Fibromyalgia The Parameters

Fibromyalgia The Parameters

• Fibromyalgia The Parameters
• Diagnosis - The Unbelievable Diagnostic Criteria
• Herpes Simplex Virus Cell Example
• Treatments Available
• The Vickery Method - Fibromyalgia

As usual, we suggest one use search engines on the Web. There you will find the amazing collection of observations and growing support for the independence of this diagnosis. Many well educated and brilliant minds around the world are getting together (The Copenhagen Fibromyalgia Symposium, for example) to study, evaluate, compare, and establish protocols for the diagnosis and treatment of this condition. Support groups are now available although it would appear that these support groups are only shoring up the psyche of the victims concerning the hopelessness of the current treatments.

Description of the Condition

One of the simplest, straightforward descriptions of this condition is contained in a new book just published. In his book, Enzymes, The Key To Health Dr. Howard F. Loomis describes Fibromyalgia, “Initially, fibromyalgia was believed to be a psychiatric disease. It is now widely accepted that fibromyalgia is an independent physical illness. You will find its symptoms are strikingly similar to those of bowel toxicity.” -- excerpt used with permission of the author.

Fibromyalgia (FM) is characterized by:

Musculoskeletal pain and aching

Disturbed sleeping patterns

Morning stiffness and local tenderness

Fatigue

Depression

Paraesthesias (feeling of numbness and tingling, restless legs)

Bowel and bladder disturbances

Subjective soft tissue swelling

Raynaud’s phenomenon

Rhinitis (sinus problems )

Bruxism (grinding of the teeth, especially when sleeping)

Bursitis

Sciatica

Refractory Allergies

Temperomandibular joint dysfunction (TMJ)

Despite the symptoms, physical, laboratory, and radiological studies are often normal because advanced immunology tests are often not performed. Unlike rheumatoid arthritis, this connective tissue disorder is not associated with deformity or inflammation of the joints. Thus the diagnosis has been clinical rather than objective.

“The obvious remedy or magic bullet for many of these symptoms is aspirin, acetaminophen or other pain relievers. If over the counter drugs are not effective, then usually prescription pain relievers are used.”

This description is presented in its entirety, courtesy of Dr. Howard F. Loomis who along with Dr. Brice E. Vickery virtually stand alone in the understanding and solving the human digestive and nutritive failure as a cause of degeneration, infestation, and disease. Dr. Vickery however, has discovered similarities that are shared by the victims of this diagnosis which demonstrate a commonality of causes which prompts him to describe Fibromyalgia and the “Fibro Five≵ as a man made disease syndrome!

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The Diagnosis - The Unbelievable Diagnostic Criteria

In this day and age of organ transplants, bone marrow replacements, the ultimate diagnosis of Fibromyalgia rests upon: Pressing for tender points in areas known as trigger point areas and to establish the diagnosis 11 out of the 18 designated areas throughout four quarters of the body must be extremely tender to pressure.

 

These Two Pictures Show The Pressure Points!

This would or should be after a full work-up and many dollars (insurance dollars are your dollars) are spent to determine what you don’t have. This is not all bad because there are worse conditions that you don’t really want to have. You are then ultimately determined to have this condition by palpation (feeling) plus you are reporting, a group of symptoms from the section described in “Parameters”, and what you don’t have.

We have a condition, finally identified as an entity (of sorts) that defies the best of the best, in wisdom, education, and opportunity. Billions of dollars are available to these people who call themselves “scientific” “accredited” and are, the current state of the healing and pharmacologic sciences. This is the perfect place and time for this quote: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.” 1 Cor. 19 and “But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put a shame on the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty.” 1 Cor. 27. Could this be applied to the wealthy, well known, expense accounted doctors and scientists attending a meeting in a foreign country and coming up with eleven tender-points diagnosis?

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Herpes Simplex Virus

The above picture shows two Herpes Simplex Virus particles emerging from a host cell’s nucleus into the surrounding cytoplasm.

Treatments Available

The unnatural healing arts (medicine) which predominately treat this condition have very little to “hang their hat on” having nothing to cut, remove, or any solid process to pursue. Therefore most of the treatments are anti inflammatory and sedative in nature as mentioned previously.

The natural healing arts are a more interesting and variable group. The “straight” group of Chiropractors will tend to “whump” you more often and for a very long period of time because they have to straighten your spine mechanically and and your spine being extremely tender is very, very resistant to responding. The “Mixer” Chiropractor has some added success because physiotherapy, nutrition and perhaps more judicious “whumping” is employed. Mostly the nutrition is shotgun in type and is not tailored to the individual.

The Natreopath does some very detailed laboratory analysis mostly from blood and serum, and urine, but may also use saliva and instruments such as electroacupuncture. A regime of herbal, nutritional etc. supplements is prescribed from the results of these tests. There may be much positive improvement if the proper nutrition is stumbled upon because here again the main answer is not in the blood!

The latter two are often experts in “detoxifying” the body and there is evidence of some chelation of injurious substances in the body. There are some humorous aspects to the detoxification methods. It is a legitimate goal to cleanse and restore the normal flora to the colon. It is another to concentrate on the colon every time the patient takes a backward step with expensive ($400) programs to make your bowel “whistling clean” when they in fact have little or no idea of how the body’s formidable ability to detoxify is activated or why it broke down in the first place. Read The Vickery Method

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The Vickery Method

The Vickery Method began twenty plus years ago and is both natural and holistic. This means that no toxic drugs are used and all the parameters of the human body are explored and identified. The individual’s body becomes readable just as the modern automobile is plugged into a computer and a hundred functions may be checked. The human body has a potential of four to five hundred points that can be “read”, primarily electrically, through expert muscle testing. Electroacupuncture, particularly EAV (Electro Acupuncture According to Voll) may also be used and played a great part.

