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Toxic: Heal Your Body from Mold Toxicity, Lyme Disease



Toxic: Heal Your Body from Mold Toxicity, Lyme Disease PDF

Author: M.D. Neil Nathan

Publisher: Victory Belt Publishing

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Publish Date: October 9, 2018

ISBN-10: 1628603119

Pages: 336

File Type: Epub

Language: English

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Book Preface

It has become increasingly clear to me that one of the biggest obstacles patients who have complex medical illnesses face is that the traditional system of medical care may not apply to them. If you are not feeling well for any reason, of course you want to put your faith in your doctors and the hospitals they serve. Faith is an integral component of the healing process, and I would hope that your faith in a system of health care is well founded. After all, over many years, you and your family may have been helped enormously through issues such as childbirth, surgeries, infections, and health emergencies. Your doctors, whom you have come to like and admire, have helped you through all of these issues. So now that you (or a loved one) have inexplicably come down with some as-yet-unnamed condition, surely those same dedicated healthcare providers won’t let you down.
But some of the illnesses we are seeing today seem to be of a different breed entirely. Patients present with symptoms that are more global, more diffuse, and harder to pin down. These symptoms arise in so many different areas of the body that they don’t seem to make sense. Your family physician has run as many tests as he or she can think of, and nothing is showing up. He or she may have referred you to rheumatologists, infectious disease specialists, gastroenterologists, orthopedists, neurologists, and pain specialists and finally, in desperation, has sent you to a psychiatrist for evaluation. Everyone shakes their head, baffled.
To make matters worse, because the root of the problem is so unclear, the growing implication is that somehow the illness is not “real”—it is all in your head. As doctors communicate that message to you and your family, your family begins to assume the same thing—that you are somehow under too great a stress or have some perverse “need” to be ill (which is known as secondary gain ) or are malingering. Deep inside, you know that this is not true—it is not all in your head. You are sick, but you don’t know why, and neither, it seems, does anybody else. Where else can you turn for help?
Sooner or later (but please, for your sake, I hope it is sooner), you will begin to wonder whether the system of medicine you have been using is up to the task of diagnosing and treating you. It seems kind of obvious that if you took a malfunctioning car to the same mechanic and he or she kept working on it without repairing the problem, at some point you would take the vehicle to another mechanic for another opinion. But doctors are not often viewed in the same way. It is very difficult to wrap our heads around the possibility that these bright, well-trained, caring people are not figuring things out, and neither are the colleagues with whom they consult. So you begin to believe that perhaps it is all in your head, or maybe you have a condition so rare and so terrible that no one, anywhere, will be able to diagnose and treat it. You are doomed to get worse and worse and dwindle away into a world of endless suffering and debilitation.
I wrote this book to show you that there is indeed another approach. If you are reading these words, you have already realized or have begun to realize that what you have been doing is not working and that you need to look for other information, other diagnoses, and other treatments.
In my previous two books, On Hope and Healing and Healing Is Possible, I outline a basic approach to the diagnosis and treatment of patients with what we are now calling complex medical illnesses . Examples include, but are not limited to, fibromyalgia, myalgic encephalopathy/chronic fatigue syndrome, Lyme disease with its co-infections, autism spectrum disorder, neurodegenerative diseases (such as multiple sclerosis, ALS, and Parkinson’s disease), mold toxicity, heavy metal toxicity, chronic viral infections, PANS (Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome), PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal infections), and many others.
For reasons I cannot pretend to understand, there is a considerable rift in medical information such that most of these named illnesses are quite controversial. This rift leaves patients in limbo between warring philosophies. I view this as unfortunate; patients should never be forced to choose sides.
On one side of this rift are those medical authorities who doubt the existence of these named conditions or feel that there is “not enough good science” to evaluate and treat them. Therefore, they believe it would be irresponsible to make any of these diagnoses and would be uncomfortable providing “unproven” treatments. On the other side are those who, like myself, believe that making these diagnoses is just the first step in helping patients get well, because they suggest a wide array of possible therapeutic approaches. Having seen these treatments work well for the vast majority of my patients over a twenty-five-year period, I believe we can offer legitimate hope for recovery for those who have been left by the wayside.
Thousands of patients have been restored to health by these newer concepts and treatments. However, we are beginning to see yet another incarnation of these disease processes. The patients who come to see me today are a quantum leap (or two) sicker than the ones who came to me in the late 1980s. My current patients have been sicker for longer periods before receiving a diagnosis or treatment. It is common for patients with Lyme disease to have been ill for five to twenty years before someone comes up with the diagnosis. Some of my patients have been treated with the best protocols currently available but are slowly getting worse—more fatigued, more brain-fogged, more crippled by pain, more anxious, more depressed, and more sensitive to everything: light, sound, chemicals, medications, herbs, supplements, and even tiny doses of homeopathic remedies or electromagnetic frequencies. This increased sensitivity is even more baffling than the symptoms that precede it. Physicians who are not familiar with this process shake their heads and communicate to these unfortunate patients that it is “impossible” to react badly to whatever treatment or dosage has been prescribed. They talk to the patients’ families and make it clear that this kind of sensitivity simply does not exist and (here we go again) is clearly “in the patients’ heads.”
