Vaccination - Faulty Science?

Here are some interesting observations about mass vaccination programs of the past. Or as the saying goes, he who does not learn from history is bound to repeat it. Or, H1N1, here we come!

• In the USA in 1960, two virologists discovered that both polio vaccines were contaminated with the SV 40 virus which causes cancer in animals as well as changes in human cell tissue cultures. Millions of children had been injected with these vaccines. (Med Jnl of Australia 17/3/1973 p555)

• In 1871-2, England, with 98% of the population aged between 2 and 50 vaccinated against smallpox, it experienced its worst ever smallpox outbreak with 45,000 deaths. During the same period in Germany, with a vaccination rate of 96%, there were over 125,000 deaths from smallpox. (http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/020...)
The Hadwen Documents

• In Germany, compulsory mass vaccination against diphtheria commenced in 1940 and by 1945 diphtheria cases were up from 40,000 to 250,000. (Don't Get Stuck, Hannah Allen)

• In 1967, Ghana was declared measles free by the World Health Organisation after 96% of its population was vaccinated. In 1972, Ghana experienced one of its worst measles outbreaks with its highest ever mortality rate. (Dr H Albonico, MMR Vaccine Campaign in Switzerland, March 1990)

• In 1977, Dr Jonas Salk who developed the first polio vaccine, testified along with other scientists, that mass inoculation against polio was the cause of most polio cases throughout the USA since 1961. (Science 4/4/77 "Abstracts" )

• In the UK between 1970 and 1990, over 200,000 cases of whooping cough occurred in fully vaccinated children. (Community Disease Surveillance Centre, UK)

• In the 1970's a tuberculosis vaccine trial in India involving 260,000 people revealed that more cases of TB occurred in the vaccinated than the unvaccinated. (The Lancet 12/1/80 p73)

• In 1978, a survey of 30 States in the US revealed that more than half of the children who contracted measles had been adequately vaccinated. (The People's Doctor, Dr R Mendelsohn)

• The February 1981 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 90% of obstetricians and 66% of pediatricians refused to take the rubella vaccine.

• In 1979, Sweden abandoned the whooping cough vaccine due to its ineffectiveness. Out of 5,140 cases in 1978, it was found that 84% had been vaccinated three times! (BMJ 283:696-697, 1981)

• In the USA, the cost of a single DPT shot had risen from 11 cents in 1982 to $11.40 in 1987. The manufacturers of the vaccine were putting aside $8 per shot to cover legal costs and damages they were paying out to parents of brain damaged children and children who died after vaccination. (The Vine, Issue 7, January 1994, Nambour, Qld)

• In Oman between 1988 and 1989, a polio outbreak occurred amongst thousands of fully vaccinated children. The region with the highest attack rate had the highest vaccine coverage. The region with the lowest attack rate had the lowest vaccine coverage. (The Lancet, 21/9/91)

• In 1990, a UK survey involving 598 doctors revealed that over 50% of them refused to have the Hepatitis B vaccine despite belonging to the high risk group urged to be vaccinated. (British Med Jnl, 27/1/1990)

• In the USA, from July 1990 to November 1993, the US Food and Drug Administration counted a total of 54,072 adverse reactions following vaccination. The FDA admitted that this number represented only 10% of the real total, because most doctors were refusing to report vaccine injuries. In other words, adverse reactions for this period exceeded half a million! (National Vaccine Information Centre, March 2, 1994)

• In 1990, the Journal of the American Medical Association had an article on measles which stated " Although more than 95% of school-aged children in the US are vaccinated against measles, large measles outbreaks continue to occur in schools and most cases in this setting occur among previously vaccinated children." (JAMA, 21/11/90)

• In the New England Journal of Medicine July 1994 issue a study found that over 80% of children under 5 years of age who had contracted whooping cough had been fully vaccinated.

• On November 2nd, 2000, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) announced that its members voted at their 57th annual meeting in St Louis to pass a resolution calling for an end to mandatory childhood vaccines. The resolution passed without a single "no" vote. http://www.wellnesschiro.com/physic...
(Report by Michael Devitt)

Courtesy Natural News

72 page pdf document on the history and legality of mandated vaccination

Water - what is pure?

This is another research project. What is pure water and how can you get it?
Distilled water - not so pure
Hype - where is the analysis to back up the claims?!

More on Water - an update (12/31/09): Drugs on Tap; Bottled Water - Check it out!

BigPharma and Genetic Polution

Now that the 'worst pandemic the world has ever seen' has failed to materialize (but guess who got rich off the hoax?), there are millions of vials of H1N1 vaccine that will shortly have to be disposed of. Ever wonder where it goes? Does your government care? NOPE!

(NaturalNews) Polluting the environment with H1N1 vaccines:

There's a huge environmental concern in all this, of course: What's the effect of dumping millions of doses of H1N1 DNA / RNA into the public sewer system? No one really knows. It's yet another grand Big Pharma experiment. And how about the chemical additives, preservatives and adjuncts added to the vaccines? What impact will all those chemicals have on the environment?

It's a startling fact that the sewage expelled by one city ends up in the public drinking water of the next city downstream. Sewage is treated, of course, to achieve EPA-regulated "safe" status before it's dumped back into the rivers, but the EPA doesn't regulate something called "DNA pollution." DNA and RNA can be dumped into the sewage systems in virtually unlimited quantities, without any regulatory oversight (the FDA doesn't regulate drug disposal either).

If you think about it, then, this whole swine flu fiasco has been a huge scam of paying money to the drug companies in order to flush swine flu genetic material down the drain. This is the brilliance of government-led health policy, by the way: Spend good money to pollute the planet with potentially dangerous genetic material that might one day end up recombining with some other opportunistic viral candidates circulating in the wild.

What a clever way to help cause the next great pandemic, huh? It's almost a perfect recipe for vaccine repeat business: Take today's most virulent pandemic strain, replicate it in pharmaceutical labs around the world, then dump it into the environment for mass distribution. That's essentially what's happening here. It sounds insane, but it's exactly what's about to take place when the H1N1 liquidation sales are over and medical retailers just start flushing all these vaccines down the drain.


No EPA regulations
There are no EPA regulations that limit the dumping of vaccines directly into the public sewage system, by the way. Dumping excess pharmaceuticals down the drain is routine in modern medicine. Hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and patients routinely flush pharmaceuticals down the drain. This is why you can now find HRT drugs, antidepressants and blood pressure drugs in the fish near any major U.S. city.

