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• Efficacy of glutathione therapy in relieving dyspnea associated with COVID-19 pneumonia: A report of 2 cases

The Role of Vitamin D in Infections, Viruses, and Human Health are Extensive

Staff Writer, DL Mullan 
COVID-19 / Corona Virus / Vitamin D
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Are you getting enough Vitamin D?

• The Possible Role of Vitamin D in Suppressing Cytokine Storm and Associated Mortality in COVID-19 Patients 
• The interplay between vitamin D and viral infections. 2019 Mar;29(2):e2032. doi: 10.1002/rmv.2032. Epub 2019 Jan 6. PMID: 30614127 
• The vitamin D connection to pediatric infections and immune function.
  

  Walker VP, Modlin RL. Pediatr Res. 2009 May;65(5 Pt 2):106R-113R. doi: 10.1203/PDR.0b013e31819dba91. PMID: 19190532 Free PMC article. 
• Vitamin D modulation of innate immune responses to respiratory viral infections.
  

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• Vitamin D deficiency and the pathogenesis of Crohn's disease.
  

  White JH. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol. 2018 Jan;175:23-28. doi: 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2016.12.015. Epub 2016 Dec 23. PMID: 28025175 
• [Vitamin D revisited: a cornerstone of health?].
  

  Bacchetta J, Ranchin B, Dubourg L, Cochat P. Arch Pediatr. 2010 Dec;17(12):1687-95. doi: 10.1016/j.arcped.2010.09.003. Epub 2010 Oct 14. PMID: 20951011
• D-livering the message: the importance of vitamin D status in chronic liver disease.
  

  Kitson MT, Roberts SK. J Hepatol. 2012 Oct;57(4):897-909. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2012.04.033. Epub 2012 May 23.

Source: NIH

The Possible Role of Vitamin D in Suppressing Cytokine Storm and Associated Mortality in COVID-19 Patients

Staff Writer, DL Mullan 
COVID-19 / Corona Virus / Vitamin C
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Abstract

Abstract Objectives To investigate the possible role of Vitamin D (Vit D) deficiency via unregulated inflammation in COVID-19 complications and associated mortality. Design The time-adjusted case mortality ratio (T-CMR) was estimated as the number of deceased patients on day N divided by the number of confirmed cases on day N-8. The adaptive average of T-CMR (A-CMR) was further calculated as a metric of COVID-19 associated mortality in different countries. A model based on positivity change (PC) and an estimated prevalence of COVID-19 was developed to determine countries with similar screening strategies. Mean concentration of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) in elderly individuals in countries with similar screening strategies were compared to investigate the potential impact of Vit D on A-CMR. We analyzed data showing a possible association between high C-Reactive Protein (CRP) concentration (CRP greater than or equal to 1 mg/dL) and severe COVID-19. We estimated a link between Vit D status and high CRP in healthy subjects (CRP greater than or equal to 0.2 mg/dL) with an adjustment for age and income to explore the possible role of Vit D in reducing complications attributed to unregulated inflammation and cytokine production. Data Sources Daily admission, recovery, and deceased rate data for patients with COVID-19 were collected from Kaggle as of April 20, 2020. Screening data were collected from Our World in Data and official statements from public authorities. The mean concentration of 25(OH)D among the elderly for comparison with A-CMR was collected from previously published studies from different countries. Chronic factor data used in regression analysis was obtained from published articles. The correlation between Vit D and CRP was calculated based on 9,212 subject-level data from NHANES, 2009-2010. Results A link between 25(OH)D and A-CMR in the US, France, Iran and the UK (countries with similar screening status) may exist. We observed an inverse correlation (correlation coefficient ranging from -0.84 to -1) between high CRP and 25(OH)D. Age and the family income status also correlated to high CRP and subjects with higher age and lower family income presented more incidences of high CRP. Our analysis determined a possible link between high CRP and Vit D deficiency and calculated an OR of 1.8 with 95%CI (1.2 to 2.6) among the elderly (age greater than or equal to 60 yo) in low-income families and an OR of 1.9 with 95%CI (1.4 to 2.7) among the elderly (age greater than or equal to 60 yo) in high-income families. COVID-19 patient-level data shows a notable OR of 3.4 with 95%CI (2.15 to 5.4) for high CRP in severe COVID-19 patients. Conclusion Given that CRP is a surrogate marker for cytokine storm and is associated with Vit D deficiency, based on retrospective data and indirect evidence we see a possible role of Vit D in reducing complications attributed to unregulated inflammation and cytokine storm. Further research is needed to account for other factors through direct measurement of Vit D levels in COVID-19 patients.

