With today’s technology we can overcome and modify the physiological barriers our grandparents had. Whether or not you have hypertension, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, or peripheral vascular disease, today’s technology still allows you to have a fulfilling relationship with your spouse.

Female Sexual Disorder affects over 50 millions woman in the U.S and spans the gamut of arousal disorders, aversion disorders, desire disorders, pain disorders and orgasmic disorders. This subject and knowledge was taboo as little as 40 years ago but now more than 45% of woman who suffer from one of these disorders are being successfully treated.

Using natural hormones, more definitive diagnoses and more knowledgeable physicians more and more people are enjoying these extra 20 years that science has given us.

World Cup Soccer Championship seems to have captured our fascination. The Gulf oil spill, Afghanistan, the economy, Obama-Care and Iran are like chronic sores in our consciousness, but somehow we manage to come back to reality with our National Holidays, the smiles and antics of our children and grandchildren, a day of fishing, a round of golf or a great night out with our spouse. Yes, these are hard times, but when we pull together as a nation we are unstoppable.

Wishing you and your family a very Happy 4th of July! Travel safely and don’t forget the sunscreen!

-Dr. Murray

What’s New?

Introducing the ImplicitGuide (iGuide) Surgical Suture System
The ground breaking new standard in technology for a younger looking you!

This May, I had the pleasure and privilege to train with the inventor himself, Dr. Gregory Mueller in Beverly Hills, California. Dr. Mueller spent almost three years perfecting this neck lifting operation. The iGuide is used to over sew the muscles of the neck restoring the neck to a more youthful jaw line. Unlike all other neck lifting procedures, this one leaves NO unsightly scars, it is performed under local anesthesia and the down time is minimal.

The full procedure involves small liposuction under the chin using local anesthesia, the trampoline suture system is then inserted using a patented fiber optic rod. It is these fiber optic rods that make this procedure unique and different from all the others.

Total Interconnectivity

While the following might not seem to have anything to do with medicine, I thought it was interesting. The interconnectivity that we feel today with iPhones, iPad and Wi-Fi is now going to occur on the battlefields of tomorrow (maybe as soon as next year). A company out of Chicago called Tanagram is putting a 360 degree camera into the helmets of our soldiers that communicates with a battle base somewhere in the U.S. The soldier is then able to “laser paint” a building, person or even room as being dangerous which is then sent immediately to all other soldiers in the vicinity. If a place has been shown by a previous soldier or encounter to be a dangerous place, the “virtual battlefields” computers will let the soldier know where those areas are and appropriate measures can be taken. And most of this technology will be available via the soldier’s iPhone by next year!! Dick Tracy you are already outdated!

Your Personal Genome

If you wanted to get your entire sequence of your Genome (all of the millions of genes that make up you) it would currently cost you about $20,000.00 to $48,000.00. The previous goal has been to get it to about $1000.00 Not Bad! Now a team from Harvard University has devised a way to make pico liter droplets of water; putting these on as many as 1000 computer chips will allow them to give you your entire genome for about $30.00. Production is still a year or two away but, the future possibilities are practically endless at these prices.

Pancreatic Cancer

Although we are uncertain why, we do know that pancreatic cancer is on the rise. The Koch Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts has devised a technology that implants an electrode carrying anti-cancerous medicine directly into the pancreas. A second electrode is then applied to the outside of the body and an electrical current is activated which drives the medicine directly into the tumor.

The reason pancreatic tumors have been so hard to cure is the blood supply that carries the anti-cancerous medicine to the pancreas is very limited. This technology will allow hundreds of times greater concentration of medicine to that area.

Solar Doomsday?

Scientists believe the Earth will be hit with unprecedented levels of magnetic energy from solar flares after the Sun wakes “from a deep slumber” sometime around 2013. NASA said the “super storm” would hit like a bolt of lightening and could cause catastrophic consequences for world’s health, emergency systems and national security. They believe it could damage everything from emergency service’s system, hospital equipment, banking systems, air traffic control systems as well as every day items such as home computers, iPods, and GPS navigation systems. Due to our heavy reliance on electronic devices, which are sensitive to magnetic energy, the storm could leave a multi-million dollar damage bill.

Dr. Richard Fisher, director of NASA’s Heliophysics division recently reported that every 22 years the sun’s magnetic energy cycle peaks while the number of sun spots and solar flares hits a maximum level every 11 years. Dr. Fisher, a NASA scientist for 20 years, said these two events would combine in 2013 to produce huge levels of radiation and could cause major problems for the world.

In parts of Europe where the electrical grid is fragile they could be without power and access to electronic devices for hours even days or weeks. The economic costs could be twenty times greater than Hurricane Katrina ($125 Billion).

Singularity is around the Corner

The genius and inventor Raymond Kurzweil has been telling us that singularity is just around the corner. This will be the point in time when computer machines will exceed the capacity and performance of the human brain. In other words, it will be the integration of man and machine into one. Recent articles have assessed the impact that the iPad will have on the approach of singularity and the consensus is that this one single device will accelerate the eventual time by 7 years. The Singularity University claims that when the time comes old age, disease, and even death will become a thing of the past. I mean we already have robotic Avatars that will allow our offspring to continue to interact with all of our past experiences after we are dead!

Google and IBM are currently working on a computer that will not only be as powerful as our brain but will be able to flawlessly retrieve and solve any problem that is in their data base. Their data base is absolutely massive. In other words, as soon as the computer can continually answer the question “what if” in an infinite manner, Singularity will have arrived.

If you are interested and are accepted, the Singularity University currently offers 9 day courses where you can interact and learn the newest scientific breakthroughs in fields such as nanotechnology, artificial intelligence robotics, genomics and energy. Of course there are detractors. I personally dismiss them all out of hand because history shows us that as long as technology improves length, ease and quality of life, it cannot be stopped.

• Charming is making others feel accepted, loved and respected. Charm is the true source of beauty.

• It’s beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.

• It has been said that a pretty face is a passport, but it is not. It is a visa and it will run out sometime.

• There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source you will truly have defeated age. ~Sophia Loren

• No matter what a woman looks like, if she is confident she’s sexy. ~Paris Hilton

• Beauty is not in the face: beauty is a light in the heart ~Kahlil Gibran

• Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. ~Simone Weil

• There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. ~Gilbert Chesterton

• Beauty – in projection and perceiving – is 99.9% attitude ~ Gary Livingston

• Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic. ~Rosalind Russell

• Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. ~Confucius

• I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep, that’s enough! What do you want – an adorable pancreas? ~Jean Kerr

• Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we will not find it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Sexy to me doesn’t have anything to do with beautiful. Sexy is kind of like an aura around someone. ~Shane West

• The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. ~Johann Goethe

• You are beautiful when you are genuine, real, honest and true to yourself.

• When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty. ~Kahlil Gibran

• Beauty is the wisdom of woman. Wisdom is the beauty of man. ~Chinese proverb

• Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. ~Franz Kafka

• A beautiful thing is never perfect. ~Egyptian proverb

• Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.

• It is amazing – complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. ~Leo Tolstoy.

• You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty it will be your soul’s own doing. ~Marie Stopes.

• Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. ~ Francesco Petrarch

• The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. ~ Havelock Ellis.

• Ugliness and beauty are both an illusion. ~Margaret Cho.

• A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth and endures all the rest.

• When I let go of what I am I become what I might be. ~Lao Tzu

• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his. ~Oscar Wilde

• What would men be without women? Scarce, sir….mighty scarce. ~Mark Twain.

• Women who seek to be equal with men…lack ambition. ~Timothy Leary.

• Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ~Mark Twain.

• The very essence of romance is uncertainty. ~Oscar Wilde.

• The best thing about me is you. ~Shannon Crown.

• I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it. ~Mae West.

• Love is a moment that lasts forever.

• A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person. ~Mignon McLaughlin.

• Beauty is the proper proportion of one facial feature to another, overlaid with a picture of health that produces a childlike appearance engendering feelings of love, protection and possession. ~ Roger Murray MD

By now we all know that sclerotherapy means the injection of a solution to eliminate spider veins. I would like to spend a little time with you and explain the beginnings and current therapies available.

