TO YOUR HEALTH

Detoxification Why Is It So Important?

BY Dr. SAKILIBA M. MINES MD

Life in the 21st century has challenged our ability to detoxify. Daily, our toxic load has greatly increased compared to what the previous generation was exposed to. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 100,000 million pounds of pollutants have been released into our environment, by human contamination of industrial chemicals such as mercury, PCBs, phtalates (from plastics) and many. more. There are lists of habits that have increased our toxic load and ate saboteurs of health: tap water, artificial sweeteners, sodas, alcohol, excess coffee, smoking, medications, meats, fumes, cleaners, unnatural cosmetics, soaps, hair dyes, unhealthy relationships, drugs, pesticides, industrial chemicals, food adulteration, food additives, environmental pollutants, and mineral depletion of the soil.

Toxicity can happen at the cellular level and at the organ level. Detoxification is championed by the naturopathic and integrative doctors. The standard of medical care should include not only prevention and treatment of diseases, but also the expansion of the functional life span of the patient. Detoxification should be an integral part of good medicine. We place so much emphasis in medical training about the cardiovascular system, the digestive system, the nervous system, and the respiratory system, but very little attention is giveh-to nutrition and the detoxification system.

But if these two areas are neglected, the entire body falls apart. The liver is the primary site of detoxification. In phase I detoxification, the cytochrome P450 enzyme detoxification takes place when toxins are breaking down to water -soluble but sometimes to more reactive or toxic compounds which are conjugated, methytlated, and acetylated, it is in phase I that nutrients like vitamin C, glutathione enzymes, carotenes, vitamin E are needed, and if deficient, this phase in under- active and metabolic toxicity and inflammation occurs.

The detoxified intermediates from phase I are excreted in the bile or urine, that is why colonic detoxification is the most important mechanical part of detoxification to remove end toxins, and chemotherapy by -products from the liver. Coffee introduced at the end of the session of colon hydro therapy is directly absorbed by the enteric-hepatic circulation and detoxify the liver. In phase II detoxification, metabolites from phase 1 are rendered more water-soluble and less toxic, it is in phase II that methylation occurs, methyl groups are added to toxic compounds assisted by vitamin B12, folic acid, choline.

Glucuronidation is another very important pathway of phase II detoxification, it aids in detoxifying drugs like aspirin, morphine, and is inhibited by mercury, smoking and oral contraceptives. Failing detoxification by the liver has been associated with many disorders such as autoimmune diseases, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, allergies. Heavy metal toxicity like mercury, aluminum and lead are toxic to the brain and at the cellular level create havoc for the immune system, and can be removed from the body by chelation therapy and also by removing amalgam fillings from the mouth.

Some of toxicity indicators are fatigue, overweight, constipation, poor digestion, acid reflux, high cholesterol, poor sleep, frequent illness, food allergies, dark circle under the eyes, skin conditions, food cravings, hypoglycemia, PMS and bloating, headaches and vision problems. Detoxification is the removal of toxins from the body, tocikon in Greek means poison. Detoxification is the removal of poison which creates damage to the body. A variety of techniques can be used to detoxify the body, such as drinking purified, energized and alkaline water, exposure to the sun, fresh air, exercise, fasting, promoting sweating, utilizing different herbs to promote elimination and purification of the blood, essential oils, homeopathy, colon cleansing, dry skin brushing, far infrared sauna, and steam bath.

Colon Hydro-therapy removes intestinal toxins, parasites, Candida and retrains the colon to perform more efficiently. Far infra red sauna has been found to help in removing heavy metals from fat tissues and help in weight loss. Obesity is epidemic in the USA; could it be that we are holding on to fat to protect the body from autointoxication? There are very accurate tests developed to identify the red blood cell chemistry, the level of essential trace elements, the detoxification ability of patients and the level of heavy metals.

Main stream medicine is failing at utilizing state-of-the art technology to elucidate many medical enigmas. It is unfortunate that so many people are walking around toxic not even knowing it, and are prescribed medications with many side effects and narrow therapeutic affects instead of addressing the root cause of the problem. I recently diagnosed a patient with toxic levels of arsenic, which we know is toxic to the myocardium. He had been diagnosed with congestive heart failure years ago was told he needed a heart transplant but refused to accept it.

Toxicity comes in many forms and we often underestimate the how a toxic relationship can affect us. John Hopkins University Medical School sixty years ago studied over 10,000 male medical students. The best predictor of cancer later was a negative father-son relationship. The Laws of the Old Testament (the Torah), gave us all the instructions to achieve Health, Godliness and Cleanliness.

