Update on Dr. Maulfair

We wanted to give you an update on Dr. M's health very briefly as this will be a long story when I am able to fill in the blanks and improve knowledge of what can be expected in times like these.

Conrad developed a kidney stone when he was home in January, due to dehydration as he became unable to swallow well enough to keep him-self healthy. He lost weight, unable to swallow he could not keep up with the demands of good hydration and adequate food. He had not had an IV since before our Christmas break. He went into the hospital for a simple stent placement over the kidney stone. A few days became five weeks of little food and bedridden.

Something happened during the surgery, perhaps no one noticed his weight, we are not sure but he had trouble reviving from the anesthesia and his throat was damaged from the thing they do - can't think of what you call the thing that is put in someone's throat. He became unable not only to swallow at all but also to control his muscles to speak clearly.

Not being aware of nasal gastric tubes I did not know about that option until one of our patients who is a speech therapist came to visit him and said "Where is his NG tube?", I asked what that was. Not a good moment in my life as this was fully two weeks after the surgery and not one hospital person had offered an NG tube but only the surgically placed tube directly into the intestines. I guess they just thought we should suffer if not accepting their solution. I still have not recovered from the shock of that but when I asked they provided it. After a little bit of "food" that first evening he managed to pull it out partially and they decided not to replace it which I found out later happens frequently and the other hospitals our speech therapist works with just simply replace them. This team of hospitalists said no.

The last 8-9 days we had a very different doctor who ordered it replaced and also allowed the magnesium I had to fight for every day to be given two times per day along with other requests like giving Conrad Effective Microbes I brought from home.

Conrad had been home improving every day and gaining the ability to swallow better and other problems were improving when he pulled the NG tube again. This time we went to another hospital and finally had it replaced and he is back home and again improving every day.

He is tough and although they consider him critical he has very good vital signs and is happy to be back home.

If you are hospitalized you may or may not be able to exercise your wishes in treatment. I was flabbergasted at how hard it was to be able to have simple things.

We are now faced with finding private nursing as two companies will not let us provide hydration IVs nor have speech therapy to help him regain his ability to swallow and to stand under hospice. I know people who recover in hospice and thought a patient had rights to some care. We are asking for IV hydration as he cannot swallow at this point and needs it. We have found an organic meal replacement which we use along with other nutrients.

We can tell you first hand how illogical and problematic home care, palliative care, and hospice care are to arrange if you do not fit the usual profile and guidelines.

I want Conrad to improve and get better and feel he certainly can but the great "gods" of the medical establishment insist I must face the facts. I have other facts. People recover.

This has been the most challenging, painful time of my existence as we face Conrad's health problems and also face up to the harmful and inflexible broken medical system.

We have found kind and supportive doctors at this point, three in fact that we hold dear, who made and are making life better for us. There have been a few nurses that have meant the world to us in the understanding and true comfort they offer us. But our message is these circumstances that life has been made so much worse by the system of hospital care and home care dictated by the government and not by patients or the caregivers.

We have the help of family and friends and the prayers of many, all of which we cannot do without and we will find a way to get Dr. M the help he needs from the professional and kind caregivers. I want him to have the care and love he gave to others all these years.

Just so you know we are also heartbroken in having to leave our wonder patients so abruptly and miss them deeply.

More later, Coleen

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From The Desk Of Coleen Maulfair

Dr Maulfair and I are very excited to be able to bring Mr. Hubbard's practical detoxification program to our friends and patients. You can read about it on the internet at purelyyoudetox.com. This is the program that has helped so many in this country and across the world including the victims of the Chernobyl disaster in Russia. If you check out your local bookstore you will find a book called "Clear Body Clear Mind" by Mr Hubbard. Dr Maulfair is acutely aware of the toxins harming most people's health and barring the full recovery of their vitality. Utilizing this detoxification program we can help people eliminate most toxins stored in body fat. You will hear a great deal about this in the months to come. Stay tuned.

