Trader Joe’s now has heavy whipping cream. Remember, this is not Grass Fed, nor Raw (see the ultra pasteurized sign). So we always need to be cautious about how much we are consuming of any dairy, especially non-grass fed non-raw. But a few times a week, whipping this up on your berries will not hurt you, and it will definitely keep you true!
So many of you know that I am currently blaming my coughing over the last two weeks on mold. I have had a TON of patients over the years who have come to me asking about mold, and I have had a basic knowledge to share, and a focus on the natural process of getting well. But now, I am in an even better position to defend natural, as I am living it!
It all started with me cleaning out my old fridge on a Thursday evening before my neighborhood garage sale, which was going to be the proven method of getting rid of all things you don’t want (it is now 80% proven, better than zero). The fridge had been in my garage, UNPLUGGED, you know, like Pearl Jam on MTV with acoustic guitars… no electricity, for the last five months. The thing had a forest growing in it… MOLD after MOLD after MOLD.
So I attacked it, with water, pressurized water just destroying mold! Of course, it was also causing it to break apart into smaller pieces, and to be thrown into the air. I also used Bleach. A very harsh chemical killer… one that I am not a fan of ever coming in contact with, but I felt like i needed it here. The only thing is that I probably didn’t need to have it entering my lungs, weakening the lining, as the mold was doing the same thing!
By the end of the night, I had spent two hours emptying that fridge of mold spores and disgust. The good news is that it sold the next morning, the bad news, is that I was coughing the next morning, with the start of chest congestion in my lungs. I believe it was the mold.
So here we are, over two weeks later, and I am still coughing up fluid and mucous from my lungs. Worse in the AM after a long still night on my back, but slightly constant all day long. It is annoying! I would almost be tempted to take something, but what would I take? Some kind of cough suppressant, which would likely have to restrict the blood vessels, reducing the production of mucous on the lining. It doesn’t sound so bad. Until we look deeper into the deadly nature of some black molds.
As I researched Dr. Mercola’s site, I found references to the book, Mold: The War Within by Kurt and LeeAnn Billings. Having been home owners of a house turned bad via Hurricane Katrina’s devastating LATE effects… being the mold that grew over time. They eventually had to move from their home in an attempt to get well. One thing they learned on their journey, was that starving the mold via dietary restriction, had the greatest immediate impact. Funny, mold feeds on the same stuff as cancer, or bacteria. Sugar. So they stopped all sugar, and all forms of food that readily becomes sugar, such as grains. They stopped all fruit. They basically did the diet that I have put so many of you on, and currently have so many of you on (via 60 Day Turnaround).
But what I really enjoyed about my research, was the look at the deadly nature of the medical treatment for mold. Immuno-suppressing nasal steroid inhalers. Like your immune system didn’t have enough to worry about before you starting suppressing it. Oh, but wait, you don’t like your symptoms, so better start suppressing those (we are slowly working our way to where I left off talking about my lungs being congested). One of the WORST possible treatments for Mold, are antibiotics. Because they don’t kill anything mold/yeast related. As a matter of fact, as so man women know, take antibiotics, and yeast like the resulting environment, and it will tend to grow. So antibiotics only further the mold problem. Doh!
What about anti-fungals like Lamisil? Or perhaps Nystatin? Have you ever read the liver warnings on this class of meds? Would you really want to be treating yourself if your liver matters?
I am sure you get what I am going to say about congestion, but lets do it anyways. Any time you have a symptom, you have it for a reason. If your chest is filling up with fluid after being attacked by mold, it is probably working at killing the problem at the site. You see, your mucous is loaded with antibodies. More so than any other tissue in the body, and that mucous is protecting you. Which should leave you wondering what you are doing to yourself when you suppress sinus production, lung production or otherwise.
The more I would suppress my immune system, the longer I would have to fight with this problem. The deeper it would penetrate. Mold doesn’t “grow” in healthy bodies, it has a myco-toxin that it produces that causes you difficulties as it permeates into your tissues. This requires that you bind it and remove it. Which is partially a detoxification process as well. So I am interested in improving my detox systems too. Diet is the key, but supplementation will help this as well, utilizing Daily Detox (for the glutathione precursors), or for me so far I have just been upping the juice plus to allow my body to create more of what it needs to get this job done.
