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Dr. Gordon commentsd on Harvard study

Linda’s comment:  This is a great read……

Dr. Gordon’s Comments:

Finally they hit pay dirt with turning on Telomerase. This is the real thing; read it carefully!!! Yes, we will soon be able to substantially reverse aging even when you are near death! This is the most exciting proof that anti-aging will one day work that I have ever seen. This makes it worthwhile to really take good care of your body now, as this major breakthrough will happen for humans in our lifetime I am sure.

This Harvard associated study is the most credible research I have seen that we may one day really take years off our age even when we are very old and sick. This involved tweaking the genes to turn on Telomerase and worked even when the mice were near death’s doorstep. Then the mice still were able to grow new brain and other cells and clearly the effects are systemic and rejuvenating.

“These mice were equivalent to 80-year-old humans and were about to pass away,” says Ronald DePinho, co-author of the paper and a scientist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. After the experiment, “they were the physiological equivalent of young adults.”

Telomerase, as cancer treatment or cancer cause, needs to be understood since anti-aging benefits might be offset by increased cancer. Since enhancing telomerase has recently been shown to dramatically reverse aging then doing the opposite might be worth looking into for treating cancer. Please note, however, that this makes it clear why those who will be researching the antiaging benefits from inducing telomerase will be very concerned about the possibility that they will also increase cancer in those using the treatment.

I sent this research to you so that you will understand that Cancer is is a realistic possibility to consider. But there can be balance to this using non-toxic small conditional RNA’s that identify and kill cancer cells. And, since I lecture a great deal about How to Stem the Tide of Cancer, I am confident that a healthy outcome will be possible with telomerase induction, as we can monitor with tumor marker testing early tendencies toward developing cancer in patients receiving anti-aging telomerase therapy. 
We will plan to use therapies that we are already familiar with.  We can expect then that, in most instances, as Dr. Kobayashi proved in is ten year study in Japan that a World without Cancer is available now. He proved that simple things will bring early cancer marker tests back under control and death from cancer can be avoided.

But in case that is not sufficient control for some cases, then the new research about RNA curing cancer should be the safety blanket that will promote the safe use of antiaging based telomerase induction using gene tweaking, as described in Nature this week.  Their only fear from this approach is moving toward cancer and of course they have no idea about how nutritional and herbal approaches can keep that tendency under control.

So start exercising and detoxing now, as it now seems it is never too late to plan to live much longer with a healthy younger body!

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

Link 1: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703785704575642964209242180.html?mod=djemHL_t

Link 2: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101128/full/news.2010.635.html

Rule on Lead Safety Set to Take Effect

Dr. Gordon’s comments:

LEAD is again being recognized for the persistent danger it represents.

No one dares discuss the levels of lead we are born with being 1000 times higher than just 400 years ago or the proven fact that is DOES REAL HARM, as the higher it is the more heart attacks there are and the sooner you develop cataracts. All found in studies from Harvard and CDC that everyone has this massive load of lead in bones when we are born and it just gets worse every time we breath, as particulates in the air from coal burning as far away as China are giving us Lead and Mercury.

Somehow, this does not make anyone excited, as statins are so much easier to focus on and what your cholesterol level is fits our 5-7 minute office visit demands. Yet statements like this are regularly appearing in newspapers like the New York Times that reminds some of us that Ritalin deficiency is not the correct diagnosis. Of course this extends to Autism, Dementia and all causes of morbidity and mortality and bones take adults 15 years to remodel and no chelator gets it out faster, as only soft tissue stores are readily chelatable.

So bone lead must come out slowly by pushing out more lead each day than we take in by living, breathing, drinking, and eating by using oral chelators and fiber and high dose ascorbic acid and properly designed Zeolite products daily for life.

Of course anyone who is pregnant today is pushing the lead from their body into the fetus. So no where on planet earth is anyone born without their 1000 times elevation of bone lead, which at menopause slowly is released, as bone loss occurs leading to Hypertension, Fatigue, Dementia, etc. So this EPA regulation is too little too late but better than nothing, as some may learn that getting the lead out is a worthwhile activity.

Here it is in the NY TIMES and similar information is seen all the time but it all misses the mark by a mile!!

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

Full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/health/09lead.html?scp=1&sq=lead%20and%20EPA&st=cse

Excrept:

After almost two decades of delays, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that it was on track to implement a regulation requiring the construction industry to help prevent cases of lead poisoning among children.
The agency said it expected more than 125,000 renovation and remodeling contractors to be trained and certified in lead-safe work practices by April 22, when the new regulation takes effect.

