DOCTOR YOURSELF Newsletter (Vol. 5, No. 7 for April 5, 2005)

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DOCTOR YOURSELF Newsletter (Vol. 5, No. 7 for April 5, 2005)

 

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" The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak,

uncultured, unstable minds such as now rule in the medical

profession. " (Florence Nightingale, 1820-1910)

 

The DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER (Vol. 5, No. 7 for April 5, 2005)

 

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

 

Written and copyright 2005 by Andrew W. Saul of

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NIGHTINGALE WAS A NATUROPATH

 

It's true. Florence Nightingale, the mother of modern nursing, was a

health nut. So was American Red Cross foundress Clara Barton.

(http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v2n23.txt)

 

All the very best nurses (and doctors), past and present, are health nuts.

 

As I always say:

 

If you're not a health nut, then what kind of a nut are you, anyway?

 

And what exactly is a health nut? Someone who eats right, lives right,

and feels right. A health nut is upbeat; eating right will do that for

you. A health nut is active and productive. Interviewing very elderly

persons reveals that they have one thing in common: they all have

something that they absolutely, positively MUST do tomorrow. I believe

that health is also about fearlessly doing the right thing. Reforming

medical care, for example.

 

Hygienic nurses Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton raised a real

ruckus in the medical profession. It was, after all, bad enough that

they were women! Their century was an era virtually devoid of female

physicians. If you could ask your ancestors if they had a woman for a

family doctor, you'd get precious few " yes " answers.

 

Furthermore, the woman doctors that did practice were usually

graduates of homeopathic and naturopathic schools.

 

Today, we tend to be quite unaware of this.

 

That may be because we were never told. Pharmaphilic physicians like

to parade Elizabeth Blackwell's 1849 graduation from Geneva Medical

College as heralding the first female doctor of " modern medicine. " The

wonderful educational and charitable work of Dr. Blackwell will stand

for all time. But politically-correct (pharmaceutically correct?)

history has slipped quietly, and I think deliberately, by the real

story: 19th century women of medicine had their roots and their

practices in herbal, hygienic, and nutritional therapy.

 

A recent paper (McCabe P. Naturopathy, Nightingale, and nature cure: a

convergence of interests. Complement Ther Nurs Midwifery. 2000

Feb;6(1):4-8.) has helped to fill in the facts. Says the author: " An

examination of her writings supports the hypothesis that nature cure

was a significant influence on Nightingale's understanding of health

and healing. "

 

That is likely an understatement. Check out the quote at the top of

this Newsletter. Wow!

 

Here's another Nightingale favorite: " The very first requirement in a

hospital is that it should do the sick no harm. " In her 90-year life

(1820-1910), she and Clara Barton (1821-1912) would say it often.

 

We need these ladies again, now.

 

Hospital stays are as dangerous as ever, killing some 300 people every

day. That's a jumbo-jet full, dead, every day. That's a three 9/11's

every single MONTH. http://www.doctoryourself.com/deathmed.html

 

Clearly, we need to apply natural, nutritional commonsense and

gumption today. (http://www.doctoryourself.com/amhealth.html and

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hospitals.html)

 

That means supplemental vitamins, organically-grown whole foods, and

fresh vegetable juices for every hospital patient. Don't tell me this

is " too expensive. " What's one single day in the hospital cost?

Hundreds (even thousands) of dollars? And for this, they can't tack on

an extra twenty bucks for organic food, fresh vegetable juice, and

some supplements? Doing so would automatically minimize the need and

consumption of medicines, and consequently reduce unnecessary deaths.

 

Of course, would also pretty much empty out the hospitals. Well,

there's your explanation for why it's NOT being done.

 

Our hospitals are sick, still nearly as deadly as the unsanitary

hospitals Florence Nightingale knew. Take action now. Be a health nut.

Be an activist. Walk the walk, and talk the talk. Speak up, speak out,

and speak often.

 

Writing to me is good, but is really preaching to the choir. Writing

to your local hospital chief administrator is better; writing to the

newspaper is best. (http://www.doctoryourself.com/write_now.html)

 

DOCTOR YOURSELF.COM IS EXPANDING

 

Everyone has been sick, is fighting sickness now, or has concerns

about becoming sick. I believe that following orthomolecular

(nutritional) medicine guidelines is what we most need to do, and all

can do, today, to live longer, healthier and happier lives. There are

about 450 articles posted on the DoctorYourself web site and they have

helped millions of people improve their health. We now want to add a

large number of additional articles, and seek volunteers to help

prepare these articles for the DoctorYourself web site.

 

Will you volunteer your time and skills? You can do it at your

convenience from your home. If you have a PC and some PC skills, want

to help improve others' health, and are willing to help with this

project, please write me at drsaul (In the Subject

line of the email write " Volunteer " so I see it for sure.) In the body

of the email, please include some information about your PC skill

level, your typing ability, the name of the word processor you use,

whether you have a scanner and whatever other information you think

appropriate to state in brief. Volunteers will then be contacted with

more information about this project.

 

WHAT'S NEW?

 

The LINUS PAULING NUTRITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

(http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_pauling_ortho.html) is now

updated with many hyperlinks to Dr. Pauling's papers available online.

Someone tell you that Pauling was all wet? Read and see for yourself.

 

CHERASKIN ARCHIVE UPDATE

 

A newly revised Dr. Emanuel Cheraskin bibliography is now posted at

http://www.doctoryourself.com/biblio_cheraskin.html . It contains

easy-to-use clickable links to every available online version of Dr.

