“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

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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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Published Literature on Intentional UVB Treatment and D Levels

(Vieth AJCN 1999 : 69 p 842-56)

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When you are deprived of sunshine, your D level drops

(Vieth AJCN 1999: 69, 842-56)