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Wednesday, November 27. 2019In memory of my sister - an insight into euthanasia
"What is dying? I am standing on the seashore.  A ship sails to the morning breeze and starts for the ocean. She is an object and I stand watching her Till at last, she fades from the horizon, And someone at my side says, “She is gone!” Gone where? Gone from my sight, that is all; She is just as large in the masts, hull and spars as she was when I saw her, And just as able to bear her load of living freight to its destination. The diminished size and total loss of sight is in me, not in her; And just at the moment when someone at my side says, “She is gone”, There are others, who are watching her coming, And other voices take up a glad shout, “There she comes” – and that is dying." " ... and death is only a horizon, and a horizon is nothing, save the limit of our sight. Lift us up, O'Lord, that we may see further..." ― Charles Henry Brent. However, all this sentiment does not take away the pain of seeing my sister euthanised in hospital. This article ventures into the heartache that families are suffering day in and day out in our hospitals. It is easy to understand if death is caused by natural events but hard to accept when attributable to total and callous mismanagement by those that we have been blinded into trusting. A recent newspaper article says: EUTHANASIA IS RIFE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.Alfie Evans not alone: Hundreds of patients starved to death in UK every year. "It has been a well-documented fact for years that hundreds of patients die every year of starvation and thirst in NHS hospitals, a phenomenon that is facilitated by ambiguous end-of-life treatment guidelines that allow doctors and nurses to arbitrarily classify a person as “dying” and to withhold nutrition, hydration, and other basic forms of life support with no danger of punishment.The practice of starving and dehydrating patients who have been written off as “dying” has made the NHS’s “palliative care” policy into nothing less than a euthanasia program, in which the diagnosis of a “fatal” condition becomes self-fulfilling. The result is a system for eliminating patients for whom death is said to be “in their best interests,” using reasoning and methods chillingly reminiscent of Third Reich hospitals in the 1940s." Please read more >> A Daily Mail newspaper article says: Doctors giving patients killer drug overdoses causing early death is widespread ‘across the UK', experts warn "The practices which led to the deaths of hundreds of patients at Gosport War Memorial Hospital are widespread in the health service, experts warned last night. Patients’ lives are being deliberately shortened by doctors and nurses, they claimed. One leading health academic said NHS staff were routinely hastening death through a ‘lethal combination’ of sedatives and dehydration. Professor Patrick Pullicino said it was commonplace for doctors to ‘diagnose’ the impending death of their patients – and then put them out of their ‘perceived misery’. A second expert, Professor Brian Jarman, said it was ‘likely’ that a Gosport-style scandal was already happening elsewhere." Please read more > > I have absolutely no doubt about this ghastly practice having witnessed it firsthand.  For the last few months of my sister's life, she had been prescribed two potent blood thinners; apixaban and clopidogrel together, apart from another 10 drugs. The warning on the internet is: "Using apixaban together with clopidogrel may increase the risk of bleeding, including severe and sometimes fatal haemorrhage. " She succumbed to a fatal brain haemorrhage after they purported that because of other problems (all started due to the polypharmacy she was subjected to), she could not be saved. I think killing such patients off gets rid of the witness to their crimes. Such polypharmacy is nothing short of a criminal act conducted while the authorities are in oblivion or in collusion with the enactors. No audit is ever carried out regarding the outcomes of treatment by the perpetrators of this unwarranted polypharmacy which is rampant in multiple hospital departments. Polypharmacy IS the biggest threat to seniors’ health, quality of life and longevity. A Daily Telegraph article reads: "Age UK said the rise of “polypharmacy” was putting lives at risk, with three-quarters likely to suffer adverse reactions to at least one of their drugs. The research found that the number of emergency hospital admissions linked to such side-effects has risen by 53 per cent in seven years, with some cases proving fatal." Millions are seriously endangered. The drug pedlars get clean away while patients sue the NHS and the hospitals instead of the shooter; the doctor, shooting lethal drug combinations into patients. This does not happen when one shoots a bullet. The gun shooter never gets away. Previously my sister had been prescribed four blood thinners together! At the time, I wrote to a senior cardiologist at a major London Hospital along with a video record of the drugs. I informned him that my sister had been prescribed four blood thinners concomitantly namely, Xarelto (She just was blinded by this blood thinner in one eye because of an uncontrollable bleed.), aspirin, clopidogrel, and 5 mg warfarin. His reply was: "This is a scary example of polypharmacy but inexcusable that she should be on both Xarelto and warfarin plus clopidogrel and aspirin, huge risk of major bleed, I assume she is not taking all 4? Please see the attached paper to see how bad things are re polypharmacy, it's no fun getting old in the UK especially if you rattle with tablets!" I deeply regret treating this murder attempt lightly and not reporting the matter to the police at the time. I had already advised her against this lethal combination. I HAVE GONE THROUGH THE DRUGS SHE WAS TAKING AT THE TIME OF HER PASSING AWAY AND IT IS EVEN MORE ALARMING. It is alarming how she was subjected to lethal combinations on multiple fronts. She is not alone. I have a paramedic patient who informed me that recently he had picked up a patient on 30 different drugs. He gets alarmed on a daily basis at the number of drugs patients are on. He has to ferry them to hospital for vaious complications and according to him he feels it is most likely that this is due to the drugs they are on. I have compiled a drug interaction report below for my sisters drugs. I think pharmacists who are playing an increasingly bigger role in dispensing such combinations be obliged to provide their patients such reports AND refer them back to the prescribibg clinicians for a review before dispensing. This will save a lot of harm and save a lot of money very fast. It will also bring down the iatrogenically created waiting times at A & E admissions vastly. Drug Interaction ReportMy sister was on 12 different medications.This report displays the potential drug interactions for 10 of them. The individual adverse effects of each drug is also listed after the interactions report.• Nifedipine • Bisacodyl • Bisoprolol • Ramipril • Ferrous fumarate • Doxazosin • Lansoprazole • Ezetimibe • Clopidogrel • Apixaban Interactions between these drugs Clopidogrel - Apixaban Using apixaban together with clopidogrel increases the risk of bleeding, including severe and sometimes fatal haemorrhage. Lansoprazole - Clopidogrel Combining these medications reduces the effectiveness of clopidogrel in preventing heart attack or stroke. Nifedipine- Apixaban Nifedipine increases the blood levels of apixaban, which may result in a higher risk of bleeding complications. Nifedipine - Bisoprolol Bisoprolol and nifedipine have additive effects in lowering blood pressure and heart rate. Patients may experience headache, dizziness, light-headedness, fainting, and/or changes in pulse or heartbeat. Nifedipine - Doxazosin This combination has additive effects on lowering blood pressure. Bisoprolol - Doxazosin Using doxazosin and bisoprolol together has increased effects on blood pressure. This combination is more likely to cause side effects such as dizziness, weakness, headache, and flushing, fainting, and irregular heartbeat. Doxazosin - Ramipril Using doxazosin and ramipril together can have increased effects on blood pressure. Patients are more likely to experience side effects such as dizziness, weakness, headache, and flushing, fainting, and irregular heartbeat.Lansoprazole - Ferrous fumarate by reducing stomach acid, lansoprazole may reduce the absorption of iron and make ferrous fumarate less effective in treating anaemia.Drug and food interactions Nifedipine - Food Patients must not consume grapefruits or grapefruit juice which can significantly increase the blood levels and effects of medications like nifedipine. Patients are more likely to experience side effects such as headache, low blood pressure, irregular heartbeat, swelling, and fluid retention. Ramiprill - Food Patients on Ramipril should avoid moderately high or high potassium dietary intake. This can cause high levels of potassium in the bloodstream and may lead to fatal cardiac arrhythmias. Cardiovascular agents Therapeutic duplication The recommended maximum number of medicines in the 'cardiovascular agents' category to be taken concurrently is usually four. My sisters list includes five medicines belonging to the 'cardiovascular agents' category:• Nifedipine • Bisoprolol • Ramipril • Doxazosin • Ezetimibe Antihypertensives Therapeutic duplication The recommended maximum number of medicines in the 'antihypertensives' category to be taken concurrently is usually two. My sisters list includes four medicines belonging to the 'antihypertensives' category:• Nifedipine • Bisoprolol • Ramipril • Doxazosin Here is a brief description and adverse effects of drugs that had been prescribed to my sister: Nifedipine is a calcium channel antagonists. (Similar drug in widespread use is amlodipine)Short acting 20mg daily. Common side effects include light-headedness, headache, feeling tired, leg swelling, cough, and shortness of breath. Serious side effects may include low blood pressure and heart failure. The intense vasodilatation and hypotension this drug can induce may lead to reflex tachycardia, which can be detrimental for patients with ischemic symptoms because of the resulting increase in myocardial oxygen demand (hypoxia). The keywords here are "tachycardia" and "myocardial hypoxia". These are key factors in the development of atrial fibrillation (AF) which is rife amongst patients taking such drugs and they are often subjected to further assaults on their hearts through ablation procedures INSTEAD of stopping these lethal drugs. Astonishingly, my sister had come off the sister drug amlodipine, some two years earlier, which had given her hugely swollen lower legs almost akin to elephantiasis. She could not walk or meet minimal activity requirements. She had also developed nephropathy from the long-term anti-diuretic to stem the swelling albeit, completely unsuccessfully. The doctors kept telling her that the swelling was from her heart failure but the swelling resolved a few weeks after the amlodipine was withdrawn. In spite of this, she was a 'confirmed heart failure patient in need of more medications'. Ironically, I just came across another patient who had just been fitted with a pacemaker because of a consistently low heart rate. This was an excellent treatment BUT soon thwarted by a prescription of amlodipine with all its inherent adverse effects. I think these drugs should not be called therapeutic agents but the cardiology business generators! Nifedipine increases the proteinuria in such patients causing further symptoms, which cannot be controlled unless one is taken off this drug. In cardiology, it appears that this does not happen; one uses more drugs. The risk of the interaction with other NUMEROUS cardiovascular and antihypertensive drugs being used concomitantly outweighs any benefit. She should never have been prescribed either amlodipine or nifedipine. These caused serious pain, discomfort, insecurity, complications, decline and damage to her health. On the internet forums, some 70% of patients posted very negative reviews about nifedipine. The only benefit appears to be in advanced cases of Reynaud's disease patients and then again if used for very serious cases and only during the winter months and dose-adjusted according to need with close monitoring of any cardiovascular events consequential upon its use. My rating for this drug as a therapeutic agent for high BP or heart problems is Nil and in fact runs into negative territory. Bisacodyl This drug is used for constipation. A patient best describes its effects:"I am at the stage of lying on the