What's The Alternative To Antibiotics? Why Should There Be One?

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WHAT'S THE ALTERNATIVE TO ANTIBIOTICS?

WHY SHOULD THERE BE ONE?

http://majidali.com/alternat.htm

 

Four freshmen students come down with the flu at their college dorm.

One of them is sick with a sore throat for a few days but doesn't

miss any classes.

 

The second student also suffers from a sore throat, runs a fever for

some days, stays in the dorm and misses some classes. The third

student develops fever, rash and enlarged lymph glands in his neck.

He is very fatigued and consults his physician. The tests

for " mono " - infectious mononucleosis, the kissing disease - come

back positive. He is given a steroid shot and advised to go home and

rest for a few weeks. At home, he feels unduly tired as weeks pass

by. He returns to school, still tired. He gradually regains his

usual level of energy over the course of several months.

 

The fourth student also tests positive for mono and is given a

steroid injection. He becomes progressively tired, loses several

pounds, develops a hacking cough and runs a low-grade fever. His

family physician prescribes more broad-spectrum antibiotics.

 

Weeks go by, but the fourth student doesn't recover. His low-grade

fever doesn't let up, and his cough persists.

 

He consults his physician again and is prescribed a course of broad

spectrum antibiotics. His fatigue persists, and he suffers from

malaise, headache and muscle aches. His parents are worried now and

take him to a rheumatologist. He orders many tests and prescribes

yet more antibiotics and some non-steroidal antiinflammatory agents.

 

The cough persists and he develops wheezing. His physician orders

some more tests and prescribes steroid therapy. He begins to suffer

from mood and memory difficulties and becomes depressed.

 

More Nystatin prescriptions are followed by more antidepressant

prescriptions...

 

A return visit to his physician earns him a prescription for Elavil.

He continues to lose weight and develops joint pain.

His parents become very worried and take him to another

rheumatologist who orders yet more tests and then prescribes a non-

steroidal antiinflammatory pain killer. The drug adds stomach

discomfort to the long list of his symptoms.

 

The young man's condition continues to deteriorate. His parents

panic and take him to a famous chronic fatigue expert, one who

authoritatively orders four thousand dollars worth of immunologic

tests and states that the young man suffers from chronic fatigue

syndrome. The young man and his parents have their worst fears

confirmed.

 

The fatigue expert then writes out a prescription for Acyclovir (an

antiviral drug) and changes the antidepressant medication to Prozac.

 

The fourth student loses more weight, develops " new " allergies,

becomes sensitive to perfumes and formaldehyde, and suffers from

unrelenting abdominal bloating and digestive problems. He becomes

anxious, confused and frightened.

 

A friend gives him a copy of The Yeast Connection. The young man

begins to read the book and suddenly it dawns on him that the yeast

syndrome described in the book fully describes his condition. He is

both elated and relieved. At long last, the young man knows the

cause of his suffering.

 

He now sees a naturopathic yeast specialist who gives him a load of

vitamins and prescribes high colonics.

 

The therapies really work and his energy level improves for the

first time since he fell ill. His mental functions improve

significantly.

 

Weeks go by and his fatigue returns - and with it his worst fears.

Deeply disappointed that the relief was just temporary, he now

consults another yeast specialist who undertakes another work-up and

prescribes Nystatin.

 

Once again, his initial response is very positive. Within a week,

there is a recurrence of fatigue and related symptoms. More Nystatin

prescriptions are followed by more antidepressant prescriptions.

 

The energy roller coasters persist, each low becoming deeper than

the preceding. The young man continues to waste away.

 

Deeply anguished and frightened, the parents take the frail body of

what was once a healthy human being to another fatigue center - one

out of state.

 

This time, a comprehensive workup includes a muscle biopsy that

shows injured and split muscle fibers, overgrowth of mitochondria

and some dead muscle fibers.

