Dr. Jack Stockwell, NUCCA Doctor

My wife, Mary, has quite a story to tell...

Hello everybody!  I'm Mary, Jack's wife, and I run the BioMeridian Nutritional department in our clinic in Salt Lake City.  I'm excited to be on the Doug Stephan Show!  I was talking to Doug yesterday telling him how much I wish the women of the world knew there were options to their health care, and Doug asked me to come on as a guest and tell the story of my return to health...

Almost twelve years ago I found my first breast lump... I state that so calmly now, but many of you, I know, have felt the sheer terror of that moment yourself.  I had just watched my grandmother slowly die of breast cancer in my mother's bed a few years before, and this sent waves of panic in me that cannot be described.  I initially fell to the floor in panic...I remember rocking on the floor with my knees to my chest, just trying to breath.  I was 37 years old and "way to young" to have this happening.  After all, my grandmother was in her 80's!  But eventually I got up off the floor and promptly went into denial.  I had just gotten divorced and felt very alone in the world.  Some time later I called my sister, and to her great credit she flew into town just to go to my mammogram appointment with me.  Looking back, she must have been very frightened also after going through our grandmother's death too. 

I remember the test being uncomfortable and frightening but I didn't cry all the way through it because of pain...tears were the only response I had when coming face to face with my denial.  I remember the Radiologist was in a hurry to read the test, (it was lunch time or something) and he stopped counting my breast lumps on the film at 17.  He said there were too many to count, so it was established, I had Fibrocystic Breast Disease.  He said not to worry, "everybody has it," and just come back when it's cancer. 

And that was it.  That was the end of it until "they" could come up with some drug to make them go away, or they felt it was time to cut them out - or off...  And that was all I knew.  That was the answer from on high, the holy of holy's had spoken and there was nothing to do but wait...and panic...or just simply go into denial.  So I didn't think about it, didn't talk about it, didn't bring it up when I met Jack and eventually married him.  At least not much.  Sometimes it would squeak out in breathy gasps when life just got too much and I had to open up a little about some of my biggest fears. 

But basically I just lived my life and found myself pregnant (which was a huge surprise) and tried to keep myself healthy for the baby, but worrying I wouldn't be around to raise him.  Medicine offered me no advice, no nutritional help, no comfort, no hope.

About 5-6 years ago, our son was in school and I started to work part time in my husband's clinic.  We had more time to research now and we went to every nutritional seminar we could find because I knew this was the only hope I had of ever making a dent in this "mysterious appearance" of breast cysts.  They were now very hard and Jack's could feel more in me all the time.

We happened on a Standard Process seminar one day in Mesquite, Nevada where the President was speaking, and then another one in Salt Lake City where Dr. Michael Dobbins gave us some hope that there could be a way to help my "disease."

To make a long and scary story short, I embarked on a journey that was completely new to me, one of honoring the intrinsic intelligence of the body, which in the end changed the path I was on of mastectomies, disfigurement and probable early death. 

I now have no, zero, nada, not even one breast lump!  They are all gone.  And also gone are the days of complete endocrine distress and almost failure.  My thyroid was in such bad shape that I used to get these "chills" that would almost put me into a seizure to the point I would think my heart was going to stop.  I also couldn't stand up for any length of time...I was always looking for a chair everywhere I went. (This was in my 20's and 30's!)  And my moods!  Well, I have two ex-husbands that can tell you about those!  Crying all the time, exhausted, blaming everything and everybody for my moods.  I was a walking endocrine nightmare!  But now all those symptoms are gone.  I have tons of sustained energy, no more massive ups and downs because of the incredible sugar intake I had to have just to get through the day.  No weakness, no chills, no yeast infections, no bladder infections and a very calm and funny personality...(most of the time :-D)  But most importantly, I don't have any breast lumps, cysts, or that dreaded Fibrocystic Breast Disease!  (I rescinded the "decree" btw!)

