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		PARKINSN March 1997, Week 4
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Re: Pesticide Sensitivity
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Sylly wrote:&nbsp;

<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>This message was originally addressed to [log in to unmask]&nbsp;
<BR>and was forwarded to you by SYLLY&nbsp;
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
-----------------------------------&nbsp;
<BR>Date:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 13:07:24 -0500&nbsp;
<BR>From:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; GLLJLL &lt;[log in to unmask]&gt;&nbsp;
<BR>Subject: Toxin's effects&nbsp;
<BR>
<BR>------------------------&nbsp;
<BR>
<BR><I>&gt;I would appreciate anyone's comments regarding any correlation between</I>&nbsp;
<BR><I>&gt;persons having PD and also having an extremely sensitive reaction
of</I>&nbsp;
<BR>their&nbsp;
<BR><I>&gt;nervous system when exposed to certain chemicals, pesticides, and</I>&nbsp;
<BR>herbicides.&nbsp;
<BR>
<BR><I>&gt;Last weekend I was in our Barnes &amp; Noble bookstore browsing
through</I>&nbsp;
<BR>their&nbsp;
<BR><I>&gt;Bargain Books (all hardcover books, if that matters).&nbsp; Within
minutes I</I>&nbsp;
<BR><I>&gt;was aware of a very strong &quot;chemical&quot; smell in the air
and apparently</I>&nbsp;
<BR><I>&gt;emanating from the thousands of books.&nbsp; My lungs and throat
felt very</I>&nbsp;
<BR><I>&gt;strange and I thought I might pass out so I left the building and
went</I>&nbsp;
<BR><I>&gt;home.&nbsp; For the next several hours I felt weak and had difficulty</I>&nbsp;
<BR>breathing and&nbsp;
<BR><I>&gt;I trembled all over.&nbsp; The chemical smell of the bookstore stayed</I>&nbsp;
<BR><I>&gt;with me for two days.&nbsp; My husband, who was with me, had no
reaction;</I>&nbsp;
<BR><I>&gt;indeed, he was not even aware of the chemical.</I>&nbsp;
<BR>
<BR><I>&gt;I have had several similar reactions in the past when I was in a</I>&nbsp;
<BR>closed-up&nbsp;
<BR><I>&gt;house and a Mosquito Control truck went by, spraying insecticide
at our</I>&nbsp;
<BR><I>&gt;lawns and which immediately seeped into the house.&nbsp; No one
else in the</I>&nbsp;
<BR><I>&gt;house could detect it but to me it was over-powering.&nbsp; I reacted
the</I>&nbsp;
<BR>same&nbsp;
<BR><I>&gt;as described above.&nbsp; The same thing occurred when a &quot;duster&quot;
airplane</I>&nbsp;
<BR><I>&gt;kept swooping over our apartment complex which was next to farmland,</I>&nbsp;
<BR><I>&gt;spraying the crops with, I later found out, a herbicide.</I>&nbsp;
<BR>
<BR><I>&gt;I have always had the theory that my young-age-onset PD (33) was
caused</I>&nbsp;
<BR>by&nbsp;
<BR><I>&gt;my concentrated exposure to DDT as a baby living in a bug-infested</I>&nbsp;
<BR><I>&gt;southern state.&nbsp; (Our small house we rented had been dowsed
with the</I>&nbsp;
<BR><I>&gt;insecticide by the owner - this was in 1944.)</I>&nbsp;
<BR>
<BR><I>&gt;What I am wondering is could my extreme sensitivity to the chemicals,</I>&nbsp;
<BR><I>&gt;herbicides, and pesticides as described above be an indication that
my</I>&nbsp;
<BR><I>&gt;body cannot absorb the toxicity of these chemicals the way most
other</I>&nbsp;
<BR><I>&gt;people can?&nbsp; If this is so, wouldn't it help substantiate my
theory of</I>&nbsp;
<BR>the&nbsp;
<BR><I>&gt;cause of my YAOPD, and shouldn't the medical researchers be</I>&nbsp;
<BR>concentrating&nbsp;
