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RBTI and Rest

2012-02-13T16:42:00.000-05:00

Throughout the last several months a recurring theme has emerged in sets of RBTI test numbers that I've witnessed at Pittsburgh Alternative Health. The blatant motif shows a serious lack of rest, for pretty much all Americans, in all walks of life. People are just flat out tired. Nowadays the average American is overworked and underpaid, and this leads to major stress issues. Stress contributes to energy loss, and has been connected with a multitude of named diseases and syndromes. A forty-hour work week, errands, exercise, clubs, groups, hobbies, and a million other things combine to deprive us of proper rest, sleep and meditation, all of which are needed in order to heal.

With RBTI, heightened nitrogen levels are required for proper healing, and the nitrogen levels also indicate the presence of a potassium deficiency. Many people are coming into Pittsburgh Alternative Health with low nitrogen levels. These people don't have the nitrogen required for proper healing, and they show a major potassium deficiency. Common symptoms and complaints range from the general "I just don't feel right" to sleeping issues, mental and behavioral problems. Nitrogen levels in the "D" or "E" range are an immediate indication that the person needs rest and relaxation, and would probably do best to take a week away from work in order to get bed rest, proper sleep, and increased nitrogen levels.

Let's take a look at what Dr. Beddoe has to say about potassium deficiency (source):

When the oxygen supply to the brain is adequate, as shown by the proper carbohydrate number in the urine, than the brain’s use of potassium will be correct, provided adequate potassium is available from the diet. Reams determined that the brain requires more potassium per cell than any other organ. This is because potassium is not only required for the unique structure of the brain cells, but also for the function of the cells that take part in the thinking process. Therefore, a potassium deficiency can affect not only the structure of the brain at the cellular level, but the conscious and unconscious function of the brain cells as well. Yes, Reams verified that potassium deficiency can contribute to everything from plain overworked brain fatigue to head aches and depression.

As you can see, potassium is absolutely vital for proper brain function. A potassium deficiency can be a sign that the person needs rest and proper fueling, including potassium-rich foods like lima beans, millet and bananas. Seriously, I cannot overstate how important it is, in this day and age, to give the body and mind time to rest and recuperate. Mainstream media sources talk about lack of sleep and its contribution to ill health. This time, for once, the MSM has it right, although they don't really know why they're right.

I'd like to mention one last thing on the topic of rest and its importance in RBTI and healing in general. MY RBTI instructor, who learned from the best, has been coaching me in tweaking my numbers. Since I've re-reached the healing range after that holiday "cheat" and subsequent wobble, he's been asking me lots of questions to determine how I self-manipulated my sugar and conductivity numbers. In his most recent email to me, he said the following:

Rick,

I think what you are doing with the program is fantastic. Keep it up. The longer you hold those numbers where they should be, and that last set of numbers you provided was about as good as it gets when it comes to Energy Restoration / Healing --- Range numbers. As that type of pattern is held in place day in and day out, it will / should eventually begin to tighten up even more so that the pHs barely move around at all nor do the other numbers other than the albumin and the ureas all of which will get lover and lower until boom! they all line up into that perfect equation. I’ve never seen one, Rick. I followed the program very closely except in one aspect: SLEEP and WORK. I never took time to rest, worked every day and that was the undoing of my quest. That’s ok, I suppose because doing what I had to do to support my family was worth it. But Rick, if you could nail down perfect numbers, I would be elated and I will offer any bit of help I can think of to help you bring it to pass. You have the passion and the drive. Now we just need to get you the high brix fruits and vegetables along with any other foods you are eating.

If that isn't a confirmation for all I've said above, I don't know what is! Please, take time to rest and get proper sleep. Now that you've read this important information, go ahead and take a nap :)

Vermont Introduces Monumental GMO Labeling Legislation

2012-02-13T16:33:00.000-05:00

Vermont Introduces Monumental GMO Labeling Legislation (click to read) - GO VERMONT!!!!!

Could EMF's Cause Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?

2012-02-12T07:23:00.000-05:00

Paul Doyon: “I am Paul Doyon and I’m an American. I was living in Asia for the past 22 years. 6 years ago I got very sick and I didn’t know what was causing it. I had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is an illness that started in 1984 in United States. It was known also as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis in the UK earlier than that.

But in 1984, which just happens to be the first year that they set up the commercial nationwide cell phone network is United States, is the year people started to get sick with what is called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Initially the media called it the yuppie flu because it seemed that yuppies, who were the first people to have computers and cell phones, were the people most likely to get it. It’s 26 years later and they still say they don’t know what causes it. It took me 6 months to figure it out and I was able to cure myself of this disease. I’m one of the 3 % that does.

Processed And Whole Foods Inside Your Body

2012-02-11T07:06:00.001-05:00

Adventures with Brix Testing, and a Possible Cancer Cure Ignored

2012-02-08T16:52:00.000-05:00

Testing the brix levels of produce has become an obsession. Every time I go to the store and buy a new fruit, I've raced home to test it. A couple of friends have also decided to help me in this endeavor. Unfortunately, right now I don't have any readings for vegetables, outside of carrots. Other veggies will be added, as we enter spring and they become more readily available. Of course I will need to figure out an efficient way to extract a couple drops of juice from vegetables for the testing, so if anyone has any ideas, please let me know.

There's only one word that can describe the knowledge gained through these brix tests, and that's "depressing". It's a shame for an "extreme" health-enthusiast like myself to use that word, but it's true. These tests have basically confirmed what many have been talking about for decades - the significant depletion of our soil. The vegetables and fruits grown in most parts of the world are minerally deficient because of the deficient soil in which they're grown. So taking this one step further, it's easier to understand the importance of supplementation in the modern diet. Our bodies aren't getting the minerals they need from food. In fact, our stomachs aren't large enough to eat the vast amounts of foods that would be needed to provide the minerals in the ratios that our body needs on a daily basis. This leads to an easy decision - supplements or early onset of disease. I'll stick to my calcium and Min-Col, with Algazim also used from time to time. They're extremely inexpensive considering their importance in not only RBTI programs, but in human health in general.

Here's a look at some recent brix tests; most were performed by me, but a few were tested in Florida by a friend.

Item---Brand---Brix---Type---Rating

Apples---Braeburn (Morning Dew Orchards)---13---Conventional---Better than average

Apples---Gold Rush (Kretschmann Organic Farm)---16.6---Organic---Very Good

Apples---Stayman Winesap (Morning Dew Orchards)---13---Conventional---Better than average

Blueberries---Chile---11.6---Conventional---Average

Blueberries---Grocery Store FLA---8.8---Conventional---Poor

Canteloupe---Giant Eagle---13.0---Conventional---Better than average

Carrots---Bunny Luv---10---Organic---Better than average

Carrots---Clarion River Organics---9.4---Organic---Better than average

Clementines---Cuties---12---Conventional---Better than average

Grapefruit---Uncle Matt's - Florida---9---Organic---Fair

Grapes---Giant Eagle---21---Conventional---Excellent

Honeydew---Giant Eagle---9.0---Conventional---Poor

Kiwi---Grocery Store FLA---11---Conventional---No rating

Kumquats---East End Food Co-Op (FLA)---8.4---Organic---Good

Lemons---Produce warehouse in FLA---10.4---Conventional---Very Good

Lemons---Local market - PA---9.6---Conventional---Very Good

Lemons---East End Food Co-Op---7---Organic---Better than average

Lemons---Backyard, homegrown, FLA---6.6---Conventional---Average

Oranges---Cara Cara (East End Food Co-Op)---11---Organic---Better than average

Oranges---Navel Uncle Matt's (Florida)---14---Organic---Better than average

Oranges---Navel (Whole Foods)---10---Conventional---Average

Pineapple---Dole---13.2---Conventional---Fair

Pineapple---Dole---13---Conventional---Fair

Tangerine---Honeybell (Minneola, Florida)---11.6---Conventional---Average

Watermelon---Giant Eagle---9.6---Conventional---Poor

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And in news, check out this short piece about a possible cancer cure that is being swept under the table.