So many drugs are now dumped into the sewers that rivers have become Big Pharma runoff zones that poison the fish and destroy aquatic life. No wonder the world's oceans are dying -- they're all being bathed in Big Pharma's chemical waste!

But that's not the end of this story: In places all across America, sewage waste is used to make fertilizer that's spread on crops. The solid sewage waste is called "biosolids" or "black gold," and it's used by farmers and gardeners as a soil additive. What the people using this toxic sludge don't realize is that it's contaminated with Big Pharma's toxic chemicals. And soon, it may be contaminated with H1N1 vaccine material from all the millions of unused doses that pharmacies couldn't manage to peddle to consumers.

In the end, all those unused vaccines will eventually end up as crop fertilizer. It's yet another reason to avoid monoculture crops and grow your own food using biodynamic gardening methods, huh?

Plant essential oils - removal

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Globesity - World's Ten Fattest Countries

We have been inundated with the word 'pandemic' which seems to dull the word 'epidemic', but the epidemic of obesity is becoming worldwide. So much so that the World Health Organization has coined the word Globesity. From WHO studies and statistics here is the latest:

The World's 10 Fattest Countries

1) American Samoa, 93.5 percent (of population that's overweight)
2) Kiribati, 81.5 percent
3) U.S., 66.7 percent
4) Germany, 66.5 percent
5) Egypt, 66 percent
6) Bosnia-Herzegovina, 62.9 percent
7) New Zealand, 62.7 percent
8) Israel, 61.9 percent
9) Croatia, 61.4 percent
10) United Kingdom, 61 percent (Interesting sidelight)
Canada comes in at 59% (2004)

For more, see F A T and should that disappear, try More FAT.

Well, So What? Here is some additional information on what you can do about it and how to reduce your waste-line (pun intended): Fructose and Metabolic Syndrome

Or, keep up that "Low Fat Diet" and see where it will get you: U of M

H1N1 etc.

A general collection of articles about the great flu hoax of 2009

Come and Get it! Tamiflu will do! Or . . .maybe jellybeans are better.

The Plague, the Flu, and YOU - More of what you CAN do besides getting shot!

NOW WHAT! The Ukrainian Flu - We've seen how very expensive and inefficient the H1N1 has been. When are we going to get smart and start to rely on what we were intended to do to combat these illnesses. If you don't think the writing is plain, take notice - your government is totally unable to throw enough money at this to help YOU. But they are able to throw YOUR MONEY to BigPharma to make them richer!

Are flu shots safe & effective? Mounting evidence says NO! Dr. Gary Null
(There are those who would discredit Dr. Scheibner, a major resource quoted by Dr. Null. She is actually a geologist. But how she and her husband discovered a connection between SIDS and vaccines is most compelling GoSee or More) of course the CDC has also discredited this connection(!). This is really interesting - a MUST HEAR!

Problems with premature viral treatments: CDC Dr Shelton It appears the CDC is encouraging treatment with Tamiflu or Relenza even though the physician doesn't know exactly what he is treating. Dr. Shelton reveals the dangers of these drugs that aren't very well known to doctors who use them.
Suicide, hallucinations, etc. indications of neurological side effects of these drugs. Many doctors attribute these side effects to the flu, not the medicine. Whoops, Dr. Shelton is an interesting case by herself. I guess you don't embarrass the law in cook county! Here is another link for similar info. Tamiflu

H1N1 a 'dud' pandemic

The Canadian shuffle - at least they are checking some of the real research. And you might just want to consider a little exercise and Vitamin D. U.S. not so smart...

How do they know if anyone really has the flu, much less the H1N1 strain? Here is a well researched article by the New York Times.

Lancet Study Flawed Vaccination Studies Problems continue with Mercury!

(The majority of flu shots contain 25 micrograms of mercury, an amount considered unsafe for anyone weighing less than 550 pounds.)

An excerpt from a CBC article "In both Canada and the U.S., health authorities are reporting that influenza-like illnesses are running higher than normal these past four weeks, though they have largely given up tracking how much of this is H1N1 related." hmmm . . want to read between the lines on that one? And with the scare tactics being promulgated, why wouldn't there be more reported "influenza-like illnesses? You used to stay home and get over a cold - now you run to the doctor!

Since governments have been suckered into buying so much of the stuff on the false pretense there will be one of the worst pandemics in history (I wonder who started that rumor?! - wouldn't have been BigPharma by any chance?) there is not only a mass media blitz pushing 'the shot', but every means possible is being taken to generate the expected number of hospitalizations, deaths, and sickness resulting from the H1N1. It's the new-news generation: if there ain't any news, make it up! Or did that happen when most phone lines were party lines? (most people don't know what those were).

Interesting site

Sun, Vit-D, Skin Cancer, Heart Health, Gene Health

Is sun exposure to be avoided and sunscreens used at all times? That might be killing you!

There may be a health link between Vit D and your Genes

So . . . Whatcha Gonna Do!?!?! (Update) Get natural antibiotics (Antimicrobial Peptides) - your own body should make them. But maybe its not doing a very good job. See how to rev-it-up with Vitamin-D.

See the D-Council. A good read. Its not a vitamin - its more a hormone.

You need sunlight on your skin for your body to make vitamin D. And many are vit-D deficient because they have become sun-o-phobic. Much to the detriment of their overall health.

Dec 08 Update: U.S. News (heart health) and JACC . Other references: UC-San Diego & Harvard Medical

The key is daily sun exposure of 5 to 15 minutes to lots of skin (not just your big toe) and avoid sunburn. This will keep your vit-D up and your risk minimal. Winter will really cut down your vit-D if you live farther North because the sun is at a lower angle. More on this later (I hope).

UPDATE: Quest Labs give inaccurate results for Vitamin D lab tests. More than you ever wanted to know!

New addition - Mushrooms, when exposed to UV-B make Vit-D, just like we do. LINK

There is the additional problem of toxins found in sunscreens/sunblocks; plus a lot of them just don't work! There are alternatives on the market, but you have to hunt them down! Here are a few:

• CaribbeanBlue (highly recommended by HealthRanger)
• Burnout

In the name of medical 'Science'

Are you the next 'Guinea Pig'?! This is a bit of an eye-opener!
Human Studies Advance to what is going on the past 20 years!

WHO says cell phones cause brain tumors.