In 1831 Dr. Prevaz, a Portuguese military Surgeon, invented the syringe as we know it today. Ten years later a Dutch Physician by the name of Dr. Rynd, invents the metallic needle. Within two years they were injecting 200 proof alcohol with disastrous results. There was massive inflammation and blood clots. The early users used arsenic and mercury, various sugars, iodine, iron mixtures and all sorts of toxic solutions that they thought would eliminate varicose veins. In the early 1920s a French Phlebologist, Dr Sicard, began using a solution of Salicylate (a form of aspirin). They not only hit upon a solution that was safe, albeit painful, but it also had an unexpected side effect – it made the pain of their arthritis dissipate. Mr. Bayer a German Chemist picked up on that and aspirin was born. In the 1930s and 1940s almost all of the solutions that we use today were invented. There has not been a new sclerosing solution in over 50 years.

So what is available today? Everybody would like lasers to take care of their spider veins, but the reason no laser today works successfully on spider veins is that spider veins are not always the main cause. The feeding ‘reticular’ veins, those larger and deeper blue veins, which are also called ‘feeder’ veins are the real cause and unless those are sclerosed (injected first) the spider veins will quickly return which is why today sclerotherapy is still the gold standard. Think of it like this, you have a sprinkler system; under the ground are the pipes that feed water to the sprinklers above ground. If one of the sprinklers stops working and you only fix the sprinkler without checking the underground pipes first, you might only be masking the root of the problem. Same with spider veins or varicose veins, if you have superficial veins that are less than esthetically pleasing, then it is best to check the “piping” before fixing the leak, otherwise you could be masking a much larger problem.

Lasers are however, the gold standard for facial veins. The veins above the heart are trying to collapse by gravity while the veins below the heart are trying to stay open. We never inject the facial veins because there are so many A-V malformations (arterial-venous malformation) in that area and should solution get into one of them, the patient is at a much higher risk of having a severe scarring ulcer on the face.

Now is the time to start having your veins treated so that by the time Spring comes, (and it feels like it never will this year) you’ll be ready. So in these times of Obamanomics we will offer a 10% discount through the month of March. Think of it as a tax incentive to stimulate the looks of your legs!

NEW DISCOVERIES ON CELL-TOUCHING

There are more cells in your body than there are stars in the universe, but how do they know where to go and what to do without some sort of direction. Up until now most have said that each cell responds to its surroundings by chemical messengers or by cytokines(cells that secrete a protein or messenger next to the cell it is influencing). Let’s face it they can’t see, hear, feel or smell . Or can they? The cytokine theory says that they can “smell” a chemical messenger but what about tissue that has no or little blood supply such as cartilage. How can a cytokine work in such an environment?

The latest findings are that cells “feel” their way to perform their specific functions. If one tries to grow bone stem cells on a soft matrix the ensuing bone is soft and weak, but when the matrix is stiffened the ensuing bone cells develop into strong bony tissue. If we take stem cells and expose them to flowing fluid they turn into blood vessels. When stem cells are exposed to rhythmic forces they turn into heart cells or cartilage cells, in other words if you mimic the environment to which a cells is ultimately destined to be you can influence the final specialty of that cells. In an experiment at the University of Pennsylvania they grew stem cells in a Petri dish and exposed the outer regions to stresses and the inner core to virtually no stress. The outer portions of the dish turned into bone cells while the inner sections turned into fat cells. So it appear that cell growth may well be influenced by cytokines but also and to a great extent by the “touch and pressure” of the environment within which the cells finds itself.

Tumors, lumps and bumps are usually found by feeling and represent stiffened tissue that we say needs biopsy or further investigation. Paul Janmey at the University of Pennsylvania found that cell division of breast cells stops when fully grown on a soft gel and they remained in a quiescent state but when made rigid by any method they started growing again increasing the risk of cancer. In a similar experiment of the U. of C San Francisco they took breast tissue cells and grew them in a soft media which made them less likely to form into malignant cells. This may explain why women with very dense fibrous breast tissue are more likely to develop breast cancer than those who do not have dense tissue and why there is a higher incidence of tumors arising from the scar tissue of breast implants.

Editors Note; All of this makes perfect sense. Back in the 1980’s we found that if women took 1000 IU’s of Natural Vitamin E for 6 months there was a drastic reduction in the mammographic appearance of their fibro-cystic disease. Their incidence of breast discomfort and cancer were both reduced. In some studies they used synthetic Vitamin E and had minimal results, but since Natural Vitamin E is 7 times more potent than its synthetic counter part those studies showed dramatic decreases in breast cancer. In countries such as Japan where the majority of their protein is either from soy or fish and where both fibrocystic disease and breast cancer are at their lowest one should also consider the effects of our diets on disease.

ULTRASOUND TO CURE STROKES

The University of San Diego is using an ultrasonic devise that generates signals from 1000 ultrasound transducers focusing on a blood clot in the brain to break it up. Currently the only two ways to dissolve blood clots are to inject a solution of TPA within three hours of the stroke or surgically attempt to remove it. With this non invasive devise ultrasound is generated through the skull and focused on the clot, and with sound waves breaks it up. It’s still experimental, but looks like it will save a lot of lives and recuperation. Currently, strokes are the largest cause of long term disabilities in the U.S. and the number one and two causes are hypertension (high blood pressure) and high cholesterol.

Lipocavitron and Ultrasonic-Lipodissolve

As many of you know we have been developing the Lipodissolve for quite some time. We have reduced the pain to almost nothing and the recovery with the cold laser has reduced the amount of swelling time to less than a week. While recently reviewing the literature I came across an article written by a French Physician, Dr. Thierry Marechal, who was using his Lipocavitron machine with Lipodissolve. The more I read the more I became upset with myself for not having thought of this sooner.

It appears that when he used his Lipocavitron machine alone he was getting an average loss of 5.5 cm (2 ¼ inches) and when he used the Lipodissolve alone he was having an average loss of 8 cm (3 inches), but when he combined the two treatments, his average loss was an astounding 13.5 cm (5 ¼ inches)! That is remarkable for a non invasive procedure. I personally think that is very close to traditional Liposuction. We have already begun the using Lipocavitron in conjunction with Lipodisolve on our patients and the results are pretty amazing.

What is Lipocavitron? It is a 29 KHz ultrasound devise that puts sound waves very superficially through your skin. It is totally painless and has no adverse side effects whatsoever. I have the only Lipocavitron in the U.S. The FDA explained it to me this way; one machine is allowed into the U.S., but two is “distribution”. The Swiss company that makes it will have to go through all of the FDA approval process in order to sell a second machine. Most small European companies cannot afford that lengthy and expensive process. There are literally thousands of these machines in work all over Europe for the last 25 years, but not until recently did anyone think to combine the two technologies.

So since we now have this technology we are offering this to our patients – if you want to lose 5 ¼ inches off of your abdomen this is probably the least expensive and non invasive tool ever.

And here is a BONUS/contest …I like the name “Ultrasonic Lipodissolve”, however it’s not that catchy. Therefore, I challenge all of you to try to come up with a better name for the treatment. Should I select your creative idea, I will give you one full session – free of charge.

(Some restrictions apply.)

On Saturday, February 27, 2010, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Come spend a few hours to find out how Reiki works. In a supportive, interactive environment, you will learn ancient techniques to help yourself, your friends, family and others.

The address is M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Lewis Pavilion, 4th floor, Classrooms 1&2
Phone numbers are: Office: (407) 206-1500; Home: (407) 996-6440
The fee is $90(cash or check) – please bring your own lunch.
RSVP to drshahreiki@yahoo.com

Directions:
From East:
• Take I-4 West to Exit 82B at Anderson St.
• Turn right on Anderson Street
• Turn left at Division Street. Turn left at Gore Street
• Turn right on Orange Avenue, MD Anderson is ahead on the right.

From West:
• Take I-East to Exit 81BC and turn right (east) onto Kaley
• Turn left (north) onto Orange Avenue, MD Anderson is ahead on your left.

Parking will be validated for free in the ORMC A Deck parking garage only.

What will you learn?
1. Everything about Reiki energy and how to heal, to bring health, happiness, peace and joy at physical, emotional, mental and spiritual level
2. You will experience “Energy” and “Vibrations” by demonstration
3. About Nadi, meridians, chakras and auric bodies
4. Healing at all levels
5. Past healing and future programming
6. Reiki meditation
7. You will become a “channel” to Universal Life Force Reiki Energy, so you can harmonize, energize, treat, and balance all energy systems for yourself and others, by touching with your hands or even without touching.

