More on Science of Chelation Therapy
Author: Conrad G. Maulfair, Jr. D.O.
The Science of Chelation Therapy
The chemistry behind chelation therapy was not invented; it was discovered. The Swiss Nobel Laureate Alfred Werner in 1893 suggested the chemical structure that was later confirmed by others. This chemical structure which involves an organic molecule surrounding a metal ion was defined and termed 'chelation' in 1920 and in 1913 the Nobel Prize was awarded for discovery of chelation chemistry.
The complex, of the organic molecule, when it surrounds a metal nullifies the reactive charge on the metal which is what causes certain metals to have undesirable reactions. Again, this chelation complex was not invented in a laboratory; it was discovered as existing in nature. It is a part of nature and it is a part of us. Examples of chelation chemistry existing in nature include chlorophyll which is a chelate of magnesium, hemoglobin which is a chelate of iron, vitamin B12 which is a chelate of cobalt. The coenzyme, cytochrome C, and the enzymes, catalase and peroxidase, are chelates of iron.
Chelation therapy as a medical treatment, in part, is the use of a chelating agent (organic molecule) introduced into the body, ideally as an infusion (intravenously). As it circulates around the body, suspended in the bloodstream, it will attract and surround a metal ion. The resulting complex, chelating agent (organic molecule) and the surrounded metal ion will eventually pass through the kidneys. The kidneys recognize this complex as not being food and not needed or wanted and it is filtered from the bloodstream through the kidneys into the urine and then eliminated from the body. More in a moment about why the activity of deburdening the body of minerals and metals can be so therapeutic.
The consideration of using this chelation chemistry therapeutically in man began to be formulated in the era around World War II as an antidote for arsenic-containing poison gasses. Arsenic is a metal, that if immobilized, would decrease the effectiveness of the poison gasses. Around the same time, the chelating agent EDTA (ethylenediamine tetra-acetate acid) appeared on the scene in 1947. Studies were done in Georgetown University and at Walter Reed Army Hospital on patients utilizing the chelating agent EDTA. An entirely different application of chelation therapy in vascular disease and related disorders began to be reported in the medical literature around 1950. Back to minerals and why they are so important in health and in disease.
Energy production is the most basic and essential activity in the body. Impaired energy production will result in impaired health and is a major factor in the development of chronic degenerative diseases and the aging process as well. The body\'s energy is a composite of cellular energy production. An average body has approximately 7,000 billion cells. In order for cellular energy to proceed effectively and efficiently, enzymes must be present. Enzymes are proteins which accelerate the cellular chemical reactions that result in the cellular energy production. There are hundreds of enzymes. This enzymatic reaction must have a coenzyme or cofactor to have an effective reaction. Many coenzymes must have a mineral and/or a vitamin as an essential ingredient. Magnesium and zinc, for instance, are coenzymes necessary for hundreds of cellular chemical reactions, so?.if there is a deficiency of an essential coenzyme mineral it blocks the enzyme needed to insure that the cellular chemical reaction happens and that determines the cellular function, and consequently the health and function of the organ and other systems the malfunctioning cells are located in.
There is yet another way in which minerals affect health. We have just learned of the essential nature of certain minerals in cellular health and therefore, body health. Energy production of all kinds depends on this activity. Toxic minerals can compete for positions with the enzymes. Toxic metals such as lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury, uranium and others are particularly adroit at replacing the essential mineral (magnesium, zinc and others) on the cellular receptors. This toxic mineral (wrong coenzyme/cofactor) prevents the enzyme from being active; therefore, the cell energy and function suffers and the body\'s health and function suffer, disease ensues and symptoms eventually follow and resulting symptoms are the central concern of standard medical treatment.
A chelation therapy program, as one of its modes of action, provides a solution for mineral imbalances, both essential and toxic, increasing the essential minerals and decreasing the toxic minerals and metals. A chelation therapy program is a common sense comprehensive program that when properly designed and followed can restore health, cellular health resulting in increased energy and bodily health.
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Diabetes and Common Denominators of Chronic Degenerative Diseases
Author: Conrad G. Maulfair, Jr. D.O.
Heart disease, diabetes and the aging process in general have common denominators. Diabetes is one of the most costly, destructive medical epidemics of the 21st century and can be treated in ways you might not have thought of. The earlier you address diabetes and its symptoms effectively the better the quality of your life will be if you are suffering from diabetes or have a family history predicting your development of the disease. The most healthful approach would be to take care of yourself in such a way as to prevent the development of the disease.
Most physicians recommend you eat a carbohydrate and protein balanced diet but some of the most effective programs recommend higher protein diets as carbohydrate diets lead to the use of more and more insulin over the years. Diabetics are often counseled to eat artificial sweeteners which ruin their health. When it comes to diet read the popular text called "Protein Power" by physicians authors Eades who are husband and wife treating diabetics effectively in their clinics. A very low carbohydrate diet, in a recent study, was shown to raise the level of HDL cholesterol (the good one) and lower triglyceride levels resulting in weight loss. Exercise and weight control are always recommended whether you suffer from chronic diseases or not.
Inflammation of tissues is brought about by many factors affecting chronic diseases including diabetes. Reducing or eliminating the inflammatory response should be a major focal point in your treatment program or to help you avoid developing any of the complications attributed to the aging process. The accumulation of toxins and heavy metals causes an inflammatory response in tissues throughout the body as does eating incorrectly in the case of consuming foods you are sensitive to in that they will cause your immune system to respond as if the food were a foreign particle to reckon with inciting your body to produce antibodies. Trans fats contribute to inflammatory responses which is a major factor in the development of disease and the aging process. The type of fat and carbohydrate you eat is of critical importance and more important than the amount.
According to a Harvard professor, Walter Willet, MD, 90% of type II diabetes and 80% of coronary artery disease could be prevented with these recommendations. We support our patients' wellness with a comprehensive dietary plan and chelation therapy which in itself is a treatment reducing inflammation of tissues throughout the body. Why do we recommend exercise as part of our protocols? Exercise improves muscle and fat tissue sensitivity to insulin and therefore reduces the need for insulin and reduces fasting blood sugar levels. Cellular resistance to insulin is a major factor in the development of type II diabetes. The mineral nutrients magnesium and chromium have been shown to improve insulin sensitivity. Complications of diabetes are numerous; cinnamon can help lower blood sugar, stevia is a safe herbal sweetener and has been shown to modulate blood sugar, and alpha-lipoic acid has relieved symptoms from peripheral neuropathy.
43% of diabetic patients who also had elevated blood pressure had coronary artery disease but showed no symptoms, called silent coronary artery disease, were reported in a study from a recent meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine.
Dr. Conrad Maulfair
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Prescription
Drugs; Take Or Not, That Is The Question
Generations of Americans have grown up to believe the
primary, most scientific method of treatment for an illness or disease
is medication or, in more resistant situations, surgery. It is common
practice for most people, when a symptom first develops, to attempt
to relieve it by taking an over-the-counter medication. If this fails
to handle the symptoms a doctor visit with the expectation of a specific
medication to handle the symptoms usually follows. The overall viewpoint
is "what can I take?" We have had the notion we need to take medication
drilled into us for years and years by the medical profession and the
pharmaceutical industry with doctors being the purveyors or the middle
men between the pharmaceutical industry and the consumer. This has become
so common place we have lost track of the idea that there might be alternatives
to the use of medical drugs and surgical interventions.
Millions of Americans are demonstrating and practicing
their freedom of choice in pursuing alternative or complementary medical
treatments. Millions are recognizing their right to learn about, to
study and to choose alternatives for their medical care. Many alternative
medical practices utilize natural substances which stimulate, enhance
and generally support the immune system and the body's ability to function
normally. These therapeutic modalities and treatments are often substances
the body needs everyday and are free of side effects especially if utilized
by a healthcare professional who is appropriately trained and has had
experience in the use of non-toxic, natural, body friendly treatment
protocols. The notion held by some is that nutrients obtained in a natural
food store or other stores without a doctor's prescription makes it
"unscientific" is as far from the truth as one can get. Nutrients provide
the basic building blocks of cellular function and the cell's ability
to produce energy and therefore do its job. Since the body you live
in is comprised of billions of cells, the health of your cells is important
and providing your body with the ingredients it needs to function normally
is about as scientific as you can get.
The use of drugs is touted to be scientific medicine
in spite of the fact that in 1994 an estimated 2,216,000 Americans had
been hospitalized for side effects of drugs prescribed by doctors and
declared safe by the FDA according to an article which appeared in the
Journal of the American Medical Association. Approximately 106,000 Americans
died from these adverse reactions, again by drugs prescribed by doctors
for normal indications and declared safe by the FDA. Prescribing drugs
resulting in the hospitalization of over 2 million Americans and the
death of over 100,000 seems to me to be not only unscientific but immoral.
