How A Real Apprentice Trains

I was weeding through the email today and after deleting a load of junk came upon this gem, sent to me by a long time customer from Wyoming.

Dr. Dave ships his products everywhere, including rural Wyoming, where even the last of the kick ass cowboys realizes that fish oil and Regenerizer are good weapons to have around when you want to stay healthy.

I got a good laugh when I read this, and hope you do too.

There’s a pub in Northeast Tasmania that has a new tourist drawing card. It’s not the Tasmanian Devil, if you were headed in that direction.

You may even be wondering where in heaven Tasmania is. If you are geographically challenged, it’s a pretty good sized island south of Melbourne, Australia.

Anyhoo, there’s a pub there, officially called the Pub in the Paddock at Pyengana. I can’t imagine why it would need a name that long, but I suppose it’s possible that there is more than one pub there.

The Pub is world famous for its beer drinking pig named Priscilla, who can “scull a stubby in seven seconds.” Loosely translated that means that Priscilla can drink a bottle of beer in seven seconds.

This would make her a contender on a good number of college campuses here, and at a large number of bars across the country.

I’ll bet she won’t even have to look for a job after college with those kind of skills.

The original Priscilla is getting old and needs to be replaced.

Is nothing sacred? Couldn’t they just let her pass out on the job?

The apprentice is named Priscilla Babe. Apparently she is a bit of a slow learner and so Priscilla is still the main attraction.

Tourists come from all over the world to buy Priscilla a beer, and the owner feels that that it is absolutely essential that Priscilla Babe keep the memory of the original Priscilla alive.

A woman from Texas was in the pub recently and very excitedly asked, “Is this the pub with the beer drinking pig?”

When the owner said yes, the lass from Texas said, “I saw her back home on the TV.”

You gotta hand it to those Texans for making the trip, I mean I’m booking a flight as soon as I finish this.

The owner of the pub, Ms Free, says that training a pig to drink beer is not easy.

According to her, “Most pigs will drink beer, but you have to train them to drink out of the bottle.”

“It did take her a while to get the taste, she sorta plays with the bottle, and is nowhere near the expert that Priscilla is.”

Well, I’ll say.

I submit that it probably takes a young pig a while to be able to learn how to hold its beer, and the pub owner was right to get started on this apprenticeship sooner, rather than later.

I'm wondering how many pigs got fired in the competition for this job.

You’re fired, Porky! You just don’t have what it takes!

Hey, and what happens when Priscilla is finely completely marinated?

I hope they save some cracklings for me.

If you want to take a long trip to see the original Priscilla, don’t forget your fish oil and Regenerizer After flying for 26 hours, you’re going to need them so you can appreciate the 8th Wonder of the World.

All the best,

Doc

Eating Pizza can zap your cancer

Another great headline that grabs you by your unmentionables isn't it?

Yep, today is the day we talk about pizza and I give away the big secret billion-dollar idea.

But first we need to pick up the thread from yesterday with a little recap.

Remember, this little golden thread I am weaving started with "Here a Doc there a Doc everywhere a Doc".

I have to hand it to the National Association of Fruit Growers. They created a fantastic demand for an almost uneatable fruit: Pomegranate.

In my area they were called "Indian Apples" and we got them for about 1 week a year during the fall form local growers.

I loved eating the seeds out of them but actually the sour taste was pretty unappealing then. It was mostly for the fun of digging out the seeds.

These days, health food stores do the digging for you.

If you are going to eat pomegranate for your health this is the way I would do it.

Dig the seeds out or buy them already removed in bulk.

This is far healthier than the juice for a couple of reasons.

First, there is tons of fiber in the seeds and gobs of vitamins too.

Next, you will avoid the huge amount of sugar they have to dump into the pomegranate juice to make it palatable.

Come to think of it, it's time for me to bring back the sugar shocker of the week feature.

This week's sugar shocker: Pomegranate juice.

But wait there's More

The next little tip you get concerns an Eastern European flower that cuts depression and boosts weight loss.

They don't tell you its name so I will. It's called Rhodiola and it is one of the key ingredients Instant Endurance.

And now for something completely different that you've never heard before except maybe 1000 times: did you know that eating cinnamon was shown to decrease your blood sugar?

Wow now, there is a tip. Why don't we add it to pomegranate juice so your sugar doesn't go through the roof next time you drink it. Think I am joking?

It's on the label, check it out next time you are at the store. You'll find sugar high up on the ingredients list.

The other thing is that very little follow up was done on the cinnamon thing.

I started getting my diabetic patients to do this a while back and it had not one iota of impact on any of their sugars. I also did it in non-diabetics and saw no difference in any of their sugar related numbers.

Ok, now it's time to wrap up with the multi billion dollar idea and remind you that.

Eating Pizza can stop Cancer dead in its tracks

Yep, it's true but there is a catch.

Eating pizza is otherwise one of the worst things you can do for your heart and your blood sugar.

The huge load of highly refined carbs along with a gargantuan amount of saturated and trans fats from the fake cheese, the toppings and the god-awful oil they cook it with will super size you faster than you can say "Medical Maverick".

OK, now for the billion-dollar idea. Since 82% of the lycopene American's get comes from pizza, why not enhance it further?

How about Pizza topped with pepperoni flavored gel caps. The huge dose of Omega 3 would offset most of the dietary damnation you get when you eat pizza.

As a matter of fact those of you who've been with me for a while will remember "Dr Dave's Pizza Hypothesis" from one of the early newsletters you all get free when you sign up for my health tips.


Geez, how about that; a free gift for a free newsletter. Kinda makes you feel silly paying for someone else's doesn't it?

For those of you who are skeptics, here is a direct quote from the article that lives on the National Library of Medicines website.

"Combined intake of tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato juice, and pizza (which accounted for 82% of lycopene intake) was inversely associated with risk of prostate cancer (multivariate RR = 0.65; 95% CI = 0.44-0.95, for consumption frequency greater than 10 versus less than 1.5 servings per week; P for trend = .01) and advanced (stages C and D) prostate cancers (multivariate RR = 0.47; 95% CI = 0.22"

What it says is the more lycopene you get the less likely you are to get advanced prostate cancer.

You could add breast cancer in their too.

For those of you who remember our Monster Tomato Blast, you got more lycopene than a dozen pizzas in one yummy serving of that amazing product.

How about this, Immune or Cardio Boost shakes. Add the amazing anti-oxidant power of Immune or Cardio Boost to your milkshakes and never worry about the flu or colds again.

Or how about this one, A Wizard bar.

Can't sleep?

Combine the health giving and delicious benefits of chocolate with the sweet indulgence of a good nights sleep thanks to Sleep Wizard

You'll be singing la la la all the way to la la land!

Well now, it’s time for me to head on down the road.

I hope you enjoyed this inside look at how things are done by the big boys.

Am I jealous?

Nah, I'd rather be real.

I'd rather pour heart out, spill my guts and open my brain up to you in a letter that I write myself and am not embarrassed to put my name to.

I have had several paid newsletters over the years and some of you are still getting them. Up to this point it's been just a small group of high end users of my products who I call my "Dr Dave's Insiders".

I am planning on going more mainstream and letting every one have a crack at the newsletter in the near future.

I promise you this. The newsletter will have stuff no one else will tell you.

If you want proof, just read the blogs from the past week. Has anyone ever written about any of this stuff?

Be honest!

What I've tried to do is show you how people use psychology against you to sell you nonsense, and get your names to pitch you on all kinds of other stuff.

If at times during this series you got a little angry with me and felt like I was holding out on you, then you got the message.

But you also got some great information along the way which makes this very different from the nonsense that most people pitch to you.

So you got the extra benefit of my recently acquired inside info on how things are done as well as the real health info you need.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg so look for that newsletter soon. Those of you who bought at the sale will get first dibs on it at a reduced price.

Now grab some of my fish oil and swallow it down for your good health and longevity.

All the Best,

Dr Dave

How fruit juice can prevent cancer

Did you like that headline?

It's an example of one of the types of headlines you are likely to see in a typical Alternative Medicine newsletter sales pitch.

Please understand that this blog is part of a series that starts with "Here a Doc there a doc every where a Doc". If you haven't read that one go back and do so to get the most of today's post.

It will be worth the 90 seconds it takes you.

In the next day or two I'll tell you all about it and I have something special for you, an unexpected secret gift for some enterprising genius out there.

It is my personal gift to you.

I am going to give you a multi billion dollar idea for some enterprising entrepreneur out there who will never give me credit I am sure.

And in a little bit I am going to show you the proof of that and apply it to some of the newsletter tricks that you get from many so called "Alternative Health" newsletters.

I showed you an email I got in yesterday's blog asking me to evaluate the real value of the contents of one of these newsletters.

I am not going to name the Doc who edits (again, edits not writes) this newsletter but my reader sent in a link, which took me to a page where all the burning questions I have about my health would be asked.

Not answered of course because then there would be no newsletter to buy. I'll provide the answers for you so you can judge the originality and value of the newsletter.

Here we go.

The first thing this guy recommends is fish oil. Well, at least he gets off to a great start!

He even recommends 6 caps a day.

Where could he have gotten that?

Most of the info he gives could have been gotten from any one of my emails on that very topic and we both know I never write anything about fish oil.

Hey, using my stuff is not illegal but it won't get him past the B.S. meter on the other stuff he writes.

Next piece of advice: go to church on Sunday because it relaxes you and reduces your blood pressure.

I think that probably depends on whose giving the sermon but it's not bad advice at all.

So far, not bad.

Next, eat chocolate.

Yep we've covered that one many times here too. But there is one problem this doc forgets to tell you: in addition to chocolate's effects on blood pressure and good cholesterol it also put several pounds on all of the study subjects who ate it regularly.

OOOPS!

If you want all those benefits on your blood pressure and your good cholesterol and want to reduce the fat in your body in the process just take those 6 caps of fish oil daily and stop there. In addition you'll get a ton of other health restoring benefits.

OK, it's time for he first billion-dollar idea. Omega 3-enhanced chocolate.

Get the benefits of chocolate and fish oil, have your cake and eat your fish all at once. Just fill out this rapid response form now and.... well, you know the rest of the story!

I would put money on the fact someone is going to try this.

Next, we get the sunlight vitamin D and cod liver oil connection.

Well, I just wrote to you about the vitamin D and sunlight issue.

Five minutes a day is all you need as I mentioned. I also told you how filthy and polluted many of the cod liver oils are and how they can overdose you on Vitamin D pretty fast if you are not careful.

Somehow all of that got left out of our doc in the boxes newsletter.

Next is "How a fruit juice can prevent cancer"

But alas you'll have to tune in tomorrow to read the rest.

And yes, I promise to deliver the goods I told you about today. I just wanted you to see a typical ploy used to hook you into buying one of these worthless newsletters.

If you feel a little gypped, there is a lesson in this. Remember it the next time one of those glossy magalog pitches shows up in your mailbox!

I'll be looking for you with more great stuff tomorrow.

Ok Ok I'll give you some right now because you deserve it.

I have to hand it to the National Association of Fruit Growers. They created a fantastic demand for an almost uneatable fruit: Pomegranate.

In my area they were called "Indian Apples" and we got them for about 1 week a year during the fall form local growers.

I loved eating the seeds out of them but actually the sour taste was pretty unappealing then. It was mostly for the fun of digging out the seeds.

But in order to get the most out of the pomegranate you need to know something no fruit grower, juice seller or Alternative Health Guru copywriting team will tell you.

Tune in tomorrow for the big secret and of course the good news about pizza.

Or is it?

All the Best, Doc

Here a Doc, there a Doc, every where a Doc

OK, so by now hopefully you've read my "Garden of Eden" series.

You now know how most of the promotions for health stuff work, you know who writes them, how they are put together and the role (if there is one) that the Doc they pop on the cover page actually has in any of the above.

Usually it's nothing.

Well, I've decided to give you a little run down on this in the flesh so you can see exactly the value of what they give you and how it's dressed up to look like way more.

In this case we are going to look at a newsletter. The promotion looks like it comes from a doctor but you don't see his face for a page or two.

When you do, the photo is black and white.

This is a standard trick; it means the photo is usually about 30 years old, otherwise they would never use such a crappy one.

There is even one guy out there who forgets his toupee for one of the shots.

How confusing!

Grecian formula and it "won't come off" toupee one day, and "solar panel for a sex machine" bald the next.

Geez, only a medical maverick could pull that one off (or did someone else pull it off right before the photo as a joke!).

If this doc would have remembered to take any of the fish oil he is selling, he might still have a full head of hair.

I do and I am the only one in my family who still does, including the women!

OK, enough poking fun let's get to the meat of the matter.

There were two things that happened in the past week that made this letter to you an essential.

1) At the recent conference I attended and told you about in the Garden of Eden series the conference leader said, "You can throw a stone in any direction and find a doctor who wants to edit (key word being "edit" not "write") a health newsletter.

2) The following email:

"Dr Dave, it seems like every doctor in the world publishes a health newsletter. Just about every day I see a new face and a new pitch.

Is any of this stuff valuable"? James B

Well I could give you the short answer and say "no" but that wouldn't be any fun and there'd be no proof.

So let's take a look at one of these Docs that obviously got hit by one of the stones the newsletter companies sent you.

First, remember these are newsletter companies. Their job is to sell you a newsletter. But their real job is to get you name so they can sell you all kinds of things.

You see these companies front several, sometimes dozens of different people, not just the guys whose newsletter you buy.

Once you buy, you are on their list and unlike email you can't filter your mailbox.

So pretty soon you've got people selling you water purifiers, knives, coins and all kinds of other things.

All those people are fronted by the very same newsletter company.

How much do these companies make from people like you every year?

Try $200 million and that is not even the biggest one!

Yes, you read that right.

While that wouldn't even pay the combined salaries of the CEO's of Big Pharmaceuticals companies, it's still a pretty chunk of your hard earned change.

So we'll take a look at some of this info and see if it's worth the money.

It's time for me to say Good bye for the day, but join me tomorrow when I pick up the golden thread that we started here and weave it into a truth telling tale you would never hear from any of the newsletter docs.