The class will end with Reiki meditation and distribution of certificates.

1. Dr. Bina Shah, Reiki Grand Master, will be teaching:
Reiki Level 2 – Second Degree Class
On Saturday, March 13, 2010 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The address is 7932 West Sand Lake Road, Orlando FL 32819, Suite 306
Our phone number is (407) 206-1500
The fee is $200(cash or check) – please bring your own lunch.
RSVP to drshahreiki@yahoo.com

Directions:
Coming from I-4 West
• Take Exit 74-A Sand lake Road,
• Make a left on Sand lake Road, Take Sand lake down to The Esplanade.
• Look for a large Barnes and Noble on your left, turn left
• Park at the Phoenicia Center (large 3-story yellow building), go to Suite 306 – The Murray Center

Coming from I-4 East
• Take Exit 74-A Sand lake Road
• Make a right on Sand Lake Road, Take Sand lake Road down to The Esplanade.
• Look for a large Barnes and Noble on your left, turn left
• Park at the Phoenicia Center (large 3-story yellow building), go to Suite 306 – The Murray Center

What will you learn?
8. Everything about Reiki energy with sacred symbols to bring health, happiness, peace and joy at physical, emotional, mental and spiritual level
9. You will experience “Energy” and “Vibrations” by demonstration
10. About Nadi, meridians, chakras and auric bodies
11. To prepare your own Reiki box
12. Distance healing (absent healing)
13. Healing at all levels
14. Past healing and future programming
15. To develop intuition
16. How to cut cords of attachments and be free
17. Reiki/sound/soul meditation with mantras
18. Black Pearl and Blue Pearl meditation
19. You will become a “channel” to Universal Life Force Reiki Energy, so you can harmonize, energize, treat, and balance all energy systems for yourself and others, by touching with your hands or even without touching.

The class will end with Reiki meditation and distribution of certificates.

2. Foreword to Energy Medicine

I recently sent out my announcement that I was resuming doing Family Practice. In that email I mentioned that I believe that the future of medicine is Total or Whole Integrative Medicine. That means that we look at you as a whole, the sum of all of your parts, for example if you have a Blood Pressure problem then you might also have a kidney problem, a weight problem, a nutritional problem, a psychological issue, an ophthalmic disorder, a mineral problem and maybe even a heart problem. Our aim is to treat the “whole” you.

With that preamble I would like to introduce to you a person who I met several years ago and she has become a friend and healer to me and my family. Her name is Dr. Bina Shah. She is a retired OBGYN doctor who now just does “energy medicine”. She is a Grand Master in Reiki and performs many other well known forms of energy medicine. Attached is her Curriculum Vitae and synopsis of her personal life along with some very telling testimonials? I would strongly recommend that you read her synopsis of what she does and who she is.

Dr Shah will be working out of our office as an independent Physician and you may call our regular office number (407-206-1500) to make an appointment. I can personally give you a testimonial that she possesses incredible healing powers without the use of drugs or any other herbal medicines. After the recent tragic death of my son Jason sleeplessness was the norm and the incessant crying was totally disabling. Dr Shah came over to my house and administered Reiki to me on many occasions. Without the use of drugs (which I personally hate) I got my first four hours of sleep, was able to begin functioning by at first just taking a shower then actually interacting with people and finally eating food. I am not sure I can quantify what she did for me but each time she came over I felt a little better and was able to begin to interact with society again. But the best part was I that I went through the painful steps necessary for a recovery with an intact brain and I believe in the fastest way possible.
Please read the article below and if you do not know what Reiki is, it will be a great learning experience and if you do know what it is, then know that she is an incredibly strong Reiki Grand Master.
Dr. Murray
the Murray Center

3. Dr. Bina Shah Email: drshahreiki@yahoo.com
Reiki Grand Master Website: www.themurraycenter.com

7932 W. Sand Lake Road Suite #306
Orlando, FL 32819
Office Phone (407) 206-1500
Home Phone (407) 996-6440

What is Reiki?

Reiki, a form of Holistic Healing, is a healing approach to transfer Universal Life Force Energy to heal and harmonize the body, mind and spirit.
Reiki is a Usui system of Energy Medicine developed by Dr. Mikao Usui of Japan. Dr. Usui, The Grand Master and Founder, was enlightened by Reiki divine light in the 18th century.

Reiki can be summarized as: Rei-Ki. Rei means spirit/soul and Ki means Universal Life Force Energy. This subtle energy pervades through all levels of the physical, emotional mental and spiritual bodies. Everything and everybody in the universe is made of matter, which is simply frozen light energy with consciousness.

Thus, anything and all living beings can be energized and healed with Reiki Energy. Reiki knows no caste, creed, doctrine, or religion. It simply happens by Reiki’s Grace, Love and Light.

A Reiki Healer becomes channel of Universal Energy after an attunement by a Reiki Master. Energy starts to flow from healer’s hand to the receiver’s body. We all have inner healing powers to heal ourselves but a Reiki Healer is able to transfer large amounts of pure, concentrated Universal Life Force Energy to the receiver and thus enhance and speed up the healing process.

Reiki helps to:
• Reduce stress
• Relieve pain
• Promote restfulness and improved sleep
• Relieve anxiety and depression
• Accelerate wound healing
• Ameliorate pre-operative anxiety
• Decrease post-surgical pain
• Increase immune function
• Improve circulation
• Increase a sense of well-being

Reiki Compliments Medical Treatment:
Reiki is simple, gentle, non-invasive and safe can be self-administered and used as tool for relaxation at any time works in conjunction with all other medical or therapeutic techniques beneficial during any illness.

4. How is Reiki Provided?

The person receiving Reiki is fully clothed and may be relaxing on a table, or sitting comfortably in a chair. Reiki can be received in any state of health. With stillness and concentration, the healer connects with her Life Force Energy, which then flows through her hands to the recipient. The recipient will receive the amount of energy he/she needs to bring his/her body and mind into balance. Sessions vary in duration, most are 45 minutes long.

Can Reiki be given without touching human body?

Yes, it can be given at “Ethric Double Auric Body Level” and is extremely powerful, without the healer even touching the recipient.

Can Reiki be sent to a distant person?

Yes, since it is vibrational frequency that passes from healer with intention to the receiver. It can be sent to any person, places, situation, emotion, pets, plants, planets, or even to non-living things that are not in physical proximity.

Is Reiki healer drained of her/his own energy after treatment?

No, healer is only a “channel”. What he receives from divine light as universal life force energy, he gives to the recipient. But, the healer is more energized and experiences all wonders and miracles of these sacred energies.

What Does Reiki Feel like?

The most common response to a Reiki session is deep relaxation. Quite often the experience is so relaxing that recipients may even fall asleep. Some report a profound sense of calm and peacefulness during and after the session. Many others report a sense of openness with others, which is not surprising as the sharing of Life Force Energy is the true experience of Reiki.

Testimonials

After each session with Dr. Bina Shah, I do not only feel the difference in pain, mood, and anxiety, but my spirit is also uplifted. I laugh more frequently and forget about the threats of my cancer diagnosis.
MM, age 72, Orlando, FL

For the first time in over 5 years, I went to my doctor’s office without my cane. My doctor was surprised how well I was walking! Infact, after my session with Dr. Shah, I received so much energy that I felt as if I ran out of the building, not walked!
JC, age 59, arthritis patient

During my first Reiki session, I was having physical pain, particularly in my right hip. I could actually feel tingling in the area where Dr. Shah applied Reiki. This was a pretty good indication that something was happening! The next two sessions, going in, I had been distraught about a friends terminal diagnosis; but I left Dr. Shah’s office feeling much more peaceful and with a relaxed attitude.
JB, singer, Orlando, FL

As a television producer, I have had the good fortune of meeting a diversified group of healers over the years. However, nothing could compare to the quiet power of Dr. Bina Shah. The energy transfer begins the moment she shakes your hand and does not even until long after she leaves the room. Don’t be fooled by her small stature, her endurance and stamina have GOT to be too huge with the work she does! I would recommend her to anyone who needs to rid themselves of toxins within. Thank you Bina!
AA, TV Producer, Orlando, FL

After just a few treatments, my quality of life has improved tremendously. My right foot, which used to swell all the time, is almost back to normal now. The tearing from my eyes has almost completely gone away.
PD, age 68, Orlando, FL