Cheraskin's published papers.

 

My thanks to Robert Sarver for his considerable assistance with both

of these projects.

 

MORE FREE ONLINE PAPERS!

 

The words " OPEN ACCESS " are music to my ears. To read full text

scientific papers for free, with just a click of your mouse, may I

introduce you to:

 

Journal of Experimental Medicine

 

http://www.jem.org/

 

Journal of Biological Chemistry

 

http://www.jbc.org/

 

and also to:

 

http://highwire.stanford.edu/

 

FIRST PRINTING SOLD OUT

 

My book, DOCTOR YOURSELF: Natural Healing that Works, has completely

sold out its initial printing. Writes my publisher: " Doctor Yourself

out of stock. New printing in progress. "

 

Those words are music to an author's ears. Thank you to all my readers

who have made this moment possible.

 

(By the way, I do still have copies on hand from the historic First

Printing. To order:

 

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

 

MAYBE 50 REALLY IS MIDDLE AGE

 

The Associated Press reports that " The number of Japanese who have

lived 100 years or more surged this year to a record 23,038. . . Japan

ranks among nations with the world's longest life spans. Experts say a

traditional fish-based, lowfat diet may be Japan's secret to long

life. . . Okinawa, the southernmost chain of islands, has the highest

concentration of people 100 years or older. There are now 635

centenarians there, or 47 for every 100,000 people. . . The equivalent

figure for the U.S. is about 10 in 100,000. " (More at

http://web-japan.org/trends/lifestyle/lif031121.html and

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/31/world/main581080.shtml)

 

VITAMIN C IS GREAT, SO DON'T TAKE IT!

 

" More reasons to get some Cs: Vitamin can help the body reduce

histamines, boost energy and mop up toxins "

(Excerpted from the article by Janet Helm, The Chicago Tribune

(chicagotribune.com) March 9, 2005)

 

" New studies suggest that the nutrient may: Help ease allergy and

asthma symptoms; Charge up your workouts; Neutralize certain toxins in

the body to help prevent cancer and heart disease. Despite the growing

understanding of the virtues of vitamin C, a surprising number of

Americans may not be getting enough.

 

" Carol Johnston, professor of nutrition at Arizona State University in

Mesa, has conducted three studies that show vitamin C can help lower

levels of histamines in our blood, good news for folks suffering from

allergies and asthma. . .

 

" Johnston also has conducted research that points to vitamin C as a

potential energy booster. . . Her research has linked vitamin C

depletion to low levels of muscle carnitine, a substance that helps

your body burn fat for energy. . . Women she studied who were low in

vitamin C did much better on treadmill tests after they were given

extra vitamin C. 'They felt better and were more energetic,' she said.

 

" Scientists at the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University

found that vitamin C also protects against toxic compounds that can

form when fat is metabolized, preventing the genetic damage or

inflammation that these " oxidized lipids " can cause.

 

" 'This is a previously unrecognized function for vitamin C in the

human body,' said co-author Fred Stevens, an assistant professor at

the Linus Pauling Institute. 'It appears to be a major pathway that

the body uses to get rid of the toxic byproducts of fat metabolism. . . '

 

" Despite the newly revealed vitamin C benefits, it's not a green light

to load up on vitamin C supplements. "

 

DY Comment: Oh?

 

EISENMENGER SYNDROME

 

" A relative of mine has Eisenmenger syndrome, which includes

thickening of the small arteries in the lungs, caused by a hole in her

heart that was not repaired while she was young. She is now in her

fifties, but as a youngster was told she would be dead by the age of

twenty. Recently, she read Ascorbate: The Science of Vitamin C and

began taking 24 grams of vitamin C a day. The change has been quite

remarkable. Previously, her skin and lips were blue from lack of

oxygen and she had difficulty walking short distances. She was so

breathless that it was hard for her to hold a conversation. Now she

looks pink and healthy, her voice is clear and she can walk for a mile

or two without getting tired. A friend who saw her after she started

taking the vitamin C asked 'What have you been doing? You look ten

years younger!'

 

" Interestingly, another person noticed her popping the large 1,500

milligram tablets and asked how many she was taking. The answer, '16

tablets a day,' produced the response 'Are you sure that's a good

idea? You could make yourself sick.' "

 

Best regards,

Steve Hickey, PhD

 

(Editor's note: Dr. Hickey's excellent book is reviewed at

http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v5n2.txt

 

SO WHO'S COUNTING?

 

DoctorYourself.com is now reportedly the 54,760th most visited website

on earth, according to Ranking.com. Alexa.com says we're 92,721th.

(March 9, 2005) According to Google, there are over 8,000,000,000

webpages. Doctoryourself.com, with 460 of those pages, is getting

3,000 to 4,000 individual website visitors every day.

 

ANNOUNCING: OTTAWA ORTHOMOLECULAR NUTRITION CONFERENCE

 

I will be attending (and speaking) at the Nutritional Medicine Today

conference in Canada's national capitol, May 13-15, 2005. Dr. Abram

Hoffer, Dr Carolyn Dean (author of " Death by Medicine "

http://www.doctoryourself.com/deathmed.html) and many other

nutritional physicians will be there; I hope you can come, too. I have

found this annual conference to be very valuable and exceptionally

interesting.

