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The Great Vitamin Hoax, and How it Must Affect Your Protocol - Part Three

So, now we learn that after pouring hundreds if not thousands of dollars down

the drain buying “fake vitamins†- many time the foundation of our protocol

- and we wonder, “..WHY ISN’T THIS WORKING????â€

Perhaps it makes sense that once again we have trusted in the marketing and

promotion behind well-meaning companies that perhaps do not fully understand the

implications of the chemistry behind the very product they are selling.

But ignorance, although it may be “bliss†is no excuse for poisoning those

who are purchasing a product explicitly for wellness.

So what kind of marketing philosophy could possibly be behind the prevalence of

synthetic vitamins everywhere?

Simple: profit above all else.

Once the public is shown that vitamin supplementation is necessary, the rest is

marketing. Marketing is the art of persuading by suspending logic and twisting

data into junk science.

Example: What’s the actual difference in composition between Wheaties and

Total, two cereals put out by the same company? Total is advertised as being

much more nutrient-rich than “ordinary†Wheaties. Look at the labels. What

justifies the extra $1.30 for a box of Total?

Answer: 1.5¢ worth of synthetic vitamins sprayed over the Wheaties. That’s

it! That’s what “vitamin enriched†always means. The other trick word is

“fortified.†Generally that means that the food itself is devoid of

nutrients or enzymes, so they tried to pump it up a little with some

“vitamins.†Cheap synthetic vitamin sprays are all that is required for the

manufacturer to use labels like “enriched†and “fortified.†These words

are red flags - if a food needs to be fortified or enriched, you can bet it was

already dead.

The mega-vitamin theory doesn’t really hold when it comes to synthetics: If A

Little Is Good, More Is Better. Macro doses of vitamin E, and also vitamin D

have been shown to decrease immune function significantly. (DeCava.) It stands

to reason. Vitamins by definition are necessary in phenomenally small doses. The

discoverer of thiamine, a B vitamin, and the man who came up with the word

vitamin, Dr. Casimir Funk, has this to say about synthetics:

“Synthetic vitamins: these are highly inferior to vitamins from natural

sources, also the synthetic product is well known to be far more toxic.â€

Nutrition authority DeCava describes it:

“Natural food-source vitamins are enzymatic-ally alive. Man-made synthetic

vitamins are dead chemicals. “

- The Real Truth About Vitamins, p 209

The marketing of fractionated crystalline synthetic vitamins has been so

successful that most nutritionists and doctors are unaware that there is

something missing from these “vitamins.†Vitamin manufacturers compete for

customers with identical products - they all bought their synthetic vitamins

from the same couple of drug companies.

To differentiate their product, each makes claims of “high potency.†Our

vitamins are higher potency than theirs, etc. The point is, the higher the

potency, the more the drug-like effects are present. Natural whole food vitamins

are very low potency. Remember the 20mg of vitamin C in a potato that was able

to cure a patient of scurvy? That was low potency.

Low potency is all we need. Low potency is enough to bring about vitamin

activity. High potency overshoots the mark - the chemical is very pure and

refined, like the difference between white sugar and the type of sugar that’s

in an apple.

Generally speaking, if milligrams are being discussed at length, the author has

no clue about vitamins. Synthetic vitamins are refined, high potency

chemicals, and therefore may be accurately measured in milligrams, just like

drugs. This has nothing to do with vitamin activity or nutrition, except in a

negative way.

The same type of incomplete action can be seen with any synthetic vitamin.

Fake Vitamin A

Let’s take beta carotene for a minute, which the body can turn into vitamin A.

Now you’ll remember that vitamin A is necessary for good eyesight, DNA

synthesis, and protects cells from free radicals.

A study reported in Apr 94 in the NEJM of some 30,000 Finnish subjects showed

conclusively that synthetic vitamin A had no antioxidant effect

whatsoever. A true antioxidant helps to protect heart muscle, lungs, and artery

surfaces from breaking down prematurely. In this study, the subjects who

received the synthetic beta carotene actually had an 8% higher incidence of

fatal heart attacks, strokes, and lung cancer than those who got the placebo

(sugar pill).

Stands to reason: the synthetic brought no vitamin activity to the tissues that

needed it. As a dead, purified chemical introduced into the body, the

synthetic further stressed the immune system, the liver, and the kidneys which

all had to try to break down this odd chemical and remove it from the body. It

would be bad enough if they were harmless, but synthetic vitamins actually have

a net negative effect.

Vitamin A was first discovered in 1919. By 1924, it had been broken down and

separated from its natural whole food complex: “purified.†By 1931, LaRoche

- one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, even today - had

succeeded in “synthesizing†vitamin A. That means they had created a purely

chemical copy of a fraction of naturally occurring vitamin A. Naturally

occurring vitamin A is found associated with an entire group of other

components:

- Retinols

- Retinoids

- Retinal

- Carotenoids

- Carotenes

- Fatty acids

- Vitamin C

- Vitamin E

- Vitamin B

- Vitamin D

- Enzymes

- Minerals

Isolated from these other factors, vitamin A is a fraction which cannot perform

its biological functions. Taken as a synthetic, it must then draw on

this list of resources already in the body in order to complete its make-up.

