Linda comment’s:  I have been on the Dr Garry Gordon, DO, MD, MD(h) lifelong daily DETOX POTOCOL CALLED F.I.G.H.T. for over 2 years now….His power drink is only one part of FIGHT….This protocol gives you energy, reduces your total body burden of toxins And pathogens….It has helps dissolve BIOFILMS which is important with any disease, especially LYME DISEASE….please go to my blog atwww.lymebook.com/fight and listen to all 6 of the FIGHT protocols….each one is 60 min., BUT WORTH YOUR TIME….

Dr. Gordon’s comments:

This link is a great reminder about some basics that are needed for effective detoxing but this is never a simple one day visit to a spa. This is a LIFETIME PROGRAM. I really emphasize the point here that sweating is a great way for toxins to leave the body, and many will not start sweating very easily, but with time everyone can.

Everything works far better if you have your patients on ZEOGOLD and the four vital ingredients that make up my POWER DRINK. It is ESSENTIAL for long term success, and I would make it clear it needs to be taken daily for life! The four products are:
BioEn’R-G’y C, Beyond Fiber, MACA, and my Organic Green Drink. They are all combined in a 12 ounce cup and consumed at least once a day at a slightly heaping teaspoon of all of those ingredients.

But the magic is in the contents from one capsule of Zeogold, which makes all the difference with my detoxing program. Zeolite is required today for optimum health.
Go to www.zeoliteanswer.com to learn more.

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

Link: http://drhyman.com/faq/can-detox-really-help-or-is-it-just-a-celebrity-fad/

Excerpt:

Dr Mark Hyman

Can ‘detox’ really help me, or is it just a celebrity fad?

IT’S NOT A FAD. Detoxification is key to health. In fact, problems with detoxification is one of the roots of illness. The gut is one of the core systems in the body that must be working well for you to be healthy. If you feel lousy, it’s likely you’re toxic.

Most of us are toxic in some way but the good news is that you don’t need to go to a spa for help. Here are ten basic principles that you can start now.

1.Drink plenty of clean water, at least eight to ten glasses of filtered water a day.

Linda comments:  Magnesium is so very important to all of us and especially those with chronic illness.  Dr Garry Gordon, DO, MD, MD(h)  speaks about levels and requirements…

A: Dear Doctor:

It appears to me that one mg of MAGNESIUM is so low as to not be meaningful. I am sending you the Google link so you can do your own analysis but I like to administer LOTS of magnesium; for example, 500 mg to one gram so that appears to require several ampoules. I suggest that you give 4 to 8 ampoules. You can now calculate the calcium but I always prefer a little bit more magnesium than calcium in my patients oral and even in IV.

The Google link if you want to study this matter further is:

http://www.google.com/#q=meq%20of%20magnesium%2Bmilligram&nfpr=1&ei=dZnSTb24F5KcgQfh3aDcCw&sqi=2&start=0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=ecbf8a9c27052cf6

1. Magnesium Conversions
Feb 13, 2002 … A conversion table for magnesium equivalents. … 1 10-ml ampule 50% MgSO4 = 5 grams Mg = 40.6 mEq Mg. 1 gram Mg = 8.12 mEq Mg …
www.mgwater.com/convert.shtml - Cached – Similar
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2. Calcium, Phosphate and Magnesium Replacement
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Calcium, Phosphate and Magnesium Replacement. I. Calcium (25 mEq = 500 mg elemental calcium). A. Parenteral Calcium Salts. Calcium chloride …
chn.im.wustl.edu/NutritionSupport/…/Calcium_Phos_Mag.pdf - Similar

3. Magnesium Supplementation – Health Care Professionals
Mg Chloride (Slow-Mag®), 535 mg, 64 mg (5.33 mEq). Mg Hydroxide (MOM) (1200 mg / 15 mL) … Mg lactate (Mag-Tab SR), 84 mg (7 mEq) (start with 14 mEq bid) …
www.globalrph.com/magnesium_supplements.htm - Cached – Similar

4. MAGNESIUM SULFATE – Intravenous (IV) Dilution
1 gram = 8.12 meq. Maximum rate: 1 gram/ 7 minutes. Normal range:1.5 to 2.5 …
www.globalrph.com/magnesium_dilution.htm - Cached – Similar
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Sincerely,

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

Dr. Gordon’s Comments:

There will always be controversies around Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy but the attached review article at the bottom helps to bring out some very useful information. I particularly appreciate this since it strongly encourages the use of Progesterone Creams either from over the counter or from compounding pharmacies. I strongly favor that approach and feel that there is useful information here about the limitations of various approaches to hormone testing. 