And as an added bonus I'll tell you how eating pizza can cut your cancer risk!

And of course I'll show you how a few caps of my fish oil, Super Omega 3 or one of the Boosts can do the same thing or more for you than any of these newsletter tips.

See Ya at the Pizza joint.

Doc

Return to the Garden of Eden part 3

Yesterday I was telling you a bit about price sensitivity and my products.

I mentioned that I don't want every single person as a customer and told you the story of how I came to dedicate my life's work to do something different.

If you read the past few blogs, as you should to understand the thread of this one, you'll see so many differences between me and many others that it's not funny.

Naturally I think I do it better, but that is only one important point.

The most important point is that I am 100% serious about doing this for the rest of my life. I did not create a business to be like everyone else; I created it to meet the needs of people as I saw them over 20 years of medical practice.

I created it to serve the huge gaping whole that existed between prescriptions and non-prescription supplements.

Yes, it's true I want my products to have drug like effects if at all possible.

I want to show the world the very same thing I found out years ago when I cured myself with natural remedies.

We have everything we need right here and if it's combined in the right way, amazing things can happen.

Pain can disappear.

Brains can function faster and better and not get old as fast.

Wrinkles and skin can get smoother and more beautiful.

Men can keep their prostates and women can keep their breasts past age 60.

And people who would have been slowing down can speed up as they age and reclaim the youthful vigor that in some cases they never had.

So back to the reason I don't want every body in the world as a customer.

It's very simple.

I will not compromise a product that I put my name on.

And that is exactly what I'd have to do if I wanted everyone to climb on board my train.

I could use cheaper, inferior ingredients in lower doses and sell on benefits alone, leaving out the fact that there isn't enough of anything in there to do you any good at all.

Then maybe millions or billions of people would buy it. But no one would benefit from it.

No, I am sorry but that is one compromise I will not make.

Besides, the Prescription Drug industry and the government do not need any more ammo in their war machine when it comes to fighting the battle against the small, independent supplement industry.

Remember, a worthless product is another feather in their cap.

It gives them yet another reason to take away your freedom of choice while Big Pharma makes the same kind of obscene profits the oil companies are raking in this minute.

The last thing I want to do is contribute to that situation. There are enough worthless supplements out there doing that for me thank you.

So to those of you who are using my product, and reading my words, benefiting from my experience and knowledge, you are all I need.

You are the members of a special group of people who think like I do.

WE share a common vision of the future that is far brighter than any our traditional contemporaries could hope for.

WE can walk in the Garden of Eden here and now!

Mother Nature has put everything we need here to succeed and live far better than we do now.

A few classic examples are fish oil which has been studied with more positive results in multiple diseases than any single drug ever to come out of a pharmaceutical company's lab.

Two other great examples are Super Omega 3 which combines the power of multiple herbs like Curcumin, rosemary and ginger along with the amazing benefits of Omega 3 fish oil.

If you want power, this is it!

And a personal favorite Instant Endurance, which harnesses the power of Siberian ginseng and the almost as costly as gold mushroom, Cordyceps, to give you an unbeatable combination.

I am slowly but surely finding my way back to the garden and I'd like you to join me.

Now I want to alert you that there is a very big event looming large on the horizon so DO NOT miss the next couple of blogs and emails and be sure to pass the word onto your friends and family if you care about them.

'Nuff said!

Doc

Return to the Garden of Eden part 2

In yesterday's blog I told you about how I felt like a shrinking violet in a sea of sharks at a recent conference.

The big boys and the vitamin pros have resources I couldn't even dream of let alone afford.

But I have some things that make me unique including these blogs and emails I write to you.

No one else is doing it this way. There are some huge companies that have a doc up front for credibility but they sell every single thing that comes down the pike, supplement and otherwise, for a fee.

Then there are companies that spend all their time and money promoting their products with good-looking, fancy magalogs that clutter your mailbox screaming, "Give me your money".

Speaking of money, I had to do a little soul searching when someone commented, "You know, Dr Dave, your stuff is not cheap. I mean I care about my health and shouldn't put a price tag on it BUT, wow you are much more than the other guys."

Before I could utter a word, one of my customer who I didn't know was there chimed in, "Yeah but his stuff really works!"

He then went on for about another 5 minutes defending my honor.

Later I took the price sensitive guy aside and some surprising things came out of my mouth.

First, I told him the meaning of the word "but".
I said that, "but negates everything that comes before it"

So a statement like "I know you shouldn't put a price tag on your health but" means that is exactly what you are doing.

Hey, it's Ok to be on a budget.

The truth is I can't make my vitamins affordable for everyone and frankly I don't want to.

And that is exactly what I told this guy.

Now he looked at me with that "Another typical arrogant doctor" look that I sometimes get when I am blunt and honest with people, which is the only way I know how to be.

So I dug a little deeper and said, "Here is the deal. Years ago, every vitamin I took from the local store didn't work. I rarely spent more than 15 bucks on a bottle of anything.

When I got home I took them for a week or two, felt nothing and went back to spend another 15 bucks on another worthless product.

Before long I concluded that most of what I was buying was worthless. This made 15 bucks a lot of money because I wasn't getting any value at all from it.

Soon I'd go back to the vitamin store knowing that the stuff wouldn't work and I'd try 3 or 4 bottles of different things.

Now I was spending 60 bucks for products with no value still hoping to find that secret thing, that one bottle of something that might give me an edge and get me closer to my goal of better health more energy, a thinner waist line, etc.

At some point I gave up and realized that all vitamins were good for was expensive pee.

Then I got sick with high blood pressure.

I took 5 different prescriptions for 5 months and still did not have a normal blood pressure. It was only when I added in the ingredients of what are now Super Omega 3 and a healthy extra dose of fish oil that I was able to get off the health-robbing drugs for good."

For more on this you can read "My personal battle with High blood Pressure" - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3

Then I asked the guy two questions.

The first was "have you ever tried my products?" and the second was "who are the 'other guys'?"

Join me tomorrow for the rest of the story.

In the meantime I want to remind you, we are wandering through the Garden of Eden of health on this earth without even realizing it.

Mother Nature has put everything we need here to succeed and live far better than we do now.

A few classic examples are fish oil which has been studied with more positive results in multiple diseases than any single drug ever to come out of a pharmaceutical company's lab.

Two other great examples are Super Omega 3 which combines the power of multiple herbs like Curcumin, rosemary and ginger along with the amazing benefits of Omega 3 fish oil.

If you want power, this is it!

And a personal favorite, Instant Endurance, which harnesses the power of Siberian ginseng and the almost as costly as gold mushroom, Cordyceps, to give you an unbeatable combination.

I am slowly but surely finding my way back to the garden and I'd like you to join me.

Tune in tomorrow when I tell you more about this little trip and what I learned about myself and others.

Doc

Return to the Garden of Eden

This past weekend I spent some time at a conference. There were many people of different persuasions there and I met some very fun and nice people.

Among them were some competitors of mine if I indeed have any.

I got to see first hand what the people who run a 10 or 20 million dollar a year vitamin business look like and how they promote their things.

While it was a great experience, there were parts of this meeting where I felt like I had just been launched off the back deck of the Titanic into the icy North Atlantic as the ship went down.

This conference was unlike any other I have ever attended because I got to mingle listen and learn from people who are my competitors, at least in the sense that they are competing for health care dollars.

Here is what I learned.

Everything I ever suspected was true about most of the large, well-run companies that have famous doctors fronting them.

"Fronting them" is the key phrase here.

Behind these docs are armies of copywriters with hundreds of years of cumulative experience behind them. There are art directors and graphic artists.

Research teams do the writing, the doc "edits".

There are demographics experts, list brokers, compliance officers, corporate lawyers and so on.

If you can afford to hire them you will get a professional package that will go out to a couple hundred thousand people, often times more than once and every last success and failure will be detailed down to the last stamp and shred of paper.

In other words these people are pro's.

They are also incestuous. Inside secrets do not exist and if last year's promo for company X worked and you are company Y, the team may "steal" or borrow the whole set up.

Hence, there is not a lot of originality in some of this.

I have to say I almost felt myself growing smaller in the audience as I saw the truth about how this all operates.

I certainly can't afford it and I am not sure I would want to.

But I do want to grow my business because I believe 100% in what I am doing.

So I took a long hard look at things and made a list of how I am different.

Here's what I came up with.

1) My formulas are unique

2) My formulas are better because they are the result of my own personal research.

None of the other company heads were doctors or even had a health background of any sort. None of them had ever touched a patient or been one for that matter.

In all the cases I know of, the supplements were not any different from what you could buy at your local vitamin shop. I have a sneaking suspicion that they all come from the same place.

3) Because of my 20+ years experience in medicine I can do something no one else can do. I can educate you about my supplements. I don't sell anyone else's and it makes no sense for me to do that.

I don't have some hired gun, vitamin company behind me making "me too" products with a fancy personalized label on it. In most cases that label is the only thing unique about some of these products.

4) I don't believe you can get healthier with single agents unless you have a deficiency. So I don't try to sell you Vitamin C or B12 by itself while you are buying the more complex compounds. If you really believe in those things by themselves you'll wind up going elsewhere.

So be it.

5) This is not a business to me, it's my life.

My life is about making your life better. Faster, stronger, leaner, smarter, longer-lived, sexier and a whole host of other great things.

After all isn't that what doctors really should be doing?

We are wandering through the Garden of Eden of health on this earth without even realizing it.

Mother Nature has put everything we need here to succeed and live far better than we do now.

A few classic examples are fish oil, which has been studied with more positive results in multiple diseases than any single drug ever to come out of a pharmaceutical company's lab.

Two other great examples are Super Omega 3 that combines the power of multiple herbs like Curcumin, rosemary and ginger along with the amazing benefits of Omega 3 fish oil.

If you want power, this is it! And a personal favorite, Instant Endurance, which harnesses the power of Siberian ginseng and the almost as costly as gold mushroom, Cordyceps, to give you an unbeatable combination.

I am slowly but surely finding my way back to the garden and I'd like you to join me.

Tune in tomorrow when I tell you more about this little trip and what I learned about myself and others.

Doc

Supplements mentioned in this blog:

• Super Omega 3


• Fish Oil


• Instant Endurance

Food fight - Can we legislate body weight

My cell phone scares me more than the government...and so does my computer.

The reason is that multinational giants can track just about every move I make and classify me down into some very intimate subcategories based on who I call and where I visit.

It's not too hard to imagine the cell phone being used to track people as well since few people seem to be able to live without them.

But our government still weighs in as a big threat to our freedom. Forget the Codex Alimentarius (the law that would put supplements into the hands of Pharmaceutical Giants) for a moment.

Now, Uncle Mad, I mean Uncle Sam is trying to legislate body weight. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Maybe I should just pig out on chocolate while it's still legal.

Our surgeon general says that obesity is a greater threat to our welfare than terrorism and guns combined.

There is no question of that.

But the way(s) that our government wants to tackle that problem make TSA look like a great idea!

Such as: a tax on sodas. Now this is not a bad idea since this may be the number one offender. You may recall my email entitled "Beating the sugar rap" which describes soft drinks as the number one source of high fructose corn syrup.

A fast food tax. Given the drive some Americans have to get to the golden starches and others, I doubt this would stop people. Ever since age 18 when I wrongly predicted people would never stand for gas at a dollar a gallon, I've learned my lesson about raising prices as a deterrent.

It just doesn't work.

I'd love to see a politician run on a platform that taxes or denies Americans food.

That person would go down in history as having the shortest lived political career on record.

My recent blog on the TV show "Honey we're killing the Kids" shows the absolute ludicrousness of the attempts to "educate" on their eating behavior.

It is not that hard actually.

Parents need to grow some cajones again and start doing something that went out of vogue about 20 years ago.

They need to make rules in their own homes and make their children follow them. There are ways to do this without physical contact like removing the TV and limiting computer time.

Also by setting an example and exercising regularly and visibly in front of their kids, and better yet with them.

As a kid I loved the family walks we used to take several times a week.

Now that I've been able to reassemble my family, we are doing them again.

Together.

I also think we could take a lesson from the Department of Highway Safety and put weigh stations outside of the fast food restaurants.

If you weigh too much, you pay too much.

In that tiny number of cases where there is true disease and or a genetic abnormality that causes he problem we could have exception stickers.

Ok, Ok so I am taking it too far.

My point is that in 99% of the cases it's not one's glands, one's metabolism, one's genetics, one's coping skills that causes the obesity we have in this country and all the illnesses it generates.

It's what we put in our mouths and our activity levels.

If you want your kids to get of their ever-expanding and ever-growing more sickly behinds, stop watching TV and parking in front of the computer, you do it first.

Children need structure and authority figures to follow. That has been proven over and over again. They are not happy and can never be well adjusted without that.

So as adults we need to stop acting like children, get up off our behinds and stop watching so much TV and praying to the computer for hours on end.

Or the government may just put a weigh station right outside our doors.

I know it's not easy or fun.

But it has to be done.

I make several supplements including fish oil and Regenerizer, whose ingredients have been shown to affect the way fat is deposited and improve the energy generation by burning fat over other fuels.

A couple of capsules or packets a day will help your body move in the right direction when you do move it.

You'll feel more power coursing through your veins and you'll want to do more.
Energy equals life.

Energy equals power, and power equals force.

So when you force yourself off the sofa and out into the streets to join America's Health and Anti-Aging revolution you'll be able to do so with all the zest and zing you could ever want.

Sign up for the revolution now! Get off your butt and take the first step at Fish oil and Regenerizer.

See you in the streets. Let's take back our helath, our waist lines and our power, our youth and our futures!

And let's lead our kids by example.

Doc

Longevity secrets and the last time I will ever write to you

The other day I got to thinking about the advice I would give to someone if I only had a few minutes left to tell it to them.

What would I say? How would I distill a lifetime of unique knowledge and experience gleaned from thousands of people over tens of thousands of hours in medicine?

What would I tell them about staying young?

I mean let’s face it, this could be the last time I ever write to you or the last time you ever lay eyes on my writing.

While I sincerely doubt it and I don’t dwell on it, it does put things into perspective doesn’t it.