I understand this thinking. When I first saw my first patient who reacted intensely to minuscule doses of hormones that I knew she needed (based on both laboratory testing and her symptoms), I did not get it, either. While I hope I did not let my skepticism show, I admit that deep down I questioned the veracity of her experience. But this was just the tip of the iceberg. Over time, as I continued to work with patients whom no one else knew what to do with, I saw more and more of these ultrasensitive individuals. Most important, I began to understand that these reactions are real, not psychological, and must be taken seriously if these patients are to be helped. The concept that any medication, herb, supplement, homeopathic remedy, or treatment of any kind is so safe and gentle that no one could possibly react to it is simply wrong. My patients have reacted badly to virtually everything you can think of, even probiotics. Because these unusually reactive and sensitive patients now constitute 70 percent or more of my practice, I can report with certainty that each and every substance given to one of these individuals must be provided cautiously, because unique responses are the norm, not the exception.
Now that I understand this and have had years of experience in working with hundreds of such individuals, I feel the need to share that information with both my colleagues and the general population. For those medical practitioners who think that these patients are rare and that they will never encounter them in their practices, please, please, think again. As our world becomes increasingly toxic due to the prevalence of chemicals, heavy metals, genetically modified foods, radioactivity, and electromagnetic radiation, we are beginning to realize that this is a growing epidemic.
Sensitive patients, having already grasped that if they share their symptoms with their healthcare providers, they are likely to be labeled as psychologically unstable, are understandably reluctant to do so. The single most important aspect of approaching these patients is to believe them. They are not making up their symptoms. They are suffering. They might look okay on the outside, but inside they feel awful. Even a family member or friend cannot assume that if a person looks fine, he or she is fine. In fact, most of my patients, in an effort not to engage the skepticism of others, make great efforts to look as normal as they possibly can. Paradoxically, this makes it more difficult for others to take their complaints seriously. These patients are between the proverbial rock and a hard place: if they allow their suffering to show, they are labeled as “whiners,” and if they don’t, no one believes them.
I do believe them. No one would make all of that up. My job as a physician is to elucidate the causative factors that are making them so sensitive and to treat those factors in the proper order. This is not an easy task, and it is not for the faint of heart or for those without patience. Central to this effort is making the correct diagnoses. Note the plural form of diagnosis. The older medical model of finding the singular cause of a particular illness is passé. These illnesses are caused by years of biochemical and medical dominoes—a patient experiences an illness, perhaps a virus, or perhaps a motor vehicle accident, or perhaps simply childbirth, and for whatever reason is not fully restored to health. In a mildly compromised state, he or she is more susceptible to another illness, then another, and then another, until the patient reaches my doorstep. We need to work through these steps to clarify all the components, determine which of the inciting factors is the main one that is interfering with the healing process, and slowly and gently begin to reverse it.
That is what this book is about. My intention is to share with everyone who wants to listen how to make these diagnoses, tease them apart, and then begin the treatment process. The patients who have come this far down the road need a more profound form of treatment than the ones used successfully with other patients; they need to be “rebooted.” In these pages, I will make every effort to make this rebooting process clear, because, once understood, it will lead to a host of integrative, alternative, and even conventional treatments that can help accomplish this goal. It will require, on everyone’s part, a lot of time and patience, slow and gentle efforts, and, yes, a financial commitment as well.
Because I have seen this process work for hundreds of patients, this is also a book of hope—realistic hope for really, really sensitive and sick patients.
Let’s get started.
Disclaimers
First, let me emphasize that I have no financial ties to any company, individual, product, supplement, test, laboratory, or website mentioned in this book. If I refer to a specific product or test, it means that I have used that product or test with a great many patients and have come to appreciate how well it works. I hope that makes all such recommendations as clean as I can make them.
As excited as I hope you will be to try the treatments I describe, please understand that all of them, under some circumstances, present some risk or danger. Please do not embark on any treatment without the assistance of someone who is medically trained, knowledgeable, and experienced in the details of the testing and treatments described in this book .
This book is not intended to be a treatment manual, but rather a starting point for understanding your illness and a catalyst for initiating progress in your medical journey.
Throughout this book, with a few exceptions that are clearly noted, I have changed the names of patients, all of whom have consented to have their case histories presented herein. I have done so to protect their privacy, but I have taken care to present their medical information as accurately as possible.
As medical information evolves, so does the work in progress that represents our life stories. By the time this book has gone to print, some of the details of this medical information may have changed, along with some of the stories that my patients have related. What you read in this volume are the best, most current truths to which I have access at this time, subject to change at a moment’s notice. I will do my utmost to stay on the cutting edge of these truths.

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