<BR><I>&gt;on TOXINS as being the cause of this horrific affliction?</I>&nbsp;
<BR><I>&gt;___________________________</I>&nbsp;
<BR><I>&gt;Janice Long (54/20 yrs.)</I>&nbsp;
<BR>========================================================================&nbsp;
<BR>==&nbsp;
<BR>Dear Janice:&nbsp;
<BR>
<BR>The symptoms you describe match those that almost everybody who is&nbsp;
<BR>chemically&nbsp;
<BR>sensitive has experienced.&nbsp; The field of environmental medicine would
be&nbsp;
<BR>of&nbsp;
<BR>great help to you. I suffer from Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (also&nbsp;
<BR>known as&nbsp;
<BR>Environmental Illness) and can give you information on how to get help&nbsp;
<BR>and what&nbsp;
<BR>you have to do to relieve the symptoms if you are interested.&nbsp; Write
to&nbsp;
<BR>me at&nbsp;
<BR>[log in to unmask]&nbsp;
<BR>
<BR>There is mounting evidence about the correlation between PD and&nbsp;
<BR>pesticides. I&nbsp;
<BR>am enclosing some research reported by another list subscriber that we&nbsp;
<BR>found&nbsp;
<BR>interesting.&nbsp; My doctor was critical of the lab mentioned here and
if&nbsp;
<BR>you are&nbsp;
<BR>going to pursue any of these suggestions I would further look into the&nbsp;
<BR>reliability of the mentioned laboratory.&nbsp; He is also into alternative&nbsp;
<BR>medicine&nbsp;
<BR>and highly recommends the UltraClear products unless you also suffer a&nbsp;
<BR>lot of&nbsp;
<BR>food allergies.&nbsp; I must further warn you that the medical profession
as&nbsp;
<BR>a whole&nbsp;
<BR>resists this diagnosis and will be of limited to no help at all.&nbsp;
<BR>
<BR>Please write me;&nbsp; I think I can help.&nbsp;
<BR>
<BR>Anita Hersh, Caregiver for Gerson (75/9)&nbsp;
<BR>=======================================================================&nbsp;
<BR>(Taken from the PARKINSN List)&nbsp;
<BR>
<BR>Parkinson's disease has, until now, been described as being exclusively&nbsp;
<BR>a&nbsp;
<BR>&quot;brain disorder.&quot; Indeed, in 1960, researchers first demonstrated
that a&nbsp;
<BR>specific part of the brain called the basal ganglia functioned&nbsp;
<BR>abnormally in&nbsp;
<BR>Parkinson's disease. Various medicines were created to supply the brain&nbsp;
<BR>chemicals missing in Parkinson's patients, and these medications remain&nbsp;
<BR>the&nbsp;
<BR>mainstay of treatment.&nbsp;
<BR>
<BR>Unfortunately, this approach is entirely symptomatic. This is to say&nbsp;
<BR>that these&nbsp;
<BR>medicines, although quite helpful in reducing the symptoms of&nbsp;
<BR>Parkinson's&nbsp;
<BR>disease, do nothing for the underlying disease process itself which&nbsp;
<BR>typically&nbsp;
<BR>worsens with time.&nbsp; New and exciting research has recently demonstrated&nbsp;
<BR>that a&nbsp;
<BR>majority of patients with Parkinson's disease have a defect in one or&nbsp;
<BR>more&nbsp;
<BR>liver enzymes which, when functioning normally, act to detoxify various&nbsp;
<BR>environmental poisons to which we are exposed. Various epidemiological&nbsp;
<BR>studies&nbsp;
<BR>have demonstrated a significant increased incidence of Parkinson's&nbsp;
<BR>disease in&nbsp;
<BR>populations having a higher exposure to environmental toxins. In a&nbsp;
<BR>fascinating&nbsp;
<BR>report appearing in the Archives of Environmental Health (1990),&nbsp;
<BR>Goldsmith&nbsp;
<BR>found an extremely high incidence of Parkinson's disease on three&nbsp;
<BR>adjacent&nbsp;
<BR>kibbutzim in the Negev region of Israel whose water was supplied from&nbsp;
