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Articles, Comments and Protocols by Dr. Zieve
1. Adequate dietary iodine: seaweeds, iodized salts
2. Reduce or eliminate exposure to iodine displacers
a. fluorine: toothpaste, water
b. chlorine: water, cleaning agents
c. bromine: pesticides in foods and spas, preservatives, conditioners
3. Reduce or eliminate any thyro-suppressive and thyro-disruptive foods
such as raw leafy brassicas and soy products
4. Reduce or eliminate thyro-disruptive medications, such as aspirin,
warfarin, many antidepressants, and steroids
5. Correct selenium deficiency
6. Check for metal poisoning, especially if T4 is okay but T3 is low
7. If your thyroid blood levels are normal but your are clinically
hypothyroid, suspect mineral deficiencies
8. Eliminate any unnecessary X-ray exposure to head and chest
9. Reduce exposure to PCB’s (they resemble T4 and T3 and will displace
them from hormone binding sites at the cellular level.
In order to heal cancer, we must first support you to build vitality. We do this with herbal formulas, with lifestyle changes, with specific nutrients, and with homeopathics.
The idea is to
Our goal is to strengthen you and weaken the cancer. Cancer cells are able to manipulate your internal environment so that it is more conducive to its growth. Our goal is to stop this. We do this in several ways:
The whole area of immune system activation is important, but too often is the sole or primary focus of many products and therapies. We are very specific with using herbs that upregulate certain immune activators. For example, there is astragalus and uno de gato.
The Vital Adapt and Power Adapt are adaptogens. This means that they
They do this by enhancing the hypothalamic-pituitary/adrenal axis, and scavanging free radicals
The primary ingedient of Vital Adapt is Eleutherococcus, or Siberian Ginseng. There is over sixty years of scientific research behind this very effective herb. This stimulates the body to make more of its own interferon. Interferon is itself a chemo agent, and is also the reason you ache with the flu. Most of the eleuthero in America has no eleuthero B, the more active ingredient.
There are other adaptogens, both primary, secondary, and companion, that will be included in your program. These are herbs like Rhodeola, Schisandra , and Panax ginseng.
Rhodeola has an active ingredient that is currently in clinical trials in cancer research. Aralia, another primary adaptogen, prevents neurological deline and strengthens immunity. Rhapunthicaum has constituents that regenerate brain, liver, and heart, and build muscle. Schisandra is a better liver protective than milk thistle, and helps restore rebuilding of liver cells. Ashwaganda means “strong as a horse.” It is anti-metastatic and potentiates some chemo agents, so that they can be effective in lower doses. All the adaptogens potentiate bone marrow health.
Likewise, there are secondary adaptogens. Japanese knotweed is immune enhancing. Curcuma or Turmeric is protective of liver and heart and brain. Hibiscus is liver protective
The primary characteristics of adaptogens are
The botanical adaptogens we use enhance the anabolic or upbuilding functions of the body. They promote a steadier flow of energy, improve endurance, enhance mental endurance, and improve restful sleep
You will hear a lot about detoxification. The toxins we are helping you to eliminate, those that interfere with basic bodily functions, are:
Lab tests
The results of even basic laboratory testing can yield valuable information about your current needs. For example, high blood sugars are associated with increased cell proliferation in cancer. In addition, we also would like additional tests, such as
There are many safe and effective herbs to lower fibrinogen, balance hormones, lower inflammation, support metal inflammation, modulate angiogenesis, and heal chronic infections.
The main difference between using herbal medicines and using chemotherapy is that with herbs and homeopathy and nutrients, we are playing the whole field, rather than hardball targetting of chemical reactions with drugs, though sometimes this is also necessary. However, the deeper need here is to use multiple synergistic compounds, like eating a good meal with spices and herbs, that the body can recognize and work with effectively.
Another goal of successful therapy is to control cell to cell communications. For example the green tea and bioflavenoids in various herbs and nutrients inhibit metastises, though are often needed in much higher doses than most people take. Other substances, like mistletoe and modified citrus pectin, also act in these ways. In addition, Omega 3 fish oils in substantial doses will lower the inflammatory components of many cancers.