 

To download the conference program, please go to

http://www.orthomed.org/news/NMH%20program.pdf

 

For more information, please look at

http://www.orthomed.org/news/news.htm, or you can email

centre

 

GARLIC FOR IMMUNITY AND HEALTH

 

by Robert Sarver

Knoxville, TN

 

Eating garlic helps protect from diseases by boosting the immune

system and by directly destroying harmful viruses, bacteria and fungal

infections. Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, and the

ancient Egyptian physicians prescribed garlic for illness. Garlic was

ground into a paste that was applied to battlefield wounds during

World War I, before the discovery of modern antibiotics. Modern

medical researchers have begun to understand the function of garlic

compounds in health.

 

In the US, commercial livestock (cattle, hogs, chickens) operators

routinely add modern antibiotics to animal feed in order to prevent

diseases, improve health and promote rapid growth of their livestock.

This overuse of antibiotics contributes to the development of

antibiotic resistant bacteria. In Europe the routine feeding of

antibiotics is prohibited by law. Instead, livestock operators add

garlic preparations to animal feed. (1) Garlic contains over a dozen

sulfur compounds that are antibiotic, and disease-causing microbes

cannot develop immunity to this combination of compounds.

 

I take garlic because garlic is antiviral, antibacterial, and

antifungal. It protects against cardiovascular disease (2), helps

prevent cancer (3) and is an antioxidant. While the foundation of my

personal immunity program is vitamin C and the supplements listed at

http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v3n7.txt , I use garlic to provide

an extra boost. This program produces an inhospitable environment for

disease-causing microorganisms.

 

Parasites such as fleas, mosquitoes and ticks dislike the odor that

consumption of garlic produces in the skin. Eating garlic discourages

these insects from biting and reduced insect bites mean less

transmission of the diseases that these parasites can carry. Your dog

and cat will thank you. (4)

 

I prefer aged garlic extract and fresh garlic bulbs to soft gels. If

using soft gels, buy standardized products that have a content of at

least 5000 units of allicin (a major garlic antibiotic compound) per

soft gel. During the six months of cold and flu season I take 600 mg

of aged garlic extract each morning and each evening. Year-round after

one meal each day, I peel two to four medium cloves of garlic, crush

them with the flat side of a knife blade, take a sip of liquid, hold

the liquid in my mouth while I pop in the garlic, and then swallow. I

chase the garlic with more liquid.

 

During periods of infectious illnesses, some people increase their

fresh garlic consumption to 10 or 12 cloves per day. As eating large

quantities of garlic leads to offensive breath and skin odor, most

people do not routinely consume more than four medium sized cloves a

day. A little experimenting will determine the quantity you can eat

without producing a noticeable odor.

 

MORE INFORMATION is available by searching for " garlic " at www.lef.org

(over 100 entries), http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/, and www.mercola.com ,

which has over 300 entries, including these:

 

1) http://www.mercola.com/2001/mar/17/garlic_infections.htm " Allicin

slowly (breaks down) into other molecules which themselves react with

each other to form molecules which may be very active against protozoa

like giardia and trichomonous. "

 

2) http://www.mercola.com/2004/feb/28/garlic_health.htm Garlic to

avoid insect bites, for preventing cancer and heart disease, and

effective against fungal and viral infections.

 

3) http://www.mercola.com/2000/oct/29/garlic_cancer.htm Garlic

prevention of colon and stomach cancer.

 

4) http://www.mercola.com/2000/aug/27/garlic_tick_repellent.htm Many

pet supply stores sell garlic capsules for dogs to reduce mosquito,

flea and tick problems during the summer. A capsule swallowed by a dog

makes the dog's skin less attractive to insects.

 

(Editor's note: I, too, am a garlic fan. I grow it in my gardens, and

then peel, cut and soak it in a closed container of cider vinegar for

a few months. The resulting concentrated " garlic vinegar " is good for

cooking, salads, and, to quote my great-uncle, " good for what ails

you. " And now you know why!)

 

GERSON CANCER THERAPY ON MEDLINE

 

The Dr. Max Gerson papers, below, are now indexed on the National

Library of Medicine's MEDLINE. Some very good news, I think,

especially the abstract. I think the Doctor would be pleased. (More

about the Gerson therapy will be found with an easy website search at

http://www.doctoryourself.com)

 

Gerson M. The cure of advanced cancer by diet therapy: a summary of 30

years of clinical experimentation. Physiol Chem Phys.

1978;10(5):449-64. (PMID: 751079)

 

Abstract: Thirty years of clinical experimentation has led to a

successful therapy for advanced cancer. This therapy is based on the

concepts (1) that cancer patients have low immuno-reactivity and

generalized tissue damage, especially of the liver, and (2) that when

the cancer is destroyed, toxic degradation products appear in the

bloodstream which lead to coma and death from liver failure. The

therapy consists of high potassium, low sodium diet, with no fats or

oils, and minimal animal proteins. Juices of raw fruits and vegetables

and of raw liver provide active oxidizing enzymes which facilitate

rehabilitation of the liver. Iodine and niacin supplementation is

used. Caffeine enemas cause dilation of bile ducts, which facilitates

excretion of toxic cancer breakdown products by the liver and dialysis

of toxic products from blood across the colonic wall. The therapy must

be used as an integrated whole. Parts of the therapy used in isolation

will not be successful. This therapy has cured many cases of advanced

cancer.

 

Also indexed on Medline:

 

Gerson M. [Cancer a problem of metabolism.] Med Klin (Munich). 1954

Jun 25;49(26):1028-32. German.

