Sunday, April 28, 2013

ABRAHAM HICKS - HOW DO I DISCOVER MY PATH, GIFT, CALLING IN LIFE


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ABRAHAM: LOW SELF-ESTEEM AND SEPARATION FROM WELL-BEING?


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ABE ♥ THE PEOPLE THAT BUG YOU ARE YOUR BEST COCREATORS : )


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AUSTRALIAN JOURNALIST WINS PRESTIGOUS AWARD FOR EXPOSING FLU VACCINE SCANDAL

 
MB Comment:
Natasha Bita, a journalist for The Australian has just won a Walkley Award (the Australian equivalent of a Pulitzer Prize) for an in-depth article series on the CSL Afluria flu vaccine, a shot that caused convulsions in one percent of Australian infants who received it.
To put this vaccine scandal in perspective, the CDC states that ‘seizures can occur after vaccination,’ 33% of infants who have a first seizure will have more seizures and 10% of infants who have one seizure can develop epilepsy. According to the Merck Manual (the largest-selling medical textbook), seizures are a symptom of encephalitis, which the Merck Manual defines as a vaccine adverse reaction. Vaccine-induced encephalitis can leave a spectrum of permanent brain damage in its wake – post-encephalitic syndrome (aka epilepsy and autism). In other words, kids that have convulsions from Afluria can have lifelong neurological disabilities.
Incredibly, the defective CSL flu vaccine Afluria is still on the market in the US: FDA-approved and CDC-recommended. The only concession US vaccine authorities have made to this Afluria scandal is to raise the recommended age for this vaccine, but even that feeble response is colored by a direction to give Afluria to young kids anyway if no other flu vaccine is available.
This vaccinate-at-any-cost mentality displays the utter depravity of US vaccine authorities. They really don’t care about vaccine adverse reactions or the victims of defective vaccines. When vaccine regulators are so transparently irresponsible, it is up to individuals and families to defend their own health by rejecting the gung-ho vaccine recommendations of the CDC, FDA and medical profession.
This award is a smack in the face to asleep-at-the-wheel US journalists, who are being instructed by the National Press Foundation (at the behest of Seth Mnookin, Gates’ GAVI vaccine alliance and minions of Paul Offit) to censor all negative reports on vaccine issues and stick to big pharma’s and the CDC’s party line.
‘These articles were published in the face of hostility and stonewalling from the federal health department and the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) …
Natasha Bita chipped away methodically and professionally at Australia’s questionable vaccine policy. Beginning with a story about an adverse reaction to the flu vaccine, she realised she was onto a bigger story. Her series was not only newsworthy, but of significant public benefit, and revealed the personal traumas behind the statistics.’
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Natasha Bita, The Australian, “Virus in the system”

The Walkley Foundation and its custodian, the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance, congratulate all the winners of the 56th Annual Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism.
Last year, the federal government suspended the seasonal flu vaccine for young children after it triggered febrile convulsions in one per cent, resulting in dozens of hospitalisations and a possible death.
This suspension may not have taken place if not for Natasha Bita’s reporting of the health scandal and the flaws in the country’s system of approving and monitoring new medicines.
Government inquiries have since recommended major reform.
In a series of 23 articles for The Australian, including a 4600-word cover story in The Weekend Australian Magazine, Bita exposed manufacturing flaws at Australia’s biggest pharmaceutical company, CSL, as well as potential conflicts of interest between the government’s key immunisation advisers, and wastage at a cost to taxpayers of $65 million.
These articles were published in the face of hostility and stonewalling from the federal health department and the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA).
After Bita’s front-page interview with a boy who contracted polio from a vaccine, the federal health minister said she was open to the idea of a compensation scheme for people suffering the side-effects of immunisation.
Bita is the consumer editor of The Australian, where she has worked since 1990. In 2007 she transferred to Europe, working as the London-based Olympics correspondent for the News Limited group of newspapers, and then as Italy correspondent for The Australian until her return to Brisbane in 2008.
Judges’ comments
Natasha Bita chipped away methodically and professionally at Australia’s questionable vaccine policy. Beginning with a story about an adverse reaction to the flu vaccine, she realised she was onto a bigger story. Her series was not only newsworthy, but of significant public benefit, and revealed the personal traumas behind the statistics.
You can read selections of Bita’s sustained coverage here, and here.
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Saturday, April 27, 2013

ABRAHAM HICKS - TO BE LESS AFFECTED BY OTHER'S OPINIONS?


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PROBIOTICS CHANGE BRAIN ACTIVITY, EMOTIONAL RESPONSE



Probiotics Change Brain Activity, Emotional Response
Researchers from UCLA's Geffen School of Medicine have determined that consuming a milk fermented with probiotics changes the brain activity of women.
The UCLA medical researchers divided 36 healthy women into three groups. One group was given a milk fermented with probiotics twice a day. Another group was given a milk without the probiotics. The other group was given no milk product.
Before the study began the women underwent extensive brain MRI studies and brain activity tasking response analyses. Then the women consumed the probiotic or placebo milk for four weeks, followed by repeated testing.
Along with the MRI testing, the researchers tested brain responses to emotional faces, as well as during rest. They utilized analyses that tests emotional response.
After the four weeks, those women who drank the probiotic milk had significantly different brain activity changes. Their task-related responses increased, and their activity within the sensory cortex regions changed, which was dramatically illustrated during rest periods. Their midbrain connectivity increased, which the researchers concluded probably explained their task-related response increases.
Their altered brain activity also illustrated changes in the brain signaling pathways for emotional responses among the women.
The probiotics in the fermented milk included Bifidobacterium animalis, Streptococcus thermophiles, Lactobacillus bulgaricus, and Lactococcus lactis. Each of these species has been shown in other clinical studies to improve health among other organs and tissue regions of the body.
Learn more about probiotics.
Research has also connected the gut's probiotics to the brain via a conduit between the central nervous system and the enteric nervous system. The enteric nervous system is located in the abdominal region around the digestive tract. Many of our neurotransmitters are produced in this region and the neurons relay mind-body responses between the gut and the brain stem.
The researchers concluded: "Four weeks intake of a fermented milk with probiotics by healthy women affected activity of brain regions that control central processing of emotion and sensation."
The research was led by Dr. Emeran Mayer, a UCLA professor of medicine and a specialist in gastroenterology. He is the Director of the Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress. Dr. Mayer is well-known for his research in identifying the gut and its probiotic content as "the second brain."

