William Campbell Douglass II, M.D. Daily Dose. June 4, 2002

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Mayo Clinic physician Dr. Mostafa Fatemi often wondered why unborn babies tended to flinch violently at the instant their ultra-sound portraits are taken. He found out by placing a tiny hydrophone inside a woman’s uterus during the procedure. The device registered NEARLY 100 DECIBLES-as loud as a subway train or a jet!

Fatemi says clinicians may want to aim their ultrasound probes more carefully, away from the child’s ears so as to avoid this obvious trauma. I’m not sure how they’re supposed to accomplish this, since unborn babies are encased in fluid which would make such a sound carry equally throughout the womb.

For years, I’ve been arguing that ultrasound threatens the health of a developing fetus. But the incidence of ultrasound has increased and it is now standard procedure in almost every pregnancy. Nowadays, it would be considered downright negligent not to perform it. After all, what if the little tadpole had a deformed ear lobe or something even worse, such as six toes on one foot (like Marilyn Monroe!). Under those “extreme” circumstances, the parents would certainly opt for murder-excuse me, termination of pregnancy-right? Just think, without ultrasound, they wouldn’t have known the “awful” truth…

Both of my children have hearing that’s less acute than mine. Since they were born in the 50s, I can’t blame ultrasound. I blame immunizations (and rock-n-roll). But my grandchildren are a different matter. If their childhood hearing is off only ten percent, that’s enough to cause problems that may be interpreted as “learning disabled”-a euphemism for stupidity. This small, early deficit in hearing will almost certainly lead to early presbycusis-a hearing problem associated with old age that might now happen at 40, not 70. If even one person in ten develops this disability, it will be a tragedy of immense proportions.

Ultrasound is so universal that most physicians don’t bother to question its safety. However, 40 years after its introduction, disturbing questions are being asked, while the perpetrators of this tragedy remain silent. Three independent studies in 1993 alone have cast doubt on the safety of the procedure. Lancet, the Canadian Medical Association Journal, and the New England Journal of Medicine have all sounded the alarm. At best, routine scanning makes no difference in the health and well-being of babies and, at worst, could do significant harm…

Every mechanism in the human body down to the orientation of the DNA is ultimately based on electromagnetic fields interacting. The Dotto Ring was created by the Italian scientist Gianni A. Dotto, who was born in Venice, and was son of a prominent engineer who was the designer of two hydro-electric generating plants on both the American and Canadian sides of Niagara Falls.

Dotto became an American citizen and maintained his apparatus at the University of Dayton, Ohio, where he experimented with cancer treatment. According to Dotto, the magnetic charge of the genetic code is maintained at the proper level by the electrical property of the double helix, which functions as a common transformer; where the voltage of the primary and the secondary winding is proportional to the number of the turns of the coils.

If the DNA double helix of a cancer cell has a lesser number of turns than the DNA double helix of a normal cell; consequently, the number of base pairs per turns will be greater. Greater base pairs per turn of the double helix and eagerness of completing the outer electron orbiting of the atomic structure of the nucleous leads to a greater capability of reproduction of the DNA.

By applying to the human body voltage, EMF and magnetic intensity similar to the value existing in the DNA of normal cells (in the human between the ages of 35 and 55) a voltage of 45 to 70 millivolts maintains a linearity of 10 base pairs per turn in the double helix (Crick-Watson). The DNA of the cancer cell adjusts itself to the proper level of functionality, regardless of cell condition, since absorbed energy will be inversely proportional to the existing cell energy level.

Different researchers using different approaches and different theoretical assumptions have achieved affects on cancer cells. A common thread is that an electromagnetic field has been used to achieve this. My experience leads me to believe that pre-malignant cells can be returned to normal function and malignant cells can be prevented from achieving mitosis with properly applied low power electromagnetic fields.

Electomagnetic fields will be used in the future to detect abnormalities (which the FSCAN can do today) and the same fields used to diagnose a condition will be used to treat the condition successfully. Today, we use such fields in MRI and other devices extensively for diagnosis. We need to apply this same approach to treatment. This is the future of medicine. The Tricorder in Star Trek is not science fiction, but a demo of what is to come.

