November 1, 2011 Newsletter
Greetings to all PDI Warriors,
Welcome to this November 2011 PD Institute newsletter.I trust all my friends are well.
The first part of this newsletter will be a very brief comment from me added to a very interesting communication I received from the A.C. Grace Company, the manufacturer of Unique-E Vitamin E products.It is a very good answer to the recent JAMA report about vitamin E causing an increase of prostate cancer in men who take vitamin E.
I have received phone calls and emails from men and women who heard about this disturbing report, and wanted to know if they should keep vitamin E in their DCI and PDI treatment plan.If you are concerned and want an excellent explanation of this situation, you will greatly benefit from this authoritative and detailed explanation.
The second part of this newsletter will use the familiar and popular format of presenting a simple exchange and blending of emails between one of your PD brothers and me.For those of you who are part of our DCI readership, please simply apply the ideas expressed here about PD treatment and dosage to what you are doing for your DC.
Read this series of combined emails like the back-and-forth of two people talking while one occasionally interrupts the other to make an important point or answer a question.To understand the flow of the conversation, keep in mind that the text in black is from FPXXXXX and the text in red is from me.
Because we all use SPAM filters on our emails, I had to edit the content of these emails from FPXXXXXXXX before including them in this newsletter.He naturally and appropriately uses the word P_ _ _ S in several of his emails to me to discuss that part of this body.If I used that word as often as he does in a newsletter all of your SPAM filters would reject this newsletter to your junk folder. To avoid this problem, I have substituted the word SHAFT for this other word so that no one will have a problem receiving this issue of the newsletter.
FPXXXXXXXX is doing very well with his PD treatment.One of the reasons for the success of his PD treatment is that he has asked a lot of questions and pays attention to the suggestions I make.I had just answered a question of his about treatment with moist heat, when he wrote me an email telling me about the condition of his curved and distorted shaft, but said nothing about the size, shape, density or surface features of his scar.This is the point of our discussion that we will start this series of emails you will read.
Here we go, first with the Vitamin E/Prostate cancer report, followed by the email exchange:
If you are concerned about using vitamin E in your DCI and PDI treatment plan you need to carefully read this article from A.C. Grace. At the very least, read the most important section of the article written in red.Also read the helpful and interesting links at the bottom of the article.Since we do not sell the synthetic and potentially harmful alpha-tocopherol form of vitamin E, you are protected.
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Now for the email exchange mentioned above:
From: Dr. T. Herazy [mailto:herazy@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Friday, October 7, 2011 6:31 AM
To: ‘FPXXXXXXXXX’
Subject: RE: Moist Heat
Greetings FXXXXXXXXX,
I must remind you that to only focus or comment on your bent penis, and say nothing about the size, shape, density and surface features of your scars does not tell me anything – and I fear you are approaching your treatment incorrectly because you only mention details about your bent shaft.The correct way to evaluate your progress is by what changes happen, or do not happen, with the scar structure.
Please see below for additional comments…
From: FPXXXXXX
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 2:09 PM
To: Dr. T. Herazy
Subject: Re: Moist Heat
Greeting, Dr Herazy
Did you check this email? What can you tell me about the pelvic massage?
Regards,
FPXXXXXX
2011/10/7 FPXXXXXX
Hi Dr Herazy, thank you for your previous answers.
Yes, I understand that I have to evaluate my scar in many other aspects. I tried a lot of times, but I can’t find any different tissue. What I mean is that the only thing I felt, in the place where the magnetic resonance image showed a scar before, now seems a lot with other parts of my shaft. Are you massaging the shaft directly?If so, please stop since this might harm you. What part of your body are you evaluating? I asked for my girlfriend’s help and she felt something different, so I’ll ask her to help me to evaluate it in details. Also, there is a scar that is under my pelvic bone, so, it seems that is not possible to evaluate this one.
Anyway, it is a big deal for me that I am able to make love again, since the pain eased down. Only I didn’t see any improvement in the curve. You should not be concerned with the curve, but with the scar. What have you noticed about the size, shape, density and surface features of your scar?
