By Sean KelleyWhich of the following contains more calories and more carbohydrates?
A. Apple juice
B. Coca-Cola
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Monday, July 14, 2008
The Secret To Health - Part 1 of 8
The Secret to Health reveals information that has been suppressed by the medical establishment for over 100 years! Learn how you can restore your health, increase your energy and vitality, and take control of your body again!
90% of Disease is Caused by Toxins Entering the Body!
Every single day, your body absorbs millions of toxins from Ngenetically modified foods, pesticides, meat, dairy, soy, white flour, table salt, MSG (monosodium glutamate), microwaved foods, refined sugar, and artificial sweeteners. You also receive toxins from caffeine, alcohol, electromagnetic radiation, heavy metals, parasites, industrial chemicals, and prescription drugs. These impurities contaminate nearly everything we eat, drink, touch, or breathe and they are the root cause of disease!
Did You Know? * You should have three bowel movements every day, not two or three per week! * Constipation and other digestive disorders afflict 1 out of every 5 people in America, with the average person carrying up to 15lbs of impacted waste in their colon ! * Experts estimate 9 out of 10 people have parasites in their bodies and don't know it! * Playing on a typical floor exposes babies' lungs to the equivalent of four cigarettes in the form of contaminants from mold, mildew, and dust mites! * Most pharmaceutical drugs list constipation as a major side effect! * Unnecessary medical procedures and prescription drug use in the U.S. accounts for over 700,000 deaths annually!
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90% of Disease is Caused by Toxins Entering the Body!
Every single day, your body absorbs millions of toxins from Ngenetically modified foods, pesticides, meat, dairy, soy, white flour, table salt, MSG (monosodium glutamate), microwaved foods, refined sugar, and artificial sweeteners. You also receive toxins from caffeine, alcohol, electromagnetic radiation, heavy metals, parasites, industrial chemicals, and prescription drugs. These impurities contaminate nearly everything we eat, drink, touch, or breathe and they are the root cause of disease!
Did You Know? * You should have three bowel movements every day, not two or three per week! * Constipation and other digestive disorders afflict 1 out of every 5 people in America, with the average person carrying up to 15lbs of impacted waste in their colon ! * Experts estimate 9 out of 10 people have parasites in their bodies and don't know it! * Playing on a typical floor exposes babies' lungs to the equivalent of four cigarettes in the form of contaminants from mold, mildew, and dust mites! * Most pharmaceutical drugs list constipation as a major side effect! * Unnecessary medical procedures and prescription drug use in the U.S. accounts for over 700,000 deaths annually!
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- Live_blood Analysis
- Live_Blood_Analysis Darkfield Microscopy Courses
- dark field microscopy
- pleomorphism
- Günther Enderlein
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008
High-Calorie Sports Drink Ruins Exercise Benefit
By Sean KelleyUsually when my blood sugar spikes above 300 (normal is 80 to 120), I blame lack of exercise or dietary exuberance. If my type 2 diabetes is out of control, it’s because I made poor but conscious choices that led to higher counts.
Last week, when my sugar shot high, exercise—not the lack of it—was to blame.
I’m not sure what possessed me to join a flag football league. I’m way past my prime and not in very good shape. But there I was trying to keep up with younger, more athletic men, sweating out what little energy I had under a hot, 90-degree Southern sun. Read More
Friday, December 28, 2007
Health Tip: What's Causing Your Dizziness?
(HealthDay News) - Dizziness is not a disease, but a symptom of another condition. While it's usually not serious and is often temporary, it helps to know what's causing the problem.
The University of Michigan Health System lists these common causes of dizziness:
The University of Michigan Health System lists these common causes of dizziness:
- An infection or other condition affecting the inner ear.
- Fatigue, stress or fever.
- Low blood sugar.
- Anemia.
- Dehydration.
- An injury to the head.
- A heart or circulatory condition.
- Stroke.
- A side effect of certain medications.
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Sunday, September 23, 2007
No Clear Winner in Diabetes Treatment Trial
(HealthDay News) -- A study designed to tell which insulin-plus-drug regimen might best control type 2 diabetes has produced disappointing preliminary results, with none of the three strategies tested coming out on top.
"What this shows is that none of the strategies in the study can be recommended" as being superior to the other, said Dr. Graham T. McMahon, an assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and co-author of an editorial accompanying the report, published online Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Instead, he said, the insulin regimen would probably have to be tailored to each patient, McMahon said.
The report was released early, because the preliminary, one-year results of the four-year study are being presented at a meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, in Amsterdam.
The study, led by British diabetes specialists at the University of Oxford, included 708 participants with type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes, which affects about 95 percent of diabetics, typically occurs in adulthood and is often tied to obesity.
All of the trial participants were given maximum doses of two diabetes drugs, metformin and sulfonylurea, and a different regimen of injected insulin three times a day, two times a day or just once a day. The once-a-day group got an extra dose if deemed necessary.
The goal was to reduce blood levels of glycolated hemoglobin, which forms when sugar enters blood cells, to 6.5 percent or less.
The results overall were not impressive: The treatment goal was achieved by just 23.9 percent of those getting insulin three times a day, 17 percent of those getting insulin twice a day and 8.1 percent of those in the once-a-day group, the researchers reported.
The greater success rate in the two- and three-times-a-day regimen had a down side, the team noted, since it was also accompanied by an increased incidence of weight gain and low blood sugar levels, the report said.
Still, the results indicated that "the best thing to be done is to follow current guidelines," McMahon said. That means "using long-acting drugs and adding insulin either once, twice or three times a day," he said, depending on each patient's particular needs.
What the new data "suggests to the doctor is that if you are serious about controlling diabetes, you should be willing to use the more complex method," added Dr. Larry Deeb, clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Florida and immediate past president of the American Diabetes Association.
Diabetes control "is hard work for doctor and patient," Deeb said, and "family doctors have got to learn to give insulin the way we endocrinologists do." Deeb is located in Tallahassee, Fla., where the ratio of endocrinologists is 1 to 75,000 inhabitants, he noted.
Family doctors can handle type 2 diabetes, McMahon said, but it is best if they do not work alone. "An endocrinologist, nutritionist and nurse-educator should cooperate," he said.
Because type 2 diabetes is a major risk factor for heart disease, attention should be paid not only to blood sugar levels but also to other coronary risk factors, such as blood pressure and cholesterol levels, McMahon said.
What lies ahead for the British study is uncertain, McMahon said. "They are going to next look at what happens when the first steps fail," he said.
More information
For more on type 2 diabetes, consult the American Diabetes Association.
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"What this shows is that none of the strategies in the study can be recommended" as being superior to the other, said Dr. Graham T. McMahon, an assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and co-author of an editorial accompanying the report, published online Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Instead, he said, the insulin regimen would probably have to be tailored to each patient, McMahon said.
The report was released early, because the preliminary, one-year results of the four-year study are being presented at a meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, in Amsterdam.
The study, led by British diabetes specialists at the University of Oxford, included 708 participants with type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes, which affects about 95 percent of diabetics, typically occurs in adulthood and is often tied to obesity.
All of the trial participants were given maximum doses of two diabetes drugs, metformin and sulfonylurea, and a different regimen of injected insulin three times a day, two times a day or just once a day. The once-a-day group got an extra dose if deemed necessary.
The goal was to reduce blood levels of glycolated hemoglobin, which forms when sugar enters blood cells, to 6.5 percent or less.
The results overall were not impressive: The treatment goal was achieved by just 23.9 percent of those getting insulin three times a day, 17 percent of those getting insulin twice a day and 8.1 percent of those in the once-a-day group, the researchers reported.
The greater success rate in the two- and three-times-a-day regimen had a down side, the team noted, since it was also accompanied by an increased incidence of weight gain and low blood sugar levels, the report said.
Still, the results indicated that "the best thing to be done is to follow current guidelines," McMahon said. That means "using long-acting drugs and adding insulin either once, twice or three times a day," he said, depending on each patient's particular needs.
What the new data "suggests to the doctor is that if you are serious about controlling diabetes, you should be willing to use the more complex method," added Dr. Larry Deeb, clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Florida and immediate past president of the American Diabetes Association.
Diabetes control "is hard work for doctor and patient," Deeb said, and "family doctors have got to learn to give insulin the way we endocrinologists do." Deeb is located in Tallahassee, Fla., where the ratio of endocrinologists is 1 to 75,000 inhabitants, he noted.
Family doctors can handle type 2 diabetes, McMahon said, but it is best if they do not work alone. "An endocrinologist, nutritionist and nurse-educator should cooperate," he said.
Because type 2 diabetes is a major risk factor for heart disease, attention should be paid not only to blood sugar levels but also to other coronary risk factors, such as blood pressure and cholesterol levels, McMahon said.
What lies ahead for the British study is uncertain, McMahon said. "They are going to next look at what happens when the first steps fail," he said.
More information
For more on type 2 diabetes, consult the American Diabetes Association.
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Monday, August 27, 2007
Heart Attack Boosts Diabetes Risk
(HealthDay News) -- After a heart attack, the risk of developing diabetes and so-called pre-diabetes rises steeply, a new study finds.
In fact, recent heart attack patients are up to four-and-a-half times more likely to develop diabetes compared with the general population and more than 15 times more likely to develop high blood sugar, according to the report in the Aug. 25 issue of The Lancet.
"Having a heart attack means that the chances of getting diabetes later are increased," said Dr. Lionel Opie, director of the Hatter Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and author of an accompanying journal editorial. "We already know that diabetes predisposes one to heart attack, now we add that heart attacks predispose one to diabetes -- one nasty disease leads to another, and it's a two-way process."
In the study, a team led by Dr. Roberto Marchioli, from the Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Disease, Consorzio Mario Negri Sud, Chieti, Italy, collected data on almost 8,300 Italian patients who had suffered a recent heart attack and were not previously diabetic.
More than three and a half years after the heart attack, a third of the patients had developed diabetes or had impaired insulin resistance (a precursor to diabetes), as measured by an increase in blood sugar.
When they used a lower threshold for measuring blood sugar, 62 percent of the patients were defined as diabetic.
"These findings further tie the knot between heart attacks and high blood glucose -- each is a risk for the other, the patient thus potentially being caught in a fatal vicious circle," Opie said.
Risk markers for diabetes or high blood sugar include age, high blood pressure, and use of heart medicines such as beta-blockers, cholesterol-lowering drugs, and diuretics.
The researchers found being overweight increased the risk of diabetes. Smoking also increased the risk by 60 percent. In addition, an unhealthy diet and heavy drinking increased the risk of developing diabetes after a heart attack.
"Lifestyle factors can be particularly important in preventing disease," Marchioli said. "The reductions in risk associated with a Mediterranean-type diet suggest that diet could help reduce incidence of pre-diabetes and diabetes after a [heart attack]," he added.
Opie agreed that changing diet and exercising can help cut post-heart attack diabetes risk.
"Once you have had a heart attack, watch for new diabetes -- monitor blood sugar and keep exercising a lot," Opie advised. "This 'eats up' the blood sugar. And eat Mediterranean-style, adding olive oil and nuts -- the Mediterranean diet gives some, but not total, protection from new diabetes after a heart attack."
More information
For more on diabetes, visit the American Diabetes Association.
In fact, recent heart attack patients are up to four-and-a-half times more likely to develop diabetes compared with the general population and more than 15 times more likely to develop high blood sugar, according to the report in the Aug. 25 issue of The Lancet.
"Having a heart attack means that the chances of getting diabetes later are increased," said Dr. Lionel Opie, director of the Hatter Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and author of an accompanying journal editorial. "We already know that diabetes predisposes one to heart attack, now we add that heart attacks predispose one to diabetes -- one nasty disease leads to another, and it's a two-way process."
In the study, a team led by Dr. Roberto Marchioli, from the Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Disease, Consorzio Mario Negri Sud, Chieti, Italy, collected data on almost 8,300 Italian patients who had suffered a recent heart attack and were not previously diabetic.
More than three and a half years after the heart attack, a third of the patients had developed diabetes or had impaired insulin resistance (a precursor to diabetes), as measured by an increase in blood sugar.
When they used a lower threshold for measuring blood sugar, 62 percent of the patients were defined as diabetic.
"These findings further tie the knot between heart attacks and high blood glucose -- each is a risk for the other, the patient thus potentially being caught in a fatal vicious circle," Opie said.
Risk markers for diabetes or high blood sugar include age, high blood pressure, and use of heart medicines such as beta-blockers, cholesterol-lowering drugs, and diuretics.
The researchers found being overweight increased the risk of diabetes. Smoking also increased the risk by 60 percent. In addition, an unhealthy diet and heavy drinking increased the risk of developing diabetes after a heart attack.
"Lifestyle factors can be particularly important in preventing disease," Marchioli said. "The reductions in risk associated with a Mediterranean-type diet suggest that diet could help reduce incidence of pre-diabetes and diabetes after a [heart attack]," he added.
Opie agreed that changing diet and exercising can help cut post-heart attack diabetes risk.
"Once you have had a heart attack, watch for new diabetes -- monitor blood sugar and keep exercising a lot," Opie advised. "This 'eats up' the blood sugar. And eat Mediterranean-style, adding olive oil and nuts -- the Mediterranean diet gives some, but not total, protection from new diabetes after a heart attack."
More information
For more on diabetes, visit the American Diabetes Association.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Home Blood Sugar Monitoring Questioned
(HealthDay News) -- Home monitoring of blood sugar levels may not be as essential to the effective care of type 2 diabetes as previously thought, a new British study suggests.
The researchers found that having patients monitor their own glucose levels at home had no effect on their overall blood sugar levels. The findings do not apply to type 2 diabetics who must take insulin.
"We wanted to investigate a current controversy, which is whether monitoring blood sugar for people with type 2 diabetes, who are not using insulin, is helpful or not," explained lead researcher Dr. Andrew Farmer, a lecturer in the Department of Primary Health Care at the University of Oxford.
The study appears in the current online edition of the British Medical Journal, and Farmer planned to report on the findings Tuesday at the American Diabetes Association conference, in Chicago.
Farmer noted that some patient groups and doctors are in favor of having patients monitor their own blood sugar, but it is expensive and so some insurance companies discourage it.
"We found no conclusive evidence that home monitoring improved glucose control," Farmer said.
In the study, Farmer's team randomly assigned 453 patients with type 2 diabetes to one of three groups.
One group had their blood sugar level checked three times a month. The second group was given a meter to test their blood sugar at home and told to have their doctor interpret the results. The third group was given meters and taught how to interpret the findings.
At one year, Farmer's group found no difference in blood sugar levels between the groups. In addition, there was no evidence that having patients monitor their blood sugar improved their glucose control.
Moreover, half of the people who had been given glucose monitors stopped using them before the end of the study, Farmer said.
Home glucose monitoring is supposed to work by helping patients adjust their medications and give them a new attitude toward their diabetes, so they might take their condition more seriously and change their behavior, Farmer said.
"But in either case, if there is an effect it is relatively small, at best," Farmer said. His conclusion: "People shouldn't be hassled into using these meters."
Farmer believes that, given these findings, the current guidelines for monitoring blood sugar may need to be revised. The value of home monitoring remains necessary and worthwhile for people with type 1 diabetes, and for people with type 2 diabetes who are taking insulin, Farmer said.
"These patients can adjust their insulin much more carefully and make the necessary changes," Farmer said. "Studies have found improved outcomes from that. It's just in this situation [patients with type 2 diabetes who are not using insulin] that this technology's place is limited and should not be recommended."
More information
For more information on diabetes, visit the American Diabetes Association.
The researchers found that having patients monitor their own glucose levels at home had no effect on their overall blood sugar levels. The findings do not apply to type 2 diabetics who must take insulin.
"We wanted to investigate a current controversy, which is whether monitoring blood sugar for people with type 2 diabetes, who are not using insulin, is helpful or not," explained lead researcher Dr. Andrew Farmer, a lecturer in the Department of Primary Health Care at the University of Oxford.
The study appears in the current online edition of the British Medical Journal, and Farmer planned to report on the findings Tuesday at the American Diabetes Association conference, in Chicago.
Farmer noted that some patient groups and doctors are in favor of having patients monitor their own blood sugar, but it is expensive and so some insurance companies discourage it.
"We found no conclusive evidence that home monitoring improved glucose control," Farmer said.
In the study, Farmer's team randomly assigned 453 patients with type 2 diabetes to one of three groups.
One group had their blood sugar level checked three times a month. The second group was given a meter to test their blood sugar at home and told to have their doctor interpret the results. The third group was given meters and taught how to interpret the findings.
At one year, Farmer's group found no difference in blood sugar levels between the groups. In addition, there was no evidence that having patients monitor their blood sugar improved their glucose control.
Moreover, half of the people who had been given glucose monitors stopped using them before the end of the study, Farmer said.
Home glucose monitoring is supposed to work by helping patients adjust their medications and give them a new attitude toward their diabetes, so they might take their condition more seriously and change their behavior, Farmer said.
"But in either case, if there is an effect it is relatively small, at best," Farmer said. His conclusion: "People shouldn't be hassled into using these meters."