POTENTIAL CANCER CURE IGNORED? (click to read)

A Powerful Quote

2012-02-06T16:53:00.000-05:00

"As a practicing physician for over fifty years, I have reached three basic conclusions as to the cause and cure of disease. This book is about those conclusions.

The first is that the primary cause of disease is not germs. Rather, I believe that disease is caused by a toxemia which results in cellular impairment and breakdown, thus paving the way for the multiplication and onslaught of germs.

My second conclusion is that in almost all cases the use of drugs in treating patients is harmful. Drugs often cause serious side effects, and sometimes even create new diseases. The dubious benefits they afford the patient are at best temporary. Yet the number of drugs on the market increases geometrically every year as each chemical firm develops its own variation of the compounds. The physician is indeed rare who can be completely aware of the potential danger from the side effects of all of these drugs.

My third conclusion is that disease can be cured through the proper use of correct foods. This Statement may sound deceptively simple, but I have arrived at it only after intensive study of a highly complex subject: colloid and endocrine chemistry.

My conclusions are based on experimental and observational results, gathered through years of successfully treating patients. Occasionally I have resorted to the use of drugs in emergency situations, but those times have been rare. Instead, I have sought to prescribe for my patients' illnesses antidotes which Nature has placed at their disposal."

~ Bieler, Henry G., M.D. (1965) Food Is Your Best Medicine

RBTI and Unclean Meats

2012-02-05T08:14:00.000-05:00

It's Sunday morning, and that means reflection and contemplation for yours truly. Lately I've been giving a lot of thought to the urea numbers in the perfect health equation. Ureas signify proteins in your urine and bloodstream, and an overload of ureas portends a possible pectoris heart attack. When the urea numbers are constantly high, the heart goes into overdrive because the blood is thicker and therefore harder to pump through the body. The risk of pectoris heart attack is one of the main reasons for the unclean meats in RBTI.

Dr. Carey Reams preached that the Bible tells us all we need to know about clean and unclean foods. Although that's understandably debatable by modern science and nutrition, I am tending to lean towards the veracity of that statement. You see, Reams was able to confirm the words of Deuteronomy 14 and Leviticus 11 in his experiments and testing. He came to the conclusion that digestion, in the RBTI sense of the word, takes place over the course of eighteen hours. It takes that long for the liver to build the skeleton amino acids that form new alpha cells in the process of ionization (hence, Reams Biological Theory of Ionization). However, the "no-no" foods, and especially the unclean meats, digest at a much faster rate and therefore flood the body with unusable energy.

According to Dr. Reams, pork and other unclean meats digest in around three hours, as opposed to the eighteen for clean foods, thereby overloading the body with an influx of energy. He said that this is akin to putting high-test gasoline into a car that is not made for it. This causes the body to be flooded with proteins that it cannot use, and therefore they are dumped into the bloodstream as urea. The sudden increase in urea causes the blood to get thicker and in turn this causes the heart to have to pump harder. By regularly eating unclean meats, the person is continuously putting stress on the heart, making it work much too hard, and presenting a situation for a pectoris heart attack. These people are ticking time bombs, as any day the urea can overburden the heart and trigger that often painful attack.

If you know someone who eats unclean meats often, please pass them this information. It might just save someone's life.

News of the Week

2012-02-04T08:30:00.000-05:00

Quote overheard today: "You never know how much you use or miss your microwave until you don't have one." - an unfortunate soul. so sad.

This weekend I plan on putting together another RBTI post, about the no-no foods and the importance of avoiding them. In the meantime, here's some information from the past week that should quench your thirst for knowledge...

Kentucky is fighting for food freedom - all states need to put together resolutions such as this, and get the people calling their representatives with threats of throwing them out of office if they vote against it!

And in "what else is new" news, read about how Dean Foods, the USDA and a biotech firm are conspiring to corrupt organics in America. I've already showed how the USDA owns the term "organic" and has already tainted it to allow certain levels of additives into the food while still using the USDA organic label. This is taking it a step further. Before you know it, organic food in America won't be distinguishable from conventional. With my RBTI research, my opinion on this topic is slowly morphing, and I will post about that in the near future.

And it really seems that not a week goes by without us hearing about more shenanigans at the FDA. This week they've declared that our body is a drug, and they have the right to regulate it. The actual topic is stem cell therapy, but the statements from the FDA leave me wondering what the end game actually is...

Another great listen right here:

Also, check out this recent article about how turmeric/curcumin battle cancer: Turmeric, Curcumin Naturally Block Cancer Growth - Now I know why I love Indian food so much! A reduction is tumor size, attributed to the primary compound in an Indian spice - how awesome is that? Nature takes care of you!

Lastly, here's an informative video entitled "Bill Doyle: Treating cancer with electric fields"

Vitamin C Prevents Radiation Damage - Nutritional Medicine in Japan

2012-02-01T18:00:00.000-05:00

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Vitamin C Prevents Radiation Damage

Nutritional Medicine in Japan

(OMNS, Feb 1, 2012) Workers with severe radiation exposure at the Fukushima nuclear plant had major reduction in cancer risk when supplemented with vitamin C and other anti-oxidative nutrients. Sixteen men aged between 32 and 59 years worked 5 to 6 weeks in a radiation contaminated area, collecting contaminated water, measuring radiation levels, operating heavy machinery, and removing debris. Blood samples were obtained to measure whole blood counts and blood chemistry, plasma levels of free DNA, and 47 cancer related gene expressions.

Four workers who took intravenous vitamin C (25,000 mg) therapy before they went in, and continuously took anti-oxidative supplements during the working period, had no significant change in both free DNA and overall cancer risk.

Three workers that did not have preventive intravenous vitamin C had an increase in calculated cancer risk. After 2 months of intervention with intravenous vitamin C and oral anti-oxidative nutritional supplements, free DNA returned to normal level and cancer risk score was significantly decreased. (1)

This important clinical demonstration confirms research done nearly 20 years ago showing that pretreatment with vitamin C, by oral intake or injection, increased sperm head survival after the injection of radioactive Iodine-131 in mice. (2)

Oral intake of alpha-lipoic acid and vitamin E reduced urinary radioactivity and oxidative stress in irradiated children in Chernobyl. (3) Furthermore, there have been numerous scientific studies about the radio-protective effects of other vitamins, minerals, and antioxidative nutrients.

OMNS in Japanese

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We welcome to our Editorial Board many distinguished Japanese colleagues. Atsuo Yanagisawa, MD, PhD is General Editor of OMNS-Japan. Dr. Yanagisawa is President of the Japanese College of Intravenous Therapy and is a member of the Orthomolecular Hall of Fame. Other members of the editorial board include Ken Kitahara; Toru Mizoguchi, MD; Ryozo Saito, MD; and Tomomi Himeno, MD. A welcome statement to Japanese readers from OMNS Editor-In-Chief Andrew W. Saul is at http://iv-therapy.jp/omns/news/2.html

Japan is a leader in employing nutritional medicine including high-dose nutrient therapy, intravenous vitamin C treatments, the Gerson Therapy, and other effective and safe modalities.

If you are a skilled translator interested in having more orthomolecular information available in your country, and would like to volunteer to make it happen, please let us know at the contact email address below.

We would like to get the good news out in every language.

