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Post by the Scribe on Jan 14, 2017 2:28:13 GMT -5
AUTISM
There is a lot of controversy as to what causes autism. Essentially what the author Kent Heckenlively is saying is to DON'T vaccinate your children until they are at least 4 years of age which is when their own immune system kicks in. And don't do SO MANY vaccines at once. Spread them out so the child's immune system can recover. Vaccines cause swelling in the brain which in turn can cause seizures as well as problems with the child's gut. Associated factors they are finding is that kids in areas where there are insecticides sprayed on a regular basis and living too close to a major highway have been discovered. Years ago when Polio was a big problem authorities were scratching their heads as to why the outbreak mostly happened in the summer. Turns out that is when DDT was sprayed as a fog that covered whole areas to kill mosquitos. We were told the spray was safe and as a result many kids were seen running behind these fogging vehicles like it was a game. We now know it was deadly. Many of us are suffering delayed results and chronic ailments and even cancer.
Getting to the root of autism causes is something Donald J Trump has promised. This is promising to both sides of the political spectrum and may be one good thing that comes out of the new administration.
A founding editor of Age of Autism, Kent Heckenlively, discussed his journeys into the minefield of autism. He has uncovered documents that he says comprise a government cover-up, putting a vast number of American children at great risk to trigger autism once inoculated with the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine. Federal whistleblower William Thompson, a statistician at the CDC, could be compared to Edward Snowden, he remarked. In 2013, Thompson reached out to biology professor Dr. Brian Hooker, who legally recorded lengthy phone conversations between them, delineating the CDC's deception and corruption surrounding vaccines, and this became the basis for the documentary Vaxxed.
Heckenlively cites the passage of the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, giving complete immunity to pharmaceutical companies, as the beginning of the autism disaster. He further pointed toward the current policy of giving vaccines to children aged 1 and younger as a source of problems, as in the past they waited until kids were at least three or four years old, and their immune systems were more developed. Heckenlively has traced the enormous rise in autism cases to the changes in vaccine policy-- in the 1980s, 1 in 10,000 kids had the disorder, whereas today it is 1 in 50. He also stated that this past August, Donald Trump met with some autism advocates, including Andrew Wakefield, and that Trump's selection of activist Robert Kennedy Jr. to head a special vaccine commission is quite promising.
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 14, 2017 2:45:57 GMT -5
CHRONIC PAIN
If anyone reading this suffers from chronic pain, NO MATTER the cause this is a MUST READ discovery. It falls into the realm of neuroplasticity and is a fascinating discovery. Dr. Hanscom has been getting an over 90% success rate relieving people from years of chronic pain almost no matter the cause. Years ago a doctor named Joe Sarno pioneered this movement although I haven't seen him mentioned here. His is also a fascinating study and focuses on chronic back pain. Dr. David takes it one leap forward to ALL chronic pain. Take back your health and educate yourself.
Orthopedic spinal surgeon Dr. David Hanscom talked about the problem of chronic pain, and how to control or eliminate it. It is often not the structural ailment itself that causes chronic pain, but the neurological and psychological response to it, he explained. The medical world, he noted, overlooks the fact that in order to relieve pain, the person must get to the root of their pain – anxiety – and the amped up nervous system that accompanies it. Surgery, he's concluded, is not always the answer – in fact in most cases, back and neck surgeries create more pain and problems for the patients.
www.backincontrol.com/
Frostie puts all the above in the series together here: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPhpDOxEo8sO0spWG0glEb4JJiEd8YdxN
At least one out of three adults experience chronic pain, and interestingly, neuroscience research has recently shown that the brain memorizes pain impulses, and these can become ingrained in a person. This problem has been called "Maladaptive Neurological Disease," he reported. Hanscom's approach to reducing or conquering pain is multi-faceted and includes getting good quality sleep, diet, exercise, life outlook, and taking control of the problem oneself. "As you calm down the nervous system, you change the pain threshold," he explained. One tip for getting better sleep and reducing anxiety, he suggested, is for people to write down their thoughts, whatever they may be, just before going to sleep, and then tear the paper up without analyzing it. Chronic Pain - It's Rooted in Your Brain! www.backincontrol.com/ Direct your Own Care (DOC)
THE ROADMAP
Dr. David Hanscom’s groundbreaking approach for how to conquer debilitating chronic pain without surgery focuses on an aspect of chronic pain that today’s medical establishment has largely ignored. YOU, the patient, can learn to calm your nervous system, eliminate your pain and make a full recovery. This approach is called Direct Your Own Care (DOC). The DOC Roadmap is divided into four stages: laying the foundation, forgiveness and play, moving forward, and expanding your consciousness. The DOC Roadmap will help you eliminate chronic pain and regain control of your life.
STAGE 1
Lay the foundation
The first phase of the Direct your Own Care (DOC) process involves stepping back and learning a better way to heal. What you have been trying has not been effective. This stage will provide basic tools and information to embark on your journey out of pain. You must know where you are headed with the appropriate resources in order to be successful in any worthwhile endeavor.
STAGE 2
Forgive and play
To solve chronic pain it is necessary to: •Calm down the nervous system, •Create new circuits around permanent pain pathways •Shift back onto pleasurable neuro pathways.
Forgiveness is critical in decreasing the body’s stress chemicals and letting go to allow new circuits to form. Play is a powerful way to switch off pain pathways.
STAGE 3
Move forward
Chronic pain destroys almost every aspect of your life. One important step in the healing process is to rebuild your support system in multiple arenas, including your family, friends, and work. It takes specific organizational skills and vision to navigate this part of your journey.
STAGE 4
Expand your consciousness
The ultimate shift your nervous system away from chronic pain pathways is to expand your perspective and re-engage in enjoyable activities. Giving back is a powerful way to accomplish this. Watching patients not only regain their lives but creating new realities has been the most gratifying part of my practice.
Dr. Joe SarnoThis Seemingly Harmless Pain Could Be A Sign Of Early Death © Shutterstock New research has found an alarming "clear link" between back pain and dying earlier in life. As if you needed something else to worry about, a new study now suggests that your seemingly harmless back pain could be a sign of something far worse: early death. According to the study conducted by researchers from the University of Sydney, there is a “clear link” between back pain and early mortality, although they aren’t yet sure why. According to the study, now published online in European Journal of Pain, individuals who suffer from chronic back pain are 13 percent more likely to die early from any cause. According to the researchers, this finding is significant as many view back pain as harmless and nothing more than a slight inconvenience.These results suggest otherwise. Read:Is Yoga For Lower Back Pain Backed By Science? “These findings warrant further investigation because while there is a clear link between back pain and mortality we don't know yet why this is so,” explained study author Dr. Paulo Ferreria, in a recent statement. “Spinal pain may be part of a pattern of poor health and poor functional ability, which increases mortality risk in the older population.” For the research, the team looked at rates of back pain and age of death in 4,390 twins over the age of 70. Results showed a clear link between the two, suggesting that recurrent back pain was a sign of something more. This finding may have important implications, as The Daily Mail reported that back pain affects four in five people at some point in their lifetime and about half of these cases see a recurrence of the problem within a year. This is not the first time that a seemingly non-fatal condition in elderly patients can actually be a sign of early death. For example, past research has shown that elderly women who break their hips are at increased risk of dying within a year of the injury. Most research suggests that it is the underlying poor health that leads to the injury, and not the injury itself that leads to early death. The team hope that better understanding the link between back pain and early death will lead to better intervention methods for those most at risk. "Back pain should be recognised as an important co-morbidity that is likely to impact people's longevity and quality of life," explained lead researcher Matthew Fernandez in a recent statement. Source: Fernandez M, Boyle E, Hartvigsen J, et al. Is this back pain killing me? All-cause and cardiovascular-specific mortality in older Danish twins with spinal pain. European Journal of Pain . 2017
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 24, 2017 13:24:37 GMT -5
Exciting news (more traditional) about Alzheimer's possible treatment and prevention.
Could Blood pressure drugs have a role in Alzheimer's Disease treatment? CONTACT (media only): Karen Teber km463@georgetown.edu gumc.georgetown.edu/news/Could-blood-pressure-drugs-have-a-role-in-Alzheimers-Disease-treatment
WASHINGTON (Jan. 29, 2016) — In laboratory neuronal cultures, an FDA-approved drug used to treat high blood pressure reduced cell damage often linked to Alzheimer’s disease, say researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) and the National Institutes of Health.
They say their work, published online Jan. 28 in the journal Alzheimer's Research and Therapy, provides information supporting the potential effect of the drug candesartan — as well as other Angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) for the early treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.
“Our findings make sense in many ways,” says the study’s senior author Juan M. Saavedra, MD, from GUMC’s Department of Pharmacology and Physiology. “Hypertension reduces blood flow throughout the body and brain and is a risk factor of Alzheimer’s disease. Previous epidemiological studies found that Alzheimer’s progression is delayed in hypertensive patients treated with ARBs.”
Using neuronal cultures, the researchers explored the action of candesartan on the neurotoxic effects of exposure to excessive glutamate, a demonstrated injury factor in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease.