References

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/probiotics-change-brain-activity-emotional-response
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Thursday, April 18, 2013

INTERVIEW WITH DR SUZANNE HUMPHRIES ABOUT VACCINES


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VACCINATION BY SUZANNE HUMPHRIES, MD


After thoroughly examining both sides of the vaccination debate, Dr. Humphries unequivocally stands by the conviction that vaccines are an insult to life and health.
The history of vaccination is more complicated than most people understand.  The antivaccinationist movement is hundreds of years old.  It heated up in the 1800′s, when parents in the UK became fed up with watching their completely healthy infants and children die shortly after the smallpox vaccinations.  Parents and doctors risked losing their homes, their furniture and their livelihoods in order to beat back the deadly, disease-provoking smallpox vaccines. The vaccines were made from pus scraped off of diseased cows’ belly sores, contaminated with all sorts of disease matter.  The smallpox vaccine history is not what you think it is, if you think vaccines wiped out smallpox.  See this chapter for more information on the smallpox history.
Doctors and those administering vaccines are supposed to get “informed consent” before vaccinating.  This is not possible because the research has not been done to show that vaccines are safe beyond a few days or weeks.  Most vaccine studies do not use real placebos either, but use another vaccine as the control placebo.  See this  this article  as an example of how false placebos are regularly used. Needless to say, giving untested(no vaccine has undergone carcinogenicity testing for example, if you are wondering), often contaminated and with unproven-effectiveness vaccines is a “medical experiment” and violates the core principles of the Nuremberg – (informed and unambiguous consent)Code. Forcing people to take vaccines, whether by a proclaimed “emergency,” by a “public health” order from the WHO, or by threat of loss of rights over one’s children or of imprisonment, or by threat of being abandoned by the medical professionals supposedly providing care, removes consent, as does giving vaccines to those unable by age or mental status to legally consent. “Informed,” as well, is devoid of all meaning when people are tricked into taking vaccines by the use of false or frightening “information.”
I have found in my own practice, my own career and everywhere else, that the more one studies vaccination in-depth, the less they are inclined to vaccinate and the more comfortable they are not vaccinating.  Parents must learn the ways to take care of their children when they get the common childhood illnesses.  If they do, and allow their children to recover naturally, in most cases, the child will have long-term immunity.  Vaccination has robbed teenagers and adults of the opportunity to get re-exposed and continue with natural immunity.  As a result, mothers’ breast milk is devoid of the necessary antibodies they need to protect their newborns – even if they are vaccinated.  This is but one of the many consequences we face as a result of vaccination for measles and the other childhood illnesses such as rubella.
Medical schools do not educate doctors about the contents, dangers, effectiveness or necessity of vaccines. Medical doctors are fearful of the natural childhood illnesses because they don’t have any idea how to safely assist patients through them; and worse yet their limited treatment options often cause the diseases to be worse than they have to be.
Natural News interview with Suzanne Humphries, MD about vaccines. Natural News is the world’s largest natural health and wellness news organization.

