I read this book years ago but at the time thought the diet was mad so never followed through. My emphysema is getting much worse, though I have not been to the doctor for it again since the initial diagnosis as for various reasons I have gone off doctors.
For unrelated reasons I am already on the low carb, no grain, high protein diet Miller recommends, and many of the supplements, including NAC (great stuff!), that has already been mentioned in this group.
Millier's hypothesis is that emphysema is caused by a pathogen,, which explains why non smokers can get it and why the allopathic doctors say it is incurable, (they don't recognise a pathogen). As I am already taking many of the supplements and am already on the diet I intend to follow through on the rest of Miller's recommendations.
I was also very interested in Cronifomad's observation that new alveoli can be generated, and I agree that, as mentioned in that thread, the root cause of all disease is inflammation, which Miller also discusses.
So my question is, has anyone here read the book and followed the suggestions therein?
And best of luck to you all in solving this problem.
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Personally, I would pass on that book. It has been around for awhile and from time to time this conversation pops up.Lung regeneration including alveoli is still being studied but no method has yet been established.....so it is still just a theory.
Emphysema can currently not be reversed. It can, however, be slowed. This is done with exercise and a healthy diet.
That all being said, remember that Miller's claims have no scientific merit and his Mother died anyway.
You are correct, his mother did "die anyway." She died AFTER she went back on a high carb, high sugar diet, and AFTER she stopped taking the supplements. While she was following the protocol Miller devised, she made vast improvements in her health. Make of the book what you will, believe whom you prefer to believe, it's up to you.
Hi Curious RobinI note on your post that you are taking NAC, can you describe how they help your lung function. I am looking into supplements that may help with lung function and would be grateful if you could say how they have helped you. I'm sure you are aware that there is no scientific backing to NAC, but that does not mean they don't help as there are loads of plants that could help lots of conditions there's just not enough interest in science looking into it.
Hi Jake. As I said I was already taking NAC for another condition when I noticed that my lungs felt less congested since I'd been taking it, a "side effect" if you will. Since I quit smoking, not even two weeks ago, I just kept taking it as usual. It was already having a good effect before I quit so perhaps I would have been worse without it.
Yesterday I was feeling like I had sticky phlegm that was not coming up. I had expectorated a lot for the first four days after I quit smoking but have not been since. So, yesterday morning, I took two 600 mg NAC on an empty stomach, instead of my usual one. In the afternoon, on an empty stomach, I took another, and before bed I took the usual one, so I had 2 extra NAC yesterday. Last night I did my usual "breathing exersices." I just do it as I feel it, some long, slow, deep breathing, sometimes holding it on the in and the out breaths, then some shorter, sharper, more forceful breaths, I just do what feels right at the time. And I did bring up some phlegm last night. This morning my breathing feels quite good. I have also stopped wheezing almost totally in the ten or eleven days since the last cigarette. The wheezing was especially annoying at bedtime when the noise I was making would keep me awake.
I'd like to offer my two cents about "science." I once asked a young fella if he could tell me what science is. He looked at me in astonishment and said, "Truth!" It was my turn to be flabbergasted. Science is an argument, not the word from on high. When a person, scientist or not, comes up with an idea, an explanation for something, an hypothesis, it is not just incumbent upon them to prove it is "true." We can all come up with theories and even experiments that seem to prove something is true. The only way to prove something is true is to first use every method possible to prove that it is NOT TRUE. Then ask your friends, colleagues, or other scientists to prove that it is NOT TRUE. Only when it is found that it is impossible to disprove a theory can it be said to be true, IN LIGHT OF CURRENT KNOWLEDGE. Over time another method of enquiry, a better telescope if you will, may disprove the currently accepted hypothesis. Science is a PROCESS. It evolves. So just because a scientist getting funding from a foundation that is paid for ultimately by Big Pharma tells you something does not mean it is true. It may or may not be. All enquiry ultimately depends upon the honesty of the enquirer. Money pollutes honesty. We've all heard the maxim, "follow the money." It applies as much to scientists as it does to politicians or property development or any other area of life.
