KNOW THE CAUSE
by Doug Kaufmann

Q…I really enjoy your program!! I have adapted several of your plans and do feel much better. Thank you. However, I no longer can find your program in the OKC, Ok area. Tell me if and when will you be back on in this area. Thanks again. Nancy

A…Nancy, thanks to the U.S. pipeline that cable and satellite television has created, our show, KNOW THE CAUSE is available to just about every TV owner in America! Those who have DISH can watch the show daily on channel 223 at 8 a.m. Eastern Time and again at 3 p.m. Eastern Time on DISH, channel 218. PAX Cable now carries the show daily, as does Liberty Network, EchoStar and a host of independent TV stations. In Oklahoma City, you may watch the show daily on COX Cable, channel 17 and PAX channel 62 at 10 a.m. If you don't get the show, please call your cable company and ask them to call us! Thanks!

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Q…Hi Doug, I love your show! Your Christian attitude is warming. I am a very active 46 year old type one diabetic. I have had diabetes for 35 years. Four years ago, overnight my erections were approx. 50% as firm as they once were. The problem is veinous leak. The blood is leaking from the veins. I am now on a vein support product and Quercetin. This has helped a great deal but I am at 75% or so. I would like to return to 100% if at all possible. Any thoughts? Thank you Doug, Gregory

A…Greg, thanks for the nice letter! The fact that a natural vein support product and Quercitin have added back 25% to the equation indicates a possible etiology. Whereas many diabetic males do definitely suffer from ED, both of these products likely have antifungal characteristics; I have documented the fungal cause of diabetes in my book, INFECTIOUS DIABETES. As far as the final 25% improvement, I'd certainly try to adhere to our Phase 2 Diet and begin increasing antifungal foods (broccoli, carrot, garlic, etc…) as well as supplemental antimicrobials like Oregano Oil and Olive Leaf Extract. A little more time, effort and knowledge and you might become the greatest diabetes professor in America!

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Q…I was in Club Pogo today when several people told me about your site. Let me take a minute to explain, I am 44 and was diagnosed with RA at age 38. I have had some recent x-rays and was told I have severe degenerative RA in my feet, severe osteoarthritis in my neck and osteoarthritis in my hands, although it acts more like RA. My daughter who is now 15 was diagnosed with Stills disease and JRA at the age of 13. She is lucky and doesn't have any joint inflammation or deformities yet, and we pray for full recovery. It took two years to get her pain and fevers under control though. The pain and decreased function is awful, along with weight gain from the meds and losing head hair, but gaining facial hair. My daughter has gained weight from her methotrexate, and she quit taking her prednisone. She used to be a swimmer, and very athletic but now doesn't participate in sports and looks at herself as a fat kid. She seems to have a problem catching her breath if she participates in sports, but the doctors have told her there is nothing wrong. I however have found evidence it might be caused by her injections of methatrexate, which the doctor disagrees.

In my game room, I was told Doug Kaufmann had a diet that has helped, and also has information on the relationship of yeast, and mold in RA. I would truly appreciate any information I could get regarding this. A few of the people who have read your books and followed your diet are no longer on medication to hold this disease at bay. It seems that around my area no one has this information. I thank you for taking your time to provide us with your advice and any help you might know of. Many Thanks.

A…What an incredible letter! I get requests like these daily and perhaps, God willing, I can be of assistance. It does not shock me that no one in your area understands the fungal component to arthritis. If they did, the impact on the local medical economy would suffer. According to Yahoo health, one of the more severe adverse reactions to the prescriptive drug Methotrexate is what is referred to as a an "allergic reaction, characterized by shortness of breath; closing of the throat; difficulty breathing; swelling of the lips, face, or tongue; or hives." Did that say, "shortness of breath?" Although your doctor may not be up to date with the side effects of this drug, fortunately the internet is loaded with them. Be a prudent consumer and always feel comfortable checking your doctor's advice via the internet when good questions like yours arise that may be conflicted by his orders. Please consider educating yourself in this area. The first book I wrote, The Fungus Link 1, deals with the very questions you have and I think that finding a like-minded physician and reading this book, in that order, would be of tremendous benefit to you and your family.

