My reply: THERE WAS PLENTY TO DRINK AND ENJOY BEFORE NUTRASWEET CAME ON THE MARKET! The healthy alternatives have been out there, they are just not in the soda machines.
There has always been pure water, pure juices, natural teas and good coffees for people to enjoy. But our society has gotten into the bad habit of grabbing a bottle of soda pop from machines placed on every street corner, in every office building, the public schools, and , of course, in every shopping mall. Colas and diet drinks are "encouraged" in America, and children are being raised thinking that a diet cola is healthier for them than pure water. And now kids don't even want to drink plain water anymore because they prefer water with added artificial flavorings and chemical sweeteners.
But there is a silver lining behind this dark cloud - the competition for manufacturing and marketing healthy waters and healthy drinks is on the rise. When Glaceau Vitamin Water® first came on the market, not only was their marketing funny and refreshing (pun intended), but it offered consumers, particularly athletes and children, a healthy alternative to diet colas. Now, the market has yet another, fun and healthy vitamin enhanced water that puts the flavored waters containing artificial sweeteners to shame.
Here's the new kid on the block - a Charlotte, North Carolina company introduced a healthy choice for vitamin-enhanced water labeled Respect.
Respect Vitamin Enhanced Water has 10 essential vitamins and minerals offered in a variety of flavors. Like Glaceau's Vitamin Water, each flavor is categorized by added functional benefits. Plus, Respect uses all natural ingredients, not artificial sweeteners or fructose syrup -- only pure cane sugar to get just the right sweetness; AND no artificial colors, flavors, or preservatives.
This is yet another great alternative for people trying to ditch the chemical diet cola habit for a healthier and more natural drink alternative. Check out their site for nutritional, vitamin and mineral information: Respect Drinks.
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Tom Webster Tom Webster and Nerissa Wu of Boston University’s School of Public Health led the international study, which involved collecting breast milk samples from 46 first-time mothers in the Boston area. Although the researchers obtained dust samples from only 11 homes, they found statistically significant correlations between the levels of PBDEs in the dust from women’s homes and the concentrations of the contaminants in their milk.
EPA released its long-awaited draft PBDE assessments
The levels of PBDEs reported in previous studies CLICKABLE LINK TEXT of house dust vary widely—as do the amounts of PBDEs that studies have shown can be taken up by North American citizens , which have the highest levels of PBDEs in the world. Heather Stapleton Bio of DukeUniversity , who is a pioneer CLICKABLE TEXT LINK in this research, says that people living in U.S. homes with the mean and median levels of PBDEs in their dust could be taking up within an order of magnitude of the new IRIS reference doses.
Particularly concerning is the fact that “we are seeing such high levels in some homes,” Stapleton says. She calculates that children living in these homes could be “getting [PBDE] levels higher than the IRIS estimates.” The IRIS doses for BDE–47 and BDE–99 were based on research showing neurotoxic effects on developing animals. This suggests that growing children may be especially susceptible CLICKABLE TEXT LINK .
Many of the scientists interviewed for this article expressed surprise that EPA’s draft assessments were formulated on the basis of the doses of the PBDEs administered to the test animals, rather than the “comparable body burdens” CLICKABLE TEXT LINK approach now used for dioxins and PCBs. Because that approach compares the concentrations of PBT compounds in experimental animals with those found in people, it is more appropriate for compounds such as BDE–47, BDE–99, and BDE–153, which tend to have long half-lives in humans, on the order of years, Webster explains. The public comment period for the PBDE IRIS documents ends on February 5.
What the new research does not show is the source of the PBDEs found in the dust. Webster's questionnaire included detailed questions about potential sources of PBDEs, such as electronics, and furniture likely to contain foam-padding. He says he and his colleagues were "surprised . . . that we couldn't find any relationship based on what we know about how PBDEs are used in household products."
The paper also raises questions about how much dust people take up. “In our review of the literature we found more than 100-fold difference in estimated dust ingestion,” points out Arnold Schecter Bio, professor of environmental sciences at the University of Texas–Houston School of Public Health . “Obviously, as the authors indicate, it is quite important for this key uncertainty to be resolved by further research, which should include various age groups from infancy through adult life.” —KELLYN S. BETTS Bio
Songwriter and aspiring actor Teron Beal was looking to drop weight quickly for a photo shoot, he didn’t double up on gym visits, gulp metabolic boosting pills or limit his diet to leafy greens and lean protein. Instead, he took a more drastic approach: he tried the “master cleanse,” a detox fasting program that requires subsisting for 10 or more days solely on an elixir of fresh-squeezed lemon juice, cayenne pepper, maple syrup and water.
Read the entire article at NYT > Nutrition.
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Confronting the criticism of health and environmental groups, three major nail polish manufacturers - including one on Long Island - say they've either removed or have begun the process of removing a trio of substances that have been deemed harmful.
The chemicals formaldehyde, toluene and dibutyl phthalate, or DBP, have been linked to cancer and birth defects. All were banned earlier this year in cosmetics by European Union regulators but have not been targeted for removal in this country by the Food and Drug Administration.
Manufacturers, all with markets abroad, said yesterday they have begun removing the compounds voluntarily under pressure from health and environmental advocacy organizations.
Executives at Del Laboratories in Uniondale, manufacturer of Sally Hansen brand nail polish, say their products are being reformulated to eliminate all three substances. The Sally Hansen brand is sold worldwide and is the No. 1 nail polish brand sold in drugstores.
"As a concerned manufacturer of products, we proactively respond to concerns and trends," said Bruce MacKay, Del Laboratories' vice president of scientific affairs, who insisted the products are safe.
Ann Nugent, a Del Laboratories spokeswoman, said the reformulated nail enamels should appear on store shelves early next year. Orly International Inc. and OPI Products, top salon brands with headquarters in Southern California, say they, too, will eliminate the compounds. Orly began the process last year and OPI started this year.
The companies had come under fire for several years from the Breast Cancer Fund, the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and Women's Voices of the Earth, among a host of other advocacy groups.
"These are products that enter into the body in a way that is not dissimilar to the way that drugs do," said Jeanne Rizzo, a registered nurse and executive director of the San Francisco-based Breast Cancer Fund, a health advocacy organization that supports studies on the causes of breast cancer.
She said that DBP is an endocrine disrupter, associated with underdeveloped genitals in newborn males. Rizzo added that the compound belongs to a broad class of toxins that have been linked to accelerated puberty in girls, a factor that may be associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. Toluene has been linked to nervous system disorders, and formaldehyde is a suspected carcinogen.
The FDA doesn't require the rigorous scrutiny of cosmetics that is reserved for pharmaceuticals.
