Sherry Rogers, MD, God designed the body to heal

It’s not a state­ment heard very often in mod­ern med­i­cine, but Dr. Rogers is no stranger to stray­ing from the beaten path for the accom­plish­ment of what she clearly sees as truth. It began with her desire to become a doc­tor. “I was the old­est of 8 chil­dren from a poor fam­ily, and had to work my way all through med­ical school,” sahe remem­bers. “Plus, in those days women didn’t even go to med­ical school.”

Shortly after receiv­ing her degree, Dr. Rogers again went against the grain and began a thor­ough inves­ti­ga­tion of nat­ural heal­ing and mol­e­c­u­lar bio­chem­istry. At first, the rea­sons were personal—she was chron­i­cally ill with over 20 “undi­ag­nos­able” prob­lems. Seeking solu­tions, she pored over her med­ical texts but came away know­ing less than when she started. She basi­cally found that all ill­nesses were cat­e­go­rized as “drug defi­cien­cies,” and when drugs failed the only recourse was surgery. She began research­ing how heal­ing was done prior to today’s wide­spread reliance on med­ical doc­tors. That research took her into the field of nat­ural med­i­cine and, more impor­tantly, into the mol­e­c­u­lar bio­chem­istry of the body and how it actu­ally heals.

Thirty-seven years later, she is semi­re­tired from prac­tice but con­tin­ues full force as an author (of both books and newslet­ters) and a researcher, as well as main­tain­ing a phone con­sul­ta­tion prac­tice to directly assist those in need. “There are too few peo­ple doing what I do,” she says. “Until that void is filled, I’ll never stop the newslet­ters and the books because I feel that’s the main focus—to empower people.”

Isolating the Causes

“It’s been a very inter­est­ing adven­ture, and a lot of fun,” says Dr. Rogers of her research and prac­tice. The December 2006 issue of her newslet­ter well doc­u­ments the story of a 46-year-old woman, a non­smoker, a nurse by pro­fes­sion and mother of two chil­dren, who one day sim­ply “didn’t feel well.” She was diag­nosed with advanced lung cancer—she had 10 lesions on her lung and the can­cer had spread through­out her body to her spine, abdomen and liver. Her doc­tors pre­scribed the stan­dard treat­ment for such advanced cancer—chemotherapy—which they admit­ted wouldn’t solve the prob­lem but might buy her a few months. One dose later, her weight had dropped from 115 to 72 pounds, she had become bedrid­den and been put on oxy­gen. Funeral arrange­ments were being made.
The woman ceased chemother­apy and began a strict diet reg­i­men. Twelve years later, she is totally recovered.*

That case, as with many oth­ers, is totally doc­u­mented. “I’m a real ref­er­ence junkie,” Dr. Rogers says. “It stems from being a physi­cian, but also the read­ers want to take the infor­ma­tion to their doc­tors. I always want to have all the backup for the physi­cians.”
Dr. Rogers has found that detox­i­fi­ca­tion ene­mas, enzymes and fre­quent car­rot juic­ing can reverse can­cers. The juic­ing aspect came from a Harvard University study, cited in Dr. Rogers’ book Wellness Against All Odds, which found that high doses of beta carotene (which comes from car­rots) could actu­ally cause the can­cer gene, known as P23, to revert to normal.

Interestingly, Harvard doc­tors today seem oddly unaware of this study. “There’s a very funny dis­con­nect in med­i­cine,” Dr. Rogers says. “If you go for your treat­ments to some of the facil­i­ties where the best research is done, it’s as though they never even knew what was going on among the researchers there.” Today, if one goes to Harvard for an oncol­ogy ser­vice, they con­tinue to only rec­om­mend chemother­apy and radi­a­tion treatments.

Heart Health

A sim­i­lar “dis­con­nect” occurred with the esteemed Mayo Clinic, at which a study found that far-infrared saunas could improve heart patients who had been labeled as hopeless.1 This study, doc­u­mented in Dr. Rogers’ book The High Blood Pressure Hoax! enabled patients to detox­ify envi­ron­men­tal chem­i­cals that had caused con­ges­tive heart fail­ure, high blood pres­sure and other car­diac abnor­mal­i­ties. These patients were able to quit car­di­ol­ogy drugs, their ejec­tion frac­tion (the amount of blood pumped out of one heart ven­tri­cle with one heart­beat) improved, their blood pres­sure improved, the dis­tance they could walk increased and they had less short­ness of breath. Yet to this day, if one reports to the Mayo Clinic for a car­di­ol­ogy workup, they are not advised to do a far-infrared sauna.