You cell phone users will not want to hear this; but the World Health Organization says cell phones cause brain tumors.  Info Check the last reference at the end of the article.  Mention it to your oncologist.

Magnesium

Magnesium is a vital mineral - unfortunately most of us are deficient because intensive farming has depleted it from the soil. Growing a home garden? Put some Epsom Salts in the soil so you will then get more from your vegies.

Here is another site with some good information and includes a list of symptoms often associated with low magnesium (see Magnesium part 2)

Sore muscles, tired, try soaking in a warm bath or foot soak with Epsom Salts.

Your body just doesn't work right without a good supply of Magnesium. Regular blood tests won't show up a deficiency either - your body will do anything to keep the magnesium in your blood at a normal level, so it takes it out of your cells and bones first.
Here is a summary of Magnesium:

• Good Site
• You need magnesium to make over 300+ enzymes in your body
• Helps protect neurons from mercury
• Critical for heart health (long list including arrhythmia's)
• Don't absorb calcium, potassium and other vitamins/minerals if low on Magnesium
• Since magnesium is necessary for proper nerve and muscle function, sub clinical indication of deficiency include muscle ticks and cramps. For more deficiency symptoms go HERE and scroll down to Symptoms of Magnesium Deficiency.
• If your low, it may be hard to take supplements to get it up. Try using a topical gel. I get mine at Bio Innovations, but you might try a health food store. Untried Source
• Dr. Russell Blaylock states "It is ironic that doctors prescribe drugs that cost thousands of dollars to treat the complications of heart disease, yet rarely pay attention to one of the most versatile, powerful and least expensive weapons in their arsenal: magnesium."
• RDA's are based on the 'Sick-Care' model, not the 'Optimum Health' model, but there is some good background information at the BigGov site: BigGovMag
  

Hope this helps somebody - upping your magnesium has a high return on investment value!
You might also want to see if your local library has a copy of the book "The Magnesium Miracle" by Carolyn Dean.

Depression Drugs - Beware (SSRI's and SNRI's)

As is frequently the case, modern drugs often exacerbate the problem they are given to treat.  Depression drugs are one of these.

For a glimps into the dangerous side effects of these drugs go HERE.

High Fructose Corn Syrup - a honey bee connection?

HFCS might be what is killing off the honey bees.  It might also scramble your genes.  There is more investigation needed, but here's the info: Bee-Ware-HMF

BigPharma - You want to trust these guys?

Pulling strings and doing shady things.

The Merck Rap-Sheet (and this ain't music baby!)

Pfizer Pays Record $1.3 Billion Penalty for Drug Misbranding

Off-label marketing makes a mockery of modern medicine
So-called "off-label" marketing of drugs is rampant in the pharmaceutical industry. Although the FDA, drug companies and many conventional doctors claim the drug industry is guided by a "gold standard" of scientific scrutiny, the truth is that pharmaceuticals are routinely marketed and prescribed for health conditions for which they have never even been studied... much less actually approved by the FDA. The fact that this continues today makes a mockery of any "scientific credibility" the pharmaceutical industry claims to possess.

Drug companies take advantage of this gaping hole in regulatory oversight by getting their drugs approved by the FDA for one health condition, then heavily promoting it for numerous unrelated conditions. A drug approved for high blood pressure, for example, could be openly marketed for diabetes or Alzheimer's disease even though there is no evidence whatsoever showing the drug to be either safe or effective for such conditions.

The same is true with the intended demographics of pharmaceuticals: Drug companies often get their drugs approved for adults, then they market those drugs to children even though the drugs have never been tested with children.

The result is a pharmaceutical industry that appears to be highly regulated, but isn't. Virtually any drug can be pushed for any disease for almost any reason -- all with virtually no oversight by the FDA. In fact, in this Pfizer case, even with the Justice Department filing criminal charges against Pfizer, the FDA has stood by and done absolutely nothing to prevent such actions from being repeated in the future by Pfizer or another drug company.

See Full Story

Your Government At Work

More evidence of corruption in high places (what's new).

Follow The Money - or - What's the FDA sold you down the river for now?!

B-12

I have no opinion or supporting evidence on the following - but put it here to keep track of it for further investigation.

Posted by: Dr. Mercola
September 15 2009

The common picture of a B12 deficient patient is an elderly person with pernicious anemia. But B12 deficiency may be caused instead by food-B12 malabsorption.

Food-B12 malabsorption is the inability to release B12 from food or its binding proteins. Unlike pernicious anemia, it’s more likely to be associated with mild, preclinical B12 deficiency.

B12 deficiency is common in elderly patients. One study revealed a prevalence of 12 percent among elderly people. Other studies, focusing on those who are in institutions or who are sick and malnourished, have suggested a higher prevalence of 30 percent to 40 percent. Unfortunately, B12 deficiency is often unrecognized because the clinical manifestations can be very subtle. In fact, one of its manifestations -- mild memory loss -- can mimic the early stages of dementia.

Food-B12 malabsorption is caused primarily by atrophic gastritis. More than 40 percent of patients older than 80 years have gastric atrophy that can be related to h. pylori infection.


Sources:

The Journal of Family Practice July 2007; 56(7): 537-542

Dr. Mercola's Comments:

The studies mentioned in this article are further proof of a situation I’ve been warning my readers about for at least a decade: vitamin B12 deficiency is a pervasive and growing health crisis in the U.S. and other countries around the globe.

And the primary cause of the deficiency might shock you (more about that shortly).

I’m very happy to see a mainstream medical publication like the JFP acknowledge not only the prevalence of vitamin B12 deficiency and its primary source, but also the fact that oral supplementation is a simple, cost effective treatment for most people.

This is great news for anyone who doesn’t want to deal with the discomfort, inconvenience and cost of injections to treat a B12 deficiency.

Why Vitamin B12 is Essential

Vitamin B12 fuels many of your body’s most important functions, literally from your head to your feet. Among them:

•proper food digestion and absorption
•healthy nervous system function
•formation of red blood cells
•proper circulation
•healthy immune system function
•mood regulation
•mental clarity, concentration, memory function
Your body was simply not built to function without a sufficient supply of vitamin B12 throughout its lifetime. I can’t overemphasize the importance of insuring you are getting adequate B12.

What are the Odds YOU are B12 Deficient?

The above article primarily addresses B12 deficiency in the elderly, but you shouldn’t assume you are not at risk just because you’re under a certain age or eat foods containing vitamin B12.

