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DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER (Vol. 4, No. 2 December 18, 2003)

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" " A lot of people go through life trying to prove that the things that are

good for them are wrong. " (Ward Cleaver, on " Leave it to Beaver " )

 

The DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER (Vol. 4, No. 2 December 18, 2003)

 

" Free of charge, free of advertising, and free of the A.M.A. "

 

Written and copyright 2003 by Andrew Saul, PhD, of

http://www.doctoryourself.com, an online library of over 350 natural healing

articles with nearly 4,000 scientific references. Commercial use of the

website or the contents of this Newsletter is strictly prohibited.

 

A QUACK IS ANY PHYSICIAN WHO gives twelve separate courses of antibiotics to

an infant under a year old. I know more than one doctor who does.

 

Ray, a health professional himself, brought his 11 month old son Robbie to

me. The child was very sick, and had been for over a week. No one, and I

mean no one, in their family had had any sleep in a long time. They were up

night after night with this child, who had a high fever, glazed watery eyes,

tons of thick watery mucus, labored breathing, would not sleep, and did

little else but cry. Day and night, night and day.

 

Robbie was under the care of a pediatrician, who had been prescribing

serious antibiotics all along. Antibiotics were clearly not working. This

was all too apparent to Ray.

 

" Twelve rounds of antibiotics for a baby under a year old, and all the

doctor wants to do is give more antibiotics? " he said. " That makes no sense

at all. "

 

" Ray, antibiotics are their knee-jerk answer to a lot of things. There is a

saying: 'When the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every

problem as a nail.' "

 

" Well, we've thoroughly tried the medical route, and cooperated one hundred

percent with the pediatrician. At this point, " Ray said, " Robbie is worse,

not better. We have got to do something ourselves, and we are going to. My

wife is just as emphatic about that as I am. "

 

She was home, taking care of the other children.

 

I promptly acquainted Ray with some vitamin C research.

 

" So the bottom line is to give Robbie as much vitamin C as he can hold

without having loose bowels, " Ray said.

 

" Yes. "

 

" We can do that, " he said.

 

And he did, too.

 

So now I have a new case history record to offer: 20,000 milligrams of

vitamin C daily for an under-20-pound baby of 11 months of age. That's how

much it took to cure Ray's baby of severe congestion, fever, and

listlessness. That is over 1,000 milligrams of vitamin C per pound of baby

per day; 2,200 mg " C " per kilogram body weight per day, nearly twice what

Dr. Robert Klenner customarily ordered for patients.

 

And even at that huge amount, the baby never had diarrhea!

 

You have to marvel at where it was all going. More marvelous is how quickly

it worked. Ray kept in touch on the phone.

 

" Robbie was noticeably improved in under twelve hours, and slept through the

first night. " Ray told me two days later. " He was completely well in 48

hours. Symptom free. Completely well! "

 

Even without considering the harmful side effects of massive antibiotic

therapy, we can look at the futility of all those repeated doses.

Antibiotics are either going to work with the first or second round, or they

are not going to work at all, period. There is no point in emptying twelve

water fire extinguishers on an electrical fire. More of the wrong thing is

just more wrong. And in a baby, just plain stupid.

 

One simply must find the best, safest, and most effective way, especially

with infants. The vitamin C quacks (Linus Pauling, Frederick Robert Klenner,

Emanuel Cheraskin, William J. McCormick, Irwin Stone, Robert F. Cathcart

III, and, ah... me) will tell you that you have a genuine option: consider

using vitamin C as your first choice antibiotic/antiviral.

http://www.doctoryourself.com/titration.html

http://www.doctoryourself.com/ortho_c.html

http://www.doctoryourself.com/klenner_table.html

http://www.doctoryourself.com/klennerpaper.html

 

 

Taking enough C results in the three C's: patient comfort, low cost, and

parental control. Without necessitating the use of invasive technology nor

the trauma of hospitalization, parents can regain confidence and mastery

over illness to a degree that they might never have thought possible. We

have now gone light years beyond the medical profession's customarily

paternalistic, condescending attitude towards self-care.

 

For this reason, bowel-tolerance vitamin C therapy has periodically been

decried and denounced as irresponsible quackery. It takes some real ego

strength for a parent to stand firm and say, " This is what I am going to do:

I am going to follow the Klenner/Cathcart vitamin C protocol. " The vitamin C

doctors' shared knowledge of how it is done is the buttress that makes such

a stance possible.