Farmer believes that, given these findings, the current guidelines for monitoring blood sugar may need to be revised. The value of home monitoring remains necessary and worthwhile for people with type 1 diabetes, and for people with type 2 diabetes who are taking insulin, Farmer said.
"These patients can adjust their insulin much more carefully and make the necessary changes," Farmer said. "Studies have found improved outcomes from that. It's just in this situation [patients with type 2 diabetes who are not using insulin] that this technology's place is limited and should not be recommended."
More information
For more information on diabetes, visit the American Diabetes Association.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Fructose-Sweetened Drinks Tougher on Arteries
(HealthDay News) -- The type of sugar in a sugary drink may impact how healthy -- or unhealthy -- it is for arteries, a new study suggests.
Fructose-sweetened drinks are more likely to provoke the development of fatty artery deposits in overweight adults than glucose-sweetened beverages, researchers say.
Kimber Stanhope, of the University of California at Davis, and colleagues compared the results of drinking fructose-sweetened beverages versus glucose for 10 weeks in overweight and obese adults.
Participants ate a balanced diet with 30 percent fat and 55 percent complex carbohydrates. Thirteen of the participants also consumed glucose-sweetened drinks, while 10 drank fructose-sweetened drinks.
The researchers found that 9 weeks later, 24-hour post-meal triglyceride (blood fat) levels went up after 2 weeks of fructose-sweetened drink but went down in those who consumed glucose-sweetened drinks.
Those who drank fructose-sweetened drinks also had a boost in fasting blood concentrations of LDL ("bad") cholesterol and other measures. Those levels were unaltered in those consuming glucose-sweetened drinks, however.
The findings were scheduled to be presented Saturday at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association, in Chicago.
The bottom line, according to the researchers: "Persons at risk for developing metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease should avoid over-consumption of fructose-containing beverages."
The ADA notes, however, that consumption of fructose-sweetened beverages has gone up by 135 percent in the United States over the past four decades.
More information
There's more on eating right to prevent diabetes at the American Dietetic Association.
Fructose-sweetened drinks are more likely to provoke the development of fatty artery deposits in overweight adults than glucose-sweetened beverages, researchers say.
Kimber Stanhope, of the University of California at Davis, and colleagues compared the results of drinking fructose-sweetened beverages versus glucose for 10 weeks in overweight and obese adults.
Participants ate a balanced diet with 30 percent fat and 55 percent complex carbohydrates. Thirteen of the participants also consumed glucose-sweetened drinks, while 10 drank fructose-sweetened drinks.
The researchers found that 9 weeks later, 24-hour post-meal triglyceride (blood fat) levels went up after 2 weeks of fructose-sweetened drink but went down in those who consumed glucose-sweetened drinks.
Those who drank fructose-sweetened drinks also had a boost in fasting blood concentrations of LDL ("bad") cholesterol and other measures. Those levels were unaltered in those consuming glucose-sweetened drinks, however.
The findings were scheduled to be presented Saturday at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association, in Chicago.
The bottom line, according to the researchers: "Persons at risk for developing metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease should avoid over-consumption of fructose-containing beverages."
The ADA notes, however, that consumption of fructose-sweetened beverages has gone up by 135 percent in the United States over the past four decades.
More information
There's more on eating right to prevent diabetes at the American Dietetic Association.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Premature Babies Face Future Blood Sugar, Blood Pressure Problems
(HealthDay News) -- Babies born early and underweight have a greater chance of developing insulin resistance, glucose intolerance and high blood pressure when they become young adults than normal-weight babies, a new study says.
These factors can put a person at higher risk for heart disease and other health problems.
"Most small premature infants live healthy lives as adults," said study lead author Dr. Eero Kajantie, a pediatrician and senior researcher at the National Public Health Institute in Helsinki, Finland. "However, our findings indicate that they might be at a higher-than-average risk of common late-life disorders such as type 2 (adult) diabetes or cardiovascular disease."
The goods news is that the risk of developing these problems can be reduced with a healthy lifestyle, one that incorporates physical activity and a healthy diet and maintaining a normal weight, Kajantie added.
Kajantie's study is published in the May 17 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Researchers have already established a link between small size at birth and glucose-regulation problems later in life. There is also a known association between preterm birth with very low birth weight and insulin resistance in childhood.
And research has shown that full-term babies with low birth weight have a higher risk of health problems such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes when they reach young adulthood.
The question is whether insulin resistance, and therefore an elevated risk for various diseases, persists into adulthood in babies born premature and underweight.
The issue is a highly relevant one, given that advances in neonatal intensive care have drastically changed the prognosis for very-low-birth-weight infants. According to an accompanying editorial in the journal, in 1960, a baby born weighing 1,000 grams (2.2 pounds) had a 95 percent risk of dying. Today, that same child has as 95 percent chance of surviving.
As the new study noted, the first generation of infants who benefited from these improvements is now entering adulthood.
For the study, the researchers performed standard oral glucose tolerance tests in 163 young adults aged 18 to 27 who had been underweight at birth. They also performed the same tests in 169 people who had been born at term and at normal size. All participants also had blood pressure and blood lipid levels measured.
Body composition was measured in 150 adults who had been very-low-birth-weight babies and in 136 "normal" people.
The adults born with very low birth weights had a 6.7 percent increase in two-hour glucose concentration, a 16.7 percent increase in fasting insulin concentration, a 40 percent increase in two-hour insulin concentration, an 18.9 percent increase in the insulin-resistance index and an increase of 4.8 mm Hg in systolic blood pressure.
"We would simply encourage former preterm infants to follow a healthy lifestyle," Kajantie said. "It is important that, in particular, doctors following up adults would be aware of their patient's birth history. Preterm birth/very low birth weight may serve as an additional risk factor when deciding, for example, whether a workup of glucose tolerance or diabetes is needed in an individual patient."
And researchers should continue following the issue, Kajantie said.
"Further research is certainly needed, for example, to establish specific guidelines for follow-up of children/adults with very low birth weight," Kajantie said. "Moreover, this study actually tells us about infants who were treated at a neonatal intensive care unit over 20 years ago (1978 to 1985). There have been considerable developments in neonatal intensive care after that period."
More information
Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital has more on very low birth weight babies.
These factors can put a person at higher risk for heart disease and other health problems.
"Most small premature infants live healthy lives as adults," said study lead author Dr. Eero Kajantie, a pediatrician and senior researcher at the National Public Health Institute in Helsinki, Finland. "However, our findings indicate that they might be at a higher-than-average risk of common late-life disorders such as type 2 (adult) diabetes or cardiovascular disease."
The goods news is that the risk of developing these problems can be reduced with a healthy lifestyle, one that incorporates physical activity and a healthy diet and maintaining a normal weight, Kajantie added.
Kajantie's study is published in the May 17 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Researchers have already established a link between small size at birth and glucose-regulation problems later in life. There is also a known association between preterm birth with very low birth weight and insulin resistance in childhood.
And research has shown that full-term babies with low birth weight have a higher risk of health problems such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes when they reach young adulthood.
The question is whether insulin resistance, and therefore an elevated risk for various diseases, persists into adulthood in babies born premature and underweight.
The issue is a highly relevant one, given that advances in neonatal intensive care have drastically changed the prognosis for very-low-birth-weight infants. According to an accompanying editorial in the journal, in 1960, a baby born weighing 1,000 grams (2.2 pounds) had a 95 percent risk of dying. Today, that same child has as 95 percent chance of surviving.
As the new study noted, the first generation of infants who benefited from these improvements is now entering adulthood.
For the study, the researchers performed standard oral glucose tolerance tests in 163 young adults aged 18 to 27 who had been underweight at birth. They also performed the same tests in 169 people who had been born at term and at normal size. All participants also had blood pressure and blood lipid levels measured.
Body composition was measured in 150 adults who had been very-low-birth-weight babies and in 136 "normal" people.
The adults born with very low birth weights had a 6.7 percent increase in two-hour glucose concentration, a 16.7 percent increase in fasting insulin concentration, a 40 percent increase in two-hour insulin concentration, an 18.9 percent increase in the insulin-resistance index and an increase of 4.8 mm Hg in systolic blood pressure.
"We would simply encourage former preterm infants to follow a healthy lifestyle," Kajantie said. "It is important that, in particular, doctors following up adults would be aware of their patient's birth history. Preterm birth/very low birth weight may serve as an additional risk factor when deciding, for example, whether a workup of glucose tolerance or diabetes is needed in an individual patient."
And researchers should continue following the issue, Kajantie said.
"Further research is certainly needed, for example, to establish specific guidelines for follow-up of children/adults with very low birth weight," Kajantie said. "Moreover, this study actually tells us about infants who were treated at a neonatal intensive care unit over 20 years ago (1978 to 1985). There have been considerable developments in neonatal intensive care after that period."
More information
Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital has more on very low birth weight babies.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Crustacean Compound Fights Bacterial Biofilms
(HealthDay News) -- Coating common medical devices with a antimicrobial compound found in crabs and shrimp might fight infection in hospital patients, new research suggests.
A sugar called chitosan, which is found in crustacean shells, seems to protect against the build-up of nasty bacteria and yeast colonies called biofilms. So said scientists in a preliminary report presented Sunday at the American Chemical Society annual meeting, in San Francisco.
"The issue is that we're putting more and more plastic and metal into people as part of medical practice these days -- everything from contact lens to artificial hips and catheters, and a long list of other devices and implants," said lead researcher Philip Stewart, director of the Center for Biofilm Engineering at Montana State University in Bozeman, Mont.
"And so every time you do that there is a chance of having bacteria or yeast colonize that surface and start a biofilm -- groups of bacteria which form a persistent infection," he added. "The contribution we've made here is that chitosan can act to defend a surface from such a microbial challenge."
The bacteria or yeast that constitute a biofilm come from a range of sources, such as a patient's skin or tap water collecting at the point of surgical insertion. Once collected into a slimy, sticky layer of infectious cells, a biofilm is typically highly resistant to standard anti-bacterial treatments -- often requiring surgical removal of the affected device.
Biofilms are at the root of 65 percent of American bacterial infections, and are the leading cause of about 400,000 catheter-insertion bloodstream infections annually, according to the researchers.
Stewart and his colleagues chose to explore the potential of chitosan because of its antimicrobial abilities.
The compound is already sold as a nutritional supplement, and is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in stemming blood loss.
In a lab setting, the researchers used time-lapse fluorescent microscope and dye technologies to observe the behavior of several bacteria and yeast species as they came in contact with a coated surface.
The results, which involved no human or animal trials, suggest the coating helped prevent biofilm formation by, in effect, skewering the incoming microbes. The chitosan sugar molecules functioned like a razor-sharp bed of nails upon which the microbes met their untimely death.
"Now we've known for a long time that chitosans have antimicrobial qualities, so that's not news," said Stewart. "But what's new is the realization that it can actually form a coating that's not just anti-microbial but anti-biofilm, making it harder for the organisms to latch onto the surface and get a hold. And that could provide a real advantage in reducing the infection rate associated with implanted devices."
George O'Toole, an associate professor in the department of microbiology and immunology at Dartmouth Medical School, expressed some reservation as to whether or not the current research team had actually proven its case, but he was enthusiastic about the possibilities.
"This would be a terrific advance if this proved to be true, particularly because there is an advantage in using a non-antibiotic coating that can't be understated," O'Toole said. "Antibiotic coatings in catheters, for example, are a terrible idea because they will likely contribute to the development of [drug] resistance in the long run. So, their non-antibiotic approach is certainly preferred."
"However," he added, "many people have worked on this for many years without -- to my knowledge -- many effective results. So, I would have to see more research."
Dr. Pascal James Imperato, chairman of the department of preventive medicine and community health at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in New York City, seconded that opinion.
"It's interesting, but until this type of research is subject to a careful and critical review --which does not appear to have been the case -- we're not really going to know anything about its validity," he cautioned.
"And there are other issues as well, such as what the long-term effects of this kind of coating might be or what the potential resistance could be to these organisms in the future. This is important because one can try to solve one problem, but in the process create others. So, we need much larger and more sophisticated types of studies involving microbiologists, infectious disease specialists and people who are expert in medical devices to confirm the findings."
More information
For additional information on biofilm infections, visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A sugar called chitosan, which is found in crustacean shells, seems to protect against the build-up of nasty bacteria and yeast colonies called biofilms. So said scientists in a preliminary report presented Sunday at the American Chemical Society annual meeting, in San Francisco.
"The issue is that we're putting more and more plastic and metal into people as part of medical practice these days -- everything from contact lens to artificial hips and catheters, and a long list of other devices and implants," said lead researcher Philip Stewart, director of the Center for Biofilm Engineering at Montana State University in Bozeman, Mont.
"And so every time you do that there is a chance of having bacteria or yeast colonize that surface and start a biofilm -- groups of bacteria which form a persistent infection," he added. "The contribution we've made here is that chitosan can act to defend a surface from such a microbial challenge."
The bacteria or yeast that constitute a biofilm come from a range of sources, such as a patient's skin or tap water collecting at the point of surgical insertion. Once collected into a slimy, sticky layer of infectious cells, a biofilm is typically highly resistant to standard anti-bacterial treatments -- often requiring surgical removal of the affected device.
Biofilms are at the root of 65 percent of American bacterial infections, and are the leading cause of about 400,000 catheter-insertion bloodstream infections annually, according to the researchers.
Stewart and his colleagues chose to explore the potential of chitosan because of its antimicrobial abilities.
The compound is already sold as a nutritional supplement, and is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in stemming blood loss.
In a lab setting, the researchers used time-lapse fluorescent microscope and dye technologies to observe the behavior of several bacteria and yeast species as they came in contact with a coated surface.
The results, which involved no human or animal trials, suggest the coating helped prevent biofilm formation by, in effect, skewering the incoming microbes. The chitosan sugar molecules functioned like a razor-sharp bed of nails upon which the microbes met their untimely death.
"Now we've known for a long time that chitosans have antimicrobial qualities, so that's not news," said Stewart. "But what's new is the realization that it can actually form a coating that's not just anti-microbial but anti-biofilm, making it harder for the organisms to latch onto the surface and get a hold. And that could provide a real advantage in reducing the infection rate associated with implanted devices."
George O'Toole, an associate professor in the department of microbiology and immunology at Dartmouth Medical School, expressed some reservation as to whether or not the current research team had actually proven its case, but he was enthusiastic about the possibilities.
"This would be a terrific advance if this proved to be true, particularly because there is an advantage in using a non-antibiotic coating that can't be understated," O'Toole said. "Antibiotic coatings in catheters, for example, are a terrible idea because they will likely contribute to the development of [drug] resistance in the long run. So, their non-antibiotic approach is certainly preferred."
"However," he added, "many people have worked on this for many years without -- to my knowledge -- many effective results. So, I would have to see more research."
Dr. Pascal James Imperato, chairman of the department of preventive medicine and community health at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in New York City, seconded that opinion.
"It's interesting, but until this type of research is subject to a careful and critical review --which does not appear to have been the case -- we're not really going to know anything about its validity," he cautioned.
"And there are other issues as well, such as what the long-term effects of this kind of coating might be or what the potential resistance could be to these organisms in the future. This is important because one can try to solve one problem, but in the process create others. So, we need much larger and more sophisticated types of studies involving microbiologists, infectious disease specialists and people who are expert in medical devices to confirm the findings."
More information
For additional information on biofilm infections, visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Other Factors That Can Generate Fatigue
Fatigue can result from a variety of conditions other than chronic fatigue syndrome, according to Leon Chaitow, N.D., D.O.
These include:
• Adrenal insufficiency caused by excessive stress and/or the overuse of stimulants (tea, coffee, chocolate, cola, alcohol, tobacco, drugs)
• Anemia (low levels of iron or vitamin B12 in the blood result in anemia; a blood test can verify this diagnosis)
• Candidiasis (often misdiagnosed as CFS in women)
• Cardiovascular causes (if breathless-ness and/or chest pain on exertion accompanies fatigue, the heart may be involved)
• Chronic ill-health (many chronic diseases have fatigue as a symptom)
• Depression
• Diabetes
• Headaches
• Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar)
• Obesity
• Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) (the connection will be obvious if fatigue occurs at the same time in the monthly cycle)
• Sleep disturbance or inadequate
• Stress
A number of the causes listed above are also symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome. This highlights the circularity of symptoms and illness. Depression is both a symptom and a cause of fatigue, as are headaches, candidiasis, PMS, poor stress-coping skills, and sleep disorders. The presence of these factors can produce a downward spiral of illness and it becomes difficult to tell which came first, the fatigue or the other exhibited symptoms.
These include:
• Adrenal insufficiency caused by excessive stress and/or the overuse of stimulants (tea, coffee, chocolate, cola, alcohol, tobacco, drugs)
• Anemia (low levels of iron or vitamin B12 in the blood result in anemia; a blood test can verify this diagnosis)
• Candidiasis (often misdiagnosed as CFS in women)
• Cardiovascular causes (if breathless-ness and/or chest pain on exertion accompanies fatigue, the heart may be involved)
• Chronic ill-health (many chronic diseases have fatigue as a symptom)
• Depression
• Diabetes
• Headaches
• Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar)
• Obesity
• Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) (the connection will be obvious if fatigue occurs at the same time in the monthly cycle)
• Sleep disturbance or inadequate
• Stress
A number of the causes listed above are also symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome. This highlights the circularity of symptoms and illness. Depression is both a symptom and a cause of fatigue, as are headaches, candidiasis, PMS, poor stress-coping skills, and sleep disorders. The presence of these factors can produce a downward spiral of illness and it becomes difficult to tell which came first, the fatigue or the other exhibited symptoms.
