Testimonial

David Schore

August 11, 2004

Dear Dr. Wilson,

I am pleased to provide you with a brief summary of my career.  My work in healthcare business development, hospital administration, management and healthcare marketing spans more than three decades. Since the early 1970’s, I have pursued a multi-faceted career as a Healthcare Administrator and Clinical Research Director to hospitals, clinics, medical information firms and biotechnology manufacturers.  I pioneered the development and application of physician/patient demographics-based planning models for new and expanding healthcare facilities.  Additionally, I was responsible for developing and managing numerous outpatient clinical programs and have been recognized for my innovative work in healthcare program development, automation of medical informed consent procedures and healthcare policy planning.  Other career highlights include directing clinical trials on a new drug protocol to slow, stop and reverse blindness and kidney disease caused by Type I diabetes and co-developing a new clinical approach for the treatment of macular degeneration and decubitus ulcers.     

As Vice President of the premier regional healthcare facility in Denver, Colorado, I served as the administrative authority for marketing and healthcare business development and achieved superior results throughout my career at the Medical Center.  During a prior seven-year period as Vice President and Principal Consultant for a regional healthcare-consulting firm also located in Denver, Colorado, I was responsible for increasing net revenue and market share, and accelerating new business development for more than 1,500 physicians practicing in seven non-affiliated multi-specialty clinics and ten acute-care hospitals.  Beginning in 1971, I served as a Community Healthcare Planner and Practice Management Consultant, creating new research methodologies to determine future demand for physicians (FTE by specialty), new acute-care hospitals, medical office buildings, outpatient surgery and treatment centers and assisted living communities.

What I have observed throughout my career regarding the primary role of (Western-trained) physicians is that they are charged primarily with the responsibility of diagnosing and treating medical conditions using one or a combination of (prescription) drugs and surgery.  As a practical matter, that is the full extent of their practice of medicine.  Their emphasis is clearly on treatment, for without the planning and execution of such treatment protocols, physicians and hospitals would have no opportunity to create sustainable incomes. Similarly, without the prospect for continued (and often lifetime) treatment, the pharmaceutical companies would lack appropriate incentives to continue developing new drugs.  Since all of their work is done in the name of “serving humanity,” the collective practice of healthcare is considered both noble and admirable. 

As a patient suffering from Type II diabetes, hypertension and coronary artery disease for the past quarter century, I have often asked my colleagues in the business and practice of medicine, “where is the healing?”  I am still waiting for an answer, fairly certain that the only answer I will receive from “them” is that healing is not yet available and, accordingly, that I must be prepared to settle for treatment only.  And so I have settled, spending tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in the process with very little to show for it.  For almost 20 years, my various medical conditions remained fairly constant, perhaps slowly getting worse in some respects, and then declining rapidly.  What I experienced was a lack of healing and it almost became my undoing.

A few months ago, after collapsing in a local supermarket from a sudden drop in blood glucose, I started experiencing serious symptoms of heart disease, such a shortness of breath, dizziness, chest pains and tingling in my extremities.  In addition, I was taking more than 130 units of insulin daily.  After appropriate diagnostic medical procedures, I was advised to have an angiogram to measure the location and extent of blockages in my coronary arteries.  I declined to go forward with that procedure.  Instead, I consulted a naturopathic physician to find out if there were any appropriate non-invasive alternatives.  Indeed there were and I am happy to report on my progress.

I started taking the Diabetes Pack on June 15, 2004, adding the remaining products from the Cardio Pack and Sportrim TurboEX, as directed, on July 15, 2004.  Within a matter of a couple of weeks, my insulin utilization decreased to an average of 60 units per day, 10 units of NovoLog®   before each meal and 30 units of Lantus® at bedtime.  “Crashing” two to three times a week from episodes of low blood glucose has also become a thing of the past.  A week after starting C-Plex and C-Tron (the balance of the Cardio Pack), my chest pains disappeared and the other symptoms were greatly reduced.  I still experience some minimal tingling in my fingers and occasionally feel a little shortness of breath and brief periods of dizziness.  My weight has dropped 13 pounds in the past two months.  Today, I have considerably more energy and stamina as well as a renewed sense of well-being. 

I didn’t develop these chronic diseases overnight and it will likely take several months for me to become symptom free.  I still need to lose 20 pounds and I have yet to begin a regular program of physical exercise.  I have improved my eating habits considerably by eating whole foods (grains), more fresh fruits and vegetables and reducing the amount of processed foods in my diet.  The single most important change in my lifestyle, however, is the daily use of nutritional supplements powered by FoodMatrix™ technology, offered exclusively by Sportron International, Inc.

You may use this testimonial letter as you deem appropriate, knowing that I will add to it from time to time.

                       Sincerely, 

                       David Schore

October 15, 2004

Dear Dr. Wilson,

Two months ago I wrote to you describing the progress I had made to date in treating both my diabetic and cardio-vascular conditions.  I am pleased to report that even more progress has been made.

