Saturday, November 28th, 2009 | Author: admin
Russell Blaylock’s Nutrition & Behaviour. A must see.
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Thursday, November 26th, 2009 | Author: admin
Article from Natural News / www.naturanews.com
Saturday, November 07, 2009 by: Alex Howard, citizen journalist
(NaturalNews) Free radicals are atoms or molecules with an unpaired electron. They are very unstable, highly reactive particles, which collide with other molecules in the body, causing them to change structure. These molecules then become free radicals creating a domino-effect or chain reaction with millions of molecules being affected in a matter of nanoseconds. Free radicals are also known as Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) so free radical stress is also known as oxidative stress. There are many causes of free radical stress, which is now seen as a major mechanism in chronic diseases as well as ageing.
Anti-oxidants
Anti-oxidants are the body’s defense mechanism or internal army against free radicals. Antioxidants, or free radical scavengers, will neutralize these damaging particles. Common antioxidants are vitamins A, E, C, zinc and selenium. As you will read below, some free radicals are produced as an essential part of bodily processes, so the body expects to have to deal with and manage free radicals produced. It is only when the net production exceeds the body’s capacity to neutralize free radicals that disease-states arise.
The body also produces internal anti-oxidants like glutathione, Co-Enzyme Q10, superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidise.
Exogenous Sources of Free Radicals (from outside the body):
-Preservatives and chemicals in foods
-Herbicides and pesticides on non-organic foods
-Prescription drugs
-Pollution and radiation and sunburn
-Heavy metals like mercury, aluminum and lead
-Alcohol, and smoking
-Trans and hydrogenated fats
Endogenous Sources of free radicals (from inside the body):
The body’s immune system produces free radicals which it uses to kill bacteria, viruses and fungi. If the immune system becomes chronically over-activated (as in cases of chronic inflammation), there is an extra burden of free radical stress in the body. Certain conditions that trigger off the immune system are chronic infections like helicobacter pylori, major operations, allergies and intolerances.
Your body naturally produces free radicals as a by-product of cellular energy production and liver detoxification. This is similar to a car that produces toxic exhaust fumes as the waste product of the combustion of petrol. Whenever you use your body a lot, there will be increased free radical production. This is why athletes are recommended to take regular supplements of anti-oxidants.
Emotional stress significantly increases free radical load on the body. As stress induces the release of hormones, the body mobilizes ready for action, known as the fight and flight response. This creates bio-chemical changes which increase free radical stress in the body.
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Thursday, November 26th, 2009 | Author: admin
Article from Dr. Mercola / www.mercola.com
Posted by: Dr. Mercola
November 10 2009 |
Many countries are pouring millions into orders for swine flu vaccine from pharmaceutical companies. But one country is taking a different approach.
The Irish Independent reports that the some Canadian provinces have suspended the ‘normal’ seasonal flu shots for anyone under 65 in response to a recent study there. However, the vaccine suspensions do not apply for people over 65.
The study suggests that people vaccinated against seasonal flu are actually twice as likely to catch swine flu.
But plans vary across the provinces of Canada. Last month, British Columbia announced it is suspending seasonal flu shots for anyone under 65 years old, joining Quebec, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Nova Scotia in halting the immunizations.
Quebec’s Health Ministry announced it would postpone vaccinations until January, clearing the autumn months for health professionals to focus on vaccinating against H1N1, which is expected to the more severe influenza strain this season.
“By the time the H1N1 wave is over, there will be ample time to vaccinate for seasonal flu,” said Dr. Ethan Rubinstein, head of adult infectious diseases at the University of Manitoba.
Other provinces, including Manitoba, are still pondering a response to the research. New Brunswick, one of the lone holdouts, made an announcement in September that it would forge ahead with seasonal flu shots for all residents in October, as originally planned.
Yet according to an even more recent posting by PreventDisease.com, some provinces are still recommending co-administration of both vaccines in as little as 60 days, according to a staggered schedule.
An international panel is currently scrutinising the controversial study’s data. Dr Ethan Rubinstein, who has read the study, said it appeared sound.
“There are a large number of authors, all of them excellent and credible researchers,” he said. “The sample size is very large, at 12 or 13 million people.”