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Friday, July 28, 2006
Liver cleansing
Liver cleansing
Did you clean your liver already once? No. Why not? To understand why a liver cleaning is so important, should we the function and the structure of the liver once more exactly look at itself.
The tasks of the liver
The liver
produced over 95% of the blood proteins.
steers the blood sugar content by up and dismantling of glucose (sugar).
regulates the fat metabolism (e.g. Cholesterol)
iron stores
produces the Galle
detoxify the body-own and body-strange material
The above list shows only one excerpt of the most important functions. Altogether the liver is anyhow the most important metabolic organ, i.e. different materials are diminished so over, or that the body can use them. Therefore the liver keeps the blood from the intestine, filled with nutrients, direct. However not only good, but also harmful materials (environmental poisons, preservatives, etc.) with the nutrient-rich blood come into the liver.
The good converted materials are fed over the Vein into the body. The harmful materials are delivered directly over the Gallbladder juice into the intestine, where they are separated with the chair course from the body. The liver is thus also a filter for the nutrient-rich blood. In addition the body in addition, own must “e.g. used” materials like hormones loose will and this happen similarly over the Gallbladder juice of the liver.
The Gallbladder juice serves for however now not only to the decontamination, but also fat digesting in the intestine. The Galle provides for cutting up the fats in our food, so that they can be taken up at all only. The Galle is necessary thus also for the absorption of the fat-soluble Vitamins A, D, E and K.
This Gallbladder juice is formed for large liver small cloths (functional units of the liver) into the 1-2mm. From finest courses, which unite to ever larger, develops a kind tree, whose branches between these liver small cloths begin and become a trunk, which lies outside of the liver and to which Gallbladder way corresponds.
Because of this large Gallbladder way then the Gallbladder is as memory organ. It has the task to collect and deliver if necessary to the intestine the Gallbladder juice, so that we can digest also larger quantities of grease.During the cleaning it concerns to the liver the cleaning of these entire tree-like Gallbladder ways described here!Approx. 25% of all humans over 60 years have visible Gallstones in the Gallbladder or the large Gallbladder way in the ultrasonic.
Here however only the large stones, the so-called Galle gries become visible remain undiscovered.With healthy humans daily approx. 1 liter of Galle flows off by the Gallbladder ways from the liver. The today's civilization human being however has already so clogged Gallbladder ways that often only less than half can flow off. Because already in recent years the liver must eliminate so many Toxins over the Galle that the composition of the Gallbladder juice changes in such a way that Galle gris and Gallstones form.
Particularly the so fine Galle gries already clogs the smallest ways in the liver and obstructs so the discharge. One can compare this with a hose, in which pebbles lie. Since this Galle gries extracts itself however from the modern diagnostics with ultrasonic and Roentgen, he remains also often unconsidered. The fact that however so a handicap in the discharge of the Gallbladder juice has health consequences is clear with the tasks specified above probably everyone. Therefore each humans should pay attention to keep its Gallbladder ways free.
The liver cleaning specified here offers a simple and safe possibility of making the Gallbladder ways free.Note: If you suffered already from Gallstones or to know that large Gallstones is in the courses, it should accomplish you this cleaning only under professional supervision. Because these stones will separate and could lead then to the complete catch. Please you hold always only for consultation with your physician.
Did you clean your liver already once? No. Why not? To understand why a liver cleaning is so important, should we the function and the structure of the liver once more exactly look at itself.
The tasks of the liver
The liver
produced over 95% of the blood proteins.
steers the blood sugar content by up and dismantling of glucose (sugar).
regulates the fat metabolism (e.g. Cholesterol)
iron stores
produces the Galle
detoxify the body-own and body-strange material
The above list shows only one excerpt of the most important functions. Altogether the liver is anyhow the most important metabolic organ, i.e. different materials are diminished so over, or that the body can use them. Therefore the liver keeps the blood from the intestine, filled with nutrients, direct. However not only good, but also harmful materials (environmental poisons, preservatives, etc.) with the nutrient-rich blood come into the liver.
The good converted materials are fed over the Vein into the body. The harmful materials are delivered directly over the Gallbladder juice into the intestine, where they are separated with the chair course from the body. The liver is thus also a filter for the nutrient-rich blood. In addition the body in addition, own must “e.g. used” materials like hormones loose will and this happen similarly over the Gallbladder juice of the liver.
The Gallbladder juice serves for however now not only to the decontamination, but also fat digesting in the intestine. The Galle provides for cutting up the fats in our food, so that they can be taken up at all only. The Galle is necessary thus also for the absorption of the fat-soluble Vitamins A, D, E and K.
This Gallbladder juice is formed for large liver small cloths (functional units of the liver) into the 1-2mm. From finest courses, which unite to ever larger, develops a kind tree, whose branches between these liver small cloths begin and become a trunk, which lies outside of the liver and to which Gallbladder way corresponds.
Because of this large Gallbladder way then the Gallbladder is as memory organ. It has the task to collect and deliver if necessary to the intestine the Gallbladder juice, so that we can digest also larger quantities of grease.During the cleaning it concerns to the liver the cleaning of these entire tree-like Gallbladder ways described here!Approx. 25% of all humans over 60 years have visible Gallstones in the Gallbladder or the large Gallbladder way in the ultrasonic.
Here however only the large stones, the so-called Galle gries become visible remain undiscovered.With healthy humans daily approx. 1 liter of Galle flows off by the Gallbladder ways from the liver. The today's civilization human being however has already so clogged Gallbladder ways that often only less than half can flow off. Because already in recent years the liver must eliminate so many Toxins over the Galle that the composition of the Gallbladder juice changes in such a way that Galle gris and Gallstones form.
Particularly the so fine Galle gries already clogs the smallest ways in the liver and obstructs so the discharge. One can compare this with a hose, in which pebbles lie. Since this Galle gries extracts itself however from the modern diagnostics with ultrasonic and Roentgen, he remains also often unconsidered. The fact that however so a handicap in the discharge of the Gallbladder juice has health consequences is clear with the tasks specified above probably everyone. Therefore each humans should pay attention to keep its Gallbladder ways free.
The liver cleaning specified here offers a simple and safe possibility of making the Gallbladder ways free.Note: If you suffered already from Gallstones or to know that large Gallstones is in the courses, it should accomplish you this cleaning only under professional supervision. Because these stones will separate and could lead then to the complete catch. Please you hold always only for consultation with your physician.
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Friday, July 21, 2006
Breast-Feeding Eases Baby's Pain During Tests
WEDNESDAY, July 19 (HealthDay News) -- Breast-feeding can ease the pain experienced by newborns during routine heel-prick or needle-stick blood tests, Canadian researchers report.
The researchers analyzed data from more than 1,000 newborns in 11 studies that compared the effectiveness of breast-feeding and breast milk to sugar water or a pacifier in easing the discomfort experienced while the blood samples were taken from infants.
"The babies who were breast-fed experienced less pain, compared to not giving anything, or just swaddling them or a placebo of sterile water," lead reviewer Prakeshkumar Shah, a neonatologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, said in a prepared statement.
Breast-feeding and sugar water were about equally effective in reducing pain.
The reviewers said it's unclear how breast-feeding may help reduce the pain, although a number of factors -- the mother's comforting presence; skin-to-skin contact; diversion of the baby's attention; and the sweetness of breast milk -- probably play a role.
The use of any kind of pain relief for this procedure varies from hospital to hospital, Shah noted. Some health workers and parents don't believe that the procedure causes enough pain to require pain relief.
The review findings also suggest that breast-feeding may offer a natural method of pain relief for premature babies, who often have to undergo many painful procedures, Shah said.
"Right now, quite a lot of hospitals have adopted the practice of giving sugar water to those babies for analgesia. But we don't know what happens to them long term by exposing them to high concentrations of sugar," Shah said.
"I think more research is needed on the effectiveness of breast-feeding and breast milk for those babies," he said. "What we are proposing in this review is to do further research on those sick babies that are admitted to the (neonatal intensive care) unit who are exposed to multiple painful procedures."
The findings are published in the current issue of The Cochrane Library.
More information
The U.S. National Library of Medicine has more about newborn screening tests.
Last reviewed: 07/19/2006 Last updated: 07/19/2006
The researchers analyzed data from more than 1,000 newborns in 11 studies that compared the effectiveness of breast-feeding and breast milk to sugar water or a pacifier in easing the discomfort experienced while the blood samples were taken from infants.
"The babies who were breast-fed experienced less pain, compared to not giving anything, or just swaddling them or a placebo of sterile water," lead reviewer Prakeshkumar Shah, a neonatologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, said in a prepared statement.
Breast-feeding and sugar water were about equally effective in reducing pain.
The reviewers said it's unclear how breast-feeding may help reduce the pain, although a number of factors -- the mother's comforting presence; skin-to-skin contact; diversion of the baby's attention; and the sweetness of breast milk -- probably play a role.
The use of any kind of pain relief for this procedure varies from hospital to hospital, Shah noted. Some health workers and parents don't believe that the procedure causes enough pain to require pain relief.
The review findings also suggest that breast-feeding may offer a natural method of pain relief for premature babies, who often have to undergo many painful procedures, Shah said.
"Right now, quite a lot of hospitals have adopted the practice of giving sugar water to those babies for analgesia. But we don't know what happens to them long term by exposing them to high concentrations of sugar," Shah said.
"I think more research is needed on the effectiveness of breast-feeding and breast milk for those babies," he said. "What we are proposing in this review is to do further research on those sick babies that are admitted to the (neonatal intensive care) unit who are exposed to multiple painful procedures."
The findings are published in the current issue of The Cochrane Library.
More information
The U.S. National Library of Medicine has more about newborn screening tests.
Last reviewed: 07/19/2006 Last updated: 07/19/2006
Friday, May 26, 2006
Combating Cravings?
Combating Cravings?
Provided by: DrWeil.com
Q: I've been able to give up meat, dairy, even smoking cigarettes, but sugar is the one that gets away. What can I do to curb my cravings? Why do some people have a sweet tooth and others don't? -- Connie
A: I don't know why some people have a sweet tooth while others can resist sugary snacks. Part of the problem may be that sweets are often given to us as treats when we're young, developing our taste for sugar and associating sweets with rewards. In some people, sugar has an effect on mood, which is another factor that may underlie cravings. Eating sweets can increase levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin, which can help you relax, suggesting that some cravings are stress-related. In fact, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, reported in 2003 that chronic stress may explain why some people crave comfort foods. In studies with rats, the researchers found that chronic stress prompted the animals to engage in pleasure-seeking activities, including eating high-energy foods (in the rats' case, sucrose and lard). The study was published in the Sept. 30, 2003 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
You can try a number of different strategies to try to overcome your sugar craving:
Try to satisfy your cravings with fruits that falls low on the glycemic index (berries, cherries, apples, pears), which are healthier than other sources of sugar and give you the added benefit of fiber.
Experiment with the Chinese strategy of eating more bitter foods to balance your craving for sweets (curly endive, radicchio, cooked greens, some olives, etc.)
Try the Ayurvedic herb gurmar (Gymnema sylvestre). Known as the "destroyer of sugar" gurmar is reputed to slow both the absorption of sugar into the blood stream and the conversion of sugar into fat. It also may help curb your appetite for sweets.
Working with a hypnotherapist in an effort to reduce your sugar cravings might be helpful.
Practice breathing techniques, progressive relaxation and exercise as a means of reducing the chronic stress that may underlie your cravings.
Andrew Weil, M.D. –
Author of:
Provided by: DrWeil.com
Q: I've been able to give up meat, dairy, even smoking cigarettes, but sugar is the one that gets away. What can I do to curb my cravings? Why do some people have a sweet tooth and others don't? -- Connie
A: I don't know why some people have a sweet tooth while others can resist sugary snacks. Part of the problem may be that sweets are often given to us as treats when we're young, developing our taste for sugar and associating sweets with rewards. In some people, sugar has an effect on mood, which is another factor that may underlie cravings. Eating sweets can increase levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin, which can help you relax, suggesting that some cravings are stress-related. In fact, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, reported in 2003 that chronic stress may explain why some people crave comfort foods. In studies with rats, the researchers found that chronic stress prompted the animals to engage in pleasure-seeking activities, including eating high-energy foods (in the rats' case, sucrose and lard). The study was published in the Sept. 30, 2003 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
You can try a number of different strategies to try to overcome your sugar craving:
Try to satisfy your cravings with fruits that falls low on the glycemic index (berries, cherries, apples, pears), which are healthier than other sources of sugar and give you the added benefit of fiber.
Experiment with the Chinese strategy of eating more bitter foods to balance your craving for sweets (curly endive, radicchio, cooked greens, some olives, etc.)
Try the Ayurvedic herb gurmar (Gymnema sylvestre). Known as the "destroyer of sugar" gurmar is reputed to slow both the absorption of sugar into the blood stream and the conversion of sugar into fat. It also may help curb your appetite for sweets.
Working with a hypnotherapist in an effort to reduce your sugar cravings might be helpful.
Practice breathing techniques, progressive relaxation and exercise as a means of reducing the chronic stress that may underlie your cravings.
Andrew Weil, M.D. –
Author of:
- Eight Weeks to Optimum Health
- Spontaneous Healing
- The Natural Mind
- The Marriage of the Sun and Moon
- Health and Healing
- Natural Health, Natural Medicine
- From Chocolate to Morphine (with Winifred Rosen)
Saturday, April 01, 2006
Benefits of EDTA Chelation Therapy in Arteriosclerosis
Journal of Advancement in MedicineVolume 6, Number 3, Fall 1993Benefits of EDTA Chelation Therapy in Arteriosclerosis:A Retrospective Study of 470 Patients. Hancke, Md, and K. Flytlie, MD
ABSTRACT: In a retrospective study we report results of EDTA chelation in 470 patients, using a number of parameters, most of them objective. Although the patients acted as their own controls, we observed improvements of 80 to 91%, depending upon the measurements used.
Of 92 patients referred for surgical intervention, only 10 required ultimate surgery after or during their chelation therapy, thus saving an estimated 3 million dollars of insurance money.
Our experience covers a period of 6 years and we saw no severe side-effects or casualties arising from the treatment. We conclude that EDTA chelation therapy is safe, effective and cost-saving.
Introduction
Intravenous administration of ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA) has been used from the beginning of the 1950s by an increasing number of physicians throughout the world for the treatment of arteriosclerosis. In the last few years, there has been increasing criticism of surgical intervention in this disease, since it fails to prolong life, and is a temporary solution in treating a generalized, chronic condition (1).
In addition, surgery damages vital tissue by means of reperfusion-released free-radical bursts (2,3). Evidence for effectiveness of EDTA chelation therapy is cumulative over many years (4-9), and the recent association of iron in the etiology of cardiovascular disease (10) makes the technique worthy of complete acceptance today.
It has been proved effective in a number of clinical trials (11-16). The impact of oxidative processes on age-related illness is a relatively new science, which began in the late fifties. The impact of oxygen derived free radicals on the occurrence of reperfusion damage is well documented (2-5,8,9). That the method is ignored here in Denmark may be due to lack of understanding of the importance of these processes.
Another possible explanation may be the harsh attitude of the Danish vascular surgeons from the first introduction of chelation therapy in Denmark in 1987. A study of 153 patients with claudication was published in three different journals in 1991 and 1992 (17-19). This study, which is seriously defective, has been publicly opposed (20,21). It is the only existing study that did not show a significant benefit from EDTA therapy. The results were better in the treatment group, but the effect was reportedly not statistically significant.
Claus Hancke M.D. received his medical education at the University of Copenhagen. He is general practice and is president of the Danish Chelation Doctors. He is an ABCT diplomate.
Knut Flytlie M.D. received his medical education at the University of Gutenberg, Germany. He is in general practice and operates a clinic for Preventive Medicine and Chelation. He is an ABCT diplomate.
Address correspondence to Claus Kancke, M.D., Lyngby Hovedgade 17.1. DK – 2800 – LYNGBY, Denmark.© 1993 Human Sciences Press, Inc.
MATERIALS and METHODS
This study included 470 patients with claudication and/or angina pectoris, who received at least 15 women and 311 men. Of these, 206 were older than 69 years, 92 between 65 and 69, 90 between 60 and 64, and 82 under 60 years. Diagnosis was verified by systolic ankle-arm blood pressure index (Doppler technique), and by stress test on a treadmill. All were interviewed and examined by a physician before and after treatment.
METHOD
All patients were given I.V. infusions of 500 ml sterile water with Na2
EDTA, 50 mg/Kg (Maximum 3 grams) and the infusion included Vitamin C, sodium bicarbonate and magnesium as prescribed in the protocol of the American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM) (22).
