The Pyramid of Trios

The Darwin Trilogy The Principles and Practice of Integrative Medicine Majid Ali, M.D. Coming 2009

Majid Ali, M.D.

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Formerly, Associate Professor of Pathology (adj.), College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Columbia University, NY
Formerly, President of Staff and Chief Pathologist, Holy Name Hospital, Teaneck, NJ
Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of England - Diplomate,
American Board of Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
Diplomate, American Boards of Environmental Medicine
Past President Capital University of Integrative Medicine

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THE PYRAMID OF TRIOS OF THE HUMAN BODY ECOSYSTEMS AND
THE ROAD MAP FOR RECOVERY

Recovery from fibromyalgia requires a healing plan based on ecologic thinking. Fibromyalgia requires a molecular orientation. It cannot be understood with the prevailing nineteenth-century one-disease/ one-diagnosis/one-drug model of thinking. The model of The Pyramid of Trios of Human Ecosystems shown below took shape during my work with nearly 5,000 chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia canaries. It has been fully validated by my colleagues at the Institute of Integrative Medicine.

TWO VISITS WITH A FORMER FIBRO CANARY
Denville, New Jersey, Fall of 1994.
"Look at this, Dr. Ali, this is my picture!" EB waved a page of The New York Times at me. "I was a very successful broker. Now I'm a broken man. I hurt all the time. I can hardly stand for an hour without rest. I have no life. I can't do anything for my daughters. My wife doesn't understand any of this. The other day she and I talked about separation. I have done everything you asked me to do but see no benefit. People at the fibromyalgia support group tell me there is no treatment for it and that I'm wasting my time and money with you. Please be honest with me. I plead with you. If this is my fate, I will accept it. But I must know the truth."

Denver, Colorado, Summer of 1996.
"Doc, before you ask your questions, I want to tell you something. I thought of canceling this phone visit with you but decided against it. Here is what I wanna say. The other day I was on the ski slopes with my two daughters. God, it felt great to be alive again. To be a father to my daughters again. It is okay between my wife and me now. Doc, stay with your work. God bless you. Don't let the distractors tell you fibromyalgia isn't reversible. That's all I wanted to say. I will have a phone visit with you if I need you again, and I hope I won't. You understand that, don't you?"

BEWARE OF PSEUDOEXPERTS!

If you are a fibro canary, please be wary:

Of experts who claim there is no treatment for fibromyalgia simply because their drugs do not work. (How does anyone become an expert on a problem he never solves?)

Of the fibromyalgia support groups who spread negative information because they believe that the condition is irreversible.

Of the fibromyalgia patients who lose hope for others because they could not heal.

In a clinical study conducted at the Institute of Integrative Medicine and published in The Journal of Integrative Medicine, the author and his colleagues reported excellent outcome in 67% and good outcome in another 19% (a near-complete recovery or marked improvement in almost 86%) of a series of 150 patients.

SEEK OUT PROFESSIONALS WHO UNDERSTAND FIBRO FURIES
When I began the study of medicine forty-two years ago, I was taught that it is unethical to come between a patient and his physician. I bought the party line and practiced it for nearly thirty years. I never fully recognized the mischief in that ethic. It meant that I participated in the conspiracy of silence against missed diagnoses and bad treatment plans.
Now I believe that it is unethical for physicians not to speak out against mindless drugging of the sick under the guise of "standards of care." Indeed, now I fully recognize those standards for what they are: tools of the uninformed to perpetuate their ignorance and suffocate innovation in nondrug, ecologic-restorative therapies.

ESSENTIALS OF TREATMENT
1. Diagnose and treat food intolerance and inhalant allergy, with special focus on mold allergy.

2. Optimal hydration with three to four quarts of water daily. I recommend one-half teaspoon of extra salt. (Persons with high blood pressure and heart disease should do so under professional supervision. Water means water, organic vegetable juice and herbal teas. Coffee, tea, and alcoholic beverages do not count as water.

3. Optimal choices in the kitchen, with focus on avoiding rapid shifts in blood sugar levels that trigger sugar-insulin-adrenaline roller coasters. Protein powders that contain 90% or so protein are especially valuable.

4. Abundant nutrient supplementation, with focus on vitamins, minerals, and essential oils. I divide the minerals into two subgroups: (a) first-tier minerals, including magnesium [1,200 to 2,500 mg], potassium [15 to 350 mg], calcium [1,000 to 1,500 mg], and zinc [10 to 50 mg] ; and (b) second-tier minerals, including selenium [500-750 mcg], chromium [500-750 mcg], molybdenum [150 to 600 mcg] , and copper [5 to 10 mg].

5. Ample intake of OSSs (oxygen-stabilizing substances). OSS is my term for a group of substances that either protect normal oxygen metabolism or normalize dysfunctional oxygen metabolism. OSSs include glutathione, MSM, SAM-e, vitamins B6 and B12, germanium, and others. My preferred items for OSS include the following Seven Gs: (a) ginger; (b) garlic; (c) ginseng; (d) glutathione; (e) germanium; (f) gingko; and (g) growth hormone. The seven Gs may need to be administered in large doses, but that should be done under professional supervision.

6. Intramuscular and intravenous protocols to "jump start" the restoration of dysfunctional oxygen metabolism.

7. Support for the bowel-blood-liver trio: (a) Bowel ecosystem: seed, feed and weed approach; herbs: echinacea, astragalus, burdock root, goldenseal, Pau d'Arco, artemisia; antifungal drugs such as Nystatin and Diflucan.

8. Support for the blood ecosystem: Hydrogen peroxide, ozone and EDTA chelation therapies; chromium [400-600 mcg]; selenium [400-600] mcg; molybdenum [400-600] mcg.

9. Support for the liver ecosystem: glutathione [600-800 mg]; N-acetylcysteine [600-800] mg; MSM [1,000 to 1,500 mg]; lipoic acid 300 to 500 mg; milk thistle, schizandra, liver and gall bladder flush (under professional supervision).

10. Support for the troubled thyroid-adrenal-pancreas trio (under professional supervision).

11. Support for the pituitary-sex hormones-neurotransmitter trio.

12. Exercise: prayerful, gentle, non competitive, non goal-oriented exercise.

13. Stress control: prayer, meditation, spiritual surrender.

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