This article in the NY TIMES changes everything for Lyme disease patients.

Finally our doctors may not have to fight to keep their medical licenses when they are brave enough to become LYME LITERATE DOCTORS.

This article will clearly change the terrain, as it states that the diagnosis is complex and that antibiotic treatment is warranted in spite of negative test results since there are so many false negative and false positive results. It quotes the May issue of the Mayo Clinic proceedings that says patients are best diagnosed by SYMPTOMS.

Doctors must be willing to use antibiotics based on CLINICAL ASSESSMENT rather than Lab findings! They accept the fact that oral antibiotics cannot do everything and IV antibiotics may be needed. It recognized that there are many vectors, not just deer or mice, but even your pet dog. Problems may show up years after the bite with memory and concentration problems, personality changes, heart rhythm abnormalities etc.

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

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NY Times
July 15, 2008
PERSONAL HEALTH
A Threat in a Grassy Stroll: Lyme Disease
By JANE E. BRODY

My friend Anne and her husband, Richard, spend summers at a resort in Westchester County that has a swimming lake, tennis courts, gardens and beautiful grounds surrounded by woods. But Anne never sets foot on the grass.
The reason is Lyme disease. Anne says just about everyone she knows who partakes of the greenery and gardens outside the cabins has contracted the disease. So not only is she cautious about venturing out, but she and her husband also check each other daily from head to toe for the much-feared deer tick, which can transmit the disease when it attaches to skin and feeds on blood.
This tick, which is the size of a pinhead when it starts searching for a bloody meal, is responsible for about 20,000 reported cases of Lyme disease each year in the United States (the actual number is believed to be 10 times that) and 60,000 reported cases in Europe. Cases have been reported in every state, with residents of the Northeast, the Great Lakes region, northwestern Washington and parts of California the most frequent victims.
In some areas, as many as half of the deer ticks are infected with Borrelia, the Lyme disease bacteria. The disease got its name in 1975 from the first identified cluster of cases, among children in Lyme, Conn., who had rheumatoid-like symptoms of swollen, painful joints.
The white-tailed deer and white-footed mouse are the tick’s most frequent hosts, but it also feeds on birds, dogs and other rodents, including squirrels. The tiny nymphal form that emerges in spring and early summer presents the greatest hazard to humans. It is also the hardest to spot, especially on body parts covered with hair.
People usually acquire the tick while walking through grassy or wooded areas. Sometimes pet dogs are the source: in Minnesota one summer, our dog got more than 30 deer ticks on his face, apparently from sticking his nose into a fresh carcass. Unlike the common dog tick, which is round and very dark, the deer tick is elongated and brownish.

A Challenging Diagnosis
The disease can be maddeningly difficult to diagnose. Only 50 to 70 percent of patients recall being bitten by a tick. Ordinary laboratory tests are rarely helpful. Tests for antibodies to the bacterium or for its genetic footprints result in many false-negative and false-positive findings.
Rather, according to Dr. Robert L. Bratton and colleagues at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz., who reviewed the recent literature on Lyme disease in the May issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, most cases are best diagnosed and treated based on patients’ symptoms. Thus, doctors everywhere must be alert when dealing with patients who live or travel in areas where Lyme disease is prevalent, and they must be willing to use appropriate antibiotics based on a clinical assessment rather than laboratory findings.
Since signs and symptoms vary and often do not appear until one to four weeks — or even months — after exposure, anyone bitten by a deer tick may be wise to obtain preventive treatment with an antibiotic, according to Lyme disease experts consulted by Constance A. Bean, the author with Dr. Lesley Ann Fein of the new book “Beating Lyme” (Amacom Books).
The most common sign is a reddish rash called erythema migrans that often resembles a spreading bull’s-eye, though up to 20 percent of patients never develop it. Common sites of the rash are the thigh, groin, buttock and underarm. It may be accompanied by flulike symptoms: fever, chills, body aches, headache and fatigue.
If untreated or inadequately treated, the infection can cause severe migrating joint pain and swelling, most often in the knees, weeks or months later. In addition, several weeks, months or even years after an untreated infection, the bacterium can cause meningitis, temporary facial paralysis, numbness or weakness of the arms and legs, memory and concentration difficulties and changes in mood, personality or sleep habits. Some untreated patients develop temporary heart rhythm abnormalities, eye inflammation or hepatitis.

