Cellular Health Series:

Health for
the 21st Century

Matthias Rath, M.D.

First Edition, May 2001

Cellular Health Series - Health for the 21st Century. Copyright 2001 by Matthias Rath,
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Table of contents

Foreword 6

Editorial Dr. Rath 8

1 The Global Fight for Human Health 11

The Fight for Scientific Truth Dr. Aleksandra Niedzwiecki 12

Dr. Raths Public Address at the Eve of Codex Alimentarius 15
Vitamins are Life Dr. Aleksandra Niedzwiecki 28

2 International Support for Vitamin Freedom 41

Members of Codex join Dr. Raths Movement for Natural Health

Go Out and Demonstrate G. S. Oden, New Zealand 44

Too Few Minerals and Vitamins Dag Viljen P., Norway 48
Warefare against Health? Friedrich Reuss, Germany 51
On Behalf of the Third World Dr. Netke, India 60

3 Pilot Studies 65

Introduction 66
Principles of Cellular Health 69
Asthma 76
Lipid (fat) Metabolism Disorders 78
Heart Failure 81
High Blood Pressure 84
Tinnitus (ringing in the ears) 86
Periodontosis 89

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4 Testimonials 93
Patients demand their Right for Health 94

Dora Scheler, Germany, Cardiac insufficiency 95

Horst Ramershofen, Germany, Myocardical insufficiency 96
Stefanie Kogler, Austria, Irregular Heart Beat 98
Rolf Jkel, Germany, Diabetes, Heart Attack, Stroke 101
Dr. Gerd Koschik, Austria, Reports on Diabetes 103
Hans J. Troitsch, Germany, Cardiac arrhytmia, Diabetes 106
Horst Sokoll, Germany, Lupus Erythematodes 108
Werner Pilniok, Germany, Cancer, Heart Attack 111

5 Victor y for Health Freedom in Berlin 117

The defeat of the Pharma-Cartel in Berlin 2000 118

Interview with the Codex Member Gene S. Oden 119

Dr. Matthias Rath, Health for the 21st Century 122
Head of Codex Alimentarius rchallenged by Dr. Rath 130

6 American Health Freedom is in Danger 133

The fight for human health is far from over 134

Deliver your protests to Codex Alimentarius 137

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 FROM DR. RATH

Matthias Rath, M.D.

Codex Alimentarius will be seen by future generations as the

greatest threat to the basic human right of health. Never before in
history has a special interest group, the pharmaceutical industry,
so shamelessly tried to compromise the health of millions of
people in order to maintain their billion dollar markets of
prescription drugs. Having free access to information about the
health benefits of vitamins and other natural therapies is the key
to a healthy and long life without the risk of side effects and new
diseases associated with many prescription drugs.

The dissemination of this life-saving information on natural health

can lead to the control of cardiovascular disease and many other
health problems. The ban of this natural health therapies - as
planned by Codex Alimentarius - would mean that these diseases
continue unnecessarily.

All that was at stake at the Codex-Meeting in Berlin in June 2000.

Behind closed doors these plans were ready to be passed. They
would have affected the lives of 6 billion people and their

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offspring - yet, hardly anyone among knew about them. Worse,
those who knew did not dare to speak out. In this situation, thou-
sands of patients and other supporters of Dr. Rath's World Health
Alliance gathered in Berlin to protest these plans. They were
supported by delegates from other countries and by more than
half a million protest letters from people around the world who
had visited our web site and decided to say "No" to these plans.

Equally important, on the eve of the Codex meeting, we organ-

ized a Health Symposium attended by patients and doctors alike
that allowed a breath-taking perspective into the future: A world
without heart attacks, strokes, high blood pressure and other of
today's most common diseases. Because of this massive protest,
the Codex Alimentarius plans could not pass. This victory was
even more remarkable since the people supporting his cause were
the only visible resistances to these unethical plans. The victory
against Codex Alimentarius has truly historic proportions. Every
human being living on earth today and all future generations will
benefit from our efforts. For decades to come, the events in Berlin
in June 2000 will be seen as an example of a few, courageous,
determined, and righteous people making a better world.

Matthias Rath, M.D.

 CHAPTER 1

The Global Fight for

Human Health

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The Fight
for Scientific Truth

Speech by Dr. Aleksandra Niedzwiecki, June 17, 2000

Demonstration at the Wittenbergplatz, Berlin

L adies and Gentlemen:

I am happy to be here in Berlin and to support you in the
fight against Codex Alimentarius. The decisions that will be
made next week concern all living beings on our planet.

As a scientist, biochemist, and molecular biologist, I have

known the healing powers of vitamins for more than 10 years.
Before that, I studied molecular mechanisms that cause aging.
I had the honor of working with two Nobel Prize winners at
the leading research institutes and universities in Poland,
Canada, and the United States.

Based on my own knowledge and experiences, I can tell you

that we are here for an important reason. Vitamins are the basis

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of good health, and we should fight for our right to use them.

There is another reason why I am here today, perhaps the most

important one. For the past ten years, I have worked with Dr.
Rath, and I am here to support his fight for scientific truth and
to create a better world. Ten years ago, when I decided to work
with Dr. Rath on the vitamin project, many well-meaning
colleagues advised me that I would be destroying my career.

Working in vitamin research does not have the same cachet as

molecular biology, and it was difficult to obtain financial support.
Also, confronting the old scientific dogmas with new approach-
es to heart disease made the work a challenge. It is obvious that
new discoveries that are important to everyones health all too
often remain within a small elite circle of scientists.

But these discoveries should be publicized quickly. That way

you could learn about them, as you did in Dr. Raths book,
The Heart, which explains vitamin deficiency as a leading
cause of heart disease. We can prove this based on our own
experiences of how vitamins and other nutrients are a good
alternative to damaging and ineffective pharmaceutical prod-
ucts. During my work with Dr. Rath, also I have learned that
ones own capabilities and qualifications can be used for a
cause that goes beyond personal or financial gain or ones own
ambitions.

Since there were only a few of us in the beginning who shared

his ideas and philosophy, we had the opportunity to get to
know him better.

Dr. Raths wish to make his discoveries available to the people

comes from his heart and is a part of his upbringing. If,
however, his opponents think they can stop him, they are
wrong; on the contrary, he will only become stronger and
more determined. I am very happy that our work can help to
broaden your knowledge about vitamins and the responsibili-
ty that you can take for your health.

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Of course, I hope that I can remain at Dr. Raths side in his
important work until vitamins and other nutrients are accept-
ed everywhere and become part of a health care system avail-
able to all people. The goal that we want to achieve is worth-
while but difficult. However, Dr. Raths courage and determi-
nation are contagious, and every day more people join him in
this effort.

We do this to protect our health, so that we can continue to

trust in our doctors, and know that they will treat our illnesses
effectively. We do this also to defend our right to freedom of
information, and to be able to make our own decisions.

Let us support Dr. Rath through out all these challenges!

Dr. Rath's public address in Berlin on the e ve of the Codex
Alimentarius conference, Saturda y, June 17, 2000.

Attention from thousands of listeners on June 17, 2000.

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 The Right to Health

L adies and Gentlemen, dear people of Berlin, honored

guests from the press, dear friends:

We have come here to Berlin today to claim the public right to

health. Most of all we are here to ensure the right to free access
to vitamin therapies and other natural healing methods. We
have to defend these health interests against the pharmaceuti-
cal industry, an industry that runs a worldwide trade in disease
and costs the health of millions of people.

According to the German health department there are at this

time 24,000 pharmaceutical products on the market that have
no effectiveness.

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) of April

15, 1998, states: The known side effects from some of these

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pharmaceutical preparations have reached such epidemic propor-
tions that they have become the fourth leading cause of death in
industrialized nations.

Every year, over half a million people worldwide die from the
side effects of pharmaceutical products.

These figures are only surpassed by death rates from heart

attack, cancer and stroke.

The pharmaceutical industry has not grown up naturally; in

fact, it has been an investment industry for over 100 years.The
bodies of six billion people are the pharmaceutical industrys
marketplace, and its goals are to maintain and expand their
sales market and to ensure the continuation of the business
with disease.

Prevention of diseases, and especially their eradication, is bad

for the pharmaceutical business, and therefore the industry
fights savagely against them.

This worked for decades, and pharmaceutical sales worldwide

have passed one billion dollars. This is more than four times
the German national budget.

But now this multibillion-dollar pharmaceutical market is

threatened to collapse. The reason is a medical break-
through in vitamin research that jeopardizes the pharmaceu-
tical market. As a physician and scientist, I have made a
scientific breakthrough that takes the field of medical thinking
from the antiquated disk to the modern sphere.

Heart attack, stroke, and the atherosclerosis that underlies

them, are all early forms of the sailors disease, scurvy.

Both diseases have the same cause: A vitamin deficiency in the

millions of cells that form blood vessels and are responsible for
their stability.

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A chronic vitamin deficiency weakens the arterial walls, which
in turn leads to the plaque-forming deposits, and finally heart
attack. Now we understand why heart attack and stroke are
rarely seen in animals.

Your dog, for example, produces between 10 and 20 grams

vitamin C in its body each day. Humans are unable to produce
vitamin C in their bodies, and must depend on consuming
vitamin C in our diet.

Unfortunately, almost no one gets the necessary amount of

vitamins from their daily diet. The immediate effect is that
cardiovascular diseases spread like an epidemic.

We announce to the people in Berlin and to those elsewhere

who are hearing this information for the first time:

Heart attack and stroke are not diseases. They are a result of
vitamin deficiency and preventable.

Every year 500,000 patients in Germany alone, and 12 million

worldwide, die needlessly from preventable diseases.

The scientific proof of this has existed for a long time.

I received the first patents for natural treatments of heart

disease. The treatments fea-
tured vitamin C, lysine and
other natural substances

In clinical studies of heart

patients, we have also
shown that arteriosclerosis
can be reversed with the
help of vitamins and that
existing deposits in the

Clogged Arteries can be caused

by a deficiency of Vitamin C

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arteries can be reduced naturally, without bypass surgery or
angioplasty.

I invite you to read about the details of this scientific break-

through on our website:

www.dr-rath-research.org

Our website has now become the most important reference

site on natural health, and each month over one million
people use it to find the answers they seek.

The only explanation for the success of our website is that

people worldwide can get reliable information about health
issues there that they cannot get elsewhere.

I am often asked: If this information is really true, then why do

the media ignore it, and why isnt it in the news?

Theres a reasonable answer: As a rule, vitamins cannot be

patented, and the profit margins are too small in comparison
to pharmaceutical preparations.

For an entire century, therefore, the pharmaceutical industry

has systematically discredited and fought against vitamins and
other natural healing methods. The therapy seminars have
been renamed Pharmacology at universities. Generations of
physicians leave the universities without any knowledge of the
significance that vitamins have for health.

Similarly, the media are no longer dedicated to the truth on the

subject of health. Large newspapers, television networks, and
other mass media have been caught up for decades in the
interests of BASF, Bayer, Hchst, Schering, and others via
multimillion-dollar advertising campaigns. Gradually, millions
of Germans and people elsewhere have fallen into a danger-
ous dependency on the pharmaceutical industry.

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Hundreds of thousands of patients every year pay with their
lives for this fatal dependency on the business with disease
conducted by the pharmaceutical industry.This is also the
reason why health is still not a self-evident basic right, and why
we are here today to defend this basic right. We, who are the
patients, people of all ages and from all walks of life.

We call out to you, the people of Berlin, and the people of the
world: Cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, heart
disease, diabetic circulatory disorders, cancer, osteoporosis,
and many other common diseases are caused mainly by
chronic vitamin deficiency.

There are more than 10,000 scientific journals and clinical

studies on the Internet, available for everyone to read, that
document the importance of vitamins for health.

For you, it is even simpler to ask us, we who are standing

before you. Talk to any one of us;ask us. We are here because
we have experienced how vitally important vitamins are for us.
We have come here today on behalf of thousands of patients
who share a common interest: not to be driven back into the
dead-lock of symptom-oriented pharma-medicine.

10,000 Scientific Studies

on Vitamins
We have come here today to fight for freedom of information
about vitamins and for freedom for other natural therapies.

Tomorrow representatives of the pharmaceutical industry,

politicians, and administrators from all over the world are
going to meet here in Berlin. During this convention, the phar-
maceutical industry will attempt to force its plan through,
which would prohibit health statements regarding vitamins
and other natural healing methods worldwide.

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According to the pharma-cartels plans, all statements
concerning vitamins for either prevention or treatment of
illness would be punishable in all United Nation countries.
One industry, the pharmaceutical industry, has promoted an
epidemic of pharmacological side effects, which have become
the fourth leading cause of death.

Now that this lie has been exposed, and now that there are
effective and safe alternatives available in the form of vitamin
therapies, the pharma-cartel has had the audacity to put pres-
sure on the politicians.

The goal of the pharma-cartel at the Codex conference is to fuel its

billion-dollar market with ineffective and dangerous pharmaceuti-
cal products and protection laws.

Of course, the pharma-cartel and its political henchmen

cannot sell their interests to anyone.

Therefore, they hire an army of public relations people and

lobbyists to gift-wrap and conceal their true goals.

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The pharma-cartels tricks and organized disinformation
would snatch the breath of any clear-thinking person.
In order to hide their protectionist plans the pharma-cartel
misuses the World Nutrition Organization and other UN
committees.

They hide behind the Latin cover name of Codex

Alimentarius and misleading terms like nutrition guidelines.
They meet in the Office of Consumer Health Protection, BgVV
in Berlin-Marienfelde, on the Diedersdorfer Weg here in
Berlin.

To conceal their unethical commercial interests and their

limitless greed, these brothers pretend to serve the interests
of consumer protection and thus to serve the interests of the
public. They turn the facts upside down. So far, no one has
ever died of a vitamin overdose. Conversely, every year over
half a million people worldwide die from side effects from
pharmaceutical products. We need consumer protection from
the side effects of pharma-pills, not from the alleged side
effects of vitamins and other natural healing methods. Anyone
who has seen the barbed wire around this ominous office for

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Demonstration for Health Freedom:
Consumer protection by the Pharmaceutical Industry? No Thanks!

consumer protection realizes immediately that the interests of

the public are not being served on the other side. Just the
opposite: It is the financial interests of the pharma-cartel
against the health interests of the public. For obvious reasons,
no journalists will be allowed at the conference next week.

Behind closed doors, decisions will be made in this building

in Berlin-Marienfelde that will endanger the health and lives of
every woman and every man in Berlin, Germany, and the rest
of the world.

If the pharma-cartel pushes its plan through, then no longer it

will be legal to state that vitamin C protects the arteries.