It’s true if you’re over 50 or a vegan/vegetarian, your chances of being vitamin B12 deficient are higher than average. But no matter your age or diet, if your body isn’t absorbing the B12 you’re giving it, you, too, could be lacking in this vitally important nutrient.

Surprising Causes of Vitamin B12 Deficiency

Since vitamin B12 is present in natural form only in animal sources of food, strict vegetarians and vegans are very high on the list of those who can expect to be B12 deficient.

Other sources of vitamin B12 deficiency include:

•Inadequate production of stomach acid -- The older you are, the less able your stomach is to produce the hydrochloric acid necessary to release B12 from the food you eat.
•Long-term use of antacid/antiulcer drugs -- Since hydrochloric acid is a requirement for the absorption of vitamin B12, it follows that if you’re taking an antacid, your stomach won’t be able to digest B12 out of your food. This class of drugs includes H2-receptor antagonists like Zantac and Tagamet, and proton pump inhibitors like Nexium and Prilosec.
•Use of the drug metformin for Type 2 diabetes -- Use of metformin (brand names include Glucophage, Glucophage XR, Fortamet, Riomet, and Glumetza) may inhibit your B12 absorption, especially at higher doses.
•Infection with H. pylori bacteria -- If you suffer from a chronic Helicobacter pylori infection, you might be B12 deficient.
•Coffee consumption -- Four or more cups of coffee a day can reduce your B vitamin stores by as much as 15 percent.
•Gastric bypass surgery
•Exposure to nitrous oxide (laughing gas)
•And the LEADING cause of vitamin B12 deficiency: food-cobalamin malabsorption syndrome -- This condition results when your stomach lining loses its ability to produce intrinsic factor, a protein that binds to vitamin B12 and allows your body to absorb it into your bloodstream at the end of your small intestine.
The Role of Intrinsic Factor in B12 Absorption

The reason your body needs intrinsic factor is because vitamin B12 is a very large molecule. It is actually the largest vitamin we know of, and the way it gets absorbed into your body is complex.

Intrinsic factor is a molecule protein made by your stomach. It grabs onto the B12 molecule and together they move through your stomach to your small intestine. When they reach the end of your small intestine, the intrinsic factor is absorbed first, pulling the B12 with it into the cells of your large intestine, where they are absorbed for use by the rest of your body.

If your body doesn’t produce enough stomach acid, then you’re not producing enough intrinsic factor either. Since the only way vitamin B12 can be absorbed into your system is through bonding with intrinsic factor molecules, it’s easy to understand why so many people are not getting adequate B12 into their bodies.

Warning Signs and Symptoms of B12 Deficiency

There are a wide range of symptoms of vitamin B12 deficiency, from mild to severe, which can affect your body, mind and mood.

In general, look for signs of:

1.Fatigue, lack of energy, muscle weakness, tingling in your extremities
2.Mental fogginess or problems with your memory, trouble sleeping
3.Mood swings, especially feelings of apathy or lack of motivation
Even though vitamin B12 is water-soluble, it doesn’t exit your body quickly like other water-soluble vitamins. B12 is stored in your liver, kidneys and other body tissues, and as a result, a deficiency may not show itself for a number of years.

This time lag is a serious concern, because after about seven years of B12 deficiency, irreversible brain damage can result.

Other symptoms of long-term, chronic B12 deficiency can include:

•depression
•dementia and Alzheimer's
•anemia
•neurological and neuropsychiatric conditions
•female fertility and childbearing problems
•heart disease and cancer
Sources of Vitamin B12

As I mentioned earlier, B12 is available in its natural form only in animal food sources. These include seafood, beef, chicken, pork, milk, eggs.

If you don’t consume enough of these animal products to get an adequate supply of B12, or if your body’s ability to absorb the vitamin from food is compromised, there’s good news.

Science has recently developed a technology that can reduce the effective size of the vitamin B12 molecule and help you absorb this molecule into the fine capillaries under your tongue. The delivery system for these microscopic droplets of vitamin B12 is a fine mist you spray into your mouth.

This delivery system bypasses the intrinsic factor problem and is much easier, safer and less painful than a vitamin B12 shot.

What to Do If You Suspect You Have a B12 Deficiency

Blood tests for vitamin B12 deficiency aren’t as clear cut or helpful as they are for other nutritional deficiencies. Standard tests to assess vitamin B12 concentrations are limited because the clinical severity of vitamin B12 deficiency is unrelated to vitamin B12 concentrations.

Getting your B12 and MMA serum levels lab tested is one way to go, especially if you have a compelling reason to have “official” test results.

However, it is probably a more practical approach if you suspect or are concerned you are vitamin B12 deficient, to simply supplement your diet with B12 and see if your symptoms improve.

Vitamin B12 supplementation is completely non-toxic and inexpensive, especially when compared to the cost of laboratory testing. If you aren’t getting sufficient B12 in your diet, or you suspect your body isn’t able to efficiently absorb the vitamin, I recommend you begin supplementation immediately with either an under-the-tongue fine mist spray or vitamin B12 injections.

LINK: MERCOLA & Vitamin B-12

Antioxidant ratings

I use cloves instead of breath mints and wondered if they had much value. This article in Natural News seems to indicate they are off the chart with an antioxidant rating (ORAC) of 314,446!

Here is an excerpt from the article:

Goji Berries score 25,300, and raw elderberries are 14,697. Apples score 6,681 on the ORAC scale, and raw blueberries score 6,552. (Source: ORACvalues.com)

(NaturalNews) If you follow the news on superfoods, you're probably familiar with the term "ORAC" -- Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity. It's a measure of the antioxidant power of a food or substance. You may not be aware that there's a new, more advanced ORAC test available today: ORACFN.

ORACFN measures the food's ability to protect against oxidative damage caused by five common radicals: hydroxyl, peroxyl, peroxynitrite, singlet oxygen, and superoxide anion. This is designed to provide a more accurate assessment on how the substance being tested might function in the human body.


The highest ORAC value on record for a common food is cloves, which score an amazing 314,446 (cloves are also an ingredient used in Traditional Chinese Medicine formulas, as is cinnamon, another high scorer on the ORAC scale).

For the complete article see NaturalNews

Statin Drugs and Muscle Problems

Statin drugs have been known for some time to cause depletion of CoQ10 in the body, but research has discovered it also depletes selenium. This may cause irreperable muscle deterioration, sore aching muscles, tiredness and other symptoms common to seleniun deficiency. Atricle

H1N1 Flu pandemic - What Ya Gonna Do?