CHELATION SUCCESS — from Dr Maulfair

I want to give you a history of one of our chelation patients and his studies as he progressed through a chelation program with us. Our patient had an emergency bypass surgery in 1986 following a failed angioplasty. In 1997 he developed symptoms and another angioplasty was done of the previously bypassed arteries that had blocked again and another bypass surgery. The patient was frustrated due to all the surgery as he did not drink or smoke, his cholesterol levels were good and he ate well and exercised. One of the functions routinely looked at is ejection fraction which is the measure of how effectively the heart is pumping blood, the ideal range is around 50-55% depending on the technology used to measure it. This patient had an ejection fraction of 60-70% the end of 1997 after the second bypass surgery. He was hospitalized twice in January of 1998 with chest pain and unstable angina, drug therapy was the only recommendation. He had a catheterization done in January of 1998 with an ejection fraction of 53% and evidence of damage to the heart and decreased circulation.

The patient started a chelation program with us February of 1998. He continued to see his cardiologist and a stress test in January of 1999 revealed his ejection fraction to be 60% with no longer any evidence of damage to the heart and there was less evidence of decreased circulation. Another stress test in January of 2000 revealed the ejection fraction to have increased to 66% and no evidence of heart damage and NO evidence of decreased circulation. A repeat stress test in January of 2001 showed the ejection fraction at 62% (in average range) and again no evidence of decreased circulation or heart damage. Another stress test in January of 2002 revealed his ejection fraction increased to 72%, the highest it has been in five years and again no evidence of decrease circulation or heart damage. He continues on his chelation program. How is that for evidence of effectiveness. His cardiologist is supportive of his chelation program.

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All Chelation Is Not The Same

If at some time during your life you have expressed some interest in health, nutrients, good eating or other natural pursuits, you are no doubt on at least one and probably multiple mailing lists from various "natural health-oriented" publications selling products. You may well also subscribe to at least one or more health newsletters. From some of these sources, you have most likely been exposed to various promotions touting oral chelation therapy. The typical promotion refers to improvements in various symptoms of chronic degenerative diseases. The promotion goes on to say something about the results of an intravenous chelation therapy program can be obtained by taking oral chelating agents. The promotion cleverly states that it will take longer with the oral chelating agent than with the real chelation therapy program.

Chelation as defined in the Dorland's Medical Dictionary is "combination with a metal in complexes in which the metal is part of a ring". The definition of chelate includes "chelates are used in chemotherapeutic treatments for metal poisoning". The medical profession, in general, and the area of toxicology more particularly, view and treat toxins and toxic reactions from the acute viewpoint. Chronic long-term toxic exposure is not popularly viewed, diagnosed or treated. 8 of 10 Americans die from cardiovascular disease (heart attacks or strokes) and/or cancer. These have been clearly associated with chronic toxic metal exposures. The good news is that this wonderful body we live in has the potential of chelating or ridding itself of toxic metals to some degree. Problems arise when the total load of the toxic metal exposure exceeds the body's ability to rid itself of them on an ongoing basis. Metals then become entrapped in various tissues in the body and their presence leads to chronic degenerative disease development, as well as speeding the aging process.

Chronic degenerative disease development and the aging process are also impacted upon by metastatic calcium. Metastatic calcium is calcium that is deposited in soft tissue where it is not supposed to be, such as in arteries, tendons and ligaments. Calcium's presence in soft tissues contributes to stiffening and hardening. Iron and copper, and calcium are essential for normal function in the human body but can also contribute to damage and contribute to chronic degenerative disease development, as well as the aging process. While natural oral chelating agents can have an impact to some degree on toxic metal excretion, they do not have an effect on calcium and iron and copper, and handling these minerals along with the toxic metals is essential for the restoration of the quality and quantity of life and the retardation of chronic degenerative disease development and the aging process.

Real chelation therapy (properly prescribed comprehensive chelation therapy program) has been helping hundreds of thousands of people in this country and around the world over 50 years. We know from observation what the intravenous chelation treatment plus the rest of the properly prescribed comprehensive program can do. When any single oral chelation product can duplicate this 50-year history with the thousands of references that have been developed over that 50-year period, then we will talk. In the meantime, I am going to continue my own chelation therapy program and continue to prescribe it to others. As an aside, I might mention that a recently developed carotid artery ultrasound protocol, which uses a patented computer program to evaluate the inner most lining of the artery, that I had done last spring showed that while my chronological age at the time was 68, my arterial age was 42. I have been on a preventive chelation therapy program for about 25 years.