Most people who have developed a cancer that has shown itself on tests or symptoms, are in too much of a catabolic state. This means you are breaking down more than building up new tissue. The purpose of many of the therapies that are the foundations of healing cancer and other chronic diseases it to enhance the building up (anabolic) forces in your body and temper the breakdown or cataobolic forces.
We also suggest oxygen therapies. Most cancers get their energy from metabolic reactions that require low amount of oxygen to be present. This state is very common today. With oxygen therapies, we change our metabolism so that we get most of our energy from high oxygen chemical reactions. This helps inhibit cancer by enhancing oxygen tension in our cells and tissues. In this context, it is also vitally important not to feed this low oxygen tension environment in the body by eating sugar and refined high glycemic foods.
Heat and warmth are also very important. Coley, a surgeon in NYC seventy years ago discovered that high fevers, even to 105, led to a significant number of spontaneous healing in terminal cancer patients. Fevers stimulate antibody responses on tumor surfaces. You can do this, and have improvement even with lower temperatures, by using such approaches as infrared and farinfrared sauna, and hot epsom salt baths. Also add some Linden tea to the bath.
We help you modulate the inflammation that often accompanies cancer with various herbs, with anti-inflammatory enxymes like Bromelain and nattokinase, and with fish oils. You might have heard of many drugs today that are called Cox-2 inhibitors. These drugs are effective in doing so, and this is good. But the problem with them is two-fold: one, they block, as opposed to what we want, which is to down-regulate, or calm down, many inflammatory pathways; and two, these drugs can have many side effects that are not necessary and can be harmful. Curcumin and resveretrol are also effective modulators of inflammation. To give a drug to contrrol or block one part of the inflammatory cascade does not make sense in the broader context of healing.
Some points about angiogenesis, or the capacity of cancer cells to stimulate new blood vessel formation in order so that they can spread to other areas of the body. Tumor cells are circulating throughout the body, and they migrate to their home, where the primary tumor resides. Surgically removing a tumor that has more metastatic potential can increase metastises. This is especially true in inflammatory breast cancers.
It is important to think through surgery to remove a cancer. before any operation. In some people, surgery can weaken vitality. This can be prevented in some with adrenal adaptogens, so that you have the energy to heal from surgery. Cancer is opportunistic, and thrives on trauma. Surgery can be traumatic for some. However, in others, it can reduce tumor burden.
Some of the many herbs and nutrients we use in our combinations include:
Green tea: has agents that inhibit the ability of cancer cells to pump back out the agents we give to induce cancer cell destruction. Where the dose range for many non-cancer patients may be only 200-300 mg/day, in cancer we give up to 1000 or more mg/day. The same goes with many of the other companion herbs
OPC 3’s: protect the mitochondria (cell energy factories).
Some important nutrients are:
Your diet may vary in cancer therapy.
See diet program
Mobile Phones "More Dangerous Than Smoking"
By Geoffrey Lean, The Independent UK
Sunday 30 March 2008
Brain expert warns of huge rise in tumours and calls on industry to take immediate
steps to reduce radiation.
Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take "immediate steps" to reduce exposure to their radiation.
The study, by Dr Vini Khurana, is the most devastating indictment yet published of the health risks.
It draws on growing evidence - exclusively reported in the IoS in October - that using handsets for 10 years or more can double the risk of brain cancer. Cancers take at least a decade to develop, invalidating official safety assurances based on earlier studies which included few, if any, people who had used the phones for that long.
Earlier this year, the French government warned against the use of mobile phones, especially by children. Germany also advises its people to minimise handset use, and the European Environment Agency has called for exposures to be reduced.
Professor Khurana - a top neurosurgeon who has received 14 awards over the past 16 years, has published more than three dozen scientific papers - reviewed more than 100 studies on the effects of mobile phones. He has put the results on a brain surgery website, anda paper based on the research is currently being peer-reviewed for publication in a scientific journal.
