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 We already know for example, that electrical impulses and sound waves rapidly accelerate the healing of bones. We know that infrared light in the 600 and 700 nanometer range accelerates the healing of flesh wounds. We also know that environmental stress caused by noise (living near airports) or electrical interference (living near high-voltage power lines) is detrimental to health. A recent study, for example, showed that men who frequently use cell phones show radically reduces sperm counts due to the side effects of cell phone radiation. |
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 Actual FDA quote is gobbledygook
Here's an actual FDA statement from the CAM Guidance report:
For example, naturopathic cranberry tablets might be labeled for use to maintain the health of the urinary tract. In this example, the cranberry tablets generally would be regulated as "dietary supplements" ...if they were labeled for use to "maintain the health of the urinary tract" rather than "prevent urinary tract infections." The cranberry tablets would be regulated as "drugs" ...if they were labeled for use to "treat urinary tract infections" even if they were labeled as dietary supplements. |
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 Mike: Can you give a simple example that people would recognize there?
Dr. Pizzorno: Well, the example I gave already of the coenzyme Q10 being removed by the statin drugs. Another example, and this is very common one, a lot of people are now using cimetadine, and other H2 blockers. Well those H2 blockers, not only do they block the secretion of hydrochloric acid in the stomach, but they also block the secretion of intrinsic factor. Well, intrinsic factor is critical for the absorption of B12. |
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 The reason we want to know your country is that if there's enough demand in Australia, for example, we may arrange for a separate shipment to Australia that can be distributed locally at very low cost. Also, if you are interested in being a local distributor for this product outside North America, please indicate that in your email. (If we arrange for a shipment directly to Australia, for example, we will need someone there to handle storage and fulfillment.)
After we receive email responses to this, we will:
Determine whether there's enough combined interested to justify a bulk purchase. |
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 Baby dolphins are healthier than baby humans, for example, and they are born with healthier nervous systems, fewer toxins and a lot more common sense.
Hey, let's go suck on a cow
Speaking of common sense, nearly all mammals have the common sense to feed their children their own mother's milk. A kitten, for example, will drink cat's milk from its mother. A puppy will drink dog's milk from its mother. A baby horse will drink horse's milk from its mother. But humans? We're sorta stupid. We mostly drink cow's milk. |
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 Click the picture on the left to see an example of the kind of nature photography I'm talking about. I snapped this photo on the Big Island of Hawaii, and it's an example of the kind of approach I take to photographing nature. When dealing with nature, you have to be mindful, delicate, even sensual!
Nature is simply amazing, and most of the time we miss the miracles in nature because our eyes are too big and too far away to notice the detail. |
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 The astonishing story of Rezulin, a diabetes drug, is a good example.
Repeatedly banned and confiscated herbs and nutritional supplements that compete with prescription drugs. Ephedra, for example, was banned by the FDA based on a political agenda, not good science.
Conducted armed raids on alternative medicine clinics, confiscating computers, threatening alternative health practitioners, and scaring away patients. |
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 Monosodium glutamate (MSG), for example, is a neurotoxic substance classified as an excitotoxin. Consuming it causes migraine headaches, endocrine system damage, loss of appetite regulation (leading to obesity), neurological damage in fetuses (when consumed by expectant mothers) and many other problems. This is well known throughout the industry. Baby food manufacturers, for example, voluntarily removed MSG from their products decades ago following a public outcry about the dangers of MSG to babies and infants. |
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 Pushing drugs and abandoning the people
For the Brigham and Women's Hospital, I think this action we're seeing today is yet another example of how organizations that once accomplished meaningful work have apparently sold their souls to Big Pharma and now operate as little more than drug company front groups. Gee, I wonder where their funding comes from?