Whole food vitamin A, by contrast, is already complete and ready to go.

Most synthetic vitamin A consists only of retinal, retinol, or retinoic acid.

The well-publicized potential for toxicity with mega doses of vitamin

A involves one of these three. Vitamin A toxicity, known as hypervitaminosis,

always results from an excess of synthetic, “purifiedâ€

vitamin A, and never from whole food vitamin A. (DeCava, p 86) Effects of

vitamin A toxicity include:

- tumor enhancement

- joint disorders

- osteoporosis

- extreme dryness of eyes, mouth and skin,

- enlargement of liver and spleen

- immune depression

- birth defects

Beta carotene is a precursor the body can convert to vitamin A. Unfortunately,

as a supplement, synthetic beta carotene is usually “stabilized†in refined

vegetable oils. In this trans fatty acid form, oxidation occurs and the

chemically “pure†beta carotene can no longer act as a nutrient, because it

was changed. Almost all synthetic beta carotene is produced by the Swiss drug

giant Hoffman-LaRoche.

This form can no longer be converted to vitamin A. The best it can be is

worthless, and at the worst is toxic.

Natural vitamin A and beta carotene are well known as immune boosters and cancer

fighters, in their role as antioxidants. Synthetic vitamin A by

contrast has actually brought about significant increases in cancer. A study

done in Finland provided smokers with large doses of synthetic beta

carotene. Lung cancer incidence increased 18%! (NEJM Apr 94 †The Alpha

Tocopherol Beta Carotene Cancer Prevention Study Groupâ€)

These findings were corroborated two years later in another study written up in

Lancet. Pharmacologic doses of synthetic beta carotene’s were found to block

the antioxidant activity of the other 50 naturally occurring carotenoids in the

diet. Anti-cancer activity was thus blocked by the

synthetic. (Lancet 1996)

With the vast outpouring of wrong information about vitamins A and C, the

findings of a 1991 article in Health Counselor are no surprise: 50% of Americans

are deficient in vitamin A and 41% are deficient in vitamin C. Synthetic

vitamins cannot prevent deficiencies.

Fake Vitamin B

In one experiment, synthetic vitamin B (thiamine) was shown to render 100% of a

group of pigs sterile! 100% would be considered a significant finding. (Dr.

Barnett Sure, Journ Natr 1939) Perhaps the fact that synthetic vitamin B comes

from coal tar, maybe that has something to do with it, you think? Then there’s

vitamin B12, which comes from activated sewage sludge. (Frost p 60) Been

shooting blanks since you started on those multi’s?

For the licensed dietitians and clinical nutritionists reading this in disbelief

because it is too “unscientific, †consider the way Theron Randolph

MD delineated between natural and synthetic:

“A synthetically derived substance may cause a reaction in a chemically

susceptible person when the same material of natural origin is tolerated,

despite the two substances having identical chemical structures. The point is

illustrated by the frequency of clinical reactions to synthetic vitamins

- especially vitamin B1 and C - when the [same] naturally occurring vitamins are

tolerated.â€

IRRADIATION

According to Los Angeles naturopath, Dr. Jack Singh, all commercial lecithins in

supplements, as well as most vitamin D, comes from irradiated

vegetable oils. That’s rancid, oxidizing trans fatty acids! A birthday party

of free radicals. This is the precise mechanism for arterial wall breakdown

prior to plaque deposits, then arteriosclerosis, then heart disease. I thought

we were supposed to be taking vitamins to stay healthy!

Why is this information so difficult to find? It’s in none of the

“alternative†health ‘zines, or any of the mainstream media. Alternative-

Lite guru n Whittaker, in his summer 1998 newsletter actually had the

temerity to state outright “Synthetic vitamins and whole food vitamins are

identical.†I’m sure his synthetic vitamin company and all its retailers

were reassured by this incredibly arrogant and flagrantly inaccurate

pronouncement. But who is objecting?

Only those clients of the 5 companies who know enough to take whole food

vitamins, because they have become educated to realize the difference. These are

the vast minority, having no control of the media.

Royal Lee and Harvey Wiley lost. Nobody knows who they are today, except we few.

This is no accident. What everybody does know is Pepsi and Viagra and Wonder

Bread and prednisone and Double Whoppers with Cheese and Zantac and Baskin

Robbins and Long’s Drug Store. And grocery store vitamins: synthetic vitamins.

That’s America, today as the product of yesterday. Control of information in

America today is one of the most sophisticated systems of influence ever

devised. The simple ideas contained here are simply not available to the mass

consciousness. The documentation is out there, but you really

have to dig for it.

100 years ago if a medical doctor saw a case of cancer he would call all his

colleagues to come and have a look, telling them it was unlikely they would see

another case, as cancer was so rare. People rarely died of heart attacks; in

fact the term heart attack itself didn’t even exist. There was

no incidence at all of atherosclerosis. Diabetes was practically unheard of.

What did they eat? Fruits, vegetables, meat, butter, and lard. But none of it

was processed with drugs and chemicals.