I will say this, reading the account of the Billings, it is obvious that their symptoms worsened, even after they took themselves away from the environment of the mold. They left their house, and they continued to worsen. This is evidence that once the toxin is in, you need to get it out in order to get well. So sitting back and doing nothing, can be a deadly mistake.
I will keep you up to speed while I head down this journey! Be well and Be blessed, and Trust in yourself! – Dr. E
http://foodbabe.com/2012/10/10/does-your-favorite-candy-have-gmos/
Be sure to click the link above to see the full article. Food Babe gets it done! And you should really stay in tune with her blog page.
The article:
Before I knew anything about food and it’s effects on the body – I was a candy addict. To my family and friends, I was the queen of candy! I knew every brand, every flavor, and always had candy with me. And then, during my wellness journey years ago, when I discovered all my beloved candy had chemicals, trans fats, preservatives and petroleum based artificial colors added to it – I flipped. I immediately banned all major brands of candy and haven’t looked back.
Just look at the ingredients in Starbursts & Twizzler Twerpz and you’ll see what I mean.
I also found out these brands contain GMOs (genetically modified organisms) – something I hadn’t given much thought to until recently.
And then I thought about the upcoming holiday and how many people are going to be buying this junk and giving genetically modified candy to their friends, neighbors and families.
If you’ve already bought your Halloween candy and it’s one of these brands on the left of this chart below – you might want to start looking for your receipt.
I created this chart to help navigate better candy choices without the added chemicals, preservatives, trans fats, artificial colors and GMOs. The brands on the right are amazing GMO free substitutes that are very similar tasting to the popular candy brands on the left.
Dr. E – The reality is that the GMO concern is never the first thought when looking at candy… for any of us in the health education world. We are always pushing the button of HFCS (high fructose corn syrup), or Trans Fat and simply the very high sugar content. But to pile GMO on top of that, geez! We need a major intervention here!
So I hope you’ll do what we do, and turn Halloween night into an educational time. We’ll go out and fill bags with candy. Then we’ll pour them out on the floor, then we’ll review what is in the candy, make a decision to keep a few pieces and throw the rest out, then put the ones we have kept away, and likely they will never come out again!
But, we will talk about what is in the candy, so that my girls become wise, and concerned. Discerning, even at the ages of 6 and 8. These are all teachable moments, make use of them.
Be well and Be blessed! Dr. E
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This is a great article, which you can find the whole thing here: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/10/20/breast-cancer-prevention.aspx And there is a good video from Dr. Horner on this page as well.
By Dr. Mercola
According to estimates by the American Cancer Society, about 232,300 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013, and about 39,600 will die from the disease.
Dr. Christine Horner is quite familiar with breast cancer. She began her career as a board certified general and plastic surgeon, performing breast reconstructive surgeries on women who’d had full mastectomies due to breast cancer.
While Dr. Horner was still in college, her mother developed breast cancer. Despite having a mastectomy, and successfully addressing a second breast tumor that appeared 13 years after the first one, she later died from cancer that metastasized in her femur.
“That’s the thing that really rocked my world,” Dr. Horner says. “In the interim, I had started my plastic surgery practice.
Because my mom had had breast cancer, I thought, well, I’d get active with the American Cancer Society. I was the spokesperson for the American Cancer Society on breast cancer issues.
I was trained to say, ‘We don’t know what causes it. We don’t have any known cures. The best things that women can do are mammograms and breast exams in the hope of catching it early to save lives.’
[Then] it was like, ‘Well, that didn’t work for my mom.’ And then, I noticed at my practice that my patients started getting younger and younger and younger. Finally, I was doing women in their 20s. I just thought, something is way wrong with this picture.”
Dr. Horner began reviewing the medical literature in search of clues that might reveal an answer to the dramatic increase in breast cancer, now appearing in women at an increasingly younger age.
What she discovered was thousands of studies that show exactly why we have a cancer epidemic—factors that contribute to it, and factors that are highly protective.
“And they were all natural,” she says. “It’s food, supplements, herbs, diet, and lifestyle. …I’m board certified in general surgery and plastic surgery… there’s 11 years of training in there.
I didn’t have a single course in nutrition. I learned nothing about health – nothing. All I learned was how to suppress symptoms with pharmaceutical medications or cut it out.
