Dear Silver List, et al.
I mentioned the work of Dr. Garth Nicolson who is a PhD researcher who used to
be with M D Anderson (University of Texas) as a cancer researcher, the
researcher who discovered the infectious relationship of the disease, who took
up the cause of Gulf War Veterans with GWI as well as investigated links
between infection and chronic illnesses including ALS, MS, MD.
I thought his research and his ideas (many counter to conventional medicine)
would be worthy of investigation and exposure to the Silver List.
Dr. Nicolson is not an MD, he cannot prescribe medicine, he cannot have
patients. He is a researcher with an open and inquisitive mind. Anyone who
chose to take the time to investigate his background and his hypotheses would
see he makes a very good case.
(Dr. Nicolson would be financially better renumerated if he had stayed with the
University of Texas than venturing into Molecular Medicine (the gene expression
of illness) at his own institute.)
His point was that many auto immune diseases (which do exist by definition) and
debilitating illnesses require longterm treatment to knock out underlying
infection in many cases by Mycoplasmas. Whether one chooses to antibiotics,
Colloidal Silver, Lomatium dissectum, Olive Leaf Extract, Grapefruit See
Extract, etc, his point was that a longer period than days (as commonly used by
Medical Doctors) to address these underlying infection is possibly indicated.
Anyone who took the time to investigate his background would find he has locked
horns with both the DoD and VA over Gulf War Illness and the stupidity of our
government to give partial payment to disabled Veterans who do not fit the
psychological requirements of the above governmental agencies for GWI and
addressed that family members of GWI Veterans have also contracted this disease
(something the US government denies).
Dr Nicolson has also worked with CFS when it was still barely accepted by
conventional medicine.
As to comments about Dr Nicolson's Peer review articles:
One of the criticisms of Alternative Medicine in General and Colloidal Silver
in particular is that it is not evidence based. Closed minds used that
argument to dismiss both by Conventional Medical without investigating
further. Conventional Medicine or (Allopathic Medicine) does not have a
monopoly on closed mindedness, it would seem.
I have spent more than 30 years countering that charge (non evidence based) for
Alternative Medicine (or as it was being called Orthomolecular Medicine, etc)
and 20 years for Colloidal Silver.
The best arguments to validate either have been from Scientific and Medical
Journals, many of these articles find their way into the Townsend Letter for
Doctors and Patients. These studies are harder to dismiss than anecdotal
evidence. The recent studies from U of Texas and U of Mexico, from Iran,
Taiwan, Brigham Young U, etc have brought greater validity to Colloidal Silver.
I read Paavo Airola's book, I used to sell it in as a clerk in a Health Store
in the 1970's. Basically it was a vegetarian diet devoid of refined
carbohydrates and salt. It wasn't any different from his other books. Nothing
special, revolutionary, or brand new when first released. The owners of the
store loved the book,
besides its high price, his regimen of supplements if followed to the
letter would cost over $100.00 per month (about $342.09 in 2007 dollars).
The publisher loved the book, too as it was profitable, and never would release
a Paper Back version for the masses version during Dr. Airola's lifetime.
A mutual friend of Dr Airola and myself telephoned and informed me of his
passing in 1983, which at the time was thought to be a heart attack. I called
Best Ways Magazine to verify his death which they had not yet been alerted to
and would not comment. Another of his friends asked if he had been shot by a
jealous husband. Many among the Natural Health movement couldn't believe he had
died so early at 64 years of age. The current story that he died of a stroke
from "the result of complications from injuries sustained during his emigration
from
Finland to Canada after World War II," 37 years after the fact seem less
plausible. Neither stroke or heart attack make a good case for his diet or
programs, he did not even reach average life expectancy.
Best Regards,
Steve
PS I am well aware of the morphology of the word "antibiotics."
