Abundant Health in a Toxic World

By David J. Getoff CCN CTN FAAIM and Jonathan V. Wright MD

Abundant Health in a Toxic World

The American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, and others all claim that their diseases are mainly caused by diet, nutrition, lifestyle, and toxic exposures. Sadly, they would rather send you for drugs and surgery than address these causes. If you are someone who would rather eliminate the causes and watch the symptoms go away by themselves, this book is for you.

David specializes in reducing or eliminating causes to help his patients and students improve their health. Drugs are generally suppressors of symptoms while the condition gets worse.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: May 8, 2018
• ISBN: 9781546240327

David J. Getoff CCN CTN FAAIM

The Detox ProfessorTM, David Getoff is a nationally Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist, and Traditional Naturopath. He is an elected member of both the American College of Nutrition and the International College of Integrative Medicine. Most importantly, David is a voracious learner, attending and lecturing at scientific conferences around the U.S. This keeps him up to date with cutting edge information which often takes decades to reach to the medical profession and the public. David has been helping his patients and students improve their health for over 25 years.

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to all the people who are not as healthy as they want to be and who have had limited or no success in finding a way to feel better. To all the people, with numerous varied diseases, conditions, and syndromes who the traditional medical system has failed to serve. To the thousands who have fallen through the cracks of our broken disease-care system, a system addicted to diagnosing and naming every condition, a system whose professionals neither have the faintest idea what caused the disease nor a way to cure it. All they can do (sometimes) is help suppress symptoms while the condition remains the same or, in most cases, continues to progress.

Medical doctors are taught almost nothing about nutritional connections to disease. Often, what little they have been taught is actually not correct. They were taught ZERO about the relationship of numerous toxic or poisonous chemicals and metals to our growing number of immune, auto-immune, neurological, and emotional conditions. They most certainly were not taught how to slowly and safely reduce the toxic load in the organs and cells throughout your body. Sadly, few if any of the other holistic professionals were taught how to accomplish this either. This book is for all of you and those few of your healthcare providers who wish to continue to learn and be better able to help more of their patients get well.

A note to my readers: Many people buy a book only to learn the important facts that it contains and NOT to learn all about the author and his or her life, history or education. I have chosen to write a rather long description of my life and how I got into this field as well as providing a forward written by my best friend who has known me throughout most of my life. Some of the people who have given me pre-publication comments have liked this and some have told me that I should make it much shorter or cut out most of this historical personal information entirely. Since I feel it is important to tell my story, I have left it in place for you to read. If you are not interested in all this information about me, please skip to wherever you wish to start reading. You could start at the Advance Praise or the Preface or even skip it all and start at the beginning of Chapter 1. I feel that my personal history is rather interesting and that some will enjoy learning these things about me, and so I have left it in this book.

Every page also includes invisible wishes for your improved health and a long disease-free and happy life.

David Getoff, CCN, FAAIM

FDA Statement preface and disclaimer

Although the United States is considered a free country, I am required to truthfully state that the information in this book is for informational purposes only (what else would a book be for?) and is not meant to diagnose or treat any medical condition. If you suffer from or believe that you have a medical condition, you should seek the help of a properly licensed, qualified and knowledgeable physician, although you may find the most knowledgeable ones very difficult to locate.

This book contains knowledge that I have gained over my lifetime and through clinical experience in my practice which may often disagree with mainstream medical beliefs. Do not argue with your physician. Instead, work to locate one who you can trust and who you feel has the knowledge required to help you improve your health.

In our country, we have no choice about having tap water with added chlorine and chloramines which are proven cancer and neurological disease causing chemical agents. Although they help keep it free of bacteria and other pathogens, they also add fluoride to treat the people (not the water) without our permission even when the science proves it is harmful and not helpful. Our children (and possibly soon our adults) are forced to receive toxic vaccinations without our consent and there is very good but withheld science proving they do more harm than good. We are still referred to as a free country.