It is particularly onerous to see this abuse of patients by the medical
profession continue when there exists an alternative philosophy and
viewpoint of medical care available for patient and doctor alike.
There are hundreds of doctors and millions of Americans
who choose alternative or complementary therapies because they have
observed the obvious, they work. There are many treatment choices that
result in a return to health for millions.
Chelation therapy is a shining example of a useful therapy
that has been observed by thousands of physicians and patients who have
realized its benefit in treating chronic degenerative diseases such
as heart disease and other vascular disease, diabetes and arthritis.
This medical treatment has been in utilized for over fifty years and
if it did not work people would not continue to seek it. Chelation therapy
has not only stood the test of time but its use is expanding and there
are cardiologists who appreciate chelation therapy's potential, who
recommend it and some even utilize it in treating patients.
The use of homeopathic treatments and herbal treatments
has likewise been around a long time including most of this century.
Along with chelation therapy these modalities are body friendly and
when properly utilized by an experienced health care professional, have
relatively low potential of side effects.
Sauna detoxification utilizing the Hubbard protocol
described in Clear Body Clear Mind is extremely effective
in removing medical drugs and street drugs and environmental toxins
from the body reducing health problems.
If
you have second thoughts about taking a prescribed drug to handle a
symptom or side effect of some other drug, if you are sick and tired
of being sick and tired and feel your quality of life slipping away,
you need to know there is good news. There is almost always an alternative
approach, an alternative methodology, or philosophy that you could learn
about and benefit from. I personally want to encourage you to pursue
expanding your knowledge of these medical choices. You could have a
great positive impact on the rest of your life.
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New
Anti-aging Treatment Protocol- Lipid Exchange Therapy (LET)
The cell is the basic building block of the body that
we live in. There are approximately 10,000 billion cells specialized
to perform specific functions. Typically, the cells make up tissues,
tissues make up an organ system, and the organ system contribute its
function to the entire body's function. There are, therefore, millions
of heart cells, blood vessels cells, kidney cells, liver cells, skin
cells, glandular cells, etc. The cell is a self-contained unit which
produces its own energy. The energy the cell produces is used for the
particular function of the cell; such as filtering the blood if it is
a kidney or liver cell, or to contract if it is a muscle cell moving
the body about, or pumping blood, etc. The energy that the cell produces
is also necessary for the cell to protect itself from environmental
damage.
There are many constituents within the cell; the mitochondria
produce the energy for the cell as an example. The constituents within
the cell, called organelles, are surrounded by a membrane. Nutrients
needed for the cell to produce energy pass through this membrane; the
nutrients include vitamins, minerals, trace elements, electrolytes,
proteins, fats, carbohydrates, water, and oxygen. It is through this
membrane that waste products of cellular metabolism from energy production
pass out of the cell. The function of the cell membrane is essential
for the health of the cell, and therefore, the health of the tissues,
the organs, and ultimately the entire body. The health and integrity
of the cell membrane is, therefore, essential in maintaining a good
quality of life and to resist disease. Alterations in the cell membrane's
integrity, changes in its ability to import nutrients and move waste
products out of the cell, or its ability to prevent dangerous things
from passing into the cell, cause chronic degenerative diseases and
the aging process. The cell membrane is primarily made of lipids (fat).
The chief lipid in the cell membrane is phosphatidylcholine (PC). Another
lipid present is sphingomyelin (SM). Cholesterol, normally present in
the cell membrane, is essential in decreasing damage to the cell membrane
and provides some firmness and structure. Changes in the ratios between
these three lipids contribute to the aging process and chronic, degenerative
diseases. Changes in the structure of these substances contribute to
chronic, degenerative disease development and the aging process.
When the amounts of PC, SM, and cholesterol are in correct
ratios and are undamaged the cell membrane has a fluid nature. The substances
within the cell membrane move about, and enable the nutrients and other
substances to pass through easily. As the ratios of the fats change
and their structures are altered by free radical damage, the cell membrane
becomes more rigid and more resistant to the passage of nutrients and
other vital substances into the cell. Studies have demonstrated that
pc decreases with the aging process and the SM and cholesterol increase
with age. This also is seen in membranes associated with the arterial
wall in which upwards of a six-fold decrease in the ratio between PC
and SM occurs with aging. The same has been seen in atherosclerosis
where there is clear evidence of an increase in the SM fat. Again, all
of these changes contribute to decreased function of the cell membrane
and as a result, decreased function of the cell; if a cell happens to
be in an artery it may decrease ability of the artery cells to protect
themselves from buildup of cholesterol, damage from free radicals, calcium
deposition, etc.
Lipid exchange therapy is simply the intravenous administration
of PC (phosphatidylcholine). This administration makes healthy PC available
for the body to use in maintaining healthy cell membranes. The intravenous
administration of PC has potential to restore normal function to existing
cell membranes and would be available for new cells. The result is enhanced
function of the cells resulting in enhanced function of the tissues
and the organ systems in which the cells are located. Studies have shown
application of intravenous phospholipids such as phosphatidylcholine
have been able to reverse age-related changes in the lipid or fat composition
of heart muscle cells in animals.
Lab animal studies have also shown a tendency toward
increased male sexual competence. Work with patients utilizing intravenous
lipid exchange therapy has demonstrated the potential for a significant
decrease in the atherosclerotic disease process; even when used as the
sole treatment. Utilizing it as a complement to a chelation therapy
program could potentially be very advantageous.
PC is the prominent phospholipid of all cell membranes.
PC is also a normal constituent of bile that facilitates fat emulsification,
absorption, and transport. PC is not to be confused with lecithin. Lecithin
is a mixture of phospholipids and other fats.
The basic building block of phosphatidylcholine is choline,
which is considered by most to be an essential nutrient. Essential means
that the body does not make it; it has to be presented to the body through
dietary sources. Most of the choline that is ingested is predominately
ingested in the form of phosphatidylcholine.
PC is the main structural support of cell membranes
comprising about 70% of the total membrane phospholipids. As we said
earlier, it is essential for regulation of the membrane fluidity. PC
is essential for normal transport of nutrients etc. through the cell
membrane from the external environment to the intracellular environment.
PC has shown to provide antioxidant protection and is
also a precursor for other phospholipids. It has also been shown to
protect against numerous chemical toxins and pharmaceutical adverse
effects.
There is ample evidence to show the ability of PC to
ameliorate liver damage; it may be an important factor in preventing
numerous liver diseases, including cirrhosis from alcohol, drug-induced
liver damage, and impaired liver function that comes from daily exposure
to environmental chemicals such as insecticides, pesticides, herbicides,
etc. Hepatitis can also respond favorably to lipid exchange therapy
utilizing PC.
PC is essentially free from any side effects or toxicity.
It is compatible with other nutrients and actually may even enhance
their absorption.
The potential benefit of the intravenous use of phospolipids
is not new news. A 1957 issue of Protocols of the Society of Experimental
Biology and Medicine discussed a study in which rabbits that were
fed a diet which caused the atherosclerotic disease process to occur,
were separated into several groups, one group received intravenous phospholipids.
After a period of months, the laboratory animals were sacrificed, and
their aortas were evaluated. The treated rabbits had no detectable atherosclerotic
disease. Those not treated with intravenous phospholipids had widespread
atherosclerotic infiltration of the aorta. The summary of this article
was "intermittent intravenous infusions of phosphatide emulsion into
two series of previously hypercholesterolemic rabbits appeared to affect
a marked resolution of their atherosclerotic infiltration and cholesterol
deposit as judged by the findings in paired, untreated animals." The
news is 46 years old. It is interesting because the magnificent benefits
of chelation therapy have also been suppressed for an equal amount of
time.
Dr.
Conrad Maulfair, Osteopathic Physician
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Healthy
Aging Possible with Chelation Infusions
Chelation Infusion Therapy offers anyone a chance
to age gracefully and restore youthful elasticity throughout the entire
circulatory system no matter your health status, well or ill, heart
disease or not. Teaching the public the value of chelation infusions
and chelation therapy should include information about the development
of chronic degerativve disease and basic physiology. When you restore
the circulatory system's ability to deliver nutrients and remove waste
products on the cellular level you are affecting your health in a big
way. Cellular health from head to foot is the goal; we want health,
energy and beauty from the inside out. Innovative physicians across
this country offer their patients a real way to stay young, not only
at heart but body wide. In every clinic where chelation infusions have
been in use you will find hundreds and hundreds of success stories of
people who overcame serious health problems due to the diseases of aging
and also the hundreds and hundreds of people who avoided serious problems
altogether due to a program of healthful living and chelation infusion
therapy.