The scientists found that candesartan prevented glutamate-induced neuronal death. They conducted in-depth gene analyses of the laboratory results, demonstrating that candesartan prevented neuronal inflammation and many other pathological processes, including alterations in amyloid metabolism, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease.
The study’s first author, Abdel G. Elkahloun, PhD, from the Comparative Genomics and Cancer Genetics Branch of the National Human Genome Research Institute, then compared gene expression in the neuronal cultures with published gene databases of autopsy samples from Alzheimer’s disease patients. “The correlations were impressive — the expression of 471 genes that were altered by excess glutamate in our cultures were also altered in brain autopsy samples from patients who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. Candesartan normalized expression of these genes in our cultures,” Elkahloun says.
“We hypothesize that candesartan, or other members of the ARB group, may not only slow progression of Alzheimer’s but also prevent or delay its development,” Saavedra says.
The researchers say this work has immediate translational value, supporting testing candesartan, or other ARBs, in controlled clinical studies on patients at early stages of Alzheimer’s disease.
Roman Hafko, PhD, formerly of the National Institute of Mental Health, also contributed to this work and is an author of the paper.
The work was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health including the National Human Genome Research Institute (MD 20892) and the National Institute of Mental Health (MH 002762-16). The authors report having no personal financial interests related to the study. Lots of information on this for the past year and there are studies going on. Google candesartan + alzheimers
www.upi.com/Health_News/2016/01/29/Blood-pressure-drug-may-treat-early-Alzheimers-disease/8991454098975/
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 24, 2017 13:31:58 GMT -5
One has to wonder if this same procedure may work on other organs like the liver or kidneys? There is no harm in trying it and fasting has been a staple in health nut circles for generations. Body flushes have also been used as well even for specific organs. Possibly a combination of both might be beneficial. Less sugar and less red meat may also be particularly helpful.Fasting diet 'regenerates diabetic pancreas'By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News website 6 hours ago
The pancreas can be triggered to regenerate itself through a type of fasting diet, say US researchers.
Restoring the function of the organ - which helps control blood sugar levels - reversed symptoms of diabetes in animal experiments.
The study, published in the journal Cell, says the diet reboots the body.
Experts said the findings were "potentially very exciting" as they could become a new treatment for the disease.
People are advised not to try this without medical advice.
In the experiments, mice were put on a modified form of the "fasting-mimicking diet".
It is like the human form of the diet when people spend five days on a low calorie, low protein, low carbohydrate but high unsaturated-fat diet.
It resembles a vegan diet with nuts and soups, but with around 800 to 1,100 calories a day.
Then they have 25 days eating what they want - so overall it mimics periods of feast and famine.
Previous research has suggested it can slow the pace of ageing.
Diabetes therapy?
But animal experiments showed the diet regenerated a special type of cell in the pancreas called a beta cell.
These are the cells that detect sugar in the blood and release the hormone insulin if it gets too high.
Dr Valter Longo, from the University of Southern California, said: "Our conclusion is that by pushing the mice into an extreme state and then bringing them back - by starving them and then feeding them again - the cells in the pancreas are triggered to use some kind of developmental reprogramming that rebuilds the part of the organ that's no longer functioning."
There were benefits in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes in the mouse experiments.
Type 1 is caused by the immune system destroying beta cells and type 2 is largely caused by lifestyle and the body no longer responding to insulin.
Further tests on tissue samples from people with type 1 diabetes produced similar effects.
Dr Longo said: "Medically, these findings have the potential to be very important because we've shown - at least in mouse models - that you can use diet to reverse the symptoms of diabetes.
"Scientifically, the findings are perhaps even more important because we've shown that you can use diet to reprogram cells without having to make any genetic alterations."
What's it like?
Peter's blood is tested BBC reporter Peter Bowes took part in a separate trial with Dr Valter Longo.
He said: "During each five-day fasting cycle, when I ate about a quarter of the average person's diet, I lost between 2kg and 4kg (4.4-8.8lbs).
"But before the next cycle came round, 25 days of eating normally had returned me almost to my original weight.
"But not all consequences of the diet faded so quickly."
His blood pressure was lower as was a hormone called IGF-1, which is linked to some cancers.
He said: "The very small meals I was given during the five-day fast were far from gourmet cooking, but I was glad to have something to eat"
Peter Bowes: Fasting for science
Peter Bowes: Intermittent fasting and the good things it did to my body
Separate trials of the diet in people have been shown to improve blood sugar levels. The latest findings help to explain why.
However, Dr Longo said people should not rush off and crash diet.
He told the BBC: "It boils down to do not try this at home, this is so much more sophisticated than people realise."
He said people could "get into trouble" with their health if it was done without medical guidance.
Dr Emily Burns, research communications manager at Diabetes UK, said: "This is potentially very exciting news, but we need to see if the results hold true in humans before we'll know more about what it means for people with diabetes.
"People with type-1 and type-2 diabetes would benefit immensely from treatments that can repair or regenerate insulin-producing cells in the pancreas."
Follow James on Twitter. www.bbc.com/news/health-39070183
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 15, 2017 5:10:18 GMT -5
This is a great site even if you don't have cancer. There are so many great therapies and health information. There is some great information about MSM (not MMS which I talked about earlier). I am having great results with my rescue animals. It is a way to rid them of parasites without using poisons. Also great for kidney issues, arthritis, etc.
www.cancertutor.com/
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 23, 2017 5:49:48 GMT -5
Sepsis is the THIRD largest killer of Americans per year. If you know anyone who is diagnosed with it DEMAND they be given a course of intravenous iv of Vitamin C immediately!! Same goes for burn victims. Of course, many of us already know the value of these treatments. I myself have done the Vitamin C, Ozone and Hydrogen Peroxide treatments over the years for various things. When my doctor in the 1980's was shut down for using Ozone therapy (iv) I educated him on Hydrogen Peroxide treatments. He was back in business the following week.
Vitamin C: A Potential Life-saving Treatment For Sepsis and Burns ivnutritionaltherapy.com/?p=60This short article about IV vitamin C originally appeared in Medical News Today, www.medicalnewstoday.com on November 19, 2010. Since the FDA is taking action against manufacturers of IV vitamin C (IVC) by declaring it a new unapproved drug, it is timely to see a university research institute supporting rational use of IVC to treat serious illness that may not respond to drugs. Physicians caring for patients with sepsis may soon have a new safe and cost-effective treatment for this life-threatening illness. Research led by Dr. Karel Tyml and his colleagues at The University of Western Ontario and Lawson Health Research Institute have found that vitamin C can not only prevent the onset of sepsis, but can reverse the disease. Sepsis is caused by a bacterial infection that can begin anywhere in your body. Your immune system goes into overdrive, overwhelming normal processes in your blood. The result is that small blood clots form, blocking blood flow to vital organs. This can lead to organ failure. Babies, the elderly and those with weakened immune systems are most likely to get sepsis. But even healthy people can become deathly ill from the disease. According to Dr. Tyml, a professor at Western’s Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, patients with severe sepsis have a high mortality rate, nearly 40 percent, because there is no effective treatment. “There are many facets to sepsis, but the one we have focused on for the past 10 years is the plugging of capillaries,” says Dr. Tyml. Plugged capillaries prevent oxygenation and the supply of life-supporting materials to your organ tissue and stop the removal of metabolic waste product. Plugged capillaries are seen in organs of septic patients. These organs may eventually fail, leading to multiple organ failure and death. Dr. Tyml’s lab was the first to discover this plugging by using intravital microscopy, a technique Dr. Tyml pioneered in Canada. According to Dr. Tyml’s most recent publication, oxidative stress and the activated blood clotting pathway are the major factors responsible for the capillary plugging in sepsis. Through his research, Dr. Tyml has discovered that a single bolus of vitamin C injected early at the time of induction of sepsis, prevents capillary plugging. He has also found that a delayed bolus injection of vitamin C can reverse plugging by restoring blood flow in previously plugged capillaries. “Our research in mice with sepsis has found that early as well as delayed injections of vitamin C improves chance of survival significantly,” explains Dr. Tyml. “Furthermore, the beneficial effect of a single bolus injection of vitamin C is long lasting and prevents capillary plugging for up to 24 hours post-injection.” Dr. Tyml and his colleagues are eager to find appropriate support to move this research from the bench to the bedside to see if these findings translate to patients with sepsis. The potential benefit of this treatment is substantial. “Vitamin C is cheap and safe. Previous studies have shown that it can be injected intravenously into patients with no side effects,” says Dr. Tyml. “It has the potential to significantly improve the outcome of sepsis patients world-wide. This could be especially beneficially in developing countries where sepsis is more common and expensive treatments are not affordable.” Source: Kathy Wallis University of Western Ontario IVC is also showing promise as a treatment for burns. Here is a short excerpt from emedicine.medscape.com/article/1277360-overview. Vitamin C1, 2 A great deal of interest exists in using antioxidants as adjuncts to resuscitation to try to minimize oxidant-mediated contributions to the inflammatory cascade. In particular, megadose vitamin C infusion during resuscitation has been studied at some length. Some animal models have demonstrated that infusion of vitamin C within 6 hours postburn can lower calculated resuscitation values by up to one half. Whether this phenomenon can be reproduced successfully in human subjects has not been clearly demonstrated. Proponents have reached no consensus regarding the proper total dose. Some have adopted the strategy of placing up to 10 g in a liter of RL solution, infusing it at 100 mL/h (1 g/h vitamin C), and counting the volume as part of the resuscitation volume. Recently published data using an infusion of 66 mg/kg/h during the first 24 hours demonstrate a 45% decrease in the required fluid resuscitation in a small group of patients. The safety of high-dose vitamin C has been established in humans, at least for the short-term, but this strategy is probably less safe in patients who are pregnant, those with renal failure, and those with a history of oxalate kidney stones. 