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Saturday, December 8. 2018Recovery from Fibromyalgia
7th December 2018
For the last 13 months, I have been a patient of Dr. Amir. I have a retrognathic jaw which he has been working to improve. I contacted him because I thought he could help me with my symptoms of ‘Fibromyalgia’. I am 66 years old with a 3-year diagnosis of fibromyalgia, which was preceded by IBS or at any rate a gut infection (although the NHS seem unable to accept gut infections because they don’t have the facilities to do the necessary tests). Labs in The States are set up to advise you if you are able to pay. I had dientamoeba fragilis overgrowth which Australian Doctor, Graham Exelby, has linked to IBS. How long before doctors in the U.K. catch up, or even acknowledge that digestive enzymes can help? This review is to inform anyone suffering from FMS/CFS/IBS/ME that Dr. Amir may be able to make fundamental improvements to your health by adjustments to the teeth and jaws. At our first meeting, Dr. Amir asked what reason I had to go on living. In the mold of the great German doctor, Groddeck, I could see he was ascertaining whether my spirit was prepared for a fight. That is the power of belief to invoke magic. Structurally my body has never been as Mother Nature intended. I lost an adult tooth in the lower jaw as a child and was advised to have my wisdom teeth removed in my 20’s since they were a nuisance to clean. From this time I regularly had stiff necks and tailbone which I learned could be ‘maintained’ by visceral osteopathy and cranial sacral therapy, but it is possible to overwork the mechanism. Dr. Amir likes to point out this is hardly a cure. In my 40’s I had an adjustment to the cuboid in my left foot which led to a spell of labyrinthitis. Gradually I lost the ability to cry (I used eyedrops) or feel a concomitant emotional release and then a little before the physical collapse I had tense shoulders and neck which could not relax however consciously I tried. I began to get a lot of pressure and throbbing at the base of my brain and by the time I found Dr. Amir my breathing was restricted. I had to drag myself slowly across Putney Bridge from the tube station to reach him. Dr. Amir spent some months correcting my dental arches. The first improvement I noticed was in the duration and depth of sleep. My breathing improved although I seem to have some shrinkage of my diaphragm muscles. My energy levels improved. I have had tests on mitochondria done privately that show DNA damage and I still have pains in my legs most of the time and occasional muscle spasms but I am only 1/3 of the way through treatment. I am writing now to endorse Dr. Amir’s treatment as, for the last few months, since Dr. Amir started to bring my lower jaw forwards I have had a tremendous release from pressure at the base of my brain. The permanent ache in my right shoulder blade has lessened. I can cry with laughter or sadness, I have a big increase in the variety of words spouting from my tongue - (I keep thinking where did that word come from - have I ever used it before and was my brain really storing it for years without use?) Most impressively I look at least 10 years younger. The aging process seems to have gone into reverse and I have now reached my teenage years and am looking forward to my second childhood! ha, ha. I believe my endocrine and neurological systems stopped functioning properly because of pressure on the limbic brain and this has had a knock on effect on cardiovascular, digestive, and respiratory systems in particular. I have some permanent damage - sometimes my left arm, hand, ring finger twitch but I am enjoying life again. In reigniting my enthusiasm I regard Dr. Amir as a healer in the true sense of the word. TMJ dentists are the new healers. So glad that I am able to avoid all those ghastly drugs, tests, pain relief that is all that conventional western medicine has to offer due to its specializations leading to a fractured approach. L. W. Some conventional Gobbledegook about Fibromyalgia: Here are some nonsensical assumptions and teaching models for clinicians."Chronic widespread pain (CWP), the "hallmark symptom" of Fibromyalgia: is defined by the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) as pain present in at least 2 contralateral body quadrants and the axial skeleton and persisting for at least 3 months. These patients are also purported to experience higher rates of psychological distress.”My comment: Experience shows that these patients actually have a jaw dysfunction and they need not live with pain for the rest of their lives nor wait three months before commencing treatment."Patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), Fibromyalgia (FM), and temporomandibular disorder (TMD) share many clinical illness features: These are myalgia, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and impairment in the ability to perform activities of daily living as a consequence of these symptoms.”My comment: Experience shows that nothing in these conditions is "shared". Patients almost exclusively have a TMJ disorder. The other titles are unnecessary."A growing literature suggests that a variety of comorbid illnesses also may commonly coexist in these patients: This includes irritable bowel syndrome, chronic tension-type headache, and interstitial cystitis."My comment: Again, these symptoms are a consequence of TMJ dysfunction and there is no "co-morbidity" at all."A number of hormones and neuropeptides regulating pain, well-being and stress are shown to play important roles in the association between stress perception and pain reception: Long-lasting derangements in the stress axis may induce several neuroendocrine modifications, giving rise to many of the symptoms seen in chronic pain syndromes, including Fibromyalgia."My Comment: A simple jaw problem taken to the heights of absurdity!Conventional advice about NHS recommendations for Fibromyalgia and related labels as listed are: "Painkillers: Simple painkillers such as paracetamol, can sometimes help relieve the pain associated with fibromyalgia. Your GP may prescribe a stronger painkiller, such as codeine or tramadol.However, these painkillers can be addictive and their effect tends to weaken over time. This