You cannot do a few things to help yourself retain
or regain your health; you need to do a number of things. There is not
one recommendation that will magically save you but you can save yourself
the ravages of aging by doing the usual; exercise, eating fresh organic
foods full of nutrient dense choices, taking high quality potent nutrient
supplements and high quality fish oils and vegetable oils of a good
variety, avoiding toxic exposures of all kinds AND utilizing chelation
infusions with a physician trained in this life saving therapy. You
need to do those things that keep you healthy and you need to remove
the reasons why you are not; including the accumulation of heavy metals
and ionic calcium that impedes your circulatory system long before you
have a symptom.
Minerals
must be replaced during a Chelation Infusion Program as they are lost
along with heavy metals and ionic calcium by the infusion of the chelating
agent. A program is comprehensive and must include exercise, proper
diet and oral nutrients. As additional advice you need to realize that
oral chelation is not going to measure up to chelation infusions as
you could never ingest the amount of EDTA in the infusion treatment
by mouth; if you absorb any of the chelating agent in your gut you may
move heavy metals from the water you swallowed it with into the circulation,
not a good thing.
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Cholesterol -
The Real Story
Contrary
to popular belief cholesterol is not fat. Cholesterol is a waxy substance
that is produced by the liver and also ingested through foods we eat.
It often has fatty acids contained in it and therefore it is considered
to be fat, but it is not fat in and of itself.
Up
to 80% of cholesterol is used to make cholic acid which is essential
in bile salts that are, themselves, necessary for digestion and absorption
of fat from the diet. Additionally, cholesterol is used to make the
hormones progesterone, estrogen and testosterone.
There
is a significant amount of cholesterol in the skin that helps the
skin to resist water absorption and water evaporation. The presence
of cholesterol in the skin also helps to decrease the penetration
of toxic agents such as solvents etc.
Perhaps
one of the most important roles of cholesterol is in the formation
and maintenance of cellular function through the integrity of cell
membranes as well as many of the membranes of the other structures
within the cell including the organelles that produce energy. Membrane
integrity is essential for life and for health and the prevention
of disease. A breakdown in cell membrane integrity will lead to ill
health and disease. In addition to cholesterol benefit in our skin
as a protective agent there is scientific evidence that cholesterol
protects cell membranes from oxidative/free radical damage. The significance
of cell membrane function is covered extensively at our chelation
seminars.
Here
is a substance that is, in fact, a health enhancing life necessity
but purported to be life threatening. Cholesterol has gotten a bad
rap.
We
are told that we eat too much cholesterol in our diet and that elevated
levels in the blood cause hardening of the arteries that, in turn,
cause heart attacks and strokes. We are told that lowering cholesterol
is essential to decrease the aforementioned disease process and its
sequela. Low fat diets are prescribed and if that isn't effective,
cholesterol lowering drug therapy is prescribed. This philosophy has
been touted for so long as scientific fact that it is accepted without
question by the majority of physicians and patients, in spite of the
fact that there are thousands and thousands of people who have low
cholesterol levels in their blood and have blocked arteries all over
their bodies, and those who have elevated cholesterol levels without
any problems.
The
rest of the cholesterol story explains why these exceptions occur,
why cholesterol is a problem for some and not for others. With this
additional data you can think for yourself and decide for yourself.
As
we stated at the outset, cholesterol is not fat. Cholesterol often
has fatty acids, the basic building block of fat, attached to it.
Cholesterol/fatty acids are carried from one area to another through
the blood stream by a substance called lipoprotein. This is a form
of protein that acts as a carrier, a basket if you will, which carries
fat around to the cells for use as a source of energy. The two primary
lipoproteins are low density lipoprotein (LDL) and high density lipoprotein
(HDL). The LDL principally carries fat to the cells and the HDL carries
the fat away from the cell. LDL is considered bad and the HDL is considered
good. Herein lies another bit of misinformation. LDL and HDL are not
cholesterol at all but simply the carriers that carry the substances
of cholesterol and fatty acids to the cells and away from the cells.
The good and bad terms are derived from the fact that the HDL is considered
good because it carries fat away from the cell decreasing the potential
of the fat being deposited, whereas the LDL carries the fat to the
cell increasing the potential for it to be deposited. But there is
more to this story.
In
recent times the terms free radicals, free radical damage and antioxidants
have become familiar jargon. Taking antioxidants has become popular
but few people understand the importance of free radicals and the
damage they create and the antioxidant's potential to prevent that
damage. Those of you who have attended one of our chelation therapy
seminars have a good understanding of what all of this means.
It
is very important as far as cholesterol is concerned to understand
that the LDL structure (fatty acids with protein) is the primary source
of plague in hardening of the arteries. The HDL form of lipoprotein
(protein with fat attached) is not the type of lipoprotein which contributes
to plague build up and as we said earlier, actually helps to lower
the fat in the area by carrying it away from tissues. It is important
to note that LDL, even though considered bad, is an essential part
of the body's mechanism for handling fat and as such, is necessary
and beneficial. The reason that it could be considered bad is not
because of its mere presence, but rather because of changes that take
place which alter its natural or beneficial form to an aberrated,
detrimental form. The process that alters the natural LDL is called
oxidation, caused by free radicals. This damage can be prevented by
utilizing anti- oxidants.
To
summarize, LDL cholesterol/ fatty acid is normal in the body and has
a function. When it becomes altered by free radical damage it is transformed
into a detrimental form. The native or normal LDL can pass freely
through tissues such as the lining of arteries. The damaged LDL cannot
and gets stuck in the artery wall. The scientific evidence of this
has been known for years and continues to proliferate.
An
article that appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine in
1989 entitled "Beyond Cholesterol" spoke directly about this. The
article reviewed numerous studies over many years including studies
back to the 70's and early 80's.
Blood
flow through an artery can be impaired by another major mechanism
apart from a blockage of the blood flow from plague. Arteries can
go in spasm decreasing blood flow, often significantly. This process
is often a cause of angina. A study that appeared in 1990 in the Journal
of Clinical Investigation, detailed evidence that coronary artery
contractions can be caused by oxidative LDL. Evidence also exists
that oxidized LDL, not normal LDL, impairs the function of the cells
lining arteries that function to initiate blood vessel dilation.
We
have previously discussed one of the benefits of HDL is that it carries
lipids away from tissues. Numerous research projects are identifying
an enzyme associated with HDL that inhibits the oxidation damage of
LDL. In other words, this may be a major way the HDL is protective
and the so-called "good guy".
The Journal of the American Medical Association published
an interesting article in the December 8, 1999 issue entitled "Smoking
and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in Men with Low Levels
of Serum Cholesterol". The study showed, not surprisingly, that smoking
was a risk factor for atherosclerotic vascular disease and also that
"a low cholesterol level confers no protective benefit against smoking
related ASVD". How does smoking damage the body? Primarily from free
radical damage. Cholesterol is not a problem unless it is damaged;
smoking damages it and it becomes a problem whether the level in the
blood is high or low. Lowering the cholesterol in the blood does not
decrease its potential to damage. The article is proof of what some
of us have been saying for years and is proof of the known science
on the cholesterol subject.
The
most important factor is not the amount of cholesterol, or even the
type, but whether it is clean or dirty, normal or damaged.
Conrad
G. Maulfair, Jr. D.O
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Chemical
Preservative Found in 18 of 20 Breast Cancer Tumor Tissues Sampled
We have known
for some time, with the evidence continuing to mount, that many man-made
chemicals found in our environment are also found in our bodies. Many
of these chemicals are carcinogenic. The unknowns include how much chemical
accumulation will cause cancer and what is the effect of small amounts
of hundreds of chemicals accumulating in our body. It is also very difficult
to "prove" direct cause of effect, i.e.; chemical = a specific cancer
in a person. The reference for the study mentioned above appeared in
the Journal of Applied Toxicology vol.24, p.5. It referenced
the presence of preservatives used in personal care products, cosmetics
and some foods in the tumor tissue itself. Did this chemical preservative
cause the cancer? That cannot be determined with scientific certainty
but there are several points to be made. What other toxic chemicals
may have been present providing additional carcinogenic effects? Only
one chemical was tested for in the tumor tissue. From my viewpoint we
would all be less likely to develop cancer if we had fewer toxins in
our bodies.
The human
body as well as the bodies of animals, fish and fowl deposit toxins,
as a protective mechanism, in adipose tissue, that is to say fat tissue.
The breast is primarily adipose tissue. The nursing infant will ingest
chemicals from his/her mother during lactation and these chemicals,
including pesticides, have been shown in animal studies to damage endocrine,
reproductive and nervous systems.
