Naturopathic Pathology

An Integration of Holism and the Biological Sciences

WHY?

Our body’s have many different systems and organs

Homeostasis

• Maintaining a stable internal equilibrium in a constantly changing external environment, whilst performing all of the

functions necessary for life

Function

• In considering our functions

• We have separate systems…

• BUT they are inevitably whole body

functions

– There is ‘integration’

• Introducing the immune system…

Blood cell lines

(Platelets)

Granulocytes

Agranulocytes

Lots of membrane

bound enzymes

Some non-specific

lysosomes

Dendritic cell

(Often

Fixed)

(Often Fixed)

Granulocyte

Immune cells – Don’t just fight bad guys!

• During development, microglia actively engulf synaptic material and play a major role in synaptic pruning.

Aolicelli RC, et al

Synaptic pruning by microglia is necessary for normal brain development.

Science. 2011;333(6048):1456-1458

Schlegelmilch T, Henke K, Peri F.

Microglia in the developing brain: from immunity to behaviour.

Current Opinions in Neurobiology 2011;21(1):5-10

The Immune System

• Look at the overall development of the

immune system and ask:

– What does it do?

– What systems are involved?

– How does it develop?

• What functions to eliminate toxins?

Inside - Outside

OUTER SKIN

DIGESTIVE TRACT

MOUTH

OESOPHAGUS

STOMACH

SMALL INTESTINES

LARGE

INTESTINES

ANUS

Nose

Mouth Trachea

Bronchioles

Lungs

Respiratory tract and lungs

Kidneys Ureters

Bladder

Urethra

Kidneys, Bladder & Urinary tract

• Microbes mainly live in these outer spaces

influenced by toxins and dead tissue

Scientists have since recognised

that microbes are present in the

healthy body

• How many cells in the body?

• 50 to 100,000,000,000,000 • How many microbes?

• Don’t know ! • However are estimated to be approx

10 x (50,000,000,000,000) in the body 90% are in the digestive tract alone. (The Lancet Vol. 360, Feb 08, 2003)

Elimination

• Toxins from: – Body tissues in normal activity

– Bacteria in normal activity

– Exotoxins from external sources

Important to realise that we produce many toxins even if we were to lead a completely pure lifestyle.

OUTER SKIN

Perspiration

Waste eliminated from body out into lungs

Air breathed in

Waste gases breathed out of the body

RESPIRATORY TRACT

Kidneys Ureters

Bladder

Urethra

URINARY

TRACT

Waste enters kidney tubules from the blood

Draining out through the process of urination

DIGESTIVE TRACT

MOUTH

OESOPHAGUS

STOMACH

SMALL INTESTINES

LARGE

INTESTINES

ANUS

Waste and toxins are eliminated into the large intestine

Toxins are then excreted from the large intestine

Reminder -Toxins from our own cells, our germs & the environment

• As well as the normal production of toxins from our metabolism, and that from the germs in the body, we also know that toxins can be ingested from external pollutants and some may pass across the membranes of the body.

• All of which will need to be eliminated as described above.

How do we accumulate toxins?

Balance of Health

How do we accumulate toxins?

• Why is the body unable to eliminate successfully

without the build up of toxins internally

– Increased intake of toxins; from food, skin products,

environment etc.

– Suppression of the elimination; antiperspirants

(cancer), anti-inflammatories, antibiotics etc.

– Exposure to stress that depletes the function of the

body; (mental, emotional and physical, stresses).

– Insufficient water & nutritional requirements for the

adequate functioning of the body.

• The microbe is often the ‘result’ of the above not the ‘cause’.

Microbes

• What is their significance in health and

disease? (discuss)

– Bacteria

– Mycobacteria

– Fungus

– Virus (do later)

How does the person react? If further down the tract? Ingested Toxin

PROBLEM

VOMIT

REACTION

MORE

REACTION

DIARRHOEA

Distinguish the PROBLEM

VOMIT

DIARRHOEA

REACTION

PROBLEM

From the REACTION

Symptoms problem or reaction

• If we see reaction as problem?

• If we see symptom as reaction to the problem?

• As though physiology is intelligent but symptom reactions are not …

• We understand the majesty of the human body in health …then when we get ill your doctor says …

• OK God … we’ll take over from here !

Class discussion

• What are the implications of the different

ways of thinking?

– Patients, disease management, future

diseases, the medical profession etc

• Why do you think this has happened and is happening?