<BR>wells&nbsp;
<BR>draining a common aquifer. The incidence of Parkinson's disease was&nbsp;
<BR>reported to&nbsp;
<BR>be 500% greater in each of the three kibbutzim than in the remainder of&nbsp;
<BR>the&nbsp;
<BR>region.&nbsp;
<BR>
<BR>A history of occupational herbicide use has been described as&nbsp;
<BR>significantly&nbsp;
<BR>increasing risk of Parkinson's disease by about three fold with data&nbsp;
<BR>also&nbsp;
<BR>suggesting a dose response relationship between the duration of&nbsp;
<BR>cumulative life&nbsp;
<BR>time exposure to agricultural work and risk of Parkinson's disease. At
a&nbsp;
<BR>recent&nbsp;
<BR>international symposium on Parkinson's disease, research was presented&nbsp;
<BR>demonstrating a very high correlation between Parkinson's disease and&nbsp;
<BR>the use&nbsp;
<BR>of pesticides. In comparing one farming area southwest of Montreal where&nbsp;
<BR>pesticides were used in large amounts to areas in the same region with&nbsp;
<BR>low&nbsp;
<BR>pesticide use, the incidence of Parkinson's disease was seven times&nbsp;
<BR>greater in&nbsp;
<BR>the former.&nbsp;
<BR>
<BR>Why wouldn't everyone with these types of toxic exposure develop&nbsp;
<BR>Parkinson's&nbsp;
<BR>disease? The answer may lie in the defective liver detoxifying enzymes&nbsp;
<BR>described earlier. Thus, most people by virtue of having an adequate&nbsp;
<BR>liver&nbsp;
<BR>detoxification system, may not suffer significant ill effects when&nbsp;
<BR>exposed to&nbsp;
<BR>various environmental toxic insults. Parkinson's patients on the other&nbsp;
<BR>hand,&nbsp;
<BR>because of their defective liver enzyme systems, may actually potentiate&nbsp;
<BR>relatively low-level neurotoxic chemicals allowing the brain to be&nbsp;
<BR>damaged and&nbsp;
<BR>producing Parkinson's disease.&nbsp;
<BR>
<BR>Recently, therapeutic techniques have been developed utilizing&nbsp;
<BR>nutritional&nbsp;
<BR>approaches in an attempt to enhance the function of the liver&nbsp;
<BR>detoxification&nbsp;
<BR>enzymes. In 1992, Dr. Jeffrey Bland described a nutritional intervention&nbsp;
<BR>program designed to improve the function of these detoxification&nbsp;
<BR>enzymes.&nbsp; His&nbsp;
<BR>research demonstrated a significant increase in the liver's ability to&nbsp;
<BR>detoxify&nbsp;
<BR>various toxic substances after three weeks on a specific dietary program&nbsp;
<BR>augmented in certain nutrients known to be helpful for liver function.&nbsp;
<BR>
<BR>It is now possible to identify those patients who would benefit from&nbsp;
<BR>such a&nbsp;
<BR>program. New laboratory studies are now available to specifically&nbsp;
<BR>address the&nbsp;
<BR>functional activity of the liver. One study, the Detoxification Profile&nbsp;
<BR>(Great&nbsp;
<BR>Smokies Diagnostic Laboratory - Asheville, NC) specifically evaluates&nbsp;
<BR>the&nbsp;
<BR>detoxification function of the liver.&nbsp;
<BR>
<BR>This study is in no way similar to the so called &quot;liver function tests&quot;&nbsp;
<BR>that&nbsp;
<BR>are a part of the typical blood studies done by most physicians.&nbsp;&nbsp;
At&nbsp;
<BR>our&nbsp;
<BR>Center, those patients found to have defective liver detoxification&nbsp;
<BR>function&nbsp;
<BR>are treated utilizing a program based upon the work of Dr. Bland. We&nbsp;
<BR>utilize a&nbsp;
<BR>supplement, UltraClear Plus which is a nutritional supplement based upon&nbsp;
<BR>Dr.&nbsp;
<BR>Bland's original formula. In addition, we use the herb Milk Thistle in&nbsp;