I just want the women of the world to know there is something you CAN do besides sit around and wait for the time bomb to go off!  And I am not a superwoman of any kind.  I don't eat perfectly, I don't exercise like a maniac (and mostly not at all), I don't get enough sleep, and I expose myself to the same stresses and pollutants of life that most of us just can't avoid.  But I have baby'd and taken care of myself these last few years by FEEDING my body just like I would my most precious little baby.  I have been pretty good at staying on my regime of regaining my health... and I have cleansed, cleansed, cleansed my body. 

You can call our clinic at 801-523-1890, go to our website: jackstockwell.com or email me at: office@jackstockwell.com and we can give you information on the protocols I used and the cleanses we have perfected - if I do say so myself!  We are pretty damn good at balancing the craziness of your life with incredible nutritional support.  I didn't have time for snythetic anything in my life and I sure wasn't going to try all the crazy health fads and "miracle cures" that kept coming and going, i.e., certain berry drinks (you know who you are), alkinize or die (very bad science), multi-level everything, algea, vegetarianism, no fat, no salt, no red meat, no dairy, no fun....  No, I found Standard Process and the incredible no nonsense of brilliant Dr. Royal Lee and their whole food solutions and cleansing and I never looked back. 

And if there is enough interest I will try to post my protocol's and cleanses here.  They are very easy to do, it just takes some time...my breasts lumps were gone in about four months (really) but it took much longer to regain my health and change the reason for the lumps being there in the first place.  But it was  well worth it.  I think now I'll be around to see my sons wedding and maybe have some grandkids!  I must mention, besides my grandmother, my sister was diagnoised with breast cancer (in her lymphs) two years ago, two of my aunts on both sides of my family have had breast cancer twice and one is dying right now.  And I have had uncles die and cousins with cancer also.  So cancer was a very real gentic factor and fear in my life that I now have real hope to avoid. 

Today on the Doug Stephan Show Feb. 24, 2009

Hello Everybody.....Good morning from the Doug Stephan show!!

I thought I would give you a sample of my email I get on a regular basis from one of my patients. She and her daughter live in California, but we treat them in Utah.

"Hi Dr. Stockwell,

My mom passed along your Digestion CD to me and I CRINGED when I heard you speak of the parents who are put their 3 week old babies on antacids, because I did just that.

 My daughter had such horrible projectile vomiting and was in so much pain that I felt that it was all I could do even though my gut told me it was bad news.  She was on Previcid from 6 weeks until 10 months of age.  Even then she seemed miserable - I could just tell her tummy hurt all the time  but if we ever tried to take her off of the meds she acted as though someone was torturing her.  I have Celiac and already had a limited diet but I also excluded all dairy, soy, chocolate..... all I could think of in hopes that I could eliminate whatever was bothering her from my breast milk.
I brought her in as a newborn to have you adjust her and all was well so I don't think it was structural.

ANYWAY... Here is am 3 years later with a little girl who is just a mess. After she went off Prevacid (sp) she went through a year of diarrhea and a severely bloated tummy. Her doctor (who is an amazing Osteopath down in San Diego where we live)  ordered a food allergy test thru (sp) great plains lab when she was 2.  It came back showing that she was basically allergic to all the foods she was eating at that time.  I switched her diet all around but then it seemed after a few months the new  foods were bothering her. We kept her on a gluten free diet for her first 3 years because of my history but she was still sick so I don't think that is the problem.  She eats very healthy but looks malnourished.  She has dark circles under her eyes, bumps all over  her arms, and although she is so skinny her tummy is so so bloated.  She has even grown a "ghost belly button" as we call it.  It is an indentation about her belly button that looks like a ghost finger is pushing in on her stomach.  Her BM's are almost always very large.  My mom is a ped. nurse and even she was very taken aback by the size.

She is severally allergic to oats so she cannot take catalyn unfortunately but I was hoping you could offer any advise!  I wish I could bring her in for a bioscan but we will not be in Utah until this summer and she is just so miserable.

