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THE
IDEAL CLINIC
by D. J. Fletcher, Associate Editor
Alternative Medicine Magazine, July 2000
 A
“ TOTAL INTEGRATIVE” APPROACH
TO CURING DISEASE
San Diego International Immunological Center is a pioneer in
developing nontoxic vaccines and therapies that stimulate the body’s immune
system to reverse cancer and autoimmune diseases.
This past January, a new
patient reporting in at San Diego International Immunological Center (SDC)
was pleasantly startled by a man bounding out of the clinic elevator
yelling, “I’m clear! I’m clear!” It was Charles P. Just one year earlier, in
January 1999, Charles, age 48, had come to the clinic with a diagnosis of
stomach cancer and a prognosis of eight to ten weeks [to live]. He’d been
told that even a complete gastrectomy (stomach removal) and chemotherapy
couldn’t save him.
Charles had a stomach tumor
larger than … a tennis ball. He was suffering from excruciating chronic
heartburn and upper abdomen pain. He'd lost about 70 pounds and hadn’t kept
a meal down in two months. A CT scan … showed that the cancer had spread, or
metastasized, into his lymph system. SDC physicians wanted to do a Platelet
Culture Test … and initiate a full anti-cancer therapy program, but Charles
opted to try enzyme therapy first.
Two months later, Charles
returned with much worsened symptoms. An endoscopy … showed that the tumor
was now blocking about 95% of the food passage. A Platelet Culture Test was
performed, revealing that Charles’ cancer was mycoplasma related … The
clinic biolab began culturing an Anti-Mycoplasma Autologous Vaccine (Myc-Vac).
He was told it would be best to have his mercury-amalgam dental fillings
removed.
Charles was immediately
started on detoxification by chelation, IV vitamins, lymphatic massage, and
reflexology. He was given Mistletoe injections to reduce tumor growth and
inhibit the spread of cancer. Mistletoe contains large amounts of the amino
acid arginine, which is well-documented in animal studies as a tumor
inhibitor and immuno stimulator.
He also received immune
stimulating proteins such as those derived from the thymus gland. To
alkalinize his system, he was given high doses of cesium chloride,
antioxidants, glutathione, Coenzyme Q-10 and enzyme therapy. Treatment with
Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV) vaccine was also begun … It acts as a
‘decloaking device” enabling the immune system to attack cancer cells.
Soon after the addition of
Myc-Vac … Charles saw dramatic improvement, regaining much of his energy
within a month. His pain disappeared, and he was able to eat again. By June,
an endoscopy showed a big decrease in tumor size. Various cancer marker
tests showed remarkable positive changes. However, the defeat of the
mycoplasma with Myc-Vac would be critical to gaining a lasting remission.
By October, another
endoscopy of the tumor area revealed scar tissue -- but no tumor. There was
no evidence of tumor cells or metastasis. He was completely clear. His
marker levels were normal, his liver function and enzymes also normal. He
continued treatment with Myc-Vac, nutritional supplements and a healthy
dietary regimen, and his doctors checked him again in January 2000. All of
his tests were once again normal. Charles was cancer free. He says, “I’m
walking, living proof there’s a cure for cancer.”
**QUICK
DEFINITIONS: A computed tomography scan, or CT SCAN, is an examination
of body structures using computer data taken from x-rays. Each scan is a
highly detailed, computer-synthesized image of one particular cross
sectional plane -- or “thin slice” -- of the body. ENDOSCOPY is an
examination of the inside of body organs and cavities using a special
viewing device (endoscope) with a light on the end of it.**
Curing the incurable
While most allopathic, or conventional, doctors are telling
“incurable” patients to seek palliative treatment (symptom management),
practitioners at SDC are indeed aiming for cures. The Tijuana, Mexico based
clinic calls its overall approach the “Total Integrative Medicine Program”
-- the use of all major forms of alternative and complementary therapies,
which may also include allopathic medicines -- to treat specific cancers and
other degenerative conditions. These include rheumatoid and osteoarthritis,
lupus, scleroderma, multiple sclerosis (MS), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS),
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), multiple allergies and other systemic and
metabolic conditions.
… the Total Integrative
Medicine Program not only extends the lifespan of patients but also improves
quality of life. ... “One of our highest priorities is the development of
alternative cancer therapies that actively fight drug-resistant and
metastatic tumors,” says Dr. Muñoz [Medical Director] who … has been working
in alternative medicine since 1989.