<BR>this&nbsp;
<BR>program since it has been shown to enhance liver detoxification function&nbsp;
<BR>as&nbsp;
<BR>well.&nbsp;
<BR>
<BR>Utilizing this program, we have noted significant improvement in our&nbsp;
<BR>younger&nbsp;
<BR>Parkinson's disease patients. This approach has allowed us to reduce&nbsp;
<BR>medication, and in one case completely eliminate all Parkinson's disease&nbsp;
<BR>drugs.&nbsp;
<BR>Unfortunately, older Parkinson's disease patients do not seem to respond&nbsp;
<BR>as&nbsp;
<BR>well when using this approach.&nbsp;
<BR>
<BR>Another interesting new finding in Parkinson's disease research is the&nbsp;
<BR>increased level of iron in those unique areas of the brain typically&nbsp;
<BR>damaged in&nbsp;
<BR>this disease. As yet it is not known exactly why certain parts of the&nbsp;
<BR>brain&nbsp;
<BR>accumulate iron, but it is known that once there, the excessive iron&nbsp;
<BR>tends to&nbsp;
<BR>enhance oxidation which leads to brain destruction. In an attempt to&nbsp;
<BR>reduce&nbsp;
<BR>this damaging oxidation caused by iron accumulation, Dr. Stanley Fahn&nbsp;
<BR>treated a&nbsp;
<BR>group of Parkinson's disease patients with relatively high doses of&nbsp;
<BR>antioxidants including 3,200 units of vitamin E and 3,000 mg of vitamin&nbsp;
<BR>C&nbsp;
<BR>daily. He found that the length of time until pharmaceutical medication&nbsp;
<BR>became&nbsp;
<BR>necessary was extended by 2.5 years in those patients taking the&nbsp;
<BR>antioxidants.&nbsp;
<BR>
<BR>Over the past several decades, EDTA chelation therapy has proven itself&nbsp;
<BR>as a&nbsp;
<BR>useful treatment in various forms of vascular disease. It is known that&nbsp;
<BR>the&nbsp;
<BR>active chemical in this treatment, EDTA, readily binds excess body iron,&nbsp;
<BR>and&nbsp;
<BR>allows it to be excreted. EDTA chelation therapy therefore may play an&nbsp;
<BR>important role in the treatment of Parkinson's disease since iron&nbsp;
<BR>accumulation&nbsp;
<BR>in the brain is so destructive in these patients. For more information&nbsp;
<BR>on&nbsp;
<BR>UltraClear Plus, contact HealthComm International Inc at (800) 648-5883.&nbsp;
<BR>To&nbsp;
<BR>learn more about the liver detoxification profile test contact Great&nbsp;
<BR>Smokies&nbsp;
<BR>Diagnostic Laboratory at (800) 522-4762.&nbsp; To locate a qualified&nbsp;
<BR>chelation&nbsp;
<BR>practitioner near you, contact The American College of Advancement in&nbsp;
<BR>Medicine&nbsp;
<BR>(ACAM) at (800) 532-3688.&nbsp;
<BR>
<BR>-&nbsp;
<BR>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-&nbsp;
<BR>&nbsp;SYLLY&nbsp;
<BR>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-&nbsp;
</BLOCKQUOTE>
&nbsp;Sylly wrote:&nbsp;

<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>This message was originally addressed to [log in to unmask]
<BR>and was forwarded to you by SYLLY
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
-----------------------------------
<BR>Date:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 13:07:24 -0500
<BR>From:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; GLLJLL &lt;[log in to unmask]&gt;
<BR>Subject: Toxin's effects
<BR>
<BR>------------------------
<BR>
<BR><I>&gt;I would appreciate anyone's comments regarding any correlation between</I>
<BR><I>&gt;persons having PD and also having an extremely sensitive reaction
of</I>
<BR>their
<BR><I>&gt;nervous system when exposed to certain chemicals, pesticides, and</I>
<BR>herbicides.
