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Steve Shapiro

789 Cherry Ave

Eugene, OR 97404-3192

E-Mail: steve@orsa.uoregon.edu

If you would like to call and speak with me in person, please send an e-mail and I will provide you with my phone number and best times to call. Do not send me your phone number, I will not call you.

Before you call, please be aware of the following:

I wish to gain and share information between people living with Pemphigus and other auto-immune conditions.


BOOKS

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Natural Health

Eat Right for Your Type
Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo
ISBN 0-399-14255-X

Diet explanations and recommendations based on your blood type. It is a documented fact that red blood cells of people living with some autoimmune illnesses tend to 'clump' together. Dr. D'Adamo's theory explains this phenomenon and offers sound advice for correcting it. Of all the material I have come across, this is the most promising I have read. Highly recommended. Web Page www.dadamo.com

Allergy Relief and Prevention
Jacqueline Krohn, M.D.
0-88179-134-2

A comprehensive guide to understanding the causes and treatments of allergies, immunological reactions and chemical sensitivity.

The Whole Guide to Natural Detoxification
Jacqueline Krohn, M.D.
0-88179-127-x

A comprehensive guide to understanding the all of the natural treatments available for allergies, immunological reactions and chemical sensitivity. Includes practical information on the sources of toxins and their physiological actions, including electromagnetic radiation.

Natural Alternatives to Over-the-Counter and Prescription Drugs
Michael T. Murray, N.D.
ISBN 0-688-12358-9

A thorough guide to common drugs, their uses and side effects, and natural alternatives. Also included is a discussion of food families and rotation diets.

Nutrition Almanac, 4th Edition
Gayla & John Kirschmann
ISBN 0-07-034922-3

A basic treatise of natural health concepts and nutritional therapies.

Your Body is Your Best Doctor
Melvin E Page, D.D.S. & H. Leon Abrams, Jr., Ph.D.
ISBN 0-87983-540-0

Another treatise to convince you that food choices can be your greatest ally or your worst enemy.

Secrets of Natural Healing with Food
Nancy Appleton, Ph.D.
ISBN 0-915801-49-3

An understandable discussion of food sensitivity, mineral balance, hormones and the effect of sugar on the immune system. A general plan of how to start healing.

Lick the Sugar Habit
Nancy Appleton, Ph.D.
ISBN 0-89529-386-2

The inside story of the true effect that sugar has on your immune system, your bones, and your general health. A definitive scientific work in language a layperson can easily understand.

Womens Bodies, Womens Wisdom
Christiane Northrup, M.D.
ISBN 0-553-37466-4

Not just for women. There is valuable information in here about how to listen to your body and work with your health care practitioners to make rational choices about your health. Also contains a thorough guide to other organizations and societies that may be of interest.

Fats that Heal, Fats that Kill
Udo Erasmus

Understanding that there are some fats that are absolutely essential in our diets, why they are so important, and how to get them. Fat is not necessarily fattening.


Hypo Allergenic Food Preparation

Bread Machine Baking for Better Health
Maureen Keane
ISBN 1-55958-419-x

Gluten free breads

Not Milk, Nut Milks!
Candia Lea Cole
ISBN 9-88007-184-2

Recipes for milk like beverages from nuts

The All Natural Allergy Cookbook (Dairy Free, Gluten Free)
Jeanne Marie Martin
1-55017-044-9

Recipes without common allergens

Allergy Cooking With Ease
Nicolette M. Dumke
0-914984-42-x

Recipes without common allergens


Spiritual

Anatomy of the Spirit
Caroline Myss, Ph.D.
0-517-70391-2

An understandably written book clarifying the relationship between body, mind and spirit, and clearly showing the spiritual or energy reasons for the manifestation of disease. A must read for anybody on a healing path who does not understand the spiritual reason for their illness or who is trying to come to an understanding of the spiritual reasons for illness.

Heal Me or Kill Me, the Story of a Modern Day Job
Rev Cornelius F. Range
ISBN 0-88270-592-x

The autobiography of a man living with Pemphigus Vegetans, his search for physical and spiritual healing. The book is currently out of print, and available only from:

Mrs. Sandra Range 7213 Society Dr, Claymont DE 19703-1770

Alive and Well, a workbook for recovering your body
Rita Justice, Ph.D.
ISBN 0-9605376-3-5

Exercises and meditations to help you understand the mental and spiritual side of serious illness.