So here goes my best advice on how to stay young forever. Bear in mind while you read this there is much more to tell you but this is the “5 minutes to youth” version.

1) Learn how to be happy and learn how to be happy more often. A lot of people tell me they would be happy if only (insert anything).

That is a lie and they may not even know it. If you are not happy, it’s an internal thing in ninety plus percent of the cases. It may sound trite but happiness starts within.

If you are not happy, figure out why and remember it is most likely something that you harbor inside.

If I had to pinpoint the cause of most unhappiness I would tell you it’s related to self-esteem and worthiness. In some cases this was fostered by an unworthy person with self esteem problems who couldn’t stand to see their significant other (wife, husband, child, etc) happy.

This kind of problem most often comes from a deep-seated lack on introspection. In other words there are a lot of people who are afraid to look inside deeply enough to see what’s really there, face up to it and deal with it.

Here is an example. I had a friend who was considered above average in looks, pretty smart and relatively successful. He might not have been an A-list player in any department but he was still in the top 15% of good catches.

Unfortunately, he was rejected at a fairly young age by the woman of his fancy.

It took him another 15 years to recover from it and dominated his behavior for way too long.

After a long time he realized that the problem was not the woman whom he blamed for the rejection, but the way he looked at it. Once he realized this, changed his attitude and was happy with who he was, well let’s jus say it’s been raining women ever since!

2) Forgive yourself and forgive others. Most of us did not come with users manuals. We make mistakes and hopefully learn from them at some point. The same is true for everyone else. Grudges are toxic because they allow the person who you hold the grudge against to be the dominant thought in your life, giving more power to them for more time, even when they are long gone!

Faggedabout it! And move on with YOUR life.

3) Learn everything you can about everything and anything that you want. Don’t ever say no to that wondrous little child within you that wants to explore and expand.

To do so will guarantee a premature death.

4) Enjoy life and its pleasures in moderation. I hate the people who run around avoiding all kinds of things because they are afraid of being alive.

“Let’s see, my luminous dial is only 3 feet from my head and it should be 4, I haven’t eaten my salad and it’s more than 3 hours since I ate anything; gosh I am heading for hypoglycemia. Crap, I can only run 40 minutes on the treadmill, not the 45 I need to make myself happy.

But if I go any longer there won’t be time for my third colonic and I sure do need that because I am so full of you know what!”

Hey, routines are great and without them you’ll never get anything done. But let your life be about experience and enrichment, not avoidance and fear. This is the point I was trying to make in my Gandhi vs. La Lane email.

Linus Pauling lived to be over 100 years old and was in the middle of a research project when he died. Paul Brag was over ninety when a surfing accident took his life.

These are my heroes.

I can tell you they both lived and loved life and they inhaled it down to their toes.

They were not pale, pencil-necked, avoidance and fear-based people who cowered in fear of the future like some of the so called Alternative Health gurus appear to be.

They were real gurus.

They were tough and adaptable, like you and I.

5) Take care of you body and your mind. Remember that almost everything physical starts with something mental. Eat right, for food is the fuel of our brain and body. Sleep well so you can recover. And get some activity, moving briskly every day for at least 30 minutes.

6) Remember that Super Nutrition requires Super Supplements like fish oil to defeat life-robbing inflammation. Regenerizer to blast your cellular power plants into a new orbit, Hercules Factor to restore your bodies own youthful fountain, and Instant Einstein to help make you as smart as you can be, and smarter than the rest when it counts the most.

And if you need help with your rest call on Sleep Wizard.

And here is a bonus tip:

7) Put a little bit of you into everything you do, and you will do the best job you can and be better than most.

Every single bottle of my supplements represents me and my vision for health and youth in the coming decades. It represents a chance for me to help make someone’s life better; free of pain, free of depression, free of fatigue and free of disease.

So I can sleep well at night knowing I have fulfilled my father’s advice to me about life.

Leave the world a little better than you found it.

He did and I will!

And those, my friend, are my last words to you.

Until next time.

All the Best in better health and better life,

Dr Dave

Supplements mentioned in this blog:

• fish oil


• Regenerizer


• Hercules Factor


• Instant Einstein


• Sleep Wizard

Lessons from a master multitasker

Multitasking is something that just about every doctor needs to do and do well. It was not uncommon in my clinic days to be having a conversation in sign language with a nurse, carrying on a phone conversation and writing or signing a prescription all at once.

Humans are unique among primates in their ability to multitask, mainly because of our highly developed brains.

One area of the brain known as Area 10 is critical in the multitask.

I can hear it now; someone will want to know if there is an Area 51 in the brain and what it does. The answer to this can only be found on the X files!

Area 10 is the area that lets us pick up where we left off and continue with our longer term goals. For instance, if you were writing a check for a specific amount and reason (the IRS perhaps!) and then the tea pot brewed over, you don’t have to start the whole train of thought needed to write the check all over again.

As a matter of fact, when it comes to the IRS, writing checks might be so automatic you might not need to give it any thought at all.

Just feel the pain and sign.

We are also able to carry on some pretty complex tasks without thinking twice; and I mean that literally, as long as they are highly practiced.

This explains why a drunk might drive home without getting lost, or a boxer who was almost KO’d finishes a fight but doesn’t remember what happened.

The scariest case I knew of was that of an orthopedic surgeon (bone doctor) who had the beginning stages of Alzheimer’s disease.

He never made any mistakes during his surgeries because he had done so many of them. Thus they were highly practiced.

The jig was up however when one day he walked into a room to see one of his patients with a nurse and said, “Who are you and what did I do to you?”

His was a tragic story and took place before the advent of Pharmaceutical Grade Fish Oil and Instant Einstein. I can tell you that I could not get along without either of them. I am 100% sure they boost my brain power, my creativity, my memory and my ability to multi task.

And in this super fast cyber information age we could all use a little help with multitasking.

If only to keep up with our kids who seem to be born to talk on a cell phone, download to their Ppods (the unhip, non-techno version of the ipod) scan split images of the TV while ignoring their parents in studied fashion.

Here is a little note from a guy who was feeling the pressure but has learned how to handle it now.

“Doc,

I can’ tell you what a difference your products make for me. I have been on fish oil, Einstein, and Monster Multi for a few months now and have noticed amazing stuff happening.

I am an IT guy and I am constantly upgrading my education to stay current. Also I only have an associate’s degree. They want to promote me but company policy is I have to have my bachelors and then of course a Master’s.

All this means about 2 more years of school. I am often studying, on the phone, dealing with my kids, or other situations that require multitasking.

I swear I didn’t use to be able to do it. I would throw up my hands and say “Slow down, I’m getting confused!” I really thought it would hinder my advancement at work.

I am so happy to have mastered this new skill.

It's made life much easier and now I can relate to my kids better since that is all they do these days!

Mason L."

Cool, Mason, or should I say Kuhl! I will second that story with my own experiences. Nothing beats Instant Einstein and Fish Oil when it comes to brain power.

Now go out and get some and watch your brain power multiply and your life change for the better.

All the best from a Master Multitasker and a lousy shpeller,

Dr Dave

Supplements mentioned in this email:

• Instant Einstein.


• Monster Multi


• Fish Oil

A cave, a fire and a piece of meat

It’s been said that all people really need is a cave, a fire and a piece of meat to survive. While we haven’t changed much in the past 50,000 years, there is no doubt that people need a lot more than that these days.

Call it part of social evolution if you will but folks look for and expect a lot more out of their lives. And with the advances in today’s knowledge there is no reason you shouldn’t expect more, lots more even as (or maybe especially as) you get older.

If you’ve been with me for any length of time, you already know I have some selfish reasons for creating the products I create.

First of all I want to remain free.

By that I mean free to come and go as I please, unhindered by physical or mental disease.

Free to create and express my ideas and boost my knowledge.

Free to try new things and learn new things so I stay relevant in this ever changing world, a world that moves a lot faster this year than it did just 1 year ago.

Next, I want to be secure. I want to know that some health problem is not hanging over me like the Sword of Damocles.

I don’t want to be affected by the statistics like, “There’s a 2 out of 3 chance the doctor will write Heart Disease on your death certificate”.

Or how about this one: “There is a 70% chance that every man in this country will get prostate cancer, especially if they live longer.

Or the one I dread the most: 50% of people over 80 (and believe me I plan on being around long after 80) will have some form of Alzheimer’s disease.

Nope, those are not for me and I hope you feel the same way too.

I want to run and jump and play like I do right this minute (I’ll soon be 50) when I am 80.

I want to be able to give a gentle smack on the behind of the woman I love and exchange a knowing wink as we go up the stairs.

I want to be as cutting edge as I am now when I am twice this age.

So for me, “a cave, a fire and a piece of meat” won’t do.

I want more and I am betting my reputation and my life’s work that you do too.

That is why I write so much to you about what’s going on in the filed of Anti-Aging medicine, nutrition and supplementation.

That is why I make such life-changing and in my opinion life saving supplements like
Fish oil, Regenerizer, Instant Einstein and others.

In every case I have found research that tells me that the ingredients in these compounds will get me into the decades that follow just as happy, healthy and wise as I am now.

To the rest of humanity, if you are happy in your cave, by your fire, gnawing on your meat, more power to you.

I want more.

If you want more, act now. Don’t let another day pass you by without taking action to make your future bright and healthy.

Don’t let another day pass without the promise of more in the immediate future and beyond.

I have another selfish reason to ask you to get on board with the supplements now.

I don’t want to be surrounded by strangers at my 100th Birthday Party.

I wanna see you there sipping champagne and dancing along with me.

Doc

Supplements mentioned in this blog:

• Fish oil


• Regenerizer


• Instant Einstein

P.S. Men, (and ladies, if there is a man you love) keep your eyes out for my new breakthrough product for prostate health, Prosta Sheild.

Martha Stewart sleeps with the fishes

Five or six years ago I was in smallish room with about 40 or so other doctors. The lecture was on what was to become one of my favorite topics. You might even say it has become a major part of my life’s work. The topic was the essential fatty acid chain and how it affects human health.

The lines and arrows began to blur and the names sounded the same, linoleic or linolenic acid, sheesh I’m not sure.

The words droned on and on and the diagram of fatty acid biology slowly infolded before me.

The in a Eureka moment I got it. It all boiled down to fish oil.

That was then and this is now.

Fish oil has grown to a 300+ million dollar a year business worldwide and it seems like everyone is jumping on the bandwagon.

Doctors everywhere are using it to treat heart disease arthritis and other illness even though the FDA says you can’t make health claims about it.

Some of the heart doctors in my area who were my biggest critics years ago are now among my best customers.

Everyone and their brother is trying to sell it, from Maverick M.D.’s who look like death warmed over to domestic divas and hairdressers.

Those that missed the fishing boat are trying to push other inferior products like cod, flax and krill without much luck.

Even people who you wouldn’t expect are touting the benefits of fish oil directly or indirectly.

But never in my wildest dreams did I think I would find something about fish oil on the Martha Stewart Living website.

Now mind you, Martha herself is not using it to flavor her melange or anything like that but she did publish an article by a nutritionist who specialized in nutragenomics (using food to affect our genetic expression).

You may recall that I have written several times over the years about how fish oil can directly and indirectly “reprogram” your DNA.

You may also recall the critical role it plays in cell signaling and of course the aging process itself from the eyes to the joints, from the brain to the heart and so on.

If you read Martha’s little article you will find some surprising similarities to stuff I have written over the past 4 years.

Surprise, people do copy other people and there is no law against it. I figure it this way, someone with that kind of reach and that kind of power can do a lot of good by spreading the “gospel” of fish oil.

Sometimes I forget that not everyone out there is as well informed as you are.

So, Martha, thanks.

Now I have another suggestion for you. Next time some one from the Federal Trade Commission calls you, take a big slug of fish oil and Instant Einstein.

It will help you do the right thing!

All the Best from Dr Dave, the proud maker of the world’s Best fish oil.

Here is the Martha Stewart Fish Oil article:

Go Fish Oil

Beating up on prevention

Is nothing sacred?

It would seem not as traditional medicine now is taking aim at prevention.

Now I can understand how they might lambaste the supplement world. Big Pharma sees a potent, all-natural, over the counter supplement that works wonders and has no side effects and of course they want to crucify it.

It's eating into their precious profit margins. So throw some ad dollars to a few major medical journals and publish something that wouldn't pass a 6th grade critical review and bang, you've struck a blow for the big boys in the boardrooms.

But now they are taking aim at prevention.

Why?

Business as usual.

If you prevent disease then you can't sell more drugs.

In a recent article of the Archives of Internal Medicine (which is slightly lower on the "head up the butt scale of Big Pharmacy" than The Journal of the American Medical Association), an article was published stating that the enormous time, effort and cost we expend on prevention is really not justified by the literature.

Ah yes, the "literature", the euphemism for drug company sponsored evidence, in other words.

I had to pinch myself.

I went to Med School in America and had the same exposure to preventative medicine that most med students get.

Zero.

I don't remember one course or even one lecture devoted to "the prevention of heart disease or stroke"

All I remember is 'here is the disease; here's the drugs or surgery you use to fix it'.

The lay press does a better job of educating the public on prevention than most doctors do.

Here are a few of their arguments:

First, they cite the use of hormones in postmenopausal women. They state that the observational evidence led to the widespread recommendations that these hormones be used.

Then it was found that there were no real trials that backed it up and when you did those trials it was found that the hormones were bad for women.

So what you are saying is that there were not any "evidence-based trials" done for 30 years and the drug companies got a free ride to sell women over priced horse piss that contains 30 different estrogens, only a few of which remotely resemble human estrogen.

Interestingly enough, Wyeth pharmaceuticals, a manufacturer of this horse piss derived prescription drug, filed a citizen's petition against the sale of bioidentical hormones for women.

Bioidentical hormones are just that, the same kind of hormones a woman's body makes instead of horse piss.

Wyeth says it's bad because there are no studies to support it.

What they should be saying is bioidentical hormones are an unpatentable form of relatively inexpensive treatment that is cutting into their profit margins.

And since when does a drug company qualify as a citizen!

I can't think of any organization with less interest in citizen's needs than a drug company.