References:

1. Yanagisawa A. Effect of Vitamin C and anti-oxidative nutrition on radiation-induced gene expression in Fukushima nuclear plant workers. Free download of full presentation at http://www.doctoryourself.com/Radiation_VitC.pptx.pdf

2. Venkat R. Narra, Roger W. Howell, Kandula S. R. Sastry and Dandamudi V. Rao. J Nucl Med,1993. Vol. 34 No. 4, p 637-640. http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/34/4/637.long

3. Korkina L, et al. Antioxidant therapy in children affected by irradiation from the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Biochem Soc Trans,1993. 21:314S. PMID: 8224459 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=8224459

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Confessions of a Frustrated Pharmacist

2012-01-31T23:05:00.000-05:00

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Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, January 30, 2012

Confessions of a Frustrated Pharmacist

by Stuart Lindsey, PharmD.

(OMNS, Jan 30, 2012) When an insider breaks ranks with pharmaceutical orthodoxy, it is time to take notice. "Whistleblower" may be an overused term, but the article that follows might be well worth readers' consideration before standing in line for their next prescription refill. - Andrew W. Saul, OMNS Editor

I'm a registered pharmacist. I am having a difficult time with my job. I sell people drugs that are supposed to correct their various health complaints. Some medicines work like they're supposed to, but many don't. Some categories of drugs work better than others. My concern is that the outcomes of treatment I observe are so unpredictable that I would often call the entire treatment a failure in too many situations.

How It Started

In 1993, I graduated with a BS in Pharmaceutical Sciences from University of New Mexico. I became pharmacy manager for a small independent neighborhood drug store. Starting in the year 2000, nutrition became an integral part of our business. The anecdotal feedback from the customers who started vitamin regimens was phenomenal. That same year, my PharmD clinical rotations began with my propensity for nutritional alternatives firmly in place in my mind. On the second day of my adult medicine rotation, my preceptor at a nearby hospital informed me that he had every intention of beating this vitamin stuff out of me. I informed him that probably wouldn't happen. Three weeks later I was terminated from my rotations. The preceptor told my supervisor at UNM that there were acute intellectual differences that couldn't be accommodated in their program. What had I done? I was pressuring my preceptor to read an article written by an MD at a hospital in Washington state that showed if a person comes into the emergency room with a yet to be diagnosed problem and is given a 3,000-4,000 mg bolus of vitamin C, that person's chance of dying over the next ten days in ICU dropped by 57%! [1]

One would think that someone who is an active part of the emergency room staff might find that an interesting statistic. His solution to my attempting to force him to read that article was having me removed from the program.

Pecking Order

The traditional role of the pharmacist in mainstream medicine is subordinate to the doctor. The doctor is responsible for most of the information that is received from and given to the patient. The pharmacist's responsibility is to reinforce the doctor's directions. The doctor and the pharmacist both want to have a positive treatment outcome, but there is a legally defined 'standard of care' looking over their shoulder.

The training that I received to become a PharmD motivated me to become more interested in these treatment outcomes. After refilling a patient's prescriptions a few times, it becomes obvious that the expected positive outcomes often simply don't happen. It's easy to take the low road and blame it on "poor compliance by the patient." I'm sure this can explain some treatment failure outcomes, but not all. Many (indeed most) drugs such as blood pressure regulators can require several adjustments of dose or combination with alternative medicines before a positive outcome is obtained.

Wrong Drug; Wrong Disease

One drug misadventure is turning drugs that were originally designed for a rare (0.3% of the population) condition called Zollinger-Ellison syndrome into big pharma's treatment for occasional indigestion. These drugs are called proton-pump inhibitors (PPI). [2] After prolonged exposure to PPIs, the body's true issues of achlorhydria start to surface. [3]

These drugs are likely to cause magnesium deficiency, among other problems. Even the FDA thinks their long-term use is unwise. [4]

The original instructions for these drugs were for a maximum use of six weeks . . . until somebody in marketing figured out people could be on the drugs for years. Drug usage gets even more complicated when you understand excessive use of antibiotics could be the cause of the initial indigestion complaints. What you get from inserting proton pump inhibitors into this situation is a gastrointestinal nightmare. A better course of medicine in this type of case might well be a bottle of probiotic supplements (or yogurt) and a few quarts of aloe-vera juice.

Many doctors are recognizing there are problems with overusing PPI's, but many still don't get it. An example of this is my school in NM had a lot of students going onto a nearby-impoverished area for rotations. They have blue laws in this area with no alcohol sales on Sunday. The students saw the pattern of the patients going into the clinics on Monday after abusing solvents, even gasoline vapors, and having the doctors put them on omeprazole (eg. Prilosec), long term, because their stomachs are upset. This is medicine in the real world.

Reliability or Bias?

Mainstream medicine and pharmacy instill into their practitioners from the beginning to be careful about where you get your information. Medical journals boast of their peer review process. When you discuss with other health professionals, invariably they will ask from which medical journal did you get your information. I actually took an elective course in pharmacy on how to evaluate a particular article for its truthfulness. The class was structured on a backbone of caution about making sure, as one read an article, that we understand that real truthfulness only comes from a few approved sources.

I was never comfortable with this concept. Once you realized that many of these "truthfulness bastions" actually have a hidden agenda, the whole premise of this course became suspect. One of my preceptors for my doctoral program insisted that I become familiar with a particular medical journal. If I did, she said, I would be on my way to understanding the "big picture." When I expressed being a little skeptical of this journal, the teacher told me I could trust it as the journal was non-profit, and there were no editorial strings attached.

Weirdly enough, what had started our exchange over credibility was a warm can of a diet soft drink on the teacher's desk. She drank the stuff all day. I was kidding around with her, and asked her if she had seen some controversial articles about the dangers of consuming quantities of aspartame. She scoffed at my conspiracy-theory laden point of view and I thought the subject was closed. The beginning of the next day, the teacher gave me an assignment: to hustle over to the medical library and make sure I read a paper she assured me would set me straight about my aspartame suspicions, while simultaneously demonstrating the value of getting my information from a nonprofit medical journal. It turned out that the article she wanted me to read, in the "nonprofit medical journal," was funded in its entirety by the Drug Manufacturers Association.

Flashy Pharma Ads

As I read the literature, I discovered that there is very decided barrier between two blocks of information: substances that can be patented vs. those substances that can't be. The can-be-patented group gets a professional discussion in eye-pleasing, four-color-print, art-like magazines. This attention to aesthetics tricks some people into interpreting, from the flashy presentation method, that the information is intrinsically truthful.

The world's drug manufacturers do an incredibly good job using all kinds of media penetration to get the word out about their products. The drug industry's audience used to be confined to readers of medical journals and trade publications. Then, in 1997, direct-to-consumer marketing was made legal. [5]

Personally, I don't think this kind of presentation should be allowed. I have doctor friends that say they frequently have patients that self-diagnose from TV commercials and demand the doctor write them a prescription for the advertised product. The patients then threaten the doctor, if s/he refuses their request, that they will change doctors to get the medication. One of my doctor friends says he feels like a trained seal.

Negative Reporting on Vitamins

A vitamin article usually doesn't get the same glossy presentation. Frequently, questionable vitamin research will be published and get blown out of proportion. A prime example of this was the clamor in the press in 2008 that vitamin E somehow caused lung cancer. [6]

I studied this 2008 experiment [7] and found glaring errors in its execution. These errors were so obvious that the experiment shouldn't have gotten any attention, yet this article ended up virtually everywhere. Anti-vitamin spin requires this kind of research to be widely disseminated to show how "ineffectual" and even "dangerous" vitamins are. I tracked down one of the article's original authors and questioned him about the failure to define what kind of vitamin E had been studied. A simple literature hunt shows considerable difference between natural and synthetic vitamin E. This is an important distinction because most of the negative articles and subsequent treatment failures have used the synthetic form for the experiment, often because it is cheap. Natural vitamin E with mixed tocopherols and tocotrienols costs two or three times more than the synthetic form.

