Dreams and goals are unattainable if you are ill. Have you noticed your interest in your personal activities actually increases in your forties and fifties? All of sudden you start thinking about the things you have put off. If you are taking care of aging parents they bring home to you the message of the importance of health.

Health and energy are the foundation for a happy life and you need to pay attention to ways in which they are robbed from you before you realize it. Aging starts earlier than people recognize. You can have the beginnings of heart disease in your twenties and as it slowly progresses over the course of your life you “naturally” have less energy, feel slightly ill all the time and enjoy your life less as you are approaching the problems in life with less enthusiasm. Some of joy of life leaves because you sleep poorly, you have less energy so you do less and you find yourself thinking you are not going to make a difference anyway. The quality of your life degenerates and many people accept this as a normal part of growing old.

I disagree. Years of helping people regain their vitality gives me the certainty that many, many people can be helped and their energy can be restored and so their contribution to life around them. Active, healthy people benefit society and we all gain something when one of us is doing well in the last decades of our lives.

The contamination of the human body is ignored in the practice of mainstream, corporate medicine. In fact, the treatments involve in standard care increase the level of chemicals in the body instead of reducing them. Any drug, even helpful drugs of which there are few, give your body a new problem. Not only is it still suffering from some underlying cause of your symptoms it is now burdened with decontaminating this chemical and trying to eliminate it without causing tissue damage. Can’t be done. Once you swallow something you commit your body to doing something about it. Notice the warning of liver damage in most drug commercials on television; go to your pharmacy and get the side effects of drugs you take for various ailments. AND…we have not yet addressed the environmental chemicals you pick up from the food and water you drink and the air you breathe.

Little know facts I want my patients to know include the scientific fact that tiny amounts of lead in your body drive up blood pressure. When your doctor determines you have high blood pressure does he/she ever mention you should be checked for lead levels and if present you should have a course of intravenous chelation therapy to reduce the body burden of lead? Does he/she mention that intravenous chelation therapy is approved by the the FDA for heavy metal toxicity? No? Well, why not?

If you are tired all the time and yet cannot sleep are your hormone and thyroid levels checked? No? Well it is time to find out what else you could be doing to help yourself. Find a physician who can help you without pharmaceuticals. Try icimed.com. Susanne Somers is doing a great job of describing the vast array of medical choices you actually have.

Healthy aging is possible. Give us a call and we will help any way we can. 800-733-4065  Oh..Have a delicious organic Thanksgiving!

Dr. Conrad G. Maulfair, Jr.

Osteopathic Physician

There is a great confusion on the nature of Alternative, Complementary Medicine - actually missing information and false information.  Health care plans, hospitals, counselors and other health providers are providing half the story.  A recent PBS show took up this topic and highlighted yoga, vegetarian diets, nutritional counseling, Reiki and other good things to do.  None of these treatments compete with what the hospital is already doing.  The one glaring thing that was missing from this show was diagnostic and therapeutic modalities that directly compete with common everyday mainstream medicine.   Hospitals offer yoga, acupuncture, Reiki, exercise and nutritional programs,  mind-body medicine and not one of them directly competes or supplants what standard medicine has to offer.  They complement existing drug and surgical care.  They are extremely helpful for many people and we support their use  but the patient is not given all the information and help they could be. That is one half the story.

The attempt to bury, or to forget to mention, all the other treatments available that are direct competition for the usual, leave the public with missing data and the idea that you have accept certain diets, and ways of thinking in a “counseling” or coaching relationship.  It is hard for conservative people who do not want that kind of interference in their life styles.  They want an ALTERNATIVE TO THE USUAL DRUGS AND SURGERY.  They also want to PREVENT bad health outcomes.

There are hundreds of doctors across this country and the world who offer the real thing.  They are medical doctors who think outside the box ; they recognize the body’s ability to heal itself and they offer MEDICAL CARE delivered by themselves and nurses.  Homeopathic medicine is an alternative to drug therapy, chelation therapy is an alternative to drugs and surgery, infusion therapy of various types provides nutrients and other constituents the body is lacking and needs, chiropractic care is an alternative, taking nutrients properly both orally and intravenously is alternative to drugs, sauna therapy reduces the body burden of toxins and drugs making us vulnerable to being sick.  There are cancer treatments apart from chemotherapy and radiation.  These and much more restore normal function and heal.  They are suppressed, misrepresented, and generally not widely known.