With respect to my diabetes, my typical blood glucose reading is between 100 and 120 mg/dL, regardless of the time of day I check it.  At bedtime I now take 15 units of Lantus® whereas two months ago, I was taking 30 units.  Before breakfast, which always includes a substantial amount of very complex carbohydrates in the form of a cooked whole grain cereal, see attached, I take between five and seven units of NovoLog®.  At lunchtime, I rarely take any insulin even though my usual lunch consists of three servings of fruit and that is all.  My body seems to adjust quite well to that amount of pure complex carbohydrates without any “outside chemical assistance.”  For dinner, which consists mainly of five to seven ounces of protein and at least three vegetables of which one may be a complex carbohydrate (such as a potato), I typically take three units of NovoLog® or double that if I know I am going to eat desert, such as a scoop of ice cream.

My weight continues to drop slowly, having now lost a total of 19.5 pounds, and I am able to walk briskly for at least two miles a day and work a full day besides with lots of energy and purpose.

This past Monday, October 11, 2004, I had a thorough examination by my favorite cardiologist at Presbyterian/Saint Luke’s Medical Center in Denver.  He has been my cardiologist for more than 20 years and knows me, and my (former) lifestyle habits, very well.  I actually dreaded having to see him again, knowing that he would strongly urge me to schedule an angiogram that very day to measure the extent of blockage in at least three of my coronary arteries.  From experience I know that angiograms usually lead to angioplasty, at best a temporary “tire patch” approach to fixing damaged arteries and I truly did not want to go there.  To say that I was scared is an understatement!

In addition to the exam, we reviewed my drug list and my nutritional supplement list, see attached. By the way, my blood pressure was 126 over 80. All I take for hypertension is a very small dose of an ace inhibitor.  He noted that I had cut my dosage of Actos and Lipitor by 50%.  Actos is taken to decrease insulin resistance and Lipitor is taken to lower cholesterol. I answered a lot of questions about how I had been feeling and my ability to work and play.  So far, everything was going better than expected.  Then we got down to “business,” discussing my need for an angiogram.   

Based on my answers to the questions he asked me along with a complete visual examination (which is as you know a critical part of a thorough physical exam), he concluded that my overall health had improved a lot in the past several months and, in his own words, “that I was doing everything humanly possible to maintain and improve my health.” From my perspective, that statement in itself is important:  Wouldn’t you agree that at my present age of 66, a diabetic patient for almost half of my life, maintaining one’s health is the best an M.D. cardiologist can hope for; noticing that a patient like myself has actually improved   his health is “remarkable?”

How and why did all of this “good stuff” happen?  What does “doing everything humanly possible” really mean?  Can the plan you and I worked out together be useful and beneficial to other individuals with diabetes and coronary artery disease?

I can’t answer those questions for you; only you can do that.  My opinion, however, based on 30 years of clinical research and an ongoing involvement in the practice of medicine, would suggest that the now partial resolution of my various auto-immune diseases, including Type II diabetes and fairly advanced coronary artery disease may be substantially attributed to the Sportron Food Form nutrients that I have been taking since June 15, 2004, along with the breakfast cereal you shared with me, which as you will notice, I have named after you!

What about the angiogram?  My cardiologist suggested that we re-visit that issue again in three months.  I certainly don’t plan to change anything that I am presently doing by way of nutritional support, diet or exercise.  If I had to guess whether or not he will urge me to have the angiogram after the first of the year, I would say “probably not” because I know my health will continue to improve and it will simply not be medically necessary or appropriate.’

Once again, feel free to share “my story” with your associates.

All the best, 

David Schore

David Schore

2655 Summer Vale Circle, Unit A

Grand Junction, Colorado 81506

Telephone: 970.245.9850

E-Mail: dschore@intergate.com

Home Page: www.DavidSchore.com

Medication List As Of  October 10, 2004:

Actos 45mg (every other day)

Ambien 10mg daily

Bextra 20mg daily

Cyclobenzaprine 10mg PRN

Enalapril 20mg daily

Hydrochlorothiazide 25mg daily

Lantus 15 – 20 units depending on blood glucose reading

   (Units Per Dose At Bedtime)

Lipitor 40mg (every other day)

Neurontin 300mg daily

Novolog PenFill  0 – 10 units depending on estimated number of carbohydrates (8:1 Ratio)

   (Units Per Dose At Meal Time)

Oxycodone IR 5 mg - PRN

Toprol XL 50mg daily

Tylenal w/Codeine 60mg - PRN

Nutritional Supplements:

Sportron Food Matrix Vitamin A – 11,000 IU daily

Sportron Food Matrix Vitamin B Complex – 22mg

Sportron Food Matrix Vitamin C - 500 mg daily

Sportron Food Matrix Calcium – 1236 mg

Sportron Food Matrix Chromium – 1175 mcg daily

Sportron Food Matrix Vitamin D – 100 IU daily

Vitamin E – 400 IU daily

Sportron Iodine – 250 mcg daily

Sportron L-Tyrosine – 400 mg daily

Sportron Food Matrix Magnesium – 1020 mg daily

Sportron Omega 3 - 400 mg daily

Sportron Omega 6 - 250 mg daily

Sportron Food Matrix Potassium – 206 mg daily

Sportron UltraGard Forte – combining concentrated cruciferous and carotenoid complexes with

   super anti-oxidants plus additional Food Matrix components consisting of vitamins and minerals.