Dr.
Joel Wallach, B.S., D.V.M., N.D., is the author of numerous scientific articles,
several books, and the audio cassette, "Dead Doctors Don't Lie." He
is regularly featured on radio and television, and gives lectures across
the country. Wallach was the recipient of the 1988 Wooster Beach Gold
Medal Award for breakthroughs in understanding the cause of Cystic Fibrosis,
and was a 1991 Nobel Prize Nominee in Medicine.
WELLNESS: Your background is as a veterinarian. How did you become
a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine?
DR. WALLACH: From
the time I was in Veterinarian school until 17 years later, I worked for either
a grant for the National Health Institute (NIH) or the Center for the Biology
of Natural Systems. I also had a couple of years of field experience
in Africa. My job was to do autopsies of animals that died in the
big zoos around the United States.
In the mid-60's, I was supposed to find a species of animals
that was ultra-sensitive to pollution. We were concerned about ecology and
the environment, and were looking at animals to be the early warning
system, much like the canaries in the coal mines.
After 12 plus years, I had done some 17,500 autopsies on
over 454 species of animals, plus 3,000 human beings for comparison.
I worked for various universities, continued to network, and wrote 75 scientific
papers on nutritional diseases, pharmaceuticals, and immobilizing drugs.
The fascinating thing to me, even though I lectured
all over the country to professional groups, contributed chapters to eight mini-authored
textbooks and wrote my own, was that I couldn't get people who were in a position
of authority, either in medical research or government, to get excited about preventing
diseases with human beings the way we did with animals.
The reason we use nutritional formulas with
animals is that we don't have insurance to pay for animal care. If we were
to use a human health care system for animals, there would be sticker shock, because
every hamburger would cost you $275 and ounce, just to pay for health care.
I was frustrated enough to go back to school and became
a Naturopathic physician. I was then able to use everything I learned
in veterinarian nutrition on my human patients. Because I couldn't
get the research community to get excited about the transition, I made the transition
myself.
People from all over the world came to see me because word
got out that 'Dr. Wallach was a veterinarian and a physician, ...and will treat
you like a dog, but you will get better.' Using veterinarian nutrition and
more conservative approaches such as acupuncture and herbs, I built up quite a
following.
I wrote several best selling books for the lay public.
The first was "Let's Play Doctor" which teaches people how to use vitamins, minerals,
and trace minerals for over 400 diseases. "Rare Earth Forbidden Cures"
is an extremely complete mineral deficiency book. Most books talk about
vitamins; this is one that deals exclusively with mineral deficiency.
The tape "Dead Doctors Don't Lie" is the most listened to
nutritional lecture in the history of the world. We've sold 22 million of
those tapes. It's 90 minutes of my observations on why we spend more time
making sure animal diseases are prevented with nutrition than human diseases.
I've been vindicated in this view. A current news
release in the Associated Press shows that the war on cancer that was started
in 1971 by Nixon was a flop. They spent 30 million dollars in government
money and medical research trying to find vaccines and cures for cancer.
They actually thought in the 1970's that most cancer
was due to a virus, which is quite false. They haven't made an inch of progress
in curing cancer or treating cancer. The rate of cancers has gone up 15
to 25%. Cancer death rates have gone up 6% since 1971. So they're
now saying that this effort should be turned to prevention. Well, we've
know this since the 1950's in the animal industry! With my patients,
we've been doing things like giving large doses of the trace mineral, Selenium,
which has proven to be able to reduce your risk of cancer from anywhere
from 60-80%.
WELLNESS: When you were working with the NIH, you discovered that you
could reproduce cystic fibrosis in monkeys because it was a nutritional
deficiency. When you made this public, you were fired.
Why was that so difficult for the medical community to accept?
DR. WALLACH: Well, I was the darling of the veterinary research in those
days. I was on committees for both NIH and the National Science Foundation.
I was in veterinarian and human nutritional and pathology research at the international
level.
I came across a serendipitous discovery on the first animal
diagnosed with cystic fibrosis and confirmed by the world experts on cystic fibrosis
. Because it was a laboratory animal that came from what was
supposed to be normal breeding colony from NASA, we had all kinds of weekly
blood samples frozen. We were able to go back and discover what had
happened--why 6 little monkeys wound up with cystic fibrosis. I found I
could reproduce this condition at will.
At that time--and still today--standard medical research
believes falsely that cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease. It's a
congenital defect that babies can be born with when mother's have a Selenium deficiency
during pregnancy. Selenium is required for the health and development of
the pancreas, liver, heart, and other tissues. Almost always when a cystic
fibrosis child is born, their lungs are normal. Years later, it's usually
the advancing lung disease that causes problems. They're not born
with lung disease, it only comes on because of chronic nutritional deficiencies.
By using medical computers, I was able to find thousands
of articles in the veterinary literature to piece together the puzzle. This
probably sounds egotistical, but you have to remember that the government
spent 7.5 million dollars training me how to figure these things out.
So when I figured out cystic fibrosis, the medical community, being arrogant,
said 'how can this guy come along and figure this out in one year's time when
we've been working on this for 25 years?'
The facility I was working for was trying to get a multi-million
dollar grant to study genetics. They were afraid that if I showed cystic
fibrosis was not genetic they wouldn't get the grant. So they pulled the
plug. That's what drove me to Naturopathic College.
WELLNESS: The point here is that you were able to see the solution
to the disease because you had a different viewpoint.
DR. WALLACH: That's right. I had been trained to take accumulated
information and piece the puzzle together and come up with a whole thought.
Most people doing basic research work on one little piece, and 25 years later
haven't really advanced much. My job was to take these little studies and
put them together in a wholistic concept.
WELLNESS: What have you found with other cultures living to be very old--the
basis of Rare Earths Forbidden Cures?