Before I even got the question out of my mouth, the researcher started up, "I know, I know what you're going to say." He ended up admitting that they hadn't even considered the vitamin E type when they did the experiment. This failure to define the vitamin E type made it impossible to draw a meaningful conclusion. I asked the researcher if he realized how much damage this highly quoted article had done to vitamin credibility. If there has been anything like a retraction, I have yet to see it.

Illness is Not Caused by Drug Deficiency

If you've made it this far in reading this article you have discerned that I'm sympathetic to vitamin arguments. I think most diseases are some form of malnutrition. Taking the position that nutrition is the foundation to disease doesn't make medicine any simpler. You still have to figure out who has what and why. There are many disease states that are difficult to pin down using the "pharmaceutical solution to disease." A drug solution is a nice idea, in theory. It makes the assumption that the cause of a disease is so well understood that a man-made chemical commonly called 'medicine' is administered, very efficiently solving the health problem. The reality though, is medicine doesn't understand most health problems very well. A person with a heart rhythm disturbance is not low on digoxin. A child who is diagnosed with ADHD does not act that way because the child is low on Ritalin. By the same logic, a person with type II diabetes doesn't have a deficit of metformin. The flaw of medicine is the concept of managing (but not curing) a particular disease state. I'm hard pressed to name any disease state that mainstream medicine is in control of.

Voltaire allegedly said, "Doctors are men who pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into human beings of whom they know nothing." Maybe he overstated the problem. Maybe he didn't.

References:

1. Free full text paper at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1422648/pdf/20021200s00014p814.pdf

Also: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1422648/?tool=pubmed

2. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2777040 and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1697548

3. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21509344 and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21731913

4. http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/SafetyInformation/
SafetyAlertsforHumanMedicalProducts/ucm245275.htm

5. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa070502#t=articleResults

6. Media example:
http://seniorjournal.com/NEWS/Nutrition-Vitamins/2008/8-02-29-VitaminEMay.htm .

OMNS' discussion at: http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v04n18.shtml

7. Original article at:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2258445/?tool=pubmed or http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2258445/pdf/AJRCCM1775524.pdf

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Martin P. Gallagher, M.D., D.C. (USA)
Michael Gonzalez, D.Sc., Ph.D. (Puerto Rico)
William B. Grant, Ph.D. (USA)
Steve Hickey, Ph.D. (United Kingdom)
James A. Jackson, Ph.D. (USA)
Michael Janson, M.D. (USA)
Robert E. Jenkins, D.C. (USA)
Bo H. Jonsson, M.D., Ph.D. (Sweden)
Thomas Levy, M.D., J.D. (USA)
Jorge R. Miranda-Massari, Pharm.D. (Puerto Rico)
Karin Munsterhjelm-Ahumada, M.D. (Finland)
Erik Paterson, M.D. (Canada)
W. Todd Penberthy, Ph.D. (USA)
Gert E. Schuitemaker, Ph.D. (Netherlands)
Robert G. Smith, Ph.D. (USA)
Jagan Nathan Vamanan, M.D. (India)

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Quote, RBTI Update, GMO News, Healing M.S.

2012-01-30T17:00:00.001-05:00

Quote of the Day: "As a retired physician, I can honestly say that unless you are in a serious accident, your best chance of living to a ripe old age is to avoid doctors and hospitals and learn nutrition, herbal medicine and other forms of natural medicine unless you are fortunate enough to have a naturopathic physician available. Almost all drugs are toxic and are designed only to treat symptoms and not to cure anyone. Vaccines are highly dangerous, have never been adequately studied or proven to be effective, and have a poor risk/reward ratio. Most surgery is unnecessary and most textbooks of medicine are inaccurate and deceptive. Almost every disease is said to be idiopathic (without known cause) or genetic - although this is untrue. In short, our main stream medical system is hopelessly inept and/or corrupt. The treatment of cancer and degenerative diseases is a national scandal. The sooner you learn this, the better off you will be." ~ Dr. Allan Greenberg 12/24/2002

My favorite tool around -- the refractometer

Apologies are in order. This blog has recently taken a back seat to family matters and daily RBTI study. I sincerely apologize for that, although it's not going to get much better in the near future. 2012 is the year with more long term "to-do list" items than any other year in my life. One of the primary goals for this year is becoming the best student of all things RBTI that I possibly can be. The courses that I'm currently taking cover all subtopics in RBTI, from surface-level issues such as adjusting the numbers, to in-depth topics like RBTI atomic theory. Please bear with me, as I'm going to provide whatever information that I possibly can, on as regular of a basis as I can provide. That being said, here's what's going on with my crazy world of health lately...

As mentioned early last week, getting my own numbers back into the healing range was proving to be a rough undertaking. But then all of a sudden the urine pH and SCR (sugar to conductivity ratio) came into healthy levels, making me jump for joy (literally). Today at lunchtime I did a quick test and here's the results:

1.5----6.6/6.7---8C---4M---10/5

What a marked improvement from just last week, when my urine pH couldn't seem to get under 7.2, and the conductivity was up around 20C. The difference in the urine pH is obvious, and unfortunately it made me realize that there's some foods that re-entered my diet that probably shouldn't be there, at least at their current frequencies. For example, when my urine pH is 7.0 or above, I can literally feel my digestion slowing. Rather than two to three healthy bowel movements per day, the regularity disappears and I experience only one movement per day. And worst of all, I was having trouble adjusting the pH using foods, Vitamin C and the calciums. I found out the hard way that Spectra-Scorb, the Vitamin C product from Daily made from ascorbates, does not lower pH like other food-based Vitamin C (from acerola cherries) products do.

Another personal issue with RBTI lately has been correcting the sugar to conductivity ratio (SCR). In order to find the SCR, take the conductivity and divide it by the brix. In my equation above, the SCR is eight divided by 1.5, giving us 5.33. The "perfect" SCR (remember, for one number to be considered perfect, all numbers have to be perfect) is in between four and 4.5, so my number from today is actually in the healing range as opposed to my readings from the past month or so. It's important to keep the SCR in a manageable range, and tinkering with it takes a lot of work.

Over the past month or so, controlling my SCR became the primary goal. It seemed like any time my sugars were in the healing range (between 1.0 and 2.0 brix), my salts would creep up over 10C, and sometimes over 15C. In order to change that, I decided to add fresh-squeezed juice to my distilled water doses. In addition, I lowered the amount of ounces per drink of both the lemonade and the distilled water / fruit juice mixtures, while increasing the total drinks taken per day, in order to spread my daily liquid intake across fourteen or fifteen hours instead of the typically-advised ten hours per day. I find that letting certain RBTI instructors (I won't name names anymore) dictate one's program instead of using personal intuition is a recipe for disaster. One certain RBTI professional actually spoke to a group of people and told them they only drink for ten hours a day because "the body doesn't need any water after 4 or 5pm". I was there, I witnessed this statement. Unfortunately, it's statements like these that make all of us RBTI-enthusiasts sound like quacks.

Anyway, in summary, what I did was I took my body weight (170 pounds) and divided by two to get my daily liquids intake in ounces (85 ounces). Then, I took that number and divided by 30, because I decided I was going to drink for 15 hours per day (in my RBTI program, the drinking is to be done with a drink each half hour). That gave me 2.83, and I rounded up to 3oz per drink. This means that I drink three ounces of the lemonade on the hour, and three ounces of the distilled water/juice mixture on the half hour, until the entire 85 ounces was gone. I found that stretching the drinking from ten hours to fifteen did wonders regarding my SCR. The salts came down a bit while the sugars increased a bit, moving the SCR to a more healthy range. The small doses of drinks with sweetness added throughout the day helped me to wash out the salts, while at the same time not washing out too many sugars. It was the perfect remedy to an out-of-wack SCR. If you're having a similar problem, consider the actions I took. It's making a world of difference.

