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THE OTHER ENERGY CRISIS

COPYRIGHT 2013 Andrew J. Lennertz BS, NLP
ANDREW J. LENNERTZ BS, NLP
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In addition to worldwide fuel energy crisis, humans in modern technology countries with
high stress lifestyles, poor diets and challenging environmental conditions are experi-
encing profound energy crisis in their bodies. Just a century ago, the rate of energy pro-
duction decline in the average human was only about 2-4 percent per decade starting at
age 20. This meant by age 80, the average person who lived that long would have 75-
85% of their normal metabolic function. Many people did not live that long due to high
mortality and morbidity occurrence from such factors as environmental and occupational
toxicity, infectious disease, infant and adolescent mortality rates, injury and death from
occupations and war and extreme singular and collective nutritional deficiency states.
People are living a lot longer nowadays but not as well as they could be considering all
of the new medical technology that has been developed and and all of the new lifestyle
improvement information and support that is available. People are basically information
and responsibility overloaded. There are so many decisions and potential conse-
quences nowadays because life and the world has become so much more complex.
Though the personal computer has been an economic, organizational and social trans-
formational technology it has created a whole new and sometimes overwhelming infor-
mation world to manage. Almost every job has become one requiring much higher lev-
els of technological training and multitasking capacity putting a strain on people, their
families and their health and sanity. Nobody is more overloaded and overwhelmed than
people struggling at the lower income and social strata but even middle to upper income
people are struggling with all the implications of global economies, rapidly changing ca-
reer and workplace dynamics and the constant redefinition of what marriage, family and
good parenting is. Just a generation ago what would have passed for good parenting
would be considered child abuse today. Technology and information on every level is
helping us in each area of life to make better decisions but somehow people feel collec-
tively they are failing and falling behind because every way in which we define compe-
tency, sufficient decision making and sanity is being challenged and changed whether
we like it or not. Modern medicine is keeping stressed out barely functional bodies alive
with cocktails of drugs, surgery and prosthetic devices. The average 35 old American is
using 10 over the counter drugs to manage an assortment of chronic non life threaten-
ing conditions such as headache, joint, muscle and backache pain, gastrointestinal
complaints and inflammatory skin conditions. This does not even include prescription
drugs. Any one of these drugs by themselves might not present a significant challenge
to overall health, metabolic function and specifically liver detoxification chemistry when
taken sporadically in low doses but that is not how most people are taking them. People
are drinking Mylanta, chewing Tums and taking Pepsid and much more aggressive
drugs like they are candy. In some cases, they cannot function on a day to day basis
without them. This toxic biological load adds up over a span of just a decade. The com-
bination of ease by which we use drugs, have become habitually addictive to stimulants
like caffeine, rely on diet concoctions with artificial sweeteners and eat high calorie/low
nutrient diets creates a perfect storm of metabolic disarray in just a few years. Our
metabolic systems simply cannot keep up with all of the chaotic change that these influ-
ences are causing in the body. It is common nowadays for me to run metabolic tests on
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teenagers and they have the overall metabolic efficiency and energy producing capacity
of a geriatric person.
The ever growing population of strange and seemingly undiagnosable syndromes today
which no longer adhere to specific diagnostic criteria or description is growing at an ex-
ponential rate. Despite certain fitness trends and diet fads, diabetes and obesity have
increased multiple fold in just 3 decades. Both are indicators of dysfunctional energy
metabolisms. Poorly trained doctors and alternative care practitioners are diagnosing
people with a large variety of pathogenic conditions like candidiasis, mononucleosis,
Lyme's disease and cytomegalovirus infections and are put on very exclusive clinical
protocols that do not take into account on any real statistical level the effect on systems
functionality. People then become dependent on perpetual programs of antibiotic, anti-
fungal and antiviral medications and highly exclusive and nutritionally deficient diets and
complicated and often contradictory regimens of nutritional supplements and herbal
formulas at a great expense to the patient with minimal results. It is like chemotherapy.
Who quits first, the disease or the person. Failure to adequately resolve these chal-
lenges on a systemic level only sets the scenario for even more difficult eradication in
the future as these organisms evolve to be more resilient. People have been bank-
rupted by well meaning but symptom centric therapies. It is one of those situations
where the diagnostic relevance is true enough to seem completely valid when it is not.
Support groups for many of these maladies have sprung up all over the country as peo-
ple try to find some magic bullet cure...in many cases just some symptomatic relief.
