

by

William G. Drew, Ph.D.

By training I am a Neuropsychopharmacologist.  People with my training typically teach medical students and doctors while they are in allopathic medical schools or while they are going through their internships or residency.  I was no different in this background. 

The teaching of numerous courses in pharmacology, neuropharmacology and neuropsychology to hundreds of medical students and dozens of graduate students over nearly a fifteen year period was not without consequences.  My research work resulted in approximately 50 published studies in well respected, peer-reviewed medical journals and was meritoriously suffient to win $4.6 million in federal research grants.   

However, growing dissatisfaction with the allopathic practice of medicine and the negative influence their philosophy and affiliations exert on basic medical research prompted an early retirement.  Then began years of intensive self-reflection and work to de-bias my scientific and medical underpinnings.  Concurrently, I was suffering from coronary artery disease and lived through 3 heart attacks, six angioplasties and a triple bypass operation.  Ten months later the bypass shunts had closed and I nearly lost my life, when, in the first week of May 1995, my heart stopped 5 times.  I realized that to continue to rely on conventional medicine would have worrisome consequences.  Desperately I looked for alternatives just to stay alive.  I found them and got much more than I ever believed possible.  

Thankfully, to look at me now you would never know just how sick I had been.  Without some reference point, one fails to appreciate change.  Accordingly, it is hard to see just how fatally flawed allopathic medicine really is.  Tragically, these analogies reveal the true extent of our health ignorance, a blindness that has not only been extended, but exploited fully by a drug industry that should be held accountable for the lethal consequences of their acts. 

Pharmaceutical misrepresentations have done great harm in terms of human consequences.  Together with the strategic alliances these corporate powerhouses have forged with the cereal industry, the dead food industry, the chemical lobbies, and the on-going complicity of the medical profession, the public is in grave danger of a total health collapse.  Not only is allopathic medicine fatally flawed, support industries operate with hidden agendas and now control medical and nutritional advertising, promotions, research grants, and regulatory agencies.  There can be no restoration of health, promotion of basic research or effective alleviation of diseases when the parties involved have vested interests in maintaining sub-optimal public health and "captured" control of regulatory agencies.    

Along with thousands of other health professionals I now feel that many aspects of the practice of medicine are immoral, unethical, impractical, financially devastating and must be stopped.  The immorality comes from the inescapable fact that the medical establishment not only holds sick people hostage but makes a business, even a monopoly out of illness and suffering.  This is immoral.  I would not necessarily hold this view had I not been witness to repeated medical establishment cover ups and deliberate attempts to discredit revolutionary findings and cures that would end human suffering on a massive scale.  These were acts done by those with vested interests in keeping people sick.  It is immoral to deprive people of access to information, new or old, that can cure diseases, remove the underlying causes of sickness or that can restore health. 

It is imperative that all people take back the power to restore their own physical and financial health.  As Dr. Clark has stated, "The human species can no longer afford to make a business out of illness...The concept of health as a narrow professional concern is obsolete."  So it is with this understanding and from this background that Health Restoration Consultants came into being.  By "Empowering Through Knowledge" we now have new ways of looking at and ridding ourselves of diabetes and related pancreatic disorders.                    

 

 

 

NOTICE TO THE READER

The opinions expressed in this informational brochure are based on my scientific research and the published scientific and clinical research of others, notably Hulda Clark, Ph.D., N.D. 

Be advised that the information contained in this brochure is for educational purposes only.  No prescriptive advice is being offered.  The treatments outlined herein are not intended to be a replacement or a substitute for other forms of medical treatment, conventional or otherwise.  ALWAYS CONSULT WITH YOUR PHYSICIAN OR OTHER HEALTH CARE PROVIDER WHEN ILL.

Be advised also that everyone is unique, in different states of health, different in age, sex and environmental background and may respond differently to any conventional medical treatment or other forms of treatment.  Any new treatment carries with it the added need to be cautious and apply common sense. 

 

 

DISCLAIMER TO THE READER

Any use of this information carries with it the expressed and implied understanding that we cannot be responsible for any adverse effects believed due to its use.  This is an informational brochure only.  The author has provided safe dosage information on the herbs and nutritional supplements wherever appropriate.  Again, remember that everyone is different and the need for using common sense cannot be overestimated.   

 

   

Readers are strongly advised to acquire and read The Cure for All Cancers by Hulda R. Clark, Ph.D. N.D., as well as The Cure for HIV and AIDS and The Cure for All Diseases by the same author.  

 

Parasite Eradication Program
(To be done in conjunction with the Herbal Home Colonic Program)

  Black Walnut Tincture

2hrs before or after supper

Wormwood Capsules

2 hrs before or after supper

Clove Capsules L-Ornithine Capsules Para-Min

(With Meals)

Colloidial 4xSilver

1 dp full in 8oz water
once in AM
once in PM

Shigella &Salmonella

homeopathic
1dp full at
B L S

Echinacea Capsules Zap with Zapper
Day

B

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1 1 tsp in 8 oz water

1

1

1

1

2 at bedtime

2

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1 dp AM/PM 1 dp per meal

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2 1 tsp in 8 oz water

1

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4 at bedtime

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1 dp AM/PM 1 dp per meal

2

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3 1 tsp in 8 oz water

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1 dp AM/PM 1 dp per meal

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4 1 tsp in 8oz water

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5 1 tsp in 8oz water

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6 1 tsp in 8oz water

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7 3 tsp in 8 oz water

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8 3 tsp in 8oz water

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2-6 as needed

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1 dp AM/PM 1 dp per meal

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9 3 tsp in 8oz water

5

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2-6 as needed

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1 dp AM/PM 1 dp per meal

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10 3 tsp in 8oz water

5

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2-6 as needed

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1 dp AM/PM 1 dp per meal

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11 3 tsp in 8oz water

6

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2-6 as needed

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1 dp AM/PM 1 dp per meal

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12 3 tsp in 8oz water

6

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2-6 as needed

2

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1 dp AM/PM 1 dp per meal

2

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13 3 tsp in 8oz water

7

3

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3

2-6 as needed

2

2

2

1 dp AM/PM 1 dp per meal

2

2

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1 hour

14 3 tsp in 8oz water

7

3

3

3

2-6 as needed

2

2

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1 dp AM/PM 1 dp per meal

2

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15 3 tsp in 8oz water

7

3

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3

2-6 as needed

2

2

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1 dp AM/PM 1 dp per meal

2

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16 3 tsp in 8oz water

7

3

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2-6 as needed

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1 dp AM/PM 1 dp per meal

2

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17 3 tsp in 8oz water

7

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2-6 as needed

2

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1 dp AM/PM 1 dp per meal

2

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18 3 tsp in 8oz water

7

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3

2-6 as needed

2

2

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1 dp AM/PM 1 dp per meal

2

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1 hour

19 3 tsp in 8oz water

7

3

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2-6 as needed

2

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1 dp AM/PM 1 dp per meal

2

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1 hour

20 4 tsp in 8 oz water

8

3

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3

2-6 as needed

2

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1 dp AM/PM 1 dp per meal

2

2

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21 4 tsp in 8oz water

8

3

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3

2-6 as needed

2

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1 dp AM/PM 1 dp per meal

2

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22 4 tsp in 8oz water

8

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2-6 as needed

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1 dp AM/PM 1 dp per meal

2

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23 4 tsp in 8oz water

8

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2-6 as needed

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1 dp AM/PM 1 dp per meal

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24 4 tsp in 8oz water

8

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2-6 as needed

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25 4 tsp in 8oz water

8

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2-6 as needed

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2

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26 4 tsp in 8oz water

8

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2-6 as needed

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2

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27 4 tsp in 8oz water

8

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2-6 as needed

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2

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28 4 tsp in 8oz water

8

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2-6 as needed

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29 4 tsp in 8oz water

8

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2-6 as needed

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30 4 tsp in 8oz water

8

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2-6 as needed

2

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1 dp AM/PM 1 dp per meal

2

2

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1 hour

WEEK 1

·  Wormwood:  The numbers of capsules shown above should be taken before or after supper with water (on empty stomach) .    

·  ZAP with Beck unit. Days 1 - 21 ZAP 60 min. minimum; preferrably 2 hours.  Weekly thereafter. 

·  Take 5, 10, 15, 20 drops Aerobic 07 according to schedule in appendix.  Continue Aerobic 07 until 3 bottles are empty.

·  If directed take Fennel capsules (1 each meal) and Tumeric capsules (2 each meal) to kill Shigella in the intestines and to   stimulate the liver.  Lugol's Iodine is used to kill Salmonella and some Shigella in the stomach.

·  Take Seed-a-Sept drops daily according to label instructions.

WEEK 2

·  Bowel cleansing is critically important.  Begin Vega-Lax (day 7) with objective of achieving 3 bowel movements daily.

·  Take 1000 mg organic flax seed oil and 1500 mg evening primrose oil daily.

WEEK 3

·  Miracle 7 Cleanse (day 14) but only when you are having 3 bowel movements each day. 

·  Begin liver cleanse if  instructed.  See Appendix.

·  Take 1 tbs granulated lecithin 3 times daily for first 60 days, twice daily thereafter for 6 months.

·  Take 1 Activated B-Complex capsule daily. 

·  Take 1 tbs bee pollen 3 times daily. 

·  Take 4 Spectra-Scorb Plus tablets daily this week, increase to 6 following week and thereafter.

·  Take 2 Basic Preventive 5 tablets each meal daily weeks 3 and thereafter. 

·  Take 2 Similase capsules each meal and 2 at bedtime (i.e. 8 per day). 

·  Take 1 Lipanase tablet with each meal (except if you are allergic to port). 

·  Take 25 mg CoEnzyme Q10 each meal.

·  Take 50 mg grapeseed extract -pycnogenol mixture 8 times daily this week (week 3) and week 4; 6 times daily weeks 5-8 (i.e.         30 days; 2 times daily next 30 days and 50 mg daily thereafter.    

·  Take 1 Calcium Aspartate and 1 Magnesium Aspartate capsule at breakfast and 1 at bedtime time.

·  Take 1  500 mg Niacinamide capsule 3 times daily (stimulates insulin production and insulin sensitivity). 

·  Take 500 mg of L-glutamine 3 times daily on empty stomach.

·  Take 500 mg of Taurine 3 times daily on empty stomach.

·  Take 2 Quercetin-Bromelain Complex tablets at breakfast and 2 at supper.  Quercetin protects lens in eyes.

·  Take 600 mg thioctic acid daily (2 100 mg capsules 3 times daily).

·  Avoid all contact, consumption and vapors from chlorine (in drinking water; Chlorox, swimming pools, bleached clothes).  All

                drinking water must be passed through pure carbon filter system.  Don't shower in chlorinated water.  Use carbon                filtered water to bath.  Avoid bromide-containing medications and bromide-bleached flour.  No FLUORIDES!!!

WEEK 4

·  If you have mercury toxcity (from dental amalgams) or from environmental ingestion, go on Mercury Detoxification Program              immediately.  Call this office for specific instructions on protecting yourself from mercury shifts inside your body.  Next               set up appt with a "biological dentist" to have existing amalgams removed.  Only after amalgams are removed contact              chelating physician in your area to arrange for mercury chelation with DMSA (oral prescription drug) or DMPS (oral            prescription drug).   Afterward begin an intravenous EDTA chelation program from a chelation physician or VAXA Oral                 Chelation Program.  Begin HRC Oral Chelation program + 4 tablets thioctic acid daily for 14 days, 2 tabs daily      thereafter. 

                Take a minimum of 1000 mg daily of N-acetyl-L-cysteine; 500 mg in a.m. and 500 mg in p.m.

                Take Special Cilantro Formula (Cilantro, sea salt and olive oil) only after DMSA chelation program is nearly complete.         

 

 

DIABETES

The origins of many chronic health problems including Type I and II diabetes can be found in disturbed or compromised digestive function.  Toxins, altered permeability and parasites are generally to blame for virtually all types of  gastrointestinal dysfunction.  But the problem doesn't simply remain a gastrointestinal problem.  Toxins, intestinal permeability defects and parasites can lead to profound health consequences of which Type I diabetes is an example.  The symptoms may occur singly (i.e. independently) or in clusters (i.e. groups of conditions) producing cumulative damage which leads to a cascade of chronic illness. 

Foreign chemicals (i.e. xenobiotics) can produce toxic damage affecting virtually all organs and systems in the body.  Some of the more common results of xenobiotic toxicity include weakness, headache, neurologic disturbances, multiple chemical sensitivities, immune dysfunction, liver and pancreatic disorders.  The gastrointestinal tract is the most common route of exposure to these toxins and, as a result, the integrity of the mucosal barrier is a key factor in limiting absorption and recovery.

Increased intestinal permeability or leaky gut syndrome, results not only in increased absorption of xenobiotics, but also in the increased absorption of endogenously produced toxins (endotoxins), antigens, immune complexes and intact microorganisms and macroorganisms normally confined to the intestinal lumen.  It is by this mechanism that chronic permeability defects have been shown to contribute to the development of certain autoimmune diseases, liver dysfunction, septicemia and other systemic disorders including parasite infections.

Parasitic infections, yeast infections (candidiasis) and other imbalances in intestinal microflora (dysbiosis) can give rise to similar local and systemic problems.  Chronic insults to the gut wall produce abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhea, and can lead to the development of malabsorption, inflammatory bowel disorders and ultimately to leaky gut syndrome.  Endotoxins and antigens produced by intestinal pathogens are then absorbed systemically producing allergic responses, autoimmune illness, liver damage and other toxic reactions.  There is evidence that in Type I diabetes the body's antibodies attack the islet cells because they now consider them "foreign."  But it could be that the antibodies are being produced to parasite wastes and toxins in the islet cell areas of the pancreas.  .     

Under normal conditions, intestinal endotoxins and xenobiotics absorbed from the gut are principally detoxified by the liver.  Liver detoxification pathways transform toxic molecules into less toxic metabolites which can then be excreted.  The liver's capacity to handle detox functions can be impaired due to excessive exposure to toxins as well as deficiencies in key nutrients.  Signs and symptoms of toxicity often occur as a result of compromised liver function.

