Dr. Levi

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/4341061/That-dreadful-fever-may-be-good-for-you

We did!

Abstaining from fever reducers such as the popular tylenol can turn out to be good for your health and a lifesaver.

A study that has been published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine said that the  results were striking, and showed that animals given drugs to fight a fever were more likely to die from flu. “The ones treated with anti-fever agents died at about a 30 per cent higher rate. It was as simple as that.”

The results led the team to believe fevers could be a natural protective mechanism which kicked in when animals had flu, to improve their chances of survival.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2951171/pdf/403.pdf

The study also points out what was just recently discovered about fever reducers and reduced vaccine efficacy.

“It is also possible that the increased mortality
risk with NSAID and paracetamol treatments may
have been partially due to their immunological or
anti-inflammatory effects, unrelated to antipyretic
activity.This is suggested by the recent study
which showed that the reduction in antibody response
to vaccination with paracetamol treatment
occurred in children with or without febrile responses.
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In plain words, the fever reducer blunted the immune system. If you reduce a fever you reduce the immune response and the ability to fight infections. Even attempting to do so with out a fever can cause immune system dysfunction.

I’ve known about this before because I know the principle law that governs the health of our bodies. But the timing of this article is relevant to me because my daughter’s daycare called me last week with permission to treat a fever that she began to express. They also suggested that I get her to the doctor right away so that she could be treated with tamiflu or another antiviral medication(which I would NEVER EVER do! EVER!).

Who taught us to be afraid of fevers? Our mothers? Grandmothers? Who taught them? Doctors! Who taught them?

The main thing that people are afraid of with fevers is a febrile seizure which can be scary. But what is not discussed is that febrile seizures can come on without warning and can even come on at low fever temperatures (101 degrees). It’s not how high the temperature gets. It’s how fast. And that cannot be predicted or prevented without recommending to everyone to “reduce the fever”.  But it turns out that this one size fits all medical advice is not wise because these medications have not been shown to prevent febrile seizures.

But back to the “who taught us that we need to reduce fevers and be afraid of high fevers? ”

In a recent journal article it was found that the combination of the measles,mumps,rubella, varicella(chickenpox) vaccine(MMRV)  doubled the already increased risk of seizure with measles vaccine.

But since a medical procedure actually caused the seizure instead of infection then the role of seizure was downplayed.

Dr. Klein pointed out that febrile seizures are common but usually harmless in children. “Up to 5% of children 6 months to 5 years of age can have a febrile seizure, and they are almost always due to colds or other infections. These seizures are a benign condition and they self-resolve. They don’t have any long-term side effects; they don’t, for example, lead to seizures and they don’t lead to epilepsy.”

However, they can be alarming. “The seizures can be very frightening for parents,” said Dr. Klein. “Typically, it’s a full-body convulsion and so parents do bring [the] child to the emergency department.”

So the message is if a fever comes on from viral or bacterial origin then it should be medically monitored and possibly controlled.

If the fever is from a medical origin and results in “full body convulsions” then it’s not a big deal. It will “self-resolve”.

No wonder people are so confused about medication and the role it plays in their family’s health.

So the next time you or your child gets a fever, what do you do? What types of questions will you ask?

Well, as you might guess, I think there is value in being hated by the world.  Now what does that mean?  I really don’t hope that you guys hate me, I kind of like you, and hope for the same in return.  But I don’t consider you guys to be of the world so much.

I recently had a guy who came to my doctor’s report, he made a decision right afterwards that he was going to pay in full for the year, and that he was going to have his wife checked out.  This guy, interestingly enough, had addressed with Loree that he wasn’t so fond of the Christian characteristics that my office carries.  So anyways, he went home, and called back a few hours later asking for a refund.

We weren’t too shocked; upset because we always want an opportunity to share our beliefs as they relate to health and other areas.  But he was really “of the world”, so when he went back home, he got into the culture, and he didn’t like the anti-medicine stance, so he contacted some friends in the medical community, and of course we stand out as being abrasive and someone to be violently opposed by anyone who puts their faith in the medical community.

So what I am asking of you, is to stand up in a way that makes you painful to others.  You know what I mean.  You know.  Like, when you have that friend who is always trying to make the right choice, but you just want to eat more donuts, and so when you are around them it makes your decisions painful.  You feel guilty, so you just choose to not be around that person anymore.  We have all been there at some point in our life, as it relates to something… now it is your turn.