If you would like to gain a better understanding of vaccination and what immunologists do not know, please read this short but very informative book, written by a PhD immunologist who bravely told the vaccine story from a well-educated standpoint.
            Vaccine Illusion
Please also read this short article from Standford Medicine, where the limitations of immunology are plainly spelled out  here.
The public is repeatedly deceived in order to maintain participation in vaccination.  All sorts of tactics are used. One of the most popular, is to say that everyone should get vaccinated in order to protect the unvaccinated.  This is commonly known as “herd immunity.”  HERE is an article I wrote on the subject.
The business of vaccination is highly profitable, and always has been.  In addition to the billions of dollars made by drug companies every year on vaccines, hospitals, doctors, and pharmaceutical companies prosper from the collateral damage of the barbaric and unscientific practice of vaccination.
Doctors parrot the advice, “We have to vaccinate them while they are young so the ‘take rate’ is high.”  A case-in-point is an article for which I was interviewed:
Bangor Metro: “A Shot to The Heart”
In this article, one of Maine’s supposed top experts is giving unscientific advice. We just learned from the PhD immunologist the above audio clip that the first 3 series of shots “don’t work.” But Maine’s vaccine expert says:
“Concerns about how much a young child’s immune system can handle at one time have prompted some parents to stagger vaccinations. But Fanburg points out that there is no medical data to support the practice, adding that it’s actually more beneficial to vaccinate infants, rather than wait until they are older. “Children have a better ‘take’ of vaccines in their first two years of life,” he says. “There is a higher rate of immunogenicity, which is the child’s ability to produce antibodies to the vaccine antigen.”
This statement is absolute nonsense.  This man lacks understanding as to how an infant’s immune system develops and why.  If he understood, he would be unable to utter such a statement. A baby’s immune system produces only very small amounts of IL-1B and TNFa.  There was a time when experts thought that this was simply a DEFECT in all newborn humans.  In 2004, Chelvarajan suggested that if vaccine pushers added various immune system kickers into vaccines, this would solve the problem and fix these perfectly normal children’s horribly deviant immune systems. All vaccines for Strep Pneumo, Hib and Meningococcal diseases have potent “adjuvants” – like irritating oils and aluminum – for this purpose, because without them, the baby’s immune system acts from the blue-print, sits there and does nothing – just as it’s supposed to do…”defectively” per the eyes of science.  How very arrogant, don’t you think?
However, by 2007, Chelvarajan was seeing things differently, and stated in the last paragraph, that whereas in the past, they had considered this a “defect”, they now considered it:
an important developmental program” saying, “This anti-inflammatory phenotype may be beneficial to the neonate at a time when tissue growth and remodelling events are taking place at a rapid pace… thus the inability of the neonate to respond to infection with encapsulated bacteria may be the risk the organism takes for successful development.”
In order to adjust to the world appropriately, not only is the “anti-inflammatory phenotype” critical to an infant, but breast milk is also essential to protect the baby from toxin-mediated and other diseases while the immune system develops appropriately- in it’s own due time, according to the master plan of the creator.  That’s it!  The non-inflammatory position of the immune system is seriously altered by vaccines which shift the T cells in a direction that will react abnormally in the future, leading to all sorts of the childhood diseases many people think are normal.  But guess what…tubes inserted past the eardrums of a child are not a right of passage, inhalers should not be part of a lunchbox, epipens should not be necessary, type I diabetes in children is mostly avoidable.  Even antibiotics are completely avoidable.  In fact many non-vaccinating parents raise their children never needing drugs at all.   The sad part is that the public has been conditioned to accept such a skewed and backwards medical system, and that they think it is the soundest option available to them.  Nothing could be farther from the truth.  The healthiest and most disease-free infants, children, adults and elderly people are the unvaccinated.
If it is important for successful development of a baby to allow the RISK of infection by NOT allowing two key parts of the primary infection defence to “fire”, what’s the OTHER risk you might take, if you force an immune system to do something it’s not supposed to do…by causing repeated, chronic inflammation at the end of a vaccine needle? Peripheral inflammation and vaccine adjuvants, can; cause brain inflammation, create allergies, autoimmunity – constant inflammation all around the body – not just at the site of the injection… and… cause mitochondria to stop working properly.
So, you might now be thinking…if a baby’s default position to NOT respond to toxin-mediated bacterial diseases, what chance does a baby have to survive in this world? If you would like to learn more about this, read this 3 part blog series by Hilary Butler.
Infant immune system development.
While vaccine-enthused doctors may pull “peer reviewed literature” to supposedly prove their point, a closer look at their own literature invariably proves otherwise – as does a look at the sick population of vaccinated children they supposedly care for. Yet these types of ridiculous  myths are continuously propagated by parroting doctors who know almost nothing about vaccination, except what vaccines are due at what age, and who have never had the pleasure of caring for an unvaccinated child to see the enormous difference in health overall.

The unfounded fear over the illnesses supposedly prevented by vaccination is based on a history of unscientific theory and policy driven by profit, not health.  We must learn how to care for the common, immune building illnesses and not fall prey to the 200 year farce that injecting disease matter, animal matter, chemicals, metals and a host of other toxic elements could possibly promote health.  History demonstrates this practice to be an utter failure.  Do not be afraid of measles, because well nourished children who get adequate vitamin A fare just fine with measles.  Do not be afraid of whooping cough, because parents all over the world have been having a very easy time with whooping cough using high doses of vitamin C and homeopathy – but you will not read about them in “peer reviewed literature” and your doctor doesn’t know about them, because only sick children – the ones they see and often create – get counted in the morbidity statistics.  But the healthy children who uneventfully pass illnesses through them never touch the medical system and thus are not counted.  The morbidity of most childhood diseases comes from just a few things; infant formula, cow’s milk, common medical drugs, malnutrition, and vaccines.  All of these things are completely avoidable in the USA and many other countries and that is WHY we see so many healthy unvaccinated children when we look.
See how mortality for the common illnesses had declined significantly long before the vaccines were created.