The Vickery Method is the first to truly integrate the meaning of a straight posture with health. The Chiropractic and Osteopathic professions have paid lip service to straight posture for over a hundred years but until now have never delivered! Dr. Vickery has proven that an individual cannot have nutritional deficiencies, spinal disk degeneration, infections, emotional overloads, and have a straight posture! Conversely, Correcting these problems and manually correcting the human frame, a straight posture may last indefinitely! Furthermore the acupuncture meridians (circuits) are always off in the crooked person and no amount of needling sessions can correct this condition!

If the symptoms of FM that are so mysterious to the learned doctors of medicine are examined, using kinesiological means, interesting discoveries are then possible. These findings and relationship have never been published as yet in any journal or scientific paper and it was decided to present them to the victims who can benefit immediately instead of the usual ten year route through academic channels. Many “me-tooers” will arise but remember that you were the first to read the multiple causes of FM at fibromyalgiacure.com your best, maybe only, hope of reversing this process! April 9 th, 1999.

Let us now match up some of the causes and the effects, Fibromyalgia.

Musculoskeletal pain and aching

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• 2,
• 3,
• 4,
• 5,
• 7,
• 8,
• 9,
• 10,
• 11,
• 12,
• 13,
• 14,
• 15.

Disturbed sleeping patterns

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• 5,
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• 10,
• 11,
• 12,
• 14,
• 15.

Morning stiffness and local tenderness

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• 4,
• 5,
• 7,
• 8,
• 10,
• 11,
• 12,
• 13,
• 14,
• 15.

Fatigue

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• 3,
• 4,
• 6,
• 8,
• 9,
• 10,
• 11,
• 12,
• 14,
• 15.

Depression

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• 3,
• 4,
• 5,
• 6,
• 8,
• 10,
• 11,
• 12,
• 13,
• 14,
• 15.

Paraesthesias

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• 2,
• 5,
• 7,
• 11,
• 13,
• 14.

Bowel and bladder disturbances

• 1,
• 2,
• 3,
• 4,
• 7,
• 9,
• 11,
• 13,
• 14.

Subjective soft tissue swelling

• 1,
• 2,
• 4,
• 5,
• 7,
• 9,
• 11,
• 14,
• 15.

Raynaud’s phenomenon

• 1,
• 2,
• 4,
• 5,
• 6,
• 11,
• 13,
• 14,
• 15.

Rhinitis

• 1,
• 3,
• 4,
• 6,
• 8,
• 14,
• 15.

Bruxism and TMJ

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• 2,
• 3,
• 4,
• 5,
• 6,
• 8,
• 11,
• 12,
• 13,
• 14.

Bursitis

• 1,
• 2,
• 4,
• 5,
• 9,
• 12,
• 13,
• 14,
• 15.

Sciatica

• 1,
• 2,
• 3,
• 4,
• 7,
• 7,
• 13,
• 14,
• 15.

Refractory allergies

• 1,
• 3,
• 4,
• 5,
• 7,
• 7,
• 10,
• 12,
• 14,
• 15.

Causes

1. Protein ( amino acids ) deficiency resulting in enzyme deficiencies.
2. Multiple spinal disk degeneration.
3. Toxic bowel - ileocecal valve malfunction.
4. Chronic viral infection - particularly Epstein Barr = chronic fatigue
5. Tissues (including bones!) calcium low from lack of protein transport.
6. Lack of proper neurotransmitters, insulin, thyroid, serotonin, glutathione, and sex hormones from improper amino acid metabolism.
7. Lymph slowdown.
8. Sinus infections, viral/bacterial/yeast/fungal.
9. Other infections bacterial - (Lyme’s disease)
10. Lack of Phase 1 and particularly Phase 11 detoxification mechanisms in the liver that allow heavy metals ( mercury is only one) to remain in the body. This is where the lack of sulfur results in removal failure and glutathione inadequate production.
11. Mercury (or other heavy metal) poisoning.
12. Sulfur deficiency.
13. Altered body mechanics (crooked posture)
14. Vitamin - mineral deficiencies.
15. Essential Fatty Acids deficiency.

Summary of the most important findings that are always consistent:

Protein digestion/ utilization/ enzyme deficiencies. Because of this five or more minerals do not get into the tissues.

Sulfur deficiency.

Multiple Spinal Disk degeneration (throughout the spine)

These noxious stimuli irritate the spinal nerves (from the nerves inside the disks) causing tremendous discomfort before they ever reach the herniated disk stage.

Mercury poisoning ( stored in nerve plexuses and fatty tissues) not in the bowel!

Chronic viral infection (usually but not always the Epstein-Barr Virus) EBV. In the deadlier forms also the Herpes Family which attacks the nervous system.

A more specific diagnosis can now be made from these grouped findings without probing the 11 trigger points which will be positive!

It is now possible for anyone to perceive why Dr. Vickery calls this a manmade syndrome:

Man preserved, cooked, weakened or destroyed, the natural enzymes and proteins in our food making the individual amino acids unavailable in the proper sequence and amounts.

Filled the resulting carious teeth with a poisonous mercury compound that is convenient for the dentist but is able to destroy the recipient.

The weakened individual then becomes degenerated, toxic, infested and infected.

