The DOCTOR YOURSELF (SM) NEWSLETTER Vol 1, No 14
May 11, 2001 "Free of charge, free of advertising, and free of the
A.M.A."
Written by Andrew Saul, PhD. of http://www.doctoryourself.com , a free
online library of more
than 200 natural healing articles with over 3,000 scientific references.
SPECIAL MEN’S HEALTH ISSUE
The health disadvantages of being male start at conception, and continue
throughout the
man’s 6-year shorter life expectancy. While women have a backup
(XX) sex chromosome
pair, men have an XY pair. This means there is no genetic safety
net, no duplicate backup for
gene defects such as hemophilia and colorblindness, and that is why
it is almost always men who
have these infirmities.
But this is just the beginning. Males are far more likely to be diagnosed
with ADHD; far more
likely to go to prison; far more likely to be victims of violent crime;
far more likely to accept, and
die from, a dangerous occupation; infinitely more likely to be drafted
and consequently far more
likely to die in service to their country. Males are more likely to
be separated from their children by
their job’s demands if they are married, and separated from their children
by the courts if they
divorce. No wonder men die sooner from heart attacks, and are much
more likely (at all ages) to
die from suicide.
In fact, men are more likely than women to die of the fifteen leading
causes of death, both
from accident and from disease.
Pretty grim stuff, and these and more facts fill the books of Warren
Farrell, PhD. Guys, if you
have not yet read Why Men Are the Way They Are and The Myth of Male
Power, you want to do
so without delay. In spite of, or perhaps because of, all the
statistics that Farrell presents
(hundreds of references back up his statements), his books are not
downers but are in fact very
uplifting. He offers many insights and much practical advice, which
I have personally found to be
genuinely helpful. Here is reading that will make a guy feel better
right away, and be a better
man, and a better person. This has to have real benefits for the ladies
in our lives, too.
Farrell, Warren (1986) Why Men Are the Way They Are. New York:
McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-
019974-4
Farrell, Warren (1993) The Myth of Male Power. New York: Simon and Schuster.
ISBN 0-671-
79349-7
This month’s DoctorYourself Recommended WEBSITE would therefore be
http://www.warrenfarrell.com He has a new book, Father and Child
Reunion, which I am going to
read soon. If you want to review it for the Newsletter, please email
me.
MORE ON MEN’S HEALTH
Enlarged Prostate, Prostate Infection, and Prostate Cancer are topics
considered at
http://www.doctoryourself.com/prostate.html
Male (and female) fertility (and infertility) is discussed at
http://www.doctoryourself.com/fertility.html
Dr. Abram Hoffer’s recommendations for cardiovascular disease are posted
at
http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_cardio.html
The Red Green Show’s Possum Lodge Men’s Anonymous Pledge:
“I am a man… and I can change…if I really have to…I guess.”
MOVE OVER, REGIS
Take the DOCTOR YOURSELF POISON IVY QUIZ:
“You can get the most practical poison ivy treatment information from
which of the following
popular sources?”
A) “Poison Ivy,” as performed by the Coasters
B) “For the Love of Ivy,” sung by the Mamas and the Papas
C) “Move Over Regis,” as published in the DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER
D) “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” as performed by Frank Sinatra
Well, “C” is your final answer, and by that, I mean VITAMIN C.
The easiest way to reduce the severity, redness and itching of poison
ivy is to apply vitamin C
topically, right on the skin. You can do this several ways. One
is to take vitamin C powder and
dissolve it in a very small amount of water to make a paste. Another
is to wet the skin and
sprinkle on the C powder. It will adhere even better if you spray
a tiny bit of water over the
powder after it is on your skin. A plant mister will work just
fine. It all looks pretty strange, of
course, but it works.
If waited too long to do this, or if you have a particularly severe
case of ivy poisoning, vitamin C
(ascorbic acid) powder may smart a bit. Use calcium ascorbate
powder, which is non-acidic, and
there will be no burning feeling.