It wasn’t until I discovered that there was such an association with diet, herbs, lifestyle, and emotions too, that I thought, okay, these are the real secrets to health.”
As a result of her research, she got trained in Ayurveda, a traditional system of medicine from India. “Ayur” means life and “veda” means knowledge, so it literally means “the knowledge of life”; wisdom that, if followed, can bring you into balance and enhance your body’s innate self-healing intelligence.
The truth is, there are many simple strategies that can drastically reduce your chances of developing cancer, or any other chronic disease for that matter; strategies that do not involve harmful side effects.
“I decided to quit my practice and dedicate myself to teaching people about what they can do – the simple things that they can do – that can have a dramatic impact on their life,” she says.
“With all my research in the area of breast cancer, I thought the first thing I’m going to do is write a book on all the natural approaches to protecting against and fighting breast cancer because, definitely, we have the information to end the breast cancer epidemic. No question about it.”
It’s worth mentioning that the same strategies apply for other types of cancer as well. Prostate and colon cancer tumors, for example, are similar to breast cancer tumors, as certain hormones cause them all to grow. Hence, protective strategies that are effective against breast cancer also work on these other types of cancer. Cancer prevention strategies will also virtually eliminate most other chronic disorders.
Her dedication, research, and ultimate findings led to her writing the book,Waking the Warrior Goddess: Dr. Christine Horner’s Program to Protect Against and Fight Breast Cancer, which contains research-proven all-natural approaches for protecting against and treating breast cancer.
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Most Natural Prevention Strategies Cut Your Risk in Half
What’s most important, however, is Dr. Horner’s discovery that most of the lifestyle strategies that have been scientifically tested have the ability to cut your risk of cancer by about 50 percent; sometimes more. And yet virtually no one in conventional medicine talks about and shares such findings with their patients. Why? For example, turmeric can slash your risk by about half, while optimizing your vitamin D levels has been shown to cut breast cancer incidence by 77 percent1 in four years!
Of course, other lifestyle factors are also important in preventing cancer, such as nutrition, exercise, sleep, and managing stress. However, vitamin D’s critical importance seems to grow with every emerging study. Carole Baggerly, founder director of GrassrootsHealth—an organization dedicated to increasing awareness about vitamin D and the crucial role it plays in health—believes that as much as 90 percent of ordinary breast cancer is related to vitamin D deficiency, which is 100 percent preventable!
Despite its name, vitamin D is actually a powerful neuro-regulatory steroid with epigenetic influence over more than 2,000 genes in your body. That’s about 10 percent of all your genes. There are more than 830 peer reviewed scientific studiesshowing vitamin D’s effectiveness in the treatment of cancer, and personally, I believe it is virtually malpractice to not optimize vitamin D levels when treating someone with cancer. In this case, your vitamin D levels should be around 70-100 ng/ml. For more information about optimizing your vitamin D levels, please see my previous article Test Values and Treatment for Vitamin D Deficiency.
Now, if making just ONE beneficial change can halve your risk, or more… imagine what can happen if you address several lifestyle factors known to have an effect.
“It becomes incredibly simple to dramatically lower your risk of developing this disease,” Dr. Horner says. “And then it takes the fear away. We don’t have to be so afraid of this horrible disease… we do have tremendous power in dramatically lowering our risk.”
Most importantly, Dr. Horner discovered that there are a number of healthy habits we’ve stopped doing in our modern culture that are highly protective against cancer. We’ve dramatically altered our diets—shunning our native, whole-foods cuisine for highly processed fare—and engage in very little physical activity, for example. We’ve also been told to fear the sun and slather our children in toxic sunscreens instead of reaping the tremendously protective benefits of vitamin D production that appropriate sun exposure brings. Fortunately, these factors are entirely within your personal control.
Dr. Eric:
A quick rundown for you of what I have done for our cancer patients over the years.
- Adjust. We have tackled the atlas as the first priority, and we have seen great results with that. In some cases with as many as 15 adjustments per week.
- Diet – no sugar, nothing that turns to sugar, and get clean with meats first followed by meat products. Find out what allergies and sensitivities might exist, and avoid them.
- Detox. Suero Cleanse is new on our radar, and we love it. But we did Opti Cleanse with liver support, and heavy metal detox, as well as the Daily Detox. Lots of work to get the garbage out of the system.