1.Sakurai M, Tanaka H, Matsuda T, et al. Reduced resuscitation fluid volume for second-degree experimental burns with delayed initiation of vitamin C therapy (beginning 6 h after injury). J Surg Res. Nov 1997;73(1):24-7. [Medline]. 2.Tanaka H, Matsuda T, Miyagantani Y, et al. Reduction of resuscitation fluid volumes in severely burned patients using ascorbic acid administration: a randomized, prospective study. Arch Surg. Mar 2000;135(3):326-31. [Medline]. Please note that both references are from Japan; perhaps there is less peer pressure to avoid non-pharmaceutical treatments in Japan, even though these treatments are safe and effective. Here is a 1992 article from the same group. Burns. 1992 Apr;18(2):127-31. High-dose vitamin C therapy fro extensive deep dermal burns. Matsuda T, Tanaka H, Shimazaki S, Matsuda H, Abcarian H, Reyes H, Hanumadass M. Abstract We studied the haemodynamic effects of antioxidant therapy with high-dose vitamin C administration (170 mg/kg/24 h) in guinea-pigs with 70 per cent body surface area deep dermal burns. The animals were divided into three groups of six animals each. Group 1 was resuscitated with Ringer’s lactate solution according to the Parkland formula; group 2 with 25 per cent of the Parkland formula with vitamin C; and group 3 with 25 per cent of the Parkland formula without vitamin C. There were no significant differences in heart rates or in blood pressures between the groups throughout the 24-h study period. Group 3 showed significantly higher haematocrit values at 3 h postburn and thereafter as compared with those of group 2. The cardiac output values of group 2 were significantly higher than those of group 3, but equivalent to those of group 1. The water content of the burned skin in group 2 was significantly lower than that in the other groups, indicating that increased postburn capillary permeability was minimized by the administration of vitamin C. With adjuvant high-dose vitamin C administration, we were able to reduce the 24-h resuscitation fluid volume from 4 ml/kg/per cent burn to 1 ml/kg/per cent burn, while maintaining adequate cardiac output. Here are two bullet points from an article from the Journal of Burn Care & Research July/August 2007. Burn Resuscitation by David G. Greenhalgh, A multicenter trial to examine the role of vitamin C during burn shock resuscitation should be performed. The last topic for investigation is to test an agent that will reduce the capillary leak that occurs during burn shock. The investigation of high dose vitamin C seems to make the most sense for the first trial. [/font]
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 23, 2017 18:33:28 GMT -5
(Natural News) An exciting medical breakthrough published in the science journal Oncotarget has discovered the astonishing ability of concentrated vitamin C to halt the growth of cancer tumor stem cells.see the charts and studies at this link: www.naturalnews.com/2017-03-22-vitamin-c-breakthrough-discovery-low-cost-nutrient-halts-growth-of-cancer-stem-cells-1000-more-effective-than-cancer-drug-peer-reviewed-science-confirms.html
The study, conducted at the University of Salford in Manchester — (see full text of the study at this link) — tested the impact on cancer stem cell metabolism for seven substances: •Three natural substances, including vitamin C •Three experimental pharmaceuticals •One clinical drug currently in widespread use
The study’s astonishing results reveal “the first evidence that Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) can be used to target and kill cancer stem cells (CSCs), the cells responsible for fuelling fatal tumours,” reports the flagship science publisher Alpha Galileo.
Vitamin C found to work up to 10 times better than a cancer pharmaceutical
Led by Michael P. Lisanti and Gloria Bonuccelli, the study results astonished researchers when it found that vitamin C worked up to 10 times better than a pharmaceutical cancer drug at interfering with cancer stem cell metabolism, effectively shutting down cancer tumors’ ability to process cellular energy for survival and growth.
“Vitamin C is cheap, natural, non-toxic and readily available so to have it as a potential weapon in the fight against cancer would be a significant step,” said Dr. Michael P. Lisanti, Professor of Translational Medicine at the University of Salford, in the Alpha Galileo summary of his research. It goes on to report:
Vitamin C has previously been shown to be effective as a non-toxic anti-cancer agent in studies by Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling and was recently shown to reduce mortality by 25% on breast cancer patients in Japan. However, its effects on CSC activity have not been previously evaluated and in this context, it behaves as an inhibitor of glycolysis, which fuels energy production in mitochondria, the “powerhouse” of the cell.
Great promise for IV vitamin C therapy as a complementary or alternative cancer treatment
Don’t believe doctors who smugly claim vitamin C has no ability to treat cancer. While the potency of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) used in the study is more than what could be achieved by eating oranges or other vitamin C-rich foods, the high concentration of the powerful nutrient could be achieved through intravenous (IV) therapy.
IV vitamin C therapy is readily available in some “alternative” cancer clinics throughout the world, and this research breakthrough could lead to more clinical trials that might one day see vitamin C used more widely throughout complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).
If these results had been attributed to a patented Big Pharma chemical, it would be heralded as a “miracle cancer drug” breakthrough. But don’t hold your breath waiting for the medical establishment to celebrate this discovery… vitamin C can’t be patented, and it’s incredibly inexpensive, meaning there’s no financial incentive for any cancer clinic to promote vitamin C when they can make far more money off the profits of chemotherapy.
The original study, published in Oncotarget at this link, concludes that “Vitamin C was ~10 times more potent than 2-DG for the targeting of CSCs.” (2-DG refers to an experimental cancer pharmaceutical, and CSC refers to Cancer Stem Cells.)
Read the full HTML text of the study at this link.
New science once again proves “skeptics” are hopelessly ignorant when it comes to advanced medicine
Not surprisingly, to this day, drug-pushing science “skeptics” continue to ridiculously claim that vitamin C has no medicinal use whatsoever and that only chemotherapy can treat cancer, not nutritional therapies. Even the science writers in the fake science media — NYT, CNN, Washington Post, etc. — seem to have no knowledge whatsoever of nutritional therapies for cancer, diabetes, heart disease or other chronic conditions.
It just goes to show you how incredibly ignorant and even nutritionally illiterate the medical “status quo” remains in our pharma-dominated world where profits are far more important to medicine than actually helping people overcome cancer.
Learn more about natural remedies for cancer at Remedies.news, and stay informed about scientifically validated cancer solutions at CancerSolutions.news
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 27, 2017 3:38:16 GMT -5
Dr. Joel Wallach says one should eat at least a dozen eggs a day. Our medical industry has it wrong about cholesterol levels. They should be higher than advised. The concentration of lowering those levels has brought on an onslaught of diseases like Alzheimer's. Considering that a large part of the brain is made up of cholesterol one would think to deprive it would cause problems.
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Post by the Scribe on May 4, 2017 5:37:55 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 11, 2017 1:49:53 GMT -5
The Science of Curing Cancer and Other Diseases with Sound and Resonant Frequencies July 8, 2017 Christina Sarich, Staff Writer Waking Times www.wakingtimes.com/2017/07/08/science-curing-cancer-diseases-sound-resonant-frequencies/
Sound healing is not a ‘new’ method of healing. It’s been around since at least the invention of the Royal Rife frequency machine. Ancient indigenous cultures including the Egyptians, Tibetans, Sumerians, Aboriginals, etc. understood the power of vibration more than 5,000 years ago for treating a whole handbag full of illnesses.
Technological sound healing devices began appearing in 1928 when German scientist Erwin Schliephake discovered that sound accelerated healing, but the use of gongs, symbols, bowls, crystal, and even the Great Pyramids of Egypt also provided advanced sound healing before these inventions were introduced.
Rife is credited with being one of the most forward thinkers in the 20th century because he discovered a cure for cancer simply by using vibrational energy – or sound frequencies. He talks about it extensively in his book, “The Cancer Cure That Worked.” His work was a re-discovery of ancient mathematical principles of sound.
Rife, Hulda Clark, John Crane, Tesla (discover of the phase conjugate wave), and numerous others however, were silenced most recently due to the FDA, competing interests in the profitable radiation and chemotherapy industries, and the general undercurrent of keeping people sick and tired so that they cannot experience a fully realized life. What, if any, methods of sound therapy have passed through this wall of oppression since the time of Rife?
A Parlor Trick
There’s an old parlor trick that would entertain any among us, including the young man who figures it out all on his own in the YouTube video below. By using resonate frequencies, he is able to break a glass with only his voice. This phenomenon works in more grandiose ways as well, from damaging bridges, to killing cancerous cells and deadly, antibiotic resistant bacteria, yet it is still not a common practice offered when you visit your doctor for an annual check-up. Why?
What is Resonance?
First, let’s look at what sound, resonance and frequencies outside of a medical application can do.
