Vol. 4, Issue 11 Investigating Lyme Disease & Chronic Illnesses in the USA November 2009

In This Issue

JenniferAllton

The Lyme LifeMerry-Go-

Roundp. 4

Tina J.Garcia

Choices Pavingthe Way for

Physicians andPatients

p. 7

GingerSavely, DNP

Patient asDiagnostician

p. 2

BryanRosner

The MarshallProtocol

p. 3

MarjorieTietjen

Sweet Firep.9

BarbaraLoe FisherInconvenient

Truths p. 5

Dr. JacobTeitelbaumSix Medical

Myths Busted!p. 12

Lisa CopenInvisible Illness

& MixedEmotions

p. 4

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Technology and Virtual Medicine by Dr. Toby Watkinson, MD

Technology is movingat a very fast pace. Medicine isone area where we could allbenefit from new and harmlesstechnology; better and lessinvasive diagnostics, more nat-ural and less toxic medicinesand more advanced yet naturaltreatment modalities. We needall these advances to be morecongruent with our body'sdesign. We all know it takesforever for the benefits ofresearch to make it from thelab to the market place. Theprocess is also long becausemany of the chemical productsare dangerous and need to betested over and over. Also,everyone needs to be involvedand they need to make itcheaply yet justify a high costto the consumer.

There are technologiesin use today which provide bet-ter avenues to examinepatients, are less expensive andmore effective and lead to lessinvasive and less dangeroustreatment. Some of thesedevices can also take down thebig barriers in care deliverylike distance and time. As acomplementary and alternativecommunity, we need to beaware of these tools and lookto their integration into ourexams so we too can build anarmament of effective devicesfor better health care deliveryand, more importantly, diseaseprevention.

More Truth

I think of the studies ineducation which have shownlecture is the least effectivemethod to deliver information.Even though we know this andare all in agreement there aremore effective methods, noth-ing has really changed.

Medicine is not muchdifferent. Consider this exam-ple. When you are sick you goto the doctor and sit in acrowded waiting room full ofother sick people. Then you getto wait again in a treatmentroom where all the other sickpeople sat too. A nurse gathersdetails of your illness andmaybe takes your temperatureand or blood pressure. Thedoctor comes in and you get totell the doctor all over again.You then get to straighten outthe details of what you just toldthe nurse. The doctor asks afew questions, looks at thechart notes and maybe does atest or two of his own. He mayoffer an explanation of what hethinks is wrong and might even

suggest a lab study and other-wise will write a prescriptionand give you a printed instruc-tion.

Too often, the worstpart is no one really hears whatyou are saying if you have any-thing more complicated. Youhave no voice in the processand your degree of confidenceabout getting to the bottom ofwhat is going on is on the line.

I recently talked to apatient who told me that aftermonths of waiting to see hermanaged care doctor there wasa sign on the wall that said,"Keep your symptoms to oneper visit". She was told sheneeded to make anotherappointment for multi symp-tom complaints. What has itcome to? I know this is aworst-case example but it maybecome more common withhealth care reforms in the mak-ing.

Chronic Disease, Money,Vaccine Sales and theGenome

Let's talk about what ishappening in Medicine today,specifically about chronic ill-ness. Think of the number ofpeople who have Lyme andwhat the government is doingabout it. Is Lyme disease allover the news? Are they sayingit is a pandemic? Are schoolslooking at how to participate inprevention and offering safetytips? Have they developed avaccine or even accepted amore specific test to diagnoseLyme? Has the evening newstold everybody to get tested orstay home? How many peoplehave Lyme? How many peoplehave suffered with the manysymptoms? How many havebeen crippled by Lyme? Howmany people are chronically illand never get treatmentbecause no one has ever run atest capable of diagnosing thedisease? Now, for a moment,how many people have SwineFlu? I think we all know whatpushes these fear-driven cam-paigns.

Those of us in theAutism Spectrum Disorder(ASD) community were excit-ed recently to hear there was$12 Billion earmarked for ASDresearch. We were not so excit-ed to see it turned out to beGenome research moneyrerouted to ASD. In otherwords, how much of thismoney was really being spentto look at the real causes ofAutism and its link even toLyme disease? Or on the otherhand, how much of it was

Genome research money withan ASD hat on its head? Theexperts say genetics can onlyexplain 5-10 percent of theASD we are seeing today butthey continue to pour moneyinto genetics in place of look-ing at the real potential causesand cures.

It seems the push tocomplete the Genome is a big-ger priority than actually figur-ing out the process and causesof chronic illness which areovertaking us. As for geneticmodifications, we are only nowbeginning to see the results ofMonsanto's work in this areaand it is frightening.Modifying human genes willobviously be the next big stepin the Genome parade and thenwe are at the brink of all look-ing like we belong in the cock-tail lounge in the original StarWars movie.

A More Practical Applicationof Technology

Let's imagine anotherpicture for a moment. Think ofa much more advanced yetinexpensive method to look atpatients. No sitting in disease-filled waiting rooms, no repeat-ing your symptoms over andover and not having anyone getthe picture. Think of an examexperience like the computersystem used on the newermotor vehicles. The technicianplugs the car's computer intosuch a device and there on thescreen is a picture of every-thing that is out of the normal

range for your vehicle.Imagine this for the humanbody. Image how such amachine could integrate theinput from your body into aninformational health matrix andit could all be done from yourliving room if need be.

The Chinese govern-ment has been working toestablish a more westernizedhealth care delivery system inrecent years. The rural areas ofChina have been served forhundreds of years by a systemof barefoot doctors who wentfrom village to village adminis-tering herbs and doingacupuncture as they cared forthe Chinese people. With thewesternization of health carecoming into vogue, this oldsystem has broken down asyoung people want the modernmethods. Many of the olderrural populations have been leftwithout the only system theyhad come to depend upon. Forthis reason, the government islooking at technologies to bet-ter serve their people who maynot be close to the cities wherethe modern medical facilitiesare located.

Recently a researcherfrom Stanford and his team,along with the Chinese govern-ment, undertook a study tocompare 200 patients receivingan extensive 48 hour traditionalphysical exam at the leadingmedical hospital in China to a5 minute virtual exam per-formed on the patient from aremote location. The virtual

“Technology” ...cont’d pg 6

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The Patient as Diagnostician:How the Internet Helped an MS Patient Find Her True Diagnosis

by Ginger Savely, DNP

How many of you havesurfed the Web to look for adiagnosis to fit the symptomsthat you or one of your lovedones is experiencing? As anurse practitioner I often seepatients who, when dissatisfiedwith a diagnosis (or lack ofdiagnosis) given to them by ahealth care provider, look to theInternet to discover what isreally wrong with them.

Many of my colleaguesscoff at this behavior, sayingthat the Internet is the worstthing that has ever happened tohealth care. They are displeasedwhen patients come in with aprobable diagnosis already inmind and present a list of teststhey are convinced are neededin order to prove or disprovetheir conclusion. The concernof many health care providers isthat the information on theInternet is unreliable and that itencourages patients to obsessover symptoms and even toimagine new symptoms in orderto fit the criteria necessary for acertain diagnosis. “A little bit ofknowledge is a dangerousthing,” they often say.

Most of the patients Isee have been through the millwhen it comes to doctors andtesting and have lost their faithin the health care system thathas failed them. So, it comes asno surprise to me that thesepatients have learned to taketheir health care into their ownhands, educating themselves tothe point of being able to speak“medicalese” like a pro. Timeand time again I have observedthat this tendency on the part ofpatients to become medicallyeducated has been to theiradvantage, and many a life hasbeen saved or bettered throughthe process. In my opinion, thisproactive behavior on the partof patients should be encour-aged.

Maria: A Case in PointMaria lives in Austin,

Texas and is a petite, 49 yearold lady who appears youngerthan her age. During our firstencounter she explained thatshe was frustrated and unwill-ing to accept a recent diagnosisof multiple sclerosis (MS). Shehad been experiencing recurrentright-sided facial pain (trigemi-nal neuralgia) for five yearswhich had led her to consult aneurologist. An MRI brain scanhad shown white patchesindicative of nerve inflamma-tion.

A spinal tap hadrevealed unusual proteins con-sistent with an MS diagnosis,and a recent repeat MRI hadshown progression of the dis-ease with increased number andsize of the inflammatorylesions. Based on her symptomsand these findings, her neurolo-gist had diagnosed her with MSand advised her to beginimmunosuppressive therapy inorder to decrease inflammation.

Maria had beenresearching her symptoms onthe Internet, and had becomeconvinced that her problem wasactually related to advancedneurologic Lyme disease. Shehad been unable to convinceher neurologist that this mightbe the case. He felt it was aclear-cut case of MS and wasnot inclined to consider the pos-sibility of an illness that did notappear to be endemic to centralTexas. To placate her he hadordered a Lyme screening test,the ELISA test, which hadcome back negative. BecauseMaria was convinced her prob-lem was due to a bacterialinfection, she refused to followthe advice of her neurologist tobegin immunosuppressive ther-apy, fearing that this wouldaffect her ability to fight theinfection.

Maria came to mebecause she had heard of myspecial interest in the diagnosisand treatment of Lyme disease.I reviewed her medical historyand made special note of herreport of a tick attachment toher right lower leg six yearsearlier, followed by a 5 inchbullseye-shaped rash. This hadoccurred while she was camp-ing in a rural area of centralTexas.

Symptoms had startedsoon afterward. Some of thesesymptoms were typical of bothLyme disease and MS, such asinsomnia, anxiety, confusion,dizziness, weakness, numbness,blood pressure fluctuations,

constipation, acid reflux, uri-nary urgency, and exhaustion.She was also experiencingsymptoms that were typical ofLyme disease but not of MS:joint pain, muscle aches, jawand tooth pain, ringing in theears, and a stiff neck. Manyclassic MS symptoms weremissing, such as optic nerveinflammation, double vision,abnormal eye movements, spas-ticity, muscle atrophy and bal-ance problems. Her in-officephysical exam did not revealany obvious abnormalities.

I was familiar with astudy published by the TexasDepartment of Health in 1994that had revealed that over 1%of ticks collected in eight Texasstate parks had tested positivefor borrelia spirochetes, thecorkscrew-shaped causativeagents of Lyme disease. In fact,per the International Lyme andAssociated Disease Society(ILADS), borrelia-carryingticks had been found in everystate in the union. The rashMaria had described on her legcertainly sounded like erythemamigrans, the classic “bullseye”rash that is diagnostic for Lymedisease. Her negative result onthe ELISA screening test thathad been ordered by her neurol-ogist didn’t impress me; ELISAtests for Lyme borreliosis arenotoriously insensitive. There isevidence that the ELISA has asensitivity of only 30-40% andtherefore does not meet the95% sensitivity criteria neces-sary for a screening test.

The Western blot is abetter test to use for screening.Unfortunately, most labs do notreport the individual reactivebands on the blot but reportonly a positive or negative end-result based on the presence ofbands relevant for epidemiolog-ic rather than diagnostic crite-ria.