An offense against this law would have civil and even criminal
consequences.

The chairman of this Codex Commission is a German admin-

istrator named Rolf Grossklaus. He functions as a henchman,
as a useful gnome for the pharma-cartel.

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For months now, Mr. Grossklaus has been using his agencys
website to spread lie that the pharma-cartels plans have to be
passed because vitamin C causes kidney stones.

Anyone can prove that this is a lie. The largest medical library
on the Internet, Medline, documents two comprehensive
studies that prove exactly the opposite.

Eighty-five thousand women and 45,000 men were tested at

Harvard University in Boston. The studys results show that high-
dose vitamins do not promote kidney stones but prevent them.

Cheap tricks might have worked before the Internet age, Mr.
Grossklaus, but they dont work any longer! Now anyone can call
Mr. Grossklaus a habitual liar. Mr. Grossklaus spreads his calcu-
lated lies to deceive the public and to manipulate the undecided
participants at the Codex meeting with deliberate misinformation.
It is bad enough that Rolf Grossklaus, head of a government
agency, is jeopardizing the health and lives of millions of
Germans. The fact that this man still presides over an interna-

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tional commission responsible for establishing binding health
guidelines for the public is a monstrous scandal.

In the name of the health interests of every person on earth we

declare:

Rolf Grossklaus, you are a liar!

You have absolutely no credibility!
You are not to be believed!
Resign now!

You arent serving humanitys health interests; youre damaging

them. Apart from that, in the interest of public health, the
Berlin district attorneys office has brought criminal charges
against you.

But the mud is even deeper!

Chancellor Gerhard Schrder and his government are the

political patrons of the Codex Commission in Berlin-
Marienfelde next week.

I have publicly asked Mr. Schrder many times to distance

himself from the pharma-cartels unethical and contemptuous
Codex plans.

Therefore, Mr. Schrder cannot hide behind ignorage. He

bears the entire political responsibility for all decisions that are
made next week at the Codex conference.

Many of us thought that after the Pharma-Chancellor Kohl we

would now have an independent chancellor who would stop
the business with disease.

But obviously this is not the case.

Chancellor Schrder and the entire new chancellors office

function as the Politburo for the pharma-cartel.

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From this meeting, we call upon Chancellor Schrder:

Gerhard Schrder, with your continued support of the pharma-

cartels Codex plans, you endanger health and lives of
hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Furthermore, you
are breaking your oath of office, which requires you to protect
the health and lives of the German people above all.

As a scientist who has led the medical breakthrough that

brought victory over heart disease, I ask of you: Withdraw your
political support for the pharma-cartels Codex plans and
support a health policy that makes vitamin research and other
natural healing methods a priority in coming years. Only in
this way can you fulfill the constitutional duties that you
assumed when the people elected you.

In the name of millions of people of this earth, we call upon you:

Twice during the past 100 years, decisions have been made in
this city that brought misery to the people and cost millions of
lives through two world wars.

With thousands of demonstrators, the procession extended over several

hundred yards from the Berlin Memorial Church down Tauentzienstrasse
to the Wittenbergplatz:A health march with a messa ge that resonated
throughout Europe.
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If the plans of the pharma-cartel proceed next week in Berlin-
Marienfelde, 12 million people will die each year of heart
attacks caused by vitamin deficiencies, and hundreds of
millions more will die of cancer and other common diseases,
which we now know to be caused by vitamin deficiency.

We have come here to this historic city to say: Twice is

enough. We will not allow this to happen a third time.

For the journalists, I have an urgent request: Report objective-

ly on these events. You have the special responsibility of dis-
seminating the knowledge concerning the health and life
expectancy of the public.

You, the people of Berlin, the journalists and all others who are
interested, and you who are probably hearing about these
amazing events for the first time: I invite you to our great
symposium Health in the 21st Century..

This symposium will take place on June 18 at the Estrel Hotel.

There we will present the latest findings in vitamin research,
and we will hear from physicians and patients.

We are at the beginning of a new era in worldwide health care.

The era of the pharmaceutical industrys million-dollar
business with disease is nearing its end.

Scientifically based natural therapies will be the corner stone

of modern health care in the 21st century.

All of us who have come to Berlin today invite you:

Inform yourselves; ask questions! If you are convinced, then

please help us to spread this vitally important information.
The more of us there are, the sooner the opposition will break,
and the sooner good health will become a human right.

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 Vitamins are Life

Dr. Aleksandra
Niedzwiecki, USA: You
dont have to take an over-
dose of a drug to endanger
your life. Every drug has
side effects.

Why do we need consumer protection? Certainly not to

protect us from vitamins but from dangerous pharmaceutical
preparations, stated Dr. Aleksandra Niedzwiecki at the health
symposium in the Estrel Hotel in Berlin.

H ow safe do you feel taking your next medication knowing

that hundreds of thousands of people die each year from
serious reactions to drugs? No matter how exhaustive research
and testing criteria appear to be, there is no such thing as a
harmless drug. Ironically, television programs and newspaper
articles warn you that taking vitamins and other nutrients can be
hazardous to your health. Often the news refers to vitamins as
"unregulated" substances, implying that they can be dangerous.

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Even if you take vitamins and have experienced that your
health improved, you may be confused. Is it really true?
Therefore, today I would like to present some facts regarding
the safety of vitamins compared with pharmaceutical drugs.

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary the word phar-

macology is derived from a Greek work "pharmakeia" which
means magic charm, poison. This is a very accurate descrip-
tion. In contrast, the word vitamin combines vita which means
life and amine, meaning characteristics of a substance. Since
vitamins are essential for life, everyone has to be sure that they
are take in in sufficient amounts. But what are these amounts?

The recommended daily intake of most vitamins and minerals

was established about 60 years ago. It addresses vitamin defi-
ciency symptoms, not their optimal intake for health, and it is
frequently based on inadequate studies. Did you know that the
recommendation of 60 milligrams per day of vitamin C is
based on a study on six prisoners, conducted in the late 1940s?
This amount has not been revised until recently, when the
Institute of Medicine proposed increasing it to 90 milligrams.

How much vitamin C do we need to stay healthy? A well-

designed study conducted in 1996 by the National Institutes of
Health recommended at least 220 milligrams of vitamin C per
day for young men consuming ideal diets. But what about
older people, cigarette smokers, those who have to cope with
stress, live in polluted urban areas, or suffer from various
diseases? For them, the demands for vitamin C increase
tremendously. Why do health authorities recommend that zoo
monkeys, which like humans cannot produce their own vita-
min C, need about 900 milligrams of this vitamin in their diets?
However, for us, they say that less than 10% of this amount
must be sufficient. Surely it can only mean that we are kept in
poor health and develop diseases for pharmaceutical products.
We should be more concerned with vitamin insufficiency, not
with excess. According to the Second National Health and
Nutrition Examination Survey, in the United States, a country

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with high economic level and nutrition awarenesss, between
50%-80% of people consume less than the official recom-
mendation of vitamins C, E, A, and D. To begin with, these
standards are very low. Studies repeatedly confirm that our
diets are largely deficient in folic acid, B vitamins, zinc, calci-
um, and many other nutrients. So instead of eliminating basic
nutrient deficiencies, we are being confused with ostensible
problems of vitamin excess.

Is there really a danger from taking too much of vitamins? No.

Even very large doses of vitamins are generally safe. These
nutrients are part of our bodies, and they need constant replen-
ishing. The body will use what it needs and discard the rest. In
case of vitamin C, there have been almost a dozen placebo-
controlled, double-blind clinical studies recently published
showing no adverse effects in people who took even 10 grams
per day of this nutrient for several years. Many cancer patients
were taking 150-200 grams per day by intravenous injections
without any toxicity. Just the opposite, these doses helped to
control the spread of cancer in the body.

Also, other vitamins, such as B vitamins which our body needs

primarily for various energy generating processes, are safe in a
wide dosage range. The review of scientific research on this
subject published by Dr. Bendich in the Annals of the New
York Academy of Sciences concluded that there were no
adverse reactions from taking :

three milligrams of vitamin B12 (this is about 1800 times the

current offical recommendation), vitamin B6 up to 500
milligrams (250 times the recommended level), vitamin B2
taken in daily doses of 200 milligrams (which is about 130
times higher than the recommended intake) and B1 (about 35
times the recommended RDA)

Many people, perhaps you as well, take supplemental vitamin

B3, also known as nicotinic acid, for a natural control of their
cholesterol levels. Some of those who took a large dose at one

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time might have experienced a hot flash. This reaction can be
avoided if the vitamin dose is increased gradually or if vitamin
B3 is taken in the form of niacinamide. In general, nicotinic
acid can be taken in doses that exceed 50-150 times the offi-
cial recommendation without any adverse effects.

Even vitamins that are not quickly eliminated by the body,

such as fat soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K, are safe in large
doses. For example, vitamin A, which is essential for vision,
growth, and repair of the body tissues, has beneficial effects
when taken in doses about 5,000 to 10,000 IU per day. In our

Why vitamins
cannot hurt
bodies, vitamin A is produced from another nutrient, beta
carotene, which is a yellow pigment in fruits and vegetables. If
we take beta carotene, our bodies convert it to as much vita-
min A as we need. Excess beta carotene is easily eliminated by
the body.

Another fat soluble vitamin, vitamin E, is safe in very high

doses. Even for prolonged periods, doses of 3000 IU or higher
per day produce no adverse reactions. This is more than 200
times the official recommendation. Also, vitamin Es benefits in
heart disease, diabetes and other problems are apparent when
it is consumed at high doses. At least 200 IU - 400 IU of vita-
min E has to be taken daily. It is impossible to obtain such
amounts from the diet.

Because of poor training at medical schools, many doctors

look at vitamins as individual substances just as they look at
drugs. However, in our body, vitamins work as a team, and
they cooperate for a maximum effect. For instance, you do not
need to take extreme amounts of vitamin E if you take vitamin
C as well. Vitamin C can recycle vitamin E in the body,

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 How quickly do we reac h
for synthetic drugs when
we have a cough or a cold?

compensating for an inadequate intake of viatmin E. It also

cooperates with other nutrients, such as antioxidants lipoic
acid and glutathione, vitamin B3, and coenzyme Q10. News
about ostensible vitamin danger is promoted very quickly and
often is easily accepted without any substantial evidence. A
typical example is a popular perception that vitamin C causes
kidney stones. Nearly every physician is aware of this tale, but
where is the evidence? Several review articles spread this
myth. But when I searched the references for the real source of
this information, they directed me to books and letters but not

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Every year several hundred million dollars are spent on public advertising
for drugs.

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to any reputable data. The cita-
tions in the books always referred
to the same sources. So one author
makes a statement and cites
another author who did the same.
But what is the actual evidence?
Three case control studies showed
no association between vitamin C
and kidney stones. Another study
conducted in 1997 on 45,000
men showed that those consuming
1.5 grams of vitamin C per day
actually had a LOWER frequency
of kidney stones than those who
took only 250 milligrams of this
vitamin. A study published last
year by Harvard University
researchers on 85,000 women
also concluded that there is lack of
correlation between vitamin C
intake and kidney stones.

Now, since we
do not doubt
that vitamins
are safe,
let's look at
how they
compare
to

some commonly used drugs. Consider

the popular drug, aspirin. You often reach for
it to calm pain or headache. But be careful! If you
exceed an aspirin dose by 10 times, a severe reaction from

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salicylate poisoning can occur. Also, be concerned if you
suffer from arthritis and frequently take aspirin in low doses.
With time you may develop a stomach ulcer, or your arthritis
may actually worsen because aspirin damages collagen and
erodes cartilage in your joints.

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 Dr. Aleksandra
Niedzwiecki, USA: Were
doing what the pharmaceu -
tical companies should
have done years a go.

In the case of a more potent drug such as digitalis, used to

regulate the heart beat, a dose of twice the recommended
amount can create the problem that the drug is supposed to
help, an irregular heart beat, a life threatening condition.

Every drug has side effects. Drugs are particularly detrimental

to the liver, where most of them are eliminated, and also to the
kidneys.

The fact that drugs have to be registered does not mean that
they are safe. More than half the approved drugs have serious
side effects undetected prior to approval.

According to a finding published in the Journal of the

American Medical Association, in the U.S., the safety of more
than 5000 drugs already on the market are monitored by a
small staff of only nine health professionals.

As a result of the negligence of drug safety, death from unex-

pected side effects of pharmaceutical medications became the

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fourth leading cause of mortality, right after heart disease, can-
cer and stroke. In addition to the100,000 people who die each
year as a result of taking medication, about 90,000 more die
as a result of medical errors. The harm to our bodies from med-
ical treatment has become so common that there is even a
name for it: iatrogenic disease. Since physicians only voluntar-
ily report adverse side effects of prescription drugs, the Federal
Drug Administration states that just one percent of harmful
reactions are ever reported. We are facing a pharmaceutal
epidemic. Frightening, isn't it?

With all of these dangers, the drug industry purposely shifts its
aggressive advertising at patients so they can visit their doctors
and demand specific products. This public campaign is very
effective and the numbers confirm it. In 1997, the industry
spent more than $900 million on public ads. This was twice
the amount spent on ads for doctors in all medical journals.
However, when drugs caused harm, the doctors were blamed.
You may have heard about the case with the weight loss drug
called Phen-Fen, which had to be taken off the market because
it caused heart damage in about 31% of patients. This drug is
no exception.

As a woman, I cannot remain silent on how the marketing of

estrogen drugs to menopausal women compromises their
health and lives. Perhaps many of you have been advised by
your doctors to take estrogen as a remedy for hot flashes,
osteoporosis, heart disease, or even to preserve youth.

You need to take this drug for several years but have you
thoroughly discussed all risks and benefits of taking
estrogen? Does it prevent heart disease?

No, just the opposite. The largest ever study of estrogen's

effects in menopausal women recently published confirmed
that estrogen increases the risk of heart attack by 50%. It also
doubles the risk of forming dangerous blood clots in the lung
arteries.

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The risk of breast and uterine cancers has been known for a
long time, as has the risk of gallbladder disease and liver
damage. Ostensible benefits of estrogen, such as prevention of
osteoporosis, can be easily obtained by safe natural means, by
taking calcium, vitamin C and other dietary supplements.
There are also natural ways of relieving hot flashes.

Why then are vitamins, but not all artificial drugs, under such
scrutiny? You know the answer. Your health, as well as mine
health and everybody elses, has been monopolized by the
pharmaceutical industry, which has subjugated the medical
profession, media, and politicians.