He admits that mobiles can save lives in emergencies, but concludes that "there
is a significant and increasing body of
evidence for a link between mobile phone usage and certain brain tumours".
He believes this will be "definitively proven" in the next decade.
Noting that malignant brain tumours represent "a life-ending diagnosis", he adds: "We are currently experiencing a reactively unchecked and dangerous situation." He fears that "unless the industry and governments take immediate and decisive steps", the incidence of malignant brain tumours and associated death rate will be observed to rise globally within a decade from now, by which time it may be far too late to intervene medically.
"It is anticipated that this danger has far broader public health ramifications than asbestos and smoking," says Professor Khurana, who told the IoS his assessment is partly based on the fact that three billion people now use the phones worldwide, three times as many as smoke. Smoking kills some five million worldwide each year, and exposure to asbestos is responsible for as many deaths in Britain as road accidents.
Late last week, the Mobile Operators Association dismissed Khurana's study as "a selective discussion of scientific literature by one individual". It believes he "does not present a balanced analysis" of the published science, and "reaches opposite conclusions to the WHO and more than 30 other independent expert scientific reviews".
The Autonomic Nervous System and Its Role in Healing
This article is exerpted from the website of Tony Cocilova, M.A, of Prescott, AZ, www.photonstimulator.com.
The ANS, or Autonomic Nervous System, influences secretion, smooth muscle response, blood vessel response, electrocardiogram, respiration and many of our physiological functions. Eighty percent of Americans tested with Heart Rate Variability Monitors demonstrated a sympathetic overload, or hypersympathetic response. The sympathetic is the fight-or-flight part of our ANS that gives us strength to respond to stressors, but restricts our healing capacities when we stay stuck in this mode too long, which is what happens with many people. This is incredibly significant because the body is robbed of its ability to heal itself when we are in the “special program” of the Sympathetic:
If we go to sleep at night in sympathetic mode:
Our body does not heal, does not recoat our mucous membranes
Our tissue does not alkalinize
Our liver enzymes do not replenish as they should because the energy is not
being provided through the vagus nerve.
Healing without addressing the ANS is often futile, and lead us down dead end roads. The ANS is in fact a signal carrier, with antennae throughout the acupuncture meridian system and the surface of our skin. When we become fearful or excited the skin openings to the acupuncture meridians opens wider to about 5 mm.
The ANS also causes blockages along the meridian pathways, from unexpected shocks that have occurred throughout our life. Unless these blockages are addressed and removed, it is difficult to achieve total health. Tapping therapies, originally discovered by Dr. Callahan are one of the effective tools that can address ANS meridian blockages without addressing the issues psychologically. When we experience sudden and unexpected shocks, our brain initiates a secondary special program which is visible on a CAT scan as a series of circles. While our conflict is active, we remain in sympathetic. When the conflict is resolved we go into parasympathetic, but with a completely different set of symptoms. For more information about this refer to Dr. Hamer, from the University of Tubingen, Germany - web search “New Medicine”.
We have become our armor. Our social, educational, religious, and economic values collectively push us into states of constant fear - causing a large percentage of our ailments.
The therapies we do at Pine Tree Clinic, such as color eye and ear therapy, tapping exercises, microcurrent, infrared sauna, and compresses, are simple yet effective ways to enhance your capacity to heal by toning down over sympathetic responses and enhancing your parasympathetic or regenerative forces.
Information Regarding Probiotics
Healthy normal flora continue to prime your immune system throughout
life. In middle age, we have a big drop in lactobacillus and bifido bacteria
in the gut. A decrease in these bacteria can lead to a decrease in the production
of natural killer T cells, which seek out and kill tumor cells.
We have ten times more living microorganisms in us than all of our own cells put together.
There is more of one species of bacteria, called Bacteriodes Fragilis, in our intestines than there are cells in our entire body.
Between 35-50% of the mass of our feces is bacteria.
Lactobacillus is very important in the first part of the small intestine and
stimulate the formation of lymphocytes, which are
important in fighting infections, especially viral and fungal.
Bifidobacteria are more important in the distal small intestine and in the large intestine.