We are offered in our supermarkets a very unhealthy diet of processed foods full of chemicals and processed grains, sugar and highly refined seed oils, and now insect proteins, and told it is safe for human consumption. These substances are addictive and convenient. Eventually they make you fat, leading to many diseases including diabetes, heart disease, etc, etc. There isn't a person in my neighbourhood over the age of 60 who is not taking statins, with the exception of myself. These diets are designed to make you sick and kill you slowly. You then turn to your doctor for help. It is a rare doctor who will tell you to change your diet. There is very little nutritional education in medical schools. The food pyramid supports the processed food diet. Then your doctor prescribes medications which SUPPRESS YOUR SYMPTOMS. Your symptoms are your body's way of fighting the disease. I recently fell and hurt my knee. It swelled up, and also bled. I did nothing to suppress the swelling, no ice, no NSAIDs. My body is trying to repair itself so I let it do it's thing. The next day with no intervention save a bandage over the cut the swelling was half of what it was. It is healing nicely. Icing it would have suppressed the natural response of the body to send healing white blood cells and whatever else it sends to deal with the problem. The problem is not the swelling the problem is I have damaged my knee, and time and a good diet will fix it.
Sorry for that digression. So you eat a terrible diet. It is very hard to stop. I have many friends who are as addicted to sugar as I am to nicotine. The diet makes you sick. The doctors give you chemical drugs which suppress your symptoms. Those drugs have side effects that lead to your doctor(s) prescribing more drugs. The doctors make money off of every sick person. The drug companies make a fortune. The people at the top of the financial pyramid own stocks in both the food and the drug companies. They keep you alive, but sicker and sicker, as long as possible. I know a woman who had to be admitted to hospital because she was taking 100 tablets a day. One doctor didn't know what the others were prescribing. She was getting sicker and sicker. The drugs were interacting and counteracting each other to the point she had to spend a month in hospital to sort it out.
I was fortunate to have a sugar free, whole food childhood. That habit continued as I went through life. Like my mother, I have always had an interest in diet, nutrition, and exercise. I take no prescription drugs on a daily basis. Yes, if I get a chest infection due to my self inflicted smoking habit, I go to the doctor for an antibiotic prescription. I then counter the damage done with probiotic foods. I take an interest in any research that comes my way about the microbiome, which medical science is only now starting to study. Seventy percent of your immune system is in your microbiome, and not just in your gut, but throughout your body. If I went to my general practicioner and started talking about the microbiome he'd politely tell me, as he has in the past, that he does not approve of "alternative methods."
Now, you all can choose to believe that your doctors are the only ones to be trusted when it comes to caring for your health. No doubt they have many insights and a great deal of knowledge. But I am living proof that a good diet coupled with natural herbs, vitamins, probiotics and enzymes can be just as if not more beneficial than chemical drugs. And yes, some supplements can have side effects. We're all different and everything doesn't work for everyone. But any side effect I've ever experienced from a supplement stopped as soon as I discontinued it, and the vast majority of them have had beneficial effects beyond the reason I initially took them. I am far more distrustful of chemical drugs because every single one I have been prescribed over the past years has had a bad side effect, some of them long lasting. No supplement ever did that to me. And that is why, in my seventh decade, I have only visited an allopathic doctor once in the past five years and then only for that chest infection brought on by my own stupidity in smoking.
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You're welcome. Just one more thing. I suggest you look it up yourself. There are many articles on PubMed, for one, and other medical journals, that talk about things like NAC and other substances and your doctors may not be aware of the latest research. They are after all extremely busy people. I just used the Firefox browser and the Brave search engine to look up "NAC + detox" and the Brave AI had a very interesting answer to get me started. AI is not the word from on high either but it does give you a starting point. And always always always look up contraindications, side effects, and interactions with the drugs you may be taking. I wish you well. I think Firefox browser has an add on for PubMed so you can search it in particular if you choose.
Update: Yesterday I looked up every supplement recommended by W.G. Miller in the book. All of them have been "scientifically" studied for their therapeutic effects, none so many times as to be adopted by the medical establishment as standard protocol. None of them were found to be dangerous. All of them were found to have efficacious effects in one way or another, most of them in many ways.
I always find it best to start one supplement at a time. If you start taking more than one and one of them doesn't agree with you, you wouldn't know which one was causing the problem if you had started 2 or 3 at once.
Emphysema is unfortunately incurable according to the medical establishment. They can only manage symptoms, as is their wont. In that case I see no harm in trying something different, which may prove to be helpful.
General health is very important in the management of any disease. For anyone interested I suggest you look up metabolic disorder, which is caused by bad diet, and causes chronic inflammation, which causes or exacerbates all disease.
I would still be very interested in hearing from anyone who has tried the protocols in Miller's book, as that is the reason I joined this forum in the first place. I will report back in a month or two or three if there is anything to report. Good luck to you all.
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