Date:   5/7/2003 3:36:40 PM ( 21 y ago)
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Taking back control of your health

My name is Iain MacRobert. I graduated in medicine from Sydney University in 1975, and completed my training in Ophthalmology in 1984. I sub specialize in Refractive surgery, and also have a large paediatric practice in Hong Kong, where Virginia and I have lived with our 6 children for the last 17 years.

I guess Ginni and I have always been classified as pioneers. Having 4 adopted children is a little unusual. I performed the first radial keratotomy, then the first excimer laser PRK in Hong Kong, and was the first eye doctor to have the procedure myself to both eyes in one sitting, in 1992. So being the first Hong Kong doctor to incorporate glyco nutrition into my practice was just another pioneering step.

Our journey of discovery into the world of glyco nutrition began in February 2002, when Ginni was in Australia visiting her parents in Tamworth. She found them glowing with health, having lost all the symptoms of the Arthritis that had bothered them for years. They told her about the new supplements they were taking, called glyco-nutrients. This was our introduction to a new view of health, healing and "wellness," and today I simply want to summarize what we have found out so far. We now take the glyconutrients every day, and the change in our own health has been amazing. We both are dealing with stress, which previously would have disabled us. We have more energy, and are experiencing "well being" for the first time in many years. We now can ward off the viral illnesses that plague all who live in Hong Kong. By personal experience we have proved that the recovery time for burns and sprained ankles can be shortened dramatically by simply increasing the intake of glyconutrients. Dr Mendoza is not joking when he calls glyco nutrients the Sugars that heal. He is echoing Thomas Edison who said " the doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition."


In the last twenty years, a huge and growing body of research has been carried out into the role of these sugars that are an essential part of glycoproteins. Oxford University has nearly 60 full time staff in their department of glycobiology. Such a concentration of manpower is distinctive, and demonstrates the importance that this world leading research center places on the subject.

By the late eighties, this research effort had conclusively demonstrated that there are 8 monosaccharides (simple sugars), or glyconutrients, essential for the production of glyco proteins, the building blocks of our immune system. The sugars form the "fingers" at the end of the protein molecules, and are the method by which cells "talk" to each other – the language of sugars and their molecular shapes. Research now runs to over 80,000 papers in many established medical journals. Credit must be given to the original research teams in the mid 80’s who only conducted the initial breakthrough research, but found the missing piece of the puzzle. It is one thing to learn about glyco proteins, and their structure and function, but quite another to make the connection between a dietary lack of these sugars and immune dysfunction. It is eating these nutrients that makes the difference. Dr Reg McDaniels was asked "how does it work?" His answer – you put the glyconutrient in your mouth and you swallow it! Seriously, that is all you need to know.

The human genetic code, the genome, has recently been unraveled. The building blocks of the genome are 4 nucleic acids. These four make up the DNA molecule, which is the basis of the gene code. I regard this as the "hardware" in the system. As there are 8 sugars, the numbers of combinations for any given glycoprotein are exponentially many times larger than the DNA possibilities. This is now being called the "glycome", and is the "software" in the system. Many researchers believe that the glycome is much more important than the genome. Some have concluded that it may be impossible to unravel at all!

Consider Down’s syndrome, where an extra chromosome 21 is in the cell, the result of abnormal cell division in the ovum. We know that glyco nutrition taken over a lengthy period can result in improvement in the IQ, and a change in the facial appearance, normalizing the Downs’ "look". This is achieved by the glyco nutrients masking the effect of the additional chromosome. When I saw the photos of Michelle Des Rochers, before and after three years of glyco nutrients, I was stunned. This is medically impossible! In fact, I have a letter on file from a large international nutrition supplement Company, categorically stating that there is NO nutritional supplement that can alter Downs’ syndrome, and that would also be the position of most medical people as well. All current medical Science can do is support. Well, that is set to change!!!

