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How to get healthy and Stay Healthy by Dr. James Bischoff I was always interested in preventive medicine and I had an open mind and a willingness to learn about alternative medicine as well as conventional medicine. Over the years I learned that some natural supplements could complement traditional medicine. After being a full time hospital employed physician for over 15 years, I decided to devote myself to helping people learn what they had to do to get healthy and stay healthy. It is my heart’s desire is to teach people about immune modulation, which is how to program, regulate, and control the immune system so it will function effectively and efficiently. Natural Killer (NK) cells are a critically important major component of our immune system. They are special T-cells that should not have to be programmed or told what to do. Natural Killer cells are very similar to the Military’s Special Forces. They are the “good guys” that kill the “bad guys.” When they are active they automatically attack and destroy any foreign invaders. Their ability to spontaneously kill a broad range of cells is the basis for their name. However, Natural Killer cells are selective killers that never harm our normal cells. Unfortunately, only active NK cells kill cells. Inactive NK cells circulating in the blood are alive, but they are not functional. They do not manufacture the deadly toxins they need to inject into pathogens to destroy them. It is as if they are unarmed or on just leave. Another accurate analogy is that they act like they have Alzheimer’s because they have forgotten what they are suppose to be doing. Inactive NK cells often appear to be asleep or dormant. Although they do not seem to hurt us, they certainly do not help protect us, and they do not produce or release any of the specially coded memory molecules that communicate with and control the rest of our Immune System. The level of NK cell activity has been measured on special blood tests for many years now. I have personally ordered hundreds of these on my patients. Over the past 25 years a wealth of scientific research has proven that low NK cell activity is strongly associated with many different types of human disorders. We know the average of healthy people is high and the average of unhealthy people is consistently low. We know very high levels of NK cell activity is strongly associated with longevity. Unfortunately, we also know cancer patients average very low levels.
I first learned of an important therapy when I read about Matol’s Biomune OSF Plus in the Physicians’ Desk Reference (PDR) almost 3 years ago. It states in the 2002 edition of the PDR: “Biomune OSF Plus is an immune system product for all ages.” Then it goes on to say: “Clinical studies show that Biomune OSF Plus is effective in consistently and dramatically increasing Natural Killer cell activity. Medical research has shown that low NK cell activity is present in most illness. A double blind study shows its effectiveness as an immune system modulator.” A clinical study by Jesse A. Stoff, MD consisted of 107 patients. The average initial Natural Killer cell activity was 18 and the average final NK cell activity was 246. “All patients in the study greatly improved, went into remission or recovered. The study group demonstrated that increased NK activity paralleled restored resistance to illness and recovery from illness.” When I initially read the above statements in the PDR, I became very interested and enthusiastic about this product because I was “Sick of being so Sick.” In the previous four months I had given myself IV anti-biotics on four different occasions in my own hospital. The truth is no one hates being in the hospital more than doctors, and we don’t make good patients. But I had been getting about 8 to 10 different infections a year since I started medical school. I also had allergies all my life which were getting more severe every year. In fact, my allergies would get so unbearable that I had been giving myself a steroid shot twice every year for 10 years, even though I knew all the serious side effects that can be caused by steroids. Some of the many of the things that have been proven to lower NK cell activity levels include: numerous prescription drugs including all of the immune suppressant medications, all steroids including prednisone, virtually all of the antibiotics as well as infections, countless toxins such as pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides, many heavy metals such as lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, chromium dioxide, poor nutrition, injectable radioactive dyes, x-rays, and CT Scans, stress, depression and even insomnia. Radiation and Chemotherapy not only Kill the Natural Killer cells, but worse yet, continue to suppress their activity for many months and even years after the bone marrow has replaced them. I had taken many of the medications that are known to lower it, so I should not have been surprised when my own NK activity level was only 5 when I initially had it tested. Ideally it should have been in the healthy range of 150 to 250. By then I knew if I really wanted to get healthy and stay healthy I had to rearm and retrain my “Special Forces” to protect my own “homeland” from the daily assault we all face from foreign invaders. I went on two Biomune OSF Plus capsules four times a day for the first month because I really wanted to activate a multitude of my Natural Killer cells so they would quickly begin to help me with recurrent infections and other conditions.