Next up for targeting is the fact that we can significantly impact on diabetes and other illnesses with diet and exercise.

The article sites the economic impact of such measures.

Hmm let's see, less dollars in the food industry's pocket for highly process, high profit margin foods.

Better deals for farmers, especially organic farmers.

The sugar lobby takes a pounding because people will want to avoid all the sugary foods that are associated with diabetes.

And finally, our friends the drug companies can't pedal as many drugs because there are not as many sick people.

Yep, we sure can't afford that now can we?

In my opinion, we can't not afford it.

Finally, the article sites the failure to be able to actually put some of these things into practice. For instance we have an initiative to treat high blood pressure but we can't get people to take their blood pressure drugs as often as they're supposed to.

Darn those pesky people.

Can you imagine they don't want to take expensive, side effect laden drugs?

They'd rather take things like fish oil and Super Omega 3 and work on preventing the problem.

How dare they!

Yep, folks, step right up for the latest drug with the latest list of hidden side effects.

And while you are at it, don't take an interest in your health because you really can't do anything about it.

Just be ready to pony up your retirement for those drugs 'cause we've got 'em waiting and they've got your name on them.

I think I'll just say a quiet 'no thanks' and keep trying to push prevention as a viable alternative to sickness anyway, thank you.

Now it's time for me to pop some fish oil and Monster Multi and get on with being healthy.

Hope to see you on the way!

Dr Dave

Honey we're killing the kids

Right this minute I am laughing so hard tears of joy are rolling down my face.

I don't think I laughed this hard since "Beavis and Butthead do America".

I think I have seen the funniest and most ludicrous reality TV show (actually I just saw the trailer) ever invented.

It's called something like "Are you killing your kids" and focuses on Middle American parents, their kids and the growing epidemic of childhood obesity.

I want to nominate the producers, directors and originators of this show for my weekly Instant Einstein Award.

The premise of the show is to use computer aging techniques to show parents of adolescent obese kids just what those kids will look like in 10 or 15 years if they continue on their current path to blobdumb.

The deal is to scare the parents into forcing their kids to make lifestyle changes.

The hostess of the show says, "If this doesn't scare them, nothing will!"

She's right.

Based on the computer aging process, it's more likely to scare them into turfing their current brood off to relatives and adopting a new batch as fast as they can.

I mean these kids are pudgy at 10 but by 20 they are positively horrific.

They are not just fattened up by the computer; they are just made plain ugly.

Yikes!!! There 's not an attractive one in the bunch.

A word of advice: don't take your kids' baby photos to a computer-enhancement pallor. Let Mother Nature run her course and wait and see.

I promise you ignorance is bliss.

The next "too funny" is the parents.

Did anyone mention to them that they are setting an example?

There is not one among them who is remotely near their ideal body weight.

If we can accept that children pick up their parent's smoking habit because of what they see between age 0 and 5, then we have to accept the same about body habbitus.

Think I am lying?

A few days ago some of the neighborhood kids came over to my sister's house to pet her chinchillas.

One little 5-year-old tugged on my sister's arm and said, "You're pretty. Not like my mom, she's fat and has pimples on her face!"

Out of the mouths of babes.

By the way, mom's pimples are probably due to an androgen (hormone) imbalance that was directly related to her weight. In few more years there'll be some lovely facial hair to join those pimples.

If her husband is shallow, I shudder to think what comes next. If she did the computer animation on herself, I think we'd see some serious fish oil, Regenerizer consumption and a walking program.

My point is it's hard to have fat parents telling their fat kids to get off their butts, stop playing computer games and lose weight while they are still young and it's still easy.

Monkey see, monkey do.

And that brings me to the another ha ha and ironic, funny point of the show.

It shows an angry confrontation between fat mom and fat child.

Mom is holding the kids bike by the handlebars yelling, ”That bike isn't going anywhere until you let us take the TV out of your room!"

The sobbing kid (yes, actually sobbing at the loss of the TV) informs her that as soon as he turns 18 he's outta there for good.

Now let's look at this point by point.

First, mom is preventing the kid form riding his bike and ordering him back in the house as punishment.

The message: Try and get some exercise will you? Get back in that house and be fat and sedentary!

Next, the kid is sobbing at the loss of the TV. The thought of a child lovingly fondling their TV is almost as repulsive as the end result of the computer aging techniques on that very same kid.

Wha! Wha! I want my MTV!

I may be showing my age but when I was a kid, the thought of a child having a TV in their room was unheard of. We had a family room, a family TV and kids didn't watch anything without their parents' permission.

Dr Dave's Helpful Hint #1: don't put TV's in your kids' rooms!

Finally, the kid threatens to leave at age 18.

Well after seeing what he's going to look like via the computer animation he may be doing mom and dad a big friggin' favor.

Given their appearance, it may also be his only chance at a normal body weight.

The final clip shows the kids if they change and maintain normal body weight.

Guess what, they are still ugly as sin, now they're just thin and flabby looking. Show this to the parents or the kids and they'll be more confused than ever!

So here it is in a nutshell.

If your kids are fat:

1) Look in the mirror and be honest. If you ain't cuttin' the mustard but you're cuttin' too much cake, you can not expect them to listen to you when you try to get them to change.

You set the example. If you are heavy, get on some fish oil and Regenerizer and start walking. Your kids will follow suit.

2) Get rid of the TV and limit the computer games. With one exception: The whole family should check out this show on TLC because without meaning to, this could be one of the greatest comic hits of our time.

3) Throw a fish oil capsule or two to your adolescents everyday. At the very least it will probably help them listen better and calm their anger disorder when your remove the TV.

Parents and kids don't come with manuals. Use common sense and do the best you can. But don't look to TV for the answers!

All the best, Doc

Supplements mentioned in this blog

Fish Oil - Regenerizer - Instant Einstein

"Others will copy but none compare!"

I Walk the Line

I have to admit I have been pretty hard on the younger generation in the past few months. I've made wise cracks about their use of cell phones, their driving abilities and their addiction to myspace.com and so on.

But every now and then I get a really intelligent question or series of questions from a young person that makes me rethink my ususal "You need Einstein" status.

That is what we've got today but there is only one problem.

This kid is from Britain!

Wouldn'tcha know it. I've said it before in "Why the Brits are smarter than us" but did they have to go ahead and prove me right?

Oh well they do use a lot of fish oil in schools these days over there and have been getting great results.

Here is the email from one smart, highly motivated kid:

"Doctor Dave,

I have been reading your posts keenly for about a year now since Matt Furey wrote about your fish oil product. I have read in the past that the English rugby team take omega-3 supplements for their joints.

My current problem is with DOMS (delayed onset muscular soreness).

I am an avid 16-year-old athlete; I play soccer, do a fair amount of sprinting and chin-ups and I follow my own program devised from Combat Conditioning. Due to my school-work, I feel I can only exercise in the weekends and I lose my discipline, so when I exercise for the first time in the holidays, the next few days my muscles hurt: mainly my chest, triceps, lower back (from Hindu Press-ups) and my legs (from Hindu Squats). The last two really kill me so I get a massage if I'm lucky. In addition to this, once I had my legs stretched forward-like as if I was doing a high kick in Tae Kwon Do, to increase flexibility, and the whole of next week I didn't know why I was hurting.

I looked this up on the Internet and I found the term DOMS kept popping up. Btw, I compared your fish oil to other products, and their values are a joke. I have no doubt yours is the best.) Could you please explain what exactly is happening to my muscles, how it affects my strength and abilities, and how I can fix this?

One more thing, please, have you noticed that most "producers" either claim their products either help the heart, or joints, or the brain-eye function but not all three, or is it just me? I didn't see much difference in the nutritional values but either these producers are ill-informed or they want to sell the same products under different labels.

Yours,
WSL, UK"

Dear WSL, you are certainly an active person and it's no wonder you are experiencing some DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness).

Let me cut to the chase and say that Super Omega 3 and Cardio Boost would probably be an ideal combo for you to control this.

You could use a pack of Super Omega 3 1 hour before and another pack of Super Omega 3 with 2 Cardio boosts 30 to sixty minutes after your heaviest workouts; or better yet, get on a morning/evening routine of 1 pack of Super Omega 3 and 2 Cardio Boosts after your breakfast and the same after your latest meal or snack of the day.

Since it sounds like you are always on the go, the later routine would be the best for you if you can afford it.

DOMS can be improved by clearing out the lactic acid levels and flushing the muscles with increased blood flow after the workout and controlling the inflammation process in the body with the anti-inflammatory properties of Cardio Boost and Super Omega 3.

During the repair phase, the little muscular bridges that allow your muscles to
cross link and contract the muscle are disrupted until they are healed. Also, there is swelling within the tissue that contributes to muscular weakness during this phase.

Remember, your muscles get torn down from your workouts and then begin repair phase, which I believe you can speed up with the supplements.

This will allow you to perform better on a more consistent basis as you will be pain free and less stiff.

And you'll still get the repair phase that makes you stronger, faster and better as an athlete.

You are probably also controlling some other important things that athletes get like inflammation and joint damage even at your young age.

Remember, people don't have to replace knees and hips because of what they did when they were old even though that is when the operations happen.

It's usually the damage they did when they were younger that sets up chronic inflammation and destruction of body tissues.

Too many athletes think and think wrongly that because they are in great shape their bodies can handle the toxins and free radicals that high levels of exercise produces.

I am nearing 50 and believe me, I could not do the things I do now without the supplements. Of course I have access to and use Regenerizer, Hercules Factor and Instant Endurance as well, but that can get expensive.

Surprisingly, there are a lot of serious athletes that spring for the whole ball of wax because their performance is that important to them and they don't want to take illegal drugs like steroids and Growth Hormone.

As to the people who do not sell products for multiple things, I think there are several reasons. One definitely is ignorance. You have to remember a lot of supplement sellers are not in fact producers like I am. They do no research and simply sell someone else's product with a different label on it.

I don't do that and you can look at the ingredients and you'll see no one else has what we have, although I am sure there are clones. I recently attended an Anti-Aging conference and had to sit through a 1 hour lecture listening to a national expert on brain health tell the audience he had discovered an amazing new formula and was planning on making a supplement from it.

It turned out to be Instant Einstein almost verbatim.

The other reason is that some people are afraid they will overstep their boundaries and piss of the powers that be and get hunted down by the FDA or FTC. So they stay within accepted guidelines and cower in their boots while millions of people suffer needlessly and could be helped by things like fish oil.

I can't say it any better than Johnny Cash did:

I Walk the Line!

Thanks for this very intelligent question.

I think you will go far in life!

All the Best,
Dr Dave

P.S. I am glad you are still getting my emails across the pond!


Supplements mentioned in this blog:

• fish oil


• Super Omega 3


• Cardio Boost


• Regenerizer


• Hercules Factor


• Instant Einstein


• Combat Conditioning.

The Easter basket

Easter Egg #1

Hi Dr.Dave,

My name is J and I was recently diagnosed with hyperthyroidism. I was hospitalized in December for thyrotoxic crisis and was therefore started on PTU. I have tried unsuccessfully to wean myself of this medication and was told by my endocrinologist that my only option now is to undergo radioactive iodine therapy. I am very worried about the procedure as well as the possible unwanted side effects. Is this a safe procedure and is it my only option or can you recommend an effective alternative. Please help!!!!
Sincerely,
J

Hi, J, I can't give you medical advice over the internet but let me tell you what I can. I treated many people with thyrotoxic crisis in my day and there are of course 2 different approaches. In Europe they keep people on drugs sometimes for life, never using radiation. If you read the side effects of the drugs like PTU and tapazole there are some really scary ones. Then again, there are few drugs that don't have scary side effects.

In America we use radioactive iodine to zap the thyroid. The main side effect is hypothyroidism, which is not a picnic but can be much easier to control and is far less dangerous. Generally it is not hard to restore the thyroid values back to normal with a simple one a day medication that most doctors are comfortable with.

Letting the toxic thyroid go is a crapshoot. It can certainly kill you and if it does not, it’s likely you'll wind up hypothyroid anyway. I nursed many a patient through the thyroid radiation and restoration of normal thyroid levels without any serious troubles.

I also had some people on drugs for very long periods of time and did fine there as well, but it always made me nervous.

I don't know of any supplements that calm the toxic thyroid.

I hope this helps,
Doc

Easter Egg #2
Dr. Dave,

I had a Dr. tell us in a class the other day that cod liver oil and fish oil were very full of free radicals and we were crazy to take them. I have been taking them ever since I talked to you about a year and a half ago and feel great taking them and it completely got rid of a cough I had had for 9 months! But when another Dr. tells you something very contrary it makes you wonder how two Dr.'s can come up with such opposite information.

Thanks
Torey T

Hi, Torey, there are no free radicals in fish oil. As far as pollutants, cod is loaded and fish can be if they are not purified.

Right now in Britain they are pulling fish oil off the shelves left and right because of a pollutant called dioxin.

This is what happens when you use a cheap, unpurified brand that is not tested.

Our fish oil as you know is super clean.

I would have two questions for your doctor friend:

1) How many patients have you treated with anything, let alone fish oil?

I have to admit I am a bit tired of people being labeled as national experts on fish oil when they have never been able to actively take care of one single patient themselves without the supervision of a doctor.

There seems to be a lot of that going around lately.

2) Where did you get your info? If you check on the national library of medicine and type in "fish oil", you and anyone else can find thousands of references to fish oil improving health. If the comment about free radicals were true, why is there so much positive info?

Why are there provisional recommendations for fish oil from the American Cancer society and the American heart Association?

I think your doctor needs to go back to school or back into the ice age!

I would stay on the fish oil, Torey, it sounds like you are doing great on it and your body doesn't lie!

Best, Dr Dave

Hey, Doc, I had a wild and crazy experience with Super Omega 3 I just had to tell you about.

I was minding my own business a week or so ago and all of a sudden I started getting bad pain on the ride side of my belly.

I thought it was some fish I ate so I took some antacids and tried to go to sleep. I tossed and turned most of the night and didn't feel well at all. By morning I knew this was serious and I remembered my little daughter had appendicitis when she was 3 and it was just like this.