Once again, even with alternative practitioners, people are unknowingly caught up in the
germ theory/symptom model of health treatment. People are literally exhausted from
what it takes logistically and economically to comply with these protocols which involve
an "everything but the kitchen sink" approach to regimen development because the so
called experts are flailing in the wind giving people anything they have read about which
may have some significant correlation to their symptom set to the client. And other prac-
titioners are proposing one mechanism/total cure scenarios which also dont work.
Neither one of these mechanistic approaches reflects the comprehensive and specific
realities of what people are suffering from. These infections are concurrent phenomena
but not causative. I have found this out time and time again whether it be candidiasis,
Lyme's disease, hepatitis, or herpes.
And this goes for animals like domestic pets as much as humans. Veterinarians have
pretty much adopted the same allopathic drug-centric treatment modality approach
hook, line and sinker and have become equal conspirators in the iatrogenic disease
creation phenomena with the large battery of inoculations, drugs and neurally toxic flea
treatments they provide pet owners. There is a legitimate time and place for medical
care especially when it comes to trauma but medicine has failed time and time again to
stem the tide of complex chronic dysfunction phenomena the public is experiencing.
Medicine has made great strides and social contribution in the areas of trauma care,
acute disease care, public health and sanitation, prosthetic surgery and infectious dis-
ease control but has dropped the ball completely when it comes to preemptive and pro-
active actual chronic disease prevention. In fact, when doctors are talking with any le-
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gitimacy about disease prevention they are actually talking about nutrition and exercise.
And no amount of clinical medical diagnostic testing will ever prevent a disease from
reaching critical mass. By the time the disease is detectable it is already well into its
secondary level of development because the cause of the disease has been operating
in that person's world for years whether it be lifestyle, environmental or genetic in etiol-
ogy. Many people don't realize how inefficient their metabolic systems are until they are
challenged with a significant trauma or infectious disease which pushes their bodys
homeostatic control and resilience over the cliff. And no matter what kind of medical
and/or alternative care cocktail of drugs, herbs and supplements they throw at the
symptoms and affected target organs, they never recover because they have not been
supported in rebuilding on a fundamental ergogenic (energy production), anabolic or
catabolic level. And it is getting worse.
Just like medicine is using antibiotics for just about any symptom nowadays already
creating a perfect storm of antibiotic resistance bacteria, they are well on their way to
doing something similar with fungal and viral infections. In the 80s, the common medical
treatment for systemic and localized candidiasis was the drug Nystatin. Now doctors
who would have been clinically responsible for running regular liver chemistry testing to
avoid its potentially damaging side effects are using the drug Ketacozanole as the drug
of first choice in such conditions. This incredibly liver toxic drug has made its way into
the over the counter sphere in fungal skin infection treatment thanks to aggressive mar-
keting of the pharmaceutical companies and the failure of doctors to treat these com-
plex microbial/immune syndromes at their metabolic core. It is the Wild Wild West in
doctor's offices as they are desperate to put something in the hands of their patients to
help them often crossing ethical boundaries they would have never considered before. I
worked with some of these doctors in their clinics and I would routinely see them hand
these drugs out to people using the usual rationale of "Well at least I am a good doctor
and I will be moderate". Time and time again I challenged their ethics and protocol de-
velopment rationale often asking them "Would you give this drug to a family member?
No..well you just gave it to somebody else's child!". As much as I was hoping to educate
doctors after a while I just gave up and went out on my own because even the best of
them were conducting themselves professionally in questionable ethical ways.
The only reason I found myself in a clinical practice environment instead of doing re-
search was because some doctors were a combination of desperate and willing enough
to listen to somebody outside of their normal practicum field to try to get
answers. Unfortunately, this also goes for most of the treatment focus in modern psy-
chotherapy. Most psychotherapists have little or no training in biochemistry and nutrition
and will spend years with chronically fatigued people who don't have enough energy to
process most of their thoughts and they might as well be talking to a brick wall when
they consult their patients. Depression and chronic fatigue are just the two sides of the
same coin and are concurrent phenomena. Their psychotherapeutic intervention would
exponentially increase in efficacy if they were simultaneously treating many of the un-
derlying metabolic disorders and nutritional deficiencies that complicate and impede
positive therapeutic intervention. That sphere has been taken up by psychiatrists who
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routinely hand out highly toxic and powerful neurotransmitter and brain chemistry alter-
ing drugs to adults and children alike. We will see in the next 10 years the metabolic
toxicological fallout for these unbalanced methodologies of symptomatic treatment in
the adult population. Just increasing zinc intake in most children who are deficient will
dramatically improve mental and emotional functionality in even extreme cases like
OCD and violence proclivity. Both the bullies and bullied in schools are nutritionally defi-
cient.