Texas Tech
University researchers found the rocket fuel perchlorate in samples
of breast milk nationwide. The Environmental Working Group found traces
of 287 chemicals in the umbilical cord blood of 10 infants they tested.
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) in a study of 2,500 Americans in
2003 found all of the 116 man-made pollutants being investigated in
the blood of these volunteers.
Bisphenol
A (BPA) is a chemical found in many plastic products including baby
bottles and other bottles in wide use and in personal care products.
BPA disrupts hormone function. One in five American four year olds is
obese. Overweight girls had significantly higher levels of phthalates
(BPA type chemicals) in their body compared to the general population
of children.
Metabolic
syndrome, low testosterone levels in men, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's
disease, neuro-developmental problems, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia
and many more chronic health problems are tied to the presence of these
chemicals in the bodies of victims of these diseases. We sincerely hope
more physicians will start to address these problems in their medical
practices and offices. There are treatment programs to help reduce the
levels in the body and your lifestyle choices can insure you reduce
exposure. It is an urgent health issue.
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Contamination
Brings Early Aging
Dreams and goals are unattainable if you are ill. Have you noticed your
interest in your personal activities actually increases in your forties
and fifties? All of sudden you start thinking about the things you have
put off. If you are taking care of aging parents they bring home to
you the message of the importance of health.
Health
and energy are the foundation for a happy life and you need to pay attention
to ways in which they are robbed from you before you realize it. Aging
starts earlier than people recognize. You can have the beginnings of
heart disease in your twenties and as it slowly progresses over the
course of your life you ?naturally? have less energy, feel slightly
ill all the time and enjoy your life less as you are approaching the
problems in life with less enthusiasm. Some of joy of life leaves because
you sleep poorly, you have less energy so you do less and you find yourself
thinking you are not going to make a difference anyway. The quality
of your life degenerates and many people accept this as a normal part
of growing old.
I
disagree. Years of helping people regain their vitality gives me the
certainty that many, many people can be helped and their energy can
be restored and so their contribution to life around them. Active, healthy
people benefit society and we all gain something when one of us is doing
well in the last decades of our lives.
The
contamination of the human body is ignored in the practice of mainstream,
corporate medicine. In fact, the treatments involve in standard care
increase the level of chemicals in the body instead of reducing them.
Any drug, even helpful drugs of which there are few, give your body
a new problem. Not only is it still suffering from some underlying cause
of your symptoms it is now burdened with decontaminating this chemical
and trying to eliminate it without causing tissue damage. Can?t be done.
Once you swallow something you commit your body to doing something about
it. Notice the warning of liver damage in most drug commercials on television;
go to your pharmacy and get the side effects of drugs you take for various
ailments. AND...we have not yet addressed the environmental chemicals
you pick up from the food and water you drink and the air you breathe.
Little
know facts I want my patients to know include the scientific fact that
tiny amounts of lead in your body drive up blood pressure. When your
doctor determines you have high blood pressure does he/she ever mention
you should be checked for a toxic lead overload and if present you should
have a course of intravenous chelation therapy to reduce the body burden
of lead? Does he/she mention that intravenous chelation therapy is approved
by the the FDA for heavy metal toxicity? No? Well, why not?
If
you have used street drugs in the past or heavy medical drugs and you
crave them from time to time have you had the recommendation to reduce
the body burden of these chemicals with sauna detoxification? It works.
These residues cause health problems. Pesticides have been linked to
the development of cancer.
If
you are tired all the time and yet cannot sleep are your hormone and
thyroid levels checked? No? Well it is time to find out what else you
could be doing to help yourself. Find a physician who can help you without
pharmaceuticals. Try icimed.com.
Susanne
Somers is doing a great job of describing the vast array of medical
choices you actually have. Find and read her books.
Healthy
aging is possible. Give us a call and we will help any way we can.
Dr
Conrad Maulfair, Osteopathic Physician
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Reduce
Stress
In
these turbulent times we want to invite you to do all you can to improve
a good night’s sleep, insure you have a strong immune system,
are feeling well enough to exercise and know that the quality of the
food you eat has everything to do with your health and happiness.
YOU
NEED EVEN MORE… you need the knowledge that our medical center
stands at the top of the heap with regards outcomes and results. We
help the toughest cases and those who know how to avoid developing health
problems in the first place. We are sending you this notice to summarize
the benefits we offer. Our first recommendation to you is to avoid pharmaceutical
drugs of all kinds. If you must use them use them the way we do: use
the smallest amount for the shortest period of time.
Infusion
therapy is offered in our center because most people have poor digestion
and do not eat foods that are healthful. While we educate you on proper
dietary choices we offer treatments that deliver nutrients needed to
fight disease and prevent problems in the form of intravenous treatments.
WHY? you ask. Results. Delivered directly into your blood stream a trouble
free intravenous treatment (IV for short) is supervised by our talented
nurses while you read or sleep or work on your computer or watch you
personal DVDs. Nutrients and other infusions speed recovery to normal
function and help prevent symptoms of all kinds from developing to begin
with.
If
you have cancer and are undergoing treatment we support you with nutrient
IVs and also high dose vitamin C. Well tolerated, high dose vitamin
C is given in amounts you could not take by mouth. No need to be digested
it is immediately available to your body for nutrition but also to combat
cancer directly. Cancer Centers of America are doing an IRB on high
dose vitamin C in their Chicago facility. We have been offering this
treatment to our patients for years. Although we do not treat cancer
directly we support your immune system and help you fight that much
harder. People report fewer side effects from chemotherapy combining
the use of both fields of medicine.
Vitamin
C intravenous treatments also fight viruses and used pre and post surgery
enhance the healing process. St. Agnes Burn Center uses IV vitamin C
for this very reason to help burn victims, it speeds healing and helps
prevent infection. People with influenza, mononucleosis, upper respiratory
infections, Lyme disease and liver disease all benefit under our care.
You can also use these infusions to remain healthy during high flu outbreak
months.
If
you suffer from migraines, muscle spasms, asthma, heart rate irregularity,
angina, menstrual cramping, constipation, Raynaud’s syndrome,
esophageal spasm, back muscle spasm and intestinal spasm, you will benefit
by infusions of magnesium. The health giving properties are abounding
in the medical literature and you will find many reasons to use magnesium
as you research its uses. Low energy, fatigue, weakness, inability to
sleep, anxiousness, nervousness, irritability are also improved with
mega doses of magnesium. You could not take the amount in an IV by mouth
as you would get diarrhea due to the muscle relaxant properties of magnesium.
Glutathione
is essential for normal liver function. It is minimally absorbed when
taken orally but when you give infusions of glutathione it supports
liver function. If you are a past drug abuser or medical drug over user
this is a very important treatment to help your liver function better.
People with cancer typically have stressed liver function and benefit
from this treatment. A series of infusions of glutathione can be used
in conjunction with vitamin C. There is evidence mounting that people
with severe drug reactions to fluoroquinolone antibiotics benefit a
great deal by the use of glutathione.
The
king of the hill remains chelation therapy. It is under attack again
by people who are trying to stop the NIH national study which will clearly
show its benefits. The last gasp of criticism is printed by our biased
media who do not understand the science of chelation therapy nor the
ways it helps the body heal and prevents circulatory problems. Inflammation
lies at the bottom of most symptoms of aging, inflammation caused by
heavy metals picked up and stored in the body disrupting normal function.
We have tons of clinical evidence of the benefits of chelation therapy.
We have scientific studies, pre and post treatment, of our patients
that clearly shows the benefits and healing properties of chelation.
Without a doubt the benefits are known by medical scientists as a whole,
but the business interests of big pharma and big medicine will not give
way without calling every doctor using alternative complementary medical
treatments a quack. So be it… if it gets the results, if it changes
and reverses circulatory problems, as documented by diagnostics commonly
used, then it must be EFFECTIVE AND HEALTHFUL!! We have reversed circulatory
problems due to diabetes that could have resulted in amputations, we
have successfully treated wounds that were slow to heal, heart problems
and we have helped thousands of people slow the aging process and enjoy
their active lives.
Billions
of dollars spent on invasive procedures could be saved if the public
was able to avail themselves of chelation therapy and other IV therapy
for prevention and treatment of existing disease processes. You do not
change or stop the process of heart disease when you have a bypass surgery,
the disease process continues. Spend some time in our reception area
and read the hundreds of benefits people have experienced in our center.
Patients themselves are the best testimony to health restored. www.drmaulfair.com.
Dr
Conrad Maulfair, Osteopathic Physician
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Chelation
therapy:
Confused by claims of benefits? Oral chelation is not created
equal!