So I went to the hospital and they immediately sent me up to surgery after the doctor examined me. No x-rays no nothing, just some blood tests and a medical history.

Five hours later I am laying in a recovery room without my appendix and with a couple of little scars. They gave me some narcotic by vein and it made me nauseated and goofy.

They let me go the next day and sent me of with a prescription for more narcotics.

I decided against that. I had some Tylenol at home but I had also been using your Super Omega 3 after workouts to decrease the soreness.

I had discussed using it with my doctor and he said the way they did the procedure I didn't have to worry about bleeding and yes I could take it. I read your really good blogs on supplements and surgery so I wanted to be sure.

Anyway, the surgeon said it was fine, so I took the little garlic gel caps out of the packets and used the big fish oil caps and the yellow capsules. I took 2 packs at once two times a day.

Doc, I swear I was astounded that this was the most effective pain killer I had.

I had almost no pain on it and if I missed a dose I hurt pretty bad.

You make an amazing product and I just wanted to thank you because I couldn't stand the narcotics and Tylenol; just doesn't work for me.

From now on I am going to use Super Omega 3 everyday instead of just after workouts.

You rock Doc!
Jason S.


Jason, I must say you are a pioneer. I would never have thought of using Super Omega 3 for post op pain, although it makes perfect sense.

They often use a drug class called NSAIDS of which Toradol is the most popular for postoperative pain management.

Toradol is in the same class of the recently banned drugs, Vioxx and Bextra.

If it is safe to use Toradol it is certainly safe to use Fish oil based compounds like Super Omega 3 since they have the same pain killing benefits without the risk of kidney failure, liver failure and bleeding stomach ulcers.

Toradol can only be used a few days after surgery and then it must be stopped.

As always you need to ask your doctor just like you did because it may not be safe to use supplements after some surgeries.

It sounds like you had what we call a lap api (Laparoscopic appendectomy) and the risk or bleeding is very low with that procedure and the tools they use like ultrasonic scalpels and stitching instead of staples seal the wounds very tightly.

I cannot recommend Super Omega 3 as a post op pain management unless you talk to your Doc, but it sounds like you did everything right and got a great result.

I would love to write this one up for the medical journals under the title "Super Supplement controls post op pain".

Hmmm, maybe our favorite journal JAMA would print it.

Whatddya think?

Well I hope everyone found an egg.

I am off to chef our Easter dinner, a nice lean piece of Filet, spinach salad with pine nuts and goat cheese and my favorite, broccoli followed by a slug of fish oil and Boost Immune or maybe based on what Jason said, I'll switch to Super Omega 3 for the day.

Have a fantastic Day!

Doc

Supplements mentioned in this blog:
Super Omega 3 - Immune Boost - fish oil

The Easter blog

For those of you who celebrate this day as I do, I wish you a joyous and happy day.

For those of you who do not, I wish you the same.

While Easter is steeped in joyous religious celebration I want to include everyone in this writing today so I am going to concentrate on some observations and things I have heard and seen as this day approaches.

The first came from my sister who after 20 some years in southern California has seen her first real spring.

She notices the incredibly fast change from the drab stark landscape.

I live near the base of a mountain and you can see the green line of new tree buds climb higher towards the top everyday.

Certainly a great motto for life.

Hyacinths and daffodils fill the air with a sweet fragrance and bursts of color. In my back yard two weeping cherry tress are in full bloom and their faint essence is as delicate as their short lived blooms.

I stand under them and do my daily deep breathing inhaling life from the air.

Birds, bees, rabbits and of course people are out in record numbers.

Any way you look at it signs of new life are everywhere as Mother Nature wakes up and begins the long season of plenty.

Certainly a time to rejoice.

I rejoice in my loving family and wonderful friends. I rejoice in my readers and customers who come from around the world now and are of all faiths and beliefs.

You continue to support me and give me sustenance with your stories of success and betterment that make what I do all the more worthwhile.

I rejoice in life, long and healthy life.

If I can, when I turn 100 and begin middle age, I'd like to have a great big party and toast all of you.

See Ya there!

Happy Easter,

Doc

Mushroom soup

Several of you have asked what happened to Lazlo, our resident idiot savant ditty guy.

Well I jokingly say I keep him in the basement but actually it's not a total joke.
You see in the basement is where all the medicinal mushrooms are kept.

Lazlo seems to love the 60-cycle hum of the grow lamps and is mesmerized by what's growing on down there.

After a particularly long stint of just water, mushrooms and fish oil he came up with this little limerick.

Miatake shitake Cordyceps, BOOM!
I can't get enough of the medicinal mushroom
It makes me strong
I can last longer
In the gym the biz or the bedroom

I run I jump I play I joy
At nearly 50 I feel like a little boy
No toxic chemicals to slow my performance
'Cause I am addicted to Instant Endurance

Ok it's probably time to send Lazlo back for another hit of the 'shroomers but he has some valid points.

The Cordyceps mushroom is in my opinion the King of Medicinal mushrooms and is different from all the rest.

It is so important in Oriental cultures that it is the center of an on going battle in Tibet and Bhutan between Maoist rebels (can you say supported by the Chinese government) and native populations.

It's street price per kilogram is about one third the price of a kilo of solid gold and rivals that of heroin even though it is health giving instead of health robbing.

Here in the U.S. almost no research exists on the subject but in the orient, Cordyceps have been used for anti-viral properties, anti-tumor properties, and of course sexual and athletic enhancement.

For all those reasons it is one of the key ingredients in Instant Endurance

We get testimonials almost daily about its effectiveness in the gym and the bedroom as well as on the road, in the air and on the job.

People ask me what they should take to help stave off the bird flu if it comes to town this fall as predicted. I tell them Immune Boost, Instant Endurance and fish oil.

But frankly I wouldn't wait around for that crisis. I'd get going now.

Put some Instant Endurance into your life and electrify your day.

Doc

The amazing 650 horsepower brain

Racing fuel has a very distinct smell to it.

Once you are familiar with it you can tell it a mile away.

Six hundred and fifty horse power had a distinct sound, especially when it's unmuffled through straight pipes.

It turns even the heads of the mildly disinterested women who came along to support their man's little boy fantasies.

Now multiply it times eight and you've got a major cacophony of power that rumbles down the track at the speed of sound.

The ear to ear grin on every guy and gal who was about to get strapped in was punctuated by more than a few jitters.

A couple of people took the ride along given by the pros and emerged white faced and white knuckled.

Once strapped in you are given a litany of directions about what to do if the thing explodes, burns, spins or anything else, all again punctuated by an "if you break it you bought it".

The last warning is two fold: first, don't light off the tires (spin them by applying too much power) and second, don't stall on the take off or your instructor who you follow around the track will take you around the course slower than a slug drunk on molasses.

Do either of the above and you will be humiliated to the point of having to leave town and change your name.

I couldn't resist goosing the throttle a little bit just to feel the thing shake and get used to the noise. Ah yes, big boys like big toys.

So I launch out after the instructor and nearly perform an automotive colonoscopy on the guy who was not expecting such a fast start.

The car pulls hard toward the left as it's set up to make those constant and recurring left turns that are the mainstay of NASCAR.

Ok, so now we're breaking onto the track and shifting into 4th gear as the big V-8 sings.

I am not sure how much time goes by but I am focused on just a few things, and I mean intensely focused because I had my 6 capsules of Instant Einstein an hour or so before track time.

I keep the instructor car's rear windscreen filling up my field of vision so I know I am as close as I should be. I watch for the tell tale puffs of smoke that comes when he nails the throttle out of the corners.

If I stick to him like glue he's sure to let me go faster and faster.

The flag man whose job it is to signal me of any problems with my driving line or distance doesn't flinch. I get one or two wave offs from the instructor who is letting me know I am getting too close to his car.

"Fine, pal, go faster and you won't have this problem" I say inside the deafening roar of the cockpit.

No one can hear me but I don't care. I can barely hear myself.

Deep in the Einstein zone I notice a few peripheral things as the supplement slows down the world around me and allows me to observe while I drive.

Because of the Einstein I can see things clearly and absorb them easily even though they are happening at break neck speed.

Bits of rubber from the instructor's car fly up and hit my windshield hard.
I know I could dodge them if I had to.

Leaves rustle by in whirlwinds as we dip low onto the track for the steeply banked corner and then settle lazily down to rest again.

The flagman is bored and doesn't even bother to look at my car as it zooms by in a blur. His job is elsewhere.

We pass his stand and I catch him slowly turning back to a group of slower cars behind us. I realize I am looking in my rearview while going over 130 M.P.H. and not at all concerned about the approaching corner.

I've got it covered because my brain is working at 650 H.P. too.

I pick up on the fact that my instructor lifts of the throttle right at the point he dives down to the inside part of the track and I do the same staying glued to his bumper urging him to let me go faster.

Time stands still and in the intense concentration. I have no idea how fast we are going or how long I've been driving.

The G forces of the car as it pitches down into the corners and out again defy anything most people are used to unless they've been in a fighter jet.

Somewhere around lap 34 we catch a slower group in front of us at the beginning of a short straight; we are lined up to pass but will we?

The track boss's instructions ring in my ears, "If your instructor goes to pass you better be right behind him because you'll only get one chance."

My instructor goes and I slam the pedal to the metal and am right behind him without hesitation keying again on the tiny puff of smoke that comes when he nails his throttle.

Even though we are probably some 25 M.P.H. faster than the slower cars and are running flat out for the pass, we seem to drift by at a leisurely pace.

Will I make it? Will I get by in time to set up the corner?

It's a picture perfect pass and I slot in behind my instructor just in time to line up the corner and dive for the inside just feathering off the throttle and not touching the brakes.

The brakes, by the way, finally get used on the approach to the pits and they feel wooden and ineffective.

But stop they do and I wiggle out of the tight fitting cockpit that was my home for 36 laps of supra normal speeds.

I say a silent thanks to Instant Einstein for getting me through in one piece.

I find out I had the fastest lap times and the highest top speed of the group many of whom have done this before as well.

Coincidence?

I think not.

I think Instant Einstein gave me a 650 horsepower brain just when I needed it most.

Get some now and join me in the fast lane!

Instant Einstein

Doc

Two Two Habits In One

This was sent in from a fan, and he wondered if I had anything similar in any stage of development. The answer to that question is no, no, no, not a chance.

There is a new candy confection on the market, and its marijuana flavored. Chronic Candy is its name and its slogan is, “Every lick is just like taking a hit.”

The candy has been endorsed by Dr. Snoop Dogg and Dr. Paris Hilton, who are both bong certified behavioral therapists.

As you might expect, the candy is drawing criticism from Watch Dogg groups who fear the candy will appeal widely to children.

I once had an idea for fish oil candy but it just couldn’t pass the taste test. Kids just couldn’t suck on a lozenge that tasted like mackerel for some reason.

The candy contains no intoxicants, according to the marketers, but I don’t know if I find that reassuring or not.

Next up should be beer flavored candy “Bud Budz” and raspberry vodka Little Finlandias. How about Scotch on a Stick, Drambuie Drops or Tequila flavored Josecorice?

And while we are at it, lets make a bubble gum cell phone for kids loaded with high fructose corn syrup so they can blow the biggest bubbles while chewing up cell phone minutes. Well, the marketing is clever. The company has managed to combine gateways to obesity and drug abuse in a single product. You gotta hand it to them for that, don’t you?

I think not.

Do your kids a favor and get them to take fish oil and they’ll thank you for it down the road. And while you are at it do the same for yourself and toss in some Monster Multi as well because as we get older we can't get away with bubblegum nutrition.

You can order now right here: Dr Dave's Best Monster Multi with Minerals

All the best,


Doc

The truth about sun exposure and Vitamin D

If you know me at all you know I love myth busting.

I love it so much that I stick my neck out on a daily basis saying things that, while they are true, inflame some major power brokers like the drug companies.

However, I think it's time to look at some of the myths that are routinely picked up and spread like wildfire by Alternative Health Gurus or at least the teams of people that write for them.

Today, vitamin D and sun exposure is in the cross hairs.

Fact: Vitamin D has been shown to protect against several cancers including breast and colon cancer.

Fact: Fish Oil is a great source of Vitamin D and the dose I recommend of 6 capsules per day along with a regular diet will provide you with plenty of Vitamin D.

Fact: Not getting enough Vitamin D (Vitamin D deficiency) is indeed linked to breast, colon.

Fact: Too much Vitamin D is also toxic as this vitamin can be stored in the fat cells in your body and create a chronic toxicity situation the symptoms of which are:

Loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, followed by excessive thirst, weakness, nervousness and high blood pressure.

In the later phases, excess Vitamin D can cause calcium deposits in the kidney and other organs.

Myth: We are all at risk for cancers because we don't get enough sun.

Fact: You only need 5 minutes a day in the sun even if you have sunscreen on to get adequate amounts of Vitamin D.

Fact: The only people I have ever seen with Vitamin D deficiency are nursing home residents and Muslim women who are completely covered up or house bound.

The technical term for what they had was "osteomalacia" and in all cases it responded to Vitamin D therapy. In no case that I was aware of was there any increased incidence of cancer in that population. In plain English, there were not any more cancers in this group than any other.

Fact: There is no scientific data that links sunscreen use to Vitamin D deficiency or to skin cancer for that matter. There are a lot of internet articles claiming both things but there is not one scientific research project that substantiates these claims.

Fact: The book that originally caused the stir was called the "UV Advantage" and it was written by a doctor and a non-medical colleague (ghost writer?).

This book capitalized on the already popular conspiracy theory myths that never seem to go away on the internet. I think it was a smooth business move.

Sunlight is directly linked to numerous skin cancers and in conjunction with genetic factors like how well you can get rid of free radicals that come from radiation.

If you are concerned about your Vitamin D levels don't be. Unless you live through Artic winters you will get plenty of Vitamin D from Fish oil and Monster multi with minerals.

And the science supports the use of fish oil for skin cancer protection as well.

For those of you who want additional anti-oxidant protection, we make Super Wrinkle Guard, a product that is so potent in anti-oxidants it's like coating your body with rust inhibitor.