Since 1996, an ever expanding analysis of these essential nutrients has been included in Harper’s Biochemistry, a standard medical text. They are also listed in the Physician’s Desk Reference in the USA, with a list of benefits from their intake. The most important thing to know is that six of the eight are lacking in our modern western, highly processed diet. Soil depletion, green harvesting of vegetables and fruits, processing of foods, and pollution all contribute to this lack. We all now face a very toxic environment, and we lack the very things we need to cope with the toxic load.

Don’t think for one moment that just because a food is passed by the FDA that it is therefore safe. There is a growing body of evidence that the sweetening agent Aspartame may not be safe at all. Despite very serious issues raised at the time, Aspartame was passed by the FDA as a safe food additive. Shortly after, the FDA Commissioner, Arthur Hull Hayes, resigned, and joined a company called G D Searle, in their Public Relations arm. GD Searle are the manufacturers of Aspartame. I leave you to draw your own conclusions.

Glyco proteins are found in and on the surface of all the 600 trillion cells of your body. Some pituitary gland hormones, such as thyroid stimulating hormone, follicle stimulating hormone, luteinising hormone, and also a vital hormone of pregnancy, Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin, are glyco proteins. Your blood type is determined genetically by the type of glycoprotein on the surface of your red blood cells. The difference of one single Sugar on the receptor determines whether you are A, B or O.

The result of dietary depletion is failure of proper formation of a glycoprotein, and this is now being recognized as the fundamental cell level problem in many disease states. Improper formation of glyco proteins, or improper glycosylation, in the receptor sites on cells means that cells either cannot "talk", or they mis-communicate. The result is dis-ease. Yes it is true, our cells can make these sugars from glucose, but this is a very metabolically expensive process. In times of physical or emotional stress, and in the absence of a proper dietary intake of the sugars, the cells do not make proper glyco proteins. Dietary lack therefore results in defective immune response, either too much or too little. Allergic conditions are examples of an over reactive immune system. An under reactive immune system could result in an inability of the natural "killer" cells to recognize diseased or cancerous cells, and dispose of them. The consequence may mean the death of the person!

When the cells are given the nutrients they need, and begin to function properly, the resultant health benefits range from profound to amazing. In some cases, the established medical Science "rules" have been overturned. I have spoken to people who had (past tense) multiple sclerosis, and who now do not have it. Their neurological lesions have disappeared from the MRI scan. To a natural medical sceptic like myself, the implication of this reversal was simple – medicine is now facing the need for a total paradigm shift in its thinking, as deep a shift as that which occurred when bacteria, and not "bad air," were first shown to be the agents of infectious diseases.

The medical profession, myself included, need to move from a "curative" view to a "wellness" view of what we do. Whilst modern medicine has made great strides in many areas, doctors, myself included, feel somewhat helpless when attempting to deal with the flood of degenerative disease and chronic illness that are the mark of our generation. All we can offer are drugs with very serious, and in some cases, life threatening side effects. In the year 2000, more than 100,000 people died from the effects of properly prescribed, properly administered pharmaceutical agents in the United States alone. This does not count the tragic accidents of improperly used medication.

Five million children in the USA regularly take the dangerous and addictive drug Ritalin, to stabilize a learning and behavioural condition called Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity disorder. This drug is almost indistinguishable from cocaine, and has serious effects on the human nervous system. 90% of the children involved in the recent serial killings in some US schools were taking properly prescribed Ritalin. Ritalin does not cure the problem. My view is that it adds to the problem. And yet there are now many studies showing quite conclusively that the addition of glyco nutrients to the diet radically modifies ADHD for the better. The real tragedy is that Ritalin continues to be over prescribed, when a harmless, non toxic and very effective alternative exists.

In Hong Kong we are currently facing a deadly flu like illness, a viral disease. It seems to me that all the effort so far has been to identify the virus, and perhaps find a vaccine against it. I have not heard of any effort directed towards increasing the population’s immune resistance.

