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Ten Things You’re Not Suppossed to Know about Swine Flu Shots

surviveandthrivekits — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:51:29 +0000

(NaturalNews)

Let’s not beat around the bush on this issue: The swine flu vaccines now being prepared for mass injection into infants, children, teens and adults have never been tested and won’t be tested before the injections begin. In Europe, where flu vaccines are typically tested on hundreds (or thousands) of people before being unleashed on the masses, the European Medicines Agency is allowing companies to skip the testing process entirely.

And yet, amazingly, people are lining up to take the vaccine, absent any safety testing whatsoever. When the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. announced a swine flu vaccine trial beginning in early August, it was inundated with phone calls and emails from people desperate to play the role of human guinea pigs. The power of fear to herd sheeple into vaccine injections is simply amazing…

Back in Europe, of course, everybody gets to be a guinea pig since no testing will be done on the vaccine at all. Even worse, the European vaccines will be using adjuvants — chemicals used to multiply the potency of the active ingredients in vaccines.

Notably, there is absolutely no safety data on the use of adjuvants in infants and expectant mothers — the two groups being most aggressively targeted by the swine flu vaccine pushers. The leads us to the disturbing conclusion that the swine flu vaccine could be a modern medical disaster. It’s untested and un-tried. Its ingredients are potentially quite dangerous, and the adjuvants being used in the European vaccines are suspected of causing neurological disorders.

I probably don’t need to remind you that in 1976, a failed swine flu vaccine caused irreparable damage to the nervous systems of hundreds of people, paralyzing many. Medical doctors gave the problem a name, of course, to make it sound like they knew what they were talking about: Guillain-Barre syndrome. (Notably, they never called it “Toxic Vaccine Syndrome” because that would be too informative.)

But the fact remains that doctors never knew how the vaccines caused these severe problems, and if the same event played out today, all the doctors and vaccine pushers would undoubtedly deny any link between the vaccines and paralysis altogether. (That’s what’s happening today with the debate over vaccines and autism: Complete denial.)

In fact, there are a whole lot of things you’ll never be told by health authorities about the upcoming swine flu vaccine. For your amusement, I’ve written down the ten most obvious ones and published them below.

Ten things you need to know!

#1 The new vaccine has Never been tested on humans.

#2 – Swine flu vaccines contain dangerous adjuvants that cause an inflammatory response in the body. This is why they are suspected of causing autism and other neurological disorders.

#3 – The swine flu vaccine could actually increase your risk of death from swine flu by altering (or suppressing) your immune system response. There is zero evidence that even seasonal flu shots offer any meaningful protection for people who take the jabs. Vaccines are the snake oil of modern medicine.

#4 – Doctors still don’t know why the 1976 swine flu vaccines paralyzed so many people. And that means they really have no clue whether the upcoming vaccine might cause the same devastating side effects. (And they’re not testing it, either…)

#5 – Even if the swine flu vaccine kills you, the drug companies aren’t responsible. The U.S. government has granted drug companies complete immunity against vaccine product liability. Thanks to that blanket immunity, drug companies have no incentive to make safe vaccines, because they only get paid based on quantity, not safety (zero liability).

#6 – No swine flu vaccine works as well as vitamin D to protect you from influenza. That’s an inconvenient scientific fact that the U.S. government, the FDA and Big Pharma hope the people never realize.

#7 – Even if the swine flu vaccine actually works, mathematically speaking if everyone else around you gets the vaccine, you don’t need one! (Because it can’t spread through the population you hang with.) So even if you believe in the vaccine, all you need to do is encourage your friends to go get vaccinated…

#8 – Drug companies are making billions of dollars from the production of swine flu vaccines. That money comes out of your pocket — even if you don’t get the jab — because it’s all paid by the taxpayers.

#9 – When people start dying in larger numbers from the swine flu, rest assured that many of them will be the very people who got the swine flu vaccine. Doctors will explain this away with their typical Big Pharma logic: “The number saved is far greater than the number lost.” Of course, the number “saved” is entirely fictional… imaginary… and exists only in their own warped heads.

#10 – The swine flu vaccine centers will crop up all over the world in the coming months.

FLU UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2009–GET YOUR VITAMIN D!

surviveandthrivekits — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:51:39 +0000

Survive and Thrive is very clear that adequate Vitamin D supplementation is an essential component of your influenza prevention protocol. Available on our website, www.surviveandthrivekits.com, are the very best, bioavailable Vitamin D products.

Flu Update September 2009

Jacob Schor, ND FABNO

September 4, 2009

Last Summer New Scientist magazine contacted sixty flu experts, and asked if the H1N1 influenza strain might become more virulent this winter. Only about 8% of those surveyed thought it “likely to happen.” About 23% gave it a “fifty–fifty chance” to happen; most thought it “less likely” but still possible. The experts weren’t that worried.

Those survey results appeared just five months since H1N1 emerged in Mexico. The flu had already spread to 168 countries and caused 160,000 confirmed infections. As of August 16, there were 556 (593 as of 9/4/09) confirmed deaths in the US. As 30 to 50,000 people die yearly in the US from the flu, this is not striking.

In the 1918 pandemic, the virus became more virulent over time. No one knows if this will happen again. The worry is that the Swine Flu, which spreads very quickly, may combine with Bird Flu, which is much more lethal and kills a third of those infected. A fast spreading lethal virus would be reason to worry.

About a third of those experts surveyed had stocked up on Tamiflu, the flu drug just in case. This may have been false security.

A study in the British Medical Journal, August 10 issue, concluded that treating children under 12 with antivirals provided little benefit; it shortened the duration of disease by just a day or so and decreased the odds of an infected child spreading the disease to others by only 8%.

There are other options to consider. Some are may prevent infection or taken before getting ill reduce symptom intensity. Others may be useful to take if you do get ill.

Vitamin D:

Flu is generally a seasonal disease, outbreaks increase in the late winter as vitamin D levels in decline; outbreaks decrease in the summer as vitamin D levels rise. British epidemiologist Edgar Hope-Simpson was the first to notice a relationship between sunlight and flu. He theorized in 1981 that ultraviolet light had a protective effect against infection. A quarter century later, John Cannell suggested vitamin D was the missing piece in Hope-Simpson’s theory: exposure to ultraviolet rays from sun light triggers vitamin D production in the skin and this in turn protects against flu infection. People make vitamin D in the summer and use it up during the winter. By late winter many people are deficient. Cannell argues that’s why infections increase.

We are encouraging our patients to boost their Vitamin D levels in preparation for flu season. We suggest they test their levels and then take oral vitamin D-3 supplements throughout the winter to keep their levels optimal, a 25(OH) D-3 level above 50 ng/ml.

Vitamin D was once thought to be toxic in high doses. Current research says not true, these worries were unfounded. The RDA for vitamin D is 400 IU/day, but doses as high as 10,000 IU per day are now considered safe. The Canadian Cancer Society recommends 1,000 IU/day during the fall and winter to reduce risk of cancer. Health Canada is researching whether vitamin D is protective against Swine Flu but data has not reached publication.

In 2008, Cannell reported that high dose vitamin D, 2,000 IU/kilogram body weight, should be taken for three days at the first onset of upper respiratory disease. For someone weighing 100 pounds (about 50 kilograms) that would be 100,000 IU per day! Supposedly this is useful at fighting off bronchitis, pneumonia and the flu. We are unaware of published research confirming benefit of this high dose technique.

Lower vitamin D levels are correlated with increased risk of upper respiratory tract infections. Vitamin D does appear to prevent and treat infectious disease. A review article in July examined, “randomized controlled clinical trials that studied vitamin D for treatment or prevention of infectious diseases in humans.” The authors identified thirteen trials conducted from 1948 to present, ten of which were conducted using rigorous double blind design meeting modern criteria: “…the strongest evidence supports …. adjunctive vitamin D therapy for tuberculosis, influenza, and viral upper respiratory tract illnesses.”

Although not definitive studies, these are promising and as there is little risk in taking vitamin D, we are encouraging all of our patients to do so.

N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC)

N-acetyl cysteine provides the body with cysteine, the raw material needed to make glutathione internally. Glutathione is the main antioxidant used within cells. Increasing antioxidant activity inside cells does a surprising number of useful things. It protects against oxidative damage, of course. Clinically we use NAC for among other things, asthma triggered by air pollution, mercury poisoning, compulsive behavior and to thin mucous.

In a double blinded placebo controlled trial, 262 participants, 65 years or older, took 1200 mg/day of NAC for six months, during the winter. Those taking the NAC reported far fewer episodes and milder symptoms of flu that winter. Yet when tested in the Spring, a similar proportion of the NAC group tested positive for having been infected as the group of people taking only placebo. The NAC didn’t prevent people from catching the flu, it simply prevented them from suffering with it.

Probiotics

Several studies tell us that probiotics, like NAC, also decrease flu and cold symptom intensity even if they don’t always protect people from getting sick. The most recent was published this past August in the journal Pediatrics. This study was published in the August issue of Pediatrics and suggests significant benefit from taking daily doses of probiotics.

Herbs:

The flu changes every season and the treatments that worked well in previous years may not work as well this year. This seems especially true when seeking to treat these illnesses with either herbs or homeopathic medicines. So although we know which treatments have worked in prior years, we are not certain what will work best this coming flu season.

Lively discussion has occurred amongst professional herbalists over the last few months on this emerging flu. Paul Bergner of the North American Institute of Herbal Medicine in Boulder and publisher of the journal Medical Herbalist, informs me that there are a number of factors that may have made that original outbreak more severe. The first consideration was that malnourishment was more common at that time. White flour was a mainstay and whole wheat largely abandoned. This ‘modern’ white flour was not yet enriched and as a result vitamin and mineral deficiencies were common. Vitamin D deficiency was also common. Bergner, after studying the historical record of what herbs were used with success to treat the 1918 flu suggests several herbs to consider using this winter. They are Elderberry (Sambucus nigra), Boneset (Eupatorioum perfoliatum) and Echinacea. All three have a long history of successful employment for reducing the symptoms and discomfort of flu both historically

and in recent years.

We often use Boneset for just what the name implies, to help fractured bones set up faster. The keynote symptom that leads us to prescribe it for cases of the flu is bone pain, that deep ache felt. This symptom was common in the flu cases we saw last spring.

Elderberry also has a long history of use for flu. Recently, about ten or fifteen years back, a proprietary extract was developed by a virologist in Israel and it became popular after studies demonstrated that it significantly shortened the duration and intensity of flu infections. This product and other elderberry extracts are also being considered for cancer treatment because they reduce inflammatory cytokines. Reducing inflammatory cytokines is also a goal in treating these H1N1 viral infections. A paper published in August 2009, reported that elderberry extracts have a direct antiviral activity on the H1N1 flu virus, an effect that is comparable to the antiviral prescription drugs.

There are several other herbs and plant extracts to consider for treating flu infections. They include garlic (Allium sativa), ginseng (Panax quinquefolium), olive leaf, Siberian Ginseng (Eleutherococcus senticosus,), larch arabinogalactan (Larix), Astragalus (Astragalus membranaceous), and Baptisia tinctoria.

Homeopathy:

This same wait and see attitude also applies to homeopathic medicines. According to homeopathic lore, one does not pick the correct homeopathic medicine based on the disease but on the specific and unique symptoms of the patient. Thus various homeopathic books may list a dozen or more medicines to choose from to treat the flu. Picking which one is a matter of picking out the unique presenting symptoms of the individual patient. Practitioners look at the patient’s mood, body temperature, thirst, and so on. That being said, let me contradict myself and say that it is common to see a particular homeopathic remedy be more commonly used for a particular flu, the problem is that the particular remedy seems to vary year to year. Dr. Paul Herscu, author of the Homeopathic Treatment of Children and founder of the New England School of Homeopathy, has been teaching about this phenomenon for several years. Dr. Herscu surveys homeopathic practitioners to see which medicines are proving most

effective each flu season. Homeopathic phosphorous was the most common homeopathic medicine for the 2007-2008 flu, while last winter, nux-vomica won the award.

The biggest difference in presenting symptoms is that the person who will respond to phosphorous is cheerful despite being ill while the nux-vomica patient will be quite irritable.

Websites of interest:

John Cannel: http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/

National Institute of Health Flu site: www.Flu.Gov

Center for Disease Control’s weekly flu report: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/

North American Institute of Medical Herbalism http://www. naimh.com

Medical Herbalism Journal http://medherb.com

Paul Herscu, ND: http://www.hersculaboratoryflu.org/

Paul Bergner on Flu: http://naimh.com/Influenza-1918.pdf

The Swine is Back

surviveandthrivekits — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:34:46 +0000

August 27th, 2009

As we had expected, the Swine flu is now back in the news and the media is creating concern and some confusion for the public. We are stepping up our efforts to research and provide very important and alternative information to the news you are hearing. We hope you will feel free to contact us through our website, www.surviveandthrivekits.com with questions. Check with us daily for updates.

May, 2009

Swine Flu in 1976 –

60 Minutes Report with Dan Rather

http://loveforlife.com.au/node/6636

This is a very informative report that is relevant to the return of concerns over Swine flu that you will see in the Fall of this year.

