A hypothesis that survives experimental testing becomes a theory - or does it?
My claims regarding the fraudulent diagnosis of MS are supported by many patients, including an eminent personality who recently provided a lengthy testimonial. Excerpts follow:
'........6 months ago (December 2012) I developed instant numbness in my right shoulder, bicep, chest and neck - none of which dissipated thereafter. Following numerous medical examinations during this period, the severe numbness in my arm/shoulder prompted MRI scans. Inflammation was identified in my brain and neck section of my spine and on 3rd January 2013 I was diagnosed with MS (a condition I held little knowledge of at that time)..........
........I made the choice to visit Dr. Amir as a result of substantial reading by my wife following my diagnosis. This reading identified a wide variation in views about MS (from a number of respected medical practitioners throughout the western world) and comments reported by patients in my situation who had also received treatment from Dr. Amir and subsequently considered themselves well........
........As a professional entrenched in the value of evidence to guide decisions, I decided to pursue an option which, at face value, offered what I assessed as having evidence worthy of consideration. While I understand that the scientific world would consider individual post-treatment testimonies to be anecdotal and virtually useless when evaluating the effectiveness of a treatment, I do not.......
1. I understand that medical views suggest there to be more than one possible cause for lesions in the brain and spine.
2. My own diagnosis (by the NHS Neurologist) included the professional view that the lesions in my brain could be several years old.
3. I understand that medical findings within autopsies have identified the presence of lesions in persons who have never suffered the symptoms of MS.
4. I know, from personal experience, that of others and open source advice that numbness of the type I am experiencing can be generated by a range of causes, not least trauma caused by accidents, sporting injuries and a variation of illnesses, disease and physical conditions. It is not exclusive to MS......
........I visited Dr. Amir with complete deadness in my shoulder and bicep and severe numbness in my right chest side and back of my neck. This had been unchanged for 6 weeks. My right thumb had been numb for 2 weeks and the fingers for over 6 months.......
.......Dr. Amir did not claim he would definitely be able to 'cure me' but did explain that my jaw misalignment and other matters were causing my condition and that he would treat these as best as he was able - without guarantee.........
.......That day (15 days ago) Dr. Amir fitted a bespoke brace to my upper jaw and advised on exercises and a method of eating.
The next day I noticed a distinct alleviation of the numbness in my right bicep.
Within 1 week sensation had returned to my right bicep, chest, neck and fingers in my left hand.
This week, my shoulder can be reported as feeling less dense, although my thumb (the most recent development) remains numb.............."
[Update: Patient continues to feel well and the symptoms have largely resolved. April 2014]
This patients' testimony, together with that of many more patients, very eloquently confirms my reservations regarding the present state of this dreadful label and the treatment methodologies which are highly suspect.
Case Study: Dental Treatment for Multiple Sclerosisby Mary Maguire
Originally published in issue 90 of Positive Health Magazine- July 2003
The backdrop to this story is long and convoluted, so I will spare you the details and concentrate on the essentials.
I had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1984, following a lumbar puncture and, more recently, by an MRI scan. Nothing remarkable or untoward happened until one night in December 1994, when I found myself in the most dreadful situation. Having fallen asleep after a day at work, I awoke suddenly and dramatically on hearing a loud click in my head behind my right ear. I got up feeling ‘spaced out’ and terrified as if a curtain had dropped between reality and myself as if I existed in a bubble.
The following day I visited my GP who recommended rest and suggested that ‘stress’ was the probable cause. A few weeks off work brought no improvement. I felt even worse. A metal band seemed to be tightening its grip around my brain, causing extreme pressure and my mind to run riot.
Convinced that I was going mad/ crazy, I agreed to see a psychiatrist who decided that I was mentally ill and suffering from anxiety/depression. Anxious yes, very worried yes. Who wouldn’t be? The prescribed cocktail of drugs brought horrendous results. I was then required to attend a day center from which I was discharged after a period of three months with the comforting comment that I might never recover – a fate worse than death.
Neurology was the next area to be explored. There was nothing to offer here and the consultant dismissively suggested that the earlier diagnosis of MS and/or mental illness was probably correct – “these were simply labels”!
Left to my own devices and painfully aware that conventional medicine had failed, I spent the next three years and thousands of pounds attending alternative medical practitioners, healers and anyone else who offered a ray of hope. I was clutching at very costly straws. By now I was feeling disillusioned and quite angry.
Still hoping for a miracle, I continued to buy health magazines. My luck was about to change when an advertisement caught my eye. Terms such as ‘cranial symmetry’ struck a chord with me. I phoned and spoke to the practitioner and described my symptoms. He said that he had read a lot about MS but he had never seen an MS patient and was keen to see if his hypothesis would work for this condition. He would be in a position to say if his criteria would be helpful after he had examined me.
In short, I took the plunge and flew from Belfast to London. In spite of niggling doubts, I was hopeful. I desperately wanted this to work. My fears that this was another wild goose chase were overwhelming. Nothing could have been further from the truth.
I met the dentist who patiently listened to exhaustive responses to his questions before examining my mouth and jaw. All doubts disappeared when he casually observed that mine had been a problem waiting to happen and had begun when I cut my second teeth. He didn’t know that at around the age of eight or nine I had started to suffer from migraine and had been troubled with it ever since. He further stated that the history of my symptoms fitted in with his hypothesis and was in line with his predictions and thoughts on the subject. He also warned that, as he had not previously treated an MS patient, he could not give any kind of warranty.
I received a full explanation about the underlying cause (according to his hypothesis), and the proposed treatment. Concerning my perfectly straight teeth and jaws, he said that they were not in harmony with the rest of my head. I was fitted with a dental appliance and was asked to follow certain exercises that he prescribed. I continued wearing various appliances for two years and got increasingly better as time went on.
Now, some four years later, I have experienced a huge improvement and, in fact, normality. Almost all of the problems that troubled me prior to and after the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis have disappeared. Although the treatment finished some 18 months ago, I still visit for check-ups. It seems that my face says it all. Not the expression but the ‘arrangement of features’. He doesn’t need to ask how I am – he seems to know. He views things through a wide-angled lens (metaphorically speaking) looking for the bigger picture. Minor ups and downs that I have occasionally suffered are quickly sorted out.
It strikes me that there is something fundamentally wrong regarding the way in which medicine is controlled and practiced, as far as chronic illness is concerned. My experience raises very serious questions, which warrant serious consideration. Psychology and psychiatry are nebulous areas, and too often when conventional medicine cannot find the answers, patients are being referred into the unknown. They are weaned out of the system if they fail to take up the psychiatric route – which is, at best, only an attempt to paper over the cracks.
Acknowledgments:My heartfelt thanks to Mr Amir for succeeding where others have failed, for thinking laterally, for his power of prediction, for leaping forward for and, in his profession, for being brave and forthright in his judgements, for his ability and confidence, for not giving up, for his passion in the care of his patients and making the dreams of many come true. I was fortunate enough to meet him.
Mr. Amir's Comments: While I can understand the patient’s sentiments, I would be most reluctant to raise hopes for millions of sufferers of this serious condition. I can confidently say that persons suffering from the extreme form, which is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, cannot be successfully treated with my methods. With milder cases, especially for those where the condition has not been long-standing, this may be a breakthrough. However, even to make this claim I need to have successfully treated many more patients. The lasting effect of the treatment will not be known for many years to come. It does appear already that ongoing supervision will be necessary but the refinement of technique together with patient motivation may obviate it in some cases.
Constraints laid down by the scientific community require that the treatment methodology must be reproducible at other centers before any real claims of a cure, or rather relief of symptoms, can be made. The methods also have to withstand the rigors of a peer review and recognition by the governing body of my profession for the necessary protection of patients.
Perhaps we are on the threshold of a definitive new discipline. This requires funding for the establishment of a center for excellence where researchers and practitioners from multiple disciplines can combine the hardware, software and training facilities together for the advancement and implementation of this discipline.
12 years later - I credit Dr. Amir with my life.
I am a 52-year-old American living in London these past 18 years; I work at one of the largest professional services organisations in the world as part of the global management team. At 28 I was diagnosed with MS in California, and they said I would likely be in a wheelchair in the not too distant future. Moving to the UK and my husband's reading of an article in the Evening Standard changed my life. The article mentioned that Dr. Amir was helping people with MS, and within 3 months of that day I no longer had 'MS'. And 12 years later I can say the same...
Please see MSJawCure.com - my 19-year journey to a symptom-free life. Dr. Amir was the final answer to my quest to be free from MS. It's all about oxygen and alignment, and Dr. Amir is the artist/engineer/scientist/dental surgeon that is setting the standard. He doesn't give up! It was only 3 months into my treatment when I noticed some profound changes. My MS was considered relapsing-remitting but my balance had been getting progressively worse. All that changed when I met Dr. Amir and I haven't had an MS symptom for 12 years. I've returned to my original strength. I wear his device at night and that keeps me in tip-top shape. Thank you for giving me back my life Dr Amir! :-)"
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Linda Lewis
December 2018
[Multiple sclerosis]
My son had experienced numbness to one side of his face, a numb arm, and visual problems. We took him to A&E where he was subsequently diagnosed with "MS". We were given details of a website which we were instructed to visit to choose an MS medication for my son to start taking. Whilst visiting the site we came across Dr. Amir's website, as if by pure magic as the site was an NHS website and to this day it has baffled us as to how an advert for Dr. Amir's surgery appeared on an NHS website. We contacted him.
We started my son on treatment with Dr. Amir and did not see a so-called "MS relapse" for two years until Dr. Amir was out of the country and my son did not have a brace. He experienced numbness from the waist down and again we visited A&E. We were given steroids for him to take but we did not allow him to take them.
Dr. Amir was back after 2 weeks and fitted my son with a new brace. Full feeling from the waist down, returned. He continued to wear a brace for a further 18 months until Dr. Amir was happy that he no longer needed to wear one. A further six months have now passed with no "MS" symptoms and my son is feeling fitter and healthier than ever before, without taking any medication.
NHS consultants are insistent that my son "must have" had episodes in the last two years, that he has not mentioned as MS sufferers normally have at least two episodes per year. They inform of many lesions being seen on the MRI scan and advise that not all lesions cause symptoms.
I have full faith in Dr. Amir and am happy to put our lives in his hands. He is clearly knowledgeable in his field as well as that of others. It is painful to believe the facts about medication as millions of patients are in the hands of the NHS so one would like to believe that medication is the answer but sadly it is unbelievable.
We will continue to be advised by Dr. Amir and am only sad there are not one million of him as on his own he is not enough to go round so do consider yourself honoured if you are lucky enough to be treated by him.
Comment: The cardinal sign for 'MS' is the presence of brain lesions - a highly suspect conjecture. Please read this link on this website.
No study has ever proven any link of incapacity to brain lesions? in the so-called 'MS' patients.
Conventionally 'MS' is purported to be a chronic inflammatory disorder of the central nervous system (CNS). Neither the antigenic target(s) nor the cell population(s) responsible for CNS tissue destruction in 'MS' has ever been defined. Neurologists admit that they really do not know what 'MS' is and a lot of the treatment offered is steroids and other dangerous drugs WHICH DO NOT WORK AT ALL and actually cause serious harm and occasionally death.
The newest blockbuster drug selling at $55,000 per anum is actually an anti-fungal from Chinese sofas!
When have the neurologists ever called MS a fungal disease?