means that your dose may need to be gradually increased and you could experience withdrawal symptoms if you stop taking them. Other side effects include diarrhoea and fatigue (extreme tiredness). Antidepressants: Antidepressant medication can also help to relieve pain for some people with fibromyalgia. They boost the levels of certain chemicals that carry messages to and from the brain, known as neurotransmitters. Low levels of neurotransmitters may be a factor in fibromyalgia, and it's believed that increasing their levels may ease the widespread pain associated with the condition. Antidepressants used to treat fibromyalgia include: tricyclic antidepressants – such as amitriptyline serotonin-noradrenaline reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) – such as duloxetine and venlafaxine selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) – such as fluoxetine and paroxetine A medication called pramipexole, which isn't an antidepressant, but also affects the levels of neurotransmitters, is sometimes used as well. Antidepressants can cause a number of side effects, including: feeling sick dry mouth drowsiness feeling agitated, shaky or anxious dizziness weight gain constipation Medication to help you sleep: As fibromyalgia can affect your sleeping patterns, you may want medicine to help you sleep. If you're sleeping better, you may find that other symptoms aren't as severe. Muscle relaxants: If you have muscle stiffness or spasms (when the muscles contract painfully) as a result of fibromyalgia, your GP may prescribe a short course of a muscle relaxant, such as diazepam. Anticonvulsants: You may also be prescribed an anticonvulsant (anti-seizure) medicine, as these can be effective for those with fibromyalgia. The most commonly used anticonvulsants for fibromyalgia are pregabalin and gabapentin. These are normally used to treat epilepsy, but research has shown they can improve the pain associated with fibromyalgia in some people. Some common side effects of pregablin and gabapentin include: dizziness drowsiness swelling of your hands and feet (oedema) weight gain Antipsychotics: Antipsychotic medicines, also called neuroleptics, are sometimes used to help relieve long-term pain. Studies have shown that these medications may help conditions such as fibromyalgia, but further research is needed to confirm this. Possible side effects include: drowsiness tremors (shaking) restlessness" Hot on the heels of such advice a new patient walked in and had the following to say: "I have been ill for 27 years suffering from extreme exhaustion and severe muscle and joint pain. I have had numerous diagnoses such as CFS & Fibromyalgia & Arthritis (Sjögren’s syndrome), hyper-mobility and depression. Having come across your website and various blog posts I am now wondering if this is all related to my painful and locking Jaw that I have had for many years. Hoping that you can help.My current medication is: Buprenorphine Patches (Mosphine)15 Micrograms/hour. Tramadol 50mg 3 x daily. Naproxen 500mg 1 x daily. Hydroxychloroquine 200mg (immune suppressant) 2 x daily. ? Mirtazapine (anti depressant) 30mg 1 x daily. FemSeven Sequi patches (HRT)" The patient further adds "I have suffered for 27 years with chronic exhaustion & severe muscle and joint pains. I first became ill following a bad viral infection aged 22 during my pregnancy with my daughter. Despite exhaustive tests and multiple different diagnoses from many different medical professionals I remain locked in a cycle of pain and exhaustion, unable to work and left with no alternatives but to rely on ever stronger pain relief. It is interesting to try and decipher what the patients are actually being given compared to the very innocuous looking advice put out by the NHS: Buprenorphine is an opioid used to treat opioid addiction, acute and chronic pain. Side effects may include respiratory depression (decreased breathing), sleepiness, adrenal insufficiency, QT prolongation, low blood pressure, allergic reactions, and opioid addiction. Can cause severe withdrawal symptoms so care and supervision advised. Tramadol is an opioid pain medication used to treat severe pain. Common side effects include constipation, itchiness, and nausea. Serious side effects may include seizures, increased risk of serotonin syndrome, decreased alertness, and drug addiction. It is not recommended in those who are at risk of suicide. Naproxen is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug. Common adverse effects include central nervous system effects (e.g. dizziness and headache), blood effects (e.g. bruising), allergic reactions (e.g. rash), and gastrointestinal complaints (e.g. heartburn and stomach ulcers). It has an intermediate risk of stomach ulcers compared to other drugs in the same class (NSAIDs). NSAIDs appear to increase the risk of serious cardiovascular events. Serious drug interactions may occur in combinations with other drugs that affect the blood, or with drugs that also increase the risk of ulcers. Hydroxychloroquine is a medication used for the prevention and treatment of certain types of malaria. Other uses include treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and porphyria. Common side effects include vomiting, headache, changes in vision and muscle weakness. Severe side effects may include allergic reactions. Mirtazapine is an antidepressant primarily used to treat depression. Common side effects include increased appetite, sleepiness, and dizziness. Serious side effects may include increased suicide among children, mania, and low white cell blood count. Withdrawal symptoms may occur with stopping. It also has strong antihistamine effects, which contribute to its prominent side effect of drowsiness. This is a pitiful state of affairs. Despite numerous very addictive medications, the patient remains in a cycle of "pain and exhaustion". Such patients already have a serious breathing problem. Prescribing them opioids with their depressive effect on breathing is a serious error of judgment. Opioids are the major killers in the USA at the present time. From this patients experience, it is clear that the opioids do not help. Such patients also have a serious bowel problem including heartburn. Prescribing them NSAIDs is heresy. There are purportedly 