- Love. Yep. We have always seen the value of pouring out love. It boosts an immune system, every time.
Articles like this are always good to remind us that the pursuit of health should come before the treatment of disease. Both literally (before is always better than after), and figuratively (put the importance of health above the treatment – meaning, don’t choose a treatment option that scares you).
Be well and Be blessed! – Dr. E
So, I guess you are wondering from the title of this, what the story is with my wife Laura. Well, she has recently been diagnosed with acute Lyme disease. It was confirmed this past week, though I have been confident in this diagnosis for over a month.
I want to talk a little about the specific diagnosis of Lyme, as well as the relationship to overall health pursuit. First off, the disease is one of a bacteria, that tends to be very aggressive in its behavior because of its mobility. Lyme comes from the bacteria transmitted by ticks, attacks the nervous system,and is usually treated with antibiotics if it is caught early. But what you don’t get from the online sources is the reality of how awful this disease is and how fast growing it is. It can move, it can bore through tissue, and it can effect ALL parts of the body. I have had a handful of patients with Lyme over the years, and currently two active patients. Perhaps the greatest frustration for most of these patients, has come with simply trying to get a diagnosis. The bacteria (borrelia borgdorferi) is hard to diagnose; the lab test looks for the presence of antibodies against this bacteria, and it is difficult to discern, sometimes not showing up for months or years in the body, causing the most com
monly used first test to come back with false negatives for almost everyone. This is POINT #1 for choosing to live healthy, eating right, getting adjusted, etc. What I mean, is that if you are suffering from symptoms that are all over the map, then step one is get yourself on track pursuing health. Not waiting for a diagnosis and letting your body deteriorate while you run from doctor to doctor. I have heard commonly, “there are two sides to fighting Lyme, doxycycline and your immune system”. Your immune system works better when you are focused on health.
My wife Laura had a suspicious bite this June. It was questionable to the two of us from the get go, though we never saw a tick (and we have now learned that most people never do see the tick). I have had tick bites in the past and I have had spider bites. The obvious differences in this one, it left a mark for four weeks; it was a non-healing center with a white appearance, and a reddened area around. BULLS EYE, just like we are taught in school. The dramatic documentary film Under Our Skin further strengthens the argument that many people never get, or at least never see the bite, or the rash, or any of the indications or expectations that the medical field expect. This is a perfect segue into her first doctor visit….
To get the initial blood test, Laura went to see her OB, as we have no other MD that we use. There she was able to get the first test performed for Lyme, which is the one that usually comes back negative regardless… called the ELISA. We got the results in just about a weeks time….negative, so we knew we needed to wait and see if the symptoms continued to progress. Her neurological symptoms had been piling up.
These, and more actually. I had no question that she had Lyme. What else had so many neurological symptoms occur randomly in such a short period of time. I decided that there was nothing that fit better, so we called her doc and asked her to prescribe doxycycline (antibiotic) and She refused. Now this is a doctor who knows that we as a family have denied most medical interventions she has ever recommended over the past 13 years that my wife has gone to her. For us to ASK HER for an antibiotic should have seemed crazy enough, and perhaps enough to trust that we had done enough research for her to support this request. But, to those not educated about Lyme disease (and most doctors are not), the importance of taking an antibiotic early is not understood. This is so frustrating being that most doctors will randomly prescribe antibiotics for anything you visit them for and especially for the “just in case” infection. Here we are, asking for an antibiotic that is needed early to work, and we are being denied.
Now, I need to stop here and point something out. I DO NOT LIKE ANTIBIOTICS, nor does my wife. I wrote a daily sprout scathingly attacking them last week on purpose, knowing that this one was going to be written as well. I want you to know that if you take antibiotics for a cough, or a head cold, or sinus pressure, it is 98% likely that you are hurting yourself for no value. If you wait 10 days to 14 days (my plan always), then it drops to a 55% chance that you do not need the antibiotic (think viral infection, not bacterial). Which is why I say WAIT!