All of that being said, we still need to understand Estrogen Receptor Sites and why I fear the estrogen mimics, which are not discussed in most discussions regarding BHRT. Also the ongoing need to balance these chemicals out with I3C, DIM, glucosinolates, as in MACA, and the wonderful all natural approach we have with PUERARIA (H.R.T. Plus) acting at the molecular level, as a selective estrogen receptor modulator S.E.R.M. beta, which then leads into advanced concepts to protect breasts, bones, brains etc. This approach alone, however, will never provide total support, as topical progesterone will always be needed. 

Read Dr John Lee’s books but today we must add additional information if we are to achieve our maximum intended useful lifespan. Today we hear about the need for supplementation of iodine to maintain healthy breasts and thyroid etc. Some advocate aggressive supplementation with iodine and if we realize that some toxins like fluorine, bromine etc are blocking iodine the need for aggressive iodine supplementation makes more sense. Dramatic reversals of Fibrocystic breast disease and even cases of breast cancer responding to systemic and in some cases topical Iodine treatment directly to the breasts are being reported world-wide today. 

Why do we seem to need such high intakes of Iodine? Let’s look at toxins and their effect on hormone function. 

We have seen documented improvement in growth hormone levels in chelated patients where pituitary function was restored, as mercury levels we lowered. We have seen thyroid function return, as Lead levels were lowered with chelation. There are hundreds of toxins in all of us today and these toxins makes it necessary to use far higher levels of many nutrients including Iodine, Magnesium, Selenium, Vitamin C etc than are usually recommended in nutritional texts to achieve OPTIMAL health in our patients today. 

This is the link to a well written analysis of an OPRAH show on BHRT that may help you in counseling your patients who will easily get confused about all this.

Sincerely,

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

Link: http://www.virginiahopkinstestkits.com/bioidenticalhormonebreastcancer.html

Excerpt:

Dear Oprah,
Your show on bioidentical hormones will surely help millions of women lead healthier lives, and inspire thousands of doctors to learn more about prescribing them. Once again you’ve shown amazing courage in speaking out on a touchy but important subject. Bioidentical hormones are on Big Pharma’s blacklist, and we know how many millions of advertising dollars they bring to television. I also applaud your choice of Dr. Christiane Northrup as an intelligent, rational, informed voice in bioidentical hormone replacement. She has been an articulate spokesperson for bioidenticals for many years.

Linda’s comment:  FINALLY a doctor that gets it…..

Excerpt:

Today, clinicians have major concerns with Toxic Body Burden, consisting of toxic heavy metals, pesticides, volatile organic compounds (VOC’s) and pathogen load, and how these poisons adversely affect the nutritional status of their patients. A particularly critical example of the interference of toxins with nutritional status and biochemical function is the competitive aspect of Mercury and Magnesium.     

Mercury, Magnesium and Adenosine triphosphate (ATP)

Mercury specifically competes with Magnesium and interferes with all Magnesium-dependent metabolic pathways, such as production of energy from ATP and GTP, which directly leads to lack of chemical energy. Every cell in the body requires chemical energy derived from ATP or GTP to function, heal and regenerate. Adenosine-5′-triphosphate (ATP) is a multifunctional nucleotide that is critical as the “molecular currency” of intracellular energy transfer. In this role, ATP transports chemical energy within cells for metabolism. It is produced as an energy source during the processes of photosynthesis and cellular respiration and consumed by many enzymes and a multitude of cellular processes, including biosynthetic reactions, motility and cell division. In signal transduction pathways, ATP is used as a substrate by kinases that phosphorylate proteins and lipids, as well as by adenylate cyclase, which uses ATP to produce the second messenger molecule cyclic AMP. If Mercury is present, this cannot occur.

How much calcium do we need and does excess cause harm? This Vitamin D newsletter is always reviewing the latest information. It is worth reading the research on Calcium.

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

Excerpt:

Quest Diagnostics and Cardiovascular Disease
This is a periodic newsletter from the Vitamin D Council, a non-profit trying to end the epidemic of vitamin D deficiency. If you want to unsubscribe, go to the end of this newsletter. If you are not subscribed, you can do so on the Vitamin D Council’s website. 
The Annals of Internal Medicine published two important reviews this month. In the first review, Dr. Anastassios Pittas and colleagues from Tufts University reviewed 106 articles and combined the 32 quality studies, a meta-analysis, looking at “cardiometabolic” outcomes such as diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Their conclusion: “Lower vitamin D status seems to be associated with increased risk for hypertension and cardiovascular disease, but we do not yet know whether vitamin D supplements will affect clinical outcomes.” Read on.

