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A CLASSICAL EXAMPLE OF MEDICAL QUACKERY
21st CENTURY STYLE:
THE NON SPECIFICITY
OF "PROSTATE SPECIFIC" ANTIGEN
By Daniel H Duffy Sr, DC
A CLASSICAL EXAMPLE OF MEDICAL QUACKERY
21st CENTURY STYLE:
THE NON SPECIFICITY
OF "PROSTATE SPECIFIC" ANTIGEN
By Daniel H Duffy Sr, DC
Rewritten September 6, 2004
On Saturday, June 15, 2002 a long time patient came in for his regular checkup and treatment via AK. He is now
77 and has been a patient for almost 30 years. He was preparing for a senior citizen race walking event.
On a recent visit to His MD, he was examined in orthodox fashion and found to have an elevated PSA for which an
incredibly expensive drug was prescribed. It cost over $1000 for 90 pills. Three of the pills immediately made him
sick so he stopped taking the drug after his first three doses.
Of course, he only paid five of the $1000 plus dollars it cost - we the taxpayers paid the rest - thanks to the socially
disastrous efforts of LBJ - the father of MEDICARE.* [see short story at the end of the Prostate article].
HERE ARE THE FACTS ON PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN, THE PSA NOTORIOUS PSA TEST WITH ITS
DISASTROUS RESULTS, NOW CONFESSED BY ITS CHIEF PROTAGONIST DR STAMEY OF U OF
CAL......PASS THEM AROUND!!!
1. PSA means Prostate Specific Antigen.
2. PSA is NOT specific and has LITTLE to do with the prostate specifically.
3. PSA is found in females with breast, lung and uterine cancers. [whoops!] In fact, the highest levels of PSA have
been found in females RECOVERING from breast cancers. [J Nat'l Cancer Inst Oct 6, 1999, Fortier, AH et al]
Surprise, surprise, the ladies that made the best recoveries were the ones with the highest PSA levels!!
4. PSA appears to be an anti-angiogenic molecule. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, one of the features of
cancer is that it has an enormous appetite and therefore needs a huge blood supply to feed it, so wherever you
see cancer growing, you will see angio-genesis taking place – the creation of new vascular tissue. [That's why
shark cartilage became popular.]
5. PSA appears to inhibit the usual increases in circulation necessary to feed the cancer and to support its rapid
growth and proliferation.
6. Nicholas Gonzalez MD of NYC reports patients who have shown PSA levels of a hundred or more for long
periods of time who are doing just fine as they recover from their cancers - he opines that increased PSA levels
indicates a GOOD response by the body, NOT a BAD response. [audio tapes 12 and 17 spring 1999 lecture,
ACAM – see ordering info below]. Dr Gonzalez uses the nutritional protocol that he learned from his teacher, the
orthodontist and scientist, Dr William Donald Kelley of Grapevine, Texas, who is one of my three nominees for the
Nobel prize in medicine [along with George J Goodheart DC and James Pershing Isaacs MD]. Gonzalez also
reports a well recovered cancer patient with a CEA of 350,000, the highest in medical history. See the article on
this site entitled, The AMAS test, to learn about the CEA which is another cancer marker. When a tumor breaks
down it dumps CEA into the blood stream which can be measured.
WARNING AND CAUTION NOTE!! BE CAREFUL ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT BLOOD TEST LEVELS
AND TUMOR SIZES, MORE IS OFTEN NOT WORSE, AND BIGGER, [TUMOR], IS OFTEN NOT WORSE!!! The
healing process often causes tumors to encapsulate and get a little bigger rather than smaller, although the growth
is stopped and they are walled off!!
7. So giving a toxic drug for a "specific" antigen which is not at all "specific" is just one more in a long line of
examples of medical quackery being propagated by present establishment sources. It’s sort of like giving a deadly
drug for a non infectious, non transmissible disease [AIDS] allegedly caused by an unproved virus [HIV]. It can also
be compared to injecting newborn babies with foreign proteins and heavy metal poisons to “protect” them from
adult diseases found mainly in intravenous dope addicts [recreational drug users]. Note that I use the old familiar
term for these human wastrels – “dope addicts” rather than “substance abusers” – dope addict is more apropos.
Sort of like calling a bum a bum, rather than a homeless person. Using the euphemism “homeless person” might
make you feel better but hey, life is not fair, some people are bums. Face it. Others are criminals. Face it. Not
facing it results in what we’re discussing here. Highly educated people committing crimes against humanity and
getting away with it largely because we indulge the use of politically correct language. If we were in the habit of
calling bums what they are, and dope addicts what they are, we might not find it so difficult to call an MD a quack
and a criminal and begin to take steps to put them where they belong, behind bars, not out on the street preying on
the innocent and the ignorant.