Today one in three dies of cancer. One in two dies of heart disease. Diabetes is

the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S. (Vital

Statistics) Is that progress? If you are a food manufacturer it is, and

especially if you are a drug manufacturer.

In the 1980s the WHO ranked the US as #22 in the world in infant mortality. Male

sperm count is less than 20% of what it was in 1929. (1981 University of Florida

report, Natural vs. Synthetic) Infant mortality is up; birth defects are up. We

spend $1.5 trillion per year for health care, most of which goes for

administration and executive salaries. Who are the largest advertisers for TV

and the printed media? Right: drug companies and food manufacturers. Do they

want to keep the ball rolling?

You bet.

Will they kill you to do it?

Probably not consciously, but somewhere in every corporate executives

subconscious whimpers and moans, “..danger!…danger!â€Â  Are they ignoring

the voice for profit?

You bet.

Do they want people to take charge of their own health by natural inexpensive

foods and supplements? Negative. A cure for cancer has been

“right around the corner†since Nixon. People are starting to ask questions;

they’re less inclined to believe the slick ads coming every 10 minutes on TV

and in Newsweek.

Perhaps Hippocrates did not envision doctors as detail men or drug reps. He most

likely thought like Henry Bieler, MD:

“Nature, if given the opportunity is always the greatest healer.

It is the physician’s role to assist in this healing, to play a supporting

role.â€

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**

Thanks again to Dr. Tim O’Shea for consolidating all of this important

information.

For those of you whose treatment protocol rely on a vitamin such as Salt/C,

please review the ebook I wrote on adjusting the protocol to make it more

effective with whole food vitamins at Salt and Apples.

If you are interested in purchasing pure vitamin products go to Premier Research

Products.

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The Great Vitamin C Hoax - Part Two

So, after reading Part One, we now know that over 90% of ascorbic acid in this

country is manufactured at a facility in Nutley, New Jersey, owned by

Hoffman-LaRoche, one of the world’s biggest drug manufacturers. Here ascorbic

acid is made from a process involving cornstarch and volatile acids. Most U.S.

vitamin companies

then buy the bulk ascorbic acid from this single facility. After that, marketing

takes over. Each company makes its own labels, its own claims, and

its own formulations, each one claiming to have the superior form of vitamin C,

even though it all came from the same place, and it’s really not vitamin

C at all.

For those of us with chronic Lyme disease and rely on pure vitamins for the best

performing protocols, it is critical to know this information and where to find

pure vitamins (check info at the end of the post of each Part).

Now, back to Dr. O’Shea’s research:

FRACTIONATED = SYNTHETIC = CRYSTALLINE = FAKE

The word synthetic means two things:

- manmade

- occurs nowhere in nature

From the outset, it is crucial to understand the difference between vitamins and

vitamin activity. The vitamin is the biochemical complex. Vitamin activity means

the actual biological and cellular changes that take place when the stage is set

for the vitamin complex to act.

Think of it like gas and a car. Pumping the gas into the tank doesn’t

necessarily mean the car is going anywhere. Other conditions and factors must be

also present, in order for Activity to occur. The gas line to the carburetor

must be clear, the carburetor jets must be set, there must be an exact mixture

of air flow, the ignition must be turned on, the spark plugs must be clean, the

exact amount of gas must reach each spark plug right before it fires, no gas

must be left over in the cylinder after the plug fires. Getting the idea? If any

of this stuff is missing, there’s no Activity: the car doesn’t run, or at

least not very well.

Amazing as it may sound if you’re hearing this for the first time, vitamins

are more than the synthetic fractions we are commonly taught they are. The

ascorbic acid you buy at the grocery store every few weeks, thinking you are

buying Vitamin C, is just a chemical copy of naturally occurring ascorbic acid,

which itself is still only a fraction of the actual Vitamin C. Real vitamin C is

part of something living, and as such, can impart life.

Your synthetic, fractionated chemical ascorbic acid never grew in the ground,

never saw the light of day, never was alive or part of anything alive. It’s a

chemical, a cornstarch derivative, a sulfuric acid by-product. In your body

it’s just another drug. Synthetic vitamins have toxic effects from mega-doses

and actually can increase the white blood cell count. Vitamins are only

necessary in minute quantities on a daily basis. Whole food vitamins, by

contrast, are not toxic since the vitamin is complexed in

its integral working form, and requires nothing from the body, and triggers no

immune response.

DEFICIENCY

Scurvy is a disease caused by vitamin C deficiency. Scurvy is characterized by

bleeding gums, slow wound healing, softening bones, loose teeth, ulcerations of

the mouth and digestive tract, general weight loss and fatigue. From 1650 to

1850 half of all seamen on transoceanic voyages died of scurvy.

It was discovered by ship surgeon Lind in the early 1800s that British

sailors were spared the disease altogether simply by a diet rich in citrus

fruits. Since limes traveled well, they were the common choice during the early

years, and thus the expression “limeys†was coined to describe British

sailors. It was later found both at sea and in prison fare that potatoes were

equally successful in preventing scurvy, and much cheaper to obtain. (Lancet.