Pittas AG, et al. Systematic review: Vitamin D and cardiometabolic outcomes. Ann Intern Med. 2010 Mar 2;152(5):307-14.
The second Annals of Internal Medicine review, by Dr. Lu Wang and colleagues at Harvard, looked at studies of vitamin D supplementation and found two randomized placebo controlled trials to combine. Dozens of different types of studies have looked at vitamin D and cardiovascular outcomes. The latitude studies are clear, the closer you live to the equator, the less cardiovascular disease. The dietary studies are mixed, because vitamin D is not contained in the diet, at least in significant amounts.  The epidemiological studies are clear.

Wang L, et al. Systematic review: Vitamin D and calcium supplementation in prevention of cardiovascular events. Ann Intern Med. 2010 Mar 2;152(5):315-23.
Dr. Wang concluded, “To date, evidence from prospective observational studies and randomized controlled trials suggests that vitamin D supplementation at moderate to high doses may have beneficial effects on reducing the risk for cardiovascular disease.” 
About the same time that the two above meta-analyses were published, Dr. Brent Muhlestein, director of cardiovascular research at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Murray, Utah, presented a paper at this year’s American College of Cardiology’s annual scientific session in Atlanta. 

Please stop patients from using massive doses of calcium now. The patients all have too much calcium in vascular tissue and now we have data showing that giving calcium is increasing heart disease. And, if possible, try to always administer calcium supplementation with EQUAL AMOUNTS of MAGNESIUM, as I have been teaching for over 20 years now.

Also please realize I use calcium in well over 90 % of my patients. It is in BAM, my multiple called Beyond Any Multiple. I usually never use more than 500 mg of calcium a day for my long-term patients, as that is all most will need since that is the amount we need to offset the excess of phosphorus over calcium in the American diet. This amount will help lower the tendency for the body to develop secondary hyperparathyroidism, which is how the body responds to a chronic dietary intake of more phosphorus than calcium.

Results 15 trials were eligible for inclusion, five with patient level data (8151 participants, median follow-up 3.6 years, interquartile range 2.7-4.3 years) and 11 with trial level data (11 921 participants, mean duration 4.0 years). In the five studies contributing patient level data, 143 people allocated to calcium had a myocardial infarction compared with 111 allocated to placebo (hazard ratio 1.31, 95% confidence interval 1.02 to 1.67, P=0.035). Non-significant increases occurred in the incidence of stroke (1.20, 0.96 to 1.50, P=0.11), the composite end point of myocardial infarction, stroke, or sudden death (1.18, 1.00 to 1.39, P=0.057), and death (1.09, 0.96 to 1.23, P=0.18). The meta-analysis of trial level data showed similar results: 296 people had a myocardial infarction (166 allocated to calcium, 130 to placebo), with an increased incidence of myocardial infarction in those allocated to calcium (pooled relative risk 1.27, 95% confidence interval 1.01 to 1.59, P=0.038). 

Conclusions Calcium supplements (without coadministered vitamin D) are associated with an increased risk of myocardial infarction. As calcium supplements are widely used these modest increases in risk of cardiovascular disease might translate into a large burden of disease in the population. A reassessment of the role of calcium supplements in the management of osteoporosis is warranted.

This mainstream report found that one year of Levothyroxine treatment does not fully restore endothelial function. This is important for two reasons: 
1. Mainstream is beginning to acknowledge that low thyroid functioning contributes to heart disease.
2. Also I suggest that Heart Disease is multifactorial and, therefore, MONOTHERAPY will often fail. 

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

Full article: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bsc/cend/2009/00000070/00000006/art00017

Excerpt:

Abstract:
 Summary Objective 
Hypothyroidism is associated with elevated cardiovascular risk, not fully explained by classical risk factors. Instead, endothelial dysfunction may link hypothyroidism to atherosclerosis. The effect of levothyroxine substitution on endothelial function has been sparsely studied and the results are unclear. This study tested endothelial function as estimated by concomitant measurements of endothelial dependent vascular dilatory capacity and plasma concentration of von Willebrand factor antigen in patients with hypothyroidism and further examined  the impact of subsequent levothyroxine substitution.