The very highly educated, brilliant doctor, Thomas Stamey published the original study on PSA in the New England
Journal Of Medicine in 1987. He concluded, based upon his knowledge, experience and training along with the
study result that the worse the Prostate cancer, the higher the PSA. Exactly the opposite is true! Dr Stamey is an
honest fellow though, he recently was quoted as saying “I removed a couple of hundred prostates I wish I hadn’t.”
[F.B.Dunn, J Natl Cancer Inst Vol 94, No6, pp 415-16 Mar 20, 2002]
The activities of Dr Stamey raise several questions:
1. Do you think that Dr Stamey should be held accountable for those unnecessary surgeries?
2. What do you think would happen to the tobacco industry executives or the auto industry executives or the toy
industry executives if they were caught killing, maiming or harming so many people – especially innocent children
like those suffering from quack vaccine induced disabilities and death?
3. Do you think the deaths of prostate cancer patients resulting from misdiagnosis and maltreatment became part
of the statistics used to place the practice of orthodox medicine in third place on the list of causes of unnecessary
deaths in the USA?
4. Are you beginning to get the right idea about the dreadful effects orthodox medicine in the 21st century?
5. Why is it that many people are serving prison sentences for shaken baby syndrome [many of whom are victims
of medical misdiagnosis] and doctors are quick to charge lay people with neglect and abuse but we see no doctors
serving time for the same reasons? Since 328 people are killed every day by orthodox medical activity, why do we
not see a lot of doctors in jail? Isn’t it time we began holding them responsible in the same manner they hold lay
people responsible?
I'll say it once again, CONSENSUS-DRIVEN, ORTHODOX MEDICINE IS CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR, IT IS BAD FOR
YOUR HEALTH AND IT IS THE ROOT SOURCE OF ALL OF THE MEDICAL QUACKERY OF THE 21st
CENTURY. It is also the greatest threat to life and limb and health in all recorded history. Do you REALLY think that
orthodox medicine is only number three in the cause of deaths in the USA? If you believe that I have a bridge to sell
you! Most of the deaths caused by orthodox medical doctors go unreported and unrecognized for what they are.
The reported figures are only the tiny tip of a very large iceberg. This underreporting is especially true of vaccine
reactions. Especially in infants and young school aged children.
And we want to trust these people and accept what they have to say about VACCINES and HRT [hormone
replacement therapy] etc.??? We want to trust these consensus driven quacks to inject our neonates with
poisons? We want to accept the dribble and gobbledook nonsense they continue to propagate about vaccines,
phantom diseases, phantom viruses, bacteria and prions as the CAUSES rather than the RESULTS of most
disease processes???
CRISIS MEDICINE, ON THE OTHER HAND, IS A BLESSING TO HUMANITY - IT WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE IN AN
EMERGENCY, RESCUE YOU FROM CONGENITALLY INFLICTED PROBLEMS, AND SPARE YOU MOST OF
THE UNNECESSARY PAIN AND SUFFERING FROM TRAUMA AND ACCIDENTS – don’t confuse one with the
other, don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.
WHAT TO DO IF YOU HAVE A SWOLLEN PROSTATE THAT INTERFERES WITH URINATION:
1. Find a doctor who will teach you how to catheterize yourself.
2. Catheterize yourself three times a day to prevent buildup of urine in the bladder.
3. This has been reported to have successfully corrected an enlarged prostate recommended for surgery. Self
catheterization gives the prostate a rest, allowing it to recover. Saw Palmetto taken on a daily basis helps the
situation.
4. Urine buildup in the bladder can be dangerous, be sure that your doctor monitors your progress.
PASS THIS ON TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE, ESPECIALLY YOUR LEGISLATORS.
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*Because of the biased reporting in the USA [polls reveal that 89% of journalists vote for the democrat party, all
three major networks support the democrat party and continuously under report positive news and over report
negative news of the Republican party, indicating that journalists as a group are liberal minded, Utopianists driven
by their emotional, rather than their intellectual, brains.] As a result, the general public is unaware that the liberals
proved themselves to be wrong about the effects of welfare and government support on the lives of the poor.
This was demonstrated by the failure of the NIT [negative income tax] program - LBJ's pet project designed to
demonstrate that welfare would work if handled properly. In the greatest social experiment in history two groups
were examined: one group received welfare, one didn’t. It was called “the negative income tax program” – it
backfired terribly. LBJ’s welfare program tore apart the negro and hispanic families in which divorce rates
exceeded 80% in one of the groups. All of the statistics and complete explanation can be found in Murray's book,
Losing Ground, published back in the early 80s. and totally ignored by the liberal establishment].
In the New Jersey experimental group, the government supported group showed a divorce rate increase of 66%
amongst blacks and an amazing 84% increase amongst Hispanics!!! The divorce rate amongst whites remained
unchanged.
