October 29, 2019
To: Arizona College of Public Health Faculty:
You have received this email because your name was listed in the CPH directory, which I assume contains the art/science of epidemiology as well as other high level research areas—which are far, far more important than individual molecular studies to discover the cause of a disease!
This is especially true for MS which—for some obvious and some non-obvious reasons—given that after 100 years we still know virtually nothing about its cause, is one of the worst failures in the history of medicine!
Up until now!
For the cause of MS, has recently been discovered and is articulated in a 140+ page, 340 citation, paper, “Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis (RRMS), a Best Fit Theory of its Etiology.” A PDF or Word Doc can be downloaded at [REMOVED LINK] which asserts, RRMS is caused by chronic stress over the years and decades!
Hopefully, therefore, one or more sub-groups will take on the necessary research to confirm the above as soon as possible, as the number of individuals who have become seriously ill or died by taking immune suppressors based on an untenable, indeed ludicrous, auto-immune theory is rising unconscionably—did you know that in the U.S., 75 percent of those (i.e. neurologists) who comprise board members, advisory committee members, chief scientists, and/or directors of the U.S. MS Society, state MS Societies, and any of a half-a-dozen so-called independent MS organizations have received an average of $500,000 from drug companies during 2013-2018—in at least half-a-dozen cases over 2 million—as documented in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) website and ProPublica—making their research, opinions and assertions less than worthless, and the drugs they prescribe useless! For example, See the following videos featuring the 2013 John Dystel Award winner for MS, Dr. George Ebers:
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(You should also be aware the U.S. enacted legislation that states an MD receiving funds from a Pharmaceutical company for any reason and prescribing a drug they make to a patient on a Federal Health Care Program could be committing a felony! Whoever knowingly and willfully solicits or receives any remuneration (including any kickback, bribe, or rebate) directly or indirectly, overtly or covertly, in cash or in kind. . . in return for purchasing, leasing, ordering, or arranging for, or recommending purchasing, leasing, or ordering any good, facility, service or item for which payment may be made in whole or in part under a Federal healthcare program, shall be guilty of a felony. . . .Similarly, whoever knowingly and willfully offers or pays any such remuneration in return for the facility’s business could also be committing a felony.)
As a result of this outrage, it is estimated tens of thousands suffer silently compared to those that state on Facebook or on blogs what these drugs did to them—alas, only a drop in the bucket. Below are sample comments after a Youtube video exposes corruption in BigPharma:
George (56) from Australia: There is no proven MS treatment…..it’s BigPharma making money from sick people….scars in head cant go away with medication….MS ruined my teenage years and beyond...
CR: I have been diagnosed since 95. I'm not in a chair or walker. I was on Copaxeon for 10 years. I have multiple muscle damage and scar tissue in my stomach. I have not taken anything like the MS meds for 10 years at least. I have the same 4 lesions that I've had since then. Hang in there.
RA: Sorry to shout but THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN SAYING!! I was on Extavia for a year, and my white blood cell count was destroyed. I’m better now, and they want me on Copaxone. It’s like...if you aren’t on a med, you’re not interested in “dealing with” your illness. You’re not on a med, you’re not taking your health seriously, and are in turn not taken seriously by your MD.
I’ll be 37 in July, and they can’t tell me what my outcome with MS will be, and there is no solid long term data on the MS specific meds they want me to take. They’re called Disease MODIFYING Drugs for a reason. I’m STOKED that I have an MRI (I’m in Niagara) at the beginning of May and an appt with my Neurologist (in Hamilton) two weeks after. He’s got some s’plaining to do.
SQ: When I asked my neurologist why “Benign” MS wasn't among the 'types of MS' posted on his wall. He said "Because the drug companies want everyone on drugs." F..K pharma, they can't have me.
NJ: Over and over we are told ‘there is no cure, but we can slow its progression with disease modifying drugs.’ When I was told this I researched these drugs and was shocked at the possible side effects, some worse than the symptoms I’m experiencing. Twice I was given steroids in a year. The first I took because I didn’t know any better but nothing in my health changed, except I felt worse and ended up confined to bed for a few weeks. The second time I refused and I recovered from the relapse naturally and easier. By refusing all medication being thrust my way I have inadvertently alienated myself from the Neurologist and MS nurse. I’m out of their favour...was never a sheep anyway thank the Lord! Taking responsibility for my own health is so empowering and just feels the right thing to do, for myself anyway.
JM: I was on copaxone and my neurologist tried to switch me to pills of some sort that had a chance to give me a rare brain disease that would kill me, after that I quit all treatments and I feel just fine.
RD: The MS Societies don’t care about us. They are just extensions of the pharmaceutical industry. They’re just fronts collecting money and recruiting people for experimentation, which they cover up by calling them “clinical trials”. It’s just torture .
PL: I have refused the "conventional" MS drugs, I am taking LOW dose Naltrexone, which has helped me with balance and incontinence with NO side effects other than some vivid dreams. My neurologist who was sceptical of LDN, was truly amazed how well I am doing.
IL: June was drugged up on meds for MS and sadly passed away. June who died at 46, was described as a “one in a million” mother." June, who suffered from multiple sclerosis. Her son said, “Mum had been diagnosed with MS about four years ago and she was on a lot of medication. She lived here with us here in Leicestershire and she got drowsy because of the medicine but what happened was completely unexpected. It’s been devastating for us. She had so many plans. And she was really looking forward to my brother wedding in the summer. . . .I had no idea how to cope. Luckily my neighbours, who live across the street were a great help. . . Mum had her eyes closed so we think she just passed away in her sleep.”
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Given that at least half-a-dozen MS demographics are quite clear and not in dispute, theories of causation such as auto-immune or the Epson-barr virus could not possibly be correct, since they both fail to support even one demographic! Sadly, tens of millions spent on those two theories have proved nothing and have benefited no one.