Read the entire article at Med Rx iv.


Source: Med Rx iv

Efficacy of glutathione therapy in relieving dyspnea associated with COVID-19 pneumonia: A report of 2 cases

Staff Writer, DL Mullan 
COVID-19 / Corona Virus / Vitamin C
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Abstract

Purpose

Infection with COVID-19 potentially can result in severe outcomes and death from “cytokine storm syndrome”, resulting in novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP) with severe dyspnea, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), fulminant myocarditis and multiorgan dysfunction with or without disseminated intravascular coagulation. No published treatment to date has been shown to adequately control the inflammation and respiratory symptoms associated with COVID-19, apart from oxygen therapy and assisted ventilation. We evaluated the effects of using high dose oral and/or IV glutathione in the treatment of 2 patients with dyspnea secondary to COVID-19 pneumonia.


Conclusion

Oral and IV glutathione, glutathione precursors (N-acetyl-cysteine) and alpha lipoic acid may represent a novel treatment approach for blocking NF-κB and addressing “cytokine storm syndrome” and respiratory distress in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia.

Read the rest of the report on Science Direct.


Source: Science Direct

Vitamin C Is an Essential Factor on the Anti-viral Immune Responses through the Production of Interferon-α/β at the Initial Stage of Influenza A Virus (H3N2) Infection

Staff Writer, DL Mullan 
COVID-19 / Corona Virus / Vitamin C
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Abstract

L-ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is one of the well-known anti-viral agents, especially to influenza virus. Since the in vivo anti-viral effect is still controversial, we investigated whether vitamin C could regulate influenza virus infection in vivo by using Gulo (-/-) mice, which cannot synthesize vitamin C like humans. First, we found that vitamin C-insufficient Gulo (-/-) mice expired within 1 week after intranasal inoculation of influenza virus (H3N2/Hongkong). Viral titers in the lung of vitamin C-insufficient Gulo (-/-) mice were definitely increased but production of anti-viral cytokine, interferon (IFN)-α/β, was decreased. On the contrary, the infiltration of inflammatory cells into the lung and production of pro-inflammatory cytokines, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α and interleukin (IL)-α/β, were increased in the lung. Taken together, vitamin C shows in vivo anti-viral immune responses at the early time of infection, especially against influenza virus, through increased production of IFN-α/β.

INTRODUCTION

Vitamin C is known as an essential anti-oxidant (1,2) and enzymatic co-factor for physiological reactions such as hormone production, collagen synthesis (3) and immune potentiation (4-6). Naturally, an insufficiency of vitamin C leads to severe injuries to multiple organs, especially to the heart and brain, since they are both highly aerobic organs that produce more oxygen radicals. In fact, studies of in vivo effect on vitamin C are difficult since most animals, except human and some primate, are capable of synthesizing vitamin C endogenously (7). However, Gulo (-/-) mice were recently developed by the L-gulono-γ-lactone oxidase (Gulo) gene deletion like human, thus they should be supplied with dietary vitamin C (8). It already has been reported that vitamin C concentration was decreased by 10~15% in plasma of the Gulo (-/-) mice without supplementation of vitamin C for 2 weeks (8). We also reported that vitamin C level was remarkably decreased in the most organs in the Gulo (-/-) mice without supplementation of vitamin C for 3 weeks (9).

