Issue 130;
In this issue you can read:

Heart Attack, Dizziness, Sore Throats, Earaches, Rashes, Extreme
Fatigue, Chemical Sensitivities, Liver Cancer, MS, Aspartame,
Unidentified Skin Parasites, Breastfeeding, Body/Breath Odor,
Autism ...

Reproduce and forward freely.
You can read this newsletter online at
http://curezone.com/forums/fd50.asp?f=83


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Heart attack, dizziness, sore throats, earaches, rashes, extreme
fatigue, chemical sensitivities, confusion, sensitivities to
mold  ...  by Rick60
In 1990 I became very sick. Dizziness, sore throats, earaches,
rashes, extreme fatigue, confusion, sensitivities to mold, perfumes,
new furniture, newer carpeting, petroleum products, most foods, the
list goes on.  I tested positive on two separate occasions for
Candida albicans. Nothing I did helped. I was so sick that at one
point, I couldn't understand what people were saying to me. I knew
the words and what they meant, but couldn't put it all together  ...
continue reading
http://curezone.com/forums/m.asp?f=476&i=19

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Re: 6 months to live! Large tumor in liver, can I do liver flush??
by andmor
Dear Luna,  since your are left on your own now regarding medical
help, it is the perfect opportunity for you to develop and use your
own healing abilities. I have seen tumors of that size shrink to
nothing, in case it was in the brain. The cancers in your liver are
merely doing what the liver is unable to do, take out poisons and
noxious substances and remove them via the bile ducts. As long a
tumor it is not punctured by a biopsy, you are OK. Just today a
study was released that performing a biopsy on tumors in the breast
can raise the risk of spreading it by 50%, especially to lymph nodes
under the arm. ... continue reading
http://curezone.com/forums/m.asp?f=337&i=4945

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Incurables Program, Day 7   by dp9
This is the end of the first week on the Incurables Program. I have
grown in incredible ways this week, and have started up a mountain
path with the goal of being cured of an incurable illness to the
glory of God.  I have gone from being thoroughly disgusted with the
taste, looks, and labor involved with this program to completely
embracing it. It has required tremendous adjustments to our family
life, especially in the area of household chores. I am delighted
that my family has been my biggest cheering squad, followed by the
wonderful new friends I'm meeting here at Curezone. ... continue
reading
http://curezone.com/forums/m.asp?f=321&i=1444
Incurables Program, Day 5, AM   by dp9
read ....   http://curezone.com/forums/m.asp?f=321&i=1391

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Aspartame--MS and other symptoms

In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick, she had
stomach spasms, she was having a hard time getting around, to walk
was a major chore. It took everything she had just to get out of
bed, she was in so much pain. By March 2002, she had undergone
biopsies, and was on 24 various prescription medications. The
doctors could not figure out what was wrong with her. She was in so
much pain, and so sick, she knew she was dying. She put her house,
bank accounts, life insurance etc. in her oldest daughters name, and
made sure her younger children were to be with her oldest daughter.
She wanted her last hooray, so she planned a trip to Florida
(basically in a wheelchair) for March 22nd. On March 19th I called
her to ask her how one of her tests went, and she said they didn't
find anything on the test, but they believe she had MS. I thought,
oh, my....then I recalled an article a friend of mine emailed to
me...and I asked her....Do you drink Diet pop? ... continue reading
http://curezone.com/forums/m.asp?f=237&i=683

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Unidentified Skin Parasites

Yes, this is a real physical condition. I had this infection several
years ago and beat it. It was an agonizing experience, and if you
can encourage more scientific, objective research into this
condition through your program, you will be doing a very good thing
for all sufferers past and present.
My infection set in after an encounter with lice in a hotel room
while traveling. The lice were eradicated within one day but the
resulting infection remained. After a few months of seeing several
doctors and dermatologists, I pursued help through a nutritionist.
My main symptom was sharp biting pains all over my body. I also
generated the black specks from my skin. I did not experience any
itching. The sharp biting pains were extremely severe and occurred
24 hours a day ... continue reading
http://curezone.com/forums/m.asp?f=336&i=2801
Unidentified Skin Parasites Forum

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Fathers Who Breastfeed   by Milkmen

I first became interested in male lactation in 1978 after reading
Dana Raphael's book, The Tender Gift: Breastfeeding. Although
Raphael only dealt with the subject briefly, she did say that men
can and have produced milk after stimulating their nipples. While my
husband David had no interest in nursing our son, we both were
intrigued with the idea. We had just had our first unassisted
homebirth and were excited about applying our positive thinking
techniques to other aspects of our lives.... continue reading
http://curezone.com/forums/m.asp?f=60&i=735

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Journal of a 2nd Flush Continued   by lorelei

I feel compelled to share my 2nd flush experience.  1. Not as
dramatic physically as the first flush. Produced a great deal of
chaff and perhaps 20 or so medium size green stones - nothing like
the 19 larger black-encrusted stones I produced during the first
flush.  2. Very dramatic emotionally - I "flushed" a great deal of
anger and violence towards a sibling, and came to a genuine
understanding of my part in our broken relationship. Am taking
action to repair.  3. Tossed and turned irritably all night -
restless, little sleep. took no ornithine. Had the same problem the
first flush on 4 ornithine. ... continue reading
http://curezone.com/forums/m.asp?f=447&i=3710

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Round-up of Body/Breath Odor Causes   by tc-12

Info I've accumulated over the past couple years. Hope it's useful
for somebody out there...
SYSTEMATIC CANDIDA YEAST INFECTION
Some people with systemic yeast conditions (Candida) carry a "beer"
smell since yeast can turn sugar into alcohol in their bodies very
rapidly. In my Candida case I thought it a "smoky" smell, with no
exposure to tobacco smoke (some beers are "smoky," so close enough I
guess...).... continue reading
http://curezone.com/forums/m.asp?f=326&i=309

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Interesting twist on adrenal fatigue   by nobugsplease

Hi everybody. I've been reading this very interesting book
titled "Why Am I Always So Tired?" by Ann Louise Gittleman and I
want to share some information with you. The author connects poor
adrenal function with a copper/zinc imbalance. Basically they are
interconnected and usually go hand in hand. Symptoms of an imbalance
are fatigue, skin problems, racing mind, tired body, and having an
orangish tint to your hair.... continue reading
http://curezone.com/forums/m.asp?f=323&i=193

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Organic flax seed will give you regular bowel movements.   by Owen

The very best way I know to induce regular bowel movements -- at
least two every day -- is by eating four
tablespoons of fresh-ground, organic flaxseed. You must grind it
yourself, and then add it to juice or food. Flaxseed oil does not
work nearly as well..... continue reading
http://curezone.com/forums/m.asp?f=355&i=140

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Children are 27-times more likely to develop autism after exposure
to thimerosal

CDC DATA LEADS SCIENTISTS TO SHOCKING DISCOVERY
CHILDREN 27-TIMES MORE LIKELY TO DEVELOP AUTISM WITH EXPOSURE TO
MERCURY-CONTAINING VACCINES, FINDINGS REVIEWED AT TODAY'S IOM
MEETING IN DC
Washington, DC- Today, the Institute of Medicine will hold a one-day
meeting to review important new research on the link between
thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative in vaccines, and
neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism. One of the larger
studies under review comes from the CDC's own Vaccine Safety
Datalink. Under independent investigation, CDC's data concludes
children are 27-times more likely to develop autism after exposure
to three thimerosal-containing vaccines (TCVs), than those who
receive thimerosal-free versions. ... continue reading
http://curezone.com/forums/m.asp?f=74&i=402

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Day 40 (Master Cleanser Fast )

Well we are so happy for day 40 to arrive!!! I know that this will
really affect our lives. Today I had my grandkids to a small
community picnic, parade & rides..... continue reading
http://curezone.com/forums/m.asp?f=478&i=2961

One message posted by Duncan at [mscured] group ...

Espen



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To: mscured@yahoogroups.com
From: "duncanmcdowell" <duncanmcdowell@...>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 02:44:44 -0000
Subject: [mscured] Chelation



Hi All,
Janie and I have a friend in Michigan who is supposed to be dead now
due to blockage in the arteries.  We tried to get them to try
chelation, but thier doctors told them that chelation is a scam and
a waste of money and told them that if he didn't have bypass surgery
he would die.  Then a few months after the bypass they went back for
a checkup and found that he was already 50% blocked in the bypass.


The doctor told them there was no option for another bypass surgery,
and for him to go home and prepare his will, because he was going to
die.  They asked the cardiologist again about chelation as an option
and he again recommended against it.  Attached is a copy of an email
that his wife sent to all their friends recently, including me.  I
think you will find it interesting reading.


Duncan
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Subject: Update on Tom



Hi Everyone,
   I should have written this update sooner, but we've been pretty
busy getting ready for our son Brian's wedding later this month.
Tom got the results of his last stress test about 2 weeks ago.  It
was great news.  There was NO mention of any blockages in his
heart!


Please keep in mind the miracle of this, as Tom had to undergo a
bypass (through the ribcage) in July 2000, and was given 6 months to
a year to live, as his arteries were in the advanced stages of
arteriolosclerosis.  He was again hospitalized after yet another
heart attack in March 2001 (8 months after the diagnosis).  I
remember it like it was yesterday, the cardiologist came into his
room and told Tom that the artery that they had just bypassed the
previous July was already blocking up and was about 50% blocked
already.  The doctor cut me a look, and I heard him loud and clear
and he didn't utter one word....I knew that Tom would not be long
for this world.   I asked him if another bypass could be done, he
replied that there wasn't a surgeon in the state of Michigan that
would perform surgery on him with his arteries clogging at this
rate. I was devastated.


Tom and I had already scheduled an appointment for
him to see a Chelation Doctor, to see if this might be an option for
him, so I told the cardiologist our plans.  He looked disgusted and
told us NOT to throw our money away on chelation!  After he left the
room Tom and I started talking about it.  Tom said that it was alot
of money, and that he didn't want to burden our monthly expenses.  I
told him that we HAD to try this, that if anything should happen to
him that I wanted to know that we had done EVERYTHING to try and
keep him alive, and my heartfelt tears I think showed him I was
desperate and he agreed to try it.  We he was discharged from the
hospital I called the Chelation Doctor's nurse and asked her if on
Tom's 1st visit if the chelation treatments could start instead of
the usual conference with the doctor on the 1st visit, they had us
get his bloodwork together and did begin the treatments on that 1st
visit.  I can't express enough to all of you the emotional roller
coaster we were on during that time.  I was so scared I was going to
lose my husband, the love of my life, and Tom was scared imagining
what my life would be without him.  I was also afraid that we had
waited too late for the chelation treatments to do any good.  Thank
the Lord that I was wrong.  Tom's arteries are now opened!!


I know that there
is some damage to his heart from the heart attacks, but I still have
my husband 19 months after he was told he would be lucky to last 6
months to a year!  God does answer prayers!  And conventional
medicine is NOT the be all, end all that we are led to believe.  I
beg any of you who know someone who has arteriolosclerosis, to urge
them to get chelation treatments, it can save their life!  Also,
Tom's diabetes is now at normal levels, and he requires no
medication for it and the only thing he has done differently is
chelation!


   When we got the report from his stress test back we took it into
the Chelation Doctors office (Dr. Bernard), we were showing all the
doctors there and I can't tell you the wide smiles that were on
their faces!  How good it must make them feel to see a patient who
was suppose to be dead by now, doing so well!  God bless these
doctors who must endure the ridicule of their peers, but know in
their hearts the life's they are saving!


   I plan to start a maintenance dose treatment of chelation myself,
after we get through with Brian's wedding.  After all, we do have a
history of heart disease and strokes in my family tree and I want to
live as long as my husband is going to!


   If it weren't for the "urging" of 2 dear friends in Beaumont,
Texas, we would never had heard of chelation and wouldn't have
been "reminded" that we should try it!  :)  Duncan and Janie, Thank
you, is a masterpiece of understatement for the deep gratitude and
love we feel for you in our hearts, please know if there is ever
anything we can do for you, all you have to do is ask!  We love you!
   Thank you all for your support and prayers, and please keep them
up, they DO help!


Love,
Donna and Tom

To: heartattack@yahoogroups.com
From: "lee groth" <elgr@...>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 01:37:01
Subject: [heartattack] heart valves and hematocrits



.             Report From the Front


Seven years ago My father felt tired and depressed from his wife’s death.
Based on an angiogram that almost killed him because of the dye, he had a
quadruple bypass.  Now, I believe doctors over-specialize in acute illness.
They often relegate non-imminent patient problems to a forgotten future.
This predisposes their being taken by surprise when symptoms ‘suddenly’
reappear with the patient in a crisis.  A year ago my father’s ‘world
famous’ cardiologist mentioned that his aortic valve would need replacement
in a couple of years.  Several months later My father felt shortness in his
breathing and was told that he needed his left circumflex coronary artery
unblocked (again), and needed that aortic valve replaced soon.


I had prepared to help My father deal with possible prostate cancer, and had
spent a month with him on that.  My father trusted his urologist and
cardiologist.  I opposed most of what they said and did, so my father did
not trust me.  I believe allopathic physicians take a ‘rough approximation’
approach to optimal treatment.  They act like, “If we can get the patient
through surgery without major error, the rest is really academic.”  I don’t
trust any doctor to give optimal care.  I equate oncologists with Mengele,
and enter hospitals looking for trouble.  My father didn’t like my
‘interfering attitude’ and pressured me to not bother his doctors.  At times
he actively blocked me from quizzing them.


For those over 50 using a heart-lung bypass machine, some brain cells die
post-operatively due to oxidative damage caused by blood reperfusion and
bombardment from unfilterable microscopic debris, fat globules, etc.  So
when my father’s post-op temperature shot up, I saw that as a possible sign
of his body’s reaction to this kind of damage.  The hospital doc prescribed
Tylenol, ignoring cell enzyme readings that indicate cell death.  My father
refused to even take my vitamin C for possible oxidation damage, but readily
took the doc’s Tylenol.


My father had reluctantly gone along with my first month’s program for
prostate cancer.  But he opposed my hostile anti-orthodoxy, even after
seeing his rising PSA suddenly drop at the end of only two weeks’ treatment.
   When My father felt bad and had diarrhea following a flu shot (that I
opposed) from his cardiologist (!), he used the diarrhea as a reason to
abandon my phytochemical regimen.  At month’s end he stopped taking my
supplements.


Years earlier, when I had tried to put my mother on hydergine and other
neural-protective drugs for her Alzheimer’s, My father had stopped my
treatment based on a rash that she developed.  Only after her death did he
mention that he had discovered his washing her underwear in bleach without
sufficient water had caused the emergence of that rash.  I was waiting to
see the consequence to his PSA score from his decision to stop my regimen.
This was dropped due to the priority of his cardiologist’s sudden summons.


