The Scope of the Problem Test
Piecing together the half-truths in medicine:
30 years ago I could not answer correctly the majority of these questions. I have benefited from more than 25 years now studying and reading about the other side of the story, which science has revealed, but I believe ignores because of profit. My work is not about putting other doctors down. Rather, it covers the disparity of what is taught versus’ what is scientifically known. Further, my research summarizes my best attempt to expose the disorganization, half-truths, fear tactics and crummy article techniques used to manipulate doctors into believing in a largely fictional treatment strategy for middle age diseases (diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, wrinkles, all the autoimmune diseases and fatigue just to name a few). I believe that these ‘fictional treatment strategies’ are designed to perpetuate the medical industrial economy. Almost all the answers to every question are found within my earlier books and posted as articles on this website. Space limitations prevent answering each of these questions individually.
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However, there is an additional reason: without reading my articles or books in context, my colleagues prove rather tenacious for stasis within our professional training paradigm. Our patients provide us with clues that something very important is missing from our educations. I believe reading my articles and/or books finish us off and push us over the hump into a new world where we again become the healers that we set out to be. So it is my hope that if you are a doctor reading the below exam questions that you still possess enough intellectual curiosity to at least pursue my arguments for us doing a better job at healing our patients. Finally, perusing my accumulated all-important bibliography cannot be emphasized enough.
Questions that the books and articles answer:
1) Please describe seven central roles that adequate potassium intake plays in the maintenance of health but curiously remains absent in today’s textbooks
2) Please describe how sufficient magnesium intake benefits three common diseases (asthma, high blood pressure, and heart disease).
3) What stomach factor determines the ability for magnesium to absorb into the body?
4) Please describe three crucial health roles that zinc levels determine?
5) Please describe the consistent trend that undermines health resulting from mineral imbalance that food from a box, can or bag provides
6) What factor determines whether or not the body can absorb zinc found in the diet?
7) Which organ always receives the highest (pancreas secretion related) insulin message content?
8) Can you tell me three other names for IGF-1(insulin-like growth factor type 1) in the scientific literature?
9) Please explain how two of these names describe additional important roles for IGF-1 not openly discussed within the mainstream medical writings of today.
10) Can you describe three diseases that are radically affected because doctors are not taught about the other alias names for IGF-1 meaning the same thing?
11) What does IGF-1 do in the body doctor?
12) Why do you insist that fake hormones are better than real hormones?
13) What class of molecules turns the genes off and on Doctor?
14) In what important way does the name vitamin A mislead towards understanding its health effects within the body?
15) Describe your level of competence for interpreting the results of a 24-hour urine test for steroids.
16) What three types of molecular class structure types turn on and off the DNA programs?
17) Healthy people have the proper amount of these three types of informational substances and unhealthy people do not, name them.
18) When was the last time you thoroughly evaluated for all of them in an unhealthy patient?
19) Describe common pitfalls of blood testing for thyroid hormones, adrenal and gonad steroids
20) Please describe the basic nutrients needed in the following body synthesis projects:
A) Brain neurotransmitters need what basic nutrients for each of their manufacture?
B) Adrenals need what nutrients to make epinephrine?
C) Steroid synthesis needs what nutrients and determiners?
D) DNA needs what basic nutritional stability factor that depletes within the body at one billion times a second?
E) A major nutrient in the skin and GI tract that is critical for epithelial cell maturation (retards tumor growth here)
21) What nutrients are needed to burn fat aerobically doctor?
22) What nutrients are needed to burn sugar aerobically and avoid lactic acid build up?
23) Where is the highest concentration of vitamin C in the body?
24) What health consequences commonly occur when a body lacks the nutrients to change nor-epinephrine into epinephrine?
25) What substance elevates in the blood stream when nor- epinephrine’s conversion into epinephrine becomes nutritionally compromised?
26) Describe the mechanisms for how imbalances connected with each of the below causes high blood pressure.
A) Potassium deficiency
B) Magnesium deficiency
C) Insulin excess
D) Methyl donor deficiency
E) Stiff red blood cells
F) Nitric oxide deficiency
G) Syndrome X (Metabolic Syndrome)
H) Sodium excess (they all know this one)
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Type A personality other than catecholamines
27) Why do People Shrink as they Age Doctor?
28) What class of informational substance determines the repair rate within the body Doctor?
29) Explain the more complete hormonal cascade for how high levels of cortisol leads to more body fat?
30) How is dietary fat and cholesterol absorbed into the body doctor?
