The Calcium Factor was written to both inform and instruct the general public about one of the hottest topics of research in the scientific community: biological calcium. Each scientist specializes in his specific and complex arena of interest much like a musician specializes in his specific musical instrument. The purpose of this publication is to unlock the information hidden within scientific technical jargon contained within thousands of publications, and to demonstrate to the layman that all of the thousands of scientific arenas of research can easily be orchestrated using "The Calcium Factor'' to produce an understanding of the symphony of life.

Calcium has also become a hot topic for nutritionists who are extolling its virtues in promoting good health. The general public is being told that "calcium is good for you" and food producers are responding by fortifying numerous products with calcium. Since promoting calcium is becoming old hat — just ask the dairy industry — then why another book on calcium? The answer is simple. The Calcium Factor explains with detailed technical mechanism just how calcium works, and also explains why calcium is superior to all other elements in performing the biological tasks that are required to prevent disease and maintain good health. Also, the critical link between calcium and vitamin-D will be discussed in detail, and daily consumption of these two critical nutrients will be recommended in amounts substantially higher than the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA's). In doing so the book becomes controversial to orthodox medicine which, although it has an excellent track record in dealing with catastrophic illness, has a dismal record in both dealing with and accepting preventive medicine. The Calcium Factor was written to withstand scientific scrutiny and criticism. Criticism from those who benefit from the maintenance of disease only serves to endorse the importance of understanding calcium's role in nutrition, as historically, all great concepts that are currently accepted by those who criticize were initially vigorously opposed by their predecessors prior to their total acceptance by the world at large.

The historical resistance to change of the governing establishments in the scientific and medical communities, as well as the resulting negative effects on innovation and research, will be explained. Dr. Carl Reich will be shown to be one of these innovators who fell victim to the system. Quotes from world renowned scientists, including several Nobel Prize winners, will be given in support of the significance of the calcium factor to human health. A detailed explanation of the chemistry of calcium will be given to show how it has become the king of the bioelements or the common denominator of good health. All of the scientific and medical facts will be presented in an order that supports this unified concept of disease, with calcium being the "silver bullet" for many dreaded diseases such as heart disease and cancer. Using cell physiology and biochemistry, an explanation will be given to show that healthy body fluids are alkaline as is demonstrated by the bright alkaline blue saliva test for children and the healthiest athletes, and to show that the sick have body fluids that have become severely acidic, as is demonstrated by the bright acidic yellow saliva test for patients with   terminal   diseases,   such as

Cancer which experts recognize cannot survive in an alkaline medium. Calcium deficiency will be shown to be directly relatable to acidic saliva pH which is a reflection of the acidic state of the body's fluids. A scientific explanation will be given of how very moderate amounts of food supplements, in the form of vitamins and minerals, can regulate good health. Also, the influence of electrical and magnetic fields on regulating health will be explained in simple scientific terms.

Calcium makes up 1.6 percent of the human body weight, making it the most abundant metallic element. As such, it plays a myriad of crucial roles both structurally and biochemically. Only recently have scientists begun to unravel the intricacies that make calcium the King of the bioelements. They found that a drop in the level of calcium in the body is intricately involved in the process of aging as well as a host of degenerative diseases such as osteoporosis, allergy, gallstones, cancer, heart disease and many more.

The Calcium Factor explains how and why calcium plays such a pivotal role in human health while also explaining how the degree of acidity of body fluids, which can be simply measured by spitting on a penny's worth of pH paper, is directly related to the trigger of disease: calcium deficiency.

The Calcium Factor also explains how preventive medicine consisting of a change in life-style, accompanied by modest food supplements, can quickly overcome mineral deficiency, and in doing so can shoot down disease with the the silver bullet, calcium.

The most distressing aspect of medicine today is that the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) for minerals and vitamins, although ridiculously low and disease-inducing (the new RDFs will be set at half as much), is rigidly adhered to, even though our society is heading towards several medical disasters, as is witnessed by the staggering increase in AIDS and cancer. Although medicine is winning a few battles, it is definitely losing the wars. For example, in the 1950's cancer was striking one out of every four people; by the 1980's cancer was striking one out of every three people; by the year 2010 cancer will strike one out of every two people. AIDS is also skyrocketing with virtually no hope with the current medical approach of packaging a solution in a chemical drug. Since the AIDS victims do not die from the disease directly, but from other diseases that are able to attack their defense- weakened body, it makes sense that although a person may carry the virus, high pH body fluids may strengthen the body's health to the point where the disease is not allowed to flourish, as is the case with cancer.