When the patients are ensnared into 'MS' they are actually prevented from getting proper TMJ evaluation and treatment and their underlying problem continues to deteriorate causing further ravages throughout the body. The patients are then classed into "Secondary Progressive" stage of the disease and then the neurologists withdraw from treating them knowing full well that any drug use will only give a bad name to the drug.
When the patients reach an irreparable stage of the disease the neurologists are very apologetic as per this comment I discovered on a blog run by neurologists:
“The realisation that the DMTs have failed leads to the re-emergence of grief and the five emotional stages that go with it. The anger is more often than not directed at the medical team for being impotent to stop the disease; exposing our false promises, which were made to give you hope."
What blatant deception!
The above quote was perhaps an inadvertent admission about the utter failure of MS treatment through drugs by a top neurologist who is a very strong advocate of giving drugs at the very first sign of any symptom purported to be 'MS' related.
In July 1980, I was diagnosed with Optic neuritis in my left eye. I was tested for Multiple Sclerosis involving a lumbar puncture and brain scan, but the results were inconclusive. I was given a two week course of steroids. At this point in my life I didn’t realise what I was being tested for and the doctors didn’t say, but my husband knew as a work colleague explained to him. We had only been married for two years.
In December 1986, I suffered another attack which gave me numb patches on the left side of my trunk. I was retested for MS with a lumbar puncture and a brain scan, but again it was inconclusive for MS. Everything around my chest hurt so I had to wear loose clothing avoiding tight bras. I was however informed that I may have MS. How could I? I had two small children to look after. So began the long journey into the unknown with MS sitting on my shoulder. I counted myself lucky as I was still able to live a fairly “normal life”.
Another seven years went by before I suffered another bout of optic neuritis in my right eye in June 1994. This time I had blood tests, MRI scan and a lumber puncture but the results were again inconclusive. My Doctor wrote to the hospital and was told that a slight abnormality was found in my spinal fluid which could be a sign of MS.
I developed a lot of balance and gait problems. I was very unsteady on my feet and could no longer walk much. I fell over a lot, so in July 2006 I made an appointment to see my Neurologist, who concluded that because of the past 30 years of my medical history, I was actually suffering from Secondary Progressive MS. In December 2007 I fell on a footpath, I damaged my front teeth, ripped open the left side of my face, I passed out and got taken to hospital by ambulance.
Everyday simple tasks became difficult, I couldn’t stand for long, walking was almost impossible and life in general became a challenge. I had to plan what needed doing and find the easiest way to accomplish the daily chores.
Earlier this year a friend told me about a patient of his seeing a Dr Amir, and how after 6 + months she no longer suffers with any of her MS symptoms and feels she has been given her life back.
So I rang to see if he could help me. Dr. Amir took time to talk about my symptoms and medical history. He went over the comprehensive questionnaire he had sent for me to complete and also my notes from my previous medical treatments.
His impression was that my troubles started at age 17 when I had a tooth removed from the roof of my mouth. This was perhaps an improper correction of the crowding in my mouth and caused further damage to my occlusion and my jaw joint.
The explained that the rest was a domino effect causing various asymmetries in my cranium especially in the occiput causing an imbalance of my cerebellum resulting in poor fine motor control. He checked and found that my Atlas vertebra was asymmetric causing my hips to be unlevel. He concluded that all this was causing my gait problems. He said that his treatment could perhaps address all these issues.
I embarked on Dr. Amir’s treatment and rapidly gained control of my gait within a very short space of time. I can now walk for a longer distance and many of my other symptoms have eased or disappeared. I still have a long way to go because of the challenging work I need on my teeth. I have more energy and my sallow appearance has changed to a radiant healthy look confirmed by my friends. After some 30 years I have suddenly got my life back. ...........Eira Foster
A. G.
[Recovery from Secondary Progressive Multiple sclerosis with uncontrollable tremors]
December 2018
When my daughter was 25, she had a devastating stroke-like episode and was diagnosed with Multiple sclerosis; afterward, she was constantly in incredible pain. The after effects included loss of vision, inability to walk, weakness down her left side, twisted her jaw, terrible migraine headaches, trapped nerves in her neck and back, numbness throughout her body, vertigo, uncontrollable tremors and much more.
I was looking for a relief method from this pain, during a Google search I found Dr. Amir’s blog, it detailed how he had worked with MS patients who had shown improvement through his dental methods. I contacted him and arranged for an initial appointment, I knew I could be grasping at straws, but I would have done anything to alleviate my daughter’s pain.
We made our way to the dental surgery in Putney and during the initial appointment, (where we were both tearful at the retelling of her terrible symptoms to this point), Dr. Amir took her through a series of diagnostic tests which included fitting her with his uniquely crafted ‘jig’ - this stopped the uncontrollable tremors she was experiencing immediately (the MS drugs had not been able to do this). Dr. Amir kindly and calmly reassured us, explaining that he believed her health issues were exacerbated by the effects of 4 teeth she had removed as a teenager, due to a narrow jaw, and was not the MS she had been diagnosed with. He showed how she could stand straighter, how she could see clearer, how she would be in less pain if she had treatment to correct her jaw. We left the surgery feeling lighter and hopeful that we had found a treatment that would actually help her recovery from her numerous MS symptoms.
Over the next 6 years, we have followed his plan; this has included a range of fixed and removable braces - all made specifically for her. She has needed at times to attend the surgery weekly and ‘winds on’ the brace herself at home. After every appointment when the brace has been adapted personally by Dr. Amir, she says her vision is clearer and her stance is taller, her pain is less.
This hasn’t always been easy, the journey takes us on the M25 and this can be a nightmare, however every time we have been held up, Dr Amir and the wonderful Margaret, have stayed until we have arrived (once we were 5 hours late due to a major accident!) The cost has been difficult to cover at times – but it has been worth every penny to see my daughter smile again (especially in her wedding photos), to stand tall and face the world despite her difficulties and this has been helped significantly by the individually devised dental treatment provided by Dr. Amir.
We hope to continue along this path until she is able to have dental implants, to replace the missing teeth, hopefully, this will stabilise her jaw and steady her vision, permanently adjust her stance and stabilise the pain. Dr. Amir has always been a true professional explaining every step of his unique process and has taken a personal interest in my daughter’s progress; I am grateful every day that I found that random search result that led us to the brilliant Dr. Amir and his pioneering work.
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Paulrburton
[Relapsing Remitting Multiple sclerosis with extreme tremors, ataxia]
March 2018
Multiple Sclerosis became the center of my focus and life 10 years ago when I met my partner Elizabeth. It's an obscene condition, that devastates one's physical and psychological well being and ravages your self-confidence. Elizabeth had worked at a very high level in the corporate arena, but work opportunities very quickly dissipated, as the condition took a firm grip on her body and her physical MS afflictions made potential employers nervous.
Research is my passion and over the next 7 years, the battle to beat MS raged and from the 10,000+ hours of studying, we did reap some great rewards in terms of key improvements in her health. The violent headaches, that had put her in bed for weeks on end became a thing of the past. The huge levels of fatigue that she's endured since she was a teenager were replaced with energies levels that were excellent.
The biggest problem, that we failed to overcome, was that of ambulation. The infamous MS foot drop regularly made an appearance when Elizabeth walked any real distance, particularly when her legs were tired. Sometimes the heavy leg syndrome - associated with MS made only 5/6 steps possible. The use of a wheelchair was often necessary with the relapsing remitting type of MS she had. On a good day 100 yards was her limitation.
One day 3 years ago, I was running over the research documentation I had completed and noticed a mobile phone number, which strangely I had put into my mobile 12 months earlier, but had failed to ring it. The phone number was in fact taken off Dr Amir's website from a testimonial given by a lady called Mari, who I note has put a Google review on here. I rang this very bright lady, who endorsed the rhetoric she had expressed on Dr Amir's website, regarding the impact of Dr Amir's work on her daughter.
The next day Elizabeth completed the online questionnaire and a week later we were sat in Dr Amir's waiting room. Elizabeth was not great on her feet that day and as we were called through to the surgery, I noticed Dr Amir watching her wobbling walk, as Elizabeth tried to negotiate past the arm of the dental apparatus, without bumping into it. Ten minutes later, he asked her to stand up and then asked her to open her mouth, whilst he placed what I thought was a lollipop stick between her teeth. He then manually shuffled her jaw into his chosen position - told her to hold her jaw in that position, then asked her to walk from the dental chair, out of the surgery door and down the corridor. This she did with control and directness and steadiness I'd not seen before.
18 months later, the wheelchair was gone - we actually gave it away. Elizabeth could walk a mile to our local pub. Foot drop is now a thing of the past, as are the heavy legs. Furthermore, she has not had any relapses of any kind. The boost to her confidence has been amazing and we have finally won this particular battle and the MS war itself.
Our only regret is that we didn't make that phone call earlier but I really didn't think the ambulation issue could be dealt with. We had become resolved that despite the huge improvements in certain other areas of the MS symptoms, the walking restrictions were not going to improve. We were wrong and are just pleased and relieved we made that initial trip to Putney to see this remarkable doctor. He's outspoken, yet profoundly eloquent. He has a dry and sometimes caustic wit, yet is extremely charming and caring. He takes on lost causes, yet produces remarkable improvements in so many cases. He challenges traditional, orthodox thinking, yet intellectually justifies what he does and why he does it and then puts it into practice. Most importantly of all, he produces results that change peoples lives - we were so lucky to find him and his team and would not hesitate in recommending his services are called upon at the earliest opportunity.
I am a 56-year-old married mother of 4 grown up children and have been in a wheelchair for the last 7 years. I was diagnosed with MS 34 years ago when I was in the final year of a nursing degree course.
Contrary to medical advice at that time I finished the course and after a year as a Staff Nurse trained for a further year to become a midwife. I married and worked full time until I was pregnant with my first child. During this time I experienced 1 to 2 relapses per year of sensory nerve loss, such as pins and needles in my limbs, optic neuritis and other symptoms (which I assumed were MS related but I now realise were not).
When I was 19 years old I had my wisdom teeth removed under general anesthetic. Following this, I dislocated my jaw (usually as a result of yawning) about 6 times over the next 4 years. This necessitated long painful stays in casualty departments while the relevant specialist was summoned. To avoid this happening when I was responsible for young children, I had surgical insertions of bilateral bone grafts into my temporomandibular joints. With the benefit of hindsight, although they did not solve the problem, they gave me a 10 year period of seemingly fairly inactive/non-progressive MS.
In 1984 when I was 28 years old, I stopped paid employment and started a family. At this stage few people (except close family and friends) were aware that I had MS. I was just an understandably tired mum of 4 young children born within 6 years of each other, leading a very busy, active life.
2 years after the last baby was born, the MS returned with a vengeance. I was relapsing every 3 months. I seemed to be continually “ill” and started to experience motor nerves lost. My left side was becoming weaker; I walked with a limp etc… The bone grafts in my jaw seemed to have worn out, as I started dislocating it again. A crash course for my husband in how to relocate it was given by a very concerned dentist.
Having avoided any regular contact with neurologists until now, I decided that once my children were all in school full time, I would see if something could be done for me.
I was desperate enough to try anything. I finished up on the co-paxone trial. For 18 months I gave myself daily injections. Every month I had an MRI scan. Every 3 months I had a full neurological examination by the neurologist. It was an experience not particularly enjoyable and definitely not beneficial.