Our health is being traded on Wall Street, where the share

price determines which disease should be considered and
which should be ignored, who can be treated and who can
die, and which treatments are accepted and which are not.
Why should profit be placed before our health?

If the Microsoft monopoly in the computer market has been

considered a threat to a long-term progress in computer tech-
nology, what about the monopoly of the pharmaceutical
companies? For decades they have relentlessly fought and
eliminated competitive approaches, especially those that
proved to be successful. Now, in Berlin, there is another
attempt to block our chance for regaining our health.

I have scientific research experience in many areas, ranging

from molecular biology technologies to cell metabolism. I
studied vitamin functions in heart disease and other health
problems, and I am telling you it is time to have a fresh look at
medicine on a global scale. The pharmaceutical dinosaur, with
its promotion of drugs for symptoms, supports spreading
diseases, not curing them. It has violated the ethical standards
of medicine, medicine which must be of service to people's
needs, not to exploit their misery. We must work together to
shape the medicine of the future: medicine based on scientifi-
cally proven natural health programs that are safe, that prevent

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and cure diseases, that are cost effective and accessible to
people. They cannot be blocked by special interests and uneth-
ical measures.

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 CHAPTER 2

International Support
for Vitamin Freedom

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International Support for
Vitamin Freedom
Members of Codex join Dr. Rath's Movement for
Natural Health

Thousands of patients and their doctors joined the Health for

the 21st Century symposium and the demonstrations against
Codex Alimentarius in Berlin in 2000. Dr. Rath's public
campaigns to stop the international ban on vitamins informed
and inspired them to stand up against this unethical assault on
human health. While the grassroots movement for natural
health demonstrated outside the Codex Meeting, some essen-
tial changes occurred inside the Codex Commission.

In the months before the meeting, the German delegation and

their pharmaceutical paymasters published absurd lies and
unfounded press releases about alleged "dangers of vitamins"
(see press-release p. 132). All this was in preparation of the
international vitamin ban and also to justify this assault on
human health in the guise of "consumer safety". But this phar-
maceutical propaganda became too obvious for some experts
inside the Codex Commission. Alerted by Dr. Rath's
campaigns against the plans of the pharma-cartel, they
contacted his health movement and promised their support. In
speeches at the World Health Conference and at the demon-
strations, they confirmed the deepest concerns about the phar-
maceutical background and undemocratic nature of the Codex
Commission.

But they also confirmed the massive impact of Dr. Rath's

campaigns and the demonstrations on the work of the
commission. Codex members, Gene S. Oden from New
Zealand and Dag Viljen Poleszynski from Norway, gave the
world a deep insight into the pharma-cartel's influence on this

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Commission. They were a great motivation and inspiration for
the whole movement for Natural Health in Berlin and their
support lasts until today. While the German delegation of
Codex acted hand in hand with the pharmaceutical industry to
outlaw vitamins on an international basis, an increasing
number of German experts outside the Commission started to
support Dr. Matthias Rath.

Friedrich Reuss, an expert in nutrition, especially its political

background, helped at the Health Symposium to unmask the
mechanisms of the strong German Pharma-lobby that led final-
ly to the composition of the German Codex Commission.
Friedrich Reuss has been in this business for over 20 years and
his speech gave an excellent overview of the abuse of nation-
al and international institutions by the German pharmaceutical
industry and their unethical efforts to outlaw natural therapies.

While these interest groups try to install an international ban

on vitamins, billions of people, especially in the developing
countries, are suffering from preventable diseases caused by
the lack of these vitamins. In the name of these countries the
scientists Dr. Shrirang Netke from India spoke in Berlin and
demanded free access to vitamins for the developing world.

Many other professional experts in nutrition and health politics

delivered speeches or helped with their advice at the Health
Symposium and the demonstrations against Codex 2000. We
would like to thank all of them for their support of Dr. Rath and
his international health movement.

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Go out and Demonstrate

Gene S. Oden, New

Zealand/ USA also joined
the demonstrations in front
of the Codex Alimentarius
meeting

Gene S. Oden, Codex Representati ve

New Zealand,
Sunday, June 18, 2000, at the Symposium Health for
the 21st Century

Thank you for the opportunity to be with you. We have had

another occasion to meet at the Codex Alimentarius Meeting
in Berlin 1998. And at that time, it was a wonderful occasion,
when I came out of the Codex Alimentarius meeting and
wondered what kind of strange 'rebels' demonstrated for vita-
mins and against the pharma-cartel. I met Dr. Matthias Rath
and many fellow fighters who were present. At that time, it was
quite a small group compared to the one here today. I was
deeply impressed that you raised your voices and showed
commitment.

Dissatisfied by my profession, I decided to give up my business

and become a professional lobbyist, which means something
bad to most people - but I told myself: "You must become a

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lobbyist for positive causes. You must know that you have to
fight against this injustice."

The Codex group is actually a group of nice people like you

and me who believes in a certain philosophy, namely that
physicians, who have enjoyed an orthodox medical education,
are like brave knights. This group was forced to listen to this
indoctrination from pharmaceutical companies, whose medi-
cines they were prescribing

And then there is another professional group, the pharmacists

who sell these medicines. They control all the money in the
health services, mainly in the U.S. and Europe.

Well, the rest of us, such as Dr. Rath and the Alliance people,
have a problem when we explain the effect of vitamins and
minerals and how our health can be improved by taking a
different path. The Codex commission wants laws passed that
will restrict access to materials related to alternate therapies.

Then we would be legally prosecuted in such countries as

Germany for telling the truth about vitamins.

I have given you a good reason to fight the battle that faces
you. Maybe it should be my task to ask you to demonstrate at
the BgVV because the German bureaucrats are leading an
oppression of the people of the world. This oppression, led by
German bureaucrats, has the goal of taking away your right to
hold conferences like this and to listen to Dr. Rath. They want
to take away all your freedom. And what the Germans, the
French and the Swiss - it is interesting to note, that these
nationalities house the headquarters of the world's five largest
pharmaceutical companies - and the bureaucrats want to tell
you is that you should go back to your doctors.

Well, you have already heard what happens when you go back
to your orthodox, pharmaceutically educated doctor. He does-
n't know anything about vitamins. Well, what happens next?

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 You are up a creek without a paddle, as we say. The Codex
commission wants to make a law that only 100 mg vitamin C
or vitamin B can be prescribed.

Then you will have to buy these vitamins from your pharma-
cist, and they will have to be manufactured by a pharmaceuti-
cal company. In this way, much of the freedom that you enjoy
today will be taken away by a global organization (Codex).

Forgive my bluntness, but it is mainly the English-speaking

world, the U.S., Canada, New Zealand and Great Britain, with

You Have the Freedom to

Choose for Your
own Body
the exception of Australia, that recognizes this problem and
opposes a restriction on food supplements by Codex. In this
case, the English-speaking world is the main voice against the
German-speaking world and the French, and they say that
everyone should have freedom of choice, and that we are all
individuals, but they are all hypocrites
.
And the world has changed. The image of the knightly physi-
cian, who could be your father, brother, uncle or cousin, who
is a wonderful person but has been indoctrinated, and the
pharmacist and the pharmaceutical company - this all is the
old order.

Authors like Dr. Rath are the start for a new order. The old
philosophy, the old cartel, is afraid that you will read about
your own condition, that you might do what the people (in their
health reports) have spoken of here on this stage, that you will
search for alternatives, that those billions and trillions of dollars

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will no longer go into the pockets of the largest industry in the
world, the health industry. This does not mean that the individ-
ual people are malicious, hurtful or bad. It's just the way they
have been educated.

What can you do? You cannot do anything against the bureau-
crats. You will have to go to the politicians and demand a
change in the laws. The politicians play the leading role in this
process, which this conference opposes, because they have a
lot of power with this pharma-cartel, which is based here in
Germany, and therefore they try to force their plans onto the
delegates from the rest of the world.

How do they do this? An Indian physician (Dr. Shrirang Netke,

p. 58) has talked here today. He told of a poor woman in India
wanted the hungry children in the slums to receive vitamin A.
But she was threatened with having her sugar trade banned
because the sugar contained too much lead. The organization
that regulates the sugar trade is Codex Alimentarius. And now
this woman is voting for regulation of the vitamin trade
through the Codex. That's how it works. It is a purely political
matter. You have to go to your politicians, just as we have done
in the United States because you can never get rid of bureau-
crats. And you will have to say to them that you want the law
changed. Keep Germany a free country. It must stop oppress-
ing other nations. This is my message: Go out tomorrow and
demonstrate!

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We are getting too few
Minerals and Vitamins

Dag Viljen Poleszynski:

Humans are geneticall y
adapted to higher dosa ges
of vitamins.

Dag Viljen Poleszynski,

Codex Alimentarius delegate from Norw ay,
Sunday, June 18, 2000, at the Symposium Health for
the 21st Century

During my discussions with Norwegian officials I keep hearing

that it is sufficient just to eat right. Norwegian food is sufficient
for all vitamins and minerals, etc. However, that is not the
case. This is also not true as far as the German diet is
concerned. I also find this argument much too simple. These
officials should be challenged a bit.

The reasoning goes as follows: During the last few million

years, people have developed from the Australopithecus and
other species into the Neanderthal man, who was found here
in Germany, and then later the homo erectus, and then the
homo sapiens, maybe a few hundred thousand years ago.

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All this time our genes have been connected to our diet. So we
developed in close relation to our environment. The homo nean-
dertalensis, for example, was an efficient hunter. It was
discovered that his diet was similar to that of wolves and lions. It
was once thought that he wasn't very capable, but he was intel-
ligent and muscular, and he ate raw meat in large quantities.

Later something changed. Approximately 10,000 years ago,

we started to till the soil. We were not genetically adapted for
that. That's why we also got shorter. You might know from the
American Civil War of 1865 that the average soldier was 1.65
meters tall. Today Americans and Norwegians have an average
height of 1.80 meters. The reason for this is that we now eat
more meat, more protein. At the same time, there are people
who eat too much, too many carbohydrates: white flour, sugar
and additives. That naturally causes disease.

What's happened in the past 10,000 years? We have polluted

the environment. At the same time we're eating a less varied
diet. I refer here to findings based on American research over
the last 15 years (Eton, Eton & Conner). Analyses of the differ-
ent types of animals and plants were made. So far they have
detected more than 300 components. The percentage of ener-
gy that people used to generate from natural food containing
proteins, carbohydrates, and fat was calculated. The govern-
ment in Norway says that we should eat 60 - 70% carbohy-
drates, 10 - 15% protein, and not more than 20, 25, 30% fat.
It may be that this is not a bad recommendation. However, as
we know, the earlier percentages of protein and carbohydrates
in the Stone Age were quite different. Present calculations
show that they ate more protein and fewer carbohydrates.

For years, there has been downright hysteria regarding choles-

terol. In Norway, the recommendation is less than 300 mg per
day. During the Stone Age, people got more than 500 mg with-
out having a heart attack.

Analyses do exist regarding the intake of vitamins and minerals.

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 Stone Age versus Modern Age: During the Stone Age, the
intake values were much higher than the RDA (recommended
daily allowance) for riboflavin, prophylactic vitamins, vitamin
C, beta-carotene, etc. Calculations show them to be approxi-
mately 600 mg. The RDA has now been raised to 75 mg. Intake
of minerals has changed drastically as well, for example sodi-
um. In the Stone Age, nobody used table salt. Nowadays we
use it a lot. At the same time, we get approximately a third less
potassium, a drastic change in the ratio of sodium to potassi-
um. It has also been determined that we get much fewer
minerals, vitamins and other nutrients, but we also have more
impurities. This causes a greater burden on our systems.

The Stone Age versus

modern times
And we have to fill this gap with vitamin and mineral substitutes.

Vitamins and health: Different studies have shown how to find

the optimum supply for the best enzyme function. If we
consume more than the amount recommended by the RDA,
our body enzymes function at an optimum level, and many
diseases are eliminated.

Norwegian officials maintain that there is only a small differ-

ence between the optimal and the toxic levels, and as you
have heard, many others think this as well. But this is not the
case. It is quite a big difference. Vitamin E, for example, does
not become toxic. We now have a good long-term study based
on 800 units per day. No side effects were seen.

I know that an American took 30,000 units for several months,

and no side effects occurred. The studies show that vitamin B
and C are not dangerous. Maybe it is of no use to exceed the
optimum level, but in certain therapeutic circumstances, this
might be worthwhile in order to achieve fast results at the out-
set, and then reduce the dosage a bit later on.

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The conclusion is clear. Because we are genetically adapted to
higher levels of vitamins, minerals, etc., and because our envi-
ronment has become quite polluted, we will have to take pro-
phylactic nutritional supplements until the environment recov-
ers and agriculture changes to meet our needs.

Lobbyism -
Warfare against Health?

Friedrich Reuss,
Egloffstein: Lobbyism in
the politics of health- a
democratic way of
shaping opinions or
secret warfare against
the weak and a gainst
health?

Friedrich Reuss, German y,

Publicly appointed and sworn expert on sports nutrition
Sunday, June 18, 2000, at the Symposium Health for
the 21st Century

L adies and gentlemen, first I would like to thank you all for
the invitation to come to Berlin. I know this conference hotel
from many other events that also had to do with medical topics.
I am a specialist in artificial nourishment in hospitals and at

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home, when normal diets are no longer possible. Throughout
my 20 years of experience, I have sometimes been painfully
rebuffed when trying to realize certain products in the indus-
try, and then noticing that there are groups that do not want
such products. I have experienced this in my company and
many other companies and also in numerous litigations, which
occur between companies or between governments and
companies, in which I have been an expert witness. Perhaps it
is also useful to have a little experience in the legal field. I did
a second degree in law in addition to my studies in nutrition-
al science, and I have some experience in active political
work, in the so-called health policy committees that exist in all
parties. I know how opinions are formed, and how legal find-
ings and legislation function in Germany. I would like to give
you a few examples of these general mechanisms.

We can only support the position that lobbying belongs to the

political culture but that the system becomes sick if egotism
exceeds a certain critical limit, and particular interest groups
want to represent and push their own interests without regard
for the whole.

I have diagrammed (see Figure 1) which interests exert influ-

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ence on consumers and their purchasing behavior. Especially
in the area of nutritional supplements, there are conflicts of
interest. We have the consumer, the one who makes the regis-
ter ring for everyone trying to sell anything called a nutritional
supplement or something similar. Everyone who has some-
thing to sell or wants to introduce something to the market or
invent something is naturally trying to appeal to consumers
and win them for himself. In principle, this is a completely
normal system, as long as it is balanced. At the moment, unfor-
tunately, it looks to me as though this balance, which may
have existed in earlier decades, no longer exists in this form.

