Dear Colleagues, I hope you are well. Our Denver seminar went very well. It is presently available on video for $225 (send check to the office). We also anticipate having it available on DVD within 2-3 weeks. The cost will be $250. It will be very easy to review any specific section you want (metals, dysbiosis, etc.) on the DVD. See page 4 for an order form.
CASE HISTORY
1. This case history was provided by Dr. Steve Bernfeld:
I had a nice case last month. The patient, a 42 year old female, slightly overweight but active, suffered from severe right lower abdominal pain and inflammation. This condition had ongoing for several years after a significantly bad bout with the flu. She had been evaluated by over 10 physicians over the past few years, and was scheduled for an exploratory surgery. The area was sore, the patient cried during light to moderate palpation. She tested positive for soy, white flour, several shellfish, onion, tomato, and 3 of the 4 species of mold I test for...She tested for the need for SF722, Basic Detox Nutrients, and Cortrex (all Thorne Research 1-800-228-1966). I corrected and open ICV and put her on a very simple diet, (white rice and liquids for 3 days, followed by the addition of 1 steamed vegetable per day. On her follow-up in a week, she was about the same, and getting antsy about the diet. I adjusted several spinal areas, and found weak TFL's and Quads.
I did a simple AK to those areas, NEHT, and corrected a Sagittal suture, and a Sphenobasilar Flexion, and encouraged her to continue the diet for another week, and continue the supplements. She called me in 3 days telling ecstatically that she had been pain free for almost 3 days! She also added that she had really tested the pain-free state after the 2nd day, and played golf, followed by tennis with her husband, and went out to a big dinner with several drinks. I saw her yesterday, about 4 weeks after the 1st visit and she is still asymptomatic. She cancelled the surgery too.
Thanks again for teaching these wonderful techniques.
TESTIMONIALS FROM DC'S
1. Results of the Lebowitz Techniques continue to amaze. When I get a few minutes in this week I will fill you in on another simply phenomenal case involving "spastic colon" of 5 years duration. Normal scope "normal" - drugs, acupuncture no help. MD's said "nothing we can do for you. There's "NO CURE". Patient drove 90 minutes to see me on referral from his sister, whose daughters I had helped (pre-Lebowitz) with digestive/skin rash problems.
Over my 17 yrs of AK practice I've studied many different techniques of course (as most of us have), including MSA-21, JMT and Neurolink of late. Your work has made the biggest difference by far in the health status of my chronic patients. Many times, results border on miraculous in a matter of a day or two! Thanks again J. Manning DC
2. I enjoy your newsletters and have continued to use your protocol over the years. You may remember my son Ben who you treated for seizures years ago as a 13 year old boy. He is now 21 and returned several weeks ago from a two year missionary service in Baltimore, MD. He has remained seizure free since originally treated and was able to participate in athletics through high school earning all state honors in baseball, and is now considering athletic and academic college scholarships at a number of colleges. Ben was suffering from daily violent grand mal seizures when he came in 8 years ago.
Thank you, thank you for what you did for him. Spencer H Gunn DC and Chris Gunn (ed: I combined 2 emails from the Gunns to make it read smoother)
ARTICLE
Something to ponder (remember to use SF734 as an effective anti H. Pyloric agent - Thorne Research 1 800-228-1966) Headaches-Germ Link Suggested - by Emma Ross Associated Press Milan, Italy (AP) - Some headaches may be linked to infection with a common bug and daily doses of friendly bacteria could ward them off, preliminary research suggests.
A study presented Friday at an infectious diseases conference found that about 18 percent of chronic migraine sufferers were infected with the stomach bug helicobacter pylori and antibiotics appeared to clear the headaches.
Adding the friendly bacteria Lactobacillus seemed to work even better, leaving most people migraine-free for a year and lessening the intensity and frequency of recurring headaches in the others, the lead researcher said.
Experts were cautiously receptive to the idea but said the findings were too tentative to draw any firm conclusions.
Helicobacter pylori, the bug that causes gut ulcers, has recently been linked to a growing list of diseases, including heart disease, autoimmune diseases and skin conditions.