It was back in 1981 that R. Edgar Hope Simpson proposed that a principal cause of seasonal influenza is linked with the deficiency of solar radiation which triggers the production of vitamin D in the skin. Vitamin D deficiency is common in the winter, and vitamin D is crucial in allowing your immune system to defend itself against invading organisms.
In addition to vitamin D, studies have suggested that people who exercise moderately suffer fewer and less severe colds and flu infections.
In a new study, researchers found that when they had a group of mice regularly run on a treadmill over 3.5 months, the animals developed less-severe symptoms when infected with the flu virus.
Additionally, mice that exercised right before flu infection, but not regularly over the preceding months, also showed some protection against severe symptoms — which in mice means dampened appetite and weight loss. Those benefits, however, were only apparent in the couple days after infection, whereas regular long-term exercise reduced flu symptoms over the whole course of infection.
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In August of this year, I was pleased to publish the news that the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) will be investigating the role of vitamin D in protection against swine flu. The agency began a study last year on the role of vitamin D in severe seasonal influenza, which it is now adapting to the H1N1 swine flu virus.
Carole Baggerly, a major proponent of vitamin D, was the primary person responsible for this amazing, ground breaking decision. After donating one year of her time to convince Canadian government officials to do this, she deserves hero status for her efforts. Her tireless work has helped push a whole nation towards the truth.
She is an incredible role model and source of inspiration for all of us as to the power of what one person can do if they are committed to a noble cause.
Vitamin D and the Flu
Most people do not realize that vitamin D, unlike flu shots, is a proven method to keep yourself from catching an infectious disease.
According to the Irish Independent, R Edgar Hope Simpson was one of the first to discover the link between a deficiency in solar radiation and seasonal influenza. Then, in 2006, the journal Epidemiology and Infection published Dr. John Cannell’s paper Epidemic Influenza and Vitamin D, which presents the hypothesis that influenza is merely a symptom of vitamin D deficiency.
He followed this up with another study published in the Virology Journal last year.
His findings were again confirmed by another recent study — the largest and most nationally representative of its kind to date — that involved about 19,000 Americans.
It found that people with the lowest blood vitamin D levels reported having significantly more recent colds or cases of the flu. In conclusion, lead author Dr. Adit Ginde stated:
“The findings of our study support an important role for vitamin D in prevention of common respiratory infections, such as colds and the flu. Individuals with common lung diseases, such as asthma or emphysema, may be particularly susceptible to respiratory infections from vitamin D deficiency.”
And as we already know, the vast majority of deaths from the swine flu have occurred in children and adults with pre-existing medical conditions, including obesity, AND, most complications and deaths have been caused by secondary bacterial infections, such as staph – not the virus itself.
Add to this the fact that vitamin D has been shown to have a dramatic impact on nearly all chronic diseases, and you begin to see why optimizing your vitamin D levels may indeed be crucial for avoiding the flu in the first place, and/or avoiding serious and potentially deadly complications from the flu.
There is so much compelling evidence that I believe optimizing your vitamin D levels is one of the absolute best strategies for avoiding infections of ALL kinds, and vitamin D deficiency is likely the TRUE culprit behind the seasonality of the flu — not the flu virus itself.
I find it hard to believe that the H1N1 virus would respond much differently, especially since it has been found to be a much weaker virus than previous seasonal flu strains.
Some Canadian Provinces Temporarily Suspend Seasonal Flu Shots
Several provinces in Canada have responded proactively to the statistical findings that people who have received seasonal flu shots are TWICE as likely to contract the swine flu, by suspending or delaying the administration of seasonal flu shots.
Unfortunately, it may be too late for people who received the seasonal shot during last year’s season, as the researchers found these folks remained more vulnerable to swine flu well into 2009.
An article in the Deseret Morning News published on Homeland1.com, quotes Dr. Ethan Rubinstein, head of adult infectious diseases at the University of Manitoba as saying:
“It has confused things very badly. And it has certainly cost us credibility from the public because of conflicting recommendations. Until last week, there had always been much encouragement to get the seasonal flu vaccine.”
