Green Tea
for Cancer? Green tea may help treat a form of adult leukemia, if the cases of four patients are any indication, according to a new report. Doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, found that of four patients who started drinking green tea or taking green tea extracts, three showed clear improvements in their condition in the following months. The patients all had chronic lymphocytic leukemia, or CLL, a form of leukemia that usually arises during or after middle-age and typically progresses slowly. Like all types of leukemia, CLL is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow, in which abnormal white blood cells replace healthy blood cells. Full story at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10560204/ Think about this for a minute. We have said that what the allopaths
call “cancer” is actually a cellular mutation caused by fungus. Green tea is an
antifungal. Therefore… ? Why are Mercury
Safety Standards so Lax in the USA? Chicago Tribune December 12,
2005 An extensive report reveals that seafood consumers in the United States are at serious risk for mercury exposure, since regulators are ignoring their own experts, issuing flawed warnings, and setting policies favorable to industry rather than consumers. The Tribune staff tested a piece of imported swordfish from a grocery store, untested by any U.S. regulatory agency and carrying no warning labels. They discovered that it contained three times the legal level of mercury.
In some cases, regulators
ignored the advice of their own scientists, who concluded that mercury was far more dangerous than what
consumers were being told. Regulators have also routinely made decisions that benefited
industry at the expense of public health. A study conducted earlier this year by scientists at the University
of North Carolina showing that 50 percent of the swordfish samples tested by researchers exceeded the FDA’s action limit. The FDA acknowledges people might be harmed by eating these
mercury-laden fish, but environmental regulations governing this toxic metal haven’t
changed over the past quarter-century. Despite comments to the contrary by the FDA’s
chief medical officer, David Acheson, one agency scientist confessed today’s mercury
standard reflects the science of the 1970s. U.S. standards are considered to be among the
weakest in the world. It isn’t your health they’re looking out for, but the
bottom lines of their “business partners.” By the way,
while speaking of mercury, did you know that Thimerosal is the preservative of choice
for vaccine manufacturers? It was first introduced by Eli Lilly and Company in the late
1920s and early 1930s, then the company began selling it as a preservative in vaccines in
the 1940s. Thimerosal contains
49.6 percent mercury by weight and is metabolized or degraded into ethyl-mercury
and thiosalicylate. Mercury, or more precisely, ethyl-mercury, is the principle agent that
kills contaminants. Unfortunately, mercury also kills much more than that. The Department of Defense classifies mercury as a hazardous material that
could cause death if swallowed, inhaled or absorbed through the skin. Studies
indicate that mercury tends to accumulate in the brains of primates and other animals
after they are injected with vaccines. Mercury poisoning has been linked to cardiovascular
disease, autism, seizures, mental retardation, hyperactivity, dyslexia, and many other
nervous system conditions. So, let’s see… get a flu shot, eat a bad fish, get brain
damage… is this why the current crop of Americans are so biddable? Because the drug
industry is turning us all into idiots?
Who is Really
Writing all those Scientific Studies? Pittsburgh Post-Gazette December 13, 2005 It’s an open secret[1] in medicine that many of the articles that appear in medical journals, often purporting to be written by well-known academics, are actually written by unacknowledged ghostwriters in the pay of drug companies.
[1]
Open-secret would normally be considered an oxymoron, but in this case, the writer means
that it is open knowledge to those who do the writing and publishing of such stories, yet
is not known to the rest of us. Well, it is not known to those who don’t bother to
look behind the curtain and find that the wizard is an old guy pulling levers and isn’t
at all what he seemed to be.
