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Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts
Monday, June 09, 2008
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Education Not Medication
"There is no scientific proof of the safety or the effectiveness of drugs and/or vaccinations.
According to the journal, BMJ Clinical Evidence, about 2,500 drug treatments offered in conventional medicine produce the following results (including the latest drug killer,
Heparin):
1) 13 percent are beneficial to the patient
2) 23 percent are likely to be beneficial
3) 8 percent is a trade-off between benefits and harm
4) 6 percent are unlikely to be beneficial
5) 4 percent are likely to be ineffective or harmful, and
6) 46 percent have unknown effectiveness.
There is a 64% risk that the drug or the vaccine treatment you or your child receive will cause harm, will be ineffective or may have unknown side-effects.
The leading cause of death in America is not Cancer - NO!
It is not Heart Disease - NO! It is not diabetes - NO!
The leading cause of death in America is caused by pharma drugs -YES!
American does not need more medicine. What America needs is more education. That's right! Education not medication.
Education on how to maintain the alkaline design of the body and prevent ALL sickness and dis-ease!
Say NO TO ALL DRUGS! Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food, as stated by Hippocrates.
The safe and effective way to have health, energy and vitality is to simply maintain the alkaline design of the body with an alkaline lifestyle and diet.
"Health is all about maintaining the delicate alkaline pH of the blood and tissues," states Dr. Robert O.
Young, of the pH Miracle Living Center.
According to the journal, BMJ Clinical Evidence, about 2,500 drug treatments offered in conventional medicine produce the following results (including the latest drug killer,
Heparin):
1) 13 percent are beneficial to the patient
2) 23 percent are likely to be beneficial
3) 8 percent is a trade-off between benefits and harm
4) 6 percent are unlikely to be beneficial
5) 4 percent are likely to be ineffective or harmful, and
6) 46 percent have unknown effectiveness.
There is a 64% risk that the drug or the vaccine treatment you or your child receive will cause harm, will be ineffective or may have unknown side-effects.
The leading cause of death in America is not Cancer - NO!
It is not Heart Disease - NO! It is not diabetes - NO!
The leading cause of death in America is caused by pharma drugs -YES!
American does not need more medicine. What America needs is more education. That's right! Education not medication.
Education on how to maintain the alkaline design of the body and prevent ALL sickness and dis-ease!
Say NO TO ALL DRUGS! Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food, as stated by Hippocrates.
The safe and effective way to have health, energy and vitality is to simply maintain the alkaline design of the body with an alkaline lifestyle and diet.
"Health is all about maintaining the delicate alkaline pH of the blood and tissues," states Dr. Robert O.
Young, of the pH Miracle Living Center.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Dark Field Microscopy of a Live Blood Sample
Dark Field Microscopy of a Live Blood Sample
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more information:
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Saturday, April 19, 2008
The Key To Health, Energy and Fitness
The nation's 10 most expensive dietary and metabolic acid caused medical conditions cost about $500 billion to treat in 2005, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The money paid for visits to doctor's offices, clinics and emergency departments, hospital stays, home health care and prescription medicines.Estimated spending for the 10 most expensive acid conditions are:
* Heart conditions $76 billion
* Trauma disorders $72 billion
* Cancer $70 billion
* Mental disorders, including depression $56.0 billion
* Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
$54 billion
* High blood pressure $42 billion
* Type 2 diabetes $34 billion
* Osteoarthritis and other joint diseases
$34 billion
* Back problems $32 billion
AHRQ, which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, works to enhance the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care in the United States. The data in this AHRQ News and Numbers summary are taken from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, a detailed source of information on the health services used by Americans, the frequency with which they are used, the cost of those services, and how they are paid.
We have more medicine and health care then any where in the world and yet rank number 37 in over all health as a people.
It is my personal belief that we as a Nation we need more education not medication!
I personally believe that lifestyle and dietary choice determines the quality and quantity of life. Sickness and disease and health and fitness is not something that you get it is something that you do with your daily lifestyle and dietary choices.
The pH Miracle Lifestyle and Diet can
eliminate most if not all dis-ease off the planet.
It is based upon a scientific principle that the human body is alkaline by design and acidic by function.
The key to health, energy and fitness is to maintain the alkaline design of the body through an alkaline lifestyle and diet.
Saturday, February 09, 2008
Heart Attack Seldom Leads to Healthier Diet
(HealthDay News) - Having a heart attack is apparently not sufficient reason for most people to change to a heart-healthy diet, a new study finds.
"We found that diet quality is poor after a coronary heart disease event," said study author Dr. Yunsheng Ma, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, in Worcester.
But he warned that patients' failure to eat healthier puts them at risk for another cardiac event.
"Coronary heart disease [CHD] is the number one cause of mortality in Americans," the study noted. An estimated 13 million Americans have survived a heart attack or have coronary heart disease symptoms, the researchers added.
The findings are published in the February issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.
In the study, Ma's team surveyed 555 patients averaging 61 years of age, 60 percent of whom were men. All of the participants were diagnosed with coronary heart disease and had already experienced a heart attack, angina or arrhythmia. The researchers queried the patients on their diets one year after they had undergone coronary angiography linked to some kind of coronary event.
According to the researchers, only 12.4 percent of the patients met the recommended consumption of vegetables. Similarly, only about 8 percent met daily fruit intake recommendations and just 8 percent were getting a heart-healthy amount of cereal fiber. Little more than 5 percent were limiting their intake of dangerous trans fats to recommended levels, the team said.
Compounding this, the researchers found that worst diets were associated with smoking and obesity. Poor diets were also closely correlated with lower levels of education.
Research has confirmed that fruit and vegetable consumption is associated with a lowered risk of heart disease, the researchers noted. The American Heart Association currently recommends "an overall healthy diet" that is rich in fruits and vegetables, high-fiber foods and limited amounts of saturated fat and trans fats, with an eye to maintaining a healthy weight.
The study concluded that "it may be helpful for physicians and health-care providers to refer CHD patients to behavioral interventions that include both diet and physical activity components, such as cardiac rehabilitation." Rehab by itself might not be enough, the study adds, urging consultation with registered dieticians to learn about how to make the necessary changes in diet.
Ma said that currently about 80 percent of patients do not go to rehabilitation after a coronary heart disease event such as angina, arrhythmia or heart attack. But even if patients do enter rehabilitation, many of these programs do not include dietary modifications, he added.
Dr. Alice Lichtenstein, of Tufts University, helped craft the American Heart Association's dietary recommendations. She questioned whether the new study produced truly conclusive results, noting that the study subjects may have under-reported their consumption of unhealthy foods.
That's because the participants' mean calorie intake was a relatively healthy 1,775 calories but their average body-mass index was 30, which is in the obese range, Lichtenstein noted.
She said that instead of trying to calculate the exact amount of fat or saturated fat in their diet, it may be easier for people to simply concentrate in the types of healthy foods they should be eating -- items such as fruits, vegetables, grains, beans and fish. Americans have a wide range of such foods to choose from, so "it is easier now to consume a diet consistent with a heart-healthy pattern than it's ever been before," Lichtenstein said.
More information
There's more on heart-healthy eating at the American Heart Association.
"We found that diet quality is poor after a coronary heart disease event," said study author Dr. Yunsheng Ma, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, in Worcester.
But he warned that patients' failure to eat healthier puts them at risk for another cardiac event.
"Coronary heart disease [CHD] is the number one cause of mortality in Americans," the study noted. An estimated 13 million Americans have survived a heart attack or have coronary heart disease symptoms, the researchers added.
The findings are published in the February issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.
In the study, Ma's team surveyed 555 patients averaging 61 years of age, 60 percent of whom were men. All of the participants were diagnosed with coronary heart disease and had already experienced a heart attack, angina or arrhythmia. The researchers queried the patients on their diets one year after they had undergone coronary angiography linked to some kind of coronary event.
According to the researchers, only 12.4 percent of the patients met the recommended consumption of vegetables. Similarly, only about 8 percent met daily fruit intake recommendations and just 8 percent were getting a heart-healthy amount of cereal fiber. Little more than 5 percent were limiting their intake of dangerous trans fats to recommended levels, the team said.
Compounding this, the researchers found that worst diets were associated with smoking and obesity. Poor diets were also closely correlated with lower levels of education.
Research has confirmed that fruit and vegetable consumption is associated with a lowered risk of heart disease, the researchers noted. The American Heart Association currently recommends "an overall healthy diet" that is rich in fruits and vegetables, high-fiber foods and limited amounts of saturated fat and trans fats, with an eye to maintaining a healthy weight.
The study concluded that "it may be helpful for physicians and health-care providers to refer CHD patients to behavioral interventions that include both diet and physical activity components, such as cardiac rehabilitation." Rehab by itself might not be enough, the study adds, urging consultation with registered dieticians to learn about how to make the necessary changes in diet.
Ma said that currently about 80 percent of patients do not go to rehabilitation after a coronary heart disease event such as angina, arrhythmia or heart attack. But even if patients do enter rehabilitation, many of these programs do not include dietary modifications, he added.
Dr. Alice Lichtenstein, of Tufts University, helped craft the American Heart Association's dietary recommendations. She questioned whether the new study produced truly conclusive results, noting that the study subjects may have under-reported their consumption of unhealthy foods.
That's because the participants' mean calorie intake was a relatively healthy 1,775 calories but their average body-mass index was 30, which is in the obese range, Lichtenstein noted.
She said that instead of trying to calculate the exact amount of fat or saturated fat in their diet, it may be easier for people to simply concentrate in the types of healthy foods they should be eating -- items such as fruits, vegetables, grains, beans and fish. Americans have a wide range of such foods to choose from, so "it is easier now to consume a diet consistent with a heart-healthy pattern than it's ever been before," Lichtenstein said.
More information
There's more on heart-healthy eating at the American Heart Association.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Our students
Microscopy Course on the topic of Live Blood Cell Analysis with Certificate:Here Dr. Revin (Malaysia) & Dr. Eddy
more information:
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Live Blood Cell Course Impressions
This unique course covers the width and breath of this very interesting topic.The objective of this course is to give you readily applicable knowledge of phase contrast, darkfield and brightfield microscopy.
In order to give you a broad and balanced perspective, it encompasses both the present medical view, the latest research as well as the pleomorphic view.
more information: Live Blood
http://www.dreddyclinic.com/education/live_blood_3days.htm
Live Blood Cell Course Impressions
brief introduction of course attendeesconcepts: Integrative Medical Clinic, Colon Cleansing, Ozone Treatment, Why Ozone?
medical physiology appropriate to the Milieu Intérieur Darkfield and Phase Contrast optical physics - Internet links hematology, starts with normal cell morphology and function, basics hematology pleomorphism I: Bacteria Cyclogeny and Somatidian Cycle, Protit, Endobiont
Cycle of Imbalance, Cycle of Balance
setting up your microscope & how to take care of it practicum I: microscopes & Live Blood Darkfield Cell Analysis.
confidently recognizing what's under the microscope; abnormal cell morphology of red blood cells, white blood cells, thrombocytes and serum issues including bacterial forms, mycoplasma, crystalline deposits, ascits, filits, fungus/yeast markers, heterogenous plaque etcetera
pleomorphism II: Prof. Guenther Enderlein, Ullmann Jensen research practicum II: Live Blood further clinical hematology theory
We see here: Ms. Nakamon from Bangkok and Ms. Yuki from Tokyo.
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Thursday, October 25, 2007
Live Blood Analysis course this October 2007?
Do you have a Live Blood Analysis / Darkfield blood course this October/November 2007 for non medical students without medical background?We have this month a Live Blood Analysis 3 Day Course for non-medical students without medical bakground at November 23rd to 25th 2007; and January 07th 2008;
and we have this month a Live Blood Analysis 3 Day Course for medical students, doctors with medical background at October 28th to 30th 2007;
You can download the application form and apply here: http://www.dreddyclinic.com/education/live_blood_3days.htm and visit our Forum for FAQ at http://dreddyclinic.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=6
Monday, January 22, 2007
DrEddyClinic.com - Live Blood Cell Analysis Course Feedback Testimonials
Hi Dr. Eddy and Aree,Thank you so very much for taking such good care of us and sharing so much of your knowledge.
We are back safely on Friday and have been thinking of you and feeling so much gratitude for all that you've shared and also for our connection.
I have done some research online on Amazon.com on some good books, at least 20 or so books including the ones recommended by you, were purchased. Subjects on acidity/alkalinity, metabolic typing, oxygen therapy.
I have also been doing some research online for a pH meter. There are some really good ones, portable ones even, starting from $40-200 USD depending on what you get. I will have to spend more time to see which would work best for foods testing by giving the companies a call to talk over with technical support.
Still in the process of getting supplies to set up for live blood work. I am looking for a good slides and cover glass vender here, either locally or online. Also looking into ozonation units and units for H2O alkalinization. Much integration occuring as this trip has been so full. Thank you. Time spent with you has been life changing.
Thank you for sharing your passion with the Blood!
Much Respect,
Grace
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A study of almost 100 seniors showed that those with uric acid levels at the higher end of the normal range had lower scores on tests of mental proces
A study of almost 100 seniors showed that those with uric acid levels at the higher end of the normal range had lower scores on tests of mental processing speed, verbal memory and working memory.High uric acid levels (5.8-7.6 mg/dL for men and 4.8-7.1 mg/dL for women) were associated with cognitive problems even after age, sex, weight, race, education, and other factors were taken into account.
