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the single most effective way to decrease the ozone at a concentration of 10 gamma in the
compression and cure the symptoms of same area. Do this treatment once a week
carpal tunnel syndrome. This treatment is until the symptoms are gone.
ozone therapy. Of course many cases are multi-factori-
I teach doctors how to do this therapy al. In that case it may be necessary to
twice a year in my ozone course. And if you employ several of these therapies simultane-
are one of the many doctors who subscribe ously in order to resolve the problem. But I
to this newsletter, be sure to go to this can tell you that over 90% of all cases of
course. There is probably nothing else that I carpal tunnel syndrome can be cured with
have found in over 35 years of medicine that these methods. And that’s important,
is as marvelous as a stand-alone therapy as because these therapies work only because
ozone therapy. Doctors can learn more about they remove the cause of the condition.
the next course by going to Since surgery does not remove the ini-
www.ozonecourse.com. tial cause(s), it doesn’t always work. And, if
The technique for treating carpal tun- it does work, there is another distinct possi-
nel syndrome with ozone is as follows. Inject bility you need to be aware of. Since surgery
0.5 cc of a special form of B12 called methyl- doesn’t fix the actual cause, the condition
B12, 0.5 cc B6, and 1.0 cc of 2% buffered may show up later in the other hand. If it
procaine just under the skin (sub-q) over the does, you’re in for another trip to the oper-
underside of the wrist. Then inject 2 cc of ating room. Q
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Clinical
and thickened reddish skin over the shins. Band-Aid the symptoms.
Once a doctor suspects Graves’ disease, Over the next year-and-a-half, she
it’s easy to diagnose it with simple blood developed two symptoms which kept on get-
testing. The thyroid hormones T3 and T4 will ting worse each month. One was heavy and
be high, and the pituitary hormone TSH will painful menstrual cycles, something she had
be low. Graves’ disease is what Jackie had. never had before. The other was severe
breast tenderness.
The danger of just
Jackie saw her doctor and he pre-
treating symptoms scribed NuvaRing®. The manufacturer of
I met Jackie in June of 2006. She was a NuvaRing says the drug is a “technological
45-year-old schoolteacher, who like so many breakthrough in contraceptive delivery sys-
of my patients had a very interesting story tems.” A better description of it is a piece of
to tell. When she was 41, her doctor gave plastic that contains two very nasty drugs,
her a routine TSH test, which was abnor- etonogestrel and ethinyl estradiol.
mally low. The doctor wanted to give her a Several months later, Jackie had to stop
drug to suppress the thyroid. But Jackie her “technological breakthrough” because of
said that she was “in the best condition of side effects. So her doctor started her on a
my life,” and she was not interested in tak- different drug. Two months after that she
ing any drugs. She wanted to correct the had a mammogram and an ultrasound of
condition by eliminating the cause, not just the breasts, and was told she had fibrocystic
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l Pearls
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ing blood disease called agranulocytosis. amount, and the blood and urine levels
Agranulocytosis first shows up as a low remain normal.
white blood cell count. Jackie should have shown an iodine
Within a month of starting the PTU, saturation of greater than 90%. Instead her
Jackie’s doctor discovered that although her level was 61%. Now she had both clinical
thyroid levels were better, her blood count and laboratory evidence of iodine deficiency.
was getting low. He suggested that she con- This was probably why she developed her
tinue the drug and recheck the level in Graves’ disease, her fibrocystic disease, and
another month. That was when Jackie came all of her other symptoms. So I started her
to see me. on a combination of iodine (one drop of
Lugol’s solution), along with 9.6 mg of lithi-
Looking for causes um ortate. The reason for using iodine is
When I first saw Jackie, she complained obvious. But why the lithium?
of loose stools, anxiety, and depression. These You may have already heard about
symptoms are typical for Graves’ disease. lithium. Doctors have used it for decades as
She also had neck and shoulder pain, heavy a treatment for manic depression. This is a
menstrual bleeding, and very painful breasts. form of depression that has episodes in which
She told me that four months prior she had the patient’s mood dramatically swings to
stopped the latest birth control pill. the opposite of depression, a condition called
The first thing I did was to look at her mania. When a person is manic, they have
iodine levels. Why? Because all of her symp- an unrealistically inflated attitude about
toms were classical signs of iodine deficiency. themselves and their abilities. Whereas
Fibrocystic breast disease is evidence of an depression is a hypo mood state, mania is a
iodine deficiency. So are Graves’ disease, hyper mood state. The mental manifestation
menstrual cramps, heavy menses, and brit- of mania is similar to what is seen in hyper-
tle fingernails. Jackie had every indication thyroidism. So it is reasonable to suspect
of a low iodine condition. that hyperthyroidism might be caused at
least in part by a lithium deficiency.
So I ordered an iodine loading test.
