I have experienced a professional epiphany and have come to realize that the healthcare system does not necessarily facilitate good health. Unfortunately, the existing system functions as a disease management system where many times symptoms are alleviated, but physiological causes are never addressed. There are trained physicians adhering to the standards of care they were taught; yet there seems to be a revolving door of patients who have a growing list of medications. The results are frustrating for both patients and practitioners.

Another term used loosely in the medical community is health care team. As the patient, you are a member of the team. It benefits you to be more knowledgeable about your health conditions. Many accepted medical standards of care today fall short of having true therapeutic and restorative value. There are definite systemic problems but that should not undermine the professionals’ duty to do the job well or prevent openness to alternative/complementary options to care. With the technology available today, you have enormous amounts of information available to help you make informed decisions about you choices. Use it! Any doctor who encourages you otherwise is not the doctor for you. Choose your physician wisely!

When our daughter had been diagnosed with severe, life-threatening asthma, my husband and I felt we had few choices in regards to her medical care. We saw pediatricians, allergists, and pulmonologists in consultation and it was a great concern when she obtained no relief from the traditional medical interventions. The massive dosages of steroids had greatly compromised her health and led us yet to another specialist, the endocrinologist.

After extensive testing, we were told that she had no sever allergies but some mild sensitivities which were, “Certainly nothing that would be contributing to the severity of her condition.” Our concerns continued to grow as her condition grew more ominous.

I received a phone call from a concerned family friend, who happens to be a family practice doctor. He hesitantly suggested that we had other “alternatives” and told us about NAET. I started my journey into alternative/complimentary medicine and did some research. I found that NAET — an anachronism for Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Treatment, was a unique approach to treating allergies/sensitivities and other chronic inflammatory conditions.

I met with “Dr. David”. Dr. David Beaulieu, M.S., D.C. is the leading NAET Practitioner in the KS/MO area. He explained that the treatments are non-invasive and a drug free natural solution to eliminate allergies/sensitivities of all types and intensities through the use of “energy balancing” kinesiology and acupressure. Dr. David has been using NAET in conjunction with other modalities in his practice for over fifteen years.

I was skeptical, to say the least, but desperation won out over skepticism. We proceeded with NAET and the treatments were nothing short of incredible. Following NAET, she has had no reoccurrence or treatment for asthma in ten years. No inhalers, no nebulizer, no medications, no trips to the hospital for asthma! I wondered, “If NAET can do this for asthma, what can it do for other chronic inflammatory diseases?”

I was invited by Dr. David to learn more and began to “shadow” him in his office. For over a year I was observing, asking questions and satisfying my curiosity regarding the use and effectiveness of NAET. I even had NAET treatments myself and found that my health improved. No longer did I have those vague “I don’t feel good” complaints. I felt better than I had felt in twenty years. I began following the life-style instructions I heard him giving to patients. I’m now one of the few women my age that I know who can say “I am pharmaceutically FREE.”

Because of the many positive patient outcomes I have observed with Dr. David, I made the decision to go to California to be trained in NAET and Advanced NAET with the founder, Dr. Devi Nambudripad. It has been the most satisfying experience of my nursing career to work with Dr. David in his practice and to assist in the treatment of patients with a wide gamut of inflammatory disease processes. Most of our patients, like my daughter, come to our office as an act of desperation when nothing else they have tried has brought any relief or improved the quality of life.

If you wonder if you might benefit from NAET; if you just don’t feel as good as you think you should and don’t know why; if you have been told you have no allergies or sensitivities but still have symptoms; if you are taking numerous prescription drugs and finding no relief from physical symptoms, consider the possibilities of NAET. Dr. David Beaulieu is available for free telephone consultations to discuss your health and nutritional concerns. You can view the web site at www.askdoctordavid.com. Be sure to read our “Patient Stories”, which are testimonies of how patients have been helped by NAET.

Betsy O’Neal, R.N.