An overall restoration of anabolic metabolism can result in significant upregulation of cognitive ability, as well as immunity, demonstrated by greater monocyte, NK cell and T-cell numbers and activity. Adaptogenic formulas combined with specific nutritional formula can enhance anabolic metabolism increasing protein synthesis and enhancing mitochondrial function. Protein is responsible for the metabolic activity and body structure essential for survival. Protein synthesis is also essential for any tissue repair and for neuron development and repair. Since mitochondrial energy production accounts for the vast majority of total energy production, mitochondrial function is a necessary and essential aspect of the regulation of neuron cells.
Many adaptogens and companion adaptogens support healthy brain development through a multitude of mechanisms. Some of these include the following:
The brain is a major target for glucocorticoids and stress hormone toxicity. Whereas the precise mechanism of glucocorticoid-induced brain damage is not yet understood, treatment strategies aimed at regulating abnormal levels of glucocorticoids, are imperative. Five adaptogens should be the primary supplements for reducing stress-induced brain damage. The elite adaptogens (Eleutherococcus, Rhodiola, Panax ginseng, Ashwaganda, and Rhaponticum) have extensive research in the field of neurological health.
Adaptogens beneficial effects:
The importance of Glutahione for maintaining a neurological health
Glutathione (gamma-glutamyl-cysteinyl-glycine; GSH) is the most abundant low-molecular-weight
thiol, and GSH/glutathione disulfide is the major redox couple in animals and
humans. The synthesis of GSH from glutamate, cysteine, and glycine is catalyzed
sequentially by two cytosolic enzymes, gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase and
GSH synthetase. Compelling evidence shows that GSH synthesis is regulated primarily
by gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase activity, cysteine availability, and GSH
feedback inhibition. Animal and human studies demonstrate that adequate protein
nutrition (non-denatured Whey Protein concentrate being the best), is crucial
for the maintenance of GSH homeostasis. Glutathione deficiency contributes to
oxidative stress, which plays a key role in aging and the pathogenesis of many
neurological diseases including seizures and autism. Nutrition and specific
supplementation with phenolic-rich companion adaptogens, non-denatured Whey
Protein concentrate, that enhance GSH metabolism is critical for the development
of effective strategies to improve health and to treat these diseases.
Exerpted from the web site of Dr. Joseph Mercola, www.mercola.com
Learn the Truth About Fluoride in This Revealing Interview
with the Award-Winning Author of "The Fluoride Deception"
Dr. Mercola's Comment:
As I wrote in the last newsletter issue, Christopher Bryson has written a book that is not only interesting, it is also incredibly important. The Fluoride Deception is much more than a book about the dangers of fluoride--it reveals a multi-tiered effort, or as Bryson says an abuse of power, by military and industry scientists and public health officials to shamelessly promote fluoride to the dentistry field and the American public with little regard to the implications it would have on human health.
If you are not familiar with the controversy surrounding the use of fluoride in water, toothpaste and numerous other products and industries, your mouth will drop as you read this book. If you are, you will be amazed at just how far and wide the cover-up and deceit stretches.
In fact, the evidence is so compelling that you will likely find yourself reading and rereading in disbelief.
In the interview below you will learn the interesting story of how the book came about as well as a shocking piece of information from the book.
I highly recommend The Fluoride Deception to anyone and everyone--the message it contains has the power to change policy and opinions, and will make you question the effects of not only fluoride but also of other "safe" chemicals used openly in our environment today.
The following is from an e-interview recently conducted with Christopher Bryson.
1. What prompted you to write The Fluoride Deception?
I’m a reporter. I don’t know how many modern stories have the same epic reach of history and rich cast of characters as you will find in The Fluoride Deception.
I stumbled on the story in 1993. I was working in New York as a BBC radio producer and was asked to find "an American angle" on water fluoridation. Ralph Nader put me in touch with a couple of government scientists (William Hirzy at the EPA and Robert Carton at the U.S. Army) who opposed water fluoridation, and explained how the science underpinning the nation’s fluoride safety standards was fraudulent.