In addition, the patients were provided with an oral high dose vitamin/mineral supplementation without iron and copper, 6 tablets a day. Before treatment, a determination was made of blood hemoglobin, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, fasting blood glucose, creatinine, creatinine clearance, total and HDL cholesterol, triglycerides, leucocytes, uric acid, sodium and potassium.
All patients were counseled by both verbal and written communication on the importance of physical exercise, proper nutrition and omitting tobacco.
Treatments were administered on an out-patient basis and continued until the patients had a stable clinical situation. This usually required 30 treatments of 3-4 hours duration over a period of 3-4 months. Final assessment was made on completion of treatment and again 2 months later when complete physical examination was repeated.
Patient with claudication had their ankle-arm index, walking distance, foot temperature, pain at rest, skin color of feet and healing of wounds assessed and registered. Subjective judgement of resting pain was rated on a scale from 1-3. Patients with angina pectoris had their working capacity measured on a treadmill, and ST depression by electrocardiogram. Any arrhythmias, blood pressure, body weight and kidney function were noted.
The subjective judgement of results was rated on a scale from 1 to 3 with regard to the number of attacks of angina pectoris and consumption of nitroglycerin (1: worse, 2: unchanged = 10%, and 3: improved). Medications, general state of health, energy level, smoking habits, hearing, visual sense and presence or absence of “dizziness” were recorded.
RESULTS
Results of the 470 patients completing treatment are shown in Tables 1 through 5. Table 1 shows the sex distribution and results in 265 patients with myocardial ischemia. Of these, 101 over the ages of 69 were improved, 6 were the same and one was worse. Of those between 60 and 69 years, 93 were better, 9, unchanged and 1 was worse. Below the age of 60, 47 were better, 7 unchanged and none were worse. The two patients who were worse were the only ones with angina pectoris who received less than 31 treatments.
In the group with claudification, including 262 patients, we found an improvement in 82%, distributed according to age and sex as shown in Table 2. Table 3 shows the ankle/arm ratios which were improved in 82%. Walking distance, which includes both claudification and myocardial ischemia patients, was improved in 87% of the patients.
Figure 1 shows the numbers of patients threatened with amputation or coronary by-pass surgery before and after EDTA chelation therapy. Several of the patients in the claudification group started treatment very late in the course of the illness. Of 44 who had problems with wound healing, 31 improved, 11 were unchanged and 2 became worse. Of 137 who complained of cold feet, 110 improved, 27 were unchanged and none became worse (Table 3)
In the group with angina pectoris, many were so severely disabled that they had been refused bypass surgery, and no other medical treatment was offered. As shown in Table 4, of 253 patients with electrocardiographic S-T depression, 175 showed improvement, 74 were unchanged and 4 had increased S-T depression. The average blood pressure decreased in 109 patients, 37 were unchanged and one had a higher blood pressure. Working capacity was assessed in both myocardial ischemia and claudication patients. This was measured in Joules by computerized ergometry. Of 318 patients undergoing this study, 271 showed improvement (85%).
TABLE I
This Shows Results of Treatment of 265 Patients with Myocardial Ischemia. Of 65 Patients Referred for Bypass Surgery, 58 did not Require if After Their Course of Chelation.
Worse
Same
Better
% Improved
Sex of Patient:FemaleMale
-2
715
69172
91%90%
Age-groups of patients:Over 69 years65-69 years60-64 yearsUnder 60 years
1-1-
6457
101484547
93%92%86%87%
Referred to:Before ChelationBy-PassDilatationAfter ChelationBy-PassDilatation
1-1-
7151
57212
85%67%0%67%
No. of Treatments:Less than 3131-3536-4041-50More than 50
2----
1631-2
1444020307
88%93%95%100%78%
Of 207 patients using nitroglycerine, 189 reduced their consumption. Most of them were able to discontinue its use altogether. However, 16 continued with the same dose as before and 2 had to increase their dose.
No morbidity or serious side effects directly due to the treatment were reported in the clinics from 1987 to 1993. Table 5 shows the benefits in other parameters as well as it shows difficulty in handling the problems of smoking and excess body weight. Fortunately, only 147 of the 470 were smokers initially and 86 of them continued to smoke during the treatment
TABLE 2
This Shows Results of Treatment of 262 Patients with Intermittent Claudication. Of the Patients Referred for Amputation, 24 of 27 Legs were Spared Following Their Course.
Worse
Same
Better
% Improved
Sex of Patient:FemaleMale
21
1824
76140
77%84%
Age-groups of patients:Over 69 years65-69 years60-64 yearsUnder 60 years
21--
21984
105443929
80%80%83%88%
Referred to:Before ChelationBy-PassDilatationAfter ChelationBy-PassDilatation
---1
221-
72522
78%92%67%0%
No. of Treatments:Less than 3131-3536-4041-50More than 50
3----
384---
12533252410
73%89%100%100%100%
FIGURE 1
This provides a graphic representation of the data shown in Tables 1 and 2. The first column represents the number of patients referred for surgery. The second column shows the number that required surgery after completing chelation.
TABLE 3
This is Primarily to Show Results in the 262 Patients with Intermittent Claudication. However, "Walking Distance" Includes some Patients with Angina
Worse
Same
Better
% Improved
Ankle/Arm BP Ratios
3
42
217
82%
Wound-healing
2
11
31
66%
Rest-pain
1
15
87
83%
Foot-temperature
-
27
110
80%
Skincolour of feet
1
19
64
75%
Walking Distance
3
33
72
87%
FIGURE 2
Claudication. This is a graphic presentation of the same data as revealed in Table 3.
TABLE 4
Working Capacity, Tested by Computerized Ergometry, Refers to both Patients with Angina and Intermittent Claudication who were Tested by this Method. The Rest of the Table Refers to Those with Coronary Heart Disease.
Worse
Same
Better
% Improved
ST-Depression
4
74
175
69%
Arrhythmia
-
24
39
62%
Blood Pressure (mean)
1
37
109
73%
Angina Pectoris
2
22
241
91%
Nitroglycerin Demand
2
16
189
91%
Working Capacity (objective)
4
43
271
85%
FIGURE 3
Myocardial. This is a graphic presentation of the same data as revealed in Table 4.
TABLE 5
This Shows the Results of Evaluating Subjective Symptomatology in the Entire Group of 470 Patients. Renal Function was Judged by Creatinine Clearance.
Worse
Same
Better
% Improved
General Wellbeing
4
41
371
88%
Working Capacity (subjective)
6
42
363
87%
Energy/Initiative
7
38
319
86%
Vertigo
4
13
71
76%
Memory
2
19
48
67%
Medicine Consumption
5
98
212
66%
Hearing
2
60
121
65%
Visual Sense
5
22
54
60%
Renal Function
8
83
100
48%
Smoking Habit
2
84
61
40%
Overweight
13
107
36
15%
Subjective improvement in coldness of feet, increased energy and work capacity, together with striking improvement in general condition were noted by most patients. Several of the male patients reported improved sexual potency, improved sight and hearing, and symptoms like migraine and tinnitus disappeared as an unexpected bonus for many patients.
Although a placebo effect could not be ruled out, of course, the degree of improvement was remarkable and exceeds our previous experience with similar patients. Of 65 patients who referred for coronary by-pass surgery, 58 did not require it after chelation therapy. Of 27 patients awaiting amputation as the only surgical offer of treatment, 24 avoided surgery.
Discussion
In our view, the beneficial results were far excess of the 10-15% improvement that is usually seen in the placebo group of a controlled study. Some patients with claudication who were unable to walk more than 100 feet could walk painlessly for 2 miles or ride several miles on a bicycle after their treatment.
We found convincing evidence that EDTA infusion therapy is effective in treating arteriosclerosis. Our results are identical with those of other similar studies (12-16). Although the study registration was done in two sections, one in March 1991, and one in April 1993, the results are the same. It is evident that results are reproducible from patient to patient, from clinic to clinic and internationally.
Such results have led to a worldwide increase in interest in chelation therapy in medical circles familiar with the theoretical principles of oxygen derived free radical pathology. This interest has resulted in an increased scientific effort by a number of investigators (4,12-16,23-26)
On the basis of such well published data, it seems to us that it is unethical to wait for a randomized, double blind, cross-over study to approve EDTA chelation for the treatment of arteriosclerosis, though we admit that such a FDA approved study would set the seal on this therapy if it were to be as successful as we believe it would be, based on our results and those already published.
Since there is massive evidence that the spontaneous development of arteriosclerosis is the number one killer disease in the Western World, there is every reason to hasten to increase our efforts to bring this important therapy into mainstream medicine as soon as possible.
Conclusion
In spite of the weakness and possibility of bias in a retrospective study without a control group, the historical record for treatment of this disease is poor. We find it difficult not to conclude that EDTA chelation therapy is a safe, effective and cost-saving method of improving angina pectoris and intermittent claudication. We urge a massive and concerted effort to study the method further.
Acknowledgement
We wish to express our gratitude for statistical support from A&F Research, Denmark.
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Monday, February 06, 2006
DO NOT BE DECEIVED! AIDS AND CANCER ARE CURABLE!
Dr. George Freibott, ND, MD
Friends, pay attention to the following: If you are deceived into believing that there is no cure for AIDS or cancer and are suffering from or have loved ones who are suffering from these dreaded diseases, the following may be of extreme help in reducing or even arresting suffering. Check out the following extracts. These are not, I repeat NOT, from any unrecognized sources or journals but from highly-respected individuals and institutions!
The Government with the FDA, AMA and even the press, is being negligent of the welfare of our fellow human beings. Do not fall prey to their negligence and the lack of recognition of their own data! Rise up from the doldrums of apathy and unbelief! Our ignorance and lack of heed to the laws of Mother Nature and our personal insensitivity has caused these problems. Demand utilization now of these scientifically, time-tested, safe, non-toxic, harmless and lifesaving compounds. Demand this from your Government officials, health and welfare and welfare institutions, doctors, colleges of research and the press, now.
Check out the extracts below. The following dictation is from BLOOD, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology, Vol. 78, No.7, October 1, 1991: "Inactivation of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 by Ozone in Vitro" By Keith H. Wells, Joseph Latino, Jerrie Gavalchin, and Bernard J. Polesz. "A device was designed to deliver a constant source of given concentration of ozone fluids containing Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1). Ozone was found to inactivate HIV-1 in a dose-dependent manner. Greater than 11 log inactivation was achieved within 2 hours at a concentration of 1,200 ppm ozone. Similar concentrations of ozone had minimal effect on factor VIII activity in both plasma and immunoaffinity-purified preparations of factor VIII treated for the same time period.
The data indicate that the antiviral effects of ozone include viral particle disruption, reverse transcriptase inactivation, and/or a perturbation of the ability of the virus to bind to its receptor on target cells. Ozone treatment offers promise as a means to inactivate human retroviruses in human body fluids and blood product preparations." Copyright 1991 by the American Society of Hematology. The following dictation is from the respected scientific journal SCIENCE, Vol. 209, August 22, 1980: "Ozone Selectively Inhibits Growth of Human Cancer Cells" Abstract: "The growth of human cancer cells from lung, breast, and uterine tumors was selectively inhibited in a dose-dependent manner by ozone at 0.3 to 0.8 part per million of ozone in ambient air during 8 days of culture. Human lung diploid fibro-blasts serve as non-cancerous control cells.
The presence of ozone at 0.3 to 0.5 part per million inhibited cancer cells' growth 40 and 60 percent, respectively. The non-cancerous lung cells were unaffected at these levels. Exposure to ozone at 0.8 part per million inhibited cancer cells' growth more than 90 percent and control cell growth less than 50 percent. Evidently, the mechanisms for defense against ozone damage are impaired in human cancer cells."
THE HISTORY OF MEDICAL OZONE IN THE TREATMENT OF AIDS
Dr. John Pittman MD
The following is a summation of exciting occurances in the field of innovative medicine, and particularly in the treatment of AIDS, due to its powerful oxidizing effect. Ozone is an energized form of oxygen with extra electrons present, which spontaneously disperse from the molecule as soon as they are produced.
Ozone blasts holes through the membranes of viruses, bacteria, yeast and abnormal tissue cells. One of the early uses of ozone was in America in the 1930's, when it was found to be effective in treating various types of inflammatory bowel disorders, such as ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease and chronic bacterial diarrhea. In this procedure, ozone gas is delivered into the rectum through a catheter tip, where it is absorbed through the lining of the colon.
German researchers have been leaders in the development of ozone technology. In the Fifties, they developed a technique for treating blood with ozone called 'major autohemotherapy.' In this procedure, about 300 cc's of blood is taken from a vein into a vacuum bottle. Ozone is then bubbled through the blood, after which the blood is reinfused. In this procedure, ozone destroys any virus particles in the blood. It is also absorbed into the plasma and after reinfusion, disperses throughout the body.
Another technique for using ozone is direct infusion, in which the ozone gas is injected directly into the vein. This has the advantage of being more precise in terms of dosage delivered, as well as allowing administration of higher concentrations.
Other techniques include direct application to the skin through the use of ozone water baths and steam cabinets.
Through dilligent research, the Germans were abel to determine that ozone was incredibly effective in destroying such infections as hepatitis, Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, cytomegalovirus and HIV. With the realization that HIV was susceptible to ozone, the Germans began using the autohemotherapy technique to treat AIDS patients as soon as this was a recognized disease.
There have been numerous anecdotes about the German's success with ozone, and many physicians in this country have been using it with great success. Until recently, neither the government institutions nor private corporations have sponsored any rigid clinical ozone studies. There appears to be a built-in bias against the development of therapies such as ozone, because it is a non-patentable gas. Our pharmaceutical industry has developed based on the ability to patent synthetic drugs that can be sold at a profit, and thus recoup the initial investment expense. This has resulted in a system which supports drug development by this method and has discouraged the development of simple, inexpensive or non-patentable substances. Nevertheless, numerous physicians have used ozone successfully, risking sanctions by federal and state authorities, as this is not a FDA approved treatment.
In 1986 a company was formed with the purpose of developing ozone technology for medical use in the treatment of HIV infection. This company, named Medizone Inc. was formed by Terrance McGrath. Mr. McGrath founded Medizone with the purpose of declaring ozone as a drug, and proceeding with the development of this drug just as any other pharmaceutical company. He assembled a research team of experts in hematology and the biochemistry of oxidative substances, and began to go through the laborious process that the FDA requires for a new drug development.
One of the factors the FDA would require in the development of any new drug was the ability to deliver a precise quantity at a given concentration. In this case, it would be necessary to know the exact amount of ozone being produced by the machine as well as that being absorbed by the blood in order to determine the proper dosage. Mr. McGrath's research team developed a device to deliver ozone through a thin filter membrane to blood that has been drawn from the body. This allows a precise regulation of the quality of ozone being delivered and absorbed by the blood.
Upon development of this patented device, Medizone was able to sell stock to raise money for the laboratory studies and animal toxicity trials that were necessary before FDA would give approval for human studies with ozone. They have cooperated with the FDA and have produced very good research data which has been published in peer review journals.
The most recent data was found in the article 'Blood, The Journal of Hematology' in October of 1991. It was a report on a study done in Syracuse, New York, which proved that ozone will inactivate HIV in vitro (in the laboratory, outside the body.) In this case, blood that was infected with the virus was treated by ozone using Medizone's device and then was studied afterward for any trace of viral particles.
Following the publication of this research, it was expected that the FDA would grant Medizone approval to begin Phase 1 of human clinical trials. However, the FDA came back to Medizone with the requirement that they conduct large animal toxicity studies using an animal with blood volume comparable to that of humans in order to determine if there is any toxic effect. The study that has been developed will use large pigs, will cost a considerable amount of money, and will add more time to the procedure for approval. At the time ot this writing, Medizone still intends to move forward with this study while attempting to receive early approval for a human trial.
The government has become more receptive to the idea of innovative medicine by establishing the Office of Alternative Medicine at the National Institute of Health. Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa has been instrumental in establishing this office. The Senator has family members who have experienced the improvements using natural and alternative therapies, thus he has been a valuable proponent of these treatments.
Through the action of Senator Harkin, other members of Congress, and public pressure, the Senate Appropriations Committee set aside two million dollars for the establishment of this office in February of 1992. They have yet to look at ozone.
I am very excited to announce that we have opened the North Carolina Bio-Oxidative Health Center in August 1004. We are located in the Blue Ridge Plaza, a medical office building near Rex Hospital in Raleigh, NC. This center is the outgrowth of several projects in which I have been involved over the past five years as part of my ongoing research of ozone and detoxification therapies in the treatment of immune system disorders.
I voluntarily closed my office in Raleigh in 1992 to comply with an order from the NC Board of Medical Examiners that I cease using ozone in my medical practice because it was considered non-conventional and was not in common usage by other doctors within the state. Since then, through the actions of many individuals and patients' rights groups, the law has been changed so that a physician cannot have his license revoked for using experimental or non-conventional therapies.
North Carolina is now the fifth state in the country with a freedom of medicine law which allows physicians to choose those therapies they feel will benefit their patients the most and gives the patients the ability to choose the kind of medical care they feel is best for them.