The immune systems of most people are under toxic attack by the environment, drugs
and the food we eat. But intrinsic to the competent functionality of the immune system is
the metabolic systems of the body. In fact they support every system including the im-
mune, neural, hormonal, circulatory, respiratory, genetic, digestive and musculoskeletal
systems. We take for granted that the metabolic functionality and efficiency we had in
childhood we will always have. People are experiencing these "accelerated aging" syn-
dromes with all sorts of microbial involvement because their metabolic functionality on
many levels is breaking down now at a rate of 2-5 times greater than just 2 generations
ago. Some Americans have barely enough potential energy in their bodies to maintain
metabolic functionality at more than 20% in their thirties. People are losing metabolic
functionality at a rate of up to 12% per decade. That means that by age 80, most people
are functioning at about 20%. This is why there are so many syndromes which have at
their base chronic fatigue syndrome, a form of accelerated aging. Fatigue is the symp-
tom but the challenge is a deficit in energy production. It is the sign of the toxicology and
malnutrition times. Medicine has eradicated the great plagues but has failed to address
with real authority and competency the chronic environmental conditions which are
withering away our functionality on all levels. People who rely solely on orthodox medi-
cal doctors for health care and wisdom are playing Russian roulette with their health.
Without enough potential energy we cannot sustain vital organ functionality and we
have great difficulty creating any kinetic energy for movement.
Many people, especially women, are being repeatedly diagnosed with hypothyroidism
and then put on a treatment protocol involving either synthetic or natural sources of thy-
roid hormone. This is completely off base. The reduction of thyroid functionality is pri-
marily due to the body running out of energy and adaptogenic resilience production ca-
pacity. It is the last ditch effort of the body to slow the person down to get them to meet
their real nutritional, energy production and life needs. Thyroid medication is only a
temporary stay of execution. The unintended negative consequence of thyroid treatment
is that the underlying energy crisis in the body is not being addressed and then people
go from being tired to severe clinical chronic fatigue and all the life limiting challenges
that come with that. The body can no longer generate potential energy reserves so it is
sparing it for vital organ function and basic survival and intentionally shunting the hor-
monal, metabolic and cellular level regulatory stimulus that would incite potential to ki-
netic energy conversion. The way most people are compensating for severe nutritional
deficiency, metabolic inefficiency and hormonal compensation is to use stimulants to up
regulate the central nervous system. If some foreign country wants to invade us they
don't need an army, all they would have to do is cut of coffee imports into the country.
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This approach keeps the person in a constant cycle of neural compensation instead of
actual energy production and it is having both disastrous short and long term effects on
the body including increasing the incidence of neurochemical and central nervous sys-
tem degradation disorders like MS. It also causes a chronic hypervigilant state for peo-
ple which causes many obsessive disorders and neurotic behavior to be magnified.
Overstimulation of the sympathetic nervous system also causes hyperexcretion of cal-
cium and electrolytes because they would keep the central nervous system in sympa-
thetic and parasympathetic balance. The subsequent maladies are too many to name
but the biggies are chronic exhaustion from dehydration, osteoporosis and vascular and
circulatory stress like hypertension. People are stuck in what feels like and is on many
levels on unending cycle of low energy and demotivation. If we can intervene at a pri-
mary level in the cyclical process of body, mind and spirit deprivation and declination
whether it be physically, mentally, emotionally or spiritually then that person has a
chance to gain some positive inertia and move towards relief and then resolution. I get
success in my practice because I work on all these levels not just the physical or
emotional.