In the second diagram, Ive tried to condense the interactions

that exist in the formation of opinion in the political and
legislative areas, up to the point of court decisions, into a clear
network. On the one hand, we have industrial associations
and on the other the individual firms. Sometimes the individ-
ual firms have other interests than the industrial associations.
This does occur sometimes (see Figure 2).

But even the associations of the pharmaceutical companies

are no longer homogenous. We have three large industrial

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associations; one is sometimes friendly toward nutritional
supplements, and another is very much opposed to them, and
a third is indifferent.

In the meantime, German law but by European law. For exam-

ple, in the future, many of these lobbying activities will take
place at the European level. Of course, the lobbyist uses or
abuses the press to circulate information to the people,
depending on how you look at it. There are also specialist
publications, which are relatively clean, at least with respect to
purely scientific journals. But there also is a host of profes-
sional journals in which you can find very biased articles. And
our federal health authorities go along with this game. We
have three of these. BMG is the Federal Ministry of Health
(Bundesministerium fr Gesundheit); BgVV is the Federal
Institute for Consumer Protection and Veterinary Matters
(Bundesinstitut fr gesundheitlichen Verbraucherschutz und
Veterinrangelegenheiten); and then there is the Federal Drug
Institute (Bundesinstitut fr Arzneimittel). The last two are or
were headquartered here in Berlin, and ultimately determine
what may be considered food or drugs in Germany. In the final
analysis, there is a strong center of power hidden behind them.

There is one more political path, when authorities such as the

government, chemists, and pharmacists (they are, after all, part
of the body politic) form a particular opinion and say, for
example, We do not want any food or nutrient that contains
more than 300% of the recognized daily requirement.

One especially interesting organization is the ALS. This is a

working group of nutritional experts at the national and state
levels who meet behind closed doors and
formulate basic decisions, which are then given to the legislators
and authorities to become the standard for other authorities
making decisions on foods and drugs. Independent experts from
German universities are not allowed to work with this secret
society of the ALS.

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One must add, unfortunately, that this groups expertise in
nutritional science is null. This is a group of food chemists who
surely understand their analytical work very well; but they
have only ever heard about nutrition once, and that during
their university studies. And when one becomes an official in
such a committee, one is usually a little older, which means
that they frequently havent heard anything about nutrition for
30 years. And their decisions are made accordingly.

And the people who write commentary on foods are either

chemists or lawyers, and they also have no knowledge of nutri-
tion. In the end, we lack real interdisciplinary training for legal
commentators, who try to inform themselves fully through
certain contacts when there are problems in understanding. In
practice, this frequently goes wrong. I spoke to a judge from a
regional appeals court after a decision had been made and
asked if he had really meant it; he said he had no idea whether
his decision was correct. One would like to ask the BGH;
maybe they know it better.

A further instrument in this network is composed of the

so-called Associations Against Unfair Practices (I will deal with
them in just a moment), which do not contribute to legislation
but very much to legal interpretation. There are influential
circles that one cannot easily pin down, because they are not
found together but in various public groupings, which current-
ly have a vital interest in limiting nutritional supplements to
ineffective doses (see Figure 3). The absolute extreme in this is
a Berlin official from the BgVV who said that nutritional
supplements should not contain more than 15% of the daily
requirement.

Furthermore, they are trying through certain publications, and

now even through the European Union, to exclude all nutrients
as nutritional supplements, if there are no official recommen-
dations for them. This is problematic, because we know that the
research on vitamin-like substances and trace elements is far
from being finished. We know that a majority of nutrients today

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have been scientifically categorized as vital, but specific
amounts have not yet been recommended by national nutri-
tional associations and lawmakers. This is simply because these
are complex substances. I am thinking of carotenoids,
bioflavonoids, and phytohormones. These are substances that
are so dissimilar that one cannot simply say: a person must eat
100 mg of flavonoids per day and he will be healthy. Since the
various flavonoids have very different effects, one cannot make
such a statement. And for that reason there are still no official
recommendations for these substances.

Nevertheless, nutrients, such as flavonoids, are extremely

important for good health, and this is not scientifically disput-
ed. However, I recently saw a document from the Federal
Ministry of Health in which the usefulness of bioflavonoids was
questioned, and it said that they would be tolerated as nutri-
tional supplements only if the applicant provides proof of their
harmlessness. We are talking about 20 mg of bioflavonoids
from citrus fruits. If you eat an orange, youd get more than that.

It is similar with secondary vegetable components, which

include phytosterol especially, but also many other complex
natural substances that we now assume are necessary to
humans for useful and important functions. One must certainly
say, if one views it philosophically for a moment, that nature
did not tinge the grapes color just for the benefit of man and his
heart. On the other hand, one must also say that humans clear-
ly have not learned how to handle the useful substances that
are in their diets. That is, early humans who nourished them-
selves adequately and ate fruits whole with peel and seeds,
supplied themselves amply with such substances and protected
their health in this way. And I consider it to be quite irresponsi-
ble to ban such substances from nutritional supplements.

The reason for all of this is very clear, in my opinion and

I want to be as careful as lawyer: The pharmaceutical industry
at this time is on a worldwide quest to find natural substances
that it can replace. They do not want the nutritional supple-

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ment industry to gain access to the market before they can.
Because if something is already considered food and is in
general use, then it cannot be registered as a drug afterwards.
Of course the militant group within the German pharmaceuti-
cal lobby, as well as that of other European countries with
strong pharmaceutical industries, is not happy with this devel-
opment. Accordingly, they are trying to influence the definition
of the term nutritional supplement through certain internation-
al organizations.

Pharmaceutical Interest
Groups Manipulate
Politics and Law
There are basically three organizations that are more or less
recognized (see Figure 3).

The World Health Organization (WHO) has integrity, I think,

and is generally accepted. Then there is the World Trade
Organization (WTO), which is very strongly influenced by
politics. And there is Codex Alimentarius, which originally was

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formed by industry to make worldwide binding rules for the
food industry. These last two organizations, the WTO and
Codex Alimentarius, have taken it upon themselves to make
certain definitions for the concept of nutritional supplements.
In both cases it has been a German initiative. Especially by a
certain German official who plays a key role in this whole
game.

It did not work to define nutritional supplements through the

WTO at meaningless levels, because other countries, like the
U.S.A., have a say in the WTO. What is happening now is
obviously an attempt to limit those supplements through
Codex Alimentarius definitions. And that is the reason why we
have met here today.

The intention is to produce international standards that are so

binding that even the European Commission will be forced to
create a legal climate it does not want. We already have
comparatively tolerant draft guidelines for nutritional supple-
ments. That is, the upper limit of the nutritional supplements
acceptable for marketing according to the EU is based on the
harmlessness of the dosage. Everything else was left open
(update p. 124).

The vitamin-like substances were neither addressed in this

draft nor were they left as a gray area. But I think the EU will
consider them. The problem now is that the EU will be under
pressure from outside to make restrictive rules for nutritional
supplements.

Each of us, ultimately, is a part of lobbying. Regardless of

whether I belong to a church, a club or a political party, mere
membership in such an organization results in my having an
effect in the lobbying game.

But anyone who is trying to eliminate nutritional supplements

or reduce them to a ridiculous level, a placebo level in practi -
cal terms, is harming public health. In addition, he is damag-

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ing the German state and certainly the entire European Union.
And we need to make our politicians aware of that.

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On behalf of the
Third World
The vitamin situation in the Third World.
Dr. Shrirang Netke, India,
Sunday, June 18, 2000, at the Symposium Health for
the 21st Centur y

Suffering plagues mankind throughout the world, but much of

that suffering can be eliminated through vitamin therapy.

At work today is a true brotherhood, a collection of men and

women dedicated to make vitamins accessible for everyone on
the planet. However, the world is vast, and bringing vitamins
to its distant lands is no easy task. Maturing nations focus little
on vitamin therapy, and I would like to share my thoughts with
you as to how we may capture their attention.

The developing countries have a huge population, billions of

Dr. Netke, India:

We dont know how
many children become
ill due to vitamin
deficiency.

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people, many suffering from vitamin deficiency. Their diets
lack vitamin A, the B vitamins, vitamin D, and vitamin C, caus-
ing a myriad of maladies. No emerging nation is exempt. Take
a look at the example India: Fourty-one percent of the chil-
dren suffering from vitamin deficiency. Half a million children
go blind each year, and 30.5 million suffer other infirmites
because of vitamin malnutrition.

Every year half a million children

go blind and 30.5 million suffer
damage. Vitamin deficiency is
one of the most common causes
of childhood blindness, and thus
responsible for incalculable
suffering that could have been
prevented with timely treatment.

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 Attentive listeners:
Dr. Aleksandra Niedzwiecki
and Dr. Matthias Rath.

These are only a few figures. No one really knows how many
children suffer from malnutrition, and we can only estimate
how many manifest infections due to vitamin deficiency.

But people are taking action. Last year, delegates from six
advancing countries met in Manila. Their goal was to grant
affordable medicine and food to the world's population by
2010. Many suggested distributing vitamins in enriched food
instead of supplements. But then came discussion of distribu-
tion. The vitamins have a cost. The distribution technology has
a cost. The treatment has a cost. Who can afford that? And for
whom? Just for a few who can pay for these new developments?

Then some ask why people like you and me should be restrict-
ed from vitamins. They claim they fear that the people will take
vitamins to excess. That has no basis, as Dr. Rath explained this
morning; people in the United States have free access to vita-
mins and can afford them.They do take vitamins but they take
too few; in fact, they consume less than the recommended
amounts. So this fear is entirely unfounded! You and I are peo-
ple who know the importance of vitamin intake.

We are told: You're lacking these vitamins; you can only take

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vitamins in the morning or in the evening or after meals. Is this
logical? No, it is absurd.

And who really thinks that people will take vitamins and forget
to eat? If this is entirely unfounded in the U.S., it's even more
so in developing countries. The implication is that somebody
who receives a weekly ration of vitamins will take the entire
amount on the first day. That is total nonsense. The harm in a
high vitamin dose remains questionable. An extreme gap exists
between the recommended quantity of vitamins and the quan-
tity that will cause toxic reactions. We are told: "We want the
people to have access to high-dose vitamins." Then we are told
that "these high doses are equivalent to a drug."

That statement makes vitamins sound like they are killers.

That is complete nonsense! Why do certain people want to
treat vitamins as drugs and killers?

Dr. Netke:Families in developing countries dont want their children to suffer

from vitamin deficiency.

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CHAPTER 3

Pilot Studies

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Pilot Clinical Studies

Frank Kock: User studies

attest to the ef fectiveness
of Cellular Health.

Frank Kock, Expert on nutrition, De Waag Team, Netherlands

Pilotstudies presented on Sunday, June 18, 2000, at the
Symposium Health for the 21st Centur y

My name is Frank Kock. I have been working with Dr. Rath for
a year and a half, and we are carrying out various tasks togeth-
er with our team, the De Waag team. I would like to mention
briefly the research and development of scientifically based
natural healing methods by giving a short historical look back
at the last year and a half. In March of last year, natural heal-
ing practitioners came to us with the request to be allowed to
test our high-dose vitamins. The first study included nine
patients suffering from hypertension, who were being treated

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by two natural healing practitioners. In September of last year,
we were able to present the initial results in a brochure
published on the topic of high blood pressure. In connection
with this brochure, we started an appeal and asked scientists,
doctors, and non-medical natural practitioners to work with
us. The appeal said: In the future we want to verify the effects
of Dr. Raths Cellular Health through consumer studies. We
would like to invite you as scientists, doctors, or natural prac-
titioners to collaborate with us. That was in September of last
year. Many practitioners have contacted us and some of them
are with us here today. At this point, I would like to thank them
very much for coming: Ms. Veeser, Ms. Schadowsky, and Dr.
Hadrich.

After our appeal, more than 20 practitioners and doctors

contacted us. Their reasons are quite varied, of course.
However, they are all united in the desire to help people. In
March and April 2000, we put an advertisement in various
medical journals and appealed to doctors and clinics to
collaborate with us in different studies. This advertisement
appeared in the Munich Medical Weekly, the Medical
Newsletter, and the German Physicians Paper, among others.
The main areas of study were: angina pectoris, cardiac insuffi-
ciency, arrhythmia, hypertension, and diabetes.

The result: Over 50 doctors in Germany contacted us. The

Success through
research:
Overwhelming
response from
physicians who want
to conduct studies on
the effectiveness of
vitamins.
announcement was made in the Netherlands as well, and the
response there was also overwhelming. This means that we
have many doctors on our side, and it is a pleasure to work
with them.

I think you will ask: Why is Dr. Rath doing this? Why is he
conducting so many studies? I think the reasons are clear. One
reason, for example, is that we create acceptance among the
scientifically uninformed and the doubters. We are also creat-
ing a basis for negotiations for acceptance by the insurance
companies, which is also very important. I already mentioned
that in September of last year we made a great appeal and
were able to initiate a number of trials. There were a total of
30 small and large studies.

In September, another doctor approached us, Dr. Hadrich,

who will speak to you at this symposium. He conducted a
study on Tinnitus, also known as ringing in the ears. Over eight
million people in Germany alone suffer from this complaint.
Only ten percent of them are being treated by doctors.

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Principles of
Cellular Health
Health and disease of our body are determined by the function
of millions of cells. The cells in our body fulfill a multitude of
different functions. Gland cells produce hormones; white
blood cells produce antibodies; heart muscle cells generate
and conduct biological electricity for the heart beat. The
specific function of each cell is determined by the genetic
software program, the genes located in each cell core.

Despite these different functions, it is important to understand

that all cells use the same carriers of bio-energy and the same
bio-catalyst for a multitude of bio-chemical reactions inside
these cells. Many of these essential bio-catalysts and bioener-
gy molecules cannot be produced by the body itself and have
to be supplemented in our diet on a regular basis. Vitamins,
certain amino acids, minerals, and trace elements are among
the most important essential nutrients for optimum function of
each cell. Without optimum intake of these essential nutrients,
the function of millions of cells becomes impaired and
diseases develop.

The recognition of cellular basis of our health (Cellular Health)

can explain why cardiovascular disease is still the number one
cause of death. The heart and the circulatory system are the
most active organs of our body because of their continuous
blood pumping function. Because of the high mechanical
demands, the cells of the cardiovascular system have a high
rate of consumption of vitamins and other essential nutrients.
Also, Cellular Health identifies an optimum daily intake of
vitamins and other essential nutrients as a basic preventive
measure for the optimal function of cardiovascular system, as
well as many other organs in the body.

