A doctor in Savannah,
GA stuck his finger while operating on an infected patient in
1983, contracted hepatitis B, and became a carrier.  Several
years later and still a carrier, he realized that there had to be a reason for
his continued inability to get well.  He recalled from
medical school that the thymus gland controls the immune system. 
The gland is large in children and decreases in size as we grow older. 
He went to a health food store and bought a thymic formula and a
vitamin/mineral complex supplement containing B complex, vitamins E and C,
selenium, zinc, beta-carotene, and an amino acid complex. 
After taking these supplements for six weeks, he no longer was a hepatitis
carrier.  He notified the Center for Disease Control in
Atlanta, Georgia.  They took blood samples and sent them
to Massachusetts General at Harvard and to Scripps Institute in
California.  Many studies were completed, including
PCRs, DNA, etc., all having negative test results for the hepatitis virus.

After testing the supplements in his laboratory, Dr. Milton G. Mutchnick, a
gastroenterologist/hepatologist researcher at
WayneState
University in Detroit
stated that the products had a tremendous stimulating effect on the immune
system.  Dr. Mutchnick took the supplements himself and
measured his blood levels of thymosin Alpha 1.  He stated
"You might be pleased to know that I did a pilot study on myself by taking
several of the thymic formula and vitamin/mineral tablets. 
I first obtained a pretreatment serum sample followed by samples taken at 1/2
hour and then at 1 hour intervals, for 4 hours. 

Lo and behold, by the first hour and consistently for the next several hours,
the thymosin Alpha 1 levels, as determined by the ELISA test, increased."
  Dr. Mutchnick felt that it would be necessary to repeat this
study with a number of subjects; but he could see the exciting potential of
this product for stimulating the immune system.

Melvin L. Haysman, M.D., who practices allergy and clinical immunology in
Savannah, Georgia, used the
supplements.  Dr. Haysman gathered before and after serum
samples on a dozen patients who took the supplements and sent them to Dr.
Mutchnick.  He found that 100 percent of the test patients
had increases in the thymosin Alpha 1 levels.  The increases
ranged from 300 to 700 percent depending on the dosage of the supplements.
  Dr. Mutchnick also found that the thymic/glandular complex
supplement was inactive without the vitamin/mineral complex serving as an
activating agent.

The vitamin/mineral complex supplement activates the thymic/glandular complex
  supplement, because the vitamins and minerals are coenzymes
which activate the enzyme system and prepare the substrate. 
The thymic complex then stimulates the immune system to produce interferon,
interleukin, RBCs, WBCs, T cells, etc.

Other exciting progress with the use of the herbal/glandular/vitamin/mineral
complex supplements(thymic complex) involves three transplant patients. 
These individuals were scheduled to have liver transplants and are now no
longer on transplant lists having recovered from their chronic hepatitis.
  Other cases involved two liver transplant patients and one heart
transplant patient, all who contracted hepatitis B during blood transfusions.
  These three patients were told that their bodies were rejecting
their organs and that there was no treatment for their hepatitis. 
After using the herbal/glandular/vitamin/mineral complex(thymic complex), they
have become non-carrier hepatitis B patients and have also retained their new
organs.  The thymic complex appears to have a modulating
effect bringing hyperactive conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis down and
hypo-immune conditions, such as cancer, up.   The
success of using these products could have an enormous impact on organ
transplant operations.   Current medicines being used
for

organ transplant patients destroy the immune system and confine the patients
to their homes.  The thymic/glandular complex combined with
the vitamin/mineral complex may enable organ transplant patients to lead
normal lives by improving their immune system.

This is not an alternative form of medicine.  
Within the medical community,

any gland that decreases in size or "dries up" in your body is replaced.
  If your thyroid dries up, we give you thyroid; if your pancreas
dries up (you get diabetes), we give you insulin; if your adrenal glands dry
up (you get Addison's Disease), we give you cortisone; and if your ovaries dry
up, we give you female hormones.  However, when the
thymus gland dries up, no one treats that as a medical condition even though
every health professional is taught that the thymus gland controls the immune
system.  Your thymus gland begins to dry up between puberty
and twenty, and by age fifty, it is about gone; yet it is central in
controlling the immune system function.  The older we get
and/or the greater the stress we encounter, the more allergies we run into
that our immune system is unable to process and the more immune and/or
autoimmune disorders we accumulate.  This is why proper
stress management and nutritional supplementation is of utmost importance in
our focus on healing and disease prevention.  

Immune and autoimmune disorders responding to improved immune system
function include hepatitis B, hepatitis C, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis,
systemic lupus, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, allergies, hay fever, squamous
cell cancer of the skin, chronic fatigue s
yndrome, herpes, condylomata acuminata, atopic dermatitis, etc.
 

The thymus gland controls the immune system in two ways. 
First, it is the source of

T (thymus) cells or T lymphocytes.  It is these T cells that
fight the battle against viruses, bacteria, yeast, and other foreign invaders
that attack the body's immune system.  The thymus gland
seeds the bone marrow with immature T cells that multiply and mature. (Once it
strikes home that the "T" in T cells stands for "thymus", we begin to wake up
to the value of thymus supplements with full nutritional support as is in
Thymate™.)

Second, the thymus gland produces a variety of hormones that stimulate the
maturation of T cells and increase production of other hormones, such as
interferon and the immune globulins.  Several hormones have
been isolated from the thymus, but the one receiving the most attention in
medical studies right now is thymosin Alpha 1.  

For example, it is the T cell that is destroyed by the HIV virus and its
destruction brings on AIDS.  Animal studies have been done
in Texas that have
resulted in the HIV virus being arrested after using the thymic supplement.
  It stands to reason that an HIV patient taking this supplement
should never convert to an AIDS patient because the thymus produces the T
cells to prevent the conversion as well as producing interleukin 2 to slow
down the conversion.  Similar viruses have responded well to
the use of the  supplement, as well as herpes and condyloma
acuminata without any recurrence for as long as 27 months.

Hepatitis B is very prevalent in the
United States with 300,000 new cases reported yearly.
  Worldwide, it is the most common viremia with over 300 million
carriers and 1.5 million people dying each year from hepatitis B, related
liver cancer.  Add to this statistic, 30,000 to 35,000
diagnosed AIDS cases reported yearly and the need to treat immune system
disorders is of utmost importance.

In 1991, a physician at the University of Miami Medical School said that they
had just finished an eight-year multi-center study which showed that the
actual laying down of the atherosclerotic plaque within the blood vessel walls
occurs as the result of the

failure of the immune system.  When do you see
significant atherosclerotic changes in human beings?  It is
around the age of twenty, when the thymus gland decreases in size. 
Thymus supplementation may prevent atherosclerotic disease; studies need to be
done. 

A group of researchers at the University of California in Los Angeles had been
doing longevity studies and had found that life extension boils down to the
ability of a cell to regenerate itself.  Cell
regeneration depends entirely upon an intact immune system. 
These researchers had rats that lived an additional two generations taking
thymic supplements.  The implication, of course, is that
maintaining a strong immune system can help you in many ways, such as fighting
diseases, bacteria, viruses, and yeast-related disorders.