There a few common misperceptions about NOT vaccinating:
  • You are putting other people at risk by not vaccinating.  At risk for what?  Chicken pox? Ask your grandmother if she knew anyone who died from measles.  Different diseases have different degrees of severity in different age groups.  But the bottom line is that the misperception that “if you don’t vaccinate you place others at risk” is based on an assumption that vaccinated people do not get the disease they were vaccinated for.  Did you know that a controlled study in school age children showed that of all the whooping cough that was diagnosed, over 86% of the children were fully vaccinated and up to date for the whooping cough vaccine? There are similar studies showing that mumps and measles breakouts predominately effect the vaccinated. People who are vaccinated have had their immune systems altered in a manner that often leads to susceptibility to other infectious diseases, and leaves them vulnerable to the disease they were vaccinated for due to a phenomenon called “original antigenic sin” whereby the antigen injected programs the body to react in a manner that is incomplete and inferior to the natural response to infection which is comprehensive and longer-lasting. Many vaccine enthusiasts like to invoke the term “herd immunity” to make the argument that the unvaccianted pose a risk to the vaccinated.  But the concept of herd immunity has no relevance to the vaccinated as it was coined in reference to natural immunity in populations and what level the least epidemics occurred.  There is no evidence whatsoever that having an 85% or 95% vaccination rate protects from outbreaks.  This theory has been disproven time and again in highly vaccinated populations.
  • The unvaccinated spread disease.  Actually it is the opposite.  Live vaccines are known to spread to close contacts.  Here is one recent example.
       Live vaccines can spread disease.
We also know that in pertussis (whooping cough) those who are vaccinated are more likely, due to original antigenic sin, to be carriers of the bacteria longer than the unvaccinated, even when asymptomatic. Full text article available here.
By 2004, James Cherry pointed out that adults, revaccinated against pertussis, don’t develop any antibacterial activity whatsoever. He went on to explain why. The current vaccines contains a few antigens, which create “original antigenic sin”, whereby the immune response to the vaccine is abnormal. That first learned response then becomes the default position the immune system takes, on future booster shots. So in the case of the whooping cough vaccines there are key protein virulence factors which have not been included in the vaccines including ACT, TCF, TCT, as well as BrkA and DNT. Because the first three are not included, the default immune response, does not prevent colonisation, and furthermore, Cherry stated that the “original antigenic sin” results in the vaccinated being unable to clear the bacteria from their lungs. The unvaccinated have immunity to all the front line virulence factors and very quickly clear the bacteria on re-exposure.
Mothers who have been vaccinated, may develop surrogate markers, but these do not guarantee efficient immune responses after exposure to the natural disease, because their first “learned response” was incorrect. Furthermore, they are still not sure “what” the surrogate marker actually is for pertussis.
There is similar information on measles, the other disease that has recently hit the media as a supposed danger to the population due to the unvaccinated.  But this information is not accurate, nor is measles a dangerous disease in people who have sufficient vitamin A.  Damien pointed out that the vaccinated are 5-8 times more susceptible to asymptomatic infection than the unvaccinated.  How then, are the unvaccinated solely responsible for the recent outbreaks in measles?
Many vaccines are said to be “attenuated” or modified live that supposedly do not infect, but over the decades we have seen how these attenuated viruses mutate once they are in a human and spread worse disease than what is being vaccinated for.  The oral polio vaccines in Nigeria are a case in point.  But this can happen with any attenuated viral vaccine.  The original Salk polio vaccines were supposed to be killed vaccines and yet they infected thousands of people, the household contacts and the community, killing and paralyzing over 200 people. This figure is thought to be a gross underestimation of the damage done.  It is not uncommon to see a child recently vaccinated for chicken pox develop shingles or chicken pox.  We see this often enough. Also I’ve seen shingles vaccine cause shingles in an elderly woman days after the vaccine was given.  These are highly contagious diseases, being spread because of the vaccine. Here are things to consider when you hear of an outbreak of an infectious disease:  how many of the affected were fully vaccinated and how many people died.  When these things are reported the results do not flatter the vaccines.
  • The terrible diseases that once plagued humanity will return if we do not keep up the vaccines.  We can see from the above graph that the mortality of these diseases was drastically declining prior to vaccination.  But in addition, you might want to know the more rational explanation for deadly disease decline in modern times.  It’s not vaccination. See the link below.
What is the evidence for a causal link between hygiene and infections?
Here is more information on vaccination myths:
        Vaccine Myths.
All the reduction even for TB, was achieved BEFORE any vaccines of any sort were offered, and most of the reductions for all diseases, were achieved before antibiotics became commercially available in about 1950 as well. So what did that? It wasn’t vaccines.
BTW, there never was a vaccine for scarlet fever. Scarlet fever and it’s resulting complication, rheumatic fever – has clearly been shown in the medical literature, to be nutritionally driven.  This is why if you do find someone who says they had scarlet fever, it is primarily in more impoverished and less educated groups throughout history. Some well educated people in stable social environments, without much money, will be on the scale of low susceptibility because it is really the nutrition and well being that count.  It just so happens that low education, homelessness and low money often co-exist. All of us carry Strep A regularly, but the well-fed amongst us don’t get scarlet fever, let alone it’s complication, rheumatic fever. The reason it’s a significant problem in the less educated, less nourished groups where poverty is rampant, is because poor nutrition, historically correlated with higher rheumatic fever.  This point is well studied enough to lay aside any concern over whether or not correlation implies causation.  In the case of infectious diseases, the low nutrition is not a cause per se, but it is a major preventive factor, that has led to enormous declines of morbidity and mortality with infectious diseases of all kinds, not just strep A and rheumatic fever, but also measles.
You may be aware of Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the doctor who was supposedly discredited after writing about Autism and vaccines.  Before you believe what you’ve heard on mainstream TV and media, please view this VIDEO and be aware that Dr. Walker-Smith and Dr. Wakefield were exonerated of the false claims made by Brian Deere, the journalist credited for defaming Dr. Wakefield.
Dr Wakefield and Dr Walker-Smith exonerated.
See this video here where Dr Wakefield so rationally and eloquently outlines the real issues involved in his attacks.
If you made it to the end of this, and would like to discuss vaccination further, Dr Humphries is willing to do that on the phone or in person.  Please schedule an appointment, where your questions can be answered, and you can be directed to the resources that best serve your individual needs.
http://drsuzanne.net/dr-suzanne-humphries-vaccines-vaccination/
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

THE MELANIN CHRONICLES



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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

