Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Today, most chronic diseases are described in terms of chemistry, even though that's not necessarily the level at which they originate. Cardiovascular disease can be described as a chemical disorder, as something wrong with the lipids in your blood, for example. Poor digestion might be said to be chemically caused because you're not making enough hydrochloric acid in your stomach, for example. Cancer is also often described in terms of its chemical nature, with the explanation that the chemical molecules in your body or your immune system aren't functioning correctly. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 Following the exercise plan described in Chapter 10 will add just the right amount of stress to your system. Again, exercise prolongs your life because it is stressful, not because it is beneficial in itself. I know it sounds crazy, but now you know the real reason exercise is "good" for you is that it's "bad" for you.
TAKING A BREAK
If you use some or all of the tools I've described in this chapter to induce hormesis, you'll arrive at a very interesting place. |
Devra Davis
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 In this same story Time described the launch of the largest social movement ever loosed against the disease, noting that:
Three hundred thousand U.S. women have cancer. Some 80,000 will die of it this year. Some 40,000 need not die of it if they take or have taken advantage of the resources which Medicine has so far marshaled against the nation's second most common cause of death. About six women get cancer to every five men. The most prevalent forms of cancer in women, however, are cancer of the breast and womb, which are the most curable. |
Joseph Campbell
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| There is no word of explanation, no mention of the dubious wager with Satan described in chapter one of the Book of Job; only a thunder-and-lightning demonstration of the fact of facts, namely that man cannot measure the will of God, which derives from a center beyond the range of human categories. Categories, indeed, are totally shattered by the Almighty of the Book of Job, and remain shattered to the last. Nevertheless, to Job himself the revelation appears to have made soul-satisfying sense. |
| And she described his case. Dahnash expressed his disbelief that anyone could be more handsome than the Princess Budur, and Maymunah commanded him to come down with her and look.
"I hear and I obey," said Dahnash.
And so they descended and alighted in the salon. Maymunah stationed Dahnash beside the bed and, putting out her hand, drew back the silken coverlet from Kamar al-Zaman's face, when it glittered and glistened and shimmered and shone like the rising sun. |
| Dahnash resumed, and described the mighty king, her father, his treasures, and the Seven Palaces, as well as the history of the daughter's refusal to wed. "And I," said he, "O my lady, go to her every night and take my fill of feeding my sight on her face and I kiss her between the eyes: yet, of my love to her, I do her no hurt." He desired Maymunah to fly back with him to China and look on the beauty, loveliness, stature, and perfection of proportion of the princess. "And after, if thou wilt," said he, "chastise me or enslave me; for it is thine to bid and to forbid. |
| It cannot be described, quite, as an answer to any specific call. Rather, it is
2* Supra, p. 55.
25 See Otto Rank, Art and Artist, translated by Charles Francis Atkinson (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1943), pp. 40-41: "If we compare the neurotic with the productive type, it is evident that the former suffers from an excessive check on his impulsive life. . . . Both are distinguished fundamentally from the average type, who accepts himself as he is, by their tendency to exercise their volition in reshaping themselves. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 What used to be just a normal unhappy moment or episode of sadness is now described by drug-pushing psychiatrists as a disease requiring chemical treatment. Shyness is no longer simply a personal attribute; it's also a disease requiring chemical treatment. Creative expression, excitement and active curiosity in children is no longer a sign of a healthy, learning child; it's a symptom of a "disease" called ADHD that requires treatment with powerful mind-altering amphetamine drugs that used to be called "speed" when they were sold on the street. |
Joseph Campbell
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| The hero adventures out of the land we know into darkness; there he accomplishes his adventure, or again is simply lost to us, imprisoned, or in danger; and his return is described as a coming back out of that yonder zone. Nevertheless—and here is a great key to the understanding of myth and symbol—the two kingdoms are actually one. The realm of the gods is a forgotten dimension of the world we know. And the exploration of that dimension, either willingly or unwillingly, is the whole sense of the deed of the hero. |
Devra Davis
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| Another case, from Waynesboro, Mississippi, in 1926, described three infants born to the same mother, the last when she was thirty-four. All three died of lead poisoning; their autopsies showed elevated levels of lead in their blood, liver, and bone.24
Kehoe's dozens of autopsies of dead babies are the work of a very meticulous man, showing precise amounts of lead measured in the brains, livers, hearts and kidneys of poor black and white infants. For toddlers with lead poisoning, it's always been assumed that their exposure comes from the habit of putting things into their mouths. |
| Cameron, the former medical chief of the ACS, described the process to historian Richard Rettig, who profiled the early years of the ACS.