So Dr. Rogers dili­gently con­tin­ues her work. As one might guess from the title of her book men­tioned above, another area for which she has gath­ered plen­ti­ful research deals with the num­ber one health issue in America today: heart dis­ease. And today’s treatments—or, more pre­cisely, their omissions—greatly con­cern Dr. Rogers. “It gen­er­ally goes like this: folks will arrive at a car­di­ol­ogy clinic with arrhyth­mia [abnor­mal heart rhythm] or angina [severe chest pain]. Then they have a million-dollar workup for all the dif­fer­ent causes and are pre­scribed med­ica­tion. If the med­ica­tions don’t work, stents [small expand­able tubes used for insert­ing in blocked ves­sels] are inserted. For atrial fib­ril­la­tion [a spe­cific type of arrhyth­mia in which the heart’s two small upper cham­bers quiver instead of beat­ing effec­tively] it’s even scarier; if med­ica­tions fail, patients are given car­diover­sion, which is basi­cally an elec­tro­cu­tion of the heart. They are also given blood thin­ners, which put patients in great dan­ger of bleed­ing to death. Blood thin­ners trig­ger osteo­poro­sis and do a lot of other dam­ag­ing things that we’ve included in The High Blood Pressure Hoax! and in the newsletter.”

Part of Dr. Rogers’ con­ster­na­tion deals with the fact that many physi­cians don’t con­sider less dras­tic (and less expen­sive) nat­ural reme­dies. Calcium chan­nel block­ers are a pri­mary class of drugs pre­scribed for heart con­di­tions and these can have side effects rang­ing from unpleas­ant to seri­ous. Nature’s cal­cium chan­nel blocker is mag­ne­sium, which has no side effects.

Relaxation of muscles—of which the heart is one—is a pri­mary func­tion of mag­ne­sium, hence its impor­tance, which Dr. Rogers can­not stress enough. “If you wanted to take the most impor­tant, the num­ber one, min­eral in the human body that is sorely neglected, and is at the root of just about every dis­ease, and is a com­po­nent of just about every symp­tom, it’s mag­ne­sium,” she says. “It runs more enzymes than any other min­eral in the body—over 400 enzymes. The aver­age American diet, gov­ern­ment stud­ies show us, pro­vides only 40%—less than half the mag­ne­sium that we all need in a day. So almost every­body is low!”

Magnesium defi­ciency also relates to another heart health issue, cho­les­terol. “I have here right in front of me, from the Journal of the American College of Nutrition 2004 Volume 23, a paper from one of the world’s lead­ing experts in mag­ne­sium show­ing how mag­ne­sium works just like a statin drug and bet­ter,” she says, not­ing that the num­ber one drug cur­rently pre­scribed for high cho­les­terol, Lipitor, is a statin drug. “Magnesium inhibits the HMG-CoA reduc­tase enzyme that statin drugs work on.2 It pro­motes an enzyme called LCAT, which can drag cho­les­terol off the arte­r­ial wall and raise the HDL, the good cho­les­terol, which also is a wheel­bar­row that takes the cho­les­terol off the arte­r­ial wall.”

Peter Gillham’s Natural Calm

The form of mag­ne­sium that Dr. Rogers rec­om­mends is Peter Gillham’s Natural Calm—which she’ll go out of her way to point out is not a spon­sored rec­om­men­da­tion. “I am not paid by them. I never worked for them. I never received a cent from them!” she laughs. “And that’s one of the things I make sure of in my books and my newslet­ters. I’m the sole researcher, writer and edi­tor, and I do not take any paid adver­tise­ments, or any adver­tise­ments at all.”

