The Environmental Aspects Of Health And Disease

Neurologists can find and eliminate the triggering agents for neuropathy, Parkinson’s disease, and brain dysfunction. The ENT surgeon can find the causes of polyps, rhinosinusitis, laryngitis, and other vocal cord dysfunction, ear ringing and popping, hearing loss, Menier’s disease, etc. The musculoskeletal physician can then often find and eliminate triggering of fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, muscle spasms, arthralgia, and arthritis and the dermatologist can often find and eliminate the causes of dermatitis.

Environmental incitants either trigger the hypersensitivity type of metabolism or the degenerative type. One can trigger hypersensitivity like itching, Urticaria (hives), angioedema (swelling), or anaphylaxis or the other can trigger scleroderma or atherosclerosis, etc. Many diseases are a combination of both the hypersensitivity and the degenerative limbs. Chemical sensitivity is an adverse reaction(s) to the ambient levels of toxic chemical(s) contained in air, food, and water resulting in signs and laboratory findings unique to the individual. This entity may include symptoms of adverse odor sensitivity and/or sensitivity to one or any signs and symptoms related to any system in the body but almost always include the neurological, immune, and the vascular tree. Signs are specific for the organs involved such as bronchial tubes, cough, wheezing, shortness of breath, heart irregularities, chest pain, shortness of breath from heart failure, reflux, diarrhea, constipation, musculoskeletal and muscle aches, pain, spasms, joint aches and swelling, neurologic confusion, short term memory loss and chronic fatigue. Laboratory data will be specific for the organs involved but there are usually objective laboratory data resulting from analysis of the autonomic nervous system (abnormal pupillography, heart rate variability, and positive thermography) for the immune system (T&B lymphocyte, complements, gamma globulins, Phagocytic index, etc.) and for the cardiovascular system (spasm with hypoxia, occlusion, aneurysm).Examples of these findings show (photo on the left) a child with severe intractable eczema caused by molds, multiple foods, phenols, formaldehyde, alcohols). The patient cleared with a giant elimination plus injection neutralization (desensitization) program (center photo).Outdoor air pollution can be a significant cause of illness because of carbon monoxide, ozone, nitrous oxide, sulfur dioxides, and ultrafine and fine particulates (.1, <2.5 – 10u) as found in the pollutant cap of each major city of the world, the worst being Mexico City, cities in China, United States, and Europe. The photo on the right shows the pollution cap over Dallas, Texas. One example of outdoor air pollution affecting the individual is the patient who could not eat ice cream in the metroplex because of extreme dizziness. The individual could eat a quart of ice cream in a remote area of Texas with only a slight runny nose. Air analysis in the city showed a high level of multiple pollutants whereas in the remote Big Bend area only dust was found accounting for the extreme lower levels of pollutants and the loss of sensitivity for the ice cream. These different levels of pollutants can now be measured by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry.

Indoor air pollution appears to be the most polluted place in the environment. There are some specific pollutants that occur on the inside. Heat, gas, and cold are the most common causes. Tied for first place is the exposure to pesticides in the indoor air. The third major pollutant is formaldehyde. There are many more indoor air pollutants that can cause health problems in select individuals (photoon the left).

Molds have now become major pollutants both in new house construction (photoon the right) and in older homes. Many homes have had to be remediated because molds often made the whole family sick. Often chronic fatigue, muscle and joint aches and pain were very common as well as heart and lung dysfunction.

Water has become another major pollutant for the individual. The source of water pollutant can come from agriculture, i.e., pesticides, herbicides, defoliants, fertilizers, etc. Also, many wells contain arsenic which will make the individual have gastrointestinal upset, bloating, gas and diarrhea. Industrial sources of water pollution can be from formaldehyde, phenols, detergents, phosphates, hexachlorophenols, phthalates from soft plastics, PCB, etc. Also, the purification process of chlorination or ozonation as well as the conduits like lead, copper, PVC, and asbestos cause water contamination. Vinyl containers and phalates (Figure 7) will also cause problems.