In orthodox medicine

• Pharmaceutically, business-driven, system

of healthcare –

– The ‘reaction’ = the ‘vomiting and

diarrhoea’ is perceived as

– ‘The Problem’ • Not just about money and conspiracy this

is a way of ‘thinking’

How does orthodoxy compare to

Naturopathy?

• Symptoms of dis-ease

– Intelligent

– Beneficial

• Designed to heal

• Designed to limit the progression of the disease

What’s happening in orthodoxy? • Reductive – can only see the detail in

isolation

– Isolated in time

• What causes the reaction

• What is the reaction designed to do

– Isolated from other systems

– Isolated from mind/emotions

– Isolated from the wider environment

• Naturopathy is a holistic science and art

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale • Florence Nightingale…

• “Is it not living in a continual mistake to look upon disease as we do now, as separate entities which must exist, like cats and dogs, instead of looking upon them as the reactions of kindly nature against the conditions against which we have placed ourselves?

• I was brought up by scientific men to believe that smallpox was a thing of which there was once a specimen in the world, which went on propagating itself in a perpetual chain of descent, just as much as there was a first dog or pair of dogs, and that smallpox would not begin itself anymore than a new dog would begin without there having been a parent dog.

Florence Nightingale …contd.

• Since then I have seen with my eyes and smelt with my nose smallpox growing up in first specimens, either in closed rooms or overcrowded wards where it could not by any possibility have been caught but must have begun. Nay, more, I have seen diseases begin, grow and pass into one another. Now dogs do not pass into cats. I have seen for instance, with a little overcrowding, continued fever grow up, and with a little more, typhoid fever, and with little more, typhus, and all in the same ward or hut.

• For diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives not noun substances. The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases, there are only specific disease conditions.

Why the difference?

• Florence Nightingale

• Holist

• Right Brain

• Female (Tendency !!)

• And Scientific Men

• Reductionist

• Left Brain

• Male (Tendency !!)

Who are incidentally; are the weak, uncultured, unstable minds that rule the medical profession

But that’s just us therapists you may think…

• “No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.”

Niels Bohr

Danish physicist Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922.

He developed the Bohr model of the atom, its

underlying principles remain valid today.

Or according to Pooh …

“Rabbit’s clever,” said Pooh thoughtfully. “Yes,” said Piglet, “Rabbit’s clever.” “And he has Brain.” “Yes,” said Piglet, “Rabbit has Brain.” There was a long silence.

“I suppose,” said Pooh, “that that’s why he never understands anything.”

Orthodox medicine

…a pharmaceutically, business-driven,

system of healthcare –

• Uses scientific research and

experimentation to find isolated details THEN on a belief system interprets that the body malfunctions and its symptom

responses need to be brought back to some pre-defined normal.

Left Brain • Reductionist

• Linear

• Single minded – one track

• Mechanical

• Hierarchical – up to ONE point,

• Domination

• Black and White

• Them and Us

• Us and Enemy

Look at Hierarchy • Brain the controller: Probably houses the mind an

epiphenomenon of brain

– The Lancet, Volume 370, Issue 9583, Page 262, 21 July 2007

• Dr. Lionel Feuillet and colleagues at the Universite de la Mediterranee in Marseille wrote in a letter to the Lancet medical journal.

• Massive ventricular enlargement, in a patient with normal social functioning

• Scans of the 44-year-old man's brain showed that a huge fluid-filled chamber called a ventricle took up most of the room in his skull, leaving little more than a thin sheet of actual brain tissue

Left Brain Medicine

• Symptoms in isolation = malfunction (not normal) symptoms out to get you

• Reduce to smaller parts

• Cut out the part/incision

• Stop the symptom/control the body

• Germs = Enemy / Dominate, kill the enemy

• Genes physically control everything

• Specialists (separate systems, separate mind, exclude environment)

Right Brain

• The whole picture

• Effect over distance and time

• Connections and systems

• Inclusive - what fits and what doesn’t • Accommodate paradox

• Utilise patterns

• Network

Right Brain Medicine

• Holistic

• Include beyond immediate time and place

• See wider causes and purpose of

symptoms

• See whole body functions

• Include energy, mind and emotion

• Orthodoxy NOT a system with no application but one with a limited application BUT also needing a context

Orthodoxy

1815

Accident and Emergency on the

Battle Field

• Professor Mervyn Singer, Professor of Intensive

Care Medicine, University College London

initiated a study in 2004 looking at the response

of the human body in septicaemia (severe blood

poisoning) with multiple organ failure.