To show you just one tiny example of how closely tied Brigham and Women's Hospital is to the financial influence of drug companies, consider the bio of one senior investigator working at the hospital: Christopher P. Cannon, M.D., F.A.C.C. |
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 One question is, for example, is it appropriate for you to rip your DVDs to a format that will play on a portable video device such as the iPod or the PSP? The manufacturers who make these devices and the companies that own video content would much prefer that you never rip these movies into any other format. There's a profit motive behind that stance. They want you to buy every movie two, three or four times, once for every format. For example, you've probably purchased many videos in VHS format back in the days when VHS tapes were the only things available. |
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 I had one final example to give, an example that would show that Big Pharma's arguments that lower prices would hurt R&D simply didn't hold water and I used Merck as an example. "In 2003, Merck recorded revenue of $22.5 billion. Of this, they spent $3.2 billion on R&D. That's not quite as much as they paid out in dividends?3.3 billion, and much, much less than their 'marketing, sales and administrative' costs?6.4 billion. After other charges and taxes, the company still recorded profit of $6.8 billion. |
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 Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, for example, greatly interfere with Coenzyme Q10 production (a nutrient essential for cellular energy), but instead of being told to take supplemental CoQ10, many patients suffering from fatigue and exhaustion on statin drugs are simply diagnosed with another disease and given yet another prescription drug to take.
Antidepressant drugs, as another example, interfere with the metabolism of carbohydrates. Most people taking antidepressants are deficient in the B vitamins (especially folic acid). |
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| I had one final example to give, an example that would show that Big Pharma's arguments that lower prices would hurt R&D simply didn't hold water and I used Merck as an example. "In 2003, Merck recorded revenue of $22.5 billion. Of this, they spent $3.2 billion on R&D. That's not quite as much as they paid out in dividends?3.3 billion, and much, much less than their 'marketing, sales and administrative' costs?6.4 billion. After other charges and taxes, the company still recorded profit of $6.8 billion. |
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 By associating their names with this document, these doctors, nurses and oncologists have cemented their names in a document of great historical significance: It will be looked upon with ridicule and laughter in the near future -- held up as an example of the incredible arrogance and short-sightedness of doctors in an era of pharmaceutical-controlled medicine.
In my view, there is hardly a greater example of high-IQ stupidity in organized medicine today than this breast cancer task force document. |
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 The press is big on disease mongering, for example. It will promote practically any disease, even if it's completely fictitious, as long as someone from a pharmaceutical company says the disease is real and that people should be afraid of it. Look at the hype over "Restless Leg Syndrome" for an example of the disease mongering carried out by the mainstream media.
I'm not saying that the New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post or other newspapers never engage in real journalism -- clearly they do from time to time. |
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 The company's Chocolate Goji Bar, for example, is made with raw Tibetan goji berries, raw cacao powder, raw cacao butter, raw mesquite pod meal, sun-cured African vanilla beans, Himilayan Crystal Salt and raw blue agave nectar.
And that's just for starters. This company hand makes the most remarkable raw chocolate "superfood" products I've ever seen across the health products industry. Their Goji Jelly Cups, for example, are made with raw wildcrafted camu camu berry powder, raw Tibetan goji berries and "empowered chocolate." One taste tells you this is no ordinary food. |
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 First are the drugs used most often, such nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories (Ibuprofen is one example). Next, "the ones that resist our metabolism -- that is they get excreted unchanged -- will have a measurable presence in waterways," said Daughton.
"We probably have an idea of an unknown fraction of these chemicals that actually occur," he said, "The issue really is one of people being exposed to something they ordinarily never would... fetal exposure or pregnant mothers, for example. |
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 Hormones have a specific regulatory effect on the activity of the body. For example, the thyroid gland produces thyroid hormone which helps to regulate the metabolism of the body.
Bioidentical, natural hormones are substances generally produced from plant products that closely mimic the body's own hormone production, both structurally and chemically. Examples of bioidentical hormones include: DHEA, natural progesterone, natural estrogens, natural testosterone, melatonin, hydrocortisone, human growth hormone, and pregnenolone. |
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 As an example, view this article: FDA Moves to Shut Down Red Yeast Rice Distributors Online by Citizen Journalist Brad Chappell. It's an example of the kind of quality news reporting we're seeing from participants in this program.
Writers like Brad are already generating revenues from their efforts, although most participants are far more interested in simply working with NewsTarget and sharing their knowledge than earning a living from this activity. |
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 My favorite example of Halloween candy? The dreaded candy corns. They contain virtually nothing other than corn syrup and artificial colors.
