“Catching Things Early” Supplementing Perfectly

1. “Catching Things Early” Supplementing Perfectly John Whitcomb, MD Green Bay Business Forum March 2nd, 2011

2. Objective • Explain the 50,000 foot picture of what modern medicine does • What we really want from health care • How this “Changes Everything” in Primary Care • A couple of practical tips for yourself

3. What We Really Want • To never get sick • To live to be a healthy hundred • To operate at optimal levels of functioning • To reduce the cost of health care to ourselves personally and corporately • Gradual decline into senility is not acceptable

4. It’s the Journey • Going back to the source of infectious disease • We started living longer: 46 in 1900 to 78-87 in 2000 • Now we have chronic disease • We’re still treating with the same paradigm of infectious disease: fix you when you get sick • And do it in 10 days (that’s the core fallacy that modern medicine is now trying to do)

5. MODERN MEDICINE’S ADDICTION • We get paid for procedures: appendicitis, open heart surgery • We get rewarded for doing big dramatic things that fix you all in a hurry • We come to believe that we can fix many things with a quick bullet • Open heart surgery does not reverse vascular disease • There is no surgery/pill for Alzheimer’s

6. But, we now have Chronic Disease as our Challenge • Same journey • Let’s get back to the source • What’s the real cause of chronic disease • Fact: the treatment of chronic illness, once it’s entrenched is expensive, toxic and debilitating • Awareness: MUCH BETTER fend off early • What causes Alzheimer’s (78% less on India)

7. Western Diseases • Cancer, Heart Disease, Neurological Degenerative Diseases (50% of us will have Alzheimer’s by 90) • Arthritis, Autoimmune (40% of American women carry an autoantibody) • Save my eyes, my knees and my brain! • Many parts of the less developed world have very rare cancer • Districts in China go decades between heart attacks

8. Hypothesis • Chronic diseases are caused by “long latency” conditions • Underlying physiology is out of balance for years or decades prior to disease • Autoimmune illnesses: typically have 20 years of antibody, 5 years of vague symptoms, then horrible disease • We need to get to core imbalances

9. Growth Hormone Long Latency Disease Inflammation Birth 40 70 100 120

10. Our Big Goal • Address the mechanisms of chronic long latency disease • Maintain optimal health (not treat disease) • Rectangularize optimal health – keep your healthy and vibrant the longest possible • That means addressing inflammation • Delay long latency disease • Must address the Antecedents to Chronic Illness

11. 1. What’s the Problem in Wisconsin? Jan 15th, 2008, Wisconsin Medical Journal

12. Using 30 ng as sufficient 59% of Caucasian Elderly women in WI are insufficient

13. 2. What is Vitamin D? A Hormone • Based on Cholesterol • Like a hormone, effects the expression of genes • Does not work like a vitamin as a cofactor in metabolism • Affects over 2000 genes in 1400 cell types • Comes from SUN: NOT from food • Evolution is frugal: uses cholesterol for other hormone functions: but Dwas likely the first

16. 20:20:20:20 Rule • 20 year old with 50% of skin exposed • 20 minutes of mid day sun: with skin type III (typical Caucasian-American) • On JUNE 20th(height of summer) • Not enough sun to tan • Will make about 20,000 U over the next 24 hours: the 20:20:20 Rule on June 20 • Typical African-American: needs 4-5 times as much sun-light because of skin pigment • Elderly: age 70 make only 25%

17. This means one glass of milk a day Will raise your D level about 1 ng, or 2.5 nmoles.

19. Note: After20 min, CA don’t make any more D

20. 4. What’s Enough? (Vieth, AJCN 1999:69, 842-56)

21. Published Literature on Intentional UVB Treatment and D Levels (Vieth AJCN 1999 : 69 p 842-56)

22. When you are deprived of sunshine, your D level drops (Vieth AJCN 1999: 69, 842-56)