Brice E. Vickery, D.C. graduated from Lincoln Chiropractic College in 1951 and took post graduate work at Lincoln College and Spears Chiropractic Hospital. He has appeared on radio and television and has authored The Pocket T.S. line Manual, The Two-Edged Sword Diet as well as numerous magazine articles. He also served two terms on the Board of Directors for the Connecticut Chiropractic Association. He is a certified Applied Kinesiologist and has accreditation in Electroacupuncture according to Voll ( EAV ). He is listed in the 1999-2000 Who’s who in Medicine and Healthcare. After 50 years of practice most of which was in the CT Holistic Chiropractic Offices , he is now president of SuperNutrient Corporation, is a nutritional consultant, and teaches his methods in seminars (on DVD and VHS).

Fibromyalgia Update: A New and Terrible Demon

Fibromyalgia Update:
A New and Terrible Demon,

Part One of Two

It has been a little over a year since “Fibromyalgia: A Den of Demons.” was published.¹ The results have been amazing. Doctors gave the article to their patients. Patients gtave it to their doctors. Doctors gave it to other doctors; their afflicted family members; health food stores and pharmacies have called us. Hundreds of doctors called us.

As a result of this activity and our website, FibromyalgiaCure.com, we now have the Vickery Fibromyalgia Protocol² in active treatment on every continent in the world. It is, without a doubt, the most successful treatment extant today, and should remain so. It addresses and identifies the causes, which are nutritional, and provides the missing nutrients in adequate amounts and bioavailability.

There are three parts to this discussion:

• A brief recap of the “Demons” of fibromyalgia.
• The new demon’s face and identity.
• The successful treatment and some case histories doing battle with the newest demon.

The Demons of Fibromyalgia

The first demon is protein deficiency. Not from lack in the diet but from utilization/digestion/transportation lack. This results in enzyme deficiencies from the pancreas right down to the mitochondria, DNA, and RNA.

The second demon is sulfur deficiency. The scientific world is now aware of this deficiency, but still does not handle it properly. They are not aware of the first demon, which is the cause of the sulfur deficiency. The amino acids provide protein carrier complexes to the cells for calcium, phosphorus, and SULFUR, as well as other minerals, vitamins, and fatty acids. We now have multitudes of case histories where patients had been taking MSM sulfur and not getting it into their bodies. The same is true of most of the other vitamins, minerals and even fatty acids.

The third demon is degenerative disk disease. Sometimes, this is visible even on an X-ray, but many FM persons have had MRI, CT, and myelograms, and it has still gone undetected. The disks are breaking down and are sending volleys of unwanted impulses to the spinal cord and brain. It’s been proven in research that the brain resembles a traffic circle in LA during rush hour. One of the reasons that we easily diagnose this is our development of the BEV Tests³ in 1986.

The fourth demon includes metals and other chemical toxins (PAH, PCB, etc.). Originally, we listed mercury ( silver amalgam) as the major culprit, because that is what we found. But, as we are now testing people form all geographic regions, lead, cadmium, arsenic and aluminum, and combinations of these, are regularly found.

The fifth demon is the virus (actually, infections). Besides one or more viruses, there can often be found evidence of yeasts, bacterial infections, etc. Some unfortunates are found to have viruses, Lyme Disease, Candida, and strep. This fact prompted the titles about fibromyalgia, since they are literally a den of demons. Epstein-Carr was mentioned primarily, in our earlier investigations; but, now, herpes, cytomegalo, coxsackie, influenza, etc., are also found as the primary virus in fibromyalgia cases.

Many of the histories of our FM patients clearly prove that touted remedies such as echinacea, ginseng, and mushrooms for the immune system are ineffective at their stages of degeneration.

It is at this fifth demon that we have discovered a new and terrible threat to the health of the FM victims, and, even, their very lives. This is HCV, hepatitis C.⁴ The threat goes way beyond this condition (FM) and will affect every race, every continent, all of the World’s population. It is predicted to be much worse than the AIDS virus and has been called “The Silent Epidemic”.

Hepatitis C (HCV)

The World of the Virus: Viruses⁵ are found in all life forms, humans, animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria. A virus consists of genetic material, either deoxyribonucleic acid(DNA) or ribonucleic acid(RNA), surrounded by a protective protein coating, called a capsid, which may have a lipid envelope. From the largest pox virus of 450 nanometers (0.000014 in.) to the polio viruses, the smallest, which are 30 nanometers long (0.000001 in.), they are about 20–100 times smaller than a bacteria. Considered not to be free living, they do not produce outside of a host cell, which is used for replication. The entered cell is damaged or killed in the process. While there is fantastic progress, and massive efforts are being made at an exponential rate, there is no drug cure for viruses, particularly retroviruses.

Viral contact with the host cell (example HIV) takes place when the outer viral structure docks with a specific molecule on the surface of the cell’s surface (a glycoprotein called gp 120 on the HIV with the CD4 molecule on the T lymphocyte). All cells do not have CD4 receptors.

Crossing the cell membrane is accomplished by: fusing the lipid envelope and releasing the nucleocapsid into the cell’s cytoplasm: Endocytosed or enveloped by a section of the cell’s membrane, which forms a small bubble, called an endosome, which can change the shape of the virus’s proteins and, by fusion (or lysis), break apart the endosome wall, allowing the nucleocapsid to enter the cell.

Having reached the inside, the virus sets up its replication, using the host’s materials. Viral genes first direct the production of enzymes (protein) to copy the viral genome, using the host’s machinery. Using viral and cellular components, the replications can number in the thousands. Lastle, the proteins for nucleocapsids are assembled to launch the next wave of assaults on the host organism.