THE STINKY TRUTH ABOUT FARTS

BY Erin Schumacher

The Stinky Truth Behind FartsWould you believe me if I told you that farts (medically known as flatulence) can actually be an indicator of poor health? Some farts are actually more than simply an embarrassment at the dinner table or a first date. Farts can actually be an indicator that something is seriously wrong in your digestion leading to a variety of health issues. Everyone farts, this much is true. On average, most humans fart between 10 and 20 times a day, but sometimes much more!
Intestinal gas is composed of nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and methane. These gases are generally odorless, but can become foul smelling when other gases, such as sulfates, are added. This occurs in two ways. First, if the gas remains in the intestines for an extended period of time, bacteria start adding foul smelling sulfates to it. The second thing that makes farts smelly is consuming foods that are high in sulfur. Foods such as cauliflower (and the rest of the cabbage family), eggs, cheese, garlic, onions, and meat are notorious for producing smelly farts because of their high content of sulfur. In addition, sugars such as raffinose, stachiose, and verbascose lead to gas because when these sugars reach our intestines, the bacteria goes wild, producing gas.
Lets break down where fart gas comes from:
  1. Air we swallow
  2. Gas seeping into our intestines from the blood
  3. Gas produced by chemical reactions in our guts
  4. Gas produced by bacteria in our guts
What concerns me most in regards to health, are the last two.
Gas Produced By Chemical Reactions and Bacteria In Our Guts
If the food you are eating isn’t digested properly and is left to sit in your stomach, chances are it’s either putrefying (rotting) or fermenting, causing the release of toxic gases. Over the long term, these toxic gases (nasty smelling flatulence), cause serious disorders such as constipation, nervous disorders, a slowdown of general metabolism and digestive disorders including: gas, heartburn, cramps, bloating, constipation, foul stools, bleeding piles, colitis and more. In general, the average American male carries about five pounds of undigested, putrefying red meat in his digestive system (and no wonder most people fart over 20 times a day!).
What happens next is that the blood stream absorbs toxins produced by putrefaction, which leads to allergies, hives, headaches and nausea.
One of the most common reasons that foods remain partially digested in our digestive tracts is simply due to improper food combining. Our bodies are incredibly intelligent and every food product requires a different amount of hydrochloric acid, salivary amylase and time to digest properly. When we combine foods that don’t digest well together such as meat and potatoes, steak and eggs, or a ham and cheese sandwich, part of the meal is left to decompose (rot) in our bellies while the other part of the meal is digested. Furthermore, if we eat our meals too close together, the stomach pushes the partially digested mass out in order to make room for the new food coming down.
In addition to the fact that rotting food in your intestines is leading to foul-smelling gas and poisoning your body, smelly farts can also be an indicator of:
  1. Carbohydrate malabsorption: the moderate form is known as gluten-intolerance and the severe form is widely known as Celiac Disease. Usually it is present with severe abdominal pain and vitamin deficiencies. If you have celiac disease you’ll want to remove all gluten-containing products from your diet such as: wheat, rye and barley.
  2. Lactose Intolerance: lactose is milk sugar. When we don’t have enough of the enzyme lactase, which is necessary to break down lactose, milk (and milk products) remain in our digestive tract for bacteria to feed on, leading to odorous farts. When someone with a lactase deficiency consumes large amounts of a lactose-containing food at one time, much of the sugar passes undigested through the stomach and into the intestines, where it absorbs a lot of water and becomes food for intestinal bacteria that form gases and acids. This often results in such symptoms as abdominal bloating, flatulence, cramps, loose stools and watery diarrhea. If you are lactose intolerant (and in fact most of the population is intolerant to conventional milk), you can try taking digestive enzymes or removing dairy from your diet. (Have you tried making your own fresh nut milk?)
  3. Digestive Tract Infections: there are many bacteria, viruses, and parasites that can cause infections in the lining of the digestive tract. This can be associated with traveling to third world countries. Infections are usually accompanied by diarrhea, fever and abdominal pain. If you suspect you have an infection, consult your physician to determine appropriate treatment.
  4. Candida albicans: A certain amount of yeast in our intestinal tract is normal and healthy. Too much yeast is unhealthy, and causes all kinds of problems. Candida is naturally present in all of our bodies and is a life-saving mechanism. However, under certain conditions. Candida can be stimulated to change its normal yeast structure and turn into the decidedly “unfriendly” fungus form which grows as tiny filaments which can root into the lining of the intestines and penetrate into the tissues of organs. Passing more gas than a normal amount is one sign of a yeast overgrowth. Experiencing bloating and/or cramps from excess gas shortly after eating may be a sign of a yeast overgrowth in the upper small intestine, especially if it occurs after eating any of the “trigger” foods such as sugars, baked goods, breads, pizza crust, beer, alcohol, vinegar, fermented foods, pickled foods, and most beans – things that the yeast feeds on.
So, what can you do if you notice smelly farts happening to you?
  1. Try removing common allergens from your diet such as wheat and dairy
  2. Remove sulfur containing foods from your diet
  3. Take digestive enzymes with each meal
  4. Add probiotics to your diet either in food form or in supplemental form
  5. Practice proper food combining
  6. Go to your primary health care provider to check for an infection or parasites
Sources:
Facts on Farts 
Clinic Time
Fungus and Yeast in the Colon 
Healthy Food Combinations
Erin Schumacher is a Certified Natural Health and Holistic Nutrition Practitioner (CNHP; CHNP) She specializes in detoxification programs, internal cleanses, and helping clients build strong immune systems. She also travels internationally to do raw food workshops, yoga retreats, and personal coaching. In addition, Erin is a Certified Power Yoga Instructor and a Certified Raw Food Chef from the SunKitchen. For more information, visit ErinSchumacher.net.

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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

TWENTY ONE TIPS TO KEEP YOUR SHIT TOGETHER WHEN YOU’RE DEPRESSED.

