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" Youth and Health for the 21st Century "

By Dr. C. Norman Shealy

October 15, 1998

Lecture Transcript

Introduction (Read by Dr. Mayumi Nakagawa)

It is with great pleasure that we welcome Dr. Shealy today to deliver one of

the lectures of the " Linus ing and Twentieth Century " Exhibition Lecture

Series. Dr. Shealy graduated from Duke University and its medical school.

Then he completed his residency in neurosurgery at the Massachusetts General

Hospital. For those of you who are not in the medical field, the

Massachusetts General Hospital is one of the hospitals affiliated with

Harvard Medical School. However, Dr. Shealy is best known for his pioneering

work in holistic medicine. In 1971, he founded the Shealy Institute in

Springfield, Missouri. It is a comprehensive health care and pain stress

management center known for its innovative clinical research. Dr. Shealy

himself pioneered a number of techniques, now commonly used in pain and

stress healing programs, including Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve

Stimulation and Biogenics, which is an integrated system for reprogramming

body functions. Dr. Shealy also co-founded American Holistic Medical

Association. He is also a President of the Holos Institute of Health, a

non-profit educational and research organization. Dr. Shealy has authored

numerous books, and has published many papers. His books include The Pain

Game, 90 Days to Self -Health, Creation of Health, To Parent or Not, The

Self-Healing Workbook, Miracles Do Happen: A Physician's Experiment With

Alternative Medicine, and DHEA: The Youth and Health Hormone. He and Carolyn

Myss, a medical intuitive, are well-known for jointly presented workshops

for the development of creativity and intuition. The title of his talk is

" Youth and Health for the 21st Century " . Let's warmly welcome Dr. Shealy.

(applause)

How I Started to Work in the Field of Holistic Medicine

Wow. You haven't heard me yet. (laughter) You know, when I finished at the

Massachusetts General Hospital, out to the east, I really wanted to work in

regeneration of the spinal chord. That was my dream. And I was going to use

Rita Molenchini's nerve growth factor which had been described a few years

before that, but after I prepared my protocol I was told it would cost

$750,000 to do the basic research in animals, and I couldn't get funding, so

I turned to pain. And out of pain I got involved in stress. Now, when I

first began moving in this direction in the mid 60's, I did not even know

what the word holistic meant, I had never heard of it before. It was

actually created as far as I can tell by Jan Smuts, the prime minister and

general of South Africa back in the early part of this century who wrote a

book, Holism and Evolution, which I became acquainted with many years later.

Out of those kinds of connections, I began to see a connectedness between

everything; and (could we start with the slides please, ...) and about

a year and a half ago in Scientific American there was an article on

psychoneuroimmunology and basically, what it says is, everything is related

to everything. The environment affects behavior and the nervous system and

creates homeostasis or balance, and it affects the immune system and the

endocrine system, but there's a feedback loop all the way back, obviously,

to the environment. And to some extent I think that would reflect the

concept of one of my great heroes, Linus ing. It is indeed a phenomenal

honor to me to be able to give a lecture in his memory. (applause) Thank

you. Linus ing was a true visionary, and I had the privilege today of

visiting the exhibit, and I think if you have not seen it, I highly

recommend it. It's worth a day of your time. But, fifteen years ago, we

began to prove that every thought, every thought affects the chemistry of

your body. You can't have a positive or negative thought without it changing

many aspects of your neurochemistry, just as a personal story....

DHEA: Chemical Representation of Life Energy

I've worked with a chemical called DHEA, and we'll come back to that over

and over again, because I consider it one of the keys to health and

longevity. The single most important key as far as a single chemical test is

concerned, in fact I personally believe, that DHEA is the chemical

representation of what we call Chi, Prana, or life energy. Every major

disease is associated with a deficiency or at least a low level of DHEA. The

corollary of that is that people who have a naturally high level of DHEA

don't die of illness, they die of old age, and I mean real old age.

Literature consistently says that DHEA goes down at age 30 and by age 80,

it's roughly 10% of what it was at age 30. That is true, for a majority of

people. But I know now a handful, and only a handful, of eighty year olds

who have happy, normal levels of DHEA. They are happy, active, and outside a

lot. That affects DHEA. But so does our thinking. I've probably had mine

measured at least 50 or 60 times in the last ten years, and one day I had

had it measured, and I had a minor temper tantrum. I got angry with my staff

for packing cardboard boxes in the staff lounge. They weren't supposed to be

there and five minutes later my DHEA had gone down 50%. On another day, I

did a meditation. In my office I sat and imagined my personal angel wrapping

its wings around me. And my DHEA went up 50%. I have many, many other

examples of how our behavior, which is really the result of our thinking,

affects our nervous system and most particularly our endocrine and our

immune system. And it's always related to this little area in the

hypothalamus, deep in the center of the brain, which controls everything in

the body, from your blood pressure to whether or not you sweat, to whether

or not hair grows on your head or not ; if I'd known 20 years ago what I

know now... At any rate, we now know that these things are powerfully

interrelated. And so, the foundation for proving many of the things that

those of us in the holistic field have held dear now for the last several

decades is psychoneuroimmunology.