These “seemingly objective articles” are actually part of a marketing campaign to promote a product or draw attention to the condition it treats. However, questions about the role of medical journals have increased in the wake of the New England Journal of Medicine’s admission that a 2000 article it published about Vioxx painkiller omitted information about heart attacks among those taking the drug. One element that is being looked at sharply is the “ghostwriting” practice and the medical journals’ rules of author disclosure. Increasingly, the practice of medical ghostwriting is being criticized on the grounds that it could hurt patients by giving doctors biased information. Drug companies claim that they’re providing a service to academic researchers, who may not be skilled writers, and do not intend that the articles be biased. An analysis found that only 10% of articles on studies sponsored by the drug industry disclosed help from a medical writer. However, often the practice is not disclosed. An informal poll found that 80% of freelance medical writers had written articles that did not mention their contributions. This is not a new issue; it is one of the primary ways the
drug companies are able to manipulate and brainwash conventional medicine practitioners. Dr. Mercola says: They influence the very heart and center of the most respected medical journals and are able to create dogmas and beliefs that support the drug paradigm because it is blessed by a paragon of scientific integrity, the peer-reviewed prestigious medical journal. No matter what the industry claims, undisclosed authors paid by the multi-national drug companies have no chance of remaining unbiased. Why bother to conceal their identities otherwise? Hopefully, the news about the erroneous and biased Vioxx study that Merck foisted off on the New England Journal of Medicine will lead journals and scientists to take a good hard look at the practices of conventional medicine. Not surprisingly, another journal – Annals of Internal Medicine – found itself in similar hot water earlier this year when one of the “authors” of a 2003 Vioxx study it published confessed he had little to do with the research. Drug companies claim they’re providing a “service” to lesser writers by providing ghostwriters. What they’re actually doing is trying to spin the data and brainwash physicians to be puppets for their agenda. A 1999 document that was disclosed in a lawsuit described Pfizer’s publications strategy for its antidepressant Zoloft. The document included 81 different articles proposed for journals, promoting the drug’s use for problems ranging from panic disorder to pedophilia. The only problem was, for some articles, the name of the author was listed as “to be determined,” even though the article was listed as already completed. They weren’t helping out an existing team of scientists who happened to be talentless at writing – Pfizer wrote the article, then shopped around for scientists to put their name on it to give it a veneer of credibility. More evidence, folks. It always pays to be skeptical and observant when it comes to your health, especially with all the money drug companies throw at researchers as well as you in the form of advertising. When it comes to drugs like Vioxx, your life could genuinely be at stake. That is one of the reasons why I publish this newsletter. To give you another view to consider as an alternative to the one being fostered on you by tens of billions of dollars of marketing influence. How to
Protect Yourself Against Medication Errors First, don’t
take any pharmaceuticals. But. Given that very few people in this country will ever
bother to actually follow such advice, then pay attention to the rest of this. (If I can’t
get you folks off those darn pills, maybe I can help you not poison yourselves too badly.)
J While I, personally, have never been given the wrong medicine, or a
bottle of pills with someone else’s name on it, I do know people to whom this has
happened. You’ve got to be asking how often that kind of thing happens. Experts use words like “common” and “frequent,”
but the statistics actually vary a lot. Errors are reported voluntarily by
pharmacists or patients (which means, quite frequently, they are not reported at all).
Lisa Stump, MS, RPh, clinical coordinator of drug use policy at Yale-New Haven Hospital,
says this is an unreliable way to determine the frequency. Should we even be focusing on statistics? Stump says, “We know medication error is common. Quantifying the incidence will not assist us in making changes we already know need to be made.” Marci Kropff, PharmD Fellow of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, says, “We don’t encourage a focus on statistics. The information isn’t an accurate representation of the prevalence of errors because there’s no way to capture this number.” Which are most commonly switched? Sound-alike or look-alike drug
names are known problems. Here are some examples, so if you are taking any of these, be
cautious.