To treat cancer and other
degenerative diseases, … his team employs both biological and immunological
therapies. Biological approaches include enzyme and nutritional therapies;
immunological approaches stimulate or modulate the immune system. The
program essentially involves:
Detoxifying the body
Establishing dietary and nutrition programs
Boosting and regulating the immune system
Employing enzyme therapies
Destroying pathologic organisms that cause illness
Bonding spirit and mind
Using orthodox approaches when safe and practicable
Clinic Director Len Sands,
N.D. Ph.D., A.C.R.P., is a longtime researcher of innovative therapies and
breakthroughs involving both conventional and alternative medicine. He likes
to describe the clinic’s approach and his own specialty as “curing the
incurable.” A good example is Faye L.
Curing
cervical cancer
In July 1997, 45 year old Faye L. Came to SDC with a diagnosis of cervical
cancer (endocervical adenocarcinoma). Faye says, “ My story started with a
routine pap smear, an aggressive gynecological surgeon, and a medically
naive and ignorant patient – me.” She had received her diagnosis the
previous fall, when her surgeon removed cervical tissue and performed a
biopsy. Because the biopsy revealed cellular abnormalities extending into
the endometrial tissue that lines the cervix, Faye was told she should have
a hysterectomy. This is the standard practice among allopaths. No cure, no
course of treatment other than this life altering surgery has ever been
offered.
Faye instead chose a host
of alternative approaches. After several months and more complications, she
finally sought treatment at SDC. An endometrial biopsy now showed positive
indications of a type of uterine cancer called squamous cell carcinoma. She
showed no mycoplasma involvement, however. Dr. Muñoz suggested that she
consider surgery to remove the mass, with alternative therapy to follow.
Faye refused … surgery.
She started on cesium for
alkalinization and immunotherapeutic treatment using mistletoe, the immune
stimulators Utilin and Pind-avi, and the Biological Response Modifier Factor
AF-2. She was also given thymus, liver and spleen proteins. And she spent a
week on a wheatgrass diet …
Ultimately, Faye received
NDV vaccine as an immunotherapeutic agent applied directly (topically) to
the cervix. It would seem that NDV had the effect of either killing or
modifying the cancer cells, or it provided a strong “antigenic target” so
that Faye’s immune system could kill the cells. It’s also possible that all
of these effects occurred.
Three months later, a Pap
test showed no evidence of cancer. Faye’s treatment was continued until
December, and then a CT scan was performed. This, too, showed no evidence of
disease. A subsequent biopsy and other clinical findings came back negative
for cancer cells. Faye’s status was complete remission. At her last checkup
in February, her remission status was reconfirmed.
SDC … clinicians and lab
researchers work closely together, exchanging ideas and discussing up to
date techniques for diagnosing and managing their patients’ conditions.
Specialized diagnostic
methods include CT scan, magnetic response imaging (MRI), ultrasound, cancer
markers, hair and urine analysis for heavy metals [and toxins], and
darkfield microscopy.
Quality
of life and oncotherapy
Conventional oncotherapy modalities for fighting cancer have always relied
on … chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgery. Alternative medicine,
meanwhile, has made enormous progress during the last two decades with
immunotherapy, an entirely different approach. This major advance … uses
direct and indirect cancer fighting agents whose primary site of action is
the body’s own immune system.
While certain conventional
modalities are said to have advanced … conventional science is clearly not
“winning the war” against cancer. In fact, studies of 5 to 10 year patient
survival rates show the failure of conventional oncotherapy. Still, quantity
of life is only one issue. The quality of life … is so very important. Ask
them and they’ll tell you what a difference it makes that alternative and
complementary medicine aims to preserve the quality of life.
… while traditional
scientists tackle cancer by screening thousands of compounds in the lab --
hoping to come across one that kills malignant tumor cells more efficiently
than it kills normal growth – [SDC] comes from the opposite direction:
“First understand what’s wrong inside the cancerous cell; then design a
medicine or treatment that corrects just that.” … [the] clinic team offers
individually designed treatment programs that reverse cancer and other
degenerative diseases in most instances.
Reversing breast cancer
The reversal of breast cancer is another challenge. By the time
Sherry A., age 53, consulted Dr. Muñoz, it was fourteen months after her
diagnosis of infiltrating ductile carcinoma. Her conventional oncologist had
recommended a complete mastectomy, but Sherry had declined even a
lumpectomy, opting instead for alternative treatments such as
detoxification, supplements, and testosterone hormone blockers.
