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Dr. Robert Jay Rowen, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Johns Hopkins University and graduate of the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine is internationally known for his work in the field of complementary/alternative/integrative medicine. He is affectionately known as the “Father of Medical Freedom” for pioneering the nation’s first statutory protection for alternative medicine in 1990 in Alaska, against a concerted opposition from the organized medical community and an imported “quackbuster.”
A few years later, the Alaska governor appointed him to a term on the state medical board against overwhelming opposition from the medical establishment. His appointment was ultimately confirmed by the legislature with overwhelming public support. The rare medical freedom he enjoyed in Alaska enabled him to greatly expand knowledge and experience in a multitude of disciplines and therapies not normally found in medicine.
Jumping into alternative medicine in 1983 through a practice in acupuncture, he quickly expanded to nutritional medicine, chelation therapy, oxidation therapy, homeopathy and herbal medicine, and took intensive training in neural therapy and prolotherapy to help treat and eliminate acute and chronic pain. Alaska’s laws enabled him to work extensively with innovative cancer therapies, ozone, and ultraviolet blood irradiation therapy. He is internationally known and respected for training hundreds of open-minded physicians in these techniques from around the world.
In 2001, he became editor in chief of Second Opinion, one of the nation’s leading monthly publications revealing the frontiers of medicine. Thus, he reduced his practice load considerably to write and teach, and relocated from Alaska to California where he works part time with his like minded talented wife, Terri Su, MD at her Santa Rosa office, Radiant Health Medical Center, in the north Bay area.
You are cordially invited to journey with him into the frontiers of medicine with a free past issue of Second Opinion. Dr. Rowen has authored numerous articles and some of which may be read online.
If you suffer from Alzheimers, check your sleep patterns. Its possible your Alzheimers is not due to the disease at all. It could be caused by sleep apnea. And it is also possible a visit to a dentist could restore your memory.
You read that right — a dentist might be able to give you your memory back. Take Dr. Richard Coe as an example. Dr. Coe is a 68-year-old, conventional family physician from Tacoma, Washington. How he escaped from Alzheimers is a fantastic story.
In 1999, Dr. Coe was noticing mistakes in his medical work. His short-term memory was hit hard. He was dropping doses and numbers from his prescriptions. His wife noticed his growing difficulty making decisions and increasing fatigue. As a veteran, he got a full VA evaluation from two experts and three private doctors. After hours of formal cognitive testing, all five agreed that he had Alzheimers disease. That was in August 1999. The following month, he dropped out of practice.
He continued to gradually deteriorate. By December 2003, he felt ready to die. He could not get enough sleep, ran on empty, and could do his yard work for only one hour a day. His astute wife noticed that he had significant snoring and sleep apnea. She was already seeing Dr. Robson for a TMJ dysfunction and was doing well. She suggested that he see Dr. Robson.
Dr. Coe, an orthodox physician, admits he was 100% skeptical that a mouth splint could correct his sleep problem. Nevertheless, he went to see Dr. Robson in early 2004, mainly to please his wife. The following day, I felt extremely good, he noted. I never had an improvement that good. My wife said I was brighter and not moping around like I had a black cloud over my head. I slept through the night for the first time in years. And my memory was returning.
Dr. Coe, formally diagnosed with Alzheimers disease and retired from practice in August 1999, returned to full-time work on July 3, 2004. He would have started back on April 1, except that malpractice insurance was not immediately available.
Dr. Robson has turned my clock back at least 15 years. My memory and energy are as good as ever. I had only 12 visits with him. Even Dr. Coes long-term problem with depression was improved. My treating physician, an internist, does not believe the story, he told me. But I am telling everyone I can!
Friend, this is a case of diagnosed Alzheimers that is been completely cured! Is it possible many cases of Alzheimers are caused by sleep apnea? Definitely!
Dr. Robson is devoted to teaching other dentists his methods. Have your dentist call Dr. Robson to get more information about his training sessions.
I’ve written many times about how artemesia can help all kinds of cancers. Heres a dramatic story from veterinarian Leland Gross, DVM.
Tabby, a 14BD-year-old cat, had a squamous cell cancer on it is nose. The cancer had eaten away the whole nose to face level. Dr. Gross says squamous cell skin cancers in cats are similar to humans, they are sun related and can be aggressive.
