Wednesday, May 23, 2012

RESULTS OF TESTS IN MY OFFICE AND MY ROFS TO THOSE PATIENTS




by Dr. David Walls-Kaufman

In my office for this first round of Thiol testing we had thirty people interested but only twelve could make that date and two got held up and so 10 people tested, including myself.

We offered the Serum Thiol lab a nice spread of cases with widely varying lengths of time under chiropractic care. It may come as a surprise to some why people would be under chiropractic care for, in one case, 22 years, but this length of care is due to the fact that we view chiropractic as nervous system hygiene - the removal of stress-induced dirt in the nervous system that impedes the innate expression of life and order.

The whole group varied in time under care from four months to 22 years. Four were patients that did the test because I am concerned about their health status.

Remember, there are two numbers that matter most - below 90 shows a disease risk of 95% over a person's lifetime, and the lower the score the worse the risk for serious illness. Scores of 120+ (n-moles cysteine) are in the "normal" good health category, with a disease risk of only 5%. And long term chiropractic patients fall "consistently" in this category, three different ecogenetics researchers found.

First, the good news:

Patient PM, male, age 56, under my care for 22 years at once monthly adjustments, posted a total plasma Thiol score of 141.

Patient JB, male, age 37, under my care for 2 years at once weekly, posted a score of 134.

Patient MB, female, age 60, an ICU nurse under my care for 20 years off and on, mostly off, but more regularly the past four years (and who works graveyard shift her entire career, which concerned me), delivered a score of 122.

Patient JF, female, age 42, under my regular care for 10 years, 10 years ago before she moved to NYC, where she has had sporadic care. She returns once weekly now to my office for five adjustments in two days because of intense pain and health concerns. She showed a 117 Thiol score.

Myself, age 55, male, with infrequent care for decades until I saw the Thiol research that says "chiro is mo better" so I go once weekly for a year and a half, I have high stress but I think I manage it well, and I do serious tai chi daily; I post 116.

Patient IA, female, age 67, retired, lifetime serious headaches but eats quite well and gets good exercise, and therefore manages her health better than most Americans her age, and under my weekly care for four months - Thiol score of 89.

Patient BR, female, age 55, under care for four years, numerous serious health and pain complaints four years ago, and under constant asthma and allergy meds her entire life that she is now totally clear of, and now all of those allergy and asthma issues resolved, with adjustments - she came in at 122.

Patient CM, female, aged 76, history of serious past stress with alcoholism and difficult marriage and smoking in the first half of her life, and kidney disease four years ago (which means a Thiol score of 40 for kidney disease), doing well now with a medical "clean bill of health" and four years of weekly care, came in at 82.

Patient BB, male, aged 80, history of heart beat irregularity and a partly paralyzed foot, both of which are much improved with chiropractic so that the heart beat only occurs at times when he has missed his adjustment and his posture worsens (so that there is spinal cord pulling in the area between the shoulder blades that serves his heart), and the foot is 90% better - set the Thiol bar at 67.

Patient RL, female, retired, aged 67, has had a history of widespread aches and pains for many years. She has come in for chiropractic care over three very short stints over the course of 15 years, with 12 visits over 15 years. She eats well and has practiced tai chi. Her score was 67.

I was disappointed that two of my longer term patients were as low as they were after a several-years of steady chiropractic care. But this is not unexpected given the larger picture, since kidney disease in the one indicates total plasma Thiols in the 40s, and 41 years of smoking and some heart issues in the other means that he must have had a Thiol score in the 50s when he began with me four years ago. Given these scores, and the trend we have going for them, and the fact that we can now add AC-11 into their regimen to help, I believe our prognosis is solid.

I was highly surprised that my own Thiol level was not up in the 150s, considering how hard I practice tai chi each day and that I've done so since 1988! I also eat quite well, and ought to have very good genes considering the longevity in my family.