It will take millions of people insisting on being given back our rights. Politicians who, if they work more for big business instead of the people they were elected to serve must be replaced in the next election. Then maybe we can really once again be a free country. I teach my classes, lecture at scientific medical, dental and nutrition conferences, write articles and now this book, to help further your knowledge to better enable you to improve your health.

Contents

Preface

Foreword by Jonathan V. Wright, MD

Best Friend Forward by David S. Bunin

My Story

PART :   1   IMPROVING YOUR HEALTH WITH DETOXIFICATION, DIET AND SUPPLEMENTS

Chapter 1   What Is Wrong with How You Feel All the Time.

A) Why detox?

B) Body burden

C) Current daily exposures

D) The effects that these poisons can have on your body

Chapter 2   The Good News

A) Conditions which can be helped

B) How quickly can you see improvements?

C) What improvements can you expect?

Chapter 3   Diet: Good Foods, Bad Foods, and How to Know the Difference

A) Food quality is extremely important and food type is even more important

B) Foods to reduce or eliminate, as much as you are willing, to improve your health

C) The problems with our U.S. wheat

D) Sweeteners: the good, the bad, and the ugly

E) What you need to know about starch

Chapter 4   Foods to Include

A) Our history of healthy eating has been diminishing rapidly

B) The more current history of unhealthy eating

C) Food groups, food lists and a real food pyramid

D) Why every dinner is a breakfast

E) Whoever ate that Super Food 1000 years ago?

Chapter 5   Nutritional Supplements and Environmental Toxins

A) Why supplements have become necessary for good health

B) Which supplements are the most important and why

C) Does the brand make a difference and which do I like best?

D) How to swallow a tablet-the easiest, safest way

E) What your doctor (MD) was taught about nutrition

F) Water and sleep do not get enough attention

G) Sleep

H) Prescription and non-prescription drugs

PART :   2   PUTTING THE NUTRITIONAL MEDICINE PROGRAM INTO PRACTICE

Chapter 6   Detoxing Your Way to Better Health-The Program

A) Detoxing your way to improved health, a 60 day program designed to change your life

B) Closing remarks-how has everyone done?

C) For those readers of this book who are health professionals

PART :   3   60 DAYS TO A HEALTHIER GUT, BRAIN, ENERGY LEVEL, AND OVERALL HEALTH

Chapter 7   What if the Information We Have Been Taught Is Wrong?

A) Breast Cancer, Bras, and Sweating-What Else Are We Not Being Told

Acknowledgments

Thanking my Mentors

About the Author

Preface

In 1993, on a flight to New York City, I, once again, found myself thinking about the broken medical system. The day before, I had received a phone call that my mother was in Doctor’s Hospital in Manhattan with advanced stage 4 metastatic cancer. I thought I could help my mother, I just didn’t know if she would accept it.

But I get ahead of myself. Twelve years before, Mom had found a lump in her breast which was diagnosed as breast cancer. In her search for treatment, she could not find a surgeon who was willing to do a simple lumpectomy-every single one had insisted on removing her breast even though, way back then, it had been proven that a mastectomy did not have any better life expectancy than a lumpectomy. Many oncologists continue performing mastectomies on single isolated breast tumors. How sad and how ignorant.

My mother finally located an expert in the field, Dr. Susan Love, and flew to Boston to receive a lumpectomy and some radiation afterwards. Dr. Love has since written many books and is a top researcher in the field of breast cancer, although she is not into the holistic methods that I subscribe to.

I always tell my students and patients that people get cancer for one main reason which, in turn, has numerous underlying causes. The main reason is that their immune system is not working as well as it should and could be working. In addition, there are three medical procedures which are very harmful to the immune system and these are chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. With this in mind, any person who undergoes one or more of these therapies for cancer has further harmed their already insufficient immune system. The result, proven by numerous studies and tens of thousands of clinical cases, is that the patient will almost always get cancer again after it has been surgically removed and medically treated, if they live long enough. Please note that I AM NOT recommending to anyone that they avoid surgery. In addition, should you decide, after surgery, that you do not wish to continue with either chemotherapy or radiation, you must do so based on your own thorough investigations. DO NOT make that decision based on what I have written in this book or said in any of my lectures or videos.