In the Gary, Indiana group there was no change in the divorce rate because they thought they would lose their
welfare money if they split up.
This controlled program demonstrated the effects of welfare and should have been widely publicized. It was not. It
was stifled and suppressed by both government and liberal media journalists.
Just as “the dog returns to its vomit”, so do emotionally driven, pseudo intellectual liberals, return to the socialist
experiment which has failed miserably time after time after time throughout history. You can teach a man how to
fish but once you begin giving him fish, he will never learn to fish for himself and he will then become an albatross
around his neighbor’s neck.
DHD Sr rewritten August 12, 2004
THE GREAT THYROID SCAM
By Daniel H Duffy DC
NOTE: LUGOL’S SOLUTION IS AVAILABLE FROM THE GENEVA CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC – ONE OUNCE
DROPPER BOTTLES, $10 EACH, FOUR BOTTLES WITH ANY SINGLE ORDER FOR $30, plus UPS charges.
440-466-1186.
Isn’t it odd that the government dispenses Iodine to protect against radioactive Iodine resulting from a nuclear
disaster when the medical quacks are dumping the same type of radioactive Iodine into patients with thyroid
problems in a stupid attempt to “cure” thyroid “disease” caused by a lack of elemental Iodine in its natural state
found in nature?
Nature’s Iodine protects our thyroid glands from taking up biologically destructive, radioactive, Iodine, yet the
medical quacks use similar radioactive Iodine to destroy our thyroid glands??!! [mainly in women].
Why did doctors quit using Lugol’s solution, the sure cure for thyroid disease? Why did the medical quacks bring in
anti thyroid drugs and goitrogens to kill the thyroid gland when Iodine was being used so successfully for so long?
Since Thyroid disease is caused by malnutrition or poisoning [as are most diseases – if you believe otherwise you
need to read elsewhere on this site to relieve yourself of the “infectious” disease ideas you carry around in your
head.], why is this malnourishment NOT addressed? How many doctors even know what the [totally inadequate]
RDA for Iodine is, much less that it has never been established by proper studies? And how many doctors busily
destroying female thyroids with quack anti thyroid remedies know that the Japanese mainlander consumes a
hundred times more Iodine than the American citizen while enjoying the lowest cancer rate of all cancers except
stomach and almost no fibrocystic disease of the breast.
The very term, anti thyroid, gives one pause?? Why would we want to be “anti” any gland in our body???
Most importantly – when will this drug industry driven endocrinological carnage stop? When will the public wake up
and begin to bring the government sponsored medical quacks to justice to make amends for the terrible damage
they have wrought – especially to our women and children particularly? If the tobacco industry and the corporate
criminals cooking the books of large companies such as ENRON can be brought to justice, why not the medical
goons and their drug company co-conspirators that are busily crippling and killing our loved ones??
A hint of the widespread, mind boggling damage being done daily by drug industry driven medical quacks is given
by a very talented medical researcher in the June 2004 issue of THE ORIGINAL INTERNIST. In his article entitled “
The Concept of Orthoiodosupplementation and Its Clinical Implications” Guy Abraham MD, wrote, "...medical
textbooks contain several vital pieces of MISinformation [emphasis added] about the essential element Iodine,
which may have caused more human misery and death than both world wars combined." [8,9] In other words, the
medical scandal concerning the simple and recommended use of iodine in the form of Lugol's solution vs
radioactive iodine and harmful goitrogens has resulted in more misery and death in the last 50 years than that
attributed to the two big wars.
8. Abraham, GE. "The Wolf-Chaikoff effect of increasing Iodide intake on the thyroid." Townsend Letter, 2003;
245:100-101.
9. Abraham, GE. "The safe and effective implementation of orthoiodosupplementation in medical practice." The
Original Internist, 2004; 11(1):17-36.
In the brilliant series of articles by Dr. Abraham and his fellow researchers I have deduced the following:
1. The recommended daily requirement [150 micrograms] of iodine has never been properly established.
2. The minimum daily requirement is actually about one hundred times the 150 micrograms recommended by
medical authorities. Japanese consume 13.8 milligrams and more a day and suffer low breast cancer, fibrocystic
breast disease etc. [U of Pa is now conducting studies on the effectiveness of iodine in breast cancer].
2. About a third of the world's population is iodine deficient.
3. Establishment medical quacks substituted dangerous and destructive quack remedies in the form of goitrogens
and radioactive iodine to "burn out" or "shut off" thyroid gland function.
4. These same quacks blamed symptoms described as “iodism” [too much iodine] on levels of elemental iodine
when in fact that they were caused by the MOLECULAR iodine in their biologically poisonous, goitrogenic,
compounds.
