Dr. Ben Johnson passed away on January 19th, 2019 from causes unknown. The important thing to remember is NOT how Dr. Ben died but how he LIVED!
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Dr. Ben’s greatest virtues, that he will always be remembered, by his wife, children, grandchildren, friends, co-workers, associates and patients, was his kindness, generosity and charity. He was a true healer and always ready to help anyone in need, regardless of their ability to pay. He truly served others beginning from his heart and then his mind.
Watch the following YouTube video as Dr. Ben Johnson and Dr. Robert O. Young share the latest technology for non-invasive and non-radioactive medical diagnostics, created, designed and offered by Dr. Galina Migalko, at the Universal Medical Imaging Group, in Valley Village, California. (www.universalmedicalimaging.com)
Listen carefully to Dr. Ben, as a voice from the grave, that will never be silenced, as he shares the future of non-invasive medical diagnostics and treatment, that is here today.
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Thank you Dr. Ben for your fearless nature to speak ‘Truth to Power’.
The way you lived your life brings to my mind the beautiful words, that I believe, exemplifies your journey here on Planet Earth and now the Other World. These words are found in the King James Version of the Bible, 2 Timothy, Chapter 4, verses 7-8.
7. You have fought a good fight, You have finished Your course, You have kept the faith:
8. Henceforth there is laid up for YOU a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give YOU at that day: and not to YOU only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
May God continue to bless you, Dr. Ben on your journey, without end to perfection and glory, beyond the vail of forgetfulness.
A physician’s word is often taken very seriously and with little skepticism. An opinion from one or two doctors, when made in a professional office or hospital, can persuade a worried patient to take drugs with complex side-effects, or even undergo traumatic treatments such asradiation and chemotherapy. Yet, when the same doctors, with years of experience and thousands of satisfied customers, give an opinion that questions a therapy established by mainstream medicine, the mainstream media calls them irresponsible, or quacks, or even criminals.
Which brings me to Dr. Dwight Lundell. He’s an experienced heart surgeon and retired Chief of Staff and Chief of Surgery at Banner Heart Hospital in Mesa, Arizona. Not so long ago, Dr. Lundell made the following statement of confession:
“We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong. So, here it is. I freely admit to being wrong. As a heart surgeon with 25 years experience, having performed over 5,000 open-heart surgeries, today is my day to right the wrong with medical and scientific fact.
I trained for many years with other prominent physicians labeled “opinion makers.” Bombarded with scientific literature, continually attending education seminars, we opinion makers insisted heart disease resulted from the simple fact of elevated blood cholesterol. The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower cholesterol and a diet that severely restricted fat intake. The latter of course we insisted would lower cholesterol and heart disease. Deviations from these recommendations were considered heresy and could quite possibly result in malpractice. It Is Not Working!
These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible.”
Many doctors are highly admirable people, but they are still human beings. They all make mistakes, they all learn from them, but the really good ones are willing to admit to them.
Cholesterol does not cause heart disease and trying to reduce it with statin drugs is a waste of time, an international group of experts has claimed.
Not surprisingly, Lundell’s statement regarding the medical establishment’s approach to treating heart disease caused a ripple in the medical industry. It challenged the validity of statins – commonly known as cholesterol-lowering medications – such as Lipitor, Crestor, Zocor, and others.
The reason Lundell’s statement created such a buzz is because statins are big business. In the United States alone, about 25% of the population takes statin medications. They cost from as little as $53 per month to more than $600. Pfizer’s Lipitor went on sale in 1997 and its lifetime sales have surpassed $125 billion. AstraZeneca’s Crestor was the top-selling statin in 2013, generating $5.2 billion in revenue that year alone. The statin industry is estimated at around $30 billion in sales per year. Nevertheless, in the United States, more die each year of heart disease than ever before.
Lundell went on to say:
“The discovery a few years ago that inflammation in the artery wall is the real cause of heart disease is slowly leading to a paradigm shift in how heart disease and other chronic ailments will be treated. The long-established dietary recommendations have created epidemics of obesity and diabetes, the consequences of which dwarf any historical plague in terms of mortality, human suffering and dire economic consequences.
I have peered inside thousands upon thousands of arteries. A diseased artery looks as if someone took a brush and scrubbed repeatedly against its wall. Several times a day, every day, the foods we eat create small injuries compounding into more injuries, causing the body to respond continuously and appropriately with inflammation. While we savor the tantalizing taste of a sweet roll, our bodies respond alarmingly as if a foreign invader arrived declaring war. Foods loaded with sugars and simple carbohydrates, or processed with omega-6 oils for long shelf life have been the mainstay of the American diet for six decades. These foods have been slowly poisoning everyone.”
Listen to Dr. Tom Sladic, MD has he explains his understanding of the true cause of Heart Disease:
So What is the True Cause of Heart Disease?
A review of research involving nearly 70,000 people found there was no link between what has traditionally been considered “bad” LDL cholesterol and the premature deaths of over 60-year-olds from cardiovascular disease.
Published in the BMJ Open journal, the new study found that 92 percent of people with a high cholesterol level lived longer. (BMJ Open. Published online June 12 2016)
The authors have called for a re-evaluation of the guidelines for the prevention of cardiovascular disease and atherosclerosis, a hardening and narrowing of the arteries, because “the benefits from statin treatment have been exaggerated”.
High cholesterol is commonly caused by an unhealthy acidic lifestyle and diet, and eating high levels of processed fat in particular, as well as smoking.
It is carried in the blood attached to proteins called lipoproteins and has been traditionally linked to cardiovascular diseases such as coronary heart disease, stroke, peripheral arterial disease and aortic disease.
Co-author of the study Dr Malcolm Kendrick, an intermediate care GP, acknowledged the findings would cause controversy but defended them as “robust” and “thoroughly reviewed”. “What we found in our detailed systematic review was that older people with high LDL (low-density lipoprotein) levels, the so-called “bad” cholesterol, lived longer and had less heart disease.”
Vascular and endovascular surgery expert Professor Sherif Sultan from the University of Ireland, who also worked on the study, said cholesterol is one of the “most vital” molecules in the body and prevents infection, cancer, muscle pain and other conditions in elderly people. He also stated, “lowering cholesterol with medications is a total waste of time and money”.
“Lowering cholesterol with medications for primary cardiovascular prevention in those aged over 60 is a total waste of time and resources, whereas altering your lifestyle is the single most important way to achieve a good quality of life,” he said.
Lead author Dr Uffe Ravnskov, a former associate professor of renal medicine at Lund University in Sweden, said there was “no reason” to lower high-LDL-cholesterol.
Heart Disease and Cholesterol
The graph below shows the famous 10 year Framingham correlation study between cholesterol and coronary heart disease, published in the Lancet in 1986, that big Pharma relies on and sold to the American public at large.
The problem though, as you see in the next graph, after 20 years the correlation shows that high cholesterol saves lives and low cholesterol is a risk factor for heart disease!
Everyone in modern society has heard about cholesterol, and how bad it is. Most do not understand why it exists, and simply see it as a menace that must be eliminated as quickly as possible. This misunderstanding is exactly what the pharmaceutical complex promotes, because it allows them to perpetually treat high cholesterol with drugs like Lipitor. These drugs are prescribed for the remainder of a patient’s lifetime, and when he/she eventually dies of a “thought attack”, family and friends will believe that the disaster was inevitable from “high cholesterol”. The death will not be attributed to other health factors or to the drugs themselves, but to the “high cholesterol”; even though there are no known deaths from cholesterol in human history. It is all very convenient for the drug companies, so long as we do not examine what is up the other sleeve.
I am reminded of restless leg syndrome, whereby the dis-ease was ‘discovered’ immediately after the pharmaceutical for it was patented, as a reason to sell us this useless pharmaceutical drug. Now, restless leg syndrome has been upgraded to a new “disease”. The cause of restless leg syndrome is also the cause of heart disease – retained metabolic and/or dietary acids in the connective and fatty tissues leading to inflammation, induration, ulceration, degeneration and finally death
“Before 1920, coronary heart disease was rare in America — so rare that when a young internist named Paul Dudley White introduced the German Electrocardiograph to his colleagues at Harvard University, they advised him to concentrate on a more profitable branch of medicine. The new machine revealed the presence of arterial blockages, thus permitting early diagnosis of coronary heart disease. But in those days, clogged arteries were a medical rarity, and White had to search for patients who could benefit from his new technology. During the next forty years, however, the incidence of coronary heart disease rose dramatically, so much so that by the mid 1950’s, heart disease was the leading cause of death among Americans.”
— Mary Enig, Ph.D.
The amount of cholesterol that you eat actually has very little relationship with the amount that you have in your blood. When you eat more cholesterol, your body produces less, and when you eat less cholesterol, your body produces more. Another way to say this is like this – when you have more metabolic or dietary acid in your blood and interstitial fluids the body produces more LDL cholesterol, and when you have less metabolic or dietary acid in your blood and interstitial fluids the body produces less cholesterol. Why? Because LDL cholesterol is a buffer or chelator of metabolic and/or dietary waste. Understand? A body usually produces between three and four times the cholesterol that one eats. The amount produced is generally related to how much is needed. Cholesterol is indeed needed and critical for optimal health. The purpose of so-called “bad cholesterol” is not to give us heart attacks, but to buffer acidic metabolic and dietary waste and to repair the damage to arteries or veins from our acidic lifestyles and diets.
Whenever a poor acidic diet and lifestyle leads to damaged arteries, a thick and sticky substance is required to patch them. That substance is known as LDL or “bad cholesterol”. When this damaging behavior is continued, multiple patches are created, leading to what we know as “clogged arteries”. The problem is not the cholesterol, which is doing its wonderful job of preventing our death from internal bleeding. The problem is the fact that the arteries or veins are damaged enough from acidic lifestyle and dietary choices to risk internal bleeding. Blocking a body’s healthy countermeasure only leads to worse problems. It is the pharmaceutical standard of symptom suppression that is like hiding the timer of a time bomb, and then expecting it not to eventually go off. Thus, that so-called “BAD” cholesterol is not “BAD” at all. In fact LDL cholesterol is saving your acidic body from internal bleeding and inevitable death. LDL cholesterol ONLY increases in the presence of excess metabolic, dietary, respiratory and/or environmental acids which increase as a result of what you eat, what you drink and what you think. High LDL cholesterol is a warning sign of your poor acidic lifestyle and dietary choices and the body is in preservation mode. It is trying to protect itself from YOU!