Gut-associated chronic illness requires several approaches.  Three broad objectives include: reducing exposure to xenobiotics, normalizing gastrointestinal function, and supporting liver detoxification.  Reducing the exposure to xenobiotics decreases the body's burden of toxins.  Normalizing gastrointestinal function helps improve digestion, reduce intestinal endotoxins, eliminate parasites and maintain gut wall integrity.  Supporting liver detoxification assists the body in transforming and eliminating xenobiotics and endotoxins.  

Leaky gut syndrome (LGS) is the problem in inflammatory bowel diseases such as ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, irritable bowel syndrome.  LGS is involved in virtually all food allergies and certain auto-immune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, lupus erythematosus and atopic and eczematous dermatitis, vasculitis, intestinal toxemia (endotoxemia) microbial translocation, dysbiosis, joint pain and inflammation, fatigue, malabsorption and other diseases including chronic fatigue, multiple sclerosis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, herpes and others.  Obviously, correcting LGS dysfunctions is critical to the success of any program designed to conquer chronic fatigue, arthritis, HIV, lupus or any of the LGS disorders.      

But it is a little more complicated than that.  Chronic fatigue nicely illustrates the fact that simply killing a virus (Epstein-Barr) will not correct the problem.  The virus can be killed with colloidal silver among other treatments.  But unless the underlying problem is corrected, the chronic fatigue sufferer will re-contract the disease almost immediately.  Similarly, with Type I diabetes, unless the parasitic infection of the pancreas is eradicated , the person will never be cured.   

Type I Diabetes is one of the environmental diseases that is related to chronic parasite infestations, bacterial imbalances in the gut, poor metabolism (related to poor absorption of nutrients) lower atmospheric oxygen levels, and solvent pollution (wood alcohol and other xenobiotics) among other things. 

Wood alcohol (methanol) pollution occurs in many of the soft drinks (e.g. Pepsi's, Cokes) we drink, in certain food stuffs we eat and in some cosmetic and health care products.  At least until you are healed you MUST STOP consuming all products contaminated with wood alcohol and other alcohols such as isopropyl and propyl.  THIS MEANS NO MORE SOFT DRINKS!!!!!

What are some of these products?  Methanol or wood alcohol is found in hundreds of foods.  It is in processed foods including bottled water, all artificial sweeteners such as Aspartame and Saccharin, soda pops, baby formulas, powdered drinks of all kinds including most of the health food varieties.  How did it get there?  Federal sterilization regulations require certain procedures be followed by food manufacturers.  Presumably, the methanol got there as a result of sterilization techniques which do not require that the lines be dried out after alcohol washing and sterilization.  Even though the amount of wood alcohol contaminating the food product is small, the tiny amounts can be quite effective in stimulating the reproduction of parasites.  Maybe the alcohol is acting like a hormone for worms and worm eggs or stages.  Dr. Clark says that "If your child has diabetes, use nothing out of a can, package or bottle except regular milk, and no processed foods.  THIS MEANS NO MORE ASPARTAME (NUTRASWEET) OR SACCHARIN SWEETENED FOODS OR DRINKS.  SWEETEN ONLY WITH THE HERBAL STEVIA EXTRACT. 

DONT BE TEMPTED.  It is imperative that you throw all of these type products out!  Do not leave them in the house where their use comprises a convenience.  Throw them out and let the garbage man haul them away. 

The association of elevated body methanol levels with diabetic disease suggests that methanol may be the solvent that enables certain flukes and roundworms to use the pancreas as the "secondary host" to complete their life cycle.  Therefore deparasitizing the body is essential to overcome these disease states but this can only be effective if accomplished at the same time we rid our bodies of wood alcohol and other xenobiotics.

 

Parasites Involved in Diabetes

"All diabetics have a common fluke parasite, Eurytrema pancreaticum, the pancreatic fluke of cattle, in their own pancreas.  It seems likely that we get it from cattle, repeatedly, by eating their meat or dairy products in a raw state.  It is not hard to kill with a zapper because of its infective stages in our food supply we can immediately be reinfected.

Eurytrema will not settle and multiply in our pancreas without the presence of wood alcohol (methanol) usually supplied in ample quantities by soft drinks.  Methanol pollution pervades our food supply"... as discussed above. 

 

"By killing this parasite and removing wood alcohol from the diet, the need for insulin can be cut in half in three weeks (or sooner!)."

 

"Be vigilant with your blood sugar checks.  The pancreas with its tiny islets that produce insulin recovers very quickly.  Even if 90% of them were destroyed, requiring daily insulin shots, half of them can recover or regenerate so insulin is no longer necessary.  The insulin shot itself may be polluted with wood alcohol (this is especially cruel irony -- the treatment itself is worsening the condition).  Test it yourself, using the wood alcohol in automotive fluids (windshield washer) or from a paint store, as a test substance.  Try different brands of insulin until you find one that is free of methanol." [Dr. Clark is here talking about electronic resonance testing with a purity tester.] 

"Artificial sweeteners are polluted with wood alcohol!  Instead of helping to cope with diabetes, they are actually promoting it.  Do not use them.

Drugs that stimulate your pancreas to make more insulin may also carry solvent pollution; test them for wood alcohol and switch brands and bottles until you find a pure one.  You may not need them much longer, so the extra expense now may soon reward you.

Many persons can detoxify the amount of wood alcohol that pollutes our foods.  They do not have a food mold, Kojic acid, built up in their bodies as diabetics do.  I have found Kojic acid in coffee, and potatoes with gray areas inside.  Do not eat discolored potatoes or peels, even if cooked or baked.  Being able to detoxify a poisonous substance like wood alcohol should not give us the justification for consuming it.  All poisons are bad for us.  Do not consume them.

All diabetic persons also carry a virus, HA virus, in the pancreas.  This virus grows in the skin as a wart but is spread quite widely in the body such as in the spleen or liver besides the pancreas.  It is not necessary to kill this virus since it disappears when the pancreatic fluke is gone.  The HA virus undoubtedly belongs to the pancreatic fluke.  The question can be asked: Does the fluke or its virus cause diabetes?  There might even be a bacterium, so far missed in our observations, that is the real perpetrator.

While recovering from diabetes, it is very important to check your blood sugar every day.  Improvement is so rapid, you may suddenly be over-insulinized by your next shot.  Cut down you dose to suit your actual need.

There are additional aspects to diabetes that have been studied by alternative physicians.  For instance, allergy to wheat and other grains containing gluten is common.  Perhaps the pancreas and its islets would heal much faster if grains were out of the diet for a while.  Perhaps the 50% improvement that is consistently possible just by killing parasites and stopping wood alcohol consumption could be improved further by a month of grain-free diet.  Eating fenugreek seeds has been reported to greatly benefit (actually cure) diabetes cases.  Are they a specific fluke killer, virus killer, or neither?  It seems a good idea to add this to your diet if you are a diabetic.  Wood alcohol also accumulates in the eyes, and there is a connection between diabetes and eye disease.  Bilberry leaves are an herbal treatment for both diabetes and weak eyes.  Do they help by conteracting wood alcohol or detoxifying Kojic acid?  Make a tea for yourself, using 1/4 cup leaves to three cups water.  Drink 1/2 cup a day.  Chromium is another must for diabetics (200 mcg three times a day).  It helps insulin enter your cells.

Gold is attracted to the pancreas.  Heavy metals should be removed from dentalware including all gold crowns and no metal should be worn next to the skin as jewelry, including all gold items."

 

It is imperative that everyone in the family of a diabetic undergo parasite elimination and maintenance.  Reinfection with the pancreatic fluke is impossible to prevent otherwise.

               

Diabetes

Two types of diabetes mellitus occur - Type I (juvenile-onset; brittle; insulin dependent) and Type II or adult-onset (often called insulin-independent diabetes).  In Type I diabetes the islets of Langerhans (the insulin producing cells) appear to be destroyed leading to insulin insufficiency.  About ten percent of the diabetics have Type I.  Diabetes of this kind is difficult to cure but can be significantly helped with the parasite elimination program and dietary changes.

Type II diabetes which accounts for approximately 90 percent of all diabetics is not like Type I.  In Type II the body is able to produce enough insulin hormone but its actions on the body's cells are impaired by other factors including inappropriate diet, obesity, inactivity and vitamin and mineral difficiencies.   Hyperinsulinemia (elevated insulin levels in the blood) is one such state that interfers with the action of this hormone.  Here the body appears to become insensitive to insulin.  Blockage can also be effected by diets rich in fats. Fat-rich diets as well as obesity are typically associated with marked insulin insensitivity. 

If diabetes is primarily a nutritional disorder, it makes good sense to first treat with a nutritional approach.  It has been demonstrated that a high carbohydrate, high fiber diet can reduce blood sugar levels without insulin or oral drugs in 70 to 80 percent of Type II diabetics.  This diet should also be low in fat.  Details are presented by Dr. John Davidson of Emory University in a publication entitled Clinical Diabetes Mellitus, A Problem Oriented Approach (New York; Thieme, Inc. 1986). 

This book strongly emphasized the use of low fat meals and short-term fasting to eliminate the need for oral hypoglycemic medications.  The type of carbohydrates employed in the diabetic nutritional program makes a big difference.  Certain carbohydrates (i.e. sugars) are predominantly converted into fats.  This is because insulin is a storage hormone.  The body has only limited storage space for carbohydrates.  So excess carbohydrates, especially those consumed in the form of simple sugars, must be disposed of (stored) in some manner.  The body accomplishes this by converting these carbs into fat.   This is important to understand because when a low-fat diet that is based on complex carbohydrates such as found in unrefined grains, vegetables, and legumes is followed for several weeks, approximately 80 percent of the diabetics can stop taking insulin and diabetic pills altogether, and the remaining 20 percent can reduce their intake.

Chromium, zinc and manganese help control blood sugar levels. 

Adding wheat bran to the diet can lower blood sugar levels.  Bran also contains silicon, a mineral that helps improve pancreatic function.

Chlorophyll also improves pancreatic function through its ability to increase the utilization of nutrients.  Chlorophyll greatly assists in the process of cell renewal.  Therefore, it can greatly speed up the process of rebuilding a damaged pancreas. 

Diabetics often have acidic blood.  Additionally, they experience general toxicity and numerous inflammations.  It is important to alkalanize the blood and chlorophyll is of immense value here.  It has powerful anti-inflammatory effects and is a tremendous detox agent.           

Sweeteners of the stevia and licorice-root family are ok to use. 

Certain oils are of value in diabetes.  Oils containing gamma linolinic acid (GLA) are especially beneficial.  Linoleic fatty acid has an insulin-sparing activity which means that the available insulin will be more effective.  Sources of high-quality linoleic and omega-3-fatty acids include fresh flax seed oil, evening primrose oil, borage oil, black currant seed oil. 

Do not use omega-3-rich fish oils, concentrated in EPA and DHA omega-3s because of the sudden impact of healing reactions which can lead to insulin shock.

Vitamin B-6 is related to certain forms of diabetes.  Vitamin B-6 is necessary for the normal metabolism of the amino acid tryptophan.  When tryptophan metabolism is disturbed, an abnormal type of diabetes can result.  Supplementation with B-6 can improve diabetes for some and reverse that form associated with pregnancy.

Low magnesium levels are extremely common in diabetics.  It is unknown whether the diabetes causes the lower blood levels of magnesium or whether the lower magnesium levels causes the diabetes.  Regardless, magnesium should be taken with calcium.  Usually preparations providing 2 calciums for each 1 magnesium are used but impressive results are also available when calcium and magnesium levels are balanced.   

Take 2 Basic Preventive 5 tablets 3 times daily.  Basic Preventive 5 tablets contain sufficient chromium, vanadyl sulfate, zinc and manganese to meet the needs of the Type II diabetic.

L-Carnitine is a compound with potent fat mobilization properties that can be of value in Type II diabetes.

Take 500 mg L-Carnitine twice daily, preferrably on an empty stomach.  Do not use with milk, but instead swallow with water.  To assist in absorption take the L-Carnitine with 50 mg vitamin B-6 and 100 mg of vitamin C.

L-Glutamine reduces the craving for sugars and nourishes the intestines.  In large enough doses, L-Glutamine can actually increase the release of growth hormone. 

Take 500 mg L-Glutamine twice daily on an empty stomach.

Taurine plays a role in the release of insulin.   

Take 500 mg Taurine twice daily on an empty stomach. 

Diabetics are under tremendous oxidative stress.  This stress can be significantly relieved with thioctic acid, a naturally occurring substance with a good track record of treating diabetic polyneuropathy (severe nerve degeneration causing loss of feeling and pain). 

Take 600 mg thioctic acid daily (2 100 mg capsules 3 times daily).

Diabetics are also very likely to develop atherosclerosis resulting from oxidized LDL cholesterol which is consumed by macrophages.  These macrophages, in "eating" this oxidized cholesterol become so engorged on this waxy LDL substance that they cannot escape from the arterial wall and thus are now termed "foam cells."  These foam cell deposits form "fatty streaks" which build up in the arterial walls and become the atherosclerotic plaques which plug vital arteries.  The coronary arteries (heart) and arteries in the retina (eye) are usually affected.  Natural-source vitamin E slows down this process and can arrest it. 

Take 400 - 1200 I.U. natural-source vitamin E daily.          

 

FOODS 

Foods commonly used in the treatment of diabetes include:

Grains and Legumes

          millet, rice, sweet rice, oats, fresh corn, whole wheat, bran, tofu and soy products, mung beans and garbanzo beans 

Chlorophyll Foods

          wheat grass or barley grass, spirulina, chlorella, liquid chlorophyll

Vegetables and Fruits

          string beans, carrots, radishes, Jerusalem artichokes, turnips,       asparagus, yams, spinich, avocados, pears. plums, lemons, grapefruit,     limes, blueberries, huckleberries.

Herbs

          dandelion root and leaf, cedar berries, yarrow flowers, blueberry and       huckleberry leaves, garlic, cayenne, ginger, hawthorne berries

Sweeteners

          licorice tea or powder, stevia extract

Animal Products

          clam, abalone, cow's milk, yogurt, pancreas of lamb, port, beef or fowl,     lamb kidney, chicken or goose, beef 

 

          NOTE:  It is probably best if diabetics refrained from consuming any meat products for at least 60 days, preferrably longer after diagnosis or once treatment starts. 

