Disease Reprieve: Living into the Golden Years

By Dr. T. C. McDaniel

The Golden Years Society Inc. is pleased to announce the publication of Disease Reprieve by Dr. T. C. McDaniel. Dr. McDaniel is a sole practitioner in Cincinnati, specializing in Cardiovascular-Renal disease. He writes in detail about his 35 years of research in an effort to cure his personal health problems, and outlines in detail how he applied those scientific principles to the care and treatment of more than 10,000 patients.

For the first time, both Physicians and patients will learn the components of The Wheel of MisFortune. This teaching device has been used successfully in Seminars for Physicians in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Now you can learn how to apply these scientific principles to your own health care.

A Physician enjoys no greater advantage than his or her patient, succumbing to the ravages of disease at an average age of 57. Cardiovascular-Renal Disease takes more than a million lives each year, the majority long before retirement age.

As the Medical Director of The Golden Years Society, Dr. McDaniel shares the story of his family - six senior citizens from ages 70 - 93. These siblings enjoy the cumulative advantages of Disease Reprieve regimen, without assisted living, wheel chairs or canes. They have a cumulative 126 years of Social Security benefits, a result of living longer than the Actuaries predicted.

Dr. McDaniel is 85, conducts a full medical practice, has published two books, and frequently lectures to civic organizations and medical groups.

The Government estimates the cost of Cardiovascular Disease in 1999 to be in excess of 260 billion dollars. The Golden Years Society watched with interest a press conference in early 1997, announcing FDA approval of a drug they called 'the first new approach to the treatment of heart failure approved by the FDA in 14 years'! One Physician attending this press conference stated with great sincerity that heart failure is a life threatening condition whose incidence in the U. S. has been rising. What an understatement.

Every 33 seconds an American dies of Cardiovascular Disease, more than 950,000 deaths last year. In contrast, cancer deaths totaled approximately 537,000 and AIDS about 42,000. These rather dry statistics are translated into death and disability for us and/or our loved ones.

No family is immune from the risk of Cardiovascular-Renal Disease. The Golden Years Society has been successfully treating patients during the time the pharmaceutical companies, and the FDA were studying 'potential therapies'.

Why are our patients able to resume active lifestyles free of many or most of their initial complaints? Because the Disease Reprieve regimen teaches patients the CAUSE of Cardiovascular Disease. Our patients understand the importance of food and drink in PREVENTING and reversing Cardiovascular Disease. You will learn that the single greatest medical device of the 20th Century is the Reverse Osmosis water unit. No more Arrhythmia, generally excused away by such wandering generalities as 'we see these PVC's in people your age'. No competent Engineer would characterize a fuel pump malfunction so nonchalantly.

Physicians attending our Disease Reprieve seminars inevitably confide that their practice is suffering due to the onslaught of Managed Care rules and regulations, the endless stream of paperwork from Medicare/Medicaid and private insurance companies, and the high cost of staffing requirements to complete all that paperwork.

We have Golden Years franchises in several locations throughout the country. As the prototype for these franchises, our office is equipped with digital cameras, computers with graphics programs, and scanners, all designed to take advantage of new technology.

Please recognize that technology will not r

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 9, 1999
• ISBN: 9781477163931

Dr. T. C. McDaniel

Dr. McDaniel, the founder and President of the Golden Years Society, is a sole practitioner in Cincinnati, specializing in Cardiovascular-Renal Disease. A former member of the Kentucky State Board of Medical Licensure (appointed by 4 different Governors), and past President, Cincinnati Academy of Osteopathic Medicine, in 1972 he was named Outstanding Graduate of the Century by Eastern Kentucky University.

