Another of the "incurable" diseases, cystic fibrosis, which is becoming increasingly more common, appears to result from combined deficiencies of vitamins B6, E, and pantothenic acid. At the onset, abnormal amounts of salt are retained, typical of the alarm reaction to stress. Cortisone or ACTH therapy, which simulates this stress reaction, frequently causes the pancreas to be damaged.

When cystic fibrosis is first diagnosed, the pancreas produces digestive enzymes normally. This organ, however, gradually becomes a mass of scar tissue; yet scars always follow injury and never precede it. Furthermore, scar tissue cannot synthesize enzymes. Digestion and absorption, therefore, gradually becomes so incomplete that deficiencies of all nutrients quickly occur. Eventually most of the food eaten remains undigested, causing persistent diarrhea with bulky, foul-smelling, greasy stools; and persons with this disease soon become susceptible to severe respiratory infections.

Faulty digestion, diarrhea with foul-smelling stools, and extreme susceptibility to respiratory infections have been produced in volunteers lacking vitamins B6 and pantothenic acid. Furthermore, damage to the pancreas has been repeatedly produced in animals by diets only slightly deficient in vitamin B6. Such injury is made worse by saturated fats, an excess of calcium or vitamin Bl, a deficiency of magnesium, or a high-protein, high-calorie diet such as is given for cystic fibrosis. If the damage is not too severe, however, healing occurs soon after vitamin B6 or the amino acid methionine is given.

Cystic fibrosis is said to occur with kwashiorkor, a. disease of malnutrition common in South Africa and Central America. Children with this disease have made spectacular recoveries when given ground whole grains mixed with yeast, but I can find no reports of patients with cystic fibrosis having been given vitamin B6, pantothenic acid, or any good natural sources of the B vitamins. Antibiotics, which destroy intestinal bacteria, are usually administered continuously; hence the B vitamins normally supplied by these bacteria are not even available.

Autopsy studies of children who have died of cystic fibrosis show multiple signs of vitamin-E deficiencies, yet an investigation revealed that not one child had ever received this vitamin. When digestive enzymes--powder or tablets--and granular lecithin are given with every meal, the digestion and absorption of an extremely ill person can be markedly improved; and both should be immediately increased if digestion is still faulty. With these digestive aids, yeast, liver, wheat germ, perhaps a B-vitamin syrup and/or tablets, and yogurt or acidophilus milk or culture can be taken daily. All of these foods should be started the minute a diagnosis of cystic fibrosis is made.

To protect the adrenals and build resistance, the anti-stress formula could be given every three hours; and the quantity of vitamin C increased at the first sign of an infection. Certainly vitamin E should be generously supplied. Oils are usually well absorbed by persons with this disease, hence they can be used for cooking. Water-soluble nutrients, such as magnesium, vitamin C, and the B vitamins, absorb without difficulty. Because vitamins A, D, and E are well absorbed through the skin, vitamin D can be rubbed directly on the body once daily and vitamins A and E several times daily if the disease is so advanced that little food can be digested. In one way or another, every nutrient can be furnished.

Since life may depend on the B vitamins supplied by intestinal bacteria, sugars which inhibit the growth of these bacteria should be avoided. And if my own child had cystic fibrosis, I would not allow antibiotics to be used until symptoms of an infection appeared. Giving antibiotics when no infection exists seems to me like taking an aspirin now for next month's headache. Building resistance to infections is far more constructive.

High Hereditary Requirements

Certain families and individuals have unusually high requirements for one nutrient or another. Often this requirement is 10 to 20 times greater than that considered to be "normal." Such an extraordinary need apparently accounts for many illnesses thought of as hereditary and therefore "incurable." Examples are persons subject to epilepsy, periodic paralysis, and perhaps diabetes.

A diet adequate for most people is by no means adequate for such an individual. Until sufficient nutrients are obtained to meet the needs of a person with unusually high hereditary or "genetotrophic" requirements, his illness cannot be considered incurable.

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