In consultation with the lab, I was told that I under-appreciate two big stresses in my life could be far more significant than I realized: One is the entrepreneurial stress of being a principal and investor in a new engine company whose prospects are still unclear and the possibility of huge financial loss still looms. The other big stress is that of simply being a chiropractor a specialty with a vitalistic philosophy that is clearly tangential to the mechanistic medical model that has convinced society that the body is a chemical machine, i.e. tweak the chemicals and all falls into line. Dealing with the stress of private chiropractic practice can be significant, I am told, and it makes strong sense to me.

So, again, I am amazed to have this level of clarity into human well-being. The results underscore our lack of complete understanding about the factors that set our health thermostat where it is. But I am extraordinarily grateful to have this fact made perfectly clear to me and patients so that we are dealing with reality rather than perception and wishful thinking. We can now use the AC-11 and stick to our chiropractic program, and retest ourselves in six months or so to see if we have peeped above the hallowed 120 mark.

The other factor in my own score is chiropractic. Until I saw the 2005 study on long term chiropractic care and total plasma Thiols, my frequency of chiropractic care was sketchy at best. Once I saw how necessary plentiful adjustments were I no longer stood on ceremony waiting for someone to come to my office – I actively pursued regular weekly adjusting at colleague’s offices.

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

BLOOD TEST VALIDATING WORTH OF LONG TERM CHIROPRACTIC USED IN DOCTOR’S OFFICE



 by Dr. David Walls-Kaufman

As a chiropractor, I am tremendously excited with this technological advancement regarding my esteemed profession. We now have a blood test to assess the individual’s level of health and disease risk. It might be the most extraordinary event I have seen in my lifetime.

I first learned of this test from Dr. Christopher Kents monthly audio series reviewing the health sciences. He reviewed the 2005 JVSR retrospective study on folks under chiropractic care. A blood test measuring DNA repair and oxidative stress demonstrated that chiropractic subjects achieved unique results in lifting people to an unusual level of health and lowered disease risk.

Turns out, world-renowned ecogeneticist, Dr. Ron Pero, studied everything under the sun to find out its affect on human health. He was neighbor to Dr. Joe Flesia, who told him about chiropractic. Pero ran tests on chiropractic subjects in the 1980s with the NA-AAF (N-acetoxy-2-acetylaminoflourene) method, the definitive test for human toxicity and health status. Pero was shocked when he found chiropractic put individuals in an unheard of category of wellbeing.

The levels for long term chiropractic patients were so high that, at the time, they were only thought to be theoretically attainable.

Not to get too technical, but Pero created another WBC test that directly measured PARP (DNA repair) activity and found that depressed values were evident in specific cases such as colorectal cancer and breast cancer. What has since come from this work in the intervening three decades is the knowledge that decreased DNA repair capacity is a key marker indicating risk for all nine major human disease categories.



ONE GIANT STEP FOR MANKIND . . .

This current Thiol test descended from the NA-AAF and direct ADPRT testing, but is much easier and cheaper to do, and tells us how healthy we are to within 95% certainty. It also indicates aging and lifespan status, presence of active disease, and has been validated as a prognostic indicator for HIV+ patients.

To all of us (like chiropractors) in the lifting-wellbeing-business, an objective measure of wellness is essential and non-duplicable. Let’s face it, a test that lays bare the scales of health and disease may indicate that many of the things we commonly turns to with the hope of raising our health quotient may prove to be of little value, or worse.

Results come back in three days, and then I sit down with the patient and give them the great news or the not so good news, in which case we discuss why their health is where it is and then the easy-to-do strategies to make a fairly quick and worthwhile difference.

I believe such a test, and others like NA-AAF, which clearly objectify health status, are absolutely critical to the emergence of chiropractic and CAM in our medical-choked culture. Bless medicine’s heart – thank God we’ve got it for life threatening situations. But close scrutiny appears to show that its panoply is invasive enough, and oxidizing enough, that it delivers more harm than good in the theater of well-being.

And this potentially sets up a considerable conflict of interest with the drug companies and medical device companies.

Back to the point: This incredible test measures our capacity for DNA repair and oxidative stress by measuring the total plasma Thiols that under-frame DNA repair by the fact that Thiol unlocks the DNA strand so that repair can happen. Our DNA is torn up every day by the oxidative stress of simple daily living. It is more torn up the more we do bad things for our health and the more we are exposed to stress.



