MEDICINE FREE LIVING

GMO pesticides linked to birth defects, disruption of male hormones, cancer

2011-04-27T05:39:00.000-06:00

GMO pesticides linked to birth defects, disruption of male hormones, cancer

Navigate the dark waters of coffee - Health claims versus reality

2011-04-19T05:31:00.000-06:00

Navigate the dark waters of coffee - Health claims versus reality

2011-03-25T09:25:00.001-06:00

Do you have confidence in conventional medicine?

The American medical system is the number one killer in the United States. The deaths caused by conventional medicine, in just one decade, equate to approximately Eight Million. That’s more than all the casualties from all the wars America has fought in its entire history.

In 2006, health care spending reached 2 Trillion dollars. For that money, we should have the best medicine in the world – preventing and reversing disease, and knowing how to do minimal harm. Instead we are getting buried prematurely.

Add to the errors of medicine, deceptive marketing has led to consumer consumption of highly processed foods. Sugar in soft drinks is the number one source of calories in the U.S. which now causes one in three Americans to have diabetes, or pre-diabetes, and two in three Americans to be overweight. Toxic medicine will never reverse poor health that is due to poor food choices.

The truth is sloppy handwriting [by doctors] is the cause of 7,000 patient deaths each year, while preventable medication mistakes hurt 1.5 million patients.

Every year 7.5 million unnecessary medical and surgical procedures are performed.

At least 106,000 people die every year from adverse drug reactions. A mere 6% of all adverse drug reactions are properly identified. Most side effects are instead mistaken for new disease symptoms, leading to further drugging and unnecessary medical procedures, increasing the risk of death even further.

Most of these deaths are from expected adverse reactions, because they are an extension of the drug reaction.

The mortality rate for people between the ages of 45 and 64, who took their prescription drugs correctly, rose 90% in just five years

As of 2001, Pfizer was the number one most profitable company of all Fortune 500 companies. Their profit that year was 7.8 BILLION dollars, which is more than the profits of all Fortune 500 companies in the home building, apparel, railroad and publishing industries combined.

Modern medicine is no longer about health. It is a for-profit disease industry that can only survive if millions of people get sick, and stay that way… It’s an industry that refuses to consider vitally important aspects of health, like how stress lowers the immune system… how processed foods, alcohol, excessive calories in insufficient exercise are recipes for disease…how exposure to tens of thousands of toxins in our environment and in our food supply, have direct links to the illnesses you suffer.

You are told to stay out of the sun yet more than 50,000 people die each year because they do not get enough sun exposure.

Why are we being kept in the dark? Why is the truth not being sought? Follow the money!

More than half of the United States has received unnecessary medical treatment. That’s about 50,000 people each day.

42% have been directly affected by a medical mistake, from a procedure or a drug, and 84% of our population personally know someone who has been a victim of a medical error.

These medical errors and deaths equate to six jumbo jets falling out of the sky every day. The only difference is the media coverage – there’s no public displays of grief for those who die of faulty medicine.

The error rate of intensive care units is like the post office losing 16,000 pieces of mail every hour of every day or banks deducting 32,000 checks from the wrong account each and every hour – every day, year in and year out.

You do not have to become a statistic. This information is presented in memory of the millions of people who placed their trust in a corrupted medical system that took their lives for profit.

Unreliable detection and twice the radiation - FDA approves new mammogram technology

2011-03-08T13:30:00.000-06:00

Unreliable detection and twice the radiation - FDA approves new mammogram technology

Banned toxic chemicals found in 100 percent of pregnant women - new study

2011-01-23T16:14:00.000-06:00

Banned toxic chemicals found in 100 percent of pregnant women - new study

2010-10-23T10:03:00.003-06:00

India Halts HPV Vaccine Trial

The following article originating at newstarget.com is an interesting development in the HPV vaccine controversy, known for causing many thousands of adverse reactions as well as numerous fatalities here in the United States, as the Gardasil vaccine developed by Merck & Co. has been fatally introduced to India. At least India has the good sense to immediately pull this dangerous drug yet here in the United States political forces as wielded by Big Pharma are not willing to leave young girls and women alone.

India halts HPV vaccine trial after six girls die, US does nothing in response to 67 deaths and counting

A great web site to visit for more information on the dangers of Gardasil.

2010-10-23T08:31:00.002-06:00

"Drug companies have long kept secret details of the payments they make to doctors for promoting their drugs. But seven companies have begun posting names and compensation on the Web, some as the result of legal settlements. ProPublica compiled these disclosures, totaling $258 million, into a single database that allows patients to search for their doctor."

enter the name of a doctor and find out if they are receiving money from drug companies.

2010-10-13T10:33:00.004-06:00

BREAST CANCER BREAKTHROUGH: Watercress Turns Off Signal That Causes Tumor to Develop

(NaturalNews) As a cancerous tumor develops, it quickly outgrows its existing blood supply. So a protein called Hypoxia Inducible Factor (HIF) is released that sends out signals causing surrounding normal tissues to grow new blood vessels into the tumor -- and that provides the cancer with oxygen and nutrients. This plays a critical role in the development and spread of breast and other cancers. But now comes word from University of Southampton researchers in the United Kingdom that they've discovered something which interferes with and actually "turns off" the ability of HIF to function -- a natural plant compound dubbed phenylethyl isothiocyanate (PEITC) found in the herb watercress.

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2010-10-12T16:44:00.002-06:00

The Marvels of Melatonin

By Dr. Russell Blaylock

Melatonin — which most people think of as a sleep supplement — is a hormone secreted from your pineal gland. It is critical for sleep, but it is also a powerful antioxidant that can help the body fight many diseases including cancer.

Studies have shown that melatonin increases the levels of several antioxidant enzymes in the brain and possibly other parts of the body.

Recent studies have shown that fluoride, monosodium glutamate (MSG), and aspartate (as in aspartame) shut off the production of melatonin. Since fluoride is common in public water systems and diets are filled with MSG and aspartame, this could explain the proliferation of insomnia in this country. (To read more about the dangers of fluoride, read my special report "Why Fluoride is Toxic.") And we know that chronic insomnia leads to stress, which boosts the risk of cancer and other diseases.

Melatonin is connected with:

• Sleep. Melatonin is known to help promote restful sleep. To use as a sleep aid, start at 1 mg 30 minutes before bedtime and increase as necessary. It will induce dreaming. Do not use it during the day, or you will become sleepy. (For additional tips on how to get a good night’s sleep, see my report "Good Sleep: Stop Insomnia, Reduce Stress, Boost Your Total Health.")

• Glaucoma. All antioxidants help protect the retina from glaucoma. A new study found that melatonin not only reduced free radicals in the retina, but also dramatically reduced the glutamate level in the retina (that is, the excitotoxin level) and did so at concentrations usually taken for sleep — 1 to 3 mg.

• Brain health. Melatonin actually increases the amount of antioxidant enzymes in the brain which protect it against damage by free radicals seen in all degenerative brain diseases. Recent studies have shown that these protective enzymes are low in people who develop Alzheimer’s dementia and Parkinson’s disease. Find more details on how you can protect your brain from dementia and Alzheimer’s by reading my report "Save Your Brain."

• Puberty. Melatonin regulates the onset of puberty in both boys and girls, and young girls who live in cities with fluoride in the water (remember, fluoride lowers the production of melatonin) have been known to begin menstruating five months sooner than their counterparts in nonfluoridated towns.

The amount of melatonin begins to decline with aging, and is one of the reasons for the high frequency of insomnia in the elderly. If you notice you no longer dream, your melatonin levels are probably low.

Is your body producing enough melatonin? The Comprehensive Melatonin Profile measures your melatonin level. In most cases, there is little reason to worry about low melatonin levels until the age of 45. Yet, there are exceptions. Certain drugs (beta-blockers, ibuprofen, steroids, sleep aids, and Prozac), caffeine, alcohol, and fluoride can lower melatonin secretion.

With the widespread fluoridation of water, use of fluoridated medications (such as Prozac), and increasing fluoride in foods, melatonin deficiencies are becoming more common and occurring earlier in life. Low levels have even been measured in infants and are associated with poorer brain function.

2010-09-28T19:12:00.002-06:00

NEW NON-INVASIVE TECHNOLOGY COULD REPLACE X-RAYS, MAMMOGRAMS

(NaturalNews) Is it really possible for a simple, safe laser beam to detect the early signs of diseases like tooth decay, osteoporosis and even cancer, eliminating the need to use other more invasive technologies? According to researchers, the answer is yes. Such technology already exists, it works and it could become widely available for use within the next five years, they say.

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Latest Report on Flu Fatalities: A Shocking Fabrication

2010-09-03T09:20:00.000-06:00

We have been telling you recently about phony data from the government. Here is another egregious example—and no one in the major media seems to know or care.

For years, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has been citing an annual estimate of 36,000 deaths from flu. That figure has been used to justify mandatory flu vaccination for children and has been parroted the world over by news organizations that never question its validity. Last week the CDC released new figures: rather than 36,000, the three-decade average is actually 23,607 deaths, a full one-third fewer people than previously cited.

Latest Report on Flu Fatalities: A Shocking Fabrication

2010-08-27T11:26:00.001-06:00

The Philosophy of True Food Kitchen

(5 Minute Video) Chef Michael Stebner discusses the founding and philosophy of True Food Kitchen, Dr. Weil's popular Phoenix restaurant.

Terry Walters on Clean Food

2010-08-24T06:28:00.000-06:00

McDonald's 4 Year Old Cheeseburger Video

2010-08-14T11:01:00.000-06:00

This is not a carnival trick! See the 4 year old McDonald's cheeseburger which refuses to age!

2010-08-13T09:30:00.001-06:00

NUTRITION AND MENTAL HEALTH

People with mood problems may find benefit in becoming aware of their food and drink intake, and making step-by-step changes based on their findings. Research that specifically looks at nutrition and mood is still in its infancy, though the available studies do suggest strong causal links.
Introduction to Food and Mood

Mood disorders such as depression are often complex, varying from individual to individual. Diet choices will depend on a number of factors such as tastes, lifestyle, medications and state of health. For example, people prescribed lithium are advised to keep caffeine to a minimum, as it is known to increase lithium levels in the blood.

Mental health charity Mind points out that the psychological relationship between people and food is significant. For example, when people have tea or coffee, they may also socialize with friends, which may result in positive feelings. Such interactions are important to account for when considering how mood and food are connected.

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HFCS - the poison that promotes obesity and liver damage

2010-08-08T07:06:00.000-06:00

HFCS - the poison that promotes obesity and liver damage

Poison in the Pantry

2010-07-27T18:33:00.000-06:00

2010-07-23T08:37:00.003-06:00

Can you really eat your way to happiness? The mood food connection

2010-07-18T07:08:00.002-06:00

2010-07-02T10:57:00.003-06:00

Prescription Pill-Popping By Far a Leading Killer as Florida’s Drug Deaths Spike 20%

July 1, 2010

Oxycodone, the addictive prescription pain-killer also known by its Purdue Pharma brand name OxyContin, directly caused more deaths in Florida in 2009 than cocaine, heroin and morphine combined. Prescription drugs as a whole are killing far more Floridians than illegal drugs, with some 8,600 deaths last year involving at least one prescription drug, according to an annual report released today by the Florida Medical Examiners Commission.

That’s 5 percent of all deaths in Florida in 2009, when 171,300 people died in the state.

The number of people killed by prescription drugs is a significant 20 percent increase over last year’s 6,200 deaths attributed to overdoses. Much of the increase is due to a spike in oxycodone addiction. The increase in prescription-drug addiction continues a trend that began in Florida 10 years ago, when prescription drugs overtook illegal drugs as leading causes of drug-related deaths.

Alcohol is also included in the examiners’ analysis, and it leads the way of all drug-related deaths, with 4,046.

The annual report is a stark look at the effects of legalized drug addiction and over-prescription of drugs, both of which affect a far larger segment of the population than recreational or illegal narcotics.

For the first time in 2009, the commission tracked deaths by region. In Flagler County’s district, which includes St. Johns and Putnam counties, 22 deaths were attributed to oxycodone (the fourth lowest number in the state’s 23 districts), with 13 of those deaths directly attributed to the drug, and nine cited as being present among other drugs that contributed to death.

Hydrocodone claimed 16 lives in the district. Cocaine contributed to 19 deaths in the Flagler district, though only four cases were directly attributed to the drug. In 15 cases, cocaine was present in the body in conjunction with other drugs that proved lethal. Overall in Florida, cocaine-related deaths (including the majority of cases where cocaine wasn’t directly the factor but was present in the body at the time of death), have fallen from a peak of 2,179 in 2007 to 1,462 in 2009. (Again, cocaine was the direct result of death in 529 cases out of those).

Ken Kramer, a researcher with the Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Florida, says the numbers underestimate the extent of the problem, because medical examiners do not track deaths attributed to antipsychotic drugs or to antidepressants, both of which carry black-box or black-label warnings. The warnings on antidepressants, required by the Food and Drug Administration, state that the drugs increase the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior in children, adolescents and young adults up to age 24. (Antidepressants include Paxil, Prozac, Zoloft, Effexor, Lexapro and Celexa.)

Anti-psychotic drugs carry a variety of black label warnings of increased mortality in elderly patients (including a death rate almost twice as high for people taking Risperdal, for example). Those drugs, prescribed and often overprescribed in nursing homes and assisted living facilities, include Abilify, Clozaril, Geodon, Risperdal, Seroquel and Zyprexa.

“Certainly, the actual number of prescription drug deaths is higher than the annual report states,” Kramer said. “It is unknown just how much higher because the Medical Examiners Commission does not track these classes of drugs.”

Two years ago Kramer got his concern heard by the commission following an email exchange with a commissioner in which he argued that antidepressants and anti-psychotic drugs’ contributions to mortality should be part of the annual report. He was rebuffed. One examiner said he had not seen “more than the occasional death caused by these types of drugs,” according to the minutes of the Aug. 13, 2008 meeting of the commission.

Prescription drugs tracked in the report account for 79 percent of all drug occurrences in deaths when alcohol is excluded.

Deaths directly attributed to Oxycodone increased by 25.9 percent over 2008.
Cocaine occurrences decreased by 18.4 percent over 2004. 5,275 individuals, or 7.1 percent more than in 2008, died with one or more prescription drugs in their system. The drugs in those cases were identified as both the cause of death and present in the deceased person. Overall, 171,300 deaths occurred in Florida in 2009.

The report specifies that the “state’s medical examiners were asked to distinguish between the drugs being the ’cause’ of death or merely ‘present’ in the body at the time of death. A drug is only indicated as the cause of death when, after examining all evidence and the autopsy and toxicology results, the medical examiner determines the drug played a causal role in the death.”

2010-03-11T17:25:00.002-06:00

LATEST NEWS ON LEGISLATION INVOLVING REGULATIONS ON NATURAL SUPPLEMENTS

By: Jenny Thompson - HSI

In the David vs. Goliath world of the vitamin and herbal supplement industry vs. Big Pharma, the medical mainstream and the FDA, you can put away your slingshot--for now. But don't put it too far out of reach, because you'll need it again...sooner than you may think.

Yes, it's hunting season...on supplements, that is.

We'll start in Congress. It seems like every couple of years light bulbs blink on and some congressmen get the brilliant idea that the supplement industry should be more severely regulated. Of course, on the surface that might sound reasonable. Why not make sure something that millions of Americans are putting in their bodies every day is as safe as possible?

The problem: That isn't how regulation works.

First of all, the FDA can't manage and adequately enforce supplement regulations already in place. How in the world will they cope with excessive new layers of bureaucracy? That's exactly how regulators bog down the whole system. They pile on layers of needless red tape at unmanageable expense and, at the end of the day, the results for the consumer are rarely any better.

And make no mistake...if the ideas currently pending actually come to life, supplement companies will be forced to shut their doors or raise their prices so high that it would put them out of reach for most of us.

So while some of the proposals seem harmless on the surface, I promise you they are anything but.

Your right to buy the supplements of your choice at a reasonable price is under attack by a Congress that sees an easy target and an administration looking to cross things off its "to do" list.

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McCain Failin'
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A bill, titled the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010, was recently introduced by Senators John McCain and Byron Dorgan. McCain is the big gun here, obviously, so the bill is widely referred to as "the McCain bill."

Yet, in a surprise move, Senator McCain withdrew his support of the bill late last week. (I don't remember THAT in the Schoolhouse Rock song.) A new "compromise" bill is reportedly in the works.

As originally submitted, the bill would have been disastrous. In fact, a statement on the website for the Alliance for Natural Health USA spells out the chilling details: "Under current law, the FDA cannot arbitrarily ban a supplement that was sold prior to October 15, 1994, the date that the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) was passed. McCain's bill wipes out that protection."

In addition, the bill would have authorized the FDA to keep a list of legal supplements. "The FDA would have arbitrary power to choose permitted supplements and (importantly) supplement doses."

That means that the FDA could have decided vitamin C could be sold in doses only of 60 mg or that CoQ10 couldn't be sold at all.

So, of course, supplement takers, makers and marketers alike are rejoicing in what they are declaring a victory.

But it's not quite time to pop the champagne and laugh in Goliath's face just yet.

One thing we know about Senator McCain is that he doesn't walk away from a fight. We'll soon see another version of his bill, and the changes may or may not be to the average supplement user's advantage.

In any case, Congress isn't the only looming threat...

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All Noisy on the Western Front
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Over at the FTC, someone appears to be cooking up such strict new requirements for supplement product claims that many supplement makers would simply be driven out of business.

According to Todd Harrison--a Washington, D.C., attorney and columnist for Nutraceuticals World--the FTC plans a new regulation that would require two human trials on the actual products to provide scientific support of supplement products. (Right now, most supplement companies rely on scientific studies about individual ingredients or combinations when developing formulations.)

Again, on the surface that might sound like a good idea. But clinical trials like that are extremely expensive-- like, drug company expensive. In other words, it would effectively prevent most new supplements from entering the market or put the natural medicine industry squarely in the hands of the Big Pharma companies that could afford to comply.

Around the country, there are foxes guarding henhouses who are saying, "Wow...that's a really bad idea!"

In addition, the FTC would be able to use third-party studies to refute a supplement maker's claims, but the supplement maker would not be allowed to use third-party studies to support the claims.

Here's the real kicker: IF the supplement company did two human trials AND their research proved a substantial benefit BUT the prevailing body of evidence doesn't support their research, they still can't use their study results.

So they will have invested years and hundreds of thousands of dollars and proven the value of their products and then the FTC can still disallow their results.

We still don't know the true scope of this threat. The FTC is not quite as predictable or transparent as Congress. But if we do get an opportunity to comment on this before the agency makes a final ruling, I'll make sure you're the first to hear about it so we can let FTC officials know they're way off track on this one.

Gore still hot on his doomsday rhetoric - The Boston Globe

2010-03-09T07:21:00.001-06:00

Gore still hot on his doomsday rhetoric - The Boston Globe

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2009-12-11T15:14:00.002-06:00

The Truth About Tamiflu - The Atlantic (December 10, 2009)

Two months ago, we pointed out in our story on flu in The Atlantic that the
antiviral drug Tamiflu might not be as effective or safe as many patients,
doctors, and governments think. The drug has been widely prescribed since the first cases of H1N1 flu surfaced last spring, and the U.S. government has spent more than
$1.5 billion stockpiling it since 2005 as part of the nation’s pandemic preparedness
plan.

Now it looks as if our concerns were correct, and the nation may have put more than
a billion dollars into the medical equivalent of a mirage. This week, the British
medical journal BMJ published a multi-part investigation that confirms that the
scientific evidence just isn't there to show that Tamiflu prevents serious
complications, hospitalization, or death in people that have the flu. The BMJ goes
further to suggest that Roche, the Swiss company that manufactures and markets
Tamiflu, may have misled governments and physicians. In its defense, Roche stated
that the company “has never concealed (or had the intention to conceal) any
pertinent data.

To read the article in its entirety continue here.

2009-12-11T15:08:00.002-06:00

Swine-flu bribe fever!
U.N.'s H1N1 scientists linked to companies making vaccine

By Chelsea Schilling © 2009 WorldNetDaily

World Health Organization scientists are suspected of accepting secret bribes from vaccine manufacturers to influence the U.N. organization's H1N1 pandemic declaration, according to Danish and Swedish newspapers.

Meanwhile, pharmaceutical profits from swine-flu related drugs have soared with earnings between $10 billion and $15 billion in 2009, investment bank JP Morgan estimates.

As WND reported, the WHO Director General Margaret Chan initially raised the influenza pandemic alert to its second highest level in May - but evidence reveals the agency may have made it easier to classify the flu outbreak as a pandemic by changing its definition to omit "enormous numbers of deaths and illness" just prior to making its declaration.

The world was gripped with fears of swine flu as the alert increased from Phase 5 to Phase 6, the highest level. Immediately, pharmaceutical companies began working to develop vaccines, and countries tailored their responses to address the situation.

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2009-11-17T20:15:00.001-06:00

VACCINES AND PREGNANCY DO NOT MIX

(NaturalNews) From an internet forum: "I got both vaccines [seasonal and swine flu] on Thursday. I was 9 weeks pregnant. I miscarried on Sunday. I was told by several doctors to get these vaccines. Now I wish I followed my gut feeling and not get them at ALL!" This is not an isolated case.

Here's another report: "I feel like I had a healthy baby and I caused this by getting the H1N1 vaccine. My doctors pushed it. I researched online and there have been many miscarriages after the H1N1 vaccine but they haven't been reported since it is hard to say what caused the miscarriages."

She researched online, the only source reporting vaccination tragedies throughout the world.

Lies Under the Light of Truth

First of all, the Swine Flu is less harmful than a normal seasonal flu. Research with ferrets, real statistics released by independent researchers, as well as reports from uncorrupted medical authorities have confirmed this. The CDC and mainstream media bury that information. Instead, they circulate alarming false swine flu statistics.

But one mainstream media outlet, CBS Washington Unplugged, did inadvertently reveal true swine flu statistics. They had tried to get information from the CDC about swine flu episodes actually confirmed. The CDC skirted the issue and stonewalled them.

So they surveyed all 50 USA state medical laboratories themselves. The results were that most states had confirmed five percent or less of reported cases as swine flu. Most labs reported half or more cases were not any kind of flu! So much for hysteria.

Dr. Michael Bronze of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, stated on WebMD that the actual risk of pregnant women getting hospitalized for swine flu infections is one in 300 thousand.

The Australian/New Zealand's flu season was surveyed by American epidemiological statisticians. The data from around the middle of that flu season indicated that pregnant women are 99.97 percent sure of avoiding hospital care for any flu.

Of those few admitted and held in ICU 7.7 percent died. Not a high figure. And even those few had other health complications prior to being infected with the swine flu.
Vaccinations Are The Real Danger.

According to Dr. Russel Blaylock, retired neurosurgeon and author of Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, various studies have proven that artificially stimulating the immune system causes a cytokine immune reaction that damages the forming brain of a fetus.

Throw in thimerosal mercury additives as well as formaldehyde and other toxic materials delivered in the vaccines. These circulate through the fetus if a pregnant woman is vaccinated. The child can become prone to seizures, autism, schizophrenia, and a host of other neurological problems.

There is the case of Desiree Jennings, the young Washington Redskins cheerleader who was diagnosed with dystonia by doctors at John Hopkins and Fairfax Inova. They determined her dystonia, which caused chronic severe spasms and partial paralysis, was a reaction to her seasonal flu shot.

Right, she wasn't pregnant. She was also active and healthy. But her story links the miscarriage stories to Dr. Blaylock's conclusion, "The bottom line is vaccinating a pregnant women is vary hazardous to the mother's health as well as the baby."

As for miscarriages, there has been a history of sterilization agents planted surreptitiously in vaccines intended for women in developing countries. Some vaccines were examined and recovered before further damage could be done.

2009-10-30T09:15:00.002-06:00

7 Reasons Schools Should NOTMandate Vaccines

By Neil Z. Miller

1. Parents should not be obligated to play Russian Roulette with their children.Vaccines pose serious risks. These hazards are acknowledged by vaccine manufacturers in their product inserts, documented in numerous studies, substantiated by the federal government's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), and confirmed anecdotally by parents. For example, the MMR vaccine manufacturer concedes that diabetes, thrombocytopenia (a serious blood disorder), arthritis, encephalitis (brain inflammation), Guillain-Barre syndrome (paralysis), and death, have all been reported during clinical trials of its vaccine. Peer-reviewed studies link the haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccine to epidemics of type 1 diabetes, the hepatitis B vaccine to autoimmune and neurological disorders, and the flu vaccine to paralytic ailments. These are just a few examples. Medical and scientific journals contain hundreds of other peer-reviewed studies linking vaccines to debilitating ailments. In addition, every year approximately 14,000 people file vaccine adverse reaction reports with the CDC. In just the past 26 months -- as of August 2008 -- more than 8,500 young American females filed adverse reaction reports after receiving the new HPV vaccine. Nearly 600 of these cases were labeled "serious," requiring hospitalization, resulting in life-threatening disabilities, or death. VAERS is a passive reporting system, so the number of people believed to be hurt by vaccines is vastly underreported. According to Dr. David Kessler, former head of the FDA, "only about 1 percent of serious events -- adverse drug reactions -- are reported." This is confirmed by the Thinktwice Global Vaccine Institute, which receives unsolicited personal stories of vaccine damage every day. The families telling these dreadful stories rarely file official reports. Of course, these stories do not constitute "proof" of vaccine damage -- at least no more than a child's cry after skinning his knee is "proof" of pain. However, patterns of adverse vaccine reactions are easily observed when unrelated families consistently report similar stories of healthy children prior to their shots, and hospitalized children after their shots. These patterns tell a larger story. A medical industry that errs on the side of denial rather than concern is backward and criminally negligent. In an enlightened healthcare community, we would listen to the larger story with sincerity, and opt to protect additional children from harm. Pretending that serious reactions to vaccines are rare does not make it true, incapacitates our children, and degrades our society. Since reputed vaccine risk-to-benefit ratios are bogus, and pharmaceutical shots are considerably more unsafe than officially acknowledged, it is morally unconscionable to mandate vaccines for entry into an educational institution.

2. Unvaccinated children cannot threaten vaccinated children if the shots are effective. When students contract disease, vaccine proponents are quick to blame the outbreaks on unvaccinated children. Yet, the official data tells a different story: a majority of cases occur in fully vaccinated populations. Dr. William Atkinson, senior epidemiologist with the CDC, admitted that "measles transmission has been clearly documented among vaccinated persons. In some large outbreaks...over 95% of cases have a history of vaccination." Similar problems with vaccine efficacy plague other vaccines as well. For example, in a 2003 outbreak of pertussis, 4 of every 5 people who contracted the disease were vaccinated against it. In 2006, there was a large outbreak of mumps in the United States; 92% of the cases were in people who were vaccinated against mumps. Such data provides evidence that herd immunity -- the idea that when a proportion of people within a targeted population are immune to a disease, transmission rates are reduced -- may not apply to vaccinated populations. Vaccination and immunity are not synonymous.

Authorities claim that vaccines won't work for society unless a very high number of people in the targeted population -- school children -- take them. Apparently, unvaccinated children are a threat to the group. But this does not make sense. By this reasoning, the unvaccinated -- who are being coerced into taking the shots -- are somehow responsible for protecting the vaccinated. How ironic! If some students are vaccinated, that's their family's choice. If other students are unvaccinated, that's their family's informed decision as well. Vaccinated students take their chances hoping to avoid serious adverse reactions, while unvaccinated students risk contracting the disease. However, if vaccinated students contract the disease, the shot was ineffective, NOT the fault of unvaccinated students. Officials ignore their own ineffective vaccine, choosing instead to smear the unvaccinated. Outrage should be vented in the proper direction -- at those who developed ineffective shots and falsely promoted a defective product.

3. Some vaccines required for school entry are clearly unnecessary. Our children have become captive instruments of the vaccine industry, accessible by mandate to satisfy other purposes. For example, children rarely develop hepatitis B. In the United States, less than 1% of all reported hepatitis B cases occur in persons less than 15 years of age. When the hepatitis B vaccine was initially introduced, 87% of pediatricians did NOT believe it was needed by their patients. Doctors knew that children rarely develop this disease. According to the hepatitis B vaccine manufacturer, children are targeted "because a vaccination strategy limited to high-risk individuals has failed." In other words, because high-risk groups -- sexually promiscuous adults and IV drug users -- are difficult to reach or have rejected this vaccine, authorities are targeting children. Authorities believe that by vaccinating children (a low-risk herd) they will protect unvaccinated adults (a high-risk herd). Since children are unlikely to contract hepatitis B, and studies show that vaccine efficacy declines after a few years, children are being subjected to all of the risks of the hepatitis B vaccine without the expected benefit.

The chickenpox vaccine is another drug that should not have been mandated for all children. It was available since the 1970s but authorities were reluctant to license and promote it because the disease is rarely dangerous and confers lifelong immunity. The vaccine, however, contains a weakened form of the virus; once injected, it remains in the body indefinitely. Authorities were concerned that it could reawaken years after the vaccination and cause serious problems. In addition, the chickenpox vaccine was originally developed for children with leukemia or compromised immune systems, a small population at greater risk for complications from the disease. But vaccine manufacturers quickly sought a wider market for their potentially lucrative product. A study conducted by the CDC in 1985 determined that the vaccine was not necessary. However, in 1995 it was promoted as "cost-effective" -- rather than essential -- because moms and dads would not have to miss work and stay home (an average of 1 day) to care for their sick children. It was licensed shortly thereafter. Before the chickenpox vaccine was licensed, doctors would encourage parents to expose their children to the disease while they were young. Doctors recommended this course of action because they knew that chickenpox is relatively harmless when contracted prior to the teenage years (but more dangerous in adolescents and adults). However, after the vaccine was licensed, the CDC began warning parents about the dangers of chickenpox. Doctors stopped encouraging parents to expose their children to this disease. Instead, they were told to have their children vaccinated against chickenpox.

These examples confirm that some vaccines required for school entry are NOT essential. School officials have become henchmen for the vaccine industry. Low-risk children are being force-vaccinated to protect high-risk adults or to increase the vaccine manufacturer's profits. Blackmailing families by threatening to withhold a child's education for refusing needless vaccines is a moral outrage.

4. Conflicts of interest permeate the vaccine industry. Vaccine recommendations and other important healthcare decisions that affect our nation's children are frequently based on ulterior motives. Safety and protection are NOT always top priorities. Instead, authorities may be influenced by monetary considerations or the urge to manipulate undesirable study results. For example, in June of 2000, two separate yet highly significant events rocked the vaccine industry:

Event #1: Congress held a hearing to determine if "the entire process [of licensing and recommending vaccines] has been polluted and the public trust has been violated." Two years earlier, vaccine authorities had evidence that a new vaccine under consideration (for diarrhea!) was dangerous, yet that didn't stop them from licensing and recommending it for every child in the USA. This vaccine was linked to numerous cases of a life-threatening intestinal blockage and baby deaths. After this vaccine was withdrawn from the market, Congress discovered that 60% of the FDA advisory committee members who voted to license this defective vaccine, and 50% of the CDC advisory committee members who voted to recommend it for every child in the country, had financial ties to the drug company that produced the vaccine or to two other companies developing their own potentially lucrative competing vaccines. For example, an FDA committee member who voted to license the defective vaccine had received more than $250,000 per year in research funds from the drug company that made the vaccine. A CDC committee member who voted to recommend the defective vaccine for every child was paid by the industry to travel around the country teaching doctors that vaccines are safe. In addition, he held a potentially lucrative patent on a similar vaccine under development! Despite this important Congressional expose', no one at the FDA, CDC, or U.S. Department of Health and Human Services admitted a problem, and claimed that it's perfectly acceptable for committee members with obvious conflicts of interest to make healthcare recommendations for every child in this country -- even when they stand to benefit financially from their own decisions!

Event #2: Just one week prior to the Congressional investigation into conflicts of interest within the vaccine industry, a top-secret meeting of high-level officials from the CDC, FDA, World Health Organization (WHO), and representatives from every major vaccine manufacturer, was held at the secluded Simpsonwood conference center in Norcross, Georgia. They had gathered to discuss an alarming new study that confirmed a link between thimerosal (mercury) in childhood vaccines and neurological damage, including recent dramatic increases in autistic spectrum disorders. According to the lead researcher, "We have found statistically significant relationships between the exposures and outcomes." Since 1991, when the CDC and FDA started requiring babies to receive multiple doses of thimerosal-laced hepatitis B, Hib, and the already mandated diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis shots (via DPT and DTaP), cases of autism skyrocketed. Dr. Robert Chen, head of vaccine safety for the CDC, congratulated the group for their apparent success thus far at being able to keep the incriminating data out of "less responsible hands." Dr. John Clements, WHO vaccine advisor, was more blunt, declaring that perhaps the CDC study "should not have been done at all." Instead of warning the public and recalling the dangerous vaccines, this small group of federal health officials and vaccine industry executives spent the weekend calculating how to cover up the truth -- and followed through on their plot over the next few years. First, the CDC's vast database on childhood vaccines was removed from public access so that unbiased researchers could not confirm the study results. Next, the incriminating data from the original study was reworked, and the new version was published in a peer-reviewed journal. However, this time "no consistent significant associations were found between thimerosal-containing vaccines and neurodevelopmental outcomes." Finally, to complete the deception, the CDC would need additional "proof" that thimerosal-laced vaccines are safe. According to Dr. Gordon Douglas, the director of strategic planning at the National Institutes of Health (and former president of vaccinations for Merck, a major vaccine manufacturer), four new studies were currently taking place "to rule out the proposed link between autism and thimerosal."

These two events -- the Congressional hearing on conflicts of interest within the vaccine licensing and recommendation process, and the secret Simpsonwood conference -- confirm that U.S. health authorities have lost their ethical bearings and have NOT made our children's safety a top priority. Requiring vaccines for school entry when they may have been added to the childhood immunization schedule simply to line the pockets of powerful authorities is dangerous and corrupt. Withholding a child's education for refusing vaccines when crucial studies purporting to prove their safety are bogus, is both reprehensible and indefensible. Thus, every family must remain free to accept or reject vaccines.

5. Recovery from natural disease provides advantages over artificial immunity. Measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox usually confer permanent immunity; the child will rarely contract these ailments again. In contrast, vaccines provide temporary immunity; protection is incomplete, requiring booster doses. Vaccinated children are still susceptible to the disease. Studies also indicate that childhood diseases can have a favorable effect on the child's immune system. When children overcome illnesses on their own, their immune systems are stimulated: they build resistance to other diseases in later life. For example, several studies show that women are less likely to develop ovarian cancer if they have had mumps in childhood.

