ZANE R. GARD, M.D.

ALVARADO COURT MEDICAL BUILDING

6386 ALVARADO COURT, SUITE 326

SAN DIEGO, CA 921 20 • (619) 583-5863

ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE

February 11, 1986

Perry Chapdelaine

Executive Director

Rheumatoid Disease Foundation

Rt. 4, Box 137

Franklin, Tenn. 37064

Dear Mr. Chapdelaine:

Thank you for your invitation to present the “Bio-Toxic Re-

duction Program” to your Foundation on July 16-19, 1986 in Santa

Monica, California. As I mentioned, Giovanna DeSanti-Medina will

also attend to help answer questions from the perspective of an

individual who has successfully completed the program. She is case

history # 2 on the information enclosed on the program and progress

of those who have completed the program.

I am currently working on approximately 50 more case stud-

ies. It is expected that these will be completed shortly. We have had

over 100 patients complete this program to date and have found an

average improvement of 70-75% in these patients, which is remark-

able when you consider the fact that most were severely disabled

and failed other therapies. Many were considered untreatable. We

have had program participants who range between the ages of 5

and 80. Thirty four patients have had peripheral neuropathy and all

have improved. Those with arthritis have shown significant im-

provement after completing this program of detoxification (See case

# 1 and # 22).

I hope you will find the enclosed material both interesting and

informative. I look forward to presenting this information in July.

If you have further questions, please feel free to contact me at (619)

583-5865.

Sincerely,

ZANE R. GARD, M.D.

Consultant/ Human Environmental Medicine, Inc. ZRG:gm

Encl.

Your diet, your job, your neighborhood or your hobby may be

killing you. Chances are your mind will be the firs t to go. Ninety

percent of the 150 million metric tons of toxic waste generated every

year by American industry will be improperly disposed. I t will end

up in our beaches, in our drinking water, our playgrounds or aban-

doned in open fields, and eventually in our bodies. We’re

sitting on a time bomb that could explode in the next generation... or

at the end of our own lives with bir th defects, cancers, mental ill-

ness, and early senility.

A MEDICAL PROFILE :

Brain and Body Pollution

Zane R. Gard, M.D., E. Jean Brown, PHN, BSN,

Giovanna DeSanti-Medina

Copyright 1983 Zane R. Gard MD.

“Toxic Bio-Accumulation and Effective Detoxification”

Today man no longer suffers the devastation of polio, cholera,

smallpox, T.B., and typhoid epidemics. However, more insidiously

he does suffer from high blood pressure, stroke, heart problems, can-

cers, allergy, obesity, and a barrage of mental illnesses that now reach

epidemic proportions...trends which reflect the diseases of “industri-

alism.” The past 150 years have been a time of incredible progress

for medicine, science and industry. Because of these advancements

we now enjoy longer, more productive lives. However, there are many

who will inevitably pay a high price for our modern lifestyle. The

“unnatural” by-products of our chemical technology have resulted in

contamination of our “natural” resources. Though toxic substances

have been in existence for centuries, today we are exposed to chemi-

cal concentrations far greater than were our ancestors. There is no

single contributing factor which has impaired man’s adaptability to

the environment than that of our current widespread use and misuse

of harmful chemical substances. EPA director, William Ruckelshaus,

recently stated chemical pollution as the number one environmental

problem.

Since 1965, over 4 million distinct chemical compounds have

been reported in scientific literature. Each week over 6,000 new chemi-

cals were added to the list between 1965 and 1978. As of 1981, of

over 70,000 chemicals in commercial production, 3,000 have been

identified as intentionally added to food supplies and over 700 in

drinking water. During food processing and storage 10,000 other

compounds can become an integral part of many commonly used

foods. Directly or indirectly this toxic residue invar iably works its

way into our air, food, and water supplies...and ultimately into the

human body. Add to the list of potential body toxins, radiation (x-

rays, nuclear fall-out, computer terminals, powerlines, etc.), petro-

chemicals, industrial waste, medical and street drugs, tons of pesti-

cides, herbicides, and insecticides, and the result is an incredible chemi-

cal avalanche to have befallen the human race in a relatively short

time of evolutionary history.

It should not then be surprising that individuals who become

environmentally susceptible or “maladapted” to one or more com-

mon chemical excitants are usually not the same thereafter. Current

clinical, scientific, and governmental studies indicate a staggering

increase in the incidence of environmentally-induced illnesses. Two

major factors responsible for this outbreak are: discrepancies in es-

tablished “safety” standards for “allowable” contamination due to

inadequate toxicity data; and, the approved use of many toxic sub-

stances in this country which have been banned in other countries as

known threats to public health. While many of these chemicals have

unequivocally saved lives, property, and entire industries, most ar e

not aware that millions of people have been and continue to be poi-

soned and countless others killed as a result of insidious chemical

exposure. The toll on human suffering is incalculable at present as

current statistical data does not accurately reflect non-occupational

exposures, nor cumulative, interactive, or long-term chemical effects.

However, it is estimated that at least 20 million Americans in the

workplace alone ar e exposed to toxins capable of producing damage

to the central nervous system even from minute concentrations. In

the long run, everyone pays a price for unhealthy workers.

Noted researchist and clinical immunologist, Alan S. Levin,

M.D., recently stated that, “The vast increase of chemicals in our

environment, foods, end medicines, has greatly altered the body’s

ability to rid itself of toxins...these factors have changed the character

of illness and disease so that the average physician can no longer rely

on past case histories or text books but must depend co the immediate

observation of the patient . The average citizen of the 1980’s is bio-

chemically and genetically different from the average citizen of the

1950’s...so different, in fact, that ordinary texts and training are geared

to treat people who no longer exist.” Accordingly medicine has had

to accommodate the “changing” patient. A convergence of toxicol-

ogy, allergy/immunology, nutrition, and behavioral science, the field

of Environmental Medicine has emerged. In an attempt to better un-

derstand man’s complex interaction with his volatile environment,