1842)

We find that there is less than 20 mg of ascorbic acid in a potato. Yet this

small amount, since it is complexed in a food source, is all the body needs not

only to prevent scurvy, but also to cure it, even in its advanced state. Such a

remedy is described in detail in Dana’s amazing journal Two Years

Before the Mast, written in 1840.

Whole food vitamin C as found in potatoes, onions, and citrus fruits is able to

quickly cure any case of scurvy. By contrast, the fractionated chemical ascorbic

acid has been shown to be insufficient in resolving a scurvy condition, simply

because it does not act as a nutrient. (Lancet 1842)

Ascorbic acid simply cannot confer vitamin activity, as taught by the discoverer

of vitamin C himself, another Nobel Prize laureate, Dr. Albert Szent-Georgi.

Szent-Georgi discovered vitamin C in 1937. In all his research however,

Szent-Georgi found that he could never cure scurvy with the isolated ascorbic

acid itself.

Realizing that he could always cure scurvy with the “impure†vitamin C found

in simple foods, Szent-Georgi discovered that other factors had to be at work in

order for vitamin activity to take place.

So he returned to the laboratory and eventually made the discovery of another

member of the vitamin C complex; rutin. All the factors in the complex, as Royal

Lee and Dr. Szent-Georgi both came to understand, ascorbic acid, rutin, and the

other factors, were synergists: co-factors which together sparked the

“functional interdependence of biologically related nutrient factors.†(

Empty Harvest p120) The term “wheels within wheels†was used to describe the

interplay of co-factors.

Each of the other synergists in the C complex has a separate function:

- P factors for blood vessel strength,

- J factors for oxygen-carrying capacity of red cells,

- tyrosinase as an essential enzyme for enhancing white blood cell

effectiveness.

Ascorbic acid is just the antioxidant outer shell - the protector of all these

other synergistic functions so that they will be able to perform their

individual roles.

Dr. Royal Lee’s phrase “biological wheels within wheels†always comes up

in any discussion of whole food vitamins.

Essentially it means that individual synergists cannot function as a vitamin in

a chemically isolated form, like ascorbic acid. Vitamins are living complexes

which contribute to other higher living complexes - like cell repair, collagen

manufacture, and maintenance of blood circulation. Ascorbic acid is not a living

complex. It

is a copy of a part of a living complex known as vitamin C. Ascorbic acid is a

fractionated, crystalline isolate of vitamin C.

Why are you a high school graduate or a college graduate or a doctor, and you

don’t know this? Because drug manufacturers like things clean and simple and

cheap to produce. To this simple fact add the politics which always comes into

play when anyone mentions the word “billions,†and you are beginning to get

the idea about where to begin your investigation. Burned his research???

DIETARY SOURCES

Most vitamins cannot be made by the body. They must be taken in as food. The

best sources then are obviously whole foods, rich in vitamins. Because of soil

depletion, mineral depletion, pesticides, air pollution, and erosion, it is

common knowledge that foods grown in American soil today have only a fraction of

the nutrient value of 50 years ago.

That means a fraction of the vitamins and minerals necessary for normal human

cell function. Royal Lee described the American diet as the cultivation and

production of “devitalized foods.†Dr. Weston Price describes these empty

products as the “foods of commerce.†Think it’s gotten better or worse

since their time? Thus the necessity for supplementation.

Vitamins and minerals are not functionally separable. They make each other work.

Example: vitamin D is necessary for the body to absorb calcium. Copper is

necessary for vitamin C activity. And so on. Mineral deficiencies can cause

vitamin deficiencies, and vice versa. Epidemic mineral deficiency in America is

a well-documented result of systematic soil depletion.

So that is the other prime difference between whole food vitamins and

synthetics: whole food vitamins contain within them many essential trace

minerals necessary for their synergistic operation. Synthetic vitamins contain

no trace minerals, relying on, and depleting, the body’s own mineral reserves.

Following the German agricultural methods of Von Leibig in the mid-1800s,

American farmers found that NPK (nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium) was all

that was necessary for crops to look good. (Frost p7) As long as NPK is added to

the soil, crops can be produced and sold year after year from the same soil.

They look OK. But the other necessary trace minerals vital for human nutrition

are virtually absent from most American soil after all these years.

Many of these minerals, such as zinc, copper, and magnesium, are necessary

co-factors of vitamin activity. Depleted topsoil is one simple, widespread

mechanism of both vitamin and mineral deficiency in American produce today.

This doesn’t even take into account the tons of poisonous herbicides and

pesticides dumped on crops. According to the UN, two million tons of pesticides

are used worldwide annually. (Jensen, p69)

American agri-business has one motive: profit. Such a focus has resulted in an

output of empty produce and a nation of unhealthy people. The earth’s immune

system is its soil. To be vital and capable of growing vital foods, soil must be

rich in both minerals and soil-based organisms - life forms. Healthy produce

naturally resists insects. Insects are like bad bacteria in the body: they are

attracted to diseased tissue, though they do not cause it.

And we’re still only talking about people who actually eat raw fruits and

vegetables, which is a tiny minority. Processed food composes the majority of

what most Americans eat. The only nutrients in most processed foods are

“enriched†and “fortified†as described below.

