Today's Thought (Lloyd Wright, Hepatitis C Survivor)

Eight years ago Lloyd Wright was diagnosed with Chronic Hepatitis C. If experience is the best teacher then Lloyd Wright is truly an expert. As a Hepatitis C researcher and author, Lloyd has developed more substantial credentials than many doctors or scientists currently treating and researching the virus. Lloyd had Hepatitis C and beat it.

Standing up to a legion of medical doctors who insist there is no cure, he researched this disease and he proved them wrong. Now he wants to share this alternative medicine approach to other Hepatitis C sufferers. And finally, Yale University Studies Agree! Stay tuned for this awe inspiring, informative conversation between Lloyd and me on Beating Hepatitis C against all odds!

Lloyd Wright authors  Hepatitis C Free and Triumph Over Hepatitis C, a 2001 Irwin Award Winner!

1. Lloyd, tell us how you contracted hepatitis C. Right from the beginning of your book, Triumph Over Hepatitis C, your choice to survive the disease was an unwelcome quest. Tell us why? What were you told about hepatitis C in terms of morbidity and mortality?

2. Why is hepatitis called the silent epidemic and how do related stigmas encourage silence? Which social and medically related stigmas posed the greatest challenge in your quest to heal or self-heal?

3. What have you observed or directly experienced regarding third party insurances and how they manage health and well-being for those with the disease? How challenging is it for someone to get health coverage with prior hepatitis C diagnosis? Prescription coverage?

4. What was your experience with continuity of care within the health care system? Do health maintenance organizations prevent physicians from trying new therapies?  How influential are they?

5. In your book you confront the health care system's political machine as a disseminator of erroneous information. What kind of information? Why the falsehood -- is there an agenda to misinform? Why?

6. With all of your varied experiences throughout your quest -- positive and negative -- you have the right to be cynical. Are you? Why or why not? What have you learned that explains why doctors have limited knowledge of hepatitis C?

7. There are obvious complications to hepatitis C, including different (pancreatic, liver) cancers and organ failure (kidneys), which is what the live-cell glandular and enzyme supplements address. Tell us about that!

8. Were the therapies created as an alternative to treat the disease only, or do these herbals address the reversible and/or non-reversible complications (like type II diabetes) that come specifically from taking the traditional cocktail of meds prescribed by doctors? Can your regimens be used complementarily (along with traditional meds) or are these regimens beneficial purely as alternative?

8. What do you say about hepatitis and mortality or possibly morbidity, when considering that complications due to chronic hepatitis have the greater mortality impact? How does this impact inspire your urgency to inform others?

9. You discuss the importance of peptide growth factors as a measure to turn the liver's disease state in favor of cellular self-healing addressing auto immune control, cancer, tissue repair, improved immune cell function, improved bone marrow function (blood cell production), yet the viral count does not change, while vitality improves. Explain that paradigm.

10. You also encourage consuming organic foods and avoiding electromagnetic fields. Share more about that.

11. What do you have to say about our governmental agencies like the FDA, about the special interests guided by our media, and about our drug manufacturing industry?

12. What are some great life lessons you integrated because of the disease? What impact did this experience have on your sense of humanity? Do you present, provide lectures, workshops? How can people get a hold of you and your material?