Chemistry of Phenolics

Analysis of Phenolic Plant Metabolites
Peter G. Waterman & Simon Mole
ISBN 0-632-02969-2
© 1994

A Guide to Identification and Treatment of Biocatalyst and Biochemical Intolerance
Jacqueline Krohn, MD, Frances A. Taylor, MA
Los Alamos Medical Center
3917 West Rd, Suite 136
Los Alamos, NM 87544
Second Edition, C 1994

A practitioners guide to physiological effects of compounds, sources of the compounds, ad common symptoms triggered by compounds.

Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health I, Analysis, Occurrence & Chemistry
Chi-Tang Ho, Chang Y. Lee, and Mou-Tuan Huang
American Chemical Society Symposium Series 506
ISBN 0-8412-2475-7

Phenolic Compounds in Food and Their Effects on Health II, Antioxidants & Cancer Prevention
Chi-Tang Ho, Chang Y. Lee, and Mou-Tuan Huang
American Chemical Society Symposium Series 507
ISBN 0-8412-2476-5

Phenolic Compounds and Metabolic Regulation
Edited by Bernard Finkle, 1967

Biochemistry of Phenolic Compounds
Edited by J.B. Harbborne
1964
Academic Press


Organizations

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The National Pemphigus Foundation
PO Box 9606
Berkeley, CA 94709-0606

PVNEWS@AOL.Com

Pemphigus Foundation Web Page

Newsletter and clearinghouse for people living with Pemphigus. The Foundation has contacts with local support groups in many different parts of the United States and the world, including (but not limited to), Los Angeles, the Midwest, New York, Philadelphia, Great Britain.

The Foundation operates a listserv support group.  To subscribe to the Foundation's Listserv, send a message to:
discussion-on@pemphigus.org from the e-mail account you wish to correspond from. It is not necessary to include any text in either the subject or text areas of the message.

There is also an unaffiliated online support group in the form of a listserv mailing list. If you would like to join, send a message to majordomo@lists.cyberwar.com from the e-mail account you wish to subscribe from. In the body of the message, put the words:
subscribe pemphigus_support
This message is going to be read by a computer, so do not include any other text.

Friends Health Connection
PO Box 114
New Brunswick, NJ 08903

A pen pal club for people with serious illness

American Association of Naturopathic Physicians
2366 Eastlake Ave, East
Seattle, WA 98102
(206) 323-7610 Fax (206) 323-7612

If your state or a state you can travel to licenses Naturopathic Doctors (N.D.s), they can help you find one.

National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD)
PO Box 8923
New Fairfield, CT 06812-8923
(800)-999-6673

Provides a networking database of people living with rare disorders, including about 25 people living with Pemphigus. Also keeps track of recent research on rare diseases.


Laboratories for Testing

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Even if you cant find a Naturopathic Doctor, your MD may be able to gather the samples and send them to the following labs:

Great Smokies Diagnostic Laboratory
63 Zillicoa St
Asheville, NC 28801-1074

Provides comprehensive stool analysis for parasite activity and digestive organ functioning.

Meridian Valley Clinical Laboratory
515 West Harrison Street, Suite 9
Kent, WA 98032
(206) 859-8700

Provides amino acid and IgG blood serum food reactivity testing, blood sub-type testing and lot of other obscure blood and urine tests.


Mail Order Resources

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There are hundreds of these, please visit our Blood Type Foundation web for a more thorough listing

Allergy Resources
557 Burbank St, Suite K
Broomfield, CO 80020
1-800-873-3529 (USE-FLAX)

Mail order catalog of air & water purifiers, books, supplements etc.


Movies

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Lorenzos Oil

True story of one familys determination to heal their son of an incurable illness, even when the doctors and the support groups said, "dont do that!"


Online

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Eat Right 4 Your Type Home Page

Eat Right For Your Blood Type

Townsend Newsletter : Monthly professional journal of Natural and alternative health

Definitions of Complementary Practices: Other therapies to consider

Phenolics, Phyto Chemical Database

KU Medical Center Department of Dermatology

Victor's Pemphigus Home Page

Pemphigus Foundation Home Page

PDR Online (Physician's Desk Reference)

The Internet Drug Index

Medline


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