I have concentrated now for a good deal of the last twenty some odd years

looking at what works, not only clinically in treating various illnesses,

but what works in restoring homeostasis to the autonomic nervous system, the

endocrine system, and most particularly DHEA. I believe that if, if at age

40 everyone in the country, or in the world, had their DHEA checked and

found that they were already beginning to lose it which many people are, and

use some of the techniques that I am going to talk about tonight, we could

probably have a major economic recession, because it would close 2/3 of the

hospitals, etc. You see, we've known, since I was in medical school; I was

taught this, in the early 50's, at Duke University that at least 75% of all

the symptoms that take people to physicians are just for stress, and stress

can cause any symptom. Now what most people forget is that stress is

physical, chemical, emotional, spiritual and electromagnetic. And I believe

that it is another thing that Linus ing spent almost half of his life

warning us about contamination from nuclear energy. He was unbelievably

right when he protested we have no right to test nuclear energy.

Electrical Stimulation

I got started back in the mid-70's looking at electrical stimulation for

control of the nervous system. I had this idea in the mid-60's that we

should be able to control everything in the body electrically, and indeed we

could. I got an orangutan we called Shakey who had a Parkinsonian-like

tremor and we worked with Shakey who once got away and climbed a tree in the

corner; we had to use a tranquilizer gun to get him down; but we were

working with using electrical stimulation to the brain to control

Parkinsonism and of course it has been used to control epilepsy and you can

do almost anything with it; I mean you can certainly control a lot of pain

with a simple little device called TENS which I introduced back in 1966.

Now, there are a lot of TENS. Most of them put out between one and a hundred

hertz; there's one device I'll show in a moment that puts out 15000 hertz

that's cycles per second, 15 thousand pulses per second. Some of the

microcurrent units go to 15 thousand Hz with various modulations. This is

the first one that I became acquainted with in 1975 and it was brought to me

by an engineer, Saul Liszt, and he said it's for pain control and I said,

" It's useless, Saul " , my intuition wasn't working very well, and I said,

" It's too weak, bring me one I can feel " , so he did. This one puts out 4

milliamps; 4 thousandth of an amp of current at 15 thousand Hz. He brought

me one with just 10 milliamps. Now that one I showed you just before puts

out 80 milliamps. But it's only one to a hundred Hz. And when you look at

the total current delivered with 15 thousand pulses per second it's a lot

more than a hundred pulses per second. So he brought me this ten milliamp

device like this and it would throw you across the room. It was almost like

electroshock therapy. And I happened one night to put one of the electrodes

on my head. And I saw flickering lights. It activated my visual system

through the skull. And I played with it for about 45 minutes, went to bed at

11:30, (laughter) hey, I'm an experiential junkie when it comes to things

like this; I mean at any rate, I went to bed at 11:30 and at 2:30 I woke up.

Now I've always been a sound sleeper and I couldn't go back to sleep. I got

up. And so a few months later my friend Jim Quarco, a physician, and I sat

down at 8:00 in the morning and put one of these on our head for an hour,

and you know, I took off into outer space, but, basically, my serotonin

level, one of the essential key neurochemicals, you hear a lot about it with

a drug that I don't care much for called Prozac, but, my serotonin level

went up to 5 times the upper limit of normal. Jim, who's a more laid back

person, only went up twice, that's the difference between what used to be

called type A and type B behavior. I consider myself an A- now.

Neurochemicals

But at any rate, from that we began to look at other neurochemicals. And we

found that people who are depressed, which is most people with any kind of

illness - the most common type of illness in the world is probably some form

of depression. And we found that people with depression have abnormalities,

sometimes excesses, sometimes deficiencies, of serotonin, and melatonin, and

norepinephrine, and beta-endorphin, the natural narcotic, the " feel good "

one, and acetylcholine, the one that is associated, among other things, with

memory, and they may have an excess or a deficiency, but it's out of

balance. They are deficient in taurine, 86% of the time, an essential amino

acid. Taurine stabilizes membrane potential. They are deficient in

magnesium, an essential mineral, the third most prevalent mineral in the

human body, and 100% of people with significant depression are deficient in

magnesium, and it stabilizes membrane potential. Our work for many years is

emphasized re-establishing normal balance of these kinds of crucial

neurochemicals. And one of the fascinating aspects of the LISS stimulator

is, we found that people with chronic pain that 40% of them are producing an

excess of serotonin, and 40% are deficient, and only 20% have a normal

serotonin production. But if they use the LISS stimulator, daily for just

two weeks, serotonin metabolism is normal. It brings it back into balance

again. And this is true of a number of neurochemicals. And basically, this

is an outline of what comes on with the LISS stimulator, but essentially, it

is putting out 15 thousand pulses that are modified 15 times per second, and

500 times per second, so it is sort of a complex waveform, and it is the

only one we've found that moves through bone, in this way. You know bone is

a pretty good blocker to fairly mild amounts of electrical current but this

one because of these frequencies travels through bone and it is my belief,

we haven't proven this yet, hopefully some day, that we will find

frequencies which will be very specific for each of the neurochemicals, not

just serotonin, but norepinephrine, and all of the others, prolactin, you

name it, and I have a feeling that we will find a way of tapping into that

part of the brain that specifically balances each of the neurochemicals.