This technique also works for belladonna rashes. Belladonna is
a common climbing weed with
upside down heart shaped leaves and beautiful little purple flowers
that mature into dazzlingly
bright red berries. This very poisonous plant can cause some
wicked dermatitis. Treat it just as
you would poison ivy: Wear gloves and a long-sleeved shirt when you
handle it. You can
easily eradicate the weed by pulling it out by the root with your gloved
hands. Dispose of it in a
couple of tied-off, recycled trash bags.
So, my outdoor-loving friends, toss out that calamine lotion and, instead,
keep a bottle of vitamin
C powder handy. You will be surprised how well vitamin C, directly
applied, takes the itch out of
the ivy and the ‘donna, too. Why does it work? Because vitamin
C is an antitoxin, explains
Frederick R. Klenner, M.D. in
http://doctoryourself.com/klennerpaper.html
DID YOU KNOW:
Quickly now: What animal has the world’s longest sperm?
(Answer in the next issue. Okay, email me if you can’t stand
the wait.)
Reader’s Question: “What is the difference between the different forms of vitamin C?”
Generally speaking, vitamin C is ascorbic acid. This is cheap
and it works in quantity as an
excellent antibiotic, antiviral, and antihistamine. Sodium ascorbate
is the form of vitamin C most
often used for IV’s. Calcium ascorbate is buffered enough for sensitive
peoples' oral doses. It is
good to have a choice; all provide ascorbate ion, the business end
of the vitamin C molecule.
You can quickly find a lot of very specific information on vitamin C
with a site search at
http://doctoryourself.com/search.html My website contains full-text,
detailed articles by several
medical doctors who use huge doses of the vitamin therapeutically.
DOCTOR YOURSELF Guest Article, by Anthony DiSiena, D. C.
How many people realize the daily assault on their immune system? Just
think about it for a
moment.
1) If you are exposed to second hand smoke, you are forced to breathe
the third leading cause of
preventable death. Studies clearly show cancers and heart diseases
are caused by second hand
smoke. Many states have regulations against the use of carcinogenic
pesticides on fruits and
vegetables while ignoring tobacco smoke’s carcinogens, which cause
over double the deaths!
Your entire immune system is severely challenged by this assault.
2) If you purchase (non-organic) meats and poultry you are eating the
antibiotics farmers feed to
their livestock. Antibiotics destroy the balance of flora, good and
bad bacteria, in your intestines.
The rarer you cook your meat, the more the chance for the antibiotics
to survive the cooking
process. Unfortunately, the bad bacteria repopulate at a faster rate
than the good bacteria. Our
intestines depend on bacterial balance to maintain health. If the bacteria
are out of balance,
absorption of nutrients decreases because the bad bacteria multiply
at a greater rate than the
good bacteria. However, the absorption of the toxins produced as the
number of bad bacteria
increases. Many life threatening diseases can result of the decreased
absorption of nutrients and
increased absorption of toxins.
3) Soon non-organic foods can also be exposed to radioactive isotopes.
Do you know the long
term effects of eating irradiated foods? No? Well neither does the
FDA! We can only wonder what
new this assault will have on our already weakened immune systems.
Have you noticed more people are becoming allergic to common substances?
Do you think there
maybe a connection to the three daily assaults on the immune system
written about above?
(Correspondence to Dr. Anthony DeSiena, Washington Street Chiropractic
Center, L.L.C.; 771
Washington Street, Eugene, OR 97401)
HYPERTENSION
(Is it because it is springtime and (everybody is whooping it up) that
I am getting so many
questions about high blood pressure?)
Mr. V writes:
“My doctor has recently declared that I have blood pressure that has
to be treated and wants to
put me on blood pressure pills, (the reading was 150/100 ) Is there
a way I can reduce my blood
pressure without medication?”
Switching to a good, near-vegetarian natural diet would certainly be
a good place to start; there is
no downside to eating right. More fiber, less sugar and fat, and more
fruits, vegetables and grains
is great for the ticker. So are Dr. Jacobus Rinse’s supplement suggestions,
which we will come to
shortly.
