The Health Plus Letter
June 15, 2004, Vol. 2, No. 19
By Larry Trivieri, Jr. – founder & publisher,
http://www.1healthyworld.com
If you prefer to read this issue online, you can read it, along with all other back issues, at http://www.1healthyworld.com/ezine.
Table Of Contents
What’s New
Quote of the Day
Fast Fact
Medical Freedom Alert
Health News and Commentary (A Shocking Scenario)
Facts and Factoids: An Information Sheet for Patients by Abram Hoffer, MD PhD FRCP(C) (Part Two)
Self-Care Tips for Preventing and Managing Tonsillitis
BioAcoustics-Using Sound to Heal: An Interview with Sharry Edwards
Unabashed Plug
Amazon.com continues to offer my newest book, Health on the Edge: Visionary Views of Healing in the New Millennium at a healthy discount. To order it, visit http://www.amazon.com. In it, you will learn:
How to quickly and easily restore relaxation throughout your body using hand warming, an easily mastered biofeedback technique you can do without any equipment.
How to increase your IQ by 20 points or more in less than a week’s time.
How to permanently eliminate long-standing fears, phobias, and traumas using energy psychology.
How to create a bioscalar energy wave within your body for rapid healing.
Take the next step in your healing, and order Health on the Edge today.
What’s New
Hi. This week I’m continuing Dr. Abram Hoffer’s article on facts vs. factoids. As I mentioned last issue, Dr. Hoffer is one of the giants in the field of orthomolecular medicine (the therapeutic use of nutrients to treat disease). To find out more about him and his work, please visit his website: http://www.islandnet.com/~hoffer. You can also read an informative interview with him at http://snipurl.com/6xpz. To learn more about orthomolecular medicine, visit http://www.orthomed.org.
Also in this issue are self-care tips for preventing and managing tonsillitis, and an interview with by noted health pioneer Sharry Edwards on the potential of sound to heal, excerpted from my book, Health on the Edge. I also urge you to read this week’s health news item for a better understanding of how intrusive the collusion of Big Pharma and governmental agencies has become in the U.S.
Please continue to send me your comments and suggestions. And please spread the word about The Health Plus Letter by passing it along to your friends and inviting them to subscribe.
Quote Of The Day
“Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart.”
-- Myla Kabat-Zinn
Fast Fact
Each year in the United States, nearly 700,000 people die from heart disease, a condition that is imminently treatable and preventable.
Unabashed Plug
Dr. Garry Gordon’s entire line of nutritional products are available for purchase directly from 1HealthyWorld.com. Dr. Gordon is a member of 1HealthyWorld’s Medical Advisory Board, and an internationally acclaimed expert in the areas of cardiovascular health, anti-aging medicine, and the use of nutritional medicine to prevent and reverse inflammation, toxicity, and chronic disease. He is also one of the most accomplished and knowledgeable physicians it’s ever been my privilege to meet, and the nutritional products he’s developed reflect his expertise. You can order them by visiting http://www.1healthyworld.com/healthproducts/garrygordon
Medical Freedom Alert
Our health freedom is again under siege. Please support the following organizations, which are at the forefront of those working to protect our rights:
Citizens for Health - http://www.citizens.org (Sing their online petition to safeguard health supplements.)
Institute for Health Freedom – http://www.ForHealthFreedom.org
Health Lobby (Monica Miller) – http://www.healthlobby.com
Also, please do your part to ensure that the misleadingly named “Dietary Safety Supplement” Act (S. 722) is defeated. To become informed about S. 722 and to take action to help defeat its passage, please visit: http://capwiz.com/nnfa/S722.html
To stay informed of other developments related to medical freedom, please visit http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org the website of Dr. Mattias Rath, a leading crusader for medical freedom.
To see to what depraved lengths people will go to persecute practitioners of alternative medicine in the U.S., please read the following report by noted medical freedom advocate Tim Bolen at http://www.quackpotwatch.org/opinionpieces/Suster2.htm
And to learn how corrupt and extensive Big Pharma’s monopoly is, visit http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/online/research/index.html the website for the Campaign Against Fraudulent Medical Research. In particular, read their in-depth report The Pharmaceutical Drug Racket that you will find there.
