Dr. Gordon’s comments:

There is nothing to compete with H.R.T. (Herbal Remedy from Thailand) if you want strong bones and safe breasts.

I appreciate the input from my friend, Dean and Founder of the California College of Natural Medicine, Theresa Dale PhD, CCN, NP questioning the safety of H.R.T. (Herbal Remedy from Thailand containing standardized Purestrol) and comments regarding her outstanding work with alternative approaches to Hormone Balancing. I have great respect for Homeopathic approaches having served on the Arizona Board of Homeopathic Examiners for 9 years.

I do, however, have to offer information about why whatever treatment you advise for your patients, I hope you will ask Longevity Plus for all the research papers they can email you about why there is nothing that I have found anywhere that comes even close to competing with the safely and efficacy of H.R.T.

I got into anti-aging medicine 35 y ears ago with a simplistic approach. I had seen the benefits IV chelation was providing in treating vascular occlusive disease, peripheral coronary or cerebral. We believe then that part of the reason for the benefit from 3 hour IV chelation was lowering the pathologic vascular calcification. The prevention of this universal process I find requires preventing calcium loss from bones, and that requires a real SERM–BETA, and there is none safer or stronger than PURESTROL when standardized with the methods developed by Smith Natural of Thailand in collaboration with American companies.

Estrogen related compounds are known to be very valuable in preventing bone loss. I have traveled the world and have located an all natural SERM-BETA in Northern Thailand that not only stops bone loss but also lowers insomnia, depression and vaginal dryness while offering anticancer effect against breast cancers.

I continue to go to conferences several times a month and of course we find that salivary tests are very valuable for cortisol related issues but there continues to be widespread reservations have issues about relying on salivary testing for female hormone testing purposes.

Coming back them to my focus at my age of 76 is still anti-aging medicine. I know that when I meet in Thailand at the Army Medical School with MD PhD head of OB-GYN and review the remarkable studies showing that the standardized PURESTROL found in H.R.T. stops the proliferation of the major breast cancer cell lines, as well tamoxifen, while at the same time
functioning as the most powerful all –natural SERM-BETA (Selective Estrogen Receptor Beta).

H.R.T. does much more than “balance” hormones but patients can certainly benefit from adding other safe treatments that help them control symptoms. And H.R.T. is documented by multiple independent researchers to control vaginal dryness and insomnia and depression and bone loss while helping Northern Thailand residents enjoy one of the lowest incidences of Breast Cancer
In the world. NOTE: the men have very few prostate issues either.

Chrystyne Northrop’s book Women’s Wisdom, Women’s Bodies (www.drnorthrup.com
Dr. Christiane Northrup is internationally known for her empowering approach to women’s health and wellness) has endorsed Longevity Plus’s H.R.T.
product because it works like nothing else she has seen! Dr Robert J Rowen has also written about it in Second Opinion, which we recently released to FACT members.

The data is extensive and available to anyone contacting Longevity Plus customer support at 1-800 580-7587. You may receive by email the entire collection of published papers on H.R.T. including the recent extensive review of this astounding product that forever can safely change management of menopause or bone loss for every woman with or without current known breast cancer issues related to estrogen. Women are needlessly being told to tough it out if they have estrogen positive breast cancer that shows an appalling failure to know the entire published literature on that subject. The benefits of taking estrogen more than offset the presumed risks, but with H.R.T. you actually are not only relieving the symptoms but also providing an anti- breast cancer effect!

There is always room to add homeopathic products to manage symptoms but with H.R.T.

Sincerely,

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

Attached: Arch Gynecol Obstet
DOI 10.1007/s00404-010-1689-5

Comparison of Pueraria mirifica 25 and 50 mg for menopausal symptoms
Phongthorn Virojchaiwong • Visut Suvithayasiri •
Arunporn Itharat

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

Full article: http://bolenreport.com/feature_articles/feature_article072.htm

Excerpt:

Most people battling chronic Lyme disease think of the illness as an infection caused by a bacterium known commonly as Borrelia Burgdorferi, generally transmitted via the bite of an infected tick.  What many don’t recognize, however, is that recovery from chronic Lyme disease requires a recognition that the disease is truly a much more complex illness.  Recovery often challenges one to consider more than just infection as the single causative agent involved in the disease process.  It is through looking beyond the infectious component of Lyme disease and understanding the equally important aspects of damaging heavy metals and other toxic insults that a more full and lasting recovery may be realized.