Although
oral chelation is promoted as “safe, fast and cost effective”
by its manufacturers, it cannot produce the results of intravenous treatments
given under the supervision of trained doctors who carefully monitor
your progress with sophisticated diagnostics. And you may not want to
guess when it comes to preventing or treating the main reason people
have circulatory and heart disease, or other degenerative problems.
Conventional
medicine has been using various intravenous chelation approaches since
deployed troops were poisoned with the heavy metal arsenic during the
First World War. Coined from the Greek chelè, meaning claw —
to reflect their capacity to bind metals within a “claw-like”
molecular structure, which is then excreted without further interaction
with the body — the first medically-used chelating agent was developed
at the start of WWII as an antidote to anticipated use of arsenic gas
by the Germans. Today, chelation therapy is the recognized, U.S. Food
and Drug Administration approved, medical treatment for heavy metal
intoxication by lead, cadmium, aluminum, mercury, arsenic, and even
iron.
Despite
decades of medical use in response to large-scale heavy metal exposures
along with overwhelming scientific rationale and evidence, chelation
therapy is often overlooked as a solution to the adverse health effects
caused by more gradual build-up of toxic metals.
Why?
you ask. There are a number of reasons:
1.- The controversy between newer oral chelation supplements and the
intravenous treatments used for decades is confusing. Because oral chelation
is regulated as a supplement, it does not come under the same scrutiny
as physicians offering intravenous chelation therapy in their clinics.
2.- Well-done scientific research that supports use of intravenous chelation
treatment is used to justify claims made by manufacturers of untested
oral supplements.
3.- Because most exposures are not large-scale, occuring gradually at
low levels from living in industrialized nations, for most of us the
exact cause of our symptoms is hard to pin-point, or our symptoms are
subtle, or we may not have symptoms but are trying to prevent disease
from occuring.
4.- Subtle symptoms, or worse, diseases one is trying to prevent, are
very, very difficult to study. This makes FDA approval for use with
chronic degenerative diseases difficult (and very costly) as supporting
research must show cause and effect. Keep in mind that chelation therapy
is approved for use when someone has a known heavy metal exposure.
The
fatigue, discomfort, and moodiness of low-level exposures.
Ever-increasing
use and accumulation of pollutants in general, and persistant organic
pollutants in particular, have received recent attention for their long-lasting
adverse health effects. Gradual exposure to hazardous toxins is becoming
more prevalent especially in overpopulated and industrialized parts
of the world. Such exposure contributes to increased health risks [1].
Unfortunately, there is no easy fix to protect or intervene against
diseases associated with exposure to these insidious environmental pollutants.
Many
pollutants, including heavy metals and persistent organics, bioaccumulate
(pass up the food chain to humans) and build up in our bodies where
they cause damage both locally to the tissues where they accumulate,
including contributing to the formation of cancer, vascular disease,
accelerated aging as well as altering the normal patterns of hormones
— patterns that effect everything from energy level to fertility
to mood.
Exposure
to heavy metals can occur via many common sources: house paint (lead),
dental fillings (mercury), vaccines (mercury), cigarettes (cadmium),
food, drinking water and hazardous waste sites. Over 4000 articles in
the medical literature connect small amounts of lead in the body and
high blood pressure. Elevated mercury and antimony have been found in
hearts of heart disease patients at autopsy [2].
Unlike
many chemicals that can now be detected in the human body, the toxic
effects of heavy metal exposures are well understood and many sources
of exposure are regulated. Despite this, millions of Americans suffer
from chronic, low-level, exposures to heavy metals, including lead,
mercury, arsenic, antimony and cadmium.
A
Center for Disease Control report states that 10% of American women
of childbearing age (7 million women each year) have mercury in their
blood at levels that are potentially unsafe for the developing fetus
[3]. Clear evidence now links exposure to toxins such as mercury, lead,
pesticides, and in utero smoking exposure to higher levels of autism
and/or ADHD [4]. Despite the clear benefit to health of eating fish
as a source fatty acids, many of us avoid fish because of its high mercury
content — knowing that mercury is linked with cardiac disease
[5;6].
Getting
rid of unwanted contaminants.
Many
doctors argue — have argued for decades — that chelation
therapy can address low level metal exposures and consequent degenerative
diseases. Recent understanding of how pollution contributes to the formation
of blocked heart arteries, by contributing contaminants — inflammation-causing
molecules known as “free radicals” — many of which
are heavy metals, has lead to investment in large-scale clinical trials
to gather more data on the effectiveness of chelation therapy to treat
our number one killer, heart disease.
The
National Institutes of Health's alternative medicine center recently
funded a large experiment — 2,372 heart-attack survivors. Led
by Dr. Gervasio Lamas of the Mount Sinai Medical Center-Miami Heart
Institute, the five-year study began enrolling participants at about
100 sites around the country in 2003.
Lamas
said he decided to design the study when one of his own patients asked
about chelation. "While my answer, as a very conventional cardiologist,
was initially, 'No, that's silly,' as I looked into it I realized I
didn't really have the evidence base to say that," Lamas said.
With hundreds of thousands of people seeking chelation therapy annually,
"now we'll see what the real truth is."
The
efficacy of chelation therapy has been clinically demonstrated with
positive results in hundreds of thousands of cases where this treatment
was utilized [7]. In one smaller study, the results with intravenous
chelation were so pronounced that the control group was taken off placebo
and given chelation therapy so as to not withhold beneficial care [8].
The
safety of this therapy, when properly administered, is also well known.
It is estimated that over 500,000 patients nationally have been safely
treated with this therapy by physicians utilizing the protocol developed
by the American College for Advancement in Medicine without a single
fatality attributed to I.V. EDTA. Surgical procedures or even taking
aspirin have a much greater fatality rate.
Effective
chelation therapy is administered in I.V. form over the course of several
hours. Although thousands of websites promote oral chelation agents
— it is important to understand why this approach does not work:
1.-
Effective chelation therapy depends on whether the chelating agents
are able to remove heavy metals that are circulating in the blood or
deposited in cells in the body — the chelator must get into the
blood and cells.
2.- Only about 5% of the oral chelation agent, EDTA, gets into the bloodstream.
3.- Further, oral chelation may prevent absorption of certain nutrient
metals that are required at low levels for proper nutritional health.
4.- Oral chelation agents do not effect the build-up of calcium, iron,
or copper within the cells – a build-up that can lead to stiffening
and hardening of tissues and other degenerative diseases.
The
ABC’s of chelation therapy.
Maulfair
Medical Center gets you started on your chelation program with a thorough
medical examination and a series of key tests. The necessary laboratory
tests vary from patient to patient, but there are a few tests everyone
will need. These tests include: toxic metal and mineral status, comprehensive
metabolic panel and a complete blood count.
Other
tests may include a pre and post-provocative challenge for heavy metals,
Some tests will be repeated periodically, to monitor your kidneys effeciency
in removing metals.
Dr.
Maulfair relys on thirty years experience utilizing chelation therapy
to treat chronic, degenerative diseases including hardening of the arteries,
coronary heart disease, carotoid artery disease, peripheral artery disease,
diabetes, arthritis. Clients of Maulfair Medical Center’s comprehensive
chelation program have gained back their quality of life with improved
circulation, restored energy, motivation and oveall sense of well being.
Dr.
Conrad Maulfair, Maulfair Medical Center, Topton PA
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Arch Environ Health 1974; 29: 18-24.
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children and women of childbearing age, 1999-2000. JAMA 2003; 289: 1667-74.
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and Treating Autism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD):
A Review. J Altern Complement Med 2008;
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fish consumption and stroke risk. Am J Prev Med 2005; 29: 347-52.
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Toxic
Time bombs: the pollution in you.
Fatigue,
allergies, joint aches or mood swings got you down? Although concern
over the effects of pollution on the environment has held our attention
for decades, new research is detecting chemical toxins in most people.[1;2]
While industry furiously challenges the evidence, scientists argue that
low-level chemical exposures are linked with these subtle but all too
common problems, not to mention diseases such as autism, ADHD, and cancer,
to name a few. Long term, low level exposures to chemicals cause an
accumulation in the body referred to as “body burden.”
As we gain increasing understanding about the adverse effects of body
burden on health what remains less clear is when the time bomb may go
off. The medical community is trained to look to yesterday’s exposure
to explain today’s symptoms. Yet, body burden, accumulations of
toxic chemicals, may have more subtle but important health effects that
are not seen for years, or even lifetimes. Because of this time delay,
it is not uncommon for a chemical to be banned for safety concerns after
decades of use — a real world experiment.