6. Few people utilize exemptions. In 1991, the CDC concluded that outbreaks of disease can be avoided if 70% to 80% of children are vaccinated. A 1992 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association confirmed that vaccination rates of "80% or less" should be sufficient to protect against disease outbreaks. Most parents obediently follow their doctor's orders and vaccinate their children. In addition, schools rarely publicize legal exemptions to "mandatory" vaccines. Thus, only about 2% of families file waivers to recommended shots. This number could substantially increase without threatening herd immunity.

7. Australia doesn't mandate shots and is not overtaken by disease. In the United States, healthcare authorities, pediatricians, and school officials use coercive tactics to increase vaccination rates. Parents are intimidated and their children threatened with removal from school if vaccines are not "up to date." Other countries recommend fewer vaccines and do not require them for school entry. For example, in Australia medical intervention is not compulsory, free will is honored, yet epidemics do not occur. In fact, disease case and fatality rates are lower in many countries than in the United States. Many Americans would be shocked to learn that the U.S. has the greatest number of mandatory vaccines yet the 42nd worst infant mortality rate in the world. Outbreaks of common ailments are manageable without requiring vaccines for school entry.

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2009-10-30T09:08:00.003-06:00

">How Safe is the Swine Flu Nasal Spray Vaccine?

(Originally Published on FaceBook) October 28, 2009

Several people have asked me about MedImmune's swine flu nasal spray vaccine. Of the four swine flu vaccines that have been licensed for use in the United States, the vaccine that is sprayed up the nose is the only one that is mercury-free. (The injectable swine flu vaccines contain 25mcg of mercury per dose when administered from a multi-dose vial. This is more than 80 times the mercury content found in vaccines containing "trace amounts of mercury.") Yet, the nasal spray, mercury-free vaccine may be more risky.All four of the U.S. licensed swine flu vaccines were made by mimicking earlier seasonal flu vaccines (and by adding the new swine flu virus). However, the manufacturers admit in their product inserts that these new swine flu vaccines were NOT tested for safety or efficacy. The FDA allowed them to be rushed to market assuming that they will be similar in safety and efficacy to previous flu vaccines. Thus, MedImmune's swine flu nasal spray vaccine should be similar in safety and efficacy to its seasonal flu nasal spray vaccine, FluMist.The following information on FluMist was excerpted from my recently updated Vaccine Safety Manual, 2010 copyright. All of the data is properly referenced in the book.

Excerpt from the Vaccine Safety Manual, 2nd Edition: The American drug maker MedImmune recently submitted a confidential briefing document to the FDA containing safety data from studies that it conducted on its own vaccine. MedImmune was seeking permission to vaccinate children under 5 years of age with its live-virus nasal spray FluMist vaccine (the one that is squirted up the nose). When this vaccine was originally licensed in 2003, the FDA only permitted it to be given to children 5 years of age and older because a large study conducted in 31 clinics showed that it caused "a statistically significant increase in asthma or reactive airways disease" in children under 5 years of age. In addition to this confidential briefing document, the FDA also had access to data from studies that were not conducted by the manufacturer. According to the FDA, FluMist can cause "medically significant wheezing" and pneumonia. In fact, 3 percent of all children 6 months to 1 year of age who received the vaccine ended up in the hospital with respiratory problems! (With the inactivated flu shot, 1 of every 100 vaccinated children in this age group had to be rushed to the hospital.) In addition, of all children between 6 months and 1 year of age who developed "protocol-defined wheezing" after their FluMist vaccinations, 9 percent required hospitalization. This figure was 7 percent for children between 1 and 2 years of age. The median duration of hospitalization in children 6 months to 2 years of age was nearly 5 days with most requiring bronchodilators and steroids. Many of these children had multiple wheezing episodes. Nevertheless, in September 2007, the FDA licensed this vaccine for children as young as two years of age.

For additional information regarding flu vaccine safety and efficacy, read the entire chapter on influenza in the Vaccine Safety Manual or visit the Thinktwice Global Vaccine Institute.

2009-10-04T10:47:00.002-06:00

Ten Swine Flu Lies Told by MSM

(NaturalNews) The mainstream media is engaged in what we Americans call “bald faced lies” about swine flu. It seems to be true with this issue more than any other, and it became apparent to me recently when a colleague of mine — a nationally-syndicated newspaper columnist — told me their column on natural defenses for swine flu was rejected by newspapers all across the country. Many newspapers refused to run the column and, instead, ran an ad for “free vaccine clinics” in the same space.

The media, it seems, is so deeply in bed with the culture of vaccinations that they will do almost anything to keep the public misinformed. And that includes lying about swine flu vaccines.
There are ten key lies that continue to be told by the mainstream media (MSM) about swine flu and swine flu vaccines.

Lie #1 - There are no adjuvants used in the vaccines

I was recently being interviewed by a major U.S. news network when the reporter interviewing me came up with this humdinger: There are no adjuvants being used in the swine flu vaccines, he said!I assured him that adjuvants were, indeed, a crucial part of the vaccine recipe, and they were being widely used by drug companies to “stretch” the vaccine supply. It’s no secret. But he insisted he had been directly told by a drug company rep that no adjuvants were being used at all. And he believed them! So everything being published by this large news network about swine flu vaccines now assumes there are no adjuvants in the vaccines at all.

Lie #2 - The swine flu is more dangerous than seasonal flu

This lie is finally starting to unravel. I admit that in the early days of this pandemic, even I was concerned this could be a global killer. But after observing the very mild impact the virus was having on people in the real world, it became obvious that this was a mild flu, no more dangerous than a seasonal flu. The MSM, however, continues to promote H1N1 swine flu as being super dangerous, driving fear into the minds of people and encouraging them to rush out and get a vaccine shot for a flu that’s really no more likely to kill them than the regular winter sniffles. Sure, the virus could still mutate into something far worse, but if it does that, the current vaccine could be rendered obsolete anyway!

Lie #3 - Vaccines protect you from swine flu

This is the biggest lie of all, and the media pushes it hard. Getting a vaccine, they insist, will protect you from the swine flu. But it’s just flat-out false. Even if the vaccine produces antibodies, that’s not the same thing as real-world immunity from a live virus, especially if the virus mutates (as they often do). As I pointed out in a recent article, statistically speaking the average American is 40 times more likely to be struck by lightning than to have their life saved by a swine flu vaccine. (http://www.naturalnews.com/026955_s…)

Lie #4 - Vaccines are safe

And how would any journalists actually know this? None of the vaccines have been subjected to real-world testing for any meaningful duration. The “safety” of these vaccines is nothing more than wishful thinking. The MSM also doesn’t want you to know what’s in the vaccines. Some vaccines are made from viral fragments grown in diseased African monkeys. If that sounds incredible, read the true story here: http://www.naturalnews.com/026779_s…

Lie #5 - The vaccine isn’t mandatory

You hear this lie all the time: The swine flu vaccine shot is voluntary, they say. But it’s not true if you’re an employee at a place where vaccines are being mandated. Millions of Americans are now being told by their employers that if they don’t get vaccine shots, they will be effectively fired from their jobs. It’s especially true with health care workers, day care employees and school teachers.

Lie #6 - Getting a vaccine shot is a good bet on your health

In reality, a vaccine shot is far more likely to harm you than help you. According to one viral expert, the actual mortality rate of the swine flu virus is estimated to be as low as .007 percent (http://www.reuters.com/article/heal…). That means H1N1 swine flu kills less than one person in 100,000. Even if the vaccine works, let’s say, 10 percent of the time, you’d have to vaccine one million people to prevent one death from swine flu. And in vaccinating one million people, you would inevitably harm or kill several people, simply from the vaccine side effects! Your net risk of death is increased by getting a swine flu vaccine.

Lie #7 - The vaccine isn’t made with “attenuated live virus”

When the swine flu vaccines were first being announced several months ago, they were described as being made with “attenuated live virus.” This was directly mentioned in CDC documents, among other places. This term apparently freaked out the American news consumer, and it has since been all but erased from any discussion about vaccines. Now, journalists will actually argue with you and insist the vaccines contain no attenuated live viruses whatsoever. Except they’re wrong. The vaccines are, indeed, made with “attenuated live viruses.” That’s how you make a vaccine: You take live viruses, then you weaken them (”attenuate”) and inject them into people.

Lie #8 - Wash, wash, wash your hands (to avoid exposure)

This idea of washing your hands a hundred times a day is all based on the assumption that you can avoid exposure to the swine flu virus. But that’s impractical. The virus is now so widespread that virtually everyone is certain to be exposed to it through the air if not other means. This whole idea of avoiding exposure to the swine flu virus is nonsense. The conversation should shift to ways to survive exposure via a healthy immune system. Of course, hand washing is a very good idea in a hospital setting. Recent news reveals that doctors are too busy to wash their own hands, resulting in the rampant spread of superbugs throughout most large hospitals in first world nations.

Lie #9 - Children are more vulnerable to swine flu than adults

This is just a flat-out lie, but it makes for good vaccine sales. Vaccines are right now being targeted primarily to schoolchildren. But the truth is that swine flu is extremely mild in children. “It’s mildest in kids,” says Dr Marc Lipsitch of Harvard University. “That’s one of the really good pieces of news in this pandemic.” Reuters actually had the guts to report this story, but most of the larger media outlets are still reporting that children are the most vulnerable.

Lie #10 - There is nothing else you can do beyond a vaccine and Tamiflu

This is where the media lies by omission. The mainstream media absolutely refuses to print just about any story that talks about using vitamin D, anti-viral herbs or natural remedies to protect yourself from swine flu. In the MSM, there are two options and only two: Vaccines and Tamiflu.

That’s it. No other options exist in their fictional reality.

Why is the mainstream media so afraid to print the truth these days? Why can’t reporting on swine flu see the light of day… literally, with a mention of sunlight and vitamin D? Apparently, Big Pharma has such a tight grip on mainstream newspapers that no true story on swine flu can ever make it past the editor’s desk.

Killing stories, deceiving the public

It must really be depressing to work for the mainstream media. Even the reporters I know can’t stand it. The truth, they admit, rarely makes it into print.

Over the last few years, I’ve had a couple of job offers from large media outlets. They want to pay me a six-figure salary and stick me behind a desk where they can control what I report. Needless to say, I routinely reject those offers. If I can’t write the truth like I do here on NaturalNews.com, there’s no point writing at all. In too many ways, the mainstream media has become little more than a corporate mouthpiece, whoring itself out to the highest bidder / advertiser.

It’s no fault of the frontline reporters who actually work there. For the most part, they agree with what I’m saying. It’s the fault of the profit-oriented corporate mindset where news is about selling newspapers rather than actually informing the public.

Important news stories get killed every day in the newsrooms across America. They get killed not because they are poorly investigated or poorly written, but because they upset advertisers and corporate string pullers who shape the news and reject any stories that threaten their own financial interests.

Here in 2009, the distorted reporting on the swine flu vaccine has been one of the greatest media frauds ever perpetrated. The media has in every way contributed to the widespread ignorance of the American people on the subject of vitamin D and natural immune-boosting defenses that could reduce swine flu fatalities. Rather than informing readers, the MSM has made it a point to keep the people stupid, and in doing so, the media has failed its only mission and betrayed the very audience is claims to serve.

www.naturalnews.com/027055_swine_flu_vaccines_swine_flu_vaccine.html

2009-08-27T19:51:00.001-06:00

WHAT TO DO IF FORCE VACCINATED

Russell Blaylock, MD

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Dr Blaylock's List of suggestions on How to Reduce the Toxic Effects of the A/H1N1 Vaccine, is as follows:

1. Number one on the list says Dr Blaylock, is to bring a cold pack with you and place it on the site of the injection as soon as you can, as this will block the immune reaction. Once you get home, continue using a cold pack throughout the day. If you continue to have immune reactions the following day, have cold showers and continue with the cold press.

2. Take fish oil. Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), one of the omega 3 fatty acids found in fish oil supplements, is a potent immune suppressant. If you take high dose EPA you will be more susceptible to infections, because it is a powerful immune suppressant. However, in the case of an immune adjuvant reaction, you want to reduce it. Studies show that if you take EPA oil one hour before injecting a very powerful adjuvant called lipopolysaccharide (LPS), it would completely block the ability of the LPS to cause brain inflammation. Take a moderate dose everyday and more if needed to tame a cytokine storm.

3. Flavonoids are third on the list, namely curcumin, quercetin, ferulic acid and ellagic acid, particularly in a mixture. The curcumin and quercetin in particular have been found to block the ability of the adjuvants to trigger a long-term immune reaction. If you take it an hour before the vaccination, it should help dampen the immune reactions says Dr Blaylock.

4. Vitamin E, the natural form that is high in gamma-E will help dampen the immune reactions and reduces several of the inflammatory cytokines.

5. An important ingredient on the list is Vitamin C at a dose of 1000 mg, taken four times a day between meals. It is a very potent anti-inflammatory and should be taken in a buffered form, not as absorbic acid, says Dr Blaylock.

6. Also use astaxanthin as it's an anti-inflammatory. According to Dr Blaylock, fatal reactions to vaccines in aboriginal and African children occurred in those who were deficient in carotinoids, like astaxanthin. It is a good protection against the toxic effects of the vaccine.

7. Likewise, it was found that children who were deficient in zinc had a high mortality rate. Zinc is very protective against vaccine toxicity. (Do not use zinc mixed with copper however, as copper is a major trigger of free-radical generation according to Dr Blaylock).

8. Ensure you avoid all immune-stimulating supplements, such as mushroom extracts, whey protein and beta-glucan.

9. Take a multivitamin-mineral daily one that does not contain iron. This multivitamin-mineral is to make sure your body has plenty of B vitamins and selenium. Selenium, said Dr Blaylock, is very important for fighting viral infections and it reduces the inflammatory response to vaccines.

10. Magnesium citrate/malate 500 mg of elemental magnesium two capsules, three times a day. (This was not mentioned during the show, but was posted at Dr Deagle's website, ClayandIron.com).

11. What is very important is vitamin D3, which is the only 'vitamin' the body can manufacture from sunlight (UVB). It is a neural hormone, not really a vitamin says Dr Blaylock and helps if you are over-reacting immunologically by cooling down the reaction. Similarly, if you are under-reacting, it helps to boost your immune response. In addition it also protects against microorganism invasion.

Black people and those in colder climates are particularly deficient, so they will almost certainly require supplementation.

Dr Blaylock recommends that following vaccination it will help to keep the immune reaction under control if:

i) All children get 5,000 units a day for two weeks after the vaccine and then 2,000 a units a day thereafter;

ii) Adults get 20,000 units a day after the vaccine for two weeks, then 10,000 units a day thereafter;

iii) And with that adults should take 500-1000 mg of calcium a day and children under the age of 12 years should take 250 mg a day, as vitamin D works more efficiently in the presence of calcium.

12. Ensure you avoid all mercury-containing seafood or any other sources of mercury, as the heavy metal is a very powerful inducer of autoimmunity, is known to make people more susceptible to viral infections and will be in H1N1 vaccines.

13. Avoid the oils that significantly suppress immunity and increase inflammation - such as corn, safflower, sunflower, soybean, canola and peanut oils.

14. Drink very concentrated white tea at least four times a day. It helps to prevent abnormal immune reactions.

15. Pop parsley and celery in a blender and drink 8 ounces of this mixture twice a day. Dr Blaylock says the parsley is very high in a flavonoid called apigenin and that celery is high in luteolin. Both are very potent in inhibiting autoimmune diseases, particularly the apigenin, so go and plant some parsley in your garden now.

2009-08-15T10:39:00.003-06:00

MAYO CLINIC DEAD WRONG ON DIABETIC RECOMMENDATIONS

By: Dr. Joseph Mercola

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the Mayo Clinic have developed a computer model that is intended to determine the best time to begin using statin therapy in diabetes patients to help prevent heart disease and stroke.

According to the lead author, "The research is significant because patients with diabetes are at high risk for cardiovascular disease and statins are the single most commonly used treatment for patients at risk of heart disease and/or stroke."

The new model incorporates patient-specific data. An established risk model calculates each patient's probability of heart attack and stroke based on risk factors, such as their cholesterol, blood pressure, etc. This overall risk "score" is used to weigh the medical advantages of beginning statin therapy against the financial cost of the statins.

Dr. Mercola's Comments:

Statins, which are a class of drugs used to lower your cholesterol, are among the most commonly prescribed medications in the world, and I believe, one of the most unnecessary drugs there are.

This is one class of drugs that I am dedicated to sound the alarm about. We are actually in the process of seeking to replicate a campaign similar to what was done to raise awareness of the dangers of smoking, to inform the public about the dangers and combat the media fraud, deception and manipulation that causes people to believe otherwise.

They could have saved loads of time and money here by reading this website, because the answer to the question, “When should you begin taking a statin?” is “never.” No computer models required.

Why?

Because it’s safe to say that a drug intended to prevent heart disease which actually causes heart failure is not the right treatment for most people. Statin drugs offer a “cure” that is far worse than the disease.

Read Entire Article Here.

2009-08-08T12:39:00.006-06:00

FEARS RISE OVER SIDE EFFECTS OF TAMIFLU AS CASES OF ADVERSE REACTIONS DOUBLE IN A WEEK

August 3, 2009

By Daniel Martin

Fears over the side effects of Tamiflu grew last night as it was revealed that the number of suspected adverse reactions had doubled in one week.

Figures from the drugs safety watchdog, seen by the Daily Mail, show there have been 293 reports of side effects from the powerful antiviral since the beginning of April, when the swine flu outbreak began.

This compares to the 150 reported the week before - a jump of 143 in only seven days. The cases include heart and eye problems, and psychiatric disorders.

More than half of children who take Tamiflu suffer from nausea, nightmares and other reactions, a study found.

The figures come only a few days after a study showed that more than half of children who take Tamiflu suffer from nausea, nightmares and other reactions.

The massive rise coincides with the launch of the National Pandemic Flu Service, which allows Britons for the first time to get Tamiflu over the phone or internet without the intervention of a GP.

In the first three days of its operation - between 24 and 26 July - no fewer than 150,000 Tamiflu packs were handed out.

A growing number of doctors have raised concerns over whether the drug is being handed out too readily, putting many at needless risk of side effects when in the majority of instances, swine flu is a mild illness.

[To read article in its entirety.]

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Author's Note: One of my favorite sites to check adverse reporting on drugs is askapatient.com. If you are considering taking Tamiflu, I highly recommend you check out www.askapatient.com to see what others are saying before you agree to taking a drug that is highly suspect and merely shortens the duration [disputably] of the flu.

2009-08-04T19:36:00.004-06:00

WHAT YOU WERE NEVER TOLD ABOUT VACCINES

Dr. Andrew Moulden Interview -- July 21, 2009

ENTIRE INTERVIEW CAN BE FOUND HERE

Excerpt:

Through my extensive research and my work throughout the years, I have discovered that vaccinations are causing impaired blood flow (ischemia) to brain and body from clinically silent to death. These are strokes – across the board for all of us. I have reason to believe that all are being affected and all vaccinations ARE causing the overwhelming rise in autism, specific learning disabilities, attention deficit disorders, sudden infant death, gulf war syndrome, dementia, seizure disorders, some cancers it would appear, and much much more.

Dr Andrew Moulden MD, PhD
www.BrainGuardMD.com
www.VACTruth.com
www.BrightStepsForward.org
1-877-NOW-I-CAN
www.Therapies4Kids.com

2009-08-01T10:12:00.004-06:00

JUST SAY NO TO THE SWINE FLU VACCINE

Dr. Eisenstein's Comments:

I have offered vaccine choice to over 20,000 families. This has led to my practice(www.homefirst.com) that has virtually no asthma, allergy, diabetes, or autism.

The idea of giving any vaccine to pregnant women is overt malpractice and borders on criminal intent. Flu vaccines have never worked in any age group. There is limited or no data on the safety and effectiveness of the swine flu vaccine especially with the new untested adjuvants(formulated compounds, which when combined with vaccine antigens intensify the body's immune response). Let us not be like sheep being taken to be slaughtered.

Give the right to make medical decisions back to the Patients and their Doctors! The notion of mandating an unsubstantiated injection with no clear evidence of efficacy is outrageous.

Vaccine choice is what it is all about. An informed and aware public both physically and intellectually is what is best for us.

To become better informed please go to Medical Voices Vaccine Information Center. We need Big Pharma and Big Government to stay out of our lives.

Become active in the battle against swine flu vaccine. Go to www.Pandemicfluonline.com and get your community tool box.

My recommendations:

1. Stay as far away from this swine flu vaccine experiment as possible. Flu vaccines have never worked.

2. Maintain adequate levels of Vitamin D and Probiotics.

3. Death from flu usually comes from a secondary pneumonia not from the flu itself. You must stay away from all over the counter and prescription Acid Reducing Pharmaceuticals Tums®, Rolaids®, Zantac®, Tagamet®, or the more dangerous, PPIs [Proton Pump Inhibitors] (Nexium®, Prevacid®, Prilosec®, Protonics®, etc..

4. And of course have lots of chicken soup available.

2009-07-31T08:45:00.008-06:00

BASEMENT LOGIC ON THE SWINE FLU/H1N1 VIRUS

By: Paula Rothstein

Apparently, our "world government" has waited as long as it can possibly wait for an actual flu pandemic that is dangerous. How else can one explain the hysteria and hyperbole surrounding this rather mild flu which is making its way around the world, killing very few, generally mild, yet officials are stoking irrational fear in the public at every turn.

I am not a germ expert but I certainly know enough on the subject of our immune system to surmise that catching the current strain would be far preferable to coming down with a more virulent strain in the future (a fear experts profess to holding). They have admitted that any vaccine based on this current strain would not protect you from a mutated strain. However, our brilliant immune system has the ability to learn each time it is exposed to a virus under normal circumstances and I imagine that would help in a situation of a second exposure. Call me crazy but wouldn't a vaccine -- assuming it actually works -- keep me from getting the current strain but then leave me vulnerable to the more virulent strain?

What is most disturbing is that this series of shots will be tested for safety on chidren and pregnant women. Of course, we are to take comfort in the fact that they will be carefully monitoring adverse reactions. Well that's a relief!! I for one will not be turning over my small children like a couple of guinea pigs for a government financed vaccine. Governments and pharmaceutical companies do not inspire confidence. The people involved in this "crisis" (head of the World Health Organization and CDC) have resided over numerous vaccine disasters with rarely a peep to parents when safety concerns have unfolded with regards to a particular vaccine.

Most people do not understand that the immune system is weakened by vaccines -- having a new toxic load invade the body artificially is not an easy thing to handle. Top the insanity off, their treatment plan (and one now approved for infants!) is to recommend Tamiflu. The same Tamiflu which has been linked to hallucinations, dangerous psychiatric behavior and in some instances led to death. Visit http://www,askapatient.com/ to see what patients are reporting with regards to this drug.

On November 14, 2006, Roche Laboratories made the following statement with regards to abnormal behavior reported in children:

"New precautions have been added to Tamiflu's professional product label (also known as a package insert) about the possibility of abnormal behavior in children and adolescents that, in extreme cases, has resulted in deaths. Oseltamivir [Tamiflu] should be stopped immediately if the person taking this drug develops abnormal behavior, delirium, hallucinations, delusions, aggression, suicidal ideation and/or other mental status changes while taking the drug to treat the flu."

However, caution is now thrown to the wind! Why, I ask you, would a parent risk this drug's deleterious effects rather than the effects of a flu, keeping in mind this drug is only reported to shorten the duration of the flu by one to two days. You could do that using natural products that pose no danger. In fact, the only component of Tamiflu which could explain why it may help shorten the duration of a virus is Zinc.

I urge you to just include zinc as a vitamin along with Vitamin D and lots of Vitamin C during this flu season. Contrary to what the medical community would have you believe (sung in choir with all governmental officials involved) good hygiene, vaccination and Tamiflu are hardly your only options. However, if they were to admit that the immune system could be both supported and strengthened naturally, profits would be doomed. And make no mistake about it, there are many who will be quite rich as a result of this pandemic.

2009-07-28T16:32:00.005-06:00

STIMULANT USE LINKED TO SUDDEN DEATH IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS

Medscape Psychiatry & Mental Health, 2009-07-02

Robert L. Findling, MD, 07/02/2009, from the article: Gould MS, Walsh BT, Munfakh JL, et al. "Sudden death and use of stimulant medications in youths" Am J Psychiatry Jun 15, 2009.

Quotes from the original study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry:

"A significant association of stimulant use [primarily methylphenidate (Ritalin)] with sudden unexplained death emerged from the primary analysis...This case-control study provides support for an association between the use of stimulants and sudden unexplained death among children and adolescents."

[Editorial Comment: We think that giving a child Ritalin is like playing Russian Roulette with the gun pointed at your child's head.]

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2009-07-18T14:07:00.004-06:00

MUMPS THE WORD -- Are Vaccines Necessary?

By: William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

As you know, I'm not exactly a fan of vaccinations. At best, they're unnecessary. At worst, they're downright deadly. But the fact is that the medical community (read: BIG PHARMA) has done such a bang-up job of convincing everyone that they're an absolute necessity that in many cases, you are LEGALLY REQUIRED to be vaccinated.

This gross violation of personal freedom was on full display recently when the University of Southern Maine sent out notices to 400 students that they were being banned from campus for failing to meet the latest vaccination requirements for mumps. Yes, banned. This isn't anything new, you understand. In the not-so-politically correct past, lepers were cut-off from society and left to literally rot in colonies on remote islands. But these students don't have mumps--they just haven't been vaccinated against mumps.

Anyone else think this is a violation of personal rights?

These notices went out after a recent mumps outbreak throughout the state of Maine (officials believe this spread down out of Canada). Among the 400 who've been banished from the halls of learning (you'd have to wonder exactly what they'd learn at a university that's so willing to employ these kinds of extreme, Draconian tactics) are 20 students who have declined the vaccinations on religious or philosophical grounds. In other words, those that stood up for their rights.

How seriously is the University of Southern Maine taking this "dangerous" mumps health threat? So seriously that students who are medically exempt from the vaccination are allowed on campus with "special passes." (Reminds me of the Nazis in old movies: "Show me your papers, please!") So now you're thinking, "Hold on, Douglass -- there's got to be a very good reason for this. Mumps must be a deadly virus, right?"

Wrong.

The mumps are painful. There's fever. There's a swelling of the salivary glands around the jaw. It's not pleasant, and it's another of those childhood diseases like chicken pox which is much more painful to weather as an adult. But to be clear: it's not gonna kill you. In fact, most common treatment for the mumps is an ice bag and a couple of aspirin.

In the rarest of rare cases, the results could be a mild form of meningitis, organ infections, Encephalitis (rarely fatal), and sterility in men. And I suppose these "risks" could be considered serious if the University of Southern Maine happened to be located somewhere in the Congo where disease is rife, sanitation poor, and medical aid practically nonexistent. But this is Maine -- and last I heard, that was one of the forty-eight contiguous States. Hardly the wilds of Africa.

So where did the University get the wrong-headed idea that they needed to treat 400 of their student body like disease-ridden pariahs? From Maine's state government, of course (I love putting blame where it so often belongs: in the laps of unthinking, butt-covering bureaucrats). The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that these actions be taken, and they have amended the health codes on states college campuses to require two doses of the vaccine. Most people receive their first and only mumps vaccination not long after birth -- it's known as the MMR (the same one that has been linked to the rise in the number of cases of autism in
children...).

The campus ban has caused all kinds of issues, especially for the University, since it's now their responsibility to work to find off-campus housing for the 400 affected students, and to make special arrangements to allow these students to complete their coursework for the semester.

Of course, I'm probably the lone voice in the wilderness decrying this act -- yet another case of something stupid and dangerously wrong being enacted in the name of "the common good." But as if to underscore my point, there have been a whopping eight laboratory-confirmed cases of mumps in the entire state of Maine, and just thirty-five suspected cases. So I know who's being ridiculous here. It's not the students -- especially not the 20 students who stood firm against the vaccination fascists. And it certainly isn't me. Who's left? You do the math.

A sweet solution for kids' coughs.

Fortunately, not all research concludes that the best cure is always found at the business end of a hypodermic needle. In a nice counter to that enraging vaccination story, there's a new study out about a simple, non-medical, and darn tasty solution for children's coughs: a teaspoon of honey. According to a study published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, this homey folk remedy was better than cough medicine for children. It calmed the cough, helped kids sleep better, and coated and soothed the irritated throat.

This report is like a breath of fresh air. There have been recent warnings about the dangers of over-the-counter cough and cold medicines for children younger than age six, and (shockingly) some Big Pharma companies even removed their baby cough-and-cold products from the market. Of course, many parents already know that honey shouldn't be given to kids from birth until after age one (there's a rare but serious danger of botulism).

I love it when grandma's old remedies are verified by research. This particular study used 105 kids with upper respiratory infections, some were given honey, others a honey-flavored cough medicine. All the kids got better but plain-old honey consistently scored higher than the drugs at combating the symptoms.

Pretty sweet, huh? Helping to keep the needles at bay.

2009-07-06T16:22:00.005-06:00

CELEBRITY DOCTOR SAYS HEALTH CARE REFORMERS ARE TRAITORS COMMITTING GENOCIDE

Washington, D.C.- Celebrity Dr. Leonard Horowitz says President Obama's health care reformers are acting like drug pushers, vaccine junkies, and population controllers, neglecting alternatives that Americans really want, including low-to-no-cost solutions to common health problems, with many cures immediately available online for free.

Citing "pharmaceutical prostitution" on Capitol Hill, and "blind, deaf, and mute" governors neglecting available remedies to urgencies brought on by population intoxication and corporate-controlled media deceptions, the public health and natural healing expert has launched a video website along with an international campaign featuring a dozen YouTube programs to promote alternatives to mass murder in medicine, technically called "iatrogenocide."

"Americans have already paid with their tears and voted with their dollars for alternative health care reform," Dr. Horowitz says, citing substantial science proving families spend more out-of-pocket dollars for natural, alternative, and complementary care than they do for medical doctors visits. Beyond this, he cites statistics showing the leading causes of death in the United States are all linked to drugs or vaccinations, and their side effects.

"Now that every family has sustained tragic injuries, witnessed medical murders of their mothers and fathers, and suffered toxic poisonings of gifted children, people are waking up and dropping out of this sick system," Dr. Horowitz observes.

The doctor is convinced that 70 million people without health insurance are safer, and probably healthier, than those covered by insurance served by medical doctors, hospitals, and long term care facilities he calls "concentration camps." Here, toxic chemicals and deadly drugs, reminiscent of the experimental poisonings advanced by Nazis, are exclusively prescribed, he explains.

Indicting Obama's administration for "gross criminal neglect" of alternative and complementary healing practices, and a deadly fixation on vaccinations and medical intoxication for corporate controlled depopulation, he says everyone needs to take personal responsibility for prevention through vaccine risk awareness, drug risk avoidance, and generally healthier living.

Booming growth in the alternative and complementary care industries has ignited grass roots actions advancing legislation to free practitioners and health product manufacturers from stifling regulations imposed by federal officials on behalf of pharmaceutical interests. In New Mexico, for instance, the "Unlicensed Health Care Practice Act," started July 1, 2009, frees alternative healers, equipment manufacturers, and nutritional supplement providers to practice responsibly. This increases access to quality care, promotes prevention, and in many cases early diagnosis and treatment of life threatening conditions.

"Vested interests are trying to maintain public ignorance," Dr. Horowitz wrote for AlternativeHealthCareNow.org. Drug companies despise their competitors--alternative and complementary health care practitioners. That is why Codex Alimentarius is being advanced to kill all competition and block people's access to natural healing methods and materials. Big Pharma can't claim natural and safe effective solutions to improving health, patient satisfaction, employee benefits, corporate savings through reduced absenteeism, better morale in workplaces, and growing employment and economic development in many communities. These are the benefits of alternative and complementary care exclusively."

Dr. Horowitz's new website provides many links to natural healing information and free online resources, including YouTube videos, audios, and articles for saving lives. Featured here is s new video titled "Health Care Reform Fraud," that responsible adults will want to watch and share with others.

2009-06-23T17:40:00.003-06:00

COMPLIMENTARY MEDICINE RECEIVES BROAD SUPPORT IN SWITERZERLAND

On May 17, 2009, the people of Switzerland voted in favor of a constitutional amendment that supports the use of complementary medicine (CAM). A total of 67 percent of the population voted in favor. Thus Switzerland becomes the first country in Europe to set out in its constitution authority for the national government and its constituent states to take CAM into consideration in its health services. It is an astonishing victory and may set the model for other countries as well.

As the United States examines what needs to change in an effort to drive down cost and raise accessibility, do you think there is any chance special interests, Big Pharma or the playground's bully known as the FDA will allow U.S. citizens access to complimentary medicine as part of their health care plan? I think not but I am pleased to note there is a country which is coming around. Of course Switzerland is always ahead of the rest of the world.

2009-06-12T13:48:00.006-06:00

THE SWINE FLU SWINDLE

The new swine flu vaccine should be coming to a clinic near you just in time for Halloween. It seems appropriate, given the bizarre nature of the entire Pigs can Fly panic being spread by WHO and CDC, that the first H1N1 approved vaccine should be ready by Halloween. Can anyone say “Trick or Treat”? No doubt, the government will ask that I produce my children as a pin cushion or they will be denied entrance to school.

Hysteria is good for business – that is most certainly true when the hysteria surrounds a highly contagious flu and your business sells anti-viral drugs. As the World Health Organization raises the threat level for the H1N1 flu to 6 (and there is no 7) several companies are preparing for a golden harvest come fall 2009.

The US government recently made available one billion dollars to help big vaccine makers like Sanofi-Aventis and GlaxoSmithKline rush to market new vaccines. Novartis leads the pack with $289 million in federal support, followed by Sanofi Aventis with $191 million and GlaxoSmithKline set to receive a respectable$181 million. In addition the US Government has decided to ‘de-risk' the vaccine production, presumably removing usual safeguards for new vaccines. Can anyone say “Swine Flu of ‘76”?

The US Health and Human Services Department (HHS) is placing orders with manufacturers with which it already has contracts to produce a pandemic vaccine for the never-turned pandemic H5N1 avian flu. More than $3 billion in federal funds since 2005 have gone toward developing, building manufacturing and stockpiling a vaccine to fight that disease. How long do such vaccines hold in stock? No doubt they will find some way to keep their investment from going to waste! Perhaps some 3rd world country could be used for their test market.