Accept and Forgive

Now, I don't mean to ignore, what we all know, that the problem that people

have is what I call unfinished business; unfinished emotional drains, that

come from fear and anxiety, anger, guilt, depression over anything, and some

people get depressed and anxious over very minor things and some handle

phenomenal remarkable chaos and catastrophes with equanimity. They are born

that way to a large extent; you can see it from children of one day of age

to a large extent; I think personally to a large extent that basic metabolic

system that makes you sensitive or resistant to distress is karmic as well

as genetic. And there are only three solutions; fight or flight or go for

sainthood; and ultimately it's the only solution, accept and forgive.

Without that, nothing ultimately works. All the electrical stimulation in

the world cannot get rid of unfinished business for you.

So-Called Psychosomatic Illnesses

Now, through the years, we get all these things that medicine thinks are not

real. All these various and sundry things like chronic fatigue syndrome,

now, you know, in the last century it was called neurasthenia, and it was a

very popular term, probably up until around 1940, and then it disappeared

and it was considered, well, it doesn't really exist, these are just crocks,

you're making it all up. And then, in the last 12 years or so, we have a

syndrome called chronic fatigue syndrome, and we have things called

fibromyalgia and myofacial pain and the vast majority of physicians don't

consider these things real, and yet, every one of these patients has

striking biochemical abnormalities, and they have multiple allergies, and in

England they talk a lot about ME, myloencephalopathy, whatever that really

is, and chronic Epstein-Barr, and candidiasis, and you can't even make a

diagnosis of it from a medical point of view, there is no test that says you

have candidiasis. There are just a bunch of symptoms.

And back in the very early 80's I visited Orian Truss, who is one of the big

people in this and I tried treating people with these huge doses of mystatin

and I never got anybody well doing that. And they all have a lot of

depression, and they have a lot of symptoms. My average patient has 49

symptoms, and you know that's a lot of symptoms. Back in the 50's at Cornell

University it was demonstrated, with something called the Cornell medical

index, that individuals who had 20 or more symptoms, had probably a serious

medical illness, or they would say had a psychosomatic problem. I would call

it a stress problem. And if they had 30 or more symptoms, they were ill with

a terminal illness, this is the way it was reported, ill with a terminal

illness, or had a psychosomatic illness, and yet my average patient has 49

symptoms, and it is not psychosomatic.

It is a very physical and chemical problem. And they all have low to totally

deficient DHEA. About 50 percent of them are truly deficient, below what is

considered the lower limit of normal, which in a man is 180 and in a woman

is 130 nanograms per deciliter. The upper range you'll see in just a moment

of what I consider optimally healthy, but the vast majority of people, I

don't see people with DHEA above this level actually, except volunteers who

may be healthy. And they all have a deficient magnesium and they have a

deficiency in one to seven of the essential amino acids. You know, the

essential amino acids means that if you don't have them, you can't make

serotonin or even adrenaline, you've got to have tyrosine, for instance, to

make adrenaline, or to make thyroid hormone, and we'll come back to that

one. And they all show significant electroencephalographic electrical

abnormalities of the brain. In a healthy person, the two hemispheres at rest

will be resonant with one another, they'll be within 2% of the same quantity

of the various frequency of EEG. These people may be off 20%, and usually

it's in the right frontal lobe, it's as if there's a broken record playing

in the right frontal lobe. And if I were to put a flashing light up here, I

can't do this one cause it's a laser, but, if I were to give you a flashing

light at 10 cycles per second, all the healthy people in the room would

increase the amount of 10 cycle per activity in the brain, we've known that

since the 1920's, when EEG was discovered. People with electromagnetic

dysthemia, as I prefer to call this, don't respond to photostimulation, or

they respond extremely inappropriately. You give them ten cycles and they

may produce three or they may produce 20, that's real stuff, and, they are

very sensitive. You put a simple, just a low energy electric clock within 6

inches of the top of the head and the EEG becomes more abnormal. In a

healthy person, the EEG is not affected by a regular electric clock, but it

will be powerfully affected putting a computer printer within 6 inches of

the top of the head. Even with the healthiest person, the EEG is strikingly

abnormal with a computer printer near the head.

Brain Cancer

Now, one of the few cancers that has increased markedly in the past few

decades is brain cancer. To some extent I believe that the increased

instance of brain cancer has to do with the marked increase in

electromagnetic energy that we have put on the earth. Today, just in radio

waves alone, we have 230 million times the quantity of radiowaves on the

face of the earth that we had 60 years ago. In addition, we are bombarded

constantly by satellites, and the reason, and I don't think it was

purposeful, I think it was ignorance, and I mean this purely in the largest

sense of the word, satellites move if you will or use a frequency between 50

and 80 billion cycles per second. It has been known since 1925 that human

DNA vibrates between 50 and 80, it's actually 52 to 78 gigahertz. That is

the resident frequency of the DNA of every cell in our body, and we've been

bombarded by artificial 50 to 80 gigahertz energy from satellites.

Fascinating, I personally believe that, plus the electromagnetic

contamination that now is rampant is to some extent responsible for the

increase in brain cancer that we now have in this country and in the world.