Under the rule, workers would have to take steps like containing their work area with plastic and conducting a thorough cleanup of lead paint dust stirred up during construction activity, which federal officials say is partly to blame for about 120,000 cases of elevated lead levels in children younger than 6 each year. Congress passed legislation in 1992 directing the E.P.A. to propose the regulation, but the agency did not finish the rule until 2008, after environmental and public interest groups filed a lawsuit to pressure the agency to issue it.  Some environmental groups are now pushing to make the rule tougher, while builders are warning their clients that it will inevitably increase construction costs. The rule applies to work performed in homes and buildings occupied by children, including schools and day care centers built before lead paint was banned in 1978.  E.P.A. officials said on Thursday that with a housing stock of about 38 million units that are potentially affected by the rule, they expect it to produce results. 

Medline is Biased, and Taxpayers Pay for It

Linda’s comment: “Your taxes should not be used to fund censorship in a public library, especially the largest medical library on the planet. It is un-American.”  This quote is so very true…how dare they censor information that can and does save lived.  Follow the money.  More and more folks are turning to the Internet today to find answers for their health woes.  They don’t trust doctors with their treatment plans,  Why? Because they are not getting well or have been misdiagnosed.  I wonder how much money Medline receives from the pharmaceutical industry to censor alternative medicine articles?  If they are going to use my tax dollars then they need to put alternative medicine on medline, medscape, etc., etc., etc.

Regards,

Linda or Angel

Excerpt:

Comment by Andrew W. Saul
Editor-In-Chief, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service

(OMNS, January 15, 2010) Did you know that there are “good” medical journals, and that there are “naughty” medical journals? Continued

Lyme Carditis in Children Usually Transient but Can Be Life Threatening

Lyme Carditis in Children Usually Transient but Can Be Life Threatening

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) May 01 – Manifestations of Lyme carditis in children can range from asymptomatic first-degree heart block to fulminant myocarditis, physicians at Harvard Medical School report in the May issue of Pediatrics. Data from their case series indicate that older age, arthralgia, and cardiopulmonary symptoms were independent predictors of carditis in pediatric patients with early disseminated Lyme disease.

In untreated Lyme disease, signs and symptoms of early dissemination may manifest within weeks to months of a tick bite, Dr. John M. Costello and co-investigators note. To characterize the clinical course of Lyme carditis in children, they reviewed cases of 207 children treated between 1994 and 2008 for early disseminated Lyme disease.

Records showed that 33 (16%) had carditis, along with a wide range of systemic involvement. According to the Boston-based research team, only one patient presented with isolated carditis and no erythema migrans or noncardiac systemic manifestations. Duration of hospitalization ranged from 1 to 13 days, and there were no deaths.

Fourteen patients had advanced heart block, including 9 with complete block, but recovery of sinus rhythm took no more than 7 days.

In addition, among the 33 patients with carditis, 4 had depressed ventricular systolic function and 3 of them required mechanical ventilation, temporary pacing, and inotropic support.

Analysis showed that significant independent predictors of Lyme carditis were age over 10 years (adjusted odds ratio 8.3), arthralgias (OR 5.8), and cardiopulmonary symptoms (OR 76.8). Sensitivity and specificity of cardiopulmonary symptoms for Lyme carditis were 42% and 99%, respectively.

Of 27 patients for whom follow-up data were available, complete recovery occurred in 24. One patient had ongoing second-degree atriventricular block at 2.7 years. The other 2 patients had improved but still had mildly prolonged PR intervals at short-term follow-up.

Thus, Dr. Costello’s group states, “A full recovery should be expected with supportive care and antibiotic therapy.” However, they point out that 6 patients had prolonged corrected QT intervals and advise physicians “to avoid drugs that prolong the QT interval in these patients until the electrocardiogram has normalized.”

Pediatrics 2009;123:e835-e841.

Lyme Carditis in Children Usually Transient but Can Be Life Threatening

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) May 01 – Manifestations of Lyme carditis in children can range from asymptomatic first-degree heart block to fulminant myocarditis, physicians at Harvard Medical School report in the May issue of Pediatrics. Data from their case series indicate that older age, arthralgia, and cardiopulmonary symptoms were independent predictors of carditis in pediatric patients with early disseminated Lyme disease. Continued