Meats are a real concern; live animals carry many toxins, live organisms such as viruses, bacteria, and spores are capable of inducing many illnesses. We must return to a more simple and pure way of eating and of living in order to survive. The detoxification process must be on going, as we are bombarded daily with toxins that affect our endocrine, immune, digestive, neural, psychological and emotional profiles. The key to optimal health and .healing is the detoxification at the cellular level to restore balance, happiness, and harmony.
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RESPONSE TO CASEWATCH-YOUR GUIDE TO HEALTH FRAUD DR MINES RESPONDS TO THE COMMENTS OF STEVEN BARRETT MD.

Dr Mines is an integrative physician who came to the scrutiny of the federal government since 1998 at the times when Janet Reno and the Clinton’s Administration “were cracking down on doctors of integrative medicine”, her case culminated with a trial of almost one month, and a sentence of 21 months in federal prison for failure to file her three years of personal taxes ( a misdemeanor) and tax liability of Dupont Medical Associates (DMA), DMA is a family business, where Sakiliba M. Mines, MD was an employee. Dr Mines states that integrative medicine is complex and takes year of experience to understand the unique physiology of a patient, the root causes of illnesses. Dr. Mines feels that she has arrived to comprehensive assessments that unlock the necessary information to arrive to a protocol that brings the patient back to wellness. Who is Steven Barrett? What is his mission and his philosophy? What is he accomplishing? Who is paying him? After reviewing Steven Barrett, Dr. Mines States that he is a psychiatrist from Pennsylvania who’s mission is to identify doctors who are practicing bad medicine or quacks (pretending you are an expert and you are not). Dr. Mines reviewed several reports and found that he spend a lot a times discrediting vitamins and nutritional supplements, never making positive comments on the scientific research of nutritional supplements , many of these researches come from allopathic institutions such as John Hopkins etc.. Dr. Barrett is not a nutritionist, nor a dietitian, nor an integrative doctor, he does not work with chronically ill patient, he is a psychiatrist, and gives expert opinions about vitamin supplementation. Remember the definition of a quack (pretending you are an expert and you are not). Dr. Mines states that Dr. Barrett has been sued before many times and lost a few cases. Dr. Mines in the following paragraphs responds to Dr. Barrett, by giving us the correct information about her case. Sakiliba Mines Imprisoned for Income Tax Evasion. Dr Mines states that she was not incarcerated for tax evasion but for failure to file three years of her personal taxes in Maryland. Dr. Mines was acquitted of all the fifteen charges of defrauding the government. In March 2002, as noted in the news release below, Sakiliba Mines, M.D., and her husband were both sentenced to 21 months in prison for income tax evasion. Dr. Mines, who was licensed to practice medicine in the District of Columbia and Maryland, practiced family medicine as DuPont Medical Associates (DMA) in Washington D.C., and her husband was chief executive officer. Trial evidence demonstrated that the couple willfully failed to file income tax returns for 1990-95 and 1998 even though both drew regular paychecks from DMA. At sentencing, the district court determined that Dr. Sakiliba Mines' conduct had resulted in a tax loss to the government amounting to $290,069. Dr. Mines states that when Dr. Sakiliba M. Mines, MD presented at sentencing the prosecution enhanced her sentence by entering information that had not been proven at trial, Dr. Mines was not an officer of the company but an employee and drew regular paychecks. At post conviction Dr. Mines states that she received a letter from the IRS stating that she was not liable for the moneys owed from the corporation. Dr. Mines states that exhausted and financially broken, Dr. Mines could no longer afford a paid lawyer and had only recourse to the court appointed lawyer to appeal the decision. Dr. Mines states that the appeal was one page and insufficient to get Dr. Mines out of prison. Dr. Mines during her incarceration frequented daily the law library and was able to file Pro Se to the Supreme Court to defend herself, to no avail, and same prescription from the Supreme Court incarceration. In June 2006 a new decision was taken by the Justices of the Supreme Court that it was illegal to enhance sentences by adding at sentencing (the sentencing date is at a different date that trial date and they are no more Jury ) elements or information that had not been proven in Court during trial. It was never proven in court that Dr. Mines actually was liable for the corporation. Dr. Mines believes if the Jury had known that finding Dr. Mines guilty of failure to file three years of personal taxes Dr. Mines would have never been sent to Prison, I believe the Jury will have Dt. Mines of