Controversial Guidelines
Antibiotics for early Lyme disease should be taken for at least two to three weeks. The treatments recommended by the Infectious Diseases Society of America include doxycycline for nonpregnant patients and children 9 and older, or amoxicillin for pregnant women and younger children. Other options include cefuroxime axetil (Ceftin) and erythromycin.
But these guidelines are controversial. They have been challenged by a nonprofit medical group, the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society, which says they are inadequate to combat the infection in a significant number of patients, who go on to develop debilitating chronic symptoms.
In May, the Infectious Diseases Society agreed to review its guidelines as a result of an antitrust lawsuit by the Connecticut attorney general, Richard Blumenthal, who said some of the society’s experts had financial interests that could bias their judgment. (The society denied that accusation.)
Although I cannot state with authority which side is correct, I have encountered enough previously healthy people who have suffered for months or years after initial treatment to suggest that there is often more to this disease than “official” diagnostic and treatment guidelines suggest.
Pamela Weintraub, a senior editor at Discover magazine, has produced a thoroughly researched and well-written account of the disease’s controversial history in her new book “Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic” (St. Martin’s Press).

Treatment and Prevention
The Mayo doctors concluded that patients who developed arthritis related to Lyme disease should be treated for one to two months and that those with late or severe disease, including neurological and cardiac symptoms, required intravenous antibiotics. Although two studies, neither of which was long-term, found that repeated antibiotic treatment did not reverse the pain and altered cognition associated with Lyme disease, the experience of thousands of patients, including Ms. Bean, contradict these findings.
There are no vaccines to prevent Lyme disease; an early attempt was taken off the market in 2002 because of side effects and limited effectiveness. Those who will not or cannot avoid grassy and wooded areas should wear long sleeves and long pants with legs tucked into socks, and spray exposed skin and clothing with tick repellent containing 20 to 30 percent DEET. Repellents should not be used on children under 2.
Since the tick must usually feed for 24 hours to transmit significant amounts of bacteria, daily body checks and showering with a washcloth can help prevent infection. Clothing should be washed and dried in a dryer. Additional preventive actions are described in “Beating Lyme.”
If a tick is attached to skin, it should be removed with tweezers, not fingers. Press into the skin, grasp the front of the tick’s head and pull at right angles to the skin. Place the tick in a sealed plastic bag for later identification. Then wash the area and your hands thoroughly.

What should you focus on to help the most patients? Putting good things in, or getting bad things out, or killing some of the infections we all have? The answer is beginning to be clear; it is NOT EITHER/ OR but EVERYTHING!

The front cover of Time June 6 2008 has a picture of a baby and the key article is The Truth About Vaccines. For once it admits there is a problem and that many are going to opt out of vaccinating their children. There are other useful comments in their article but I draw your attention to their conclusion that GENETICS and ENVIROMENTAL exposures must be behind the increase in AUTISM.

That is a major point for meaningful discussion when you learn about toxins causing epigenetic changes in genes almost overnight that affect all offspring from Duke University and Randy Jirtle’s work. You can begin to piece together a more effective and broadly based treatment plan that will help many more patients with the complex degenerative and neurological conditions.

Methylation support begins to be as critical as detoxification, chelation and lowering pathogens. Looking at the potential exposures in the maternal diet, like BISPHENYL A that lead to all the mice offspring having yellow not brown fur and all developing obesity and diabetes, means that we have to go back to looking at the parents and their diet to tease out some of these epigenetic changes that set the stage for the inability to deal with things like Mercury in air from coal burning, or the mercury coming from the mothers diet and teeth, or the mothers intake of other challenging substances, which are too numerous to count.

But we should always expect that all of us are blind men examining an elephant and some of us are sure it is a wall while other are sure it is a rope or some think it is a tree; bottom line it is all MULTIFACTORIAL. With that said, then anything we do should help, as all of what we believe in is relevant. Yes, get off the reactive foods, and with the new information out about GM food, rely only on organic food. Yes, everyone will be better the lower we get their levels of heavy metals with chelation or their other toxins with a combination of things that I call my Power Drink (BioEn’R-G’y C, MACA, Green Powder, and Beyond Fiber), which can be amplified with various other herbs and homeopathics and sweating in Saunas and soaking in EDTA bath (Beyond Clean).

But, since everyone today has a serious PATHOGEN LEVEL in their body that are poorly responsive to standard antibiotics, antiviral and antifungal, the benefits all too often seem to be short lived. So the infectious disease specialists simply go stronger, go to parenteral administration, and take the therapy longer and longer.

