Author Buck Winthrop’s Doctor Calls Chronic Hepatitis B Cure “miraculous”

July 9, 2012 - PRLog -- Author and Hollywood talent manager & publicist Buck Winthrop has much to celebrate these days. After a nine year battle he is completely cured from Chronic Hepatitis B—a life-long condition that can fatal. He credits a Miami plastic surgeon with detecting the deadly disease and a world renowned anti-aging center for helping him cure it.

It was 2003 when Winthrop, then a successful Miami publicist went to board certified plastic surgeon, Dr. Ary Krau for a minor liposuction procedure. During the routine pre-operative blood tests Dr. Krau discovered liver function abnormalities and insisted he visit his primary care doctor for follow up testing. “I could not believe I had hepatitis B,” Winthrop says. “I felt fine with no symptoms whatsoever.” So it was even more distressing to learn his viral load (a measure of how much virus is in the body) was 1.7 billion with liver enzymes ten times normal.

Hepatitis B is an infectious inflammatory illness of the liver caused by the hepatitis B virus. About a third of the world population has been infected at one point in their lives including 350 million chronic carriers. The illness usually begins with general ill-health, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, body aches, mild fever, and dark urine, and then progresses to development of jaundice.  More than 95% of people who become infected as adults or older children will stage a full recovery and develop protective immunity to the virus. The rest become chronic and are at a risk for cirrhosis and liver cancer, and in many cases, death. Many well-known Hollywood stars have publically discussed their hepatitis battles such as Pamela Anderson, Naomi Judd and Steven Tyler.

Winthrop says he went on and off several anti-viral medications over the years and suffered through two serious flare-ups to where the virus comes back worse than before. Dr. Juan Remos, then part of the world renowned MIAMI Institute for Age Management and Intervention put him on Barraclude which at the time was the newest anti-viral medication on the market. Within weeks, the powerful drug manufactured by Bristol Squibb Myers made the virus undetectable in his body stopping the damage to the liver. “At that point,” Winthrop says “You have no choice but to accept that you have this illness and that it can be managed. It is a very hard cross to bear.”

After the publication of his first novel, Delusions of Grandeur, Winthrop moved to Los Angeles where he stopped eating meat and adopted a strict diet and work-out program shedding fifteen pounds. “I was tired of taking the medication and wanted to stop because of the side effects,” he says. Instead, he weaned himself off gradually from four to three to two pills a week instead of daily over several months. He started on a carefully chosen protocol of anti-inflammatory, anti-aging and anti-oxidant supplements such as NAC (n-acetyl-cysteine) and Alpha Lipoic Acid along with alkaline water and regular visits to the steam room to flush out all the toxins. He also had a severe vitamin d deficiency probably from over use of sun-screen so reluctantly he began to get some sun as well.

Winthrop says he felt so much better after weaning off the medication, taking the supplements and lying in the sun. About ten months later his test results revealed the unthinkable—that he was completely cured. The virus had left his body and he developed protective antibodies against the virus. “It was never even in my thoughts to be cured, “Winthrop says. “I just wanted to find a more natural approach to manage this without so many pills. Specialists from all over the country told me this was something I had to deal with because it was forever. I told myself over and over ‘nonsense’ using the famous Law of Attraction rule of focusing on what I wanted (perfect health) instead of what I didn’t want (hepatitis) “

Winthrop, who is regarded as a medical aesthetics expert due to his many years as publicist and consultant to some of the country’s top plastic surgeons says his vast knowledge of the medical and health field, gave him an advantage of the average person who is fighting this disease. “I certainly had an edge,” he says.

The author whose second novel, the sexy Ocean Drive—set in South Beach, Florida is being released on September 15th as Kindle original plans to write a self-help book about the experience and attend medical conventions to spread the word about his good fortune and the natural road he used to take him there. “Understandably, the medical and pharmaceutical world is not too interested in natural remedies and sunlight because there is no insurance to be billed and no profit to be made. So now, I am that guy you see on the evening news hawking a natural approach that I used to roll my eyes at.”