Here is a nasty example of how all this works.  There is a widely accepted treatment called External Counter Pulsation.  This is a physical treatment approved by the FDA and reimbursed through medicare but only for one type of heart disease.  It is a treatment you do with a technical person where blood pressure like cuffs are placed around your calves, thighs and hips and you have electrodes on your heart that monitor your heart beat.  Inbetween heart beats the cuffs gently squeeze your legs forcing the blood quickly into the tiny capillaries in your heart that are not in use, it increases blood flow to the heart.  Got the picture?   Well, to avail yourself of this treatment in most clinics, you must be so ill that you cannot withstand another surgery.  That’s right, instead of using it BEFORE someone is really in trouble they wait to use it until you have had and paid for all the surgery you can take.  Guess what!  It works, people get better and regain their energy and improve their heart function even when they had been gravely ill.  Imagine what a wonderful thing to do to prevent heart problems in the first place.  There are tiny capillaries in your heart that are not in use and this encourages their growth.  Hint, did you know your body grows its own blood vessels around blockages if left alone?  It is called collateral circulation.   This treatment is not offered to people before they are in real trouble except in clinics like ours.  It is used in California for athletes to improve proformance.

The most important aspect of health care reform legislation, with all the talk and gnashing of teeth currently, misses the most important points for you and your family.  There is more available to you than you have found out about.  It is fought and suppressed so you stay in the system.  Contact our website and use our links to find doctors  drmaulfair.com, or contact  medical-library.net, icimed.com, or aaem.com.

We stand ready to help you understand what you can do to feel great.  The confusion created by common medical recommendations and medical think is harmful to your happiness!! 

Tell me, how does a stress test prevent a problem?  If you have a stress test and catheterization and blocked arteries are found, what did you prevent?  If you have a mammogram and it detects breast cancer, what did you prevent?  If you have a colonoscopy and polyps or cancer are found what did you prevent?  What does a CAT scan prevent?

True, these are all very useful and “can’t do without” medical tools in acute situations.  If you are bleeding internally you need to find out why, if you have shortness of breathe and chest pain you need to determine the cause.  Heart problem or indigestion?  If you have a lump you need to find out what it is.  If you are in a car wreck you need to find out if there are internal injuries.  No argument with that.

The problem is we do not have enough care wrecks and lumps and pains to satisfy the thirsty business of medicine.  All this high-tech equipment is very expensive and you must have people using it to make the payments.  In itself it does not prevent anything but it gets billed as preventive medicine, it is not.

TRUE PREVENTIVE MEDICINE WOULD PREVENT SOME OCCURANCE.  Anti-aging medical modalities, both diagnostic and treatment modalities, do just that.  IF you find out you have a heavy metal toxicity you can take care of it and prevent heart attacks, high blood pressure, fatigue, cancer and early aging with all its inherent problems.  It is in your hands.  When you consult with your physician about your migraines ask WHY you are having them.  Is it because your nutrient minerals are low?  Is it because you have a hormonal imbalance?  Is it because you have B vitamin deficiencies?  Is it because you have food sensitivities? WHY IS IT?  When you learn to think like that and wonder why, you will find the reason and you will improve.  I can guarantee you do not a deficiency of a pain-killers causing your migraines.

You will get better health care when you demand it.  Really, it all rests with us.  We hav organic foods in grocery stores for one reason, we asked for them.  Are we going to continue to be victims of expensive,  invasive medical care that is throwing this country into an upheaval?   Are we going to continue to be a member of the  herd of sheep big medicine has created?  I would rather take care of myself, use my pretax dollars from a health savings account as I saw fit to see the doctors who really cared to find out WHY I have a problem.  I assure you I do not have a hidden delayed psychiatric disorder ready to be discovered by some nasty underhanded “questionnaire” so I can use drugs BIG pharma makes millions from that leave me unable to make my own way because of a drugged apathy towards life.  Not me and not my friends.