My father’s cardiologist had wanted my father to sell his house to a friend,
but my father received a better offer.  During pre-op appointments the
cardiologist expressed his disappointment about the sale.  He made some
cryptic comments such as,  “What I say has meaning far beyond its literal
interpretation!” and “When you are about to die, you don’t deny God’s
existence.”  They never discussed test results or details on the types of
valves available for surgery, etc.


Two months before his heart operations, on a regular visit I asked my
father’s cardiologist if he might prescribe epigen shots to raise my
father’s hemoglobin and red cell levels.  My father’s hematocrit score was
then 41.  I got a flat “No” without explanation.  Whenever I had the
opportunity I would urge that level be raised, on general principle.  By the
time we were involved with cardiac physicians my father’s hematocrit score
had fallen to 38.3.  Even then I was told “No”, without explanation.  I
hoped to raise his score to 45, as his heart condition above all cried out
for an optimal oxygen delivery system.


Six days before my father’s stent catheterization hematocrit was 38.3.
Immediately after that operation the surgeon ordered a blood test
specifically measuring red blood cell related counts.  It showed a drop to
30.3, a 20% loss in blood!  Where could the blood have gone and how did the
surgeon know to check on blood counts?  My father was told the operation was
a success and sent home without restrictions.  We were not informed that he
was now severely anemic.  To the contrary we expected improved respiration
because of his now opened left circumflex coronary artery.


I had actively opposed doctors’ demands for an immediate valve replacement
operation.  No ejection fraction was given as justification.  On my own I
found that his valve was classified as stage 3 out of 6, a
moderate-to-severe condition.  It was as if the cardiac physicians had
purposely sent my father home anemic to make him feel bad enough to decide
that he really better have that valve replacement done soon!  If so they
were more than successful.  After a day home, a dinner, and a walk, my
father’s heart physically malfunctioned for the first time in his life,
going into arrhythmia.


We were immediately back in the hospital, with plans for valve replacement
at full pace.  I obtained my father’s medical records.  They revealed his
hematocrit’s 8 point drop to 30.3.  Now I checked my father’s hematocrit
level after each blood count.  I asked the attending doctor if he would
raise the hematocrit level.  “No”.  I did get a nurse to grudgingly supply a
little oxygen.  I asked for some recuperation time away from the hospital,
before the valve replacement operation, so that my father might recover from
the stress of his arrhythmia.  The surgeon complied to this final request,
giving my father a single epigen shot and sending him home for a few days.


The shot wouldn’t have enough time to spur production of red blood cells, so
I asked my father’s cardiologist if she would let my father have at-home
oxygen.  The cardiologist refused, and openly explained to a family friend
and myself that if my father were to get that oxygen, he might feel good
enough to change his mind about the valve replacement operation!  MY
PARANOIA - CONFIRMED!  You might justify withholding painkillers that made a
patient feel better, because they conflicted with the patient’s condition.
But since when had doctors begun withholding treatments that made a patient
feel better AND benefited his condition, because they conflicted WITH THE
DOCTORS’ FEELINGS!


The medical records disagreed with my father’s carry-with-you stent card.
Four stents were listed on the card, but according to records, only two
stents had been placed during the catheterization.  The surgeon had placed a
3.5 mm “penta” stent mid, and then a 4.0 mm stent proximal, in the left
circumflex artery.  He then ballooned 20 atm, distal and proximal, while
trying to deploy a small 2.5 mm “pixel” stent ­ four times!  Failing to
succeed, he finally gave up and closed the artery.


The surgeon was not reachable for several days.  Now I was FREAKED OUT!
When I finally reached him, he said that he had tried to place stents in
tributary arteries.  He was unable to “find the names of these arteries” on
the stent card’s list of arteries.  Then he left, ending the discussion.
What specifically had gone wrong and how much of my father’s coronary still
remained blocked?  My father’s influence and the doc’s quick departure kept
me from finding out.


I had been thrown into this heart disease whirlpool unprepared, as I had
focused on his prostate cancer.  Further, my father did not have faith in my
reliability.  But my alarm and paranoia scared him.  I have only described
half of what disturbed me about his treatment during these three months.
But my father got to hear it all, and became more and more agitated.  He
reached a breaking point, and told me to go; go as soon as his sister could
fly out and arrive to take my place.


She arrived and I awaited my plane’s departure date.  We had a week’s
overlap.  I had been boning up on heart disease, trying to figure out what
was going on.  I read a book by Gould, another by Ewald.  On the drive back
from my father’s hospital room, I mentioned to her Ewald’s theory that heart
germs might be the real source of heart disease.  She got very mad and
exclaimed, “I don’t want to hear about that!  I’m not interested.”  She then
accused me of aggravating my father’s doctors.  She said that when she met
them her opinion of them would be entirely different from mine because she
would approach them with trust.


Now I had avoided stepping on doctor’s toes as much as I possibly could.  I
never repeated questions over again, or asked “Why not?” or said “You’re
wrong!”   My tone was always submissive.  Originally I had wanted to delay
my father’s aortic valve replacement so that he would have some time to
recover from his previous stent catheterization. . . and from the fear he
had caught from my paranoia over his treatment by these doctors.  He also
very much feared going through this open heart surgery.  The surgeon had
objected, and my father wasn’t going to go against the surgeon.


Two days passed by in the hospital room.  Then the day before the scheduled
operation, the surgeon arrived and told us that my father could go home for
a few more days and recuperate.  Well, that’s good, but that’s also bad,
when you have spent the last couple of days ‘steeling’ yourself for the
scheduled operation, only to have it cancelled.  It’s like an execution
reprieve, in reverse.  My aunt argued with the surgeon in very stressed
tones, basically saying that she had planned on a shorter stay and that this
would invalidate her return flight ticket.  The surgeon replied, “But you
asked for a delay”, referring to MY request.  My father literally stared
daggers at me for having ‘caused’ this change in plans.


During the reprieve time at home my father pointedly made my aunt his
financial executor, conspicuously driving to the bank without me, etc.


Once he wouldn’t allow me to put my quarters into a parking meter.  Instead
he required me to walk back to his car and locate his own quarters that were
hidden in a tray in his car whose location he vaguely described.


The toaster had burnt toast and I had come from the kitchen.  My father
remarked, “What’s that burning?”  My aunt followed through, saying to me,
“That’s toast!  How could you burn the toast?”   I replied to my aunt, “That
was the toast you put in the toaster earlier.  It burned up and I had to
take it out.”  Everyone now lost interest in the details of who was at
fault.  There were no more questions about how such a thing could happen.
No one smiled much these days.  It definitely was time to leave.


After the surgery, my father’s hematocrit dropped as low as 27.   I finally,
more aggressively asked the surgeon, “I don’t mean to be contentious or
difficult or anything, but why NOT raise the hematocrit level?”  The
surgeon’s nurse said, “What!  To 40?”  I said, “Yeah. Would that do anything
wrong?”  The surgeon said, “You should become a doctor.” And walked away
without answering the question.


Two days later I was on a plane going home, thinking about a Steve Martin
skit on Saturday Night Live.  The Medieval Barber: “Now, who’s the barber
here!”.

Press release from Dr. Matthias Rath

The BAYER scandal
- The beginning of the end of the "pharmaceutical business in disease"

Bayer has had to take its two medicines for fat metabolism, Baycol and
Lipobay, off the market. The reason for this is, in the USA 31 people have
died after taking these preparations. However, the reason for the
withdrawal of these medicines is not remorse in Bayer's headquarters, but
the threat of claims for billions of dollars in compensation in the USA,
where large law firms are already representing the rights of those harmed
by Bayer.

Terrible though the death of 31 people as a result of taking the Bayer
medicines is, compared with the number of deaths caused by pharmaceutical
preparations worldwide, this is only a fraction. In Europe, more people die
from the known and dangerous side effects of licensed medicines than in
traffic accidents. In the USA, the dangerous side effects of pharmaceutical
preparations are now the fourth most common cause of death - exceeded only
by heart attack, cancer and strokes.

The Bayer scandal is therefore only the tip of the iceberg. On 3 January
1996, the American doctors' journal, Journal of the American Medical
Association, warned that all cholesterol-lowering products can cause cancer
and thus have a potentially fatal side effect. For five years this warning
was ignored by Bayer and other manufacturers of cholesterol-lowering
preparations. They were earning billions and accepted illness and the death
of millions. But the end of this tragedy is in sight. If law firms in the
USA now sue the Bayer concern on account of the fatal side effect of its
preparations, it is only a question of time before the other pharmaceutical
concerns are overwhelmed with mass actions by the victims. The basis of
business for the pharmaceutical industry worldwide is the development of
preparations aimed at the symptoms but which largely leave the true causes
of diseases untreated. Only this can be the explanation why widespread
diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and diabetes, continue to
increase on a world scale.

Dr. Rath is regarded throughout the world as a pioneer in educating the
public about the unscrupulous business practices of the pharmaceutical
industry. As long ago as 21 June 1997, in a lecture at Chemnitz City Hall
that received international attention, Dr. Rath said "In the USA lawyers in
43 states have taken action against the cigarette industry to pay
compensation for the harm that this industry has caused in the population.
Yet the harm that the pharmaceutical industry has caused to millions of
patients and the community is far greater. It is only a question of time
before this branch of industry too is brought to book."

Dr. Rath's internet site www.drrath.com contains numerous documents from
his years of educational work about the unscrupulous pharmaceutical
business. With more than 1 million hits a month, this internet site is one
of the leading sources for natural health worldwide. Dr. Rath is the
founder and director of a research institute for natural health that has
proved that numerous widespread diseases, including disturbances of fat
metabolism, high cholesterol levels and other metabolic diseases can be
treated through optimally dosed vitamin programmes. In clinical trials he
has proved that these natural products are able to lower cholesterol
levels, triglyceride levels and the risk factor homocysteine in a natural
way - without dangerous side effects such as occur with the Bayer
preparations and comparable medicines.

http://www.drrath.com/menue/news_content/uk/bayer_scandal.htm

Angina Pain
by F. Batmanghelidj, M.D.

If you suffer from angina pain - that sudden, terrifying tightness in your
chest that makes it difficult to move or even breathe - you've probably
also been told you have coronary artery disease. Doctors will tell you it's
cholesterol that's causing your arteries to narrow, and prescribe beta
blockers and ACE inhibitors, balloon angioplasty or major, life-threatening
surgery like coronary artery bypass.

But it's not cholesterol that's blocking your arteries. Angina is actually
caused by dehydration. As prolonged drought sets in, your body becomes more
acidic. Acid-like chemicals are produced that burn into the cell membranes
in the linings of your arteries, causing painful angina spasms.

Cholesterol actually plays a protective role, bandaging the damaged
membranes and keeping them from peeling away. Only water can correct this
acid imbalance and relieve the tortuous pain it causes.

F. Batmanghelidj, M.D.

http://www.watercure.com/

Cholesterol Drops 76 Points!

"Last year I was shocked to discover that my blood cholesterol level had shot
up to 279.

When you 'prescribed' ample water be taken before meals instead of medication
that I was just about to submit myself to, I was very skeptical.

In two months, and with very little observance of all the old 'rules' which
were making my life miserable, my cholesterol went down to 203 for the first
time in more than nine years! My weight too was surprisingly down by about
eight pounds and has since been under control...I believe I owe you a big THANK
YOU."

- Mohammed Whaby, Washington, DC
http://www.watercure.com/cure8.htm

To: <heartattack@yahoogroups.com>
From: "Lorenzo" <lorenzo1@...>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 23:45:14 -0600
Reply-To: heartattack@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [heartattack] ?


John ,

Good Luck in your search for a Doctor;  Don't give up--you may find a good
one.     Over the years alongside of my very good friend who ate a  solid
sugar killer diet I met two Dr.s whom I felt were quite honest.  One lived
next door to my sick friend and the other ran a research lab that my friend
was Chairman of:


Near the end of my friends life they both told me that they had no idea of
what was true cause of heart disease really was.


I happen to believe that a foolish diet has killed several of my friends.  I
eat sensibly and I am still alive at 75 --I can still work an 8 hour day!


At this time I have gone to the Paleo or Cave Man Diet--However I started a
diet close to  it back in Year 1950.


John,  Is what you eat killing you --ever so slowly?

If so you may never ever find a Dr. who can help you .



Best Regards,   Lorenzo

An interesting message from gallstones@yahoogroups.com.

WARNING!
If you don't tolerate Cayenne, it may be bad for your health.
People of blood type B sometimes don't tolerate cayenne.
Agnes


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From: "Jim" <brewspad@...>
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Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 20:03:09 -0700
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Subject: RE: [gallstones] Is the flush dangerous?


Hello:


I've done 9 flushes with good success, but then I didn't have gall bladder
pain, so will let others answer that specific problem, those who have
experienced pain or gall bladder difficulty and who have also done the
flushes.


However, after reading the book "Left For Dead" by Dick Quinn, a man whose
by-pass surgery was not successful, and who refused further surgery and
'healed' his arteries with cayenne pepper, I've been ingesting it myself.
In his book he states:  "Cayenne regulates blood pressure, strengthens the
pulse, feeds the heart, lowers cholesterol, thins the blood, cleanses the
circulatory system, HEALS ULCERS, stops hemorrhaging, speeds healing of
wounds......." and on and on.  I mix cayenne with lemon juice and a glass of
water (I'm up to 1/2 teaspoon of 140K heat units) and notice that it
produces saliva and brings out mucus.  I would suspect that might be where
the healing property originates for ulcers.


At the web site: http://www.nutritionreporter.com/hot_stuff.html


you will find an article relative to cayenne's (capsaicin) ability to heal
ulcers (I've cut and pasted the article below).


Health food stores sell cayenne in capsules, but I would avoid that if I
were you.  I started small (1/10th of a teaspoon) and worked my way up.  If
you decide to go that route, you may wish to use less to begin with.


Jim


a portion of the story below:

"Capsaicin for Treating Ulcers

People suffering from ulcers are usually warned to avoid spicy foods. But
new research suggests that capsaicin the opposite - that capsaicin might
actually protect against peptic ulcers.

A number of experiments over the years have found that capsaicin protects
the gastric mucosal membrane against damage from alcohol and aspirin. Jin Y.
Kang, M.D., of the National University of Singapore, recently speculated
that capsaicin might work by stimulating a hormone that increases blood flow
and nourishes the gastric mucosal membrane. He also suggested that capsaicin
rather than spicy foods in general might be helpful.6

In an intriguing study, Kang noted that peptic ulcers were more common among
Chinese than among Malay and Indian residents of Singapore. After ruling out
race as an influence, Kang had a hunch that the high rate of ulcers among
the Chinese was the result of their relatively low chile consumption.
So he carefully compared the chile-eating habits of 103 Chinese patients
with peptic ulcers and 87 Chinese patients without ulcers. Kang discovered
that ulcer-free patients ate 2.6 times more chile than those with ulcers.
The ulcer-free patients also ate chile more often-24 times per month,
compared with 8 times per month for those with ulcers."


