- I am so very sorry to hear about this. This is Dr. Blaylock
who wrote about aspartame and MSG in the landmark book, "Excitotoxins:
The Taste That Kills" and in his wonderful successor book telling
you how to get well, "Health & Nutrition Secrets to Save Your
Life" - www.russellblaylockmd.com He can be seen in the new movie
on aspartame, "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World", contact cori@soundandfuryproductions.com
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- When we were in Washington, D.C. recently he gave an
incredible, incredible lecture on aspartame, after which he was given the
award, Integrity in Science. Dr Blaylock is retired now from practicing
but if all physicians knew what he knows and treated patients like he
does, we would have a healthy, educated America. His knowledge in his
papers and books is really a gift to the world.
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- Incidentally, he has an excellent newsletter and his
paper on www.wnho.net (click on aspartame) What To Do If You Have Used
Aspartame should be read by all aspartame victims.
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- Our deepest sympathy to this brilliant and compassionate
physician who has done so much to help the anti-aspartame movement and
educate the world on this toxin, and to his lovely wife, Diane (prounded
Dione), and family. And may he see his brother again in the resurrection
( ..there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.
Acts 24:15). And a moment of prayer and silence for his brother.
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- Betty
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- How Modern Medicine Killed My Brother
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- By Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
- 11-25-4
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- Earlier this month, I traveled to Monroe, La., to bury
my dear older brother, Charles. Charles was not only a wonderful brother,
but he was a man with a heart of gold who always put the needs of others
and his family before his own. Charles, unfortunately, began smoking when
he was in law school, something I warned him about repeatedly.
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- Approximately four months ago, I noticed that he was
getting horse. He brushed it off and continued his hectic schedule. When
I again visited him a month later, he was still having the hoarseness.
I advised him to see someone about it. He took my advice and saw a local
physician group. The doctor was actually too busy to see him and had his
nurse see him.
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- Before he went to the doctor, I told him it was critical
that he have the doctor examine his vocal cords. The nurse looked in his
throat, but wasn't trained to examine his vocal cords.
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- Two more weeks passed during which his doctors assured
him that it was nothing more than bronchitis. They treated him with steroids
and antibiotics, but no one examined his vocal cords.
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- Misdiagnosis After Misdiagnosis
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- I pleaded with him to see an Ear, Nose and Throat doctor,
but he trusted his doctor. For the next two and a half months, he was treated
with steroids and antibiotics. Finally, he developed pneumonia and was
admitted to the hospital, what was supposed to be one of the best hospitals
in the area.
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- At the time, I was on vacation in North Carolina. He
told me the doctors told him he had a bruit in his carotid artery, a sign
of atherosclerosis, and that they wanted to do an arteriogram. I advised
him against it, suspecting he, in fact, had a cancer and attempting an
arteriogram on someone with such poor pulmonary function would be disastrous.
The arteriogram was cancelled. Still, no one had examined his vocal cords.
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- When I arrived, I called a friend of mine I had gone
to medical school with, and asked him to see Charles. Prior to this, I
asked the doctor in charge of his respiratory care to add vitamins and
magnesium to his IV. While he promised he would, he didn't. Every attempt
to get Charles' laboratory studies was met with obstruction based on the
Patient Privacy Act. He soon signed the necessary forms and finally I was
able to see this closely guarded data.
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- When I asked his doctor why the magnesium had not been
added to his IV, word was sent back to me through the nurse that she had
never heard of using magnesium. I sent copies of selected articles showing
the immense value of magnesium on pulmonary and cardiovascular function.
Still there was no response from the doctor. Not once did this doctor call
me, or answer my pages.
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- Finally, The Diagnosis is Made
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- My ENT friend did a very good workup and discovered Charles
had a large cancer in his left lower lung that was impinging on the nerve
to his vocal cord, causing one cord to be completely paralyzed. At that
point, a pulmonary physician did a bronchial biopsy and diagnosed a poorly
differentiated lung cancer, with no evidence of spread. Once the diagnosis
was made, an oncologist was naturally called, who wanted to start a complete
course of chemotherapy drugs.
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- I advised my brother against it, knowing the cancer would
not respond and the toxic drugs would dramatically increase his breathing
difficulties, hastening his death. He took my advice. Then, a radiation
oncologist suggested radiating the tumor to shrink it. I wasn't supportive
of this treatment, but my brother wanted something done.
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- Soon afterward, he started five and a half weeks of radiation
treatment. At that point, I started him on a nutrition program and he began
to feel better, his breathing improved and he was able to go back to work.
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- However, the oncologist told Charles he was losing too
much weight and he needed to eat more bread, pasta and even sweets to gain
weight. Charles, at the time of his diagnosis, was grossly overweight and
needed to lose the weight. I told him that losing the weight would make
it easier for him to breath. I had given him a copy of my book on the nutritional
treatment of cancer and told him it was critical he follow the advice exactly.
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- Unfortunately, Charles decided he didn't like the taste
of the blenderized vegetables and would do what the oncologist suggested.