There are doctors all over this country who remain independent, who use cutting edge medicine to help their patients.  There are doctors who really care.  Find one.  There are diagnostic modalities that uncover where the normal function of your body has broken down.  Preventive care is anti-aging medicine, wellness programs, and enough curiosity to wonder why something is happening.  A strong immune system is preventive medicine.  Avoiding toxins and eating organic foods, supporting local farmers and growers who are supplying clean good food, taking additional nutrients and probiotics are just some the things you can do to prevent ill health.  Exercise does improve your immune system, it is the means your body uses to circulate lymph fluid.  Fresh air –all the things you know to do to take good care of yourself–do them and you will prevent scary medical problems.  We always stand ready to help in any way we can.

Check out these links:  cchr.org for information about the psyche programs in the health care reform bill, its is scary.  Check out aapsonline.org for the latest updates on health care reform.  Do not forget all the useful links on our website.

Please take a break from all the political nonsense and bad decisions in Washington and see Michael Jackson’s film.  The wonderful Dr. Maulfair was not a fan, he humors me and goes to kids films and this film because he is a patient and sweet husband.  Well…night well spent.  At the end of this film he said,”that was awesome! , I am a fan!”.

The value of this film is extreme, from a production viewpoint it clearly shows how these concerts go together and showcases the tremendous talent we have on this planet.  It is inspiring beyond belief, MJ cared deeply about the problems in our lives and the planet.  His lyrics are wonderful.  Most of all the expression of the sheer joy of creating is sooooo evident with him, what a beauty he is, and this is that inside glimpse we seldom see when artists are in company of other great artists expressing the joy and  love for one another.  I am quite sure these days are one of the HIGH  highlights of their lives. You just can’t miss this.

I hope this goes on sale for the public, Connie promised he would put one in my Christmas stocking.  You are going to love this.  Coleen

Is there anyone out there who can tell me their child has actually recieved a recommendation from their physician to start on statin drugs to prevent heart and circulation problems due to cholesterol problems? I am amazed that this is possible but…health care in America is not health care it is disease care. If there has been that recommendation made for your child were you also given a list of side effects of these drugs?  Please let me know. The recommendation  to screen children as young as two for cholesterol and to start on a statins 8-10 years of age was made to physicians some months ago.   Thanks, Coleen

Dr. Maulfair and the Maulfair Medical Center recently are named in the Partnership of  Cancer Centers of America cancer aftercare program.  They cite the stats of MD Anderson study that indicates that “even after very long periods of survivorship ( over 18 years in the study) more than a third of patients in the study were still healing with physical issues relating to their treatment.”

We are a very special place of health and wellness with treatment modalities that are noninvasive and support the body’s normal function.  Look at the paragraph above again.  People suffer with health effects from the TREATMENTS given when they have cancer.  As an example the chemotherapeutic agents remain in the body along with the contaminants that could cause cancer in the first place.  We can help with the body load of toxins.  Heavy metal contamination can cause cancer to develop.  The chemicals we are exposed to remain in ours bodies until something effective is done to remove them.  Check out drmaulfair.com and purelyyoudetox.com to learn more.  Contact us and we will send you studies and results of patients we have helped.

We are happy to be named as a center where people can find help after cancer strikes.  C

First of all my viewpoint on vaccinations is from the perspective of clinical family practice and our anti-aging medical philosophy.  I want all our patients, young and old, to research for themselves the information available on vaccinations, how  they work , and potential side effects so they can make up their own minds.  Your health is your responsibility and doctors should be trusted advisors who leave the ultimate decisions regarding your health to you.

Challenges to your immune system are actually good, mild flu can stimulate your immune system and increase your resistence to a more virulent strain of flu.  The current news is that H1N1 or the swine flu currently circulating could be losing potency and is a mild form to begin with.  It is also true that people whose immune system is weak and who have some conditions are especially susceptible to complications, including death, from contracting this flu strain.  Keep in mind, one more thing, during a “normal” winter flu season we can expect 35,000 deaths in the U.S., from common influenza.  The deaths from this current strain of swine flu through August was less than 600.  We are now experiencing a break out of this flu in our area schools.

