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Posted: Wed Nov 21st, 2007 09:14 |
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As we were preparing for a day of feasting and thanksgiving here in the U.S., the directors of Autoimmunity Research, Inc. received news that a family has offered (anonymously) to donate $5,000 IF we can raise another matching $5,000 in donations by Christmas. This kind of support is exactly what we need in order to do everything we’ve planned for 2008.
One big commitment of our non-profit’s energy and money in 2008 will be our sponsorship of a session on the role of vitamin D in disease at the 6th International Conference on Autoimmunity in Porto, Portugal. We expect this conference will cost at least $20,000, including travel expenses. Medical conferences such as this are where we must be to let medical professionals know about the pathogenesis of chronic inflammatory diseases.
In addition to this conference, there are the numerous medical conferences and meetings we send Dr. Marshall and others to each year. These allow us to fulfill our mission to educate the public about disease. The rest of our finances go into ensuring ongoing operations such as running the websites and purchasing and maintaining equipment and supplies.
Dr. Marshall will be busy researching and preparing his scientific papers for presentation at the upcoming conferences, so let’s all join together in one big effort to ensure the necessary financial support is in place to make 2008 our best year ever.
Please, if your life has been enriched, or if you have been impressed by the work of this organization, will you make a donation to Autoimmunity Research, Inc. before December 25? Keep in mind that we are a registered 501(c) 3, not-for-profit organization and all our work is still accomplished by volunteers. Will you take five minutes to make a tax-deductible donation today, either online using PayPal or by mailing a check? You may donate using your Visa, Mastercard, or checking account through PayPal. You do not need a PayPal account to pay by credit cards. Simply enter PayPal's website, with the foundation already identified as your gift recipient by clicking here and then click the "Donate" button and follow credit card sequence.
You can make checks payable to “Autoimmunity Research, Inc.” Send mail to:
Autoimmunity Research, Inc.
3423 Hill Canyon Ave
Thousand Oaks , CA 91360 USA
Have you let your family and friends know what Autoimmunity Research’s moderator-assisted websites and database of information have meant to you? They may want to support this organization, too, so please let them know how they can make a donation.
Thank you all for your support of Autoimmunity Research, in terms of finances as well as energy and good will. And thanks to our anonymous donors who’ve offered us this challenge. May we continue to grow and fulfill our mission in 2008.
Happy Thanksgiving to all,
Belinda, on behalf of the Directors of Autoimmunity Research, Inc.
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Posted: Thu Nov 22nd, 2007 00:12 |
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Joyce Waterhouse shared the following thoughts...
Belinda
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Reasons to Give Generously to the Autoimmunity Research Foundation
There are many reasons to donate generously to the Autoimmunity Research Foundation and to some degree, the reasons depend on who you are.
If you are just learning about the Marshall Protocol, or are just beginning to find out that you fit the picture of a Th1 disease, then you are probably eager for the ARF to be able to continue to help you and to continue to improve the protocol. You also need to have the MP gain greater acceptance to be more certain your Benicar will be covered and that your doctor will continue to support the protocol. You probably want to see more research done to further validate the protocol and give statistics on its efficacy. All these things are more likely to occur, if you donate generously.
If you are someone who has gotten your life back completely or partially from using the Marshall Protocol, then you only have to think about how valuable your life is to you and how valuable the quality of your life is, to want to give generously in return for that gift of life. You may already have benefited financially from the MP because it has saved you health care costs or because you are able to return to work. And think how much it might have cost you if you had to pay for all the time and effort put in by the ARF staff and Dr. Marshall.
When you think of those large sums that you might want to give in return for your benefit, of course, most can not afford to give that much, certainly not all at once. But it should make us all think whether we have really given enough, considering all the benefits we have received and continue to receive.
If you are a friend or relative of someone with a Th1 disease who has benefited from the MP, you will want to give out of gratitude for the help they have received and a desire for that help to continue. You may also consider that other family members might have a Th1 disease as well and might benefit someday.
And whether or not you are close to someone who has been helped by the protocol, there are other reasons to give, if you just consider the implications of this protocol for chronic diseases that ravage our country and the world. It now seems quite likely that diseases of chronic inflammation account for most chronic diseases and most of what we consider inevitable consequences of aging itself (see Time magazine article on The Silent Killer, Feb. 24, 2004).
Besides the physical illnesses, if one considers the many mental illnesses that are likely to also be caused by CWD bacteria, and the violence that sometimes results from various degrees of depression, suicidal/homicidal impulses and other mental derangements (eg., Virginia Tech massacre and even potentially some terrorist acts), the effects of these bacteria on our society are magnified exponentially. And the effects of curing these conditions are even more staggering.
These diseases are already beginning to bankrupt our society due to ballooning health care costs, causing labor disputes, and loss of jobs overseas and eventually will cause enormous stresses on government expenditures, crowding out money for most other needs. Just about any area of spending is affected by the increasing need for health care spending, which will skyrocket as baby boomers age and as more and more costly, high tech therapies are developed.
So, regardless if whether you are primarily concerned with education, child abuse, national or international poverty, defense spending, homeland security, environmental issues, like global warming or almost any issue you can name, money for health care will deplete the resources for all of them. Or if you are more concerned about taxes, health costs will certainly raise taxes and health care premiums.
And one of the main reasons this is happening is because the true causes of these diseases are not acknowledged and instead enormous amounts are being spent on drugs that treat short term symptoms rather than the underlying cause of the disease- chronic bacterial infections with cell wall deficient forms
You can be a part of history by helping to turn around this situation, at a time, when every dollar is crucial in order for the Autoimmunity Research Foundation to advance research related to the causation and treatment of disease by CWD bacteria. Think how each dollar you donate will be multiplied many fold in the long run in terms of savings in money wasted on expensive and often near worthless treatments. And one can not put a price on the needless emotional and physical suffering that will be prevented among the chronically ill.
Even if you are someone who is not entirely convinced of the theory behind the Marshall Protocol, I believe that anyone who honestly studies it, will see its enormous potential and conclude, as I have, that it is an approach that merits support. So, I would urge you to make a donation to the Autoimmunity Research Foundation. I believe it is a very sound investment in your future and I do not think it is an exaggeration to say, the future of the world.
Sincerely,
Joyce Waterhouse, Ph.D.
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