IMMUNIZATION AND OZONE - Saul Pressman
It was the work of Louis Pasteur, Edward Jenner, Rudolph Virchow, Robert Koch, Paul Ehrlich and Emil von Behring that brought about the theory of wide-spread immunization, based upon the idea of producing antibodies in th blood to 'help out' the body's immune system to identify and attack 'invading germs.' Through the work of Antoine Bechamp, William F. Koch, Royal Rife, Gunther Enderlein, Carl Edward Rosenow, Otto Warburg and Gaston Naessens, the original assumptions underlying this theory regarding the body's immune system have now been shown to be erroneous.
The so-called 'bad' bacteria and viruses that modern medicine fights with its huge arsenal of pharmaceutical drugs are in reality the germs of life. These germs of life live in symbiosis with the nutritive medium that constitutes our body, allowing it to be built up and later decomposed, to be metamorphosed and recreated. These germs are pleomorphic shapeshifters who are controlled by the medium in which they live. Germs are not something separate, isolated, unfriendly and coming from without, but are rather the foundation for all life. Without germs, there is no life. Their number is infinite. Their function is varied. Germs can change shape, join together, separate again and return to their primordial condition. Viruse, bacteria and fungi are various developmental forms of germs. The nutritive medium on which the germs thrive determines the type of development they will undergo.
Early in this century, Dr. Carl Edward Rosenow of the Mayo Biological Laboratories began a series of experiments in which he took distinctive bacterial strains from a number of disease sources and placed them in one culture of uniform media. In time, the distinctive strains all changed and became one uniform class. By repeatedly changing cultures, he could individually modify bacterial strains, making harmless ones 'pathogenic,' and in turn reverse the process. He concluded that the critical factor controlling the nature of the bacteria was the food and environment they lived on. These discoveries were first published in 1914 in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Rosenow's work was corroborated and expanded upon about two decades later by Royal R. Rife, developer of the Universal Microscope, with a resolution of 150,000 power. This precision instrument made live bacteria and viruses visible.
Rife showed that by altering the environment and food supply, friendly bacteria, such as colon bacillus, could be converted into the 'pathogenic' bacteria known as typhoid. Rife was able to observe that the viral agent associated with certain forms of cancer could in time be modified into harmless bacillus coli, and the process reversed. Rife stated that it was the unbalanced cell metabolism of the human body that in actuality produced the disease. He believed that if the human body was perfectly balanced, it was susceptible to no disease.
This work closely paralleled Alexis Carrel's earlier research at the Rockefeller Institute where he was able to control the rates and levels of infenctious disease mortality among mice by altering the diet. Researcher Rene Dubos reaffirmed these findings and suggested that virulence is an ecological problem: that is a problem of the state of internal cleanliness.
It is known that children who cannot produce antibodies in their blood (agmmaglobulinemia) nevertheless recover from diseases such as measles and still have long-term immunity. People with no antibodies have been found who are extremely resistant to diseases, while other people have developed diseases to which they already had high levels of antibodies.
Official U.S. military records show that highly immunized personnel manifest a mortality rate from diptheria four times higher than of unvaccinated civilians.
It is now clear that the body needs no 'help' of the sort provided by immunization; that antibodies in the blood stream are not required to protect teh body; and that immunization can cause immune suppression, permanent nervous system damage, and growth stunting. There is also strong evidence that immunization can actually cause the diseases it was meant to prevent. This view has gained support from the writing of a report commissioned by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) from Dr. Raymond Obomsawin in 1992.
In his detailed report, Dr. Obomsawin found that the idea of induced immunity was an illusion founded on: -discredited scientific theories; -the refusal to examine contrary data; -the lack of proper followup assessment of immunized children - and poor statistical methods.
The positive impact of immunization on public health has never, repeat NEVER, been substantiated in any unbiased study. Immunized people have repeatedly fallen ill to the disease they were supposedly vaccinated against, and epidemics are statistically MORE numerous in more widely vaccinated groups (studies in Gambia, Brazil and Taiwan).
Estimates by 'experts' on the degree and severity of adverse reactions have been woefully wrong, and serious damage and even fatalities have gone unreported, preventing a true assessment of the value of immunization.
Repeatedly, statistics and reports have been manipulated in an attempt to show the effectiveness of vaccination. The best known case involves the famous Salk polio vaccine. This massive program is held up as a shining example of the effectiveness of vaccination, yet the statistical evidence shows that polio was on its natural cyclic downturn at the time of introduction of the vaccine in 1956. In one of the rare double blind tests ever done on a vaccine, the group receiving it had 200 cases of polio reported, while the control group had none. Polio disappeared in Europe in the mid-Fifties about the same time as in America, yet there was no program of mass-vaccination there.
Some scientists are now postulating that full vaccination irreparably weakens the child's immune system. These same scientists theorize that mass innoculation is responsible for the widespread escalation of auto-immune, degenerative and allergic conditions amongst those subjected to vaccination as children. A further disturbing trend is the increasing coercion placed upon parents to force them to have their children subjected to this massive invasion of their bodies. The weight of state sanctions against parents is unconscionable, especially when the true dangers of immunization have now been laid bare in this report.
Now that we know that vaccination offers no protection against disease we are left with the question of what disease, how to present it and how to treat it.
The Cause of Disease
The human body is 2/3 water, 10% of it in the blood and 90% in the lymph. It toxins are allowed to build up in the system, the water gets 'dirty.' If the blood pH varies from 7.3 then the beneficial microbes that are necessary in the body begin to change their form, and disease results.
To maintain a clean system, it is necessary to have a proper diet, one that produces a blood pH that is neither too alkaline (bacteria problems) or too acid (cancer problems). And it is necessary to have sufficient oxygen in the system to allow cellular respiration to be efficient and allow complete oxidation, preventing the production of carbon monoxide which the body cannot expel.
Each cell burns sugar (carbohydrates) in oxygen to make its fuel. The carbon-hydrogen bond is cleaved, and the oxygen bonds with the hydrogen, forming H2O (water) and CO2 (carbon dioxide). If there is insufficient oxygen available, CO (carbon monoxide) is formed instead of CO2, excessive lactic acid is formed and the blood is made more acid. If this oxygen deprivation (hypoxia) continues long enough, the cell will no longer be able to sustain the process of oxidation and it will be forced to ferment its sugar anerobically in order to survive. This process turns off the governor on cell replication and therefore wild growth can begin. Ungoverned cell growth is called cancer.
Circulation of clean, oxygen-carrying blood is a basic requirement for optimum health, and this can be achieved by bringing ozone into the body. The least expensive way of ding that would be to live on a mountain far from the cities and breathe deeply - - the recipe for an Eastern master.
Failing that, we can use an ozone generator to create ozone from pure oxygen and bring that into the body in any one of a dozen ways in order to oxidize toxins and oxygenate the cells. Ozone works at the basic level of all important bodily functions - respiration, digestion, assimilation, elimination and immunity. And this is the answer to the question of what we substitute for the worthless and dangerous vaccination programs.
It is imperative that the red blood cells be kept free-floating and unclumped, so that they can carry the proper amount of oxygen. Ingestion of ozone keeps red blood cells from clumping and therefore keeps circulation of the optimum level necessary for good health.
If people were to have reliable and inexpensive ozone generators in their homes, they could purify their water, their air and their bodies. If adequate nutrition and sanitation were maintained, diseases of all types could be prevented. The role of the hospital would be reduced to an extension of the emergency room for accident victims. The role of the pharmaceutical company with its noxious potions woud disappear, and the level of general health would rise to new heights.
INFECTION THEORIES CONTRASTED
GERM THEORY TOXICITY THEORY
1. Disease arises from micro-organisms 1. The suceptibilty to disease arises originating outside the body. from conditions within the cells of the body.
2. Micro-organisms should be guarded 2. Micro-organisms are beneficial and against and destroyed to prevent disease. live-sustaining if the body is kept clean from toxins.
3. The appearance and function of 3. The appearance and function of specific microorganisms is constant. micro- organisms changes when the host organism is unjured, either mechanically, biochemically, or emotionally.
4. Every disease is associated with a 4. Every disease is associated with a particular condition. particular microorganism.
5. Microorganisms are primary causal 5. Microorganisms become associated agents. with disease only when the cells become toxified.
6. Disease is inevitable and can 'strike' 6. Disease arises from conditions of anybody. increased toxicity.
7. To prevent and cure diseases, it is 7. Preventing or curing disease necessary to 'build defenses' and to consists of cleaning toxicity from the body in a way that does no harm.
CONTEMPORARY OZONE APPLICATIONS - Kurt Donsbach
In order to appreciate ozone one must first understand fully the critical role oxygen plays in human life. Oxygen is by far the most important necessity of human life. It performs hundreds of tasks in the body, but the two most important are energy production and detoxification.
The production of energy in the body is accomplished by the combination of glucose with oxygen, producing ATP. The body makes an amount of ATP equivalent to your body weight every 24 hours. If you make 10% less ATP than normal, you will feel tired and sluggish. If ATP production falls too far, you will deteriorate rapidly, and die. Energy is life and the production of energy in the body depends upon oxygen.
The second important function of oxygen is to combine with metabolic waste products to allow their elimination from the body. This process is called the oxidation reduction cycle. When insufficient oxygen is available, the detoxification process slows down, wastes pile up, circulation becomes sluggish, oxygen is prevented from reaching the cells and disease results. Thus, we can see that oxygen is essential to these two vital phases of life.
Since oxygen is the most critical requirement for life, the ingestion of substances teh increase the level of oxygen in the body are the most beneficial to optimum health. The best sources of oxygen are ozone, hydrogen peroxide and magnesium peroxide.
Ozone treatment is safe because healthy cells are surrounded by an enzyme coating, which ozone does not penetrate. Bacteria and viruses have no such coatings and are oxidized on contact by ozone. Ozone also promotes the production of glutathione peroxidase, catalase, reductase and super-oxide dismutase which are the enzymes forming the cell wall coating and therefore cellular immunity is enhanced.
Ozone also has a measurable benefit on the uptake and utilization of oxygen through improved glycolysis in red blood cells, reduction of clumping of red blood cells and the stimulation of mitochndrial respiration. This improved cellular respiration is invaluable in preventing cancer.
Cancer begins when a normal cell cannot get enough oxygen. If the level of oxygen available falls below 40%, in order to survive, the cell will begin to ferment sugar instead of burn it. This process is irreversible, and results in an energy output only 1/6 as great as oxidation. The cell then lacks the energy to manufacture a proper enzyme coating around itself. The governor on cell replication is switched off, and the cell can begin to make copies of itself wildly. This ungoverned cell replication is called cancer.
When ozone is introduced into the area, it immediately attacks the unhealthy cells because they lack a proper enzyme coating. Healthy cells are untouched. If sufficient ozone is administered over time, the tumor will be dissolved.
The applications of medical ozone include performance enhancement, increased longevity, accelerated wound healing, dentistry, heart disease, all infections, treatment of all gastro-enteric diseases, immune stimulation, treatment of all cancers, and gerontology. Ozone also combines well with intravenous chelation therapy which is used to treat arterial disease or heavy metal toxicity. Chelation therapy works quite slowly through a number of infusions, and adding ozone can speed this process up.
Ozone provides an immediate oxygen boost to heart tissue which can noticeably reduce the incidence of angina. It also improves brain function, because the brain uses over 15% of all the oxygen in the body.
Through the development of modern equipment, home usage of ozone therapy has become practical. Rectal and vaginal insufflation, combined with use of a body suit or bag, drinking of ozonated water and breathing ozone bubbled through olive oil, are established protocols for home usage.
The naso-pharyngeal area is often the site of chronic minor infections which become acute in cycles. Chronic sinusitis is probably one of the most common maladies of today. The introduction of ozone into the ear canals can be of great benefit in reducing such chronic infections. At first, just do it for a few minutes.
Another method of getting ozone into the body is with use of a closed, one-person sauna. Since the pores will be open in the moist heat, ozone can be absorbed slowly and safely in large amounts through the skin. This. method prevents the great fatigue of toxic shock sometimes encountered with other methods, because the oxidized toxins are sweated out through the skin rather than being dumped to the liver. This technique is particularly effective for bed sores, ulcers, non-healing wounds and burns.
Medical doctors in Europe have recognized the beneficial effects of ozone for over 80 years. German doctors have developed many different methods of administering ozone. Medical ozone therapy is quite new to Britain and Canada, and only practised by a few doctors. It is even less available in the US due to active persecution by the FDA. But in Germany, over 7000 doctors give ozone therapy daily. The medical use of ozone has an excellent safety record and no toxic side effects have been observed in millions of treatments over nearly 100 years.
The use of ozone for medical therapy is well-established and is being vigorously pursued by many clinicians. As technology develops, new techniques will emerge that will enlarge the scope of the effective use of this healing modality.
MSM - METHYL SULFONYL METHANE - Saul Pressman
MSM is extracted from DMSO by the process of adding another oxygen molecule to it so that it separates the dimethyl solvent from the sulphur. The sulphur left after this process is a biologically active sulphur, and it is the active ingredient in DMSO.
DMSO is a byproduct of the timber industry. At one time Crown Zellerbach attempted to get rid of this 'waste' by spraying it on dirt roads to compact the earth. This caused problems, because animals of every description would come and lick it all up. The deer would lick six inch potholes in the road. Dr. Stanley Jacob of the Oregon Health Sciences University observed this and later identified this substance as DMSO, a healing penetrant that instantly soaks in through the skin and reduces pain. Eventually, Dr. Jacob discovered that the active healing agent in DMSO is MSM.
MSM, the suphur-bearing amino acid, is available to the cell and creates a flexible bond. Cells with insufficient MSM lose their ability to flex. A wrinkle is caused by cells that have lost their ability to flex.
Sulphur has a vital relationship with protein, since sulphur is found in the amino acids methionine, cystine and cysteine. The sulphur-bearing amino acids are absolutely essential to health. Sulphur acts as an activator with all the B Vitamins, thiamin, biotin, Vitamin C and pantothenic acid. Sulphur aids the liver in bile secretion and helps maintain the overall body balance between acidity and alkalinity. Sulphur plays a role in carbohydrate metabolism, which is significant for controlling hypoglycemia and diabetes. The lack of biological sulphur in the body results in low insulin production. Sulphur is a component of insulin, which is secreted by the pancreas for metabolizing carbohydrates. Sulphur keeps hair, nails and skin healthy. In addition, sulphur plays an important part in cell respiration and assimilation. MSM is therefore essential and is thus found in all living organisms.
Medical research has proven that a minimal concentration of MSM is critical to function and structure, and that the concentration drops as time passes, directly contributing to aging. There has been extensive medical testing over the last ten years on the use of MSM in the diet. Some diseases considered irreversible, such as emphysema, have been overcome through use of supplemental MSM. Other diseases treated with excellent results are: pyorrhea, skin burns and scars, exzema, psoriasis, dandruff, loss of hair, PMS, diabetes, hyperactivity, constipation, parasites arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome, candida, chronic fatigue syndrome, Epstein-Barr and low energy. MSM helps with the oxygenation of cells and free radical scavenging, and is thus anti-aging.
MSM occurs in fresh fruit and vegetables, raw milk, wheat grass juice and aloe vera. There is no toxic dose, and the body will excrete un-needed MSM.
Because it helps in the production of methionine, a basic liver enzyme, MSM is very important to proper digestion and assimilation of food. The liver cannot do its job of regulating enzymes and metering sugar and filtering out toxins properly without MSM. It is of little use to increase dosages of vitamins and minerals if they will just be excreted. Daily supplementation with MSM will ensure proper absorption of all nutrients, with the corresponding betterment of health.
METHYLENE BLUE
Methylene blue is a blue dye used for staining tissue samples for viewing under a microscope. It is a methyl donor with the ability to cleave carbon monoxide off from hemoglobin. When the body is poorly oxygenated, the sugar that is burned in oxygen by the cell for energy burns poorly, producing carbon monoxide, instead of carbon dioxide. Monoxide has a great affinity for the iron in hemoglobin, and the hemoglobin is unable to shen it in the lungs, and so must leave without a fesh supply of oxygen. This can produce the condition known as methemoglobin anemia. People over the age of fifty almost always have some methemoglobin in their blood.
Driving in heavy traffic with the vents open can also cause a buildup of carbon monoxide in the blood. In addition, a faulty gas furnace or a smoky fireplace can also cause the ingestion of carbon monoxide.
Carbon monoxide in the system acidifies the blood, irritates the organs and causes a lowering of body temperature, which microbes of all types prefer. The body's way of dealing with bacteria and viruses is to shut off the intake of food and raise the body temperature, which we call a fever, in order to 'burn out the bugs.'
For many years, methylene blue has been used to treat cyanosis, a slight cyanide poisoning sometimes caused by handling blueprints.
By taking methylene blue, 5 drops in a glass of water before bed, we can eliminate carbon monoxide from our blood in a few short weeks. Methylene blue is safe and non-toxic. Its only side effect is to temporarily turn the tongue blue, and to make the urine green. It rarely needs to be repeated mre than once a year.