When I rechecked my NK activity level after a month, I was happy to see it had gone up to 43. So I cut down to two Biomune three times a day. Then after three months it was up to 68, after one year it was 128, and after two years it was over 200. Now I literally have hundreds of millions of individual Natural Killer cells actively seeking to attack and destroy any pathogenic cells in my blood, internal organs and anywhere else in my body. Even more important than my blood test results is the strong clinical correlations I’ve had. When I first started taking the Biomune I didn’t even imagine my various nuisance problems would resolve. I was just hoping I would not get sick so frequently or severely, so I would not have to be in the hospital anymore. Of course, all these medical problems were caused by the same basic underlying immune system dysfunction evident by the very low level of my blood test. When my Natural Killer cells were activated and started to function properly my body began healing itself like it is meant to. Even though I had taken numerous prescription and over the counter medicines for many years due to a multitude of symptoms from many seemingly unrelated health problems, none of them ever dealt with the real underlying cause of all the different diseases and disorders, which is what Biomune OSF did for me. I have continued taking two Biomune OSF Plus twice a day because this is the healthiest I have ever been and I like being healthy! I am ecstatic I no longer have allergic reactions to my horses or my wife’s cats and that I have not had to take anymore steroid shots. I used to get sick after almost every commercial flight I flew on, but I have flown on well over 100 flights without getting sick since I have been on Biomune OSF. I have usually sprayed some of the Biomune OSF Express in my nose and throat while on commercial flights and after leaving airports. I have seen the Biomune OSF Express be very effective. It has even been good for canker sores and thrush and it is probably very good for our gums and teeth too. At least half the ear infections in children are caused by viruses, and about half of them are caused by fungus in adults. Yet most of them are treated with antibiotics even though these only kill bacteria. The Express spray is very effective at preventing ear infections in children and especially in adults who wear hearing aides.
My wife and I have both been taking an extraordinary and truly unique potassium mineral herbal supplement known as Km. All my life I’ve had severe leg cramps and restless legs which frequently woke me up. Biomune OSF didn’t help this problem any more than any of the prescription drugs I had tried over the years. But ever since I began taking Km I can sleep all night without any leg cramps or restless legs, unless I forget to take it for a couple of days. It also solved the lifetime problem I had with constipation. I used to say my bowels were on vacation 6 days a week, but on the 7th day they paid for it by working overtime. When I take Km they work regularly 7 days a week. Millions of people who have take this incredible all natural herbal formulation have reported feeling a wide range of benefits far too numerous to list here. But I have had many patients tell me that they feel more energetic, enthusiastic, and even mildly euphoric when they take it. Others simply say that they feel less fatigue, less anxiety and less depressed or that they simply feel a generalized increase in their sense of well being. I know Km is good for the heart and blood pressure because it has a great source of highly bioavailable potassium, minerals and vitamins. It can help oxygenate the blood. Many of my patients have said that Km prevents them from having hypoglycemic reactions. I also recommend that patients take Km with Biomune OSF because they can have a synergistic effect together, as do many of theses other high quality supplements made by Matol such as the potent Antioxidant OPCs + II, the Essential Fatty Acids Omega 3/6/9, the Enzymes, the multivitamins Matolife, and the Natural BotanEllE Progesterone Creme. My wife and I take all of these everyday because we believe in their safety, purity, potency, and effectiveness and that they can help us prevent a wide range health problems so we can have a better quality of life for as long as we both shall live. During the past three years I began to integrate almost all of Matol’s high quality products into my clinical practice as well. Since I have been a doctor I have been told by way too many patients that they “would have taken better care of themselves if they had known they were going to live this long.” Well, it’s never too late to start taking better care of yourself, and it does pay to prevent most health problems. My wife and I have met a lot of great people since we got involved with this health company and we have made some really good friends we would never have met if it were not for Matol. In fact, we have made some really close friends who have become like “family.” Even though we have yet to meet some of them in person, we really love them and talk to them almost everyday. One of them has done a great act of kindness and generosity for us, and they are driving to visit us and meet us in person for the first time. Another one is a Trauma Surgeon who wrote me these words:
Dear Jim, I can’t even put into words how very much I care about you, the kind of person you are, the kind of doctor you are, and most of all the kind of friend you are to me. Thank you from my very soul for everything your have done for me. You have truly changed my life. You’ve restored my faith in people. Besides making me feel the best I have in so many years I can’t even remember! I feel so grateful for your friendship. If there is ever anything you need that I can help you with just let me know. I really mean that! Love You, Candace P.S. If I ever find out you really needed help and didn’t ask, I’m coming out there myself, and let’s see, I know, making you take a whole bottle of Premarin! What had I done for this lovely woman doctor? I had sent her several bottles of Biomune OSF, Km, and BotanEllE Progesterone Creme and written in a letter to her that she would not believe how much better she was going to feel after she started taking them. Less than 2 months later I got that beautiful and funny thank you card from her. Those kind of words are invaluable rewards that explain why I am talking about Matol’s remarkable natural products on talk radio shows, at seminars and on the telephone everyday. Dr. James Bischoff is a full time family physician living and working in a town of 900 near Yellowstone National Park in southwest Montana. He is employed by a small, rural, non-profit hospital with an emergency room, an outpatient clinic, and a nursing home. Dr. Bischoff was previously employed by several Iowa Hospitals including a level I trauma center as an emergency room doctor (1987-1989) and Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners - 1987.