He began to eat ice cream, cookies and other items that cancer patients
should never eat. Once he finished the radiation treatments, he developed
fever, severe shortness of breath and had to be admitted to the hospital.
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- The "Evidence Based" Physicians Take Over
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- Sadly, he chose a hospital that was even more rigid in
its control of the patient than his previous hospital. It was a local hospital
affiliated with the Louisiana State University Medical Center. Charles
was admitted to the intensive care unit, where he had to be intubated and
placed on a respirator.
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- Again, I was out of town, in fact, giving a talk at the
Westin Price Conference in Washington, D.C., on nutrition. As before, I
could not pry any information about my brother concerning his laboratory
test, chest x-rays or the reason he was deteriorating so rapidly. His doctor
refused to call me, despite numerous attempts by my sister and me to have
her call.
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- In all my 26 years of neurosurgical practice, I have
never seen a situation where a doctor treating a gravely ill patient would
not discuss the case with a family member who is a physician. It was as
if my brother belonged to the hospital and his physician and the family
was to be kept in the dark.
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- Finally, I was able to speak to one of the consulting
doctors, who told me my brother had a very low hemoglobin count. I asked
him if he was giving him blood.
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- After a long pause, he answered, "No." I responded,
" Well, with him unable to breath, don't you think it would be a good
idea to increase his oxygen-carrying capacity by giving him blood?"
He mumbled in agreement. I told him that I wanted my sister and her son
to give the blood and that they were in the process of doing that as we
spoke. He agreed. Yet, before my sister could have the blood transferred
to Charles, the doctors had already given him blood from unknown donors.
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- I rushed to my brother's side and found him awake, on
a respirator and very frightened. He was receiving no magnesium in his
IV and was getting a tube feeding-formula that contains significant doses
of glutamate, something known to cause pulmonary deterioration. Again,
his doctor never heard of that.
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- An Incredible Admission
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- At that point, Charles was lapsing into a coma. Still
his doctor had not contacted me or communicated with me in any way. Disgusted,
I told the nurse to have her come to the room and I didn't want any excuses.
I asked to speak to her in private. She insisted a nurse remain with her.
I told her of my absolute amazement that a treating physician would not
speak to the family, especially when one of the family members was a doctor.
She denied she had ever gotten a message, which was a bold-faced lie.
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- I then told her that I wanted my brother to have certain
supplements that had been shown in careful medical studies to improve lung
function. She had never heard of them, but agreed to give them if her superior,
the Chief of Medicine, agreed. Therefore, I gave her a stack of medical
abstracts and told her to let me know if there was a problem.
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- Within five minutes, she returned and stated that he
would not agree to it and responded that the Chief of Medicine told her
that he would not agree to change the treatment based on abstracts. I told
her I wanted to talk with him that minute.
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- He arrived, looking very arrogant and self-important.
I decided that I would try to calmly discuss with him my brother's case
and why he needed the supplements. Again, I asked for a private meeting.
He wanted Charles' doctor to be present.
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- I explained to him what I was asking for was backed up
by peered-reviewed studies and that none of the supplements had ever shown
any harmful side effects in any dose. In a very arrogant tone, totally
unsympathetic to my concern for my brother, he stated that he only read
and trusted four journals:
- * Lancet
- * New England Journal of Medicine
- * Annals of Internal Medicine
- * Journal of the American Medical Association
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- Shocked that anyone would admit to being so intellectually
limited, I told him there were thousands of peer-reviewed medical journals,
most of which were reputable. He responded that he didn't have time to
read or look up additional material.
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- What an admission!
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- I reminded him I practiced neurosurgery for 26 years
and was a hell of a lot busier than he had ever been. I also told him I
had managed to write three books and 30 articles for peer-reviewed journals
in addition to three chapters for medical textbooks. He had no comment.
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- I told him I found it inconceivable that a physician
holding the position of Chief of Staff in a teaching hospital would:
- * Admit they read only four journals
- * Didn't have time to research material that would
improve a patient's care
- * Would be so obstinate and filled with so much self-importance
they would allow a patient to die rather than try something that had strong
clinical evidence of benefit without any complications
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- The doctor still refused to change his mind.
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- I pointed out to him, for 20 years there was a mountain
of evidence that magnesium offered tremendous protection to the heart and
brain, but because of people like him, it was only recently that magnesium
has been added to the "protocol" for heart patients. I, then,
reminded both of them that tens of thousands of patients died during that
20-year period because of their unwillingness to use a harmless mineral
like magnesium. Then I said, " Is my brother to die because of your
narrow mindedness and arrogance"?
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- I pointedly asked him if he could see the logic, the
reasoning behind what I was asking. He responded that he did up until to
the point about all the people that must die because of waiting for the
elite of medicine to make up their mind. I turned to the female physician
and asked her the same question. She said she agreed with the logic but
trusted her chief.
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- Blind Leading the Blind
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- I asked the Chief of Medicine if he would want the same
treatment for his brother. He thought a minute and then said, "Yes."
