Antiaging Medical Care

An editor of one of Dr. Maulfair’s journal says it best, “older people are sick because they are sick, not because they are old.“  One of the viewpoints we hope to inspire others to adopt is that aging is easy with the proper medical care.  If you develop chronic degerative disease you may have some tough times but you can be markedly helped with complementary alternative medical care. 
 Chelation therapy with infusions of a chelating agent that helps reduce the levels of heavy metals you have accumulated is essential if you have health problems but even more important for preventing them in the first place.  Proper diagnosis of the FUNCTION of you digestive system is important to determine how well you absorb and utilize nutrients or to find out if you have imbalances of certain bacteria that cause problems.   Determining the level of heavy metals and nutrient minerals in your body helps you in selecting supplements important for YOUR body.  Finding out the various hormone levels in your body is important for health, you can be helped by hormone support with bioidentical hormones, for instance.   Finding out if you suffer from sensitivities to certain foods is important for optimum energy. The list goes on.   There is a great deal of detective work your doctor should do for you – not just scope the body but look for functional problems that later develop into serious health hazards.

Health is so often ignored and goes unsupported by most of us; we do little to help ourselves until we develop  a symptom or two.  It seems elementary to state that the body needs nutrients, not prescription drugs, to maintain good health or return to health but look what common medicine offers you for the most part, prescriptions.  Prescriptions of any kind or strength are considered toxins by your body.   Your body cannot use a chemical found in prescriptions to rebuild damage done by everyday living.  Prescriptions add new problems with side effects no doctor can predict.  Medical schools continue to offer drug education.  Students are taught which drugs to use for which ailment or symptom.  Friends of ours, currently in medical school, said not only are they memorizing which drug to use for which symptom but also the 5-6 drugs that are then prescribed to handle the predictable side effects of the  first one.  Sound familiar?  Look at how our senior seniors are now living.  Prescription after prescription on top of another presciption and not one doctor managing the whole program.  We have people come to us on tons of medications and medications to handle the health problems that develop from prescriptions, they are confused and not one of their doctors monitors or manages the entire list.  Horrifying.

If you are overweight or have a health problem you are undernourished, plain and simple.  Your diet determines your health or lack of it.  Fresh and fresh organic foods locally grown are a must, for high nutrient value per bite and less contamination with pesticides and food additives.  Certain food additives are used in lab animals to create obesity so it can be studied.  That is right, it may not be amount of food you eat that makes you gain, it may be the kind of food you eat.  Eat good organic cold pressed oils and feel you energy increase and watch your weight decrease.  Health is that simple.  Take some time to learn a few new things and help yourself age gracefully and happily.

We are here to help when you need it but you can make great progress on your own.  Keep in mind there are complementary, alternative medical doctors across the country.  Look and you will find them, your health depends on it.  icimed.com, acam.org are two websites to locate drs. also try medical-library.net. 

Have a very happy 4th of July with organic burgers and organic hot dogs and homemade salads.

Toxic Time bombs: the pollution in you.