Through a work colleague of my husband’s, we were recommended to give an MS clinic in Essex a try. This opened the door to complementary medicine. Initially, I was counseled and then food allergy tested. The results lead to numerous fairly strict elimination diets, expensive food supplements and for the first time in what seems like ages, I began to feel better.
16 years ago trying to obtain organic food was nearly impossible. I got fruit, vegetables and meat delivered and spent the rest of my time trailing round health food shops to obtain expensive gluten free, dairy free foods. Now I buy it all in the local supermarket.
Over the next 10 years, despite sticking to my healthy eating plan, my health continued to deteriorate and I became less physically able. After a nasty fall, I reluctantly accepted that I was not coping and spent 2 weeks in the local cottage hospital. There I realised the best and safest ways to get around was in a wheelchair.
By 2009 I had been using a wheelchair for 6 years. I had had full-time carers for that time and my physical capabilities were severely limited to a normally functioning right hand and arm.
Throughout most of my time with MS, I have always avoided prescription drugs. Those I did try I nearly always rejected because the side effects seemed a lot worse than the symptoms they alleviated. I used oxybutin to reduce bladder irritability from very early on and when it was available used detrusitol (which is the slow release form). Although frequently offered steroids to treat relapses, I always declined them. Apart from a disappointing 18 months Copaxone trial and 8 years using LDN (low dose naltrexone) I never found any need for prescription medicine.
September 2009 was a big turning point. Lots seemed to be happening in the MS world. Stem cell therapy, for example. I tried to obtain a place on a research trial, but I did not fit the criteria as I could not walk. Then CCSVI began unfolding. Although I was prepared to pay for treatment, the practicalities of travelling long distances to get it made it impossible.
One evening my husband was browsing the Internet and his attention was called by an article in the Evening Standard: “cure MS with a dental brace”
As everyone says “and the rest is history”. It took me less than 48 hours to decide that the article needed further investigation. I had two things wrong with me, MS and a jaw that dislocated. Maybe going to a dentist was a step in the right direction. For me, from then on everything fell into place. Filling in the medical history made me look at the connection between my long-standing dental problems (I've had teeth extractions from age 8 to make room in my small mouth). At my first appointment in Putney, Dr. Amir scanned the history and said the unforgettable words “you realise you don't have MS, you just have a problem with your teeth?”
At last, somebody had worked out the connection between my teeth and the weird neurological signs and symptoms that are called MS. It all made sense! Dr. Amir explained as he fixed my teeth there was a possibility that once jaw alignment had been achieved my body would start to heal and the MS symptoms disappear. So the treatment was initiated with my enthusiastic approval.
In October 2009 I had my “atlas” done. 40 minutes of uncomfortable massage and then a journey home in the car, when my body started to wake up. Within 24 hours I had regained sensation in my normally numb left leg. It was a weird yet wonderful sensation!
There followed 3 years of regular appointments, a variety of braces both fixed and removable. When I look back on it, for the last 3 years, instead of blaming my ill health on MS, I could blame it on the brace as t often hurt to use them! It seemed to have taken a long time but it started to make a huge difference when my irritable bladder resolved (after 2 years).
In November 2012 I can confidently assert I am nearly there. I have been saying that for the last two years. My early problem with my dislocating jaw is virtually resolved, which tells me jaw symmetry has been achieved.
Thank you doctor Amir for giving me the chance to have a go. It's been a challenging 3 years for both of us, but it was worthwhile and the quality of my life has already improved immeasurably
Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:47 am
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dsherm wrote:
Dr. Amir,
Has supported me in totally transforming my health and physical experience of life.
I saw him for the first time in April 2011. I was in a terrible state not having worked for 3 years and spending most of my time bedbound or housebound, in a lot of pain, depressed and suffering a whole host of symptoms. I was also on a cocktail of prescribed drugs from the doctor. Trying to treat all the individual symptoms but they were not very effective and the side effects were just making me feel even worse.
Dr. Amir's consultation gave me a whole new way of thinking about my health. I had never thought my health issue could have possibly been connected to my teeth, Jaw or Atlas nor had any one of the many people I had sort help from ever mentioned this to me.
But what Dr. Amir explained to me in detail made perfect sense and was logical. I was amazed that a relatively simple asymmetry of the jaw could have such a devastating impact.
From the very 1st treatment the difference was huge and over the last 8 mths, I have gone from strength to strength. I am off all medications. I have no pain, the symptoms have reduced by about 90% I am sleeping well for the first time in years. I have absolutely no doubt that I will make a complete and total recovery.
I feel that Dr. Amir his approach and treatment has given me a new lease of life. I would encourage anyone to at least have a consultation with him. Good Luck !
Just wanted to update my progress since my last review. I am feeling strong and much more stable since I started my treatment for a misaligned jaw with Dr. Amir in September 2017. My bruxism has lessened and I have learned breathing , tongue positioning and swallowing techniques which have eradicated the day time clenching. My balance and co ordination are much improved.
I had presented initially with an ataxic style gait and was struggling to walk with a steady, tandem gait. MRI scans revealed some possible inflammation or demyelination high up in my brain but no conclusions were reached. I was nervous and felt I was losing my mobility to the point where I would need to use a stick. However, since beginning my orthodontic treatment, my last scan in 2018, showed no further degeneration and my balance, gait and co ordination are much improved.
Emotionally, I am so much more confident and positive since starting my treatment with Dr. Amir. For years, I was told my bruxism was down to stress, never to do with my bite but now I understand that the constant use of an array of night guards and splints only added to the problem.
I truly believe that I have found someone in Dr. Amir, who has a thorough understanding of my entire situation and I look forward to continued improving health and well being under his diligent care.
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Debbie S. Multiple Sclerosis or Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE).
July 2016
I am a 55yr old female, who apart from childhood/ early adult asthma and sports-related wear and tear of the knee, elbow, shoulder, and neck, (mild cervical spondylosis), had enjoyed 54 yrs of robust good health.
In December 2014 1 became ill, the symptoms were as follows:-
1) Severe, life-altering dizziness
2) Severe paresthesias (tingling) in arms and legs
3) Exhaustion
4) Tinnitus
5) Unexplained, unwanted weight loss from 9 st to under 8 st, for my height, underweight.
My excellent GP whom I had rarely visited, ran many tests over several weeks It was found that I had a positive ANA blood count that gradually rose from 1:80 to 1:320,
(zero would be normal), indicative of an Auto Immune Disease.
This combined with my other symptoms meant that I was suspected of having either Multiple Sclerosis or Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE).
Extensive tests/ scans and investigations ensued with consultants in the following fields:-
1) Neurology
2) Rheumatology
3) ENT
4) Cardiology
5) Orthopaedic
Whilst waiting for the results of these tests, all of which eventually proved inconclusive, I found Dr. Amir's website and arranged an appointment in Feb 2015.
Dr. Amir is an exceptional man; kind, articulate, highly intelligent and an excellent Cranio Dental Surgeon, who has successfully treated many conditions when mainstream medicine has failed.
I have always known that my frame and jaw are not symmetrical, but, somewhat to my surprise, Dr. Amir explained this could be causing all of my symptoms.
The following day he fitted two discreet braces to redress this imbalance, which I continue to wear. He also recommended specific breathing exercises, some dietary changes, and supplementation.
Now, 4 months later, my symptoms are hugely reduced and my health is returning to normal.
The life compromising dizziness is now intermittent and not severe. Sleep is no longer interrupted by the tingling which is barely perceptible. My GP was delighted and surprised by all of this and in particular, that the ANA blood test has now reversed and returned to normal. He wanted to know if I'd been doing anything different to bring about this extraordinary change other than the physiotherapy that had been recommended to me to alleviate the cervical spondylosis.
As yet, I haven't told him of my regular consultations and treatment with Dr. Amir but will do so when all symptoms are completely resolved and my treatment is finished.
I am truly indebted to Dr. Amir for his unswerving confidence and ability to bring about this dramatic turnaround in my health.
I will never be able to thank him enough. Comment: June 2018. Please note that an ANA test is used to help diagnose autoimmune disorders, including Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). This is the most common type of lupus, a chronic disease affecting multiple parts of the body, including the joints, blood vessels, kidneys, and brain. Please note that her ANA test reading fell from 320 to Zero! Is this indicative that either this auto-immune disease is a total misdiagnosis or that TMJ treatment can cure such an autoimmune disease?
The patient remains in excellent health better than she has ever been.
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For the last 13 months, I have been a patient of Dr. Amir. I have a retrognathic jaw, which he has been working to improve. I contacted him because I thought he could help me with my symptoms of ‘Fibromyalgia’.
I am 66 years old with a 3-year diagnosis of fibromyalgia, which was preceded by IBS or at any rate a gut infection (although the NHS seems unable to accept gut infections because they do not have the facilities to do the necessary tests). Labs in The States are set up to advise you if you are able to pay. I had dientamoeba fragilis overgrowth which Australian Doctor, Graham Exelby, has linked to IBS. How long before doctors in the U.K. catch up, or even acknowledge that digestive enzymes can help?
This review is to inform anyone suffering from FMS/CFS/IBS/ME that Dr. Amir may be able to make fundamental improvements to your health by adjustments to the teeth and jaws. At our first meeting, Dr. Amir asked what reason I had to go on living. In the mold of the great German doctor, Groddeck, I could see he was ascertaining whether my spirit was prepared for a fight. That is the power of belief to invoke magic.
Structurally my body has never been as Mother Nature intended. I lost an adult tooth in the lower jaw as a child and was advised to have my wisdom teeth removed in my 20’s since they were a nuisance to clean. From this time, I regularly had stiff necks and tailbone, which I learned, could be ‘maintained’ by visceral osteopathy and cranial sacral therapy, but it is possible to overwork the mechanism. Dr. Amir likes to point out this is hardly a cure.
In my 40’s I had an adjustment to the cuboid in my left foot, which led to a spell of labyrinthitis. Gradually I lost the ability to cry (I used eye drops) or feel a concomitant emotional release and then a little before the physical collapse I had tense shoulders and neck which could not relax however consciously I tried.
I began to get a lot of pressure and throbbing at the base of my brain and by the time, I found Dr. Amir my breathing was restricted. I had to drag myself slowly across Putney Bridge from the tube station to reach him. Dr. Amir spent some months correcting my dental arches. The first improvement I noticed was in the duration and depth of sleep. My breathing improved although I seem to have some shrinkage of my diaphragm muscles. My energy levels improved.
I have had tests on mitochondria done privately that show DNA damage, I still have pains in my legs most of the time, and occasional muscle spasms but I am only 1/3 of the way through treatment. I am writing now to endorse Dr. Amir’s treatment as, for the last few months, since Dr. Amir started to bring my lower jaw forwards I have had a tremendous release from pressure at the base of my brain. The permanent ache in my right shoulder blade has lessened.
I can cry with laughter or sadness, I have a big increase in the variety of words spouting from my tongue - (I keep thinking where did that word come from - have I ever used it before and was my brain really storing it for years without use?)
Most impressively, I look at least 10 years younger. The aging process seems to have gone into reverse and I have now reached my teenage years and am looking forward to my second childhood! Ha, ha.
I believe my endocrine and neurological systems stopped functioning properly because of pressure on the limbic brain and this has had a knock on effect on cardiovascular, digestive, and respiratory systems in particular. I have some permanent damage - sometimes my left arm, hand, ring finger twitch but I am enjoying life again.