Higher uric acid levels have been linked with other risk factors for dementia, such as high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, gout and type 2 diabetes.
To reduce uric acid levels eliminate acidic foods from your diet - especially proteins from animal sources. Beef, chicken, pork, and fish are major contributors to increased amounts of uric acid in the blood and tissues.
Also, N-Acetyl Cysteine and Glutathione are excellent chelators or buffers of uric acid and may help in reducing high levels of metabolic and gastrointestinal uric acid.
For more information on reducing blood and tissue acidity may I suggest listening to our latest CD release, The pH Miracle for Cancer.
Available at: http://www.phmiracleliving.com/audios.htm
Resources:
Science Daily January 3, 2007
Yahoo News January 2, 2006
The Cleansing Diet
Healing the liver can be helped through the use of foods friendly to the organ and a diet that contributes to overall health. By: Kerri Buckley “There are two ways to clean a dirty water glass,” my teacher observed, with the studied deliberation that told me he was going to say something simple but with vast implications. “The first is to turn it upside down and wash it out.”He paused for me to digest what he’d said. “The second is to let fresh water run into it, fill it, and overflow—continuously running in and out over a long period of time.” Then he asked, “Which do you think works best?” I hesitated, suspecting it was a setup.
Before I could venture a reply, he volunteered, “You think it’s the first, the emptying and the washing, but it’s not. The gradual approach is more thorough in the long run.” — From Radical Healing by Rudolph Ballentine, M.D. Facing a diagnosis or treatment plan for an illness like hepatitis C can be overwhelming because with that diagnosis or symptoms of this serious condition also comes a feeling of powerlessness over your body and ultimately over your life.Hepatitis C is a complicated and insidious virus involving much more than just the liver, and there are many things to educate yourself about.
You’ll have decisions to make about your treatment plan. Will you choose traditional therapy and interferon, alternative treatments, or a combination of both? As a certified chef who has been working with the special diet population for 20 years, I find that people truly heal best when they have hope and when they feel as if they themselves are most responsible for their own health. They adopt the attitude that their practitioners are partners in their healing journey, and they choose the therapies and healers that work best for them.
Clean Up Your Diet One thing that is dramatic in both empowering people and bringing rapid, physical relief is a cleansing diet. A gentle and consistent cleanse with foods not only takes the load off the liver to process food, it improves digestion, cleans the lymphatic system, and energizes and strengthens the immune system. It can be used with both traditional and alternative medicine. A competent cleansing program will include enzyme therapy, alkalize the body with vegetables, cleanse all the toxins from the body, and help restructure the body’s defenses. The drastic improvement in well-being offers hope, and hope is the spark that ignites the process of healing.
There is an emerging group of doctors who are blazing a trail in a new methodology of healing. They are medical doctors, naturopaths, chiropractors, and biologists. There are centers around the country that deal with cleansing the body of toxins, such as the Hippocrates Institute in Florida, Bastyr University’s Hepatitis C Clinic north of Seattle, the Gonzalez clinic in New York, and the Martha’s Vineyard Holistic Retreat.
These centers are producing miracles, and practitioners of all kinds are following the advice of this new breed of physician—physicians like research biologist Robert Young, naturopathic doctor Hulda Clark, Dr. Rudolph Ballentine, author of Radical Healing, and Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez, known for his break with conventional medicine in treating cancer patients and others with chronic diseases with methods like coffee enemas and enzyme therapy.
The advice they share is not new—Hippocrates advocated a plant-based diet 2,500 years ago, along with pure water, sunshine, rest, and fresh air. He believed that the body would heal itself if nurtured with these conditions. What is new is the level of research. It takes physics and microbiology to a very new and exciting level—one that can help patients with chronic illnesses.
How Your Body Cleanses To understand how a cleanse works, you should have a basic understanding of how the body cleanses itself. It is a miraculous process. Our bodies cleanse primarily through the colon, skin, lungs, and bladder. Assisting these four primary ways of elimination are the liver, kidneys, and lymphatic system.
The liver is responsible for most of the body’s detoxification. It processes and converts the body’s fuel supply from foods. It breaks down fats and detoxifies substances like alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, pesticides on produce, drugs, antibiotics, unfiltered water, chemicals, and additives in processed foods. If the liver is overworked or not functioning properly, it can’t convert toxins into waste matter for elimination, and you can end up literally poisoning yourself—a process called autointoxication.
The liver is the organ with the most enzyme systems, and it is enzymes that enable it to do its job well. Factors that stress the liver are improper digestion (a result of eating cooked and processed foods), yeast overgrowth, parasites, fats in the diet, dehydration, and inadequate water intake. Clark, author of The Cure For All Diseases says, “One-hundred percent of all cancer patients have parasites in the liver.
Cleansing the liver is the most powerful procedure you can do to improve your body’s health.” She says you must also cleanse the body by getting rid of all toxins in the body, including amalgam and polluted water—that is, water with heavy metals or PCBs. After following her protocol at her clinic for two to three weeks, she says, “Patients simply don’t have the virus present in their bodies anymore.” Watching Your pH A program that cleanses the liver removes those substances from a diet that would normally require the liver to work harder.
This means adding live enzymes to the diet rather than depleting them from the liver and alkalizing the body. Both goals are accomplished with fresh, organic vegetables. Young says, “There is only one illness, one disease—and that disease is improper pH balance in the body due to an acidic environment. You cannot separate disease from acidity.”
He goes on to say, “Our health can be measured in only one way, whether our tissues are more acidic in pH or more alkaline. The body becomes acidic by our eating, drinking, and thinking.” According to his research, when the body utilizes food at the cellular level, it leaves an ash that is either acid or alkaline in nature. If the ash is alkaline, it is easily handled by the body and used for fuel-energy and repair. If it is acidic, it acts as a toxin, and the stress placed upon the body leads towards decline and eventual disease.
When the tissues in the body are alkaline, microbes within the body are inert or they regenerate and repair, but when tissues are acidic they take on the natural role of decomposing the body. The body becomes diseased. The average American diet is mostly acidic. Foods that are acidic are meats, soft drinks, yeasted breads, coffee, tea, cheeses, dairy products, sugars, most fruits, and all fried and junk food. Foods that are alkaline are vegetables and legumes.
With regard to any disease of the liver, including cancer and hepatitis, Young says, “In an alkaline environment, the liver is capable of regenerating itself—in six weeks you can have a brand new liver.” He compares our bodies to that of a fish in a fishbowl. “The fish is only as sick as the water it lives in,” Young says. “If you change the water in a fishbowl, the fish gets well. Since our bodies are 70 percent fluid, changing the fluid environment changes our health, and you do that with your foods, drinks, and thinking.”
The Internal Environment Lloyd Katz, a chiropractic doctor in Amherst, Va., agrees. “Louis Pasteur was on his deathbed when he admitted that the terrain is more important than the bug. Our diet is essentially everything we take into our body—food, drink, air, our thoughts, even what we watch on television.” Dr. Katz says he has seen people who had to be carried in to treatment and had lost hair due to chemotherapy and were “as weak as kittens” regain their health in only weeks from raw foods and wheat grass enemas. “It is truly amazing what the body is able to do when cleansed and provided with the right environment.”
Proper digestion is essential for a healthy liver and begins in the mouth with the enzymes produced by the chewing process. As we age, our stomachs are less capable of producing the enzymes that help break down food. All enzymes in foods are destroyed above 117 degrees Fahrenheit. Without enzymes, proteins (amino acids) are difficult to digest. Keeping the colon clean is essential for a cleanse.
This is accomplished by adding fiber to your diet, drinking lots of water, chewing everything well, and taking at least a brisk walk every day. Some people might benefit by seeing a colon therapist. Jeremy Rodrock, a chiropractic doctor from Baldwin City, Kan., concentrates on digestion as a way to improve immunity with his patients who have HCV. “Mainstream treatments for hepatitis C suppress the immune system,” he says. “I usually recommend raw fruits and vegetables for the antioxidants and the fiber.
I also tell my patients to avoid all ‘white’ foods—anything with white flour or any product that has been bleached. White foods tend to have chemicals because they are processed.” Michael Taylor is a biologist and microscopist—he looks closely at blood samples of people to determine what kind of microbes are present in the body. He says there is a whole new vocabulary necessary with this new thought of “bio-ecology.”
Taylor says the most important thing a person with HCV can do is “realize the body strives to heal itself daily. Remove the things supporting the microbes within the terrain, and replace it with whole foods as a supplement to rebalance.” He also stressed that you should recognize denial or resistance to change and eliminate it.
Foods For Health A cleanse should consist of mostly raw foods, simple proteins, such as beans and legumes, whole grains, fish, and lots of pure water. Cleansing will starve the overgrowth of yeast present and balance the body’s pH through foods that alkalize. Raw foods are freshly harvested foods that are not cooked or processed in any way. These foods are packed with fully functioning enzymes that help your body with digestion. For disease prevention, five servings of vegetables a day are recommended by such organizations as the American Dietetic Association and American Cancer Society.
Through Dr. Young’s research, it is easy to understand why. He advocates an 80/20 ratio of raw foods to cooked foods. You can get four to five servings of vegetables in two cups of freshly juiced vegetables. Buying a juicer is the best investment you can make in your health, he says. Wheat grass juice is an excellent cleanser.
Don’t stop with the juice, however. Eat small and frequent meals to keep your calorie intake up and add more vegetables, raw or lightly steamed—like zucchini, braised cabbage, or fresh tomato and cucumber salad—along with green drinks, whole grains, and plant-based sources of protein, such as beans, chickpeas, soy, and nuts.
Use herbs and spices liberally. Avoid sugar and even most fruits when you cleanse, because the sugar causes a yeast overgrowth and makes you crave more sugar. Breads with yeast should be avoided, but sprouted breads are available at health food stores and flatbreads are easy to make. Stevia can be used in place of other sweeteners and does not contribute to the growth of yeast. Include essential fatty acids such as flaxseed oil.
Avoid caffeine. Grain coffee tastes similar and does not affect the body’s pH the way that coffee does. Herb teas are wonderful, especially mate and lapacho. Nut milks are delicious, easy to make, and great for cleansing. Include lots of fresh water—the rule is one ounce of purified water per pound of body weight. Green powders also are fabulous for the liver. Smoothies made from soy or rice milk, green powders, protein powder, and natural flavorings satisfy your cravings while keeping up your protein intake.
The green powders are easy to digest and are full of enzymes. Smoothies are fast and easy to make, and they go a long way in helping your body cleanse and rebuild. The Natural Way To Eat The Hippocrates Institute in Florida is known for its persistent and steadfast education on raw foods. General manager Reenie Brewer says, “I see miracles here every day.
People come in with walkers and canes, and they get well. It’s all accomplished through their efforts to stop putting into their bodies the things that don’t belong there and replace them with the things that do.” If you are used to meat and potatoes or daily fast food, a cleansing diet will be very different. It is, in fact, a most natural way to eat.
It is time for us to learn to eat to live instead of living to eat. This is not really a diet, but a process. It is a choice to be proactive in improving your own health, immunity, and energy levels. People often ask how long they should eat this way.
It should be slow, gradual, and consistent—a lifelong process. You don’t have to declare yourself a vegetarian to benefit from a diet that is 80 percent raw. If you find yourself feeling much better, you won’t mind getting creative with veggies, grains, and legumes. There are cookbooks on raw foods that contain recipes for raw, enzyme rich, dehydrated foods.
You can even make bread and pizza this way. As you cleanse the body and starve the yeast, you may find that you no longer crave sugar, hamburgers, and coffee. Below you’ll find some recipes that will help you cleanse, will alkalize your body, and are rich in enzymes.
To your health, to your liver, and to hope!
Kerri Buckley is a freelance writer and certified chef from Ocean Shores, Wash.
This article came from HEPATITIS MAGAZINE© 2002
The pH Miracle Center
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Tuesday, December 05, 2006
'Double Diabetes' a New Threat
(HealthDay News) -- Despite the flurry of public service campaigns and education efforts, the diabetes epidemic in the United States continues to escalate out of control.
An estimated 20.8 million Americans -- or 7 percent of the population -- are now believed to be diabetic. Of those, 6.2 million people have the disease but don't know it. And that doesn't include the 41million people with pre-diabetes, a condition in which blood-glucose levels are higher than normal but not high enough to be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes.
In fact, the epidemic has become so pervasive that doctors are now finding patients who suffer from both type 1 and type 2 diabetes -- a phenomenon known as "double diabetes" or "hybrid diabetes."
"It's mostly people who have a type 1 diabetes who become overweight and show the profile of a type 2, with obesity and hypertension," said Dr. Stewart Weiss, an assistant clinical professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine in New York City.
Doctors and health-care experts are urging people to take the steps necessary -- basically proper nutrition and plenty of exercise -- to avoid joining the ranks of those already diagnosed with the disease.
Type 1 diabetes is caused by the body's inability to produce insulin, the hormone that ushers blood sugar -- called glucose -- to cells for energy. An estimated 5 percent to 10 percent of Americans with diabetes have type 1 disease. Type 2 diabetes results from insulin resistance -- the body's inability to properly use the hormone. Most Americans diagnosed with diabetes have type 2 diabetes, and excess weight and lack of exercise are big contributors to this form of the disease.
But, doctors are now seeing strong indications that double diabetes is a growing phenomenon. For instance, recent studies suggest that as many as 30 percent of newly diagnosed diabetes cases among children involve youngsters with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
Generally, double-diabetes sufferers will often look as though they have the more common type 2 version because they're overweight. But subsequent blood tests reveal they also have type 1 disease.