This test involves measuring how much The other thing about lithium is that it
iodine the body absorbs after a 50 mg tablet works on the mitochondria of the cells. This
of iodine is administered. I did the loading is where the thyroid hormones work, too.
test because this is the most accurate way to Finally, researchers have observed that
find an iodine deficiency. Simply looking at very high doses of lithium carbonate can
the level of iodine in the blood or urine suppress the thyroid. I chose to use lithium
without a loading dose usually misses the ortate instead of the carbonate version
diagnosis. Here’s why: As the body becomes because it is carried into the mitochondria
deficient in iodine, it adjusts to the lower of the cell much better. This means I can
prescribe a lower dose. And that’s important
because lithium can be toxic in doses that
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doubt this was caused by the PTU. At that
Unauthorized reproduction of this newsletter or its con- point, I stopped the PTU. It was time for
tents by xerography, facsimile, or any other means is illegal. Jackie to have a little party. It was the first
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time in over two years that she had been two to three months to the changes in her
completely off drugs. thyroid status. And then a year later, while
checking her metabolic rate, I discovered
Still more problems to overcome that she needed thyroid hormone replace-
But Jackie still had a ways to go. Over ment. Why thyroid hormones? Didn’t she
the next six months, when her breast disease already have too much thyroid hormone?
and the heavy periods persisted, I knew there Well, yes, at one point she did. But
was a problem other than iodine deficiency. now, a year later, the Graves’ disease was
Another common cause of both these cured, and she was no longer hyperthyroid.
symptoms is a low level of the hormone In fact, her thyroid was starting to become
progesterone. So I checked her progesterone more like the thyroid of the average 48 year
levels and, sure enough, I found a deficiency. old — an under-functioning thyroid.
Progesterone deficiency is a common prob- In the last two years she had gone full
lem in young women, but it is almost always circle, from being hyperthyroid to being
an issue in women in their 40s. I should hypothyroid. I started adding in some natu-
have thought of it sooner. Ultimately, these ral thyroid hormone in November 2007.
conditions responded to a combination of Lithium carbonate and natural thyroid
progesterone replacement, vitamin B6, and are both available only though prescription,
magnesium. I prescribed the B6 and mag- so you’ll need your doctor’s help to get
nesium because it works with progesterone. them. You can order an iodine-loading test
And is often needed in progesterone defi- from my office by calling 775-884-3990
ciencies. x121. We will also help you with the results
The other issue was that her thyroid and interpretation. Just call our office for
gland was steadily healing. So I had to help. Q
adjust her lithium and iodine levels every
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Q. I’m 65 years old and just found out Q10 is fat soluble. This means that your
body absorbs it only when you take it with
that I have an enlarged aorta. My doc-
tor says it’s over four centimeters fats. Dr. Karl Folker, the director of the
(average is around two centimeters). Institute for Biomedical Research at the
He says if it gets to five centimeters, it University of Texas, is the “godfather” of
could explode and I’d die almost CoQ10. His instruction to his patients was
instantly. But he won’t operate on it to take it with a warm beverage, such as cof-
until it hits five because the risk of fee or tea along with some cream (that’s the
surgery is so great. I could die on the fat) to maximize absorption.
operating table. Is there anything I Now in recent years, several manufac-
can do that will shrink its size? — turers have started to sell CoQ10 in forms
Mitchell S., Bowling Green, KY that are supposed to enhance absorption,
even when taken without fat. The data that
Dear Mitchell, proves these claims is a little sketchy, so it’s
In all likelihood you will eventually need hard to be sure if they really work as adver-
to have surgery. However, there’s a chance tised. The only form I know of that works
that you can beat this problem. I have done like this is ubiquinol. I’ll have more on this
exactly that with two patients. If I were in form in future issues.
your shoes, this is what I would do. Regardless of which product you use,
Start getting EDTA chelation IV along the only way to know for sure how well it’s
with IV Plaque-X treatments once a week. working is to get a blood level test. You can
In addition, if you have any symptoms at all have this test done at any laboratory. My lab
of testosterone deficiency (decreased libido, charges my patients $95 for the test. But
diminished enthusiasm, decreased shop around because some labs charge much
endurance, or increase in muscle or joint more. Have the blood specimen taken in the
aches), I recommend that your doctor start morning, and be sure not to take your
you on testosterone therapy right away. CoQ10 supplement on that morning. A good
Of course it’s also very important that blood level for 100 mg of CoQ10 would be
you eat right and exercise regularly, but I bet between 150-200 micrograms/milliliter. If
you already know that. Do this continually your supplement is not getting you to these
for the next year. If at the end of the year, levels, try something else, or try taking it
your aorta is still the same size, then decrease like Dr. Folker recommended.
the treatments to once a month for the rest Personally, I like the ubiquinol form of
of your life. The odds are good that this CoQ10. You can buy this form from
would be a long time. You can find a doctor Advanced Bionutritionals (800-728-2288).
in your area to help you at www.acam.org.
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