800,000 patients with supposed "Fibromyalgia" in the UK. Can you imagine the cost to the NHS? The drugs are usually 10% of the cost of looking after such patients. The rest is gobbled up by the consultants and hospital services. No wonder that the NHS is such a huge conduit for the medico-industrial complex to drain the treasury of your tax remittances. Did I recently read somewhere that the NHS needs 50,000 staff and are contemplating importing them from, I do not know where? Closing the Fibromyalgia scam hospital departments would make available 100,000 staff who can be deployed in more useful occupations elsewhere in the NHS! I have read hundreds of medical articles about these mythical illnesses. There is absolutely no mention anywhere that the jaw asymmetry, TMJ dysfunction or malocclusions could be the cause of the patients' symptoms. It should be mandatory for clinicians to check for TMJ dysfunction in their differential diagnosis otherwise they leave themselves open to litigation. Do not expect the ruling bodies to dish out such altruistic advice. A court of law will. If the problem is emanating from the jaws no drug is ever going to fix the patient and hence lifelong crippling chronic illness. Friday, December 7. 2018Numbness all around head - Possible explanationFriday, November 30. 2018A patients recovery from multiple medically untreatable symptoms
The patient wrote this testimonial for publication:
I have been Dr. Amir's patient for some 3 years. I was suffering from some 33 symptoms. I had no energy. The muscle weakness was awful. I could not get into the bathroom. I thought I was going crazy. I largely recovered in a few months but I just want to relate one incident which could be of interest to other sufferers of chronic illnesses. I was watching a film on TV and my head was turned to the left for about 2 hours. When I woke the next morning, my neck was stiff and painful on the left side. I presumed this was from watching the film at first but the pain spread rapidly and surrounded my ear, jaw, collarbone, shoulder blade, lower back, and calf, all down the left side of my body. Then during the early hours of 12/8/17, I awoke to experience the room spinning, although this only lasted for 10-15 seconds, it felt like an eternity. This continued to happen whenever I laid down or turned over. It also occurred on bending my head over or down. On getting up from a sitting position I felt very unsteady and extremely nauseous with a headache that seemed to encompass my whole head with shooting pains like electric shocks. Dr. Amir was in the USA so I could not see him. My problems continued along with the pain and discomfort all down my left side over the next 10 days. I felt so ill, I avoided laying down by propping myself up on several pillows preventing me from turning in bed. The few times I managed to sleep I woke up with severe pains in my neck and severe headache. During the day I had to only sit around because I felt very unsteady and very ill. I did everything I could to avoid any movement that would cause the spinning. I call it spinning because it is far worse than dizziness. The doctor said I had some crystals in the ear organ and that is why I was dizzy. On the 22/8/17, some 10 days after my symptoms started, my appointment with Dr. Amir could not have come sooner. The journey up was awful, I felt 'drunk' but with the feeling of a very bad hangover all mixed into one. My walking reflected how I felt too. Luckily my husband took the day off to drive me up as I could not possibly manage the train journey and certainly not on my own. He dropped me at the surgery door and planned to pick me up after my appointment. Dr. Amir decided on a certain appliance which he constructed and fitted in my mouth. This immediately and miraculously started improving my condition. After leaving the surgery I found myself walking for the five to ten minutes to the car on my own. This I would not have been able to do previously. I felt steady on my feet instead of staggering. My husband was shocked when he saw me walking on my own up to the car. I got into the car and we began our journey home. I felt a little nauseous at first but nowhere near as bad as when I arrived at the surgery. My neck felt less stiff and was easier to move. The pains I described earlier started to disappear. After about an hour into our journey, I realised I was sitting with both feet on the floor. I cannot normally sit anywhere without crossing my legs. I did not feel nauseous and my headache had gone. As I looked out of the car everything seemed clearer and less blurred. When we arrived home I did feel tired but that is normal after a long journey. I was very nervous about going to bed and laying down. When I slowly lowered myself into bed the room initially swayed briefly after which I managed to sleep very deeply having been so tired from the previous 10 days of hell. I even turned over and there was NO spinning. I woke up this morning with NO headache or any nausea. I thank Dr. Amir so much for his ingenuity! I wonder what my fate would have been after this very serious collapse. I believe this is a very common persistent symptom which many patients suffer from and as per the medical community is untreatable. I should know. I was a medical nurse!   Note from Worcester Health Authority:"That's a fab outcome.And our A&E departments are full of people like this and we struggle to help them! " Comment: Millions of people are suffering from completely curable conditions up and down the country! Sunday, November 11. 2018Elon Musk - Something UNBELIEVABLE Is Happening WORLDWIDEFriday, October 26. 2018Judge REFUSES to gag campaigners over 5G rollout in BritainBefore we read about the introduction of 5G we must get a comprehensive review of the various other microwave radiations causing absolute havoc to societal health. Please watch this video to get a very good understanding of what really is going on even before you start getting exposed to the 5G terror. Do you want such high frequencies on your local lamp post?As if it was not enough to have smart meters everywhere, but now 5G, a small cell attached to poles every few hundred meters, next to houses, next to playgrounds is the most disturbing development to roll out and hurt the uninformed.
