The Actos Advantage Program

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The Pharmaceutical industry has begun to give us coupons for generous savings on your medications. This one is for Actos or Actos combination products that include Metformin or Amaryl (Glimiperide). These are medicines for diabetes, prediabetes or the metabolic syndrome.

Today we were told about this Program that saves you up to $50.00 per prescription. It only takes a few moments to fill out the coupon, attach the receipt and mail it to Takeda Pharmaceuticals as directed. If you have a mail order prescription, it may be more cost effective if you do a 30 day supply instead, as you get $50.00 per one receipt.

This is $50.00 each month, up to $600.00 for the year. I have not ever seen anything this good!

With your next visit we can help you get this together and the correct prescription so you can qualify. Contact us to set up an appointment.

It’s your time!

Vitamin D3 Replacement

I sent out the emails on thyroid testing and vitamin D testing to explain why with hormones administration blood tests are not the ideal way to look for proper dosing. Also the world has become fearful of toxicity and that if you take increasing amounts it will not necessarily hurt you.

I know many of you have heard “all the thyroid tests are normal” and yet feel much better when given thyroid replacement. Metabolic changes in the tissues know the correct doses.

50,000 IU daily of Vitamin D is very appropriate and that is what I have been taking as for the last 5 years. All these eNews I have put out were to show how the body handles different doses of hormones (Vitamin D is now a hormone) and accommodates so that there is no toxicity. That goes for thyroid and Vitamin D.

This was all in explanation to have people understand why we now expect more than good bones with vitamin D; we expect prevention of many diseases and major improvements in health. It is very difficult to understand that the blood levels of D during administration of D are not of vital importance.

So what do you do a year after taking Vitamin D3 50 IU daily? No matter what the levels are in the blood, just keep it up. This is just “topping it off” so to speak.

The Prevention of an Enlarged Heart

The Prevention of an Enlarged Heart (Hypertrophic Heart)

Hypertension 2008; 52:1106 carried an article done in lab rats that tied much together. This is really exciting.

First of all there were 8 authors. When this is done in humans it will have 20 perhaps 30 authors due to the complexity of measurements and multiple skills each researcher brings to the table.

Secondly, 10 different measurements were made on the interaction of Vitamin D on the heart. Vitamin D came out looking good, real good, on the enlarged heart, the failing heart that we all fear as we age.

Thirdly, all this measured the impact on the myocytes (muscle cells of the heart), fibroblasts (structural support of heart), VDR (vitamin D receptor in the heart), enzymes related to the strength of the heart, and to know that all this comes down to the ability to do a blood test called BNP to know how well Vitamin D is doing to strengthen and shrink the heart to normal size.

To pull off this kind of research needs this profound talent and lots of it. The final information, to be proved much later in humans, that vitamin D will be a very significant factor in the aging heart.

The public still worries about the “toxicity” of vitamin D. There has never been a paper ever that shows vitamin D is toxic. Calcium is toxic but then no one should ever take Calcium with the Vitamin D3. The proper concern is fear that you are not taking enough D to prevent all that we know D can do for us to prevent disease and prolong health.

This paper shows too that the way to measure D levels is to measure the tissue levels. There is a usual unwillingness to step up and take your shirt off to get a heart biopsy so why not develop a surrogate test for progress reversing heart failure for the tissue level that reflects the tissue level of D3 – the BNP levels?

This all would be very interesting but the most exciting part is my observations on the 3 people who I have followed for congestive heart failure. Their BNP declined as did the rats! Granted it took the people about a year but this is a certain reason to look for raised BNP in the blood. They have no physical signs of heart failure and really feel normal in their 80s.

Stay tuned, it’s your time.

Vitamin D and the Lab

Vitamin D and the lab

Everyone should know their Vitamin D levels at some point. There has been a huge flap when Quest Lab acknowledged errors and alerted everyone they screwed up.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/business/08labtest.html?_r=2&emc=eta1

Quest’s comments are also found at,

http://www.vitamindtestfacts.com/.

As noted on a prior eNews, Vitamin D testing is also available,

https://www.grassrootshealth.net/questionnaire-welcome

This last link will get into steadily increasing information about Vitamin D that will not plateau for the next 10 years. Your data, if you wish will be part of a giant program, will be used to determine how ultimately vitamin D would be used in multiple situations. Your data can help determine success of treatments. New treatment systems with D can be brought in to play and used immediately due to the ability to continue monitoring your situation. Nice.

Your body handles increasing levels of Vitamin D without problems. The values in the blood go up increasingly as you take higher levels of Vitamin D. When all the sites are saturated, the body will not allow any more Vitamin D in and the blood levels begin to fall.

If you take 50,000 IU of Vitamin D daily the blood values will go up to about 200 days and then decline to values that often will be less that the original values prior to starting. These are values from people in my practice who wanted to know these values and have them measured.

An industrial accident I was not associated with gave a gentleman 1.4 million units of Vitamin D3 daily and found that the blood levels were lower than his original levels. No other data is available.

So “toxicity” does not occur unless supplemental Calcium is taken with Vitamin D. I don’t use vitamin D2 because it does not have enough sustained effect. These are new thoughts and explanations for the phenomenon in endocrine/metabolic situations that I have observed since 1964.

What is a Normal Thyroid Test? - Part II

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This is a follow up to my post: What is a Normal Thyroid Test?

The subject was the ingestion of thyroid pills in a dosage that was 20 times normal. The blood testing confirmed it.

The patient had no symptoms of over active thyroid. What does this mean?

Some hormones when given in excess lose the capacity to evoke the problems and symptoms of excessive dosing. It’s comforting to know that if mistakes are made there may be no devastating problems.

For natural hyperthyroid states, the thyroid hormone is released in short “pulses” or “bursts” from the thyroid tissue much like a machine gun releases bullets in bursts. The tissues in the body recognize each “burst” as a single bullet that excites tissue to become hyperthyroid.

Pills, on the other hand, are slowly absorbed and are not received nor recognized as a burst. Rather, it is a slow, steady excess accumulation that is being pored on the tissues and in the blood in much the same way you would pour sugar in to a mixing bowel.

Tachyphylaxis is the name of this process and you can check it out on Wikipedia. I discussed the prior eNews to draw attention to how thyroid hormone works in a natural way and how it is different when taken by mouth.

Dr. Joe

What's a Normal Thyroid Test

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Can L-Arginine Help Diabetic Neuropathy

D*action Vitamin D Testing

D*action: A Consortium of Scientists, Institutions and Individuals Committed to Solving the Worldwide Vitamin D Deficiency Epidemic.

Scientists are calling for a standard vitamin D intake of 2000 IU/day and the achievement of a serum level of 40-60 ng/ml. Scientists' Call to Action.

GrassrootsHealth has launched a worldwide public health campaign to solve the vitamin D deficiency epidemic in a year through a focus on testing and education with all individuals spreading the word.

Everyone is invited to join in this campaign! Join D*action and test two times per year during a 5 year program to demonstrate the public health impact of this nutrient.

$30 and a quick health survey allows everyone to get a vitamin D blood spot test kit to be used at home (except in the state of New York) have the results sent directly to them take action to adjust their own levels to get to the desired ranges with whatever help is needed from their healthcare practitioners.

With only 100 people joining up today, and getting 2 friends to join in 2 weeks (and those 2 friends getting 2 more), by week 42, there could be 400,000,000 people who are vitamin D ‘replete’! (more than the United States population).

Click here to start the Participant Questionnaire.