<BR>
<BR><I>&gt;Last weekend I was in our Barnes &amp; Noble bookstore browsing
through</I>
<BR>their
<BR><I>&gt;Bargain Books (all hardcover books, if that matters).&nbsp; Within
minutes I</I>
<BR><I>&gt;was aware of a very strong &quot;chemical&quot; smell in the air
and apparently</I>
<BR><I>&gt;emanating from the thousands of books.&nbsp; My lungs and throat
felt very</I>
<BR><I>&gt;strange and I thought I might pass out so I left the building and
went</I>
<BR><I>&gt;home.&nbsp; For the next several hours I felt weak and had difficulty</I>
<BR>breathing and
<BR><I>&gt;I trembled all over.&nbsp; The chemical smell of the bookstore stayed</I>
<BR><I>&gt;with me for two days.&nbsp; My husband, who was with me, had no
reaction;</I>
<BR><I>&gt;indeed, he was not even aware of the chemical.</I>
<BR>
<BR><I>&gt;I have had several similar reactions in the past when I was in a</I>
<BR>closed-up
<BR><I>&gt;house and a Mosquito Control truck went by, spraying insecticide
at our</I>
<BR><I>&gt;lawns and which immediately seeped into the house.&nbsp; No one
else in the</I>
<BR><I>&gt;house could detect it but to me it was over-powering.&nbsp; I reacted
the</I>
<BR>same
<BR><I>&gt;as described above.&nbsp; The same thing occurred when a &quot;duster&quot;
airplane</I>
<BR><I>&gt;kept swooping over our apartment complex which was next to farmland,</I>
<BR><I>&gt;spraying the crops with, I later found out, a herbicide.</I>
<BR>
<BR><I>&gt;I have always had the theory that my young-age-onset PD (33) was
caused</I>
<BR>by
<BR><I>&gt;my concentrated exposure to DDT as a baby living in a bug-infested</I>
<BR><I>&gt;southern state.&nbsp; (Our small house we rented had been dowsed
with the</I>
<BR><I>&gt;insecticide by the owner - this was in 1944.)</I>
<BR>
<BR><I>&gt;What I am wondering is could my extreme sensitivity to the chemicals,</I>
<BR><I>&gt;herbicides, and pesticides as described above be an indication that
my</I>
<BR><I>&gt;body cannot absorb the toxicity of these chemicals the way most
other</I>
<BR><I>&gt;people can?&nbsp; If this is so, wouldn't it help substantiate my
theory of</I>
<BR>the
<BR><I>&gt;cause of my YAOPD, and shouldn't the medical researchers be</I>
<BR>concentrating
<BR><I>&gt;on TOXINS as being the cause of this horrific affliction?</I>
<BR><I>&gt;___________________________</I>
<BR><I>&gt;Janice Long (54/20 yrs.)</I>
<BR>========================================================================
<BR>==
<BR>Dear Janice:
<BR>
<BR>The symptoms you describe match those that almost everybody who is
<BR>chemically
<BR>sensitive has experienced.&nbsp; The field of environmental medicine would
be
<BR>of
<BR>great help to you. I suffer from Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (also
<BR>known as
<BR>Environmental Illness) and can give you information on how to get help
<BR>and what
<BR>you have to do to relieve the symptoms if you are interested.&nbsp; Write
to
<BR>me at
<BR>[log in to unmask]
<BR>
<BR>There is mounting evidence about the correlation between PD and
<BR>pesticides. I
<BR>am enclosing some research reported by another list subscriber that we
<BR>found
<BR>interesting.&nbsp; My doctor was critical of the lab mentioned here and
if
<BR>you are
<BR>going to pursue any of these suggestions I would further look into the
<BR>reliability of the mentioned laboratory.&nbsp; He is also into alternative
<BR>medicine
<BR>and highly recommends the UltraClear products unless you also suffer a
<BR>lot of
<BR>food allergies.&nbsp; I must further warn you that the medical profession
as
<BR>a whole
<BR>resists this diagnosis and will be of limited to no help at all.
