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Submitted by ICIM President Robban Sica MD via Garry Gordon MD

No Deaths from Vitamins:America's Largest Database Confirms Supplement Safety

There was not even one death caused by a vitamin supplement in 2010, according to the most recent information collected by the U.S. National Poison Data System.

The new 203-page annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers, published online at http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/Portals/0/2010%20NPDS%20Annual%20Report.pdf, shows zero deaths from multiple vitamins; zero deaths from any of the B vitamins; zero deaths from vitamins A, C, D, or E; and zero deaths from any other vitamin.

Additionally, there were no deaths whatsoever from any amino acid or dietary mineral supplement.

Three people died from non-supplement mineral poisoning: two from medical use of sodium and one from non-supplemental iron. On page 131, the AAPCC report specifically indicates that the iron fatality was not from a nutritional supplement.

Fifty-seven poison centers provide coast-to-coast data for the National Poison Data System, "one of the few real-time national surveillance systems in existence, providing a model public health surveillance system for all types of exposures, public health event identification, resilience response and situational awareness tracking."

Well over half of the U.S. population takes daily nutritional supplements. Even if each of those people took only one single tablet daily, that makes 165,000,000 individual doses per day, for a total of over 60 billion doses annually. Since many persons take far more than just one single vitamin or mineral tablet, actual consumption is considerably higher, and the safety of nutritional supplements is all the more remarkable.

Over 60 billion doses of vitamin and mineral supplements per year in the USA, and not a single fatality. Not one. If vitamin and mineral supplements are allegedly so "dangerous," as the FDA and news media so often claim, then where are the bodies?

Reference: Bronstein AC, Spyker DA, Cantilena LR Jr, Green JL, Rumack BH, Dart RC. 2010 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers' National Poison Data System (NPDS): 28th Annual Report. The full text article is available for free download at http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/Portals/0/2010%20NPDS%20Annual%20Report.pdf The data mentioned above are found in Table 22B. Mineral data on page 131; vitamin data on pages 137-139.

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Register for ICIM Cleveland Sept 19-20, 2012 for a thorough and comprehensive workshop which will cover and explain the proper and best methods for preparing the patient/client for the detoxification process.

Detoxification is one of the most important and most misunderstood processes required to attain or maintain long term health. It is even more important to specifically reduce the risks of cancer and a plethora or neurological diseases from MS and ALS to Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.

Few physicians or even the most holistic of health practitioners truly understand either how to slowly and safely accomplish this daunting task or even what toxic substances they need to help remove from their patients.

This workshop will address the reason for needing different products for different patients as well as any possible differences in their instructional protocol. Patient handouts for each product will also be supplied for clinical use. Products such as the cleanest most poison free household and bathroom cleansers, soaps, lotions, shampoos, detergents, etc, will be covered and a handout on the best products will be supplied. Liver and kidney support will be covered in depth as well as controversies in testing for these organs. The old “no pain no gain” philosophy is harming people, and this workshop will explain why, and how to avoid such discompfort including the "Herxheimer (detox) Reaction." Since proper, safe detoxification can never be done rapidly, physicians will be learning a procedure, which, if explained clearly will give long term patients who will love the benefits they derive and will refer other patients.

If doctors truly want to do everything within their power to help patients improve their health, they will likely join a growing number of health practitioners who quickly realize that this information becomes the most important they have ever learned.

Presenter David Getoff ND is in full time private practice and is a Board Certified Traditional Naturopath as well as a Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist/Lecturer/Educator/Educational DVD producer. He teaches at Grossmont/Cuyamaca College adult education department in La Mesa Ca. and at The American College of Integrative Medicine and Dentistry.

“Sex, Lies, and Homones”

Lead-in Workshops September 19-20, Main Congress September 21-23, 2012 Marriott Key Center Cleveland, OH

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I would appreciate if you could circulate to your teams and colleagues that may also be interested in attending and submitting an abstract. Further information and updates could be found in the conference website www.rahms-medicine.org. Let me know if you need any further information. Kind regards, G J Kontoghiorghes

When a patient presents a problem, your noticing the “frame” size, and altering it can often be the small change that brings about infinite results. Patient: My health has always been bad.

1. When you think about your childhood now, can you remember times you felt really good?

2. I am curious in what ways specifically your health has caused you problems.

3. What specifically seems to be the problem now? Patient: I will never get better.

1. How do you know? You might be better tomorrow, next week, or a year from now.

2. Then what brought you here today?

3. I am wondering if there is something you can do today to ensure a healthier future.

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ICIM Cleveland : “Sex, Lies, and Hormones” meeting Sept 21-23, 2012 Register here http://bit.ly/JUlIuy to draw on Phyllis Bronson's scientific research over the past 15 years and how she brings the science alive for women where they live:in their relational, emotional worlds

Phyllis Bronson has done years of molecular research, see the important quote below from her great chemistry colleague and mentor, Dwight Smith, Ph.D., former chancellor of the University of Denver: “The research which Phyllis and I pursued here, resulting in a significant finding, involved the spectroscopic study of natural progesterone and the synthetic version developed by pharmaceutical companies. The structural differences between the natural and synthetic progesterone have significant implications for women’s health. The work which Phyllis has done generally in the chemical and physiological effects of bioidentical hormones has received wide attention through her numerous lectures and publications.”

The talk will emphasize how the primary gender hormones are integrated with neurotransmitters for clinical application and the how the combination impacts mood. She will also show in very understandable manner what her original research on progesterone means in terms of a profound impact on women's mood biochemistry.

Bronson writes, "I will explain how in my approach we build a container for the aging process, that intelligent women are not primarily about "being sexy" but rather about being enough: good enough, smart and beautiful enough to create their own rational happiness. Having great sex and understanding the distinction between love-making and sex brings peace to this discourse. Our goal is to help women in the demographic of 50 and over achieve well- being but not the delusion of "Addiction to Perfection." Our goal should embrace each stage of life's journey and to get healthy enough physically and emotionally to tolerate the descents of mid- life and beyond, and perhaps even, in time, to embrace them.