Rizzo said harmful substances have been allowed in nail polish because the expert panel advising the agency on cosmetics is made up of officials from the cosmetics industry.
FDA spokeswoman Veronica Castro said the agency could not respond to issues involving compounds in nail polish yesterday because the expert in the Cosmetics and Colors division was absent.
Arthur Levin, director of the Center for Medical Consumers, a health advocacy group in Manhattan, said the FDA is "understaffed and overworked," and cannot maintain appropriate vigilance over cosmetics.
Poison in the polish
Though the Food and Drug Administration does not require that cosmetics be rigorously tested for safety, three substances used in nail polish and treatment products have long been linked to cancer and birth defects.
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Dr. Janet Hull
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Bleaching agent in flour linked to diabetes
By The Idaho Observer
As if we haven’t enough to worry about, the newest tainted food supply concern is that flour in commonly consumed baked goods is being bleached with an agent that produces a toxin known to kill pancreatic cells, leading to diabetes. Though it has not yet been determined how many flour mills are bleaching with chloride oxide, the use of chlorides to bleach flour is an industry standard. This should be a criminal practice since the cause-and-effect of alloxan on pancreatic tissue is axiomatic in biochemistry. The purpose of compiling this article is not to unnecessarily frighten people into avoiding bakery items that contain bleached white flour (though minimizing intake of such products is a good idea regardless), but to illustrate how the big, corporate food processors think nothing of poisoning even the most basic, staple components of our food supply.
Most white flour used to produce bread and bakery goods is bleached in order to make the flour as white as possible. There are several chemical bleaching agents that are used such as oxide of nitrogen, chlorine, chloride, nitrosyl, and benzoyl peroxide mixed with various chemical salts. But the worst flour bleaching agent by far is chloride oxide. When chloride oxide combines with what proteins are left in the flour after removal of the bran and germ of the wheat, it forms a substance called alloxan. Alloxan, when produced by chemists, is an oxidized product of uric acid and is also called uroxin.
How does alloxan cause diabetes?
Scientists have known that alloxan produces selective destruction of the beta cells of the pancreas, causing hyperglycemia and ketoacidosis in laboratory animals (Note: beta cells compose the bulk of the islets of Langerhans and secrete insulin). According to Dr. Hari Sharma’s Freedom from Disease, the uric acid derivative initiates free radical damage to DNA in the beta cells of the pancreas, causing the cells to malfunction and die.
When these beta cells fail to operate normally, they no longer produce enough insulin or, in other words, they cause one variety of adult-onset type 2 diabetes. Alloxan’s harmful effects on the pancreas are so severe that the Textbook of Natural Medicine calls the chemical "a potent beta-cell toxin."
However, even though the toxic effect of alloxan is common scientific knowledge in the research community, the FDA still allows companies to use it when processing foods we ingest.
More reasons to avoid white flour products
In the process of making flour white, half of the good unsaturated fatty acids that are high in food value are lost in the milling process alone, and virtually all the vitamin E is lost with the removal of wheat germ and bran. As a result, white flour contains only poor quality proteins and fattening starch. But that is just the tip of the iceberg. By removing the germ and the bran from the wheat in making white flour, the following percentage of nutrients are lost: Approximately 50 percent of all calcium, 70 percent of phosphorus, 80 percent iron, 98 percent magnesium, 75 percent manganese, 50 percent potassium and 65 percent of copper is destroyed. If that is not bad enough, about 80 percent thiamin, 60 percent of riboflavin, 75 percent of niacin, 50 percent of pantothenic acid, and about 50 percent of Pyridoxine is additionally lost.
What you can do
If you’ve been eating white bread for years and you have a family history of diabetes, all hope is not lost for you. Studies show that you can reverse the effects of alloxan by supplementing your diet with vitamin E. According to Dr. Gary Null’s Clinicians Handbook of Natural Healing, vitamin E effectively protected lab rats from the harmful effects of administered alloxan.
Even if you are already diabetic, some simple changes to your diet can help treat your diabetes. First of all, stop eating foods made with white flour. Even though you already have diabetes, vitamin E supplements can still help you, as can many common foods.
Garlic, for example, does wonders for diabetes. As Dr. Benjamin Lau states in his book Garlic for Health, "When fed garlic, the rabbits’ elevated blood sugar dropped almost as much as it did when they were given the antidiabetic drug tolbutamide. Researchers postulated that garlic may improve the insulin effect."
Aloe vera is another traditional diabetic remedy and its therapeutic characteristics are now gaining worldwide acceptance in the treatment of diabetes. According to both human and animal research studies, aloe vera lowers blood glucose levels by an unknown mechanism. Adding onions to your diet can also significantly reduce your blood sugar level.
It all comes down to asking yourself if being at risk for contracting diabetes is worth the pleasures of eating white bread. If you’re willing to risk your quality of life and your life itself, then go ahead and eat all the foods made with white flour you want. However, if you want to stop poisoning yourself with alloxan, a known toxic chemical, then make a few simple dietary changes.
]]>The Forbidden Vitamin B15
Vitamin B15, also known as Pangamic Acid, is a controversial vitamin in America, and has been removed from the B-Complex supplements. Pangamic Acid is not available in the USA because the FDA took Pangamic Acid products off the market over two decades ago. However the FDA has been monitoring the wide range of medical conditions treated with B15 in other countries.
Russia has been the most progressive country using B15, believing it to be a very important nutrient treating a multitude of symptoms and diseases. Russian scientists have shown Pangamic Acid supplementation can reduce the buildup of lactic acid in athletes, and, thereby, lessen muscle fatigue and increase endurance. Hum, do you think this vitamin might assist with Fibromyalgia?
B15 is used regularly in Russia for many health issues, including:
- Alcoholism
- Drug addiction
- Aging and senility
- Minimal brain damage in children
- Autism
- Schizophrenia
- Heart disease
- High blood pressure; diabetes
- Skin diseases
- Liver disease
- Chemical poisonings
Dimethyl glycine (DMG) has been used in the United States as a substitute for B15 because it is believed to increase Pangamic Acid production in the body. Dimethyl glycine combines with gluconic acid to form Pangamic Acid. DMG is considered the active component of Pangamic Acid.
Pangamic Acid is found in:
- Whole grains such as brown rice
- Brewer's yeast
- Pumpkin and sunflower seeds
- Apricot kernels
- Beef blood
B15 helps in the formation of specific amino acids such as methionine. It plays a role in the oxidation of glucose in cell respiration. Like vitamin E, it acts as an antioxidant helping to lengthen cell life through its protection from oxidation. Pangamic Acid mildly stimulates the endocrine and nervous systems, and by enhancing liver function, it helps in the detoxification process.
