Bombshell: Explosive Medical Secrets That Will Redefine Aging (38 page)

GG:
I believe aspirin gives people a false sense of security. Thirty percent of people do not get any antiplatelet effect from aspirin. It never was an anticoagulant, and the facts prove that it kills over three thousand people a year, so I don’t like to use it. Experts agree not everyone should take aspirin, depending upon their current state of health, and to prove it, just listen to the rapid commercial disclaimers on TV; the dangers still exceed any tiny benefit.

SS:
Methylation is a word that comes up again and again in my interviews. Why is it so key as one of the reasons that we age?

GG:
Methylation is a key to detoxification, and to making new cells that are identical to the ones they are replacing. You want to live a long time, then you want to constantly detoxify your body; the high levels of toxins found in everyone today, such as bisphenol A, or BPA, have been shown by Randy Jirtle at Duke University to convert healthy lean brown mice, called
agouti mice
, into pale yellow, obese, and diabetic mice all within a single generation. Clearly, all these toxins are devastating to our health. This change is called an
epigenetic
change, meaning the genetics are changing in one generation, instead of the genetic changes that previously occurred over the course of many generations. Toxin-induced epigenetic changes disable certain genes, affect hormonal functions, and decrease the body’s ability to deal with stress. Methyl-based nutrients, such as MSM (methylsulfanomethane) and TMG (trimethylglycine), help us overcome the impaired methylation processes we are seeing happen in so many today—all which lead to changes in our DNA and prevent the brain from properly handling stress. Methylation deficiencies are linked to heart disease, hypertension, obesity, depression, et cetera.

I find that when a child is not developing properly, or is suffering from seizures, he or she may need to be treated with a methyl form of folic acid. This particular form of folic acid is expensive, so it is not widely available and found in fewer than 1 percent of multiple vitamins. But recently the
New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)
wrote about cerebral folate deficiency syndrome and that because of this deficiency children were experiencing serious neurological issues, including seizures. I’ve been saying this could happen for years.

SS:
Must be frustrating to have to wait so long for mainstream medicine to catch up or catch on.

GG:
It is frustrating, and the sad thing is that the usual blood tests doctors do for folic acid come out normal, so doctors fail to diagnosis and treat it properly.

SS:
Why? Because they don’t know what to look for?

GG:
Yes, exactly. I recommend supplementing folic acid in a separate tablet called Beyond B
₁₂
. It’s formulated with methyl B
₁₂
, and I have my patients take this in a sublingual tablet form with excellent results.

Now we have this
NEJM
study saying low levels of folic acid are only detectible in the cerebral spinal fluid. Well, who wants to remove spinal fluid from a child? We have determined that there is actually a problem with the folate receptors, which is why conditions like autism will finally become recognized as yet another toxicity-related, autoimmune disease. It’s terrible … we have over a hundred of these conditions today; autoimmunity is epidemic, and I am referring not just to MS, lupus, or type 1 diabetes, but to hundreds of autoimmune-related conditions that specialists struggle to treat with dangerous expensive drugs that do little if anything to help.

SS:
It’s overwhelming, Garry … this book is to give my readers information on how to live longer with great health and to instill the seriousness of the damage being done to us by toxins of all sources. Toxins are the real enemy today, and if we want to live longer and healthier, we have to do whatever it takes to
detoxify
! Wars are going on around the world, yet here at home not many are noticing the real enemy and that we are being done in by this insidious killer. Like a night prowler, it gets in our food, our water, all the places you mention. People have to comprehend that we can no longer escape, that Western medicine is at a loss and doctors don’t know what to do, and that detoxification is the only way we can save our lives.

GG:
I agree. I developed my “F.I.G.H.T. for Your Health” program, as described in detail on my website,
www.gordonresearch.com
, to help deal with these conditions naturally, without all the dangerous drugs being used today that only ignore the causes and mask the symptoms.

We now have published research proving that the conditions created by toxicity are not being adequately treated with pharmaceutical drugs. Most people often only need competently prescribed nutritional therapy. The folate deficiency mentioned is just one of myriad conditions where methylation issues are involved, and in these types of conditions, drug therapy is generally useless. My F.I.G.H.T. program
helps put MS, lupus, Parkinson’s, autism, and other chronic conditions into remission almost all the time.

SS:
What you say makes sense: clean out, detoxify, build up nutritionally, and change diet and lifestyle. But you see the answer seems too simple for most people to take seriously and certainly for the orthodox medical community. I believe at some point we have to realize that what we’ve been doing is just not working and that it’s time to look in another direction.

You know that definition of insanity: If you keep banging your head against the wall and are getting no results, at some point you have to stop doing it or it’s insane. That’s what has been happening. We keep banging our heads over and over and over to the point of insanity. It has to stop. These diseases and conditions are impairing and paralyzing people’s health and, sadly, in many cases killing them.

GG:
Yes, it is insane. It goes on; there are many gene-related issues today that are being ignored, like the new gene test panel from Australia, called
smart DNA
(
smartdna.net.au
). For $425 you can be tested and have seventy-two genes interpreted. This test enables me to offer tomorrow’s medicine today, and it helps me pinpoint issues such as this epidemic of methylation-related problems that are currently being observed in over 30 percent of all chronically ill patients.

We have the tools; these patients need a targeted supplement program, and the smart DNA gene test helps me to further personalize my F.I.G.H.T. program for my individual clients’ health needs. I am able to provide proper treatment that helps them overcome these methylation issues. Without correct gene-based treatment, they will have a far lower level of health throughout their lives and possibly even impaired health for their children.