It is of utmost impor-tance to choose a lab thatreports ALL of the positivebands. Diagnosis of a sickpatient and qualification forepidemiologic inclusion are twodifferent matters! I chose to usethe highly reputable IGeneXLaboratories in Palo Alto,California. Through IGeneXtesting, the patient was positivefor Lyme both by the Westernblot IgM and by antigen cap-tured in the urine. The history,symptoms, and now the labresults were pointing to a diag-nosis of late-stage neurologicLyme disease (neuroborreliosis)rather than MS.

After three months of

intravenous (IV) and oralantibiotic treatment, Mariareported several subjectiveimprovements. Her overallfatigue, urinary frequency, anddiscomfort were lessened. Thenumbness in her hands and feetwas gone, as was her subjectivesensation of weakness.

Maria continued to tol-erate the treatment well. Aftersix months of IV antibiotics, arepeat MRI showed a 25%reduction in inflammatorylesions. She reported overallimprovement, with continuallydecreasing fatigue, malaise,weakness, cognitive problems,and muscle pain. She continuesto improve on IV antibiotics.MS is a progressive disease,and although remissions arecommon, a reduction in braininflammation is not.

This improvement in thepatient’s MRI was quite a sur-prise for the neurologist andserved to strengthen my beliefthat the patient’s problem allalong had been neuroborreliosisrather than MS. Because of themany similarities in the twodiagnoses, it is extremelyimportant to pay attention to thepatient’s history and develop-ment of symptoms and to knowhow to test correctly for thepresence of borrelia antibodies.MS is a diagnosis based prima-rily on subjective symptoms,and according to the CDC,Lyme disease is as well. Thepreviously mentioned MRI andspinal tap findings in thispatient were not diagnostic ofMS per se, since they are oftenalso present in Lyme patientswith neurologic involvement.

When clinicians com-plain about the incorrect med-ical information patients comeacross on the Internet or thetendency for patients to self-diagnose based on this informa-tion, they need to look at thebigger picture and realize thatthe occasional enlightening dis-covery is well worth theinevitable false alarms. I contin-ue to support patients whoresearch their symptoms on theWeb, believing it empowersthem to be proactive about theirhealth care. Sometimes, as wasthe case with Maria, this kindof patient collaboration canprove to be a life-saver.

See also:Fritzsche, M. Chronic

Lyme Borreliosis at the Root ofMultiple Sclerosis: Is a Curewith Antibiotics Attainable?Medical Hypotheses 2005; 64(3): 438-448. phapha

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About this Series

This is a 3-part series onthe Marshall Protocol.Currently you are reading Part1. In 2007 I published a bookcalled "The Top 10 LymeDisease Treatments" (availablefrom http://www.lymebook.com). This article series will bebased on direct excerpts takenfrom that book. The MarshallProtocol remains a very contro-versial treatment. It has helpedme personally, and I know ofmany others who it has alsohelped, including one highlyvisible businessman / politician.Other people find that it isunhelpful or even harmful tothem, although my suspicion isthat some types of "adversereactions" to the protocol mayin fact be herxheimer (or die-off) reactions. Looking backnow, 2 years after the book waspublished, I will say that I amstill a believer in the MarshallProtocol but I do believe that itshould only be administeredunder the careful supervision ofa licensed physician who isversed in the protocol. The pur-pose of this article series is tointroduce you to the protocol,not to serve as medical advice.Please consult a licensed healthcare practitioner before begin-ning any new treatments.

Disclaimer

The Marshall Protocolis a complicated therapy andone that continually evolves asa result of new research andinformation. Naturally, booksare static and do not change.Therefore, in order to obtain themost recent information aboutthis treatment, visit the officialMarshall Protocol web site bypointing your browser towww.marshallprotocol.com.

This chapter is writtenby a layman, in layman's terms,and is intended only as anoverview of the MarshallProtocol; it is neither anexhaustive explanation of norinstructions for using the pro-gram. Some of the informationbelow is based on my ownresearch of the treatment proce-dure, and my personal experi-ence with it, and should not beinterpreted as exhaustive or100% accurate. I do not haveformal training in understand-ing or applying MarshallProtocol principles; instead, Iam simply an investigativejournalist reporting what I havelearned about the protocol. Forprecise, comprehensive, and

official information about theprotocol and how specificallyto use it, visit the web site men-tioned above.

This information has notbeen reviewed or approved byTrevor Marshall, Ph.D., theinventor of the protocol, andthe statements made should notbe construed as his statements.Also, much of the followinginformation is experimental andinvestigational and should beviewed as such. The conceptspresented below in relation toVitamin D are still in theresearch phase, so they shouldnot be interpreted as estab-lished, proven fact.

Introduction

The Marshall Protocolis perhaps the most significantbreakthrough in Lyme Diseasetreatment since Doug MacLeandiscovered in the 1980s how toemploy a homemade rifemachine (see Chapter 5) to healhis own Lyme infection. Thereason the Marshall Protocol isso significant is that it address-es an aspect of the LymeDisease complex whichno other treatment, proto-col, supplement or herbcan even come close totouching. The discoveriesthat led Trevor Marshall,Ph.D., to develop theMarshall Protocol haveuncovered and exposed acritical part of the processwhich BorreliaBurgdorferi uses to estab-lish and maintain infec-tion in the host. TheMarshall Protocol is theonly known therapywhich addresses thisaspect of the bacterial sur-vival process. If you takethe Marshall Protocol outof the Lyme Disease treat-ment toolbox, there is nocomparable tool toreplace it.

The protocolbuilds on the work of Dr. LidaMattman, one of the most influ-ential medical scientists inmodern history. With a master'sdegree in virology from theUniversity of Kansas and aPh.D. in immunology from YaleUniversity, Lida Mattman hasrevolutionized the study ofinfectious disease and estab-lished the foundation fordecades of progress in scienceand medicine. A 1998 nomineefor the Nobel Prize inMedicine, Mattman found thata certain type of bacteria lack-ing a cell wall (known as cell-wall-deficient, variant, or L-form bacteria) are not only verycommon but are also the rootcause of multiple health condi-tions that have baffled medicalscientists for years. The pres-ence of cell-wall-deficientpathogens in the human body isextremely difficult to detect andhas thus been largely ignoredby conventional medicine.

Dr. Mattman's studieshave forced hundreds of physi-cians and researchers to acceptthe fact that this elusive andhighly complicated class ofbacteria is responsible for manypreviously-misunderstood ail-ments. Interestingly, Mattman's

research findings bear a strikingresemblance to the conclusionsabout microorganisms drawnby Dr. Royal Raymond Rifehimself.

Although her break-through discoveries caused alight-speed acceleration in thefield of bacteriology, no onehas been able to figure outexactly what to do about thecell-wall-deficient bacteriaidentified by Dr. Mattman. Weknow they are there, and weknow they cause many diseasesconsidered untreatable or incur-able by conventional medicine,but getting rid of them is a dif-ferent story.

Fortunately, there is ahandful of brilliant researcherswho are currently studyingthese pathogens and are discov-ering ways to attack cell-wall-deficient bacteria, destroy them,and thereby heal incurable dis-eases. Trevor Marshall, Ph.D.,is one such researcher. Afterfailing to gain benefit fromconventional treatment for hisown affliction with sarcoidosis(a multi-system disorder char-

acterized in affected organs byinflammatory lesions), Marshallwas compelled to take a closerlook at the pathogenesis ofchronic disease. His researchconclusions were very similarto those reached by Dr.Mattman: a surprisingly longlist of chronic diseases are actu-ally caused by cell-wall-defi-cient bacteria. Sarcoidosis andLyme Disease, for example,share this root cause. If you areconfused because you thoughtLyme Disease was caused byspirochetes, not cell-wall-defi-cient bacteria, keep reading, wewill answer that question.

Decades of studies byDr. Marshall led him beyondthe ability to merely identifycell-wall-deficient bacteria andtheir role in various diseaseprocesses. In developing theprotocol which bears his name,he has created the means toactually counter their bacterialactivity. The Marshall Protocolis a ground-breaking method ofkilling cell-wall-deficient bacte-ria in the human body and ulti-mately curing the previouslyuntreatable diseases thispathogen causes. AfterMarshall employed his discov-eries to treat sarcoidosis and

heal himself, he went on toestablish The AutoimmunityResearch Foundation throughwhich he collaborates withphysicians and researchersaround the world to help chron-ically ill people recover fromvarious afflictions. Marshallhas bridged the gap betweensimple awareness of the exis-tence of cell-wall-deficient bac-teria and knowledge of how toeradicate them.

Clarification of the rootcause of Lyme Disease may beneeded here. As mentionedearlier, the Lyme Diseasepathogen, Borrelia Burgdorferi,exists in three distinct forms:spirochete, cyst, and cell-wall-deficient form. It is popularly(and erroneously) believed thatthe spirochete form of the dis-ease is the only form-quiteoften, researchers and practi-tioners ignore the other twoforms. This ignorance is theresult of antiquated, inaccurate,and close-minded educationalmaterials commonly presentedat medical schools. In actuality,according to a burgeoning heap

of published research,the spirochete form isin fact just a small partof the whole diseasepicture. Let's take asmall detour to exam-ine the three bacterialforms of BorreliaBurgdorferi.

Although not thetotality of the disease,the spirochete form ishighly dangerous andsignificant. It isresponsible for the ini-tial, rapid spread of theinfection throughoutthe body and variousorgans due to its high-ly-mobile, drill-capa-ble shape. The spiro-chete form is alsoresponsible for manyongoing symptoms. Itis, however, simplynot the whole story.

The second form ofLyme Disease bacteria is thecyst form, which is also com-monly ignored by mainstreampractitioners and researchers.The cyst form is a symptom-less, protective, survival-orient-ed form that is elusive, difficultto identify in laboratories, andnearly impossible to kill.Further discussion of the cystform can be found elsewherethroughout this book anddetailed discussion can befound in Lyme Disease andRife Machines. Additionally,lymeinfo.net has an extensivecollection of cyst form-relatedresearch and published studies.

The third form of LymeDisease bacteria is the cell-wall-deficient form, which hap-pens to be extremely danger-ous, insidious, and also the tar-get of the Marshall Protocol.Many of the most severe symp-toms and organ dysfunctionsassociated with Lyme Diseaseoccur as a result of the presenceof cell-wall-deficient bacteria.Additionally, over time, thepopulation of cell-wall-defi-cient bacteria tends to increase.This form can actually hideinside cells within the body toavoid detection. More amaz-

ingly, it can actually hide inimmune system cells them-selves. The cell-wall-deficientform must be addressed inorder to heal, yet it is common-ly overlooked, or worse, itsexistence is often completelydenied, despite peer-verifiedresearch by the likes of suchheavyweights as Yale graduateLida Mattman.