She says, “As a nurse, I
knew from experience that the conventional therapy of chemo, radiation, and
surgery wouldn’t work. Over and over I’d seen them fail. Chemo and radiation
actually impair the immune system. So I was left with the question, how
could I fight cancer with an impaired immune system? The conventional
radiologists I went to told me I only had a short time left [to live]. I
just wasn’t willing to accept that. I turned to my faith for the courage to
go beyond the conventional medicine I was familiar with.”
Sherry came to SDC in June
1997. Her breast tumor had already grown too much for a lumpectomy. Dr.
Muñoz put her on a program combining immunotherapy with chemo from her
conventional oncologist. The SDC biolab then began to prepare an Anti-Mycoplasma
Vaccine, and she was immediately given Mistletoe, the immune stimulators
Pind-avi and thymus protein. She also went through two cycles of low dose
chemotherapy.
Within six months, Sherry’s
tumor had shrunk by 70%. Still the cancer had been so advanced that she
agreed to the oncologist’s recommendation of a mastectomy in January 1998.
After surgery, she continued immunotherapy at SDC and remained stable. Then,
in June 1998, despite … warning that it might reactivate the tumor, she had
a biopsy of a lymph node in her neck to check for metastasis. Almost
immediately, several malignant nodules appeared in her lymph nodes and along
her surgical scar. In February 1999, blood examination by darkfield
microscopy revealed lingering mycoplasma infection. A second Myc-Vac was
prepared and administered.
NeoSpringer Vaccine
But there were still lingering fears of potentially dangerous cancers
remaining along the surgical scar line and lymph nodes. So Sherry opted for
recommendation of NeoSpringer Vaccine. SDC physicians have had success using
the safe and more effective version of the Springer anti-cancer vaccine
combined with other therapies. The original vaccine … by the late Georg
Springer, M.D. … showed that two proteins on the surface of cancer cells,
called T antigen and Tn antigen, can be recognized by the immune system. …
[the] vaccine stimulates T/Tn antigen recognition and triggers cancer-cell
killing activity.
Sherry says, “In only a
matter of weeks after receiving the [NeoSpringer] vaccine, the dangerous
lumps on my breast and lymph node swelling receded. I was overjoyed. At my
next regular visit o my oncologist in July, she said this was amazing. She’d
never seen anything like it before.” Sherry continues immunotherapy as a
precaution. But she remains clear of cancer.
NOTE:
[SDC’s NeoSpringer Vaccine stimulates immune response in persons with
cancer by using T/Tn antigens while avoiding the blood-borne risks inherent
in the original Springer Vaccine.]
Reversing other diseases
In addition to cancer, the clinic offers a number of approaches
to reversing other degenerative diseases (see Therapies sidebar). Some of
these therapies, including Myc-Vac and Transfer Factor, for example, are
used in treating CFS, candidiasis, MS, arthritis, lupus and other
conditions. Generally, new patients with diagnoses ranging from CFS to
Parkinson’s are checked for mycoplasma.
Dr. Sands says the SDC
research team has developed a product called
Cerasomal-cis-9-cetylmyristoleate (CMO) that has been especially effective
for the pain and inflammation of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
This product, an oral form of CMO, is the cerasomal form of
cetylmyristoleate. Significantly it has a high level of bioavailability,
whereas a free-cetylmyristoleate form is not highly bioavailable in oral
form.
Elena G., age 38, was in
nearly constant pain in both knees. She had resorted to codeine and aspirin
for relief, but her symptoms were worsening. She came to see Dr. Sands after
hearing about this “one-time therapy that brings a complete and permanent
remission.” An exam confirmed that Elena had osteoarthritis but was in good
health otherwise.
Elena was told to refrain
from alcohol, caffeine, and chocolate consumption for a month, and to take
four CMO capsules daily for fifteen days.
