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Pandemic Update: Cortisol, Part 5

Suppose I go to all this trouble to get to cortisol for Dr. Jeffries’ protocol and then don't get the flu? Don't worry, all is not lost! Dr. Jeffries found that physiologic doses of cortisol were useful in treating infectious mononucleosis, shingles, post viral syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, and pneumonia.

From my personal experience I think it's likely that physiologic doses of cortisol are likely to stop most viral infections if taken early enough. It seems likely that if you go to the trouble to get the cortisol, you will find a use for it even if you never get flu.

Suppose you've done your best to point at this point you still don't have cortisol. What else can you do? In earlier posts to this blog I have written about using vitamin D and vitamin C to stop infections. These will often work and are more likely to work if used together. Some people will feel a need for something more. I am one of them.

Now I'm going to get into the area of sweat equity, an unpopular subject for a lot of people. Big Pharma has conditioned us to believe that in order to be healthy and happy we shouldn't have to do anything more difficult than swallowing one or two or 10 or 20 of their pills. Although Big Pharma has done a good job selling this disinformation, more and more people are getting it that this is a false concept that can have disastrous consequences for many people. So while sweat equity (doing whatever it takes to improve health even though doing so may not be fun) is not yet popular in this country, it is gaining favor all the time. I know so because I see it in more and more of my patients.

Two interventions that some of my patients and I have found to be powerfully effective are in essence testing and the Medical Assistance Program (MAP.). If you can’t get cortisol and want protection beyond what you can get with vitamins C and D, I recommend that you consider learning and using MAP. I have twice stopped infections that way. Essence testing is much less challenging to learn and use than MAP and I believe it can reduce the probability of your getting sick, and if you do get sick, accelerate your recovery.

I intend to discuss these in some detail later on this blog, but those who can't wait can get the information right away by clicking the above links.

And now, at last, at last, we come to some posts from one of my guests, Mike Belcher, registered pharmacist and esteemed colleague, who will give you a heads up on an initiative by the FDA that I consider a major threat to your health and mine. So Mike is up next with some vitally important information about the threat and what you can do to protect yourself.

Pandemic Update: Cortisol, Part 4

Getting cortisol can be a challenge, unless you are a patient of mine or have had a consultation with me within the past year. In that case, your biggest challenge will be picking up the phone, calling me, and asking me to prescribe cortisol for you. I will be glad to do so. I might even do it if I haven't seen you within the past year: that would depend on the circumstances of your situation.

Everything I write in this blog is in the educational model and not the medical model. I do not and cannot prescribe for or take medical responsibility for people I have not examined, except in extremely unusual circumstances. In the medical model I do take medical responsibility for my patient. In the educational model I tell you what in my experience works best in response to various health challenges. It is in your responsibility to decide whether you will try the intervention or not. It is certainly best to do this in consultation with a physician who is knowledgeable about the intervention, or at least open to consulting with you if you try it. In the past, such physicians have been extremely scarce, but in the last year I've been hearing about more and more who are willing to work with patients using natural healing approaches. If you don't know such a physician, the best place to look is the doctor finder page on the American College for the Advancement of Medicine website, http://www.acam.org/.

I can't guarantee you will find a physician willing to work with you and prescribe cortisol for you so that you can use Dr. Jeffries' protocol if you need to, but I do believe this is the best place to start. If you don't find what you're looking for, I suggest that you set and hold the intent to find the right physician for you. Intent firmly set and tenaciously held has the most remarkable power to open doors in what appeared to be blank walls. Just be sure you follow every lead that comes up. There is an ancient saying that I have seen proven true time after time: "When the student is ready the teacher will appear."

An important part of Dr. Jefferies' protocol is to take a high potency multiple vitamin and mineral supplement when using the protocol. Of course I recommend that most people take a high potency multiple item and mineral supplement all the time. Please review my recommendations, which you can reach by clicking the multiple vitamin and mineral supplement section on the navigation bar of this blog.

It is important to start the Protocol as soon as you are sure you are getting sick. Once you start, if you get worse or are not nearly symptom-free in 48 hours, you should seek immediate medical attention if you are not already under medical care. If you have a bacterial infection, you'll probably need an antibiotic in addition to the cortisol.

But wait, there's more! Next blog: using Dr. Jeffries' protocol for other infections and what to do if you really can't get cortisol.

Pandemic Update: Cortisol, Part 3

We have considered how to use cortisol to stop flu. We will now consider preparations and precautions for using Dr. Jefferies' protocol and how to get the cortisol. Most people will have to overcome two challenges: political and supply.