Health News and Commentary (A Shocking Scenario)
Father Faces Risk of Child Abuse Charge for Taking His Son Off Ritalin
The following story was reported last week by ABC News:
June 7, 2004— When Chad Taylor noticed his son was apparently experiencing serious side effects from Ritalin prescribed for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, he decided to take the boy off the medication. N/o/w, he says he may be accused of child abuse.
In February, 12-year-old Daniel began displaying some symptoms that his father suspected were related to the use of Ritalin. "He was losing wei/ght, wasn't sleeping, wasn't eating," Taylor told ABC News affil/iate KOAT-TV in New Mexico. "[He] just wasn't Daniel." So Taylor took Daniel off Ritalin, against his doctor's wishes. And though Taylor noticed Daniel was sleeping better and his appetite had returned, his teachers complained about the return of his disruptive behavior. Daniel seemed unable to sit still and was inattentive. His teachers ultimately learned that he was no longer taking Ritalin.
School officials reported Daniel's parents to New Mexico's Department of Children, Youth and
Families. Then a detective and social worker made a home visit. "The detective told me if I did not medicate my son, I would be arrested for child abuse and neglect," Taylor said.
A spokesman for New Mexico's Department of Children, Youth and Families told KOAT-TV that they could not comment on the case because of state confidentiality laws. John Francis, a detective for the Rio Rancho Department of Public Safety, said that Taylor was not threatened but told KOAT-TV that parents could be charged in situations like his. "People can be charged with child abuse, child neglect or various other crimes involving a child," he said.
Meanwhile, Chad Taylor remains convinced that he has made the right decision for Daniel. He says his son is acting like himself again, but officials are continuing to monitor Daniel's case. Taylor told KOAT-TV he is not putting Daniel back on Ritalin, no matter what the consequences for himself may be. "Yeah, I'll go to jail for it," he said. "I'll go as long as I have to go."
To read more on this story, see: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/Living/US/mental_illness_treatment_kids_040607-1.html
[Commentary: A few things to consider about this story. 1) Ritalin has the same drug classification as cocaine because both drugs have been shown to wreck similar havoc on the brain. Even the our federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agrees about this, having issued a public warning on the dangers of Ritalin in 1995. Despite this, Ritalin and similar dangerous drugs are widely used among American children and teenagers, most often because of recommendation made by school teachers and counselors. (The last statistics I’m aware of showed that 90% of all Ritalin use occurs in the U.S., with the remainder primarily occurring in England.) 2) The primary reasons for Ritalin use are ADD and ADHD, two so-called health conditions for which not a single shred of conclusive scientific evidence exists showing that these conditions are actually real. 3) It’s very possible that Mr. Taylor’s son so-called disruptive behavior in school is due to the fact that he is bored out of his mind due to the increasingly stultifying approach to schooling that is so common in schools today (I spent 5 years as writer-in-residence at a local grade school, and know whereof I speak on this subject). If Daniel is indeed bored, I suspect he’s also quite intelligent and rebelling against an educational approach that is completely at odds with his educational needs. Moreover, he could be acting out due to poor diet, especially if he is eating cafeteria food. 4) Regardless of my speculations in point 3, the fact that a social agency, prompted by local so-called educators, can consider charging Daniel’s father with child abuse for taking him off a medication that acts on the brain like cocaine, and has many well-documented potentially dangerous side-effects, is not only outrageous, it’s criminal. Sadly, Mr. Taylor’s case is far from being an isolated one. Many thousands of parents in this country have already been charged with child abuse for refusing to place their children on Ritalin, and in many cases their children have been taken away from then and placed in foster homes where they are forcibly re-medicated with the drug. All of this is occurring in the so-called “land of the free” because of the vast sums Big Pharma has spent creating and fostering a market for a dangerous drug by creating the perception that dubious conditions called attention-deficit disorder (ADD) and attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) actually exist. To the point where school teachers and counselors, neither of whom have any medical training whatsoever, are n/o/w capable of making medical recommendations (Ritalin) that parents can be jailed for not following.
To learn more about this shocking abuse of power, see http://www.breggin.com/schools. To learn about the dangers posed by Ritalin use, see http://www.breggin.com/ritalin.html.)
Unabashed Plug
Learn the Truth about Heart Disease, Stroke and Hypertension. Most of what conventional medicine has to offer for treating these conditions is based on faulty and potentially dangerous assumptions. Discover the real causes behind these diseases and learn what you can do today to prevent and reverse them using safe and natural alternatives that have been scientifically proven to be effective. Read the critically-acclaimed eBook Burton Goldberg’s Definitive Guide to Heart Disease, featuring the contributions of Dr. Garry Gordon, Dr. Stephen Sinatra, and many other leading heart specialists. To order or to find out more about this potentially lifesaving guide, visit http://www.1healthyworld.com/ebooks/Heart-Book-Info.cfm.
