“I’m Not Gonna Miss You”

Thanks Stucky!!
He is a native Arkansan. My father loved his music and wore out a couple 8 track tapes when I was a kid, consequently I learned to appreciate his music as well.

TBP enthusiast:

I have been an alternative medicine provider since 1978. I no longer see patients, except for family, friends, and the cancer patients that I have kept alive that were sent home to die. Occasionally I will write an email for friends and family. One of those emails appears below. Take from it what you find useful.

Tom

Background
I have not written a health alert in a long time. The main reason is simply because much of what I present requires a deeper understanding than most of my friends and family posses. That statement is not an insult. Why? Because modern medicine has been co-opted by political and financial interest. Sadly, most modern governments/bureaucracies, and especially the US, have become corrupt because government is for sale. This predicament is not a conspiracy. It is simply how government/bureaucracy functions and evolves. Making matters worse is the fact that as more of the population becomes dependent on the State (Obamacare), governments become more corrupt. When dependency on government grows to become the largest demographic, greater tolerance of government corruption and inept action is the result. As long as dependent people are receiving (or promised) “Free stuff,” the lemmings are more easily led off a cliff. There is health info available on the internet. Half is good and half is junk. As previously stated the majority of the readers do not know enough to distinguish between the two.

Unfortunately, your doctor is merely a pawn in this scenario. He or she unknowingly follow established guidelines that serve commercial interest more than your health. These guidelines are commonly referred to as the ‘Standard of care.’ Your physician is probably very smart and is a well intention-ed practitioner. Unfortunately, as with computers, garbage in = garbage out. They practice within the standard of care which is established by bureaucrats, pharmaceutical companies, and the lobby groups that represent food and drug companies. Why is this background offered? Because many readers are going to ask their the physicians about the information presented below. As I have stated to many friends, “If your physician knew, they would be telling you.” Need proof of how poorly our health care delivery is in the US? According to the WHO, when dollars spent is measured the US is first and spends twice as much per person as the country in second place in the world’s top ten countries economically. Yet, our medical outcomes (results) are ranked dead last among the top ten economically and we have been ranked as low as 24th in the world.

Alzheimers
A few years ago a friend came to me after receiving a diagnosis of vascular amyloidosis, which is related to the Alzheimer’s aberrant protein. Asking for my understanding and input, I feared that my suggestions would be ignored. When suggestions were made the response I received was, “I will check with my doctors.” Again I replied, “If your doctors knew, they would be telling you.” Sadly, he followed his doctors and he is no longer with us.

The number of people with a Alzheimers and vascular bata amyloid disease is on the rise in the Boomer generation. Alzheimer’s and Beta amyloid vascular disease are not separate entities, they are related. These conditions are caused by a buildup of an aberrant protein. Sadly, few ask why. The question normally asked is, “Are there any drugs to treat this.”

Alzheimers disease is rarely present in third world countries. If you are thinking industrialized pollution is the cause of these dreaded conditions, think again. In Japan, the second largest industrialized country in the world, the rate of Alzheimer’s is a mere fraction of that in the US, Germany, Italy France, etc. What do the third world and Japan have in common? Read on.

Many year ago I took a nutritional medical course that included information about the relationship between copper (Cu) and Zinc (Zn). Excess Cu causes a ZN deficiency, and excess Zn causes a Cu deficiency. At the course I remembered reading the work of Carl Pfeiffer an MD, Phd, biochemist from the Brain Bio Center of Princeton more than a decade prior to the course. Pfeiffer was a pioneer in brain function and nutrition who treated many mental disorders with nutrients. Chief among theses brain beneficial nutrients was zinc. Pfeiffer’s work impressed me at the time, and it served as the foundation of the research and findings presented below.

Copper (Cu) is an essential nutrient, a deficiency of which can cause problems. Only under exceptional circumstances will a CU deficiency be found today. However, Cu toxicity is a major problem, and Cu’s relationship to the amyloid beta aberrations (Alzheimers and vascular amyloid) is clear.

Earlier I stated that Japan and the third world have the lowest incidence of Alzheimers. One reason is both the third and Japan do not use copper pipes to deliver their water. Japan wisely chose not to use copper because they feared Cu toxicity. But, when the Japanese migrate to Hawaii, their Alzheimer levels are equal to that of the US. The third world has no choice as they do often do not have plumbing. The use of Cu pipes went into overdrive in the 50’s when the majority of homes built used Cu plumbing. The Boomers are approaching or past 50 years of Cu over-consumption and as a result have developed Zn deficiency and beta amyloid accumulation.

Inorganic Cu is different from organic or food bound Cu. Inorganic CU is leached from pipes and found in many nutritional supplements. This inorganic form is the cause of elevated blood levels of Cu. There are many other sources of inorganic Cu, including automobile brake pads (which are 25% Cu). Every time you drive in traffic and any vehicles’ brakes are applied small particles of Cu are released into the air and they are inhaled. This pollution adds to the body’s already elevated Cu levels. An environmental study performed in 2003 discovered that at least 530,000 pounds of Cu entered the San Franciso Bay, and 380,000 pounds entered Peugot Sound. Both CA and WA State have passed laws that ban Cu laden brake pads by 2023. Other sources of Cu include:
Cookware
Birth control
Fungicides from swimming pools
Dental fillings and appliances
Vegetables (descending level of contamination) rice, cherries,
oranges, wine, peaches, nectarines, walnuts,almonds,lemons,
apricots, grapefruit. This list includes certified organics because
treatment with Cu sulphate is not banned.

How does Cu negatively impact the brain (Alzheimer’s) and other beta amyloid sensitive conditions (cardiac amyloid)? Several ways:

1. Cu prevents secretion of a lipoprotein that binds amyloid and removes it from your brain (Apolipoprotein E2).
2. The molecules involved in beta amyloid build up all bind Cu. An enzyme that does this builup of amyloid is beta secretase.
3. Cu is an oxidant in the brain.
4. Cu encourages glutamate toxicity in the brain by creating a Zn deficiency. Glutamate firing is quenched by Zn.
5. Cu excess prevents Zn from inhibiting calineurin a negative protein that increases with amyloid buildup.
There are more reasons, but hopefully you get the point.

The good news is that there is an easy preventative action that you can perform to reduce Cu toxicity. That easy solution is to supplement your diet with zinc. This inexpensive solution has shown to be effective in clinical trials at preventing and treating Alzheimer’s. The bad news is that a pharmaceutical company is working on a Zn prescription product, which sometimes can mean that supplements may become the subject of a disinformation campaign (if past history is any indicator).

Below are a few of the references that were used to present this email. There are many more. The Boomers have been the unintended targets of so many actions with negative unintended consequences that it is a sad comedy. As I have the sad experience to observe more friends become afflicted with Alzheimer’s and cardiac amyloidosis I wanted to offer an inexpensive way to ‘stack the deck’ in your favor. Can anyone guarantee that if you take a zinc supplement you will not contract Alzheimer’s of develop cardiac amyloidosis? No. But this simple inexpensive step is currently the best preventative action (and in trials, a treatment option) and may be something for you to consider.
I wish everyone the best.