bathroom floor with a pillow. First timer, took two bisacodyl at 2 pm. It is now 10 pm and the pain is excruciating and has lasted about 2 hours. I have been to the toilet no less than 12 times so now it looks like I will be sleeping here. I am just wondering when the pain will end. I was also nauseous for the first few hours and keep feeling like I might throw up from how bad the pain is. Wish I had read these reviews first" Regular use can seriously affect electrolyte levels and heart function. No such warning had been given to her. Bisoprolol Bisoprolol, is a beta-blocker and one of the most commonly prescribed drug for cardiac patients. It is purported that it controls high blood pressure but the mechanism of action to achieve this is not shown anywhere. In medicine, it is assumed that heart rate determines the blood pressure when there is absolutely no truth in this broad assumption and perhaps this fallacy allows them to make such a claim.It is claimed that it controls chest pain from not enough blood flow to the heart and helps in heart failure. A contradictory claim as its action is supposed to diminish heart function through the blockage of β1 adrenergic receptors. In fact, it would worsen heart failure and bring a rapid end to the life of a heart failure patient. Common listed side effects include headache, feeling tired, diarrhoea and swelling in the legs . This last effect might not be attributable to beta-blockers because patients actually report extreme cramps and unbearably cold legs and feet. This is from a vaso-constrictive effect on the leg vasculature rather than a dilatory effect. In fact, instead of reducing high blood pressure beta-blockers would skyrocket the blood pressure. I have seen figures of 240/140 with 1.25mg of bisoprolol. The patient had never before experienced more than 170/110 with other high BP medication. More severe side effects include worsening asthma – a condition my sister had suffered all her life. The advice is not to use a beta-blocker in asthmatic patients because of their propensity to cause bronchospasm and consequentially tachycardia, atrial fibrillation, stroke and possibly death. No such precaution was ever taken. It is claimed that bisoprolol can be used to treat coronary heart disease, arrhythmias, ischemic heart diseases, and myocardial infarction after the acute event. No substantiation of such nefarious claims is available nor the mode of such action. Bisoprolol certainly causes extreme fatigue at diminutive doses such as the 1.25mg that my sister had been prescribed. Patients are commonly prescribed much higher doses, which regularly kill tens of thousands of patients right around the world. Please read this article "Medicine Or Mass Murder? Guideline Based on Discredited Research May Have Caused 800,000 Deaths In Europe Over The Last 5 Years" The literature does not mention what these medicines do to gut motility. Intestinal gangrene is a serious complication. Every patient has also prescribed laxatives at the very outset, the doctors fully expecting that constipation will be caused by the use of beta-blockers. If the hospitals carry out bona fide independent audits it will be clear that beta-blockers should never be prescribed to any patient. Such audits, checks and balances are nonexistent in our hospitals and most specialist departments get away with outcomes, which would register close to ZERO or run into negative territory across MOST hospital disciplines. My rating for this drug as a therapeutic agent for high BP or heart problems is Nil and in fact runs into minus territory Ramipril Some years ago I had a patient who was fine one visit but six months later when presenting for a dental checkup looked extremely frail and debilitated. I was shocked to see him in such a state. He had been my patient for some 30 years. He informed me that he was on Ramipril after being diagnosed with slightly elevated blood pressure. He pointed to his fingernails saying that Ramipril had caused a wedge-shaped loss of the nail. The surrounding damaged edges of the nail and nailbed were black in colour. He was dead within a month of his visit. More recently another patient turned up who was falling all over the place - this after a recent previous visit when he was fine. He was on Ramipril. He had white blanched patches on his face from capillary constriction. I wanted to send him to hospital but he would not have it. I had to phone his wife to warn her that his situation was very serious and she needed to contact his doctor to discuss the drug - Ramipril. I saw him a month later when he was as fit as he had always been. He said that I probably saved his life. He had come off Ramipril and had refused to take any other medication being offered to him. He had made considerable changes to his eating habits and had adopted walking and exercise routines. He reported that his blood pressure had come down without the drug and that he had never felt better. On reflection, I can remember many other patients suddenly looking extremely frail and then after a couple of routine visits I never saw them again. I thought that they had probably changed dentists but the truth is probably dire. The perceived/claimed benefits of this drug is a lowering of the blood pressure through its ACE inhibitor activity. This ONE supposed benefit is outweighed by the following potential adverse effects: • Angina, or chest pain due to blockage of blood flow in the coronary arteries. • Anxiety, confusion, tremors; • Back pain which does not get relieved with any modality of care; • Blurred vision, sensitivity to light; • Can cause very severe allergic reactions; • Chest pain, discomfort, tightness or heaviness, shortness of breath; • Dry mouth, dry tickly cough which does not go away in spite of any treatment; • Diarrhoea, gastrointestinal inflammation, abdominal discomfort or severe pain, constipation, nausea, heartburn and acid reflux; • Earaches, ringing in ears, tinnitus, a sensation of spinning; • Extreme fatigue and sleepiness; • Fast, thumpy or irregular heartbeat; • Glossitis, pharyngitis, swelling of throat and taste impairment; • High blood pressure sometimes escalating to alarming levels - the exact opposite of what the medicine is supposed to do; • High blood levels of potassium. Patients may develop dangerous heart palpitations if they over-indulge on high potassium foods;• Itchy blemishes on the skin which can look like water blisters and numerous skin conditions; • May cause postural hypotension, dizziness, lightheadedness when getting up suddenly from a lying or sitting position; • Muscle pains and spasms; • Reduced and cloudy urination; • Sleeplessness. In fact, the adverse effects are far too many to list here. Please read about other effects in this link: I fail to understand how such a drug can ever be used on a heart or high blood pressure patient. Only a minute percentage of patients may experience benefit, yet these drugs are the mainstay of cardiology! My sister did not have to be put on this drug also, apart from the other hypertensives that she was already on. My rating for this drug as a therapeutic agent for high BP or heart problems is Nil and in fact runs into negative territory Ferrous fumarate ... to be continued..... Doxazosin Doxazosin is an alpha-adrenergic blocker. It supposedly relaxes the veins and arteries so that blood can more easily pass through them to treat hypertension.The possible adverse effects experienced by patients and in some order of occurrence are: • Headaches • Dizziness, vertigo • Asthenia, chest pains • Laboured respiration, rhinitis, respiratory tract infection, bronchitis, bronchospasm, cough • Profound fatigue, unusual tiredness, weakness, difficulty moving about • Hypotension, postural hypotension, palpitation, tachycardia, angina, myocardial infarction • Belching, heartburn, indigestion, stomach ache, constipation, gastroenteritis • Bladder pain' cloudy urine, frequent urge to urinate • Swelling in joints, Joint pains, lower back and side pain • Muscle pains, cramping, weakness or stiffness • Nervousness, restlessness, unusual irritability • Profound sleepiness or drowsiness • Polyuria, urinary tract infection, cystitis, urinary incontinence • Oedema, peripheral oedema One purported benefit - numerous very serious adverse effects. Add these adverse effects to those caused by the other three antihypertensives being prescribed to her creates a nightmarish scenario. Thousands of patients are being subjected to this terror with society paying for these excesses with no end in sight. How can this ever not be called medical terrorism?The heartburn this medicine causes is then treated by a Proton Pump Inhibitor (PPI) medication instead of withdrawing this drug. In her case, she had been provided with lansoprazole - which causes further havoc in the system as shown below. Lansoprazole This drug is supposed to address indigestion issues. In my sister's case, this was being caused by doxazosin and other drugs. Other adverse effects include: • Nausea, vomiting • headaches • Increased intestinal gas • Serious side effects may include Clostridium difficile colitis • Increased risk of pneumonia • Increased risk of bone fractures • Hypomagnesaemia • Vitamin B12 and iron malabsorption. • Dementia Hypomagnesaemia can lead to hypertension - the exact opposite of the desired effect of the four antihypertensives she was being prescribed. In one Harvard study, PPI users were found to have a 44% increased risk of dementia compared with those who did not take any medication. My sister was showing signs as if her memory is being affected during the previous six months. These are all medical misadventures. No thought process is involved. Just terror. The victim gets crippled or expires and the perpetrator gets clean away. Ezetimibe Ezetimibe is used to treat high cholesterol. Ezetimibe alone is insufficient and patients are advised to improve diet, exercise, and gain weight control. In my sisters' case, she was crippled by the other medications unable to exercise. It is suggested that this drug not be used in patients with compromised kidney disease; or a thyroid disorder. She had both - kidney issues from thiazide drugs she had been previously prescribed to counter the elephantiasis type leg swellings induced by the use of Amlodipine. The literature states: "Some cholesterol medications can cause a condition that results in the breakdown of skeletal muscle tissue, leading to kidney failure. This condition may be more likely to occur in older adults and in people who have kidney disease or poorly controlled hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid)." Scant regard was paid to these issues. I shall not delve into the merits of anti-cholesterol medication, which is a scandal on its own, at present. Clopidogrel Clopidogrel belongs to a group of drugs which are platelet aggregation inhibitors thus stopping the blood from clotting. There is no way to discover how thin the blood has become or if there is any chance of clot formation if a spontaneous bleed starts.It is, however, promoted as a drug to "lower the chance of heart attack or stroke".I have no idea how this can be true. If there are 10 elderly patients who are not on a blood thinner and they have a fall hitting their heads causing a bleed most of them will be treatable and perhaps will recover. If a similar number are taking clopidogrel and have a similar accident I speculate none of them can be saved! Reversing the effects of clopidogrel requires very expensive procedures in terms of platelet infusions or plasma exchange procedures carried out over a few days. Thus there is no chance of saving a stroke patient facing imminent permanent damage or death. It is recommended that this drug be stopped for at least 5 days to two weeks before any surgical procedure. In other words, there is no chance of arresting a brain haemorrhage. No attempt will be made either and the patients will be "euthanised" as happened to my sister. I can understand that the blood has to be slightly thinner in those with a tendency to getting a heart attack or stroke from the blood clotting up but we already have less dangerous, more reliable, with fewer aderse effects and very inexpensive drugs. This drug should not be prescribed to patients who are on PPI drugs such as Olansaprazole which my sister was on and yet she was prescribed clopidogrel. Other adverse effects associated with this drug are: • Chest pain tightness in the chest • Collection of blood under the skin, deep, pinpoint to large dark purple bruise • Itching, pain, redness, swelling, blistering, flaking or peeling of the skin • Nosebleed • Painful or difficult urination • Shortness of breath • Nausea, vomiting of blood • Blood in the