Double diabetes takes the suffering caused by the disease a step further, and complicates efforts to treat it.
Type 1 diabetics normally have to take daily injections of insulin to remain healthy, while type 2 diabetics require different medication and regular monitoring of their blood sugar. Doctors now are researching how to juggle treating both types of diabetes in the same patient, Weiss said.
"We have all sorts of medications that address different problems for different types of diabetes," Weiss said. "The question with double diabetes becomes, when can we use the different types of medications and what would be appropriate for different patients?"
Weiss suspects that double diabetes might be caused, in part, by type 1 diabetics who are taking insulin but haven't made the other lifestyle changes necessary to deal with the disease.
"One of the consequences of proper insulin use is weight gain," he said. "Often, patients who have not had a good understanding of how to eat are taking the insulin to cover what they normally eat."
The national trend toward unhealthy weight gain has spurred both the diabetes epidemic and this newer, more complex form of the disease, agreed Dr. Francine Kaufman, past president of the American Diabetes Association and head of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles.
"It's mirroring the obesity epidemic," Kaufman said.
Diabetes can cause a number of complications that range from life-damaging to life-threatening. They include heart disease and stroke, high blood pressure, blindness, diseases of the nervous system, lower-limb amputations, dental disease and complications during pregnancy.
The best way to avoid these complications is to avoid contracting diabetes. A recent study conclusively showed that people on the verge of contracting type 2 diabetes prevented its onset through changes to their diet and increased exercise, according to the American Diabetes Association.
The federal Diabetes Prevention Program study found that diet and exercise actually worked better than some medications in delaying the development of diabetes, according to the association. Just 30 minutes a day of moderate physical activity, coupled with a five percent to 10 percent reduction in body weight, produced a 58 percent reduction in diabetes.
"People need to maintain a healthy weight and a healthy lifestyle," Kaufman said.
Weiss recommends improving diet by eating more vegetables, fewer starches and more lean meat and fish. "I like to say there's no medication that can overcome a bad diet," he said.
He also said people should not only eat healthier, but they should try to eat less, too.
"The problem really is overeating in general," he said. "The portion size put before us is very large, so portion control is the single most important thing. You've got to know when to say when."
More information
To learn more, visit the American Diabetes Association.
An estimated 20.8 million Americans -- or 7 percent of the population -- are now believed to be diabetic. Of those, 6.2 million people have the disease but don't know it. And that doesn't include the 41million people with pre-diabetes, a condition in which blood-glucose levels are higher than normal but not high enough to be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes.
In fact, the epidemic has become so pervasive that doctors are now finding patients who suffer from both type 1 and type 2 diabetes -- a phenomenon known as "double diabetes" or "hybrid diabetes."
"It's mostly people who have a type 1 diabetes who become overweight and show the profile of a type 2, with obesity and hypertension," said Dr. Stewart Weiss, an assistant clinical professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine in New York City.
Doctors and health-care experts are urging people to take the steps necessary -- basically proper nutrition and plenty of exercise -- to avoid joining the ranks of those already diagnosed with the disease.
Type 1 diabetes is caused by the body's inability to produce insulin, the hormone that ushers blood sugar -- called glucose -- to cells for energy. An estimated 5 percent to 10 percent of Americans with diabetes have type 1 disease. Type 2 diabetes results from insulin resistance -- the body's inability to properly use the hormone. Most Americans diagnosed with diabetes have type 2 diabetes, and excess weight and lack of exercise are big contributors to this form of the disease.
But, doctors are now seeing strong indications that double diabetes is a growing phenomenon. For instance, recent studies suggest that as many as 30 percent of newly diagnosed diabetes cases among children involve youngsters with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
Generally, double-diabetes sufferers will often look as though they have the more common type 2 version because they're overweight. But subsequent blood tests reveal they also have type 1 disease.
Double diabetes takes the suffering caused by the disease a step further, and complicates efforts to treat it.
Type 1 diabetics normally have to take daily injections of insulin to remain healthy, while type 2 diabetics require different medication and regular monitoring of their blood sugar. Doctors now are researching how to juggle treating both types of diabetes in the same patient, Weiss said.
"We have all sorts of medications that address different problems for different types of diabetes," Weiss said. "The question with double diabetes becomes, when can we use the different types of medications and what would be appropriate for different patients?"
Weiss suspects that double diabetes might be caused, in part, by type 1 diabetics who are taking insulin but haven't made the other lifestyle changes necessary to deal with the disease.
"One of the consequences of proper insulin use is weight gain," he said. "Often, patients who have not had a good understanding of how to eat are taking the insulin to cover what they normally eat."
The national trend toward unhealthy weight gain has spurred both the diabetes epidemic and this newer, more complex form of the disease, agreed Dr. Francine Kaufman, past president of the American Diabetes Association and head of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles.
"It's mirroring the obesity epidemic," Kaufman said.
Diabetes can cause a number of complications that range from life-damaging to life-threatening. They include heart disease and stroke, high blood pressure, blindness, diseases of the nervous system, lower-limb amputations, dental disease and complications during pregnancy.
The best way to avoid these complications is to avoid contracting diabetes. A recent study conclusively showed that people on the verge of contracting type 2 diabetes prevented its onset through changes to their diet and increased exercise, according to the American Diabetes Association.
The federal Diabetes Prevention Program study found that diet and exercise actually worked better than some medications in delaying the development of diabetes, according to the association. Just 30 minutes a day of moderate physical activity, coupled with a five percent to 10 percent reduction in body weight, produced a 58 percent reduction in diabetes.
"People need to maintain a healthy weight and a healthy lifestyle," Kaufman said.
Weiss recommends improving diet by eating more vegetables, fewer starches and more lean meat and fish. "I like to say there's no medication that can overcome a bad diet," he said.
He also said people should not only eat healthier, but they should try to eat less, too.
"The problem really is overeating in general," he said. "The portion size put before us is very large, so portion control is the single most important thing. You've got to know when to say when."
More information
To learn more, visit the American Diabetes Association.
Saturday, November 25, 2006
The Pacelli Chiropractic & Health Potential Complex Web site states:
How often do you get to see if small changes in nutrition, really can make a difference?
Well in this case, that's how we work. After making our recommendations, we repeat the test in 2 weeks, and look to see if we see changes.
This way you get to see the changes in your blood as we help correct the problems, it also allows us to check dosages to make sure that you are getting the proper amount of the vitamin, mineral, protein, or enzyme you need to restore you to optimal health.
These claims are sheer bunkum. Dark-field microscopy is a valid scientific tool in which special lighting is used to examine specimens of cells and tissues. The objects being viewed stand out against a dark background-the opposite of what occurs during regular microscopy.
This allows the observer to see things that might not be visible with standard lighting. Connecting a television monitor to a microscope for diagnostic purposes is also a legitimate practice. However, live cell analysis is not. Although a few characteristics of blood (such as the relative size of the red cells) are observable, live cell analysts invariably misinterpret other things, such as the extent of red blood cell clumping, changes in the shape of the cells, and other artifacts that occur as the blood sample dries.
Moreover, most practitioners who perform the test are not qualified to manage the problems they purport to diagnose.
During the mid-1980s, one company marketing live-cell equipment projected that a practitioner who persuades one patient per day to embrace a supplement program based on the test would net over $60,000 per year for testing and supplement sales. Another company estimated that with five new patients a day (22 days a month) paying $30 for the test and $50 for supplements, practitioners would gross over $100,000 per year just on initial visits.
Today's most active individual promoter of live-cell analysis is probably James R. Privitera, M.D., of Covina, California, who claims that "clot malfunction" is an underlying cause of many diseases, can be diagnosed with live cell analysis, and can be treated with large doses of dietary supplements.
His book, Silent Clots, describes his "general daily guidelines [for supplements] that have worked well for many patients as an anti-clotting program." The book also describes regimens for arthritis, asthma, baldness, bladder infections, cancer, colds, colitis, cramps, diabetes, diarrhea, diverticulosis, eczema, and edema, and includes case histories of patients he treated for many other conditions [1].
I do not believe there is any scientific evidence for these claims or that these regimens are effective as Privitera claims. His's web site offers more than 150 supplement products for sale.
In 1975, Privitera was convicted of conspiring to prescribe and distribute laetrile and was sentenced to six months in prison. (Laetrile is a quack cancer remedy.) In 1980, after the appeals process ended, he served 55 days in jail but was released after being pardoned by California Governor Jerry Brown. (The pardon occurred in response to a letter-writing campaign generated by the National Health Federation, a group that espouses what it calls "health freedom.")
Then, because Privitera had been prescribing unapproved substances (including laetrile, calcium pangamate, and DMSO) for the treatment of cancer, the California Board of Medical Quality Assurance suspended his medical license for four months and placed him on ten years' probation under board supervision.
During the probationary period, Privitera was "prohibited from making any representation that he is able to cure cancer through nutrition." He was also forbidden to tell patients they had cancer unless the diagnosis was confirmed in writing by an appropriate board-certified specialist.
During the probationary period, Privitera commercialized live-cell analysis and founded two companies that marketed devices for doing it. Silent Clots mentions that in 1993, a federal judge signed an order authorizing Internal Revenue Service agents to enter his clinic premises to effect a levy and that a seizure was made.
However, the book provides no further details about his tax-related difficulty.
Critical Reports
During the mid-1980s, National Council Against Health Fraud vice president James Lowell, Ph.D., watched three practitioners demonstrate live cell analysis at health expositions.
Lowell noted:
None took precautions during the preparation of the slides to prevent the blood from drying out or clotting.
They failed to clean their microscope slides carefully between patients, which meant that dirt seen under the microscope would be misinterpreted as blood components.
Some of the patterns one practitioner saw resulted from his microscope being out of focus and disappeared when Lowell adjusted it properly. [2}
Live cell analysis is also promoted by Infinity
2, of Scottsdale, Arizona, a multilevel company whose distributors often demonstrate their wares at chiropractic conventions. Infinity2 calls the test "live cell microscopy" and recruits licensed health professionals to use the procedure to sell its products. In 1995, I was tested at a national chiropractic convention where two teams of Infinity distributors had exhibits.
One exhibitor said I had "mild B12 deficiency" and "maldigestion" that could weaken my immune system and cause fatigue. The other said my blood cells showed evidence of "liver toxicity," "bacterial infection," and "free radical damage."
In both cases the recommended "treatment" was enzyme pills, which the company was marketing with false claims that "enzyme deficiency" is widespread among Americans. To reinforce their that the pills could help me, both practitioners gave me enzyme pills, repeated the procedure several minutes later, and said that the problems were no longer visible. Unknown to them, however,
I had faked taking the pills, so the "improvements" they saw had nothing to do with them. The most likely explanation is that the specimens were examined differently. Blood dries more quickly near the edges of the slide than near the center. Thus "improvement" will occur if the first specimen is examined near an edge and the second specimen is examined near its center.
Legal Action
In 1996, the Pennsylvania Department of Laboratories informed three Pennsylvania chiropractors that Infinity2's "Nutritional Blood Analysis" could not be used for diagnostic purposes unless they maintain a laboratory that has both state and federal certification for complex testing [3].
The company's attorney replied:
As background, you should know that part of our business activity is supplying a microscope system that is equipped for the demonstration of blood samples on a video monitor. We teach and recommend the use of this system as a health education demonstration. In our training and system we do not teach, promote or address in any manner using the system for "analysis" or any other medical purpose.
Our system is based on obtaining a written nutritional and lifestyle analysis from patients of doctors using the microscopy system. Once this questionnaire and evaluation of lifestyle and nutrition is examined by the doctor, the doctor then makes specific recommendations to the patient, based solely and exclusively on the nutritional analysis and personal interview with the patient.
After any recommendation has been made for altering the patient's lifestyle or nutritional habits, the doctor may place a single drop of blood on a sample slide for viewing through the dark field microscope which is then displayed on a video monitor.
This demonstration is a powerful motivating tool to encourage a doctor's patient to accept the doctor's previously made recommendations and alter his or her lifestyle to a healthier form of living.
The doctor performing the demonstration never makes any analysis, determination or recommendation based on the video demonstration. There is no commentary given regarding the state of the patient's blood or anything seen in the bloodscreen itself other than to educate the patient by pointing out features of the blood such as red cells, white cells, and plasma. The patient is able to view a sample of his/her own blood, which results in the motivation that can lead to beneficial lifestyle changes for the individual patient [4].
A Laboratory Department official then informed the attorney that certification would be required if the practitioner:
Either prescribed a nutritional supplement or changed the amount or type of a supplement based on viewing a blood sample.
Recommended lifestyle or nutritional changes based on viewing a blood sample.
Performed nutritional microscopy more than once for a given patients.
Compared the patient's blood smear to that of another slide or picture
Showed the patient's blood smear and making any comment or providing any information other than to point out features of the blood such as red cells, white cells, and platelets [5].
Very few if any chiropractors would have reason to seek laboratory certification, and even if they did, I doubt that permission would be granted to perform this test for diagnostic purposes. If you encounter anyone who performs any type of live cell analysis, please report this to your state department of laboratories and send a copy of your notice to me at P.O. Box 1646, Allentown, PA 18105
Reference
1. Privitera J, Stang A. Silent Clots: Life's Biggest Killers. Lockstep Medicine's Conspiracy to Suppress the Test That Should Be Done in Emergency Rooms Throughout The World. Covina, Calif.: The Catacombs Press, 1996.