• His scientists are looking back to the Battle of

Waterloo, 200 years ago, to investigate why their

survival rates were so high.

A & E …contd • “Despite the non-existence of antibiotics, blood

transfusions, life-support machines and other paraphernalia of modern intensive care, most of these soldiers recovered, often from life-threatening injuries…Yet with all our technical advances in medicine, mortality rates from conditions such as sepsis haven’t improved dramatically over the last century”

• There are many physiological reactions of the body to severe injury and poisoning; such as increased temperature, inflammation, immune responses, circulatory changes, hormone release etc and as Professor Singer agrees:

• “Even lowering the temperature in a feverish patient may be counter-productive”

A & E …contd

• What appears even more radical is the

assessment of bodily functions during extreme shock, with lowered temperature, blood pressure and multiple organ failure,

this is now being interpreted as an attempt to survive the critical trauma period minimising pain, blood loss and

conserving energy. Professor Singer goes on to comment:

A & E …contd

• ”The remarkable thing about these organs that have ‘failed’ is that under the microscope they look normal and if the patient gets through this illness, the organs nearly always recover and return to normality so that patients aren’t forever tied to a kidney machine or a ventilator, so there is a remarkable capacity of the body to recover”

• “Perhaps some of the interventions we’re performing on our patients - be it mechanical ventilation, antibiotics, sedatives and so forth - are impairing the body’s ability to adapt to a critical illness and so perhaps, in a covert fashion, these drugs are compromising the body’s ability to recover”

Reminder …Left Brain Medicine

• Symptoms in isolation = malfunction (not normal) symptoms out to get you

• Reduce to smaller parts

• Cut out the part/incision

• Stop the symptom/control the body

• Germs = Enemy / Dominate, kill the enemy

• Genes physically control everything

• Specialists (separate systems, separate mind, exclude environment)

• HPV causation?

• Of 10,000 people infected with HPV how any develop cervical cancer?

1

Trying to find the enemy !!

Trying to find the enemy !!

• Schoolgirls in Britain will be vaccinated

against the virus that causes cervical cancer from September 2008, ministers have announced.

– This goes further than recommended by

experts, with all aged 12-13 eligible, and a

catch-up campaign up to 18.

Peter Deusberg PhD

• Berkely - University of California The first scientist to isolate a cancer gene in 1970. www.deusberg.com

• “…No set of viral genes is consistently present or expressed in human cervical cancers. S HPV does not replicate in the cancer cells…so the “hit-and-run” mechanism of viral carcinogenesis was proposed.

Peter Deusberg PhD. Contd…

• It holds that neither the complete [virus], nor even a part of it, needs to be present in the tumor.

• Obviously, this is an unfalsifiable, but also an unprovable, hypothesis.

• All that has ever been shown is that HPV is sometimes present in cervical cancer tissue, but as we know …

it’s also present in half the normal population.!”

The impact on the psyche

Class discussion

• How does this affect our psyche as

patients?

• And does it have any impact on us

alternative therapists?

HOLISTIC (non-suppressive) ORTHODOX (suppressive)

Symptoms are seen as intelligent, beneficial

and an essential part of the curative

response.

Symptoms seen as a malfunction.

Intervention designed to help the individual

to do what they are already doing, i.e. to aid

the symptom response; this places more

faith in the ability of the patient.

Taught that malfunction will inevitably get

worse, therefore the need to suppress is

ultimately based on fear and worst case

scenarios.

The response is enhanced and therefore our

ability to respond is enhanced, therefore less

likely to need further intervention.

Response is suppressed and our ability to

respond deteriorates, more likely to need

further intervention.

Symptom response requires us to

understand what we are responding to,

therefore addresses the causes.

Not usually correlated to what we are

responding to and the cause is not

addressed.

Correlations made with how we are affected

by environment and therefore we are able to

understand our own unique susceptibilities.

Causation not often linked to environment,

treatment focuses on the symptom reaction

in isolation.

Psychologically empowered to make

changes to help ourselves & to trust our

reactions as beneficial aspects of cure.

Psychologically disempowered, taught that

the body goes wrong, the only effective

treatment is from external drug & expert Dr.

Leads to increased self-knowledge,

enhanced ability and trust in oneself.

Leads to fear, dependence on drugs and

doctors, with reduced trust in oneself.

