~ The Life-Saving Technique ~

    Here is a description of the Dobkin Technique for delaying brain damage. It can be done by a child. It can be explained over the phone. It can be self-administered. Initiating the reflex takes well under a minute. It is a natural occurrence: nature’s own way of protecting her children.

    “This one paragraph may save your life…”

    In the event of any oxygen deprivation to the brain—such as heart attack, drowning, suffocation, electrocution, drug overdose, trauma, or SIDS—the first action a person should take is to place ice cold water, cold wet towels, or cold compresses over the eyes and face of the victim. Leave the nose and mouth uncovered for breathing. Keep towels or compresses cold, and leave them on the face. The water must be 58 degrees or cooler, which is the mean temperature of the waters of the world. For extra protection, apply iced compresses to the back of the neck at the base of the head to cool the blood in the brain. This is all that is necessary. It’s this simple, it’s this fast.

    This is the whole technique to trigger the Mammalian Diving Reflex, a natural oxygen-conserving reflex found in all mammals. It is nature’s own reaction to delay brain damage and sustain life. Unbelievable? This is the whole technique in one paragraph. One paragraph that may save your life. Or the life of someone you love.

    Take another example. You are staying at a friend’s house, 20 minutes out in the country. On a warm summer night you are sitting on the porch when your spouse—who has been feeling pale and weak all day—suffers a heart attack. You call for an ambulance, 20 minutes away. You don’t know CPR. You now have two choices. You can helplessly watch your spouse, who has just stopped breathing, lie there on the floor. Or you can trigger the reflex. Which would you rather do?

    Let me be more specific about using Dobkin’s Technique. “If something isn’t done right now, this person will die.” This is when the technique is used.

    With hundreds of hours of research and investigation of the oxygen-conserving reflex, I am available to you and your audience by phone or in person. But even as just a news brief, I would like you to release this information, to offer a choice to those who may stand helpless as their spouse or child lies dying from drowning, heart attack, electrocution, suffocation, SIDS, drug overdose, or any other trauma where there is danger of oxygen deprivation.

~ Final Note ~

    This technique is not approved, and may never be accepted by any governmental body or the medical community.

    The only way it has even the remotest possibility of being accepted by any medical group or sanctioned by any governmental body is if I can spend the $20 million or so it typically takes to run the tests up the government flagpole. Then spend the next six to ten years collecting empirical evidence, and filling out stacks and stacks of paperwork from the government for its approval. Then waiting for approval while they do the same tests. And spend the same amount of money. Then, since it’s not patentable, and is a natural occurrence without the use of drugs, pills, or injections, no pharmaceutical company in the world will take a penny’s worth of interest in it. So this technique will be unauthorized forever.

    The medical community won’t sanction this technique either. The medical community itself can’t even agree if vitamins are good for you. Do you think they will, in unison, agree this natural occurrence can be a real rescue tool? To wait for any approval means thousands of lives that can be saved, will be lost. This technique is too valuable to be put in that political arena and bounced around forever. The decision to initiate this oxygen-conserving reflex is within each individual. It’s not going to come from the AMA or the government.

    The choice is clear to me: this technique will save lives. It will provide an added margin of safety to victims. It is a time-buying procedure to delay brain damage. This paper isn’t about whether this technique works. This reflex has already worked on thousands of cold-water drowning victims. This paper is about the knowledge each individual should have to be able to choose for himself whether he wants to use this technique or not. After that, if your audience believes they would like to wait for the government to give the OK, they can choose not to initiate this reflex in an emergency. Once they have this knowledge, it is up to the individual to make the choice. This paper is about the choice everyone should have.