Facts And Factoids: An Information Sheet for Patients by Abram Hoffer, MD PhD FRCP(C) (Part Two)
[Note: Part one of this article appeared last issue. If you missed it, you can read it at http://www.1healthyworld.com/ezine/vol2no18.cfm.]
Evidence Required to Establish Factoids in Clinical Medicine
No evidence is required. When discussing side-effects and toxicity a whole new set of variables are introduced. For establishing toxicity no controlled trials are needed. The originators of the factoids may develop their factoid on the basis of a theoretical examination of the literature, or it may arise from their own bias against a treatment. It often arises out of faulty experiments which later can not be confirmed. Thus critics of a new treatment demand that the proponents provide airtight facts based upon a large number of double-blind, controlled experiments, but they will also attack the use of the treatment based upon toxicity for which there is no basis. One of the best examples of this occurred when it was concluded that folic acid would decrease the incidence of congenital abnormalities. The publication of this fact, which it is n/o/w, was followed by a series of irate letters in the medical journals written by physicians who bemoaned the fact that these tiny amounts of folic acid would be toxic. We hear no more of this n/o/w. The factoid about toxicity has vanished and the fact of its efficacy remains.
A more recent example is the statement by oncologists that antioxidants (by which they usually mean vitamin C) will decrease the therapeutic value of chemotherapy for treating cancer. In fact there are no clinical series which show that the patients given vitamin C and chemotherapy fare worse than those not given this vitamin. On the contrary, all the published series show just the opposite. I have treated over 1130 cases with large doses of vitamin C and most of them had chemotherapy. I have examined the follow-up data and find that the mean difference on prolongation of life was heavily in favor of the use of the vitamins. Recently Prasad KN et al, after reviewing seventy-one scientific papers found no evidence that antioxidants interfered with the therapeutic effect of chemotherapy. Even earlier Simone CB et al, on the basis of a large number of clinical studies (he also examined seventy-one scientific papers) came to the same conclusion. Not one subject reported a worsening of symptoms. He concluded, "...cancer patients should modify their lifestyles using the Ten Point Plan, which included modifying nutritional factors and taking certain vitamins and minerals especially if they are receiving chemotherapy, and/or radiation." (The emphasis of this last part of the sentence is mine.)
Labriola et al concluded that vitamin C may prevent the therapeutic effect of chemotherapy if given concurrently and recommended that antioxidants be withheld until after the chemotherapy is completed. He based his conclusion on one case. His report elicited three rebuttals: Reilly, Gignac, and Lamson and Brignall. I will not repeat the arguments but it was evident that Dr. Labriola was not convinced by the points put forward by Reilly and Gignac. I think the factoid repeated by Dr. Labriola would have a much better chance of becoming a fact if he had considered the following points:
(1) What is the therapeutic value of chemotherapy without any antioxidants? Even within the field of standard oncology there is a debate whether chemotherapy has any merit except for a small number of cancers. Before one can claim that a treatment has been inhibited, surely there must be pretty good evidence that the treatment has any merit to begin with. It is possible (we do not know the probability for this) that chemotherapy interferes with the therapeutic value of the antioxidants. Almost all the studies testing large doses of vitamin C yielded positive results while there is no such unanimity with respect to chemotherapy.
(2) The difference between possibility and probability. Most people do not distinguish between these two. Theoretically anything is possible, and it is certainly possible that taking vitamin C might prevent the toxic beneficial effect of chemotherapy. In the same way when one buys a lottery ticket it is possible they may w/i/n. People confuse these two terms, which is why lotteries are so popular. The relevant statistic is the probability. What is the probability that patients receiving vitamin C during their chemotherapy will not fare as well? The lottery ticket may give one a probability of winning of one in a million and the possibility that vitamin C may prevent the therapeutic effect of chemotherapy may be equally low. We can only assume from the literature reviewed by Simone, by Prasad, by Lamson and Brignall, and more recently by Moss, that the real probability must be extremely low. As I have pointed out earlier, I have seen no evidence that adding vitamin C inhibited the therapeutic effect of chemotherapy. Just the opposite. Patients on my orthomolecular program live substantially longer and about 40 percent achieved over four year cure rates.