Cholesterol is created to save your life! The following picture is what solidified metabolic acid bound cholesterol looks like in the blood.
Modern medicine spends a lot of time fighting this pitch, instead of the actual causes of arterial damage. Thus, it is not surprising that cholesterol-lowering drugs cause more heart dis-ease and more heart attacks and strokes. A massive portion of the elderly population is taking cholesterol-lowering drugs, even though research shows that the higher their cholesterol levels (especially LDL) the longer that they will live and the less risk for a heart attack or stroke. The graph below illustrates this point! Low cholesterol in the elderly is actually a sign that something is seriously wrong, and a heart attack or stroke may be imminent. Modern medicine has only recently come to accept that at least some cholesterol (LDL and HDL) is good and protective! But when you mention (LDL) cholesterol as “GOOD” you better take cover from current medical savants who will attack you with their ignorance!
Cholesterol is still suppressed with drugs, despite what science would make prudent from the long-term Framingham Study. It also has been proven that these drugs cause high suicide rates. The drugs can lead to personality changes, in a manner similar to (but not as intense as) S.S.R.I. antidepressants.
The anti-cholesterol hysteria began in the 1950’s, when researcher Ancel Keys proposed the Lipid Hypothesis. It stated that cholesterol and saturated fats lead to heart disease. His beliefs were promoted heavily by the new hydrogenated oils industry, which spent obscene amounts of money to convince every one of Keys’ indisputable findings. This successful marketing campaign was on par with similar marketing for fluoride at about the same time. Studies which had oppositional findings to Keys’ were ignored or maligned. As a result of his flawed scientific methodology (subjective cherry picking results to match what he wanted to find) saturated fats like butter and eggs were used less, in exchange for the poisonous trans-fats that are in hydrogenated oils. Heart disease rates have been rising exponentially ever-since.
The French eat more fats than any other group in the world, yet they have lower rates of heart disease. The Japanese eat more fats than Americans, yet have lower rates of heart disease. There are plenty of countries with similar patterns. The French lifestyle especially counters Keys’ hypothesis, and it also provides evidence that resveratrol (found in red or purple grapes) improves heart health. Resveratrol has been shown to reverse atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). Maybe, just maybe its being American that causes higher rates in heart attacks. The bottom-line medical research is subjective NOT objective!
Just recently the Food and Drug Administration issued new safety warnings about a popular class of drugs used to control and lower cholesterol levels. The FDA says the drugs, known as statins, can cause several side effects, including cognitive problems such as memory lapses and confusion. But the agency is stressing that the side effects appear to be rare and not serious. I have suggested that taking any drug, like statin drugs that lowers LDL cholesterol without removing acidic lifestyle and dietary choices is a risk for heart attack, stroke and other dis-eases like diabetes. I have lowered cholesterol successfully in all cases of hyper-chlolesterolemia without drugs by just changing the diet and lifestyle to an alkaline pH Miracle lifestyle and diet that restores the alkaline design of the body.
One of my research clients Maren Hale was diagnosed with familial hypercholesterolemia and hyper-triglycerides with LDL’s over 400 mg/dl and triglycerides over 200 mg/dl. She was also overweight. Over a period of four years Maren lost over 70 pounds and lowered her cholesterol and triglycerides to healthy normal ranges on the pH Miracle Lifestyle and Diet. Maren and her family and extended family have been a research study of the University of Utah for familial hypercholesterolemia for over 60 years. Maren was the first of all family members to lower her cholesterol and triglycerides to normal ranges due to her commitment to living a pH Miracle Lifestyle and Diet.
High cholesterol levels should be a warning to most people who inflammation caused by metabolic and dietary acid is present. It is a risk marker, and a symptom that can save your life! Eliminating the LDL cholesterol through drugs is the equivalent to eliminating the thermometer in a room that is too hot. It is illogical, and it does nothing to eliminate the dangerous cause of the symptom being expressed.
LDL cholesterol levels naturally drop whenever the body’s becomes less acidic and more alkaline in the interstitial fluids where acids are stored! And LDL cholesterol should never be forced lower with drugs because they WILL cause a heart attack or stroke! The pH Miracle alkaline lifestyle and diet can reduce LDL cholesterol, but it is never because of a lowered cholesterol intake.
The natural drop in cholesterol and triglycerides happens only when a person stops eating toxic acidic foods, drinking toxic acidic drinks and stops toxic acidic thoughts that produce toxic acidic waste products that destroy the arteries and veins!
Do YOU Understand?
Because healthy arteries and veins do not need patching. Remember that a body typically produces 3-4 times the amount of LDL cholesterol than consumed. The fats that a person eats are therefore comparatively insignificant. Cholesterol will rise whenever the body’s need for cholesterol rises and in direct relationship to the level of acidic thoughts, words and deeds. So acidic trans-fats and inflammatory acidic substances are what need to be avoided. These toxic acidic wastes are what damage the arteries and veins, and a body will be required to do a great deal of patching as a consequence. I will reference to alkalizing or chelating herbs and minerals that lower cholesterol levels naturally later, but alkalizing and chelating herbs and minerals do it by lowering the body’s need for LDL cholesterol, not by forcefully lowering it like pharmaceuticals do.
Studies on the link between cholesterol and heart health have been manipulated for decades. The first studies on eggs showed elevated cholesterol levels because they had used dehydrated eggs, and studies of coconut oil yielded similar results because they had used partially hydrogenated coconut oil to get the results that they wanted. That is why I state that ALL scientific research is subjective NOT objective!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read about it here: http://wp.me/p5ggLY-a5
It is Simple – Cholesterol DOES NOT CAUSE Heart Disease!
Simply stated, without acid caused inflammation being present in the body, there is no way that cholesterol would accumulate on and in the wall of the blood vessel and cause heart disease and strokes. Without acid caused inflammation, cholesterol would move freely throughout the body as nature intended. It is acid caused inflammation from acidic lifestyle and dietary choices that causes cholesterol to become trapped.
Acid caused inflammation is not complicated. The cycle of metabolic and dietary acid inflammation is perfect in how the body releases cholesterol to bind acids that cause inflammation in the first place. However, if we chronically expose the body to injury to acidic poisonous toxins from acidic foods and drinks the human body was never designed to process, a condition occurs called systemic latent tissue acidosis that is the cause of ALL inflammation. Chronic acidic inflammation is just as harmful as acute acidic inflammation and are both caused by an increase of dietary and metabolic acids.
What thoughtful person would willfully expose himself or herself repeatedly to acidic foods, drinks, drugs or other substances that are known to cause injury to the body? Well, smokers, alcohol, coffee black tea, soda pop, energy and sport beverage drinkers perhaps, but at least they made that choice willfully.
The rest of us have simply followed the recommended mainstream acidic diet that is low in polyunsaturated fats, high in acidic carbohydrates and highly acidic animal flesh, not knowing we were causing repeated acidic injury to our blood vessels. This repeated injury creates chronic acidic inflammation leading to heart disease, stroke, diabetes and obesity.
Let me repeat: The injury and inflammation caused from acidic foods, drinks and metabolism in our blood vessels is the cause of stokes, heart attacks, diabetes and obesity and NOT the increase of cholesterol. A low healthy fat and salt diet recommended for years by mainstream medicine will cause strokes, heart attacks, diabetes and obesity.
What are the biggest culprits of chronic acidic inflammation? Quite simply, they are the overload of simple, highly processed carbohydrates (sugar, dairy products, animal flesh, chocolate, coffee, tea, including green tea, alcohol, soda pops, vinegar, peanuts, mushrooms, flour and corn and all the products made from them) and the excess consumption of saturated vegetable oils like soybean, corn and sunflower that are found in many processed foods.
Take a moment to visualize rubbing a stiff brush repeatedly over soft skin until it becomes quite red and nearly bleeding if you kept this up several times a day, every day for five years. If you could tolerate this painful brushing, you would have a bleeding, swollen infected area that became worse with each repeated acid causing injury. This is a good way to visualize dietary and metabolic acids as the brush leading to the inflammatory process that could be going on in your body right now.
Regardless of where the acidic inflammatory process occurs, externally or internally, it is the same. Using Ultrasound I have peered inside thousands upon thousands of arteries. A diseased artery looks as if someone took a brush and scrubbed repeatedly against its wall. Several times a day, every day, the acidic foods we eat create small injuries compounding into more injuries, causing the body to respond continuously and appropriately with increased acid caused inflammation.
While we savor the tantalizing taste of a sweet roll, chocolate or a carbonated drink our body responds alarmingly as if a foreign invader arrived declaring war. ACIDIC foods loaded with sugars and simple carbohydrates, or processed with saturated oils for long shelf life have been the mainstay of the American diet for six decades. These acidic foods have been slowly poisoning everyone.
How does eating a simple sweet roll or a piece a chocolate create a cascade of acid causing inflammation to make you sick?
Imagine spilling acidic sugary syrup on your keyboard and you have a visual of what occurs inside the cell. When we consume simple carbohydrates such as sugar, blood sugar rises rapidly. In response, your pancreas secretes insulin and sodium bicarbonate whose primary purpose is to bind and solidify acids so they do NOT destroy healthy body and blood cells and cause internal bleeding. In addition, the body releases cholesterol to help solidify excess dietary and/or metabolic acids that have NOT been properly eliminated through the four channels of elimination – urination, perspiration, respiration and defecation.
The body solidifies acids to protect healthy tissues, glands and organs from ulceration and then degeneration. After years of an acidic lifestyle and diet solidified acids will build-up on the wall of the arteries and veins leading to atherosclerosis, stroke and heart attack.