And now to a couple quick news items...

New Study: GMO’s Bt protein toxic to human cells - Just what we were suspecting all along.

Doctor cures her multiple sclerosis with hunter-gatherer diet: Dr. Terry Wahls learned how to properly fuel her body. Using the lessons she learned at the subcellular level, she used diet to cure her MS and get out of her wheelchair.

Cell Phones, EMF Negatively Altering the Brain | Natural Society

2012-01-29T08:12:00.001-05:00

Cell Phones, EMF Negatively Altering the Brain | Natural Society (click to read)

Law Proposes Forcing People into Experimental Vaccine Trials

2012-01-28T15:24:00.000-05:00

Law Proposes Forcing People into Experimental Vaccine Trials - WTF!!!!

RBTI Update + Brix of Produce

2012-01-26T16:56:00.001-05:00

Finally! It feels like it's been forever! Back on Christmas Eve, when running my RBTI numbers, I had the best results I had seen at that point in time. They were something like 1.5---6.5/6.4---6C---4M---10/5, showing near-perfect "energy in" and healing numbers for the "energy out". Then, as a treat to myself, I cheated and ate sweets at night a few times over the holidays. Also in the mix were white sugar, white flour, peanut butter and chocolate. Since then, my numbers had been wobbling like nobody's business. One day salts would be high, the next day ureas would be off, and the next day albumin would be high as the urine turned more soupy. Fast forward to early this week, and here's me...

Yessirree, earlier this week my numbers finally reverted to their pre-holiday season levels. This means that it takes around four weeks to recover from just two or three cheats in a week's time. The cheating and subsequent wobble with the numbers has taught a very important lesson. Think about it - if it takes a person who's on a healing regimen (me) that long to recover from just a few sweets eaten after 2pm, and some of the no-no foods, what does that say about the average person's health? The kind of person who eats dessert after dinner almost every day; the kind of person who eats white sugar and flour, or chocolate and peanut butter, on a regular basis? These people are constantly losing energy according to the Reams equation, as their "energy in" will never be high enough to make up for the energy lost during each day. And rule #2 of RBTI is "the first day a person uses more energy than they get from their food, that is the first day of their illness". Regular folks are losing their reserve energy at varying rates, with some losing it faster than others, and these people are therefore seeing their health decline as their body never has enough spare/reserve energy to heal itself. This is a sobering actuality and it's important for everyone to understand it, lest they never truly understand disease.

Okay, now let's get into my brix trials...

Remember last week when I mentioned the brix level of apples from Morning Dew Orchards? I was really happy because they were 13 brix, and I mentioned that an "excellent" brix rating for apples is 12. Unfortunately, I was wrong with that statement. An excellent brix for apples is actually 18 (to get a copy of the brix chart, click here). Well, this morning I tested the apples from Kretschmann Farm's Organic CSA, particularly the "gold rush" variety, and I was absolutely excited and amazed when I peered through the refractometer to check the reading. The Kretschmann apples were 16.6 brix! That's right, almost the highest reading for apples, and right here in western Pennsylvania! Now it's becoming necessary for me to test the brix of all Kretschmann produce that comes in our bi-weekly winter CSA.

Testing the brix of everything I can is slowly becoming an obsession. Yesterday, I tested the brix of Bunny Luv carrots, an organic brand carried at the East End Food Co-Op and located in California. Well, to my surprise, they were 11.8 brix, putting them in the "good" range on the brix chart. Beets were next on the list, but unfortunately I didn't realize the juice must be diluted first, and I was staring at what looked like a blood stain on the refractometer gauge; no reading could be taken.

More on high brix gardening can be found in these videos and others like them:

Ignorance Reigns

2012-01-23T16:08:00.000-05:00

Quote of the Day: "Every educated physician knows that most diseases are not appreciably helped by medicine." ~ Richard C. Cabot, M.D. (Mass. Gen. Hospital)

The Reams Biological Theory of Ionization represents one of the most misunderstood programs in the entire sphere of health and healing. The reason for this is obvious. Dr. Reams did his teaching in closed settings, without the use of textbooks. He only wrote one book that talks about RBTI, entitled "Choose Life or Death". Unfortunately, even that book is filled with mostly anecdotal evidence and a strong bent towards religion and divine intervention. In addition, his best students often aren't in full agreement about certain concepts and protocols involved in RBTI, and each one seems to bring something different to the table regarding teaching methods. Dr. Beddoe is a dentist; Dr. Manthei a chiropractor, and Dr. Skow specializes in farming and agriculture. All of these factors combine to muddy up the field for all RBTI neophytes.

Unfortunately, the lack of "concrete" information, as well as the fact that RBTI flies in the face of a lot of commonly accepted mainstream science, leads to a lot of confused individuals and unfair stereotypes heaped upon the program. For example, this morning on another blog I read a comment saying something along the lines of "RBTI is a supplement selling business". In reality, that statement is about as far from the truth as it gets. Reams did preach that disease starts with a mineral deficiency. And yes, supplements are used during the early phases of RBTI. However, I feel that I'm qualified to write on this subject now that I'm a fourth-generation student of this program (Reams taught Manthei, who taught Michael, who is now teaching me). The truth of the matter is that supplements are nowhere near the primary focus of RBTI. It is true that pretty much one hundred percent of Americans are deficient in one or many minerals. But Reams' dream was that everyone would one day be eating high brix food (meaning high-mineral food), and therefore not needing any supplements whatsoever. Supplements are simply a crutch, and a crutch is simply support for those who cannot accomplish something on their own at the moment. Crutches are temporary, just like supplements are in the RBTI program. The only supplement that Reams claimed everyone could take every day of their lives was Min-Col, and that is also because of the minerally-depleted soils that we deal with in this country.

Dr. Reams' goal for his program was that one day his students would go above and beyond all of the work he ever did, and bring new insights to the masses. He thought that we could help the world heal itself by teaching them about high brix foods and gardening, and about testing their urine and saliva on a regimented basis. It really does stink that because of pervasive ignorance regarding the subject, that many get turned off from the idea before fully understanding it. Hopefully, that's what I'm here for....Helping my readers and anyone else who's interested to better understand RBTI.

And now some quick news...

Many Restaurants Fake it as Demand for Organic Food Rises - This is something I've honestly expected to be taking place, but just didn't have the proof. Well, it seems like we have some evidence. Why can't companies be honest and transparent? Why does the quest for riches cause so many to deceive others? There's less than a dozen restaurants that I trust in the entire city of Pittsburgh. Something is wrong with that picture.

And I'll finish today with two videos. The first is about having "the right to know" whether your foods are genetically modified or not. The second, well, is a real commercial from the 1950's...

The Bitter Truth About Splenda

2012-01-21T08:15:00.001-05:00

The Bitter Truth About Splenda (click to read) - please note the effects of Splenda on the body and then never use the stuff again! Pass to friends and family!

RBTI and Refractometer Readings of Produce, Plus Other News and Views

2012-01-19T18:03:00.000-05:00

Quote of the Day: "If all the medicine in the world were thrown into the sea, it would be bad for the fish and good for humanity." ~ O.W. Holmes, (Prof. of Med. Harvard University)

Learning about RBTI opens up so many new doors that it's easy to get overwhelmed with all the information. Something that has piqued my interest is the testing of produce with the refractometer for brix levels. When testing veggies and fruits for brix, in essence one is testing the sugar and mineral levels of that piece of produce. The higher the brix, the better, as it denotes a higher mineral content and thereby denotes greater health-building properties. Unfortunately, due the significant decline in the quality of our soils over the past hundred-plus years, the brix levels of produce grown in America are despicably low. It's a humbling experience to see just how minerally deficient our plants are, because that shows just how minerally deficient we are.