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Cellular Health Studies
The Principles Of Cellular Health

I. Health and disease are determined on the level of

millions of cells that compose our body and its organs.

II. Vitamins and other essential nutrients are needed

for thousands of bio-chemical reactions in each cell.
Chronic deficiency of these vitamins and other essential
nutrients is the most frequent cause of malfunction of mil-
lions of body cells and the primary cause of cardiovascular
disease and many other diseases.

III. Cardiovascular health problems are the most fre-

quent because cardiovascular cells consume vitamins and
other essential nutrients at a high rate. Due to the mechani-
cal stress of the pumping heart and the stress put on the
blood vessel wall from the heartbeat and the pulse wave,
cardiovascular cells require vitamins and other nutrients for
a constant supply of bio-energy. This is why the cardiovas-
cular system is most susceptible to nutrient deficiencies, and
cardiovascular health problems are the most frequent dis-
eases.

IV. Optimum dietary supplementation of vitamins and

other essential nutrients is the key to prevention and effec-
tive treatment of cardiovascular disease, as well as other
chronic health conditions.

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Single cell (schematic)

Cellular Power Plant

( M i t o ch o n d r i u m )

Cellular Core
Central Unit
(Nucleus)

Cellular Production Line

(Endoplasmic Reticulum)

Important Biocatal ysts:

Vitamin C Carnitine
Vitamin B-1 Coenzyme Q10
Vitamin B-3 Minerals
Vitamin B-5 Trace Elements
Vitamin B-6
Vitamin B-12

The metabolic softw are program of

each cell is exactly determined by
the genetic information in each cell
core. Essential nutrients are needed
as biocatalysts and as carriers of
bioenergy in each cell. Both
functions are essential for optimum
performance of millions of cells.

Cellular Health =
Biological Fuel for Millions of Cells

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For some time now, Dr. Rath and his research staff have been
collecting patients case histories that have been confirming
that a variety of diseases are caused by chronic vitamin
deficiency.

These reports compelled us to approach physicians and natu-

ral health practitioners directly and invite them to follow up on
this data with more thorough clinical observations.

Our initiative was met with great interest and many of these
health professionals were eager to carry out clinical studies
with cellular health programs. We would like to express our
appreciation again for their cooperation.

The results obtained from these clinical pilot studies provide

only a brief insight of our existing comprehensive clinical
research program. These results are compelling for health prac-
titioners and researchers to pursue comprehensive and clinical
systematic studies on the benefits of the cellular health
approach.

For more information on individual health reports and clinical

studies in cellular health visit our website:

www.dr-rath-research.org

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Cellular Health in
Arthritis/ Arthrosis
Arthritis and arthrosis are very common connective tissue
diseases. In arthritis, the bones, joints and tendons are
inflamed, and chronic arthritis can lead to arthrosis, a degra-
dation of cartilage in the joints. The cartilage can lose its elas-
ticity, become rough and lose mass and can result in deforma-
tions of the cartilage. Joints may become stiff. Both arthritis and
arthrosis are very painful diseases, with all the typical symp-
toms of inflammation such as fever, reddening and swelling.

Aim of the study:

Cellular health presents the possibility of effective prevention
and treatment of arthritis and arthrosis through the targeted use
of micro-nutrients such as vitamins, minerals and amino acids.
This study tested the effects of defined micronutrients on vari-
ous inflammation parameters in patients diagnosed with arthri-
tis and arthrosis.

Study design:
The study involved 10 patients between 45 to 84 years old,
diagnosed with arthritis and/or arthrosis. These patients took
specific vitamins daily during the six months of the study. No
other medications were used. Patients also had physical thera-
py treatments. As a control parameter, blood tests were
performed every six weeks for various parameters that are indi-
cators of inflammation.

The symptoms of inflammation were diagnosed by analysis of

erythrocyte (red blood cells) sedimentation (BSG), presence of
specific class of proteins called C-reactive proteins (CRP) and
measurements of the number of leukocytes (white blood cells).
In addition, X-rays of the diseased areas were taken at the begin-
ning and at the end of the study period.

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Study results:
After 6 months of the study, the following changes in inflam-
mation parameters in the blood were detected:
1. Blood sedimentation values (BSG) decreased in women by
35% and in men by 27% compared to the values at the begin-
ning of the study. (Figure 1)
Figure 1

2. Blood leukocyte levels were not affected and stayed at

normal ranges for women and men at both the beginning and
the end of the study.
3. Levels of CRP at the beginning of the study were two to four
times higher than normal levels in six of the ten study partici-
pants . By the end of the study, CRP levels had dropped by an
average of 30%. Both the lowering of sedimentation of the
blood and the falling of CRP levels demonstrated a reduction
in the inflammation among arthritic and arthrotic
patients.(Figure 2)
Figure 2

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4. X-ray examinations of diseased areas for five of the ten
participants indicated improvement, confirming positive
effects of this vitamin program.
*Nutrient composition of the program in Arthritis/Arthrosis study.

Nutrients Total Dosage

Vitamin A 1665 IU
Vitamin C 4000 mg
Vitamin D3 200 IU
Vitamin E 200 IU
Vitamin B1 (T hiamine) 7 mg
Vitamin B2 (Ribofla vin) 7 mg
Niacin 45 mg
Vitamin B6 13 mg
Folic Acid 290 mcg
Vitamin B12 20 mcg
Biotin 65 mcg
Pantothenic Acid 40 mg
Calcium 192 mg
Phosphorus 15 mg
Magnesium 171 mg
Zinc 7 mg
Selenium 20 mcg
Copper 680 mcg
Manganese 1.3 mg
C h ro m i u m 10 mcg
M o ly b d e n u m 4 mcg
Potassium 20 mg
L-Lysine 3290 mg
L - P ro l i n e 290 mg
L-Arginine 40 mg
L-Cysteine 35 mg
Inositol 35 mg
L-Carnitine 35 mg
Coenzyme Q10 7 mg
Pycnogenol 7 mg
Citrus Bioflav onoids 700 mg
Betaine HCl 70 mg
Chondrotin Sulfate 160 mg
N-Acetyl-D-Glucosamine 180 mg

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Cellular Health
and Asthma
Asthma is a disorder that narrows of the lung passageways,
making breathing difficult. Symptoms include recurrent attacks
of shortness of breath, coughing, and wheezing. Hundreds of
millions of people worldwide suffer from this illness. We are
aware of many of the factors that cause asthma, but conven-
tional medicine offers therapy only for the symptoms.

Aim of the study:

Cellular health explores the possibility of effective prevention
and treatment of asthma through the targeted use of micro-
nutrients such as vitamins, minerals and amino acids. This
ongoing study tests the effects of defined vitamins on lung
function in patients diagnosed with asthma. Below are the
results of the cellular health approach after three months of
treatment.

Study Design:

Eight asthma patients, between the ages of 45 to 75 years, are

participating in the ongoing study. The subjects are taking a
daily dosage of a specific nutrient combination* for the six-
month study period. They also continue to take their usual pre-
scription medicines. All asthma patients underwent pulmonary

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function tests at the beginning and after three months of the
study (midpoint), and subsequent tests will be performed after
six months of taking the specific nutrient combinations. Lung
volume was measured by testing the maximal volume of exha-
lation after a maximal inhalation.

Study results:
After only three months on vitamin therapy, all (100%) of
patients demonstrated increased lung capacity (see diagram).
This means that during this relatively short period, all patients
experienced an improvement in their breathing.

As soon as this pilot study is completed and we have results

from the full six months of treatment, we will provide
complete documentation.

*Nutrient composition of the pr ogram in Asthma study.

Nutrients Total Dosage

Vitamin A 1665 IU
Vitamin C 1600 mg
Vitamin D3 130 IU
Vitamin E 230 IU
Vitamin B1 (T hiamine) 7 mg
Vitamin B2 (Ribofla vin) 7 mg
Niacin 45 mg
Vitamin B6 10 mg
Folic Acid 90 mcg
Vitamin B12 20 mcg
Biotin 65 mcg
Pantothenic Acid 40 mg
Calcium 235 mg
Phosphorus 15 mg
Magnesium 440 mg
Zinc 7 mg
Selenium 20 mcg
Copper 330 mcg

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 Manganese 1.3 mg
C h ro m i u m 10 mcg
M o ly b d e n u m 4 mcg
Potassium 20 mg
L-Lysine 110 mg
L - P ro l i n e 110 mg
L-Arginine 790 mg
L-Cysteine 35 mg
Inositol 35 mg
L-Carnitine 35 mg
Coenzyme Q10 7 mg
Pycnogenol 7 mg
Citrus Bioflav onoids 200 mg

Cellular Health and Lipid

(fat) Metabolism Disorders
Hundreds of millions of people have elevated blood levels of
cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL (low density lipoproteins), Lp-a,
and other lipoproteins. These are actually secondary risk
factors of cardiovascular disease, with the primary cause being
instability of blood vessel walls. Academic medicine considers
genetic and dietary risks to be the main causes of elevated
cholesterol blood levels. If a change of diet doesnt help,
traditional medicine commonly reaches for cholesterol
lowering drugs, without addressing the underlying cause of fat
metabolism problems.

Aim of the study:

Cellular health postulates the effective prevention and treat-
ment of lipid metabolism disorders through the use of micro-
nutrients such as vitamins, minerals and amino acids.These
micro-nutrients help strengthen the artery walls, thus reducing
the need for elevated production in the body of cholesterol,
triglycerides, and lipoproteins that are used as repair elements
for weak arterial walls. The following are interim results of two
clinical pilot studies conductedon patients with elevated

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cholesterol and lipoprotein-a plasma levels, who have been
taking vitamins for a three-month period. The end of this study
is expected after six months.

Study Design:
Fourteen patients, between the ages of 34 to 68 years and
suffering from fat metabolism disorders, participated in these
studies. They have been taking daily dosages of specific micro-
nutrients for up to a total of six months. At the same time, they
continue to take their prescription medications. To obtain
interim results, blood tests were obtained at the beginning of
the study and following twelve weeks of vitamin treatment.

The results of the studies:

At the beginning of the study, the average blood
Lipoprotein(a)-level was 71 mg/dl (Figure 1). Total cholesterol
level was 293 mg/dl (Figure 2). After three months of following
vitamin treatment, the average level of Lp(a) decreased by
13%. Total cholesterol in all patients decreased by 14%, LDL

Figure 1

Figure 2

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by 10%, and triglycerides by 22%, and homocysteine by 3%.
The HDL level (good cholesterol) increased in this time period
by 8%. It is important to notice a decrease of Lp-a levels since
there is no successful treatment available to lower this risk
factor for heart disease.

As soon as these pilot studies are completed and we have

results from the full six months of vitamin treatment, we will
provide the final study results.

*Nutrient composition of the pr ogram in Fat Metabolism study.

Nutrients Total Dosage

Vitamin A 1665 IU
Vitamin C 3151 mg
Vitamin D3 130 IU
Vitamin E 230 IU
Vitamin B1 (T hiamine) 17 mg
Vitamin B2 (Ribofla vin) 17 mg
Niacin 395 mg
Vitamin B6 20 mg
Folic Acid 490 mcg
Vitamin B12 50 mcg
Biotin 165 mcg
Pantothenic Acid 90 mg
Calcium 52 mg
Phosphorus 15 mg
Magnesium 40 mg
Zinc 7 mg
Selenium 20 mcg
Copper 330 mcg
Manganese 1.3 mg
C h ro m i u m 10 mcg
M o ly b d e n u m 4 mcg
Potassium 20 mg
L-Lysine 110 mg
L - P ro l i n e 110 mg
L-Arginine 40 mg
L-Cysteine 35 mg
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Inositol 35 mg
L-Carnitine 135 mg
Coenzyme Q10 7 mg
Pycnogenol 7 mg
Citrus Bioflav onoids 550 mg
Betaine HCL l70 mg

Cellular Health and

Heart Failure
Tens of millions of people suffer from heart failure, resulting in
shortness of breath, edema and fatigue. The origins of this
disease are largely unknown to traditional medicine and there-
fore no therapy for its underlying causes exists.

Aim of the study:

Cellular Health hopes to treat lipid metabolism disorders
through the use of micro-nutrients such as vitamins, minerals
and amino acids.These micro-nutrients help in improving
cellular bio-energy levels. Suboptimal bio-energy production
in the heart muscle is the most common cause of an impaired
function of the heart and heart failure.

The first study results with micro-nutrients vitamin program in

patients with heart failure are documented below.

Study design:
Ten patients between 41 and 68 years old with heart failure
took part in the pilot study conducted over a period of six
months. The patients took a daily doses of specific micronutri-
ents (listed on the next page). They continued to take the
medications prescribed by their physicians.

The degree of heart failure was documented for every patient,

using standards set by the New York Heart Association
(NYHA scale).

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At the beginning of the study, seven out of ten patients suffered
extensive impairment of cardiovascular health (class 3 of
NYHA scale). Three patients reported moderate limitation of
their physical activity (class 2 of NYHA scale).

Heart failure classification according to the

New York Heart Association (NYHA):
1 = No problems with normal physical activity
2 = Moderate limitation of physical activity
3 = Extensive limitation of physical activity
4 = Bed ridden

Study results:
After completion of the study, the average improvements of
heart insufficiency were as follows:

In 50% of the patients, no more problems appeared with

normal physical activity. Twenty percent of participants report-
ed only slight limitation of physical performance.

No improvement was noted in patients number two and three,

who did not adhere thoroughly to the vitamin treatment; they
took it irregularly or not at all.

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*Nutrient composition of the pr ogram in Heart F ailure study.

Nutrients Total Dosage

Vitamin A 1665 IU
Vitamin C 1300 mg
Vitamin D3 130 IU
Vitamin E 200 IU
Vitamin B1 (T hiamine) 22 mg
Vitamin B2 (Ribofla vin) 22 mg
Niacin 75 mg
Vitamin B6 14 mg
Folic Acid 90 mcg
Vitamin B12 27 mcg
Biotin 195 mcg
Pantothenic Acid 80 mg
Calcium 48 mg
Phosphorus 15 mg
Magnesium 40 mg
Zinc 7 mg
Selenium 20 mcg
Copper 330 mcg
Manganese 1.3 mg
Chromium 10 mcg
Molybdenum 4 mcg
Potassium 20 mg
L-Lysine 110 mg
L-Proline 110 mg
L-Arginine 40 mg
L-Cysteine 35 mg
Inositol 35 mg
L-Carnitine 195 mg
Coenzyme Q10 27 mg
Pycnogenol 7 mg
Citrus Bioflav onoids 100 mg
Taurine 200 mg

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Cellular Health and
High Blood Pressure
Several hundred million people worldwide suffer from high
blood pressure. This is the most common of all cardiovascular
conditions. In more than 90% of the cases, the diagnosis by
conventional medicine is "essential hypertension," that is,
hypertension due to unknown causes. Conventional medicine
is therefore largely confined to treating the symptoms of hyper-
tension but not its underlying cause.