August 25th, 2009

Important News on Vitamin D and Swine Flu

Canada examines vitamin D for swine flu protection by Lorraine Heller, 10-Aug-2009Related topics: Research, Vitamins & premixes, Immune system The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has confirmed that it will be investigating the role of vitamin D in protection against swine flu, NutraIngredients-USA.com has learned. The agency started a study last year on the role of vitamin D in severe seasonal influenza, which it said it will now adapt to the H1N1 swine flu virus. “Researchers in PHAC are working with colleagues at McMaster University and with partners at other universities and hospitals to determine whether there is a correlation between severe disease and low vitamin D levels and/or a person’s genetic make up. This line of research in seasonal influenza will be adapted to H1N1,” wrote the agency in an e-mail to NutraIngredients-USA.com. PHAC said it is testing serum samples to examine this possibility in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Toronto. Preventing ‘severe outcomes’ Part of the researchers’ goal is to understand if vitamin D levels are in any way responsible for the fact that most people with seasonal influenza develop a mild illness but a small minority go on to develop severe symptoms. According to PHAC, results from its study will indicate the extent and nature of the role of vitamin D in sever seasonal influenza. The agency said it would most likely take at least three influenza seasons to be able to recruit a sufficient sample size of individuals with severe disease and controls before the results can be “meaningfully” analyzed. “If we find that there is a correlation between severe disease and vitamin D levels we shall, with our partners in the future, conduct randomized controlled studies to determine the whether vitamin D can be used as a means to mitigate severe seasonal influenza,” it said. “PHAC intends to adapt this strategy to H1N1 in order to prevent severe outcomes of infection.” Experimental models The agency stressed that the role of vitamin D in H1N1 is not well established. However, it added that early work in the 1940s, in experimental animal models, indicated that mice that receive diets low in vitamin D are more susceptible to experimental swine flu infection than those that receive adequate vitamin D (Young, 1946). In addition, PHAC said that epidemiological evidence suggests a role for vitamin D in seasonal influenza in general. “Influenza infection is correlated geographically and seasonally with levels of solar ultraviolet radiation (Cannell, 2006). Given that vitamin D is synthesisized in our skin on exposure to sunlight, low serum levels of 25(OH) vitamin D in winter months appear to correlate with the occurrence of seasonal influenza in the winter. However a direct causal relationship between low vitamin D levels and the risk of influenza remains to be proven.”“How vitamin D might protect against influenza infection is not fully understood. However new research suggests that vitamin D induces the production of antimicrobial substances in the body that possess neutralizing activity against a variety of infectious agents including influenza virus (Doss, 2009).”

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What is in Your Water?

surviveandthrivekits — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:58:36 +0000

Pharma Water by Jenny Thompson
Sex hormones, antibiotics, mood stabilizers, and anti- convulsants are just some of the pharmaceuticals you’re very likely picking up every day in your drinking water.

The good news: No extra charge for that!

Over the years, we’ve seen occasional reports about drugs in drinking water. In the e-Alert “Air Freshener” (11/5/03), I told you about a Baylor University toxicologist, who discovered traces of Prozac’s active ingredient (fluoxetine) in the tissue of fish in a Dallas, Texas, lake. The scientist speculated that the fluoxetine made its way from the urine of Prozac users, through a water treatment plant, and into the lake.

In 2004 the BBC reported that traces of Prozac had been found in UK community water supplies. In this case, the same path was expected: urine to water treatment to open waters, eventually returning to the drinking water supply.

I’m trying not to let my imagination linger too long on the idea that components of urine find their way back into our faucets. Instead, I wonder just how much is actually there. A Drinking Water Inspectorate spokesman told the BBC that the Prozac was “most likely highly diluted.”

Most likely! Well that’s VERY comforting!

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Hang on to your hat
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Who can say for sure just how much of any drug is making it’s way into our water?

Actually, the U.S. government can. Sort of. Because according to an ongoing Associated Press investigation, the EPA “unintentionally” follows drug data by tracking waterway industrial chemicals, some of which the FDA happens to classify as active pharmaceutical ingredients.

Funny thing…turns out urine is not quite the only source of drugs in our water supply.

The AP reports that over the past 20 years, at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals have been released into U.S. waterways. And because the EPA tracking system is limited, the AP describes that number as “a massive undercount.”

And here’s a fun fact: It’s COMPLETELY LEGAL to release all those compounds into open waters.

Of course, drug makers claim their manufacturing methods don’t contribute to the drug content of drinking water – an easy claim to make when discharge from production plants isn’t routinely monitored. As a former EPA enforcement officer told the AP: “It doesn’t pass the straight-face test to say pharmaceutical manufacturers are not emitting any of the compounds they’re creating.”

Is there any upside to this revelation about our drinking water? Well, if tap water is teeming with drugs, it’s probably also laced with dietary supplements. So if we’re ingesting a pinch of Prozac and a dash of Lipitor every day, at least we may also be getting a smidgen of fish oil and a touch of vitamin E (hopefully as mixed tocopherols, of course).

“AP IMPACT: Tons of Release Drugs Taint US Water” Jeff Donn, Martha Mendoza, and Justin Pritchard, Associated Press, 4/20/09, washingtonpost.com
“Exercise Reduces Leakage Through the Blood Brain Barrier” Ivanhoe Newswire, 4/22/09, ivanhoe.com

WHEN PIGS FLY…some reflections on the Swine Flu Scare and suggestions for your health by Annelle Norman, Classical Homeopath

surviveandthrivekits — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:36:26 +0000

Healthy people (and pigs!) don't get sick!

Our grandmothers used to say “a stitch in time saves nine”. In this case, the stitch is prevention and peace of mind. At Survive and Thrive Kits we aim to provide both in the form of alternative medicine kits and education—books, DVDs and links to articles worthy of careful study and consideration.

The media hype seems to be whipping fear into a frenzy with conjecture, rumors and misinformation. In my humble opinion, it is a media fabricated crisis…AT THIS POINT. If the governments and health authorities get more involved, however, there could be real trouble…flu vaccines are ineffective and dangerous–in 1976, the last time we had a swine flu “epidemic” (and Pres Ford, hungry for political fodder, ordered millions of flu vaccines and stirred up fear in the American population), 1 person died from the flu and more than 30 died from the vaccines. Therefore, it’s important that we keep as many people healthy as possible so as to avoid mass immunization campaigns.

Staying healthy is a mental, spiritual and emotional state as well as a physical one. By educating yourself with facts rather than hype, discerning the truth from the fiction and by managing your thoughts and feelings from a balanced, healthy spiritual perspective you contribute to creating an environment that is healthier and safer for you, your family, your community and the world.

In short, and as always, the best defense is a good offense. Vitamin D has been researched extensively in the last few years, demonstrating that healthy levels are an essential component to a strong immune system. Your Vitamin D level should be at least 50ng/ml (your blood levels of Vitamin D can be checked with a simple blood test. Contact me for more information) I recommend liquid Vitamin D, at least 4000 IU per day.

Vitamin C—humans do synthesize a small amount of Vitamin C but don’t store it and when we are stressed (like when the TV blares Swine Flu Pandemic warnings!) we need even more. It’s important for fighting viral infections and 2000mg per day, taken in 500mg doses several times each day will supply your body’s consistent need for it.

According to medical research, high dose Vitamin Asupplementation enhances the immune responses, whichare particularly beneficial in fighting viral infections. 5000 IU per day for 5 days is safe for everyone, except, possible pregnant women who should supplement with beta carotene instead) and will give your immune system an important boost.

Your immune system needs plenty of sleep, at least 8 hours! Come on, folks, it’s free! Skip Letterman and Leno! Skip the 10 PM News! Stop watching TV and working at your computer at least an hour prior to your bedtime (the blue tones in the TV and computer screens stimulate the waking centers of the brain making it difficult to go to sleep).

Maintaining healthy alkaline balance and hydration is essential to all health and biochemical balance, therefore, be sure to eat large amounts of alkalinizing, fresh vegetables and fruits such as broccoli, carrots, sprouts, avocados and berries. Making sure to drink at least half your body weight in ounces will insure that your body will be well hydrated. Then, if you should contract the flu, you will be less likely to become dehydrated, the most dangerous flu side effect.

Avoid sugar and alcohol. Sugar cripples your immune system almost immediately upon consumption and a teaspoon of it keeps your immune system suppressed for 4 hours! Alcohol, which is processed in the liver, turns into sugar in your system and takes essential vital energy to detox.

Exercise. If you already exercise, great, and this is probably not the time to start training for a marathon! What you want to do is maintain the level of fitness that you have, not stress the body by over-training. If you don’t now get regular exercise, start with a gentle, consistent program of walking (ah, fresh air! sunshine! Vitamin D!), yoga or Pilates. Exercise enhances circulation and circulation moves the components of your immune system around the body where they can be useful in fending off viruses and bacteria.

Homeopathic Prevention/treatment –during the Swine Flu Pandemic of 1918-1919, the mortality rate of patients treated in homeopathic hospitals in Great Britain was only 1.05% as compared to over 28% in conventional hospitals. Have on hand a homeopathic kit with common influenza remedies Bryonia, Eupatorium, Gelsemium and Baptisia. These are the remedies which most closely match the symptoms of this flu.

Essential Oils—have on had a collection of essential oils which are known for their antiviral qualities or a good blend . Using them in a good diffuser will help to eliminate infectious airborne viruses while using them on your hands, feet, chest and in your nasal passages will help to protect you from contracting the virus.

WASH YOUR HANDS. FREQUENTLY! But avoid those antibacterial hand cleaners. They are not effective against viruses and do contribute to creating antibiotic resistant bacteria. Colloidal silver, (Smart Silver) on the other hand, is antiviral and is available in convenient ointment form.

All of the above are good practices all the time, not just when the media is screaming “Pandemic!” Adopt these practical, no nonsense strategies into your daily life and live a healthier, more vibrant, more pleasurable life.

Swine Flu Facts and Fiction: Nano Silver is a Must

surviveandthrivekits — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:52:34 +0000

Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
April 24, 2009

One Controversial Perspective on “Engineered Flu”

Note 1: Nano silver, www.Nutronix.com/naturalsolutions, overcomes all known pathogens (that is, disease-causing organisms) against which it has been tested. Currently, I am aware of about 635 successful tests. I cannot tell you that it will deal with this weaponized virus, but I can tell you that if anything can, this virus can — safely, without harming you, your children or pets…
Note 2: The information which appears at the end of this email was originally intended to be the sole subject of today’s email blast. The appearance of a potential novel “Pandemic” virus meant that we had to cover that situation carefully and thoroughly first but the information is so relevant that we decided to add it to the end of the blast. I urge you to set aside some time in your overcrowded schedule to read this entire email from start to finish and then send it out with a request that your entire list do the same. I know that you are busy. But your immune system is your only defense against being overwhelmed with whatever is being brought to you by dedicated lunatics who literally want you and your family dead. Literally.
Index:
Weaponized Flu Pandemic Starting?
Pushback: Nano Silver Victory
Pushback: Food Bill
Pushback rbGH Victory
Dr. Coldwell and Wellness
Nutrients for Health
GMO Free Food
Clean Water for Life
Toxic Load Assay
De-Stressing
Final Note

The Weaponized Flu Pandemic, WPF, Appears to Have Begun
“It first looked mostly like a swine virus but closer analysis showed it is a never-before-seen mixture of swine, human and avian viruses, according to the CDC.”
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N24524032.htm
“Don’t be concerned”, say the pundits of officialdom, “but this virus has killed 61 people in Mexico and has spread to the US.” In Mexico, the victims have died while in the US they have not. I must assume that this is because their immune systems were in better shape. You will find specific information relating to that vital truth at the end of this message. Please take the time to read it all because it could save your life.

The article in Reuters goes on to say, “Because there is clearly human-to-human spread of the new virus, rising fears of a major outbreak, Mexico’s government canceled classes for millions of children in its sprawling capital city and surrounding areas.
“Our concern has grown as of yesterday,” U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acting director Dr. Richard Besser told reporters in a telephone briefing.” but the CDC and WHO go on to note that you should not alter your travel plans even though they also say they think that there may be as many as 1000 cases in Mexico…
Eight people were infected with the new strain in California and Texas, but all of them have recovered. Mexico said it had close to 1,000 suspected cases there.
“The CDC’s Besser said scientists were working to understand why there are so many deaths in Mexico when the infections in the United States seem mild. Worldwide, seasonal flu kills between 250,000 and 500,000 people in an average year, but the flu season for North America should have been winding down. The U.S. government said it was closely following the new cases. ‘The White House is taking the situation seriously and monitoring for any new developments. The president has been fully briefed,’ an administration official said. Mexico’s government cautioned people not to shake hands or kiss when greeting or to share food, glasses or cutlery for fear of infection…The WHO said it was ready to use rapid containment measures if needed, including antivirals, and that both the United States and Mexico are well equipped to handle the outbreak. Both the WHO and the CDC said there was no need to alter travel arrangements in Mexico or the United States.”
I believe, on the contrary, that you SHOULD alter you travel plans. If you have any means to, or reason to, or thoughts of, being outside the US and Mexico RIGHT NOW, do it. Get a ticket and get out. Why? Because the flu may not sicken or kill you, but the forced vaccinations very well may.
It has also been noted in officialdom that although there is no evidence that this year’s seasonal flu would provide cross “protection,” that “possibility” is being “studied.”
5 will get you 10 that the official pronouncement comes forth that, indeed, this year’s flu vaccine miraculously confers “protection” against this mystery disease and, aren’t we lucky? We can all take the Seasonal Flu vaccine and get “protected”. I will be literally astonished if that is not the thrust of this “investigation” of a “lucky coincidence”.