Each of the three bacter-ial forms is capable of convert-ing to the other forms undercertain circumstances.Spirochetes convert to cell-wall-deficient and cyst forms asa survival tactic (cysts aremuch more treatment-resistantthan spirochetes). Cysts con-vert to spirochetes occasionally,usually in spring and fall, as aproliferation tactic, to spreadthe disease to other tissues(spirochetes are more mobileand can more easily spread theinfection than cysts). The cell-wall-deficient form is utilizedfor various reasons, including,of particular note, the ability ofthis form to survive numeroustreatment approaches, includingcell wall inhibiting antibiotics.

Different antibacterialapproaches must be used foreach of the three bacterialforms because each bacterialform has different weaknessesand vulnerabilities. Rifemachines are highly proficientin killing spirochetes.Spirochetes can also be killedsomewhat effectively with pro-tein synthesis inhibiting antibi-otics. Cysts respond to certainantibiotics (discussed inChapter 1). Cysts can also beexposed and destroyed, withproper treatment, timing, andplanning, by rife machine thera-py. However, until theMarshall Protocol, there wasnot an effective treatment forcell-wall-deficient bacteria.There are several types ofantibiotics (primarily proteinsynthesis inhibitors such as thetetracyclines and macrolides)which have activity againstcell-wall-deficient bacteria, butthese are minimally effectivewhen used alone. The MarshallProtocol is the first therapy thathas actually been able to com-prehensively eradicate this formof the bacteria. This is why theMarshall Protocol is so impor-tant. Before the MarshallProtocol, there was simply noway to deal with the cell-wall-deficient form of LymeDisease. Hence, before theMarshall Protocol, recoverywas much more difficult toattain.

I first heard of theMarshall Protocol through Ron,a friend and fellow LymeDisease sufferer who often par-ticipates in the Lyme-and-Rifeonline discussion group. Justas I had, Ron had benefitedfrom rife machine therapy butstill needed something to finishoff the disease. Ron wastremendously successful withthe Marshall Protocol. Afterdue consideration I decided totry the protocol myself. Sureenough, results were forthcom-ing, and I couldn't help butnotice that the MarshallProtocol seemed to provide

“Marshall” ... cont’d pg 13

What's all the Buzz about the So-Called Marshall Protocol?

Part 1 of 3

The Marshall Protocolis the only known

therapy which addresses this aspect ofthe bacterial survival

process. If you take theMarshall Protocol outof the Lyme Diseasetreatment toolbox,

there is no comparabletool to replace it.

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Are You Contagious?by Joan Vetter

Usually when we hearthe word contagious we auto-matically think of somethingnegative. It could be anythingfrom a cold to the swine flu. Ichallenge you: why not concen-trate on something positive wecan pass on?

How about laughter or asmile? They can be contagious.Or have we been inoculatedagainst them? Have weallowed our souls to be injected

with anxiety or too much fear?We've all heard a mother'sinstructions to cover ourmouths when we sneeze orcough. Perhaps we would dowell to cover our mouth whenit comes to the spoken word.We may be passing somethingon that would be better off keptto ourselves.

Today I walked the hallat the YMCA and overheardtwo women talking. They weredeep in a "can you believe what

she did?" conversation. Thenon the way out I overheard twodifferent women murmuringand complaining about some-thing. I wondered about themotto - If you don't have some-thing good to say don't say any-thing at all. I believe manyconversations would come to ascreeching halt if we all tookthat seriously. Then, whatwould be left to talk about?

As a believer in Christ, Itake great pleasure in talking

about what God is doing in mylife, and listening to testimoniesof what He's done for others. Ibelieve faith is contagious - themore we speak or listen to faithtalk the more it is "caught". Fear and strife are also conta-gious. They can pass through afamily quicker than any virus.Seldom do they exist alone.

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The Lyme Life Merry-Go-Round

by Jennifer Allton

Take this moment toride with me on a Merry-Go-Round. Drop all the precon-ceived notions on what youhave ever experienced and trav-el with me today. You arestanding on the platform hold-ing onto handles while some-one else is spinning the rideround and round. This Merry-Go-Round represents our Lymejourney. For the last few years(decades for some), we havebeen holding on dearly to thislittle ride and it has been spin-ning faster and faster. There isan assortment of emotions thataccompany us. Some of theseemotions come on suddenlywithout warning and others staywith us for a while.

Take this voyage on the

Lyme Life Merry-Go-Round tolearn my very raw feelings.Please note that not all of theseemotions are pleasant, but theyare the honest truth. Uponstepping onto the ride the firsttime, please observe the fearand nervousness of a potentialrelapse. You will also findapprehension that doctors willnever understand the severity ofLyme Disease. Others will goundiagnosed for way too longwhich creates panic of losingLyme friends over such a dev-astating illness. I fear what themedications are doing to mybody and yet I am horrifiedabout what my body would dowithout the medications. Iexperience daily anger overmedical boards within theUnited States of America tar-geting doctors simply becausethey believe in long term treat-ment of Chronic Lyme Disease.

Yet, I find myself feel-ing surprised every morningwhen I receive messages askingif I would speak with someoneabout Lyme. It appears thatevery day there are more peo-ple that are joining the Lymeride. It amazes me now that Iadvocate for such a disease andI had barely even heard of itthree years ago. I feel dis-tressed about meeting new peo-ple and their acceptance ofLyme Disease. I remember

where I was before my diagno-sis. I felt as if these other peo-ple with this disease wereinsane thinking that everyonehad it. Now what I have cometo realize is this: is it reallyparanoia if the ticks are out toget you?

Still on this ride, I findmyself feeling anxious becauseone day is great and the nextday is appalling. It is tough todistinguish which kind of daywill transpire in order to assem-ble any type of plans. Oldfriends understand, but newconnections do not since theyhave never witnessed a bad day.This leaves the incredible feel-ing of guilt. The guilt stemsfrom not being able to stop theride for enjoyable momentswith friends and family ineither spontaneous or plannedways. Eventually, this leads toloneliness. There is sadnessthat life may never quite be thesame because of a single tickbite and depression developsterribly because I miss myfriends and family.

There are other truthfuloutlooks of riding this LymeLife Merry-Go-Round. Thesearen't my most definingmoments nor do they glorifyGod. But they were there.This wouldn't be a very candidarticle if I left these emotionsout. There is jealousy. This

resentment is for people in mylife that have never experiencedwhat I have. There is hatredfor all those that don't believethat it really exists. Eventhrough all of these emotions, Iwouldn't wish it on my worstenemy much less my bestfriend. Just because theyhaven't experienced this doesn'tmean they don't understand.

Now you may thinkthere are only bad emotions onthe Lyme Life Merry-Go-Round, but there are somemotivating feelings too. A sen-sation of amazement developswhen I last the whole day with-out a single symptom and amsimply stunned at how strong Ihave become in the last threeyears. There is a sense of pridefor riding on this Lyme journeyso long without compromisingmy work life. The pride repre-sents the 100 percent I havegiven to the children in my caresince the beginning of my jour-ney. I get a sense of satisfac-tion that I know my body wellenough to recognize when Ineed to ask for help. There ishappiness for all that I havebeen able to do even throughthe worst of times and love forall of those that have stuck withme through this journey.

Lyme gives me theexperience of laughter when Ido something so insanely stupid

that the only way for me to getthrough it is to chuckle. Whoknew that this disease couldprovide fodder later on? Thereis the time I asked if they soldvideo games at a toy store, thetime I walked into a glass dooror even the time I got into theshower with all of my clotheson. I giggled then and I chuck-le now. Then there are themoments that made me cry.Those are the times that Icouldn't figure out how to openthe gas tank in my car, got lostgoing home or the instant I fellasleep at a stop light. Despitethe fact that those occasionswere sad moments in my life,they offer a great deal of come-dy now.

This journey is over fornow, but I challenge all of youto smile today. I know this is adifficult task, but one that wemust keep on doing. One ofmy favorite poems is by anunknown author and it is aboutthe contagious gift of smiling.The poem in and of itselfmakes me grin. Come visit meto join in the laughter, the sad-ness and all of the emotions ofthe Lyme life. Share your sto-ries with me and maybe we canget the world infected withlaughter through our tears.http://jmgarnet76.blogspot.com

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by Lisa Copen

"You look great today.You must be feeling a whole lotbetter?" "You haven't reallyexperienced chronic fatigueuntil you've had twins andworked full-time!" "I think yousit around thinking about yourpain too much. Just get out ofthat house more and it may justheal itself." "If you really want-ed to get well, you'd get seriousabout taking that juice I recom-mended. I don't understand whyyou won't at least try it."

And the remarks go on.. . and on. And our heart aches.

Nearly 1 in 2 Americanshas a chronic illness or physicalcondition that impacts theirdaily life. This can includeeverything from arthritis to can-cer, migraines to diabetes, andback pain to fibromyalgia. One

of the biggest emotional hur-dles for people who suffer fromillness is the invisibility of it.About 96% of illness is invisi-ble, meaning the person whosuffers from the chronic condi-tion may appear to be a healthyindividual, but who actuallysuffers each day from physicalpain. One may never guess theintensity of the pain sufferedwithin the confines of one'shome, as she or he shows nooutward signs of physical painor disability, nor does he or sheuse an assistive device like awalker or wheelchair

If you have an invisibleillness, here are 5 tools to helplet go of some of the frustra-tions:

[1] Free people from theexpectations you typicallyhave had of them.

This step will likely bea life-long process, but withouttaking it, you will consistentlyfind that people will alwaysdisappoint you. No one is per-fect-even you! And it's impor-tant to remember that thosewith illness do not understandthe difficulties that our friendsare going through, such as adivorce, the death of a lovedone, an ill child, a lost job, etc.Your illness is momentous in

your life. And even though peo-ple do care, they still will havesignificant things going on intheir own lives. Don't hold thatagainst them.

[2] Find supportive friends.

Is there someone inyour circle of friendships whois constantly belittling you orsuspicious about your illness?Is he beyond listening andinstead spreading gossip abouthow he saw you at the grocerystore last week and you lookedperfectly fine? This should be arelationship to let go of or, ifit's a relative, distance yourselfas much as possible. Illness canhelp us easily prioritize ourfriendships and that way wecan spend our limited energieswith those that mean the mostto us.

[3] Find joy in your blessings.

Rather than thinkingabout how badly you feel, findways to bring more joy intoyour life. Appreciate the littlethings. Observe what you aredoing when you have a burst ofunexplained energy and realizethat there lies your passion.Focus on bringing more of thisinto your life. You may not beable to garden like you once

did, but you can grow a fewpotted flowers or hire a neigh-borhood teenager to plant somevegetables and set up an auto-matic sprinkler system forthem. Or if you want to dreambig, start a consulting businessfor want-to-be gardeners.

[4] Use your talents and skillsfor things you care about.

