Bombshell: Explosive Medical Secrets That Will Redefine Aging (49 page)

SS:
I often laugh at a commercial about a woman who lives in her apartment and friends come over and she gets embarrassed because she has a dog and her apartment smells. But the next time they come over, she has sprayed the entire apartment with a freshener (chemical) spray and now she is happy and her friends are smiling.

WR:
Yeah, except now she’s going to get sick and so will her dog. It shows the ignorance. No one understands the slow but sure damage we are doing to ourselves, our families, and our pets.

SS:
Yes, but we’ve been led to believe these agents are not harmful.

WR:
I had a state trooper from Georgia come to my clinic and he had uncontrollable heart irregularities, kinds that were killing him. In fact, they had to resuscitate him a couple of times before he got here. We traced it down to a Christmas tree deodorizer hanging in his car. He almost died, and he was twenty-seven years old.

Everybody has their own toxic burden. Some people can clear it better than others because their detox systems work better. What we look for in our patients is, What are the environmental triggers for each individual?

SS:
Didn’t you start your career as a cardiovascular surgeon?

WR:
Yes, but then it started melding. At one point I had twenty heart patients in the hospital, and at the same time I had twenty environmental patients in the hospital. And finally I realized that no one was taking care of the environmental patients and that I knew how. I also think having my son so sick from being affected by pesticides was a sign to me that this was the direction I needed to take.

Everyone in our family was affected; in fact, at one point we had six rotary diets in the house. “Rotary” is when you don’t eat the same food except for every four days.

SS:
How did you turn your son’s health around?

WR:
Well, number one, I cleaned up his environment. I now grow organic foods and use safe water. No pesticides, no formaldehyde, no natural gas exposures. I used an intradermal neutralization technique we use now in my clinic for neutralizing foods, and also molds and chemicals. Then I put him on a high-nutrient program. I made an immune modulator out of his own blood, which he still takes. He’s forty-seven now, rides his bicycle to and from work each day, and does just super. This has been going on for over twenty years.

SS:
Is he able to eat most everything now or is he still allergic?

WR:
He still has to be a little bit careful, but he takes his food shots and that allows him to eat almost anything. He still can’t eat red watermelon. Strange, he can eat yellow watermelon, but not red. That’s how subtle the environmental overload can be.

SS:
What’s a food shot?

WR:
It’s a shot where we neutralize the patients and desensitize them for molds. We have injections for that and also we have injections that neutralize chemicals.

SS:
So if a patient came to you not knowing what’s wrong, but he or she did not feel well, walk me through the steps of how you would treat this patient.

WR:
Well, first we would take a good history and physical, not only an environmental history but also a medical history. You have to remember that almost all patients who come to me have already been to at least fourteen doctors. We review those records to see which direction it takes us. If necessary, we have apartments at Marriott that are environmentally clean, very simple but environmentally clean. Usually the patients stay there. So they are getting the treatment the minute they walk in, because we are reducing the total body pollutant load. We put them on safe water, and then if they can tolerate food, we feed them organic—only with a rotary diet.

Then we test them for molds and the different foods, and for chemicals. We give them a skin test, and of course we have a whole nutrition department. We try our best to keep the expense down as much as possible for them.

We might build a new booster shot for them; we see what their gamma globulins look like, because they are often deficient. We also might give them oxygen therapy.

SS:
How long does a patient stay?

WR:
Well, again, it depends on the contamination in their house … at this point we’ve modified around thirty thousand houses or built new ones. We try to have them have someone clean up their bedroom while they are in the clinic. By living at the hotel apartments while the patients are under treatment, they see the difference in how they feel. Then we have them go home to see if they can tolerate the bedroom at home. If they can’t, then we most likely have to have them put in a hardwood floor or ceramics.

SS:
Are there some houses that are just not salvageable?

WR:
Yes, some of them are unsalvageable. You just can’t do
anything with them because they are so contaminated. Those people have to move. Most of them don’t have to. I’d say 90–95 percent don’t have to move. Some do have to change out the gas for electric heat, though.

SS:
I’m one of those 5 percent. We, sadly, had to move out of our beautiful house recently because the mold was so pervasive. We had an unfinished basement and lived near the ocean, and there was water sitting underneath the house and coming up through all the air-conditioning ducts. It got inside the walls, behind the marble in the bathroom, everywhere. I never thought it would happen to me. But then again, two years before that our house burned down and I never thought something like that would happen to me. That’s life.

Are carpets a big culprit?

WR:
They are, but the number one offenders in the house or buildings are natural gas and pesticides. Number three is formaldehyde and that comes from Sheetrock and carpets. Solvents are a big issue, toluene or xylene, things like that. If formaldehyde is the issue, then we recommend steam cleaning the carpets and covering the Sheetrock and in many cases to go with a hardwood or tile floor.

SS:
What about organic carpets?

WR:
No, organic can be contaminated also. The fiber may be organic, but the glue may not be. Organic mattresses are okay, but I find that they stink. But that’s my opinion. We tell people to buy organic clothes and then wash them about six times to get the odor out. Even though it’s a natural odor, a lot of people can’t tolerate it. We all have individual senses of susceptibility. For some people it is so intense we help them build their own mattresses with springs and washable mats that they can layer to their comfort. It’s a lot.