This just proves that if you give science long enough it will sift through the politics of an issue and eventually reach an intelligent conclusion… and this is just the beginning. Joachim Hallmayer, an associate professor of psychiatry at Stanford University found an elevated risk of autism in children whose mothers took a popular type of antidepressant, so called SSRI’s like Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa, and Lexapro, during the year before delivery.

It won’t be long before someone publishes a landmark study in a major peer reviewed journal finding a strong link between the aluminum/mercury dose in vaccines and autism. You can only hide a wolf in lamb’s clothing for so long.

The FDA has decided to examine the link between food dyes and hyperactivity in children. How can a government agency get so lost in an age where even automobiles have navigation devices to find a destination?

I sometimes wonder if any of the experts at the FDA are familiar with libraries. I first learned of the Feingold Diet in the seventies at the old Clendening library at KU Medical Center. Ben Feingold, M.D., became famous for a diet that eliminated food dyes and salicylates (aspirin like compounds). Results were mixed, suggesting that hyperactivity and other behaviors now categorized Hyperactive/Attention deficit, etc. are caused by more than just salicylate and food dye sensitivity. Nevertheless, many children and adults obtained relief with the diet. Medicine continued to pursue the One Cause/One Cure approach, and because the Feingold Diet didn’t fix everyone it was paid scant attention by the authorities.

My ‘hyperactive’ patients received decent results when applying the diet and we still check for these sensitivities with the NAET protocol and find they are often a culprit.

Ben Feingold can be googled successfully for more information. I wonder if the FDA has figured out how to google?

The cream they use contains seven ingredients, two of which are actually dairy. They add brown sugar unless you specifically request that they don’t. Additionally you get diced apple, dried cranberries and raisins… another source of sugar. Even the oatmeal contains “natural flavor.” It contains ten (10) fewer calories than their cheeseburger or their Egg McMuffin, and even without the brown sugar added it has more calories that a McDonald’s hamburger.

Just the other day, one of my patients’ mothers told her little girl that if she behaved she would take her to McDonald’s for a reward. We had a talk. I don’t think that she will offer to reward her daughter with poison in the future.

Fast food rarely provides our body with genuine replacement parts. Please don’t feed it to your family.

I never cease to be amazed at how the media chooses experts to quote who represent businesses whose best interests lie in bamboozeling the public. Just a couple of weeks ago a major story in the Kansas City Star de-bunked the vaccination/autism connection, and especially the British research published in 1998 that validated the connection. One of the reasons given for the invalidation of that and numerous other papers regarding this issue was the questionable health of the children studied who appear to have become autistic after vaccination. What difference does it make? Are only healthy children vaccinated? Are all children thoroughly screened for familial health risks and carefully physically examined before each vaccination? Are the makers of the vaccines that still use toxic mercury and aluminum as preservatives looking out for themselves and their profit, or the children? Let’s take a quick look at the facts.

Do really healthy kids from healthy families get reactions to the vaccines? No they don’t, at least not immediately noticeable ones. Maybe decades down the road of life, increased mercury and/or aluminum body burden will contribute to poor academic performance, miscarriage, dementia or cancer. An increased body burden of both of these heavy metals has been implicated in those and a myriad of other terrible conditions, and we continue to load our environment with both. If we warn pregnant women not to eat fish in order to avoid poisoning the fetus with mercury, why is mercury safe when injected in much greater quantities in a vaccination? Simple, it’s good for business. Likewise, if aluminum intake is directly related to Alzheimers Dementia, and it is, why aren’t people who drink beer and other beverages from aluminum cans apprised of the risks? Same answer, it would be bad for business to tell the truth.

Children today are raised in an increasingly more toxic environment. They live in dwellings built from man made materials, and they all off-gas toxic fumes for months or years. These gases are heavy and settle to the floor, so even when most adults aren’t bothered, the kids are crawling around in an invisible cloud of toxic gas. Kids today have more colds, ear aches, allergies, and minor infections, and more severe diseases as well. Anyone with an education and a lick of sense realizes that. And it seems like every ten years or so we come up with another vaccination to poison them with.