But it's interesting, you can treat this. You can restore homeostasis

despite the outside, despite the continuing electromagnetic contamination,

by doing certain things, by giving them photostimulation, even though they

don't respond to it initially, if you do it every day, for a month, the EEG

begins to become more normal, and after three months, they will no longer

have the asymmetry and they will begin to follow photostimulation

frequencies, just 30 to 60 minutes a day, photosymmetry helps reestablish

balance, homeostasis, one of the safest things I know.

Learning About Stress

Education, we've found, it's very important to educate people about what

stress really is and what it manages to do in their life. My book, the

self-healing workbook was written for a research study we were doing on

depressed people, but it's phenomenally useful for anybody who would do it.

And one of the most interesting studies that we did was comparing doing our

education live, we have a routine of doing just an hour a day, five days a

week, for two weeks. We've done that for twenty some odd years. And one day,

we compared doing it with live lectures, versus videotape lectures by the

same people. We had a significantly statistically greater success, using

videotape lectures than live lectures. My patients believe me more when they

see me on the tube than when they see me in the flesh. It's part of modern

society. But sit at least 10 feet away.

Using Music as Therapy

And we use great music, and we use it not only through earphones, but

actually through the body. I got interested 15, 16 years ago in vibratory

music where you actually feel the music moving through your body with 10

speakers say, under the body. Phenomenally powerful experience, for

resonance, for getting back into balance again. We've used mostly great

music, Mozart's Requiem, Beethoven's 6th, for those who don't like classical

music, Pachabel's canon in D, it's great classical music, it just happens to

have been popularized. And we've used some of what I call new age music,

Halperin's Spectrum Suite, Aliothin's Crystal Illumination, Burns

and Dexter's Golden Voyage 4, and the Best of the Taro. I'm sure there's

other great music that will do the same thing, but we've been careful not to

become too diffuse in what we do, but it's phenomenally powerful for helping

the brain to become balanced and harmonious again.

Biofeedback

Biofeedback of course, I've been working with since 1972, a lot of guided

imagery, autogenic training, which goes back to the first part of the

century, a wonderful self-hypnosis type of thing, a technique that was

created by JH Schultz in Germany. Very powerful, he demonstrated as early as

1932 that 80% of psychosomatic illness could be controlled with autogenic

training; we've known this a long time.

We do magnesium and these amino acid replacements, and over the last four

years, we've worked with an acupuncture circuit, which I've named the Ring

of Fire, to restore DHEA.

's Syndrome: Subclinical Hypothyroidism

Now, one of the things that falls into this never never land that physicians

don't like to accept is one called 's syndrome, or 's disease;

it gets confusing because there is a more congenital kind of disease, that

has to do with copper metabolism, but, Dr. came to the conclusion

that there is a subclinical hypothyroidism and he diagnoses it primarily by

low body temperature, and Abroda wrote about this long before

did, the problem is, from my point of view, uses huge, I mean, super

super large doses of thyroid replacement to treat these people with chronic

fatigue and all of these symptoms, that to me are part of electromagnetic

dysthemia. And in April of this year, I suddenly had a little flash of

insight, I suspect that we now have an epidemic of subclinical

hypothyroidism that has been created by this remarkable synergy of events:

In 1913, we thought we had solved the problem of iodine deficiency, by

adding iodine to salt, but since at least 1950, we've told people, don't eat

salt, and so unless you eat at least a teaspoon of salt a day, you can't

even get your minimum requirement of iodine, unless you eat a lot of

halibut, or a lot of kelp. In 1944, we began what was a major part of the

last half of Linus ing's life, fighting against it, that is we began

nuclear contamination. Every human being on the face of the earth for the

last 55 years has been nuked. I remember in the 1950's, there was a great

deal of talk about radioactive strontium, it was in milk and it got into

your bones and you never got rid of it. The thyroid organ is the most

sensitive gland in the body, the most sensitive organ in the body to nuclear

radiation. We were told you should keep in your house potassium iodide

tablets, in case there is a nuclear explosion in war or a nuclear reactor

that goes bad you should take a big handful of several tablets of potassium

iodide to block the thyroid so it won't be killed by radioactive activity,

but nobody's done that and we've all been nuked. So instead of getting

goiter now, we don't grow a big thyroid when we get deficient usually, it's

very rare, I think our thyroid can't overgrow, it has been partially killed,

this is my theory, folks, let me go further.

When this came to me in April I went home and I took my own temperature

because I suddenly realized, that I haven't seen a patient at our clinic, I

couldn't remember anybody who had a normal temperature. In Canada, they've

stopped taking body temperature unless you come in saying that you've got a

fever. Everybody that we see, 90 plus percent of people are running a

temperature below normal. That is one of the prime symptoms of

hypothyroidism. And in the last 10 years, one more interesting event has

taken place; we've been told to eat more broccoli, and cabbage and

cauliflower because it protects you from colon cancer and that's very true;

but every time you have a helping of those you block the thyroid's ability

to function. We have four competing factors to what I believe is an epidemic

of subclinical hypothyroidism and in some people it manifests as it did in

me, in only one way, a low body temperature, and intolerance to cold. I

hated cold, and so I was the first person to try it and I started taking 10

times the recommended daily dose of iodine, as did my wife. My temperature

was one and one half degrees below normal, hers was only one degree below.