(3) If he had not tried to bolster his argument by referring so frequently to the peer reviewed journal in which his paper appeared. This is certainly no guar/antee of fact. The first factoid that vitamin C caused kidney stones appeared in eminently peer-reviewed journals. All the factoids regarding vitamins appeared first in peer reviewed journals. I can assure you that articles attacking the use of vitamins have very ready access to peer-reviewed journals. But they would not have accepted the report had they tried to conclude from one patient that vitamin C taken during chemotherapy was therapeutic. This would not even be sent to the peer review committee because they do not accept anecdotes - unless of course they consider them scientific because they contain something adverse against vitamins.
(4) Moss points out that oncologists have no objection to using xenobiotic antioxidants during chemotherapy. This includes Amifostine which decreases the toxicity of radiation but is too toxic on its own and is not used; Mesna, a drug used around the world to protect against the toxic side effects of ifosfamide which damages the urinary system; and Cardiozane, which counters Adriamycin's toxicity. There are over 500 papers showing the safety of Cardiozane. In one clinical trial using a drug similar to Adriamycin one-quarter of the patients suffered damage to their hearts. When given Cardiozane concurrently only 7% did. Thus it appears that only orthomolecular or natural antioxidants are potentially dangerous. Synthetic antioxidants protect against the toxic effect of drugs but do not increase their therapeutic value. In sharp contrast, natural antioxidants not only protect against the toxic effect of drugs but also increase their efficacy in destroying cancer cells.
(5) Dr. Labroila emphasizes that long term studies must be used. I agree and for this reason I have followed up my patients since 1977. In my series, hardly any patients receiving chemotherapy but no antioxidants survived very long. But chemotherapy is used by many oncologists who know it will not extend life because there is nothing else that they can do and they feel they have to do something.
In conclusion, as the proponents of the old paradigm see it, facts are facts only after double blind controlled experiments conducted by the right investigators from the correct school and published in the correct medical journals. Factoids can be thought up by anyone and immediately become facts in the profession if the factoid attacks the evidence against the new paradigm.
[Next week: Current Medical Factoids (along with supporting references for this article)]
Copyright © 2002 by Dr. Abram Hoffer. All rights reserved.
Self-Care Tips for Preventing and Managing Tonsillitis
Tonsillitis is an acute (short-lived) infection of the tonsils, usually caused by Streptococcal organisms and less commonly viral.
Symptoms: Swelling and pain in the neck, pain in the throat, particularly painful on swallowing, and often the pain radiates to the ears. In infants, the main symptom may be refusal to eat and they may not complain of sore throat. Other symptoms may be high fever, abscesses on the tonsils, temporary hearing loss, headache, hoarseness, coughing, vomiting, and general ill feelings and fatigue.
Occurrence: This is mainly a childhood condition, occurring most frequently in children under nine years of age. Most children experience at least one episode. It can occur in older individuals, but it is more rare.
Special Notes: Throat cultures (see a doctor) are necessary to rule out strep throat and family members need to be tested at first, as they may be carriers and need to be treated along with the infected individual.
According to the German system of homotoxicology, the tonsils are organs of excretion for toxins, and detoxification processes as well as inflammatory reactions take place in the tonsils. One theory is that many cases of chronic and recurring tonsillitis are due to the acute stage of the inflammation being quickly suppressed by powerful pharmaceutical drugs, and the detoxification process was not able to occur. In treating tonsillitis one should attempt to both destroy the pathogen and also aid in the discharge of toxins.
Treatment needs to include bed rest, lots of fluids, agents to reduce pain, and antibiotics if the infective organism is strep.
Self-Care
Diet: Drink lots of fluids, especially diluted fresh fruit juices, warm broths, and light soups. To relieve pain, take two tablespoons each of honey and glycerine with a one squeeze of lemon juice; warm and sip slowly. If on antibiotics, consume yogurt with live cultures.
Nutritional Therapy: Vitamin A (100,000 IU first three days, then 25,000 IU for the next week), zinc lozenges (slowly dissolve in mouth every two to four hours), vitamin B complex, and vitamin C. If on antibiotics, take Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bifidobacteria., along with garlic capsules. Ginger packs and zinc oxide can be applied topically to reduce pain.