In reigniting my enthusiasm, I regard Dr. Amir as a healer in the true sense of the word. TMJ dentists are the new healers. So glad that I am able to avoid all those ghastly drugs, tests, pain relief that is all that conventional western medicine has to offer due to its specializations leading to a fractured approach.
Lucie Webb.
(This testimonial was also posted on Google reviews by the patient)
Bumbling befuddlement of illness especially Fibromyalgia
There is widespread belief that there are many overlapping illnesses. Clinicians are taught, to concentrate on trying to differentially diagnose them so that they can be appropriately pigeonholed. Here are some cockeyed assumptions or concoctions used as teaching models for clinicians:
"Chronic widespread pain (CWP), the "hallmark symptom" of Fibromyalgia:
is defined by the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) as pain present in at least 2 contralateral body quadrants and the axial skeleton and persisting for at least 3 months. These patients are also purported to experience higher rates of psychological distress.”
My comment:
Experience shows that these patients actually have a jaw dysfunction and they need not live with pain for the rest of their lives nor wait three months before commencing treatment.
"Patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), Fibromyalgia (FM), and temporomandibular disorder (TMD) share many clinical illness features:
These are myalgia, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and impairment in the ability to perform activities of daily living as a consequence of these symptoms.”
My comment:
Experience shows that nothing in these conditions is "shared". Patients almost exclusively have a TMJ disorder leading up to the symptoms listed above.
"A growing literature suggests that a variety of comorbid illnesses also may commonly coexist in these patients:
This includes irritable bowel syndrome, chronic tension-type headache, and interstitial cystitis."
My comment:
Again, these symptoms are a consequence of TMJ dysfunction and there is no "co-morbidity" at all.
"A number of hormones and neuropeptides regulating pain, well-being and stress are shown to play important roles in the association between stress perception and pain reception:
Long-lasting derangements in the stress axis may induce several neuroendocrine modifications, giving rise to many of the symptoms seen in chronic pain syndromes, including Fibromyalgia."
My Comment:
A simple jaw problem taken to the heights of absurdity!
Conventional advice about NHS recommendations for Fibromyalgia and related labels as listed are:
"Painkillers: Simple painkillers such as paracetamol, can sometimes help relieve the pain associated with fibromyalgia. Your GP may prescribe a stronger painkiller, such as codeine or Tramadol.
However, these painkillers can be addictive and their effect tends to weaken over time. This means that your dose may need to be gradually increased and you could experience withdrawal symptoms if you stop taking them. Other side effects include diarrhoea and fatigue (extreme tiredness).
Antidepressants: Antidepressant medication can also help to relieve pain for some people with fibromyalgia. They boost the levels of certain chemicals that carry messages to and from the brain, known as neurotransmitters. Low levels of neurotransmitters may be a factor in fibromyalgia, and it is believed that increasing their levels may ease the widespread pain associated with the condition.
Antidepressants used to treat fibromyalgia include:
• Tricyclic antidepressants – such as Amitriptyline;
• Serotonin-noradrenaline reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) – such as Duloxetine and Venlafaxine;
• Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) – such as Fluoxetine and Paroxetine;
• A medication called Pramipexole, which is not an antidepressant, but also affects the levels of neurotransmitters, is sometimes used as well.
Antidepressants can cause a number of side effects, including:
• Feeling sick;
• Dry mouth;
• Drowsiness;
• Feeling agitated, shaky or anxious;
• Dizziness;
• Weight gain;
• Constipation.
Medication to help you sleep: As fibromyalgia can affect your sleeping patterns, you may want medicine to help you sleep. If you are sleeping better, you may find that other symptoms are not as severe.
Muscle relaxants: If you have muscle stiffness or spasms (when the muscles contract painfully) because of fibromyalgia, your GP may prescribe a short course of a muscle relaxant, such as diazepam.
Anticonvulsants: You may also be prescribed an anticonvulsant (anti-seizure) medicine, as these can be effective for those with fibromyalgia. The most commonly used anticonvulsants for fibromyalgia are Pregabalin and Gabapentin. These are normally used to treat epilepsy, but research has shown they can improve the pain associated with fibromyalgia in some people. Some common side effects of Pregabalin and Gabapentin include:
• Dizziness;
• Drowsiness;
• Swelling of your hands and feet (oedema);
• Weight gain.
Antipsychotics: Antipsychotic medicines, also called neuroleptics, are sometimes used to help relieve long-term pain. Studies have shown that these medications may help conditions such as fibromyalgia, but further research is needed to confirm this.
Possible side effects include:
Hot on the heels of such advice a new patient walked in and had the following to say:
"I have been ill for 27 years suffering from extreme exhaustion and severe muscle and joint pain. I have had numerous diagnoses such as CFS & Fibromyalgia & Arthritis (Sjögren’s syndrome), hypermobility and depression. Having come across your website and various blog posts I am now wondering if this is all related to my painful and locking Jaw that I have had for many years. Hoping that you can help.
My current medication is:
Buprenorphine Patches (Morphine)15 Micrograms/hour.
Tramadol 50mg 3 x daily.
Naproxen 500mg 1 x daily.
Hydroxychloroquine 200mg (immune suppressant) two x daily.
Mirtazapine (anti depressant) 30mg 1 x daily.
FemSeven Sequi patches (HRT)"
Ventolin (Salbutamol) inhaler 100mcg four times a day"
The patient further adds, "I have suffered for 27 years with chronic exhaustion & severe muscle and joint pains. I first became ill following a bad viral infection aged 22 during my pregnancy with my daughter. Despite exhaustive tests and multiple different diagnoses from many different medical professionals I remain locked in a cycle of pain and exhaustion, unable to work and left with no alternatives but to rely on ever stronger pain relief."
It is interesting to try to decipher what the patients are actually being given compared to the very innocuous looking advice put out by the NHS as listed earlier in this article:
Buprenorphineis an opioid used to treat opioid addiction, acute and chronic pain. Side effects may include respiratory depression (decreased breathing), sleepiness, adrenal insufficiency, QT prolongation, low blood pressure, allergic reactions, and opioid addiction. Can cause severe withdrawal symptoms so care and supervision advised.
Tramadol is an opioid pain medication used to treat severe pain. Common side effects include constipation, itchiness, and nausea. Serious side effects may include seizures, increased risk of serotonin syndrome, decreased alertness, and drug addiction. It is not recommended in those who are at risk of suicide.
Naproxen is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug. Common adverse effects include central nervous system effects (e.g. dizziness and headache), blood effects (e.g. bruising), allergic reactions (e.g. rash), and gastrointestinal complaints (e.g. heartburn and stomach ulcers). It has an intermediate risk of stomach ulcers compared to other drugs in the same class (NSAIDs). NSAIDs appear to increase the risk of serious cardiovascular events. Serious drug interactions may occur in combinations with other drugs that affect the blood, or with drugs that also increase the risk of ulcers.
Hydroxychloroquine is a medication used for the prevention and treatment of certain types of malaria. Other uses include treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and porphyria. Common side effects include vomiting, headache, changes in vision and muscle weakness. Severe side effects may include allergic reactions.
Mirtazapine is an antidepressant primarily used to treat depression. Common side effects include increased appetite, sleepiness, and dizziness. Serious side effects may include increased suicide among children, mania, and low white cell blood count. Withdrawal symptoms may occur with stopping. It also has strong antihistamine effects, which contribute to its prominent side effect of drowsiness.
Ventolin inhaler belongs to a class of drugs known as bronchodilators. It works in the airways by opening breathing passages and relaxing muscles. Side effects can bring about:
• Nervousness;
• Shaking (tremor);
• Headaches;
• Mouth/throat dryness or irritation, changes in taste;
• A persistent cough;
• Nausea;
• Dizziness;
• Raised blood pressure;
• Fast/pounding heartbeat;
• Chest pain;
• Irregular heartbeat;
• Rapid breathing;
• Confusion;
• Rarely, this medication has caused severe, sudden worsening of breathing problems/asthma.
This is a pitiful state of affairs. Alarmingly, what I deduce from the adverse side effects of these medications is that they actually cause or perpetuate patient symptomatology. In other words, the side effect derived symptoms than become the basis of the Fibromyalgia illness spectrum!
Despite numerous very addictive medications, the patient remains in a cycle of "pain and exhaustion". Such patients already have a serious breathing problem. Prescribing them opioids with their depressive effect on breathing is a serious error of judgment. Opioids are the major killers in the USA at the present time. From this patient's experience, it is clear that the opioids do not help. Such patients also have a serious bowel problem including heartburn. Prescribing them NSAIDs is heresy. Also prescribing an antidepressant, which increases anxiety and depresses breathing, is plain wrong.
After a month since starting treatment our new patient reports:
"I am showing some early signs of improvement particularly with my breathing and my brain fog has started lifting and feels much clearer. I have however been far too excited to really sleep properly yet, but am hopeful of feeling much better when my over excitement calms down and I get some much-needed sleep.
I have found that I have not needed to take the Naproxen since Saturday so that is also looking promising. All being well I will start to wean myself of some of the other medication, especially Tramadol, in consultation with my GP soon."
"Here is a brief update as to how my first week since starting treatment has been:
Saturday having just left your surgery My Husband asks how I am feeling and I am shocked to hear myself reply. “I feel like I have awoken from a dream, my mind is clear without the brain fog that has clouded everything for years, my breathing is so easy and relaxed and the world suddenly looks a much brighter place”. We return to the hotel for some much-needed rest before our journey home on Sunday.
Sunday sees us still in shock my breathing through the night has been much better and I wake feeling more refreshed than I have for a long while. The journey home sees me reaching for my sunglasses despite the overcast day, as mentioned yesterday everything seems much brighter & clearer. My muscles also seem less sore and despite still being painful, the 3-hour journey back home is far more comfortable than the one down just two days before.
Monday finds me somewhat down as over-excitement from the weekend leads to a poor night's sleep and the associated pain and exhaustion that comes from not enough quality rest.
Tuesday Wednesday Thursday are all good days where I see much improvement particularly with my breathing, my body feels much more relaxed and I even manage a little walk round to my mother's house this would normally be a challenge but this time it feels like “I am walking on air”.
Friday is painful and see’s me crashing back down to earth with a bump, sadness and anxiety mean another poor sleep, sadness that I had not found you earlier and anxiety that your treatment of me might only be possible for a few months. I am so desperate for this to work and hope that today is just a little blip.
Saturday following a better sleep and reassuring words from my husband and again I begin to see much improvement. I am happy today and dare to dream, I shall see what the next week brings and keep you posted.
We remain optimistic and thank you once again for starting me on this treatment and look forward to seeing you in January."
Comment: At the early stages of treatment, patients do get many ups and downs. The symptoms are usually fewer and of shorter duration and intensity. The drugs being taken by the patient can also interfere and an element of unpredictably is always present. It all starts settling down some three months down the road. In the meantime, the patient is encouraged to take their focus off their unwellness and try very simple exercises like Pilates or pursue some other hobby like writing, reading or drawing.
There are purportedly 800,000 patients with supposed "Fibromyalgia" in the UK. Can you imagine the cost to the NHS? The drugs are usually 10% of the cost of looking after such patients. The consultants and hospital services consume the rest up. No wonder that the NHS is such a huge conduit for the medico-industrial complex draining the treasury of your tax remittances.