Garry F. Gordon MD, DO, MD (H) co-founded the American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM) and serves as the President of Gordon Research Institute.  Dr. Gordon graciously spent a couple of hours with me sharing his views on chronic Lyme disease and those factors that are important in recovering from chronic illness. 

Dr. Gordon acknowledges Lyme disease as a serious infection which can lead to a wide-variety of health challenges.  He does not, however, hyperfocus on the specific tick-borne pathogens which cause the disease.  He instead believes that a multitude of infections are prevalent in anyone with chronic ill health.  In addition to these numerous infections, our state of health is closely tied to our total body burden of endogenous and exogenous toxins.  When looking at why illness is present, it is important to look at a number of factors including genetics, chronic infections, and total body burden of heavy metals and other toxins.

Peering into one’s genetic makeup can be quite helpful when establishing the proper course of action and considering what factors may have contributed to one’s state of health.  The more precisely a practitioner can understand the genetic contributors, the more accurately a treatment protocol can be outlined to fit a person’s unique needs.  As an example, a specific gene mutation can suggest an inability of the body to remove toxic heavy metals.  Thus, even tests performed to determine whether or not one is heavy metal toxic can be incorrect if the metals are not being released due to this specific genetic profile.  Where many doctors may miss a heavy metal toxicity issue in these patients, a practitioner incorporating a genetic review into their diagnostic workup is much better equipped to evaluate the potential impact of toxic metals on the overall state of health.

I also use Vitamin C  IV’s for both Lyme infections with amazing results.

I would ask my doctors IF they plan on attending the ACAM conference in November?  If they respond in a positive way, then encourage them to open up their learning paths and attend.  Vitamin C  IV’s can and will save lives with many different diseases.  I would also suggest that you print out the information below and take it to them.

Angel Huggzzz

Linda or Angel

DO NOT MISS THIS ANNOUNCEMENT: OXIDATIVE MEDICINE WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE!

Using Vitamin C for Cancer is just the tip of the iceberg. Read this entire email and plan now to come to ACAM in November at the RIO on Thursday, November 5th to learn about lifesaving applications for Oxidative Medicine.

You will learn facts that will take medicine to a new level in predictably successful treatment for heart disease, including preterminal heart failure, infections, and even renal failure. It has been shown to replace the need for kidney and heart transplants.

You are not practicing optimally today unless you are familiar with these key concepts;
Oxidative Medicine today is far more than just hyperbaric or H202. It must include UVB and Ozone and I will cover some startling new developments that are proof of principle.
There is a doctor who has carried oxidative medicine to a whole new level of sophistication. Although not yet available in this country, the results of a new far more advanced application of Oxidative Medicine in heart failure are so dramatic that it strongly suggests that this advanced method of treatment is turning on your own stem cell production!

This advanced form of oxidative medicine routinely reduces cardiomegaly while dramatically increasing Ejection Fraction, virtually without fail. It has been shown in Mexico and Malaysia to restore renal function in patients who are on dialysis for years.
It has reduced the HEP C titer to undetectable and kept it there for over 7 years and works for all viral loads. The actual 1 + hour treatment looks more like plasmapheresis. It requires specialized equipment and knowledge so patients today are spending $1500 per infusion and advanced illness may require up to 40 of these but it will change our understanding of Oxidative Medicine FOREVER.

You can do the simple versions being taught at ACAM and have the advanced as a backup for patients who are too far advanced to help with the more widely available forms of Oxidative treatments that always will help any patient when treated before they become too advanced.

This incredible new device has been already been approved by FDA in many countries with application pending here. YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT IT.

If you are just starting to do a little oxidative treatment, you might be getting into high dose IV and ORAL ASCORBIC ACID. Please do not do just IV! Patients need to be maintained on CONTINUAL HIGH DOSE ORAL Vitamin C for optimal results.