 

HYPOGLYCEMIA

To control and/or resolve a hypoglycemic condition it is necessary to control insulin production.  The attached discussion of carbohydrate addiction is sufficient to understand the problems in controlling hypoglycemia and hyperinsulinemia.

The symptoms of hypoglycemia are numerous.  Some of these include:

insomnia                        pale skin                        sweating               headache

fast pulse                       low blood pressure         hot flashes            crying

craving sweets                noise sensitivity             damp skin            worry

tinnitus                          mental disturbances      temper                  restlessness

shortness of breath        dry mouth                      burning mouth     hunger

loss of appetite               anxiety                           blurred vision       cold feet

lack of concentration     cold hands                     numbness in mouth

hyperactivity                  irritability                       drowsiness           fatigue

swollen feet                    fluttering in chest          muscle cramps     eye-ache

weakness in legs            impotence                      poor libido            obesity

  

HOW MANY SYMPTOMS DO YOU HAVE?

 

 

Biological Treatment Procedures For

Arthritis, Diabetes And Other LGS Conditions

 

As early as 1968 a naturopathic physician named Paavo O. Airola, reported on the results of some highly successful biological treatment procedures for curing arthritis and other chronic diseases including diabetes in European clinics.  One of the most prominent treatment centers using this powerful and highly successful method of treatment is the Brandals Health Clinic located in Sodertalje near Stockholm, Sweden.  The treatment procedures used for arthritics are also used in the treatment of diabetes and for this reason are included here. 

 

The Miracles at Brandal

Dr. Airola provides narrative accounts of many of the thousands of patients cured of arthritis at Brandal.  Virtually all patients admitted for treatment at Brandal are remarkable in that all suffer from severe pain, mild to profound deformity and many are so crippled and debilitated that they arrive in wheelchairs or on stretchers. 

The cures were based on the work, research and self experimentation of a courageous and very determined lady, Alma Nissen, who 25 years earlier had desperately sought relief from her own severe and debilitating arthritis.  Ms. Nissen relates:

"Twenty five years ago I was so incapacitated by arthritis that I was practically bedridden.  After trying all the available medical treatments, consulting dozens of doctors, and several fruitless stays in hospitals I was becoming progressively worse.  My hands and fingers were stiff and in constant pain.  I could not bend myself, walk, or even turn myself in bed.  In addition, I had a chronic ovary inflammation and constant migraine.  I was suffering from a bad case of insomnia with resulting nervous exhaustion.  I also was chronically constipated. . .

I felt hopeless.  Nobody could help me.  I could not see my way out of the indescribable suffering I had to endure.  But my spirit was strong and wouldn't give up.  I was not willing to accept my lot as a bedridden invalid for the rest of my life.  With the typical Scandanavian sisu and perseverance I rebelled against my fate.  I wanted to live, become healthy again. . .

A book by a British physician, Sir Robert McCarrison, gave me new hope and became the turning point in my life.  It opened my eyes to the relation between nutrition and health.  I started to experiment with myself.  I changed my diet.  I fasted.  I drank fresh vegetable juices and broths made with cooked vegetables.  I drank herb teas.  I took enemas and utilized colonic irrigation to cleanse my intestines of accumulated toxins and wastes.  I read all I could on the nature-cure methods and picked up ideas here and there.  I met the famous Danish raw-diet pioneer Dr. Kristine Nolfi, M.D., and read and studied her book The Living Foods.  I also took heat treatments and hydrobaths.  I must admit, I didn't have much faith in much of what I did, but desperate as I was, I was willing to try anything.

Imagine my surprise when I started to feel better and better!  The stiffness in my joints started to disappear.  I slept better; pain gave way, and after just a few months I was, to my and everybody's amazement, completely cured!

This was 25 years ago and I never had a sick day since.  No traces of arthritis...Would you like to see how flexible and elastic my body is?"...

Now when I cured myself I was so overjoyed with the discoveries I made that I wanted to share them with others and help as many as I could.  I visited Dr. McCarrison and he advised me to open a clinic and help other arthritics regain their health. 

Encouraged by the enthusiastic endorsement of this great scientist, I transformed my seven-room apartment in Copenhagen to an arthritis clinic.  Patients came from everywhere.  They were brought in on stretchers; they came supported on crutches; they came in wheelchairs.  And after four to eight weeks on my simple regime they left the clinic on their own feet, without wheelchairs and crutches.  The grateful patients spread the news of their cures and a long line of patients were waiting to come in under my care.

My arthritis therapies and extraordinary results became widely publicized in the press.  The Norwegian Medical Association invited me to present a lecture on my therapies before the leading medical authorities of the country....

My fame spread to Sweden and a wealthy benefactor offered the Brandal, a beautiful estate with a large villa, for my disposition, to be used as a rheumatic clinic.  I accepted gratefully.  That was 13 years ago.  During these years we have helped thousands of arthritis sufferers. . ." (Paavo O. Airola, There Is A Cure For Arthritis, 1968, Parker Publishing Co. New York).  

 Dr. Airola goes on to say

"I also met a 43-year-old woman from Stockholm.  She had been ill with arthritis for 14 years.  For 14 long years she visited hospital after hospital, took drug after drug.  You name it -- she'd had it: gold injection, cortisone, Imagon, Butazolidin, etc.  The best arthritis specialists in the contry from Sodersjukhuset and the famous Karolinska Institute in Stockholm treated her until finally they all gave up, admitting that they could do nothing more.  She had come to the clinic just five days before and started fasting immediately.

"I am so happy.  It is unbeliveable!" she said to me with enthusiasm.  "In just four days all pain is gone.  I could not straighten this leg before --look at it now!  It is completely straight.  After 14 years of pain and suffering--it is just unbelievable!  It's a miracle!" (Paavo O. Airola, There Is A Cure For Arthritis, 1968, Parker Publishing Co. New York).

 

Many cases are described in Dr. Airola's book.  With the high success rate seen at Brandal and many other European clinics treating arthritis, the question arises as to why this approach to treatment has been absent in the U.S. for all these years?  Insufficient time?  Not hardly.  Recall that his book was written in 1968 and was based on extensive clinical findings including double-blind, controlled studies published in peer reviewed journals.  Some of the findings actually extend back as far as 25 years and most of the cases discussed in the book utilized procedures that had been in use since 1957 or 1958 - or at least 10 years.  Yet, even as of November, 1996, some 38 years later, neither the Arthritis Foundation, the American Medical Association nor the average American allopathic physician, were acting as if they had heard of or believed in this highly successful treatment approach.  

Offering a reason why the arthritic public is still in the dark, Dr. Airola relates:

"The reason why you do not hear about this from your television screen is because there is no money in selling knowledge, truth, education.  You cannot pack knowledge in a bright labeled bottle, as pill manufacturers do, and make a million dollar business out of it.

When your doctor tells you that there is no cure for arthritis he means that there is no cure for arthritis with a drug or a knife -- because the pharmacological and surgical treatments are virtually the only curative methods accepted and employed by the average orthodox, allopathic medical doctor.  And they are 100 percent correct:  There is no cure for arthritis with drug or knife.

But there definitely is a cure for arthritis with biological therapeutic methods.  Thousands of arthritis sufferers throughout the world have obtained complete freedom from pain, recession of swollen joints, and disappearance of every trace of this crippling and agonizing disease.  There are dozens of clinics and spas in Europe where arthritis is cured today, along with most of the other common ailments and chronic diseases.  The biological methods employed by these clinics are: dietetic restrictions, fasting, herbal treatments, juice therapies, biological medicines, heat treatments, massage, manipulations, hydro-therapies, and a number of other drugless treatments."[emphasis added]

The patients discharged from Brandal or any of the dozens of other clinics have learned to follow the routines they learned there and when put into practice at home these patients continue to be disease free.  These routines include hot and cold showers, dry brush massages, exercises and a healthful diet. 

 

Biological Treatments that Cure Arthritis and Related Disorders

Biological therapies are aimed at

          (1) correcting the abnormal and health-destroying conditions which        cause arthritis, and,

          (2) assisting the body heal itself.

This latter step is accomplished by normalizing all the metabolic processes, cleansing the body of the accumulated toxins and wastes, strengthening the functions of all vital organs, revitalizing glandular activity, establishing chemical balance and in sum, simply rebuilding the health of the patient.

 

Drug Withdrawal

Conventional arthritic drugs are used only to mask and suppress the symptoms.  These forms of treatments (i.e. drugs) have absolutely no place in biological treatment programs. 

It is important to understand that virtually all arthritic drugs are aimed at pain elimination.  To suppress pain without attempting to eliminate the original cause is contrary to the philosophy of biological medicine.

Rule # 1 becomes:

Complete withdrawal of all drugs. 

It has already been amply demonstrated that to obtain lasting results, the withdrawal of all drugs is imperative. 

This is not possible with diabetes if one considers insulin to be a drug. 

Withdrawal of insulin should be under the direction of your physician unless you are able to gauge your own requirements on a daily basis.        

 

 

Diet

This is the dominant form of treatment.  Many observations show that the diets of most (probably all) arthritics is deficient in vital nutrients for prolonged periods and is usually loaded with overcooked, canned, frozen, devitalized and over-refined foods.  Usually great amounts of empty calories are consumed from white sugar and white flour.  Add to this the problem of overeating, alcohol, smoking, coffee, failure to exercise and this results in a general breakdown of health.  It is interesting that the diets of diabetics are similarly devoid of vital nutrients and have been for long periods of time.  They are also loaded with overcooked, canned, frozen, devitalized and over-refined foods.

The diet during the first two to four weeks consists primarily of raw, uncooked fruits and vegetables with some cooked foods.  Most of the procedures use boiled potatoes and vegetable soups in addition to the raw foods.  All the clinics use raw milk in the form of homemade soured milk.

Some of the clinics exclude all cooked foods during the first phase of treatment as well as all foods of animal origin including meats, fish, eggs, milk, butter and cheeze.  Breads and cooked cereals are also eliminated as well during the first two to four weeks.  Raw nuts, seeds and sprouted grains are included in the raw food.

 

 

Therapeutic Fasting

The quintessential biological treatment modality employed in all the biological clinics treating arthritis is fasting.  Fasting is something that most allopathic physicians do not understand nor are they ever taught.

Therapeutic fasting is the total abstinence from food.  This is done to promote healing and for the restoration of health.  Large numbers of studies all confirm the therapeutic value of fasting.  All doctors who employ fasting testify that fasting indeed works.  In fact, fasting is perhaps the most efficient way known to correct virtually any disease.

Dr. Airola says

"The therapeutic value of fasting is based on the following physiological facts:

1.  Autolysis is a known metabolic phenomenon of self-digestion or disintegration of the body's own tissues.

2.  Therapeutic fasting induces the development of autolysis and directs its physiological effect for constructive healing purposes.

To clarify: when disease takes hold of the body it is usually because of the weakened defensive mechanism and impaired normal functions of the vital organs.  Due to continuous neglect in feeding the body properly and failure to observe the other rules of health, the glandular activity and metabolic rate slows down and the eliminative organs lose their efficiency.  Many of the toxins and metabolic wastes remain in the body and are deposited in the tissues, causing autointoxication.  In rheumatic diseases these wastes, such as uric acid crystals and mineral compounds including heavy metal toxins and other un-natural chemicals (i.e. xenobiotics), are deposited in the joints and soft tissues. 

Now, we must recognize the fact that the body's own healing powers are constantly trying to correct any and all defects, disturbances and damages if given the slightest chance.  Such a chance and opportunity for self-regeneration and healing is made possible during the fast.

First, during prolonged fast (after the first three days) the body will burn and digest its own tissues by the process of autolysis, or self-digestion.  In its wisdom -- and here lies the secret of the extraordinary effectiveness of fasting as curative therapy! -- the body will only decompose and burn those substances and tissues which are diseased, damaged, or of lesser importance to the body economy, such as all morbid accumulations, tumors, abscesses, damaged tissues, fat deposits, etc.  These are consumed and utilized first.  The essential tissues of vital organs are spared.

Second, the eliminating and cleansing capacity of the eliminative organs -- lungs, liver, kidneys, and skin -- is increased during fasting, and masses of accumulated metabolic wastes and toxins are quickly expelled.  This is evident in the following typical symptoms of fasting:  offensive breath, dark urine (concentration of toxins in urine ten times higher than normal --" ... "continuous and generous discharge of feces, skin eruptions, perspiration, catarrhal elimination, etc.

Third, a fast affords a physiological rest to the digestive and protective organs of the body.  After fasting, the digestion and utilization of food is greatly improved, which makes the assimilation of all the important nutrients more effective.

Fourth, a fast exerts a normalizing and stabilizing effect on all the physiological, nervous, and mental functions.  The nervous system is regenerated; mental powers improved; glandular chemistry and secretions are normalized.

It is easy to see, then, why fasting is such an effective therapeutic measure in treatment of a great variety of diseases, including arthritis.

 

Fresh Juices    

Although the classic form of fasting is the so-called pure water fast (abstinence from all foods and drinks with the exception of pure water), all the practitioners I interviewed in European clinics, including the champion of therapeutic fasting in modern times, Dr. Otto Buchinger, Jr., use fresh juices, vegetable broths, and herb teas during fasting.

Biologically oriented doctors feel that freshly pressed vegetable and fruit juices, given to the patient during the fast, will speed his recovery. This is attributed to the fact that raw vegetables and fruit juices, as well as freshly made vegetable broth, are rich in vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and trace elements, which help to normalize the bodily processes and speed up recovery.  At the same time, they are very easily assimilated directly into the bloodstream without putting a strain on the digestive organs.

Juices most frequently used in Sweden are: carrot juice, apple juice, black currant juice, and tomato juice.

 

Vegetable Broth

Vegetable broth is made by boiling all kinds of available vegetables, but predominantly potatoes, carrots, and celery, chopped to about half-inch pieces, for 30 minutes in a pot of water ... Then it is strained and the vegetables are thrown away.  The remaining liquid is a highly alkaline, mineral-packed broth, which is considered to be of extraordinary importance in biological arthritis therapy.  It combats acidosis or a tendency toward a high acidity in the bloodstream and tissues.  It helps to normalize the mineral balance in the tissues, which, according to Dr. Lars-Erik Essen, is of utmost importance for the effectiveness of the fast.

