The opinions
of the experts are constantly changing. The correct treatment this
year is often the wrong treatment next year. When choosing an approach,
treatment, or therapy, try to pick the one that poses the smallest
risk of harm. When your done mulling it over in your mind, listen
to your heart before making your decision, because “woman’s
intuition” is invaluable. Always remember, doctors cause more
deaths every year than traffic accidents, so choose carefully.
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Aluminum is everywhere. It’s considered by some sources to be the most abundant mineral on earth. As we have learned how to use this lightweight, but very strong metal, huge fortunes have been made. Today virtually everywhere we go we find aluminum. Aluminum has proven to be an important part of the solution to many problems in our modern society. It has also been suggested to be a problem in itself. Aluminum is unquestionably neuro-toxic. That means we know aluminum is a poison to the nervous system. For decades we have been aware of the brain disorders that develop in some patients on long term renal dialysis using aluminum-rich dialysate. Interestingly, the symptoms often parallel those of Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s is a form of senile dementia. Dementia is defined as an irreversible deterioration of intellectual faculties, with concomitant emotional disturbances resulting from organic brain disorder. We all know some family that has a member suffering with Alzheimer’s. In the first stages of Alzheimer’s there is a loss of short term memory and an increase in emotionality, sometimes aggressive. In time the over emotional behavior abates, leaving the patient in what would have to be described as a vegetative state (people who can no longer care for themselves, do not remember how to tie a shoe or brush teeth, and often do not remember family). At its present level, Alzheimer’s disease, the foremost type of senile dementia, is a relatively new disease. The experts say that it has always been with us even though relatively rare. It appears to be a genetic disorder which has been demonstrated to be familial. What the experts avoid discussing are the parallels between aluminum increasing in our internal environment, and Alzheimer’s proliferation in astronomical proportions in our society. The medical scientific community, in fact, has been torn apart over the aluminum question. Some groups have polarized claiming aluminum as a causative factor in Alzheimer’s. Another group claims, equally as strongly, that it is a genetic disease. It has occurred to many of us over the last few decades that both are a little right and a little wrong. It is apparent that Alzheimer’s is the result of a genetic weakness, familial in nature; but where Alzheimer’s disease occurs, aluminum is found in those areas of the brain that are related to dementia. Up until recently, the attitude in the medical community has been, “We can’t implicate aluminum until we understand the possible mechanisms or pathways that are involved.” This is all well and good for the medical community that receives millions of dollars annually in grants from aluminum manufacturers and processors who they don’t want to alienate, but it offers little protection for the unsuspecting public. Unfortunately, we have continued to overlook a building body of research which started to surface as long ago as 1988, when in the October 29 Lancet (British Medical Journal), in a article by Birchall, et al, entitled Aluminum Chemical Physiology and Alzheimer’s Disease revealed the truth in a scientifically acceptable journal. The authors, in that research article, clearly demonstrated the possible pathways that are involved in Alzheimer’s. Additionally, a 1989 Lancet article was entitled Geographical Relation between Alzheimer’s Disease and Aluminum in Drinking Water. In that research, the investigator found that the risk of Alzheimer’s was 1.5 times higher in districts where the mean aluminum concentration exceeded .11 mg/liter, than in districts where concentrations where less than .01 mg/liter. There was no evidence of a relation between other causes of dementia and the aluminum concentrations in water. In other words, when the aluminum concentration in water goes up, the risk of Alzheimer’s goes up too. Although individual vulnerability to aluminum may well depend on genetic factors which influence intake, transport and excretion, there are no longer excuses for not putting aluminum on the hot seat. Although few people still use aluminum cookware, some of it may still to be found in our ‘pots and pans’ drawer, and should be discarded. Aluminum was previously thought to be relatively inert at earth temperature, but this we now know to be false. Even an ice cold beer or cola in an aluminum container will ablate aluminum molecules into those beverages, and at the high temperatures reached in trucks transporting these beverages, the ablation increases with the increase in temperature. The hotter it gets, the more aluminum we find in the respective beverages, an obvious source of aluminum that we do not need. Other important sources of aluminum are underarm deodorants and antacids. Many doctors have published their suspicions of an antacid/Alzheimer’s connection in various non peer-reviewed journals. It has been pointed out frequently enough to make some of us take notice. We must keep in mind the history of other boondoggles within the scientific community, and realize that this is nothing new. As has been said, “Ignorance goes where the money flows.” By the mid 1950s we knew without question that cigarette smoking was implicated in the ever increasing numbers of lung cancer cases and emphysema. It took over 30 years and hundreds of thousands of deaths before medical science would finally acknowledge the connection and deal honestly with the problem. The reason for this delay was a tobacco industry that poured millions of dollars into advertising in medical journals and publications, and spent many more millions on medical research grants, obviously those not related to smoking. Again, a smart dog is slow to bite the hand that feeds it. We are in the same position with aluminum. There is, in fact, a type of Alzheimer’s known as post hospital Alzheimer’s; it is a form of Alzheimer’s that occurs within a month or two of hospitalization. Interestingly enough, the most frequently used medication in hospitals when that form of Alzheimer’s was most commonly diagnosed was Tagamet, an antacid that has aluminum as one of its primary active ingredients. Coincidence? Many of us think not. We can’t absolutely PROVE that aluminum is the sole cause