In the study, Italian scientists divided 130 patients who had migraines and were infected with helicobacter pylori into two groups. One group was given a three-week course of antibiotics plus Lactobacillus, a friendly bacteria, or probiotic, found in yogurt and other dairy products. The probiotic group took three Lactobacillus doses a day for three months, then dropped their intake to one dose a day for the next nine months.
One month after starting treatment, both groups were similar in terms of headache symptoms and bacteria colonization. However, after one year, significant differences were found, said the study's leader, Dr. Maria Gismondo, head of the clinical microbiology laboratory at the University of Milan.
"We found that eradication of headache and bacteria was more significant in the group treated with antibiotics and Lactobacillus, and relapse in the people who took Lactobacillus was very low, but not in the people not getting Lactobacillus therapy," she said.
At the end of the year, 50 percent of the people who got the antibiotics alone were still getting migraines. That compared with 20 percent in the group who took the probiotics for a year. Headaches in the probiotic group occurred less often, were milder and went away more quickly than they did in the antibiotics group.
The infection findings were similar. After a year, the bacteria were 40 percent fewer in the group who took antibiotics and 70 percent fewer in the group getting the combination treatment. "Our understanding is that the Lactobacillus could be used, not to cure or eradicate H. Pylori, because it is not an antibiotic, but to prevent relapse of H. Pylori infection, and headache."
However, headache expert Dr. Peter Goadsby, professor of clinical neurology at the Institute of Neurology and National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, reserved judgment. He said the fact that the study did not involve a group getting dummy pills makes the findings less reliable. The study cannot rule out the "placebo effect," whereby people get better purely because they believe the pills they are taking are working, not because the pills are actually doing anything. Goadsby said the placebo effect can account for up to 30 percent of the improvement noted in studies like this one. Testing the effectiveness of treatment by giving some people the medicine and some fake pills overcomes that problem.
"There may be something in this...but show me the money. I'd like to see a placebo-controlled trial," Goadsby said. "If there was a chemical toxin that H. Pylori produced that switched on headaches, that wouldn't surprise me," he said. "It's an interesting idea and I think it's at a point where it should be dealt with in a rigorous way because it it's true, it would be very useful and it it's not, we can stop talking about it."
CORRECTING CHRONIC HEALTH PROBLEMS
DENVER COLORADO VIDEO/DVD SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2002
Dear Colleagues:
I am pleased to announce the availability of the seminar I co-taught with Jay Wilson DC at the Red Lion Hotel, Denver, CO on Sunday, May 5, 2002.
This video or DVD will teach the physician a simple to apply, effective protocol to treat patients with chronic fatigue, allergies, chemical sensitivities, intestinal dysbiosis (fungal, bacterial, parasitic and viral infections), food sensitivities, altered intestinal permeability, toxic metal problems, adrenal and endocrine dysfunction, lymphatic dysfunction, nutritional imbalances, and chronic subluxations. This will help people with most chronic diseases including headaches, arthritis, auto-immune diseases, gastrointestinal problems, chronic pain, depression, memory lapses and many other problems. A knowledge of basic muscle testing is helpful. The seminar is geared to both the beginning and advanced practitioner and will be a balanced blend of both academics and techniques that you can apply right away. For those of you that have been to previous seminars this will have all the essential basic and advanced techniques as well as enough new information (academic and clinical) to make it worthwhile to watch including finding "underlying layers" quickly and easily that often elude our testing. Easy, accurate screening techniques and desensitizations are taught along with the highest quality nutritional products and the pros and cons of all available lab screenings. There is no hype and no expensive instruments necessary to apply these techniques.
Dr. Lebowitz is a DC practicing in Grand Junction, CO specializing in chronically allergic and fatigued patients. He is a researcher in AK, has written two books, numerous articles and has been the recipient of two awards from ICAK. His techniques are used by hundreds of doctors worldwide.
Jay Wilson, DC, has taught postgraduate courses nationally in clinical nutrition, dysbiosis, herbal medicine and clinical kinesiology. His teaching integrates the most recent advances in natural therapeutics and laboratory diagnosis with applied kinesiology techniques. He maintains a practice specializing in chronically ill patients in Boulder, CO.
Please send me for the Denver, May 5th video. My check is enclosed for:
? $225 video or ? $250 DVD.
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