So if you have been diagnosed with one or more of the many slew of syndromes or
specific maladies like chronic bacterial, fungal and viral disease and have sought medi-
cal and alternative help and you have seen minimal or less than satisfying abatement of
symptoms or return of normal healthy functionality it is because as well meaning as
many of the holistic doctors and practitioners are in the US, they are not metabolic spe-
cialists like myself. Many people can be put on very expensive and cumbersome nu-
traceutical regimens that are provided by clinical ecologists, allergists, internists, chiro-
practors and self appointed healing experts who use things like bioelectric machinery,
immune competency testing and kinesiology without understanding the limitations and
observational biases in these types of testing. They often focus on allergies, immune
incompetency and target organ symptomatology and use exclusionary strategies like
extremely regulated diets and highly selective nutritional supplements mostly to prevent
symptomatic reaction but never really support the underlying functionality that has to be
restored. I wish I had a dollar for every person who has been put on caveman, allergy
and many culturally developed diets which do not support that person on a genetic or
healthy developmental level but is meant to reduce negative reactivity instead of in-
crease positive functionality. Reducing negative reactivity and maladaptation is a valid
clinical first step but that will never effectively translate into sustainable increased posi-
tive functionality over time. Too often the time, money, energy and consciousness in-
vestment these strategic orientations take proclude people from having the resources to
effectively positively resolve their biological challenges. I have witnessed waiting rooms
filled with people getting allergy desensitization and other partial clinical approaches for
years exhausting their resources. That is like thinking reducing your financial expenses
is the same as making more money.
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By the time people experience states of significantly impaired ergogenic, anabolic and
catabolic function, their digestive, absorption and nutrient utilization processes in their
bodies have been in significant decline. For some people the net benefit from even a
healthy diet is significantly reduced becomes it takes nutrients and energy to digest and
utilize food properly. For many people they cannot eat themselves back to health no
matter how healthy or clean their diet is. They are experiencing so much loss of positive
inertia and so much increase of negative inertia in the body that only nutraceutical sup-
plementation can bypass digestion and utilization inefficiency and cause an increase
fast enough in nutrification. Even healthy people on healthy diets cannot stay healthy in
our modern times just with diet and exercise. The nutritional supplement industry has its
fair shame of scams and over hyped products but their contribution to modern wellbeing
cannot be understated. In fact it is the most important technological development in the
last 30 years when it comes to self care thanks to increased interest in food and nutri-
tion science allowing us to come out of the dark ages of simplistic dietetics and adul-
teration of food for the sole purpose of appearance, taste and shelf life. And diets which
helped significantly with acute or severe chronic symptoms initially is not necessarily a
good long term diet for metabolic support. This does not mean these areas of research
and methods of treatment do not have clinical validity on a selective level but they are
often very extreme and expensive approaches used too universally instead of address-
ing more fundamental metabolic issues in the body. Without some form of metabolic
analysis, it is like throwing a dart at a dartboard blindfolded. This is why there is so
much ambiguity in most medical research because there is no such thing as "an aver-
age healthy person" and drug companies and doctors are administering drugs or nutri-
tional supplements to people without so much as establishing a minimal metabolic
baseline for establishing gross and specific metabolic functionality and drug tolerance
and potential effectiveness. People react completely different to both negative and posi-
tive stimuli based on their energy levels and metabolic efficiency. I have never had to
resort to any of these extreme diets and strategies to get my clients healthy.
I have been in private practice for 28 years as a metabolic chemist in Boston, Atlanta,
Palm Beach and now in Los Angeles and I helped thousands of people finally overcome
these major metabolic challenges permanently which are either the actual physical
cause of their maladies or a significant contributor to them. I have been in practice
since the 80s and have seen just about every syndrome fad from candidiasis, hypogly-
cemia and hypothyroidism and miracle supplement or drug craze from kombucha tea,
aloe vera extract products, bee pollen, and tryptophan come and go because despite
the fact each one of these had some general nutritional benefit or specific clinical valid-
ity but they were advertised to the public as cure-alls. There is no such thing, only pro-
grams of metabolic resolution based on empirical evidence administered progressively
will resolve the fundamental physical causes of most people's chronic maladies. I never
needed any of the protocols that most practitioners need for these syndromes and mys-
terious conditions because I resolved the challenge on the most basic etiological
level...disturbance and dysfunction of metabolic organs and systems. I have a combina-
tion of formal chemistry and food chemistry education and training (emphasis on meta-
bolic nutrition and toxicology), years of experience as an health actuarial mathematician
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doing research and 28 years of clinical experience being the "last gas station on the left"
for many people who have even gone to the most notable people in my field and have
gotten marginal results and never permanent resolution despite their huge time, money,
energy and consciousness investment because of basic metabolic functionality treat-
ment exclusions and oversights.
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