It is disturbing to learn that many drug makers are using techniques of genetic manipulation to produce their new vaccine offerings in a race to market. The Maryland drugmaker Novavax which reported severe annual income losses prior to the current Swine Flu scare, now is preparing a genetically modified vaccine they claim is suitable for H1N1 flu.

Free from Liability?

It may surprise you to learn that insurance companies historically have refused to insure vaccine manufacturers against lawsuit for vaccine-related illnesses or deaths. However, under rulings made during the Bush Administration, vaccines can be labeled as “unavoidably unsafe” meaning that when a product is ‘carefully designed, manufactured and marketed, but is dangerous nonetheless,' it is not a defective product, even though it might cause injury. Clear as mud pigs love to frolic in! Today drug makers need have little fear of damages from product liability lawsuits for, ironically, the drug manufactures are now “immune” from any lawsuits. In fact, some might argue this particular immunity is the only one effectively conveyed when someone is vaccinated.

Is Mandatory Vaccination Coming to a Clinic Near You?

At least three US federal laws should concern all Americans and suggest what may be coming - mandatory vaccinations for hyped, non-existant threats, like H1N1 (Swine Flu). Vaccines and drugs like Tamiflu endanger human health but are hugely profitable to drug company manufacturers.

The Project BioShield Act of 2004 (S. 15) became law on July 21, 2004 "to provide protections and countermeasures against chemical, radiological, or nuclear agents that may be used in a terrorist attack against the United States by giving the National Institutes of Health contracting flexibility, infrastructure improvements, and expediting the scientific peer review process, and streamlining the Food and Drug Administration approval process of countermeasures."

In other words, the FDA may now recklessly approve inadequately tested, potentially dangerous vaccines and other drugs if ever the Secretaries of Health and Human Services (HHS) or Defense (DOD) declare a national emergency, whether or not one exists and regardless of whether treatments available are safe and effective. Around $6 billion or more will be spent to develop, produce, and stockpile vaccines and other drugs to counteract claimed bioterror agents.

The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act slipped under the radar when George Bush signed it into law as part of the 2006 Defense Appropriations Act (HR 2863). It lets the HHS Secretary declare any disease an epidemic or national emergency requiring mandatory vaccinations. Nothing in the Act lists criteria that warrant a threat. Also potential penalties aren't specified for those who balk, but very likely they'd include quarantine and possible fines.

The HHS web site also says the Secretary may "issue a declaration....that provides immunity from tort liability (except for willful misconduct) for claims of loss caused, arising out of, relating to, or resulting from administration or use of (vaccine or other pharmaceutical) countermeasures to diseases, threats and conditions determined by the Secretary to constitute a present, or credible risk of a future public health emergency...."

The industry-run US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) notoriously rushes inadequately tested drugs to market, putting their efficacy and safety into question, and turning those who use them into lab rats. It includes everyone if a mass vaccination is ordered on the mere claim of a public emergency - no proof required.

The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (S. 3678) is the other worrisome law, effective December 19, 2006. It amended "the Public Health Service Act with respect to public health security and all-hazards preparedness and response, and for other purposes." Even its supporters worry about issues of privacy, liability, and putting profits over public health. Critics express greater concerns about dangerous remedies for exaggerated or non-existant threats as well as mass hysteria created for political purposes.

At least one other measure is also worrisome - The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MSEHPA). So far it's just a proposal by the Center for Law and the Public's Health - "A Collaborative at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities (as) a primary, international, national, state, and local resource on public health law (and) policy for public health practitioners, judges, academics, policymakers, and others."

MSEHPA is now "track(ing) legal responses to the emerging international response to the 2009 H1N1 (swine flu) outbreak, including declarations of public health emergency at the international, national, state, and local levels...." even though forensic evidence can't confirm any H1N1 deaths. No emergency exists anywhere, and reporting one is all hype to sell dangerous drugs to unsuspecting people globally.

On its web site, the ACLU says this about MSEHPA:

It's "written in a way that doesn't adequately protect citizens against the misuse of the tremendous powers that it would grant in an emergency. (It's) replete with civil liberties problems. Its three top flaws are that:

(1) It fails to include basic checks and balances (by) grant(ing) extraordinary emergency powers (that) should never go unchecked. (It) could have serious consequences for individuals' freedom, privacy, and equality."

(2) "It goes well beyond bioterrorism (with) an overbroad definition of 'public health emergency" that may be anything a local or national authority declares for any reason with no conclusive evidence for proof.

(3) "It lacks privacy protections (and) undercut(s) existing protections for sensitive medical information."

MSEHPA worries other organizations besides the ACLU, both conservative and progressive - including the Free Congress Foundation, American Legislative Exchange Council, conservative association of state legislators, Human Rights Campaign, and Health Privacy Project.

The Real Threat of Dangerous, Mandatory Vaccinations

In the wake of the hyped Swine Flu scare, media reports suggest mass vaccinations are coming. The May 6 Kimberly Kindy – Ceci Connolly Washington Post one, for example, headlined "US May Add Shots for Swine Flu to Fall Regimen" without saying they'll be mandatory but reading between the lines suggests the possibility this year or later.

The writers report that "The Obama administration is considering an unprecedented fall vaccination campaign" to include regular and Swine Flu shots, the latter because it's "spreading across the globe."

HHS' Dr. Robin Robinson said "We are moving forward with making a vaccine," and if the government proceeds with a national program, enough supply will be produced to provide two doses for all Americans with spokespersons like National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci, claiming adverse reactions aren't to be expected and adding another shot for Swine Flu "should not present a problem."

The New York Times also hypes the scare with reports of city schools closed after unconfirmed Swine Flu cases, a few adult deaths blamed on H1N1 bringing the claimed total in the city to seven, and the World Health Organization (WHO) saying on June 3 that it's moving closer to declaring a worldwide (Level 6) Swine Flu pandemic - even though none exists.

With all the hype, misinformation, and willful lies WHO's Dr. Keiji Fukuda, in charge of flu, said only 117 deaths globally have been "blamed" on Swine Flu and any warning may include the caveat that the virus isn't very lethal. A more accurate statement would explain that no forensic evidence links any deaths to H1N1, and influenza annually kills about 30,000 people in America alone - something the major media never report or that scattered accounts of any type flu deaths worldwide are no cause for alarm or reason for scary headlines.

It's also unconscionable for the WHO, US and other nations' officials to spread lies, deception, and hysteria so major pharmaceutical companies can foist dangerous vaccines and other drugs on unsuspecting people, harming their health and making them vulnerable to later diseases and possible early deaths.

Massachusetts May Be A Forerunner of What's to Come

On April 28, the Massachusetts Senate unanimously passed a pandemic flu preparation bill that rises to the level of martial law. If approved by the House and signed into law, it will mandate among other measures:

-- "vaccination, treatment, examination, or testing of" all individuals involved in providing health care - as perhaps step one before ordering the same process for all state residents;

-- owners or occupiers of all premises "to permit entry into and investigation of the premises;"

-- closure, evacuation, and decontamination of all suspected facilities; and

-- restricting or prohibiting "assemblages of persons."

Other states may be planning similar measures as precursors to mandatory nationwide vaccinations and overall suspension of civil liberty protections.

Adverse Vaccination Effects on Gulf War Troops

Before deploying to the Persian Gulf in 1990 - 91 (and thereafter to the present), all US troops got a standard series of inoculations against infectious diseases - the same ones given to all US citizens traveling to the region. After arriving, 150,000 also got anthrax vaccinations and 8,000 botulinum toxoid ones even though concerns were raised about adverse long-term health consequences.

A National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine (IOM) study was conducted to assess them with results released in September 2000. In December 1997, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced that all US military forces would receive anthrax vaccinations. The Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program (AVIP) began in March 1998 even though IOM found little published peer-reviewed scientific information on its safety.

In its study, IOM reported evidence of an association between vaccinations studied and transient acute common health effects, including redness, swelling, and fever commonly associated with other vaccinations. However, conclusive proof of long-term problems wasn't determined - likely because study findings were skewed not to find them. More on that below.

IOM also studied botulinum toxoid vaccines and found evidence of an association between the vaccine and transient acute local and systemic effects similar to anthrax vaccinations. Again, conclusive proof of long-term adverse health effects wasn't found - another very dubious conclusion as evidence below explains.

Military personnel usually get multiple vaccinations. IOM studied their effects but didn't prove or disprove any long-term adverse effects. However several independent studies of British Gulf War veterans found some link between multiple vaccinations and later health problems.

Gary Matsumoto is a New York-based award-winning investigative journalist. His 2004 book, "Vaccine A: The Covert Government Experiment That's Killing Our Soldiers and Why GIs are Only the First Victims" took sharp issue with IOM results and the Pentagon's denial of Gulf War syndrome.

Investigating the shadowy vaccination development world, he discovered US military-employed doctors and scientists conducted secret medical experiments on US citizens in violation of the Nuremberg Code and fundamental medical ethics.

For its part, Nuremberg established legal medical experimental standards now incorporated into ethical medical codes, including:

-- requiring voluntary consent of human subjects without coercion, fraud, deceit, and with full disclosure of known risks;

-- experiments should avoid "all unnecessary physical and mental suffering and injury;"

-- experiments should never be conducted if there's "an a prior reason to believe death or disabling injury will occur;"

-- risk "should never exceed that determined by the humanitarian importance of the problem to be solved..;" and

-- experiments should be terminated if there's reason to believe they'll cause "injury, disability, or death to the experimental subject."

According to Matsumoto, the Pentagon violated these and other standards, betrayed the troops, and the fundamental duty of military and civilian leaders to protect them. Since at least 1987, biowarfare development trumped the welfare of tens of thousands of GIs used as human guinea pigs for inoculation with experimental unlicensed anthrax vaccines containing squalene – an oil-based adjuvant (to enhance immunity) known for decades to cause severe autoimmune diseases in lab animals, yet administered involuntarily without disclosure of its harmful effects to human health.

Matsumoto wrote:

"The unethical experiments detailed in this book are ongoing, with little prospect of being self-limiting because they have been shielded from scrutiny and public accountability by national
security concerns." He suggested the "writing (was) on the wall" of what's to come with prospects now it may be soon.

"When UCLA Medical School's Michael Whitehouse and Frances Beck injected squalene combined with other materials into rats and guinea pigs back in the 1970s, few oils were more effective at causing the animal versions of arthritis and multiple sclerosis."

In 1999, immunologist Dr. Johnny Lorentzen at Sweden's Karolinska Institute found that on injection, an "otherwise benign molecule like squalene can stimulate a self-destructive immune response," even though it occurs naturally in the body.

Other research shows that squalene is the experimental anthrax vaccine ingredient that caused devastating autoimmune diseases and deaths for many Gulf War veterans from the US, UK, and
Australia, yet it continues in use today and for new vaccines development in labs. There's a "close match between the squalene-induced diseases in animals and those observed in humans
injected with this oil: rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus rythematosus."

Other autoimmune diseases are also linked to humans injected with squalene. "There are now data in more than two dozen peer-reviewed scientific papers, from ten different laboratories in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia, documenting that squalene-based adjuvants can induce autoimmune diseases in animals...observed in mice, rats, guinea pigs and rabbits. Sweden's Karolinska Institute has demonstrated that squalene alone can induce the animal version of rheumatoid arthritis. The Polish Academy of Sciences has shown that in animals, squalene alone can produce catastrophic injury to the nervous system and the brain. The University of Florida Medical School has shown that in animals, squalene alone can induce production of antibodies specifically associated with systemic lupus erythematosus."

Micropaleontologist Dr. Viera Scheibner conducted research into the adverse effects of adjuvants in vaccines and wrote:

Squalene "contributed to the cascade of reactions called "Gulf War syndrome". (GIs developed) arthritis, fibromyalgia, lymphadenopathy, rashes, photosensitive rashes, malar rashes, chronic fatigue, chronic headaches, abnormal body hair loss, non-healing skin lesions, aphthous ulcers, dizziness, weakness, memory loss, seizures, mood changes, neuropsychiatric problems, anti-thyroid effects, anaemia, elevated ESR (erythrocyte sedimentation rate), systemic lupus erythematosus, multiple sclerosis, ALS, Raynaud's phenomenon, Sjorgren's syndrome, chronic diarrhea, night sweats and low-grade fever."

Matsumoto's book includes numerous case studies of GIs afflicted with one or more of the above syndromes, their devastating effects, and the outlandish US government reaction - failing to acknowledge their existence or a connection between them and administered vaccines. Also denying the effects of other toxic Gulf theater exposures (like depleted uranium) as well as withholding meaningful treatments or protocols.

US Army Captain George L. Skypeck spoke eloquently for many when he said:

"Was the character of my valor less intense than those at Lexington? Was the pain of my wounds any less severe than those at Normandy? And was my loneliness any less sorrowful than those at Inchon? Then why am I forgotten amongst those remembered as 'heros?'"

If mass vaccinations are ordered, millions of Americans may ask: Why do you keep using unsafe vaccines and other drugs when clear evidence shows their dangers? Why do you jeopardize all Americans by unleashing a future plague of serious illnesses, diseases, and disabilities? Why have you willfully and maliciously ruined my health?

From inception, vaccines have always been dangerous enough for some experts to call them biological weapons undermining health, manipulating and crippling the immune system, and creating the possibility of future debilitating diseases. So Big Pharma's solution is new, more potent genetically engineered vaccines and drugs that may end up harming or killing many who take them, especially people with weakened immune systems.

Matsumoto and others sounded the alarm to alert everyone to avoid these poisons masquerading as protective drugs. In fact, they benefit only the bottom lines of companies that manufacture them and scientists reaping generous royalties.

Stephen Lendman is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.

2009-05-23T13:28:00.007-06:00

ENFORCING CHEMOTHERAPY

By: Paula Rothstein

Following today's health freedom news story of Daniel Hauser and his mother's run from the law to avoid gunpoint medicine makes me feel as though magically transported to a place known as Bizarro World where a new moral code has been established that makes one view everything upside down. It is one thing to have pharmaceutical drug companies bent on making billions no matter who they harm along the way wish to force a sale upon us but it is quite another to have a population at large buying what they are selling in bulk, no questions asked, along with a supportive and tyrannical government.

When did we become so preoccupied with the health choices of an individual family? Imagine 100 years ago the government beating on the door of a family and threatening the arrest of a mother for not taking a doctor's advice with respect to the health of her child? Perhaps my libertarian views are so far out of step with mainstream that I cannot even begin to comprehend the preoccupation our government and its citizens have with an individual's private health choice. I have fought for one's right to decide whether or not to vaccinate and I will fight for one's right to make all health decisions short of a parent's right to pray over a child and hope he or she survives through divine intervention. But to dispute the validity and effectiveness of alternative and natural treatments of disease is one borne of ignorance and manipulation, most likely by the drug cartel running the cancer industry.

It is an undisputable fact that chemotherapy if given long enough will kill the individual. A positive outcome is one where the cancer is killed off by the poison before the cancer patient. There are numerous alternative therapies that offer a higher rate of survival and greater degree of safety than chemotherapy, however, no drug company would profit from these therapies because they are natural and therefore cannot be patented. If Mrs. Hauser would be "allowed" by our government to make use of these therapies she would have every reason to be optimistic. I believe she is trying to exercise her right to pursue these choices. This story is not about a family choosing no treatment for their child but rather the safest, most effective treatment. But can she make one of those choices? Apparently she cannot and this should frighten every parent in this country that once boasted it was the "land of the free, home of the brave". Mrs. Hauser is brave as is Daniel. My well wishes go out to the both of them. Unfortunately, today freedom is but a tattered dream feebly twisting in the dry winds of a country that has lost its way.

2009-02-21T12:11:00.006-06:00

THE AUTISM/VACCINE CONNECTION: Could the Government be Dead Wrong?

by: Paula Rothstein

What happened on February 12, 2009 in Washington, D.C.?

Whenever I discuss vaccine safety with those influenced solely by today's news coverage I am quickly put on the defensive, being asked to explain why our government's vaccine courts have ruled against the vaccine link to autism as they did most recently on February 12, 2009. The safety of vaccines as determined by a vaccine court is fraught with conflict of interest and lack of appropriate research. The government mandates vaccines and therefore it is not in their interest to find fault with these vaccines and since decisions cannot be determined in a civil court unless first decided in vaccine court, it is hard to get a decision which calls into question the CDC's agressive vaccination schedule.

Wendy Fournier, president of the National Autism Association, explains the recent court decision quite well in the following short video as she was recently interviewed for a news station on this subject: http://www.abc6.com/news/39518632.html

You need to first understand that no independent studies (i.e. one not funded by the pharmaceutical drug companies) have ever been performed on vaccines and no studies have ever been performed comparing the unvaccinated to the vaccinated to weigh both benefits and risks. Without these studies the government can declare these vaccines to be safe. As so often is the case with our government, the fox is in charge of the hen house. Also lacking are studies weighing the cumulative effects of all these toxins as injected via vaccines. And we wonder why parents' stories appear purely speculative! As a non-believer of the connection one can easily dismiss the link of vaccine leading to autism for lack of proof but it is the parent who knows their child best, carefully observing their child following vaccination, one day later, one week later, one month later and so on until finally one day their doctor gives a diagnosis of autism. Yet the parent noted almost immediately a change in behavior and speech -- they witnessed their precious child's withdrawal from the world that started almost immediately after a round of vaccinations but it is months of regression before anyone will confirm that, yes, their child is changed. And then they are told that the timing is merely a coincidence! Thousands of stories that read almost exactly the same and yet it is just a coincidence!

Whether or not to vaccinate is indeed a complex issue. When first deciding to approach vaccines differently with my second child I spent numerous hours researching a subject that I previously knew nothing about. It is an enormous hurdle to dismiss years of one-sided information on an issue, one which involves the health of a child vs. the trust of both our government and medical profession. This is huge! It is a very personal decision and it is that very decision that must be protected. With each passing day, as we march towards universal health coverage and an ever intrusive government, it appears this personal decision must be protected against the very government that was designed to safeguard its citizens.

You can argue whether or not vaccinations are a useful tool against disease but the argument stops when it becomes whether or not a parent should have the right to make health decisions for a child. I have yet to find one single parent who chooses not to vaccinate be anything less than the most conscientious parent for it is the parent who decides to go against her doctor's wishes who has read a great deal on the subject, usually to the point of great proficiency -- most often surpassing her own doctor's knowledge on the subject. Whereas it is the parent who vaccinates who has read nothing more than the pamphlet found in their pediatrician's office - the pamphlet published by the pharmaceutical company marketing the vaccine. Sometimes their knowledge does not even go this far. Unfortunately, it often takes a personal tragedy before a parent comes to question the legitimacy of allopathic medicine.

If one can be so quick to believe that a large group of parents are mislead on the issue of vaccinations why is it so difficult to imagine that the government and drug companies could be dead wrong on this issue?

These are unique times in the history of modern medicine as we have come to lean so heavily upon pharmaceuticals for our health and less and less upon our natural ability to fight disease. It is time to start listening to the instincts of thousands upon thousands of parents who say their children regressed into autism shortly after receiving a round of vaccinations at least to the extent we provide them with independent research to confirm the truth.

As parents considering whether or not to vaccinate, the autism connection cannot be over simplified, blaming one ingredient used in vaccines or even one shot in particular. It is most likely the cumulative damage of too many vaccines as mandated by the CDC possibly acting as the trigger of this disease as well as many other diseases suspiciously on the rise in our children. A parent should spend as much time researching the safety of vaccines as they would on any other issue involving the health and well being of their child.

2009-01-29T17:19:00.001-06:00

Forcing Kids Into a Mental Health Ghetto

By: Congressman Ron Paul

A presidential initiative called The “New Freedom Commission on Mental Health” has issued a report recommending forced mental health screening for every child in America, including preschool children. The goal is to promote the patently false idea that we have a nation of children with undiagnosed mental disorders crying out for treatment.

One obvious beneficiary of the proposal is the pharmaceutical industry, which is eager to sell the psychotropic drugs that undoubtedly will be prescribed to millions of American schoolchildren under the new screening program. Of course a tiny minority of children suffer from legitimate mental illnesses, but the widespread use of Ritalin and other drugs on youngsters who simply exhibit typical rambunctious, fidgety, and impatient behavior is nothing short of criminal. It may be easier to teach and parent drugged kids, but convenience is no justification for endangering them. Children’s brains are still developing, and the truth is we have no idea what the long-term side effects of psychiatric drugs may be. Medical science has not even exhaustively identified every possible brain chemical, even as we alter those chemicals with drugs.

Dr. Karen Effrem, a physician who strongly opposes mandatory mental health screening, warns us that “America’s children should not be medicated by expensive, ineffective, and dangerous medications based on vague and dubious diagnoses.” She points out that psychiatric diagnoses are inherently subjective, as authors of the diagnostic manuals admit. She also is concerned that mental health screening could be used to label children whose attitudes, religious beliefs, and political views conflict with the secular orthodoxy that dominates our schools.

The greater issue, however, is not whether youth mental health screening is appropriate. The real issue is whether the state owns your kids. When the government orders “universal” mental health screening in schools, it really means “mandatory.” Parents, children, and their private doctors should decide whether a child has mental health problems, not government bureaucrats. That this even needs to be stated is a sign of just how obedient our society has become toward government. What kind of free people would turn their children’s most intimate health matters over to government strangers? How in the world have we allowed government to become so powerful and arrogant that it assumes it can force children to accept psychiatric treatment whether parents object or not?

Parents must do everything possible to retain responsibility and control over their children’s well-being. There is no end to the bureaucratic appetite to rule every aspect of our lives, including how we raise our children. Forced mental health screening is just the latest of many state usurpations of parental authority: compulsory education laws, politically-correct school curricula, mandatory vaccines, and interference with discipline through phony “social services” agencies all represent assaults on families. The political right has now joined the political left in seeking the de facto nationalization of children, and only informed resistance by parents can stop it. The federal government is slowly but surely destroying real families, but it is hardly a benevolent surrogate parent.

2008-11-29T09:41:00.007-06:00

POISON FIT FOR CONSUMPTION: Melamine Found in U.S. Infant Formula

By: Paula Rothstein

Can the Food and Drug Administration be trusted to safeguard the public against health threats? The answer is indisputably no as once again established during the latest health threat, melamine laced infant formula.

If you are a parent of an infant consuming baby formula, like me, the first thing you did when you heard about melamine found in infant formula taking place in China was to check your can of formula to see where it was manufactured. However, we now learn melamine was found in the three big suppliers of infant formulain the U.S. -- Abbott Laboratories, Nestle and Mead Johnson -- and as time passed we learned the FDA knew about it and instead of notifying the public held a teleconfrence with the three suppliers to warn them of their findings. We would still know very little if it had not been for the Associated Press forcing the issue via the Freedom of Information Act which, thankfully, still exists in this country which feels less free every day.

According to the FDA the extremely low levels pose no threat whatsoever. This is insulting to our intelligence. If for no other reason than the fact that the FDA declared no level to be safe prior to finding trace amounts of melamine in the three dominating suppliers of infant formula. But let us also consider this -- we are not talking about one dose of this very low level of melamine but for some infants they are receiving their "low dose" every four hours around the clock for months and months. For some infants, preemies for example, they are exceptionally weak and relying on formula, laced with melamine as their only food supply. The FDA's position is both ludicrous and dangerous. Against the FDA's wishes, I have searched for a melamine free formula and found one excellent alternative at Naturesone.com.

2008-05-20T11:14:00.004-06:00

TREATMENT: ON VACCINES

The following is a three point plan posted at Generation Rescue that could help improve your child's chances against acquiring vaccine damage.

(Posted on Generation Rescue)

Our message to the CDC and AAP: "Green our vaccines, and administer them with greater care."

As a parent contemplating vaccinating their child, we would offer the following 3-point plan to try to minimize the potential risks from vaccines. (Please note that we are parents, not doctors. What follows is not medical advice, it is the opinion of parents. Anything written here should be reviewed with a qualified physician. We are not giving you medical advice nor are we qualified to do so.)

1. Take Precaution

• Consider delaying vaccines until your child is 18-24 months old.
• Do not vaccinate if your child is taking antibiotics.
• Consider no more than one vaccine per doctor’s visit.
• If you plan to get the MMR vaccine, ask your doctor to give it in three separate vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella.
• Consider giving high doses of Vitamin C (3,000-5,000 mg per day) on the day before, of, and after vaccination.
• With the measles vaccine (MMR), consider high doses of Vitamin A (5,000 IU or more) on the day before, of, and after vaccination.
• If your child experiences any developmental delays, stop vaccinating until you learn more.
• If your child has an adverse reaction to a vaccine, stop vaccinating until you learn more.
• Always ask to see the vaccine insert, and never accept a vaccine that uses the preservative Thimerosal (mercury). For a complete list of vaccines with Thimerosal, see the FDA’s website here. Note: most flu shots today still contain Thimerosal.

2. Consider delaying vaccines

In our favorite article on vaccines, A User-Friendly Vaccine Schedule, written by University of Washington surgeon Donald Miller, M.D., Dr. Miller makes a number of interesting observations including:

"Public health officials, however, have not proven that it is indeed safe to inject this many vaccines into infants. What's more, they cannot explain why, concurrent with an increasing number of vaccinations, there has been an explosion of neurologic and immune system disorders in our nation’s children."

And:

"New knowledge in neuroimmunology (the study of how the brain’s immune system works) raises serious questions about the wisdom of injecting vaccines in children less than two years of age."

Dr. Miller’s recommendation: don’t start vaccinating your child until they turn two years old.

3. Consider an alternative schedule to the CDC’s current schedule.

It really is shocking to look at the 1983 recommended vaccine schedule and compare it to 2008. Does a child really need so many more vaccines today? Quiz your doctor by asking them how many vaccines were on the schedule in the 1980s. We have found that most have no idea.

Three potential alternative schedules to consider:

I. Listen to the Doctor (Our favorite)

Comment: Donald Miller, M.D., is a surgeon at the University of Washington. His article, A User-Friendly Vaccine Schedule, is summarized into this schedule.

II. Turn back the clock

Comment: This is the schedule from 1983. If it worked for kids then, why doesn't it work for kids now?

III. Go Danish

Comment: Denmark is a first world country based in Western Europe. Their schedule appears far more reasonable than ours. They have also been reported to have a much lower rate of autism than the U.S. Do they know something we don't?

Article Posted in its Entirety.

2008-05-11T07:35:00.001-06:00

Urine Testing Confirms Autism is Mercury Poisoning

WASHINGTON, DC - A new peer-reviewed scientific/medical case study confirms that many children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASDs) suffer from mercury poisoning. The new study, "A Prospective Study of Mercury Toxicity Biomarkers in Autistic Spectrum Disorders" by Mr. David A. Geier and Dr. Mark R. Geier has been published in the most recent issue of the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A (volume 70, issue 20, pgs 1723-1730).

Continue reading this article in its entirety.

2008-04-26T09:24:00.009-06:00

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST ABOUND IN THE VACCINE DEBATE: Is Your Child Safe from the Scoundrels of Medicine?

By: Paula Rothstein

In response to a court case regarding Michelle Cedillo (one of thousands of families attempting to establish the connection between vaccines and their child's autism), Dr. Paul Offit, chief of infectious diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania claims the apparent connection between vaccines and autism is "nothing more than a sad coincidence".

Imagine being the parent (and there are many!) who watched their child's fast retreat into silence and disability following a round of vaccinations upon hearing this incomprehensible dismissal of their reality!

Should all parents of children, believed to be vaccine damaged, accept that this remarkable timing of disease onset and their child’s “wellness visit” is a mere coincidence? Should they stop sifting through the thousands of pages of research by reputable doctors and scientists exposing the darker side of vaccines simply because Dr. Offit declared this epidemic to be nothing more than a SAD COINCIDENCE?

As a parent who has been researching vaccine damage for years, I say let's look at the man, Dr. Offit, chief of infectious diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. His title would lead us to believe his knowledge should be greater than our own but is he to be trusted?

Without digging too deep into the heart and soul of this individual, we know that he is someone who makes outlandish statements on the issue of vaccine safety in order to make parents feel small and silly for questioning safety. In addition to the "sad coincidence" statement, Dr. Offit once stated that "an infant can safely receive up to 10,000 vaccines at once". Perhaps Dr. Offit would like to prove his theory by allowing himself to be injected with 10,000 vaccines! In fact, line all the scoundrels up who wish to play Russian roulette with our children's health and give them a dose of their own medicine.

Here's just a little professional background on Dr. Paul Offit. He is not just a doctor who firmly believes vaccines save lives and will stand by medicine no matter how much conflicting evidence gets in the way. No, Dr. Offit is actually one of the patent holders of the rotavirus vaccine (Patent Application number 353547) and the recipient of a $350,000 grant from Merck for its development. Additionally, he is a consultant to Merck Pharmaceuticals.

Additionally, he is a member of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) which is comprised of a 15 member panel of "immunization experts" (so knowledgeable on the subject of vaccine safety as to have concluded that your infant would be safe receiving 10,000 vaccines at one time!). The ACIP is responsible for providing advice and guidelines to the Secretary for Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on vaccine-preventable diseases. Would you have imagined that an individual who profits from vaccines is one of 15 who will vote on vaccine safety? Nothing should surprise us anymore.

As a member of the ACIP, starting in 1998, Dr. Offit voted “yes” three times out of four on issues pertaining to the ACIP’s rotavirus statement, including a vote for his own vaccine to be included in the immunization schedule. I would call that a conflict of interest and a moral individual would excuse himself from voting on a vaccine from which they are to receive financial benefit. But then again we are talking about pharmaceutical drug profit here so morality does not play a role in the decision making process.

When presented with information regarding safety of vaccines, it would be nice if we could trust and believe the medical profession. Unfortunately, Dr. Offit is not just an exception to the rule but the standard bearer. Conflicts are everywhere you look in this hotly debated topic, as profits are quite extraordinary.

In the meantime, thousands of parents each year will continue to experience the "sad coincidence" of witnessing their child's health dramatically deteriorate following a "wellness visit" at their pediatrician's office.

As parents, it is acceptable and encouraged that we research the safety of all products that our children are to use, car seat safety, food they will be eating, chemicals used in the home, etc., etc., but dare we question the safety of a vaccine schedule that inflicts over 20 injections in the first two years of their lives - at a time when their immune system is the most vulnerable – we will be met with belittling comments from a know-it-all medical professional who has profited greatly from the very products we dare to question.

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For more information on vaccine safety:

World Association for Vaccine Education (WAVE)
Studies on Vaccine Safety
Vaccine Exemption Letters and Forms – Know your rights!

2008-03-29T10:54:00.013-06:00

IN SEARCH OF THE MAGIC BULLET: Waiora’s Newest Product AgariGold Appears Destined for Greatness

We all need help achieving optimal health which is why many people turn to pharmaceutical drugs in an attempt to rid themselves of a symptom, albeit temporary and fraught with potential negative side effects. But in the area of natural health we attempt to rid the symptom without causing greater burden on our bodies because that is what optimal health is all about, having achieved balance that lasts as long as your better habits continue.

Over the years I have studied the topic of holistic health – learning about the body, intricacies of the immune system and how it is effected by the good and bad we put into it - and I do this hoping to gain benefit for myself and others. Frequently this research leads me to a new “hot” product that is perceived by the health community as an extraordinary advancement in natural immune support.

Excitement was definitely building around this new "hot" product for the past few months and finally, around mid-March, the company of Waiora introduced an unusually potent immune support product called AgariGold with H1X1, most notably carrying three patents, containing over 100 life enhancing nutrients, rich in antioxidants coupled with mounting testimonials in a very short period of time. You may be familiar with Waiora's other super product, Natural Cellular Defense - the heavy metal detoxifier that has improved the lives of so many individuals.

What intrigues me the most - and what makes me believe this is going to be a very important nutritional supplement used by many - is the usability factor and acceptable price point. It comes in a container of 200 drops and the average person takes 7 drops once each day. This makes it a product that virtually anyone can take, including children who so desperately need an excellent option for immune support. (Please note the product is not recommended for children under the age of two.) Agarigold H1X1 is priced at approximately $54.95 per bottle and considering the punch it packs, deserving of every penny.

I have had an opportunity to use this product for the past few weeks now and have to say I noticed immediately that I attained a much deeper sleep each night. My mood improved (a sense of sustained calm would describe it best), better concentration and increased energy which is saying a lot since I am in my third trimester of pregnancy! I almost feel pre-pregnancy at the moment. These three things alone make this product gold to me. I did have concern about taking this product when pregnant and it is recommended that you discuss with your doctor before commencing if pregnant. However, having weighed the literature and research available and having heard an M.D. who is most familiar with the product state she would not hesitate to take it herself during pregnancy, I decided to go ahead with a low dose.

THE HISTORY OF A MIRACULOUS MUSHROOM:

For decades, medical researchers puzzled over the fact that the people of Piedade, a small mountain town in the humid rainforest of Brazil, lived well into their 100s and were almost never bothered by serious illnesses like cancer, heart disease, arthritis, high blood pressure, diabetes, or Alzheimer's. In fact, in their later years, they enjoyed the same vitality, stamina and zest for life that they had when they were younger.

Scientists attributed this incredible health and longevity to some powerful genetic defense, passed from generation to generation. But in the 1960s, a Japanese researcher discovered their secret - a rare mushroom native to the local mountains of the Piedade area. This special kind of wild mushroom, harvested from lush, virgin rainforest soil, produced health miracles not seen in the same type of mushroom grown in other areas of Brazil or anywhere else in the world. It turned out that the people in Piedade were eating this mushroom as part of their daily diet, even brewing it into their tea. They believed that this miracle mushroom gave them mystical, almost supernatural energy and strength.

When industrial growth nearly wiped out the ancient Piedade region, this mushroom all but vanished with it. The name of the mushroom is Agaricus Blazei or known to the natives as the "Mushroom of Life."

RESEARCHERS AT KOBE UNIVERSITY BEGIN TESTING ON THE AGARICUS BLAZEI:

When the results came in, they were astounded to find that the mushroom contained large amounts of critical nutrients, such as vitamins, minerals, essential amino acids, antioxidants, enzymes, fibers and beta glucans.

"Beta glucans are a group of naturally-occurring polysaccharides (complex sugars) that are part of the cell walls of bacteria, plants and fungi. The beta glucans in the agaricus blazei mushroom are believed to be the compounds responsible for its immune boosting effects." Dr. Andrew Weil, M.D.