 

Gerson M. [No cancer in normal metabolism; results of special

therapy.] Med Klin (Munich). 1954 Jan 29;49(5):175-9. Undetermined

Language.

 

Gerson M. Effects of a combined dietary regime on patients with

malignant tumors. Exp Med Surg. 1949 Nov;7(4):299-317, illust.

 

FEATURE ARTICLE:

 

THE DOCTOR YOURSELF INTERVIEW

 

with Harold D. Foster, PhD

 

Introduction by Abram Hoffer, M.D, Ph.D.:

 

" What can one say about a scientist as accomplished, as brilliant, as

knowledgeable as Harry Foster? I am delighted I have known him for so

may years as a friend and colleague. His scientific writing is superb.

He has a remarkable ability to examine all the data and to draw from

that data conclusions that are going to be of the greatest value to

mankind. I know of no one who has a better grasp of the relation

between the soil that nourishes us and the diseases we get when that

soil is not nourishing enough, and/or contains toxic elements. His

three " What Really Causes " books (on Schizophrenia, AIDS and

Alzheimer's Disease) are superb and ought to be required text books

for medical students due to their insights and for the therapeutic

potential that arises from them.

 

" I am especially excited bout his AIDS book which proves that while

HIV plays an important role in the causation of AIDS, it is only one

factor, and perhaps least important, since it only attacks in the

absence of the essential components of glutathione peroxidase,

especially selenium, the key variable. Much as the addition of

niacinamide in 1942 to white flour by the US government eradicated

pellagra from the South East United States, so will the addition of

selenium to our staple foods lead to the eradication of AIDS. The

virus may still spread and attack, but in the presence of ample

amounts of selenium and three amino acids in the body it will do

little harm. His work must be taken very seriously and followed up. "

 

(Editor's note: I'd like to add my comment on to Dr. Hoffer's. Years

from now, when your great-grandson perches on your knee, when the

final history of AIDS has been written, I think it will show that the

turning point in AIDS research was nutrition; that the pioneering

figure was Harold Foster; and that the key was his book, What Really

Causes AIDS.)

 

Now on to the interview.

 

DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWS: Dr. Foster, you appear to be an increasingly

controversial figure. How do you get along with the faculty at your

University?

 

DR. FOSTER: Every person who can think, write or lecture logically is

going to be controversial, since so much that society is doing is

illogical. The faculty is like society. It is made up of individuals

with different viewpoints and biases. Some faculty see me as very

intelligent while others view me as a trouble-making idiot. In between

are those who cannot make up their minds. I am trying to tell the

truth, and help solve society's problems; not curry favour, nor run

for public office.

 

DY NEWS: Questioning the fundamental cause and medical treatment of

AIDS is often regarded as the kiss of death for many a scientist. What

keeps you going?

 

FOSTER: I stand midway between the conventional viewpoint held by

those who signed the Durban Declaration (that HIV alone causes AIDS)

and the unconventional viewpoint(s) (that HIV does not exist, or does

not cause AIDS). That is, I believe that HIV causes AIDS by creating

four major nutritional deficiencies. This means that I get shot at

from both sides. I do not know of any rational debates about the

possible causes of AIDS. This is exceptionally unfortunate because

unless things change, this is the way the world ends: no bang, just a

whimper. I expect one billion cases of HIV/AIDS by 2015. Conventional

science and medicine is clearly failing in its war against the viruses

that encode for glutathione peroxidase. More than one-third of the

planet's population has been infected by one or more of them. My own

approach to the debate now is to provide the key nutrients to dying

AIDS patients in Africa and demonstrate that these reverse their

symptoms. At the very least, I can save hundreds of lives with the

help of a few dedicated supporters.

 

DY NEWS: What kind of support do you need and seek, specifically?

 

FOSTER: I need the support of people who act. Discussion is not

enough. I would, for example, like to see church groups paying for and

using the key nutrients in their African mission parishes to reverse

the symptoms of AIDS. I would like to see one rich benefactor with the

foresight to promote alternative treatments (including mine) for

HIV/AIDS. It is even more obvious now than it was when I wrote " What

really causes AIDS " that there will be no effective vaccine, and that

drug resistance will soon make anti-retrovirals useless. I would also

like to find a documentary film-maker willing to record the recovery

of a group of AIDS patients receiving the appropriate nutrients. The

documentary could be shown internationally. Obviously, somebody will

have to fund this.

 

DY NEWS: Any helpers so far from inside the medical/research professions?

 

FOSTER: Some. Four are establishment doctors from Canada, five are

African physicians, several are university students, one is a small

Canadian charity, a few are recovered AIDS patients and some are

interested members of the public or University faculty.

 

DY NEWS: How did you come to write your book on AIDS, and now one

about Alzheimer's?

 

FOSTER: I had authored or edited numerous books and a hundred or more

scientific papers on disasters and health, and realized that they were

rarely read by the people who needed the information the most. So I

decided to write a series of books, each one focusing on one specific

disease that I felt I knew how to prevent and/or treat. I started with

AIDS because I considered it the world's worst problem. I still do. I

put " What really causes AIDS " online so that anybody with access to

the Internet could freely read my ideas. Books on schizophrenia and

Alzheimer's disease have followed. So long as I am able, I intend to

write one " What Really Causes " book each year. Multiple sclerosis will

be the focus of the next one.

 

DY NEWS: Tell us what in particular motivated you to decide to make

them free downloads, or even free in print, by mail, at your expense?