 

A SPECT scan (single Photon Emission Computed Tomography) shows

diminished blood supply to the frontal and temporal lobes of the

brain, and a PET scan (Positron Emission Tomography) reveals

evidence for impaired glucose metabolism. Cortical evoked potential

studies show abnormalities of P3 waveform and reduced amplitudes of

some potentials.

 

Many other tests for biologic immune response modifiers show

evidence of damage to several different components of the immune

system.

 

Six months later, the young man is convinced that this " think " is

for life. The parents sadly begin to wonder if this is the end of

the dreams they cherished for their son.

 

An unusual case history? A sensationalistic attempt at melodrama?

Not for those who have suffered the unremitting agony of such

devastating journeys. Not for those who will surely see part of

their own heart rending stories in it.

 

All of us who care for sufferers of chronic fatigue have thick

clinical charts in our offices that tell and retell such sad and

unnecessary stories.

 

PROMOTING POOR PROTOPLASM

A senior surgeon colleague recently told me that he thought the

number of children he saw with poor protoplasm had increased

markedly during the brief period of his own surgical career.

 

Protoplasm is the soup of life that makes up each living being. I

was introduced to the term " poor protoplasm " in my first year in

medical school. This term was used by our teachers for people who

were always getting sick - and, in doing so, frustrating their

treating physicians. The idea behind this term, of course was

simple: Such individuals were constitutionally weak - genetically

destined to be sickly. I didn't see it then, but this model of poor

protoplasm comes in handy to s physicians in more than one way. It

absolves us of any wrongdoing.

 

Our drugs do what they were designed to do. Now if someone still

chooses to be sick, it's really his problem isn't it?

 

Our medical science is sound. We do our part right. Our drugs do

what they were designed to do. Now if someone still chooses to be

sick, it's really his problem, isn't it?

 

We medical students learned his lesson well. Unlearning is much

harder than learning, and nowhere - it seems to me - is it more so

than in medicine. Unlearning is not written into the scripts we

physicians follow when we leave medical schools for the " trenches "

of clinical medicine. A surgeon friend has been out of medical

school for over 30 years. Still, he cherishes the concept of poor

protoplasm.

 

I asked the surgeon why he thought children have poor protoplasm now

more than in the past. He shrugged his shoulders.

 

" Who knows? Maybe you do. I mean you're the one who writes about

oxidized fats and denatured proteins and pollutants and increased

oxidizing capacity of the planet Earth and the oxidant stress

molecules. " He chuckled.

 

My surgeon colleague left out something important in his brief list

of things: the part we physicians play in promoting poor protoplasm.

 

ANTIBIOTICS CREATING CHRONIC FATIGUE

 

The prevailing mode of drug medicine creates fatigue in two

effective ways:

 

First, at the slightest prompting, it feeds little babies broad-

spectrum antibiotics (translation: designer killer molecules that

have broad powers to kill everything in sight and ruin the delicate

bowel ecosystems) and older folks receive multiple drugs that slowly

but most assuredly impair their life span enzymes.

 

Second, it actively withholds from the sick effective, non-drug

nutritional and environmental therapies. Chronic fatigue is created

by chronic neglect of essential health issues and by shortsighted

drug therapies for health problems that can be effectively managed

without drugs.

 

It is not only environmental pollutants, poor nutrition and stress

that are turning many people into canaries. The tools of drug

medicine are contributing their fair share. This sad story does not

end here.

 

The champions of drug medicine ferociously harass a handful of

holistic physicians who seek to promote health with natural

therapies. It may seem a harsh criticism of my profession. But it is

well deserved.

 

A CLICHE TELLS THE STORY

 

" If you treat a cold, it takes three weeks, if you don't it takes 21

days. "

 

Recently, a visiting professor at a hospital conference spoke the

above words and grinned broadly to communicate to us how good he

felt about his discovery.

 

His comments turned my thoughts to how rapidly human biology is

undergoing profound changes as we relentlessly prescribe drugs in

pursuit of the glorious dreams of Star Wars medicine.

 

Of course, we all remember the old cliche: If you treat a cold it

takes a week, if you don't it takes seven days. Why did the cliche

change from seven days to 21?

