What do doctors know?

If you think your doctors have all the answers, think again. With the fast paced internet, it's no wonder people are starting to become more educated on the human body than their family doctors. I had a couple experiences these last couple of days that were nothing short of alarming.  A friend on mine had a chance to do some research on Celiac disease after reading my daughters issues and positive IgA results on her Celiac blood panel.  His 4 year old son has serious stomach issues and they have struggled with him being sick quite a bit.  His issues are so bad, they've had him in the E.R. numerous times for consitpation.  He turns and runs from any foods offered to him, including candy.  They decided to go to their doctor to get screened for Celiac disease.   His doctor informed them that they need to read more up on this disease and denied the Celiac blood panel.  The kicker of this is, his mom has chronic stomach issues, much of the same and the grandmother has intestinal cancer. Personally, I would love to see kids screened for this at a younger age but this move by their doctor is wreckless and alarming.

Treating the symptoms:

When you pay a visit to the doctors office for what ever is bothering you, you can expect to walk out with some kind of prescription.  Most of the time this is to treat the symptoms your having.  Rarely does diet surface as a fix or the treatment go after the core issues.  I was floored that my daughter's doctor was clueless on P.H. nutrition in the human body and it's HUGE play in disease and sickness.  Sending your kids to school in the morning with a bowl of cornflakes may be good for calcium and heart issues.  But left alone, it's highly acidic and drops the bodies P.H. levels.  Having a dinner that consists of meat, canned veggies, bread and milk sounds really healthy.  Guess what?  It's not, it's a complete acid bath that over periods of time which causes fatigue, tiredness and illnesses and even death.  It's not the food that gets you, it's the combinations. Much of the information/education given to doctors is what drug companies tell them.  Rarely will you get any drug company informing doctors that many of these patients can get off the drugs they are taking by diet changes. They have billions and billions of dollars at stake.

"The concept of acid alkaline imbalance as the cause of disease is not new. In 1933 a New York doctor named William Howard Hay published a ground-breaking book, "A New Health Era" in which he maintains that all disease is caused by autointoxication (or "self-poisoning") due to acid accumulation in the body"

http://www.reynoldsoffice.c...

Not knowing doesn't cut it. 

Cheers, Billy

To many, falling asleep after a big Thanksgiving dinner has become a Thanksgiving tradition in itself.  The story of  tryptophan, an amino acid with a documented sleep inducing effect, being the reason we all feel tired and sluggish may be for the birds.  What most people may be suffering from is a drop in the body's P.H.

What's P.H. in the body?

Ever seen the old science experiment when the teacher dumps baking soda into a glass of vineger?  The glass bubbles like crazy until the solution is nutralized.  The vineger is very acidic and the baking soda is the base.  Your body tries to maintain a P.H. level of around 6.8-7.4.  This can drop greatly depending on the foods we eat and the stuff we drink. When this P.H. gets dropped too low, the body opens itself up to fatigue, infections, immune issues, disease and even cancer.  

What's so bad about Thanksgiving?  

Nothing really, except that most Thanksgiving meals are prepared in a way that is highly acidic.  Turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, canned corn and bread are ALL acids which make up one really acidic combination dinner. The only thing missing is a side order of car battery.  Hopefully a coke isn't added to the mix.

So, what can we do? 

If you're going to cook mashed potatoes, think about leaving the skin in and adding some garlic.  For salad, think about using spinach leaves, which tastes like romain lettuce.  Get those sweet potatoes on the table and think about having smaller portions of bread or stuffing.  Remember that for every can of coke or beer, your body needs 1 gallon of water to neutralize.  Artifical sweeteners are off the scale in acid.  If you have to sweeten something think about using honey.

Upset stomaches

Those who have sensitive stomache issues or medical issues, including cancer, usually see big gains in upping the P.H. levels in their body.  They also may see major changes in their emotional state and energy.  People who test negative for Celiac often see major gains from a gluten free diet.  Not so much for gluten but the acid reduction that comes from getting off breads and pastas.

Testing

Head down to Lowes and pick yourself up a pool test strip.  It runs about 8 dollars.  When you need to urinate, try to hit the strip (without making a mess.)  It will give you a good idea on your P.H. levels.  You may be alarmed at how low your P.H. levels are.

 Here's a list of foods that you can avoid or eat to get your P.H. where it needs to be.

http://www.reynoldsoffice.com/ph.html

Here's a read on P.H. levels and cancer.

http://mysite.verizon.net/f...

Good luck and have a (safe) Thanksgiving.

Cheers, Billy

larger view

What if I told you that right now in Bakersfield, thousands and thousands of people are walking around with a life threatening disease that trumps Swine flu and West Nile combined.. Would you believe me?  

What if I told you that out of all these people with this disease, only 3% know they have it ... Would you still believe me?  

What if I went one step further and said this disease isn't fixed by a pill or surgery and is one of the most undiagnosed, hidden diseases in the U.S.. 

Sounds alarming? It should be. Welcome to Celiac disease.  

This is a long read, but it may help someone here.

Frustration:
My moms passing a few weeks ago was hard on us but it left me more frustrated.  She was a very active 55 year old who lost a very quick bout of cancer.  Everyone was confused how her disease came on so fast and her doctors really never could come to grips on what kind of cancer she had, which ended up being some kind of stomach/intestinal cancer.  My mom's life was normal for the most part, she was a very motivated, self reliant individual.  However, there were medical things in her past that were not so normal. She often had serious migraines, she was very thin most of her life, she would have long sleep bouts, especially after a night of drinking in her hey-day after the races.  Over her life she had gobs of dental work done.  She would also have an occasional fever blister and she had a hysterectomy at the age of 45. I always attributed this to her off and on smoking, even after her cancer diagnosis. 