Harmonic oscillation – the movement of sound waves, can happen to such a specific degree that the integrity of large structures is compromised. This oscillation must happen at a resonant frequency though – and these frequencies can be used to either heal or hurt. They can both support the human body by matching its natural vibration, or tear a bridge apart and cause it to fall into the river below.
You can also understand this phenomenon more completely by watching this:
The Latest Research
This brings us to the work of Anthony Holland, a music professor who had a twin interest in biology. His work in resonant frequencies led to the opening of a cancer lab to test what would happen to cancer cells when they were blasted with certain sound waves.
To briefly summarize Holland’s work, he discovered that cancer, including leukemia, uterine and breast cancer, and even MRSA (the antibiotic resistant strain of bacteria responsible for numerous deaths) is easily destroyed at frequencies between 100,000 Hz and 300,000 Hz. In targeted, lab tested experiments, he was able to show actual cancer cells being destroyed by resonant frequencies.
You can see this happening in the video below:
Then there is the work of Dr. Neal Kassell who is a strong supporter of focused ultra sound therapy, a non-invasive method of sending ultrasound waves into a specific place in the body to heal benign tumors, reverse Parkinson’s and even reduce depression and other seeming unlikely candidates for the therapy.
Focused ultrasound is the “FDA-approved” version of some earlier discoveries in sound therapy. It marries: ◾Focused ultrasound which provides energy to treat tissue deep inside the body without harming other areas, and… ◾Magnetic resonance or ultrasound imaging which helps to identify the problem area, and guide the frequencies to the right spot.
You can think of this sound delivery method like using a magnifying glass to focus beams of sunlight onto a leaf to burn a hole into it, only in this case, it isn’t light that is being focused, but ultrasound within a target in the body. Depending on the acoustic lens that is used, the target can be as small as 1 X 1.5 mm.
The Focused Ultrasound Foundation reports that researchers at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto have begun the world’s first clinical trial evaluating the feasibility and safety of opening the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) utilizing focused ultrasound.
They plan to deliver antibodies directly to the brain.
A Problem Persists
The problem with either of these therapies is that they are still on a snail’s pace when it comes to availability to the general public. Though sound therapy isn’t demonized as it was in the time of Rife and Tesla, research into how it works is still slowed by a medical field that is practicing barbaric medicine funded by interests who originally stifled the emerging discoveries of sound therapies’ first pioneers.
Places like the Globe Institute come under the scrutiny of even neuroscientists who are exploring this field to understand if influencing brainwaves can cure cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and more. But while researchers do not dismiss the Globe Institute’s methods outright, they’re highly skeptical. There are few clinical studies with rigorous controls which back up the claims, but thousands of years prove that sound can heal just about anything.
The Solution
While we can look to the most recent evidence provided by individuals who are able to break through the wall of silence to keep sound therapies from becoming the norm, we can also look to our ancient “healers.”
Here’s what we already know: All cells emit sound as a result of their metabolic processes. There is an interaction between the cells own “song” and those imposed by the environment, including those applied by sound healing devices. The resonance principle relates to the cellular absorption of the healing sounds and/or their harmonics. In sound healing, resonance principles are employed to re-harmonize cells that have been imprinted with disruptive frequencies.
Such troublesome imprints may have been a result of toxic substances, emotional traumas, pathogens, or long-term exposure to noise pollution. They could also have been purposefully insinuated into a person in order to weaken their form.
The solution, then, is to replace these disruptive frequencies with harmonious ones. Instead of destroying bridges, we build them, with a harmonic wave that reaches right into the cellular structure to support its life – and as a result, our health.
Read more articles by Christina Sarich. About the Author
Christina Sarich is a staff writer for Waking Times. She is a writer, musician, yogi, and humanitarian with an expansive repertoire. Her thousands of articles can be found all over the Internet, and her insights also appear in magazines as diverse as Weston A. Price, Nexus, Atlantis Rising, and the Cuyamungue Institute, among others. She was recently a featured author in the Journal, “Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and Healing Arts,” and her commentary on healing, ascension, and human potential inform a large body of the alternative news lexicon. She has been invited to appear on numerous radio shows, including Health Conspiracy Radio, Dr. Gregory Smith’s Show, and dozens more. The second edition of her book, Pharma Sutra, will be released soon.
This article (The Science of Curing Cancer and Other Diseases with Sound and Resonant Frequencies) was originally created and published by Waking Times and is published here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Christina Sarich and WakingTimes.com. It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution and author bio.
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 28, 2017 5:23:16 GMT -5
You may want to consider saving those expired drugs. They may actually still be potent enough to be effective.down.51en.com:88/201707/51en-npr-20170718_me_that_drug_expiration_date_may_be_more_myth_than_fact.mp3
Hospitals and pharmacies are required to toss expired drugs, no matter how expensive or vital. Meanwhile the FDA has long known that many remain safe and potent for years longer. The box of prescription drugs had been forgotten in a back closet of a retail pharmacy for so long that some of the pills predated the 1969 moon landing. Most were 30 to 40 years past their expiration dates -- possibly toxic, probably worthless. But to Lee Cantrell, who helps run the California Poison Control System, the cache was an opportunity to answer an enduring question about the actual shelf life of drugs: Could these drugs from the bell-bottom era still be potent?
Gerona and Cantrell, a pharmacist and toxicologist, knew that the term "expiration date" was a misnomer. The dates on drug labels are simply the point up to which the Food and Drug Administration and pharmaceutical companies guarantee their effectiveness, typically at two or three years. But the dates don't necessarily mean they're ineffective immediately after they "expire" -- just that there's no incentive for drugmakers to study whether they could still be usable.
Tests on the decades-old drugs including antihistamines, pain relievers and stimulants. All the drugs tested were in their original sealed containers. The findings surprised both researchers: A dozen of the 14 compounds were still as potent as they were when they were manufactured, some at almost 100 percent of their labeled concentrations. Experts say the United States might be squandering a quarter of the money spent on health care. That's an estimated $765 billion a year. science.slashdot.org/story/17/07/18/221230/the-myth-of-drug-expiration-dates
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 1, 2017 6:35:00 GMT -5
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www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/nih-study-takes-deepest-dive-yet-baffling-condition-n754271 Scientists Edge Closer To Elusive Lab Test For 'Chronic Fatigue Syndrome' July 31, 2017·3:07 PM ET
Miriam E. Tucker
In addition to profound exhaustion that isn't relieved with sleep, the illness now called ME/CFS includes flu-like symptoms, muscle pain, "brain fog" and various other physical symptoms, all of which typically worsen with even minor exertion. Malte Mueller/Getty Images
Imagine feeling horribly sick, day after day, yet doctors repeatedly tell you they can't find anything wrong. That typically happens to people with the mysterious illness commonly known as "chronic fatigue syndrome." Research findings from Stanford University released Monday could point the way to a long-sought diagnostic laboratory test for the condition, and possibly a first-ever treatment.
Believed to affect at least a million people in the U.S., the condition is now increasingly termed myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, or ME/CFS for short.
Many patients see the name "chronic fatigue syndrome" as trivializing and misleading, giving the impression that they're simply tired or depressed. In fact, they're actually experiencing profound exhaustion that isn't relieved with sleep, flu-like symptoms, muscle pain, "brain fog" and various other physical symptoms, all of which characteristically worsen with even minor exertion. (A 2015 Institute of Medicine report proposed the name "systemic exertion intolerance disease," but it hasn't really stuck.)
Panel Says Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Is A Disease, And Renames It
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Panel Says Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Is A Disease, And Renames It The symptoms can range from mild to extremely severe, with about a quarter of patients so ill they're mostly or completely confined to bed. Now, the Stanford researchers have linked ME/CFS to variations in certain cytokines, immune-signaling proteins, that track with illness severity. The study results were published online Monday in the the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The link to gradation in severity, rather than simply seeking a positive versus negative result, represents a new approach to the search for biological markers for the illness. The study involved 192 ME/CFS patients and 392 healthy controls matched for age and sex. Out of 51 cytokines investigated via sophisticated fluorescence-based testing, only two of the cytokines differed, in their total concentrations, between the ME/CFS and control groups.
But, levels of 17 of the cytokines varied dramatically between the patients with mild versus severe ME/CFS symptoms. Of those 17 cytokines, 13 were types that promote inflammation. This is significant because symptoms in these patients and findings from other studies also suggest that chronic inflammation plays a major role in the illness.
Jennifer Brea: What Happens When You Have A Disease Doctors Can't Diagnose?
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Jennifer Brea: What Happens When You Have A Disease Doctors Can't Diagnose? "This is a field that has been full of skepticism and misconception, where patients have been viewed to have invented their disease. These data clearly show the contrary, and demonstrate what can be achieved when we couple good research design with new technology," lead author Dr. Jose Montoya, professor of infectious diseases at Stanford, tells Shots.
According to Dr. Anthony L. Komaroff, a Harvard internist and epidemiologist who has written a commentary to accompany the study, "For many years medical scientists have speculated that the symptoms of ME/CFS might be caused by cytokines, molecules that the immune system use to wage war against foreign invaders of the body. Past studies have shown high levels of many cytokines but it was not clear that these high levels were causing symptoms."