Aromatherapy: Inhalations with bergamot, thyme, lavender, and benzoin, tea tree, geranium, lemon (use as a gargle as well).
Fasting: According to Leon Chaitow, N.D., O.D., there is no better approach than a pure water or diluted juice fast for the first 48 hours, followed by broths, etc., as recommended.
Flower Essences: Rescue Remedy® for accompanying stress. Crab Apple.
Herbs: Combine the tinctures of cleavers and echinacea in equal parts and take one teaspoon three times a day. Drink a hot infusion made from equal parts of dried elder flower, yarrow, and peppermint throughout the day.
Homeopathy: Belladonna, Merc sol., Phytolacca, Lachesis, Aconite.
Hydrotherapy: Contrast application (apply one to two times daily to neck and throat). Heating compress (apply one to two times daily to neck and throat). Gargle with hot water.
Professional Care
The following therapies should only be provided by a qualified health professional:
Acupuncture, Magnetic Therapy, Naturopathic Medicine, Neural Therapy, Osteopathy, and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Detoxification Therapy may also be indicated, depending on the condition of the person.
Note: The information above was adapted from Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition, co-authored and edited by Larry Trivieri, Jr. (Celestial Arts, 2002).
Unabashed Plug
Discover and Gain Control of Your Human Energy Field. Read Dr. Valerie Hunt’s Mind Mastery Meditations: A Workbook for the “Infinite Mind,” the empowering guide created by one of the world's foremost researchers into the human energy field, energy medicine, and the relationship between consciousness and health. Each of the meditations this eBook contains is designed to give you mastery of your mind and to empower you to discover the answers to why you are the way you are, your soul's needs, your unique talents and capacities, and your self-designed destiny. By practicing and mastering these meditations, you will become able to live your life with greater ease and success, speed your self-healing, and dramatically increase your ability to manifest your deepest goals. To order this life-changing guide, visit
http://www.1healthyworld.com/ebooks/Mind-Mastery-Book-Info.cfm.
BioAcoustics-Using Sound to Heal: An Interview with Sharry Edwards
[Note: The following interview is excerpted from my book Health on the Edge. Sharry Edwards is the founder of the field of human BioAcoustics, and executive director of Sound Health Alternatives International, Inc., a nonprofit research center which trains and certifies health care practitioners in the use of the healing sound techniques she has developed to heal illness. Sharry began her research over two decades ago, when audiological tests revealed that she was born with the unique ability to hear sounds beyond the normal range of human hearing, as well as vocally producing sine waves. In her first research project, testing showed that by the use of her voice she was able to control a person's blood pressure by as much as 32 points. Since then, through the concept of vocal coherence, Edwards has demonstrated that the human voice is a unique frequency representation of the body's structural and biochemical status, and that, through the use of voice spectral analysis techniques she developed, the body is capable of diagnosing and prescribing for itself. Recognizing the potential of her innate healing abilities, in 1982 Edwards developed the BioAcoustics technology that enables others to mechanically reproduce the diagnostic and therapeutic results she has achieved. To date, over 3,000 health care practitioners have trained and been certified in her methods, which continue to garner serious attention from conventional health care facilities and HMO's worldwide.]
What is BioAcoustics?
First of all, let me say that the work I am doing is in human BioAcoustics. There is also a field of animal BioAcoustics which has been around for a long time. There's a research center at Cornell Univ/ersity, for example, that is involved in this, and others in Texas and England. Researchers in this field analyze the sounds animals emit to determine their health, and it can also to tell where the animals are from. Birds from the south, even though they are the same species, sound a little different from birds of the north, for example. At the time I began my work, I didn't even know the term bioacoustics existed; I thought I'd made it up.
BioAcoustics means "life sounds," and as I use the term, it describes the field of research involving the use of voice spectral analysis and low frequency sound to help the body reverse its own disease. It can most aptly be described as a cross between music therapy and biofeedback. It is related to music therapy in the sense that certain sounds are use to stimulate the healing process, although not necessarily sounds that are considered musical. And it is related to biofeedback in that, as these low frequency sounds are presented to the person, they elicit specific biological and emotional responses.
I should point out that BioAcoustics is not to be confused with what is known as Frequency Therapy, which uses ranges that are not considered to be auditory, and is delivered through transducers placed on the body. Nor is it the same thing as music therapy, because the sounds used are not always within the range of vocal or instrumental octaves. BioAcoustics uses low frequency ambient sounds which are delivered to the client in a sound chamber or through headphones.