In addition, we found that numbers of T cell was decreased in the spleen of vitamin C-insufficient Gulo (-/-) mice (10). Even though it is thought that vitamin C shows its anti-viral or anti-tumor effects through the up-regulation of the activity of natural killer (NK) cells and tumor specific cytolytic T lymphocytes (CTLs), its related evidences in vivo are still unclear. The reason why it is impossible to investigate in vivo effect of vitamin C is that all of animals could synthesize vitamin C from glucose thorough the action of L-glunolactone-γ-oxidase (Gulo), as described above (7). However, we confirmed that vitamin C up-regulates NK cell activity through the regulation of activating/inhibitory receptors on the surface of NK cell (our unpublished data). Since it is commonly known that vitamin C and NK cells are closely related to the prevention of common cold and the flu (11-13), we evaluated in vivo anti-viral effect of vitamin C and its related mechanism in Gulo (-/-) mice against influenza virus (H3N2/Honkong/1/68). First, wild type, vitamin C-sufficient Gulo (-/-) mice and vitamin C-insufficient Gulo (-/-) mice were subjected to intranasal inoculation of 20 hemagglutination units (HAU) of influenza virus, and then their survival was monitored. Interestingly, we observed that vitamin C-insufficient Gulo (-/-) mice expired within 1 week, but all of wild type and vitamin C-sufficient Gulo (-/-) mice survived (Fig. 1B). However, the supplementation of vitamin C on a day after virus inoculation could not prevent the death of vitamin C-insufficient Gulo (-/-) mice (Fig. 1B). It suggests that a sufficient amount of vitamin C is needed to prevent in vivo pathogenesis of influenza virus. Also, considering that H3N2 influenza virus shows a good circulation in humans and pigs as well as a slow antigenic drift in swine (14), we believe that the antigenic divergence between human and swine influenza virus might be increased. Therefore, our results shown in Fig. 1 suggest that vitamin C may effectively prevent severe or fatal damages in humans by the infection of influenza virus as well. To clarify the underlying mechanisms on the survival by the presence of the sufficient amounts vitamin C in the mice, we examined the viral titers in the lung of each experimental group. As shown in Fig. 2, viral titer in the lung from vitamin C-insufficient Gulo (-/-) mice was 10 to 15-fold increased, when it was compared with viral titer in wild type and vitamin C-sufficient Gulo (-/-) mice. However, when Gulo (-/-) mice were supplemented with vitamin C after virus inoculation, we could not observe a definite suppression of viral replication. This provides the importance of the vitamin C concentration at the initial stage of influenza virus infection. That is to say, damages through the replication of influenza viruses can be effectively prevented, when vitamin C concentration is sufficiently high at the initial stage of viral infection. If it is insufficient, however, the pathogenesis of influenza virus could not be prevented.

Read the entire report on the NIH's website.

Source: NIH

How The Flu Vaccine is Bad Medicine

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
Influenza / Vaccine Mandates 

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The Flu Vaccine is Bad Medicine

As a physician and former editor of the medical journal, Ocular Immunology and Inflammation, I know something about immunology, inflammation, and vaccines. For more than 15 years I’ve studied and researched the science and pseudoscience underlying the U.S. vaccine program. What I’ve found is that the science is irresponsibly poor. However, because the industry stakeholders are more powerful and wealthier than any other industry in the history of the world, they have been extremely successful at using deceptive marketing to promote bad, ineffective, untested, and unsafe vaccines.

I also know the difference between real, honest, independent, transparent science, and the fake, dishonest, financially biased/bought-and-paid-for pseudoscience being pumped into medical journals by the pharmaceutical industry and their physician co-conspirators. Nowhere is the scientific fraud and betrayal of public trust more manifest than in the promotion of untested and unsafe vaccines, not the least of which is the flu vaccine.

Unlike many of my vaccine administering and profiting physician colleagues, I have no financial interests, biases, or delusions regarding vaccinations. Therefore, I have no motivation to misrepresent the facts, ignore or deny the risks, fail to fulfill the legal and ethical requirement of informed consent, fear-monger and bully patients into receiving a medical intervention from which I personally profit. Furthermore, unlike my indoctrinated colleagues that have never read beyond the sales brochures that accompany the delicious free lunches delivered by their charming and attractive pharmaceutical representatives, I don’t arrive at my conclusions and base my medical recommendations on industry sponsored pseudoscience. I actually work hard to find and analyze high-quality independent science. After having spent years analyzing the science of the flu vaccine, the only conclusion that I or any reasonable, open minded, free-thinking physician can come to is that the flu vaccine is bad medicine.