If you're no longer ableto work because of your illness,you may feel like your skillsare going to waste. Maybeyou've always wanted to writechildren's books or be a busi-ness consultant. Find a place toplug in and do some volunteeror part-time work to be able touse these skills in an areawhere you feel passionate.Instead of focusing on whatothers aren't providing you withthat you want so much, followyour dreams and give that giftto yourself.

[5] Encourage someone else.

You personally knowhow hard it is to live with ill-ness and to feel like no oneunderstands. So take time to bevulnerable with someone elsewho is going through this.Whether you meet someonethrough an online group such as

National Invisible ChronicIllness Awareness Week's mes-sage boards, or through yourlocal support group, volunteeryour time and expertise (yes,you're an expert on living withinvisible illness!) and use it tomake someone else's journeyeasier and you'll find your ownis more enjoyable too. Are youfrustrated that no one at yourchurch thinks your invisible ill-ness is real? Rather than stopgoing to church, find ways toeducate them, such as a columnin the church newsletter orbrochures about NationalInvisible Chronic IllnessAwareness Week. These sug-gest what to say/not to say to achronically ill person.

We can't change otherpeople-but we can educatethem and give gentle adviceabout how many people livewith invisible illness. Then wemust work on ourselves. You'llfind that even when you wantto change, it can be difficult. Itrequires discipline and motiva-tion for a better life. You owe itto yourself and finding joy inyour life despite invisiblechronic pain will improve bothyour mental and physicalhealth.

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Gardasil & Swine Flu Vaccines: Inconvenient Truths

by Barbara Loe Fisher

The summer of 2009revealed two inconvenienttruths about vaccination: first,the Gardasil vaccine is not assafe for girls as the govern-ment, medical organizationsand Merck have said it is; andsecond, the H1N1 influenzapandemic is not as serious ashealth officials are telling us itis. Which means that fast-tracked swine flu vaccines chil-dren will get in schools this fallmay end up being more riskythan getting the flu.

Doctors Question Benefits &Merck Marketing Tactics

On August 19, theJournal of the AmericanMedical Association publishedtwo important articles writtenby doctors questioning whetherHPV vaccine benefits outweighthe risks of recommending itfor all young girls. The intellec-tually honest doctors publiclycriticized the aggressive mar-keting of Gardasil vaccine byMerck and certain Merck-fund-ed U.S. medical organizationsand asked for more scientificevidence that universal HPVvaccination is necessary, safeand effective.

Bad Outcome Report After 1In Every 1,855 Gardasil Shots

In the third article, writ-ten by government health offi-cials, it was revealed that 1 inevery 1,855 Gardasil shots isfollowed by a bad health out-come report to the govern-ment’s Vaccine Adverse EventsReporting System.

These bad health out-comes reported after Gardasilshots include lots of girls sud-denly passing out and havingseizures within minutes or

hours of getting vaccinated andsuffering head injuries and bro-ken bones when they hit thefloor. In fact, there is a largerthan expected rate of girls pass-ing out after getting Gardasilvaccine.

Girls Passing Out & HavingCar Accidents

Back in 2007, theNational Vaccine InformationCenter warned that many girlsgiven the Gardasil shots werelosing consciousness withinminutes or hours. Some girlshave left doctors offices andfallen unconscious while driv-ing and had car accidents. Thisbrings up the little-known factthat four girls who got Gardasilin Merck’s pre-licensure clini-cal trials died in car accidents.How many of those girls sud-denly collapsed while driving?

Clearly, the Gardasilvaccine should be given whilegirls are lying down and theyshould be warned that suddencollapse could occur withoutwarning within 24 hours.

Blood Clots Reported AfterGardasil

What else did therecently published governmentstudy on Gardasil reveal? Well,we now know that there is agreater than expected rate ofreported blood clots in girlswho get the vaccine. Someblood clots can lead to pul-monary embolism or stroke,which means the blood clotends up in the lung or in thebrain. In fact, four girls havedied after they developed ablood clot that traveled to thelung after Gardasil vaccination.

FDA Can’t Analyze Most BadOutcome Reports Merck Files

But the most shockingfact in this study is that,although nearly 70 percent ofall Gardasil reaction reportswere filed by Merck, a whop-ping 89 percent of the reportsMerck did file were so incom-plete that there was not enoughinformation for health officialsto do a proper follow-up andreview of what happened to thegirls who fell unconscious orhad convulsions, developedblood clots or inflammation ofthe brain and nerves, includingGuillain-Barre syndrome thatcauses paralysis, or those who

suddenly developed seriousautoimmune disorders likerheumatoid arthritis, lupus andmore.

There were 32 reportsof Gardasil-related deathsbetween 2006 and the end of2008 but only 20 of these deathreports had enough informationto be followed up. There arenow a total of 43 deaths thathave been reported. How manyof those Gardasil-related deathscannot be evaluated because ofincomplete information?

1986 Law Requires Reportingof Vaccine Injuries & Deaths

This is an outrage.Under the National ChildhoodVaccine Injury Act of 1986, it isa federal legal requirement forany person – a doctor, nurse orany person who gives a vacci-nation in America – to file areport with the federal govern-ment whenever a vaccination isfollowed by a bad health out-come, especially a hospitaliza-tion, injury or death. Vaccineproviders are NOT supposed tobe notifying the vaccine manu-facturer – which clearly is likeflushing the vaccine reactionreport down the toilet – theyare supposed to be notifying thegovernment. And health offi-cials at the FDA and CDC aresupposed to be analyzing eachand every report of a seriousvaccine injury or death.

Massive Underreporting ofVaccine Bad Outcomes

FDA and CDC officialsadmit that there is underreport-ing of vaccine-related badhealth outcomes. In fact, somestudies say that less than 10percent or even less than 1 per-cent of serious vaccine adverseevents are ever reported.

Closed GovernmentDatabases Used to DenyVaccine Risks

But health officials arequick to downplay the signifi-cance of this. They tell us notto worry because the closedgovernment databases, whichthe CDC operates with vaccinemanufacturers and HMOs theypay to participate in them, canbe relied upon to reassure usthat all those seizures and bloodclots and cases of brain inflam-mation, paralysis, lupus anddeaths in girls who get Gardasil

shots are really – mostly - just acoincidence.

In 2005, the NationalVaccine Information Center andother parent groups called onthe CDC and FDA to open upthose closed government vac-cine monitoring databases topublic scrutiny.

So far, most of that vac-cine reaction data is still hiddenfrom public view so it can’t beindependently verified.

Will H1N1 Swine Flu VaccineRisks Be Hidden FromPublic?

If the government canlet vaccine manufacturers fast-track the Gardasil vaccine butcan’t compel the drug companythat makes the vaccine or doc-tors giving the vaccine - whoare shielded from liability - toreport each and every death andserious injury that follows vac-cination, why should webelieve anything governmenthealth officials tell us about thesafety of vaccines?

Why should we believethat the experimental swine fluvaccines being fast-trackedwith only a few weeks of studyin healthy children and adultsare going to be safe and that allvaccine reactions will bereported to the government andthen properly followed up?

N o Way To Monitor H1N1Swine Flu Vaccine SideEffects In Schools

It is far more likely that,when children get the swine fluvaccine in schools and then getreally sick or even die like theGardasil girls, that all those badhealth outcomes will be writtenoff as a coincidence by healthofficials. That is, IF any reportsare made to the government atall! Few school nurses or otherpeople giving children swineflu vaccines in the schools willbe taking medical histories orhave a way to record vaccineinformation in children’s med-ical records, much less monitorchildren for signs of a vaccinereaction and then file a reactionreport to the government.

This is not the way torun a national vaccine program.This is not what we expectfrom doctors in positions ofauthority who have acceptedresponsibility for protecting ourindividual health or the health

of our nation.Doctors & Drug CompaniesShielded From LiabilityIgnoring the Law

In the early 1980’s, par-ents of DPT vaccine injuredchildren worked very hard ongetting, informing, recordingand reporting safety provisionsof the National ChildhoodVaccine Injury Act of 1986. Wewanted to make sure everythingwas being done to help preventvaccine injuries and deaths.Little did we know then thatthose safety provisions wouldbe blown off by doctors andvaccine manufacturers shieldedfrom liability in that law.

The federal vaccinesafety provisions should becodified into every state vac-cine law with legal sanctionsfor doctors and drug companieswho fail to file a complete vac-cine reaction report.

What Public HealthEmergency?

And now, today, wehave swine flu vaccines that arebeing rushed to market witheven less testing that the fast-tracked Gardasil vaccine had,with the justification that thereis a public health emergency.What public health emergency?

As everyone knows bynow, the swine flu is no moreserious than the garden-varietyinfluenza that goes aroundevery year. Just like everyoneknows by now that most cervi-cal cancer can be preventedwith regular Pap screening andthat the very expensive HPVvaccine is questionable at best.

Why are we lettingemployees working for govern-ment agencies and pharmaceu-tical companies stampede usinto taking vaccines that maynot be necessary, safe or effec-tive and – certainly - are notproperly monitored for safetyafter they are given to tens ofmillions of children and adults?

It is time to demand thatgovernment officials and drugcompanies stop conductingnational vaccine experimentson the American people.

The Fourth InternationalPublic Conference onVaccination was held onOctober 2-4, 2009 inWashington, D.C. For moreinformation, go tohttp://www.nvic.org/. phapha

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exam, called a biosurvey, wasfocused on autonomic respons-es to computer signal or signa-ture for the biomarkers such asteeth, vertebrae and theTraditional Chinese Medicinemeridian system. The medicalexam did labs, x-rays, physicalexams and even CAT scans andMRI. Once all the data werecollected and analyzed therewas an 87% correlationbetween the body systemsfound to be compromised ineach method of exam.

For the last 30 someyears I have been looking at allthe tools and techniques to helpsick people. Before that, I spentyears in school and working inneuroscience, experimental psy-chology, learning behavior,acupuncture, chiropractic,lasers, thermography, clinicalnutrition and several years inresearch on contract to theAerospace Medical ResearchLaboratory.

In my dreams I hadalways hoped to find a technol-ogy which could look beyondthat which we could hear or seeand bridge the gap betweenman and technology to test andmeasure the smallest discrepan-cies in the human design.

I can't believe it myselfbut this technology is already atwork figuring out my patientsand helping me make importantclinical decisions. Let me tellyou how it works and how ithas great benefit in looking atchronically ill patients when allelse has been chasing thewrong cause or, for that matter,the wrong diagnosis.

The Technology at Work

Through the years Ihave been asked by the familyof Hospice cases to see theirpassing family member. I havealso been asked to consult withpatients who have terminaldiagnoses. When I was firstasked to see a Hospice caseyears ago by a minister, I hadmixed emotions. The ministerwas counseling a mother of a10 year old who had incurablebrain cancer. The boy had nohair from countless chemo andradiation therapies. He had hadmultiple brain surgeries. Hewalked with a white cane witha red tip because he was blind.I could barely get my mindaround not being the healer. Myquestion to myself then was:how do I work with someonewithout trying my best to figurethem out and make a change tobetter their life? I eventuallywas able to find my role andwork to help him every way Iknew how. The story endedboth happily and unhappily.