What is the biggest determinant of

longevity…

• Idler E. & Kasl S (1991) Health perceptions and survival…Journal of Gerontology

• What they ‘think’ about their health !

• A diagnosis and allopathic pathology does not only change ‘what we do’ but ‘how we think - when we do’

• If we follow an allopathic model we inherently build in a dose of Nocebo and Learned helplessness

Integrate left and right

• “Specialists (reductionists) are people who know more and more about less and less, eventually knowing everything about nothing.

• Panosophers (holists) on the other hand, know less and less about more and more, eventually knowing nothing about everything.”

Paul Hague

Left and Right Brain

• Jill Bolte Taylor – Video her experience of

a left-side stroke (TED talk on you tube)

Integrating Right and Left

• Look at the detail … what are the symptoms?

• And the overview … why do they happen, cause and purpose?

• And … what happens when you suppress

Suppression

• What happens when you stop the body

from intelligently responding?

– Imodium, anti-emetic, etc

• It is more likely that the response could fail – your vomiting could fail, your measles could fail, your asthma could fail,… etc

• What is the body trying to avoid?

What if the vomiting and diarrhoea fails?

VOMIT

DIARRHOEA

REACTION

REACTION

The problem remains within the stomach/intestines

Suppressive effect of drug

vs. side-effects

• The consequences of a drug that works

…really well!

& Dr John Mansfield former President of the British Society for Allergy and Environmental Medicine. Specialists in allergies and nutrition

"Prognosis is excellent. The sensitive type probably never dies in an attack and the non sensitive type rarely dies in an attack".

Noted that until the 1950s ASTHMA was NOT thought to be a life threatening condition.

Thus the Oxford Medicine in 1920 said:

Dr David Freed

1960 1970 1980 1990

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ASTHMA DEATHS

With the use of asthma inhalers in the 1960s asthma deaths went up

But with a perception that asthma inhalers were dangerous; drug consumption fell and death rate fell.

By the mid 1970s with renewed faith in the new "safer" bronchodilators as prescription rates increased so did death rates

“It is the doctors who have turned asthma into a killer.

Any drug, that effectively reverses constriction and inflammation of the airways … renders the patient more susceptible to the direct toxic effects of the particles and chemicals that the inflammation was trying to remove

& therefore is likely to increase death rate

What if the vomiting and diarrhoea fails?

VOMIT

DIARRHOEA

REACTION

REACTION

The problem remains within the stomach/intestines

Unresolved toxicity/dead tissue

White blood cells travel from INSIDE blood vessel to OUTSIDE therefore across two membranes

Leads to Inflammation:

To keep toxins outside the body

Therefore the membranes

and blood vessels widen

and develop spaces so

immune cells can leak out.

The process of inflammation, brings white blood cells

to an area of toxins, dead or injured tissue:

• White blood cell squeezing

out through a gap in the

membrane wall

In the digestive tract, (also lungs, bladder & on the skin)

Leads to the 5 Characteristics of

an inflammatory response… Can lead to more vomiting and diarrhoea… If necessary Local becomes general

…fever etc

Fever – potential problems

• An orthodox medical article on the erroneous public myth that fevers are dangerous. Referred to as fever phobia.

• British Medical Journal 314. 7th June 1997 page 1692: – I think that paracetamol should be taken off the

market…. If this were done to coincide with a national campaign explaining the benefits of fever then it would have a major educational effect on the general public. Consequently, this would reduce the number of consultations and would probably enhance the health of the nation.

• Suppression in context

Fever

“Reduce the fever – using aspirin, for instance - and the disease may last longer, as Timothy Doran of John Hopkins University, Baltimore has demonstrated in the case of chickenpox”

Published in

The Journal of Paediatrics 114:1045-8 (1989).

Suppression

• Ask the question again

• What happens when you stop the body from intelligently responding?

– Calpol, etc

• It is more likely that the response could fail – your inflammatory response could fail,…

• What is the body trying to avoid?