Unfortunately, the public is being heavily marketed poor science and egregious lies carefully contrived to mislead the public into believing that the flu vaccine is “the best defense against the flu,” is good medicine, and that this drivel is based on solid science. However, systematic reviews, like that from the Cochrane Collaboration (here and below), say that the flu vaccine scientific research is heavily influenced by industry. Yet, despite the best efforts of industry to mislead us into believing otherwise, the Cochrane meta-analysis of 72 plus research studies conclude that the flu vaccine is neither effective nor recommended. I agree with the Cochrane Collaboratives expert and unbiased conclusions and add that in my opinion, the flu vaccine is really bad medicine.

At best, the flu vaccine has been less than 50% effective, most years less than 20% effective against influenza A and B, which represent about 10% of the circulating viruses responsible for causing cold and flu like symptoms.

The bottom line is that the flu vaccine is neither good medicine nor good science. It is, however, big money, and that is the primary driver behind the annual drive to increase uptake of the bad medicine we call the “flu shot.”

Read the rest for an overall understanding... link in the source.


Source: Jim Meehan, MD

Grounding, Earthing on Inflammation, Immune Response Study

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
Grounding / Immune Response

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The effects of grounding (earthing) on inflammation, the immune response, wound healing, and prevention and treatment of chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases

Multi-disciplinary research has revealed that electrically conductive contact of the human body with the surface of the Earth (grounding or earthing) produces intriguing effects on physiology and health. Such effects relate to inflammation, immune responses, wound healing, and prevention and treatment of chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The purpose of this report is two-fold: to 1) inform researchers about what appears to be a new perspective to the study of inflammation, and 2) alert researchers that the length of time and degree (resistance to ground) of grounding of experimental animals is an important but usually overlooked factor that can influence outcomes of studies of inflammation, wound healing, and tumorigenesis. Specifically, grounding an organism produces measurable differences in the concentrations of white blood cells, cytokines, and other molecules involved in the inflammatory response. We present several hypotheses to explain observed effects, based on current research results and our understanding of the electronic aspects of cell and tissue physiology, cell biology, biophysics, and biochemistry. An experimental injury to muscles, known as delayed onset muscle soreness, has been used to monitor the immune response under grounded versus ungrounded conditions. Grounding reduces pain and alters the numbers of circulating neutrophils and lymphocytes, and also affects various circulating chemical factors related to inflammation.


Source: PMC

Congressional Research Office's Medicaid: An Overview

Staff Writer, DL Mulla
Research / Statistics 
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Congressional Research Office 

Medicaid: An Overview

Summary

Medicaid is a means-tested entitlement program that in FY2012 financed the delivery of primary and acute medical services as well as long-term services and supports to an estimated 57 million people, and cost states and the federal government $431 billion. In comparison, the Medicare program provided health care benefits to nearly 50 million seniors and certain individuals with disabilities in FY2012 at a cost of roughly $557 billion. Because Medicaid represents a large component of federal mandatory spending, Congress is likely to continue its oversight of Medicaid's eligibility, benefits, and costs.

Participation in Medicaid is voluntary for states, though all states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories choose to participate. In order to participate in Medicaid, the federal government requires states to cover certain mandatory populations and benefits, but the federal government also allows states to cover other optional populations and services. Due to this flexibility, there is substantial variation among the states in terms of factors such as Medicaid eligibility, covered benefits, and provider payment rates. In addition, there are several waiver and demonstration authorities that allow states to operate their Medicaid program outside of federal rules.

Historically, Medicaid eligibility has generally been limited to low-income children, pregnant women, parents of dependent children, the elderly, and individuals with disabilities; however, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA; P.L. 111-148, as amended) included the ACA Medicaid expansion, which expands Medicaid eligibility to individuals under the age of 65 with income up to 133% of the federal poverty level (FPL) (effectively 138% FPL) at state option.

The ACA makes a number of other changes, which together represent the most significant reform to the Medicaid program since its establishment in 1965. In addition to the ACA Medicaid expansion, the ACA also expands Medicaid eligibility for children ages 6 to 18 and former foster care children; transitions to the modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) counting methodology for most nonelderly Medicaid enrollees; requires alternative benefit plan (ABP) coverage for certain Medicaid enrollees; provides enhanced federal matching funds for the ACA Medicaid expansion; increases uniformity among Medicare, Medicaid, and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) program integrity activities; and provides the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) with the ability to test methods to improve coordination of care for dual-eligible beneficiaries, among a number of other changes.

