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STANFORD UNIVERSITY STANFORD, CALIFORNIA 94305-2205 DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Chris Duffield, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar Building 550 Room 551C (650) 725-2643 Fax (650) 725-4034 President George W. Bush February 17, 2001 The White House Dear President Bush, Congratulations on your inauguration as President. Now you have a wonderful chance to begin some fresh initiatives for the benefit of the people of the United States, and for all humanity. I have one such initiative to propose. I urge you to direct the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to begin an initiative to study and implement the use of insulin potentiation therapy (IPT). IPT is a simple change in standard medical procedure that can make medications work much better. In IPT, the hormone insulin opens up cell membranes and delivers medications better into cells. IPT also delivers them into parts of the body that drugs have a hard time reaching. IPT makes possible breakthrough treatment of many different diseases. For example, it allows routine treatment of breast cancer without surgery, radiation, or side effects. It also makes possible relief of arthritis symptoms for about five years after just two or three IPT treatments. It has also been reported to give breakthrough results in treatment of infectious diseases, such as herpes, hepatitis, and AIDS. And many other diseases. IPT was discovered in Mexico in 1926, and has been tragically ignored for 72 years. It was demonstrated with great success and publicity in the US in the 1930s and 1940s, but nothing happened. Today, finally, a handful of US doctors are learning the technique. There are five today, and will be about 20 more later this month. Every doctor who has tried IPT has raved about the great results. I have created a big website about IPT: http:// www.IPTQ.orgMr. President, there has been no drug company money to support IPT research. And unfortunately, there has been no NIH money, either. IPT is such a different idea, and it has such broad applications that it has had a hard time getting attention. IPT has been presented twice to the Complementary and Alternative Medicine branch of the NIH, but nothing has happened. IPT deserves more attention than that. IPT is not alternative medicine, but a better way to use the medicines we already have. The only thing alternative about IPT is that doctors don’t know about it yet. It could be adopted very quickly, once demonstrated, because it would not have to wait years for expensive FDA approval. Countless millions of people will benefit. Mr. President, please direct the NIH to investigate IPT more thoroughly, and to allocate enough funds to support even a small IPT research program. Thank you. Chris Duffield |