 

FOSTER: I pay for the typing, typesetting and publication costs for

each book and also mailing costs to those who I really feel should

read a particular book. This is not a good way to make money. I am a

poor businessman. I would sooner save a life.

 

DY NEWS: As you, a distinguished professor of geography, are not a

physician, what was it that brought you to epidemiological research in

the first place?

 

FOSTER: I was established as a disaster planner whose book, " Disaster

Planning: the Preservation of Life and Property " was used as a

textbook in numerous universities. Someone very near to me then

developed cancer and I decided to find out what caused it and how it

could be prevented. My approach is called medical geography.

 

DY NEWS: Are there other medical geographers, or are you pretty much

the lone the trailblazer?

 

FOSTER: There are many other medical geographers, especially in China.

I am, perhaps, the most outspoken. Very few write as holistically as I do.

 

DY NEWS: Have you published what you found out about cancer?

 

FOSTER: Yes, I have published several papers on cancer (listed at

www.hdfoster.com). I also wrote the book " Reducing cancer mortality: A

geographical perspective " published in 1986 by the Western

Geographical Series.

 

DY NEWS: How did you happen to meet Dr. Abram Hoffer?

 

FOSTER: Abram treats his patients a few miles away from where I teach

at the University of Victoria, BC. I started going to his local

lectures and he to mine. We found that we had a great deal in common

and our friendship grew from there.

 

DY NEWS: How did www.hdfoster.com come to be?

 

FOSTER: My youngest stepson Dan is a great videogame fan. Some new

game was coming out and I bribed him into creating a website for me in

exchange for the game. The site cost me about $75. Yes, I know, slave

labour! He is now at art school in Vancouver. When he comes home in

the holidays he updates the site for the price of a trip to the movies.

 

DY NEWS: When did your website go up?

 

FOSTER: I guess it's been on line for about five years. Several

thousand people have downloaded one or more of the books.

 

DY NEWS: Could you share some feedback from your readers and website

visitors?

 

FOSTER: Here is some e-mail from a doctor using my nutritional

treatment for AIDS. He works in an African hospice were patients go to

die. " I have been having some remarkable results from the selenium

plus amino acids combination. One patient has taken it for three

months now and her CD4 count has jumped from 53 to 213 end of

November. Clinically, she has shown tremendous improvement having been

bedridden with PCP, hair changes and neuropathies but is now up and

about. She has not been on any other medication except some

antibiotics. Even most of her other blood parameters have moved. "

 

DY NEWS: What is PCP that the African physician refers to?

 

FOSTER: In Africa, PCP usually means pneumocystic pneumonia. This

often occurs in AIDS patients and can kill them.

 

DY NEWS: How about other feedback?

 

FOSTER: There have been many such stories from recovering HIV/AIDS

patients who have downloaded " What really causes AIDS " at

www.hdfoster.com. One Dutch reader, who was particularly interested in

schizophrenia, paid for the translation and publication of my book

" What really causes schizophrenia " in Holland.

 

DY NEWS: What's new at Foster Labs?

 

FOSTER: A charity has paid for the manufacture of enough nutrients to

conduct a 200 HIV/AIDS patient clinical trial in Africa. We are also

working with a company that is producing a vegetarian nutritional

product to treat HIV/AIDS in India and sub-Saharan Africa.

 

DY NEWS: As I have been to West Africa myself, may I ask exactly where

the clinical trial is being conducted?

 

FOSTER: There are powerful organizations that do not want to see a

cheap, nutritional treatment for AIDS or any other disease for that

matter. For that reason, I think it better to be cautious and decline

an answer at this time.

 

DY NEWS: Has a foundation, corporation or non-profit organization been

set up to receive donations, or is donation to your work informal (and

not tax-deductible)?

 

FOSTER: I am one man who already works full time teaching hundreds of

students each term. As yet there is no Foundation to back my work. It

would be wonderful if one of the thousands of foundations already out

there would consider doing so.

 

DY NEWS: As the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine's newly appointed

Associate Editor, would you like to comment on the Journal's not being

indexed by the National Library of Medicine's Medline?

 

FOSTER: It is a big loss to Medline and damages its credibility. Some

brilliant work has been published over the years in the Journal of

Orthomolecular Medicine. (http://www.orthomed.org/jom/jomlist.htm)

 

DY NEWS: As the people closest to us are sometimes the most resistant

to change, how " hip " to natural nutrition is your family?

 

FOSTER: Initially, none of them took nutrients seriously. One by one,

they have changed. When the eldest boy comes to visit, the first thing

he does is swipe my nutrients.

 

DY NEWS: What steps have you personally taken to increase selenium

intake, and your the intake of other nutrients you recommend?

 

FOSTER: I have taken 200 micrograms of selenium daily for 20 years. I

also take a comprehensive multiple nutrient preparation and 6,000

milligrams of vitamin C and extra vitamin B complex. My aim is to make

sure that I am never deficient in any of the known nutrients. I also

buy a wide range of nutrients for family use.

 

DY NEWS: You are taking more nutrients than what most dietitians say

you need to prevent deficiency. Would you please comment and expand on

this?

 

FOSTER: Yes, I am taking far more vitamin C, for example, than the

RDA. This is because I believe that the RDA is illogical. I am not

just trying to avoid scurvy but to achieve optimum health. There are

about 4,000 animals that make their own vitamin C. As far as I know,

they all make it a levels much higher per kilogram of body weight that

the RDA for humans. Why should our requirements be so different? Abram

Hoffer and I are writing a book, at the moment, on why most people

need high levels of niacin.