What does the BioAcoustics process involve?
There are two distinct processes to BioAcoustics, both of which are essential if maximum results are to be achieved. The first process involves determining the individual vocal patterns of the person, which is done before any sound frequencies are presented. This process is called BioAcoustic Vocal Profiling. Once the person's vocal pattern has been determined, sets of sound formulas are specifically created and presented to that person, which are designed to positively influence and integrate the systems within the body that produce, interpret, and otherwise use frequency. My research has found that, for health to be present, the body requires the presence of a full spectrum of harmonious frequencies working together cooperatively. In a very real sense, you can liken the body as a musical instrument. When it is out of tune, the result is discordant, but when the instrument is tuned, the sounds become consonant.
The idea of using sound to facilitate change within the body is not new, by the way. Almost every culture throughout recorded history has used sound and movement to influence mood. Four thousands of years, practitioners of Tibetan medicine have known of the positive vibrational effects of bells and chanting, for instance, and ancient philosophers such as Pythagoras, Plato, and Aristotle taught that the human body reflects the sounds and tones that exist within its personal environment. And, of course, in the Bible we are told that, "In the beginning was the Word," and that through the agency of that Word all of creation came into being. In other words, frequency is the basis of our universe. It wasn't until recently, however, that computerized technology and instrumentation advanced to the stage where we are able to use this technology to use sound frequencies diagnostically and therapeutically.
To literally create "sound health."
Yes. The term "sound health" is actually a play on words. I think that we've known about the relationship between sound and health all along, but we were able to deal with it in our language much quicker than we've been able to deal with it as a technology or an idea related to well-being.
For instance, when my husband and I go to the grocery store and he picks up a grapefruit to see if it's ripe, I listen to it, and if it was clear note of E, I know it is a nice, fresh grapefruit and I'll say, "It sounds good to me." This is an expression that people have always used to convey their perception that something is right or "sound." This also shows up in phrases like "sound advice," and so forth. Sound means "stable" or "foundational," and it also refers to frequency and music. And there is a feedback loop between the sounds that people make and the sounds that people hear. It's the only dual feedback loop that is like that in the body. You don't make color with your eyes, for example, but you do use your eyes to perceive color.
Let's get back to the grapefruit. You say you are able to "listen to it." Obviously that's an ability most people don't have, so I'd like you to explain it.
When I say the grapefruit sounds good to me, most people would automatically think I mean that buying the grapefruit sounds like a good idea, but I literally mean that it sounds like a good grapefruit. This has always been an innate ability in me, and for many years it didn't occur to me other people didn't have it. I have always been able to tell what was going on with people by the sound of their voice. For instance, when I was yo/ung I noticed that my aunt had a sound that was new to her, and that it was the same sound that my grandmother had when she had diabetes. So I thought that maybe my aunt had diabetes too, and it turned out that she did.
I really think my ability is a trait that we forgot or have literally tuned out of our sensory repertoire. When you read some of the ancient literature about Socrates, Pythagoras, and people like that, you find that they heard these sounds, as well. I hear sounds from nearly everything. I cannot hear sounds from plastic, but I hear sounds from everything else -- animals, trees and flowers. And I decided to use my ability as a means of helping others to experience better health, using BioAcoustics to make the diagnostic and therapeutic elements of health care more precise. We've already done it with cars. We can take our cars into the garage and plug them in and have a machine evaluate exactly what's wrong, but with conventional medicine, we don't have that ability in relation to our own bodies. We have MRI's and X-rays, and other devices that we've created, but these are not diagnostic enough to individuate for each of us. When we look at people in frequency, we find that their bone and their muscle structure are pretty nearly the same, but when it comes to organs we start to become very individual. We're all singing the same song when it comes to our structure, but when it comes to our organs we're singing a slightly different tune. And when you come to emotions, we each create our own scale, not just our own song.
What happens when a person comes to you for a BioAcoustics' session?
