To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (112690 ) 4/6/2008 2:38:34 PM From: Skeeter Bug Respond to of 132070 zone update: pdf link (click on anti-inflammatory medicine monograph - if is a pdf, so you can right click and save-as, too):drsears.com my friend finally stopped telling me the zone was vaporware after he saw the dramatic improvements i had made over the last 9 months. these include going from 20% body fat to 11% body fat, a 36" waist to a 32" waist, 10 lb flies to benching 200 lbs, losing my allergies, not having to call in sick in over a year and having a general aura of good health. my energy level might've wore him down, too. ;-) he's still resisting a bit, but his wife decided to give it a try. i talked to her yesterday and she gave me her results. she's lost 9 lbs after 3 weeks. she is in an office "biggest loser" contest and she's currently winning. she's not hungry, her energy is good and she feels like this is a lifestyle change she wants to make for the rest of her life. she commented how everyone else in her office is irritable, hungry and is already planning an unlimited calorie day at the end of the competition - which doesn't even interest my friend's wife at this point. they all can't wait to quit their diets while she's satisfied with hers and wants to stay on it for life. she also commented that her annoying skin rashes have gone away. she said she always blamed her soap for the rashes, but she tried using the soap while zoning and and, voila, no rash. her immune system has been suppressed for some time so she had been sick an awful lot lately - we'll see how long it takes before she gets sick now as her immune system will work much closer to peak efficiency. in short, she's happy, she's getting healthy and she'll lose weight until she hits her ideal weight - while feeling great the whole time. she hasn't even started taking her fish oil yet, which will kick up her results a notch. one of the keys to the zone is that is designed to control the delta 5-desaturase enzyme - the enzyme that drives all that omega 6 fatty acid in your diet into pro-inflammatory eicosanoids. my friend has gone a long way towards balancing out the inflammation in all of her trillions of cells. since she is producing more anti-inflammatory eicosanoids, and anti-inflammatory eicosanoids increase cellular cyclic amp levels, her biological internet communicates much more effectively allowing her body to work near absolute peak levels. this kind of thing is important in sports where 3/100th of a second can be the difference between gold medal and no medal. ask jenny thompson and dara torres - the holders of more medals than any other females on the planet. it is why dara can win 5 medals as a 33 year old when she could only win 4 as a 17, 21 and 25 year old. this is leading edge technology and real medicine - even if you don't understand it or your doctor hasn't heard of it yet. as mentioned previously, the joslin diabetes center has heard of it since they basically recommend it. the aha is moving more towards fruits and veggies and away from starches. they'll eventually get to the zone, too. dr. bailes understands it - he's the chair of west virginia university's department of neurosurgery who sought out dr. barry sears' advice when faced with treating randal mccloy - a guy in a coma with multiple and massive organ failure. it is thought he survived more carbon monoxide poisoning than anyone in history - over 41 hours worth. his 12 counterparts passed away. dr. bailes calls dr. sears a "hero" for his role in what the medical press called a "miracle" recovery. dr. sears and dr. bailes feel differently - it wasn't a miracle, rather, the application of good science caused the very positive result.