When a doctor says that food supplements are all unnecessary because we can get

everything we need from our food, that doctor is lacking basic information

published and agreed upon by his own peers. Whether or not we need

supplementation is no longer an issue, except for one who is totally out of

touch. The issue is what kind and how much. Vitamin and mineral deficiency can

be tagged to practically ANY disease syndrome known to man. DW Cavanaugh, MD of

Cornell University actually concluded that

“There is only one major disease, and that is malnutrition. †(Jensen, p8)

Malnutrition of the affluent is the natural result of the foods of commerce.

The best vitamins are called whole food vitamins.

It will be difficult finding this out on the Internet, however, because the Web

is dominated by mainstream nutritional theory. In the area of vitamins, the

Internet is 99%

marketing; 1% actual information.

There are about 110 companies who sell vitamins in the US. Less than 5 of them

use whole food vitamins. The reason is simple: whole food vitamins are expensive

to make. A few of the largest pharmaceutical firms in the world mass produce

synthetic vitamins for the vast majority of these 110 “vitamin†companies,

who then put their own label on them, and every company claims theirs is the

best! It’s ridiculous! Americans spend over $9 billion per year for synthetic

vitamins. (Frost p2)

Whole food vitamins are obtained by taking a vitamin-rich plant, removing the

water and the fiber in a cold vacuum process, free of chemicals, and then

packaging for stability. The entire vitamin complex in this way can be captured

intact, retaining its “functional and nutritional integrity.â€

(DeCava p.23.)

Upon ingestion, the body is not required to draw on its own reserves in order to

complete any missing elements from the vitamin complex.

Mainstream marketing of vitamins and minerals has successfully created the myth

that vitamins and minerals may be isolated from each other, that correct amounts

may be measured out, and then we can derive total benefit from taking these

fractionated chemical creations.

Nothing could be farther from the truth. Vitamins and minerals, and also

enzymes, work closely together as co-factors for each other’s efficacy. If one

part is missing, or in the wrong form or the wrong amount, entire chains of

metabolic processes will not proceed normally. Result: downward spiraling of

health, probably imperceptible for long periods of time.

One excellent protocol for treating chronic Lyme disease is also inexpensive and

uses whole food vitamins.  Read about the protocol “Salt & Apples†based on

Vitamin C/Salt it uses Himalayan salt (protected by man’s pollution) and apple

polyphenols which uses baby green apples.  Download Here.

Also, Premier Research Group is a company with incredible standards and REAL

vitamins.  Investigate for yourself.

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The Great Vitamin C Hoax - Part One

Dr. Tim O’Shea has written the most amazing article about Vitamin C that I

have had the pleasure of reading, (although in general I don’t find articles

about vitamins “pleasurable.â€)

In addition, this article was perhaps the most shocking article I have read in a

long time about anything.  The scam of the 21st Century - propagated by trusted

vitamin consultants, alternative holistic doctors and caring, sensitive,

licensed practitioners around the world.

Ascorbic Acid is Not Vitamin C.

For those of you who never read labels and just buy the bottles or jars that say

“Vitamin C†(or something to that effect.)  Well, you are about to learn

more than you ever thought you needed to know about Vitamin C.

But trust me, you need to know!

So, ascorbic acid is not vitamin C.

Alpha tocopherol is not vitamin E.

Retinoic acid is not vitamin A.

And so on through the other vitamins.

Vast sums of money have been expended to make these myths part of Conventional

Wisdom.

If you have several college degrees and all this is news to you, don’t feel

bad. Unless you think your education ended at Commencement. Which is generally

true.

Vitamins are not individual molecular compounds.

Vitamins are biological complexes. They are multi-step biochemical interactions

whose action is dependent upon a number of variables within the biological

terrain. Vitamin activity only takes place when all conditions are met within

that environment, and when all co-factors and components of the entire vitamin

complex are present and working together.

Vitamin activity is even more than the sum of all those parts; it also involves

timing.

Vitamins cannot be isolated from their complexes and still perform their

specific life functions within the cells. When isolated into artificial

commercial forms, like ascorbic acid, these purified synthetics act as drugs in

the body. They are no longer vitamins, and to call them such is inaccurate.

A vitamin is: “… a working process consisting of the nutrient, enzymes,

co-enzymes, antioxidants, and trace minerals activators.â€

- Royal Lee “What Is a Vitamin?†Applied Trophology, Aug. 1956

Dr. Royal Lee was the pioneer researcher in the field of whole food vitamins.

For decades he documented the basic facts summarized in this chapter. His work

has never been scientifically refuted. Anyone who seriously undertakes the study

of vitamins today corroborates Lee’s work.

His story is a fascinating study in itself, a study of indomitable perseverance

in the pursuit of true principles. Jensen tells us that Royal Lee’s work will

not be appreciated until the next century.  Hasn’t happened yet.

Lee felt the full weight of organized drugs/medicine bearing down on him.

Reading like something out of Schindler’s List, we learn that the FDA not only

persecuted Lee for challenging the economics of synthetic vitamins, produced by

giant drug companies, but that he was actually ordered by a court to burn all

his research of the past 20 years! Burn his research! When has that ever

happened in this country? They didn’t even do that to Larry Flynt.

