Solved: The Riddle of Illness by Stephen E. Langer & James F. Scheer

Author:Stephen E. Langer & James F. Scheer [Langer, Stephen E.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2006-08-09T16:00:00+00:00

Eager to learn reasons for deterioration of arteries and heart after thyroidectomy, Dr. Billroth's brilliant protégé, von Eilsberg, in 1895, performed this surgery on animals and noted the same results: myxedema and gross deterioration of arteries throughout the body.

Several years later, two other leading Viennese surgeons, E. P. Pick, MD, and F. Pineless, MD, used their heads as well as their scalpels in performing thyroidectomies on patients with massive goiters. They supplemented their diets with fresh animal thyroid extract and kept them alive and well without symptoms of hypothyroidism and damage to their circulatory system.

Supplementation with animal thyroid was new in Vienna and throughout most of the world. However, it was old in China. Two thousand years before Christ, Chinese doctors rejuvenated aging patients with failing faculties by means of an animal thyroid soup. Patients became younger looking, developed more energy, and often regained their ability to think and remember.

Many centuries later, during Queen Victoria's reign, London's most prominent Harley Street doctors took a cue from the Chinese and served elderly and failing patients special sandwiches of raw animal thyroid. Ugh!

Many patients became squeamish about these sandwiches, so doctors looked for alternatives. G. R. Murray, a British medical doctor, found one. He concocted a glycerine extract of fresh thyroid tissue, injecting the juice into patients. Although it achieved desired results, Dr. Murray found that his preparation rapidly oxidized and molded. Then he struck upon the idea of removing fat from the fresh animal glands and drying them. This process preserved the active thyroid principle.

Now he needed a patient to try his desiccated thyroid. A middleaged woman with acute myxedema, not many heartbeats from death, volunteered. She never regretted her decision, because all of her symptoms disappeared, and she remained in excellent health for nineteen years, when she died of natural causes at age seventy-two. Several times she stopped taking thyroid supplements and, in each instance, her former symptoms returned until she renewed her thyroid regimen.

Although Dr. Murray's natural desiccated thyroid formula is still used—it has been improved upon through the years—much research on its importance in preventing and treating cardiovascular ailments has been forgotten. The result is millions of unnecessary and premature deaths. Meanwhile, the international pharmaceutical giants are churning out new, expensive drugs that always come with frightening side effects—products promising a new solution to an already solved problem.

For better or for worse, most of today's physicians are wedded to their medicines and the theory that a diet low in cholesterol and saturated fat will reduce serum cholesterol levels and the hazards of serious cardiovascular ailments. There have been so many tidal waves of official warnings about the harm of cholesterol and the need for everyone to eliminate dietary fats and cholesterol that all opposition was swamped.

One hardly heard opponent, Rockefeller University biochemist Edward Ahrens, MD, who had conducted cholesterol research for over forty years, told Time magazine that only a small minority of Americans is threatened by cholesterol. One in five hundred individuals afflicted with severe familial hypercholesterolemia have superhigh levels of blood cholesterol.

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