A MEDICAL “DAVID” TAKES ON A “GOLIATH” ESTABLISHMENT

A MEDICAL “DAVID” TAKES ON A “GOLIATH” ESTABLISHMENT

Dr. Irving Dardik has been like David battling Goliath. He took on an establishment that would rather treat illness with drugs and operations instead of preventing it. Despite being ostracized, he never lost his passion for his belief that his theory would revolutionize life itself.

(PRWEB) May 18, 2002

From the earliest time, everything in nature has displayed rhythmic cycles. Light waves. Sound waves. Radio waves. Gravitational waves. Lunar cycles. Ocean tides. The EarthÂ’s seasonal temperature fluctuations and long-term Ice Ages. Animals in the wild wake, hunt and sleep. Bears hibernate and arise. And every second of our lives, our own heart valves open and close, for survival itself is based on maintaining these rhythms.

Yet when one man made this observation and postulated that we could all be healthier if we focused more on our rhythms, he was disbarred from medical practice and ridiculed in the press.

In retrospect, Dr. Irving Dardik has been like David battling Goliath. He took on an establishment that would rather treat illness with drugs and operations instead of preventing it. Despite being ostracized, he never lost his passion for his belief that his theory would revolutionize life itself.

Dr. Dardik believes that once we recognize that the rhythms of nature are real and do affect everything, we will realize that modern life has isolated us from natureÂ’s survival mechanisms. In the advanced technological world, we do not depend on the rhythms of the day and year to give us light, food or comfort. Instead, we have come to act as if we exist outside the natural world, putting lights on at night, ignoring the bodyÂ’s need for a siesta in the afternoon, forcing ourselves awake with alarm clocks.

All of these changes are very recent events in human history. Humans evolved because, in the natural world, our physiology was in synchrony with the rhythms that embraced us. This fundamental connection to nature persists in all our physiology, which changes with the time of day, month and season. Whether we choose to recognize it or not, we are rhythmic animals, embedded within the larger rhythms of the natural world and ourselves contain multiple rhythms of biology, from the rhythms of our individual cells, to larger rhythms like blood pressure and hormones, to the longer rhythms of growth, maturity and reproduction.

Like Nelson Mandela who, after being imprisoned in South Africa emerged from his cell to become a Nobel Prize winner, Dr. DardikÂ’s own day in the sun seems to be arriving. Today, the daily cycles of the body known as circadian rhythms are being studied throughout academia and the medical world. Ironically, much of the current focus is on how the effectiveness of pharmaceutical drugs seem to be affected by circadian rhythms. The Food & Drug Administrations online consumer publication at www. fda. gov frequently mentions the topic (more than a dozen times in the first quarter of 2002).

While much of the establishment’s focus is on drug uptake and such things as the time of day most heart attacks occur, Dr. Dardik’s prevented approach of getting synchronized with circadian rhythms has been embraced by The LifeWaves™ Program which has attracted interest from Harvard to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.

The goal of The LifeWaves™ Program is to enhance overall health, performance and quality of life. One significant way to enhance the natural rhythms of the body is to create them ourselves. Much of our natural activity is rhythmic, from laughter to running.

In every corner of the world, people seem drawn to rhythms, creating music, dance, and art that embody rhythms. The LifeWaves™ Program is designed to create short periods of exertion, less than one minute long, followed by complete recovery. These rhythmic cycles of exertion and recovery are performed a few times a week for between 30 - 45 minutes. The cycles are intended to help restore the individual’s own internal cycles to what nature intended so that they can better utilize their energy to improve overall health and live happier, more productive lives.

Dr. Dardik spent 15 years developing the cyclic exercise program believes that the ability to enhance heart rate variability is the common factor associated with all healthy individuals.

Ary Goldberger, MD, of The Margaret and H. A. Rey Institute for Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology and Medicine and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, stated that Dr. Dardik’s “novel cyclic protocol designed to train both the activation and recovery phases of exercise may increase vascular fitness, heart rate variability and enhance mood in healthy patients.”

In an interview, Dr. Dardik predicts that within five years every EKG machine in use in emergency rooms and by paramedics will be equipped with a “Circadian Rhythm Monitor” and that pharmaceutical companies will determine medication dosages based upon them. He believes that all Clinical Trials will have established protocols for measuring effectiveness throughout the circadian rhythm and eventually physicians will be prescribing medication with specific instructions on time of day.

He appears to have beaten the Goliath. Even the National Institutes of Health in March 2002 held a lecture on the topic "Ideas on How Circadian Rhythm is Reciprocally Linked to Metabolism" with distinguished speakers from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

For more information on The LifeWaves Program visit http://www. lifewaves. com (http://www. lifewaves. com).

To learn more about Dr. Dardik, visit http://www. dardikinstitute. org (http://www. dardikinstitute. org)