TATTERED DNA . . .

Tattered DNA does a worse job cleaning up the micro-destruction of our tissues. It also makes less healthy daughter cells every time the cell splits to form two new cells. Over time, our cells are uglier and less healthy. Cumulatively, we age faster, our disease risk goes up.

All of this is reflected in our level of total plasma Thiols, and so we can quantify health and our future by measuring Thiols. The more total plasma Thiols we have, the better our DNA repair and the lower our oxidative stress. A test to measure PARP (DNA repair) activity directly preceded this assay and directly measured PARP. It corroborated the results of Thiol measurement.

For three decades, until now, we required a five-star university research lab to acquire this level of visibility and accuracy on our health status. The ability to bring this test into my own office has delivered the most dramatic improvement in patient education that I have ever seen. It appears to be more significant than B.J. bringing x-ray into chiropractic in 1913, because spinal degeneration pictures do not make the same intellectual leap for the public into wellness, disease risk and aging as does this test.

Long term chiropractic people consistently show DNA repair scores in the highest health category, consistently higher than normal, and in some cases significantly higher than normal. Those higher than normal levels mean a general disease risk of only 5% for all nine major classifications of disease, including cancer.

Patients are listening.

Management of a really sick person occurs by lowering stress, adding Thiol-proven anti-oxidants such as Phytorichs AC-11, which can raise a score 10 or more points in six weeks, and raising chiropractic visit frequency to better clean their nervous system and strongly change their health value.

Yes, its scary for some to learn how sick they are but odds are we can radically change that value in a surprisingly short period of time. In these Thiol, ADPRT and NA-AAF tests might lie the key to the unique power of chiropractic in its role as the Third Leg of the Holistic Stool.

Talking to the researchers who put all this together, I know how excited the leading ecogenetic researchers were about what changes long term chiropractic brought about in patients. The more people utilized chiropractic as a tool for cleaning up stress-induced nervous system junk, the higher they climbed into a category of lowered disease risk.

No glass ceiling was identified.

We all share the responsibility to make the world a better place. The connection between chiropractic, nervous system and Thiol, ADPRT and NA-AAF might provide enough facts over time to alter certain of our fact-proof cultural behaviors.

Next time, I’ll get into test results.



NEXT TIME: RESULTS OF TESTS IN MY OFFICE AND MY ROFS TO THOSE PATIENTS

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

OUR FIRST THIOL TEST!



By Dr. David Walls-Kaufman

The Thiol test has been out of commission for a while due to underfunding and "revolutionary idea being too cutting edge for the world to grasp"-itis. Common ailment in new enterprises. Now, it’s probably still underfunded, but the group behind it feels the test that is so definitive for scoring human disease risk and wellbeing MUST BE KEPT AVAILABLE until the public catches on.

The test is popular in my office! We have twelve people (including myself) slated today for our first round of blood draws. We found a very nice phlebotomist on Craigslist.com to come in for our patients’ convenience and draw and prep the blood here, and we’ll mail it to Dr. Art Banne at the lab this afternoon. Everyone has starved themselves this morning for a clear Thiol measure, and we’ll get our results in two to three days.

I have a nice spread of folks: One fellow has been under my regular monthly care for 22 years, and I’m interested to see his score. That’s over 800 months of chiropractic care, and the research shows that every month of chiropractic influence on the nervous system can be seen positively in a higher Thiol score. He’s in his mid-fifties and is in terrific shape, and I never see him sick—so we’ll see!

I have several new patients whose health and very low SRQOL (self reported quality of life), and long list of health conditions give me enough concern that I told them they should take the test. They want to get better. They want to work at it.

These individuals say a number quantifying their health risk, if low, will help focus the importance for positive change and motivate them.

I will continue to reach out to the chiropractic profession to make them aware of a) this fantastically powerful tool, and b) the power of chiropractic to consistently lift people into the highest health category, +120 n-moles.  And I will reach out to loved ones and friends as well.