This site also has an article about healing ulcers with cayenne:
http://mn.essortment.com/pepticulcerdis_rzqe.htm


and I have copied a portion of the text below (I don't agree though that
capsules are preferred over cayenne as a food):


ALTERNATIVE ULCER THERAPY
CAYENNE pepper eaten as a food can irritate an ulcer. Cayenne pepper
capsules however, are a time honored treatment for ulcers in Europe. Cayenne
works at rebuilding damage stomach linings and increases the stomach's
production of mucus. Take up to 3, 450-mg. tablets with food and a glass of
water daily.

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Message: 3
    Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:35:47 -0700
    From: "John Polifronio" <counterpnt@...>
Subject: Re: Chelation for aggressive heart disease


Yes, I've had about 50 chelation treatments.  I would suggest to anyone to
think twice before trying it.  There is no evidence that it works, and
though the evidence against it, is not conclusive, it certainly didn't do me
any good, that I was able to perceive.  EDTA (the substance claimed to clean
out arteries) is administered, intravenously, along with a group of commonly
heard of nutrients.

What has worked for me, when I have the stamina and good sense to do it, is
very strict adherence to the best dietary practices, particularly the
consumption of large quantities of fresh, green leafy, and other vegetables;
modest amounts of fresh fruit, modest amounts of whole grain, including
brown rice, freshly made juices, modest amounts of nuts and seeds.  These
food choices are the best for healing.  The doctors and surgeons cannot help
you if you think you can go on "eating as you please."  Weight loss is
essential, adequate bed rest, avoidance of stress, clean air, sunshine,
clean water.  Daily exercise is absolutely essential, if progress is to
made.

I also had about 50 EECP treatments, which has gotten more respect from the
orthodox doctors, than has chelation.  But, it also did me little or no
good.

Your experiences with chelation and EECP (Ehanced External CounterPulsation)
may be more positive than mine.  Some people claim to benefit from these
procedures.

If arteries continue to re-stenose (re-clog), diet is almost certainly
responsible.

My heart disease is as bad or as good as my diet.  When I eat carefully, my
sypmtons decline.  When I eat badly I suffer severe chest pain, when doing
easy exercises.  Obesity is deadly.  Lack of exercise is suicidal.

We all have different viewpoints on these deadly diseases of the heart and
cardio-vascular systems.  The notions expressed here, are my views.  They're
all I have to offer, besides wishing you the best of luck
John P.

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Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 4:21 PM
Subject: [heartattack] Chelation for aggressive heart disease



Does anyone have personal experience with chelation for blocked
arteries?  My husband had open heart surgery almost 9 months ago with
5 by-passes and the by-passes blocked up 80 to 90% in only 7 months
after the surgery.  They then used balloon angioplasty to open the
main arteries but could do nothing about 2 new brach blockages that
are 90% blocked.  He is going to try chelation.  It would be so
helpful if anyone has tried this and can share his or her
experience.  Hopefully positive. Just discovered this site today and
do not really know how to use it but will try anyway.




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Message: 8
    Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 16:53:59 -0000
    From: Bilhar@...
Subject: Anyone Trying the Tea


A few hours ago,, I carried a cloths basket with clean laundry up the
stairs,,,no problem,, showered went to Wal-Mart,, shopped,,, then
went to Grocery store shopped,,, came home unloaded car,,, put things
away,,, started a pot of Homemade Veg soup,,,,yes with some beef, in
it,,, but more fat free bullion,, decided to sit down and tell you
about it,,,, also boild some tea water,,, normally i would have to
take 2 nitro pills to do this,,,,when i got home,, unloaded the first
load,, i felt a little angina,, paused for about 2 minutes,, went on
with the task at hand,, drank some tea,,, NO PROBLEMS,,,,, This is
unbeliveable to me,,,, so I don,t mind if you feel skeptical,,, but
try it if you have angina,,,,,,see for yourself,,,, Also I found some
tea at the store Celestical seasons,,,Black tea with Antioxidants,
C ,E,& A,,, says 50% more antioxidants than normal tea.   Not only do
I not have angina,, I have a feeling of well being,,,,  but that
could be my mother is coming to visit,,  this evening,,, picking her
and my sister up at 10 PM,,at the Train Station,, but don,t think
so,,,,, I plain and simple feel better, after only 2 days,,,,
Regards,, bill H,




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Insulin and Its Metabolic Effects
By Ron Rosedale, M.D.

http://www.mercola.com/2001/jul/14/insulin.htm


Presented at Designs for Health Institute's BoulderFest August 1999 Seminar

DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT:

This is a very long article which is essentially a lecture transcription
given by Dr. Rosedale two years ago at BoulderFest. I will actually be
speaking there this year at the end of July.

I am very grateful to Dr. Rosedale, as he is the person who convinced me in
January of 1995 with a three hour lecture that contained much of the
material below, of the great importance of insulin. I have been using this
work for six and half years and I am absolutely convinced of its validity.
I see similar results that Dr. Rosedale describes nearly every day in my
practice.

It is also interesting to note that Dr. Rosedale is a HUGE fan of grass fed
beef.


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Insulin and Its Metabolic Effects
By Ron Rosedale, M.D.

Let's talk about a couple of case histories. These are actual patients that
I've seen; let's start with patient A. This patient who we will just call
patient A saw me one afternoon and said that he had literally just signed
himself out of the hospital "AMA," or against medical advice. Like in the
movies, he had ripped out his IV's.

The next day he was scheduled to have his second by-pass surgery. He had
been told that if he did not follow through with this by-pass surgery,
within two weeks he would be dead. He couldn't walk from the car to the
office without severe chest pain.

He was on 102 units of insulin and his blood sugars were 300 plus. He was
on eight different medications for various things. But his first by-pass
surgery was such a miserable experience he said he would rather just die
than have to go through the second one and had heard that I might be able
to prevent that.

To make a long story short, this gentleman right now is on no insulin. I
first saw him three and a half years ago. He plays golf four or five times
a week. He is on no medications whatsoever, he has no chest pain, and he
has not had any surgery. He started an organization called "Heart Support
of America" to educated people that there are alternatives to by-pass
surgery that have nothing to do with surgery or medication. That
organization, he last told me had a mailing list of over a million people,
a large organization, "Heart Support of America."

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Patient B is a patient who had a triglyceride level of 2200. Patient B was
referred by patient A. He had a triglyceride of 2200, cholesterol of 950
and was on maximum doses of all of his medications. He was 42 years old,
and he was told that he had familial hyperlipidema and that he had better
get his affairs in order, that if that was what his lipids were despite the
best medications with the highest doses, he was in trouble.

He was not fat at all, he was fairly thin

Whenever I see a patient on any of those medications, they're off the very
first visit. They have no place in medicine. He was taken off the
medications and in six weeks his lipid levels, both his Triglycerides and
his cholesterol were hovering around 220. Six more weeks they were both
under 200, off of the medications. They have no place in medicine.

I should mention that this patient had a CPK that was quite elevated. It
was circled on the lab report that he brought in initially with a question
mark by it because they didn't know why. The reason why was because he was
eating off his muscles, because if you take (gemfibrozole) and any of the
HMG co-enzyme reductase inhibitors together, that is a common side effect
that is in the PDR, and they shouldn't be given together.

So he was chewing up his muscles, including his heart which they were
trying to treat. So if indeed he was going to die, it was going to be that
treatment that was going to kill him.

--------------------------------------------
Let's go to something totally different, a lady with severe osteoporosis.
She is almost three standard deviations below the norm in both the hip
femeral neck and the cervical vertebrae, and she is very worried about
getting a fracture. A fairly young woman and she was put on a high
carbohydrate diet and told that would be of benefit, and placed on
estrogen, which is a fairly typical treatment.

They wanted to put her on some other medicines and she didn't want to, she
wanted to know if there was an alternative. Although we didn't have as
dramatic a turn around, we got her to one standard deviation below the norm
in a year, taking her off the estrogen she was on, anyway.

Let's go to claudication

That is severe angina of the leg when you walk, same thing as angina of the
heart except of the leg. While walking, after walking a certain distance,
there is pain. There was a gentleman who had extremely severe claudication,
who happens to be my stepfather. It was a typical case, he would walk about
fifty yards and then he would get severe, crampy pain in his legs. He was
quite well off and was going to see the best doctors in Chicago, and they
couldn't figure out what was wrong with him initially.

He went to a neurologist, they thought it might be neurological pain or
back pain. He finally went to a vascular surgeon who said he thought it was
vascular disease, so they did an arthrogram and sure enough, he had severe
vascular disease. They wanted to do the typical by-pass surgery that they
normally do on this. He was thinking of going in for the surgery for one
reason, they had a trip planned to Europe in two weeks, and he wanted to be
able to walk since they normally do a lot of walking.

Ten years previously he'd had an angioplasty for heart disease. At the time
ten years ago, I told him he had to change his diet and he didn't of
course. But this time he listened. I said that if he was not going to have
a by-pass, then do exactly what I tell you to do and in two weeks you'll be
walking just fine because by modulating this one aspect of his disease, I
have never seen it not work, and it works very quickly to open up the artery.

We can talk about a patient with a very high cancer risk

She had a mother and a sister who both died of breast cancer and she didn't
want to, so she came in and I put her on the exact same treatment as the
other cases I just mentioned. They were all treated virtually identically
because they all had the same thing wrong with them.

What would be the typical treatment of cardiovascular disease? First they
check the cholesterol. High cholesterol over 200, they put you on
cholesterol lowering drugs and what does it do? It shuts off your CoQ10.
What does CoQ10 do? It is involved in the energy production and protection
of little energy furnaces in every cell, so energy production goes way down.

A common side effect of people who are on all these HMG co-enzyme reductase
inhibitors is that they tell you their arms feel heavy. Well, the heart is
a muscle too, and it's going to feel heavy too. One of the best treatments
for a weak heart is CoQ10 for congestive heart failure. But they have no
trouble shutting CoQ10 production off so that they can treat a number. And
the common therapies for osteoporosis are drugs, and the common therapy for
calaudication is surgery. For cancer reduction there is nothing. But all of
these have a common cause.

The same cause as three major avenues of research in aging. One is called
caloric restriction. There are thousands of studies done since the fifties
on caloric restriction. They restrict calories of laboratory animals.

They have known since the fifties that if you restrict calories but
maintain a high level of nutrition, called "C.R.O.N.'s:" Caloric
restriction with optimal nutrition, or adequate nutrition, which would be
CRAN"S, these animals can live anywhere between thirty and two-hundred
percent longer depending on the species.

They've done it on several dozen species and the results are uniform
throughout. They are doing it on primates now and it is working with
primates, we won't know for sure for about another ten years, they are
about half way through the experiment, our nearest relatives are also
living much longer.

Then there are Centenarian studies

There are three major centenarian studies going on around the world. They
are trying to find the variable that would confer longevity among these
people. Why do centenarians become centenarians? Why are they so lucky? Is
it because they have low cholesterol, exercise a lot, live a healthy, clean
life?

Well the longest recorded known person who has ever lived, Jean Calumet of
France who died last year at 122 years, smoked all of her life and drank.

What they are finding on these major centenarian studies is that there is
hardly anything in common among them. They have high cholesterol and low
cholesterol, some exercise and some don't, some smoke, some don't. Some are
nasty as can be and some nice and calm and nice. Some are ornery, but they
all low sugar, relatively for their age. They all have low triglycerides
for their age.

And they all have relatively low insulin. Insulin is the common denominator
in everything I've just talked about. They way to treat cardiovascular
disease and the way I treated my stepfather, the way I treated the high
risk cancer patient, and osteoporosis, high blood pressure, the way to
treat virtually all the so-called chronic diseases of aging is to treat
insulin itself.

The other major avenue of research in aging has to do with genetic studies
of so-called lower organisms. We know the genetics involved. We've got the
entire genes mapped out of several species now, of yeast and worms. We
think of life span as being fixed, sort of.

Humans kind of have an average life span of seventy-six, and the maximum
life-span was this French lady at one-hundred and twenty-two. In humans we
feel it is relatively fixed, but in lower forms of life it is very plastic.
Life span is strictly a variable depending on the environment. They can
live two weeks, two years, or sometimes twenty years depending on what they
want themselves to do, which depends very much on the environment.

If there is a lot of food around they are going to reproduce quickly and
die quickly, if not they will just bide their time until conditions are
better. We know now that the variability in life span is regulated by insulin.

One thinks of insulin as strictly to lower blood sugar. Today in the clinic
there was a patient listing off her drugs, she listed about eight drugs she
was on and didn't even mention insulin. Insulin is not treated as a drug.
In fact, in some places you don't even need a prescription, you can just
get it over the counter, it's treated like candy.

Insulin is found as in even single celled organisms. It has been around for
several billion years. And its purpose in some organisms is to regulate
life span. The way genetics works is that genes are not replaced, they are
built upon. We have the same genes as everything that came before us. We
just have more of them.

We have added books to our genetic library, but our base is the same. What
we are finding is that we can use insulin to regulate lifespan too.

If there is a single marker for lifespan, as they are finding in the
centenarian studies, it is insulin, specifically, insulin sensitivity.

How sensitive are your cells to insulin. When they are not sensitive, the
insulin levels go up. Who has heard of the term insulin resistance?

Insulin resistance is the basis of all of the chronic diseases of aging,
because the disease itself is actually aging.

We know now that aging is a disease. The other case studies that I
mentioned, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, obesity, diabetes, cancer,
all the so-called chronic diseases of aging, auto-immune diseases, those
are symptoms.

If you have a cold and you go to the doctor, you have a runny nose, I did
Ear, Nose and Throat for ten years, I know what the common treatment for
that is, they give you a decongestant. I can't tell you how many patients I
saw who had been given Sudafed by their family doctors for a cold and they
came to see me after because of a really bad sinus infection.

What happens when you treat the symptom of a runny nose from a cold and you
take a decongestant? It certainly decongests you by shutting off the mucus.
Why do you have the mucus, because you are trying to clean and wash out the
membranes, and what else?

What else is in mucus? Secretory IgA, a very strong antibody to kill the
virus is in the mucus. If there is no mucus, there is no secretory IgA.


Decongestants also constrict blood vessels, the little capillaries, or
arterioles that go to those capillaries, the cilia, the little hair-like
projections that beat to push mucus along to create a stream, they get
paralyzed because they don't have blood flow so there is no more ciliary
movement. What happens if you dam a stream and create a pond?


