SG-2000: Dave Armstrong Testimony/Blog Commentary 

First, before you read the remarkable testimonies below, I'd like to make some preliminary comments on the nature of testimonial evidence (largely brought on by skeptical questioners). One person asked me: "So you believe the testimonials? Does your machine actually cure cancer? Do you think people who claim a device they are selling that goes in your bathtub can cure cancer are reputable?" I replied as follows:

One shouldn't blindly accept claims, with no rational investigation. Anecdotal evidence is good and not to be dismissed, but the problem is that, for example, one person in a hundred may be cured of cancer by using some method (spa or otherwise). That's great, but it's only 1% of all who tried (and that is statistically insignificant: one can get one out of a hundred for almost anything). Anecdotes usually don't tell us how many tried and failed.

I keep anecdotes in perspective, per the above, but I don't completely dismiss them out of hand. All the various aspects of the spa have been supported by scientific research. These things are good for health. They have a positive effect.

As for cancer, lots of factors go into both cause and prolonging the cancer victim's life. Go ask any oncologist in any hospital cancer ward: they'll tell you the same thing. My brother Gerry had leukemia and was given a year or so to live by the doctors in 1989. Due to various alternative treatments he lived till 1998.

My father has lung cancer. I haven't told him that this machine could cure him, but I sure do believe it could help him and promote health and recovery from all the deleterious effects of chemotherapy.

There is enough healthy skepticism to go around, too. Conventional medical procedures and even diagnoses aren't omniscient, and doctors are far too often incompetent (others, like our own family doctor, are wonderfully able, caring, self-sacrificing practitioners).

For example, doctors had my mother on ten different medications at once. She was then diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease and showed symptoms of shaking and lack of control in her nervous system. She was even hallucinating.

My sister and I simply looked at drug interaction charts on the Internet and some books about drugs and saw that there were several adverse indications. With the help of the advice of a nurse-friend, we weaned her off several of the drugs (Paxil was the biggest culprit) and her symptoms went away. The diagnosis was reversed by her doctor. We had found out that there was such a thing as "drug-induced Parkinson's."

My mother's doctors were so incompetent that they couldn't even figure out drug interactions that anyone with a computer could determine in two hours of browsing medical and pharmacological sites. Their dumb multiple prescriptions had actually caused the very thing they then wrongly diagnosed, because the symptoms are mimicked by the effect of the drug interactions.

I believe that laymen like myself are not stupid idiots (like too many doctors seem to regard people). We can think and study and try some methods on our own, and have the right to ask questions about any treatment, procedure, or medication, and make a rational decision. In my mother's case, the doctors were greatly mistaken and amateurs like my sister and I figured out what was going on.

There are thousands of such cases. I'm neither anti-conventional medicine nor anti-science. But I'm anti-incompetent, overly-dogmatic, and closed-minded science and medicine. I'm not totally closed-minded to something different.

You can think I'm a gullible fool if you like. I'll continue to use the spa and reap the benefits that are already apparent. So will my wife Judy. So will thousands of other people.

Another person stated in my blog comments section for the initial presentation of the SG-2000 spa: "[F]rom my experience an ethical manufacturer of a health care product would never include testimonials that the product had cured terminal cancers or other serious disorders."

The literature from the spa company does not claim to "cure" cancer. One must be careful in critiquing. The four-page color brochure never mentions cancer, nor many other serious diseases. The longer, detailed booklet (magazine-length) doesn't, either. In fact, in a study of the SG-2000, by Dr. Pulket, he concluded that five major diseases could be treated (note: he doesn't even say "cured"): bowel syndrome, insomnia, arthritis, menopause, and anxiety.

Likewise, another cited study, from the Shizuoka Agricultural Society in Japan, directly testing the SG-2000, cited remarkable improvements in 17 maladies, but the most serious illness mentioned was diabetes (the second most serious being, perhaps, high blood pressure).

The objections all seem to come down to the value of testimonial evidence. Rightly-understood, there is nothing wrong or unethical about testimonies. They are the basis, for example, of much legal evidence and determination of guilt for alleged crimes (eyewitness report, etc.). Legal testimonies in courtrooms aren't studied in a laboratory, in a test tube, and published in a scientific journal, with double-blind, random, controlled studies, allowing for the placebo effect. Folks can be too skeptical for their own good.

Either these people (the spa testimonials) are liars and it is all a complete fabrication (complete with names, faces, and fake medical histories) or these are true accounts. If they are true, they are significant for the people involved, and potentially for others. Some of them report remission or absence of previous cancer tumors. I believe them. It doesn't mean that every cancer patient will be cured by the spa, but I think it is significant and exciting for what it is worth.

I agree (as I already stated in my Intro.) that more statistics or percentages would be helpful for further clarification and knowledge, but that doesn't wipe out the credibility or function of the testimonies, simply because scientific rigor has not yet been brought to bear concerning them. Science is not everything in life. It's wonderful, but it doesn't contain the sum of all knowledge.

