The Eye Problems archives from the 'Ask Dr. Stoll' website are here .

• 1. tending to become progressively worse and to result in death.
• 2. having the properties of anaplasia, invasion, and metastasis; said of tumors.

• Year discovered: 1830
• Atomic No.: 12
• Symbol: Mg
• Atomic weight: 24.312
• Melting point: 648.8?C

Magnesium's discovery as a chemical element dates back to Sir Humphrey Davy's efforts in 1808, but it took another 22 years and the efforts of French scientist A. Bussy to isolate it via magnesium chloride reduction. There's enough magnesium already dissolved in seawater to satisfy the world's requirements through the next Millennium, and a lot of it is produced from seawater and from the Great Salt Lake.

Magnesium is an important mineral for healthy bones and teeth, and is involved in proper nerve and muscle functioning, as well as regulating blood pressure. Magnesium may help prevent dizziness, depression, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), insomnia, and muscle weakness and twitching. This mineral is also important in aiding the enzymes involved in energy production.

Magnesium deficiency is one of the leading causes of cardiovascular disease in the Western world.

[Dr. Stoll]

First of all you have chosen the kind of magnesium least likely to be absorbed [magnesium oxide](that is why is is so inexpensive).

Second, during pregnancy is one of the most important times for a magnesium supplement since Toxemia of Pregnancy is mostly caused by magnesium deficiency; only THIS time use one more easily absorbed (aspartate, orotate or glycinate).

The current shortsighted policy of MDs is to wait till the person is convulsing with toxemia and then give massive doses of injectible magnesium sulfate to try to stop the convulsions.

See also Trace Minerals

A new study suggests patients with depression that does not respond to antidepressant drugs or electric shock therapy could benefit from electromagnetic stimulation.

Researchers at Emory University Health Sciences Center in Atlanta studied 50 patients, who did not take antidepressant drugs for one week prior to the study. Electromagnetic stimulation therapy involves creating a magnetic field between the electricity in an electromagnetic coil and the electrical currents in the brain. The magnetic field pulls nerve cells in the brain up to about 2 centimeters below the brain's surface. The procedure does not require anesthesia.

The study found that 40 percent of the patients significantly improved after electromagnetic stimulation therapy. Researchers say the treatment relieved 25 patients. Seventy-eight percent of the patients reported discomfort at the site of stimulation and 8 percent of the patients experienced post-treatment headaches. Two patients experienced severe pain at the site of stimulation, researchers say.

"These results suggest repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation may be a viable option for patients with treatment-resistant depression," researchers reported at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

• Year discovered: 1774
• Atomic No.: 25
• Symbol: Mn
• Atomic weight: 54.9380
• Melting point: 1,204.4?C

Manganese is a critical element in steel production. It was first produced by reduction of the dioxide with carbon. It is a gray-white, hard and brittle metal, first recognized as an element in 1774 by Scheele, the Swedish chemist and apothecary, whose fellow countryman, Gahn, isolated the metal in the same year. Its use in steelmaking dates to 1839 with the first commercial application coming in 1856. The leading end-uses of manganese are construction, machinery and transportation. . The metal is also used in batteries, chemicals and pig iron. Manganese is an essential element for people, animals and plants, but it can be harmful in excessive amounts. It can be an industrial poison but is generally not a hazard Manganese ore containing 35-percent or more manganese was not produced in the United States in 1997.

Marshmallow contains large amounts of vitamin A, calcium, zinc and significant amounts of iron, sodium, iodine, and B-complex. Like slippery elm, marshmallow reduces inflammation and has a calming effect on the body.

Marshmallow's mucilage content helps soothe inflamed tissues, often caused by bronchitis and asthma. Marshmallow also relieves dryness and irritation in the chest and throat, usually brought on by colds and persistent coughs.

Marshmallow has been known to relieve indigestion, kidney problems, urinary tract infections, and even external skin wounds such as boils and abscesses.

Marshmallow root and herb is a soothing, healing plant. It contains high amounts of calcium and lime. It can also be used whenever a demulcent herb is needed.

[DR. Schulze] One of the things I always notice when I get a massage is they don't touch my ears, my nose, my eyes, my jaw, my lips, or my chin. In these areas, I seem to hold a tremendous amount of stress.