Below is an actual webpage placed on the internet by some naturopaths in Arizona.
I feel that it contains useful information for any patient looking to incorporate some forms of Alternative medicine in their Cancer treatment plan. This is only for your education, as laws in many states may not provide you adequate protection under your license to be as specific as the statements made here but this is well organized to help patients understand this approach. Please consult one of the ACAM attorneys to be sure that your INFORMED CONSENT procedures are adequate for your particular situation.

I will be part of the team at ACAM in Las Vegas at the RIO the day before the regular conference starts that will be covering Oxidative Medicine. I hope you will avail yourself of the opportunity to learn with your colleagues about oxidative medicine. You are not practicing optimally without this knowledge.

Go to www.acamnet.org for program and registration details.

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

Cancer and Remission

Here are some frequently asked questions regarding our treatments for cancer.

How do you treat cancer?
How do you work with oncologists?
What natural treatments do you use?
How does Vitamin C work?
How successful have you been?
Does insurance cover any of this?
Does the FDA approve of any of this?
What happens to the patients?
Profiles of some of the patients

How do you treat cancer?

We are primary care physicians, Naturopathic Medical Doctors. We use natural treatments only for cancer and other diseases. That is we use no chemotherapy, radiation or surgery. However, we do work with oncologists, the formal name for doctors who are cancer specialists. And they work with the mainstream treatments, as well as imaging and labs showing what happens with tumors over time.

How do you work with oncologists?

There are two types of oncologists in our experience: the old-fashioned kind, those who only know about chemo and radiation and surgery, and who are not interested in natural treatments for cancer. Some have shown a lot of hostility toward natural treatments for cancer. They have not been very cooperative with us regarding the patients that we share. And this has been detrimental to the patients’ wellbeing, because necessary information such as PET scans, MRI’s etc. have been withheld by them.

However, there is a new forward-thinking, well-informed and open-minded type of oncologist, and they are taking an interest in the tumor regression and remission that we have experienced with natural treatments. These oncologists have been helpful and cooperative about sharing information from CT scans, PET scans, bloodwork, etc., and the patient benefits from this shared information. Fortunately, some of our patients have these newer kinds of oncologists. One such oncologist even told one of our patients that he would do what the patient is doing – that is, the natural treatments – if he himself had cancer, and that he had nothing better to offer for this patient’s particular cancer. That kind of honesty is very welcome to the patient, as well as to the public. Certainly oncologists do have a lot to offer to cancer patients, often lifesaving help. But when they cannot help, it makes most sense for them to welcome the natural treatments that do make a difference. There is a genuine desire on the part of many mainstream doctors to act with the patient’s best interests as a priority, regardless of where that road may go.

What natural treatments do you use?

It’s important to understand that that depends entirely on the patient. Each of our cancer patients came in with a different type of cancer and even different patterns of metastases. All of our patients come in with malignant cancer in Stages 2, 3 or 4. Yet we have only lost one patient to cancer in the last two years of using these protocols.

As for an example of a specific treatment, let’s say a cancer patient has lung involvement. Then we might deliver natural treatments to the lungs by way of a nebulizer. This has been helpful with both primary lung cancers as well as secondary metastases to the lungs. What we put in there are specific combinations of certain herbs and nutrients, in a form that is tolerable to the airways, and with specific attention to the patients’ needs.

We also offer intravenous anti-cancer nutrients, such as massively high doses of Vitamin C. A bit of history may help here.

Linus Pauling is the only person in history to be awarded two solo Nobel prizes. His work with Vitamin C and cancer was groundbreaking decades ago. Now we know that we can use much higher doses of Vitamin C than Dr. Pauling did without side effects, and get even better results than he did in his day.

Certain herbs have shown a tremendous effect in slowing the growth of cancer and inhibiting metastases, so we use those when appropriate.

Several other cancer-fighting strategies are available from nature. Further, if a person is very acid, and their blood or urine shows high acidity, then we work extra hard to alkalinize them, because cancer cells only thrive in acid, not alkaline conditions.