About the tissue massage, you say in the book that “When you locate an area of contracted and tight tissue, you will note that the same fingertip pressure that was nicely comfortable in other neighboring tissue of the pelvis will suddenly cause discomfort you did not feel in other areas”.
What I’m telling is that I do the massage but never feel any pain, like there was such points which I should be looking for and working on.Yes, the only areas and points of tissue you should really be concerned about and massaging are those that are painful to a light or gentle touch.You should not have to press or work very hard to feel this kind of discomfort.The tissue that you should be concerned with will be unusually sensitive to touch; your same light touch will not cause pain in all general areas you are looking but will only cause discomfort in a few spots; those are the areas to work with.If you are having trouble with this just look at the Massage and Exercise video again.TRHI can keep doing the general massage if
it is worth it.
Regards
FXXXXXXXXXXX
2011/10/7 Dr. T. Herazy <herazy@sbcglobal.net>
2011/10/12 Dr. T. Herazy <herazy@sbcglobal.net>
See below for my comments to your email…
Regards,
Theodore Herazy, DC, LAc
Peyronie’s Disease Institute
Dupuytren’s Contracture Institute
Em quarta-feira, 12 de outubro de 2011, FPXXXXXX
escreveu:
Greetings, Dr Herazy,
As I said, I find it really difficult to locate the scar because I always find that the part of the shaftwhich seems to be the scar looks like many other parts as well.
About the tissue massage, I am massaging the pelvis, as you explain in the book and video, not the shaft. and I don’t feel pain in any area of contracted and tight tissue.
Regards
FXXXXXXXXX
From: FPXXXXXX
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 12:25 PM
To: Dr. T. Herazy
Subject: Re: Moist Heat
Greetings, Dr Herazy.
Remember this email? I told you that me and my girlfriend weren´t able to find the scar. As I told you, every time that I found some surface that seemed to be different, I realized that in other parts of the shaft were like that.
Well, I saw the urologist that first told me about the PD one year ago. I asked him for some help to find the scar so I could monitor it. It happened that the urology doctor couldn´t find the scar either. He told me that in his notes he has found a plaque at that time in my shaft when he first examined me. But now he had the same impression I had: that he couldn´t tell for sure what could be a scar or what was some vein (he used a specific name for those veins that I can´t remember right now).
The curvature remains, the pains is getting better. I had an exam that showed one of the plaques under the pelvic bone. This scar I can´t find or monitor. Maybe is this one that is still causing the curvature? If it is correct, maybe the other one is gone and so I should continue the treatment I am doing right now, take the same medicine.
Well, I would like to hear your opinion on that.
Regards
FXXXXXXXXXX
Em terça-feira, 18 de outubro de 2011, Dr. T. Herazy<herazy@sbcglobal.net> escreveu:
Greetings FXXXXXXXXX,
As I understand your report, you are saying that the urologist who first found your scar a year ago cannot find it now in that same location. That is great news.
My educated guess is that there is still enough reduced or smaller scar that cannot be felt, yet it is still large enough to cause some of the curvature you are still able to see. My further educated guess is that the curvature is also reduced and you would know it is reduced if you had spent some time measuring or drawing it out before you started your PDI treatment. These things can be extremely difficult to remember for sure once the changes begin to occur.
I suggest that you continue to follow your plan in the hopes that your scar continues to reduce and your curve does the same.
Regards,
Theodore Herazy, DC, LAc
Peyronie’s Disease Institute
Dupuytren’s Contracture Institute
From: Dr. T. Herazy [mailto:herazy@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 6:31 AM
To: ‘FPXXXXXXXXX’
Subject: RE: Moist Heat
Greetings again FXXXXXXXXX,
Sorry for the delayed response; your last email got lost in a large group of emails that arrived at the same time.
See below for comments…
Regards,
Theodore Herazy, DC, LAc
Dupuytren’s Contracture Institute
From: FPXXXXXX
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 2:06 PM
To: Dr. T. Herazy
Subject: Re: Moist Heat
Greetings, Dr Herazy!
This is great news indeed about the doctor not being able to find the scar that he felt before! Hope your guess is right.
