Fibromyalgia and the Soda Pop Diet
I saw a young woman of 26 years old who was on the soda pop diet. She drank this beverage to the exclusion of any food, except for one starchy carbohydrate meal. She was overweight, but not as much as you might expect. She had two older children and had just recently delivered twins, so her life was stressed to say the least.

She had whole body muscle pains and insomnia (aggravated by the fact that she was still needing to be up at night for the twins).

I diagnosed her with fibromyalgia, and told her the most important thing she needed to do was stop sugar and caffeine and get some aerobic exercise. I also recommended IV ozone therapy to help correct what I believe to be her basic problem, i.e., she is producing energy anaerobically from glucose, with the end product being an accumulation of lactic acid which causes muscle pain. I believe she was also using a caffeinated beverage unwittingly to try to prop up a failing adrenal gland, so I prescribed adrenal support supplements as well as nutrients which will help her convert to aerobic or oxygen based metabolism.  

Another very interesting feature of this case is that she had developed some focal neurologic symptoms and had a CT scan of the brain done, which revealed temporal lobe damage from two prior mini strokes! This at age 26!! I am sure the reason for that was that she took oral contraceptives starting at the young age of 16 for eight years. She is a real life example of how the combination of stress, poor life style choices, and dangerous pharmaceuticals can gang up on someone and destroy their good health. However, I am confident she will feel much better if she can make the necessary life style changes, with nutritional products’ help, and regular ozone therapy.

Knee Pain and Prolotherapy
A 72 year old man came back on his second visit with me and reported that his knee pain was 80% better after a single Prolotherapy treatment. He also told me how well prolo had worked for him before. He had chronic headaches, stiff necks, limited range of motion of his neck, and a crackling sound when he turned his neck. He obviously had arthritis in his cervical spine. Dr Hauser treated his neck several years ago a total of only three times, and every single one of his symptoms disappeared! Not everyone will respond so fast, or so completely, but every day brings a multitude of patient testimonials that attest to the power that Prolotherapy has over pain.

Breast Self-Examination
This piece of information is actually not new, but comes from a study undertaken in China, with results released about 2 years ago by the Journal of The National Cancer Institute. The goal was to determine whether breast self examination saved lives. The results clearly showed that not only does it not change the breast cancer mortality or survival rate, it actually leads to increased false alarms which subject the women practicing the technique to more biopsies and more risks. Two very large groups of factory workers (totaling 257,040 women) were employed in the study. One was trained and frequently reminded to practice breast self exam, the other was the control group. After several years the number of breast cancers detected in each group was almost identical (331 vs 322), the tumors were not detected at an appreciably earlier stage or smaller size, and the death rates were equal.

The women in the instructional group detected more benign lesions (1457 vs 623) than the control group. This, of course lead to more biopsies (not a good thing) and no doubt a lot more anxious moments for women. Breast self exam simply doesn’t work. See your doctor periodically for an exam, and forget about formal breast self examination.