 

DY NEWS: What do you eat?

 

FOSTER: In addition to supplements, I try to eat a healthy diet. I

emphasize fruits, vegetables, nuts, fish and chicken. I eat very

little red meat or dairy products.

 

DY NEWS: What parts of your books are your critics attacking you over,

specifically?

 

FOSTER: I would say my most controversial idea is that a group of

viruses (HIV-1 and HIV-2, Coxsackie B and Hepatitis B and C are

members) can cause diseases indirectly by depleting the human body of

specific nutrients. This implies that, if you boost the intake of

these nutrients, you can reverse the disease symptoms. This paradigm

is contrary to current clinical drug approaches to such viral

infections and is considered a stupid idea by virologists.

Nevertheless, it works.

 

DY NEWS: Could you please elaborate on the cause and cure of Hepatitis

B and C, about which I receive many readers' questions?

 

FOSTER: Dr. Will Taylor and colleagues at the University of Athens,

Georgia have shown that there is a group of viruses that encode for

glutathione peroxidase. This means that as they are replicated, they

remove the four key nutrients that lie at the core of this enzyme

(selenium, cysteine, glutamine and tryptophan) from the human body.

Eventually they can cause severe deficiencies of these nutrients and

kill their hosts. Included in this group of viruses are Hepatitis B

and C, Coxsackie B and HIV-1 and HIV-2. Anyone infected by one or more

of these viruses needs elevated selenium, cysteine, tryptophan and

glutamine to remain healthy. Think tapeworm! That is, a

parasite-induced functional deficiency.

 

DY NEWS: You have at least one other controversial idea. Please tell

us about road salt and cancer. (Foster HD. Road-deicing salt and

cancer: the need for further study. J Natl Cancer Inst. 1993 Oct

6;85(19):1603-5.)

 

FOSTER: In 1986, I published the book, " Reducing cancer mortality: a

geographical perspective. " It was essentially a major statistical

study of 4.6 million cancer deaths in the USA, comparing them with the

geographical distribution of 219 variables. To cut a long story short,

the geography of cancer in the USA, and indeed globally, suggests that

cancer is most common where there is a deficiency of selenium and

calcium, and high exposure to road salt and soil mercury. Since 1986,

I have been suggesting that road salt should be tested to see if it

really is very carcinogenic before we dump enormous quantities onto

our roads each year. For this absurd idea, I have been vilified for

many years. Fortunately, Canada has recently added road salt to its

list of toxic substances and is beginning to reduce its use in this

country. Of course, road salt is not just sodium chloride but often

includes sodium ferrocyanide which gives off the poisonous gas

hydrogen cyanide when exposed to acid rain and sunlight.

 

DY NEWS: I am unaware that your books have been reviewed in major news

outlets. Where may the public find and read media reviews of your work?

 

FOSTER: My " What Really Causes... " books have been reviewed in the

alternative press, in publications like The Townsend Letters for

Doctors and Patients, Nexus, and the Journal of Orthomolecular

Medicine. Interestingly, I have written three articles for Nexus

following positive reviews. This has been very useful because, beyond

English, this magazine appears in a wide variety of languages. They

have published my work, for example, in Polish and Italian.

 

DY NEWS: Aside from publicity and distribution, what do you feel are

the biggest obstacles to your pioneering work?

 

FOSTER: There are two major roadblocks to human progress: closed minds

and greed. Fortunately, as Doug Gwyn pointed out " The truth is not

determined by majority vote. " Beyond an inability or unwillingness to

innovate, there are many people doing very well out of the status quo.

They will generally protect it, regardless of the truth.

Unfortunately, unless we alter our dominant HIV/AIDS paradigm, these

weaknesses will spell total disaster for our species.

 

DY NEWS: What specific goals would you have, would you like to see, in

the next year?

 

FOSTER: I would like to raise enough funds to pay for three clinical

HIV/AIDS trials in Africa. In addition, I intend to write " What Really

Causes Multiple Sclerosis " and add it to my website.

 

DY NEWS: When will " What Really Causes Multiple Sclerosis " be

available as a printed book?

 

FOSTER: I do not know. To produce the MS book costs me thousands of

dollars to type, typeset and publish. And, of course, time. I would

like to see it on my website by early 2006.

 

DY NEWS: I can't restrain my curiosity. What will be your next topic,

after MS?

 

FOSTER: I have not made up my mind. I could, for example, write on

SIDS, Parkinson's disease, digestive cancer, or diabetes type 2.

 

DY NEWS: Do you have some take-action suggestions for interested readers?

 

FOSTER: Yes. Take responsibility for your own health. Exercise, eat

well and take your nutrients. No smoking and no drinking! Also support

those who dare to stand up for the truth. You owe them more than

passive agreement.

 

DY NEWS: What is your most important, most enduring message?

 

FOSTER: Actions speak louder than words. A great deal louder.

 

(end of interview)

 

Harold D. Foster's Papers indexed by the National Library of

Medicine's MEDLINE:

 

Foster HD. How HIV-1 causes AIDS: implications for prevention and

treatment. Med Hypotheses. 2004;62(4):549-53. Review.

 

Foster HD, Hoffer A. Schizophrenia and cancer: the adrenochrome

balanced morphism. Med Hypotheses. 2004;62(3):415-9. Review.