Knowing this has created a mission for me. Testing the brix of the foods we buy has become a recent obsession of mine. And I'm happy to report that I've found what can be considered "high brix apples" right here in our region. Morning Dew Orchards, a company I've mentioned before, is run by Doug Woolf, a third generation apple farmer from right across the Ohio state line. His apples are second to none as far as taste goes, and I should know considering I've purchased a few hundred dollars' worth of them over the past eighteen or so months. We've been juicing his apples for ages as well. Last week, I decided to test the brix of apple juice from his apples. To my surprise, it registered thirteen brix! For apples, four brix is consider poor, six is considered fair, eight is good, and twelve is excellent. Apples from Morning Dew Orchards are 13 brix! Go get some now! They're available in our city at the Pittsburgh Public Market, on Saturdays. Are you there yet?

How about them apples?

High brix green apple juice from Morning Dew Orchards

And now, a couple of quick items from around the web...

Ice Cream vs. Human Breast Milk - This particular piece was written by Matt Stone, an author about whom I've always had mixed emotions. He's basically just like me, a guy who uses himself as a human guinea pig in real-life trials of a variety of therapies and healing modalities. His writing style has earned him almost triple the subscribers that I have, so of course I'm hoping to get into his level of e-popularity eventually. Unfortunately, that's about where our similarities end. Sensationalistic titles and themes of many of his posts turn me off, and this is a prime example. I could never post an editorial comparing ice cream to mother's milk without having a serious disclaimer at the beginning of the article. Newbies in the health community have a tough time digging through the crap and finding good information, so talking about putting people on ice cream without explaining the reason (in detail) for such a decision is, to me, allowing ignorance to rein. Matt's e-books are superb and his RRARF program opened my eyes to the horrors I was committing against myself by eating high-raw vegan. His talks about raising metabolism and body temperature are just awesome. But his sense of humor and mine are not compatible, so taking that along with articles like these gives me cause for pause. Are you a fan of Matt? I'd love to know. He's definitely a leader in the "real health" movement, and he pulls no punches. I'd love to be mentioned in the same sentence as him someday.

And here's an awesome video, about limiting your sitting and sleeping to 23.5 hrs per day. Can the average American do it? If he or she wants to avoid obesity, it's a good idea to put an end to the sedentary lifestyle!

And in another video, a farmer fed GMO corn to his pigs and they all became sterile!

And I won't even get started on this, because I've spoken about it before, but just check out this headline for shits and giggles(it's a hyperlink as well in case you want to click and read the whole article) - Gulf seafood ‘as safe as before the spill’, says FDA

And lastly, here's a great article by Rady Ananda for Activist Post about thyroid cancer: Thyroid Cancer, Fracking and Nuclear Power. In this piece, Rady correlates nuclear reactors, the recently introduced practice of fracking for natural gas, and contaminated tap water to a prevalance of thyroid cancer in certain regions in America. All of her data is cited and well researched, and she's a class act always in bringing information to the people. Check it out.

News and Views for January 17

2012-01-17T07:06:00.001-05:00

Flu Shot or Not? State Health Officials Warn Against "Alarmist" Reaction to Young Girl's Death - How can reacting to the vaccine-related death of a seven year-old be considered "alarmist"? Where is the proof that the flu vaccine does what it should? Where is the proof that the flu vaccine is safe? I see none. All I see are articles like this one. And if it's not the flu vaccine, it's other vaccines. Check out this piece about narcolepsy being caused by the swine flu vaccine, and the tens of millions of euros being paid out as compensation. It really never ends with this topic; a strong Google hand can result in access to hundreds if not thousands of stories about vaccine-related injuries, lawsuits, deaths and corruption.

Doctors unsure why thyroid cancer cases on the rise - Pittsburgh has a high rate of thyroid complications and locally the blame has been on the air and water quality. Our air ranks in the top five worst metropolitan areas in America on an annual basis, and recently our water has been proven to be very high in carcinogens and contaminants as well. With chemtrails/geoengineering pervasive all over this country, air quality is constantly decreasing and respiratory illnesses are increasing. Humans are creating their own misery; the realization of this fact is really hard to swallow for the average citizen.

Meat eaters – you are daredevils or dumb. Or both - This is basically an editorial about how people cannot claim ignorance for their health woes. The data is out their, in the mainstream, linking meats (especially processed ones) to cancer and other debilitating disease. This author pulls no punches, and she definitely neglects to mention the insidious methods of marketing and programming employed by the meat industry, but she presents a sobering analysis of the predicament in which humankind now finds itself.

Flu Vaccine: No Good Evidence

2012-01-16T07:19:00.002-05:00

Flu Vaccine: No Good Evidence

by Damien Downing, M.D.

(OMNS, Jan 14, 2012) Is it wise to have the flu vaccine, or Tamiflu, or would you get better protection just from taking vitamin D? Having a vaccine should be a matter of personal choice; we don't think that government or insurance companies or medical societies should be telling you what to do. If you're bothering to read this then you're clearly smart enough to make your own decisions about your own health. While you are deciding, here is a second opinion.

So What About Vaccines?
A major review appeared in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases (1) in October (principal author Prof. Michael Osterholm, a respected researcher into infectious diseases). The paper, which found only 31 studies worthy of inclusion out of a massive 5,700 screened, concluded that there was only good evidence for moderate flu vaccine efficacy in healthy adults, and no real evidence of protection in those over 65 years, or for that matter in children. Of course it is the elderly, and particularly the frail elderly, that doctors are more concerned about - and in whom 90% of flu cases occur - and there was no evidence that flu vaccine prevents flu infection in this group.

Let's do that again; after nearly 6,000 studies of all sorts, there is no good evidence that flu vaccine prevents flu in its main target population.

The pooled effect in those healthy adults, aged 18 to 65, is reported as 57%, which means the vaccine roughly halves your chances of getting flu. What is well known about placebo effects can account for most of that 57% effect. If you know you've had a shot for the flu you think you're invincible. But since the chance of getting flu in that age group was less than 3% to begin with, that's really only about a 11/2 percent reduction. Rounding the figures off, if you're a healthy adult, the flu vaccine will reduce your risk of actually getting the flu from 1 in 36 to 1 in 83. These are figures that are not offered in any of these studies.

Then of course, this all happens at a price. Whatever you may have heard, there is no such thing as a medication without the risk of side-effects. In vaccines that risk can also come from the adjuvants. A vaccine is a small dose of an organism plus adjuvants - chemicals that are irritants to the immune system and trigger it to react to the organism part. Without adjuvants vaccines generally won't work. Popular adjuvants include the antibiotic gentamicin (too much of which can make you deaf), aluminum compounds (which probably contribute to Alzheimer's and other neurological diseases) (2), and the mercury antiseptic, thiomersal/thimerosal (long known to be toxic and recently suspected in autism) - after all, they have to be toxic to work as adjuvants. Fluarix, one of the main brands of flu vaccine in the USA and UK, is stated by the manufacturers to contain both gentamicin and thimerosal.

We also used to think that flu vaccine prevented deaths from flu to a significant extent, even if it didn't prevent overt infection - until we realized there was a major artifact at work. This is known as the healthy vaccine recipient effect, and the clue is in the name; a frail elderly person is much less likely to get down to their GP to have the vaccine than is a fit elderly person, who by the way is more likely to eat and live well, take vitamins and so on, and so has better resistance to viruses anyway.