of Alzheimer’s, but in the meantime wouldn’t it be prudent for all of us, in addition to eliminating obvious sources of aluminum in our lifestyles, to be on nutritional supplements high in anti-oxidants and mineral chelators like vitamin C? This would be especially intelligent behavior for those with a family history suggesting risk to this disease. The majority of people over 45 who take antacids, in fact, would do better with digestive enzymes. For those who must have antacids, choosing the ones that do not have aluminum in them seems like the safe and smart path to take. Using deodorants that are aluminum free instead of anti-perspirants that rely on aluminum also seems like a wise choice. It has been demonstrated all too clearly that the progress of this disease is medically irreversible. It has also been shown conclusively that the progress of the disease can be slowed. Every month of near normal behavior that can be achieved for an Alzheimer’s sufferer is invaluable. Until science catches up with common sense, these suggestions/recommendations should be seriously considered by everyone in the industrialized, aluminum polluted, world. Aluminum is not an essential mineral. AVOID IT! |
As a child I had a severe disease called rheumatic fever that could have compromised my immune system for the rest of my life. Afterward, I experienced at least three severe colds a year through my school years and into early adulthood. However, in the last twenty years I have only had one mild cold. If I can do it, you can do it too, and this is how. First, I take Preventics Vitamin C-1000 every day. It is the equivalent of the most advertised vitamin C, Esther C, at half the price. This is the most important thing you can do to measurably reduce the number of colds you get and also reduce the severity of the ones you do get. The formula I recommend for C intake is one gram (1000 mg) per day for each fifty pounds of weight. Therefore, a one hundred pound person would take two grams of C per day. Vitamin C alone will greatly reduce the number and severity of colds. However, it doesn’t completely eliminate colds. There are times when you get chilled, spend time with someone with a particularly virulent cold, or just get “that feeling” that a cold is coming on. For me, “that feeling” is a feeling of being a little cold and chilled. It is a particular feeling I associate with the onset of a cold, and I have found that virtually everyone I question can also identify a special “feeling” just before they start to come down with a cold. This is the time to take extra action. If you wait, it will be too late. Again, I take the Preventics Vitamin C-1000. I like it because it is a 1000mg tablet so I have to take fewer of them. Many of my patients keep a few extra vitamin C tablets at the office, and so do I, so I have some at hand if I get “that feeling” while I’m at the office. If you do this, it is important to remember that vitamin C loses half its’ potency in six months. I make sure my off ice stash of vitamin C is not more than three months old so I’m assured of full potency. I start taking extra vitamin C immediately after I get “that feeling.” I begin by taking two or three grams every twenty or thirty minutes. I continue taking C at that level until I feel that the symptoms have subsided, or until I feel gassy, as if I will get diarrhea if I take any more. At that point I’m done taking vitamin C for that day. The next day I stay on that same dosage. I split the amount into four doses and take them with my meals and before bed. After a day or two I begin reducing dosage until I get back to my regular dose. This usually takes about ten days. If you reduce dosage too quickly, symptoms can return and a cold can ensue. During this time I also take Preventics Zinc Lozenges. Zinc really aids the immune system, and evidence suggests that bacteria and viruses don’t like it. I usually take three or four of the lozenges a day unless I’m having some throat symptoms, and then I will allow a lozenge to dissolve in my mouth every hour or two until the soreness is gone. I continue the Zinc Lozenges at a dosage of at least three a day until I am able to return my vitamin C levels back to normal. Lastly, I always keep a bottle of Preventics Colloidal Silver in the pantry for occasions like this because it is such a good anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-fungal agent. As soon as possible I take a tablespoon; thereafter, a teaspoon in the morning and one in the evening for a week. As you may recall from past newsletters, Colloidal silver is useful against most infections and can even be used topically. Many patients who are very susceptible to colds have told me
that this program has helped them reduce colds from three or four
a year to one every three or four years. That’s a lot of
avoided misery.
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China, has over 8.6 million acres that it claims is planted and producing “organic” crops for export. Compare that to 2.2 million acres declared and certified “organic” in the USA and you’ll be getting the picture. Wal-mart has taken the bait and is importing tons of “certified organic” produce from the Asian giant. However, China still has less than a dozen people staffing the inspection and certification of all those acres. The horror stories coming out of China demonstrate that anyone can get certified “organic” by just lying on the registration forms, and apparently most do just that for the added profits that the “organic” label brings. Additionally, China has the hand labor to support the higher labor intensity of organic farming, and the wages are low enough to make those crops attractive to mega-giants like Wal-mart, so consumer beware. China is a severely polluted country. It is in the throes of its industrial revolution, and the experts claim, and rightly so, that virtually all the water is polluted, the soil is contaminated from industry and mining, and the air is bad. Senior USDA Economist Fred Gale recently told the Dallas Morning News that in his view it is almost impossible to grow truly “organic” food in China. “Organic” has become such an important label word to most intelligent consumers that it is sought out, and a premium is paid for the purchase with no remorse. Mega-giants like Wal-mart, who already buy almost everything from Asia, have no problem selling us toxic food products labeled “organic.” When you see the “organic” label at these big mega-stores, always ask where the produce came from. If it’s China, vote ‘No!’ with your pocket book by purchasing elsewhere. The “organic” label needs to mean what
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