“I started to feel better
the second day,” Elena said. “I couldn’t believe it was the CMO until a week
later when I found that the pain and inflammation were completely gone.” Her
four-week follow up exam confirmed her remission: completely unrestricted
movement and no inflammation
Curing
rheumatoid arthritis
Unlike Elena’s straightforward progress [using CMO], cases of rheumatoid
arthritis such as Guadalupe C’s are complex. Guadalupe, only age 29 when she
came to SDC in January 1999, had been diagnosed with this usually
debilitating condition in 1992. Her hands were deformed and she had
difficulty walking. She says she couldn’t even drive a car and had severe
pain in her hands, elbows, and legs. She tested positive for rheumatoid
factor and showed significant mycoplasma. Dr. Sands says, “Experience has
taught us that treating severe arthritis -- and many other diseases -- is
futile as long as high mycoplasma levels remain.”
While Guadalupe’s Myc-Vac
was being prepared, she was started on CMO capsules, chelation, and Allergo-Stop
injections. Allergo-Stop is a non-toxic treatment that works against the
auto-antibodies normally present in the blood of patients with autoimmune
disorders. It stimulates the immune system to produce normal antibodies by
blocking and destroying the bad antibodies that cause the disease.
The following month when
Guadalupe returned to the clinic, physicians saw marked improvement. She
could walk without discomfort and had much less pain in her hips. Her hand
inflammation had also decreased. In July, Allergo-Stop treatment was
repeated, and glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate were added for two months
to help regenerate cartilage. By September, she was free of pain and
inflammation. After finishing Allergo-Stop treatment, she was tested and
found to be in remission. CMO was continued to prevent further autoimmune
attacks. At her final checkup in December 1999, Guadalupe was found to be
continuing in complete remission.
Natural
therapies
SDC’s general treatment program uses sophisticated natural therapies. This
program involves detoxification and revitalization to achieve better
distribution and dissemination of therapies to fight cancer and other
conditions. Included are intravenous (IV) infusions of chelation therapy,
high IV doses of vitamin C, minerals, essential amino acids, and
multi-vitamins; and strong nutritional and supplemental programs. No single
approach is applied in isolation and all treatment programs are
individualized.
Each patient at SDC is
monitored closely by clinic physicians and nurses. Former patient Faye L.
Says, “I continue to have regular follow-up checkups, Dr. Muñoz makes sure
of that . . . . I have never known a more caring and devoted physician. I
thought I was special, but so is every other patient he works with.”
Understandably, a diagnosis
of cancer or other degenerative disease is difficult, often frightening.
This is why the extensive clinical experience and research skill of the SDC
staff -- combined with their belief in “curing the incurable” are so
important.
Therapies Offered at SDC
Alkyl-Phosphollpids are anti oxidant
enzymes that protect the body from the damage of free radicals.
Allergo-Stop stimulates the
immune system to produce normal antibodies by blocking and destroying the
bad antibodies that cause allergy and immunologic disease.
Anti-metastatic therapies
such as Mistletoe (Eurixor, iscador) and Clodronate help reduce the spread
of cancer.
Anti-Mycoplasma Autologous
Vaccine (Myc-Vac) stimulates the immune system to recognize cancer-causing
agents and to begin to fight back. (See sidebar)
Biological Response
Modifier (BRM) therapy uses cytokines as an immunotherapy. (The first
laboratory produced cytokines were interferon and interleukin.) Tumor growth
reducing BRMs such as Factor AF-2 and tumor necrosis factor-beta (TNF) are
used in certain cancer treatments.
Cerasomal-cis-9-cetylmyristoleate (CMO) is an autoimmune modulator that
alters programming within memory T-cells.
Chelation is a body
detoxification therapy that orally or intravenously introduces substances
into the body that bind with heavy metals and allow them to be eliminated
from the body.
Hydrazine Sulfate is a
compound that reduces body wasting (cachexia) in persons with cancer.
Immuno-Placental Therapy
(VG-1000), discovered by Dr. Govallo, suppresses the defense mechanism of
malignant cells.
Immuno stimulators
(specific and non-specific) -- such as Pind-avi virus vaccine, made from
chicken pox; Mumps virus; and Utilin D and F -- are substances that
stimulate the immune system to recognize diseases causing agents.
NeoSpringer Vaccine
stimulates immune response in persons with cancer using T/Tn antigens (while
avoiding the blood-borne risks inherent in the original Springer Vaccine).
Neuroplexin boosts the
neurotransmitter dopamine gamma, which helps persons with MS, Parkinson’s
and other neurologically damaging conditions.
Newcastle Disease Virus
Therapy (NDV, or MTH-68 vaccine) is an immunotherapy, using avian virus with
direct cytolysis (cell killing) and tumor-specific immune enhancement. The
avian viruses may also stimulate the production of a variety of cytokines
such as TNF.