Most dispensing errors occur in frequently prescribed drugs. Tony
Grasha, PhD, a University of Cincinnati psychology professor who is working on a National
Association of Chain Drug Stores project to reduce prescription errors. He names the
following drugs as being among the top 10% of the most troublesome medications with regard
to errors during the previous five years:
There are many factors that contribute to people taking the wrong
prescription home. Some of them include:
Here are some simple things you can do to protect yourself against
medication errors. Open the bag. Check to be sure that you’ve been
given what you should have. Observation studies have shown that 75% of people immediately
open and examine their photos at the film center, but less than 33% of pharmacy customers
look inside the bag. Don’t sign too quickly. The paper pushed across
the counter — the one most of us sign automatically — is an agreement that you’ve
gotten the information you need. Don’t sign it without checking first. Read the label carefully. Read every word. Check for
the name of the drug and the condition it’s being prescribed for. If they’re not
on the label, ask the pharmacist to add them. If the name isn’t the name your doctor
told you he was prescribing, ask the pharmacist. Never assume you’re just being given
a generic product. Look at the drug. If it’s a refill, does it look
the same as the previous batch? If not, ask the pharmacist. Ask for printed information sheets. And if you’re
asked by the pharmacist if you need counseling on the medication, say “Yes!” Ask questions. Don’t be embarrassed to get the
information you need. If the question is complicated, ask to speak to the pharmacist. Never assume anything. Don’t ever take for granted
that you have the right medication. Buy a book. A current consumer guidebook to
prescription medications, with colored illustrations, should be part of your home library. Keep a record. Write down information about each of
your prescriptions. Take notes. At the doctor’s office, write down
drug names and what they’re for. Compare your notes to your prescription at the
pharmacy. You must make the effort to educate yourself, to partner with
your doctor and pharmacist to protect your health. Once again, folks, who is responsible
for your life? Not one person on this planet outside of yourself! You! And only
you! Big
Pharma gets Professors Fired Too In April 2005, the Organic Consumers
Association rallied its membership in a massive letter-writing campaign to the University
of California Berkeley. The campaign was launched because Dr. Ignacio Chapela was denied
academic tenure for speaking about the current problems Mexico is having with GE corn
contamination. Chapela’s
department was heavily pressured by the biotech industry who wanted the college to carry
out industry sponsored research on genetically
engineered crops. Thanks in part to everyone who took action, the University
reversed its prior decision and granted Dr. Chapela his well-deserved tenure. http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/ignacio052305.cfm Headline: Nearly one-fourth of all dialysis patients have a close relative on dialysis What does that mean? The actual number in their study was 22.8%. Just
for fun, let’s turn their numbers around, saying exactly the same thing, but from the
opposite viewpoint. More than three quarters (77.2%) of people on kidney dialysis have no
relatives who are also on dialysis. We humans really ought to spend more time looking
at numbers from different angles… J Reader
Q&A Q: You mentioned getting some Xylitol,
but never told us how to get some. Where? A: We got our birch Xylitol from Long Life Unlimited. Let’s see, the web address is: https://www.longlifeunlimited.com/sunshop/index.php/action/category/id/12/ The health food store version, if they
have it at all, is likely to be the corn version, and you don’t want that. You want
the birch version. If you find it in a health food store, be sure to read the labels
carefully. Q. If I’ve been eating the things you guys say are “bad” all my life, how come I don’t have all those “diseases” you rant about? A: Just lucky, I guess! Fungal spores can lie dormant for years (or
decades), until a critical mass is achieved with respect to dormancy-breakers. Common
things that will break spore dormancy are sugar, antibiotics, suppressed immune system
(occurring naturally because of illness or drug-induced by antibiotics or steroids), or
certain hormones such as birth control pills or hormone replacement therapy. You might
have eaten badly for twenty or thirty years before “critical mass” was reached
and the fungi started reproducing. Or you might be just at the threshold, and one round of
antibiotics pushes you over the edge. It can be caused by a lot of things. This is why we
have “old age” diseases. (Surely you remember
looking at hunched over old folks when you were a child, and if you asked someone what was
wrong with them, the answer was usually something like, “That just happens to people
when they get old.”) They start becoming more common
in people over the age of thirty or forty. It’s not that we’re getting old; it’s
that we’ve reached critical mass and the fungal process has been set in motion. Add
to the equation the amount of crud that most people eat every day (sugar being first and
foremost), and it’s just going to get worse and worse. The growing fungi start
producing mycotoxins, and the “diseases” start. We add more mycotoxins from food
and drink, and before you know it, the fungi have won the battle. (So, if you’re 30 now and don’t currently feel any of the
pains we talk about, keep eating like you are eating and when you’re 40 or 50, you will
feel them. Why not stop the problem before it becomes overwhelming?) Q. I’ve heard you say that fungus can alter people’s DNA. Does that also happen to other living things, or is it just in us? A. Yes, it does affect other living things. Animals have the same
problems with it that we do, and for the same reasons, most especially domesticated
animals that have been taken out of the wild. Wild animals have a healthy immune system
and can fight off most fungal infections naturally, because their habitat and diet have
not been altered by us. Domesticated animals are forced to live in confined quarters (most
of the time) and fed foods that are not their native fare. For instance, cats who eat dry
cat food are eating grains, not meat. Same thing with dogs. We feed hogs, cattle, horses
and chickens grain as well, although their “native” diet is mostly grasses and
shrubs. And chickens eat a lot of insects. We did it to ourselves first, then our animals.
