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Radio Interview, Here's to Your Health
Dr. Barbara Brewitt with Danielle
Lin
Radio interview on the Danielle Lin Show (aired June 98 over 63 radio
stations)
DL: Explain what growth factors are and why they are so
important to what a long term picture is as far as our health goes.
BB: Well they are very exciting molecules that were first found
in the 1960s, but have really taken their place in science and biotechnology in
the 1980s, They are small proteins in the body that help the body communicate
and really effective give feedback between system. Most people have heard of
hormones, such as growth hormones, insulin, testosterone and estrogen and those
are important and they have target tissues so they are very specific in their
activities. Growth factors are actually sometimes called messengers of
hormones, they work just within minutes and they help cells to talk to each
other even if they're right next to each other and they regulate the growth and
the aging of cells. They would tell a cell when to live, when to die and when
to specialize.
DL: So when you are growing up and you are born you have all
these growth factors in your body and I'm assuming as you age, you get less
growth factors. Is that what happens?
BB: The growth factors potential remains in almost all the cells
throughout our body, otherwise would become very, very ill. However, they slow
down and as we age cells go into what we call arresting phase. It is very
difficult to get them out of that and into a more active phase. That requires
growth factors.
DL: So in your research, when you started on it...first of all
what fascinated you so much with growth factors that you have dedicated your
life to them?
BB: Well, I think I was always interested in the hormones and
what endocrinology was when I was in school, not on the cutting edge of science
and then when I learned about these growth factor molecules having such an
important role with feedback and immune system and nervous system and vision,
which is something was researching at the time, I was just totally fascinated
with their regulation outside of the cell with even gene expression inside of
the cell.
DL: What did you find out about vision. I know with a lot of
people, you hit 40 and your eyesight is going to start waning and you are going
to have get those bifocals. Is there a relationship with taking growth factors
and improving your vision?
BB:There is joke about a how you can tell how much over 40
someone is by how many inches they have to read a book from their eyes, you can
almost measure it. My studies actually were on growth factors and transparency
of the lens in the eye. I think most people have heard about cataracts and the
researchers could never take normal lens out of the eye and put it into a
cultural dish. It would always become a cataract, so my research was on, were
there any new molecules that vision and that transparency and I found out that
extremely low levels of concentrations of specific growth factors were
absolutely required to maintain transparency of the lens.
DL: So when you saw low levels, because a lot of times when hear
about growth factors being injected for anti-aging programs, which are quite
costly and also, to some degree, from what I understand toxic with side
effects. What you're talking about now are growth factors that are homeopathic
growth factors. What makes them different?
BB: Well that was exactly what I observed, both at the
University of Washington and at the National Eye Institute was that the
transparency of the lens depended upon concentrations of growth factors down
into the homeopathic realm and the time I was going, I can't even believe there
are any molecules in this. We were down to what's called nanograms or even
picograms, which is 10 to the minus 9th moler, so it had molecules in it but it
was far below micrograms, which is what most people think about. So I began to
go, gee that is just like homeopathic and I realized that growth factors needed
to be given in very pulsalite burst way, just like homeopathic are given.
DL: The thing with homeopathics, explain briefly what they
actually are and what they are based on.
BB: Samuel Hahnemann, the founder observed that drugs at high
concentrations actually caused side effects, which we're all familiar with and
he proposed that if really diluted things down into what is now called the
homeopathic realm that we could get some of the positive benefits and eliminate
all of the side effects. That is basis of homeopathy.
DL: A concept of like cures like. What is interesting about it
is that we are starting to hear more and more about growth factors and on one
side I feel very excited and know there are certain products, like I use
colostrum, which has growth factors in it and I've seen incredibly beneficial
results for myself and other people using some of the product, but I also know
that there are some concerns that we need to address and maybe some of them are
myths and maybe they are not, but the concern of people growth factors, as you
said and starting to see these side effects.
DL: Dr. Brewitt is the Chief Scientific Officer at Biomed
Comm,® Inc. and so we can get a little scientific about this,
but the bottom line about homeopathic growth factors, Dr. Brewitt, is why would
somebody say themselves, so what do I need this for? What is the bottom line
it?