There are a few of us who understand the importance of advanced Methylation support. Some will rely primarily on B12 using injections, which with Beyond B12 are really no longer needed when you use it with BioEn’R-G’y C for added methylation support. This is partly because Beyond B12 (and H.R. T. Plus) has the ACTIVE form of natural Folic Acid, 5’MTHF. This form is vital for a full functioning methylation cycle that is critical to so many vital functions in the body particularly for older or sick patients.

It seems that whatever we look for, we will find. If we send blood to Mt Sinai School Of Medicine ALL will have Neurotoxins and Carcinogens in their blood stream at all times.

If we look hard with the best tests for CMV, Mycoplasma, Chlamydia we will find some or all of these and multiple other pathogens and even parasites, when we look enough.

When we look for genetic disturbances that contribute to the patient’s health issues, they will be there.

If we look for nutritional deficiencies, they are always present particularly with functional tests or intracellular analysis of things like Magnesium and there are always amino acid and fatty acid and mineral deficiencies present.

So this is like those who specialize in antique car restoring, there is work to be done wherever we look.

The good news is that some of those fully restored cars have value above what it cost to restore them and the same is true about the patients that you restore, when you provide full tail light to bumper restorative care to almost any patient with chronic degenerative condition no matter what it is called. Even if it is thought to be all a genetic problem, they too will have all of the above issues that are always present if tested for. Yet we are afraid to help such patients and abandon them to some “expert” on rare genetic diseases that has never given anyone orthomolecular levels of nutrients nor lowered anyone’s levels of toxins or pathogens!!

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

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Antibiotics that treat Lyme disease may help some people with autism.

This article was written to describe the possibility that autism is made worse by Lyme disease. Many doctors and parents have noticed that mothers who had Lyme disease were more likely to give birth to children with autism. Also many adults who get Lyme disease have symptoms that are like autism. The authors believe that 20-30% of autism may be caused by the bacteria that cause Lyme disease. They believe that another infectious agent (Mycoplasma) may be a factor in 58% of cases of autism.

Scientific Abstract
http://autism.healingthresholds.com/research/the-association-between-tick-bor

Med Hypotheses. 2008;70(5):967-74. Epub 2007 Nov 5

The association between tick-borne infections, Lyme borreliosis and autism spectrum disorders.
Bransfield RC, Wulfman JS, Harvey WT, Usman AI.
Department of Psychiatry, Riverview Medical Center, 225 State Route 35, Red Bank, NJ, United States. bransfield@comcast.net
Chronic infectious diseases, including tick-borne infections such as Borrelia burgdorferi may have direct effects, promote other infections and create a weakened, sensitized and immunologically vulnerable state during fetal development and infancy leading to increased vulnerability for developing autism spectrum disorders. A dysfunctional synergism with other predisposing and contributing factors may contribute to autism spectrum disorders by provoking innate and adaptive immune reactions to cause and perpetuate effects in susceptible individuals that result in inflammation, molecular mimicry, kynurenine pathway changes, increased quinolinic acid and decreased serotonin, oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction and excitotoxicity that impair the development of the amygdala and other neural structures and neural networks resulting in a partial Klüver-Bucy Syndrome and other deficits resulting in autism spectrum disorders and/or exacerbating autism spectrum disorders from other causes throughout life. Support for this hypothesis includes multiple cases of mothers with Lyme disease and children with autism spectrum disorders; fetal neurological abnormalities associated with tick-borne diseases; similarities between tick-borne diseases and autism spectrum disorder regarding symptoms, pathophysiology, immune reactivity, temporal lobe pathology, and brain imaging data; positive reactivity in several studies with autistic spectrum disorder patients for Borrelia burgdorferi (22%, 26% and 20-30%) and 58% for mycoplasma; similar geographic distribution and improvement in autistic symptoms from antibiotic treatment. It is imperative to research these and all possible causes of autism spectrum disorders in order to prevent every preventable case and treat every treatable case until this disease has been eliminated from humanity.
PMID: 17980971 [PubMed – in process]

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To FACT Members: A shot of mercury is coming your way soon unless we wake up the American population!

It has been decided that injected mercury in the new untested and unproven H1N1 (Swine Flu) vaccinations will be in our future!