Confusing as it may be, administering two types of flu shots in a single season has never been done before, which raises the risk of unforeseen complications as it is, so it makes sense to stop one in lieu of the other.
Think about it… Certain categories of young children — depending on where they live and whether or not they’ve received seasonal flu shots before — would receive as much as 100 mcg of mercury if they received the recommended total of four flu shots!
(Washington and New York state have suspended the mercury limitation for infants and pregnant women for the H1N1 vaccine, so depending on age and previous flu vaccination history, infants in these two states will receive anywhere from one to four doses of mercury-containing flu vaccines.)
This is nothing short of medical crime…
The US has so far ignored the Canadian findings. The CDC is recommending that vaccinations for both seasonal and H1N1 flu go ahead as previously planned.
Several news sources have also stated that “US and European data do not suggest that the seasonal flu vaccine has any impact on getting the swine flu.”
But I would have to raise these questions: has either the US or Europe actually conducted such a study, or compiled the data to review it, in the first place? Or are we saying that the data “doesn’t show a link” simply because we haven’t looked?
So far, no one knows what the medical link between the seasonal flu shot and the swine flu. According to Deseret News:
“One hypothesis suggests seasonal flu vaccine preoccupies the cells that would otherwise produce antibodies against H1N1.
But, according to Dr. Rubinstein, the research shows that people who received the seasonal shot during the 2007-08 flu season remained vulnerable to swine flu well into 2009, an interval that should provide most immune systems ample restoration time.”
CBC News Canada published another theory:
“ Theoretically, antibodies created by the immune system after exposure to bacteria or a virus can facilitate the entry of another strain of the virus or disease. The effect has been seen for other viral vaccinations but never for influenza, said Dr. Donald Low, chief microbiologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto.”
Whatever the mechanism may turn out to be, waiting for science to figure it out seems foolish.
After all, if the statistics point to what appears to be a cause and effect, why not pay attention and opt for safety first?
At the Same Time, Canada Approves Adjuvanted H1N1 Vaccine…
Fortunately, none of the swine flu vaccines used in the US are allowed to contain adjuvants such as squalene. At least not yet…
Canadians are not so lucky, however. On October 21, the Canadian minister of health issued an interim order approving the sale of an ASO3 adjuvanted H1N1 vaccine called Arepanrix.
Canadians need to know that each 0.5 ml dose of Arepanrix contains:
- 10.69 mg of squalene
- 4.86 mg of Tween80. Also known as Polysorbate 80, it may be a hidden inductor of anaphylactic shock. One 2005 study concluded: “Polysorbate 80 is a ubiquitously used solubilizing agent that can cause severe nonimmunologic anaphylactoid reactions. “
- 5 mcg of thimerosal
“Sun & Exercise” Approach to Avoid Flu
In addition to optimizing your vitamin D levels, exercise may be your second best approach to avoiding the flu.
Reuters recently published the findings of a new study that supports what natural health advocates have taught all along – that exercise improves your immune system response, hence reducing your chances of contracting illness, including viral illness such as the flu.
Previous research has found that regular exercise boosts your immune defenses in such a way that it helps limit a viral attack, or help clear a virus from your body more quickly.
In this study done on mice, even those that only exercised right before being infected with the flu, but not regularly over the preceding months, still achieved some protection against the most severe flu symptoms.
The mice that exercised regularly in the months prior to infection had reduced flu symptoms over the entire course of the infection. They also had lower concentrations of virus in their lungs early on.
It’s quite clear that exercise can boost your body’s innate antiviral defenses, and needs to be an integral part of your lifestyle for optimal health, year-round.
Many Conventional Physicians Have Doubts about H1N1 Vaccines
If there is a silver lining to this swine flu madness, it’s that it is raising many important questions about our willy-nilly approach to vaccine safety in general, and many doctors and health care professionals are now beginning to challenge the assumptions of our vaccine programs, and question the sanity and safety of rushing to mass-vaccinate against such a mild virus as H1N1 with untested and unproven vaccines.
It takes courage to voice these concerns, as anyone who dares to oppose, or even question the logic of our excessive vaccine programs is automatically branded as a heretic of the worst kind.