Retroviruses have RNA that is transcribed into DNA by the enzyme reverse transcriptase. This is the reverse of the usual transfer of genetic material, which is DNA to RNA. The DNA form of the retrovirus is integrated into the host cell DNA and called a provirus. Every time the host cell replicates itself, it replicates the viral genome, which is passed on through the daughter cells.

There are 6 genotypes of HCV⁶ with a, b, c, d, etc., subtypes. The same person may have a “mix” of the virus. Because of its ability to mutate, no vaccine is effective. The virus has been studied, and the functions of most of its parts identified.

The Sinister and Stealthy Impact of the Epidemic

Various estimates are given of 2–4 million cases in the US population with 200,000,000 Worldwide.⁷ In our opinion, it is easily more like 20–30 million cases. (This will be explained later in Part Two.)

Hepatitis C is the leading cause of liver transplants and, perhaps, hepatic carcinoma. HCC. Persons afflicted may not be diagnosed until cirrhosis has compromised liver functions. They may have presented only mild symptoms and fatigue which is usually not identified. Drawing #2 says it succinctly.

The Natural History of HCV Infection

The stealth of the disease, besides being responsible for the silent progress it makes in the liver, also allows it to reside in other tissues outside the liver. I spoke with a doctor who is an internationally renowned specialist in infectious diseases; and, when I asked him what he did when he uncovered a case, he said, “I refer them to a hepatologist.” The larger population of the scientific community is doing the same thing—only looking at the liver.

Our findings have been that it can be anywhere in the body, and has been found in a high percentage of our fibromyalgia patients since we first began testing for it, about a year ago. Very often, these are the worst cases. For some time, I thought that I was alone in my observations; but there are some very prestigious doctors who have done research that verifies our findings and reveals even more conditions that are well documented. As you will see, more of the symptoms of fibromyalgia have different causes, even though science, as a whole, has NOT caught on, yet, that viruses are a part of the FM entity.

Sanjiv Chopra, M.D., is editor-in-chief of Gastroenterology/Hepatology, and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. He lists the findings of a study of 321 cases of HCV, in which 38% of the cases had extrahepatic symptoms or conditions directly related to the viral infection. This is extremely significant or should be to ANYONE that purports to treat ANY condition of the human body.

The Natural Successful Treatment and Illustrative Case History

The single, constant, common denominator in fibromyalgia is protein deficiency and sulfur deficiency. Most of the A, B, C, D, E, F deficiencies hang from those like the branches on a tree. The way we know is that, in practice, persons who could not afford all of the nutrients that they needed were given, as the top priority, a specific Essential Amino Acids formula, and we often observed Vitamin C, B, F, etc., deficiencies disappear. Did that mean that their “tanks were full”? I don’t think so, but they were no longer “on empty”. Likewise, with calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, etc. We observed this before the protein carriers were talked about, and we only vaguely understood what was happening.

When we added 200mg of MSM (methylsulfonylmethane), 50mg. of creatine, and 30mcg. of molybdenum, dramatic and awesome improvement of our original AA (amino acids), already highly effective, was observed in all kinds of cases. We patented the formula to announce it to the world, and maintain control, so that no kind of price-gouging could happen, such as occurred with glucosamine sulfate—which sold at up to $90.00 a bottle, and is another incomplete product.

A Case History

Diagnosis:

Fibromyalgia and Lupus

Symptoms:

Nausea, pains from the waist up, no energy, unusual muscle soreness and stiffness of FM with most of major symptoms.

Findings:

Previous ultrasound of organs negative, positive connective tissue disorder (lupus), 2/13/2000 RBC 4.30, MCV 33.3, Neutrophils 77, Rheumatoid Factor 1:160

Our exam 1/10/2001:

Pos. BEVL, BEVT, BEVC (complete spinal disk degeneration) protein, sulfur, Vitamins A, B, C, D, F, Calcium-deficiencies, Srtep, D5 upper spine, Hepatitis C D6, Liver GB Brain, upper spine, Candida D3 everywhere, Herpes simplex D8 everywhere, Staph. D5 Head teeth liver bowels, Measles D30 Brain, Silver Amalgam D6 Brain liver dorsal spine, Aluminum D6 Everywhere, Arsenic D6 Liver spine brain.

Placed on Vickery Protocol⁷

2/28/2001

HCV improved to D100, Aluminum D30, Arsenic D30, Herpes S. D30, Staph. D15, Measles D15, Candida D15. Feeling Better. Treatment continued.

3/30/2001

HCV D200 Marvelous improvement, Strep. D100, Candida D400, Herpes D30(teeth) Staph. D40 (teeth) Silver amalgam D400 (almost clera) Measles clear, Aluminum clear.

On 4/10/2001

patient reported feeling “Darned good!” and had planted 15 rosebuses-a previous impossibility. Next exam is scheduled in two weeks. The services of a holistic dentist may be required.

Conclusion of Part One

It took a new look at the heretofore unsolvable problems of Fibromyalgia and its “Demons”, and the revolutionary discovery of the great protein deficiency, to simplify FM. FM is actually a showcase for the new science of “reading the body” vs. reading the bodies’ specimens. These new kinesiological methods (The BEV Tests and the CCT Tests.⁹), for the first time, are used to support the claims in a patent that will change favorably the course of nutrition in disease treatment and prevention. Hepatitis C and other viruses can now be successfully treated without the risk of—sometimes fatal—autoimmune reactions.

It is one of my primary intentions to warn, alert, even alarm all health professionals that the spread of this HCV virus is on the rise, and that it is spreading by more routes than needle sticks and transfusions. And, that, every protein and sulfur deficient doctor (85%) is vulnerable to this wily, silent killer, as well.