This could make detoxing continuously, with ZeoGold or ACZ Nano, more essential than all other nutrients for many patients whose genetics and or epigenetic changes have left them with an impaired detoxing ability; as happens for example with ingestion or exposure to BISPHENOL A (used to make polycarbonate plastics, fungicides, flame retardants, etc.) and Methylation impairment.
Properly used, oral Zeolite can conserve our natural Glutathione stores for needed work throughout the body by neutralizing free radical production in the intestine.
Zeolite can trap heavy metals. That is why the correct form of Zeolite can be the ideal water and air filter material for any application. I suggest that we need to consume oral Zeolite daily so that it can “filter” our intestinal contents continuously.
Now with this added threat of MANDATORY THIMEROSAL INJECTIONS for everyone, Oral Zeolite with every meal should become more routine than having salt or pepper on the table when we eat. I suggest that Zeolite can help to neutralize many of the toxins we consume daily.
I feel that we need Good Zeolite in our intestinal tract at all times, to minimize the free radical formation that is going on continuously in the intestines, which results in the average stool in American having mutagens or carcinogens when tested.
Those free radicals generated, when unbound metals catalyze free radical reactions, deplete our natural stores of SOD Glutathione and Catalase that are needed more than ever now with our increasingly toxic environment.
We cannot avoid Mercury in our Food, Water and Air. Soon we will not be able to avoid it under our skin from injections – unless we alert the entire population via the internet that the risks far exceed the potential benefits.
Tons of Mercury is pumped daily into the earth’s atmosphere from COAL BURNING power plants. This could be remedied with Zeolite filters at the coal burning power plants, but that will Cost money, so instead we just poison the earth.
NOW it appears to me that someone wants to BE SURE we stay sick. Remember the EPA reported that 600,000 children are born with Mercury toxicity! So how come one branch of government ignores another branch and decides to inject Mercury into everyone? It almost seems like they are intentionally adding Mercury to injections to be sure we become too ill to fight back.
Abundant proof exists of a wide variation in ability to excrete Mercury. Some get rid of newly ingested Mercury in 40 days whereas others require 160 days. Now we are faced with one size fits all medicine and I have no doubt that great damage will be done unless this horror is stopped.
Remember this week they decided to involve the military to “ASSIST” in the inoculation of Swine Flu vaccine, and place them under the control of FEMA.
Our worst fears may come to pass UNLESS we actively educate the population about their RIGHTS!
They insisted on vaccinating our military during the Gulf War, and those who saw the danger faced court martial if they attempted to resist. How much force will our current administration exert to vaccinate us with a totally untested vaccine, unproven benefits, and unknown risks?
Sincerely,
G.F. Gordon, MD, DO, MD(H.)
Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

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July 15, 2009
From the desk of Mayer Eisenstein MD, JD, MPH
http://www.wholehealthamerica.com/drolff/flu%20letter.pdf

Plans for Swine Flu 2009 Vaccination Campaign Begin
…Swine Flu Vaccine 1976

Concerned that the current H1N1 swine-flu pandemic will intensify in the fall, the Obama administration said Thursday that it is pushing ahead with plans for a government-funded vaccination campaign, and urged public-health officials across the U.S. to prepare for the potentially massive effort.
Officials say that they are confident a vaccine will work, and that a
campaign will go ahead, with vaccine production and clinical trials
occurring at the same time.
The first doses — as many as 100 million — would likely be ready by mid-
October. “At this point, we and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told the gathering. Mixing the vaccine with an imare anticipating a voluntary fall vaccination program.
WASHINGTON – July 13th. The new H1N1 influenza virus bears a disturbing
resemblance to the virus strain that caused the 1918 flu pandemic, with a
greater ability to infect the lungs than common seasonal flu viruses, researchers reported on Monday.
Dr. Eisenstein’s Comments on Flu:
No one knows what treatment will be effective against the H1N1 Flu. However, we know that the flu vaccines have never worked and now they want to inject us at the same time that they carry out safety trials. You have got to be joking. My recommendation stay as far away from this experiment as possible.
Vitamin D, Probiotics and Chicken soup have been effective in the past. Our hope is that these remedies will continue to be effective.
The evidence does not support any flu vaccine effectiveness.

