If the narrowing occurs slowly, it may stimulate the smaller and little-used blood vessels to dilate and carry a larger supply of blood than the narrowed main channel. These are known as collateral blood vessels.

Impairment of blood supply is known as ischaemia. The ischaemic lower limb may develop coldness, numbness or pins and needles. Intermittent claudication is the major sign.

When the affected leg is raised, it becomes paler as the blood drains out of it, yet, when hung down, it flushes with blood, looks red and may feel temporarily hot.

If the circulation to the skin is affected, it is more serious and may show itself with ulcers on the feet and legs or with rest pain that typically, comes on in bed when the legs are warm. It is a severe, burning type and may be relieved by hanging the foot down out of the side of the bed.

Total blockage of the blood supply to the leg or a portion of it may result in gangrene where there is death of tissue.

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The moment a practitioner gives information to a third person without your permission he or she is no longer treating you as a responsible adult person. This is wrong. If you allow a practitioner to do this, you are putting yourself into a helpless, dependent position and giving up responsibility for yourself. It might seem the easiest way out but, believe me, it’s not in the long run. ,”,ù

You may know that your practitioner has already had discussions with friends or relatives in your absence. They are probably doing this in a well-meaning but misguided attempt to ‘protect’ you. Unfortunately the reality remains regardless of whether or not you know about it. Hiding the truth from you won’t make it go away—it will just make the whole situation harder for you to grapple with.

fe$ guarantee that if you are in this situation your imagination is running wild: ‘It must be really terrible if they can’t tell me.’ I say again—your imagination will usually come up with something much worse than the truth. If you insist on being told, you are likely to get a new lease of life. You will be able to direct your energies positively into battling with a real, rather than an imaginary, situation. You will be able to share your fears and concerns freely with your loved ones. Your friends or relatives who have been given the information will feel great relief when the heavy burden is lifted from their shoulders. They also will then be able to direct their energy much more positively.

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The S.C.C Is a tumour arising from the prickle cells of the epidermis which lie above the basal layer. This form of cancer easily Invades the dermis, and may on occasions spread to local lymph glands or more widely through the blood stream.

Causes. S.C.C.s are much more prevalent on sun-damaged skin. They may however arise following prolonged exposure to chemical carcinogens such as tar, lubricating oils, creosote and soot. Occasionally they arise at the site of an old Injury, such as a burn or leg ulcer. The taking of arsenic for medical purposes, many years previously, will predispose one to developing a S.C.C. The majority of these cancers are due to the cumulative effect of solar damage in genetically predisposed people, and occur on sun-exposed areas. The incidence is high amongst outdoor workers—especially those with fair or freckled complexions—living in countries like Australia, South Africa, or in the American State of California. (The incidence is 15 times less in blacks than in whites of the same area.

Features. A S.C.C. rarely arises in healthy-looking skin. They usually appear against a background of blotchy pigmentation, alternate thickening and thinning of the skin, and wrinkling. Frequently, they occur within a longstanding solar keratosis. The most common sites are the backs of the hands, the arms and the facial area.

The earliest sign of a S.C.C. is often a firm thickening of the skin, usually at the base of a solar keratosis. More frequently, however, the earliest sign is a warty growth, or a small ulcer, with a rolled solid border. Initially the ulcer is not obvious because of a firmly adhering crust, which bleeds when it is knocked off. The lower lip is a favourite site for these S.C.C.s. Here a S.C.C. may be preceded by a white flat patch, known as leukoplakia, or dry, scaly, cracked lips. It may begin as a persistent fissure or crack, which becomes hard and ulcerated, or as a warty or fleshy, red growth.

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Disease of the arteries is the Number One cause of death in women over 50. Whether the cause is heart attack or stroke, arterial disease kills one woman in every four.

The arteries carry blood from the heart all round the body, and so it is important for our health that they remain in good condition. If they become narrowed, or clogged up, then the blood can’t flow so freely, and there is a much increased chance that the flow will suddenly become completely restricted, causing a heart attack or a stroke.

Some of the factors that contribute to heart disease are outside our control, such as the natural ageing process, and the hereditary aspect of heart disease; other risk factors we can do something about, by giving up smoking, not drinking too much alcohol, taking enough exercise, eating the right diet and learning how to handle stress.