He again, appealed to the fact that he didn't have time to research all
these things. I reminded him that his job was to do whatever was necessary
to provide his patients with the best medical care, based on the latest
medical evidence available no matter how much time he had to sacrifice.
He could not fall back on time constraints or the fact that he trusted
only four journals.
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- The Chief of Medicine left, a lot less openly arrogant
and self-assured. He was not able to give a single argument to support
his intellectually bankrupt concept of medicine.
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- It reminded me of the title of a book I had recently
purchased: Intellectual Morons. He certainly fit the description. Before
he left, I reminded him it was doctors like him who were the problem in
modern medicine -- arrogant, condescending to patients and certain the
medical care protocols established by the elitist academians were holy
writ. Further, it was because of such an attitude that patients by the
millions were leaving the medical care system, and seeking answers from
so-called alternative medicine.
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- Patients were fed up with having drugs and treatments
shoved down their throats that only led to more misery and rarely helped
their disease.
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- The Danger of Regimentation
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- The practice of medicine has changed drastically in the
world, especially in this country. When I first entered the world of medicine,
doctors were able to practice independently, always maintaining a close
relationship between themselves, the patient and the patient's family.
Creative, caring doctors could alter their care to match new developments
in medicine and nutrition to the greatest benefit of their patients. Third
parties such as insurance companies, government and medical elite were
held at bay.
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- Yet, the new thinking is that the practicing physician,
and especially the patient, is unable to make these decisions. Instead,
they are to follow a system of regimented medicine that assigns treatment
protocols the physician is to blindly follow.
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- Elite boards appointed by medical associations, such
as the American Medical Association, American Academy of Family Practice
and others, design these treatment protocols and hand them down to the
"ignorant automatons" making up the vast majority of treating
physicians. They are to follow these regimented treatments without question
and to the letter.
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- The new breed of doctor, like my brother's doctors, fits
this new pattern well. They are convinced this "cookbook" medicine
is superior and their elite journals and medical associations know best.
Like members of the society Aldous Huxley described in A Brave New World,
they are mere cogs in the wheel of the state's machinery. They do not question
the authorities or the wisdom of their decrees. They do what they are told.
They are unable to think for themselves.
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- In fact, I asked Charles' doctor, "Can you not think
for yourself?" She looked at me sheepishly and said, "I just
trust the Chief of Medicine."
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- I also reminded the arrogant Chief of Medicine these
elite decision-making bodies have been racked with scandals that involved
financial connections to pharmaceutical companies and other medical product
manufacturers. In addition, similar scandals occurred among the editorial
staff of one of his favorite journals, the New England Journal of Medicine.
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- This collectivist regimentation of medicine will only
get worse. Families are now excluded from medical care decisions, doctors
do not talk to families, the entire hospital experience is shrouded in
secrecy and patients have no say in their care. While more innovative doctors
can alter the protocols or even reject them, soon they will not have that
option. To deviate from the collectivist plan is to invite the wrath of
the legal system.
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- Fear of Financial Ruin
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- Litigation pushes many physicians into following elitist
protocols out of fear of financial ruin. In fact, these protocols have
become the "standard of care" used by the legal system. Unfortunately,
doctors, like those who killed my brother, are being turned out of medical
schools all over the country like robots. They repeat the mantra of collectivism
as if they thought of it themselves. To this new breed of doctors, individualism
and independent thought is to be discouraged and reviled. Dependence on
elite leaders will be automatic.
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- As an example, I recently spoke to a large group concerning
the harmful effects of glutamate, explaining it is now known that glutamate,
as added to foods, significantly accelerates the growth and spread of cancers.
I asked the crowd when was the last time an oncologist told his or her
patient to avoid MSG or foods high in glutamate. The answer, I said, was
never.
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- After the talk, a crowd gathered to ask more questions.
Suddenly, I was interrupted by a young woman who identified herself as
a radiation oncologist. She angrily stated, "I really took offense
to your comment about oncologists not telling their patients about glutamate."
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- I turned to her and asked, "Well, do you tell your
patients to avoid glutamate?" She looked puzzled and said, "No
one told us to." I asked her who this person or persons were whose
job it was to provide her with this information. I, then, reminded her
that I obtained this information from her oncology journals. Did she not
read her own journals?
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- Yet, this is the attitude of the modern doctor. An elitist
group is in charge of disseminating all the information physicians are
to know. If they do not tell them, then, in their way of thinking, the
information was of no value. Of course, 10 or 20 years from now, it may
be the new standard and on all the protocols.
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- How many cancer patients will have died during the long
wait for the elitists to conclude the information was important? A million?
Five million? Do they even care?
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- In my conversation with the two physicians responsible
for my brother's "care," they obviously didn't care.
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- It is too late for my brother. But, maybe, just maybe,
if enough people decide they do not care to leave their fate and that of
their loved ones in the hands of these arrogant regimented physicians,
something will change.
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