Of course we don’t know if the second bout with cancer will be in one year, or three or five or ten. The point is that unless patients make some major changes in their diet and lifestyle, and use some good nutritional supplements, their immune systems will be more vulnerable after their treatments than when they first developed cancer. My mother made none of these changes and so it was only a matter of time. Some people die of other causes before they again develop cancer but if the right testing was done during their autopsies, cancer would most likely be found. For more information on the issues with testing to find cancer, read the book Over Diagnosed by Drs. Gilbert Welch, Lisa M. Schwartz, and Steven Woloshin.

So here was my mother, twelve years later, with metastatic cancer all over her body, in a room in Doctors Hospital. Scans showed cancer up and down her spine, in her ribs, her shoulder and elsewhere. She had been in so much pain that they could not even put her into a wheelchair, as she could not bend her spine to sit. The EMT’s had to strap her onto a stretcher and carry her out of our (huge seven-room apartment where I was raised) apartment on West 89th street.

I spoke to her two oncologists and asked for the most accurate prognosis they could give me, to which they responded that she had maybe as much as 3 months. I asked if they believed in miracles and one of them said you want a miracle? OK, then 4 months but don’t count on it. I went back into her room to see what she wanted to do.

I asked her if she wanted my help. I had been studying holistic healing for fun and as a hobby for many years and was now just barely in practice for under a year. When she replied that she would do whatever I wanted her to do, I was stunned! I thought those words must have come out of some other woman’s mouth, not my mother’s. But she made it clear that she meant it, and so we got her released, took her home and hired a cook to prepare the kinds of food I needed her to eat-low starch (now I do zero), no sugar, no alcohol, super high quality nutrient dense foods, organic whenever possible, and a boatload of supplements. If you want to know more about how I currently treat people who have cancer, please see my cancer DVD and the cancer areas of my extensive professional website, http://www.naturopath4you.com/.

Initially, Mom was on the highest dose of the strongest pain killer, fentanyl, in transdermal patches which were changed every three days. By the third day, the pain was always so great, due to the cancer eating into her bones, that she screamed to try to get her aide to change the patch early. Meanwhile, she really was eating only what I wanted her to eat and would refuse any sweets that friends would bring when they visited. This angered them and I received many phone calls with variations of your mother is dying, why won’t you let her have her favorite chocolates and ice cream and cookies? Though I explained that I was trying to improve and extend her life, they remained angry with me.

After six months, her pain had greatly decreased and she was on a much lower dose of the prescription pain patch. She could once again feed herself and her hair was growing back from the chemo she had undergone in the hospital. At the nine month mark, she was walking outside for exercise and the pain was pretty much gone. After twelve months, she was walking a mile a day, had no more pain, and a bone scan showed that none of the cancer areas in her bones had increased in size and some had decreased. She flew out to San Diego to visit my wife and me and a good friend of hers who lived near us. She also had an appointment with a doctor who was then using the cancer treatment discovered by Gaston Naessens called 714X. For a short time, this was added to my protocol with her. Since this is not an approved cancer treatment, this doctor, a very nice caring MD doing important work, was later raided by the police and shut down by the medical board. I believe that he was shut down for helping to cure cancer using methods that are not accepted by mainstream medicine. Very sad. At this point she looked great. The calls I received from her friends or our relatives were different now. Not only were they no longer angry with me, but they expressed their amazement at what I had accomplished and thanked me for my help.