A while ago, I penned a fairly angry response to something circulating on the internet – the 21 Habits of Happy People. It pissed me off beyond belief, that there was an inference that if you weren’t Happy, you simply weren’t doing the right things.
I’ve had depression for as long as I can remember. It’s manifested in different ways. I did therapy. I did prozac. I did more therapy. My baseline is melancholic. I’d just made peace with it when I moved, unintentionally, to a place that had markedly less sunshine in the winter. I got seasonal depression. I got that under control. Then I got really, really sick. Turns out it’s a permanent, painful genetic disorder. My last pain-free day was four years ago.
So, this Cult of Happy article just set me off. Just… anger. Rage. Depression is serious – debilitating, often dangerous, and it’s got an enormous stigma. It leaves people to fend for themselves.
It’s bad enough without people ramming Happy Tips at you through facebook. There is no miracle behaviour change that will flip that switch for you. I know, I’ve tried.
A friend of mine suggested that I write something from my point of view because, surprisingly, I manage to give an outwards impression of having my shit together. I was shocked to hear this. And I find this comical, but I see her point. I’m functioning. I’ve adapted. I’m surprisingly okay. I think the medical term is “resilient”.
So, here it is.

My 21 Tips on Keeping Your Shit Together During Depression
 
1) Know that you’re not alone. Know that we are a silent legion, who, every day face the solipsism and judgement of Happy People Who Think We Just Aren’t Trying.  There are people who are depressed, people who have been depressed, and people who just haven’t been hit with it yet.
2) Understand that the Happy People are usually acting out of some genuine (albeit misguided) concern for you, that it’s coming from a good place, even if the advice feels like you’re being blamed for your disease. Telling you these things makes them feel better, even if it makes you feel like shit. (If they insist on keeping it up, see #12.)
3) Enlist the help of a professional.  See your doctor. You need to talk about the ugly shit, and there are people paid to listen and help you find your way to the light at the end of the tunnel.  
4) Understand that antidepressants will only do so much. They’re useful, they’ll level you out and give you the time you need to figure out your own path to getting well. They can be helpful. There are lots to choose from. They may not be for you, and even if they are, they take some time to kick in. Conversely, they may not be for you. Work with your doctor.
5) Pick up a paintbrush, a pencil, an activity you got joy from in the past and re-explore that.  Or, sign up for the thing you always wanted to try. There is a long history and link between depression and creativity. It’s a bright light of this condition, so utilize it to your best advantage.
6) Eat nutritionally sound, regular small meals. If you’re having trouble eating, try to focus on what you’d like to eat. I went through a whole six week episode of tomatoes and cream cheese on a bagel twice a day. Not great, but it was something – helpful context, I’m a recovered anorexic. Conversely, if all you want to do is scarf down crap, try to off-ramp it by downing a V-8 and doing #9 for 15 minutes, and see how you feel.  Chucking your blood sugar all over hell’s half acre is going to make you feel worse.
7) While you’re doing #3, get some bloodwork done. If you’re low on iron or vitamin D, or if your hormone levels are doing the Macarena… these can all contribute to zapping your energy or switching your mood to Bleak As Hell.
8) If you’re in bed and the “insomnia hamsters”, as I like to call them, are on the wheel of your head, watch Nightly Business News on PBS. This has the effect of Nyquil.  Swap out your coffee for herbal tea. If you just cannot sleep, try the next tip….
9) Learn how to meditate. Start by focusing on your breathing. Not sleep, not thoughts. In through the nose, out through the mouth. Meditation is focusing on being present in your body, not careening around in your brain. It may not be as good as sleep but it will give you some rest and recharge you.
10) Face a window as often as you can – at work, at home. Look out into the world. Watch. Observe. Try to find something you find pretty or interesting to focus on. And, handily remember that one in five of those people out there feel the way you do.
11) Cry. Better out than in. Sometimes it’s not convenient or career-enhancing to cry, so find a private place as best you can and let the tears go. Carry Kleenex and face wipes and extra concealer if you wear makeup. You can always claim allergies.
12) Any “friend” who resolutely believes that your depression is because you’re lazy, because you’re not trying hard enough, who blames you for not bootstrapping out of it- that friend needs to be cut off. Polite (#2) is one thing, but there is a limit. You don’t have to explain, you can just not respond. You feel badly enough, you don’t need their “assistance”.
13) Limit your time with people who drain you. You know who they are. Often you don’t have a choice- but you can put the meter on. And, subsequently, be aware of what you’re asking of those close to you.
14) Everyone has shit they’ve got to deal with. What you have been saddled with is your shit. Recognize, just as you’re not alone, you’re also not unique. The grass may look greener, you may be jealous or envious of others who don’t have to deal with depression, but you likely do not know everything that’s going on with them.  
15) Let go or be dragged. This is an old Buddhist saying. It’s a very useful way to frame aspects of depression. Betrayal, anger, fear… letting go is a process – often a painful and difficult process - but it’s ultimately going to show you the path out of this terrible place. Repeating the mantra can help when you’re feeling gripped by these feelings.
16) Wear clothes that make you feel confident. It takes as much time to put on nice clothes as it does to put on sweatpants. You will want to wear the sweatpants. Fight the urge. The whole “look good/feel better” campaign isn’t limited to cancer and chemotherapy. Or women.
17) Avoid fictional drama and tragedy like the plague. No Grey’s Anatomy, no to The Notebook, or anything that won a Pulitzer prize. You’ve got enough going on In Real Life. Comedy only.  Or trashy stuff. Old episodes of WonderWoman? I’ve got the box set. Mindless drivel, like the latest CGI blockbuster. Or clever, funny books. David Sedaris. Jenny Lawson. Fiction exists to elicit emotion, and the emotion you need to express most right now is laughter.
18) Simple exercise, if you can. It can be something as simple as taking the stairs up a flight, or walking around the block. It doesn’t have to be elaborate, it doesn’t have to involve climbing a mountain or running a marathon. Baby steps.
19) Depression will lie to you. Depression will try to tell you what others are thinking.  That you are unloved and unworthy, that others think little of you or don’t care – or even wish you harm. You are not a psychic. Keep repeating that. “I am not a psychic”.  Repeat. The only way to know what another person is thinking is to up and ask them.
20) If you are well and truly losing this battle, reach out to someone. I’ve been the random friendly-but-not-close person who has fielded the occasional outreach. I like to think I’m not judgemental and generally resourceful, and others have thought the same, so they called and asked. You know someone like me. And they will help you.
21) Forgive yourself.  I’m writing out all these tips, and I can’t always muster the strength to even stick my nose outside, or walk up the stairs, or eat my vegetables. Today, I got outside for ten minutes. I will try again tomorrow. And I will try again the day after that.
This list will not cure you. This list will not flip on the happy switch. God, I wish it were that easy. The theme here is to not to unknowingly sabotage yourself. All these little things? Like your blood sugar, or watching nonstop episodes of House, or endless Try Harder lectures from your Perpetually Perky sister?
They all make dealing with depression just a tiny bit harder than it needs to be. And it’s hard enough, all on its own.
UPDATE: Wow, guys. Thank you. The feedback has been wonderful - all I wanted to set out to do was something helpful.
For those of you who want to see the original rant, Here it is.. www.diycouturier.com/post/41923259437/to-the-person-who-wrote-21-habits-…
And here’s the response to my response (?) - basically, after posting my retort, the happy people came at me with torches all over the interwebs.
www.diycouturier.com/post/42465364887/trollin-trollin-trollin#_=_
Also, a few people have mentioned that having a critter is a great thing to keep you on track, that taking care of something and having something rely on you keeps you going. I went back and forth on including that, but for some, it’s just not feasible to have a cat or a dog… but my cat is my Prozac.
And, I wrote this in Canada, where we have universal health care. It breaks my heart that people don’t have access to professional support. You can sometimes find a community health centre, or sometimes your work benefits will have an employee support or assistance plan as part of your insurance. If you’re without benefits and hitting desperation, phone someone. Friend, family - even your local distress centre.
Stay well, my melancholic interweb friends…xoRR
http://www.diycouturier.com/post/47249603128/21-tips-to-keep-your-shit-together-when-youre
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VIDEO: THE MYTHS OF THE PALEO DIET