2. Lowell JA. Live cell analysis: High-tech hokum. Nutrition Forum 3:81-85, 1986.
3. Wlazelek A. Chiropractors cease blood cell show and tell. State restricts the use of magnified images to sell vitamins, supplements. The Morning Call, April 12, 1996, page B6.
4. Woodruff SM. Letter to Joseph W. Gasiewski, Director, Division of Laboratory Improvement, Pennsylvania Department of Health, Jan 17, 1996.
5. Gasiewski JW. Letter to Samuel M. Woodruff, General Counsel, Infinity2, Feb 16, 1996.
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Well in this case, that's how we work. After making our recommendations, we repeat the test in 2 weeks, and look to see if we see changes.
This way you get to see the changes in your blood as we help correct the problems, it also allows us to check dosages to make sure that you are getting the proper amount of the vitamin, mineral, protein, or enzyme you need to restore you to optimal health.
These claims are sheer bunkum. Dark-field microscopy is a valid scientific tool in which special lighting is used to examine specimens of cells and tissues. The objects being viewed stand out against a dark background-the opposite of what occurs during regular microscopy.
This allows the observer to see things that might not be visible with standard lighting. Connecting a television monitor to a microscope for diagnostic purposes is also a legitimate practice. However, live cell analysis is not. Although a few characteristics of blood (such as the relative size of the red cells) are observable, live cell analysts invariably misinterpret other things, such as the extent of red blood cell clumping, changes in the shape of the cells, and other artifacts that occur as the blood sample dries.
Moreover, most practitioners who perform the test are not qualified to manage the problems they purport to diagnose.
During the mid-1980s, one company marketing live-cell equipment projected that a practitioner who persuades one patient per day to embrace a supplement program based on the test would net over $60,000 per year for testing and supplement sales. Another company estimated that with five new patients a day (22 days a month) paying $30 for the test and $50 for supplements, practitioners would gross over $100,000 per year just on initial visits.
Today's most active individual promoter of live-cell analysis is probably James R. Privitera, M.D., of Covina, California, who claims that "clot malfunction" is an underlying cause of many diseases, can be diagnosed with live cell analysis, and can be treated with large doses of dietary supplements.
His book, Silent Clots, describes his "general daily guidelines [for supplements] that have worked well for many patients as an anti-clotting program." The book also describes regimens for arthritis, asthma, baldness, bladder infections, cancer, colds, colitis, cramps, diabetes, diarrhea, diverticulosis, eczema, and edema, and includes case histories of patients he treated for many other conditions [1].
I do not believe there is any scientific evidence for these claims or that these regimens are effective as Privitera claims. His's web site offers more than 150 supplement products for sale.
In 1975, Privitera was convicted of conspiring to prescribe and distribute laetrile and was sentenced to six months in prison. (Laetrile is a quack cancer remedy.) In 1980, after the appeals process ended, he served 55 days in jail but was released after being pardoned by California Governor Jerry Brown. (The pardon occurred in response to a letter-writing campaign generated by the National Health Federation, a group that espouses what it calls "health freedom.")
Then, because Privitera had been prescribing unapproved substances (including laetrile, calcium pangamate, and DMSO) for the treatment of cancer, the California Board of Medical Quality Assurance suspended his medical license for four months and placed him on ten years' probation under board supervision.
During the probationary period, Privitera was "prohibited from making any representation that he is able to cure cancer through nutrition." He was also forbidden to tell patients they had cancer unless the diagnosis was confirmed in writing by an appropriate board-certified specialist.
During the probationary period, Privitera commercialized live-cell analysis and founded two companies that marketed devices for doing it. Silent Clots mentions that in 1993, a federal judge signed an order authorizing Internal Revenue Service agents to enter his clinic premises to effect a levy and that a seizure was made.
However, the book provides no further details about his tax-related difficulty.
Critical Reports
During the mid-1980s, National Council Against Health Fraud vice president James Lowell, Ph.D., watched three practitioners demonstrate live cell analysis at health expositions.
Lowell noted:
None took precautions during the preparation of the slides to prevent the blood from drying out or clotting.
They failed to clean their microscope slides carefully between patients, which meant that dirt seen under the microscope would be misinterpreted as blood components.
Some of the patterns one practitioner saw resulted from his microscope being out of focus and disappeared when Lowell adjusted it properly. [2}
Live cell analysis is also promoted by Infinity
2, of Scottsdale, Arizona, a multilevel company whose distributors often demonstrate their wares at chiropractic conventions. Infinity2 calls the test "live cell microscopy" and recruits licensed health professionals to use the procedure to sell its products. In 1995, I was tested at a national chiropractic convention where two teams of Infinity distributors had exhibits.
One exhibitor said I had "mild B12 deficiency" and "maldigestion" that could weaken my immune system and cause fatigue. The other said my blood cells showed evidence of "liver toxicity," "bacterial infection," and "free radical damage."
In both cases the recommended "treatment" was enzyme pills, which the company was marketing with false claims that "enzyme deficiency" is widespread among Americans. To reinforce their that the pills could help me, both practitioners gave me enzyme pills, repeated the procedure several minutes later, and said that the problems were no longer visible. Unknown to them, however,
I had faked taking the pills, so the "improvements" they saw had nothing to do with them. The most likely explanation is that the specimens were examined differently. Blood dries more quickly near the edges of the slide than near the center. Thus "improvement" will occur if the first specimen is examined near an edge and the second specimen is examined near its center.
Legal Action
In 1996, the Pennsylvania Department of Laboratories informed three Pennsylvania chiropractors that Infinity2's "Nutritional Blood Analysis" could not be used for diagnostic purposes unless they maintain a laboratory that has both state and federal certification for complex testing [3].
The company's attorney replied:
As background, you should know that part of our business activity is supplying a microscope system that is equipped for the demonstration of blood samples on a video monitor. We teach and recommend the use of this system as a health education demonstration. In our training and system we do not teach, promote or address in any manner using the system for "analysis" or any other medical purpose.
Our system is based on obtaining a written nutritional and lifestyle analysis from patients of doctors using the microscopy system. Once this questionnaire and evaluation of lifestyle and nutrition is examined by the doctor, the doctor then makes specific recommendations to the patient, based solely and exclusively on the nutritional analysis and personal interview with the patient.
After any recommendation has been made for altering the patient's lifestyle or nutritional habits, the doctor may place a single drop of blood on a sample slide for viewing through the dark field microscope which is then displayed on a video monitor.
This demonstration is a powerful motivating tool to encourage a doctor's patient to accept the doctor's previously made recommendations and alter his or her lifestyle to a healthier form of living.
The doctor performing the demonstration never makes any analysis, determination or recommendation based on the video demonstration. There is no commentary given regarding the state of the patient's blood or anything seen in the bloodscreen itself other than to educate the patient by pointing out features of the blood such as red cells, white cells, and plasma. The patient is able to view a sample of his/her own blood, which results in the motivation that can lead to beneficial lifestyle changes for the individual patient [4].
A Laboratory Department official then informed the attorney that certification would be required if the practitioner:
Either prescribed a nutritional supplement or changed the amount or type of a supplement based on viewing a blood sample.
Recommended lifestyle or nutritional changes based on viewing a blood sample.
Performed nutritional microscopy more than once for a given patients.
Compared the patient's blood smear to that of another slide or picture
Showed the patient's blood smear and making any comment or providing any information other than to point out features of the blood such as red cells, white cells, and platelets [5].
Very few if any chiropractors would have reason to seek laboratory certification, and even if they did, I doubt that permission would be granted to perform this test for diagnostic purposes. If you encounter anyone who performs any type of live cell analysis, please report this to your state department of laboratories and send a copy of your notice to me at P.O. Box 1646, Allentown, PA 18105
Reference
1. Privitera J, Stang A. Silent Clots: Life's Biggest Killers. Lockstep Medicine's Conspiracy to Suppress the Test That Should Be Done in Emergency Rooms Throughout The World. Covina, Calif.: The Catacombs Press, 1996.
2. Lowell JA. Live cell analysis: High-tech hokum. Nutrition Forum 3:81-85, 1986.
3. Wlazelek A. Chiropractors cease blood cell show and tell. State restricts the use of magnified images to sell vitamins, supplements. The Morning Call, April 12, 1996, page B6.
4. Woodruff SM. Letter to Joseph W. Gasiewski, Director, Division of Laboratory Improvement, Pennsylvania Department of Health, Jan 17, 1996.
5. Gasiewski JW. Letter to Samuel M. Woodruff, General Counsel, Infinity2, Feb 16, 1996.
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Sunday, October 01, 2006
Interesting reading Live Blood Cell Analysis is wrong
Live Blood Cell Analysis:
Another Gimmick to Sell You Something
Here on this website you can read today, in english, what claims Pasteur many, really many years ago in french. Im not sure the author of this website is able to understand french.
Have a look here:
It seems for me further, who ever wrote this, doesn't heard anything about germany. I'm agree is far a way from the USA. But doesn't make it sense to see both side of the coins?
I appologize, when the outhor is blind on one his Eys.
Dr. Eddy
Teacher of the Live Blood Cell Coursesat:
http://www.dreddyclinic.com/education/live_blood_3days.htm
Live Blood Cell Analysis:
Another Gimmick to Sell You Something
Stephen Barrett, M.D.
Live blood cell analysis is carried out by placing a drop of blood from the patient's fingertip on a microscope slide under a glass cover slip to keep it from drying out. The slide is then viewed at high magnification with a dark-field microscope that forwards the image to a television monitor. Both practitioner and patient can then see the blood cells, which appear as dark bodies outlined in white. The practitioner may take polaroid photographs of the television picture or may videotape the procedure for himself and/or the patient. The results are then used as a basis for prescribing supplements. The procedure is also called live cell analysis, dark-field video analysis, nutritional blood analysis, and several other names.
Dark-field microscopy is a valid scientific tool in which special lighting is used to examine specimens of cells and tissues. The objects being viewed stand out against a dark background—the opposite of what occurs during regular microscopy. This allows the observer to see things that might not be visible with standard lighting. Connecting a television monitor to a microscope for diagnostic purposes is also a legitimate practice. However, live cell analysis is not. Most of its users are chiropractors, naturopaths, or bogus "nutrition consultants."
Dubious Claims
According to a flyer from a Los Angeles chiropractor:
Live Blood Analysis is a simple procedure for obtaining a quick and accurate assessment of your blood. With only a sample, taken virtually without pain from your finger, [the test] is able to provide a composite of over 25 aspects from your live blood. Darkfield microscopy now allows us to observe multiple vitamin and mineral deficiencies, toxicity, tendencies toward allergic reaction, excess fat circulation, liver weakness and arteriosclerosis.
During 1998, the web site of the Integrated Medical Center, Annandale, Virginia, stated:
Blood is magnified by 30,000 times, giving us the ability to document your condition, monitor your progression while on treatment. The blood is the pathway to the flesh and tells all. Using this technology allows us to monitor your condition and adjust as needed. Your blood is the best place to find quick result and determine if you therapy is effective. Quick response spells maximum results.
"Nutripath" Stephen Heuer, of Sunnyvale, California, claims that great benefits can result from monitoring a special protein:
Live Blood Analysis in a Dark Field primarily monitors the life cycle of a protein called the "Symprotit" or "Prion".
The Symprotit creates health under the right pH conditions or disease under the wrong pH conditions. Within us are the seeds for life or death depending on the environment we create for the Symprotit. Diet, radiation, emotions, and toxins are the four factors which influence this internal environment for life or for death. Much like the butterfly starts out as an egg, becomes a caterpillar, and finally becomes a butterfly, so too can this microscopic blood pritein called the Symprotit/Prion evolve into a bacteria in the blood and then a fungus in the tissues.
Monitoring the life cycle of this protein can give you the correct understanding of biology to help you heal Cancer, Arthritis, Candida, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Prostate issues, Multiple sclerosis, Bacterial, Viral and Yeast Infections, Depression, Sleep Disorders, Headaches, Constipation, Excess Body Fat, Potency or Fertility Problems, Memory Problems, PMS, Menopause, and more. Health is attainable when the environment for it is created.
The Innerlight Biologic Microorganism Research Foundation claims that live blood cell analysis can reveal "the level of activity or inactivity of the immune system," various types of "organ stress," and many types of "metabolic dysfunction."
These claims are sheer bunkum. Although a few characteristics of blood (such as the relative size of the red cells) are observable, live cell analysts invariably misinterpret other things, such as the extent of red blood cell clumping, changes in the shape of the cells, and other artifacts that occur as the blood sample dries. Moreover, most practitioners who perform the test are not qualified to manage the problems they purport to diagnose.
During the mid-1980s, one company marketing live-cell equipment projected that a practitioner who persuades one patient per day to embrace a supplement program based on the test would net over $60,000 per year for testing and supplement sales. Another company estimated that with five new patients a day (22 days a month) paying $30 for the test and $50 for supplements, practitioners would gross over $100,000 per year just on initial visits.
The most active individual promoters of live-cell analysis have been James R. Privitera, M.D., of Covina, California, and Joel Robbins, D.C., of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Privitera claims that "clot malfunction" is an underlying cause of many diseases, can be diagnosed with live cell analysis, and can be treated with large doses of dietary supplements. His book, Silent Clots, describes his "general daily guidelines [for supplements] that have worked well for many patients as an anti-clotting program." The book also describes regimens for arthritis, asthma, baldness, bladder infections, cancer, colds, colitis, cramps, diabetes, diarrhea, diverticulosis, eczema, and edema, and includes case histories of patients he treated for many other conditions [1]. I do not believe there is any scientific evidence for these claims or that these regimens are effective as Privitera claims. His's web site offers more than 150 supplement products for sale.
