It’s the Electrical System Stupid!
Dr. John Young – Ask the Doctor
As a number of you all know, over the last year I have really looked at how the body functions electrically and how involved the electrical system is in the disease process. Wow is all I can say. As physicians we are basically trained to identify a disease process and come up with a drug to stop the disease process i.e. antibiotics or find a drug to slow the disease process and just give more and more drugs.
The more I am reading of these scientific journals the more I am completely blown away about what these articles are saying. Just as a politician said years ago “It’s the economy stupid”. I say “It is the electrical system stupid”. I have started looking at a number of illnesses and diseases from electrical problem view point. You may have a great house but without electricity the house is basically useless. Think of each cell as an electrical generator. The average cell will generate 65-75 millivolts, while a sick cell generates 10-40 millivolts. So, I started to treat some of my very sick Parkinson’s and dementia patients by fixing their electrical system. About 70% of my patients were remarkably better 2 to 4 months later. You could hardly tell they had dementia or Parkinson’s. From this foundation I have started looking at my patients from an electrical viewpoint. Take for example sleep apnea. The standard treatment is CPAP to increase the positive pressure in the airway to force the airway to stay open. So, I googled sleep apnea and potassium channels. It is the potassium channel in the nerves that controls the electrical output. Sure enough in sleep apnea the potassium channel does not close properly so the airway collapses during sleep. So, they took these patients and placed them on a potassium channel blocker and no more sleep apnea!
A-fib and cardiac arrhythmia all originate from potassium channel dysfunction. My own patients who have a-fib take a potassium channel blocker and the arrhythmia is gone. No more arrhythmia or any need for blood thinners. Hypertension is often because of lack of nitric oxide production in the blood vessels. Sure enough potassium channel dysfunction does not allow for adequate nitric oxide production. In CAD once again potassium channel dysfunction causes the loss of the protective coating in the artery wall which leads to plaque formation. It may not be a cholesterol plaque problem and instead it may be an electrical problem. Look up your problem you are being treated for and if the potassium channel is involved let your doctor know so he or she can fix the channels.
In chronic kidney disease the problem is the kidney tissue is being replaced by fibrotic tissue. Research is showing that the potassium channels may be the cause of the fibrosis. The potassium channels run the electrical system and when you start to fix the channels the disease seems to improve.
In diabetes the potassium channels are affected. Potassium channels dysfunction in the GI tract can show up as several things such as diarrhea, chronic constipation, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, or IBS. Potassium channels have a lot to do with muscle relaxation, insulin release, and hormone release i.e. With depression the potassium channels allow the production of serotonin and dopamine. You see potassium channel dysfunction in epilepsy and peripheral neuropathy. I think that the way medicine is going today we are trained to just use certain drugs to treat diseases but if we do not look at the electrical system then we probably will never get people feeling better or off their medicines. There are more tools in our tool box other than just a hammer. The deep science shows that over and over with these diseases. If you don’t fix the electrical system, then it will be very hard to get anyone better! Talk to your doctor. We are all trained in basic biochemistry, genetics, and physiology. He or she will be glad to help you repair the electrical system.
Dr. John Young, MD
(727) 545-4600, Largo, FL