Paleolithic era cave drawings
If you’re not familiar with the TED Talks video series, I highly recommend checking them out. TED Talks are informational lectures (on a HUGE variety of topics described as “ideas worth spreading”) given by experts in the field. It’s nearly impossible to watch them and not be smarter afterward. I recently saw a TED Talk featuring ancient diet researcher Dr. Christina Warinner. In her presentation, she sets the record straight about the paleo diet and the myths that surround it, and there are many.

What is the Paleo Diet?

The paleo diet, or the “caveman diet,” advocates eating like our ancestors did during the Paleolithic era. This is thought to be mostly meat with some supplemental fruits, vegetables and nuts, but no grains, legumes, or dairy. The idea is that agricultural diets are out of sync with our biology and make us ill. Abandoning modern agricultural products, hopefully, will allow us to live longer, healthier lives.
Aspects of this certainly sound great… but, unfortunately, the whole idea has almost no basis in archeological reality. The meat that was eaten then is not the meat that is eaten today. The vegetables and plants that existed during that time are very, very different from what you’ll find at the grocery store now. Additionally, there are many lifestyle differences between then and now that can’t be ignored (but usually are).

The Meat Myth

Paleolithic diets usually include a lot of red meat from domesticated, fattened cows, often grown in industrial feedlot operations. While the Paleolithic man did eat meat, a big juicy steak is not what was on the Paleolithic man’s plate. If paleo man wanted to eat meat, he had to catch and kill it himself. The meat was probably very lean and often came from small game (and it would have qualified as organic and free-range). Additionally, because of the energy expended to catch wild game, all parts were used, including the organs and bone marrow.
http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/video-myths-paleo-diet/
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Saturday, April 6, 2013