A person having a reaction is like a cup running over. Environmental factors are entering the body faster than it can eliminate them. The body of a person with EI/MCS can not readily detoxify and eliminate chemicals, therefore, chemicals store in the fatty tissue, liver and brain.

Symptoms include but are not limited to: Brain Fog, Chronic Fatigue, Mood Swings, Pain in various parts of the body, Flushing, Memory Loss, Inability to concentrate, Chest Pains, Headaches, Visual disturbances, Sensitivity to light and sound, Audio disturbances, sensitivity to touch, Rashes, Hair loss, Vertigo, Dizziness, Asthma, Flu like symptoms that won't go away, Nausea, Depression, and the list goes on and on.

Individuality plays an important role in why some people have MCS and others don't. For instance, more women than men have the symptoms. Men produce Testosterone which often covers up the problem until it's to late. Women produce Estrogen which does not cover up the symptoms or warning signs.

By the time they realize what they have, fixed name disease has often taken place in the heart, liver, Brain etc.

Meditation is a tool used to gain self-awareness, to help get the mind out of the way so you can more clearly see who you really are. Those who have succeeded in this quest tell us the resulting peace, happiness, and connection to (God, the One, your Self, the Infinite -- pick one) is immeasurably better than the stressed-out and often hopeless existence many people are experiencing.

From research done in the 1970s, we learned that all forms of meditation involve the slowing of the electrical brain wave patterns from the normal, everyday beta brain wave pattern to the slower alpha rhythms. Very experienced meditators enjoy short excursions, lasting a few moments at a time, into the even slower trance-like theta brain wave pattern.

This slowing of the electrical brain wave patterns in every case is accomplished -- in traditional meditation -- by some kind of focusing, the most popular points of focus being the breath, or a mantra or prayer. Any kind of focusing causes the brain wave patterns to slow.

Now I know this "brain wave pattern" approach to understanding doesn't sound as romantic as some of the more metaphorical Eastern explanations, but I believe it is more useful (and I don't think it negates the Eastern explanations, either).

So what does slowing the brain wave patterns accomplish? Several things. First, it creates an altered state. You become more relaxed. The brain makes endorphins, DHEA (a hormone related to health and well-being and a buffer against stress), human growth hormone, serotonin, and a number of other hormones and neurochemicals related to relaxation, stress release, and well-being. While in this altered state, you may partially or even totally lose contact with the outside world for moments at a time. (Cosmic Consciousness, or nonlocal consciousness, anyone?)

Second, the slower brain wave patterns create electrical fluctuations the brain cannot handle -- the way it is currently structured. To deal with this, the brain creates a new structure that can handle these fluctuations. The two sides of the brain begin to communicate more, leading to whole brain functioning, which includes greater mental abilities, and greater self awareness, resolution of emotional problems, greater balance in the brain, and what most people describe as a greater feeling of connect to everything around them.

Now, you may have meditated, even meditated quite a lot, and had very little of this happen to you. Why is that? It's because it isn't that easy to create the focus required to slow the brain wave patterns and then to hold them at the point where the brain must create the required changes. Most people require several years of practice to get the technique down -- and most people are too impatient to really work at it long enough to do so. Then, it requires practicing this focus for a few hours a day to really create deep changes. So, at best, people experience some relaxation (which is good) but little real transformation.

Then there is the issue of what many people call the "monkey mind." As you focus on your breath or your mantra, you periodically realize you're thinking about something else: what happened before, what will happen later, the noise you just heard, the pain in your leg -- anything but what you intended to focus on. Your mind fights you. It wants to do anything other than focus. It flits from thought to thought, like a monkey swinging from branch to branch. This causes people to think they are failing at meditation, and there is probably more misconception around this "problem" than any other aspect of meditation.

Here's what's happening: when you focus and the brain slows down, you make contact with deeper parts of your mind. There are stresses stored in the nervous system at this level, and when your awareness reaches the level where these stresses live, they are activated, in a sense, and bubble up to the surface of your awareness. As they break the surface of your awareness, they take the form of random thoughts, old memories, muscle twitches, flashes of light in your visual field, inner auditory sensations, and even odd physical or kinesthetic sensations.

In the Eastern meditation schools these are called "kriyas" and represent the burning off of stresses in the nervous system -- a good thing. As long as you gently return to the point of focus as soon as you realize your attention has wandered, you are still meditating. If you let your mind go off on the thought or other distractions, you are just sitting there thinking. In a typical meditation you might be distracted hundreds of times, each representing a stress in the nervous system coming to the surface and being released.