This report describes the basic elements of Medicaid, focusing on who is eligible, what services are covered, how enrollees share in the cost of care, how the program is financed, and how providers are paid. The report also explains waivers, program integrity activities, and the dual-eligible population. In addition, the report describes the following selected issues: the ACA Medicaid expansion, the impact of the ACA health insurance annual fee on Medicaid, and the ACA maintenance of effort (MOE) with respect to Medicaid eligibility.

Source; FAS

Could Your Doctor Be the Death of You?

Staff Writer, R. Patrick Chapman
Medicine / Errors 
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In the study about medical errors, TO ERR IS HUMAN: BUILDING A SAFER HEALTH SYSTEM, Americans learn just how easy it is for a medical professional to make a mistake, which costs millions of people their lives every year. 

Source: Institute of Medicine

Movie Night: The CDC, Vaccines, Autism, and Deception

Staff Writer, DB Holmes

CDC / Autism / Vaccines
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Truth in Media: CDC, Vaccines & Autism
"What I am about to share with you is not theory. This is a documented case of massive corruption within the CDC and an attempt to change research, protocols and ultimately hide their own findings."- Ben Swann investigates the Truth behind the CDC, Vaccines and Autism
Posted by Ben Swann on Thursday, January 28, 2016

Want to know more?

STATEMENT OF WILLIAM W. THOMPSON, Ph.D., REGARDING THE 2004 ARTICLE EXAMINING THE POSSIBILITY OF A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MMR VACCINE AND AUTISM

My name is William Thompson. I am a Senior Scientist with the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention, where I have worked since 1998.

I regret that my coauthors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article published in the journal Pediatrics. The omitted data suggested that African American males who received the MMR vaccine before age 36 months were at increased risk for autism. Decisions were made regarding which findings to report after the data were collected, and I believe that the final study protocol was not followed.

 Read the rest of the press release here.

Liberty Radio interview:

CDC, Vaccines and Autism Exposed

Josh Cook is with Ben Swann's Truth in Media and producer of the investigative film exposing a CDC cover-up in "Truth in Media: CDC, Vaccines and Autism". The exponential growth in the incidence of autism among our youth has become a national concern, but unfortunately, subject to much debate. As a result of the investigative work by Truth In Media, we now have a video to help clarify the issue.

So what do parents do?

Don't parents have the right to protect their children? 

At this point, no one should get another vaccination until all vaccines are thoroughly tested by independent third party laboratories since the government, its agency, and corporate pharmaceutical companies cannot be trusted to be transparent.

What else are these factions hiding from the public? 

Source: Ben Swann, Morgan Verkamp LLC,

The Game Changer: A Mercola Documentary

Staff Writer, DB Holmes

Medicine / Documentary 
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The Game Changer: A Mercola Documentary

Watch this video presented by Mercola.com, and discover how Dr. Joseph Mercola's journey to natural health started. You'll also find out ways to optimize your health so watch this video now!

Source: Mercola

Leaf

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

Marijuana / Medicine
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Do you believe you have to have THC, the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, in order to receive any health or medical benefits from marijuana, then think again.

Heating marijuana creates the psychoactive compounds but are really unnecessary in the healing process. 

Leaf

Leaf introduces Dr. William Courtney and Kristen Courtney of Cannabis International; along with the people involved in researching, promoting, regulating and benefiting from raw cannabis.

Dr. Courtney is a physician and researcher from Mendocino, California, who gives medical marijuana approvals to qualified patients in Mendocino and Humboldt Counties. Kristen Peskuski is a researcher and patient who put her systemic lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, interstitial cystitis, and numerous other conditions into remission juicing fresh cannabis.

They help make sense of the science behind patient's recoveries from a diverse range of medical conditions. Attorneys, physicians, law enforcement, medical care providers, patients and their families discuss their experiences with medical cannabis. They specifically focus on juicing fresh cannabis, which is non-psychoactive and contains medical properties 200-400 times stronger than traditional, heated cannabis.

Patients have reported success with osteo and rheumatoid arthritis, autoimmune disorders, cancer and many other conditions using this unique therapy.