In 1975, Privitera was convicted of conspiring to prescribe and distribute laetrile and was sentenced to six months in prison. (Laetrile is a quack cancer remedy.) In 1980, after the appeals process ended, he served 55 days in jail but was released after being pardoned by California Governor Jerry Brown. (The pardon occurred in response to a letter-writing campaign generated by the National Health Federation, a group that espouses what it calls "health freedom.") Then, because Privitera had been prescribing unapproved substances (including laetrile, calcium pangamate, and DMSO) for the treatment of cancer, the California Board of Medical Quality Assurance suspended his medical license for four months and placed him on ten years' probation under board supervision.
During the probationary period, Privitera was "prohibited from making any representation that he is able to cure cancer through nutrition." He was also forbidden to tell patients they had cancer unless the diagnosis was confirmed in writing by an appropriate board-certified specialist. During the probationary period, Privitera commercialized live-cell analysis and founded two companies that marketed devices for doing it. Silent Clots mentions that in 1993, a federal judge signed an order authorizing Internal Revenue Service agents to enter his clinic premises to effect a levy and that a seizure was made. However, the book provides no further details about his tax-related difficulty.
In 1999, Privitera was implicated in the death of a 71-year-old woman who had consulted him for arm pain. While in Privitera's waiting room, she complained of a headache while in Privitera's waiting room. Documents in the case state that Prviitera (a) prescribed 20,000 units of heparin (an anticoagulant) to be placed under the woman's tongue, (b) examined a blood sample with a dark-field microscope, (c) concluded that the blood specimen showed too much tendency to clot, and (d) prescribed another 20,000 units of heparin to be given under the patient's skin. Soon afterward, the patient became lightheaded, vomited, and passed out. She was rushed to a hospital. where it was noted that she was comatose and was bleeding from several places. She died a few hours later, apparently as a result of a massive hemorrhage inside her head. In 2003, the Medical Board of California charged that Privitera had (a) failed to properly evaluate the woman's headache, (b) had no documented rationale for administering heparin, and (c) had administered an overdose [2]. The case was settled with a stipulation under which Privitera agreed to be reprimanded, pay $5,000 for costs, and take courses in prescribing and medical recordkeeping [3].
Robbins graduated in 1978 from Cleveland Chiropractic College in Kansas City, Missouri, but he also claims to have a Doctor of Naturopathy (ND) degree from the Anglo-American Institute of Drugless Therapy and a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree from the British West Indies College of Medicine. The Anglo-American Institute of Naturopathy was a British diploma mill that issued credentials to people who completed mail-order lessons, submitted a thesis, and paid a modest fee. The "British West Indies College of Medicine" was not an actual school but was a scheme created by con man Gregory E. Caplinger to defraud chiropractors of "tuition" money [4]. In 1996, Caplinger was arrested in Florida on ten counts of racketeering and grand theft, but the charges were withdrawn after he made partial refunds.
Dubious Conduct
During the mid-1980s, National Council Against Health Fraud vice president James Lowell, Ph.D., watched three practitioners demonstrate live cell analysis at health expositions. Lowell noted:
None took precautions during the preparation of the slides to prevent the blood from drying out or clotting.
They failed to clean their microscope slides carefully between patients, which meant that dirt seen under the microscope would be misinterpreted as blood components.
Some of the patterns one practitioner saw resulted from his microscope being out of focus and disappeared when Lowell adjusted it properly. [5]
Live cell analysis has also been promoted by Infinity2, of Scottsdale, Arizona, a multilevel company whose distributors often demonstrate their wares at chiropractic conventions. Infinity2 called the test "live cell microscopy" or "Nutritional Blood Analysis" and recruited licensed health professionals to use the procedure to sell its products. In 1995, I was tested at a national chiropractic convention where two teams of Infinity2 distributors had exhibits. One exhibitor said I had "mild B12 deficiency" and "maldigestion" that could weaken my immune system and cause fatigue. The other said my blood cells showed evidence of "liver toxicity," "bacterial infection," and "free radical damage."
In both cases the recommended "treatment" was enzyme pills, which the company was marketing with false claims that "enzyme deficiency" is widespread among Americans. To reinforce their that the pills could help me, both practitioners gave me enzyme pills, repeated the procedure several minutes later, and said that the problems were no longer visible. Unknown to them, however, I had faked taking the pills, so the "improvements" they saw had nothing to do with them. The most likely explanation is that the specimens were examined differently. Blood dries more quickly near the edges of the slide than near the center. Thus "improvement" will occur if the first specimen is examined near an edge and the second specimen is examined near its center. Company literature listed Joel Robbins as a member of its Professional Advisory Council.
I asked both exhibitors whether the test procedure is covered under insurance policies. One—a naturopath—said he routinely billed the test as a regular office visit and also used eight CPT codes, including B12 testing for deficiency. he also said that Infinity2 ran training sessions on how to do the testing and billing. The other exhibitor did not confirm that the course included "creative billing" ideas, but he said that he knew that some doctors were billing the test as regular visits. Some live-cell practitioners are using the procedure code number for "dark-field microscopy" when they submit insurance claims forms. Doing any of these things would be insurance fraud.
Regulatory Actions
In 1996, the Pennsylvania Department of Laboratories informed three Pennsylvania chiropractors that Infinity2's "Nutritional Blood Analysis" could not be used for diagnostic purposes unless they maintain a laboratory that has both state and federal certification for complex testing [6]. The company's attorney replied:
As background, you should know that part of our business activity is supplying a microscope system that is equipped for the demonstration of blood samples on a video monitor. We teach and recommend the use of this system as a health education demonstration. In our training and system we do not teach, promote or address in any manner using the system for "analysis" or any other medical purpose.
Our system is based on obtaining a written nutritional and lifestyle analysis from patients of doctors using the microscopy system. Once this questionnaire and evaluation of lifestyle and nutrition is examined by the doctor, the doctor then makes specific recommendations to the patient, based solely and exclusively on the nutritional analysis and personal interview with the patient.
After any recommendation has been made for altering the patient's lifestyle or nutritional habits, the doctor may place a single drop of blood on a sample slide for viewing through the dark field microscope which is then displayed on a video monitor.
This demonstration is a powerful motivating tool to encourage a doctor's patient to accept the doctor's previously made recommendations and alter his or her lifestyle to a healthier form of living.
The doctor performing the demonstration never makes any analysis, determination or recommendation based on the video demonstration. There is no commentary given regarding the state of the patient's blood or anything seen in the bloodstream itself other than to educate the patient by pointing out features of the blood such as red cells, white cells, and plasma. The patient is able to view a sample of his/her own blood, which results in the motivation that can lead to beneficial lifestyle changes for the individual patient [7].
A Laboratory Department official then informed the attorney that certification would be required if the practitioner:
Either prescribed a nutritional supplement or changed the amount or type of a supplement based on viewing a blood sample.
Recommended lifestyle or nutritional changes based on viewing a blood sample.
Performed nutritional microscopy more than once for a given patients.
Compared the patient's blood smear to that of another slide or picture
Showed the patient's blood smear and making any comment or providing any information other than to point out features of the blood such as red cells, white cells, and platelets [8].
Federal certification of medical laboratories is governed by the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) which Congress enacted in 1998 to establish quality standards for all laboratory testing to ensure the accuracy, reliability, and timeliness of patient test results regardless of where the test was performed. In 1996 and 1997, the Health Care Financing Administration (now the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) Office of General Counsel determined that live blood analysis was a "high-complexity" text and was subject to stringent CLIA requirements. Failure to comply with any of these requirements will result in enforcement actions and/or sanctions being taken.
In 2001, the HHS Office of the Inspector General issued a report on regulation of "unestablished laboratory tests" that focused on live blood cell analysis [9]. In 2004, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a special alert which stated that any facility performing live blood cell analysis must have CLIA certification for high-complexity testing [8]. Very few practitioners who do live blood cell analysis would have reason to seek laboratory certification; and if they did, I doubt that they would get permission. However, the states have jurisdiction over whether noncompliant laboratories are permitted to remain in business.
In 2005, the Rhode island department of Health ordered Joyce M. Martin, D.C., to stop performing live blood analysis. An attorney for the state Board of Examiners in Chiropractic Medicine described the test as as "useless" and a "money-making scheme " A state medical board official said that the test has no discernible value and the public should be very suspicious of any practitioner who offers it [11]. Edzard Ernst, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of Complementary Medicine at the University of Exeter, summed up the situation in an article in the British Guardian:
Seeing one's own blood cells on a video screen is, admittedly, a powerful experience. It gives patients the impression of hi-tech, cutting edge science combined with holistic care. And impressed patients are ready to part with a lot of money. American websites explain how a practitioner can make $100,000 (£57,000) annually by purchasing the equipment necessary for performing LBA. The bulk of this money is made not through charging for the test itself but by selling expensive nutritional supplements to the patient with the promise that these will correct whatever abnormality has been diagnosed.
In other words, patients are potentially cheated three times over. First, you are diagnosed with a "condition" you don't have; then a lengthy and expensive treatment ensues; and finally the bogus test is repeated and you are declared "improved" or "back to normal." [12]
If you encounter anyone who performs any type of live cell analysis, please report this to your state department of laboratories and send a copy of your notice to me at P.O. Box 1747, Allentown, PA 18105.
References
Privitera J, Stang A. Silent Clots: Life's Biggest Killers. Lockstep Medicine's Conspiracy to Suppress the Test That Should Be Done in Emergency Rooms Throughout The World. Covina, Calif.: The Catacombs Press, 1996.
Accusation. In the matter of the accusation against James R. Privitera, Jr., M.D. Before the Division of Medical Quality, Medical Board of California, Department of Consumer Affairs, State of California, Case No. 11-2001-119360, March 31, 2003.
Stipulated settlement and disciplinary order. In the matter of the accusation against James R. Privitera, Jr., M.D. Before the Division of Medical Quality, Medical Board of California, Department of Consumer Affairs, State of California, Case No. 11-2001-119360, signed May 7, 2004, adopted by Board Oct 7, 2004.
Kelly S. DCs lured to foreign medical school.
Dubious goings-on down Santo Domingo Way. Dynamic Chiropractic Archives, Jan 1, 1993.
Lowell JA. Live cell analysis: High-tech hokum. Nutrition Forum 3:81-85, 1986.
Wlazelek A. Chiropractors cease blood cell show and tell. State restricts the use of magnified images to sell vitamins, supplements. The Morning Call, April 12, 1996, page B6.
Woodruff SM. Letter to Joseph W. Gasiewski, Director, Division of Laboratory Improvement, Pennsylvania Department of Health, Jan 17, 1996.
Gasiewski JW. Letter to Samuel M. Woodruff, General Counsel, Infinity2, Feb 16, 1996.
CLIA regulation of unestablished laboratory tests. HHS Office of the Inspector General, July 2001.
Barrett S. CLIA hits questionable tests, Quackwatch, March 9, 2004.
Freyer FJ. Chiropractor ordered to halt blood tests. Providence Journal, June 21, 2005.
Ernst E. A new era of scientific discovery?
Intrigued by the spectacular claims made for Live Blood Analysis? Don't be. It doesn't work. The Guardian, July 12, 2005.
Additional Proponent Sites
Center for Enzyme Therapy (offers "board certification" as a "holistic health microscopist," a credential not recognized by the scientific community.
NuLife Sciences (site contains photographs of blood examined with darkfield microscopy)
Another Gimmick to Sell You Something
Here on this website you can read today, in english, what claims Pasteur many, really many years ago in french. Im not sure the author of this website is able to understand french.
Have a look here:
It seems for me further, who ever wrote this, doesn't heard anything about germany. I'm agree is far a way from the USA. But doesn't make it sense to see both side of the coins?
I appologize, when the outhor is blind on one his Eys.
Dr. Eddy
Teacher of the Live Blood Cell Coursesat:
http://www.dreddyclinic.com/education/live_blood_3days.htm
Live Blood Cell Analysis:
Another Gimmick to Sell You Something
Stephen Barrett, M.D.
Live blood cell analysis is carried out by placing a drop of blood from the patient's fingertip on a microscope slide under a glass cover slip to keep it from drying out. The slide is then viewed at high magnification with a dark-field microscope that forwards the image to a television monitor. Both practitioner and patient can then see the blood cells, which appear as dark bodies outlined in white. The practitioner may take polaroid photographs of the television picture or may videotape the procedure for himself and/or the patient. The results are then used as a basis for prescribing supplements. The procedure is also called live cell analysis, dark-field video analysis, nutritional blood analysis, and several other names.
Dark-field microscopy is a valid scientific tool in which special lighting is used to examine specimens of cells and tissues. The objects being viewed stand out against a dark background—the opposite of what occurs during regular microscopy. This allows the observer to see things that might not be visible with standard lighting. Connecting a television monitor to a microscope for diagnostic purposes is also a legitimate practice. However, live cell analysis is not. Most of its users are chiropractors, naturopaths, or bogus "nutrition consultants."
Dubious Claims
According to a flyer from a Los Angeles chiropractor:
Live Blood Analysis is a simple procedure for obtaining a quick and accurate assessment of your blood. With only a sample, taken virtually without pain from your finger, [the test] is able to provide a composite of over 25 aspects from your live blood. Darkfield microscopy now allows us to observe multiple vitamin and mineral deficiencies, toxicity, tendencies toward allergic reaction, excess fat circulation, liver weakness and arteriosclerosis.