31) Why don’t lymph vessels plug up with fat then?
32) Explain the difference between the type of fat and cholesterol that lymph vessels encounter and those that the arteries encounter.
33) What hormone turns on cholesterol synthesis within the liver?
34) What hormone turns down cholesterol synthesis within the liver?
35) Which hormone do the Statin drugs impair in its ability to deliver message content to the liver?
36) Explain the likely mechanism for how Statin drugs decrease arterial inflammation.
37) What logical health consequences follow from Statin drugs exploiting the inhibition of this hormonal cascade?
38) Describe two holistic strategies that decrease arterial inflammation but avoid the health consequences of the Statin drugs.
39) What opposes gravity trying to squish your cells flat Doctor?
40) What is Thimerosal doctor?
41) Doctor what are the acute phase reactants and why do they elevate?
42) By what mechanism does an elevated acute phase reactant level tie into increased insulin need?
43) What type of personality or chronic life situation promotes elevated acute phase reactants?
44) How does understanding and negating this fact help to heal most heart disease risk?
45) Describe the mechanisms for how these, when deficient, cause heart failure
A) Carnitine deficiency
B) Co enzyme Q10 deficiency
C) Histamine deficiency
D) Epinephrine deficiency
E) Testosterone deficiency
46) Which ones of the five above molecules depletes while taking cholesterol-lowering medication?
47) Describe the molecular similarities between testosterone and digitalis like medications that creates a common message content (they both strengthen the force of the hearts contraction).
48) What hormonal conversion process occurs that leads to gynecomastia with taking either digoxin or testosterone treatments?
49) What nutrients presence retards this process?
50) Can you tell me ten additional hormone aberrations that cause diabetes but are not emphasized in clinical practice?
51) When was the last time you checked for any of them?
52) Can you describe the mechanism for how liver injury promotes beta cell burnout?
53) Can you describe the mechanism by which healing the liver causes insulin sensitivity to improve?
54) Doctor, explain why ACE inhibitors, given for high blood pressure, often cause a dry cough?
55) Doctor can you explain why people with autoimmune disease can become worse while ingesting ACE inhibitors prescribed for their high blood pressure?
56) Describe three additional ways that ACE inhibitors lower blood pressure but are not commonly acknowledged.
57) Doctor, explain why people taking cholesterol-lowering drugs have an increased risk of their muscle cells tearing apart from one another?
58) List the nutrients that make up the methyl donor system, which the body needs at the rate of one billion times a second.
59) Doctor, what nutrients are needed to keep the liver healthy and deactivate toxins?
60) Describe the mechanism by which acetaminophen can irreversibly injure hemoglobin.
61) Describe the mechanism by which sulfa drugs can irreversibly injure hemoglobin.
62) What important role does reduced sulfur play in body health?
63) What major hormone ideally keeps the blood sugar adequate between meals, fasting, and during exercise in healthy people?
64) What two important things are different about this hormone compared to the other three hormones that predominantly elevate the blood sugar between meals in unhealthy people?
65) What is so important about keeping the protein content in the tissues adequate?
66) What molecular class of body structure components burns up calories?
67) Which three hormones keep the blood sugar adequate between meals, while fasting, and during exercise in unhealthy people?
68) Why would the predominance of the above hormones be harmful to body structure?
69) Name two common reasons that cause unhealthy bodies to have the need to elevate insulin in the fasting state (insulin resistance)?
70) Explain why insulin elevation, in the fasting state of unhealthy people, needs to occur even though it sets up competing message content at the level of the liver in order to stay alive.
71) Explain why healthy bodies need essentially no insulin in the fasting or exercisiing state.
72) Name nine hormones that cause or promote or protect from obesity (these nine have a proven relationship to gaining body fat and their optimization leads to weight loss)? These are not inclusive of the theoretically important hormones, like adiponectin, graelin, and leptin.
73) What body process burns the lion’s share of calories while at rest?
74) Does the brain have more fat weight or nerve weight?
75) What type of nutrients deplete when one fails to obtain adequate fats in their diet?
76) How many causes for increased insulin need (insulin resistance) can you name?
77) Name five central reasons that cause growth hormone secretion rates to diminish.
78) Name four reasons that prolactin secretion rates increase.
79) Name one big consequence to health when prolactin elevates without a placenta being present?
80) Describe a hormonal pathway and its consequences, other than increased epinephrine, for why type A personalities develop heart disease.