The news about Agaricus Blazei spread quickly and needless to say, it became and remains the "must have" daily supplement in Japan for staying healthy. (For the record, Japan ranks number one in health and longevity with the United States is ranked a mere 27 by the World Health Organization.) Now, you can find over 100 clinical studies on the mushroom.

CREATING A HYBRID NUTRITIONAL PRODUCT:

A group of U.S. mycologists (mushroom experts) became extremely interested in the health benefits of this amazing miracle mushroom and wanted to see if they could make this mushroom even more potent. Through trial and error, they combined more than 200 different strains of other Agaricus Blazei with the authentic Brazilian Agaricus Blazei strain looking for the right combination to increase its potency. Finally, an Agaricus Blazei strain picked from a raspberry field in California was introduced to the Brazilian strain and the match turned out to be extraordinary as the potency levels tested off the charts. Known as H1X1, this new Agaricus Blazei hybrid strain has higher levels of beta glucans and is more powerful than either of its "parents." The mycologists knew they created a nutritional goldmine. So incredibly potent and so rare that the "match-making" mycologists applied for a U.S. patent, which is no easy task when dealing with nature.

The purity of H1X1 is protected by a proprietary organic crop growing process that replicates the growing conditions of the original Piedade region in Brazil. Each crop of H1X1 is tested using patented DNA fingerprinting technology to ensure that the proper make-up from each mushroom is maintained, thereby guaranteeing the authenticity and potency.

Also, H1X1 is taken through a patented 10-stage extraction process where the following occurs:

• Twice as much protein is extracted
• 10 times as much fiber and essential fatty acids is extracted
• 16 times as much beta glucan is extracted

The extract of H1X1 was compared to a popular Agaricus Blazei supplement in Japan and found to be 3,000 times more potent.

"H1X1 is an exceptional product containing beta-glucan levels that are higher than any other Agaricus blazei strain we have tested. H1X1 is your guarantee of authenticity and effectiveness; it's proof of product quality." Dr. Mark Wach, Ph.D., World's Leading Mushroom Expert

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"It is truly a miracle." We have a 6 year old Rag doll male neutered cat that was diagnosed with non-specific auto-immune condition approximately 3 years ago. Since then we have battled bouts of non-eating, vomiting, dehydration, mental incapacity, urine incompetence, hair loss and so on. He has been hospitalized twice for re-hydration and medications including predisone and appetite boosters, along with anxiety drugs as he would get very anxious and seem to "lose" his whereabouts in the house often. He is strictly an indoor cat and acted as if he were 12 years old. His obvious symptoms were the anxiety, constant mewing, very slow movement and painful movement. It would take him many seconds to lie down and you could see him contemplating if it were even worth the movement that took. Approx. 4 months ago I was trying to get up the courage to call the vet for euthanasia as his quality of life seemed so bleak. That is when I thought to research herbs. We came across your product and it is truly a miracle. "Arnold", short for Arnold Schwarten kitty, who should weigh upwards to 15 lbs and had once weighed as low as 9 lbs. (we anxiously watched the ounces come off at the vet appointments) is getting better and better every day.

After I started him on your Super mushroom product H1X1 his color pattern, so long ago faded almost to nothing, has deepened to the most vibrant colors we have ever seen for him. He is almost 12 lbs., eats voraciously, and has even started to play occasionally. I cannot begin to tell you what a miracle we have witnessed firsthand all, we believe, due to your product.

I also have an immune-challenged condition and have thought about trying your product. My disease has manifested itself as early stages of arthritis-type symptoms and macular degeneration of one eye. (abnormal growth of blood vessels surrounding the center of vision). Thank you so much. Our vet cannot believe the difference " Your Super mushroom product H1X1 supplementation has become a very important tool for me in feline practice"

I have been using your Super mushroom product H1X1 in my practice. I generally recommend this product for very serious immune-challenged patients as well as any of my feline patients with known or suspected immune-suppressive conditions or chronic infectious health problems. I have been extremely pleased with the results. I believe that I see much stronger response to chemotherapy with the use of your product, as well as improved general support of quality of life in all cases in which I have used this supplement.

I am very excited about the availability of Super mushroom product H1X1 in this potent form that is easy to dose and economical enough for my clients to use for the long periods often required in these cases. This supplementation has become a very important tool for me in feline practice and I look forward to recommending your Super mushroom product H1X1 for my patients. Sincerely, EH DVM

"I think it is fantastic." I wanted to tell you about my experience with your Super mushroom product H1X1. I think it is fantastic. I have been taking it for several months to build my immunity. I recently flew to Naples in a private plane. There were three people on the plane who were sick with a flu virus. Two or three others had been ill but had recovered after many days of being very sick and taking medication.

I have asthma and when I catch a virus I normally have to go on an antibiotic and inhalers and it normally takes me three to four weeks to recover completely. After three hours in a closed plane with sick people I might as well have had an injection of that flue virus. As was feared in a few days I began feeling the symptoms of the virus. I started doubling up on my Super mushroom product. For two days I could feel that I had something and then it literally disappeared. It was like a miracle. I have never recovered from the flu so fast and I did not go into the usual asthma attack. This is a wonderful product. I wanted to share this with you. LL Naples, FL

The following are Frequently Asked Questions Regarding AgariGold with H1X1:

Q: Why is Waiora's new product called AgariGold?
A: The product is called AgariGold because it contains an exclusive extract from a family of mushrooms called Agaricus Blazei. The mushroom and our patented hybrid form, IH1X1 is so nutrient dense and powerful that it sets the gold standard among all medicinal mushrooms.

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Q: What is so special about the H1X1 hybrid mushroom used in AgariGold and how is it different from other mushrooms on the market?
A: H1X1 is a patent-pending superior hybrid mushroom. It's a hybrid of the original Piedade Agaricus Blazei mushroom, which can no longer be found in nature that was bred with another rare and powerful Agaricus mushroom that was accidently discovered in a raspberry field in the mountainous region of coastal California. The resulting HIM hybrid is the most powerful Agaricus Blazei mushroom in the world-with higher beta¬glucan levels and nutrient content than either of its parents or other medicinal mushrooms. The H1X1 mushroom is so unique that each crop is tested using DNA fingerprinting to ensure the product's efficacy.

The potency of H1X1 is also protected by a patented, organic growing process that replicates the growing conditions of the original Piedade region and ensures a consistent environment with each yield, including soil conditions, temperature and watering.

The H1X1's strain so unique and powerful that spores are locked in hidden, underground vaults in the U.S. and in Europe-and accessed only for DNA identification. Waiora now has the miracle Agaricus Blazei H1X1 hybrid mushroom in our groundbreaking product, AgariGold with HIXI.

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Q: What is the history of Agaricus Blazei? How was it discovered?
A: In a small mountain town in the rainforest area surrounding Sao Paulo, natives of this Brazilian region known as Piedade, lived long and healthy lives-rarely suffering from common illnesses and degenerative diseases. In the 1970s, researchers from the U.S. and Japan discovered that it was the consumption of a special kind of wild mushroom that was responsible for their good health and longevity. This species of mushroom is known as Agaricus Blazei. But, it wasn't just any Agaricus Blazei mushroom. This special kind of wild mushroom, untouched by urbanization, harvested from lush, virgin rainforest soil, produced health miracles not seen in Agaricus Blazei mushrooms grown in other areas of Brazil or anywhere else in the world. In fact, the Piedade natives referred to their locally grown Agaricus Blazei as, "the king of mushrooms" or "the mushroom of life."

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Q: When and how do I take the product?
A: You can take AgariGold with H1X1 any time of the day, but it's recommended to take 5-7 drops once a day.

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Q: Why is the liquid brown?
A: The liquid formula in AgariGold with HIXI is brown as a result of the 10-stage extraction process that yields all of the key nutrients from both H1X1 and the second active ingredient, Sasa Bamboo leaf extract.

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Q: What does it taste like?
A: AgariGold with HIXI has a mild, sweet flavor and reminds people of the taste of almonds or molasses.

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Q: Does it have to be taken straight or can it be dropped into other liquids or foods?
A: AgariGold with HIX1 can be taken straight or put into food or your drink.

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Q: How many drops should I take? Can I take too much?
A: It's recommended to take 5-7 drops daily. The product is non-toxic and you will not be adversely affected by taking more. Anecdotal evidence suggests that 15-20 drops taken twice daily has therapeutic benefits. We suggest you contact a health professional who has experience with medicinal mushrooms for information on therapeutic uses.

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Q: Can children under the age of two take AgariGold with H1X1?
A: No. AgariGold with HIXI is not recommended for children under two.

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Q: Can pregnant or nursing mothers take AgariGold with HIM
A: While the product is safe and all natural, we recommend that pregnant or nursing mothers should consult with their physician before taking AgariGold with HIXI.

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Q: Can someone with an auto immune condition take AgariGold with H1X1?
A: We would recommend that someone with a compromised auto immune function consult with their physician before taking AgariGold with HIXI.

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Q: What's the significance of the DNA fingerprint and how is it done?
A: The breeding process that resulted in the H1X1 strain took years to develop. Each crop is tested using DNA fingerprinting technology to guarantee the properties of each new crop have not mutated and to ensure the product's potency.

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Q: Where do I go for related ingredient research on the strain of mushroom used in the AgariGold with H1X1?
A: General information on Agaricus mushrooms can be found on the internet. A specific HIX1 minisite with product research is in development.

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Q: What's so special about the substrate the mushrooms are grown in?
A: The process for growing H1X1 replicates the conditions of the original Piedade region and ensures a consistent growing environment. The substrate is a proprietary blend of the most natural soil-nourishing ingredients, is free of toxins, herbicides, and insecticides, and is closely monitored to ensure no fluctuation in the air temperature, humidity and/or water profile.

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Q: How long does it take to produce the mushrooms used in AgariGold with
HIX1?
A: The growing period is two weeks from spore to mushroom.

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Q: Approximately how many drops are in each bottle?
A: There are approximately 200 drops in each bottle of AgariGold with H1X1.

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Q: Should any special care be taken from heat or exposure to light with AgariGold with H1X1?
A: No. The product is not sensitive to heat or light, however we do recommend that you keep the product at room temperature.

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Q: What's the nutritional profile of Waiora's AgariGold with H1X1?
A: AgariGold has two active ingredients-the H1X1 hybrid Agaricus mushroom extract and the Sasa Bamboo leaf extract. AgariGold is power-packed with active nutrients including 18 amino acids - including all eight essential for life; 14 essential minerals; 46 enzymes; vitamins B1, B2, B3, B5; ergosterol; biotin; inositol; choline; and, essential fatty acids.

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Q: What's the significance of the bamboo that has been included as part of the proprietary blend?
A: The Sasa Bamboo leaf extract is from the northern Haikido islands of Japan. It has been used in Japan as a traditional medicine for hundreds of years. It is an exotic, very rare, powerful antioxidant. Sasa Bamboo is so strong that for many centuries the Sasa Bamboo leaf was used to wrap and preserve sushi for several days without refrigeration.

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Q: What makes the extraction process unique?
A: Unlike a typical 3-stage extraction process used for many natural products, AgariGold with HIX1 goes through a patented10-stage extraction process ensuring that every nutrient is captured - more than 100 - out of each mushroom, helping make it the gold standard for potency and purity.

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Q: Is AgariGold with H1X1 all natural?
A: AgariGold with HIXI is an all natural product. It is a blend of these three ingredients: H1X1 extract, Sasa Bamboo leaf extract and purified mountain spring water.

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Q: Is AgariGold with H1X1 organic?
A: The HIM hybrid mushroom in AgariGold with HIXI is USDA and JAS certified organic.

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Q: What if any preservatives have been added?
A: No preservatives have been added to AgariGold with HlX1. The Sasa Bamboo leaf extract acts as AgariGold's natural preservative.

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Q: Can I take AgariGold with H1X1 with other Waiora products?
A: For maximum benefit, it is suggested to combine Waiora products into your health and wellness regimen.

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Q: Can I take AgariGold with HIXI if I am currently taking any prescription medications?
A: As a nutritional product, AgariGold with HIX1 has no known adverse food-drug interaction. However, it is a good practice to consult with your doctor before taking nutritional supplements.

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Q: Is AgariGold with H1X1 safe to be used on animals? If so, what is the recommended dose?
A: AgariGold with HIX1 is safe to use on animals. Start with 3-9 drops daily. May step up to 15 drops three times a day.

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Q: Is AgariGold with HIXI safe to apply topically?
A: AgariGold with HIXI is safe to use topically.

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Q: Can I take AgariGold with H1X1 with Natural Cellular Defense?
A: Absolutely. Natural Cellular Defense and AgariGold with H1X1 are complementary products. They have different mechanisms of action and, combined, provide a powerful daily regimen for health and wellness.

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Q: What are the FDA allowable health benefits?
• Promotes overall health and well-being.
• Plays a role in immune system modulation.
• Supports Natural Killer (NK) Cell activity.
• Nourishes the digestive system.
• Supports a healthy cardiovascular system.
• Supports normal blood sugar levels.
• Protects against free radical damage.
• Promotes energy.

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Q: Are there clinical studies on HIX1?
A: These studies will be available at the time of product launch.

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Q: What is the shelf life of the product?
A: The shelf life of AgariGold with HIXI is two years.

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Q: Is this product exclusive to Waiora?
A: Yes, Waiora has negotiated an exclusive product license for the global direct selling market with the manufacturer of AgariGold with HIXI.

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Q: Will AgariGold with H1X1 be sold in Waiora's other open markets?
A: Yes, as soon as the product has been registered.

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Q: What is beta-glucan? What is its significance?
A: Beta-glucan is a unique compound derived from the cell walls of yeast. It triggers an immune response in the body creating a system of defense against viral, bacterial, fungal, parasitic or neoplastic invaders. Beta-glucan also has potent antioxidant and free radical scavenging capabilities.

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Q: What are NK Cells?

A: Natural Killer (NK) cells are cells that contain granules filled with potent chemicals. 'They are called "natural" killers because they do not need to recognize a specific antigen before swinging into action. They target tumor cells and protect against a wide variety of infectious microbes.

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Q: Does this stimulate the immune systems? Is this dangerous?

A: AgariGold with HIXI modulates the immune system. Essentially this means that it helps to ensure your immune systems, stays balanced. There will be periods where your immune system is challenged and your levels are higher or lower than they should be, in which case the H1X1 will step in and help to bring the levels back into balance.

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Q: What is AgariGold with HIXI's mechanism of action?

A: The most exciting story about AgariGold with HIXI is its mechanism of action. Simply put, H1X1 uses powerful ingredients within the blend like beta-glucans, arabinoxylan, lingnin and ergosterol to protect your cells. The beta-glucans, arabinoxylan and lingnin help upregulate cytokines (cellular messengers within your immune system) to help your cells fight off intruders. This trio also serves an antimutagenic purpose¬helping you reduce your risk if you have a predisposition to a genetic mutation. As an added element of protection, the ergosterol functions as an angigenisis-helping to slow the growth and development of unhealthy cells.

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Q: I heard that mushrooms are high in heavy metals is that true of the mushrooms used in AgariGold with H1X1?

A: As mushrooms grow, they tend to absorb elements from the environment-air, water and soil. So you need to be very careful when eating or using mushrooms. The HIM featured in AgariGold is grown in a special facility in which all of the environmental factors are controlled. An organic substrate has been created to grow the mushrooms in and filtered water is used to hydrate them to ensure there are no harmful metals or toxins present. And since the growing environment is contained, it is not necessary to use any harmful pesticides, herbicides or insecticides to protect the mushrooms from predators.

For more information or to purchase product, please continue here.

2008-03-09T13:01:00.006-06:00

MOTHERS ACT: Seeks to Drug Expectant Mothers with Antidepressants to "Treat" Postpartum Depression

By: Mike Adams, Natural News

(NaturalNews) A new law being considered in the U.S. Congress would attempt to prevent postpartum depression in new moms by drugging them with SSRI antidepressant drugs while they're still pregnant. This legislation is being aggressively pushed by pro-pharma front groups in an effort to expand the customer base for SSRI drugs by targeting pregnant women as new "customers" for the chemicals. It's an example of the latest insanity from Big Pharma, whose drugs are already killing over 100,000 Americans each year while inciting violence and suicides in teens. Every single shooting massacre we've seen in the last ten years has been carried out by a person taking SSRI antidepressant drugs. The mainstream media pays no attention to this link, and the FDA ignores the reports in order to keep these drugs on the market.

SSRI drugs have never been approved for use on newborns, yet this new MOTHERS Act will effectively drug unborn babies and newborns with drugs like Prozac. This will certainly have an impact on their developing brains, and the bulk of the research available today shows that the impact will be negative. Will these children be more prone to violent thoughts and behavior? Will they contemplate suicide at younger ages? And what will be the impact of the drugs on the mother?

For one mother who was drugged with antidepressants -- Amy Philo -- the drugs caused her to experience thoughts of violence against her own newborn babies. After taking antidepressants prescribed by her doctor, she had visions of killing them (and herself). Upon returning to her doctor, Amy was told to increase the dosage! Eventually, Amy realized the drugs were wrecking her own brain chemistry, and she stopped taking the pills entirely, causing the thoughts of violence and suicide to subside.

Now, Amy is leading a campaign to stop the MOTHERS Act. She's posted a heart-wrenching 5-minute video on YouTube that tells her story (with pictures of her babies, too!).

A local news station also covered her story, and that report can be viewed here.

To read the rest of the article, continue here.

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"Current drugs used on post-partum women include SSRIs, atypical antidepressants, and even antipsychotic drugs. These pose a significant risk to the immediate safety and health of women as well as their children and families. SSRIs carry a black box warning for suicide and the most popular one, Effexor (the same med. Andrea Yates was taking when she drowned her 5 children), has the words “homicidal ideation” listed as a side effect. Nearly every recent case of infanticide which has made news can be clearly linked back to a psychiatric drug. These drugs endanger babies and mothers."

Continue here to read more from an article explaining the effort to stop the MOTHERS Act.

More antidepressant nightmare stories: A collection of over 2,100 news media stories is compiled here at SSRI Stories or to go directly to index of stories continue here.

2008-02-21T19:23:00.016-06:00

GARDASIL VACCINE: Merck’s Latest Billion Dollar Scam

By: Paula Rothstein

If you are cautiously considering whether or not you should succumb to the will of the drug companies, government officials, and/or medical profession and have your teenage daughter vaccinated with Gardasil to POSSIBLY protect her against cervical cancer – you are right to be concerned! In a very short period of time, thousands of young girls have experienced serious side effects, sometimes resulting in emergency medical treatment, following receipt of Merck’s new “wonder vaccine” Gardasil. There have also been 11 fatalities reported.

Following quickly on the heels of this drug’s wrecklessly fast approval was the state mandate for 11 year old girls to receive this vaccine before allowing them to attend school. As though we are dealing with a dangerous outbreak of an airborne virus! The audacity of drug companies – immune from lawsuits and a government charged with our protection from these greedy companies -- to test drug safety on humans, and not even by first garnering consent but actual manipulation of minds through sunshine filled marketing campaigns and as a last resort threat and force. How is it we lock people away in prison for manslaughter but drug pushers (of the pharmaceutical kind!) and government officials guilty of murder not only roam free but make their fortune through destruction of human life and health?

This is a drug that, I can only hope, will eventually be removed from the market as absolute junk and (rightfully) declared dangerous to the health and life of young women. But in the meantime, what are you as a parent feeling the pressure, supposed to do?

First, know that you have a choice. Understand forced vaccination is illegal and all vaccination requires knowledge before consent.

Benefits vs. Risks

The Benefits (If there is no previous HPV infection present in the body):

POSSIBLE elimination or reduction of 2 of the 127+ strains of HPV that may cause cervical cancer.

POSSIBLE elimination or reduction in the number of cases of genital warts.

POSSIBLE protection against FOUR strains of HPV for up to five years. The FDA website states that a time frame for efficacy had not yet been determined. It isn’t known when a booster would be needed.

The Risks:

In addition to the usual side effects that accompany any vaccination, such as nausea, dizziness, swelling and or pain and the injection site, mild to moderate fever, dehydration, and headache the following serious side effects are a very real possibility: Hyperventilation, muscle spasms, vomiting, blurred vision, speech disorder, falling, syncope (fainting), rash, chills, pallor, tremors, Guillain-Barre syndrome, weakness in extremities, paralysis, Hypoaesthesia-impaired or decreases tactile sensibility, convulsions, Erythema -abnormal redness of the skin, enlarged lymph nodes that may have to be removed, abnormal skin sensations, inability to swallow, skin ulcers, seizures, Bells Palsy, all have been reported after receiving the Gardasil vaccine.

Aside from being injected with four types of HPV proteins, girls and women who receive this vaccine should know what else is in the shot:

1. Aluminum adjuvants, which have been linked to neurological damage including multiple sclerosis, Alzheimers disease, and Parkinsons disease.

2. Polysorbate 80, which has been linked to infertility in mice.

3. Sodium borate, a main ingredient in roach killer.

In a relatively short period of time, there have been 11 young women killed as a result of receiving this vaccine. Are we to believe POSSIBLE prevention is worth the risk of death? Additionally, over 3,000 adverse reactions have been reported, with more than 50% requiring emergency room care. This information is posted on the FDA web site, as compiled by Judicial Watch. Keep in mind this is merely the short-term consequences of an unproven drug. Could this drug have other adverse effects, such as impaired fertility or infertility? Could it cause a different health condition, another form of cancer? In one recent news story, a woman is saying the HPV vaccine caused paralysis in her 12 yer old daughter. That is a very high price to pay for possible protection against one (of many) diseases that may be acquired in a lifetime.

New Video Reveals Hidden Risk -- (approx. 10 minutes long)

As you weigh risk vs. possible prevention, consider the following information as taken directly from an FDA document regarding Gardasil. (To view this document in its entirety, continue here.) I believe these quotes aptly address the relevance, or even irrelevance of Gardasil – assuming the risks are as numerous as initial reports would lend one to believe.

“Most women who become infected with HPV are able to eradicate the virus and suffer no apparent long-term consequences to their health. But a few women develop a persistent infection that can eventually lead to pre-cancerous changes in the cervix.” “. . .most infections are short-lived and not associated with cervical cancer.”

“...vaccination with GardasilTM of the women who are already sero-positive and PCR-positive for vaccine-relevant genotypes of HPV has been found to increase the risk of developing high-grade precancerous lesions by 44.6%, according to an FDA VRBPAC Background Document: GardasilTM HPV Quadrivalent Vaccine. May 18, 2006 VRBPAC Meeting.”

“...based on a Background Document submitted to the FDA by Merck & Co., Inc. [14], injection of HPV vaccines into women who have concurrent vaccine-relevant HPV type infections may increase the risk by 44.6%, of developing high-grade precancerous lesions in the cervix. Therefore, it would be prudent to perform a sensitive HPV detection assay with accurate genotype determination on the patients to be vaccinated if prior HPV infection is suspected.”

“Most HPV infections occur without any symptoms and go away without any treatment over the course of a few years. However, HPV infection sometimes persists for many years, with or without causing cell abnormalities.”

“Some types of HPV are referred to as “low-risk” viruses because they rarely develop into cancer. HPV types that are more likely to lead to the development of cancer are referred to as “high-risk. ” Both high-risk and low-risk types of HPV can cause the growth of abnormal cells, but generally only the high-risk types of HPV may lead to cancer. Sexually transmitted, high-risk HPVs include types 16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59, 68, 69, and possibly a few others. These high-risk types of HPV cause growths that are usually flat and nearly invisible, as compared with the warts caused by types HPV-6 and HPV-11. It is important to note, however, that the majority of high-risk HPV infections go away on their own and do not cause cancer.”

“...of the women who do develop abnormal cell changes with high-risk types of HPV, only a small percentage would develop cervical cancer if the abnormal cells were not removed. Studies suggest that whether a woman develops cervical cancer depends on a variety of factors acting together with high-risk HPVs. The factors that may increase the risk of cervical cancer in women with HPV infection include smoking and having many children.”

We have so-called "experts" that say this vaccine is absolutely necessary and will most likely prevent cervical cancer. I find a conflict of interest at the core of most drug-pushing and this particular drug is by no means an exception. Conflict of interest abounds in this industry. Of course, Merck has limitless funds to inflict a fear-based “safety” campaign on an uninformed public. The mind games being inflicted on parents via a rigorous public relations campaign is akin to a new form of terrorism. Vaccination is a choice and a very big one at that. Ask yourself this: Why should prevention of disease carry the risk of serious harm or even fatal results?

Merck is in denial regarding the harm this drug is inflicting but, of course, when you are making millions, even billions in profits, why should we expect anything less than a full-scale media blitz proclaiming Gardasil’s safety, in spite of evidence to the contrary?

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Vaccine Quotes Worth Repeating:

"The only safe vaccine is one that is never used." Dr. James R. Shannon, former Director, National Institute of Health

"Live virus vaccines against influenza or poliomyelitis may in each instance produce the disease it intended to prevent. The live virus against measles and mumps may produce such side effects as encephalitis (brain damage)" Jonas and Darrell Salk, 1977

"The DEATH RATE from smallpox was actually higher among those who had been vaccinated."

"It took over three years of research before we looked at each other and said 'Vaccines are killing babies'."

"It is a well documented fact that the incidence and mortality from infectious diseases fell by 90% well before any vaccine was even introduced... So [the U.S.] mandated vaccination and it resulted in a three-fold increase in whooping cough..."

"This is not a rare occurrence. Epidemics in fully vaccinated populations are a rule rather than an exception..."

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In-depth look at the HPV Vaccine Hoax.

Know your rights with regards to vaccine exemption.

How to Legally Avoid Immunizations

State by State Exemption Laws

2008-02-19T17:45:00.003-06:00

Clay Baths - A Safe Method for Body Detoxification

By Cheryl McCoy

"Detoxing" – the myriad and sundry ways of removing metals, toxins, and other nasties from the body - is becoming increasingly popular in alternative and natural medicine, and appears to be inching its way into the more traditional medical arenas as well. The beneficial health results produced by these procedures cannot be ignored. As a result, it seems that everywhere you turn, there are companies claiming to have the best product for detoxing your system. "Clay and water... those two lifelines are all you will often need to return your body to a state of optimal health," states Perry A., author of Living Clay, Nature's Own Miracle Cure.

According to Jason Eaton (www.eytonsearth.org): "There are many methods available in both alternative and natural medicine that are designed to "detoxify the body". However, nearly all of them do exactly the opposite: They stimulate the body to release toxic byproducts stored in fat, organs, and other tissues. The result is that these substances are dumped back into the active metabolism. The body, then, is placed under a great deal of toxic stress, even to the point of toxic shock.

This poses quite a problem, for the body has stored these substances for a very specific reason: It has been incapable of eliminating the substances without causing significant damage. Therefore, the short cut "quick fix" methods to detoxify the body can actually be quite dangerous, and the natural and comprehensive methods can require a lot of attention, hard work, and anywhere from six months to three years to accomplish, and are often accompanied by uncomfortable symptoms as the body cleans itself." What is lacking is an avenue to get the released toxins out of the body.

So what's a person to do? Many experts, including Jason Eaton, recommend clay baths for detoxing and chelation.

Clay baths have been safely used for centuries. These days, they're used to treat everything from tired, achy muscles to heavy metal poisoning, radiation and chemical/pesticide exposure. Very recently, some surprising and encouraging results have been reported when using clay baths to treat autism.

Certain clays have the ability to remove toxins through the pores of the skin. Discussing clay baths, in his book The Clay Cure, Ran Knishinsky states, "It is a fairly simple procedure, and it can do a lot of good in a relatively short time. Because of clay's excellent drawing effect, the clay has the power to literally pull toxicities through the pores of the skin in the bath." And Wendell Hoffman, author of Using Energy to Heal, found that bentonite clay, when used in a bath, can and does draw out toxic chemicals through the pores of the skin.

Jason Eaton states on his website: "Taking a therapeutic clay bath, lasting anywhere from 15 minutes to two hours, is one of the most effective methods in existence to help assist the body in the elimination of toxic substances which have accumulated in the body. Clay baths stimulate the lymphatic system and deeply cleanse the body's largest breathing organ (the skin). Acting both directly on the body and acting as a systematic catalyst, clay used in this manner interacts directly with the body's immune system, and helps to remove the post-digestive burden placed on the major organs of the body."

Dr. Miriam Jang, M.D., author of "Breakthroughs in Autism," a synopsis of the DAN protocol, says: "I have put a huge number of patients on these clay baths and the levels of heavy metals – mercury, lead, arsenic, aluminum, and cadmium have come down dramatically... I have been monitoring the levels of metals using all three methods (TD DMPS, oral DMSA and clay baths) and the clay baths are way faster in the removal of metals…One particular patient had very high levels of mercury and levels of lead that were off the charts. In 3 months of twice weekly clay baths, the lead came down dramatically and the mercury disappeared. The muscle weakness associated with high lead levels improved dramatically. Interestingly enough, another 5 months of these clay baths showed even lower levels of lead but the mercury reappeared. This supports the theory that mercury is sequestered in different areas of our body and it takes time to get it all out."

Clay baths may be used for heavy metal toxicity, general chemical toxicity, radiation and chemotherapy recovery, general systemic support by stimulating the lymphatic system, comprehensive cleansing protocols, as well as simply for relaxation and enjoyment. They are wonderful for relieving stress and helping to relax, especially in the evening before bed.

Choosing the Right Clay:

It's important to choose carefully when selecting a clay for your clay baths. While certain clays are ideal, and others are acceptable though not as good, others should be avoided altogether. For clay baths, the experts agree that clean, raw, natural swelling smectite clays are the best. This includes swelling bentonites and montmorillonites, which are often referred to as Living Clays. It's vital to avoid any contaminated clays, as well as any clays with additives. Clay should be stored in containers that are completely sealed, and kept away from petroleum chemicals. Clay should not come into prolonged contact with metals.

Preparing a Clay Bath:

There are several methods that can be used to prepare a clay bath. When using dry powder clay, you can simply scatter 2 cups of dry powder clay into the water as it's running and use your hands to mix it and swish away any lumps of clay that might form. To avoid lumps altogether, you can 'premix' the clay to a liquid state by mixing approximately 1 part clay to 8 parts water in a lidded container. Shake vigorously, and allow the clay to sit for a couple of hours, then shake again. Use 4 cups or more of liquid clay in your bath. A clay bath should last ideally between 15-20 minutes in extremely hot water and longer in a less hot bath. Submerge as much of your body as possible during the bath. The more clay that is used in the therapy, the more powerful the response.

In some rare severely toxic cases the clay may turn dark and gooey. If the water has not turned dark, after your bath scoop some of the clay water to water your plants. Run lots of water to rinse the clay out of your tub.

Jason Eaton states, "Hot showers, baths, and steam treatments cause a forced respiration through the skin, resulting in a rapid uptake of gases, ions, and water directly into the tissues of the body. Indeed, any time one isolates a location of the body, covering it with any substance and then applying heat (even if this is only heat generated by insulation), an "environmental exchange" is going to occur, resulting in the absorption of substances through the skin and the release of substances through the pores of the body." For this reason, he recommends nothing be added to the clay bath – no herbs, oils, fragrances, etc. Herbal treatments, or other skin treatments can be done after the clay bath if desired. The only exception to this rule would be the addition of natural sea salt, which simply acts as a tonic, and increases the ion exchange capability of the clay in a clay bath.

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About the author

Cheryl McCoy manages the website www.AboutClay.com, an information and educational resource for the various uses of healing clay. She discovered the amazing benefits of Living Clay approximately 5 years ago, and has been an ardent advocate for this clay ever since. She may be contacted at Info@AboutClay.com.

2008-02-15T14:58:00.003-06:00

Building a Child's Immunity the Natural Way

By: Cathy Sherman

New Jersey's Public Health Council gave its citizens a Christmas present that will not please the health-conscious, as it became the first state in the nation to require flu shots for preschoolers. Starting in September of 2008, all children attending preschool or licensed day care centers will have to get an annual flu shot. The state will cover the cost to low-income families, and private insurers will generally cover the cost to their customers. But cost is not the objection to this ruling that is sure to ignite controversy.

This law is problematic not only legally, as a challenge to our liberties, but in its health effects as well. Vaccines are dangerous for the health of any individual, but when administered to small children in their important developmental years, they are especially damaging. Medical "experts" have not even determined the correct dosages for small children, who in this regard are not just small adults. When we talk about daycare, we are talking about babies as young as a few months of age. Additionally, not only do vaccines usually contain mercury, but many lack effectiveness and can cause problems with the development of the child's natural immune system.

Mercury and thimerosal are preservatives used in vaccines, including most flu vaccines. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there is no proven link between autism and the preservatives. Coincidentally, New Jersey happens to be the state with the country's highest rate of autism; one in 94 children there is on the autism spectrum, with behavioral and communication problems ranging from barely noticeable to completely debilitating. The usual rate for autism is one in 150. So parents are not so sure they are being told the truth by the CDC.

To read this article in its entirety, continue here.

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Information on boosting your child’s resistance to disease:

Randall Neustaedter, OMD, FLU: Alternative Treatments and Prevention, North Atlantic Books, 2005
Jane Sheppard, Super Healthy Kids, Strengthening Your Child's Resistance to Disease

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The following links are for two excellent articles that will provide you with additional information on vaccines:

Challenging the Theory of Artificial Immunity

Vaccines and the Immune System

2008-02-10T16:00:00.001-06:00

A totally mad assault on the health freedom of San Francisco Bay area residents is underway at the hands of the California Department of Agriculture. The target is the Light Brown Apple Moth, a theoretical pest which poses little or no threat against humans or crops. Concerned citizens will have no alternative except to flee their homes and farms if they do not wish to be exposed to a highly toxic, and poorly tested, spraying program every 30 days for the next 5 years.

Governor Schwarzenegger Backed Immoral Sex Pheromone Spraying Continues...

by: Rami Nagel

(NaturalNews) Sometimes bad dreams do come true. My bad dream was that the government issued quarantine, and forced everybody to be vaccinated for some fake disease. In my dream, I took my family, and fled to the hills to avoid being vaccinated.

Now, nine months later, this dream has come true. In an emergency, I relinquished my rental contract and moved my pregnant partner and three and a half year old daughter out of Santa Cruz, CA, to avoid being exposed to potentially deadly chemicals.