Your BP will be significantly higher when you are anxious, and a false
reading may result in
unnecessary medication. Take your own blood pressure at home, or have
a friend do it. You may
find that you already have a partial cure for hypertension: avoid high-stress
doctors’ office visits!
This is more than just rhetorical hyperbole, for a daily program of
stress reduction (such as
meditation) has repeatedly been scientifically proven to effectively
reduce high blood pressure
without drugs. And weight loss almost always helps, too.
Let’s consider cardiovascular health in general:
DR. JACOBUS RINSE'S BREAKFAST WAS ALSO HIS MEDICINE:
HIS NUTRITIONAL PROTOCOL FOR CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
Only in his early 50's, Jacobus Rinse's doctors told him he had but
a few years to live.
Cardiovascular disease had ravaged his body. Medicine had little to
offer him but hope, and not
much of that. So Dr. Rinse, a chemist, decided to look into matters
for himself. He hit the books
and collected an enormous pile of nutritional research. Some studies
suggested that he might be
able to delay death with vitamins and other food supplements He had
little to lose, so he tried it.
His payoff? Rinse would live for another third of a century.
For 50 years, the following pick-me-up for the cardiovascular system
has been used harmlessly
and effectively worldwide. Science continues to uncover why it works,
while countless people are
satisfied that it works. (Quantities are approximate:)
Lecithin granules, two or three tablespoons (TBL)
Nutritional (or brewer’s) yeast, one tsp or as much as you can stand
Powdered calcium-magnesium supplement, one TBL (or several tablets)
Wheat germ (vacuum packed or very fresh), two TBL
Oil (fresh mono-unsaturated oil such as olive is ideal); one TBL (personally
omit this; it’s just too
early in the morning for me.)
Vitamin C powder, 1/2 tsp or more
Vitamin E, more than 400 IU (increase gradually, starting with 100 IU,
if you have high blood
pressure. Consult your doctor.)
Vitamin B-complex, one balanced formula tablet
And after this you think you'll be hungry? This food stays with you
‘till lunch and takes only
minutes to mix up in juice. My favorite "carrier" is pineapple juice
but you could use whatever
sweet juice you desire. I can go for 6 or 7 hours on just one good
"Doc Rinse breakfast" without
feeling hungry.
The Rinse formula may not be as appealing (or should that be "appalling?")
as a big bowl of "Fruit
Loops," but it has vastly more to offer a healing heart and circulatory
system.
Notes on the Rinse Formula:
* Lecithin is cheapest bought in bulk at a health food store or food
co-op. Specify granular
lecithin, because the capsules are too expensive and liquid lecithin
is enough to gag a maggot.
* Gradually increase the quantity of nutritional yeast. It is an acquired
taste, and too much too
soon can occasionally cause a skin rash in sensitive persons. No more
than a couple of
tablespoons daily would be needed.
* Calcium-magnesium supplements are best taken in the citrate (cheap),
gluconate (even
cheaper), or amino acid chelated form.
* Smell the wheat germ and the oil to ensure that it is fresh. If it
smells bitter or sour, it is… and
don't use it.
* Pure vitamin C powder (ascorbic acid) is about 2,000 mg per 1/2 tsp.
Do not take so much as
would contribute to loose bowels or gas.
* If I had the sure cure for heart disease, America's #1 killer, I'd
be Surgeon General of the World
and have my picture on the cover of Time magazine. But good nutrition
can really make a
difference.
For Further Reading:
Rinse, Jacobus (1975) Atherosclerosis: prevention and cure (parts 1
and 2). Prevention.
November and December. Very important reading. Ask your
librarian to get you these specific
issues (or photocopies) through interlibrary loan.
Rinse, Jacobus (1978) Cholesterol and phospholipids in relation to atherosclerosis.
American
Laboratory Magazine, April.
(This article is reprinted from the book PAPERBACK CLINIC, copyright
1994, 1995, 2000 by
Andrew Saul)
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