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Post by the Scribe on Nov 10, 2018 5:49:11 GMT -5
Meet Charlie Goldsmith: The Healer
Healer or Hoax? | Charlie Goldsmith put to the test | Sunday Night
Sunday Night Published on Aug 5, 2018 To his believers, he’s known simply as ‘The Healer’. Charlie Goldsmith claims he possesses a mysterious energy that can cure the sick using just his mind. The self-proclaimed energy healer from Melbourne says he can end chronic pain, cure crippling arthritis, even save lives. And he has plenty of patients who will attest to his inexplicable powers. But is he truly a healer or is it all a hoax? Sunday Night’s Angela Cox has put Goldsmith’s claims to the test in this three-month-long investigation.
The Healer - Charlie Goldsmith - Is it Real? - Tom Loud
Tom Loud Published on Nov 21, 2017 There is a new show on TV, "The Healer". This show documents the life and work of Australian healer Charlie Goldsmith. Is the healing power that Charlie claims to have real? How does it work? I am operating in healing as well, but from a Christian perspective; this is my understanding of supernatural, spiritual healing. God bless you!
I’m Spiritual Dammit | Charlie Goldsmith from the hit show ‘The Healer’
Jenniffer Weigel Published on Mar 6, 2018 Jen Weigel interviews Charlie Goldsmith, an energy healer from Australia and star of the new hit series “The Healer” (airing on Monday nights on TLC.) Charlie reluctantly discovered his gift at the age of 18 and has been teaming up with doctors across the globe healing patients for no charge in an effort to bridge the gap between the medical community and energy healers.
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 14, 2018 3:14:26 GMT -5
There are all kinds of theories and cure alls but before doing anything try high dose cranberry extract to stop or lessen OCD first. It appears to be caused by a strep virus somewhere along the line. Cranberry extract is also used for yeast infections. Give it a try. It was discussed on a radio program. Since cranberries are a food there should be no harm.The OCD Strep-ConnectionMar 10, 2014 by ocdhope_admin
The OCD Strep-Connection OCD as an Autoimmune Disorder By Marc W. Reitman, MD Western Suffolk Psychological Services, Inc., Huntington, New York
Over the last ten years, there has appeared a mounting body of evidence that suggests there is a small subgroup of individuals whose childhood onset Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders may have been triggered by streptococcal throat infections. This association of an infectious cause with a neurobiological disorder may also be true for tic disorders, such as Tourette’s Disorder, Trichotillomania (compulsive hair pulling), and possibly Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
These conclusions were drawn from research conducted by Drs. Susan Swedo, Judith Rappaport, and their associates at The National Institute of Mental Health. During the late 1980’s, they observed that children with Sydenham’s Chorea, the neurobiological manifestation that follows bouts of Rheumatic Fever, had an unusually high percentage of OCD symptoms, including both obsessions and compulsions. Rheumatic Fever is caused by Group A Beta hemolytic streptococcal bacteria, commonly known as strep throat. In a vulnerable subgroup of children, the immune response to the bacteria goes awry, causing the antibodies to mistakenly identify the basal ganglia (an area deep within the brain) as foreign bodies. The basal ganglia then become inflamed as a result of this “mistaken identification.” This chain reaction is what is known as an autoimmune response, when the immune system misidentifies an individual’s own cells as foreign.
Noting that 70% of Sydenham’s Chorea patients have OCD symptoms, Drs. Swedo and Rappaport conducted research of children with sudden onset of OCD, looking for a casual relationship between a strep infection and OCD symptoms. To identify this group of children, the acronym PANDAS was proposed representing Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections. The proposed working criteria that has been developed to make a diagnosis of PANDAS include:
The presence of OCD and/or a tic disorder Childhood onset (between the age of 3 and puberty) Episodic course (sudden burst of symptoms followed by a gradual decline, then absence of symptoms until the next sudden burst of symptoms) The presence of a group A Beta hemolytic streptococcal infection (established by a positive throat culture and/or elevated titer of anti-streptococcal antibodies) The presence of abnormal neurological signs The National Institute of Mental Health group has recently published their findings of 50 children, following them over a 2-year course. The results indicate that these children have typical OCD symptoms but atypical associated features, which would include:
The onset of symptoms is sudden and dramatic such that parents can frequently recall the date of onset. The usual onset of OCD is more gradual. This group of children has an earlier age of onset of symptoms than compared to the usual onset. PANDAS children are seen to have complete remissions of symptoms between episodes of symptoms. The non-PANDAS OCD symptoms usually follow a waxing and waning course. The presence of accompanying neurological signs such as tics, hyperactivity, or choreiform movements (irregular spasmodic involuntary movements of the limbs or facial muscles) further distinguishes this subgroup of children with OCD. Other symptoms can include emotional lability (over reactions to minor events), separation anxiety, nighttime fears and oppositional behaviors. Symptoms worsen following a strep infection. The identification of this subgroup of OCD has advanced our understanding of this disorder by providing evidence through neuroimaging studies of a specific location in the brain and possible causes. Genetic vulnerability in those who develop these symptoms is also being explored. There is a biological marker in certain blood cells that appears to have a higher frequency of expression among children with PANDAS. However, this test is only available in research laboratories and is not commonly used as a diagnostic tool.
Treatments for this type of OCD have included plasma exchange (a filtering of the plasma eliminating antigen/antibody complexes), intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG), steroids or antibiotics. There is an ongoing study exploring the chronic use of antibiotics to prevent re-infection by strep, which could theoretically avoid further episodes of OCD. The results of this study could help guide clinicians in the treatment of this subgroup of OCD. However, these are no current recommendations that antibiotics should routinely be administered as a formal treatment.
Until more is learned about the outcome of these experimental treatments, it is wise to follow these suggestions for children who may be vulnerable to have PANDAS:
Treat all strep infection aggressively with antibiotics.
Be sure to complete the course of antibiotic treatment to avoid development of resistant strains of bacteria.
Make use of proven therapies such as cognitive/behavioral therapy and serotonin medication (SSRI’s) as are utilized to treat the more usual forms of OCD.
The “quick” strep throat culture is not accurate enough for demonstrating the presence of streptococcal infection. The older method of incubation of a throat swab on agar for 48 hours is far more accurate.
In addition to throat cultures, there are blood tests that the pediatrician can request to help identify the association of strep infection and exacerbation of symptoms. These include anti-streptolysin O titer and anti-streptococcal DNase B titer.
The current interest about the role of the immune system in neuropsychiatric disorders will increase our understanding of brain functioning and potential treatments for these disorders in children and adults.
www.ocdhope.com/2014/03/the-ocd-strep-connection/
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 17, 2018 2:03:34 GMT -5
Hypnotherapy & Past Life RegressionAfter ten years of practice as a medical doctor of Stomatology in Europe, Dr. Elena Gabor discovered the amazing benefits of involving our higher levels of awareness/consciousness in healing.
Dr. Elena Gabor is a specialist in subconscious therapy, a certified hypnotherapist and hypnosis instructor with private practices in Santa Monica, Los Angeles and Pasadena, California.
Dr. Gabor has made a lifetime commitment to help people recover from physical and emotional challenges. She started her training as a Medical Doctor in 1989 in Europe, followed by the Medical Doctor of Stomatology training (the equivalent of Doctor of Dental Medicine in the U. S.) and the residency program in General Stomatology. She holds a Medical Doctor of Stomatology European License and brings to her medical hypnotherapy practice 20 years of experience in clinics and private practice, in medical and dental field. She also holds U.S. Certifications in Hypnotherapy, Medical Hypnotherapy, Past life Regression Therapy, Personal Development and Life Coaching and is a member of the National Guild of Hypnotists. Dr. Gabor is also a Certified Hypnosis Instructor with The National Guild of Hypnotists and the President of European Medical Hypnotherapy and Subconscious Therapy Association. She offers certification courses in Hypnotherapy, Medical Hypnotherapy and Spiritual Hypnotherapy both in the U.S. and Europe.
Dr. Gabor has built successful hypnotherapy practices in Los Angeles area, exclusively using subconscious therapy (hypnotherapy, medical hypnotherapy, spiritual hypnotherapy, NLP, guided imagery, EFT, parts therapy, etc.) as complementary tools for self-improvement and healing. Combining compassion and understanding of clients’ needs, she supports them in their healing experience, customizing a holistic program with their goals in mind. Dr. Gabor has developed pioneering, complementary techniques that help in the recovery process from a variety of health issues including the ones resistant to classical medical treatment. The secret lies in our minds, in the connection with our higher levels of consciousness and the universal mind.
The client always has full awareness and control during the hypnotherapy session, which is strictly confidential.
Dr. Gabor has published her first book “Home at the Tree of Life, an Introduction to Subconscious, Ethereal Science.” Available on amazon at www.amazon.com/author/drelenagabor this book describes some of the most amazing case studies of hypnotherapy, medical hypnotherapy and spiritual hypnotherapy (including past life regression therapy and analysis and life beyond life regression) of four of her clients from Europe and the U.S. Her clients had amazing journeys self-discovery and healing from severe depression, suicidal thoughts, anxiety, fears, insomnia, nightmares, alcohol dependency, lack of self-confidence and incipient cancer. They all opened unexpected doors into the fascinating realms of past lives and the afterlife, and gained access to the Ultimate Reality/ the Universe where all souls originate from (referred to as Home in this book) and to the Universal Mind. drgabor.com/
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 18, 2018 0:58:41 GMT -5
INNOVATION HUB (NPR)NOVEMBER 16, 2018 Fixing A Broken Heart The Grinch's is two sizes too small. All Green wants to know how you can mend a broken one. You can destroy them, steal them, break them. They can pine or ache or wander. Suffice it to say, hearts are a big part of our culture. After all, though our kidneys are vital, there aren't many pop songs about them. Still, as important as they are to our culture, our hearts are even more important to our health. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, and chances are that you know someone who has been affected by heart issues. Dr. Sandeep Jauhar, the director of the Heart Failure Program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and author of "Heart: A History," takes a look at how we address heart health, and how we could do better.
www.npr.org/podcasts/512646501/innovation-hub
THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF INTERN AND DOCTORED TELLS THE STORY OF THE THING THAT MAKES US TICK… AN AMAZON BEST OF THE MONTH FOR SEPTEMBER AND ONE OF AMAZON’S MOST ANTICIPATED FALL BOOKS For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As the cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in Heart: A History, it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and devised the transformative procedures that have changed the way we live.
Deftly alternating between key historical episodes and his own work, Jauhar tells the colorful and little-known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our most vital organ. He introduces us to Daniel Hale Williams, the African American doctor who performed the world’s first open heart surgery in Gilded Age Chicago. We meet C. Walton Lillehei, who connected a patient’s circulatory system to a healthy donor’s, paving the way for the heart-lung machine. And we encounter Wilson Greatbatch, who saved millions by inventing the pacemaker—by accident. Jauhar deftly braids these tales of discovery, hubris, and sorrow with moving accounts of his family’s history of heart ailments and the patients he’s treated over many years. He also confronts the limits of medical technology, arguing that future progress will depend more on how we choose to live than on the devices we invent. Affecting, engaging, and beautifully written, Heart: A History takes the full measure of the only organ that can move itself.
sandeepjauhar.com/heart-a-history/
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 23, 2018 3:02:57 GMT -5
Great news! This supplement is widely used to improve ones biome as well as for urinary tract infections. It is not too expensive, available over the counter so if you are prone to these problems it may be a great natural option to keep the doctor away. Cranberry itself gives some heartburn but this will not. Sugar supplement slows tumor growth and can improve cancer treatmentNovember 21, 2018, Cancer Research UK cancer Credit: CC0 Public Domain Mannose sugar, a nutritional supplement, can both slow tumour growth and enhance the effects of chemotherapy in mice with multiple types of cancer.