The chemicals, known by their trade names as Checkmate OLR-F and Checkmate LBAM-F, have been sprayed via state owned airplanes in September and October in Monterey County California. These same aerial chemicals, despite their known health risks, were sprayed on two nights (11-8, 11-9) over the people of Santa Cruz County. The purpose of this spray is to control the mating/reproductive habits of the light brown apple moth (LBAM). The prevailing belief is that the mating habits of this moth needs to be controlled because the USDA believes that the moth might cause 100 million dollars of damage (Realize that this figure is not a fact, but based on a government guess).

The way Checkmate works is by attempting to disrupt the mating habits of the LBAM, by cluster bombing infested cities with billions of miniature time-release plastic microcapsules filled with synthetic moth sex pheromone. The pheromone gives of a scent, which supposedly confuses the male moths who then cannot find the female moths and instead will attempt to mate with other moth's or anything that gives off that pheromone smell.

Government's Pesticide Experiment Program

The California Department of Food and Agriculture's own doctor acknowledges, in court documents, that the aerial application of this chemical has not been tested. Let me repeat this so you understand, chemicals are being sprayed on young children, nursing mother's, people with asthma, lung problems, heart problems, the elderly, the disabled, the homeless and the chemically sensitive - and this chemical formulation has NEVER been tested on even a piece of dirt, let alone, humans. The newly designed Faroes Statement, the consensus of over 200 scientists, calls for a precautionary approach with respect to exposure of fetuses and children to environmental toxins. The consensus is that exposure of fetuses or children to chemicals can cause increased susceptibility to disease and disability later in life. In addition, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has specific directives and codes that state that they should not experiment with pesticides on pregnant women, or infants. It is a fact, since this aerial pesticide has not been proven to control the moth's mating habits and has not been proven safe to animals or humans, that this is an experiment.

In Monterey, approximately 100,000 residents were exposed to untested chemicals to control the mating habits of less than 750 moths. In Santa Cruz County, over 100,000 residents will be exposed between 11/06/07 – 11/09/07 to untested chemicals to control the mating habits of less than 9,000 moths. This is not a one time application, but will continue monthly beginning again in February, for nine months, and then repeated for up to a total of three years. Again, this program designed to eradicate the moth at best will only control the moth's mating habits; it will not eliminate the moth. At worst, the program will be ineffective, cost tax payers millions of dollars, and cause permanent disability to residents and their pets. All this harm is over a little moth that has yet to cause even $1.00 of damage in California.

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2008-02-08T09:47:00.000-06:00

The Seat of the Soul: The Origins of the Autism Epidemic

By: Andrew Wakefield, MP, BS, FRCS, FRCPath

(Presented at Carnegie Mellon University, November 17, 2005)

Where is the seat of the soul? Many men have spent many hours pondering the elusive seat of the soul, including Rene Descartes, who felt that it was in the pineal gland (in the center of the brain--it is responsible for much of our circadian rhythms, amongst other things). He may have been right, he may have been wrong. The seat of the soul may be as elusive as the origins of autism itself. As a gastroenterologist, I am inclined to believe that it's in the intestine, and I'll try to explain why.

A Brief History of Autism

Leo Kanner first described autism in eleven children in 19431. The presenting features in patients were so new and so consistent and also so different from everything that had been seen before that they merited publication as a new disease syndrome. There were no controls because it wasn't known what to control against. This is in the nature of the original description of human disease syndromes. The symptoms as described by Kanner still serve as the template for our understanding of autism. In spite of the fact that more than half of the children had clear symptoms of possible intestinal disease, he interpreted the symptoms as psychologically-based—a misconception that persists today.

In the 1950s Bruno Bettelheim was considered a leading expert on autism, despite the fact that he had no formal training of any kind (he held a PhD in philosophy). He propagated Kanner's theory that autism was a psychological disorder caused by emotionally cold parents (the "refrigerator mother" theory). As recently as 1981 he wrote, "All my life I've been working with children whose lives were destroyed because their mothers hated them."2 It is tragic that for decades this notion was universally accepted, and indeed it still lingers. A paper written in 2002 (I regret to say from my own medical school) states, "Many children with autism have unusual diets, often associated with constipation, which might lead to non-specific abnormalities of the bowel."3 The implication remains that it's the parent's fault, for feeding the children what they feed them. Kanner and Bettelheim's legacy of blaming the parent hasn't left us altogether.

In the presence of a disease as elusive and enigmatic as autism, it has often surprised me that so many people claim to be experts. We are inundated with "expert" opinion, even though so little is really known about the disease itself. The opinions are many:

• There is no epidemic, we're simply better at making the diagnosis. Now, those of you who live with autism every day know that it is clinically striking--it is not something that we could ever have missed in the past. The greatest clinicians in medicine were not even practicing in the 20th century, but the century before: people like Charcot from the Salpêtrière in Paris, and his colleague Pierre Marie; these were among the truly great clinicians. There was not much they could do about the diseases they encountered, but they described them in meticulous detail. Had autism existed before the time of Leo Kanner, I suspect we would have had vivid descriptions in the medical literature prior to him.* In his paper, Kanner himself wrote, "Since 1938, there have come to our attention a number of children whose condition differs so markedly and uniquely from anything reported so far, that each case merits—and, I hope, will eventually receive—a detailed consideration of its fascinating peculiarities." If the prevalence rates were constant, Mark Blaxill has calculated that from the known population of the world thus far we would have had some 300 million patients with autism before Leo Kanner. These facts lead me to believe that it is not an ancient disease.

• There is no bowel disease in children with ASD--bowel symptoms are simply to be expected in children with autism, and are therefore irrelevant. As a gastroenterologist, I fail to understand this at all.

• There is no link between the gut and the brain. I tell my colleagues who say this that we should go out for a beer. They think I'm offering to buy them a drink, but they're missing the point. If they drink a pint of beer, within five minutes or less they will feel the impact in their brains. Toxins from the gut reach the brain very, very quickly.

• The temporal link to vaccination is purely coincidental. Now this may be true—it may absolutely be true, but it is not a conclusion that we can reach a priori. A connection must be excluded by due diligence and investigation, and if that is the conclusion we come to, we can exonerate the vaccines.

• And perhaps most insulting to common sense, there are "experts" telling us that Thimerosal—nearly 50% ethyl mercury-- one of the most toxic substances known to man, is actually safe in vaccines—a harmless and appropriate addition to the bloodstream of an infant.

Our belief systems in medicine and in science exist to be demolished, mine no less than anyone else's. Erich Honecker, the late leader of the German Democratic Republic, comes to mind. He said in 1989, "The Wall will be standing in fifty and even in one hundred years," and of course the wall that divided Berlin is gone today. What was true yesterday may not be true tomorrow.

To read this article in its entirety, continue here.

Worth noting:

Two independent studies have backed up Dr. Wakefield's 1998 study linking the MMR vaccine to autism and bowel disease. In 2001, John O'Leary, Professor of Pathology at St. James's Hospital and Trinity College, Dublin, replicated Dr. Wakefield's finding. A team from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina, headed by Dr. Stephen Walker, examined 275 children with regressive autism and bowel disease and of the 82 tested so far, 70 proved positive for the measles virus. All results were vaccine strain and none were wild measles, which proves that in the gastrointestinal tract of a number of children who have been diagnosed with regressive autism, there is evidence of measles virus. But the vaccination proponents will no doubt dismiss these collaborating findings as a myth as well".

2008-01-24T17:40:00.000-06:00

HEPATITIS B VACCINE: Should you allow your infant to receive this most dangerous of inoculations?

The following information is provided to inform and, hopefully, discourage new parents from allowing their newborn baby to receive this most dangerous of vaccinations. Infant vaccines are particularly dangerous when given before the age of six weeks because the blood brain barrier has not yet developed, leaving them even more vulnerable to the toxins contained in the vaccine.

Michael Belkin Testimony to Congress
Tuesday, May 18,1999

My daughter Lyla Rose Belkin died on September 16, 1998 at the age of five weeks, about 15 hours after receiving her second Hepatitis B vaccine booster shot. Lyla was a lively, alert five-week-old baby when I last held her in my arms. Little did I imagine as she gazed intently into my eyes with all the innocence and wonder of a newborn child that she would die that night. She was never ill before receiving the Hepatitis B shot that afternoon. At her final feeding that night, she was extremely agitated, noisy and feisty -- and then she fell asleep suddenly and stopped breathing. The autopsy ruled out choking, The NY Medical Examiner ruled her death Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).

But the NY Medical Examiner (Dr. Persechino) neglected to mention Lyla's swollen brain or the hepatitis B vaccine in the autopsy report. The coroner spoke to my wife and I and our pediatrician (Dr. Zullo) the day of the autopsy and clearly stated that her brain was swollen. The pediatrician Dr. Zullo's notes of that conversation are "brain swollen ... not sure cause yet ... could not see how recombinant vaccine could cause problem."

SIDS is a diagnosis of exclusion .. "it wasn't this, it wasn't that, everything has been ruled out and we don't know what it was." A swollen brain is not SIDS. Through conversations with other experienced pathologists, I subsequently discovered that brain inflammation is a classic adverse reaction to vaccination (with any vaccine) in the medical literature.

I set out to do an investigation of the hepatitis B vaccine and attended a workshop at the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine on "Neo-Natal Death and the Hepatitis B Vaccine," the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) February' meeting and a debate in New Hampshire between the Chairman of the ACIP Dr. Modlin and Dr. Waisbren about the safety of the hepatitis B vaccine. I also obtained the entire Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) database on hepatitis B vaccine adverse reactions and have investigated it thoroughly.

These are my conclusions, supported by the following pages of text and analysis that are too lengthy to present in entirety in the time allotted for this appearance. Please read the results of my investigation, as it will help you understand the magnitude of the hepatitis B vaccine issue.

● Newborn babies are not at risk of contracting the hepatitis B disease unless their mother is infected Hepatitis B is primarily a disease of junkies, gays, and promiscuous heterosexuals;

● The vaccine is given to babies because health authorities couldn't get those risk groups to take the vaccine;

● Adverse reactions out-number cases of the disease in government statistics;

● Nothing is being done to investigate those adverse reactions;

● Those adverse reactions include numerous deaths, convsions and arthritic conditions that occur within days after hepatitis B vaccination;

● The CDC is misrepresenting hypothetical, estimated disease statistics as real cases of the disease;

● The ACIP is recommending new vaccines for premature infants without having scientific studies proving it is safe;

● The US vaccine recommendation process is hopelessly compromised by conflicts of interest with vaccine manufacturers, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the CDC.

Conclusion: If (as with the recently-recommended rotavirus vaccine) hepatitis B vaccine was recommended in 1991 without scientific proof that it was safe in a broad sample of racially and genetically diverse babies less than 48 hours old before they established that recommendation, then the CDC has been experimenting on babies like guinea pigs and this Committee should suspend that universal immunization policy.

To read this testimony in its entirety, please continue here.

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Points to consider with regards to vaccines:

Vaccines are not safe: vaccines are dangerous. The evidence is abundant that the tragic cost of loading babies and children up with toxic brews of mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, injected foreign protein, stealth viruses and, in the second generation vaccines, the deadly immune enhancer squalene, is unacceptably high. Lives are ruined and lost in these children when toxins overwhelm their immune systems and brains and cause tragic, totally preventable suffering and death.

Vaccines have not eradicated diseases: vaccines spread diseases. Attenuated viruses (infective, weakened versions of the dangerous ones) are commonly used in vaccines so that your body will develop an immune "memory" for that virus. The next time your immune system meets that specific virus, it rapidly combats it by producing large numbers of antibodies. This practice and theory derive from the dawn of vaccination: Edward Jenner’s pioneering use of cowpox pus inoculations to eliminate smallpox. This innovative and surprising medical treatment is touted as one of the triumphs of modern medicine. It makes a wonderful story but, in fact, inoculation not only spread smallpox, it caused well-documented epidemics of syphilis and leprosy in inoculated people, especially babies (who have immature immune systems).

Flu vaccines do not protect people from flu-related deaths. The CDC claims that an astonishing 36,000 people die from flu in an average year. But according to the former Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tommy Thompson, 68 people under 65 die from flu each year in the US. The truth is that in 4 years, a total 4,440 people, mostly elderly, died from flu, no where near the CDC’s touted 144,000 deaths. While that figure is great for flu vaccine sales, it derivers not from reality but from the CDC’s industry-friendly statistical trick of classifying all pneumonia-related deaths, despite any lack of evidence, as flu deaths. Discussing this nonsense, Lone Simonsen of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease/NIH, writes in The Archives of Internal Medicine "We could not correlate increasing vaccination coverage after 1980 with declining mortality rates in any age group. Because fewer than 10% of all winter deaths were attributable to influenza in any season, we conclude that observational studies substantially overestimate vaccination benefit."

Potential pandemic viral diseases like the Bird Flu do not have safe and effective vaccines to prevent them and there are no drugs to treat them effectively. Despite that fact, on September 15, 2005 the US purchased $100 Million of a French experimental flu vaccine designed to protect against bird flu. It’s so experimental, in fact, that although we have purchased megabucks worth of the stuff, the French manufacturer, Sanofi-Pasteur, is planning to experiment with adjutants (immune response enhancers) to rev up human response to it. Perhaps the adjuvant is the same one that the Army used in the deadly Vaccine A against anthrax: squalene. The purchase is real, but there is currently no such thing as a vaccine for pandemic bird flu.

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CRIB DEATH OR VACCINE DEATH?

by Tedd Koren, D.C.

Crib death or sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) kills more than 10,000 babies each year and is the second largest cause of infant deaths in the U.S. (congenital malformations are first).

Its cause is unknown. Or is it?

In 1985 in Australia, Viera Scheibner, Ph.D. a retired principal research scientist with more than 90 published scientific papers in refereed journals to her credit, met Leif Karlsson, a biomedical electronics engineer specializing in patient monitoring systems. They developed the Cotwatch, a breathing monitor used for babies thought to be at risk of crib death or SIDS.

Their findings surprised them. "Without endeavoring to do so... [we found that] the babies' breathing was affected in a certain characteristic manner and over a long period of time [40-65 days] following DPT injections.... We also learned from the parents of crib death infants that most commonly the child had died after DPT injection," said Dr. Scheibner.

As she continued her research, the link between crib death and vaccination became painfully obvious -- and undeniable. "There was a significant and clear clustering of these (crib) deaths" around the time of vaccination."

To read this article in its entirety, continue here.

SIDS and Vaccination Citations.

If you would like to read an excellent book on the subject of vaccinations, I highly recommend "Vaccine Guide: Risks and Benefits for Children and Adults".

Book Description: The Vaccine Guide covers each disease and its vaccine, providing difficult-to-obtain facts about vaccine reactions. Also discussed are vaccine effectiveness, toxicity and adverse effects, legal requirements, alternatives, and the latest information on the threat of bioterrorism. New to this edition are topics of particular concern to adults, including smallpox and anthrax vaccines, flu shots, and new conditions linked to vaccine reactions.

Available at Amazon.com

2008-01-22T10:56:00.000-06:00

GARDASIL VACCINE UPDATE

Judicial Watch, a public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, obtained FDA’s adverse event reaction reports under the Freedom of Information Act. It issued a press release noting:

“The FDA adverse event reports on the HPV vaccine read like a catalog of horrors. Any state or local government now beset by Merck’s lobbying campaigns to mandate this HPV vaccine for young girls ought to take a look at these adverse health reports."

FDA’s VAERS data base shows that 1,637 adverse event reaction reports were received since it was approved for marketing, June, 2006. Of these, 371 were serious reactions, including three deaths linked to Merck's vaccine. A female patient "died of a blood clot three hours after getting the Gardasil vaccine." Two other reports, on girls 12 and 19, reported deaths relating to heart problems and/or blood clotting.

Other serious AER reports included paralysis, Bells Palsy, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, and seizures. And of 42 women who were vaccinated with Gardasil while pregnant, 18 experienced complications, ranging from miscarriages to fetal abnormalities, according to new FDA data. One of the 18 women was diagnosed with an abnormal fetus, and a test conducted on another woman during her pregnancy showed an increased risk of fetal defect.

The Wall Street Journal reports that congenital anomalies was an issue of concern during the FDA's review of the vaccine last year. “In its clinical trials, Merck reported five cases of birth defects among women who received the vaccine within 30 days of conception.” Merck says, “it determined that they didn't fit any pattern and were unlikely to be connected to the vaccine.” But Merck is hardly a credible source for risk assessment: this company is responsible for thousands of preventable deaths from its painkiller, Vioxx whose lethal hazards the company vehemently denied as the body count mounted between 1996 and 2004.

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Continue here to read the full report by Judicial Watch: New FDA Records Detailing Deaths and 1,824 Adverse Reaction Related to HPV Vaccine.

To view a video on the dangers of Gardasil continue here.

"HPV Vaccines Based on Scientific Fraud" says consumer advocate, Mike Adams. Read the article here.

A media hoax has fooled parents in Texas and other areas of the country that the HPV vaccine, which experts have slammed as untested and has already been linked to dangerous side-effects, is now the law and young girls must take it. Merck Pharmaceuticals are set to capitalize on this fraud by making obscene profits from a crony deal with Governor Rick Perry, while children are put at risk.

Continue here to read article as posted at Prison Planet.

2008-01-19T09:26:00.000-06:00

HERB TRIGGERS CANCER CELL DEATH

Sources: Chinese Medicine News December 28, 2007

A substance found in the popular Chinese herb huang qin triggers the death of tumor cells, while having virtually no effect on healthy cells.

Many researchers have looked to the capability of controlled cell suicide as a means of fighting cancer. But it is a risky approach, because it involves the danger of damaging healthy tissue, too. Scientists have been searching for substances that induce cell death selectively in tumor cells.

Now scientists of the German Cancer Research Centre have discovered that wogonin, a component of huang qin, causes apoptosis (cellular suicide) in cultured leukemia cells without affecting healthy blood cells. Wogonin has already been shown to reduce cancer growth in mice.

Dr. Min Li-Weber of the Division of Immunogenetics has found that wogonin works by radically increasing the formation of hydrogen peroxide in tumor cells compared to healthy cells. The peroxide, in turn, produces a calcium response, which triggers the apoptosis reaction.

2008-01-05T12:46:00.001-06:00

BREAST CANCER DECEPTION

By: Mike Adams, A NewsTarget Special Report by Mike Adams

Part 1 - The Deception

Throughout human history, spanning virtually every culture and continent, women have been systematically denied the right to access information that could educate and empower them. Keeping women ignorant was a way for men to control them and treat them as personal property. From ancient Rome to 19th century America, women were considered sub-class citizens and intentionally denied the right to learn information that might give them more control over their own lives.

In this report, you'll learn how the cancer industry -- which is dominated by powerful men -- uses the same tactics today to control women while pretending to serve them. You'll learn truly shocking information about how the cancer industry exploits women's bodies to generate profits for pharmaceutical companies while systematically denying those same women access to information that could teach them how to avoid breast cancer (and other cancers) in the first place. A single nutrient, for example, has been shown to prevent 77 percent of all cancers, and yet the cancer industry -- including top cancer non-profits -- refuse to recommend this nutrient.

And unlike virtually every major cancer group in existence today (with a few exceptions that will be noted later), this report was not funded by a pharmaceutical company. That's why it tells you the truth about an industry that prioritizes profits over public health -- an industry that works hard to keep women ignorant about the real solutions to breast cancer (cancer-free women are no longer revenue-generating patients for cancer drug manufacturers.)

To truly grasp the magnitude of the highly unethical, exploitive behavior of the conventional cancer industry and the way it treats women, you'll need to widen your scope and consider other systems of medicine that exist in the world today.

(Read the Article in its Entirety here.)

2007-12-18T19:31:00.000-06:00

VACCINES EXPOSED: A Hidden Crime Against Our Children

by Rami Nagel

(NewsTarget) "The greatest lie ever told is that vaccines are safe and effective," said Dr. Len Horowitz. I am a father, and in the course, I have spent a reasonable amount of time researching vaccines in order to determine the most sensible cause of action for my daughter.

According to the US government's own Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) in 1998 there were 88 vaccine related infant deaths, in 1999 there where 73 infant deaths, and in 2000, 73 infant deaths. This trend of between 70-90 reported infant deaths continues yearly through 2007.

In 1993, FDA commissioner David Kessler reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association that, according to one study, “Only about 1% of serious events are reported to the FDA.”

Based on this report, and other studies regarding the reporting of “serious events,” one comes up with an estimated figure that 1-2% of all serious adverse vaccine reports are actually recorded. When you combine the VAERS data together with the adverse events reporting studies, there is only one dreadful conclusion. In the United States each year, anywhere from an estimated 3,900 to 7,800 infants are poisoned to death, as a direct result, of being vaccinated.

If this figure is too startling or shocking for you to swallow, consider an ultra-conservative figure that states that 10% of adverse vaccine events are reported. Even with that figure, we can be sure that about 780 infants are poisoned to death every year.

When one child is murdered by a violent person, as a culture, we put forth the maximum amount of anger, hatred, and punishment towards such a sick person. We all know in our hearts, that children need to be honored, cherished and protected from harm. We are united as a culture in the belief that hurting children is bad, and wrong.

However, when there is documented evidence that proves, beyond any doubt, that hundreds, and likely thousands of infants, are murdered every year by vaccines in this country, we consider it to be good public policy. With the recent vaccine events in Maryland, one can conclude that since a certain percentage of children will die, and a higher percentage will become permanently disabled, that Maryland's state vaccine policy is a policy of state sponsored child debilitation.

I want you to really take a moment here to pause and reflect on this experience that is so painful and vast; that many of us do not want to take the leap of faith to realize the gravity of what I am, as well as many others, are saying about vaccines. We have a national policy that supports the murder of completely innocent infants. The cost is particularly high to the parents who are shocked when they find their newborns poisoned to death. Part of a way our government has decided to mitigate this harm is through a system of compensation for vaccine injured children. The burden of proof to receive compensation for this program is extremely high. Very few parents who apply for an "award" qualify for the money. In the past 18 years, the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) has paid out $782,638,751.16 for 908 “awards.”

Look At Vaccines Moralistically

As a culture, we accept, tolerate, advocate, and make laws that promote the unlawful murder of thousands of infants because we have a belief system, and a public policy, that allows these children to be the “necessary” sacrifices of what is believed to be an unassailable system of vaccinations. The purpose of murdering perhaps several thousand infants per year is because we think that the good of the vaccine policy helps other children live and thus supposedly outweighs the known harm caused.

Now, I am going to bring up a critical example to show you the error of the current vaccine paradigm that allows for children to be harmed. Imagine that one of these children was your own. Or, imagine that one of these individuals was your mother, your sister or brother, or a saint. Are you telling me that one of the greatest examples of the cruelties of humanity, sacrificing helpless infants, is justifiable to supposedly save others? Is it really good public policy to crucify some children to supposedly prevent diseases in others?

If it was your child, would you volunteer your child to be the sacrificial lamb of our public policy?

Do not volunteer your child anymore and allow them to be the next lamb of our hideous public policy, do not vaccinate your child!

The truth is, every child's and every infant's life is valuable. Each being is precious, full of life and warmth, each infant is god-like. Every person on this planet counts and deserves the chance to live a healthy life. Since we have a public policy that allows for innocent children to be harmed, and at times murdered, then this policy must stop immediately.

We know for sure that at least 70 or more children are murdered yearly, and more likely several thousand children are murdered every year. When any individual or government sponsors vaccines; this is the equivalent to sponsoring the crime of murder. This is an outrage!

This first argument against vaccinations has come to you allowing the broad assumption that vaccines work, and that the losses of human life are thus justifiable because many more lives are supposed to be saved by vaccine public policy.

Yet the belief that vaccines work, flies in the face of any reasonable scientific inquiry because there has never even been one. Expert vaccine researcher Dr. Philip Incao MD testified that, “Incredible as it sounds, such a common-sense controlled study comparing vaccinated to non-vaccinated children has never been done in America for any vaccination.”

In simple English, we have no real, double blind scientific studies that show that any vaccination works as it is intended to work. In case you are wondering, normal vaccines are approved for use with only short-term studies, many times the studies are 30 days or less. It is hardly scientific to study the effects of vaccines for such a short term, when vaccines are designed to work for several years at a time. Thus, the long term effects, and the long term effectiveness of vaccines, have never been proven; let alone reasonably studied by the people who unconditionally believe in their good.

Because “Safety testing of many vaccines is limited and the data are unavailable for independent scrutiny”; in the year 2000, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons passed a resolution calling for a moratorium on vaccine mandates. With such limited evidence, they stated that mandatory vaccination “is equivalent to human experimentation.” Unethical human experimentation was banned by the Nuremberg Code after the horrors of World War II were exposed (Nazi experiments on their prisoners).

Not only do vaccines not work, they actually cause diseases. According to the same US government Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System, there were approximately 1400 serious events from vaccinations for people of all ages, per year, from 1991-1996. Serious events include: permanent disability, hospitalization, and life threatening illnesses. And we can know for sure, due to the low reporting of serious vaccine events, that the actual number of diseases caused by vaccinations is 10 - 100 times this number, meaning vaccines cause 14,000 - 140,000 serious events (diseases) per year. In some cases, such as with the Hepatitis B vaccine given to infants and children, the vaccine causes more harm and injury that the disease of Hepatitis B in infants and children.

Published studies from reputable journals have linked vaccines to causing AIDS, autism, cancer, diabetes, hearing/vision loss, hepatitis B, mumps, measles, polio and rubella.

At this point you might be wondering how it is that vaccines can cause so much destruction.

Why Vaccines Cause Diseases

Our body is equipped with an immune system. The immune system I am referring to is not just helper cells and anti-bodies, we have several lines of defense against infection and illness. We have saliva that is full of germs, and we have skin to protect our organs. We have a liver and kidneys to cleanse our blood and excrete toxic waste. We have our lungs to take in fuel, and excrete the waste of cellular metabolism.

In order to make a vaccine, one needs to render the virus, or germ, ineffective and find a way to introduce it into the body. In order to make many batches of this virus for injection, the virus needs food to grow off of. To grow a vaccine virus, the virus is cultured on a variety of nutrient rich substances; like monkey kidney cells, aborted human fetuses, calf serum, guinea pig embryonic tissue, fetal tissue, and other foul things. Once you have this large batch of “disease,” and you can imagine how sick and putrid this mix is, you need to remove all the impurities and isolate the virus (or germ) that you want to inject into someone. Now isolating just the virus from this milieu is impossible. Yet we try anyway, we bleach and cleanse the serum and get mostly the virus, plus many contaminants. Now, when the body gets injected with this virus, it will immediately seek to repel it, especially since it is rare for a disease to be introduced into the body directly through the blood stream. Vaccine creators had to find ways to keep the altered virus or germ from being immediately repelled from the body, and this is one purpose of adjuvants, vaccine additives.

Every vaccine contains MSG as one such additive; other vaccine additives include, thimerosal which is mercury, antibiotics, anti-freeze and other poisonous and acidic compounds.

Now imagine your helpless infant. They hardly have an immune system as their bodies' lines of defenses. Their organs are still growing and forming. It is our public policy to inject infants soon after birth, directly with a syringe full of foreign substances. The injection dosage is not carefully measured to be specific to the exact body weight of the infant, and the dose has never been independently screened to be free of contaminants. Immediately after the injection, the body goes into life saving procedures. If you have a healthy and robust child, you will be lucky to get away with a cold or flu-like symptoms, as your child's body tries to excrete all of the impurities just injected through its organs of purification: such as the kidney's, the liver, and the skin. If you have a less robust child, their body's defense mechanisms can fail one after the next, especially after repeated injections. When the body's internal purifiers fail, the blood-brain barrier becomes compromised; that is why a known side effect to vaccines is a high-pitched screaming. The screaming is the nervous system of an infant being damaged and breached as it was never meant to be. Many children are autistic because of vaccinations as the toxic poisons in the vaccines get lodged into places that can alter and affect the nervous system; including brain and spinal column development.

Dr. Albert Sabien, developer of the oral polio vaccine, has changed his vaccine position widely. In a 1995 lecture, he said, "Official data have shown that the large-scale vaccinations undertaken in the US have failed to obtain any significant improvement of the diseases against which they were supposed to provide protection."

With this in mind, we have before us one of the most horrific, disturbing, and incompressible crimes ever committed. Each and every day, thousands of parents along with local and state governments, schools, doctors and politicians, allow this crime, and even promote this crime, as it continues to go unnoticed by the masses.

Let me add one final note to this article. You may have heard of these supposedly great humanitarian organizations going into the third world and providing community service by vaccinating poor children against diseases. Given your new awareness about the lack of evidence of vaccine efficacy, you might wonder what these organizations are really doing? This is what the World Health Organization asked themselves in an internal review, after noticing that an AIDS epidemic seemed to follow where they were vaccinating.

Vaccines in the Third World

On May 11, 1987, The London Times, one of the world's most respected newspapers, published an explosive article entitled 'Smallpox Vaccine Triggered AIDS Viru'. The story suggested the smallpox eradication vaccine program sponsored by the World Health Organization was responsible for unleashing AIDS in Africa. Almost 100 million Africans living in central Africa were inoculated by the WHO.

In Dr. Campbell Douglas's 1987 report titled 'W.H.O Murdered Africa' he writes that, “There is no question mark after the title of this article because the title is not a question. It's a declarative statement.”

Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win Nobel Peace Prize claims, what is a common belief in some parts of Africa, that, "In fact it (the HIV virus) is created by a scientist for biological warfare."

Kihura Nkuba spoke about Polio vaccine genocide in Uganda. “At the main hospital in Mbarara during that month of 1977 more than 600 children had died following polio vaccination. 600 children! So even some of the timid medical practitioners who were initially afraid to come out, started coming out giving information and saying 'Oh, we knew this oral polio vaccine was trouble because as soon as the child receives it, they get a temperature and their health goes downhill and there is nothing that you could do.'”

You need to know why you have been led so far from the path of truth. You need to know that when you see media reports that promote the good of vaccines and their effectiveness, such as news or television reports, that these reports are completely fake and fabricated.

This leads me to the conclusion that some of the most powerful forces are at play, since they can easily and freely put manipulative and false material into the public's eye.

Healthy children come from healthy parents who eat whole and unrefined organic foods, who avoid processed foods like pasteurized milk, processed sugar, cheap vegetable oils, infant formulas, and processed flour products that are so prevalent in our food supply.

If you want your child to be healthy and disease free, do not give them a polluted body. Do not violate the purity of your child's blood.

Loving our children means not giving them vaccinations and it means that we need to inform other parents as well that vaccines are indeed shown and proven to be deadly.

Spread the word and do your part in ending this heinous crime.

“The greatest lie ever told is that vaccines are safe and effective,” and now you know why.

May you and your children experience peace and happiness beyond vaccines.

Learn more about vaccines and their harms from this free, well referenced resource that includes many detailed and specific vaccine links as well as references to many points made in this article.

About the author

Rami Nagel is a father who cares about the way we affect each other, our children, and our planet through our lifestyle choices. His health background is in hands-on energy healing, Hatha & Bhakti yoga and the Pathwork.

Rami is author of several health resources:

Heal and Prevent Cavities with Nutrition!
Learn the Cause and Prevention of the Diseases of Pregnancy and Childhood
A Program for Preconception Health based on Indigenous Wisdom
The cause of disease and the end of suffering of humanity.

2007-12-08T12:54:00.000-06:00

It is my humble opinion that one of the greatest authorities on alternative health today is Dr. Joseph Mercola of Mercola.com. So when he takes the time to set out his 12 step strategy for eliminating and/or reducing your cancer risk, I believe it is worth noting.

MY CANCER-BUSTING DOZEN APPROACH

By: Dr. Joseph Mercola, MD

I believe you can VIRTUALLY ELIMINATE your cancer risk and radically improve your risk of recovering from cancer if you currently have it. All you need to do is follow these relatively simple risk reduction strategies. You won’t read or hear much about them because they have not been formally "proven" yet by conservative researchers. However, most people do not know that 85 percent of therapies currently recommended by conventional medicine have never been formally proven either.

So here are the Twelve Strategies

1. Reduce your processed food, sugar and grain carbohydrate intake. Yes, this is even true for whole unprocessed organic grains as they tend to rapidly break down and drive your insulin and leptin levels up, which is the last thing you need to have happening if you are seeking to resolve a cancer.

2. Control your fasting insulin and leptin levels: This is the end result, and can be easily monitored with the use of simple and relatively inexpensive blood tests.

3. Normalize your ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fats by taking a high-quality krill oil or fish oil and reducing your intake of most processed vegetable oils.

4. Get regular exercise. One of the primary reasons exercise works is that it drives your insulin levels down. Controlling insulin levels is one of the most powerful ways to reduce your cancer risks.

5. Normalize your vitamin D levels and vitamin A levels by getting plenty of sunlight exposure and consider careful supplementation when this is not possible. If you take oral vitamin D and have a cancer it would be very prudent to monitor your vitamin D blood levels regularly.

6. Get a good night's sleep.

7. Eat according to your nutritional type. The potent anti-cancer effects of this principle are very much underappreciated. When we treat cancer patients in our clinic this is one of the most powerful anti-cancer strategies we have.

8. Reduce your exposure to environmental toxins like pesticides, household chemical cleaners, synthetic air fresheners and air pollution.

9. Limit your exposure and provide protection for yourself from information carrying radio waves produced by cell phone towers, base stations, phones and WiFi stations.

10. Avoid frying or charbroiling your food. Boil, poach or steam your foods instead.

11. Have a tool to permanently reprogram, such as the neurological short-circuiting that can activate cancer genes. Even the CDC states that 85 percent of disease is caused by emotions. It is likely that this factor may be more important than all the other physical ones listed here, so make sure this is addressed. Energy psychology seems to be one of the best approaches and my particular favorite tool, as you may know, is the Emotional Freedom Technique. German New Medicine is another powerful tool.

12. Use broccoli sprouts as an adjunct to everything above unless you simply do not like broccoli.

2007-11-30T11:18:00.000-06:00

MISINFORMATION REGARDING NATURAL CELLULAR DEFENSE(Liquid Zeolite)

Occasionally misinformation rears its ugly head on the Internet attempting to discredit an otherwise worthwhile natural remedy. Due diligence requires adequate research to assess whether or not claims can be substantiated. Natural Cellular Defense is by far the most effective detoxification product I have ever worked with, proving time and again that it does, in fact, remove heavy metals in a safe and effective manner. I am often approached regarding an article posted on the Internet by Jonathan Campbell and asked to address the claims made about possible ineffectiveness and even danger when taking a natural zeolite product. This article proves not only Jonathan Campbell's ignorance on the subject but also his lack of research skills. Even though his claims have been proven to be woefully inaccurate and completely irresponsible as addressed quite some time ago by the leading scientist at Waiora, Rik Deitsch, Jonathan Campbell for some reason continues to keep his false information posted on his web site. For that reason I wish to post the response made by Rik Deitsch here for your consideration. It also serves the purpose of better explaining the background and efficacy of Natural Cellular Defense.

