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The newsletter is now going on to Nash's website so I'm sure that Australians won't mind me re-capping the circumstances surrounding the foundation of the newsletter for the Petrovic Protocol Association in Australia. My daughter asked me to look on the Internet for help in treating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome when she was told by medical authorities that nothing could be done for my granddaughter Robyn.

I found that Dr. Nash Petrovic had been curing the condition for four years. As a result I wrote a letter to our local provincial newspaper, ' The Border Morning Mail ', produced in Albury. The seven patients that enquired about the treatment formed a randomly chosen group that is ideal for a scientific study. At this stage - just before Christmas - none has completed the eight-month treatment. Already there has been an eighty-four percent therapeutic response rate. This has included three 'cures'. Robyn has turned out to be a world first. A group of medical research scientists has been developing blood, faeces and urine tests over the last five years. We know them as ' the Newcastle researchers '. They have identified ' markers' that are proof that the patient has the disease. In Robyn's case they have proved for the first time that someone HASN'T got the disease. Unfortunately she still suffers fairly severely from Ross River Fever - the virus that brought about the CFS. It's all downhill now

The second of 'my' group to take the protocol had an immediate re-action after only FOUR days. Everybody around him KNEW that something amazing was going on, but at that early stage were to frightened to even contemplate a cure. Over the next five months he and his mother Julie have had some very anxious moments. The nature of the disease is that it is very much a matter of advancing and regressing and the mind being convinced that this is yet another 'cure' that won't work. Phillip and his family know quite confidently now that he is CURED of CFS, but he still has a long way to go to gain total fitness.Julie and I have had some very anxious moments as the months went by. We would say to each other, " My God, we encouraged this patient to undertake the protocol. They have spent $5,000, they have been taking it for months, and they don't seem to be any better." I well remember writing an e-mail to Nash at ten o'clock at night ( that is my normal time)

Phillip and Jacqui on their Wedding Day



Above - Julie - Phillip's mother

I called it 'Pessimism'. I said that I was feeling depressed, and didn't know if I could keep this up. Phone calls with to people with CFS tend to be forty-five minute to hour sessions, and it is hard to keep up the optimism as Nash does. Sure enough he was there in the morning - OPTIMISM he wrote. And he gave a number of reasons as to why all the patients were getting along famously. We knew that we had to try to adopt the mentality of a doctor who just patiently waited for time to pass until the antioxidants had a chance to make a change in the patient's cells. Two days ago I knew it was all worthwhile. One seemingly intractable patient had phoned me, and I gained the distinct impression that she knew she was going to get better. Then I received an e-mail that said the second lady, who had had CFS TWICE and had been housebound for a long time, was driving herself shopping ! I e-mailed Nash and said that I felt like doing a war-dance. A complete cycle of treatment was nearly over and it was almost a TOTAL SUCCESS. How much easier it will be from now on. The main thing that we have learned is that because we are so far away from South Africa the nervous disposition tends to become a very powerful force as Nash isn't there to give constantencouragement and guidance. An alternative therapist suggested that patients should have Bach's Rescue Remedy on hand for times in which they felt their nervous system needed a boost. Nash readily agreed with this, saying that it was an excellent product.
A new role for the newsletter

The success of the protocol in the last six months means that I have to find another reason to make further publication worthwhile. This decision has really been made for me by Nash as he sees a lot of value in having it on his website. In future it will hopefully detail names and phone numbers of successfully treated patients as the Home Page in South Africa does.(http://www.yebo.co.za/~longvita )

Next to the negative influence of the medical profession here, the greatest hurdle for the protocol is the fact that no-one in Australia is yet willing to urge newcomers to follow them and take the treatment.

What's your pH ?

I think that I must have passed my first semester's exams as Nash has now sent me Health Realities Part Four to digest. Years ago I learnt that doctors only studied nutrition for eight hours in their course. I found this amazing as we are obviously 'what we eat '. I suppose that there is so much disease to combat that most of the course is devoted to curative measures rather than preventative ones.

CFS is a clear reason why physics should comprise a reasonable percentage of modern courses. ' Health Realities ' is devoted to educating doctors about ' free radical therapy '. This is the use of antioxidants to combat a large range of conditions, especially degenerative diseases. In order to do this natural therapists determine the ' acidity ' of the patient's body. We are all familiar with testing the pH of our garden in order for it to grow things properly.Our bodies are the same. We have a VERY narrow range [ pH 7.37-7.43 ] in which the body is truly healthy. The optimum level is 7.4. Below 7.37 the body is ACID. The majority of pathogenic organisms prefer an acidic, anaerobic environment and have difficulty surviving in a neutral to alkaline environment where aerobic metabolism predominates !!

A Doomsday scenario

Since becoming a reporter of medical science I seem to have become a magnet for gloomy forecasts. You will all have heard of predictions that the world is in its last ten years if changes aren't made. David Suzuki, the famous Canadian scientist, has just written a book called, " The Sacred Balance " He is an absolutely inspirational speaker. I heard him talking about the AIR section of the book. He spoke about ARGON, the inert gas that forms a percentage of air. He said that we are ALL linked to air. With each breath, some atoms of argon that Jesus breathed two thousand years ago enter our body I have a very disturbing document which details the effects of endocrine-disrupting chemicals that have been released into the environment. They have caused havoc with fish, bird and mammal's sexual systems. The report says, " There is now evidence that DDT, PCBs, and other chemicals that rapidly vaporize are being transported long distances over the globe via the atmosphere. For instance it is estimated that 90% of the PCBs entering Lake Superior is derived from the atmosphere....DDT has a half-life of 57.5 in temperate soils. PCBs were introduced in 1929 and production ceased in 1972. PCBs will be around over geologic time ! Eileen had a bone density test recently. The story of this is nearly worth a newsletter by itself. I was staggered when the consultant said that in America girls were reaching puberty at eight years of age because of chemicals escaping from many items - even plastic bags.

Further confirmation

It beats me how Nash can be as optimistic as he is when he tells me such terrible things. For instance he told me that the WHO (World Health Organisation ) published an interesting report stating that in 2010 every third person on Earth will suffer from some form of cancer ! A shocking 'revelation' which shows what indiscriminant constant pollution of our planet has done to our race! He said that his brother phoned him to say that he read another interesting