81) Describe a more holistic explanation for why C reactive protein elevates in the context of modern society?
82) Provide two likely holistic hormonal explanations for how Statin drugs lower inflammation that are not openly discussed with doctors.
83) Describe why an elevation of the acute phase reactants logically extends to the increased angiogenesis tendency observed with insulin resistance.
84) Name as many acute phase reactants as you can doctor?
84) For which ones is there accumulating evidence that when they increase they directly contribute to blood vessel injury?
85) How does this knowledge shed light for a possible benefit of chelation therapy?
86) Why do rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, allergies, colitis, Crohn disease, and lupus sometimes tend to have elevated eosinophils and a right shift in their WBC differential?
87) Why does each of the above disease also worsen with stressful situations?
88) What three situations cause aldosterone to release from the adrenal?
89) Which steroid’s amount determines the manufacture rate of all other steroids?
90) What other steroids secrete from the adrenal along with cortisol and why is this ratio significant?
91) Explain how by only replacing cortisol like message content the other important adrenal steroids further imbalance.
92) Which has the higher affinity for the kidney enzyme, 11B-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, cortisol or aldosterone?
93) Why will stress during or before the blood draw for thyroid function assessments falsely elevate the thyroid hormone test and depress the TSH?
94) When was the last time that you considered this in a patient who clinically appeared hypothyroid?
95) What nutrient proves necessary for the thyroid message to be heard at the DNA level?
96) What nutrient proves necessary for T4 to convert to T3 (T3 is eight times more powerful than T4)
97) What hormone deficiency commonly causes the anemia of chronic disease?
98) What steroid hormone concentrates by a factor of five to six within the brain compared to the blood steam?
99) Why is this significant in the prevention Alzheimer’s disease?
100) What steroid hormone powerfully proves trophic to Schwann cells in the brain (the cells that deteriorate in multiple sclerosis sufferers)?
101) Why do you insist that growth hormone is diabetogenic?
102) By what mechanism does an increased serotonin within the pituitary lower gonad steroid production?
103) Why is the prescribing of growth hormone without a liver function, thyroid, adrenal and gonad assessment risky?
104) Describe the difference between the fat particles that the lymph vessels encounter and those found in the arteries.
105) Explain the hormonal cascade for how high estrogen levels lead to elevated triglycerides and LDL cholesterol.
106) Describe an additional hormone elevation that results when estrogen levels are high and a placenta is absent that also promotes obesity.
107) Name two hormone types that decrease as estrogen amounts reach high levels when a placenta is absent (birth control pills)?
108) How do the combined answers to the last two questions describe why these women have an increased insulin need (insulin resistance)?
109) What hormonal situations cause sex hormone binding globulin levels to deviate widely?
109) Explain how health consequences occur when a patient’s doctor fails to ascertain this value.
110) Describe the hormonal cascade; manufactured within the placenta, that mitigates increased insulin need in the healthy pregnant state.
111) Describe the most likely mechanism that SSRI like medications lead to sexual dysfunction.
112) Describe the most likely mechanism that SSRI like medications can cause weight gain.
113) What atomic element is the most powerful oxidizing agent when unpaired?
114) Name some commonly prescribed prescription drugs that contain this element.
115) Which class of drugs contains brands that penetrate the mind and contain this element?
116) Name the only molecule that the mitochondria can burn aerobically.
117) Which hormone excess powerfully promotes the growth of fatty arterial blockages in both the obese diabetic and the typical heart disease sufferer?
118) What hormone excess powerfully revs up the activity level of the liver enzyme HMG Co A reductase?
119) When was the last time that you counseled your patients about this fact?
120) Explain how a high IGF-1 level lowers the insulin needs of the body?
121) Name three inconsistent details that promote suspicion about mainstream medicine adherent’s belief in the supposed association with increased IGF-1 levels and tumor growth.
122) Name four inconsistent details that cast suspicion on mainstream medicine adherent’s belief in the supposed association about growth hormone promoting cancer.
123) What popular diabetic medication that is touted as raising insulin sensitivity, in all likelihood really acts by raising growth hormone secretion rates and consequently IGF-1?
124) By what mechanism does the above medications causing lactic acidosis support this belief?
125) What health consequences predictably occur in the blood vessels when medication continuously creates lactic acidosis?
126) By what mechanism does increased blood heparin lower serum cholesterol?
127) What caution is in order about giving heparin to lower cholesterol?
128) What common nutritional deficiency explains why garlic has a blood pressure lowering effect?