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CONTENTS

Chapter l:

PURELY PERSONAL

Chapter 2:

THE ODYSSEY

Chapter 3:

A NEW POINT OF VIEW

Chapter 4:

SELF RESPONSIBILITY

Chapter 5:

APPLYING SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES

Chapter 6:

CHEMISTRY, MATH AND PHYSICS

Chapter 7:

ADSORPTION AND DESORPTION

Chapter 8:

THE ALKALINE RESERVE

Chapter 9:

OUR REGIMEN

Chapter 10:

COLLOIDAL CONTROL

Chapter 11:

ZETA POTENTIAL—

A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE

Chapter 12:

DIET AND CARDIOVASCULAR-

RENAL DISEASE

Chapter 13:

CALCULATING SPECIFIC

CONDUCTANCE

Chapter 14:

ANIONIC SURFACTANTS IN

CLINICAL MEDICINE

Chapter 15:

THE CONCEPT

Chapter 16:

LIQUIDS: UNIVERSAL SOURCE

OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE

Chapter 17:

CARDIOVASCULAR-RENAL

MALFUNCTION

Chapter 18:

THE TERRAIN

Chapter 19:

MY PERSONAL FOUR HORSEMEN

Chapter 20:

PHYSICIAN, HEAL THYSELF!

Chapter 21:

KIDNEY MALFUNCTION

Chapter 22:

THE OSTEOPATHIC

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Chapter 23:

REVERSE OSMOSIS

Chapter 24:

WILL YOU BECOME A STATISTIC?

Chapter 25:

A PERSONAL INVITATION

THOMAS C. MCDANIEL, D.O.

TO ALL OF MY PATIENTS WHO ARE LIVING INTO

THE GOLDEN YEARS OF LIFE WITHOUT FISCAL

OR PHYSIOLOGICAL BANKRUPTCY.

Chapter l:

PURELY PERSONAL

Twenty-five years ago, with a history of 6 PVC’s per minute, Meniere’s Syndrome, 40 pounds overweight, an aversion to high altitudes, and 45,000 micromhos of Total Dissolved Solids in my plasma and urine, I had reached a disturbing curtailment of my physical activities.

A respiration rate in excess of 45 beats per minute, Tachycardia and Precordial pain … all were symptoms obvious to 15 other Physicians during the Annual Meeting of the Society of Endocrinology & Nutrition in Breckenridge, Colorado. All agreed on a diagnosis: Anoxia, secondary to altitude at 12,000 feet. All agreed I would be okay when I returned to Cincinnati’s 400 ft. elevation.

A mirror reflected myself 55 pounds overweight, with hemorrhoids, premature baldness, motion sickness so acute as to discourage flying and deep sea fishing, or even riding in a car as a passenger. All symptoms were screaming for my attention; sending a call for help.

My then state-of-ability as a physician was incomplete. My physical and mental health was in serious medical compromise. As a result I did what I was subconsciously trained to do:

I saw a SPECIALIST!

I sought advice from two highly competent physicians, an MD and a D.O. A thorough vascular work-up followed. I respected each of them then and I respect them now; each gave me the best of his training and experience.

‘What do you make of my 6 PVC’s per minute?’, I asked. ‘Oh, we see this frequently in men your age’, was the gist of his reply.

‘How about Digitalis?’, I probed, fully realizing I would be smarter to keep quiet!

‘Not necessary’, he said. ‘Won’t help’, he added. ‘How about Quinidine Sulfate?’, I queried, my anxiety increasing.

‘Not at this time: maybe later’, he calmly answered. ‘Should I stop jogging?’, I asked, my anxiety now totally unconcealed.

His answer: ‘You know more about jogging than I do. Let’s do nothing’, said one.

‘Let’s just ‘watch it’, said the other.

The rumbling inside my chest drowned out any effective advice offered. One consolation raced through my mind: I’ll get another opinion! This time I’ll see a D.O.—a specialist of my own School of Medicine.

Four hours later, with yet another thorough physical examination under my belt, my disenchantment was unchanged. You would have thought they had jointly examined me and used the same health bulletin from which to make a diagnosis.

I had driven only a few miles on the interstate when I bolted to attention at the voice on the radio saying:

We interrupt this program to bring you a news update on the cause of the crash in which 263 passengers lost their lives. Federal Aviation Authorities have determined the cause of the crash.