The heavy mental shrapnel effects radiating silently from their neighbour's smart meter is devastating to the sensitive. What happens when a person cannot flee into the wilderness and escape the flood of frequency radiation we are being bombarded with now. I have many sensitive patients who are at a very high risk of developing debilitating illness from such radiation. 5G is beyond any power-frequency field that we have ever experienced. It is due to be introduced in Guernsey early next year.  Hundreds of Birds Dead During 5G Experiment in The Hague, NetherlandsAbout a week ago at The Hague, many birds died spontaneously, falling dead in a park.Please read more here. The ramifications of 5G are very alarming as per this article"Serious health concernsFirst, it’s important to know that in 2011, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer classified RFR as a potential 2B carcinogen and specified that the use of mobile phones could lead to specific forms of brain tumors. Many studies have associated low-level RFR exposure with a litany of health effects, including: DNA single and double-strand breaks (which leads to cancer) oxidative damage (which leads to tissue deterioration and premature ageing) disruption of cell metabolism increased blood-brain barrier permeability melatonin reduction (leading to insomnia and increasing cancer risks) disruption of brain glucose metabolism generation of stress proteins (leading to myriad diseases) As mentioned, the new 5G technology utilizes higher-frequency MMW bands, which give off the same dose of radiation as airport scanners. The effects of this radiation on public health have yet to undergo the rigours of long-term testing. Adoption of 5G will mean more signals carrying more energy through the high-frequency spectrum, with more transmitters located closer to people’s homes and workplaces–basically a lot more (and more potent) RFR flying around us. It’s no wonder that apprehension exists over potential risks, to both human and environmental health. Perhaps the strongest concern involves adverse effects of MMWs on human skin. This letter to the Federal Communications Commission, from Dr Yael Stein of Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, outlines the main points. Over ninety percent of microwave radiation is absorbed by the epidermis and dermis layers, so human skin basically acts as an absorbing sponge for microwave radiation. Disquieting as this may sound, it’s generally considered acceptable so long as the violating wavelengths are greater than the skin layer’s dimensions. But MMW’s violate this condition."  Friday, August 31. 2018The scam of evidence based medicine
Why modern medicine is a major threat to public healthDr Aseem Malhotra writes in the Guardian:"When former airline pilot Tony Royle came to see me last year to seek reassurance that it was OK to participate in an Ironman event, having stopped all his medications 18 months after suffering a heart attack, I was initially a little alarmed.
But after talking to him, I realised he had made an informed decision to stop the medication after suffering side effects, and instead had opted for a diet and lifestyle approach to manage his heart disease. His case is a great example of how evidence-based medicine should be practised. This is the integration of clinical expertise, the best available evidence and – most importantly – taking patients’ preferences and values into consideration. But our healthcare system has failed to keep to this gold standard of clinical practice for the most important goal of improving patient health outcomes. The consequences have been devastating." An article in the CDC says: "Modern medicine, through over-prescription, represents a major threat to public health. Peter Gøtzsche, the co-founder of the reputed Cochrane Collaboration, estimates that prescribed medication is the third most common cause of death globally after heart disease and cancer. A general practitioner recently writing in the BMJ, said that evidence-based medicine is polluted with “fraud, sham diagnosis, short-term data, poor regulation, surrogate ends, questionnaires that can’t be validated, and statistically significant but clinically irrelevant outcomes”, all leading to “overdiagnosis and misery”. In more temperate tones, Goldberger and Buxton recently suggested in a JAMA Viewpoint article that: personalized medicine and guideline-based medicine “present conflicting priorities”, with evidence-based guidelines derived from clinical trial data failing to recognize the heterogeneity of the patient population to which they will be applied. The existence of these guidelines then acts, they say, as a barrier to the development of personalized approaches that would be more appropriate for different population subgroups – including those likely to gain no benefit from the intervention. The 2 most prestigious journals of medicine in the world are The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine. Richard Horton, editor in chief of The Lancet said this in 2015: “The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue” Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor in chief of NEJM wrote in 2009 that, “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor” Evidence-based medicine is brokenis the heading in an article written by a General practitioner DR Des Spence in the British Medical Journal. He goes on to say:"Evidence-based medicine (EBM) wrong-footed the drug industry for a while in the 1990s. We could fend off the army of pharmaceutical representatives because often their promotional material was devoid of evidence. But the drug industry came to realise that EBM was an opportunity rather than a threat. Research, especially when published in a prestigious journal, was worth more than thousands of sales representatives. Today EBM is a loaded gun at clinicians’ heads. “You better do as the evidence says,” it hisses, leaving no room for discretion or judgment. EBM is now the problem, fueling overdiagnosis and overtreatment. You see, without so-called “evidence” there is no seat at the guideline table. This is the fundamental “commissioning bias,” the elephant in the room, because the drug industry controls and funds most research. So the drug industry and EBM have set about legitimising illegitimate diagnoses and then widening drug indications, and now doctors can