More than fifty years ago, Roger Williams, Ph.D., of the Clayton Foundation of the University of Texas, published numerous studies on nutrition, health, and disease. In his lectures he was fond of telling the story of how mothers that he studied, who had large families, began having health problems after 2.3 children, and that from the third child on, each child had more and more health problems. He liked to kid about statistics, and how he had never really met a woman who had three tenths of a child, but his points were well made.

It takes genuine replacement parts to heal an unhealthy body. It takes genuine replacement parts to build a healthy human being. In this country, most people eat from packages and cans. Manufactured foods do not contain natural, healthy, genuine replacement parts, and since the advent of manufactured foods we have become a nation of unhealthy people. The literature tells us that it has definitely affected morbidity (quality of life), and now for the first time the literature tells us that it is starting to affect mortality… for instance, this is the first generation that is not expected to live as long as the previous generation.

Have you been in a maternity ward lately and observed the general health of the expectant mothers? Does it take science fifty years to read its own literature, observe the situation and figure it out? Have you seen what hospitals feed their patients? It’s a travesty. For Heaven’s sake, there’s a McDonalds at Truman Medical Center in downtown Kansas City. What does that say about the mentality of the local medical community? Does it actually suggest that medical authorities think McDonalds fast food provides genuine replacement parts?

Vaccinations are contributing to autism. Any parent who has watched a behaviorally normal child slide into autistic behavior after a vaccination knows that. I have had too many parents relate that story to me in my practice, and my patients’ parents are capable and caring observers.

Facts:

• family health in our country has declined;
• children are being given ever increasing numbers of vaccinations preserved with toxic heavy metals (aluminum and mercury);
• children with poor health histories, colds, etc., are being vaccinated without being appropriately screened as a high risk;
• the medical/pharmaceutical industrial complex is protecting its reputation and profits; and
• the media has fallen in line as usual.

In a position sharply at odds with operators of Confined Animal Feeding Operations (factory farms), the Food and Drug Administration, which regulates antibiotics in animals and humans, has recently proposed to end the use of many drugs such as routine antibiotics and growth promoters in hogs and other livestock. Only antibiotics such as ionophores that have no human use would be permitted to speed animals’ growth. The FDA has set a schedule for phasing out the drugs’ use.

Factory farm operators elect to use antibiotics on all animals, regardless of their level of health. Because of this, the animals excrete excess antibiotics and this waste enters the environment, creating large amounts of antibiotic runoff. This runoff kills naturally occurring bacteria, upsetting the ecological balance. It also causes increased human exposure to antibiotics by entering the water supply and residues in meats. Because of this overexposure, human, plant and animal pathogens are becoming increasingly resistant to specific antibiotics – a severe threat to the global population.

This was recently discussed in a previous newsletter regarding its relationship to the increase in the deadly MRSA infections occurring around the industrialized world.

This is what we know so far. Electric lights result in decreased production of melatonin, a necessary brain chemical, and greater vulnerability to oxidative injury and AD. It is very important to sleep in a dark room. All sleep deprivation affects melatonin production and therefore increases the risk of AD.

Aluminum, like other metals, directly increases the production of free radicals that can and do damage the delicate myelin sheath of nervous tissue. There is a 250% increase risk of AD in people drinking municipal water high in aluminum content for more than ten years. Much municipal drinking water in North America is treated with alum (aluminum) to purify it and aluminum fluoride to prevent cavities. That’s why I have Mountain Valley Water in both my practice and my home. Characteristic brain AD lesions contain very high levels of aluminum.

Mercury is another chemical of concern, and studies show that mercury levels continue to escalate. Mercury is now found in most fish, but bigger problems come from silver dental fillings (mostly mercury). Additionally, consider that the average child receives 35 vaccines, and most of them contain thimerosol (mercury). Unfortunately, science has demonstrated that when both these toxic chemical are found together as they are in AD, the combination, due to synergy, is many times more toxic than we would expect.