5. That there was clear evidence of chicanery on the part of the researchers in the development of prescription
drugs to replace simple, effective therapy.
6. The substitution of Bromine for Iodine in bread dough in the 1960s was probably the final stroke of bad luck for
consumers in regards getting enough iodine in the diet to maintain proper thyroid function. [along with the addition
of iodized salt]. We have medical authorities, members of the junk food industry and criminally negligent legislators
to blame for this.
7. In spite of the big clue published in JAMA, 238:1124, 1976 by Ghandrakant et al, Breast Cancer. Relationship to
Thyroid Supplements for Hypothyroidism. Medical quacks insisted upon prescribing thyroid hormone to drive iodine
deficient thyroid glands to function at higher levels – they even went so far as to prescribe synthetic hormone,
SYNTHROID while disregarding the natural, more efficient, Armour brand already available and productive of far
less destructive results.
8. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out why we had such a sudden increase in breast cancer in this
country. The increases in all the degenerative diseases can be laid right at the doorstep of modern medicine,
especially when you factor in the disastrous effects of the use of hormone replacement therapy [HRT] and the use
of Estrogen [the only known cause of breast cancer] and the distortion of natural Progesterone in favor of the
patent medicine Progestin marketed as Progesterone that killed so many of our young women [strokes] back in
the sixties. Any high school student wishing to take the time to do the research can come up with all the evidence
necessary to prove this point. Indeed, I would recommend any high school student who happens upon this article
to make the attempt. Who knows? You might become the hero of the 21st century!!!
With such obvious and blatant quackery being indulged in our country with its mind boggling and tremendously
underrated effects, one can only wonder about the activities of men such as Stephen Barrett MD and his MD friend
Baratz who expend a lot of their time and energy attacking my profession and my discipline [Applied Kinesiology]
while ignoring the deadly effects of what is being wrought in their own house. The world would be a better place if
they would tend to their own “dirty linen.” They can be assured that I will continue to publicize the misdeeds of their
profession at every opportunity.
The time for justice is long overdue in the case of organized medicine, their drug cartel financiers with their
lobbyists and the legislative stooges who live off the drug money that provides political campaign donations.
I hope that this article will supply a little more ammunition for the gun that will eventually blow them all out of the
water.
In reading the below facts keep in mind the effects of all the halogens in our environment that interfere with Iodine –
1. fluorine in drinking water, 2. chlorine in drinking water, 3. chlorine in swimming pools, 4. Bromine in dough
conditioners [Iodine in flour dough was replaced by Bromine in the 1960s], 5. manmade sources of goitrogens in
pesticides and medicines.
When we add to the above list the hidden protein loss caused by the displacement of proteins forced to give up
their sulfur to detoxification processes, we see possibly the greatest and most overlooked effects of such
chemicals, the protein deficiency. In my experience , it is the rare degenerative or infectious disease that occurs in
the presence of adequate dietary protein, indeed, many of the so called infectious diseases such as Tuberculosis
have been known for decades to be protein deficiency diseases, a fact that is kept from the public in order to
facilitate the sale of vaccines, antibiotics and other life and health threatening products. To give an example of the
horrendous undercover effects of the great medical quackery, who could measure the disastrous effect on the
public health by a simple thing such as convincing people that eggs are bad for them? With one foul swoop a large
percentage of the population decides to eliminate eggs from their diet, denying themselves the very protein and
sulfur needed to protect themselves against the hidden dangers lurking in their environment, not the least of which
is the practice of orthodox medicine.
A recent series of brilliant articles by Guy Abraham in the pages of THE ORIGINAL INTERNIST reminded me of
one of the first lessons I learned from a fellow chiropractor, Vince Kulka, after opening my clinic doors in 1972 – the
use of Iodine at hundreds of times the RDA and the use of the Iodine patch test [rubbing iodine on the skin to
observe absorption time]. I was immediately successful back then in “melting” several goiters which seemed to be
prevalent in this [heavy cow’s milk consuming] dairy community of Ashtabula county. [most of the family dairies
have since closed down].
The purpose of this paper is to present to busy readers, in briefest form possible, a list of facts with references
from my readings, pertinent to THYROID FUNCTION and IODINE metabolism - including the overlooked related
diseases such as breast cancers, ovarian cysts and the lumpy breast syndrome [fibrocystic breast disease], a
frequently found condition that continually pops up in the clinic these days which serves as a constant reminder of
the need for IODEX topically and Iodine internally.