References

1. Fibromyalgia: A Den of Demons, Vickery, Brice E., The American Chiropractor, Vol. 21 Issue 5, 1999
2. http://www.fibromyalgiacure.com
3. "What are the Physical Effects of Hepatitis C?" Gordon, Stuart R., Dartmouth Medical School, April 05, 2000
4. Virus, Microsoft®Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2000
5. Hepatitis Central™, http://hepatitis-central.com/2001
6. The Hepatitis C Virus: Master of Diversity and Challenging Adversary, Fanning, L.J. & Shanahan F., National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland
7. The Vickery-Voll Test, US Patent 6,203,820 2001
8. The Confirmatory Challenge Test, Vickery, Brice E., US Patent 6,203,820 2001

Fibromyalgia Update: A New and Terrible Demon Part Two of Two

Fibromyalgia Update:
A New and Terrible Demon

Part Two of Two

The new and terrible demon that we introduced into the causes of fibromyalgia in Part One (Volume 23, Issue 5) was HCV (hepatitis C). We warned the practitioners of the healing arts that, if they were protein/sulfur deficient, they were in the greatest danger of contracting HCV because—not having a proper immune response—they could not repel this virus, as well as most other viruses, from their tissues. The second reason is just numerical: doctors and health workers coming into contact with sick persons every day act as funnels. Unfortunately, they do not know it. They still believe that serum tests are the only way to do this diagnosis. It’s a pity, because about 90% of all the chiropractors that we test in seminars are protein/sulfur defcient and have DISKAL LESIONS. I am coming into increasing contact with doctors who have the means, such as kinesiology, and electroacupuncture with newers and more sophisticated machines and concepts, to diagnose HCV. Meanwhile, in contrast to these 21^st Century successful types, the chiropractic schools, for the most part, still turn out “Dodo Birds.” (The Dodo bird is, of course, extinct: “…any of several clumsy, flightless, extinct birds… Random House)

I chose to concentrate on one case history, in the first article, that was in process at the time the article was being written. The following case is rather unique because, while I present the case history synopsis, the patient tells her story in her own words, as a testimonial, in the sidebar to this article.

A Recent Case History and Testimonial
Fibromyalgia and Lupus

First Exam, 1/10/01: A pale FM patient reported a history of more than ten years of being incapacitated —a preson who had formerly done everything. She was unable to work, had been given a diagnosis of FM and lupus, experienced constant nausea and pain from the waist up. Ultrasound of organs and MRI of the spine appeared normal.

Examination revealed an array of three deadly viruses, two bacteria, systemic yeast (six infections) and three toxic metals, undiagnosed by a long string of doctors. This patient is the perfect example of why I wrote the original article, “Fibromyalgia: A Den of Demons.” She was placed on my “Vickery Protocol” and put on a Candida (strict) diet. On our side were the simple, professional grade nutritional supplements, spearheaded by an amino acids formula. David against Goliath? We entered the battle.

2/28/01: Some improvement from the start, and considerable progress in the levels of noxious elements. Patient reported much less pain and much increased energy, with fewer bad days. We were now confident of winning the battle. Patient was placed on Vickery Protocol #2, second phase, with less nutritional support.

3/16/01: Hepatitis C, D200 (the higher, the better); measels, gone; herpees simplex, D30 (found in teeth); Staph, D30; Strep, D100; Candida, D400; arsenic, D30 (same as before); mercury, D400; aluminum, none. Corrected lymphatic drainage manually; continued nutrition and added some fruits, beans, and nonyeasted bread (spelt) to diet.

4/25/01: Hepatitis C, D400; herpes simplex, D60; Strep, none; Staph, D15 (localized in teeth and gums. Consider calling in a holistic dentist. Fighting a local battle with possible abscesses). Candida, D1000; mercury, none; arsenic, none.

6/1/01: Staph, none (didn’t need the dentist); viruses, none; corrected lymphatic system again.

8/30/01: No infections. Patient had driven cross-country for as long as sixteen hours at a time, by herself, and needed a lymphatic correction. Her muscles, dormant for thirteen years, were not toned for such an endurance trial. This patient is declared healed.

Summary

Patient compliance is the key, and not the imposing list of “demons” inhabiting the patient. This lady was a model for all to follow, and she has courage. She deserves to live out her life in health, and now knows how to do that. When we named out website fibromyalgiacure.com, we knew that just the name would draw flack, especially form the traditional medical profession. On the other hand, the average chiropractor might have given her ninety-six visits—to no avail. We gave her four. This case is a good example of what is being accomplished everyday.

The Solutions

A growing band of doctors routinely conquer these mystery diseases, while the bulk of the healing arts sit confounded on the sidelines. What is it that makes the difference?

What we found is that the identification of the particular nutritional deficiencies, which enables us, also, to SUPPLY the exact nutrition needed, and the ability to test its BIOAVAILABILITY, can bring about miracles, in the majority of cases.

This lead to our developing an exclusive line of supplements, including an essential amino acids formula, which effectively addresses the first case of protein/sulfur deficiency, by arming the immune system—the major factor in virus elimination. (It has been found that the common factor in viruses and multiple viruses inhabiting a person is protein/sulfur deficiency.) And, these products work exceptionally well with either EAV (Electroacupuncture According to Voll) and AK (Applied Kinesiology) testing of the pancreatic meridian at the Voll points, as illustrated in the drawing below.

An Exact Form of Energy Testing
HCV Kinesiological Testing

This is a simple procedure, and all it requires is competency in testing. We use a test kit that has a series of graduated dilutions of the actual HCV virus, starting from D5 and running up to D200, in a series of ten. The lower are the more acute, less dilutions, are in the chronic and disappearing range. The dilutions are sealed in injectable ampoules and can be used over and over (See photo).