FYI - She takes a probiotic from Nature's way and Green pastures cod liver oil

I know you are a busy guy - I really have learned so much by listening to your radio show and NUCCA has helped me in numerous areas.  Due to financial issues we are not able to take my daughter to her doctor as much as I would like and I was feeling so worried but your lecture seemed to just hit home. 

 I feel terrible that I was so ill-educated about this topic.  If you have the time I would so appreciate any help you can offer.  

Thank you so so much

J......"

My response to J....

I just read your email. You should thank the heavens you heard my radio
show and listened to my audio CD on digestion. You and your infant are
the all-too-common victim of medical ignorance and arrogance.

Giving an infant Prevacid at 6 weeks old is the most pathetic
thing imaginable (you give this digestion-destroying drug to your
infant and you can’t even spell the name of the drug – instinctively; I
think you can’t bear to look at the name on the label and spell it).

 Prevacid ($4billion in annual sales -2006) is a proton pump inhibitor, that blocks
stomach HCl production. It is obvious that you feels very guilty about this
and even though your child continues to suffer terribly, your own mother, a
pediatric nurse, and her doctor, a DO, haven’t got a clue.

Of course she is allergic to her food – she can’t digest it. You only become
allergic to proteins you don’t digest. Allergies don’t form against the amino acids,
which is what a protein becomes when digested.  Thanks, Prevacid.

Now the child is 3 years old and looks and feels like hell. That’s what 3
years of not absorbing proteins, fats, and micronutrients do. Let’s make it
simple: she’s hungry – that can be a symptom of starvation (my sardonic tone
stems from my dread of what the next generation will look like).
The chances are that if she had been given Lactic Acid Yeast Wafers as a
colicky infant, none of this would have happened. (Grind to a powder with
the back of a spoon and have the infant suckle it off a moistened finger.
Several times per day.)

What to do now, three years later and the situation growing worse?
Much worse, in fact.

Supplements:
1. Chewable Tuna Oil Omega 3 perles. 3 per day.
2. Zypan. 1 tablet with meals. Up to 4 per day.
3. Lactic Acid Yeast Wafers. Chew 1 wafer three times per day.
4. Zymex Wafers. Chew 1 wafer three times per day.
5. Calcium Lactate Powder. 1⁄2 tsp. in water or unsweetened juice twice per
day (between meals).
6. Whole Food Fiber (rice polish (bran), beet root, carrot root, apple
pectin, oat bran fiber – don’t be concerned about the oat bran fiber). 1
tsp. per day in water or unsweetened juice.

Dietary suggestions:
1. Plain yogurt. You can add raw honey. Add blueberries (organic).
2. Ripe organic fruit: apple, pears, blueberries, bananas.
3. Brown rice (organic)
4. Avocados (organic)
5. Salmon (wild), cod, tuna. Lightly grilled or broiled. Add fresh squeezed
lemon juice. Mix with brown rice.
6. Chicken (organic – free range).
7. Eggs (organic – local). Soft boiled or lightly scambled.
8. Buckwheat groats and cereal (gluten free). Ex: Arrowhead Mills Organic
Gluten Free Maple Buckwheat Flakes.  Ex: Arrowhead Mills Organic Buckwheat
Groats: When roasted, this grain is called "Kasha." Buckwheat is rich in
amino acids and considered the "heartiest" grain. If you can’t find these
locally, order them online. Even Amazon.com sells them. (by the way,
Arrowhead Mills was founded by Frank Ford, a close friend of Royal Lee).

The diet may not contain:
1. Sugar, high fructose corn syrup
2. Soy
3. Commercial grains and white flour
4. Pasteurized dairy, except yogurt
5. White rice
6. msg
7. Processed meats and nitrites
8. Synthetic vitamins
9. Soda and pop
10. Dried fruit (raisons), candy, pastries, artificial sweeteners

This is where you begin. She is only three years old and way behind where
she should be.  This program will get her balanced enough to where we can
begin to feed her starving endocrine system within a few months. Then we
will add products like Ferrofood, Trace Minerals B12, Iodine, Catalyn,
Bio-Dent, etc.

We are the only ones in her life who can help her....Good luck!

