Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 So what's a threat to human survival that is common in Africa and around the Mediterranean and has a connection to red blood cells? Four out of five dentists may recommend Trident—but ten out of ten infectious-disease experts will give you the same answer if you ask them to solve that riddle: the answer is malaria.
Malaria is an infectious disease that infects as many as 500 million people every year, killing more than 1 million of them. More than half of the world's population live in areas where malaria is common. |
| That preference for genes that give us a survival or reproductive advantage is called natural selection. Here are the basics: If a gene produces a trait that makes an organism less likely to survive and reproduce, that gene (and thus, that trait) won't get passed on, at least not for very long, because the individuals who carry it are less likely to survive. On the other hand, when a gene produces a trait that makes an organism better suited for the environment and more likely to reproduce, that gene (and again, that trait) is more likely to get passed on to its offspring. |
| It's a book about survival and creation. It's a book that wonders why, and a book that asks why not. It's a book in love with order and a book that craves a little chaos.
Most of all, it's a book about life—yours, ours, and that of every little living thing under the sun. About how we all got here, where we're all going, and what we can do about it.
Welcome to our magical medical mystery tour. when i was fifteen years old, my grandfather was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He was seventy-one. Alzheimer's—as too many people know—is a terrible disease to watch. |
| Some parasites complicate the picture because they are capable of survival outside a host for a very long time. A pathogen that can lie in wait for years until a potential host happens upon it isn't very reliant on transmission pressure. Anthrax is one of these patient predators. The deadly bacteria can exist outside a host for more than ten years in some situations. In these cases, it's hard to affect virulence by reducing the pathogen's transmission channels, because its ability to survive outside a host makes it less concerned with transmission from an evolutionary perspective. |
| Untreated, the survival rate is about one in three. (And that's just the bubonic form, which infects the lymphatic system; when Y. pestis makes it into the lungs and becomes airborne, it kills nine out of ten—and not only is it more lethal when it's airborne, it's more contagious!)
The most likely origin of the European outbreak is thought to be a fleet of Genoese trading ships that docked in Messina, Italy, in the fall of 1347. By the time the ships reached port, most of the crews were already dead or dying. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This means your odds of survival may be roughly ninety-eight percent, and if you supplement with anti-viral foods, herbs, medicines, and even drugs if you can get them, then your chance of survival approaches one hundred percent. I don't know about you, but I'd much rather face the bird flu with a 99.9% chance of survival (with the help of natural medicine) than 98.0% survival. These numbers are all estimates, but I'm sure you get the picture. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 Survival curves, 1840-1980, reveal that our life expectancy has greatly increased but our life span has remain unchanged. (Reprinted with permission from Vitality and Aging: Implications of the Rectangular Curve.)
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Figure 21. If we are to shift the survival curve significantly to the right, for a rectangular survival curve, we need to overcome chronic diseases. (Reprinted with permission from Vitality and Aging: Implications of the Rectangular Curve.) those free of erectile dysfunction. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| This means your odds of survival may be roughly ninety-eight percent, and if you supplement with anti-viral foods, herbs, medicines, and even drugs if you can get them, then your chance of survival approaches one hundred percent. I don't know about you, but I'd much rather face the bird flu with a 99.9% chance of survival (with the help of natural medicine) than 98.0% survival. These numbers are all estimates, but I'm sure you get the picture. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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| T. gondii reproduces by copying itself during the life of its host, but it's only in cats that it undergoes sexual reproduction, producing new oocysts, or spore cells, that can go on to find new hosts. Infected cats distribute oocysts in their droppings. The oocysts are hardy little organisms that can survive for as long as a year in tough conditions. When rodents, birds, or other animals ingest the oocysts, they become infected; animals can also become infected by eating the flesh of an infected animal. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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| If we are to shift the survival curve significantly to the right, for a rectangular survival curve, we need to overcome chronic diseases. (Reprinted with permission from Vitality and Aging: Implications of the Rectangular Curve.) those free of erectile dysfunction. Impotence, it turns out, is as robust a predictor of cardiovascular disease as elevated cholesterol, smoking, or a strong family history of the disease. Our own anecdotal evidence suggests that profound lifestyle change with plant-based nutrition offers the optimal opportunity to avoid heart disease—and to restore erectile capacity. |
Roberta Bivins
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 Second, and probably more dangerously for the economic survival of the bulk of 'regular' practitioners (general practitioners often practising just at the edge of financial survival in highly competitive urban environments), there were the anti-elitist homeopaths who produced manuals and kits of medicine for lay users at home. Although the homeopathic elite was historically far more visible, it was this submerged body of home users who kept homeopathy alive in the lean times of orthodox medicine's 'Golden Age' in the middle years of the twentieth century. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This extract was non-toxic when injected up to 800 mg/kg, and significant enhancement in survival time of the irradiated group was observed. In addition, treatment reduced radiation-induced damage to germ cells and loss in body weight.