After determining that the patient is testable, we hold the box against the patient’s chest near the thymus. If the person has any one of the frequencies present in the box, he will weaken.

To determine the exact level of HCV infection, we open the box and have the patient place the index finger on the vial containing the lowest dilution and work up to the highest dilutions. Where the muscle weakens, that is the level of the virus in his body. This can, also, be done with other viruses. We, then, immediately place the patient on an essential amino acids formula, as well as whatever else is needed (which is usually most of the major nutrients). Then we monitor the effects, using the same methods.

We have watched this HCV virus march our of fifty-or-so FM patients, with an equal number of cases in process. We can determine which parts of the body are involved. Many people do NOT have HCV in the liver, but in the spine—which is why the arthritis never clears up; or in the lungs, which is why they have asthma; or in the brain and sinuses, which is why your cervical adjustments dont’t HOLD!

This is 21^st Century technology, centered on testing the human body as its own laboratory.

This article was originally printed in The American Chiropractor, Volume 24, Issue 3, 2002

Understanding Fibromyalgia

Understanding Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia is a Disease

Because so many people have demonstrated an interest in understanding the story behind the Fibromyalgia mystery, I have decided to write an essay discussing this complex condition in detail. I will discuss its origins in hypoglycemia, and protein deficiency. I will discuss its relationship to viral, bacterial, yeast and fungal infections. I will illuminate its connection to spinal degeneration and vitamin and mineral deficiencies. I will also discuss my testing methods to explain how I find these conditions in the body. Although my methods are not standard medical procedure today, I have found that they are extremely efficient, cost effective, and highly accurate. Many years of research went into the development of my testing methods and the development of the Platinum Plus Essential Amino Acids, US Patent #6,203,820, the foundation of all my prescribed programs for the treatment of many disease conditions, including Fibromyalgia.

Hopefully, after reading this essay, you will have a real understanding of the nature of this condition and its root cause, protein deficiency. A quick summary: When the body becomes unable to digest food properly, it becomes protein deficient and therefore open to all kinds of disease conditions. Until this deficiency is corrected, the body will continue to tend toward illness, rather than health because our body uses the amino acids digested from food to make thousands of different proteins to keep it healthy. Platinum Plus Amino Acids do not have to undergo the digestive process and so they are immediately available for use in the manufacture of digestive enzymes. Now the body can use food to make the many proteins it needs to function. The problem of protein deficiency is solved and Fibromyalgia symptom’s disappears over time. It’s really just that simple.

Testing for Fibromyalgia

When I discover viral or bacterial infections in my patients, one of the most frequent questions I am asked is, “Other doctors I’ve been to never found these things, how do you identify these infections?” The answer is simple, I am using a testing method that will allow me to search for diseases I suspect may be harbored by the body. The currently accepted methods for testing in the field of status quo medicine are mainly biochemical. There is nothing wrong with these methods; they work well in certain instances. For instance blood and throat cultures for strep are fine if the strep is in either of these locations. But what if you are harboring strep, or hepatitis C, or Staph, etc., somewhere else, maybe your heart, spine, or brain? How do I find it? If I used a blood test it may come up negative. Does this mean that the diagnosis for the pathogen is negative? No, it means I have to find the method that will allow me to test for strep in all areas of the body. The biochemical testing methods used today are not invalid, it’s just that these methods only allow them to find diseases part of the time in the specific culture tested.

Biochemical diagnostics are an outgrowth of Newtonian physics. Newton showed us that there were laws, based on observations of the world that would always lead to correct answers as to how that world worked. Einstein did not prove Newton wrong; he just proved that Newtonian laws only applied in certain spheres, which did not always include energy. E=MC2 also proved that mass is energy, so we are energy, and it would not seem unreasonable that doctors would develop testing methods based on energy (quantum physics) in order to find out things that Newtonian methods could not. Energy medicine has been evolving since the nineteenth century and the FDA and the FTC now recognize certain of these testing methods as emerging science.

I have been using these methods for many years now. Not only have they enabled me to identify and pinpoint the exact location of disease in the body, but they have also enabled me to develop cures for these same diseases. Using either electro-acupuncture or kinesiology with homeopathic medicines I can locate in just a few minutes the presence of many different pathogens and toxic metals, measure their levels, and pinpoint the tissues and organs in which they reside.

Presently Fibromyalgia is treated as a collection of unexplained symptoms, which doctors attempt to relieve by various drugs such as anti-depressants, muscle relaxants, anti-inflammatory, cholesterol lowering drugs, antacids, etc. This is symptom relief, it will not cure a condition which allows toxic infections to overrun the system! My experience has shown me that infectious diseases like hepatitis C, mercury, herpes viruses, lupus, strep, etc., collect in the body and form the symptomology of the condition known as Fibromyalgia!

Fibromyalgia and Hypoglycemia

Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) is the common condition that I find in Fibromyalgia (FM) patients leading to the root cause of FM, protein deficiency. Hypoglycemia is a condition which has around 100 different symptoms associated with it, such as weakness, disorientation, headaches, slurred speech, tiredness, or nervousness. If blood sugar levels become too low, the result can be coma. Sadly enough, doctors will often end up misdiagnosing this simple problem because they fail to administer a six-hour glucose tolerance test or misinterpret the results. The outcome is that patients will sometimes be administered anti-depressants for low blood sugar! It’s is a shame because this is where FM really starts, with pancreatic overload, leading to loss of digestive function and to protein deficiency in the body.

