Bombshell: Explosive Medical Secrets That Will Redefine Aging (12 page)

He drinks coffee, a glass of milk, and orange juice with a tablespoon of olive oil in it for breakfast. He has milk and a few cookies for lunch, and veggies and fish for dinner.

I think when we see more of these kinds of people out there, we are inspired to live longer. You have to change the belief system and give examples of people who are being very productive when they are older.

SS:
Speaking of Japan, the media is keeping very quiet about radiation contamination from the tsunami. But the ocean is all one big connected body of water and what slips in at one point is bound to travel. Have we been affected by radiation contamination, and if so, how do you in antiaging medicine address it?

MG:
We are all affected; we were quite affected in L.A. Radiation is one of these slow types of situations that add up, and you don’t really feel anything specific. But now it’s a toxin within each person’s body. In my practice, I try to neutralize the radiation with all the things we’ve talked about. I don’t believe in scaring people, but I think this exposure needs to be dealt with by dealing with the liver/lymph/kidney drainage systems. The backup is the hormonal system; namely, the thyroid and adrenals. These glands stimulate the other organs to work better. At some point, though, these glands go on overload, and this is why the entire hormonal system is so important. If we keep our hormonal systems strong with healthy adrenal glands, and give bioidentical thyroid, estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone, along with DHEA, growth hormone, and melatonin, we can optimize the liver, lymph, and kidney drainage systems that get rid of the toxins. But with a bad diet, the drainage systems get tired, and the person moves from “I don’t feel well” to “I’m becoming ill.”

SS:
What about minerals? No fun living longer if you don’t have strong bones to hold you up, and I know minerals are crucial to bone making.

MG:
You are so right. Everyone is worried about osteoporosis. Women and men have bone density tests, and the doctors report osteopenia or worse, osteoporosis, so they give them calcium and vitamin D.

SS:
Isn’t that good advice?

MG:
Yes, it is, except … let’s go back to your original question of what is new in antiaging medicine that is contrary to orthodox beliefs. I think the way that orthodox medicine has been looking at osteopenia and osteoporosis and bone density has completely missed a very important element.

The body’s way of neutralizing acidity is to take calcium and magnesium off the bone, because calcium and magnesium are alkalinizing minerals. The acidity takes the calcium and magnesium from the bone, and then the person becomes osteopenic or osteoporotic. Minerals get depleted. In my practice, to strengthen bones I frequently give mineral IVs to patients.

SS:
This is new and awesome information. I’ve always heard it’s about calcium. But Alan discovered he was horribly gluten intolerant a couple of years ago and also was diagnosed with bone loss. You gave him a series of mineral IVs last year. Between the minerals that he still takes faithfully, hormone replacement, and supplementation, his bone density is now excellent! IV treatments are easy to make fun of. I remember a couple of years ago you allowed
20/20
, the TV program, to film me getting my vitamin C IVs from you. And when it aired, they mocked the protocol, saying “Why is it necessary to go to such extremes?”

MG:
Large doses of vitamin C stimulate the immune system, help the liver work better, and strengthen our adrenals. High doses of
vitamins can accelerate the efficiency and effectiveness of organs in the body. This is huge because most people come to us with reduced organ function, reduced adrenal function, and sluggish livers. So if we can help stimulate these organs to work better, we’ve helped them immensely.

SS:
Can you test for mineral depletion?

MG:
Yes, you can do a blood test for mineral depletion. But here’s the vicious cycle; most people do not have great digestive systems, so therefore they don’t absorb minerals well. The people who are treated with acid blockers for their heartburn and GERD will not have enough hydrochloric acid in their stomachs, which will result in decreased absorption of minerals. So, most of the people out there on Nexium, prilosec, Aciphex, and other acid blockers are ultimately going to have mineral depletion problems.

SS:
What a vicious cycle. Gut problems create mineral problems, which create bone problems; the cascade again, the downward cycle we call aging. But it’s really not about aging; it’s about a lack of understanding that we are living longer and that the body parts have to be addressed, listened to, and corrected, just like a mechanic listens to the sounds of a car engine.

MG:
What is also important and maybe even more important are digestive enzymes, pancreatic enzymes. The pancreas is an important organ that makes enzymes to digest protein, starch, and fat. In most people, the pancreas is not working well. The pancreas is the organ most affected by pesticides.

SS:
Is this the connection to the huge rise in pancreatic cancer?

MG:
We believe this is a major reason. The pancreas is put through too much stress from too much sugar and pesticides.

SS:
And everyone consumes too much sugar, and everyone is affected by pesticides. And we wonder why we are sick. Pancreatic cancer is the most dreaded of the cancers. Few seem to survive, other than patients of Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez who, I’ve learned through my interviewing, has had such great success with pancreatic cancer patients—
probably due, in no small way, to the fact that his protocol uses massive amounts of pancreatic enzymes.

MG:
Again, in the Chinese medicine clock, there are twelve different organs, systems, or meridians. They have two hours of the twenty-four-hour clock. The pancreas time is between nine and eleven in the morning. That means the pancreas is working most effectively at that time, and twelve hours later these organs work least effectively. That’s why most people digest their breakfasts well because they have lots of naturally occurring pancreatic enzymes. Americans eat very small breakfasts and huge dinners. Late in the evening is when your pancreas is least able to produce digestive enzymes. So consequently these people can’t digest their food, and go to bed with a full stomach and wake up feeling lousy.

To keep a healthy pancreas, don’t eat late and supplement with digestive enzymes, and as far as the pesticides, we can treat and detoxify them with homeopathy and herbs.

One of the first things I do with my patients is look at the energetics of their pancreas when I’m testing in my office. I find pesticides frequently, and we deal with them homeopathically; we also use an instrument called
ONDAMED
, which stimulates the healing process within the body.

SS:
Yes, I have an ONDAMED machine, and I often tell my readers to encourage their doctors to purchase one. It is an amazing piece of equipment. I used it every day recently to heal faster from my stem cell breast surgery.

MG:
The earth has a magnetic field and certain frequencies within it that allow us to live. By giving these kinds of frequencies to the body, it gets the body into a balanced state. ONDAMED uses pulsed electromagnetic frequencies to stimulate and balance energy flow within the body, so that is why I use it in my office. I also offer light therapies along with other therapies as well. It’s also important to eat organically, especially in today’s world, and to eat lightly late in the day and take pancreatic enzymes.

SS:
I’m now getting it (finally) that drinking alcohol, eating late, and then flopping into bed (and we’ve all done it) is really, really bad for us.

MG:
Correct. Diet sodas and too much alcohol will harm you. These things weaken the digestive system and ultimately the pancreas is affected, and then you are in trouble.

If you take pancreatic enzymes on an empty stomach before you
go to sleep, you are basically eating up the debris and allowing the liver to more easily detoxify the blood while you are sleeping. Taking pancreatic enzymes gives a huge advantage.