Since I started receiving Reiki Energy, some of my previously destroyed relationships have been restored. I am able to handle my financial problems better. I am planning for the near future more than I have ever done. During the last 2 sessions, I see and feel the color white, which to me represents purity, healing and my dream of getting married in a white dress some day.
EG, age 47

My doctor and I noticed small, red bumps forming on my left chest near my surgery site that had been growing for several weeks. My doctor wanted to do a biopsy; Dr. Shah used Reiki to stimulate my body to rid itself of these bumps. Several days after this session, they appeared to be dying out. A subsequent PET scan showed no unusual activity in this area.
HC, age 57

I was bleeding from uterus off & on with clots, pain, backache, and depression with fatigue for 8 months. Sonogram was normal. My doctor advised surgery but I refused. Dr. Bina Shah gave 3 reiki energy sessions. I felt much better, but bleeding did not stop completely. Then Dr. Shah did “psychic surgery” on me and since that day, I have not had any more bleeding problems. Thank you Dr. Binaben.
BC, age 51

I was breathless and sneezing during Christmas. When I retrieved my voicemail, I heard Dr. Bina’s voice saying “Merry Christmas to you with light, love, and reiki greetings”. Believe me, the moment I put my phone down, all my breathlessness was gone and I felt relaxed and energetic. Thank you Bina,
DT age 43

I had a breast cancer diagnosis in fall of 2006, and Reiki was key in changing my attitude and outlook, both emotionally and physically. Side effects of courses of treatment this past year included hand/foot syndrome, high blood pressure, peripheral neuropathy, pain, fatigue, vomiting, IBS, breast cancer cells developing in the skin on my chest, and the inability to walk for a couple of days (unexplained); I also suffered from what many patients call “chemo brain”, which affected my memory and ability to concentrate and formulate thoughts, so much that, combined with my physical symptoms, I became disabled and unable to work. It was most fortunate that I was offered the opportunity to meet with Dr Bina Shah in November 2007 and was introduced to Reiki. I have since become third-degree certified, and have learned many techniques to keep my energetic body strong and cooperative to the strong chemotherapies I receive, as well as methods to deal with the many side-effects of these drugs, examples of which include:
• Migraine headaches: during the third round of chemotherapy I experienced intense pains; rather than using drugs to alleviate the pain, I used Reiki techniques, and have eliminated this symptom.
• Hand/foot syndrome: the soles of my feet were turning black, and walking was becoming painful. Dr Bina and I used Reiki methods on these areas, and stopped the progression of the discoloration, and eliminated the pain. My feet have since returned to normal color.
• Fatigue: I spend nearly three hours each day doing Reiki and Energy Medicine. On the days I skip or abbreviate, I notice that my energy level is not as high as days that I complete the full regimen. I have not been sick with colds or flu since beginning Reiki.
• Physical symptoms: my doctor and I noticed small red bumps forming on my left chest near my surgery site that had been growing for several weeks. My doctor wanted to do a biopsy. Dr Bina and I used Reiki methods to stimulate my body to rid itself of these bumps; several days after doing this they appear to be ‘dying out’ and sloughing off of my skin. A subsequent PET scan showed no unusual activity in this area.
• Pleural Effusion: on three separate occasions I have had over a liter of cancerous fluid drained from my left pleura; the first incident was accompanied with severe, debilitating pain. The second incident I was asymptomatic, which I attributed to Reiki methods I used to energize my body and eliminate pain. In fact, I was back home, riding my bicycle only three hours after the second thoracentesis.

• Abdomen pain: I would have unexplained sharp pains in my abdomen, so severe that it hurt to move. By using Reiki techniques I was able to ‘chase’ the pain out of my body.
• Lymphatic system: A result of my surgery was increased risk of lymph edema. My left arm swelled and became painful; I tried physical therapy and lymphatic massage with only limited
• Pleural Effusion: on three separate occasions I have had over a liter of cancerous fluid drained from my left pleura; the first incident was accompanied with severe, debilitating pain. The second incident I was asymptomatic, which I attributed to Reiki methods I used to energize my body and eliminate pain. In fact, I was back home, riding my bicycle only three hours after the second thoracentesis.
• Abdomen pain: I would have unexplained sharp pains in my abdomen, so severe that it hurt to move. By using Reiki techniques I was able to ‘chase’ the pain out of my body.
• Lymphatic system: A result of my surgery was increased risk of lymph edema. My left arm swelled and became painful; I tried physical therapy and lymphatic massage with only limited
• Success. Only after supplementing these therapies with Reiki was I able to substantially reduce the swelling and am now able to maintain my status, pain-free.
• Several days after going through third-degree training, I suddenly was not able to walk or stand due to deliberating pain in the Liver and Kidney accu-pressure points of my knees. My oncologist advised me that this problem was outside the scope of oncology and was not a symptom of my treatment or cancer. I believed that toxins were exiting my body through these points; however, modern medicine would not allow for this explanation. After a trip to the emergency room revealed no cause for my excruciating pain and inability to walk, I was told to go home and take pain medication. I was wheelchair-bound for two days. Dr. Bina was contacted on the second day and she performed distance Reiki along with me performing Reiki on myself. By the next morning I was able to walk again, slowly. After a couple more days I resumed my normal activities pain-free.

I am absolutely certain that had I not learned of, nor applied, these techniques and methods to assist in my cancer treatment, my prognosis would be short and dismal. I am thankful every day for Reiki and for Dr. Bina Shah.
JC, age 41

I stay in a highly secured subdivision with full safety. Some days ago, we heard our door bell ringing two-three times in the middle of the night. My husband and I opened the door, but no one was outside. This went on happening for a few days more, and I was so frightened that I couldn’t leave the house even in the day time. I could not sleep, I got nightmares, and my health was affected. We tried all means we could to remove my fear and this evil spirit. A friend suggested Dr. Bina Shah, who gave me Reiki energy psychology sessions. After my second session, I felt no fear, could move everywhere. After my third session I had so much courage that in the middle of the night I would go out alone and had a walk on the road too. Thank You Dr. Bina Ben.
KK Age 38

I had Lymphoma of skin with hyper sensitive skin, redness, and patches on the skin, sometimes itching with cracking of nails. I received treatment of Dr. Bina Shah once a week, which was very effective in regards to redness, sensitivity, and also mood anxiety and energy level. Dr. Bina Shah is highly proficient with the application of Reiki medicine. I highly recommend anyone in need of the benefits of energy medicine. Patches on my skin are almost gone. Thank You Dr. Bina Shah.
EP Age 69

I had swelling, pain and redness, and fungal infection on both feet, stiffness of ankles, I could not walk and my life was miserable. I was treated with medicines and creams for a long time without much effect. Dr. Shah treated me with Reiki energy and energy psychology and all symptoms were gone within three sessions, it is completely gone. Today my feet are normal, I feel energetic, relaxed, and peaceful, and healthy. Thank You Dr. Bina Shah
PD Age 59

I had a left hip replacement done twelve years ago. The Dr. advised that we repeat the hip replacement surgery because of pain in the left hip joint. I was worried as I had to suffer a lot after my last surgery. I took two sessions with Dr. Bina Shah and my fear was completely gone, I felt relaxed and energetic. The second hip replacement surgery was a miracle. The surgery was easy and I had no pain. As I was anemic, the doctors told me that I would require blood transfusions but I did not require a single transfusion. I never used any pain medicine and even the nurse asked me why I was not taking any pain medicine and I answered that I already taken energy medicine. I felt energetic, relaxed, I am in a good mood; I am amazed at the amazing Reiki treatment. I strongly recommend Dr. Shah. I have referred many of my family members and friends to Dr. Shah for Reiki sessions. Thank You Dr. Bina Shah
PL Age 54