Dr. Eisenstein’s Daily Vitamin D Recommendations for this seasons Flu:

1.  Get a Vitamin D blood test 25(OH)D
2.  Make sure your whole family has adequate blood levels of Vitamin D this flu season(>50-80ng/ml). Most children and adults vitamin D blood level is <30ng/ml.
3.  Adult (and children >100lbs) maintenance, 2 Pro-D 5 capsule daily
4.  Children maintenance, <100lbs……………..1 Pro-D 5 capsule dailyAt the first symptoms of a cold or flu 1,000IU/ lb. daily for 7 daysExamples: 50 lb daily 1 ProD50; 100 lb daily 2 ProD50; 150 lb daily 3 ProD50; 200 lb daily 4 ProD50
5.  And of course Chicken Soup

Facts suggesting that Vitamin D was somewhat protective
against the Flu of 1918:

From: Vitamindcouncil.org
1. The mass of deaths in the Northern hemisphere occurred when Vitamin D
levels were low (fall and winter).
2. While infection rates were similar for sailors and troops on infected troop
transport ships, the sailors had 1/4 the mortality of the troops. One has to
assume the 25(OH)D of sailors aboard 1918 troop transport ships was higher
than the troops inside.
3. Underground coal miners in North America had the highest mortality of any occupation.
4. Open air hospitals in North America allegedly had lower mortalities than
regular hospitals.
5. Mortality for sailors at sea was markedly lower than sailors ashore, despite the crowded conditions on board.

6. Make sure You Have Adequate Vitamin D Levels This Flu Season

I draw your attention to a few paragraphs from his extensive presentation, which discusses some of the impact of chemicals and toxins on our health. Click the link to view the entire 13th annual conference proceedings ‘Managing Biotransformation: The Metabolic, Genomic, and Detoxification Balance Points’.

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

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The Proceedings From the 13th International Symposium of The Institute for Functional Medicine
http://www.alternative-therapies.com/at/web_pdfs/ifm_proceedings_low.pdf

(Excerpt from presentation article by Mark Hyman, MD entitled ‘Systems Biology, Toxins, Obesity, and Functional Medicine’)

LIVING IN A SEA OF TOXINS: THE PROBLEM

Why should we worry about toxins unless we work with toxic chemicals or spray pesticides for a living? Isn’t exposure minimal? Unfortunately, risks of exposure are substantial, pose significant public health risks, and can no longer be ignored. We live in a sea of toxins. Every single person and animal on the planet contains residues of toxic chemicals or metals in their tissues. Eighty thousand new chemicals have been introduced since the turn of the 20th century and most have never been tested for safety or for synergistic actions. The Centers for Disease Control issued a report on human exposure to environmental chemicals. They assessed human blood or urine levels for 116 chemicals (and there were thousands more for which tests were not conducted) as part of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.1 While they found high levels of toxins in some, and low levels in many more, the study, in isolation, may not tell the whole story. Why? Because these chemical toxins move quickly from the blood into storage sites-mostly fat tissue, organs, and bones-so the blood or urine levels underestimate the total toxic load. Both weight gain (because of stored toxins) and the total toxic load can frustrate attempts at weight loss by impairing two key metabolic organs-the liver and the thyroid, by damaging the mitochondria- the site of energy metabolism, by affecting neuroendocrine signaling, and by increasing inflammation and oxidative stress.

FAT AS A STORAGE DEPOT FOR FAT SOLUBLE TOXINS

The Environmental Protection Agency has monitored human exposure to toxic environmental chemicals since 1972 when they began the National Human Adipose Tissue Survey. This study evaluates the levels of various toxins in the fat tissue from cadavers and elective surgeries. Five of what are known to be the most toxic chemicals were found in 100% of all samples (OCDD or octachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin, styrene, 1,4- dichlorobenzene, xylene, and ethylphenol-toxic chemicals from industrial pollution that damage the liver, heart, lungs, and nervous system). Nine more chemicals were found in 91-98% of samples: benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, DDE (a breakdown product of DDT, the pesticide banned in the US since 1972), three dioxins, and one furan. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were found in 83% of the population. A Michigan study found DDT in over 70% of 4 years olds, probably received through breast milk. With the global economy, we may be eating food that was picked a day before in Guatemala, Indonesia, or Asia, where there are not the same restrictions on the use of pesticides as there are in the United States. Many of these chemicals are stored in fat tissue, making animal products concentrated sources. One hundred percent of beef is contaminated with DDT, as is 93% of processed cheese, hot dogs, bologna, turkey, and ice cream.