The political challenge will probably be that most conventional physicians will be concerned, and some will be horrified, to learn that you are taking cortisol. This situation is usually created from the following factors:

• What doctors are not up on they are down on. Very few doctors are up on Dr. Jefferies’ protocol or have even heard of it.
• What most doctors are up on is the pharmacologic doses of cortisol and unnatural drugs, such as Prednisone, that resemble cortisol. The pharmacologic doses, larger than the normal output of healthy adrenals, can have horrendous side effects and are to be used only in desperate situations. So if a conventional doctor hears that you are taking cortisol, he or she will assume pharmacologic dosing and exposure to risk to devastating side effects.
• To most doctors it will not matter that you are taking physiologic doses of cortisol, which have none of the dangerous side effects of the pharmacologic doses and are safe to take indefinitely if needed. Off course, With Dr. Jefferies' protocol you will not need to take the cortisol more than a few days.

Under eustress conditions (the amount of stress that is conducive to health because it stimulates you without overstressing you) healthy adrenals will produce about 35 mg of cortisol per 24 hours. In overstress situations, such as having flu, healthy adrenals may put out up to 80 mg per day. Many people cannot produce these levels because their adrenals have been injured by such things as infection, environmental pollution, autoimmune disease, and chronic overstress. These people are said to have a low adrenal reserve and they are at risk for anxiety, brain fog, fatigue, chronic pain, and impaired resistance to infections, from which it may be difficult or impossible to recover.

Some people find the political challenge daunting. You may want to be prepared with the facts in case you encounter a conventional physician who warns that you will die if you take the doses of cortisol prescribed in Dr. Jefferies' protocol. The facts are readily available in Dr. Jefferies' book, The Safe Uses of Cortisol. If you want to use Dr. Jefferies’ protocol for stopping flu or his protocol for relieving symptoms of low adrenal reserve, I recommend that you read his book, which is available from the bookstore on this blog.

Read enough of the book, particularly the section on treating infections, to believe you will feel secure when confronting a medical authority who doesn't know as much you do about this aspect of adrenal function and the safe use of cortisol in treating infections. You will have prepared yourself for meeting the political challenge associated with using Dr. Jefferies' protocol.

You now need to know how to get the cortisol. I intend to address this in my next blog.

Pandemic Update: Cortisol, Part 2

In my most recent post I presented Dr. William McK. Jefferies' protocol for stopping flu. Dr. Jefferies used this protocol successfully with seasonal flu. It has never been tested on the novel H1N1 virus but it seems probable that cortisol would work on it as well.

In describing his patients' response to this treatment, Dr. Jefferies said that clinical responses were striking. Within 24 hours all patients felt much better. Within 48 hours symptoms such as fever, malaise and generalized aching had completely stopped and the patients felt quite well. The initial dose of cortisol was decreased after 48 hours and discontinued after six days. No relapses or complications occurred.

You might think that once Dr. Jefferies published his findings, most doctors would start using his protocol. This has not happened. I have thought a lot about this and it seems to me that two factors may be in play here: the New Golden Rule and that medicine is practiced more like a religion than a science. How does the New Golden Rule operate here? As you probably know, the Rule is, "Who has the gold makes the rules." In this case, Big Pharma has the gold so big Pharma gets to make the rules about what is taught in medical school. They have seem to have purchased this power by giving sufficient sums of money to the heads of departments in medical schools and to medical school professors for traveling around the country lecturing to doctors and saying nice things about Big Pharma’s products.(Sometimes I think my voice recognition program is smarter than I am. It occasionally prints something different from what I said that is better than what I said. Just then, when I dictated "Big Pharma," my voice recognition program printed "Big Harm us." LOL. I needed that.)

You probably will not be astonished to hear that much of what is taught in most medical schools exaggerates, sometimes grotesquely, the benefits of Big Pharma's drugs and understates, sometimes disastrously, the dangers and side effects. To connect a few more dots, no pharmaceutical company can make the billion dollar profits to which they have become accustomed by selling cortisol, which is a natural substance that cannot be patented.

The other factor appears to me to be the science/religion issue. The practice of medicine claims to be a science, but some people observing the system from the inside see it acting more like a religion, in which the medical school professors are the priests and the medical schools are the temples. In most religions, the priests tell the people what God wants them to do and what's going to happen to them if they don't do it. These consequences never sound very attractive. The true believers accept the priests' word as God's word, ask no questions, do as they are told, and all is well, at least for the priests, at least for a while. Skeptics and nonbelievers are likely to be dealt with harshly, particularly if they get results better than those of the true believer.