Within one month my temperature was normal and I started going around in

short sleeves and air conditioned rooms. My cold intolerance went away.

There are many symptoms; my wife lost an inch in her waist; no weight loss,

just lost an inch of something, around the waist. And, we've now got

finished the first 12 patients in a very intense study where we are studying

many aspects of metabolism; but of the first ten who finished it, 9 of the

10 had their temperature had their temperature come up to normal by taking

nothing but iodine. Now that makes sense to me. I believe that we need a

minimum of four times as much iodine than we did 70 years ago to compensate

for the cauliflower and the nuclear radiation. I'm not saying don't eat

cauliflower, I'm just saying, we need more iodine. I believe that there are

many aspects of iodine deficiency; the immune system is powerfully affected.

You know, iodine is much much stronger than chlorine; as an antiseptic

agent. Much stronger. The vast majority of iodine is stored in the muscles

of the body. It has a lot to do with energy.

So coming back to my concept of electromagnetic dysthymia, I think a

nutritional deficiency of iodine also creates part of the syndrome of

electromagnetic dysthymia, chronic fatigue and all of these other remarkable

illnesses. Now, I have tried to correlate my concept of what DHEA should be

in relation to Han Selliay's concept of stress. And he talks about

homeostasis and adaptation, and progressive maladaptation leading to

degeneration, and he calls it then, adrenal exhaustion. We call it adrenal

burnout. Popular language. And these are the DHEA levels that we think are

healthy. And essentially, I don't worry about people who are in this range.

You know, I have never seen anybody with a significant illness who had a

DHEA even approaching these levels, let alone these. This is just the upper

50% of the range. You know you don't want to be in the lower 25% of such an

important hormone. And the lower you go the greater the risk of very, very

serious illness. Now the problem is, DHEA has become a fad in health food

stores. And people just run out, and I get people, some woman wrote me the

other day, you know I've been taking 400 mg of DHEA per day, she never had

it tested, and I've been getting fuzz on my face. No wonder. Fuzz on the

face is something that's going to happen to almost anyone who takes that

much DHEA. And she's lucky she didn't get a bad case of acne, too. But, I

don't recommend that you just rush off and take DHEA.

Measuring DHEA Levels

Incidentally, there are only two labs in the country that are even remotely

accurate, well, that are good. One is, a lab that was originally Nichols Lab

in Capistrano, California; it is now called Quest Diagnostics. They have

specialized in neurochemicals for 40 years or more. They are the only lab I

truly, truly, truly trust. I have no stock in them. There is another lab in

Kent, Washington, called Meridian Valley which is generally good and I did

test 10 or 12 samples of blood with them, and they are accurate also, but it

takes a month to get back the results, and I wasn't willing to fiddle with

that so we use just Quest Diagnostics. Your other national labs, it's a

waste of blood and money and time and energy to even go near it. They vary

by 300% on the same blood. If you send them 3 samples of the same blood, so

they don't know what they are getting, they can give you 300%, that is

useless, but Nichols will be one to five percent, that is quite good.

Things That Do Not Raise DHEA

So if you want to do it, you want to be in this range and if you are not,

it's time to do something about it, in my opinion. Now, we played with a lot

of things. These are things that don't work, in raising DHEA; Blue green

algae, and dried adrenal gland itself, and wild yam root, I mean, huge doses

of wild yam root; and using one of the microstimulators called alphastem on

these 12 points that I mentioned, the ring of fire, and regular TENS, and

even the little acupuncture TENS, the ones that are point stimulators don't

work on the ring of fire.

Things That Do Raise DHEA

Things that do work, joy, and sex and physical exercise and sunshine.

(audience laughter, applause) Even fantasy works. I had a patient come in,

this woman came in, and she had many many many symptoms, and she really did

have a problem. She had, let us say, the hots for one of her co-workers but

she was married. And she wasn't willing to have an affair, and her DHEA was

like 600. And so, I said, do you have a lot of sexual fantasies? " Oh, no! "

And so the next time she came in she says, " Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell

you I'm writing a romance novel " . So, writing a romance novel can be good

for your DHEA.

And then, this was one of those little intuitive leaps that took place,

about eight years ago, I suddenly thought maybe natural progesterone would

raise DHEA. I started in men. Because there's been nothing done on

progesterone in men, and yet men have a higher level of progesterone

throughout their adult lives that women do post menopause; the cause of

menopause is not loss of estrogen, it's loss of progesterone. And so I took

seven men into my first study who had low DHEA and I gave them natural

progesterone cream and I said rub it on the scrotum, it's got a lot vascular

supply, and you know, a significant portion of DHEA in men, which is why

they are higher than women, it's made in the testicle, and, lo and behold, I

got a patent on the process, just for fun, that natural progesterone will

raise DHEA. One man came back, at six weeks his DHEA was up about 100%; he

came back in twelve weeks, it was really only up you know, like, 30 or 40%,

higher, I said, what happened; he said, I got so horny my wife couldn't keep

up with me.