WHERE DO TOXINS COME FROM?
Exposure to toxins comes from two main sources: the environment (external toxins) and the gut (breakdown products of our metabolism, or internal toxins). Both can overload endogenous detoxification mechanisms.

External Toxins: The Dangers from Without
The external toxins include chemical toxins and heavy metals. The heavy metals that cause the most ill health are lead, mercury, cadmium, arsenic, nickel, and aluminum. Chemical toxins include volatile organic compounds (VOCs), solvents (cleaning materials, formaldehyde, toluene, benzene), medications, alcohol, pesticides, herbicides, and food additives. Infections (hepatitis C virus) and mold toxins (sick building syndrome) are other common sources of toxins. Our modern refined diet can be considered toxic because it places an exta burden o detoxification systems through excessive consumption of sugar, high-fructose corn syrup (the two most important causes of elevated liver function tests), trans fatty acids, alcohol, cafeine, aspartame, foods made with genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and the various plastics, pathogens, hormones, and antibiotics found in our food supply.

Testing for Toxins and Detoxification Function
* Genetic testing of detoxification pathways for phase I and phase II SNPs
* Detoxification challenge test (provocations with caffeine, aspirin,
acetaminophen)
* Measurement of detoxification enzymes
– Reduced glutathione
– Glutathione peroxidase
– super oxide dismutase (SOD)
* Heavy metals
– RBC or whole blood
– Hair analysis
– Chelation challenge with DMPS or DMSA
* Urinary organic acids
– Specific compounds measured, including sulfates, pyroglutamate,
orotate, and others, can give clues to problems with detoxification
pathways.
* Chemical antibodies to various toxins and metals (can occasionally be useful)
* Organophosphates: identified through a 24-hour urine collection test
* Mold and mycotoxin antibodies
* IgG food sensitivity testing
* Celiac testing (IgG and IgA anti-gliadin antibodies, tTG IgA)
* Digestive stool analysis for dysbiosis
* Tests for hidden infections (Lyme, H. pylori, etc.)

Practical Suggestions for Patients
Remove Toxins
* Eat organic food and animal products to avoid petrochemical pesticides, herbicides, hormones, and antibiotics.
* Drink filtered water (reverse osmosis or carbon filter).
* HEPA/ULPA filters and ionizers can be helpful in reducing dust, molds,
volatile organic compounds, and other sources of indoor air pollution.
* Clean and monitor heating systems for release of carbon monoxide, the most common cause of death by poisoning in America.
* Have houseplants that help filter the air.
* Air out your dry cleaning before wearing it.
* Avoid excess exposure to environmental petrochemicals (garden
chemicals, dry cleaning, car exhaust, second-hand smoke).
* Reduce or eliminate the use of toxic household and personal care products (aluminium-containing underarm deodorant, antacids, and pots and pans).
* Remove allergens and dust from your home as much as possible.
* Minimize electromagnetic radiation (EMR) from radios, TVs, and
microwave ovens.
* Reduce ionizing radiation (from sun exposure or medical tests such as X-rays).
* Reduce heavy metal exposure (predatory and river fish, water, lead paint, thimerosal-containing products, etc.).

Improve Elimination of Toxins
* Have 1-2 bowel movements a day.
* Drink 6-8 glasses of water a day.
* Sweat regularly.
– Use exercise to help you sweat regularly.
– Use steam baths or saunas – infrared saunas may be even more beneficial.
* Regular exercise, yoga, or lymphatic massage can improve lymph flow and help flush toxins out of your tissues into your circulation so they can be detoxified.

To read the rest of this article, see page 136 of The Proceedings From the 13th International Symposium of The Institute for Functional Medicine at http://www.alternative-therapies.com/at/web_pdfs/ifm_proceedings_low.pdf.

I also want to help move us into a new preventative medicine and anti-aging testing system developed by I-M Heath. This unique program measures up to 37 different biomarkers in a patient, resulting in an overall personal biological score that is presented ‘visually’ on a body-map. This helps the patient to “see” their current condition (how slowly or quickly they are aging) and allows the doctor and patient to work together on a holistic program that is supported by published clinical science.