Rik Deitsch responds to critics:

I have just read Jonathan Campbell's website where he makes unfounded and malicious attacks on the use of natural zeolite as a dietary supplement. I would like to address his points and assure everyone that the Natural Cellular Defense is in fact a completely safe and non-toxic product that is based on a granted U.S. Patent and supported by dozens of clinical and epidemiological studies that have been published in the peer-reviewed medical literature.

As background, it's important to understand that there are more than 100 different zeolites. As an example, asbestos is a zeolite and causes cancer when inhaled as a fine powder. The zeolite used in the Natural Cellular Defense is naturally-occurring non-fibrous clinoptilolite and is considered to be extremely safe and entirely non-toxic (even when inhaled). A study published in 1993 concluded that "clinoptilolite type zeolite had no carcinogenic activity." (Tatrai E, Ungvary G. Study on carcinogenicity of clinoptilolite type zeolite in Wistar rats. Pol J Occup Med Environ Health. 1993;6(1):27-34.)

Additionally, Mr. Campbell suggests that there are no long-term animal or human toxicity studies. This is also incorrect. The zeolite in the Natural Cellular Defense has been used in water filtration, air purification, plant fertilizers and animal feed for more than thirty years in the United States. There are hundreds of published studies and articles that outline the uses and benefits of our form of zeolite in humans and animals. Not to mention that there is over 800 years of traditional use throughout India, China and Russia. It is quite obvious that Mr. Campbell could not even be bothered to do a Medline search prior to regurgitating his inaccuracies on the website. Had he done so, he would have found no fewer than 140 articles on such topics as: removing heavy metals, improving the health of animals, treating viral disorders, removing fungal toxins, remediation soil and treating cancer. This search can be accessed at the National Institutes of
Health National Center for Biotechnology Information at the following link:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez (search for "clinoptilolite")

Mr. Campbell also cites a paper on carcinogenicity which incorrectly lists clinoptilolite as a fibrous zeolite similar to erionite. In a paper on the clinoptilolite's effects on animal tumors, the researchers found that:

"Electron microscopy showed the absence of fibers, and most particles were round with very rough surface. The absence of fibrous, positively charged particles was encouraging since such particles are present in asbestos and erionite zeolites, which are highly carcinogenic and mutagenic. In addition, activated zeolite particles did not catalyze the production of hydroxyl radicals, unlike asbestos or erionite. It seems that absence of fibrous particles capable of producing hydroxyl radicals makes this zeolite sample nontoxic and noncarcinogenic, at least when applied orally." (Pavelic K, et al Natural zeolite clinoptilolite: new adjuvant in anticancer therapy. J Mol Med. 2001;78(12):708-20.)

Mr. Campbell also states that there is no evidence of excretion. This too is incorrect and can be easily researched in the literature. In three separate studies specifically analyzing the ability of clinoptilolite to aid on the excretion of radioactive cesium particles, the zeolite was found to accelerate the excretion of Cs-137 from sheep's bodies. The whole effect resulted in 15 to 50 times lowering of the equilibrium concentration of the radiocaesium (Jandl J, Novosad J. [In vivo reduction of radiocesium with modified clinoptilolite in sheep] Vet Med (Praha). 1995Aug;40(8):237-41.)

Additionally, we are currently evaluating the Natural Cellular Defense in its ability to aid in the urinary excretion of heavy metals. This research is being conducted by Eno Research & Development (ERDI) in North Carolina in cooperation with Duke University staff. The study aims to quantify the type and amount of heavy metals that are excreted from patients using the product. We have already seen some promising results and expect the study to be completed in the first quarter of 2006 and we will seek publication of the data.

Mr. Campbell's next point is that he claims the clinoptilolite zeolite to be indiscriminate in what it adsorbs. This too is incorrect. There are dozens of published studies that outline the reactivity series of the zeolite, showing preference for the heavier metals and larger compounds that carry a positive charge. Many smaller compounds will move into the zeolite, but will not be trapped. These undergo simple buffering and are released back into the body. The ability of the zeolite to undergo cationic exchange has shown that there is a reproducible, quantifiable reactivity series. Additionally, several animal studies have shown that adding clinoptilolite to animal feed actually increases overall nutritional health of the animal. One study found that "clinoptilolite supplementation of the diets had no significant effect on vitamins' and minerals' uptake and their distribution in the body, since there was no alteration in their blood serum and liver/kidney concentrations." (Papaioannou DS, et al. Effect of in-feed inclusion of a natural zeolite (clinoptilolite) on certain vitamin, macro and trace element concentrations in the blood, liver and kidney tissues of sows. Res Vet Sci. 2002 Feb;72(1):61-8.)

I would also like to point out that the patent on the Natural Cellular Defense and all of the related research was conducted by biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. This had nothing to do with zeolite mining companies as Mr. Campbell suggests.

Lastly, you should always ask why someone would take the time to write a diatribe like the one seen on Mr. Campbell's website. He answers this question himself by supplying a link to his own answer to natural cancer therapy. If you follow this link, it will lead to his offer to sell you his books, products and services. He actually charges $60 for your initial order of supplements and $20 per month thereafter just for his consulting services. He clearly states that, "Note that this charge is for the ordering service only, and does not include the cost of the supplements, which range in price between $100 and $300 per month, depending on the illness."

Always question the source of inflammatory material. Do your due diligence and review published literature from uninterested, unbiased third parties.

I hope that this information is helpful.

Sincerely,

Rik J. Deitsch
President, Wellness Industries
Chairman, Waiora Scientific Advisory Board

2007-11-16T09:37:00.000-06:00

MEDICAL TYRANNY IN MARYLAND: Parents Threatened With Jail Time for Not Vaccinating Children

By: Mike Adams (originally posted at www.newstarget.com)

This is an action item alert for all those who believe in health freedom. State and County officials in Maryland have announced they will send parents to jail if they don't submit their children to forced vaccinations. State Attorney General Glenn F. Ivey has announced he is willing to criminalize parents if they don't bring them to the courthouse to have them injected, on the spot, with vaccines that contain methyl mercury -- a highly toxic nerve chemical that causes brain damage and is linked to autism. The action is backed by Circuit Judge William D. Missouri, Circuit Judge C. Philip Nichols Jr., and the chairman of the Prince George school board, R. Owen Johnson Jr.

Together, these judges and officials have conspired to turn Maryland into a medical police state, invoking the threat of imprisonment in order to achieve a vaccination goal that has more to do with politics than children's actual health or safety. By threatening to imprison parents who object to the supposed health benefits of vaccinations, these state officials are effectively conspiring to cause thousands of children to be separated from their parents -- a move that would create a humanitarian and public health disaster. This thought has not deterred Attorney General Glenn F. Ivey, who said, "We can do this the easy way or the hard way, but it's got to get done." That's the kind of quote that might be uttered by a corrupt police officer pointing a gun in your face and demanding that you do something you don't want to do. Actually, that's not far off base from what the state of Maryland is now asking parents to do: Submit to the harming of their children through the injection of a toxic chemical, all enforced at gunpoint.

These vaccines contain thimerosal, a chemical preservative made, in part, with toxic methyl mercury. This toxic substance was banned decades ago in many countries, but not in the U.S. where corrupt health officials cater to the financial interests of drug companies rather than protecting the public. Read NewsTarget's full report on Thimerosal here: http://www.newstarget.com/011764.html

NewsTarget is launching a grassroots action campaign to file an avalanche of complaints with the relevant Maryland officials, demanding that they reverse their position on this issue and apologize for threatening to throw parents in jail for refusing to have their children forcibly vaccinated. We believe that Attorney General Ivey -- a Democrat -- should be ashamed of himself for invoking such tyrannical actions against his own people, and that judges William Missouri and C. Philip Nichols Jr. should be rebuked for conspiring to threaten the free people of Maryland with imprisonment.

Join NewsTarget in complaining to Maryland officials, in your own words, about this outrageous application of state power against the people. Here's who you can contact:
Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley
100 State Circle, Annapolis, Maryland 21401-1925
Phone: 410.974.3901 • 1.800.811.8336 • MD Relay 1.800.735.2258
Colm O'Comartun, Director of Governor's Office
Fax: (410) 974-3275
Phone: (410) 974-3901; 1-800-811-8336 (toll free)
Maryland Attorney General Glenn F. Ivey
Office of State's Attorney
Courthouse, Room 349M, 14735 Main St., Upper Marlboro, MD 20772
Tel: (301) 952-3500/55; Fax: (301) 952-3775

This is the tyrant who is threatening to arrest and imprison parents who fail to get their children vaccinated.
Board of Education
www.pgcps.org/pgboard.html
http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/36loc/pg/html/pge.html#education
Tel: (301) 952-6115
Phone the Board of Ed. office: 301 952-6308 or fax at 952-6114

Elected by Voters to 4-year terms:
R. Owen Johnson, Jr., Chair (chosen by Board in Dec., 4-year term), Dist. 5
Verjeana M. Jacobs, Esq., Vice-Chair (chosen by Board in Dec., 4-year term), At Large
Rosalind A. Johnson, Dist. 1
Heather Iliff, Dist. 2
Pat J. Fletcher, Dist. 3
Linda T. Thomas, Dist. 4
Donna Hathaway Beck, At Large
Ronald L. Watson, Ph.D., At Large
Amber P. Waller,* At Large
County Executive
Elected by Voters to 4-year term:
Jack B. Johnson (D), County Executive, 2010
County Administration Building, Suite 5032
14741 Governor Oden Bowie Drive, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772 - 3070
(301) 952-4131
e-mail: wjproctor@co.pg.md.us
web: www.co.pg.md.us/Government/ExecutiveBranch/
Prince George County's County Health Department
http://www.co.pg.md.us/Government/AgencyIndex/Health/index.asp

Donald Shell, M.D., M.A.
Health Officer
Headquarters Building
1701 McCormick Drive
Suite 200
Largo, Maryland 20774

Tel: (301) 883-7879
Fax: (301) 883-7896
Public Schools
Prince George's County Public Schools
14201 School Lane
Upper Marlboro, MD 20772
301-952-6000

ACLU already contacted

NewsTarget has also contacted the Maryland ACLU, who told us that they cannot take action on this issue until a parent is actually arrested and charged. But at that point, they may take an interest in this case.
Action Items:

If you feel passionate about this issue and want to take a stand, we urge you to call, fax or email the officials named above.

Be sure to contact the office of Attorney General Glenn F. Ivey as well as the school board office of R. Owen Johnson Jr. These are key players in this latest example of medical tyranny.

You do not have to live in Maryland to make your voice heard on this issue. This impacts us all, because if Maryland officials learn they can get away with this kind of Big Brother Medicine scheme, other states may be inspired to pull out their guns and try the same thing. It is crucial that we remind these officials of what country they live in, and here in the United States, We the People still demand our freedoms and our right to choose what kind of medicine is best for our children.

The dangers of vaccines

What's clear is that there is a substantial and scientifically validated link between vaccinations and neurological disorders in children. Maryland state officials apparently have no concern over this matter and are enforcing mandatory vaccinations as if the injections were entirely harmless. This myopic view of the safety of pharmaceuticals is typical of state officials and conventional medical doctors, both of whom are almost always influenced to a large degree by the financial aims of powerful pharmaceutical companies. (Doctors, for example, aren't even taught about the dangers of mercury in vaccines and are told that ALL drugs are safe for use on children, even if those drugs have never been tested on children!)

Due to the enormous amount of information now available about the dangers of vaccinations, there is no question that concerned parents have a right -- if not the responsibility -- to consciously object to the harming of their children via such vaccines. Rejecting mandatory vaccinations is one of the most responsible health decisions an informed parent can make. It is, in fact, all the mindless parents who submit to such vaccinations who are demonstrating a complete lack of concern for the health of their children. These are, no doubt, the same parents who feed their children processed foods, soda pop and school lunches (which contain numerous harmful chemical additives such as sodium nitrite, sodium benzoate and artificial food colors).

Join NewsTarget in taking action, and we'll help put a stop to this medical tyranny. If there's one thing state Attorneys General hate worse than parents who won't get their kids vaccinated, it's waking up to an avalanche of screaming angry parents from all across the country who are tired of being criminalized for merely protecting their children from the dangers of vaccines.

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Compelling you to submit to vaccination is a political and economic act of aggression against you and your freedoms. If you have been led to believe that vaccinations are manditory for participation in schools, please know there are exemptions. To learn how to apply for an exemption in your state, visit Vaccine Truth.

For an excellent overview on the history of vaccination and safety issues, please watch the following video: Vaccination: The Hidden Truth (approximately 1 hour, 31 minutes)

For information on the risks of Vaccines.

2007-11-05T18:07:00.000-06:00

IN THE WAKE OF VACCINES

By Barbara Loe Fisher
Issue 126, September/October 2004

The founder of the National Vaccine Information Center raises profound questions about the relationship between the rise in chronic illness and the increase in childhood vaccinations.

America and America’s children are in the midst of an epidemic of chronic disease and disability. Today, the Centers for Disease Control admits that one American child in 166 has been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.1 In 1970, autism affected four in 10,000 children.2 By 1991, 5,000 autistic children were in the public school system; by 2001, that number had grown to 94,000.3. Today, the CDC reports that 9 million American children under 18 have been diagnosed with asthma.4 In 1979, asthma affected approximately 2 million children under age 14.5

Today, nearly 3 million children in public schools are classified as learning disabled. In 1976, there were 796,000 learning-disabled children in public schools.6
Today, the CDC reports that 4 million children between the ages of 3 and 17 years have been diagnosed with ADHD.7 The government has only recently begun monitoring the numbers of children with ADHD. In 1997, ADHD was reported to affect about 1.6 million elementary school children.

Today, 206,000 Americans under the age of 20 have type 1 diabetes, while type 2 diabetes is mysteriously on the rise in children and adolescents. The CDC estimates that 1 in 400 to 500 American children and adolescents are now diabetic.8 Between 1945 and 1969, the incidence of diabetes in children aged 6 to 18 was approximately 1 in 7,100 children.9

Today, arthritis affects one in three Americans, and about 300,000 American children have juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.10 Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis used to be so rare that statistics were not kept until its recent rise in children.
These brain and immune-system disorders plaguing millions of the most highly vaccinated children in the world are preventing too many of them from thriving, learning, and achieving in the ways past generations of children have thrived, learned, and achieved. And our nation is only beginning to understand the enormous price tag that comes with the burden of chronic disease. In America, the cost of health care for chronic disease is estimated to be $425 billion a year, and it is rising.11

Yet the current costs to our society of dealing with chronic illness pales in comparison with what it will cost in the future, as these ill and disabled children grow up and cannot produce for our society, but will instead require lifelong financial support. Some of the more compromised children, including severely autistic children, will need full-time custodial care later in life as their parents age and cannot cope with their adult children’s 24-hour-a-day needs. In California, the minimum estimated cost for the state to provide educational services to an autistic child is $5,000 per year. However, the minimum annual cost to provide full-time custodial care for an autistic adult is between $30,000 and $40,000, for a staggering total lifetime cost of between $2 and $5 million, depending on the severity of the autism.12

It wasn’t always like this. What is happening to the health of our nation? Could it have anything to do with exposing our children to more and more bacterial and live virus vaccines in the first five years of life, when the brain and immune system develop most rapidly? And could we be compromising the integrity of our immune systems by eliminating all experience of natural infection?

For more than 100 years, doctors have been publishing articles in the medical literature about the brain-damaging side effects of vaccines. The mother of all vaccines—the smallpox vaccine, created by Britain’s Edward Jenner in 1796—was found to cause inflammation of the brain in one in 3,200 persons.13 After Pasteur began to inject patients with rabies vaccine in the 1880s, it became obvious that brain inflammation was a side effect that affected as many as one in 400 vaccinated persons.14 And by the 1960s and ’70s, the medical literature was full of reports that the pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine was causing brain inflammation and death in babies getting the DPT shot.15, 16

Doctors and public health officials were talking to each other in the pages of medical journals about the fact that vaccines could injure children’s brains, but those being vaccinated had no clue. Mothers taking their children to pediatricians to be vaccinated placed a blind trust in the complete safety and effectiveness of those vaccines.

From Healthy to Sick after Vaccination

I trusted without questioning when I took my newborn to my pediatrician for baby shots in the late 1970s. At the time, I considered myself a woman very well-educated in science and medicine. My mother and grandmother had been nurses, and I had become a medical writer at a teaching hospital after graduating from college.

But I knew nothing about the risks of vaccines, which I assumed were 100 percent safe and effective. It never occurred to me that a medical intervention designed to keep a healthy child healthy could ever harm that child. The concept of risk associated with prevention is quite different from the concept of risk associated with a cure.

Like many women who had babies in the late 1970s, I was part of the natural childbirth movement. I attended Lamaze classes to prepare myself for birth without medication, and I knew I would breastfeed my baby. I took vitamins during pregnancy, but never drank alcohol. I ate all the right foods, and endured the occasional headache without reaching for an aspirin. I was determined to do nothing that would harm the baby in my womb, and do everything once my baby was born to give him the best start he could get in life.

Except for a milk allergy that gave him colic his first few months, my son, Chris, was a lively, contented baby who always wanted to be around people and always seemed to be doing things ahead of schedule. He had begun saying words at seven months and speaking in full sentences at age two. At two and a half years, he could identify the upper- and lower-case alphabets and numbers up to 20. He could name every card in the deck, and had created a card-identification game to entertain himself and our family. He was beginning to recognize words in the books we read together each day. One doctor told me he was cognitively gifted.

I remember that, for several weeks following Chris’s third DPT shot, when he was seven months old, there was a hard, red, hot lump at the site of the injection. I called my pediatrician’s office and was told by the nurse that it was “a bad lot of DPT vaccine,” and not to worry about it. I asked if I should bring Chris in for another shot, because I thought she meant the “bad vaccine” might not have been strong enough. I wanted my baby protected.

The day of his fourth DPT and OPV shots, when he was two and a half, Chris was healthy except for slight diarrhea left over from a 48-hour bout with the stomach flu he had had at the beach three weeks earlier. He had just come off of a round of antibiotics because, back then, antibiotics were given for everything from flu to pneumonia. The pediatrician, as well as the nurse preparing to give Chris his shots, said he didn’t have a fever, and that a little diarrhea didn’t matter.

Several hours after we got home, I realized how quiet it was in the house, and went upstairs to look for Chris. I walked into his bedroom to find him sitting in a rocking chair staring straight ahead, as if he couldn’t see me standing in the doorway. His face was white and his lips were slightly blue. When I called out his name, his eyelids fluttered, his eyes rolled back in his head, and his head fell to his shoulder. It was as if he had suddenly fallen asleep sitting up.

This was unusual—I had never before seen him fall asleep while sitting up. When I picked him up and carried him to his bed, he was like a dead weight in my arms. I remember thinking that maybe he was so tired because of what had happened at the doctor’s office, or maybe he was having a relapse of the flu. Chris slept in his bed without moving for more than six hours, through dinnertime, until I called my mom, who told me to try to wake him.

I climbed into Chris’s bed, lifted his limp body, and cradled his back against my chest as I rocked us both from side to side, calling out his name. I could feel him struggling to awake. He began mumbling the word bathroom, but he couldn’t sit up on his own or walk. I picked him up and carried him to the bathroom, where he had severe diarrhea and then, again, fell asleep sitting up. He slept for 12 more hours.

This was 1980. I had been given no information by my doctor about how to recognize a vaccine reaction.

In the following days and weeks, Chris deteriorated. He no longer knew his alphabet or numbers, and couldn’t identify the cards he once knew so well. He would not look at the books we had once read together every day. He couldn’t concentrate for more than a few seconds at a time. My little boy, once so happy-go-lucky, no longer smiled. He was now listless and emotionally fragile, crying or becoming angry at the slightest frustration.

Chris’s physical deterioration was just as profound. He had constant diarrhea, stopped eating, stopped growing, and was plagued with respiratory and ear infections for the first time in his life. The pediatrician told me it was just a stage he was going through and not to worry about it. After eight months of such deterioration, I took Chris to another pediatrician. He was tested for cystic fibrosis and celiac disease, but the tests came back negative. None of the doctors knew what was wrong with my son, who had become an entirely different child physically, mentally, and emotionally.

It would be another year before I stood in my kitchen and watched the Emmy Award–winning NBC-TV documentary DPT: Vaccine Roulette, produced by consumer reporter Lea Thompson in spring 1982. I called the television station and asked to see the medical research that had been used to document the show. There, in the pages of Pediatrics, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, and The British Medical Journal, I found clinical descriptions of reactions to the pertussis vaccine that exactly matched the symptoms I had witnessed my son have within four hours of his fourth DPT shot.

I learned that, in 1981, the British National Childhood Encephalopathy Study had reported a statistically significant correlation between DPT vaccine and brain inflammation leading to chronic neurological damage,17 and that the UCLA-FDA study published in Pediatrics in 1981 had found that one in 875 DPT shots is followed within 48 hours by a convulsion or collapse/shock reaction just like the one my son had suffered.18 As I leafed through more than 50 years of medical literature documenting the fact that the complications of pertussis disease, or whooping cough, were identical to the complications of whole-cell pertussis vaccine, I was stunned. I felt betrayed by a medical profession I had revered all my life.

The day Chris had his vaccine reaction, he should have been in an emergency room, not unconscious in his bed. As his mother, I should have had the information I needed to recognize what was happening to him and take steps to deal with it, including calling my doctor and, later, making sure the reaction was recorded in his medical record and reported to the vaccine manufacturer and health officials.

At age six, when Chris could not learn to read or write, he was given an extensive battery of tests that confirmed minimal brain damage that took the form of multiple learning disabilities, including: fine motor and short-term memory delays; dyslexia; auditory processing deficits; attention deficit disorder; and other developmental delays. He was removed from the Montessori school he attended and placed in a self-contained classroom for the learning-disabled in public school, where he stayed throughout elementary, junior, and high school, despite repeated unsuccessful efforts by the schools to “mainstream” him.

As a teenager, Chris struggled to deal with the big gaps between certain aspects of his intelligence—such as his creativity and his unusual ability to think on an abstract level, mixed with his inability to concentrate for long periods of time or to organize and process certain kinds of information he saw or heard. He was angry and frustrated because he couldn’t do what his peers could do, and was troubled both in and out of school. After working in a warehouse and mail room following high school, he eventually earned an associate degree in video and film production at a school where a third of the students are learning disabled and receive in-depth tutorial support. Chris is now making his way in the world using his creative gifts. He continually adjusts for the learning disabilities that will always be a part of who he is, but that he is determined will not define who he is.

The Vaccine Reaction Pattern Repeats Itself

My son’s vaccine reaction nearly a quarter century ago is identical to those that Harris Coulter and I reported in 1985 in DPT: A Shot in the Dark, and those that thousands of other mothers have reported to the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) for the past 22 years.19 These mothers tell us how they took healthy, bright children to doctors to be vaccinated and, within hours, days, or weeks, their children got sick, regressed, and became different children. Whether a child recovers, is left with minimal brain damage as my son was, or is more severely injured—as was the case with the children who were awarded nearly $2 billion in compensation under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 198620—a pattern of common experience emerges. This pattern, repeated over and over in homes across America, has contributed in no small way to why the issue of vaccine safety will not go away.

Mothers call the NVIC and describe how, within days of vaccination, their babies run fevers; scream for hours, fall into a deep sleep, and wake up screaming again; start twitching, jerking, or staring into space as if they can’t hear or see; are covered with body rashes; become restless and irritable; or have a dramatic change in eating or sleeping habits.

Others describe a gradual deterioration in overall health, a picture that includes constant ear and respiratory infections and onset of allergies, including asthma; unexplained rashes; new sensitivity to foods such as milk; persistent diarrhea; sleep disturbances that turn night into day and day into night; loss of developmental milestones such as the ability to roll over or sit up; loss of speech, eye-contact, and communication skills; development of strange or violent behaviors that include hyperactivity, biting, hitting, social withdrawal, and repetitive movements such as flapping, rocking, and head banging. Older children and adults complain of muscle weakness, joint pain, crippling headaches, disabling fatigue, loss of memory, or being unable to concentrate and think clearly.

Depending on the child and the specific therapy interventions, there is either gradual full recovery or the child is eventually diagnosed with various kinds of chronic health problems. My son regressed after his DPT shot but stopped just short of autism. Why? I don’t know. Vaccine-induced brain injuries appear to be on a continuum ranging from milder forms such as ADD or ADHD and learning disabilities to autism-spectrum and seizure disorders to severe mental retardation, all the way to death. On this continuum, and often coinciding with brain dysfunction, is immune-system dysfunction ranging from development of severe allergies and asthma to intestinal bowel disorders, rheumatoid arthritis, and diabetes.

Genetic and Biological Vulnerability

Many of the parents who contact the NVIC report that their child suffered previous vaccine-reaction symptoms that were written off by their doctors as unrelated or unimportant. Others say their child was sick at the time of vaccination, often on antibiotics. Still others describe strong family histories of autoimmune disorders such as thyroid disease, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and diabetes, and severe allergies to milk, pollen, medications, and vaccines. Still other babies, especially those who die after vaccination, were born premature, had difficult births, were underweight, or had histories of health problems before receiving multiple vaccines.

How Many Vaccine-Injured Children Are There?

But how many children have vaccine reactions every year? Is it really only one in 110,000 or one in a million who are left permanently disabled after vaccination? Former FDA Commissioner David Kessler observed in 1993 that less than 1 percent of doctors report adverse events following prescription drug use.21 There have been estimates that perhaps less than 5 or 10 percent of doctors report hospitalizations, injuries, deaths, or other serious health problems following vaccination. The 1986 Vaccine Injury Act contained no legal sanctions for not reporting; doctors can refuse to report and suffer no consequences.

Even so, each year about 12,000 reports are made to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System; parents as well as doctors can make those reports.22 However, if that number represents only 10 percent of what is actually occurring, then the actual number may be 120,000 vaccine-adverse events. If doctors report vaccine reactions as infrequently as Dr. Kessler said they report prescription-drug reactions, and the number 12,000 is only 1 percent of the actual total, then the real number may be 1.2 million vaccine-adverse events annually.

The larger unanswered question that haunts every new vaccine mandate is: Has the repeated manipulation of the immune system with multiple vaccines in the first three years of life, when the interrelated brain and immune systems develop most rapidly outside the womb, been an unrecognized cofactor in the epidemics of chronic disease and disability plaguing so many children today?

A Vacuum of Scientific Knowledge

When you look at the possible biological mechanisms for vaccine-induced neuroimmune dysfunction, including chronic inflammation, the scientific picture is complicated by the presence of potentially toxic components added to vaccines as stabilizers, preservatives, and adjuvants. These include many substances—heavy metals such as mercury and aluminum, yeast, monosodium glutamate (MSG), formalin, and antibiotics—that, together with residual DNA and possible adventitious agent contamination from animal and human cell substrates, have unknown biological effects.23 For example, the monkey virus SV40, which contaminated oral polio vaccine given to American children until 1999, has been found in children and adults suffering from bone, brain, and lung cancers, as well as from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.24

There is an astonishing lack of basic scientific knowledge about how viral and bacterial vaccines, given in combination, act to disrupt brain and immune-system function in the human body at the cellular and molecular levels.25, 26 Pre-licensure studies conducted by industry to demonstrate the safety of new vaccines rarely study large numbers of children given the experimental vaccine in combination with other vaccines,27 and follow-up for serious health problems following vaccination is limited to a few days or weeks.28 For example, the flu vaccine that the CDC recommends all healthy babies get has never been studied for safety when given in combination with other vaccines.29

In addition, there have never been any large, prospective, long-term studies comparing the long-term health of highly vaccinated individuals versus those who have never been vaccinated at all. Therefore, the background rates for ADHD, learning disabilities, autism, seizure disorders, asthma, diabetes, intestinal bowel disorders, rheumatoid arthritis, and other brain and immune-system dysfunction in a genetically diverse unvaccinated population remains unknown.

This vacuum of basic scientific knowledge fatally compromises the statistical conclusions of every recent epidemiological study conducted by government and industry to try to prove that vaccines do not cause chronic health problems such as autism. The recently released Institute of Medicine report that denied a causal relationship between autism and vaccines and called for an end to all research into vaccine-associated autism relied almost exclusively on epidemiological studies.30 Researchers conducting epidemiological studies to estimate the incidence of disease in vaccinated individuals often look at old medical records to do their statistical analyses. But the scientific truth about a vaccine’s ability to cause chronic health problems has not been determined with any degree of certainty because so little research has ever been conducted into the biological mechanisms involved in vaccine-induced brain and immune-system dysfunction, and all of the participants in epidemiological studies are vaccinated.

It is possible that when all children were exposed to only DPT and polio vaccines in the 1960s, a tiny fraction of those genetically susceptible to responding adversely to vaccination were affected. But with the addition of the combination measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine to the routine vaccination schedule in 1979, and then the Hib, hepatitis B, chickenpox, and pneumococcal vaccines in the late 1980s and 1990s, far more of the genetically vulnerable are now being brought into the group of vaccine-adverse responders.

Government and industry refuse to investigate the genetic and other biological high-risk factors for vaccine-induced chronic health problems. But independent research is being conducted at the M.I.N.D. Institute at UC Davis, and by other nongovernment, nonindustry researchers around the world. Their research may well eventually confirm that there is a critical interaction between a child’s genetic susceptibility to respond adversely to vaccination and one or more cofactors, such as a coinciding illness or concurrent exposure to medications or other environmental toxins while in the womb or after birth.

A Primitive Inflammatory Response Gone Wrong

However, the damaging effects of vaccines in the genetically vulnerable is potentially only one part of the explanation of why there has been an explosion of chronic disease in ours, the most highly vaccinated population in the world. Mass vaccination with multiple vaccines in early childhood has removed most natural infection from the human experience. This human intervention is only about 50 years old. When you consider the evolution of human beings and our place in the natural order, an order that was created long before Edward Jenner first came up with the idea of vaccination, 50 years is a very short period of time.

Humans and infectious microbes have coexisted for as long as we have walked the earth, and the human immune system has developed an efficient way of meeting the challenge from viruses and bacteria. When infected with viruses, parasites, and cancer cells, the body’s first line of defense is for the cellular, or “innate,” part of the immune system to mount an inflammatory response, which then signals the humoral, or “learned,” part of the immune system to produce anti-inflammatory chemicals and antibodies that resolve inflammation so that healing can take place.

“Babies are born with a very immature cellular immune system,” says Lawrence Palevsky, MD, a New York pediatrician and cofounder of the Holistic Pediatric Association. “Childhood viral infectious diseases like measles, mumps, and chickenpox initially stimulate the cellular part of the immune system, which leads to the production of the signs of inflammation—fever, redness, swelling, and mucus. This cellular immune response stimulates the humoral part of the immune system to produce anti-inflammatory chemicals and antibodies that assist in recovery from these illnesses. This natural process helps the cellular and humoral immune systems mature. A healthy, mature immune system for children requires an equal balance of cellular and humoral immune-system responses.”

Palevsky points out that vaccination largely bypasses the cellular immune system in favor of stimulating the humoral part of the immune system. “Vaccination does not mimic the natural infection process. Although vaccines stimulate production of antibodies in an attempt to artificially induce immunity to disease, chronic inflammation can be a by-product of vaccination by disrupting the balance of cellular and humoral immune-system responses, especially in those children genetically predisposed to inflammatory conditions such as autoimmune disorders.”

Philip Incao, MD, a holistic family-care physician in Colorado, agrees: “Physically, health is about balancing acute inflammatory responses to infection, which stimulate one arm of the immune system, and chronic inflammatory responses to infection, which stimulate the other arm of the immune system. Overuse of vaccines to suppress all acute, externalizing inflammations early in life can set up the immune system to respond to future stresses and infections by developing chronic, internalizing disease later in life.”

Back to Nature: The Paradigm Shift

The questions being raised about the wisdom of using large numbers of vaccines to suppress or eradicate all infectious disease are understandable in light of the fact that so many highly vaccinated children and adults are chronically ill. However, the challenge to our system of mass vaccination is also part of the move by educated healthcare consumers away from a technology and a medical model that many believe has failed. Intuitively, people in many technologically advanced countries are becoming increasingly skeptical about not only the safety of vaccines, but also the toxic properties and overuse of prescription drugs and the risks of medical tests and invasive surgeries.

Among the top ten causes of death in the US are toxic reactions to correctly prescribed drugs, which make more than 2 million Americans seriously ill every year and kill 106,000 more.31 The realization that dentists have filled our mouths with silver-mercury amalgams and doctors have injected mercury-laced vaccines into our children’s bodies are just two examples of why people are beginning to distrust what doctors and public health officials tell them to do.

A 1998 survey found that 39 million Americans made more than 600 million visits to alternative healthcare practitioners in 1997—more than to primary-care physicians.32 These patients paid most of the $21.2 billion costs out of pocket when insurance plans would not reimburse them, citing a desire to “prevent future illness from occurring” and “maintain health and vitality.” Healthcare professions including chiropractic, naturopathy, homeopathy, acupuncture, and other modalities offering a drug-free way to maintain health are becoming more popular as people realize they are healthier when they take fewer drugs and vaccines.

As a new model for staying well struggles to replace an old model that has failed too many, a mighty battle is taking place in the offices of pediatricians, who face increasingly well-educated, independent-thinking parents who demand to be equal partners in making healthcare decisions for their children. At no time is that battle more fierce than when an articulate parent, one who knows more than a pediatrician about vaccine risks, begins to ask questions and demand answers instead of blindly trusting and offering up a child for vaccination.

Educated parents, who suspect that their children are genetically at risk for vaccine complications, are challenging the utilitarian rationale adopted by public health officials to justify forced vaccination. The ideas that everyone has to get vaccinated for the “greater good,” and that it is acceptable for some children to be sacrificed for the welfare of the rest, does not feel quite right when one-size-fits-all vaccine policies end up targeting the genetically vulnerable as expendable.