 

When I was a kid, everybody got miracle drugs. From sulfa to Physohex, we

followed the crowd from waiting room to prescription counter. Our parents

gave us " safe " children's aspirin. Oops, not so safe for high fevers, it was

discovered. So then it was children's Tylenol (acetaminophen) for everybody.

Hmm: it turns out there's some liver and kidney side effects with that, too.

And, as drugs go, acetaminophen is really safe. But drugs all carry side

effects; you just choose your poison carefully. Vitamins are vastly safer

than drugs.

 

LAW: The number one side effect of vitamins is failure to take enough of

them.

 

" BUT **THAT** MUCH VITAMIN C? " said Marta, another client, aged 30, with a

chronic viral illness.

 

" Well, " I said, " If you are going to do it, Marta, you might as well do it

right. This means building up your C level to saturation. That's bowel

tolerance.

 

" And you mean that I might have to take much more than I'd expect to,

right? " Marta added.

 

" Yes, " I said. " You do not take the amount of vitamin C you think you should

take; rather, you take the amount of vitamin C that the body responds to.

When your symptoms leave, that's the right level for you at that time. As

you get better, you will not be able to hold as much of the vitamin. The

dose is self-adjusting, and you need no equipment to monitor it. Just take

as much as you can comfortably hold, just enough to be symptom-free, but not

so much as causes loose bowels. "

 

Marta said, " How long will it be before I see any progress? "

 

" It depends on how much vitamin C you take, and how much vitamin C you need.

A dry sponge holds a lot of water. The body seems to have an enormous

capacity for vitamin C when infected with a virus. We'll all find out how

much you need when we see how much you can comfortably hold. It is not a

contest; just do what gets the healing. "

 

" What can I expect along the way? " she asked.

 

" Look at it this way, " I responded. " Let's say you were in a plane taking

off from Buffalo International Airport in the middle of winter. It is

snowing, dark, gray, stormy and windy. Your jet takes off, and begins to

climb. The wind rocks the plane, the snow and sleet and hail come down, and

it's all dismally gray outside. The plane keeps climbing. All you can see

out the window is snow, darkness and the wings shaking from the wind. The

person next to you is turning a bit green. Up you go, still in the winter

storm. Then, all of the sudden, the airplane breaks out on top of the

clouds, and like magic, there's bright sunlight and blue sky everywhere.

Look down: Far below you is the storm. It's like it never happened, like you

were never in it.

 

" That is exactly what it is like when you reach saturation of vitamin C. At

a certain altitude, higher than you expected, your symptoms go away. This

characteristically occurs with such ease that it is hard to believe it until

you experience it for yourself. Precious few medical professionals have

learned this. The medical-dietetic industry has a real fear of flying if

vitamin C is the aircraft. Too bad, when it is the safest and fastest plane

in the air. "

 

" OK, " said Marta. " I guess I should get started. "

 

She did.

 

It was not that long afterward that I had a follow-up conversation with her.

 

" All traces of the viral infection are gone, " Marta said, " And have been

gone since I got to saturation with the C. Do you want to know how much it

took? "

 

" You bet I do. "

 

" 44,000 milligrams a day! " she hooted. " Can you believe that? And at that

much I hardly had any bowel signs at all. So I dropped it to about 35 to 40

thousand and stayed there. That's it! "

 

That Dr. Klenner fellow. I'd have liked to have met him.

 

Right now there are a whole lot of researchers searching for a new

anti-viral wonder drug, or the ultimate six-pack of flu wonder shots.

 

They are the blind leading the blind. They already have an answer.

 

It would seem as if the pharmaceutical industry's mercenary scientists and

their medical doctor clones will, in fact, try everything BUT megadoses of

vitamin C. I think of them as birds that are willing to land on any branch

except one. Too bad, because that one branch is the best in the entire

forest.

 

CHRONICALLY SICK CHILD CURED WITH VITAMIN C MEGADOSES

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/immune.html

 

INFLUENZA AND COLDS

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/colds.html

 

MORE ON MEGADOSE VITAMIN C THERAPY: SAFETY AND EFFECTIVENESS

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/mccormick.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/mccormick1951.html

 

VITAMIN C MEGADOSE THERAPY book written by a medical doctor:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/levy.html

 

NOW THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WANTS FDA TO CONTROL YOUR ACCESS TO

SUPPLEMENTS

 

A so-called " Dietary Supplement Information Act " (H. R. 724) has been

introduced into the House of Representatives " to amend the Federal Food,

Drug, and Cosmetic Act " and bring supplements under direct and absolute FDA

control. (Read the full text of the House bill at http://thomas.loc.gov/,

where you simply type " HR 724 " into the search box to get a copy.)