With Lyme, most patients who are treated in the acute phase (which is considered in the first few months of the bite), get complete healing from the disease. But if you watch the movie mentioned above, you will see awful cases, that look like parkinsons, or ALS (and many were actually diagnosed as such) because they were not treated early. We have consulted with a chiropractor in Naples FL who is part of the ownership team of Maximized Living Chiropractic. She lives clean. She had Lyme for years and never knew what she was battling early on. She explained that her effort to heal Lyme took 3 years of perfect diet, sleep/rest, and supplementation; because she had missed the antibiotic window and therefore gave up years of her life because of it. We didn’t want to do this, so when she recommended antibiotic treatment quickly, we agreed. She stated that Lyme Disease is probably one of the only diseases that she would jump at the chance to take an antibiotic as the first treatment. In our world, we say get adjusted first, supply nutrition second, and wait… rarely do we say medicate first.
Feeling that Laura definitely had Lyme but having a negative first test and a doctor unwilling to prescribe an antibiotic put us in a bind. If you have a disease that responds early to antibiotics but one that standard tests can’t typically detect in your body for months, you have a frustrating dilemma, compounded by doctors who are ignorant to the disease pattern. Thankfully, we found a back door way to doxy, through a friend, who had a prescription, and no it isn’t legal, but I surely won’t share any more than that. This was necessary, so she started the doxy.
Since then, it has now been six weeks, and Laura is still on the antibiotic. She is on an 8 week course of treatment for now. She did a more detailed blood test called the Western Blot for Lyme and after 3 weeks of waiting, it came back with a positive acute Lyme test result. This confirms the presence of antibodies against Lyme. It is considered positive for acute Lyme because of the type of antibody, suggesting we are still in early stages of the disease (whew, more hope for quicker response). Sadly however, we knew this 8 weeks ago but no one would listen.
She has been seeing positive results with the antibiotic so far, but the antibiotic also has been creating symptoms. So it is hard to tell if it is really working or not. Some people seem to get the antibiotic, and all symptoms end. Others seem to take time post treatment, and of course still others, do not see any change at all. We will see.
As soon as she stops the antibiotic, we will be doing Suero Viv cleanses, she will be doing an AMASAI every day, and we will be doing the Daily Detox. Regardless, we have a plan now for the ongoing effort to eliminate all toxins, so that her nervous system can coordinate an immune system strike, that will kill off whatever is left. But remember, she has to overcome the damage done to her immune system by the doxy. We have work to do. Serious work. I’ll be adjusting her atlas daily as soon as we get off the drug. Another couple weeks and we are done with this part, and on to the hard work.
So…. What does it all mean to you? As always, I think there are teaching moments in life. First, I hate antibiotics‘ and their use in our country, but love that they are available when really needed. We just don’t need them like you think. Learn from that… when to say when. Second, I only scratched the surface, but there are some tough diseases out there to fight, or to diagnose, and especially to cure. Lyme is one of them. My wife has done very well, and I know it is because of her overall health state. Focus on health all the time, and you will be more resilient.
Last, I wanted to share my story. I want you to know that my life has been complex in the pursuit of health. Myself, for the loss of my eye sight and my wife now with this. We have seen cancer really close many times, and get the difficulties of health absence, and the effort of coming to grips at times that things won’t improve. Please trust me, it is never easy to commit to your health, BUT it is always worth it!
Be well and be blessed, and say a prayer for my wife please. Thank you! – Dr. E
Read Latest Breaking News from Newsmax.com http://www.newsmaxhealth.com/Headline/influenza-virus-flu-vaccine-Peter-Doshi-Ph-D-/2013/05/16/id/504942#ixzz2i2ArlwJz
News Max shared this article back in May – it is time to read it again, as there are more “Get your FLU Shot Now” signs coming out than ever before. It is GARBAGE, and we have been screaming that for 12 years. Come on, show me some respect. OK, here is the article, I am out – Dr. E
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A Johns Hopkins scientist has issued a blistering report on influenza vaccines in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). Peter Doshi, Ph.D., charges that although the vaccines are being pushed on the public in unprecedented numbers, they are less effective and cause more side effects than alleged by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Further, says Doshi, the studies that underlie the CDC’s policy of encouraging most people to get a yearly flu shot are often low quality studies that do not substantiate the official claims.
Promoting influenza vaccines is one of the most visible and aggressive public health policies in the United States, says Doshi of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Drug companies and public officials press for widespread vaccination each fall, offering vaccinations in drugstores and supermarkets. The results have been phenomenal. Only 20 years ago, 32 million doses of influenza vaccine were available in the United States on an annual basis. Today, the total has skyrocketed to 135 million doses.