B15 has been shown to lower blood cholesterol, improve circulation and general oxygenation of cells and tissues, and is helpful for arteriosclerosis and hypertension - some of America's most common diseases.
In Europe, vitamin B15 has been used to treat premature aging because of both its circulatory stimulus and its antioxidant effects. It helps protect the body from pollutants, especially carbon monoxide. Pangamic acid (and possibly DMG) offers support for anyone living in a large polluted city or under high-stress.
As previously mentioned, in Russia, Pangamic Acid is used in treating alcohol dependency and is believed to reduce alcohol cravings. It has been reported to diminish hangovers. B15 has also been used to treat fatigue, as well as asthma and rheumatism, and it even has some anti-allergic properties. Some child psychiatrists have reported good results using Pangamic Acid with emotionally disturbed children; it is used to stimulate their speaking ability and related mental functions. B15 may also be a helpful nutrient for autism, but more precise research is needed.
It is currently illegal to distribute B15 in the United States, though it was used as a supplement for some time through the 1970s. The most common form of Pangamic Acid is calcium pangamate, but it appears as dimethyl glycine (DMG), the active component hailed in Russia. Pangamic Acid, or DMG, is often taken with vitamin E and vitamin A. A common amount of DMG is 50-100 mg. taken twice daily, usually with breakfast and dinner. This level of intake may improve general energy levels, support the immune system, and reduce alcohol cravings, making it very helpful in moderating chronic alcohol problems.
Nature’s Cancer Prevention - B17
Have you ever heard of vitamin B17? Maybe you have heard of its other name - Laetrile.
Americans cannot access vitamin B17 because the FDA took it off the market in the 1970s, and removed it from the B-Complex vitamins. It is unlawful for any health practitioner to administer this vitamin to patients. Apricot seeds are the best source for B17, but they have also been removed from the shelves of every health food store and natural market throughout the USA. Limited research has been conducted on vitamin B17 since 1977. Once it was banned, it was forgotten.
According to research from years ago, provided by nutritionists and medical scientists, vitamin B17 is a natural cyanide-containing compound that gives up its cyanide content only in the presence of a particular enzyme group called beta glucosidase or glucuronidase. Miraculously, this enzyme group is found almost exclusively in cancer cells. When it is found elsewhere in the body, it is accompanied by greater quantities of another enzyme, rhodanese, which has the ability to disable the cyanide and convert it into completely harmless substances. Cancer tissues do not have this protecting enzyme.
So, according to past scientific knowledge, cancer cells are faced with a double threat: the presence of one enzyme exposing them to cyanide, while the absence of another enzyme found in all other normal cells results in the cancer's failure to detoxify itself. Leave it to nature to provide a form of cyanide that can naturally destroy a cancer cell. The cancer cells that are unable to withstand the cyanide are destroyed, while the non-cancerous cells are not threatened by the cyanide, and, therefore, remain unharmed. Never underestimate the body's potential!
Vitamin B17 is found naturally in many foods. If you eat foods containing vitamin B17, your body will know what to do next. All other animals in nature instinctively do this. Consider it nature's cancer prevention. If only modern medicine would allow it.
San Francisco's Ernst T. Krebs, Sr., M.D. discovered the healing qualities of vitamin B17 in 1923. His sons, Ernst T. Krebs, Jr., PhD, and Byron Krebs, M.D. continued their father's research in 1952, refining Laetrile's (B17) nutritional qualities.
From their research, the Krebs believed cancer was not caused by an outside invading force but rather by malfunctions of the normal mechanics within the body itself. They identified cancer as a "deficiency disease." The body's malfunctions, according to their research, were the result of a deficiency of certain chemicals found in food, a deficiency of chemicals they specifically identified as vitamin B17, as well as a deficiency of enzymes known as trypsins produced in the pancreas.
The Krebs had discovered a natural, drugless method to help prevent cancer. But their discovery wasn't original. Years prior to any of the Drs. Krebs' works, Drs. George B. Wood and Franklin Bache, M.D. published a reference volume in 1833 in which they described amygdalin, derived from B17, as a common treatment for a wide range of diseases and disorders.
Vitamin B17 is also referred to as a nitriloside, which is the foundation for Laetrile, amygdalin, and prunasin. Together with the pancreatic enzyme trypsin, these can form a natural barrier against cancer growth. If foods containing any of the nitrilosides are eaten regularly, the body's own immune mechanisms can naturally battle cancer-forming cells. But if foods containing these critical vitamins are not regularly consumed (or manufactured), nature's mechanisms can't work as effectively against the buildup of factors at the root of cancer and the countless number of degenerative diseases.
This is happening to human beings today. Not only are advanced societies environmentally polluted to dangerous levels, but also more and more foods are being altered from their natural state by man's own doing. Modern freeze-dried, fat-free, sugar-free, calorie-free, weight-watchful, microwavable artificial food substitutes don't contain nitrilosides. Most food manufacturers don't even know what nitrilosides are. Never in human history have artificial foods saturated with preservatives and unhealthy chemicals dominated the food supply to the degree they do today. Modern nourishment is no longer nourishing.
In the late 1970's, Dr. Harold W. Manner, PhD., Chairman of the Biology Department at Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, studied the overall value of Laetrile (B17). His work was well respected and considered among the first unbiased studies since the Krebs' in the 1920s. He reported Laetrile as being virtually non-toxic.
When Dr. Manner used Laetrile in his medical research, along with vitamin A and digestive enzymes, he discovered the production of antibodies was stimulated against spontaneous breast tumors in his laboratory mice. He studied the results of complete regression in 76 percent of the treated mice with mammary gland cancers.
Dr. Manner believed Laetrile received its best results when used in conjunction with digestive enzymes, a traditional balanced diet, and with vitamin A.
No physician has had more clinical experience with Laetrile than Ernesto Contreras, Sr., M.D. of the Contreras Hospital in Tijuana, Mexico, formerly The Oasis Of Hope Hospital. Dr. Contreras has clinically used Laetrile for more than forty years on thousands of terminally diagnosed patients, and has received impressive results.
One of Dr. Contreras' patients was a man suffering from severe colon cancer. Using Laetrile treatments in conjunction with detoxification protocols and proper vitamin supplementation, Contreras was able to arrest the progression of his patient's cancer. The man lived more than fifteen years beyond his predicted death.
The following is a list of foods rich in vitamin B17:
- Watercress
- Spinach
- Bamboo sprouts
- Alfalfa sprouts
- Lentil sprouts
- Whole nuts
- Mung bean sprouts
- Ground nuts
- Garbanzo sprouts
- Apple seeds
- Apricot seeds
For more information about cancer prevention, please visit Dr. Hull's Richardson Cancer Prevention Diet.
