Re: Re:Re: Mold, Thrush, & asthma meds (reply) - REPLY

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Hello floridabound03200@...,

In reference to your comment:

è , This is going to sound stupid, but when you say

è you do Colloidal Silver and Gluthione and Bronco

è Saline, do you mean you use these in your nebulizer

è when you are not using Albuterol? Barb E.

******Actually the way i worded it is confusing, sorry about that....I use CS

alone in my nebulizer, I use the Gluthione (1 1/2 cc with 3 cc of Bronco

Saline) in my nebulizer. Yes this is what I use when I am not using Albuterol

in

my nebulizer, but even when I do the albuterol I do treatments with the other

two. The Gluthione is AWESOME for COPD, asthma and emphysema. There is a

clinic in Reno who sells the nebulizer Gluth.....sorry I don't know their cost

but here is some information on this treatment.

A Breath of Fresh Air for Chronic Lung Disease

September 2003, Vol. 13, No. 9

When Reba first came to the Whitaker Wellness Institute in June, she was

breathing like a fish out of water. Wheelchair-bound, with ashen skin and a tube

in her nose hooked up to a tank of oxygen, it was obvious that she was in

respiratory distress.

Patients like Reba present us with a challenge. Although we have an excellent

track record treating heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure,

arthritis, and other degenerative diseases at the clinic, I have avoided

taking on patients with Reba?s condition, which is chronic obstructive pulmonary

disease (COPD). I just didn?t know of any treatments ? natural or conventional

? that were very effective.

That?s changed. We recently began utilizing a new therapy that, for the first

time ever, may bring hope to the millions of Americans suffering with COPD.

Conventional medicine says flat out that there is no cure for this disease.

Yet this safe, inexpensive approach shows great promise in relieving an

enormous

amount of suffering.

Our Fourth Leading Cause of Death

COPD is a collective term for several diseases of the lungs. The most

significant is emphysema, which affects the alveoli, the small, grape-like air

sacs

in the lungs where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged. When these

structures are damaged, less oxygen is extracted with each breath. To

compensate, the

lungs eventually enlarge, filling the entire chest cavity and interfering with

normal breathing. This results in shortness of breath and obstructed

breathing.

Emphysema is almost always caused by smoking, although other lung diseases ?

which are also usually caused by smoking ? may be a factor. These include

inflammatory conditions of the bronchi (airways in the lungs) such as chronic

obstructive bronchitis and asthmatic bronchitis, which further impede breathing

by

narrowing the airways and filling them with mucus.

COPD is no small problem. It is our fourth leading cause of death, killing

119,000 Americans and hospitalizing 726,000 every year. And it is an

insidious disease. Most patients are unaware they have it until they?ve lost

more than half of their functional lung tissue. At that point, their

physicians tell them they can be managed with drugs, oxygen, or surgery, but

there is

no hope for a cure.

Their physicians are wrong.

Glutathione to the Rescue

The therapy that helped Reba is glutathione, the most efficient free radical

scavenger in the airways. Dozens of studies have confirmed that free radical

damage is a primary player in COPD. Patients with chronic lung diseases have

decreased levels of glutathione and other antioxidants, and administration of

antioxidants has been shown to protect against and in some cases actually

reverse lung tissue damage.

Potent as it may be, glutathione is not particularly well absorbed when taken

orally. However, when it is given intravenously or, for COPD, inhaled, its

effects are remarkable. After Reba?s first treatment, she could breathe a little

better and her coloring improved. The next day she reported that she had

thebest sleep she?d had in years. Her clinical course over the intervening

months

was nothing short of

remarkable.

She came in on ten prescription drugs. Now she?s only taking a thyroid

medication (her thyroid was removed years ago) and a much-reduced dose of one

blood

pressure medication. Her initial pulse oximetry, which measures the

percentage of hemoglobin in the blood that is saturated with oxygen, was 89

percent (it

should never be below 95 percent). After two weeks of treatment it was 97

percent. Initially she couldn?t exhale with enough force to even register on

tests of lung function. Today, she has only moderate obstruction.

Both Reba and her husband feel that her progress has been ?simply marvelous.?

She?s much more alert than before, and the anxiety that understandably

affects

many patients with COPD (imagine having to fight for every breath) has

dramatically improved. She?s gradually spending more and more time out of her

wheelchair. And all this without the drugs that her conventional doctors told

her

were ?keeping her

alive.?

Tell Your Physician

Folks, I?ll be the first to admit that it is unwise to jump on the bandwagon

of new therapies. When I prescribe drugs, which I do quite infrequently, I

never recommend new drugs that haven?t been around for a while. However, I feel

a

certain sense of urgency in championing the use of this fairly new therapy

for three reasons. First, inhaled glutathione is by far the most promising

therapy available for COPD. Second, it has absolutely no downside or risk. And

third, because it?s a natural therapy, it will be yearsbefore it comes down the

pipeline of conventional medicine.

I encourage you to share this information with your physicians. They?re not

going to hear about it anywhere else, and it could help millions with this

particularly debilitating disease.

Recommendations

? Inhaled glutathione is administered at home via a nebulizer, which turns

liquids into vapors that are inhaled through a face mask or mouthpiece. Other

therapies we use at the clinic for COPD include oral and IV vitamin C,

acupuncture to relieve bronchospasm, N-acetyl-cysteine to break up mucus,

magnesium to

relax bronchioles, and high-dose vitamin A, which has been shown to regenerate

lung tissue. If you or your doctor would like our protocol for nebulized

glutathione and these other therapies, visit drwhitaker.com.

References

Lamson DW et al. The use of nebulized glutathione in

the treatment of emphysema: a case report. Altern Med

Rev 2000;5(5):429-31.

Mannino DM et al. Chronic obstructive pulmonary

disease surveillance?United States, 1971-2000. MMWR

Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2002;51:1-16.