Try Vitamin D. A wimpy 400 IU/day gives little or no protection. 2000 IU/day or higher is recommended.
It is a well-known medical fact, of course, that influenza always gets worse during the winter months North of the equator and the summer months South of the equator (which are really called their "winter" months). This is because as sunlight hours lessen during the winter, the people living there become vitamin D deficient and are susceptible to influenza infections of all kinds.

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H1N1 - Sorry, You Lose - or - your government at work

Legal Immunity Set for Swine Flu Vaccine Makers

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sibelius has not only given immunity to the makers of Tamiflu and Relenza for injuries stemming from their use against swine flu, she has granted immunity to future swine flu vaccines and “any associated adjuvants”.
The last time the government embarked on a major vaccine campaign against a new swine flu, thousands filed claims contending they suffered side effects from the shots. This time around, they will have no recourse.

The 2006 Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (the PREP Act) allows the DHHS Secretary to invoke almost complete immunity from liability for manufacturers of vaccines and drugs used to combat a declared public health emergency.

The PREP Act removes the right to a trial jury unless a plaintiff can provide clear evidence of willful misconduct that resulted in death or serious physical injury -- and gets permission to sue from the DHHS Secretary.

But once the PREP Act is invoked to shield manufacturers from liability, the pharmaceutical firms have no financial incentive to make the safest product, and have a negative incentive to test it for safety. As long as they do not deliberately harm consumers of the product, they will not be liable for damages.

Meanwhile, while the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hoping to have 120 million doses of H1N1 swine flu virus vaccine ready before flu season this fall, some are raising concerns over what they see as an effort to rush the drug through safety trials.

The source of many of these concerns is the probability that the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal will be an ingredient in some of the doses of the new vaccine.

Groups opposed to current vaccination practices condemn thimerosal as a toxin responsible for the development of autism and related ailments in children. Additionally, the possibility that the swine flu vaccine could also contain an adjuvant, an ingredient that would allow more doses to be created from existing supplies of the vaccine, has also worried these groups.


Sources:

Anthrax Vaccine July 27, 2009
ABC News July 30, 2009
Prisonplanet.com July 30, 2009

Heart Health - Viscosity Test

Has your doctor ever mentioned this test? Does he know the significance of it? Probably not, as it is one of the tests one would like done BEFORE having a heart attack or stroke and as one of the indicators of cardiovascular health.

In the U.S. we deal largely in Sick-Care (don't do anything until there is a problem) rather than Health-Care (optimize health and prevent problems/illness). That is why putting a few trillion more bucks in our $ick-care system just isn't going to help! . . that's the commercial, now on with it.

From Wikipedia: "elevation of plasma viscosity correlates to the progression of coronary and peripheral vascular diseases. Anemia can lead to decrease blood viscosity, which may lead to heart failure."

From Vilastic Scientific: "Variations in blood viscoelasticity are seen in such conditions as cardiovascular disease, peripheral vascular disease, sickle cell anemia, diabetes, stroke and other conditions." (Note: rather technical site - probably more than you want to know)

The double whammy of 'thick blood' and high iron levels leads to trouble! Experts say your ferritin (iron) level should be around 100 ug/ml or lower. Your blood viscosity and elasticity is a rather complicated test, best understood by a qualified cardiologist. At this point I'm not sure how you determine who is qualified - I would start with one that is F.A.C.C. trained.

So what if you have high iron and high viscosity. Best remedy is to give blood - it will lower both of them! And if you don't take a lot of meds, haven't been to certain countries, it should be free.
If you can't qualify as a donor, most blood banks (Red Cross, etc.) will take a pint and throw it away, but it will cost you..... "It makes sense for everyone over age fifty (or men over 30) to give blood one to four times per year." This doesn't apply to those who are anemic or iron deficient.

Heartburn? If you want it, take a PPI med

(NaturalNews) Prilosec, Nexium, Prevacid, Aciphex. These and a dozen more drugs known as proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) have quickly become superstars of Big Pharma. As recently reported by US News and World Report, last year people worldwide shelled out some $ 25.6 billion for these drugs that are supposed to alleviate heartburn and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Although hailed by most doctors as safe, reports have started cropping up that side effects may include everything from dizziness to osteoporosis, increased risk of heart attacks, pneumonia and more. Article

Now comes research that shows the drugs actually cause the symptoms they are supposed to treat. A new study just published in Gastroenterology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute, found that taking a PPI drug for eight weeks induced acid-related symptoms including heartburn, acid regurgitation and dyspepsia in healthy individuals soon after they stopped taking the pills.

"The observation that more than 40 percent of healthy volunteers, who have never been bothered by heartburn, acid regurgitation or dyspepsia, develop such symptoms in the weeks after cessation of PPIs is remarkable and has potentially important clinical and economic implications," Christina Reimer, MD, of Copenhagen University and lead author of the study, said in a statement to the media. "This study indicates unrecognized aspects of PPI withdrawal and is a very strong indication of a clinically significant acid rebound phenomenon that needs to be investigated in proper patient populations."

In the randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial, the scientists investigated whether long-term treatment with a PPI could cause a dependency state. Specifically, they wanted to see if patients would need non-stop, continuous treatment with the drugs due to rebound acid hypersecretion when the medications were stopped. In all, 120 healthy participants were randomized to about three months of taking inactive placebo pills or 40 mg. of the PPI drug esomeprazole (brand names: Nexium, Esotrex) daily. This was followed by having all the research subjects take a placebo for another four weeks. A Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Scale (GSRS) was filled out weekly by those participating in the study.

During the first two weeks after withdrawal of the PPI, the majority of research participants began to have mild to moderate indigestion discomfort. What's more, the GSRS scores for acid-related symptoms were significantly higher in the PPI group during weeks 10, 11 and 12 of the study. In fact, 44 percent of the people taking the PPI experienced at least one worrisome acid-related symptom in weeks nine through 12 compared to only 15 percent in the control taking placebo pills. About 22 percent of people in the PPI group complained of dyspepsia, heartburn or acid regurgitation in week 10 and 11; around 21 percent of the research subjects had indigestion problems in week 12 of the study. However, those in the placebo group reported indigestion and reflux symptoms at a far lower rate. Only about seven, five and two percent of them had heartburn or other related problems during weeks 10, 11 and 12 of the study.