To your health!
Dr. Janet Starr Hull
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Skin Test Could Detect Alzheimer's Disease Early
MONDAY, Aug. 14 (HealthDay News) -- A simple skin test that would allow detection of Alzheimer's disease in its earliest stages is working its way to reality.
The work "is based on the hypothesis that Alzheimer's disease doesn't just affect the brain but affects the body systemically," said Dr. Daniel L. Alkon, a lead author of a report on the test published online this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The test zeroes in on two forms of an enzyme involved in the degradation of amyloid, the protein that accumulates in the brain of someone with Alzheimer's, said Alkon, scientific director of the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute at the West Virginia University Health Sciences Center.
The presence of Alzheimer's disease is indicated by a steep imbalance in the ratio of the two forms of the enzyme, MAP kinase Erk, in skin cells that are exposed to bradykinin, an inflammation-related molecule, Alkon said. That imbalance is not seen in cells of people without dementia or those with other forms of dementia, he said.
The test produced good results when run on 60 tissue samples: 30 from a tissue bank, 30 from autopsy samples of people diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, Alkon said.
"We have seen a correlation with the duration of the disease," he said. "The earlier it is done in the course of the disease, the larger is the abnormality."
]]>In my book Splenda® Is It Safe Or Not?, I have written in detail how and why diet chemical sweeteners and “prosthetic” foods cause weight gain, and have sited the laboratory research substantiating this fact. If mainstream “scientists” can’t figure out how and why fake sweeteners stimulate weight gain, which leaves the proof to the consumer. So, put on your lab coat, ditch the diet fizz, and figure this issue out for yourselves if you have to. Then you can teach the corporate researchers the basic facts of weight gain from diet sweeteners.
To your health!
Dr. Janet Hull
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Excess Soda Could Raise Esophageal Cancer Risk
Dear Mayo Clinic: Is there any connection between esophageal cancer and diet soda?
Answer: The quick answer is no: there’s no direct connection between esophageal cancer and diet or regular soda. But the quick answer doesn’t tell the whole story.
There are interconnections between soda, obesity, gastroesophagel reflux disease, or GERD, and esophageal cancer that may indicate it’s best to go easy on soda.
The incidence of esophageal cancer continues to increase, and so far, researchers can’t pinpoint a single reason for the increase.
Here are some of the known risk factors:
GERD: Frequent or constant heartburn is the most common symptom of gastroesophageal reflux disease.
While heartburn seems like just a nuisance, about 5 percent of people with GERD will develop Barrett’s esophagus, a condition that occurs when acid reflux stimulates changes in the lining of the lower esophagus. Patients with Barrett’s esophagus have a 30- to 125-fold increased risk of developing esophageal cancer.
And GERD is also associated with obesity.
Obesity: While soda alone doesn’t cause obesity, it can contribute to weight gain. A 12-ounce regular soda contains about 10 teaspoons of sugar. Diet soda, though calorie free, could contribute to weight gain, too.
A study presented at last year’s annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association found that for people who drank two or more cans of diet soda a day, the risk of becoming overweight or obese was 57.1 percent, compared with 47.2 percent for those who drank more than two cans of regular soda a day.
The study, done by researchers at Texas Health Science Center, tracked 622 people for about seven years.
It’s not clear why diet soda consumption was associated with a higher risk of weight gain. The researchers speculated that diet soda drinkers fared worse because they opted for diet soda in an effort to lose weight. But drinking diet soda – without other changes – isn’t enough to shed pounds. Or, it was theorized that perhaps the artificial sweeteners in diet soda somehow stimulate appetite.
It is clear that maintaining a healthy body weight reduces your risk of many chronic illnesses, including some cancers. Although the interplay between soda, obesity and GERD hasn’t been directly linked to esophageal cancer, there are enough connections to raise caution and watch what you drink.
– Claude Deschamps, M.D., Thoracic Surgery; and Jennifer Nelson, R.D., Clinical Dietetics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
]]>You can email Oprah your Splenda story by filling out the Oprah.com online form. You can also email Bob Greene at Get With the Program.
Let’s get the word out to these two very influential celebrities.
To your health!
Dr. Janet Starr Hull
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Mercury Amalgams: Do you still have a mouth full of them?
by Ingri Cassel
After two of my dear friends were plagued with health problems that were only minimized by natural healing programs, it was discovered that they were both suffering from acute systemic mercury poisoning and the main source of this insidious poison was in their mouth.
Both of these women have a mouthful of aging mercury amalgams. It has been shown that mercury is continually released from mercury dental fillings in the form of mercury vapor and abraded particles.
This process is further stimulated and can be increased as much as 15-fold by simply chewing, brushing teeth, hot drinks and even swishing your mouth with a solution of hydrogen peroxide (used to reduce dental plaque.)
What we have been lead to believe are "silver" dental amalgams actually contain 48-55 percent mercury, 33-35 percent silver and various amounts of copper, tin, zinc and other metals. For decades the American Dental Association has steadfastly maintained that the mercury in dental amalgams is bound to the other metals in such a way that the mercury could not possibly escape.
However the ADA's assumption was proven wrong in 1985 when two researchers demonstrated that the air inside a mercury amalgam filled mouth continually contained elemental mercury vapor, and the dynamic of chewing increased this vapor level substantially.
Mercury is extremely poisonous, accumulating over time in the various tissues of the body, particularly the brain and kidneys. Published research from two scientists at Utah State University shows that mercury is more toxic than lead, cadmium and even arsenic. Even world regulatory agencies such as the World Health Organization (WHO) have stated that the smallest amount of mercury that will not cause damage is unknown.
In fact, the WHO recently concluded that the daily intake of mercury from amalgam dental fillings exceeded the combined daily intake of mercury derived from air, water and food (including fish).
In human autopsy studies it has been found that there is a direct correlation between the amount of mercury found in the brain and the number and surfaces of mercury fillings in the mouth. Recent scientific research has shown high levels of mercury in the brains of Alzheimer's disease victims. Furthermore, laboratory studies of spinal fluid from both Lou Gehrig's disease and Alzheimers's disease patients have confirmed the presence of high levels of mercury that inhibit key brain detoxification systems.
Despite these findings, the American Dental Association and various agencies in the U.S. government still support the use of mercury amalgam dental fillings. They claim that they are safe based on 150 years of use and that there is no scientific proof showing mercury exposure from dental fillings causes any known disease.