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Q…Doug, my son was diagnosed with MS three years ago. He has tried every vitamin and supplement on the market and along with the drugs he is not better. For a while we thought he might have Lyme's Disease because as a young boy he was bitten by a tick at the base of his neck. When he called the doctor, he immediately put him on antibiotics and then while on the medication, they did the test for the Lyme's and it was negative. So I am thinking how can it come back positive while on the antibiotics?

He is 35 years old, has an 11 month old baby and has not been able to work since October. We need your help and he won't listen to me about his diet. He loves to eat ice cream. Please help with any suggestions.

PS. I listen to you whenever I am at home and I got my mom hooked on you and I tell everyone that I know about your show. Thanks for your help. Dee

A…Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is yet another autoimmune disorder that has no known etiology (cause). I have long contended that if we stopped paying for six-hour symptom relief and only paid for learning the cause of our cancer, hypertension, diabetes, obesity or MS, we'd all be better off by far; the physician, because knowledge is power and they would rightfully be due a large payment for their knowledge; the patient, willing to pay that large payment, because in knowing the cause, the onus would revert to us, not a physician, to get better. We could choose to follow the prescribed diet and supplement regimen to rid the germ causing the symptom or disease, or choose stay ill.

When a doctor tests blood for many diseases, he is looking for an antibody (B-Cell Lymphocytes make these) response, signifying previous exposure to an antigen (in this case the Lyme's antigen). Simply put, your son's blood serum, would show past exposure to Lyme's disease, if he had launched a B-Cell lymphocyte response to Lymes, which his test results indicate he had not. The early use of the antibiotics would not interfere with his past exposure, so the test results should be considered accurate. Now, please understand that a positive Lyme's, or Epstein Barr, or even AIDS test result, is never conclusive, because the presence of a B-Cell immune response does not determine the cause of the symptoms or disease. Rather, it merely determines past exposure. So many people are frightened unnecessarily when their test results are returned to them.

A Florida neurologist reported many years ago that his MS patients had yeast in their blood serum. Dr. A.V. Costantini, formerly with the World Health Organization (WHO) published that he thought MS was due to fungal poisons, called mycotoxins, in our diets. I wholeheartedly agree and have published more compelling evidence in my Fungus Link 2 book on the fungus/MS link.

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Q…Doug, I need help. I have an aging parent with diabetes that needs nutritional support. There are many liquid products on the market, but are they any good? One of them seems to raise his blood sugar level. There is no way we will change his diet, but if we can add some nutritional support, that he can afford and will take (has a hard time swallowing pills), we will try to convince him to use it. Thank you for your great column! Elaine

A…Elaine, let me emphasize the importance of nutrition in preventing and even treating diabetes. Laboratory mice, although being used for decades to study diabetes, don't actually get diabetes! Laboratory researchers have to inject them with diabetes! They do this by injecting a poisonous fungal metabolite called streptozotocin directly into the mice. In 1990, researchers fed mice a formula of 10% Brewers Yeast (as in alcoholic beverages) in order to induce diabetes. The point is obvious. Fungal metabolites impregnate our grain supply in America and alcohol is intimately involved in many diseases, including diabetes. As I age, in order to prevent diabetes and other serious diseases, I avoid grains in my diet, leaning toward vegetables and protein from meat, nuts and beans. If I had diabetes, I'd find a good nutritional supplement and begin taking it (Damage Control Master Formula or ALL-1 Green) in liquid form if needed on a daily basis. I'd find a physician who knew of the fungal cause of many cases of diabetes and I'd juice with carrots (falcarinol, a component in carrots kills fungus!) daily. Sometimes physicians may be willing to prescribe antifungal medications like Diflucan and Nystatin for a few weeks to assist in the diagnosis. I hope this helps you!

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