Bombshell: Explosive Medical Secrets That Will Redefine Aging (10 page)

RK:
Well, I am sixty-three. I come out much younger on biological aging tests. In fact, I am healthier than I was twenty years ago. I don’t feel I am any slower physically or mentally than I was when I was forty. So I plan to basically not age from this point on, or age so slowly that by the time I get to fifteen years from now, I’ll be about the same age or less. Biologically, I am already much less than my chronological age, so I want to stay ahead of the power curve. I think our generation (you and I) can do this but not without effort put forth.

It doesn’t go without saying; it takes a concerted effort, the kind of effort that overwhelms most people because they don’t yet understand the benefits.

SS:
I hadn’t really thought about this in terms of “reverse aging,” but I had a complete medical workup at the Chaum Center in South Korea last year, and my biological age came out to be thirty-four. At sixty-five, I thought that was kind of impressive, but I do put forth effort, case in point the many supplements I take daily (as I notice you do also). In fact, I enjoy when we have dined together,
because you don’t think I’m a quack taking supplements throughout the meal. I also noticed you take more than I do!

RK:
Yes, it is great. So, clearly, your books and my books are a wake-up call to our baby boomer peers that you can make it through. Unfortunately, most people are oblivious to this perspective. So, instead, they shrug and say, “Ah well, if I try hard, maybe I’ll add a few months here and there. It’s not really worth it.”

SS:
As they take another deep puff of that Marlboro …

RK:
Right. Most don’t realize they might be the first person to make it into that theater, but that you have to work really hard to make it through. Our kids are going to have a much easier time. They’ll probably be in good shape fifteen years from now barring an accident. But we baby boomers can make it also. Fifteen years is not that long of a time. You now see many people in their seventies (your husband, Alan, being one of them) who are still very vital. So that’s my plan … stay healthy in order to get to Bridge Two and then ride to Bridge Three and see the Singularity [what Ray defines as a time in the future when we multiply the intelligence of the “human-machine civilization a billion-fold through merging with the intelligence we are creating”].

SS:
And I’m coming with you.

RK:
Great. Can’t wait.

SS:
Thanks so much, Ray. It has been an honor.

The planet has changed
drastically. To live longer and healthier our approach to medicine must also change. A new type of doctor has emerged because more and more people are expressing dissatisfaction with the limitations of our present orthodox medicine and its “allopathic only” approach, meaning “a pill for every ailment.” Allopathic medicine evolved at the turn of the twentieth century when a man by the name of Abraham Flexner was hired by the two richest families in the country at that time—the Carnegies and the Rockefellers, who by the way
owned
pharmaceutical companies (connect those dots). They sent him to the institutes of higher learning to promise funding in
perpetuity
to our medical schools and teaching hospitals if they would teach
only
allopathic medicine, meaning “Here’s my symptom; here’s your drug.”

From that time on, all the other “pathics” were eliminated from medical school agendas—homeopathic, chiropractic, naturopathic,
and so on—and then later these “pathics” were vilified and dismissed as “quackery.” So recommendations like “Go home, drink plenty of liquids, and get some rest” and that kind of natural advice were replaced by our beloved GP saying, “Here’s a prescription for an antibiotic.” How many antibiotics have we taken for viruses when we didn’t have an infection? (Antibiotics do nothing for viruses.) How many antibiotics have been the culprit that have disrupted our delicate gut balance and promoted a lifetime of stomach and GI issues? Allopathic medicine is a brilliant business model, I must say, but the overuse and the overprescribing of drugs when there might have been a natural solution were the beginning of the end for us!

Today, we find ourselves in a quandary. We have become a society that is “overpilled” and overtreated, resulting in our brains being robbed of their ability to think, with side effects often worse than the original ailment itself.

At first, taking a drug for every infection, flu, virus, gut problem, headache, stomachache, and so on was seen to be a miracle. Acid reflux? No problem, take the purple pill. Anxiety? No problem, take an antianxiety pill. Pain? No problem, take a mind-numbing narcotic to chase it away. But then something started to go awry … the sleeping pills stopped working, the water pills set up a vicious cycle, the pain pills caused addiction, the antidepressants numbed the feelings away, allowing the patient to be there, but not really … “there.” These people got lost somewhere in a fog, their minds in a far-off place that took them out of their reality, in some cases forever.

As a result of concern on the part of not only many Western-trained doctors but also the patients themselves, alternative medicine has emerged. It’s called
antiaging medicine
, or
regenerative medicine
, or
age management
; I call it
advanced medicine
. This is the best of both worlds, taking advantage, as Dr. Jonathan Wright has so eloquently coined, of “using Nature’s tools” and Western medicine when necessary.

Advanced medicine also allows for the “pathics” to be relevant again. Homeopaths and naturopaths are rising up, and people are flocking to them. Alternative Western doctors now have long waiting lists. The people are speaking. They want to find natural, alternative ways for the body to heal itself, and to restore what might be missing due to age, stress, or toxicity.

One of the best doctors to explain the new medicine, and his approach to antiaging medicine, is my primary antiaging doctor, Dr. Michael Galitzer. I have a coterie of doctors, each one having his
or her specialty. This is my luxury. I have made health my priority and passion. Dr. Galitzer is one of several thousand qualified doctors that you can reference in my online resource section. I have been a patient of Dr. Galitzer for fifteen years. As you will read, he has a very unique way of treating and healing the body. I go to him regularly when I am “well” for what I call a “tune-up” before and after trips. I go to detoxify and to strengthen my immune system and keep my organs and glands in top working order. You will love what he has to say.