urine or stools • Confusion • Fever, chills, or sore throat • headache (sudden, severe) • Stomach pain (severe) • Ulcers, sores, or white spots in the mouth • Cough, hoarseness or wheezing • Dizziness, faintness, or lightheadedness when getting up suddenly from a lying or sitting position • Fast heartbeat • Inflammation of the joints • Lower back pain • Muscle aches • Puffiness or swelling of the eyelids or around the eyes, face, lips, or tongue • Seizures • Swelling of the eyes, face, or inside of the nose • Swollen lymph glands • Unusual tiredness or weakness Many of these effects are perpetuated by similar adverse effects by the other drugs the patient was on. I have no idea why cardiologists choose these dangerous drugs when they have simpler cheaper drugs at hand which do not cause so many reactions, which do not cause the patient to be admitted to hospital almost once a month, which does not fill up Accident and Emergency departments of hospitals. It is incumbent upon every NHS hospital to carry out an audit to find out which cardiologist is practising this polypharmacy and responsible for excessive hospital admissions and to terminate their services. That is what will save lives NOT clopidogrel. It will also cut down litigation for wrongful death against the NHS and the individual hospital. Apixaban To be continued......There is absolutely no call for these multiple drugs with additive effects and the potential of actually doing the exact opposite of that which may be intended. After the brain haemorrhage started they allowed her BP to remain at 243/117 (always caused by the beta-blockers which can be lethal at 1.25mg)) to go untreated and her brain haemorrhage continued. I find it difficult to write but shall be adding a lot more information. Right now suffice it to say that Boris can make a law and give the NHS 34 billion pounds a month, not a year and there will be absolutely no difference in patient health, waiting lists etc. In fact, far more patients will die because there will be more shooters shooting not with bullets but excessive drugs - the adverse effects of which keep them in their jobs! These shooters also get away scot-free.. In recent years, I am astounded at the increase in the number of drugs being dished out to patients. One has to carry a sackful on their shoulders. Soon patients will have to get a camel to take the free sackfuls of drugs load back home. One health authority reports that their drug budget has rocketed from 11% to 27% in the space of about three years. The Boris billions will barely fund the expected rocketing drug prices, which the USA is to impose on NHS drugs. Apixaban which presently costs $30 will cost $430.00 "because the American consumer is not going to keep subsidising the British taxpayers" as per big pharma negotiators in the trade talks! Another recent newspaper article says: New NHS death guidelines 'worse than Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP)' "The new guidance says dying patients who are able to drink should be given water if they seek it. But it also says patients should also be told “death is unlikely to be hastened by not having clinically assisted hydration” - such as a drip. Prof Pullicino said the claim was “completely untrue,” stating that lack of hydration would kill anyone who cannot drink. He accused NICE of a “disaster of misinformation, distortion and ambiguity” in its advice. The neurologist - who had a patient survive 14 months after being taken off the care pathway – said all patients should be given adequate nutrition and hydration regardless of their prognosis. “Dehydration was a central mechanism of the deaths on the LCP. Despite the removal of the LCP, I still frequently witness severely dehydrated elderly patients on hospital wards. “Unless it becomes standard, and monitored by the Care Quality Commission, that hospitals are obliged to give nutrition and hydration adequate for patients’ physiological needs at all times and regardless of prognosis, end-of-life care is going to remain lethal,” Please read more > > Thursday, November 7. 2019Miraculous recovery from multiple symptomsWednesday, October 23. 2019"Multi Effervescent White Dot Syndrome" or simply a dental problem
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"Ethan’s story Ethan is a 14 year old boy who is healthy and enjoys Rugby, video games and irritating his two older sisters. His health has been excellent with the exception of severe asthma as a young child, which improved significantly and now only seems to occur when he laughs too much! Wednesday, October 16. 2019Nano-technology - Alarming video - must watchWednesday, October 2. 2019The 5G onslaughtSunday, September 8. 2019Antiseptic mouthwash may reduce the benefits of exercise
Mouthwash use could inhibit benefits of exerciseA study conducted by the University of Plymouth shows the blood-pressure-lowering effects of exercise were diminished by more than 60% over the first hour of recovery, and completely absent two hours post-exercise in those who used an antibacterial mouthwash Exercise is known to reduce blood pressure – but the activity of bacteria in our mouths may determine whether we experience this benefit, according to new research. An international team of scientists has shown that the blood pressure-lowering effect of exercise is significantly reduced when people rinse their mouths with antibacterial mouthwash, rather than water – showing the importance of oral bacteria in cardiovascular health. The researchers now suggest that health professionals should pay attention to the oral environment when recommending interventions involving physical activity for high blood pressure. The study was led by the University of Plymouth in collaboration with the Centre of Genomic Regulation in Barcelona (Gabaldon’s lab), Spain, and was published in the journal Free Radical Biology and Medicine. Please read more at: https://neurosciencenews.com/mouthwash-exercise-blood-pressure-14858/ Friday, August 23. 2019Is MS Caused by TMJ disorder? Also serious mishandling of orthodontic patients
An interesting and rather alarming correlation between TMJD and MS I saw in an online forum.
"Hi everyone I know this is an older post but I was wondering if anyone out there [found] a link between TMJ disorder and MS? The reason I ask is that I know there is no known cause of [MS] but the link between TMJD and MS seems like a possibility to me. My father and his father both died from brain tumors at young ages. So I get brain MRIs from time to time to make sure I don’t have a brain tumor. I got an MRI of my brain in 2014 and there were no lesions and no tumors. Then in December 2014, I got a full set of the New [Veneers] because my wife works for a dentist and he gave them to us for free for Christmas that year. From January to March 2015, my veneers fell off every week and I had to go to this dentist three times a week so get them re-cemented because walking around with no front teeth can be quite embarrassing. By March my dentist was so frustrated that he could not get them to stay on so he ripped all the veneers out and shaved all my teeth down to put on crowns. My real teeth were not that bad at all. But I ended up losing all my real teeth and now I have these ugly looking crowns. Anyway, when he did this he screwed up my bite and my occlusion which lead to severe TMJ disorder and for those of you who suffer from severe TMJD you know the pain I’m talking about with the migraines, neck, shoulder, back pain, I can’t chew, can’t speak and so on and so on. The pain was so intense and the migraines were so painful that it started to affect my work performance. Then I started to lose my memory and cognitive function. I thought it was due to the TMJ disorder. During 2015 August I went in to get a brain MRI to see if maybe I had a brain tumor like my father. It came back with 20 lesions on my brain and 15 on my spine. So in 2014 I had no lesions on my brain MRI and then I got TMJ disorder with horrible pain in my head neck and back. And in less than a year I developed all these lesions and was diagnosed with MS. I can’t help but think that it was caused by the TMJ disorder. And I know there’s no cause that we know of for MS but I can’t help but think there is a link between the TMJD and my MS. Has anyone else had this experience? I am so desperately looking for someone else who’s had the same thing. So please let me know so I know that I’m not the only one out there that thinks this. Thank you so much I really do love you guys and appreciate all your advice." PS Article slightly abbreviated and grammar improved. Please also read this extensive article: http://houseofenoch.com/diseases/multiple-sclerosis/ Comment: The ramifications of even slight interferences in the wrong direction can have serious consequences as per the experience of another patient I saw last week. She says: "Hi! I'm a 28 years old female. Until a year ago, my health was good. But I always had problems with my teeth, and I started to lose some of them from a very young age. In November 2017, I got braces as I wanted to fix two small teeth that I have in the front. The first few months I didn't have any problems. After several months, the doctor started to close the gap created from a missing tooth on my upper jaw and also create space between my upper teeth. I also started to wear elastics. Just a few days after starting to wear the elastics I noticed my hearing one day became very strange. I woke up in the middle of the night with ringing in my ears. A week afterward I started to have problems with the jaw. The doctor told me he doesn't think the braces are at fault and advised me to continue wearing the elastics to fix my bite. The pain was getting worse and worse so I decided to remove the braces and not put any retainer so that the teeth can come back to their place. My teeth are now misaligned and I do not have a proper bite. I also started to get a lot of digestive issues. I still have tinnitus and jaw pain and clicking." Another new patient writes: "............ I had been fit and well for 6 years prior to having orthodontic treatment during which time I had had 2 more children (having had 1 when younger) with no problems. My orthodontic treatment concerned me at several stages but my concerns were always dismissed. There was never any plan as things seemed to be tweaked as it went along and I noticed my arches narrowing and my front teeth were crossed before sticking out instead. My front teeth were shaved twice but they still stick out. Part way through treatment I noticed I was only biting on the left and said this but it was dismissed. My face looked narrower. I later noticed my jaw was swinging open to the left. A click on the right was noted by my dentist part through treatment but was dismissed by my orthodontist. Then towards the end of treatment, I told my orthodontist I could not bite on the right as the right molars seemed lower. Without telling me what he was doing he did something with the brace I later realised was to pull downwards the upper right molars in order to meet the bottom, so that they are completely out of line with the other, but because my lower arch is swinging to the left, it was meeting the upper arch pulled in. I expressed my concerns to the orthodontist who again dismissed it. I soon after developed pain in my jaw joints and ringing in my ears and my temples crushed in and my face looked thinner still. I didn’t know what was going on and after going to my dentist and drs and the orthodontist who said nothing was wrong I found a dentist who said to go for an mri and it showed my discs are displaced. I have not yet had tmj treatment as I have been passed around as my symptoms keep growing and no one understands it. I stopped my orthodontic treatment hoping things would settle but it didn’t and things have got worse with my whole face and jaw rotating to the left in line with my upper arch and my lower jaw swinging to that side. My neck has pulled to the left. I am completely twisted. It is alarming as I read that cranial bones shouldn’t move like this, but mine have. After endless research, I decided to try Atlasprofilax with Marie tomorrow in London and I asked her if she could recommend anyone to help with my teeth and she says you as you understand the cranial system. My other concern is a wobbly sore tooth that was one of the ones pulled down on the right as it receded rapidly after being moved there and has lots of root resorption. I don’t know if that tooth can be saved but it’s not stable where it is and I worry for the teeth next to it too. The teeth on the left that were not moved down on that final brace adjustment are fine and stable. I.......... I also should add that