One of the factors that increases the risk of developing diseases of the arteries is being male; until the age of 40-50, far more men than women die of heart disease. In fact, it is unusual for otherwise healthy pre-menopausal women to have heart attacks, whereas, sadly, it is not unusual for men in this age group to do so. The reason is thought to be the protective effect of a woman’s oestrogen. Once a woman is past the menopause (whether natural or surgical) her risk of having a heart attack increases, until by the age of 75-80 she has the same risk as men.

The reason for this is possibly to do with cholesterol. There are two forms of cholesterol flowing through the blood vessels: low density lipoproteins (LDLs) which build up on the walls of the blood vessels and are ‘bad for you’, and high density lipoproteins (HDLs) which are ‘good for you’ because they latch on to the LDLs and absorb them through the artery walls to be disposed of by other organs in the body. Many years of research have shown that oestrogen lowers the level of LDLs and raises the level of HDLs. As high levels of LDLs increase the risk of arterial disease (by blocking the arteries), and high levels of HDLs are good for you (because they remove the LDLs), oestrogen has a very positive protective effect.

Also, at times of increasing age, when the major arteries of the body are narrowing, HRT is thought to widen them and so allow blood to flow more freely. In fact, women on HRT tend to have healthier arteries than those not on it; even women of 70 or more can benefit from this protective effect of HRT.

As you will read in Chapter 8, there is a small but increased risk of developing breast cancer after several years on HRT, a fact that has received a lot of publicity. However, heart disease and stroke are the largest single cause of death among women in this country, completely dwarfing the number of deaths from breast cancer. The average reader of this book over the age of 50 is many times more likely to die from heart disease or stroke than from breast cancer (although under the age of 50 the risk of breast cancer is greater). A great deal of research has been carried out in recent years into HRT’s effect on menopausal symptoms and osteoporosis, but much less into its effect on arterial disease. This balance is beginning to change, and over the next few years more will become known about the effect different hormones have on heart disease and stroke. Although HRT was originally prescribed primarily to treat hot flushes, etc, and more recently also to prevent osteoporosis, it is likely that in future years it will be prescribed mainly for its role in reducing the risk of heart disease and stroke. Even now, it is thought that women who take oestrogen have one-third to one-half the risk of developing these two conditions than women who don’t.

(It is worth noting here that almost all the studies that show the beneficial effect of oestrogen on arterial disease have been carried out on women taking oestrogen alone, and not oestrogen with progestogen, although recent work suggests that progestogen may not detract from oestrogen’s cardiovascular protection; there have not yet, however, been any results based on long-term data.

To gain significant protective effect against arterial disease, you may need to stay on HRT for two years or so, preferably longer, and the effect will diminish once you stop. Even then, the oestrogen only reduces your risk of developing these diseases, it cannot guarantee that you won’t get them. We are not immortal!

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Despite a considerable amount of energy, ingenuity and research in recent years, the cause of endometriosis remains shrouded in mystery. This has undoubtedly slowed progress in developing effective treatments.

Drugs such as danazol, progestogens and GnRH agonists are capable of shrinking endometriosis tissue. They work by blocking the action of oestrogen which seems to be an essential ingredient in endometriosis growth. While these drug therapies are not capable of eliminating severe endometriosis, they are often used in the lead-up to surgical, electrical or laser treatment in the hope of making the removal of endometriosis tissue safer and more effective. Many doctors prefer not to prescribe danazol, progestogens at low dose, or GnRH agonists for longer than six months because of side-effects such as weight gain, breast tenderness, depression, nausea and hot flushes. There is also little information about the effects of long-term usage but what we do know gives cause for concern. For example, danazol has adverse effects on blood fats and GnRH agonists cause loss of calcium from bones. For some women, high daily doses of progestogens cause few problems and this therapy maybe recommended when endometriosis recurs after other attempts to remove it.

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To understand how the penis can double in size, one has to know something about how the penis is constructed. The penis is like two spongy sausages side by side, or a double-barrel shotgun. It can be filled with blood by the opening and closing of a special form of valve system. When the valve of the incoming blood vessel is opened and the valve on the outgoing blood vessel is closed, a lot of blood is trapped in the spongy component of the penis. The penis becomes turgid and erect. It is estimated that the blood flow in the flaccid penis is 5 ml per minute. At the start of the erection, the blood flow may go up to 100 ml per minute. When the penis reaches a stable turgid state, the blood flow is maintained at about 50 ml per minute. The control of this valve system is not a completely voluntary one. If a man decides to have an erection, even if he desperately wants to, he may not be able to have one. This is because the valves around the spongy part of the penis are controlled by the autonomic nervous system. This system controls various bodily functions, such as stomach movements, and is not directly under our control. Remember the time when you burped in public and were embarrassed? You had no way of preventing the burp, because burping is under the control of the autonomic nervous system.

