Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Heine: Table salts and sea salts of the world typically have bleaching agents, anti-caking agents, leaching agents and other processing agents used in producing the product. Typically, the product goes under a tremendous amount of stress and all the trace minerals that are present in sea salt have been stripped out, which is why the other salts have such a white, uniform appearance. They're just manufactured products, really. Our sea salts and some other sea salts, the French sea salts included, are completely clear. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 The bleeding stomachs, they argued, came from mucolytic agents in the tomato (i.e. agents that can degrade the protective layer of the stomach surface), food restriction, and/or stress resulting from animal restraint.16 Others pointed to stomach lesions in water-fed controls in the follow-up study. But tomatoes are not known to contain mucolytic agents, the rats ate as much as they wanted, they were not restrained,17 and there is no explanation why the GM tomato elicited more effect. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Heine: Table salts and sea salts of the world typically have bleaching agents, anti-caking agents, leaching agents and other processing agents used in producing the product. Typically, the product goes under a tremendous amount of stress and all the trace minerals that are present in sea salt have been stripped out, which is why the other salts have such a white, uniform appearance. They're just manufactured products, really. Our sea salts and some other sea salts, the French sea salts included, are completely clear. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 We have divided the supplements into four basic categories (beta-cell health; insulin sensitizers; antiglycation agents; and antioxidants and anti-inflammatory agents) that mirror the key factors involved in metabolic dysfunction. Understand that the divisions are somewhat artificial, given that nutraceuticals have a fair degree of crossover and complementary effects and health benefits.
As always, talk to your doctor before you begin any nu-traceutical program, especially if you are taking any type of medication. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 No good science supporting safety of triclosan
According to the American Medical Association: "Despite their recent proliferation in consumer products, the use of antimicrobial agents such as triclosan in consumer products has not been studied extensively. No data exist to support their efficacy when used in such products or any need for them…it may be prudent to avoid the use of antimicrobial agents in consumer products."
The chemical company states: "Ciba supports the use of triclosan only if there is a benefit to human beings."
So, what if it is shown to offer no benefit to humans? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It is an unsettling and un-American scenario to envision federal agents nosing through the reading lists of law-abiding citizens while hunting for evidence against somebody else."
Welcome to Police State Amerika
This News.com story by Declan McCullagh documents how AT&T opened up its massive telecommunications network to U.S. government security agents who used it to profile the telecomm behaviors of AT&T customers. Curiously, the Bush Administration jumped in and classified key AT&T documents, preventing them from being presented in federal court (so we'll never know what they really said). |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 If your macrophages lack iron, as they do in people who have hemochromatosis, those macrophages have an additional advantage—not only do they isolate infectious agents and cordon them off from the rest of the body, they also starve those infectious agents to death.
New research has demonstrated that iron-deficient macrophages are indeed the Bruce Lees of the immune system. In one set of experiments, macrophages from people who had hemochromatosis and macrophages from people who did not were matched against bacteria in separate dishes to test their killing ability. |
Melody Petersen
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 The tobacco company had forty of its "agents" roam the stands, looking for fans who smoked. The agents invited the smokers to the company's Winston tent, where they were given free cigarettes and NASCAR collectibles. The fans gave RJR their names and other personal information. The experience helped the tobacco company form "a relationship" with the smoker. RJR also erected driving simulators for kids to sit in, giving them a driver's-eye view of the race. Its marketing tactics proved potent. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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| Certain food ingredients and processing agents are derived from GM bacteria, fungus, or yeast.
2. Even if the transgene is not found in the food, the GM process still carries risks.
3. The GM protein may be unhealthy, have altered properties or react with other compounds in unpredictable ways.
4. The gene insertion process might also disrupt normal gene expression of the microorganisms.
Food additives created from GM microorganisms pose health risks
Several enzymes, cooking agents, and other proteins used in food are created from genetically engineered bacteria, fungus, or yeast. |
Ray D. Strand
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 Vitamin E protects against the damage caused by various chemotherapeu-tic agents to the lungs, liver, kidneys, heart, and skin. CoQlO has been shown to protect against the long-term damage to the heart that the drug Adriamycin causes. Beta-carotene and vitamin A reduce the adverse effects of radiation and some chemotherapeutic agents. All of these antioxidants have been shown to help protect against the DNA damage to normal cells that cancer treatments cause.
Michelle's Story
Michelle was a beautiful, vibrant four-year-old. Her world was filled with love and lots of laughter. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 After refining, common table salt is mixed with iodine, bleaching agents, and anti-caking agents, which creates a pure white, free-flowing product. Even many salts labeled "sea salt" are washed or boiled, which removes minerals and trace elements, rendering them toxic to the human body. Any salt that has been heated in this manner is converted to a covalent form, which is difficult for the body to assimilate. Celtic sea salt and Himalayan salt are the most energetic and complete salts we have found. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Iron is also needed by infectious agents such as bacteria. The body lowers blood iron levels during acute infections to avoid aiding the infectious agents. Lowering blood iron may be an important immune response to infections. Iron fortification and supplementation must be reconsidered during infections to prevent worsening infections such as malaria, tuberculosis, HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), and typhoid.
Nutrient Interactions with Iron
Iron deficiency anemia may be aggravated by a deficiency of vitamin A. |
Tom Bohager
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 Infectious agents that get past the nonspecific barriers must then confront weapons produced by the body that have been specifically tailored to suit the intruder based on blueprints stored by memory cells after a previous exposure.
Long-term immunity can be stimulated not only by infection but also by vaccines made from infectious agents that have been inactivated or, more commonly, from minute portions of the offending microbe. For example, the flu vaccine is comprised of inactive flu virus. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| To fight infections, immune system phagocytes release oxidizing agents to kill viruses and bacteria. These oxidizing agents can also be harmful to our own cells.