This lab study is a step towards understanding how mannose could be used to help treat cancer.
The results of the study, which was funded by Cancer Research UK and Worldwide Cancer Research, are published in Nature, today (Wednesday).
Tumours use more glucose than normal, healthy tissues. However, it is very hard to control the amount of glucose in your body through diet alone. In this study, the researchers found that mannose can interfere with glucose to reduce how much sugar cancer cells can use.
Professor Kevin Ryan, lead author from the Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute, said: "Tumours need a lot of glucose to grow, so limiting the amount they can use should slow cancer progression. The problem is that normal tissues need glucose as well, so we can't completely remove it from the body. In our study, we found a dosage of mannose that could block enough glucose to slow tumour growth in mice, but not so much that normal tissues were affected. This is early research, but it is hoped that finding this perfect balance means that, in the future, mannose could be given to cancer patients to enhance chemotherapy without damaging their overall health."
The researchers first examined how mice with pancreatic, lung or skin cancer responded when mannose was added to their drinking water and given as an oral treatment. They found that adding the supplement significantly slowed the growth of tumours and did not cause any obvious side effects.
To test how mannose could also affect cancer treatment, mice were treated with cisplatin and doxorubicin—two of the most widely used chemotherapy drugs. They found that mannose enhanced the effects of chemotherapy, slowing tumour growth, reducing the size of tumours and even increasing the lifespan of some mice.
Several other cancer types, including leukaemia, osteosarcoma, ovarian and bowel cancer, were also investigated. Researchers grew cancer cells in the lab and then treated them with mannose to see whether their growth was affected.
Some cells responded well to the treatment, while others did not. It was also found that the presence of an enzyme that breaks down mannose in cells was a good indicator of how effective treatment was.
Professor Kevin Ryan added: "Our next step is investigating why treatment only works in some cells, so that we can work out which patients might benefit the most from this approach. We hope to start clinical trials with mannose in people as soon as possible to determine its true potential as a new cancer therapy."
Mannose is sometimes used for short periods to treat urinary tract infections, but its long-term effects have not been investigated. It's important that more research is conducted before mannose can be used in cancer patients.
Martin Ledwick, Cancer Research UK's head nurse, said: "Although these results are very promising for the future of some cancer treatments, this is very early research and has not yet been tested in humans. Patients should not self-prescribe mannose as there is a real risk of negative side effects that haven't been tested for yet. It's important to consult with a doctor before drastically changing your diet or taking new supplements."
Explore further: Mannose's unexpected effects on the microbiome and weight gain
More information: Pablo Sierra Gonzalez et al, Mannose impairs tumour growth and enhances chemotherapy, Nature (2018). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0729-3 Journal reference: Nature
Provided by: Cancer Research UK
medicalxpress.com/news/2018-11-sugar-supplement-tumor-growth-cancer.html
www.webmd.com/vitamins-and-supplements/d-mannose-uses-and-risks
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 24, 2018 4:43:34 GMT -5
The Power of ForgivenessNov 20, 2018 | The Power of Forgiveness
It’s not a secret that our emotions have a significant impact on our health. Many people who come to our clinic discover that a contributing factor to their health problem is due to some troubling emotional experiences that they have been through in the past. Surprisingly, many are harboring some form of resentment towards another person that is now having a detrimental effect on their recovery.
Dr. Morter, an expert in emotional health and its connection with physical well-being stated: “No matter how well we camouflage our negative past experiences our subconscious memory has them stored away, ready to leap out when a similar negative experience triggers the response, and we damage ourselves all over again by reliving that past negative experience. Continuous subtle negative feelings, such as depression, worry, guilt, self-pity, resentment, and frustration, reduce the vibrancy of your surrounding (energy) field which, in turn, interferes with the flow of health….”
“Collect postage stamps, or collect coins, if you wish but don’t collect grudges!” Dynamic Health – Dr. M. Ted Morter Jr. – pages 59 – 76
Negative experiences and feelings can drain us on a variety of levels. Interestingly, Dr. Morter believes that negative emotions are usually much stronger than positive feelings. There are some effective emotional therapies that help both doctor and patient identify the reasons for an emotional imbalance that could be contributing to ones deteriorating health.
Simply put, “if you want to be healthy, first learn to forgive others.” On the other hand, if you want to remain with high blood pressure, arthritis, sore back, headaches and so on, hold a grudge and store all the bitterness that life throws your way.
“When looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope.”
How to Forgive
There are three ideas to keep clear in mind which can help us in the forgiving process:
1. Forgive the person that hurt you.
‘Easier said than done’ you may say. But in reality, to forgive is simple:
Step 1) accept what has happened. Step 2) Express how the other person’s actions made you feel. Step 3) Put the matter behind you.
Don’t allow emotions to blind you to these three simple steps.
2. Forgive yourself.
Does that sound strange to you? It is likely you feel you haven’t done anything wrong, but the idea is to forgive yourself for any possible role you might have played, knowingly or unknowingly, that could have caused this hurt between you the other person. Many times, the real reason we hold a grudge against others is that the person we really can’t forgive is ourselves.
3. Look for something good in the negative experience.
What have you learned from what happened? What could be done so this does not happen again in the future? Think of life as a school that we never stop attending; we never graduate, we are always learning. Whether the experiences we have are good or bad, we still need to look for and find the ‘good.’
He Who Learns to Forgive – Learns to Live
Learning to forgive and then moving on with our life is perhaps one of the most important lessons that we all need. This concept of ‘getting even’ and fighting fire with fire is self-destructive. Gandhi made a very astute comment when he said: “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” When we hold a grudge, it is like drinking poison and hoping that the other person gets sick. Forgiveness is liberating; it provides true freedom! And never forget that forgiving oneself is always the hardest part but learning how to forgive others makes it easier.
To learn more about the emotional therapies offered at the Budwig Center CLICK HERE>>> budwigcenter.com/our-fees/wellness-budwig-program/
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong” – Gandhi.
IT NOT ABOUT THEM ANYWAY
People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered Forgive them, anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind, anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you. Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight. Build, anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous. Be happy, anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow. Do good, anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give the world the best you’ve got, anyway. You see in the final analysis it’s between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.
Mother Teresa
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 25, 2018 4:05:30 GMT -5
DENTAL CARE009 BAD BUGSDavid Kennedy, DDS Published on Feb 27, 2014 Bad Bugs is a light hearted look at the worlds most common disease Gum Infection and not only shows you the bad bugs but explains where they come from and how to kill them once and for all.
Gum disease is linked to a whole host of illnesses including cancers and heart attack yet with a little knowledge and effort it is 100% preventable. This documentary follows one of my good fiends Scott through the process of getting his mouth well. Come enjoy, laugh and learn. RECIPE FOR ORAL HEALTHwww.ihealthtube.com/contributor/david-kennedy-dds
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 25, 2018 4:45:18 GMT -5
METROFARMINGmetrofarm.com/ THREE LAWS OF THE FOOD CHAIN“Having produced and hosted over 700 live Food Chain Radio shows, I have come to the belief that all food stories can be placed under the banner of one – or more – of three principals. And so, with the authority vested in me by literary license, I hereby call these principals “Laws of the Food Chain.” Michael Olson
First Law: Agriculture is the foundation upon which we build all our sand castles. Without a surplus of food, there can be no time for anything but finding enough food. Agriculture is the industry that provides us with a surplus of food, and thus is the most important of all our endeavors. This elemental fact is often lost to the many who no longer have any connection to the food chain, other than their occasional forays to grocery stores and restaurants, where they expect to always find food.
Second Law: The farther we go from the source of our food, the less control we have over what’s in our food. When we are close to the source of our food, we know what’s in our food, but when our food comes from far away, we must rely on others to ensure that what is promised to be– or not to be– in our food is indeed in– or not in– our food. Most of us now eat food that comes from over a thousand miles away, and so we have little, if any, control over what is– or is not–in the food we eat.
Third Law: Cheap food isn’t. Cheap food is the Big Lie. They make food cheap by diminishing its substance and by subsidizing its costs. Thus the cheap food they promise is really the expensive food they deliver.METROFARM – GUIDE TO URBAN FARMINGGuide to Urban Farming for Profit – Earn up to eight times the average personal income with this agribusiness guide! Guide to Urban Farming for Profit – Earn up to eight times the average personal income! “MetroFarm is full of information! The business information alone is more informative and helpful than most books that specialize in business. Get this book – you will not be disappointed!” S.M. Smith, Engineer, Shanghai, China “Few how-to books could be more appropriate for our times than Michael Olson’s MetroFarm. With humor and passion, Olson makes the whole imbedded food system doable. A must read.” Joel Salatin, Polyface Farm
MetroFarm The Urban Farming Guide to Growing for Profit In or Near the CityMetroFarm tells how to convert an opportunity into a real going concern. Each process is laid out with impressive thoroughness, every chapter organized around the logic of practicality. Charles Walters, ACRES USA
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 25, 2018 22:44:17 GMT -5
Iodine dosagesDr. Sircus Published on Feb 28, 2013 Dr. Mark Sircus explains the differences in dosing with Nascent and Lugol's iodine in adults and children and iodine's use in bringing up deficient levels as well as in treating infections, cancers and other ilnesses. drsircus.com/iodine/iodine-supplements-and-dosages/
***Transcription*** The dosages depend on how you use it and the substance type – there is Lugol which has been around for 150 years, which is now in a lower concentration in United States because of certain laws that were passed, but you can get 2% Iodine, Lugol´s Iodine you can get 7% and you can even get as high as 15%. Whenever you use Iodine, no matter what Iodine you use – transdermally, painting in the skin – you have to be a little sensitive that sometimes it can burn the skin. Most often it does not, but you have to watch for skin reactions, drying out of the skin. I recommend for women with breast cancer to paint their breasts with Iodine. Oral dosages vary depending on where you live, your age, your size. Today in the northern hemisphere we do have a problem with radioactive iodine, if your thyroid is empty, running deficient on Iodine it will be a sponge for the radioactive type so it is really important today to supplement with Iodine, it is essential. If you live in the interior, away from the sea, also is very important, you have less iodine, exposed to less iodine in the environment. With the Nascent Iodine I recommend, which is in the atomic form, which is the form that the thyroid needs to create the thyroid hormones, it does not have to break down the molecular iodine which is Lugols or the pill forms, solid forms of Iodine. With the Nascent Iodine, in the bottle it says 3 drops to 5 drops, I believe 3 times a day. For my 3 years old I have given up to 15 to 20 drops at a time. You can take Iodine, start out with, if it is a child with an infection, instead of antibiotics, the Iodine is always going to be safer than an antibiotic. Iodine will not destroy and kill the healthy bacteria in the intestines. The only reaction normally is a detoxification, if a person is very, very toxic and very, very deficient. So with children and basically for basic supplementation and a minimal level in the northern hemisphere today I probably would be talking about 30 drops a day of the Nascent. Depending on the Lugol, maybe the same. Some Lugols, depending on the concentration, you will be taking less Lugol than Nascent. In treatment of cancer, patients usually go for 25mg up to 50mg and as high as a 100mg a day. This is what these Iodine doctors are suggesting. A hundred years ago the doctors used to go even higher, much higher, actually. So we are still in a very comfortable range. With children I would not hesitate when a child has a high fever and has an infection to do 10 or 15 drops of Nascent Iodine every 2 or 3 hours. The more you break up the dosage the more you can actually take orally in a very comfortable way for the body. In the cancer protocol we are talking about dosing with all the different items every 2 or 3 hours.another opinion:Dr. Hagglund on the importance of Iodine
DoctorHagglund Published on Aug 22, 2010 In this video Dr. Hagglund elaborates on how important iodine is for the thyroid and how it is mistreated in its dosage. He further explains the effects your body could have if not dosed properly. VERY IMPORTANT! Watch this video on how to dose your iodine intake. Then go to DeadThyroidSociety.com to view the entire Thyroid Protocol. For more articles and videos visit Dr. Hagglund's Site at hagglundmd.comCayce’s Two IodinesIt is widely known that Iodine is an essential nutrient for the human body, and scientists and doctors have known for many decades about the unique properties of nascent Iodine.