What the latest research shows, Komaroff tells Shots, is that "levels of many cytokines do correlate with symptoms: The higher the blood level, the worse the symptoms. That supports the theory that the cytokines are a cause of the symptoms."
So why do routine lab tests that doctors order often come back negative or not informative in ME/CFS patients? Simply put, Montoya says, those tests aren't measuring the right things.
Two classic laboratory measures of inflammation are sedimentation rate — the ability of red blood cells to clump together, which isn't a factor in ME/CFS — and C-reactive protein, which reflects levels of a single cytokine that wasn't one of those linked to severity in this study.
"Inflammation is much more complicated than two imperfect old measures," Montoya says. "We're showing an inflammation that has not been seen before."
The multidisciplinary Stanford team is now working on developing a panel that could be used commercially, that would test for around five of the 17 cytokines and would likely involve the doctor first classifying patients by severity in order to interpret the results. Such a test could both establish the diagnosis and serve to monitor patients' responses to treatment.
What's more, the findings also point to possible treatment with immune-modifying or anti-inflammatory therapy. Montoya hopes that by publishing these findings "a team of researchers somewhere in the world will see these cytokines and say they have the drug for that inflammation. We hope drug companies will pursue it."
Indeed, a major drug trial is now being conducted in Norway investigating whether the immune-modifying drug rituximab alleviates ME/CFS symptoms, after preliminary studies suggested that it did in some patients. Interestingly, the drug is approved to treat certain autoimmune diseases and also non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer that one study found uniquely occurs at a higher rate among older people with ME/CFS.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research Gains Funding, And Controversy
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research Gains Funding, And Controversy Komaroff also notes a recent increase in research funding by the National Institutes of Health, which has included a comprehensive in-house study aimed at unraveling the underlying causes of the condition.
And in an ongoing privately-funded study, Stanford geneticist Ron Davis and a team including three Nobel laureates is taking a similar "big data" approach to investigate a group of ME/CFS patients who are all severely ill, including Davis' own adult son.
"There is much to learn," Komaroff writes, in the journal. "Hopefully, a decade from now, "doctors will know better what to measure and, more importantly, what to do to ease the suffering caused by this illness."
Miriam E. Tucker is a freelance journalist specializing in medicine and health. You can follow her on Twitter @miriametucker.
Panel Says Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Is A Disease, And Renames It February 11, 2015·11:41 AM ET Miriam E. Tucker
Chronic fatigue syndrome has been a controversial name and a controversial diagnosis. Erica Shires/Corbis
The mysterious and complicated illness that has been called chronic fatigue syndrome has a new definition and a new name: systemic exertion intolerance disease, or SEID for short.
The name change is big news because many patients and experts in the field hate the name chronic fatigue syndrome; they feel that it trivializes the condition. Another name, myalgic encephalomyelitis, has been used in Canada, the United Kingdom and elsewhere, but it doesn't accurately describe the illness, either.“
"It is not appropriate to dismiss these patients by saying 'I am chronically fatigued, too.' " IOM report The condition, which can render people housebound or bedridden and unable to work or go to school, is believed to affect between 860,000 and 2.5 million Americans. Because there is no specific test for SEID, many people who have it haven't been diagnosed, and health care professionals often have viewed patients as complainers whose symptoms are psychological, not physical.
But a 15-member panel of the Institute of Medicine, an independent government advisory body with a lot of clout, says otherwise. In a report released Tuesday, the panel writes that the condition "is real" and admonishes clinicians, "It is not appropriate to dismiss these patients by saying 'I am chronically fatigued, too.' "
The new definition, for use in adults and children, focuses on the disease's core symptoms: ◾Profound fatigue lasting at least six months; ◾Total exhaustion after even minor physical or mental exertion that patients sometimes describe as a "crash" and is known medically as post-exertional malaise; ◾Unrefreshing sleep; ◾Cognitive impairment (aka "brain fog") or a worsening of symptoms upon standing.
This definition is much simpler than some previous ones for chronic fatigue syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis. And it doesn't require doctors to run a bunch of expensive and time-consuming tests to rule out other causes for the patient's symptoms before making the diagnosis.
In the 235-page report, the panel summarizes the scientific evidence it used to come up with the new definition, as well as for other aspects of the condition, including links to viruses such as Epstein-Barr (the cause of mononucleosis), and studies showing that people with the disorder have abnormal immune systems.
The condition has had all sorts of other names in the past, including epidemic neuromyasthenia, myalgia nervosa, and Royal Free Disease, after the British hospital where an outbreak reportedly occurred in 1955.
Systemic exertion intolerance disease might not roll off the tongue, but the panel chose it very purposefully, says Dr. Lucinda Bateman, a panel member who runs a fatigue specialty clinic in Salt Lake City.
"For years, nobody has been able to come up with an alternate name. We struggled, but we tried to pack each word with meaning," she said. “ The panel chose "disease" rather than "disorder" because "it's a stronger word." Dr. Lucinda Bateman Rather than use a name that presumes a cause, the IOM committee decided to name the disease by focusing on post-exertional malaise, the core symptom. "Systemic" indicates that the reaction to exertion involves the entire body, while "intolerance" implies impairment. "Glucose intolerance," for example, is a medical term used in relation to diabetes.
And, Bateman told Shots, the panel chose "disease" rather than "disorder" because "it's a stronger word."
Beyond encouraging physicians to take the condition seriously, diagnose patients and treat their symptoms, the panel also intends for the document to spur more research funding. As more information becomes available, both the diagnostic criteria and the name are expected to evolve. The goal is to identify markers in the patient's blood or body tissues that can be used both to diagnose the illness and as targets for treatment. Indeed, the report calls for a re-evaluation of both the definition and the name in "no more than five years."
Does Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Need A New Name?
"Change is not easy in any system, especially complex systems," Bateman says. "But I think we have about as good a foundation as we possibly could have to jump-start this process."
Patient advocates — some of whom were concerned about the IOM endeavor when it began over a year ago — are now cautiously optimistic. Jennie Spotila, a patient and former attorney who writes a widely read blog about the illness, tells Shots, "I think the IOM panel got a lot of things right with the new criteria. They focused on the central feature of the disease, post-exertional malaise, and limited the required symptoms to a short list."
Spotila praised the new name both for focusing on post-exertional malaise and for using the word "disease," although she also predicted that "SEID will be controversial, especially for the advocates like myself who argued for use of the term myalgic encephalomyelitis. ... I would like to see data that support SEID as a better name."
Asked whether she believes the IOM report will help patients, she responded, "That all depends on how widely and how accurately the criteria are implemented."
www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/02/11/385465667/panel-says-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-is-a-disease-and-renames-it Invisible Illness - Stories of Chronic Fatigue SyndromeUnrest (documentary about ME/CFS) premiere on Sundance Film Festival – 19-01-2017 By nicolas - January 20, 2017
Unrest has been selected as one of the highly anticipated narrative documentaries to receive a world premiere at The Sundance Film Festival at the Sundance resort in Utah, USA in January 19-29th 2017, it was announced today.
Director Jennifer Brea was a journalist and academic studying for a PhD at Harvard. Months before her wedding, she became progressively ill, losing the ability to even sit in a wheelchair. When told by her doctor it was “all in her head,” her response was to start filming from her bed, gradually deploying crews globally to document the world inhabited by millions of patients that medicine forgot.
Unrest tells the story of Jen and Omar, newlyweds facing the unexpected, and the four extraordinary M.E. patients that Jen meets throughout her journey, in the United States, UK and Denmark. Together, they explore how to make a life of meaning when everything changes. The film is a feat of disability filmmaking, made with an international team and using innovative technologies to allow the bedbound, disabled director to travel the world and film as if she’s in the room.
Unrest is a story of resilience in the face of life-changing loss, of how we treat people with illnesses we don’t fully understand yet, about how confronting the fragility of life can teach us its value, and ultimately, about the need we all have to connect.
Director & Producer Jennifer Brea said, “I am thrilled and honored that this documentary film is launching at Sundance, one of the most prestigious international film festivals in the world. M.E. upended my life and I battle with its debilitating symptoms everyday. Still, it has been the privilege of my life to make this film. It is with thanks to the collaboration of an amazing team and a host of wonderful supporters that we have been able to share unheard stories of what it is to fight against a life-long, invisible illness.”
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.) is a systemic neuroimmune condition characterised by post-exertional malaise (a severe worsening of symptoms after even minimal exertion). It causes dysregulation of both the immune system and the nervous system. The effects of M.E. are devastating enough to leave 25% of patients housebound or bedbound. In many parts of the world, it is commonly known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
It is estimated that at least 1,000,000 Americans, 250,000 British people, 100,000 Australians, and 100,000 Canadians have M.E. An estimated 75-85% of them are women and 80-90% of them are undiagnosed. *Estimates vary depending on the diagnostic criteria used.