BB: I think the exciting thing about homeopathic growth factors
are that they really help the body communicate more effectively and that
ramifications everywhere in the body from feeling more energy, to feeling
mental clarity, to feeling like your on top of the world and that youíve
just gained 5-10 years of your life back again. You've got that vital drive to
live and thrive and the world is yours.
DL: So part of it is the fact that we age, communication to
charge up the whole system starts to slow down as you've said before.... would
there be symptoms that you would say to yourself "OK these are really classic
symptoms and I really need to take homeopathic growth factors"
BB: One of them is just the mental fog and stress that so many
people talk to us about all the time and other ones are even like your vision
is not what it could be and should be, to general headaches, PMS, menopause....
I mean the really important thing here is that growth factors help feedback
loops between the nervous, immune and hormonal system, which in our society the
way we are living our lives and the way the environment is most people are not
at their optimal functioning, either in the mental or physical.
DL: So the growth factors.... you have growth factors over here
and some people take DHEA and things like that, Creatin, which are kind of
precursors that stimulate the body's growth hormones..... how are they
different from that?
BB: It's important to point out here.... we have a homeopathic
growth hormone. There's one growth hormone and many growth factors, over 40 of
them in the body, and the precursors actually require energy in the body to try
to form with what ever it is, which is usually growth hormone. The formula we
have is actually growth hormone which is safe over-the counter oral tablets
that can be chewed up and is very affordable and gives you the positive
benefits of growth hormone like improving the immune system, helping the body's
lean mass, which is more than just the muscle, you feel better and are actually
getting physiological changes in the blood stream that makes people feel
younger.
DL: So it's a whole different biological mechanism that happens
with the homeopathic growth factors versus going out and taking Creatine and
DHEA. Now, so I asked before about homeopathics. Hahnemann before was based
upon like cures like. You might put a bee venom in high concentrations if
you've gotten stung. It's kind of like that. These two are blended together and
you were saying when were chatting together that doesn't always have to be
based on like cures like.
BB: Right. The important thing that Hahnemann's found is not
well understood. I would say in general American understanding of homeopathy is
that Hahnemann observed that a drug, and all homeopathic are considered, "a
drug." He found that drug substances at high concentrations gave very bad
effects on the body... side effects. The drug had an effect on the body, then
the body reacted against the drug in some way, so he found that he could dilute
the substances regularly down to extreme low concentrations, extremely below
physiological concentrations, still maintain positive benefit of that substance
without any of the side effects.
DL: And so one of the things that I know about homeopathics and
science has discovered, they work on.... I want to say electromagnetic field,
which is a whole new science of medicine that we are starting to look at.... is
maybe we don't understand the mechanisms of how things work in our bodies. So
homeopathy seems to work where again, like you said get it down to small
concentrations, but you can have a very large impact because of the
electromagnetic field that it changes.
BB: Exactly right. What I actually did with these formulas to
test them for their ability to change the electromagnetic fields in the body of
people in positive way and there are types of equipment that can measure the
electromagnetic field of the body at acupuncture points of the skin.
DL: Why that is exciting is because, from my own experience of
using those electromagnetic... you know when you hold that little rod in your
hand, you can discover years ahead of time that you might have an imbalance in
the body, which may later on lead to complete degenerative disease, but if you
catch it early so then you don't end up with this disease. So when you're using
homeopathic growth factors, for example for somebody who's getting excited
about it, I understand I hear vision, I hear immune building, would you say to
yourself, "OK my eyes aren't so great so I should go out and get homeopathic
growth factor. "Do you make that quick of jump and decide to go do it and is it
safe to just begin to start taking them right off the shelf?"