Hi Dr. Stockwell,
Thank you so much for taking the time to send me this information.  I am going to stick to this 100% and get this kid better. Her diet is already void of most of the "Dont's " but I will stick only to the foods listed on the dietary suggestions.
What signs should I look for to know she can start the Ferrofood, Trace Minerals etc....?
Is it ok to give the tuna omgs, yeast wafers, and zymex wafers at the same time?

I am going to make her an appointment with you in July when I come to UT to visit my mom and hopefully we will see some improvement by then.

Again, I really appreciate your help.  I don't know how you find all the hours in the day to do all that you do!!! 

Today on the Doug Stephan Show...Why We Don't Raise Race Horses In Wisconsin !

As in most things nutritional, the books on the subject today are hopelessly boring or completely devoid of any understanding of true beneficial health information. One has to go back to books written prior to World War Two for a more correct portrayal of the developments leading to an increased awareness of human health and nutrition. It was in 1939 that synthetic vitamins appeared on the scene, and this changed everything. Studies on human nutritional science, from 1939 onward, were performed using chemicals from the laboratory rather than from whole foods or whole food concentrates.

For instance, even Vitamin C, thought to be ascorbic acid, no longer had the healing effect on scurvy that lemon and lime juice originally had. The reason is simple. Ascorbic acid is not vitamin C, regardless of what the FDA says. Lime juice will heal scurvy quickly, ascorbic acid will not, unless you are a hamster, which is the animal the early tests were performed upon. Of all the mammals on the planet, hamsters are the only creatures in which ascorbic acid will heal scurvy, which scurvy, has always been known to be a serious vitamin C deficiency.

As with ascorbic acid, many other vitamins that were used therapeutically, have disappeared from the medical scene because they were replaced with synthetic chemicals that have only a shadow of the real thing, and as such cannot heal anything, in fact, they can lead to serious complications and side effects.

Quite often in today's health news references abound as to how ascorbic acid can cause hardening of the arteries, vitamin A can lead to birth defects, and vitamin E can cause heart damage. These studies were all performed with synthetic chemical fractions of the real thing, made in laboratories, mostly in China.

Not what does this have to do with race horses? Just as you need to get your vitamins from whole foods and not from the health food store, you need to get proper minerals from the same source, which brings me to calcium, the only mineral required by the human body that actually has a gland to regulate its level in the body. We have all heard of the parathyroid gland, but most of us know very little about it.

Many minerals are required by the human body to properly function, but calcium is king. It is required by the heart, the nerves, the muscles, the skin, the nails, the teeth, the bones, etc. No wonder it has a gland to watch over it.

Calcium is balanced in the body by phosphorus. Any book on health prior to 1950, is very clear on the subject. If these two minerals get out of balance you will have problems with your teeth, your kidneys, your heart, your bones, etc.. Calcium helps us to relax. Calcium deficiency allows phosphorus levels to rise and we get jittery, as phosphorus is essential to energy levels.

Now here's the rub. Soils in Wisconsin are high in calcium and low in phosphorus. Soils in Kentucky are high in phosphorus and low in calcium. Wisconsin cattle are big, easy going, relaxed, and produce a lot of milk. They eat grass continually. Lots of potassium and calcium.

Kentucky soil is loaded with phosphorus and low in calcium, where breeders do not raise contented cattle but nervous, jumpy race horses. They are loaded with energy from the phosphorus. They are nervous and cannot relax. If the horses were brought to Wisconsin to feed on the grass they would calm down and relax. They would not be much of a race horse at all. They would be left at the starting gate looking  for more of that calcium rich grass.

So the calcium phosphorus balance in animals is the same as in humans. If you are nervous and jumpy, cannot sleep, upset with the least disturbance, you need calcium. I recommend calcium lactate, by the way. It is the form of calcium in vegetables. It has nothing to do with milk. Don't let the name fool you.

If you are fatigued all the time, with no energy, and worn out even when you awaken, then you need some phosphorus. I recommend Phosfood liquid. It is also great for kidney stones.