Both vegetable broth and fresh vegetables and fruit juices are concentrated nutrition.  Perhaps, it would be more appropriate to call such therapy a liquid diet, rather than a fast.

 

Herb Teas

All biological clinics use various herb teas, both during fasting and while on a diet.

The medicinal value of herbs is well known.  Herb medicines are the oldest remedy known to man.

The herb teas used in Swedish clinics are usually made from native herbs: rose hips (very rich in vitamin C), peppermint, milfoil, etc...

 

Enema

Fasting is always accompanied by enemas, or colonic baths, taken two or three times a day.  Most clinics administer an enema twice a day; some, like Kjorkagarden and Vita Nova, three times a day,  two or three small enemas as a time.  An enema is generally considered to be an extremely important measure for keeping the large intestine clean from wastes and speeding evacuation of toxic matter from the system through the bowels.

 

Intermediate Diet

After the fast is broken, the patient is put on a special diet.  This consists of an abundance of raw vegetables and fruits, vegetable and fruit juices, some cooked dishes, such as boiled potatoes, vegetable soups, beans, homemade soured milk (from raw unpasturized milk), whey cheeze, and salt-free cottage cheese.

 

Colonic Irrigation

In addition to an enema the patients who have a record of chronic constipation prior to coming to the clinic (a common affliction of many arthritics) are given a colonic irrigation once or twice during the first week.  This is a treatment which employs a specially constructed appliance to thoroughly wash the large intestine and colonic tract. 

 

Hot and Cold Shower

One of the treatments which many practitioners, particularly at the Brandals Clinic, attach a great importance to, is an alternating hot and cold shower.  It is administered in the morning. 

The procedure is as follows: First, a warm shower for about ten to 15 minutes to get the body really warmed up.  This is followed by a cold shower for approximately one to three minutes.  Water should be as cold as the patient can stand.  After that the patient receives a vigorous dry brushing with a stiff brush and is rubbed with a coarse towel until he is completely warmed up.

The importance of the alternating hot and cold shower lies in the fact that it stimulates the adrenal and other endocrine glands and reactivates their functions.  Alma Nissen calls such a shower "a cortisone injection -- but without cortisone's undesirable side effects!"

 

Sufficient Rest

All biological clinics stress the importance of sufficient rest for patients with arthritis.  After lunch, 1:00 P.M. to 3:00 P.M., there is an obligatory quiet hour, when all patients take a long afternoon nap.

 

Exercise

Various therapeutic exercises are a standard routine in the biological clinic.  Exercises are adapted to the condition of the patient.  Walks in the woods are encouraged -- all the Swedish clinics which I visited are surrounded by beautiful woods that afford invigorating walks in the fresh air.  In addition, special relaxation gymnastics are given in some clinics.

 

Baths

Therapeutic baths are an important part of the biological program.  In addition to alternating hot and cold showers, mentioned before, the following baths are employed:  whirlpool massage, sitz bath, Kuhne-bath, steam bath, sauna, Gusse-shower, warm sand bath (Bircher-Benner), etc.

 

Massage

Dry brush massage is an important therapeutic measure.  It stimulates the circulation; brings the blood to the skin; keeps skin clean from dead cells and impurities; and opens pores.  The skin is your biggest eliminative organ and it is of vital importance that it functions as such efficiently.

In addition, conventional massage -- so-called Swedish massage -- is frequently used to help the affected joints to regain their lost elasticity and movements.

 

Many Other Forms

Many other forms of biological treatments are used in addition to the "standards" outlined above.  Every clinic has its own specialities.  Bjorkagarden stresses vacuum massage and modern cupping as being of extraordinary importance.  Vita Nova uses nontoxic biological medicines in the form of subcutaneous injections.  Various forms of heat treatments are used in almost all clinics: high-frequency, pulsed, short-wave therapy; infrared heat lamps; cold and hot packs; mud packs (Heilerde); etc.

 

Positive Attitude

The importance of positive attitude on the part of patients is emphasized in all clinics.  After years of pain and suffering, persons afflicted with arthritis are often irritable, tense, bitter, and resentful.  These negative emotions can do much to make efforts to regain health difficult, even impossible.

Therefore, fostering a positive, trustful attitude in the patient and insuring his thorough understanding of the various biological treatments and expected reactions is a very important part of the total program in every biological clinic. Several evenings every week special lectures are presented to acquaint new patients with the intricate metabolic processes of the body and the functions of various organs.  The causative factors leading to the development of the disease are explained.  The mechanics and effects of biological treatments, as well as the whole philosophy of biological medicine, is made clear and comprehensive.  The fact that there are no shortcuts to the cure of arthritis is emphasized.  A biological program of treatments is not easy.  There are no specific miracle treatments, no specific diets which can cure arthritis.  Arthritis can be cured only by the efforts of the body's own healing powers.  With the assistance of the wide arsenal of biological treatments and with the full and cheerful cooperation of the patient it can be done.  It is done every day.  But in order to achieve lasting and effective results, full co-operation and a positive effort on the part of the patient is imperative.

The patient must understand that the cure is possible only if he is willing to discard completely his former mode of living and accept a new way of life.  He must have the willingness and determination to follow the new biological programs and have a trustful and cooperative attitude.  The negative attitude will lock up the healing forces of the body, whereas a positive attitude will unlock them and spur them into full action.

It requires a certain amount of intelligence, understanding, and patience, in addition to a sense of determination and self-discipline, to undertake a biological program of treatments and not give up before noticeable results are observed.  It often takes time to induce a betterment. . ."

 

Biological Methods Scientifically Proven

By now it must be evident to the average reader that the biological approach to arthritis is quite different from conventional practices.  As with every new concept and new approach, it takes an unprejudiced and objective attitude on the part of practitioners to be able to grasp and accept the new discoveries.  It is natural to be doubtful and even skeptical of something which is contrary to common practice and the accepted line of thought.  Moreover, the new biological approach seems to be so down-to-earth simple that for a technologically minded and pseudoscientifically trained, twentieth century space-oriented man it may seem too simple to be true.   However, hundreds of medical doctors in Europe have given this down-to-earth, commonsense, nature-cure approach a fair trial.  They were soon convinced of its extraordinary merits.  Its effectiveness is proven by actual result-producing application on thousands upon thousands of successfully treated patients...

It is unfortunate, indeed, that it takes such a long time before new discoveries and original ideas become universally accepted and officially endorsed.  Millions of sick people suffer because of unwillingness on the part of conservative practitioners to accept and use new, unconventional methods of treatment. . ." (Paavo O. Airola, There Is A Cure For Arthritis, 1968, Parker Publishing Co. New York).   

 

NUTRITION: A VITAL ROLE IN CURING ARTHRITIS

 

Problems steming from faulty nutrition is perhaps the most important causative factor in the etiology (causative history) of arthritis.  Not only must digestion be improved, the foods that are being digested must be correct, whole and organic.  The digestive wastes must be eliminated quickly and efficiently as well. 

A problem that always arises is the average American's conception of what he eats.  He often believes that he is eating properly.  For example, he might say to you that he has always tried to eat healthy foods.  He may say that he eats plenty of meat and eggs, and drinks lots of milk.  He may also say that he eats cereal for breakfast, and one or two vegetables with his meat each day.  He will often tell you that he eats his "One-A-Day" vitamin each day, faithfully.  He believes that this is a health diet. 

But in actuality he is eating lots of polluted animal protein; devitalized, foodless cereals; canned vegetables and instant mashed potatoes; white bread; sugared desserts where even ordinary sugar is missing, having been replaced by corn syrup and where hydrogenated vegetable oils and tons of preservatives are used to prevent the junk from going stale.  Imagine having to eat stale junk food.  After all, fresh junk food is bad enough. 

There are essentially seven rules that must be followed regarding foods.  

1.  Natural Foods

The first rule of optimum nutrition is that you must eat natural foods.  This is because the condition of your health is in direct relation to the naturalness of the foods you eat. 

Here in the United States we have almost lost our ability to tell what is natural and what is not.  For example, we think that eggs are eggs and that any egg therefore is natural.  Wrong.  "Eggs laid by hens which have access to the outdoors, green grass, seeds, insects, and worms are natural, fertile eggs full of nutritive value.  But eggs produced in an egg factory, by hens who never see a rooster, nor sunlight, and eat only synthetic laying mash, are not natural.  Not only is the chemical composition of such an egg altered and unbalanced, but also its nutritional value is far below that of a natural egg."

The fruits and vegetables that you eat should also grow in healthy, fertile soils, without chemical fertilizers or sprays.   The importance of eating organic foods cannot be over stated.  Even the milk we drink must be organic.  Cheese, meats, and other products derived from animals must be organic as well.  This means that they must come from healthy animals fed organically grown fodder and not artificially raised with the help of hormones, antibiotics, fat promoters, milk-fat enhancers, etc. 

2.  Whole Foods

The second rule of vital nutrition is that your foods must be whole, complete, unrefined and unadulterated.  Examples of whole foods include: whole wheat, brown rice, oranges, sugar cane (not corn syrup) and potatoes are all whole foods. 

Whole foods are simply foods which still contain all the nutrients which nature intended us to eat.  They have all the vitamins (with certain exceptions), minerals (with certain exceptions), proteins, carbohydrates and a natural compliment of enzymes which are essential to good health.  Whole foods are unrefined.  Whole foods are not concentrates, nor parts of whole foods. 

It is hard to believe that upwards of 95 percent of the foods consumed by the average American today has been tampered with in some manner, adulterated in some manner, overcooked, and processed in such a manner that it is virtually devitalized of all nutritional value.  White bread, white sugar, breakfast cereals are examples of devitalized, nutritionless foods.  And our children only know Honey-Nut Cheerios. 

Remember, only whole foods can supply optimum nutrition for optimum health.

3. Living Foods

 The third rule of vital nutrition is that every food you eat should be eaten as fresh as possible.  They should be eaten raw in the case of fruits and vegetables.  They should not be cooked, canned or frozen.  If cooking is necessary, they should be cooked as little as possible, preferably steamed or cooked with little or no water.  All of the broths that result from cooking should be consumed as well.

Raw foods are necessary for proper nutrition because of the enzymes they contain.  Cooking always destroys the enzymes in food.  Completely destroyed.  The heat of cooking also damages some of the vitamins, particularly vitamins B and C. 

Even freezing destroys the nutritive value of foods.  Canning, drying (dehydrating), preserving and keeping such foods stored for long periods of time also destroy the nutritive value of foods. 

Raw foods act as intestinal cleansers.  They are the best preventive measure against constipation.

Cooked food is dead food.  Only living foods can build and/or restore health. 

4.  Poison-Free Foods

 The next rule is simply that your food must be poison free.  If you can't get foods that are organic and free of colorants, waxes, etc, at least wash them thoroughly before preparing them.  Special peroxide-containing products are especially useful in de-contaminating all foods. Remember, there are more than 3,500 different chemicals used in the processing of foods.  Our deteriorating health rests squarely on the shoulders of the chemical industry's powerful lobby!

5.  Balanced Diet

You can forget that stupid little pyramid that is supposed to represent the latest Washington-based thinking on what we should eat.  All you need to know is that the optimum diet for optimum health and vitality is a diet low in animal protein and rich in natural carbohydrates and protein foods from vegetable sources.  Such a diet would include raw fruits and vegetables.   

6.  Undereating

It is a fact that undereating leads to longevity.  Foods eaten in excess of your bodily needs act as poisons, interfering with digestion, causing internal sluggishness, gas and incomplete assimilation.  Excess foods are the greatest causes of fermentation and putrefaction.

7.  Correct Eating Habits

It is not only what you eat but how you eat that is important.  We are not what we eat, but rather what we assimilate. 

Many of us gulp our food, without chewing it properly.  Many of us eat out of habit, eating when we are not hungry.  All foods must be properly chewed and chewed thoroughly.  Never eat in a hurry.  It is also necessary to eat in a relaxed atmosphere. 

Eating should be a pleasure.  But eat to live, don't live to eat.

 

A sample menu is presented in the Appendix along with recipes that are followed at our Vida Linda Clinic. 

 

NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT FOR G.I. AND LIVER FUNCTION IN

DIABETES

Because Leaky Gut Syndrome is the basis of most disturbed gut and G.I. functions, including diabetes, it is desirable to correct even the slightest disturbances in function in all the organs involved.  Beginning with the stomach it is best to assist the digestive process with dietary enzymes. 

1.  Take 1-3 Similase® capsules 3 times daily at the beginning of meals.     CAUTION:  If you are suffering from or have been diagnosed as having gastritis, gastric or duodenal ulcers do not use Similase®. 

Similase® is a highly concentrated plant enzyme digestive formula designed for persons on an average mixed diet containing carbohydrates, protein, fat, fiber and dairy products.   

2.  It is impossible to overstate the necessity of reestablishing normal beneficial bacteria populations in the intestines.  The best policy is to provide diverse forms of beneficial bacteria in the nutritional support program.  Accordingly:

Take 2 Enterogenic® capsules twice daily between meals with at least 8 oz of pure drinking water.  This will supply your system with fructooligosaccharides (FOS), a food stuff you don't absorb but which enables beneficial bacteria to fluorish.  These capsules will also provide you with more than 6 billion viable organisms including Lactobacillus acidophilus, Bifodobacterium bifidum, B. infantis, and Streptococcus faecium. 

3.  The intestines retain vast amounts of toxins when normal functions are disturbed.  These toxins must be removed, otherwise there is little hope of recovering from Leaky Gut Syndromes including diabetes.  This process is best begun through products that absorb intestinal toxins.  If you are regular then the following procedure may be eliminated or modified.   

Take 6 Fiber Formula® capsules on an empty stomach with a large glass of water.  Repeat twice daily.  This will provide psyllium hull powder, oat bran, bentonite powder, bromelain (a digestive aid), papain, guar gum, marshmallow root, prune powder, vitamin C, Echinacea, Goldenseal, Cranesbill and Ginger root.  If you have been through the Health Restoration Consultants Intestinal Cleanse (Phase II) with Vega Lax and Miracle 7 Colon Cleanser, then 6 Fiber Formula capsules may not be necessary. 