(We also live in confined quarters and eat food that is not natural to us.) There are two really interesting cases of fungi altering plants. One
is lichen. Lichen is a metamorph, created when a fungus infects and takes over an algae.
The resulting “plant” is not like either one, but a new hybrid form. The fungus
dominates the algae’s DNA, and lives off the carbohydrates produced by
photosynthesis. The fungus cannot make its own carbohydrates, so it changes the algae into
a “factory” to produce enough carbohydrates to feed it. Another example is the
catchfly plant. It is commonly infected with a type of fungus, Ustilago violacea,
which takes over the plant’s reproductive system, causing it to emit fungal spores
from the stamens rather than the plant’s normal pollen. If a fungus can cause a plant
to produce a completely foreign substance instead of its natural pollen, what do you think
it can do to us? Q: I have an intestinal
problem and my doctor says it is hereditary. You said in some past newsletter that you don’t
think there are any hereditary diseases, but you haven’t addressed that issue yet (as
you promised you would). I have been taking antifungals, but the problem is still there,
so is the doctor right and this will never go away? A: I am sorry that I haven’t gotten around to writing that
article yet. I could make lots of excuses, like getting kicked by a dead horse and being
laid up, etc., but those are just that – excuses. Let’s see if I can write a
short version here. The only “disease” that is actually inherited is one that
the mother had while she was pregnant. Because the blood of the fetus comes from the
mother, whatever she has, the fetus will have. This is one of the reasons why doctors
continually tell patients to not smoke or drink during pregnancy, although I doubt they
understand that alcohol is mycotoxins. All they know is that it is bad for the
mother and whatever is bad for her can’t be good for the baby. But as for inherited diseases, genetic traits can be
passed on from generation to generation. You can inherit a deformed gene, but that is not a disease. The modification of genes and
passing those on to future generations is how evolution works. Some modified genes are
beneficial to the species and are kept and continued through future generations. Those
modified genes that are not beneficial to the species are soon weeded out because the one
receiving those genes will either die out or become some other species entirely and be out
of the original species line (e.g., Lannie’s comments above about fungi turning algae
into a different species called lichen). This is basic Evolution 101 stuff. (For those radically
religious folks, this is not contrary to the Intelligent Design theory.) Now let’s say, just for the sake of discussion, that you
inherited a modified gene that is not a “good” modification (such as might be
produced by fungi). This is not inheriting a
disease, but the tendency to be vulnerable to that disease. So what actually caused
the disease you got? Environment. Your grandpa lived in a moldy house and he ate grits and
stuff like that all his life. His children, likewise, would live in that house and eat as
their parents ate. Sooner or later, they will move into their own houses and cook their
own meals, but look around at everyone you know. How like their parents’ house is
their own house? Are they in the same neighborhood (i.e., subject to high humidity, made
of old wood, flooded basement every year, etc.)? How many of the foods they eat are the
same or similar to what their parents eat/ate? There are many children who do things
differently than their parents (the tendency many have to not do what their parents
did because they want a different outcome), but radical changes in the types of food eaten are rare.
That is, if you grew up on grits, you still eat them and you’ve taught your own
children to eat them. So things like this get passed from generation to generation, and if
you have a genetic susceptibility toward certain diseases, sooner or later you will get
them if you don’t radically alter
your lifestyle (get out of the moldy environment, change what you eat and drink, etc.). As to why your antifungals aren’t working, I’d have to know
more about what you are taking and how much. My guess here is that you aren’t
taking the ones that affect your area of concern or you aren’t taking enough to
adequately fight this battle. (Or possibly, you’re
eating something that is negating the effects of the antifungals. Be honest with yourself,
if no one else.) I have read many studies where
allopathic researchers test antifungals and declare them a failure, but they clearly didn’t
use enough in their tests to even equal daily maintenance, much less to fight an active
fungal disease. Many antifungals (e.g. oregano) cannot be overdosed, but others can, and
they should be rotated. Re-read those past issues where we discussed this subject in more
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