“The vaccine may be less beneficial and less safe than has been claimed, and the threat of influenza seems to be overstated,” Doshi says. Mandatory vaccination polices have been enacted, often in healthcare facilities, forcing some people to take the vaccine under threat of losing their jobs.
The main assertion of the CDC that fuels the push for flu vaccines each year is that influenza comes with a risk of serious complications which can cause death, especially in senior citizens and those suffering from chronic illnesses. That’s not the case, said Doshi.
When read carefully, the CDC acknowledges that studies finding any perceived reduction in death rates may be due to the “healthy-user effect” — the tendency for healthier people to be vaccinated more than less-healthy people. The only randomized trial of influenza vaccine in older people found no decrease in deaths. “This means that influenza vaccines are approved for use in older people despite any clinical trials demonstrating a reduction in serious outcomes,” says Doshi.
Even when the vaccine is closely matched to the type of influenza that’s prevalent, which doesn’t happen every year, randomized, controlled trials of healthy adults found that vaccinating between 33 and 100 people resulted in one less case of influenza. In addition, says Doshi, no evidence exists to show that this reduction in the risk of influenza for a specific population — here in the United States, among healthy adults, for example — extrapolates into any reduced risk of serious complications from influenza, such as hospitalizations or deaths, among seniors.
“For most people, and possibly most doctors, officials need only claim that vaccines save lives, and it is assumed there must be solid research behind it,” says Doshi. Unfortunately, that’s not the case, he says.
Although the CDC implies that flu vaccines are safe and there’s no need to weigh benefits against risk, Doshi disagrees. He points to an Australian study that found one in every 110 children under the age of five had convulsions following vaccinations in 2009 for H1N1 influenza. Additional investigations found that the H1N1 vaccine was also associated with a spike in cases of narcolepsy among adolescents.
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Doshi’s concerns echo those of Dr. Russell Blaylock, a neurosurgeon and author of “The Blaylock Wellness Report” who has deep concerns over the safety and efficacy of the flu vaccine.
Not only is the vaccine not safe, Dr. Blaylock tells Newsmax Health, it doesn’t even work. “The vaccine is completely worthless, and the government knows it,” he says. “There are three reasons the government tells the elderly why they should get flu shots: secondary pneumonia, hospitalization, and death. Yet a study by the Cochrane group studied hundreds of thousands of people and found it offered zero protection for those three things in the general community. It offered people in nursing homes some immunity against the flu — at best one-third — but that was only if they picked the right vaccine.”
A study released in February found that the flu shot was only 9 percent effective in protecting seniors against the 2012-2013 season’s most virulent influenza bug.
What’s even worse is that small children who are given the flu vaccine get no protection from the disease. “The government also says that every baby over the age of six months should have a vaccine, and they know it contains a dose of mercury that is toxic to the brain,” says Dr. Blaylock. “They also know the studies have shown that the flu vaccine has zero — zero — effectiveness in children under five.”
For most people, says Dr. Blaylock, flu vaccines don’t prevent the flu but actually increase the odds of getting it. The mercury contained in vaccines is such a strong immune depressant that a flu shot suppresses immunity for several weeks. “This makes people highly susceptible to catching the flu,” he says. “They may even think the vaccine gave them the flu, but that’s not true — it depressed their immune system and then they caught the flu.”
Mercury overstimulates the brain for several years, says Dr. Blaylock, and that activation is the cause of Alzheimer’s and other degenerative diseases. One study found that those who get the flu vaccine for three to five years increase their risk of Alzheimer’s disease 10-fold.
Doshi asserts that influenza is a case of “disease mongering” in an effort to expand markets. He points to the fact that deaths from flu declined sharply during the middle of the 20th century, long before the huge vaccine campaigns that kicked off the 21st century.
Why do drug companies push the flu vaccine? “It’s all about money,” says Dr. Blaylock. “Vaccines are a pharmaceutical company’s dream. They have a product that both the government and the media will help them sell, and since vaccines are protected, they can’t be sued if anyone has a complication.”
Doshi’s article “is a breath of fresh air,” says Dr. Blaylock. “This article exposes in well-defined and articulate terms what has been known for a long time — the flu vaccine promotion is a fraud.
“Here’s the bottom line,” says Dr. Blaylock. “The vast number of people who get the flu vaccine aren’t going to get any benefit, but they get all of the risks and complications.”
