David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 Indigenous people have many stories telling how their ancestors learned about many medicines from various animals. Native American tribes in the Rocky Mountains tell how they learned about osha root (Bear's medicine) from watching bears use it for wounds. In Siberia, the maral deer eat maral root (rhaponticum), and people learned how to use it as a tonic remedy from watching the deer. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Ben: Because that's what they learned in medical school.
Mike: That's exactly what they learned in medical school. All they learned, really, is how to diagnose diseases and treat them with drugs, surgery and radiation. They did not learn nutrition. Nutrition is not taught in medical schools today. Dr. Andrew Weil will tell you this. He says that doctors are "nutritionally illiterate." This is a direct quote from Andrew Weil. Dr. Weil, of course, is a real pioneer and has done outstanding work from within the system of organized medicine. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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| Native American tribes in the Rocky Mountains tell how they learned about osha root (Bear's medicine) from watching bears use it for wounds. In Siberia, the maral deer eat maral root (rhaponticum), and people learned how to use it as a tonic remedy from watching the deer. Researchers have found that many animals, including monkeys, bears, elephants, chimpanzees, birds, horses, and deer use various herbs to purge parasites, heal wounds, prevent or treat skin mites and fleas, treat itching, and relieve stress. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You won't find a happier, healthier bunch of people anywhere except perhaps in the mountains of Tibet.
We learned that high-vibration living (higher consciousness, compassion towards living things, spiritual awareness, etc.) goes hand-in-hand with following a raw foods diet. Simply ingesting the energy of living plants transforms your body, mind and spirit, with no additional effort on your part. Any person who eats raw foods for 90 days will absolutely, without question begin to see the world in a very different way.
We learned that living the raw foods lifestyle isn't just about nutrition. |
| Here's my own observation of the main points:
We learned that raw living foods is a fast-growing movement. The event attracted ten times as many people this year compared to last year, and next year looks to be even larger.
We learned that raw living foods people are the healthiest people you'll find anywhere. They're far healthier than mainstream consumers, healthier than processed food vegetarians and infinitely healthier than Atkins Diet followers. If you're looking for people who are genuinely healthy, go hang out with raw foods people! |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 The Atkins Connection
I first learned about this from Robert Atkins, M.D., who actually learned about it from Roger Williams, M.D. Williams, a pioneer in nutritional medicine, was the father of the term biochemical individuality and the author of several books on nutrition and alcohol. He was one of the first to recognize the deep and intimate connection between cravings for alcohol and cravings for sugar, and he used glutamine for both.
It started back in the 1950s, when Williams did an experiment with alcohol-loving rats. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Any person who eats raw foods for 90 days will absolutely, without question begin to see the world in a very different way.
We learned that living the raw foods lifestyle isn't just about nutrition. It's about being with nature, experiencing artistry, dance, movement, music, and so on. This movement transcends the nutritional aspects of raw foods nutrition.
We learned that raw foods living is FUN! This event was a blast. Typical natural health events like the Expo West trade show is stuffy and boring by comparison. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Jay's whey protein, for example, comes from cows not treated with rBGH (synthetic hormones), and I learned from talking to Jay this morning that he's working hard on introducing organic protein products in both categories (organic whey and organic egg protein). Once those are available, they will become the obvious choice for consumers seeking organic, natural protein products with no junk and no chemical additives. (We'll report on these products here at NewsTarget as soon as they're announced.)
Jay's products are also known for what they don't contain. |
Anne Harrington
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 For many patients, especially those who have learned to bring a consumerist sensibility to their medical care, situations like this can produce a sense of helplessness, even betrayal. Some patients may choose to give up, but others choose to get mad. What happens then? What do they do? To what or to whom do they turn?
Conceptual shortcomings and therapeutic shortcomings—these would seem to be serious enough perceived deficiencies in the edifice of physicalist modern medicine. But there is one other that still bears noting: an existential deficiency. |
| The encounter between brain science and the Dalai Lama in New York was, the readers of Tricycle learned, part of a larger quantum " 'wave revolution' that [was] shifting Western science toward the wisdom of Asian traditions." Indeed, the article concluded rather breathlessly, it was more than that: in New York City that day, "Arnold Toynbee's vision of a world renaissance sparked by the meeting of East and West seems to have arrived."90
I was an observer at that New York City meeting. |
| Others learned from Western writers who had tasted the Asian alternative and aimed to share the results with their readers. Particularly important here were the novels and poetry of the 1950s Beat writers: Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac (author of the thinly disguised memoir The Dharma Bums), and Allen Ginsberg.10 More didactic books like Alan Watts's The Way of Zen (1957) and Psychotherapy East and West (1961) provided further routes into the world of Asian wisdom.