importantly I am very unhappy with the look of my teeth. It is extra distressing to have terrible looking teeth on top of all the facial changes and jaw problems and pain. It is affecting me emotionally." Another patient writes: "I would like to book a consultation with Dr. Amir after he has been recommended by word of mouth and online for the treatment of TMJD. I have been suffering badly for over 2 years with symptoms including blocked ears, a sore jaw, nighttime clenching, jaw muscle spasms, sore neck, and headaches, etc. I have an open bite and also my teeth are not fitting together properly. I had braces as a teen and 4 teeth removed, which I'm sure is part of the problem as I now tongue thrust and feel I have no space for my tongue. I have been to so many different doctors/ dentists NHS specialists and have been really disappointed with the care and have been fobbed off with nighttime guards, antidepressants and even told 'it's all in your own head'. I've become quite desperate and so after a great deal of time spent researching, I would like to have a consultation with Dr. Amir after reading great things about his non-invasive treatment and holistic approach for TMD symptoms. Many thanks!" Comment: This patient was also advised that her problems were due to the presence of her (symptom-free) wisdom teeth. She listened to the advice and had them extracted at considerable cost only to find that her symptoms deteriorated rapidly. Being fobbed off by maxillo-facial surgeons when symptoms of TMJD and other severe"medical" problems arise after this odontogenic negligence is rife. Most have absolutely no idea of the relationship of teeth to bodily asymmetries and ill-health. Hundreds of thousands are suffering all around the country because of this gross negligence. It is time that the dental hospitals shut these consultations down to prevent the maxillo-facial surgeons misleading and fobbing off patients which could lead to serious litigation in the courts. Friday, April 5. 2019What causes Asthma? This article shows the link between an asymetric jaw and Asthma
An estimated 300 million people live with asthma worldwide. It accounts for an estimated one in 250 deaths. Presently, corticosteroids are the mainstay of asthma treatment. However, an understanding of the disease triggers has been slow and confusing with many contradictory findings. The final state of affairs in a popular medical website says: "There is currently no cure for asthma, and no single exact cause has been identified." A typical explanation for asthma is that it is a complex heterogeneous disease that is often associated with atopic sensitization in children. It is believed to arise as a result of interactions in early life between environmental exposures and genetic predisposition. Environmental exposure to inhaled substances and particles that provoke allergic reactions or irritate the airways are the prime etiological triggers. The rest of the conundrum goes on to say that: "Large increases in childhood asthma prevalence were described in the United Kingdom and similar developed countries in the last few decades of the 20th Century. This change was too rapid to be explained by genetic shift and so there has been an intensive search for modifiable environmental factors that are causally related to the development of asthma in children. Although a large number of biologically plausible factors have been suggested, most have only modest effects on disease risk." While not giving any less importance to potentiating effects of environmental pollution the missing factors which can explain the large increases in asthma cases can, in my opinion, be explained by the phenomenal increases in: 1) The consumption of processed foods and unhealthy takeaway foods seriously impacting jaw development in the last few decades of the 20th Century. Please refer to the work of Dr Weston Price. 2) The extraction orthodontics in the last few decades, (which have left hundreds of thousands crippled and aesthetically mauled), of the 20th century, resulting in a worsening of the poor jaw development initially caused by processed foods. 3) The extraction of wisdom teeth - is also contributing to the incidence of breathing problems including asthma and lifelong illness with many other symptoms. The resolution of asthma, brought about by corrective non-extraction, non-constrictive orthodontics in most patients is a testament that poor jaw development is THE MAIN contributory factor in the incidence of Asthma. This is a graph of 320 patients presenting with Jaw problems. Please note that the darkest bars meaning the highest number of symptoms are depicted by neck pain, back pain, cold extremities, gastroenterological problems, and breathing issues.  Here are some testimonials from my patients who have been able to come off their inhalers:1.) Case Study Issue 89: Holistic Dentistry for Allergies, Skin Problems and Snoring by Dr Ann HarrisListed in case studies, originally published in Positive Health Magazine issue 89 - June 2003 Background: This is a remarkable case history which relates to our 14-year-old daughter Claire. When faced with the prospect of having teeth removed because of overcrowding she was determined that she did not want any extractions. My search for a holistic dentist had begun. I initially contacted the British Dental Association but their response was less than helpful. Thankfully, I subscribed to Positive Health and saw an advert for such a dentist practising in London. 2.) Relief from Asthma and Hayfever I refer to the recent article (Issue 87, pp 31-33, the Positive Health Magazine) by Mr. M. Amir on the risks of dental extraction, and would like to offer my personal testimony as to the effectiveness of his treatment methods from the field of Crano-Mandibular Symmetry, alluded to in the article, and their benefits to health.I became a patient of Mr. Amir about 4 years ago on the recommendation of a friend. I had been suffering for many years, and increasingly so, with sporadic bouts of asthma (triggered by weather conditions, house dust, atmospheric pollution, hay fever), and was becoming more and more dependent on a salbutamol inhaler to ease the acute symptoms of asthma. I was also aware that there could be undesirable side effects on long-term use of this medication and was in search of a cure. Following a thorough examination, I was fitted with my first brace to correct for a significant misalignment of teeth between the upper and lower jaw. I also received instruction in simple procedures (a breathing exercise, for example), to assist in this process. It was clear to Mr. Amir at the outset that my symptoms of asthma would respond well to his treatment and indeed, within a few months I was having fewer and less severe attacks, to the point right now when I cannot remember the last time I had one or had to use the inhaler - it is certainly well over a year ago. Symptoms of hay fever have likewise reduced (in the ryegrass pollen season, June to mid-July). Last year I was hardly affected at all. His success in the various other areas of health I can well believe, judging from the experiences of some of Mr. Amir's other patients I have spoken to - relief from irritable bowel syndrome, depression, chronic fatigue syndrome, ME for example - and I am convinced that Cranio-Mandibular and Skeletal Symmetry is an important and highly effective methodology for health care and deserves a much wider utilisation with the dental profession. Mr. Amir is a pioneer in this regard and, I should add, a dentist to consummate skill. His work should be taken seriously by all dental and medical professionals. I do hope it is - for the sake of all of those whose health and well being are at stake. G. B, BSc, PhD, April 2003 3.) Recovery from Asthma and Eczema Our son Ethan (7 years old) suffered severely from eczema from the age of three months. By the age of three, his allergy also developed into asthma. He needed to be always with the inhaler and was often admitted to hospital A&E for his asthma attacks. Winter was a particularly bad season for him and Ethan was between a hospital and home because of recurring chest infections. Ethan was not only asthmatic but also very thin and slow to grow.We did everything that we could think of and travelled everywhere seeking any possible treatments to cure him. Finally, we met Dr. Amir in the summer of 2013. Having the treatment over the summer, the first noticeable change occurred in autumn when Ethan’s feet and hands became warmer, which used to become icy cold very quickly when he was exposed to cold air. Then his class teacher was surprised at how he became animated in the class and became an active learner. Ethan’s asthma has kept improving along with the help of the family’s careful nutritional input. The latest surprise for us was that Ethan didn’t need a single puff of his Salbutamol inhaler in April when it has always been a challenging month for him as a change of a season and at a peek of hay fever. Now Ethan is asthma and eczema free and growing into a lively boy. These all happened within a year under the treatment with Dr Amir, and the progress was almost miraculous for us given a fact that Ethan was once informed by an allergy specialized paediatrician that he would need an inhaler and steroid for his entire life. We are grateful ever for Dr Amir. S. Courau May 2014 Strangely, as far as allergies are concerned, I think there is a different element at play that we fail to understand. I had a patient years ago extremely allergic to cats and would come out with an asthmatic attack if she even went into a room where a cat had been. Within days of starting treatment, she could play with cats! This is a graph of 104 patients who presented with Jaw problems AND Asthma We treat the jaw not asthma or any other symptoms. Patients usually recover completely from their asthmatic symptoms!  Only slight asymmetries of the jaws can cause serious health issues - not just Asthma. This article may be freely reproduced on social media or copied onto your website provided proper acknowledgment is made and a link provided back to this website. Monday, April 1. 2019Recovery from Arthritis - Intense pain in wrists, arms and feet - Testimonial
Silvia Moreira
April 2019 "Dr Amir is an expert, his knowledge is immeasurable. My only regret is not having made that appointment sooner. My advise to anyone unsure or sceptical is: The GDC appointed Maxillo Facial surgeon criticising my website contends:  He also writes: "Data on audits of practice and outcomes including patients who did not respond to care could be used to explain and justify his approach to care. It would also be balanced to include information on the placebo effect and how this can result in resolution of symptoms or improvements in up to half of patients' treated. The placebo effect could in itself explain the results he has achieved although I have insufficient data to give a definitive opinion in this respect." Silvia, I do not understand this gobbledegook but I think he is trying to say that perhaps you have a placebo effect! After I told a former patient who largely recovered from her 'MS' about this "placebo effect" allegation she just wrote the following: "If all your patients are having a placebo effect how do you explain the guy that you stopped stammering after years of suffering? Also, all those people who keep travelling halfway around the world to be treated by you. Have you been able to show any of the testimonials that you have from forever grateful patients who have been singing your praises for years? Do these so-called medical experts think that all your patients are morons or as thick as two short planks? Who is to say that they are right and you are wrong? If it wasn’t for people like you pushing the boundaries we would all still be living in caves. This defies belief. It isn’t as if you dragged all these people into your surgery kicking and screaming and held a gun to their heads while they signed a direct debit. I remember our first visit to you. You told me in no uncertain terms that you thought you could help me to improve my situation but that the thing that I most wanted help with, my mobility, would be the last thing to improve, if at all. Also, you were very clear that it would be a big commitment time-wise, travelling and most of all financially. You suggested that we take time to consider all these things and we at no time felt under pressure to commit to anything. Also, anyone who has reached the point of coming to your surgery has already done lots of research of their own with all the information that is on the internet about you." Saturday, March 30. 2019Recovery from Polymyalgia rheumatica and Fibromyalgia?
