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Exercise and Acidosis

Acidosis causes many adverse conditions that impair optimal athletic performance (decreased endurance, poor bone health, poor muscle performance, poor wound healing, arrhythmia generation, decreased heart performance, decreased alertness and mental acuity, and many other essential impairments).

It is also very important to know that studies done on humans have shown that saline [sodium chloride (NaCl or common table salt)] ingestion leads to the generation of metabolic acidosis, which in turn reduces the bloods oxygen carrying capacity and ability to remove carbon dioxide. In comparison, an alkalinizing beverage such as MineralConnexin can prevent metabolic acidosis from developing and significantly enhances the oxygen carrying capacity of our blood and its delivery to our tissues, while simultaneously helping to remove excess carbon dioxide.

Overall, one of the many significant advantages of an alkalinizing beverage, such as MineralConnexin, is that it will enhance athletic performance and endurance by helping to deliver more oxygen to all tissues, including muscle while simultaneously helping to conserve energy through enhanced carbon dioxide removal; thereby, leading to a slower breathing rate and less unnecessary expenditure of energy.

Darrell L. Tanelian, M.D., Ph.D.

A Call for Action

It’s 2:00 AM in the morning and all is quiet and seemingly peaceful.

ALL OF A SUDDEN, a SIREN BLARES and a “call for action” is announced across the land. “Will all people please acknowledge your commitment to our nation and your families, to Health and Wellness as a way of life, a way of thinking and acting.”

The reluctant nation has finally acknowledged that in order to survive in today’s world it must reintroduce an idea that man has known for thousands of years – health and wellness are simply a matter of personal responsibility. Personal responsibility does not mean allowing other so-called professionals to make decisions about what you eat, think or believe.

If you do not look out for your health, both physically and financially, no one will. In fact, there are many sick-care professionals who would profit handsomely by convincing you that you are sick and in need of cradle to grave care. Fundamentally, no one cares about you or your family as much as you do, so why are YOU not in charge!

This is a call to action!

D.L. Tanelian, M.D., Ph.D.

Trust Thyself

“The tribesman who was searching the alchemist’s belongings found a small crystal flask filled with a liquid. “What are these things?” he asked. That’s the Philosophers Stone and the Elixir of Life….. Who ever swallows that elixir will never be sick again……….
The Arabs laughed at him, and the alchemist laughed along. They thought the answer was amusing, and they allowed the boy and the alchemist to proceed with all of their belongings.
“Are you crazy?” the boy asked the alchemist, when they moved on. “What did you do that for?”
“To show you one of life’s simple lessons,” the alchemist answered. “When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.”
Paulo Coelho, THE ALCHEMIST, 1988

People may scoff at you, but remember that it does not mean you are wrong or doing the wrong thing. Actually, this behavior is a display of their misunderstanding, fear, jealousy, naivety or just plain ignorance,

Trust your knowledge, trust your measurements and most of all – trust yourself!

Darrell L. Tanelian, M.D., Ph.D.

Some Things Never Change

Yes, some things never change. It is some 300 years later and the message is essentially the same. Just as with the Revolutionary War and with the Hidden Genetic Program (which I call the Molecular Operating system – MOS), the same statements and urgency can be applied to Healthcare (which I call sick care) today.

Take a few minutes to read these quotes put forth by two of the most insightful, selfless and brilliant minds that have and that will to come change our civilization.

“PERHAPS the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in deference of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason."
Thomas Paine
COMMON SENSE, February 14, 1776

“Assumptions can be dangerous, especially in science. They usually start as the most plausible or comfortable interpretation of the available facts. But when their truth cannot be immediately tested and their flaws are not obvious, assumptions often graduate to articles of faith, and new observations are forced to fit them. Eventually, if the volume of troublesome information becomes unsustainable, the orthodoxy must collapse.”
John S. Mattick
THE HIDDEN GENETIC PROGRAM, Scientific American, October 2004

Next, on the horizon and most important for the future of mankind is HEALTH. Yes, real health as it is the most important asset we have and directs our happiness, wellness, freedom, economy, security, children, and all future generations.