I met the medical writer Joel Griffiths whose 1992 story in Covert Action Information Bulletin laid out the monumental scale of industrial fluoride poisoning, and explained how industry had long manipulated the public debate over water fluoridation.
I just kept reporting.
I interviewed the famous chemist Philip Sadtler. He told me how he had investigated in the aftermath of the most notorious air pollution disaster in U.S. history, the 1948 Halloween tragedy in Donora, Pennsylvania, in which a couple of dozen people were killed and hundreds were injured. He had measured high levels of fluoride in the blood of local citizens in the disaster aftermath. His work was dismissed at the time, but after Sadtler’s death I uncovered a secret autopsy report on one of the Donora dead, performed by Alcoa, which found similar levels of fluoride in the blood. Sadtler had been right, it seems.
2. What piece of information was most shocking to you?
There were several. I uncovered a medical study that had been performed at the Kettering Laboratory at the University of Cincinnati in the late 1950s. The study was paid for by industry and was buried for almost 40 years. It was part of an effort by companies such as U.S. Steel, Alcoa and the TVA, to "provide ammunition" to a self-described Fluorine Lawyers Committee to help those industry attorneys defeat workers and farmers who alleged fluoride poisoning.
But the study found that fluoride was terribly harmful to the experimental animals, damaging their lungs and lymph nodes at modest doses. A scientist who reviewed the study for me said that, if the scientists who set workplace exposure standards had seen the data, then fluoride exposure levels in factories would have been set much lower. Tens of thousands of women and men have likely been poisoned and hurt by fluoride because of this decades-long cover up.
3. Do you have any recommendations for people who want to avoid fluoride as much as possible?
Contact your local politicians and tell them how you feel about this deception. Get active in your community and find out if fluoride is added to public water supplies. Fight for a referendum to get it out. Short term; buy a water filter that removes fluoride. If you are a worker in a factory, get active in your local union and find out about the chemicals that may be present in the work environment. Tell your friends about "The Fluoride Deception."
4. What goals do you hope to achieve with this book?
The book was written to empower. I want readers to understand the issue, so that they can make informed judgments for themselves.
5. Is there a way a person can tell if fluoride is causing them, or has already caused them, health problems?
I’m a reporter, not a doctor. The distinguished allergist Dr. George Waldbott, who first warned us in the 1950s about cigarette smoking and the dangers of allergic reaction to penicillin, found that many people are allergic to even tiny amounts of fluoride.
Fluoride is a systemic poison. It attacks enzymes.
Because enzymes are so important to the body, fluoride intoxication can be manifested in many ways. Dr Waldbott reported that fluoridated water caused, among other symptoms, migraine headaches, bone stiffness, and gastric distress. Those symptoms vanished when his patients stopped drinking fluoridated water.
6. Do you think that water fluoridation will one day become a thing of the past, among the ranks of using asbestos, aspartame, DDT and other chemicals that were once deemed safe?
I hope so, but that ultimately depends on citizens informing themselves and taking action.
7. In The Fluoride Deception you mention that no proponents of fluoride would attend the major fluoridation debates in 2001. Can you give a brief explanation as to why you think this is?
Fear. The emperor has no clothes. As the 2000 Nobel Prize winning scientist Arvid Carlsson states in my book:
"Fluoridation violates modern pharmacological principles."
Fluoride defenders know that they will be exposed in public discussion. Thus, the American Dental Association has long told fluoride supporters not to encourage debate. My book also reveals how the legendary public relations wizard Edward L. Bernays suggested in 1960 that the New York City Health Commissioner could suppress public debate by writing to William Paley of CBS and David Sarnoff of NBC, suggesting that debating water fluoridation is like "presenting two sides for Anti-Catholicism or Anti Semitism and therefore not in the public interest."
In his 1928 book Propaganda, Bernays also noted "the psychological relationship of dependence of men on their physicians" and other such "opinion leaders" in society. "Those who manipulated this unseen mechanism of society," he wrote, "constitute and invisible government, which is the true ruling power of our country … Our minds are made up, our takes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of."
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