During 1998, the web site of the Integrated Medical Center, Annandale, Virginia, stated:
Blood is magnified by 30,000 times, giving us the ability to document your condition, monitor your progression while on treatment. The blood is the pathway to the flesh and tells all. Using this technology allows us to monitor your condition and adjust as needed. Your blood is the best place to find quick result and determine if you therapy is effective. Quick response spells maximum results.
"Nutripath" Stephen Heuer, of Sunnyvale, California, claims that great benefits can result from monitoring a special protein:
Live Blood Analysis in a Dark Field primarily monitors the life cycle of a protein called the "Symprotit" or "Prion".
The Symprotit creates health under the right pH conditions or disease under the wrong pH conditions. Within us are the seeds for life or death depending on the environment we create for the Symprotit. Diet, radiation, emotions, and toxins are the four factors which influence this internal environment for life or for death. Much like the butterfly starts out as an egg, becomes a caterpillar, and finally becomes a butterfly, so too can this microscopic blood pritein called the Symprotit/Prion evolve into a bacteria in the blood and then a fungus in the tissues.
Monitoring the life cycle of this protein can give you the correct understanding of biology to help you heal Cancer, Arthritis, Candida, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Prostate issues, Multiple sclerosis, Bacterial, Viral and Yeast Infections, Depression, Sleep Disorders, Headaches, Constipation, Excess Body Fat, Potency or Fertility Problems, Memory Problems, PMS, Menopause, and more. Health is attainable when the environment for it is created.
The Innerlight Biologic Microorganism Research Foundation claims that live blood cell analysis can reveal "the level of activity or inactivity of the immune system," various types of "organ stress," and many types of "metabolic dysfunction."
These claims are sheer bunkum. Although a few characteristics of blood (such as the relative size of the red cells) are observable, live cell analysts invariably misinterpret other things, such as the extent of red blood cell clumping, changes in the shape of the cells, and other artifacts that occur as the blood sample dries. Moreover, most practitioners who perform the test are not qualified to manage the problems they purport to diagnose.
During the mid-1980s, one company marketing live-cell equipment projected that a practitioner who persuades one patient per day to embrace a supplement program based on the test would net over $60,000 per year for testing and supplement sales. Another company estimated that with five new patients a day (22 days a month) paying $30 for the test and $50 for supplements, practitioners would gross over $100,000 per year just on initial visits.
The most active individual promoters of live-cell analysis have been James R. Privitera, M.D., of Covina, California, and Joel Robbins, D.C., of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Privitera claims that "clot malfunction" is an underlying cause of many diseases, can be diagnosed with live cell analysis, and can be treated with large doses of dietary supplements. His book, Silent Clots, describes his "general daily guidelines [for supplements] that have worked well for many patients as an anti-clotting program." The book also describes regimens for arthritis, asthma, baldness, bladder infections, cancer, colds, colitis, cramps, diabetes, diarrhea, diverticulosis, eczema, and edema, and includes case histories of patients he treated for many other conditions [1]. I do not believe there is any scientific evidence for these claims or that these regimens are effective as Privitera claims. His's web site offers more than 150 supplement products for sale.
In 1975, Privitera was convicted of conspiring to prescribe and distribute laetrile and was sentenced to six months in prison. (Laetrile is a quack cancer remedy.) In 1980, after the appeals process ended, he served 55 days in jail but was released after being pardoned by California Governor Jerry Brown. (The pardon occurred in response to a letter-writing campaign generated by the National Health Federation, a group that espouses what it calls "health freedom.") Then, because Privitera had been prescribing unapproved substances (including laetrile, calcium pangamate, and DMSO) for the treatment of cancer, the California Board of Medical Quality Assurance suspended his medical license for four months and placed him on ten years' probation under board supervision.
During the probationary period, Privitera was "prohibited from making any representation that he is able to cure cancer through nutrition." He was also forbidden to tell patients they had cancer unless the diagnosis was confirmed in writing by an appropriate board-certified specialist. During the probationary period, Privitera commercialized live-cell analysis and founded two companies that marketed devices for doing it. Silent Clots mentions that in 1993, a federal judge signed an order authorizing Internal Revenue Service agents to enter his clinic premises to effect a levy and that a seizure was made. However, the book provides no further details about his tax-related difficulty.
In 1999, Privitera was implicated in the death of a 71-year-old woman who had consulted him for arm pain. While in Privitera's waiting room, she complained of a headache while in Privitera's waiting room. Documents in the case state that Prviitera (a) prescribed 20,000 units of heparin (an anticoagulant) to be placed under the woman's tongue, (b) examined a blood sample with a dark-field microscope, (c) concluded that the blood specimen showed too much tendency to clot, and (d) prescribed another 20,000 units of heparin to be given under the patient's skin. Soon afterward, the patient became lightheaded, vomited, and passed out. She was rushed to a hospital. where it was noted that she was comatose and was bleeding from several places. She died a few hours later, apparently as a result of a massive hemorrhage inside her head. In 2003, the Medical Board of California charged that Privitera had (a) failed to properly evaluate the woman's headache, (b) had no documented rationale for administering heparin, and (c) had administered an overdose [2]. The case was settled with a stipulation under which Privitera agreed to be reprimanded, pay $5,000 for costs, and take courses in prescribing and medical recordkeeping [3].
Robbins graduated in 1978 from Cleveland Chiropractic College in Kansas City, Missouri, but he also claims to have a Doctor of Naturopathy (ND) degree from the Anglo-American Institute of Drugless Therapy and a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree from the British West Indies College of Medicine. The Anglo-American Institute of Naturopathy was a British diploma mill that issued credentials to people who completed mail-order lessons, submitted a thesis, and paid a modest fee. The "British West Indies College of Medicine" was not an actual school but was a scheme created by con man Gregory E. Caplinger to defraud chiropractors of "tuition" money [4]. In 1996, Caplinger was arrested in Florida on ten counts of racketeering and grand theft, but the charges were withdrawn after he made partial refunds.
Dubious Conduct
During the mid-1980s, National Council Against Health Fraud vice president James Lowell, Ph.D., watched three practitioners demonstrate live cell analysis at health expositions. Lowell noted:
None took precautions during the preparation of the slides to prevent the blood from drying out or clotting.
They failed to clean their microscope slides carefully between patients, which meant that dirt seen under the microscope would be misinterpreted as blood components.
Some of the patterns one practitioner saw resulted from his microscope being out of focus and disappeared when Lowell adjusted it properly. [5]
Live cell analysis has also been promoted by Infinity2, of Scottsdale, Arizona, a multilevel company whose distributors often demonstrate their wares at chiropractic conventions. Infinity2 called the test "live cell microscopy" or "Nutritional Blood Analysis" and recruited licensed health professionals to use the procedure to sell its products. In 1995, I was tested at a national chiropractic convention where two teams of Infinity2 distributors had exhibits. One exhibitor said I had "mild B12 deficiency" and "maldigestion" that could weaken my immune system and cause fatigue. The other said my blood cells showed evidence of "liver toxicity," "bacterial infection," and "free radical damage."
In both cases the recommended "treatment" was enzyme pills, which the company was marketing with false claims that "enzyme deficiency" is widespread among Americans. To reinforce their that the pills could help me, both practitioners gave me enzyme pills, repeated the procedure several minutes later, and said that the problems were no longer visible. Unknown to them, however, I had faked taking the pills, so the "improvements" they saw had nothing to do with them. The most likely explanation is that the specimens were examined differently. Blood dries more quickly near the edges of the slide than near the center. Thus "improvement" will occur if the first specimen is examined near an edge and the second specimen is examined near its center. Company literature listed Joel Robbins as a member of its Professional Advisory Council.
I asked both exhibitors whether the test procedure is covered under insurance policies. One—a naturopath—said he routinely billed the test as a regular office visit and also used eight CPT codes, including B12 testing for deficiency. he also said that Infinity2 ran training sessions on how to do the testing and billing. The other exhibitor did not confirm that the course included "creative billing" ideas, but he said that he knew that some doctors were billing the test as regular visits. Some live-cell practitioners are using the procedure code number for "dark-field microscopy" when they submit insurance claims forms. Doing any of these things would be insurance fraud.
Regulatory Actions
In 1996, the Pennsylvania Department of Laboratories informed three Pennsylvania chiropractors that Infinity2's "Nutritional Blood Analysis" could not be used for diagnostic purposes unless they maintain a laboratory that has both state and federal certification for complex testing [6]. The company's attorney replied:
As background, you should know that part of our business activity is supplying a microscope system that is equipped for the demonstration of blood samples on a video monitor. We teach and recommend the use of this system as a health education demonstration. In our training and system we do not teach, promote or address in any manner using the system for "analysis" or any other medical purpose.
Our system is based on obtaining a written nutritional and lifestyle analysis from patients of doctors using the microscopy system. Once this questionnaire and evaluation of lifestyle and nutrition is examined by the doctor, the doctor then makes specific recommendations to the patient, based solely and exclusively on the nutritional analysis and personal interview with the patient.
After any recommendation has been made for altering the patient's lifestyle or nutritional habits, the doctor may place a single drop of blood on a sample slide for viewing through the dark field microscope which is then displayed on a video monitor.
This demonstration is a powerful motivating tool to encourage a doctor's patient to accept the doctor's previously made recommendations and alter his or her lifestyle to a healthier form of living.
The doctor performing the demonstration never makes any analysis, determination or recommendation based on the video demonstration. There is no commentary given regarding the state of the patient's blood or anything seen in the bloodstream itself other than to educate the patient by pointing out features of the blood such as red cells, white cells, and plasma. The patient is able to view a sample of his/her own blood, which results in the motivation that can lead to beneficial lifestyle changes for the individual patient [7].
A Laboratory Department official then informed the attorney that certification would be required if the practitioner:
Either prescribed a nutritional supplement or changed the amount or type of a supplement based on viewing a blood sample.
Recommended lifestyle or nutritional changes based on viewing a blood sample.
Performed nutritional microscopy more than once for a given patients.
Compared the patient's blood smear to that of another slide or picture
Showed the patient's blood smear and making any comment or providing any information other than to point out features of the blood such as red cells, white cells, and platelets [8].
Federal certification of medical laboratories is governed by the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) which Congress enacted in 1998 to establish quality standards for all laboratory testing to ensure the accuracy, reliability, and timeliness of patient test results regardless of where the test was performed. In 1996 and 1997, the Health Care Financing Administration (now the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) Office of General Counsel determined that live blood analysis was a "high-complexity" text and was subject to stringent CLIA requirements. Failure to comply with any of these requirements will result in enforcement actions and/or sanctions being taken.
In 2001, the HHS Office of the Inspector General issued a report on regulation of "unestablished laboratory tests" that focused on live blood cell analysis [9]. In 2004, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a special alert which stated that any facility performing live blood cell analysis must have CLIA certification for high-complexity testing [8]. Very few practitioners who do live blood cell analysis would have reason to seek laboratory certification; and if they did, I doubt that they would get permission. However, the states have jurisdiction over whether noncompliant laboratories are permitted to remain in business.
In 2005, the Rhode island department of Health ordered Joyce M. Martin, D.C., to stop performing live blood analysis. An attorney for the state Board of Examiners in Chiropractic Medicine described the test as as "useless" and a "money-making scheme " A state medical board official said that the test has no discernible value and the public should be very suspicious of any practitioner who offers it [11]. Edzard Ernst, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of Complementary Medicine at the University of Exeter, summed up the situation in an article in the British Guardian:
Seeing one's own blood cells on a video screen is, admittedly, a powerful experience. It gives patients the impression of hi-tech, cutting edge science combined with holistic care. And impressed patients are ready to part with a lot of money. American websites explain how a practitioner can make $100,000 (£57,000) annually by purchasing the equipment necessary for performing LBA. The bulk of this money is made not through charging for the test itself but by selling expensive nutritional supplements to the patient with the promise that these will correct whatever abnormality has been diagnosed.
In other words, patients are potentially cheated three times over. First, you are diagnosed with a "condition" you don't have; then a lengthy and expensive treatment ensues; and finally the bogus test is repeated and you are declared "improved" or "back to normal." [12]
If you encounter anyone who performs any type of live cell analysis, please report this to your state department of laboratories and send a copy of your notice to me at P.O. Box 1747, Allentown, PA 18105.
References
Privitera J, Stang A. Silent Clots: Life's Biggest Killers. Lockstep Medicine's Conspiracy to Suppress the Test That Should Be Done in Emergency Rooms Throughout The World. Covina, Calif.: The Catacombs Press, 1996.
Accusation. In the matter of the accusation against James R. Privitera, Jr., M.D. Before the Division of Medical Quality, Medical Board of California, Department of Consumer Affairs, State of California, Case No. 11-2001-119360, March 31, 2003.
Stipulated settlement and disciplinary order. In the matter of the accusation against James R. Privitera, Jr., M.D. Before the Division of Medical Quality, Medical Board of California, Department of Consumer Affairs, State of California, Case No. 11-2001-119360, signed May 7, 2004, adopted by Board Oct 7, 2004.
Kelly S. DCs lured to foreign medical school.
Dubious goings-on down Santo Domingo Way. Dynamic Chiropractic Archives, Jan 1, 1993.