Where did the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi fit into this larger scene? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They haven't yet learned how to clean up after themselves.)
We're still chewing on mercury, for crying out loud. How stupid is that?
See our CounterThink cartoon on this topic: http://www.newstarget.com/021690.html
P.S. Did you know you can protect yourself from mercury using nutritional supplements and superfoods? Taking chlorella and spirulina helps remove mercury and other heavy metals. Drinking cilantro in a smoothie also does the trick. Uber-nutritionist Jon Barron has a product called Metal Magic that combines these two ingredients. Check out www.BaselineNutritionals.com
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Joseph Campbell
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| His second solemn task and deed therefore (as Toynbee declares and as all the mythologies of mankind indicate) is to return then to us, transfigured, and teach the lesson he has learned of life renewed.20
"I was walking alone around the upper end of a large city, through slummy, muddy streets lined with hard little houses," writes a modern woman, describing a dream that she has had. "I did not know where I was, but liked the exploring. I chose one street which was terribly muddy and led across what must have been an open sewer. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 As you learned in our menopause chapter, one of the three estrogen receptors we discussed helps bone formation. Raloxifene, a designer estrogen sold under the brand name Evista, is one of the ones that's used for strengthening bone, but it antagonizes another receptor that controls breast and uterine growth, as well as blood-vessel stability that relates to hot flashes. So taking Evista may mean that you'll have worse hot flashes and insomnia as you go through menopause. But if you're at risk of osteoporosis, it may be worth considering, especially if you have a family risk of breast cancer. |
| As you learned, controlling the vagus can help you with everything from improving your memory to improving your immune system. We suggest you carve out time each day to breathe deeply and meditate. Before bed is a good time, or else when you're trying to manage stress.
Deep Breathing: Lie flat on the floor, with one hand on your belly and one hand on your chest. Take a deep breath in slowly—it should take about five seconds for you to inhale (imagine your lungs filling up with air; see Figure 17.1). |
| While all those changes may be as obvious as they are painful, you should have learned by now that outward signs of aging are really symptoms of changes that occur at a molecular level deep inside your body.
While it sounds like something you order up at Jiffy Lube for $39.95, glycosy-lation is one of the best examples of a biochemical process that has dramatic physical effects.
Simply, glycosylation occurs when sugar molecules (glucose) floating around in our blood attach to protein molecules, diminishing their effectiveness and causing inflammation. |
| The degree to which you can effectively explain information indicates how well you've actually learned it. The lesson: Take advantage of mentoring opportunities, whether it's instructing a class in your favorite hobby at a community college or inviting the neighborhood teens over to teach them how to change a tire or make a souffle. Teach the next generation, and you'll power up your own generator.
YOU Tip: And Be a Lifelong Learner. Yeah, sure, we know what your ideal picture of retirement looks like: one hammock, one baby-blue ocean, four naps a day. |
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 When the public learned of these documents thanks to investigative reporting by the health freedom community (credit goes to Rima Laibow, Ralph Fucetola and others who are staying on top of this issue), and filed tens of thousands of complaints with the FDA, the agency initially capitulated and changed the comment period to May 29. This is the comment period shown in this screen shot (click to view), taken May 1st. |
Anne Harrington
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| This was because he had learned that the hospital in which he was staying had been chosen as an evaluation site for a new experimental drug (derived from horse serum) called Krebiozen, and he was persuaded that Krebiozen would be his miracle cure. He begged his doctor to give him some. Although he met none of the criteria for inclusion in the trial (patients had to have at least a three-month life expectancy), he was so persistent that his doctor finally relented; yes, he could have an injection. |
Joseph Campbell
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| The embarrassed mother had exposed her infant on a mountainside, but the wild beasts protected and nourished it, and when she learned of this she fetched him home.
1 Giles, op. cit., pp. 233-234; Rev. J. MacGowan, The Imperial History of China (Shanghai, 1906), pp. 4-5; Friedrich Hirth, The Ancient History of China (Columbia University Press, 1908), pp. 8-9.