 

Those of us who seek to care for our patients with non-drug

therapies know things have changed. Common colds that leave in their

wake malaise, muscle aches and a hacking cough for weeks are not

uncommon. Such colds not uncommonly turn into pneumonias.

 

Often I see another facet of this problem of prolonged recovery from

common colds:

 

Many chronic fatigue sufferers make painstakingly slow progress with

non-drug nutritional, environmental and self-regulatory approach

therapies.

 

And then they come down with a cold that is treated with long

courses of antibiotics. They nose dive and months of restorative

work go down the drain.

 

A MOMENTOUS DISCOVERY

 

Recently, someone made an astounding discovery. He realized people

could be safer a home than in a hospital. Fascinating stuff? We

understood this as medical students in Pakistan in the early 1960s

 

" The result is a war in which humans using refrigerators,

sanitation, boiled water, and antibiotics try to kill, starve, and

subdue microbes. The microbes fight back by developing new pathways,

new proteins, and new strategies for survival that are as ingenious

as those devised by humans out to destroy them. It is a war

involving millions of lives, causing pain and tragedy. One doctor,

interviewed by this editor said, " When these new drug-resistant

strains become endemic in hospitals, you will be safer staying home

than going to a hospital, unless you have a truly dread disease. "

 

Science 257:1021; 1992

 

Safer at home than in hospitals! Such comments amuse me. Everyone

recognizes the chemical risks we all face. And yet when fatigue

experts of drug medicine lecture on how to treat chronic fatiguers,

all they talk about is drugs. They never talk about environmental

sensitivities or adverse food responses or allergies.

 

I never hear one word about sugar-insulin-adrenaline roller coasters

or about nutrition. Not one word about meditation. Not one word

about slow, sustained exercise. Not one word about some spiritual

dimensions. All these fatigue experts love to talk about is the

Epstein-Barr virus and then they move on to extolling the virtues of

their favored antidepressants.

 

This is the central issue facing those who suffer from chronic

fatigue and their caretakers. The battle lines are clearly drawn. On

one side are physicians like me who are convinced that the true

answer to this problem is in restoring normal energy enzyme pathways

with non-drug therapies.

 

On the opposite side are champions of drug medicine who are equally

convinced it is simply a matter of time before some drug will arrive

at the scene and cure chronic fatigue syndrome once and for all. We

have our clinical outcome studies to buttress our case. The drug

medicine folks are pregnant with the glorious promise of miracle

drugs in the wings.

 

There is an irony in the battle between holistic medicine and

mainstream drug medicine. Hippocrates, the father of medicine,

believed in the innate healing nature of the human body, and taught

his pupils to look for answers to the problems of sickness in that

inner healing capacity of injured tissues.

 

If the injured tissues are allowed to heal, he taught his students,

they will do so. Democratus, a contemporary of Hippocrates about

2,500 years ago, thought Hippocrates was nuts. The human body, he

pronounced, was made up of tiny particles, which he called atoms. In

his theory of atomism, sick organs were incapable of healing by

themselves. He scorned Hippocrates for his theory of vitalism. The

battle between atomism and vitalism has raged on in one form or

another ever since.

 

The gods of American medicine who populate our medical schools and

sit on state medical schools and sit on state medical licensing

boards think that real diseases can be treated only with drugs and

surgical scalpels. Hence, their wrath against those who seek answers

to chronic fatigue in Hippocrates' vitalism - in nutritional

medicine, in environmental medicine and in medicine of self-

regulation. Their venom against holistic physicians today isn't any

less lethal than that of French doctors against Pasteur.

 

The sad truth is that our American gods of drug medicine know

little, if any, about issues of functional nutritional deficiencies,

adverse bowel responses to foods, battered bowel eco-systems,

chemical sensitivities, delayed consequences of toxic metal

overload, and the " Fourth of July " chemistry under the skin of

chronic fatigues. Those are the real issues in restoring normal

energy pathways in chronic fatigues.

