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By Doug Kaufmann

Email was relatively new in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s and few of us old timers knew how to use it anyway. I was working at that time for Dallas Dermatologist, David Weakley, M.D. Let me start at the end this time and work toward the beginning of this newsletter.



I was finally able to receive emails. Helen’s email simply stated:



Doug, that pink pill (I think it was called diflucan) was the best anti-depressant I’ve ever taken in my 13 years of suffering from depression. May I get more of them? Helen



WELCOME TO KNOW THIS…..THE NEWSLETTER THAT LITERALLY CHANGES EVERYTHING!

Dr. Weakley was a brilliant man. I say “was” because he passed away many years ago. He graduated from Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and moved to Dallas, Texas to begin his dermatology practice. He was board certified in Dermatology and attracted some of this nation's best dermatologists to work with him. He was on the scientific board of a national Psoriasis foundation in N. California, and was also a respected contributor to “Cutis” a widely marketed professional dermatology journal. What he wasn’t, however, is more applicable to this newsletter.



In 1986, he wasn’t a believer that fungus could cause skin disorders. As a matter of fact, he vehemently denied such a link and felt comfortable telling me where he stood on the issue. During our phone conversations, he’d tell me that he worked with some of the brightest dermatology minds and medical researchers in the world and that “if” fungus caused psoriasis, they would surely already know it. Welcome to the past 40-years of my career! I lived in Los Angeles then and, during one such conversation, he invited me to come to Dallas and see how badly these Psoriasis patients suffer before being so flippant as to insinuate that fungus could cause their disease. Four days later, I was in Dallas.



There is an old saying that many live their lives by; when the student is ready, the teacher appears. I was willing to travel knowing full well that one day, hopefully sooner than later, Dr. Weakley would become the student and I the teacher. Egos, I felt, prevented many of our brightest from knowing the cause. After meeting me and feeling more comfortable with the relationship, he invited me to see some of his most difficult skin diseased patients. I remember thinking, “These are his worst? California must have more mold than Texas!" David knew that there was nothing more he could do for these severe Psoriasis patients and they actually seemed to be happy to meet me, hoping that I might offer something different that might finally help them. I returned to Dallas often to follow up with these great new friends.



Neither of us was aware of what those early months together would bring towards a better understand of skin disorders. Sometimes at quitting time (5PM), he would call me into his office and review patient charts in absolute amazement. He’d read my notes for a few minutes and then he’d keep saying, “Amazing!” “Why don’t we know this, Doug?” I’d repeat, “You do now and we must help as many people as we can.”



One day, he offered me a 5-year contract to relocate to Dallas, Texas and assist him in helping his toughest patients. Like other physicians before, Dr. Weakley eventually became comfortable allowing me to give input in his psoriasis patients’ treatment. He trusted me enough to routinely prescribe a systemic antifungal drug (usually Diflucan) and a gut antifungal drug (Nystatin) while I placed his patients on what is now called the “Phase One Diet.” Be it acne, psoriasis, perioral dermatitis (seriously! It’s called muzzle rash!), or eczema, in many cases, we had finally discovered “the cause” of their suffering. I asked the patients to return for a visit with Dr. Weakley and me in 2 weeks after beginning this new therapeutic approach. Having seen favorable responses like these hundreds of times already, I knew that when he saw more proof of the fungal link to skin diseases, and with his great contacts, soon we would be able to publish these findings in respected medical journals and forever close the door on “etiology unknown” dermatology. Yes, I was a dreamer in the 1980’s! In only 14 days, many came back grinning from ear to ear with the amazing results that they had already seen. I know that long time KNOW THIS readers and fungus aficionados alike will fully comprehend this next sentence. In reality by helping so many, we had placed the management of their serious skin diseases directly back in their hands. This, my friends, is why “etiology unknown” sells so well in the halls of Science today. If we can literally control our own symptoms before they become diseases, or even control our own diseases….would we finally be able to reduce our personal healthcare insurance policies and even our doctor visits? You’re beginning to see the big picture of why I contend that medicine works so hard to maintain the status quo.



One afternoon, Dr. Weakley did contact one of the major dermatology journals in my presence and spoke to the editor who was an obvious friend of his. He became outraged after that call when he learned that the journal refused to publish any article in which fungus was claimed to be “the cause” of skin disorders. Of course, this was not news to me, but it was to him. It upset him so much that he questioned his work of 40 years by calling their withholding of factual information “a blatant cover-up!” Having another individual actually stand in my shoes was a remarkable experience, especially a prominent physician who was finally “getting it!” That incident, a dissolving partnership and an unsuccessful try at introducing surgery into his practice all cost him a great deal of worry and stress. In a short time, Dr. Weakley passed away, but not before Helen figured out what caused her depression. He was kind enough to fill the prescription for her.



The term “skin deep” is one that is used far too often and abused almost every time. Within the context of this article, keep in mind that, in almost every case, if not every case, what I learned from my years working with Dr. Weakley was the shear magnitude of illness and the impact it has on patients. I learned that it wasn’t rare to have his patients request quick service when checking in at his front office. They were there for a 9:30 appointment, had a 10:00 meeting with their psychiatrist in the same building and then an 11:00 appointment with their chiropractor, who was across town.



Toward the end, Dr. Weakley would ask the patients why they were so hurried in his office. After explaining their hectic schedule filled with doctors' appointments, he’d be fascinated as they taught him that our program had finally relieved not only the skin problems, but also their Depression and pain. No longer were they relegated to 3 or 4 doctor visits on their day off. They got it! They know that the very reason all of their complaints were resolving was because we were successfully killing fungus as part of their treatment in ridding their dermatologic problems! Who would have thought that Depression was linked to fungus, and yet fungal growth in the brain is very well documented phenomenon. Clinicians simply know nothing about it!



At this late point in his career, Dr. Weakley simply could not believe what his eyes were seeing and his ears were hearing. Even though he knew that Diflucan only killed fungus, he had finally seen enough that he was certain that Helen’s Depression had, indeed, responded favorably to a simple antifungal pill. He renewed her prescription and she was very thankful, for as long as she took that pink pill, she was not depressed for a few days at a time. Of course, today we know that compliance to an eating program based on continual starving of fungus, might have totally weaned her off of the Diflucan.



As you ponder my many years of trial and tribulations or laugh at the real way the phase one diet was “invented,” keep in mind that there were many guardian angels along the way. I remember the last time I saw Dr. Weakley. He was fragile and very weak. He was still angry about his failed attempts at introducing surgery into his practice and his partnership problems. But he was also one of my guardian angels. He fought me initially, as most do, but he was willing to take a chance because he truly loved his patients and, in doing so, he helped many more than other dermatologists. Even if it meant spending a few weeks with me while disproving my methods as analogous to snake oil, he was willing to do it for his patients, whom he always told me had suffered enough. Had I failed, my guess is that any one of his respected medical journals would have jumped at publishing such quackery! In the end, he did help hundreds of his patients and, by doing so, he was able to pass away knowing that he had finally discovered a piece of the clinical puzzle that few brilliant men ever do.



Today, I say FUPO! Please always think Fungus Until Proven Otherwise when ill suffering from health problems. Find a physician who cares about his patients' welfare and teach him as I did many years ago.

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Doug Kauffman appears to have been on the leading edge of fungal related skin disorders. In the days that he speaks of here, he was all MD/allopathic. Rx is NOT a barefooters' choice for combatting systemic fungal conditions, but the use of herbs and the right essential oils would be! Please note that he mentions diet. ~PC~

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