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The food quality plus contamination should be considered. Food grown without toxic fertilizers and only with natural fertilizers is much more nutritious (photo below left). Organic food is used. A rotary diet of not eating the same food more than one time in four days is beneficial.

A case of a 5-year-old child who was playing in a recently pesticided lawn is the photo above right who developed gangrene of the left foot after playing in it. (photo above right) Changes can often be found in immune parameters such as T&B cells and function, complements, gamma globulin and subsets and Phagocytic index. Pupillography and heart rate variability machines can record changes in the autonomic nervous system as can thermography. Balance tests (Figure 10) and brain SPECT scans (triple camera) can show brain abnormalities (Figures 11 and 12).

Arrhythmias can be shown on cardiograms. These can include atrial and ventricular. They can be mild to debilitating to fatal.

Pulmonary functions can be decreased in patients with over exposure resulting in asthma, cough, shortness of breath, and recurrent infection. Treatment involves:

1. Massive avoidance of pollutants in air, food and water.
2. Intradermal injection neutralization (desensitization) of biological inhalants, foods, some chemicals, bacteria, virus, and algae.
3. Nutritional oral and IV supplementation.
4. Heat depuration, massage, and exercise.
5. Tolerance modulators – autogenous lymphocytic factor (ALF), gamma globulin
6. Oxygen therapy – von Ardenne technique, hyperbaric
7. Surgery on some occasions to replace or remove damaged tissue.

Each treatment modality is discussed in detail:

1. Air pollution outdoors depends of emission, location on earth and meteorological phenomenon and as many of these should be dealt with as possible. Indoor air pollution can be corrected by less polluted living as shown in Figure 13. Organic clothing and metal or hardwood furniture is desirable.

2. Provocative, neutralization (desensitization) by the intradermal serial titration and provocation neutralization technique can be done for biological inhalants, foods, chemicals, bacteria, and virus (photo below left).

3. Various spring, distilled, or super filtered waters collected in glass bottles can be used. (photo above right and below  and Figure 18)

4. A rotary diet of nutrient rich organic food using a 4-7 day rotation so that the food is eaten only one time in this period.

5. Many chemicals can be tested and used for neutralization for the intradermal and intracutaneous route. (photo below left)

6. 4-8 liters of oxygen can be used for 2 hours daily for 18 consecutive days. (Figure 20 and photo below right) Occasionally, hyperbaric oxygen is needed.

7. Oral nutrient therapy is shown in Figures 22, 23, 24 and 25.

8. Heat therapy with environmentally safe wood and ceramics to remove pollutants –30 to 45 minutes can be done. Use non-toxic, hardwood or ceramic sauna. Exercise and massage for 30 minutes can be done in environmentally safe rooms.

9. Rate of pollutants that leave with sauna are the following: 62 decrease; 17 increase as they are leaving the body and 21 were the same. (Figures 26 and 27) The signs and symptoms showed 86% improvement. (Figure 28)

10. Autogenous lymphocytic factor (ALF) improved the patient 88% of the time.

11. Surgery for removal of implants (infected by Aspergillus) (toxic breast implants of silicone and saline) (Figure 28) or partial removal of excessively large colons (Figures 29 and 30)

Environmentally oriented diagnosis and treatment is efficacious in a large number of patients.

Key Points:

1. Many entities in the environmental can cause ill health including heavy metals, organic hydrocarbon (pesticides, natural gas, formaldehyde, petroleum products, and plastics.)
2. Various symptoms and signs can arise including chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, neuropathy, brain dysfunction, angina pectoris, myocardial dysfunction, strokes, and cancer.
3. Toxic chemicals are now ubiquitous in the air, food, and water.
4. Avoidance is necessary by:

a. Drinking glass (not plastic) bottled water
b. Eating a large variety of organic food
c. Keeping the home and work place less polluted by less polluted design, maintenance, and construction
d. The liberal use of antioxidants
e. Use of antioxidant nutrients such as vitamins, minerals amino acids, and fatty acids
f. Oxygen therapy as needed g. Immune boosters like autogenous lymphocytic factor or gamma globulin as needed.