Unrest is made with the generous support of:
Impact Partners, the William F. Harnisch Foundation, Chicken & Egg Pictures, BRITDOC’s Good Pitch, the Tribeca Film Institute, the Fledgling Fund, IFP, Women in Film Los Angeles, the Sundance Institute, and over 2,500 backers from a Kickstarter campaign in 2015.What happens when you have a disease doctors can't diagnose | Jennifer Brea Published on Jan 17, 2017
Five years ago, TED Fellow Jen Brea became progressively ill with myalgic encephalomyelitis, commonly known as chronic fatigue syndrome, a debilitating illness that severely impairs normal activities and on bad days makes even the rustling of bed sheets unbearable. In this poignant talk, Brea describes the obstacles she's encountered in seeking treatment for her condition, whose root causes and physical effects we don't fully understand, as well as her mission to document through film the lives of patients that medicine struggles to treat.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more.
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Post by the Scribe on Sept 16, 2017 6:23:18 GMT -5
SLEEP APNEA
Damaris Drewry PhD has a unique treatment to end Sleep Apnea by resolving PTSD
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If you WANT to be symptom-free you may be able to do that quickly and painlessly without devices. in 2008, Steve, a client of Damaris Drewry, describes his complete resolution of central nervous system sleep apnea after 15 years of using a CPAP machine. He was diagnosed with OSA but actually had Central Nervous System Apnea caused by a near-drowning event. He had a total of four Beyond Talk Therapy sessions with Dr. Drewry - in June 2008. This very moving testimonial was recorded in April 2009. If you have had traumatic events where you thought you were going to die, you can be free of apnea by working with Dr. Drewry. Call (828) 595-9658 to arrange a consultation. or visit website.
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In January 2017 Dr. Drewry’s sleep apnea discovery was published in the International Journal of Healing and Caring. Click here to read 17-page article:
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Post by the Scribe on Oct 21, 2017 3:26:27 GMT -5
Sleep Scientist Warns Against Walking Through Life 'In An Underslept State' Listen· 38:20 ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/fa/2017/10/20171016_fa_01.mp3?orgId=427869011&topicId=1128&d=2300&p=13&story=558058812&t=progseg&e=558089339&seg=1&siteplayer=true&dl=1 October 16, 2017·3:04 PM ET Heard on Fresh Air
The National Sleep Foundation recommends an average of eight hours of sleep per night for adults, but sleep scientist Matthew Walker says that too many people are falling short of the mark.
"Human beings are the only species that deliberately deprive themselves of sleep for no apparent gain," Walker says. "Many people walk through their lives in an underslept state, not realizing it."
Walker is the director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He points out that lack of sleep — defined as six hours or fewer — can have serious consequences. Sleep deficiency is associated with problems in concentration, memory and the immune system, and may even shorten life span.
Brain's Link To Immune System Might Help Explain Alzheimer's
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Brain's Link To Immune System Might Help Explain Alzheimer's "Every disease that is killing us in developed nations has causal and significant links to a lack of sleep," he says. "So that classic maxim that you may [have] heard that you can sleep when you're dead, it's actually mortally unwise advice from a very serious standpoint."
Walker discusses the importance of sleep — and offers strategies for getting the recommended eight hours — in his new book, Why We Sleep.
Interview Highlights
On what you should do if you can't sleep On whether you can make up for a sleep deficit by sleeping longer another day On letting teenagers sleep on weekends On how the quantity and quality of sleep decreases with age On using sleeping pills, like Ambien, to sleep On how caffeine affects sleep On alcohol's effect on sleep This ancient clock rules our lives — and determines our health Russell Foster theweek.com/articles/730808/ancient-clock-rules-lives--determines-health
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 5, 2017 2:21:34 GMT -5
This is airing free until the 9th so if interested you might want to make time to watch it before it goes away or there is a charge.www.youtube.com/channel/UCFRE6ojweBbb_sMZSlGM54g/videos?disable_polymer=1The Sacred Plant Secrets Exposed: Episode 1 There are many episodes available now for free on youtube. Not sure if the free view will go past the 9th of November 2017.
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 5, 2017 2:34:27 GMT -5
Now that the heat is on the opioid producers I have heard they are looking to market their products heavily outside of America. Sounds like the same old story that happened when tobacco producers were cornered on their greedy corporate practices and regulated by the government.Who Profits from the Opioid Crisis? Meet the Secretive Sackler Family Making Billions from OxyContin
Published on Oct 19, 2017
democracynow.org - This week, President Donald Trump’s nominee for drug czar, Republican Congressmember Tom Marino, had to withdraw from consideration after a Washington Post/”60 Minutes” investigation found he led a drug industry-backed effort to pass a law that weakened the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s ability to crack down on addictive opioids. Meanwhile, calls are growing to look at the major pharmaceutical companies that have fueled the opioid crisis. A new investigation by Esquire magazine reveals how the secretive Sackler family, owners of the company that invented OxyContin, downplayed the risks of addiction and exploited doctors’ confusion over the drug’s strength. We speak with Christopher Glazek, the Esquire reporter behind the story.
Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs weekdays on nearly 1,400 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9AM ET: democracynow.org
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 13, 2017 4:25:46 GMT -5
Dying To Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
In this truly inspirational memoir, Anita Moorjani relates how, after fighting cancer for almost four years, her body began shutting down—overwhelmed by the malignant cells spreading throughout her system. As her organs failed, she entered into an extraordinary near-death experience where she realized her inherent worth . . . and the actual cause of her disease. Upon regaining consciousness, Anita found that her condition had improved so rapidly that she was released from the hospital within weeks—without a trace of cancer in her body! Within these pages, Anita recounts stories of her childhood in Hong Kong, her challenge to establish her career and find true love, as well as how she eventually ended up in that hospital bed where she defied all medical knowledge. As part of a traditional Hindu family residing in a largely Chinese and British society, Anita had been pushed and pulled by cultural and religious customs since she was a little girl. After years of struggling to forge her own path while trying to meet everyone else’s expectations, she had the realization, as a result of her epiphany on the other side, that she had the power to heal herself . . . and that there are miracles in the Universe that she’d never even imagined. In Dying to Be Me, Anita freely shares all she has learned about illness, healing, fear, “being love,” and the true magnificence of each and every human being! This is a book that definitely makes the case that we are spiritual beings having a human experience . . . and that we are all One!
From the Author
Afterword Before I close, I'd like to leave you with a few final words. Always remember not to surrender your power--instead, get in touch with your own magnificence. When it comes to finding the right path, there's a different answer for each person. The only universal solution I have is to love yourself unconditionally and be yourself fearlessly! This is the most important lesson I learned from my NDE, and I honestly feel that if I'd always known this, I never would have gotten cancer in the first place. When we're true to ourselves, we become instruments of truth for the planet. Because we're all connected, we touch the lives of everyone around us, who then affect others. Our only obligation is to be the love we are and allow our answers to come from within in the way that's most appropriate for us.
Finally, I can't stress enough how important it is to enjoy yourself and not take yourself or life too seriously. One of the biggest flaws with many traditional spiritual systems is that they give you such a somber outlook. Although you know that I abhor creating doctrines, if I ever had to create a set of tenets for a spiritual path to healing, number one on my list would be to make sure to laugh as often as possible throughout every single day--and preferably laugh at myself. This would be hands down over and above any form of prayer, meditation, chanting, or diet reform. Day-to-day problems never seem as big when viewed through a veil of humor and love.
In this age of information technology, we're bombarded with news seemingly at the speed of light. We're living in an age of high stress and fear, and in the midst of trying to protect ourselves from everything we think is "out there," we've forgotten to enjoy ourselves and to take care of what's inside.
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 13, 2017 4:30:26 GMT -5
Sometimes before we can heal we have to forgive. That includes forgiving ourselves and loving ourselves first. Back in my new age days I heard that over and over. Dolph Lundgren | On healing and forgiveness | TEDxFulbrightSantaMonica Published on Oct 28, 2015
The movie Rocky IV turned Dolph Lundgren aka Soviet boxer Ivan Drago into a Hollywood star. Exactly 30 years later the Fulbrighter Dolph Lundgren shares his personal fight worth fighting with a live audience at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. “If you heal yourself you can heal others” is the message of this surprising TEDxFulbright talk about a fighter who became a social activist.
Best known for his performance in Rocky IV as Ivan Drago, Dolph has starred in over 50 films. He was awarded a Fulbright to MIT after graduating at the head of his class in chemical engineering at the Royal Inst. of Technology in Stockholm. He also completed an exchange program with the University of Sydney.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 21, 2017 6:15:25 GMT -5
sonjagrace.com/Please note that Sonja Grace is booked out 6-8 weeks in advance. If you are in need of an emergency, 20 minute appointment for an urgent matter, the price is $325.00 (click here to purchase an emergency appointment). Emergency appointments cannot be scheduled here in this calendar. This appointment can be scheduled through the office and will usually be booked within 72 hours. Click here to contact the office and Sonja will email you with a time and date!
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 21, 2017 23:07:02 GMT -5
Is your cardiologist KILLING you? Mind-blowing interview with Dr. Jack Wolfson reveals dangerous, dark secrets of cardiologyMonday, November 20, 2017 by: Mike Adams www.thedrswolfson.com/
(Natural News) You’re about to hear some mind-blowing information that mainstream cardiologists either don’t know or won’t tell you. We recently sat down to interview Dr. Jack Wolfson, D.O., author of The Paleo Cardiologist and founder of The DrsWolfson clinic in Arizona.