It was interesting to come across a patient who was diagnosed with this illness. His family have been receiving treatment from me for some years so they thought it apt to see if I could be of any help. • Pain and stiffness (moderate to severe) in the neck, shoulders, upper arms, thighs, and hips, which inhibits activity, especially in the morning/after sleeping. Pain can also occur in the groin area and in the buttocks. The pain can be limited to one of these areas as well. It is a disease of the "girdles" meaning shoulder girdle or pelvic girdle. About 15% of people who are diagnosed with Polymyalgia Rheumatica also have temporal arteritis, and about 50% of people with temporal arteritis have Polymyalgia Rheumatica.
Most of the above-listed symptoms, highlighted in blue, also arise in patients who have any asymmetries around the jaws, head and the skeleton. You can read about Fibromyalgia on my extensive article here My patient had the following symptoms:  After examining the patient he was found to have a jaw problem. Having lost his wisdom teeth at age 20 did not help matters. Causes of Polymyalgia Rheumatica as per the medical literature: The cause of PMR is not well understood.(Typical problem in medicine; In one breath they do not know the cause but in the second one they do. It is the money-spinning autoimmune cause, of course!) The pain and stiffness result from the activity of inflammatory cells and proteins that are normally a part of the body's disease-fighting immune system and the inflammatory activity seems to be concentrated in tissues surrounding the affected joints. During this disorder, the white blood cells in the body attack the lining of the joints, causing inflammation.This draws in more patients into autoimmune disease which produce the blockbuster profits from the sale of drugs to 'treat' these conditions! Several theories have included viral stimulation of the immune system in genetically susceptible individuals. This is another typical ruse - blame a virus! Tests available for PMR One blood test usually performed is the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) which measures how fast the patient's red blood cells settle in a test tube. The faster the blood cells settle, the higher the ESR value, which means inflammation is present. Many conditions can cause an elevated ESR, so this test alone is not proof that a person has Polymyalgia Rheumatica.Another test that checks the level of C-reactive protein (CRP) in the blood may also be conducted. CRP is produced by the liver in response to an injury or infection, and people with Polymyalgia Rheumatica usually have high levels. However, like the ESR, this test is also not very specific. Conventional treatment of PMR Prednisone is the drug of choice, and treatment duration is frequently greater than one year. If the patient does not experience dramatic improvement after three days of 10–20 mg oral prednisone per day, the diagnosis should be reconsidered. Sometimes relief of symptoms occurs in only several hours. You can read my views about steroid use on this link. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen are ineffective in the initial treatment of PMR, but they may be used in conjunction with the maintenance doseLuckily the patient managed to evade the steroids and NSAID's and here is his testimony: Recovery from Polymyalgia and Fibromyalgia"In addition to the dental treatment, I received a consultation with Dr. Amir, initially for dental purposes, which led to a discussion regarding very challenging physical symptoms I was experiencing. I had received a diagnosis of Polymyalgia and Fibromyalgia, both discovered/confirmed via numerous scans under consultation with a Cardiologist and Respiratory Consultant. I went for another series of scans, the results of which showed a reversal of the opacification of the lung deposits, providing physical evidence that I was indeed getting better (despite not having taken any medicinal intervention). I am now completely well and healthy, much of which I attribute to Dr. Amir’s remarkable treatment!  It would be absurd for me to claim success from just one patient. Although I feel pretty sure about what I have written, my advice is that patients must not immediately assume that their problem is symmetry related. A consultation with a dentist conversant with jaw problems and orthodontics is important at an early stage, but for differential diagnosis, I would still check out what your medical advisor has to say. This article may be freely reproduced on social media or copied onto your website provided proper acknowledgment is made and a link provided back to this website. Friday, March 29. 2019Hard to Argue with Success. Multiple Sclerosis – Your choice?
Pauline Bresnik-Snasdell Background Today is 28 March 2019 and I am a 53 year-old female from the USA living in London these past 18 years. I’m a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Management Accountant with an MBA and a long career as a global senior manager at a Big4 accounting firm. I started my career as an auditor for the first 8 years, progressing upward from there. I mention this background to highlight that it is my nature and trained approach to choose my words carefully and maintain a healthy scepticism, and I hope you will read my Multiple Sclerosis (MS) story bearing this in mind. Medical background I was diagnosed with MS at the age of 28 via MRI scans, spinal fluid analysis and observable conditions. I immediately performed research on my best options for health and then began the Dr. Roy Swank diet amongst other approaches. I experienced results similar to those that Dr. Swank observed in his 33-year study relevant to the neurological grade at which I started the diet (Swank and Dugan 72-73). My main complaints years before the diagnosis of MS at the age of 28 included headaches, clicking jaw, crowded mouth leading to the removal of all 4 wisdom teeth, ‘concrete-like’ jaw, daily headaches and migraines. My main intermittent complaints leading directly up to and after my MS diagnosis included Lhermitte’s sign, numbness on the face, loss of sight in one eye, spasticity, general limb weakness, dizziness, impacts to my cognitive function, severe fatigue, gradual decline of my sense of balance, and a host of other issues too numerous to mention that continued on and off for 15 years. My MS Management Before Dr Amir Things that helped me manage my symptoms before starting Dr Amir’s treatment (Dr Amir, Dental Surgeon, London, UK) included the following:- The Swank Diet as mentioned above – this seemed to slow the progression of MS - Elimination of dairy from my diet – this greatly helped lessen my frequency of headaches - Inclined Bed Therapy - Free form amino acids capsules – this seemed to help my energy levels - Mercury fillings removals – this seemed to reduce a number of symptoms - Acupuncture (a medical doctor from China who also practices acupuncture) - Stress reduction A Word on Drugs I was told of my diagnosis by a well-respected neurologist in California. He had an open mind and presented me with a number of different options. Very soon after my diagnosis I read everything I could find on the subject and concluded that a drug approach would not be for me. It was explained to me that the drugs available at the time could only offer a reduction in the number of exacerbations and may cause me to experience a number of unpleasant side effects. My gut reaction was that I would have a better chance of dealing with MS ‘naturally.’ My Amir Experience When I was 43, my husband brought home the Evening Standard write-up on Dr Amir and I went to see him. What he said made sense to me and I started his treatment. Within a few weeks, I was feeling much less fatigued and physically stronger. I experienced an ability to breathe more deeply than I’d ever been able to. This was the most noticeable difference. It was my husband, however, who pointed out, several months into the treatment, that I hadn’t complained about any MS issues for a while and we realized together I hadn’t had any evidence of MS since starting treatment with Dr Amir. My Watershed Moment There was one symptom that came back and I’m so grateful it did. One of the first symptoms I experienced when I was 28 that prompted me to seek medical attention was Lhermitte’s sign, i.e., when I bent my head forward I felt tingling all down my back and the back of my legs. In September 2012, nearly 3 years since I’d had any exacerbations or any signs of having MS at all, my Lhermitte’s ‘scar’ reappeared during a particularly stressful time and I felt deflated. I made an appointment with Dr. Amir, and he made a new brace for me while I waited. Just before retiring that night, I felt the Lhermitte’s ‘scar’ and it reminded me to use the new brace for the instructed two minutes. Afterward, I bent my head and the Lhermitte’s sign had completely disappeared and remained so. My ‘scar’ had healed in two minutes flat. As it sank in and I considered all I had thought about MS in light of this new ‘evidence’, I actually started to cry, a rare occurrence, because I knew at that moment that 22 years of fear, and hope, and of being careful; and my mother’s tears of fear for my potential bed-ridden life had been unnecessary. My jaw had needed to be realigned; I hadn’t had multiple sclerosis. I felt relief and then anger and then gratefulness - gratefulness that I had had the fortune to cross paths with Dr. Amir, a new thinker, who has changed my life experience. Message to Medical Professionals I have had the fortune to be advised by some of the brightest medical practitioners around the world and I now hope they will allow their natural sense of curiosity to explore this surprising experience. It would have been wonderful to avoid those years of uncertainty. Those years, however, have made me who I am today, so it’s not so much a feeling of regret as one of anticipation. I am expecting great things from the medical profession in the future. Postscript: I have hesitated to write my story, mostly because I have keep my diagnosis secret for so long, but something happened, however, over the 2013 Christmas break that made me change my mind. With conflicting holiday schedules and extensive travel plans, I went 4 weeks without wearing a brace. I experienced a number of issues mostly related to my neck, head, face and eyes that couldn’t be relieved with pain medicine. When I, completely exhausted, finally managed to see Dr.Amir after the holidays, it was within 10 minutes of wearing my new brace that everything cleared and it was dramatic. This story needs to be told now.  Whoever seeks to return me, and others like me, to ill health, must prepare themselves for a fight that will last until the moment we draw our last breath. No one fights harder, and with more ferocity, than someone who is fighting for her life. Reference: Swank M.D. PhD, R. L. & Dugan, B. B (1987).The Multiple Sclerosis Diet Book.DoubleDay: New York Here is my Google Review  10 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 10 years later I can say the same... The maxillo-facial surgeon advising the GDC about my website, says:"The cause of Multiple Sclerosis is unknown. It's considered an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system malfunctions destroying myelin (the fatty substance that coats and protects nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord. It is not associated or caused by TMD." Comment: In the first breath they do not know what causes 'MS'. In the second breath, they do. It is, of course, the money-spinning autoimmune problem rearing its ugly very profitable head again! Such deception is what has crippled society and making our health services unaffordable. This collusion with the established false mantra by some neurologists and other cronies is crippling and killing patients. One blockbuster drug, supposed to "delay the onset of the serious secondary progressive stage of this 'autoimmune disease' " is actually an anti-fungal and sells for £55,000 ($72,000 in the USA) a year per patient. The ancillary costs of looking after these patients are at least equal to this drug cost. When was MS declared a 'fungal disease'? Never! Neurologists have conveniently divided the disease into: - 'benign'; - 'primary relapsing and remitting' - which they purport, can be treated with steroids to start with and then with extremely expensive drugs. Their claim is that these drugs delay the onset of the 'secondary' killer stage of 'MS' when no drug will work. I think these classifications help the neurologists weasel out of any allegations regarding false or a misdiagnosis and serve no other purpose. . The initial use of steroids raises serious questions. I wonder what came first? The damage from steroid use often causing irreparable incapacity or 'Multiple Sclerosis'. The use of steroids, as a first line drug, for the