He dissolved 100 mg artemisinin (from NutriCology) in a small amount of 50% DMSO. He then applied it directly on the cancer at least twice daily.
You may remember artemisinin, an herbal extract that you first read about in these pages three years ago. Artemisinin is the worlds number one treatment for malaria. However, it has the ability to kill cancer cells by the same mechanism that it kills malaria.
Its important to remove scabs and apply it directly to the tumor. Dr. Gross also gave the cat artemisinin orally — 100 mg, three times a week. That would be the equivalent of seven mg per pound in an adult human.
Within four to six weeks, the cancer was gone and the nose of Tabby eventually grew back completely! And the amazing thing, when the nose grew back, it came in pink, just like a newborn cat. It then developed pigment spots, which filled in completely, just like normal kitten development.
I’ve had other cases, in humans, where superficial cancers have regressed after applying artemisinin. This is exciting news, since surgery can be disfiguring even if successful.
I am eager to get feedback on topical artemisinin. If you happen to try it while awaiting conventional therapy, please let me know your experiences.
If you or a loved one has skin cancer, the only treatment available is surgery. Until now! There is a new alternative to curettage and electrical ablation (the two types of surgery used on skin cancer) that works well and causes much less scarring.
The FDA recently approved the topical drug imiquimod (brand name: Aldara) for specific types of basal-cell cancers. This drug stimulates the immune system to cause local inflammation. The inflammation can kill the wayward cells.
In two studies involving 179 treated patients, and 179 placebo recipients, there was a 75% clearing compared to only 2% respectively after 12 weeks. After two years, 79% of those who cleared the cancer remained cancer free.
Now here are the caveats. The FDA approved it only for superficial basal cell cancers in people with competent immune systems. And the cancer must be located on the trunk, neck, or extremities, excluding hands and feet. It also cannot exceed two cm in size.
I would prefer this to surgery for myself. However, most problematic basal cells occur on the head and face. I believe it is only a matter of time before this or another agent is found to be successful for these lesions. Now that the product is on the market, your physician can legally try this off-label in the privacy of his office. So if you have failed surgical treatment for head and/or face basal cell cancer, this is good news. I would not hesitate to use it, along with artemisinin, in these cases.
Another important test I’ve told you about is for homocysteine, a toxic amino acid produced normally in the body. Elevated homocysteine levels are strongly associated with heart disease and stroke. But now were finding that it causes even more problems.
The long-running Framingham study has now linked elevated homocysteine to a doubled risk of Alzheimers for those with the highest levels. And a Netherlands study has linked homocysteine to a two-to-four times elevated risk of osteoporosis.
Homocysteine damages mitochondria, the furnaces that generate energy in your body. Their injury can directly accelerate cell death and aging.
Action to Take: (1) Please get your homocysteine levels checked. If it is 10.0 or greater, then consider the treatments in #2 and #3 below.
(2) A Harvard professor reports lowered homocysteine levels in those with good lifestyle habits, including quitting (or never starting) smoking, exercising, and reducing alcohol consumption. This is the first place to start, along with a good diet. Plus it is free.
(3) Get plenty of folic acid, vitamins B6 and B12 (especially), and betaine (found in beets), which help rid your body of unwanted homocysteine. When bread and cereal makers added folate (which is a salt of folic acid) to their flour in 1996 to combat birth defects, it dropped neural tube defects by 20 percent. But it also dropped mortality from stroke and heart disease. Researchers estimate that folic acid added to food led to 31,000 fewer deaths from stroke between 1998 and 2001. In those same years, it also saved 17,000 from heart disease.
It makes sense to get plenty of folic acid from your diet and supplements. However, I am not a fan of flour. There are far better ways to get folic acid; the best is in fresh vegetables. You can also get it in B-complex supplements and most multivitamins. Healthy Resolves Max Plus has ample amounts of all the B-vitamins. I recommend you take at least 800 mcg of folic acid, 100 mg of vitamin B6, and 100 mg of vitamin B12 daily.
Ref: Dembner, Alice. Diseases of Aging Tied to Amino Acid, New York Times Syndicate, May 18, 2004; Associated Press, March 8, 2004.