Here is the rub.  Read for yourself the information provided by the CDC  on the fact that the manufacturers have several formulations and some will contain thimerosal as a preservative.  Multi dose vials of seasonal influenza vaccine also contain thimerosal to prevent potential contamination after the vial is opened.   Sooooooo… this fact alone should alarm you just a tad.  If you have a strong immune system and you want to protect  your kids who are otherwise in good health consider this.  Your body and the bodies of your children already have a toxic burden interrupting immune function to some extent, you are polluted with various pesticides, chemicals from food and the air and water, medical and street drugs.   Do you have a gauge of your current toxic body burden?  Some doctors will site studies that “prove” thimerosal is safe.  Mercury to scientists is the most toxic element on earth.  I know, there are different forms of mercury.  So what.  Some are simply more toxic than others.  The problem is how do we know at which point the accumulated toxic exposure pushes a person over the edge into health problems.  It is not one exposure but many you need to worry about.  So you need to weigh the benefits and risks for yourself.   Mercury is a neurotoxin and is toxic to the immune system in that it interrupts normal healthy function.  It also changes cells in your arteries and can lead to cardiovascular disease.   A past article in the Journal of Cardiology cited evidence of 22,000 times more mercury in heart muscle cells in people with a certain heart disease than others without it.

 I am not a research physician, I read the research of others, I have clinical experience dealing every day with my patients.  My patients have noticed the health of their children drastically changing after a course of childhood immunizations.  I think there is no better observer of childhood problems than their parents.  I side with parents and so do other like minded physicians.  We are bombarding our children with vaccination schedules that are rigorous and could be causing serious harm.

This is a long talk and it should be a research project for your family.  Keep in mind the first swine flu scare was 1976 and a similar vaccine campaign resulted in claims for 1.3 billion dollars for vaccine damage including paralysis.  Why would that be?  Vaccine constituents can attack the nervous system.   We wish you, as always, all the best in coming to your decision.

Taxing sugared drinks is crazy!!  The makers of artificial additives must be paying for this idea! I have a hard time believing San Franciscoites do not know the damage done by artificial sweeteners, they are taxing these drinks according to the recent news.  When you tax sugared drinks you support artificially sweetened drinks and you guarantee we will have more obesity but very happy chemical companies.  Would you be trilled to see the government tax your competitors!!

Food additives, especially artificial sweeteners are the cause of common health problems.  When the temperature of aspartame exceeds 86 degrees the wood alcohol in aspartame coverts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid which in turn causes metabolic acidosis.  People with aspartame poisoning are being misdiagnosed with MS and systemic lupus.  If you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms, shooting pains, numbness in your legs, cramps. vertigo, dizziness, headaches, tinnitus, joint pain, depression, anxiety, slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss, Parkinson’s like problems – you may be affected by artificial sweeteners.  They are starting to add aspartame to sugar to make it sweeter.  It makes you crave carbohydrates and will make you fat!!  A Dr. Roberts stated in the congressional record  during hearings that when he got patients off aspartame, their average weight loss was 19 pounds per person.  It stores in fat cells, particularly in the hips and thighs!!

Your body cannot utilize chemicals, your body considers chemicals to be poison and stores residues in fat tissue to get them out of the blood stream.  Chemicals are not considered food by your body.  There is a new sweetener with stevia and sugar and you can use maple syrup, organic rice syrup, organic sugar- it has all the minerals intack- and I am sure some others you can come up with.  Steez is a good natural fizzy drink instead of the commercial soft drinks.

Government is taxing the wrong thing again, will we ever learn?  There are many in the health care field that believe Gulf War Syndrome is toxicity to chemicals in prepared drinks.    If you have health problems just go one month without these artificial foods and food additives and then access how you feel.  You will be amazed.  In the meantime check us out at drmaulfair.com.