Besides, if you look at chemotherapy and its success rates, they are very low. This is easily ascertained if you look at the scientific literature on the subject (as I have, myself, since my father has lung cancer; and tons of this stuff can be found online).

Doctors have told us personally (one oncologist friend, in personal correspondence), that rates of "cure" (defined for cancer patients as five years without further growth, or, roughly, a "remission") are pretty low, and that chemotherapy does very little, and in fact, can harm the body's immune system considerably.

Side effects are another serious problem with chemotherapy. The spa I am promoting works, on the other hand, on the principle (often neglected in conventional western medicine) of wellness, which seeks to help the body's immune systems and internal defenses against disease. It is primarily a matter of preventive health. But by the same token it can help to alleviate symptoms and sometimes, causes of existing disease.

My friend continued:

"If it was as you say perhaps a statistically insignificant occurance, ethical business practices would preclude one from placing the testimonial in an advertisement."

I don't buy this. The bottom ethical line (even given my "disclaimer") is whether they are true or not, not whether they have been tested and subjected to scientific rigor. In light of the low percentages of chemotherapy success (and that is scientifically verified a thousand times over), yet the continued, almost automatic recourse to it by doctors, what is so wrong with possibly considering or trying an alternative treatment that has shown some success in some people? We're dealing with people's lives here. The fact remains that these people experienced a remarkable recovery.

You seem to be willing to dimiss any report, simply because it isn't detailed and studied under a microscope by someone in a white coat. But these are real people with real recoveries. They were suffering and now lead much happier lives, because of a wonderful product: the SG-2000 spa. I'm not prepared to call anyone a liar without absolutely compelling evidence. So I believe the testimonies below, and anyone should at least keep an open mind to (at the very least) the possibility that something relatively unknown at present is causing these rather extraordinary health improvements. The copious, scientifically-verified material I have compiled indicates, I think, what these natural processes are and (to a large extent) why they are effective in promoting health and the body's immune system and fighting disease and physical maladies.

Mr. Ekgapong: age 19, from Thailand: collapsed with cerebral thrombosis. He went into a coma for a period and then was bedridden for four years, unable to do anything. After using the spa for ten days, he started to sit, blink his eyes, and smile. After two months, he was able to walk with a walking aid.

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Jessie Yeo: after two weeks using the spa and seaweed salt, her weight went down by 2 kilograms (4 1/2 lbs.). After six months, she had lost 10 kg (22 lbs.).

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Katherine Yeo: after three months' use, she lost 11 kg (24 lbs.).

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Mrs. Zhang Ching Fang, Taiwan, age 56: suffered from migraine headaches, gout, rheumatism, pain in knees and legs, and obesity; couldn't stand or lift up hands, had weakness in her entire body, injured vertebrae; needed brace straps. After six months of the SG-2000 spa, her migraines completely stopped, she was able to stand and walk, and she lost 20 kg (44 lbs.).

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Mdm. Maria Goh, Singapore, age 58: suffered from severe depression due to grief (her husband died in June 2005), was suicidal, not able to sleep well, had blood in the urine. After her first spa, she slept soundly for 12 hours. Now the blood in the urine is gone, as is her depression.

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Mrs. Huang Chew Ruan, Taiwan, age 50: suffered from body pains. Upon first using the spa, the pains worsened (sometimes this happens in the detox process; similar to withdrawal from drugs). But after three months, 80% of the pains were gone, with total relief from pain in six months.

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Mrs. Zhang Yar Ching, China, age 50: had rheumatoid arthritis, high blood pressure, heart problems, backaches; unable to breathe well; could only walk for 15 minutes without feeling exhausted and breathless; couldn't be left alone. She felt better after two weeks of the spa, and after three months, all the problems subsided.

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Mdm. Chen Shao Mei, China: rheumatoid arthritis since she was a baby; dark pigmentation on cheeks and neck. She was treated with accupuncture from ages 1 to 7, and doctors recommended injection of drugs when she was 17, but these lowered her immune system and caused problems in internal organs. After one month using the SG-2000 spa, the pigmentation disappeared, her body became stronger, and the rheumatism was gone.

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Mrs. Liu Fang Ting, Taiwan, age 45: whole body aches, gastric problems, bone and back aches, nerve pain, sinus problems, insomnia, numbness. She tried laser, accupuncture; doctors had trouble diagnosing the cause; needed injections for pain. After six months using the spa, all her pains were gone.

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Mrs. Chen Siew Lee, USA: backache and nerve pains for seven years, heart problems, chest pains, highly stressed, trouble breathing, irregular heartbeat. After two months of spa, her heartbeat was normal. After three months, the backache was cured and nerve pains gone.

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Mr. Dennis Sim, Singapore: Very bad cough for over 40 years. Each cough lasted two to three months; mild diabetes. Unable to sleep due to the coughing. Because of the spa, the cough attacks have been gone for two years; diabetes medication was reduced, and can eat ice cream again.