this misdemeanor which took me to prison by enhancement of my sentence by making Dr. Mines liable for moneys of the corporation, take a look at case: United States vs. Booker. The U.S. Court of Appeals decision upholding her conviction states that she had also defaulted on the student loan she had used while attending medical school, Dr. Mines states that: they failed to mention that Dr. Sakiliba M. Mines MD repaid all the principal of the loan except for the exorbitant penalties raising the loan to over a million dollars. Federal Bureau of Prison records show that Dr. Sakiliba Mines imprisonment ended on December 31, 2003 and that her husband was released on November 14, 2003.The reason Dr. Mines came home on December 31, 2003 she said is because she lost all her “good time in prison”, because when Dr. Mines entered the Prison System, she witnessed so much suffering, injustices and violation of human rights that Dr. Sakiliba Mines, MD filed congressional inquiries and made over 52 complaints to the Bureau of Prison and was perceived as a trouble maker and was sent all over the country, from West Virginia, to Texas, To Oklahoma, Connecticut and back to Maryland, in prison it is called the Diesel Express .Current biographical sketch on the Web site of National Integrated Health Associates (NIHA) in Washington, D.C. states she "has left the safe shore of allopathic medicine to embrace integrative, complementary and alternative medicine" and identifies her as medical director of NIHA's "Rejuvenation & Detoxification Center." The sketch also identifies her as a "doctor of integrative medicine" and states that she obtained a "Doctorate of Integrative Medicine" at Capital University of Integrative Medicine (CUIM), where she served as the Dean of Integrated Health Sciences. This school, which was not accredited, ceased operations in 2006. The degrees it issued have no academic or legal standing. Dr. Mines is no longer associated or affiliated with National Integrated Health Associates, she now has her private practice in Washington DC, The Institute of Multidimensional Medicine, PLLC. Before Dr. Mines attended Capital University, she was a fully accredited physician who received her MD from Hahnemann University, Philadelphia and board certification by the Academy of Family Practice in 1990, going to CUIM and obtaining that degree doesn’t take away her Medical Degree as a physician practicing medicine. Dr. Mines states that she believes in integrative medicine and treating patients holistically have improved many of her patients who have been chronically ill for years. PHYSICIAN AND HUSBAND SENTENCED TO IMPRISONMENT FOR FILING FALSE INCOME TAX RETURNS U.S. Department of Justice News Release March 5, 2002 Dr Mines makes the correction that she was never sentenced to imprisonment for filing false income tax returns, Dr. Mines was imprisoned for failure to file three years of her personal taxes and was unfairly sentenced to prison by augmenting her sentence by adding the moneys due by the corporation of which Dr. Mines was only an employee, thus not being liable of the tax moneys liability of the Company. To this date Dr. Mines’ case is sealed. With the case being sealed it is very easy for someone like Dr. Barrett to make comments that are erroneous and misleading about Dr. Mines. Dr. Mines is married for 40 years, mother of three children, integrative and holistic physician, advocate for her patients and a community educator take a look at Dr. Mines’ website to start to understand the work Dr. Mines does: www.timmed.com. Dr. Mines was a physician licensed to practice medicine in the District of Columbia and Maryland. And Dr. Mines states she is still a physician with her license practicing medicine in Washington, DC. Dr. Mines also defaulted on student scholarship obligations which she was required to repay with service to indigent areas within the United States but never did. Dr. Mines explained she worked for the Appalachian Regional Hospital in West Virginia, with indigenes and at Ballou High School in the sexually transmitted diseases in Washington DC, but that did not satisfy her requirements for underserved areas. With regard to the IRS testimony, the jury heard about the "reconstruction" of the Mines' tax situation from 1992 through 1998. Though Dr. Mines earned income in 1990 and 1991 while she worked for a private physician, the IRS was not able to complete the calculation of tax loss for those two years because bank records were not available. However, beginning in 1992, the IRS could calculate the tax loss as a result of Dr. and Mr. Mines' failure to file income tax returns in 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1998. The statute of limitations prohibited substantive counts for tax years 1992 and 1993. The IRS also "re-calculated" the 1996 and 1997 taxes because both returns were false. Dr. Mines states that she never submitted any false document, Dr. Mines ‘ husband was wrongfully incarcerated, because during trial, the prosecution stated that he received a check refund of $700 dollars