Archive for April, 2011

Linda’s comment:  A friend sent me this healthy cream mask….all I can say is WOWZIER…it feels WONDERFUL….this would be great for construction works too…ok, ok…we won’t tell anyone you did it, but you do want to keep that handsome face young looking, right??

AVOCADO CARROT CREAM Mask:

This mask combines avocados, which are rich in Vitamin E, with carrots, which are high in beta-carotene and antioxidants, and cream, which is high in calcium and protein. These ingredients will rebuild skin collagen, improve tone and texture, and fade age spots.
 
1 organic avocado, mashed
1 organic carrot, cooked and mashed
½ cup organic heavy cream
1 organic egg, beaten
3 tablespoons raw unheated honey 

Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Distinct%20cerebrospinal%20fluid%20proteomes%20differentiate%20post-treatment%20lyme%20disease%20from%20chronic%20fatigue%20syndrome

Excerpt:

Distinguishing nPTLS and CFS 
permits more focused study of each condition, and can lead to novel 
diagnostics and therapeutic interventions.

Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=High%20sensitivity%20and%20specificity%20of%20the%20C6-peptide%20ELISA%20on%20cerebrospinal%20fluid%20in%20Lyme%20neuroborreliosis%20patients.

Excerpt:

Clin Microbiol Infect ABSTRACT: Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB) is a serious but treatable disease. The diagnosis of LNB poses a challenge to 
clinicians, and improved tests are needed. 

Excerpt:

Conclusion:A case of syphilitic spinal meningitis presenting with 
syringomyelia, and effectively treated with penicillin has been 
described.

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This finding and an antecedent report of a B. burgdorferi-like 
spirochete from the same tick species demonstrate that O. coriaceus 
sometimes acquires and transstadially passes Lyme disease group 
spirochetes. I. pacificus nymphs inhabiting a woodland nidus of B. 
burgdorferi and A. phagocytophilum had a 5-fold higher prevalence of 
borreliae than adult ticks from the same generational cohort. In 
contrast to the results of preceding studies carried out at the same 
site, none of the nymphal or adult ticks was PCR-positive for A. 
phagocytophilum. This suggests that the distribution of this rickettsia 
is highly focal or variable from year-to-year within this particular 
woodland.

Upcoming conference:

Mark Your Calendars and Save the Dates!

 http://www.healthymedicineacademy.com/

Advances in Cancer Strategies: Improving Outcomes and Quality of Life will be held April 27-29, 2012 in Washington DC. Keynote Speaker: Bernie Siegel, MD, author of the best-selling Love Medicine and Miracles and most recently Faith, Hope and Healing.
 
Approximately 20 ACCME accredited AMA Category 1 CMEs will be offered, as well as Naturopathic CMEs, NCCAOM CMEs and more.
 
Speakers include:
 
·         Bernie Siegel, MD, Author of the best-selling Love Medicine and Miracles and most recently Faith, Hope and Healing
·         Dwight McKee, MD, Integrative Oncologist
·         Donald J. Yance, CN, MH (AHG), Master Herbalist and author of Herbal Medicine, Healing and Cancer
·         Dickson Thom, DDS, ND, Renowned National College of Naturopathic Medicine Professor
·         More speakers to be announced

Linda’s comment:  I have been into stones and crystals and Andrew gives some great information here…

http://www.peacefulmind.com/order_crystals.htm

Linda’s comments:  EXCELLENT information on essential oils….I use Young Living essential oils…

http://www.peacefulmind.com/aromatherapy.htm

Linda’s comment:  EXCELLENT post by Dr Gordon…

Dr. Gordon’s Comments:

Cancer care is different today!  Now we have FDA approval of micro electric treatment for Glioblastoma multiform.

There is so much to consider today and the new developments in oxidative treatment that were revealed for the first time ever during the oxidative workshop at the ACAM/IMOsaic conference. Combining H202 with a modified Calcium based EDTA chelation treatment all in one session was discussed.

Now we have more tools than ever before and we need to motivate patients to take care of themselves before they have the lump/bump stage of so called clinical cancer. It includes better use of the tools we have available that will cause patients to improve their diet and life style and get on good supplements.

I know how to use PSA testing productively, as part of my routine patient screening program, even though this latest Swedish study says it has no value for improving morbidity or mortality. Here is part of this report making is clear that PSA testing, as used by mainstream medicine is a complete failure. 

But a big help in my practice where an abnormal result may lead to doing a better cancer profile, such as www.caprofile.net, and may lead to patients looking at all abnormal lab test results as a way to stimulate interest in optimizing all test results.  It might have been called the anti-aging medicine but modified here for patients who may have more of a cancer concern.

Here is the latest research about PSA that lets you tell patients that PSA testing is a failure unless used as I suggest here, which is how we used the Kobayashi panel of tests in Tokyo to eliminate clinical cancers in 10,000 patients for ten years.

“Screening for prostate cancer did not seem to have a significant effect on mortality,” wrote Gabriel Sandblom of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and colleagues. The study was paid for by the Swedish cancer foundation and other groups. It was published online Thursday in the journal, BMJ.