And then, one day, I was driving down the road reading an article, let's

say, my wife was driving down the road and I was reading an article, and I

learned about this sulfonic organic compound called MSM, or

methylsulfanomethane, and I said wow! That's why everybody's low in DHEA,

because we don't have organic sulfur in our soil any more. Well, not sulfur,

so we can't get organic sulfur out of our food supply. Well, farmers have

known this since I was a child. No farmer would dare feed his livestock, a

deficiency, or no sulfur, they have sulfur salt blocks out there for them to

lick; well, we can't do it with sulfur salt blocks, because we can't convert

inorganic sulfur into organic sulfur and our plants therefore aren't

producing methylsulfanomethane. So I came back and I gave 10 people MSM and

I looked at their DHEA, and half of them got a rise in DHEA, and half didn't

and that's not good enough for me, if I'm going to say something, and I

thought, well, there's got to be a second factor, what could it be, well

intuitively I knew it had to be vitamin C and the people who had the rise in

DHEA were taking vitamin C already, and the people who didn't were not

taking it and when we added vitamin C, DHEA rose - I got a patent on that

process too, just for the fun of it; I'm telling you about it so you can go

out to any health food store and buy the stuff and put it together.

And then beta 1,3 glucon and I came upon that accidentally one day and I

just thought well, that has some effect too, and it does. Beta 1,3 glucon is

the single most potent anti-oxidant and immune enhancer that we know.

Milligram for milligram it's stronger than any other substance, and it also

raises DHEA; but you must put MSM and vitamin C together, neither one of

them in any dose that I've tried works well; and I know that if MSM had been

known, Linus ing would have added it to his vitamin C.

And then, stimulating the ring of fire, this circuit of what I consider

electricity in the body, it doesn't exist in traditional acupuncture, but I

was just sort of meditating one day and I said, how can I raise DHEA, and I

got the message, and I did it and it works, and I patented that one. It's so

much fun to do these things just for the intellectual challenge of it. And

the ring of fire consists of these 12 points, it is kidney 3, because in

traditional acupuncture, that, the kidney energy is your natural chi

reservoir. And so you've got to activate the reservoir, the battery if you

will. And then conception vessels 2, 6, and 18 and bladder 22 and mast of

the heart or pericardium 6 and large intestine 18, I call those the

enstein points, and then governing vessal 20. Now, what we've found is,

if we stimulate those with the LISS stimulator, remember the 15,000 Hz one,

or with gigafrequencies at one billionth of a watt, the sun puts out

everywhere when you're walking outside 10 billionths, no, the sun puts out a

billionth of a watt; we use 10 billionths, just 10 times as much as you

would get walking around outside. You put that through a one-half millimeter

port onto an acupuncture point, and it will raise DHEA, if you do it every

day for 6 to 12 weeks, and you still have to do it, if that's all you're

doing, once or twice a week for it to continue. And this is what happens, it

raises DHEA, and you can treat, depending upon the disease, between 70 and

80% of the people with rheumatoid arthritis, diabetic neuropathy, migraine

headache, and depression. That's not bad. There is no drug that can approach

that kind of success with total safety, total, 100% safety. And the people

with rheumatoid arthritis, for instance, are the people who failed

prednisone and gold shots, and methotrexate, so you're not looking at your

average rheumatoid arthritic patient early in the disease, and even then, we

get 70% of them doing well. In diabetic neuropathy, there's no medical

treatment. 80% of them do well. But interestingly, although the LISS will

work on DHEA and these other illnesses, in diabetic neuropathy only the

gigaTENS, the billion cycle one works. I don't know why, it's just an

empirical observation. So, 80% of the patients with diabetic neuropathy

improve, 70% of those with rheumatoid arthritis, 70% of those with

depression, and after this slide was made we finished one on migraine

headaches, 76% of migraineurs reduced the incidence and severity of headache

by 75%. Phenomenal. The best drug for preventing migraine is 40% effective,

with a whole host of so-called side effects. So here is very subtle energy,

a ten billionth of a watt, that's per cm square and we're putting it through

half a millimeter, but it works when you put it on the acupuncture points,

and it incidentally, for your information, if you put it only on half of the

points it does not raise DHEA. It also does not raise DHEA if you watch the

evening news while doing it. We had two subjects who tried that and it

didn't work. (Laughter)

Headache

I just want to look with you for a moment at the four biggest pain problems

that we have. Headache, well we know that cervical traction works. Three

wonderful scientific papers back in the 1950's but it wasn't a drug. It

didn't have any money associated with it. And so nobody did it. And if you

do cervical traction and biofeedback training and stimulate the ring of

fire, and you do all that at the same time, by the way, and if they have a

breakthrough headache, you can spray the nose with a local anesthetic called

ponticaine. It made national headlines two years ago when some guy said he

could knock out many migraine headaches, spraying it with xylocaine, but the

problem was an hour later the headache came back. If you used ponticaine,

which is a much longer lasting anesthetic, and then follow it with an old

old chemical called serapin, which is sort of a local nerve block type drug

that's not an anesthetic in the usual sense of the word, it's been around 75

years, but if you do those two together the headache doesn't come back, so

it's a powerful treatment program, not only for acute headache, but for

preventing 75% of all migraines even from starting.