Most people in the West think they are having a terrible meditation when this happens because they think meditation means a quiet mind, but the opposite is true. While these kinds of meditations are not necessarily peaceful, they are very productive (and pave the way for a generally quieter mind, both in and out of meditation). Meditation is often -- especially in the first several years -- an upheaval of all the "stuff" needing release. When you have these meditations you should say "All right! I'm making progress!"

Meditation, then, is really very simple. You pay attention to whatever is your chosen point of focus, and whenever you realize you have been distracted, you re-focus. If you are immediately distracted again, so what? You just say good-by to more stress and re-focus again -- as often as it takes.

Many people use melatonin just to combat insomnia and jet lag, not realizing that it plays other important roles in the body.

Melatonin is a powerful antioxidant that can permeate all cells and prevent free radical damage. Some studies suggest that it may actually slow the aging process and boost the immune system. Our bodies produce large amounts of melatonin when we're young, but the production declines with age and needs to be supplemented as we mature.

[Medscape]

Contrary to popular belief, melatonin levels probably do not decline with age, according to a new study. Some advertisements have encouraged older people to take melatonin supplements to restore amounts of the hormone said to be lost with aging. Now a study contradicts the notion that melatonin levels in older people decline with age.

Many hormonal changes occur during menopause. Primarily as a result of decreases in estrogen, postmenopausal women are at higher risk of heart disease and osteoporosis. A number of unpleasant symptoms may also accompany menopause. Some, such as vaginal dryness, result from the lack of estrogen. Others, such as hot flashes and decreased libido are caused by more complex hormonal changes.

Hormone replacement therapy is commonly used by post-menopausal women to ward off osteoporosis and bone fractures, and symptoms of menopause such as vaginal dryness.

• Year discovered: Circa 1500 B.C.
• Atomic No.: 80
• Symbol: Hg
• Atomic weight: 200.59
• Melting point: -38.87?C

Mercury, which connotes the fleet-footedness of the ancient Roman god of commerce and messenger of the gods, has been used for more than 2,000 years. Its first recorded mention was made by Aristotle in the fourth century B.C. Then, the heavy, silvery-white metal was utilized in religious ceremonies. The only metal in a liquid state at ordinary temperatures, mercury seldom occurs free in nature, and is recovered mostly from cinnabar ores. Mercury also occurs in coderite and other mercury ores and minerals. It is found in small quantities as a byproduct of gold refining. A fair conductor of heat, mercury is usually sold in 76-pound flasks for commercial use in electrical apparatus, the electrolytic preparation of chlorine and caustic soda, and the manufacture of mildew-proof paint.

Mercury, a heavy metal toxicant, has been shown to undergo incorporation into the amino acid cysteine, forming a new molecule called methylmercury cysteine. Accumulations of this molecule are associated with a variety of nervous system disorders, including alterations in vision, ataxias, and paresthesias.

• 1: the sum of all the physical and chemical processes by which living organized substance is produced and maintained (anabolism), and also the transformation by which energy is made available for uses of the organism (catabolism)
• 2: biotransformation.

[Michelle A. Johnson, ND]

when the temperature of aspartame exceeds 89 degrees, the wood alcohol (methanol) in aspartame converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. (Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants.)

The methanol toxicity mimics multiple sclerosis. Thus, people are diagnosed as having multiple sclerosis when, in fact, they are often suffering from aspartame toxicity. If they had been taken off aspartame, their symptoms would, in many cases, have disappeared.

Read Dr. Johnson's article ASPARTAME: Sweet and Deadly.

• Methylprednisolone is in a class of drugs called steroids. Methylprednisolone reduces swelling and decreases your body's immune response.
• Methylprednisolone is used to treat many different conditions. It is used to treat endocrine (hormonal) disorders when the body does not produce enough of its own steroids. It is also used to treat many immune and allergic disorders, such as arthritis, lupus, severe psoriasis, severe asthma, ulcerative colitis, and Crohn's disease.

The PDR Reference is here.

The antioxidants you currently consume probably include Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Betacarotene, Selenium, OPC’s from grape seed or pine bark. These antioxidant compounds consist of large complex molecules, but no matter how large, they each give up only one electron.