David Moont, a vet friend and M****tech associate, told me of an article in a vet journal about the avian flu (bird flu). The article centered on the fact that the virus could enter a cell, but could only be released again if the specific receptor lacked a specific molecule. The receptor was a glycoprotein, the molecule was galactose, one of the eight essential sugars. Now galactose is found in milk products. I find it very interesting that there has bee not one case of avian flu in a Caucasian. All the deaths have been amongst the Chinese population, who don’t take milk in their diet. This leapt out at both David and I, but I don’t think the present efforts against bird flu would make much of it! I believe that in the future, research will prove that the glyco nutritional approach will be the best way to prevent viral diseases.

Are these sugars safe? Your body was designed to use glyco nutrients, to incorporate them into your glyco proteins. As such, they are an essential part of the diet. They are foods, not drugs. They have NO toxic or side effects. Five of the eight are found in human breast milk, (one of the reasons why babies are protected from disease by breast feeding).

The sugars are not pharmaceutical agents, and do not cure anything. They simply restore basic cellular functions to normal, and then the body can fend for itself. The killer cells will work to identify and destroy diseased or cancerous cells. The immune system can be restored to normal to modulate itself in response to attack. That is why I do not use the term nutriceutical, as it implies a pharmacological type of effect. The eight sugars are an essential food, just as water, protein, carbohydrate, fat, vitamins and minerals are essential foods. Neglect any one of those at your peril. Present day medicine will tell you this. And in 10 years time, medical people will also be telling you to insure a proper intake of glyco nutrients. That is why I am telling you today – don’t neglect glyconutrients. You don’t have to wait ten years for your doctor to tell you this. Instead of your doctor advising you like this when you have the flu – rest, plenty of fluids and vitamin C, he will say, increase your glyco nutrient, phyto nutrient and phyto sterol intake, I am NOT going to give you Antibiotics as you don’t need them! Radical eh?

I believe that we will see the medical profession shift its view from "illness" to "wellness" over the next few years. If we look at history, we can predict that the medical profession will be dragged kicking and screaming into this change. Every major medical advance, from simple hand washing between patients, to using limes to treat scurvy, to smallpox vaccination, the introduction of anaesthesia, and surgical asepsis, has been first ridiculed, then opposed, then accepted only when the truth became totally self evident. Sir William Osler, a famous British physician, who 150 years ago laid the foundations for logical medical examination of patients recognized this inability to change. To quote.."It is not.. that some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, but their tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind blindness, in which the truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face."

We are seeing the truth coming to the fore now. There are several thousand medical practitioners in the USA who regularly use glyco nutrients in their practices. The AMA in Australia has just released a paper acknowledging the patient’s right to use complimentary medicine. Gunter Blobel won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on intra cellular communication, how proteins are directed to the correct position in the cell. Dr John Axford, head of Clinical Immunology for the Royal Society of Medicine, and editor of the website glycoscience.com, has gone public, and stated, "these are the molecules of the decade!" One of my medical colleagues in Hong Kong uses glyco nutrition to help his cancer patients, and is seeing very positive results. I have several patients who have made total recovery from illnesses ranging from multiple sclerosis to chronic fatigue syndrome. Whole families of asthmatics have been rendered symptom free.

The case history data is growing into the tens of thousands of patients whose disease states have been improved, or in many cases eradicated, by the simple act of adding these sugars to the diet. This evidence will, in time, be overwhelming, and those who are skeptical and critical will be won over, by evidence that cannot be refuted. When you have CAT scan showing the disappearance of the lesions of multiple sclerosis, of metastatic carcinoma resolving, of the reversal of Alzhiemer’s and Parkinson’s disease, of increase in IQ of Down’s syndrome children, along with positive effects in arthritis, infections, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibro-myalgia, what can you say? These are case histories presented by medical professionals, not snake oil salesmen. They are medically verifiable. Double blind studies have now begun, studying the role of glyco nutrition in asthma, and cystic fibrosis. As a doctor, I have now changed my view completely, from the standard pharmacological approach, to a "wellness" approach. I recommend a study of glyco nutrition to my patients, and have seen many of them benefit enormously from these completely safe nutrients.