Growing up:
I was a typical kid.  I played baseball, soccer, rode BMX and skated.  Later I got into wake boarding and fell into my longtime family pastime of auto racing.   Through all this I had some weird issues in my life that I never really understood.  Going into HS, I looked like a 6th grader.  I often got headaches and felt like I had low blood sugar at times.  I would also find my self out of it.  School work was a challenge as I felt like I had to work 4 times harder than everyone just to understand the basics.  Later in my life, things panned out but I would still have this feeling of being out of it at times and would get serious stomach issues from time to time. My blood pressure was up and I started getting heart palpitations and chest pains.  Over the last few years I started working out and avoiding fast food.  I stopped drinking coke and moved to drinking water "most of the time."  While this might have helped, it didn't fix my issues.  I was eating Subway everyday, skipping the mayo on everything I was eating.  At work, there were times my co-workers would be talking to me later in my shift and I just couldn't focus on everything they were telling me.  I chalked it up to just being tired.  My doctor said its nothing more than IBS so I just dealt with it.  There are countless times I can remember getting into my race car feeling like a complete zombie.  I'm thankful I never hurt anyone including myself.  How I finished some of those nights is beyond me.  Often times people would tell me I looked tired or even on drugs.  I just thought they were seeing things and I attributed most of it to CO2 poisoning.  Over the last year, I got a serious bout of pneumonia, which I made worse by not taking time off from work or racing.  I ended up in the ER with what I thought was food poisoning and had a round of pretty bad headaches.  My doc said, "you're just dealing with anxiety and have IBS." (Irritated Bowel Syndrome)

Sunnie:
When we had Sunnie, my six year old daughter, she was healthy but had a few red flags that were just.. well weird.  She was very skinny, my mom always accused us of not feeding her.  She had this pot belly which we thought nothing of.  She had chronic diarrea when we first got her onto food.  Under her eyes she looked anemic at times.  She would often times wake up in the morning of a stomach ache.  We would usually tell her it was just because she hadn't eaten breakfast and after eating she would usually start to feel better.  Her attention span reminded me of me when I was a kid.  Short.  Aside from all that she was/is a perfect little 6 year old.  Very kind to people, very thoughtful and her teachers love her. And of course, she loves racing.

Research:
After doing a few weeks of research, I came across something that started to put all the pieces together.  Celiac disease. This is a common disease in the US.  Up to 1/100 people have it.  With Kern County having a population of 800,000, that puts a rough estimate of 8,000 people walking around blindly with this disease.  The scary thing is out of all those people that do have it only 3% of people know they have it.  Left untreated these people pick up things like headaches, fatigue, skin issues, poor vision, cancers, high blood pressure, diabetes, arthritis, heart disease, heart attacks, repeated miscarriage, anxiety/depression, hair loss, bone degeneration and the list goes on and on.  Usually, these people (including their doctors) never really understand why they get these diseases other than they just do.  

What is Celiac disease?:
Celiac disease is where your immune system attacks your intestines when you eat gluten.  Gluten is found in everything from breads, cookies, beer, and just about everything else you can imagine.  Your intestines make up around 75% of your immune system.  Over time your intestines become unable to absorb nutrients and vitamins which cause deficencies which lead to more sever complications.  Many people have no symptoms of the disease until later in life.

Why isn't this screened?:
In Europe all children are screened at the age of 6.  In the U.S., no kids are screened.  It's one of the most undiagnosed diseases in the states.  I literally had to ask for a Celiac blood test for both for Sunnie and myself.  One of my moms doctors, who is one of UCLA's best, never even thought she could have Celiac disease until after her death when I mentioned it.  The disease is genetic, meaning if your parents had it there is a strong possibility that you may have it.  The main reason it isn't screened in the US is because the drug manufactures rule the medical establishment here.  The fix for Celiac disease isn't a pill.  It's a strict adherence to avoiding gluten.  Can you imagine how much money the drug and food companies or even doctors would lose with this information given to the public? Good news is, once someone fixes their diet, the symptoms and disease starts to correct itself.  Caught at an early age obviously has the best outcome.  The intestines have the ability to repair themselves between 6 months to a couple years depending on how long the damage has happened with a strict adherence to this dietary change.  In the U.S. most Celiac cases (which are rarely caught) are diagnosed between the ages of 40-60 years of age. The average time that it takes for someone to realize their Celiac disease is roughly 10 years.

Sad and happy:
We just had Sunnie tested and her test came back igA positive on a Celiac blood panel. In some ways I was sad but mostly happy that we may have saved her life and given her the chance to live a normal childhood.  As far as my mom, I wish I would have known more about this disease a few years ago.  I may have saved her life. I still have dreams/nightmares that I'm back in time informing her on Celiac disease.   IMO, I think every child should be screened for this as well as every American.  The amount of money my mom racked up in her short bout was probably close to, if not over the million dollar mark.  This could have been avoided to some degree with proper screening.  

Anyway, I know this was long winded and there are probably a select few that will read the whole message but if it saves someone's life then it was time well spent.

Cheers, Billy.