4.  It is probable that in most cases of Leaky Gut Syndrome and diabetes, heavy metal poisoning is involved.  Heavy metals create massive amounts of tissue damage through their ability to generate free radicals.  Free radicals are easily as damaging as radiation, if not more so.  It becomes necessary to reduce oxidative damage.

Oxyperm®, is a targeted antioxidant support for the gastrointestinal mucosa.  This product supplies quercetin, ginko flavone glycosides, N-Acetyl-L-Cystein, beta carotene, selenium and vitamins C, E and zinc.      

Take 1 to 2 Oxyperm® capsules with meals three times daily. 

5.  The intestinal mucosa must be nourished to overcome the ravages of LGS.  Permeability Factors® is a product designed to supply nutritional support to the mucosa.  This product supplies L-Glutamine, N-Acetyl-D-Glucosamine, Gamma Linolenic Acid, Gamma Oryzanol, Vitamin E and Phosphatidyl Choline in a base of Safflower oil. 

L-Glutamine provides energy to small intestinal mucosa, supports secretory IgA production (an immune factor), and promotes mucosal integrity.  N-Acetyl-D-Glucosamine (NAG) supplies naturally-occurring glycoconjugate precursor for production of protective intestinal mucin.   Gamma Linolenic Acid (GLA) is a polyunsaturated fatty acid precursor for prostaglandin E1 synthesis.  Gamma Oryzanol is a natural component of rice oil studied for its effects on gastrointestinal mucosa. 

Phosphatidyl Choline has been shown to protect and restore the gastrointestinal mucosa from chemical irritation by strengthening the mucous-phospholipid layer.  Lecithin, an important dietary source of Phosphatidyl Choline, has been shown to prevent disruption of the mucosal barrier due to bile salt injury.  

Take 2 Permeability Factors® softgel capsules 3 times daily between meals.

Supplement this with IGA+, an intracellular reduced glutathione enhancer. 

Take 2 IGA+ capsules three times daily for first week, then 2 IGA+ capsules daily thereafter. 

6.  The liver is overworked in all diseases caused by LGS.  Accordingly, the liver must be supplied with nutrients essential to phase I and II liver detoxication.   These nutrients include antioxidants, conjugating agents, glutathione precursors, sulfhydryl and methyl donors, vitamin and mineral cofactors.     

Take 2 Detoxication Factors® capsules 3 times daily between meals.  

 

 

Herbal Home Colonic Program

 

Digestive system and colon health have reached an all time low in the United States.  Diseases of the digestive tract are on the rise.

In 1994 the #1 cancer among men and women was rectalcolon.

 

Modern lifestyle has taken its toll on our digestive system.  Refined, processed, low fiber foods, animal fats, environmental chemicals, lack of exercise and an ever increasing level of stress all contribute to our current gastrointestinal health crisis.

The frequency at which a normal, healthy person should move their bowels has been a great misconception among the public and most medical professionals.  For years doctors have thought that anywhere between 1 bowel movement a day and 1 a week was normal.  In the examination of more primitive peoples we find that their bowels move much more frequently, 2 to 3 times daily on the average.  This is because these people eat better, get more exercise and have much less stress.  What we have learned is that it is normal to have 1 bowel movement a day for each meal you eat (if you eat 3 meals you should have 3 bowel movements).

The Merck Manual, the medical industry's standard text for the diagnosis and treatment of disease tells us that colon degeneration is on the rise.  The incidence of diverticulosis has increased dramatically over the last 40 years.  It states that in 1950 only 10 percent of adults over the age of 45 had this disease.  In 1955 diverticulosis had increased to 15 percent.  By 1972 just over 30 percent of the population suffered from this disorder and by 1987 it had increased to near 50 percent.  The latest edition states that the incidence increases rapidly over age 40 and that "every person will have many" [diverticula] if they live long enough.  Every American adult will have herniation of the large intestine.

Diverticula are saccular herniations that protrude through the wall of the colon.  These "bowel pockets" are like "bubbles" on the sides of innertubes that have been over inflated.  Diverticula are almost always asymptomatic (you can't feel them).  They are caused by a sluggish, constipated bowel.  These pockets fill with old fecal material full of putrefaction and toxins.  These toxic materials can be re absorbed back into the bloodstream.  This can infect the entire body causing all types of toxic reactions.

A sluggish bowel can retain many pounds of old, toxic and poisonous fecal matter.  Studies have shown that some people may retain 40 or more pounds of this material in their large intestine.  Many times the real cause behind sickness and disease is retention and re absorption of this toxic waste.

The first step in everyone's health program should be stimulating, cleaning and toning all the elimination organs and systems, and the bowel is one of the best places to begin.

2 Week Herbal Home Colonic Program

 

Day #1.  Start with two capsules of Vega-Lax intestinal corrective formula during or just after your evening meal.  This formula works best when mixed with food. Drink at least 8 oz of pure drinking water after the meal. 

 

Day #2.  This morning (by noon) you should notice an increase in your bowel action and in the amount of fecal matter that you eliminate.  The consistency should also be softer.  If you do not notice any difference in your bowel behavior today or if the difference was not dramatic don't worry. Take two capsules of Vega-Lax with lunch (with 8 oz water).  Then tonight take two more Vega-Lax capsules (again with 8 oz water).  That's 4 capsules total for the day.

 

Days #3-7.  Continue taking 2 Vega-Lax capsules with lunch (with 8 oz water) and two Vega-Lax capsules with supper (with 8 oz water).  If your bowels are moving satisfactorily (i.e. noticeable improvement) stay at this dosage of 2 capsules with lunch and 2 capsules with supper for the rest of the week.  If you are not moving satisfactorily, you will need to continue to increase your dosage every evening by one Vega-Lax capsule until you notice a dramatic difference in the way your bowel works.  It has taken most of us years to create a sluggish bowel so lets be patient for a few days and increase by one capsule each day.

By the end of the first week you should know what your dosage is.  This is your "established dose."   If not then remain on this formula alone for an additional week to get regulated before you go on to the next step.  Your established dose is that dose that enables you to have at least three good bowel movements each day.  Do not proceed into the next phase until you have determined you established dose. 

 

Week #2.    At the beginning of week two is when you would ordinarily start the Miracle 7 Colon Cleanser.  We will take this formula 2 times each day beginning in the morning after breakfast. 

On arising (before breakfast) drink 8 ounce Hot Lemon-Water Flush1.  After breakfast and dinner take the Miracle 7 Colon Cleanser capsules according to the following weight schedule:

Adults: Under 100 lbs.: 4 capsules a.m. and 4 capsules p.m.

             101 - 175 lbs.: 5 capsules a.m. and 5 capsules p.m.

             Over 175 lbs.: 6 capsules a.m. and 6 capsules p.m.

with 8 ounces of diluted, organic juice (fruit or vegetable) or Hydrating Drink2.  

Within an hour after taking the Miracle 7 Colon Cleanser, drink an additional 8 ounces of pure drinking water, Hydrating Drink, or herbal tea.  Try to consume between 80 and 128 ounces of liquid each day.  This makes the Colonic Program much more effective.

During week #2 you will continue to take your "established dose" of Vega-Lax  as usual but increase the dosage you discovered the first week by one additional capsule at supper (i.e. your "established dose" plus 1).   

 

 

Vega-Lax Intestinal Corrective Formula

Ingredients:  Each capsule contains 194 mg Senna leaves and pods (Cassia marilandica), 194 mg Cascara Sagrada aged bark (Rhamnus purshiana), as well as 35 mg of a dehydrated aloe vera gel referred to as Glucomannon.  This dose of Glucomannon powder is equivalent of 700 mg Aloe Vera liquid gel.    

Therapeutic action:  This stimulating formula is cleansing, healing and strengthening to the entire gastrointestinal system.  It stimulates your peristaltic action (the muscular movement of the intestines) and over time strengthens the muscles of the large intestine, halts putrefaction and disinfects, soothes and heals the mucous membrane lining of the entire digestive tract.  This herbal formula also improves digestion, relieves gas and cramps, increases the flow of bile which in turn cleans the gall bladder, bile ducts and liver.  It also helps to destroy Candida albicans overgrowth and promotes a healthy intestinal flora.  In combination with the Miracle 7 Colon Cleanser it helps destroy and expel intestinal parasites, increases gastrointestinal circulation and is anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-fungal.

Contraindications:  The FDA requires the following warning:  Do not use during pregnancy without the guidance of a competent health care professional.  However, in our experience no harm has ever been reported following the use of this product during pregnancy. 

   

 

 

 Miracle 7 Colon Cleanser

Ingredients:  Each capsule contains a skillfully blended mixture of natural and organic ingredients consisting of Psyllium Seed Hull Powder, Pharmaceutical Grade Bentonite Clay, Citrus Pectin,  Lactobacillus Acidophilus, Wheat Grass Powder, Apple Fiber, Golden Seal Root, Gentian, Buckthorn, Rhubarb Root, Cascara Sagrada, whole leaf Aloe Vera and spices.  

Therapeutic action:  This cleansing and soothing formula is to be used during week two with the Vega-Lax intestinal corrective formula.  In combination with the Vega-Lax, this formula becomes a highly powerful purifier and intestinal vacuum.  This formula will draw old fecal matter off the walls of your colon and out of any bowel pockets.  It will also draw out poisons, toxins, heavy metals such as mercury and lead and even remove radioactive material such as strontium 90.  This formula will also remove over 3,000 known drug residues.  Its natural mucilaginous properties will soften old, hardened fecal matter for easy removal and also make it an excellent remedy for any inflammation in the stomach and intestines. 

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Footnotes: 1) Hot Lemon-Water Flush and 2) Hydrating Drink are prepared according to directions included on separate sheets.   

For additional information please contact a Spirit of Healing staff member by calling

336-992-2417

or email us Info@spiritofhealing.com

 

Diseases Caused by Mercury

Amalgam Fillings

 

Mercury is one of the most toxic elements on earth.  It is linked to many of the most degenerative and horrible diseases known to man.  It is unfortunate that these diseases are virtually all iatrogenic - diseases caused by inappropriate medical / dental treatment.

 

Mercury is one of the deadliest toxins known to man.  Its toxicity may well prove to be the most invasive and widespread disease in the history of mankind.  Mercury poisoning causes many common medical and mental problems including but definitely not limited to:

·  generalized morning stiffness              

·  joint pain

·  rheumatoid arthritis

·  mixed connective tissue disease

·  skin rashes

·  subcutaneous nodules (skin bumps)

·  multiple sclerosis

·  amyotropic lateral sclerosis

·  neurological symptoms

    ·  ringing in the ears

    ·  burning and numbness sensations

·  dry eyes and mouth

·  immune dysfunction

·  axillary lymph node swelling

·  digestive disorders

·  malnutrition

    ·  leaky gut syndrome

    ·  dysbiosis

·  yeast and pathogenic bacteria infections

·  chronic fatigue

·  depression

·  circulatory diseases

·  atherosclerosis

 

and the list goes on and on.

Most of the mercury in our bodies comes from the amalgams used to fill teeth.  Though called silver fillings because of their silver appearance, these fillings contain 50 percent or more mercury along with other dangerous and toxic metals including copper, nickel, and tin. 

 Mercury can cause serious dementia, depression and short-term memory loss as well as all of the above listed symptoms and diseases.  The American Dental Association (ADA) has known about the extreme toxicity of mercury for many years, yet they continue to deny that mercury in amalgams is toxic and they are adamant in denying that mercury leaches out of the filling.  For many years now the ADA has been extremely active in keeping dental patients from learning that dentists have poisoned more than 85 percent of our population! 

The ADA continues to fight a rear-guard battle to cover up their culpability in much the same way that tobacco and the cigarette industry have covered up and/or suppressed information suggesting that their products were connected with any disease entity.  This is the same type of criminal negligence that surrounded the use of silicone breast implants, asbestos, intrauterine contraceptive devices (IUDs), and pickup truck gas tanks.  It's all about greed and stupidity, egos and reputations and from one perspective represents the most reprehensible form of unethical and immoral behavior imaginable. 

Dentists have known about the deadly consequences of mercury for many years.  Mercury amalgams were introduced into the United States in 1833, more than 160 years ago and were denounced at that time by large numbers of American dentists.  The opposition was so strong that the American Society of Dental Surgeons, formed in 1840, required its members to sign pledges promising not to use amalgams.  And in 1848 they actually found 11 members of the society guilty of malpractice for using amalgams.  All were suspended resulting in such an uproar that the Society had no choice but to disband in 1856.  Its successor was the American Dental Association.  Dental amalgams were not in good repute until after 1895 at which time it is believed that the ADA supported their use. 

Prior to World War II a German chemist named Dr. Alfred Stock published many articles on the dangers of mercury fillings.  A colorado dentist, Hal Huggins has spoken out against amalgams for more than 20 years now.  His book "It's All In Your Head" will teach you everything the ADA is trying to cover up.  Read it and you will then know more about mercury toxicity than 99 percent of all American dentists.   

Your dentist may attempt to refute the bad information on mercury amalgams because he is under pressure from the ADA to deny that this mercury leaches out.  He also is probably unaware that a bacteria in your mouth -- Streptococcus mutans -- can transform mercury into methyl mercury which is 100 times more toxic than metallic mercury.  Don't listen to or believe what he says (that mercury is safe) because he is parroting back ADA propaganda.  The ADA has published and distributed guidelines for all dentists to use when answering questions regarding amalgams.  Your dentist lives under the very real threat of having his license revoked for speaking negatively about amalgams.  Thus it is necessary that you read this book and discover for yourself the incredible potential that amalgam has for destruction. 

 

What is Mercury Toxicity?