Source: Youtube

Two Ingredient Gel for Everything

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
Medicine / Natural 
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Do you want to stop buying lotions and creams full of GMO's, chemicals, and god knows what? because the cosmetic industry is not regulated? 

Here is a homemade gel that helps with sunburns, scars, stretch marks, age spots, acne, dry skin and more: 

To make this magical gel you need:

• 1/3 cup pure aloe vera gel, not juice
• 1/2 cup organic coconut oil (solid)
• essential oil of your choice (vanilla, lavender, rose)

Source: Daily Lives

Run from the Cure

Staff Writer, DB Holmes

Cancer / Cannabis 
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Run from the Cure

The following presentation of RUN FROM THE CURE: The Rick Simpson Story was made possible by Rick Simpson and video producer Christian Laurette... made for free to teach YOU how to heal yourself of disease and illness using cannabinoids.

Comments will be moderated to protect those who need this information. We are not asking anyone if it works, we are telling you it works; it is not a debate. Too many uneducated people coming to this channel to speak their mind on a life-saving plant they know nothing about and giving bad advice and in many cases making horrible remarks about the people who brought the information out to you.

Source: Youtube

Statin Use: Population-Based Case-Control Studies

Staff Writer, J.J. West

Medicine / Studies 
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In recent years, statins have become popular amongst allopathic physicians for use in high cholesterol patients. But are these new drugs safe?

In the article, Statin Use and Thyroid Cancer: A Population-Based Case-Control Study , we discover that  the scientitsts concluded that "statin use was associated with thyroid cancer in female patients."

Another study, Association between statin use and Bell's palsy: a population-based study, linked a "potential association between regular statin use and Bell's palsy."

In Herpes zoster (HZ) is associated with prior statin use: a population-based case-control study, the data concluded that prior statin use was associated with HZ occurrence.

With Statin use and the risk of colorectal cancer: a population-based case-control study, "this study does not provide support for a protective effect of statins against colorectal cancer."

So before you take that new prescription for a statin drug, you may want to search our source material for a better understanding of what the medication can and cannot do for you, or to you. 

As a side note, high cholesterol may be a sign of thyriod dysfunction and not necessarily a cholesterol issue, especially in women:

Are you on a statin for high cholesterol with a diagnosis of hypothyroidism? This is an important article for you to read then. Generally when thyroid levels are optimal, cholesterol levels fall back into range. For most folks, optimal is a TSH of 0.5-1.5. Free T3 in the upper 25th percentile of the reference range, and Free T4 mid range of the reference range. You can NOT rely on the TSH alone. It's not a thyroid hormone, it's a pituitary hormone. The Free's tell the story, and obviously hypothyroid symptom resolution,
http://naturalsociety.com/prescribed-statins-lead-thyroid-cancer-women/

Source: PubMed

Parasite Food Chart, Do You Know What You're Eating?

Staff Writer, Nicole Meyer-Greene
Medicine / Health
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Do you know what is in your food?

Parasite Food Chart:

Ascaris lumbricoides, pet roundworm	Quercitin (squash & pumpkin, undercooked)
Ascaris megalocephala, pet roundworm	D-carnitine (meat of domestic animals, not free-range, organic)
Clonorchis sinensis, human liver fluke	Oats, cooked or raw
Dirofilaria, dog heartworm	Lactose (milk sugar), chromium
Echinoporyphium recurvatum	Cinnamic acid, hippuric acid, (dairy eggs), vitamin D3, copper, vanadium
Echinostoma revolutum (neurological diseases)	zein, sorghum (CORN), acetaldehyde (nuts
Eurytrema pancreaticum, pancreatic fluke	Lemon and lauric acid, gallic acid preservative
Fasciolopsis buski, human intestinal fluke	Raw onion (allyl sulphide, diallyl sulphide, allyl methyl suphide, and other onion-like substances in the lily family
Fasciola	Wheat (gluten and gliadin); metacercaria stage, requires lauric acid, food oil
Gastrothylax (causes polycystic kidney disease, Down's syndrome, cystic fibrosis	Cinnamic acid (cinnamon)
Macracanthorhynchus	BEEF, BANANA, BUTTER, RICE
Onchocerca, filaria roundworm	CORN, MANNITOL (sugar) linolenic oil, vitamin D3
Paragonimus, lung fluke	LEMON
Plasmodium falciparum, vivax, malariae (malaria)	different stages need iron disulfide, wheat lemon, melanin, plantain, ASA, pyrrole, others
Strongyloides, roundworm	Potatoes, raw or cooked, linolenic acid (food oil)

 Eliminate parasites by not feeding them in your diet.