I have been using IODEX, an iodine containing paste applied directly to the skin for the past thirty two years to help
break up the intercostal pain and palpatory soreness at the sternum often suffered by a high percentage of
Midwesterners, especially female hypothyroids. I was taught early on that Iodine loosens, Iron tightens, Bile dries
and that the Ovary is uniquely involved with Iodine metabolism and that a balance must be maintained between
thyroid hormone and estrogen. I was also taught early on that it was common practice for veterinarians to rub
IODEX on the fetlocks of horses to eliminate cystic formations. Women are instructed to rub IODEX into the sore
spots at the intercostals at bedtime until the soreness disappears [wear old nightclothes to protect against the
staining of bedsheets] or to use it similarly during the day if possible.
Ohio seems to continue to be a low Iodine intake region. Early studies demonstrating the effects of large doses of
Iodine were performed on school children in Akron, a few miles south of my office, during the 1920s. The need for
high doses of Iodine was known then – it was only the abuses involving FDA, AMA and the alphabet soup medically
driven bureaucracies that brought about the misinterpretations, bad judgement and reductionist thinking resulting in
what Dr Abraham describes as “iodophobia”.
Mainland Japanese consume a hundred times the amount of Iodine that North Americans do. The coastal
Japanese consume even higher amounts. RDA in this country has never been established by a scientific study.
Recommended RDA in America is 150μg – Japanese consume 13.8mg! [end of comments]
The two short paragraphs below were received from a lady website visitor with a large lump in her breast. She is
under the care of an alternative medicine doctor. [emphasis added]
http://www.helpmythyroid.com/IOD1.htm
Guy E. Abraham M.D., Jorge D. Flechas M.D., and John C. Hakala R. Ph.
“In the 19th edition of Remington's Science and Practice of Pharmacy, published in 1995, (11) the recommended
daily oral intake of Lugol 5% solution for I supplementation was 0.1-0.3 ml. This time-tested Lugol solution has
been available since 1829, when it was introduced by French physician Jean Lugol. The 5% Lugol solution
contains 50 mg iodine and 100 mg potassium iodide per ml, with a total of 125 mg I/ml. The suggested daily
amount of 0.1 ml is equivalent to 12.5 mg of I, with 5 mg iodine and 7.5 mg of iodide as the potassium salt. This
amount of I is very close to 13.8 mg, the estimated daily intake of I in Japanese subjects living in Japan, based on
seaweed consumption.”
From Dr. Derry:
“Lugol's solution is an iodine-in-water solution used by the medical profession for 200 years. One drop (6.5 mg per
drop) of Lugol's daily in water, orange juice or milk will gradually eliminate the first phase of the cancer
development namely fibrocystic disease of the breast so no new cancers can start. It also will kill abnormal cells
floating around in the body at remote sites from the original cancer. Of course this approach appears to work for
prostate cancer as prostate cancer is similar to breast cancer in many respects. Indeed, it likely will help with most
cancers. Also higher doses of iodine are required for inflammatory breast cancer. As well we know that large
doses of intravenous iodine are harmless which
makes one wonder what effect this would have on cancer growth.
I hope this helps you understand breast cancer better.”
Dr. David Derry
http://thyroid.about.com/library/derry/bl1a.htm
IODINE METABOLISM -
THE FACTS
1. Iodine is the only trace mineral used to synthesize hormones. J Clin Endocr and Met 1998; 83:3398-3400
2. Iodine is the most deficient trace mineral in the world. 1/3 of all peoples are deficient. J Clin Endocr and
Met 1998; 83:3398-3400
3. Iodine deficiency is the number one cause of underfunctioning intellect. J Clin Endocr and Met 1998;
83:3401-08
4. The normal daily requirement of Iodine has never been determined. The Original Internist Dec 2002. p30
5. Reports on Iodine poisoning are misinterpreted, misunderstood and misrepresented to doctors and the lay
public. One medical authority of wide influence, R. Arem MD, incorrectly reported [The Thyroid Solution…”
1999]that high Iodine intake caused increases in thyroiditis and thyroid cancer in Argentina. Just the opposite was
true, low Iodine contributes to thyroid cancer. One archived anecdotal case from Dr Arem reported that 2.3 grams
of Kelp/day caused Grave’s disease necessitating thyroid gland destruction. Japanese consume 4.6 grams of
seaweed per day and continue to be amongst the world’s healthiest peoples. Arem unfortunately advises Iodine
consumption be restricted to only 500 to 600 56;g/day micrograms/day. The Original Internist Dec 2002 p30, 31.
6. 15% females are Iodine deficient with urine levels less than 50 956;g/L exposing them to prescription thyroid
hormones by doctors who never check urinary Iodine levels. J Clin Endocr and Met 1998; 83:3401-08.
7. Iodine works better than the hormones and lasts twice as long when discontinued. Eur J Clin Inv 1989;
19:527-534.
8. Iodine deficiency predisposes to breast cancer and high fat diet predisposes to Iodine deficiency. J Epid
Comm Health 2000; 54:851-858.