The right to know and the freedom to choose were the reasons I joined with Kathi Williams and other parents of vaccine-injured children, who 22 years ago launched the organized movement for vaccine safety and informed consent in this country. I knew then that I wanted to work to empower other women who become mothers to believe in and stand up for our right to make informed, voluntary decisions about vaccination for the children we love more than we ever thought we could love anyone.

When it comes to the complex job of raising a child day to day, we mothers are on the front line. But when we enter the often paternalistic world of science and medicine, we are made to feel as if we are not smart enough, educated enough, or rational enough to make our own good decisions about what is best for the health and well-being of our children. It is in pediatricians’ offices, public health clinics, and hospital corridors where we have been most conditioned to feel incapable and helpless to do anything other than what we are told to do.

In reality, we are more than capable of using our intelligence, our hearts, and our mothers’ intuition to demand to know the truth and make informed choices about any medical intervention that carries a risk of injury or death for our children. No one has more of a right to do this than we, the life-givers, life defenders, and primary caretakers of our children’s well-being.

Once you have gathered all the information you can find about infectious diseases and vaccines and have spoken to one or more healthcare professionals, you will know what to do. Once you have made a vaccination decision for your child, don’t second-guess yourself. You have made an educated, conscious choice, and no matter what happens, you have been the best mother you can be. As mothers, it is all we can do.

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NOTES

1. American Academy of Pediatrics, Autism A.L.A.R.M. (January 2004).

2. California Department of Developmental Services, 2003 DDS Autism Report, www.dds.ca.gov.

3. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics: Digest of Education Statistics (2002).

4. B. Bloom et al., “Summary Health Statistics for U.S. Children: National Health Interview Survey, 2001,” National Center for Health Statistics, Vital and Health Statistics Series 10, no. 216 (November 2003).

5. D. M. Mannino et al., “Surveillance for Asthma: United States, 1960–1995,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 47, no. SS-1 (14 April 1998).

6. See Note 3.

7. See Note 4.

8. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “National Diabetes Fact Sheet” (2003).

9. P. J. Palumbo et al., “Diabetes Mellitus: Incidence, Prevalence, Survivorship and Causes of Death in Rochester, Minnesota, 1945–1970,” Diabetes 25, no. 7 (1 July 1976): 566–573.

10. Arthritis Foundation, www.arthritis.org.

11. C. Hoffman et al., “Persons with Chronic Conditions: Their Prevalence and Costs,” Journal of the American Medical Association 276, no. 18 (13 November 1996): 1473–1479.

12. K. Jarbrink, M. Knapp, “The Economic Impact of Autism in Britain,” Autism 5, no. 1 (1 March 2001): 7–22.

13. E. B. Gurvich, “The Age-Dependent Risk of Postvaccination Complications in Vaccinees with Smallpox Vaccine,” Vaccine 10, no. 2 (1 January 1992): 96–97.

14. T. Hemachudha et al., “Myelin Basic Protein as an Encephalitogen in Encephalomyelitis and Polyneuritis Following Rabies Vaccination,” New England Journal of Medicine 316, no. 7 (12 February 1987): 369–374.

15. C. A. Hannik, “Major Reactions After DPT-Polio Vaccination in the Netherlands,” International Symposium on Pertussis, Bilthoven. Symposium Series on Immunobiological Standardization 13 (1969): 161–170.

16. M. Kulenkampff et al., “Neurological Complications of Pertussis Inoculation,” Archives of Disease in Childhood 49, no. 1 (January 1974): 46–49.

17. R. Alderslade et al., “The National Childhood Encephalopathy Study,” in Whooping Cough: Reports from the Committee on Safety of Medicines and the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (London: HMSO, 1981).

18. C. L. Cody et al., “Nature and Rates of Adverse Reactions Associated with DTP and DT Immunizations in Infants and Children,” Pediatrics 68, no. 5 (1 November 1981): 650–660.

19. H. L. Coulter, B. L. Fisher, DPT: A Shot in the Dark (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985).

20. VICP Monthly Statistics Report, www.hrsa.gov/osp/vicp/monthlystats_home.HTM.

21. D. A. Kessler, “Introducing MEDWatch: A New Approach to Reporting Medication and Device Adverse Effects and Product Problems,” Journal of the American Medical Association 269, no. 21 (2 June 1993): 2765–2768.

22. R. T. Chen, B. Hibbs, “Vaccine Safety: Current and Future Challenges,” Pediatric Annals 27, no. 7 (July 1998): 445–455.

23. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Vaccine Components, www.cdc.gov/node.do/id/0900f3ec8006587f.

24. D. Bookchin, J. Schumacher, The Virus and the Vaccine (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2004).

25. Institute of Medicine, Adverse Effects of Pertussis and Rubella Vaccines (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1991).

26. Institute of Medicine, Adverse Events Associated with Childhood Vaccines (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1994).

27. M. B. Rennels et al., “Safety and Immunogenicity of Heptavalent Pneumococcal Vaccine Conjugated to CRM197 in United States Infants,” Pediatrics 101, no. 4, Part 1 (1 April 1998): 604–611.

28. Merck & Co., Inc., Recombivax HB product insert (1998).

29. C. B. Bridges et al., “Prevention and Control of Influenza: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP),” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 52, no. RR08 (25 April 2003): 1–34.

30. Institute of Medicine, Immunization Safety Review: Vaccines and Autism (Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, May 2004).

31. J. Lazarou et al., “Incidence of Adverse Drug Reactions in Hospitalized Patients: A Meta-analysis of Prospective Studies,” Journal of the American Medical Association 279, no. 15 (15 April 1998): 1200–1205.

32. D. M. Eisenberg et al., “Trends in Alternative Medicine Use in the United States, 1990–1997: Results of a Follow-up National Survey,” Journal of the American Medical Association 280, no. 18 (11 November 1998): 1569–1575.

Barbara Loe Fisher is cofounder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC). She is the coauthor of the 1985 book DPT: A Shot in the Dark and editor of The Vaccine Reaction newsletter, and has served on the National Vaccine Advisory Committee (1988–1992), the Institute of Medicine Vaccine Safety Forum (1995–1998), and the FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (1999–2003).

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DEATH BY LETHAL VACCINE INJECTION (a Mother's Story)

By Christine Colebeck

Today is my daughter's sweet 16th birthday but we will not be celebrating. Instead I will light a candle and when I blow it out I will make a wish in my daughter's memory. My wish is for all mother's worldwide, that you will educate yourselves and that you make informed choices so that you may prevent unnecessary tragedy and be spared from my pain.

Laura's Story

After 41 weeks of pregnancy, on July 27th, 1986, a perfect and healthy little baby, Laura Marie, made her entrance into the world. We were welcomed home by family and friends anxiously waiting to meet the new family member. They showered her with so many beautiful, little tiny, pink dresses, we joked that she would never be able to wear them all in one lifetime.

Our lives changed completely and now revolved around stroller walks in the park, visiting friends, changing diapers, night feedings and shopping for more little pink dresses. We were parents now, we had a family and life was absolutely perfect.

I took Laura for several baby check-ups at the pediatrician. She was a kind and gentle older woman. At 3 months old, the pediatrician was very pleased with Laura's development and weight gain and vaccinated her with DPT OPV. I didn't even question her, I knew that all my friend's babies had this same vaccine and "all good mothers" vaccinated their children to protect them. I left the pediatrician's office and walked home.

Laura was very fussy, which was unusual. She was crying loudly all the way home in the stroller. When we got home, I realized she had urinated so heavily she wet everything in the stroller. Then her cry turned into screaming and she developed a fever, her leg was very swollen and red, and felt hot. I called the pediatrician who told me this was "normal" and to give her Tempra. I gave her baby Tempra and I felt better, the pediatrician had assured me this was normal.

Laura continued to scream and I could no longer console her. My every instinct told me this was not normal but I was young with my first child and trusted the doctor. I could not hold Laura in my arms because she screamed louder as any movement of her leg seemed to cause her terrible pain. I put her in the swing and she cried herself to sleep. I was so relieved, the Tempra was working and the doctor must have been right. I began to feel silly for all my worrying. A short time later, Laura woke up screaming and spent the evening screaming and sleeping on and off.

She had no appetite and nothing made her stop crying. Finally it was bedtime and she cried in her crib, until she fell asleep. She had never cried herself to sleep before and I felt very bad for letting her but if I held her, she screamed louder. My husband came home from work and I told him about everything that had happened that day. Laura was sleeping soundly in her crib and we were both relieved that she seemed to be feeling better and decided not to worry... I should have worried.

In the morning I awoke and was startled to realize my husband had slept in for work. I immediately knew something was wrong and the worry from the previous night came rushing back to me. I quickly ran to her crib, with a feeling of dread. She did not look right. I closed my eyes tight and opened them again, and considered the possibility that this was a dream, but when I opened my eyes she looked dead.

I went into shock and after that, much of this day remains a blur. I touched her and she was very warm. I screamed for my husband to call 911.

I watched as he performed CPR, my body was frozen and I couldn't move. He tried to revive our child to no avail. He was shouting for me to open the door for the paramedics, I was temporarily jolted back to reality and I went and opened the door. I could now move but couldn't speak. I just stood there numbly shaking my head, feeling completely helpless as dozens of paramedics, police and firemen rushed past me into our home. I didn't cry, and I wanted to scream at them to leave her alone but I couldn't speak. She was on the floor and they were shocking her tiny body, in the little bedroom with the yellow painted walls and clown wallpaper. I stood there praying in my head that they would just leave her alone, that they would get out of her bedroom and that I would wake up from this horrible dream.

Then I heard someone saying there was a faint pulse and I suddenly felt hopeful. She was rushed from the house in an ambulance. It was then that the homicide detectives led us into another room and the interrogation began.

They decided that my husband and I needed to be questioned in separate rooms. I immediately realized they suspected that we had done this to our child. We all know that perfect children do not suddenly die for no reason. I was silent, I had already decided in my own mind that this was somehow all my fault and although I wasn't quite sure what I had done to kill her, I was convinced that I had somehow caused this to happen. Perhaps, I was being punished by god for a sin or perhaps it happened because I had let her cry herself to sleep that night. The fact remained that my child was dead and "good mothers" do not have dead children.

My husband began to protest loudly about the line of questioning and he demanded we be taken immediately to the hospital, to see our child. The detectives finally took us to the hospital and put us in the "bad news room." The doctor came and insisted we sit down before he spoke to us. He began telling us that they had tried this and that and then finally he said the words that would echo in my ears for a lifetime:

"She is dead."

The pediatrician whom I so respected and adored broke down and cried when I gave her the news on the phone. She went back and forth defending the vaccine that she was told was safe, and blaming it for killing my child and those who told her it was safe.

She then told me that she also had another patient, an infant boy, die after this same vaccination.

Then the detectives took us home for more questions, often repeating the same questions several times until they grew tired of asking them. The questions constantly centered around our involvement, then they searched the house and checked for signs of forced entry. My husband repeatedly told them that he thought the vaccine had killed our child and told them over and over about her unusual behavior since she was vaccinated.

Everyone we knew arrived at our house. I made coffee and tidied the house, like it was any other day and we were having "guests". Shock is a strange and wonderful thing and of course you don't know you are in it.

My parents finally insisted on taking me to their house for a few days, while my husband and his friends had the horrendous task of packing up the nursery because I couldn't stand to look at it any longer. The room I had so lovingly made was now empty and a source of great pain.

Several days later, after the funeral and the tiny white coffin that was so small my husband carried it alone, I finally came out of shock and allowed myself to cry a river. I cried for all the things I would never do with my daughter. All the ballet classes I would never take her to, the wedding I would never attend, the grandchildren I would never know and all the dreams I would never realize with her. I cried for all that was and all that would never be. There was an emptiness inside of me that threatened to swallow me up whole, as I fell into the depths of grief during the darkest days of my life.

The detectives eventually became satisfied that we had not harmed our daughter in any way and the investigation into her death ended. We were then left without answers.

The doctors did not want to talk about her death being related in any way to the vaccine and, one after the other, refused to answer our many questions. I was repeatedly told that vaccines were for "the greater good." I was even told that loss of life through immunization was "expected" in the war against disease but these losses were considered to be at "acceptable" levels. However, this did not feel very acceptable or good to me as a mother with empty arms that ached for my child. The coroner finally told us months later that the cause of death was determined to be "SIDS" (sudden infant death syndrome), meaning "no known cause," and refused to release a copy of the autopsy report to us.

It took almost a year for us to obtain this report and to our great horror, we realized that the autopsy summery was copied directly from the vaccine product monograph under the heading "Contraindications" as follows:

"Sudden infant death syndrome has been reported following administration of
vaccines containing Diphtheria, tetanus toxoids, and pertussis vaccine. However, the significance of these reports is not clear. One common factor is the age where primary immunization was done between the age of 2 to 6 months, a period where most sudden infant death syndromes are found to 1occur with a peak incidence being at 2 to 4 months."

There was no toxicology testing performed and the pediatrician never filed an adverse vaccine reaction report with health authorities. I later learned that most vaccine-induced deaths in this country are listed as SIDS and SIDS statistics are NOT included in vaccine adverse reaction data, even if a child dies only a few hours after receiving inoculation. This data is presented to physicians and the public to reassure them that vaccines are
safe.

The government's own literature advises that there has been little or no testing in the area of vaccine safety or efficacy. Essentially, our children are the test. According to their literature, immunization is "the most cost effective" way to prevent disease. Nowhere in their literature does it claim to be the safest. We are trading our children's lives to save the government money. We are told that the benefits outweigh the risks but many of the diseases that we vaccinate for are not even life threatening; however, the vaccine itself has the potential to kill.

Vaccines kill at a much higher rate than we are led to believe. We play vaccine roulette with our children's lives and we never know which child will fall victim next.

If the odds are 1 in 500 thousand for death, 1 in 100 thousand for permanent brain injury, 1 in 1700 for seizures and convulsions or one in 100 for adverse reaction, are you willing to take that chance? Are any odds acceptable enough to convince you to gamble with your child's life?

I can assure you that death from vaccination is neither quick nor painless. I helplessly watched my daughter suffer an excruciatingly slow death as she screamed and arched her back in pain, while the vaccine did as it was intended to do and assaulted her immature immune system. The poisons used as preservatives seeped through her tiny body, overwhelming her vital organs one by one until they collapsed. It is an image that will haunt me forever and I hope no other parent ever has to witness it.

A death sentence considered too inhumane for this county's most violent criminals was handed down to my beautiful, innocent, infant daughter, death by lethal injection.

Today, on my daughter's birthday, I will grieve not only for the loss of my own child but for all the innocent children for which the benefits of vaccines do not outweigh the risks and are unnecessarily sentenced to death by lethal injection, under the guise of "the greater good." The true war is not against disease; we have somehow become our own worst enemy by putting our faith in science instead of nature. Today, I call on all mothers across the world to join me in putting an end to this senseless slaughter of our most precious resource, our children.

Response from Dawn Richardson, President, PROVE

Dear PROVE Members

I am forwarding this … as a tribute to baby Laura and all the other children who have been injured or killed by a vaccine so that parents can learn another side to the vaccine story.

When I was almost 8 months pregnant with one of my daughters, I had volunteered to go to the Travis County Morgue with Karin Schumacher who, for years before she went to Law School, ran the NVIC news-list. Karin asked me to help her go through autopsy reports of infants listed as SIDS deaths and look at vaccination information. I will never forget the experience. We sat there in this basement buried in infant autopsy reports as my own baby kicked and turned inside of me.

Here were two of our observations:

1) A highly disproportionate amount of SIDS deaths clustered at 2, 4, and 6 months -- which are the very times infants are vaccinated. If vaccines had nothing to do with these, the numbers should have been randomly spread throughout the first 6 months of life. Not so. I challenge the naysayers to go to any morgue in the country and to be honest and see what I'm talking about.

2) It was shocking at how rare it was for the vaccine information to be recorded and how little investigating into the cause of death of these babies was actually done. It floored me that the when the vaccine information was even mentioned, it was often so incomplete. Medical examiners routinely missed asking for this indispensable information and failed to note the correlation of the date when the child died to even raise the question.

One of the things that struck me when reading Christine's story … is that here we are 16 years later and so many doctors are still downplaying and denying the risks of vaccines and healthy babies are still dying after being vaccinated.

One of the most offensive things that Senator Frist has in his vaccine bill which shields the drug companies from all liability when a vaccine injures or kills someone is that he is proposing that the federal government increase the amount of money that a parent receives from the government compensation program when their child is killed by a vaccine. Parents are not willing to be bought off with this blood money. Elected officials like Frist who want to eliminate the financial responsibility of the drug companies all together and throw the bone to parents that the government will pay them more if the government mandated vaccine kills their kid need to be voted out of Congress. If you haven't sent your email notes to your senators to oppose S 2053 yet - PLEASE do! If drug companies have ZERO threat of liability, the one thing we can be certain of is that stories like [Laura's] will become far more common.

The key to change is education. Fortunately, the Internet allows parents to educate parents. Please stop for a quiet moment after reading the note and say a prayer for all the babies whose lives were ended before they even got a chance to really start … and then take the time to forward this on to other parents.

Sincerely, Dawn Richardson
President, PROVE

2007-10-05T08:40:00.000-06:00

URINE TESTING CONFIRMS AUTISM IS MERCURY POISONING - News Release

By Kate Adams

US Autism & Asperger Association, Inc.

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WASHINGTON, DC - A new peer-reviewed scientific/medical case study confirms that many children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASDs)suffer from mercury poisoning. The new study, "A Prospective Study of Mercury Toxicity Biomarkers in Autistic Spectrum Disorders" by Mr. David A. Geier and Dr. Mark R. Geier has been published in the most recent issue of the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health,
Part A (volume 70, issue 20, pgs 1723-1730).

This study utilized urinary porphyrin profile analysis (UPPA) to assess body-burden and physiological effects of mercury in children diagnosed with ASDs.

Using UPPA, Geier and Geier (2007) examined 71 children diagnosed with ASDs, neurotypical siblings, and general population controls. The researchers studied urinary porphyrin patterns using results reported both by the US Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp) and the French Laboratoire Philippe Auguste.

Their findings demonstrated that:

* Only the non-chelated patients diagnosed with ASDs had porphyrin patterns indicative of clinical mercury toxicity.

* Treating ASD diagnosed patients with chelating agents resulted in lower mercury-specific urinary porphyrins.

* The UPPA patterns reported were consistent between the two labs used.

The results of the present study confirm and extend previous observations by Nataf et al. (2006) and Geier and Geier (2006) on the use of UPPA profiling to establish the causal role for mercury in ASDs. Additionally, the current findings are consistent with those observed by many other physicians who treat patients diagnosed with both ASDs and mercury toxicity.

Thus, urinary porphyrin profile testing is being successfully used to:

* Demonstrate the role of mercury in ASD populations,
* Identify those children and adults who are mercury poisoned, and
* Track mercury excretion from affected children undergoing treatment.

For the past several years there has been a raging controversy as to whether or not mercury in medicines, especially in vaccines, has caused a dramatic rise in the rate of children diagnosed with an ASD.

Many experts have insisted ASDs are caused by some yet-to-be-identified genetic cause. A paper recently published in Nature Genetics described the results of multi-million-dollar genetics study (which studied a thousand-plus families with at least two children diagnosed with an ASD using in-depth genetic screening). Tellingly, the authors reported, "None of our linkage results can be interpreted as 'statistically significant'."(The Autism Genome Project Consortium 2007).

With the current study's results, public health officials should now publicly admit what they have been saying in their private transcripts and memos: Mercury from Thimerosal-containing vaccines and other medicines has been a major cause of ASD cases, which, based on recent CDC estimates (CDC 2007), may exceed a rate of one in 100 children.

Today, any parent, physician, or healthcare provider can easily confirm whether a non-chelated child with an ASD diagnosis is mercury poisoned by having UPPA testing run at either laboratory.

CoMeD's web site, [link to www.Mercury-freeDrugs.org] contains:

* Further information on how to order these tests,
* Full copies of the Nataf et al. (2006), Geier and Geier (2006), &
Geier and Geier (2007), and
* Some of the many published papers validating the UPPA test.

2007-09-24T18:05:00.000-06:00

The following article answers many questions on the topic of Natural Cellular Defense and its ability to remove heavy metals from the body in a safe and effective manner.

NATURAL CELLULAR DEFENSE [ZEOLITE]

By Dr. Jim Howenstine, MD

The pharmaceutical industry earns one trillion dollars each year from the sale of chemotherapy drugs. If anyone thinks that this industry will soon be bringing forth a new therapy that will cure cancer they may wish to revaluate this thinking. These people are brilliant at controlling the media and encouraging the public that “the cure is just around the corner.” If they were to cure cancer it would be the biggest mistake they have ever made and they are not accustomed to making mistakes.

One of the key factors in successful therapy of cancer is removal of toxic metals (mercury, arsenic, lead, cadmium, aluminum, iron, uranium etc.) from the body.

Dr. Josef Issel of Germany had great success treating cancer with fever, organic raw food, enzymes and immune stimulating methods. In his office a biologic dentist removed metal amalgams (mercury) and mercury dental deposits from these patients. His methods were so successful he earned a three year stay in a German prison in the site reserved for convicted murderers.

In Dr. Thomas Rau’s Paracelsus Clinic in Switzerland most patients seen are terminally ill from malignancies that have failed chemotherapy and radiation. Fifty percent of patients with stage 4 (advanced) cancer recover. Their therapeutic program consists of:

• Opening up missing tooth sites to remove hidden mercury deposits
• Removal of all root canal teeth
• Careful removal of all mercury fillings
• Detoxify the patient from mercury and other harmful substances

Obviously toxic metals play a major role in causing cancer and their removal can greatly assist recovery. The substance zeolite (Natural Cellular Defense) acts primarily by removing toxic metals from the body.

Zeolites are minerals formed when molten lava contacts water from lakes or ocean. A specific member of the zeolite family of minerals called “clinoptilolite” has a unique honeycomb like structure which has the ability to trap and bind toxins, heavy metals, viral particles, and other impurities so these substances can be removed from the body. The clinoptilolite type of zeolite can be activated by a process which removes naturally occurring toxins. The end product results in a 100 % natural completely non-toxic liquid that is safe for human consumption (FDA rating G.R.A.S. Generally Recognized As Safe). In a liquid form carried by the blood stream zeolites are believed to pass to all parts of the body.

The clinoptilolite form of zeolite has been used for more than 800 years in traditional medicine to improve general health in India, China, Russia and nearly every part of Asia. In the United States this has been used in water filtration, air purification, animal feed and fertilizers to keep crops healthy.

Zeolites are negatively charged which is not common among minerals. This negative charge facilitates the migration of positively charged toxic minerals into the zeolite cages and onto the surfaces of zeolite where these substances can be transported for elimination in stools and urine. There is a preferential order of zeolite attraction to minerals .of heavier weight before proceeding to lighter minerals. This is manifested by trapping of mercury, uranium, arsenic, and cadmium before lighter minerals are captured (magnesium, calcium, lead). Zeolites can be considered molecular sieves and filtering agents who are able to trap positively charged atoms, ions, and compounds for removal from the body.

What Can Zeolite (Natural Cellular Defense) Accomplish?

• Remove Toxic Heavy Metals (uranium, aluminum, lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium etc). This improves enzyme function.
• Trap and remove viral particles from the body
• Improve immune function so colds and influenza are less likely to occur
• Improve pH levels so infectious organisms have a less favorable site to survive
• Trap protons in the digestive tract making acid reflux less troublesome
• Improve nutrient absorption
• Removal of toxins and chemicals improves immune function
• Trapping allergens in blood and digestive tract decreases symptoms from inhaled and swallowed antigens
• Absorptive action in the intestines may stop diarrhea
• Can be of great value in life threatening and chronic disease states.

Is Zeolite A Chelating Substance?

Zeolite has a great affinity for heavier metals such as mercury, uranium, arsenic, cadmium, aluminum and a lesser affinity for metals of lower weight (lead, calcium, magnesium). In two published studies involving goats, sheep, and cows half the animals received zeolite along with food and vitamins and the others received the same therapy but no zeolite. The animals receiving the zeolite had better nutritional status and better mineral content in their bodies than the animals not taking zeolite. The zeolite animals lost toxic metals and had better levels of calcium and magnesium than the animals not taking zeolite. Zeolite is an important chelating agent which appears to bind more metals than standard EDTA used in chelation.

What Can NCD Do In Allergic Diseases (Migraine Headaches, Asthma)?

Patients with migraine headaches frequently are aware that certain foods will trigger headache attacks (red wine, preserved meats treated with nitrites and nitrates such as sausages, hot dogs, salami, caffeine, chocolate, some dairy products{aromatic cheeses} etc.). NCD can remove some of these triggers for migraine attacks by physically absorbing the offending substances in the intestines.

Asthmatic patients are exposed to pollen, dust, molds, and air polluted by chemicals and smog all of which may initiate bronchospasm (wheezing). Often the offending substances are heavily charged making them susceptible to removal by NCD before they cause asthma attacks. Many persons with allergic disorders have noticed a decrease in symptoms after starting NCD therapy.

Use Of NCD In Hyperacidity And Acid Reflux States

The ability of zeolite to bind gastric acid can be dramatically effective in some individuals suffering from painful reflux of gastric acid onto the esophagus . Other persons with indigestion related to gastric acid may also obtain relief.

Possible Benefits From NCD In Arteriosclerosis

There are several important concepts regarding the initiation of arteriosclerosis. One of these is that arteriosclerosis results from the infiltration of the endothelial lining of the arteries with toxic heavy metals. The inner lining of the artery is the site where the important vasodilator substance nitric acid is created.

The endothelium also produces prostacyclin which decreases clotting of blood and causes dilating of arteries. A third important endothelial substance is heparin, a potent substance that prevents clots from forming. Excessive deposition of heavy metals in the endothelium diminishes the endothelium’s ability to produce valuable nitric oxide, prostacyclin and heparin. Removal of these toxic metals restores the endothelium’s ability to produce these vital substances which stops and may even reverse arteriosclerosis.

Inflammatory reactions in the body (often related to infections such as gingivitis, pneumonia, viral infections etc.) can be a stimulus for arteriosclerotic plaques to suddenly develop. Bacteria and viruses have been transported from these inflammatory sites to the endothelial lining of arteries. .Careful studies of persons suffering strokes and heart attacks has revealed that up to 25 or 30 % of these persons have a history of an infectious disease in the several days preceding the vascular event.

Experts in the field of gum disease have warned that there is mountain of evidence that there is an unusually high rate of gingivitis in persons developing heart attacks and strokes. Therapy that heals gingivitis (Oral Guard) could protect many patients from having heart attacks and strokes.

Signs of inflammation such as elevated levels of CRP and sedimentation rates are a valuable clue that artery narrowing and related vascular occlusion is a strong possibility. The body reacts to infectious processes by walling off the area of infection. The blood in these sites becomes sludgy with poor blood flow. Plaque formation becomes accelerated in these sites of impaired oxygen delivery. Resolving these abnormal indicators of infection with agents like cucurmin is helping many patients escape vascular accidents.

Dr. Linus Pauley pointed out that Vitamin C and lysine could correct the collagen deficiency seen in arteriosclerosis with healing of narrowed arteries. This information was nearly completely ignored by conventional medicine. Coronary by-pass surgery, and the placing of stents and angioplastic opening of narrowed arteries are big business for the medical community. The fact that surgical procedures are being performed for what is a degenerative inflammatory disorder of arteries has not slowed the wave of surgery. Curative therapy for arteriosclerosis needs to reverse the abnormal events in the lining of the arteries and eliminate the infections that initiate vascular occlusions.

Homocysteine elevation, increased clotting factors (fibrinogen, platelets, lipoprotein (a) excess) and meals prepared with synthetic transfats all contribute to arteriosclerosis as does cholesterol elevation in a minor way.

Heavy metals inhibit both enzyme function and protein performance. Zinc finger proteins[1] are stabilized by the presence of a zinc atom in the middle of the protein. When this zinc atom is missing the protein will not work. These zinc finger proteins are necessary for cellular division. This is especially important for the immune system which requires extra cells when faced with a viral or bacterial infection. Supplemental zinc during infections normally helps the body create more immune cells. The zinc may also be displaced by heavy metals such as mercury and arsenic. Again the protein fails to function because of displaced zinc. Removing heavy metals from the body permits correct placement of zinc to occur with improved immune function and restored enzyme function resulting.

Adenosine triphosphate ATP is the prime energy source for the body. ATP needs a magnesium ion to be stabilized. Active ATP is called Magnesium ATP. Persons with mercury poisoning have the magnesium displaced by the excessive mercury levels. In this state of absent magnesium the body has less energy production and fatigue and weakness are common symptoms. When the mercury is removed energy output returns to normal. Many persons taking NCD have noticed that they have more energy within a few weeks of starting this therapy.

Because the affinity of zeolite for removal of heavy metals like arsenic, cadmium, mercury and uranium is greater than for lighter metals like calcium it tends to only remove calcium when there are no or few heavier metals to absorb to. This results in slow removal of the calcium found in arteriosclerotic plaques. The vitamin K2 would probably be more rapid in removing calcium from plaques and heel spurs than zeolite.
NCD helps the body improve artery function by eliminating toxic metals from the body, improving immune system function, improving pH levels, increasing oxygen levels in tissues and by improving enzyme function.

What Is Happening When Toxic Metals Leave The Body?

When zeolite from NCD captures toxic metals the zeolite combined with metals is excreted in urine and also becomes part of fecal waste. Approximately 60 % of zeolite leaves the body in urine and 40 % in fecal waste. One hundred percent[2] of zeolite is eliminated from the body within a 4 to 7 hour time frame. Because of this rapid elimination taking very large doses of NCD accomplishes nothing not achieved with conventional dosage.

When meat is cooked, particularly if burned, nitrosamines form. The nitrosamines have been implicated in causing colon cancer. An important action of zeolite is to trap and remove dangerous nitrosamines from the intestines.

As the mercury, lead, cadmium, arsenic, uranium etc. leave the body the blood levels of these substances decline. When this occurs there is now more mercury, cadmium, lead etc in the bones and other tissues than in the blood. This produces an osmotic effect which leads to slow steady migration of metals out of bones and tissues into the blood and then out of the body.

Lead has very important health ramifications. There is no amount of lead that is safe for the human body. Elevations of lead levels in humans are strongly correlated with the development of hypertension. When the lead is removed from the body the blood pressure returns to normal. Lead excess is also an important cause for cataract formation. Children with elevated levels of lead have a high incidence of poor academic performance, increased use of drugs and more anti-social behavior.

Lead is stored in bones. Modern man has 1000 times more lead in his bones than men living 400 years ago. Effective oral chelation therapy removes lead but may take 10 to 15 years to complete it’s removal from bone. An oral chelating therapy such as Essential Daily Defense removes lead by virtue of the presence of garlic powder.

An interesting and perhaps significant observation seen in persons taking zeolite is that some persons lose weight.[3] One theory proposed to explain this is that these toxic metals are so dangerous to the body they get surrounded by fat tissue to decrease their toxic effects. When NCD has led to loss of toxic metals the fat tissue may be metabolized away as these stored metals also get eliminated from the body.

How Does NCD Affect pH Values In The Body?

Normal body pH is slightly alkaline at 7.4. When the body pH falls to consistently low values 5 chronic degenerative diseases such as cancer, serious infections and arteriosclerosis may appear. Oxygen levels correlate with pH levels so acidic pH levels are associated with low oxygen levels in tissues. Hydrogen ions are small so they do not get trapped in zeolite. However, their acidic effect is balanced by the presence of alkaline zeolite leading to a neutral more healthy pH where disease has a harder time flourishing. Positively charged protons in the vicinity of zeolite become attracted into the cage and their disappearance raises local pH values to a safer level. When a cage with protons is transported to an area where there are few protons (not acidic).the protons will migrate back out of the cage. Thus the pH effects are localized[4] not systemic. For part two click below.

What Effect Does Zeolite Have On Autoimmune Diseases?

Auto-immune illnesses can be associated with an underactive immune system or an overactive immune system. Examples of an underactive immune function would include cancer and HIV disease. In both these conditions the underactive immune system fails to detect and kill cancer cells or fight off infections as would normally occur. One of the conditions with an overactive immune system would be rheumatoid arthritis In this disease the immune system attacks the membranes in the joints in an uncontrolled manner .resulting in progressive destruction of joints. NCD has a modulating effect on immune diseases which stimulates the immune system to perform more effectively in an underactive disorder and slows down the activity of the immune system in diseases where the immune system is operating excessively.

Are There Any Dangers In Using NCD along With Another Detoxifying Substance?

The use of NCD with other detoxifying substances, supplements and minerals is actually desirable.[1] Anything that improves the immune defense system such as selenium, Burbur, N-Acetyl Cysteine etc. appears to complement the effects of NCD.

What Health Problems Are Not Benefited By NCD?

Xenoestrogens from exposure to pesticides, herbicides, plastics and petrochemicals are too large or fail to exhibit a chemical charge making them fail to be attracted by zeolite. This results in no excretion upon exposure to NCD. However, there may be indirect benefits from use of NCD in persons exposed to xenoestrogens because NCD does have beneficial effects on glucuronidation which is an important liver detoxification pathway. This could improve liver performance in these patients.

Are There Effects On Aflatoxins?

Some fungi in foods like nuts and beans produce dangerous toxins called aflatoxins. There has also been a dramatic increase in aflatoxins found in foods entering the United States from foreign countries. These entering foods are routinely given massive doses of radiation without any subsequent labeling of the foods certifying radiation. This radiation kills the beneficial bacteria that normally prevent aflatoxins from becoming predominant. Chronic exposure to aflatoxins can lead to liver damage and hepatoma (liver cancer). Zeolites have been able to reduce aflatoxin infection in farm animals and would probably benefit humans in the same way.

What Does Zeolite Do To Prosthetic Structures Like Heart Valves, Breast Implants, Dental Amalgams, Hip Joint Replacement Parts And Vascular Stents?

It is important to realize that the effects of zeolite are passive. There is no active erosion of amalgams, hip replacements, breast implants or any other structures placed in the body. by health care practitioners.

Can Side Effects Be Seen During Zeolite Therapy?