– Invasive toxicity

Understanding the underlying

disease

• E.g. If you have septicaemic state:

– Invasive infection

– Viral compared to Bacteria

– Digression, what is the relationship of a virus

to bacteria and fungus

The role of the virus

Scientific re-appraisal of AIDS • Dr. Kary Mullis, Biochemist, 1993 Nobel Prize for

Chemistry: – "If there is evidence that HIV causes AIDS, there should be scientific

documents which either singly or collectively demonstrate that fact, at least with a high probability. There is no such document." (Sunday Times - London, 28 Nov. 1993)

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• Dr. Heinz Ludwig Sänger, Emeritus Professor of Molecular Biology and Virology, Max-Planck-Institutes for Biochemy, München. Robert Koch Award 1978: – "Up to today there is actually no single scientifically really convincing

evidence for the existence of HIV. Not even once such a retrovirus has been isolated and purified by the methods of classical virology." (Letter to Süddeutsche Zeitung 2000)

• Dr. Serge Lang, Professor of Mathematics, Yale University: – "I do not regard the causal relationship between HIV and any

disease as settled. I have seen considerable evidence that highly improper statistics concerning HIV and AIDS have been passed off as science, and that top members of the scientific establishment have carelessly, if not irresponsibly, joined the media in spreading misinformation about the nature of AIDS." (Yale Scientific, Fall 1994)

• Dr. Harvey Bialy, Molecular Biologist, former editor of Bio/Technology and Nature Biotechnology: – “ Everything that is discovered about HIV has an analogue in

other retroviruses that don't cause AIDS. HIV only contains a very small piece of genetic information. There's no way it can do all these elaborate things they say it does." (Spin June 1992)

• Dr. Gordon Stewart, Emeritus Professor of Public Health, University of Glasgow: – "AIDS is a behavioural disease. It is multifactorial, brought on by

several simultaneous strains on the immune system - drugs, pharmaceutical and recreational, sexually transmitted diseases, multiple viral infections." (Spin June 1992)

• Dr. Charles Thomas, Former Professor of Biochemistry, Harvard and John Hopkins Universities: – "The HIV-causes-AIDS dogma represents the grandest and

perhaps the most morally destructive fraud that has ever been perpetrated on young men and women of the Western world." (Sunday Times (London) 3 April 1994)

Scientific re-appraisal of AIDS

• Dr. Joseph Sonnabend, New York Physician, founder of the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR): – "The marketing of HIV, through press releases and statements, as a

killer virus causing AIDS without the need for any other factors, has so distorted research and treatment that it may have caused thousands of people to suffer and die." (Sunday times (London) 17 May 1992)

• Dr. Etienne de Harven, Emeritus Professor of Pathology, at the University of Toronto: (25 yrs EM of virus isolation) – "Dominated by the media, by special pressure groups and by the

interests of several pharmaceutical companies, the AIDS establishment efforts to control the disease lost contact with open-minded, peer-reviewed medical science since the unproven HIV/AIDS hypothesis received 100% of the research funds while all other hypotheses were ignored." (Reappraising AIDS Nov. /Dec. 1998)

• Dr. Bernard Forscher, former editor of the U.S. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences: – "The HIV hypothesis ranks with the 'bad air' theory for malaria and the

'bacterial infection' theory of beriberi and pellagra [caused by nutritional deficiencies]. It is a hoax that became a scam." (Sunday Times - London 3 April 1994)

Scientific re-appraisal of AIDS

Dr. Etienne de Harven

• Electron microscopy of the relevant portions of the cells that contain the virus is a minimal requirement of identification; Dr. Etienne de Harven is emeritus Professor of Pathology, University of Toronto. He worked in electron microscopy (EM) primarily on the ultra structure of retroviruses throughout his professional career of 25 years at the Sloan Kettering Institute in New York and 13 years at the University of Toronto. Regarding HIV research and the lack of electron microscopy studies he has this to say: – “It is only in 1997, after fifteen years of intensive HIV research,

that elementary EM (electron microscopy) controls were performed, with the disastrous results recently reviewed in Continuum. How many wasted efforts, how many billions of research dollars gone in smoke... Horrible.”

Dr. Heinz Ludwig Sänger

• Emeritus Professor of Molecular Biology and Virology and a former director of the Department of Viroid Research at the Max-Planck-Institutes for Biochemy near München

– "During the past 20 years HIV-AIDS research has

shown to a line of critical scientists again and again that the existence of HIV has not been proven without doubt, and that both from an aetiological (causal), and an epidemiological view, it can not be responsible for the immunodeficiency AIDS. In view of the general accepted HIV/AIDS hypothesis this appeared to me so unbelievable that I decided to investigate it myself.

Dr. Heinz Ludwig Sänger contd…

• After three years of intensive and, above all, critical studies of the relevant original literature, as an experienced virologist and molecular biologist I came to the following surprising conclusion:

– Up to today there is actually no single

scientifically really convincing evidence for the existence of HIV. Not even once such a retrovirus has been isolated and purified by the methods of classical virology."