<BR>
<BR>Please write me;&nbsp; I think I can help.
<BR>
<BR>Anita Hersh, Caregiver for Gerson (75/9)
<BR>=======================================================================
<BR>(Taken from the PARKINSN List)
<BR>
<BR>Parkinson's disease has, until now, been described as being exclusively
<BR>a
<BR>&quot;brain disorder.&quot; Indeed, in 1960, researchers first demonstrated
that a
<BR>specific part of the brain called the basal ganglia functioned
<BR>abnormally in
<BR>Parkinson's disease. Various medicines were created to supply the brain
<BR>chemicals missing in Parkinson's patients, and these medications remain
<BR>the
<BR>mainstay of treatment.
<BR>
<BR>Unfortunately, this approach is entirely symptomatic. This is to say
<BR>that these
<BR>medicines, although quite helpful in reducing the symptoms of
<BR>Parkinson's
<BR>disease, do nothing for the underlying disease process itself which
<BR>typically
<BR>worsens with time.&nbsp; New and exciting research has recently demonstrated
<BR>that a
<BR>majority of patients with Parkinson's disease have a defect in one or
<BR>more
<BR>liver enzymes which, when functioning normally, act to detoxify various
<BR>environmental poisons to which we are exposed. Various epidemiological
<BR>studies
<BR>have demonstrated a significant increased incidence of Parkinson's
<BR>disease in
<BR>populations having a higher exposure to environmental toxins. In a
<BR>fascinating
<BR>report appearing in the Archives of Environmental Health (1990),
<BR>Goldsmith
<BR>found an extremely high incidence of Parkinson's disease on three
<BR>adjacent
<BR>kibbutzim in the Negev region of Israel whose water was supplied from
<BR>wells
<BR>draining a common aquifer. The incidence of Parkinson's disease was
<BR>reported to
<BR>be 500% greater in each of the three kibbutzim than in the remainder of
<BR>the
<BR>region.
<BR>
<BR>A history of occupational herbicide use has been described as
<BR>significantly
<BR>increasing risk of Parkinson's disease by about three fold with data
<BR>also
<BR>suggesting a dose response relationship between the duration of
<BR>cumulative life
<BR>time exposure to agricultural work and risk of Parkinson's disease. At
a
<BR>recent
<BR>international symposium on Parkinson's disease, research was presented
<BR>demonstrating a very high correlation between Parkinson's disease and
<BR>the use
<BR>of pesticides. In comparing one farming area southwest of Montreal where
<BR>pesticides were used in large amounts to areas in the same region with
<BR>low
<BR>pesticide use, the incidence of Parkinson's disease was seven times
<BR>greater in
<BR>the former.
<BR>
<BR>Why wouldn't everyone with these types of toxic exposure develop
<BR>Parkinson's
<BR>disease? The answer may lie in the defective liver detoxifying enzymes
<BR>described earlier. Thus, most people by virtue of having an adequate
<BR>liver
<BR>detoxification system, may not suffer significant ill effects when
<BR>exposed to
<BR>various environmental toxic insults. Parkinson's patients on the other
<BR>hand,
<BR>because of their defective liver enzyme systems, may actually potentiate
<BR>relatively low-level neurotoxic chemicals allowing the brain to be
<BR>damaged and
<BR>producing Parkinson's disease.