"We find it highly likely that the symptoms observed in this trial are caused by rebound acid hypersecretion and that this phenomenon is equally relevant in patients treated long term with PPIs. If rebound acid hypersecretion induces acid-related symptoms, this might lead to PPI dependency. Our results justify the speculation that PPI dependency could be one of the explanations for the rapidly and continuously increasing use of PPIs," Dr. Reimer stated.

In the media statement, the researchers noted previous research has have shown that about 33 percent of patients who start taking PPI drugs keep on refilling their prescriptions. So why do they need maintenance therapy if these drugs are supposed to successfully treat GERD and related conditions? Reimer's research strongly indicates it's because when people try to stop taking PPIs, they experience an increase in gastric acid secretion that soars beyond their pre-treatment levels. Within two weeks after withdrawal from treatment, they experience even worse heartburn, regurgitation and other GERD symptoms than ever -- so they have to go right back on the expensive PPI drug therapy.

Phthalates - Danger to unborns and infants

(NaturalNews) Chemicals called phthalates are frequently used in vinyl and other plastic products, including personal care products, children's toys, and medical devices -- despite the fact research has suggested these compounds can play havoc with the function of the human endocrine system and potentially cause a host of health problems, especially in children. Because phthalates are hormone disrupters they have been linked to childhood obesity and now to low birth weight - the leading cause of death in children under five years of age.

"Even careful reading of labels can be confusing because some manufacturers use various chemical names when they list phthalates. For example, DEHP, di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate or Bis (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate are forms of phthalates often used in as medical devices such as IV bags and tubing. DBP stands for di-n-butyl phthalate and is found in nail polish products while DEP, or diethyl phthalate, is often an ingredient in deodorants, hair gels and other personal care products."

You can also search online - just enter 'phthalates in baby products' in your search engine and browse what comes up.

Cancer and Grapeseed Extract

"An extract from grape seeds forces laboratory leukemia cells to commit cell suicide, according to researchers from the University of Kentucky. They found that within 24 hours, 76 percent of leukemia cells had died after being exposed to the extract." For more of this article, go to University of Kentucky. You can also read a little more at NaturalNews.

Cancer - and Bayer vitamins

Take it for what it's worth. The following from CSPI:

If you are a man over 50, you've likely seen ads for Bayer One A Day men's multivitamins that claimed the mineral selenium helps reduce risk of prostate cancer or otherwise promotes "prostate health."

There's a big problem however: It's not true.

In fact, for most men, taking too much selenium may actually promote more aggressive forms of prostate cancer. And, previous studies warned against supplementing with selenium since men taking selenium developed more cases of diabetes than men in control groups who did not.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest has threatened Bayer with a lawsuit over those claims, and just last month, asked the Food and Drug Administration to seize existing stockpiles of One A Day Men's Health Formula and One A Day Men's 50+ Advantage.

As CSPI senior nutritionist David Schardt said at the time, "Bayer is exploiting men's fear of prostate cancer just to sell more pills." And, a group of some of the most prominent prostate cancer researchers in the country wrote that "Bayer Healthcare is doing a disservice to men by misleading them about a protective role for selenium in prostate cancer."

Fluoride Update

Here is a rather long (1-hr, 49-min) audio interview illuminating the health risks and exposure to fluoride. You now get it on lettuce, onions, potatoes, etc. You also get it from pesticides. A very interesting listen. Dr. Bill Osmunson. Also see my previous Post on fluoride.

There is also a very dangerous class of antibiotics called fluoroquinolones. Over ten years ago I took several prescriptions for Cipro and suffered irreversable nervous system damage, partial loss of smell, numbness in my feet, tinnitus, panic attacts and depression.
According to Bob Patton, one of many fighting to get the truth out about these antibiotics, about half of the fluoroquinolone class of antibiotics that were once on the market have been removed from clinical practice due to their horrific side effects: Omniflox, Raxar, Trovan, Zagam, and Tequin have all been banned.

However, Cipro, Levaquin, Avelox, and Floxin continue to be prescribed for a variety of infections, both major and minor. Cipro and Levaquin are by far the favorites.

Although they are admittedly powerful anti-infectives, they are too often prescribed as a first-line defense for minor problems such as sinus, bladder, and prostate infections. These super-antibiotics should be used as a last line of defense, not handed out like candy for every patient with a sore throat, which has unfortunately become the norm.

And with devastating results.

In most cases, adverse reactions occur very quickly, sometimes after just a few pills. Reactions are usually multiple and involve many body systems.

In Dr. Cohen’s 2001 study, the following reaction rates were documented:

o Nervous system symptoms occurred in 91 percent of patients (pain, tingling and numbness, dizziness, malaise, weakness, headaches, anxiety and panic, loss of memory, psychosis)
o Musculoskeletal symptoms in 73 percent of patients (tendon ruptures, tendonitis, weakness, joint swelling)
o Sensory symptoms in 42 percent of patients (tinnitus, altered visual, olfactory, and auditory function)
o Cardiovascular symptoms in 36 percent of patients (tachycardia, shortness of breath, chest pain, palpitations)
o Skin reactions in 29 percent of patients (rashes, hair loss, sweating, intolerance to heat or cold)
o Gastrointestinal symptoms in 18 percent of patients (nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain).

Patient BEWARE (I found out too late!) You may also want to read Wikipedia for some additional background.

CoQ10 Update

CoQ10 is necessary for energy production in every cell in your body, and is particularly critical in the heart muscle. It is also one of the key enzymes that regenerate the antioxidant vitamins in your body, such as Vit-C & E that become oxidized as they neutralize free radicals.
However, recent research (reference?) shows that most of your store bought CoQ-10 comes in the oxidized form and is useless in this role of re-energizing. How can you tell? Just poke a little hole in the capsule and squeeze a little out onto something white. If it is bright orange, it is the oxidized (or useless) form. Did you get it at a 'bargan price'? For sure you will find it oxidized.
Another fact is that your body produces CoQ-10, but this production starts decreasing after age 25 or so. By your 50's it is dramatically less.

Here is a list of common medications that lower levels of C0Q10 in the body:

Statins for cholesterol , including atorvastatin (Lipitor), lovastatin (Mevacor), pravastatin (Pravachol, and simvastatin (Zocor).

Fibric acid derivatives for cholesterol, including gemfibrozil (Lopid).