treatment of the supposed 'MS' symptoms, sets the patient up for more illness. I do not know if this is done knowingly or unknowingly. If they read the experience of a senior neurologist than I expect they should NEVER use steroids. But this is not so. This very dangerous drug is used very routinely. This is what a senior neurologist wrote about the complications which may be visited upon patients by the use of steroids: “In general I try and avoid high-dose steroids to treat acute relapses simply because of the potential complications. This case report is a reminder of one of the rare complications of this treatment; i.e. a clot in one of the venous sinuses that drain blood from the brain of an MSer. I have seen this complication myself and it can be life-threatening; I have seen people die as a result of venous sinus thrombosis. The more common serious adverse event linked to high-dose steroids is avascular necrosis of the hip; this is when the blood vessel that supplies blood to the hip becomes blocked and the hip dies. I will never forget one of my first MSers I looked after when I was completing my training at Queen Square; he was a 23 years old and developed bilateral avascular necrosis of the hip after his first course of high dose steroids (1g methylprednisolone x 3 days). He subsequently required bilateral hip replacements. Since then I have seen several other MSers with unilateral AVN from steroids. The other serious adverse event that scares the hell out of me is psychosis; thankfully I have only had one MSers under my care that had to be sectioned because of psychosis.”When the patients reach an irreparable stage of the disease in spite of using the rip-off priced "Disease Modifying Therapies" (DMTs) meaning immune system killing drugs, 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." I hasten to add, @£40,000 drug cost per patient per anum - you were not just misleading the patient but cheating the whole country out of billions of pounds.What blatant deception!Such deception needs a police investigation! 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. I just saw this on a very popular international forum-thisisms.com: This is the husband writing about his wife Emma who I treated for a few years starting end of 2011. Her condition as very advanced and the results are not as spectacular as one would like. Re: AtlasBalance (jaw misalignment) Treatment - EJC Post by EJC » Thu Dec 13, 2018 12:26 pm Seeing as this thread has been devoid of updates now a for nearly 2 and half years I thought it only reasonable to give an update of how Emma has got on in that time. We’ve not had the need to see Dr Amir for some time now, once his treatment had moved Emma’s jaw to where it needed to be it was then up to Emma to help herself as much as possible. Good things:- The following symptoms that disappeared during and after Amir’s treatment and have remained dormant or gone. Severe (or any form of) Neuralgia Severe Fatigue Jaw pain and discomfort Back pain Foot drop Severe headaches As a result of these symptoms being removed it enabled Emma to undertake Neurophysio to start to undo the damage done by being sedentary for so many years. This combined with Pilates twice a week, deep tissue massage for an hour once a week and as much home exercise as I can get her to undertake (this varies wildly!) and we’ve managed to slow the progression of this awful condition. Have we cured it? Of course not, but we’ve made life more tolerable. Things that are not so good:- There is clearly damage to Emma’s brain and the latest MRI undertaken this year shows more lesions than previous MRI’s and also atrophy. Eyesight isn’t great, Emma’s left eye has a life of its own and this is generally put down to one of two things – Internuclear Ophthalmoplegia or One and a half syndrome. What they are, are basically long baffling phrases that mean “we don’t know why that’s happening and there’s nothing we can do for it”. I’m convinced the eyesight is blood flow/oxygenation related after the results had with a CCSVI procedure some year back. How to address this though I have no idea. Emma suffers from confusion, almost dementia-like symptoms on occasion, these come and go and like the eye issue, there’s no explanation forthcoming. Plenty of drugs on offer though as ever. We do still visit Neurologists, I don’t know why we still go through this ritual. Much of it is just so I can point out how ineffective and narrow-minded they really are when it comes to this awful illness. 70 year of persevering with an autoimmune explanation and still no closer to finding anything to prove it, yet it appears there’s little in the way of research looking for what’s causing this terrible problem. Is Emma glad she got treated by Amir? Hell yes. It’s been life-changing. Well, the quality of life-changing would be a more appropriate phrase. The world needs eccentric people like Amir. It’s people like him that think outside the box and continue to think outside the box whilst the established medical profession pilloried him for his ideas and treatments despite an increasing number of patients obtaining life-changing relief. Hopefully, he’ll pass on his knowledge for someone to continue his research and treatment when he decides to finally call it a day. This article may be freely reproduced on social media or copied onto your website. Please acknowledge and provide a link back to this website. Sunday, March 10. 2019What causes sleep apnoea? The relationship to jaw asymmetryI have examined quite a few patients suffering from Sleep apnoea over the years. In fact, dentist have been providing oral devices to overcome sleep apnoea to patients for very many years.
When I examine such patients in the upright posture, I always ask them to take a deep breath into the chest. I often observe that they appear not to be able to inhale very deeply. The chest appears to be unable to expand. The patient appears to need some other force to help breathe. This comes from the employment of the neck muscles to lift the shoulders up to aid breathing. If you suffer from sleep apnoea and repeat the above exercise in front of a mirror you will perhaps agree with me that it is indeed so. This lifting of the shoulders to aid breathing is easy to accomplish when one is not laying down in bed to sleep. The result is that the intake of air diminishes. When sufficiently deprived of oxygen our reflex control to trigger the act of breathing kicks in and the patient takes a big gasp of air often waking up during this process. This is what we call sleep apnoea. The patient keeps getting woken up and hence the sleep is unrefreshing - never having slept deeply all night. The brain builds some 5000 chemical nutrients during deep REM sleep which again puts these patients at a great disadvantage because they do not seem able to get into this rhythm of sleep. Breathing difficulties vary from person to person. Some are seriously compromised while others are less affected. It always relates to the amount of asymmetry they have in there craniodental and skeletal complexes. Some patients may present just with snoring while others present with critical stages of sleep apnoea. The literature is full of references to a narrower airway, large tongue, tongue falling back during sleep but these are essentially secondary issues. Breathing is under a reflex neurological AND a voluntary control mechanism. This means that there is a part, which is not under our control and another part, which is. Another way of explaining the mechanism is that the extra effort exerted to breathe in apnoeic patients becomes very tiring. The patient tries to take a rest from this extra effort which is the apnoeic phase. The reflex neurological cycle continues to make the person want to breathe to overcome this voluntary inhibition. A fight ensues and often the tiredness wins for a few seconds, allowing the patient to take a rest from this tremendous energy expenditure, for breathing. While the breathing is arrested, the oxygen levels start depleting and carbon dioxide levels start rising. The sensors for these gases located in our neck region start firing very rapidly to overcome the voluntary inhibition. The neurological input to breathe accelerates and eventually overcomes the voluntary inhibition making the patient take a great big gasp of air producing the familiar gasping noise. Sleep apnoea is essentially a fight between trying to rest and trying to oxygenate in an increasingly deteriorating state as life progresses. Amongst children, the apnoeic episodes can be very alarming for the parents. Seeing their child tired in the morning, perhaps unable to go to school, is very disconcerting. In adults who fail to find any relief, it is common that the partners, who are eventually at the end of their tether, decide to sleep in separate rooms. In some cases, patients are often so tired that they start snoring and gasping watching TV in the evening well before bedtime. It is usually a hellish scenario for the whole family. The chronic effects of this over-exertion, against lungs, which cannot inflate fully; which may also be inhibited by some other factor, e.g. smoking, has further consequences. The main one is that the heart has to work harder to push the blood into the lungs which have difficulty inflating fully. The patients are also usually chest breathers rather than belly breathers. This leads to the heart having to fight with every in breath causing the familiar palpitations. In some serious cases, it also gets chronically damaged by the extra exertion with right-sided heart enlargement and eventually heart failure. The ramifications of all this cardiac and lung deficiencies are widespread. Apart from the effects in the immediate vicinity, there are effects remote from the heart and lungs. If the blood is not saturating with oxygen some compensations have to be made. Usually, the sympathetic nervous system hyper-activates to conserve blood starting with the extremities, this results in a feeling of very cold hands and feet, often going blue in extreme cases. This effect on the extremities was first characterized by Maurice Raynaud in 1888 who described it as "episodic digital asphyxia due to arterial insufficiency" and is labeled after his name as Raynaud's Syndrome. Complex medical hypotheses have been put forth, but I think the mystery could now be resolved in most cases. A secondary consequence of a deficient dental complex is its effects on the Atlas vertebrae and its ramifications on the rest of the skeleton and the visceral systems of the body as explained under the article on the TMJ and hip asymmetry. The graph below shows the effects of Jaw asymmetry on sleep and all other systems causing a conglomeration of symptoms conventionally treated as isolated incidents by isolated medical specialists. In other cases, some groups of symptoms are grouped together and treated by specialists like "Specialist in ME/CFS" in hospital units always claiming that the "cause is unknown" system of treatment. This is a graph of 82 patients who had symptoms of JAW AND SLEEP PROBLEMS. It shows that these patients suffer from multiple other symptoms too as per the list on the graph.  Last week, I had an interesting interaction with a patient. I was treating his wife when she casually mentioned that her husband had backache problems. Out of interest, I said I would have a look at him. He did not complain of jaw pain, which looked perfect with no restorations or periodontal issues. He had well-built jaws with a Class I bite with no sign of tooth grinding although he had been under considerable stress most of his life suffering from the back pain and a very restless sleep problem. Also, recently he had to undergo "Cardioversion" (The system of artificially shocking the heart back into normal rhythm) as he had developed a severe cardiac arrhythmia which had gone unnoticed for some months. The patient was seen on the 9th of March 2019. What does one do when one sees nothing wrong and hears nothing about a jaw problem!  