In an effort to develop the most potent antioxidant possible, the world- renown scientific research team, Drs. Gael and Patrick Flanagan looked at all the elements. They realized that the smallest one of all, Hydrogen, would provide the most concentrated source of antioxidant power. Each tiny Hydrogen atom could carry and give up an extra electron, creating the same power as each of the huge antioxidant molecules.

After years of research, they succeeded in developing a unique process using all-natural, food-grade ingredients to create a nutritional form of Hydrogen. This process produced a negatively charged hydrogen ion that can easily give up an electron more efficiently than any other antioxidant.

This vast ecosytem--our "human intestinal flora--dramatically influences every individual's health--including our physical and mental helath, our metabolism, and quite possibly, even our sife span.

Over 400 distinct species of microorganisms inhabit the various regions of the human digestive tract, taking up nearly four pounds of every individual's total body weight. If functioning properly, this vast unseen world of intestinal flora is now widely regarded as both a "shield and secret weapon" for maximum health and well-being

Bear in mind that both "friendly" and "unfriendly" microorganisms inhabit the human intestinal tract simultaneously. In fact, in many cases, each contributes to the overall function and health of the intestinal tract, while keeping the other in "check."

For example, even unfriendly microorganisms, such as small colonies of Candida yeasts that inhabit the intestinal track carry out vital tasks. They aid in the digestion of sugars and release vital enzymes, nutrients and other essential substances as byproducts of their work. Normally, friendly microorganisms such aa L. acidophilus and others keep the candida yeast in check. But if conditions prevail, which allow the candida yeast to grow uncontrollably, their once beneficial work turns grossly destructive to the human host and may result in an infectious spread to other areas of the body incuding the intestines, genital tract, mouth and throat.

Intestinal function runs smoothly, with digestion and metabolism operating at peak levels, when the balance of "friendly" microorganisms to "unfriendly" microorgainsms is stable.

It is only when the ecology of the gastrointestimal tract becomes disturbed or otherwise altered that the balance of friendly microorganisms to ufriendly microorganisms is compromised and serious health problems begin to threaten.

While at the hospital, the doctor who was attending to him stated that this is a fairly common occurrence and water (alone) should never be heated in a microwave oven. If water is heated in this manner, something should be placed in the cup to diffuse the energy such as a wooden stirrer stick/spoon, tea bag, etc. It is however a much safer choice to boil the water in a kettle"

NOTE: Subsequently on reviewing the above I have consulted a set of Microwave Operation Instructions and under the heading Liquids it states: Liquids that have been heated by Microwave can suddenly erupt. This is due to layers heated to higher temperatures being trapped under the surface. To avoid this happening to any liquid e.g. coffee, custard, gravy etc.: - 1)Stir the liquid thoroughly before heating in the microwave. 2)Stir the liquid at least twice during the heating time. 3)Stir the liquid again at the end. NEVER OVERHEAT LIQUIDS. Always use a suitable sized container, at least one third larger, than the volume of liquid to be heated. If in doubt use conventional methods Kettle etc.

Food sensitivities may be involved in migraine headaches.

See also headache.

Milk Thistle has chemicals that bind to coat liver cells. These phyto-chemicals notonly heal previous liver damage but also protect the liver from future damage.

Consider a client for whom Mimulus (Monkey flower, Mimulus guttatus) tests as the priority flower essence; that person tends to act as an Enabler and to react by fear, perhaps fearing such things as the dark, loud noises, poverty, being sick, being alone ("I'm a victim"), and it is hard for them to share their fears--they are often shy. Mimulus will help this client.

Some minerals, although necessary for good health, are only needed in very small amounts. These are called trace elements.

Small, energy-producing units inside many of the body's cells. A key role of the mitochondria involves the oxygen-based (aerobic) production of energy. This energy production process requires the mitochondria to remove electrons from fats and other molecules, and pass these electrons along a complex chain of molecules called the electron transport chain. The step-by-step passage of electrons down the chain allows the mitochondria simultaneously to draw a molecule called ADP (adenosine diphosphate) into the mitochondrial space, and to attach a third atom of phosphorus onto the ADP molecule, resulting in the creation of ATP (adenosine triphosphate). This ATP molecule is the body's key transportable form of energy. In this way, the mitochondria function as the body's battery recharging mechanism, taking the dead battery (ADP) and recharging it (into ATP).

Read Mitral Valve Prolapse (Mitral Valve Prolapse--the Current FAD Diagnosis (a diagnosis of convenience for the physician) by Walt Stoll, MD here .