Lowell JA. Live cell analysis: High-tech hokum. Nutrition Forum 3:81-85, 1986.
Wlazelek A. Chiropractors cease blood cell show and tell. State restricts the use of magnified images to sell vitamins, supplements. The Morning Call, April 12, 1996, page B6.
Woodruff SM. Letter to Joseph W. Gasiewski, Director, Division of Laboratory Improvement, Pennsylvania Department of Health, Jan 17, 1996.
Gasiewski JW. Letter to Samuel M. Woodruff, General Counsel, Infinity2, Feb 16, 1996.
CLIA regulation of unestablished laboratory tests. HHS Office of the Inspector General, July 2001.
Barrett S. CLIA hits questionable tests, Quackwatch, March 9, 2004.
Freyer FJ. Chiropractor ordered to halt blood tests. Providence Journal, June 21, 2005.
Ernst E. A new era of scientific discovery?
Intrigued by the spectacular claims made for Live Blood Analysis? Don't be. It doesn't work. The Guardian, July 12, 2005.
Additional Proponent Sites
Center for Enzyme Therapy (offers "board certification" as a "holistic health microscopist," a credential not recognized by the scientific community.
NuLife Sciences (site contains photographs of blood examined with darkfield microscopy)
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
The Origin of the Term Akmosophy
The following introductory text is excerpted from Prof. Dr. Günther Enderlein's "Akmon 1."© Copyright 1955 by Dr. Siegfried Nimtz, Member of the Society for Freedom In Science at Oxford (from the estate), United Kingdom
When Prof. Dr. Enderlein laid the foundations of his system of "perfect health", he christened it Akmosophy (thus, the Books 1, 2 and 3 by Prof. Dr. Enderlein). The word for health in ancient Greek is akmae. This derives from the (much older) name for the Asia Minor god of health, Akmon, from which Prof. Dr. Enderlein derived the word Akmosophy. He thereby characterized his system of perfect health as a holistic doctrine comprising the rules for structuring one's life accordingly. By giving it this name, the biologist Prof. Dr. Günther Enderlein also resurrected a view that, originating with the ancient Indians, Babylonians and Egyptians, had actually culminated in Hippocrates' humoral pathology. Thanks to the findings of Akmosophy, we are now able to isolate the principal factors of humoral pathology; they had been previously been assigned, in part, to immunobiology - a category that the founding of Akmosophy has made superfluous. The goal of the Akmosophic Society is to continue to develop and expand on the fundamentals of Prof. Dr. Günther Enderlein's Akmosophy. What the ancients sensed instinctively must now take place in full consciousness: the internal realization of an image of perfect human health.
Akmosophy needs to become a "well-known concept" to modern man. In the oldest cultures, the name was "substance". "That all-surrounding eternally creative principle", the active Godhead of the cosmos, [has been] worshipped by mankind since time immemorial. Thousands of years of tradition have rooted these feelings deeply, buried in primeval cries. In the simple, direct words of Genesis, the cause of all cosmic events is ascribed to the all-powerful godly command: "He speaks, and so it comes to pass; He commands, and so it is." To name is to create. Whoever knew the right name was capable of great magic. Simply speaking it sufficed to destroy the enemy, to have mastery over the forces of nature, to be attended to by spirits made powerless by the magic word, to banish illness. The Avesta coined an adjective especially for a godhead whose name is given in the prayer: Aoxtonaman. In the primeval myths, the creation of the world is traced back to the magic effect of the powerful letters of The Holy Name. "
In the Beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth." Early man dwelt in a living relationship to the cosmic heavenly forces that maintained his health. Most of the mythic cosmogonies and theogonies speak of a paradisiac state which is reflected in similar sounds such as akman, akmon - ancient tones denoting Heaven and God, found in the transition of the early Mediterranean high cultures. Pain-staking linguistic research work has assembled the evidence, in pre-Indo-European Eurafrica, for the handed-down expressions that date back to vanished sources, whereby Akman - as maintainer of Heaven and Earth - indicates the name of the highest Being of an ancient high religion. The words akmae and akmon also appear, both in Sanskrit and in the Zend. These archaic colossi, the massive stones in the palaces of Mycenae and Ekbatana, could tell us moderns a thing or two. Ekbatana had many circular walls that, according to Herodotus, enclosed the heavenly spheres; the obelisks were the petrified rays of the sun. In this image, preserved for millennia for us, the inner relationship of the stony heaven in the word akme might become clear to us. The Sanskrit word acman corresponds to the early Greek Akmon, which designates the Heavens and the Earth. Although the word is found a few times in this sense in the Veda, it appears more frequently in the Iranian language, where acman in the Zend is the standard designation for the Heavens. The Greek mythological name Akmon is evidence that the Greeks had known the word in the sense of "heaven", in which sense it continued in the Iranian language. The medieval Christian theologians glossed this name as "untiring, fresh", referring to the never-ending motions of the heavens. Asian primeval elements and cultural borrowings extended all the way into the Mediterranean region. As the crossroads of all major eastern Mediterranean maritime routes, Crete opened not just on Greece and Asia Minor: Phoenicia, Egypt and Italy were nearer from here than elsewhere - but most enduring were the numerous contacts with Asia Minor. Here, Asian and European (in a narrower sense Phrygian and Pelasgic) elements could coalesce and, in this oldest period, elevate Crete to the focal point and point of departure of a mighty cultural mission. Here is where many varied legends converge and intertwine richly, their predominance and revolutionary power making itself felt everywhere in Greece on into historical times. The legend of Europa, born here, is directly connected to Phoenicia. From the earliest times, the Cretan Ida bore the same name as the Phrygian mountain. It was connected with the same complex of legends and idols, that of the Idaic mother Thea or Cybele, the Dactyls, the Curetes or Corybants. The Dactyls arose from the dust thrown behind him by Anchiale; they are prototypes of those sorcerers and shamans who serve the great goddesses. They unify God and man by means of ecstatic dances. In the legend complex around the Idaic mother, they appear as the demons, blacksmiths and sorcerers, Kelmis, Dammaneus and Akmon of hearth, hammer and anvil. The father is Dactylos (hence the name Idaioi Daktyloi; sources for this include the Phoronis epic and the Paris chronicle). For example, the gigantic Phrygians are mentioned in the Phoronis, fantastically strong and capable servants of Rhea, who were the first to find and forge iron in the mountain gorges and ravines, five masculine ironworkers and five assistant sisters. There must have been many cultural stimuli that originated with them. They went, for example, to Samothrace as Orphic teachers, they developed the first Ephesian forms and musical rhythms - hence the dactyl as the name of a poetic metrical pattern. They first taught the Hellenes how to play stringed instruments. Here, the myth of the birth of Zeus culminated in the Diktaic Grotto. In this, the Dactyls composed the protective demons who performed rhythmic dances. They represent the constructive and beneficent forces of ature. The Cretan Idaic cult of the dying and resurrecting vegetal god, which was later joined with the Hellenic Zeus, was adopted from here. The Curetes are the offspring of the Dactyls, who founded the Mysteries into which even Pythagoras was initiated. Hercules, one of the most influential Curetes, came to Olympia and established the Games; he also consecrates an altar to the Olympic Zeus. In Olympia, the Curetes appear primarily in their healing sense. The Curetes' duties - again, merged with the Corybants - were adopted by the Orphics, and were maintained until the 4th century A.D. Philosophy has also taken hold of it, starting with the rationalism of Euhemeros and later the Stoa. The name Akmon thus turns up in the Idaic Dactyls, and the kinship between the Dactyloid demons and the race of Titans has been established. With the Cretan birth legend of Zeus, the Idaic Dactyls also came to Olympia, where, in addition to Hercules, many altars were erected to them, who were regarded as healing gods. Of these, Epimedes was considered to be the "herbalist and conjuror" and Paenaios a "remedy-bringer" demigod. How far back these traditions reach (that originate in Asia Minor) can be seen in the fact that the Ethymology of the ancients hardly mentions the Dactyls. According to the witnesses, Akmon, as the highest divine servant of the goddess Adastreia, carries out the sentence against his brother Kelmis by putting him into iron chains as punishment for his wickedness with respect to divine law. Kelmis here plays the role that would in like manner fall to Prometheus in later Greek mythology. Here, the knowledge of a healthy existence is shrouded in allegorical images.1 Zeus, overcome with rage at Prometheus' theft of fire, sent the female Pandora as vengeance, whom Hephaistos had fashioned out of clay for this purpose, who had given to Aphrodite charm, to Hermes handsome features, flattering speech and cunning and to Zeus a box - Pandora's Box - containing all the evils, which she was forbidden to open. But her female curiosity got the better of her and she opened the box, out of which then emerged snakes and all manner of evils, and they spread out throughout mankind (i.e. the consequences of thousands of chronic ailments!). There was but one hope left in the bottom of the box, conditional upon the return of the accursed fire (i.e. the forced return to a diet of raw fruits and vegetables!). This marvelous symbolism is reinforced by the illustration of the effect of the improper use of fire in food preparation, in which an eagle gnaws on the liver and gallbladder of the rock-bound Prometheus (initial symptoms of cancer formation!). All of this mythic wisdom forms the basis of the like-oriented teachings that focus on the divine life commandments and the warding off of dangers. This role of keeper of life's supreme laws and executor of divine orders was played by Akmon, the god of health. He is the supreme messenger, sent to preserve the divine order. He appears in Greek mythology as the personification of the anvil, which indicates the ancient connections to smithcraft, mining and metallurgy. The name Akmon is included in the names of the gods. Akmon is the son of Gaia, the father of Uranus, of Eros, of Charon. According to other sources (Hesiod, Hesychius), Akmon is the nickname of Oceanos and Aether. Akmon is the companion of Diomede, of Aeneas, the son of Manes, of the Phrygian demigod Eponymos and founder of the city of Akmonia in Phrygian Asia Minor on the route to Philadelphia. The name Akmon as a term for heaven and earth is reminiscent of the mythological beginnings, and is used as a divine nickname in remembrance of its healing significance, as a term for the elevated and all-encompassing, a symbol of the fullness of life and of health. The name Akmon is (even viewed purely linguistically) a "trademark" - that by which the essence is recognized, that which makes a difference. This explains the custom, which persisted into historical times, of giving a seriously ill person a new name. This isn't just in the superstitious sense of thereby leading evil spirits astray: it is a sign of an inner alteration in the patient, a change of course, a transformation of lifestyle. The Idaic Dactyls (Kelmis) retain the name Akmon in this sense. The verses are prayers, in which the individual word has a mystical character. There are also three Nymph alters at Olympia, near the Oracle of G e, on whom the nickname Akmenai was bestowed. These altars belonged to particularly prominent individuals, superhuman beings - less than goddesses but more than actual women, occupying an intermediate rank. They were a subordinate choir to the highest godhead, serving the great mother Hera, Demeter and Apollo, and had helped build the Temple of Hera. Mantic powers were ascribed to them. They are said to have embodied the uplifting and inspiring aspect of fresh, free nature; they were said to be donors of the blessings of water, which caused meadow and cattle to flourish. In ancient times, the springhouses were dedicated to them; they bore the name to which they were entitled: Akmenai. They were beings who imparted the Akmic to mankind. The tradition of the word continues to exert its effect. The Greek translation is not authentic; the later Greeks derive it partly from what remains of the Phrygian dialect and partly from supposed echoes of certain meanings. For example, there is a remarkable parallel with the word Aatmann (unrelated to the German Atem, breath) = soul or self, the highest and ultimate, inner soul, inner self. According to Hinduism, the goal of life is to permit Aatmann to develop and do its work, far removed from the body's desires: self-realization. In this magical sense, the ancient word takes leave of colloquial speech, for those who inhabit a new level of consciousness no longer understand it. The disappearance of this word from common speech is here - as it is for other words - a striking phenomenon that approaches us from the Greeks and Germans. With the education of the intellect and the development of intellectual concepts, the Greek language gives the ancient mythic tones a new element. Completely uncoupled from mythic-religious ideas, the Greek word akmaios means: in full bloom and maturity; in full power and effectiveness; powerful; in highest mental state. Akme: at the decision point; in bloom; the most powerful and beautiful time; the most powerful period of human life; the period of greatest development of power; the culmination - but also the concomitant danger, crisis of disease - vital old age; fullness of health (perfect health).2 The Greek word akme in this sense has been incorporated into English - although rarely used - as 'acme', period of full growth, the flower of the full bloom of life, the point of extreme violence of diseases, crises - e.g. acme of beauty, acme of stoical attainment.3 This train of thought indicates the content concealed in the concept of the Akmic even after it has passed through tradition. It is, in a universal sense, the proto-word for the divine powers of perfect health, which excludes any and all unilateral interpretations, which has come down to us via the human consciousness levels of the magical, mythical, rational. Unlike any other, it is unencumbered by fossilized historical aspirations and is thus, in its original form, tailor-made for a modern high consciousness. There is no particular flavor clinging to it, no possibly ineradicable historical coloration; we have managed to maintain, in spite of all the multi-layered and intertwined streams of linguistic development, the original meaning, which is to be fulfilled in its true sense. This is our responsibility, our task. A name is, beyond any word of agreement, a precious container, into which we wish to pour our effective powers. In his instructions for Akmosophy,4 Prof. Dr. Günther Enderlein has shown the way that leads out of the present human existential crisis (as documented by the numerous "diseases of civilization"). It is a long road! - but the torches of the great research intellects light our way onward. Let's get started, toward the Acmae, toward perfect health! The primeval and the modern commingle on this path: "The truth is long since found, with noble spirits bound.Now grasp the ancient truth!"Schwerte, October 1953.