Did I recently read somewhere that the NHS needs 50,000 staff and are contemplating importing them from, I do not know where? Closing the Fibromyalgia hospital departments would make available perhaps, 100,000 staff who can be deployed in more useful occupations elsewhere in the NHS!
I have read hundreds of medical articles about these illnesses over many years. There is absolutely no mention anywhere that the jaw asymmetry, TMJ dysfunction or malocclusions could be the cause of the patients' symptoms. It should be mandatory for clinicians to check for TMJ dysfunction in their differential diagnosis otherwise they leave themselves open to litigation.
Do not expect the ruling bodies to dish out such altruistic advice. They are probably in the business of protecting the dispensers, not the victims, no matter how much they purport to convince you of the otherwise!
A court of law will.
if the problem is emanating from the jaws no drug is ever going to fix the patient and hence lifelong crippling chronic illness.
Todays Guardian newspaper reports: Fibromyalgia: the chronic pain that thwarted Lady Gaga’s tour.
Please note I make absolutely no claim that this persons FM could be caused by a dental problem!
However, the most interesting paragraph for me, in the newspaper article, was:
"Diagnosis rests on a history of widespread pain and pressure points. An examiner prods you in 18 places (with enough pressure to blanche the examiner’s fingernail). If 11 out of the 18 points are unusually tender, it supports the diagnosis [of Fibromyalgia]."
I am sorry to say but the diagnosis of Fibromyalgia must be the lowest point in the history of medicine
Update from our new patient Tegan :
Wed 1st January, 2019
"Hi, Dr. Amir,
I thought I would send you a little update prior to my appointment with you this Saturday.
Things continue to progress well, I approached the Christmas period with my usual trepidation but also some optimism that I would cope that little bit easier with the added demands on my health from having to entertain and feed family and friends that in past years has inevitably left me with dread at this time of the year.
I am pleased to say that although, still very exhausting I managed to cope much better as I generally felt stronger with a little more stamina and energy.
I have now been able to come off the anti-inflammatory medication all together and have reduced my Morphine by 2.5mg. I still have some muscle pain but find walking so much easier and more comfortable without the burning muscles that used to accompany even moderate exercise.
The biggest area of improvement has been with my breathing, I no longer need my inhaler and am able to sleep lying down which for me is amazing as for years I have needed to sleep propped up with multiple pillows.
I am looking forward to seeing you at the weekend and hoping that the coming weeks and months as I continue my treatment will bring further improvements in my energy levels and reduced pain in my muscles and joints.
Many thanks
Tegan" Progress report:
Sun 1/20/2019, 20:42
Hi Dr Amir,
I am 6 weeks into treatment and here is my latest update.
As in my previous report, I continue to feel a lot happier and more comfortable with reduced muscle pain and much easier breathing.
I now feel ready to start doing some light exercise, This for the last 27 years has been impossible for me, having done so little for all these years leaves me as weak as a Baby. I mean to start with just a small amount of walking and not to push myself too hard as the temptation is to overdo things but this leaves me exhausted the next day. Slow and measured seems to be the way to start.
I continue to practice the exercises you taught me and feel sure that soon they will become second nature.
I am also pleased to report that I have started to reduce the dose of the immune suppressants that I was put on by a consultant at the hospital. I was started on this medication to supposedly dampen down the symptoms of Arthritis but have seen little evidence that these actually help. I am convinced that my recovery will be hampered by all the medication that I am on so this is the next thing on a long list that I aim to come off completely over time.
All in all, I feel positive that my recovery will continue and with your kind and patient guidance I feel confident that I will continue to feel better and stronger over the coming weeks and months.
Many many thanks for all you are doing for me,
Speak soon, Tegan.
Update 05/02/2019
This month saw me approach my 50th Birthday with the growing realisation that I have been unwell for more years than I have been fit and healthy. This year we determined it would be a better day for me and indeed not only did I manage lunch out and a trip to the Cinema I was also able to visit a couple of shops on the way. While to many this may not seem like a very exciting way to spend your 50th Birthday in previous years I would have scarcely managed to achieve one of these activities.
Immediately after this, however, I came down with a nasty bout of Flu which lasted 10 days. During this time it has been hard to measure progress as any improvements in symptoms have been masked by having Flu.
I have now recovered from this and continue with renewed optimism & boosted by my forthcoming appointment with you I am pleased to report that I have been able to start reducing my dose of Tramadol.
I look forward to seeing you at the weekend
Many thanks
Tegan
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Just started a new case. The patient writes:
"I’m going to describe my situation in a lot of detail because I’m unable to speak so when I see you at our consultation, I won’t be able to tell you what’s wrong in my own words so I figured that this was the best way. I’m hoping that in amongst all these words, you’ll find a little detail that will give you a clue to figure out what’s going wrong.
The current problem started in May 2017 when I injured my head with the metal of my new ear defenders; while I was asleep the thin metal bar dug in very hard for hours right by my right temple. When I woke up, it was numb. I thought it would get better by itself but it just got worse and soon I wasn’t able to lie on the right half of my head at all as it made the numbness deeper and spread. So I was lying solely on my left side from May 2017 to December 2017. If I put any pressure on any of the right side of my head, including touching my head on my pillow, the numbness got even worse.
At the end of December, the whole situation severely deteriorated and the numbness spread to my whole head so that I couldn’t lie down on any part of my head at all without the numbness getting even worse and deeper if I touched my head or neck to anything at all.
I was surviving on only two hours sleep with my head down on my pillow per every 24 hours (every moment with my head touching the pillow caused increasing numbness and reduced blood flow). Any longer and my vision would start to go and I’d start to black out and I quickly had to yank my head up off the pillow.
The sleep deprivation, coupled with no longer being horizontal (I’d been horizontal for over 13 years due to pre-existing illnesses [ME/CFS]), was utterly breaking me. But I hung on and hung on while my mother phoned countless private neurologists trying to get them to agree to take my case on or if they knew what was happening to my head [to no avail].
Meanwhile, in the first few months of 2018, my head and neck situation continued to deteriorate and it was taking 22 hours with me sitting bolt upright with my head tilted far backwards to get a safe level of blood (my gut feeling is that its blood but I could be wrong; it could be cerebrospinal fluid. It feels like blood though) back in my head in order to be able to go down for two hours per every 24 with my head on the pillow without the blood being so reduced that I’d start to pass out.....
It’s at the point now that whatever I do and all the tricks I’ve used in the last nine months of 2018 to get blood moving in my head (I do realise how insane that sounds but I can feel the fluid (blood?) trying to move through the blood vessels (capillaries?) in my head but it feels like it’s coming up against a lot of resistance, like the blood vessels have narrowed/constricted so much that the blood can’t get through them easily. Inside of my head feels like a solid mass that the blood is trying to carve it’s way through/ punch its way through but can’t. Some areas have become impenetrable dead zones as the blood (or whatever is moving around in my head) hasn’t been able to reach them for months.)
It’s been getting so much worse. I haven’t been getting enough blood back in 22 hours to get my head down on the pillow safely for two hours. Even the extreme positions that I’ve been holding my neck and head in for a ridiculous number of hours every day don’t work anymore. It took all my concentration to hold those positions and I had to stay completely still otherwise it didn’t work.
But now my body has completely broken down through sheer and utter exhaustion. I no longer have the strength to hold any position that usually started to get the blood moving after my two hours down on the pillow. My whole body is trembling from exhaustion, I can barely breathe or swallow and I’m struggling to move any part of my body at all.
As of yesterday, I’m stuck no longer able to go down on my pillow at all and I’m going to eventually collapse involuntarily onto the pillow and I’ll be in big trouble then. The sleep deprivation is hell and my whole body is just broken from the last nine months or so. It’s just gone. I don’t know how I’ve kept going as long as I have. It’s taken superhuman effort and steel.
I haven’t let my parents call 999 and go the NHS route because I have very severe trauma from many past abuses from doctors and nurses in the NHS. I have such a severe terror reaction to knowing that I’m going to a hospital or see a doctor, that even when I went to a private London hospital for the MRA scan in August, the adrenaline (or maybe a different stress hormone) was so extreme that it caused the blood vessels in my head to dilate or something because the blood started coming back (not fully but a significant amount) without me even trying and without me bending my neck into extreme positions to get blood back. So by the time I got to the hospital, blood was actually moving in my head and so the results of the scan came back normal-ish (a small arachnoid cyst was found but I was told that it was irrelevant). But when I got home and the adrenaline (or whatever it was) faded, everything went back to how it was before.
It’s so confusing. On the one hand, it seems like it’s the blood vessels that are the problem but then why would the position my head is in, make such a difference?
The results of the upright MRI in February showed a bit of reversal of the lordotic curve of my neck and also showed cervicocranial instability. The position I put my spine (all the way down) does seem to affect a lot whether I can get the fluid moving in my head but I’m no longer able to hold my spine in those positions. I think maybe the EDS means that the ligaments/muscles no longer can hold the spine in the correct position.
I used to be able to push backwards/forwards the bits of my lower and upper spine to make more blood return to my head but I can’t hold my spine in alignment anymore. I have no strength left. My neck does look like it’s curving strangely or has slid off the line of my torso a bit. My head constantly feels like it’s going to fall off my neck because of the CCI. I get huge stabs of pain whenever I try to move my neck at all now.
I can’t carry on like this, especially as I can’t go down onto the pillow anymore. This is ridiculous. My head is so bad, I can’t get the blood moving and I feel encased in thick solid walls around my head, like a thick impenetrable shell. Everything seems so far away and confused. My mental capacity is much, much reduced. It has taken everything to find the correct words in my brain to make sentences in my head to write this.
I don’t know how much longer I can last. I’ll collapse eventually and I’ll be in big trouble. It’s deteriorating so rapidly now and keeping my head off the pillow isn’t cutting it and isn’t getting the blood back. Please help."
No doctor seems to have heard of what’s happening to my head before, especially the numbness/reduction of blood upon any touching or pressure to the head or neck. I don’t know if it’s a mixture of the injury, my spine out of alignment, my blood vessels being weird because of the Vascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome or the CCI or spinal neck curve or severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (which I’ve had since December 2004) or cerebrospinal fluid leak or what.
This is unlivable. I need immediate help. I’ve been living in such an extreme situation for nine months this year on top of how ill I already was. I have nothing left.
I’ve wrecked my hand and arm muscles, which were already bad, writing this. I don’t feel like I’ve explained anything very well in this email and have probably left out crucial things but it’s the best I can do in the situation I’m in. I’ve written so much detail in the hope that something in there might ring a bell or give you a clue to what’s wrong" Comment: 5th of May, 2019
The patient's father reports some improvement with the first appliance. Previously they traveled 200 miles by ambulance to get to see me. They are now trying to find accommodation in London so that I can get to see her more often. Any offers of help will be most welcome!
to be continued.
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The patient wrote this testimonial for publication:
I have been Dr. Amir's patient for some 3 years. I was suffering from some 33 symptoms. I had no energy. The muscle weakness was awful. I could not get into the bathroom. I thought I was going crazy. I largely recovered in a few months but I just want to relate one incident which could be of interest to other sufferers of chronic illnesses.
I was watching a film on TV and my head was turned to the left for about 2 hours. When I woke the next morning, my neck was stiff and painful on the left side. I presumed this was from watching the film at first but the pain spread rapidly and surrounded my ear, jaw, collarbone, shoulder blade, lower back, and calf, all down the left side of my body.