Unlike other mammals, humans do not make their own vitamin C. We need to get it from our food. Massive doses of 10 grams or more of oral vitamin C are needed daily to help overcome life-threatening conditions, and when treating very advanced or serious illnesses, in high enough doses, oral and or IV can be lifesaving.

SS:
Vitamin C … another one of the pieces of advice that keeps popping up in my interviews. All of you are concerned about the inadequate levels of vitamin C.

GG:
Yes, it’s because we are living on a polluted, toxic planet. We have to help humans who wish to achieve their maximum life span and enjoy optimal health by offering meaningful information about toxins—where they come from, how to avoid them, and
then how to lower the body burden of these substances that we all carry from birth. We must deal with the hundreds if not thousands of different toxins that affect us on hundreds of different levels. It’s not just mercury and lead; toxins include other metals such as cadmium, arsenic, and uranium; fluorine; and
organic
substances including dioxins, PCBs, and many, many more toxins that are released into the environment and have subsequently been found in the human body.

Clearly we have poisoned our nest, and there is nowhere left to run. It was the Environmental Working Group that conducted a test called “Ten Americans” that showed no one is toxin-free no matter how well you try to live—even babies are acquiring toxins in their mothers’ wombs. Because of the prohibitive cost of this test, many doctors ignore it and just prescribe drugs to control symptoms, which just makes you even more toxic and does nothing to deal with causes.

It’s criminal; doctors prescribe drugs that the American Medical Association itself has admitted are now the fourth-leading cause of death in America.
Drugs are killing us and causing new diseases and conditions!

SS:
Imagine!

GG:
It is sad that one out of four school-age children is taking a prescribed drug for some health conditions, even cancer.

I am extremely upset about this, because if we could just treat the underlying causes, we would have much less disease and suffering and death. We must always lower toxins, identify food sensitivities, find the hidden infections, treat with recommended protocols, and when needed, add some oxidative therapies like ozone, HBO, or UVB.

If we did this, all the dangerous drugs we are force-fed today would not be needed. Very often, once started on drugs like proton pump inhibitors or antidepressants, or painkillers and NSAIDs, there is almost
no way
to get off them. Patients become dependent on them, often for life.

SS:
So what do people do?

GG:
Use natural alternatives to drugs plus detoxification therapy.

SS:
You often mention zeolite. What is it?

GG:
Zeolite is a natural volcanic rock, and there are different grades or types used in a myriad of different ways—from water treatment to medicinal uses. I have located a highly micronized form with a quality so high it can be used for space travel, as the ultimate
filter, to permit astronauts to recycle all fluids on a spaceship, including urine. Zeolite is a safe natural alternative to the chemical process of chelation that can even help handle toxins that chelation does not touch. Zeolite under magnification looks like a sponge or a honeycomb. The tiny holes, or cages, have a negative charge, and since toxins and harmful metals are positively charged molecules, the zeolite attracts them like a magnet. The toxins become caged within zeolite’s honeycombed structure and are safely excreted from the body. People often see improvements in their health and the way they feel just after a few weeks. Often the dose of any drugs they are on can soon be lowered, and over time, many of the drugs would no longer be needed when the total body burden of all toxins is substantially lowered. With toxins being lowered, the body can start to heal itself and the conditions that required drugs are no longer needed.

SS:
What about cancer and chelation? Is it effective?

GG:
Chelation is essential for treating cancer. The American Medical Association’s own literature states that all causes of morbidity and mortality are tied to low lead levels that are kept throughout life, and
JAMA
published the Harvard research showing the level of lead in bones determines how soon you go blind and also how soon you get heart attacks. Detoxing the body is essential for cancer patients, as are increasing gentle daily exercises, infrared sauna therapy, lowering stress, getting more sleep and simplifying your diet, and using natural herbal immune support products. I find using cancer screening tests helps patients stay on their F.I.G.H.T. program because it motivates them to never run out of their recommended supplements, as this is a lifetime struggle. Testing also motivates patients to take care of themselves every single day, and avoid overindulging. The answer is proven; by lowering stress, simplifying the diet, and detoxifying, cancer can be managed—and even cured. We have detectable signs of cancer cells in our system for an average of about seven years before it expresses itself as a lump or a bump.

SS:
I feel that prostate cancer is an overdiagnosed condition, that men are rushed into removing their prostates in the same way women are rushed into hysterectomies.

GG:
Today, we have a federal panel that has determined that PSA testing is a waste of time and money because the treatments recommended do more harm than good. I recommend taking the test to motivate patients to start to take better care of themselves. The truth is by age fifty, 50 percent of all men have prostate cancer, yet
it doesn’t have to be the cause of death if the patient takes special efforts to enhance his body’s overall level of function. Mainstream medicine uses elevated PSA tests to keep men living in fear and wastes tons of money on ineffective therapies for a disease that most likely will not kill them.

SS:
What’s the good news about cancer?

GG:
The good news is you can reverse the outcomes of the cancer screening tests when they are done before you have developed the lump or bump stage of clinical cancer by lifestyle changes and detoxification. Now that we have affordable gene tests to help us further personalize the F.I.G.H.T. program, more and more patients can get on top of their genetic issues. The BRCA 1 and 2 genes, which normally indicate a predisposition to breast cancer, do not need to express. Patients can improve their environment so cancer does not develop. No one needs their breasts removed prophylactically. Everyone has some cancer in their bodies, but it is our toxic and malnourished environment that causes those genes to turn “on.” If patients are willing to modify their lifestyles and live a healthy life with proper supplements, diet, and exercise along with a lifetime detoxification program, they need never suffer from or die from cancer. Some people will do it, some people won’t. But cancer screening tests give people the chance to know that they are at risk, so some will make changes in time.