prescribe a pill for every ill. The billion prescriptions a year in England in 2012, up 66% in one decade, do not reflect a true increased burden of illness nor an ageing population, just polypharmacy supposedly based on evidence. The drug industry’s corporate mission is to make us all sick however well we feel. As for EBM screening programmes, these are the combine harvester of wellbeing, producing bails of overdiagnosis and misery." We were made aware of all this by the great Eustace Mullins in his classic "Murder by injection" who tells us about the whole conspiracy to defraud people and governments. A must-read for everyone if they want to protect their lives. Retired heart surgeon Dr. Donald Miller, Jr. explained what Evidence Based Medicine is and how it has slithered its way into health care in America in an important article called Modern Medicine at the Crossroads that was published in The Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons in the Fall of 2015. Here are some important excerpts: "Doctors in academic medical centers write practice guidelines. They base them on clinical trials that randomize populations of patients with a given condition into treatment and placebo groups and choose treatments that are statistically shown to work best. According to the tenets of evidence-based medicine (EBM), epidemiological and biostatistical ways of thinking provide what its proponents consider “best evidence.” EBM downgrades traditional forms of medical evidence, notably a doctor’s clinical experience and understanding of pathophysiological mechanisms of disease, both unquantifiable. Evidence-based medicine applies the principles of epidemiology to individual patient care, basing that care on statistical trials. Probing EBM, co-author Clifford Miller concludes, “EBM has failed in the real world of medicine, in terms of its use in making medical decisions and in proving causality." Practitioners are tightly controlled. A medical doctor dare not venture outside his strictly controlled remit. A dentist dare not look into curing disease. An alternative practitioner may not step out of his line. The governing bodies have been set up to erase them from the register and destroy their livelihoods. Whole armies work for these organisations who will crucify the practitioner for the slightest infractions and strike them off while they are really striking them off because they are upsetting the real underlying agenda of the controlling bodies. The controlling bodies are policing organisations devoted to evidence-based medicine with none of the open-mindedness needed for the clinical practice of complex cases which our practice is submerged with. As noted earlier in this article the evidence-based medicine is a ruse to mislead and defraud. I have come out with a website dedicated to informing the public of what really is the cause of illness risking getting trounced by the controlling body. Practicing global care, encompassing the effects of the asymmetry of the skeletal system on systemic health is the only way to treat patients. Setting up evidence-based trials is derisory. We have been doing it forever. All it has produced is widespread chronic illness and scam drugs at an unbelievably extortionate cost which have never cured any but regularly kill many. In fact, they have to kill to keep the mantra alive that certain fraudulently named conditions will kill so everyone runs for their frauduzimabs to save themselves. It needs a multidisciplinary approach or a Functional Medicine approach. None of which our professional bodies are designed to tolerate as it affects the wholesale looting of the public and governments. I have been advised that the easiest way is to "hide those amazing articles online" and live off my unparalleled successes and have USB keys with my info for the patients I trust. Why should I? I am in here for the wider audience - the thousands of victims of fraudulent practices who have been left destitute by EBM practices. Friday, August 24. 2018Chemtrails or normal clouds over Oxfordshire and Glouscetershire?
Wonderful reporting by the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-45296731 "BBC weather presenter Simon King said the clouds are not uncommon in the UK but these stood out against the fading light of the sky. "Cloud streets are essentially long rows of cumulus cloud aligned in the sky with the wind direction," he said." 
Monday, June 25. 2018What’s in your gut affects what’s happening in your brainToothpaste and hand wash may contribute to antibiotic resistance
Toothpaste and hand wash may contribute to antibiotic resistanceI have been advocating that toothpaste and mouthwashes should be totally avoided by everyone. This new study exposes an even more dangerous eventuality from their use: "19 June 2018 A common ingredient in toothpaste and hand wash could be contributing to antibiotic resistance, according to University of Queensland research. A study led by Dr Jianhua Guo from UQ’s Advanced Water Management Centre focused on triclosan, a compound used in more than 2000 personal care products. Dr Guo said while it was well-known the overuse and misuse of antibiotics could create ‘superbugs’, researchers were unaware that other chemicals could also induce antibiotic resistance until now. "Wastewater from residential areas has similar or even higher levels of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes compared to hospitals, where you would expect greater antibiotic concentrations,” he said. “We then wondered whether non-antibiotic, antimicrobial (NAAM) chemicals such as triclosan can directly induce antibiotic resistance,” Dr Guo said. Please continue reading more On this website: https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2018/06/toothpaste-and-hand-wash-may-contribute-antibiotic-resistance?platform=hootsuite" Comment: Health workers are supposed to wash their hands for a full minute between each patient. Can you imagine how many resistant organisms must be generated by such procedures? A well-washed hand could actually be introducing antibiotic-resistant organisms into patients! Perhaps it is time for a rethink and safer methods are adopted. Tuesday, April 10. 2018The "sustainable business model"Tuesday, February 20. 2018Medical Board Ordered to Pay Millions for HarassmentTuesday, December 26. 2017The ghost "puppet masters" who perpetrate health misinformationSaturday, December 9. 2017La maladie imaginaire