Emotionally waxing and waning between anger and fear, the irony was inescapable. The U. S. Civil Air Agencies can determine the cause of an airline crash, but U. S. Physicians cannot tell me WHY I’m having skipped heartbeats! One effort was to locate the cause; another was to ignore the cause.

I wondered how airline passengers would react to a message from the Captain:

‘Ladies and Gentlemen, the engines are misfiring 5 or 6 times

per minute, but do not be concerned. Have a nice flight!’

I returned to reality and reflected on a recent sentence someone had penned, designed to motivate:

IF IT IS TO BE, IT IS UP TO ME.

This was the beginning of a serendipitous experience I cannot explain or understand.

No attempt is implied here to denigrate the finest Internist I could find. His credentials demanded and got my respect. While I later found reason and logic to disagree with his regimen, it would lead me to bold action, get me away from the mainstream of medicine and propel me from tunnel vision to wide-angle vision.

Maybe there is more to be learned about Cardiovascular Disease than is currently known, I thought. I made an immediate decision.

I WILL GO ANYWHERE

PAY ANY PRICE

DO ANYTHING NECESSARY

to find an answer to my problem. Truly, if it was to be, it was up to me.

If this happened in 1997 and I did not have a high resistance to intimidation, I would have been in surgery for an immediate by-pass. It was a revelation: these ‘specialists’ knew no more than I did about Cardiovascular diseases, and that was a frightening thing!

At age 56, a widower with four beautiful children to rear, my options were few. I had but six years to go before reaching my father’s age when he suffered a fatal Coronary Occlusion.

An inordinately high number of physical symptoms that led to my father’s loss of life were present within me. Like father, like

son. The staccato of my irregular heartbeat was persistently annoying. Family obligations compelled me to find a solution—and find it quickly!

Chapter 2:

THE ODYSSEY

In 1968 I closed my practice and began an odyssey, which led me through medical academia, libraries and seminars within and without the so-called mainstream of medicine. I was searching for a true understanding of the fundamental cause of Cardiovascular-Renal Disease.

My first stop on the journey took me to Roanoke, Virginia, where a physician from England was holding a seminar on animal and human pathology. The chemistry of water, the Total Dissolved Solids in the water, and the electrolytes of human and animal plasma seemed innocuous and almost made me pass up the course. How could there be a relationship between water and heart disease?

How could there be minerals in the water harmful to the human body? After all, didn’t we get our needed minerals from drinking water? The answer: A huge emphatic NO!

Essential minerals are not within our drinking water. If so, would we seek the essential minerals in the presence of such lethal elements as Lead, Arsenic, Aluminum, Mercury and Zinc to name but a few.

Inorganic minerals found in lakes, rivers, streams and city water systems are a primary source of toxicity to human and animal life. For further information read Rachel Carson’s revealing treatise Silent Spring.

The diversified training of a Generalist demands wide-angle vision in order to be effective in aiding his/her patients to undergo the personal growth necessary to understand and cope with the assortment of maladies that happen in life.

The wide-angle vision amplifies the resources available for training patients to identify and avoid direct causes of many diseases. What you perceive and believe determines your course of action.

All of us have to fight our own Resistance to Change factor. The RC Factor seems to be innate. Ironically, the more educated we are the most fixed is our belief and the greater our Resistance to Change.

Medical professionals are frequently at the bulwark of Resistance to Change. None of us can claim exemption from this human frailty. Growth depends upon change, yet it is resisted. If you set a goal to start your life anew, you must change your point of view.

Resistance to Change appears deeply rooted to hesitancy in using anything with which we are not familiar. Growth depends upon change and understanding. We oppose change while reveling in attempts to grow, all the while avoiding the basic principles of Physics, Mathematics, Inorganic and Organic Chemistry. These are powerful forces akin to logic, and logic akin to epidemiology follows the basics in science, not the other way around.

Consider the impressive concept of Dr. Nicholas Stravitis, St. Vincent Hospital, Cleveland, at the Annual Convention of the Ohio Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons, where he stated: ‘Disregard the search for the drug in overdose. All approaches for a diagnosis are the