 

While this particular bill commences primarily with " registration, " it is

well within the world's memory that dictatorial powers have often begun

organized repression and extermination with just such a move.

 

The FDA's agenda is to control, and then eliminate, public access to

high-dose vitamin preparations because they are direct competition for the

Agency's pet customers: the pharmaceutical industry.

 

This is nothing new. FDA Deputy Commissioner for Policy David Adams, at the

Drug Information Association Annual Meeting, July 12, 1993, said:

 

" Pay careful attention to what is happening with dietary supplements in the

legislative arena... If these efforts are successful, there could be created

a class of products to compete with approved drugs. The establishment of a

separate regulatory category for supplements could undercut exclusivity

rights enjoyed by the holders of approved drug applications. "

 

And the FDA Dietary Task Force Report, released June 15, 1993, said:

 

" The task force considered many issues in its deliberations including to

ensure that the existence of dietary supplements on the market does not act

as a disincentive for drug development. "

 

The most ominous parts of the House bill, H.R. 724, are these:

 

1) The Secretary of the FDA is given all the power to " conduct a clinical

evaluation of each serious adverse experience reported. " This means total

FDA control, and do not let anyone tell you otherwise.

 

2) Even trivial experiences will be included, and indeed sought out:

 

" With respect to the receipt of information on adverse experiences that are

not serious, a manufacturer of the dietary supplement involved shall submit

reports to the Secretary annually, or at such shorter intervals as the

Secretary may require. Each such report shall meet such requirements as the

Secretary may establish. " FDA would be handed the power to dictate terms, no

matter what those terms may be.

 

" In carrying out such program, the Secretary shall seek the cooperation of

appropriate public and private entities, including entities that respond to

medical emergencies. " This means all medically-biased organizations

nationwide will have a free-for-all feeding frenzy attacking high-dose

vitamins, with the FDA cheering them on.

 

3) " The term 'adverse experience regarding a dietary supplement' means any

adverse event associated with the use of such supplement in humans, whether

or not such event is considered to be related to the supplement by a person

referred to in paragraph (1) who obtains the information. " Vitamins may be

accused as culprits when innocent, and found guilty even if innocent, all by

a single person: the Secretary of the Food and Drug Administration.

 

4) The idea that FDA wants, specifically, a " SURVEILLANCE PLAN " (their

wording) for supplements reveals their orientation most clearly. FDA has

already assumed that supplements are the problem, as they historically have

done.

 

FDA intends to regulatory language exactly as if supplements were quack

devices, namely:

 

" Section 704 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 374) is

amended (in subsection (a)(1), in the third sentence,) by striking `or

restricted devices' each place such term appears and inserting `restricted

devices, or dietary supplements'; and (in the fourth sentence) by striking

`and devices' and inserting `devices, and dietary supplements.' "

 

This is an outrage, and the worst form of political power grabs.

 

Since FDA really means " Favors Drugs Always, " I think this bill, and the

Senate's equally misguided S. 722, present a very serious danger to your

family's health.

 

Additionally, all supplements would have to have, printed on the label of

every bottle, the FDA's toll-free " telephone number, and the address of the

Internet site, maintained by the Secretary for purposes of the medical

product reporting program (MedWatch or any successor program). " And, for a

nice serio-comic touch: The FDA will be allowed to charge supplement

companies for the costs of their registration.

 

This bill, if made into law, will complete the FDA's twin, underlying

purposes: to gain control over supplements, and to treat them as drugs.

 

Sure, 2004 is twenty years after " 1984. " But Big Brother is patient, and

George Orwell was looks to have been quite right.

 

Congress needs to receive your letters of objection right away. Be sure to

ask for a response. (You can get your Congressman's address easily at

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home or with a Google search.