The bad news was hedid pass away but there wassome not-so-bad news too. Hepassed without any pain. Thiswas the main reason they hadasked me to see him: to helphim pass without pain. His eyesight returned after years ofblindness and he hung up thecane. When he first came tome, his prognosis was poor andhe was not given long to live.He ended up living well over ayear beyond the original prog-nosis. He regrew his hair, hispain went into remission andthe tumor stopped growing. Hevisited Alaska and, with thereturn of his sight, he achievedone of his greatest dreams ofseeing an eagle in nature. Not

only did he see an eagle, hedrew a picture of the one hesaw and gave it to me as a gift.

From this experience, Inever turn away terminal cases.I never turn down the opportu-nity to learn or to beat the odds.

Case Studies

With this as my pledgeto my patients, I recentlyreceived two referrals that weretold they had grave and termi-nal disease. One case hadalready been referred toHospice. The one patient was afour-year-old boy with a termi-nal form of Tay-Sachs disease.For those of you who are notfamiliar with the condition, it isa genetic disease. It occurswhen a harmful amount of gan-glioside accumulate in the brainand the nervous system. It hasan increased prevalence inAshkenazi Jews, FrenchCanadians and occasionally inLouisianan Cajuns.

Once the young patientwas diagnosed with the geneticmarkers, the parents were toldto "go home and prepare". Thatwas all the managed-care hos-pital would tell them and noattempt on the parent's part todiscuss other factors was enter-tained. There were two specificfactors that made the Tay-Sachsdiagnosis suspect. One was thatthe boy and his family had anAsian-Pacific heritage. Anotherfactor was the genetic work upshowed it was an "unusualgenetic variant" of Tay-Sachs.But no matter what the parentssaid, they were denied furtherconsults or diagnostics to lookfor other conditions.

When I first saw thechild, he was unable to walkwithout help, he had no speech,his fingers and toes were con-tracted like claws and he wasvery sick with a flu which wasbeing treated by the hospital.Not being smart enough toagree with the diagnosis, Ibegan to look under all therocks, I called the genetics lab,I discussed the odd language ofthe report "genetic variant" and

I began to comb the literature.I also used my new

technology and conducted bio-surveys relating to every possi-ble cause for this condition, itsdiagnosis and symptomatology.I developed a complete arraylibrary of all the known chem-istry of Tay-Sachs. I conclud-ed there were a few signs of theTay-Sachs and apparentlyenough to sway the genetictesting, but I was still not satis-fied that the prognosis anddiagnosis were correct.

I performed multiplebiosurveys, looking for cluesthat would point me to possiblecauses for these symptoms. Ifinally ran a Lyme array andsure enough, there it was: aBorrelia Lysate IgM. I thenscanned the parents and, sureenough, it showed on both ofthem as well.

As you review the bio-surveys’ results below, you willsee there are markers, for theTay- Sachs which do show sig-nificant responses to chromo-some abnormalities and theGM2 markers but there are

other markers that are non-responsive and considered in-range.

When you review theresults of the biosurvey below,you will see that indeed he hasa more significant response tothe Lyme marker than he does aTay-Sachs marker. The biosur-vey is not a diagnosis; it's morelike a bio health history filledout by the body. Its value is toguide the practitioners in mak-ing better decisions and usingthe computerized arrays to lookat large libraries of data. OnceI saw these results, I orderedthe IGeneX Lyme Panel, whichcame back positive. My subse-quent diagnosis was geneticLyme disease and, yes, therewere Tay-Sachs findings, butthere are many carriers of Tay-Sachs who do not die.

Once treatment wasbegun, the child returned in twoweeks and was able to grip myfingers because the clawinghands and fingers had normal-ized, although his feet were notnormal yet.

My next such case was

a middle-aged golf instructorwho had been given a tentativediagnosis of Shy-DragerSyndrome, a degenerative neu-rological condition also referredto as Multiple System Atrophy(MSA). I immediately began tolook for the chemicals a golfinstructor could be exposed toevery day. Next, I looked at theneuro-degenerative evidence.These were both dead ends. Ithen turned to him and asked,"Have you ever been bitten bya tick?' He said, "Why yes, Ihad been and all the tests forLyme were negative". I did aLyme biosurvey anyway and hewas correct that there were noLyme responses of significance.(See scan below).

Earlier this year, I had 4cases of African tick fever(Rickettsia) which were baf-fling a Florida ER until Iscanned the patients and con-sulted with an expert in SouthAfrica where the patients hadvisited. With this experience, Ifelt there are so many other

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Healthcare Choices Paving the Way For Physicians and Patients

An Interview with Sandy Yozipovic

by Tina J. Garcia

Tina: Sandy, your storyis inspirational - suffering fromone disease after another - andthen your transformation intoan advocate for choice inhealthcare. Will you pleaseshare with us the difficult roadyou have traveled in reachingyour final destination as apatient advocate?

Sandy: Well, sure, butmy story is a bit crazy. Yousee, I had never been sick a dayin my life until I was sixteenyears of age. I was very activein sports as a state badmintonchampion and a cross countryrunner and was busy all thetime. The first bout of illnesswas when I experienced acutemuscle spasms that laid me upin the hospital for three days.They just came out of nowhere,and soon afterward, I recov-ered, but that was the first andonly time I was sick when Iwas younger.

Then, at age twenty-one, I was stricken with a rareillness called Guillain-BarreSyndrome. This Syndrome par-alyzes all the muscles in yourbody. In less than two weeks,nearly my whole body and halfof my face were paralyzed. Foreight and a half months, I wasdiagnosed with a severe, acuteform of Multiple Sclerosis.That was devastating for atwenty-one year old, whothought she had the world bythe tail.

I said, "What do youmean, I'm gonna' be a quadri-plegic the rest of my life?"

I only had use of half ofmy face and mouth with oneeye paralyzed open. I neverhad to have the tracheotomy,because the paralysis had beena compression from the headdown and the feet up.Fortunately, the paralysisstopped at my lungs and myheart. But let me tell you, itwas the scariest time of my life.

I had three relapses inmy first year, and it took abouta year and a half of major phys-iotherapy to learn how to talk,walk and balance, chew andswallow, sit up and go downthe stairs. With Guillain-BarreSyndrome, you lose your sight,taste and sense of touch. I stilldon't have hot and cold sensa-tions in my hands and feet fromthat disease. Then, as suddenlyas it appeared, I recovered as ifnothing had happened, exceptthat it left my immune systemimpaired.

From 1983 to 1985,when I had GBS, they found nocause and knew no cure for it.The same was true for MS back

then. My mom did research,but there was very little onthese conditions. So, how doyou handle this rare disease thatafflicts 1 in 100,000? Somepatients recover to a degree andsome don't. For me, it just tooktime.

At the time, for treat-ment, they were using steroidsand I think daily blood transfu-sions with dialysis. I opted notto do any treatment, becausethere was no screening for HIV.I figured time would take careof it, and it did prove to be aday-by-day recovery. The men-tal attitude was the hardest, butI looked at every day that I wasalive as a gain. Little by little,I was able to swallow and formwords again, progress from eat-ing Jell-O to eating rice and soforth. My body needed time toheal itself until I regained fullfunction.

I also had intense headpain and was given strong med-ication for severe arthritis. Ididn't like the medication,because it altered my thinking.I realized I didn't want to be onmood-altering drugs. After Irecovered from that, I was toldI would not be able to havechildren. But twoyears later, I met myhusband, Mark, wegot married, and eventhough I was highrisk, I gave birth tomy son, Cody.During my pregnan-cies, I experiencedGuillain-Barre symp-toms again, and thesame thing happenedwhen I had my secondchild, Christie. Aftermy daughter wasborn, the neurologistand the obstetriciansaid it wasn't a goodidea for me to haveany more babies.

In 1999, I hadsevere headachesagain. They were justlike the headaches Ihad when I got GBS. I'll neverforget when I went to MayoClinic and the doctors said theyhad never seen anything like it.I was in fetal position from thesevere pain, a pain that mademe black out. I'd be standingup one moment and then Iwould be on the floor. My littlefive-year-old girl, rubbing myhead would say, "It's gonna' bealright, Mama." And my sonwho was ten asked, "Do I needto call 911?" This happened forabout a week, and the doctorsdidn't know what the heck wasgoing on. Thankfully, theygave me some medication thathelped.

Then, to top it off, atage thirty-nine, I was diagnosedwith end-stage colon cancer. Iwas getting treated through theMayo Clinic. I had emergencysurgery to remove a tumor thesize of my fist that was dou-bling in size every twenty-fourto forty-eight hours. I alsowent for a second opinion atSloan-Kettering in New YorkCity, and they gave me a twen-ty percent chance of survival,due to the aggressiveness of mycancer.

The cancer had spreadquickly. On the Friday before

my surgery, I was stage threeand four days later I was stagefour. It had already metasta-sized and was going toward themajor organs. I'm so lucky itdidn't. The emergency surgerywas performed on the morningof September 11, 2001. In fact,all surgeries in that hospitalwere stopped that day, due tothe events of 9/11, all surgeriesexcept for mine.

After that, my husbandwent into research mode andfound that the traditional chemoand radiation were not the onlytreatment options that wereavailable. You see, after allthese millions upon millions ofdollars that have been raised forcancer research, cancer cureand racing for the cure that hasbeen going on for the last fortyyears, they still have only twooptions - chemotherapy andradiation.

The day I was dis-charged from the hospital afterthe surgery, Mark had been onthe computer researching andtalking to some other peopleand just happened to find anaturopathic doctor here inPhoenix. This physician saidthat he couldn't help me, but

recommended we talk to a new,young, up-and-coming doctorwho was opening a new facilitycalled Envita Medical Centersof America. The naturopathicdoctor said that Envita was onthe cutting edge, because theywere bringing all the top thera-pies under one roof to battle alltypes of disease, but particular-ly cancer.

Let me explain a bitabout chemo and radiation.The chemo and the radiationbreak down the immune sys-tem, so the treatments can getrid of the cancer and the toxins.But you really have to buildyour immune system, so whenthose cells are coming back andreproducing every twenty-fourto forty-eight hours, they'recoming back stronger eachtime. This concept made somuch sense to Mark. So, Markactually talked me into it,because I was in a fog notknowing what I was going todo. When I was faced with thissituation, not knowing howlong I had to live, it was adilemma wondering whetherthis new approach would work.

The treatment at Envitawas not covered by insuranceand was going to cost us money

out of pocket. This made thedecision that much harder. Atthe time, even though my sur-gery and the six-month, follow-up protocol of chemo and radi-ation therapy were covered ateighty percent, our portion wasstill a whopping $120,000. So,even though we had money atthe time, because of the med-ical costs we were already pay-ing for, we really couldn'tafford the new therapy. So,what it boils down to is thatyou can't afford to get sick inthis country.