The American Cancer Society does not recommend routine screening for most men and there is no government screening program in Britain because officials say the PSA test is too unreliable. Two other big papers published in recent years have also failed to show much benefit for screening that includes a large European study that found screening for prostate cancer could pick up cases a decade earlier, but to prevent one death from cancer, 1,410 men would have to be tested and 48 men treated.

False positive tests can cause significant harms, including psychological distress and treatments that can cause impotence and incontinence.”

So let us “first do no harm”, as others with their all too often aggressive treatments are doing. Let us instead use this test as part of a screening test to identify “risk factors” that can be optimized with diet and lifestyle changes! If you start to record all patient visits then you can make it clear during the visit that this often merely reveals chronic infection of the prostate. Since men over a certain age have prostate issues, why not simply use my FIGHT program and add specific therapies to that program, as needed, to improve every test or measurement that found suboptimal levels of anything from fasting glucose to blood pressure.

Remember my Kobayashi program, which you can search on mywww.gordonresearch.com website anytime, has documented that every cancer screening test in his panel of cancer tests always went back to safe ranges when the patient is put on his program of lowering stress, getting more sleep, simplifying the diet and using things like immune support and far infra red saunas to aid detoxification etc. This included his patients who were not thought to have active clinical cancer at the start of the 10,000 person 10 year study.

Of course, today many of us believe that we all have subclinical cancer all the time, but before lump or bump develops (i.e. that 7 year interval that we know cancers require to reach clinical detection size), everyone in his study was able to bring all the cancer screening test to safe levels even if everyone in their family had a history of cancer.

Today, since I have my FIGHT program and I use my PEMF treatment device twice a day for about 10 minutes, I am more confident than ever that in spite of markedly raising levels of toxins and a frightening level of nutritional deficiencies with our SAD diet, that we can predictably eliminate heart disease and cancer and even slow the epidemic of dementia and other mental health issues with the combination. I am convinced that achieving infinite wellness requires the total approach I call my F.I.G.H.T. program and those that follow that program will add pulsed electromagnetic field therapy to things that by itself it could never have done. Since what good can restoring transmembrane potential do, for example, for patients who are not informed that they have serious gluten intolerance. Clearly PEMF will still help but not to the dramatic extent I am seeing when I concurrently address all the issues raised with my FIGHT program.

It is very important to understand that finally the physics of health is beginning to be understood and applied to patients in leading medical centers around the world. For example, a simple Google search about Neurostar will reveal that it is a $60,000 PEMF device that is designed to only permit treatment of the head but it has FDA approval for the treatment of depression. This is used for trans-cranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Of course you cannot induce a magnetic field without generating an electric current simultaneously.  The recommended treatments need to be administered over at least a 6 + week interval.

I believe that the evidence will show that since these devices were first approved for treating non-union fractions, where the success has been very high that part of the mechanism involves production of growth factors and leads to increased production of our own stem cells. These devices are now in places like UCLA, Stanford, and Yale, and
doctors there are going way beyond the treatment of depression and evaluating PEMF in conditions like schizophrenia and autism.

Now the news is about using cranial electric stimulation in the treatment of brain cancer! Specifically the device is called the Novo TTF from Novocure and the FDA approved it after only one study because, although as currently used it was not curative, it has far fewer
side effects than the chemo used for Glioblastoma. The patients’ outcome was the same, so just like all the alternative approaches to cancer I advocate and use, the patient has a better quality of life with any of the many alternative modalities I have used and/or taught. 
Now with this first time ever acknowledgement by FDA that physics (electricity) has healing potential for cancer, it is important to remember that PEMF treatments will also always generate micro electric currents that can aid in cell-cell communication. 

I have no doubt that for patients who can afford to walk away from the “free” radiation and chemo that lures them into a false sense of security that the alternative approaches we offer will always lead to a longer survival and a far better quality of life. My prediction is that we all can beat “mainstream” cancer care hands down with very few exceptions, like acute leukemia of childhood.  We used to include testicular cancer here but I am getting skeptical about the superiority of chemo for testicular cancer today since clearly the evidence is accumulating continuously that for all of the more common cancers, 
like prostate, breast, colon and lung, the results are better with properly designed treatment programs that focus more the total health of the patient, as outlined in my FIGHT program along with the some of the better alternative therapies available today.  Of course, there are cases where using just enough chemo to get control of the situation
will clearly be beneficial and with the new DNA testing available in Germany for patients to analyze their tumor that personalized approach will make chemo far more a consideration than the standard of care today of just blindly hitting all patients with the same toxic
concoctions until those fail.

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

Link: http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/medical/story/2011/04/Study-Prostate-cancer-test-doesnt-cut-death-risk—/45658684/1

Excerpt:

Study: Prostate cancer test doesn’t cut death risk 
04/01/2011 2:37 PM

The longest study yet on prostate cancer testing provides more evidence that getting screened doesn’t cut the chances of dying from the disease.
In a 20-year study of more than 9,000 Swedish men, researchers found no difference in the rate of prostate cancer deaths between the men who were periodically screened and those who weren’t.