Vaccines, an uninsurable risk, are damaging and deadly at the best of times and have never been proven either safe or effective, despite the near-religious fervor of their well-funded supporters. Despite the total lack of scientific evidence that the antibodies produced by an irritated immune system provide protection for people against what they were injected for, epidemics continue to occur primarily in vaccinated populations (just as Avian Flu continued to appear in vaccinated flocks living in industrial conditions). But epidemics make for great crowd control opportunities and for wonderful population reduction exercises.

If this “strange brew virus” is the beginning of the Pandemic we have been promised for so long, it will LITERALLY signal the end of our lives as we know them, or even the ending of our lives. The monsters intentionally working this scheme have said over and over that there WOULD be a Pandemic, that it COULD be any time. The Powers That Kill (PTK) decided some time ago that there were simply too many of us “Useless Eaters” and they have concocted several schemes to accomplish the culling to get rid of what the US Government, the UN, WHO and others have decided is “necessary” for a sustainable planet: 80-90% of us dead. Remember, information is appearing which says that the new virus is a “strange brew” of swine flu, avian flu and human flu. Such “Strange Brews” do not occur by themselves. They occur in laboratories where mad men/women and their murderous gutless, spineless technicians and helpers assist them.
We have a warning to those who would perpetrate this horror: “just following orders” is not a defense to a charge of Crimes Against Humanity. You will be found out. You will be blamed. Just like the enlisted soldiers who were the scapegoats at Abu Grave, your superiors will disavow you and leave you hanging in the wind. Just like what may be about to happen to the NeoCon torturers of the last US Administration.
Two days ago, we heard rumblings of a mystery “Swine Flu” which was killing people in Mexico, but, not to worry! This was, the media soothed, not, repeat not, the start of a Pandemic. Yesterday we heard that there were now cases of this mystery disease in the US
and today, at 1:30 PM, Recombinomics Commentary, a virology journal, tells us that this IS the start of the Pandemic.
Click here – http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2515 – for source articles and references.

But they also tell us that the gene sequences are totally novel and that such a virus has not been seen before.
Not outside of a weapons virology laboratory, that is. If this engineered Pandemic does not fizzle as several recent attempts we’ve tracked, you are being set up for one of three events. If it does fizzle there WILL be another attempt after this one, and another and another… until they get what they are after: genocidal depopulation — unless we stop these atrocities.

Here’s what you are looking at in the very near future:
You will face either FEMA or the Department of Homeland Security running the country with:
1. Martial Law and forced vaccinations, if you accept them. These vaccine will have GOD ONLY KNOWS WHAT in them (perhaps some of the same goodies that were used to sterilize 3,000,000+ women in the Philippines without their knowledge, according to the conviction handed down by the Philippine Supreme Court, or the ones that were used, starting in 1985 by the WHO, to make enough women sterile in Africa to “eliminate 150,000,000 excess Sub Saharan Africans”) or something in there to make sure that you have the flu or develop leukemia from the known contaminating viruses permitted in vaccines by the FDA for decades, or poisonous aluminum, fluoride and mercury, or MSG, or, or….
2. Martial Law with forced internment for an indefinite period if you refuse the “treatment” or “prevention” offered to you. If you think that this internment will be for your good health and survival, guess again. The DOJ no doubt already has a Memo drafted that it is perfectly legal.
This is not conspiracy theory – this is conspiracy fact: there IS a conspiracy to kill you and yours. Disregard this information and warning at your own peril. What are the consequences if you are unable to incorporate this information and it is true? What are the consequences if you do deal with it and it turns out to false or the weaponized virus fails in its mission?
You can see pretty quickly that this is a time to act on the basis that it IS true and do a Monday Morning Quarterback session if it’s not. If it is correct, and we fear it may be, then not acting on it can, quite simply, destroy you and yours.
Not convinced? Simply think about Baxter’s contamination of seasonal flu vaccine with highly infective weaponized Avian Flu Virus – followed by no criminal investigation, no firings, nothing and add in the fact that Baxter was applying for a license to sell their new Avian Flu vaccine against the same strain found in the vaccines in the very same 18 countries and you cannot miss the conspiracy.
But time has run out to try to persuade people. Frankly, at this point, you either follow your intuition and get it or you do not.
You are about to read for yourself the way it is and if you can see it, fine. If you cannot, well, the consequences will be on your own head. But the cost of ignoring what you are about to read, and not sharing it, may be truly life-and-death horrendous. Let me add here that I pray to my God that this deadly attempt on our lives and our way of life fails as the other attempts we’ve documented have.
DEAR GOD, LET ME BE WRONG!
Some of the intentional plagues, like SARS, have fizzled miserably (or gloriously for us who do not wish to die). Avian Flu simply would not get off the ground – 64% of the chickens in Indonesia, for example, developed a gene which makes them immune to the novel, weaponized Avian Flu with which they have been injected!
The Wellcome Trust of drug giant Burroughs Wellcome/SmithKleinGlaxo recently handed out grants to figure out why the Avian Flu was NOT causing a pandemic. Highly pathogenic (disease-causing) agents went through several transmissions and, DANG!, they lost their punch so that Egyptian toddlers are, as a recent news article said, unexpectedly not dying.
The fact, however, that they were not dying of the Avian Flu was, in the bizarre and twisted logic of that writer, a cause for even greater concern (and more vaccinations?) because then people would spread it without dying and there would be more deaths. Say what? Logic is not a strong point of those who hire themselves out to TPK.
Laws have been put in place to allow the mere utterance of the word “Pandemic” by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to close the trap on anyone inside, entering or leaving the US, compelling vaccination or internment via martial law and other “emergency measures”:
~ Accept either Mandatory Vaccination or involuntary internment (“quarantine”) for an unspecified period of time. More than 630 camps, with a total capacity of close to 30 million people, have been built and staffed (Patriot Acts I, II, BARDA, State Emergency Medical Powers Acts in virtually every state make refusing a vaccine when called for by the Governor a felony offense punishable by immediate imprisonment).
~ Presidential Emergency Powers which authorize the stripping of your citizenship and habeas corpus rights and authorizing holding you as a suspected terrorist if you disagree with the system’s desires (Executive Order, October 17, 2007).
The Sec of HHS needs no scientific substantiation, no advice and consent from Congress, no validation from anyone. Just the magic word, “Pandemic!” CAN and WILL trigger Health Fascism such as we have never seen outside of the concentration camps of Germany. You see,
~ The Warren Commission Act (October 17, 2006), authorizes holding “suspected terrorists” [see above] without a trial or with a trial before a military tribunal but without legal representation, the right to confront one’s accusers, the right to examine the evidence against you or be informed of the charges against you, and subjecting you to the possibility of a secret execution as a “suspected terrorist” while -
~ President Bush’s Executive Order of October 17, 2006 cancels habeas corpus, the rights granted under the English Common Law System to not be kidnapped by the state without notifying people that you are being held, the right to legal representation, the right to a speedy trial, the right to know the charges against you, the right to examine the evidence being held against you, the right to face your accusers, the right, in short, to justice under the US Constitution. Gone.
Natural Solutions Foundation has been warning for some time that a bio-engineered, weaponized flu virus and/or weaponized flu vaccine is in the offing. See, for example, Intellegence Report on Weaponized Avia Flu, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r-njxcVt5U, Smoke and Mirrors… shards of truth – http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=965 and Avian Flu “Accident” – http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2220.

If you recall, it was the Natural Solutions Foundation which broke the Weaponized Flu story in July, 2008 and have followed it up vigorously with videos, on the radio and in writing since then.
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OK. NOW WHAT?
An official in Indiana recently claimed that he had been briefed along with others that FEMA has a plan to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the US within 48 hours of the start of an official “Pandemic”. While that is an enormous logistical task, given that battle veterans are in place “backing up” police departments throughout the nation, who knows what might be accomplished? Rounding up people, putting them in holding centers and administering these shots forcibly under armed guard as was done to the children of Prince George’s County, MD, school district in November, 2007? You will recall that the State’s Attorney in this action, Mr. Glenn Ivey, stated that his own young children were protected under an exemption in the state which he had filed for them because the vaccines were dangerous.
Could mercenaries who work for companies like Xe, the renamed Blackwater, the hundreds of thousands of foreign soldiers reported to be quartered in the US (despite the “outmoded” [according to President Obama] US Constitution’s prohibition of such quartering) and newly retrained US and Canadian troops round people up and sort out the accepters from the refusers, shipping off the refusers to camps and jails prepared for them. No? Why not? After all, they would be indoctrinated to believe that you, unvaccinated, would pose a danger that the rest of us and therefore, if you were reluctant to do your duty for society and accept the vaccination, you would have to be removed from society. Can’t happen? That’s what the ghastly, inhuman and ineffective, but ever-burgeoning prison system is based upon. Precisely.
Given that in July of 2008, within 24 hours of each other, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Homeland Security declared that their goal was to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the United States against the Avian Flu (now, of course, it would be the “Mysterious” Swine Flu), starting, as they so chillingly put it, with those who want it, there is no reason to think that this is not what lies in store for us.
My advice to you: DO NOT accept injections. Protect your immune system by starting a vigorous, but sensible, detoxification program NOW and by giving up any sort of packaged food that is not labeled organic and GMO free. Read the information below on how to do that with safe, clean and effective products which also provide support to the Natural Solutions Foundation so that we can continue fighting for you and your rights.
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Nano Silver Still Available! Pushback works!
www.Nutronix.com/naturalsolutions
Pushback Victory No. 1. EPA Attack on Silver Tarnished by Public Outcry!
The Mouse that Roared is a 1955 novel by Irish writer Leonard Wibberley about an imaginary impoverished country, the smallest in the world, which declares war against the United States – and wins!
Well, we have been doing a pretty good job of riding, and roaring with, the Freedom Mouse. In fact when we roar loud enough, the Corporate Lion in the Board Room backs off. We roared out a huge number of emails to our Congressional Public Servants and to the head of involved agencies. We said, in essence, “Don’t you dare, EPA, take away a safe, effective and proven method of disease control!”
And guess what? EPA decided to back off, put out a call for research proposals which it will not begin to sift through until this summer and take some years to “study” the situation. And it decided that, because of the [Freedom] Mouse that Roared, it could not divest the citizens of the US of their choice in health promotion aides without a whole, whole let more backup in the form of scientific papers, information and justification.
The information we have is that the size of the public outcry was the determining factor! Mouse Warriors, congratulate yourself on a push back well-executed.
Now that you have that pleasure under your belt, hang on for a ride here. EPA and its multinational backers are not backing off. They’ll be back. But we are not backing out.
March 20 was the last day for public comments on the absurd and potentially disastrous ploy to declare nano silver a “pesticide” and declare the equipment that makes it also a “pesticide”.
Now if the US had a pesticide free food supply, such an approach might, just MIGHT, make some sort of sense. As it is, the US is completely happy for us to eat pesticide laden foods, spray pesticides on our soil and lawns and, in general, make a lot of pesticide manufactures, and their multinational owners, quite happy without giving a thought to the real dangers of these dangerous chemicals.
But silver, especially nano silver, is safe and effective for the disease-causers outside of you body and multiplying happily inside of it. After all, silver is pretty much universal nutritional support for normal immune response to the multitude of things that can make us sick or even kill us. And it is cheap, really cheap, especially compared to expensive, dangerous and damaging medications to which the bugs are increasingly resistant.
Because of the way nano silver works, no pathogen can become resistant to it. It nourishes an immune system that can overcome the bad guys and let the good guys (beneficial probiotics) alone. Here is where you can get enough to tide you and your loved ones over through this horrifying situation if you can either leave the country OR self quarantine. See our guide to self quarantining here – http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=752. And get your Nano Silver here:
www.Nutronix.com/naturalsoluitons
, click on “Products” tab, scroll down the left hand side to “Silver Solutions” and lay in a supply. If you are so inclined, you can either buy enough for yourself and others whom you care about or become a distributor and make some money on selling this outstanding health aide.
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Pushback Victory No. 2. (“VIP” or “Victory In Progress)
Food Fascism in the Halls of Congress:
Inside information on the dangerous farm bills which will hand ALL food production to the industrialized food system:

1. We are creating the necessary pushback against HR 875 and S 425 and that is due to YOUR actions. Thank you, Mouse Warriors! We have been informed that congressmen are approaching 875′s sponsor and asking what her bill is about, because their offices are being flooded with our emails protesting this legislative assault on sense and survival.

This is outstanding.

2. However, it is clear that H.R. 875/S. 425 are just stalking horses, and the real danger has always been H. R. 759. If you recall, Natural Solutions Foundation has been saying this for some time. H.R. 875/S. 425 moves the usual FDA bureaucrats to a new Food Safety Agency and gives them more power. HR 759 simply gives them more power to abuse.