Back Pain

And back pain. If you give them 20 treatments, with a special kind of

computerized treatment , attraction, 80% of people who had had surgery

recommended for ruptured disks are well, and only 2% actually go to surgery.

So 98% are improved enough that they don't need surgery. And we use some

cold packs, and some TENS, and we teach them relaxation training, and I

realize I've got one of my favorite slides out of order, it'll be here

somewhere... ah, didn't have it out of order, good. This is my favorite

exercise for the back, of course, getting paid to do it; actually the next

movement is to come up to horizontal. I call it backups, it's sort of the

opposite of sit-ups. And this is something called a Roman Chair. There is no

exercise in the world as good for the low back as doing backups on a Roman

Chair. Phenomenally powerful. I think everybody should have a Roman Chair

somewhere in their home and do it, we could probably prevent most back

problems. When I'm home, I wake up every morning, the first thing I do is go

out and do a hundred sit-ups, you can turn around and do sit-ups on it too,

and then I do a hundred back-ups. Plus whatever else I'm going to do, but

it's wonderful exercise. And, of course, biofeedback is a phenomenally

powerful tool, anything that you can sense, in your body you can control,

whether it's the pressure in your eyeballs, or the blood pressure, or the

pulse, or the EEG, you can control all of those with a minimum of training.

Basically, it's one or two lessons, and then after that it's practice, in

doing it. And you can bring 80% of people with hypertension under control,

and the other 20% won't learn it. Basically. It isn't that they couldn't,

they just are stubborn and don't want to put the effort into it; it's like

smokers and getting them to quit. Next slide, please. This is just one of

the music beds that we use, with the vibratory music, this one has 20

speakers. And I just wanted to show you that this stuff is real, uh, the

gigafrequencies, now this just happens to be a slide, I have slides of all

the frequencies, this particular one is between nine hundred megahertz and

two gigahertz, but we have demonstrated that we have activity going up to

one hundred billion cycles per second at these relatively minute amounts of

energy, but at least its measurable. And, I've got a stimulator, which has

been approved for manufacture and sale, and hopefully will be out some year,

but it does resonate, it vibrates or puts out between one hertz and 80 plus

gigahertz and that is powerfully effective. Just the tiniest amount of

energy, remember ten billionth of a watt, can have an official effect on the

body.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

And then, carpal tunnel syndrome, one of the biggest surgical things in this

country, we can get 80 % of people who have had surgery recommended for

carpal tunnel syndrome well in two weeks using some deep massage, some

stretching exercise. One of my favorites, a mixture of castor oil and emu

oil, you just mix it up 50-50, rub it on there, and slap a heating pad on

for half and hour and of course, using vitamin B6 and magnesium, and

electrical stimulation. It's like 40 minutes of treatment a day for two

weeks, and they stay on certain amounts of B6 and magnesium indefinitely,

and we could avoid a huge surgical problem that does not have the world's

greatest success rate.

Woman with Cancer

Now back in 1974, I saw the first miracle that I ever recognized. It was a

lady who was dying of metastatic breast cancer. Her body was riddled. Her

oncologist said she had two months to live. I wasn't sure if she would last

three weeks. And on the seventeenth day of working with her, she got well. I

did a twenty minute exercise on sainthood, no on forgiveness, and this woman

was brought in the room on a stretcher and she got up and walked out of the

room, free of pain. Three months later she did this silk-screen serigraph,

and her cancer was gone forever.

Pain Control Using Biofeedback

Next slide. And this just shows you what some people can do, this is an EEG

done many years ago on a young man who was paralyzed from the chest down,

and this is high amplitude alpha waves. And after just one month of training

he was able to put himself into this high (average EEG is about this

amplitude), but as long as he could stay in this high amplitude, you know

like 4 or 5 times the normal EEG amplitude of alpha rhythm, his pain was

totally controlled. So, EEG biofeedback training is a very useful adjunct.

And you can do anything.

If You Believe, You Can Do Anything

This is the first time I ever saw a bed of nails. And I thought, some man

was brought to me, his name was Comar, and I was asked to evaluate his

ability to do things like lay on a bed of nails for 24 hours, he holds the

world record. And I said I can do that, and so I lay down on it, this is in

front of one of my groups of patients; If you believe you can do it and you

mentally detach from the fear of it, you can do almost anything. Comar holds

the world's record for moving over hot coals. I measured him once, 1270

degrees Fahrenheit was the temperature of the coals, two-thirds the width of

this stage, he walked across. We have it on video, we showed it on national

television in 1977, because he believed he could. Interestingly, a year

after that we were out at University of California at San Diego at a meeting

of the Association of Holistic Health, I was the master of ceremonies, and

he was going to demonstrate this, and there was a lot of noise from the

thruway which is right down at the bottom the hill at the university there,

and he came over to me and he whispered, I can do it but I'll burn my feet,

and I said " You idiot, you're not going to do it " , and the noise was

distracting him. So I said, " You know, what he needs is a pair of earplugs " .

Well, there was a pilot in the audience, the pilot gave him the earplugs,

Comar took two more turns around, and walked across the coals, without

burning his feet.