ISN’T IT TIME WE ALL STEP UP!

Darrell L. Tanelian, M.D., Ph.D.

Share Your Wealth, Spread Health

Thank you for honoring life and sharing your most valuable asset, health, with your family and loved ones.

“The first wealth is health”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

This statement says it all! Yet, somewhere along the way we have forgotten this or pushed it into the most obscure corners of our mind until illness shows its ugly face. Man has wisely cherished health since the beginning of time as remarked upon for over 2,000 years.

A few quotes over the centuries

“When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is powerless.” — Herophilus, 300 B.C.

We have a lifetime in which to protect our health at very little cost to us in terms of money, time or sacrifice; yet, most in our society today consider such little effort for such large a gain an unwieldy imposition or inconvenience.

“He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not.“ — Italian Proverb

“A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession” — Hippocrates

“To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear” — Gautama the Buddha, 563 BC

“If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.” — Elbert Hubbard

As many before me, I say, the time has arrived for mankind and their children to realize that they must reclaim their independent heritage and take responsibility for their own health and wellness.

“The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself.” — John Knowles

“The patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of their own life. Don’t take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop.” — Quentin Regenstein

Darrell Tanelian, M.D., Ph.D.

The Bugs Win Again

Clearly, infectious agents are more adaptable and resilient than we are. We thought we were so smart over the last 50 years or so and launched the profession of “modern” medicine touting our greatness at combating disease (War Against Disease). Well, the tide has turned and we have recognized our folly, war is not the answer for disease. Not only do we not have, nor have we developed, any “cure” for the major diseases of man (heart disease, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s disease, eye disease (cataracts, macular degeneration and others), arthritis, obesity (hypothyroidism) or any others; but moreover, infectious disease continues to ravage our world at any ever-increasing pace.

The recent, July 2008 issue of Lancet published a review showing that 2 Million people a year die from tuberculosis (TB) and that we do not understand why vaccination does not work and why many strains are now resistant to our antibiotics.

Clearly, we know that we are failing with many diseases while others are appearing all the time (for example, HIV, MRSA – methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus, etc.). The World Health Organization (WHO) in 1998 released the World’s annual death toll (higher today) for pneumonia and influenza (3.5 Million/yr), AIDS (2.3 Million/yr), diarrhea (2.2 Million/yr), TB (2 Million/yr), Malaria (1.7 Million/yr), Measles (1 Million/yr), and many other lesser diseases.

Is it not time to evaluate what we are doing? How long, as the bible says, can the blind be leading the blind (Matthew 15:14 (King James Version)?

Darrell L. Tanelian, M.D., Ph.D.

The Creation of Surrogate (inadvertent substitute) Disease

Have you ever wondered why, to date, there have been no “cures” for disease? Have you ever wondered why disease is continually on the rise?

Simply, this is because we do not fully understand how or why disease manifests in the first place or how it progresses. Rather, we measure surrogate (indirect) markers associated with disease and then artificially create “drugs” and other “treatments” to modify these markers (tests) that we deem represent the disease; thus, we lull ourselves into false confidences that we are actually repairing, restoring or curing the disease. Sadly, this is why we don't understand why people who "appear well" suddenly die. For example, sports figures, businessmen, friends, family and media personalities such as Tim Russert.

A real cure would actually reverse or restore cells, organs and our bodies to the original healthy condition it was created to be in. But do we ever truly “cure” anything? NO.

Instead, the “experts” are simply chasing surrogate (indirect) markers, “patting themselves on the back”, fooling us, and it is costing us Trillions of dollars not to “cure” anything – this is called Healthcare!

The most logical, functional, realistic “cure” for anything is PREVENTION, but this is treated like a four letter word. Why do we fear happiness and health?

Darrell L. Tanelian, M.D., Ph.D.

Different nutrients (supplements) for different body parts???

What a bizarre concept – special molecules associated with health in each different organ or organ system. Yes, we are composed of different organs, but are they each composed of or need organ specific molecules? NO. Then why are there 100’s of different organ and/or condition specific supplements? My best guess is because it sounds good and people are gullible enough to buy them.