Aim of the study:

Numerous reports from patients taking vitamins, minerals and
amino acids have shown that these micro-nutrients can be
effective in alleviating high blood pressure. This study was
undertaken to confirm these reports.

Study design:
Seven subjects, between 32 and 60 years of age, diagnosed
with high blood pressure, took part in the study over a period
of six months. The patients took a daily dosage of micro-nutri-
ents. They also continued to take the pharmacological treat-
ment prescribed by their doctors.

Patients` blood pressure was measured at bi-weekly intervals

for the six-month period of the study to ensure complete
documentation of the results. Blood pressure was measured
both on the right and the left upper arm. The value of these
measurements was used for the evaluation of the efficacy of
the vitamin treatment.

Evaluation of the study results:

At the beginning of the study, all of the patients had elevated
systolic and diastolic blood pressure. The average systolic
blood pressure value at the beginning of the study was on aver-
age 165. The average diastolic blood pressure value was 98.
At the end of the study, blood pressure of more than 70% of

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the participants had clearly improved. These patients ended
the study with an average systolic pressure of 138 and an aver-
age diastolic pressure of 82, which were about 13% lower
than blood pressure measurements taken at the beginning of
the study. These values are well below values defined by the
WHO (World Health Organization) as high blood pressure.

One patient displayed only a slight decrease of blood pressure

after the six months of vitamin intake. In another patient, the
changes in blood pressure were hardly measurable. According
to the practitioner leading the therapy, this particular person
was noncooperative and additionally strongly impacted by
ongoing family problems.

*Nutrient composition of the pr ogram in High Blood Pressure

study.

Nutrients Total Dosage

Vitamin A 1665 IU
Vitamin C 1600 mg
Vitamin D3 130 IU
Vitamin E 230 IU
Vitamin B1 (T hiamine) 7 mg
Vitamin B2 (Ribofla vin) 7 mg
Niacin 45 mg
Vitamin B6 10
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 Folic Acid 90 mcg
Vitamin B12 20 mcg
Biotin 65 mcg
Pantothenic Acid 40 mg
Calcium 235 mg
Phosphorus 15 mg
Magnesium 440 mg
Zinc 7 mg
Selenium 20 mcg
Copper 330 mcg
Manganese 1.3 mg
Chromium 10 mcg
M o ly b d e n u m 4 mcg
Potassium 20 mg
L-Lysine 110 mg
L-Proline 110 mg
L-Arginine 790 mg
L-Cysteine 35 mg
Inositol 35 mg
L-Carnitine 35 mg
Coenzyme Q10 7 mg
Pycnogenol 7 mg
Citrus Bioflav onoids 200 mg

Cellular Health and

Tinnitus (ringing in the ears)
Tinnitus is a disease characterized by the subject hearing ring-
ing, whistling, knocking or similar sounds. The intensity of
these sounds varies from light to unbearable. Often it leads to
a significant hearing loss. Over 100 million people worldwide
suffer from this hearing problem.

The origins of this disease are largely unknown to traditional

medicine, and therefore no therapy for its cause exists. This
"incurable" ringing in the ears may last for years, sometimes
decades, and can lead to social isolation. Some patients find
these sounds so unbearable that they are driven to suicide.

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Aim of the study:
This pilot study has been designed to scientifically document
the effect of vitamin treatment therapy in patients suffering
from tinnitus. This study had been performed in cooperation
with Ear, Nose & Throat specialists.

Study design:

A total of 18 patients ranging in age from 44 to 85 years and

suffering from chronic tinnitus (ear ringing for more than three
consecutive months), took part in the study. The patients took
a daily dosages of specific vitamin programs for four months.
They continued to take their regular medications prescribed by
their physicians.

The patients hearing was measured at regular monthly inter-

vals using a standard medical audiometer. The hearing
improvement achieved after four months of following vitamin
intake is documented below.

Study results:

After only four months of taking vitamins and other micro-nutri-

ents, patients experienced the following hearing improvements:

In 30% of cases, hearing improved slightly (up to 10 dB)

In 45% of cases, hearing improved clearly ( up to10-20 dB)

In 25% of cases, hearing improved strongly (up to 20-50dB),

which is near normal hearing ability.

More than three-fourths of the patients experienced at least

some reduction in ear ringing. For more than 50% of them, ear
ringing was significantly reduced or completely eliminated.

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*Nutrient composition of the pr ogram in Tinnitus study.

Nutrients Total Dosage

Vitamin A 1665 IU
Vitamin C 3151 mg
Vitamin D 130 IU
Vitamin E 230 IU
Vitamin B1 (T hiamine) 7 mg
Vitamin B2 (Ribofla vin) 7 mg
Niacin 45 mg
Vitamin B6 10 mg
Folic Acid 90 mcg
Vitamin B12 20 mcg
Biotin 65 mcg
Pantothenic Acid 40 mg
Calcium 235 mg
Phosphorus 15 mg
Magnesium 440 mg
Zinc 7 mg
Selenium 20 mcg
Copper 330 mcg
Manganese 1.3 mg
C h ro m i u m 10 mcg
M o ly b d e n u m 4 mcg
Potassium 20 mg
L-Lysine 110 mg
L - P ro l i n e 110 mg
L-Arginine 790 mg
L-Cysteine 35 mg
Inositol 35 mg
L-Carnitine 35 mg
Coenzyme Q10 7 mg
Pycnogenol 7 mg
Citrus Bioflav onoids 650 mg

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Cellular Health and
Periodontosis
The term periodontosis describes a disease of the tooth socket.
As with any other infection, diagnosis is determined by symp-
toms that include swelling, reddening and bleeding gums, and
retraction of gums with a significant loss of soft tissue or bone
tissue of the tooth socket.

In the 20th century, periodontosis, like cavities, has become a

virtually epidemic disease in dentistry.

Aim of the study:

This pilot study has been designed to document the effects of
specific vitamin treatment in patients with periodontosis.

Study design:
Nine patients with typical symptoms of chronic periodontosis
took part in the study. All of them were aware of the impor-
tance of oral hygiene. The patients took a daily doses of vita-
mins (and other nutrients as specified on the next page) for
three months. The most important component of these nutri-
ents was vitamin C. As a diagnostic measurement of the course
of periodontosis, we chose "Bleeding-on-Probing" method
(BoP), which is widely used in the assessment of this disease.

Study results:
All study participants displayed similar results with the vitamin
treatment, with the first significant changes after four to six
weeks into the beginning of the study.

Before the vitamin therapy, the average BoP value was 60%,
which corresponds to a very advanced gum infection. From the
sixth week, clear reduction of gum bleeding had begun and by
the eighth week, the average BoP had fallen to 14%. After
twelve weeks (the end of the three-month pilot study) average
decrease of gum bleeding was estimated at 85%.

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In addition, a significant improvement in gum firmness was
noted, as was a reduction in visible vascularization, which
means a significant reduction of the previously spongy gum
tissue fragments with beet-red color.

We noticed additional beneficial health effects, spontaneously

reported by many patients, including improvement in overall
physical condition and levels of vitality.
*Nutrient composition of the pr ogram in Periodontosis study.

Nutrients Total Dosage

Vitamin A 1665 IU
Vitamin C 2151 mg
Vitamin D3 130 IU
Vitamin E 130 IU
Vitamin B1 (T hiamine) 7 mg
Vitamin B2 (Ribofla vin) 7 mg
Niacin 45 mg
Vitamin B6 10 mg
Folic Acid 90 mcg
Vitamin B12 20 mcg
Biotin 65 mcg
Pantothenic Acid 40 mg
Calcium 35 mg
Phosphorus 15 mg
Magnesium 40 mg
Zinc 7 mg
Selenium 20 mcg
Copper 330 mcg
Manganese 1.3 mg
Chromium 10 mcg
Molybdenum 4 mcg
Potassium 20 mg
L-Lysine 110 mg
L-Proline 110 mg
L-Arginine 40 mg
L-Cysteine 35 mg
Inositol 35 mg
L-Carnitine 35 mg
Coenzyme Q10 7 mg
Pycnogenol 7 mg
Citrus Bioflav onoids 550 mg

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CHAPTER 4

Testimonials

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Testimonials:
Patients demand their
Right for Health
The last chapters of this book documented the engagement in
Natural Health and preventive medicine by some of the bright-
est minds in the scientific world. The protests against Codex
Alimentarius in Berlin united international researchers and
medical doctors in the name of millions of suffering patients.

These medical researchers realized years ago that medicine

had reached a dead end due to the bottomless greed of the
pharmaceutical industry. However, the scientific breakthrough
of Cellular Health and the intellectual debate behind it are
only one side of the coin. On the other side are millions of
patients who suffered, some for a lifetime, under medical care
focused not on health but on the profitable relief of symptoms
of mostly preventable diseases.

To understand why the health movement of Dr. Matthias Rath

was able to bring thousands of people to the demonstrations
against Codex, you have to hear their stories. All the following
testimonials were given by patients at the Health Symposium
Health for the 21st Century in Berlin June 2000 and at the
demonstrations in front of the Codex Alimentarius Building.
Without knowledge about Cellular Health, most of them
would have been unable to leave their houses or hospitals for
even an hour. They came from all over the world, sometimes
traveling for days, to tell about their new health and to demon-
strate for their Right for Health.

Single testimonials of patients might not be accepted as scien-

tific proof, but they are an important explanation for the
tremendous power behind the natural health movement led by
Dr. Matthias Rath.

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 Cardiac Insufficiency

Dora Scheler:
Two years ago, I was ver y
close to death.

Dora Scheler, Germany

I owe the fact that I am able to stand here before you solely to
Dr. Rath.

Two years ago I was face to face with death, my body was full
of water, and I used to sit in bed all the time. I could hardly
breathe; my legs had gone dark blue. The physicians said that
a leg amputation was inevitable, but it could not be performed
because of my cardiac insufficiency.

In 1972 I nearly lost my eyesight after a serious circulatory col-

lapse. My perception was reduced to a visual angle of no more
than 12 to 15 degrees, and as soon as I came into bright light
everything around me turned radiant red and I had to wear dark
glasses despite my bad sight. My life seemed hopeless. The physi-
cians said that my chances to survive were very poor.

Then my nephew came to visit me. He had heard of Dr. Raths

vitamin therapy and recommended it to me. In November 1998 I
began to take vitamins in high dosages. Four months later I had
recovered enough to visit Dr. Raths rally in Dresden and since
then things are looking up.

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 However, I do not take vitamin C in milligram quantities my daily
dosage is five to six grams.I should like to emphasize that,as I was
told repeatedly to avoid such high dosages since they were harm-
ful. Due to my illness, my liver and kidneys were in a bad state.
After the therapy my kidneys are in excellent condition again.

I appeal to all of you: support the efforts to achieve freeom for

vitamins!

Myocardial Infarction

Sportsman Horst
Rahmershofen (left),
Elsdorf :
Today someone or anoth-
er has to run after me.

Horst Rahmershofen, German y

I did a lot of sports during my lifetime. Everything went splen-

didly up to my 42nd year. I was the type who always wanted
to win everything during my younger years: track and field, a
bit of boxing.
When I turned 43, everything came to an end. Then I was the
one running after everyone else: shortness of breath with no
explanation. I went to the doctor, but nothing could be found.
My heart trouble increased: stabbing pain in my chest, a feel-
ing of pressure, mostly at night. I was very afraid, even deathly

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afraid. The situation was almost depressing. Three or four times
over a period of three years, I had to go to nearby hospital
emergency wards during the night. Nothing could be diag-
nosed. One time I did not go to the hospital and that was it.
I had an anterior myocardial infarction, which was diagnosed
afterward.
Within half a year my condition deteriorated further. I had to
shelve all my athletic plans; I couldnt run any more. I just
wasnt getting any air! When it got worse, I was transferred to
the Aachen Klinikum, where a myocardial insufficiency was
diagnosed. Two years later, I was told: You cannot do much
work anymore and can only tolerate moderate exertion. In the
meantime, my shortness of breath had become worse. In
between these times, I had always tried again to strengthen my
condition with training. I was laboring under a misapprehen-
sion, but nobody told me about that. I was just doing more
damage to myself; the heart muscle was not of much use any-
more. At this point in time, I still had no idea. But then, at the
end of 1995 or the beginning of 1996, I read and heard things
here and there on my own. I heard that there are people in
America who do something with vitamins.

In February of 1998 I went into early retirement because of my

illness. In March my neighbor handed me a book over the gar-
den fence. This book has already been mentioned here quite
often: Why Animals Dont Have Heart Attacks But People
Do! I read it, ordered it, and from that time on things improved.
I would not recommend that anyone try to pick a fight with
me. I am now active in sports again, and I would like to add
something: In March I had started with high-dose vitamins
I took these high-dose vitamins in double quantities and
already in June I had the exercise EKG values of a healthy per-
son. They repeated the EKG three weeks ago. Here I have to
say that my heart muscle has suffered some damage, and there
is no circulation to the septum of my heart. However, my heart
performs better than that of a healthy person of my age. I feel
very well now, and when I played soccer again, some of the
players even had to run after me.

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Irregular Heartbeat

Stefanie Kogler, Austria:

its like a miracle that
Im standing here today!

Stefanie Kogler, Hitzendorf, Austria

I am happy that I can spend this weekend in Berlin. First,

I would like to sincerely thank two people, Dr. Matthias Rath
and Dr. Gerhard Koschik from Graz.

My cardiovascular complaints started when I was approxi-

mately 30 years old. Several diagnoses were made: Damage to
the cardiac muscle after an infection, irregular heartbeat, angi-
na pectoris, serious anemia, etc. Whenever I exerted myself or
walked uphill a bit, I had difficulty breathing and pains in my
left arm. I had to take eleven different kinds of pills each day,
and I was not allowed to do any heavy work. I had to look after
three children, a garden, and a field. Furthermore, I had to get
every drop of water from a neighbor for the last 16 years,
because we didnt have running water.

During my 58th year I had a stroke and was unconscious for

five hours. I could not use my left arm any more and my left
leg was very weak as well. I kept a shoebox full of medicine
next to my bed so that I could get to it in a hurry. During the
day this box was always next to me in the kitchen so as to be
close at all times.