A holiday that's fitting for the most obese nation in the world
Every Halloween, I stare in astonishment at the scene playing out in front of my eyes. I'm not astonished at the children, mind you: They're just doing what they've been taught to do by television advertisements and peer pressure. |
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 The medical literature shows a popular breast cancer drug, for example, only prevents cancer in 0.5% of women, yet it's hyped as a "miracle" cancer drug. Many over-the-counter medicines are nothing but chemical sweeteners, artificial colors, syrups and small doses of dangerous laboratory chemicals. Some actually contain the very same chemicals banned by the FDA in herbal medicine. |
| REPPED: Another example of outright quackery by pharmaceutical companies has finally gathered enough steam to achieve mainstream news coverage: Cold medicines are useless, say pediatricians who petitioned the FDA to ban the marketing of such products to children. Last month, an FDA advisory panel partially agreed with the recommendation, and voted to declare that such medicines should not be used in children younger than six. |
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 My take on the issue
If you want an example of two companies engaged in hyping worthless beverages, look no further than Coke and Pepsi. In my opinion, both of these companies operate with an astonishing lack of integrity -- not only in the way they hype their bottled water products, but also in their ongoing marketing of beverages that I am convinced are closely tied to the obesity and diabetes pandemics now ravaging our world.
Coke and Pepsi have, in my opinion, played a significant role in the destruction of human health among advanced nations over the last three generations. |
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 You cannot do without them. For example, if you make a 3-milligram melatonin, and it is in the smallest number-four cap you can get, you still must have a hundred milligrams of something else filling it up.
The drug industry uses dicalcium phosphate. I do not go near dicalcium phosphate. I have never used it for anything. We use a wood byproduct called methylcellulose. It is highly pure. It is like giving people fiber. I have a very short list of excipients that I will allow people to put into our products. |
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 Many cosmetics and personal care products, for example, are loaded with cancer-causing chemicals that soak right through the skin and enter the bloodstream, and yet these products proudly display pink ribbons, enticing gullible women to purchase them while thinking they're doing something useful to stop breast cancer.
If it wasn't for the fact that so many women are being killed by toxic products, it would all be quite hilarious. But the sad fact is that product marketers are exploiting both the pocketbooks and bodies of women in a quest to generate more profits at any cost... |
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| Mike: That is one of the things that is not readily visible to the consumers on nutritional products. For example, how are the raw materials handled or tested? What is the percentage of excipients and fillers that go into formulas? They do not have to be listed in the same way on the label. What are some of the concrete steps that you take to maximize the quality, or the purity, or the safety of the raw materials that you use?
Principles of quality formulations
Dr. Liers: First, I am a tough son of a gun. I do the specifications. |
| If you give the body those precursors, it will have an adequate supply of nucleic acids. For example, even while you are actively trying to rebuild RNA in your body through dietary nucleic acid intake, D-ribose enables you to make significantly more RNA.
Mike: It also tastes good, does it not?
Dr. Liers: Yes, it tastes good. Then we put in rice bran solubles, which is a superfood all by itself. We started combining all of these things, including some B complex, because B12, methylcobalamin and folinic acid are right in the pathway as coenzymes for building nucleic acids. |
| Organ meats, for example, are also tremendous sources of RNA.
Chlorella started gaining more attention in the 1980s and some chlorella supplements came along. Chlorella, as you probably know, is 5 to 15 percent RNA. I thought it was the highest of all foods, and it probably is, but I just learned that nutritional yeast has about 6 percent RNA, which really blew my mind. Dr. Frank was using nutritional yeast and RNA derived from yeast, which has been in health food stores for years.
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 Naturopathic doctors who once prescribed laetrile for cancer patients, for example, have been run out of the country or arrested. Herbal product companies have been censored to such a degree that none dare tell the truth about the anti-cancer effects of their own products, and even broccoli growers and marketers are scared into remaining silent about the remarkable, scientifically-proven anti-cancer effects of broccoli.
In other words, if you want to know what the cancer industry supports or attacks, just check to see which list it's on. |
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