So I applaud those in the health field who are courageous enough to do so in order to protect the health of their patients.
An article published in Medscape on October 28, 2009, illustrates the opposing viewpoints that clearly exist even within the medical community. The vaccine issue is NOT as clear-cut as many would like you to believe, and those who question the safety of what’s being done are neither fringe fanatics nor quacks.
Many are well-educated health professionals, willing to think for themselves and investigate beyond the dogma taught in medical school and what they’re told by pharmaceutical reps.
In her article, Physicians are Talking About: Is It Worth Getting the H1N1 Vaccine?, Nancy Terry writes:
“… However, other physicians are equally adamant about not getting the H1N1 vaccine.
“I don’t want to be a lab rat,” says an internist. “No way I or my family will receive the vaccine. Not a chance!” comments another internist.
“Emphatically no to both vaccines,” says a family medicine physician. “I agree with Dr. Joseph Mercola’s take on the swine flu and this and the prior round of vaccinations for it. I believe, based on all I’ve read to date, that vaccinations cause a body more harm than good.”
“I remember the last vaccine rushed to production. People died and some developed paralysis,” says another family medicine physician. “I prefer to take my chances.”
Several physicians wonder about the advisability of vaccinating segments of the population already exposed to influenza.
An emergency medicine physician, who saw H1N1 cases throughout September, comments, “If the epidemiology here mirrors the Southern Hemisphere flu season, by the time H1N1 vaccine is available the virus probably will be done circulating through my community.”…
… “This ain’t your grandma’s seasonal flu virus,” says a pediatrician. “It’s a quadruple-reassortant swine/avian hybrid that’s never been seen before, significantly different from its predecessors, even if relatively wimpy.” For this reason, he suggests that caution is warranted with regard to the infection and the vaccine. He adds, “It’s not inconceivable that this vaccine could cause side effects not seen with seasonal vaccine, although it seems safe in trials, so far.”
A family medicine physician agrees: “Any vaccine made at the last minute and made only by a few manufacturers with huge government contracts at stake cannot help but be higher risk for untoward side effects.”
… A family medicine physician comments, “I’m not sure I can justify recommending this vaccine to all children until safety is better ascertained when, so far, cases on the whole seem to be mild.”
As you can see, I’m not the only doctor on the block who has serious reservations. Hopefully, together we will be able to make a difference and save countless people from needless harm.
You Can Make a Difference
Most polls show that we ARE making a difference because more people are becoming educated about influenza and flu vaccines, especially H1N1 swine flu. Recent national polls have revealed that 30 to 50 percent in many communities are not planning to get a swine flu shot.
Those who haven’t made up their minds yet have lots of questions. So we have created some posters that you can print and post ALL over your community, your local stores, office and schools.
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Thursday, November 26th, 2009 | Author: admin
Article fron Natural News / www.naturalnews.com
Tuesday, November 03, 2009 by: S. L. Baker, features writer
(NaturalNews) How’s this for a B movie sci fi plot: evil scientists use chemicals to transform toddler girls into terrifying little monsters. Unfortunately, researchers have uncovered a real life scenario that has some serious similarities to this creepy fantasy. While there are no evil doing scientists or true monsters involved, there is a scary chance that a common chemical — specifically bisphenol A (BPA) found in many plastics — could be causing unusually aggressive and hyperactive behaviors in some two-year-old little girls.
That’s the conclusion of research by scientists at Simon Fraser University, the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. As NaturalNews previously reported, BPA has been linked to neurological problems in animal studies (http://www.naturalnews.com/025801_B…). But the new research, just published in the October edition of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, is the first to find a possible link between prenatal BPA exposure and behavior problems in human youngsters.
For the study, BPA concentrations were measured from urine samples taken from 249 pregnant women in Cincinnati, Ohio, at 16 weeks and 26 weeks of pregnancy, and also when they gave birth. When the research subjects’ children were two years old, the research team assessed the toddlers’ behavior using the Behavioral Assessment System for Children-2 (BASC-2). What they found is disturbing: if a woman was exposed to BPA during early pregnancy and she had a girl, the baby’s nervous system might be adversely affected by the chemical.