On closer examination, I discovered that his jaw was just 2 to 3 mm out of synch. This was affecting his breathing capacity and his hip was out of level by about four cms. It was decided to bring about symmetry with an appropriate dental appliance. This, the patient consented to wholeheartedly as he had been suffering most of his life. An appropriate appliance was constructed and fitted and he was prescribed some swallowing exercises. This is his response about 4 days later, telling us about the dramatic reduction in his symptoms, which had been present for some 30 years! S. B. Wed 3/13/2019 21:10 Hi Dr Amir, My back has been good thanks. It is much better with only the odd twinge to my left hip. I managed the drive home, a 200-mile journey, on Sunday with no pain at all which for me is amazing as normally driving can be a struggle. I have also been sleeping much better and even when I do wake during the night I have been much more comfortable than normal. Many thanks again Stuart This is the latest response: I did complete your questionnaire update but as all my current symptoms have all but disappeared over the last month there were no results to update. Here is a graphical representation of his recovery. Lesson learned: One does not have to have classical TMJD to suffer from the effects of jaw asymmetry. In fact "Jaw asymmetry" is the overriding factor. TMD or TMJD is one of the extreme facets of this asymmetry and may or may not be present. This is true across all age groups, especially children. Likewise, sleep apnoea is also one symptom of a huge plethora of sleep disorders as exemplified by the patient inputs below. Here are some examples of patients who do not fit into the sleep apnoea spectrum, and who form the majority of patients with associated sleep disorders: Best sleep and pleasant dreams ".......... One amazing improvement to mention is that my 20-year habit of clenching and grinding my teeth at night stopped after Dr Amir fitted my Custom Appliance, the next morning I woke without a headache and had the best sleep ever. I started getting a very deep sleep with pleasant dreams that I could remember. I started waking up much refreshed while before I was fatigued in the mornings.After twenty years of questions, Dr Amir diagnosed my problem in a matter of minutes and this is no exaggeration, and the proof of his treatment is that my overall health is feeling so much better. Dr Amir’s staff are friendly and knowledgeable and his work is life-changing." 13th March 2019. Paul writes further: My 1st-night sleep after wearing Dr amirs appliance and following the exercises he recommended. I experienced the best sleep, no teeth grinding, no interrupted sleep, no jaw and tongue falling backward and no neck and jaw spasms, I felt relaxed upon waking after having slept for 6hrs uninterrupted. This was total relief and felt amazing. Sleeping prior to this was literally a nightmare and would wake feeling more tired and fatigued than prior to sleeping, and would only sleep in fits and starts. I also started to experience more detailed dreams which I cannot explain. This has continued throughout treatment. Paul Swan - Ambulance driver- Scotland Sleeping normally "To be well enough to go out for dinner and enjoy myself around food was just amazing. Ten years have passed since that time, and the girl who thought her life was over at 16 is now married with two beautiful children, happy and healthy, and able to do all the things I wanted to do in life. I can eat, sleep normally, exercise, work, look after my family, and live a normal life. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Dr. Amir to anybody. If you’ve tried everything and nothing worked, Dr. Amir will fix you."Emma Hursit - London February 2019 Sleeping deeply "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." Lucie Webb London Recovery from excessive sleep "I was initially seeking braces purely for cosmetic reasons. Dr Amir was convinced my sleep disorder was also related and he seems to have been right! During my worst bout, I was sometimes sleeping as long as 16 hours, this hasn't happened in years now."Jonathan Trotter, London Much improved sleep "I had been wearing appliances for 14 months when suddenly I felt my teeth fall into a good bite for the first time ever. I nearly cried! My neck pain was relieved very soon after. My sleep is much improved and I hope I can keep my teeth for much longer now that they are not constantly grinding each other down. Dr Amir and his small team have been amazing. Dr Amir listens, is highly skilled and really seems to care about his work. I am very grateful to have found him."Maria, Manchester Recovery from chronic fatigue sleep "By the end of two years of treatment, Jasmine’s fatigue is no longer there; she sleeps normal hours and has resumed her education bringing about indescribable happiness to both of us. I do not want to even imagine what our life would have been like if we had not found the extraordinary doctor Amir who made the impossible possible for Jasmine. He saved Jasmine from the bunglings of conventional medicine and dentistry."Y. Baird, London The best night’s sleep "Dr. Amir always said it would be a long journey and the outcome not certain, but I was happy to go with it as the first removable brace he fitted resulted in the best night’s sleep I had had in ages."Sarah Phillips London I must include the views of a maxillo-facial surgeon, who the GDC has called upon to give them expert advice about this website. He has reported that I do not give "a balanced view". I think including his comments balances the picture for all the patients looking for a respite from sleepless nights: The official GDC expert advisor in his grammar says: "TMD is rarely associated with symptoms to sleep problems but in theory, could due to pain affect sleep." Comment: You will have noticed from the various patient testimonials that sleep disorders are very numerous with multiple causes. Jaw asymmetry is the main cause. The presence of symptoms of jaw pain and discomfort may or may not be present. There are far more important issues about the subject of sleep than entering into any conversation with the GDC or its cronies. At any given time some 25% people suffer from some sleep disorder. Dr Mercola says the following about the importance of sleep and how Sleep Is Critical for Brain Detoxification: " - Sleep is deeply interconnected with your health in a myriad of ways. For example, previous research has found that sleep deprivation has the same effect on your immune system as physical stress or illness - Recent research shows that your brain has a unique waste management system, similar to the lymphatic system in your body. This system, dubbed the glymphatic system, is activated during sleep - By pumping cerebral spinal fluid through your brain’s tissues, the glymphatic system flushes the waste from your brain back into your body’s circulatory system and into your liver, where it’s ultimately eliminated - During sleep, your brain cells also shrink by about 60 percent, which allows for more efficient waste removal - Amyloid-beta, for example—proteins that form the notorious plaque found in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients—is removed in significantly greater quantities during sleep" It is imperative that we learn everything to put right whatever is the cause of sleep disturbances for the proper health of the nation. Posted by Dr. M. Amir B.D.S., M. Sc. (U. of London), L.D.S., R.C.S. (England) Dental Surgeon This article may be freely reproduced on social media or copied onto your website provided proper acknowledgment is made and a link provided back to this website. Friday, March 8. 2019Ataxia - Is asymmtery of the Cranio-cervical junction a major cause? Wikipedia describes Ataxia as: I was born with one leg supposedly shorter than the other. I did not notice any problem with this until I was in my teens. My skirts were always lopsided and my trousers had to be shortened by 1 inch on the right leg. I also began to experience pain in my right hip, and so began many years of seeing doctors and physios - none of whom seemed to know what was wrong.Ataxia is a neurological sign consisting of lack of voluntary coordination of muscle movements that can include gait abnormality, speech changes, and abnormalities in eye movements. Ataxia is a clinical manifestation indicating dysfunction of the parts of the nervous system that coordinate movement, such as the cerebellum. Several possible causes exist for these patterns of neurological dysfunction. Dystaxia is a mild degree of ataxia. Friedreich's ataxia has gait abnormality as the most commonly presented symptom" "One of my colleagues, Dr. Siegfried Trefzer, from the Hightree medical clinic specialising in integrative medicine when discussing ataxia writes: "In my understanding Ataxia itself is a term used for a group of disorders that affect coordination, postural balance, speech, most voluntary movements such as gripping and the selective engagement of muscle groups but also automated movements e.g. the ability to swallow, to walk etc. At some stage, my patient was simultaneously affected by all of these dysfunctions to a various degree." "Ataxia" is a very broad term. Anyone with a walking disability will have a number of other problems also but I shall confine this article to walking disabilities. This is an excerpt from my 2009 article on "http://dramir.com/articles.php?t=3 >" where I first wrote about "Gait" problems. This includes Ataxia: "The cranium becomes unlevel leading to an asymmetry of the eyes and the back of the head called the occiput which physically alters the shape of the cerebellum leading to problems with fine motor control of the skeletal muscles and also causing problems like dyslexia which has been shown to be centered in the cerebellar area of the brain. Neurological disturbances, other than the Hypoglossal nerve affect a number of other important nerves: 1. The Vagus and the Cervical Sympathetic chain: The effects of asymmetry here can affect the function of many organs in the body, leading to digestive and blood pressure problems.  By courtesy of Atlantotec Germany 2. The internal jugular vein and the Carotid artery: These lie in close proximity to each transverse process with the artery and vein lying anteriorly. The asymmetry would compromise the blood flow through these vessels. This asymmetry may also be responsible for the recently discovered obstruction of these veins in what is termed as Chronic CerebroSpinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI) in cases of Multiple Sclerosis. 3. The Phrenic nerve: This nerve supplies the diaphragm. Disturbances here can lead to a reduced breathing capacity. After Atlas correction, we have seen immediate improvement in the patient's breathing capacity in a majority of cases which is an absolutely phenomenal finding. 4. The vertebral artery: This artery traverses through the transverse process of the Atlas. The blood flow through it can be reduced, leading to a lesser flow on one side of the cerebellum than the other perhaps contributing to gait and vision problems." My more recent article on Jaw asymmetry explains cerebellar insufficiencies more succinctly: "In the picture opposite, I have shown the basic disturbance in our cranium in terms of rotating cogs. When the lower jaw is pushed back, it causes the temporal bone to rotate forwards while the occipital bone lifts upwards causing all kinds of head and neck problems e.g. migraines, neck pain, suboccipital muscle pain, and shoulder pain. These are dental problems and can only be corrected through dental interventions, not medical pills.  When the cerebellum lifts up on one side, a little recognised fact, but easily demonstrable, it disturbs the symmetry of the cerebellum and the blood flow through the vertebral artery because the Atlas vertebra also rotates forwards on the affected side. This can cause all kinds of movement disorders and may also affect the eyes. Please read my article on Visual snow. The hypoglossal nerve which innervates the tongue also emanates from the occipital bone close to the occipital condyles. Any asymmetry here can also potentially affect speech and swallowing. Some medical syndromes chiefly cerebellar ataxia, have these groups of symptoms occurring together namely, gait disorder, eye problems, speech, and swallowing issues. No pill can ever fix that so patients get pigeonholed into syndromes or medical conundrums. Testimonials on Gait, Ataxia: 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..............1. EF wrote: ".....Mr Amir 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 long distance and many of my other symptoms have eased or disappeared." 2. PB writes: "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."3. AG writes: "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 am grateful every day that I found that random search result that led us to the brilliant Dr. Amir and his pioneering work."