Beta-blockers for high blood pressure, such as atenolol (Tenormin), labetolol (Normodyne), metoprolol (Lopressor or Toprol), and propranolol (Inderal).
Tricyclic antidepressant medications, including amitriptyline (Elavil), doxepin (Sinequan), and imipramine (Tofranil).

Also see Univ of Maryland and Wikipedia

Baby Formula . . . food for thought

This is just a quickie. For those pregnant moms out there. Here is something to become more informed about - the hazards of baby formula.

Another hazard to children and particularly the developing fetus is MSG. More later...

pH and body chemistry

The topic of acid-alkaline foods and how the relate to our health has been studied for almost a century. Keeping your body pH slightly alkaline is important to your health and is one of the many failings of the modern western diet. Want to know more? Her is a good read on the subject: The pH Nutrition Guide . But, if you search further you will find different foods listed differently. Here is an article that gives some balance to the subject of pH and foods: whfoods.
Enjoy

Information on Drugs

Want to know what the drug interactions are with supplements and herbs?
Here is an excellent resource
Enjoy!

More on Genetically Modified Food - Sugar Beets

The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has just released a statement regarding the Dangers of GMO substances. Here is the Original Statement, should you desire to get it from the source. The recent proliferation of GMO foods for human consumption has been associated with the rise in early puberty as well as reproductive disorders and infertility.

A related issue: (NaturalNews for complete story) More than 70 companies have signed a pledge promising to avoid using sugar from genetically modified sugar beets "wherever possible."Genetically modified sugar beets, engineered by the Monsanto Corporation to be resistant to its herbicide Roundup, were first harvested in fall 2008. By now, sugar from those beets has likely entered the food stream. Critics of genetic engineering have raised concerns that the modified beets could produce food allergies, threaten wildlife and spread herbicide resistance or other modified traits to closely related species, including chard or table beets."We need to avoid the all-too-common situation of finding out a product is harmful after it has been approved and widely distributed," said Jeffrey Smith of the Institute for Responsible Technology, one of the organizations sponsoring the pledge. "Requiring that GM foods be labeled is the only protection consumers have if they want to avoid eating GM foods."

For more links and information on GM foods and related articles, see this post.

MSG and obesity

A good friend sent me a link to the dangers of MSG. That lead me down a path to discover some of the stuff in PubMed that was interesting. I'll only mention one article here: MSG & Obesity

This is a direct quote of the last line in that article: "This research provides data that MSG intake may be associated with increased risk of overweight independent of physical activity and total energy intake in humans."

For more on MSG, check out my other posts on the subject:
MSG-1

MSG-2

Irradiated food

The FDA is likely to push us in the direction of irradiating food with the recent problems with contaminated peanuts and other foods. Sounds good doesn't it? But what else does it 'rearrange' at a molecular level? Well . . . . . they aren't really sure. So once again we will become the guinea pigs. Here is an interesting study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison that reveals there may be some danger with irradiated foods.

Magnesium Stearate controversy

This one just came up from Dr. Mercola. He says Magnesium Stearate is not so good for you: it can coat your intestines and cut down on absorbtion of food and nutrients - but go look in your vitamin cupboard and look at the list of ingredients of the bottles there. Don't be too suprised if you find magnesium stearate in the list. Unfortunately I didn't notice any reference in Dr. Mercola's article, so I went hunting. Here is just one of the articles that was more explanatory but again - lacked decent references. Or this One.

Here is another article that addresses 'inactive ingredients' in generic drugs and the possible effects of these ingredients. Hmmm, the FDA and strange bedfellow again!

Please - if anyone has some well documented source for the detrimental effects of magnesium stearate, please let me know!

Despite Controversy, Lexapro Approved for Kids’ Depression

Watch out, here we go again, I wonder how many injuries, deaths, etc., (and profit$$), it will take before Lexapro gets removed from the list of kiddy-meds! If your child is depressed, you may want to check what they are eating first.

Colds, Flu and Vit-D

In the largest study yet of the association between vitamin D and respiratory infections, people with the lowest blood vitamin D levels reported having significantly more recent colds or cases of the flu. The risks were even higher for those with chronic respiratory disorders such as asthma.

Vitamin C has been used for the prevention of colds for decades, but little scientific evidence supports its effectiveness. In contrast, evidence has accumulated that vitamin D plays a key role in the immune system.

The wintertime deficiency of vitamin D, which the body produces in response to sunlight, has been implicated in the seasonal increase in colds and flu, and previous small studies have suggested an association between low blood levels of vitamin D and a higher risk of respiratory infections.

The newest study analyzed blood levels of vitamin D from almost 19,000 adult and adolescents, selected to be representative of the overall U.S. population.

Sources:
Archives of Internal Medicine 2009; 169 (4): 384-390
Life Extension Magazine February 25, 2009
Scientific American February 23, 2009
Dr. Mercola

BigPharma, Junk Science, and Cherry Picking

Here are multiple stories about the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and how they fund multiple studies on their anti psychotic drug, Seroquel, then suppress those studies that are unfavorable and show a link between the drug and diabetes, and only send to the FDA those studies that show a favorable outcome - this practice is called 'cherry picking' and is apparently quite common in the industry. [I just read an abstract (Medical Care [Med Care] 2008 May; Vol. 46 (5), pp. 467-75. ) indicating specialty hospitals may engage in the same practice of cherry picking: "Patients with more generous insurance are significantly more likely to gain admission to specialty hospitals."]
Why do these pharmaceutical companies purposefully promote a product that is harmful?! Why is this country drowning in drugs only to be falling behind most other industrialized nations in every standard of wellness and measure of effectiveness of our $ick care $ystem? Follow the money and the greed! How many people have sold their soul (and the health of others) for that which corrupts?

Don't wait for President Obama or your elected officials to turn it around! YOU can do it by learning how to eat healthy, live healthy, and STAY healthy! Stay away from the soda, refined foods, corn syrup, sugar, 'low fat' products, MSG, fake sweeteners and Omega-6 fats. Educate yourself about yourself - instead of wasting that hour watching TV or some other nonproductive activity, pray for guidance and get smart.