We now understand that the fervor mounted against 875/425 can be used by the other side to clear the path to passage of the even worse HR 759. We are, however, on to the strategy being used: wear us out with 875/425 and sneak 759 in over our exhausted bodies.

Well, you and I are having none of it. We are tired, but we are far from exhausted. Click here -
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2498
- to read a side by side comparison of 875 and 759 to see why both are bad, but 759 is even worse.
Our response to this common political ploy? More messages to Congress!!! Just the thing they are counting on us not being able to muster.

We can, we are and we will muster that response. It is imperative that we once again rise to the MouseWarriorHeights that we have achieved in the campaign against 875/425 and surpass it. Here is the link to cut and paste in order to take action: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714.

You can also go to our Health Freedom Blog to read our White Paper on Codex and the (sic) “Food Safety” Bills here -
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2394
.
You can read about the issue in more detail, take the actions required and then send it off on its viral journey.
Once you do take the action steps, you know the drill: viralize, viralize, viralize!

Check out our new PodCasts on www.HealthFreedomRadio.com!
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Pushback Victory No. 3. Bovine Growth Hormone
Milk Labeling PushBack Victory – for Now!
Kansas Governor Sebelius, Obama’s Pick for Head of Health And Human Services, Vetoes Milk Labeling Bill!
Who knows? Maybe she will resist yelling “Pandemic”, too!

In a victory for local dairy farmers and consumers, Gov. Sebelius vetoed a highly controversial bill that would have limited rbGH labeling on dairy products in the state. Under the provisions of the bill, consumers would have not been able to determine if the milk they were drinking had been produced by cows made ill, but more productive, with Monsanto’s Prosilac, or recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone.

The bill, HB 2121, faced massive opposition from dairy, consumer, health, animal welfare and environmental organizations across the country; nearly 30 of which wrote a letter to Governor Sebelius urging her to veto HR 2121.

Consumers and organizations flooded the office of the Governor and the pushback worked! The controversial bill passed by the Kansas State Legislature would have required an additional disclaimer on labels for dairy products produced from cows not treated with recombinant bovine growth hormone (rbGH or rbST), a genetically engineered, artificial hormone that induces cows to produce more milk.

The Governor’s office sent out a press release late this afternoon, explaining why she vetoed the bill:
“…the Bill before me…provides for changes in dairy labeling that could make it more difficult to provide consumers with clear information. The milk labeling provisions negatively impact a dairy producer’s ability to inform consumers that milk is from cows not treated with recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBST).”

“Supporters of the bill claim it’s necessary to protect consumers from false or misleading information. Yet there has been overwhelming opposition by consumer groups, small dairy producers and retailers to this proposed legislation. Therefore, pursuant to Article 2, Section 14 of the Constitution of the State of Kansas, I veto HB 2121.”
Pushback is a mighty force. Keep riding the Freedom Mouse, Mouse Warriors!
Of course, there could be attempts to over-ride the veto, and our coalition is already making preparations to keep this veto intact. The final session of the Kansas legislature starts April 28 and could go as long as 10 days. We’ll be ready. Stay tuned for further updates.
What you are about to read was intended to be today’s email blast. The appearance of a potential novel “Pandemic” virus meant that we had to cover that situation carefully and thoroughly first.
But read on. The health equivalent of Freedom Mouse Pushback is protecting your immune system. It is your ONLY defense against being overwhelmed with whatever they throw at us while you use safe, clean products. All of the products listed below are important for your health. Use them. And without spending a penny more, you will be supporting the Natural Solutions Foundation at the same time.
Of course, we need your direct tax deductible donations, too. Click here – http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189 – to give whatever you can, large or small, on a recurring basis. We are fighting for your health and freedom. We need your help to do that.
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How to Support a Movement AND Stay Alive:
Defying the Deadly Illness Agenda Through Effective Detox and Natural Strategies
A Special Focus Health Report from Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedomUSA.org

“Dr. Leonard Coldwell, NMD, ND, PHD, DNM, CNHP, a specialist in the natural and the Natural Solutions Foundation have formed an alliance in order to move health freedom forward. Dr. Coldwell is the author of numerous best-selling books including the breakthrough book designed to help you survive your doctors, “Instinct Based Medicine – How to Survive Your Illness and Your Doctors – www.InstinctBasedMedicineStore.com
It is a book that you need to read and that the Powers That Kill (PTK) have worked hard to keep you from reading.

Information is power and those PTks are spending a good deal of time and effort on taking away both the information and the tools they we can use to get – and stay – drug free and healthy. Since your access to information and natural health options, including strategies to help keep you maintain – or regain – your health, including clean food, is under major attack, we have decided to offer a special group of products in a series of email blasts.
These products are special for two reasons: First, they are all superior examples of their class, doing their jobs well and offering you outstanding value for the money. Second, their manufacturers understand the health freedom battle and are willing to support the Natural Solutions Foundation by making generous donations for each product sold. That means that with each purchase of these products you are making a contribution to the Natural Solutions Foundation without adding a penny to your total expenses – and with all the others on our two virtual stores:
www.Organics4U.org and www.NaturalSolutionsMarketPlace.org
Of course, if you can make an additional tax deductible donation to the Natural Solutions Foundation, we would appreciate that greatly. Our mailing list is nearly a quarter of a million strong so even small donations from every person on it would give us the funding we need to push back the toxic health tyranny forces – permanently. Click here – http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189
- to make that contribution now, while you are thinking about it. Large or small, it all adds up.
Since we are talking about toxic forces, let’s start with detoxification ….
Detoxification is perhaps the single most important health promotion act after eating clean, healthy food and exercising.
We live in a toxic world filled with toxins, including processed, pesticided foods and drugs (fluoride, synthetic hormones, etc., etc,.), industrial chemicals (like the bis phalate which leaches from our plastic water bottles), mercury from China’s pollution, fish and high fructose corn syrup and about 100,000 other sources of chemical and radiation contamination carelessly (intentionally?) fouling our world and polluting our bodies, even before we are born.
That is a pretty grim picture when you consider that a toxic (e.g., acidic, contaminated and malnourished) terrain, your body, is the ONLY breeding ground for the diseases of our age: Auto Immune Diseases, Arthritis, Alzheimer’s Disease, Cancer, Diabetes, Flu, Heart Disease, Hepatitis, Infections, Neurological Disorders, Osteoporosis, Parasites, Senile Dementia, Stroke, Tuberculosis, Vascular Disease, and the rest. Add to that the reality that, despite billions of dollars of hype and deception to the contrary, drugs do nothing to address underlying causes of disease and therefore we can safely say, “No drug ever cured ANY disease, but merely suppressed symptoms of the disease” and you can see the course for wellness lying ahead of your clearly:
Assure nutritional sufficiency (NOT available from the processed and genetically modified “food” on your supermarket shelves”, detox properly (see below) and THEN, and only then, repair the damage done and provide proper nutrition.
That’s it, in a nutshell. Literally. The know-how to accomplish that is, of course, not quite so simple sometimes and the skills of deeply knowledgeable people are often required to help you move along that path to the successful outcome you seek: Radiant Well-Being.

The BePureCleanse Detox System (http://healthfreedomusa.bepurecleanse.com%20/) described below is the product of years of research by brilliant, well-trained and talented healers, the kind with lots of letters after their names.

BePureCleanse – http://healthfreedomusa.bepurecleanse.com%20/- is the result of a collaboration of the leading minds in the field of treatment and prevention of terminal (that is, in essence, autoimmune) diseases. Dr Leonard Coldwell NMD ND PHD DNM CNHP, Dr Thomas Hohn MD NMD and Dr Holger Crone MD ND HD are leading international lights in natural medicine and healing. BePureCleanse – http://healthfreedomusa.bepurecleanse.com%20/ – is made from ONLY all organic, all natural, all vegetarian, all US based (not Chinese) products free of any allergenic elements.

Dr. Coldwell, who worked most of his life with cancer and other so-called “incurable” diseases, and is responsible for documented cures in more than 35,000 cancer patients (!) says the following about BePureCleanse – http://healthfreedomusa.bepurecleanse.com%20/ – “I believe BePureCleanse system is the most important action you can take to launch you on your journey to life-long health and happiness”.

And because of Dr. Coldwell and his dedication to Health Freedom and the Natural Solutions Foundation, BePureCleanse -http://healthfreedomusa.bepurecleanse.com%20/ – is donating $60 for each product sold through the Natural Solutions Foundation to support our work. So your cleanse and that of the people you know can help clean up your body and help clean up the world of toxic forces.

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Nutrients for Health
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Environmental contamination, drugs, demineralized foods, preservatives, artificial colors, GMOs, industrial chemicals, “cides” (pesticides, herbicides, fungicides), vaccine ingredients and a host of other toxins all pile up in our bodies. We did not evolve with the enzymes to detoxify these poisons so it is no wonder we become ill. The wonder of it is that we have been trained to believe that this illness is normal. It is not. Toxic bodies create toxic illness and toxic aging. Why not supply your body with organic (NOT from genetically modified “food” or organisms), balanced and absorbable nutrients compounded by Dr. Coldwell?

The diseases of the “Modern World” are, in essence, the diseases of high calorie under-nutrition. Click here
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Again, because of Dr. Coldwell, for every purchase, Universal Formulas will contribute 25% to the Natural Solutions Foundation to carry on our efforts to make sure that you can continue to buy high potency nutrients. In Europe, these products have become illegal because they contain effective, high potency nutrients. IF you don’t want the same Codex-compliant health tyranny in the US, support the Natural Solutions Foundation AND your body by purchasing your nutrients from http://HealthFreedomUSA.awesomesupplements.com
Protect your body and your health freedom at the same time.
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What Do I Eat and Where Do I Get It?
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While you are detoxing, and once you are as toxin free as you can be, what can you eat that will nourish, strengthen and support your health, not retoxify you? You can grow your own clean food, work with a Sustainable Community Agriculture program, make friends with, and buy from, local producers whose clean food growing you can see from yourself, shop at a local farmers’ market, buy strictly organic and Bio Dynamic foods AND you can look for sources like Whole Foods Farmacy,
http://gmofree.wholefoodfarmacy.com/2005/ga_home.asp!
Whole Foods Farmacy takes its name from the fact that clean food is healing food. They offer a diverse line of GMO free, chemical free, delicious, nutritious and wholesome foods at reasonable prices. You’ll find detox programs, snacks, soups, health aides and a lot more. And, once again, every purchase you make there will bring a contribution to the Natural Solutions Foundation.
Help us by helping yourself and together we can create the necessary pushback to assure our health and our freedom to be as healthy as we choose.
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Water is Life. Clean Water is Essential for Healthy Life
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Despite bogus “science” purporting to show that tap water is safe to drink, the fact is that it is only safe according to 19th century standards which focused on fecal contamination (e.g., E. coli) and a few dangerous compounds which are permitted at levels which we now know to be dangerous (e.g., arsenic). The reality is that your water, whether in plastic bottles (which have their own hazards and may be simply tap water in a bottle that leaches toxins into it) or from your tap, is dangerous to your health. In most of the US, aluminum is added to give it “sparkle” despite the considerable dangers of ingesting this neurotoxic metal (think “Alzheimer’s Disease”), Fluoride is added to allegedly protect your teeth and bones while in reality it does nothing of the kind, instead increasing the rate of cancers, diabetes and, most importantly, poisoning your brain so that, like the prisoners of Stalin’s Gulags, you become complacent. Aluminum in the presence of fluoride, by the way, makes both of them synergistically much more toxic than either of these toxic substances alone.
Chlorine interacts with the hydrocarbon contaminants in the water to make chlorinated hydrocarbons and new cancer agents are born, winding up in your tissues where they add to the contamination already present.
Then, of course, there are the drug and chemical residues which have been documented to contaminate water all over the world, and their dangers, both known and unknown. Add to this the damage that water of the wrong pH can do to the alkaline balance necessary for your health and you have a recipe for the health disaster that the “developed” world is suffering – an epidemic of preventable diseases.
What can you do about this intake of illness called “contaminated water”? Well, I recommend that you visit an exceptional site with a wide range of products,
www.ewater.com,
www.ewater.com/?tuul_aff=laibow. If you drink water, and you are not among the fortunate few who know for certain that their water is truly clean, you need a good filter. If your water is fluoridated (as most water is in the US), you urgently need to get a water filtration system that removes that toxic chemical. Most filtration systems, even very good ones, do not. So you need to take special care to make sure that it is removed.
Some of the technologies on this page will be familiar to you and some, I am sure, will provide you with new ideas that will offer you new options for using the amazing new options that energy science is providing to you.
The people www.ewater.com, http://www.ewater.com/?tuul_aff=laibow, understand water purification. They also understand that health freedom is under severe attack and so they have offered to make a 10-15% contribution to the Natural Solutions Foundation on all of their products if you purchase them through our link, www.ewater.com, http://www.ewater.com/?tuul_aff=laibow .
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Want to Assess Your Toxic Load?
http://www.helpingamerica.com/cmd.php?af=970782
HelpingAmerica.com, http://www.helpingamerica.com/cmd.php?af=970782 has home tests for metals available as well as a selection of other products focused on assessing, and removing metals and other toxins. Like the other companies mentioned, they understand the dangers facing our choices for natural health and healing so they, too, are offering to support Natural Solutions Foundation when you make your purchases by using this link, http://www.helpingamerica.com/cmd.php?af=970782. What that means to you is that you have access to remarkable self-care products and tests. What it means to Natural Solutions Foundation is that we support the Wellness Industry and they help us to help them stay in business to provide you with healthcare options. Helping America.com, http://www.helpingamerica.com/
cmd.php?af=970782, will contribute 10% of your purchase price to us.
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This is Really Stressful!
http://ibmsaudio.com/home.php?partner=health
Indeed it is. We live in a world that poses threats unknown to any other generation anywhere in the world. We know now (after decades of ridicule of the work of the pioneers who were sneered at so roundly and soundly) that stress decreases immune function in what can be a cataclysmic way. We know that short term stress has a significant impact but that a well nourished and well-balanced person can recover from it without adverse effects if they live in a supportive environment, have good mental habits for detoxification, exercise regularly, etc.
The rest of us, who live in a toxic world, often struggling against on-going forces that are toxic physically, emotionally and psychologically which just do not quit need something more to protect that most valuable capacity, our immune system.
Once again, the Natural Solutions Foundation is grateful to Dr. Coldwell because, as a good physician should be, he is working to protect the whole patient. I asked Dr. Coldwell about his Stress Reduction CD Program and here is what he said:
“My CDs are the most sold and worldwide endorses Stress Reduction, Self Healing and Self Help Education CDs ever – They are based on 30 years of research and experience and unmatched results ( success ). The Handbook explaining everything is on the site and makes using the CDs successfully intuitive and easy.”