My left arm was amputated and I felt like a part of the upper arm was hanging from the shoulder joint. After the amputation, I started feeling that the left amputated arm was lying on my chest with pain and itching, constant weight of the left arm continuously on my chest was becoming too hard to suffer. My doctor said it was phantom limb effect, but no one could cure me. I felt miserable and crazy. I was recommended Dr. Shah’s name. She gave me Reiki energy medicine and within the first half hour of treatment, I started feeling that my left amputated arm was moving down and it came to the left side of my abdomen. My left hand was on my left thigh but then it stopped there. Dr. Bina Shah tried different methods and different types of breathing. It was difficult for her too because I could see from her face. She tried again and then suddenly, my left arm was pushed down by my left side with a thud. Suddenly I felt that my left arm was on my left side as it was before amputation. I was extremely relieved and happy. Dr. Shah asked me to move my left hand and left arm as I was doing before amputation. I could feel that I could move without pain and itching. Seeing a big smile on my face, Dr. Shah asked me how I feel. I said great and wonderful but there is numbness at the sight of the stitches. She worked for a few more minutes and that too was gone and I felt normal. This was a great miracle making my life happy. When I thanked her she said “it was his grace”. I thank God and Dr. Shah.
JK Age 57

I was in the last stage of cancer with chronic depression, fatigue, worry and fear of death. I had hallucinations with aches and pains all over. I was anemic, no energy, no friends, and felt only misery and loneliness. Dr. Shah gave me Reiki sessions, she went on counseling, healing and changed my attitude towards life. She removed all fear and helplessness and fear of impending death by energy psychology and Reiki sessions. Suddenly I started feeling new strengths and changes in my life. I felt alive, got new friends, and new confidence. She changed me completely and I became a new person. Today I can face anything. Reiki energy is wonderful, and Dr. Shah’s ways of changing me also gentle, kind and loving. Thanks a lot.
CK Age 63

Rather than jumping into my usual predictions I am going to address a subject that has been coming up a lot lately, namely what is aesthetics. And the colliery – how do you know where to put the filler or enhancer and how much?

To answer the above let me try to explain, as an artist how I approach the face. From a medical point of view it is your computer and home to most all of your senses but from an artistic point of view it is about emotions and sensations. Most doctors who talk about beauty usually start telling me that it is all about symmetry, balance, harmony, and proportions. And while it is true that if your facial symmetry is off the harmony and balance seem discordant. But we have all known people that have ebullient personalities, fantastic voice expressions, great attitudes and what I call “Olympic listeners” who are so vivacious that we completely overlook any facial asymmetry that they might have. And they leave us with warm fuzzies and the feeling that they really do care about us. It’s all about emotions and sensations.

As a sculptor I am mostly concerned with texture, size, shape, proportions and volume. And I am also starting with a square block of marble, whereas in the human face we already have a set of defined proportions and interactions. So I look at the face and think, restore, enhance and rejuvenate.

It is sadly too often that I see patients who have been to someone who attempted to build, replace and remove facial features. We have all seen the women with the “monkey upper lip”, or the “sponge Bob” squared off face, or the beautiful Farah Fawcett smile now replaced with tight lips and stretched skin.

My job as an aesthetic surgeon is try and make you look as close to your best, which is usually about 10-15 years younger and enhance what I can and leave alone that which defines you. We do this by giving you the fullness of your lips that you used to have, (never put big lips on someone who never had them, in spite of their sometimes persistent requests) restore the volume that has been lost due to sun, running, dieting or just age, restore the eyebrows to their youthful place, eliminate gravity wherever we can, reestablish volume where it used to be, and make the envelope (skin) as smooth as it can be. This now leads me to my definition of beauty which is…”the proper proportion of one facial feature to another overlaid with a picture of health producing a child like appearance engendering feelings of love and protection”.

After reading this to my staff they encouraged me to say something about the products and procedures we do. For the lips we usually recommend to start with Juvederm Ultra and if you like the look then the next time after the Juvederm wears off go to Silicone which is permanent. For early gravity issues we recommend skin tightening with the Thermascan laser, and for more advanced gravity laxity we recommend the Silhouette thread lift. This is not a barbed thread lift but instead a thread with Hyaluronic cones knotted into the thread which makes each one of them capable of lifting 35 pounds. For areas of fat loss we use only Sculptra which is an enhancer and can last up to 4 years in my experience. Of course there is always Botox and Dysport for the wrinkles and for the more damaged skin we recommend the Erbium laser peel. Many of you have had the various Fraxil lasers on the market today, and many of you are substantially poorer with minimal results. Most of you are now coming back to get the much cheaper and more effective Erbium Laser peel.

The most famous Italian Liposculturer is Dr. Gasparotti who so famously said “it is not the wand type that counts, it is the man holding the wand”. And it is the same with all aesthetics. It is not the product that is the most important thing it is the man or woman holding the syringe, scalpel or laser head that really counts.

For all of our new subscribers I usually write a section on What’s New in science. Most of the time it is about new scientific findings on the body but occasionally its just about cool new things.

What’s New

Blio. Yes the newest version of a Kindal, those electronic books. This one is by Microsoft and what distinguishes it from the others is that when you click on a picture in the over 1,000,000 book selection it turns into a video. In addition if you are a college student (or any other student you want to be) you can have the book read out loud on your way to school, or on a long trip or to work …..it’s endless. What a great gift to a student or for your self.

Cell Phones reverse Alzheimer’s Disease

Wow! In a ground breaking study performed at the U. of Miami researchers exposed 96 mice for more than 9 months to the same radiation emitted from a cell phone. They took mice that had been genetically engineered to get Alzheimer’s disease and normal ones and exposed them to the cell phone radiation for one hour a day for nine months. Those mice that were supposed to get Alzheimer’s disease when exposed at a younger age fared better than the older mice and the normal mice actually had improvement over their normal non exposed peers. Those mice that already had the disease improved and reversed many of their symptoms. Obviously human applications will follow very shortly. I guess we can’t berate our kids any more because they are actually getting smarter the longer they are on their phones…….who would have guessed. The study was published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease

Werners Disease

This is a disease that causes accelerated aging in humans and animals. In this study from Canada mice that have been bred to get this disease were given plain Vitamin C. It not only stopped the disease but also reversed it. Some of the other associated conditions that go along with the disease such as atherosclerosis, liver disease and heart disease also showed regression. On a sided note there have been now multiple studies showing that smokers who take 1000 mg per day may reduce the harmful effects of smoking by as much as 80%.

So while this vitamin has had its good times in the literature and its bad times taking 1000 mg daily could at worse cause you no harm and at best help dramatically.

An Anti cancer Cocktail?

Scientists working together in Calif. and Mass. have developed a series of nano tubes and particles that when ingested orally fist go to the tumor and mark it and then send in some other nano tubes with anti cancerous drugs in them that kill the tumor. You simply ingest the cocktail and only your tumor dies and none of the current nasty side effects of chemotherapy. This is obviously still experimental but for some of us this technology will be available in our life times.

Does anyone know what a Boskop is?

We have all been taught that we Homo Sapiens are the highest form of evolution. Right? Wrong! The Boskops were a civilization that lived on the east coast of South Africa 10,000 years ago. The most interesting finding is that their brains were about 30% larger than ours and in adulthood they exhibited a child like face. If you speculate on their brain sizes it means that the average IQ was about 150, close to what we call genius today. And that being average about 5% probably had IQ’s in the 180’s. Which means that their integrative capabilities of information would have been on the order of four times ours. Imagine the ability to look at a complex task and be able to come up with four simultaneous ways of solving it. Imagine being able to run parallel thoughts simultaneously. They probably could. What happened to them? No one knows except we do know that even today there is greater mortality amongst large headed babies. Perhaps they evolved into extinction because of the size of their brains. It also turns upside down the concept of forward linear evolution. In this case we went backwards. Why would a race that is at least 30% smarter than us gone into extinction? Obviously it is evolution backwards. You can read more about it in the book Big Brain by Gary Lynch.

Just as a reminder, now is the very best time to get your laser treatment while the sun is still weak and the temperature still cool.

Many years ago I was the Medical Director for the Alzheimer’s Foundation and as such began getting a lot of patients with the disease. While running routine laboratory tests I noticed that almost all of the patients had low Pregnenalone levels. Then I started testing some of their relatives and noticed that they too had low levels of Pregnenalone, so much so that the correlation was in excess of 80%. So curiously I started ordering Pregnenalone levels on people who had no symptoms and no family history of Alzheimers and much to my surprise almost none of them had low levels of Pregnenalone. I observed these phenomena for almost 20 years and it has held true ever since.

Somewhere in the early 90’s a young woman in her 30’s whose mother had contracted the disease came in complaining of memory loss. I ordered a Pregnenalone level and as predicted it was very low. I started her on Pregnenalone and within a week she called me back thanking me for getting her memory back. With slight variations I have seen this story play itself out innumerable times in my practice over the last 20 years.