Going off on a tangent, ever wondered how the FDA attained its present position

as attack dog for the drug companies and food manufacturers? It’s another

whole story in itself. The precursor of the FDA was the Bureau of Chemistry. Up

until 1912 the Bureau of Chemistry was headed up by a man named Dr. Harvey W.

Wiley.

Here’s a quote from Dr. Wiley that illustrates where his interests lay:

“No food product in our country would have any trace of benzoic acid,

sulfurous acid or sulfites or any alum or saccharin, save for medical purposes.

No soft drink would contain caffeine or theobromine. No bleached flour would

enter interstate commerce. Our foods and drugs would be wholly without any form

of adulteration and misbranding.

The health of our people would be vastly improved and the life greatly extended.

The manufacturers of our food supply, and especially the millers, would devote

their energies to improving the public health and promoting happiness in every

home by the production of whole ground, unbolted cereal flours and meals.â€

- The History of a Crime Against the Pure Food Law, 1912

Now obviously we can’t have a dangerous lunatic like this in charge of the

public nutrition, can we? Dr. Wiley actually filed suit against the Coca-Cola

company in an attempt to keep their artificial product out of interstate

commerce, and off the market. Fortunately Wiley was eventually replaced by a

saner individual, more attuned to the real nutritional needs of the American

people, as determined by the experts who knew what was best for us: the food

manufacturers. This was Dr. Elmer , and in his words we get an idea of the

change in philosophy that marked the transformation of the Bureau of Chemistry

into the FDA:

‘It is wholly unscientific to state that a well-fed body is more able to

resist disease than a poorly-fed body. My overall opinion is that there hasn’t

been enough experimentation to prove that dietary deficiencies make one

susceptible to disease.â€

- Elmer MD, Washington Post 26 Oct 49

Bernard Jensen illustrates how the tobacco industry and the food giants like

Coke were indirectly behind the legal persecution of Royal Lee. Cigarette ads in

the 40s and 50s showed medical doctors promoting the digestive benefits of

smoking Camels. Or the advertising of Coke and other refined sugar foods stating

that “science has shown how sugar can help keep your appetite and weight under

control.†(Empty Harvest)

During this same period, Royal Lee was kept in courts for years, fighting to

keep the right to advertise his vitamin products, because he was a threat to the

food manufacturers. Lee knew they were poisoning the American public.

He proved that refined sugars and devitalized, bleached flours were destroying

the arteries and the digestive system, causing heart disease and cancer.

Most sources equate vitamin C with ascorbic acid, as though they were the same

thing.

They’re not.

Ascorbic acid is an isolate, a fraction, a distillate of naturally occurring

vitamin C. In addition to ascorbic acid, vitamin C must include rutin,

bioflavonoids, Factor K, Factor J, Factor P, Tyrosinase, Ascorbinogen, and other

components as well.

ascorbinogen

bioflavonoids

rutin

tyrosinase

Factor J

Factor K

Factor P

In addition, mineral co-factors must be available in proper amounts.

If any of these parts are missing, there is no vitamin C, no vitamin activity.

When some of them are present, the body will draw on its own stores to make up

the differences, so that the whole vitamin may be present. Only then will

vitamin activity take place, provided that all other conditions and co-factors

are present.

Ascorbic acid is described merely as the “antioxidant wrapper†portion of

vitamin C; ascorbic acid protects the functional parts of the vitamin from rapid

oxidation or breakdown. (Somer p 58 “Vitamin C: A Lesson in Keeping An Open

Mind†The Nutrition Report)

For vitamins you can trust, Premier Research manufactures to the very highest

standard.  Investigate yourself.

Also, if you are on the Salt/Vitamin C Lyme protocol, you should consider making

adjustments immediately.  Read Salt & Apples for a whole food alternative. 

Download here.

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Letter From Dr.

CHARLES RAY JONES, M.D.

Madison Towers

111 Park Street, 1st Floor

New Haven, Connecticut 06511

Tel

Fax

March 23, 2010

Dear Friends,

I want to thank you for your many expressions of caring and support

which have encouraged me greatly. It is time to update you regarding

the status of my defense before the Connecticut Medical Examining Board (CMEB).

First I must alert you to a most urgent matter for which I need your help. I

will then provide more detailed information regarding the recent actions of the

CMEB which has triggered this urgency.

Urgency of the Current Situation:

At its March 16 meeting, members of the CMEB voted to uphold the recommendations

of the panel in its proposed memorandum of decision (MOD).

As a result of the CMEB vote:

I have been ordered to pay a second fine of $10,000 no later than April 15,

2010;

I must find a practice monitor who is board-certified in pediatrics and licensed

in the state of Connecticut by April 15;

The monitor must come to my office monthly for a period of 4 years (in the

previous case, monitoring was ordered to take place every three months for two

years);

The approximate cost associated with each monitoring session is $1,000. That

amounts to an additional financial burden of $12,000 per year, for four years.

Note also that the CMEB also has ordered that the monitor must have no

connection with any Lyme organization.