 

None of those issues are of any concern to the practitioners of drug

medicine because none of them can be truly addressed with the

miracles of our synthetic chemistry.

 

Many champions of drug medicine will snicker at my notions of

holistic molecular relatedness in human biology. They would want me

to compartmentalize my fatigue patients in some cage, so that I

could follow their prescriptions of double-blinded, crossed-over

research models.

 

They would want me to feed one group of my patients some kind of

drug and the other sugar pills. They would insist on that kind of

proof.

 

They do not understand that such a frivolous notion of proof is

utterly irrelevant to holistic methods of caring, where the only

thing that really matters is whether or not chronically tired people

regain their normal energy patterns. From extensive clinical

experience I know they do. And I know that from the experience of my

colleagues in environmental and nutritional medicine.

 

Pasteur concentrated on one factor - the Anthrax bacillus - because

his sheep were made sick by just that one single agent. I have to

think differently for my patients because my patients are not made

sick by just one thing. They are vulnerable in many ways. They are

different from Pasteur's sheep. This the champions of N2D2 medicine

do not comprehend.

 

I AM OPTIMISTIC

 

This is my chance to answer my colleagues who do not understand how

anyone in holistic medicine can be optimistic today.

 

" Something wonderful happened...and a quiet grass-roots revolution

in health care was officially recognized...last week on the sixth

floor of government Building C in Bethesda..

 

The something wonderful was the atmosphere of respect and affection

accorded to about 90 spokesmen for " unconventional therapies "

invited to present their treatments to an unusually eclectic ad hoc

panel convened by the National Institutes of Health... There is a

generosity of spirit manifested here... In the midst of the optimism

and good will, however, was an undercurrent of anger and distrust.

There were frequent mentions of unnamed individuals practicing

controversial and allegedly successful therapies who didn't dare

appear for fear of losing their licenses.

 

Washington Post, June 26, 1992

 

I am a realist as well as a dreamer. Within months of this

conference, the office of one well-known nutritionist was raided by

authorities with drawn guns. They confiscated his supply of

vitamins. Some months later, the license of another colleague was

summarily suspended because one of his very sick patients developed

a complication following an intravenous treatment.

 

How many surgeons do I know whose licenses were suspended because

one of their patients developed complications after surgery and

died? Indeed, how many surgeons would have still retained their

licenses if their licenses were revoked every time a surgical

complication developed? Not one! I am sure of that.

 

How many oncologists do I know whose licenses were revoked because

the patient died as a result of their chemotherapy and not of his

disease? It is not at all uncommon for patients to die of sepsis

after their immune defenses have been totally destroyed with

chemotherapy.

 

How many internists would still have their licenses if their

licenses were to be rescinded every time there was a complication

caused by a drug prescribed by one of them?

 

Then there are times when practitioners of drug medicine turn on

holistic doctors, and report them to state licensing boards. I know

of physicians whose licenses were revoked because they treated their

patients with nondrug therapies. The area's practitioners of drug

medicine banded together to put them out of business - and did

exactly that.

 

Many medical boards take the position that all nondrug nonsurgical

methods of treatment are unconventional, and hence punishable. The

holistic physicians who use nondrug therapies have no defense

against such tyranny.

 

Such are the burdens we holistic physicians carry! Such are the

risks we take! If you think this is cheap melodrama please go and

listen to the wives of physicians who lost their licenses simply

because they tried to care for their patients with nondrug

therapies. I know, because I have listened to them. I know many

families of holistic physicians that were destroyed by maestros of

N2D2 medicine.

 

I am not optimistic because I have not witnessed the tyranny of drug

medicine or the venom of its high priests. Or because I do not know

their capacity for inflicting hurt upon those who choose to think

differently. Or because I am not aware of how fiercely the state

licensing boards protect the interests of N2D2 medicine. Or because

I do not see the unfaltering devotion of the editorial boards of our

medical journals to the double-blind, cross-over. Or because I have

not experienced the disdain of disease doctors for those who do

preventive medicine.

