Medical Reviewers for Rheumatoid
Arthritis: The Infection Connection
Dr. Joseph Mercola’s website
and electronic newsletter offer timely, practical, and valuable information addressing
a wide variety of health issues. His website, www.mercola.com,
has become the most-visited natural health Internet site in the United States.
The site is linked to over 20,000 medical pages and includes an improved
version of Dr. Brown’s protocol, which he has used successfully to treat
thousands of arthritis patients. Dr. Mercola has generously given permission to
reprint this protocol as Appendix II of this book.
Dr. Garth Nicolson is
currently the President, Chief Scientific Officer and Research Professor at the
Institute for Molecular Medicine in Huntington Beach, California. The
Institute’s website is www.immed.org. He
was formally the David Bruton Jr. Chair in Cancer Research, Professor and
Chairman at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston,
and Professor of Internal Medicine and Professor of Pathology and Laboratory
Medicine at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston.
Dr. Nicolson was also
Adjunct Professor of Comparative Medicine at Texas A & M University. Among
the most cited scientists in the world, having published over 520 medical and
scientific papers, edited 14 books, served on the Editorial Boards of 20
medical and scientific journals, including the Journal of Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome, and currently serving as Editor of two (Clinical & Experimental
Metastasis and the Journal of Cellular Biochemistry), Professor Nicolson has
held numerous peer-reviewed research grants. He is a recipient of the Burroughs
Wellcome Medal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Stephen Paget Award of the
Metastasis Research Society and the U. S. National Cancer Institute Outstanding
Investigator Award. Dr. Nicolson has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in cell
microbiology. His Institute’s dietary considerations for chronic illness
patients are reprinted in Appendix III of this book.
Dr. Tsuyoshi Okada, M.D.,
F.A.C.P., maintains a private practice in Southern California. He is the author
of several publications in the areas of Geriatric Medicine and Internal
Medicine. He is a member of the active staff of the Gardena Community Hospital
and has been Chief of Staff and Chief of Medicine at that facility. Dr. Okada
is also on the courtesy staff of Little Company of Mary Hospital in Torrance.
Dr. Okada’s observations on interactions between prescription drugs and
herbal/vitamin supplements are much appreciated.
The work of these dedicated
professionals is quoted and referenced throughout this book. I thank each of
them sincerely for their contributions and for reviewing draft versions of the
text.
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