<BR>
<BR>Recently, therapeutic techniques have been developed utilizing
<BR>nutritional
<BR>approaches in an attempt to enhance the function of the liver
<BR>detoxification
<BR>enzymes. In 1992, Dr. Jeffrey Bland described a nutritional intervention
<BR>program designed to improve the function of these detoxification
<BR>enzymes.&nbsp; His
<BR>research demonstrated a significant increase in the liver's ability to
<BR>detoxify
<BR>various toxic substances after three weeks on a specific dietary program
<BR>augmented in certain nutrients known to be helpful for liver function.
<BR>
<BR>It is now possible to identify those patients who would benefit from
<BR>such a
<BR>program. New laboratory studies are now available to specifically
<BR>address the
<BR>functional activity of the liver. One study, the Detoxification Profile
<BR>(Great
<BR>Smokies Diagnostic Laboratory - Asheville, NC) specifically evaluates
<BR>the
<BR>detoxification function of the liver.
<BR>
<BR>This study is in no way similar to the so called &quot;liver function tests&quot;
<BR>that
<BR>are a part of the typical blood studies done by most physicians.&nbsp;&nbsp;
At
<BR>our
<BR>Center, those patients found to have defective liver detoxification
<BR>function
<BR>are treated utilizing a program based upon the work of Dr. Bland. We
<BR>utilize a
<BR>supplement, UltraClear Plus which is a nutritional supplement based upon
<BR>Dr.
<BR>Bland's original formula. In addition, we use the herb Milk Thistle in
<BR>this
<BR>program since it has been shown to enhance liver detoxification function
<BR>as
<BR>well.
<BR>
<BR>Utilizing this program, we have noted significant improvement in our
<BR>younger
<BR>Parkinson's disease patients. This approach has allowed us to reduce
<BR>medication, and in one case completely eliminate all Parkinson's disease
<BR>drugs.
<BR>Unfortunately, older Parkinson's disease patients do not seem to respond
<BR>as
<BR>well when using this approach.
<BR>
<BR>Another interesting new finding in Parkinson's disease research is the
<BR>increased level of iron in those unique areas of the brain typically
<BR>damaged in
<BR>this disease. As yet it is not known exactly why certain parts of the
<BR>brain
<BR>accumulate iron, but it is known that once there, the excessive iron
<BR>tends to
<BR>enhance oxidation which leads to brain destruction. In an attempt to
<BR>reduce
<BR>this damaging oxidation caused by iron accumulation, Dr. Stanley Fahn
<BR>treated a
<BR>group of Parkinson's disease patients with relatively high doses of
<BR>antioxidants including 3,200 units of vitamin E and 3,000 mg of vitamin
<BR>C
<BR>daily. He found that the length of time until pharmaceutical medication
<BR>became
<BR>necessary was extended by 2.5 years in those patients taking the
<BR>antioxidants.
<BR>
<BR>Over the past several decades, EDTA chelation therapy has proven itself
<BR>as a
<BR>useful treatment in various forms of vascular disease. It is known that
<BR>the
<BR>active chemical in this treatment, EDTA, readily binds excess body iron,
<BR>and
<BR>allows it to be excreted. EDTA chelation therapy therefore may play an
<BR>important role in the treatment of Parkinson's disease since iron
<BR>accumulation
<BR>in the brain is so destructive in these patients. For more information
<BR>on
<BR>UltraClear Plus, contact HealthComm International Inc at (800) 648-5883.
<BR>To
<BR>learn more about the liver detoxification profile test contact Great
<BR>Smokies
<BR>Diagnostic Laboratory at (800) 522-4762.&nbsp; To locate a qualified
<BR>chelation
<BR>practitioner near you, contact The American College of Advancement in
<BR>Medicine
<BR>(ACAM) at (800) 532-3688.
<BR>
<BR>-
<BR>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
<BR>&nbsp;SYLLY
<BR>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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