DR. WALLACH: Longevity is a real fascination for me. The human
being has the genetic capacity to live healthily to be 120, 140. People
do it all the time. A woman from France was documented by the Guinness
Book of World Records to be 122. The National Geographic Society documented
a man who lived to be 167. There are thousands of people around the
world who are well over 100 year old. It's unfortunate with all the
high-tech medicine in the United States, we rank 17th in longevity, according
to the World Health Organization. We don't come close to the healthiest
or most long lived people, yet we have the most technologically advanced health
care system in the world.
For heart transplants, liver transplants, CAT scans and
so on, we are on top of the advanced medical community. However, when it
comes to dispensing basic information to the general public, we don't do it very
well.
Using techniques that the government trained me to do, I
accumulated all known information and put together what helps these people to
be 120 or 140. It has nothing to do with having a better gene pool.
In every case, these people live in third world countries, in very arid places,
and out of necessity live next to glaciers as a permanent source of water.
The water that come out from underneath glaciers is not
clear or mineral free. If you boil away a quart of this glacial milk (it's
called milk because it looks more like milk than water due to the
suspended minerals), you get about 2 inches of minerals. Not
only do these people drink this stuff (only 3 to 5% is absorbed since it's just
ground up rocks), but more importantly, for 2500 to 5000 years, depending
on the culture, they irrigated crops with this glacial milk and have returned
literally tens of thousands of tons of minerals back into the farm land each year.
As a result, their grains, vegetables, fruits and nuts are highly mineralized.
Because they have lots of Chromium and Vanadium in their
foods, they don't get diabetes. We've known since the 50's that Chromium
and Vanadium deficiencies cause adult-onset diabetes (which makes up 85%
of the diabetic population).
Selenium reduces the risk of cancer from 50 to 80%, depending
on the type of cancer, and these people have a lot of Selenium in their
glacial milk, return it to the soil and therefore the foods. As a
result, they have a very low rate of cancer. They don't have heart
disease, hypertension, or strokes like we do. They don't have arthritis,
osteoporosis, and don't fall over and die of fracture complications.
As a result, they live longer. Not because
they have high-tech medicine, but because they re getting the raw
materials for the body to manage and maintain itself.
We learned this in veterinarian medicine. Back when
I was a kid, if a dog lived to be 3-5 years of age, it was doing great.
Today dogs live to be 18 years of age because of all the nutrition we're
putting into their commercially produced diet. It has nothing to do with
better veterinary care; it has to do with a more consistent nutrition--instead
of table scraps and cornmeal, they're getting food that has been technologically
put together nutritionally. It gives dogs a very long life.
the same principle holds true for people.
WELLNESS: What is the story behind "Dead Doctor's Don't Lie"?
DR. WALLACH: If doctors practiced health and longevity, and really knew
the secrets to it, they should live longer than the average American. Well
the average American lives to be 75.5 years, and, depending on whose research
you look at, doctors live to be somewhere between 58 and 70. Nobody has
shown that doctors live to be an average of 75.5 years like everybody else.
People might think they have a lot of stress, but
it has nothing to do with stress! Look at hospital journals and medical
journals, look at the advertisements for Coca-Cola as part of a healthy diet--in
a hospital journal, which allows those kinds of ads! Doctors see that all
the time. They don't get 30 seconds worth of clinical nutrition
in 14 years of medical school. Both Naturopaths and Veterinarians get 4
years of clinical nutrition. When someone who is trained in nutrition speaks
to a medical doctor, it's like speaking a foreign language--it just doesn't
compute. They might figure 'if we didn't learn it in medical
school, it probably doesn't have any value.'
WELLNESS: Surely this isn't just the arrogance of the medical profession..
Certainly big business plays a role here. Don't you think failure to educate
the public about nutrition is more a combination of this?
DR. WALLACH Yes. I don't think it's a conspiracy. I
think it's a combination of the medical profession's arrogance, their lack of
interest in nutrition, and the money in pharmaceuticals and procedures, like the
transplants and so forth. You get an arrogant doctor who is making
$750,000 for a heart transplant--you know he has a wife and three ex-wives and
is driving expensive cars; he's got a mortgage of $30,000 a month on a huge
house and a second house in the Bahamas. He's not going to change his life
style to start telling people to begin using nutrition and go down to making $50,000
a year. This is twisted up, somehow. It is unfortunate
that these types of things hold back the truth from the general public.
WELLNESS: What do you recommend for daily supplements?
DR. WALLACH: People should consciously supplement with all 90
known essential nutrients---that's 60 minerals, 16 vitamins, 12 essential amino
acids, and 3 essential fatty acids. I've helped put together something called
Dr. Wallach's Pig Arthritis Formula. (A kind of cutesy name because
it was designed to cure arthritis in pigs) I use it for humans because it
contains 87 of the 90 essential nutrients.
Plants can manufacture some vitamins
like folic acid, beta carotene, vitamin A, vitamin B, but plants cannot manufacture
minerals, and minerals make up 2/3 of the essential nutrients.
Almost all of the degenerative diseases--arthritis, osteoporosis,
dental problems, hypertension, heart disease, cancer, bone spurs, kidney stones,
muscular dystrophy, carpal tunnel syndrome, cataracts, Alzheimer's
disease, and the list could go on--are either directly or indirectly related to
mineral deficiencies. Our plants cannot manufacture minerals,
our soils never had all 60 minerals in them, and soils that were enriched with
minerals are now depleted from intensive farming. So, if you really want
to live healthily, to be 100, you have to consciously supplement.
There's really no way to do it by eating the four
food groups. In fact, the biggest lie ever told health wise is that
you can get everything you need from the four basic food groups. That
little sentence has killed more Americans than all the foreign armies put together
in the 200 year history of our country.
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