I was using only nattokinase and fibrozym till now, I just got into neprinol. Since the results I achieved were with the other 2 enzymes, I wonder if I should continue that. Using the Neprinol by itself or in combination with Nattokinase and Fibrozym is something you can experiment with. Men use Neprinol both ways – as a total substitute for the other enzyme products, or in addition to them (usually with the Neprinol being the primary enzyme source and the others being used as a minor role). The choice is yours. Do it both ways for a month or so and see what happens to your scar and your curve. When I successfully treated my own scars that is what I did – I used the Neprinol as the primary and largest supply of systemic enzymes, and then added in a few of the others per day.
I suggest you consider first trying just the Neprinol by itself, and see how it works for you and your scar. If that is not enough to keep your scar to change favorably, then bring back the Fibrozym or Nattokinase, or perhaps you could consider also increasing Quercetin/Bromelain if you think it is necessary, or all of them. You must keep experimenting to learn what makes your scar, or your curvature if you no longer can locate your scar, respond favorably and then continue with that.
I am also using Quercetin and Acetyl. I am taking acetyl with food and the quercetin with the enzymes.
The Quercetin also contains lots of vitamin C. May I decrease the Vitamin C alone to 1 capsule a day? In my opinion, the Quercetin-Bromelain product does not contain “lots” of vitamin C; I think it is a small amount when you consider we always think in terms of larger therapeutic dosages. This particular product is not about supplying a large amount of vitamin C.It contains only what is referred to as a synergistic amount – just enough vitamin C to allow the primary nutrients to function chemically when taken into the body.How much vitamin C you actually take is, as always, your decision.Keep in mind that the amount of vitamin C in Quercetin Bromelain is 200mg per capsule. All of the standard vitamin C capsules themselves contain 1000mg per capsule. Since I see that you
are taking six Quercetin Bromelain capsules daily (containing a total of 1200mg of vitamin C) that means you are taking just a little more than the equivalent of one vitamin C capsule daily when you take these six Quercetin Bromelain capsules – this is not very much vitamin C when compared to what most men take. From what I know most men take 3-6 capsules of 1000mg of vitamin C, or 3000-6000mg of vitamin C, along with any other vitamin C that might be contained in other therapy products. This is what others do; you have to see how your body responds. You might not be able to tolerate that much of the standard vitamin C. If this is so, you should definitely use the buffered form of vitamin C called Ascorbplex 1000 that will not bother your stomach lining.
I would appreciate if you take a look at my schedule and give me your opinion:
Morning, around 7:00 am: 2 Neprinol, 2 Quercetin, 1 Fundamental Súlfur
(Is this all right, taking all the in between meals capsules at one time?) Yes; no need to separate those.
Breakfast, around 9:00 pm: Colchicine and Vitamin E 400
Lunch, around 12:00 pm: Colchicine, Vitamin C and Vitamin E Maxi Gamma
Between meals, around 5:00 pm: 2 Neprinol, 2 Quercetin, 1 Fundamental Súlfur
Dinner, around 7:30pm: Colchicine and Vitamin E 400
Before sleep, 2 hours after dinner: 2 Neprinol (to increase after 1 week till 5), 2 Nattokinase and 2 Fibrozym, 2 Quercetin, 1 Fundamental Sulfur
As you see, I kept the Nattokinase and the Fibrozym at night before sleep, and I am also willing to increase the Neprinol till 5 capsules at that time.
What I think about your plan is not important. The important thing is how your plan affects the size, shape, density and surface features of your scar. If this plan you are using – which looks good to me – is helping you to reduce your scar to the point that your MD cannot find it any longer, then this is the plan you should use. If you find that after time the scar or the curve stop changing, then you will have to decide how to modify your plan so that your favorable tissue changes continue to occur. We can work on that later if it becomes necessary. TRH
Regards
FXXXXXXXXXXXX
That for now is the conclusion of this discussion with FPXXXXXXXXXXX. I hope you all were able to benefit from this exchange of information.In particular I hope everyone noticed how he is using his plan and how he is modifying it carefully to assure his best therapy results.
Let me know if you have any questions about what you are doing.Stay focused to your treatment.
Regards,
Theodore R. Herazy, DC, LAc