FOOD

With Food it is hard to identify all sensitivity reactions so, at minimum, serious rotation is advised but building a healthy gut flora is vital or we become sensitive to other foods anyway. Since few want to be told to eliminate foods, we can encourage them to eat foods that are in the books by Peter D’Adamo ND, author of Eat Right For You Blood Type and Live Right For Your Blood Type.
For example, if you are blood type A, you want to eat a largely vegetarian diet, and if you are blood type O you’ll do better with meat-based diet like Atkins; if you are B or AB you are more in the middle of these. The food issue is never resolved adequately with any one test available, so some will rely on strict avoidance of known foods like corn, soy, wheat, and dairy.

Others can learn to eliminate some foods by counting their pulse before and after eating single foods, as described by Dr. Arthur F. Coca, the Chief of Allergy at Columbia, in his book The Pulse Test (available through Amazon.com for about $ 15).

We could do some food sensitivity testing using methods like ALCAT or Elisa testing for food reactions, as usually there will be some food sensitivity blunting the healing response we need.  But since leaky gut is unavoidable with the GMO soy and corn in everyone’s diet providing a pesticide effect in our intestines and altering our flora. I place anyone hoping to have high health on a daily probiotic for life but this will not work optimally without Inuflora, a food derived from the Jerusalem artichoke that is in  Beyond Fiber which provides the ultimate PREBIOTIC. This is NOT FOS. This is a huge molecule that alone lowers Candida counts over just a few months time, ensuring healthy flora to flourish while harmful pathogens are choked out.

Beyond Fiber is part of my POWER DRINK which I create by adding the following FOUR main ingredients to juices:

1) Beyond Fiber
2) MACA powder
3) Dr Gordon’s Advanced Green Powder
4) BioE’nR-G’y C

Amounts required are around 1 tsp of each ingredient at least once a day; but some will do better with bid building up slowly. Start with an even ½ tsp of these once a day, as we MUST rebuild the flora for all this to work optimally.

The Power Drink is best sipped over 2 hours ideally bid so you need well tolerated, neutral PH forms of Vitamin C with methylation support like TMG AND MSM, as found in BioEn’R-G’y C (or Vitality C). BioE’nR-G’y C is key to recovery of all patients; I like about 4 tsp a day giving 16 gms of ascorbic acid. But this must be taken with a quality acidophilus, ideally for life. I am using Kyodophilus or UAS Probioplex DDS caps.

INFECTIONS

Infections are hard to adequately handle unless you routinely offer a short series of 3-6 UVB and OZONE treatments over a couple of days or 2 weeks.  The alternative is to use 50-80+ gm IV ascorbic acid drips ideally followed the same day with HBO treatments.  This goes to H202.

Also, there are reasons to look on my website www.gordonresearch.com under INFECTIONS, and learn how to use natural things like ACS 200 and Immune support and short courses of antibiotics like Azithromycin, or even a week or so of oral Alinia. All of this is needed, as we try to lower the total pathogen load. I do that without spending a fortune trying to identify all the pathogens, as literature shows we all carry them.  Chlamydia is just the tip of the iceberg and we all will have to deal with some CMV and Mycoplasma etc.

We know there is infection and generally we do not need to spend $5k plus with Garth Nicolson’s lab in Huntington Beach or others to attach some name to this pathogen burden. We can safely assume that some stealth organisms are present and the body is not adequately handling them. I have heard of patients using 1 ounce of ACS 200 a day (150 sprays in divided doses) for over a year. Although slowly improving, the infections are still not being hit hard enough so we may need more aggressive oxidative therapies like 100 GM IV ascorbic acid or UVB/Ozone. We just know we need something oxidative, even HBO with high dose IV Ascorbic Acid followed by HBO almost at the same time, which is another way to lower total body burden of pathogens.

Also, look at things such as high-dose Garlic like Kyolic (which some can take and others will not touch) and help the immune system with short-term high dose Vit A, 5-8 days of ½ million units a day. Nutrisorb-A is a liquid form providing 10,000 units per drop.

I find that most patients are not holding their pathogens under adequate control so I help support their immune function. My program uses Longevity Plus© products that are truly comprehensive and a bargain since no immune support product provides the comprehensive coverage found in their Immuni-T products. The Immuni-T2 is primarily for acute infections and the Immuni-T3 is designed more for chronic issues including cancer. I recommend taking both for 1-3 months starting with 2 tid of each for 2 to 3 weeks then 2 bid for a couple months or longer.  This will help your patients deal with the infection aspect of F.I.G.H.T.

GENETICS

Many labs offer gene testing today and the price will come down and accuracy will increase. But I am confident there will be issues around things like MTHFR and METHYLATION so that helps explain why some patients cannot get optimal response without addressing the need for methylation support.