Specifically, daughters of women who had higher concentrations of BPA in their urine samples during pregnancy were more likely to have aggressive and hyperactive behaviors than girls born to women with lower BPA levels, especially if higher exposure occurred in earlier pregnancy. The researchers don’t understand why girls seem to be affected by BPA exposure more or differently than boys.
“In other words, girls whose mothers had higher BPA exposure were more likely to act like boys than girls whose mothers had lower BPA levels, especially if the exposure was seen earlier in pregnancy,” the study’s lead author Joe Braun, a doctoral student in epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, said in a statement to the media. “Boys’ behavior did not seem to be affected, although there was some evidence of increased internalizing scores among BPA-exposed boys.”
“We wanted to know if there was a risk in humans for neurodevelopment problems,” he added. “Study results indicate that exposure to BPA early in the pregnancy seems to be the most critical issue. The most damaging exposure might happen before a woman even knows she’s pregnant.”
Concerns about BPA were first raised in recent years following worrisome animal studies. For example, previous research with mice found that the offspring of mothers with high BPA exposure during pregnancy were more aggressive than young mice not exposed to high prenatal levels of BPA.
“Many government agencies and consumers in the U.S., Canada and around the world have expressed concerns about BPA exposure, especially in children,” said Dr. Bruce Lanphear, professor of children’s environmental health in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University and the study’s senior author, in the media statement. “Canada has banned BPA in baby bottles and other baby products, but that might not be sufficient to protect children. Although this is the first study of its kind, it suggests that we may also need to reduce exposures during pregnancy.”
BPA is commonly used in the production of polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins that are found in many homes, offices and even hospitals. It is used in a host of products including plastic bottles, canned food linings, water supply pipes and medical tubing. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 93 percent of people in the United States have detectible levels of BPA in their urine.
For more information:
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http://www.naturalnews.com/BPA.html
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Thursday, November 26th, 2009 | Author: admin
Article from Natural News / www.naturalnews.com
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com
(NaturalNews) The news is out: Vitamin D is better than the swine flu vaccine at halting H1N1 infections. In fact, without vitamin D, chances are that a vaccine won’t generate much of an immune response in the first place.
That’s because vitamin D is essential for healthy, active immune function. That’s just one of the reasons smart people are choosing vitamin D instead of the swine flu vaccine. Here are nineteen more reasons:
#1 Vitamin D activates your immune system to respond to any viral exposure (not just one virus).
#2 Vitamin D naturally belongs in your body.
#3 Vitamin D has been functioning as medicine in the human body since the beginning of the human species.
#4 Vitamin D is available right now and there’s no shortage of it.
#5 Vitamin D won’t cause your brain to swell and put you into a coma.
#6 Vitamin D doesn’t require an injection with a scary needle.
#7 Vitamin D is found naturally in many foods such as sardines or salmon.
#8 Vitamin D has a perfect safety record. No one ever died from consuming it.
#9 Vitamin D is affordable. You can even get it for free (from sunlight).
#10 Vitamin D doesn’t contain viral fragments from diseased animals (like vaccines often do).
#11 Vitamin D doesn’t contain thimerosal or other chemical preservatives.
#12 Vitamin D doesn’t need a warning sheet describing possible side effects.
#13 Vitamin D doesn’t hurt your arm when you take it.
#14 Vitamin D also improves sugar metabolism, bone density and healthy moods.
#15 Vitamin D is safe for the environment.
#16 Vitamin D doesn’t contain squalene or other inflammatory adjuvant chemicals.
#17 Vitamin D works on everyone and is safe for everyone, including infants and children.
#18 Vitamin D is made in nature, not a laboratory.
#19 Vitamin D is found naturally in breast milk.
#20 You can walk, and chew gum, and generate vitamin D from sunshine all at the same time!
Skip the vaccine. Get more Vitamin D!
And here’s a little limerick I wrote about the swine flu vaccine that you might enjoy:
The swine flu vaccine was a hoax
All the “science” turned out to be jokes
One quick vaccination
Caused genetic mutation
Turning friendly young girls into blokes
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