During the war years, the Board was infiltrated by people who were determined that this organization was a sleeping giant. I suppose it started with one individual, Elmer Bobst, coming on board and saying, 'This has a great potential, let's get my friend, Mr. So and So, like Jim Adams.' . . . They got one of their friends after another on the Board. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| In the past, influence-peddling was more accurately described as payola or bribery. Politicians have exempted themselves from such corruption, though, by passing a multitude of rules and laws that obfuscate where the monies come from...and where they end up. Soft money, PAC (political action committee) money, campaign contributions...private donations, corporate donations...where do these begin, and where do "courtesies" such as fine dinners, exotic trips, or pricey honorariums end? |
| Human insulin (rDNA) was allowed to be described as "just like that made by the human body" — a half-truth at best. It was promoted as "better" than other insulins currently available. Again, this was a lie based on economics and on lack of unbiased research at reputable universities/medical centers. If "better" meant "more profitable to the manufacturer" rather than more efficacious for the patient, it can be seen that the government was permitting semantics to outweigh substance in their oversight of truth in advertising guidelines. |
Anne Harrington
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 In his studies of the Kalahari bush people in the 1970s, for example, Richard Katz described the intensely painful "boiling energy" that rises up from the bellies of native healers during ritual healing dances, an experience that makes full sense in the context of their own cosmology but that has no obvious parallel in any experiences most people have in Western cultures. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Consequently, when Eli Lilly, in a move they described as strictly "a business decision," took Beef Ultralente off the market, they succeeded in removing an important and necessary tool for many diabetics. After Hirsch's paper appeared in 1993, the only "similar" product to Beef Ultralente was Lilly's synthetic Human Ultralente. You can read Lilly's researchers' own admissions about the inferior nature of this product in Chapter 11, Patent Revelations. In fact, human Ultralente is no longer in the marketplace. |
Joseph Campbell
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| The "Wall of Paradise," which conceals God from human sight, is described by Nicholas of Cusa as constituted of the "coincidence of opposites," its gate being guarded by "the highest spirit of reason, who bars the way until he has been overcome." BS The pairs of opposites (being and not being, life and death, beauty and ugliness, good and evil, and all the other polarities that bind the faculties to hope and fear, and link the organs of action to deeds of defense and acquisition) are the clashing rocks (Symplegades) that crush the traveler, but between which the heroes always pass. |
Anne Harrington
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| His formal definition described it, rather tautologically, as the "influence provoked by an idea suggested and accepted by the brain." By this he meant a process in which an idea is accepted in such a way as to lead to "ideomotor and ideosensory automatisms"—i.e., patients feel and behave in a way consistent with an implanted idea without reflecting on its sense or plausibility.
Bernheim believed a tendency toward "suggestibility" was natural to human beings. Nevertheless, it often worked better if a patient could be lulled into a state of reduced vigilance. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The term 'prescription drug' means a drug that is described in section 503(b)(1).
(vi) The term 'wholesaler'--
(I) means a person licensed as a wholesaler or distributor of prescription drugs in the United States under section 503(e)(2)(A); and
(II) does not include a person authorized to import drugs under section 801(d)(1).
(E) PERMITTED COUNTRY. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 It will amaze you with the courage of some of the people described in the book. Ms. Nakazawa examines all of the theories about autoimmunity in detail, from heavy metals to toxic chemicals to viruses to vaccines and finally to the hygiene hypothesis. The Autoimmune Epidemic is every bit as compelling as Upton Sinclair's groundbreaking novel The Jungle and every bit as necessary as An Inconvenient Truth, the startling movie featuring Al Gore and directed by Davis Guggenheim, that shows us that global warming is upon us and may at some point in the near future be irreversible. |
| Research into both the rue plant, a small evergreen shrub also known as the herb of grace, and sea anemone extract began years ago when researchers at the University of California, Irvine came across a report that described the beneficial effect of a scorpion sting on a patient with multiple sclerosis. They began to ask themselves about other natural substances that might, in a more controlled manner, be able to influence T-cell and cytokine activity.