Fortunately, I do not have to administer expensive tests, I have developed a highly efficient and accurate form of applied kinesiology, called the Vickery-Voll Test which allows me to test the three specific pancreas acupuncture points, protein(1), carbohydrate(2), and fat(3). If the number two point shows up, I know that carbohydrate metabolism is impaired, which is the defining attribute of hypoglycemia. This will happen when a person consumes too much sugar or refined carbohydrate. The pancreas will then work overtime secreting insulin to lower blood sugar levels and the adrenals will become stressed by producing high levels of adrenalin so that the liver will convert amino acids and fats to glucose to raise blood sugar back up again. In this process all three acupuncture points will eventually register impaired metabolism, but it is with protein deficiency that FM finally occurs. Meanwhile the thyroid gland is attempting to control the rate at which the blood sugar is utilized by the body, so it is working overtime also.

It’s sort of like a car engine that overheats and then fails. The weakest link in this system will determine how the body fails. If the adrenals are the weakest point, clinical hypoglycemia will occur, if the pancreas fails, diabetes will follow, if the thyroid crashes, Hashimoto’s Disease could happen, if the liver malfunctions, cirrhosis will develop. Other glands also become involved in the imbalance including the hypothalamus, the pituitary, the thyroid, and the sex glands. Digestion becomes impaired as the pancreas stops making the necessary digestive enzymes, and now the entire body becomes deficient in proteins, its structural and functional building blocks. Then the system becomes open to diseases of all kinds, the defining condition of FM.

If the pancreas does not have the necessary amino acids it will not make digestive enzymes or glucagons (which allows the liver to convert glycogen, a sort of stored sugar, into glucose), nor will the adrenals make adrenalin (which allows the liver to convert protein and fats to glucose for balanced blood sugar.) If the body cannot do these things blood sugars can never be properly balanced, and the glands will always be overworking to try and control an out of control situation. Two things are necessary:

1. a low-carbohydrate, no sugar diet to give the over worked glands a rest, and
2. a balanced blend of essential amino acids to start the system working properly again.

But don’t make the mistake of thinking any amino acids will work, we already tried that, I had to develop a very specific blend of essential amino acids in the correct balance to one another. I want to make that very clear because if the amino acids are taken in the incorrect amounts or out of balance, you could just end up doing yourself more harm. All of my FM patients who have followed my FM program faithfully have gotten well.

Fibromyalgia and Back Pain

In one hundred per cent of our Fibromyalgia diagnoses, we have found a degenerating spine, from neck to tailbone. In many (but not all of) these cases back pain is also present. If there is no degenerative disk disease, there is no Fibromyalgia. In 1982 we discovered that cellular protein deficiency had a deleterious effect on the spine and by 1986 we had proved that Degenerative Disk Disease (DDD):

1. Caused back pain in many instances and,
2. Was the direct result of cellular protein deficiency!

The next step was to develop the supplement that would ensure protein delivery to the cells. Obviously, diet was not the answer because many of our patients ate plenty of protein. We then found out that the problem stemmed from digestive system malfunction. Nine out of ten people do not properly digest their food and therefore cannot utilize their proteins. So we went to work carefully developing an amino acid blend that would ensure that the body received the protein it needs to function properly, then we added sulfur to take care of the widespread sulfur deficiency we were finding in most of our patients.

In order to find the connection between DDD and protein deficiency I had to develop a new method of testing. Using applied kinesiology combined with the Voll electro acupuncture method (EAV), I came up with the Vickery-Voll Test (vibrational resonance testing), which uses energetic frequencies in order to locate and identify disease states in the body. Using this same testing method we determined that it took around 10-12 hours for the degenerated spinal disks to begin rebuilding when the patient began taking the Platinum Plus Amino Acid blend.

Fibromyalgia and Viral Infections

I told you that viral infections appear to form the symptomatology for the condition Fibromyalgia (FM). In fact I have never seen a single case that did not have at least one virus attacking some part of the body. I also told you that Degenerative Disk Disease (DDD) accompanies FM. It is this diagnosis of DDD that helps us locate the area of the viruses. Wherever the spinal disks have degenerated to the point that they affect the nerves around them is the area where viruses seem to congregate. For instance, diabetic neuropathy patients with bilateral sciatic nerve and lower body pain fairly consistently give a positive reading for lupus in that same area of the body. Doctors today are still undecided as to whether Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFM) is a part of FM or not. My experience with FM patients is that the adrenals are always affected and that this is an area where viruses will attack. A virus that we often find in this area is Epstein-Barr, which is also associated with CFM. Unfortunately we cannot test for all 600 known viruses but we do test for many, including Hepatitis A, B, and C, herpes (zoster and simplex), Coxsackie, and cytomegalovirus, to name a few.

Other infections include: bacterial, yeast/fungus, parasites, and toxic metals. When the body has a protein/sulfur deficiency it cannot defend itself from infections because it doesn’t have the raw materials (amino acids) to make the proper nutrients (such as immune system proteins) it needs to keep the body safe from invaders. Bacterial infestations of Staph and Strep show up in many of my protein deficient patients, as well as intestinal parasites like lamblia and Coxsackie. In FM we often find bacterial infections even in the lymph nodes, causing a painful condition known as lymphadenitis. In this condition bacteria, which are usually flushed out by the lymph system, become trapped and the white cells that congregate to kill the infection cause pus to accumulate in the nodes, which, if the bacteria are unresponsive to antibiotics, doctors will sometimes have to surgically drain. Time and time again, however, conditions that prove resistant to antibiotics clear up with the Fibromyalgia Intensive Care Protocol.