Source: Dr. Clark

Heavily Vaccinated Countries See More Outbreaks of Preventable Diseases

Staff Writer, Nicole Meyer-Greene
Vaccines / Medicine / Politics
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This image was taken from the Council on Foreign Relations' website. Look at it. Doesn't the map seem to show that where vaccines are heavily used, most of the "preventable" diseases are breaking out?

Perhaps we need to reevaluate our vaccines and research just how effective these medical interventions actually are. This interactive map on the CFR's homepage does not bold well for the use of vaccines.

Just what diseases are being prevented when most of the population is vaccinated in these countries?


Source: CFR,

Chocoholics Rejoice: Dark is Good

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

Medicine / Health
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Many people consider themselves addicted to chocolate. No wonder. Chocolate helps in the production of serotonin and now scientists have found another reason to rejoice in the comforts of chocolate, especially the dark variety. 

'In our study we found that the fibre is fermented and the large polyphenolic polymers are metabolised to smaller molecules, which are more easily absorbed,' said Dr John Finley, who led the Louisiana team.

'These smaller polymers exhibit anti-inflammatory activity. When these compounds are absorbed by the body, they lessen the inflammation of cardiovascular tissue, reducing the long-term risk of stroke.'

The findings were presented at the American Chemical Society's annual meeting in Texas.

Combining cocoa with prebiotics - indigestible food ingredients that stimulate bacterial growth - is likely to enhance the process with beneficial results, said Dr Finley.

'When you ingest prebiotics, the beneficial gut microbial population increases and out-competes any undesirable microbes in the gut, like those that cause stomach problems,' he added.

Prebiotics are found in foods such as raw garlic, raw wheat bran, and cooked whole wheat flour, and are especially abundant in raw chicory root. They can also be obtained from widely available supplements.

Combining dark chocolate with fruits such as pomegranates or acai may also boost its benefits, said Dr Finley.

So go ahead, eat your chocolate.

It will not only make you happy, chocolate will make you healthier too.



Source: MailOnline,

Without a License, the Monopolies of Opinion on Your Health

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
Medicine / Government

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You don't know enough. You don't have the education. You don't have a degree. You don't have a license.

All the time people treat other people like dirt, even though people manage their lives, homes, education, family, and money with little effort. Still, we have people in "leadership" positions in offices, schools, and government who question whether or not you can say anything without some type of legal authority to back up your claim.

Why would the government be so interested in your opinion? There is enough information online to satisfy any hunger for knowledge. 

A report from the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH-USA) finds government surveillance, undercover sting operations, and investigations of nutrition professionals into the alleged crime of "practicing nutrition without a license" going on at the cost of tax payers.

"These actions, together with the levying of criminal penalties, have been undertaken by state health departments and state dietetics boards that are enforcing monopolistic laws sponsored by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. More often than not, they are supported by local law enforcement or the offices of state attorneys general.

The AND—formally the American Dietetic Association, or ADA—is not a medical organization, but a trade group that represents the interests of Registered Dietitians (RDs, who are certified by the AND's credentialing arm). The AND has about 74,000 members.

These non-RD nutrition professionals are being targeted by these states' RD monopoly laws, despite the fact that many of them have advanced degrees and a tremendous number of clinical hours to their credit. They are being prosecuted for 'practicing dietetics without a license' or for referring to themselves as 'a nutritionist' in media or marketing materials."

Today if you speak truth and fact but do not have the government's approval, then you too are a criminal. It seems in this modern day witch hunt that anyone is a target for espousing their opinion. 

The North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition launched an attack on Cooksey's blog featuring nutritional principles of the Paleo Diet, accusing the blogger of practicing nutritional counseling without a license. In response, he filed a lawsuit against the board for violating his First Amendment rights. Unfortunately, his story is not unique.

What is going on? Why do you need a license to tell people to eat more vegetables, meat, or both? Isn't it common knowledge if you don't have a nutritionally balanced diet that your health will suffer?