Fortunately, the medical pendulum is beginning to swing in the opposite direction. There is a growing movement that wants to do more than just use chemicals and drugs to block the symptoms of disease. By researching biochemical processes, calcium deficiency has been shown to be the trigger for a whole host of diseases. The road to the prevention and the cure for these diseases can be found in the knowledge expounded in The Calcium Factor.

The scientifically defendable suggestion that diseases can be prevented and even cured nutritionally will most certainly be received by both skepticism and medicine's traditional cry of "quackery". The authors hope that such is the case, as most major advances of medicine in the past have been greeted by the same chorus. For example, Dr. Ignas Semmelweis was run out of the medical profession for the "quackery" of advocating in 1847 that physicians wash their hands. More recently, the pioneers of electrobiochemistry who introduced the electro-encephalograph (EEG) to medicine, were called "electronic quacks" by the American Medical Association.

The examples given of the behavior of the medical and scientific communities are historical facts, and are not meant to demean either profession to which each author respectfully belongs. All  criticisms  are  directed  at the  few  in the  upper echelon deministrations of the governing bureaucratic establishments who rapidly regulate the innovation of doctors and scientists while vigorously protecting their own prestigious status quo empires. Unfortunately, criticism of these elite and most respected men is often met with the blind and defensive cry, "blasphemy", thereby providing encouragement for the system to perpetuate its mistakes at the cost of human lives and suffering.   Ironically, blasphemy is "the disrespect for persons or things regarded as sacred".   This implies that such men are holy and therefore incapable of making mistakes. It is hoped that by our pointing out a few, the reader will be alerted to the fact that history may once again be repeating itself. More importantly, the implementation of the knowledge expounded in this publication,  The   Calcium   Factor,   could  provide  an innovative   alternative   for   the   frustrated   physician   and   the disheartened patient.

Unfortunately, before the physician can practice preventive medicine, he must prove that nutritional therapy works to the satisfaction of the governing regulators who already have refused to examine the massive documentation available, most of which was provided by the world's best scientists, some of whom won Nobel Prizes for their efforts. In other words, the American Medical Association just refuses to listen to logic, preferring to tread the beaten path of escalating disease treated by unnatural and expensive man-made chemicals. The cost of this stance is massive human suffering, and the premature death of millions of Americans. The best remedy would be an amendment to the American Constitution enshrining medical freedom; thereby, allowing both actors and patients the right to practice and to preach preventive medicine:

"Each and every American citizen has the right to choose and to practice the form of medicine that the citizen deems most beneficial to personal health, without economic, physical, political, or verbal interference or abuse, and any institution or governmental agency assigned to protect the state of the individual's health should be empowered only to make recommendations that do not infringe or prevent the individual's right to choose and to practice any form of medicine."

However, amendments to the Constitution are very rare, and require years to succeed. The American public is desperate today, and cannot wait for this urgently needed change. Thus the best interim remedy would be for each state and the U.S. Congress to legislate an Alternative Medicine Protection Act to read as follows:

"A practitioner  of traditional or  alternative  medicine, registered by an appropriate government authority, who engages in medical or nutritional therapy or in any relevant health procedure,  including the recommendation  or sale  of health supplements, that departs from orthodox or conventional medical treatment, shall not be found to be unqualified, unprofessional, negligent nor guilty of assault upon a patient, nor be denied the right to pursue her or his professional practice or livelihood, solely on the basis that the therapy employed is an alternative remedy, or is non traditional or departs prevailing orthodox medical treatment, unless it can be   conclusively demonstrated that the therapy has  a safety risk for a particular patient unreasonably greater than the traditional or prevailing treatment usually employed for the patient's ailment."

(Howard W. Pollock, Former Territorial Chairman of the Legislative Committee on Statehood for Alaska, and First Republican U.S. Congressman for Alaska.)