Dr. Hull’s French Green Clay is edible clay found only in Southern France and India. French Green Clay has been widely used for centuries in Europe and Asia to remove toxins from the human body. French Green Clay binds to toxins within the tissues and organs, and safely excretes them through the gastrointestinal tract.
French Green Clay is extracted from dried Mediterranean sea beds containing micro-algae, phytoplankton, and salt-water nutrients. French Green clay will neither harden nor clump (like a cast) as most common clays, such as bentonite. Therefore, French Green Clay neither impacts digestion, elimination, nor complicates diverticulitis. In addition, French Green Clay helps balance the body’s pH levels. Clays are typically alkaline in nature. Additionally, by removing toxins, which increase the body’s acidic levels, French Green Clay helps maintain a healthy body pH.
Dr. Hull created this extraordinary plant and mineral-based, food-grade product in conjunction with Empirical Labs of Loveland, Colorado. The French Green Clay is in easy-to-swallow cellulose capsules suitable for vegetarians.
Dr. Hull chose Empirical labs as her supplier of the French Green Clay because they produce some of the finest quality vitamin supplements on the market today. They use only natural fillers such as rice bran and montmorillonite clay as opposed to the typical magnesium stearate, natural flavors and artificial colorings.
]]>My previous experience with the utilization of ascorbic acid in the
treatment of viral diseases led me to hypothesize that ascorbate would be of value in the treatment of AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Preliminary clinical evidence is that massive doses of ascorbate (50-200 grams per 24 hours) can suppress the symptoms of the disease and can markedly reduce the tendency for secondary infections.
In combination with usual treatments for the secondary infections, large doses of ascorbate will often produce a clinical remission which shows every evidence of being prolonged if treatment is continued.
This clinical remission is achieved despite continuing laboratory
evidence of helper T-cell suppression. There may be a complete or
partial destruction of the helper T-cells during an initial infection that does not necessitate a continuing toxicity from some source to maintain a permanent or prolonged helper T-cell suppression. However, it is possible ascorbate may prevent that destruction if used adequately during that prodrome period. Emphasis is put upon the recognition and treatment of the frequent intestinal parasites. Food and chemical sensitivities occur frequently in the AID syndrome and may aggravate symptoms considered to be part of the AID syndrome. A topical C-paste has been found very effective in the treatment of herpes simplex and, to a lesser extent, in the treatment of some Kaposi's lesions. Increasingly, clinical research on other methods of treating AIDS is being "contaminated" by patients taking ascorbate.
INTRODUCTION
I had previously described that the amount of ascorbic acid which can be tolerated orally by a patient without producing diarrhea,increases somewhat proportionately to the toxicity of his disease (1,2,3,4).
Among the roughly 80% of persons who tolerate ascorbic acid very well, -bowel tolerance- will be reached when in excess of 10 to 15 grams of ascorbic acid dissolved in water is taken in 4 to 6 divided doses per 24 hours. The astonishing finding was that when that same person is acutely ill with a mild cold, that tolerance may increase to approximately 50 grams per 24 hours. A severe cold can increase tolerance to 100 grams; an influenza, even up to 150 grams; and mononucleosis or viral pneumonias, to as much as 200 grams per 24 hours. These higher doses may have to be divided as frequently as hourly.
These large amounts of ascorbate are being drawn off the GI tract at a rate sufficient to prevent significant amounts from reaching the rectum and producing diarrhea. Measurements of ascorbate in urine, saliva, or serum indicate that if sufficient doses of ascorbate are not given when a patient is ill, the body level of vitamin C drops rapidly. In such a case, there is not enough vitamin C left in the body, particularly in the cells directly involved by the disease, to guarantee all the known housekeeping functions of the vitamin. Those functions known to be dependent on vitamin C, including several metabolic reactions necessary for proper functioning of the immune system, are put at risk of malfunctioning. I call this condition -acute induced scurvy.-
PREMIERE FREE RADICAL SCAVENGER
The reason ascorbate ameliorates so many conditions is that it functions as the -premiere free radical scavenger- (5). This function
is not because it is the most powerful free radical scavenger, but
because it is possible to saturate every cell of the body with more
molecules of ascorbate than any other free radical scavenger. The
reason that it takes such massive doses for optimal effect is because
high concentrations of ascorbate must be driven into the cells
directly affected by the disease process sufficient to neutralize all of the free radicals produced by that process, and have some left over for vitamin C housekeeping functions. When a disease process involves free radicals, that disease process is capable of being ameliorated by massive doses of ascorbate. In the case of many infectious diseases, the relief from free radical suppression of the immune system, allows for more effective attack on the pathogen by that immune system.
Note: this premiere free radical scavenger function has little to do with nutrition but is a pharmacologic effect of ascorbate when utilized in unnatural amounts for humans.
Actually, the complete neutralization of free radicals requires several steps involving other substances, e.g. glutathione. However clinically, the most frequent limiting factor in the reduction of free radicals is ascorbate. In certain conditions such as chemical allergies, certain other limiting factors may become critically important, e.g. selenium and glutathione. Some have worried that a
buildup of dehydroascorbate would be toxic in certain of these
conditions. Clinically, this consideration has not created a problem
when very large doses of ascorbate are used. Perhaps it is the high
ratio of ascorbate to dehydroascorbate, I am careful to maintain in
these patients, that protects against any temporarily accumulating
dehydroascorbate. Further, I should like to point out that the
dehydroascorbate formed should not be as toxic as that free radical
the ascorbate reduces as it itself is oxidized into dehydroascorbate.
In a way, it is unfortunate that this free radical scavenger and
vitamin C are the same substance. When ascorbate is destroyed in the
process of destroying free radicals, the vitamin C stores,
particularly in the cells directly involved in the disease process,
are so depleted as to cause disorders of known housekeeping functions
of vitamin C.
It is certain that AIDS causes this depletion. The sicker the patient is, the more ascorbate will be destroyed by the disease process. This depletion certainly contributes to the terminal events and probably plays a key role in the increased susceptibility of AIDS patients to various pathogens.
ASCORBATE VS. AN AIDS SUPPRESSOR FACTOR
A recent article describes the discovery of a -suppressor factor- in AIDS patients. This suppressor factor was found to be neutralized in the test tube by concentrations of ascorbate equivalent to that which would be achieved in a man who ingested 10 to 20 grams of ascorbate a day. It was thought that this amount was -"far too toxic"- to use in humans and that a less toxic antioxidant should be found (6). -Actually, 10 to 20 grams/24 hours of ascorbate is easily tolerated and is not toxic- (1,2,3,4,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14). Unfortunately, clinically I have shown that the AIDS disease process destroys even larger amounts of ascorbate than the 10 to 20 grams because bowel tolerance is regularly increased to the range of from 40 to 185 grams of C per 24 hours in the patient who has moderate Kaposi's lesions and/or moderate lymphadenopathy. -Therefore, the 10 to 20 gram equivalent of ascorbate in the test tube will not be adequate in vivo-.