9. Japan and Iceland have high Iodine intake and low goiter and breast cancer, just the reverse occurs in
Mexico and Thailand. Quart Rev Surg Obstet Gynec, 1960; 17:139-147.
10. Iodine protects against estrogenic effects in breast cancer. JAMA 1967; 200:115-119, Adv Exp Med Biol,1977;
91:293-304.
11. Thyroid hormone therapy contributes to breast cancer in Iodine deficient women. JAMA , 1976; 238-1124.
12. In the usually misleading establishment organ Cancer, 1964, 17:1174-76 – effects of Iodine deficiency were
incorrectly interpreted based upon goiter incidence in Michigan. Goiters decreased from 38.6%-1.4% between
1921 and 1954 with no change in breast cancer. Their mistake was that they presumed incorrectly that the amount
of Iodine needed to prevent goiter would be equal to the amount to prevent breast cancer. However two studies
show that in woman and female rats it takes 20 to 40 times the amount of Iodine needed to control breast cancer
and fibrocystic disease than it does to prevent goiter. Can J Surg 1993; 36:453-460, Biological Trace Element
Research, 1995; 49:9-19.
13. Many drugs contain Iodine. Bad Side effects of Iodine containing drugs are usually blamed on the Iodine they
contain without ever submitting the hypothesis to a study. Good effects are attributed to the drug. The Thyroid,
Werner & Ingbar, Lippincott 2000 316-329.
14. Amiodarone is an antiarrythmia drug that contains 75 mg Iodine per 200 mg tablet that releases 9mg/day
Iodine/day. 20% of users of Amiodarone develop hypothyroidism. It also causes destructive thyroiditis for which
large amounts of glucocorticoids are prescribed or occasionally, thyroidectomy. The authors Roti and Vagenatis
[The Thyroid above] blame the Iodine for the side effects. Japanese actually consume 13.8 mg Iodine daily and
enjoy one of the lowest incidences of hypothyroidism and Iodine deficiency goiter. Quart Rev Surg Obstet Gynec,
1960; 17:139-147.
15. The widely read textbook on Thyroid Werner and Ingbar’s, The Thyroid, edited by Braveman and Utiger,
Lippincott 2000 contains a subsection in which Iodine is identified as a pathogen. Title of the article is “Iodine As A
Pathogen” and daily intake above 500 μg is considered excess, an amount equal to only 3% of the daily intake in
Japan, a country with extremely low female reproductive organ cancers. Int J Cancer 1986, 38:325-329 Japanese
mainlanders consume 100 times more Iodine than Americans and coastal Japanese consume higher amounts
than the mainlanders.
16. Thiocyanate is a goitrogen and caused hypothyroidism in rats on regular RDA amounts of Iodine. The effect of
the goitrogen was eliminated by increasing the rat Iodine intake to 80 times the RDA. Hormone & Metabolic Res
1995 27:450-454.
17. When Iodine was used in dough during the sixties one slice of bread a day contained the RDA of 150 _6;g and
the breast cancer risk was 1:20. The use of Iodine in bread dough was replaced with the goitrogen Bromine based
upon ill conceived, reductio absurdum results of lab driven reductionist medical methods. due to stupid medical
reductionist thinkingmedical stupidity and the rate of breast cancer has soared to 1:8 and is increasing at 1% a
year.
18. Prescribing thyroid T4 to hypothyroids increases susceptibility to breast cancer. JAMA 1976; 238:1124.
19. To overcome the effects of goitrogens in the food chain such as Bromine in dough, amounts of Iodine used in
Japan would be necessary. Hormone & Metabolic Res 1995, 27:450-454.
20. The last common food source for Iodine in the USA is iodized salt and the stupidity of medicine surfaces again
as the prestigious J of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism recommends cutting DOWN the amount of Iodine in
salt to half the amount now present! The title of the article is “Guarding our Nation’s Thyroid health”.
21. The percentage of thyroidal uptake of Radioactive isotopes of Iodine from nuclear catastrophe is increased in
areas of severe endemic goiter reaching levels of 80%. Am J Clin Nutr 1974, 27:96-103.
22. Iodine protects against uptake of the radioactive isotopes of iodides. The more Iodine consumed in the diet, the
lower the percentage of uptake of radioactive isotopes by the thyroid gland. Werner and Ingbar’s, The Thyroid,
edited by Braveman and Utiger, Lippincott 2000, 295-329.
23. At Iodine RDA levels of 150 956;g, uptake of radioactive Iodine is 20-30% of intake. When Iodine was introduced
into bread dough in the sixties the Iodine intake increased 4 to 5 times the RDA and the Iodine uptake was
decreased to below 20%. NEJM 1969; 280:1431-1434.