 

Here are a couple more congressional responses that readers have forwarded

to me:

 

SENATOR PAT ROBERTS (R, Kansas)

 

" Consumers should have access to dietary supplements that meet quality

standards, are free from contamination, and are accurately labeled. The

proposed rule will not limit consumers' access to dietary supplements. It

will give consumers greater confidence that the dietary supplement they use

will have the identity, purity, quality, strength, and composition that is

claimed on the label. "

Sincerely,

 

Pat Roberts

 

Roberts

 

 

DOCTOR YOURSELF COMMENT:

 

I think the Senator is quite incorrect: the bill will most assuredly limit

access to any supplement for which there is even one single adverse report,

a report than does not even have to be true. I think your senator should

read S. 722 before commenting on it.

 

CONGRESSMAN MARTIN OLAV SABO (D, Minnesota)

 

" I appreciate having been informed of your views and will keep your comments

in mind as the House of Representatives considers legislation related to

dietary supplements. "

 

Sincerely,

 

Martin Olav Sabo

 

http://www.house.gov/sabo/

 

The Newsletter reader, and letter-writer, comments:

 

" I have no idea where he stands on the issue and how he plans to vote on S.

722 or H.R. 724. This is very unclear, frustrating and confusing for me. "

 

Darn straight. Write again and ask him how he will vote. Or better yet, tell

him how to vote. You pay his salary.

 

READERS SAY:

 

Gary Headley, of Fayetteville, AR writes:

 

" Love your stuff, as usual. Just wondering, though: do you think the vitamin

industry should police itself? With more and more people taking nutritional

supplements, it is a huge business. Isn't it likely that some people will

get into the game and advertise that their product contains one thing but in

reality, it will contain something else? Or not the right dosage? I think

there should be some FDA regulation of the industry, just as there should be

regulation of any food product. Big businesses will get away with whatever

they can in order to cut corners and save a buck. As much as I'd like to

think otherwise, I know that not everyone in the vitamin industry is looking

after our health. "

 

FDA has always had the authority to take any mislabeled or adulterated or

fraudulent product off the market immediately. They have such authority

today. The supplement industry knows this, and overall does a commendable

job of self-regulating. Could they do it better? Probably. But the

government knows that there is not even one death per year caused by

vitamins. The real issue concerns dangerous pharmaceuticals that are

unfairly marketed as " supplements. " FDA has always had the power to

instantly remove any harmful product from the shelves. They have this power

today as well. No new legislation is needed.

 

THE " SAFETY " SMOKESCREEN

 

So far, most elected officials responding to readers' letters are saying

pretty much the same thing: " I support access and I support safety. "

 

You and I are also in favor of safety and access. This recent FDA-fed

legislative call for " more safety " is bogus, in my view, and the worst kind

of public deception. If the FDA and pharmaceutical lawyers have their way,

by the time they are done manipulating any safety issue that involves

supplements, access will be curtailed.

 

I am probably rather cynical about government regulation. This may be due to

all the lobbying I did to help get congress to pass the DSHEA in 1994.

Truly, that law (for the US at least) is all we need to ensure manufacturing

safety. . . and that law is already in force and on the books, and it

guarantees our freedoms as well.

 

Historically, this has all been tricky going. I think nearly every

governmental attempt to stop misleading products (potency pills and magic

dieting aids, which I very much disapprove of, come to mind) has tarred

vitamins and minerals with the same, very big legislative brush. I think we

need to err on the side of liberty, or our government(s) will go the way of

the European Union. EU demonstrates what I think G. B. Shaw said: " The road

to hell is paved with good intentions. " And lawmakers listen to the

pharmaceutical companies more than anyone, again as EU illustrates,

resulting in completely foolish " upper limits " for, say, B-6 or niacin in

Britain.

 

Most Americans (and their lawmakers) are unaware that FDA has always had,

and still has, the power to remove any dangerous or fraudulent product at

any time. An example of just how extreme this power can be was when FA took

L-tryptophan off the market (http://www.doctoryourself.com/prozac.html).

Tryptophan is still unavailable in the US, and there is no recourse that I

am aware of.

 

I think that the attack on supplement safety is actually an attack on

supplement efficacy. It seems to me that practically all proposed

legislation starts out in the name of safety and ends up as a

medical-pharmaceutical industry opportunity.

 

That opportunity is first restriction and then prescription. I do not think

we should have to accept the ridiculousness of living in a nation where it

is easier to buy a shotgun than to get a bottle of high-potency vitamin C

tablets.

 

 

TELL IT TO THE FDA

 

In addition to writing to your Senators and Congressman, you can voice your

opinion directly to the FDA regarding new supplement rulemaking at the

Dockets Management Branch (HFA-305), Food and Drug Administration, 5630

Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852. You can also submit your

comments at http://www.fda.gov/oc/mcclellan/chbn.html.

