[Editor's Note: I first heard Dr. Wallach in 1996 in a radio interview with Roy Tuckman of KPFK Radio (Los Angeles). The essay presented below is taken from a book titled "Let's Play Doctor" first published in 1989 by Dr. Joel Wallach and his wife, Dr. Ma Lan. The book is packed with natural, low cost methods for treating a wide range of disease conditions and symptoms that I've found to be most useful and efficacious. I often refer to it when stuck for an answer. Naturally, orthodox medicine is strongly opposed to the promotion of this type of self-help book, advocating Nature-based therapies, since you might discover that you can fix your health problems on your own, without the need of the medical priesthood. And of course, we can't have that- now can we?...Ken Adachi]

By Dr. Joel Wallach, DVM, ND
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/cysticfibrosisbywallach03sep03.shtml
September 3, 2003

CYSTIC FIBROSIS (mucoviscidosis): is the "crime" of the century second only to diabetes (and that is only because diabetes affects millions while CF only affect thousands each year) in that it is preventable, 100% curable in the early stages, and can be far better managed in chronic cases than it is currently managed by orthodox medicine. Cystic fibrosis is an important fatal disease of humans. CF was originally thought to be limited to white populations of central European origin, but today CF has been diagnosed in all peoples of the earth.
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CF is thought to be genetically transmitted by the orthodox pediatricians, yet they have failed to prove their theory despite multi-millions of dollars spent in research. Classically, the diagnosis is made when any two of four criteria are present:

1.Exocrine pancreatic inufficiency,
2. Bronchiectasis,
3. Positive sweat test,
4. Family history of the disease,

yet most orthodox pediatricians will not diagnose CF without a positive "sweat test" (elevated level of sodium, chloride and potassium in the sweat -greater than 65 mEq/L.

The sweat test has been elevated by dogma to "the diagnostic test" for CF, yet there are at least 17 known diseases and syndromes that can give a positive sweat test (*see list below), leading at least one group of investigators to refer to CF as a syndrome rather than a disease.

Initially described in 1933, CF was first thought to be the result of a vitamin A deficiency in children dying with celiac disease. In 1938, the term "cystic fibrosis" was coined because the pathologist mistakenly thought the changes in the pancreas were true cysts (fluid filled spaces lined with normal tissue). It is well known today that the "cysts" of CF are, in fact, a dilation of the pancreatic functional unit (acini) with atrophy (shrinking) of the lining tissue.

In 1952, the fact that congenital CF occurred in a significant number of CF patients was established. The foundation of the genetic theory of CF transmission is based on the frequent congenital appearance and two very poor papers: one published in 1913 which claimed that two children with diarrhea had an "inborn error in fat metabolism" and another one published in 1965 that did an epidemiological study of a group of 232 Australian families with CF. Despite six sets of twins among those studied, the study failed to shed clear light on the proposed genetic theory.

These papers were so poorly written, that today they would not get past the letter opener at any orthodox medical journal. We have spent an inordinate amount of time on CF because this syndrome again demonstrates very clearly that if any medical specialty will be eliminated by discovery [of a cure], that discovery will never be given to the public by the orthodoxy.

In 1978, the first universally accepted diagnosis of CF in a laboratory animal was made by myself, Dr. Joel Wallach. The diagnosis was based on characteristic CF changes in the pancreas and liver in baby monkeys and were confirmed by CF experts from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Emory University and the University of Chicago. Experts from NIH and the CF Foundation were overjoyed -- that is until they learned that Dr. Wallach could reproduce the CF changes with acongenital selenium deficiency in almost any animal species. (With this revelation, Wallach was fired with 24 hours notice-ten days after his wife had died of cancer- and blackballed from further research.)

It has been learned recently that the positive sweat test is the result of an essential fatty acid deficiency that causes a secondary deficiency of prostaglandin (very short lived hormones) that control the sodium, chlorides and potassium levels of the sweat.

The prevention of CF has been accomplished in pet, farm, and labortory animals by the veterinary profession by assuring adequate levels of selenium and essential fatty acid nutriture to the preconception, pregnant, and nursing mother. This is not as easy as it sounds because of malabsorption problems ( E.g. Celiac diseases and Crohn's Disease) in a percentage of women. All things being normal, a supplementation of 200 mcg (micrograms) of selenium per day and 5 grams of flaxseed oil taken three times a day would be adequate to prevent CF.

Treatment of CF is very basic - treat the infant as early as possible with intramuscular selenium injections of 10-25 mcg per day. Plant derived colloidal minerals may be used orally thereafter. Provide 5 gm of flaxseed oil orally three times daily.

It's critically important to DETERMINE IF THE INFANT IS ALLERGIC TO WHEAT, COW'S MILK OR SOY. If you do not correct the malabsorption problem, treatment will only be minimally effective. In the case of older CF patients, essential fatty acids given intravenously and intramuscularly injections of selenium will provide excellent management leading to a norrnal life expectancy of 75 years. Compare this approach to the heart and lung transplant offered by the orthodox pediatricians!

If the proper treatment is carried out, the "typical CF lung disease" will not develop. The lungs of CF patients are normal at birth and only develop bronchiectasis after chronic essential fatty acid and copper deficiencies have taken their toll. Don't forget the base line nutritional supplementation here!

We went to China in 1988 to study Keshan Disease, a known selenium deficiency disease of Chinese children. We studied 1,700 autopsies and found 595 cases or 35% had pancreatic CF. Remember that CF, according to the orthodoxy, is supposed to be "genetic disease of children of middle European extract". To justify this finding, the proponentsof the orthodox genetic theory will no doubt claim that a very virile English missionary impregnated 125,000 Chinese girls and, unfortunately, he was "carrying the gene for CF."

Dr. Joel Wallach

"The more facts you have, the better the truth you have." anthropologist, Dr. Johnathon Leaky, Sr.

* Diseases and Syndromes That Have Produced a Positive Sweat Test:

1. Adrenal Insufficiency
2. Ectodermal Dysplasia
3. Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus
4. Glucose-6 Phosphate Deficiency
5. Pupillatonia / Autonomic Dysfunction
6. Allergies
7. Calcyfying Pancreatitis
8. Anorexia Nervosa
9. Cystic Fibrosis
10. Focal Hepatic Cirrhosis
11. Derangement of Prostaglandin Metabolism
12. Hypothyroidism
13. Fucosidosis
15. Malnutrition
16. Kwashiorkor
17. Diabetes