What does all this have to do with inflammation? Blood sugar which is a metabolic acid is controlled in a very narrow range. Extra acidic sugar molecules that are not solidified and eliminated through the four channels of elimination will injure the blood vessel wall. This repeated acidic injury to the blood vessel wall causes irritation, inflammation, ulceration and eventual degeneration or heart disease and/or cancer. When you spike your blood sugar levels or acid levels several times a day, every day, with acidic foods or thoughts it is exactly like taking sandpaper to the inside of your delicate blood vessels.
While you may not be able to see it, rest assured, tissue, gland and organ acidosis is present. I have seen it in over 40,000 client/patients spanning over 30 years who all shared one common denominator — dietary and metabolic acid caused inflammation in their veins, arteries, glands, tissues and organs. This is what retained physiological acid looks like in the tissues using full-body thermography to show the acidic red and white hot spots.
Let’s get back to the sweet roll and chocolate. These innocent looking goodies not only contain the acid sugar, they are also fermented and processed in one of many saturated oils. Chips and fries are soaked in soybean oil; processed foods are manufactured with saturated oils for longer shelf life.
If the balance shifts by consuming excessive sugar, animal protein, vinegar, coffee, tea, alcohol, corn, peanuts and saturated oil, the cell membranes will be damaged and the body and blood cells will begin to degenerate causing even more acids leading to greater risk of inflammation and dis-ease.
Today’s mainstream American ACIDIC diet has produced an extreme imbalance in the alkaline design of the body and an increase in dietary and metabolic acids that cause ALL sickness and dis-ease. You read this correctly – ALL sickness and dis-ease is caused by metabolic, dietary, respiratory and/or environmental ADIDS! There are no other causes. Germs and viruses are the symptoms of cellular breakdown and NOT the cause of ANY disease. Simply said, germs do NOT cause dis-ease!
To make matters worse, eating these acidic foods and drinks causes the body to hold on to more fat as a depository for these excess acids that are NOT being properly eliminated through the four channels of elimination. That is why people get fat. The increase in fat is in direct relationship to the increase of acidic foods, drinks and lifestyle choices. The process that began with a sweet roll or a cup of coffee, or a piece of chocolate or a glass of wine turns into a vicious cycle over time that creates heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity and finally, Alzheimer’s disease, as the acid caused inflammatory process continues unabated.
There is no escaping the fact that the more we consume prepared and processed acidic foods, the more we increase the inflammation switch little by little each day. The human body cannot process, nor was it designed to consume, foods packed with sugars, animal flesh, dairy products, vinegar, alcohol, coffee, tea, chocolate, soda pop, mushrooms, peanuts, corn, flour and saturated processed oils.
There is but one answer to quieting acid caused inflammation, and that is returning to foods closer to their natural alkaline state. To build muscle, eat more chlorophyll concentrated alkaline foods.
Choose carbohydrates that are very complex such as colorful fruit and vegetables. Cut out of your diet saturated oils from corn or soybean.
One tablespoon of corn oil contains 7,280 mg of saturated oil; soybean contains 6,940 mg. Instead, use olive oil, avocado oil, hemp oil or fax oil.
Forget the “science” that has been drummed into your head for decades. The science that saturated fat alone causes heart disease is non-existent. The science that saturated fat raises blood cholesterol is also very weak. Since we now know that cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease, the concern about saturated fat having no place on its hydrogen chain to buffer metabolic and dietary acid is real science. It is acid that causes disease and ALL polyunsaturated oils help to buffer excess acids by the carbon chain picking up the hydrogen ion or acid on its unsaturation. In other words, all polyunsaturated fats whether Omega 1, 3, 6 or 9 buffer or neutralize all dietary and/or metabolic acids on their unsaturated carbon.
The cholesterol theory led to the no-fat, low-fat recommendations that in turn created the very acidic foods now causing an epidemic of acid caused inflammation,induration, ulceration and degeneration. Mainstream medicine made a terrible mistake when it advised people to avoid foods high in cholesterol. We now have an epidemic of arterial acidic caused inflammation leading to heart disease and other silent killers.
Government nutrition guidelines recommend a diet high in carbohydrate regardless of the ample evidence of the health risks it promotes. Yet, heart disease and obesity rates have risen in correlation with a reduced intake of dietary fat. The Food Standards Agency states all individuals’ diets should contain “plenty of starchy foods such as rice, bread, pasta and potatoes”. In addition to this, “just a little saturated fat”. This recommendation is a recipe for heart disease and stroke because of its high level of dietary acid.
While science has moved on, nutritional advice lags behind. And in a study published in Open Heart, a group of researchers conclude that national dietary advice on fat consumption issued to millions in the 1970s to reduce the risk of heart disease which suggested that fat should form no more than 30% of daily food intake lacked any solid trial evidence and shouldn’t have been introduced.
While more circumspect, cardiologist Rahul Bahl wrote in a linked editorial:
“There is certainly a strong argument that an over-reliance in public health on saturated fat as the main dietary villain for cardiovascular disease has distracted from the risks posed by other nutrients, such as carbohydrates.”
Fat and High-Carbohydrate Foods
Some fats aren’t good – trans fats, for example, which are mostly man-made – while others, such as monounsaturated fats found in olive oil are seen as having beneficial qualities.
Today, government guidelines recommend that fats should compose no more than 35% of an individual’s daily calorie intake – and that saturated fat, in particular, ought to supply less than 11%.
Fat intake decreased from 36.6% to 33.7% from 1971 to 2006, while the intake of carbohydrates rose from 44.0% to 48.7%. Yet obesity levels have escalated.
There is evidence to also show that carbohydrates can lead to feelings of increased hunger. A recent study in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that eating carbohydrate foods with a high glycemic index (bread, rice, pasta) caused effects on the brain that led to feelings of increased hunger, which could in turn lead to eating more.
Another study in 2013 found high-carb meals could leave you feeling hungrier hours later compared to a low-carb meal with more fibre, protein and fat. The team behind the research attributed this to the plummeting levels of blood sugar that regularly follows high-carb meals.
The Diet-Heart Hypothesis
At the University of Hull they have been also looking at the effects of saturated fats on triglyceride levels – a type of fat (lipid) found in the blood. Using coconut oil because of its high (90%) saturated fat content, we found that when coupled with exercise, it significantly reduced triglyceride levels. A recent Brazilian rat study also found that coconut oil and exercise could lower blood pressure.
So where does our unshakable idea that fat leads to heart disease come from? The diet-heart hypothesis, that low density lipoproteins (LDL) cholesterol is raised in the blood by eating saturated fat, which then leads to clogged arteries and eventual heart disease, is not a credible claim.
This theory linking saturated fat and heart disease has been around since 1955 when Ansel Keys introduced his lipid hypothesis. Despite it being the foundation of dietary recommendations, it has never been proven and we have been advised to avoid certain foods including meat, dairy products and coconuts. And these myths are so deeply embedded in our minds, that recent science advocates have seen how hard it is to challenge established thinking.
Saturated Fat and Cholesterol
When we talk about high-density lipoprotein (HDL) or LDL – often referred to as good and bad cholesterol – we aren’t actually referring to cholesterol itself. These lipoproteins actually carry cholesterol, fat and fat soluble vitamins in the bloodstream. It appears that elevated levels of cholesterol (or more accurately, cholesterol which is transported around the blood by lipioproteins) is correlated with an increase in the risk of heart disease.
However, correlation does not mean causation. Very low cholesterol is linked with an increased risk of death (though not from heart disease). And in the very old, research suggests cholesterol can be protective. So it’s fair to say the relationship between cardiovascular disease and total cholesterol is complex.
Type of cholesterol is important. The “good” (HDL) cholesterol is strongly linked with a reduced risk of heart disease. However, LDL, the “bad” cholesterol, is associated with an increased risk of heart disease. But it turns out that there are in fact subtypes of LDL which make this black and white picture more complicated. The actual size of the LDL particle is significant. Individuals are at a heightened risk of heart disease if they have most small, dense LDL particles, that may more easily lodge in the arteries, as opposed to those who have large LDL particles.
Your blood lipid profile is frequently used as a medical screening tool for abnormalities in lipids (including triglycerides and cholesterol). These blood lipid profile tests can identify approximate risks for cardiovascular disease and specific genetic diseases. Studies have also shown that saturated fats do not harm your blood lipid profile – and can actually improve it. Saturated fats could lower the risk of heart disease by shifting LDL cholesterol from dense small LDL to large LDL.
Numerous short-term feeding trials have shown that an increase in saturated fat consumption leads to a rise in overall LDL. Nevertheless, the result is inconsistent and weak. The methods used in a number of these research studies have been criticised – and plenty of studies support the contrary, that no association exists between total LDL and saturated fat consumption.
Cause and Correlation
If it was true that saturated fat did cause heart disease, then it follows that people who consume more would be at higher risk. But observational studies – again only illustrative of correlation not cause – haven’t shown this. One study looked at a population of 347,747 subjects from a total of 21 studies and concluded that there was “no significant evidence for concluding that dietary saturated fat is associated with an increased risk of coronary heart or cardiovascular disease”. This has also been the conclusion of other reviews.
So What About Randomized Controlled Trials?
One such study divided 12,866 male subjects at a high risk of heart disease into a low-fat or Western diet group. After six years, no difference was found between them. The Women’s Health Imitative, the biggest randomized controlled trial in diet history, comprised of 48,835 postmenopausal women who were also divided into two similar groups and came up with similar findings.
The Cold-Pressed Organic Coconut Oil Connection
If you don’t care for the science, then take an everyday example. Look at the large populations of the Masai in Africa who consume large amounts of saturated fat but have low levels of coronary heart disease. Or the Tokelauans of New Zealand who consume a massive amount of saturated fat through coconuts: more than 60% of their daily calories come from coconuts. These populations have no history of heart disease. And the health benefits of coconut oil are now becoming known more widely.
We are learning so much more about fats and that there is no evidence that saturated fat causes heart disease. Leading nutrition experts have been calling for an amendment to dietary recommendations for more than ten years. But despite these calls and the high-quality evidence assembled throughout the past decade, doctors, governments – and by extension the public – still take extraordinarily little notice. But a decade of research to the contrary would suggest it’s time we moved away from entrenched thinking, towards a more enlightened attitude to saturated fat.