There is now competitions for corporate espionage being offered to combat this evil problem of giving your opinion without a license:

For example, RDs in MI participated in a "Documentation of Harm Contest."4 Those who completed and submitted the most "Documentation of Harm" forms were eligible to win free registration to Michigan's annual conference. Documentation of Harm forms, used in every state now, are essentially a complaint form filled out by an RD to target unlicensed nutritionists caught in the "dangerous" act of giving dietary advice. In 2012 AND [Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics] unveiled a program to train RDs to "hunt for harm" and report it. In MA RDs are encouraged to question each client and even the RDs own relatives about non-RD practitioners they have seen, and to "help" the client fill out the complaint forms! These completely unvetted tattle tales are then offered to legislators as evidence.

And where is the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) getting its education and licensure? Where else? Corporations:

Case in point: the AND's annual conference is often called "the world's largest meeting of food and nutrition experts." Interestingly, these conferences are absent of any true nutritional experts whose knowledge could make a positive impact on Americans' health. But they do showcase numerous representatives from processed food and junk-food giants. Here is a profile of AND's food industry sponsorship:⁵

• In 2001, AND listed 10 food industry sponsors; their 2011 annual report lists 38
• Since 2001, the most loyal AND sponsor is the National Cattleman's Beef Association
• ConAgra and General Mills have been AND sponsors for 10 of the last 12 years; Kellogg and the National Dairy Council for nine of the 12
• At the expo, based on square footage, only about 12 percent of the exhibitor floor space was occupied by fruit and vegetable vendors—the remainder was occupied by processed food representatives
• The credentialing arm of the ANA offers "continuing education" provided by Coca-Cola, Kraft Foods, Nestle, Mars, and PepsiCo—the very companies that make the foods you need to eat LESS of in order to stay healthy and fight obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancer and countless other chronic diseases!

Besides not giving correct advice when dieticians are promoting their sponsors, how about some separation from these corporate monopolies and your health?

Obesity and diabetes can be linked to the changes in the food pyramid that the government and corporations make up for us. Isn't it about time people stood up to out of control corporations and government?

Michigan is poised to become the latest state to reverse the dietetics monopoly. On November 13, 2013, the Michigan House passed a bill to repeal Michigan's 2006 Dietetics Nutrition Licensing law, which had erected a de facto monopoly for registered dietitians. CNA coalition members in Michigan expressed a willingness to collaborate with dietitians to engineer a bill that wasn't "RD-centric" and would give much broader practice rights.

But if you want to see change and a return to a non-polarizing dialogue about nutrition and health, then the people are going to have to support legislation like the one in Michigan as well as pressure politicians to create such changes in the law. 

If you would like to know more, CNA [The Center for Nutrition Advocacy] will be holding a free webinar today, Jan 22 at 5pm PT/7pm CT/8pm ET to discuss licensing nationwide and its impact on anyone who uses nutrition in their work.

Source: Mercola

Fireplace and Woodburning Harms Valley Residents' Health

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

Community Interest / Medicine

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People with respiratory issues have a hard time breathing this time of the year. Not because of the cooler temperatures, but because of the burning activities of Valley residents. 

Imagine if you had asthma, emphysema, or worse, then looked at the smog lacing the metro area's sky. It's not fun to be unable to breathe. It's even worse when someone has to visit the hospital for an emergency intervention.

Here is a snippet from Phoenix's AirNow:

We are closing on some worst days for pollution historically. Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s Day see some of the worst pollution that is entirely preventable here in the Valley. Festive fireplace and fire pit activity on these nights and days leave a blanket of smoke over the Phoenix metropolitan area that gets trapped by inversions. Unfortunately, these levels of pollution are so extreme that Health Watches and High Pollution Advisories are issued, triggering No Burn restrictions from Maricopa County. We can reverse this trend, but we need your help.

For more, visit: http://www.azdeq.gov/environ/air/ozone/Holiday%20Burning.pdf. Check back tomorrow for more. Until then, have a good day! -J.Paul

Give more than material gifts this holiday season. Give the gift of breathing. Limit your festive burning activities and let others enjoy the holidays as well.

Source: Airnow Phoenix