We are living at an age when the whole concept of ‘care of the patient’ has been superseded by ‘profit for the pharmaceutical and their cronies’ whereby the drug gets concocted first before the patients are manufactured as exemplified by the following story about Paxil (Seroxat):
"If press coverage is anything to go by, Americans started to get Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) about three years ago. In 1997-98 the condition was referred to about 50 times in the nation's media. But a year later things suddenly got sadder. In 1999 there were more than a billion references to it in the US press. According to the International Herald Tribune, the increase in stories was not spurred by medical developments but was part of a campaign - coordinated by Cahn & Wolfe, a New York Public relations agency. The strategy included pitches to newspapers, radio, TV and testimonials from advocates and doctors claiming that SAD was America's third most common mental disorder with over 10m sufferers; only depression and alcoholism claim more victims. Paxil is the only FDA-approved medication for the treatment of 'Social Anxiety Disorder,' was the caring sharing marketing message. But the plug for the drug was no accident. Cahn & Wolfe was working at the behest of SmithKline Beecham, now known as Glaxo SmithKline. Whilst aggressive campaigns such as this one raise the concern that pharmaceutical companies are seeking new disorders for existing drugs. They also generate an artificial and increasing need for pharmaceutical inventions amongst huge proportions of people who had not until then 'realised' they needed help. What's more, the expensive campaign paid off. In the crowded anti-depressant market, Glaxo SmithKline's 2000 annual report claims that Paxil became the No 1 in the US selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor market for new retail prescriptions in 2000.” SAD people, happy Glaxo. P.S. After having been 'outed' on 'Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD)' the imaginary illness has been renamed 'Seasonal Affective Disorder' - still very very SAD because this name widens the dragnet phenomenally and hence the exponential increase in those prescribed this drug. "Paxil: Few SSRI antidepressants have the checkered safety profile of GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) Paxil. In 2007 the BBC revealed that Paxil's Study 329 showed adolescents six times more likely to become suicidal on the drug but the results were buried. (GSK settled related charges in 2012 for $3 billion.) Rumors had circulated for years about suicide and toxic withdrawal symptoms with Paxil and they were evidently true in some cases. In 2005, the FDA revealed birth defects associated with Paxil including heart malformations. (Babies may also have "seizures, changing body temperature, feeding problems, vomiting, low blood sugar, floppiness, stiffness, tremor, shakiness, irritability or constant crying," warned the Paxil website.) Even books are funded by Pharma. A 1999 textbook written to help primary care doctors diagnose psychiatric conditions was funded entirely by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), which makes pills for psychiatric conditions. Its authors were two prominent psychiatrists, one of whom was on GSK's speaker’s bureau; the other was investigated by Congress for undeclared GSK income. Commensurate with the "forgiveness is cheaper than permission" business model, by the time the Paxil risks surfaced, GSK had taken the money and run. In fact, Paxil made $2.12 billion for GSK in 2002, the last year it was under patent, and was the preferred method of treating returning Iraq war veterans' PTSD." 7 Drugs Whose Dangerous Risks Emerged Only After Big Pharma Made Its Money A settlement for death or injuries down the road is just the cost of doing business. Please read more: By Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet January 2, 2014, 9:52 AM GMT The theory of chemical imbalance as a cause of depression is an unproven hypothesis, and doctors are prescribing the drugs mainly because of the "juggernaut of pharmaceutical promotion", as the US psychiatrist Dr Daniel Carlat calls it. Professor Irving Kirsch, associate director of the programme in placebo studies at Harvard Medical School and author of The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth, says: The theory of chemical imbalance - that there is not enough serotonin, norepinephrine and/or dopamine in the brain synapses of depressed people - doesn't fit the data (lowering serotonin levels in healthy patients has no impact on their moods). Chemical imbalance is a myth, he says. It follows that the idea that "antidepressants can cure depression chemically is simply wrong". He goes on to raise important points about the power of placebo's and unlike many psychologists admits the talking therapies are just as dependent on the placebo effect as the tablets are. Some 20 years on Dr Mercola writes: Mental Turmoil: Depression Treatment Drives Users to Murder, Suicide
>>> Please Read More Comment: This article perhaps exposes the stark reality that the news media is complicit in these scams and so are those prescribing these drugs. This racketeering, this preying on the innocent, is also exposed in many other articles on this website. A patient on reading this blog writes: "The 18 yr old daughter of a friend of ours was suffering from depression following her parents' break-up. Despite evidence of the potential for paradoxical effects in the prescription of psychotropic drugs upon teenagers, she was put on Prozac. A short time later her mother came home from work to find her hanging from the rafters in her bedroom. I've never been able to shake that terrible image from my mind......" In short, the advice is to be aware of all the scammers around us in the caring professions. Follow @divinesymmetry Dr. Weston Price's Legacy