—Dr. Conrad Maulfair, Maulfair Medical Center, Topton PAFatigue, allergies, joint aches or mood swings got you down? Although concern over the effects of pollution on the environment has held our attention for decades, new research is detecting chemical toxins in most people.[1;2] While industry furiously challenges the evidence, scientists argue that low-level chemical exposures are linked with these subtle but all too common problems, not to mention diseases such as autism, ADHD, and cancer, to name a few. Long term, low level exposures to chemicals cause an accumulation in the body referred to as “body burden.”
As we gain increasing understanding about the adverse effects of body burden on health what remains less clear is when the time bomb may go off. The medical community is trained to look to yesterday’s exposure to explain today’s symptoms. Yet, body burden, accumulations of toxic chemicals, may have more subtle but important health effects that are not seen for years, or even lifetimes. Because of this time delay, it is not uncommon for a chemical to be banned for safety concerns after decades of use — a real world experiment.
Studies link ZIP codes near waste sites with low-birth-weight babies, thyroid disease in women and female reproductive disorders such as endometriosis — even in regions with higher per capita income, less smoking, better diet and more exercise.[3] The same researchers have data linking living near waste sites to elevated risks for stroke, ischemic heart disease and high blood pressure. 287 chemicals were found in the umbilical cord blood of babies at their birth in a small study recently conducted by the Environmental Working Group based in Washington DC. www.ewg.org. The chemicals found included mercury, pesticides and the chemicals used in stain-resistant coating and fire-retardant foam. Breast milk of nursing mothers has been tested and found to be laden with chemicals which she passes on to her child when she nurses. Preconception care should include reducing the chemical load of the mother before she becomes pregnant. Men, our future fathers, suffer infertility problems due to the effects of toxic chemicals.
Our life support system: Better living through chemistry?
You don’t live near an industrial waste site? The truth is that even if you do, you probably get most of your toxins as pesticides and additives in your food or each time you apply various consumer cosmetic products. Your home, your cars and even the water you drink slowly leak chemicals into your life.
There has been a staggering proliferation of toxic chemicals produced without due regard for testing for long-term health effects of low level exposures. Thousands of new synthetic chemicals come into manufactured consumer products every year with little to no safety testing or public approval process. According to the World Health Organization, there are over 100,000 synthetic chemicals in use in consumer products today with 1,000 to 2,000 being added to the list each year.
We breathe these chemicals through our lungs, absorb them through our skin and ingest them in the food we eat and water we drink. We are soaking up chemicals that we’d be hard-pressed to spell or pronounce, if we could even find out what they were.
The body burden problem.
Toxic chemicals know no boundaries. Chemicals contaminate not only wildlife and the environment, but people, breast milk and the unborn child yet most people are unaware that they carry chemical compounds in their bodies. Each of us has some load of industrial chemicals stored in or passing through our bodies. Human fat tissue sampled in the United States contained 700 contaminants that have not been chemically identified.[4]
According to Michael McCally, M.D. Ph.D., of Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, “Current ‘normal’ body burdens of dioxin and several other well-studied organochlorides are at or near the range at which toxic effects occur in laboratory animals.” A recent Mt Sinai study found 167 chemicals in the blood and urine of volunteers; chemicals used in consumer products and found in industrial pollution.[2] Of the 167 chemicals discovered, 94 are toxic to the brain or nervous system, 76 are carcinogenic (cancer-causing) and 79 are linked to birth defects. None of the participants worked with chemicals or lived near an industrial facility. In other words, these toxins represent the average body burden of the ordinary American citizen.
This is not a uniquely American problem. A 2005 British study funded by the World Wide Fund for Nature and the Co-Operative Bank found chemicals including banned pesticides like DDT, flame retardants and the PFOA chemical found in Teflon and used on nonstick pans and stain repellents.
If the body burden of adults isn’t enough cause for alarm, it is shocking to learn the effects on future generations. In 2005, the US Environmental Working Group [5] reported that umbilical cord blood samples taken from newborn babies were all heavily contaminated. A total of 287 contaminants were detected. Many of these were known or suspected carcinogens, neurotoxins or linked with birth defects if present in high concentrations. Meanwhile, an exhaustive review of the evidence points to prenatal exposures as a source of postnatal mental deficits.[6]
Scientists have never assessed the effects of exposures to the endless combinations of chemicals found in people. One reason why measuring such effects is difficult is that these chemicals are persistent (meaning they do not break down) and bioaccumulative (meaning they tend to build up in living things, particularly areas of the body rich in fat such as fatty tissue, brain and other organs).
Our understanding of when a chemical is toxic is changing and concerned individuals are calling for laws to regulate these compounds more carefully. However, because of their widespread use, tendency to persist and accumulation in body tissues — especially fat — even regulatory changes will not remove them from our world very quickly.
While we wait for industry, government and science to reach agreement, the vast increase of chemicals in our environment, foods, cosmetics and medicines puts an enormous burden on our bodies’ natural abilities to break down and remove toxins. With the exception of certain minerals, these chemicals do not belong in the body. While minerals are needed at low levels for normal function, some are now found measured at high or even toxic concentrations.
Most people wait too long to do something about it.
The good news is that something can be done about the toxins in our bodies. Our livers, lungs, kidneys are constantly working overtime to remove the onslaught of chemicals. To function properly, these systems require broad nutritional support. When we don’t give our body what it needs to help it eliminate these chemicals or when we expose it to more than it can handle, it just can’t keep up. Symptoms such as fatigue, aches, allergies, asthma, mood swings, foggy thinking, and more set in. Before this happens — and even afterwards — the correct detoxification program can make all the difference.
The Maulfair Medical Center uses the Hubbard method of detoxification, the most established and scientifically validated regimen available. This precise regimen combines exercise, sauna bathing, and vitamin and mineral supplementation to increase the elimination of chemicals while rebuilding and repairing your body. Its safety and effectiveness in treating a wide range of exposures have been established for more than two decades.[7;8]
Originally developed by Hubbard in 1979, this program has been successfully used to aid individuals exposed during large-scale environmental contaminations, including those resulting from the 2001 World Trade Center disaster [9] and the 1986 Chernobyl incident [10]. Thousands of people have enjoyed relief from symptoms caused by more gradual build-up of toxins.
Sauna detoxification at the Maulfair Medical Center.
Dr. Maulfair gets you started on your sauna program with a thorough medical examination and a series of key tests plus a complete physical exam. Tests may include a pre and post assessment of toxic body burden and some tests may be repeated periodically, to monitor your status while on the regimen.
Dr. Maulfair has over thirty years experience utilizing detoxification regimens to treat chronic disease. Join those clients of the Maulfair Medical Center’s program who have gained back their quality of life, enjoy restored energy, clear thinking, motivation and an overall sense of well being. For more information see www.drmaulfair.com