In fact there are two major groups of activities in the body, which are controlled by two separate systems. These are like the gear changes of our cars—automatic and manual:

* The automatic system is controlled by the autonomic nervous system. This regulates our stomach movements, heart rate, blood pressure, etc. and, of course, male erection

* The manual system is controlled voluntarily by our brain; for example, you can move around or sit still whenever you want.

The only time that these two systems are not under our control is during dreaming. In REM sleep, the manual system is no longer working and the muscles are completely relaxed, even in the most tense people. So when a man dreams, on the one hand the genitalia are doing their compulsory exercises, on the other hand the muscles of the body are having a compulsory rest.

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EXERCISES-ASSUME A POSITION THAT IS NOT TOO COMFORTABLE

The actual posture of the body has quite an influence on the effect of mental exercises. This applies particularly to our degree of comfort, the symmetry of our bodily position, and the movement of our body.

Assume a Position That Is Not Too Comfortable-Most people believe that the more comfortable we are, the more effective will be our relaxation. This idea is quite wrong. If we lie down comfortably on our bed, relaxation comes relatively easily. But as I mentioned previously, this type of relaxation has little effect in relieving our inner tension. When we relax in this way our relaxation is largely brought about by the physical comfort and warmth of our surroundings. Our body and limbs are supported comfortably by the soft bed. Nervous impulses arising in the skin, muscles, and joints report this state of affairs to the brain. As a result we feel relaxed. But this is not what we want. We aim for mental relaxation which comes from the mind itself. In order to achieve this we must not be too comfortable; if we are, our brain is swamped by comforting messages from our body and limbs, and there is little need for the mind to assert itself in this direction. In fact the most effective relaxation for releasing our inner tension comes when we achieve relaxation while we are slightly uncomfortable physically. In these circumstances the relaxation comes from the mind itself, and it is effective in permanently relieving inner tension.

A doctor came as a patient to see me, saying in a rather aggressive fashion that he had heard all about my relaxing methods. He had tried them; and they were not any good. When I asked him, he told me that he practised lying down comfortably on his bed. When I explained the necessity for a more uncomfortable position he tried again and immediately was more successful.

I first realized the very great importance of this a few years ago. At the time I was travelling in India seeing what I could learn from yogis. They of course all meditate in the familiar

cross-legged, squatting position known as the lotus posture. In all the books that I have read about Eastern religion and mysticism it is stated that this cross-legged, squatting position is comfortable for Asiatics. This is obviously true, as in India one sees people all around sitting comfortably in this position. But it is comfortable for the Indian only as long as he sits loosely in this position.

Yogis whom I questioned closely about their posture for meditation all told me that it was uncomfortable. I then learned that the meditating yogi keeps pulling his feet more and more tightly under his buttocks, so that in fact he is always slightly uncomfortable. My own experience, and my experience with patients, has taught me that some minor physical discomfort is very important in attaining effective mental relaxation.

A shrewd man who had had little formal education was running a large and successful business enterprise. Over the past few years he had become increasingly tense, and was compensating with alcohol. One day I asked him what he liked doing best in the world. His reply was, “Drinking beer.”

I taught him how to relax and he learned to maintain his relaxation in uncomfortable circumstances while I was there to supervise him. But at home he would practise only when lying on his bed. He just lacked the necessary self-discipline to do the exercise properly. He actually made a good recovery, but it necessitated more visits to me than he would have otherwise needed.