which he never declared, and his sentence was enhanced, after imprisonment Mr. Mines inquired to the IRS about the refund he has an Again according to the official letter from the IRS that Dr. Mines’ husband never received that check of $700.00. In addition to the tax charges, Dr. Mines had been charged in the federal indictment with health care fraud based on charging the insurance companies for services at a higher level code of service than was actually provided—a practice known as "up coding-." The jury acquitted Dr. Mines on the health care fraud charges. Dr. Mines wants to emphasize that practicing holistic medicine trying to assess patients for the cause of their illness, and placing them on the right tract takes times, it takes more than 10 minutes every 3 to 6 months to turn around damages to the body made over a life time. A medical doctor from Medicare at trial stated that 10 minutes was all Dr. Mines needed to see patient every six month. This page was posted on March 16, 2007. OPINION PER CURIAM: During the four tax years listed in the indictment, neither the Mineses nor DMA filed any tax returns. The Mineses filed a return for the 1997 tax year, but it did not list any of Dr. Mines’ income from Alert. Sakiliba claimed that she was not aware of these derelictions, as she entrusted all financial matters to Charles. For his part, Dr. Mines’ husband Appellants Charles and Sakiliba Mines were convicted of multiple tax offenses. They now contend that their convictions should be reversed based on the improper admission of prejudicial evidence. Dr. Sakiliba Mines, MD also asserts that the district court erred in determining her sentence. We affirm. I. The indictment against the Mineses alleged that Dr. Sakiliba Mines committed ten counts of health care fraud, that Charles filed a false tax return for the 1997 tax year, and that both Mineses willfully failed to file returns for the 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1998 tax years. Dr. Mines Sakiliba was acquitted on all counts of health care fraud; therefore, no issues relating to those charges are presented here. With respect to the tax charges, the evidence at trial showed that Dr. Sakiliba Mines was a family practice doctor who served as medical director of—and apparently the only physician employed by—Dupont Medical Associates (DMA).Dr, Mines’ husband was the chief executive officer of DMA and its sole shareholder. Dr. Mines’ husband also operated a sole proprietor- 2 UNITED STATES v. MINES Maintained that, in the years when he did not file tax returns, he always meant to do so but he experienced difficulty getting competent accounting assistance. Dr. Mines states that her husband did everything he could to keep the business in compliance with the IRS, the CPA came and testified at trial to that effected. Mines’ husband took full responsibility for the taxes owed for the corporation and personal matters. Dr.Mines still ended up in federal prison for a misdemeanor for 21 months. II. The Government’s case against the Mineses included evidence that did not directly support the charges against them but which were ostensibly relevant to show knowledge and intent. In their sole challenge to their convictions, the Mineses claim that the district court should have excluded this material under Federal Rules of Evidence 403 and 404(b). We review this claim for abuse of discretion. See United States v. Mohr, 318 F.3d 613, 618 (4th Cir. 2003); United States v. Myers, 280 F.3d 407, 413 (4th Cir.), cert. denied, 123 S. Ct. 53 (2002). The Mineses challenge three items of evidence. First, Dr Mines’ former employer, Dr. Hector Collison, recounted that Dr. Sakiliba Mines received co-payments directly from patients and asked for her salary checks to be made payable to Alert. Dr Mines States: Dr. Collison came to trial and testified against Dr. Mines and lied on the stand under oath. Unfortunately and tragically, Dr. Collison died in a plane crash with his son in 2008. Dr. Sakiliba Mines had obtained a student loan from the government during medical school; after several fruitless attempts to collect on the loan, the government forgave the debt and issued a Form 1099 showing the forgiveness of the debt as income to Dr. Mines Sakiliba. Third, the Government introduced into evidence lists of expenditures by the Mineses from 1992 through 1998.