SUMMARY
Orthodox medicine, throughout recorded history has used a wide variety of substances and surgical techniques in
an attempt to relieve pain and suffering, to fight disease and to improve health. As a result, the practice of crisis
medicine, greatly facilitated by technological rather then medical progress, has rescued us from congenital
problems, accidents and trauma, however, statistically, the practice of patent medicine more than cancels out all
benefits gained by technological advances.
The practice of orthodox medicine is a life threatening, health robbing enterprise of mind boggling proportions
having absolutely unbelievable effects on life and health - exactly opposite that which is portrayed daily on television
and in the popular news media.
For every patient helped by crisis medicine some unknown but more than likely, mind boggling number, are
worsened and even killed outright [E.g.: 11,000 victims of the SMON “epidemic” in Japan during the 50s and 60s;
thousands of Swine flu vaccine victims during the 70s; thousands of US victims killed by AZT during a similar
medical crime during the 80s and 90s AIDS fiasco; more recently 80 [known and publicly admitted] victims of
Baycor, the Bayer Aspirin company’s cholesterol reducing drug; and most recently, thousands upon thousands of
[mostly unreported] infants and schoolchildren victims of mercury poisoning from totally unnecessary and
extremely destructive vaccines especially during the 90s.]
I would estimate that for every patient helped by crisis medicine at least a hundred or more are killed, maimed,
momentarily or irreversibly damaged by biological poisons. I just lost a long time patient who had moved to Florida
after retiring. He started on LIPITOR after departing from our influence and died unexpectedly of a heart attack. A
very vigorous, family oriented man who should have lived to be 90 or more.
The painfully evident statistical fact is that humanity would be far better off without an organization of doctors and
no free country can long survive the intrusion of government in medicine and especially, an organization of doctors
wielding government power.
We can learn from our mistakes and experience but not when governed by a group of self appointed protectors
[AMA, FDA, CDC, NIH] who continually interfere with the propagation of knowledge useful to health and most
importantly, PREVENT THE LEARNING FROM TAKING PLACE.
Improvements in health attributed to medicine have been gained by improving the tools of production and
improvement in other forms of technology such as 18 wheelers that deliver fresh foods during all seasons
regardless of weather [the direct result of which is a continual decrease in the number of diseases [incorrectly]
labeled as “infectious” by “bug happy” doctors].
Other small improvements in health and longevity can be attributed to what medicine has STOPPED doing rather
than BEGUN. Bloodletting is one example, another, the elimination of the especially poisonous old remedies such
as CALOMEL the escape from which unfortunately only lasted until mercury was again used in vaccines under the
label THIMEROSAL which faked out even the pediatricians using it on newborn infants, bringing about the most
horrendously sudden increase in iatrogenic disease in all recorded history. Government statistics show that Cases
of Autism have increased several thousandfold in some areas of the country.
Indeed, careful investigation, reevaluation and reinterpretation of historical evidence demonstrates that the poor
health of the nation and for that matter, the entire world can be laid directly on medicine’s doorstep.
The evidence does demonstrate that doctors do, in fact, kill more people than generals and wars. Only a small
percentage of the population is aware of this at any given time in history which explains why doctors continue to
enjoy their self appointed position as the guardians of health.
Dr Daniel H Duffy Sr
May 27, 2004
Rewritten August 12, 2004
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Hendersonville, NC 28792
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Effect of daily ingestion of a tablet containing 5mg Iodine and 7.5mg Iodide as the potassium salt, for a period of 3
months, on the results of thyroid function tests and thyroid volume by ultrasonometry in ten euthyroid Caucasian
Women.
Guy. E. Abraham M.D., Jorge D. Flechas M.D., and John C. Hakala R.Ph., The Original Internist 9: 6-20, 2002
Iodine sufficiency of the whole human body
Guy. E. Abraham M.D., Jorge D. Flechas M.D. and John C. Hakala R.Ph., The Original Internist 9: 30-41, 2002.
Effect of daily ingestion of Iodoral
Guy. E. Abraham M.D., Jorge D. Flechas M.D. and John C. Hakala R.Ph.
The Wolff-Chaikoff Effect: Crying Wolf?
Guy E. Abraham, M.D.
A MORE TECHNICAL ARTICLE
Measurement of urinary iodide levels by ion-selective electrode: Improved sensitivity and specificity by
chromatography on
anion-exchange resin.
Guy. E. Abraham M.D.1, Jorge D. Flechas M.D.2 and John C. Hakala R.Ph.3
I. Introduction
The last national nutritional survey (NHANES III 1988-1994) revealed that 15% of the U.S. adult female population
are iodine-deficient, as defined by the World Health Organization: levels of iodine/iodide (I) below 50 ug/L (1).