 

Foster HD, Hoffer A. The two faces of L-DOPA: benefits and adverse

side effects in the treatment of Encephalitis lethargica, Parkinson's

disease, multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Med

Hypotheses. 2004;62(2):177-81.

 

Foster HD. Why HIV-1 has diffused so much more rapidly in Sub-Saharan

Africa than in North America. Med Hypotheses. 2003 Apr;60(4):611-4.

 

Hocking M, Foster HD. Upper respiratory tract infections among airline

passengers. JAMA. 2002 Dec 18;288(23):2972; author reply 2972-3.

 

Foster HD. Why the preeminent risk factor in sporadic Alzheimer's

disease cannot be genetic. Med Hypotheses. 2002 Jul;59(1):57-61.

 

Foster HD. Coxsackie B virus and myocardial infarction. Lancet. 2002

Mar 2;359(9308):804.

 

Foster HD. Landscapes of longevity: the calcium-selenium-mercury

connection in cancer and heart disease.

Med Hypotheses. 1997 Apr;48(4):355-60. Review.

 

Foster HD, Zhang L. Longevity and selenium deficiency: evidence from

the People's Republic of China. Sci Total Environ. 1995 Aug

18;170(1-2):133-9.

 

Foster HD. Road-deicing salt and cancer: the need for further study. J

Natl Cancer Inst. 1993 Oct 6;85(19):1603-5.

 

Foster HD. The iodine-selenium connection: its possible roles in

intelligence, cretinism, sudden infant death syndrome, breast cancer

and multiple sclerosis. Med Hypotheses. 1993 Jan;40(1):61-5. Review.

 

Foster HD. Reply to the letter of L. C. Clark and G. F. Combs, Jr. J

Nutr. 1989 Jun;119(6):950.

 

Foster HD. Suicide and mortality from diabetes. Am J Psychiatry. 1988

Feb;145(2):272.

 

Foster HD. Selenium and cancer prevention. J Nutr. 1988 Feb;118(2):237-9.

 

Foster HD. Disease family trees: the possible roles of iodine in

goitre, cretinism, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,

Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases and cancers of the thyroid,

nervous system and skin. Med Hypotheses. 1987 Nov;24(3):249-63. Review.

 

Foster HD. Diabetes mellitus and low environmental magnesium levels.

Lancet. 1987 Sep 12;2(8559):633.

 

UNSTRESS YOUR LIFE, Part 2

 

by John Mosher, PhD

 

Biology Professor Emeritus, State University of New York

 

GETTING STARTED IMMEDIATELY

 

Practicing stress reduction is like a breath of cool mountain air;

like the refreshing water of a quiet lake shore among the silent

pines. Here in this peaceful sanctuary, you feel your own being as the

quiet still point within. Come to this quiet peaceful place. Even in

the midst of the toil and turmoil of the day, find peace. Let's help

you commence that metaphorical " breath of cool mountain air. "

 

SUMMARY OF A RELAXATION TECHNIQUE

 

1) Have a quiet, comfortable place to do your practice.

 

2) Close your eyes and breathe from your diaphragm for a few seconds

or longer to establish diaphragmatic breathing.

 

3) With eyes closed coordinate the position of your tongue with the

inhale and the exhale (as explained in the detailed instructions,

below). Repeat this procedure for at least three times. You may do

more if you wish.

 

4) With eyes closed do the alternating breathing; (as described

below). Be sure you breathe from the diaphragm. Do this type of

breathing for about 5 minutes.

 

5) With eyes closed, do mindful diaphragmatic breathing for fifteen to

twenty minutes.

 

6) At the end of the fifteen or twenty minutes of " mindful " breathing,

rest with eyes closed for at least five minutes. After the rest,

commence activity gradually. Be gentle with yourself!

 

Practice the technique as instructed twice a day, once before eating

in the morning and before evening meal. You may do a short ten-minute

session before noon meal if you wish. Remember something is better

than nothing. If you cannot organize your time to include two sessions

per day, do one. Of course, two a day gives results more quickly, and

naturally is more effective.

 

Remember you can go as slowly or as quickly on this program as you wish.

 

HOW TO PROCEED

 

Choose a quiet comfortable place. It is best to do the procedure

sitting up with the back comfortably straight.

 

With eyes closed, be aware of your breathing. Be sure you are

breathing from the diaphragm, not the chest. That is when breathing

your lower abdominal area should rise and fall noticeably with your

inhale and exhale. There should be only minimal movement of the chest.

 

Once you have established proper diaphragmatic breathing with the eyes

closed, then try coordinating the tongue position with the inhale and

exhale like this:

 

Put your tongue on the roof of your mouth just behind your upper front

teeth with the mouth closed on the inhale. Inhale fully in this

position. Hold the breath to the count of seven, then drop the tongue

to its normal position in the floor of the mouth and open the mouth

slightly and slowly exhale. When exhalation is complete hold the

breath for the count of seven and then close the mouth, place the

tongue on the roof of the mouth and inhale. Repeat this form of

breathing three times (more if you wish). Remember keep the eyes

closed and keep your awareness on your breathing.

 

After having completed the three or more breaths as described,

proceed, with eyes closed, to alternating breathing.

 

The alternating breathing consists of, a) Breathing normally from the

diaphragm, b) using your thumb to close your right nostril, inhaling

through the left nostril. Next release the right nostril and close the

left nostril with the fingers and exhale through the right nostril.