FLAX OIL & OZONE
The concept of increasing blood levels of oxygen by ozone and hydrogen peroxide therapies has great merit. However, getting an increase of oxygen does not guarantee an increase of oxygen on the cellular level where it is needed most for cancer treatments and other disorders.
An increase in cellular utilization oxygen is achieved by increasing dietary omega 3 oils. (Flax oil is nature's richest source of omega 3 oil containing over 60%.) These omega 3 oils are incorporated into each cell membrane as a building block. There they play the important role of attracting oxygen out of the blood to be utilized by the cell. This effect is a polar attraction. (It is the same reason omega 3 oils are used in fast-drying paints because they attract oxygen.)
Two to three teaspoons of flax oil daily will meet your daily needs. Flax oil naturally contains the free radical scavengers vitamin E and beta carotene which are important factors in any healing process. Flax oil also benefits the cardiovascular system, skin problems and inflammatory conditions such as arthritis and colitis. Flax oil is a wonderful food but should never be cooked. It can be put on potatoes, vegetables and soups in place of butter or on salads as a dressing.
One must avoid margarines, hydrogenated fats, refined vegetables oils as these contain harmful trans-fats which interfere with omega 3 absorption and oxygen utilization.
HYDROGEN PEROXIDE - Walter Grotz
Oxygen is the most abundant element on the surface of the earth. It comprises 45.6% of the earth's crust and 20.95% of dry air. It is the most vital and necessary element for the survival of life. Without oxygen, you can live only a few minutes.
Through his research efforts, Dr. Edward Carl Rosenow (1875 - 1966) worked out the causes of some 35 diseases and was the author of 450 medical papers. Dr. Rosenow develped a technique by which microorganisms in the body could be eliminated or controlled. His basic tenet was that in every body are millions of microorganisms, which adapt to the habitat they are in. He felt that the wastes and secretions of these microorganisms contributed to many degenerative diseases. In this belief, he agreed with the thinking of other medical scientists such as Bechamp, Rife, Enderlein, and Gaston Naessens. Dr. Rosenow experimented with the use of hydrogen peroxide to reduce these microorganisms.
Hydrogen peroxide was first reported by the French chemist Louis-Jacques Thenard in 1818, who named it 'eau oxygene' or oxygen water. It is found in traces in rain and snow (McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 5th Edition, p.747). In 1863 Meissner proved its presence in the rain water collected during thunderstorms and this has since been corroborated by others (Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol x No. 9, March 3, 18880. It gets into our rain and snow from atmosphere ozone decending from above coming into contact with water vapour.
From 1880 to 1904, Charles Marchand published 18 books on the subject of hydrogen peroxide and ozone.
An article on the intravenous injection of hydrogen peroxide appeared in The Lancet of February 21, 1920 (Influenzal Pneumonia: The Intravenous Injection of Hydrogen Peroxide).
An article on external use appeared in Hautzart 12:425, Setember 1961, Germany (On a Simple and Painless Treatment of Warts).
Since 1966, there have been over 600 medical articles published about hydrogen peroxide. They do not all concern humans, and they are not all positive
In 1983, there were over 100 articles published on the subject of hydrogen peroxide.
The Food & Drug Administration in Federal Regulation Vol. 46 No 6, January 9, 1981, gave the food industry the green light to use hydrogen peroxide in the packaging process. The FDA has further ruled that hydrogen peroxide can be used in the processing of cheese and cheese products, eggs and egg products, and as an antimicrobial agent in whey processing. They have also allowed it to be used in cleaning and healing mouth injuries. Hydrogen peroxide is now being used intravenously and intraarterially by a number of American doctors. The Inernational Bio-Oxidative Medicine Foundation (P.O. Box 13205, Oklahoma City, OK 73113) is supporting clinical reserch in this area.
Hydrogen peroxide is found in fresh fruit and vegetables, some of it coming from rain, and some of it manufactured in the process of photosynthesis (General Biochemistry, Furton & Sommonds, p.338). Eating fruits and vegetables raw ensures that we get this hydrogen peroxide into our bodies, along with valuable enzymes. Mother's milk contains a good amount of hydrogen peroxide, and colostrum contains even more. The spring water of Lourdes, famous for its healing powers, has a very high content of naturally occuring hydrogen peroxide.
Hydrogen peroxide is used in milk in 45 countries around the world, removing the need for refrigeration. An article on the 'aseptic' process for milk can be found in "Trailer Life," Novemeber 1981, p51-52.
Many people have found benefit in drinking diluted amounts of hydrogen peroxide, but it can be nauseating and cause stomach upset. It is better to bathe in it, putting 8 ounces of 35% food grade H2O2 in a tub of warm, chlorine-free water and soaking for 25-30 minutes.
- Alternatively, you could spray the body after a shower with 3% hydrogen peroxide, avoiding the eyes and hair.
- Spray vegetables and fruits with a 3% solution of H2O2 and then rinse, to remove pesticides.
- In the dishwasher, add 2 oz. of 3% to the regular washing formula.
- In the wash machine, add 8 oz. of 3% to the wash in place of bleach.
- As a mouthwash, gargle with 3% H2O2, and then rinse.
- Use baking soda and 3% H2O2 to make a paste for brushing teeth.
- As a douche, add 2 tablespoons of 3% to a quart of distilled water.
- For an enema, add 2 tablespoons of 3% to a quart of distilled water.
To make a 3% solution, mix 11 oz. of distilled water with 1 oz. of 35% hydrogen peroxide.
Always be careful when handling 35% food grade, and keep it away from children. If you spill some, wash the area with water to dilute it. If you get it on your skin, rinse under running water. The skin will temporarily turn white, but no permanent harm is done.
SO YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT TRYING OZONE - David Sterling
So you're thinking about trying ozone therapy! It is important to know what you are getting yourself into. Ozone is not a silver bullet. Ozone is part of a whole lifestyle change. If you don't think that you can commit yourself to change, then don't. Change requires time, effort and patience. It is not something that will come and go in a matter of months. The basic premise is that you are cleaning out the toxic wastes that your body has been storing which are providing an environment the encourages growth of pathogens and suppresses the immune system. It will take time and effort to clean up the situation.
What are you trying to accomplish in doing ozone therapy? Take a moment and analyze your life. What types of food do you eat? Do you smoke and drink? Are you taking any drugs, either prescription or non-prescription? Have you had chemotherapy or radiation or metal poisoning in your lifetime? These are all factors to be considered.
The body is 2/3 water. How dirty this water is depends on how you have run your life. The more junk food you've eaten; the more you've smoked and drank; the more drugs you've put into your body; the more toxic you are. The more toxic you are, the longer it will take ozone to do it's job. You are going to have to make some lifestyle changes. The healthier you eat, the better off you are going to be. You should consider eliminating meat from your diet, and switch to vegetarianism, gradually. Care must be taken to ensure a balanced diet. There are many good books on the subject at this site's book store. Remember that the blood pH should be maintained at about 7.3 - 7.4.
Juicing is a great way to get nutrients. Try to get a juicer which uses the pulp as well, because half of the nutrients are int the pulp. Try and buy local organic produce when possible, to avoid the pesticides used on imported produce. Make sure you wash all fruits and vegetables prior to eating/juicing them. A 3% solution of food grade hydrogen peroxide and pure water is great for this purpose.
If you smoke and drink, you should stop. If you are a non-prescription drug user, you should stop. You should examine which prescribed drugs you are on as well. If you are taking AZT or DDI, this will not be compatible with ozone therapy, because the ozone will attack the drug and be used up before it can do the work on stored toxins.
Antibiotics are also bad for your system. Over a period of time, they depress the immune system and destroy beneficial bacteria. You will find the ozone itself will act as an antibiotic while enhancing your immune system.
You must also stop burning the candle at both ends. The body needs its proper rest periods. If you're not prepared to institute these changes, then don't attempt ozone.
What water do you drink and bathe in? Both should be as pure as possible. Do not drink tap water. Either buy bottled water cleaned with ozone, or purchase a reverse osmosis unit. You should attach a good filter to your shower head to eliminate chlorine from you shower/bathing water. Seeing that the skin breathes, it is not a good idea to be ingesting the chlorine that is used to sterilize the public water supplies. You may want to try 35% food grade peroxide as an inexpensive start to oxygenating your system. You can take it internally (for dosage schedule, refer to Ed Mc Cabe's book "Oxygen Therapies"), but it is best to bathe in it (8 oz. in a tub of warm unchlorinated water, soak 30 minutes).
If you have decided ozone is the way to go, there are some things you should think about. A good set-up will cost you about $2,500. This includes the price of an ozone generator, an oxygen regulator, and the purchase of an oxygen tank. After the initial outlay, you can expect to go through about $30 worth of oxygen per month. For IV injections, you must use oxygen from a tank only. For other treatments, such as rectal insufflations, you can get away with using as oxygen concentrator, although they are expensive to buy.
The more serious the disease, the more aggressive you have to be with the ozone therapy. There are many accepted ways to introduce ozone into the body. Some of these include: drinking ozonated water; ozone body bagging; rectal insufflations; vaginal insufflation; and direct IV injection into a vein.
For the first few months, you will have to set aside time for yourself to do the ozone therapy. As said before, ozone is not a silver bullet. It takes a lot of work and dedication. At first, you can expect to spend AT LEAST a couple of hours a day doing ozone. If you decide to attempt direct IV injections, how do you plan to facilitate this? Do you have someone qualified to do this for you, or are you going to attempt to do this yourself? Self-injection is not easy, and requires practice. It will take you at least a week to perfect this. You can expect to have bruised arms before you get it right. Remember that you will be doing as injection a day for several weeks.
You must also be prepared to perform some sort of colonic (enema) process to clean your colon. As the body detoxifies, you must ensure that your colon is kept clean so that the toxins are eliminated and not reabsorbed. If you are considering rectal insufflations, you must clean yourself out (using an colonic/enema) prior to using the ozone, each and every time. For some, this is not a pleasant thought, but it is a necessity in rectal insufflation.
Do not expect to feel good for a while. As ozone starts to do it's job, you may experience one or more of the following: unusual fatigue; fever; night sweats; diarrhea; nausea. Ozone wil generally force toxins out of the body the way they were put in. The more toxic your body is, the stronger these reactions will be. This initial detoxification process could last from several weeks to several months. Do not despair, you will eventually feel better. You can expect to see results, but only if you're committed to the program.
It will not be easy, but you will see results. After the initial detoxification, you wll have to go on a maintenance program. This will also be dependent on the individual person. Ozone may always be a part of your new healthy lifestyle, protecting you from toxic buildup and resultant disease in the future. Back To Contents
PROTOCOLS OF OZONE ADMINISTRATION AND OZONE EQUIPMENT
There are twenty-two methods of administering medical ozone. They are:
In the clinic:
1. autohemotherapy 2. intravenous injection 3. intraarterial injection 4. direct injection into a tumor 5. intracutaneous (blistering) 6. intramuscular
7. subcutaneous 8. uterine insufflation 9. bladder insufflation 10. sub-atmospheric bagging 11. dental use of ozonate water.
In the home or the clinic:
12. rectal insufflation 13. vaginal insufflation 14. drinking water 15. in the ear 16. ozonated water enema 17. breathing through olive oil 18. deep lymphatic massage with ozonated olive oil 19. ozonate bath with sea salt 20. body suit 21. steam cabinet 22. external limb bagging
DIRECT IV INJECTION OF OZONE
Procedure
Hook up the oxygen tank and regulator to the ozone generator. Open the valve on the tank and open the regulator to deliver 3/4 litre/minute and allow the system to purge for one minute. Set the regulator to deliver the flow rate required for the concentration desired (say 40 ug/cc) and turn on the ozone generator. Allow five minutes of running to stabilize. Swab injection site with H2O2 and pump up pressure cuff to enlarge vein. Fill the syringe from the ozone generator. Press the plunger and expel the ozone against a latex glove to be sure that ozone is present. The glove will begin to disintegrate. Refill the syringe. Shut off the ozone generator. Insert the needle into the vein and release the cuff.
SLOWLY press the plunger and inject ozone at a rate of about 5 cc/minute. Watch entry site for puffiness. This means you are not in the vein. If you run your fingers over this area, you may hear a crackling sound. Do not worry, this is harmless. Have the patient inhale through their nose and exhale through their mouth during injection. If you feel resistance against the plunger, pause for a moment, then resume. The small needle will not allow very fast injection. Tell the patient to inform you at the first sign of any feeling in the shoulder/chest junction, because this is the signal that they have had enough. If there is no reaction, inject another 30 cc until this signal is felt. Some larger patients may take 100 cc or more; smaller ones only 20 cc or less. Withdraw the syringe and cover the injection site with a cotton swab. Shut off the oxygen tank. Some patients will cough after injection as the ozone outgasses in the lungs.
This is harmless, but can be annoying. If the patient coughs for more than 30 minutes after the injection, administer 5000 mg Vitamin C orally. This will stop the ozone reaction. Inject once per day for a week, minimum. After that point, rectal insufflation may be sufficient. In certain cases, injection may be necessary for many weeks. Switch veins regularly. If the veins are hard to find, use the portal vein (accessed rectally). The portal vein is especially recommended for liver cancer.
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Friends, pay attention to the following: If you are deceived into believing that there is no cure for AIDS or cancer and are suffering from or have loved ones who are suffering from these dreaded diseases, the following may be of extreme help in reducing or even arresting suffering. Check out the following extracts. These are not, I repeat NOT, from any unrecognized sources or journals but from highly-respected individuals and institutions!
The Government with the FDA, AMA and even the press, is being negligent of the welfare of our fellow human beings. Do not fall prey to their negligence and the lack of recognition of their own data! Rise up from the doldrums of apathy and unbelief! Our ignorance and lack of heed to the laws of Mother Nature and our personal insensitivity has caused these problems. Demand utilization now of these scientifically, time-tested, safe, non-toxic, harmless and lifesaving compounds. Demand this from your Government officials, health and welfare and welfare institutions, doctors, colleges of research and the press, now.
Check out the extracts below. The following dictation is from BLOOD, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology, Vol. 78, No.7, October 1, 1991: "Inactivation of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 by Ozone in Vitro" By Keith H. Wells, Joseph Latino, Jerrie Gavalchin, and Bernard J. Polesz. "A device was designed to deliver a constant source of given concentration of ozone fluids containing Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1). Ozone was found to inactivate HIV-1 in a dose-dependent manner. Greater than 11 log inactivation was achieved within 2 hours at a concentration of 1,200 ppm ozone. Similar concentrations of ozone had minimal effect on factor VIII activity in both plasma and immunoaffinity-purified preparations of factor VIII treated for the same time period.
The data indicate that the antiviral effects of ozone include viral particle disruption, reverse transcriptase inactivation, and/or a perturbation of the ability of the virus to bind to its receptor on target cells. Ozone treatment offers promise as a means to inactivate human retroviruses in human body fluids and blood product preparations." Copyright 1991 by the American Society of Hematology. The following dictation is from the respected scientific journal SCIENCE, Vol. 209, August 22, 1980: "Ozone Selectively Inhibits Growth of Human Cancer Cells" Abstract: "The growth of human cancer cells from lung, breast, and uterine tumors was selectively inhibited in a dose-dependent manner by ozone at 0.3 to 0.8 part per million of ozone in ambient air during 8 days of culture. Human lung diploid fibro-blasts serve as non-cancerous control cells.
The presence of ozone at 0.3 to 0.5 part per million inhibited cancer cells' growth 40 and 60 percent, respectively. The non-cancerous lung cells were unaffected at these levels. Exposure to ozone at 0.8 part per million inhibited cancer cells' growth more than 90 percent and control cell growth less than 50 percent. Evidently, the mechanisms for defense against ozone damage are impaired in human cancer cells."
THE HISTORY OF MEDICAL OZONE IN THE TREATMENT OF AIDS
Dr. John Pittman MD
The following is a summation of exciting occurances in the field of innovative medicine, and particularly in the treatment of AIDS, due to its powerful oxidizing effect. Ozone is an energized form of oxygen with extra electrons present, which spontaneously disperse from the molecule as soon as they are produced.
Ozone blasts holes through the membranes of viruses, bacteria, yeast and abnormal tissue cells. One of the early uses of ozone was in America in the 1930's, when it was found to be effective in treating various types of inflammatory bowel disorders, such as ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease and chronic bacterial diarrhea. In this procedure, ozone gas is delivered into the rectum through a catheter tip, where it is absorbed through the lining of the colon.
German researchers have been leaders in the development of ozone technology. In the Fifties, they developed a technique for treating blood with ozone called 'major autohemotherapy.' In this procedure, about 300 cc's of blood is taken from a vein into a vacuum bottle. Ozone is then bubbled through the blood, after which the blood is reinfused. In this procedure, ozone destroys any virus particles in the blood. It is also absorbed into the plasma and after reinfusion, disperses throughout the body.
Another technique for using ozone is direct infusion, in which the ozone gas is injected directly into the vein. This has the advantage of being more precise in terms of dosage delivered, as well as allowing administration of higher concentrations.
Other techniques include direct application to the skin through the use of ozone water baths and steam cabinets.