The key however, is to NOT alienate people, it is simply to stand in the way of progress of evil.  SO you need to LOVE the people, but HATE the choice.  It is because I love you that I am willing to stand here and beg you to never eat at McDonald’s again.  And if you would let me bend your ear on the subject, I could communicate to you why it is necessary to never eat there again.  You might be saying, “not so hard, I could do that”… so how about Chick-fil-A?  They are just as bad.  But the issue is with those who really, really, really like McDonalds, or Chick-fil-A.  They really don’t want to spend anytime letting me talk about those, because it hurts a little. 

In order to take that step that lets the world hate me just a little, it takes caring for the person MORE than the amount I care for the way they think about me. 

I don’t want you to simply be hated, but I want everyone who is tied to culture, intimately tied to culture, to be a little disgusted with you over something.  There are too many areas of culture that are destructive.  They are destructive to your physical health, they are destructive to your mental health.  The constant bombardment of our psyche with medication solutions, with poor diet choices, and with so many potential wastes of time.  If you take the stand that you will be above and beyond many of these, because of your pursuit of health, then the world will not appreciate your choices, but you will be WAY better off for it!

So don’t go do anything to get yourself hated by someone, but the world as a whole, well… you’ll be better off if it hates you!  God Bless!

Check out the lates Daily Sprout, there has been media coverage today specifically focusing on the dangers of the TSA scanners.  I would recommend you read the sprout, and avoid the scanners!

Dr. Eric

This first excerpt is from Mike Adams, The Health Ranger from 10/19/10

(NaturalNews) I encountered my first airport naked body scanner while flying out of California today, and of course I decided to “opt out” of the scan. You do this by telling the blue-shirted TSA agents that you simply wish to opt out of the body scanner. Here’s what happened after that:

A TSA agent told me to step to the side and stay put. He then proceeded to shout out loudly enough for all the other travelers and TSA agents to hear, “OPT OUT! OPT OUT!” This is no doubt designed to attract attention (or perhaps humiliation) to those who choose to opt out of the naked body scanner. I saw no purpose for this verbal alert because the same TSA agent who was yelling this ultimately was the one who patted me down anyway.

For the pat down, first I was required to walk through the regular metal detector. From there, I was asked if I wanted to be patted down in a private room, or if I didn’t mind just being patted down in full view of everyone else. Not being a shy person in the first place, I told the agent I didn’t need a private room.

He then explained to me that he was going to pat down my entire body, including my crotch and my buttocks, but that he would use the back of his hands to pat down the crotch and buttocks areas. This is probably designed to make the pat-down seem less “personal” and more detached. That way, air passengers can’t complain of being felt up by TSA agents who might get carried away with the pat-down procedure. He asked if it hurt for me to be touched anywhere, and I told him no, at which point he proceeded with the pat down.

It was a well-scripted pat-down, covering all the areas of my body, including a mild crotch sweep (it wasn’t especially invasive or anything, as doctors will do far worse during a physical exam). He swept my arms, legs, hips, back of the neck, ankles and everywhere else. To the TSA’s credit, this guy was fast, efficient and only used a light touch that was in no way disturbing. But it did take an extra five minutes or so compared to walking through the naked body scanner.

Speaking of the naked body scanners, as I was having my crotch swept by the back of the hand of this TSA agent, I was observing other air travelers subjecting themselves to the naked body scanners. They were told to walk into the body scanner staging area and then hold their arms in the air in a pose as if they were under arrest. They were told to freeze in this position for several seconds (perhaps 10 seconds) during which they were being blasted with ionizing radiation that we all know contributes to cancer.

The TSA, of course, will tell you that these machines can’t possibly contribute to cancer. But they said the same thing about mammograms, and we now know that mammograms are so harmful to women’s health that they actually harm ten women for everyone one woman they help (http://www.naturalnews.com/020829.html). So I’m not exactly taking the U.S. government at its word that naked body scanner radiation is “harmless.”