Some MLM Corporate sites are:

• Achiever Unlimited
• Ad-Net
• Advanced Marketing Concepts
• Advantage Marketing Systems
• Adverworld
• Advocare
• Aim
• Alliance
• Alive
• Aloe Vitality
• Alpine
• Altitude
• Amera
• American Freeway 100
• Amway
• Arbonne
• Amsoil
• Aspire
• Aprise
• Avon
• Awareness
• Benchmark
• Better Wellness
• Beverly Hills
• Big Planet
• Bimini
• Biogime
• Bio-Metics
• BizKonnect
• Body Alive
• Body Systems
• Body Wise
• Carco
• CD Express
• Celestial Harvest
• CellTech
• Changes
• Charmelle
• Colese Coutures
• Color Me Beautiful
• Communications Concepts
• Conklin
• Custom Telecard
• Daystar
• Debt Free
• Delpfin
• Designer Nutritionals
• Destiny
• Diamond Way
• Discovery Toys
• EarthNet
• Earth Smart
• Earth Tribe
• Easy Way
• Eylsee
• Enrich
• Entech
• Envion
• Enviro-Tech
• E'ola
• Epicurean
• Equinox
• Espial
• Essentially Yours
• Excel
• Family of Eagles
• FINL
• First Fitness
• Forever Living
• For*Mor
• For You
• Freedom Starr
• FreeLife
• Fuller Brush
• FutureNet
• Futurewave
• Genesis
• Geo Worldwide
• Global Essence
• Global Prosperity
• Global Wellness Club
• Golden Neo-Life Diamite
• Golden Pride Rawleigh
• Golf Connections
• The Golf Club
• Golf Link Int'l
• Gourmet Coffee Club
• Health Club Network
• Health Dynamics Research Club
• health Technologies Network
• Herbalife
• Herbatrol
• Heritage Health Products
• Higher Ideals
• Hope
• Horizons
• ICN
• Ideal Health
• IHBNO
• I-Link
• Immunocal
• Immunotec
• Infinity2
• Inspire
• Integris
• Intelligent Nutrients
• International Heritage
• Japan Life
• JewelWay
• Journey Telecom
• Kaire
• Karemore
• Kingsway
• Lametco
• L'aprina
• Leaders Club
• Le Nautrel
• Liberty
• Life Extension
• Life Force International
• Lifelink
• LifePlus
• Life Source
• LifeScience
• Lifestyles 2000
• Lifetek
• LifeTrends
• Lifetime Solutions
• Liquid Life
• Longevity
• MagNet
• Mannatech
• Market America
• Mary Kay
• Matol
• Maxim
• Maxxis 2000
• Mayberry
• MegaNet$
• Melaleuca
• Millionnaire Makers
• Morinda
• Multi-Pure
• Nanci
• NATAL
• Natural Connections
• Natural EFX
• Natural World
• Natural You
• Nature's Bodycare
• Nature's Own
• Nature's Sunshine
• New Image
• New Resolution
• New Vision
• Neways (& Starways)
• Nikken
• Noevir
• NRG
• NSA
• Nu-Botanic
• NutriCare
• Nutri-Metics
• Nu-Concepts in Travel
• NuSkin/IDN
• Nutrition for Life
• NTC
• Oceans
• Omnitrition
• One Life
• One Source
• Oxyfresh
• The Peoples Network
• Pet Lovers
• Pangea
• Partners Across America
• Partners for Wealth
• Planet Solutions
• Plexus
• Polar
• Portfolio
• Pre-Paid Legal
• Primerica
• Prime Quest
• Pro-MA
• Prostep
• Quest IV Health
• Rachael
• Rainforest Bio-Energetics
• Reliv
• Re-Vita
• Renaissance
• Rexall
• R.J. Morgan
• Rosemarie Collections
• Royal Body Care
• Scriptures
• Secure America
• Shaklee
• Shape Rite
• Simply CD
• Simtex
• Soaring Eagle
• Spectrum
• Sportnuts
• Sportron
• Staff of Life
• Starlight
• Startouch
• Startronics
• Sterling Health
• Streamline
• STS
• Sunnet
• Sunrider
• Symmetry
• Syncom
• The Art of Better Living
• Team-Up
• Texas D'Lites
• TCN
• 2Xtreme
• Total Link
• TradeNet
• Travel Max
• Trek Alliance
• Tristar Online
• Tupperware
• TSI 21st Century Global Network
• Upland
• USANA
• Unique Solutions
• VAXA
• Vigorlife
• Vitality Labs
• Viva America
• Vivian Woodward
• Voyager
• Watchers
• Watkins
• Wealth Int'l Network
• World Class Network
• World Connect
• Young Living
• Your True Colors
• Zenith

Robert Fitzpatrick, author of False Profits: Seeking Financial and Spiritual Deliverance in Multi-level Marketing and Pyramid Schemes has a [generally negative] interview in The Nexus.

