Every time I sit down to the typewriter to start a new "Health Chat" newsletter I am reminded of the many topics I want to talk about. This past week we have had three patients with MSG toxicity involving varied reactions along with some reactions of our own involving Mono Sodium Glutamate. I am anxious to discuss MSG and other food additives which are causing multiple problems with our children and adults alike. However I promised in the last newsletter to discuss the problem with the athletes dying from cardiomyopathy heart disease. I was shocked to discover that 100,000 athletes die every year from heart attacks. Reggie Lewis’s story is a unique one that I will get to it later. If we have watched the news media lately we are aware of Florence Griffith Joyner’s recent death by an apparent heart seizure. This track star was 38 years old and a 1988 Olympic triple gold medalist. Why are so many young physically fit athletes dying of heart attacks? One should question this with serious motivation when we consider that athletes are the physical specimens of health. Also we should be shocked that 100,000 of these athletes are dying annually. The story of Reggie Lewis is unique because his first heart attack was not fatal. Reggie was given a second chance.

In the St. Louis Post Dispatch dated July 28, 1993 there is the headlines, Celtic Star, 27, Collapses, Dies. The subtitle states, "Conflicting Medical Opinions confused Lewis." I would like to quote a few sentences from the New York Times news service article. Quote,"Reggie Lewis, the Boston Celtics star who collapsed with a heart ailment during a playoff game last April, died Tuesday night after collapsing while shooting baskets at the team’s training center at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass.. ……. Lewis, who had been hospitalized for eleven days after he collapsed during a playoff game against the Charlotte Hornets on April 29, had received conflicting medical advice since then about the nature and severity of the ailment that led to the collapse. A team of the eleven cardiologist initially told him that he suffered from a severe form of heart disease that would pose a danger to his life if he resumed his basketball career. Later, after Lewis abruptly switched hospitals, moving from New England Baptist to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston for a week of further tests, Dr. Gilbert Mudge announced that the player suffered from a comparatively benign neural condition, neurocardiogenic syncope." End of quote.

There’s quite a bit of difference between cardiomyopathy heart disease and neurocardiogenic syncope. Neurocardiogenic syncope is basically an oxygen debt and acute fatigue situation which is reversible without specific lifestyle changes. Cardiomyopathy heart disease is more serious and requires specific lifestyle changes. It isn’t however, a change that incorporates allopathic medicine. Cardiomyopathy heart disease is a dystrophy of the heart muscle. In the fifties it was discovered that selenium reversed Cardiomyopathy heart disease in animals.

In the seventies this same research was carried on with humans proving that Selenium along with Vitamin E reversed Cardiomyopathy heart disease. This condition is also recognized by WHO as a Selenium deficiency. In the eyes of the "orthodox" physician this is the type of heart disease that makes individuals a candidate for heart transplants. For a couple dollars a month in Selenium supplement this disease can be prevented along with the "need" for a $250,000.00 procedure that carries a 20% mortality rate.

The specific treatment for Cardiomyopathy heart disease, especially in the early stages, includes Selenium at 350 micrograms three times a day along with vitamin E at 1,200 IU/day and essential fatty acids at 5 gm three times a day. This beats open heart surgery and it’s certainly beats being dead.

I have a copy of the August 9, 1993 Sports Illustrated magazine which captions The Death of Reggie Lewis: So Many Questions. It seems so senseless that 100,000 athletes die annually of a condition that could be corrected by proper mineral supplementation.

The deaths range from a fourteen year old water polo player, whose obituary I have read, to awesome athletes like the late Reggie Lewis. Why is it that the Boston Celtics "dream team" of cardiologist who studied Reggie Lewis for three months could not have arrived at this simple answer. There is an irony to this story and it involves the Cardiologist who was the head of the "dream team" of Cardiologist for the Boston Celtics. This young doctor with a runner who ran in and completed three Boston Marathons. He was a member of the staff at New England Hospital for fifteen years. Dr. Nessa had been a member of the Celtics medical team since 1987. Exactly a year and a half after the death of the late Reggie Lewis Dr. Nessa’s obituary read, and I quote, "Dr. W Thomas Nessa, a member of the "dream team" of cardiologist who treated the late Boston Celtics captain Reggie Lewis died Saturday in his home in Redham, apparently of a attack. He was 48." Unquote. Why does this scenario repeat itself time and time again when a simple remedy using Selenium, vitamin E and unsaturated fatty acids could save the lives of thousands of athletes and thousands of other human beings every year.

We probably all remember the November 1995 incident where figure skater Grinkov collapsed and died on the ice at Lake Placid. Grinkov was a two-time gold medalist winning a gold in the 1990 Olympics and again in 1994. He also died of a cardiomyopathy heart attack.

You may have also noticed there are a considerable amount of deaths due to brain tumors and brain cancer. Somewhat familiar names that you possibly can relate to would be Olympic Legend Wilma Rudolph who died of brain cancer at age 54 in November of 1994. She was a triple gold medalist who inspired a generation of women’s track stars. How about Richard Jordan an award winning actor and director whose career spanned the movies, television and the stage, died of a brain tumor Monday August 30, 1993. Helen Cserr, a professor of physiology at Brown University in Providence Rhode Island whose research focused on the anatomy and mechanism of the human brain, died August 11 at her home in North Dighton, Mass. She was 57. She died of brain tumor. Representative Paul Henry, age 51, died in July of 1993 of brain cancer which was diagnosed in October after he complained of headaches while campaigning for his fifth term. And a more recent obituary, September 30, 1998, Dan Quisenberry, a premier reliever with the Kansas City Royals known for his quick wit and submarine pitching delivery, died of a brain tumor at age 45. There is a little known but very important mineral called gallium that plays an important role in the prevention of brain tumors, seizures and even cancer. Studies were done with laboratory rats where carcinogens were fed to rats which produced brain tumors in every single animal. Another group of rats who were fed the same carcinogens but also given large amounts of gallium produced no brain tumors. I personally am impressed with studies like this and for some reason it motives me to make sure I supplement daily with all minerals including gallium. Again I am going to stress the importance of 100% plant derived minerals. No higher quality minerals can be found other than those from American Longevity, Dr. Wallachs company. Only from the Rockland mines and only from six feet of humic shale can all 77 minerals including gallium be acquired. I know of no other company whose laboratory testing yields these findings. Since American longevity came out with Cheri Min minerals (13204 order no.) no one can complain about taste. I don’t know how they did it because minerals basically taste terrible but the Cheri Min minerals actually taste delicious.

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