Our Government is out to “protect” everyone, but soon no one will be able to learn that there are effective ways to reduce the incidence of infectious diseases by supporting the immune system. There is MUCH we can do besides hand washing and taking prescription antiviral medication. Selling ultraviolet lamps might be attacked next!
Let’s develop a RESCUE PACK for everyone at home. The articles below show just how little help antivirals provide, so that you are on solid ground to recommend a more advanced approach to all patients.
Once you learn that antiviral medications are NOT all powerful, and how much is NOT known about them, I suggest you prepare a handout (on your letterhead) to inform your patients that since Tamiflu benefits appear rather limited, they may want a more comprehensive approach. Then you suggest having on hand an EMERGENCY RESCUE KIT at home with some, or all, of the following items.
This needs to be adjusted up for families, I recommend:
1) 1-2 bottles ACS 200 Silver,
2) 1-2 bottles High dose BioEn’rgy C,
3) 1 bottle High dose Vitamin D.
4) short term use of high doses of Vitamin A, (Nutrisorb or equivalent),
5) 1-2 bottles Immuni-T 2, which provides significant doses of more than 10 widely studied immune support herbs, mushrooms and nutrients including Allizin, the Garlic that has been shown to overcome MRSA. There is nothing at any price for immune support that provides greater value to any patient.
6) 1 bottle of liquid Kyolic. I like this liquid Garlic in spite of its taste since I have successfully treated pneumonia with one or two bottles a day-depending on weight. It can also be used locally in the ear, to gargle with or even the Vagina.
I am confident that these suggestions will provide your patients with far better outcomes than just relying on standard antiviral prescriptions. I feel you may want to know the limitations of today’s antiviral drugs, so here it is from Johns Hopkins staff… just 3 days less of symptoms! I feel that our patients deserve better protection, since complication rates of bronchitis, pneumonia etc, are very relevant to your patients, some of whom can take months to recover from any “flu”.
This all NATURAL IMMUNE SUPPORT can be safely given to their families without waiting to decide if a prescription for antiviral drugs is warranted. In fact, family members deserve this nutritional support, so that the infection does not go through them all. Even West Nile has been eradicated in hours with simply high dose Vitamin C. So please try to help inform your patients, that immune support can be done without having Tamiflu on hand at all times.
I suggest that you should consider supplying your patients with a rescue package, which can be a bare bones, ACS 200 4 ounce bottle; however, there are known microbes that will not respond to H202 and thus there will be infections where silver alone is not the complete answer.
Forget about Swine flu, the 30,000+ deaths from regular flu each year make this a wise precaution for all of your patients. I find that this all works best when taken at the onset of any acute infection, so planning to get all the above AFTER you are sick severely limits the benefit.
Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com
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From article ‘All the World’s a Laboratory’
By ANDREA MEYERHOFF and PAUL LIETMAN – faculty at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Published: May 19, 2009 New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/opinion/20meyerhoff.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
“Another important question is how well the drugs can work to save lives. In clinical trials conducted by the manufacturer, Tamiflu was shown to shorten the time in which influenza patients have symptoms like fever, headache, cough, muscle ache and fatigue. Patients who received the drug felt ill for 1.3 fewer days than those who received a placebo did. But it would be good to know more about what both Tamiflu and Relenza can do for patients with the new H1N1 flu, for which we have as yet no vaccine. As the cases increase, it becomes easier to assess whether the drugs reduce complications like post-influenza pneumonia, hospitalizations and fatalities”
[And below is also a good argument for detoxing]
From: Dr. Feig and Dr. FITT
Swine Flu: Influenza A (H1N1) Susceptibility Linked To Common Levels Of Arsenic Exposure
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520151436.htm
ScienceDaily (May 21, 2009) — The ability to mount an immune response to influenza A (H1N1) infection is significantly compromised by a low level of arsenic exposure that commonly occurs through drinking contaminated well water, scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) and Dartmouth Medical School have found.
Joshua Hamilton, the MBL’s Chief Academic and Scientific Officer and a senior scientist in the MBL’s Bay Paul Center; graduate student Courtney Kozul of Dartmouth Medical School, where the work was conducted; and their colleagues report their findings in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
“When a normal person or mouse is infected with the flu, they immediately develop an immune response,” says Hamilton, in which immune cells rush to the lungs and produce chemicals that help fight the infection. However, in mice that had ingested 100 ppb (parts per billion) arsenic in their drinking water for five weeks, the immune response to H1N1 infection was initially feeble, and when a response finally did kick in days later, it was “too robust and too late,” Hamilton says. “There was a massive infiltration of immune cells to the lungs and a massive inflammatory response, which led to bleeding and damage in the lung.” Morbidity over the course of the infection was significantly higher for the arsenic-exposed animals than the normal animals.
Respiratory infections with influenza A virus are a worldwide health concern and are responsible for 36,000 deaths annually. The recent outbreak of the influenza A H1N1 substrain (”swine flu”)which is the same virus that Hamilton and his colleagues used in their arsenic study to date has killed 72 people in Mexico and 6 in the United States.
“One thing that did strike us, when we heard about the recent H1N1 outbreak, is Mexico has large areas of very high arsenic in their well water, including the areas where the flu first cropped up. We don’t know that the Mexicans who got the flu were drinking high levels of arsenic, but it’s an intriguing notion that this may have contributed,” Hamilton says.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency considers 10 ppb arsenic in drinking water “safe,” yet concentrations of 100 ppb and higher are commonly found in well water in regions where arsenic is geologically abundant, including upper New England (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine), Florida, and large parts of the Upper Midwest, the Southwest, and the Rocky Mountains, Hamilton says.
Arsenic does not accumulate in the body over a lifetime, as do other toxic metals such as lead, cadmium, and mercury. “Arsenic goes right through us like table salt,” Hamilton says. “We believe for arsenic to have health consequences, it requires exposure day after day, year after year, such as through drinking water.”
Arsenic exposure not only disrupts the innate immune system, as the present study shows, it also disrupts the endocrine (hormonal) system in an unusually broad way, which Hamilton’s laboratory discovered and first reported in 1998.
“Most chemicals that disrupt hormone pathways target just one, such as the estrogen pathway,” he says. “But arsenic disrupts the pathways of all five steroid hormone receptors (estrogen, testosterone, progesterone, glucocorticoids, and mineralocorticoids), as well as several other hormone pathways. You can imagine that just this one effect could play a role in cancer, diabetes, heart disease, reproductive and developmental disorders–all the diseases that have a strong hormonal component.”
At this point, Hamilton thinks arsenic disrupts the innate immune system and the endocrine system through different mechanisms. “Arsenic may ultimately be doing a similar thing inside the cell to make these effects happen, but the targets are likely different,” he says. The proteins that mediate hormone response are different than the proteins that mediate the immune response. “We don’t yet know how arsenic disrupts either system at the molecular level. But once we know how it affects one system, we will have a pretty good idea of how it affects the other systems as well.”
Presently, Hamilton’s lab is focused on understanding the unusual “biphasic” effect that arsenic has on the endocrine system. At very low doses, arsenic stimulates or enhances hormone responses, while at slightly higher doses (still within the range found in drinking water), it suppresses these same hormone responses.
“Why we see that dramatic shift (from hormone enhancement to suppression) over such a narrow dose range is quite fascinating and totally unknown,” Hamilton says. “Our principal focus is to figure out this switch. We think that will help us understand why arsenic does what it does in the body.”
This research was funded by the Dartmouth Toxic Metals Research Program Project by a grant from NIH-NIEHS and its Superfund Basic Research Program (grant P42 ES007373).