Got that? The key concepts here are "significant enhancement in survival time" (the mice lived longer), and a reduction in radiation-induced damage to germ cells, meaning that the DNA in your sperm remains more intact. |
| Not only did the tumors shrink more in the acemannan-treated group, but post-treatment survival was significantly extended. Click here for an abstact on the study.
Google Scholar lists hundreds of links exploring the anti-cancer effects of acemannan. If you browse the studies, you'll realize that acemannan from aloe vera accelerates the destruction of cancer tumors, improves survival time and results in far better recovery from toxic cancer treatments. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 With time, the survival of the fittest led to virtually an entire culture possessing the thrifty gene.
Throughout the history of the world the ability to express the thrifty genotype was rewarded with survival. As a result, this genetic predisposition is one of the critical factors fueling the obesity epidemic.
PHENOTYPE VERSUS GENOTYPE
Even with the presence of the thrifty genotype, diet and lifestyle are the critical factors in determining obesity and diabetes. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Asthma Survival: The Holistic Medical Treatment Program for Asthma by Robert S. Ivker, D.O.
Sinus Survival: The Holistic Medical Treatment Program for Allergies, Colds and Sinusitis by Robert S. Ivker, D.O.
Asthma Free in 21 Days by Kathryn Shafer, Ph.D.
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The Palm Beach Holistic Center for Natural and Integrative Medicine Jupiter, Florida 561.799.6789
This is where you'll find Kathryn Shafer, who is the founder of image therapy for asthma, discussed in the book. If you want to try image therapy with the originator of the technique, this is the place to go. |
Jack Challem
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 Anger taps into primitive brain functions related to physical aggressiveness and survival. The epinephrine (adrenaline) release with anger increases our energy levels for a short while, an important survival trait. Alcohol, which reduces social inhibitions, often increases the expression of anger, either in words or physical actions. That's why alcohol is commonly associated with abusive behavior and fighting. For example, instances of "air rage" have typically involved airline passengers who get drunk and then verbally abuse or physically attack flight personnel. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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| If we are to shift the survival curve significantly to the right, for a rectangular survival curve, we need to overcome chronic diseases. (Reprinted with permission from Vitality and Aging: Implications of the Rectangular Curve.) those free of erectile dysfunction. Impotence, it turns out, is as robust a predictor of cardiovascular disease as elevated cholesterol, smoking, or a strong family history of the disease. Our own anecdotal evidence suggests that profound lifestyle change with plant-based nutrition offers the optimal opportunity to avoid heart disease—and to restore erectile capacity. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 The influence of therapy with silymarin on the survival rate of patients with liver cirrhosis. Wien Klin Wschr 92(19):678-683, 1980.
Bode JCh, Arzneimittel flir die Indikation "Lebererkrankungen". In: Dblle W, Muller-Oerlingshausen B, Schwabe U (Hrsg.), Grundlagen der Arzneimitteltherapie. Entwicklung, Beurteilung und Anwendung von Arzneimitteln. B.I.- Wissenschaftsverlag, Mannheim Wien Zurich, S 202-211, 1986.
Bode JCh. Die alkoholische Hepatitis, ein Krankheitsspektrum. Internist 220:536-545, 1981.
Buzzelli G, Moscarella S, Giusti A et al. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 Three large clinical trials looking at the survival benefit of bypass suggested that it helps only the sickest of the sick, about 3 percent of patients in the trials who underwent bypass. Dr. Nortin Hadler, a professor at the University of North Carolina and a vocal critic of many aspects of American medicine, points out that the potential benefit of bypass has to be weighed against the risks, including a 1 to 2 percent mortality rate during or shortly after the surgery. |
| Angioplasty and stenting have never been shown to improve survival. You can stent until the cows come home and not prevent a heart attack." This finding was supported most recently by a Veterans Affairs study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. And while the elective use of angioplasty and stents has skyrocketed over the past ten to fifteen years, there has been no change in the rate of heart attacks.