As a preview of life with big government growing more intrusive everyday the latest threat is a tax on soft drinks.
Citizens can handle their own choices thanks very much. These stupid bureaucrats do not read much research and if they did they would come across the medical fact that the more fat free and sugar free foods you eat the fatter you get. Why? They create, with the chemicals added including the artificial sweeteners, nervous system excitotoxins and cravings for carbs. Please do the research and if you are overweight eat fresh foods, start cooking and stay away from processed foods. If you do that and include a variety of cold pressed and organic oils you will drop the pounds. An undernourished body hangs on to every calorie thinking it is starving to death.

This move must have been backed by the artificial sweetener giant Monsanto. You must not count on your government for factual data, they follow anyone who donates and donates big. They are bought off. Who in their right mind would let an obese group like the government and all its depts make decisions about what you should eat and drink!!

In an article by Nancy Markle commenting on the World Environmental Conference and the Multiple Sclerosis  Foundation is the warnings:  “When the temperature of aspartame exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in aspartame coverts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. (Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants).  The methanol toxicity mimics multiple sclerosis; thus people were being diagnosed with MS in error.  The multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, where methanol toxicity is .”

“In the case of systemic lupus, we are finding it has become almost as rampant as MS, especially for Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers…If you are using aspartame (NurtaSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc.) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms,shooting pains, numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo, dizziness, headaches, tinnitus, joint pain, depression, anxiety, slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss–you probably have aspartame DISEASE!”

THERE ARE MANY OTHER SOURCES OF THE SAME INFORMATION IF YOU LOOK.  LET YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS KNOW YOUR FEELINGS.

There are many examples of ways to save health care dollars with increasing knowledge of self-care and permitting physicians to use alternative, complementary treatments without harassment.  As long as you have big pharma in bed with the government decisions makers we are not going to get there.

You can help yourself.  A great antiaging strategy includes chelation and avoiding many common drugs and treatments.  A great book written by Dr. Joel M. Kauffman who holds his PhD in Organic Chemistry with 80 papers on chemical and medical topics, and 11 patents, he has turned to exposing medical fraud.  The following is a quote from his recent book entitled Malignant Medical Myths, you can contact Infinity Publishing to purchase, www.buybooksontheweb.com.

Here is what Dr. Kauffman had to say on page 176:  “While no one is certain of why EDTA chelation by intravenous drip works to reverse atherosclerosis, prevent cancer, lower BP, and increase walking distances by countering poor blood flow, there is little doubt that it does so when properly administered to appropriate patients.  EDTA chelation also helps diabetic ulcers to heal and it delays or eliminates the need for the drastic mainstream treatments of angioplasty, coronary bypass operations, or amputation of limbs.

One has to be shocked that investigation of the procedure advanced only by means of low-cost studies, clinical observation, word-of-mouth communication, and publications of results in lesser known journals.  Lack of patent protection for the use of EDTA and the infusion process contributed, of course, but the lack of approval of EDTA by the FDA of atherosclerosis, despite evidence of far greater benefits that those of the toxic drug Trental, must leave one gasping at the iniquities of a treatment approval system so obviously biased toward Big Pharma, and against both patients who will benefit as well as physicians who want ot provide this chelation treatment.

The low quality of the efforts to debunk EDTA chelation has been exposed.  Officially sanctioned trials were rigged.  Raw data had to be smuggled out by honest researchers in order to show some of the biases in the published articles on the trials that were debased.  Chelation is one “alternative” treatment that works.

 Discouraging sick people from undergoing an effective treatment such as EDTA chelation is despicable, even more so when dangerous procedures with limited applicability and no lasting benefit such as angioplasty or bypass surgery are recommended instead.  Because of the bias in mainstream medicine against chelation, most patients who accept it do so as a last resort after all conventional treatments have failed, although a majority would have been better off using chelation as the first treatment.  It is estimated that by the year 2000 more than a million patients had received more than 20 million intravenous infusions of EDTA.  There were no ill effects when the procedure was correctly done.  About 88% of the patients improved (Cranton, 2001, pp4, 324).”     

You can see the extensive list of references when you have the book.  This book is a consumer protection of very high quality both in its usefulness and extensive discussion of medicine as it is practiced today.  Get one and you will see the possibilities of real healthcare reform.