So I advise all 3 forms of Folic Acid and sublingual B12. Preferably both adult males and females will receive H.R.T Plus (Herbal Remedy from Thailand), which provides Estrogen receptor treatment with the amazing herb Pueraria mirifica. This does many things like protecting against bone loss. Combined with my total program for osteoporosis including Beyond Bone Defense and Beyond Chelation Improved, this is a vital step in allowing us to live long and still have soft arteries and hard bones, even when you are 90.

Ideally, we need to move into anti-aging medicine and select some patient to use as a test case, for learning how to use International Anti-aging Systems (IAS) new program that Phil Mican helped develop with the help of Ward Dean. So go to the I-M Health website and ask for a test sample to learn how to analyze your patients BIOLOGICAL AGE. That is a great way to show over the next 6-12 months that we are getting real benefits. The program will show your patient who complies with all of this getting younger, as the red dots it uses to highlight problem areas will start to become green over time. This is a great way to increase compliance, as the report highlights areas of concern that over the coming years we will see improve!

If we stick to my F.I.G.H.T. concept we can to this without using genetic testing because, for example, the Agouti mice research shows we have Epigenetic changes due to environmental toxins. This research by Randy Jirtle at Duke helps explains today’s epidemic of Obesity and Diabetes due to things like BISPHENOL A. You can safely assume most people have been exposed to BISPHENOL A and that has caused some of these epigenetic changes like methylation defects.

So using the BioE’nR-G’y C with TMG AND MSM, at least 1 slightly heaping tsp 2-4 times a day i.e.  taking 8-16 gm a day, preferably with all the other three ingredients found in my Power Drink for optimal results. Nothing beats the Beyond Fiber formula for lowering toxins particularly when taken along with ACZ Nano. It seems that the Zeolite formula is helping move some of the toxins that even Beyond Chelation Improved and Heavy Detox, and hi-dose vitamin C with Fiber, and sweating are moving around, but we need lots of assistance to usher all of these toxins out of the body!

HEAVY METALS
HORMONES

F.I.G.H.T. means lots of detoxing is MANDATORY and that means more than a year of intensive work, which can never be discontinued, as we continue to eat, drink and breathe in toxins. This detox can be helped with homeopathics for drainage. Consider, for example, HEEL has their DETOX kit and I often add 10 gtts of each of the three bottles to each glass of my Power Drink.

For heavy metals the goal is get them as low as possible. Lead is in the bones of everyone, and it is at 1000+ times greater quantities than was present 400 years ago. Bones take 15 years to remodel, so I recommend some of my ‘short’ or push Calcium EDTA IV’s weekly to start and following ideally with IV MYERS.. After 20 or so, switch to perhaps monthly for another 20-30 or more. But always with the full Oral Chelation Program which includes my Beyond Chelation Improved plus Power Drink.

For more in-depth information on the causes of universal toxicity and affordable, natural solutions to ‘getting the lead out’, check out my latest book ‘Detox with Oral Chelation: Protecting Yourself from Lead, Mercury & Other Environmental Toxins’.

And, of course, ideally patients can join a gym and sweat in the sauna or steam room, or get their own FIR sauna. They now have the new portable versions (that you sit in with head out) costing less than $500. Sweating frequently is crucial as this is an ideal way for Mercury and many other toxins to get out.

For Hormones, I use topical Testosterone – Progesterone Chrysin 150-5-200 per cc, the full 15 years.

TOXINS

So we still must deal with the T for toxins. To prove to patients that they need this you might use US BIOTEK lab and get their urine test for 5 toxins and have the interpretation of their $120- $140 urine stick test interpreted by Mark Schauss. They will test for Phthalates, styrene, benzene, toluene, etc. This is useful so that patients know they are not wasting their time and money on all this detoxing.

For those patients who can afford the expense, it is beneficial to spend the $4900 and send the 20 vials of blood to Mt Sinai School of Medicine to get all 240 toxins measured.  See the excellent Environmental Working Group web site to learn more about that blood test for toxins. Bill Moyers tested and it revealed that in spite of eating and living organically, he too is loaded with endocrine disruptors, carcinogens and neurotoxins and he has lived all organic for years.

I hope what I have written here will prove useful in your practices. If we can broaden our approach to every patient by utilizing the F.I.G.H.T. concept and covering even more issues, you will be getting better results in all patients.

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