Myths and Beliefs about the Flu

surviveandthrivekits — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:47:51 +0000

THE TAMIFLU MYTH

What Big Pharma and the CDC Forgot to Tell the Doctors

Tamiflu was developed several years ago after lab tests showed it slowed the replication of viruses in the lab dish. Tests in humans showed it reduced the normal 5 to 7 day course of Flu by 1.5 to 2.5 days.

Micrograph of a Norwalk virus showing only the blue outer surface which has bumps and bridges which exactly match and can only embed into human intestinal wall tissue and causes severe food poisoning. The coiled DNA in the interior cannot be seen.

It did not prevent, cure nor reduce the effects of Flu. At best it is a palliative or pain reliever to “treat the symptoms,” but not cure to the disease.

Most medical doctors mistakenly believe in the “anti-body” response of the immune system as the method by which the body fights viral infections. But not so. The body causes a fever above 101 degrees which stops the telomeres on the ends of the virus from allowing any viral replication.

The fever is the human or mammalian body’s primary generalized immune system response to any viral infection. Any palliative treatment which reduces the fever of flu infections will prolong the infection and may lead to irreparable damage or death, mostly from the resulting viral pneumonia. But the pneumonia was caused by lowering the fever and allowing uncontrolled viral replication in the lungs. Most cold and flu medications, including aspirin and Tamiflu are in this palliative class.

In the last two years, doctors have been treating patients who have H5N1 Bird Flu. The results are that 50% or half of the treated patients die of viral pneumonia. Were the deaths caused by a “new” more virulent strain of Bird Flu or was it the “new” use of a new anti-viral called Tamiflu? A good doctor would know the difference.

SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF VIRAL INFECTIONS
Answering the Questions Most BroJon Readers Ask

Recently a BroJon Digest reader, named Doreen, wrote to ask some of the questions which were also asked by hundreds of other readers. She wrote:

“I read your article about the “Bird Flu”, and had a couple questions for you. First, are you a scientist? Second, while your article seems informative (and I agree with your conclusions that the so-called Pandemic is a major scam), I do not get enough information about the difference between Reproduction and Replication, concerning bacteria (reproduce) and virus (replicate)… replicate reminds me of Star Trek, and the replicators on the Enterprise! If you cannot explain the difference for me, can you refer me to a site that can?”

Very good questions. Yes, I am a senior scientist. I have multiple university degrees. I spent several decades working as a senior scientist/engineer for NASA. One of my NASA projects was the rat and monkey biological experiment which flew on the Shuttle Challenger in 1985. I worked directly with astronaut/scientist Dr. Robert Obermeyer. I worked in the ultra-clean lab, testing the cages and data-instrumentation which I built for the experiment, while Bob Obermeyer took the animals in the surgical room and implanted the animals with tiny transmitters which were then recorded on my computer system.

I have long been a medical researcher, but I don’t have a medical degree nor license. Thus I don’t see things the way most doctors do. One of the things with which I disagree with most, compared to the medical profession is how viruses replicate and infect cells.

Using my degrees in physics and engineering, I studied the surface coatings of viruses. That is how I discovered that the replication of viruses is a very close analog of sexual reproduction. I have not seen that written in any medical textbooks nor journal articles, so, Doreen, I can’t direct you to any websites for more information. So I will explain it to you as best I can.

THE BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BACTERIA AND VIRUSES
What Most Doctors Never Learned in Medical School

Bacteria are large single-celled animals which are large enough to be seen in a microscope. The bacteria is a protein bag enclosing a fluid which mimics sea water in saltiness and acidity. This reflects the fact that all animal and plant lifeforms on earth formed in the salty ocean of earth. Now, all animal cells carry their salty ocean internally. This cytoplasmic cell fluid contains many parts, including the nucleus of the cell which is very similar to a virus, and many primitive small sub-bacteria which are in each cell, called by such names as mitochondria and golgi-apparatus among others.

These sub-parts are very simple separate bacteria-like bodies which have specific functions in the cell such as collecting oxygen or actually doing the breathing, and other parts which take the sugar, fat and proteins in the blood stream and as they transfer into the cell fluid they are converted into food and energy for each cell. Thus, bacteria are living cells which, (1) can move, (2) can locate and eat food, combining the food and oxygen to make energy, and (3) can reproduce by making copies of each cell by dividing down the middle and making two new identical cells from the original one.

But, unlike bacterial cells, viruses are not alive. They cannot do anything which cells or bacteria can do. All viruses have only two simple parts, (1) a single long strand of a molcule called DNA which may have millions of atoms in the long string, and (2) an outer layer of protective protein bag material, which is made up of the broken parts of the cellular or bacterial protein bag from which the virus last escaped. Viruses are not alive and cannot grow their own protein bag coating. Viruses are so much more tiny than are cells, being made only of a single string of atoms, they cannot be seen with a normal microscope. They can only be seen with electron microscopes.

The DNA strand in the middle of the virus is a long string of connected single sugar molecules called Ribose. Onto each and every Ribose sugar molecule is then attached an amino acid. This process of making DNA can only occur inside a host bacteria cell which has a large supply of free amino acids floating in the salty cytoplasmic fluid. There are about 17 amino acids in the proteins which humans eat, but only 4 critical amino acids are used to make DNA. The banding or repeating pattern of the 4 amino acids, like a string of colored beads, is used to make partial copies of sections of the DNA to make protein-string hormones which control how cells operate and reproduce. These partial protein copies of small sections of the DNA molecule, are actually hormones which communicate with and control other cells, and are what make the cells of your body grow and live.

HOW YOUR BODY USES VIRAL-TYPE DNA MOLECULES
How DNA Is Used As a Normal Part of Making Your Body Work

The DNA molecules in your cells are similar to a virus DNA, but with several differences. The DNA in your cells are made of two parallel long strands which are electrically bonded together. Over simplifying how they are put together, you could say one half of the double strand came from your mother and the other half came from your father. The two halves are bonded together to make a diploid or complete double strand which makes a compete animal or plant DNA molecule found in the nucleus of all living cells. But the viral DNA is only half of the long double string molecule, it does not have a mother nor father. It only makes repeated identical copies of the original half or haploid molecule itself. Thus the virus cannot “reproduce” in the same way cells do.

But your body actually does the same thing. When a woman ovulates she causes complete cells, which normally divide in half, to instead divide into four parts in her ovaries to divide the original double strand DNA molecule into four single strand ova. Each ovum is a half or haploid version of your original DNA. The normal reproduction of all the cells in your body simply divide into two exact diploid copies. This process is called Mitosis and occurs in almost all of your cells every week or so. But once a month in women, certain cells in the ovary divide by a unique process called Meiosis which causes the cells to divide into four identical parts. But each new primitive cell has only half of the normal DNA strand. Each haploid cell is an ovum, and has the same atomic and molecular single-strand structure as a virus DNA.

The same thing occurs each month in men, when the sperm are made by dividing a body DNA molecule into four to make four haploid or half DNA molecules, which is all that is inside a sperm body. Neither ova nor sperm are living cells. They can’t reproduce by themselves. They are each more like a single haploid DNA virus. By sexual reproduction, which is almost exactly the same as a virus entering a cell, the haploid or half DNA from mother and father are combined into a diploid or full double DNA strand thus producing a new living cell, destined to become a new human being. Viruses don’t do that. They simply keep making exact copies of the original haploid or half DNA. They are not alive. They cannot grow or mutate from one form of bird flu into another. They are more like inanimate crystals, which can only copy more crystals. They don’t grow and mutate. Also, just like a sperm entering through the unique cell wall of an ovum, which is specific to each species, meaning a cow sperm cannot enter into a sheep ovum, a virus cannot enter into just any other cell which has a protein coating different from the coating on the original virus. That’s why humans can’t get bird flu.

The set of the specific four amino acids which are used to make DNA are called Nucleic Acids when they attach along the long strand of sugar Ribose molecules. When they are attached they are called Ribo-Nucleic Acids. When the whole long strand of millions of RiboNucleic Acids have completely attached from one end of the long chain to the other, it releases an Oxygen atom at the end of the string, carrying away an electron, and then the whole chain is stuck or bonded together by electrical forces. The release of the Oxygen atom is called Deoxyfication. This whole long chain, when it is completely filled, and then de-oxyfied is called De-oxy-ribo Nucleic Acid, or as we know it, DNA.

That is also all that a virus is. Just a long chain of millions of the four amino acids all stuck together in a certain pattern. The only difference between the millions of types of viruses, is the repeating bead-like patterns of the four amino acids along the chain. The virus DNA cannot move by itself, it cannot locate, breath and eat food, and it cannot divide in half and make copies of itself or reproduce the way bacterial cells do. A Virus does not fit the definition of a living thing. It is more like the repeating patterns of atoms in a crystal.

HOW YOUR CELLS USE DNA TO REPRODUCE
BUT VIRUSES CAN ONLY REPLICATE
The Mystery of Viral Replication Explained

The only thing that a virus does is a process called Replication. When a virus enters one of your cells, it escapes from within its own old protein surface coating and it stretches out into a long string. The viral DNA then collects millions of free amino acids floating in your salty cell fluid to make a mirror image copy of the four types of amino acids in the viral chain. This reversed mirror image chain is called Retro-deoxy-ribo Nucleic Acid or shortened to RNA. The RNA molecule is special and continues to make another mirror image of itself which is, of course, an exact copy of the original viral DNA. This unique method of making a mirror image of a mirror image to make an exact copy of the original viral DNA is the only method a virus can use to make copies. This is called Replication.

The RNA molecule string will then continue to make many, many copies which result in the original viral DNA now having thousands of exact duplicate DNA copies all made from the amino acids stolen from your cell fluid. This starves your cell of all the amino acids and in a matter of minutes, destroys it. The original virus and its many replicate copies are now free to invade your other body cells.

But before leaving the infected cell, the thousands of new viral DNA copies then steal pieces of the protein bag coating from your damaged and dying cell, and then covers the viral DNA with stolen cell wall material. This is the trick by which the virus can exist in your body. By covering itself with the old cell wall from your own cells, the virus then hides from your immune system, since the virus now looks like just one of your own friendly cells and not a dangerous foreign virus.

HOW A SINGLE VIRUS MAY SEEM TO BE
HUNDREDS OF DIFFERENT TYPES
The Difference Between Types H5N1 and H3N2 is the Stolen Surface Coat

This means that any certain virus may have many different surface coatings, depending on where it last came from. If it last came from a bird, it is a bird virus and can only infect birds. If the same virus had escaped from a pig or hog, then it is a porcine or pig virus. It is almost impossible for humans to get viruses from horses, dogs, birds or snakes.

Unfortunately, it is quite easy for humans to get viruses from pigs, because of the strange similarity in the tissue typing of pig and human tissue. The atomic structure of the surface coat on pig viruses are similar enough that the pig virus can enter human cells. This is why cell tissue from pigs, such as heart valves, pancreatic insulin and other body parts from pigs can be used in humans. Oddly, it is hard for viruses from our closest mammalian neighbors, the chimps and gorillas, to enter into humans. Simian viruses simply are not close enough with the same cell surface types as human viruses.

That is about as clear as I can explain Viral Replication. It is the process of the copying of atoms and molecules of DNA and RNA in a specific order. It has nothing to do with the dividing and splitting or Reproduction of living cells or beings.

The trick here, Doreen, is that for the viral RNA to make many, many replica copies of the original DNA virus, the viral RNA molecule must detach and release each new DNA copy into the cell fluid, to open up all the atomic connecting spaces along the chain of the long RNA molecule, in order to make room for the next new copy.