Studies link ZIP codes near waste sites with low-birth-weight babies,
thyroid disease in women and female reproductive disorders such as endometriosis
— even in regions with higher per capita income, less smoking,
better diet and more exercise.[3] The same researchers have data linking
living near waste sites to elevated risks for stroke, ischemic heart
disease, high blood pressure and cancer.
Our life support system: Better living through chemistry?
You don’t live near an industrial waste site? The truth is that
even if you do, you probably get most of your toxins as pesticides and
additives in your food or each time you apply various consumer cosmetic
products. Your home, your cars and even the water you drink slowly leak
chemicals into your life.
There has been a staggering proliferation of toxic chemicals produced
without due regard for testing for long-term health effects of low level
exposures. Thousands of new synthetic chemicals come into manufactured
consumer products every year with little to no safety testing or public
approval process. According to the World Health Organization, there
are over 100,000 synthetic chemicals in use in consumer products today
with 1,000 to 2,000 being added to the list each year.
We breathe these chemicals through our lungs, absorb them through our
skin and ingest them in the food we eat and water we drink. We are soaking
up chemicals that we'd be hard-pressed to spell or pronounce, if we
could even find out what they were.
The
body burden problem.
Toxic chemicals know no boundaries. Chemicals contaminate not only wildlife
and the environment, but people, breast milk and the unborn child yet
most people are unaware that they carry chemical compounds in their
bodies. Each of us has some load of industrial chemicals stored in or
passing through our bodies. Human fat tissue sampled in the United States
contained 700 contaminants that have not been chemically identified.[4]
According to Michael McCally, M.D. Ph.D., of Mt. Sinai School of Medicine,
“Current ‘normal’ body burdens of dioxin and several
other well-studied organochlorides are at or near the range at which
toxic effects occur in laboratory animals.” A recent Mt Sinai
study found 167 chemicals in the blood and urine of volunteers; chemicals
used in consumer products and found in industrial pollution.[2] Of the
167 chemicals discovered, 94 are toxic to the brain or nervous system,
76 are carcinogenic (cancer-causing) and 79 are linked to birth defects.
None of the participants worked with chemicals or lived near an industrial
facility. In other words, these toxins represent the average body burden
of the ordinary American citizen.
This is not a uniquely American problem. A 2005 British study funded
by the World Wide Fund for Nature and the Co-Operative Bank found chemicals
including banned pesticides like DDT, flame retardants and the PFOA
chemical found in Teflon and used on nonstick pans and stain repellents.
If the body burden of adults isn’t enough cause for alarm, it
is shocking to learn the effects on future generations. In 2005, the
US Environmental Working Group [5] reported that umbilical cord blood
samples taken from newborn babies were all heavily contaminated. A total
of 287 contaminants were detected. Many of these were known or suspected
carcinogens, neurotoxins or linked with birth defects if present in
high concentrations. Meanwhile, an exhaustive review of the evidence
points to prenatal exposures as a source of postnatal mental deficits.[6]
Scientists have never assessed the effects of exposures to the endless
combinations of chemicals found in people. One reason why measuring
such effects is difficult is that these chemicals are persistent (meaning
they do not break down) and bioaccumulative (meaning they tend to build
up in living things, particularly areas of the body rich in fat such
as fatty tissue, brain and other organs).
Our understanding of when a chemical is toxic is changing and concerned
individuals are calling for laws to regulate these compounds more carefully.
However, because of their widespread use, tendency to persist and accumulation
in body tissues — especially fat — even regulatory changes
will not remove them from our world very quickly.
While we wait for industry, government and science to reach agreement,
the vast increase of chemicals in our environment, foods, cosmetics
and medicines puts an enormous burden on our bodies’ natural abilities
to break down and remove toxins. With the exception of certain minerals,
these chemicals do not belong in the body. While minerals are needed
at low levels for normal function, some are now found measured at high
or even toxic concentrations.
Most people wait too long to do something about it.
The good news is that something can be done about the toxins in our
bodies. Our livers, lungs, kidneys are constantly working overtime to
remove the onslaught of chemicals. To function properly, these systems
require broad nutritional support. When we don’t give our body
what it needs to help it eliminate these chemicals or when we expose
it to more than it can handle, it just can’t keep up. Symptoms
such as fatigue, aches, allergies, asthma, mood swings, foggy thinking,
and more set in. Before this happens — and even afterwards —
the correct detoxification program can make all the difference.
The Maulfair Medical Center uses the Hubbard method of detoxification,
the most thorough and scientifically validated regimen available. This
precise regimen combines exercise, sauna bathing, and vitamin and mineral
supplementation to increase the elimination of chemicals while rebuilding
and repairing your body. Its safety and effectiveness in treating a
wide range of exposures have been established for more than two decades.[7;8]
Originally developed by Hubbard in 1979, this program has been successfully
used to aid individuals exposed during large-scale environmental contaminations,
including those resulting from the 2001 World Trade Center disaster
[9] and the 1986 Chernobyl incident [10]. Thousands of people have enjoyed
relief from symptoms caused by more gradual build-up of toxins.
Sauna detoxification at the Maulfair Medical Center.
Dr. Maulfair gets you started on your sauna program with a thorough
medical examination and a series of key tests plus a complete physical
exam. Tests may include a pre and post assessment of toxic body burden
and some tests may be repeated periodically, to monitor your status
while on the regimen.
Dr. Maulfair has over thirty years experience utilizing detoxification
regimens to treat chronic disease. Join those clients of the Maulfair
Medical Center’s program who have gained back their quality of
life, enjoy restored energy, clear thinking, motivation and an overall
sense of well being. For more information see www.drmaulfair.com
Dr.
Conrad Maulfair, Maulfair Medical Center, Topton PA
Reference
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1. Calafat AM, Wong LY, Kuklenyik Z, Reidy JA, Needham LL: Polyfluoroalkyl
chemicals in the U.S. population: data from the National Health and
Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2003-2004 and comparisons with
NHANES 1999-2000. Environ Health Perspect 2007; 115: 1596-602.
2. Environmental Working Group. Body Burden: The pollution in people
[Web Page]. 2003; Accessed 2008 Feb 20. Available at: http://archive.ewg.org/reports/bodyburden1/
3. Baibergenova A, Kudyakov R, Zdeb M, Carpenter DO: Low birth weight
and residential proximity to PCB-contaminated waste sites. Environ Health
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[Web Page]. 2005; Accessed 2008 Feb 20. Available at: http://archive.ewg.org/reports/bodyburden2/execsumm.php.
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mental health in children and adolescents: a systematic review. Eur
Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2007; 16: 243-53.
7. Schnare DW, Denk G, Shields M, Brunton S: Evaluation of a detoxification
regimen for fat stored xenobiotics. Med Hypotheses 1982; 9: 265-82.
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of PCBs, PBBs and Chlorinated Pesticides in Human Subjects. Ambio 1984;
13(5-6): 378-380.
9. Cecchini MA, Root DA, Rachunow JR, Gelb PM: Chemical Exposures at
the World Trade Center: Use of the Hubbard Sauna Detoxification Regimen
to Improve the Health Status of New York City Rescue Workers Exposed
to Toxicants. Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients 2006; 273: 58-65.
10. Tsyb, A. F., Parshkov, E. M., Barnes, J., Yarzutkin, V. V. , Vorontsov,
N. V., and Dedov, V. I. Rehabilitation of a Chernobyl Affected Population
Using a Detoxification Method. Proceedings of the 1998 International
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Protection Agency.
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Alternative,
Integrated, Holistic, Complimentary… vs. Orthodox Medicine:
History
repeats.
Webster
defines orthodox as “adhering to what is commonly accepted, customary,
or traditional.” Today, 36 U.S. teaching hospitals are pushing
the orthodox envelope to blend complimentary medicine with traditional
care. No longer treated like unwanted relatives, this is the largest
growing area of medicine. Hundreds of thousands of scientific studies
are published annually, with millions of people receiving such treatments
for back and neck pain, common colds, anxiety, depression and even cancer.
Therapies
are termed Complementary when used in addition to “conventional”
treatments and Alternative when used instead of “conventional”
treatment. If that isn’t sufficiently unclear, either category
may include nutritional, holistic, naturopathic, chiropractic, acupuncture,
herbal and other forms of medicine. Commonly labeled “unconventional”
or “unorthodox” by the conservative mainstream, are these
approaches valid?
“Instead
of wholesome foods and natural supplements, we have only drug studies
paid for by the drug companies. Big pharma spends tens of thousands
of dollars per doctor and $1.8 billion on public advertising to ensure
their market is maintained.” answers Conrad Maulfair, DO at a
recent Integrated Medicine conference. “Opinion and economic interests
have fashioned what is considered acceptable medical practice.”