However, I decided totry the new cancer center andwent to Envita for treatmentwith Vitamin C and ozone ther-apy, and really focused on thenutrition aspect of it, which isthe key. But then there's alsothe attitude. And I really thinkit's the attitude first, and thenthe nutrition and then whateverother treatments are going to bea powerful combination infighting off disease.

I'm forty-seven yearsold now, but when I had thecancer I was thirty-nine. Sincethe Guillain-Barre Syndrome,my body had been able to fightoff disease. So why did it give

in when I was thirty-nine? What made thedifference? Well, Ithink it was lifestyle,nutrition and stress.Those are the big fac-tors to disease in thebody. I was off bal-ance. I was running abusiness with my hus-band and raising twokids. It was just thatI'm an A-type personal-ity and it caught upwith me.

I never mademyself a priority,because I'm a giver.Everybody else seemedto come first and then Itook the leftovers. Ilearned that we can'tdo that for longevity.You've really got to

find that balance. So, I hadstopped the chemo and the radi-ation after four months, becausemy white blood count went to1.6. They stop administeringchemo at 3.4, so I was belowthe danger point. I don't thinkanother two months of chemowould have been effective any-way.

So, I continued withonly the advanced natural treat-ments at Envita to fight mycancer. I felt good, and I didn'tlook like a cancer patient. Ididn't look sick and I had ener-gy. And I had hope! I beganquestioning why we don't havethe option of both traditionaland integrative therapies, usingthe most advanced natural ther-apies in the world. These aretherapies that the body can han-dle. They don't chemicallyalter the body in any way.They give the body what it'slacking in order to fight the dis-ease. This made so much senseto me.

Then at Envita, a newChief Medical Director, Dr.David Korn, joined Envita'steam of doctors. He reviewedmy case and noted the Guillain-Barre Syndrome, the headachesand the colon cancer. He want-

ed to test me for Lyme disease.I agreed, because I grew up ona farm, and we were alwayspicking ticks off of our dogsand horses. Sure enough, lastyear I tested positive for Lymedisease and Bartonella. Dr.Korn related all of these healthissues to Lyme disease. It tookme twenty-five years to bediagnosed properly! As youknow, Lyme disease has beenlinked to ALS, MS, Parkinson'sand arthritis. It all makes senseto me now. At this point, I'man advocate for Lyme and aposter child for several dis-eases.

The other life-changingexperience for me was when afamily came to Envita. Theyhad heard about my story, andthe mom and dad brought theirfourteen-year-old son to theclinic. We got to know themquite well and became veryclose. Their son was an athlete,and his goal was to become afootball player. Unfortunately,he had bone cancer in his knee,and his doctors in Wisconsinwanted to amputate his leg.That was their solution forbeating the cancer. That'sbecause they don't have any-thing outside of surgery, chemoand radiation to stop it.

However, when youunderstand the natural side ofmedicine, you can see thatthose treatments are limited.So the boy started the treat-ments at Envita, and after twoweeks, the swelling in his kneewent down and the pain wentaway. I'll never forget gettingready one morning to go toEnvita to get a treatment, and Igot a call from the father. Hesaid that he just got a call fromthe doctor in Wisconsin. Thefather told me, "We have twen-ty-four hours to bring our sonback to Wisconsin or our fiveother children will be taken toChild Protective Services, alongwith our son, and we're goingto be taken to jail. They'remeeting us at the tarmac."

I'm like, "What???" Isaid, "Why?" He said, "Wemissed our pre-op appointmentto amputate his leg, because wewere here and we got so excit-ed with the results of the treat-ments. We wanted to see howfar these treatments could go tomaybe get rid of the cancer."

I said, "But you can'tleave! The treatments areworking!" The father said, "Wehave to leave. We only havetwenty-four hours." So, Icalled the doctors at Envita, andthey said, "Sandy, it's the law."I did not know that childrenunder the age of eighteen hadno rights or say in their health-care, or in choosing whatoptions to fight their disease.Nor do their parents. That'swhy you saw this young boy allover the national news recently.People are wondering whetherthis mom is being bad. No,she's not a bad mom. He'salready done rounds of chemo,and she knows it's not good forhim. It's hurting him, andmaybe there is another way.Maybe they just need to workwith both ways.

You see, the traditionalside is not open to working

“Choices” ...cont’d pg 13

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Sweet FireA DVD Presentation by Mary Tuscano, CNE

by Marjorie Tietjen

Most people are awarethat consuming too much sugaris not healthy for the humanbody. Mainstream nutritionaleducators tell us that this isbecause a diet high in sugardisplaces the important foodswe should be eating. Whilethis statement is certainly true,it is only the tip of the iceberg.

I was recently given theopportunity to view the DVDSweet Fire written and present-ed by Mary Toscano. I wasvery impressed by the contentand clarity of this very informa-tive lecture. This film is suit-able for any age group. Theinformation given is veryunderstandable and is shared ina humorous and non-judgmen-tal fashion.Mary Toscano became interest-ed in nutrition due to her ownexperiences with fluctuatingblood sugar levels and fatigue.

She felt she was too young tofeel so old. Mary became a cer-tified nutrition educator andnow shares her experiences andknowledge with others.

Toscano's DVD thor-oughly discusses the differentforms of sugar, the numerousfoods it is found in and howmuch sugar is in each food.Mary goes over the typicalfoods that people consume in aday and physically shows ushow they are not as healthy aswe may have thought. She doesthis by adding up the sugaramounts on the labels of thesefoods and pouring this actualamount of sugar into clear con-tainers so we can get a visualimpression of the stress we areplacing on our bodies.Tuscano makes the point thatsugar, not healthy fats, is themain culprit concerning heartdisease and backs up what shesays with scientific facts.

Using entertainingprops, Mary painlessly discuss-es the chemistry of sugar andthe way it reacts in our bodies.She explains the crucial differ-ences between healthy complexsugars or carbohydrates andtheir unhealthy refined form.Mary gives the followingexample….The glucose you getfrom broccoli is the same glu-cose that you get from candy.However, broccoli is a wholefood with fiber and enzymes,which help to digest it. Whenyou eat candy, it comes withnothing. When eating candy,you actually deplete your vita-

min stores while the bodyworks harder to digest thisunnatural food. Vitamins andminerals are drawn from thebody to aide in digestion andassimilation and leaves youwith a negative balance in yourbody's bank account. Instead ofsaying that a junk food hasempty calories, Tuscano goesfurther and calls them "takeaway calories".

Through audience par-ticipation, Tuscano helps listen-ers to understand the impor-tance of the rate at which sugaris absorbed into the blood-stream. The measure of this rateof absorption is called theglycemic index. Mary explainswhy it is so important that weeat foods which are on thelower end of the glycemicindex. The foods on the lowerend of this index are absorbedinto the body more slowly andevenly, producing much lessstrain on the body than foodswhich are on the higher end ofthe glycemic index. The latterfoods are absorbed into thebloodstream too quickly, caus-ing repeated shock to our diges-tive organs and eventuallywearing them out. It's simple…when they get tired, we gettired. This can negatively affectour energy levels, our mentalstate and many other physiolog-ical processes of the body.Some of the end results of thisprocess are diabetes and hypo-glycemia. These subjects arealso covered in the video.

Toscano realizes that it

is very difficult, if not impossi-ble, to totally change your dietovernight. Her motto is….themore good foods you keepadding to your diet, the morethe bad foods will fall away.Returning to a more healthyand natural way of eating doesnot have to be a struggle. I amcurrently going through thisprocess and am finding that itcan be a very exciting time ofexperimentation and discovery.

Sweet Fire is a video Iwould recommend to anyone.The information it contains isextremely useful for peoplewanting to lose weight,improve their moods and ener-gy levels and for anyone whowants to help prevent degenera-tive disease. I would think thatshould include just about every-one.

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PLEASE HELP A CHILD INNEED

Dear Friends,

Dr. Jemsek of JemsekSpecialty Clinic in SouthCarolina has helped thousandsof HIV/AIDS and Lymepatients all over the world fordecades, and now his familyneeds our help.

Dr. Jemsek’s daughterJordan, age 5, was recentlydiagnosed with Acute MyeloidLeukemia, (AML), a rare formof leukemia that strikes onlyabout 500 children a year. Sheis undergoing chemotherapy inCharlotte, North Carolina and isdoing well considering her age.Only a week prior, Dr. Jemsek’swife Kay was also diagnosedwith breast cancer. Friends andfamily are helping themthrough this difficult time butthe financial burdens will betremendous. To help defraysome of these expenses, hereare three ways to help supportthe family:

1.) Purchase a specialchildren’s coloring book avail-able after 10/15/09 that hasbeen custom-made for Jordanand all children dealing withserious illness. The book istitled “Jordan and the NaughtyCamels”. This original bookwas written and illustrated by,and will be available throughauthor and Lyme patient PJLanghoff. Funds from booksales will be donated directly tothe family. Please visit the website for more info at: www.alle-gorypress.com for details onhow to purchase this adorable

coloring book for kids of allages. The immediate familydoes not know about the bookyet, so please keep this factsecret until the book is avail-able.

2.) Monetary donationsare being accepted. Pleasemake check out to “Dr. JosephJemsek”.

Checks may be mailedto: Allegory Press LLC PO Box444 Hustisford, WI 53034.

There will be a link atwww.allegorypress.com for taxdeductible credit card dona-tions.

3.) Jordan’s cousinElizabeth has established a website for people to visit to sendwords of encouragement and toread Jordan’s progress and seephotographs of the family. TheCaringBridge website may bevisited here: www.caring-bridge.org/visit/jordanjemsek orgo to www.caringbridge.organd enter the website name“jordanjemsek” When you visityou’ll be asked to log in,because the site is private. Feelfree to leave a note in theguestbook or sign up for e-mailnotifications and progressreports. There is an opportunityalso to donate to the hospital,which will benefit all patientsthere.

Thank you so much foryour encouragement and sup-port!

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Six Medical Myths Busted!

by Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum, MD

The truth? Do the things thatfeel good, and you may livelonger!

When making the choic-es needed to optimize health, itis critical to have accurateinformation. Otherwise, ourdiet and lifestyle sacrifices, forwhich we sometimes give upthings we enjoy, may kill usinstead of helping.

Because of this, I wouldlike to look at common, andsimply wrong, medical mythsabout things we avoid for ourhealth, and then let’s look atwhat the science really shows.Along the way, you may findyou get to enjoy your pleasuresagain — guilt free!

Let's examine 6 medicalmyths, along with my "bust"for each of them!