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The change in my life happened in the spring of 1999.
Suddenly the thought occurred to me that I would like to talk
once more to my physician, whom I trusted greatly, before giv-
ing up. Dr. Koschik had been my family doctor for a long time.
Unfortunately, he had moved back to Graz in 1990.

He advised me to take high-dose vitamins. I took double the

quantity, and after three weeks, I felt better for the first time.
From that day onward, I improved. I can now breathe again;
I ride a bicycle, work in the garden; the headaches have
decreased and the vertigo has disappeared.

During an examination the doctor said: You also have an

irregular heartbeat. And I answered: Yes, I know, I have had
it for a long time. I am taking something but I dont know
whether it helps. I meant high-dose vitamins. During the sec-
ond examination, the doctor said: Today you have no arrhyth-
mia. I was monitored on a daily basis and have a normal
heartbeat today. The heart arrhythmia has ceased, the vertigo
has disappeared; a lot has changed. I have become a totally
different person.

Its quite a Miracle

Those who know me can confirm this. I now am convinced,
and I work for the network, I hold talks; and I get to know so
many people who are sick. I would like to encourage them. I
have regained my joy in living. For me it is quite a miracle that
I am able to stand in front of you today. Thank you very much.

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 Diabetes

After six months, R olf

Jckel, Witten, can run
10 km at a time a gain.

Rolf Jckel, German y

After a heart attack and a stroke, I had increasingly serious cir-

culatory problems in my legs. I noticed a numb feeling in my
thighs for the first time in 1984. The condition worsened so
much over the next five years that my right foot turned black
and swelled up, and the varicose veins stuck out as thick as a
thumb up to my thighs. I was continuously under medical care
and was given pharmaceutical medications. As no improve-
ment could be seen after quite some time, I stopped taking the
medications.

The seriousness of the disease became obvious in 1998, when

my foot turned black. Initially the discoloration appeared in
spots around the ankle, and then spread out towards the toes.
It felt as though there was air under the sole of my foot.
Whenever I took a step, I felt no contact with the ground. I was
swimming, as they say so nicely.

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 During a doctors appointment in the spring of 1998 I was told
that not much could be done, and I was told to walk as much
as possible, which I proceeded to do. By the end of November
I couldnt go up or down the stairs anymore, let alone go for a
walk.

At my next examination by a specialist, I was told that the foot

could not be saved, and an amputation was suggested. I start-
ed panicking, because I did not want to be crippled. I tried to
hang on, though the pain became increasingly unbearable.

Then, by chance, I read a full-page advertisement in the daily

newspaper about a cure for circulatory disorders and cardio-
vascular diseases. The article mentioned a books which I
ordered immediately: Why Animals Dont Have Heart Attacks
But People Do! I thoroughly read the book and came to the
conclusion that I would try its suggestions.

In January of 1999, I started taking high-dose vitamins. After

ten days the pain in my leg decreased, along with the night-
time cramps in my calves. In a month, I was almost free of pain
and had no cramps in my legs. I could feel the sole of my foot
making contact with the ground again. Things improved with
every passing day. The varicose veins receded so much that I
was able to walk without any pain after three months, and I
could walk short distances again without having to stop. Six
months later, I had regained my health to such an extent that
the black discoloration could only be seen in spots on the left
and right side of my ankle, and I was able to walk ten kilome-
ters at a time.

I feel as young as I
was 20 years ago
At present, after 18 months, I can say that I feel as young as I
was 20 years ago.

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 Good news from Graz:
Dr. Gerd Koschik

Dr. Koschik, Austria

I want to begin by mentioning that my patient, Mrs. Trapp,

asked me to send Dr. Rath her sincere thanks. She hopes to be
able to do this personally at a later time

I was not always a cellular health doctor. For 12 years, I prac-

ticed as a country doctor before devoting myself to preventive
and environmental medicine. Several tragedies caused by
sickness and early deaths in families I knew led me to study
how to avoid disease. However, in all those years, I had no real
tools except ultrasound and laboratory tests.

Gangrene

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In the last few years, I have become acquainted with Cellular
Health. I must add that it took me quite some time. I had Dr.
Raths book on my desk for an entire year without giving it a
glance, and in retrospect, I greatly regret this. However, the
conversion process took some time too.

Last spring I started treating Mrs. Trapp (71), who was in a des-
perate situation when she came to me. However, as you will
see, today she is able to laugh again.

Left: After a long period of

despair, today Maria Trapp
can laugh a gain

She came to me with a leg that had suffered greatly from the
effects of insulin-dependent diabetes; gangrene had devel-
oped. She had been advised to have the leg amputated. This
was the signal for me to put my ideology to the test.
I starting treating her with Cellular Health, and after just one
week the numb leg, which had been cold and blue, was warm
again. However, Mrs. Trapp began feeling strong pain at the
same time, because she had regained sensation in places
where no blood had been flowing. Obviously, a regeneration
of the vessels had taken place, and more blood was flowing
now. This would not have been possible otherwise.
I sent her to get an x-ray done. The results indicated that there
was some damage in the area above the foot. She was told that
this was an indication that an amputation was now unavoid-
able and that it would be irresponsible to delay any further.

The patient was in total despair and came to me again. In the

course of long conversations, I was able to build up her confi-

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dence again. During these conversations, I found out that she
had suffered a fracture some years ago, and therefore this area
showed some calcification. I again sent her to a surgeon,
instructing her to mention this part of her medical history. After
a thorough check-up, my colleague confirmed that there was
old calcification from a fracture, and that therefore an ampu-
tation could still be delayed. In the meantime, pink tissue had
formed in the area of the former gangrene and the discol-
oration had faded, providing hope that the treatment would
indeed be effective. Three months later her progress was con-
siderable, and at the present time, I can state that the leg is
totally healed and fully functional, and only small scars are
visible. Mrs. Trapp is again able to dedicate herself to her
household duties and caring for her husband.

I am very happy to be able to present this case to such a large

forum, as well as to demonstrate what can be achieved with
Cellular Health. As a preventive medicine doctor, however, the
most important thing for me is what I can do in the preliminary
stages.

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Cardiac Arrhythmia

Hans Joachim Troiztsch, German y

I was suffering from cardiac arrhythmia, kidney stones,

diabetes and osteoporosis, which had caused a double fracture
of the upper thigh. Finally came the bad news: cancer.

Surgery and large amounts of pharmaceutical products can treat

these diseases in their acute stages. But in the period that
followed, the drugs boomeranged, mainly because of the long
medication time. The drugs slowly lost their effectiveness, and
some became completely useless. The side effects took over. I
had to take overdoses or different drugs. That led to intolerances.
My entire system went haywire. My health was miserable. The
negative reactions intensified. Adverse reactions became notice-
able. The entire body wreaked havoc. The condition of health
was miserable. My lab reports and test results confirmed this.

Two years ago, I heard about the Dr. Raths research results.
I studied publications in professional journals that bore out his

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theories and practices. I saw a chance for myself. After a
consultation with my family doctor, I began a radically differ-
ent drug regimen. I started to take vitamins and other essential
nutrients. I increased the dosage over time, for example up to
two or three grams of vitamin C and 600 IU of vitamin E. At
the same time, I reduced the pharmaceuticals gradually.

My medical condition did not improve right away, but slowly

I became more and more free from pain and other complaints.

The lab results, formerly fluctuating and at times life-threaten-

ing, moved up toward borderline and normal values. The
tumor marker finally went to 0.0.

The invasive tests were discontinued.

Considering my illness and my 71 years, I feel well and active-

ly participate in sports. I swim for half an hour three times a
week, bicycle, and go to the sauna once or twice, including
the cold bath.

The health insurance does not recognize my success, and

therefore does not pay a penny for my vitamins, even though
theyre saving a lot on pharmaceutical products.

I applied for reimbursement, but my requests were denied. I

have four rejection letters. Now I have registered a complaint
with the welfare office.

I thank Dr. Rath for showing me the right way. I will continue
to fight in the interest of my health. I think all of us should
do that.

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Lupus Erythematosus

Dirk Brandt
(left) in
conversation
with Horst
Sokoll.

Horst Sokoll, German y

At the beginning of 1998, I suffered a strong setback to my per-

sonal well-being. I was diagnosed with systemic lupus erythe-
matosus and cancer of the lymph nodes.

A large malignant tumor was found in my stomach, which had

already spread to the duodenum and to the colon. There was
no point in operating, and I was ordered to have chemo-
therapy. I underwent this therapy for six months, and then
there still was something left in the colon. Therefore I got an
additional large-surface radiation treatment covering 20 cm,
from the diaphragm down to the thigh. The treatment was such
a strain on me that I was vomiting constantly, and I was so
weak that I was only able to walk a few steps.

Whenever I wanted to climb the stairs to my bedroom, I had

to stop halfway up to rest. This continued for many months. I
consulted with eight physicians and hoped to get help some-

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where. A cardiologist had diagnosed a left systolic insuffi-
ciency with a leaky heart valve. All other physicians agreed
with this diagnosis, and told me that my blood counts were
bad, which, however, was not unusual after this type of
treatment.

When I realized that the doctors could not help me, I started
searching for other approaches. During a trade fair I met some-
one who was selling Dr. Raths book The Heart.

At the end of September, I began taking high-dose vitamins.

Though I was skeptical, since I had already been given many
types of medicines, I wanted to take a chance.

I took these high-dose vitamins consistently. After seven

weeks, I noticed that my legs were beginning to feel lighter
and that I was able to get to my bedroom without shortness of
breath. Therefore I was able to extend my walks and also to
climb stairs more often.

Many vitamin users like Horst Sokoll seasoned their presentations with humor
and provoked spirited laughter from listener s.

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 Eventually I had the idea of
I r re g u l a r exerting myself more, since
I had spent many months
Heartbeat getting complete rest.
E u ro p e : Initially I went up and down
the stairs several times. I
10,000,000 people increased this exercise by
attaching 2.5-kilo weights
to my legs. Then I would go
up and down again. The very next day I could already do this
twice. By the time I wrote my first report to Dr. Rath, I had
increased the exercise to seven times.

Now I would like to tell you what I am doing at present. When

I get up in the morning, I
put on my 9-kilo weights, I
then get on the trampoline
and do my coordination Heart failure
exercises. In this way I raise
my pulse to over 100 beats 15,000,000 people
during certain exercises. wo r l d w i d e
When I have finished after
approximately 20 minutes,
I stand up I have weights
on my arms as well and I rotate my legs 12 times clockwise
and, after that, immediately counterclockwise. Then I run up
and down the stairs fifteen times without a break carrying 12
kilos additional weight.
After I have succeeded in finishing this exercise on the stairs,
my pulse goes up to 120.
After one minute the pulse
is already down to 84, after
Angina pectoris two minutes to 76, and after
three minutes, I have an
USA: 6,000,000 entirely normal pulse of 64
people beats.

If I may address an appeal

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to the authorities in our country, I would like to request that
you ensure free access to vitamins and natural substances and
that you prevent people from setting up restrictions purely to
make money. Healthy persons are valuable to the general pub-
lic. They are not always running to the doctor as I was. I think
we would be able to save a lot of money on health care.
I thank Dr. Rath and his research team for this successful survey.

Cancer, Heart Attack

Tumor patient Werner Pilniok healed: I can climb stairs normally again and
drive long distances.

Lung tumor
Werner Pilniok, Wnschendorf

I had a heart attack in October 1997 and was admitted to the

hospital. After I had somewhat recuperated, I was transferred
to the heart clinic in Bad Berka. After thorough examination, it
was determined that I needed at least a triple bypass. The

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surgery was to take place on January 30, 1998. Subsequent
examinations showed that surgery under anesthesia could not
be done because of my emphysema. Surgery would have
meant death for me. An acquaintance told me about Dr. Rath.
Since I had no alternatives, I immediately started taking essen-
tial nutrients in high doses. That was toward the end of
February.

In September, the heart specialist, whom I had to see every six

weeks, told me: Mr. Pilniok, Ill see you again in one year.
When he saw my surprise, he said and Im quoting word for
word: If I didnt see a scar, I wouldnt believe that youd ever
suffered a heart attack because your lab work is so good.

The joy was only short-lived. I got a new spray every four
weeks from the lung specialist. During one of these visits, she
told me I needed another x-ray, which was taken immediately.
After evaluating it, she told me that she had seen some abnor-
malities that she wanted to examine more closely with a
CT scan.

X-rays of
Werner Pilnioks tumor
Small photo below:
Before (left) and after
(right) treatment with
high-dose vitamins.

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I got the results to show to the lung specialist; they stated
Tumor, 1.5 cm x 1 cm.

They wanted to operate immediately because it was a fast-

growing tumor with metastatic branches. I said to my doctor,
You seem to have forgotten that I cannot have any anesthe-
sia. She answered: We can do this from the outside with a 7-
or 8-cm incision. The tumor is in a good position in your
chest.

I was afraid of this. I remembered that vitamins against cancer

had been available since May 1999. I took these immediately
in high doses. And then I had to be put into the tube again on
April 3. My doctor came in and she was smiling. I said, Well,
doctor, youre beaming today.

She answered: Yes, and you will be beaming too because your
tumor and its branches have disappeared.

Before taking Cellular Health, it would not have been possible

that today I am an almost healthy person. I can climb stairs like
any normal person, I can walk long distances, and I even man-
age 600 km behind the wheel of my car without stopping.

For this I thank Dr. Rath and his research team from the bottom
of my heart.

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Enthusiasm for
Cellular Health

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 CHAPTER 5

Victory
for Health Freedom
- The Defeat of the
Pharma-Cartel

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Victory for Health Freedom
- The Defeat of the
Pharma-Cartel
On June 25, 2000, Dr. Matthias Rath and his international
health movement could declare their victory for human health
against the unethical plans of Codex Alimentarius.

The pharma-cartel's plans to restrict access to vitamin thera-

pies and other natural remedies at the Codex Alimentarius
meeting in Berlin 2000 had failed. The draft resolutions, which
were prepared primarily by the German delegation and its
chairman Rolf Grossklaus, could not win a majority.

This victory is a victory for Dr. Rath and all his supporters.
Before the conference began, over 300,000 e-mails to the
members of the Codex Alimentarius Commission had already
ensured that all of them were made aware of how these plans
have shocked people all over the world. The worldwide aware-
ness campaign by Dr. Rath in newspapers and radio stations
was able to inform millions of concerned citizens all over
Europe and America. As a result of this public awareness
almost half of the participating nations disagreed with the
German draft resolutions.

The pharma-cartel will not be able to make another attempt at

this kind of censorship until their next meeting in November
2001. In the face of this defeat, Rolf Grossklaus called off the
press conference scheduled for June 23, right after the Codex
meeting.