* *Charles also asserts that the district court erred in admitting evidence that Dr. Sakiliba Mines performed unnecessary medical tests. Well, Dr. Mines explains that if you have different philosophy about medicine you will arrive to the diagnosis differently, rather than mask the disease with covering up the symptoms with pharmaceutical drugs, Dr. Mines believes in aggressive assessment for patients who had severe chronic medical problems , by using appropriate testing to arrive to the proper diagnosis for appropriate treatments. We will not review this claim, however, as Charles’ brief does not indicate where the allegedly objectionable evidence appears in the record. See Edwards v. City of Goldsboro, 178 F.3d 231, 241 n.6 (4th Cir. 1999). UNITED STATES v. MINES 3 Most of this evidence assisted the Government in proving that the Mineses knowingly received income during the years in which they did not file tax returns. Doctor Collison’s testimony did not relate directly to the charges at issue here, as Dr. Mines Sakiliba did not work for him during the years described in the indictment, but the Mineses’ failure to file returns during that pre-indictment period reflected a pattern of avoiding tax obligations. Also, the testimony that the Mineses asked Dr. Collison to make Dr. Mines Sakiliba’s checks payable to Alert was relevant to show a pattern of using Alert to hide income, which was the basis of the tax fraud charge against Charles. Dr Mines states: regardless of what Dr. Collison has done to me (he came to testify against a fellow physician and lied on the stand about my character), I have forgiven him. I will not talk about him except to clear my husband, my name and my family name for our children. The reason the checks were made to Alert was that I had fell out with Dr. Collison on sexual harassment, so Dr. Mines brought her husband in to control the situation and Dr. Mines became an Independent contractor under Alert Public Relation a Family owned consulting business, Dr. Collison paid Alert and Alert paid Dr. Sakiliba Mines .Accordingly, the district court did not abuse its discretion in ruling that this evidence was relevant. Neither did the court abuse its discretion in weighing the prejudicial effect of the evidence. On the contrary, the record demonstrates that the court carefully examined all of the evidence in question, excluded inflammatory material, and took steps to minimize unfair prejudice from the evidence that was allowed. For example, the Government’s lists of the Mineses’ expenditures originally included only luxury purchases, but the district court directed the Government to expand the lists in order to avoid a lopsided depiction of the Mineses’ lifestyle. The court also instructed the jury not to use this evidence as proof of "criminal personality or bad character." Trial Tr., Nov. 26, 2001, at 103. We commend the court for its diligence, and we uphold its admission of the evidence challenged by the Mineses. Dr. Mines add that usually in these cases they show the home of the offenders, our house was so small and modest in Silver Spring they even did not show or mention it at trial. III. At sentencing, the district court determined that Dr. Mines Sakiliba’s conduct resulted in a tax loss amounting to $290,069. Dr. Mines Sakiliba claims that this computation improperly included income attributable to Charles and DMA. We disagree. Dr. Mines says: It was unjust to put Dr. Mines and Dr. Mines’s husband in prison, they both have received a letter from the IRS exempting Dr, Mines from the liability of DMA and a statement that Mr. Mines never received the refund of $700 dollars. Coming out of prison, there was no money, no resource to fight , no support from any organization or medical professional group to support doctor in crisis , I called everywhere, I do not wish for anyone to go through what the Mines’ family went through. Ordinarily, the base offense level in tax cases is determined by calculating the tax loss associated with the offense. See U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual § 2T1.1(a)(1) (1998). "If the offense involved failure to file a tax return, the tax loss is the amount of tax that the taxpayer owed and did not pay." Id. § 2T1.1(c)(2). This figure must take into account "all conduct violating the tax laws" that is "part of the same course of conduct or common scheme or plan." Id. § 2T1.1, comment. (n.2). 4 UNITED STATES v. MINES Here, the district court found that Dr. Mines Sakiliba’s failure to file tax returns was part of an "overall scheme" by both Mineses to avoid paying taxes on their own income and income earned by DMA. J.A. 798. In light of this finding, the district court properly concluded that Dr. Mines Sakiliba’s relevant conduct caused tax losses involving all the income earned by her, her husband, and their corporation. See U.S.S.G. § 1B1.3(a)(1)(B) (providing that relevant conduct includes "all reasonably foreseeable acts and omissions of others in furtherance of . . . jointly undertaken criminal activity"); see also United States v. Bishop, 291 F.3d 1100, 1115 (9th Cir. 2002) ("Tax loss is determined from the reasonably foreseeable conduct of all co-actors, not just the defendant’s own conduct."), cert. denied, 123 S. Ct. 1002 (2003); United States v. Charroux, 3 F.3d 827, 838 & n.24 (5th Cir. 1993) (upholding attribution to all co-defendants of each co-defendants unpaid tax debt). Accordingly, the district court did not err in calculating the tax loss attributable to Dr. Mines Sakiliba. Dr. Mines says yes they erred, because I never owned the DMA taxes, I have the letter from the IRS and it was attached to my Pro Se Appeal to the DC Supreme Court as a new relevant information. Dr. Mines remained imprisoned. IV. Dr. Sakiliba Mines. AFFIRMED