Edgar Cayce discussed Iodine in numerous readings, calling it several different things such as Atomic Iodine™ and Atomidine. It was important that the Iodine was electrified, and nascent, so that the body could assimilate it more easily, as Iodine can be quite harmful if taken incorrectly. In fact, Cayce recommended using Iodine under the supervision of a doctor, stating that overuse can result in over-stimulating the thyroid gland and the heart. So while Iodine is extremely important to the system, it is also good to be well informed on how the Iodine is manufactured and how the body processes this product.
cayce.com/health-solutions/edgar-cayces-two-iodines/
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 26, 2018 4:51:44 GMT -5
The Bacteria Lurking in American ShowerheadsThe water that flows through your home is teeming with microbial life. Trying to kill it off likely does more harm than good. ROB DUNN NOV 25, 2018
We imagine water to be clean, and we imagine clean to mean lifeless, and yet all the water you have ever bathed in, swum through, or drunk has been full of life, from bacteria to tiny crustaceans. So, too, the pipes in which it travels. As water passes through pipes in general and showerheads in particular, a thick biofilm builds up. Biofilm is a fancy word that scientists use to avoid saying “gunk.” It is made by individuals of one or more species of bacteria working together to protect themselves from hostile conditions—including the flow of water, which constantly threatens to wash them away—via their own excretions.
In essence, the bacteria poop a little indestructible condominium in your pipes, built of hard-to-break-down complex carbohydrates. But when the pressure is high enough, these species are let loose into the fine aerosol spray of water droplets pelting our hair and bodies and splashing up and into our noses and mouths. And in some regions, but not others, they increasingly seem to be making people sick.
tons more information: www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/never-home-alone-mycobacteria-lurk-american-showers/576292/
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 26, 2018 21:38:41 GMT -5
YOUR HEALTH 'The Beautiful Cure' Reveals The 'Profound' Power Of The Immune System35:34 LISTEN: ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/fa/2018/11/20181126_fa_01.mp3?orgId=427869011&topicId=1066&d=2134&p=13&story=670793745&siteplayer=true&dl=1November 26, 20181:51 PM ET Heard on Fresh Air
TERRY GROSS
Fresh Air
Immunologist Daniel Davis says scientists are harnessing the power of the immune system to create new medications to fight cancer, auto-immune conditions and other diseases.
TERRY GROSS, HOST:
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. We're going to talk about one of the great mysteries of the human body - how the immune system works. Why does it sometimes attack healthy tissue, leading to autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes? And how are scientists harnessing the latest discoveries about the immune system to create new medications to fight cancer, autoimmune conditions and other diseases?
My guest is immunologist Daniel Davis, author of the new book "The Beautiful Cure: The Revolution In Immunology And What It Means For Your Health." He's a professor of immunology at the University of Manchester in England where he runs a lab that uses microscopes to learn by watching how immune cells detect and kill diseased cells. He says the immune system is far more powerful than any medication we have devised.
Daniel Davis, welcome to FRESH AIR. So you say our body's own remedy, the immune system, is far more powerful than any medicine we've devised. Before we go into detail talking about immunity and autoimmune diseases and vaccines and all that stuff, what is it about our own immune system that makes it more powerful than any medicine?
DANIEL DAVIS: Well, quite frankly, your body is exposed to an untold number of all different kinds of germs from bacteria, viruses, fungi that might be out there in the world. And most of the time, your body's able to deal with these germs without you hardly knowing about it.
GROSS: Whereas there's no medication that could take care of all of that.
DAVIS: Exactly. So the immune system has to be able to react essentially to germs that haven't even been in the universe before, right? If viruses are changing their nature through mutations - as you're familiar with the idea that there's a different kind of flu coming around every year. And so your body has to be able to deal with viruses and other types of germs that literally haven't ever even existed before. That's how powerful the system really is.
GROSS: Among the many things that I learned from your book is that the immune system's potency changes at different times of the day. What are the changes?
DAVIS: Yes. So that's a really hot area of research. And I have to say that we - you know, this is going to come up I think many times in interviews like this where there are some edges where we don't understand everything. But broadly speaking, your immune system unquestionably changes its power, if you like, during different times of day. And on a very rough level, your immune system might be thought of being a bit more powerful during the night. And part of that is down to the activity of a particular hormone, cortisol. But that's only a first approximation.
So when I say that your immune system is perhaps a bit more powerful at night, in detail, your immune system really is in a slightly different state in day and night because there are some aspects of our immune system that are changing by day and night. And it's only a first approximation to suggest that it's more powerful during the night but certainly changes into a different state by day and by night, which of course leads us to interesting ideas for medicine.
GROSS: Like...
DAVIS: Like, for example, one of the ways we might be able to use this kind of information very specifically would be in vaccination. If vaccines were given at a certain time of day, for example, they may well have a greater benefit. And so we haven't yet got to the point where there's a clear government or health message to say, you know, you should deliver vaccines early in the morning rather than in the afternoon, but we are exploring that type of idea. And my guess is that in the relatively near future, some of that will turn out to be true, that certain kinds of medicines will work better at certain times of day to fit in with the state of your immune system at that time of day.
GROSS: Does this have implications for when our body is most efficient at healing? Like, do we heal more while we're sleeping?
DAVIS: So as a first approximation, that's sort of true. But really, when you dig into the details, there are various bits - the system is such a complex web of all different kinds of cells that interact with each other that when you dig into the details, you'll find that some types of cells in the immune system would be more active at night, and some others might still be more active in the day. Or even more crudely, there'll be different numbers of cells circulating in the blood by day and night.
So there are various nuances to how the immune system changes at different times of day. So roughly speaking, we do have a more powerful healing ability at night. But it's only very approximate to think like that because really there are lots of changes happening to the immune system during the 24-hour cycle, and we don't really understand what all the nuances actually mean yet.
GROSS: In order to talk about the immune system and how things like stress and sleep affect the immune system, we need to talk about cortisol. What is cortisol?
DAVIS: Cortisol is a hormone in your blood that prepares your body for a change in activity. So for example, cortisol levels are generally highest in a person just before you're about to wake up because it's thought that the change in your body needed to wake up requires this hormone to trigger your body to get ready for waking up. So that's where cortisol levels are changing. But cortisol levels also change in any other situation when your body is going to change its activity - for example, during stress, as you prepare for a sort of flight-or-flight response that people would be familiar with.
GROSS: So what does the cortisol do? It heightens your awareness or readiness, or it pumps adrenaline so that you can run away from the thing that is theoretically chasing you like a bear, although really what you're stressed about...
DAVIS: Yes, that's...
GROSS: ...Is a work deadline or a family issue where you're not literally going to be running (laughter).
DAVIS: All of these different - yes, exactly, so all of these different kinds of stress that change your cortisol levels because essentially your body is in this heightened state of activity. As if you're running away from a bear is just the same - although a bit more extreme of course - of you waking up.
And it's just - similarly, even if you're stressed because you've lost your job or because of a long divorce process or any other kind of life situation, all of these types of stresses do lead to changes in your body that are similar, to some extent, in their nature, which includes a change in this level of this hormone, cortisol, to prepare - get your body - your body is in this heightened state of ready for action.
The flight-or-fight response is the thing that people will be really familiar with. And that can happen over a short period of time, as you're - see a bear and you run. But similarly, if you're stressed over a longer-term issue, you still have that type of thing going on in your body but just over a longer period of time.
GROSS: What's the problem if you have cortisol coursing through your body for a long period of time 'cause you're stressed out?
DAVIS: So as part - yes. So as part of your flight-or-fight response, your immediate reaction to seeing some kind of danger - you need to run away - your body shifts its efforts. It gets your body ready to run, for example. And part of that process means that the energy use in your - around your body changes. So you get your muscles ready. Your blood vessels dilate. And you get ready for that running response. And while that's going on, some other parts of the body that perhaps don't seem like they'll be particularly necessary at that moment, like your immune system, do quieten down. And so you don't then have as active an immune system while your cortisol levels are high.
GROSS: Because your body wants to spend more energy running away from the immediate threat, the bear, than it wants to spend at that moment from fighting, like, a new germ. But since you're not really running from the bear and you're stressed out for a long period of time, that's going to be bad for your immune system.
DAVIS: Yes. But I have to say that these are the narratives that we put on the data which are actually quite hard to test. So what you described is exactly the kind of thinking that most scientists would think is likely true. But the exact evidence is really that when a person or an animal is stressed, the immune system does quieten down.
And it could be the type of storyline that we're both talking about, that you don't really need your immune system to fight off germs while you're running away from a bear. But it doesn't have to be that. It could be just that as a consequence of how the body is wired in general, it just so happens that your immune system ends up quietening down while your cortisol levels are high.
It doesn't have to be that there's any real reason for that. It could just be that that's something that happens. And it's actually quite hard to test whether or not, for example, the quietening down of your immune system is just a consequence of how we work or it's really quietening down for a very particular reason.
GROSS: I like that you're acknowledging all the things that science can't really be sure of yet as opposed to just accepting easy narratives that may or may not (laughter) be true. They're convenient.
DAVIS: Yes.
GROSS: They help us explain things, but they haven't really been tested. So thank you for explaining that. It's - it would be more fulfilling for you to tell us for sure what's happening, but (laughter) if we don't really know...
DAVIS: Yes.
GROSS: ...I appreciate you acknowledging that.
DAVIS: Yes. That's actually a really important thing to me, you know, so that when - one of the crucial reasons I wanted to write this book, "The Beautiful Cure," was that as a scientist, everything I want to do is to tell the truth, right? You know, like Leonard Cohen often said in his concerts, I haven't come here to fool you, right?
I don't want to present an easy narrative if we don't have an easy narrative. I want to present the data, the facts, the evidence that we have for things. And then some things are genuinely unclear. And it's not my job to give a definitive or declarative public health message but for people to know what's true, for sure, and what really is a bit fuzzy and for people then to make up their own minds about that, which is a really driving force for me in wanting to spend the time to write a book about the topic.
GROSS: Right now we should take a short break. If you're just joining us, my guest is Daniel Davis. He's an immunologist and author of the new book, "The Beautiful Cure: The Revolution In Immunology And What It Means For Your Health." We'll be right back. This is FRESH AIR.
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GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. And if you're just joining us, my guest is immunologist Daniel Davis. He's the author of the new book "The Beautiful Cure: The Revolution In Immunology And What It Means For Your Health." He is a professor of immunology at the University of Manchester in England.