Dr. Wolfson is without a doubt the coolest cardiologist on the planet. Not only does he know he stuff, he and his wife created a jaw-dropping end-of-the-world survival trailer video featuring his young son breastfeeding during the apocalypse. No joke. See the trailer, below… (yeah, it’s pretty much the best video trailer ever). It’s called the “Fighting Healthy Documentary Series,” by the way, and features his wife, Dr. Heather Wolfson.
We invited Dr. Wolfson to our Austin studio for a face-to-face interview, and he didn’t disappoint. We’ve got three video interviews ready to publish with Dr. Wolfson, and the first one, shown below, asks the question, “Is your cardiologist KILLING you?”
Watch this amazing interview and you’ll learn why your cardiologist may be giving you truly bad information that could compromise your heath and even contribute to your death. This is a must-see interview for anyone who wants to protect their heart health and improve their longevity.
Here’s the full interview: www.naturalnews.com/2017-11-20-is-your-cardiologist-killing-you-mind-blowing-interview-with-dr-jack-wolfson.html
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 29, 2017 4:43:36 GMT -5
Doctor Joe makes a lot of sense. He must be doing something right because he is a target of the establishment, anti New Agers and fundamentalist evangelicals.
www.drjoedispenza.com/index.php?page_id=about 🌟DR JOE DISPENZA: Becoming Supernatural - Rewire Your Brain & Change Your Reality! Law of Attraction Joe Dispenza The Science of Changing Your MindJoe Dispenza Align Your Thoughts & Feelings For A New Destiny - law of traction Eliminate Stress And Anxiety | Dr. Joe Dispenza
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 13, 2017 23:53:44 GMT -5
If thoughts can do that to water, IMAGINE what they could do to us...avi
PROOF Your Thoughts Can Alter Physical Reality
Raymon Grace on Healing Water and Abuse
Water Memory (Documentary of 2014 about Nobel Prize laureate Luc Montagnier)
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 16, 2017 3:04:49 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 19, 2017 23:21:25 GMT -5
I have to admit I know little about Marijuana, never tried it but have considered CBD (for neuropathic pain) which is a cannabinoid in the THC family but different. I have used the CBD for some pets with cancer and I don't really know if it gave them relief or not before they died. The below article is in relation to smoking it and I am not sure if the same applies to using the chemicals instead. If it does you may want to consider these warnings if you are in any of the risk groups. You may be robbing Peter to pay Paul and could end up worse off. Horrible Side Effects of Marijuana That People Never Talk AboutJulia Mullaney December 19, 2017
Heart and stroke risk
Marijuana can have health benefits, but people with heart problems need to be extra careful | iStock/Getty Images While it’s easy to picture a marijuana user mellowing out as they wish, marijuana can raise a heart rate by 20% to 100% shortly after smoking, and the effect can last up to 3 hours, according to Live Science and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. This may raise the risk of heart attack.
“A 2017 study by the Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia found that those who used marijuana were 26 percent more likely to have a stroke than those who did not use marijuana,” explains Live Science. “Those studied were also 10 percent more likely to have developed heart failure.”
Next: This side effect could appear by middle age.
Memory loss
Your mind may not be so sharp after a few smoke sessions. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images
In 2016, JAMA Internal Medicine published a study confirming that those who practiced long-term, daily marijuana use had poorer verbal memory in their middle age compared to those who didn’t smoke. The study considered “long term” to mean five years or more. The researchers examined 3,400 people’s habits over a 25-year period. Everyone in the group took a cognitive skills test at the end of the study period, which determined the results. Legalization of marijuana across the United States may result in more people smoking the drug daily for long periods of time.
Next: Not all marijuana consumption is the same.
Lung irritation
Marijuana smoke can irritate your lungs. | Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Images
Although there is no conclusive evidence that marijuana causes lung cancer, it does create a series of respiratory problems in frequent users, such as a prolonged cough, airway inflammation, and wheezing. According to the University of Washington’s Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, marijuana smoke contains harmful chemicals that are in similar range to those in tobacco smoke. Since marijuana requires a deeper inhalation than cigarettes, it leaves about five times the carbon monoxide concentration and three times the tar in the respiratory tract compared to cigarettes.
Next: This next illness can cause delusions and hallucinations
Schizophrenia
Marijuana can increase your chances of developing schizophrenia. | David McNew/Getty Images
Various studies on the effects of marijuana have been done through the years, but NBC recently reported that one potential risk of the drug is a serious one — mental illness. Marijuana can increase one’s risk of developing schizophrenia. This illness causes delusions, hallucinations, and unclear thinking, and greatly affects one’s ability to function properly. The drug can also increase depression and social anxiety, according to the same study. Those who use marijuana heavily are also more likely to be suicidal.
Next: Can marijuana really lower testosterone and sperm count?
Low testosterone levels
Marijuana can lower your testosterone levels. | Mark Piscotty/Getty Images
Some studies have shown that chronic cannabis use can result in lower testosterone levels, and even a lower sperm count. Doctors have agreed that it’s very plausible that chronic marijuana use can lower testosterone. However, researchers cannot draw a completely factual conclusion until they complete several more studies. Low levels can also result in something called gynecomastia, which is caused by a hormone imbalance between testosterone and estrogen levels in men.
Next: This side effect can last longer than most people think.
Slowed reaction time
Driving while high is not a good idea. | Bruce Bennett/Getty Images
Driving while high may seem like an obvious no, but impaired reaction time can last much longer than the high. “Visual perception and motor speed may be impaired not only while you smoke, but for up to 28 days afterward,” Marina Goldman, an addiction expert from University of Pennsylvania’s Addiction Treatment Center, told Philadelphia magazine. Slowed reaction time means that an oncoming vehicle can pose a greater danger; there could be a delay in perception time and appropriate reaction time.
Next: You need to know how marijuana edibles affect people differently.
Exposure to dangerous potencies
Marijuana in edible form is very potent. | Alejandro Pagni/Getty Images
Today, marijuana products are much stronger than they used to be. Edible products tend to have a potency that is up to 10 times higher than that of a traditional joint, according to Steven Wright, a pain and addiction medicine specialist in Denver. Wright told USA Today that since edibles’ effects take up to an hour to set in — unlike joints, which reach the brain in just seconds — people end up consuming far more than they intended, which can cause more harm than the drug in its traditional form.
Next: You don’t always get the munchies.
Loss of appetite
This hamburger is missing something | iStock.com
Everyone knows marijuana can trigger a case of the munchies, but some users complain they find their appetite disappears when they aren’t using the drug.
“I find that I don’t have much of an appetite any more unless I am stoned,” wrote Reddit user oz24. “[T]hinking about eating sober gave me nausea. [Probably] the worst part of all the side effects,” echoed user newmilwaukee.
Scientists who study the relationship between marijuana and appetite have discovered that a component of the drug appears to activate hormones that produce hunger, but it’s not clear what effect that might have on a person’s desire to eat when they weren’t high. A separate study found that people who smoked weed at least three times per week were skinnier than people who didn’t use marijuana, but why that is the case isn’t clear.
Next: Science says the relationship between marijuana use and paranoia isn’t a myth.
Paranoia
Marijuana plants | ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images
Tales of pot-induced paranoia aren’t unusual. “I smoked weed for about 6-7 years and eventually had to quit entirely because I became SUPER anxious, paranoid and self-conscious,” one Reddit user recounted. “fter about 3/4 years of semi heavy use the high just changed now it just sends me loopy with bouts of anxiety and paranoia and just completely over thinking every aspect of my life until I can put a negative spin on it,” wrote blue_skies.
Science says the relationship between marijuana use and paranoia isn’t a myth. A 121-person study conducted at the University of Oxford found that people were more likely to experience paranoid thoughts after ingesting THC, the active ingredient in cannabis, than those who took a placebo. The drug also triggered negative thoughts about the self and lowered mood.
“There’s certainly evidence that if you use cannabis — particularly when you’re young — and you use it a lot, that this can put you at risk for later problems,” professor Daniel Freeman, who led the study, told WebMD. But paranoia isn’t an inevitable side effect of smoking weed, he added. “f you have greater confidence in yourself, you improve your self-esteem, and if you try not to worry or ruminate about potential threats in the world … then the effects of the THC should hopefully be less capable of inducing paranoia.”
Next: Marijuana itself has never caused a fatal overdose, but …
Really bad decision making
Take it slow with marijuana use, especially edibles| Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images
While marijuana isn’t the only substance to help cause bad decision making, it highlights the importance of self-control and responsibility.
Medical experts and the Drug Enforcement Agency agree that marijuana has never caused a fatal, toxic overdose. However, there have been a few reports of excessive marijuana use leading to other fatal decisions, as was the case in March 2014 when a 19-year-old college student jumped off of a balcony after ingesting five times the recommended amount of marijuana.
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 27, 2017 14:40:57 GMT -5
The Urban Monk – The Secret Life of Fat with Guest Sylvia TaraUnderstanding Fat To Help You Lose Weight – Dr. Sylvia Tara – #388 In order to lose fat, you must first understand how it works. Dr. Sylvia Tara joins Dave on this episode of Bulletproof Radio for a deep dive into the science of one of the most important elements of our body, which is most often misunderstood and even hated. Dr. Tara explains why fat is essential for the body to function and how a healthy diet high in essential fatty acids will actually help you shed unwanted pounds, and keep them off.