Dr. Huggins poses some questions that you might ask:

"Am I mercury toxic?  Can you test my mercury levels?  Just what is mercury toxicity anyway?  These are common and confusing questions.  Mercury attacks many systems in the body.  If is attacked just one, like the polio virus or measles virus do, it would be quite easy to identify.  The diagnosis of mercury toxicity is based on both the number of changes and the degree of these changes.  White blood cells usually increase as a response to the introduction of amalgam.  If these cells go up from 5000 count to 7000 count, this is not especially noteable.  If the count goes from 5000 to 50,000, then we are talking about leukemia.  This is quite noteable.  The white cell count bears much more weight in diagnosis at 50,000 than 7,000.  Many measurable areas can be affected by mercury.  Excerpting from our 1989 edition of the Applications Textbook, here are some of the mental gymnastics involved in generating a diagnosis:

Consider:

White cells above 7500 or below 4500

Hematocrit above 50% or below 40%

Lymphocytes above 2800 or below 1800

Serum total protein above 7.5 g% or below 6.4 g%

Serum triglycerides above 150 mg%

BUN above 18 or below 12 mg% 

Hair Nickel above 1.5 ppm

Hair Mercury above 1.5 ppm or below 0.4 ppm

Hair Aluminum above 15 ppm

Hair Manganese below 0.3 ppm

Immune reactions to Aluminum, Nickel, Mercury, Copper, and Gold

Oxyhemoglobin below 55% saturation

Presence of root canal treated teeth

Grouping of symptoms

Presence of both amalgam and gold

Magnitude and polarity of electrical current

T-subset and DNA analysis.

 

This is just a partial list of potentially affected areas.  Add to this, the intensity and direction of each reaction and it is obvious that diagnosis of mercury toxicity becomes a professional judgement call.  Since each of these reactions potentially affects several others, it becomes increasingly more important to rely upon professional judgement than a single test result."  (Huggins, It's All in Your Head, Life Sciences Press, 1989).  

Make no mistake about it, hundreds of thousands of Americans show such changes in blood chemistry, mineral analysis and body function.  If you have amalgam fillings, you, too, are very likely to exhibit such changes.  No one is immune.

The nation is in the midst of a grave health crisis.  It is a pandemic of environmental diseases in which mercury is intimately involved.  Regardless of what the dental and medical authorities claim, mercury has been clearly linked, either directly or indirectly with a great many of these diseases. 

Volumes of material have been written on the cytotoxic effects of mercury.  Many studies have been conducted on the detremental effects of mercury on human subjects.  Literally thousands of anecdotal reports have been reported on the horrible consequences of mercury toxicity in people.  It is incomprehensible that organized medicine and dentisry still refuse to acknowledge the voluminous research findings that clearly implicate this toxic heavy metal in the etiology of most of our diseases.   

Take the time now to complete the attached questionnaire.  It will reveal the true extent of mercury's potential for destruction.  This is important because mercury may have given you heart problems in the form of heart attacks, chest pain, tachycardia, murmurs, heart blockages, or other problems.  Mercury could very well be the reason you suffer from high or low blood pressure.  It is very likely that mercury is the cause of unexplained skin rashes, excessive itching, red flushes, rough skin and acne.  Mercury is the culprit responsible for the horrible functional degeneration seen in multiple sclerosis, and its spinal form -- amyotropic lateral sclerosis or ALS).  It is also involved in shingles, numbness in any body part, epilepsy or convulsions, twitching, and knee or leg jerks especially at night.  But mercury also attacks the digestive system causing diverticulitis, ulcers, Crohn's disease, inflammatory bowel disorder, indigestion from most all causes, bloating, poor appetite, diarrhea and constipation.  It is involved in Graves disease, and other endocrine diseases including hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, and pancreatic dysfunction including diabetes.  Mercury is involved in problems of the ovaries, testes, painful menstruation, irregular menstruation, premature menopause, and tipped uterus.  It is a likely culprit in cervical erosion and PMS.  Mercury is also involved in almost all problems pertaining to the prostate gland in men.  It's involvement in grey penis and lack of sensitivity in that organ is legendary.  In fact, mercury may be the leading cause of impotence in men. 

Mercury toxicity may underlie the phenomenal weight problems Americans have.  It may be responsible for being underweight and/or being overweight.  It is invariably found in cases of chronically low or subnormal temperature (hypothyroidism). 

But mercury also causes emotional problems often leading to the loss of friends and relatives (i.e. divorces).  For example, mercury can bring about sudden bursts of anger, massive depression, death wish mentation, suicide, extreme irritability, and divorces.  It and aluminum are invariably involved in Alzheimers disease.  It is involved in rheumatoid and osteoid arthritis, bursitis, tennis elbow, painful joints, Friedreich's ataxia, asthma, osteomyelitis, psoriasis, sickle cell anemia, chronic anemia, kidney stones, and virtually all allergies. 

Are you ever bothered by metallic tastes in your mouth, frequency headaches, noises in your ears, ringing in your ears, chronic eye inflammations, chronic fatigue?  Are you quick to tire?  Do you have swollen lymph nodes, hearing loss, excessive sweating, cold hands and feet, motion sickness, slow healing, skin fungus infections, Candida infections, leg cramps,  or dizziness?  Do you have to get up at night to urinate, or experience frequent urinations during the day?  Do you suffer from insomnia?   Are you tired on waking up, have trouble making decisions (i.e. indecision constipation)?  Are you guilty of perpetual procrastination?  Do you seem to have more than your fair share of sore throats?  Have you had mono?  Mercury probably is responsible for mononucleosis and for false positives in venereal disease tests.  It is always involved in leukemia, Hodgkin's disease, and many other grave disorders. 

Now are you ready to believe that mercury may have affected your life?  Hopefully, the above and the questionnaire below will awaken you as to the danger you face and the danger that everyone in your family faces.

 

Exactly What Does Mercury From Amalgams Do ?

Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt, speaking on the amalgam controversy states:

"From a scientific point of view there is no more "controversy" about the ill health effects of the metals contained in and released by the typical dental amalgam fillings.  The sheep and monkey studies conducted at the University of Calgary, Canada -- under the guidance of Dr. Murray Vimy DDS -- showed that radioactively labeled mercury released from freshly and correctly placed amalgam fillings (in a monkey study) appeared quickly in the kidneys, brain and wall of the intestines. Through its affinity for sulfhydryl-groups mercury bonds very firmly to structures in the nervous system.  Other studies showed that mercury is taken up in the periphery by all nerve endings (i.e. the hypoglossal nerve of the tongue, the autonomic nerves of the lungs or intestinal wall and connective tissue) and rapidly transported inside the axon of the nerves (axonal transport) to the spinal cord and brainstem.  On its way from the periphery to the brain, mercury immobilizes the enzyme that is essential for "making" tubulin.  Tubulin forms tubular structures within each nerve, along which the nerve cell transports metabolic waste from the nerve cell into the periphery and along which the nutrients required by the nerve cell are transported from the periphery to the cell.  Once mercury has traveled up the axon, the nerve cell is impaired in its ability to detoxify itself and in its ability to nurture itself.  The cell becomes toxic and dies -- or lives in a state of chronic malnutrition.  The mercury that has entered the nerve cell can no longer be excreted in the normal axonal transport routes (some can exit the Ca++ and Na+ channels) and begins to exert its more well-known ill-effects on the mitochondria, nucleus and other organelles of the cell.  A multitude of illnesses, usually associated with neurological symptoms, result." (Dietrich Klinghardt, Amalgam/Mercury Detox as a Treatment for Chronic Viral, Bacterial, and Fungal Illnesses, Paper presented at the Sept. 1996 Annual Meeting of the International and American Academy of Clinical Nutrition, San Diego, CA).

       

Besides being in considerable trouble, what does all of this information mean? 

It means you now have an explanation for chronic illnesses of all sorts.  In some patients this explains chronic viral illnesses.  Some suffer from Epstein-Barr Virus infections (chronic fatigue syndromes) for example.  Others now know why they have suffered for years from herpes, shingles, mouth ulcers, fungal illnesses, chronic sinusitis, tonsillitis, bronchitis, bladder infections, prostate infections, or HIV-related infections.  The good news is that most such patients experience dramatic recoveries following an aggressive mercury / amalgam detoxification program.

 

Mercury and Nervous System Poisoning

Very quickly after entering the body, mercury becomes tightly bound in the nervous system.  Mercury can be found in the brain, spinal cord, ganglia, autonomic ganglia, and peripheral motor neurons (running to muscles).  Because it is so quickly absorbed by the nervous system very little is left to be absorbed by other tissues including the connective tissues.  Thus, mercury appears to have a high affinity for nervous tissue and as a result it usually does not appear in the blood, hair, urine, feces or waste waters (e.g. sweat).  For this reason trace mineral analysis of hair or blood may not show any mercury levels and an erroneous conclusion that "the patient does not appear to have mercury toxicity" results.  Simply stated:  Mercury does not appear to enter certain "compartments."

Mercury in the nervous system results in diverse phychological and neurological problems.  All of these symptoms are discussed in a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services publication entitled:  The Toxicological Profile of Mercury. 

     

 

 

Mercury and Immune System Repression

It has been known for many years that mercury impairs the immune system.  With impairment comes a chronically susceptible to infections, if not chronic sickness.  Mercury detoxification programs almost invariably lead to immune system enhancement. 

Amalgam fillings typically convey immunity to antibiotics.  This means that antibiotics may no longer be able to kill or control certain bacteria when mercury is present.  This coupled with mercury-induced immune system impairment can often lead to grave consequences when serious pathogenic infections strike. 

It is possible that mercury is the only known substance with the ability to induce resistance to antibiotics.  In the regard it is well known that gum diseases which are resistant to antibiotics quickly reverse once the amalgams are removed. 

Fungal infections are also promoted by mercury poisoning and chronic mercury toxicity.  Thus, it appears that susceptibility to bacterial and fungal diseases are directly related to the degree of mercury toxicity.  This raises an interesting hypothesis regarding just exactly why these diseases appear to be chronically tolerated.

Klinghardt's Axiom

Dr. Klinghardt's axiom says:

"Most -- if not all -- chronic infectious diseases are not caused by a failure of the immune system, but are a conscious adaptation of the immune system to an otherwise lethal heavy metal environment."        

That does this mean?  It means essentially that because mercury

"suffocates the the intracellular respiratory mechanism and can cause cell death [that] the immune system makes a deal; it cultivates fungi and bacteria that can bind large amounts of toxic metals.  The gain:  the cells can breath.  The cost:  the system has to provide nutrition for the microorganisms and has to deal with their metabolic products ("toxins").  That does not imply that the tolerated guest cannot grow out of control, as it sometimes clearly does.  Therefore, there is still a limited place for antifungal / antibacterial treatment -- but only for the acute phase of the disease.  A so-called "die-off effect" (the sometimes severe crisis or even lethan reaction a patient can have in the initial stages of aggressive pharmaceutical antifungal or antibacterial treatment) is often nothing else but acute heavy metal toxicity -- metals released from the cell walls of dying microorganisms as suggested by my own correlation of clinical syndromes and urinalysis for metals."  (Dietrich Klinghardt, Amalgam/Mercury Detox as a Treatment for Chronic Viral, Bacterial, and Fungal Illnesses, Paper presented at the Sept. 1996 Annual Meeting of the International and American Academy of Clinical Nutrition, San Diego, CA).

        

Is this axiom correct?  Dr. Klinghardt's results as well as my own results suggest that this is correct because when patients are put through a thorough mercury detox program, there is always a dramatic improvement in the clinical picture for chronic Candida infections. 

Health Restoration Consultants uses a mercury detox program described below.  One of the primary ingredients in this detox program is chlorella.  Chlorella has powerful mercury chelating actions which are thought to be due to its cell wall.  Something in the protein coat of the cracked cell wall binds the mercury.  Pretreatment with chlorella before challenge with DMSA or DMPS (specific mercury chelators) will increase the urinary excretion of mercury anywhere from 300 to 1800 percent.  Many mercury detox patients report improvements in chronic viral illnesses such as Epstein-Barr, and herpes.  Japanese researchers have found that Minamata disease (a mercury disease caused by eating mercury contaminated fish) was far more severe when the patient also had a chronic viral disease.  In fact, the prognosis for patients suffering simultaneous Minamata disease and chronic viral disease is poor.       

 

Mercury Detoxification Program

 

All of the physiological and neurological disorders associated with mercury toxicity should be treated as if mercury poisoning and long-term mercury toxicity had been confirmed.  To remove mercury not related to dental amalgams, the program below can be started at any time. 

In the case of dental amalgam removal, detoxification should begin at least two weeks before dental amalgam removal and continue for at least 3 months after the last amalgam is removed.  Usual length of time to eliminate mercury is 3 to 6 months.

The following treatment regimen is an excellent method of reducing mercury toxicity by eliminating mercury from the body.  The predominant process is that of chelation -- the process whereby chelating substances (i.e. those that can form "claw-like" bonding with heavy metals) are taken orally and the chelated metals are then eliminated through the kidneys. 

Because this represents an oral chelation program, it is important to understand that 3 to 6 months will be required to remove the mercury and that the cost is considerably less than going through a standard i.v. chelation therapy program.

 

 

A Higher Standard in Oral Chelation Therapy

 

 

Chelation is a natural chemical process that goes on in your body all the time.  Virtually all key metabolic functions are dependent on chelation.  For example, iron in our diet is chelated to form hemoglobin, the oxygen carrying molecules.  Cobalt is chelated to form cyanocobalamin or vitamin B-12.  Chelation is a process that goes on in plants also.  Magnesium is chelated to form chlorophyll in plants.  In fact, without chelation there would be no life.    

Chelation is a chemical reaction usually involving the bonding of an organic, ring compound with dissolved metals in your body.  Organic ring compounds include many organic acids like citric acid (from citrus fruits), lactic acid (the sore muscle culprit), acetic acid (plentiful in vinegar), and ascorbic acid (vitamin C) among others.  All of these natural acids (classified as weak acids) have the ability to seize and/or "sequester" metal atoms such as calcium, lead, iron and zinc.  Seizing or sequestering is easy to visualize once you understand that "chelation" is derived from the Greek root word "chele" which means "claw."  Chelation is a "claw-like" bonding between an organic ring compound and a metal not unlike the way a lobster claw might clamp down on some object.  This bonding is relatively strong and often permanent.  Once chelated, toxic metals can now be safely eliminated from the body, usually in the urine. 