Through dilligent research, the Germans were abel to determine that ozone was incredibly effective in destroying such infections as hepatitis, Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, cytomegalovirus and HIV. With the realization that HIV was susceptible to ozone, the Germans began using the autohemotherapy technique to treat AIDS patients as soon as this was a recognized disease.
There have been numerous anecdotes about the German's success with ozone, and many physicians in this country have been using it with great success. Until recently, neither the government institutions nor private corporations have sponsored any rigid clinical ozone studies. There appears to be a built-in bias against the development of therapies such as ozone, because it is a non-patentable gas. Our pharmaceutical industry has developed based on the ability to patent synthetic drugs that can be sold at a profit, and thus recoup the initial investment expense. This has resulted in a system which supports drug development by this method and has discouraged the development of simple, inexpensive or non-patentable substances. Nevertheless, numerous physicians have used ozone successfully, risking sanctions by federal and state authorities, as this is not a FDA approved treatment.
In 1986 a company was formed with the purpose of developing ozone technology for medical use in the treatment of HIV infection. This company, named Medizone Inc. was formed by Terrance McGrath. Mr. McGrath founded Medizone with the purpose of declaring ozone as a drug, and proceeding with the development of this drug just as any other pharmaceutical company. He assembled a research team of experts in hematology and the biochemistry of oxidative substances, and began to go through the laborious process that the FDA requires for a new drug development.
One of the factors the FDA would require in the development of any new drug was the ability to deliver a precise quantity at a given concentration. In this case, it would be necessary to know the exact amount of ozone being produced by the machine as well as that being absorbed by the blood in order to determine the proper dosage. Mr. McGrath's research team developed a device to deliver ozone through a thin filter membrane to blood that has been drawn from the body. This allows a precise regulation of the quality of ozone being delivered and absorbed by the blood.
Upon development of this patented device, Medizone was able to sell stock to raise money for the laboratory studies and animal toxicity trials that were necessary before FDA would give approval for human studies with ozone. They have cooperated with the FDA and have produced very good research data which has been published in peer review journals.
The most recent data was found in the article 'Blood, The Journal of Hematology' in October of 1991. It was a report on a study done in Syracuse, New York, which proved that ozone will inactivate HIV in vitro (in the laboratory, outside the body.) In this case, blood that was infected with the virus was treated by ozone using Medizone's device and then was studied afterward for any trace of viral particles.
Following the publication of this research, it was expected that the FDA would grant Medizone approval to begin Phase 1 of human clinical trials. However, the FDA came back to Medizone with the requirement that they conduct large animal toxicity studies using an animal with blood volume comparable to that of humans in order to determine if there is any toxic effect. The study that has been developed will use large pigs, will cost a considerable amount of money, and will add more time to the procedure for approval. At the time ot this writing, Medizone still intends to move forward with this study while attempting to receive early approval for a human trial.
The government has become more receptive to the idea of innovative medicine by establishing the Office of Alternative Medicine at the National Institute of Health. Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa has been instrumental in establishing this office. The Senator has family members who have experienced the improvements using natural and alternative therapies, thus he has been a valuable proponent of these treatments.
Through the action of Senator Harkin, other members of Congress, and public pressure, the Senate Appropriations Committee set aside two million dollars for the establishment of this office in February of 1992. They have yet to look at ozone.
I am very excited to announce that we have opened the North Carolina Bio-Oxidative Health Center in August 1004. We are located in the Blue Ridge Plaza, a medical office building near Rex Hospital in Raleigh, NC. This center is the outgrowth of several projects in which I have been involved over the past five years as part of my ongoing research of ozone and detoxification therapies in the treatment of immune system disorders.
I voluntarily closed my office in Raleigh in 1992 to comply with an order from the NC Board of Medical Examiners that I cease using ozone in my medical practice because it was considered non-conventional and was not in common usage by other doctors within the state. Since then, through the actions of many individuals and patients' rights groups, the law has been changed so that a physician cannot have his license revoked for using experimental or non-conventional therapies.
North Carolina is now the fifth state in the country with a freedom of medicine law which allows physicians to choose those therapies they feel will benefit their patients the most and gives the patients the ability to choose the kind of medical care they feel is best for them.
IMMUNIZATION AND OZONE - Saul Pressman
It was the work of Louis Pasteur, Edward Jenner, Rudolph Virchow, Robert Koch, Paul Ehrlich and Emil von Behring that brought about the theory of wide-spread immunization, based upon the idea of producing antibodies in th blood to 'help out' the body's immune system to identify and attack 'invading germs.' Through the work of Antoine Bechamp, William F. Koch, Royal Rife, Gunther Enderlein, Carl Edward Rosenow, Otto Warburg and Gaston Naessens, the original assumptions underlying this theory regarding the body's immune system have now been shown to be erroneous.
The so-called 'bad' bacteria and viruses that modern medicine fights with its huge arsenal of pharmaceutical drugs are in reality the germs of life. These germs of life live in symbiosis with the nutritive medium that constitutes our body, allowing it to be built up and later decomposed, to be metamorphosed and recreated. These germs are pleomorphic shapeshifters who are controlled by the medium in which they live. Germs are not something separate, isolated, unfriendly and coming from without, but are rather the foundation for all life. Without germs, there is no life. Their number is infinite. Their function is varied. Germs can change shape, join together, separate again and return to their primordial condition. Viruse, bacteria and fungi are various developmental forms of germs. The nutritive medium on which the germs thrive determines the type of development they will undergo.
Early in this century, Dr. Carl Edward Rosenow of the Mayo Biological Laboratories began a series of experiments in which he took distinctive bacterial strains from a number of disease sources and placed them in one culture of uniform media. In time, the distinctive strains all changed and became one uniform class. By repeatedly changing cultures, he could individually modify bacterial strains, making harmless ones 'pathogenic,' and in turn reverse the process. He concluded that the critical factor controlling the nature of the bacteria was the food and environment they lived on. These discoveries were first published in 1914 in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Rosenow's work was corroborated and expanded upon about two decades later by Royal R. Rife, developer of the Universal Microscope, with a resolution of 150,000 power. This precision instrument made live bacteria and viruses visible.
Rife showed that by altering the environment and food supply, friendly bacteria, such as colon bacillus, could be converted into the 'pathogenic' bacteria known as typhoid. Rife was able to observe that the viral agent associated with certain forms of cancer could in time be modified into harmless bacillus coli, and the process reversed. Rife stated that it was the unbalanced cell metabolism of the human body that in actuality produced the disease. He believed that if the human body was perfectly balanced, it was susceptible to no disease.
This work closely paralleled Alexis Carrel's earlier research at the Rockefeller Institute where he was able to control the rates and levels of infenctious disease mortality among mice by altering the diet. Researcher Rene Dubos reaffirmed these findings and suggested that virulence is an ecological problem: that is a problem of the state of internal cleanliness.
It is known that children who cannot produce antibodies in their blood (agmmaglobulinemia) nevertheless recover from diseases such as measles and still have long-term immunity. People with no antibodies have been found who are extremely resistant to diseases, while other people have developed diseases to which they already had high levels of antibodies.
Official U.S. military records show that highly immunized personnel manifest a mortality rate from diptheria four times higher than of unvaccinated civilians.
It is now clear that the body needs no 'help' of the sort provided by immunization; that antibodies in the blood stream are not required to protect teh body; and that immunization can cause immune suppression, permanent nervous system damage, and growth stunting. There is also strong evidence that immunization can actually cause the diseases it was meant to prevent. This view has gained support from the writing of a report commissioned by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) from Dr. Raymond Obomsawin in 1992.
In his detailed report, Dr. Obomsawin found that the idea of induced immunity was an illusion founded on: -discredited scientific theories; -the refusal to examine contrary data; -the lack of proper followup assessment of immunized children - and poor statistical methods.
The positive impact of immunization on public health has never, repeat NEVER, been substantiated in any unbiased study. Immunized people have repeatedly fallen ill to the disease they were supposedly vaccinated against, and epidemics are statistically MORE numerous in more widely vaccinated groups (studies in Gambia, Brazil and Taiwan).
Estimates by 'experts' on the degree and severity of adverse reactions have been woefully wrong, and serious damage and even fatalities have gone unreported, preventing a true assessment of the value of immunization.
Repeatedly, statistics and reports have been manipulated in an attempt to show the effectiveness of vaccination. The best known case involves the famous Salk polio vaccine. This massive program is held up as a shining example of the effectiveness of vaccination, yet the statistical evidence shows that polio was on its natural cyclic downturn at the time of introduction of the vaccine in 1956. In one of the rare double blind tests ever done on a vaccine, the group receiving it had 200 cases of polio reported, while the control group had none. Polio disappeared in Europe in the mid-Fifties about the same time as in America, yet there was no program of mass-vaccination there.
Some scientists are now postulating that full vaccination irreparably weakens the child's immune system. These same scientists theorize that mass innoculation is responsible for the widespread escalation of auto-immune, degenerative and allergic conditions amongst those subjected to vaccination as children. A further disturbing trend is the increasing coercion placed upon parents to force them to have their children subjected to this massive invasion of their bodies. The weight of state sanctions against parents is unconscionable, especially when the true dangers of immunization have now been laid bare in this report.
Now that we know that vaccination offers no protection against disease we are left with the question of what disease, how to present it and how to treat it.
The Cause of Disease
The human body is 2/3 water, 10% of it in the blood and 90% in the lymph. It toxins are allowed to build up in the system, the water gets 'dirty.' If the blood pH varies from 7.3 then the beneficial microbes that are necessary in the body begin to change their form, and disease results.
To maintain a clean system, it is necessary to have a proper diet, one that produces a blood pH that is neither too alkaline (bacteria problems) or too acid (cancer problems). And it is necessary to have sufficient oxygen in the system to allow cellular respiration to be efficient and allow complete oxidation, preventing the production of carbon monoxide which the body cannot expel.
Each cell burns sugar (carbohydrates) in oxygen to make its fuel. The carbon-hydrogen bond is cleaved, and the oxygen bonds with the hydrogen, forming H2O (water) and CO2 (carbon dioxide). If there is insufficient oxygen available, CO (carbon monoxide) is formed instead of CO2, excessive lactic acid is formed and the blood is made more acid. If this oxygen deprivation (hypoxia) continues long enough, the cell will no longer be able to sustain the process of oxidation and it will be forced to ferment its sugar anerobically in order to survive. This process turns off the governor on cell replication and therefore wild growth can begin. Ungoverned cell growth is called cancer.
Circulation of clean, oxygen-carrying blood is a basic requirement for optimum health, and this can be achieved by bringing ozone into the body. The least expensive way of ding that would be to live on a mountain far from the cities and breathe deeply - - the recipe for an Eastern master.
Failing that, we can use an ozone generator to create ozone from pure oxygen and bring that into the body in any one of a dozen ways in order to oxidize toxins and oxygenate the cells. Ozone works at the basic level of all important bodily functions - respiration, digestion, assimilation, elimination and immunity. And this is the answer to the question of what we substitute for the worthless and dangerous vaccination programs.
It is imperative that the red blood cells be kept free-floating and unclumped, so that they can carry the proper amount of oxygen. Ingestion of ozone keeps red blood cells from clumping and therefore keeps circulation of the optimum level necessary for good health.
If people were to have reliable and inexpensive ozone generators in their homes, they could purify their water, their air and their bodies. If adequate nutrition and sanitation were maintained, diseases of all types could be prevented. The role of the hospital would be reduced to an extension of the emergency room for accident victims. The role of the pharmaceutical company with its noxious potions woud disappear, and the level of general health would rise to new heights.
INFECTION THEORIES CONTRASTED
GERM THEORY TOXICITY THEORY
1. Disease arises from micro-organisms 1. The suceptibilty to disease arises originating outside the body. from conditions within the cells of the body.
2. Micro-organisms should be guarded 2. Micro-organisms are beneficial and against and destroyed to prevent disease. live-sustaining if the body is kept clean from toxins.
3. The appearance and function of 3. The appearance and function of specific microorganisms is constant. micro- organisms changes when the host organism is unjured, either mechanically, biochemically, or emotionally.
4. Every disease is associated with a 4. Every disease is associated with a particular condition. particular microorganism.
5. Microorganisms are primary causal 5. Microorganisms become associated agents. with disease only when the cells become toxified.
6. Disease is inevitable and can 'strike' 6. Disease arises from conditions of anybody. increased toxicity.
7. To prevent and cure diseases, it is 7. Preventing or curing disease necessary to 'build defenses' and to consists of cleaning toxicity from the body in a way that does no harm.
CONTEMPORARY OZONE APPLICATIONS - Kurt Donsbach
In order to appreciate ozone one must first understand fully the critical role oxygen plays in human life. Oxygen is by far the most important necessity of human life. It performs hundreds of tasks in the body, but the two most important are energy production and detoxification.
The production of energy in the body is accomplished by the combination of glucose with oxygen, producing ATP. The body makes an amount of ATP equivalent to your body weight every 24 hours. If you make 10% less ATP than normal, you will feel tired and sluggish. If ATP production falls too far, you will deteriorate rapidly, and die. Energy is life and the production of energy in the body depends upon oxygen.
The second important function of oxygen is to combine with metabolic waste products to allow their elimination from the body. This process is called the oxidation reduction cycle. When insufficient oxygen is available, the detoxification process slows down, wastes pile up, circulation becomes sluggish, oxygen is prevented from reaching the cells and disease results. Thus, we can see that oxygen is essential to these two vital phases of life.
Since oxygen is the most critical requirement for life, the ingestion of substances teh increase the level of oxygen in the body are the most beneficial to optimum health. The best sources of oxygen are ozone, hydrogen peroxide and magnesium peroxide.
Ozone treatment is safe because healthy cells are surrounded by an enzyme coating, which ozone does not penetrate. Bacteria and viruses have no such coatings and are oxidized on contact by ozone. Ozone also promotes the production of glutathione peroxidase, catalase, reductase and super-oxide dismutase which are the enzymes forming the cell wall coating and therefore cellular immunity is enhanced.
Ozone also has a measurable benefit on the uptake and utilization of oxygen through improved glycolysis in red blood cells, reduction of clumping of red blood cells and the stimulation of mitochndrial respiration. This improved cellular respiration is invaluable in preventing cancer.
Cancer begins when a normal cell cannot get enough oxygen. If the level of oxygen available falls below 40%, in order to survive, the cell will begin to ferment sugar instead of burn it. This process is irreversible, and results in an energy output only 1/6 as great as oxidation. The cell then lacks the energy to manufacture a proper enzyme coating around itself. The governor on cell replication is switched off, and the cell can begin to make copies of itself wildly. This ungoverned cell replication is called cancer.
When ozone is introduced into the area, it immediately attacks the unhealthy cells because they lack a proper enzyme coating. Healthy cells are untouched. If sufficient ozone is administered over time, the tumor will be dissolved.
The applications of medical ozone include performance enhancement, increased longevity, accelerated wound healing, dentistry, heart disease, all infections, treatment of all gastro-enteric diseases, immune stimulation, treatment of all cancers, and gerontology. Ozone also combines well with intravenous chelation therapy which is used to treat arterial disease or heavy metal toxicity. Chelation therapy works quite slowly through a number of infusions, and adding ozone can speed this process up.
Ozone provides an immediate oxygen boost to heart tissue which can noticeably reduce the incidence of angina. It also improves brain function, because the brain uses over 15% of all the oxygen in the body.
Through the development of modern equipment, home usage of ozone therapy has become practical. Rectal and vaginal insufflation, combined with use of a body suit or bag, drinking of ozonated water and breathing ozone bubbled through olive oil, are established protocols for home usage.
The naso-pharyngeal area is often the site of chronic minor infections which become acute in cycles. Chronic sinusitis is probably one of the most common maladies of today. The introduction of ozone into the ear canals can be of great benefit in reducing such chronic infections. At first, just do it for a few minutes.
Another method of getting ozone into the body is with use of a closed, one-person sauna. Since the pores will be open in the moist heat, ozone can be absorbed slowly and safely in large amounts through the skin. This. method prevents the great fatigue of toxic shock sometimes encountered with other methods, because the oxidized toxins are sweated out through the skin rather than being dumped to the liver. This technique is particularly effective for bed sores, ulcers, non-healing wounds and burns.
Medical doctors in Europe have recognized the beneficial effects of ozone for over 80 years. German doctors have developed many different methods of administering ozone. Medical ozone therapy is quite new to Britain and Canada, and only practised by a few doctors. It is even less available in the US due to active persecution by the FDA. But in Germany, over 7000 doctors give ozone therapy daily. The medical use of ozone has an excellent safety record and no toxic side effects have been observed in millions of treatments over nearly 100 years.
The use of ozone for medical therapy is well-established and is being vigorously pursued by many clinicians. As technology develops, new techniques will emerge that will enlarge the scope of the effective use of this healing modality.
MSM - METHYL SULFONYL METHANE - Saul Pressman
MSM is extracted from DMSO by the process of adding another oxygen molecule to it so that it separates the dimethyl solvent from the sulphur. The sulphur left after this process is a biologically active sulphur, and it is the active ingredient in DMSO.