Reflexology stimulates or
balances the body by applying manual pressure on corresponding acupuncture
points (“acupressure”) on the soles of the feet.
Transferon is a Transfer
Factor immunomodulator that strengthens cell-mediated immune response.
Ultraviolet Blood
Irradiation Therapy uses ultraviolet light filtration of the blood to kill
pathogens.
What is
Anti-Mycoplasma Immunotherapy?
Researchers long ago observed that when the immune system is weakened,
cancer rates rise. A healthy immune system acts to destroy invaders and
[other] “nonself” substances. But a weakened immune system can fail to make
the distinction between “self” and “nonself,” and is thought to be
responsible for the initiation and progression of cancers (when cancer cell
aren’t recognized as nonself), and for autoimmune diseases (when self is
identified as nonself). Immunotherapies such as antimycoplasma vaccine help
the body recognize nonself substances and harmful microorganisms.
Practitioners at SDC have
seen evidence that mycoplasma are highly active in 80% of their cancer
patients and are also involved in the autoimmune process, playing a role in
conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis.
Mycoplasma are extremely
small, parasite microorganisms that have no cell walls and are pleomorphic
(form changing). [They are the smallest organism ever found.] Present in
relatively benign forms in everyone, they exist in pathogenic
(disease-causing) forms in the blood of many persons with cancer and other
degenerative diseases. These “stealth pathogens” are often able to evade
neutralization by the immune system.
The forms mycoplasma take
and the extent of damage they do to blood cells correlate with the stage of
a cancer or other disease. Their disease-causing effects are best observed
through a darkfield microscope, an instrument used to examine live blood
cells. Called the Platelet Culture Test, this study allows one to observe
changes in the blood that are either predictive of or evidence of disease.
Disease identification
involves conclusions drawn from observing several factors in the blood
culture; the death rates of platelets; the direct effect of mycoplasma on
platelet shapes; the structure of the remnants of mycoplasma activity; and
the effects of mycoplasma on white and red blood cells.
“In examining the relevant
factors,” says Dr. Muñoz, M. “we can make early identification of forms
typical of many cancers and illnesses,” Dr. Muñoz has extensive experience
in mycoplasma detection and treatment. He worked with Werner Scheidl, H.M.D.
of Germany, a pioneer in detecting the presence of mycoplasma on the surface
of platelets and the originator of the platelet test.
Whatever disease
implication of mycoplasma, these quickly-evolving pleomorphs make impossible
targets for antibiotic treatment, leaving only immune-stimulating vaccines
produced from a patient’s own blood as an effective defense.
The Anti-Mycoplasma
Autologous Vaccine (Myc-Vac) was originally developed in Germany, (Autologous
means produced from oneself). The Myc-Vac is prepared by drawing a sample of
a patient’s blood, isolating and culturing harmless mycoplasma substances
and purifying the extract for re-injection. The vaccine’s purpose is to
enhance and strengthen the immune system so that it is able to reverse the
disease process.
… benign mycoplasma
substances through Myc-Vac … are forcing the patient’s immune system to
recognize the presence of disease-causing mycoplasma. … the vaccine trains
the immune system to attack mycoplasma substances, which puts the stealth
pathogens back into balance as benign forms.
Dr. Scheidl believes the
incidence of cancer could be cut by 50% if people were to use this anti-mycoplasma
therapy as a disease preventive.
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DEFINITION: Platelets are blood cells known as the body’s internal
Band-Aids; they initiate blood clotting after an injury. [As] targets of
bacteria, mycoplasma, and viruses, their shapes and clotting abilities
(states of aggregation) are useful indications of the presence of
disease-producing agents in the blood.**
SOME
DISEASES SUCCESSFULLY TREATED
Cancer
Osteoarthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Alzheimer’s Disease
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)
Fibromyalgia
Lupus Erythematosis
Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Herpes Zoster (Shingles)
Candidiasis
Scleroderma
Muscular Dystrophy
Ankylosing Spondylitis
Parkinson’s Disease
San Diego International Immunological Center. Tel. and Fax;
011-526-682-4282.
US Tel 619-428-1300, Mail: P. O. Box 121026, Chula Vista CA 91912.
Locale: Terra Bldg, Suite 306, 9031 Circuito Bursatil, Tijuana, B. C. Mexico
22320.
Article
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Alternative Medicine Magazine.
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