Only recently have cardiologists begun to understand why this is so. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Trying to shed weight without removing the accumulated toxins first goes against the body's principles of survival and is therefore difficult to achieve. The body merely protects itself against acid death by keeping the toxins in a neutralized state inside fat cells and bodily fluids. Your health will improve automatically once you remove the toxic waste products and keep the eliminative organs and systems open and clean. The focus needs to be on moving toward good health, rather than on fighting ill health. |
| Albert Einstein had this to say about vegetarianism: "Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chance for survival on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." He predicted that producing and eating so much meat would literally kill us and our environment. Leo Tolstoy stated, "Vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism."
The world's output of meat increased fivefold in the second half of the 20th century. |
| If you are concerned about the world's survival, consider the following statistics:
• One acre of grain produces five times more protein than an acre of pasture set aside for meat production. An acre of beans or peas produces ten times more protein, and an acre of spinach twenty-eight times more protein. Almost all land can be used for growing some crop or another.
• One portion of meat contains only 20 grams of protein, whereas a typical 100-gram portion of beans yields 35 grams of protein. The meat, however, costs about 20 times more than the beans do. |
| Coconut oil also assists with dissolving and removing toxins that are trapped in fatty deposits, thereby making fat accumulation increasingly unnecessary (accumulation of fat is a survival mechanism to keep toxins engulfed within fatty tissue). This may explain why coconut oil helps to build lean muscles. Many body builders, personal trainers, Olympic athletes, and others use it for building lean body mass.
Coconut oil is easily digested, even by weak and compromised digestive systems. |
| The energizing of stones may be an important key to survival in a world that is experiencing high-level pollution and destruction of its eco-balance.
In the early evolutionary stages of Earth, every particle of matter within the mantle of the planet contained within it the blueprint of the entire planet, just as every cell of our body contains, within its DNA structure, the blueprint of our entire body. The blueprint information within every particle of matter is still there—it has simply fallen into a dormant state. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Plants do not appear to need selenium for survival. If selenium is present in soil, plants will take up the selenium.
Selenium is used in the body in antioxidant enzymes, by the immune system, and in conjunction with iodine to control metabolism. Approximately 30 percent of tissue selenium is found in the liver, 15 percent in kidneys, 30 percent in muscle, and 10 percent in blood plasma, as seen in Figure 13-2.
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Figure 13-2 Where selenium is found in the body. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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 The most probable cause is a combined assault by the environmental chemicals in pesticides and plastics
PLANT survival MECHANISM
Like other antinutrients and toxins in soybeans, isoflavones seem to have evolved to ensure the plant's survival. In a dry year, desert annuals exhibit stunted growth but greatly increased levels of phytoestrogens. When eaten by California quail, these compounds inhibit their ability to reproduce and so prevent the birth of young who would starve because of insufficient food. In a wet year, the plants grow vigorously and contain few phytoestrogens. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| Zinc supplements may in fact backfire to decrease survival time and stimulate the virus. Helping the immune system get adequate zinc without helping the HIV will require further research.
ZINC AND OLDER ADULTS
Older adults have average zinc intakes that tend to be lower than the RDA. To avoid impaired immune system functioning, older adults should be sure to maintain adequate zinc intake.
ZINC AND ALCOHOLISM
Alcoholics are at increased risk of zinc deficiency from both impaired absorption and increased urinary losses. |
Mike Adams
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| The very fact that you are alive is proof that your genes are well suited for survival. (Only a backward-thinking scientist would suggest that somehow human beings have evolved a gene pool that causes fatal diseases. That goes against everything we know about evolution and survival of the fittest.)
Blaming genes for chronic disease is junk science
In fact, the idea that is often propagated by conventional medicine — that people are somehow genetically programmed to have heart disease or other disorders — is so absurd that it borders on scientific insanity. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| This is so important to survival that the body will remove calcium from bones to keep the blood concentration constant.
Bone Remodeling
Bone tissue is constantly being dissolved and replaced in the body in a process called bone remodeling. Bone cells called osteoclasts begin the process of bone remodeling by dissolving bone, as diagrammed in Figure 9-1. This is called bone resorption. New bone is then synthesized by bone cells called osteoblasts to replace the resorbed bone. When bone formation exceeds resorption, bone is growing. |
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