Protein deficiency will allow yeast or fungal infections to begin to cause problems all over the body, showing up as rashes, constipation, poor concentration, and sinusitis. It is my observation that many autoimmune conditions such as, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and Fibromyalgia occur as a result of chronic infections, which the body is not equipped to control. Overwhelmed, the body becomes confused and begins to produce T-cells that are programmed to attack live healthy cells, In other words without the necessary protein to act as our body’s general system manager, chaos ensues and we respond with an allergic reaction to ourselves!

This situation is made even worse by xenotoxins such as DDT, hydrocarbons, PCP, sodium fluoride, and metals like aluminum, cadmium, lead, and mercury. I cannot tell you how many times I have seen infections gather around teeth with mercury fillings (or root canals.)I have found consistently that Platinum Plus Amino Acids will remove toxic metals from the system faster and more efficiently than all the expensive chelation treatments, simply by activating the body’s defense systems.

Yeast is a particularly nasty contributor to a weakened immune system. Often doctors will only recognize vaginal or intestinal yeast, trying to solve the problems with expensive creams, pills, or intestinal washes. These treatments provide at best temporary fixes but do not cure a condition that if allowed to follow its course could well end in death. Research into yeast infections shows that it produces over 79 different toxins in the body, which cause over 40 different symptoms. Bad yeast infections can completely shut down the thyroid, resulting in Hashimoto’s Disease. When yeast infections become systemic there is no way that the body can fight other infections such as hepatitis or Staph.

A yeast diet is imperative, but many are not effective because they do not understand that in order for equilibrium to be restored to the body a very strict, super low-carb diet must be combined with proper amino acid and vitamin-mineral supplementation. My experience with thousands of yeast patients is that if this protocol is not followed, the body will not heal. When the protocol is strictly adhered to we find that even cases such as antibiotic resistant Lymes Disease will disappear. Once the body has been brought back into balance people can revert to a more normal diet. It has been my experience that all FM patients also have a yeast overgrowth.

Fibromyalgia and other nutritional deficiencies

The last category to go over in our Fibromyalgia (FM) essay is that of vitamins, minerals, and essential fatty acids (EFA). In my experience, FM patients are usually deficient in all these areas. The reason for this is that protein transporters carry each of these vital nutrients into the cell, and if you are protein deficient you cannot sufficiently make these transporters. Another reason may be the type of fatty acids, vitamins, and minerals you are taking. Many of the EFA’s available on the market today actually do absolutely nothing for you. Truthfully, I don’t know the reason for this but I do know that all the EFA’s I tested were turning up detrimental to people’s systems so we went ahead and developed an EFA blend of our own, one we can absolutely assure you will be beneficial.

It is the same with vitamins and minerals. Remember just because it comes from a health food store doesn’t mean it is any good! Did you know that one of the major clogging agents in municipal sewer systems is undigested supplement tablet? Two reasons for this:

1. If you are protein deficient, you won’t be able to produce the enzymes to digest anything you put in your system and
2. If your supplement pill is so loaded with fillers designed to give the tablet shape and shelf life, chances are you couldn’t digest it anyway!

All our protocols come with amino acids to ensure digestion, and vitamins and minerals that are digestible. If you want to test this simply drop one of our vitamins in a glass of water and watch it start to dissolve then do the same with your present multi vitamin, note the difference in time.

Also, minerals must be of the proper size, water-soluble, and ionic in order to be accepted into the cell, if they are not, it won’t matter how many protein transporters you have, the minerals will just end up floating around your system, storing themselves in tissues and blood vessels, causing their own set of problems.

So to summarize:

In FM patients, the pancreas begins to malfunction, leading to blood sugar imbalances, leading to an inability to digest food properly, therefore FM patients are protein deficient, and subsequently vitamin, mineral (especially MSM), and fatty acid deficient. This is true no matter how much protein and how many supplements they ingest. These deficiencies lead to a weakened immune system, which in turn cannot protect the system from infestations of bacteria, overgrowths of yeast, or settlement of toxic metals. The spine begins to degenerate and viral infections begin to take hold, organs start to malfunction and there is nothing the body can do because it does not have the tools to fix itself. Any drugs that a doctor prescribes for FM will only alleviate symptoms, they will not cure FM. The digestive system must be given the proper amino acid blend, vitamins, fatty acids and minerals in order to start working properly, and then the body will cure itself.

This is the only way FM should be treated. Think about it, FM is a complex, intensive, systemic condition that is really nothing more than a highly efficient gateway for disease. One can spend a tremendous amount of time and money chasing down these diseases one by one, but until the gateway is closed, more will keep coming. These diseases are just the symptoms of protein deficiency caused by lack of proper pancreatic enzymes, that’s how simple it is.

Thank you for you time, good luck and good health.

Dr. Brice E. Vickery

Brice E. Vickery, D.C. graduated from Lincoln Chiropractic College in 1951 and took post graduate work at Lincoln College and Spears Chiropractic Hospital. He has appeared on radio and television and has authored The Pocket T.S. line Manual, The Two-Edged Sword Diet as well as numerous magazine articles. He also served two terms on the Board of Directors for the Connecticut Chiropractic Association. He is a certified Applied Kinesiologist and has accreditation in Electroacupuncture according to Voll ( EAV ). He is listed in the 1999-2000 Who’s who in Medicine and Healthcare. After 50 years of practice most of which was in the CT Holistic Chiropractic Offices , he is now president of SuperNutrient Corporation, is a nutritional consultant, and teaches his methods in seminars (on DVD and VHS).