Certain foods are natural chelators.  In fact, foods provide the foundation for a profound and powerful approach to restoring and enhancing health.  Many orthomolecular nutritionists and conscientious health care practitioners believe that the natural chelators found in certain foods and supplements are the key to a healthy life. 

The effectiveness of foods and nutrients as chelators can be dramatically enhanced by combining them in specific formulations.  Certain combinations of food chelators taken regularly are more than capable of reversing atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) and rejuvenating the cardiovascular system through their natural ability to remove toxic heavy metals from arteries, cells and organs.  This is not theoretical hype.  Many medical research studies report a complete clearing of coronary arteries and other arteries throughout the body.  In fact, the results have been so impressive that some countries now routinely recommend such food programs for preventing heart disease (e.g. National Health Board of Holland). 

The oral chelation program developed by Spirit of Healing is based upon a more powerful and more effective formulation designed to be maximally effective in removing toxic metals such as lead, cadmium, mercury, strontium, thallium, and other dangerous heavy metals commonly found in tissues.  Removal is necessary to prevent the catastrophic free radical damage these toxic metals cause.   You might say that Health Restoration Consultants has created a higher standard for oral chelation.     

Though slower than intravenous EDTA chelation therapy (which must be performed by a chelation doctor), natural chelation (with food substances and supplements) can be performed by you at home or at work.  When used regularly and in accordance with directions, you will ultimately realize the same benefits that hundreds of thousands of patients have realized from iv EDTA chelation therapy. 

While EDTA chelation therapy will only remove one of the three forms of mercury, it will remove most of the other toxic metals.  But EDTA will not cross the blood brain barrier.  DMPS will not cross the blood brain barrier either.   DMSA, another chelator with a specific affinity for mercury shows only limited ability to cross the blood brain barrier. 

Foods that exhibit specific abilities to chelate mercury are capable of crossing the blood brain barrier and thereby remove mercury from neurons.  Chlorella pyreneidosa, an algae, has been shown to be capable of mobilizing mercury bound up in nervous tissue.  However, the predominant ability of Chlorella to bind (chelate) mercury is exerted on non-neurologic structures and compartments such as muscles, ligaments, skin, connective tissue and in the bones.

Cilantro, or Chinese parsley, can mobilize mercury and other toxic metals very quickly in nervous tissue.  If the correct amounts of cilantro are given, the mercury contained in the nervous tissue is removed and can be measured in the urine, stools, or can be re-distributed to other tissues (e.g. connective tissues) for later removal. 

Mercury that enters the body's mobile pool can be reabsorbed from the bowel contents in the small intestine and colon.  Therefore to prevent this from happening, cilantro must be used in excess on the days that DMPS or DMSA is given.  Bowel transit times must also be decreased to move the feces out of the body as quickly as possible.  This can be accomplished by using large doses of Vitamin C, magnesium and fiber laxatives. 

     

Benefits of Chelation

Chelation, whether from natural foods or synthetic amino acid chelators (i.e. EDTA), can prevent coronary artery disease, strokes, protect against heart attacks and restore impaired circulation.  But that's not all that chelation does.  Chelation reverses senility and Alzheimer's disease thereby improving memory.  Chelation reverses diabetic gangrene, and restores impaired vision.   Chelation prevents the deposition of cholesterol in the liver, reduces blood cholesterol, decreases high blood pressure, will correct about half of all cardiac rhythm disorders (arrhythmias), reduces heart irritability, removes calcium from arterial plaques, helps dissolve kidney stones, reduces serum iron, protects against iron overdosing and poisoning, and improves heart function. 

Chelation can heal necrotic ulcers of the skin and improve vision in diabetics (diabetic retinopathy).  It decreases macular degeneration and dissolves cataracts.  It corrects impotence through the restoration of normal blood flow to the penis and through its ability to chelate nickel, a toxic metal that often accumulates there.  It unplugs carotid artery plaque build up and can also unplug renal arteries thereby reducing blood pressure.  But perhaps the most meaningful way to think about all the benefits that chelation provides is to simply understand that chelation therapy actually reverse the aging process. 

Chelation therapy prevents osteoarthritis, causes rheumatoid arthritis symptoms to disappear, smooths skin wrinkles, cleans out metabolic wastes from the mitochondria (energy factories) in all cells and thereby returns cells to an earlier (i.e. younger) level of metabolic efficiency.  The feelings of wellness and euphoria that result are profound.  In fact, most people report feeling better than they have ever felt in their lives. 

It's not uncommon to feel better after beginning an exercise program or while losing weight.  And indeed, compared to the way you felt before you started exercising or losing weight, you do feel like a "10" on the "1-10" scale.  But there are differing degrees of wellness.  What most believe was a "10" after a successful diet, turns out to be only a "1" on the "feel good" scale once they experience the benefits of chelation.  In fact, people who have been chelated report that their motivation changes, even including changes in their system of values.  They typically feel so good that they become health conscious for the first time in their lives. 

Becoming health conscious is particularly notable for smokers.  For smokers the results can be profound.  Now instead of smoking to feel better, they realize that smoking provides the exact opposite.  The desire to stay off of cigarettes becomes exceedingly strong.  It is too bad that the medical establishment by and large refuses to accept chelation therapy.  This is tragic since chelation therapy provides a proven, speedy reversal of the health consequences of a 10, 20, or 30-year cigarette habit.  

 

The following describes certain herbal products that may be used in any mercury detoxification program depending on the severity of the mercury toxicity.  Information is provided on dose levels and frequency of usage.  Best results can be obtained by using the Oral Chelation Formulas and supplementing with individual herbal products. 

 

Chlorella -- green micro algae with open (cracked) cell walls.  The cracking is usually accomplished in the freeze drying of these algae and helps you digest this product. 

Chlorella is beneficial in the removal of mercury because of its ability to move mercury out of connective tissue so that all chelating agents including DMSA (by prescription only), ginko biloba or garlic for example can remove it from the body. 

To supplement the Chlorella present in the Oral Chelation Formula I and II, take 1 200 mg Chlorella tablet daily for the first 2 weeks after amalgam removal.  Then increase to 3  200 mg tablets daily (i.e. 1 at each meal) and finally increase to 3  200 mg tablets taken 3 times daily (i.e. 3 at each meal).  Maintain that dose level for at least 45 days.

Studies have shown that preparing a subject with Chlorella before EDTA chelation therapy will increase the amount of mercury removed by EDTA by a minimum of 300 percent!

Chlorella may cause diarrhea as the dose level is increased.  This will usually disappear as your body becomes used to this supplement. 

 

Reduced L-Glutathione  -- Recent research indicates that reduced L-Glutathione is an exceptionally powerful detoxifying substance that is critically important in liver detoxification reactions.        

Reduced glutathione is vital to a broad range of cellular functions including antioxidation, detoxication, and the maintenance of the reduced biochemical state found in healthy cells.  It also plays an essential role in protein structure formation, DNA synthesis and repair, immune function, and the regulation of cellular proliferation. 

Glutathione exists in both a reduced and oxidized state, but it is the reduced state in which all of the vital biological functions of glutathione are carried out.  In normal, healthy cells, oxidized glutathione is quickly recycled back to the reduced state.  The optimal ratio of intracellular glutathione ranges from 100:1 to 400:1 in favor of the reduced state. 

Research has shown that oxidative stress, exposure to toxins and toxic heavy metals such as mercury can result in the inability to recycle enough reduced glutathione to meet basic cellular needs.  Decreased intracellular levels of reduced glutathione are associated with a number of chronic degenerative diseases.

Recancostat® contains reduced glutathione in combination with anthocyans.  Anthocyans are members of the bioflavonoid family and possess significant antioxidant characteristics.  Studies have shown that specific anthocyans possess a unique ability to regenerate reduced glutathione from oxidized glutathione even in the presence of oxidizing agents (e.g. mercury), free radicals (created by free radical generators like mercury) and toxic compounds.

In cases of severe mercury toxicity take 2 Recancostat® capsules between meals 3 times daily.  Before bed open one Recancostat capsule and dissolve contents under the tongue.

In less severe mercury toxicity cases take 1 Recancostat® capsule between meals 3 times daily dissolving the contents of the last one under the tongue.             

 

Mercury toxicity requires other agents besides reduced glutathione.  N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine,  Vitamin E and Selenium are also necessary to protect the body from the oxidative damages of mercury and to safely remove the mercury from the body.  For severe mercury toxicity

Take 2 capsules of IGA+ 2 times daily. 

 

Silymarin -- milk thistle seed has profound activity in the liver and can speed up liver detoxification reactions while actually promoting increased levels of biochemicals needed in the detox reactions.

If digestive problems are believed to accompany the mercury toxicity, take 2 to 4 Hepatic Complex C42 capsules between meals 3 times daily. 

Otherwise, take 1 to 2 Lipotropic Complex capsules 2 to 3 times daily with meals or as directed. 

 

DHEA -- dihydroepiandosterone -- an adrenal hormone precursor that helps improve stressed adrenal function. 

Take 1 25-mg capsules DHEA daily.

 

Selenium -- a powerful anti-oxidant with the ability to assist in chelation.  Selenium is often thought of as a specific antidote to mercury. 

Take 50 mcg 3 times daily between meals.  Selenium is present in above products.

 

Acidophilus -- it is necessary to restore the microflora in the intestines because mercury adversely affects their levels and profiles. 

Take 4-6 Enterogenic Capsules twice daily with a large glass of water. 

 

DMSA -- (2,3-dimercaptosuccinic acid) -- an effective prescription agent for binding heavy metals.  Can cross the blood-brain barrier and help remove heavy metals from neuronal and glial tisues. 

On the day of amalgam removal, take 3  100 mg capsules both in the morning prior to removal and on the day after removal.  Take 30 minutes before or after eating. 

Once the amalgams have been removed and after you have been on this supplement program for 3 months, on one occassion only, take 2 capsules (100 mg each) 3 times daily for 3 days.  (Source: Daniel Royal, Health Hazard in Your Teeth - Alternative Medicine Digest: Issue 13, 1996, pp 42-43)

 

Cilantro   Buy fresh organic cilantro.  Wash and put approximately 1 cup in blender with small amount of water.  Add 1/4 cup of sea salt and 2 tbs of cold pressed olive oil.  Blend until creamy. 

Take 1 tablespoon 3 times daily with meals.  May by used as a salad dressing.  Use more if mercury toxicity is profound enough to cause depression, Alzheimers or brain fog. 

 

Thioctic Acid  Thioctic Acid of Lipoic Acid has been shown to be a powerful toxic metal chelator with the ability to bind mercury, lead and other hazardous metals such as beryllium, thallium and thulium (a common contaminant in all Ester C preparations.)

     

 

Iron Overload or Hemochromatosis

 

Hemochromatosis is a "forgotten disease." It lurks inside many of us and usually remains hidden from ourselves and from many of our doctors. 

Iron overload is an enigmatic disease.  It presents its signs and symptoms in many different combinations of more common diseases such as diabetes, liver disease, heart disease, arthritis, impotence, chronic fatigue, amenorrhea (i.e. excruciatingly painful menstrual periods), shortness of breath, emphysema, cataracts, depression, hearing loss, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, strokes, inflamatory bowel disease and other respiratory diseases.      

How many of us suffer from this disorder?  The most recent study suggests a ratio of 1 in 100.  Chelation therapy is of value in removing excess iron.  Other than through chelation mechanisms, there is no other natural way of getting rid of the excess iron that the body accumulates.  A good treatment exists for hemochromatosis: regular withdrawal of the high-iron blood.  This draws the toxic metal out of the tissues and prevents further damage. 

 

Chelation Therapy

Chelation therapy is a safe, effective and relatively inexpensive treatment that restores blood flow in patients suffering from athero­sclerosis.  Chelation therapy is used to reverse the symptoms of hardening of the arteries, also known as atherosclerosis or arteriosclerosis.  Atherosclerotic plaque formation is caused by multiple complex factors with the end result being plaque formation which blocks the flow of blood.  Plaques are composed of fibrous tissue, oxidized cholesterol (primarily oxidized LDL-cholesterol) and calcium with iron and heavy metal involvement.  Plaques lead to heart attacks, strokes, senility and peripheral vascular diseases that often result in amputa­tions of the extremities. 

Cardiovascular Disease is Big Business

Plaques in arteries are big business for or­ganized medicine.  In 1994 there were 373,000 open heart procedures in the U.S. and 748,000 worldwide.  But bypass surgery is exceptionally dangerous with upwards of 10% of patients dying as a result of the surgery.  But the problem doesn't stop there.  Bypass surgery represents the mechanical repair of only a small portion of the arterial tree and to make matters worse, it uses diseased "pipe" to make this repair.  Total costs average about $45,000 and can be as high as $60,000 or even more.

Balloon surgery, or angioplasty, is far more popular and is practiced by greater numbers of physicians.  In fact, the competition for patients between hospitals and cardiologists has never been more intense or aggressive.  At the present time there are in excess of 1,800 independent and hospital-based cardiac catheterization centers in the U.S.  The costs associated with cardiac catheterization when performed by cardiologists is in excess of $4,000.  The cost of angioplasty now averages close to $6,000 exclusive of the $4,500 aver­age hospital costs involved.   

How Chelation Therapy Works

Chelation therapy is a non-surgical therapy that utilizes a synthetic amino acid called ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA) to bind and remove undesirable substances from the body including heavy metals, iron, copper, zinc and calcium, most of which are known components of arterial plaques.  In more than 1000 studies performed to date, and with more than 4 million chelation treatments having been performed, chelation therapy has been proven repeatedly to improve blood flow through­out the entire vascular system.   

Chelation therapy dramatically improves health by correcting the major underlying cause of arterial blockage.  Damaging oxygen free radicals are increased by the presence of metallic elements including iron.  These metals act as chronic irritants to blood vessel walls and cell membranes.  EDTA removes these metallic irritants, allow­ing leaky and damaged cell walls to heal.  Plaques smooth over and shrink, allowing more blood to pass.  Arterial walls become softer and more pliable, allowing easier ex­pansion.  Hundreds of studies now show that EDTA chelation therapy leads to blood flow increases in more than 85 percent of all patients.  And if this weren't miracle enough, the cost for chelation therapy is only a fraction of the cost of bypass surgery.  For example, if 20 to 40 four-hour chelation treatments in a physicians officer were required for a given patient, the total cost would run somewhere between $2,000 and $4,000! 

