The Real Solution for Ulcers
Congratulations are in order to Dr. Barry Marshall from Australia who received the 2005 Nobel 
Prize in medicine today for going against the grain and turning the medical world upside down 23 years ago and showing us that an infection played a large role in ulcers.
When I read the USA Today headline this morning I knew it was him without even having to read the story. I have written about his novel therapy previously on the web site.
I remember VERY clearly in 1983 when I first read his intriguing work in Lancet and started putting many patients on his protocol with remarkable success. I also remember equally clearly the amazing resistance by every single GI expert I knew of. They all discounted the “theory” and said it was full of rubbish.
It was very clear to me back then that even though I was a brand new doctor I knew my expert teachers were wrong. Time has proven that to be true. Similarly it is even MORE obvious that nearly all of conventional medicine is dead wrong on how most disease operates. They are virtually 100% clueless about the true cause of disease.
Only this time I won’t have to sit back and wait for the Nobel Committee to validate my belief. I am taking a far more proactive role and my primary passion and mission in life is to catalzye the transformation of health care in the US to one that appreciates and operates on the foundational truths of health. And you and I both know that does not involve using drugs and surgery as the first option.
Getting back to Dr. Marshall though, even though his approach on peptic ulcers was far closer than using H2 blockers and proton pump inhibitors like Nexium (which are one of the WORST approachs for ulcers) he still did not get in completley right.
Althoug it is clear that H. pylori bacteria play a major role in ulcers the more foundational and primary reason why most people acquire ulcers is that they have an impairment in their immune system that allows the H. pylori infection to take hold.
So while I used the Marshall antibiotic protocol 20 years ago to take care of ulcers, I abandoneed it over ten years ago in favor of optimizing food choices and effective tools to address the underlying emotional stresses that temporarily collapse the average person’s immune system and make them susceptible to all sorts of infections.
Although antibiotics work, they rarely address the underlying cause of the problem.
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