What Osterholm and colleagues concluded, citing a couple of Californian studies, is that flu vaccine reduced all-cause mortality in those over 65 by a mere 4.6%. Is that worth the risk of adverse effects? That's the choice you have to make but now you can make it knowing these facts.

Tamiflu
So if the vaccine can't prevent you from getting the flu, how about Tamiflu (oseltamivir)? Well, it reduces the duration of flu symptoms by 1 to 11/2 days, and can give you other unpleasant symptoms, such as nausea and vomiting, and serious brain-fog ("I couldn't think past a comma"), even according to the official website (3). But recently we became aware of another problem with Tamiflu; basically, the whole planet is starting to become resistant to it - already - as shown in the next new paper (4), actually a PhD dissertation at the University of Uppsala. Here's how it works; Tamiflu is excreted largely unchanged by patients, and is barely affected by sewage treatment. So the drug enters the waterways, as was shown during a flu outbreak in Japan, where ducks, the natural reservoir for the virus, can pick it up. And when this happens, the virus can probably (which means that so far it has happened in a lab experiment) develop resistance to Tamiflu.

So Tamiflu, which governments were stockpiling and then handing out like candy in the last big flu outbreak, may already be on the fast track past its Sell By date. We've been here before, with overuse of antibiotics leading to seriously resistant hospital bugs like MRSA. But that took decades. We've managed to squander this resource much faster, and it shows that we live on a small planet - and there's nowhere left to hide our waste. Everywhere is our doorstep now.

Vitamin D
Nobody could accuse us of overusing vitamin D. To begin with, we are almost all deficient, both in Northern Europe and the northern half of the USA (5). The final paper in this year's crop (6) shows that the higher your blood level of vitamin D the lower your risk of catching flu, or respiratory infections in general.

The study found this to be true up to a vitamin D blood level over 100 nmol/L, which we used to think was excessive. But nowadays we don't; the D*Action ( http://www.grassrootshealth.org/daction/index.php ) group located in San Diego have shown that you need to get even higher, above 125 nmol/L, in order to minimize your risk of developing most cancers, multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases (7). Chances are the same applies to flu and chest infections. The problem is finding people with that high a vitamin D level to study them; D*Action found that it takes 9,600 IU per day of vitamin D by mouth to reliably get people above 100nmol/L (specifically, to get 97.5% of people there).

In the new UK study those with the highest vitamin D level - over 100 nmol/L - had about 50% the risk of getting respiratory infections of those with the lowest level - below 25nmol/L, which is truly deficient. All the subjects were Caucasians living in the UK, and you might expect that fair-skinned people would have a higher level of vitamin D, but this turns out not to be so - according to a 2009 study, again in the UK (8), Caucasian women have a slightly worse level of vitamin D than darker-skinned ones - no doubt because they heed the health warnings about skin cancer (now that's a story for another time). They didn't ask whether the subjects took any supplements, which could have made an even greater difference; a previous study in African-American women (9) found that a supplement of 800 IU per day of vitamin D reduced, and 2000 IU effectively wiped out, the risk of winter flu (see the chart below).

This was partly confirmed by a randomized controlled trial in Japanese schoolchildren which showed that 1200 IU reduced the incidence of confirmed influenza by 40% (10), and study at Yale which found that people with a serum vitamin D level over 38ng/ml (equivalent to 95 nmol/L, very close to the 100nmol/L used in the UK study) had half the chance of catching acute respiratory infections (11).

Before we get bogged down in the numbers, this is how I see it; if you live north of New York or Madrid you're unlikely to have enough vitamin D in your system. You can improve that somewhat with diet, but with supplements you can probably make almost 100% certain (96% in fact) that you don't get flu. How much vitamin D? At least 5,000 IU for an adult, and 10,000 is completely safe (or better still get it from sunlight - take a sunshine break now!). And if you do choose to have the vaccine, vitamin D might even make it work better (12).

OMNS is not specifically anti-vaccine, but we are very pro-personal choice; you can read our previous posting on this topic. (13) Get the facts, make up your own mind. Don't accept coercion or baloney from governments. As Vera Hassner Sharav said, "Public health officials on both sides of the Atlantic have lost the public trust because they have been in league with vaccine manufacturers in denying that safety problems exist."

Vaccines are a valuable asset and we shouldn't squander them the way we did antibiotics. You're not going to turn down rabies vaccine if you need it. But, equally, why ignore a gift of nature such as vitamin D?

References:
(To find a reference by PMID number, type or paste the number into the "Search" box at the top of http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez)

1. PMID: 22032844, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=22032844

2. PMID: 21568886, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=21568886

3. http://www.tamiflu.com/hcp/influenza-treatment.aspx

4. http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:453789

5. http://www.sunarc.org and also http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/health-conditions/infections-and-autoimmunity/influenza/

6. PMID: 21736791, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=21736791

7. http://www.grassrootshealth.net/

8. PMID: 19649299, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=19649299

9. PMID: 16959053, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=16959053

10. PMID: 20219962, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=20219962

11. PMID: 20559424, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=20559424

12. PMID: 18298852, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=18298852

13. http://www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v07n02.shtml

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Ralph K. Campbell, M.D. (USA)
Carolyn Dean, M.D., N.D. (Canada)
Damien Downing, M.D. (United Kingdom)
Michael Ellis, M.D. (Australia)
Martin P. Gallagher, M.D., D.C. (USA)
Michael Gonzalez, D.Sc., Ph.D. (Puerto Rico)
William B. Grant, Ph.D. (USA)
Steve Hickey, Ph.D. (United Kingdom)
James A. Jackson, Ph.D. (USA)
Michael Janson, M.D. (USA)
Robert E. Jenkins, D.C. (USA)
Bo H. Jonsson, M.D., Ph.D. (Sweden)
Thomas Levy, M.D., J.D. (USA)
Jorge R. Miranda-Massari, Pharm.D. (Puerto Rico)
Karin Munsterhjelm-Ahumada, M.D. (Finland)
Erik Paterson, M.D. (Canada)
W. Todd Penberthy, Ph.D. (USA)
Gert E. Shuitemaker, Ph.D. (Netherlands)
Robert G. Smith, Ph.D. (USA)
Jagan Nathan Vamanan, M.D. (India)

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RBTI Support Group

2012-01-15T10:27:00.000-05:00

"If you don't have someone to do it with, it's not worth doing." - 311

One word describes me better than any other. The word is perfectionist, and be sure that I do not take that word lightly. Throughout my journey towards eternal health and wellness, perfectionism remains the theme. Why do something at all if you're not going to give it your best? That's always been my motto, and it has spilled over into this quest for health in a big way. That being said, admittedly, most around me have a hard time "keeping up with me" or "staying on task" the way I do.

However, recently a few people have decided to join me on the path to the RBTI holy land. My wife, two friends, and one of their relatives have climbed aboard the Reams ship as we sail into the sunset. We've formed what I'm calling an RBTI Support Group, and we're meeting for a big lunch each week where we discuss the previous week's trials and tribulations with our varied RBTI programs. The awesome thing about RBTI is that each person will be on a different program, based on their body chemistry (the "numbers"). So we are able to talk about what we've experienced and possibly be able to help each other understand what's going on physiologically inside each of us.

Having a support group means less of a chance of falling off the horse, so to speak. RBTI is flexible yet strict, if that makes sense, and knowing that other people are doing it very important for the psyche. It means a lot to me to have a wife and a couple of great friends to talk to, anytime I read something new about the program. Sharing the knowledge I'm acquiring means a lot to me as well, because I'm not just learning all of this new information for myself. I hope to help my friends and family significantly improve their health. And to see the person that means the most to me in this world, my wife, as well as two of my closest friends, really does mean the world to me. I am ecstatic to have a support group such as this one in place.