Copper Pyramid

This is a little device that flipped into my mind when I was jogging in

Holland one day, it actually has copper on all four walls, and a copper

pyramid, and back here in the back we have a Tessler coil that also puts out

up to a hundred billion cycles per second, and was used very extensively

back in the late 30's and early 40's by s Lavoskovsky to treat a wide

variety of illnesses; he did it through two copper plates about a foot in

diameter, three feet apart, and you sat between them, and talked about

curing all kinds of disease for it, the problem is I don't think you could

ever get the FDA to approve it, but, at any rate, we devised this little

chamber as sort of a modern Lavoskovsky coil with a magnet hanging over the

head, powerfully effective tool for meditation but, before we got the

gigaTENS stimulators, we could do the same thing with rheumatoid arthritis,

having people sit in this chamber that we were later able to do with the

ring of fire.

Spiritual Healing

And now, perhaps for the most controversial aspect of what I'm going to talk

about. This is the EEG on a patient, he's at rest and has been for some 30

minutes. It's a perfectly normal EEG, this is, there is a fair amount of

Delta activity, mostly in the frontal parietal lobes, a little bit in the

occipital and some nice alpha rhythm here at about 8 to 10 cycles per

second. Next, immediately after this, this was at rest, go back one slide

please, this is 5 minutes into absent healing by an excellent spiritual

healer, hmm, we are missing one. The one that I thought was there was one

where that alpha rhythm went up to about 3 times to what you saw before,

maybe it will show later, but at any rate, we now have about 100 records of

patients with a person who is talented in what is called spiritual healing

sitting in a room a hundred feet away or 160 miles away, affecting the EEG.

Strikingly like this. Now, this is another way of looking at the EEG, this

is what one can do with one's self. And this is actually one that I did, and

this is alpha rhythm and it shows you the nice mandala that you can do, and

with a little training, (next, please) you can convert it to theta. And so,

you can do anything that you set out to do if you are willing to focus your

attention on doing it, and you can change your neurochemistry and the

electricity that is just another manifestation of what is happening in your

brain bucket with focus of attention. And ultimately, here's what you are

trying to balance, the electromagnetic energy system of the body, which

looks a bit like this. We are remarkably beautiful rainbow creatures, with

an electromagnetic gridwork that is both inside the body, and around the

body. And what happens when you work in the ways that we are talking about

is that the electromagnetic circuits of the body become harmonious and

balanced like this. We can (that's the end of the slides, I think, well,

try, maybe, maybe my ahh, there's there we are, it dropped slightly out,

that's what happens ten minutes into absent healing by a talented spiritual

healer) phenomenal increase in alpha activity in the occipital region. Now

you can do that without a healer. Well, back up, two slides, three, that was

it, that would be the same picture this is just another way of displaying

the same kind of marked increase in alpha rhythm, and this was done without

a healer, this was done with just focused meditation.

Conclusion

And so, what I'd like to leave you with, that is, I think the end of the

slides, thank you, we can have the lights back up, is that health is the

result of the totality of your life. It's your attitude, it's what you eat,

it's certainly what you think, it's how you act physically, and I think it

is important in this particular day, to take extra nutrients. Linus ing

was right, vitamin C is one of the most critical nutrients that we have. We

need more vitamin C today than we did 50 years ago. Now I personally only

take 4 grams a day, ordinarily, because that's all I seem to need, as long

as I take 200 thousand units of beta-carotene and 1200 units of vitamin E

and 2 grams of beta 1,3 glucon and a gram or two of methyl-sulfanomethane.

But, the point is, our food supply is highly deficient. Russ Hume Hall

published a book in 1972 called Food For Naught in which he emphasized that

many of the foods found in our grocery stores are highly deficient in

vitamins and minerals, and it's hard to get them. Just think about this for

a moment, I'm sure that I'm taking coals to Newcastle with many of the

people here, but the average American, the average American consumes 140

pounds of sugar per year. That's something like 45 teaspoons per day, that

is roughly 30% of all calories eaten. There's no nutrient value in that

except calories. There are no vitamins, and there are no minerals. They

steal nutrients from the rest of your body, but there is 30% of your food

that has no vitamins and no minerals. Conservatively, 10% is white flour.

And to call it enriched is an oxymoron. It is junk food. So there is 40% of

the nutrients taken in that have no vitamins and no minerals to speak of;

and 35% of the average American diet is fat; and I'm not opposed to all fat,

fat is a great source of essential fatty acids, and maybe some vitamin D and

a little vitamin A, but it has no B vitamins, so we are now up to 75% of the

food that is consumed has no B vitamins. Your nervous system cannot function

without B vitamins. Eighty percent of smokers and 35% of nonsmokers are

highly deficient in vitamin B6. The most crucial of the B vitamins, because

it is present in smaller quantities.

So, Linus ing's concept of orthomolecular therapy was another great gift

that he gave to the world, and all I can say about physicians who refuse to

accept that, is, I am very sad for their to the welfare of the world was

Linus ing. It is indeed an honor to be able to talk in his memory. Thank

you. (applause)ignorance, because ignorance is the failure to accept truth.

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