Reference List

1. Calafat AM, Wong LY, Kuklenyik Z, Reidy JA, Needham LL: Polyfluoroalkyl chemicals in the U.S. population: data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2003-2004 and comparisons with NHANES 1999-2000. Environ Health Perspect 2007; 115: 1596-602.
2. Environmental Working Group. Body Burden: The pollution in people [Web Page]. 2003; Accessed 2008 Feb 20. Available at: http://archive.ewg.org/reports/bodyburden1/
3. Baibergenova A, Kudyakov R, Zdeb M, Carpenter DO: Low birth weight and residential proximity to PCB-contaminated waste sites. Environ Health Perspect 2003; 111: 1352-7.
4. Onstot, J., Ayling, R., and Stanley, J. Characterization of HRCG/MS unidentified peaks from the analysis of human adipose tissue. Vol. 1: Technical Approach. 87. Washington DC, US Environmental Protection Agency Office of toxic Substances.
5. Environmental Working Group. Body Burden: The pollution in newborns [Web Page]. 2005; Accessed 2008 Feb 20. Available at: http://archive.ewg.org/reports/bodyburden2/execsumm.php.
6. Williams JH, Ross L: Consequences of prenatal toxin exposure for mental health in children and adolescents: a systematic review. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2007; 16: 243-53.
7. Schnare DW, Denk G, Shields M, Brunton S: Evaluation of a detoxification regimen for fat stored xenobiotics. Med Hypotheses 1982; 9: 265-82.
8. Schnare, D. W., Ben, M., and Shields, M. G. Body Burden Reduction of PCBs, PBBs and Chlorinated Pesticides in Human Subjects. Ambio 1984; 13(5-6): 378-380.
9. Cecchini MA, Root DA, Rachunow JR, Gelb PM: Chemical Exposures at the World Trade Center: Use of the Hubbard Sauna Detoxification Regimen to Improve the Health Status of New York City Rescue Workers Exposed to Toxicants. Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients 2006; 273: 58-65.
10. Tsyb, A. F., Parshkov, E. M., Barnes, J., Yarzutkin, V. V. , Vorontsov, N. V., and Dedov, V. I. Rehabilitation of a Chernobyl Affected Population Using a Detoxification Method. Proceedings of the 1998 International Radiological Postemergency Response Issues Conference. 1998. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

"Psychiatric" problems

Comments from one of our patients says it all.