***One might well ask: If the charges against me have nothing to do with Lyme

disease, as the CMEB contends, why have they stipulated that the monitor cannot

be associated with any Lyme group?

If I fail to pay the fine and to locate a practice monitor by April 15, I will

be out of compliance. I am unable to do this without your assistance.

Furthermore, the outstanding balance for my legal fees has grown once again, due

to the recent flurry of activity related to my defense. (see below for details).

As a result, I must ask you once again to make a donation as soon as possible to

my legal defense fund, in whatever amount that your circumstances will permit.

I am painfully aware of the many hardships already endured by so many in the

Lyme community, and it troubles me deeply to have to ask you to do this once

again.

However, it will be impossible for me to meet these demands without your

support.

Instructions for donating appear at the bottom of this letter.   Please note

the special instructions for making donations at this time:

Be sure to write “Penalty or Gift†in the memo field of your checks. Half of

all donations will be used to pay the fine, and half to pay down the balance on

my legal fees. As soon as $10,000 has been raised to pay the fine, all

subsequent donations will be applied to the cost of filing the appeal and other

aspects of my legal defense.

Background:

The recent set of charges in this second proceeding pertained to three separate

families, whose cases were combined. The CMEB appointed a

three-member panel which presided over a series of hearing sessions that took

place over several months.

Although the exact facts differ, the current case is similar to the previous one

(which currently is under appeal): Two of the families

involved non-custodial fathers who filed the complaints.

In none of the cases were any of the children harmed; indeed, as with the first

case, they all are doing very well.

For more detailed background and information, I refer you to my letters of

September, 2008 and February, 2010, which are posted on Kay Lyon’s website:

http://www.lymesite.com/

Recommendations of the Panel:

At the beginning of this year, the panel issued its proposed Memorandum of

Decision (MOD), in which they recommended the following:

The third count involving one of the families was completely dismissed.

The testimony of Dr. Zemel was thrown out, with the panel characterizing him as

clearly biased against physicians who treat chronic Lyme, and against many of

the labs that they use.

The first count was upheld: this pertained to the charge that I had

“improperly†ordered serology (diagnostic) testing prior to examining the

patients. (I never did see the patients-they apparently decided to obtain care

elsewhere-or not at all.)

This seems strange, because, as far as we know, there were no patient complaints

or patient harm. It is also difficult to comprehend why pre-examination testing

should ever be the basis of disciplinary action against a physician.

The second count against me also was upheld. The issue here was the prescription

of antibiotics to a patient whose symptoms, as well as Lyme and Babesia test

results, were quite consistent with both Lyme and Babesiosis.

I had obtained a comprehensive history from the referring practitioner who had

contacted me about the case, and also from the patient’s mother.

An ER had recorded an EM rash that had not been treated and my schedule was so

heavily booked that I could not see the patient for a number of weeks.

I was confident that the patient should be started on antibiotics immediately,

and that the risk of not treating would be greater than the risk of treating.

The patient did well.

Once again, the panel did not recommend that my medical license be

suspended or revoked.

They did, however, recommend a number of sanctions that I have described for you

in the first part of this letter, which will be quite burdensome and pose a

serious financial threat as well.

The panel has denied that these charges were brought against me because I am a

Lyme specialist.

Instead, it has characterized its findings as generic and pertaining to medical

practice as a whole.

This is why we have not been able to utilize the recently passed physician

protection bill in Connecticut.

Nevertheless, the two expert witnesses called by the CT DPH were

specialists in tick-borne diseases.

Oral Arguments:

On February 16, 2010, the attorney for the Connecticut Department of

Public Health, Tilles, and my attorney, Elliott Pollack, presented oral

arguments in response to the proposed MOD:

Attorney Tilles argued that the characterization of Dr. Zemel as biased was

unfair, and would make it more difficult to obtain expert witnesses

in the future, because they might feel themselves to be at risk for similar

censure for offering their professional opinions in medical

board proceedings.

The panel dismissed Attorney Tilles’ argument, noting that Dr. Zemel had made

clearly biased statements with regard to chronic Lyme disease.

Attorney Pollack argued that the testimony of Dr. Kraus had been incompletely

characterized in the MOD, leaving out relevant details:

for example, Dr. Krause had agreed that a physical exam is not usually helpful

in diagnosing Babesiosis, which can quickly become extremely

serious; Dr. Kraus also agreed that the positive test results for both diseases

supported my decision to treat without delay.

Attorney Pollack further argued that the panel’s conclusions, even if adopted

by the Board, did not warrant anything more than minimal

discipline (i.e., payment of a nominal civil penalty).

With over half of the Department’s allegations found to be unsupported, and in

the face of healthy children and no patient complaints other than disgruntled

fathers engaged in contentious divorce proceedings, he characterized the

imposition of a four year probation and a massive civil penalty ($10,000),

coupled with the substantial financial resources that will be required to

satisfy the terms of the probation, as “wildly out of sync†with the

findings.

Finally, Attorney Pollack argued that the proposed discipline is excessive in

comparison with disciplinary measures imposed by the DPH in other recent

physician cases, citing specific cases in which the penalties imposed were far

less severe, despite more serious offenses and/or adverse patient outcomes.

