Unfortunately many forms of Fosomax do contain vitamin D. It may be possible to get a version of the drug without D but I still do not recommend taking the medication.

If you’re taking Fosomax to correct bone loss, you should consider doing the Marshall Protocol, because Fosomax has a lot of detrimental side effects and is really only a short-term non-curative solution to bone loss.

On the other hand, the MP targets the root cause of bone loss, which are bacteria that are able to dysregulate vitamin D metabolism such that calcium is no longer effectively absorbed by the bones. If you’re able to kill these bacteria, you can restore function to the vitamin D receptor and the genes for calcium absorption which it transcribes, allowing your bone mass to regenerate.

There are many patients on the MP who have found that their bone mass has not just stabilized but increased so that patients once diagnosed with osteoporosis are no longer osteoporotic, and they have blood tests to support this.

I recommend looking at the MP in greater detail. This video is a good start.

Best,
Amy

As far as I know, canola oil doesn’t have vitamin D.

But to be extra sure, pass the same question by the patient advocates at http://www.curemyth1.org (a site run by Autoimmunity Research Foundation that answers questions related to the Marshall Protocol.)

If they confirm that it doesn’t have D then I think you’re good to go!

Best,

Amy

Do you know anything specifically about the vit-d content in canola oil? Im really confused about this one.

Thanks,

Teddy

Thanks for explaining the process by which glucose enters a cell for those interested. I do possess a basic understanding of cell biology, I just didn’t think that explaining the way glucose enters a cell was relevant to the article.

But I’m glad you brought it up because many of the bacteria that cause chronic disease are intraphagocytic. This means they have easy access to the sugar actively transported inside the cells. So again, it seems it’s quite easy for them to use glucose molecules as a source of as fuel.

When I meant that nobody is sure how sugar affects the immune system, I didn’t mean to imply that we don’t understand how sugar enters the cells. There are other effects of sugar on immunoglobulins and other immune parameters that have yet to be fully understood.

Best,

Amy

Basic cell biology should inform you that glucose enters the cells primarily through a glucose transporter which is located deep in the cell and translocates to the cell wall when triggered by actions such as insulin binding to an insulin receptor (and the downstream actions of insulin calling for it). It joins the cell wall and “pockets” the glucose, which is then followed by it pinching off and carrying the goods to the cell interior. There are several different types of glucose transporters for different types of cells. As well, the transporter can be called up to the cell wall with the actions of exercise (no insulin required). Glucose cannot diffuse across the membrane. This is why insulin resistance leads to hyperglycemic conditions in people with diseases such as diabetes as the glucose cannot leave the blood stream to feed primarily skeletal muscle cells. Instead, it is indirectly diverted to adipose cells and urine (hence the strong “sweet smell” of urine in those with diabetes).

Hope that clears up how sugar enters into cells for you.

Grace

Thanks for your help. I’m already a member and have tried all the things you suggest - I will keep trying!

Kate

I’m very glad to hear you want to do the MP. So you requested a list of doctors in your area off the MP site at the link I gave you in the last post? And you also tried to search for MP members in Britain using the “members” button on the MP site?

If you have tried both those options and have not been able to find a doctor, then I recommend you post about finding a doctor at the following website:

http://www.curemyth1.org

The patient advocates on that site may be able to offer you more advice on how to find a doctor. However I have to warn you that just last week the study site was closed to new patients. That’s because there are so many people who want to start the MP but not enough staff to work with them at the moment.

So I highly recommend that you write a post on http://www.curemyth1.org and explain that you’d like to do the MP and are looking for a doctor in the UK. I think they can then put you on a waiting list so that when a slot opens up in the study (which might not take too long) you can start the MP. In the meantime, you can see if the patient advocates can give you suggestions on how to find a doctor.

I assume your current doctor is not willing to put you on the MP? It may be worth a try to print materials off this site and the MP study site and present it to you current doctor in order to see if he/she might be willing to prescribe the necessary meds. Here is a link to a packet of information to present to a doctor. You can also order a “Science DVD” with some of Dr. Marshall’s best presentations off the study site. You could then give your doctor the DVD.

“MP presentation book for doctors”

http://www.marshallprotocol.com/forum2/11458.html

Best,

Amy

Thanks for you reply! I want to go on the MP! I have tried really hard to find an MP doctor in the UK (including emailing members and contacting many doctors on the list myself and going down many dead ends) but no luck so far. Because it might be a while before I do find one, I really need some help with my abdominal pain/discomfort. Any suggestions? I don’t want to keep taking ibuprofen.

I’d really appreciate your help.

Best
Kate

http://www.marshallprotocol.com/forum11/11348.html

I also recommend that you go to the Marshall Protocol study site (www.marshallprotocol.com) and click on the “members” button on the upper right hand corner of the screen. There you can sort for members by location. Find other members on the MP who live near you in the UK and send them a private message over the site asking them who their doctor is and for contact information etc.

As for anti-inflammatory foods. Based on my knowledge of chronic disease the foods you are specifying as anti-inflammatory could exert an anti-inflammatory effect for only one reason - the fact that they somehow slow the immune system. If a chemical in the food is able to bind one the receptors that controls immune function and slow their activity, then you will temporarily kill less of the bacteria causing your CFS and GI problems. Your inflammation may drop temporarily because less bacteria are killed (remember it is when chronic bacteria DIE that the immune system releases inflammatory cytokines.) But in the long run, such foods are actually making you sicker. That’s because since your immune system isn’t working up to par less of your bacteria are killed and they can spread to new tissues and new organs.

At least that’s why fish oil is, unfortunately, on the list and why you should avoid it rather than consume it. Soy also binds the Vitamin D Receptor and dysregulates immune function which is why is is also mistakingly on the list of “anti-inflammatory foods,”

So I would definitely not eat any foods on the “anti-inflammatory” list in an attempt to help your health.

As for the other foods you mention such as berries and ginger, we have absolutely no data showing that such foods have any anti-inflammatory effect. What you are dealing with is a very serious bacterial illness, and unfortunately people with such infections seem too sick to feel any real difference from consuming certain foods. At least that seems to be the case with most people I speak with. It was certainly true in my case. I tried all kinds of diets before starting the MP, but none had any effect on my symptoms or on the progression of my disease.

So I highly recommend that instead of focusing on diet, you focus on starting the Marshall Protocol instead. The treatment will allow you to flat our kill the bacteria causing your inflammation.

Meanwhile, eating a diet low in carbohydrates that is full of fresh fruits and veggies (also organic non-antibiotic fortified meat) should but you in the best place to manage your bacterial load.

Best,
Amy