What you can do is choose whole, organic, raw, NON-GMO, alkaline foods your grandmother served and not those your mom turned to as grocery store aisles filled with manufactured acidic foods and drinks. By eliminating acidic causing inflammatory foods and adding essential nutrients from fresh, raw, organic, alkaline unprocessed food, you will reverse years of damage in your arteries and throughout your body from consuming the typical American ACIDIC diet.
To learn more read the following article, THE PH MIRACLE FOR HEART DISEASE – DISCOVER THE TRUTH ABOUT HEART DISEASE, CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE, ATHEROSCLEROSIS, CHOLESTEROL, HYPERTENSION, STROKE AND MORE! –
To learn more about the work, research, findings of publications of Robert O Young CPT, MSc, DSc, PhD and Naturopathic Practitioner go to: http://www.drrobertyoung.com
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Full Back (Upper and Lower)
Stomach, Visceral, (Abdomen), Large and Small Intestines, Kidneys,
Colon, Ovaries and Uterus (for woman), prostate and testicles (for man)
Upper and Lower Extremities
Medical Diagnostic Full Body Ultrasound (Anatomical Scan):
Carotid
Venous Color and Doppler
Lower Arterial Color and Doppler
Aorta Color and Doppler
Thyroid
Breast/Chest
Pancreas
Liver
Gallbladder
Common Bile Duct and Hepatic Ducts
Portal Vein
Kidneys
Spleen
Bladder
OB/Pregnancy (if needed)
Uterus and Ovaries (for women)
Prostate (for men)
Testicles (for men) (if needed)
Medical Diagnostic 3D Full Body Bio-Electro (Functional Scan):
Cardiovascular System
Respiratory System
Digestive System
Immune System
Brain chemistry and Neurotransmitter balance (such as Serotonin, Dopamine and Acetylcholine levels)
Oxygen levels (which may show if the brain or muscles are receiving enough oxygenated blood and the CO2 levels, Hydrogen, Bicarbonates for healthy cell metabolism)
Nervous System
Physiological and Psychiatrical Evaluation
Neuromuscular System
Chiropractic Evaluation
Spine and Muscular Evaluation
Metabolic Function
Hormonal (Endocrine) system (including DHEA, Testosterone (for man),
Thyroid, Insulin, Cortisol, Adrenal Gland Hormone balance, TSH and Thyroid
function)
Ions and Minerals Evaluation (such as Calcium, Magnesium, Potassium, Sodium,
Chloride and more)
The body interstitial pH (will show if there is a acid-alkaline balance)
Andrology screening of the stress and psychological disorders related to the
erectile disorders (ED)
Urinary System (screening for prostate, bladder and kidneys disorders)
Gynecology/Reproductive System (screening for stress and psychological
disorders related to infertility and sterility)
Oncology (follow up, early visualization of effectiveness and the side effects of the
Ultrasound scan is currently considered to be a safe, non-invasive, accurate and cost-effective investigation in the fetus. It has progressively become a valuable obstetric tool and plays an important role in the care of every pregnant woman.
The gestational sac can be visualized as early as four and a half weeks of gestation and the yolk sac at about five weeks. The embryo can be observed and measured by about five and a half weeks. Ultrasound can also very importantly confirm the site of the pregnancy is within the cavity of the uterus. Many structural abnormalities in the fetus can be reliably diagnosed by an ultrasound scan, and these can usually be made before 20 weeks. Doppler ultrasound is presently most widely employed in the detection of fetal cardiac pulsations and pulsations in the various fetal blood vessels.
3/4-D ultrasound can give us visual 3/4 dimensional image of the scan.
The transducer takes a series of images, thin slices, of the subject, and the computer processes these images and presents them as a 3/4 dimensional image. A good 3/4-D image is often very impressive to the parents.
There is no hard and fast rule as to the number of scans a woman should have during her pregnancy. A scan is ordered when an abnormality is suspected. Otherwise a scan is generally booked at about 7 weeks to confirm pregnancy, exclude ectopic or molar pregnancies, confirm cardiac pulsation and measure the crown-rump length for dating.
A second scan is performed at 18 to 20 weeks mainly to look for congenital malformations, when the fetus is large enough for an accurate survey of the fetal anatomy. Multiple pregnancies can be firmly diagnosed and dates and growth can also be assessed. Placental position is also determined. Further scans may be necessary if abnormalities are suspected and can be done at around 32 weeks or later to evaluate fetal size (to estimate the fetal weight) and assess fetal growth or to follow up on possible abnormalities seen at an earlier scan. Placental position is further verified. The most common reason for having more scans in the later part of pregnancy is fetal growth retardation. Doppler scans may also be necessary in that situation.
It has been over 40 years since ultrasound was first used on pregnant women. Unlike X-rays, ionizing irradiation is not present. Current evidence indicates that diagnostic ultrasound is safe for the unborn child.
The pH Miracle Coaching and Live and Dried Blood Cell Microscopy Courses are NOW on-line with Dr. Robert O. Young
All course material will be taught by Dr. Robert O. Young
Cost: On-Line-Interactive pH Miracle Coaching and Microscopy Course is a 14 Week Program. The cost is $595 per-week and includes all books and work manuals. The price does not include the Compound Light Microscope or other testing equipment. Prices for Compound Light Microscope start at $8500. Digital camera and software is extra.
15 Weekly two hour Webinars followed by Questions & Answers
The weekly webinars are interactive, interesting and very enjoyable.
They consist of in-depth information, videos and pictures describing and explaining the material in Dr. Young’s manuals, books and powerpoint presentations.
The microscopy course is interactive with questions & answers and microscopy students are asked to submit their findings for review each week based on the previous weeks subject matter.
The microscopy students are asked to prepare test case studies for submission in the final 3 weeks for Dr. Young’s review to qualify for their pH Miracle coaching certificate.
There are several schools of thought in live blood analysis ranging from nutritional microscopy to pleomorphic diagnostics. Individual signs observed in live blood can be interpreted differently depending on the training of the analyst. For example Codocytes can be an indication of dehydratiiron deficiency, anemia, an acidic terrain, or a sign of a high endobiontic burden of the erythrocytes. You will learn personally from Dr. Robert O. Young and gain the truth from over 30 years of hematology research, 40 thousand clients and from looking at over 1 million blood samples.
The pH Miracle Coaching with the Live & Dry Blood Analysis Training On-line Courses
CURRICULUM
15 Weekly 2 hour interactive webinars followed by questions & answers.
Lesson 1 – Introduction to Live Blood Analysis & Your Video Microscope
This lesson covers an introduction to Live Blood Analysis and an introduction to setting up your microscope, parts of the microscope including; the objectives, oculars and eyepieces, magnification and how this works, lenses, illumination, the workings of the condensers, troubleshooting, oil immersion procedures, cleaning, care & maintenance, video imaging & photomicrography.
This lesson is also an Introduction to the Evaluation of Live Blood Including;
Notes about the technique of using Live Blood Analysis to its full potential and how Live Blood Analysis can be useful.The different schools of thought on Live Blood Analysis.
The advantages and disadvantages of pHase Contrast, Darkfield and Brightfield microscopy and the basic functions of magnification and resolution.
Settings for Phase Constrast, Darkfield & Brightfield microscopy.
The lesson is made up of instructional video tutorials as well as diagrams & references to the manual.
Lesson 2 – Viewing Live Blood & Identifying the Basic Blood Forms in Live Blood Analysis
Lesson 2 teaches guidelines for getting a good blood sample. Taking the blood sample correctly is critically important as this can reflect on the accuracy of the interpretation – it is possible to damage the RBCs and WBCs during collection. Basic guidelines are introduced in this lesson to guide the microscopy student into standardizing their blood taking for both live and dried blood cell analyses – this is crucial for their own safety as well as for optimizing the interpretation of the blood picture.
Lesson 3 – The Theory of Biological Transformation or Pleomorphism & Anomalies in Live Blood
This lesson looks at The Pleomorphic System and the History of Pleomorphism.
Phases of Development of Fungal Culminant Pleomorphic Organisms.
Growth Forms of the microzyma.
Latent Tissue Acidosis – a modern pandemic.
Anomalies in Live Blood: Protein Linkage, Rouleau & Erythrocyte Aggregation.
Lesson 4 – The study of more Anomalies in Red Blood Cells
Poikilocytes, Echinocytes, Single Membrane Protrusion, Acanthocytes, Schistocytes, Keratocytes, Elliptocytes, Spherocytes, Cloud Patterns, Anisocytosis Macrocytes/Microcytes, Target Cells (Codocytes), Ghost Cells, RBC Fermentation, Parasitized Red Blood Cells & Parasitized White Blood Cells. The anomalies are studied via videos and chart references & comparison to other anomalies for clarity.
Lesson 5 – The Study of Anomalies in White Blood Cells & The Immune System
Neutrophil Count: Increased/Decreased, Neutrophil Viability, Hypersegmented Neutrophils, Neutrophilic Macrocytosis, Empty White Blood Cells, Neutrophil Band cells, Cohesion & Metamyelocytes, White Blood Cell with Translucent Membrane, Eosinophil Count: Increased/Decreased, Basophil Count: Increased/Decreased, Lymphocyte Count: Increased/Decreased, Monocyte Count: Increased/Decreased, Thrombocyte Aggregation, Spicules/Fibrin, Thrombosis, Chylomicrons. These anomalies are also studied via videos and chart references & comparison to other anomalies for clarity.
Lesson 6 – Pleomorphic Growth Forms
Ascit, Chondrits, Colloid Thecit, Dioekothecits, Mychits, Protits/Somatids, Pteroharpen, Spermits, Symprotit Phase, Synascit, Systatogeny, Thallus, Thecits, Yeast markers, Rod-Form Bacteria, L-Form Bacteria, Mycoplasma. These anomalies are also studied via videos and chart references & comparison to other anomalies for clarity.
Crystals, Cholesterol Crystals, Uric Acid Crystals, Other Crystals, Protoplast, Parasites Artifacts in Live Blood Samples, Common Causes of Artifacts, Slide Inclusion, Too Much Blood on the Sample, Foreign Fibres & Air Bubbles are covered in week 7 with video examples, pictures & diagrams.
