Lon Jones - No More Allergies, Asthma or Sinus Infections: The Revolutionary Approach

Advance Praise

I hope every family doctor and pediatrician in America reads this book for the sake of their patients!

Ronald L. Hoffman, MD, medical director of The Hoffman Center and host of the nationally syndicated radio programHealth Talk

No More Allergies, Asthma, or Sinus Infections offers a straight-forward, common sense approach to anyone who suffers from the unbearable symptoms of respiratory tract challenges. This book is a must read for the person in your life who suffers needlessly from these all too-common health challenges. It is a perfect patient education tool for every doctor in family practice today. Its as if Dr. Jones is in the room with you.

Dr. David C. Kolbaba, natural healthcare practitioner and show host ofHealthQuest RadioChicago

Xylitol is a very versatile compound that will help a lot of people. It has great potential as both a sweetener and for its use in dental health. Xylitol is also extremely effective, as we learn from Dr. Lon Jones, in its ability to cleanse the nasal cavity and sinuses and help us to deal with a myriad of respiratory health challenges. A highly recommended read for anyone dealing with these issues.

Jordan S. Rubin,The New York Timesbest-selling author ofThe Makers Diet

I learned so much from Dr. Jones about the benefits of xylitol in a nose wash and how it reduces middle ear infections. As a dentist I was already aware of the anti-cavity benefits using xylitol and now parents and doctors can learn more from this very practical approach to better health.

Doyle Williams, DDS, Chief Dental Officer, DentaQuest

Dont let Dr. Lon Jones self-proclaimed description, as being a rural Texas country doctor with a mission and simple message, lull you into not understanding that youre about to read a profound and light-years-ahead-of-its-time quality and quantity life-extending, self-help expose. I consider Dr. Jones to be the modern day Father of Functional Nasology. No More Allergies, Asthma or Sinus Infections should be required reading for all primary-care providers, including MDs, DOs DCs, NDs, all dental professionals as well as lay people. And in doing so, mankind is ultimately better served.

Robert C. Martin, DC, DACBN, author ofSecret Nerve Curesand nationally syndicated host ofThe Dr. Bob Martin Show

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T his book is dedicated to my mother, who died last year, and to my wife, Jerry Bozeman. My mothers daily admonishment as she sent me off to school was: Keep your nose clean. When I got older I asked her whether the admonishment was metaphorical or real and she told me about a classmate of hers in grammar school who had a chronic runny nose and how it affected her relationships with classmatesit wasnt metaphorical. As I learned more about how the body works it always made sense to promote our cleaning defenses, so Moms advice stayed with me; and the fact that I finally found a way to honor her request gave her some joy in her final years.

You will get to know more about Jerry in the book, but it was her experience in special education, and the connection that she observed between ear infections and learning problems that prompted her remark to me that changed everything: If somebody really cared about children they would find a way to prevent ear infections. Having fathered several children of my own as well as being an adoptive, step, and foster father to more, that was a challenge I could not escape, especially when the recurrent ear infections that led to the discussion were in our granddaughter.

INTRODUCTION

No More Upper Respiratory Problems

M y name is Dr. Lon Jones. I guess you could call me a country doctor since I practiced in rural Texas.

I am also an osteopathic physician and more osteopaths turn out to be country doctors, or at least family physicians, than any other branch of med-icineand, oh yes, in case youre wondering we osteopaths are every bit the doctor that your M.D. is. We work a little differently but in the pantheon of medicine we are equally considered to be treating physicians. Back in the days when I was looking at medical schools I wasnt familiar with Osteopathic medicine, but I was not particularly attracted to the way medicine was taught and practiced in regular medical schools: the focus seemed to be more on the disease than the person who had it. Medical schools then took younger people so they could practice longer, but many were so young they were uncomfortable dealing with people so they went into the specialties, like radiology and pathology, where they didnt have to see patients at all, or other specialties that allowed them to focus on just a part of the patient. I wanted something better and when someone mentioned Osteopathic medicine and I read about it, it was more in line with what I wanted.

Osteopathic medicine tends to focus more on the person, while traditional medicine tends to focus more on the symptoms. A founding principle of Osteopathic medicine is that the body is able to heal itself if it has what it needs and everything is working well. For osteopathic physicians like me, a significant part of our institutional memory is the success we had in America treating people with the flu after World War I.

This flu epidemic killed millions of people around the world and the virus that caused it is closely related to the H1N1 strain that we are dealing with now, which is in part why there is so much concern about it today. But in 1919, those treated in the United States by Osteopathic physicians had a mortality rate that was twenty times less than those treated by regular physicians. Originally this was credited to their use of manipulation, the practice that seemed to characterize osteopathic physicians. But Dr. Harold Magoun, Jr., writing in the October 2004 issue of the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, took another look. He pointed out that the standard treatment used by regular, allopathic physicians was aspirin to reverse the fever and cough suppressants to stop the cough. He remembered the osteo-pathic principle that the body can heal itself and he knew that a fever and a cough are both defenses that help us better cope with invading agents. Hobbling those defenses meant that those with the flu had less ability to cope with the virus. Osteopathic physicians used neither of these treatments; and saw a twenty fold increase in survival because the defenses of the individuals were better able to cope.