HOW TO INSTANTLY STOP THE VIRAL REPLICATION PROCESS
Why Mammals are Different from Reptiles and Birds

What causes the RNA copy to completely release the newly made copy, and unzip the new DNA virus from the RNA master copy is something at the end of the molecule chain, called a TELOMERE. When the DNA copy is complete, the electrical charge on the RNA Telomere changes, like flipping an electrical switch, and it then releases and repels the new DNA copy by electrical forces. But the RNA Telomere is temperature sensitive, it won’t release a new copy if it is too warm.

If the temperature of the Telomere on the end of the RNA chain is too hot — meaning above 102 degrees F, then the Telomere cannot unzip and release the new DNA copy. The RNA and the new DNA viral copy are electrically bonded together — and they are stuck — they can’t unzip and separate. Thus, the original viral DNA cannot replicate even one copy of itself using the RNA if you have a fever of about 101 to 102 degrees. That is why humans and all warm-blooded mammals on earth produce a fever when infected with a virus, since it prevents the original viral DNA from replicating any copies of itself at all. Thus — the end of the line for the original virus and any viral replication. That is also why most viruses on earth come from birds and reptiles, since they cannot raise their body temperature to cause a fever, and the viruses can run rampant among those animals. Sometimes a viral infections can wipe out and cause complete extinctions among reptiles, amphibians and birds. This is rare among warm-blooded mammals which can create fevers when infected with viruses.

That’s also why we have fevers. And that is why reducing the fever with Nyquil, or Aspirin or other cold and flu medications can kill you when the Viral RNA is allowed to unzip millions of copies of the original single Viral DNA molecule. Each new copy of the original viral DNA can then repeat the process and quickly produce billions of copies of itself in an hour or so, and start infecting more and more of your cells, until it kills you. But the high temperature or a fever will stop the viral replication process instantly.

WHERE TO LOOK FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT VIRAL REPLICATION
How and Why the CDC Has Misinformed the Public

So Doreen, I would suggest, instead of doing a web search about Viral Replication which doesn’t produce much information — do a web search on “Telomere” or “Telomeres” and find out about the latest research showing how they affect the aging of living cells and how they are sensitive to temperature. Then you will find out about how virus DNA molecules actually replicate. I don’t know of any practicing medical doctors who know much about telomeres and viral replication. It seems only medical researchers in the lab know about that important process.

Thanks for your questions, and I hope I have helped you understand Viral Replication. And yes, it’s pretty much the same way they did it on Star Trek — atom by atom. And even though there may be millions of atoms in the long DNA chain, it is so tiny that the Replication process can be completed in much less than a single second in time. Much faster than you can say “zip.”

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EPIDEMIC FLU & VITAMIN D

Article Date: 15 Sep 2006

In early April of 2005, after a particularly rainy spring, an influenza epidemic (epi: upon, demic: people) exploded through the maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane where I have worked for the last ten years. It was not the pandemic (pan: all, demic: people) we all fear, just an epidemic. The world is waiting and governments are preparing for the next pandemic. A severe influenza pandemic will kill many more Americans than died in the World Trade Centers, the Iraq war, the Vietnam War, and Hurricane Katrina combined, perhaps a million people in the USA alone. Such a disaster would tear the fabric of American society. Our entire country might resemble the Superdome or Bourbon Street after Hurricane Katrina.
It’s only a question of when a pandemic will come, not if it will come. Influenza A pandemics come every 30 years or so, severe ones every hundred years or so. The last pandemic, the Hong Kong flu, occurred in 1968 – killing 34,000 Americans. In 1918, the Great Flu Epidemic killed more than 500,000 Americans. So many millions died in other countries, they couldn’t bury the bodies. Young healthy adults, in the prime of their lives in the morning, drowning in their own inflammation by noon, grossly discolored by sunset, were dead at midnight. Their body’s own broad-spectrum natural antibiotics, called antimicrobial peptides, seemed nowhere to be found. An overwhelming immune response to the influenza virus – white blood cells releasing large amounts of inflammatory agents called cytokines and chemokines into the lungs of the doomed – resulted in millions of deaths in 1918.
As I am now a psychiatrist, and no longer a general practitioner, I was not directly involved in fighting the influenza epidemic in our hospital. However, our internal medicine specialists worked overtime as they diagnosed and treated a rapidly increasing number of stricken patients. Our Chief Medical Officer quarantined one ward after another as more and more patients were gripped with the chills, fever, cough, and severe body aches that typifies the clinical presentation of influenza A.
Epidemic influenza kills a million people in the world every year by causing pneumonia, “the captain of the men of death.” These epidemics are often explosive; the word influenza comes from Italian (Medieval Latin ?nfluentia) or influence, because of the belief that the sudden and abrupt epidemics were due to the influence of some extraterrestrial force. One seventeenth century observer described it well when he wrote, “suddenly a Distemper arose, as if sent by some blast from the stars, which laid hold on very many together: that in some towns, in the space of a week, above a thousand people fell sick together.”
I guess our hospital was under luckier stars as only about 12% of our patients were infected and no one died. However, as the epidemic progressed, I noticed something unusual. First, the ward below mine was infected, and then the ward on my right, left, and across the hall – but no patients on my ward became ill. My patients had intermingled with patients from infected wards before the quarantines. The nurses on my unit cross-covered on infected wards. Surely, my patients were exposed to the influenza A virus. How did my patients escape infection from what some think is the most infectious of all the respiratory viruses?
My patients were no younger, no healthier, and in no obvious way different from patients on other wards. Like other wards, my patients are mostly African Americans who came from the same prisons and jails as patients on the infected wards. They were prescribed a similar assortment of powerful psychotropic medications we use throughout the hospital to reduce the symptoms of psychosis, depression, and violent mood swings and to try to prevent patients from killing themselves or attacking other patients and the nursing staff. If my patients were similar to the patients on all the adjoining wards, why didn’t even one of my patients catch the flu?
A short while later, a group of scientists from UCLA published a remarkable paper in the prestigious journal, Nature. The UCLA group confirmed two other recent studies, showing that a naturally occurring steroid hormone – a hormone most of us take for granted – was, in effect, a potent antibiotic. Instead of directly killing bacteria and viruses, the steroid hormone under question increases the body’s production of a remarkable class of proteins, called antimicrobial peptides. The 200 known antimicrobial peptides directly and rapidly destroy the cell walls of bacteria, fungi, and viruses, including the influenza virus, and play a key role in keeping the lungs free of infection. The steroid hormone that showed these remarkable antibiotic properties was plain old vitamin D.
All of the patients on my ward had been taking 2,000 units of vitamin D every day for several months or longer. Could that be the reason none of my patients caught the flu? I then contacted Professors Reinhold Vieth and Ed Giovannucci and told them of my observations. They immediately advised me to collect data from all the patients in the hospital on 2,000 units of vitamin D, not just the ones on my ward, to see if the results were statistically significant. It turns out that the observations on my ward alone were of borderline statistical significance and could have been due to chance alone. Administrators at our hospital agreed, and are still attempting to collect data from all the patients in the hospital on 2,000 or more units of vitamin D at the time of the epidemic.
Four years ago, I became convinced that vitamin D was unique in the vitamin world by virtue of three facts. First, it’s the only known precursor of a potent steroid hormone, calcitriol, or activated vitamin D. Most other vitamins are antioxidants or co-factors in enzyme reactions. Activated vitamin D – like all steroid hormones – damasks the genome, turning protein production on and off, as your body requires. That is, vitamin D regulates genetic expression in hundreds of tissues throughout your body. This means it has as many potential mechanisms of action as genes it damasks.
Second, vitamin D does not exist in appreciable quantities in normal human diets. True, you can get several thousand units in a day if you feast on sardines for breakfast, herring for lunch and salmon for dinner. The only people who ever regularly consumed that much fish are peoples, like the Inuit, who live at the extremes of latitude. The milk Americans depend on for their vitamin D contains no naturally occurring vitamin D; instead, the U.S. government requires fortified milk to be supplemented with vitamin D, but only with what we now know to be a paltry 100 units per eight-ounce glass.
The vitamin D steroid hormone system has always had its origins in the skin, not in the mouth. Until quite recently, when dermatologists and governments began warning us about the dangers of sunlight, humans made enormous quantities of vitamin D where humans have always made it, where naked skin meets the ultraviolet B radiation of sunlight. We just cannot get adequate amounts of vitamin D from our diet. If we don’t expose ourselves to ultraviolet light, we must get vitamin D from dietary supplements.
The third way vitamin D is different from other vitamins is the dramatic difference between natural vitamin D nutrition and the modern one. Today, most humans only make about a thousand units of vitamin D a day from sun exposure; many people, such as the elderly or African Americans, make much less than that. How much did humans normally make? A single, twenty-minute, full body exposure to summer sun will trigger the delivery of 20,000 units of vitamin D into the circulation of most people within 48 hours. Twenty thousand units, that’s the single most important fact about vitamin D. Compare that to the 100 units you get from a glass of milk, or the several hundred daily units the U.S. government recommend as “Adequate Intake.” It’s what we call an “order of magnitude” difference.
Humans evolved naked in sub-equatorial Africa, where the sun shines directly overhead much of the year and where our species must have obtained tens of thousands of units of vitamin D every day, in spite of our skin developing heavy melanin concentrations (racial pigmentation) for protecting the deeper layers of the skin. Even after humans migrated to temperate latitudes, where our skin rapidly lightened to allow for more rapid vitamin D production, humans worked outdoors. However, in the last three hundred years, we began to work indoors; in the last one hundred years, we began to travel inside cars; in the last several decades, we began to lather on sunblock and consciously avoid sunlight. All of these things lower vitamin D blood levels. The inescapable conclusion is that vitamin D levels in modern humans are not just low – they are aberrantly low.
About three years ago, after studying all I could about vitamin D, I began testing my patient’s vitamin D blood levels and giving them literature on vitamin D deficiency. All their blood levels were low, which is not surprising as vitamin D deficiency is practically universal among dark-skinned people who live at temperate latitudes. Furthermore, my patients come directly from prison or jail, where they get little opportunity for sun exposure. After finding out that all my patients had low levels, many profoundly low, I started educating them and offering to prescribe them 2,000 units of vitamin D a day, the U.S. government’s “Upper Limit.”
Could vitamin D be the reason none of my patients got the flu? In the last several years, dozens of medical studies have called attention to worldwide vitamin D deficiency, especially among African Americans and the elderly, the two groups most likely to die from influenza. Cancer, heart disease, stroke, autoimmune disease, depression, chronic pain, depression, gum disease, diabetes, hypertension, and a number of other diseases have recently been associated with vitamin D deficiency. Was it possible that influenza was as well?
Then I thought of three mysteries that I first learned in medical school at the University of North Carolina: (1) although the influenza virus exists in the population year-round, influenza is a wintertime illnesses; (2) children with vitamin D deficient rickets are much more likely to suffer from respiratory infections; (3) the elderly in most countries are much more likely to die in the winter than the summer (excess wintertime mortality), and most of that excess mortality, although listed as cardiac, is, in fact, due to influenza.
Could vitamin D explain these three mysteries, mysteries that account for hundreds of thousands of deaths every year? Studies have found the influenza virus is present in the population year-around; why is it a wintertime illness? Even the common cold got its name because it is common in cold weather and rare in the summer. Vitamin D blood levels are at their highest in the summer but reach their lowest levels during the flu and cold season. Could such a simple explanation explain these mysteries?
The British researcher, Dr. R. Edgar Hope-Simpson, was the first to document the most mysterious feature of epidemic influenza, its wintertime surfeit and summertime scarcity. He theorized that an unknown “seasonal factor” was at work, a factor that might be affecting innate human immunity. Hope-Simpson was a general practitioner who became famous in the late 1960’s after he discovered the cause of shingles. British authorities bestowed every prize they had on him, not only because of the importance of his discovery, but because he made the discovery own his own, without the benefit of a university appointment, and without any formal training in epidemiology (the detective branch of medicine that methodically searches for clues about the cause of disease).
After his work on shingles, Hope-Simpson spent the rest of his working life studying influenza. He concluded a “seasonal factor” was at work, something that was regularly and predictably impairing human immunity in the winter and restoring it in the summer. He discovered that communities widely separated by longitude, but which shared similar latitude, would simultaneously develop influenza. He discovered that influenza epidemics in Great Britain in the 17th and 18th century occurred simultaneously in widely separated communities, before modern transportation could possibly explain its rapid dissemination. Hope-Simpson concluded a “seasonal factor” was triggering these epidemics. Whatever it was, he was certain that the deadly “crop” of influenza that sprouts around the winter solstice was intimately involved with solar radiation. Hope-Simpson predicted that, once discovered, the “seasonal factor” would “provide the key to understanding most of the influenza problems confronting us.”
Hope-Simpson had no way of knowing that vitamin D has profound effects on human immunity, no way of knowing that it increases production of broad-spectrum antimicrobial peptides, peptides that quickly destroy the influenza virus. We have only recently learned how vitamin D increases production of antimicrobial peptides while simultaneously preventing the immune system from releasing too many inflammatory cells, called chemokines and cytokines, into infected lung tissue.
In 1918, when medical scientists did autopsies on some of the fifty million people who died during the 1918 flu pandemic, they were amazed to find destroyed respiratory tracts; sometimes these inflammatory cytokines had triggered the complete destruction of the normal epithelial cells lining the respiratory tract. It was as if the flu victims had been attacked and killed by their own immune systems. This is the severe inflammatory reaction that vitamin D has recently been found to prevent.
I subsequently did what physicians have done for centuries. I experimented, first on myself and then on my family, trying different doses of vitamin D to see if it has any effects on viral respiratory infections. After that, as the word spread, several of my medical colleagues experimented on themselves by taking three-day courses of pharmacological doses (2,000 units per kilogram per day) of vitamin D at the first sign of the flu. I also asked numerous colleagues and friends who were taking physiological doses of vitamin D (5,000 units per day in the winter and less, or none, in the summer) if they ever got colds or the flu, and, if so, how severe the infections were. I became convinced that physiological doses of vitamin D reduce the incidence of viral respiratory infections and that pharmacological doses significantly ameliorate the symptoms of some viral respiratory infections if taken early in the course of the illness. However, such observations are so personal, so likely to be biased, that they are worthless science.
As I waited for the hospital to finish collecting data from all the patients taking vitamin D at the time of the outbreak – to see if it really reduced the incidence of influenza – I decided to research the literature thoroughly, finding all the clues in the world’s medical literature that indicated if vitamin D played any role in preventing influenza or other viral respiratory infections. I worked on the paper for over a year, writing it with Professor Edward Giovannucci of Harvard, Professor Reinhold Vieth of the University of Toronto, Professor Michael Holick of Boston University, Professor Cedric Garland of U.C., San Diego, as well as Dr. John Umhau of the National Institute of Health, Sasha Madronich of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and Dr. Bill Grant at the Sunlight, Nutrition and Health Research Center. After numerous revisions, we submitted our paper to the same widely respected journal where Dr. Hope-Simpson published most of his work several decades ago.
Epidemiology and Infection, known as The Journal of Hygiene in Hope-Simpson’s day, recently published our paper. The editor, Professor Norman Noah, knew Dr. Hope-Simpson and helped tremendously with the paper. In the paper, we detailed our theory that vitamin D is Hope-Simpson’s long forgotten “seasonal stimulus.” We proposed that annual fluctuations in vitamin D levels explain the seasonality of influenza. The periodic seasonal fluctuations in 25-hydroxy-vitamin D levels, which cause recurrent and predictable wintertime vitamin D deficiency, predispose human populations to influenza epidemics. We raised the possibility that influenza is a symptom of vitamin D deficiency in the same way that an unusual form of pneumonia (pneumocystis carinii) is a symptom of AIDS. That is, we theorized that George Bernard Shaw was right when he said, “the characteristic microbe of a disease might be a symptom instead of a cause.”
In the paper, we propose that vitamin D explains the following 14 observations:
1. Why the flu predictably occurs in the months following the winter solstice, when vitamin D levels are at their lowest,
2. Why it disappears in the months following the summer solstice,
3. Why influenza is more common in the tropics during the rainy season,
4. Why the cold and rainy weather associated with El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which drives people indoors and lowers vitamin D blood levels, is associated with influenza,
5. Why the incidence of influenza is inversely correlated with outdoor temperatures,
6. Why children exposed to sunlight are less likely to get colds,
7. Why cod liver oil (which contains vitamin D) reduces the incidence of viral respiratory infections,
8. Why Russian scientists found that vitamin D-producing UVB lamps reduced colds and flu in schoolchildren and factory workers,
9. Why Russian scientists found that volunteers, deliberately infected with a weakened flu virus – first in the summer and then again in the winter – show significantly different clinical courses in the different seasons,
10. Why the elderly who live in countries with high vitamin D consumption, like Norway, are less likely to die in the winter,
11. Why children with vitamin D deficiency and rickets suffer from frequent respiratory infections,
12. Why an observant physician (Rehman), who gave high doses of vitamin D to children who were constantly sick from colds and the flu, found the treated children were suddenly free from infection,
13. Why the elderly are so much more likely to die from heart attacks in the winter rather than in the summer,
14. Why African Americans, with their low vitamin D blood levels, are more likely to die from influenza and pneumonia than Whites are.
Although our paper discusses the possibility that physiological doses of vitamin D (5,000 units a day) may prevent colds and the flu, and that physicians might find pharmacological doses of vitamin D (2,000 units per kilogram of body weight per day for three days) useful in treating some of the one million people who die in the world every year from influenza, we remind readers that it is only a theory. Like all theories, our theory must withstand attempts to be disproved with dispassionately conducted and well-controlled scientific experiments.
However, as vitamin D deficiency has repeatedly been associated with many of the diseases of civilization, we point out that it is not too early for physicians to aggressively diagnose and adequately treat vitamin D deficiency. We recommend that enough vitamin D be taken daily to maintain 25-hydroxy vitamin D levels at levels normally achieved through summertime sun exposure (50 ng/ml). For many persons, such as African Americans and the elderly, this will require up to 5,000 units daily in the winter and less, or none, in the summer, depending on summertime sun exposure.
By: J. J. Cannell
Acknowldegement: We wish to thank Professor Norman Noah of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Professor Robert Scragg of the University of Auckland and Professor Robert Heaney of Creighton University for reviewing the manuscript and making many useful suggestions.
– Dr. John Cannell, Atascadero State Hospital, 10333 El Camino Real, Atascadero, CA 93422, USA, 805 468-2061, jcannell@dmhash.state.ca.us
– Professor Reinhold Vieth, Mount Sinai Hospital, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Department of Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
– Dr. John Umhau, Laboratory of Clinical and Translational Studies, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
– Professor Michael Holick, Departments of Medicine and Physiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
– Dr. Bill Grant, SUNARC, San Francisco, CA
– Dr. Sasha Madronich, Atmospheric Chemistry Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
– Professor Cedric Garland, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA
– Professor Edward Giovannucci, Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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Swine Flu Treatments
Emergency Natural Allopathic Medicine