I have often mentioned the name of Dr Weston Price when discussing the causes of dento-facial asymmetries and crowded teeth with patients. His work is much better described in an article which appeared in the Ecologist Magazine during 2003. I think this was the best article I have read regarding the work of Dr Weston Price so I recommend that you read it and also visit the links below if you wish to know more. 'The Ecologist', which was headed by the wonderful Zac Gold Smith, also happens to be the best magazine around which is not controlled by corporations nor does it advertise. Article by Sally Fallon 1st July 2003 "In the 1930s US dentist, Weston Price travelled the world to study the diets of ‘primitive’ peoples. He found a startling lack of disease and proof that a system of environmentally-friendly local food production is the best way to ensure human health. In the US, one person in three suffers from allergies, one in 10 will have ulcers and one in five is mentally ill. Every year a quarter of a million infants are born with a birth defect who then undergo expensive surgery or are hidden away in institutions. Other degenerative diseases - arthritis, multiple sclerosis, digestive disorders, diabetes, osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy and chronic fatigue - afflict a significant majority of US citizens. And learning disabilities such as dyslexia and hyperactivity make life miserable for 7 million young people and their parents. These diseases were extremely rare only a generation or two ago. Today, chronic illness afflicts nearly half of all Americans and causes three out of four deaths in the US. Most tragically, these diseases, formerly experienced only by the very old, now strike children and those in the prime of life. We have almost forgotten that our natural state is one of balance, wholeness and vitality.  Things were not so bad in the 1930s, but the situation was already then serious enough to alarm one dentist in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr Weston Price was reluctant to accept the conditions exhibited by his patients as normal. Rarely... ">>Read more Please also visit the Weston Price Foundation pages. "The Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF) is your source for accurate information on nutrition and health, always aiming to provide the scientific validation of traditional foodways. People seeking health today often condemn certain food groups -- such as grains, dairy foods, meat, salt, fat, sauces, sweets and nightshade vegetables -- but the Wise Traditions Diet is inclusive, not exclusive." >>> Visit WAPF website Follow @divinesymmetry Thursday, November 23. 2017Seed sowing for another scam - Schizophrenia - an autoimmune disease!
"Exciting new application for MS poison and an additional disease added to the autoimmune family! An even more vulnerable group of patients to exploit" writes an 'MS' sufferer.  This article is an attempt to use an 'MS' drug for patients diagnosed with schizophrenia. For any readers information the drug, Natalizumab is administered by intravenous infusion; the recommended dose is 300 mg every 28 days. Natalizumab costs £1130 per 300 mg vial (according to the manufacturer's submission), so over a year, the cost of the drug is approximately £14,730 per patient. The drug costs are usually 10% of the overall cost of looking after a patient. While on the other side of the pond a forum posting on the web reads:"Well I guess they charge more to the US government than to most insurance companies then? Cuz I'm on SS disability and it costs over $11,000 per month [$121,000 or £93,000 annually]. But then I know our (bought) Congress several years back signed a law that (unlike insurance companies) Medicare couldn't make any deals with the pharmaceuticals for lowered prices for any drugs (buying "bulk" and all). Sigh. Yes, these amounts are indeed outrageous." The newspaper clipping above says: "The drug Natalizumab is currently used to treat MS patients but there are enough apparent parallels in the biologies of the two diseases to raise hopes that it could be effective for Schizophrenia." The authors assume that by just mentioning that this drug is used to treat 'MS' patients (successfully or unsuccessfully) somehow gives it legitimacy and the assumption that it is a cure for 'MS' patients and could also be curative for schizophrenics. Nothing could be further from the truth. The record, unfortunately, is that NO ONE HAS EVER BEEN CURED FOR ANY AILMENT BY THIS OR ANY SIMILAR DRUG BUT The LIVES OF MANY PATIENTS HAVE BEEN SERIOUSLY ENDANGERED. In spite of millions of scientific claims, Disease Modifying Treatments (DMT's) are nothing more than drugs of little therapeutic value which are mainly killers of the immune system. An ‘MS’ patient of 29 who started treatment fully mobile, was left completely paralysed 9 years later having been treated with 6 different drugs [including Nataluzimab]. The main institute treating and advocating their use had the following to say to her'...... “The drugs are probably not working for you because you probably did not have ‘MS’ but you probably have Vasculitis”! Here are some more postings from the same source proving the futility of Nataluzimab and other similar drugs for the treatment of the mythical 'MS' in the professors own words: “#MSBlog MS is emotionally exhausting!Posted: 14 Feb 2013 03:43 AM PST"Being a neurologist, who sees MSers, a clinical scientist, who studies the disease, and one who puts his head above the parapet, it is getting increasingly hard not to disappoint people. "One of the issues that I have underestimated is the psychological impact that MS has on you and your families. This is compounded by disappointment when science and medicine, which promises so much, fails to deliver. This is particularly acute for relapse-onset MSers when you pass from the relapsing into the secondary progressive phase of the disease and you realise that the disease-modifying therapies [immune system killer drugs] are not working or have not worked. The professor continues: "MS is a double-disease; it hits you twice!""The realisation that the DMTs have failed [including Nataluzimab] 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.As a result of being an outspoken critic of therapeutic nihilism - the blight of our profession - a proponent of early aggressive treatment [including pushing Nataluzimab incessantly without success] and a disciple for the active and holistic management of MS, I seem to be taking more flak than most. It is emotionally exhausting! "MS is a very personal disease and each MSer has their own story to tell. Researchers in general seem to forget this and simply think of MSers as a population of people with a disease. This is