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Down Syndrome: The Nutritional Treatment of Henry Turkel,
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Down Syndrome Treatment |
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If you have been told that nutritional treatment is of no value for
Down syndrome children, you may want to read this. Dr. Turkel had the nerve to make
his claims when everyone ‘knew’ that children with genetic defects could not possibly
be treated successfully. (Abram
Hoffer, M.D.) I know Dr. Turkel, and I can
testify to his sincerity and conviction. The results that he reports are
striking. There is evidence that the patients would receive significant
benefit. (Linus Pauling,
Ph.D.) “Vitamin therapy in Down
syndrome began in 1940,
when Henry Turkel, MD, of BIBLIOGRAPHY: Henry Turkel Turkel H. Medical
amelioration of Down's syndrome incorporating the orthomolecular approach. J Orthomolecular Psychiatry, 1975.
4:102-115. Turkel H.
Medical amelioration of Down syndrome incorporating the orthomolecular
approach, in: Diet Related to
Killer Diseases V. Nutrition and Mental Health. Hearing before the
Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs of the Turkel H. Medical
treatment of Down syndrome and genetic diseases, by Henry Turkel, M.D. Foreword by
Bernard Rimland. Turkel
H. New
hope for the mentally retarded: Stymied by the FDA. 241 pages. NY:
Vantage Press, 1972. ISBN-10: 0533001064 and ISBN-13: 978-0533001064. Revised
edition, 1980: 296 pages, ASIN: B0006E1UWW. Dr. Ruth Harrell’s Successful
Nutritional Treatment of Down Syndrome from http://www.doctoryourself.com/OMHF2006.html
by Andrew
W. Saul Dr. Ruth
Flinn Harrell spent her life demonstrating that "megavitamin" doses
are safe and remarkably effective, even offering improvement in Down Syndrome
children. Her trials were successful because her team gave LD kids much
larger doses of vitamins than other researchers: over 100 times the ADULT
(not child's) RDA for riboflavin; 37 times the RDA for niacin (given as
niacinamide); 40 times the RDA for vitamin E; and 150 times the RDA for
thiamin. Dr. Harrell anticipated that her use of megadoses would result
in "controversy and brickbats." She was right. A number of
well-publicized studies conducted to "replicate" Dr. Harrell's work
seemingly could not do so. Yet Harrell's "replicators" failed to
adhere to her protocol, and consequently but not surprisingly, failed to get
her results. F. Jack Warner, MD, writes: "Even today many medical
professionals scoff at the validity of Dr. Ruth Harrell's study with
nutritional supplements and the important addition of thyroid medication. Dr.
Harrell pleaded with her replicators to use exactly the same chemical values
of supplements and medications. To date, this still has not been
accomplished." What a
loss for children. May I share with you the story of one Down syndrome child: This
seven year old child was still wearing diapers, didn't recognize his parents,
and had no speech. In forty days, after some of the supplements were
increased, his mother telephoned . . . saying, "He's turned on, just
like an electric light. He's asking the name of everything. I think he saw us
for the first time." This little boy went on to do very well in his
learning, and eventually tested with an IQ of ninety, which an average
IQ." I have seen a beautiful photo in Medical Tribune of Dr. Harrell being hugged by one of the study group
children. The kids noticed their own improvement. Dr.
Harrell noted that “when there was a ten point rise in IQ, the family noticed
it. When there was a fifteen point rise in IQ, the teachers noticed it. When
there was a twenty point rise in IQ, the neighborhood noticed it.” Perhaps
Harrell's dramatic IQ gains were merely due to the placebo effect. If so, I
want every school district on earth to lay in a stock of sugar pills. Harrell
colleague Dr. Donald Davis writes, "No amount of matching or variable
control with Harrell's subjects could change their large IQ gains which are
the crucial and so far unexplained difference between the Harrell group and
others." Ruth
Flinn Harrell's approach yielded smarter, happier children. Ruth Harrell
found IQ to be proportional to nutrient dosage. This may simultaneously be
the most elementary and also the most controversial mathematical equation in
medicine. Dr Harrell was a truly great woman, full of courage, brilliance,
and compassion. For further reading: Craft D.
Can nutritional supplements help mentally retarded children? 1998. http://www.diannecraft.com/nut-sup1.html Accessed
August 2003. Harrell RF, Capp RH, Horwitz N. Vitamins,
minerals boost IQ in retarded. Medical
Tribune. Vol 22, No 3. Wednesday, 21 January, 1981. Pages 1 and 19. Saul AW. Taking the cure: The pioneering work of Ruth Flinn Harrell,
champion of children. J Orthomolecular Med, 2004. Vol 19, No 1, p.
21-26. http://www.doctoryourself.com/downs.html Thiel R.J. Facial effects
of the Warner protocol for children with Down syndrome. J Orthomolecular Med, 2002;17(2):111-116 Warner FJ. Metabolic
supplement for correction of raging free radicals in Trisomy 21: A
noncomparative open case study. http://www.warnerhouse.com/radicals.htm
. Andrew Saul is the author
of the books FIRE YOUR DOCTOR! How to
be Independently Healthy (reader reviews at http://www.doctoryourself.com/review.html
) and DOCTOR YOURSELF: Natural Healing
that Works. (reviewed at http://www.doctoryourself.com/saulbooks.html
)
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