Electromagnetic waves are also a culprit. Electricians, machinists, machine operators, seamstresses, sewing factory workers, sheet metal workers, typists, key punch operators, welders, and machine shop workers have a four times greater risk of acquiring AD. This study was done over twenty years ago. What would we find today when we add to that list the users of personal and business computers, cell phones, electric blankets, clock radios near the head when sleeping, and users of hair dryers. Fortunately, most of these risks are modifiable.

The gene primarily incriminated in AD is APOE4; however, the disease only occurs when there is a favorable environment. Again, the disease only occurs when there is a favorable environment.

A good test for AD risk is serum homocysteine. There is a 200% increased risk of AD in people with elevated homocysteine levels. Elevated homocysteine is related to a nutritional deficiency of the B-complex family. Serum homocysteine is a simple test that any doctor can order on patient request. Supplementation with B vitamins restores serum homocysteine to normal levels and reduces the risk to AD. Glyco-B is the Preventics B vitamin product along with Glyco Min. They can be found on the website, Ask Doctor David.

European Food Safety Authorities include “experts” financially linked to nutrasweet, but the pressure is so great that the changes continue to happen. There is no longer any question that these artificial sweeteners cause cancer. In fact it is fair to think of artificially sweetened soft drinks as formaldehyde cocktails. Oh, and for the record, Searle, the original manufacturer parent holder of Aspartame is a subsidiary of Monsanto.

“Just as the heavy use of antibiotics contributed to the rise of drug resistant supergerms, American farmers’ near ubiquitous use of the weed killer Roundup has led to the rapid growth of tenacious new superweeds.”

This results in the use of more and more toxic herbicide, more agricultural runoff, more stream and lake pollution, and a greater health risk for you and your children. Roundup (glyphosate) is dangerous. I have warned about Monsanto, and the use of glyphosate and genetically modified crops for years.

Buy local, and feed your family organically grown food whenever possible — it’s a matter of life and health.

It turns out that Bayer has been suppressing information for the last decade that their pesticides in the class of neonicotinoids have been killing the bees. The European Union has submitted a letter of concern and wants the pesticide banned, while France and Germany have already banned these chemicals.

You might wish to avoid this class of toxic chemicals to protect the health of your family and your family pets. Here is a list of most of the neonicotinoids most commonly found in use here:

• Imidacloprid (Admire, Advantage, Antarc, Chinook, Confidor, Gaucho, Hachikusan, Kochinor, Premise, Prothor, Winner)
• Clothianidin (Arena, Belay, Clutch, Gaucho, Poncho, Titan)
• Acetamiprid (Adjust, Assail, Intruder)
• Thiamethoxam (Actara, Centric, Cruiser, Helix, Platinum)

Bayer puts profits first, just like Monsanto and Dow and the other Multi-national Pharmaceutical/Chemical giants. Their list of offenses goes on and on. By threatening the honey bee population Bayer created a major threat to the world’s food supply, realized the damage they were causing, and continued sales of their pesticides anyway in the name of profit, estimated at $1.25 billion from these products.

For some time, environmental and health advocates have been asking is it really by accident that most pharmaceutical companies also manufacture pesticides, and how much do they profit by the illness suffered by individuals exposed to these toxic chemicals in both the home and workplace? I think you all know my sentiments regarding these subjects, but when the New England Journal of Medicine published an article last year stating that this generation of Americans will be the first generation to live shorter lives that the previous generation it becomes evident that these toxins impact on our overall body burden is doing some serious damage, and that’s strictly from the position of mortality. What about morbidity, and the overall decline in health over the last fifty years that corresponds with the increase in man made chemicals in our environment, and what percentage of that decline can be reasonably blamed on these chemicals? Unfortunately, the bigger these Multi-National corporations get, the less likely they are to accept responsibility.