Several thousands of people attended the World Health

Conference 'Health for the 21st Century' and demonstrated in
front of the Codex Alimentarius meeting in Berlin-Marienfelde.
The demonstration included addresses by Dr. Rath, interna-

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tional guests, and patients. Even Codex participants like New
Zealand delegate Gene Oden and Norwegian attendee Dag
Poleszynski left the conference to express their solidarity with
Dr. Rath and his supporters outside the building.

A human chain over a kilometer long made it clear to the

Codex conference members that large sections of the public
will stand up for vitamin freedom. Various conference atten-
dees came out to see for themselves the people who were
defending their interests outside the BgVV's gates.

"All of us, people from all over Germany and many other
countries who have come to Berlin, have achieved a historic
victory. The pharma-cartel's Codex plans have been set back
for two years. With the victories in the United States of
America (DSHEA) in 1994 and at the Codex conferences in
1998 and 1999 and with legislations in Great Britain, this is
already the fourth historic occasion where the people's health
interests have prevailed against the pharmaceutical industry's
trade in disease. Every single participant in Berlin last weekend
helped to bring about this victory," said Dr. Rath.

Dr. Raths campaigns and the demonstrations of his health

movement had a deep impact on the work inside the Codex
Alimentarius Commission. Just a few days after the meeting, the
Codex Member from New Zealand, Gene Oden, gave an inter-
view with Dr. Rath. Gene Oden gave a deep insight about the
influence of Dr. Rath on the result of the Berlin 2000 meeting.

Thanks to your efforts,

Vitamin Freedom has been
preserved G. S. Oden
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This interview was given in Almelo, Netherlands, June 30, 2000:

G. S. Oden: At the beginning of the Codex meeting, Mr.

Grossklaus came up and said that there will be no media
inside the room. There will be no tape recorders; there will be
no video, and the boss of the BGVV says there is some very
suspicious elements outside these walls. And he said there's
been some press coverage on the vitamin doctor (Dr. Rath), but
I refuse to comment on it.

Dr. Rath: Commenting of what you've just said, it reflects the

dilemma they are in. The definition of this commission is to
establish nutritional guidelines for the world. Now, if this is
your real goal, you indeed don't have to be afraid of anyone.
You would welcome comments and all views. The fact is,
however, that this is not the real goal of this commission. The
real goal of that commission is, as we both know, to establish
rules and regulations and laws as protectionism laws for the
pharmaceutical companies.

G. S. Oden: The truth of the matter is that what they want to

do is, they want to have vitamin usage and minerals so restric-
tive that there is no medical value from taking these supple-
ments.

Dr. Rath: What amazes me is that some of these bureaucrats

apparently do not realize that time has changed, and they still
try to spread lies about potential or alleged side effects of vita-
mins like kidney stones for vitamin C. And they don't under-
stand that the internet provides everyone with possibilities to
check just about anything. So you go to the library of medicine
of the United States National Institute of Health. You type in
"kidney stones and vitamin C" and what do you find: Scientific
data that say there is no connection between these two. In
contrary, higher vitamin C protects against kidney stones. So,
here is a situation where some bureaucrats up in this institute
for alleged consumer protection are caught as liars. And every-
one can say: "You are a liar" without being punished for it.

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G. S. Oden: What happened was on everyone: the delegates
themselves from some of the countries felt more inspired
because of you, Dr. Rath, quite frankly, and your followers,
who were the real champions in this thing; the people are the
real champions. They felt more inspired to bring forth their
own proposals. So we had little countries Uruguay, you know,
speaking up for the first time and Tanzania, in places like this.
Of course, India is always outspoken. But, I thought it was
significant that as a result of what you'd stirred up there were
15 or 16 proposals that came forward to the commission.
Verbal, out loud, transcribed, they became part of the perma-
nent record, where now there is 15 or 16 different ideas
instead of one or two. And here we got to say that it was your
pressure either that Grossklaus just kept backpaddling until he
finally said: Well, let's put down the two major choices of how
we are going to regulate dietary supplements world-wide.

So we put a bracket around those two basic proposals, and it got

tabled for two more years, meaning that it was such a contro-
versial issue because of your efforts, Dr. Rath, and all of the
followers and people like you. Dr. Rath, I just wanted to say one
more time, thanks to your efforts; vitamin freedom has been
preserved and the German pharmaceutical cartel could not
supplant its will on the freedoms of the people of the world. I
just want to say that I have been a delegate for the United States
now representing New Zealand. And I am representing 6000
health practitioners, and I just want to say, Dr. Rath, we thank
you for what you have done in saving the freedom of dietary
supplements for the rest of us. The whole world thanks you, Dr.
Rath, for what you have done and accomplished.

You have supported the freedom of the people of the world.

And as you say, when history is written you certainly will be
the Martin Luther, the message holder of this course. That's all
I have to say.

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Dr. Matthias Rath:
Health for the 21st Century
Berlin, Sunday, June 18, 2000

The title of this symposium is 'Health for the 21st Century';. It

gives you insight into the dramatic changes that medicine
undergoes on a global scale. And Cellular Health is the driv-
ing force for this fundamental change. Further comprehensive
clinical studies cementing this development are under way.

It is already clear today: By the end of the 21st century, most

of today's common diseases will no longer exist. In the years
to come, the news that you've heard today will reach people
in all of Europe, America, Asia, Africa, and Australia.

By the end of the 21st century, our grandchildren will look

back to the 20th century and just shake their heads. They will
ask: How could you allow a small radical interest group - the
pharmaceutical industry and its investors - to hold the health
of billions of people hostage - for more than a hundred years?

You were intelligent humans, flew to the moon, and developed

the Internet. Yet, you allowed millions of people to die - some-
times just halfway through their lives? Worse, these people had
to die of diseases that are not even genuine diseases but the
results of vitamin deficiency - and therefore preventable.

We have set an example with this symposium. By the end of

the 21st century, health will be considered a human right. And
the people of the earth will no longer be held dependent from
an industry based on the "business with disease."

To those guests present who hear for the first time about this
breakthrough in vitamin research, I have an invitation: Learn
about the progress in vitamin research and Cellular Health.

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Dr. Rath: I invite you to learn thoroughly about vitamin research and Cellular
Health.

Talk about it with families and friends. Help spread this vital
health information.

To the journalists present, I urge you: Help to spread this

important health information. But report about this event
objectively! You have a special responsibility to make sure that
this life-saving information reaches many more people.

The scope of global change my scientific discoveries has trig-

gered has an important historic parallel centuries ago. The 16th
century went down in history as the era when millions of peo-
ple freed themselves from the shackles of illiteracy.
In a similar way, the 21st century will go down in history as the

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The spread of Martin Luthers messa ge : Liberation from illiteracy created mod-
ern Europe .

century in which humanity will free itself from many common

diseases. Five hundred years ago people actually lived in dark-
ness. More than 80% of all people could neither read nor
write, and only differed from the animals on their farm by
walking upright.

Then a simple monk translated the most important document

of that time, the Bible, into simple spoken language - under-
standable by millions of underprivileged people. With the help
of Gutenberg's newly invented art of book printing, this popu-
lar Bible spread like wildfire all over Europe.

At night, by the candlelight, millions of common people -

people like you and me - learned how to read and write with
the help of this book. Did they have the support of their gov-

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ernment? Of course not! The rulers at that time tried to ban the
first Bibles translated into spoken languages by sheer force.
They knew that knowledge is power, and they were not
inclined to share their power. For the same reason, those in
power today are trying to keep that power, by protecting at all
costs the most profitable business in the world - the pharma-
ceutical business.

But they will not succeed. Back then as well as today, the truth
is so obvious to all people that it can no longer be suppressed.
Then and now, pressure from millions of people to use such
vital knowledge immediately was, and is, effective. Back then,
hundreds of millions of simple people taught themselves how
to read and write. Within a few decades, newspapers, books,
schools, and universities spread through medieval Europe.

The knight Ulrich von Hutten - a historical chronicler at that

time - recorded the incredible feeling of liberation in rural
Europe at the threshold between Medieval and Modern Times.
He described the awakening of millions of illiterate people to

By dim light, millions

of simple people
learned to read and
write.

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Headlines of the future , w hich already reflect the new medical reality.

become informed citizens able to participate in daily life - by

the simple fact of being able to read and write: "What joy it is
to live in these times!" Hutten wrote.

In the 16th century, millions of people were freed from illiter-

acy, which also meant a release of the intellectual potential.
Today, in the 21st century, we are dealing with the release of
our physical potential. Millions of people are acquiring knowl-
edge about the functions of their body and understand what
makes our body sick or healthy. Health becomes understand-
able and achievable for everyone.

There is hardly a family on earth that hasn't lost one or more

members, moms, dads, grandfather, sisters to the pharmaceu-
tical industry's "business with disease." Millions of people now
recognize the extent of this tragedy. They begin to realize the
ignorance and dependency deliberately forced upon them by
the pharmaceutical industry.

The unethical effort to ban any information on natural thera-

pies through Codex Alimentarius laws are also a desperate
attempt to stem this increasing outrage.With the help of
Cellular Health, most common diseases will be reduced to a
fraction of their present numbers. The coming months and

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What Martin Luther (shown here before the Imperial Council of Worms) accom-
plished for intellectual liber ation is also true for those who are bringing about a
liberation for health.

years will show that such common diseases as high blood

pressure, cardiac insufficiency, diabetic circulatory problems,
osteoporosis, and others, are only spreading on a global scale
because their true nature -vitamin deficiency- is being deliber-
ately hidden and covered up by those maintaining the "busi-
ness with disease."

A breath-taking future lies ahead. Heart attacks, strokes and other

forms of cardiovascular diseases - still the number one cause of
death today - will become largely unknown in future generations.
Perhaps in 50 years you or your children will open the newspa-
per and read the following incredible headline: 'Heart disease
eradicated - Berlin Heart Clinic to Close its Gates.'

Changes of global proportions are also accompanied by

confrontations of global proportions. The powers behind the
pharmaceutical industry are trying to defend an industry that
has been rendered largely outdated by scientific development
in the area of vitamin research and Cellular Health. But the
powerful forces stabilizing the pharmaceutical "house of

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cards" put up a formidable fight for the survival of their
economic interests.

Let's have a look back in history one more time. The 18th of
April 1521 is considered by historians as perhaps the single
most decisive day in the second millennium, essentially deter-
mining the course of history ever since. On this date, the
simple monk Martin Luther defied the combined global power
of the Emperor and the Church. Even under pressure from the
Emperor himself during the imperial council in Worms, he did
not recant.

We are in a similar situation today. It was my discovery of the

connection between vitamin C deficiency, heart attack, and
scurvy that triggered the global effort of the most powerful
industry on earth - the pharmaceutical global players- to
suppress it through Codex Alimentarius and other means.

Over the last weeks, close friends advised me not to come to

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Berlin in person. They said it is too dangerous; the henchmen
of the pharmaceutical industry are out to get you. You may end
up in jail for uncovering the truth.

My answer is clear: Nobody - can intimidate me. Nobody will

be able to reverse or outlaw my discoveries in vitamin
research, and no one will stop the success of natural health
therapies as the basis of future health care. Health will become
a human right. The truth will prevail.

Even for that exists a historic parallel. When in 1521 Luther's

friends advised him not to go to Worms to the imperial council
meeting because he would be burned as a heretic, he
answered: "Even if every tile on the roofs in Worms were a
devil - I would still go there." The papal envoy wrote back to
Rome in horror about Luther's arrival in Worms: "The entire
town is on its feet to express support for this monk."

We are in a similar situation today. Together we will be invin-

cible. This is why it was very important that you came to Berlin
this weekend and that you take the experience home from
here to spread it everywhere. Again, thank you for coming
here and supporting our common cause. I also would like to
thank all those who helped to prepare this conference.

When the history of the 21st century is written, a hundred

years from now, the 18th of June, 2000 will be considered one
of the most important days. Today we defied the "business with
disease" and we paved the way for health becoming a human
right worldwide.

When you go outside now, take a deep breath and try to feel
the beginning of a new era of human health: "Health in the
21st century" - what a joy it is to live today!

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Head of Codex Alimentarius
challenged by Dr. Rath
Press release

June 21, 2000

Berlin/Almelo, June 21, 2000 The leader of the Federal

Institute for Consumer Health Protection and Veterinary
Medicine (BgVV) in Berlin, Rolf Grossklaus, has been reported
to the police for bodily harm and failure to render assistance.

In the past, the BgVV has repeatedly come under suspicion of

pursuing the direct economic interests of the pharmaceutical
industry in the guise of so-called consumer protection. Public
warnings from the BgVV about the alleged side effects of vita-
mins were supposed to protect the pharmaceutical industry
from troublesome competition in the form of non-patentable
vitamins and other natural remedies.

Now the head of the BgVV, Rolf Grossklaus, has stated in a

nationwide press release and on the Internet that high-dose
vitamin C causes kidney stones. In form and content, the press
release resembled a public health warning about this vitamin,
and it led to serious anxiety among consumers.

The fact is that there is no scientific proof for these statements.

For this reason, the German physician and scientist Matthias

Rath, M.D., has brought charges against Rolf Grossklaus and
other leading figures in the BgVV. In Dr. Raths opinion,
Grossklauss deliberate deception of the people in important
health matters constitutes bodily harm and failure to render
assistance.

In his indictment, which has also been published at www.dr-

rath-research.org, Dr. Rath shows that the only scientific stud-

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ies that have been conducted on high-dose vitamins and kidney
stones prove exactly the opposite of what Grossklaus has
claimed publicly. It has been established in large clinical stud-
ies at Harvard University, involving over 45,000 men and over
85,000 women, that vitamin C even in high doses does not
cause kidney stones. On the contrary, the smallest number of
stones occurred among the subjects with the highest vitamin C
intake. These studies by Dr. G.C. Curhan and his colleagues are
available for reference via Medline, the online library of the
National Institutes of Health, among other places.

Rolf Grossklaus is a liar and everyone knows it, Dr. Matthias

Rath said last weekend.

According to Dr. Rath, Grossklaus is acting on behalf of the

German and international pharmaceutical lobby.

Opposing the Codex Alimentarius Vitamin Ban, Dr. Rath organ-

ized a large public rally last Monday in front of the BgVV build-
ing. As a result, criticism against establishing arbitrarily low
upper limits for freely available vitamins began to mount, even
from the ranks of the international conference participants.

According to reports from inside conference circles, by

Tuesday, the restrictions in question were incapable of winning
a majority.

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