[This patient has almost totally recovered from her supposed MS] 4. JO writes: "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.5. JC writes: 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 coordination 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 continuing improving health and well being under his diligent care. The influence of occlusal stabilization appliances on cervical dystonia symptoms In a research article Romanian researchers CAMELIA NAVROTCHI and MÎNDRA EUGENIA BADEA report the improvements in mobility with the use of an occlusal appliance: Results "The OSA was applied on the lower arch in 3 (27.3%) patients and on the upper arch in 8 (72.7%) patients. The OSA wearing time for the first 24 h was on average 19.2±6 hours. Total relaxation of dystonic muscles was reported by 9 (81.8%) patients, while 2 (18.2%) patients related to partial muscle relaxation. Seven (63.6%) patients reported a pain decrease. Increased comfort while walking was observed by 8 (72.7%) patients. Two (18.2%) patients described an increase of sleep quality. In two (18.2%) patients the tremor disappeared. All patients reported difficulties while eating and removed the OSA during meals. Patients who wore the OSA for more hours, experienced a pain decrease (p=0.08), an increase in sleep quality (p=0.1), the disappearance of the tremor (p=0.1). After three months, only seven patients continued to use the OSA. More patients described a pain decrease after three months (5 (71.4%) vs. 4 (57.1%); p=0.5), relaxation of dystonic muscles (7 (100%) vs. 6 (85.7%); p=0.3)." 6. WT wrote: "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 his surgery door and planned to pick me up after my appointment.Dr Amir decided on a certain appliance 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." 7. CH wrote: Astonishingly Dr. Amir proved his theory by demonstrating that I could walk instantly with less pain if my jaw was properly aligned. I could not believe the sense of relief I got from this experience and how much hope it gave me to really believe that Dr. Amir's symmetry treatment will finally eradicate my gout.8. SW wrote: ...but just walking normally was difficult. What I didn't realise was that most, if not all of it was down to my spine/shoulder girdle and pelvis not being aligned correctly.Now that I have been rebalanced, I actually feel amazingly different - no knee or hip pain and I feel completely balanced. It has put a big, big smile on my face and I am recommending you to some of my friends, who have not been able to resolve neck or back problems. In the last week I have completed a charity walk of 13 miles, cycled to my parents and back (35 miles) and played in a squash tournament - with no pain whatsoever! 9. Walking taller As I explained when I saw you, I noticed a big difference immediately after my appointment. As I walked back to the station I felt taller and as if I was standing up and walking straight for the first time ever. The change was so pronounced I could feel muscles working in my lower back that I had not been aware of before, and it almost felt as if I was leaning backward.By the next day, it felt like my back had adjusted and it was as if I had always been straight. My posture feels much better when standing and walking (although I still seem to slouch sitting down). Before the appointment, the bones in my upper spine and neck used to click frequently and quite loudly. This has reduced although not completely disappeared. Rachel, July 2008 10. Walking differently Dr Amir!It is amazing! I'm constantly looking around behind me because I can't believe how well my neck is working! I can feel that I am standing and walking differently, and I have no difficulty keeping good posture, it feels so natural! I wish you had done it 30 years ago for me, in fact, my body feels like you have taken 30 years off it! I feel like it should be checked for everyone in the world! Renata, September 2008 11. Serious hip distortion causing severe pain One afternoon whilst working in my office in the City the pain became intense and I was taken to the Royal London Hospital where a Consultant decided that this was obviously appendicitis. I had my appendix removed and was sent home. The pain returned and I was given an IVP [Intravenous Pyelogram] at my local hospital. The result was negative! Still, the pain was there. Many years later after seeing a succession of physios I was becoming more and more lopsided as I walked. One evening I was in an armchair at home and had so much difficulty in getting up that I decided this was enough. As luck would have it, my son was seeing Dr. Amir for another problem and I made an appointment to see him in the hope that he could do something for me. He was my saviour - 2 years later, after straightening my teeth and sorting my Atlas vertebra, I was free of pain for the first time in years. My posture was erect and I no longer have to adjust my trouser length - by 2 inches. I am most grateful to Dr. Amir and would recommend anybody who is in pain, and cannot get satisfactory treatment elsewhere, to contact Dr. Amir for an appointment. Valerie Page, 29th August 2016 12. A senior NHS executive about her daughter. Hannah and her family are eternally grateful to have found Dr. Amir so early in her illness as she was physically deteriorating so rapidly that walking was becoming a significant concern and disability a real possibility. We would encourage anyone with these symptoms or with such a diagnosis to see Dr. Amir to determine if the cause is the same as Hannah's so he can work his magic on them.We believe that Hannah has been saved from being drawn into a "chronic incurable illness" like CFS/ME/MS or Fibromyalgia. Our advice to everyone with these or in fact many chronic disease labels is to have their jaws checked. You may have a chance to recover fully. Mari Gay 13. Foot drag immediately after extraction of wisdom teeth which morphed into MS “I have been passed the article about you in the Evening Standard and have read it with great interest. I too have MS which started 13 years ago after having all of my wisdom teeth extracted under general anaesthetic. Straight after the operation, I could not walk properly on my left side, dragging my leg. The doctor advised it was weak muscles and to go to the gym - which I tried and failed. I simply could not move the machines with my legs. After a year I sought complementary therapy and continue to do so, to varying degrees of help. (Over the years my condition has deteriorated and I have been formally diagnosed since Dec ‘05.) Along the way it has been suggested that my jaws are not in alignment which is why the article on your approach was so interesting.S.G.” I must include the views of a maxillo-facial surgeon giving his expert advice to the GDC about this website complaining that I do not give a balanced view. I think including his comments balances the picture: The official GDC advisor says: "Mr Amir claims on his website that TMD causes a wide variety of systemic conditions, this contention is not supported by the literature or a reasonable body of dental/medical opinion."Comment: "The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking." “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” Therefore, both medical literature and opinion are mostly corrupt. I think I would print it if truth and altruism were to prevail. If I did not have reports like this from one of my many pain patients, I would surely print the successes of medicine. Here is a patients' responses about previous treatment for back ache. She has now almost fully recovered from severe back ache which had made her bed-ridden for many months.  Posted by M. Amir B.D.S., M. Sc. (U. of London), L.D.S., R.C.S. (England) Dental Surgeon ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This article may be freely reproduced on social media or copied onto your website provided proper acknowledgment is made and a link provided back to this website. Wednesday, March 6. 2019Recovery from "Post Viral ME" by correction of my Jaw asymmetryFriday, March 1. 2019The ramifications of shoulder problems caused by Jaw asymmetryShoulder pain can have a massive impact on one's day-to-day functioning and is a The intimate relationship of shoulder problems to Jaw asymmetry.This graphic demonstrates that shoulder problems are an all too frequent accompaniment of other symptoms amongst 329 patients seen for jaw problems. The graph above confirms the presence of actual shoulder pain amongst at least a third of patients presenting with TMJ dysfunction. Others who present with almost any other symptom will have either one or both shoulders very stiff and painful on palpation. A shoulder problem is often the first sign of pain at the onset of multiple illnesses in many patients as shown below. It cannot be ignored as the long term outcome could be an affliction with some serious incapacity. TestimonialsExtreme Dizziness, Head-over-the-hammer Headaches, Tinnitus "Thank you for your time and care with my jaw problems. Your unique orthodontic approaches have given me my life back. My problems began when all four of my wisdom teeth were mistakenly removed in St. Thomas’s Hospital, London.My health deteriorated rapidly starting with a frozen shoulder and progressing to extreme dizziness, head-over-the-hammer headaches, tinnitus, numbness in limbs and tiredness. At first, I didn’t put the two things together and I thought maybe I had a brain tumour, the symptoms seemed to match. After a brain scan, I was told everything was fine. I remember feeling really upset that I still didn’t know what was wrong with me. A dentist told me that I might have TMD I was referred to the Eastman Dental Hospital and had a splint made for my lower teeth. I wore the appliance at night and at first, it did help my headaches. My dizziness was still very bad so I researched TMD and then embarked on a very costly (in terms of health, time and money) treatment plan with private dentists. They all did the same thing - they made me splints of varying descriptions I was so determined to get better that I went along with their advice and treatments. They were ‘top’ Harley street dentists but I continued to deteriorate. M Gorman Rapid recovery from numerous symptoms including extreme dizziness "Dear Dr Amir, Thank you so much for all you did yesterday within a few minutes of arriving at your office. I feel so much better today. I thought I would e-mail what I can remember of the symptoms leading up to 12th August 2017 and then how I feel since my appointment with you 10 days later. I watched 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. ..............W Taylor Daily dizziness and headaches "Hello, I am 27 years old. I have been suffering for two and a half years from massive pressure pain all over my face, jaw, and neck, pain behind eyes, burning sensation in my nostrils, dizziness, headaches every day, panic attacks, abdominal pain, back pain, pain in my shoulders."...................Neringa Unstoppable migraines "I have suffered from migraines for as long as I can remember. For the most part, they were mainly hormonal or came during times of extreme stress. They were not life-affecting initially; I had literally half a dozen a year at most However, by my mid-thirties, they were increasing in frequency and by my fortieth year became chronic.. Horrendous pain in my neck and shoulders which was causing almost daily migraines.................................... Within a few weeks of wearing braces, my migraines had gone and now three and a half years later, I can quite literally go for months without having a migraine and when I do, it generally doesn’t come from my neck and shoulders"...............................Pamela Hunniset Multiple Sclerosis '........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)"............. TSRestricted arm movement "I have for the last few months started to get restricted movement in one arm. Three weeks ago, Dr Amir fitted me with a new orthodontic brace - instantly, I was able to move my arm freely behind my back but still had restricted movement above my shoulders. Returning to Dr Amir for an adjustment today, he said not to worry as ‘That will be easy to fix”. After some adjustment to the orthodontic brace, I now find that I can raise my arm above my head. As you would assume, I am delighted and would recommend Dr Amir to anybody with similar problems....................Bernadette R.I must include the views of a maxillo-facial surgeon giving his expert advice to the GDC about this website complaining that I do not give a balanced view. I think including his comments balances the picture: The official GDC advisor says: "The website is unprofessional, lacks balance and is factually misleading." Comment: If you find anything on this website factually incorrect or misleading please email me immediately. I have tried hard but I cannot find or imagine anything here which may be or is misleading. I have tried to expose the scams run by various medical disciplines. I have exposed the utter devastation that the present care system has on thousands of patients and how merciless those who operate it are. There is no end to them wanting to shut anyone down who espouses altruism and proper welfare of the patient and relieve them of all types of chronic diseases. I hope all the readers will join me in condemning this medico-dental junta who wield perhaps too much power to the detriment of patients and exposing them to lifelong illnesses instead of backing someone who can help. Follow @divinesymmetry Posted by M. Amir B.D.S., M. 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