Vitamin C, in its role as an antioxidant, protects our cells against the free radicals released by phagocytes. Histamine is produced by immune cells and can cause inflammations such as a stuffy nose. The antihistamine effects of vitamin C can help with the symptoms of a stuffy nose.
How Vitamin C May Help with Colds
By reducing damage from phagocyte-released free radicals. With an antihistamine effect. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 Although infectious agents can be spread through working with hides and meat by-products or even fish by-products, once these parts are rendered for glue, the cooking process sterilizes the materials, effectively removing this risk. The general public, who were the ultimate consumers of animal-derived glues, may have found the factories a nuisance because of the smells emitted, but they used the products without incident. For most of history, old-fashioned good glue has been synonymous with animal-derived materials extracted by slow cooking, without too much attention to other details. |
| The grinders, we learn, are metalworkers who have operated essentially as free agents up to this time. Each has his own "trough" with a water-driven grinding wheel. "When they are employed, they can earn great wages," The Grinders instructs us (17). Of course, we also learn that the employment is sporadic, with periods of forced idleness when the water that powers the grinding stones is low (in summer) or frozen (in winter).
Intended as a simple morality tale of Christian virtue, The Grinders inadvertently documents a critical turning point in industrial disease. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 There are the orderlies who must deliver blood samples to the lab on time and the pathologists who must correctly identify infectious agents so doctors can prescribe the right antibiotic. Pharmacists have to provide the right drug at the right dose to the right patient. Somebody has to scrub down every bacteria-harboring nook of an operating room, thoroughly sterilize equipment and linens, stock supply closets, fill soap dispensers, and maintain heart monitors and ventilators. Every single person must do his or her job right every single time or risk the well-being of patients. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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| Despite their pedestrian applications as fillers, sizing agents, and binders, these materials have exotic names such as gum tra-gacanth, gum arabic, and gum karaya. At best, none is a very strong glue (one tends not to make furniture out of papier-mache, after all), but just as with protein collagen, none is particularly toxic, either. water solubility
The animal glues and the vegetable gums may differ in their strength and utility, but they have one very important thing in common: both are water soluble. |
| World War II were finally declassified in the 1950s, this information allowed nitrogen mustard to be developed into one of the first effective chemotherapy agents for lymphoma.80
All of the mustard toxins were found to share a common mechanism: they attack DNA, binding to this critical molecule and thus interfering with its function. Although this accounts for nitrogen mustard's potency in killing dividing cells, such as the cells of a tumor, it also gives nitrogen mustard the ability to cause genetic mutations. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 Alkaloids
EFFECTS
The active agents are tannin, simarubin, essential oil, and fat. Simaruba is a tonic and febrifuge.
INDICATIONS AND USAGE
Simaruba was formerly used in the treatment of febrile illnesses and dysentery. Recent research indicates that it may be effective in treating malaria. The drug is used for unspecified enteritis, diarrhea, and amarum. It possibly causes vomiting, and is also used as an abortive.
PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS
No health hazards or side effects are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages. |
| The active agents also have astringent, antipyretic, and antispasmodic properties.
INDICATIONS AND USAGE
In Chinese medicine, the drug is used for pathological leukorrea, diarrhea, chronic diarrhea, chronic dysentery and dysmenorrhea. In Africa, it is also used for cramps, asthma, fast heart rate, gonorrhea, epilepsy and tapeworm infestation. It is increasingly used in the treatment of malaria.
Efficacy has not been proven.
PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS
Large doses of the drug are said to lead to queasiness, dizziness, headache, tingling in the limbs and diarrhea. |
| Fermented garlic - the minced drug is soaked over a long duration in a water-ethanol mixture, volatile agents escape and the garlic becomes odorless. Steam distillations and tinctures are also possible.
Daily Dosage: The average daily dose is 4 gm of fresh garlic or 8 mg of essential oil. One fresh garlic clove, 1 to 2 times daily.
Storage: Garlic should be hung in plaits in a dry place.
LITERATURE
Anonym, Knoblauch: Blockade der Cholesterinsynthese in der Leber. In: DAZ 134(45):4468. 1994.
Apitz-Castro R et al, (1983) Thromb Res 32:155. |
Carol Simontacchi
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 United States alone. agents, such as a knife that cuts through the skin; or by chemical agents, such as toxic materials.
There are generally four symptoms that alert us to the inflammatory process: redness, pain, heat, and swelling. Loss of function can also occur, depending on the site of the difficulty. The purpose of the immune response in inflammation is to remove the microbes, toxins, or other foreign material at the site of the injury; prevent the problem from spreading to other organs; and assist in tissue repair. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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| DOSAGE
Preparation: Wormwood is completely obsolete as a drug, occasionally available as a powder for use when more modern antithelmintic agents fail. Symptoms of poisoning are possible in therapeutic dosages.
Daily Dosage: The drug is always used in combination with a laxative. The average single dose is 0.025 gm for adults, for children, take the child's age in years, double this amount in milligrams of the drug.
According to the Austrian pharmacopoeia, the single dose is 1 to 2 gm. The powder is administered in the morning and followed later by a castor oil or sodium sulfate. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 The result of this extensive workup for infectious agents is nearly always negative. So the chances of finding evidence of ongoing infection in someone with chronic infectious-type symptoms is, in fact, rare. Why do I order so many tests? Well, in a relatively small number of patients, one or more of these tests may, in fact, reveal an infection or other medical cause that is treatable. And, of course, there's no way to rule out an infectious agent without testing for it. If this detailed workup proves negative, there are still other kinds of tests to carry out. |
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