As these air travelers were being scanned, their naked body images were appearing on a screen somewhere, of course. Some TSA agent was examining the naked body shape and contours of all these people, and even though we were told by the TSA that the image viewing machines cannot store images, we have since learned that the machines actually do have the capability to store those images (http://www.naturalnews.com/029378_f…). In addition, rogue TSA employees could simply use their cell phones to take snapshots of what they see on the screen. There are no doubt rules against such behavior, but it’s bound to happen sooner or later.

Meanwhile, my own security screening was proceeding fully clothed. I don’t want to broadcast my naked butt cheeks on the TSA’s graphic monitors, thank you very much!

Very few people opt out of the naked body scanners

The most fascinating part about this entire process was not the verbal broadcast of my opt out status, nor having my crotch swept by the latex-covered back hand of some anonymous TSA agent, but rather the curious fact that I was the only one opting out. Although I must have watched at least a hundred people go through this particular security checkpoint, there wasn’t a single other person who opted out of the naked body scan.

They all just lined up like cattle to have their bodies scanned with ionizing radiation.

Dr. Eric:

And so I wonder too, why we don’t opt out?  Not wanting to seem suspicious, or perhaps because we are too hurried to care if we are killing ourselves.  Most commonly however, I believe we tend to think if everyone it is doing it, then it is safe.  But my readers know that cannot be true; such is the case with McDonald’s.  We recently reviewed that 50% of a chicken McNugget is filler and toxic garbage… but a lot of people are eating there!

Take a look at this more recent article excerpt from Mike Adams:

…I’ve received a steady stream of reports from people who are traveling, all of whom are now choosing to opt out of the scanners. The reports coming in demonstrate an amazing ignorance among TSA security screeners about how the naked body scanners actually work.

One report from a very credible source (a famous health author whom I know quite well) reveals that TSA officers told her the naked body scanners don’t even emit X-rays. “It’s a myth,” the officer said. “There are no X-rays from those machines.”

Really? Then how do they work? Are they MAGIC? Do TSA officers cast a magic Spell of X-Ray Vision on the air travel passengers like some sort of Dungeons & Dragons adventure?

(Or maybe the TSA officers simply buy those X-Ray vision glasses advertised in the back of comic books and use those to gawk at passengers.)

That the TSA’s own employees don’t even know these machines emit radiation is a real whopper. But of course it only makes sense: They’ve probably been told this by the TSA because no person in their right mind would actually work 8 hours a day standing next to a machine that emits radiation every few seconds (no matter how seemingly small the dosage).

Dr. Eric:  WOW!!  This is really sad, but guess what, the ignorance doesn’t stop there!  I had a patient tell me last Monday that she rushed to the ER because of pain in her lower abdomen.  The doc wanted to look at the ureter in order to determine if there was a kidney stone.  They needed to take a CAT scan (CT Scan = somputerized tomography) to see the ureter.  My patient wisely asked for an MRI instead, and the NURSE told her that there was more radiation from an MRI!!!   AARGGHHH!!

There is NO radiation from an MRI, where a CAT scan is listed as having moderate to high radiation esposure!  I could not believe it, that a practicing nurse would believe that an MRI has more radiation, when there is actually NO radiation whatsoever.

Listen to this very important piece of information, YOU NEED TO BE EDUCATED.  Avoid the body scanners, take the pat down.

Toxicity is a tough thing to put your finger on.  It is very difficult to know how toxic you are, whether that is a problem or not, or if there is a long term consequence.  Which is why I am writing this for one reason.  CANCER is at the end of a toxic life.  PERIOD.  There is no other option, if you are too toxic, you will get cancer.  We can deny, or argue, but with the increasing rates of cancer that we see every year in this country, it is obvious that we are RUNNING towards cancer.

Dr. Mercola’s recent article on Chicken McNuggetswas a shock to many who read it, but it was simple truth to myself and those who have been reading my Sprout’s for the last several years.  The article tells that 50% of a chicken McNugget is chicken, the rest is primarily chemical and filler.  The problem is that it is loaded with serious toxins, and rich with GMO ingredients.  The whole thing is a toxic mess.

Let me reiterate, CANCER is the by-product of a toxic lifestyle.  I know you do not want cancer, but I also know you don’t realize how close or far away from it you are.  When we performed our Toxic Body testing for the very first time, I found patients with toxins in their bodies that were coming from eating habits, cooking habits, personal care products, batteries that they were using, equipment that they were operating, lawncare products they were using and the water that they were drinking.