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Because conventional drugs used in medical treatment of arthritis are, as a rule, only aimed at masking and suppressing the symptoms, they naturally have no place in a program of biological treatments. Pain is an important symptom, a signal, which is initiated by the body’s own defensive mechanism to attract necessary help and assistance for its healing activity. To suppress and mask pain, without finding out why it is there and trying to eliminate the underlying causes of it, is contrary to the philosophy of biological medicine. It is of vital importance to realize that the various symptoms of disease, such as pain, swelling, stiffness, fever, tiredness, loss of appetite, etc. are not negative phenomena which have to be eliminated and suppressed, but they are positive, constructive symptoms initiated by the body’s own healing mechanism in its effort to restore health. When this is clearly understood, then the wise doctor will not waste his own and his patient’s time masking the symptoms and providing temporary relief. He will adopt a positive attitude which will aim at eliminating and correcting the underlying causative factors of arthritis and supporting the body’s own recuperative powers.

Even such a drug as cortisone, although it will temporarily activate and stabilize the chemical balance of the tissues, will never correct the initial disturbance and will eventually cause more damage by undermining and impairing the body’s own corrective measures. Therefore, cortisone, like any other toxic drug, should be used only in a situation of extreme emergency.

Consequently, the first rule of a biological program is complete withdrawal of all drugs. In the great majority of cases this presents no problems. Naturally, withdrawal of pain-killing drugs will cause a certain amount of discomfort for the first few days, but on a new biological program the patient soon will be pain-free, even without pain-killing drugs.

The consensus of opinion of doctors who use biological methods in their practice is that the prospects of achieving a betterment and cure of arthritis with the help of biological treatments is in inverse relationship to the extent and intensity of the drug treatment the patient received previously. Prolonged use of drugs will eventually suppress and break down the body’s own defense and healing mechanisms causing severe chemical and hormonal imbalance. The disease will then be pushed further and further towards the condition where it will be completely incurable.

Therefore, in order to obtain lasting results the withdrawal of all drugs is imperative.

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The EEG is often thought to be able either to prove, or to exclude a diagnosis of epilepsy, but this is rarely possible. A single, routine EEG is likely to show any abnormal (and therefore helpful) activity in only about half of those who have had a tonic-clonic (grand mal) seizure.

If further, or longer duration EEGs are done, the yield increases. It must therefore be clearly understood that the EEG does not prove, nor disprove the diagnosis of epilepsy. There is one important exception to this, and this is with a type of epilepsy called non-convulsive status epilepticus. This may present with bizarre or confused behaviour with semi-purposeful, almost automatic movements. It may be difficult to decide whether this behaviour is epilepsy, but if it is, the EEG helps make the diagnosis

The EEG also is not a good guide to either the activity or prognosis of epilepsy. There is one type of epilepsy, however, in which the EEG is particularly useful—this is typical absence epilepsy (petit mal). In this epilepsy syndrome the frequent seizures may be so brief and subtle that some time may elapse before they are recognized. In children with typical absences, the EEG almost always shows a seizure discharge, which may be induced by hyperventilation, and even more easily after deprivation of sleep.

The EEG is usually not helpful in identifying a cause. Occasionally, however, the EEG may show marked differences between the two sides of the brain, such as a slow wave discharge arising from one particular area. This suggests the presence of a structural abnormality as the cause of the patient’s epilepsy. However, structural abnormalities are best investigated by imaging techniques (brain-scans). These are, after the EEG, the most commonly used investigation in epilepsy.

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How is it, people ask, that CMO can be of benefit for so many different ailments? To understand it, think of penicillin and how many different kinds of infections that general antibiotic cures. It has turned out that CMO is so much more than just an arthritis remedy. It is a general immunomodulator that has proved beneficial for nearly any ailment that has any autoimmune factors involved. And there are dozens of them. We’re talking about ailments like:

Fibromyalgia, emphysema and asthma, Crohn’s disease, prostate inflammation, lupus erythematosus, ankylosing spondylitis, Psoriasis, carpal tunnel syndrome, Sjogren’s syndrome, scleroderma, TMJ, neck, back, and foot pain, Behcet’s syndrome, macular degeneration, tension headaches, migraine headaches, cluster headaches, Reiter’s syndrome, myasthenia gravis, hypertension, sarcoidosis, sciatica, tendinitis, tennis elbow,” diabetes, even multiple sclerosis, bursitis … and more.

And those are just the ones we have specifically heard something about. Yet, for a long while, we were very reluctant to discuss any diseases other than arthritis. We had no formal studies for them. And we were concerned about credibility. We were not about to take the irresponsible position of recommending CMO for ailments on which we had so little data, despite reports of having literally saved several patients from certain death and a few others from suicide.