Then during the early hours of 12/8/17, I awoke to experience the room spinning, although this only lasted for 10-15 seconds, it felt like an eternity. This continued to happen whenever I laid down or turned over. It also occurred on bending my head over or down. On getting up from a sitting position I felt very unsteady and extremely nauseous with a headache that seemed to encompass my whole head with shooting pains like electric shocks.
Dr. Amir was in the USA so I could not see him. My problems continued along with the pain and discomfort all down my left side over the next 10 days. I felt so ill, I avoided laying down by propping myself up on several pillows preventing me from turning in bed. The few times I managed to sleep I woke up with severe pains in my neck and severe headache. During the day I had to only sit around because I felt very unsteady and very ill. I did everything I could to avoid any movement that would cause the spinning. I call it spinning because it is far worse than dizziness.
The doctor said I had some crystals in the ear organ and that is why I was dizzy. On the 22/8/17, some 10 days after my symptoms started, my appointment with Dr. Amir could not have come sooner.
The journey up was awful, I felt 'drunk' but with the feeling of a very bad hangover all mixed into one. My walking reflected how I felt too. Luckily my husband took the day off to drive me up as I could not possibly manage the train journey and certainly not on my own. He dropped me at the surgery door and planned to pick me up after my appointment.
Dr. Amir decided on a certain appliance which he constructed and fitted in my mouth. This immediately and miraculously started improving my condition.
After leaving the surgery I found myself walking for the five to ten minutes to the car on my own. This I would not have been able to do previously. I felt steady on my feet instead of staggering. My husband was shocked when he saw me walking on my own up to the car. I got into the car and we began our journey home. I felt a little nauseous at first but nowhere near as bad as when I arrived at the surgery. My neck felt less stiff and was easier to move. The pains I described earlier started to disappear.
After about an hour into our journey, I realised I was sitting with both feet on the floor. I cannot normally sit anywhere without crossing my legs. I did not feel nauseous and my headache had gone. As I looked out of the car everything seemed clearer and less blurred. When we arrived home I did feel tired but that is normal after a long journey. I was very nervous about going to bed and laying down. When I slowly lowered myself into bed the room initially swayed briefly after which I managed to sleep very deeply having been so tired from the previous 10 days of hell. I even turned over and there was NO spinning. I woke up this morning with NO headache or any nausea.
I thank Dr. Amir so much for his ingenuity! I wonder what my fate would have been after this very serious collapse. I believe this is a very common persistent symptom which many patients suffer from and as per the medical community is untreatable. I should know. I was a medical nurse!
Note from Worcester Health Authority:
"That's a fab outcome.
And our A&E departments are full of people like this and we struggle to help them! " Comment: Millions of people are suffering from completely curable conditions up and down the country!
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Before we read about the introduction of 5G we must get a comprehensive review of the various other microwave radiations causing absolute havoc to societal health. Please watch this video to get a very good understanding of what really is going on even before you start getting exposed to the 5G terror.
Do you want such high frequencies on your local lamp post?
As if it was not enough to have smart meters everywhere, but now 5G, a small cell attached to poles every few hundred meters, next to houses, next to playgrounds is the most disturbing development to roll out and hurt the uninformed.
The heavy mental shrapnel effects radiating silently from their neighbour's smart meter is devastating to the sensitive. What happens when a person cannot flee into the wilderness and escape the flood of frequency radiation we are being bombarded with now. I have many sensitive patients who are at a very high risk of developing debilitating illness from such radiation.
5G is beyond any power-frequency field that we have ever experienced.
It is due to be introduced in Guernsey early next year.
Hundreds of Birds Dead During 5G Experiment in The Hague, Netherlands
About a week ago at The Hague, many birds died spontaneously, falling dead in a park.
Please read more here.
First, it’s important to know that in 2011, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer classified RFR as a potential 2B carcinogen and specified that the use of mobile phones could lead to specific forms of brain tumors.
Many studies have associated low-level RFR exposure with a litany of health effects, including:
DNA single and double-strand breaks (which leads to cancer)
oxidative damage (which leads to tissue deterioration and premature ageing)
disruption of cell metabolism
increased blood-brain barrier permeability
melatonin reduction (leading to insomnia and increasing cancer risks)
disruption of brain glucose metabolism
generation of stress proteins (leading to myriad diseases)
As mentioned, the new 5G technology utilizes higher-frequency MMW bands, which give off the same dose of radiation as airport scanners. The effects of this radiation on public health have yet to undergo the rigours of long-term testing. Adoption of 5G will mean more signals carrying more energy through the high-frequency spectrum, with more transmitters located closer to people’s homes and workplaces–basically a lot more (and more potent) RFR flying around us. It’s no wonder that apprehension exists over potential risks, to both human and environmental health.
Perhaps the strongest concern involves adverse effects of MMWs on human skin. This letter to the Federal Communications Commission, from Dr Yael Stein of Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, outlines the main points. Over ninety percent of microwave radiation is absorbed by the epidermis and dermis layers, so human skin basically acts as an absorbing sponge for microwave radiation. Disquieting as this may sound, it’s generally considered acceptable so long as the violating wavelengths are greater than the skin layer’s dimensions. But MMW’s violate this condition."
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"When former airline pilot Tony Royle came to see me last year to seek reassurance that it was OK to participate in an Ironman event, having stopped all his medications 18 months after suffering a heart attack, I was initially a little alarmed.
But after talking to him, I realised he had made an informed decision to stop the medication after suffering side effects, and instead had opted for a diet and lifestyle approach to manage his heart disease.
His case is a great example of how evidence-based medicine should be practised. This is the integration of clinical expertise, the best available evidence and – most importantly – taking patients’ preferences and values into consideration.
But our healthcare system has failed to keep to this gold standard of clinical practice for the most important goal of improving patient health outcomes. The consequences have been devastating."
An article in the CDC says:
"Modern medicine, through over-prescription, represents a major threat to public health. Peter Gøtzsche, the co-founder of the reputed Cochrane Collaboration, estimates that prescribed medication is the third most common cause of death globally after heart disease and cancer.
A general practitioner recently writing in the BMJ, said that evidence-based medicine is polluted with “fraud, sham diagnosis, short-term data, poor regulation, surrogate ends, questionnaires that can’t be validated, and statistically significant but clinically irrelevant outcomes”, all leading to “overdiagnosis and misery”.
"Personalized medicine and guideline-based medicine “present conflicting priorities”, with evidence-based guidelines derived from clinical trial data failing to recognize the heterogeneity of the patient population to which they will be applied. The existence of these guidelines then acts, they say, as a barrier to the development of personalized approaches that would be more appropriate for different population subgroups – including those likely to gain no benefit from the intervention."
The 2 most prestigious journals of medicine in the world are The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine. Richard Horton, editor in chief of The Lancet said this in 2015:
“The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half may simply be untrue”
Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor in chief of NEJM wrote in 2009 that,
“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor”
Evidence-based medicine is broken
is the heading in an article written by a General practitioner Dr Des Spence in the British Medical Journal. He goes on to say:
"Evidence-based medicine (EBM) wrong-footed the drug industry for a while in the 1990s. We could fend off the army of pharmaceutical representatives because often their promotional material was devoid of evidence. But the drug industry came to realise that EBM was an opportunity rather than a threat. Research, especially when published in a prestigious journal, was worth more than thousands of sales representatives. Today EBM is a loaded gun at clinicians’ heads. “You better do as the evidence says,” it hisses, leaving no room for discretion or judgment. EBM is now the problem, fueling overdiagnosis and overtreatment.
You see, without so-called “evidence” there is no seat at the guideline table. This is the fundamental “commissioning bias,” the elephant in the room, because the drug industry controls and funds most research. So the drug industry and EBM have set about legitimising illegitimate diagnoses and then widening drug indications, and now doctors can prescribe a pill for every ill. The billion prescriptions a year in England in 2012, up 66% in one decade, do not reflect a true increased burden of illness nor an aging population, just polypharmacy supposedly based on evidence. The drug industry’s corporate mission is to make us all sick however well we feel. As for EBM screening programmes, these are the combine harvester of wellbeing, producing bails of overdiagnosis and misery."
Some of us were made aware of all this by the great Eustace Mullins in his classic "Murder by injection" who tells us about the whole conspiracy to defraud people and governments. A must-read for everyone if they want to protect themselves from the excesses of modern medicine.
Retired heart surgeon Dr. Donald Miller, Jr. explained what Evidence-Based Medicine is and how it has slithered its way into health care in America in an important article called Modern Medicine at the Crossroads that was published in The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons in the Fall of 2015. Here are some important excerpts:
"Doctors in academic medical centers write practice guidelines. They base them on clinical trials that randomize populations of patients with a given condition into treatment and placebo groups and choose treatments that are statistically shown to work best. According to the tenets of evidence-based medicine (EBM), epidemiological and biostatistical ways of thinking provide what its proponents consider “best evidence.”
An example of a further deterioration is the medicine Lyrica (pregabalin). "It is one of the world's best-selling drugs—but its success is as much to do with bad science and unfounded claims of medical researchers.
Researchers at McGill University in Canada looked at the ways hype has been built up about Lyrica.
They discovered that doctors were prescribing the drug for conditions for which there was little or no evidence that it could help. In one example, the researchers found that the drug has been prescribed for more than a decade as a treatment for low back pain—but there haven't been any large rigorous trials that prove it's effectiveness.
Surprisingly, these unfounded claims haven't been driven by the manufacturer—at least not directly—but instead by researchers who have been awarded funds by government agencies or their own medical centers.
As a result, clinical trials are doing the very reverse of what they are supposed to do: they are designed to alert doctors and patients to ineffective and costly treatments when instead they are promoting them, the researchers say."
(Source: JAMA Internal Medicine, 2018; doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.5705)
EBM downgrades traditional forms of medical evidence, notably a doctor’s clinical experience and understanding of pathophysiological mechanisms of disease, both unquantifiable.
Evidence-based medicine applies the principles of epidemiology to individual patient care, basing that care on statistical trials. Probing EBM, co-author Clifford Miller concludes, “EBM has failed in the real world of medicine, in terms of its use in making medical decisions and in proving causality."
Practitioners are tightly controlled. A medical doctor dare not venture outside his strictly controlled remit. A dentist dare not look into curing disease. An alternative practitioner may not step out of his line. The governing bodies have been set up to erase them from the register and destroy their livelihoods. Whole armies work for these organisations who will crucify the practitioner for the slightest infractions and strike them off while they are really striking them off because they are upsetting the real underlying agenda of the controlling bodies.
The controlling bodies are policing organisations devoted to evidence-based medicine with none of the open-mindedness needed for the clinical practice of complex cases which our practice is submerged with. As noted earlier in this article the evidence-based medicine is a ruse to mislead and defraud. I have come out with a website dedicated to informing the public of what really is the cause of illness risking getting trounced by the controlling body.
Practicing global care, encompassing the effects of the asymmetry of the skeletal system on systemic health is the only way to treat patients. Setting up evidence-based trials is derisory. We have been doing it forever. All it has produced is widespread chronic illness and scam drugs at an unbelievably extortionate cost which have never cured any patients but regularly kill many.
In fact, they have to kill to keep the mantra alive that certain fraudulently named conditions will kill so everyone runs for their frauduzimabs to save themselves.