So let's talk about the immune system and cancer. If the immune system fights germs, like bacteria and viruses, what is its role in fighting cancer?
DAVIS: This is an extremely exciting area for immunologists all over the world. We once thought, in fact, that - how could your body fight cancer? What is cancer? Cancer is not usually associated with any particular germ. There are few cases where viruses would cause cancer. But, by and large, cancer is just one of your own body's cells that has gone awry and has started multiplying and dividing out of control and giving you cancer. So it really comes from your own body's cells.
If your immune system is wired up to tackle things that are not part of the body, like germs, viruses, bacteria and fungi, how could it deal with something like cancer? But, in fact, we did discover that the changes that happen in the body's cells to turn a cell cancerous can actually be picked up by the immune system. Now, why it's become really exciting, that realization, is that that opens up the idea that we could perhaps look at ways of boosting the immune response to tackle cancer even better. And as you'll be aware, the Nobel Prize was given just last month to scientists from Japan and America for a wonderful discovery that directly uses that idea with a very specific discovery.
GROSS: What was the discovery?
DAVIS: Right. So essentially, when you're infected with the flu virus, the particular cells in your body that fight that flu virus would multiply in number to fight off the flu. But once that flu virus has been eradicated from the body, you don't need all of those cells in the body. You don't need this heightened state of activity specifically for the flu virus when it's already been eradicated from your body. So the immune system has brakes within it to switch itself off after some time.
So the big discovery that these scientists made were that there were specific brakes to switch off the immune system after some time. And although I just, again, presented it to you as the narrative that got us to understand brakes, they didn't discover it like that. They really discovered it by just following their nose to work out what a particular protein molecule did in the immune system and found out that it switched the immune system off, and it acted as a brake. If there are brakes in the immune system that are coming on when you need a very long-term response in fighting off cancer, that seems like a bad idea.
And so they developed drugs or medicines - antibody molecules, essentially - that block the brakes from working. So they turn off the switching-off signal on the immune system, which allows your immune system to better fight off cancer cells. And so for some patients with some types of cancer, that's been quite revolutionary.
GROSS: Your father has the blood cancer multiple myeloma, and he's been taking the drug thalidomide. Now, in the 1950s, thalidomide was used for - it was often prescribed for pregnant women. Explain why it was prescribed then and what the problem was.
DAVIS: Well, thalidomide was originally given as a sedative to help pregnant women with particular problems in their pregnancy. And it turned out that the drug causes all sorts of problems during pregnancy. And it's a truly tragic situation. And you know, many people have suffered from that. But by chance...
GROSS: Well, separate from - I mean, we should say that the babies were born with deformed limbs or, you know, foreshortened limbs.
DAVIS: Yes.
GROSS: And, you know, it was really kind of tragic. You know, when I was growing up, like, that was the nightmare drug. That was, like, the worst-case-scenario drug for pregnant women. So how is it being used now, in situations like your father's, who has multiple myeloma?
DAVIS: So what happened was that, by accident, essentially, it turned out that although the thalidomide had these horrific consequences - I mean, yes, that huge tragedy in the history of medicine - it was also noted that it did seem to have some kind of anticancer property. And one particular pharmaceutical company essentially took that on. They made a less toxic version of thalidomide. So it's not actually directly thalidomide that my father benefited from but a molecule that is very like that, that's less toxic. And it is now used to successfully treat many cancer patients, including my own father, yes. And so it's...
GROSS: So what does it do? How does it work?
DAVIS: It's not entirely clear how it works. It seems to do many things in the body. It can directly kill cancer cells. But as well as that, it seems to boost a person's own immune system into being able to directly kill cancer cells. And one of the things that, you know - so I don't want to overemphasize my own laboratory's research over others because there are obviously thousands of people working on these things. But in my own lab, we did take that particular drug because it was keeping my father alive, and I wanted to find out more about it, seeing as it wasn't clear how it worked.
And one of the things it does is it allows a particular white blood cell called a natural killer cell, which is a type of white blood cell. There's about a thousand of these cells in every drop of your blood. And they're particularly good at killing cancer cells. And this drug, at least in a dish, allows a cancer cell to be latched onto by natural killer cell. And natural killer cell then kills the cancer cell more easily in the presence of this drug. So it allows the - your own white blood cells to kill cancer cells much more efficiently. And we then watched that process with high-resolution microscopes to look at the molecular processes by which that happens to learn exactly how white blood cells kill cancer cells better in the presence of that drug.
So when a natural killer cell sticks to a cancer cell, it has these packets of toxic molecules withinside (ph) your own natural killer cell that then come out and go on to the cancer cell and kill it. And for those packets of toxic molecules to get out of your white blood cells and kill a cancer cell, it has to pass through a mesh work of other molecules that look like the inside bit of a tennis racket - like the squares of a tennis racket. And you imagine that, through the squares of a tennis racket, these toxic proteins have to come out and then attack a cancer cell. And one of the things that this drug does, which has this shadowy past, this tragic story - one of the things this drug does is it opens up the squares of that tennis racket to be much bigger, which more easily allows your white blood cell to kill a cancer cell.
GROSS: Can you actually see that happening under a microscope in your lab?
DAVIS: Yes. That is exactly what my whole lab is about - that we use microscopes to watch how the immune system works. We want to understand when an immune cell sticks to another cell - we want to watch the process by which the immune cell decides if that other cell is healthy or diseased. And then if the immune cell is sticking to a diseased cell, we want to watch what it does, what happens. And that will help us understand how your immune system works in a very reductionist, molecular way. But that's the right path for giving us new ideas for medicine, I think.
GROSS: Do you think of the things you're seeing under the microscope as being beautiful or ugly? What - if you're looking at disease?
DAVIS: There is a really deep wonder in watching how your immune system works under a microscope. I think it's quite profound. I think that the part of the human body which we understand the best is this - is how your immune system works. It's what happens when you get a cut. It's what happens when your immune system tries to fight cancer. This is the part of our body that we understand with the greatest amount of detail. And watching that play out under a microscope is quite profound. It's quite poetic. I think that we're collectively - the tens of thousands of people that are trying to understand how this system works is a soulful enterprise.
GROSS: My guest is immunologist Daniel Davis, author of the new book "The Beautiful Cure: The Revolution In Immunology And What It Means For Your Health." After a short break, we'll talk about autoimmune diseases, which are caused when the immune system starts attacking healthy tissue. And Ken Tucker will review a box set of "The Complete Recordings" of the late Lefty Frizzell, one of country music's most influential singers. I'm Terry Gross, and this is FRESH AIR.
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GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Let's get back to our interview about the latest discoveries about how the immune system works and how that's leading to new medications. My guest is immunologist Daniel Davis, author of the new book "The Beautiful Cure: The Revolution In Immunology And What It Means For Your Health." He's a professor of immunology at the University of Manchester in England where he runs a lab that uses microscopes to learn by watching how immune cells detect and kill diseased cells.
Let's talk about autoimmune diseases. And those are diseases in which something goes wrong with the immune system, and it starts attacking healthy tissue. Describe a little bit more what an autoimmune disease is and give us some examples of them.
DAVIS: OK, so an autoimmune disease is a disease where your immune system has started to attack your body's own healthy cells when, obviously, it shouldn't. And there are many examples of this. Multiple sclerosis, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis are diseases that, you know, obviously, many people are familiar with. And there are many difficulties in tackling autoimmune disease. For example, by the time a person has come to a physician with the symptoms of an autoimmune disease, it's very often the case that the disease has been running already for some time. And so it's hard to know, for example, what the triggers for the specific bad situation that's happened in a person.
But also, our understanding of how the immune system works has given us some ways in which we can now begin to tackle autoimmune disease.
GROSS: Do we understand why the immune system attacks healthy tissues and organs when someone has an autoimmune disease?
DAVIS: Yes. So the problem is - it's actually an incredibly wonderful process by which that works, that you make an immune system that can react randomly to anything, kill off bits of it that might react to you, and then you're left with stuff that would react to things that could be germs. If you just bear with me a minute, the problem with that is that your body is changing.
For example, there is - during pregnancy, during adolescence, your body is making things that were not part of your body earlier. So how does your immune system deal with that? Food, for example, has not come from a germ, and yet your body doesn't want to react against food, and it's also not part of you. So that means it's very complicated. Your immune system has to have countless regulations, checks and balances, all different cells working together to create a system that can react to anything that's out there that might be dangerous and yet still not react to parts of you.
And so the complexity of it all leads to cracks in how it would work. And sometimes the immune system gets it wrong. Now, the very specific triggers that trigger a problem happening are really difficult to work out. But one idea that's out there is that you would have a germ that really causes a problem, and the germ might have a component of it that looks a little bit like something in you.
So the immune cells would be activated. They would be switched on to kill the germ. And then by mistake, they see a component of your own body that looks a bit like the germ, and they might attack your own body by mistake. That might be one aspect of what happens to trigger an autoimmune disease.
GROSS: There are drugs that are being used and drugs that are in the process of being created and theories that might lead to new drugs for the treatment of autoimmune diseases. Give us an example of a drug in use or in the experimental phase that you think is very promising in treating autoimmune disease.
DAVIS: Well, one of the most successful drugs - in fact, one of the world's most successful drugs, period, never mind just what - is a particular drug called anti-TNF, which actually many of your listeners will probably be using for something like rheumatoid arthritis. And what this drug does is - we've spoken a lot already about the complexity of the immune system, the fact that there are so many different kinds of immune cells, that they somehow have to work together to give a robust response.
So the cells have to interact with each other. And one of the things they do is that they secrete soluble molecules so that one cell will send out a secretion to tell another cell, you know, there's a problem here; we need to be switched on and deal with it. And in fact, one of the scientists, Marc Feldmann, was on holiday in Spain, and he was - you know, he often tells me, in fact, that people need to take more holidays 'cause that's where you get the big ideas.
And he was thinking that if the immune cells are able to egg each other on with these soluble secretions, then perhaps by blocking those secretions - so stopping an immune cell from egging on another immune cell - if we block that, we might be able to stop the immune system from going overboard and reacting in a way that's causing a problem.
And so he, working with a clinician scientist, Tiny Maini, developed a drug called anti-TNF that blocks one of the secretions that come out from an immune cell to egg on another immune cell. He blocked that. And that essentially switches off the immune system. And that prevents an autoimmune disease like rheumatoid arthritis. And it doesn't work for everyone, but it's a hugely successful drug.
GROSS: You write that, you know, older people are more prone to autoimmune diseases. And it seems our immune system goes awry as we age, you say. So what goes wrong with our immune system as we get older?
DAVIS: Yes. That's an incredibly important question, especially as in general the whole of the world's population is increasing in age on average. So it's a really important issue to understand what happens as we age. What we do know is that something in the immune system generally changes as we age. And there are - it's a hot topic. It's another frontier. There are ideas about what specifically might happen.
Remember we spoke about how, you know, when you get a flu virus, for example, you - the cells that fight off that flu virus multiply in number. Then after a time, when you've eradicated the virus, you don't need all those cells around in your body. So your body quietens down, and most of those cells are lost. But you retain some cells that can fight off that flu virus, the memory response that you would have if - sort of stop you getting the same flu again or prevent - allowing your immune system to better fight off the same flu again.
That means that as we age, you would have more and more of your immune system tuned in to fight off all the different history of infections you've previously been exposed to. So if more and more of your immune system is tuned in to fight off the different infections you've had during the history of your life, then perhaps less of your immune system is able to deal with new infections that you haven't been exposed to.
