Contacts, Websites and Books
for Guaifenesin
RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT: Guaifenesin
Paul St. Amand, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Endocrinology at Harbor-UCLA believes guaifenesin therapy can significantly help fibromyalgia (FM) patients combat their symptoms and lead normal, healthy lives.
Dr. St. Amand’s theory of the medicinal effects of guaifenesin is based on the premise that excess calcium and inorganic phosphate compounds accumulate within cells to produce a state of hyperpermeability.
This condition allows excess fluids, ions and other unwanted substances to flow into cell mitochondria, disrupting normal cell function, including production of ATP, the body’s energy source.
Dr. St. Amand believes these factors cause the body to experience an energy deprived state, in which widespread bodily functions are disrupted.
To read more about the benefits of guaifenesin,
click here
For full details on Guaifenesin therapy,
plus information on fibromyalgia,
read the book
"What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Fibromyalgia"
by R. Paul St. Amand M.D. and Claudia Craig Marek.
Australians & New Zealanders please click here
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Visit Dr. St. Amand's website at:
Guaifenesin Doctor
or The Fibromyalgia Treatment Center
Your doctor may contact Dr. St. Amand
at the following address:R. Paul St. Amand, M.D.
4560 Admiralty Way, Suite 355
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
310-577-7510
Other Websites That May Be Useful
Fibromyalgia (FMS) & Chronic Myofascial Pain (CMP)
with Devin Starlanyl
International Guai Support Group
Guaifenesin and Environmental Medicine
Fibromyalgia Using the Guaifenesin Treatment To purchase Guaifenesin Protocol Videos, Tapes CDs and Books –relating to the "The Diagnosis and Treatment of Fibromyalgia and Hypoglycaemia"
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Two Independent Medical Research Papers
AN EXTENSIVE REPORT
to compare the efficacy of Guaifenesin versus Placebo
in the management of fibromyalgia
in a randomized, prospective, 12 month study.
Principal Investigators:
Robert M. Bennett, MD, FACP, FRCP, FACR
Professor of Medicine and Chairman Division of Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases
Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, USA
Sharon R. Clark, Ph.D., FNP
Assistant Professor of Medicine OHSU and Associate Professor of Nursing OHSU
SPECULATION AS TO THE MECHANISM
whereby some of Dr. St. Amand's fibromyalgia patients
experienced improvement while taking Guaifenesin.
Dr. Robert Bennett, Professor Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University
Also Read These Excerpts
"The Fibromyalgia Advocate: Getting the Support You Need to Cope with Fibromyalgia and Myofascial Pain Syndrome" by Devin J. Starlanyl, © 1998, New Harbinger
For information on release of wastes, excess acids and toxins, as well as substances such as quinolinic acid, the nerve toxin produced by the kynurenine pathway of tryptophan metabolism see
"Alternative Tryptophan Pathway, Chapter 5, The Fibromyalgia Advocate"
You may also experience burning on urination, caused by the excess acid see
"Fibromyalgia and Myofascial Pain Syndrome: The Survival Manual"
For the helpful Zone diet see
Reactive Hypoglycemia, and
"Books and Tapes"
Only phosphate is known to decrease ATP formation when it accumulates in the mitochondrial matrix. The mitochondria are the body's energy factories, and ours are polluting badly.
"Low ATP has been found in people with FMS" –
Park J. H., P. Phothimat, C. T. Oates, M. Hernanz-Schulman and N. J. Olsen. 1998.
"Use of P-31 magnetic resonance spectroscopy to detect metabolic abnormalities
in muscles of patients with fibromyalgia."
Arth Rheum 41(3):406-413; Eisinger, Plantamura and Ayavou 1994).