 

DR. ABRAM HOFFER WRITES:

" Governments are not to be trusted too much. The message is, " Thou shalt not

tamper with my right to buy these safe products as I wish, in the same way I

do not want anyone to tell me what I can eat or not eat. "

 

READERS (AND THEIR WEBSITES) SAY

 

at http://www.geocities.com/miamimystic23/blog :

 

" I simply do not want to be on medications when I'm older. Believe it or

not, there are some elderly people in good health who don't take any meds!

If I'm fortunate enough to live a long life, I'd like to be one of these

people. Now, I'm not a fanatic. If someone has a pressing need to be on

meds, they should be on their meds. But people need to be more informed

about alternatives. There are other ways to manage chronic conditions

besides synthetic prescription drugs.

 

" I was on a lot of meds for a lot of years, trying to manage my blood

pressure and sinus problems. The pills I was taking wound up causing other

side effects. Phantom pains doctors couldn't give a reason for. Escalated

depression. Fuzzy thinking. Vivid, frightening and morbidly sad dreams.

Chronic fatigue. And on and on.

 

" I'm happy for websites like Dr. Saul's Doctor Yourself - a very handy site

filled with commercial free information about how to take care of your own

health concerns. I refer to this site a lot. Now, I don't happen to agree

with everything on there - but that's okay. It's still got tons of great

information. And, unlike a lot of health related sites that sell products,

Dr. Saul isn't selling anything. He drops some hints about his books now and

then - but he's not pushing any particular vitamin product or brand. In my

eyes, this gives him a lot of credibility. There should be more

nutritionists and alternative healthcare workers like this guy on line

giving thoughtful, expert advice - without an agenda. "

 

FREE VITAMINS FOR THE POOR

 

Our vitamin dispensary for the poor in Rochester, NY has stepped up

operation as the cold weather and flu season come upon us. For some time

now, our dispensary has enabled homeless and other poor people to receive a

high-potency multivitamin along with their free lunch. There is no waste

with this program: the vitamin is only given to those who want it, one per

customer. Currently, around 50 or more people every day are benefiting from

this all-volunteer, entirely free-of-charge service.

 

While sales of my book (http://www.doctoryourself.com/saulbooks.html) help

fund this project, the effort needs donations. If you would like to help

support this work, please email me at drsaul

 

DOCTOR YOURSELF ON THE AIR

 

My next radio interviews will be:

 

Tuesday, Dec 9, California: KSMA (twice between 7 am and 9 am Pacific Time,

AM 1240)

 

Tuesday, Dec 9, Tennessee: 8-9 am Eastern Time on WWSR (105.7 FM)

 

Tuesday, Dec 9, Pittsburgh PA: 11 am - 12 pm Eastern Time on WKHB (AM 620)

 

Wednesday, Dec 10, Rhode Island: 1:05 pm Eastern Time, WOON (AM 1240) and

live on the Internet http://www.onworldwide.com

 

Friday, Dec 12, Illinois: 9:05 am Central Time, WDDD (107.3 FM)

 

Tuesday, Dec 16, South Dakota: 8:35 am Central Time, KORN (AM 1490)

 

Thursday, Dec 18, Alabama: 8 - 8:30 am Central Time, WQLS (AM 1200)

 

Thursday, Dec 18, Texas: 9:30 - 10 am Central Time, (AM 860). Networked by

ABC and ESPN.

 

FOR MY READERS THAT LIKE STATISTICS:DoctorYourself.com now (as of Dec. 2)

gets more internet traffic than Dominoes Pizza, or even that perennial fave,

ducttapefashion.com. (Source: http://www.trafficranking.com )

 

Local Headline (November 10, 2003):

 

" BEEF PRICES SOAR TO ALL TIME HIGHS "

 

" Beef is price sensitive and consumers are likely to back off buying higher

priced beef, " said the Monroe County, NY Agricultural Cooperative Extension.

" Beef production is expected to remain substantially down through the end of

2003. "

 

Doctor Yourself Newsletter Comment: Good!

 

Remember: Some 100,000 cattle are slaughtered **every single day** in the

USA alone. That is bovine cruelty to the tune of 36 million cattle carcasses

every year. If we reduce our meat intake by only an effortless 10 percent,

we save the lives of three and a half million animals.

 

We can do that.

 

Happy Holidays from a live cow near you.

 

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