So why do we raise race horses in Kentucky? Ever heard of the Wisconsin Derby? Neither have I.

Today on the Doug Stephan Show

I have a CD on the subject of cholesterol and the importance it plays in human health. It is available through my office at 1-801-523-1890.

Today on Doug's show I am talking about the belief that low-density-lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol causes atherosclerosis and subsequent heart disease, and as such, is one of the main pillars of modern cardiovascular medicine.

LDL cholesterol is a very important substance manufactured every moment of life by the body. It does not in anyway, cause atherosclerosis. There is another form of LDL called oxidized LDL and a correlation between that form and atherosclerosis has been detected.

There has been a war against cholesterol for years without any reduction in the incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD). The number of deaths from CHD has decreased over the last few decades, but not the incidence, as CHD is still the leading cause of death in western countries.

Modern medicine has made many inroads in extending the lives of those suffering from heart attacks, but has failed in its attempt to prevent or at least avoid CHD in the first place. An interesting correlation maybe in the works as the pushing of low fat, high carbohydrate diets, in order to lower our cholesterol intake, has been accompanied with a virtual explosion of obesity and diabetes.

We have been told that there is a good cholesterol, high-density-lipoprotein (HDL), and of course, the bad cholesterol LDL. Since cholesterol is a fat, it cannot be dissolved in the blood (water), so it must be "transported" around the body. LDL is a fat combined with a protein, as is HDL, but they serve two different missions. LDL transports fats from the liver to the body for use where ever the body needs the fats. HDL transports the "unused" fats back to the liver for further processing. The theory is that the transportation of fats to the body by LDL creates fatty deposits in the arteries that will grow and rupture and cause strokes or coronary occlusion (blockage). So if we have lower LDL and more HDL there is a greater movement of fats from the body to the liver than the other way around. In other words, we want the fats in the liver and not in the body, this is of course, ridiculous.

Our cell walls are made of cholesterol. Bile acids, that emulsify fats, are made of cholesterol. Cholesterol is essential for the adsorption of fats, especially fat based vitamins such as vitamins A,D, E, and K. Our most important hormones, testosterone, estrogen, dihydroepiandosterone (DHEA), progesterone, and cortisol all have cholesterol as a precursor. Cut back on cholesterol and you cut back on your hormones of emotion. The structure of our bodies is determined to a certain extent by the strength and shape of our cell walls, which is almost exclusively made of cholesterol.

Contrary to popular belief, arterial plaques are not made of big greasy balls of fat that cling to the inner walls of your arteries like mineral deposits in the pipes of your water heater. Atherosclerosis builds up between the outer and inner walls of your vessels, not in the hollow area of the vessel (lumen) itself.

These plaques are made of a complex of materials with numerous components, not the least of which is calcium, cholesterol, fatty acids, white blood cells, and connective tissue, to name a few. Why are they present, is the question. Does elevated cholesterol lead to that? Studies are not conclusive, however studies do show the negative influence of plaque buildup from poor nutrition, processed sugar intake, cigarette smoking, homocysteine, elevated C-reactive protein (CRP), high emotional stress levels (stress is a "killer" right?), dietary trans fatty acids, excessive refined carbohydrates, bacterial and viral infections, and too much omega-6 dietary intake with a commensurate deficient omega-3 intake.

Damage from one of these influences to the arterial wall will initiate inflammation. The body then responds to that inflammation by trying to repair it. There is considerable evidence to suggest that the presence of cholesterol is simply part of the repair mechanism. Remember, this is going on inside the tissues of the blood vessel, not inside the passage way for the blood itself.

The concept that LDL is "bad cholesterol" is too simplistic and simply not supported by exhaustive studies, in fact no exhaustive studies exist to support the notion that elevated cholesterol causes heart disease. There are simply too many people dying of CHD who have low levels of cholesterol, who are of normal weight, and who regularly exercise. There is much more to this subject available on my CD.

Web site: jackstockwell.com   Office number: 1-801-523-1890