In days you've got larvae growing. If the stream is moving, you are fine.
You need a constant stream of mucus to get rid of and prevent an infection.
I am going in to this in some detail because in almost all cases if you
treat a symptom, you are going to make the disease worse because the
symptom is there as your body's attempt to heal itself.

Now, the medical profession is continuously segregating more and more
symptoms into diseases, they call the symptoms diseases. Using ENT for
example, that patient will walk out of there with a diagnosis of Rhinitis
which is inflammation of the nose. Is there a reason that patient has
inflammation of the nose? I think so. Wouldn't that underlying cause be the
disease as opposed to the descriptive term of Rhinitis or Pharyngitis?

Some one can have the same virus and have Rhinitis or Pharyngitis, or
Sinusitis, they can have all sorts of "itis's" which is a descriptive term
for inflammation. That is what the code will be and that is what the
disease will be. So they treat what they think is the disease which is just
a symptom.

It is the same thing with cholesterol.

If you have high cholesterol it is called hypercholesterolemia.
Hypercholesterolemia has become the code for the disease when it is only
the symptom. So they treat that symptom and what are they doing to the
heart? Messing it up.

So what you have to do if you are going to treat any disease is you need to
get to the root of the disease. If you keep pulling a dandelion out by it's
leaves, you are not going to get very far. But the problem is that we don't
know what the root is, or we haven't.

They know what it is in many other areas of science, but the problem is
that medicine really isn't a science, it is a business, but I don't want to
get in to that, we can talk hours on that. But if you really look at the
root of what is causing it, we can use that cold as a further example.

Why does that person have a cold?

If he saw the doctor, the doctor might tell him to take an antibiotic along
with the decongestant. You see this all the time because the doctor wants
to get rid of the patient. Well we all know that in almost all cases of an
upper respiratory infection it is a virus, and the antibiotic is going to
do worse than nothing because it is going to kill the bacterial flora in
the gut and impair the immune system, making the immune system worse.

The patient might see someone else more knowledgeable who will say no, you
caught a virus, don't do anything, go home and sleep, let your body heal
itself. That's better. You might see someone else who would ask why you
caught a virus without being out there trying to hunt for viruses with a
net. We are breathing viruses every day; right now we are breathing
viruses, cold viruses, rhinoviruses.

Why doesn't everybody catch a cold tomorrow?

The Chinese will tell you that it is because the milieu has to be right, if
the Chinese were to quote the French. Your body has to be receptive to that
virus. Only if your immune system is depressed will it allow that virus to
take hold.

So maybe a depressed immune system is the disease. So you can be given a
bunch of vitamin C because your immune system is depressed and it is likely
that the person has a vitamin C deficiency. That's where most of us are at
right now, where we would give a bunch of vitamin C to try to pick up the
immune system.

But why is the vitamin C not working. Vitamin C is make in almost all
living mammals except humans and a couple other species. Vitamin C is made
directly from glucose and actually has a similar structure and they compete
for one another.

We've known for many years that sugar depresses the immune system.

We have known that for decades. It was only in the 70's that they found out
that vitamin C was needed by white blood cells so that they could
phagocytize bacteria and viruses. White blood cells require a fifty times
higher concentration at least inside the cell as outside so they have to
accumulate vitamin C.

There is something called a phagocytic index which tells you how rapidly a
particular macrophage or lymphocyte can gobble up a virus, bacteria, or
cancer cell. It was in the 70's that Linus Pauling knew that white blood
cells needed a high dose of vitamin C and that is when he came up with his
theory that you need high doses of vitamin C to combat the common cold.

But if we know that vitamin C and glucose have similar chemical structure,
what happens when the sugar levels go up? They compete for one another upon
entering the cells. And the thing that mediates the entry of vitamin C into
the cells is the same thing that mediates the entry of glucose into the
cells. If there is more glucose around there is going to be less vitamin C
allowed into the cell and it doesn't take much. A blood sugar value of 120
reduces the phagocytic index seventy-five percent.

Here we are getting a little bit further down into the roots of disease. It
doesn't matter what disease you are talking about, whether you are talking
about a common cold or about cardiovascular disease, or osteoporosis or
cancer, the root is always going to be at the molecular and cellular level,
and I will tell you that insulin is going to have its hand in it, if not
totally controlling it.

What is the purpose of insulin?

As I mentioned, in some organisms it is to control their lifespan, which is
important. What is the purpose of insulin in humans? If you ask your
doctor, they will say that it's to lower blood sugar and I will tell you
right now, that is a trivial side effect. Insulin's evolutionary purpose,
among others at least known right now, we are looking at others, is to
store excess nutrients.

We come from a time of feast and famine and if we couldn't store the excess
energy during times of feasting, we would all not be here, because we all
have had ancestors that encountered famine. So we are only here because our
ancestors were able to store nutrients, and they were able to store
nutrients because they were able to elevate their insulin in response to
any elevation in energy that the organism encountered.

When your body notices that the sugar is elevated, it is a sign that you've
got more than you need right now, you are not burning it so it is
accumulating in your blood. So insulin will be released to take that sugar
and store it. How does it store it? (Someone in the audience suggest the
answer glycogen)…Glycogen?

How much glycogen do you store?

Do you know how much glycogen you have in your body at any one time? Very
little. All the glycogen stored in your liver and all the glycogen stored
in your muscle if you had an active day wouldn't last you the day.

Once you fill up your glycogen stores how is that sugar is stored, as what
particular kind of triglyceride, or fatty acid? Palmitic acid. Saturated
fat, ninety-eight percent of which is palmitic acid.


So the idea of the medical profession to go on a high complex carbohydrate,
low saturated-fat diet is an absolute oxymoron, because those high complex
carbohydrate diets are nothing but a high glucose diet, or a high sugar
diet, and your body is just going to store it as saturated fat. The body
makes it into saturated fat quite readily.

What else does insulin do?

It doesn't just store carbohydrates, by the way. Somebody mentioned that it
is an anabolic hormone, it absolutely is. Body builders are using insulin
now because it is legal, so they are injecting themselves with insulin
because it builds muscle, it stores protein too.

A lesser known fact is that insulin also stores magnesium. We mentioned
it's role in vitamin C, it stores all sorts of nutrients. But what happens
if your cells become resistant to insulin? First of all you can't store
magnesium so you lose it, that's one effect, you lose it out the urine.

Part 2



What is one of magnesium's major roles?

To relax muscles. Intracellular magnesium relaxes muscles. What happens
when you can't store magnesium because the cell is resistant? You lose
magnesium and your blood vessels constrict, what does that do?

Increases blood pressure, and reduces energy since intracellular magnesium
is required for all energy producing reactions that take place in the cell.
But most importantly, magnesium is also necessary for the action of
insulin. It is also necessary for the manufacture of insulin.

So then you raise your insulin, you lose magnesium, and the cells become
even more insulin resistant. Blood vessels constrict, glucose and insulin
can't get to the tissues, which makes them more insulin resistant, so the
insulin levels go up and you lose more magnesium. This is the vicious cycle
that goes on from before you were born.

Insulin sensitivity is going to start being determined from the moment the
sperm combines with the egg. If your mother, while you were in the womb was
eating a high carbohydrate diet, which is turning into sugar, we have been
able to show that the fetus in animals becomes more insulin resistant.

Worse yet, they are able to use sophisticated measurements, and if that
fetus happens to be a female, they find that the eggs of that fetus are
more insulin resistant. Does that mean it is genetic? No, you can be born
with something and it doesn't mean that it is genetic. Diabetes is not a
genetic disease as such. You can have a genetic predisposition. But it
should be an extremely rare disease.

What else does insulin do?

We mentioned high blood pressure, if your magnesium levels go down you get
high blood pressure. We mentioned that the blood vessels constrict and you
get high blood pressure.

Insulin also causes the retention of sodium, which causes the retention of
fluid, which causes high blood pressure and fluid retention: congestive
heart failure.

One of the strongest stimulants of the sympathetic nervous system is high
levels of insulin.

What does all of this do to the heart? Not very good things.

There was a study done a couple of years ago, a good, down to earth nicely
conducted study that showed that heart attacks are two to three times more
likely to happen after a high carbohydrate meal. They said specifically NOT
after a high fat meal.

Why is that?

Because the immediate effects of raising your blood sugar from a high
carbohydrate meal is to raise insulin and that immediately triggers the
sympathetic nervous system which will cause arterial spasm, constriction of
the arteries. If you take anybody prone to a heart attack and that is when
they are going to get it.

What else does insulin do?

Insulin mediates blood lipids. That patient who had a triglyceride of 2200,
one of the easiest things we can do is lower triglyceride levels. It is so
simple. There was just an article in J.A.M.A. an article and they were
saying that the medical profession doesn't know how to reduce triglycerides
dietarily, that drugs still need to be used.

It is so ridiculous because you will find that it is the easiest thing to
do. They come tumbling down. There is almost a direct correlation between
triglyceride levels and insulin levels. In some people more than others.
The gentleman who had a triglyceride level of 2200 while on all the drugs
only had an insulin level of 14.7.

That is only slightly elevated, but it doesn't take much in some people,
all we had to do was get his insulin level down to 8 initially and then it
went down to six and that got his triglycerides down to under 200.

The way you control blood lipids is by controlling insulin.

We won't go into a lot of detail, but we now know that LDL cholesterol
comes in several fractions, and it is the small, dense LDL that plays the
largest role in initiating plaque. It's the most oxidizable. It is the most
able to actually fit through the small cracks in the endothelium. And
that's the one that insulin actually raises the most. When I say insulin, I
should say insulin resistance. It is insulin resistance that is causing this.

Cells become insulin resistant because they are trying to protect
themselves from the toxic effects of high insulin. They down regulate their
receptor activity and number of receptors so that they don't have to listen
to that noxious stimuli all the time. It is like having this loud,
disgusting rap music played and you want to turn the volume down.

You might think of insulin resistance as like sitting in a smelly room and
pretty soon you don't smell it anymore because you get desensitized.

You can think about it, its not that you are not thinking about it anymore.
But if you walk out of the room and come back, the smell is back. You can
get resensitized is what that is telling you. It would be like you are
starting to go deaf and your are telling others to speak up because you
can't hear them, so if I was your pancreas, I would just start talking
louder, and what does that do to your hearing?

You would become deafer. Most cases of deafness, especially in old age is
due to excessive noise exposure. All the noise exposure your ears have been
exposed to, well the hair cells that end up triggering your brain to allow
you to hear eventually get killed. Sometimes it just takes a single
firecracker.

This is the same thing with insulin resistance. What happens is that if
your cells are exposed to insulin at all they get a little bit more
resistant to it. So the pancreas just puts out more insulin. I saw a
patient today, her blood sugar was 102 and her insulin was 90! She wasn't
sure if she was fasting or not, but I've seen other patients where their
blood sugar was under 100 and their fasting insulin has been over 90.

That is a fasting insulin. I'm not sure how many people are familiar with
seeing fasting insulins. But if I drank all the glucose I could possibly
drink my insulin would never go above probably 40. So she was extremely
insulin resistant.

What was happening was she was controlling her blood sugar. Statistically
she was not diabetic. She is not even impaired glucose tolerant. Her
glucose is totally normal supposedly. But her cells aren't listening to
insulin, she just has an exceptionally strong pancreas.

Her islet cells that produce insulin are extremely strong and are able to
compensate for that insulin resistance by producing thirty times more
insulin than what my fasting insulin is. And just by mass action her
pancreas is yelling so loud that her cells are able to listen, but they are
not going to listen forever. Her pancreas is not going to be able keep up
that production forever.

Well the usual treatment once she becomes diabetic, which would be
inevitable, once her production of insulin starts slowing down or her
resistance goes up any more, than her blood sugar goes up and she becomes a
diabetic. For many years, decades before that her insulin levels have been
elevated.

They have been elevated for thirty years probably and have never been
checked. That insulin resistance is associated with the hyperinsulinemia
that produces all of the co-called chronic diseases of aging or at least
contributes to them. As far as we know in many venues of science, it is the
main cause of aging in virtually all life.

Insulin is that important.

So controlling insulin sensitivity is extremely important.

How else does insulin affect cardiovascular disease?

We've only just touched upon it. Insulin is a so-called mytogenic hormone.
It stimulates cell proliferation. It stimulates cells to divide. If all of
the cells were to become resistant to insulin we wouldn't have that much of
a problem. The problem is that all of the cells don't become resistant.

Some cells are incapable of becoming very resistant. The liver becomes
resistant first, then the muscle tissue, then the fat. When the liver
becomes resistant, what is the effect of insulin on the liver, it is to
suppress the production of sugar.

The sugar floating around in your body at any one time is the result of two
things, the sugar that you have eaten and how much sugar your liver has
made. When you wake up in the morning it is more of a reflection of how
much sugar your liver has made. If your liver is listening to insulin
properly it won't make much sugar in the middle of the night. If your liver
is resistant, those brakes are lifted and your liver starts making a bunch
of sugar so you wake up with a bunch of sugar.

The next tissue to become resistant is the muscle tissue. What is the
action of insulin in muscles? It allows your muscles to burn sugar for one
thing. So if your muscles become resistant to insulin it can't burn that
sugar that was just manufactured by the liver. So the liver is producing
too much, the muscles can't burn it, and this raises your blood sugar.

Well the fat cells become resistant, but not for a while. It is only after
a while that they become resistant. It takes them longer.

Liver first, muscle second, and then your fat cells.

So for a while your fat cells retain their sensitivity. What is the action
of insulin on your fat cells? To store that fat. It takes sugar and it
stores it as fat. So until your fat cells become resistant you get fat, and
that is what you see. As people become more and more insulin resistant,
they get fat and their weight goes up.

But eventually they plateau. They might plateau at three hundred pounds,
two hundred and twenty pounds, one hundred and fifty pounds, but they will
eventually plateau as the fat cells protect themselves and become insulin
resistant.

As all these major tissues, this massive body becomes resistant, your
liver, muscles and fat, your pancreas is putting out more insulin to
compensate, so you are hyperinsulinemic and you've got insulin floating
around all the time, 90 units, more.

But there are certain tissues that aren't becoming resistant such as your
endothelium, the lining of the arteries do not become resistant very
readily. So all that insulin is effecting the lining of your arteries.

If you drip insulin into the artery of a dog, there was a Dr. Cruz who did
this in the early 70's by accident, he was doing a diabetic experiment and
found out that the femoral artery that the insulin was being dripped into
was almost totally occluded with plaque after about three months.

The contra lateral side was totally clear, just contact of insulin in the
artery caused it to fill up with plaque. That has been known since the
70's, it has been repeated in chickens, in dogs, it is really a well-known
fact. Insulin floating around in the blood causes a plaque build up. They
didn't know why, but we know that insulin causes endothelial proliferation,
that's the first step, it causes a tumor, an endothelial tumor.