In 1975, I attended a lecture by Dr Dennis Burkitt. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, he was teaching on the importance of fibre in the diet, not just to prevent constipation, but to prevent serious digestive disease. As a missionary surgeon in Africa, he noticed that the local people ate a diet rich in fibre, and simply did not contract bowel cancer, and a host of other debilitating digestive diseases. He rapidly came to the conclusion that these diseases were caused by a lack of dietary fibre. He noted that when he looked up "fibre" in the medical texts of his day, all he could find was "fibre optic." 25 years later, we all understand the importance of dietary fibre, and yet at that time, his ideas were revolutionary. I will always remember his cartoon, of the hospital car park, showing the expensive cars of the surgeons who were operating on the diseases caused by lack of fibre. Over near the wall was Dr Burkitt’s bicycle. The surgeons were trying to mop up the water flowing full tilt from a burst tap in the carpark. Burkitt was not mopping. He was turning off the tap. His comment – epidemiologists don’t make large incomes! And the caption, "don’t just mop up the water, turn off the tap."

Similarly, if you had told me in 1975 that ophthalmologists would be able to do cataract surgery with no injections, no stitches, and instant visual recovery, I would have thought you mad. If I had told my examiners in 1984 that I could cut a flap of cornea, and use a laser to re-shape the corneal bed, replace the flap, and in so doing correct refractive errors, they would have failed me on the spot for being a danger to the profession. And yet today, this is all simply routine surgery. To understand these ideas, we need to have a different perspective, a different worldview. The new view will allow us to be flexible, to consider new ideas, and to avoid being stiff necked, unable to change to different concepts.

We have come to a point in history, in the West, where we expect medicine to heal us, the schools to educate us, the state to look after us. Never mind our own personal responsibility for our lives. To misquote the story of Esau in Genesis, we are throwing away our birthright of freedom and responsibility for a mess of state controlled potage. At the turn of the century in America, there was one social welfare beneficiary for every 500 workers. By 1950, there was one for evey 100 workers. And in 1980 there was one for every 5 workers. Our society simply cannot carry this burden any more. The cost of healthcare is in the trillions, and it is in the pharmaceutical companies interests to keep it so. And yet the answer is simple – each of us must accept the responsibility for our own state, our own health. If for example we continue to abrogate responsibility for our children’s education to the state, we may find ourselves being legally forced to give them such drugs as Ritalin, just because they are a little to lively for the teacher. This is happening now in the USA., and it is a chilling prospect.

Glyco nutrition is about getting to the root cause of chronic degenerative disease. It is about stopping the epidemic by turning off the tap, as a better answer than simply trying to mop the floor.

You can learn how to do this yourself, to take charge of your own health, and not to give away your rights to the pharmaceutical industry, and the medical profession. As good as modern medicine is, it simply has NO answer to the flood of auto immune diseases, cancers, and degenerative disease which are literally draining our society. On April 4th the WHO announced its report of the serious increase in cancers in the developing world. It’s one thing to analyse the problem, and quite another to have an effective answer for it. If we could stop this flood of chronic disease, the financial savings alone would be sufficient to feed the world.

Glyco nutrition is offering us immense opportunity. This world is going to continue to get worse, to become more toxic. In the main, governments will not do much about that. It is difficult to balance the demands of big business, and the challenge of restoring a healthy environment. As I see it, once we fully understand the concept of cellular communication as an absolute requirement for health, we will also have to take up the challenge of ensuring that those we contact, our family, friends, business colleagues, our local doctor, our politicians, ALL can have opportunity to understand glyco nutrition, and incorporate these foods into their daily routine as well. This will require of us a desire to learn all we can, and to tell all who will listen, that freedom from chronic disease is possible, that staying healthy should be the norm, and that aging can be free from the restrictions of disease. It should be a time of great productivity, not a painful slide towards the grave.

To conclude, a quote from some medical practitioners, who lived in a different era. Phillipus Theophrastus Bombast (1493-1541) – "All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the challenge of Science is to find it."

Benjamin Rush MD, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and personal physician to George Washington. "Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privilege to others: the Constitution of the Republic should make a special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom."




 

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