 

I am optimistic for different reasons.

 

" We are incarcerated in the double-blind, cross-over model, " said

Majid Ali, a New Jersey pathologist whose clinical practice stresses

nutrition, fitness and environmental therapy. " It is not appropriate

for holistic therapy, in which there are many variables and neither

the practitioner nor the patient can be blinded to treatment. "

 

Washington Post, June 23, 1992

 

I am an optimist because once we know something, we cannot unknow

it. I am optimistic because the truth cannot be suppressed forever.

And the truth is that the gods of the double-blind, cross-over

medicine are false gods. And their disciples who sit on the

editorial boards of medical journals and consider all nondrug and

nonsurgical therapies quackery are misguided. Their double-blind,

cross-over research model is totally and utterly irrelevant to our

work with chronic fatiguers.

 

No matter how dictatorial and ruthless the state licensing boards

become, holistic physicians are not going to abandon safe and

effective nondrug therapies. And the truth is that chronic fatiguers

are beginning to see it.

 

They are beginning to see through the folly of hiding behind

frivolous diagnostic labels. They are beginning to see through the

yarn that practitioners of drug medicine weave for their benefit.

They are beginning to see through the false promise of wonderful

drugs that are touted to cure chronic fatigue - and only leave them

sicker.

 

The truth is that chronic fatiguers are beginning to stay away from

drug trials. They are shunning antiviral therapies that make them

more toxic. They are rejecting those megabuck work-ups that only

lead to prescriptions for antidepressants.

 

The truth is that an ever-growing number of chronic fatiguers are

not waiting for Godot. By and large, they are looking for answers in

their nutrition, environment, self-regulation and in some spiritual

dimensions. And by and large, they are succeeding.

 

These are the reasons I am optimistic. There are yet others.

 

Extrapolation to the U.S. population suggests that in 1990 Americans

made an estimated 425 million visits to providers of unconventional

therapy.

 

This number exceeds the number of visits to all U.S. primary care

physicians (388 million). Expenditures associated with the use of

unconventional therapy in 1990 amounted to approximately $13.7

billion, three quarters of which ($10.3 billion) was paid out of

pocket.

 

New England Journal of Medicine, 328:246, 1993

 

This is an eye-opening conclusion from a very large study. It should

remove any doubts in anybodies mind as to the preference of American

people in health care. Indeed, they preferred nondrug therapies to

drugs even when they had to pay for it twice, once as a premium for

health insurance and the second time as a fee for service.

 

The United States is a democratic society. In such a society, the

majority opinion determines what the standards are - and what they

should be. If we hold as valid the principle of majority opinion,

then it is quite evident from the above study what the majority of

Americans want: nondrug therapies.

 

Drug therapies must be considered as unconventional - not a bad idea

at all, because there is nothing wrong with using unconventional

therapies in unconventional (acute, life threatening) diseases. The

conventional health disorders - those caused by problems of

nutrition, environment, stress and fitness - should be managed with

conventional nondrug therapies.

 

" Forget health care reform or reinventing government. The biggest

volume of mail being logged in many Congressional offices these days

calls on the lawmakers to block action by the Food and Drug

Administration to ban the sale of vitamins and other dietary

supplements. ... The Hatch-Richardson legislation would lower the

new labeling standard to allow health claims for supplements

supported only by unconfirmed preliminary studies not subjected to

any meaningful scientific per review ... The fight, in other words,

really isn't about keeping supplements on the shelves. It's about

the right of unscrupulous companies and individuals to maximize

profits by making fraudulent claims. "

 

The New York Times, October 6, 1993

 

This editorial by the Times surprises me. The Times usually speaks

for citizen rights. Why does it choose to act differently in the

matter of nutrients?

 

First, it recognizes that Americans are much more interested in

protecting their free access to nutrients than they are in President

Clinton's grandiose plans for revamping the entire health care

system - in which he cannot succeed unless he makes preventive

medicine the centerpiece of his strategy.