Linda’s Comment: There is a real thing called Munchausen Syndrome, but it is a sad state when doctors document Munchausen Syndrome, because parents are stepping outside the box to treat their children, EXPECIALLY those of the Autism Sprectrum!! Main stream medical practitioners for the most part will not admit that autism needs to be treating the WHOLE BODY. What is really scary is if you take your child to the ER for a legitimate injury, will that ER doctor see that it is a real injury, OR will they accuse you of abusing your child. My own daughter was a star athlete and one of her sports was racing bicycles, competing nationally. Needless to say, we were in the ER frequently. When I found an ER doctor that was competent, I stuck with that ER. Only once did I have an ER doctor question her injuries. By the time I was through throwing my fit, in his face, he was just anxious to get me out of there. Unfortunately most parents are a wreck when attending their children’s injuries, and are fearful of taking charge of what the doctor is saying and doing.

What is even more SAD and IMHO criminal is we have, right here in Arizona, a mother and father on disability themselves, who are taking care of their (5) children with Autism and a host of other medical conditions. They went to Children’s Hospital with sick children with asthma and the idiot doctor said, “this looks like a case of Munchausen Syndrome”…..Child protective services (which I have little respect for here in Arizona) took all the children and put them in Foster Homes. These child are NOT getting their special diets, supplements or the care for Autism, that they had been receiving….Guess what??? They are sicker, and one was, IMHO, abused, by being put outside in this 115 degree heat, because the foster mom had a guest over!!!

I’m also quiet frankly, sick and tired of the doctors NOT putting these children first. Those with children of the spectrum, MUST step outside of the body from the AMA standard of care, if they are to reach a normal life…The parents only have until the child is 18 to prepare them for an adult with Autism. You wouldn’t believe how many doctors don’t think that diet is important!! I tell these parents to RUN FOREST RUN, as fast as they can from this doctor.

Full article: Read complete article, “Treat Magnesium Deficiency by Removing Mercury”

Excerpt:

Treat Magnesium Deficiency by Removing Mercury
by Lyn Hanshew, M.D.

Today, clinicians have major concerns with Toxic Body Burden, consisting of toxic heavy metals, pesticides, volatile organic compounds (VOC’s) and pathogen load, and how these poisons adversely affect the nutritional status of their patients. A particularly critical example of the interference of toxins with nutritional status and biochemical function is the competitive aspect of Mercury and Magnesium.      

Mercury, Magnesium and Adenosine triphosphate (ATP)
Mercury specifically competes with Magnesium and interferes with all Magnesium-dependent metabolic pathways, such as production of energy from ATP and GTP, which directly leads to lack of chemical energy. Every cell in the body requires chemical energy derived from ATP or GTP to function, heal and regenerate. Adenosine-5′-triphosphate (ATP) is a multifunctional nucleotide that is critical as the “molecular currency” of intracellular energy transfer. In this role, ATP transports chemical energy within cells for metabolism. It is produced as an energy source during the processes of photosynthesis and cellular respiration and consumed by many enzymes and a multitude of cellular processes, including biosynthetic reactions, motility and cell division. In signal transduction pathways, ATP is used as a substrate by kinases that phosphorylate proteins and lipids, as well as by adenylate cyclase, which uses ATP to produce the second messenger molecule cyclic AMP. If Mercury is present, this cannot occur.

 Linda’s comments:  This is a great article on how to purchase organic produce and why it is important to do your best to eat organic.  I’m sure you have seen these BIG wooden tubs that folks use to plant flowers in?  These are perfect for your patio to plant your own organic produce, plus it isn’t on the ground to break your back bending over weeding, and feeding your plants…..I use chicken wire to protect it from rabbits, etc.  Zip ties are great for hooking it around the planter….Find your local organic farmers.  They are popping up all over Arizona, plus the Farmers Markets are growing like wild fire….

Full article: http://www.naturalnews.com/027854_organic_food_nutrition.html

Excerpt:

NaturalNews) Organic produce is nutritionally superior to so-called “conventional” produce, according to a comprehensive review conducted by researchers from the University of Aix-Marseille for the French food agency (AFSSA) and published in the journal Agronomy for Sustainable Development.

“This critical literature review indicates that organic agriculture, as developed until now, has the potential to produce high-quality products with some relevant improvements in terms of anti-oxidant phytomicronutrients, nitrate accumulation in vegetables and toxic residue levels,” the researchers wrote.

To be recognized as “organic,” a food product must be produced without the use of genetic modification or chemical fertilizers or pesticides, and must promote sustainable cropping methods. In the United States, organically produced meat and dairy must be raised without the use of synthetic growth hormones or antibiotics. Hormones and antibiotics are banned in animal production across the board in the European Union.