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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
Reference List
1. Environmental Working Group. EWG || Human Toxome Project [Web Page]. Accessed 2008 Feb 12. Available at: http://www.bodyburden.org
2. Mottet NK, Body RL: Mercury burden of human autopsy organs and tissues. Arch Environ Health 1974; 29: 18-24.
3. Schober SE, Sinks TH, Jones RL, et al: Blood mercury levels in US children and women of childbearing age, 1999-2000. JAMA 2003; 289: 1667-74.
4. Curtis LT, Patel K: Nutritional and Environmental Approaches to Preventing and Treating Autism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A Review. J Altern Complement Med 2008;
5. Bouzan C, Cohen JT, Connor WE, et al: A quantitative analysis of fish consumption and stroke risk. Am J Prev Med 2005; 29: 347-52.
6. Landmark K, Aursnes I: [Mercury, fish, fish oil and the risk of cardiovascular disease]. Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen 2004; 124: 198-200.
7. Olszewer E, Carter JP: EDTA chelation therapy in chronic degenerative disease. Med Hypotheses 1988; 27: 41-9.
8. Olszewer E, Sabbag FC, Carter JP: A pilot double-blind study of sodium-magnesium EDTA in peripheral vascular disease. J Natl Med Assoc 1990; 82: 173-7.
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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 List
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 Perspect 2003; 111: 1352-7.
4. Onstot, J., Ayling, R., and Stanley, J. Characterization of HRCG/MS unidentified peaks from the analysis of human adipose tissue. Vol. 1: Technical Approach. 87. Washington DC, US Environmental Protection Agency Office of toxic Substances.
5. Environmental Working Group. Body Burden: The pollution in newborns [Web Page]. 2005; Accessed 2008 Feb 20. Available at: http://archive.ewg.org/reports/bodyburden2/execsumm.php.
6. Williams JH, Ross L: Consequences of prenatal toxin exposure for 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.
8. Schnare, D. W., Ben, M., and Shields, M. G. Body Burden Reduction 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 Radiological Postemergency Response Issues Conference. 1998. U.S. Environmental 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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External
Counter Pulsation Therapy
We
are very happy to announce our expansion in a number of areas, chief
amongst them is a new medical modality to help people with heart
disease, angina especially.
We are expanding our medical practice and the use of chelation therapy
along with our other treatments to keep you healthy AND we will
now be utilizing External Counter Pulsation Therapy in conjunction
with our other programs or as itself.
People with angina who undergo bypass surgery and angioplasty or
simply take drugs for their condition often fail to enjoy lasting
relief and benefit. ECP (External Counter Pulsation Therapy) improves
circulation especially in coronary arteries and is very safe for
people who meet the treatment criteria. The improvement in circulation
occurs as the treatment uses cuffs around each leg to force blood
toward the heart increasing coronary perfusion pressure, coronary
blood flow and oxygen supply so oxygen rich blood reaches the heart
muscle, reducing or eliminating angina pain. For many, ECP may be
the best way to treat their angina as it is non-invasive: no hospitalization,
no surgery, no anesthesia, no medications and no pain. You are welcome
to come to the center and see a video describing the therapy and
visit with people who are undergoing the treatment.
External Counter Pulsation Therapy helps your body improve circulation
and although it may be paid by insurance, including Medicare, for
people with a diagnosis of certain types of angina, that is not
the only use for this treatment. Some people base their care and
options on what insurance pays for and they miss out on truly helpful
treatments that the insurance industry is always late to endorse.
This treatment is covered by some insurances and we are happy for
that. We are very excited about External Counter Pulsation Therapy
for other reasons as it has the potential to improve endurance and
improve blood flow to assist athletes and people who are interested
in maintaining their energy and performance. Healthy people can
benefit by improving circulation as they age. ECP is an option for
patients who are unsuitable for surgical intervention or are unwilling
to undergo them.
Studies, available through our office, have shown that patients
who have undergone a cycle of ECP treatments experience an increase
in exercise tolerance, an elimination or decrease in their angina
episodes, and a decreased need for medication. Many cardiologists
are recommending ECP for their patients. Come visit or call us and
we will send you information about this new addition to our treatment
programs. You can contact Brian Rabenold, Director of New Patient
Services to discuss ECP or to arrange a tour of our ECP Suite and
have a complimentary visit with the ECP nurse to discuss how you
might benefit from this program.
I also want to introduce you to Kimberly Houtz who joined our practice
in April. Ms. Houtz is a Physician Assistant with extensive experience
in cardiovascular disease prevention and diabetes prevention programs.
While with Thomas Jefferson University her work involved research
and testing of new therapies for atherogenic lipid disorders and
related dysfunctions of cholesterol metabolism, she acted as study
coordinator of some clinical trials. She has experience in educating
diabetic patients, helping them to avoid long term complications
of the disease process. We are delighted to welcome Kimberly to
our practice and look forward to the future with her help in clinical
care and the education of our patients. She will be helping with
our upcoming studies of our modalities including chelation therapy.
Conrad G. Maulfair, Jr. D.O.
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From
The Desk Of Coleen Maulfair...
We are expanding like mad around here and I want to take this time
to bring everyone up to date on our activities. Jann Magerowski
and I have been giving Hands on Healing Seminars and seminars on
the use of Dianetics® to help people become self sufficient
and of very good use to their family and friends, we have included
successes written by people who have availed themselves of these
programs. We are also ready to start construction on our sauna detoxification
program, locker rooms, juice bar and course rooms. We will be leasing
adjoining space on the first floor for a fitness center and restaurant.
We expect the construction to be completed the end of June and we
will invite you to an open house to welcome these important programs.
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.
In our efforts to bring real change in the life of children and
their education we welcome this opportunity to include an article
by the people at Bright Sky Learning to inform parents and grandparents
of a very workable reading program for use in tutoring their children
after school or in home school programs. This program is phonics
based and therefore extremely successful in helping children and
adults become literate, able to read and spell. Please come to our
center and take a look at the materials, you will be sooooo excited.
It is real help for children and parents.
SUCCESSES WITH DIANETICS… I feel the (Dianetics®)
session was very interesting and informative and I certainly learned
a lot. Not knowing what this was all about I am leaving here a little
lighter of mind. MF
I was apprehensive about the procedure, but once involved I was
very comfortable and feel I have a good understanding and comfort
level about Dianetics® now. MO
SUCCESSES WITH HANDS ON HEALING SEMINAR… I enjoyed the
lesson on how to assist someone that injures themselves by having
them show you over and over how it happened until the pain is relieved.
JD
The nerve assist was very relaxing; it helped release the pain in
my back. MD
I like the contact assist. It makes sense to confront a situation
to resolve it. MC
I feel better. The assists were also refreshing and
energizing. GB
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ATTTEND
THESE SEMINARS:
Dianetics®
Workshop
To be announced.
Hands
On Healing
To be announced.
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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