'DECEITFUL' BIG PHARMA ACCUSED OF PUTTING LIVES AT RISK

Melissa Davey Published: April 7, 2013
Patients are being deceived into taking drugs they don't need, that don't work or may put lives at risk, according to a scathing review of the influence big drug companies have on healthcare.
Drug companies ''masterfully influenced'' medicine, a joint review by Australian, British and US researchers has found, describing how the enormous profit involved in making and selling drugs gave the industry power to influence every stage of the health system.
''As a result of these interferences, the benefits of drugs and other products are often exaggerated and their potential harms are downplayed,'' their research, published in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation, found.
A co-author of the paper, Emmanuel Stamatakis, from the University of Sydney's school of public health, said it was ''entirely illogical'' to rely on the pharmaceutical industry to fund medical research.
''The profits involved are just too large and the temptation to manipulate the evidence is difficult to resist, even when this may lead to the loss of lives,'' Dr Stamatakis said.
''Asking corporate sponsors to conduct pivotal trials on their own products is like asking a painter to judge their own painting to receive an award.''
He cited as an example anti-diabetic drugs that he said increased the risk of heart problems and were prescribed despite interventions like exercise being more effective.
One anti-diabetic drug, rosiglitazone, is still prescribed in Australia despite being pulled from the European and New Zealand markets after thousands of lawsuits were filed against its manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline. The company was accused of deliberately withholding evidence that the drug caused heart attacks.
Drug companies funded, designed and controlled a large portion of the most influential medical studies, the researchers found in an evaluation of 600 clinical trials.
Trials funded by industry were four times more likely than those sponsored by not-for-profits to favour the sponsored drug.
The researchers also looked at the influence of drug company representatives using flawed evidence of drugs' effectiveness to persuade doctors to prescribe them.
Doctors were also treated to free trips to international drug conferences, fancy dinners, research grants and drug company shares, researchers found.
''It is hardly surprising that clinical practice guidelines often are heavily focused on new costly interventions and only loosely follow the available evidence,'' the researchers wrote.
Medical writer and a senior research fellow with Queensland's Bond University Ray Moynihan said Australia was behind other countries like the US in reining in unethical behaviour by drug companies.
In the US, the Sunshine Act was introduced to allow anyone to look up which doctors receive industry funding.
''I think transparency is key,'' he said. ''The fact that you can go to a doctor and be prescribed a new drug, without them telling you they've learnt all about that drug at an industry funded event or a visit from a drug representative is outrageous, and it's unbelievable that it could happen in 2013 in Australia.''
The chief executive of industry group Medicines Australia, Brendan Shaw, said the industry made the medicines and vaccines people relied on.
"Industry engagement across the health sector is vital to patient outcomes and should be encouraged,'' Dr Shaw said. "Absolutely this needs to be co-ordinated in an ethical and transparent way, and the industry has a long track record of doing this.''
So why would Australian doctors accept drug company money?
''The pharmaceutical largesse takes Australian doctors all over the world on business class airfares and puts them in five-star hotels and yes, that can be good in terms of engaging with peers, but doctors should pay for that themselves,'' said Ken Harvey, who is part of the Medicines Australia transparency working group. ''It becomes a seductive, symbiotic relationship.
''Prestige can be just as important as money,'' he said.
In June the group will release its final recommendations on measures and policies to improve transparency of payments between healthcare professionals and the drug industry.
This story was found at: http://www.theage.com.au/national/deceitful-big-pharma-accused-of-putting-lives-at-risk-20130406-2he0n.html
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

1998 INTERVIEW WITH DR. JOHN COLQUHOUN - NEW ZEALAND MAN WHO REGRETS HIS ROLE BRINGING FLUORIDE TO NZ SCHOOLS


John Colquhoun, BDS, PhD 1924 - 1999
A dentist and historian, John Coquhoun lived in Auckland, New Zealand while pursuing a career as a researcher, dental practitioner and public health official. He graduated from the University of Otago in New Zealand in 1948 with a Bachelor of Dental Surgery degree and received his diploma for education in Sydney. After 7 years service in the national School of Dental Service, as a teacher and administrator, he entered private practice. In 1971, he became Principal Dental Officer for the Auckland Health District. During this period he carried out research in both dentistry and Auckland social history.
Until 1980, Colquhoun was a keen advocate of water fluoridation. In that year, he was sent on a world study tour by the New Zealand Department of Health for the purpose of investigating recent research into fluoridation. Upon his return he was appointed to the post of Chairman of the Fluoridation Promotion Committee of the New Zealand Dental Health Foundation.
After returning from his study tour, Dr. Colquhoun reported the new discovery (for 1980) that dental decay was declining in "western" counties, with or without fluoridation, and that the differences between decay rates in fluoridated versus non-fluoridated locations were much less than had been claimed would occur.
Nonetheless, like many of his professional colleagues of the day, Colquhoun was very reluctant to admit that fluoridation was a failure. He advocated, and his superiors agreed to a new approach based on the belief that fluoridation still provided a marginal benefit. Colquhoun felt he was reinforced in that belief by his superiors' claim that new statistics, collected for all New Zealand School Dental Service patients (98% of the childhood population) revealed such a benefit.
He was shocked to discover, when the statistics were sent to him, that they revealed no such benefit. In fact, in most Health Districts the percentage of children who were "caries-free" was higher in the non-fluoridated areas of New Zealand.
Colquhoun disagreed sharply with his superiors' action in circulating a document, "overview of fluoridation statistics," which omitted the Health District statistical information on fluoride and "disgracefully doctored" the remaining statistics, claiming that a marginal benefit existed.
When, in addition, he discovered that dental fluorosis prevalence (a sign of fluoride toxicity) was much higher than expected in fluoridated areas, Colquhoun publicly changed his stance on fluoridation in 1983.
Dr. Colquhoun continued his research, which contributed to the earning of a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1987, and was appointed to the post-doctoral position of Honorary
Research Fellow of the University of Auckland. In 1992 he became editor of the Journal of the International Society for Fluoride Research (Fluoride), a position which provided a good overview of fluoride research in different academic disciplines.
Dr. Colquhoun passed away peacefully in his home on March 23rd, 1999 at the age of 75, remaining intellectually active almost until his final moments.
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MATT CUTTS: TAKING A WEEK OFF FROM THE INTERNET

by on December 30, 2012
The end of the year is a perfect time to think about goals. Did you get done what you wanted in 2012? What do you want to accomplish in 2013? Instead of setting year-long goals, I’m a big fan of trying out new things for a month at a time:

This month I’m going to try to unplug from Twitter and most news. I’m also going to cut down on replying to email.
I’m going to start out with a week without internet. Harper Reed called it a “reading vacation” and I can’t wait to curl up with a few books.
Is there something you’ve always wanted to learn or try? Why not give it a shot for 30 days and see how it goes?
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/taking-a-week-off-from-the-internet/
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