It remains to be seen if PAP-1 will work in people as well as it does in lab animals. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 It has been described as a revolving door — from the drug industry to the FDA just in time to chair a panel responsible for approving a drug application from the company he or she used to work for; the drug gets approved; and within a few months, perhaps a year it's, "See ya, FDA," and back to the company whose drug was just approved.
According to Byron J. Richards, author of Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America, the interim head of the FDA, Andrew von Eschenbach, M.D., and FDA Deputy Commissioner for Medical and Scientific Affairs, Scott Gottlieb, M.D. |
| The addictions I described earlier to success and money — along with a new baby in the mix — seemed to always take precedence over a workout.
What I found to be instrumental in getting back on the health and fitness track and staying there was to adjust my mindset from having a strong desire to look great to just wanting to be fit and healthy. Changing my mindset involved lowering my physical expectations and that motivated me to start exercising regularly again. Ironically, it has led to being in better shape physically than I have been in years. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 Previously, we described the effects of 5-HTP and L-theanine. Both of these compounds improve sleep quality. In particular, 5-HTP has also been shown in several double-blind clinical studies to decrease the time required to get to sleep and to decrease the number of nighttime awakenings. The recommended dosage is 50 to lOOmg at bedtime.
L-theanine is also an important supplement when trying to get a better night's sleep. At typical dosages (100 to 300mg), L-theanine does not act as a sedative, but it does significantly improve sleep quality. |
Anne Harrington
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| Weizsacker then described an encounter he had himself had with an aging Freud, many years later, in which the great man had admitted that the sudden intrusion of an accident or organic disease in the life of a patient can cure that patient of his or her neurosis. Weizsacker had then said to himself: "If he knows that, why doesn't he say so?" Obviously, Weizsacker believed that it was up to him to "say so"—to develop the full clinical implications of the insight. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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| Short-term goals can be used to help you achieve those long-term results described in your positive goal statement. Get in the habit of asking yourself the following question each morning and evening: What must I do today to achieve my long-term goal?
EXERCISE #2: ASK POSITIVE QUESTIONS
According to Anthony Robbins, author of the bestselling books Unlimited Power and Awaken the Giant Within, the quality of your life is equal to the quality of the questions you habitually ask yourself. This belief is based on the assumption that whatever question you ask your brain, it will answer. |
Anne Harrington
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| In a lecture before the French Academy of Sciences in 1882, he described hypnosis as an artificially induced modification of the nervous system whose medical interest lay not—as Braid and others had thought—in its potential therapeutic applications, but in the fact that it could only be produced in patients suffering from hysteria. It consisted of discrete phases— catalepsy, lethargy, and somnambulism—each of which could be identified by special physiological signs and provoked by stimulating the nervous system in specific, differentiable ways. |
| It was duly administered on a Friday, and this is how his doctor described the scene that greeted him on Monday morning.
I had left him febrile, gasping for air, completely bedridden. Now, here he was, walking around the ward, chatting happily with the
31 nurses, and spreading his message of good cheer to any who would listen. Immediately I hastened to see the others who had received their first injection at the same time. No change, or change for the worse was noted. Only in Mr. Wright was there brilliant improvement. |
Devra Davis
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| In several hundred papers detailing his own experiments with animals, he described how deliberate exposure to tobacco tars and fumes created tumors throughout what he termed the "smoking highway" of the respiratory tract, from the nose through the esophagus and larynx to the lung.53 Even when nicotine was taken out of tobacco in his experiments on animals, tumors occurred. This made it clear that tars in tobacco were the chief culprits. |
| It would be easy to attribute the indifferent response to tobacco hazards described by the Nazis and elaborated by researchers in other countries to a highly principled moral reluctance to rely on any science forged out of fascism. Yet, sometimes what is easy is also wrong.
After the war ended, not all Nazi science was banished from use. Many innovators from Nazi Germany, such as rocket scientist Werner von Braun, were absolved of their Nazi pasts and quickly put to use building better missiles for the Allies. |
| Here's how he described his first and last visit to the beta-Naphthylamine manufacturing plant just across the Wilmington River at Deepwater:
The manager and some of his associates brought us first to the building housing this operation, which was located in a part of a much larger building. It was separated from other operations by a large sliding-door allowing the ready spread of vapors, fumes and dust from the be-tanaphthylamine operation into the adjacent work rooms. |
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