Then inhale through the right nostril. Close the right nostril with

the thumb and exhale through the left nostril then inhale through the

left nostril, close and exhale through the right nostril. Continue the

alternating nostrils breathing for five minutes with the eyes closed.

 

Now discontinue the alternating breathing technique. As you continue

to sit quietly with the eyes closed, bring your attention to your

breath. Continue to breathe from the diaphragm.

 

Be mindful of inhaling and exhaling. If you wish, you may think the

word " SO " , as you inhale and the word " HUM " , as you exhale. Continue

this " mindful " breathing for fifteen or twenty minutes. If during the

breathing your mind wanders and gets off on thoughts then, as soon as

you realize that your attention is not on the breathing but on

thoughts, simply turn your attention from the thought to the

breathing. Do not try to control your thoughts; do not dwell on them.

Just let the thoughts pass by as a stream would flow past you. As soon

as you realize that your mind is on thoughts and not mindful of the

breathing, then turn your attention from the thoughts back to the

breathing.

 

At the end of fifteen or twenty minutes of the " mindful " breathing lie

down and relax with your eyes closed for at least five minutes. At the

end of your rest commence activity nice and slowly. Avoid any

immediate strenuous activity. Even though your mind may seem very

alert, remember that you body has been at profound rest. It would sort

of jolt the body to immediately jump up from your rest and start

strenuous activity. Be gentle and easy with your body.

 

Remember: try to practice this technique twice a day, morning before

eating and evening before eating. If you wish you may do a five or ten

minute session before eating lunch.

 

More to come next month.

 

(Counselor and professor of biology John I. Mosher, PhD, is the author

of several articles at the DoctorYourself.com website, including:

 

How to Communicate Better:

 

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

 

Improve Your Relationships with Others:

 

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

 

Life's Journey and How to Travel It:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/mosher2.html

 

Book Review of The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle:

 

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

 

Your Personal Development:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/mosher3.html

 

IN MEMORIAM:

 

Charlotte Schnee Kaufman (1918-2005)

 

(Excerpted from the Winston-Salem Journal, 2/15/2005.)

 

Charlotte Schnee Kaufman, widow of Dr. William Kaufman

(http://www.doctoryourself.com/JOM1.html), completed her bright and

wonderful journey through life on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2005. Born March 8,

1918, in Bridgeport CT, she transferred from Connecticut College to

the University of Michigan, where she majored in journalism and

feigned sophistication. William Kaufman, a pre-medical student, was

instantly smitten when a friend told him about " the girl with the

monocle, " Charlotte. He contrived to meet her, and she found him the

most brilliant and interesting fellow she'd ever met. In 1940, after

he had earned an M.D. degree, cum laude, and a doctorate in the

then-rare field of nutrition, and she had won a bachelor's degree with

honors in journalism, they were married and moved to Connecticut.

 

The new Mrs. Kaufman helped in her husband's medical practice and

researched and edited his prolific writing projects. A true visionary

in medical nutrition, Dr. Kaufman pioneered the treatment of arthritis

with niacinamide (http://www.doctoryourself.com/kaufman6.html);

letters reached him when they were addressed only to " The Arthritis

Doctor. " For 60 years, the Kaufmans shared a life that was a union of

two complete persons who complemented and enhanced each other. " We

were always looking forward, " Mrs. Kaufman said.

 

She innovated, among many other endeavors, a program for teaching poor

young mothers the art of baby care. Film in hand, the diminutive (4

feet, 11 inches and 90 pounds) Mrs. Kaufman was warmly welcomed by the

large numbers of women who attended her popular classes. She also

served in numerous capacities as a communications executive. . . She

received the Evelyn M. Kennedy Award for Outstanding Service to the

Mentally Retarded in 1966, and the 1970 Award for Meritorious Service

to Geriatric Patients from the Connecticut Department of Aging. In

1989, the " retired " Kaufmans spontaneously decided to move to

Winston-Salem, NC. . . In 1994, Mrs. Kaufman founded CAT-TV,

Winston-Salem's public-access television station. Two years later she

served as executive producer of the television series, " People of

Conflict, " sponsored by Duke University.

 

After her husband's death in August 2000, despite exhaustion and

profound grief for her lifetime partner and best friend, Mrs. Kaufman

plunged into a task that would have daunted most people half her age,

and twice her strength. She organized and collected Dr. Kaufman's

papers and her own for the Dr. William and Charlotte Kaufman Endowment

Fund at the University of Michigan, a collection that occupies 30 feet

of shelf space at the University of Michigan Library. Frail yet vital,

she enjoyed cruising the Internet to learn about new and interesting

things, and delighted in the web site http://www.doctoryourself.com ,

which features detailed information about her late husband's

extraordinary career.

 

If you would honor her, celebrate and rejoice for the life of a

brilliant, compassionate and gracious woman who loved life and gave so

much to it, " always looking forward. "

 

Editor's Note: Mrs. Kaufman was a wonderful correspondent. Last year,

she wrote:

 

" Dear Dr. Saul,

 

" I've been meaning to write you for some time but everything is

difficult for me. But I do want you to know how much I enjoy your

Doctor Yourself Newsletter. It's not only informative but helpful. And

in addition it really is a fascinating personal statement of views

that are so different from conventional thinking. I look forward to

every issue. I admire your energy in making so much information

available to others. Many thanks for all the constructive things you do. "

 

" Best wishes, as always,

" Charlotte "

 

I will miss her very much.

 

Now to look forward, as she always did.

 

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