Personal Macular Degeneration (MD) Update: My Protocol and CommentaryMD is a leading cause of blindness. When I received a diagnosis of early MD, I determined to do something about it. Here is an update for those interested.
The primary parts of my Personal MD Protocol Between 18 and 20 million Americans live with a diagnosis of early MD while another 1.5 million live with severe visual challenges because of it. Not long ago I discovered during a routine visit to my ophthalmologist that I was one of them. He made the diagnosis very early Age Related Macular Degeneration (ARMD) saying that it was very early, so early, in fact, that what he was seeing might be an artifact. I came home, did some research and published this stack: In it, I mentioned to readers that in my clinical practice, I had the experience of treating people with ARMD with intravenous taurine and other nutrients and seeing their eyes return to normal. ARMD is apparently a disorder of the metabolic and energy functions of the mitochondria of the macula, allowing debris to build up on the macular surface that damages the function, and eventually, the integrity of the macula itself.
You see, people come to a doctor like me after the things that their drug doctor tells them to do have failed (although in medicine, the official phrase is, and I am not kidding here, that the “patient has failed therapy”).
Now, it is true that there are some patients (and more each year, I have to say) who get that the allopathic route is not going to work out for them and start earlier on the path to health and wellness with someone like me before all that frustration, expense and pain. And that is great. But dealing with so many desperate and desperately ill patients over so many years meant that I had to learn how to get smart fast for a particular patient in order to help, not just add to the burden of sorrow that they came through the door with. So
I have learned quite a lot over those years and knew that the first
thing I had to do for my own health and well-being was to learn all I
could about the condition that was threatening to make me go blind so
that did not happen. You may recall that I mentioned that I immediately initiated a treatment course with my own doctor, a naturopath skilled in nutritional IVs, using his wisdom and my own. And I have done some serious and detailed research on light and oral nutrition and supplementation, as well. I also found very encouraging literature suggesting that the use of red light at the right frequency (660 nm), intensity and timing (immediately upon arising) had very good possibilities. This treatment, often called “Photo Biomodulation”, is something I am also familiar with since I have used frequency in my practice and health care strategies for decades. Now, before I go any further, let me make some very clear disclaimers: What I am going to share here pertains to MY health, MY body, MY history, my emotional strengths and vulnerabilities, and so on. This article and the information in it is NOT a prescription for your or that of any friend with or without ARMD or any other sort of MD. I am very knowledgeable and skills in high-intensity nutritional therapies, both IV and oral, and know my body, history, genetic tendencies, etc., well. I am also a mega-dose kind of gal and believe in, monitoring closely, high dose nutritional therapies. If you were coming to me for a consultation, which may people do on a private basis via telemedicine¹, we would spend time and effort gaining the same familiarity with your physical and psychological so that when I crafted a protocol for you, it would be exactly that: for YOU. That important proviso being provided, I though it might be interesting for people to know what my protocol is. In July, by the way, I will revisit my perfectly pleasant eye doctor. When I asked him if he were familiar with Taurine IV’s for ARMD, he looked blankly at me and said “no”. I explained my history of success with them in patients carrying the ARMD diagnosis and he said that he would be interested in learning more and turned away. It is pretty likely that when I go back to him in a couple of months, if the problem is gone he will say it was an artifact, after all. we’ll see and I will certainly keep you posted. But, for right now, here is my Protocol:
“Why
is she making such a big deal out of that disclaimer?”, you may well
ask. The answer is interesting: when the Codex hoax burst on the scene,
we were told that people in the age range that I am in (I am 81 now, so 5
years ago I was 76) were in the greatest danger of dying from this new
and terrifying disease. Now, it turns out that in order to grant Emergency Use Authorization to something untested and -imagine!- possibly neither safe nor effective, there has to be nothing else that could be used. Nothing. No ivermectin, no hydroxychloroquine, no Vitamin C drips, no Nano Silver, alas, nothing at all but the desperately hoped for goodness of the untested miracle-in-the-making. By strange coincidence, in pretty much no time a-tall, we were blessed with “3 beautiful vaccines” that burst on the scene in a flurry of warp speed wonder and EUAs were granted because there was nothing at all that could provide any safety or health promotion against this new and terrifying disease. Amazing, really, that there were no other agents that could be used, requiring the immediate granting of that handy, dandy EUA! To make sure that my opinion was never expressed again, despite the massive amount of research, including some by the US Department of Defense’s own Defense Threat Reduction Agency on supporting the normal structure and function of the immune system with that particular mineral in that particular formulation, the FDA dragged me, the Trustees of the Natural Solutions Foundation and the Foundation into Federal Court (Third Circuit) accusing us of making claims of cure based on my opinion. Ultimately, lacking the huge amount of money necessary to pursue the case, we signed a consent decree saying that we would not in the future do what we had not done in the past and complied with the requirements of that decree very precisely. And my extensive disclaimer is the direct, lineal descendent of that horrifying experience. The new and terrifying disease did not scare me, but the FDA sure as Hell did! However, I am a licensed physician and if someone wants my specific advice and input on their health situation in a consultative relationship, that is within their right to seek and my right to provide. We establish a doctor/patient relationship protected by all the applicable confidentiality protections and I am then empowered to make specific statements and offer specific advice, including learned opinions about things like exemptions, for that patient in the same way that the information in this stack is specific to me and me alone. I have practiced medicine and psychiatry, as many of you know, without the use of pharmaceuticals so people looking for refills or new prescriptions would do better to look elsewhere. My approach to health and well-being is based in applied biochemistry (otherwise known as “nutrition”), getting rid of things that are creating illness and/or preventing health and healing, dealing with relationships, emotions and expectations as they impact health and wholeness. My approach is always an encounter with an individual, not a diagnosis. That takes time, the patient’s time and my time. Most of the work required is on the patient’s part, since the patient is, after all, the world’s leading expert on that person. I would be pleased to open the few slots I have in my schedule to people who want consultations or on-going treatment if they are eager to take responsibility for their own health in a consultative, engaged partnership with me via telemedicine. Most people ask at this point if I accept insurance. I do not, so all of my services are out of pocket to the patient. If you are in a health network and NOT receiving Medicare, you may be able to receive partial reimbursement for our work together. If you ARE receiving Medicare and/or Medicare secondary, neither you nor I will be able to submit my statements to them since I am not in the Medicare system. As I mentioned above, I have a follow up appointment with the ophthalmologist in July, and I am looking forward to it. Let’s assume the ARMD is gone. The doc can either say, “Hmmm…. That’s interesting! Tell me more!” or. “Hmmm…. I guess it was an artifact after all”. In either case we rejoice. He can also say, “Hmmm…. It looks about the same.” or “Hmmm… it has gotten worse.” In either case, we reassess and readjust. By the way, the group that I tried to set up for discussion of AMD had two problems: first, there were technical difficulties setting it up. Second, people insisted on filling the chat with totally unrelated discourse no matter how intensively I asked them to stop. So please use the comments or email me at releyes3@gmail.com. To set up a consultation, please use CONSULT as the subject of the email, tell me in one page or less what your situation and needs are, and I will send you a letter of engagement. You fill it out, return it to me and we’ll go from there. 1 Send an email with CONSULT as the subject to releyes3@gmail.com outlining briefly what you want the consult for (1 page or less, please) and I will write back to you. I do not accept any form of insurance. You're currently a free subscriber to Dr Rima Truth Reports Substack. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription.
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