Swine flu is a respiratory illness in pigs caused by a virus. Mexico’s government is ordering closed schools nationwide as the suspected death toll from swine flu climbed to 149. Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova says only 20 of the deaths have been confirmed to be from swine flu and the government was awaiting tests results on the rest. He says 1,995 have been hospitalized with serious cases of pneumonia since the first case of swine flu was reported on April 13. Alarmingly, the flu outbreak in Mexico is striking healthy young people — a pattern that would be expected if a flu virus new to humans emerged.
Nations from New Zealand to France reported new suspected cases.
Governments including China, Russia and Taiwan have begun planning
to put anyone with symptoms of the deadly virus under quarantine.
     Officials in Mexico and the U.S. are taking emergency steps to contain what is believed to be a new multi-strain swine flu. “If the confirmed deaths are the first signs of a pandemic, then cases are probably incubating around the world by now,” said Dr. Michael Osterholm, a pandemic flu expert at the University of Minnesota. The Mexican Swine Flu has elements of DNA from the following: avian flu, human flu Type A, human flu Type B, Asian swine flu, and European swine flu. Human and animal viruses from four or more continents suddenly recombine in a new flu during a non-flu season that spreads from human-to-human with a 10% fatality rating.1 Just last month Baxter Pharmaceuticals was caught shipping a mix of H3N2 seasonal flu viruses and unlabelled H5N1 viruses. Baxter released contaminated flu virus material from a plant in Austria, which contained live H5N1 avian flu viruses. 2
     In Mexico City children rarely use the color blue when they paint the sky. The atmospheric pollution in the Mexican capital, one of the world’s biggest cities, is one of the most severe air pollution cases in the world. Contaminated air hangs over its population of more than 20 million people doing damage to children’s lungs causing chronic lung diseases when they are adults. Perched at 7,300 feet in a bowl-shaped valley where the air is thin, vehicle fumes get trapped and you might as well be living in a gas chamber. It is that bad and this explains in part why we are finding deaths from the flu concentrated there with no deaths reported outside of Mexico to this date. Even the healthy are sick. Full of toxins, they are medically speaking “accidents waiting to happen,” so when a strong flu strain strikes such a population the death rate will be very high. The cause of death is debatable!
     Should there be a pandemic — something that is far from certain — the CDC has already begun work on a vaccine, which should be ready by October, entirely too late to protect people from the present threat. Flu vaccines in general often fail miserably to protect old, young and healthy alike so there is really no loss from the delay.
     There are four different drugs approved in the U.S. to treat the flu, but the new virus has shown resistance to the two oldest. The CDC recommends the use of the flu drugs Tamiflu and Relenza. Both drugs 3 must be taken early, within a few days of the onset of symptoms, to be most effective though we already know that Tamiflu is deadly in and of itself so its only advantage is to those who make money from it. So basically the western medical establishment has no solution and offers no real help.
Infections cannot be separated from the conditions that
invite pathogens to proliferate. This seems to boggle the
minds of orthodox medical scientists, who like the blind men
and the elephant, seem to be able to focus on one thing at a time.
     We live in a dangerous world and anything that throws us out of balance invites pathogens to take up residence in our bodies. If this is the beginning of the pandemic that health officials have been warning about it is best to begin preparing your body before the flu strikes. This article offers natural emergency medicine that addresses both the body’s terrain and the potential pathogens quickly. Starting with the most basic medicine, we need to address dehydration and the use of water and mineral salts as medicines first.
Dehydration Dangers
     Complications of flu can include bacterial pneumonia, ear infections, sinus infections, dehydration, and worsening of chronic medical conditions, such as congestive heart failure, asthma, or diabetes. Many underestimate seasonal flu’s severity and neglect treating dehydration, a survey of U.S. physicians and consumers found. Fifty-seven percent of doctors surveyed said they considered dehydration the single most dangerous flu side effect. “Severe flu symptoms like fever and body aches often keep patients from taking in adequate fluids,” said Dr. Leanne M. Chrisman-Khawam of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. “By managing symptoms, one will be more likely to manage their dehydration as well.”4
     Dehydration is one of the most overlooked and basic causes of disease. Physicians rarely prescribe water, and you’ll never hear of a pharmaceutical firm recommending it, but water can prevent and cure many common conditions because it is a basic or underlying cause of disease. According to a study published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, more than 70% of preschool children never drink plain water. Pediatric medicine does not pay attention enough to dehydration that occurs when acute diseases strike5 and children can pay with their life for this. The fact that one of the most common lawsuits in pediatric emergency room medicine is overlooking dehydration tells us of a gapping hole in pediatric medicine that need not be there.
     The blood is 80 percent water thus hydration levels are extremely important in blood chemistry. Moderate dehydration, a 3-5% decrease in body weight due to fluid loss is sufficient to result in a substantial decrease in strength and endurance because of the decrease in oxygen carrying capacity of the blood signaling a drop in Zeta potential. Proper hydration is thus the most basic preventative medicine against death from any type of flu.
Mercury Exposure = Increased Vulnerability
     Chronic mercury exposure is also a threat to our health and makes us especially vulnerable to flu infections. It has been shown that “prolonged exposure of mammals (white mice) to low mercury concentrations (0.008 – 0.02 mg/m3) leads to a significant increase in the susceptibility of mice to pathological influenza virus strains. This is shown by more severe course of infection. In the experimental group more mice died (86 – 90.3 %) than in the unexposed animals (60.2 – 68 %), additionally the experimental group died more quickly. The significant difference was in the appearance and degree of pneumonia in the effected animals,” wrote Dr. I. M. Trakhtenberg in Chronic Effects of Mercury on Organisms.6
     Though everyone in the northern hemisphere is contaminated with mercury health officials have a mental block against suggesting anything that might reduce total mercury body burden. Though some dedicated health activists are cracking the FDA’s endorsement of mercury dental amalgam it will take a Martian death ray to get them to protect the public from the obvious. Natural chelation methods work safely to remove mercury but unfortunately, if this is the dreaded flu outbreak, there will be little time to reduce mercury levels. Much can still be accomplished with the emergency protocol suggested below. Mercury exposure will make flu symptoms worse and even more dangerous, and that is one reason the flu vaccine is deadly because most brands include thimerosal, which almost fifty percent mercury.
     Several other mercury fighters have a place in the flu battlefield. In addition to binding mercury into a fairly harmless complex, selenium is a very good inflammation fighter even in small concentrations. N-acetyl L-cysteine, an antioxidant and glutathione precursor, stimulates production of this master antioxidant and, among other things, boosts the immune system and has anti-inflammatory properties. Alpha-lipoic acid, another mercury mover, acts as a powerful anti-inflammatory agent, while protecting the mitochondria and reducing cellular inflammation. Learn about them before you need them and add them to your medicine kit now.
Iodine, the Universal Pathogen Killer
     As early as June 1, 1905 an article was printed in the New York Times 7 about the successful use of iodine for consumption/tuberculosis. Though iodine kills most pathogens on the skin within 90 seconds, its use as an antibiotic/antiviral/antifungal has been completely ignored by modern medicine. Iodine exhibits activity against bacteria, molds, yeasts, protozoa, and many viruses; indeed, of all antiseptic preparations suitable for direct use on humans and animals and upon tissues, only iodine is capable of killing all classes of pathogens: gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, mycobacteria, fungi, yeasts, viruses and protozoa. Most bacteria are killed within 15 to 30 seconds of contact.
Iodine is by far the best antibiotic,
antiviral and antiseptic of all time.
                                                Dr. David Derry
     Dr. Derry says iodine is effective “for standard pathogens such as Staphylococcus, but also iodine has the broadest range of action, fewest side effects and no development of bacterial resistance.” Some doctors have reported that it is excellent for the treatment of mononucleosis. Iodine kills single-celled organisms by combining with the amino acids tyrosine or histidine when exposed to the extracellular environment. All single cells (pathogens) showing tyrosine on their outer cell membranes are killed instantly by a simple chemical reaction with iodine that denatures proteins. Nature and evolution have given us an important mechanism to control pathogenic life forms, and we should use it and trust it to protect us in ways that antibiotics cannot.
     Dr. David Brownstein, author of Iodine – Why You Need It, uses iodine extensively in his practice and says, “Iodine is a wonderful antibiotic solution without question and most importantly I never see any of my patients complain of dysbiotic reactions from its use.” Because drug-resistant micro-organisms continue to emerge and the number of patients susceptible to these infections is increasing dramatically an approach that utilizes the innate powers of the immune system as a therapeutic agent will have the greatest benefit to sick patients. The body’s ability to resist infection and disease is hindered by long-term deficiency in essential vitamins and minerals including that of iodine. Poor immune response is correlated with impaired thyroid function; a deficiency in iodine can greatly affect the immune system because low levels of iodine lead to problems with the thyroid gland. 8
      I personally talked to a missionary, Stephen Fisher, in Zambia on the phone last year who told me about his very successful use of iodine to treat people with malaria. He used 20 drops of Nascent Iodine in a half glass of water given 4 or 5 times during the first day and then decreased the dose to 10 drops of Nascent Iodine 4 times a day for 3 more days, although higher dosages can be administered for much longer since iodine is a nutritional medicine that is needed by the body. Such a protocol can be used for the swine flu or any other type of influenza. Brownstein and others use much higher dosages of other iodine forms, namely Lugol’s 9 and Iodoral for cancer treatment. If you are interested in high dose usage, please read one of the books by Dr. Brownstein or myself for more details on how to do so.
     The minimum number of iodine molecules required to destroy one bacterium varies with the species. For H. influenzae it was calculated to be 15000 molecules of iodine per cell. When bacteria are treated with iodine, the inorganic phosphate up-take and oxygen consumption by the cells immediately ceases. Thus the antiseptic properties of iodine are used to sterilize every surface and material in hospitals. Iodine is an excellent microbicide with a broad range of action that includes almost all of the important health-related microorganisms, such as enteric bacteria, enteric viruses, bacterial viruses, fungi and protozoan cysts.10
     The tremendous diversity and mutability of many infections and their ability to intelligently exploit the cells is one of the main reasons we should return to iodine as our favored broad spectrum antibiotic, anti-viral and anti fungal agent. Iodine provides us with a safe way to strengthen innate responses to invading microbes while simultaneously correcting or eliminating a basic nutritional deficiency that causes immunological unresponsiveness.
Iodine is able to penetrate quickly
through the cell walls of microorganisms.
     Iodine is a deadly enemy of single cell microorganisms thus it can be our best friend in our fight against the most dangerous pathogens. Nature and evolution have given us an important mechanism to control pathogenic life forms and we should use it and trust it to protect us in ways that antibiotics can’t.