 

Next, it moves to defend the regulatory restrictions on nutrients.

The Times' words against free access to nutrients for Americans do

not matter much to me.

 

What is heartening for me is its recognition that Americans consider

free access to nutrients more important than Clinton's plans. I

continue to be optimistic.

 

NIH REFERS A PATIENT TO A HOLISTIC DOC!

 

Blasphemous! Delusive plausibility of an ideologue! Not really.

 

Trudy L, a 41-year old teacher, consulted me for a long list of

complaints that included incapacitating chronic fatigue, weight

loss, sinusitis, malaise, low-grade fever, skin rashes, daily

headaches, arthralgia (joint pains), myalgia (muscle pain), neuritis

(persistent pins and needles in limbs), " increased sexuality, " mood

and memory difficulties and depression.

 

" I was a teacher, I have a double masters. I had the energy of a

butterfly, " she spoke fervently. " That was five years ago when I

went to Central America. I returned with some kind of parasite. I

have had 13 workups, with every blood test you can name, and X-rays

including CAT scans, MRI scans.

 

The MRI scan showed some bright spots in my brains. I went to Johns

Hopkins and Hahnemann. The guy at Hopkins told me it was all

depression and gave me a prescription for an antidepressant. The

fellow from Hahnemann was honest. He said he really didn't know what

my problem was. "

 

I listened to the story. Nothing really new there for me. I thumbed

through the heavy chart. In the end, I asked,

 

" How did you come here? "

 

" I was referred to you. "

 

" By whom? "

 

" By NIH. "

 

" NIH? " The words simply escaped my lips before I regained my

composure.

 

" Yes! by NIH. " She seemed to sense my surprise.

 

" That's interesting. Did you ever develop fatigue when you were a

teenager? " I tried to change the subject.

 

" It wasn't easy finding you, Dr. Ali, " she returned to the subject

of referral.

 

" Well! You're here now. Tell me if you suffered fatigue when you

were a teenager. "

 

" I wasn't ready to give up, " she was intent on telling me more about

her journey. " After Hopkins and Hahnemann, I was determined to find

someone who could solve this puzzle. I want my life back. so I

called NIH, and I called them and I called them. Finally someone

there gave me your number. "

 

When the NIH begins to refer patients to holistic physicians, there

is hope. I am optimistic.

 

DRUGS ARE POISONS THAT SOMETIMES HELP

 

A psychiatrist colleague one day limped into my office at the

hospital, leaning on a walking stick. He had lost considerable

weight since I had seen him last and looked exhausted.

 

" What happened? I asked with concern.

 

" The virus did it, " he forced a smile.

 

" You have lost some weight, haven't you? I asked sympathetically.

 

" Yes about 15 pounds. "

 

" And you look tired, " I added.

 

" Tired! You can say that, " he strained as he shifted his weight on

the stick. " I was very tired to begin with. They put me on heavy

doses of antidepressants that make fatigue worse. "

 

" Why? I asked, surprised.

 

" I suppose they thought an antidepressant would help. Or maybe they

thought the whole thing was in my head and I was simply depressed. "

 

" Did antidepressants help?

 

" You really don't know what these psychiatric drugs do to you unless

you happen to be the patient. " The psychiatrist forced another

smile. " The cholinergic side effects were terrible. So I stopped all

drugs. "

 

" Hopefully you'll get over it soon. " I wished him well.

 

I'll tell you something for your next book, " he continued. " Drugs

are poisons that sometimes help. I don't know who said that, but

whoever it was knew something about drugs, " he grinned, shifted on

his stick and limped out.

 

He has made the first discovery that drugs do not work for chronic

fatigue, I thought. Hopefully, he will also make the second: that

nondrug, natural therapies do work.

 

Drug therapies for chronic fatigue are becoming more common among

practitioners of drug medicine.

 

Drugs, in my judgment, have no valid place in the care of people

suffering from chronic fatigue. Drugs work by blocking, impairing or

inactivating enzymes. Almost all drugs increase oxidant stress on

tissues. This is the reason why there are no drugs in the PDR that

do not have any side effects.