Lesson 8 – An introduction to the Dried Blood Analysis Overview
This lesson will examine in detail Dry Blood Analysis which is also referred to as the Oxidative Stress Test (OST). The lesson includes videos and tutorials on The Coagulation Cascade, DIC (Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation), An Alternative View, The Extracellular Matrix, Dry Blood Charts, Polymerized Protein Puddles, Allergy/Adrenal Pattern, Psychological Stress Pattern, Intestinal Irritation, Degeneration Pattern, Reproductive Organ Pattern, Bowel Pattern, Vital Organ Pattern, Dark Centre, Peripheral Sialic Acid, Heavy Metal Toxicity, Lymphatic Congestion, Lymphatic Toxicity, Thyroid Pattern, Bone Marrow Pattern, White Radial Spokes, Weak Fibrin Network, Blistering. These anomalies will be viewed, compared to charts and other anomalies for identification purposes. The “layers” and “Ring Overview” will also be introduced.
Lesson 9 – Dried Blood Cell Analysis and Polymerised Protein Puddles (PPP)
Lesson 9 looks at the “footprint” Polymerised Protein Puddles (PPP) found in The Myctoxic Oxidative Stress test under a higher magnification for further analysis. The anomalies are studied via pictures and videos and include: Narrow PPPs, Viral Spiking, Steep Cliffs on PPP, Heinz Bodies in PPP, Exploded Cells in PPP, Crystals in PPP, Sialic Acid in PPP, Red Cells in PPP, Necrotic Tissue, Black Bulges, Broken Fibrin in PPP, Spicules Inside PPP, Black Halos on PPPs, Orange/Red Around PPP, Uneven Colour, Curved Fibrin Strand & White Lakes Filling In. All of the anomalies are described and explained in great detail with pictures, charts, diagrams & references to the pH Miracle manual.
Lesson 10 – Understanding the pH Miracle Protocol
Here you will learn the 15 steps for helping your client/patient return to health, energy, vitality and fitness. The pH Miracle Protocol has been found to be highly successful in the self-care to a self-cure for ALL sickness and disease, including heart dis-ease, all cancerous conditions, Type I and Type II Diabetes, MS, Parkinson’s, Lupus, Lyme’s dis-ease, chronic fatigue, obesity, just to name a few.
Lesson 11 – Understanding the Food and Supplements
Here you will learn the foods that heal and the foods that kill or the foods that are alkalizing and the foods that are acidifying. You will also learn the best supplements to help your client/patient open the channels of elimination. Hyper-perfuse the blood and tissues with alkalinity, Build health blood. And finally, restore health to the root system of the body – the core health.
Lessons 12, 13 and 14 – The review of Case Studies Submitted by Students
The last 3 lessons are given over to reviewing test cases submitted by you, the microscopy student as well as some of Dr. Robert O. Young’s own cases. The microscopy student is asked to submit:
1. A brief explanation of your client complaints, symptoms and general health from their health questionnaire as well as any medication they are taking and their general diet and lifestyle.
2. Pictures examples of any live or dried blood anomalies, growth forms, artifacts etc observed in their analysis.
3. How the microscopist relates to their client and their symptoms. Dr. Young likes to see the microscopy student drawing conclusions by comparing what they see in the blood to the clients lifestyle and diet, etc. Dr. Young will be looking for yourability to connect the dots in your analysis of the clients blood.
4. Your conclusions.
5. What changes to diet/lifestyle you would suggest.
6. What changes you would expect to see on a follow–up appointment after the client has been following your suggestions.
These cases are presented with pictures of anomalies on a Power Point Presentation where Dr. Robert O. Young reviews and discusses each of the client cases interactively.
Microscopy students questions and observations are also discussed and answered and the correct solution to each case is sought.
Each microscopy student submits 3 test cases for review and a pH Miracle certificate is awarded on the merit of these test cases and the microscopy students ability to practice Live & Dried Blood Analysis proficiently.
Bonus Lesson 15 – Introduction to Other Non-Invasive and Non-Radioactive Medical Diagnostic Testing which will include thermography testing, full-body ultrasound, 3-D Functionality testing, Interstitial pH and chemistry testing! This lesson will be taught by Dr. Robert O. Young and Dr. Galina Migalko, MD.
To enroll: contact the pH Miracle team at: http://www.phmiraclelife@gmail.com. Please include your name, address, email address and your phone number. You can also call: 760 751 8321 or 760 484 1075.
At Universal Medical Imaging Group and pH Miracle we offer a non-invasive and non-radioactive Full Body Comprehensive Medical Diagnostic Scan, which includes a Full Body Medical Ultrasound (anatomical), Full Body Medical Thermography (physiological), Full Body 3D Bio-Electro (functional) Scan together with a Live and Dried Blood Analysis to identify asymptomatic and often life-threatening dis-eases in their earliest, most preventable and reversible stages. www.universalmedicalimaging.com www.phmiracleliving.com www.billmaher.com
At Universal Medical Imaging Group and pH Miracle we offer a non-invasive and non-radioactive Full Body Comprehensive Medical Diagnostic Scan, which includes a Full Body Medical Ultrasound (anatomical), Full Body Medical Thermography (physiological), Full Body 3D Bio-Electro (functional) Scan together with a Live and Dried Blood Analysis to identify asymptomatic and often life-threatening dis-eases in their earliest, most preventable and reversible stages.
Full Body Comprehensive Medical Diagnostic Scan includes:
Medical Diagnostic Full Body Thermography (Physiological Scan):
Full Cranial, Carotid, Thyroid
Full Breast/Chest Scan and Lymph Node Activity
Full Back (Upper and Lower)
Stomach, Visceral, (Abdomen), Large and Small Intestines, Kidneys, Colon, Ovaries and Uterus (for woman), prostate and testicles (for man)
Upper and Lower Extremities
Medical Diagnostic Full Body Ultrasound (Anatomical Scan):
Carotid
Venous Color and Doppler
Lower Arterial Color and Doppler
Aorta Color and Doppler
Thyroid
Breast/Chest
Pancreas
Liver
Gallbladder
Common Bile Duct and Hepatic Ducts
Portal Vein
Kidneys
Spleen
Bladder
OB/Pregnancy (if needed)
Uterus and Ovaries (for women)
Prostate (for men)
Testicles (for men) (if needed)
Medical Diagnostic 3D Full Body Bio-Electro (Functional Scan):
Cardiovascular System
Respiratory System
Digestive System
Immune System
Brain chemistry and Neurotransmitter balance (such as Serotonin, Dopamine and Acetylcholine levels)
Oxygen levels (which may show if the brain or muscles are receiving enough oxygenated blood and the CO2 levels, Hydrogen, Bicarbonates for healthy cell metabolism)
Nervous System
Physiological and Psychiatrical Evaluation
Neuromuscular System
Chiropractic Evaluation
Spine and Muscular Evaluation
Metabolic Function
Hormonal (Endocrine) system (including DHEA, Testosterone (for man), Thyroid, Insulin, Cortisol, Adrenal Gland Hormone balance, TSH and Thyroid function)
Ions and Minerals Evaluation (such as Calcium, Magnesium, Potassium, Sodium, Chloride and more)
The body interstitial pH (will show if there is a acid-alkaline balance)
Andrology screening of the stress and psychological disorders related to the erectile disorders (ED)
Urinary System (screening for prostate, bladder and kidneys disorders)
Gynecology/Reproductive System (screening for stress and psychological disorders related to infertility and sterility)
Oncology (follow up, early visualization of effectiveness and the side effects of the chemotherapy or any other treatments)
and Extracellular Water, Extra Cellular Oxidative Stress Analysis)
Weight Analysis
Lab Test Recommendations
Therapeutic recommendations
Nutritional recommendations
Herbal Therapy recommendations
Acupuncture and acupressure treatment point recommendations
Homeopathy treatment recommendations
Live and Dried Blood Cell Analysis:
Among the phenomena observed in the live and dried blood are:
The level of activity of the immune system or white blood cells
The condition of the red and white blood cells
Liver, kidney, pancreas, heart, lung, prostate, ovary and breast stress
Detection of the presence of parasites, yeast, fungi and mold
The observation of blood cell features associated with blood sugar imbalance
The observation of blood plasma features associated with malabsorption of fats
The observation of blood cell features associated with protein malabsorption or the ingestion of excessive protein.
The observation of blood cell features associated with nutrient malabsorption and vitamin deficiency
The observation of blood cell features associated with irritation, inflammation, ulceration and degeneration of the connective tissues, glands and organs of the body
The observation of acute and chronic health conditions
The observation of crystalline or solidfication of dietary and/or metabolic acids such as protoplasts, fibrous thallus, uric acid, cholesterol, and mycotoxins
The observation of features associated with gastro-intestinal tract dysfunction, constipation, irritation and degeneration
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To make an appointment for the Full Body Scan please call: (760) 484-1075 or (818) 508-8895
Medical Diagnostic Thermography
Thermography is an adjunctive state-of-the art Medical Diagnostic Infrared Thermal Imaging which can detect physiological abnormalities by measuring temperature changes. An infrared scanning device is used to convert infrared signal emitted from the skin surface into electrical impulses that are seen in color on a monitor. This visual image graphically maps the body temperature and is referred to as a thermogram.
Medical Thermography’s major clinical value is in its high sensitivity to pathology in the vascular, muscular, neural and skeletal systems and as such can contribute to the pathogenesis and diagnosis made by the clinician. It is a life saving procedure that can alert patients and their doctors to physiological changes in the body that may indicate early stages of a cancerous condition that may be developing in the body. Thermography offers the opportunity of earlier detection of a cancerous condition that is not possible through self examination, doctor examination, or standard medical test alone and without pain or radiation.
By performing Thermography years before conventional mammography, a selected patient population at risk can be monitored more carefully, and then by accurately utilize ultrasound as soon as is possible to detect the actual lesion – (once it has grown large enough and dense enough to be seen), can increase the patients treatment options and ultimately improve the outcome. It is in this role that Thermography provides it’s most practical benefit to the general public and to the medical profession. It is an adjunct to the appropriate usage of other diagnostic medical tests and not a competitor.