And
so history repeats. Consider Claudius Galen, a Greek doctor who lived
in the second century AD, Galen spent his lifetime in observation of
the human body and its functioning. He performed extensive research
and dissections to better understand the functions of the body. After
he died, serious anatomical and physiological research ground to a halt.
Orthodox medicine believed that everything there was to be said on the
subject had been said. Although very enlightened for his time, Galen
made certain serious mistakes – mistaken ideas which medical experts
upheld centuries.
For
nearly 1400 years, orthodox medical experts followed Galen’s teachings
that “the tides of the blood” sloshed back and forth through
the body, passing through the heart, where it was mixed with air, by
pores in the septum. The lungs were responsible for moving the blood
around the body. In 1628 William Harvey, an English doctor and researcher,
published his findings that the heart, not the lungs, circulated the
blood through a closed system of veins and arteries. His research notes
first show this finding as early as 1615. Although a respected member
of the Royal Medical Academy, Harvey waited 13 years, until 1628, to
publish his findings. He closes his findings with the statement “Farewell,
most worthy Doctors, and think kindly of your Anatomist.” His
findings were never accepted during his lifetime, rather he was broadly
attacked.
Why
on Earth did the Galenic model last almost 1,400 years? It was obviously
baseless. Many anatomists, including the great Leonardo da Vinci, Andreas
Vesalius a respected Belgian anatomist, and others had failed to find
holes in the intraventricular septum for well over 200 years before
Harvey. In fact, it seems certain that these were never even found by
Galen; these “anomalies,” however, did not seem to trouble
the faithful! No one dared challenge popular opinion.
One
important school of thought has withstood centuries of research. Considered
the Father of Medicine, Hippocrates of Cos II made lasting contributions.
The Hippocratic school held that all illness was the result of an imbalance
in the body.When the four humours, blood, black bile, yellow bile and
phlegm, were not in balance, a person would become sick and remain that
way until the balance was somehow restored. Hippocrates or his students
hold the earliest recorded use of vitamin C (citrus) to address the
common cold.
Today,
an integrated, holistic approach to healing recognizes that the emotional,
mental, spiritual and physical elements of each person comprise a system.
Working with this systems approach, Dr. Maulfair treats the cause of
an illness rather than just the symptoms. Services at Maulfair Medical
Center focus on integrating complimentary and alternative medical approaches,
rather than drug-oriented medicine with its emphasis on pharmaceutical
drugs. Clients of Maulfair Medical Center’s comprehensive programs
regain their quality of life by restoring their health balance.
Conrad
G. Maulfair Jr., DO
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All
Chelation Is Not The Same.
If
at some time during your life you have expressed some interest in
health, nutrients, good eating or other natural pursuits, you are
no doubt on at least one and probably multiple mailing lists from
various "natural health-oriented" publications selling products.
You may well also subscribe to at least one or more health newsletters.
From some of these sources, you have most likely been exposed to various
promotions touting oral chelation therapy. The typical promotion refers
to improvements in various symptoms of chronic degenerative diseases.
The promotion goes on to say something about the results of an intravenous
chelation therapy program can be obtained by taking oral chelating
agents. The promotion cleverly states that it will take longer with
the oral chelating agent than with the real chelation therapy program.
Chelation
as defined in the Dorland's Medical Dictionary is "combination
with a metal in complexes in which the metal is part of a ring".
The definition of chelate includes "chelates are used in chemotherapeutic
treatments for metal poisoning". The medical profession, in general,
and the area of toxicology more particularly, view and treat toxins
and toxic reactions from the acute viewpoint. Chronic long-term toxic
exposure is not popularly viewed, diagnosed or treated. 8 of 10 Americans
die from cardiovascular disease (heart attacks or strokes) and/or
cancer. These have been clearly associated with chronic toxic metal
exposures. The good news is that this wonderful body we live in has
the potential of chelating or ridding itself of toxic metals to some
degree. Problems arise when the total load of the toxic metal exposure
exceeds the body's ability to rid itself of them on an ongoing basis.
Metals then become entrapped in various tissues in the body and their
presence leads to chronic degenerative disease development, as well
as speeding the aging process.
Chronic
degenerative disease development and the aging process are also impacted
upon by metastatic calcium. Metastatic calcium is calcium that is
deposited in soft tissue where it is not supposed to be, such as in
arteries, tendons and ligaments. Calcium's presence in soft tissues
contributes to stiffening and hardening. Iron and copper, and calcium
are essential for normal function in the human body but can also contribute
to damage and contribute to chronic degenerative disease development,
as well as the aging process. While natural oral chelating agents
can have an impact to some degree on toxic metal excretion, they do
not have an effect on calcium and iron and copper, and handling these
minerals along with the toxic metals is essential for the restoration
of the quality and quantity of life and the retardation of chronic
degenerative disease development and the aging process.
Real
chelation therapy (properly prescribed comprehensive chelation therapy
program) has been helping hundreds of thousands of people in this
country and around the world over 50 years. We know from observation
what the intravenous chelation treatment plus the rest of the properly
prescribed comprehensive program can do. When any single oral chelation
product can duplicate this 50-year history with the thousands of references
that have been developed over that 50-year period, then we will talk.
In the meantime, I am going to continue my own chelation therapy program
and continue to prescribe it to others. As an aside, I might mention
that a recently developed carotid artery ultrasound protocol, which
uses a patented computer program to evaluate the inner most lining
of the artery, that I had done last spring showed that while my chronological
age at the time was 68, my arterial age was 42. I have been on a preventive
chelation therapy program for about 25 years.
Iodine,
The Forgotten Element
Iodine is an essential element. Any element that the body cannot produce
but has to be introduced into the body from the outside is essential.
We are totally reliant on eating or drinking it. Iodine's main function
is in the production of thyroid hormones, which are in turn essential
for cellular energy production. Without iodine, the thyroid hormones
will not function. Hypothyroid (below-average function of the thyroid)
results in numerous symptoms and life quality issues, including virtually
every cell and tissue and organ system.
Additionally,
there has been evidence of insufficient levels of iodine and the presence
of fibrocystic breast disease, as well as ovarian and uterine cancer.
A
study published in Physiological Reviews in 1943 spoke about the use
of iodine to inhibit the development of atherosclerosis in rabbits
fed cholesterol. Another fascinating observation in the experiment
was that the lipid (fat levels) in the blood were elevated, but in
spite of that, the atherosclerotic process was impeded by the addition
of iodine. A previous study published in 1935 demonstrated the same
findings.
In
the early 1960's potassium iodate was used as a dough conditioner
in the making of bread and as a result, many people had improved or
adequate iodine stores. Late in the 1970's into 1980's, bakers replaced
the iodine with bromate as a dough condition. Both elements are halogens.
Bromide unfortunately causes goiters and is carcinogenic. The Japanese
consume at least 100 times the USA RDA for iodine. Inorganic iodine
is safe and effective. The organic iodine that is used in drugs and
X-ray dyes is not.
There
is a simple way to determine whether you have an iodine insufficiency.
It involves taking four specially prepared iodine tablets and then
a laboratory specializes in the procedure measures the amount of iodine,
and the iodine insufficiency that is identified can be easily remedied
by taking a special iodine preparation orally.
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Dr. Maulfair has not retired. For several years pronouncements of
my retirement have filtered to us. I can categorically state that
not only have I not retired, but I am more active than ever and continue
to expand and plan to do so well into the future. My father practiced
to age 87. My goal is to surpass that, so you will be seeing me for
a long time.
Hints on Choosing a Doctor
There is a wildly held believe in society primarily I guess based
on observations of people within the society, that as you get older,
life quality decreases, chronic degenerative diseases occur, arthritis,
hardening of the arteries, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart attacks,
strokes, cancer, and that is natural. The notion that aging is synonymous
with loss of life quality is specious. There are areas in the world
where people live to well in their 80's, 90's and beyond with health.
Health is a normal state, disease is the aberrated state.
Physicians
are trained to diagnose and treat disease. As a consequence, we do
not have a healthcare system in this country. We have a disease care
system. If your ideal scene is to live a long, healthy life, then
waiting until you have symptoms of chronic degenerative disease and
advanced aging and then hoping standard medical philosophy with total
reliance on drugs and surgery to correct the loss of health is going
to be ineffective and will probably hasten the loss of health. If
you have been told or know of others who have been told by a number
of the medical profession that "after all you are getting older",
some way explains the occurrence of the symptoms and the loss of health
and it is to be expected. In other words, if the physicians that you
consult have a basic disease-oriented approach and believe that it
is normal to lose life quality as you age, then you should be prepared
to accept loss of life quality as you age as a result of that medical
viewpoint. You need to know, however, that you can change your mind
at any time about anything. If you decide that getting older does
not have to be consistent with illness and loss of life quality, then
you need to seek a physician who shares that viewpoint with you. The
bottom line is your life quality can be high right up until you die
at an old age. If you do not see that as your future, you need to
make some changes now.