why our research day is so enlightening; the face-to-face interaction with MSers and their families makes you realise why you are doing what you do and its importance for individuals and their families. It helps you understand why MSers turn to alternative theories, and treatments, when science and modern medicine lets you down. "As an MSer you need to know about the stages of grief and recognise your emotional reactions to the diagnosis and the onset of the progressive phase of the disease. The truth is we don't have any therapies to stop or slow disease progression, but we are working on it. If you have symptoms that are impacting on your quality of life we can help. You would be amazed what a difference symptomatic treatment can make to your life." Please note this is what the professor said above: "This is why our research day is so enlightening; the face-to-face interaction with MSers and their families makes you realise why you are doing what you do and its importance for individuals and their families" However, I received the following email from one of my patients following such an interaction who WAS helped with an alternative intervention called CCSVI: “Some of my friends attended the MS Research Day at The Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry last Saturday. They intended to ask questions regarding MS drugs and how they are researched, to discuss the vascular hypothesis and its absence from the animal model of MS and to distribute leaflets informing readers of the research backing up the hypothesis. They were noticed and their presence was commented on the St Bartholomew Hospitals’ blog on MS:  http://multiple-sclerosis-research.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/research-day-programme-news.html The patient also informed me that the last time they attended an 'MS' event (Manchester MS Life) they were labelled trolls and publicly ridiculed on the same forum! “ Despite the serious infraction and unprofessional conduct reported above, one might expect the professor (who so commendably owned up to the utter failure of immunosuppressive drugs as a treatment for 'MS') to exercise caution in prescribing such toxic drugs and to cease preying on patients who are vulnerable and afraid. But no, the very next day he is pushing the same treatment agenda on children - AND claiming success!' Posted: 14 Feb 2013 11:58 PM PST #MSBlog: Children with MS respond very well to Natalizumab. Good news for anxious parents! "This study is very good news for anxious parents of children with active MS. Natalizumab works as well in children as it does in adults. We must assume the risks are the same, i.e. the PML risk. [PML Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy is a fatal disease of the white matter of the brain that almost solely strikes individuals on a DMT like Nataluzimab, which kills off the patients immune system]" A further comment posted on the 21st February 2012 reads: "Relapses and disease activity ON a DMT appear to be much more sinister and predict a poor outcome compared to what occurs when MSers are NOT on a DMT. http://multiple-sclerosis-research.blogspot.com/2013/02/natural-history-early-relapses-and.html In conclusion there isn't a snowball's chance in hell of helping any Schizophrenics with this drug but a serious threat to their lives and a massive drain on the public purse. Researchers putting out such studies need prosecution and jailing not given the accolades which they usually get from their sycophantic sponsors. The scams are limitless:Dr Mercola writes:Meet the Sacklers: The Family That's Killing Millions (Maybe More Than Stalin)Some excerpts:"Opioids are now the leading cause of death among Americans under the age of 50. Between 2002 and 2015, more than 202,600 Americans died from overdosing on opioids. "The massive increase in opioid sales has been blamed on an orchestrated marketing plan aimed at misinforming doctors about the addictive potential of these drugs. "Opioid Epidemic Equates to 9/11 Massacre Every Three Weeks, Year-Round According to President Trump's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, led by New Jersey governor Chris Christie, opioids kill an estimated 142 Americans each day, a death toll equivalent to a "September 11th every three weeks," and Purdue Pharma was one of leading engineers of this still ongoing massacre. "'At all the meetings, that was a constant source of discussion — 'What else can we use the Contin system [editor's note: a slow-release system] for?' said Peter Lacouture, a senior director of clinical research at Purdue from 1991 to 2001. 'And that's where Richard would fire some ideas — maybe antibiotics, maybe chemotherapy — he was always out there digging' …" "HARVARD INVESTIGATION SHOWS DOCTORS ARE PAID HUGE SUMS TO PRESCRIBE ADDICTIVE OPIOIDSMarch 17, 2018In 2010, it was found that roughly 100,000 Americans die each year from prescription drugs alone. When it comes to opioids, the number of deaths is in the tens of thousands while a quarter of patients who were given a short-term prescription transitioned to long-term use. Now, according to a recent Harvard University analysis, doctors who prescribe these pain-killers are being paid huge sums of money from their manufacturers. The research, which was conducted by Harvard scientists and CNN, discovered that in 2014-2015 thousands of doctors were paid over $25,000 from opioid manufacturers and hundreds more were rewarded with six-figure sums. Also, the more opioids that were prescribed, the larger the reward. “It smells like doctors are being bribed to sell narcotics, and that’s very disturbing.” – Dr. Andrew Kolodny, Executive director of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing" Please read more: http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/harvard-investigation-shows-doctors-are-paid-huge-sums-to-prescribe-addictive-opioids/ Please also read my other articles on the scams which are bankrupting our NHS: Ankylosing Spondylitis: Ankylosing Spondylitis - another auto immune trap for patients The Optic neuritis scam thwarted:  Huge hoo-hah about epilepsy drug for Optic Neuritis - Success or outright deception? - You decide. The blood pressure scam: http://dramir.com/blog/archives/1083-The-dangers-of-high-blood-pressure-medication.html Follow @divinesymmetry |
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