• Year discovered: 1782
• Atomic No.: 42
• Symbol: Mo
• Atomic weight: 95.94
• Melting point: 2,617?C

Molybdenum is a silvery-gray metal used as an alloy to strengthen steel and make it less susceptible to rust and corrosion. About 70 percent of the world's molybdenum is produced as a byproduct of copper and the rest is a primary product, according to Roskill Information Services Ltd., London. On the consumption side, about 80 percent of demand is in iron and steel, to which molybdenum brings such important metallurgical qualities as hardness and durability. The rest of demand is split roughly between high-tech metal alloys and industrial chemicals.

• 1. having but one nucleus.
• 2. a cell having a single nucleus, especially a monocyte of the blood or tissues.

• 1. having a valence of one.
• 2. denoting an antiserum, vaccine, or antitoxin specific for a single antigen or organism.

This substances is one of the four most abundant minerals in the human body. The other three most abundant minerals are magnesium, phosphorus, and calcium.

Together with other nutrients your body uses MSM to continually create new healthy cells to replace old ones. Today it is not easy to obtain adequate dietary sulfur, as it is easily lost in processing & cooling. Sulfur contributes to the "ground substance" which keeps connective tissue intact. It is necessary to help maintain flexibility & elasticity of tissues.

Sulfur deficiencies are associated with slow wound healing, brittle nails & hair, gastrointestinal problems, inflammatory, lung & immune dysfunction.

Your liver depends upon dietary sulfur for proper detoxification process.

Supported by research & multiple patents, MSM in sufficient levels as a dietary supplement can help & improve the following conditions:

• Multiple allergies & chemical sensitivities.
• Gastrointestinal disorders.
• Improve circulation & enhance cell vitality.
• Reduces capillary fragility.
• Improves sore, swollen joints.
• Reduces hypertension.
• Improves immune system.
• Reduces the severity of carpal tunnel syndrome.
• Improves sluggish memory.
• Hyperacidity & upper GI distress, as an excellent alternative to antacids & acid blockers.
• Increases collagen, improves skin smoothness & elasticity.

Body builders try (1) teaspoon of powder before workout & (1) teaspoon afterwards. Muscles will not be sore due to MSM's ability to remove lactic acid build-up.

MSM is virtually non-toxic, non allergenic.

Karl Loren has a long article about MSM here.

Elizabeth O'Brien, ND has a short article about MSM here.

Mullein contains a substance called mucilage, a saponin that helps lubricate mucus membranes soothing raw irritated tissues. As an expectorant, mullein helps expel excess phlegm from the lungs. The tannins in mullein are beneficial for reducing swollen and inflamed respiratory passages, making it a popular treatment for asthma, bronchitis, swollen glands and breathing difficulties.

Mullein has also been known to relieve constipation, counter-act sleeplessness, protect the kidneys, and help ease nervous tension.

Mullein is considered a perfect glandular food.

Mullein has an affinity for the respiratory organs. It can alleviate pain from pulmonary complaints by soothing inflamed and irritated nerves.

The methanol toxicity mimics multiple sclerosis. Thus, people are diagnosed as having multiple sclerosis when, in fact, they are often suffering from aspartame toxicity. If they had been taken off aspartame, their symptoms would, in many cases, have disappeared.

Read Dr. Johnson's article ASPARTAME: Sweet and Deadly.

• 1. pertaining to or composing muscle.
• 2. having a well-developed musculature.

The Eye Problems archives from the 'Ask Dr. Stoll' website are here .

You can gain emotional benefits from the scent of myrrh, including strength, focus and clarity. It's also a wonderful scent for people with feelings of apathy. Myrrh may be added to massage oil to massage into the skin or inhaled.

Do not use Myrrh during pregnancy and avoid contact to the eyes and mucus membrane areas.