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This is straight from Mercola – this is crazy. I had no idea we had gotten this far, and it scares me to death. Aldous Huxley might have thought it up, but I doubt he imagined it would happen.
The Brave New World is here…
Full Article: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/10/15/designer-babies-genetic-modification.aspx
By Dr. Mercola
In 2001, a study1 announcing the successful birth of the world’s first genetically engineered babies—30 in total—was published. This staggering development didn’t receive media attention until nearly a decade later.
The children were created using genes from TWO women and one man—a process referred to as ooplasmic transplantation, in which genes from a female donor are inserted into another woman’s eggs before being fertilized with a man’s sperm.
What the ramifications of having the genetic traits of three parents might be for the individual, or for their subsequent offspring, is still unknown.
However, based on what I’ve learned about the genetic engineering of plants, I’m inclined to say the consequences could be vast, dire, and most likely completely unexpected.
In fact, it only took two years for follow-up reports to begin discussing problems encountered in these genetically engineered babies. According to one such report:2
“A frank follow-up of ooplasmic transplantation pregnancies and infants reports that two out of 17 fetuses had an abnormal 45, XO karyotype. The authors assume the hypothesis of a link between chromosomal anomalies and oocytes manipulation, and reveal that one of the babies has been diagnosed at 18 months with Pervasive Developmental Disorder, a spectrum of autism-related diagnoses.”
Despite such risks, and the lack of public discussion about these kinds of ventures, genetic scientists are steadily forging ahead, bringing us ever closer to the reality of “designer babies”—children born with traits predetermined by the parents’ choice.
As a matter of fact, the genetic modification of humans appears to have been running alongside the genetic engineering of plants, being just a few years behind in terms of the technology being unleashed. The lack of proper evaluation of health effects is apparently on par as well, which is to say near non-existent.
As recently reported by BBC News,3 a US patent has been filed for a DNA testing database, which would be used by prospective parents to find out which traits their future offspring might inherit. Critics call it “ethically and socially treacherous,” and I’m inclined to agree. According to the featured article:
“23andMe says its Family Traits Inheritor Calculator can predict the risk of inheriting specific diseases as well as details such as height, weight, eye color and even personality. Couples send the firm a saliva sample to see what their babies might be like.
… But critics remain concerned that such technology could be misused. ‘It would be highly irresponsible for 23andMe or anyone else to offer a product or service based on this patent,’ said Marcy Darnovsky, executive director of the Center for Genetics and Society… ‘We believe the patent office made a serious mistake in allowing a patent that includes drop-down menus for which to choose a future child’s traits.’”
One nightmarish scenario humanity might be faced with, should genetic engineering and designing of humans continue unchecked, is the potential for a patent war; meaning these genetically engineered humans could become patentable property.
Sound crazy?
You bet! But it’s not outside the realm of possibility. The world is already embroiled in discussions about which genetically engineered life forms can and cannot be patented,4 and biotech companies have secured patents on everything from genetically modified seeds to engineered animals of various kinds.
Furthermore, as of 2005, nearly 20 percent of human genes were already patented,5 and are explicitly claimed as intellectual property by one company or another. Unchallenged, what’s to stop a company from eventually claiming patent rights on an entire individual?
In an effort to put the brakes on this disturbing trend, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)6 has sued the US Patent and Trademark Office to stop the practice of issuing patents that are contrary to the law—which states that onlyinventions can be patented; not naturally-occurring parts of the human body. As explained by the ACLU:7
“For example, Myriad Genetics, a private biotechnology company based in Utah, controls patents on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes [two genes associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer]. Because of its patents, Myriad has the right to prevent anyone else from testing, studying, or even looking at these genes. It also holds the exclusive rights to any mutations along those genes. No one is allowed to do anything with the BRCA genes without Myriad’s permission.”
Thankfully, on June 13 this year, the US Supreme Court unanimously invalidated the patents on BRCA 1 and BRCA 2—an important victory in the fight to reclaim our genes.8 But we still have a long way to go. Patenting of seeds, for example, is just as hazardous to the future of mankind as the patenting of human genes.
Time, why is it so important? I guess we could say it is all we really have here. Our time. So tonight I am hosting a time management, mission management, peace building, stress avoidance workshop. Sounds great doesn’t it, though just saying the name will waste a bunch of your time. I consider myself an effective manager of time.