Thermography is a completely non-invasive, without radiation, painless clinical imaging procedure for detecting and monitoring a number of diseases and physical injuries by showing thermal abnormalities present in the body. It is used as an aid for diagnosis and prognosis, as well as monitoring therapy progress, for conditions and injuries, including:
Back Injuries Arthritis Headache Nerve Damage Unexplained Pain Fibromyalgia RSD (CRPS) Dental and TMJ Artery Inflammation Vascular Disease
Breast Disease Breast Cancer Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Disc Disease Inflammatory Pain Skin Cancer Referred Pain Syndrome Sprain / Strain Stroke Screening Digestive Disorders
Thermography for Breast Cancer Prevention
Early Detection Saves Lives!
Current research has determined that the key to breast cancer survival rests upon its earliest possible detection. If it’s discovered in its earliest stages, 95% cure rates are possible.
Breast self-examination involves checking the breasts to help detect breast problems or changes. Many breast problems are first discovered by women themselves, often by accident. Breast self-examination involves checking the breasts for lumps or changes while standing and lying in different positions and while looking at the breasts in a mirror to note any changes in their appearance. Once a woman knows what her breasts normally look and feel like, any new lump or change in appearance should be evaluated by a doctor. Breast lumps can be noncancerous (benign) or cancerous (malignant).
In its early stages, breast cancer usually has no symptoms. As a tumor develops, you may note the following signs:
A lump in the breast or underarm that persists after the menstrual cycle. This is often the first apparent symptom of breast cancer. Lumps associated with breast cancer are usually painless, although some may cause a noticeable sensation. Lumps are usually visible on a diagnostic medical ultrasound long before they can be visually seen or felt.
Swelling in the armpit.
Redness, pain or tenderness in the breast. Although lumps are usually painless, pain or tenderness can be a sign of breast cancer.
A noticeable flattening or indentation on the breast, which may indicate a tumor that cannot be seen or felt.
Any change in the size, contour, texture, or temperature of the breast. A reddish,
pitted surface like the skin of an orange could be a sign of advanced breast cancer.
A change in the nipple, such as a nipple retraction, dimpling, itching, a burning sensation, or ulceration.
Unusual discharge from the nipple that may be clear, bloody or another color. It’s usually caused by benign conditions but could be due to cancer in some cases.
A marble-like area under the skin.
An area that is distinctly different from any other area on either breast.
If breast symptoms and/or the results of your physical exam suggest breast cancer might be present, more tests will probably be done. These might include different imaging tests. The safest, painless, non-invasive, affordable breast screening tests are a combination of a Medical Diagnostic Ultrasound and Thermography, which may give us about 95% accuracy in detecting breast cancer.
The science of breast Thermography has opened the door to the earliest screening for abnormalities in breast tissue that Western medicine has ever known. Thermography’s role in breast cancer and other breast disorders is to help in early detection and monitoring of abnormal physiology and the establishment of risk factors for the development or existence of cancer. When used with other procedures like medical diagnostic ultrasound, the best possible evaluation of breast health is made.
Breast Thermography is a physiological, non-invasive screening procedure that detects and records infrared heat emissions from the breast, which can aid in the early detection of abnormal changes in breast tissue.
Breast Thermography offers women information that no other procedure can provide. The procedure is based on the principle that chemical and blood vessel activity in both pre-cancerous tissue and the area surrounding a developing breast cancer is almost always higher than in the normal breast.
Since pre-cancerous and cancerous masses are highly metabolic tissues, they need an abundant supply of nutrients to maintain their growth. The cells release substances that stimulate the formation of new blood vessels (neoangiogenesis). This process results in an increase in surface temperatures of the breast.
The most promising aspect of medical diagnostic Thermography is its ability to spot abnormalities years before the tumor is seen on any anatomical test. Since thermal imaging detects changes at the cellular level, this test can detect activity 8 to 10 years before any other anatomical test. This makes it unique in that it affords us the opportunity to view changes before the actual formation of the tumor.
Studies have shown that by the time a tumor has grown to sufficient size to be detectable by physical examination or mammography, it has in fact been growing for about seven years achieving more than 25 doublings of the malignant cell colony. At 90 days there are two cells, at one year there are 16 cells, and at five years there are 1,048,576 cells–an amount that is still undetectable by a mammogram. Thermography has the ability to provide women with future risk assessment. If discovered, certain thermographic risk markers can warn a woman that she needs to work closely with her doctor with regular checkups to monitor her breast health.
If Breast Thermography (test of physiology) combined with Breast Ultrasound (test of anatomy) can help to discover abnormality and also breast cancer in its earliest stage. These safe diagnostic tests can be done on early bases for a regular check up, or more often if the problem was detected, to monitor a treatment progress.
Please remember — early detection, which includes self examination and safe, painless, non-invasive medical diagnostic Ultrasound and Thermography screenings with NO radiation Saves Lives!
Medical Diagnostic Ultrasound – “The Stethoscope of the future”
Medical Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging also called ultrasound scanning or Sonography is a method of obtaining images from inside the human body through the use of high-frequency sound waves. The reflected sound wave echoes are recorded and displayed as a real-time visual image. No radiation (x-ray) is involved in ultrasound imaging.
Clinicians have often referred to ultrasound technology as the “stethoscope of the future,” predicting that as the equipment shrinks in size, it will one day be as common at the bedside as that trusty tool around every physician’s neck.
Whether it’s to get a first glimpse of a developing baby in the womb, to determine the risk of heart attack or to visualize thyroid mass, liver problems, uterine fibroids, prostate abnormalities, gallstone, kidney stones, doctors use ultrasound widely in women and men, children and seniors to gain advanced insights into the inner workings of the body. In fact, ultrasound is the most utilized form of diagnostic imaging available today.
Despite today’s sophisticated, high-tech systems, ultrasound remains a science built upon the simple sound wave. By beaming high-frequency sound waves into the body, physicians can translate the “echoes” that bounce off body tissues and organs into “sound you can see,” colorful, visual images that provide valuable medical information. Breast pathology, arterial blockages, abnormalities in the abdomen or reproductive system, and more – all exhibit telltale signs that ultrasound can help to detect.
Safe, affordable and non-invasive, ultrasound is also portable. Very sick or fragile patients, for example, who might not be able to travel to a radiology lab without risking
further injury, can essentially have the lab wheeled to them. That’s an important advantage when you need to conduct an exam on a grandmother who is bedridden or an incubator-bound premature baby. For half a century now, ultrasound has been there to help families and their doctors determine what’s wrong-or not-with the body and determine the best, most effective means possible to get and stay.
Remember you have a choice to make; to prevent disease instead of waiting until you have a serious health challenge. It is easier to prevent disease than it is to treat disease. For an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure.
Ultrasound vs. Mammogram
Detection of breast cancer at very early stage is necessary to get proper treatments. It has been observed that ultrasound has better records than that of mammography for detecting breast cancer. Ultrasound is very helpful in detecting small breast cancers that had not spread to the lymph nodes. It’s always good for detecting a cancerous condition in its early stages when the chances of successful treatment are possible.
Breast Ultrasound is an anatomical non-invasive, painless screening test without ionized radiation. Ultrasound uses sound waves to outline a part of the body. For this test, a small instrument called a transducer is placed on the skin (which is often first lubricated with ultrasound gel) and emits sound waves off body tissues. The echoes are converted by a computer into an image that is displayed on a computer screen. Ultrasound imaging is “real-time,” meaning that it can show exactly what’s happening in the breast at that moment, help to distinguish between cysts (fluid-filled sacs) and solid masses, detect increased vascularity around or within the mass, see the shape, exact size and location of the mass, cyst, calcification or dilated mammary ducts.
Breast ultrasound is frequently used to evaluate breast abnormalities. Ultrasound allows significant freedom in obtaining images of the breast from almost any orientation. Ultrasound is excellent at imaging cysts: round, fluid-filled, pockets inside the breast. Additionally, ultrasound can often quickly determine if a suspicious area is in fact a cyst or an increased density of solid tissue (dense mass) which may require additional evaluation to determine if it is malignant (cancerous).
If breast ultrasound is a better test for detection of abnormalities, WHY do doctors still ask patients to get a yearly mammogram instead of an ultrasound?
Is mammography an effective tool for detecting tumors? In a Swedish study of 60,000 women, 70 percent of the mammographically detected tumors weren’t tumors at all. These “false positives” aren’t just financial and emotional strains, they may also lead to many unnecessary and invasive biopsies. In fact, 70 to 80 percent of all positive mammograms do not, upon biopsy, show any presence of cancer.
At the same time, mammograms also have a high rate of missed tumors, or “false negatives. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) puts the false negative rate even higher at 40 percent among women ages 40-49. National Institutes of Health spokespeople also admit that mammograms miss 10 percent of malignant tumors in women over 50. Researchers have found that breast tissue is denser among younger women, making it difficult to detect tumors. For this reason, false negatives are twice as likely to occur in premenopausal mammograms.
Many critics of mammography cite the hazardous health effects of radiation. A mammogram is an X-ray picture of the breast that can reveal tumor growths otherwise undetectable in a physical exam. Like all x-rays, mammograms use doses of ionizing radiation to create the image.
Despite better technology and decreased doses of radiation, scientists still claim mammography is a substantial risk. About 75 percent of breast cancer could be prevented by avoiding or minimizing exposure to the ionizing radiation. This includes mammography, x-rays and other medical and dental sources.
Since mammographic screening was introduced, the incidence of a form of breast cancer called ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) has increased by 328 percent. Two hundred percent of this increase is allegedly due to mammography. In addition to harmful radiation, mammography may also help spread existing cancer cells due to the considerable pressure placed on the woman’s breast during the procedure. According to some health practitioners, this compression could cause existing cancer cells to metastasize from the breast tissue.
Cancer research has also found a gene, called oncogene AC that is extremely sensitive to even small doses of radiation. A significant percentage of women in the United States have this gene, which could increase their risk of mammography-induced cancer. They estimate that 10,000 A-T carriers will die of breast cancer this year due to mammography.