Insulin causes the blood to clot too readily.

Insulin causes the conversion of macrophages into foam cells, which are the
cells that accumulate the fatty deposits. Every step of the way, insulin's
got its fingers in it and is causing cardiovascular disease. It fills it
with plaque, it constricts the arteries, it stimulates the sympathetic
nervous system, it increases platelet adhesiveness and coaguability of the
blood.

Any known cause of cardiovascular disease insulin is a part of. It
influences nitric oxide synthase. You produce less nitric oxide in the
endothelium. We know that helps mediate vasodilatation and constriction,
i.e. angina.

I mentioned that insulin increases cellular proliferation, what does that
do to cancer? It increases it. And there are some pretty strong studies
that show that one of the strongest correlations to breast and colon cancer
are with levels of insulin.

Hyperinsulinemia causes the excretion of magnesium in the urine. What other
big mineral does it cause the excretion of? Calcium.

What is the cause of osteoporosis?

There are two major causes, one is a high carbohydrate diet which causes
hyperinsulinemia. People walking around with hyperinsulinemia can take all
the calcium they want by mouth and it's all going to go out in their urine.

Insulin is one of the first hormones that any organism ever developed, and
as I mentioned in genetics, things are built upon what was there before. So
all the other hormones we have in our body were actually built upon
insulin. In other words, insulin controls growth hormone.

How does growth hormone work?

The pituitary produces growth hormone, and then it goes to the liver and
the liver produces what are called IgF 1 thru 4, there are probably more.
What does IgF stand for? Insulin-like growth factor. They are the active
ingredients. Growth hormone has some small effects on its own, but the
major growth factors are the IgF's that then circulate throughout the body.

Why are they called IgF's or insulin like growth factors? Because they have
an almost identical molecular structure to insulin. When I said that
insulin promotes cellular proliferation, it is because it cross reacts with
IgF receptors. So somewhere in the evolutionary tree, IgF's diverged from
insulin. Insulin can work very well all by itself, it doesn't need growth
hormone. Growth hormone can't do anything without insulin.

Thyroid-how does thyroid work?

The thyroid produces mostly T4. T4 goes to the liver and is converted to
T3, mostly there, other tissues too, but mostly in the liver. We are
getting the idea that insulin controls a lot of what goes on in the liver,
and the liver is the primary organ that becomes insulin resistant.

When the liver can no longer listen to insulin, you can't convert T4 to T3
very well. Usually in people who are hyperinsulinemic with a thyroid
hormone that comes back totally normal, it is important to measure their
T3. Their free T3 will just as often as not be low. Get their insulin down
and it comes back up.

Sex hormones, estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone, does insulin help
control them? Absolutely, in various ways. Insulin helps control the
manufacture of cholesterol and where do all the sex hormones come from? All
the stearic hormones are originally derived from cholesterol, so that's one
way. Dr Nestler from the University of Virginia who has spent the last
eight years doing multiple studies to show that DHEA levels are directly
correlated with insulin levels, or I should say insulin resistance.

The more insulin resistant you are, the lower your DHEA levels. He firmly
believes this and has a lot of studies to back it up, that the decline in
DHEA is strictly due to the increase in insulin resistance with age. If you
reduce the insulin resistance, the DHEA rises.

And how are these sex hormones carried around the body? Something called
sex hormone binding globulins. The more that is bound, the less free,
active hormone you have. Sex hormone binding globulin is controlled by
what? Insulin. There is not a hormone in the body that insulin doesn't
affect, if not directly control.

Let's talk about osteoporosis.

You take a bunch of calcium. The medical profession just assumes that it
has a homing device and it knows to go into your bone. What happens if you
high levels of insulin and you take a bunch of calcium. Number one, most of
it is just going to go out in your urine. You would be lucky if that were
the case because that part which doesn't does not have the instructions to
go to your bone because the anabolic hormones aren't working.

This is first of all because of insulin, then because of the IGF's from
growth hormone, also testosterone and progesterone, they are all controlled
by insulin and when they are insulin resistant they can't listen to any of
the anabolic hormones. So your body doesn't know how to build tissue
anymore, so some of the calcium may end up in your bone, but a good deal of
it will end up everywhere else.

Metastatic calcifications, including in your arteries.

Diseases are a result of a lack of communication. There are certain things
that your cells need to be healthy. If you learn nothing else today, you
should know that everything is at the cellular and molecular level and we
are nothing but a community of cells. We are a commune of cells. We are a
metropolis of cells that have been given instructions to cooperate.

When you have a large number of cells, like we are, ten trillion or so,
there must be proper communication so that there will be proper division of
labor. You can take most any cell in your body and under the right
conditions you can put it in a petrie dish and it can live all on it's own.
They each have a life of their own.

You can manipulate the genetics of a cell, and we've now made a blood cell
in to a nerve cell. Pretty soon we are going to be able to take any cell we
want and make it into any other cell, because every cell in your body has
the identical genetics, all derived from that egg and that sperm that came
together. Why is one cell different from another? Because they are reading
different parts of the same library.

You can influence which part of that genetic library that every cell reads
by the environment of that cell. The environment of that cell is going to
be very much dictated by, number one, hormones, and what you eat. Eating is
just internalizing the external environment. That is what you have
circulation for, to bring that external environment to each and every one
of those cells that is inside of you.

I hope that by now you have gotten the idea that high insulin resistance is
not very good for you. So now let's talk about what causes insulin
resistance. We have been talking about high carbohydrate diets, let's start
talking about that a little bit more.

This is what causes insulin resistance.

That is definitely what worsens it. Any time your cell is exposed to
insulin it is going to become more insulin resistant. That is inevitable,
we cannot stop that, but the rate we can control. An inevitable sign of
aging is an increase in insulin resistance.

That rate is variable, if you can slow down that rate you can become a
centenarian, and a healthy one. You can slow the rate of aging. Not just
even the rate of disease, but the actual rate of aging itself can be
modulated by insulin. We talked about some of the lower animals and there
is some pretty good evidence that even in humans we still retain the
capacity to control lifespan at least partially. We should be living to be
130, 140 years old routinely.

Let's talk about carbohydrates, what are they? We talk about simple and
complex carbohydrates, that is totally irrelevant, it means absolutely
nothing. Carbohydrates are fiber or non-fiber. Few things in life are as
clear-cut as this. Fiber is good for you, and a non-fiber carb is bad for
you. You can bank on that.

There is not a whole lot of middle ground. If you have a carbohydrate that
is not a fiber it is going to be turned into a sugar, whether it be glucose
or not. It may be fructose and won't necessarily raise your blood glucose,
fructose is worse for you then glucose, so if you just go by blood sugar,
which is just glucose, it doesn't mean that you are not raising your blood
fructose, or your blood galactose which is the other half of lactose.

All of those sugars are as bad or worse for you than glucose. You can't
just go by so-called blood sugar which is just blood glucose, because we
just don't measure blood fructose or blood galactose, but they are all bad
for you. Why are they bad, well number one we know that it provokes insulin
and every time you provoke insulin it exposes yourself to more insulin and
just like walking in a smelly room it is going to become more resistant to
insulin.

So every time you have a surge of sugar and you have a surge of insulin,
you get more and more insulin resistant and all of the problems we've
talked about.



What else is bad about sugar?

We know it increases insulin, but even by itself, sugar is bad for you. You
can divide aging into basically two major categories, there is genetic
causes of aging, we know that cells have a limited capacity to divide,
normally we never get there, but the more rapidly you make cells divide,
the more rapidly they age.

One of the effects of insulin is to stimulate cellular proliferation and
division. So we know that it increases the rate of aging of a cell
population just by that, that is another whole discussion. Let's go to the
other half. Our cells accumulate damage with age we cannot help that.

When I say aging, we really are talking about something called senescence,
or the damage associated with aging, but the common usage is the word
aging. I cannot prevent you from being a day older tomorrow, that is aging,
tomorrow you will be a day older than today, and that we cannot do anything
about. When we talk about aging we normally think about the damage that is
associated with that day.

We have accumulated more damage during that day, that is called senescence.
What causes that damage? There is often an example of test tubes in a
laboratory. You don't think of test tubes as aging, yet if you mark test
tubes with a little red dot and counted the number of test tubes there were
at the end of the year with a little red dot left, there would hardly be
any, why, because they have encountered damage. They've broken, so even
though there is not aging they do have immortality rates. Aging is an
increase in the rate of mortality.

In humans, the rate of mortality doubles every eight years.

That is really how you gauge the rate of aging. We found in animal studies
that the rate of aging can be largely controlled by insulin. But the damage
that accumulates during that aging is caused by largely by sugar.

The two major causes of accumulated damage are oxygenation, and glycation.
I'm not going to spend my time talking about oxidation. Most of you know
all about that.

What is oxidation?

There are several definitions but we can use a very common one, whenever
oxygen combines with something, it oxidizes. Oxygen is a very poisonous
substance. Throughout most of the history of life on Earth there was no
oxygen. Organisms had to develop very specific mechanisms of dealing with
high levels of oxygen before there could ever be life with oxygen.

So we evolved very quickly, as plants arose and developed a very easy means
of acquiring energy, they could just lay back and catch rays, and they
dealt with that oxygen with the carbon dioxide by spitting it out, they
didn't want it around. So the oxygen in the atmosphere increased. All the
other organisms then had to cope with that toxic oxygen. Many perished if
they didn't have ways of dealing with it.

One of the earliest ways of dealing with all that oxygen was for the cells
to huddle together, so that at least the interior cells wouldn't be exposed
to as much. So, multi-celled organisms arose after oxygen did. Of course,
with that came the need for cellular communication.

So let's talk about glycation.

Everyone knows that oxygen causes damage, but unfortunately, the press has
not been as kind to publicize glycation. Glycation is the same as oxidation
except substitute the word glucose. When you glycate something you combine
it with glucose. Glucose combines with anything else really, it's a very
sticky molecule.

Just take sugar on your fingers. It's very sticky. It sticks specifically
to proteins. So the glycation of proteins is extremely important. If it
sticks around a while it produces what are called advanced glycated end
products.

That acronym is not an accident; it stands for A.G.E.'s. If you can turn
over, or re-manufacture the protein that's good, and it increases the rate
of protein turnover if you are lucky. Glycation damages the protein to the
extent that white blood cells will come around and gobble it up and get rid
of it, so then you have to produce more, putting more of a strain on your
ability to repair and maintain your body.

That is the best alternative; the worst alternative is when those proteins
get glycated that can't turn over very rapidly, like collagen, or like a
protein that makes up nerve tissue. These proteins cannot be gotten rid of,
so the protein accumulates, and the A.G.E.'s accumulate and they continue
to damage.

That includes the collagen that makes up the matrix of your arteries.
A.G.E.'s are so bad that we know that there are receptors for A.G.E.'s,
hundreds of receptors for every macrophage. They are designed to try to get
rid of those A.G.E.'s, but what happens when a macrophage combines with an
A.G.E. product?

It sets up an inflammatory reaction. We know that cardiovascular is an
inflammatory process, any type of inflammation. You eat a diet that
promotes elevated glucose, and you produce increased glycated proteins and
A.G.E.'s, you are increasing your rate of inflammation of any kind. You get
down to the roots, including arthritis, headaches.

When you start putting people on a diet to remedy all of this, my practice
is largely diabetes, so my patients are more concerned with their blood
sugar and their heart, things like that, but it is so common to have them
come back and tell me they used to have horrible headaches and now don't
have them anymore, or that they had a horrible pain in their shoulder, or
terrible Achilles tendonitis that they don't have any more.

The glycated proteins are making the person very pro-inflammatory.

So we age and at least partially we accumulate damage by oxidation, and one
of the most important types of tissues that oxygenate is the fatty
component, the lipid, especially the poly-unsaturated fatty acids, they
turn rancid. And they glycate, and the term for glycation in the food
industry is carmelization.

They use it all the time, that is how you make caramel. So the way we age
is that we turn rancid and we carmelize. It's very true. And that is what
gets most of us. If that doesn't get us, then the genetic causes of aging
will, because every cell in your body has genetic programs to commit
suicide. There are various theories for this, one is that if they didn't,
virtually every cell in your body would eventually turn cancerous.

Whether those so-called applopatic genes developed as a means to prevent
cancer or not is open to speculation but it is a good theory. We know that
all cancer cells have turned off the mechanisms for applotosis, which is
the medical term for chemical suicide. So we know that it plays a role.

Let's get to diet.

Diet really becomes pretty simple. Carbohydrates we started talking about.
You've got fiber and non-fiber and that's real clear-cut. Fiber is good,
non-fiber is bad. Fibrous carbs, like vegetables and broccoli, those are
great. What is a potato? A potato is a big lump of sugar. That's all it is.
You chew a potato, what are you swallowing? Glucose. You may not remember,
but you learned that in eighth grade, but the medical profession still
hasn't learned that.

What is the major salivary enzyme?

Amylase. What is amylase used for? To break down amylose which is just a
tree of glucose molecules. What is a slice of bread? A slice of sugar. Does
it have anything else good about it? Virtually no. Somebody emailed me who
had decided to do a little research. And there are fifty-some essential
nutrients to the human body.

You know you need to breathe oxygen. It gives us life and it kills us. Same
with glucose. Certain tissues require some glucose. We wouldn't be here if
there were no glucose, it gives us life and it kills us. We know that we
have essential amino acids and we have essential fatty acids. They are
essential for life, we better take them in as building blocks or we die. So
what he did is he took all the essential nutrients that are known to man
and plugged it in to this computer data bank and he asked the computer what
are the top ten foods that contain each nutrient that is required by the
human body. Each of the fifty-three or fifty-four, depending on who you
talk to, essential nutrients that there are were plugged in, and did you
know that grains did not come up in the top ten on any one.

What is the minimum daily requirement for carbohydrates?

ZERO.

What is the food pyramid based on? A totally irrelevant nutrient.

Let's go beyond Carbohydrates.

Let's back up even further? Why do we eat? One reason is energy. That's
half of the reason. It is very simple, there are two reasons why we eat,
one is to gather energy. We need to obtain energy. The other essential
reason (Not just for fun! Fun is a good one, but you won't have much fun if
you eat too much) is to replace tissue, to gather up building blocks for
maintenance and repair.

Those are the two essential reasons that we need to eat. We need the
building blocks and we need fuel, not the least of which is to have energy
to obtain those building blocks and then to have energy to fuel those
chemical reactions to use those building blocks.

So what are the building blocks that are needed, proteins and fatty acids.
Not much in the way if carbohydrates. You can get all the carbohydrates you
need from proteins and fats. So the building blocks are covered by proteins
and fats.

What about fuel?