Medical Myth 1: SkinnyPeople Live Longer

Being overweight won’tkill you — it may even helpyou live longer. That’s the latestfrom a study that analyzed dataon 11,326 Canadian adults ages

25 and older who were fol-lowed over a 12-year period.The report, published onlinelast week in the journalObesity, found that, overall,people who were overweightbut not obese were actually lesslikely to die than people of nor-mal weight. By contrast, peoplewho were underweight weremore likely to die than those ofaverage weight. Their risk ofdying was 73% higher than thatof normal weight people, whilethe risk of dying for those whowere overweight was 17%lower than for people of normalweight. The finding adds to asimmering scientific controver-sy over the optimal weight foradults.

Medical Myth 2: Salt is Badfor You

That myth has been wellbusted. Repeated studies showthat people with higher saltintakes live longer.

Medical Myth 3: Oily Food isBad for You

This depends on thekind of fat. Trans fats (added tomany processed foods — espe-cially margarine, which wastouted as more “heart healthy”than butter) is a major killer.Butter is much healthier.

Fish oil is especiallyhealthy. Fish oil deficiency isthe 6th leading cause of deathin the U.S.

Omega-3 deficiency isthe sixth biggest killer ofAmericans and more deadlythan excess trans fat intake,according to a new study. TheHarvard University researcherslooked at 12 dietary, lifestyle

and metabolic risk factors suchas tobacco smoking and highblood pressure and used amathematical model to deter-mine how many fatalities couldhave been prevented if betterpractices had been observed.The study, jointly funded by theCenters for Disease Control andPrevention (CDC) through theAssociation of Schools ofPublic Health, drew on 2005data from the U.S. NationalHealth Center for HealthStatistics. They determined thatthere were 72,000-96,000 pre-ventable deaths each year dueto omega-3 deficiency, com-pared to 63,000-97,000 for hightrans fat intake.

Medical Myth 4: Eggs RaiseCholesterol and are Bad forYou

Over 6 studies (at mylast count) showed that eating 6eggs a day for 6 weeks had nosignificant effect on cholesterollevels. Meanwhile, eggs are thebest (most complete) proteinsource available — short ofbeing a cannibal and eatingother people!

Medical Myth 5: Chocolate isBad

Dark chocolate has beenshown to be high in antioxi-dants and offers numeroushealth benefits. Simply enjoy itin moderation.

Medical Myth 6 (the MostDeadly Myth): AvoidSunshine

This especially danger-ous piece of medical mal-advice is causing an epidemic

of vitamin D deficiency, and isestimated to be causing 85,000excess cancer deaths a year inthe U.S. Vitamin D deficiencyalso contributes to obesity, andnumerous other medical prob-lems. The proper advice? Avoidsunburn, not sunshine!

The Overriding Fallacy?

The great fallacy is thatthings that make you feel goodare bad for you. I suspect it isquite the opposite, and that

these are the things that areGOOD for you! Listen to yourbody, and see how you feeloverall with different pleasures.If they leave you feeling betteroverall long term, I suspect thatodds are they are beneficial. Itrust what our body and feel-ings tell us much more than thebusted myths put out by ourusually well meaning, but ouroften wrong, medical system.

phapha

All-Overish-Ness

by Dr. Virginia Sherr, MD

Dad lay in bed or waspropped up in a chair. Hewalked in great pain, feebly,and only with assistance.Everyone said that's what hap-pens when you get to be 99years old. But I could notunderstand it. For 90 of thoseyears, he was vital, vigorous - adetermined biologist and activegardener. I thought that surelysomething specific mustaccount for his symptoms andhis suddenly appearing to havegiven up.

Not depressed a day ofhis very zestful life, the changein him impelled me to searchfor an unrecognized melancho-lia. He wouldn't have any of it:

"It's the All-overish-ness, Virginia, the All-overish-ness."

A cadre of medical spe-cialists thought his might be acase of polymyalgia rheumatica

but the usual blood work wasnormal. With a sense of finalityhe insisted that I be satisfiedwith his version of a diagnosiswhenever I asked him what waswrong. He always spoke as if I,a physician, certainly shouldunderstand as meaningful, thisobvious, accurate label. At thattime I could not; 10 years laterI believe I do understandbecause I have experienced theall-overish-ness, myself.

Checked out again by abattery of medical specialists ashe approached the centurymark, there were no logicalanswers to the question ofDad's diagnosis. He was pro-nounced a remarkably healthymale with normal blood pres-sure, no major cardiac problemsand looking especially good forhis age. He made it to the cen-tury mark and beyond by nearlya year. Those last 10 years werea nightmare for him, however,because of pains that relentless-ly incapacitated him.

A man who was raisednever to acknowledge any dis-comfort, he eventuallyscreamed with pain at everyattempt to move or to bemoved. It also was heart ren-dering to his family and to hisattendants.

Ticks are a part of theway of life for people who liveon the rural Eastern Shore ofMaryland. And he was a biolo-gist; ticks are considered bybiologists and birders there tobe common occupational nui-sances. He picked them off

himself without a thought. Onedog belonging to the family hada known total of 300 ticks onhim when my sister undertookthe task of counting them.

I remember the firsttime after 1991 when Dad diedthat I thought about the all-overish-ness syndrome again. Ihad been sure that the new mat-tress that my husband and I hadpurchased was defective. It wasso firm, I thought, that it mademy hips ache. But when theaching spread to my hands andto my ankles, it became moredifficult to blame the mattress.

Soon after that, as I hur-ried to get my purse to pay adelivery man, I suddenly col-lapsed on the steps leadingupstairs. The doctor who I con-

sulted then for weakness andjoint pains tried to reassure methat my lab work generally wasOK and I looked just fine formy age. I thought, "I haveheard this somewhere beforeand I know this drill!" But Inever knew another name for ituntil an additional 6 years hadcome and gone. That was whenmy new family doctor recog-nized the symptoms andapplied a scientific label to myversion of Dad's excellent clini-cal description, "the all-overish-ness". Of course, that syndromewas in him more than likely thesame syndrome that later devel-oped in me.

My doctor identified itas chronic Lyme, co-infectivewith other tick-borne diseases,

verified many months intotreatment with positive borreliaand babesia DNA testing.

Dr. John Drulle wrote in1991: "Polymyalgia rheumatica(PMR) is a common disease ofelderly people characterized bypain and stiffness in the mus-cles of the upper arms and legs,fevers, malaise and weightloss... In classic form, the causeof the condition is unknown... Ihave personally seen threecases of Lyme-inducedPMR...".

Polymyalgia rheumaticasounds a lot like "chronic Lymeall-overish-ness" to me.However, I may rename it formyself. It could just as well becalled chronic "overall-ish-ness" - tyrant that it is. phapha

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improvement in areas whererife machine therapy lagged.The longer I researched, usedmyself as a guinea pig, andconsulted with various patientsand practitioners, the moreobvious it became that theMarshall Protocol would playan important role in LymeDisease recovery. As men-tioned, it addresses an aspect ofthe Lyme Disease complex that,quite simply, no other treat-ment, supplement, or protocolcan impact.

Those who use rifemachines to fight Lyme Diseasewill be excited to find out thatthe Marshall Protocol appearsto be compatible with rifemachine therapy. More thancompatible, actually. Eachtherapy compensates for weak-nesses in the other. Becausethe method of action of the twotherapies is entirely different, itis not redundant to use bothduring the course of a LymeDisease treatment campaign.The therapies work together toaccelerate the healing process.

The answer to many incur-able, idiopathic diseases

The benefit provided bythe Marshall Protocol does notstop with Lyme Disease.Thousands of actual patientswith real medical conditionsranging from fibromyalgia andchronic fatigue syndrome toarthritis and obsessive-compul-sive disorder have regainedtheir health by using theMarshall Protocol. Their sto-ries are very instructive. Tocommunicate with thousands ofMarshall Protocol users visitthe discussion forum located at

marshallprotocol.com. The commonality which

allows such differing illnessesto be treated successfully by theMarshall Protocol is their rootcause: cell-wall-deficient bac-teria. Visit www.marshallprotocol.com for a full list ofconditions which may profitfrom the Marshall Protocol. Ofcourse not all allegedly untreat-able diseases are caused bycell-wall-deficient bacteria.Some such diseases may becaused by other pathogens oreven problems like mercurypoisoning and allergies.However, a large number ofserious diseases are caused (orat least contributed to) by cell-wall-deficient bacteria and willrespond accordingly to theMarshall Protocol.

Modern conventionalmedicine does not test for cell-wall-deficient bacteria duringthe process of diagnosing dis-eases. Hence, there is a widerange of symptom presentationshaving these bacteria as a rootcause which end up being diag-nosed with nonsense diseaselabels such as "fibromyalgia,""chronic fatigue syndrome," or"depression." These diseaselabels (and many others likethem) are flawed because theyprovide only a description ofsymptoms but absolutely nouseful information about thecause of the problem. Suchdiseases are those known in theconventional medical commu-nity as "idiopathic." The wordmeans "without known cause"but is really just a fancy way tosay "we have no idea what iswrong with you." Diagnosingmuscle pains with the label"fibromyalgia" is like diagnos-

ing a broken transmission inyour car with the label "It JustDon't Work No More." Patientsare told that there are no suc-cessful remedies for their dis-eases other than symptom-reducing, palliative treatments,because frankly, how couldthere be a successful remedy ifno one knows what is causingthe problem?

In many cases, theMarshall Protocol offers theonly hope to people with idio-pathic diseases, because theMarshall Protocol operatesfrom a position of recognitionand understanding of the actualproblem, not just the symp-toms.

While no one knowsexactly how cell-wall-deficientbacteria infiltrate the body, orwhy some people are more sus-ceptible to them than are others,open-minded scientists havelong suspected their involve-ment in many health conditionsdeemed idiopathic. For exam-ple, consider autoimmunity,which is often alleged as thecause of diseases like thosementioned in the above para-graphs. Defined as an attack onthe human body by its ownimmune system, autoimmunityitself has been hypothesized tobe triggered by stealthpathogens (like cell-wall-defi-cient bacteria) which short cir-cuit and confuse the immunesystem to the point of self-attack. It has been hypothe-sized that such stealth bacteriacould hide away in host tissues,leading the immune system tomistake healthy, host tissues forthe invading bacteria. TheMarshall Protocol has helped toconfirm this hypothesis; many

people with autoimmune disor-ders have gained significantimprovement, or even completerecovery, via the protocol.People with so-called "autoim-munity" are actually gettingbetter when they are treated forstealth bacterial infections.

It may be difficult tounderstand and accept that cell-wall-deficient bacteria cancause diseases with so manydiverse symptoms and presenta-tions-from musculoskeletal dis-orders to mental disorders. Thefollowing three points help toexplain why many diseases,commonly believed to be unre-lated, can all be caused by cell-wall-deficient bacteria:

As a result of varyinggenetics, environmental factors,and other variables, illness willmanifest differently in differentindividuals, leading to unrelateddiagnoses despite analogouscauses.

Many, possibly thou-sands, of different species ofcell-wall-deficient bacteriaexist, each having unique dele-terious effects, leading to variedpresentation of disease.