Dr. Tullio Simoncini is well known for his work with sodium bicarbonate and cancer. He sees cancer as closely related to fungal conditions, which are intolerant of an alkaline environment. So he proposes using sodium bicarbonate by injection. Although Dr. Simoncini is doing groundbreaking work, this is one piece of a very large and complex puzzle. We do need the other treatments as well to be really effective. Several other natural substances will also alkalinize the body. We use some intravenously, and some are taken orally. The ones we like best are the ones that are attracted to the tumors and more active there, with least disturbance to other cells.

How does Vitamin C work?

One thing that Vitamin C does is change the surface tension of cancer cells and to set them up for apoptosis, or death of the cell, which is what normal cells do naturally. Cancer cells are a problem partly because they are immortal, at least until Vitamin C and other treatments help to make them mortal.

Another effect of Vitamin C is a little complicated, but bear with us. We know from the 2005 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences*, that Vitamin C used intravenously, hardly at all orally, but by IV, will increase the body’s own concentration of hydrogen peroxide in the extracellular fluid. Here’s the bottom line: Vitamin C makes the cancer cells to be bathed in extra oxygen, which kills cancer cells.

And better yet, and confirmed by the research, Vitamin C selectively kills cancer cells, and not normal cells. Which is why the patients feel good and keep their hair. Because we are not killing normal cells.

Plus Vitamin C is necessary to human survival. We have Vitamin C throughout our bodies, inside and outside our cells, unless we have severe scurvy, which is a deadly disease.

How successful have you been?

In the last two years of using these particular treatments, we have lost only one patient to cancer. Some people ask us to calculate from that a percentage success rate, but the government doesn’t approve of such arithmetic, so we have to simply say that to date, the great majority of patients who have stuck with these treatments have gone into remission.

Does insurance cover any of this?

Things are changing very rapidly here. Just in the last few months, the major insurance companies have begun to cover naturopathic treatments much more than before, as they realize that we save them quite a bit of money over mainstream medicine. Unfortunately, Medicare is still not covering this. But since insurance coverage is improving so rapidly, we are expecting Medicare to come around too.

Aetna and Cigna have been best at covering naturopathic medicine. Others are trying to catch up. Even Blue Cross/Blue Shield and Humana, which never used to cover naturopathic services are beginning to get with the times. The most common objection of the insurance companies to the natural treatments is that they are “experimental.” However, many of these treatments have been around longer with a longer history of success than most of the chemotherapy drugs.

Our patients who actually try to submit these bills to insurance are the ones who are most likely to get some reimbursement.

Does the FDA approve of any of this?

In fact, the scope of practice for a Naturopathic Medical Doctor in the State of Arizona as well as a number of other licensed states includes the following: primary care practice (office consults, physical exams and laboratory diagnosis), natural medicine (nutrition, IV nutrients, herbs, acupuncture, homeopathy, physical medicine, hydrotherapy) as well as mainstream medicine (minor surgery, prescription of pharmaceuticals).

For cancer, all treatments that we use are natural substances, not synthetic, and all are available in some form or other to the general public, over the counter. However, the quantities and form differ greatly, if you really want to have a fighting chance against such a vicious disease as cancer. Some of this has to be given intravenously in order to be really effective against cancer. You can’t just get enough or the right amounts and proportion and form of these simply by visiting the health food stores.

So yes, it’s all legal, all within the scope of practice of naturopathic physicians here in Arizona, licensed by the State of Arizona, with oversight by the Naturopathic Physicians Board of Medical Examiners, and our medical schools are accredited by the US Department of Education. There are 15 states total as well as the District of Columbia that license naturopathic medicine. They are:

Alaska
Arizona
California
Connecticut
Hawaii
Idaho
Kansas
Maine
Minnesota
Montana
New Hampshire
Oregon
Utah
Vermont
Washington
Washington, D.C.
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands

What happens to the patients?

As for what happens to the cancer patients, first, they start feeling better and their energy comes back. Two cancer patients over 60 years old ride their bicycles several miles a day. This is while being treated by us for cancer. Another went for a 3-mile walk recently, and then another walk on a beach in a strong wind. She had Stage 4 malignant melanoma. That kind of well-being and strength and vitality shown by these patients usually begins within weeks after we start treating them, long before we have evidence from the CT scans, MRI or PET scans of shrinking tumors. We look for evidence coming back of shrinking tumors or tumors that are no longer there. Sometimes there will be new metastases while the primary tumors are shrinking. But that’s okay; we just keep fighting the cancer relentlessly till we win.