DMSO is a byproduct of the timber industry. At one time Crown Zellerbach attempted to get rid of this 'waste' by spraying it on dirt roads to compact the earth. This caused problems, because animals of every description would come and lick it all up. The deer would lick six inch potholes in the road. Dr. Stanley Jacob of the Oregon Health Sciences University observed this and later identified this substance as DMSO, a healing penetrant that instantly soaks in through the skin and reduces pain. Eventually, Dr. Jacob discovered that the active healing agent in DMSO is MSM.
MSM, the suphur-bearing amino acid, is available to the cell and creates a flexible bond. Cells with insufficient MSM lose their ability to flex. A wrinkle is caused by cells that have lost their ability to flex.
Sulphur has a vital relationship with protein, since sulphur is found in the amino acids methionine, cystine and cysteine. The sulphur-bearing amino acids are absolutely essential to health. Sulphur acts as an activator with all the B Vitamins, thiamin, biotin, Vitamin C and pantothenic acid. Sulphur aids the liver in bile secretion and helps maintain the overall body balance between acidity and alkalinity. Sulphur plays a role in carbohydrate metabolism, which is significant for controlling hypoglycemia and diabetes. The lack of biological sulphur in the body results in low insulin production. Sulphur is a component of insulin, which is secreted by the pancreas for metabolizing carbohydrates. Sulphur keeps hair, nails and skin healthy. In addition, sulphur plays an important part in cell respiration and assimilation. MSM is therefore essential and is thus found in all living organisms.
Medical research has proven that a minimal concentration of MSM is critical to function and structure, and that the concentration drops as time passes, directly contributing to aging. There has been extensive medical testing over the last ten years on the use of MSM in the diet. Some diseases considered irreversible, such as emphysema, have been overcome through use of supplemental MSM. Other diseases treated with excellent results are: pyorrhea, skin burns and scars, exzema, psoriasis, dandruff, loss of hair, PMS, diabetes, hyperactivity, constipation, parasites arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome, candida, chronic fatigue syndrome, Epstein-Barr and low energy. MSM helps with the oxygenation of cells and free radical scavenging, and is thus anti-aging.
MSM occurs in fresh fruit and vegetables, raw milk, wheat grass juice and aloe vera. There is no toxic dose, and the body will excrete un-needed MSM.
Because it helps in the production of methionine, a basic liver enzyme, MSM is very important to proper digestion and assimilation of food. The liver cannot do its job of regulating enzymes and metering sugar and filtering out toxins properly without MSM. It is of little use to increase dosages of vitamins and minerals if they will just be excreted. Daily supplementation with MSM will ensure proper absorption of all nutrients, with the corresponding betterment of health.
METHYLENE BLUE
Methylene blue is a blue dye used for staining tissue samples for viewing under a microscope. It is a methyl donor with the ability to cleave carbon monoxide off from hemoglobin. When the body is poorly oxygenated, the sugar that is burned in oxygen by the cell for energy burns poorly, producing carbon monoxide, instead of carbon dioxide. Monoxide has a great affinity for the iron in hemoglobin, and the hemoglobin is unable to shen it in the lungs, and so must leave without a fesh supply of oxygen. This can produce the condition known as methemoglobin anemia. People over the age of fifty almost always have some methemoglobin in their blood.
Driving in heavy traffic with the vents open can also cause a buildup of carbon monoxide in the blood. In addition, a faulty gas furnace or a smoky fireplace can also cause the ingestion of carbon monoxide.
Carbon monoxide in the system acidifies the blood, irritates the organs and causes a lowering of body temperature, which microbes of all types prefer. The body's way of dealing with bacteria and viruses is to shut off the intake of food and raise the body temperature, which we call a fever, in order to 'burn out the bugs.'
For many years, methylene blue has been used to treat cyanosis, a slight cyanide poisoning sometimes caused by handling blueprints.
By taking methylene blue, 5 drops in a glass of water before bed, we can eliminate carbon monoxide from our blood in a few short weeks. Methylene blue is safe and non-toxic. Its only side effect is to temporarily turn the tongue blue, and to make the urine green. It rarely needs to be repeated mre than once a year.
FLAX OIL & OZONE
The concept of increasing blood levels of oxygen by ozone and hydrogen peroxide therapies has great merit. However, getting an increase of oxygen does not guarantee an increase of oxygen on the cellular level where it is needed most for cancer treatments and other disorders.
An increase in cellular utilization oxygen is achieved by increasing dietary omega 3 oils. (Flax oil is nature's richest source of omega 3 oil containing over 60%.) These omega 3 oils are incorporated into each cell membrane as a building block. There they play the important role of attracting oxygen out of the blood to be utilized by the cell. This effect is a polar attraction. (It is the same reason omega 3 oils are used in fast-drying paints because they attract oxygen.)
Two to three teaspoons of flax oil daily will meet your daily needs. Flax oil naturally contains the free radical scavengers vitamin E and beta carotene which are important factors in any healing process. Flax oil also benefits the cardiovascular system, skin problems and inflammatory conditions such as arthritis and colitis. Flax oil is a wonderful food but should never be cooked. It can be put on potatoes, vegetables and soups in place of butter or on salads as a dressing.
One must avoid margarines, hydrogenated fats, refined vegetables oils as these contain harmful trans-fats which interfere with omega 3 absorption and oxygen utilization.
HYDROGEN PEROXIDE - Walter Grotz
Oxygen is the most abundant element on the surface of the earth. It comprises 45.6% of the earth's crust and 20.95% of dry air. It is the most vital and necessary element for the survival of life. Without oxygen, you can live only a few minutes.
Through his research efforts, Dr. Edward Carl Rosenow (1875 - 1966) worked out the causes of some 35 diseases and was the author of 450 medical papers. Dr. Rosenow develped a technique by which microorganisms in the body could be eliminated or controlled. His basic tenet was that in every body are millions of microorganisms, which adapt to the habitat they are in. He felt that the wastes and secretions of these microorganisms contributed to many degenerative diseases. In this belief, he agreed with the thinking of other medical scientists such as Bechamp, Rife, Enderlein, and Gaston Naessens. Dr. Rosenow experimented with the use of hydrogen peroxide to reduce these microorganisms.
Hydrogen peroxide was first reported by the French chemist Louis-Jacques Thenard in 1818, who named it 'eau oxygene' or oxygen water. It is found in traces in rain and snow (McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 5th Edition, p.747). In 1863 Meissner proved its presence in the rain water collected during thunderstorms and this has since been corroborated by others (Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol x No. 9, March 3, 18880. It gets into our rain and snow from atmosphere ozone decending from above coming into contact with water vapour.
From 1880 to 1904, Charles Marchand published 18 books on the subject of hydrogen peroxide and ozone.
An article on the intravenous injection of hydrogen peroxide appeared in The Lancet of February 21, 1920 (Influenzal Pneumonia: The Intravenous Injection of Hydrogen Peroxide).
An article on external use appeared in Hautzart 12:425, Setember 1961, Germany (On a Simple and Painless Treatment of Warts).
Since 1966, there have been over 600 medical articles published about hydrogen peroxide. They do not all concern humans, and they are not all positive
In 1983, there were over 100 articles published on the subject of hydrogen peroxide.
The Food & Drug Administration in Federal Regulation Vol. 46 No 6, January 9, 1981, gave the food industry the green light to use hydrogen peroxide in the packaging process. The FDA has further ruled that hydrogen peroxide can be used in the processing of cheese and cheese products, eggs and egg products, and as an antimicrobial agent in whey processing. They have also allowed it to be used in cleaning and healing mouth injuries. Hydrogen peroxide is now being used intravenously and intraarterially by a number of American doctors. The Inernational Bio-Oxidative Medicine Foundation (P.O. Box 13205, Oklahoma City, OK 73113) is supporting clinical reserch in this area.
Hydrogen peroxide is found in fresh fruit and vegetables, some of it coming from rain, and some of it manufactured in the process of photosynthesis (General Biochemistry, Furton & Sommonds, p.338). Eating fruits and vegetables raw ensures that we get this hydrogen peroxide into our bodies, along with valuable enzymes. Mother's milk contains a good amount of hydrogen peroxide, and colostrum contains even more. The spring water of Lourdes, famous for its healing powers, has a very high content of naturally occuring hydrogen peroxide.
Hydrogen peroxide is used in milk in 45 countries around the world, removing the need for refrigeration. An article on the 'aseptic' process for milk can be found in "Trailer Life," Novemeber 1981, p51-52.
Many people have found benefit in drinking diluted amounts of hydrogen peroxide, but it can be nauseating and cause stomach upset. It is better to bathe in it, putting 8 ounces of 35% food grade H2O2 in a tub of warm, chlorine-free water and soaking for 25-30 minutes.
- Alternatively, you could spray the body after a shower with 3% hydrogen peroxide, avoiding the eyes and hair.
- Spray vegetables and fruits with a 3% solution of H2O2 and then rinse, to remove pesticides.
- In the dishwasher, add 2 oz. of 3% to the regular washing formula.
- In the wash machine, add 8 oz. of 3% to the wash in place of bleach.
- As a mouthwash, gargle with 3% H2O2, and then rinse.
- Use baking soda and 3% H2O2 to make a paste for brushing teeth.
- As a douche, add 2 tablespoons of 3% to a quart of distilled water.
- For an enema, add 2 tablespoons of 3% to a quart of distilled water.
To make a 3% solution, mix 11 oz. of distilled water with 1 oz. of 35% hydrogen peroxide.
Always be careful when handling 35% food grade, and keep it away from children. If you spill some, wash the area with water to dilute it. If you get it on your skin, rinse under running water. The skin will temporarily turn white, but no permanent harm is done.
SO YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT TRYING OZONE - David Sterling
So you're thinking about trying ozone therapy! It is important to know what you are getting yourself into. Ozone is not a silver bullet. Ozone is part of a whole lifestyle change. If you don't think that you can commit yourself to change, then don't. Change requires time, effort and patience. It is not something that will come and go in a matter of months. The basic premise is that you are cleaning out the toxic wastes that your body has been storing which are providing an environment the encourages growth of pathogens and suppresses the immune system. It will take time and effort to clean up the situation.
What are you trying to accomplish in doing ozone therapy? Take a moment and analyze your life. What types of food do you eat? Do you smoke and drink? Are you taking any drugs, either prescription or non-prescription? Have you had chemotherapy or radiation or metal poisoning in your lifetime? These are all factors to be considered.
The body is 2/3 water. How dirty this water is depends on how you have run your life. The more junk food you've eaten; the more you've smoked and drank; the more drugs you've put into your body; the more toxic you are. The more toxic you are, the longer it will take ozone to do it's job. You are going to have to make some lifestyle changes. The healthier you eat, the better off you are going to be. You should consider eliminating meat from your diet, and switch to vegetarianism, gradually. Care must be taken to ensure a balanced diet. There are many good books on the subject at this site's book store. Remember that the blood pH should be maintained at about 7.3 - 7.4.
Juicing is a great way to get nutrients. Try to get a juicer which uses the pulp as well, because half of the nutrients are int the pulp. Try and buy local organic produce when possible, to avoid the pesticides used on imported produce. Make sure you wash all fruits and vegetables prior to eating/juicing them. A 3% solution of food grade hydrogen peroxide and pure water is great for this purpose.
If you smoke and drink, you should stop. If you are a non-prescription drug user, you should stop. You should examine which prescribed drugs you are on as well. If you are taking AZT or DDI, this will not be compatible with ozone therapy, because the ozone will attack the drug and be used up before it can do the work on stored toxins.
Antibiotics are also bad for your system. Over a period of time, they depress the immune system and destroy beneficial bacteria. You will find the ozone itself will act as an antibiotic while enhancing your immune system.
You must also stop burning the candle at both ends. The body needs its proper rest periods. If you're not prepared to institute these changes, then don't attempt ozone.
What water do you drink and bathe in? Both should be as pure as possible. Do not drink tap water. Either buy bottled water cleaned with ozone, or purchase a reverse osmosis unit. You should attach a good filter to your shower head to eliminate chlorine from you shower/bathing water. Seeing that the skin breathes, it is not a good idea to be ingesting the chlorine that is used to sterilize the public water supplies. You may want to try 35% food grade peroxide as an inexpensive start to oxygenating your system. You can take it internally (for dosage schedule, refer to Ed Mc Cabe's book "Oxygen Therapies"), but it is best to bathe in it (8 oz. in a tub of warm unchlorinated water, soak 30 minutes).
If you have decided ozone is the way to go, there are some things you should think about. A good set-up will cost you about $2,500. This includes the price of an ozone generator, an oxygen regulator, and the purchase of an oxygen tank. After the initial outlay, you can expect to go through about $30 worth of oxygen per month. For IV injections, you must use oxygen from a tank only. For other treatments, such as rectal insufflations, you can get away with using as oxygen concentrator, although they are expensive to buy.
The more serious the disease, the more aggressive you have to be with the ozone therapy. There are many accepted ways to introduce ozone into the body. Some of these include: drinking ozonated water; ozone body bagging; rectal insufflations; vaginal insufflation; and direct IV injection into a vein.
For the first few months, you will have to set aside time for yourself to do the ozone therapy. As said before, ozone is not a silver bullet. It takes a lot of work and dedication. At first, you can expect to spend AT LEAST a couple of hours a day doing ozone. If you decide to attempt direct IV injections, how do you plan to facilitate this? Do you have someone qualified to do this for you, or are you going to attempt to do this yourself? Self-injection is not easy, and requires practice. It will take you at least a week to perfect this. You can expect to have bruised arms before you get it right. Remember that you will be doing as injection a day for several weeks.
You must also be prepared to perform some sort of colonic (enema) process to clean your colon. As the body detoxifies, you must ensure that your colon is kept clean so that the toxins are eliminated and not reabsorbed. If you are considering rectal insufflations, you must clean yourself out (using an colonic/enema) prior to using the ozone, each and every time. For some, this is not a pleasant thought, but it is a necessity in rectal insufflation.
Do not expect to feel good for a while. As ozone starts to do it's job, you may experience one or more of the following: unusual fatigue; fever; night sweats; diarrhea; nausea. Ozone wil generally force toxins out of the body the way they were put in. The more toxic your body is, the stronger these reactions will be. This initial detoxification process could last from several weeks to several months. Do not despair, you will eventually feel better. You can expect to see results, but only if you're committed to the program.
It will not be easy, but you will see results. After the initial detoxification, you wll have to go on a maintenance program. This will also be dependent on the individual person. Ozone may always be a part of your new healthy lifestyle, protecting you from toxic buildup and resultant disease in the future. Back To Contents
PROTOCOLS OF OZONE ADMINISTRATION AND OZONE EQUIPMENT
There are twenty-two methods of administering medical ozone. They are:
In the clinic:
1. autohemotherapy 2. intravenous injection 3. intraarterial injection 4. direct injection into a tumor 5. intracutaneous (blistering) 6. intramuscular
7. subcutaneous 8. uterine insufflation 9. bladder insufflation 10. sub-atmospheric bagging 11. dental use of ozonate water.
In the home or the clinic:
12. rectal insufflation 13. vaginal insufflation 14. drinking water 15. in the ear 16. ozonated water enema 17. breathing through olive oil 18. deep lymphatic massage with ozonated olive oil 19. ozonate bath with sea salt 20. body suit 21. steam cabinet 22. external limb bagging
DIRECT IV INJECTION OF OZONE
Procedure
Hook up the oxygen tank and regulator to the ozone generator. Open the valve on the tank and open the regulator to deliver 3/4 litre/minute and allow the system to purge for one minute. Set the regulator to deliver the flow rate required for the concentration desired (say 40 ug/cc) and turn on the ozone generator. Allow five minutes of running to stabilize. Swab injection site with H2O2 and pump up pressure cuff to enlarge vein. Fill the syringe from the ozone generator. Press the plunger and expel the ozone against a latex glove to be sure that ozone is present. The glove will begin to disintegrate. Refill the syringe. Shut off the ozone generator. Insert the needle into the vein and release the cuff.
SLOWLY press the plunger and inject ozone at a rate of about 5 cc/minute. Watch entry site for puffiness. This means you are not in the vein. If you run your fingers over this area, you may hear a crackling sound. Do not worry, this is harmless. Have the patient inhale through their nose and exhale through their mouth during injection. If you feel resistance against the plunger, pause for a moment, then resume. The small needle will not allow very fast injection. Tell the patient to inform you at the first sign of any feeling in the shoulder/chest junction, because this is the signal that they have had enough. If there is no reaction, inject another 30 cc until this signal is felt. Some larger patients may take 100 cc or more; smaller ones only 20 cc or less. Withdraw the syringe and cover the injection site with a cotton swab. Shut off the oxygen tank. Some patients will cough after injection as the ozone outgasses in the lungs.
This is harmless, but can be annoying. If the patient coughs for more than 30 minutes after the injection, administer 5000 mg Vitamin C orally. This will stop the ozone reaction. Inject once per day for a week, minimum. After that point, rectal insufflation may be sufficient. In certain cases, injection may be necessary for many weeks. Switch veins regularly. If the veins are hard to find, use the portal vein (accessed rectally). The portal vein is especially recommended for liver cancer.
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