Magnify the virus

Class discussion

• What is the role of bacteria in disease?

• Why are they there what do they do?

• Why do we package particles from cells

the way that we do? …and what is the role of the virus in health?

• What is their role in disease?

How can we influence the outcome

of acute disease?

• How does acute disease manifest and

how can we positively influence that as compared to negative influence of suppression?

• How do we treat a fever?

• What impact does that have on immune

physiology?

Naturopathic Treatment of Fever

• Remember fever is a generalised inflammatory

response bringing white blood cells to an area of

toxicity and dead tissue

• Here the thermostat is re-set by the body, if you

were functioning at 37˚C before … now you reset the dial to 40˚C (initially you will still be at 37˚C but your thermostat says get up to 40˚C)

• So you feel cold because you are 3˚C below what your body wants

Distinguish

• The production of heat AND it’s removal • What’s producing the heat and why

• The temperature

• The thermostat

Body Temperature

During normal function,

blood flows normally

through your body tissues 35

36 37 38 39

40 41

42

And thermostat set to 37˚C

And temperature maintained at 37˚C

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- 39

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˚ C

No pain or discomfort

BUT if Immune Challenged?

With an immune challenge:

We carry out ‘immune function’

Blood vessels dilate

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40 41

42

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Body sets it’s thermostat to 40˚C

BUT initially STILL at 37˚C … until you warm up

˚ C

And blood flow increases

Flowing in and flowing out

Fever

Now we produce more heat & the

body temperature starts to go up

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- 40

- 39

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- 37

So goes to required temperature

and stays there

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˚ C

Fever

What happens if we over insulate

at this point?

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To keep stable temperature 35

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40 41

42

˚ C

Heat production & therefore

immune metabolism goes down

Fever

Similarly if there is congestion due to

poor blood flow, mucus, dehydration …

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To keep stable temperature 35

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40 41

42

˚ C

Heat production & therefore

immune metabolism goes down

Fever

More congestion = more pain - 42

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BUT… don’t drop too low?

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40 41

42

˚ C

Heat production & therefore

immune metabolism goes back up

Draw blood & heat away

from the area

To reduce pain &

speed immune function

• Cold wraps do not suppress UNLESS you

bring temperature down so low that the metabolism has to shift to maintaining body temperature for survival and

therefore away from immune function…

• EASY to avoid – maintain about 1 degree

below established fever or where patient feels comfortable i.e. not cold.

Cold Wraps

Oxidative Stress

• What is oxidative stress?

• Too much burning for the system to cope with … in the affected tissue

• Caused by

– Not enough antioxidants

– Insufficient blood flow to bring appropriate

nutrients and to remove toxins

Dr B Berkson

• A conservative triple antioxidant approach to the treatment of hepatitis C. Combination of alpha lipoic acid (thioctic acid), silymarin, and selenium: three case histories.

• Berkson BM.

– Pub. Medizinische Klinik (Munich). 1999 Oct

15; 94 (3): p84-89.

Dr Kalokerinos • Medical degree Sydney 1951.

• Med. Superintendent of Collarenebri Hospital until 1975. He is a Life Fellow of the Royal Society for Health, Fellow of the International Academy of Preventive Medicine, Australasian College of Biomedical Scientists, Hong Kong Medical Technology Association, New York Academy of Sciences.

• In 1978 he was awarded the A.M.M. (Australian Medal of Merit) for 'outstanding scientific research'.

• Authored a book with profound orthomolecular medicine implications entitled 'Every Second Child‘

• Currently he is working as GP, New South Wales, in charge of the local hospital. He is also the Honorary Medical Advisor for Aboriginal Health.

Importance of managing acute

disease

• Importance of naturopathic approach to

disease management due to the consequences of failed acutes and chronic disease

• Case example - childhood illness and fever suppressants in spite of alternative

medicine

The importance of a naturopathic

approach to healthcare

• It’s easy to think of simple techniques as having a minimal affect on the body and

not able to cope with complex diseases

What is the biggest determinant of

longevity…

• Idler E. & Kasl S (1991) Health perceptions and survival…Journal of Gerontology

• What they ‘think’ about their health !

• A diagnosis and allopathic pathology does

not only change ‘what we do’ but ‘how we think - when we do’

“The processes of disease

aim not at the

destruction of life,

…but the saving of it”

Sir Frederick Treves, 1905 Surgeon to King Edward VII