Social
Diseases
Years ago, the term "social disease" was used to refer to
usually sexually transmitted venereal diseases. It was also used to
refer to other diseases that are related to social or economic factors,
such as tuberculosis. That definition does appear in Webster's Dictionary,
but "social disease" does not appear in the Dorland's Medical
Dictionary that I looked at. I suggest that the term "social
disease" be reinstituted in medical dictionaries and that the
term should include coronary artery disease, diabetes, cerebrovascular
disease, arthritis and peripheral vascular disease. These diseases
have become so prevalent in our society that they are social diseases.
I guess the standard medical profession's inept handling of these
diseases, their prevalence, prevention and treatment would not allow
them to admit that the frequency does indeed categorize them as social
diseases. This is not a healthy country. We are not healthy people.
All it requires is that you change your mind, become educated, ask
questions, do not accept something just because it is popular, learn
about what you can do to control your future health. Do not wait until
your health is gone to try to reclaim it. You have got to maintain
it. Disease does not start and as a result you lose your health. Health
begins to disappear long before disease becomes evident. Treating
disease does not restore health, it just treats disease. Restore and
maintain health and there is no room for disease. The two cannot occupy
the same space at the same time.
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From
The Desk Of Coleen Maulfair...
Dr. Maulfair and I are very excited to be able to bring Mr. Hubbard's
practical detoxification program to our friends and patients. You can
read about it on the internet at www.detoxacademy.org. This is the program
that has helped so many in this country and across the world including
the victims of the Chernobyl disaster in Russia. If you check out your
local bookstore you will find a book called "Clear Body Clear Mind"
by Mr. Hubbard. Dr. Maulfair is acutely aware of the toxins harming
most people's health and barring the full recovery of their vitality.
Utilizing this detoxification program we can help people eliminate most
toxins stored in body fat. You will hear a great deal about this in
the months to come. Stay tuned.
CHELATION
SUCCESS….from Dr. Maulfair
I want to give you a history of one of our chelation patients and his
studies as he progressed through a chelation program with us. Our patient
had an emergency bypass surgery in 1986 following a failed angioplasty.
In 1997 he developed symptoms and another angioplasty was done of the
previously bypassed arteries that had blocked again and another bypass
surgery. The patient was frustrated due to all the surgery as he did
not drink or smoke, his cholesterol levels were good and he ate well
and exercised. One of the functions routinely looked at is ejection
fraction which is the measure of how effectively the heart is pumping
blood, the ideal range is around 50-55% depending on the technology
used to measure it. This patient had an ejection fraction of 60-70%
the end of 1997 after the second bypass surgery. He was hospitalized
twice in January of 1998 with chest pain and unstable angina, drug therapy
was the only recommendation. He had a catheterization done in January
of 1998 with an ejection fraction of 53% and evidence of damage to the
heart and decreased circulation.
The patient started a chelation program with us February of 1998. He
continued to see his cardiologist and a stress test in January of 1999
revealed his ejection fraction to be 60% with no longer any evidence
of damage to the heart and there was less evidence of decreased circulation.
Another stress test in January of 2000 revealed the ejection fraction
to have increased to 66% and no evidence of heart damage and NO evidence
of decreased circulation. A repeat stress test in January of 2001 showed
the ejection fraction at 62% (in average range) and again no evidence
of decreased circulation or heart damage. Another stress test in January
of 2002 revealed his ejection fraction increased to 72%, the highest
it has been in five years and again no evidence of decrease circulation
or heart damage. He continues on his chelation program. How is that
for evidence of effectiveness. His cardiologist is supportive of his
chelation program.
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Maulfair Medical Center All Rights Reserved.
The
Endocrine System: Essential for High-Life Quality
Our body has thousands of internal control systems essential for control
of biochemical reactions occurring at the cellular level and other system
activities that are essential for life. The endocrine system consists
of eight major endocrine glands that secrete chemical substances called
hormones. Hormones are transported throughout the body in the fluid
outside of the cells. The function of these hormones is to assist in
regulating cellular function. An example of such a hormone function
is thyroid hormone which increases the rates of the chemical reactions
within cells resulting in an increase in cellular metabolism, increasing
energy production produced within the cell. The energy produced by the
cell is necessary for the cell to be able to do its function (pump blood
or move the body around if it is a muscle cell, filter blood if it is
a kidney or liver cell, carry nerve impulses if it is a nerve cell,
etc.). Another example is insulin which controls the burning of glucose
for energy. An additional example are the hormones from the adrenal
gland which control sodium and potassium and protein metabolism, and
the parathyroid hormone situated above the kidneys which controls bone,
calcium and phosphate. Endocrine hormone function is complimentary to
the nervous system?s ability to control body systems. The nervous system
regulates primarily muscle function and the secretion of substances
within the body while the hormonal system regulates primarily metabolic
(cellular energy) functions. It could be said then that the endocrine
system provides chemical messengers that travel throughout the body, taking information and stimulating chemical reactions, therefore essential
for having a healthy body and leading a happy, productive life.
Let
us look at some specific hormones and their unique significances. Starting
with the thyroid, the thyroid hormones are essential in controlling
metabolism, cellular energy production. Since our body is made of cells,
the ability for the cell to produce energy is directly related to its
ability to function normally and to protect itself from damage from
the environment. There is ample clinical evidence of below-average thyroid
function even though standard thyroid hormone blood tests are within
?normal range?. Functioning thyroid hormone levels are essential and
testing hormone status appropriately is also essential to determine
whether or not the thyroid supplementation is necessary. Iodine, essential
for the thyroid hormones to function properly, is not measured with
a standard thyroid hormone blood test. If thyroid dysfunction is suspected,
either clinically or from an appropriate temperature test, then evaluating
iodine levels would be an appropriate next step. An easy and inexpensive
iodine evaluation combined with a temperature test to determine thyroid
function yields the most accurate data.
We
are all familiar with the role of the sex hormones in contributing to
the sexual characteristics of the male and female. The amount of the
hormone determines which sexual characteristic you will develop and
contributes to the genetic expression of our sex. It may not be well-known,
however, that males and females have all of the hormones, including
all three estrogens, progesterone and testosterone.
Testosterone,
in particular, is of interest in both males and females because of its
role in muscle strength and muscle function. The heart is essentially
all muscle. There is also muscle in walls of arteries. Adequate testosterone
levels are important in a circulatory system?s normal function and it
is not uncommon to prescribe testosterone for men and women when indicated
to enhance vascular function. Testosterone deficiencies can also contribute
to loss of sex drive (libido) in both men and women. There is a general
consensus that aging and decline in testosterone are definitely connected.
There is such a thing as male menopause. The signs and symptoms of male
menopause vary from patient to patient but can include flushes, erectile
dysfunction, reduced erectile quality, diminished night erections, increase
in abdominal fat tissue and waist size, joint/muscle aches, and decreased
body hair. Physical symptoms that can occur with testosterone deficiency
include decreased vigor, decreased strength, reduced muscle mass, a
reduction of bone density. The testosterone deficient male can also
experience decreased libido, weakness of ejaculation, limited quality
of orgasm, and also mood changes, impaired concentration, diminished
motivation, reduced memory and depression.
The
proper use of estrogens, either one, two or three of them, depending
upon the individual patient?s needs, and progesterone can be very helpful
in retarding the aging process and improved life quality issues primarily
for the female. While it is true that as we age our production of hormones
decreases, a normal activity, the proper use of bio-identical hormones
(hormones that are identical to what the body produces) in proper minimal
doses, individualized for each patient, can be very helpful in enhancing
life quality.
DHEA
stands for dehydroepiandrosterone. DHEA is produced by the adrenal gland
and the body makes testosterone and one of the three estrogens from
DHEA. DHEA deficiencies can contribute to testosterone, and to some
degree, estrogen deficiencies. As more study is done on hormones, we
are finding that DHEA can have independent beneficial effects on the
aging process.
Estrogens
promote growth and development of female reproductive system, including
breast and female secondary sexual characteristics. Progesterone stimulates
the uterus to retain the fertilized egg and promote growth of the fetus.
Estrogens and progesterones again when properly applied in bio-identical
form can have a significant impact on the aging process in conjunction
with other nutrients and other therapeutic modalities that might be
indicated for each individual patient.
There
are other hormones with additional varying roles to play but these are
the more common endocrine hormones and their levels can be improved
with appropriate bio-identical hormone replacement therapy.
Dr
Conrad Maulfair, Osteopathic Physician