She has rec­om­mended Natural Calm for years, she says, since she first dis­cov­ered it. The reasons—as with all Dr. Rogers’ reasoning—stem from detailed research. First, she is one of few who are actu­ally mea­sur­ing mag­ne­sium lev­els, along with a host of other nutri­ent lev­els, in the body. Hence, she was able to read­ily observe the best-absorbed form of the min­eral. “We would mea­sure lev­els of mag­ne­sium oxide, which is the cheap­est mag­ne­sium form, and read­ily avail­able in many health food stores,” she reports. “But it’s less than 50 per­cent absorbed. Same thing with a lot of the chelates—chelated mag­ne­sium is sup­posed to be won­der­ful, but you have to take two and three times what the dose says on the bot­tle to get that level. Whereas with Natural Calm it’s a cit­rate, plus it’s a pow­der, and so it’s liq­uid; you can have it with a lot of water and you’re get­ting those lev­els in right away.” She also says she can tell its effec­tive­ness by patients report­ing back to her with successes.

Hyperactivity

“Those poor lit­tle hyper kids,” says Dr. Rogers, “they’re get­ting the raw end of the deal in med­i­cine.” Giving pre­scrip­tion drugs for what has been labeled Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) is “a very bad thing to do to a child. I would have folks start with Depression Cured at Last! and then The E.I. Syndrome and then Detoxify or Die. A lot of issues of the newslet­ter have taken this even fur­ther with newer findings.

“But all these kids with ADD have basi­cally three prob­lems going on. They have a lot of aller­gies, many of which are foods. They have nutri­ent deficiencies—magnesium is top among them. And then they have toxic lev­els. They have lev­els of cad­mium, lead, arsenic, mer­cury, etc. And you might say, ‘Gee, where do these kids get this stuff from?’ Well, as we showed in the newslet­ters and in Detoxify or Die, the aver­age new­born baby, the moment he’s born, has mea­sur­able lev­els in his core blood of Teflon, fire retar­dant, pes­ti­cides, mer­cury, cad­mium, lead, arsenic, aluminum—in fact, we’ve so poi­soned the world that the polar bears in the Arctic have these lev­els as well. I mean we just made a mess of it all.

“So these kids who are falling apart early with ADD—whatever label they have—you def­i­nitely want to look at their chem­istry very care­fully. And do that panel that we talk about in the books and the newslet­ters where it looks at every vit­a­min, min­eral, fatty acid, amino acid and organic acid. Because this is the chem­istry of how God designed the body. And we now have the wherewithal—we’ve had it for decades—of how to assay it and cor­rect it and fix it once and for all so that folks don’t have to endure these things. And they don’t need a life­time of sen­tence to some drug.”

Pioneering the Natural Approach

For any­one who would like to dis­cover the results of her plen­ti­ful research, Dr. Rogers rec­om­mends begin­ning with her book Detoxify or Die (unless there is a spe­cific con­cern such as hyper­ac­tiv­ity, as men­tioned pre­vi­ously). The book details the many envi­ron­men­tal causes of today’s mal­adies, and their treat­ments. A great exam­ple of an envi­ron­men­tal cause was her dis­cov­ery that three out of four cases of any sort of arthri­tis suf­fered from an allergy to night­shade, a fam­ily of flow­er­ing and fruit-bearing plants. The book cov­ers her treat­ment of such cases.

She then rec­om­mends The High Blood Pressure Hoax! since heart dis­ease is so preva­lent. She also rec­om­mends her newslet­ter to stay up-to-date with her lat­est findings.

Of her approach, Dr. Rogers says, “With a drug, you’re poi­son­ing some­one who’s already down and out—they already have one foot in the hole. That’s why they have a symp­tom. The symp­tom is the very first God-given excuse to say, ‘Whoa! Stop the presses! Let’s look at all the chem­istry and find out what’s bro­ken and fix it and get this per­son cured. Get them back to nor­mal or even, in many cases, bet­ter than normal.’”

*To receive a free copy of the December 2006 issue of Dr. Rogers’ newslet­ter, which fully doc­u­ments this story, send an e-mail request to orders@prestigepublishing.com.

1. Far infrared sauna ther­apy is said to dupli­cate the healthy fre­quen­cies of our own cells. This “deep heat­ing,” along with sweat­ing, is thought to be respon­si­ble for the heal­ing effects and the other health ben­e­fits asso­ci­ated with these infrared rays.

2. HMG-CoA reduc­tase is an enzyzme needed by the body to make cholesterol.