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 14, 2018 22:12:02 GMT -5
I hear a lot of good things about this medical center. People come here from all over the country. It may work for you depending on the type of insurance you have otherwise it could be costly. Always look for "integrative" medicine or a primary care doctor that has a D.O. after their name. That's a start. Sunridge Medical Center America's Premier Center for Alternative Medicine Located in Scottsdale, Arizona www.youtube.com/user/sunridgemedical www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGAKUJUO7-_bjO5LM1o7Bs-1N-rBwmhe3 Are You Ready For A Different Approach?Sunridge Medical is an alternative medicine treatment center and immune recovery facility offering advanced, research-based alternative medical modalities to patients diagnosed with serious and complex medical conditions. We offer comprehensive, personalized treatment plans that target the specific needs of each patient utilizing an optimal combination of both conventional therapies and the latest in new treatment advancements from around the world. If your current treatment plan is holding you back, or simply not working – come see us and let your healing begin. ADVANCED ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT SPECIALISTS Each year Sunridge Medical helps thousands of patients from all around the world by providing a customized approach to treating the underlying cause of their disease and not just the symptoms. Sound like a better approach? We think so too. Our team of researchers are constantly evaluating the latest medical breakthroughs in search of safe, scientific and effective therapies that we can bring to our patients. With a growing arsenal of advanced alternative medical treatments at our disposal, we like to say that we have treatment options beyond the treatment options Top Rated Physicians Our staff of highly rated licensed physicians specialize in the the field of alternative medical treatments and are motivated by the success of our patients Personalized Care By taking a personalized approach to medical treatment, our primary focus is on the individual needs of every patient which leads us to better results. Cutting Edge Treatment Being on the cutting edge of new research and advanced medical treatments from around the world allows us to provide the very latest treatments available. Patient Satisfaction Our success is not only derived from our effective treatment plans, but from the simple fact that we go above and beyond to the appreciation and satisfaction of all our patients. Patient Care Team: Conditions We Treat If you are struggling with a chronic health conditions that has lasted longer than 3 months, we can help. We treat patients with all types of chronic conditions. If you’ve been to your doctor, tried their treatments and you’re still not feeling better, give our Patient Care Team a call at (800) 923-7878 and book an appointment to come and see us. Below are just some of the many conditions we have helped our patients overcome, click on the individual icons to learn more or click on the View All Conditions button to view additional health conditions that we treat at Sunridge. cancer autoimmune heart hormone neurologic lyme disease digestive general view all conditions sunridgemedical.com/
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 15, 2018 5:29:09 GMT -5
Bio hacking may be the wave of the future for health. We have talked about the importance of gut health in curing Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other neurological diseases.An Experiment in Biohacking: Director Kate McLean on the SXSW Short, Gut HackGut Hack by Kate McLean in Directing, Filmmaking, SXSW, SXSW Features on Mar 11, 2017
biohacking, Gut Hack, Josiah Zayner, Kate McLean and Mario Furloni, Short Film, SXSW Film Festival 2017
Last year, a friend asked me to come to an event about synthetic biology. I’m a documentary filmmaker, and I suspected the evening was going to be a bit over my head, but she was speaking and I wanted to show support. When I arrived, the speakers were a mix of academics, industry types, enthusiasts and scientists. I began to prepare myself in for a night of polite nodding and drinking as a man from a biotech company took the microphone to present some kind of recruitment talk about his company. Then, back near the bar, someone started to boo the speaker. The guy had a mohawk, a bunch of piercings and a pint of beer. “Biohack the planet,” he shouted. I knew immediately that I wanted to talk to him.
The guy was Josiah Zayner, a scientist who was then working at NASA, doing experiments on bacteria to make it more useful for space travel. That night, over several beers, he told me he was about to leave NASA to start a company in his apartment. He was doing it because he wanted to experiment freely, without the constraints of academia, which he appeared to revile. He called himself a biohacker.
Josiah and I talked a lot about bacteria that night. For years I have been obsessed with the unique ecosystems of bacteria that live on and in humans, which are called the human microbiome. Scientists are just starting to understand the role that microbial communities might play in our digestion, obesity, skin health, and more. It’s a deep and strange subject that I think reorients the sense of self in an interesting way. Think about it. Your experience of the world is not just the product of you as an individual. It’s also the product of your unique collection of microorganisms.
Anyway, in the middle of this trippy conversation, talk turned to an experiment Josiah was contemplating. Would it be possible to completely eradicate the ecosystem of bacteria living in and on his body and replace it with someone else’s? Josiah had long suffered from digestive issues and wondered if this might provide relief. Also, he was curious what would happen. His plan was to check himself into a hotel and DIY the whole thing. He would take antibiotics to kill as much of his original microbiome as possible. Then he would use bacterial samples from a donor (including saliva, skin cultures and feces) to recolonize his body with the new ecosystem of microorganisms. I asked, “Can I film this?” To my surprise, Josiah said yes.
As the experiment approached, I began to worry about Josiah’s safety. Taking large amounts of antibiotics puts people at risk of dangerous infections such as Clostridium difficile. I also learned that if Josiah ingested poop that had not been screened for pathogens, he could potentially get a serious illness. Josiah and I had a conversation about what warning signs I should look for if he became ill, so that we could stop filming and get him to the hospital. I wondered if my presence as a filmmaker was encouraging him to take risks that he would not otherwise. We talked about it, and he told me he would do the experiment with or without me there.
With a little trepidation, I decided to go forward with the filming. I brought in my film partner, Mario Furloni, to shoot and co-direct. We recruited our collaborator Laura Heberton to produce the film, and convinced our talented friend Sara Newens to edit our footage in to a movie. With our team in place, Mario and I then spent a surreal week with Josiah and a mason jar of human shit.
Spoiler: Josiah didn’t die. In fact, he’s fine, and just about a year after he concluded his experiment, our short film Gut Hack is premiering at SXSW. The move is our attempt to share Josiah’s grueling and grotesque ordeal and communicate how it felt to behold this weird period of his life: alternately full of wonder, disgust, anxiety, excitement, exhaustion and awe. At the end of the day, I hope the audience is entertained, intellectually engaged and horrified in equal measure.
And I hope they won’t try anything like this at home.
Kate McLean and Mario Furloni, primarily doc filmmakers, are working on their first narrative dramatic feature, Freeland, for which they have received much support from the San Francisco Film Society and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation. Kate also is a doc producer and Mario a cinematographer. Their first collaboration was the short doc Pot Country, on which Freeland is based, in part. Among other projects they have worked on is the documentary about Bill Nye (“the Science Guy”), also premiering at SXSW this weekend, by the directing team of Jason Sussberg and David Alvarado.
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 17, 2018 18:55:44 GMT -5
something to think about and be AWARE
A Mom Drank 3 Gallons Water In 2 Hours. This is What Happened to Her Brain.
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 17, 2018 21:26:57 GMT -5
Be wary of implants and other unproven medical devices.
Are Implanted Medical Devices Creating A 'Danger Within Us'?
January 17, 2018·3:10 PM ET Heard on Fresh Air Dave Davies
Fresh Air ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/fa/2018/01/20180117_fa_01.mp3?orgId=427869011&topicId=1135&d=2179&p=13&story=578562873&siteplayer=true&dl=1
Medical journalist Jeanne Lenzer warns that implanted medical devices are approved with far less scrutiny and testing than drugs. As a result, she says, some have caused harm and even death.
DAVE DAVIES, HOST:
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies in for Terry Gross who's off this week. Our guest Jeanne Lenzer is a former physician's associate who worked for years in emergency rooms until medical studies showed a treatment she and others used for chest pain was actually causing deadly heart rhythms. Her search to understand what went wrong led her to a new career as an investigative medical journalist. Her new book is about the potential dangers of the millions of medical devices implanted in our bodies - artificial joints, cardiac stents, surgical mesh and pacemakers, among many others.
Lenzer says medical devices are approved with far less scrutiny than drugs, and many high-risk devices go to market without clinical trials. Lenzer writes about several devices that have proved problematic. And her book focuses in some detail on a treatment for patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. An electrical device is implanted in the patient's body that sends regular impulses to the vagus nerve, which runs from the brain down through the neck, chest and abdomen.
A review of clinical studies by the Cochrane collaborative found the vagus nerve stimulator effective in reducing seizures for people whose epilepsy does not respond well to drugs or for whom surgery is not a good option. The Cochrane review also found that more studies needed on the effectiveness and side effects of VNS therapy. Lenzer says there's reason to believe the VNS device can cause deadly cardiac symptoms, and that it's been approved with virtually no research on how many patients implanted with VNS die.
Jeanne Lenzer is a longtime contributor to The BMJ, formerly the British Medical Journal, and her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic and other publications. Her new book is "The Danger Within Us."
Well, Jeanne Lenzer, welcome to FRESH AIR. Do we know how often medical treatments cause problems and harm people - essentially, the cure becoming the cause of injury?
listen to her answers: ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/fa/2018/01/20180117_fa_01.mp3?orgId=427869011&topicId=1135&d=2179&p=13&story=578562873&siteplayer=true&dl=1
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