“Catching Things Early” Supplementing Perfectly
John Whitcomb, MDGreen Bay Business Forum
March 2nd, 2011
Objective
• Explain the 50,000 foot picture of what modern medicine does
• What we really want from health care
• How this “Changes Everything” in Primary Care
• A couple of practical tips for yourself
What We Really Want
• To never get sick
• To live to be a healthy hundred
• To operate at optimal levels of functioning
• To reduce the cost of health care to ourselves personally and corporately
• Gradual decline into senility is not acceptable
It’s the Journey
• Going back to the source of infectious disease
• We started living longer: 46 in 1900 to 78-87 in 2000
• Now we have chronic disease
• We’re still treating with the same paradigm of infectious disease: fix you when you get sick
• And do it in 10 days (that’s the core fallacy that modern medicine is now trying to do)
MODERN MEDICINE’S ADDICTION
• We get paid for procedures: appendicitis, open heart surgery
• We get rewarded for doing big dramatic things that fix you all in a hurry
• We come to believe that we can fix many things with a quick bullet
• Open heart surgery does not reverse vascular disease
• There is no surgery/pill for Alzheimer’s
But, we now have Chronic Disease as our Challenge
• Same journey
• Let’s get back to the source
• What’s the real cause of chronic disease
• Fact: the treatment of chronic illness, once it’s entrenched is expensive, toxic and debilitating
• Awareness: MUCH BETTER fend off early
• What causes Alzheimer’s (78% less on India)
Western Diseases
• Cancer, Heart Disease, Neurological Degenerative Diseases (50% of us will have Alzheimer’s by 90)
• Arthritis, Autoimmune (40% of American women carry an autoantibody)
• Save my eyes, my knees and my brain!
• Many parts of the less developed world have very rare cancer
• Districts in China go decades between heart attacks
Hypothesis
• Chronic diseases are caused by “long latency” conditions
• Underlying physiology is out of balance for years or decades prior to disease
• Autoimmune illnesses: typically have 20 years of antibody, 5 years of vague symptoms, then horrible disease
• We need to get to core imbalances
40 70 100
120Birth
Growth Hormone
Inflammation
Long Latency Disease
Our Big Goal
• Address the mechanisms of chronic long latency disease
• Maintain optimal health (not treat disease)
• Rectangularize optimal health – keep your healthy and vibrant the longest possible
• That means addressing inflammation
• Delay long latency disease
• Must address the Antecedents to Chronic Illness
Jan 15th, 2008, Wisconsin Medical Journal
1. What’s the Problem in Wisconsin?
Using 30 ng as sufficient
59% of Caucasian Elderly women in WI are insufficient
2. What is Vitamin D? A Hormone
•Based on Cholesterol•Like a hormone, effects the expression of genes•Does not work like a vitamin as a cofactor in metabolism•Affects over 2000 genes in 1400 cell types•Comes from SUN: NOT from food•Evolution is frugal: uses cholesterol for other hormone functions: but Dwas likely the first
20:20:20:20 Rule• 20 year old with 50% of skin exposed
• 20 minutes of mid day sun: with skin type III (typical Caucasian-American)
• On JUNE 20th(height of summer)
• Not enough sun to tan
• Will make about 20,000 U over the next 24 hours: the 20:20:20 Rule on June 20
• Typical African-American: needs 4-5 times as much sun-light because of skin pigment
• Elderly: age 70 make only 25%
This means one glass of milk a day
Will raise your D level about 1 ng, or 2.5 nmoles.
This means one glass of milk a day
Will raise your D level about 1 ng, or 2.5 nmoles.
Note: After20 min, CA don’t make any more D
(Vieth, AJCN 1999:69, 842-56)
4. What’s Enough?
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Puerto RicoNurses (26)
Puerto RicoFarmers (18)
St. LouisLifeguards (9)
Israeli Lifeguards(34)
Vitamin D Levels in Sun Rich Environments
Published Literature on Intentional UVB Treatment and D Levels
(Vieth AJCN 1999 : 69 p 842-56)
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British Submariners (26) 2months
Immigrant Pakastanis (24)12 months
American Submariners (30)2.25 months
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After
When you are deprived of sunshine, your D level drops
(Vieth AJCN 1999: 69, 842-56)