Some persons report feeling sicker with increased pain during the early stages of zeolite therapy. When the body is mobilizing large amounts of toxic metals the excretion of the particles carries increased amounts of water out of the body along with the metal (osmotic effect). This fluid loss can be prevented by increasing the quantity of water ingested particularly in the early stages of therapy. Another reaction that occurs in about one percent of persons is a detoxification reaction (Herxheimer Reaction). These patients may develop muscle aching, headache, skin rash and malaise. This reaction is caused by liberation of toxic substances making it possible for them to react with body tissues causing a transient painful inflammatory response. For example, zeolite has greater attraction to cadmium than to lead so placing zeolite in the body might permit lead to become freed from a sequestered site when cadmium migrates to zeolite. This formerly sequestered lead is now capable of causing an inflammatory reaction. Herxheimer reactions can easily by terminated by decreasing the dosage or temporarily stopping NCD.

Zeolite’s Use In Malignancies

Zeolite has had 30 years of research performed by Dr. Harvey Kaufman. This culminated in a patent for the product. The Waiora company is funding ongoing research to learn more about the effects of NCD in humans and animals.

Because cancer is known to develop after exposure to toxic materials or procedures (asbestosis, radiation, mercury, fluoride, transfats, uranium, chlorine, viruses etc.) use of a therapy (zeolite) that steadily removes toxic metals, impurities, viral particles and toxins from the body is indicated in patients with malignancies.

Many parts of the world including the United States have seen rising numbers of patients with cancer. Uranium contamination has been found in 42 states where depleted uranium bombs and shells have been manufactured, stored or tested. The fastest growing leukemia cluster in the U.S. is found adjacent to the Fallon, Nevada. bombing and gunnery ranges. There is strong evidence that persons living within 20 or 30 miles of nuclear reactors have an increased level of malignancies. To make matters even worse the United States has sold depleted uranium bombs and shells to at least 29 nations around the world.

In the first 2 months of 2006 there were 172,000 cases of lung cancer[2] in the U.S. The whole year of 2005 only saw 175,000 cases of lung cancer. How can this be explained? This does not fit with inhalation of second hand smoke or cigarette smoking. High levels of uranium were found in the air at the Aldermaston research Center in northern England ten days after the second war in Iraq began with heavy bombing and shelling in Iraq. This suggests that all of Europe was contaminated with radiation at the onset of Gulf War II. There have now been 4 nuclear wars since World War II (Iraq twice, Afghanistan, Bosnia). The amount of radiation released since 1991 is greater than the equivalent radiation of 82,000 Nagasaki type nuclear devices. No news media in Europe or the U.S. discusses this as this is one of many forbidden topics.

My guess is significant amounts of uranium are being detected in U.S. air but this information is being concealed from the American public.

DU shells and bombs vaporize into particles 1/10 micron in size. These particles contain uranium which can penetrate all clothing and all known gas masks. Uranium particles trash the DNA of cells leading to mutations and malignancies between 3 and 5 years after initial exposure to uranium. These minute particles can be transported on prevailing winds around the world. The rapidly rising rate of U.S. lung cancers could be due to depleted uranium fallout in the United States.

Are There Any Therapies For Uranium Induced Malignancies That May Have Merit?

In Bosnia physicians have reported seeing patients with up to three simultaneous malignancies. This has never been previously reported in medicine. There is an epidemic of cancer in children in Iraq. Significant quantities of uranium have been found in persons living in Bahrain, India, Afghanistan and Iraq. The Aldermaston research facility reported levels of uranium sufficient to trigger immediate environmental agency notification 10 days after the start of Gulf War II. This means that all Europe was certainly contaminated with airborne uranium at that time. There is good reason to believe that eastern Europe was probably heavily contaminated during the warfare in Yugoslavia. As these nuclear wars expand more persons are steadily being exposed to deadly uranium in air. U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq in the second Gulf War have been found to be heavily contaminated with uranium even when not in combat roles. Currently persons living in northern Israel and all of Lebanon are probably being exposed to significant doses of uranium.

For the unfortunate victims of DU weapons, who have cancer, there are several therapies that may have merit. The homeopathic preparation uranium nitricum might be helpful. Fresh vegetable greens help detoxify the body from radiation injury. Chlorophyll and increased hydration is also helpful. Possibly some or most inhaled uranium particles become trapped in mucous covering the alveolar cells in the lung. Mucolyxir and N-acetyl cysteine, by liquefying secretions, may facilitate removal of uranium deposits from the lung mucous.

NCD by virtue of it’s affinity for heavy metals should be a good therapy to steadily remove uranium particles from the body. This removal of uranium could assist recovery from uranium induced cancers. Also patients taking NCD on a regular basis may be decreasing their chances of developing uranium induced lung and other malignancies by steadily eliminating uranium from the body so their body uranium levels remain low. Wherever uranium containing bombs and shells are manufactured, tested or stored there are persons being exposed to uranium. Because of the total control the New World order has over the media U.S. citizens are not going to be warned about toxic levels of uranium in the air and accidental contamination problems with uranium may never get reported. This is all part of the massive Satanic program to lower world population.

Sunburn is a mild form of radiation burn. This can be rapidly healed by a nano-particle sized (.25 nm to 6 nm particle size) formulation of colloidal silver. This same formulation of colloidal silver can dissolve skin cancers[3] in 3 days. Mr. Scott Clayton is personally aware of 3 patients with lung cancer who recovered when treated with the same preparation of colloidal silver taken by mouth.

A group of 30 Central American women with 3 different histological types of breast cancer were all treated with a single intravenous infusion of nano-sized hydrosol silver (Argentyn 23). Repeat biopsies of all 30 women at 19 days following the infusion disclosed no evidence of breast cancer[4] in any of the biopsies. Four of the women experienced Herxheimer reactions with fever and transient liver enlargement. Previous study at the University of Wisconsin had suggested that proper dosage of this nano-sized silver preparation has the ability to saturate all tumor cell atoms with silver particles which blocks the glucose consumption tumor cells[5] need to stay alive.

What Doses Of NCD Should Be Used?

Persons who have serious health problems such as malignancies, advanced arteriosclerosis, neurologic diseases (Multiple Sclerosis, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, Alzheimer’s Disease), severe reflux esophagitis etc. should start with 12 drops of NCD in water four times daily. This high dosage should be continued until improvement is noticed at which time the dosage can be decreased. Persons taking NCD for preventative reasons to improve their general health should start on 9 drops three times daily for the first month. This should remove a significant amount of their toxic burden. The dose can then be reduced to the maintenance level of three drops three times daily.

Testimonials From Zeolite Users

Case 1. A male with a mesothelioma (pleural lining lung malignancy), often related to asbestosis exposure and smoking, had a large tumor mass protruding through the posterior chest wall and another in the upper abdomen the size of a marble when he started to take NCD. After a month of therapy both masses were gone. He remains well.

Case 2. A male with severe itching from non-healing skin lesions on the legs of many years duration started NCD therapy. Within a week he notice nearly complete healing of the skin lesions and disappearance of metal allergy when wearing watches.

Case 3. A veteran who had 30 years of mental cloudiness since exposure to Agent Orange in Viet Nam began zeolite. The next morning he experienced mental clarity for the first time in 30 years. Four days later he became aware of a horrible taste in his mouth. This was associated with disappearance of a mouth tumor of 4 years duration. 37 years earlier he had a brown recluse spider bite between his toes. Subsequent to the spider bite a non-healing ulcer could be seen at the site of the spider bite. After four days of zeolite the foot started to itch and the ulcer was gone.

Case 4. A male with a painful goose egg sized buttock mass was scheduled for surgery. In one week of zeolite therapy the mass became so small he cancelled the surgery.

Case 5. A female with a painful right fibrocystic breast mass started taking zeolite. Three weeks later she was aware of decreased beast pain. Her physician was unable to identify the previously biopsied right breast mass.

Case 6. A 23 year old female with chronic genital warts had failed to benefit from burning and topical therapy. The genital warts disappeared in 7 days when zeolite was started.

Case 7. A male had severe heartburn which frequently awakened him from sleep. He had used Tums daily for 27 years. After starting zeolite therapy he realized he had taken no Tums for a week as his symptoms were gone.

Case 8. A female had many years of severe heartburn. She often experienced heartburn which would awaken her from sleep. There was associated with marked shortness of breath and regurgitation of ingested food. She was using 4 to 6 antacid tablets hourly. When she started NCD she began to have much less symptoms. Stopping therapy for a week led to a relapse so she is still taking 19 drops of NCD three times daily.

Case 9. This 33 year old female had joint pains, fatigue, exhaustion and depression diagnosed as fibromyalgia. Massage, acupuncture, herbs, acupressure and glucosamine had failed to help. Zeolite therapy led to complete resolution of her symptoms.
Waiora is a multi-level marketing company which I joined so my patients could have access to this fine product.

Footnotes:

1, Deutsch, Rik personal communication.
2, CNN American Morning Program March 8, 2006 Miles and Soledad O'Brien
3, Clayton, Scott personal communication
4, Apsley, John et al Nanotechnology's Latest Oncolytic Agent: Silver, Cancer, &Infection Interactions Townsend Letter May 2006 pg 96
5, Oliver DO et al Biocidal effects of silver: Contract NAS 9-9300 Final Techanical Report, University of Wisconsin, Accession No. N71-24436 , NASA CR-1149, Code G3, Category 04, 1971 Feb;5-2

© 2006 Dr. James Howenstine - All Rights Reserved

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Dr. James A. Howenstine is a board certified specialist in internal medicine who spent 34 years caring for office and hospital patients. After 4 years of personal study he became convinced that natural products are safer, more effective, and less expensive than pharmaceutical drugs.

This research led to the publication of his book A Physicians Guide To Natural Health Products That Work. Information about these products and his book can be obtained from amazon.com and at www.naturalhealthteam.com and phone 1-800-416-2806 U.S. Dr. Howenstine can be reached by mail at Dr. James Howenstine, C/O Remarsa USA SB 37, P.O. Box 25292, Miami, Fl. 33102-5292.

2007-08-17T08:54:00.000-06:00

THE STORY OF STEM CELL ENHANCERS, by Christian Drapau, MSc."

A little over two decades ago, a new herbal supplement named Aphanizomenon flos-aquae (AFA), an aquatic botanical, made its appearance on the marketplace. Rapidlly, AFA became popular for the wide variety of health benefits reported by consumers. Over the years we identified the presence in AFA of various bioactive compounds such as phycocyanin, a strong natural anti-inflammatory compound, a polysaccharide supporting immune function, and phenylethylamine (PEA), a molecule knows as "the molecule of love," which increases mental clarity and provides a sense of well-being. Nevertheless, in spite of the identification of these various components, many health benefits reported by consumers remained unexplained.
At the turn of the 21st century, data began appearing in the scientific literature describing the potential of embryonic stem cells (ESC). ESC were shown to have the ability to become any kind of cells in the body. Soon after, studies revealed that adult stem cells (ASC) also had the ability of becoming virtually any kind of cells in the body. When this discovery was made, we hypothesized that ASC constituted the natural renewal system of the body, and we published this hypothesis in the journal, Medical Hypotheses (October 2002). Our idea at the time was this: if ASC indeed constituted the natural renewal system of the body, with ASC being able to become any cell type of the body, then supporting this process could lead to a wide variety of health benefits. Given the broad spectrum of benefits reported by AFA consumers, we simply hypothesized that AFA was supporting aspects of stem cell physiology.
With this in mind, we initiated a series of laboratory experiments and soon discovered that consumption of large quantity of AFA (greater than 5 grams) increased the number of circulating stem cells by up to 30%. As we pursued our investigation to identify the compound in AFA responsible for this effect, we actually identified two specific compounds supporting both the release of stem cells frrom the bone marrow and their migration out of the blood into tissues. We then proceeded to concentrate these compounds ouf of AFA, achieving 5:1 concentrates for both compounds, and blended these compounds to make stem cell "enhancers". One gram of stem cell "enhancers" supports the release of stem cells from the bone marrow and increases the number of stem cells from the bone marrow and increases the number of circulating stem cells by up to 30%. stem cell "enhancers" also concentrates phycocyanin and PEA, other important compounds found in AFA.
Stem cell "enhancers" is a natural product made of 100% organic AFA and manufactured in accordance with GMP regulations. The powder is encapsulated and bottled in a pharmaceutical grade facility, providing the highest quality possible, Each lot of StemEnhance is tested for any potential contaminants, according to a stringent quality control program.
When asked why would one want to take stem cell "enhancers", the answer is simply to support the body's natural process of maintaining optimal health. Supporting stem cell physiology everyday by increasing the number of circulating stem cells is one of the wisest decisions one can make to regain and maintain optimal health.

For more information on this remarkable product, this 10 minute video provides an excellent overview.

WHAT CAN STEM CELL NUTRITION DO FOR YOU?

StemEnhance is not a product based on anecdotal evidence but rather a body of collected evidence. Everyone is different so the stories are quite dramatic and varied. The body knows what it needs as do these master cells. It can repair heart muscle, the liver, digestive system, and most definitely the skin. StemEnhance supports brain function, improving clarity, focus and mood. The results can be quite extraordinary.

When StemEnhance is used as a daily supplement over time, the stimulation of billions of additional stem cells in the bloodstream could be one of the safest and most efficient methods for maintaining optimal health that science has yet discovered.

StemEnhance is available for purchase through StemTech. It is recommended that for the first few months – or longer to address greater health challenges – that you take two capsules in the morning and two capsules in the evening, dropping the dose to just two capsules per day for maintenance.

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2007-08-06T10:08:00.000-06:00

HOW TO FIND HIDDEN MSG IN FOOD LABELS

MSG (monosodium glutamate) is used as a flavor enhancer in countless processed foods. But while it enhances your food’s flavors, it is also at work doing potential damage to your brain and body.

MSG is an excitotoxin, a type of chemical transmitter that allows brain cells to communicate. The problem is that excitotoxins can literally excite your brain cells to death. Aside from harming your brain, MSG has also been linked to eye damage, headaches, fatigue, obesity, disorientation and depression.

Children are most at risk from MSG. The blood brain barrier, which keeps toxins in the blood from entering the brain, is not fully developed in children. MSG can also penetrate the placental barrier and affect unborn children as well. Nonetheless, most major brands of infant formula contain some processed free glutamic acid (a form of MSG).

As cautious as you may try to be about eliminating MSG from your diet, this toxin has many aliases. Becoming familiar with the hidden names of MSG can help you determine what foods to avoid. Here is just a sampling of ingredients that contain MSG (the link below has a full list):

• Gelatin
• Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein (HVP)
• Yeast Extract
• Malted Barley
• Rice Syrup or Brown Rice Syrup

Also, many restaurants add MSG to their menu items, so when eating out always be sure to tell your server that you don't want MSG added to your food.

For more information visit: Truth In Labeling - The whole truth about MSG

2007-08-04T13:28:00.000-06:00

REDUCE YOUR RISK OF CANCER WITH SUNLIGHT EXPOSURE

By William B. Grant, Ph.D.

With all of the publicity that UV radiation (UVR) is an important cause of skin cancer, premature skin aging and cataract formation, one might think that avoidance of UVR would be the best policy. Not so fast. If protection against UVR were the most important thing, all humans would have very dark skin, since the melanin in dark skin protects against skin cancer and premature skin aging.

Skin pigmentation becomes paler the closer one’s ancestors lived to the polar-regions, evidently to balance cutaneous production of vitamin D with protection against free radicals and DNA damage from UVR [Jablonski and Chaplin, 2000]. In addition, even a cursory look at the geographic variation in cancer mortality rates in the United States [Devesa et al., 1999] indicates that some environmental factor has to explain why mortality rates for a number of internal cancers are approximately twice as high in northeastern, highly-urbanized states than in southwestern, more rural states.

Diet and smoking are, of course, important risk factors for many types of cancer [Doll and Peto, 1981]. But in order for diet to explain the geographic variation in cancer rates, Americans would need to be eating drastically different diets by region. However, anyone who has travelled throughout the United States knows that the food choices do not vary much anywhere in the contiguous 48 states.

The Risk of Cancer Lessens With More Sun Exposure

The key to understanding this geographic pattern was provided by Cedric and Frank Garland in 1980 [Garland and Garland, 1980]. They reasoned that sunlight, through the production of vitamin D, reduced the risk of colon cancer in the sunny areas compared to that in the darker areas. They performed an ecologic study of annual solar irradiance versus colon cancer mortality rates and found a strong inverse correlation, i.e. the more sunlight, the less cancer. (An ecologic study treats entire populations defined geographically as entities, with values for disease outcome and environmental or dietary factors averaged for each entity.)

Their paper received little notice at first, perhaps because UVR was commonly associated with skin cancer, perhaps because the ecologic approach was falling out of favor [Doll and Peto, 1981]. Undaunted, they extended their work through the use of stored serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D)--the common form of circulating vitamin D--values for another purpose along with a determination of colorectal cancer incidence among the serum donors, finding a significant inverse correlation between 25(OH)D and colorectal cancer rates [Garland et al., 1985]. The list of cancers for which ultraviolet B (UVB) (290-315 nm) and vitamin D is protective was extended through a variety of observational epidemiologic studies by the end of the 1990s to include breast, ovarian and prostate cancer and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma [Grant, 2002b].

How Vitamin D Reduces the Risk of Cancer

The mechanisms by which vitamin D reduces the risk of cancer are fairly well understood. They include enhancing calcium absorption (in the case of colorectal cancer) [Lamprecht and Lipkin, 2003], inducing cell differentiation, increasing cancer cell apoptosis or death, reducing metastasis and proliferation, and reducing angiogenesis [van den Bemd and Chang, 2002]. In addition, 25(OH)D downregulates parathyroid hormone (PTH) [Chapuy et al., 1987]. Since IGF-I stimulates tumor growth and high quantities are a consequence of the standard American diet [Grant, 2002a; 2004], vitamin D can be considered one partial antidote to the American diet.

When I decided to investigate the role of UVB and vitamin D in reducing the risk of cancer, after I convinced myself that dietary factors could not explain the geographic variation of cancer mortality rates in the United States, I posed two questions to address:

For how many cancers is UVB/vitamin D protective?

How many Americans die prematurely each year due to inadequate levels of vitamin D?

I started with the maps of cancer mortality rates in the Atlas of Cancer Mortality [Devesa et al., 1999] and found the UVB irradiance/dose map for the United States for July 1992 made using data obtained by NASA’s Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) to use as a proxy for vitamin D production. In this study, I determined that UVB was inversely correlated with mortality rates for 12 types of cancer, including five types of cancer already identified plus an additional seven, and estimated that 17, 000 to 23,000 Americans died prematurely each year due to insufficient vitamin D [Grant, 2002b].

While the study was generally accepted, critics pointed out that I had ignored a number of factors that affect the risk of cancer and which could, perhaps, explain much of the variation in mortality rates. To respond to these critics, I extended the analysis by including a number of cancer risk factors for which I could find state-averaged values.

These factors included lung cancer mortality rates (an index for the adverse health effects of smoking), fraction of the population considered of Hispanic heritage (Hispanics are counted as white Americans in the Atlas), alcohol consumption rates, degree of urbanization, and fraction of the population living below the poverty level.

Sun Exposure (UVB) Protects Against 16 Types of Cancer

The new study links UVB as protective to a total of 16 types of cancer, primarily epithelial (pertaining to the surface) cancers of the digestive and reproductive systems [Grant, submitted]. Six types of cancer (breast, colon, endometrial, esophageal, ovarian, and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma) were inversely correlated to solar UVB radiation and rural residence in combination. This result strongly suggests that living in an urban environment is associated with reduced UVB exposure compared to living in a rural environment.

Another 10 types of cancer including bladder, gallbladder, gastric, pancreatic, prostate, rectal and renal were inversely correlated with UVB but not urban residence. Ten types of cancer were significantly correlated with smoking, six types with alcohol, and seven types with Hispanic heritage. Poverty status was inversely correlated with seven types of cancer. Since the results for alcohol, Hispanic heritage, and smoking for white Americans agree well with the literature [Trapido et al., 1995; Thun et al., 2002], they provide a high level of confidence in the approach and its results for UVB radiation.

Over 40,000 Americans Die Annually From Cancer Caused by Vitamin D Deficiency

From this analysis, it was estimated that 45,000 Americans die from cancer annually related to inadequate levels of vitamin D: half from UVB doses based on location, and half based on living in an urban environment with reduced solar radiation exposure.

Papers continue to appear supporting the UVB/vitamin D-cancer connection. The latest is from Norway, showing that the detection of breast, colon, and prostate cancer has a seasonal cycle correlated with vitamin D production by sunlight [Robsahm et al., 2004]. This paper is important since it shows that vitamin D effectively fights cancer even in the later stages.

How Much Vitamin D is Required to Prevent Cancer?

The amount of ingested vitamin D and/or UVB exposure required for optimal protection against cancer is still being determined. Each person responds differently to UVB exposure and oral intake of vitamin D depending on such factors as skin pigmentation, body mass index (vitamin D is fat soluble), age, condition of digestive tract, other dietary factors, etc.

Dietary vitamin D is insufficient alone to significantly reduce the risk of most cancers since the ingested amounts, up to 200 to 400 I.U. per day, are too low [Grant and Garland, in press]. Evidently, 600 to 1000 I.U per day are required to reduce the risk of vitamin-D-sensitive cancers, except possibly prostate cancer, for which population-average values of serum 25(OH)D are associated with the minimum risk [Tuohimaa et al., 2004; Grant, in press].

The current understanding is that serum 25(OH)D levels should be in the 30 to 40 ng/ml (75-100 nmol/L) range for cancer prevention and optimal health. The only way to determine one’s 25(OH)D levels is through blood tests, which can be ordered through a physician or nutritionist. It should be noted that the UVB dose required to generate these levels is much less than would ordinarily be considered a risk factor for skin cancer, etc.

The time required in the sun is probably 15 to 30 minutes per day with at least hands and face exposed in the mid-latitudes during summer [Reid et al., 1986], but depends on a number of personal factors. The optimal time for solar UVB production of vitamin D may be around the middle of the day when the ratio of UVB to UVA (315-400 nm) is highest and the required exposure times are shortest.

However, this works only when the sun is elevated high enough--for the four to five darkest months of the year it is impossible to produce any vitamin D from sunlight in Boston [Webb et al., 1988]. When solar UVB is not available, one has to rely on stored vitamin D (weeks to months), artificial UVB, dietary supplements, many types of fish, or fortified foods, which now include milk and orange juice.

How Can You Protect Yourself From Inadequate Vitamin D Levels?

While the scientific results to date increasingly support the hypothesis that UVB and vitamin D reduce the risk of many types of cancer as well as many other types of disease including musculoskeletal diseases, autoimmune diseases and hypertension, it will likely be some time before the health system embraces this hypothesis and acts to recommend higher values of 25(OH)D, which would require increased UVB exposure (natural and artificial) and dietary supplements.

However, the informed individual who carefully studies the literature can very likely reduce his or her risk of cancer and a number of other diseases by careful exposure to UVB, being particularly careful to avoid any sunburning, and adequate intake of vitamin D.

More information on the protective role of UVB against breast and colorectal cancer, other cancers, and other diseases can be found at my Web site, www.sunarc.org.

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The Best Natural Sun-blockers: Topical Agents

(Excerpted from The Blaylock Wellness Report)

• Zinc oxide. Instead of the unsightly white or multicolored form of this skin protector, there is a colorless microfine form. It physically blocks UVA and UVB sunlight, and the zinc promotes skin healing and stimulates the cells that replenish skin cells. Frequent (or daily) use may be toxic to the skin.

• Titanium oxide. This product also comes in a microfine particle form. While it effectively blocks UVA and UVB, there is evidence that titanium promotes inflammation so, I would not use it.

• Octinoxate (octyl methoxycinnamate). This is a common ingredient in sunscreens. It effectively protects the skin cells from DNA damage and prevents burning of the skin.

• Oxybezone. This is also a common ingredient in sunscreens. As stated above, recent evidence indicates that it is oxidized when exposed to the sun and can worsen skin damage through free radical generation. If used, it should always be combined with a powerful mix of topical antioxidants.

• Green tea. Many studies have shown that, when applied to the skin, green tea - or one of its major flavonoids, epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) - significantly protect against UVA and UVB damage and also neutralizes major free radicals in the skin. It also reduces inflammation and prevents sun-related immune suppression. Green tea also appears to prevent skin cancers. And, green tea extract also stimulates the keratinocytes, which thickens the skin. Of course, one effect of aging is thinning skin. A white tea extract would be even better, but as yet, it is not available topically.

• Silymarin (a component of milk thistle). Several studies have shown that when applied topically, silymarin provides the skin with major protection against sun damage and skin cancer.

• Proanthocyanidins (grapeseed extract and pycnogenol). This powerful antioxidant flavonoid not only prevents UV damage but also protects skin's collagen and elastin, both of which retard skin aging.

• Curcumin. This is a flavonoid found in the spice turmeric. When applied topically, it has been shown to powerfully inhibit skin cancer. It is a very strong antioxidant, reducing inflammation and restoring skin immunity. Because of its yellow color, a colorless form has been created - it is called tetrahydrocurcumin. It can be used topically. It also lightens skin spots associated with aging skin.

• Rosemary. This extract has proven to powerfully prevent skin cancers induced by a number of agents, including UV radiation.

• Resveratrol. This is a phytoalexin found in grape seeds and especially skins. There is evidence that it is what protects grapes from the sun's harsh rays. Studies indicate that it can do the same for people when given either orally or applied topically.

• Vitamin C, E and D have all shown protective effects. Vitamin E is one of the skin's most abundant skin antioxidants.

Oral Antioxidants Provide Powerful Protection Against Skin Damage Due to Over Exposure

A number of studies have shown that oral antioxidants provide powerful protection against skin damage from aging and sun exposure. When taken as supplements, all of the above (except titanium oxide, oxybenzone and octinoxate) are protective. Vitamin D3 and a flavonoid called quercetin have been shown to powerfully inhibit melanoma development and even its growth and spread, should it develop.

While a mixture of carotenoids (alpha and beta carotene, zeaxanthine, lycopene, etc.) can protect and promote skin health, high doses of beta-carotene have been shown to dramatically increase sensitivity to sun damage and even skin cancer.
One study, in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology in 2003, found that a combination of topical selenomethionine and oral vitamin E significantly protected test animals' skin from UVA and UVB damage and dark pigment spots.

You can get your tea catechins from one or two cups of strong white tea. White tea has very low levels of fluoride and aluminum - much lower than the green or black varieties. It also has much higher levels of protective catechins (flavonoids).
By combining oral antioxidants with topical sun blockers and topical antioxidant mixtures, you can provide your skin with maximum protection against sun damage and aging.

2007-08-04T11:29:00.000-06:00

FLUORIDE TOXICITY DAMAGE

The recently released National Research Council report on fluoride now confirms what opponents to water fluoridation have been saying for over four decades. The extensive report reviewed all major studies on fluoride toxicity and concluded that fluoride was a major risk factor for a number of diseases and conditions, including cancer, diabetes, thyroid dysfunction, immune disruption, Down's syndrome, low IQ in children and brain injury.

The effects on the brain were shocking, especially in small babies and children. Despite the just-released report, American Dental Association spokesmen were busy trying to force bottled-water manufacturers to add fluoride to the already purified water. I recently saw a picture from the Bangor Daily News showing small children from a Maine elementary school lining up to take their daily dose of fluoride, as prescribed by school officials.

This is absolutely criminal - especially when you consider this:
A new Harvard study published in the prestigious cancer journal Cancer Causes and Control clearly demonstrates that the present levels of fluoride added to drinking water enhance a fatal form of bone cancer (osteosarcoma) to five times normal rates when given to young boys.

This confirms two other studies - one by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and one by the New Jersey Health Department, which found that bone cancer incidence increased by six times in boys exposed to fluoridated drinking water.

So who is behind this? Answer: super-phosphate fertilizer companies (fluoride is their major waste product), the American Dental Association (and its government backers), the CDC and the Forsyth Dental Institute.

2007-08-01T18:39:00.000-06:00

THE FAILINGS OF MODERN MEDICINE

Just exactly what does two trillion dollars purchase the United States when it comes to quality and reliability of our health care system? For that money, we should have the best medicine in the world – preventing and reversing disease, and knowing how to do minimal harm. Instead we are getting buried prematurely.

According to the World Health Organization, the U.S. is ranked a paltry thirty-seven, sandwiched between Slovenia and Costa Rica. Not exactly where you would imagine our “great nation” to be.

Despite the fact that the United States spends more on medicine than any other nation, the country is facing a health care crisis as its health care system is in danger of collapse.

The system is not working. There are numerous reasons for the unnecessary deaths at the hands of modern medicine. Here are just a few:

● Sloppy handwriting [by doctors] is the cause of 7,000 patient deaths each year

● Preventable medication mistakes hurt 1.5 million patients.

● Every year 7.5 million unnecessary medical and surgical procedures are performed.

● At least 106,000 people die every year from adverse drug reactions.

● A mere 6% of all adverse drug reactions are properly identified. (Most side effects are instead mistaken for new disease symptoms, leading to further drugging and unnecessary medical procedures, increasing the risk of death even further. Of these deaths, many are from expected adverse reactions because they are an extension of the drug reaction.)

● The mortality rate for people between the ages of 45 and 64, who took their prescription drugs correctly, rose 90% in just five years.

● The deaths caused by conventional medicine, in just one decade, equate to approximately eight million. That’s more than all the casualties from all the wars America has fought in its entire history.

● Simply put, the American health care system is the number one killer in the United States.

Add to the errors of medicine, deceptive marketing has led to consumer consumption of highly processed foods. Sugar in soft drinks is the number one source of calories in the U.S. which now causes one in three Americans to have diabetes, or pre-diabetes, and two in three Americans to be overweight. Toxic medicine will never reverse poor health that is due to poor food choices.

What stands in the way of change are powerful pharmaceutical companies, medical technology companies, and special interest groups with enormous vested interests in the business of medicine. They fund medical research, support medical schools and hospitals, and advertise in medical journals. With deep pockets they entice scientists and academics to support their efforts. Such funding can sway the balance of opinion from professional caution to uncritical acceptance of a new therapy or drug.

Modern medicine is no longer about health but rather it is a for-profit disease industry that can only survive if millions of people get sick, and stay that way. It is an industry that refuses to consider vitally important aspects of health, like how stress lowers the immune system, how processed foods, alcohol, excessive calories and insufficient exercise are recipes for disease, how exposure to tens of thousands of toxins in our environment and in our food supply have direct links to the illnesses you suffer.

The cancer industry actually informs people to stay out of the sun yet more than 50,000 people die each year because they do not get enough sun exposure!

Instead profits come before health. More than half of the United States has received unnecessary medical treatment. That’s about 50,000 people each day. 42% have been directly affected by a medical mistake, from a procedure or a drug, and 84% of our population personally know someone who has been a victim of a medical error.

These medical errors and deaths equate to six jumbo jets falling out of the sky every day. The only difference is the media coverage – there’s no public displays of grief for those who die of faulty medicine.

The error rate of intensive care units is like the post office losing 16,000 pieces of mail every hour of every day or banks deducting 32,000 checks from the wrong account each and every hour – every day, year in and year out.

You, however, do not have to become a statistic. Natural therapies exist for every illness, disease prevention and immune support.

This information is presented in memory of the millions of people who placed their trust in a corrupt medical system that took their lives for profit, bankrupted their life’s savings, and when they had no money left to give, left them for dead.

2007-07-08T18:51:00.000-06:00

The following article was authored by United States Congressman Ron Paul and Presidential candidate, a truly heroic individual who takes on big government, pharmaceutical drug companies, corruption and greed, including that demonstrated by agencies, such as the FDA and FTC.

DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS AND HEALTH FREEDOM

By: Congressman Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Presidential Candidate

Millions of Americans take dietary supplements every day, and the numbers are growing as the Baby Boom generation ages. More and more Americans understandably are frustrated with our government-controlled health care system. They have concluded that vitamins, minerals, and other supplements might help them stay healthy and less dependent on the system. They use supplements because they can buy them freely at stores and research them freely on the internet, without government interference in the form of doctors, prescriptions, HMOs, and licenses. In other words, they use supplements because they are largely free to make their own choices, in stark contrast to the conventional medical system.

But we live in an era of unbridled government regulation of both our personal lives and the economy, and Food and Drug administration bureaucrats burn to regulate supplements in the same manner as prescription drugs.

The health nannies insist that many dietary supplements are untested and unproven, and therefore dangerous. But the track record for FDA-approved drugs hardly inspires confidence. In fact, far more Americans have died using approved pharmaceuticals than supplements. Not every dietary supplement performs as claimed, but neither does every FDA drug.

The FDA simply gives people a false sense of security, while crowding out private watchdog groups that might provide truly disinterested consumer information. It fosters a complacent attitude and a lack of personal responsibility among people who assume a government stamp of approval means a drug must be safe, and that they need not study a drug before taking it.

The FDA, like all federal agencies, ultimately uses its regulatory powers in political ways. Certain industries and companies are rewarded, and others are punished. No regulatory agency is immune from politics, which is why the FDA should not be trusted with power over our intimate health care decisions.

The real issue is not whether supplements really work, or whether FDA drugs really are safe. The real issue is: Who decides, the individual or the state? This is the central question in almost every political issue. In free societies, individuals decide what medical treatments or health supplements are appropriate for them.

Over the past decade the American people have made it clear they do not want the federal government to interfere with their access to dietary supplements. In 1994, Congress bowed to overwhelming public pressure and passed the Dietary Supplements and Health and Education Act, which liberalized the rules regarding the regulation of dietary supplements. Congressional offices received a record number of comments in favor of the Act, which demonstrates how strongly Americans feel about health freedom.

The FDA simply has thumbed its nose at Congress and ignored the new rules in many instances, by attempting to suppress information about health supplements. But in 1999 a federal appellate court affirmed that the American people have a First Amendment right to such information without interference from the FDA. However, members of Congress have had to intervene with the FDA on several occasions to ensure that they followed the court order.

My regular listeners already know about another looming threat to dietary supplement freedom. The Codex Alimentarius Commission, an offshoot of the United Nations, is working to “harmonize” food and supplement rules between all nations of the world. Under Codex rules, even basic vitamins and minerals will require a doctor’s prescription. As Europe moves ever closer to adopting Codex standards, it becomes more likely that the World Trade Organization will attempt to force those standards on the United States. This is yet another example of how the WTO threatens American sovereignty. By cooperating with Codex, the FDA is blatantly ignoring the will of Congress and the American people.

To learn more about how the government is threatening your freedom to use health supplements, please take 30 minutes and watch the video "We Become Silent: The Last Days of Health Freedom".