References
Cf. Adolf Just: Kehrt zur Natur zurück [Return to Nature], 1910. 7th Ed. pp. 214-15. Are Waerland Hälsans utvalda folk.
Papes Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache [Papes Concise Dictionary of the Greek Language], p. 333. 3 Fisher, Beginning of Christianity, p. 178.4 Günther Enderlein: "Meine Gesundheitslehre": Akmosophie [My Theory of Health: Akmosophy]. In: Der Hausarzt [The Family Doctor], Curt Mühlmann-Verlag, Hamburg-Poppenbüttel, No. 20 9/16/1952, p. 417.
When Prof. Dr. Enderlein laid the foundations of his system of "perfect health", he christened it Akmosophy (thus, the Books 1, 2 and 3 by Prof. Dr. Enderlein). The word for health in ancient Greek is akmae. This derives from the (much older) name for the Asia Minor god of health, Akmon, from which Prof. Dr. Enderlein derived the word Akmosophy. He thereby characterized his system of perfect health as a holistic doctrine comprising the rules for structuring one's life accordingly. By giving it this name, the biologist Prof. Dr. Günther Enderlein also resurrected a view that, originating with the ancient Indians, Babylonians and Egyptians, had actually culminated in Hippocrates' humoral pathology. Thanks to the findings of Akmosophy, we are now able to isolate the principal factors of humoral pathology; they had been previously been assigned, in part, to immunobiology - a category that the founding of Akmosophy has made superfluous. The goal of the Akmosophic Society is to continue to develop and expand on the fundamentals of Prof. Dr. Günther Enderlein's Akmosophy. What the ancients sensed instinctively must now take place in full consciousness: the internal realization of an image of perfect human health.
Akmosophy needs to become a "well-known concept" to modern man. In the oldest cultures, the name was "substance". "That all-surrounding eternally creative principle", the active Godhead of the cosmos, [has been] worshipped by mankind since time immemorial. Thousands of years of tradition have rooted these feelings deeply, buried in primeval cries. In the simple, direct words of Genesis, the cause of all cosmic events is ascribed to the all-powerful godly command: "He speaks, and so it comes to pass; He commands, and so it is." To name is to create. Whoever knew the right name was capable of great magic. Simply speaking it sufficed to destroy the enemy, to have mastery over the forces of nature, to be attended to by spirits made powerless by the magic word, to banish illness. The Avesta coined an adjective especially for a godhead whose name is given in the prayer: Aoxtonaman. In the primeval myths, the creation of the world is traced back to the magic effect of the powerful letters of The Holy Name. "
In the Beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth." Early man dwelt in a living relationship to the cosmic heavenly forces that maintained his health. Most of the mythic cosmogonies and theogonies speak of a paradisiac state which is reflected in similar sounds such as akman, akmon - ancient tones denoting Heaven and God, found in the transition of the early Mediterranean high cultures. Pain-staking linguistic research work has assembled the evidence, in pre-Indo-European Eurafrica, for the handed-down expressions that date back to vanished sources, whereby Akman - as maintainer of Heaven and Earth - indicates the name of the highest Being of an ancient high religion. The words akmae and akmon also appear, both in Sanskrit and in the Zend. These archaic colossi, the massive stones in the palaces of Mycenae and Ekbatana, could tell us moderns a thing or two. Ekbatana had many circular walls that, according to Herodotus, enclosed the heavenly spheres; the obelisks were the petrified rays of the sun. In this image, preserved for millennia for us, the inner relationship of the stony heaven in the word akme might become clear to us. The Sanskrit word acman corresponds to the early Greek Akmon, which designates the Heavens and the Earth. Although the word is found a few times in this sense in the Veda, it appears more frequently in the Iranian language, where acman in the Zend is the standard designation for the Heavens. The Greek mythological name Akmon is evidence that the Greeks had known the word in the sense of "heaven", in which sense it continued in the Iranian language. The medieval Christian theologians glossed this name as "untiring, fresh", referring to the never-ending motions of the heavens. Asian primeval elements and cultural borrowings extended all the way into the Mediterranean region. As the crossroads of all major eastern Mediterranean maritime routes, Crete opened not just on Greece and Asia Minor: Phoenicia, Egypt and Italy were nearer from here than elsewhere - but most enduring were the numerous contacts with Asia Minor. Here, Asian and European (in a narrower sense Phrygian and Pelasgic) elements could coalesce and, in this oldest period, elevate Crete to the focal point and point of departure of a mighty cultural mission. Here is where many varied legends converge and intertwine richly, their predominance and revolutionary power making itself felt everywhere in Greece on into historical times. The legend of Europa, born here, is directly connected to Phoenicia. From the earliest times, the Cretan Ida bore the same name as the Phrygian mountain. It was connected with the same complex of legends and idols, that of the Idaic mother Thea or Cybele, the Dactyls, the Curetes or Corybants. The Dactyls arose from the dust thrown behind him by Anchiale; they are prototypes of those sorcerers and shamans who serve the great goddesses. They unify God and man by means of ecstatic dances. In the legend complex around the Idaic mother, they appear as the demons, blacksmiths and sorcerers, Kelmis, Dammaneus and Akmon of hearth, hammer and anvil. The father is Dactylos (hence the name Idaioi Daktyloi; sources for this include the Phoronis epic and the Paris chronicle). For example, the gigantic Phrygians are mentioned in the Phoronis, fantastically strong and capable servants of Rhea, who were the first to find and forge iron in the mountain gorges and ravines, five masculine ironworkers and five assistant sisters. There must have been many cultural stimuli that originated with them. They went, for example, to Samothrace as Orphic teachers, they developed the first Ephesian forms and musical rhythms - hence the dactyl as the name of a poetic metrical pattern. They first taught the Hellenes how to play stringed instruments. Here, the myth of the birth of Zeus culminated in the Diktaic Grotto. In this, the Dactyls composed the protective demons who performed rhythmic dances. They represent the constructive and beneficent forces of ature. The Cretan Idaic cult of the dying and resurrecting vegetal god, which was later joined with the Hellenic Zeus, was adopted from here. The Curetes are the offspring of the Dactyls, who founded the Mysteries into which even Pythagoras was initiated. Hercules, one of the most influential Curetes, came to Olympia and established the Games; he also consecrates an altar to the Olympic Zeus. In Olympia, the Curetes appear primarily in their healing sense. The Curetes' duties - again, merged with the Corybants - were adopted by the Orphics, and were maintained until the 4th century A.D. Philosophy has also taken hold of it, starting with the rationalism of Euhemeros and later the Stoa. The name Akmon thus turns up in the Idaic Dactyls, and the kinship between the Dactyloid demons and the race of Titans has been established. With the Cretan birth legend of Zeus, the Idaic Dactyls also came to Olympia, where, in addition to Hercules, many altars were erected to them, who were regarded as healing gods. Of these, Epimedes was considered to be the "herbalist and conjuror" and Paenaios a "remedy-bringer" demigod. How far back these traditions reach (that originate in Asia Minor) can be seen in the fact that the Ethymology of the ancients hardly mentions the Dactyls. According to the witnesses, Akmon, as the highest divine servant of the goddess Adastreia, carries out the sentence against his brother Kelmis by putting him into iron chains as punishment for his wickedness with respect to divine law. Kelmis here plays the role that would in like manner fall to Prometheus in later Greek mythology. Here, the knowledge of a healthy existence is shrouded in allegorical images.1 Zeus, overcome with rage at Prometheus' theft of fire, sent the female Pandora as vengeance, whom Hephaistos had fashioned out of clay for this purpose, who had given to Aphrodite charm, to Hermes handsome features, flattering speech and cunning and to Zeus a box - Pandora's Box - containing all the evils, which she was forbidden to open. But her female curiosity got the better of her and she opened the box, out of which then emerged snakes and all manner of evils, and they spread out throughout mankind (i.e. the consequences of thousands of chronic ailments!). There was but one hope left in the bottom of the box, conditional upon the return of the accursed fire (i.e. the forced return to a diet of raw fruits and vegetables!). This marvelous symbolism is reinforced by the illustration of the effect of the improper use of fire in food preparation, in which an eagle gnaws on the liver and gallbladder of the rock-bound Prometheus (initial symptoms of cancer formation!). All of this mythic wisdom forms the basis of the like-oriented teachings that focus on the divine life commandments and the warding off of dangers. This role of keeper of life's supreme laws and executor of divine orders was played by Akmon, the god of health. He is the supreme messenger, sent to preserve the divine order. He appears in Greek mythology as the personification of the anvil, which indicates the ancient connections to smithcraft, mining and metallurgy. The name Akmon is included in the names of the gods. Akmon is the son of Gaia, the father of Uranus, of Eros, of Charon. According to other sources (Hesiod, Hesychius), Akmon is the nickname of Oceanos and Aether. Akmon is the companion of Diomede, of Aeneas, the son of Manes, of the Phrygian demigod Eponymos and founder of the city of Akmonia in Phrygian Asia Minor on the route to Philadelphia. The name Akmon as a term for heaven and earth is reminiscent of the mythological beginnings, and is used as a divine nickname in remembrance of its healing significance, as a term for the elevated and all-encompassing, a symbol of the fullness of life and of health. The name Akmon is (even viewed purely linguistically) a "trademark" - that by which the essence is recognized, that which makes a difference. This explains the custom, which persisted into historical times, of giving a seriously ill person a new name. This isn't just in the superstitious sense of thereby leading evil spirits astray: it is a sign of an inner alteration in the patient, a change of course, a transformation of lifestyle. The Idaic Dactyls (Kelmis) retain the name Akmon in this sense. The verses are prayers, in which the individual word has a mystical character. There are also three Nymph alters at Olympia, near the Oracle of G e, on whom the nickname Akmenai was bestowed. These altars belonged to particularly prominent individuals, superhuman beings - less than goddesses but more than actual women, occupying an intermediate rank. They were a subordinate choir to the highest godhead, serving the great mother Hera, Demeter and Apollo, and had helped build the Temple of Hera. Mantic powers were ascribed to them. They are said to have embodied the uplifting and inspiring aspect of fresh, free nature; they were said to be donors of the blessings of water, which caused meadow and cattle to flourish. In ancient times, the springhouses were dedicated to them; they bore the name to which they were entitled: Akmenai. They were beings who imparted the Akmic to mankind. The tradition of the word continues to exert its effect. The Greek translation is not authentic; the later Greeks derive it partly from what remains of the Phrygian dialect and partly from supposed echoes of certain meanings. For example, there is a remarkable parallel with the word Aatmann (unrelated to the German Atem, breath) = soul or self, the highest and ultimate, inner soul, inner self. According to Hinduism, the goal of life is to permit Aatmann to develop and do its work, far removed from the body's desires: self-realization. In this magical sense, the ancient word takes leave of colloquial speech, for those who inhabit a new level of consciousness no longer understand it. The disappearance of this word from common speech is here - as it is for other words - a striking phenomenon that approaches us from the Greeks and Germans. With the education of the intellect and the development of intellectual concepts, the Greek language gives the ancient mythic tones a new element. Completely uncoupled from mythic-religious ideas, the Greek word akmaios means: in full bloom and maturity; in full power and effectiveness; powerful; in highest mental state. Akme: at the decision point; in bloom; the most powerful and beautiful time; the most powerful period of human life; the period of greatest development of power; the culmination - but also the concomitant danger, crisis of disease - vital old age; fullness of health (perfect health).2 The Greek word akme in this sense has been incorporated into English - although rarely used - as 'acme', period of full growth, the flower of the full bloom of life, the point of extreme violence of diseases, crises - e.g. acme of beauty, acme of stoical attainment.3 This train of thought indicates the content concealed in the concept of the Akmic even after it has passed through tradition. It is, in a universal sense, the proto-word for the divine powers of perfect health, which excludes any and all unilateral interpretations, which has come down to us via the human consciousness levels of the magical, mythical, rational. Unlike any other, it is unencumbered by fossilized historical aspirations and is thus, in its original form, tailor-made for a modern high consciousness. There is no particular flavor clinging to it, no possibly ineradicable historical coloration; we have managed to maintain, in spite of all the multi-layered and intertwined streams of linguistic development, the original meaning, which is to be fulfilled in its true sense. This is our responsibility, our task. A name is, beyond any word of agreement, a precious container, into which we wish to pour our effective powers. In his instructions for Akmosophy,4 Prof. Dr. Günther Enderlein has shown the way that leads out of the present human existential crisis (as documented by the numerous "diseases of civilization"). It is a long road! - but the torches of the great research intellects light our way onward. Let's get started, toward the Acmae, toward perfect health! The primeval and the modern commingle on this path: "The truth is long since found, with noble spirits bound.Now grasp the ancient truth!"Schwerte, October 1953.
References
Cf. Adolf Just: Kehrt zur Natur zurück [Return to Nature], 1910. 7th Ed. pp. 214-15. Are Waerland Hälsans utvalda folk.
Papes Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache [Papes Concise Dictionary of the Greek Language], p. 333. 3 Fisher, Beginning of Christianity, p. 178.4 Günther Enderlein: "Meine Gesundheitslehre": Akmosophie [My Theory of Health: Akmosophy]. In: Der Hausarzt [The Family Doctor], Curt Mühlmann-Verlag, Hamburg-Poppenbüttel, No. 20 9/16/1952, p. 417.
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