There is a lot to be concerned about in today's world.

Then again, there is also a lot of garbage.

Everyone has a 1st Amendment Right to Free Speech. Within that right is my personal right and mission to sweep the cyber streets clean of garbage.

See Ya tomorrow,

Doc

The eyes have it

I am on the verge of launching a new supplement called Vision Formula. I designed it with an eye to giving people an all natural way to protect their eye health as they age.

I promise you it looks nothing like the typical eye health supplements out there.

I was specifically concerned with the number one cause of blindness in this country, Age Related Macular Degeneration or AMD. The Macula is part of the eye that is responsible for vision and it takes a beating as we age.

Like most parts of the body oxidative damage or "body rust" is thought to be the cause of this problem. However, not all anti-oxidants are the same and I have chosen the ones I use carefully in this compound based on my research.

Several of you are already on it and I appreciate your being testers for the products.

Now you have to understand that this is one supplement that you actually do not want to feel any different on or "know it's working" by how you feel, because if you do you are already in trouble!

In this way it is very different from most of my supplements which are known for their rapid and real effects that you can tell almost right away.

Vision Formula will be available very soon, but today I want to focus on fish oil for a moment as it was always my intention to offer fish oil with the Vision Formula if people wanted maximum protection. You may not have been with me long enough to remember a controversy that I launched into with some "established Alternative Health Gurus".

It went something like this:

The prevailing view or as I called it the "me too" outdated nonsensical view that shows you are not reading the literature:

Fish oil in large doses can cause oxidation and be oxidized easily. Better take large doses of Vitamin E with it so it doesn't do damage in your body. Or better yet take flax oil.

Dr Dave view: Fish oil acts as an antioxidant and a free radical sink to soak up bad stuff in your body. Of course if gets oxidized, that is what antioxidants do when they soak up free radicals. Better it gets oxidized than the tissues in your body and the fish oil that is inserted in your cell membranes.

At the time I pointed out several studies that showed that fish oil worked to prevent heart attacks completely independently of any vitamin E that was added.
Soon after that came the study that showed vitamin E in large doses might provoke a heart attack.

Sometime after that came the information that millions of people can't process flax into healthy fats and turn it into bad fat instead.

At the time I also mentioned that fish oil would be great in age related macular degeneration, the number one cause of blindness. I also suggested that it would help other oxidative eye disease like Retinitis Pigmentosa but I could not come out and recommend it for that because the studies weren't done yet.

Well, I am happy to tell you that a recent study done by Nicolas G. Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Centre of Excellence at LSU Health Sciences Centre in New Orleans shows that fish oil is useful in both.
More info can be found at: Another feather in fish oil cap: hope against retinal degenerative diseases. So as you wait for Vision Formula to come out, start popping your fish oil because you can now add eye health onto the list of its many benefits.

Remember what I have written on my fish oil page,
"No single prescription drug can even come close to matching its benefits".

If, or should I say when, Big Pharmacy rules the country and we have to go the National Back of Pfizer with your money, the statement on my fish oil page alone will probably land me in jail.

We make the best fish oil you can get and I am proud to say that I have been 100% right in my predictions for its use so far.

If you and the people you love are not on it, you should be. Get off your behind and gets some! Dr Dave's Best Pharmaceutical Grade fish oil.

Oh yeah, what about the guru who was spouting the fishy baloney for lunch?

Did he ever admit his mistake? Of course not.

But he does sell fish oil, along with a whole host of other things like cod, krill, and any other one you can think of.

Here are a few other things to be aware of:

Remember, fish oil acts like an antioxidant - You don't need huge doses of Vitamin E to protect your body from harm if you take big doses of fish oil.

There is no reason to take Cod liver oil unless you live in Antarctica and you can get too much Vitamin D from it as well as toxins as it is not purified in most cases.

There is one study on Krill in human health and over 10,000 on fish oil in the past 5 years alone.

The jury is still out on coconut oil but as of this writing it's still used primarily to make labs rats fat.

Green tea kicks coffee's butt in terms of health benefits.

And yes dark chocolate in reasonable amounts is good for you. It contains antioxidants and can improve your HDL good cholesterol but it might make you fatter so be sensible with it!

The truth lives here and I ain't afraid to tell it.

Have a great and healthy day

Doc

PS When we release Vision Formula it will be done in our usual fashion which is a one or two day pre release sale at huge savings. It will probably sell out and be unavailable for a few weeks as with most of our introductory offer supplements. I can;t say exactly when we'll release it but it will be very soon so keep your eyes peeled.

If you or your loved ones are suffering form Age Related Macular Degeneration and are sincerely interested in trying it as soon as we release it send a note to Nancy at nancyb405@verizon.net so we can put you high on the list of folks who want it.

Also, please note Vision Formula is classified as a food supplement and thus the FDA does not allow any disease or health claims to be made for it such as cure, mitigate or diagnose disease.

Always consult your personal physician about any supplement you are taking or wish to take and remember your fish oil. every day

Train kept a rollin’ all night long

A topic that comes up but I don't often address for various reasons is sexual health.

When someone asks, however, the universal law is they receive.

Here is someone who's asking, so I must obey!

"Dr Dave, could you discuss sexual health and things that affect it? What supplements if any do your recommend and what drugs do you recommend? It seems you do not discuss this much in your writing."

Patti

Well, Patti, lest you think I am not a sexy guy I am going to fill your wish today and talk about that very topic. I have to tell you there are reasons I don't write much about it and the number one reason is that most people would never see it as it would get filtered, spammed, lost in cyberspace or any number of things. At this point it doesn't matter much because the likelihood of people getting any emails is getting remote.

I hope by keeping it on the blog that you will get this info.

First let's talk about sex and your health.

There are numerous conditions that can affect your sexual response.

That response consists of what I call the 5 keys, which include: drive commonly known as libido, excitement which hopefully needs no further introduction, orgasm, and resolution.

This is the "normal" pattern in humans. Please note that any trouble in one area can affect all other areas downstream from it.

There are many things that can affect any or all of the above.

These include drugs for blood pressure, drugs for cholesterol, drugs for heart problems, and mental health drugs, drugs for anxiety and drugs for just about every other health problem the drug companies have ever thought of.

Did I mention drugs can affect your sex life?

Please keep that in mind the next time your friendly neighborhood doc starts scribbling on that script pad. Also keep in mind that many of my supplements have been used very successfully for some of the above problems including, of course, fish oil.

Next, tobacco and alcohol (in excess) are biggies. I say "alcohol in excess" because, in lower doses, alcohol can pleasantly relax some people and make any one of the 5 keys to sex improve.

In women, birth control pills can play a big role in loss of sex drive and arousal.

In men, prostate drugs can do the same. Guys be aware also that the hair growth drugs (Like prophecies) have this same problem.

Here are some top "sex problems" also known a sexual dysfunctions in men and women.

Ladies first:

• Inhibited sex drive



• Inability to become aroused



• Lack of orgasm (1 in 10 women never reaches orgasm)



• Pain with sex


Men:


• Premature ejaculation (the most common male problem)



• Weak or ineffective erections

In both men and women we see that mental and hormonal issues are the top causes of the above dysfunctions.

As far as supplements go, I can highly recommend the following for most of the above problems. Again I am not claiming they cure anything but I can tell you we've had great successes with all of them especially in combination reported to us.

Regenerizer * fish oil * Hercules Factor

And of course PleasureMax which is due back in a month or so (supply issues have kept this in back order).

We have also made and are testing a phermomone (arousal scent) and an oil which is getting rave reviews among testers.

So once again Regenerizer, fish oil and Hercules Factor may be just the ticket to getting back on track if you have been derailed.

As far as erectile dysfunction, our best results have come form a combination of Sleep Wizard, Hercules Factor and Regenerizer all taken together one hour before sex.

Thanks for the question, Patti, I hope you get to read the answer and if there is more interest on the part of the readership I can teach you much more.

'Til then,

Doc

I smell a rat

A while back I wrote about the way in which medical research is manipulated to give positive results. Well, in my continuing campaign to give you the truth I want to touch on the subject again. In case you are wondering why I am so gung ho on the subject there are a couple of reasons.

The main one is because people are getting away with things that are in my opinion misleading and potentially dangerous.

And that, my friend, must not be taken lying down.

The other reason is an issue of freedom. Your freedom to choose and my freedom to provide you with the best supplements I can possibly bring you.

Here is a short list of the issues:

The Codex Alimentarius.

Seriously considered in Congress this law would pretty much remove supplements from vitamin stores and put them into the exclusive hands of drug companies and doctors.

I have nothing against doctors (I am one) but very few have even a rudimentary knowledge about supplements.

And you already know how I feel about Drug Companies.

The steroid witch hunt.

All of the original laws concerning steroids and human growth hormone were based on trying to prevent athletes cheating at sports, specifically the Olympics.

Thanks to guys like Jose Canseco who claims to have single handedly saved Major League Baseball (MLB) and now Barry Bonds who allegedly used all kinds of performance enhancing drugs the witch hunt is on.

As a result, legitimate use of either of these substances in age management medicine is getting very hard.

Fortunately, you can still get my amazing supplement the Hercules Factor as they haven't outlawed it yet.

Next, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals attacked the use of Bio Identical Hormone Replacement, a therapy that has been used for years to avoid the problems with the horse estrogens that companies like Wyeth has been pushing on women for years.

You know the ones that seem to increase the rate of heart attack and cancer.

If Bio Identical Hormones are removed from the market, ladies, you will have no choice but to use the stuff that comes from horse piss!

Now lest you think this is just me belly aching, let me tell you a little story of how I paid the price for Big Parma's joy ride and why I am particularly miffed at their recent attacks on fish oil and its use in cancer.

Lizzie was 78 years old but she seemed more like 88 when she contracted lung cancer. Both she and her daughter agreed that chemo therapy should be tried.

She went to the cancer doctors and lasted about 3 rounds of chemo before the side effects made a further chemo intolerable for her.

Of course the cancer docs stopped the fish oil and multivites trying to blame them at first.

Next, they offered her a drug called Iressa. It was supposed to work by mouth and have few side effects. It should have been ideal for Lizzie.

Well it didn't do squat except empty her wallet.

She died 2 months later. A little bit after that Iressa was removed form the market because it was found to be "ineffective".

But of course the FDA had approved and the drug companies sold it and made millions before they pulled it off the market.

Lizzie's daughter called me irate one day asking me why did I let the other doctors give her this expensive and worthless drug that gave them hope when they might have pursued other alternatives.

I had to explain to her that the FDA had approved the drug after its usual clinical trials showed that it might do some good.

After a while she calmed down and thanked me for all the years I had taken care of her mom.

But I still felt bad so I went back to the data and looked carefully at this cancer drug and many others that are currently in use.

What I found was the same statistical game playing I see in so much of what drug companies do and what the FDA allows.

In many cases the cancer drugs were being sold on a result called disease progression.

In other words if the drug slowed down the progression of the disease for a while it was OK and better than a sugar pill.

Problem is in many cases the patients still died at exactly the same time they would have on placebo, and died the same kinds of deaths they would have.

In some cases, instead of a disease progressing slowly for a year without treatment, the drug would seem to slow the cancer down for 6 months and then the disease would come back with a vengeance and kill the patient 6 months later.

End result: the patient was dead in 1 year either way.

And that, my friends, was good enough to get these drugs pushed through the approval process.

Why?

I can only offer my version. Recently a very large wing was built onto one of our local hospitals. It is beautiful and clearly cost many millions of dollars.

It is a cancer wing.

Cancer is big business and chemo drugs are covered by insurance companies and large profits are being made at all levels form these drugs right down to the people giving them.

Now you can see why something like fish oil might threaten the status quo.

It's safe for most people and far less costly.

Unless I want to be writing from behind bars, I can't say it does anything for cancer. But I can sure keep printing the articles that are in favor of it.

My friend, I have spent 20+ years at the mercy of a medical establishment that does not promote prevention. I have seen a multi billion dollar industry grow fat and rich selling drugs that can kill or maim people and if you don't use them as a doctor, you are guilty of malpractice.

I have seen my and your personal freedom eroded away by an ever-menacing force that aligns the interests of bureaucrats, politicians and money making machines like Big Pharma.

I have seen blatant abuses of medical information and clinical trials and data to "show results" that are nothing more than statistical game playing.

I have seen doctors' ability, desire and willingness to do the right thing be slowly taken away and watched them be forced into cook book medical practices that pander to these interests and become unwilling accomplices in a game they cannot win.

What am I doing about it?

Trying to keep you aware.

Making the best supplements money can buy.

And encouraging you to take you fish oil, Monster Multi and Immune Boost everyday like I do.

I will keep doing this as long as they let me.

All the Best form the Bad Boy of Medicine,

Dr Dave

How to stop a snowball from becoming an avalanche

Stress and anxiety are part of daily living for most of us.

But more and more people seem to be unable to cope with it and their emotions and their minds run away with them like an avalanche charging down a mountainside.

What to do:

Well here is a little guidance from the good Dr Dave in response to a reader in need.

"Dr Dave I have been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). I live pretty stressful life and I was wondering how to tell the difference between stress and GAD.

Also, do you have any recommendations on how to treat this problem with natural agents rather than drugs? I read what you said about Xanax a few days ago and lo and behold that is exactly what my doctor wants me to take.

Help!

Sara J."

Sara, I can understand your problem both from your point of view and that of your doctor.

I would be lying if I told you that I did not ever prescribe Xanax. I did not, however, just "fire and forget" the prescription. I noticed how well it worked, what happened when it didn't and what the side effects were.

The main thing I learned about Xanax from prescribing it was that after a very short period of time, it was hard to get people off it.

That being said please remember that no one but your own doctor can make actual recommendations about how to treat you because no one but your doctor has examined you or understands your history.

I can only speak generally about the results we have had with supplements and about GAD vs. stress.

So here goes.

A simple definition of GAD is that the person who suffers from it cannot shut off their mind. They are constantly provoked by little things and sometimes nothing and are burdened by a sense of dread or doom, constant and excessive fear, worry and tension.

The key thing that differentiates this from simple stress is that stress usually has a readily identifiable cause and gets better when that cause is removed.