It also means that you'll have more and more of those kinds of cells in your body, the memory - the immune cells responsible for your memory response. And they may give a sort of general low-level of inflammation to your body overall which may allow you to perhaps trigger - you know, lower the threshold, for example, at which an autoimmune disease might develop. But it's a very unclear area of science at the moment but a hugely important topic.
GROSS: So let me reintroduce you here, and then we'll talk some more. If you're just joining us, my guest is Daniel Davis. He is the author of the new book "The Beautiful Cure: The Revolution In Immunology And What It Means For Your Health." And he's an immunologist who's a professor at the University of Manchester in England. We'll be right back. This is FRESH AIR.
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GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. And if you're just joining us, we're talking about how the immune system works and how new medications are being created to use the immune system, to harness the immune system, to help you heal yourself. The book is called "The Beautiful Cure." And Daniel Davis is a professor of immunology at the University of Manchester in England.
Tell us a little bit more about what you're doing in your lab.
DAVIS: My background is actually in physics, so I came to studying the immune system, really, through the idea that we would use microscopes to watch how immune cells work. So we would tag - we'd tag individual proteins inside an immune cell and watch what they do when an immune cell sticks on to another cell. And with that, we start to learn how an immune cell sees diseased cells and then how it - how they would deal with it. Obviously, as a scientist, what's most exciting to me is our most recent discovery, so let me tell you about that.
GROSS: Sure.
DAVIS: So we've been studying how an immune cell sticks on to a cancer cell. And many labs have been watching how it recognizes the cancer cell and how the immune cell then would kill a cancer cell, and lots and lots of scientists have been working on that across the globe.
One of the things that happens when an immune cell sticks to a cancer cell is that after some time, the molecule - the receptor molecules at the surface of your immune cell that see the cancer cell - so you have - you imagine the - a sphere of your immune cell, and you've got these molecules protruding out from the sphere that latch on to the cancer cell. After some time, those molecules protruding out to latch on to the cancer cell, they get chopped off. They get taken off the immune cell.
And people thought, well, that's obviously for the immune cell switching itself off after some time. We've spoken just now about the idea that your immune system has to switch off after some time. And so chopping off these receptors probably leads to dampening down the immune response. So that means maybe we could design medicines that stop these receptors being chopped off.
Now, one of the things that my lab recently discovered was that in fact the complete opposite is true - that an immune cell sticks to a cancer cell. It will kill it. Then it will chop off these receptors that were sticking to the cancer cell so that it could detach itself from that cancer cell. And then that very same immune cell could move on to kill another cancer cell. Then it would kill it, detach from it and then go and kill another cell.
So chopping off these proteins that are sticking to the cancer cell is really important to boost your immune response because it's allowing one immune cell to kill a cancer cell, get off it, go and kill another cell, get off it, go and kill another cell. So this is a process that is helping your immune system. So that is a new avenue for thinking perhaps about a kind of medicine, that we're not just talking about helping the immune cell to kill a cancer cell. What about helping it get off that dead cancer cell and then going to kill another one?
GROSS: So are you cutting that - I forget what it is - off in the lab, or is that something that naturally happens?
DAVIS: So it naturally happens, and people are thinking about preventing that from happening as a way of helping your immune cell fight cancer better. But research would suggest that it's really important that that happens. And in fact, we want to encourage that to happen. A part of the process which seems very important in how your immune cells can efficiently kill off cancer cells is their ability to not just stick to a cancer cell and kill it, but also to then detach from that cancer cell and go and kill another cancer cell.
GROSS: Something that you say in the book - I think you said this at the very end of the book - is that everything about the immune system is counter-intuitive. So that must make it hard for you as a scientist studying how the immune system works.
DAVIS: It makes it hard. But I think also it's part of the reason to study the immune system. You know, we've spoken a lot about how the immune - studying the immune system leads us to new medicines. And that is top priority. Everyone agrees we've got to do that. But also, as I try to suggest in the way we're talking about it, the immune system is unbelievably wonderful.
And the fact that so much of it is counter-intuitive - you know, we have to discover what we are. So it's not self-evident as to how our body is able to fight off an untold number of germs, including those that have never existed in the universe. We have to dig into the details and discover what we are, and some of that is really quite surprising and counter-intuitive.
The concept of an autoimmune disease is utterly counter-intuitive. You know, how could you expect that your body is in some cases going to turn on itself? You know, that is a counter-intuitive idea, which is of course hugely important for medicine.
GROSS: So does that mean you can't go with hunches because - since everything (laughter) - you can't go with your intuition since everything about the immune system is counter-intuitive?
DAVIS: (Laughter) So I likened the study of the immune system - in my book, I likened it to writing a novel. Right? So when you read the finished thing, it makes sense. And you think the novelist or the artist or whoever made that movie you just watched, they probably planned it all out. It was all perfect.
You know, they got the people. They got the best cast. They wrote the script. The story flowed so seamlessly. Oh, it's a masterpiece. And it was such a good idea, and it obviously was going to turn out like that. And of course, you and I know that it doesn't work like that - that whoever wrote that novel, whoever made that movie, whoever wrote that song were killing themselves to do it. You know, like...
GROSS: (Laughter).
DAVIS: I think it's even in one of your earlier interviews that - I think it was Leonard Cohen's son mentioned that Leonard Cohen spent 12 years writing "Hallelujah."
GROSS: Yes.
DAVIS: When you listen to "Hallelujah," you know, it's a masterpiece. Right? Now, I think the beauty of being a scientist is - you know, I'm not pretending that doing science is like writing "Hallelujah." But some aspects of it is the same, that you're digging in, and you don't even know where you're going.
The story ends up being clear and simple, but it wasn't like that in the outset. The stories are created kind of after the fact. And really, when we're in the midst of doing the science, it's just like writing a novel or making a movie, that it's all just messy. And you don't really know where it's going, but eventually it pans out.
GROSS: Well, that reminds me of another sentence that you write in your book, which is, (reading) what keeps scientists going is the faith that nature is coherent and that answers exist.
DAVIS: Yes. I think that's really important. That is what keeps us going, that when all this stuff is happening and nothing quite makes sense, what keeps us going is that there will be an answer - that it must be coherent. There must be some way of explaining the strange thing that I'm seeing down the microscope. And if I dig into it enough, it will become clear. Now one of the important spokes of that, of course, is I've got to choose the right problem because I could dig into anything.
You know, if my computer crashes, is it worth me spending ages trying to work out why it crashed, or should I just turn it off and turn it on again and get it to work again? So it's choosing the things that look like it's worth me digging into or working with my team to dig into. That's the tricky bit about being a scientist 'cause you never quite know from the outset what's going to lead to something important (laughter).
GROSS: Daniel Davis, thank you so much for talking with us.
DAVIS: Well, thank you so much for having me.
GROSS: Daniel Davis is the author of the new book "The Beautiful Cure: The Revolution In Immunology And What It Means For Your Health." After a break, Ken Tucker will review a 20-CD box set by one of the greatest country singers of all time, the late Lefty Frizzell. This is FRESH AIR.
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 2, 2018 2:39:09 GMT -5
SOUND HEALINGwww.healingsounds.com/
www.youtube.com/user/soundhealsJonathan Goldman is a writer, musician and teacher. He is an authority on sound healing and a pioneer in the field of harmonics. Jonathan is the author of HEALING SOUNDS: The Power of Harmonics,(Inner Traditions), THE 7 SECRETS OF SOUND HEALING (Hay House), SHIFTING FREQUENCIES (Light Technology) , CHAKRA FREQUENCIES (Inner Traditions), co-authored with his wife Andi, and his latest, THE DIVINE NAME: The Sound That Can Change the World (Hay House), winner of the 2011 Visionary Award for “Best Healing Book”. He has studied with masters of sound from both the scientific and spiritual traditions, including the Dalai Lama’s Chanting Gyuto and Gyume Monks and has been empowered by the Chant Master of the Drepung Loseling Monastery to teach Tibetan Overtone Chanting. Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Film Making from Boston University and a Master’s Degree in the Independent Study on Sound Healing from Lesley College. He is a lecturing member of the International Society for Music and Medicine. In Spring 2011, Jonathan was named as one of Watkin’s Reviews “100 Most Spiritually Influential People on the Planet.”
Jonathan is the director of the Sound Healers Association; the original organization dedicated to the education and awareness of sound and music for healing. He is also president of Spirit Music, which produces music for meditation, relaxation and self-transformation. Jonathan has created numerous cutting edge, best selling recordings including: “Chakra Chants” won the 1999 Visionary Awards for “Best Healing-Meditation Album” and “Album of the Year”, “2012: Ascension Harmonics” winner of the Visionary Award for “Best Healing-Meditation” in 2010. Other highly acclaimed award winning albums: “The Lost Chord”, “The Divine Name” (co-created with Gregg Braden), “Reiki Chants”, “ChakraDance”, “Ultimate Om”, “Holy Harmony”, “Crystal Bowls Chakra Chants”. His latest album include: “2013: Ecstatic Sonics”, “Chakra/Brainwave Harmonizer” and “Cosmic Hum”. His collaboration with Tibetan Chant Master Lama Tashi “Tibetan Master Chants” was been nominated for a 2006 Grammy Award for “Best Traditional World Music”. His overtone chanting is heard on Kitaro’s 2001 Grammy Award winning album.
Jonathan has written numerous articles on the therapeutic and transformational uses of sound and music, which have appeared in many national publications. He has also contributed chapters and interviews to many books, including: MUSIC MEDICINE, SONIC ALCHEMY, MUSIC: PHYSICIAN FOR TIMES TO COME and HEALING SPIRITS. Jonathan’s work has been cited in many books, including Julia Cameron’s VEIN OF GOLD. The McGraw-Hill college text, MUSIC IN OUR WORLD, has a chapter on Jonathan’s recording of “Dolphin Dreams”. In DA VINCI DECODED, Jonathan’s CD “Chakra Chants” is listed as the #1 Selection on the “Top Ten Spiritual Playlist”.
An internationally acknowledge Master Teacher, Jonathan facilitates Healing Sounds Seminars at universities, hospitals, holistic health centers and expos throughout the United States and Europe. He has appeared on national television and radio, including Art Bell’s “Coast to Coast AM” and has been featured in national periodicals including “USA Today” and “The New York Times”. His annual Healing Sounds Intensive attracts participants from throughout the world. Jonathan Goldman - Equinox Ambience
Healing Specific Ailments with Sound
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 2, 2018 4:54:46 GMT -5
HEALING THE MINDThe mind-body connection is immeasurable. If you can detach yourself from your mind and see it as another instrument of "being" just like your body many ills in your life will begin to make sense. Stress, anxiety, sadness, etc. are all emotions that affect one's health. Understanding them is the first step in conquering them.
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Why Cope When You Can Heal and Thrive
Dr. Mark is a serial, social creative. He has spent his entire professional career spanning over forty years, creatively healing individuals and their relationships to others and inwardly to themselves one conversation at a time.
Why "creatively?" That's because every individual and relationship wants to be understood and validated in their own uniqueness vs. being pigeonholed. And when they feel not only understood, but "feel felt," healing begins.
And why is Dr. Mark doing this? Because prior to those forty years, there was a time when he was disconnected from others and himself and he believes an actual Angel came into his life and healed him. The great thing about an Angel coming into your life is that you're never the same afterwards. The not so great thing is that you are forever compelled to "pay it forward" and this is Dr. Mark's way of doing that.