Due to the need to make technical revisions in the decision, the vote on it was

postponed until March 16.

March 16 Meeting of the CMEB and its Vote:

We plan to appeal this decision: the appeal has to be filed within 45 days of

the CMEB meeting, which took place on March 16.

It is our expectation that the fine will be placed in an escrow account, as it

has been with the first case, pending the outcome of the appeal. It is unlikely,

however, that the monitoring requirement will be suspended.

Issue of Alleged Bias in the First Case:

At the March 16 meeting, the CMEB also considered the issue of bias related to

the first case that had been brought against me.

As you may recall, two parents had recognized one of the panelists, Dr.

Senechal, when they attended the final hearing session, and recalled

that he had made critical, defamatory statements regarding physicians who treat

Lyme disease.

He had not disclosed this bias when selected to serve on the panel.

Affidavits were then been filed in reference to this. The Superior Court

considered our request that the first decision be overturned,

based on the grounds that Dr. Senechal was biased.

While it did not overturn it, it did require that the CMEB reconsider the

punishment it had imposed against me as a result.

The CMEB decided it would not alter its findings or sanctions.

I hope that this information has been helpful to you. For those of you who may

have additional questions not answered by this update.

I invite you to send them to me by letter or by fax: . Please

reserve telephone calls for urgent matters only, given the very high volume of

patient calls that the office receives.

Thank you once more for your ongoing attention, efforts and concern on my

behalf. Your support has made all the difference!

With warmest wishes,

Dr.

Ray , M.D.

HOW TO DONATE TO THE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND:

Make Donations payable to:

“Pullman & Comley Trust Account-for Dr. â€

Mail to:

Elliott B. Pollack, Esquire

c/o Pullman & Comley, LLC

90 State House Square

Hartford, CT 06103-3702

Note the special instructions for donations towards the fine: Write “Penalty

or Gift†in the memo field of your checks. As soon as $10,000

has been raised to pay the fine, all subsequent donations will be applied to Dr.

’ legal defense.

Instructions also are posted on Kay Lyon’s website:

http://lymesite.com/Dr-_please_send_a_contribution_to_th.htm

To use PayPal to donate to the defense fund, go to the following web

address:

http://lymesite.com/Dr__use_paypal_to_make_donations_to_.htm

If you donate through PayPal, please indicate if you want half of your

donation prioritized to pay the fine. In order to so this, you must

send a note to Attorney Pollack at the above address, or email him at

ebpollack@...

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Transfer Factor Helps Boost Immune System

The buzz has been growing for awhile now, about this bizarre product that is

created by transferring molecules that make up the immune system of chickens

(from their eggs), and cows (from their colostrum), and utilizing them to

supercharge our own depleted immune system.

The idea is that if science can harvest healthy molecules from healthy chickens

and cows that the resulting product (or products - there are more and more being

patented each year) will boost the human immune system.

Testimonies abound from people who take it for the flu (and claim to never get

the flu once taking Transfer Factor), Crohns Disease, Cancer and now Lyme

disease.

My LLD recommended it strongly when he first diagnosed me but when he discovered

I was allergic to eggs, he scratched that off my list.

Some of you may have heard of Sue Massie. She has suffered with Lyme disease

for a long time and is selling the brand shown above at this site:

http://www.suemassie.com.

So, let me give you some background.

According to “4LifeFoundersâ€, one of the firms that manufactures

TransferFactor, in 1949, Dr. H. Sherwood Lawrence, a New York University

immunologist, determined that an immune response could be transferred from a

donor to a recipient through a white blood cell extract.

He concluded that the extract contained a factor capable of transferring the

donor’s immunity information to the recipient and named the substance transfer

factor.

In 1998, “4Life Founders†and Bianca Lisonbee licensed the patent to

extract transfer factors from cow colostrum. The introduction of 4Life Transfer

Factor® Classic opened the door to a new category of immune system support

products. 4Life’s commitment to transfer factor research has progressively

raised the standard for modern-day immune system supplementation.

In the 50 years since Dr. Lawrence’s pioneering work on transfer factors, an

estimated $40 million has been spent researching transfer factors and hundreds

of scientific papers have been published documenting their effectiveness.

Recent independent studies report that 4Life Transfer Factor and 4Life Transfer

Factor Plus® Tri-Factor Formulas boost Natural Killer cell activity a

remarkable 283% and 437%* when your body needs it.

So basically, Transfer factors provide intelligence to the immune system in the

following three ways:

It helps immune cells identify invading germs and other problems more quickly.

It helps speed up the immune system’s response to an invader after it’s been

identified.

And, it lends a hand in remembering the specific makeup of each germ your immune

system encounters, so the next time it comes around, your body knows exactly

what it is, and what to do.

So, first of all, if you have an immune system that is under-reactive and you

haven’t tried this before, it is probably worth a try.

And if you are going to try it out, support a fellow Lymie and go to her store

to get it.  www.suemassie.com.

Final warnings:  There are allergies to consider as I mentioned before, but you

must also make sure that the animals that are being used for harvest are not

exposed to pollutants and chemicals or the cycle will just continue.

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