If stress is present for too long and there is not a good answer for the problem, it often spills over in to the generalized anxiety state.

Normal, if there is such a thing, means that your definition of stress would be accepted by most people as something that would cause them stress as well.

People with GAD really spin off on a bad direction on the tiniest things or, as I said before, nothing.

Here are some other things that can be present with GAD

1) Irritability, restlessness, sweating, hot flashes, disturbed sleep (this is a biggie) and of course the need to go to the bathroom frequently. Notice how this looks and feels a lot like you might feel before taking an important test. But when the test is over, so are your symptoms

2) GAD does affect women twice as often as men but it is pretty common so a lot of men out there have it. It can strike at any age young or old but is most common in middle age (when so many of our problems seem to begin!).

3) GAD keeps company with other mental illnesses such as phobias, obsessive compulsive disorders, panic disorder and social phobias. Sleep issues are present in all of these things. The use of drugs legal and illegal and alcohol is common in GAD as in these others.


The way I look at it, Sara, is that everyone's brain is different. There are genetic factors, life experience factors (including trauma) but it all ultimately boils down to brain chemistry.

Because sleep is such a big issue in mental health you might expect the typical medical practitioner to resort to the same bunch of drugs as described in my blog "Now I lay me down to Sleep",

From the supplement standpoint I would recommend 2 things, fish oil and Sleep Wizard as the ingredients in both have been shown to improve serotonin levels and levels of other critical brain transmitters involved in keeping a positive and upbeat mood.

I used them often by themselves and of course along side other medications when needed to stabilize and improve people's moods, outlooks and the way they dealt with their stress.

Frankly, I personally use them all the time in myself just because I don't want to get to the point where the everyday stresses of life ever become more than just that, the everyday stresses of life.

We all have stuff to deal with, I can make it easier.

Fish oil and Sleep Wizard a magical combination for your brain.

All the best, Doc

P.S. Remember, don't stop or change your medicines without your own doctors permission! The statements made in this blog are not FDA approved nor are they FDA evaluated. The FDA is too busy approving drugs like Vioxx, Bextra and Paxil!

A bone to pick

Do you remember the "fish oil does nothing for cancer" series of articles I told you about? You know the ones in those big drug company supported rags like JAMA that always misuse their power to pan supplements and natural alternatives to toxic drugs.

Well you may also remember I promised you there would be articles that come out that absolutely disprove all those statements and show that fish oil does indeed have uses in cancer.

Ya gotta love the American Association for Cancer Research.

Mainly because they are actually interested in their mission and looking at many different things to stop cancer's ravages in this country.

Here is the headline from the report on their recent meeting:

Omega-3 fatty acids could prevent or inhibit the growth of liver cancer cells, say researchers from the University of Pittsburgh at today's annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.

At a recent meeting in Pittsburgh, PA Dr Tong Wu, a lead researcher in the field said, "It has been known for some time that omega-3 fatty acids can inhibit certain cancer cells."

Thank you Dr Wu for saying it like it is, fish oil works.

I hope you realize that your plane is flying in the opposite direction of the rest of traditional medicine including our dear friends at the American Medical Association.

Haven't you heard, fish oil does nothing for cancer? So say the great gods of JAMA and their buddies at the British Medical Journal. And so parrot the legions of followers who have a missing or defective "critical thinking" gene.

In addition to finding that Omega 3 fish oils work, Dr Wu found that the effect was dose dependent meaning more omega 3 did more to stop cancer.

How did it work? Well it's pretty complicated but in a nutshell it seems that EPA and DHA the 2 main components of fish oil actually prevent the cancer cells from growing and spreading.

I have written numerous articles that have cited research along these lines over the past 3 years.

Similarly a recent study published in the British Journal of Cancer refuted the findings of the British Journal of medicine by showing that prostate cancer cell grow was also slowed down or stopped by fish oil.

I promise you there will be tons of articles that undo the false pretenses of the fish oil bashers.

I also promise you they will get little if any airplay so I'll just have to keep you posted myself.

There is a truth, and the truth lives here! If you want the purest, highest grade fish oil you can get because you value your health, it lives here.

So does fish oil do anything for cancer? I am not allowed to tell you, but you can be the judge.

Don't forget to pop your fish oil caps and have a great weekend.

All the Best from the King of Pharmaceutical Grade Fish Oil,
Dr Dave

Now I lay me down to sleep

I had a wonderful and wonder-filled childhood. I remember thinking my Dad was the smartest man in the world and my mom the most wonderful person in the world.

I felt secure, loved and cared for.

Bravo, Mom and Dad!

A child raised in a secure environment can lay his head down to sleep and doze off into dream land.

Not so for many grown kids (we call them adults!).

New research links sleep deprivation to many illnesses including anxiety, depression, stress and obesity.

As a matter of fact that very same research shows that as people get older they do not fall asleep as fast, they wake up more frequently (this is not just men with prostate problems) and they have more disrupted and less refreshing sleep.

Now this is especially true of the over 55 crew who often have to deal with illness and pain such as arthritis.

It shouldn't be too much of a stretch to see how this might link to depression and anxiety.

But it is only recently that actual reports linking sleep deprivation and sleep disturbance directly to these conditions has been done.

The results are shocking. A full 62% of people with insomnia have other psychiatric problems.

Here is what your friendly neighborhood drug companies have to offer.

Valium type drugs (benzodiazepines)

Long the standard for anxiety, these drugs have hooked millions and provided billions in dollars for the drug companies. They have also caused many hip fractures when older people became unbalanced and fell at night in hospitals across the country.

While the longer acting ones are less popular these days, one drug, Xanax, carries on where its grandparents left off,

I can tell you from the doctor standpoint getting someone of Xanax is tough. I can tell you that my patients tell me from their standpoint it's even tougher.

The drug industry is currently working on several different shorter acting hypnotics. At least one of them is a synthetic melatonin-like drug.

Why do we need a synthetic when Mother Nature has given us several all natural sleep aids?

Antidepressants

In many ways these drugs have become the jack-of-all-trades and have spilled over into the sleep arena.

They are fraught with side effects as well. They can cause low blood pressure, mental confusion and prolonged sedation or plain old tiredness, and are often difficult to dose properly especially in the over 50 age range.

One drug, Nefazadone, is more deadly to your liver than the statin drugs(cholesterol lowering drugs).

As with the Benzo's, many of these drugs can increase nighttime falls as well.

Non selective antihistamines.

Benadryl is the favorite here. This is a truly dirty drug with many side effects not the least of which is bladder issues. Just perfect for the older man with prostate problems.

Not!

Finally, if all else fails, there are the big guns known in medicine as "atypical antipsychotic".

Originally designed for things like severe agitation, and schizophrenia, these things are like dropping a hammer on someone's head.

There side effects are too numerous to list here.

If "Mother Nature" and "All Natural" look, sound and feel better to you, I have a simple suggestion. Try some Sleep Wizard and for extra punch throw in some fish oil.

We get testimonials like the following all the time.

"Doc, Sleep Wizard is an amazing drug. I used to use Ambien and Halcion before that but I found I was slowed down and tired during the day and tended to need them more and more to get to sleep even though they are supposed to not be addictive.

With your Wizard I get to sleep fast and feel tremendous the next day.
And I move around a lot less too as I don't fall out of bed anymore.

And I am calmer about everything. I love it.

Truly an amazing product! Thanks Doc"

Fred H.
Miami

Thanks, Fred, but I need to remind you Sleep Wizard is not a drug. It's an all natural compound that uses what was put on this earth for us.

If you need sleep, you need Sleep Wizard.

All the Best,

Dr Dave

Here is a list of some more articles on sleep deprivation and the troubles it causes:

Questions for the guru

Fish Oil, Insomnia and Sex Drive...The Big Sleep and The Big O!!!

Resting Easy

Maximizing Your Training And Recovery

Insomnia Information

Does green tea really work to cut fat and weight loss?

I have written about green tea a lot in the past. I've told you about its anti-cancer benefits, its anti-Alzheimer benefits and its anti-aging benefits.

But as Spring weaves its way into our lives and people are out doing all kinds of things to help rejuvenate themselves it's a good time to look at green tea in another light.

A green light to weight loss perhaps!


As you'll see there is a reason we put a nice slug of green tea in our Monster Multi with minerals.

Like it or not our nation likes to pop pills. I should talk; I take at least 30 a day, everyday.

Then again this is my life's passion and work so it makes total sense for me.

A lot of people however are taking weight loss agents. Some are prescription drugs, some are over the counter.

We've had a few problems with both. Some of the drugs like phenteramine are basically speed.

Most people avoid them

Then we had Redux, remember that one?

Gone with the wind because of side effects.

Meridia is still around but can cause significant side effects and doesn't work for everyone. It's expensive as well.

Then we have over the counter weight loss aids

Remember the original Dexatrim? Gone in its most used form because of safety concerns.

Ephedra is probably fresh in your memory too.

Is it possible Mother Nature put something else here for us?

Something as simple as green tea for weight loss.

The active ingredient in green tea is called epigallocatechin gallate.

I think you can lose weight just by saying it backwards fast 10 times, so let's just call it EGCG for short.

Several studies have shown that ECGC reduces blood sugar levels, decreases fat storage, increases fat loss and most importantly prevents weight gain.

Now no one knows exactly how much tea you are supposed to drink for this effect.

Other studies on cancer suggest you may have to drink 6 cups of green tea a day to get these benefits.

Also the studies on weight loss were not done with the tea itself, they were done with the extract. This is the same extract we use in our Monster Multi I like green tea as much as the next person but 6 cups is a lot for most people so I'll take a slug of Monster Multi to make sure I get a good dose as a baseline.

You know designing a multi vite was one of the hardest things I ever did. You have to cover so much territory with one formulation.

We did it though with Monster Multi so remember it if you forget those 6 cups of green tea.

Doc

A tale of Two Tubbies

I want to share a few letters from the field with you.

The ones I've chosen are representative of things I have seen a lot in my day. As you read them, remember that the first six years of my life as a doctor were spent with a practice mix that included at least 40% of people who were coming to me for the specific reason of losing weight.

I am generally a compassionate person and an understanding one as well. Sometimes that does not come out in my writing. You'd have to talk to one of my patients to understand that I guess.

But there are times when a good swift kick in the arse is needed.

There are also times when something that a family member has told their loved one for years like "quit smoking", "lose weight" or "slow down on the drinking" goes in one ear and out the other.

But sometimes when they hear these words they come for a doctor.

As you read this letter and my response, remember the opposite of love is indifference.

"Dr Dave, I am soooo sick of you writing about weight issues and fat people.

I am not fat. I am 80 pounds overweight. There is a difference. Fat is such a negative term and has so many bad emotions that when you use it in your writing you label people like me as "bad".

I am a good person. I take care of the people I love and they come first. I got heavy when I had my first kid and gained with each successive child (I have 3). They are the joy of my life.

I work for a living and I can't afford the time to go to the gym or walk or do any of those programs you've been ranting on about since forever.

I have used diet supplements that contain caffeine as well and they give me more energy and I do lose weight when I am on them.

I don't stay on them forever so the weight comes back. Instead of "fat bashing" why don't you invent the pill that will help people like me.

I have not tried yours and probably won't; too many pills to swallow!


By the way, this may surprise you, but I am happy as well."

Carol G

Carol this is a free country and you are free to do as you like. I can only guide and suggest but what and how you live your life is your business and your responsibility.

As far as the magic pill we are experimenting with something very powerful but it will be a while before it's tested thoroughly enough for my liking. And no matter how good it is lifestyle changes are still required no matter what you use to lose weight, even surgery.

In the meantime we have gotten some great testimonials from people who are following the advice I have made available.

Regenerizer and fish oil work and they work very well.

Carol, I think you have what I call martyr complex. It is a term I came up with early in my medical practice to describe people like yourself who sacrifice their lives for the good of their families.

It is an admirable trait during war crisis and famine, but simply not necessary in most people's everyday life in this great country we live in.

I would never label anyone as bad based on their body weight, just unfulfilled. Let me share another email with you.

"Doc, I wanted to give you an update. I wrote a while back to tell you that I had lost 13 pounds and was doing things just like you said in your emails.

Well I have to admit that things slowed down for me over the winter but I am back on track again. I didn't gain any weight back at least, thanks to your daily encouragement!

In the past 6 weeks I have been taking the Regenerizer and fish oil faithfully and have been doing the walking programs you taught us a while back.

I also park away from work, walk to the grocery store with a cart on weekends and use the steps at work.

I have lost another 10 pounds and dropped another size.

Some of the clothes I kept from years ago are getting close to fitting again.

It is amazing how much younger I look. I feel better and I don't have to not look in the mirror any more. I still have a ways to go but thanks to your advice and your supplements I am growing younger.

Speaking of which I am getting low on Super Wrinkle Guard when are you going to make that available again?"

Terri H.

Thanks, Terri, and congratulations. I see a very bright, young, healthy future for you.

We still have a very few bottles left at: Super Wrinkle Guard

I hope you can see the difference between these two emails. One is a martyr in denial; the other has used the "A" word to change their life.

Action.

Yes, people, it takes action and, Carol, if you parceled out 10% of the energy you spend satisfying yourself that you are sacrificing yourself for the good of your family you would lose weight, get out of denial and feel better about everything.

You would be even happier.

You would have a lower chance of ovarian cancer, breast cancer, colon cancer, heart attack stroke, depression and Alzheimer's as well.

Men who are reading this, you can add in prostate cancer to that as well.

Its' no surprise that fish oil has been linked to lower incidences of all of those diseases.

High caffeine content weight loss supplements may give you a very temporary and artificial boost to your energy and help you lose some weight but ultimately you'll gain it back.

Think about it, if you lost it permanently how would they stay in business?

Fish oil and Regenerizer are all natural, healthy ways to boost your power and energy and shed some pounds in the process as our users tell us just about every single day.

It’s time to use the "A" word.

Take action now.

Walk, watch your diet and add fish oil and Regenerizer into your daily routine.

Never indifferent.

Doc

Dr Dave's Week in Review

Well just when you thought it was safe to come out, the bird flu is back in the news again.