After all each organ arises from the joining of cells, which were at one time, all identical and at the molecular level remain the same throughout life for the most part. Molecules (vitamins, minerals, polyphenols. Etc.), are neither unique to nor needed more so by one organ or another. The molecules needed in one cell are for the most part necessary in all cells; life and molecules are for the most part not cell or organ specific.

Life as we know it, multicellular life, is a unique and miraculous composition of molecules, cells, organs, and species. Nonetheless, the fundamental building blocks of life, molecules, are common to all life and the molecules required for a healthy cell or a healthy body are generally the same for all people.

Understanding that different organs and different organ diseases are not generally molecule (nutrient) specific is important for our health. Yes, we need to have all the required molecules necessary for life available. However, since nearly all cells require the same molecules to function properly, then you should provide all of your cells with all required molecules. Does this mean a different supplement or molecule for each organ or organ system? NO.

One or two supplements containing all of the necessary molecules are what all of your cells, organs and body need!

Darrell L. Tanelian, M.D., Ph.D.

Crossing the Great Prevention Divide

Just as man made the transition from an individual to a society, the time has arrived for man to make the transition from the unitary (organ specific) concept of disease to a more holistic one. This transition will be difficult as well described in the work of Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, because of the inherent difficulty in re-educating a society and the many vested interests opposed to paradigm change.

Imagine a National Institute of Health, rather than our current collection of 27 fiefdoms called the National Institutes of Health. Maybe, the focus will then shift to understanding “life” so that we can understand disease and develop prevention; rather than, spend the majority of our time and resources concerned about who gets to be the director of each fiefdom.

I feel the time for this transition has arrived. It is vital and necessary for the future of our civilization to transition from illness to wellness. We are an illness-based civilization and economy with more and more of our resources being consumed by illness each day as if we are being consumed by cancer. Is there no end? Of course there is, of course there will be an end. As they say in the OR, “all bleeding stops.” However, we need to decide if the ending is “happy” or “sad.”

I believe that there can and should be a “happy ending”; however, we all need to stand up and accept responsibility for the situation we have created. Just as we have transitioned from “wartime” to “peacetime” economies throughout history, it is essential that we transition from an “illness” to a “wellness” based economy in order to best enjoy our future, leave a future for our children and leave a great legacy for many future generations.

Darrell L. Tanelian, M.D., Ph.D.

You Are What You Eat

“Two Miracle Foods”, “Seven Miracle Foods”, “Seven Anti-aging Miracle Foods”, “Miracle Food Cures of the Bible”, “10 Miracle Foods”, “10 Miracle foods to Look Younger”, “The 11 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating”, “The New Miracle Foods”; what’s next, the 17 Luckiest Foods in the World? At this rate everyone should be living healthy to 1,000.

THE ONLY THING THAT REALLY MATTERS ARE THE MOLECULES AND THEIR QUANTITIES available in the water and food you ingest and their value to the cells in your body.

Just remember more of any nutrient; molecule, vitamin, mineral or food is not necessarily better! More can be beneficial, more can be less beneficial or actually harmful, or more can be the same. There is an optimal quantity (concentration) range for all molecules; that is how our biochemical reactions and enzymes work. Unfortunately, we do not know the optimal range for most molecules or chemical reactions in our body.

When eating foods remember that a food is a food is a food. The bottom line is that what really counts is what and how much, what type and the quantity of a given molecule you are receiving from that food.

This is not simple to determine. It depends on many variables, here are a few: is the food organic or has it been processed with many foreign substances added (salt, sugar, trans-fats, etc.); are their pesticides or other potentially toxic molecules in the food; under what conditions was the food grown; did the soil or water the food was grown in contain minerals and what kind; how has the food been processed (boiled, raw, high heat, low heat, frozen, fried, etc.).

At the end of the day you need to know what types of molecules are in your foods, which ones you need and how much and the quantity you are actually receiving. Anything short of this is pure speculation or guessing.

Darrell L. Tanelian, M.D., Ph.D.