Another example of (strongly) suspected Junk Science: HIV=AIDS

Sick Care - a broken system

I just found this interesting paper from Cornell University on how broke our Sick Care System is - your politicians apparently know something about this - yet the system just keeps getting worse and more expensive!
As for me, I'd rather put my bucks in healthy living and good nutrition and supplements. . . . Did you know that the US spends 45% of the world's money on drugs even though we are only 5% of the worlds population? But are we better off? Nope, just broke - and the quality of our Sick Care system ranks 37th in industrialized countries and we are 72nd in overall health!

Here is a publication from the National Coalition on Health Care (HCHC) about the ever increasing cost of Sick Care in the U.S. "Health Insurance Costs"

And surely you would want to go to Who'$ Running Wa$hington

More . . . .

Part of the problem is that sick care is a 'for profit' business in this country. Profit for the insurance companies (Medicare Advantage programs), profit for hospitals (Fla), and for sure - profit for the pharmaceutical industry!

Please feel free to view a very revealing documentary. You may also want to look up my post on Medecine in Other Countries and Shady Beginnings.

Is there hope? This quote by President John Adams may be an indication: "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion... Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

Dirty Soap

I could hardly believe it! Dirty soap! Look on the contents of those cheap soap bars; if it has animal fat (sodium tallowate) and comes from Mexico you may not want to buy it! See NEWS
This is just another example of how our government keeps us safe - Ha, ha!

4th leading cause of death in U.S.

From the Journal of American Medical Association the 4th leading cause of death in the U.S. is adverse reactions to properly prescribed drugs. Add to that those wrongly prescribed, or adverse interactions to multiple drugs (does you doctor ask you what else YOU are on?!) of about 80,000/year and you are right up there in the #3 slot. Go BigPharma!
See Doctor Death for more info.

Here is another that just came up: An article in JAMA of March 18 , the drug Pactimibe that had looked promising in preventing atherosclerosis (the process in which plaque builds up in the inner lining of the arteries leading to cardiovascular events) in animal tests just didn`t work in humans. Well, it worked but instead of helping, it seems it increased the incidence of not only heart attack but also strokes.

Whenever a doc prescribes a 'pill fix', I go looking for a more natural and safer alternative!

Doctor of what?

Ever wanted to know what some of that alphabet soup means behind a medical degree?
Try THIS.

Need additional references. .

HPV Vaccine - you better think twice

One of the latest money makers from Merck, Gardasil (see Catherine Morgan) has some minor side effects - if you consider death as a minor side effect! To help insure Merck's own immunity from the depression hitting the rest of us, they have put on a major media blitz and are reportedly buying influence in high places to make it law that requires all young women get this vaccine.

To see what's happening in your state, check NCSL. (Check tables about 1/3rd down)

You might want to investigate Merck'$ benevolent desire to help all mankind before getting sucked into this vaccine craze! See Judicial Watch, Women's Health (another blog), rumors from US News, JAMA, or Vaccine Awakening (another blog - why should I duplicate the excellent work shown here); of course if you want it from the horses mouth see Merck'$ spiel.

UPDATE: I just found out that Merck has applied to have Gardasil approved (and you can bet they will try to get it MANDATED) for boys and men also!

What happened to the BEST medicine - abstinance before marriage and fidelity after marriage. Last time I checked, it was fully effective and only good side effects.

Leaky Gut Syndrome

Good background article, though may lack crdible authority.

Since U.S. doctors seem largely ignorant or skeptical of leaky gut syndrome, some foreign sites appear helpful. England

L-Glutamine may help with leaky gut. It is needed in the body along with pyridoxal-5-phosphate ( the active form of vitamin B6) for proper assimilation.

Of general interest may be Doctors Data, a testing lab specializing in many valuble tests with lots of interesting things to read up on.

FDA - Get email alerts

The FDA issues allerts and information on a multitude of things. I've signed up for the Class-1 recalls, etc. Take a look FDA
BUT, you may want to wait until the latest peanut/salmonela epedimic is over - otherwise you may get up to 30 emails a day!

Cancer

Note - ! under construction with frequent updates ! (Latest Update 17 Jan 09)

Cancer - It's a real killer; either literally or financially - and I want to put the odds in my favor as much as possible. If you are interested, here are things I've found:

1. What is cancer? Normal cells gone bad through changes in their DNA.
2. How do you prevent cancer?
a) Minimize exposure to those things that cause DNA damage.
b) Strengthen your cells against DNA damage.
c) Strengthen those processes that correct DNA damage.
d) Build up your system to more effectively fight cancer as it appears.
3. Some things to know if you have cancer.


Here are some natural things to help prevent cancer:

Grape Seed Extract: No side effects and it has been documented not only to strengthen blood vessels and tissues against the onslaught of proteinases excreted by cancer cells, but it also causes apoptosis (cell self destruction) in the cancer cells. U of K.

Vitamins B6, B12, folate, choline, and methionine are vital to DNA synthesis. Deficiencies in these nutrients greatly increases the risk of cancer. Some of these are addressed separately later, but you need all of them for the full synergistic effect.

Vit B12: The best form of B12 supplement is sublingual methylcobalamin lozenges available from Country Life or BioInnovations. It is best absorbed and most bioavailable. B-12 plays a major role in DNA repair as well as promoting normal nerve and brain function.

Beta-carotene: Vitamin A can be derived from beta-carotene and avoids vit-A toxicity. Vit-A inhibits cancer induction and growth. Beta-carotene has anticancer activities including inhibition of cancer growth chemicals and inflammatory signals. Beta-carotene is a carotenoid - one of fifty or so contained in a good diet. It is best to take a mixture of these carotenoids, not just beta-carotene alone. (Vit-A & Vit-D problem to keep a watch on)


Miscellaneous related subjects:
Angiogenesis - growth of new blood vessels.

Some of the information here came from an excellent, though somewhat technical, book written by Doctor Russell L. Blaylock - a board certified neurosurgeon with over twenty years dealing with cancers. Natural Strategies For Cancer Patients.

Other Resources: Cancer Treatment Centers of America
Dr. Schreiber, MD
Wiki
YouTube

Salmonella

Update: Salmonella seems to be an increasing problem. Normally it is only associated with meat products. Now it is showing up in all kinds of stuff! See latest FDA Warning.

Now it's Perry's Ice Cream! Map

See cartoon and comment

Fingernail Analysis

I have never heard of this but ran across it; so I made this post just to keep track of some links in case I ever want to look into it. I was looking for folate deficiency as a cause of split nails.
Stop Biting Nails
Dr. Denice Moffat
BellaOnline

Gee, I didn't realize nails were such a complex item?!