That's the other reason we eat. There are two kinds of fuel that your body
can use with minor exceptions, sugar and fat. We mentioned earlier that the
body is going to store excess energy as fat. Why does the body store it as
fat? Because that is the body's desired fuel. That is the fuel the body
wants to burn and that will sustain you and allow you to live. The body can
store only a little bit of sugar.

In an active day you would die if you had to rely one-hundred percent on
sugar.

Why doesn't your body store more sugar if it is so needed? Sugar was never
meant to be your primary energy source.

Sugar is meant to be your body's turbo charger.

Everybody right here, right now should be burning mostly, almost all fat
with minor exceptions. Your brain will burn sugar, it doesn't have to, it
can do very well, even better by burning by-products of fat metabolism
called ketones. That is what it has to burn when you fast for any length of
time. They have shown that if your brain was really good at burning ketones
from fat that you can get enough sugar that your brain needs actually from
fat; just eating one-hundred percent fat.

You can make a little bit of sugar out of the glycerol molecule of fat.
Take two glycerol molecules and you have a molecule of glucose. Two
triglycerides will give you a molecule of glucose. The brain can actually
exist without a whole lot of sugar, contrary to popular belief. Glucose was
meant to be fuel used if you had to, in an emergency situation, expend and
extreme amount of energy, such as running from a saber tooth tiger.

It is a turbo charger, a very hot burning fuel, if you need fuel over and
above what fat can provide you will dig into your glycogen and burn sugar.
But your primary energy source as we are here right now should be almost
all fat.

But what happens if you eat sugar.

Your body's main way of getting rid of it, because it is toxic, is to burn
it. That which your body can't burn your body will get rid of by storing it
as glycogen and when that gets filled up your body stores it as fat. If you
eat sugar your body will burn it and you stop burning fat.

We talked about a lot of the effects of high insulin. We talked about
insulin causing the formation of saturated fat from sugar. Another major
effect of insulin on fat is it prevents you from burning it. What happens
when you are insulin resistant and you have a bunch of insulin floating
around all the time, you wake up in the morning with an insulin of 90.

How much fat are you going to be burning? Virtually none. What are you
going to burn if not fat? Sugar coming from your muscle. So you have all
this fat that you've accumulated over the years that your body is very
adept at adding to. Every time you have any excess energy you are going to
store it as fat, but if you don't eat, where you would otherwise be able to
burn it, you cannot and you will still burn sugar because that is all your
body is capable of burning anymore.

Where is it going to get the sugar?

Well you don't store much of it in the form of sugar so it will take it
from your muscle. That's your body's major depot of sugar. You just eat up
your muscle tissue. Any time you have excess you store it as fat and any
time you are deficient you burn up your muscle.

Getting back to the macronutrients, fuel, fat is your best fuel by far and
the fuel that your body wants to use. So there are two reasons to eat, you
need to gather the building blocks for maintenance and repair, that's
protein and fat, no carbohydrate needed, and you eat for fuel, without
question, fat is your most efficient fuel and the fuel that your body
desires the most.

So where do carbohydrates come in?

They don't. There is no essential need for carbohydrates. SO why are we all
eating carbohydrates? To keep the rate of aging up, we don't want to pay
social security to everyone.

I didn't say you can't have any carbs, I said fiber is good. Vegetables are
great, I want you to eat vegetables. The practical aspect of it is that you
are going to get carbs, but there is no essential need. The traditional
Eskimo diet for most of the year subsists on almost no vegetables at all,
but they get their vitamins from organ meats and things like eyeball which
are a delicacy, or were.

So, you don't really need it, but sure, vegetables are good for you and you
should eat them. They are part of the diet that I would recommend, and that
is where you'll get your vitamin C. I recommend Vitamin C supplements, I
don't have anything against taking supplements, I use a lot of them.

Fruit is a mixed blessing. You can divide food on a continuum. There are
some foods that I really can't say anything good about since there is no
reason really to recommend them. And the other end of the spectrum are
foods that are totally essential, like omega 3 fatty acids for instance
which most people are very deficient in, and even those have a detriment
because they are highly oxidizable, so you had better have the antioxidant
capacity. So if you are going to supplement with cod liver oil you should
supplement with Vitamin E too or it will actually do you more harm than good.

But most foods fall in the middle somewhere. Things like strawberries, you
are going to get something bad with strawberries, you are going to get a
lot of sugar with strawberries, but you are also going to get a food that
is also the second or third highest in antioxidant potential of any food
known, the first being garlic the second either being strawberries or
blueberries. So, there is something good to be had from it. So I will let
some patients put some strawberries in let's say a protein smoothie in the
morning. But if they are a hard core diabetic, strawberries are out.

It doesn't take much, if you have a type I diabetic who is not producing
any insulin they can tell you what foods do to their blood sugar. It
doesn't take much. What is very surprising to these people once they really
measure is what little carbohydrate it takes to cause your blood sugar to
skyrocket.

One saltine cracker will take the blood sugar to go over 100 and in many
people it will cause the blood sugar to go to 150 for a variety of reasons,
not just the sugar in it.

When you are eating a high carbohydrate diet, when you are born, your
mother, everbody is telling you to eat a bowl of Cheerios for breakfast.
You eat that bowl of cheerios and that turns to sugar, and your sugar goes
up very rapidly and that causes a big rush of insulin and your body all of
a sudden senses a huge amount of sugar being delivered to it at once, of
which it was never used to, in an evolutionary sense.

We only have one hormone that lowers sugar, and that's insulin. Its primary
use was never to lower sugar. We've got a bunch of hormones that raise
sugar, cortisone being one and growth hormone another, and epinephrine, and
glucagon.

Our primary evolutionary problem was to raise blood sugar to give your
brain enough and your nerves enough and primarily red blood cells, which
require glucose. So from an evolutionary sense if something is important we
have redundant mechanisms. The fact that we only have one hormone that
lowers sugar tells us that it was never something important in the past.

So you get this rush of sugar and your body panics, your pancreas panics
and it stores, when it is healthy, insulin in these granules, ready to be
released. It lets these granules out and it pours out a bunch of insulin to
deal with this onslaught of sugar and what does that do?

Well the pancreas generally overcompensates, and it causes your sugar to go
down, and just as I mentioned, you have got a bunch of hormones then to
raise your blood sugar, they are then released, including cortisone. The
biggest stress on your body is eating a big glucose load.

Then Epinephrine is released too, so it makes your nervous and it also
stimulates your brain to crave carbohydrates, to seek out some sugar, my
sugar is low. So you are craving carbohydrates, so you eat another bowl of
cheerios, or a big piece of fruit, you eat something else so that after
your sugar goes low, and with the hormone release, and with the sugar
cravings and carbohydrate craving your sugars go way up again which causes
your pancreas to release more insulin and then it goes way down.

Now you are in to this sinusoidal wave of blood sugar, which causes insulin
resistance. Your body can't stand that for very long. So you are constantly
putting out cortisone.

We can talk about insulin resistance.

We hear a lot about insulin resistance, but stop and think a little bit, do
you think our cells only become resistant to insulin? The more hormones
your cells are exposed to, the more resistant they will become to almost
any hormone. Certain cells more than others, so there is a discrepancy. The
problem with hormone resistance is that there is a dichotomy of resistance,
that all the cells don't become resistant at the same time.

And different hormones affect different cells, and the rate of hormone is
different among different cells and this causes lots of problems with the
feedback mechanisms. We know that one of the major areas of the body that
becomes resistant to many feedback loops is the hypothalamus. The various
interrelationships there I really don't have time to go in to here.

But hypothalamic resistance to feedback signals plays a very important role
in aging and insulin resistance because the hypothalamus has receptors for
insulin too. I mentioned that insulin stimulates sympathetic nervous
system, it does so through the hypothalamus, which is the center of it all.


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The receptors self-regulate.

If you want to know if insulin sensitivity can be restored to its original
state, well, perhaps not to its original state, but you can restore it to
the state of about a ten year old.

One of my first experiences with this, I had a patient who literally had
sugars over 300. He was taking 200+ units of insulin, he was a bad
cardiovascular patient, and it only made sense to me that you don't want to
feed these people carbohydrates, so I put him on a low carbohydrate diet.

He was an exceptional case, after a month to six weeks he was totally off
of insulin. He had been on 200 some units of insulin for twenty-five years.
He was so insulin resistant, one thing good about it is that when you lower
that insulin, that insulin is having such little effect on him that you can
massively lower the insulin and its not going to have much of an effect on
his blood sugar either. 200 units of insulin is not going to lower your
sugar any more that 300 mg/deciliter.

You know that the insulin is not doing much. So we could rapidly take him
off the insulin and he was actually cured of his diabetes in a matter of
weeks. So he became sensitive enough, he was still producing a lot of
insulin on his own, then we were able to measure his own insulin and it was
still elevated, and then it took a long time, maybe six months or longer to
bring that insulin down.

It will probably never get to the point of the sensitivity of a ten year
old, but yes, your number of insulin receptors increases, and the activity
of the receptors, the chemical reactions that occur beyond the receptor
occur more efficiently.

You can increase sensitivity by diet, that is one of the major reasons you
want to take Omega 3 oils. We think of circulation as that which flows
through arteries and veins, and that is not a minor part of our
circulation, but it might not even be the major part. The major part of
circulation is what goes in and out of the cell.

The cell membrane is a fluid mosaic. The major part of our circulation is
determined by what goes in and out. It doesn't make any difference what
gets to that cell if it can't get into the cell. We know that one of the
major ways that you can affect cellular circulation is by modulating the
kinds of fatty acids that you eat. So you can increase receptor sensitivity
by increasing the fluidity of the cell membrane, which means increasing the
omega 3 content, because most people are very deficient.

They say that you are what you eat and that mostly pertains to fat because
the fatty acids that you eat are the ones that will generally get
incorporated into the cell membrane. The cell membranes are going to be a
reflection of your dietary fat and that will determine the fluidity of your
cell membrane. You can actually make them over fluid.

If you eat too much and you incorporate too many omega 3 oils then they
will become highly oxidizable (so you have to eat Vitamin E as well and
monounsaturates as well) There was an interesting article pertaining to
this where they had a breed of rat that was genetically susceptible to cancer.

What they did was they fed them a high omega 3 diet, plus iron, without any
extra Vitamin E and they were able to almost shrink down the tumors to
nothing, because tumors are rapidly dividing. This is like a form of
chemotherapy, and the membranes that were being formed in these tumor cells
were very high in omega three oils, the iron acted as a catalyst for that
oxidation, and the cells were exploding from getting oxidized so rapidly.
So omega 3 oils can be a double edged sword.

Most food is a double edged sword.

Like oxygen and glucose, they keep us alive and they kill us, eating is the
biggest stress we put on our body and that is why in caloric restriction
experiments you can extend life as long as you maintain nutrition. This is
the only proven way of actually reducing the rate of aging, not just the
mortality rate, but the actual rate of aging, because eating is a big stress.

It has actually been shown by quite a number of papers that resistance
training for insulin resistance is better than aerobic training. There are
a variety of other reasons too. Resistance training is referring to
muscular exercises. If you just do a bicep curl, you immediately increase
the insulin sensitivity of your bicep. Just by exercising, and what you are
doing is you are increasing the blood flow to that muscle. That is one of
the factors that determines insulin sensitivity is how much can get there.
It has been shown conclusively that resistance training will increase
insulin sensitivity.

Back to the macronutrients because that is real simple, you don't want very
much in the way of non-fiber carbs, fiber carbs are great, you are going to
get some non-fiber carbs. Even if you just eat broccoli you are going to
get some non-fiber carbs. That is OK since at least for the most part you
are getting something that is really pretty good for you. Protein is an
essential nutrient.

You want to use it as a building block because your body requires protein
to repair damage and replenish enzymes. All of the encoded instructions
from your DNA are to encode for proteins. That is all the DNA encodes for.
You need protein, but you want to use it as a building block, but I don't
believe in going over and above the protein that you need to use for
maintenance, repair and building blocks.

I don't think you should be using protein as a primary fuel source. Your
body can use protein very well as a fuel source. It is good to lose weight
while using it a s a fuel source because it is an inefficient fuel source.
Protein is very thermogenic, it produces a lot of heat, which means that
less of it is going into stored energy, more is being dissipated. Just like
throwing a log into a fireplace.

Your primary fuel should be coming from fat.

So you can calculate the amount of protein a person requires, or at least
estimate it by their activity level. The book Protein Power actually went
very well in to this. You have to calculate how much protein is required by
their activity level and their lean body mass. There is still some gray
area as to how many grams per kilogram of lean body mass, depending on the
activity that person requires.

Anywhere perhaps one to two grams of protein per kilogram of lean body
mass, maybe even a little bit higher if someone is really active.

You don't want to go under that for very long. I'd say that it is better to
go over than to go under that amount for very long. But I especially don't
want my diabetic patients, which means all of us, because in a very real
sense we really all have diabetes, it is just a matter of degree, we all
have a certain degree of insulin resistance.

If you can cure a diabetic of diabetes, you can do the same thing to a
so-called non-diabetic person and still improve that person. I want to
improve my insulin sensitivity just as much as I do my diabetics because
insulin sensitivity is going to determine for the most part how long you
are going to live and how healthy you are going to be. It determines the
rate of aging more so than anything else we know right now.

What about supplements such as Chromium for example?

Chromium, it depends on whom you are dealing with, but are we talking about
a diabetic patient, who is supposed to be the topic of this talk, yes, all
my diabetics go on 1,000 mcg. of chromium, some a little bit more if they
are really big people. Usually 500 mcg for a non-diabetic. It depends on
their insulin levels.

I don't care so much what their sugar levels are, I care what their insulin
levels are, which is a reflection of their insulin sensitivity. We are
talking about hyperinsulinemia or non-hyper-insulinemia. Its insulin we
should be concerned about.

I use a lot of supplements. What you really want to do, and my purpose
mostly is to try to convert that person back into being an efficient burner
of fat. We talked about when you are very insulin resistant and you are
waking up in the morning with an insulin that is elevated, you cannot burn
fat, you are burning sugar.

They don't know how to burn fat anymore and that is your best fuel.

One of the reasons that sugar goes up so high is because that is what your
cell is needing to burn, but if it is so insulin resistant it requires a
blood sugar of 300 so that just by mass action some can get in to the cell
and be used as fuel. If you eliminate that need to burn sugar, you don't
need such high levels of sugar even if you are insulin resistant.


So you want to increase the ability of the cells in the body to burn fat.

You want to make that glucose burner into a fat burner. You want to make a
gasoline burning car into a diesel burning car. Did anyone ever look at the
molecular structure of diesel fuel in your spare time? It looks almost
identical to a fatty acid. There is a company right now that can tell you
how to alter vegetable oil to use in your Mercedes. It's just a matter of
thinning it out a little bit. It is a very efficient fuel.