Somewhere around eighteen months (I no longer have my notes since my home was completely destroyed in the 2007 San Diego national wildfire disaster), I became worried. My mother had only two jobs. One was to eat well and take her supplements as I had instructed. The second was to phone me when she was getting low on any products so I could ship her more. I realized it had been too long since the last time she asked for refills so I called her to see what was going on. Mom affirmed that everything was fine, saying, I feel great. When I asked why she had not called me for refills, she said she had recently stopped them all since it was a lot of pills and she didn’t think they were really doing anything. Mom, you were supposed to be dead over a year ago and instead you’re feeling fine. What do you mean they are not doing anything? She told me that yes, that’s what her friends and relatives were saying but she just didn’t see it that way. I tried to convince her that since we knew the cancer was still there, she would need to be on the super healthy diet and the supplements for maybe another year or more to help her body eliminate it. She wouldn’t budge.

My mother, although she was a prominent and well-respected psychologist, had not been a happy woman since she and my dad split up when I was twelve. She had expressed to me years before that if he didn’t love her anymore she must not be lovable. She let the cancer turn around and she died in August of 1995, six to nine months after stopping my protocol.

These two plus years of working with my mother taught me many things, but perhaps three of these were the most important. The first was that end stage cancer can be turned around, at least in some people, if they are willing and able to do all the right things. The second is that it doesn’t matter if the person does or does not believe in holistic medicine, as belief is not important in order for science to work (given her evident desire to die, my mother did not think my program would work or she wouldn’t have said yes to doing everything I wanted). The third is that I should always make sure someone with a deadly condition REALLY desires to get well or they won’t continue the program and may even sabotage it.

At my mother’s funeral, in addition to our relatives and close friends, I got to see some of her long time patients. It was a tear jerker to hear one couple declare that if it were not for their therapy over many years with my mother, they would never have felt emotionally well enough to have a child. When a twenty-five year old woman went up to the podium to tell us that she was that child, I couldn’t help but cry. I made two main comments at her funeral. The first was to tell everyone that the reason I was not wearing either a tie or a yamaka (Jewish skull cap), was so that my mother’s spirit, who I was certain was there with us, would recognize me. The second was to describe how unhappy she had been and that I was pretty sure that she had stopped following my program after about a year and a half in order to allow the cancer to take over and end her life.

Mom’s oncologists were extremely clear that she only had maybe three months to live. I expect that she figured that no one would be upset with her for dying of cancer. She must have thought that it wouldn’t hurt to also make her oldest son happy by doing all the things I wanted her to do, since she would be dead in three months anyway. After eighteen months, when it became very clear that if she continued on the dietary and supplement program I had set up for her, she was not going to die, she had to stop it all. She was an unhappy woman who just didn’t wish to be here anymore.

Thanks Mom, for teaching me these lessons. I am crying as I type this. It was the fantastic feeling I got as we turned around your stage four cancer and brought you back to looking and feeling great that has since directed my life. I have had about seven occupations over my short 66 years of life, but none of them gave me the glowing happy and proud satisfaction that I got by helping extend your life. Seeing you come back from the depths of excruciating pain to the healthy smiling mother who raised me was an incredible feeling. I only wish I could have also repaired your emotional health so that you would have wanted to stay on the planet, so you would still be here. You have permanently locked me into the profession of health and healing and for that I will forever thank you. No matter how much of my time is devoted to writing and lecturing, I am sure I will continue seeing patients for the rest of my life for the tremendous satisfaction that it gives me to improve people’s health.

Thanks Mom.

Foreword by Jonathan V. Wright, MD

In this unique and highly informative book, David Getoff tells us that "diabetes, heart or cardiovascular disease, anxiety, depression, lack of energy and chronic fatigue, sleep issues, many bowel issues including Crohn’s disease, celiac and other wheat or gluten sensitivities, multiple sclerosis, memory issues of many types, multiple chemical sensitivity and environmental illness, many neurological diseases, hormonal imbalances, chronic infections and immune conditions, Lyme and co-infections, cancer, viral and bacterial infections, inability to thrive, inability