Dr. Michael Galitzer
is my personal, Western-trained, antiaging doctor. He practices advanced medicine at its best. He understands it all: how to balance hormones, how to strengthen the weakest organs and glands, how to strengthen the body to prepare it to fight cancer or tolerate conventional therapies. He understands the toxic assault and how to detoxify the body on an ongoing basis. He advises on lifestyle, diet, and antiaging therapies, and he also knows what to do when you get the flu. He provides all this at his office in Santa Monica, California
.

Dr. Galitzer is compassionate and caring. As an emergency room doctor, he needed to be able to handle any situation with calm, resourcefulness, and thoughtfulness, and he brings those traits to his present practice. He stays on top of new medical advancements, which allows him to take the best care of his patients. He is also my friend
.

SS:
Hello, Michael. Thank you again for your time. I love speaking with you as you are always so eloquent. I’d like to know what is new in the antiaging world that is contrary to present orthodox belief, and if you can, please demystify antiaging medicine for my readers.

MG:
Nice to talk with you, Suzanne. Let’s start with antiaging medicine, which views optimal health as when a patient is physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually in flow, and when the organs and glands are functioning at maximum capacity. Disease is a condition precipitated by a toxin-filled, nutritionally deficient, and stress-dominated system, which will ultimately result in changes in enzyme production and hormone production.

Traditional medicine would tend to suppress these symptoms, allowing them to smolder quietly and then erupt with increased intensity later on. In antiaging medicine, we want to remove the underlying cause and allow the embers of an illness to never get an opportunity to smolder; we want patients to have lots of energy.

As you’ve said in the past, our bodies are like an orchestra and our organs and glands are the instruments in that orchestra; some are in tune, and some are out of tune. Some organs age faster than others; for instance, some people have hearts and brains that are working fine, yet they fall and break a bone and that is when they find that their bones are aging faster than their hearts and brains. For other people, they may have hearts and bones that are in good order, but they can’t think or remember. So in this orchestra, if we [antiaging medicine] can get everything in tune, and get the music “right,” meaning all organs and systems in good working order, people will feel better.

SS:
Very nicely explained. What about toxicity?

MG:
When I was an emergency room doctor, we were concerned about life-threatening toxins: an overdose of sleeping pills, carbon monoxide inhalation, an oil spill, or a chemical spill. Now there are toxins in the air, water, and food and then there are pesticides and heavy metals, and they all add up and stack up on one another. Consequently the organs get overloaded, and then symptoms start; the result is people feeling lousy.

SS:
Yes, but they go to their orthodox doctors who are perplexed. Dealing with toxicity and longer life that requires fine-tuning and restoration was never taught in medical school.

MG:
True. Medical school was more or less about diseases and pathology; we learned all about the different diseases, but we did not learn about a model for health.

SS:
But the planet has changed … people have conditions related to toxicity and stress that never existed before and these conditions need to be dealt with in their own special way.

MG:
Yes, but instead of trying to look at how bad doctors are, I think they ought to be complimented because we became doctors and concluded that the purpose of our lives was to give. Doctors want to help their patients. They need to inspire their patients.

SS:
I’m not saying they don’t want to help, but science is always evolving, and to stop learning once they leave medical school certainly
has to leave many of them in the dust. X-rays, CAT scans, biopsies, MRIs, and chemical blood tests have their place, but they also have their limitations. In the case of CAT scans and x-rays, we need to give grave thought as the radiation exposure from both is damaging. In fact, a report came out in 2011 that CAT scans give off a thousand times
more
radiation than they thought!

MG:
Yes, that’s true, and it’s generally felt if all these tests check out, then the patient is healthy. Traditional medicine does utilize electrical technology—EKG for the heart, EEG for electrical brain, and EMG for electrical nerve muscle, but that’s where it stops. My kind of medicine looks at the electrical signals in the liver, kidneys, pancreas, adrenals, thyroid. In an electrocardiogram, the electrical impulse of the heart precedes the physical heartbeat. My kind of medicine says electrical changes in the organs precede physical symptoms. So when the electrical “firing” in the liver becomes abnormal, people have symptoms such as migraine or insomnia, and this is something you can’t see on a blood test or an ultrasound of the liver.

SS:
Dr. Sherry Rogers, in her book
Detoxify or Die
, says of Western medicine, “Every part of the body has an electrical system, but we only measure a couple of them like the heart and the brain,” so I see where you are on to something. I’ve noticed, in the years I’ve been coming to you, there is a calm about any diagnosis you have given me; you are not an alarmist, even when you find something electrically that is an indicator of a problem to come.

MG:
As a doctor, the worst thing I can do is give a patient a diagnosis of a terrible disease or condition without giving him hope. Otherwise a patient will panic, which leads to helplessness, depression, and ultimately a weakened immune system. The wise doctor must never destroy the hope of the patient. Patients have resources, and we must help them conquer their fears and release those resources.

SS:
What do most people complain about?

MG:
People come to me, and essentially say, “I don’t feel well.” They complain about fatigue, lack of energy, allergies, inability to sleep, and aching muscles and joints. They just don’t feel right.

SS:
Or do they really mean they don’t feel like they used to feel?

MG:
That too … They know there is a better way to feel and they want it back. Sleeping is a big problem for so many patients. They either can’t fall asleep or when they do fall asleep, they wake up in
the middle of the night between one and three. I find when the sleep goes, ultimately people’s health really begins to diminish. In Chinese medicine, the sleep issue is looked at very easily. There are twelve major meridians in Chinese medicine. Each of those meridians is two hours of the clock. The liver meridian has one to three A.M. as liver time, which is when the body’s energy is concentrated in the liver. So if people wake up, or can’t fall asleep between one and three, then you know their liver energy is abnormal. Did you know you should never go to sleep earlier than four hours after drinking alcohol and three hours after eating food?