Medication error is the fourth leading cause of death in this country so our government should be concerned about medical safety, right? Wrong!

Michael Kranish of the Boston Globe has written a penetrating article on Memorial Day about Dr. Alastair J.J. Wood, who had already been selected by the White House to take over the FDA, an organization that has been leaderless for quite some time. Robert Goldberg, a pharma promoter, wrote in the conservative National Review online edition that if Wood became commissioner, the FDA would be so tough on drug manufacturers that the government’s message to patients would be “Drop dead.” Wood not only was contaminated by his concern for medical safety, he actually sat on an FDA panel reviewing Pfizer’s Zyrtec, Schering-Plough’s Claritin, and Aventis’s Allegra and recommended that they become over the counter drugs. This could have cost the pharmas tens of millions of lost profits!

So we have a rather schizophrenic response from those who are concerned that patient safety would restrict drugs from early release costing them billions in future profits and even worse, free prescription drugs for over the counter purchase at reduced price giving a haircut to current profits. Is Wood for more drugs or less drugs? It doesn’t matter, he’s bad for business.

The power of the Internet is that the White House actually reads this stuff and they dumped Wood immediately.

Hamilton, Gary. Dead Man Walking. New Scientist 2303:30-33, 11 Aug 2001

As an example of microorganisms causing disease (or perhaps not!) check out an interesting article on H. Pylori and ulcers. As usual, the situation is more complex than modern medicine is easily able to deal with, although the bottom line here appears to be that H. Pylori is bad, even though it may have some good effects.

The human ecosystem needs to be investigated as a rainforest of microorganisms with complex ecological balances. The epidemiology of the internal human system is a new science that needs to be launched, funded, and studied to answer many of the open questions of the day. What really causes heart disease? Why do statin drugs decrease the risk of some heart disease while increasing ther risk of other types of heart disease? Why can’t we prevent or cure cancer? If we had a cure, cancer survival rates would be going up dramatically and they are definitely not as shown in a previous posting. Why is medical error the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer? And on and on. The list of unanswered questions is endless.

Brockman, John. The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century. Vintage Books, 2002.

Prediction by Paul W. Ewald

Professor of biology, Amherst College

Big Idea: “Highly damaging chronic diseases – atherosclerosis, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, most cancers … will, in the next 50 years, be accepted as caused by infection.”

Caveat: “[A] proportion of the old guard will have to retire or expire, and a sufficient number of young people … must mature into positions of influence, to tip the balance of expert opinion.”

Anyone experimenting with electronic medicine using Rife devices or an FSCAN already knows this to be true.

White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Final Report, March 2002.

Over the past 30 years, public interest in and use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) systems, approaches, and products has risen steadily in the United States. Depending on how CAM is defined, an estimated 6.5 %1 to as much as 43%2 of the U.S. population has used some form of CAM.

Until recently, the primary response of Federal, state, and local health care regulatory agencies to this phenomenon was to restrict access to and delivery of CAM services to protect the public from unproven and potentially dangerous treatments. Since the early 1990s, however, scientific evidence has begun to emerge suggesting that some CAM approaches and products, when used appropriately, can be beneficial for treating illness and promoting health. As this evidence is collected and disseminated to the wider health care community and the public, it should provide a reliable basis for making policy decisions that will facilitate the public’s access to safe and effective CAM approaches and products.

The White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy (WHCCAMP) was established in March 2000 to address issues related to access and delivery of CAM, priorities for research, and the need for better education of consumers and health care professionals about CAM. The President’s Executive Order No. 13147 establishing the Commission states that its primary task is to provide, through the Secretary of Health and Human Services, legislative and administrative recommendations for ensuring that public policy maximizes the potential benefits of CAM therapies to consumers.

Ann Intern Med 2001 Aug 21;135(4):262-8

Kessler RC, Davis RB, Foster DF, Van Rompay MI, Walters EE, Wilkey SA, Kaptchuk TJ, Eisenberg DM.

Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. [email protected]

BACKGROUND: Although recent research has shown that many people in the United States use complementary and alternative medical (CAM) therapies, little is known about time trends in use. OBJECTIVE: To present data on time trends in CAM therapy use in the United States over the past half-century. DESIGN: Nationally representative telephone survey of 2055 respondents that obtained information on current use, lifetime use, and age at first use for 20 CAM therapies. SETTING: The 48 contiguous U.S. states. PARTICIPANTS: Household residents 18 years of age and older. MEASUREMENT: Retrospective self-reports of age at first use for each of 20 CAM therapies. RESULTS: Previously reported analyses of these data showed that more than one third of the U.S. population was currently using CAM therapy in the year of the interview (1997). Subsequent analyses of lifetime use and age at onset showed that 67.6% of respondents had used at least one CAM therapy in their lifetime. Lifetime use steadily increased with age across three age cohorts: Approximately 3 of every 10 respondents in the pre-baby boom cohort, 5 of 10 in the baby boom cohort, and 7 of 10 in the post-baby boom cohort reported using some type of CAM therapy by age 33 years. Of respondents who ever used a CAM therapy, nearly half continued to use many years later. A wide range of individual CAM therapies increased in use over time, and the growth was similar across all major sociodemographic sectors of the study sample. CONCLUSIONS: Use of CAM therapies by a large proportion of the study sample is the result of a secular trend that began at least a half century ago. This trend suggests a continuing demand for CAM therapies that will affect health care delivery for the foreseeable future.

Pollens are off the chart in the Boston area today. Even though I have demonstrated that I can completely clear pollens from my system with the FSCAN while running, I decided not to run cross country this morning. Predominate pollens are oak (499868), birch (487665), and grass (476917). I’m allergic to all of them and even though I have a good air cleaner in my bedroom and slept with the windows closed, I woke up with a stuffy nose. Running the frequencies indicated for a couple of minutes each flushed out my sinuses, cleared my eyes, etc.

Pollens are various substances depending on the current state of the plant. They are living things that grow in your body like an infection. They get into the blood stream and can travel to any organ system in the body. They are easily neutralized with the FSCAN by treating at the right frequencies in the high 400KHZ range.

Because the pollen substance, even from the same plant, alters during the season, and because there are many different types of plants, it is essential to identify the exact set of frequencies needed for time and place. There are multiple ways to do this and the one I use has been discussed in a previous note.

Medical error is well documented as the 3rd leading cause of death in the U.S. and medication errors alone are the 4th leading cause of death. These numbers are based on studies in hospitals where medical error is routinely underreported. They do not include outpatient deaths which probably exceed inpatient deaths. As an example, here is a widely prescribed drug that 25% of the time is prescribed, even though there is a black box warning on the package that the patient should not be receiving this drug. Effects can be deadly as noted in:

Horlen, C. et al. Frequency of Inappropriate Metformin Prescriptions. JAMA Vol. 287 No. 19, May 15, 2002.

“Metformin is commonly used in the management of type 2 diabetes. More than 25 million prescriptions for metformin were written in 2000, making it the most commonly prescribed branded diabetes medication in the United States. Metformin has been associated with the development of lactic acidosis, and since its initial marketing in 1995 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has required a “black box” warning in the package insert. Labeled contraindications include renal dysfunction and congestive heart failure (CHF) requiring pharmacologic treatment. We sought to determine the frequency of metformin use in a sample of patients with these 2 primary contraindications to therapy…

“In our review, almost one quarter of patients with a prescription for metformin had 1 or more absolute contraindications. Several recent studies in Europe have documented similar rates of inappropriate metformin prescribing. Adverse event reports suggest the incidence of metformin-associated lactic acidosis is between 1 in 10000 to 1 in 100000 patient-years. In the first 14 months after its release in the United States, the FDA received 47 confirmed cases of lactic acidosis associated with metformin, with a 42% mortality rate. More than 90% of patients had relative or absolute contraindications to metformin.”