 

The judicious short-term use of drugs, of course, may be necessary

to manage those health problems that are most often associated with

chronic fatigue.

 

A NEW KIND OF MALAY A NEW KIND OF PHYSICIAN

 

Chronic fatigue will be the dominant chronic health disorder of the

21st century. Prophecy is an uncertain business. And perhaps more so

in medicine than in any other field of endeavor. Yet, who among us

has the wisdom to resist it? I am certain that the epidemic of

chronic fatigue states that we witness now will continue to spread

among our children, among our adults and among our elderly.

 

The pandemic of chronic fatigue will also, I am confident expose he

principle weakness of the prevailing mode of drug medicine.

 

Ill-health caused by problems of nutrition, environment and stress

cannot be managed with miracles of synthetic chemistry. I do not

believe this realization will come from the academia. It will come

from the people who suffer from chronic fatigue and who are drugged

for short-term benefits and long-term ill health.

 

As the pandemic of chronic fatigue continues to claim new victims in

ever-increasing numbers, and as the false promise of drug therapies

for fatigue is widely recognized, chronic fatiguers will learn about

the real molecular dynamics of such energy, both in health and in

states of chronic fatigue.

 

People who suffer unrelenting chronic fatigue quickly discover that

drugs do not work. These people are now forcing their physicians to

look beyond the false promise of drugs for a cure. They are

learning - and more and more chronic fatiguers will as time passes -

the true nature of chronic fatigue.

 

They are looking beyond simplistic notions of Epstein-Barr

infection, Lyme disease, yeast connection, intestinal dysbiosis,

immune-depression syndrome and a host of other diagnostic labels

favored by most physicians.

 

Chronic fatiguers are demanding that their physicians look for the

answer to their problems in their own host defenses - their

energetic-molecular defenses that normally preserve their energy

enzyme pathways.

 

Chronic fatiguers in the future will seek out a different kind of

physician - a new kind of physician who understands human biology

and the impact of environmental agents on man's genetic makeup.

 

He will be a physician with moral courage to defy the petty

platitudes of drug doctors who sit on the state licensing boards and

threaten to revoke his license.

 

He will be a holistic physician, someone who understands the

metabolism of nutrients, the chemistry of environment, the pathology

of immune disorders, the physiology of exercise and the energy

dynamics of self-regulation.

 

He will be a new physician for new patterns of suffering. Two things

will be important to him: first, the words the patient uses to

describe his suffering; and second, the energetic molecular events

that cause that suffering and the natural means of reversing those

events.

 

He will have no use for the scientific vigor of drug researchers and

their obsession with miracles of synthetic chemistry.

 

Drugs - as necessary as they may be for symptom-suppression in acute

distress - cannot be considered legitimate therapies to manage

chronic fatigue states.

 

There is a complete agreement among physicians about the clinical

efficacy of intravenous nutrient protocols. Those who use these

protocols are completely convinced of their enormous clinical value.

Those who do not use them are equally convinced of their futility.

 

Intravenous Nutrient Protocols allow us to dramatically reduce the

use of antibiotics and other drug therapies. They are extremely

effective for resolving hard to define, but unrelenting clinical

symptoms including, fatigue, stress, panic attacks, palpitations,

mood and memory disorders, abdominal bloating, symptoms of allergy

and chemical sensitivity.

 

Further, these protocols frequently allow us to successfully manage

patients with chronic indolent degenerative and immune disorders who

obtain little long-term clinical relief from the prevailing

pharmacologic regimens.

 

In classical medicine, we follow what I call the dogma of three D's

(one disease, one diagnosis, one drug). This is the legacy of

Oslerian philosophy of using all available clinical data to arrive

at the diagnosis of a single disease to be treated with a single

therapeutic.

 

Drugs, we know, work by inactivating, impairing or inhibiting one or

more molecular pathways. Drugs are designed for this purpose.

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