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Andrew Fletcher gravitystudy at hotmail.com
Sun May 30 06:04:45 EST 1999


NEWS RELEASE

Monday, 30 May 1999

Who told you to sleep on a flat bed?

Something as simple as Sleeping on a traditional horizontal bed may be
causing Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, Osteoporosis, Arthritis,
Leg ulcers, heart conditions and many more serious medical conditions.

There are many published papers, which identify horizontal bed-rest as
anything, but healthy, yet billions of people retire to a flat bed, which
could well initiate their downfall.

A new trial began in January this year involving three hundred people with
MS, fifty people with Motor Neurone Disease and fifty people with spinal
cord injuries. The only interventions are: A modified sleeping position,
which involves raising the head of your bed six inches higher than the foot
of your bed. And an improvement to your sitting posture, which involves
sitting with your bottom higher than your knees in order to effect the same
slope as the modified bed.

How does this work?

For more information about the theory and the study simply send an Email to
Gravity at currantbun.com

To hear what people with MS and other conditions are saying about avoiding
horizontal bedrest, visit our Message Board, which is used by the people on
the study to share their experiences with others

Together we will make a difference!

Message Board Title: "INCLINED TO SLEEP INCLINED"
http://www.InsideTheWeb.com/mbs.cgi/mb405491

Should you decide to run this story please ask your viewers listeners or
readers to send me a 31p stamped addressed envelope and I will provide each
of them with a free full information pack at my own expense.

My address is: Andrew K Fletcher, Summer Haze, 26 Berry Drive, Paignton,
Devon, TQ3 3QW, UK

Telephone 01803 524117 Email to Gravity at currantbun.com

Kind regards

Andrew

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Taken from the March 99 edition of Journey to Wellness

Published by Betty Iams

UPDATE ON MY PROGRESS: As you all know I am primary progressive, and
although my symptoms are relatively mild, with a variable weakness in my
right leg and foot and some urgency incontinence, I am a good weather
vane for this trial. I began the recommended intervention in mid
November, and I am now beginning to see some reversal of my right leg
weakness and foot drop.

Here is how it began. One day about a month ago (3 months into using
the raised bed intervention), I got up from my desk chair and walked
down a hall, through my dining room into the kitchen. I first became
aware that I somehow "felt" different. (I later came to realize that
what felt "different" was that I felt taller, and that I carried my body
differently.) Then immediately I noticed that my weak leg felt
relatively normal strength. That lasted for about 15-20 minutes the
first time. Each of the next two days I had the same experience, each
time lasting different lengths of time. I have also noticed that as it
gets later in the day, every day, my legs seem to get stronger. This is
the opposite of what I experienced previously.

At that point I sent an e-mail to Andrew, asking him if that was what he
would expect for a PPMS person, based on his pilot study in the U.K. He
replied that it was. I am now having more and more episodes, lasting
several hours at a time, one which lasted almost an entire day. I also
find that my legs get stronger as the day progresses, which was not
previously the case. I believe profound reversal of my neurological
damage is beginning to happen.


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MS Study by Andrew Fletcher
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Please remember that Andrew Fletcher's theory is not about MS. It is
about how fluids flow through our body, and the effects of gravity on
the movement of those fluids. It has applications to many physical
disorders. In the pilot trials in the U.K., phenomenal results have
been achieved, for example, with acute spinal cord injuries. MS just
happens to be one of the disorders showing dramatic reversal of damage,
even in long-term chronic progressive MS. It is important to note that
the relapsing remitting person sees neurological improvement sooner.

My thanks for all of you who have responded and are participating in
this study. If you are not, I cannot imagine why not. It is so simple.
All you must do is raise the head of your bed by 6". What can you
possibly have to lose. If Mr. Fletcher's theory is correct, he will
undoubtedly win the Noble Prize for Medicine. If his theory is not
proven to be correct, we haven't lost anything. It is free, requires no
diet, drugs, or nutritional products of any kind.

UPDATE ON MY PROGRESS: As you all know I am primary progressive, and
although my symptoms are relative mild, with a variable weakness in my
right leg and foot and some urgency incontinence, I am a good weather
vane for this trial. I halted my progression with diet, yoga-based
exercise, nutritional supplementation and stress reduction, but I have
not in a year and a half been able to reverse the neurological damage.
With that as a background, here is where I am today.

I began the recommended intervention in mid November, first only using
pillows, then a 24"x24"x7" foam wedge, then in mid December I hired
someone to make the necessary changes in my bed. (You would have to
know the massive, very heavy bed I have in order to understand why I had
to hire someone to raise the head of the bed by 6".) Even using
pillows I saw immediate positive results in that I began to sleep all
night without having to get up 2-3 times, an old chronic inner ear
problem cleared up, then after about a month I was able to stop taking
Oxybutanin for bladder control. I have not taken that for the last
month. Now I am beginning to see improvement in my foot drop. Andrew
told me in the beginning that it usually takes 3-4 months or more for
the primary progressive (or chronic progressive) person to begin to see
reversal of the neurological damage.

Betty A. Iams <biams1 at san.rr.com











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