Before I answer your quest/ions, let me tell you a bit more about how I got involved in this. As I mentioned, I was born with my ability to hear the sounds emitted by the body, and at first I just took it for granted that everybody could hear these sounds. Later on, of course, I realized that wasn't true. Then, when I was in college and typing a paper for one of the professors on tinnitus, I read that hearing these kinds of sounds was an illness. So I went to have my hearing tested. It turned out that not only could I hear just fine, but that I also hear sound well beyond the normal range of human hearing, and that I can vocally reproduce these sounds in the fo/rm of sine waves. I did this with the man who was administering my hearing test, and when I did so he reported that his blood pressure decreased. He was very interested in the results for a couple of reasons. One, he was aware that Samurai warriors used to yell right before they attacked an opponent to decrease their blood pressure so they would have split second of advantage. Two, he was a you/ng man and wanted to start a family, but the high blood pressure medication he was on was rendering him impotent, so he was very interested to see if through sounds we could help him with his blood pressure issue. This was the first research project that I was involved in. It was a pilot study and from it we found that by using my voice we could reduce blood pressure levels by as much as 32 points. From there, the research snowballed. I would listen to a person's sound and then vocally reproduce it onto a recording and take it back to the laboratory to see what it revealed on a spectrograph. From this, we could determine what frequencies were too high or too low in the voice, and we found that there is no vocal coherence in somebody who is ill. When there are gaps in the measurements and things that are too high or too low, then we know that the person has some unbalance by way of his frequencies in the body. But I knew that if this could only be done by me because of my abilities, then we were very limited. This led me to search for a way to replicate my abilities through technology without me having to be present. By this time, we knew that the sounds I was hearing were being emitted from people's ears, but when I talked to my professors of speech and hearing, I was told, "Sharry please, there is nothing in the ear that creates a sound." But a few years later Dr. Wendell Browne, of Johns Hopkins Univ/ersity, published some papers about oto-acoustic emissions, which proved that there really was a sound coming out of the ear. And h/e/re we were doing all of this work under the assumption that this was something esoteric in my ears alone. N/o/w I can teach almost anyone to hear their own sound if they're not deaf.
As I continued my research, I eventually discovered what I was looking for and had computerized instrumentation built that can enable anyone, with proper training, to do what I do. Currently, approximately 3,000 people have received the training and use the equipment. About half of them are medical practitioners, and the rest are caretakers for family members or other people suffering from chronic disease. Instead of them having to return to us time and time again, we're able to train them to take this out into the world. In exchange, we ask that they share with us the data they are collecting, since we are essentially an educational research center.
Okay, so let's get back to what happens during a BioAcoustics session.
A session begins with the person speaking into a special microphone that we designed. The gives us a recording of the governing patterns of what I called their Signature Sound. This is entered into a computer, which then does what is called a Fast Fourier Transform and creates a computerized representation of the voice, decibel, and frequency, as well as the architecture of the voice itself, by way of the shape of the wave fo/rm. We then evaluate the reading to see what points are too high or too low. Points that are located high on the graph, called "risers," indicate sound frequencies that are loud and overabundant, while points that are low, known as "stringers," indicate frequencies that are not apparent. The objective is to create a smaller, more unified pattern of fewer risers and/or stringers, which is an indication of more coherence. The frequencies that are lacking, overabundant, or dissident can then be used to construct sets of frequencies that the person can use to help him reverse whatever imbalances may be present.
For example, our research has shown that adults and children who have been diagnosed with so-called attention deficit disorder have the Frequency EquivalentTM of adrenaline that is way too high, meaning that it's in the body and it can't be used. When we give them the Frequency EquivalentTM of adrenaline and they start using adrenaline it calms them down, because the frequency allows the body to identify the compound and use it appropriately. What we have found is that when people have risers that are too high, it means that there is either a toxin in the body, or some other compound that the body doesn't know how to use because it doesn't recognize it. Stress, man-made electricity, being around machinery, and these kinds of things causes our frequencies to drop out or to become over-abundant, and as we examine the vocal spectral analysis and find out what's too high or too low, or what's missing or thin in the voice, we can tell what's going on with someone's health.
Here's another example of how precisely this can work. Recently, we sent a letter out some of the doctors that we work with, informing them that we were going to do a project involving gait. We asked them to send us patients who had problems walking. In the first week, we examined three people. The first was an older gentleman in his late 70's who was not walking well at all, and had terrible difficulty turning around. He came in with his doctor and his wi/fe, and our Vocal Profiling found that he could not process vitamin B-12, and that his cobalt levels were eight times normal. I had ne/ver heard of B-12 causing someone's gait to be unstable, but that's exactly what was happening, and this was verified in a lab test. By playing the Frequency EquivalentTM for B-12, we were able to have him running up and down the yard in a couple of hours by himself.