I don’t typically waste much of it, I like to be productive. I believe sleep is valuable, and have always wanted to push sleep to a decent level, protect it well with my kids, but once upon a time, I was at a leadership conference in Colorado… building chiropractors into health leaders. Dr. Patrick Gentempo said “You can sleep when you are dead”. Simple, and pointed. Now, as your healthcare leader, I need to say again. I believe sleep is valuable. But I also believe that there are things in life that you will accomplish, and you will enjoy, at times that you might have otherwise been sleeping… so be sure not to miss out on life.
Back to the time management piece… not just the find more time by giving up sleep piece. We address it in my health care model, because I believe people tend to fail heavily at health goals, because they are frantic in life, so they let health slide. Sometimes the simple complaint is “I am too tired to exercise, or prepare a good meal after my long day”. If I was allowed to swear, I might just do that right here. Come on man, seriously? You think that excuse holds water with anyone but yourself? Don’t be so deluded. Sure your tired, get up. And prepare what??? We don’t prepare anything at my house and we eat crazy healthy. It takes me all of 45 seconds to grab a bowl, grab a handful of spinach from the fridge, grab a handful of tomatoes, a handful of nuts and a quick shot of dressing (OK, so maybe 55 seconds if I go olive oil and vinegar).
Do you get my point? On the exercise thing. Yeah, you might be tired. If you went home tonight after work, and sat down in your comfy chair, and dozed off to sleep. Then were awoken by surprise to the crackling sound of a fire, and it was your home… would you be too tired to act? Nope. This really cool thing called adrenaline would kick in, and you would get something done. So, If I were you, I would start approaching every workout with that intensity. Build the feeling of fight or flight into your brain, and act. I have butterflies before almost every single workout I do, mild, but butterflies, because I take it serious. Serious like a major competition, or like my actions determine my ability to safeguard my family.
You know there was a bear in my neighborhood recently. I told many of you the stories. Every time I stepped out onto my dark deck at night before letting the dogs out, or before letting my kids leave the garage (yeah, it was this significant of an alert in our neighborhood), I had a rush of excitement. A ready to fight instinct (quick fight then flight)… I trust this is a product of how I work out. My point. There are useful hours in everyone’s day to work out. This is why the 5:15am class continues to be one of the most popular times at The Garage.
What else can I say about time to get it to sink in to your skull? Perhaps that every minute wasted, is a minute wasted? Perhaps that there is incredible value to accumulated time in any given arena of life. For example, exercise, relationships, work, etc. Ask my good friend/patient/CrossFit Bridgemill Athlete Christy Jones, who just hit 60# lost on her path to health (several months in the making, very committed, doing great). She’ll tell you that the accumulative effect of health choices is life change. But ask her the opposite question, what is the cumulative effect of neglect? She’ll tell you that one too, but I bet many of you can draw from life experience and tell us all about that one.
I know I can when it comes to relationship. I was sitting in a self assessment psycho babble weekend long workshop about 10 years ago or so. And I realized, I am lying to my wife. At the time, I was even more of a work addicted fool than now. At least now I choose to sacrifice sleep more, and spend more committed time with my wife and children in the day. Then, I was growing HealthSprout fast, office, 1, then 2, 3, 4… 7. I kept saying, “soon, I’ll be less busy”, yet the entire time, the goal was to have more and more offices. 150 to set it straight. The product of that day of realization, was that I hired a full time corporate level employee to organize the growth. To meet with the doctors, etc. That decision, was very likely the beginning of the end of HealthSprout’s global domination quest, but the start of something wonderful for me. Alignment of the mission.
And this point is where we will stop. My mission : To Change the way Healthcare is perceived by the world, while showing honor and giving glory to both God and my family. It hasn’t changed since that day. And because of it, all my ventures, all my activities, stare down one simple lens. They all fit this mission, they all got sucked into this vortex, so that even as I write this Daily Sprout, it is helping me with my workshop tonight. It is becoming material for the book that I am finally going to finish, and it is going to be part of what I use in a trickle down meeting with the coaches at CrossFit Silos in the coming week.
One lens, one mission, and all the time in the world.
Be well, Be blessed and be prosperous. – Dr. E