Have you double checked all of these products?  Do you have just one that you are using?  Perhaps you are using many of these products that are distributing toxins to your body, and you are competing for detoxifying enzymes in your liver.  Making it that much harder for your body to stay ahead.  When I present our detoxification workshop on November 29th, I will be hitting some extremely powerful information.  There will be  a lot that is highly technical, but it will all make sense.  Over the years I have done four entirely different detox workshops, and this is the one that really hits everything in the easiest way.

So what is detox?  Well, really it is a lifestyle, but it starts with a hard charge towards that lifestyle.  Pushing to make a huge initial change, then settling in after that.  It is reducing toxins, while supporting detoxifying processes in the body.  The thing is, you have MANY detoxifying processes in your body, and the key to knowing what to do, is knowing which ones are at greatest need.  How do you know?

Toxin testing.  If you want to know what you need to do, if you want it to be impressed upon you so that you really take a stand, then you need to part with $85 this week and have your hair assessed.  It is an absolute deal, and I can’t think of one person over the age of 8 who shouldn’t be tested in my practice (except for those who have been recently tested).  Seriously, this is a MUST DO kind of thing.  Then the workshop is MUST ATTEND kind of workshop.  I don’t want to keep you up at night with this information, but I REALLY want to be sure you are a little nervous about the decisions you are making with regards to food, and personal care products.

Sign up today, get your Bio Impredance Analysis  (BIA) scheduled (included) and set the workshop in your schedule for the 29th.  You know, one of the coolest things about the BIA, is that it tests your phase angle. Phase Angle is a great way to measure the health of your cells, and particularly helps identify cellular wasting disorders and disease progression (cancer, AIDS, diabetes, etc).  This is a great way to know how healthy your cells are… actually, it is the only way!

So for those of you who are reading this online, and you don’t have a chiropractor who does this kind of thing, send us your zip code and we’ll try to find you one… or perhaps you can test through us, and I will post a video of my workshop for you!  For those of you sitting in my office reading this, don’t squander how fortunate you are to be able to get this done.

I was just watching ABC Nightline, and I am dismayed.

I have nothing against gluten, other than it happens to be one of the most inflammatory proteins in existence.  Especially for people who have ANY kind of leaky gut syndrome, and has been shown to be one of the most important proteins removed from the diets of MANY autistic individuals around the country.  I still eat gluten, not much, but I do.

So where this moment of rage is coming from, is the “Expert” that they chose to speak about the dangers of a gluten free diet, was clearly an idiot.  I am sorry, I believe he is a child of God, loved to no end.  However, he knows nothing of the nutritional world.  OK, rambling, and it is doing all of you no good, because you didn’t watch the show anyways.

But I want to clear the air.  You will NOT be deficient of anything if you go gluten free, and know how to eat.  Knowing how to eat allows and affords you the ability to go gluten free with NO problems at all.  B vitamin deficiency was a stated concern by this expert.  Though gluten foods tend to be one of the moderate solutions for B Vitamins, where poultry tends to be the best source.  So if you are a vegetarian, now what?  Beans.  If you are on the healing diet?  Well you can’t be a very good vegetarian on the healing diet, so back to poultry!

In addition, there was no supportive information for any other negative effect of the gluten free diet, just bad.

So what I really wanted to touch on here, is BLINDNESS.  Not blindness as you are thinking, not the blindness that I have in my left eye.  But the kind of blindness that happens when you are so caught up in the way things have been done, and the comforts of your current life, that all you think about is the interference that is coming from a new idea.  We all know this very well, because as a part of our healthcare family, you have been ridiculed by someone, at some point, for your actions or beliefs.

If you believe anything that I teach, and you have shared any of that with someone else… they have probably felt threatened by your rejection of culture, and they argued.  With no understanding of what they were arguing for, they argued because they want to feel comfortable in their decisions, and anything you do that opposes that makes them feel wrong.  And Heaven forbid anyone should feel wrong about their lifestyle decisions.  I mean come on, 66% dying from heart disease and cancer… why in the world should anyone deviate from the cultural way?

Thanks for reading my rant.  If anyone ever attacks your lifestyle decisions, trust me… first think about the “what if” scenario that happens if they are right.  Then make a statement.