The second person was a lady who was knock-kneed and pigeon-toed, and she also had trouble with her gait. It turned out that her condition was due to the gene for Frederick's ataxia. The third man was paralyzed in one leg and didn't have very much use of the other. We were able to trace that down to a trauma to his L2 vertebra caused by a skiing accident. He didn't report that to us, but the computer was able to pinpoint that there was something very seriously wrong with his L2, and when we explained this to him, he told us of his skiing accident. By introducing the proper frequencies, we were able to get him to lay on his back and do bicycle kicks before he left that day, using both of his legs.
This is a clear example of how people with the same symptom can have completely different causes for that symptom. All three people had gait problems, but in the first person's case it was due to a biochemical imbalance, in the second it was genetic, and in the third it was due to a structural problem. This illustrates why it's incredibly important to individualize people's medical care, and being able to do that is one of BioAcoustics' strong points. And not only can we determine the causes for problems that have already arisen, we can also evaluate factors that are predictive of what is going to happen to a person, and use the frequencies preventively to avoid that.
How are the frequencies administered?
We have a little box that is a miniature computer and we set the frequencies up in that box. You hook it up to a speaker and turn it on and listen to the frequencies just as you would listen to music.
Are the results that you achieve permanent or temporary?
It depends on the person and on his or her condition. Depending on a person's symptoms, treatment can be either short- or long-term. In most cases, reassessment, monitoring, and program adjustment are essential for continued improvement. But one of the big advantages of BioAcoustics, as the gait examples illustrate, is that a person's symptoms that are often conflicting can be separated and identified using Vocal Profiling, including in cases where conventional evaluation is unable to determine the underlying cause. In the case of the man with the B-12 problems, for instance, he had originally been diagnosed at the Mayo Clinic as having peripheral neuropathy, which actually turned out not to be the case at all.
Another advantage of BioAcoustics is that it acts as an ideal complement or adjunct to other therapies, both diagnostically and therapeutically. In addition, what we are finding is that the diagnosis in and of itself is not as important as identifying and introducing the indigenous frequencies of the person's originating patterns. The diagnosis of digestive upset, for example, is not as important as presenting the frequency that will enhance or resolve a person's specific digestive difficulties.
I need to emphasize, however, that a person's outcome using BioAcoustics is in large part due to his or her willingness to follow the protocol prescribed by the practitioner. Each person is evaluated on an individual basis, and each treatment protocol is designed specifically for that person. The most common frustration I have in this regard is convincing the client to continue to listening to the frequencies after he or she begins to experience improvement. This is similar to a physician's frustration when a patient stops using antibiotics once he starts feeling better, and then his infection comes back. I've had a number of clients who came back to me embarrassed because their symptoms had returned and it turned out they hadn't been following their protocol. Therefore, I tell the people I train as BioAcoustics providers that it is essential that they take an active role in supervising each case, to ensure that their clients use this technology in the way that the providers suggest.
One other thing I'd like to mention is the placebo effect. We've had skeptics try to dismiss the results we've achieved by saying the person got better because he or she expected to, not because BioAcoustics actually works. First of all, while I firmly believe in the power of the mind to influence healing, the outcomes BioAcoustics has achieved are verified by a variety of diagnostic tests and measurements and, in many cases, follow-up evaluations by our clients' physicians. In addition, we have had many cases that have shown improvement among people who had little or no awareness about what is expected, including newborns and persons who were comatose.
(You can read more about Sharry’s fascinating work in Health on the Edge, and by visiting http://www.soundhealthinc.com.)
Health and Blessings!
Larry Trivieri, Jr. (larry@1healthyworld.com)
Disclaimer: The Health Plus Letter is a weekly eZine published by Larry Trivieri, Jr. and Library of Health, LLC (dba www.1healthyworld.com) 1514 Genesee Street, Suite 52, Utica, NY 13502. It is made available without charge for information purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for medical care. If you are experiencing a health problem, seek prompt medical attention.
The Health Plus Letter is fully compliant with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003.
Legal Notice: The information in this eZine may be freely and widely disseminated so long as full attribution is made as follows: The Health Plus Letter, June 15, 2004, Vol. 2, No. 19. Copyright © 2004 by Larry Trivieri, Jr. All rights reserved.
To Subscribe Or Unsubscribe to The Health Plus Letter, please visit http://www.1healthyworld.com/lists
