Infection Protection: How to Fight the Germs That Make You Sick

444 Pages·2002·13.21 MB·English

by  Ronald Klatz

HOWTOFIGHTTHEGERMS
THATMAKEYOUSICK
Infection
Protection
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RONALD M. KLATZ, M.D., D.O., AND
ROBERT M. GOLDMAN, M.D., D.O., PH.D.
WITH CATHERINE CEBULA
Dedication
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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and
thinking what nobody has thought.
—American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
This work pays tribute to the thousands of medical innovators who,
despite the harshest of circumstances and intellectual climates,perse-
vered to accomplish some of the greatest advancements through
which medicine has evolved for the betterment of its patients.
Take the example of the now obvious recommendation that to
avoid spreading infectious diseases, physicians wash their hands and
medical instruments between patient examinations. In the 1850s,
Hungarian physician Dr.Ignas Semmelweiss noticed that fewer of his
patients were dying since he had adopted this procedure.Year after
year, Semmelweiss held steadfastly to the notion that his colleagues
follow his advice. He was called all sorts of names for what was
branded a strange and preposterous theory. In an ironic twist, Sem-
melweiss died of an infectious disease contracted as a patient in a local
hospital.Today we owe a great debt to Dr.Semmelweiss for maintain-
ing an unwavering commitment to his beliefs—beliefs that ultimately
improved medical care for every man, woman, and child in every
nation across the globe.
Dedication [ iii ]
The great leap in health care of the twenty-first century is offered
by antiaging medicine.A patient-centric, wellness-based model that
delivers life-enhancing and life-extending medical care, antiaging
medicine is a medical specialty that applies advanced scientific and
medical technologies for the prevention, early detection, treatment,
and reversal of age-related diseases.It is a health care model promot-
ing innovative science and research to prolong the healthy life span in
humans.As such, antiaging medicine is based on principles of sound
and responsible medical care that are consistent with those applied in
other preventive health specialties.
As Dr. von Szent-Gyorgyi intimated, the success of antiaging
physicians,health practitioners,and scientists is in their ability to see
what everyone else has seen but to think anew with this evidence.To
this spirit of unbridled creativity and relentless pursuit of the same,
the authors pay tribute and dedicate this work. May each of us alive
today, and the generations to follow, reap the life-enhancing, life-
extending benefits of the seeds that the innovative science of antiaging
medicine is sowing today.
With our most sincere wishes for your personal longevity.
ronald m. klatz, m.d., d.o., president
robert m. goldman, m.d., d.o., ph.d., chairman
american academy of anti-aging medicine
A nonprofit medical society of 10,000 physicians,
health practitioners,and scientists hailing from
60 countries worldwide who believe,
“Aging is not inevitable.”

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They’re everywhere on us,in us,around us;they are a life force
without which humans could not survive.We are as whales
floating in a sea of microorganisms,most of which ignore us,
some of which sustain us,and a few of which would like to eat us.

Contents
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Travel-Wise vs.Travel-Weary
Resolution to Reduce Stress
Ageless Beauty
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Epigraph vii
Preface xv
Please Read—Important Notice xix
Introduction:From Immunity to Infinity 1
1: It’s a Bug’s Life 5
Be Afraid,Be Very Afraid—Germs Are Out to Get You!
Horror Headlines
Biological Terrorism
Fearful Forecasts
Heart Disease
Stroke
Cancer
Alzheimer’s Disease
Bug-Busting Blockbusters
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2: Sworn to Defend, Protect, and Serve 45
The Endocrine System:Command and Control Central
The Immune System:The Defense Department
The Lymphatic System:Soldiers That Battle Invaders
The Nervous System:Sentries Watching Over the Immune
Response
Bug-Busting Blockbusters
3: You Are What You Eat 65
The Digestive Process
Modern-Day Dining Trends
Food-Borne Disease
Food Safety for Home
Food Safety for Dining Out
Stomach Health in the Age of Rising Food-Borne Disease
Bug-Busting Blockbusters
4: Digestion, Immunity, and Parasites 90
Flora
Bowel Function
Using Natural Products
Bug-Busting Blockbusters
5: Bladder, Kidneys, and Genitourinary Complaints 109
Urinary Tract Infections
Yeast Overgrowth and Infection
Vaginal Infections
Bacterial Prostatitis
Bug-Busting Blockbusters
6: The Breath of Life: The Respiratory System 123
Sneezing
Coughing
Colds and Flu
Pneumonia
Sinusitis
Ear Infections
Asthma
Tuberculosis
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Mononucleosis
Meningitis
Bug-Busting Blockbusters
7: More Than Skin Deep 158
Hands
Abrasions
Bites
Streptococcus and Staphylococcus
Ringworm
Stubborn Nail Fungus
Lice
Bug-Busting Blockbusters
8: ABCs of Hepatitis 181
Types of Hepatitis
Basics About Hepatitis A,B,and C
The Nation’s Blood Supply
Bug-Busting Blockbusters
9: Oral Infections 196
Watch Your Mouth
Gum Disease
Tooth Decay
Bad Breath
Canker Sores
Bug-Busting Blockbusters
10:STD Fundamentals 209
A Triad of Diseases with a Common Viral Basis
Risky Business
All About STDs
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Bug-Busting Blockbusters