You can look at other variables that will give you some idea too such as
triglycerides. If they are very sensitive to high levels of insulin, they
come in with insulin levels of 14 and they have triglycerides of 1000, then
you would treat them just as you would if they had an insulin level of 50.
It gives you some idea of the effect of the hyperinsulinemia on the body.

You can use triglycerides as a gauge, which I often do. The objective is to
try to get the insulin level just as low as you possibly can. There is no
limit. They classify diabetes now as a fasting blood sugar of 126 or
higher. A few months ago it might have been 140. It is just an arbitrary
number, does that mean that someone with a blood sugar of 125 is
non-diabetic and fine? If you have a blood sugar of 125 you are worse than
if you had a blood sugar of 124. Same with insulin. If you have a fasting
insulin of 10 you are worse off than if you had an insulin of 9. You want
to get it just as low as you can.

With athletes, let's think about that. What is the effect of carbohydrate
loading before an event. What happens if you eat a bowl of pasta before you
have to run a marathon. What does that bowl of pasta do? It raises your
insulin. What is the instruction of insulin to your body?

To store energy and not burn it. I see a fair amount of athletes and this
is what I tell them, you want everybody, athletes especially, to be able to
burn fat efficiently. So when they train, they are on a very low
carbohydrate diet. The night before their event, they can stock up on sugar
and load their glycogen if they would like.

They are not going to become insulin resistant in one day. Just enough to
make sure, it has been shown that if you eat a big carbohydrate meal that
you will increase your glycogen stores, that is true and that is what you
want. But you don't want to train that way because if you do you won't be
able to burn fat, you can only burn sugar, and if you are an athlete you
want to be able to burn both.

Few people have problems burning sugar if they are an athlete, but they
have lots of problems burning fat, so they hit the wall. And for a certain
event like sprinting it is less important, truthfully, for their health it
is very important to be able to burn fat, but a sprinter will go right into
burning sugar. If you are a 50 yard dash man, whether you can burn fat or
not is not going to make a huge difference in your final performance.

Beyond your athletic years if you don't want to become a diabetic, and if
you don't want to die of heart disease and if you don't want to age
quickly…It is certainly not going to do you any harm to be able to burn fat
efficiently in addition to sugar.

Vanadyl Sulfate is an insulin mimic, so that it can basically do what
insulin does by a different mechanism. If it went through the same insulin
receptors, then it wouldn't offer any benefit, but it doesn't, it actually
has been shown to go through a different mechanism to lower blood sugar, so
it spares insulin and then it can help improve insulin sensitivity. On
someone who I am trying to really get their insulin down I go 25mg 3X/day
temporarily.

I put people on glutamine powder. Glutamine can act really as a brain fuel,
so it helps eliminate carbohydrate cravings while they are in that
transition period. I like to give it to them at night and I tell them to
use it whenever they feel they are craving carbohydrates. They can put
several grams into a little water and drink it and it helps eliminate
carbohydrate cravings between meals.

It is a high protein diet that will increase an acid load in the body, but
not necessarily a high fat diet. Vegetables and greens are alkalinizing, so
if you are eating a lot of vegetables along with your protein it equalizes
the acidifying effect of the protein. I don't recommend a high protein
diet. I recommend an adequate protein diet.

I think you should be using fat as your primary energy source, and fat is
kind of neutral when it comes to acidifying or alkalinizing. In general,
over 50% of the calories should come from fat, but not from saturated fat.
When we get to fat, the carbohydrates are clear cut, no scientist out there
is really going to dispute what I've said about carbohydrates.

There is the science behind it. You can't dispute it. There is a little bit
of a dispute as to how much protein a person requires. When you get to fat,
there is a big grey area within science as to which fat a person requires.
We just have one name for fat, we call it fat or oil. Eskimos have dozens
of names for snow and east Indians have dozens of names for curry. We
should have dozens of names for fat because they do many different things.
And how much of which fat to take is still open to a lot of investigation
and controversy.

My take on fat is that if I am treating a patient who is generally
hyperinsulinemic or overweight, I want them on a low saturated fat diet.
Because most of the fat they are storing is saturated fat. When their
insulin goes down and they are able to start releasing triglycerides to
burn as fat, what they are going to be releasing mostly is saturated fat.
So you don't want to take anymore orally. There is a ration of fatty acids
that is desirable, if you took them from the moment you were born, but we
don't, we are dealing with an imbalance here that we are trying to correct
as rapidly as we can.

You have plenty of saturated fat. Most of us here have enough saturated fat
to last the rest of our life. Truthfully. Your cell membranes require a
balance of saturated and poly-unsaturated fat, and it is that balance that
determines the fluidity. As I mentioned, your cells can become over-fluid
if they don't have any saturated fat.

Saturated fat is a hard fat. We can get the fats from foods to come mostly
from nuts. Nuts are a great food because it is mostly mono-unsaturated.
Your primary energy source ideally would come mostly from mono-unsaturated
fat. It's a good compromise. It is not an essential fat, but it is a more
fluid fat. Your body can utilize it very well as an energy source.

Animal proteins are fine and are good for you, but not the ones that are
fed grains.

Grainfed animals are going to make saturated fat out of the grains.
Saturated fat in nature occurs to a very tiny degree. Not in the wild there
is very little saturated fat out there. If you talk about the Paleolithic
diet, we didn't eat a saturated fat diet. Saturated fat diets are new to
mankind. We manufactured a saturated fat diet by feeding animals grains.
You can consider saturated fat to be second generation carbohydrates. We
eat the saturated fats that other animals produce from carbohydrates.

Zone was a good diet compared to the American diet it was unusual. Is it an
optimal diet? No. Is it optimal for what is known today about nutrition, it
is not. He is stuck in this mold he can't get out of but now he is trying
to get out of it through the back door. Initially the author spoke about
how it made no difference if you got your carbohydrate from candy or
vegetables.

The Volkswagen was a good car, but eventually they had to change it to keep
up with modern technology. What he is doing now is changing his recipes so
that the 40% carbohydrates are coming primarily from vegetables, and the
carbohydrates are going way down because he knows that if he doesn't it's
not as good a diet.

I would go 20% of calories from carbs. Depending on the size of the person,
25 to 30% of calories from protein, and 60-65% from fat. You can get
non-grain fed beef.

Insulin is not the only cause of disease.

There are other considerations such as iron. We know that high iron levels
are bad for you. If a person's ferritin is high, red meat is out for a
while, till we get their iron down. SO there are other things involved
about if we are going to allow a person to eat red meat or not.

There is a great deal of difference between a non-grain fed cow and a grain
fed cow.

Non-grain fed will have only 10% or less saturated fat. Grain fed can have
over 50%.

There is a big difference. A non-grain fed cow will actually be high in
Omega 3 oils. Plants have a pretty high percentage of Omega 3, and if you
accumulate it by eating it all day, every day for most of your life, your
fat gets a pretty high proportion of Omega 3. I would try for 50% oleic
fat, and the others would depend on the individual, but about 25% of the
other two.

In a fat diabetic I would probably go down on the saturated fat and go 60%
oleic. I would go 1 to 1 on the omega 6 to 3, that would be therapeutic.
The maintenance ratio would be about 2.5 to 1 omega 6 to 3. Arachadonic
acid, DHA, to EFA. Therapeutic, I would go lesser on the saturated fats. I
would try to do most of this through diet. There are some practicalities
involved. I would ask the person if they like fish and if they practically
puke in front of me they are going on a tablespoon of cod liver oil, the
best brand is made by Carlson which doesn't taste fishy at all.

There are probably some others too that are okay. Most people end up going
on a supplement of Omega 3 oils because most of them are not going to eat
enough fish to get it, which would be about four days a week, and it can't
be overcooked etc., it is a little hard to get that much entirely from diet.

I like sardines if they will eat them. Sardines are a very good therapeutic
food. They are baby fish so they haven't had time to accumulate a bunch of
metal. They are smoked so they are not cooked and the oil is not spoiled in
them. You have to eat the whole thing. Not the boneless and skinless. You
need to eat all the organs and they are high in vitamins and magnesium.

DNA glycates.

So if people are worried about chromosomal damage from chromium, what they
should really be worried about instead is high blood sugar. DNA repair
enzymes glycate as well. Insulin is by far your biggest poison. They
disproved that study that was against chromium many times. They showed that
it only happens if you put cells in a petrie dish with chromium but in vivo
studies prove otherwise. The lowering of insulin is going to be better than
any possible detriment of any of the therapies you are using. Insulin is
associated with cancer, everything.

Insulin should be tested on everybody repeatedly, and why it is not is only
strictly because there hasn't been drugs till recently that could effect
insulin, so there is no way to make money off of it. Fasting insulin is one
way to look at it, not necessarily the best way. But it is the way that
everybody could do it. Any family doctor can measure a fasting insulin.
There are other ways to measure insulin sensitivity that are more complex
that we do sometimes.

We use intravenous insulin and watch how rapidly their blood sugar crashes
in a fasting state in 15 minutes and that assesses insulin sensitivity,
then you give them dextrose to make sure they don't crash any further.
There are other ways that are utilized to directly assess insulin
sensitivity, but you can get a pretty good idea just by doing a fasting
insulin.

Designes for Health Institute


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http://www.mercola.com/2001/jul/14/insulin4.htm

Antioxidant Lutein Decreases Heart Disease
Lutein, an antioxidant nutrient already linked to eye health, may help
prevent the hardening and narrowing of arteries that can lead to heart
attack and stroke.




Lutein is one of a group of antioxidants that includes vitamins A, C and E.
Research has suggested that because these nutrients can neutralize
oxidative damage in the body, they may help prevent heart disease and
certain cancers. The oxidation of LDL ("bad") cholesterol in the arteries
is a major factor in the development of heart disease.


Lutein has already been shown to potentially lower the risk of an
age-related vision loss called macular degeneration, possibly by preventing
oxidative damage to the retina.


In the new research, investigators studied lutein's relationship to
thickening in the neck's carotid arteries, a marker of artery disease
throughout the body. They found that while participants with the highest
blood levels of lutein showed virtually no artery-wall thickening at the
end of the study, those with the lowest lutein levels showed increased
artery thickness. The lutein link held after factors including age,
smoking, use of heart medications and intake of other vitamins were considered.


To further investigate this dietary association, the researchers conducted
experiments in mice and cell cultures. They found that treating artery-wall
cells with lutein reduced the oxidation of LDL cholesterol. And in mice
engineered to develop artery disease, the researchers found that those
given lutein-supplemented diets showed significantly smaller
artery-clogging plaques compared with untreated mice.


Lutein-rich foods include dark leafy greens like

spinach
carrots
eggs

Circulation June 19, 2001;103



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DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT:

Exciting news when supplements are receiving top billing in conservative
subspecialty journals like Circulation.


It is important to recognize though that although the lutein appears to
work as a supplement it is far wiser to receive it through vegetable intake
as you will have a balance of the other protective factors that will
provide optimum benefit.

From: "William Harrington" <Bilhar@...>
Date: Wed Jul 4, 2001 12:28 pm
Subject: Re: [heartattack] RE: school

Hi John,,,, I should clarify something,,,  When I say work, I am referring to
physical activity,,,,I am retired now,, but for most of my life was a General
Contractor,,,,,work now consists mostly of helping family,,,with remodeling
projects,, like today I will help my daughters husband with a Reside
project,,,,,I agree with most everything you say,, I am also overweight,,,,,and
the more you gain,, the more you gain,,, ha ha ,,,,I am totally convinced that
, your diet must convert your blood Ph, from Alkaline to Acid,,, or it will do
nothing,,,,  with the exception of ridding your blood of some fat content,,,,
but nothing is going to regress without the Acid,,,,, My double blind study for
this believe is Linus Pauling and D C Jarvis,, both of whom lived to be 90 or
close to it,,,,,,in good health,,  and both advocated the use of Acid in one
form or the other,,,,,D C Jarvis explains it best in his Book.     I am leaving
soon to help the daughter,,, but before I go,,, I will take my dailey dose of
Apple cider vinegar,, mixed with grapejuice,,  this will give me a dose of
Malic acid,,, and load my system with Potassium,,,,and other minerals,,,,,in
addition I will start my Ascoric acid,,,and vitamins that I take daily,,,,
Hell I can,t say any of this does any good,,,,I just know I continue to move
forward,, and have avoided surgery , I am never sick,,,  with colds or
flu,,,,,or anything else,,,,,and I am constantly exposed to it,,, with so many
g kids around,,,,  but my success may be ,,,in avoiding,,, Dr office and
hospitals,,, where most often,, germs are present,,, ha ha,,,,,  Thanks for the
response,,,, ,, bh
Bill Harrington
Bilhar@...

From: rkwahl@...
Date: Wed Jul 4, 2001 3:48 pm
Subject: Re: [heartattack] RE: school

Yes I did have the urinalysis and did lose some of the heavy metals.  No
doubt chelation does some good, but I have personally witnessed a disection
of a diseased coronary artery and it had a mass of not only calcium, but
other organic like tissues and fat or cholesterol build up.  You would have
had to pour full strength muratic or phosphoric acid on the calcium build up
to remove it.  It would take thousands of chelation treatments with EDTA to
achieve the same removal.  Also I see a cardiologist with an advanced
nutrition degree and we both agree on a low fat diet with the addition of
omega 3 and 6 fatty acids.  My total cholesterol has dropped from 250+ to 131
and I still eat fish and some white meat.  By the way I asked this
Cardiologist for an angiogram and he would not perform it saying I was not
symptematic enough,  so I beleive most doctors are not the big money grabbers
most people expect, but they are human.

Thanks  Rick in Seattle

From: "John Polifronio" <counterpnt@...>
Date: Wed Jul 4, 2001 12:04 pm
Subject: Re: [heartattack] RE: school

I had over 50 chelation treatments, and can't say it did anything for me.
My angina did not decline.  As for being able to work, it doesn't seem to be
related to treatments like chelation or even EECP.  When I eat properly, my
angina declines enough, that I can exercise modestly, but my ability to work
is tremendous.  I can still work for 8 to 10 hours without a break, and
without getting tired, because my diet is fairly good, consisting mostly of
fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts, seeds, brown rice, etc.  I also take
numerous nutritional supplements, but it's difficult to say which of them
are doing me any good.
But I'm still much overweight; a huge problem for heart patients, perhaps
even worse than smoking or lack of exercise.  Obesity is a major disease,
but is particularly dangerous for heart patients, because it makes exercise
more difficult.  Angina + obesity is the worst of all,
because exercise is next to impossible.  Unless we change our lifestyles,
there's not much medical science can do for us.
I believe that approaches such as EECP, or chelation (both of which are not
well received by most cardiologists), may be mostly of value for people with
minor heart conditions.  But serious heart disease requires major life-style
changes in every area of a person's functioning.  Diet is, for me, and I
believe, for most heart patients, the most important area requiring profound
changes.  The use of "artificial" foods should be avoided as much as
possible.  Weight loss, and exercise within one's range of fitness are also
indispensible.
best luck
John P.