The second part of the story actually occurred with me. I had sinus problems for many many years and finally ended up having my first major surgery a few years ago. After the operation my mind was “cloudy” and “slow” for almost three months. So I started looking into what I could do to get my usual mental “speed” back. During my research I found out that in Germany alpha lipoic acid is a prescription drug while here in the U.S. it is over the counter. Over there it is used prior to surgery to prevent post operative memory loss. Well as luck would have it I required a second major sinus surgery and this time I was ready. I took my alpha lipoic acid for two weeks prior to surgery and much to my great surprise I woke up ready to do a hundred yard mental dash. No cloudiness whatsoever.

Third story. While at a A4M (American Academy of Anti Aging) meeting I attended a lecture given by a Brazilian Physician on the effects of so called “brain nutrients” and PET (Positron Emission
Tomography) scans. He measured the activity in the cortex of the brain (the thinking part) pre nutrient and post nutrient. Scan after scan, each so called brain nutrient had no effect on cortical activity. Then came the Phosphatidyl Serine (PS) slide and the cortex lit up like a light bulb. In fact no other nutrient that he measured had the same effect. This proved to me that if you want to increase the activity and blood flow to the thinking part of your brain you had best take PS.

So of course I had to try it. My brain felt like it was back in college, everything I read seemed to stick and all I wanted to do was keep on reading. And I have heard this story over and over again also.

It seems lately that more and more of my friends and acquaintances are complaining about their memory, so I had been telling them that they should take some or all of the above. I went to our local “health food store” to look at bottles that I could recommend and much to my chagrin I could not find one that incorporated all of the things I wanted to recommend. That was the final impetus to make my own and make one that incorporated all the ingredients that could really make a difference.

Below you will find a bullet point list of all of the actions attributable to each ingredient. I decided to put everything in bullet points rather than giving you long detailed scientific references for each point. Please keep in mind that all of the below came from medical reviewed journal articles. I have filtered and condensed over 100 articles to give you only the bottom line facts.

Let’s try a little quiz to see how good your mind and memory really are.

1. Who was President Jimmy Carter’s VicePresident?
2. Who wrote,”An appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile, hoping it will eat him last”.
3. Two Fathers and their sons go fishing. Each person on the fishing trip catches a fish. In total they catch three fish. How is this possible?
4. What was the first ship to use the S.O.S. signal?
5. What State has the third largest land mass?
6. Who are the true “blue bloods” of this earth?
7. Which country has the largest volcano in the world?
(Answers are at the bottom)

Dr Murray’s Memory Enhancing Formula™

Phosphatidyl Serine

• Increases cortical blood flow
• Increases communication between brain cells
• Restores neurotransmitters (acetylcholine and dopamine)
• Increases the availability of choline for the brain
• Improved scores on neuropsychological performance testing
• Improves mental function symptoms
• Blunts the Cortisol response to vigorous exercise by 20%
• Improves the memory in age related memory loss
• Improves cognitive brain function in young people
• Improves ADHD
• Involved in cell signaling and apoptosis. Incomplete apoptosis has been implicated in neurodegenerative diseases
• Large studies show it is safe in the elderly population at doses of 200 mg t.i.d. (three times a day)
• Shown to increase acetylcholine in the brain
• Laboratory animals show improved performance in water maze escape tests
• Reserpine causes an amnesic response but when PTS is given it reverses the effect or if PTS given before the drug it blocked reserpine’s action
• In a study of 150 elderly people with age associated memory impairment, those with the highest level of impairment improved
the most on computerized, standard neuropsychological
testing and clinical ratings
• In a study with 10 severely depressed elderly women given PS, there was consistent improvement in their depressive symptoms, memory and behavior.
• Alzheimer’s disease causes the cellular membranes to become less porous to enzymes, and the dendrites less able to send out branches, PS has been shown to reverse some of this cellular disorder.
• Anticholinergic drugs ( drugs that tend to stimulate the cholinergic nervous system that usually leave you with a dry mouth can neutralize the effects of PS). Some of these are:

1. Atropine- Used in codes to stimulate the heart rate
2. Belladonna (Donnatal)- For abdominal Spasm
3. Cogentin
4. Librax- Stomach Tranquilizer
5. Clozaril
6. Enablex
7. Bentyl- used for stomach spasms
8. Benadryl- An antihistamine
9. Robiul
10. Haldol- used for Psychotic Behaviors
11. HLevsin- used for stomacj spasms
12. Atrovent-
13. Transderm Scopolamine- used for sea sickness
14. Spiriva
15. Detrol
16. Sanctura
17. Aricept-used for dementia
18. Urecholine- for bladder spasms
19. Reversol
20. Razadyne
21. Guanidine
22. Provocholine
23. Exelon
24. Quelicin
Cognex-used for dementia

Pregnenalone

• Known as the “Mother Hormone” it is a pro-hormone made from cholesterol and is the precursor to DHEA, progesterone, testosterone, estrogen, cortisol and aldosterone (a hormone from the adrenal glands).
• Levels decrease by as much as 60% from age 35 to 65
• Decreases mental fatigue in stressful jobs.
• Increases memory, concentration and retrieval in both men and women in standard memory tests.
• Improves NMDA receptor function (the receptor in the brain responsible for memory) which deals with learning, memory and alertness.
• Acts as a natural anti-depressant.
• Ameliorates the effects of over active cortisol production.
• The cytochrome P450 enzyme system in the liver is responsible for detoxifying and metabolizing most drugs and chemicals and hormones in the body. When overstressed and therefore unable to detoxify the body Pregnenalone restores its natural function.
• Proven to be safe at 500mg daily for long periods of time.
• GABA receptors in the brain have a calming effect while pregnenalone causes brain excitement.
• Pregnenalone is a Neurosteroid that affects synaptic functioning, is neuroprotective and enhances myelinization,in other words it allows the neurons to communicate with each other, protects the brain from other Neurosteroids that could damage the brain and improves the speed of transmission of impulses within the brain.

The most common drugs that can interact with Pregnenalone
are the tranquilizers. A comprehensive list of these is listed
below:

1. Xanax – Tranquilizer
2. Librium – ”
3. Klonopin – ”
4. Tranxene – ”
5. Valium – ”
6. Dalmane – ”
7. Ativan -
8. Versed -
9. Serax -
10. Doral -
11. Restoril -
12. Halcion -
13. Seizure medicines

Acetyl-L- Carnitine

• Participates in cellular energy production
• reverses age related decline in the number of neuron membrane receptors
• In combination with Alpha Lipoic acid it is a powerful and potent anti oxidant
• No toxicity was found in humans but it is highly lethal for cats to ingest it.
• It is made in the mitochondria, readily crosses the blood brain barrier, and excreted by the kidneys.
• Slows down the aging of the mitochondria in the hippocampus of the brain.
• It improved the hearing of laboratory animals.

There are very few drugs that interact with AcetylL-Carnitine.Below is the short list.

1.Cisplatin – an anti cancer drug
2.Didanosine –
3.Paclitaxel
4.Stavudine

Alpha Lipoic acid (ALA)

• Necessary for energy production
• Converts glucose into energy
• Is an antioxidant
• Recycles the anti oxidants Vit. C and glutathione
• Functions in both water and fat environments
• ALA has been shown to help with peripheral neuropathies,
• especially of the diabetic type
• Thought to protect the brain by acting as an anti oxidant.
• ALA may improve blood sugars therefore for diabetics one should always consult a Physician before using the supplement.
• ALA was first used in the 1970’s to successfully treat severe liver damage.
• It takes ten tons of liver just to make 30 mg of lipoic acid therefore all lipoic acid is synthetically made and bio identical
• In combination with acetyl L carnitine it has been shown to increase memory
• Lipoic acid is present within every cell of the human body.
• In multiple studies it appears to modulate the damage that diabetes does to the heart, kidney’s and nerves
• Using four times the doseage in Dr Murray’s Memory enhancing capsules there was no toxicity noted in several studies.
• It recycles Vitamin C and E
• Highest concentrations in the diet are found in the liver
• Taken in pill form it can be found in all areas of the central nervous system and in all the peripheral nerves
• When given orally it increases intracellular glutathione concentrations.
• Orally it slows down the aging of the mitochondria in the hippocampus.