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Dr. Goulston is also a Board Certified, internationally renowned psychiatrist who has worked with anxious, depressed and suicidal patients and trained FBI and police hostage negotiators. More than that he has a gift of putting into words the deepest feelings that you or someone you love can have but that neither of you can say.
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 2, 2018 6:09:37 GMT -5
HUMMING An accessible guide to the practice of conscious humming
• Details conscious humming and breathing exercises from simple to advanced, including online access to examples of these practices
• Examines the latest studies on sound, revealing how humming helps with stress levels, sleep, and blood pressure, increases lymphatic circulation, releases endorphins, creates new neural pathways in the brain, and boosts blood platelet production
• Explores the spiritual use of humming, including its use as a sonic yoga technique and its role in many world traditions
• Includes access to online examples, allowing you to experience the powerful vibratory resonance that humming can create
Humming is one of the simplest and yet most profound sounds we can make. If you have a voice and can speak, you can hum. Research has shown humming to be much more than a self-soothing sound: it affects us on a physical level, reducing stress, inducing calmness, and enhancing sleep as well as lowering heart rate and blood pressure and producing powerful neurochemicals such as oxytocin, the “love” hormone.
The Humming Effect with Jonathan Goldman and Andi Goldman
In this guide to conscious humming, Jonathan and Andi Goldman show that you do not need to be a musician or singer to benefit from sound healing practices—all you need to do is hum. They provide conscious humming and breathing exercises from simple to advanced, complete with online examples, allowing you to experience the powerful vibratory resonance that humming can create and harness its healing benefits for body, mind, and spirit. They explore the science behind sound healing, revealing how self-created sounds can literally rearrange molecular structure and how humming not only helps with stress levels, sleep, and blood pressure but also increases lymphatic circulation and melatonin production, releases endorphins, creates new neural pathways in the brain, and releases nitric oxide, a neurotransmitter fundamental to health and well-being. The authors show how sound can act as a triggering mechanism for the manifestation of your conscious intentions. They also examine the spiritual use of humming, including its use as a sonic yoga technique and its role in many world traditions, such as the Om, Aum, or Hum of Hindu and Tibetan traditions.
Providing a self-healing method accessible to all, the authors reveal that, even if you have no musical ability, we are all sound healers.funny but effective
Healing by Humming
World Hum - New "Schumann Resonance theory" with audio analysis
The Hum for 5 minutes
Hummin' To Myself
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 2, 2018 6:23:10 GMT -5
MANTRA FOR HEALTH AND PEACE
Tina Turner - Sarvesham Svastir Bhavatu (Peace Mantra)
The words being repeated in this mantra is the thousands of year old Indian Sanskrit language. The translation in to English = “May well-being, peace, wholeness and tranquillity, happiness and prosperity be achieved by all”
Mantra for Good Health & Healing | Dhanvantri Mantra
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 5, 2018 3:04:32 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 5, 2018 5:38:23 GMT -5
CHINA RXChina RX: Is Our Drug Supply Safe? Rosemary Gibsonwww.c-span.org/video/?445077-2/china-rxFrom The Editor | August 1, 2018 "China Rx" Looking For The Truth In Biopharma Outsourcing Louis Garguilo By Louis Garguilo, Chief Editor, Outsourced Pharma Follow Me On Twitter @louis_Garguilo
ChinaRX There’s no way around it: This new book is brutal. “China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America's Dependence on China for Medicine” sticks a fact-based finger of accusation in the face of U.S drug companies for dangerous over-outsourcing to China.
Dangerous because drug companies have become reliant on China to the detriment of patient safety, and have ceded much control of U.S. drug supply chains to Chinese contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs), and potentially an adversarial government across the Pacific.
So says author Rosemary Gibson, whose first book in 2003 launched a national campaign to improve the safety of America's health care. Among other accomplishments, she is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, and the 2014 winner of the highest honor from the American Medical Writers Association. She is currently senior advisor at The Hastings Center.
Gibson gathers a variety of sources, and as much data as she can from the public domain – no easy task since the lack of transparency in drug development and manufacturing outsourcing is part of the problem.
In fact, Gibson quotes from an editorial I wrote here in Outsourced Pharma on this subject of transparency, “Biopharma Outsourcing Shall Be Revealed”:
“Pharmaceutical and biotechnology (biopharma) outsourcing is an unknown quantity to the global healthcare consumer. This will change and the biopharma industry ought to get in front of it.”
Gibson describes my suggestion, as she puts it, “to convince Americans that their dependence on Chinese-made drugs isn’t such a bad idea and is even beneficial,” as “gobbledygook.”
Is it? Are we dangerously reliant on China, and is this outsourcing without the good of U.S. patients in mind?
Facts Can’t Be Outsourced
Just after the release of “China Rx,” Gibson reached out to me to explain her mission. On the phone, she is obviously flummoxed and authentically troubled: “Why has it taken a relative outsider like me to bring this all to light? Where is the outrage – where is the application of principles from our pharmaceutical companies, and our government?” she asks.
Gibson is convinced – and convincing – that the hyper-outsourcing of our drug development and manufacturing to China usurps U.S. jobs and technologies, at times literally kills our citizens, all while potentially threatening our overall national security.
There’s a lot to unpack there. But let’s start simply, if you will, with some generics:
The last plant manufacturing aspirin in the U.S. closed in 2002. In Europe, the last plant manufacturing acetaminophen (paracetamol) – contained in 600 over-the-counter medications –shut down in 2008. Because of the lack of transparency mentioned above, we aren’t sure where these every-day drugs in your medicine cabinet are produced – but the best evidence we have suggests the vast majority comes from China.
We do know that birth control pills, HIV/Aids drugs, drugs for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, more and more cancer drugs, your high blood pressure medicines, antibiotics – all are made in China, sourced with Chinese ingredients.
Some industry sources estimate 80% of the active ingredients in all our medicines come from China and India. But Gibson makes an interesting point here: Even Indian companies, themselves a supply-chain concern to many in the U.S., rely heavily on raw materials from … China.
A final data point Gibson uses, quoting the CEO of a drug manufacturer: “More than half of the four thousand or so active ingredients needed to make a pharmacy depend on China.”
Suffice to say, our China dependency is well established. This despite, as Gibson documents, Big Pharma doing all it can to obfuscate the origin of its API and other drug product ingredients.
Still, is this utilizing of China for materials and manufacturing an actual danger to us? And is our biopharma industry willingly taking on additional risks to patients?
Gibson thinks she knows the answers. She has set out to tell the general public.
What’s All The Fuss About China?
There are two subsections here directly related to drug development and manufacturing outsourcing:
The safety of drugs and their ingredients per se / the overall security of the supply chain. The theft (or coercion) of our technology, and loss of our jobs and companies / the potential to take geopolitical advantage of the situation – even to the point, Gibson says, of national blackmail. We’ll tackle the second bullet point in a subsequent editorial. Regarding the first, let’s begin by considering the role of the FDA – our supposed bulwark for upholding manufacturing standards for our drugs.
The agency today remains able to inspect only a small percentage of CMO facilities in China; for those it does, inspections are too infrequent. According to Gibson, more than a few Chinese CMOs providing drug product or substance to U.S. pharma companies – who then had them distributed to U.S. hospitals and patients, drugstores and consumers – were never inspected. So much for our first line of defense.
Gibson provides various examples of dire consequences, but we’ll stick with perhaps the most infamous, tainted-drug scandal to hit the U.S., involving the drug heparin, a critical blood thinner used in kidney dialysis, surgery and critical care. “Twelve million seriously ill people need it every year,” writes Gibson.
Plenty has been written on the deaths and suffering this tainted drug caused throughout the U.S. in 2008. I raise it again because it also demonstrates clearly the risks to overall drug supply chains that rely on China.
Gibson writes: “China controlled half of the world’s supply of the active ingredient for heparin. FDA officials admitted during congressional testimony that they didn’t ban all Chinese-made heparin because of fear of a shortage.”
In other words, the FDA admitted that additional lethal heparin ingredients could enter the U.S. at the time of this crisis, but that was a risk the agency had to balance with an even greater one: A full-blown shortage if they banned the import of the drug while trying to get a handle on the situation.
But do not draw the wrong conclusions here. The FDA’s dilemma is a symptom, not the cause, of a world gone wrong. It is the drug industry that put the agency in this position in the first place.
Of that earlier time period, Gibson writes: “Remarkably, companies in the United States were offshoring the manufacturing of a product that can make the difference between life and death from a nation with the highest standards in the world to a place with basically no standards.”
And what of today? We outsource more to China than ever before. Is this concentration of our drug supply chain in one foreign country – be it China or another – safe for U.S. patients? Is this a mischaracterization? Pharma needs to let us know more about outsourcing practices.
How Can I Get The Word Out?
Gibson points out that in 2012, FDASIA, an act Outsourced Pharma readers are surely familiar with, required all drug product manufacturers to register with the FDA every year. At least on paper, today all manufacturers in the world should be inspected as often as U.S.-based manufacturers.
Indeed, WuXi just issued a press release that reads in part its “Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) manufacturing facility at Jinshan (Shanghai, China) has successfully passed its fourth inspection from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) – with no Form 483s issued.”
Nonetheless, Gibson is searching for more openness from U.S. drug sponsors as to exactly what drugs and ingredients are being manufactured where. She wants us to have the conversation.
Before we end our call, she asks: “How can I get the word out?”
But as I stated in the editorial Gibson quoted in “China Rx,” the question for Outsourced Pharma readers is the other way around:
How will the U.S. drug industry get the word out about why there is so much outsourcing to China?
I agree outsourcing practices should be questioned by U.S. citizens. Partly because I still believe our biopharma companies will have valid answers … not gobbledygook.
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More on this discussion spurred by Rosemary Gibson’s “China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America's Dependence on China for Medicine,” in coming weeks. Next up, the political side: “The Role of President Trump in Drug Outsourcing And China.”
www.outsourcedpharma.com/doc/china-rx-looking-for-the-truth-in-biopharma-outsourcing-0001
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 5, 2018 6:30:51 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 8, 2018 7:54:27 GMT -5
If you are going to use alternative therapies, USE YOUR COMMON SENSE!Seattle woman dies from brain-eating amoebas after using nonsterile water in neti potYahoo Lifestyle Lauren Holter,Yahoo Lifestyle Fri, Dec 7 5:22 AM MST
A Seattle woman died from brain-eating amoebas after using a neti pot. (Photo: Tom Sumlin/Charlotte Observer/MCT via Getty Images)
Doctors are warning people about the dangers of using nonsterile water in neti pots after it was determined that a 69-year-old Seattle woman died from brain-eating amoebas.
Earlier this year, an unnamed woman was admitted to the Swedish Medical Center after suffering a seizure. But what doctors initially thought was a brain tumor turned out to be rare amoebas that were attacking her brain. The woman died a month later, the Seattle Times reports.
“When I operated on this lady, a section of her brain about the size of a golf ball was bloody mush,” neurosurgeon Charles Cobbs told the Seattle Times. “There were these amoeba all over the place just eating brain cells. We didn’t have any clue what was going on, but when we got the actual tissue we could see it was the amoeba.”
A study published by the International Journal of Infectious Diseases determined that the woman contracted the brain infection a year earlier by using a neti pot filled with nonsterile water to treat a sinus infection. She used tap water that had been filtered with a Brita Water Purifier. The report notes that it’s safest to use saline or sterile water.
The specific amoeba that killed the Seattle woman moves slowly, which is why it went undetected for a year.