Shen Nung discovered in one day seventy poisonous plants and their antidotes: through a glass covering to his stomach he could observe the digestion of each herb. Then he composed a pharmacopoeia that is still in use. |
| Prince Five-weapons answered without fear, but with great confidence in the arts and crafts that he had learned. "Ogre," said he, "I knew what I was about when I entered this forest. You would do well to be careful about attacking me; for with an arrow steeped in poison will I pierce your flesh and fell you on the spot!"
Having thus threatened the ogre, the young prince fitted to his bow an arrow steeped in deadly poison and let fly. It stuck right in the ogre's hair. Then he let fly, one after another, fifty arrows. All stuck right to the ogre's hair. |
Anne Harrington
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| Groddeck found his answers not in the modern laboratory or modern textbooks written by physiologists and bacteriologists, but in principles of healing he had learned first from his former mentor, Ernest Schweninger. Schweninger was a naturopathic physician who believed that doctors never cure patients, but simply help remove barriers that keep patients from curing themselves. What were these barriers to self-cure? |
Joseph Campbell
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| When the lesson has been learned, it returns to the world, to prepare itself for the next degree of experience. Thus gradually it makes its way through all the levels of life-value until it has broken past the confines of the cosmic egg. Dante's Divina Commedia is an exhaustive review of the stages: "Inferno," the misery of the spirit bound to the prides and actions of the flesh; "Purgatorio," the process of transmuting fleshly into spiritual experience; "Paradiso," the degrees of spiritual realization.
A deep and awesome vision of the journey is that of the Egyp-
5 Sahagiin, op. cit., Lib. |
| How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task. How render back into light-world language the speech-defying pronouncements of the dark? How represent on a two-dimensional surface a three-dimensional form, or in a three-dimensional image a multi-dimensional meaning? How translate into terms of "yes" and "no" revelations that shatter into meaninglessness every attempt to define the pairs of oppo-sites? |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 As we have learned about the "thrifty genotype," those of us who have had to struggle with our weight can probably thank our ancestors for giving us such a remarkable ability to gain it.
Even though some people possess the thrifty genotype (see chapter 1) or seem to be endowed with a much heartier appetite than others, all of us eat when we sense an inner need for food. We tend to eat until we sense a feeling of fullness or satiety that tells us that we have had enough. |
| Many have also learned that if they avoid sugary or starchy foods and eat meals high in protein along with frequent high-protein snacks, they can reduce or avoid these symptoms significantly. All of this does indeed sound like hypoglycemia; however, when their blood sugar is checked during these episodes, it is uncommon for it to be in the significantly or dangerously hypoglycemic range. Although many of these people have accepted the concept that they suffer from hypoglycemia and may even refer to themselves as "hypoglycemics," they seldom find a medical doctor who will support this diagnosis. |
| They have learned to reward themselves for losing weight by savoring a small bit of chocolate (the size of a thumbprint) as slowly as they can eat it. If you take tiny nibbles and let it melt slowly in your mouth, it can be a real treat. After this chocolate experience is over, all you have is the memory of it anyway, and the enjoyment of this little bit of chocolate is almost as great as if you were to eat a few hundred calories of chocolate. |
| Those who are successful in losing weight and keeping it off have learned to drink plenty of water or other non-caloric beverages, but they also consume significant amounts of water in the form of low-fat, high-fiber soups, vegetables, fruits, boiled whole grains, and other volumetric foods. The fiber in these foods holds on to the water and makes these foods more volumetric.
BEWARE OF SWEETENED DRINKS
Sugary drinks like soda pop, sweetened iced tea, and fruit juice are probably the worst ways to provide your body with calories if you want to lose weight. |
| In essence, learned behaviors, whether they are a new skill or an addiction, become an easily repeated pattern of brain activity that is literally hard-wired into the brain. The appetite centers located in the hypothalamus of the brain are particularly "plastic," meaning that nerve pathways into and out of this region can be significantly rewired by repetitive eating behaviors. In this way, bad eating habits can eventually become a natural and normal experience that is very hard to stop by willpower alone. |
| Now, I would normally tell people that amount of weight loss is not wise because it usually is associated with a loss of muscle mass, but because my scale also determines body fat percentage, I learned that my body fat decreased from 22.3 percent to 17.8 percent. So most of the weight loss was actually fat loss. As incredible as it was to lose so much weight so rapidly (even though I had only planned on getting down to 195 pounds), what was really amazing to me was that the whole process was effortless. I felt satisfied all the time because I was using PGX to reduce my appetite. |
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