It has now spread to the bird population in Europe and has claimed several more human lives.

It is not a pandemic yet but there is a lot of gloom forecast. It’s guestimated that it will arrive here in October and perhaps begin to take human lives at that point.

In Britain they are already telling people that "plague pits" another name for mass graves will be needed to handle all the human casualties.

I've heard they may consult Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein for some advice on this.

I remind you that this is the very reason we make Immune Booster and the Flu fighter pack.

We got some in last week. Sold out immediately but there is more due in this coming week. Stock up now because if any of these predictions are even 1/100 as bad as the hype you are going to want to protect yourself any way possible.

Speaking of spreading, there are now 8 states with killer bees in them and more to follow.

Sorry, I don't have a supplement to combat this but I do have a tip: don't wear a honey based perfume in the Midwest any time soon.

Google remains a hot topic as it was announced that they will be paying lobbyists and probably helping to support political campaigns as well.

Be afraid, be very afraid!

The other issue was whether it's possible to crack Google's top 10 ranking without a $10,000,000 ad budget.

I can only give you my take on it: I doubt it!

Also in the cyber related news, I finally got to see myspace.com.

I was visiting a friend who has a 16 year old daughter and lo and behold there was the world's most famous website on the screen.

It was either so stupid that I didn't get it or so brilliant that I didn't get it. I'll pick the later because I prefer to think our nation actually has a future.

On the medical horizon, Iowa has experienced a mumps epidemic, the first in the country since 1987.

Iowa health officials commented on this by saying, "The vaccine is working".
Yes there is a case of Instant Einstein in your very near future!

Two other big medically related things happened this week as well.

Medical authorities began to admit that good HDL cholesterol is at least as important as bad in improving your risk of heart attack.

Good news for me since we've seen some HDL increases of greater than 30 points with Super Omega 3

And finally my favorite supplement that every one needs fish oil once again proved superior to flax as it was discovered that millions of people don't have the required enzyme to make flax useful for humans.

Worse, flax may actually be doing damage in these millions of people by turning into a bad fat.

And here's a notable item.

I have been telling you cell phones are dangerous.

Super model Naomi Campbell allegedly used one to beat her housekeeper bloody the other day, so add that to your Dr Dave told ya so list.

And now for the weekly Instant Einstein Award.

This weeks Instant Einstein award goes to my arch enemies, Big Pharmacy.

I must have squeaked a little too loud and got their attention by pointing out how they manipulate our futures in some of my blog posts.

Well I am here to tell you they had the last laugh.

On April 1, 2006 they released a new drug that solves everything for them and makes me look like a total April fool.

You can find out all about it at:

Wonder Drug Inspires Deep, Unwavering Love of Pharmaceutical Companies

But make sure you take your Einstein before hand!

Let's get ready for another great week,

Doc

Flax loses to fish oil yet again

Oh I can feel those tempers boiling.

People are really married to their supplements and no matter what you tell them it does not get past the wall of resistance that they have erected once they are true believers.

Well it's time for a divorce.

This is not the first I have told you that flax is an inferior supplement.

In the past I've told you that plant fatty acids like flax and hemp are 18 carbon and need to be converted to the human 22 carbon form.

Then I told you that the conversion from 18 to 22 is very inefficient in people.

I went on to tell you that 22 carbon fatty acids are needed by people so why not just take fish oil and be done with it?

Well those of you who are interested in science said, "cool" but most of you said, "schtop mit da szience already". Then I told you about the studies that linked the oil in flax to prostate cancer and possibly to its female counterpart, breast cancer.

Now that got the attention of at least the guys in the audience.

But now today, I have the biggest news for you.

Sadly it does require a little science so buckle up for a minute and pop your Instant Einstein if you are not scientifically inclined.

Bottom line: People need to eat plants but not every plant is useful or even healthy for every person.

Recently it was discovered that millions of people in America and of course around the world are low or missing an enzyme called D6D (delta-6 desaturase).

This is the enzyme you need to make flax and other plant based oils into healthy human friendly Omega 3's.

Now if you don't have it you will use another enzyme called delta-5 desaturase.

This takes the flax and makes it into an Omega 6 fat.

These fats are known to contribute to cancer, heart disease, stroke and other inflammatory conditions including arthritis and probably Alzheimer's.

I think they are also the basis for some of the behavioral disorders we see so much of today including ADHD and depression.

Now here is another thing you should know. If you drink alcohol, are highly stressed, eat a lot of Omega 6 fats, saturated fats, trans fats, don't sleep enough, eat a lot of sugars starches or have diabetes, you can inactivate your D6D enzyme without actually having the deficiency.

This information is critical for our nation and its health because the rise in diabetes and stress with our fast paced society can now be linked to a condition I've been telling you about for years: Omega 3 fatty acid deficiency.

As I have said in the past I think this should be recognized as a disease, since it seems to be at the root of so many disease associated with aging.

Speaking of aging, that is another condition where your D6D levels go down.

What's the answer?

Simple: take fish oil or if you need extra anti-inflammatory punch take super Omega 3.

The work is already done for your body. Whether you have these enzyme problems or not, you get exactly what you need in its purest form, ready to use and with no mercury, lead, radiation, PBC's or other pollutants.

Dr Dave's Best Fish Oil

Others may copy but none compare!

Now go and get some! And feed the flax to your plants.

Doc

What is and is not successful aging?

Hello, blog fans. Our records indicate that this email did not get delivered to thousands of readers, so I am posting it as a blog. If you got it in your inbox and read it already, sorry about the duplication but at least the blog lets everyone have a crack at it. Looks like we'll have to rely more heavily on the blog to get the messages across.

Many thanks,
Doc

Dear Friend,

I have seen all kinds of people and I can tell you that successful aging has as many interpretations as there are people who get older.

Now it's true we can't stop the aging process in terms of the years going by but to people who say you can't grow younger, I say two things.

First, you are wrong, dead wrong in the literal and figurative sense. And second, compared to what?

Today's email contains some battle tested practices form some battle hardened soldiers on the war against Father Time.

"Hi Dr. Dave,

During the past six months I have been taking both your fish oil and your Immune Booster daily. It has improved my mood, my energy level, my sleep, and my recovery from workouts. Recently I ordered a case of your fish oil to give to friends and family.

Now my mother, my cousin, my uncle, my sister, brother-in-law, and several friends are all taking your fish oil.

My friend suffers from Chronic Fatigue syndrome. My uncle was practically crippled by taking statin drugs for cholesterol, and can now barely walk.

My brother-in-law recently had a cardiac stent put in (forty years of chain smoking and a diet of steak and donuts will do that) and I have another friend who suffers from congestive heart failure, diabetes, depression, and a host of other medical problems caused by a high-carbohydrate diet coupled with heavy smoking and a sedentary existence.

All of these individuals are on the "pharmaceutical treadmill" and taking a litany of pharmaceutical drugs - Plavix, Zoloft, Prozac, etc.

These drugs are taking a heavy toll on them physically, financially and emotionally, and are not improving their condition. I have noticed that once on the "pharmaceutical treadmill" it is all but impossible to get off, and generally leads to ever greater consumption of pharmaceuticals.

As a result of taking statins and blood-pressure medication, men tend to get lethargic, impotent and depressed, which causes the doctors to prescribe anti-depressants and Viagra. The big pharmaceuticals must love this situation. It is painful for me to watch people I care about degenerate under this regimen.

I have applied the many lessons that I have learned from your emails to better myself - I have completely eliminated soft drinks and fruit drinks from my diet (I now drink only green tea and water) and have lost about 30 pounds.

I am spreading your wisdom to my friends and family. I sometimes tend to get cynical and think that most doctors are beholden to and inordinately influenced by the pharmaceutical industry. But then I remember that there are also doctors like you in this world.

Keep fighting the good fight, Dr. Dave. You are truly a credit to your profession."

Sander O, Hyattsville

Sander, I am truly speechless with gratitude but as you can see my mind won't shut up! I could not have voiced the very things that almost 20 years of medical practice have taught me any better than you just did.

It is so true that once people get on the pharmaceutical treadmill they are never going to get off.

If they try they wind up doing what I call a "George Jetson" (in the old cartoon the Jetsons) and get mowed over by the treadmill.

Their last words may very well be "Stop this crazy thing!"

The key is to not get on it in the first place unless you have no choice. And here is the ironic thing. Doctors approach me all the time asking me if there is an all-natural alternative to drugs.

Remember, this is a case of a doctor going to another doctor, being told to take a prescription drug and the doctor who is now the patient recoiling at the idea and coming to me for help.

In more than one case the doctor has been one who was violently opposed to what I was doing a when I first started Dr Dave's Best.

With the exception of antibiotics, which are grossly overused, I have never met a drug that cured anything.

And with no exceptions have I ever met a drug that didn't have side effects.

Now I can't tell you that things like fish oil, Super Omega 3, Regenerizer or boost will cure you or prevent disease.

But I can tell you what I take and insist that my family and loved ones take for that purpose every single day of their rich and long lives.

I was out with my Uncle Joe again the other night. Those of you who have been with me for a while may remember an email entitled "lessons from Uncle Joe".

Joe has since been to Florida and had another birthday making him 93.

I was the youngster at the table at a bit shy of the big 5-0.

My mom is about to celebrate here 80th birthday for the 3rd time!

My uncle John is just about 80 and still working and traveling from his home in Iceland to Europe and America on a regular basis.

My Aunt Inga who is also 80 would out-party most frat brothers.

And none of them had particularly long-lived relatives or great genetics.

You decide but if you want a piece of the action I would get on over to the site now and order some fish oil, Regenerizer and either one of the Boosts right now.

Don't wait, act now; you're not getting any younger, yet!

All the Best,

Dr Dave

What is and is not successful aging?

Hello, blog fans. Our records indicate that this email did not get delivered to thousands of readers, so I am posting it as a blog. If you got it in your inbox and read it already, sorry about the duplication but at least the blog lets everyone have a crack at it. Looks like we'll have to rely more heavily on the blog to get the messages across.

Many thanks,
Doc

Dear Friend,

I have seen all kinds of people and I can tell you that successful aging has as many interpretations as there are people who get older.

Now it's true we can't stop the aging process in terms of the years going by but to people who say you can't grow younger, I say two things.

First, you are wrong, dead wrong in the literal and figurative sense. And second, compared to what?

Today's email contains some battle tested practices form some battle hardened soldiers on the war against Father Time.

"Hi Dr. Dave,

During the past six months I have been taking both your fish oil and your Immune Booster daily. It has improved my mood, my energy level, my sleep, and my recovery from workouts. Recently I ordered a case of your fish oil to give to friends and family.

Now my mother, my cousin, my uncle, my sister, brother-in-law, and several friends are all taking your fish oil.

My friend suffers from Chronic Fatigue syndrome. My uncle was practically crippled by taking statin drugs for cholesterol, and can now barely walk.

My brother-in-law recently had a cardiac stent put in (forty years of chain smoking and a diet of steak and donuts will do that) and I have another friend who suffers from congestive heart failure, diabetes, depression, and a host of other medical problems caused by a high-carbohydrate diet coupled with heavy smoking and a sedentary existence.

All of these individuals are on the "pharmaceutical treadmill" and taking a litany of pharmaceutical drugs - Plavix, Zoloft, Prozac, etc.

These drugs are taking a heavy toll on them physically, financially and emotionally, and are not improving their condition. I have noticed that once on the "pharmaceutical treadmill" it is all but impossible to get off, and generally leads to ever greater consumption of pharmaceuticals.

As a result of taking statins and blood-pressure medication, men tend to get lethargic, impotent and depressed, which causes the doctors to prescribe anti-depressants and Viagra. The big pharmaceuticals must love this situation. It is painful for me to watch people I care about degenerate under this regimen.

I have applied the many lessons that I have learned from your emails to better myself - I have completely eliminated soft drinks and fruit drinks from my diet (I now drink only green tea and water) and have lost about 30 pounds.

I am spreading your wisdom to my friends and family. I sometimes tend to get cynical and think that most doctors are beholden to and inordinately influenced by the pharmaceutical industry. But then I remember that there are also doctors like you in this world.

Keep fighting the good fight, Dr. Dave. You are truly a credit to your profession."

Sander O, Hyattsville

Sander, I am truly speechless with gratitude but as you can see my mind won't shut up! I could not have voiced the very things that almost 20 years of medical practice have taught me any better than you just did.

It is so true that once people get on the pharmaceutical treadmill they are never going to get off.

If they try they wind up doing what I call a "George Jetson" (in the old cartoon the Jetsons) and get mowed over by the treadmill.

Their last words may very well be "Stop this crazy thing!"

The key is to not get on it in the first place unless you have no choice. And here is the ironic thing. Doctors approach me all the time asking me if there is an all-natural alternative to drugs.

Remember, this is a case of a doctor going to another doctor, being told to take a prescription drug and the doctor who is now the patient recoiling at the idea and coming to me for help.

In more than one case the doctor has been one who was violently opposed to what I was doing a when I first started Dr Dave's Best.

With the exception of antibiotics, which are grossly overused, I have never met a drug that cured anything.

And with no exceptions have I ever met a drug that didn't have side effects.

Now I can't tell you that things like fish oil, Super Omega 3, Regenerizer or boost will cure you or prevent disease.

But I can tell you what I take and insist that my family and loved ones take for that purpose every single day of their rich and long lives.

I was out with my Uncle Joe again the other night. Those of you who have been with me for a while may remember an email entitled "lessons from Uncle Joe".

Joe has since been to Florida and had another birthday making him 93.

I was the youngster at the table at a bit shy of the big 5-0.

My mom is about to celebrate here 80th birthday for the 3rd time!

My uncle John is just about 80 and still working and traveling from his home in Iceland to Europe and America on a regular basis.

My Aunt Inga who is also 80 would out-party most frat brothers.

And none of them had particularly long-lived relatives or great genetics.

You decide but if you want a piece of the action I would get on over to the site now and order some fish oil, Regenerizer and either one of the Boosts right now.

Don't wait, act now; you're not getting any younger, yet!

All the Best,

Dr Dave