As such for those who try and silence by claiming that my work is not evidence-based I have the following to say: EBM has regularly swindled, plundered and deceived both individuals and governments. If your stand adheres you to this scam than you are a collaborator in the wholesale looting of society and visiting sickness and death upon millions of innocents around the world. So, please take your pick where you belong so the long-suffering patients can know why their suffering is being prolonged.
We need a multidisciplinary approach or a Functional Medicine approach to care for the sick. None of which our professional bodies are designed to tolerate as it affects the wholesale looting of the public and governments.
I have been advised that the easiest way is to "hide those amazing articles online" and live off my unparalleled successes and have USB keys with my info for the patients I trust.
Why should I?
I am in here for the wider audience - the thousands of victims of fraudulent practices who have been left destitute by EBM practices.
Some 3 months after I wrote this article I suddenly remembered an incident about EBM which I must share with you.
When I was a dental undergraduate we used to attend clinics with a professor who was seeing patients presenting with TMJ pain or bruxism. His treatment was invariably a drug which regulates the monthly menstrual cycle and he blamed most of the cause of TMJD/bruxism etc. to be of psychosomatic origin. He was against using bite raising appliances because according to him "You can never wean the patient off them". This mantra carries on to this day in multiple maxillofacial departments of hospitals where patients are routinely told that they have nothing wrong with the jaw joint and they should do something about their stress levels.
Years later when I discovered an answer to ME/CFS I called upon my supervisor from a research institute where I did my thesis for my Masters and invited him over to discuss how we could do some science-based study and get some scientific paper out. The gist of my conversation was about the TMJ and how best to treat it without drugs or splints.
He said he had been working with a professor on a similar project but was very disillusioned that the professor was manipulating the research so that he could publish the outcomes that he wanted. He was comparing a drug to splints for jaw treatment and got the desired result that the drug was far superior! I hasten to add that, according to my long experience, neither the drug nor the splint has any chance of healing any patient but more likely to make the patients' condition worse.
To me, this was comparing the 'bad' (splint) with the 'very bad' (drug) and then coming up purporting that the 'very bad' (drug) was 'less bad' than the 'bad' (splint) and the conclusion that the 'very bad/less bad' (the now 'proven' drug) was actually good!
This happens to be the basis of TMJ treatment ever since, whereby patients are literally thrown out of hospital TMJ departments without any real treatment. The patients are routinely told that there is nothing wrong with them even when they present with excruciating pain. This indeed was my first-hand experience with the scam of Evidence-Based Medicine as far as dentistry is concerned still affecting patients to this day. That incident took place more than 25 years ago.
This is one of the many testimonials I have to support my contentions about the miserable jaw treatments available out there. The patient is 20 years old:
"I have been seeing Dr. Amir for 9 months for the treatment of jaw misalignment and TMJD. After unsuccessful orthodontic treatment as a teenager, I was referred to a maxillofacial department of a hospital, where I was prescribed with amitriptyline [for my jaw pain]. The drugs helped only by dulling the pain but came with lots of unwanted side effects. Finally, I got in touch with Dr. Amir, and he began to help me correct the problem at the source - the jaw misalignment. My jaw was painful and inflamed because it was in the wrong place, putting a strain on the surrounding muscles and having a knock-on effect on the head, neck, shoulders, and rest of the body. He has been working with me to correct this, with different dental appliances and also by showing me correct swallowing and breathing techniques, which help to keep the teeth and jaw in the correct place and return proper blood flow to the head. Progress is slow but steady and I am finally on the mend. I can eat more, and faster, and I'm less tired in general. I also feel more alert and daydream less. Thank you, Dr Amir!"
Here is what a 53-year-old, who has complained of jaw pain since the age of 14. She gives it a score of 10 out of 10 for jaw pain and has the following to say:
"I have suffered, for over forty years, with severe bruxism. I have had various dentists, NHS and private, all of whom have prescribed the use of a range of different night splints. The grinding and, even worse, daytime clenching, became unbearable, [Severe TMJD] after having four crowns on my second molars. I developed balance and walking issues and was referred for MRI scans. I discovered Dr. Amir, whilst researching balance issues online. I became a patient in Autumn 2017. Since then, I have been undergoing work to realign my jaw. It involves the use of various splints and devices.
I travel from the Midlands to see Dr. Amir. He has provided me with a unique, personalised, holistic care plan, way beyond anything I have ever experienced before, both private and NHS. My treatment has been life changing and I look forward to my visits. I am making excellent progress and I thoroughly believe Dr, Amir has helped in my ongoing recovery. I have seen a great improvement in my bruxism. My sense of confidence and well being is better than it has been for years. My walking/balance is much more stable and my outlook positive. Thank you Dr. Amir."
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What’s in your gut affects what’s happening in your brain: a growing field of research
Brain connection
There is a growing body of evidence that the bacteria in our intestines have much more to do with our health than just digestion. Our brain may not be anywhere near our intestines, but many studies are showing that what we eat can have a huge impact on our mental health. The bacterial environment in our gut starts changing at birth and is affected by many factors including vaginal vs. c-section birth, breastfeeding vs. formula, and how we are introduced to solid foods. More changes take place continuously throughout our lives, but generally, the more diverse our bacteria, the healthier our intestines are. Low bacterial diversity is associated with inflammatory markers which travel systemically to the brain and can cause anxiety, depression, and memory loss.
Further, researchers found evidence that a high-fat diet can encourage the growth of bacteria that aid in the production of metabolites which disrupt chemical signalling in the brain. Mice that were fed a 60 per cent fat diet began exhibiting symptoms of anxiety. Importantly, when the mice were treated with antibiotics designed to kill certain bacteria, these symptoms were reversed.
Our intestinal bacteria can affect the development of other common diseases as well. Parkinson’s disease (PD), the second most common neurodegenerative disease, causes a decline in motor function, and a recent study found it may be regulated by gut microbiota. Mice that had faecal transplants from humans with PD started developing symptoms right away, while those that had transplants from healthy humans remained healthy. Researchers are now trying to narrow down which microbes are responsible.
Do probiotics work?
Probiotics are becoming huge money makers for food and supplement companies, but are we just throwing money away trying to improve our gut environment with their products? It turns out there are very few studies that show any benefits for people who are already healthy. First, manufacturers pack capsules full of bacteria that are easy to grow in large quantities, not because they are beneficial to us. Second, assuming some of the bacteria survive the trip through our acidic stomach, they aren’t going to greatly influence the overall bacterial composition, as the microbes in our gut would outnumber those in a pill by several magnitudes.
That being said, probiotics have been shown to provide benefits for some patients with specific bowel-related conditions. For example, they can reduce common side effects from antibiotics. They can also help protect preterm infants from a potentially deadly gut disease. Probiotics also may relieve symptoms associated with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). The problem in these cases is that there is no one probiotic that will help all people since internal ecosystems differ from person to person. Creating custom-made probiotics that will benefit individual patients is the newest challenge for researchers. Read the Scientific American article referenced below for more on the “hype” as well as the potential of probiotics for improved health.
Foods for a healthy gut:
If you feel healthy already, is there a way to maintain a healthy bacterial environment in your intestines? Eating the right food can encourage healthy bacteria to flourish and protect us from bad bacteria. Here is a list of 10 healthy foods (in alphabetical order) that promote a healthy gut. 10 Foods for a Healthy Gut Food and Other Benefits
1 Apple Cider Vinegar Relieves acid reflux
2 Bananas May help reduce inflammation
3 Beans Help with weight loss; feed good gut bacteria
4 Bone Broth Help heal the intestinal lining
5 Cruciferous Vegetables Reduce risk of several cancers
6 Garlic Prevents gastrointestinal illnesses
7 Mangoes May help control blood pressure
8 Miso (fermented soybean paste) Prevention of cancer tumours and radiation injury
9 Kimchi (Korean fermented vegetables)May reduce social anxiety
10 Yoghurt Improves digestion
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Girls exposed to chemicals commonly found in toothpaste, makeup, soap, and other personal care products before birth may hit puberty earlier
This is as per a new longitudinal study led by researchers at UC Berkeley.
"Over the past 20 years, studies have shown that girls and possibly boys have been experiencing puberty at progressively younger ages. This is troubling news, as earlier age at puberty has been linked with increased risk of mental illness, breast, and ovarian cancer in girls and testicular cancer in boys.
Researchers in the School of Public Health found that daughters of mothers who had higher levels of diethyl phthalate and triclosan in their bodies during pregnancy experienced puberty at younger ages. The same trend was not observed in boys."
Toothpaste and hand wash may contribute to antibiotic resistance
I have been advocating that toothpaste and mouthwashes should be totally avoided by everyone. This new study exposes an even more dangerous eventuality from their use:
19 June 2018 A common ingredient in toothpaste and hand wash could be contributing to antibiotic resistance, according to University of Queensland research.
A study led by Dr Jianhua Guo from UQ’s Advanced Water Management Centre focused on triclosan, a compound used in more than 2000 personal care products.
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Dr Guo said while it was well-known the overuse and misuse of antibiotics could create ‘superbugs’, researchers were unaware that other chemicals could also induce antibiotic resistance until now.
"Wastewater from residential areas has similar or even higher levels of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes compared to hospitals, where you would expect greater antibiotic concentrations,” he said.
“We then wondered whether non-antibiotic, antimicrobial (NAAM) chemicals such as triclosan can directly induce antibiotic resistance,” Dr Guo said.
Comment: Health workers are supposed to wash their hands for a full minute between each patient. Can you imagine how many resistant organisms must be generated by such procedures? A well-washed hand could actually be introducing antibiotic-resistant organisms into patients!
Perhaps it is time for a rethink and safer methods are adopted.
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Drug companies would stop being profitable if their drugs actually cured people—because they would lose their market. In fact, curing people is "an unsustainable business model," says merchant bank Goldman Sachs.
WDDTY magazine reports:
"Drug companies would stop being profitable if their drugs actually cured people—because they would lose their market. In fact, curing people is "an unsustainable business model," says merchant bank Goldman Sachs."
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"Medical boards have gained tremendous power over doctors’ ability to practice medicine, and while standards are needed to protect patients, medical boards frequently misuse that power. License revocation and other career-ending punishments are being used to stifle free speech, free thinking and the open-minded investigation that should be a cornerstone of science itself.
Dr Mark Geier, a medical doctor with a PhD in genetics, lost his medical license in 2011 for using controversial chelation therapy to treat autistic children. After the Maryland Board of Physicians published a list of medicines prescribed to Geier, his wife and son on its website, Geier sued the board for harassment and won. Montgomery County Circuit Court awarded Geier $2.5 million in damages, calling it a significant breach of medical privacy; half of the damages must be paid out of pocket by the board’s appointees."
Comment:
The most significant part of this ruling is in the last paragraph whereby half the compensation must be paid out of pocket by the boards' appointees. The appointees exert significant influence in policy often at the behest of big pharma and occupy revolving door appointments between industry, legislature and regulatory bodies.
Dr Mercola goes onto say:
"The fact that the board members are being held personally liable is a first. Normally, taxpayers foot the entire bill when government officials are caught in wrongdoing. As noted by The Bolen Report, "What the officials of the Maryland Board of Physicians did was not in pursuit of the people's business. It was for pharma profit." Fortunately, this time the scheme backfired, delivering a very real sting.