PRELIMINARY STUDY
Because of the hypothesis that AIDS patients would benefit from large doses of ascorbate, I began the actual treatment of AIDS patients and have found that ascorbate is indeed very valuable when used in conjunction with certain conventional treatments. The following preliminary recommendations are based partly upon an anecdotal group of approximately 90 AIDS patients who sought medical care from physicians but who also took high doses of ascorbate on their own.
Additionally, it is based upon 12 of my AIDS patients, 6 of whom were given intravenous ascorbate for a short period of time. Most of these patients have had considerable improvement in their condition. This improvement seems somewhat proportional to the amount of ascorbate taken by the patient relative to the severity of his disease. If the patient tolerates enough ascorbate to "neutralize
the toxicity" of his disease and if the secondary infections are
treated; his condition will go into remission. Subjectively, symptoms
decrease and increase inversely with how closely the patient titrates
to bowel tolerance.
The only death has been in a patient who had previously chemotherapy, interferon, and total body Xray therapy. Additionally, his veins were so destroyed by previous treatments that intravenous vitamin C therapy could not be continued under the existing circumstances. Such a preliminary report of recommendations is justified only because of the urgency of the problem addressed and because in San Francisco and now New York, news of the ascorbate treatment is spreading rapidly. Ascorbate is being used by an increasing percentage of the AIDS patient population but without much guidance. There have been many requests by physicians for the treatment protocol.
ASCORBATE TREATMENT PROTOCOL FOR AIDS PATIENTS The following protocol is recommended for AIDS and AIDS related conditions including lymphadenopathy, idiopathic thrombo- cytopenia purpura, and Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. As predicted, AIDS patients are usually capable of ingesting large doses of ascorbate. It is desirable that the amount of ascorbate taken orally be maximized. Patients are -titrated to bowel tolerance- (the amount that almost, but not quite, causes diarrhea). A -balanced ascorbate- mixture is utilized which is made up of a mixture of approximately 25% buffered ascorbate salts(calcium, magnesium, and potassium ascorbate) and 75% ascorbic acid.
This mixture is dissolved in a small amount of water and taken at least every hour. The purpose of the frequent doses and this balanced mixture is to maximize the amount of ascorbate tolerated without producing diarrhea. Patients are permitted to vary the percentage of ascorbate salts to straight ascorbic acid according to taste. The usual amount tolerated initially is between 40 and 100 grams per 24 hours. -Doses in excess of 100 grams per 24 hours may be necessary with secondary bacterial and viral infections-.
As the patient's condition improves, bowel tolerance will decrease. When intravenous ascorbate is found necessary because the toxicity of the condition exceeds the ability of the patient to take adequate amounts of ascorbate to scavenge all of the free radicals created by the primary AIDS infection and the various secondary infections, the following intravenous solutions should be utilized. Sodium ascorbate buffered to a pH 7.4 and without preservatives is added to sterile water in a concentration of 60 grams per 500 cc. This concentration is twice the concentration I have recommended before because it is well tolerated in young males with large veins. Patients with small veins may be best treated with solutions of 60 grams per liter. The time of the infusions should be over at least a 3 hour period, preferably longer.
As much as daily administration of 3 bottles, 180 grams per 24 hours, may be necessary in acutely ill patients, e.g. Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, disseminated herpes, disseminated
cytomegalovirus, and atypical pneumonia. Enough ascorbate should be
administered to detoxify the patient regardless of the amount needed.
Additionally, oral doses of ascorbate should be taken simultaneously
with the intravenous ascorbate. -Do not let the patients become lazy
and discontinue bowel tolerance doses of ascorbate while the
intravenous ascorbate is being administered-.
INTESTINAL PARASITES
If the AIDS patient has intestinal parasites, he must be treated for
them. There is a very high percentage of male homo- sexuals infected
with intestinal parasites.
These intestinal parasites are themselves very immunosuppressive. The prognosis for an AIDS patient is greatly enhanced by proper treatment of these parasites. -Entamoeba histolytica-, especially, and -Giardia lamblia- must be treated. Intestinal parasites, ordinarily considered -non-pathogens-, should be treated. If negative, repeated stool examinations for ova and parasites should be taken if there is the slightest clinical sign of intestinal parasite infection.
Samples should be fresh, not over 2 hours old. Laxatives may increase chances of discovering the parasites. Additional samples may have to be taken through a sigmoidoscope if other specimens are negative for ova and parasites. With treatment, Herxheimer's reactions should be expected frequently. Symptoms, including Kaposi's lesions, may be exacerbated, despite the ascorbate, during treatment for intestinal parasites.
CANDIDA ALBICANS
Candida should be sought and treated. It should be emphasized to patients that they owe it to themselves and society to treat the
Candida consistently because of the possibility of breeding resistant
strains. The possibility of candida in the gut, esophagus, mouth,
sinuses, skin, etc. should be considered. In patients who clinically
appear to have Candida but in whom Candida cannot be cultured, sensitivities to Candida should be suspected and treatment of
especially the bowel should be considered.
Herxheimer's reactions, when antibiotics against Candida are employed, should be considered one indication that Candida is a problem. In these sensitive patients, foods and vitamins containing yeasts should be avoided. Lactobacillus in large amounts should be fed to these patients in an attempt to normalize bowel flora. Sugar and refined carbohydrates should be avoided because Candida thrives on them.
There is a high incidence of food and chemical sensitivities associated with Candida sensitivities (15,16,17) and Candida must be suspected whenever such sensitivities are discovered.
FOOD AND CHEMICAL SENSITIVITIES
Food and chemical sensitivities, both IgE mediated allergies and enzymatic deficiency allergies (EDAS), are common because of the disorders of the immune system and the severe stress imposed by the AID syndrome. This increased incidence of sensitivities may be associated with Candida, as discussed above, but may also be a result of the AIDS infection. Rashes, edema, phlebitis, etc. caused by corn, yeast (including yeast containing vitamins), molds, house gas, automobile exhaust, certain herbal formulas, cosmetics, formaldehyde, insecticides, paints, glues, and cigarette smoke have all been observed in my small group of patients.
Conditions such as Kaposi's lesions, lymphadenopathy and probably idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura, conditions which would otherwise be considered just part of the AID syndrome or AIDS related, have been seen to be aggravated by food and chemical sensitivities. These sensitivities should be anticipated and offending substances should be removed from the patient's diet and environment. Ascorbate may or may not block these sensitivities significantly; however, ascorbate may decrease the intensity and duration of the reaction in such a way as to make clinical discovery of the offending substance easier.