BB: You've said a lot of things all at once. Yes, to most of
them. Let me start from the beginning of your questions and comments and kind
of walk everyone through it. If we go back to maybe... some people have about
the Vital Force or the Chi in the body, like Tai Chi where people were trying
to balance their energy... it's known that as we balance our energy, our
physical functioning actually improves and so when I took these homeopathic
growth hormone and growth factors and designed them to optimize people's energy
levels, what we found through clinical studies... I mean we have double-blind,
placebo controlled studies and what we found was that there were physical
benefits to people, such that their vision improved, the doctors commented that
their prescriptions and eye glasses need to go down, I must have over
prescribed you. We have people telling us that their PMS symptoms and have gone
away. There are a lot of very specific, physical symptoms and what is the most
exciting thin g about growth factors and growth hormone is they're well
characterized, we can take knowledge about symptoms and match them to different
homeopathic growth factors or growth hormone so that we know what symptom
picture would help a person.
DL: So if somebody would want to try them, then when they call
do they give you their symptoms and say, "OK my eyes are not as clear as they
used to be or I donít see as well" and then the growth factors are
suggested to that person.... like you would if you go to a natural food store
and you see them and itís all set up and you can say, "OK there is one
for rashes or whatever. Is that how these are designed also?"
BB: We are not prescribing drugs. If any viewers call in and
they go. Well instead of going to my doctor, Iím going to go to you, but
we do have, as with all homeopathic there is profile of the kinds of symptom
pictures that guide a person to recognize what would work best for them. If you
look on any homeopathic, it will say a few things on the instructions, on the
label or on the little insert of the homeopathics so weíve designed the
homeopathic growth factors in that way, growth hormone as well.
DL: We're sitting here and we're talking, you know .... we hear
all these things in the nutrition world and one claims to do this.... and
certainly antioxidants claim to do things that you are talking about. versus
using. What is difference going out and taking antioxidants versus using
homeopathic growth factors.
BB: That's a great question. It's important for the listener to
really understand that growth factors are in a category of their own. They do
more than just prevent free-radical damage, which is what the antioxidant
category is doing.... it's preventing all those free-radicals that eventually
lead to cancer and other pathologies. Growth factors, because they regulate
cell growth and because they have specific and exquisite effects on DNA, they
actually repair the damaged DNA before they let the cell go into another round
of self evasion. So they go beyond preventing free-radical damage, they repair
free-radical damage.
DL: So do you take growth factors for life? Is it something that
you have symptoms and then go out and get it or it's something that you realize
as you're aging that this is part of your life style?
BB: The whole story in our life is achieving an optimal balance.
We want to achieve optimal health and optimal performance and a person that is
really fatigued or some of the research that we've done with chronic HIV
infested people, they may be making growth factors for years and with HIV maybe
for the rest of their life. The normal person however, may take growth factors
or vitamins for 5 or 6 months and go, "You know I'm feeling great..." And when
you feel great you should go off of them for awhile and then your own body does
actually communicate to you and says, "You know I am not in the best palace, in
fact I'm back to having a foggy head, in fact I'm working with somebody and it
was about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and went "Huh, I don't want to go into
this meeting, my head is a little fogged. "So he took some of our homeopathic
IGF1 called Mental Clarity and about 10 minutes into the staff meeting he said.
"You know my head is totally clear. I am totally back".
DL: That fast?
BB: That fast. You see growth factors and particularly IGF1 is
in the body acts as a neuro peptide and they regulate the electromagnetic field
in the body, which is so different from what we are usually thinking about with
digestion in our stomach or something. This can happen in seconds. If you walk
into a room and see someone you were really attracted to and you weren't
feeling well you can automatically feel better within a matter of minutes and
that's because there has been an electrical charge that went through your heart
or wherever and you became alert and growth factors are doing that. So giving
them back homeopathically, you are actually communicating to yourself about
yourself. It's like self -talk and self talk goes. "I remember how to come back
into balance." That's what is so exciting to me about homeopathy, that it works
so quickly and it can have very profound physical and mental and emotional
changes that actually re-teach us how to be better. Like transforming into ou r
greater self.
DL: I like the idea that you can have a response. I know for
awhile I had a kitty and I had terrible allergies and I would go visit my
friend who has two dogs and one night I was at her house and I was in bed I was
gasping. I couldn't catch my breath and she ran downstairs to the kitchen and
got a homeopathic formula and within 3 minutes the cough was gone and I could
breathe. So for me, I know I've seen what you are talking about and anybody who
has used homeopathics certainly may not have had as a dramatic result, but you
can.
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