While this type of brain infection is rare, doctors are urging people to use sterile water any time they use a neti pot. Some also predict that the number of infections will increase as climate change worsens.
In October, a 29-year-old man from New Jersey died from brain-eating amoebas. Upon further investigation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention subsequently decided to test the water at a Texas surf resort he visited before getting sick.
www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/seattle-woman-dies-brain-eating-amoebas-using-non-sterile-water-neti-pot-122211697.html
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/rare-brain-eating-amoebas-kill-seattle-woman-leave-doctors-bracing-for-possible-repeats/
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 17, 2018 9:26:02 GMT -5
Tips for the UndiagnosedThe NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Network, a Program of the NIH Common FundU D N - Undiagnosed Diseases Network www.facebook.com/udnconnect/News Workshops Funding Opportunities Manuscripts Apply The Undiagnosed Diseases Network, funded through NIH Common Fund, is designed to accelerate discovery and innovation in the way we diagnose and treat patients with previously undiagnosed diseases. The specific goals of the network are to: (1) improve the level of diagnosis and care for patients with undiagnosed diseases through the development of common protocols designed by a large community of investigators; (2) facilitate research into the etiology of undiagnosed diseases, by collecting and sharing standardized, high-quality clinical and laboratory data including genotyping, phenotyping, and documentation of environmental exposures; and (3) create an integrated and collaborative community across multiple clinical sites and among laboratory and clinical investigators prepared to investigate the pathophysiology of these new and rare diseases. In 2008, the NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP) was organized and established by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Rare Diseases Research (ORDR) and the NIH Clinical Center to help provide diagnosis and treatment for patients with unknown disorders. In 2012, building on the early successes of the UDP, NIH extended the program into a network of seven clinical sites. These clinical sites together with a UDN Coordinating Center and other Core Laboratories comprised the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) in Phase I and demonstrated that this type of cross-disciplinary approach to disease diagnosis is feasible to implement in academic medical centers around the United States. In 2018, new awards expanded the UDN from seven to 12 clinical sites, increasing the geographical distribution of the nationwide network and the number of people with access to a UDN clinical site. In addition to the new clinical sites, new research cores were also added as part of Phase II of the UDN including a new Metabolomics Core providing untargeted metabolomics and targeted biomarker analyses, and a new Model Organisms Screening Center increasing the zebrafish modeling capacity and adding C. elegans as a new model system for the UDN. A complete list of funded awards can be found at: commonfund.nih.gov/Diseases/fundedresearch. Map of UDN Site Locations Map of United States with the Undiagnosed Diseases Network www.genome.gov/27550959/Medical Mysteries and Rare Diseases: William Gahl at TEDxCMU 2011News The NIH Undiagnosed Disesases Network adds five new sites News Release: September 24, 2018 Reddit "Ask Me Anything" Recap: The Undiagnosed Diseases Network News Feature: March 8, 2017 New centers to help understand biology, improve diagnoses, of rare mysterious diseases News Feature: April 20, 2016 Undiagnosed Diseases Network launches online application portal News Release: September 16, 2015 Baylor College of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin to conduct DNA sequencing for Undiagnosed Diseases Network News Feature: September 29, 2014 NIH names new clinical sites in Undiagnosed Diseases Network News Release: July 1, 2014 Workshops Future Directions for Undiagnosed Diseases Research: the UDN and Beyond March 21, 2016 Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) RFA-RM-17-015 [grants.nih.gov]: Metabolomics Core for the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) Phase II (U01) Release Date: August 15, 2017 RFA-RM-17-016 [grants.nih.gov]: Sequencing Core(s) for the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) Phase II (U01) Release Date: August 15, 2017 RFA-RM-17-017 [grants.nih.gov]: Model Organisms Screening Center for the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) Phase II (U54) Release Date: August 15, 2017 Notice of Correction to the Award Budget for the RFA-RM-17-017 Model Organism Screening Center for the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) Phase II (U54) RFA-RM-17-018 [grants.nih.gov]: Coordinating Center for the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) Phase II (U01) Release Date: August 15, 2017 RFA-RM-17-019 [grants.nih.gov]: Clinical Sites for the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) Phase II (U01) Release Date: August 15, 2017 Additional Information for the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Gene Function Studies to Investigate Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases The current list of genes and diseases of interest to the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) for the FOA RFA-RM-15-004 [grants.nih.gov]. For information about the UDP, the NIH clinical site of the UDN, see: Undiagnosed Diseases Program Manuscripts UDN Coordinating Center Manuscripts Learn more about applying to be a UDN participant here:
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Post by brylley5 on Dec 28, 2018 0:49:45 GMT -5
If you are looking for a best and high maintenance but not too expensive strains. I recommend you blimburnseeds.com/grandaddy-purple-seeds. I already purchased GRANDADDY PURPLE and One of the most beautifully colored, flavorful and potent indica dominant strains, Granddaddy Purple (GDP) has won numbers awards since hitting the mainstream in 2003. Originating in California, this strain is a result of crossing Purple Urkle and Big Bud. These seeds will produce big-leafed, bush plants with tight node spacing and brilliantly purple flowers. Granddaddy Purple tastes and smells like sweet wine grapes and wild berries. This is a great medical strain for killing pain, easing nausea, inducing sleep and calming moderate to severe anxiety
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 30, 2018 2:34:05 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 30, 2018 3:42:42 GMT -5
The True Cause and Cure for Cancer - MUST WATCH!
End-Times-Prophecy Published on Jul 26, 2014 So many people have cancer throughout the world today, and yet the people have been deceived into thinking that drugs is the only way. It's not even THE way. Drugs will make you even more sick.
Revelation 18:23 says that Babylon has deceived then nations with her "sorceries". That word sorceries in the original Greek is "pharmakeia", which is where the word pharmaceutical comes from. The world has been deceived by the "pharmaceuticals" of Babylon.
There is a way to cure cancer and it is a natural drug free way! The natural foods and lifestyle that our Heavenly Father has given us.
12 Bad Foods by Dr Peter Glidden, ND
Young4 Life Published on Mar 13, 2017 Buy Dr Glidden recommended products here - 101626737.buyygy.com/90forLif... Dr Peter Glidden discusses the 12 Bad Foods to avoid if you want optimum health. When you eliminate these foods you'll find your digestive system begins to work more efficiently. This means you'll be receiving more nutrition from your food. It's the lack of nutrition which often causes weight gain as the body can go into patterns of binge eating in an attempt to receive enough nutrition. All chronic diseases are directly related to nutrient deficiencies, so it's vital to ensure your digestive system is working at its best. young1.life/
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 30, 2018 9:10:44 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 2, 2019 6:00:52 GMT -5
Welcome to Cancer Tutor CANCER TUTOR IS A LEADING VOICE IN NATURAL CANCER TREATMENT AND PREVENTION.www.cancertutor.com/start-here/Many natural health practitioners and researchers have recognized Cancer Tutor as being a driving force in their journey. We strive to make Cancer Tutor a place where cancer researchers, patients, and their families can share their experiences and challenges.
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 3, 2019 22:15:28 GMT -5
If A Worm Makes You Sick, Can This Cup Of Tea Cure You?January 3, 20199:03 AM ET Jason Beaubien 2010 JASON BEAUBIEN
Tea made from the wormwood plant. Wormwood tea has been used as a remedy for fever, liver and gall bladder ailments — and now it's being tested for the flatworm infection schistosomiasis. BIOSPHOTO Schistosomiasis is listed as a "neglected" tropical disease by the World Health Organization — one of those diseases that's been overlooked by modern medicine.
It mainly hits poor people in poor countries — and it hits a lot of them, up to 200 million a year. There are only a few drugs available to treat it. There are no designer drugs being cooked up in a lab in Europe for schistosomiasis. Doctoral students rarely pen their thesis on this disease.
But schistosomiasis can also be "neglected" by the very people it attacks. It can be a stealth disease. The infection starts slowly. A flatworm penetrates the skin of someone walking or working or swimming in contaminated water. The person doesn't feel sick. They pick up more parasites.
The host still feels fine, doesn't even know he or she is infected. The worms start having sex. They multiply. As the parasite population grows the person starts to feel sluggish, slightly off. The worm invasion may cause a fever or some abdominal pain but most people don't realize something's wrong. In parts of Africa and South East Asia where schistosomiasis is rampant, people can be infected for years before they start feeling sick.
The standard treatment is a drug called praziquantel — three doses spread out over the course of one day can cure most people of the worms that cause schistosomiasis.
But what if tea from a local plant worked just as well?
Pam Weathers, a biologist at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, has spent a lot of time studying how artimisinin and other derivatives of the wormwood shrub attack malaria parasites in people. She figured wormwood might also kill the worms that cause schistosomiasis.
So along with her colleagues she ran a trial on 800 people in the Maniema Province in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, all of whom had schistosomiasis. Half were treated with the drug, and half got wormwood tea.
In a new study published this month, she reports that sweet wormwood tea can cure schistosomiasis faster and with fewer side effects than the most common drug treatment.
"They had to drink these tea infusions daily for seven days and then you would see what happened to their worm infestations, which is not a pretty thing to do," she says with a laugh. "It means looking at fecal samples to see if the eggs are gone. I'm glad it wasn't in that lab but that's how it has to be detected."
The people who got the conventional drug and the people who drank the tea all were completely cleared of the parasites. But the group sipping the wormwood infusions got rid of the parasites faster and reported fewer side effects. "It [the tea] is much more benign on the patient," she says. The pharmaceutical treatment with praziquantel can cause headaches, nausea and fatigue.
One downside of the sweet wormwood tea is that despite the "sweet" in its name, it's actually quite bitter. Some people like it while others hate it.
Weathers falls in the hater group and was surprised to find that anyone thought it tastes good. "I'm like, you're kidding me because I can't stand it," she says.
But one of the benefits of using sweet wormwood is that the shrub grows readily in lots of the warm tropical places where schistosomiasis is a problem.
"The thought initially was that they we're going to try and let people grow the plant in their own gardens and then just make their own tea," Weathers says. This turned out to be not as easy as it might seem. The tea infusion had to be the right strength to be effective, and people had to be told to not store the prepared tea for more than a day or it would lose efficacy.
The new study from Weathers and her colleagues doesn't tackle those logistical issues. It simply set out to compare the wormwood tea treatment against the common drug therapy. And in that regard wormwood tea was a success.
"This is an important disease," says Sue Montgomery, who heads the parasitic disease branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Montgomery wasn't involved with the wormwood tea study and says she doesn't want to comment directly on it. She notes that in other studies wormwood has showed promise in killing immature stages of the schistisoma parasite.
"But those are all in studies that have yet to be scaled up to the point where those drugs would be used in control programs," she says. Which is also true of Weathers wormwood tea study. It's still in the study stage and the tea is not yet being widely used to combat schistosomiasis.
The bigger problem with schistosomiasis is that just purging the parasites by pill or by tea won't lead to the elimination of the disease.
Schistosomiasis is spread in a cycle involving people and a particular species of freshwater snails.
"You have to have three things occurring in the same place to have transmission of schistosomiasis," Montgomery says. "You need people who are infected with the parasite. You need water sources that contain the appropriate snails that are intermediate hosts. And you have to have a situation where human waste is making its way into that water." Human feces and urine carry the parasite's eggs back out to the water source.
So just killing off all the parasites that are inside people doesn't do any good if they can get re-infected the next day by contaminated water.