Cell-wall-deficient bac-teria are capable of infectingevery major organ and systemin the body; the syndrome ordisease label someone ends upwith often depends on where acell-wall-deficient bacteriumestablishes infection.

An analogy will furtherclarify how different diseasesand different symptoms canhave the same root cause:Allergies. Many people areallergic to pollen, yet allergicreactions vary greatly; somepeople get runny noses, othersget asthma, some get red, itchy

eyes. Some allergic reactionsare only an uncomfortable nui-sance, while others are life-threatening. In the same way,people react to infection bycell-wall-deficient bacteria dif-ferently-some moderately, someseverely, typically all withsymptoms that share someaspects in common but stillvary wildly, as is the case withmost idiopathic diseases. Aninteresting side note: many dis-eases which are caused by cell-wall-deficient bacteria result inpart from allergic reactions totheir bacterial toxins.

The bottom line is sim-ply that many diverse diseasesshare the root cause of cell-wall-deficient bacteria. Becausea multiplicity of conditions canbe caused by cell-wall-deficientbacteria, the Marshall Protocolhas applicability to many seem-ingly unrelated illnesses. If youor someone you know sufferersfrom an unmitigated disease, itis possible that it is caused bystealth bacteria unrecognizedby conventional medicine. Youhave everything to gain andnothing to lose by exploringwhat the Marshall Protocoloffers.

Now we will examinewhat the Marshall Protocol isand how it works. First we willlook at the general principlesand discoveries on which theprotocol is based, and then wewill look at the actual treat-ments and lifestyle recommen-dations that comprise the proto-col.

Stay tuned for parts 2and 3 of this article series!More information about theMarshall Protocol next month!

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with both, and that's unfortu-nate, because the advanced nat-ural medical side is willing towork with both treatments. Thenatural docs know it needs tobe a partnership.

So, the family wentback, and Child ProtectiveServices met them at the air-port. They interviewed all ofthe kids and the grandparents tosee that the grandparents werefit to care for the family. Theparents talked to CPS andcalmed them down. The par-ents took their son, who hadcancer, to the surgeon and themom talked the surgeon intotrying to save her son's leg, if atall possible.

They told the surgeon,"We don't want him to lose hisleg; he needs his leg." Whenthey went into surgery, the can-cer that had surrounded hisfemur and his knee was com-pletely dead. The tissue wasdead. The cancer was gone.So, all they had to do wasremove the muscle tissue wherethe cancer was, so he didn't losehis leg after all. It just lookedlike he had a big shark bite.

Here's where the kickerwas that I couldn't stand. Weknew the Envita treatmentsworked. We knew that kidsrespond so well to integrativemedicine. When you combinethe use of high-dose vitamin C,ozone therapy and the rightnutrition, you stack the odds inyour favor. This family was soexcited, because at first, theirson was not given a good prog-nosis. What they were told was

that, because their son who wasunder eighteen had been diag-nosed with this type of cancer,he had to do six months ofchemotherapy, which was thestandard protocol. He was notallowed to come back toEnvita. He had to do the sixmonths of chemo.

That six months ofchemotherapy crushed him. Hehated it, he didn't want it and itwasn't necessary. Every chancehe got when he was on springor summer break, whenever hisparents could scrape the moneytogether, he would come toEnvita for treatments. Thegrandma came out with him,his grandfather and his sistersalso came out and stayed tohelp him. Mark and I also gavehim a place to stay at ourhouse, so I could take care ofhim. He could not come backto Envita until he turned eight-een.

We did whatever wecould to get him his treatments.And we did it in a hush-hushmanner, because we knew itwas working. That six monthsof chemotherapy was a bigproblem for him. You see,what most people don't know, isthat up to eighty percent of thekids who take that type ofchemo for childhood cancershave it return as a form of lungcancer.

He made it until he wasnineteen years old, but hepassed away in September of2008 from lung cancer. Hisbone cancer never returned. Itwas the side effects of taking

the six months of chemotherapythat caused the lung cancer. Webelieve Envita Medical Centerwas able to give him five moreyears, and he was golfing rightup until two months before hepassed away. He was playingfootball. He was an inspirationand never wavered in his faithor hope.

So, in 2005, we startedthe Fullness of Life Foundationto help relieve the financialburden for these families, sothat they could have their kidstreated and we could supple-ment the costs of that. Webelieve that every childdeserves the right to receivecomplementary medicine orintegrative medicine that'sgoing to help stack the odds intheir favor. We believe that themore survivors we have, thestronger our voice becomes,because this is the medicine ofthe future. This is the wayhealthcare should be. It should-n't be just one kind of treat-ment, with everyone close-minded, because the pharma-ceutical companies have amonopoly on treating diseases.It shouldn't be about that.

Why do we have somuch disease today? Look atour nutrition and diet. Look athow North Americans livetoday. We have a completelydifferent diet than any othercontinent. The reason diseaseis on the rise is because of ourdiet. It starts with that. Ourattitude toward health plays abig part, too. In this society,we think we can take a pill and

the pill is going to fix every-thing. People want a one-pill-fix-all, but our bodies are notdesigned for that. Any chemi-cal you put into your bodycauses a reaction, a chemicalupset or imbalance somewhereelse, and the body has to read-just. It might prevent or get ridof some of the symptoms, but itdoesn't get to the cause.

That's why it's so impor-tant to get into the cellular levelof the immune system. Weneed to adjust and manipulatethe immune system, so it canfunction as it should, by givingit the right nutrition, by givingit the right supplements and bygiving it the right enzymes andnutrients. In this way, it canthrive and survive and run at itspeak capacity throughout yourlife.

So, that's why we start-ed the Foundation, and alreadywe have had several childrenunder our wings the last fewyears. We had a girl who cameto us at age fourteen. She camefrom hospice care, and beforeChristmas, was given only afew months to live, if that. Hermother brought her to one ofour big fundraising events andlearned about the Fullness ofLife Foundation. Now, she's apart of the Fullness Family.

She has been fightingbrain tumors since she waseleven months old. To this day,last January 2008, after havingan MRI, she has no more braintumors. She is completely can-cer free. That's why we arehere to prove that you need

both traditional and integrativemedicine. We usually get thekids after traditional medicinesays there's nothing more theycan do for them. They don'thave enough weapons in theirarsenal. Traditional practition-ers think integrative medicine isquackery; they just don't realizethat integrative medicine works.

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Tina J. Garcia, wasselected to testify at theInfectious Diseases Society ofAmerica (IDSA) 2006 LymeDisease Practice GuidelinesReview Panel Hearing onThursday, July 30, 2009 inWashington, DC.

Tina is the founder ofL.E.A.P. Arizona (LymeEducation AwarenessProgram). Tina has been aLyme patient for more than ten(10) years and a patient advo-cate since 2005.

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diseases carried by ticks that Idecided to run an insect andtick disease array. I hit paydirt!!!

The biosurvey for thegolf instructor showed a signifi-cant response to the bio signa-ture for Rickettsial disease.Again this input prompted meto order specific lab work fromI GeneX and my suspicionswere confirmed. There areother indicators as well whichneed follow up as the laborato-ry testing continues becausedisease is not always from onecause.

The above biosurveydid not show results which onemight expect from a significantdeterioration of brain tissueand, as a result, I moved on toexplore Lyme disease as anoption.

Nothing on the Lymebiosurvey above was significantalthough retesting was still aconsideration if a more exact-ing cause was not indicated andconfirmed.

My experiences earlier

with African tick fever(Rickettsia) prompted me toscan the biosurvey below andsure enough I found a signifi-cant marker to warrant the run-ning of the Rickettsial IGeneXtest which confirmed my suspi-cion. I had hit pay dirt!!!

The scan for the golfinstructor clearly showed aRickettsial disease which wasconfirmed with further testingat the IGeneX.

Conclusion and Comments

Today's doctors are overloaded with complex andchronic diseases to consider intheir workup of a sick patient.Most physicians are very famil-iar with the patient who pres-ents with a symptom or two,but today's complex cases maypresent with dozens of symp-toms. Diagnosis of chronic dis-ease is an incredible burdenfinancially, physically and emo-tionally. Imagine the potentialof technology to give one aview into the body to help fig-

ure out which tests to run andwhat diseases to follow up withfurther studies.

I have spent yearsdeveloping test kits containingthousands of testers for condi-tions, metabolic pathways, lab-oratory tests, remedies and etc.My knowledge in this area hasnow resulted in the many dis-ease arrays which, through thisautomated array panning tech-nology, have allowed me toconsider thousands of potentialcauses. I am now more specificand exacting in my selection oflab tests. Lab tests are oftencostly and time consuming so itis best to be correct in ones youselect.

Remember this is not adiagnostic device but a toolwhere the body is asked a ques-tion via an electrical impulseand the resultant reaction isthen recorded in a digital man-ner for review. The tests pro-vide a guidance system for thedoctor, giving him another setof eyes and ears. This informa-tion is to be combined with

other clinical data and othertests and tools to unwind thecomplexity of the case. This inturn leads to a confirmed objec-tive diagnosis and a successfultreatment plan.

These specializeddevices are not to be used fordiagnosis or even disease nam-ing, yet with the more advancedarrays can be used to guidedecision making by thosephysicians interested in gettingto the bottom of the causalchain of illness.

At present, I see patientsboth in my San Diego Officeand my Orange County officeand remotely when necessary. Ialso consult throughout theworld with doctors, often scan-ning their difficult cases look-ing for potential pathways tofollow to resolve illness.

Interested parties cancontact Dr. Watkinson at hisScripps Medical Offices in SanDiego, California at 1-858-793-0211. phapha

“Technology” ... cont’d from pg 6About the Author:

Dr. Tobin Watkinsonhas achieved degrees and cer-tifications in Acupuncture,Clinical Nutrition,Thermography, Chiropracticand Experimental Psychology.Prior to his thirty three yearsin practice heworked in research on contractfor the Aerospace MedicineResearch Lab, as well as, theLife Sciences Directorate of the Aeronautics andAstronautics Division ofMacDonnell Douglas Corporation.

Dr Watkinson hasappeared on some 60 radioshows throughout the United States and NewZealand and has appeared onABC and NBC television, aswell as, several cable net-works. He has over 70 titles ofCDs and DVDs. He hasauthored over 20 articles,books and professional papersand has lectured at nearly 40scientific conferences, semi-nars and meetings.

He is the past VicePresident and President of theInternational and NationalAssociation of ClinicalNutritionists, past Vice President of the CaliforniaThermographic Society, pastProgram Chairmen of theHuman Factors Society andsits on the Medical AdvisoryBoard of at least fourFoundations. Dr Watkinsonholds patents in several areasof allergy and immunity andsits on the board of directorsof two corporations and oneCharitable Foundation.

Dr Watkinson haspracticed for the past 33 yearsof which 16 years has been atthe Scripps Medical Offices inSan Diego California. Otheroffices have been in SantaMonica California, OrangeCounty California, St. Louis Mo. andEscondido California.

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