     Dr. David Brownstein, one of a core group of iodine doctors had very kind words to say about my Iodine – Bringing Back the Universal Medicine book. “Dr. Sircus has done it again. He has written a wonderful book on iodine that shows the benefits of iodine for treating a wide range of disorders and how you can incorporate iodine into your daily lifestyle. This book should be in everyone’s library.” I would say the same about his book, which inspired my deeper study into the applications of Iodine.
     An Important Note: Supplies of drinkable iodine are severely limited and unavailable in most parts of the world. It would be wise to stock up on both Nascent Iodine as well as Lugol’s. For those who can only get the inexpensive iodine at the drug store meant for cuts and bruises, know that you can paint the body with it quite heavily and frequently to get iodine into the body. Just monitor the skin for any reactions with small area applications first.
Influenza, Inflammation, and the Role of Magnesium
     What makes avian-derived H5N1 strains, and the influenza strain underlying the 1918–1919 human pandemic so virulent is viral triggering of cytokine-mediated lung inflammation. Inflammation is the activation of the immune system in response to infection, irritation, or injury. Characterized by an influx of white blood cells, redness, heat, swelling, pain, and dysfunction of the organs involved, inflammation has different names when it appears in different parts of the body. Magnesium is central to immunocompetence, and plays a crucial role in natural and adaptive immunity in great part because of its dominance over the inflammatory response.11
     Magnesium is at the heart of the inflammatory process, it is the prime first cause when it is not present in sufficient quantities. Increases in extracellular magnesium concentration cause a decrease in the inflammatory response while reduction in the extracellular magnesium results in inflammation. Magnesium literally puts the chill on inflammation especially when used transdermally. “Magnesium deficiency induces a systemic stress response by activation of neuro endocrinological pathways,” writes Dr. Mazur. “Magnesium deficiency contributes to an exaggerated response to immune stress and oxidative stress is the consequence of the inflammatory response,” he continued.
     A little bit of magnesium chloride can be added to the drinking water (the same as sodium bicarbonate mentioned in the next section). But both can be introduced in much greater dosages and concentration in baths to bypass digestive systems that may not be working properly. Many already know of the transdermal effect of magnesium chloride and magnesium sulfate. One can also apply both ‘magnesium oil’ and a self-made lotion of sodium bicarbonate to the skin for rapid absorption and this is most helpful for children. All can be put into a sterile solution and nebulized directly into the lungs if inflammation becomes life threatening. When all else fails, physicians can get both magnesium and sodium bicarbonate into the body with IVs.
     Most people and children are already magnesium deficient, which would naturally increase complications or the possibility risk of death from influenza. Everything mentioned in this basic emergency protocol is preventive and can be started immediately. Don’t wait for the WHO to officially announce an international pandemic before you stock your emergency kit with the basics.
Sodium Bicarbonate
     Using bicarbonate to change blood and full body pH is going to shift the environment of most pathogens making it more uncomfortable for them to inhabit a host. Malaria and influenza are often associated with abnormalities of fluid, electrolytes and the acid-base balance. Sodium bicarbonate is very useful and should not be overlooked just because it is one of the most simple medicines and food items you can buy in the supermarket.
     Fluid and electrolyte imbalances easily occur in anybody with a severe flu. This is common in severe malaria, extremes of age, young children, malnutrition, and patients with high degree of fever and vomiting/diarrhea.
     Sodium bicarbonate can be administered orally every two hours and can be put in the baths as well as mixed with mineral water to make a lotion. For oral use, Bob’s Red Mill Sodium Bicarbonate is the best but for baths the old Arm and Hammer product is fine. Sodium bicarbonate buffers and defends us from a host of complications, and is even used in chemotherapy to protect patients from the toxic effects of dangerous drugs.
     Sodium bicarbonate along with magnesium chloride are workhorse medicines that are extremely useful in most all clinical situations. Certainly they are useful together in infectious diseases to support both the basic physiology and mitochondrial function.
Vitamin C
     One does not have to say much when it comes to the importance of Vitamin C in preparing the body for an aggressive attack of influenza of any type. If vitamin C levels are low, the body will be more vulnerable to complications. Also, an attack of the flu will lower already dangerously depleted vitamin C levels. Whole food vitamin C is often better tolerated than pure ascorbic acid in addition to the fact that whole food vitamin C comes with the necessary co-factors for its efficacy, which ascorbic acid does not.
     There are many natural remedies on the market and many wives’s tales –and there is always Mother’s chicken soup! One will find an extensive list of possible herbs, formulas and foods that might help; however, they do not make up a core protocol that one can depend on in an emergency situation that can easily develop with a severe strain of influenza.
The Sun – Strong Medicine against the Flu
     Medical scientists have noticed that people with the least D were most likely to have had a recent infection of the upper respiratory tract. We already know that getting plenty of vitamin D — more than diet can offer — appears to provide potent protection against colds, flu and even pneumonia. As the amount of vitamin D circulating in blood climbs, risk of upper respiratory tract infections falls and this is important when strong flu strains strike hard.
      Dr. Adit Ginde, an emergency room physician at the University Of Colorado Denver School Of Medicine in Aurora says that in people with lung disease, low levels of the sunshine vitamin “magnify many-fold” the apparent vulnerability to infection seen in people with healthy lungs. Dr. Ginde findings appeared in the Feb. 23 Archives of Internal Medicine and concluded that in every season, people in the lowest vitamin D group were about 36 percent more likely to be suffering a respiratory infection than those in the highest group.
     Grind’s study showed that low levels of vitamin D more than doubled the risk of respiratory infection for people with COPD — and boosted it almost six fold in people with asthma — compared with participants who had normal lung function and were in the highest vitamin D group. What was most disturbing about the findings was that the NHANES data he analyzed had been collected about 15 years ago, when almost twice as many people as today had vitamin D levels above 30 ng/ml. This is a crucial point. We are more vulnerable today then every before to a massive epidemic because we are more toxic and more deficient in crucial vitamins and minerals than at any point in modern history.
     One of the most important and misunderstood vitamins is A, and it works hard to keep you healthy with vitamin D when in the right balance. Vitamin A plays a vital regulating role in the immune system also. Vitamin A deficiency leads to a loss of ciliated cells in the lung, an important first line defense against pathogens. Vitamin A promotes mucin secretion and microvilli formation by mucosa, including the gastrointestinal tract mucosa. Vitamin A regulates T-cell production and apoptosis.12
     If you are a sun lover, you do not need to take supplemental vitamin D; however you still need to consume adequate vitamin A. Animal studies show that even moderate amounts of vitamin D increase the body’s need for vitamin A, whether the vitamin D is provided in the diet or by UV light. So, if you cut back or eliminate cod liver oil in the summer, you can also consume plenty of oily fish, liver, butterfat and egg yolks from grass-fed hens to ensure adequate vitamin A.13
     So throw away your sun screens and get out in the sun when it is high in the sky and roast yourself until slightly pink, and do that perhaps every other day as a replacement for dangerous antiviral medications, along with the rest of the anti-flu protocol. Drink lots of carrot juice with oranges and eat spirulina, which is extraordinarily high in beta-carotene.
In Summary, a Heart Felt Plea
     Please, I beg people to be aware that in November of 2005 Japan’s health ministry issued a warning of dangerous behavioral side effects linked to the anti-influenza drug Tamiflu. This came amid reports that several children in Japan died after taking the medication. Dr. Rokuro Hama, head of the Japan Institute of Pharmaco-Vigilance, had investigated eight suspicious deaths of children aged between two and 17, which he thinks are linked to Tamiflu. He reported his findings at a meeting of the Japan Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Investigators say in one case last year, a 17-year-old boy, after taking the medication, left his home during a snowstorm, and jumped in front of a truck and died. Earlier that year, a 14-year-old boy, after taking one Tamiflu capsule, jumped or fell from the ninth floor of an apartment building. Doctors say in both cases the boys had not exhibited any abnormal behavior before taking Tamiflu.14
     Drug manufacturer Roche and US regulators have warned that influenza patients treated with oseltamivir (Tamiflu) may have an increased risk of self-injury and delirium. “People with the flu, particularly children, may be at increased risk of self-injury and confusion shortly after taking Tamiflu and should be closely monitored for signs of unusual behavior,” says a warning that Roche has added to its official product information, according to a company letter posted on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Web site.15
     Many reputable doctors and health activists are weighing in and we should be very scared for some very good reasons. Read Dr. Sherri Tenpenny’s essay. Read Bill Sardi’s pdf. Read the Huntington Post’s essay on the dire economic effect and the implications of declared health emergencies. The medical industrial complex and governments around the world are ready, willing and able to use this as an excuse to attack the human race with misinformation and extremely dangerous drugs and vaccines. Remember Dr. Eleanor McBean?
     Dr. Eleanor McBean, lived through the 1918 Influenza epidemic, and testified, “As far as I could find out, the flu hit only the vaccinated. Those who had refused the shots escaped the flu. My family had refused all the vaccinations so we remained well all the time. There was seven times more disease among the vaccinated soldiers than among the unvaccinated civilians, and the diseases were those they had been vaccinated against.”
     Vaccines, especially when given in multiple quantities in one sitting certainly have the potential to throw a person or child’s body out of balance as can nutritional deficiencies, dehydration, lack of exercise 16 or a lack of sun and vitamin D. Almost everyone today is magnesium deficient, certainly every Mexican who eats white rice!
     There are many who believe from the depths of their hearts that vaccines are bio weapons of mass destruction, which exist for both pharmaceutical profit and over bloated professional medical egos attached to status and power. No matter what we believe though and no matter what develops over the next few days it would be more than prudent to disseminate this information that will be helpful to both doctors and people facing the current public health crisis.

Mark Sircus Ac., OMD
Director International Medical Veritas Association

Welcome to Our Blog on Green Medicine and Alternative Health Information

surviveandthrivekits — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:00:24 +0000

Before we introduce you to Survive and Thrive let us tell you that the articles on this front page are the most recent additions to many unbelievable and groundbreaking articles you will find in our “ARCHIVES”. Please visit and see the other timely articles that are a must as you decide for yourself how to stay healthy and vibrant in your life.