He ordered 14 board appointees, the board's lead attorney and the lead investigator on the Geier case to pay half of the damages out of their own pockets, between $10,000 and $200,000 apiece, depending on their net worth."
This kind of absolute control has caused many doctors and dentists severe problems, and many have been struck off. One case that comes to mind is the late Dr Hal Huggins in the USA who advocated the removal of amalgam fillings and replacement with other non-toxic materials. The use of amalgam has now been banished in many countries, and it is universally accepted that it must not be used and yet Dr Huggins lost all his credibility.
Dr Huggins Wikipedia entry says:
Hal Huggins was an American campaigner against the use of dental amalgam fillings and other dental therapies that he believed to be unsafe. Huggins began to promote his ideas in the 1970s and played a major role in generating controversy over the use of amalgam. Huggins had his license to practice dentistry revoked in 1996 after a panel found him guilty of gross negligence. Since then, he continued to publish on the topic of mercury and human health and believed that dental amalgam and other dental practices were responsible for a range of serious diseases."
While I do not agree with some of Dr Huggins' claims that amalgam was at the heart of all illnesses and that these illnesses could all be treated successfully by detoxification and removal of amalgam, the fundamentals of amalgam removal have merit.
Other medical cases come to mind where the same therapy as used by Dr Mark Geier in Dr Mercola's article has landed a couple of doctors in serious trouble with the medical governing bodies. One was struck off, and the other suffered serious financial loss causing him to close down his practice because as soon as he was charged the stories were all over the newspapers. His affairs were gone through with a fine tooth comb, and he had to close his practice down. Eventually after much trauma and stress and the loss of hundreds of thousands of pounds he was found guilty only of poor record keeping. He has no means of recovering his losses for the blown up and trumped-up charges at the behest of some illegitimate and unfounded complaint; a complaint which could have been dealt with through some correspondence directly with the accused. He should sue, and the judges should award a similar out of pocket compensation. Such outcomes would stop dead in the tracks all the business manipulation that occurs all around us.
Dr Eustace Mullins writings come to mind in his publication "Murder by injection" the medical conspiracy behind the establishment of these governing bodies and their intimate connections with the medico-industrial complex. Mullins is one of the most accomplished investigative journalists of the 20th century. "Murder by injection" should be required reading for anyone interested in knowing how mainstream medicine has co-opted man's health and well being. Dr Eustace Mullins presents a superbly written, well-documented account of the myth that health care in the medical establishments is the best in the world. You will be startled to find that the main thing that is "best" about medical care is that both the medical and pharmaceutical industries are the best at extracting the wealth of countries and their citizens. Illness is perpetuated rather than resolved. Controls are exerted by the governing bodies to prevent some honest doctors from doing the best for their patients by actually finding relief for them through non-drug means. Tight controls are exerted to ensure that the practitioners work within sharply defined remits even if such practices cure absolutely no one ever.
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"Introduction to Ghost in the Machine — A New Article Series That Exposes How Puppet Masters Control the Planet for Their Benefit"
December 26, 2017
In this landmark article Dr Mercola exposes the murderous machine in our midst:
"In this new article series, we look at the "Ghost in the Machine" –– the murderous forces in our health care system that harm patients instead of helping them. This series will expose the deceptions that occur in almost all facets of healthcare today for no reason other than money. It will also expose the identities of the ghost's "puppet masters" who perpetrate health misinformation and unethical drug marketing for profit, whether it’s Big Pharma or its helpers in academia, government and non-government agencies.
It should surprise no one that, in most cases, promotion of dangerous drugs and misleading health information is a direct result of conflicts of interest. For example, with the exception of CBS, every major U.S. media outlet keeps at least one person from the drug industry on its board, which clearly explains the dearth of reporting on Pharma dangers and corruption.
The drug industry also spends billions a year on TV ads — revenue from just nine prescription drugs was worth $100 million in one year — which also stifles negative news stories about Pharma.
Even so-called “public” media like PBS and NPR have accepted money from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and UnitedHealthcare. Similar conflicts of interest exist in medical journals, universities, medical associations, advocacy groups and government agencies, including those that are supposed to regulate the drug industry. The result is the Ghost in the Machine that we live with today — deceived patients taking expensive, often dangerous drugs and soaring health costs."
We are living at an age when the whole concept of ‘care of the patient’ has been superseded by ‘profit for the pharmaceutical and their cronies’ whereby the drug gets concocted first before the patients are manufactured as exemplified by the following story about Paxil (Seroxat):
"If press coverage is anything to go by, Americans started to get Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) about three years ago. In 1997-98 the condition was referred to about 50 times in the nation's media. But a year later things suddenly got sadder. In 1999 there were more than a billion references to it in the US press.
According to the International Herald Tribune, the increase in stories was not spurred by medical developments but was part of a campaign - coordinated by Cahn & Wolfe, a New York Public relations agency. The strategy included pitches to newspapers, radio, TV and testimonials from advocates and doctors claiming that SAD was America's third most common mental disorder with over 10m sufferers; only depression and alcoholism claim more victims. Paxil is the only FDA-approved medication for the treatment of 'Social Anxiety Disorder,' was the caring sharing marketing message. But the plug for the drug was no accident. Cahn & Wolfe was working at the behest of SmithKline Beecham, now known as Glaxo SmithKline. Whilst aggressive campaigns such as this one raise the concern that pharmaceutical companies are seeking new disorders for existing drugs. They also generate an artificial and increasing need for pharmaceutical inventions amongst huge proportions of people who had not until then 'realised' they needed help. What's more, the expensive campaign paid off. In the crowded anti-depressant market, Glaxo SmithKline's 2000 annual report claims that Paxil became the No 1 in the US selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor market for new retail prescriptions in 2000.”
SAD people, happy Glaxo.
P.S. After having been 'outed' on 'Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD)' the imaginary illness has been renamed 'Seasonal Affective Disorder' - still very very SAD because this name widens the dragnet phenomenally and hence the exponential increase in those prescribed this drug.
"Paxil: Few SSRI antidepressants have the checkered safety profile of GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) Paxil. In 2007 the BBC revealed that Paxil's Study 329 showed adolescents six times more likely to become suicidal on the drug but the results were buried. (GSK settled related charges in 2012 for $3 billion.) Rumors had circulated for years about suicide and toxic withdrawal symptoms with Paxil and they were evidently true in some cases.
In 2005, the FDA revealed birth defects associated with Paxil including heart malformations. (Babies may also have "seizures, changing body temperature, feeding problems, vomiting, low blood sugar, floppiness, stiffness, tremor, shakiness, irritability or constant crying," warned the Paxil website.)
Even books are funded by Pharma. A 1999 textbook written to help primary care doctors diagnose psychiatric conditions was funded entirely by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), which makes pills for psychiatric conditions. Its authors were two prominent psychiatrists, one of whom was on GSK's speaker’s bureau; the other was investigated by Congress for undeclared GSK income.
Commensurate with the "forgiveness is cheaper than permission" business model, by the time the Paxil risks surfaced, GSK had taken the money and run. In fact, Paxil made $2.12 billion for GSK in 2002, the last year it was under patent, and was the preferred method of treating returning Iraq war veterans' PTSD."
7 Drugs Whose Dangerous Risks Emerged Only After Big Pharma Made Its Money A settlement for death or injuries down the road is just the cost of doing business.
Please read more: By Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet January 2, 2014, 9:52 AM GMT
The theory of chemical imbalance as a cause of depression is an unproven hypothesis, and doctors are prescribing the drugs mainly because of the "juggernaut of pharmaceutical promotion", as the US psychiatrist Dr Daniel Carlat calls it.
Professor Irving Kirsch, associate director of the programme in placebo studies at Harvard Medical School and author of The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth, says: The theory of chemical imbalance - that there is not enough serotonin, norepinephrine and/or dopamine in the brain synapses of depressed people - doesn't fit the data (lowering serotonin levels in healthy patients has no impact on their moods). Chemical imbalance is a myth, he says. It follows that the idea that "antidepressants can cure depression chemically is simply wrong".
He goes on to raise important points about the power of placebo's and unlike many psychologists admits the talking therapies are just as dependent on the placebo effect as the tablets are.
Some 20 years on Dr Mercola writes:
Mental Turmoil: Depression Treatment Drives Users to Murder, Suicide
"Paxil, the world’s second most prescribed antidepressant next to Prozac, is linked to serious psychiatric effects including suicidal and homicidal behavior;
Paxil, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline, is prescribed for a wide range of conditions including anxiety, depression, irritability, muscle tension and fatigue;
Clinical trials show 85 percent of Paxil users become quickly addicted;
A court found Paxil responsible for leading Don Shell to kill his wife, daughter and 10-month-old granddaughter before taking his own life;
Despite severe risks, children are being recruited as test subjects for dangerous antidepressants. In one trial, 10 of the 93 children studied suffered serious psychiatric problems and most of them had to be hospitalized."
Comment: This article perhaps exposes the stark reality that the news media is complicit in these scams and so are those prescribing these drugs. This racketeering, this preying on the innocent, is also exposed in many other articles on this website.
A patient on reading this blog writes:
"The 18 yr old daughter of a friend of ours was suffering from depression following her parents' break-up. Despite evidence of the potential for paradoxical effects in the prescription of psychotropic drugs upon teenagers, she was put on Prozac. A short time later her mother came home from work to find her hanging from the rafters in her bedroom.
I've never been able to shake that terrible image from my mind......"
In short, the advice is to be aware of all the scammers around us in the caring professions.
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I have often mentioned the name of Dr Weston Price when discussing the causes of dento-facial asymmetries and crowded teeth with patients. His work is much better described in an article which appeared in the Ecologist Magazine during 2003. I think this was the best article I have read regarding the work of Dr Weston Price so I recommend that you read it and also visit the links below if you wish to know more.
'The Ecologist', which was headed by the wonderful Zac Gold Smith, also happens to be the best magazine around which is not controlled by corporations nor does it advertise.
Article by Sally Fallon
1st July 2003
"In the 1930s US dentist, Weston Price travelled the world to study the diets of ‘primitive’ peoples. He found a startling lack of disease and proof that a system of environmentally-friendly local food production is the best way to ensure human health.
In the US, one person in three suffers from allergies, one in 10 will have ulcers and one in five is mentally ill. Every year a quarter of a million infants are born with a birth defect who then undergo expensive surgery or are hidden away in institutions. Other degenerative diseases - arthritis, multiple sclerosis, digestive disorders, diabetes, osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy and chronic fatigue - afflict a significant majority of US citizens. And learning disabilities such as dyslexia and hyperactivity make life miserable for 7 million young people and their parents.
These diseases were extremely rare only a generation or two ago. Today, chronic illness afflicts nearly half of all Americans and causes three out of four deaths in the US. Most tragically, these diseases, formerly experienced only by the very old, now strike children and those in the prime of life. We have almost forgotten that our natural state is one of balance, wholeness and vitality.
Things were not so bad in the 1930s, but the situation was already then serious enough to alarm one dentist in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr Weston Price was reluctant to accept the conditions exhibited by his patients as normal. Rarely... ">>Read more
Please also visit the Weston Price Foundation pages.
"The Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF) is your source for accurate information on nutrition and health, always aiming to provide the scientific validation of traditional foodways. People seeking health today often condemn certain food groups -- such as grains, dairy foods, meat, salt, fat, sauces, sweets and nightshade vegetables -- but the Wise Traditions Diet is inclusive, not exclusive."
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