From: "William Harrington" <Bilhar@...>
Date: Wed Jul 4, 2001 10:57 am
Subject: Re: [heartattack] RE: school

Hi Rick,, I too have had Chelation treatments,, about 30 at different
intervals,,, I still have Angina,,,,  However I do not have it nearly as bad as
it was,,,, I am no longer dizzy,,from a blocked Carotid artery,, I can do 10
times more physical work.   Chelation is not a cure all ,with sudden 100
percent results,,,,but neither is by-pass, or angioplasty,,,,,both are
temporary , and neither cures the underlying cause of Heart Disease.
      During Chelation sessions, which take 2 to 3 hours,, at one sitting,,, I
have had conversations with many people,, more than half of the people I have
spoken to,, are there after having, by-pass,,, and agioplasty,,,,some had it
more than once,,,, I also visited for several days with a man,, whose big toe
was nearly black,,, from lack of circulation,,,, the last time I saw
him,,,,after several C treatments,,, his toe had returned to normal,,  in
appearance,,,,No one can tell me that it does not work,,,I also have been there
done,that,,also,,, The Doctor I see, who prescribes these treatments  has a
Ph.D., in Medicine,,,hardly what you would call a quack,,,,The truth is none of
the above is a complete cure,,,,Its a matter of choice,, I choose not to be cut
open,,,, and I will continue to do so,,,as long as there is an alternative.
       QUESTION: After your  4th Chealtion treatment,, did you do a Urine
analysis,,,to determine what was being removed from your system,,,,, In my own
case,, on the heavy side of analysis, was  Cadmium, Aluminum,Arsenic,,,other
trace metals as well,,,,,,just curious.
Bill Harrington
Bilhar@...

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   Iv'e tried chelation without much success , have changed lifestyle and
   exercise with some success, but Sandy is closest to the truth.

   Rick

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HEART DISEASE HALTED

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Lion Tamer Dr. Matthias Rath Interviewed
Until today, every second woman and man has died of heart attacks,
strokes and other forms of cardiovascular disease. Atherosclerosis,
the underlying disease, starts early in life. At age 25, every second
person has already developed deposits in their artery walls.

Until recently, bypass surgery and coronary angioplasty were the only
remedies known to medicine. Now there is a natural answer to the
cardiovascular epidemic, and it has just been clinically proven.

One of the great advances in medicine in this century is the
discovery that heart attacks and strokes are not diseases, but the
result of long-term vitamin deficiencies, and that they are
preventable. Animals don't get heart attacks because they produce
vitamin C in their bodies.

Your body cannot manufacture vitamin C, and long-term vitamin
deficiencies lead to weakness of your artery walls similar to the
sailor's disease scurvy. Cholesterol and other blood factors are
deposited inside your arteries only if your blood vessel walls are
weakened by vitamin deficiencies. Thus, cardiovascular disease is
essentially an early form of scurvy. This new understanding of
America's Number One health problem was discovered by Nobel prize
winner Linus Pauling and Dr. Matthias Rath, M.D.
Since early stages of coronary heart disease have already developed
in every second person during the third decade of life, the need for
halting this process becomes of paramount importance. Therefore, the
results of our clinical study cannot be overestimated.
They are of great significance for millions of people worldwide. For
the first time it has been clinically demonstrated that the growth of
atherosclerosis in coronary arteries can be stopped by a natural
program of essential nutrients. The study, published in the January
1997 issue of the Journal of Applied Nutrition, was conducted on 55
patients (age 45 to 68) with different stages of coronary heart
disease, ranging from early to advanced forms.
The study documented the growth of calcified atherosclerotic deposits
in the coronary artery walls of these patients before and during one
year of the vitamin program, developed by health Now, Inc. The
deposits were measured directly by means of Ultrafast Computed
Tomography. This new technique allows diagnosis of heart disease
before you feel any symptoms and allows the non-invasive monitoring
of the coronary deposits. The results of this study documented for
the first time that coronary heart disease is an aggressive process
with an exponential growth rate.
The results show that the more advanced disease is, the faster it
grows. On average the calcium deposits increased every year by 44%.
A comparison of the growth rate of coronary calcium deposits before
and after following a natural program of vitamins, minerals and other
essential nutrients showed that this disease can be stopped in its
early stages in the relatively short time of one year. Most
importantly, in individual cases this nutritional supplement program
even led to the reversal of existing coronary deposits.
One example was a 50-year-old business executive who entered the
study after learning that he had developed beginning coronary heart
disease. The x-ray pictures are cross-sections of this patient's
heart and coronary arteries, taken with Ultrafast computed
tomography. With this technology the Doctors could see the presence
of calcified deposits in the coronary arteries. After about one year
on the vitamin program the coronary deposits had entirely disappeared.
In summary, the clinical study documents for the first time that:
· atherosclerosis is an aggressive disease, and without nutritional
supplementation can progress annually on average by 44%,
· coronary heart disease can be diagnosed early, before symptoms
occur, and can be prevented at this early stage,
· a natural program of vitamins, minerals and other essential
nutrients can stop the growth of coronary heart disease during its
early stages in the relatively short time of one year.
The fact that coronary deposits can disappear without angioplasty,
bypass surgery or drugs, indicates that the cardiovascular epidemic
can be controlled, or even eradicated, in the next century. We are
now entering an era where we can reverse heart disease without
surgery.
This is the story of one doctor's quest to eradicate heart disease
that led to amazing new discoveries about the link between nutrition
and cardiovascular health. Dr. Matthias Rath, physician and
researcher, has devoted his career to discovering the causes and
treatment of cardiovascular disease. Dr. Rath came to this country
from Germany in 1990 and became the first Director of Cardiovascular
Research at the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine.
His groundbreaking work in establishing a clear connection between
deficiencies of certain key nutrients and the development of heart
disease has resulted in, among other things, the first U.S. patent
for a technology to reverse heart disease without surgery.
Dr. Rath's research, and his startling findings, revolve around two
simple yet powerful concepts: that a deficiency of certain nutrients
causes a loss of stability in blood vessel walls, and that
cardiovascular disease originates when the body "overcorrects" this
unstable condition with deposits of fat molecules. In the following
interview, Dr. Rath outlines the ways in which his findings lead to
these conclusions.


Dr. Rath, your book is entitled "Eradicating Heart Disease." Do you
really believe that this deadly disease can be eradicated?
Dr. Rath: Absolutely. There is an interesting phenomenon that
startles most people when they hear about it: heart attack, stroke -
cardiovascular disease in general - is virtually unknown among
animals. It isn't impossible for it to happen, but it simply doesn't
occur, regardless of the animal's diet, level of activity or other
factors. And yet coronary and cardiovascular diseases are epidemics
worldwide among people. They are the number one killers in all
industrialized countries, accounting for about half of all deaths.
For years, scientists have puzzled over this phenomenon, and now at
last research is shedding some light on it. With the exception of man
and a few other species, animals synthesize the vitamin C they need
in their bodies. We do not produce vitamin C, and must attain the
levels we need from food and supplementation.
If you don't get enough vitamin C, your body cannot produce adequate
collagen and collagen is the substance which gives your
cardiovascular system its structural integrity. Low vitamin C intake
over many years leads to chronic instability of the vessel walls.
Deposits develop over time as a reaction to this instability. Once
you understand heart disease as a vitamin deficiency, treatment is
easy, non-intrusive and risk free.


But if it were as simple as a vitamin deficiency, wouldn't we know
that by now? With the millions of dollars that have been spent on
research in this field, how can this just now be coming to light?
Dr. Rath: Well, I guess sometimes the simplest ideas can be the
hardest to see. But there is also an economic factor involved.
Vitamins are not patent able. Therefore, there has been little
incentive for vital research and clinical studies.
Also, linking disease and nutrition challenges the way many doctors
think. This is changing, and more and more doctors every year are
considering nutritive factors. But this kind of vast orientation
change takes time.


When you mention "vitamin deficiency," most people probably think of
scurvy, the disease sailors got a hundred years or so ago when they
failed to get any vitamin C in their diets. Is the vitamin deficiency
that leads to heart disease the same kind of thing?
Dr. Rath: As a matter of fact, it is the same thing. Heart disease is
a form of early, or chronic, scurvy. When a person develops scurvy,
their body is totally depleted of vitamin C and all bodily tissue
degrades quickly. The first symptom you see is bleeding gums. And
what is this bleeding? It is leaking of the blood vessel walls.
As the scurvy progresses, the blood vessel walls - not just the gums,
but throughout the body - break down and are no longer able to
contain blood as it is pumped through them by the heart. Eventually
the blood escapes from the blood vessels, and death results.
The reason that a lack of vitamin C causes scurvy is the same as the
reason that a shortage of vitamin C causes heart disease. Among the
most important functions of vitamin C in the body is the production
of collagen. collagen molecules form the structure of the entire
cardiovascular system.
They function like the steel girders in a skyscraper - they form a
supporting grid that assures the strength and stability of the veins,
arteries and other blood vessels. With no vitamin C, collagen
production ceases and in a relatively short time the entire system
loses its structural integrity. This is scurvy. Today most people get
enough vitamin C to avoid getting scurvy.
However, enough to prevent scurvy isn't necessarily enough to keep
your cardiovascular system healthy. If your diet includes only
minimal amounts of vitamin C, collagen production is reduced and
blood vessels weaken. Tiny lesions develop in the vessel walls, and
the blood vessels lose elasticity.
In order to combat this, the body sends clusters of fat molecules
into the blood vessel walls, acting as repair agents to do the work
that collagen should be doing. but like a plaster patch on a wall,
the result is a repair that is not as strong or stable as the
original structure. Over time, the body overshoots the repair
mechanism. Arterial deposits are nothing other than nature's "plaster
cast" against the weakness of the blood vessel walls.
If these deposits develop in the arteries of the heart they lead to
the heart attack. If they develop in the arteries of the brain they
lead to stroke.


Are there other factors involved besides vitamin C?
Dr. Rath: Yes. Animals that do not produce vitamin C in their bodies,
such as humans, do produce a specific type of fat molecule called
lipoprotein (a). this molecule is naturally very sticky. the reason
why cholesterol particles and other fatty particles deposit in the
blood vessel wall is because some of them are coated with these
sticky lipoprotein molecules, which form a biological "adhesive tape"
around the fatty particle.
So it is actually the stickiness of the lipoprotein particle which
makes the fat globules accumulate inside the blood vessel wall, which
leads to the build-up of deposits and eventually to the clogging of
these arteries. In summary, the new understanding is that less
stickiness means less risk for heart disease.
Of course, now that the stickiness has become the focus of
therapeutic attention, it is logical to say, well, let's look
for "Teflon" agents which can prevent and neutralize this stickiness,
and thereby prevent the spread and build-up of new deposits, and more
importantly reverse already existing deposits by loosening the fatty
particles, the LDL and the other cholesterol particles, from the
arterial wall and thereby decrease the clogging.


And are there actually "Teflon" agents that can do that?
Dr. Rath: Yes, there are. Part of the work I've been doing, and the
patents I've received, involve using the natural amino acids lysine
and proline for just this purpose. These two nutritional supplements
are the first generation of "Teflon" agents that we know, and of
course since they are natural supplements, eventually everyone can
take immediate advantage of these new discoveries.


So there are two factors which make humans more prone to heart
disease than animals?
Dr. Rath: Yes. First, animals produce a lot of their own vitamin C,
which humans do not do. Our ancestors have lost this ability to
produce their own vitamin C. All the vitamin C for our bodies must
come from our diet.
The second factor is, animals do not have these sticky particles,
they just have normal fat particles. This stickiness is the second
reason why human beings are much more prone to this disease than any
other living beings on this planet.


You hold a patent in this area. Can you explain that, and the studies
that led to the patent?
Dr. Rath: Certainly. the scientific search - the drive - that I was
involved in over the past eight years, started by looking inside the
human arteries. What is it exactly that leads to the build-up of
deposits, and kills millions of people every year from heart attacks
and strokes?
The key we found was really the adhesive tape - the lipoprotein
particle. No adhesive tape - no stickiness - no fatty deposit,
period! So, the patent that we received comes directly from this
discovery, and that it is the possibility to use the amino acids,
lysine and proline, as agents to reverse these deposits, to get the
fatty deposits out of the wall and thereby decrease the risk of heart
disease.
This is the core of the patent. Of course, in order to get the
patents, you have to have a certain amount of experimental evidence,
and first clinical evidence. So, we already have a series of
testimonials from people following this program, who have been taking
higher amounts of vitamin C, lysine, proline and other important
nutrients.
A person who has angina pectoris experiences chest pain, which
results from the narrowing of the coronary arteries. people following
this program report to us regularly that within four to six weeks
they almost entirely get rid of this chest pain.
The blood circulation through their coronary arteries has obviously
improved, and therefore the chest pain, which is a sign of the
suffocating heart muscle, does not occur anymore. Studies which will
document the reversal of deposits in the coronary arteries of heart
disease patients are in and the results are remarkable.


Beyond vitamin C, lysine and proline, are there other nutrients that
you recommend supplementing?
Dr. Rath: Yes. What you have to keep in mind is that your
cardiovascular system is your largest organ. One person's
cardiovascular system has the surface area of about half a football
field! This system is made of millions of individual cells, and
keeping those cells healthy is of paramount importance. So it is
essential to follow a well-thought-out nutritional supplementation
plan.
One important and powerful antioxidant I have researched is
pycnogenol. I recommend this very highly. Pycnogenol is a little
known extract of a European pine bark that is tremendously effective
in fighting free radical damage. It is absorbed very quickly by the
body, and helps potentiate vitamin C and other antioxidant activity.
Pycnogenol is a fairly expensive nutrient, and rather hard to find,
but it is very worthwhile to seek it out.
I also recommend including other antioxidants such as vitamin E and
beta-carotene, along with vitamin C, for their protective ability.
Moreover, many of the B vitamins are important as cell fuel, as are
several key minerals and CoEnzyme Q10.
Are there any dangers in using these supplements in the amounts you
recommend?
Dr. Rath: The answer is no. Clearly no.
So there is no downside and quite a bit of potential for preventing
or even reversing heart disease.
Dr. Rath: Yes. I think the dimension of these discoveries has not yet
been understood. What we're talking about is that today medicine has
only surgical treatments for heart disease. We are now entering an
era where we can reverse heart disease without surgery, based on
nutritional supplements. These new safe, effective treatments
represent a complete change in our approach to these health problems.
Thank you, Dr. Rath.
Dr. Rath: You're very welcome.
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