An analysis conducted by the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA) reveals that, overall, ultrasounds have a 95.7 percent sensitivity rate in detecting malignant tumor cells while mammograms are only 60.9 percent sensitive, by comparison. Among 1,208 cases evaluated, ultrasounds also successfully detected about 57 percent more harmful breast cancers compared to mammograms.
Earlier study finds ultrasounds far more effective than mammograms
A New Zealand study published in the American Journal of Surgery back in 2004 clearly illustrates this point, having found that ultrasound is “significantly better than mammography for detecting invasive breast cancer,” having demonstrated a 92 percent success rate. Combining both mammography and ultrasound, on the other hand, only increased breast cancer detection by nine percent, which may represent statistical insignificance.
3D Medical Diagnostic Bio-Electro Scan
The unique feature of the 3D Full Body Bio-Electro Functional Scan is that it is the only procedure known to actually measure, function and risk factors of the body systems. The 3D Full Body Scan can detect many parameters of the human body, with an amazing 89% accuracy.
3D Full Body Bio-Electro Functional Scan biosensor is a new diagnostic aid to measure bio-impedance of interstitial fluids in the body. This technology was originally invented by German and Russian scientists, and was used in the health monitoring of the astronauts prior, during and after space travel. Subsequently a team of European scientists developed the technology over a 10 year period with trials in hospitals and clinics all over the world for use by mainstream healthcare practitioners in all healthcare fields. Now it’s FDA approved in USA.
How is the Full Body Health Assessment performed?
The Body Scanning process is painless, non-invasive and has no known side effects. It requires the client, who is fully clothed and seated comfortably at a desk to put their hands & bare feet on electrode plates, while 2 electrodes are placed on their forehead. The client does nothing during the scan other than stay quiet and still, watching the body being scanned in real time, in 3D modeling on the screen in front of them.
Advantages for Having the Full Body Bio-Electro Scan
The Full Body Bio-Electro scan is a comprehensive, accurate, painless, non-invasive, with NO radiation test for finding out what is really going on inside the body. This test gives correct, detailed information concerning the health of body’s systems. This complex form of bio-impedance testing can often reveal cancerous patterns before symptoms are manifest. It also monitors the before & after treatment comparisons.
Body system functions assessed by the Full Body Bio-Electro Scan include:
The assessment also analyzes:
· Body Composition including Fat Mass, Lean Mass, Muscular Mass, Intracellular Water, Extra Cellular Oxidative Stress Analysis – shows if patient may need antioxidants and which ones
· Hormonal Balance including DHEA, Testosterone (for men), Thyroid, Insulin, Cortisol, Adrenal Gland Hormone balance, TSH and Thyroid function that may reveal why patients can’t lose weight and how a stressful life style is affecting them. Why they feel tired, run down and why their immune system is comprised
· Male prostate function and libido (sex drive) levels
· Ions and Minerals such as Calcium, Magnesium, Potassium, Sodium, Chloride which
may show why someone has muscle aches, bone strength and much more.
· Brain chemistry and Neurotransmitter balance such as Serotonin, Dopamine and
Acetylcholine levels to show why patient may be feeling moody, anxious, angry or feeling sad or emotionally down. It may also help to reveal why he/she can’t sleep or why their memory or concentration is not too good
· Biochemistry Balance such as Glucose levels and any insulin resistance that may show why the energy levels may be low and it may show why their can’t lose weight or why
· Cardiovascular System · Respiratory System · Digestive System · Immune System
· Brain Function · Nervous System · Hormonal (Endocrine) System · Neuromuscular System · Urinary System · Reproductive System · Metabolic Function
· The body pH will show if there is an acid-alkaline balance and it’s maybe contributing to the health problems, Oxygen levels which may show if the brain or muscles are receiving enough oxygenated blood and the CO2 levels, Hydrogen, Bicarbonates for healthy cell metabolism, The Total Body Water and Weight Analysis and much more!
Conclusions
In clinical applications, the system provides:
Assistance at the consultation
The patient is not always capable of objectively describing his or her symptoms. Often they exaggerate or under-estimate symptoms or choose not to speak of them.
In addition, some diseases are in the state of development or established present no symptoms.
The 3D Bio-Electro system allows the visualization of parameters of tissues and blood helps guide the consultation and eventually helps to better understand the patient’s psychological factors and, through a statistical analysis of the risk involved, to prescribe certain targeted supplementary examinations.
Aid to therapeutic decision making
The modules proposed by the program such as nutrition, micro nutrition, herbal therapy, homeopathy, auricular acupuncture and somatic acupuncture come from analytic software making use of the totality of parameters of therapeutic decisions; the calculations performed
by the computer are 1000 times quicker than the human brain (the computer can perform 50,000 operations each second). Nowadays practitioners who practice functional medicine are in the same position as were accountants before the adding machine. The adding machine has not done away with the accountant; it simply allows the accountant to perform his profession differently.
Therapeutic follow-up
Through visualization of a tissue’s parameters, the 3D Bio-Electro Scan is positioned as the first step to visualization for all treatments. Actually, whether the treatment is allopathic or functional (alternative), nutritional or micro nutritional, the results are quickly seen… firstly at the level of cellular activity of the targeted organ and therefore at the tissue level, much later at the blood level and even later at the structural level (imagery).
In addition, this therapeutic follow-up is painless, non-invasive and with NO radiation. With a therapeutic follow-up the practitioner can as quickly as possible, visualize if a treatment is correct for the patient… whether it is effective, adapted and if there are side effects. This aspect is important for the practitioner who can at all times control and master the treatment (efficacy, side effects, dosage) and equally for the patient who can visualize their good prescription and the control of his or her treatment.
Patient compliance with their treatment
The ability to visualize by 3D Full Body Bio-Electro Scan modeling of organic problems in connection with certain symptoms reassures the patient. In effect, some pains or symptoms which have no explanation at the level of conventional exams can leave the patient feeling hopeless and/or helpless, since practitioners may propose no treatment, or treatments that are often difficult to understand (functional or alternative medicine).By visualizing an improvement of values by 3D Full Body Bi0-Electro modeling, the patient can better accept the treatment.
Likewise, a patient who presents with a pathology and for whom the practitioner prescribes an allopathic treatment of long duration needs reassurance of its efficacy, its correct dosage and eventually that it does not cause side effects that are more dangerous than the illness for which he or she is being treated.
After 7 years of utilization in Europe and in Asia, regularly, The 3D Full Body Bio- Electro Scan system finds new clinical applications. It is currently used by all the medical specialties.
General medicine
Complementary with the conventional check up examination Screening and regulation of targeted supplementary examination
Therapeutic Follow up of the drugs
Nutritional advice (nutritional program) and visualization of the effects
Chiropractics
Complementary with the conventional osseous examination (Spine modeling) Muscular excitability visualization
Lactic acid
Pains visualization in the tissue (ischemia, vasoconstriction)
Follow up immediately after the treatment with the functions FCM and follow up
Pediatricians
ADHD children
Therapeutic Follow up of the drugs
Endocrinologist
Screening of hypothyroidism and diabetes
Therapeutic Follow up of the hormonal thyroid treatment and adjustment of the doses Obesity, diabetes (Body composition)
Cardiologist
Complementary with screening of cardiovascular disorders with the conventional methods
(Heart modeling)
Therapeutic follow up of the cardiovascular treatment and adjustment of the doses
Psychology and psychiatry
Depression unipolar and bipolar marker (Brain modeling and neurotransmitters) Therapeutic follow up of the treatment and adjustment of the doses
Gastroenterology
Complementary with the conventional methods for screening of digestive disorders
(Digestive system modeling)
Therapeutic follow up of the treatment and adjustment of the doses (Digestive system modeling)
Nutritional advice (nutritional program) and visualization of the effects
Urology
Screening of prostate, bladder and renal disorders (modeling) Follow-up of the treatment and adjustment of the doses (modeling)
Andrology
Screening of the stress and psychological disorders related to the erectile disorders (ED) (brain modeling, neurotransmitters)
Follow-up of the treatment of the ED and treatment causing ED, adjustment of the doses
Gynecology
Screening of the stress and psychological disorders related to the anguish of infertility and sterility (brain modeling, neurotransmitters)
Follow up of the infertility and sterility treatment (modeling)
Follow up of contraceptive pills (side effects) (modeling, biochemical values, body composition)
Oncology
Follow up, early visualization of effectiveness and the effects or side effects of chemotherapy
Laboratory: blood tests
Complementary information in the biochemical values Therapies
Visualization of the therapies and methods (modeling)
Compliance of the client by visualization (modeling)
Understanding of use of various employed methods and indications of these methods (modeling)
Auricular and somatic Acupuncture
Help in the research of the points (Electroauriculogram) Visualization of the result (Functional control measurement) Compliance of the patient (modeling)
Nutrition
Body composition
Nutritional and micro nutritional program Visualization of the effects of the nutrition (modeling) Homeopathy
Help in the research of products (help in homeopathy)
Visualization of the therapies and methods (Functional control measurement) Compliance of the client by visualization (modeling)
Understanding of use of the products and implications in physiological tissue and microcirculation parameters (modeling)
Sports Medicine
Body composition
Clinical test of effort (Sport measurement control)
Functional check up in complementary with the conventional method
Pharmaceutical laboratory
Test of the products by the early visualization of the Treatment (modeling)
Pain treatment
Visualization of the pain and follow up of the effect of different therapy in order to reducing it (modeling)
Live and Dried Blood Analysis
Your Blood is the Perfect Reflection of your Health
A live and dried blood analysis is used for detection and monitoring of dietary and metabolic dysfunction in the prevention of ALL human and animal sickness and disease.
The live blood phase contrast microscopy assessment and the dried blood brightfield mycotoxic oxidative stress assessment are two unique blood tests that are used as pre- screening tests combined with Diagnostic Medical Ultrasound, Thermography and Bio- electro Scan to monitor dietary and metabolic dysfunction—thereby taking the guesswork out of diet determination and the selection of an appropriate natural hygiene health and fitness protocol.
What are the benefits?
There are many benefits to having your live and dried blood analyzed. You can see how generally healthy you are, PH imbalances, indications of levels of toxicity, nutrient deficiency, free radical stress, the quality of your diet, how well any supplements may be working for you and how well your systems are working to detoxify your body.