"It's almost impossible to get rid of [schistosomiasis] just by treating repeatedly," Montgomery says. "What it really requires is improvements in water and sanitation."
And upgrading an entire community's water and waste systems is a lot harder than giving a patient a pill or some tea.
But tackling schistosomiasis, Montgomery says, is important. As more and more worms accumulate in a person, Montgomery says, the individual suffers a lack of energy and has trouble digesting food. As the number of worms swells and they lodge their eggs in various organs, many people end up with a fibrosis of the liver. And in a worst case scenario ...
"It influences the blood circulation, then it leads to enlarged blood vessels around the liver, which sometimes burst into your esophagus," Montgomery says. "And you can actually end up bleeding out from the esophagus because of the altered circulation caused by this chronic high level infection. So that's a really awful scary story, and it does not happen often but that's one of the causes of deaths associated with schistosomiasis."
The disease is so under-researched that there isn't even good data on exactly how many people are suffering or dying from schistosomiasis. The World Health Organization estimates that schistosomiasis kills between 25,000 and 200,000 people a year.
It's possible that some simple treatments like wormwood tea could help combat it. But the first challenge may be to stop neglecting this potentially fatal disease.
www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/01/03/680542815/if-a-worm-makes-you-sick-can-this-cup-of-tea-cure-you
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 4, 2019 18:54:51 GMT -5
Cannabinoid receptor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabinoid_receptorHow The Wave Of Synthetic Cannabinoids Got Started3:36 DOWNLOAD ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2019/01/20190104_atc_how_the_wave_of_synthetic_cannabinoids_got_started.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1003&aggIds=94427042&d=216&p=2&story=682350000&siteplayer=true&dl=1 January 4, 20194:22 PM ET Heard on All Things Considered ALEXI HOROWITZ-GHAZI
Drugs like K2 have been responsible for overdoses and spikes in emergency room visits in the U.S. Several of the formulas for these drugs came from the lab of a chemistry professor in South Carolina.JWH-018: The Synthetic Cannabinoid To Know AboutYou have likely heard of the various “systems” in the body. The central nervous system, the peripheral nervous system, the digestive system, and respiratory system. But did you know there is another system closely tied to cannabis? The endocannabinoid system (ECS). The body contains cannabinoid receptors and the ECS bind to them.
They are located throughout the body and influence many physiological processes. John W. Huffman realized this system could be positively impacted by synthetic chemical compounds, which led him to develop JWH-018.
What is JWH-018? JWH-018 is a synthetic cannabinoid developed by John W. Huffman, where the initials for the product is derived. Cannabinoids are smoked or vaporized to achieve a high, however, many are illegal. Synthetic cannabinoids are generally legal but may be unsafe to use.
This particular synthetic cannabinoid is rising in popularity and becoming the first choice as a marijuana replacement. It works in the same way that THC reacts with cannabinoid receptors and produces nearly the same side effects. Some users state that they experience a better ‘high’ than with regular marijuana.
JWH-018 is manufactured as herbal mixtures and incense and sold as such. However, it is often smoked to achieve the desired side effects. Using JWH-018 in this way can have terrible effects on the lungs along with other dangers.
John W. Huffman And The Creation Of Synthetic Cannabinoids Mr. Huffman is an organic chemist at Clemson University. He was the first to synthesize cannabinoids. One of which is the most well-known, JWH-018. The National Institute on Drug Abuse funded his research with the goal of developing a drug to target the endocannabinoid receptors. Developing medical marijuana alternatives that worked in similar ways to THC was the long-term desire of this workgroup.
Huffman and his team worked over twenty years developing synthetic cannabinoids. Over this course of time, they made over 400. Their purpose was to use them in the study of endocannabinoids and receptors in genetics.
Is JWH-018 Legal? Under federal law, any product that contains JWH-018 is legal. However, individual states are at liberty to ban these products at their choice. Because of this freedom, many states have banned products containing JWH-018 and many other JWH cannabinoids. In 2009 JWH-018, and other synthetic cannabinoids within the JWH category were marked as a “drug and chemical of concern” by the DEA. Because of its psychoactive effects, JWH-018 has been banned in 9 countries.
Because of its “concerning” category and adverse side effects may employers prefer that it not be used. In fact, it is able to be detected through drug testing. JWH-018 is detected through a human urine test called a “spice” screening, which is a cannabinoid test that screens for certain assays of cannabis.
The spice test is a newer screening meaning that older tests that were made to detect THC will not be effective. It is probably not ironic that a popular brand of this synthetic cannabinoid is named Spice.
The Intended Effects of JWH-018 Mr. Huffman and his team surely did not set out to create a dangerous drug. In fact, their intentions were primarily pure. The intended effects were meant to mimic THC, the primary active ingredient within marijuana. It binds to the CB-1receptors in the brain which causes it to in turn depress the central nervous system. This results in mood and personality changes.
Spontaneous Physical Sensations There is a “body high” side effect that the user may experience and is often sought after when using JWH-018. A warm, soft, and tingling sensation will spread throughout the body. Some JWH-018 users state that it feels synthetic and not the same as similar sensations from traditional cannabis.
Euphoria A heightened feeling of happiness that is not tied to reality is another side effect that may be present when using JWH-018. This is due to this synthetic cannabinoids reactivity on the CB-1 receptors in the brain. These receptors are known for impacting mood and personality.
Sedation A state of relaxation and calm will generally come over the user. High doses will result in the user going to sleep. Users and researchers have found that JWH-018’s sedating effects are stronger than THC found in cannabis. This is generally the desired side effect from most drugs, however, sedation with the use of JWH-018 can reach dangerous levels including coma.
Appetite Increases In drug culture, this side effect is jokingly referred to as “the munchies.” It is commonly seen in traditional cannabis users from the THC present. When using JWH-018 this side effect that comes from traditional cannabis use is present with this synthetic cannabinoid as well. Essentially it increases the users’ interest in and enjoyment of food. This can be a good thing for those users who may suffer from an eating disorder or decrease in appetite.
Pain relief Cannabinoid receptors CB-1 and CB-2 are linked to pain relief. Cannabinoids have long been linked to pain relief. This is no different with synthetic cannabinoids. Pain relief is a primary reason for much of the research of the potential for medical marijuana and cannabis products.
Vasodilation One cause of a rise in blood pressure is from blood vessels in the body becoming constricted. Research has shown that cannabinoids will decrease blood pressure by causing these vessels to dilate thereby increasing blood flow through the body. Some sources, however, state that a rise in blood pressure may occur as a result of using JWH-018.
Therefore, with mixed reviews, it is best that anyone with blood pressure issues should not use this product. An increase in heart rate can also result as a side effect of this vasodilation making it even more important for those with a history of heart disease or concerns to avoid this product.
The Many Side Effects And Dangers Of JWH-018 As with many pharmacological and non-pharmacological compounds, there are non-intended side effects. Unfortunately, for JWH-018 this list of adverse effects is astounding and serious.
Anxiety and Panic Attacks JWH-018
Considering that THC and cannabinoids are often used to change the mood and for general relaxation, one would think that reducing anxiety would be a natural side effect of JWH-018. Unfortunately, this is not the case with this synthetic cannabinoid. Anxiety can increase with the use of JWH-018.
The same goes for panic attacks. When used as a high dose this cannabinoid can cause a panic attack as a result of paranoia. The user may also feel an overwhelming sense of impending death or doom.
Motor Control Loss Motor skills can be both voluntary and involuntary. The user of JWH-018 may experience loss of either form of motor control. This can be a particularly dangerous side effect in the event that the user attempts to control a vehicle.
Paranoia Along the same lines of panic attacks is the potential for paranoia. This condition presents itself as delusions of being persecuted or harmed, jealousy, and overwhelming fear. This side effect is not limited to just JWH-018 use, it may present itself with extensive prolonged or ongoing use.
Psychosis While psychosis can present itself with any user it is commonly seen in those who have a family history of psychotic illness such as schizophrenia. The potential for this side effect increases with prolonged use.
Memory loss Using JWH-018 can cause the memory to be suppressed. This is especially true of memories associated with the time in which the user was high from this cannabinoid. In this regard memory loss is not the only danger, but what may happen during the time of this loss to the individual.
Dehydration The well-known marijuana THC side effect of “cotton mouth” has a serious cause, dehydration. As this symptom progresses it can become very serious. At the first sign of this side effect, the user should begin to hydrate immediately and reduce their use of this product.
The JWH-018 may experience negative withdrawal symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhea. These will only contribute an increased likelihood of dehydration. Therefore, even someone who is attempting to stop using this cannabinoid should monitor themselves closely for the potential for dehydration. The risk of dehydration should not prevent someone from attempting to stop using this cannabinoid, however.
Seizures When JWH-018 is used at very high doses seizures can occur. A less serious, but still concerning side effect are convulsions. These are not to be confused with seizures. Convulsions are characterized as painful spasms. These also occur at higher than normal doses.
Death This serious side effect should not be taken lightly. It can be the result of a dangerous seizure, hallucination, increased heart rate, and other bodily effects. Because of this users should consider their personal risks.
There are additional risks to be considered. Smoking an incense, which is intended to be burned not smoked, can have negative respiratory side effects. It can also burn the throat of the smoker along with causing the lungs to ache. Using this cannabinoid may not be worth the higher price. It is more expensive than marijuana, the high only lasts an average of 10 to 30 minutes, and mixing it with alcohol can intensify hangovers.
JWH-018 Abuse And Epidemic There has been a rise in the use of JWH-018 as a smoking agent to get high from. This is becoming more prevalent as the word spreads more of the potential to get high from smoking this cannabinoid. An epidemic is the occurrence of something, generally negative, happening in a population in a widespread manner at a particular time.
The use of JWH-018 has reached epidemic levels quickly.
JWH-018 was manufactured as an incense to burn for aromatherapy. Unfortunately, it is being sold rapidly at head shops and it is not hard to see that the products are being smoked. Shop owners are not promoting the product as a smoking agent, but word has gotten out quickly on how to do so.
Because it produces a high similar to THC but is legal and easily accessible the use of this cannabinoid is reaching epidemic levels.
Who Uses JWH-018? JWH-018 is not limited to any class of people. It is used among people who can afford to spend twenty-five to thirty-five dollars per gram along with individuals who need to steal the product to obtain it. Since it is, for now, legal to use and produces a high this also causes there to be a wide variety of people who use this product.
How To Treat JWH-018 Addiction Withdrawal from JWH-018 is real and can be quite serious. However, ending use should be heavily considered and not avoided from fear of side effects. While only one case of dependence of JWH-018 has been reported many owners of head shops have seen users become irate from not having access to their preferred brand.
This type of behavior is not generally seen in a passive or recreational user. This individual experienced withdrawal symptoms that were more severe than those present in someone abstaining from marijuana.
Treatment should be taken seriously and done under a healthcare provider. While staying at a facility may not be necessary it is still important to let your healthcare provider know that you are coming off of a drug so that they may be able to help you control your symptoms and do so in a safe and effective manner.
Stopping any drug should not be done on your own. The user should also not be ashamed of coming off of a drug because stopping use is a step in the right direction.
Consider All Sides Are you still considering using JWH-018? Are you already a user and this article have caused you to take pause? Wherever you are on the spectrum it is important to stop and consider all sides, the pros, and cons, of using any synthetic cannabinoid. Not all synthetic cannabinoid is created equal as well.
While using JWH-018 clearly has some concerning side effects using a non-reputable source could be even more detrimental. Educate yourself on anything you are putting into your body. This is the only one you will have.
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