I am a 37 year old female. I had suffered from panic attacks for about 6 months. I also had a lack of concentration, mood swings and struggled with losing weight.

I decided I had had enough of pharmaceuticals. I decided to go see Doctor Maulfair. He ran some tests on me and I found out my symptoms were related to food allergies and yeast overgrowth. Once I started on a food elimination diet, vitamins and supplement I started feeling better within a month. I have more energy and do not feel sluggish by lunchtime each day. I have lost 13 pounds so far, and concentrate much better and do not feel jittery anymore. My husband said that I am more patient and not so moody. I no longer have panic attacks either!

Thank you so much Dr. Maulfair. I feel young again. I have my life back.

K.S. December 2007

The point is you can have symptoms, any symptoms, and never handle them if you use prescription drugs because all they do is mask the effects of the symptoms while they further poison your already stressed body.

The only way medical care is going to change is if you demand to know WHAT is causing your problems.  You must demand telling diagnostics that do not just include invasive probes but also include diagnostic measures that assess the FUNCTION of your body.  You need to know what is happening with your digestion, your toxic body load, your hormonal status, and countless other things related to your  symptoms.  Find a doctor who will listen to you and who is curious to know what ails you. 

Taking meds without thought to the causes gives you new problems you didn’t have and your body is still not functioning normally even though the symptom maybe masked.  Drugs for psyche related problems often cause unwanted weight gain, they are even used by docs to help under weight people gain weight, nasty use.   Countless media outlets are describing the serious problems with taking prescription drugs and putting you on notice.  LISTEN.  It is estimated that 106,000 people die from adverse drug reactions every year even though they took the drugs as recommended by their docs.  That is a huge problem but think of the countless others who just have physical damage because they thought the drug would help.  Do you really think your body has a drug deficiency? 

If you need to find a doctor who might agree that you could inprove with good care instead of prescription drugs, check out icimed.com, acam.org, medical-library.net, and countless others.

Is something missing in medical diagnosis?

It is frightening to think of the numbers of people who have chronic health problems due to ignorance regarding the impact of environmental toxins, prescription and street drugs on their health.  Most people, including doctors, are operating under the misconception that when you ingest something it leaves the body shortly and does not remain in the tissues.  Not true.  Prescription drugs stick around, they can cause damage long after you have taken them. 
Your body stores toxins it cannot get rid of through usual channels in fat tissue as well as other tissues.  This fact escapes most people in their consideration of what is causing symptoms and what could be done to improve their health. 

Those of us with this knowledge need to get louder so more people have a chance to find out and heal.  For our part I can tell you that working with a Hubbard Method sauna detoxification program in our medical center I have daily opportunities to see first hand the damage caused by toxins and this solution repairing that damage.  Remarkable when someone who took drugs daily says they can’t believe they ever did so because they have no cravings.  Or another who experienced her nervous system waking up and was no longer numb in various parts of her body.  We have had people with chronic sinus conditions do this program and they no longer have seasonal sinus conditions or respiratory problems.  All that happens is the level of  residues of toxins in their body is reduced allowing the body to do what it tries everyday to do, repair itself and exhibit health in every aspect.

Tears of relief are common in this work, years of suffering are gone and people are again healthy and ready to carry on with their purposes.  It is so rewarding for us and especially for me.

Think about this, people know they cannot eat fish caught in most Pennsylvania streams and waterways because they are full of toxins that harm health.  The State warns of this every season.  Antibiotics used in food animals are affecting the ability of people who eat them to handle bacteria and growth hormones used in dairy cattle are transferred to people and causing abnormal growth and early maturity in our children.  This is accepted fact.  What is preventing doctors and their patients from understanding the residual toxins stored in the human body and the effects they have on normal functioning of cells, tissues and organs.

Could it be that there is no profit in facing these facts?  If these truths were understood there would be fewer profits to made in selling the latest prescription for this and that ailment.  Could it be that these scientific facts fly in the face of big corporation’s bottom line?  How are you going to sell more toxins to people once they understand what happens in the body and to their health when they ingest chemicals?