Founder

The founder of this site uses the pen name of TNYMED. He is a US citizen born with extremely complex and severe health problems. He uses his pen name because his illness disables his ability to cope with stress. Therefore his personal identity and contacts are limited and Joe Holmes the webmaster for this site works as a go between to protect his well being.

In the past 50 plus years he has had many different types of medical specialists (Neurologists, Endocrinologists etc) nearly kill him with their “best guess” treatments in spite of expensive tests. Many different types of alternative therapy Drs. over three states have tried with less expense and less dangerous side effects yet, still little help. He has spent tens of thousands of hrs. over more than three decades studying the best current medical research in the world. As he slowly put his own health together (now in most ways its quite good but he still has very low stress tolerance) he has found many things useful for other people’s health. This web site only contains the small part of the useful information that he has collected. (A lot of people have donated time to help). He has thousands of pages of research that will eventually appear on this site.

His mother had mercury poisoning when he was in gestation that has severely compromised his body's ability to produce and properly control some important brain and endocrine system chemistry. He also has some inherited neurohormone production problems from both parents. This genetic problem compromised both parents’ lives and killed his grandfather on his mothers’ side. The combination produced a series severe “Limbic seizures” during the first week of his life. His survival was in jeopardy for the first year of his life as well as many times since.

Desperation drove him from an early age to study Neurology, Endocrinology, Immunology as well as the physiology of the body and the pathology of disease. At the same time he was researching naturopathic and various alternative medical systems.

In the 1970's a pioneer in the field of neuropsychiatry nearly killed him with several new treatments. This Doctor did him a big favor by admitting that he didn't fit any known medical profile. (The national organization of rare disorders in the 1990s classified him as a “one of a kind”). The Doctor went on to explain that no Doctor had the time to spend on a problem as complicated as his. He said that the medical textbooks were many years behind the medical research world and only contained the most commonly needed information. He then showed him how to access the newest and best medical research worldwide and explained that his only hope of understanding and finding help for his condition would be found in the research world, and he would have to do it.

He is a professional auto mechanic by training with a heavy background in racing, wielding, metal fabrication and machine shop work. He is an avid inventor by hobby and driven to make things better.

This odd combination of experience formed his out look on health problems. Some medical professionals from Endocrinologists to naturopaths have described his viewpoint as a “nuts and bolts approach to medicine” or a “medical mechanic.” He starts by using the newest and best medical research to see how a healthy person’s body works to stay healthy. Then he studies what is different in function and controls in the disease state that creates a condition. Then he studies medical research on natural compounds world wide to find natural sources to supply an unhealthy body with what it cannot do but needs to have, to match a healthy person’s functions and controls. Thus the description by medical professionals of a Medical Mechanic or a view of what makes things work and what to to do fix it.

It is this process (to solve his own health problems) that has caused him to accumulate vast amounts of research. It is this process that has forced him to understand medical terms and processes. It has caused him to look at his medical conditions without the prejudices doctors are taught in medical schools. Eventually this has enabled him to see and understand things about medicine that most doctors are missing. Not because of his formal training but because of the lack of it. He was not prejudiced to think within a restrictive box. He is a person with a brilliant mind when his health does not interfere. He has collected the research of others to find his own answers. He is very conscious of his lack of formal medical training and that he is not a trained health care professional. After many bad experiences with the information from alternative medicine he avoids it completely.

He focuses strictly on mainstream medical research from the best medical research centers worldwide.

In the 1980s while studying the chemistry of mental illness he discovered research clearly showing that a neurohormone called CRH is far more important and responsible for mental illness than any of the neurotransmitters like Dopamine or Serotonin that are currently thought responsible for the affective disorders. The vast amount of research he has collected on CRH prove the role of CRH is the primary neurotransmitter responsible for mental illness beyond question. However to this day the mental illness professionals virtually ignore CRH.

Over time he found research clearly showing that there are other types of chemistry and control problems that cause many types of mental illness. He has discovered (as of Oct 2008) 23 different types of chemistry and control problems that are causing a wide range of mental disorders. Five or six have some connection however most of the 23 have no connection to neurotransmitter and chemical synapse problems. To this day the medical world focuses almost all of its attention on neurotransmitter and chemical synapse problems while virtually ignoring all other causes of mental illness.

One of his medical problems is a body wide CRH shortage. His CRH problems were eventually discovered by his own research coupled with several doctors. In the process of researching CRH as a vital neurotransmitter for brain function he found research that prove CRH is the most important neuro-hormone in the entire body. He also found research that shows CRH is the major control hormone for the immune system, Pituitary, Adrenals, Thyroid and reproductive system. The new research on CRH is vast and conclusive, yet it has not made it into the medical books or the medical world in general. Sadly most doctors know little about CRH and its vital role in human health. He has been forced to find natural compounds that will provide some of the benefits of CRH, stimulate CRH or act as a CRH substitute.

In the process of researching CRH he discovered what he calls metabolic mayhem. He first noticed that there were thousands of different research papers showing the same Oxygen radicals were critical for driving the damage in a number of supposedly unrelated medical conditions. Next he noticed thousands more research studies that all showed these same medical conditions also had the same basic un-controlled Immune system inflammatory agents’ driving the disease process. He began looking to see if these diseases had any thing else in common. He found thousands more research studies showing that some types of metabolic processes necessary for health, and that are becoming destructive and drive these diseases. Next he found that these out of control oxygen radicals, uncontrolled immune inflammatory agents and the destructive metabolic processes were heavily interconnected. They are interdependent and inter-controlled in such a way that when control is lost on any of the three the other two usually go destructive as well. This deadly trio of destructive processes may be localized or wide spread in the body but they are the true cause of many deadly but supposedly unrelated diseases. The research shows it depends on which organ or body system is least able to survive the damage and collapses first, as to whether the condition is called Heart disease, Diabetes, autoimmune disease, Alzheimer's, kidney disease etc. This underlying destructive process that is destroying health is Metabolic Mayhem and causes eight different types of major illnesses. See the directory for a list and information.

The discovery of this research verified to him that the typical medical practice to treat the symptom not the cause is causing great harm. Diabetes is a prime example because the current medical treatments focus only on normalizing blood glucose. The underlying destructive Metabolic Mayhem process that caused the diabetes is completely ignored and allowed to continue attacking the heart, arteries, kidneys, brain etc.

The same mistake of treating the symptoms and ignoring the Metabolic Mayhem applies to; Autoimmune diseases, Alzheimers, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, stroke as well as other problems.

It is his dream to provide his research so that others may benefit and restore or maintain their health.