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Re: why is is supposed to be so remarkable ?

Posted by Elroy on November 10, 2005, at 15:38:49

In reply to Re: why is is supposed to be so remarkable ?, posted by willyee on July 22, 2005, at 21:09:31

Some links on Jack Dreyfus (yes, the famed Wall Street guru of the 60s / 70s who founded Dreyfus and Company and the Dreyfus Funds, and then later the Dreyfus Medical Foundation which later became the Dreyfus Health Foundation) and benefits of Dilantin or phenytoin...

http://www.dhfglobal.org/pht/pht_1.html

http://www.remarkablemedicine.com/

http://www.remarkablemedicine.com/Medicine/observations.html

http://www.remarkablemedicine.com/Clinical/basicmechanisms/summary.html

http://www.remarkablemedicine.com/Clinical/index.html

http://www.remarkablemedicine.com/Clinical/clinicaluses/distinctivecharacteristics.html

Jack Dreyfus discovered that Dilantin cured his severe anxiety and depression back in the 1960s and over the next several years documented many other disorders that Dilantin has been proven effective. The doses used in treating these disorders are much less than that used for epileptic control - and it is at the higher doses where the negative side effects occasionally appear. Reading drug site informational data sheets or government articles referes to the use of the much higher doses used in the treatment of epilepsy. Jack Dreyfus himself used (as I recall from the book) primarily 100 mg daily, sometimes going to 100 mg in the morning and the 50 mg later in the day.

http://www.remarkablemedicine.com/Clinical/clinicaluses/safety/dosage.html

Overall Dilantin is much safer than most modern day pharmaceuticals.

http://www.remarkablemedicine.com/Clinical/clinicaluses/safety/safety.html

http://www.remarkablemedicine.com/Clinical/clinicaluses/safety/toxicology.html

In fact at lower doses (25 mg) Dilantin is beginining to be used by many anti-aging experts:

http://www.anti-aging-today.org/medicine/anti-aging/dilantin-phenytoin.htm

http://www.vrp.com/art/253.asp

http://www.vrp.com/art/758.asp

http://www.worldhealth.net/p/286,2059.html

For those familiar with the connection between hypercortisolism and various psychological disorders (anxiety, depression, bipolar, etc.), it is interesting to note that Dilantin also reduces cortisol levels. It does not inhibit the production of cortisol per se, but apparently metabolizes the cortisol very quickly from the body (so could possibly be a concern with someone with advanced adrenal fatigue or outright Addison's Disease).

http://stress.about.com/cs/cortisol/a/aa012901_2.htm

http://www.endocrinology.med.ucla.edu/adrenal_axis.htm

Mr. Dreyfus has since devoted most of his life to advancing the cause of Dilantin... Yes, he is still alive, recently celebrating his 92nd birthday. And, no, he has NO financial interest in any form of Dilantin.

Part of the problem with Dilantin in fact is that it was developed in 1908 and bought out by a US drug company in (I believe) 1937. It was approved for epileptic control and put on a shelf. It's patent expired (like all others) in 17 years, so when Jack Dreyfus discovered its effects (through personal use) in the 1960s, the patent had long since expired and the parent company (nor any other company) had any financial incentive to conduct extensive controlled tests to show these additional positive uses of Dilantin (though the books document tens of thousands of prescriptions being written by individual doctors for some 50+ "off-label" uses).

http://www.remarkablemedicine.com/Clinical/survey.html

I would strongly urge any reader to obtain and read his books (the initial volume that I read was published in 1988, but I understand that he has since published an updated version that was published in 2003). Aside from the very interesting information provided on Dilantin itself, you will also get a very disturbing view of how the FDA, the drug companies, and medical science really works.

That said, there are many "nay-sayers" about Jack Dreyfus and his work... but a little digging around will find that usually - not always, but usually - there's a "hidden agenda" involved.... like one would assume, there is a much, much stronger incentive for the drug companies to market medications udner patent and many (most?) of today's doctors (mentical or psychological) are simply unaware of Dilantin's low-dose usage in areas outside the realm of epileptic control (where high doses are employed).

It seems quite interesting (ironic?) that Dilantin is reappearing on the radar screens in the form of interest by the antiaging community (sure seems to have helped Jack Dreyfus out a lot in that department.. that is his current picture on the opening page of the second link above!).

http://www.remarkablemedicine.com/pressrelease.html


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