Initially, we didn’t have an inkling that CMO would prove to be valuable for ailments other than arthritis. The tiny journal article describing the discovery at the National Institutes of Health spoke only of a mouse study related only to arthritis. We examined that study, did some preliminary explorations, and then conducted our human clinical study, but only for arthritis. That’s all we knew. But we were soon to learn that a great number of other ailments with autoimmune factors as part of their makeup would also respond favourably with CMO.

The first hint we got that it might benefit other ailments came when we received a phone call from one of the first physicians using CMO regularly in his arthritis protocol. In a rather puzzled voice he asked, “What effect does CMO have on emphysema?”

We were stumped, so we decided to put the ball back in his court and responded with, “Why do you ask?” The doctor went on to explain that he saw a dramatic and measurable improvement (about 40%) in the lung capacity of an emphysema patient after treating her with CMO for her arthritis.

When we replied that we had no experience or data regarding CMO and emphysema, he asked if we thought it might help another patient with severe emphysema. We explained that we didn’t know, but we didn’t see how our nontoxic natural substance could do any harm. So the doctor decided to try it.

The patient had been on oxygen 24 hours a day for nearly two years and she left her bed only to go to the bathroom and to have dinner with her family a couple times a week. Amazingly, after five days of CMO she was breathing so well she no longer needed oxygen, and a week after that she was out driving around doing her own shopping again. We were all astounded!

Marie, a great grandmother now in her eighties, is another perfect example of multiple benefits. She took CMO for her arthritis long before we had any idea it could help her emphysema as well. Her arthritis was so severe a good night’s sleep was next to impossible. And that brought on tension headaches that would greet her every morning.

She had suffered for years with emphysema. During her next regular checkup her doctor was amazed by the fact her arthritis seemed to have disappeared. But he was even more surprised when her x-rays showed a dramatic change in her lungs. The emphysema was in remission. Her breathing was the best it had been in several years.

There had been still another problem. Over the past five years she had been rushed to the hospital several times with her tongue so swollen she couldn’t swallow. Each time the emergency room staff treated it as an allergic reaction to food, probably citrus. Her doctor prescribed various medications but the attacks continued. Now, two years after her one time treatment with CMO, she’s never had another attack — even though she discontinued all the prescribed medications long ago. So here’s a case where CMO not only cured her arthritis, but her emphysema, her headaches, and her citrus sensitivity as well. She has recently ordered another bottle of CMO as a safeguard. She never wants to suffer like that again.

Still, it was a puzzle how CMO was affecting emphysema. We know the chronic inflammatory process in emphysema can swell lung tissue. The irritation can also causes fluid to seep into the areola (spaces) where oxygen is absorbed. Both the swelling and the fluids reduce a lung’s capacity to absorb oxygen from the air. Almost all chronic (long-duration) ailments do develop autoimmune factors. We finally concluded that CMO, as an autoimmune modulator, was probably intervening in the inflammatory process and reducing both the swelling and the seepage. Chronic inflammation is a significant factor in emphysema patients.

It was only a few days later that we received the same kind of inquiry from another doctor about systemic lupus erythematosus. Well, we know that lupus definitely has autoimmune components. In fact it’s sometimes classified as an “allied rheumatic disorder” or as a “connective tissue disease.” However, lupus is very difficult to treat. Even antimalarials and intravenous steroids often bring only little relief. So we were surprised at the splendid results the doctor got with CMO. We have since received other favourable reports. We kept getting similar reports regarding one disease after another, and soon it became obvious that CMO is a general immunomodulator that could benefit just about any ailment with autoimmune factors.

Initially we were very reluctant to discuss how CMO benefited other diseases. We were concerned about credibility. We were already battling the “charlatanism” attitude over arthritis alone. Most conventional doctors are resistant to change. We didn’t want CMO to take on the character of some old medicine peddler’s snake oil — “a cure for everything that ails you.” That could harm our credibility more than ever.

And, of course, it’s not a cure-all. But we do look forward to the day when formal CMO clinical studies for these other diseases can be made. It will also be equally interesting to see how well CMO functions in combination with other therapies against many other ailments.

Now let’s look at how CMO may specifically be of benefit to some of these other ailments individually. (Check the index regarding any ailment for which you may want to find information quickly.)

You’re now about to read about a great number of so-called “incurable” diseases.

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