I hadn't intended to carry on this long about the issue but I think it is this important to your ability to vigilantly watch your back. I will hasten to get on with the process of telling you how you may be able to get cortisol and what precautions you need to take before using it.

Pandemic Update: Cortisol

I keep getting overtaken by events. It must have something to do with the accelerating rate of change in the world and the accelerating expansion of awareness in some people. Whatever the cause, I have observed that I must change my short range plans more frequently than I ever have before. In this case, I had planned to begin a series of guest posts from the compounding pharmacist with whom I have worked closely for the past 25 years. Now, because of some information released by the World Health Organization, I believe the pandemic situation is more serious than it appeared and I am about to post the most powerful and accessible response I know. I may decide to post about another response, at least equally powerful, but not nearly so easy to use. Once I get these attended to, I look forward with pleasure to posting the important and interesting information contributed by my guest writer.

According to Yahoo News, information from the World Health Organization is that the H1N1 virus has begun to directly attack the lungs. This direct lung attack is what made the 1918 pandemic so deadly that it killed 600,000 people in this country. Virologists and public health officials had been watching for evidence of this change. Even before WHO reported the direct lung attack, it was predicting a significant probability that the pandemic will explode in September and October. No one knows whether this will actually happen; but the potential for a devastating pandemic is sufficient that I am going to tell you about the simplest, quickest, most powerful intervention I know of that I believe has a high probability of stopping flu within a few days.

I learned this from Dr. William McK. Jefferies through his book The Safe Uses of Cortisol. For 25 years, I have been using Dr. Jefferies protocol for treating Low Adrenal Reserve, a.k.a. Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome. As a result, hundreds of people have gotten their lives back after years or decades of debilitating symptoms including chronic fatigue, severe anxiety, brain fog, hypothyroid symptoms unresponsive to appropriate doses of the correct thyroid hormones, and generalized body pain, particularly low back pain.

Dr. Jefferies learned how to treat flu with appropriate doses of cortisol during a flu epidemic in the 1950s. Here is his protocol.

• Cortisol 20 mg four times daily before meals and at bedtime starting at the first sign of infection. Continue this dose until you feel well.
• Decrease the dose to 10 mg four times daily for two days
• Decrease the dose to 5 mg four times daily for two days, and then stop.

In my next post I intend to tell you what response Dr. Jeffries observed in his patients, precautions you need to take before starting the protocol, and most important of all, how to get the cortisol.

Swine Flu Pandemic

There have been two recent significant developments in the swine flu situation. Last week the World Health Organization announced a swine flu pandemic. The decision was based on the increasing number of cases in an increasing number of countries in the world.

The second development is the strangest thing about the flu epidemic in the USA. In the late spring, the number of cases is increasing when at this time of year flu is usually tapering off. This may mean that the virus has mutated into a form that is able to thrive in warm temperatures. That is troublesome enough but if in the Southern Hemisphere the virus mutates into a lethal form before returning to the Northern Hemisphere in the fall, we will probably be in for an extremely hard time. In view these new developments I have some recommendations.

1. If you have not done your vitamin D test, do it now. You can find the link in most of my previous vitamin D posts.

2. If your vitamin D level is not 80 ng plus or minus 10, get if there by following the directions in one of my vitamin D posts.

3. Have on hand vitamin D3 50,000 IU, 30 capsules for each member of your family.

4. If you are not already taking Perelandra FSBS 10 drops twice daily when you get up in the morning and at bedtime, start it now. Again, the link is in my flu posts.

5. Consider asking a physician to prescribe for you and each member of your family, Tamiflu 10 capsules. That will provide a five-day course of a pharmaceutical that is reported to be effective against swine flu. If you decide to just wait and trust the government to provide you with Tamiflu at the appropriate time but you feel a little uneasy about that decision, you could ask a few people who were in New Orleans during and after Katrina to reassure you.

6. Check the Perelandra website at least once a week for flu updates.

7. Check the vitamin C Council website regularly for updates.

8. Consider purchasing a Perelandra flu kit for each family member.

9. Post on this blog any questions or comments. If you are wondering about something, the chances are hundreds of other people are also. There can be great creative and healing power released when people speak their perceptions, fears, and ideas forthrightly in the presence of others who have similar interests.

In my next post I'll be asking for your guidance on what topic to explore next. Would you prefer learning how to improve your health by improving the balance in your electrical system or how to protect yourself against several hidden epidemics now ongoing in this country?