Profiles of some of our cancer patients

We have seen thousands of patients, but since 2006 have focused on cancer and after dozens of cancer patients and hundreds of treatments, we have lost only one patient to cancer.

The following dozen cases are listed in no particular order, but are a representative sample of the variety of cancers that are increasingly common today.

Case 1

A man in his forties with Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma came to us for natural cancer treatment. He had already been through chemotherapy. With the natural treatments that we have used, he has maintained a high quality of life, active in his work and hiking in the local mountains. We recently had the pleasure of learning that he is in remission while continuing the natural treatments.

Case 2

A woman in her fifties had malignant melanoma, which is one of the most dangerous kinds of cancers and the most dangerous of the skin cancers. By the time we met her, it had already metastasized to her brain. This patient chose a combination of surgery, radiation and our natural cancer-fighting treatments, which we continued until she went into remission several months ago. Today she enjoys an active life with recreational travel.

Case 3

A man in his fifties had prostate cancer and chose only our natural treatments. He did not want to have any of the mainstream treatments. After less than three months of natural treatments, he is now in remission. He continues to ride his bicycle several miles a day and works two strenuous jobs.

Case 4

This is the one patient we had who actually died of cancer. It was inoperable pancreatic cancer, and the two tumors had actually shrunk considerably, with one disappearing completely, during the course of our natural treatments. This patient enjoyed a high quality of health, very active physically and feeling good during the first few months of our natural treatments. However, as things started to look very good, there arose different viewpoints about the best way to proceed throughout the healing process, and the initial success turned to very aggressive metastases throughout the body.

Case 5

A man in his fifties with colon cancer chose a combination of surgery, chemotherapy and our natural treatments. After surgery, some cancer remained.
An 80% reduction in his tumors was found after a combination of chemotherapy and natural treatments, but unfortunately complications from subsequent surgery took him back into the hospital without recovery.

Case 6

A breast cancer patient in her seventies is being open minded to various treatment options, but for right now is just receiving our natural treatments. She remains stable and is doing well with a high quality of life and activity. In fact, she had a ping-pong ball sized lump that within a month surprised us all by reducing to not even being palpable.

Case 7

A patient with testicular cancer chose only to do our natural treatments after chemotherapy. We attribute his remission within one month to his use of combined therapy. He had abdominal metastasis and a spot on his lung, but has now been free of cancer for a year.

Case 8

A woman in her forties with breast cancer chose lumpectomy and our natural treatments. We have had the great pleasure recently of learning that she is in remission, and she has resumed an active life with recreational travel.

Case 9

A man in his seventies has lung cancer, which has now reduced in volume more than 90% with a combination of radiation and our natural treatments.

Case 10

A man in his seventies with leukemia has been through chemotherapy and a number of natural treatments. Now that we have been treating him for some months, his numbers remain stable. Although not yet in remission, this man’s quality of life remains quite high. He is very physically active, and rides his bicycle several miles a day.

Case 11

This patient in her forties has had primary colon cancer, primary ovarian cancer and primary endometrial cancer. When she came to us after surgery, there were metastases as well. With only our natural treatments, the metastases disappeared and the patient’s improved vitality was quite dramatic. She is still in remission over a year later.

Case 12

A man in his sixties with lung cancer came to us with constant shortness of breath, even while sedentary. Now in remission after only our natural treatments, plus a well-chosen natural treatment that he had been using for years, he still confounds the oncologists who predicted back in 2001 that he would be dead in three months. His breathing is now much easier. These days he again enjoys recreational travel and fishing.

*Pharmacologic ascorbic acid concentrations selectively kill cancer cells: Action as a pro-drug to deliver hydrogen peroxide to tissues Qi Chen, Michael Graham Espey , Murali C. Krishna, James B. Mitchell, Christopher P. Corpe, Garry R. Buettner, Emily Shacter, and Mark Levine Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. Published online on September 12, 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0506390102 http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/102/38/13604