That is one out of every 7 female patients walking in a physician’s office. Yet, rarely do physicians order urine I
levels, even in patients with simple goiter and hypothyroidism. Such patients are usually prescribed thyroid
hormones. There is convincing evidence that I deficiency predisposed to fibrocystic disease of the breast
(FDB) and breast cancer (2-8). Administration of thyroid hormones to I-deficient women increased further their
risk of breast cancer (9). Forty years ago, the risk ratio for breast cancer in our population was one in twenty
and now it is one in eight (10), coincident with an increased prevalence of I deficiency in our population (1).
To encourage physicians to perform routine urine I determination in their practice, a simple method will be
described to accurately measure urine I levels. This technique uses quantification of iodide by a potentiometric
method, using an ion-selective electrode (ISE). Urinary iodide is measured by the electromotive force (EMF)
generated on the iodide-selective electrode due to the presence of iodide in the urine sample. Within a certain
range of iodide concentrations, there is a linear relationship between the logarithm of iodide concentration and
the EMF generated. The concentration of chloride in urine is usually one millionfold higher than iodide and there
is a significant interference by chloride in the analysis of urinary iodide by the ISE method. To prevent this
interference, purification of the urine sample by anion exchange chromatography is performed prior to ISE
measurement. This assay is simple, rapid, with results within one hour, if the ISE measurement is performed in
the physician’s office. We also present preliminary data on an I-loading test to assess I sufficiency of the whole
human body.
II. Motivating factor in the development of the assay
Mainland Japanese women have a very low incidence and prevalence of FDB and breast cancer (11). Several
investigators have proposed that the essential element I was the protective factor in mainland Japanese (2-8). If
indeed, the essential element I is the postulated protective factor, the administration of I to American women in
amounts equivalent to that consumed by mainland Japanese women would be expected to protect them from
breast cancer and improve FDB, as previously proposed by Stadel for breast cancer (12) and confirmed for FDB
by Ghent et al (5). Based on data supplied by the Japanese Ministry of Health, the average daily I intake in
mainland Japanese is 13.8 mg (13).
We evaluated the effect of 2 drops of Lugol solution in tablet form containing 5 mg of iodine and 7.5 mg iodide as
the potassium salt, (Iodoral®, Optimox Corporation, Torrance, CA), administered daily for 3 months to 10 normal
women. Informed consent was obtained from all subjects participating in the studies described in this
manuscript. This supplement had no adverse effect on ultrasonometry of the thyroid gland, the serum levels of
thyroid hormones, blood chemistry, hematology, and urine analysis (13). This form and amount of I was chosen
because it was widely prescribed during the early and mid 1900’s for I replacement therapy (13-16). The amount
of 12.5 mg of I present in 2 drops of Lugol is very close to the estimated mean daily intake of 13.8 mg I by mainland
Japanese (13).
According to the medical literature, urinary I level is the most valid index of I intake (17, 18). Using a commercial
laboratory (Doctor’s Data Inc., Chicago, Ill.), we followed the pattern of 24 hour urinary I excretion before and
after ingestion of one tablet of Iodoral® in 2 male and 3 female subjects. To our surprise, both male and female
subjects who ingested one tablet of Iodoral® containing 12.5 mg I, excreted in their 24 hr. urine samples only 10
to 30% of the I ingested, with a mean of 20% (Table I). There are two possible explanations for this finding: Low
bioavailability of the solid dosage form of the I tablet; or high retention by the body. If this was due to low
bioavailability, prolonged administration of this I supplement should not result in an increased urinary excretion;
otherwise, as the body becomes more I-sufficient, a greater percentage of the ingested I would be excreted. In
order to elucidate the cause of this low I excretion, we continued the administration of I in those subjects for one
month. Then, we repeated the 24 hr. urine collection and I was measured again in the collected urine samples.
Following one month of daily ingestion of one tablet of Iodoral®, the excretion of I increased to 36-96% of the oral
amount in 4 of the subjects with a mean of 50% in the 5 subjects (Table I). Female Subject #2 excreted only
10% of the oral dose after one month of supplementation. She had the lowest baseline I level (0.022 mg/24 hr)
and the greatest I retention after one and 30 days. The only distinctive feature of this subject was
mammomegaly (size 40D). This would suggest a very important role of the mammary glands in the
requirement for I by the whole human body. To our knowledge, the above findings have not been previously
reported. The implication of such observation is that an I-loading test could be developed to assess not just
thyroid sufficiency but I requirement of the whole human body. However, for such a test to be practical, one
month duration is too long. So, the next alternative was to progressively increase the amount of I in a single
dose and to measure urinary I excretion in order to find the amount of ingested I that would result in the greatest
between individual differences of urine I levels, as an index of degree of whole body I sufficiency. The standard
deviation from the mean value could be used as an |