This increased incidence of food and chemical sensitivities is very important to understand because apparent adverse reactions to vitamin C may occur. These reactions are almost never due to the ascorbate itself. Most ascorbate is made from corn. Minute amounts of chemicals used in the manufacture of ascorbate may remain. Residuals of these substances are almost invariably the cause of the sensitivity reactions. Ascorbates made from sego palm or from tapioca and which presumably are manufactured with some different chemicals, are often tolerated. Different brands should be tried. It is almost always possible to find some ascorbate that is tolerated.
This sensitivity problem is very important to deal with because patients frequently feel their life depends on taking adequate amounts of ascorbate and they may be correct in this feeling. Many times gastrointestinal discomfort and excessive gas can be alleviated by changing to the sego palm ascorbate or changing brands of ascorbate.
OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
Bacterial infections should be treated with appropriate antibiotics but large amounts of lactobacillus should be administered with foods if there is the slightest tendency to Candida infections or sensitivities. Ascorbate administration should be intensified during treatment for bacterial infections. Intravenous ascorbate may be necessary.
Viral infections should be treated with intensification of the ascorbate treatment. Intravenous ascorbate may become necessary. Immunosuppressive therapy should not be utilized.
Sugar and processed foods, foods with chemicals, recreational drugs, cigarettes, alcohol, etc. should be avoided. Obvious nutritional deficits should be sought and corrected. Additional supplimentation with especially zinc and selenium may be helpful. All sharing of body fluids and fecal material should stop (18). Repeated exposures, not only to possible AIDS infection, but to the secondary infections, especially intestinal and Candida should be avoided.
HELPER/SUPPRESSOR CELL RATIO
With this protocol, it may be anticipated that a large percentage of patients will slowly go into an extended clinical remission. Patients
must be on guard to sense any impending infection, colds, etc. The
patient should begin the additional large frequent doses of ascorbate
within minutes. At the dose levels that have been possible under
circumstances imposed, a slow improvement of the total number of
T-lymphocytes may occur but helper/suppressor cell ratios may remain
suppressed. It appears that ascorbate may assist the immune system, but that in addition, there are mechanisms whereby ascorbate acts against pathogens, especially viruses and bacteria by mechanisms which do not depend on the T-cells. For this reason, I would suggest using the ascorbate portion of this protocol on children who have to be permanently isolated from the slightest exposure to infections (bubble babies).
MONITORING VALUE OF ASCORBATE "BURN"
Roughly to the degree that a patient clinically perceives himself to feel toxic (the amount of malaise, fever, pain, how swollen the lymph nodes, how much anxiety, etc.), the more ascorbic acid can be tolerated orally without it producing diarrhea. The amount tolerated becomes a rough measurement of something that represents the immediate toxicity of the condition. I use the expression "100 gram cold" to mean that at the peak of the cold a patient tolerated 100 grams per 24 hours of ascorbic acid without diarrhea.
In cases where I am not sure what is causing an increased tolerance or if a person is multiply ill with several secondary infections, I refer to the processes going on which are using up the ascorbate as the "-burn-." Note that the amount of ascorbic acid tolerated is only a good measure of this burn if it is the amount determined by titrating to "true" bowel tolerance, i.e., diarrhea caused by ascorbic acid in a patient who otherwise tolerates ascorbate well; not limits set by "too much gas", "don't like the taste", "stomach too acid", etc. The amount of this burn has some practical and prognostic values; e.g., a patient with a burn much over 25-30 grams almost inevitably has something the matter with him and a thorough diagnostic workup is indicated. A lover of one of the AIDS patients had a burn of 100 grams. It was found that his helper/suppressor T-cell ratio was 0.7 but he had no other sign of disease. Over a 6 month period, the burn has dropped to 25 grams.
AIDS has not been diagnosed in this patient but there is good reason
to suspect that he has a pre-AIDS condition. The AIDS patient himself
has had his burn drop from 125 grams to 35 grams. His lymphadenopathy has improved considerably.
AIDS POSSIBLY INVOLVING A PERMANENT OR PROLONGED LOSS OF T-HELPER CELLS
One patient who managed to eliminate all signs of Kaposi's lesions while taking ascorbic acid had had his burn down to 15 grams a day for 6 months despite the helper/supressor T-cell ratio remaining at 0.2. There had been some slight increase in the absolute number of helper and suppressor cells. Previously detected shedding of CMV (cytomegalovirus) had apparently stopped. This patient had 3 Kaposi's lesions (diagnosed as Kaposi's sarcoma on biopsy) recur on the right foot following a cold, herpes simplex, and influenza, all within a 2 month period. The burn markedly increased, peaking at 185 grams per 24 hours. In 2 weeks time, the patient had managed to eliminate all signs of the lesions on the foot. The ascorbate burn slowly has lessened; now 2 months later, the burn is at 25 grams and decreasing.
This case, plus the previous two cases, strongly suggest that the basic AIDS infection, probably caused by a virus, is no longer active in these cases and that subsequent ascorbate burns and various later manifestations of the AID syndrome are caused by secondary and opportunistic infections. One is reminded of the permanent damage of certain viral infections in association with certain predisposing factors initiating an immune response to the beta cells of the islets of Langerhans and causing juvenile-onset diabetes (19).
ASCORBATE AND THE POSSIBLE PREVENTION OF AIDS Morishige has demonstrated the effectiveness of ascorbate in preventing hepatitis B from blood transfusions (20). A similarity exists between AIDS and hepatitis B. It has been my experience that patients treated with large doses of ascorbate during the acute phase of hepatitis will not develop chronic hepatitis. My experience with herpes simplex has been the same. Although ascorbate is helpful to a degree with chronic viral infections, it is in the treatment of acute viral diseases that it is most effective. It is on this basis that I recommend that all persons who fear exposure to AIDS and certainly anyone receiving blood trans-fusions or other blood products which could in the most remote way have been obtained from an AIDS carrier, be put on bowel tolerance doses of ascorbate.
CONTROLLED STUDIES OF OTHER SUBSTANCES [may be] CONTAMINATED WITH ASCORBATE
As a result of publications in periodicals concerned about the AID syndrome, (21,22) a rapidly increasing number of AIDS patients in the San Francisco Bay Area are taking large doses of ascorbate. The same practice is starting in New York and elsewhere. I would suggest that physicians conducting controlled experiments on interferon, and shortly with interleukin 2, be sensitive to the fact that their
patients are, and will be con- taminating the experiments with massive doses of ascorbate.