Most importantly, for many people they can see for themselves the dynamic activity going on inside their body for the first time. Many people begin to understand the impact of their diet and lifestyle on their body and begin to grasp the need to commit to taking care of their health.
How does it work?
Live blood analysis allows you to view the red and white blood cells in the blood, the platelets and the blood plasma. Imbalances seen in the blood will affect organs and tissues leading to malfunction and eventually illness. If our red blood cells are not perfectly shaped, with a proper structure, flexibility and fluidity their ability to travel around the body and do their job is severely compromised. This leads to tissue levels of oxygen and nutrients falling, which translates to low energy, fatigue and a general sense of feeling unwell as well as more serious problems. Similarly, dried blood analysis can show levels of oxidative stress and toxicity in the body.
Based upon the observations a practitioner can recommend specific protocols to cleanse and rejuvenate your blood. This may include herbs, natural supplements and detoxification protocols as well as simple lifestyle and dietary suggestions. Follow up sessions are recommended so you can see the difference.
As ultrasound technology has advanced, it has become an increasingly valuable tool for diagnosing and treating many types of injuries and medical conditions. On Oct. 18, hundreds of medical students will come to Stanford to learn how to use it.
Laleh Gharahbaghian, who directs the ultrasound program in the emergency department, is seeing more community physicians using ultrasound.
Norbert von der Groeben
In the public eye, ultrasound technology is probably best embodied by the big bedside machines that enable parents to catch a revelatory glimpse of their unborn babies.
Since the 1970s, however, ultrasound has become, quietly and steadily, the Swiss Army knife of health care, with an ever-expanding repertoire of functions, based on the ability of sound waves to travel through the body and bounce back when they hit something. Now the technology has been developed into a high-resolution, often pocket-sized aid for the diagnosis and treatment of many types of injuries and medical conditions.
Ultrasound’s trajectory has been mission creep of the best possible sort.
“You name the condition, and people are trying to diagnose or treat it with ultrasound,” said Pejman Ghanouni, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of radiology at the School of Medicine who employs MRI-guided, high-intensity-focused ultrasound to treat uterine fibroids. One of the main selling points of ultrasound for medical imaging and treatment is its lack of cancer-causing radiation.
Stanford has become a center of diagnostic ultrasound research, education and training. On Oct. 18, the school will host ULTRAfest, a full day of free ultrasound instruction open to any medical student in the country. Experienced clinicians from several medical specialties will serve as teachers. Last year, more than 300 medical students from the western United States participated in the event.
The School of Medicine already has incorporated ultrasound into its anatomy training for first-year students and in its patient-doctor courses for pre-clinical students. The school will soon have a complete, four-year ultrasound curriculum, which will enable students to graduate with ultrasound competency.
A laptop ultrasound scanner.
Norbert von der Groeben
The primary goal of ULTRAfest, co-chaired by Laleh Gharahbaghian, MD, clinical associate professor of emergency medicine and director of Stanford Hospital’s emergency department ultrasound program, is to teach how ultrasound can enhance knowledge of anatomy, physiology and pathology — and, more importantly, how it can improve patient care in ways that Gharahbaghian has seen grow rapidly in the 14 years since she graduated from medical school.
“We use it for everything from head to toe and skin and organs,” she said. “It’s become an essential tool at the bedside we apply to immediately rule out — or rule in — medical conditions.”
Use in emergency medicine
Especially useful in emergency care, she said, is ultrasound’s ability “to help us find out what’s going on with a patient and to treat them appropriately with greater speed and accuracy.”
She said, “We might have a patient, for instance, who is unconscious, incoherent or not speaking a language we know, and we have no idea why the heart rate is up and the blood pressure down.”
Seeing beyond the barrier of consciousness or language is another ultrasound capability, Gharahbaghian said. “Even if a patient’s eyes are swollen shut, you can use ultrasound to quickly detect injury — to see a ruptured eye orbit or to gauge function, like pupillary activity.”
Gharahbaghian first saw this capability when the Stanford Emergency Medicine Program for Emergency Response team took along laptop-based ultrasound devices to care for people injured in the 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti. In the hardest hit areas, the earthquake destroyed most of the standing medical facilities. “In that disaster, when there was no power, when hospitals were completely collapsed and resources were limited, the ultrasound was the only radiological device the team had,” she said.
Last year, Stanford’s emergency department became the treatment center for 55 of the 200 people injured in the July 2013 crash at San Francisco International Airport of an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777. Many passengers spoke little English, and the nature of their injuries was not always immediately apparent. Seatbelts did save lives, but the violent side-to-side movement of the aircraft produced spine and rib fractures, often accompanied by seatbelt-related internal injuries caused by the unusual combination of movements in the crash. Several passengers, initially thought be only mildly injured when examined at the scene, were found, during their initial assessment with ultrasound at Stanford, to have serious internal injuries that needed quick attention.
Students and teachers at last year’s ULTRAfest.
‘I just fell in love with the technology’
Almost five years ago, a few weeks before William White started his first year of medical school at Stanford, he took a class in ultrasound. “I just fell in love with the technology,” he said, “picking up a probe and looking into the body in real time.” For the next three years, still enamored with ultrasound, White continued as a volunteer assistant for the class. Now he hopes to do a residency in emergency medicine. He is also one of the organizers of ULTRAfest, an event he believes will help ultrasound overcome the unfamiliarity many medical students have with its full range of capabilities. “This current generation is starting to get very familiar with it,” he said. “I think in the future there will be a broader acceptance — and it will be part of the standard for primary care.”
That may still take some time: Fellowships that focus on ultrasound use are now only available through emergency medicine training programs, found mostly at academic medical centers like Stanford Medicine, where both basic science and clinical research is part of ultrasound’s reimagining. It also helps to have an abundance of devices: Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford has 72, still used for prenatal evaluations, but also a key part of physicians’ ability to see and treat complex cardiovascular issues.
Stanford Hospital’s 262 ultrasound devices serve an important role in emergency care, surgical treatments and postoperative care in the ICU. Ultrasound is also essential in other areas, including reproductive endocrinology and infertility, respiratory therapy, orthopaedics, anesthesia, urology, outpatient surgery, mammography, endoscopy, head and neck surgery, diagnostic radiology and cardiovascular care. Stanford’s emergency department has eight laptop-based and three handheld ultrasound devices. Ultrasound is also standard equipment at the Stanford Cancer Center, the Cath-Angio Lab and several nursing units. The Life Flight helicopter also carries ultrasound devices.
The long list of other invasive procedures made less complicated by ultrasound includes endotracheal intubation, fine needle aspiration, interventional radiology procedures, pedicle screw insertion in scoliosis surgery, prostate cancer biopsies and emergency procedures like central venous access. Ultrasound also is a much gentler and quicker screening tool for spotting artery-narrowing plaque than is coronary angiography, and for pre-operative looks at arterial issues before neck surgery.
Less costly
Ultrasound also is relatively inexpensive: Even a refurbished CT scanner with a minimum view capacity is priced at $65,000. New ones start at $90,000. Handheld ultrasounds can cost as little as $7,000; laptop-based devices range from $25,000 to $40,000.
More recently, the use of ultrasound has crossed into another part of the anatomy long thought to be immune to its imaging prowess: the lungs. In the air-filled environment of the lungs, the sound waves that are the basis of ultrasound have nothing to ping against. However, in lungs where disease has produced fluids, ultrasound has proven more accurate than a chest X-ray and faster than CT scan to diagnose common lung conditions, including pulmonary edema, pneumonia and pleural effusions.
This year’s full, free day of ultrasound instruction is set for Oct. 18.
Teresa Roman-Micek
Ultrasound devices at Stanford are so highly desired that “it’s not easy to keep spares,” said Harvey Fortune, assistant director of Stanford Health Care’s clinical technology group.
Ghanouni and other Stanford physician-scientists are pushing medical ultrasound to the next level. He and his colleagues, Jaimie Henderson, MD, professor of neurosurgery, and Casey Halpern, MD, assistant professor of neurosurgery, are using high-intensity-focused ultrasound, guided by MRI, to treat essential tremor, a nervous system disorder marked by uncontrollable shaking. The ultrasound heats and destroys specific brain tissue: No anesthesia, no scalp incisions, no burr holes through the skull. Another team of Stanford physicians, which includes radiologists, neurosurgeons, oncologists and physicists, plans soon to conduct an investigatory test of this technology, available only at a handful of medical centers worldwide, to allow drugs to cross the blood-brain barrier for more targeted treatment of brain tumors.
Ultrasound is an essential part of the work of Adam de la Zerda, PhD, an assistant professor of structural biology. In collaboration with Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD, professor and chair of radiology, de la Zerda recently developed and patented a technology called photoacoustic imaging that transforms light waves into ultrasound waves. Its goal is to detect cancer with a resolution that matches CT scanning and MRI.
Quick answers for patients
Viveta Lobo, MD, who completed a fellowship in ultrasound in Stanford’s emergency department and served as an ULTRAfest co-chair, said studies have shown patients feel that doctors using bedside ultrasound spend more time at patients’ bedsides.
Studies also have shown that hospitalized patients who underwent ultrasound scanning were discharged more quickly.
Ultrasound can also provide quick answers, which patients appreciate. “I can tell someone right away that there are no gallstones, or that a woman’s baby is OK,” Lobo said. Even more crucial, she said, “we can see and treat quickly that life-threatening ectopic pregnancy or large pulmonary embolism.”
But ultrasound takes some training to master, Lobo added. “You have to know how to get good images — how to move it around obstacles, like the ribs, to see what you need to see. You have to know how to adjust the settings, just as you do in photography. Then you have to know how to interpret what you’ve seen.”
Gharahbaghian is seeing more and more community physicians, as well as those in outpatient clinics, who are using ultrasound. She hopes that trend continues. “The more we spread the news of how ultrasound helps patients in all clinical settings, the better,” she said.
BySARA WYKES
Sara Wykes is a writer for the Stanford Hospital & Clinics communications office. Email her at swykes@stanfordmed.org.
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