There are very few drug interactions. These include
1. Levothyroxine and other thyroid regulating drugs
2. Antibiotics
3. Cyclophosphamide

DHA

• The Framingham study is one of the largest longitudinal on going studies in America and has been evaluating health parameter for over 40 years. When they did a retrospective analysis they found that high levels of DHA had a 47% reduction in all causes of Dementia and a 39% lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease. This study lasted 9 years and all participants were free of Dementia at the onset of the study.
• In multiple double blind randomized controlled trials DHA has been shown to benefit AD/HD (Attention Deficit/ Hyperactive Disorder), autism, dyspraxia, dyslexia, aggressivism, major depressive depressive disorders, bi-polar disorder, and borderline personality disorder.
• Accelerated cognitive decline has been associated with low levels of DHA and appears to be reversible with supplementation.
• The combination of DHA with Phosphatidyl Serine has been shown to have very positive effects on AD/HD
• DHA has been shown to lower C-Reactive protein thereby decreasing cardiac risk.

Drug interactions with DHA are primarily the NSAID’s and Heparin like products. They can also interact in a positive manner by accentuating the effects of lipid lowering drugs.

1. Celebrex – Antiinflammaroy
2. Voltarin ”
3. Lodine ”
4. Motrin ”
5. Indocin ”
6. Ketoprofen ”
7. Toradol ”
8. Mobic ”
9. Naprosyn ”
10. Anaprox ”
11. Relafen ”
12. Daypro ”
13. Xenical
14. Coumadin – Blood Thinner
15. Fragmin ”
16. Lovenox ”
17. Innohep ”
18. Asprin

Glycine

• Glycine modulates the NMDA deleterious effect receptors thereby increasing cognitive functions. NMDA is a brain receptor which requires glycine to activate it and is responsible for taking in an electrical response and converting it to a chemical neurotransmitter
• Inhibiting glycine with MAO inhibitors has a deleterious effect on memory formation
• In laboratory animals blocking the glycine site caused memory impairment but when unblocked reversed the visual recognition memory deficits.
• In a Swiss randomized, doubled blinded crossover study the effects of glycine on memory and attention in both young students (mean age 20) and middle aged (mean age 59) were evaluated. In the pre-study the middle aged subjects had poorer verbal memory and attention. Glycine improved memory retrieval in both young and middle aged but had no effect on attention. Glycine had no effect on mood, no stimulatory properties and primarily improved memory rather than attention.

• The drugs known to interact with Glycine are
1. Clozapine
2. Haldol
3. Olanzapine
4. Risperidone

D-Serine

• NMDA is an excitatory glycine receptor in the brain. Its activation requires D-Serine and glutamate. D-Serine is released exclusively from the astrocytes of the brain and appears to be one of t he rate limiting steps to the glycine receptor.
• D-Serine stimulates the NMDA receptors far more powerfully than glycine.
• When D-Serine is absent the excitatory NMDA receptors are unable to work in many parts of the brain.
• D-Serine dramatically decreases with age in the hippocampus of the brain (glycine however does not). The hippocampus is that area of the brain that deals with long term memory. It interacts with the Neo-cortex (new Brain) which stores short term memory and the Para hippocampal region which stores intermediary memory.
• When D–Serine is added to the diet the age related decrease in the NMDA glycine mediated synaptic potential is reversed.
• In summary age related spatial memory deficits are attributable to loss of plasticity in the hippocampus and were preventable and somewhat reversible with large doses of D-Serine. The older the patient was the higher the response of D-Serine in the brain (hippocampus)
• D-Serine and Schizophrenia. Low functioning glycine receptors (NMDA) have been implicated in Schizophrenia. D-Serine has been shown to stimulate the NMDA receptors directly, therefore when D-Serine has been added to Schizophrenia medicine regime it has been shown to decrease undesirable symptoms.
• In a study of 31 Taiwanese Schizophrenics when D-Serine was added there was significant improvement in their positive, negative and cognitive symptoms.

Even if these bullet points are a bit overwhelming the value inherent in the capsules is not. I have spent decades prescribing many of these ingredients individually and if you had to buy them that way it would cost you literally hundreds of dollars. And if I had to buy them individually I do not think that I would pay that price….but by combining them and making them my self the value is unsurpassed!

Answers to the Quiz:
1. Walter Mondale
2. Winston Churchill
3. The three people that went fishing were the son, his father and the Grandfather of the son.
4. The Titanic
5. Montana
6 Lobsters have blue blood
7. The U.S in Hawaii, Mauna Loa

If you got all of them right please exit this site immediately and go and thank your parents for giving you a great brain and/or education.

Dr. Murray’s Memory Enhancing Formula – $69.45  

Yes it can kill certain individuals, especially those undergoing chemotherapy, those who are HIV positive, people who are 100 lbs. overweight and pregnant women. But for the most part it is less dangerous than the normal flu. The big difference between this one and the regular flu is that it is sweeping the world in the summer and has affected every single country in the world.

If we put this disease in perspective we can begin to gleam why there is so much coverage. Hepatitis and diarrhea each kill more than one million children in the world every single year!!! I believe that the death rate so far for this flu is less than 300 in total worldwide. By now it should be obvious to many that there is money to be made from selling vaccines. No one even talks about the millions of children dying, but the news is full of fear talk with the swine flu.

And just in case you haven’t noticed, the usual television networks that were usually ‘quite left ‘ have been moving quite centrist of late. Have you also noticed that the number one category of advertizing that all of the stations are doing is “drug advertizing?” Car commercials are virtually non-existent and beer commercials are only seen on sports stations. Need I say more?

Yes I do, because I want to talk to you about Dr Murrays Immune Complex. This is our organic product that comes from colostrum and has Immunoglobulins added to it. The swine flu and all other flues came from birds where they were intestinal viruses. The route of entry for all flues is via the intestinal tract. Our immune complex is loaded with IgG (immunoglobulins) that kill the flu virus in the intestines before it can even get into your body. We have literally dozens of schoolteachers that take it every flu season and they keep coming back year after year because like they say, “it works and I don’t get sick.”

We do know that the swine flu will probably sweep around the world one more time and that the regular flu will come out at its usual time. The third thing we know is that the H5N1 (bird flu) is now in 17 metropolitan areas and human-to-human spread has started. What all this means to us is that we will be exposed to more viruses, and we hope that there is not anyone who will get all two or three viruses at the same time, because that means a mutation is likely. That is what is really scaring the virologists today.

Our immune complex has been tested, as to its effectiveness, against the flu vaccine, and it was proven in a double blind placebo controlled study to be three times more effective than the flu vaccine!

So please come in and get some Dr. Murrays Immune Complex if nothing more than to be safer this flu season.

Like most aging scientists Physicist Stephen Kurtin had about three pairs of glasses to take on and off during his normal work day. This irritated him so much that he started working on a pair of glasses that would allow him to see both far, near and middle distances with absolute clarity. Yes we have progressives but typically there is a lot of distortion and an extremely small sweet spot that you can see clearly from and in addition you had to raise and lower your head to find the right acuity.

Enter TruFocals (TruFocals.com) the first adjustable focusing eye glasses. It’s really remarkable so check it out on the web site. They are a bit pricey ($895.00), but not really when you consider a designer pair can be over a $1000.00, even a good pair at LensCrafter’s will cost upwards of $500.00. From my standpoint they would be perfect except that the shape has to be round in order for them to work. I mean who wants to look like John Denver or John Lennon.

What’s new in Brain Treatments

One of the most frustrating things to a Neurosurgeon is to try and find the exact outline of an irregular tumor in the brain. While MRI’s and CT scans help they are two dimensional tests, but now from the University of Washington comes the combination of a fluorescent dye and nano-particles hooked together and then injected into the blood. The tumor takes up the nano-particle dye so that when the surgeon goes in he can clearly see the boundaries between good tissue and tumor tissue.

While this may miss the microscopic spread it is still a giant step forward and then radiation can do the cleanup more successfully.

Along similar lines Wake Forest University has developed Nano tubes that can be injected into tumors and then expose the area of the skin over the tumor with Laser light which causes the nano tubes to heat up and kill the tumor from within.

