Re: colliodial nasal spray question (reply)(reply)

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wow, this is one of the most promising things I have read about in a

long time, whish I had known about it a year and a half ago when I

was in such respiratory distress. thanks for the post- is this a

perscription form of Glutathione ?- In

, LymeAngl@a... wrote:

>

> Hello homerose@c...,

>

> In reference to your comment:

>

> è How much do you use? Do you use it by itself or mix

> è it with something?

>

> *****I use one teaspoon by itself......a couple of times a

day.....I wouldn't

> do it more than 3 times daily.......I also use in my nebulizer 2

> to 3 times daily.

>

> *****Here is a good article on use in nebulizer, which I LOVE!!!!

> Best thing I could have been doing with the pneumonia.....you can

order it

> from the Whitaker Wellness Institute, but I get mine from my

Homeopathic

> MD....I use 1.5 cc with 3 cc of Bronchial Saline. However, my

friend gets it from

> the clinic and you don't have to use the bronchial saline. Taste

nasty but it

> sure as hell works wonders for me.

>

>

>

> A Breath of Fresh Air for Chronic Lung Disease

> September 2003, Vol. 13, No. 9

>

> When Reba first came to the Whitaker Wellness Institute in June,

she was

> breathing like a fish out of water. Wheelchair-bound, with ashen

skin and a tube

> in her nose hooked up to a tank of oxygen, it was obvious that she

was in

> respiratory distress.

>

> Patients like Reba present us with a challenge. Although we have

an excellent

> track record treating heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure,

> arthritis, and other degenerative diseases at the clinic, I have

avoided

> taking on patients with Reba?s condition, which is chronic

obstructive pulmonary

> disease (COPD). I just didn?t know of any treatments ? natural or

conventional

> ? that were very effective.

>

> That?s changed. We recently began utilizing a new therapy that,

for the first

> time ever, may bring hope to the millions of Americans suffering

with COPD.

> Conventional medicine says flat out that there is no cure for this

disease.

> Yet this safe, inexpensive approach shows great promise in

relieving an

> enormous

> amount of suffering.

>

> Our Fourth Leading Cause of Death

> COPD is a collective term for several diseases of the lungs. The

most

> significant is emphysema, which affects the alveoli, the small,

grape-like air sacs

> in the lungs where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged. When

these

> structures are damaged, less oxygen is extracted with each breath.

To compensate, the

> lungs eventually enlarge, filling the entire chest cavity and

interfering with

> normal breathing. This results in shortness of breath and

obstructed

> breathing.

>

> Emphysema is almost always caused by smoking, although other lung

diseases ?

> which are also usually caused by smoking ? may be a factor. These

include

> inflammatory conditions of the bronchi (airways in the lungs) such

as chronic

> obstructive bronchitis and asthmatic bronchitis, which further

impede breathing by

> narrowing the airways and filling them with mucus.

>

> COPD is no small problem. It is our fourth leading cause of death,

killing

> 119,000 Americans and hospitalizing 726,000 every year. And it is

an

> insidious disease. Most patients are unaware they have it until

they?ve lost

> more than half of their functional lung tissue. At that point,

their

> physicians tell them they can be managed with drugs, oxygen, or

surgery, but there is

> no hope for a cure.

>

> Their physicians are wrong.

>

> Glutathione to the Rescue

> The therapy that helped Reba is glutathione, the most efficient

free radical

> scavenger in the airways. Dozens of studies have confirmed that

free radical

> damage is a primary player in COPD. Patients with chronic lung

diseases have

> decreased levels of glutathione and other antioxidants, and

administration of

> antioxidants has been shown to protect against and in some cases

actually

> reverse lung tissue damage.

>

> Potent as it may be, glutathione is not particularly well absorbed

when taken

> orally. However, when it is given intravenously or, for COPD,

inhaled, its

> effects are remarkable. After Reba?s first treatment, she could

breathe a little

> better and her coloring improved. The next day she reported that

she had

> thebest sleep she?d had in years. Her clinical course over the

intervening months

> was nothing short of

> remarkable.

>

> She came in on ten prescription drugs. Now she?s only taking a

thyroid

> medication (her thyroid was removed years ago) and a much-reduced

dose of one blood

> pressure medication. Her initial pulse oximetry, which measures

the

> percentage of hemoglobin in the blood that is saturated with

oxygen, was 89 percent (it

> should never be below 95 percent). After two weeks of treatment it

was 97

> percent. Initially she couldn?t exhale with enough force to even

register on

> tests of lung function. Today, she has only moderate obstruction.

>

> Both Reba and her husband feel that her progress has been ?simply

marvelous.?

> She?s much more alert than before, and the anxiety that

understandably

> affects

> many patients with COPD (imagine having to fight for every breath)

has

> dramatically improved. She?s gradually spending more and more time

out of her

> wheelchair. And all this without the drugs that her conventional

doctors told her

> were ?keeping her

> alive.?

>

> Tell Your Physician

> Folks, I?ll be the first to admit that it is unwise to jump on the

bandwagon

> of new therapies. When I prescribe drugs, which I do quite

infrequently, I

> never recommend new drugs that haven?t been around for a while.

However, I feel a

> certain sense of urgency in championing the use of this fairly new

therapy

> for three reasons. First, inhaled glutathione is by far the most

promising

> therapy available for COPD. Second, it has absolutely no downside

or risk. And

> third, because it?s a natural therapy, it will be yearsbefore it

comes down the

> pipeline of conventional medicine.

>

> I encourage you to share this information with your physicians.

They?re not

> going to hear about it anywhere else, and it could help millions

with this

> particularly debilitating disease.

>

> Recommendations

> ? Inhaled glutathione is administered at home via a nebulizer,

which turns

> liquids into vapors that are inhaled through a face mask or

mouthpiece. Other

> therapies we use at the clinic for COPD include oral and IV

vitamin C,

> acupuncture to relieve bronchospasm, N-acetyl-cysteine to break up

mucus, magnesium to

> relax bronchioles, and high-dose vitamin A, which has been shown

to regenerate

> lung tissue. If you or your doctor would like our protocol for

nebulized

> glutathione and these other therapies, visit drwhitaker.com.

>

> References

> Lamson DW et al. The use of nebulized glutathione in

> the treatment of emphysema: a case report. Altern Med

> Rev 2000;5(5):429-31.

>

> Mannino DM et al. Chronic obstructive pulmonary

> disease surveillance?United States, 1971-2000. MMWR

> Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2002;51:1-16.

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

For what its worth, you can buy raw glutathione powder on the net from

a number of suppliers..

Its not a drug.. no prescription necessary..

Also, N-Acetyl-Cysteine is converted in the body to glutathione. It

should be available at any health food store.