Iodine, The Forgotten Element
Iodine is an essential element. Any element that the body cannot produce but has to be introduced into the body from the outside is essential. We are totally reliant on eating or drinking it. Iodine's main function is in the production of thyroid hormones, which are in turn essential for cellular energy production. Without iodine, the thyroid hormones will not function. Hypothyroid (below-average function of the thyroid) results in numerous symptoms and life quality issues, including virtually every cell and tissue and organ system.

Additionally, there has been evidence of insufficient levels of iodine and the presence of fibrocystic breast disease, as well as ovarian and uterine cancer.

A study published in Physiological Reviews in 1943 spoke about the use of iodine to inhibit the development of atherosclerosis in rabbits fed cholesterol. Another fascinating observation in the experiment was that the lipid (fat levels) in the blood were elevated, but in spite of that, the atherosclerotic process was impeded by the addition of iodine. A previous study published in 1935 demonstrated the same findings.

In the early 1960's potassium iodate was used as a dough conditioner in the making of bread and as a result, many people had improved or adequate iodine stores. Late in the 1970's into 1980's, bakers replaced the iodine with bromate as a dough condition. Both elements are halogens. Bromide unfortunately causes goiters and is carcinogenic. The Japanese consume at least 100 times the USA RDA for iodine. Inorganic iodine is safe and effective. The organic iodine that is used in drugs and X-ray dyes is not.

There is a simple way to determine whether you have an iodine insufficiency. It involves taking four specially prepared iodine tablets and then a laboratory specializes in the procedure measures the amount of iodine, and the iodine insufficiency that is identified can be easily remedied by taking a special iodine preparation orally.

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Dr. Maulfair has not retired. For several years pronouncements of my retirement have filtered to us. I can categorically state that not only have I not retired, but I am more active than ever and continue to expand and plan to do so well into the future. My father practiced to age 87. My goal is to surpass that, so you will be seeing me for a long time.

Hints on Choosing a Doctor
There is a wildly held believe in society primarily I guess based on observations of people within the society, that as you get older, life quality decreases, chronic degenerative diseases occur, arthritis, hardening of the arteries, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes, cancer, and that is natural. The notion that aging is synonymous with loss of life quality is specious. There are areas in the world where people live to well in their 80's, 90's and beyond with health. Health is a normal state, disease is the aberrated state.

Physicians are trained to diagnose and treat disease. As a consequence, we do not have a healthcare system in this country. We have a disease care system. If your ideal scene is to live a long, healthy life, then waiting until you have symptoms of chronic degenerative disease and advanced aging and then hoping standard medical philosophy with total reliance on drugs and surgery to correct the loss of health is going to be ineffective and will probably hasten the loss of health. If you have been told or know of others who have been told by a number of the medical profession that "after all you are getting older", some way explains the occurrence of the symptoms and the loss of health and it is to be expected. In other words, if the physicians that you consult have a basic disease-oriented approach and believe that it is normal to lose life quality as you age, then you should be prepared to accept loss of life quality as you age as a result of that medical viewpoint. You need to know, however, that you can change your mind at any time about anything. If you decide that getting older does not have to be consistent with illness and loss of life quality, then you need to seek a physician who shares that viewpoint with you. The bottom line is your life quality can be high right up until you die at an old age. If you do not see that as your future, you need to make some changes now.

Social Diseases
Years ago, the term "social disease" was used to refer to usually sexually transmitted venereal diseases. It was also used to refer to other diseases that are related to social or economic factors, such as tuberculosis. That definition does appear in Webster's Dictionary, but "social disease" does not appear in the Dorland's Medical Dictionary that I looked at. I suggest that the term "social disease" be reinstituted in medical dictionaries and that the term should include coronary artery disease, diabetes, cerebrovascular disease, arthritis and peripheral vascular disease. These diseases have become so prevalent in our society that they are social diseases. I guess the standard medical profession's inept handling of these diseases, their prevalence, prevention and treatment would not allow them to admit that the frequency does indeed categorize them as social diseases. This is not a healthy country. We are not healthy people. All it requires is that you change your mind, become educated, ask questions, do not accept something just because it is popular, learn about what you can do to control your future health. Do not wait until your health is gone to try to reclaim it. You have got to maintain it. Disease does not start and as a result you lose your health. Health begins to disappear long before disease becomes evident. Treating disease does not restore health, it just treats disease. Restore and maintain health and there is no room for disease. The two cannot occupy the same space at the same time.