SS:
I have an organic mattress and it smells perfectly fine. I guess there are different manufacturers with differing products. What about pets living in a house with mold?

WR:
They should be outside. If not a lot of pets get sick, it’s an indicator. If your pet gets sick or dies, it’s a signal to get out of the environment. Kind of like the canary in the coal mine.

SS:
Is it Sheetrock or what they call drywall that is mold food?

WR:
It is. Insulation is mold food; corners are also mold food, because it can accumulate there. All you need to create mold is sweating or leaking pipes. Have one good hard rain and if it creates a leak, you are going to have problems. It’s a fight all the time. For my severest
patients, we eliminate Sheetrock altogether and use porcelain. It is free of formaldehyde and mold-free.

SS:
Is porcelain considerably more expensive?

WR:
It was common right after World War II. The feds built a whole lot of porcelain houses, but then that stopped and they went to Sheetrock. Porcelain is fused on steel. It never needs repairs, so amortized over the years it’s actually cheaper.

We have glass walls in our waiting room, and then put Sheetrock behind it. This keeps the synthetic toxins out, along with the mycotoxins. We also use composite tiles as toxic-free options, ceramic tile that’s put down with old-fashioned grout as there are few chemicals in it. Porcelain tile is also an option, and it’s beautiful. We are always trying to find options for people that are not too costly. People need to be educated about buildings; I wrote a book about that.

SS:
What’s it called?

WR:
Optimum Environments for Optimum Living and Creativity
. I also wrote
Energy and Brain Function
.

SS:
My assistant has been sick for four months. She’s been vomiting, can’t keep food down; her doctor said she had IBS. So he put her on an antidepressant.

I encouraged her to take the food intolerance allergy stool test and it turns out she has a parasite and an “off the charts” gluten intolerance. I mention this because if this is how the majority of people are being treated by their orthodox doctors today, it is terrible. He put her on an antidepressant to calm her down. What kind of medicine is that? This means people are getting care that is actually detrimental to their health.

WR:
Yes. It’s the philosophy of “wait until the disease gets worse and then we might be able to diagnose you.” We should be preventing illness by getting the mold toxins, getting the chemicals, and creating nutrient programs before all this ever happens. I see this all the time with teenagers who come here incapacitated and on our program get better real fast.

SS:
And then do they have to come back regularly or do you teach them how to detoxify themselves?

WR:
We make sure before they leave us that they understand “cause and effect.” We teach them that the body is a wonderful sensor, but it’s been underdeveloped and ignored. We’ve got a supercomputer in our brain that can analyze these things, but it gets masked
over and ignored. So once we teach our patients and their families this concept, so that they truly understand it, they can understand what needs to be done in their environment. I have some patients who check in about once every twenty years. I’d like to see them more often, but they are from Singapore, Japan, England, and Spain, so it’s not easy to drop by. But they learn how to manipulate themselves and keep their environments pristine.

SS:
Do the green builders get it?

WR:
They don’t, and you would expect that they would. But the Bau-biologists, they are German, and some do understand how to build a toxic-free house.

SS:
How can people check for chemicals in their home?

WR:
We have kits now that measure indoor air. One is called an “Indoor Air Analysis Kit,” and there’s an “Outdoor Air Analysis Kit.”

SS:
After the patients get their kit, they can start eliminating toxins from their houses. Will these kits analyze if there is mold?

WR:
Yes. Mold is serious. How does nature disintegrate things? We rot. Right? And our homes and bodies are broken down into dirt for lack of a better explanation. What we are doing is trying to live in harmony with nature, but we are also fighting nature when the negative aspects get into excess. Molds can lead to Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, arteriosclerosis, and so on, and so many other horrible conditions.

SS:
Can molds lead to death?

WR:
Yes, molds can. That’s why we have to keep fighting. I’ve been treating molds since I was a thoracic surgeon. I knew about this as a surgeon because we had all these things like coccidioidomycosis, blastomycosis, and even some other pulmonary cardiac diseases—all were caused by molds. Aspergillosis can be caused by mold in the lungs. Environmental illnesses will alter brain function, they will alter heart function, they will alter intestinal function, and they will spark food intolerances and food sensitivities, which can be devastating and even deadly.

SS:
So, it’s rethinking your house and what you have in it, as well as what you clean it with, and rethinking your food and your water.

WR:
Drink from glass bottles, not plastic. Install reverse osmosis filters. And your sinks should be made of ceramics and steel. Your water should be double filtered. You have to understand that public water supplies are contaminated, fluoride is a disaster, and so is chlorine. Ozone aids the water. A lot of cities in Europe use ozone in the water.

SS:
Do we need to return to more natural ways of living in our everyday lives?

WR:
Yes, natural living using modern technology. Like water; you need to filter it, and modern technology makes that possible. Learn to steam things to kill them, like bugs. Pesticides will surely eventually do you in, as will gas and mold. But decreasing toxins can be done. We can live and be healthy, if we understand how to manipulate our own personal toxic load. And then each of us has to take responsibility for implementing changes. It is possible to decrease toxin loads; we can neutralize toxins and teach you what nutrition your individual body requires. We see individual miracles in our clinic every day. It’s very rewarding work.

SS:
And what do people say to you after they’ve finished your program?

WR:
Most of them say they’ve never felt better in their lives.

SS:
It’s almost like you’ve turned a light on in them.

WR:
We have. That’s what’s happening.