A Quick Cure for Bruises and Sprains

This is a product that is claimed to be safer than aspirin and the pain reliever of the 21st century. It can only be sold as a solvent spray and advertised as such. However you must be very sure to get pure DMSO, and some industrial grades are unsuitable.

Sports enthusiasts use it to relieve sprains and bruises. Although it removes free radicals released by the injury, it converts them to other, albeit less harmful, free radicals. Therefore it is best used together with other anti-oxidants. For example, vitamin C powder or calcium ascorbate can be dissolved in the DMSO. It is spread over the affected area, which should first be washed because DMSO carries anything mixed with it into the body. I do not advise mixing a solution of DMSO and vitamin C and letting it stand. Only mix as much as you want. This statement is not made through specific knowledge, but I do know that vitamin C dissolved in water rapidly oxidises and becomes harmful. (This is why some people say vitamin C is no good. In experiments, they gave it to animals in their drinking water. It stood about and oxidised before the animals drank it.)

DMSO is very effective at relieving any aches and pains, including arthritis and dental pain. However it will only work with arthritis over a limited period. Doctors are wary of self medication with pain killers without diagnosis in case there is a serious condition needing professional treatment that is being masked.

There is a reference to DMSO in Pearson and Shaw's Life Extension - A Practical Scientific Approach, which is available from Longevity Books for �11.20, post paid. We also sell a leaflet DMSO Short Course by R.D. Gutting and Dr WC Douglas, MD, for �1 post paid. As with all treatments outside the medical profession, care should be taken and readers should inform themselves before using them. This and other magazines cannot take responsibility for any results!

BHT

A Potent Herpes Suppressor

BHT is a powerful fat soluble anti-oxidant and is used as a food additive. Its main effects are accelerating the metabolism and exterminating lipid soluble viruses, such as herpes. Although herpes viruses can hide from it in the body, it stops them from migrating to the surface and multiplying.

There is considerable controversy surrounding this product, with conflicting claims being made about it. In E for Additives Dr Maurice Hanssen includes in a list marked "adverse" effects that BHT (E321) has extended the lives of experimental mice. Some claim it reduces the risk of cancer, whereas others claim that it increases it. A reduction in cases of stomach cancer in the USA has been linked to the use of BHT as a food additive.

This is definitely not a substance to take in ignorance, and although it too is covered in Pearson and Shaw's Life Extension - A Practical Scientific Approach (�11.20 post paid form Longevity Books) the best and most concise report is in Mann and Fowkes' Wipe out Herpes with BHT, which we sell at �4.50 post paid. Although this books appears to be aimed at herpes sufferers, it is also for those who wish to use BHT for Life extension and cancer avoidance purposes.