Statistical analysis of the results of such trials will probably be valueless. Ascorbate has been contaminating cancer treatment studies for some time as a result of orthomolecular literature (23,24,25). I estimate that a significant increasing percentage of cancer patients in California and other parts of the world are taking massive doses of ascorbate. Most of these patients are hiding this fact from their oncologist.
BROADER PROBLEMS
The AID syndrome has not only become a major threat to the special groups ordinarily affected but threatens to spread at least to some extent into other groups. The increasingly large number of persons infected by the disease increases the possibility of mutations which could alter the routes of infection. Even without this possibility
occurring, the large population of immune suppressed persons comprises a major health hazard because of the large pools of secondary infectious diseases generated. The large, growing pool of intestinal parasites, heretofore present in the western world in only small numbers, is one example of that problem.
POSSIBLE ELIMINATION OF THE AID SYNDROME Practical considerations (lack of money and lack of hospital facilities) have prevented me from administering the doses of ascorbate which I think might -possibly- eliminate the probable viral infection initiating the AID syndrome. I suggest that the helper/suppressor T-cell ratios should be carefully monitored while at least 180 grams/24 hours of ascorbate is administered intravenously. At the same time bowel tolerance doses of ascorbate should be taken orally. This program should be followed over an extended period of time (minimum 2 weeks) to find out if there is any direct effect on the process causing the AIDS.
I have preliminary evidence in one patient in which the above program was tried that while the secondary problems were markedly suppressed by the ascorbate (7 lbs, 11 oz in 14 days) that the basic AIDS condition was not reversed. This case plus the cases implying the permanent or prolonged suppression of the immune system make it essential to treat the prodrome stages of AIDS with ascorbate. If there is not a complete elimination of the basic AIDS process, bowel tolerance doses of ascorbate and the rest of the described protocol will probably have to be maintained for life.
My experience (1,2,3,4), and experience of other researchers (10,11,12,13,14,20,26,27) is that acute self limiting viral diseases
can be reliably cured with massive doses of ascorbate. Viral diseases
that have become chronic seem to involve pathologic processes which
are not quite as susceptible to ascorbate but which nevertheless are
ameliorated, sometimes seemingly cured. It is hoped that funds will be made available for such a project.
C-PASTE
Herpes simplex lesions can usually be made to more rapidly heal or be prevented at the outset by increasing the doses of oral ascorbic acid and the application of C-paste. C-paste is made with either ascorbic acid or sodium ascorbate and water applied directly to the skin and covered with a bandage. Frequently, one application will suffice for herpes. Care should be taken not to irritate intact skin too much in sensitive skin areas, especially under adhesive bandages. Frequently applications to intact skin where the patient perceives an outbreak is about to occur will completely abort the attack. Several applications may be necessary to penetrate through the intact skin.
C-paste has also been useful on early Kaposi's lesions. It should be applied up to 4 times a day. Alternatively, soaks of 20% sodium ascorbate or ascorbic acid (1 gram per 5 cc of water) for 15-30 minutes, 4 times a day may be helpful. Be careful not to irritate the skin too much even with these solutions. Keep ascorbic acid out of the eyes; a 20% -sodium ascorbate- solution can be used in the eyes with care.
KAPOSI'S LESIONS
Kaposi's lesions have been described as behaving like an infectious disease closely associated with CMV (28). With ascorbate treatment, Kaposi's lesions may be made to go away if the patient takes enough ascorbate and the patient is not burdened by multiple opportunistic infections. In patients with multiple problems, there tend to be outbreaks of the Kaposi's lesions associated with colds, parasites, herpes, or emotional stress and particularly associated with a letdown in the amount of C taken. Even in patients with multiple lesions, individual lesions can frequently be seen to lose color and flatten with the local application of ascorbate soaks. CONCLUSIONS Ascorbate does ameliorate the AID syndrome to a significant degree. I want to emphsize, however, the absolute necessity of massive doses. Additionally, one must avoid and treat opportunistic infections.
Multiple infections, lack of understanding in the use of C, or inability to tolerate the doses prescribed, all result in
a poor prognosis. The success of treatments with ascorbate entirely
depends on consistent administration of C sufficient to neutralize the free radicals produced by the various diseases. The use of
ascorbate is increasing in the male homosexual population of the San
Francisco Bay Area and spreading across the United States. It will be
very interesting to see if there are any otherwise unexplained
decreases in the rate of increase of new cases of AIDS and associated
deaths starting in San Francisco. The use of C is contaminating
otherwise thought to be controlled studies of other therapeutic
measures. Other considerations plus the potential application of
ascorbate as part of the treatment of all infectious diseases, makes
the clarification of the usefulness of ascorbate to the medical profession essential.
CAUTION
If these oral solutions are used over a long period of time, care
should be taken to keep them off the teeth by using a straw in order
to avoid enamel damage. Sickle cell anemia and G-6-PD deficiencies
should be ruled out where indicated. In any condition requiring
prolonged administration of large amounts of any nutrient, I would
advise seeking the advice of a specialist to avoid induced
deficiencies in other nutrients.
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Mara Bellaby for The Standard
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Environmental watchdog Greenpeace said that more than 90,000 people are likely to die of cancers caused by radiation from the Chernobyl explosion, challenging a UN report that predicted the death toll would be about 10 times less.
The report's conclusion underlines the uncertainty that remains about the health effects of the world's worst nuclear accident as its 20th anniversary approaches.
A reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine exploded on April 26, 1986, spewing heavy levels of radioactive fallout over much of Europe.
The fallout was particularly severe in northern Ukraine, western Russia and in much of Belarus.
Areas immediately around the now- inoperative plant remain off-limits, but other areas that got significant fallout are inhabited and health anxiety is common in those areas.
A report last year by the Chernobyl Forum, which comprises the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency and other UN groups, said fewer than 50 deaths could be connected to Chernobyl and said the number of radiation-related deaths among the 600,000 people who participated in fighting the consequences of the accident would ultimately be around 4,000.
The increase in cancer deaths among the five million exposed to lower levels of radiation would be so low as to be statistically difficult to identify, the report's authors said, but estimated it could be around 5,000.
But Greenpeace, citing data from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, suggested the Chernobyl Forum report was deliberately misleading.
"The nuclear industry is the most dangerous in the world, and they are definitely trying to minimize the results of the Chernobyl catastrophe," said Ivan Blokov of Greenpeace's Russia office. "We have a report showing the incredible damage caused to humans ... Nearly every system of the organism is damaged."
Many of the consequences of Chernobyl remain controversial and difficult to identify, particularly as the economic depression and unhealthy lifestyles - heavy drinking and smoking - are common in the region.
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