That is why I am writing to epidemiologists—as opposed to neurologists— around the world whom I hope can initiate, or know colleagues who can initiate, large scale epidemiological research to confirm the theory.
Since the paper is robust, there is no need to go over specific details other than to provide some idea of what it entails. Thus, there are 10 chapters, the most important being (1) the definition of Cause and Effect, (2) four theories of the cause, none viable or supported by the epidemiological evidence (the auto-immune theory, the viral theory, especially the Epstein-Barr virus, the Vitamin D/sunlight deficiency theory, and the Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI) theory), (3) the major demographics of MS and the reasons chronic stress is, by far, the best-fit theory, (4) a comprehensive physiological review of the detrimental effects of chronic stress upon the neurological correlates of the body, including breakdown of key CNS structures and nerve cells associated with each, resulting in virtually every symptom that is found clinically in MS, (5) over half-a-dozen key demographics of the prevalence of MS from the 1950s until today, predicting the changes, all of which have occurred consistent with the theory, and (6) suggestions for over 20+ epidemiological studies comparing high vs. low stress populations—predicting the former will have significantly greater incidences of MS--to confirm the theory.
Additionally, the paper brings evidence that Primary Progressive MS (PPMS) is a separate disease; that studies not distinguishing subjects on that variable have been fatally confounded, and is a major reason in 75+ years, why we have failed to find the cause of MS or any test that is definitive in its diagnosis. In fact, I’m confident researchers focusing on PPMS exclusively should find its cause within a year.
Note Secondary-Progressive Multiple Sclerosis (SPMS) by definition is not an original diagnosis, but a “transition” from RRMS. Why would so many cases of RRMS become Progressive? It should be as obvious to you, the reader, as it is to us. It is none other than because of the immunosuppressant drugs individuals have been given. If they are on them long enough, their immune system will begin to fail and all sorts of new and severe conditions or illnesses will result. Returning to their neurologist, they will be told, that, unfortunately, they are one of the cases that transitioned to SPMS—a pre-existing category making it convenient for practitioners to rationalize the course of the disease, and BigPharma to sell more drugs. Virtually every patient, alas, is ignorant of the truth.
I pray that some organization will, after reading the paper agree the evidence is overwhelming that chronic stress is the necessary MS cause (triggered by an acute stressful event), and initiate the high-level research that would confirm it. That would be profound, in treating and preventing this debilitating disease, while doing away with prescribing to RRMS patients immune suppressors based upon an auto-immune theory that is totally untenable and the worst of all possible actions an MD can take.
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I am neither a scientist, part of the medical establishment or have any relationship to the MS community other than my wife of a dozen years has it. As a result, slowly becoming aware of what caused her relapses, one day I realized if MS relapses were “caused” by X 100 percent of the time, then X must also be the “cause” of its onset. But since I could find no advocates for X in the literature, and it was clear we were going backwards, despite the slick ads of MS societies around the world, titillating patients with new discoveries having no substance, I felt a moral obligation to write a paper proposing it, and leave it to God whether anyone would even read it.
I am, however, an amateur detective, a modern Sherlock Holmes, if you like, and like him, have profound confidence in my ability to see clues that others miss, ignore as unimportant, or misinterpret—or as Holmes would often tell Watson, “You see, but you do not observe!”
Indeed, last December I knew virtually nothing. Nothing about epidemiological research; nothing about the immune system; nothing about the nervous system; nothing about neuro-chemistry or neuro-biology, nothing about the different types and symptoms of MS and incapable of understanding studies which were detailed and technical such as comparing antibodies in MS and non-MS groups.
So first I needed to take 8-10 weeks or so to learn the basics, and as I gained more knowledge and read MS study after study, by April 2019 it was clear that PPMS and RRMS were separate diseases!
When I completed my paper in mid-September, the question was what to do. I didn’t have the credentials to be published in medical journals or access to research organizations, not to mention any theory needs to be confirmed by others anyway (and to prepare for that, Part 9 of the paper delineates 20 further studies--largely cohort/retrospective-- that should be done.), so I parked it and am emailing the link to epidemiologists around the world.
I should add, I have absolutely no plans to waste even 30 seconds to defend, debate or try to convince anyone the theory is sound. I’m not about being right. I am very much about saving lives!!! My research was under the cap of the “detective,” not the lab-coat of the “scientist;” I worked alone and have no one to answer to. . . . I have done my job!!! If you care about the 3 million+, most of whom are suffering needlessly because of the greed of drug companies and a significant number of V.I. P. neurologists, it is your job to consider seriously the theory and if the evidence warrants, initiate or pass it on to colleagues who can do the research that will confirm it.
Indeed, confirming the theory will be easy. Standing up to the establishment and getting the world to realize the truth will take smarts and guts. Whoever does so truly deserves the Nobel Prize for Medicine, and one not yet in existence, the prize for the biggest contribution to humankind in a decade!!!
I should apologize for anonymity, but I have several reasons for doing so; one is articulated in the paper proper and one is because as a non-scientist, when the theory takes hold, the Neuro-BigPharma-MS-Societies troika will distract stakeholders from its truth by labeling me as a non-scientist who doesn't know what he is talking about.
Besides I do not want or need credit. God knows how hard I worked to put the paper together and to get the word out. Indeed, the paper was a detour. I'm a writer. My main work is to try to inspire integrity and compassion in people by how I live my life, through the three books I’ve written, public speaking, and radio interviews. For, as I relate to those I come across, every good deed we do affects our world!!!
Arizona obviously has the facilities to conduct the research. I can only hope and pray after reading the paper you do so sooner than later!!
All the best!!
LBMH