So What's The Problem?  

Here's the problem.  EDTA no longer enjoys patent protection.  EDTA is classified as an orphan drug.  In fact the original pharmacological devel­opers of EDTA (Abbot) believed the compound to be without significant value and opted to let the patent expire.  This means that EDTA can now be manufactured by any com­pany free of royalty because it is now consid­ered in the public domain.  It costs upwards of $300 million and decades of study to receive FDA approval of pharmaceuticals today.  Ac­cordingly, pharmaceutical companies will not undertake such expenditures of time and fi­nancial resources to get FDA approval for drugs unless there is a strong probability that they will realize a profitable return on their investment.  With drugs that enjoy the profits that patent protection affords, paybacks are assured.  But with drug products that are al­ready in the public domain such paybacks are not possible and therefore are viewed as "useless" therapies by the FDA, the AMA and all of the major pharmaceutical manufacturers. 

EDTA is not patentable.  Because of this, the FDA is behaving as if EDTA chelation ther­apy is useless because it hasn't been validated by double-blind clinical trials.  Yet, in reviewing more than 1000 published articles on EDTA chelation therapy, the FDA admits that no untoward or toxic effects have been reported when the drug is administered according to accepted, safe protocol. 

The current health care delivery system effectively ex­cludes the development and utilization of al­ternative medical treatments even if such treatments may help patients and have been proven to be safe.  The antiquated and highly touted FDA approval process not only dis­courages innovation, but discourages all but the largest pharmaceutical companies from seeking FDA approval for a treatment.  This approach, currently under attack, works to exclude the contributions of innovative practi­tioners, scientists and smaller pharmaceutical companies that do not have the financial re­sources to complete the costly FDA approval process.  This atrocious approval process is highly effective in preventing low-cost treat­ments (e.g. EDTA, Vitamin E, Vitamin C) from gaining access to the markets. 

Insurance Company Reluctance to Pay

The FDA does not regulate the practice of medicine but limits the marketing and advertis­ing claims for drugs.  The FDA has approved marketing claims for the use of EDTA to treat lead poisoning and several other conditions.  Treatment of atherosclerosis is not yet an al­lowable claim for inclusion in the marketing literature of EDTA. Because of this, insurance companies have refused to pay for EDTA chelation therapy.  The question this automati­cally raises is "Why?"

Most medical insurance companies, includ­ing Medicare, have been financially depleted by paying for so many expensive surgeries.  Segments of the health care industry which profit greatly from surgical procedures are politically powerful.  Physicians who review claims for medical insurance companies often favor the extremely expensive and risky pro­cedures, such as bypass surgery, while refus­ing to pay for equally beneficial or more bene­ficial and far less expensive and immeasurably safer chelation therapy.  While insurance poli­cies do not specifically exclude chelation ther­apy in their policies, patients have often had to resort to the courts in order to collect their insurance benefits.  If the fear of censure could be removed along with the fear of FDA raids, many health insurance companies would reim­burse patients for less-expensive approaches to health care including chelation therapy.

The Underlying Threat

Here is the real kicker.  If you could elimi­nate cardiovascular diseases, you would effec­tively eliminate virtually 85 percent of all dis­eases suffered by mankind.  EDTA has the potential to restore the cardiovascular system to near perfect health.  This by inference then means that EDTA has the potential to elimi­nate most all of the diseases suffered by man worldwide.  If a therapy this effective were granted full approval by the FDA, the result would be massive wholesale improvement in the health of millions of Americans.  The num­ber of patients needing to be hospitalized would dramatically decrease.  Insurance pre­miums would plunge precipitously and health care costs would return to manageable levels.  But the medical establishment is not about to let this happen.

The medical industry is currently in excess of a $1 trillion industry, up from $900 billion in 1993.  Any treatment that would eliminate cardiovascular and circulatory diseases would significantly impact the medical profession.  If EDTA chelation therapy effectively eliminated all cardiovascular and circulatory diseases, this form of therapy would potentially impact the industry to the tune of about $4 billion per day!  If EDTA therapy proved to eliminate only one-half of the cardiovascular and circu­latory problem, the impact would still be gar­gantuan at about $2 billion per day!

 

 CARBOHYDRATE ADDICTION

 

The Basic Problem

            The basic underlying physiological dysfunction that characterizes carbohydrate addiction is an insulin imbalance.  Rapid weight gain and obesity are related to abnormal levels of neuro-regulators like serotonin and abnormal levels of hormones such as insulin.  Carbohydrate addicted subjects exhibit an abnormal early insulin response to food intake that can lead to obesity, impulsive eating, subconscious hunger, dissatisfaction hunger, specific cravings and abnormally strong general hunger.  These abnormal hunger states are associated with changes in insulin sensitivity and responsiveness which can also lead to dieseases of the cardiovascular system, especially the coronary arteries. 

 

What Normally Happens When Carbohydrates are Consumed?

              Carbohydrates are essentially sugars and starches.  Some are called simple sugars (e.g. cane or beet sugar, also known as sucrose and corn syrup which contains the common sugar fructose).  These types of simple sugars are found in fruits, fruit juices, table sugars and honey.  Complex carbohydrates are also referred to as starches.  Starches are most commonly found in breads, cereals, vegetables, rice, pasta, peas and beans. 

            Digestion breaks carbohydrates down into glucose which is absorbed from the small intestine into the bloodstream and distributed to the muscle cells for fuel and to the liver and fat cells for storage.  Glucose is the body's fuel.  It provides energy to run the millions upon millions of cells that make up your body.   

            The pancreas plays a role in controlling this fuel.  When carbohydrates are eaten, blood sugar (glucose) begins to rise.  When the pancreas detects the rise in blood sugar, it responds by releasing insulin into the bloodstream.  This insulin goes throughout the entire body and binds with receptor sites on the membranes of the cells and thereby increases their ability to absorb glucose from the blood stream.  In other words, insulin is the "key" to unlock the door to the cell so that glucose can get in. 

            Insulin "unlocks" and "opens" the doors to muscle cells so your muscles can work.  It also unlocks and opens the doors to fat cells as well.  In this way, by unlocking and opening all these millions of doors, the body's cells can effectively lower the glucose levels in the bloodstream.   Some of the absorbed glucose provides immediate energy, some of it is stored in the form of glycogen and triglycerides (fats) for later production of energy. 

            But insulin also acts on the brain.  There it tells your brain to stop eating.  Insulin does this through some complex mechanisms that involve neuro-regulators such as norepinephrine, serotonin and mesolimbic dopamine.  In simple English, this means that insulin alerts the brain to release serotonin after each meal.  Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that tells you you're no longer hungry.  It also is the neurotransmitter that makes you feel sleepy after eating high levels of carbohydrates. 

            Under normal circumstances, the pancreas releases just enough insulin to allow the cells to receive the right amount of glucose for immediate and intermediate energy needs and helps convert the excess glucose into glycogen (the animal equivalent to starch) and triglycerides (animal fat) for use at a later time.  All of this happens at a time when insulin has also told the brain that you are full.

            In normal people and in carbohydrate addicts, there is no difference in the body's ability to release insulin.  The body releases insulin in two phases, the first of which is called the preload phase.  The preload phase begins within minutes of eating carbohydrates.  The second phase of insulin release begins about 75 to 90 minutes after eating. 

 

Preload Phase Insulin Release

            Within minutes of eating carbohydrates, the pancreas releases a fixed amount of insulin regardless of how much carbohydrate has been eaten.  The amount of insulin released at this time by the pancreas is determined by the amount of carbohydrates eaten in earlier meals.  It's like the pancreas has a memory of its own.  So it doesn't matter whether you have only just eaten one slice of cake or 5 slices of cake, the preload phase release of insulin will be a set amount that was influenced by what your carbohydrate pattern had been, not by what you have just eaten. 

Second Phase Insulin Release

            About 75 to 90 minutes after eating carbohydrates the pancreas releases another round of insulin into the bloodstream depending on how much carbohydrate you actually ate..  The body is able to determine whether the amount of insulin released in the preload phase is sufficient to handle the carbohydrates you ingested.  This phase simply adjusts your insulin production and release in response to the total volume of carbohydrates eaten at that particular meal.  If you indeed ate 5 slices of chocolate cake, then your body will probably have to release more insulin to take care of this increased carbohydrate load.

 

 

What Happens in the Carbohydrate Addict?

            In the carbohydrate addict these mechanisms fail to operate properly.  A number of studies reveal that serum levels of insulin are higher in overweight people than normal individuals.  These overweight people are therefore said to exhibit hyperinsulinemia (sustained high levels of insulin in the blood). 

            Sustained, high levels of insulin in the blood have several important consequences.  High levels of insulin somehow decrease the number of insulin receptor sites on muscle and fat cells.  High levels of insulin also decrease the sensitivity of these insulin receptor sites to insulin.  Think of it as having fewer locks that the key (insulin) has to open and that these locks somehow get frozen, corroded or gummed up so they don't work as easily.  This is called insulin resistance -- fewer responsive sites; diminished responses to insulin.        

            This means that when we eat too much carbohydrates we cause our pancreas to produce too much insulin which remains in our bloodstream for too long and we begin to exhibit hyperinsulinemia.  Then, as a result of hyperinsulinemia, our cells become more insulin resistant meaning that less insulin is able to enter the cells and unlock the glucose entry doors.  The longer the insulin remains high, the greater becomes the decrease in the number of insulin receptor sites.  

            Insulin stimulates fat synthesis, which means then that if your blood levels of insulin remain high, this insulin actually causes more fat to be synthesized (made).  Indeed, animals repeatedly injected with insulin become obese.  And in humans repeated studies have shown that hyperinsulinemia can be genetically linked and leads to obesity and that high insulin levels are routinely found in obese people and that these levels show abnormally high levels after glucose intake.   

            The reduced sensitivity to insulin is not just a phenomenon that occurs in our bodies (i.e. arms, legs and bellies).  Certain brain cells that regulate our eating loose their sensitivity to insulin and fail to respond properly also.  Thus, the brain exhibits insulin resistance also as a function of hyperinsulinemia.  As a result the carbohydrate addict continues to eat because the brain has lost its satiety thermostat (due to insulin resistance) and the sensation of being satisfied is never delivered. 

            When this happens the result is a relatively continuous feeling of hunger usually accompanied by intense cravings for carbohydrates.  This combination is the result of control mechanisms that have gone haywire. 

            When the control mechanisms go haywire, a positive feedback loop of sorts is established which results first in too much insulin circulating in the bloodstream which creates intense hunger, usually characterized as intense cravings for carbohydrates.  The body attempts to satisfy this state of intense craving by eating more carbohydrates (bread, chocolate, sugar loaded foods, candy, pasta, fruits, potatoes, beans, etc.) which leads the body to produce and release even more insulin in the preload and second, adjustment phases.  This then makes the hyperinsulinemia worse and this then contributes to increased weight gain and continued, increased carbohydrate hunger.

            Remember, the preload phase of insulin release is determined by the amount of carbohydrates eaten at previous meals.  Thus, the more this vicious cycle operates, the greater the carbohydrate ingestion becomes and the greater becomes the preload phase release of insulin.  Research studies clearly demonstrate that obese people release significantly more insulin during the preload phase than non-obese, normal weight people. 

 

Mount Sinai Medical Center Studies

            The experience of hunger and weight gain were studied in carbohydrate addicts and nonaddicted subjects when both groups were instructed to eat comparable foods during two, month-long studies.  During one half of the study, the carbohydrates were distributed equally across breakfast, lunch and supper meals.  In the other half of the study, the carbohydrates were confined and consumed in one meal daily.  Here's what happened:

            Hunger and weight change were measured in both groups.  Both groups were affected but carbohydrate addicts got hungrier and gained more weight than did the nonaddicted subjects when the carbohydrates were spread throughout the day.  In fact when the sugars and starches were spread throughout the day, the carbohydrate addicts showed more intense hunger and greater weight gain than the nonaddicts did.  When carbohydrates were available at only one meal, the carbohydrate addicts reported greatly reduced hunger and significantly greater weight loss. 

 

What Does This Mean for You? 

            If you are a carbohydrate addict, you need to limit your carbohydrate intake to one meal per day because: 

(1)  This will lower your insulin production/release and create an increase in insulin receptor sites which will then lead to an increase in the rate at which insulin is taken up by the cells of the body and thereby removed from the blood.  

(2)  If you are a carbohydrate addict, by limiting your carbohydrate intake to only one meal per day you will reduce your cravings for carbohydrates and dramatically increase your tendency for weight loss. 

(3)  If you are a carbohydrate addict, your carbohydrate addiction may very likely lead to abnormal triglyceride and cholesterol metabolism, and

(4)  If you are a carbohydrate addict your chances of having or developing severe coronary artery and other vascular diseases are much greater because carbohydrate addiction affects triglyceride production and LDL cholesterol levels.

 

Addiction Triggers

            A number of factors can cause or intensify the desire to eat.  A wide variety of emotional factors such as anger, anxiety, a feeling of being out of control, depression, excitement, profound frustration, guilt and self-blame to name a few.  But there are other factors as well.  Relatively benign changes in home life or working conditions can cause changes in eating habits leading to carbohydrate addiction.  Exercise, illnesses, pregnancies, premenstrual changes, smoking and quitting smoking and stress of any kind can all affect carbohydrate consumption. 

            Dieting can also trigger carbohydrate addiction.  This is especially common in people that subject themselves to extreme dieting or fasting.   

            Of course, high carbohydrate foods can trigger the addiction process.  The best trigger foods are bread and grain products including bagels, rolls, donuts, cookies, crackers, cereals (both man-made and natural), cakes, and pastries of all types. 

            But foods we usually think of as very healthy are equally potent triggers.  Fruits of all kinds including the dried varieties and their juices are potent triggers.  Snack foods such as popcorn, potato chips, pretzels, cheese puffs, and candies are potent triggers.    

 

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