All of this points to the future of surgery which will be with lasers, nano tubes, stem cells, or remote controlled nano robotic tumor eaters. The day of the surgeon cutting with a scalpel is limited.

The Military, War and Medicine

Plastic surgery as we know it today had its start during the Viet Nam war when surgeons attempted to put G.I.’s together with aesthetic results. Prior to that in WW1 the attitude of the surgeon was “if I can save you, be thankful, you are alive and the scars are part of war”. During the 60’s and 70’s giant strides were made to reduce the disfigurement that war wounds caused. Now the Military is trying to put together a whole new concept of war medicine. They are developing synthetic muscles that are stronger and better than our own, putting stem cells into wounds to heal them faster and better. Their motto will be to either replace or repair to get the soldier back in the field ASAP. They want to eliminate or drastically reduce long term disabilities. Remote robotic surgeries with the injured soldier in Afghanistan and the surgeon in Ohio are not far off.

Another Stem Cell Story

The Chinese have taken a stem cell from a mature mouse and created a live mouse from this stem cell. So what you say that’s already been done…. Yes but these mice were fertile. The real issue I think here is let’s focus on organ regeneration to replace a diseased one. Or learn to grow an arm that has been blown off in war or replace a hand that gets mutilated in a machine. All I think will be done in our life time.

How Times Have Changed

A few years ago the number one plastic surgery procedure was breast augmentation followed by lipo-suction. Today its Botox, Fillers, Chemical peels, Laser Hair Removal, and Laser resurfacing. Which by the way we do all of these.

Young Pharmaceuticals has come up with a cream for those dark circles under you eyes and it should be really good. The name of the product is KojiLac-Ci.

A recent review of all products used for lip augmentation which include the PTFE (gore-tex) implants, the solid silicone string implants, Hyaluronic acid and liquid Silicone found that the liquid Silicone given in the micro-droplet form had the best results aesthetically, and felt the most natural to both the patient and the significant other who had to kiss the injected person. Fortunately for us we have advocated and do just that for years.

Predictions from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

1.Reloxin a new company offering a botulinum toxin will be out this year to compete with Botox. As many of you know Dysport is already out and appears to have some advantages over Botox. Price being one.

2. Non invasive fat removal devises will offer an alternative to liposuction. Zerona is already on the market and shows excellent promise.

3. More men are and will continue to get more aesthetic procedures.

4. The popularity of non-invasive procedures will continue to grow and manufacturers will continue to supply new products to meet this demand.

5. Over seas cosmetic vacations for cheaper prices will continue to decrease as the horror stories continue to accumulate.

6. As consumers become more sophisticated they will be not only looking to see if the surgeon is Board Certified but also looking into his past and his artistic capabilities.

Sculptra

After years of trials and comparisons Sculptra® has finally gotten its cosmetic approval. (Its been out in Europe under the trade name of Nu-Fill for more than 15 years and is one of the recommended fillers sanctioned by the European Body for Injectables) You will begin to see national ads, paper ads, and I am told a reduction in price by Sept 1. As many of you know it is used to fill the hollow cheeks, deep Naso Labial fold, and other parts of the face that lose their fat. My personal belief is that when this becomes more affordable it will be one of the best fillers we as cosmetic surgeons can use.

Really Cool

Nikon has come out with a pocket version COOLPIX S1000pj which will take digital pictures at 12 megapixals (that’s sharp as an ASA100
Old fashioned film). It can take pictures and video ….. and here is the best part , you can project your images and film on a 40 inch wide screen at 30 frames per second. And all of the soft ware is built in. Nothing to do with medicine but a really cool gift for someone (usually a man)on your list.

SUPER LASER SPECIAL

I HAVE FINALLY MADE MY LAST PAYMENT ON MY LASER AND TO CELEBRATE I AM GOING TO OFFER A 10% DISCOUNT ON ALL LASER PROCEDURES UNTIL THE END OF THE YEAR!!!
That includes
Laser Hair removal
Laser removal of Facial veins
Erbium Laser facial Peels
Thermascan- collagen and skin tightening procedure.

I hope all of you had a wonderful summer and have gotten your children in school without problems and hope to see you soon.

Firstly I would like to announce that we are now doing cryo-therapy which is the freezing of those ugly brown spots off of your body. We bought the Cryro-Probe system which is a little different than the liquid nitrogen. This devise uses the nitrogen ‘gas’ component but not the ‘liquid’ and therefore you do not get the bleached out white spots which are forever. So if you have any brown spots you want removed from anywhere on your body please call for an appointment.

Dysport vs. Botox

At long last the FDA has approved the first competitor to Botox. It is already in use in 27 other countries and has been used on a regular basis in England since 1991.

The difference is this, one it is cheaper, two it lasts longer, three its onset is much faster. Botox tends to stay exactly where it is put whereas Dysport tends to spread over a wider area.

When I return from vacation we will have both available for you.

Combined Integrative Approaches

This concept is the new buzz words for combining multiple modalities to get better results in cosmetic in cosmetic procedures. For example if you have wrinkles under the eyes we might start with Juvederm injection to fill the void space, then follow that with a laser procedure to tighten up the skin and then use a cosmeceutical cream to further smooth out the remaining fine lines.

We have already been doing that with our Lipodissolve to get rid of unwanted fat. Firstly we start dissolving the fat with the non-invasive Laser, then we inject, then we re-laser using a different setting, then we give you HCG shots to further dissolve the fat, follow that with a safe diet pill and then give you a diet which is designed to further get rid of your Triglycerides. Using this Combined Integrative Approach we quite routinely can dissolve about four inches off of your abdomen, and get you to lose about 15-20 lbs in one session.

Our new approach to tightening the skin is also I feel a giant step forward. Firstly we use the Diamond Wand micro-dermabrasion to get rid of the outer layer of dead skin cells, follow that with a 40-70% Glycolic peel which not only gets rid of even more epidermal skin cells but also has a tightening effect, and then follow that with the Thermascan Laser which penetrates laser energy even deeper into the skin to cause an even greater tightening of the skin.

Eye Lashes and More Eye Lashes

For many years we have observed that those people who took certain eye drops for glaucoma ended up with long thick eye lashes. I know because I have congenital glaucoma and have been taking these drops for years. Now a group of companies have come out with ßßthe extensions, but the downside is that it is going to take 8-12 weeks before you see the results, whereas the extensions are immediate.

Skin Tightening

In a recent survey the most popular and most frequently used cosmetic procedures were Botox, Dermal fillers, Mico-dermabrasion and skin tightening procedures. The economy has taken its toll on face lifts, breast lifts and liposuction.

Ellman is the company that has been most closely associated with radio-frequency devises. I have had my Ellman for 20 years and have removed innumerable facial moles with it. The company has just been approved to release their first skin tightening devise called the “Pelleve”. This should be a great improvement over similar devises on the market today. The most known one is Thermage.

Rejuve Cream

Our Rejuve cream (as many of you already know) is one of the most advanced creams of its kind in the world. It contains the entire cascade of Growth Factors (IGF-1, IGF-2, TGF-ß, Epithelial Growth Factor, Endothelial Growth Factor and VEGF). While anti oxidants slow the aging process growth factors can actually stop it and in many cases reverse the again process.

I recently had an unsolicited testimonial in which the woman said she had been using the face cream and then wiping the residual cream left on her right hand over the back of her left hand. After having used it for almost a year someone commented to her that her left hand had almost no signs of aging whereas her right hand had a lot of brown spots and a rougher texture. She was so shocked by this revelation that she called me to ask me if other people had noticed the same. I assured her that we had indeed heard many such testimonials.

My loss is your gain – and by that I mean that there was a confusion the last time we ordered the cream and I was sent three times what I ordered….so we are offering a one time special offer at $90.00 per bottle instead of the normal $120.00. We have an extra 40 bottles only and based on our us usual sales volume this will be gone in less than a month so call asap.

Authors Note

If you have been reading these news articles regularly I have been saying for many years that the future of medicine is Stem cells and Growth Factors. Creams that tout anti-oxidants and vitamins as their means of regenerating the skin are completely out dated compared with what is on the market now. The Swiss and Germans have been growing Growth factors on skin cultures and then incorporating them into creams for years and now a California company Histogen Aesthetics has devised their own proprietary method of doing what the Europeans have been doing for almost a decade. Expect to see more and more companies to be coming out with these growth factors for they truly are a giant step forward.