Here's to 2012 and the Pittsburgh RBTI Support Group :)

Plastic Lettuce?

2012-01-11T07:09:00.000-05:00

Related article, must-read:

Dude, That Isn’t Wax On Your Apple!

Excerpt:

Fancy yourself a vegetarian or vegan?

....

Since the early 12 century, there has been a tradition of applying wax onto the skins of fruits and vegetables for longer storage life. Today, that tradition is being carried on with a whole new generation of chemicals and compounds that are genetically designed to accomplish the same goal. But in these modern times, the health and well-being of the consumer of that apple is not necessarily the goal of this unnatural, inorganic process.

Bottom line… your produce is being dipped and sprayed with an experimental host of holy horrors in the name of “food safety” and longer shelf-life. Prepare yourself to be shocked and amazed that our Federal agency that is designed to protect us, the Food and Drug Administration, is allowing these dangerous and unhealthy practices to be perpetrated on an unwitting public, all in the name of profits.

And yes, the article only gets worse from there...

RBTI and Sea Salt

2012-01-09T16:11:00.000-05:00

Over the past decade or so, sea salt has become a staple in the health food community. Almost all foods that claim to be health-conscious now use sea salt rather than plain table salt. The logic behind the move was easy enough to follow, and makes sense on the surface. Plain table salt is stripped of its minerals, leaving a nutritionally dead food, and only iodine is added back in due to the average American diet being significantly deficient in iodine. In contrast to that, sea salt contains all of the trace minerals found in the oceans, and therefore it provides a multitude of nutritional benefits when compared to table salt. But as with most topics in regards to RBTI, sea salt is not as healthy as it seems.

According to Dr. Beddoe, one of Carey Reams' disciples, the minerals contained in sea salt are not usable by the human body. Since I can't word it better than he does, I am going to include the entire quote from his FAQ here (emphasis is mine, source):

In fact, sea salt has a great deal of mineral, but it is not the mineral your body can use. Here's why. One of the major tasks your liver must accomplish is the processing of waste from your body's regular wear and tear so that it can easily be expelled through the eliminative organs. One of the by-products of that wear and tear is salt. But it is not just ordinary salt like table salt, that we know of as sodium chloride. Rather, it is actually a complex of around 49 different mineral salts which includes sodium chloride, but also 48 other types of salt, as well, that include non-chloride type salts such as nitrogen salts from protein waste etc. What, then, does that mean to your body? Sea salt contains upwards of 49 different salts of the exact samed types that your body is trying to rid itself of. When your body is calcium deficient, your liver finds that it cannot rid itself of all of its waste salts, so it stores the excess. These excess salts can be stored in a number of places, including fat, muscle and joins, and end up contributing to a significant number of degenerative dysfunctions.

Two things help your liver rid the body of excess detrimental salts. First, is proper water drinking for your body size and chemistry, and second is having optimum calcium intake. When the liver is getting optimum calcium and water, it can actually oxidize the waste salts in your body out of solution, then the body can easily remove them through the eliminative system.

Salt is very valuable to body chemistry, when it is kept under control by ideal body electrochemistry through optimum calcium intake, but you are better off using only one-salt and that salt being—just plain sodium chloride.

Furthermore, when people would complain of problems with dry mouth Dr. Reams would tell them, "Quit using seasalt!" By the way, Keltic Salt is no different in its salt content and effect on body chemistry than Sea Salt.

So, simplify your body's challenge of ridding itself of all those waste salts by only using only plain sodium chloride known as "table salt."

The teachings of Dr. Reams have led to sea salt being classified as one of the "no foods" because it is highly disruptive to a person's numbers. I can attest to that fact, as recently my numbers have been impressive except for the sugar to conductivity ratio. Basically, my brix (sugars) levels have been around 1.0-2.0 but my conductivity (salts) has been between 7-15. Ideally, the SCR (salt to conductivity ratio) should be 4.33, and as you can see above, mine ranges from 5-10. I've tried everything that was advised by my mentor and the RBTI texts I have. The only thing that kept popping up was the possibility that unseen sea salt could be the culprit.

Sea salt seems to be on the label of every health food imaginable, including pretty much every brand of chips or pretzels or brown rice crackers or whatever one's fancy may be. Hell, I've even seen it listed in the ingredient panel for high-quality ice creams and other dessert foods. It's going to be hard to avoid it, but that's my newest goal. I can't let sea salt defeat me! Wish me luck. And when you're choosing your next salt, if you must use any salt at all, consider steering away from sea salt.

Vitamin C Treatment of Whooping Cough, by Suzanne Humphries, MD

2012-01-07T19:00:00.000-05:00

Here we go again! Yet another use for the amazing natural supertreatment that is Vitamin C! This time it's for whooping cough. Here's a link to the article, and here's a link to the actual PDF report. Basically, vaccines fail once again, and natural treatments save the day. The introduction reads as follows:

This is important. If you think that a vaccinated person cannot get whooping cough, in the most severe manner, think again. Most babies over the age of 6 months who get whooping cough are fully and “appropriately” vaccinated. Pertussis is admittedly, even by the vaccine enthusiasts, primarily spread by vaccinated children, adolescents and adults, who have inadequate immunity. Regardless, they will still say the problem is not with the vaccine, but rather with too few doses of vaccine. However, conventional medicine’s own scientific studies demonstrate that bacterial clearance and immune response is not as efficient in the vaccinated, in particular with the acellular pertussis vaccine. When pertussis is left to take its normal course in the community, the supposedly vulnerable infants that the vaccinationists scream and yell about, are protected by maternal antibodies and mother’s milk until they are old enough to process the disease on their own. After vaccines were introduced, this protection was vastly reduced, because the mothers were only having vaccine antibodies to pass along to their infants, and that defense is neither effective nor long-lasting. A recent study confirms that natural immunity to whooping cough lasts at least 30 years, whereas the immunity from a vaccine lasts 3 years, and after adult boosters, all antibodies have disappeared within a year. The risk of vaccination with unpredictable waning “immunity,” and vaccine failure, is not as reliable as what nature has set forth, and it never will be.

The Vitamin C Treatment of Whooping Cough by Suzanne Humphries, MD

Senators Give Supplements a Lifeline

2012-01-06T07:16:00.000-05:00

Huge news!!! Senators Give Supplements a Lifeline (click to read)

RBTI and Health Advice, plus Vaccine Conspiracy

2012-01-04T17:20:00.000-05:00

Reams Biological Theory of Ionization (RBTI) remains the most divisive program I've ever witnessed in the health community. The research shows that not only was Dr. Carey Reams a strong advocate of eating a wide variety of foods in all forms, but his students have also continued that message almost to a fault. One of the main tenets of RBTI is that "it's not 'you are what you eat', but rather, you are what your body does with the food you eat." The energy derived from the food, not calories but cations reacting with anions in your body, is what ultimately matters. A body that is functioning in the "A Range" or even in the "B Range" should not have too many problems dealing with foods that other diets consider taboo. It's taking me a long time to warm up to this notion, but in RBTI we always follow the numbers, and in this case the numbers speak volumes.

For example, ever since starting this blog, I have been harping on the danger that is GMO food. However, RBTI gurus like Dr. Manthei and Challen Waychoff have both said that it's not the ingredients that should scare a person away from a food, but it's how that certain food affects one's numbers that should take primary importance. Therefore, a GMO food may cause nothing negative to happen to a person's numbers, and according to RBTI this food is perfectly fine for consumption. RBTI also considers brix levels first and foremost when speaking of foods, so it has even been said by a person I will leave unnamed that organic foods don't matter either. What matters most is brix level, because it conveys the mineral content in the food. A conventionally grown apple could be 10 brix while an organic one could be 4 brix, and on that occasion this certain RBTI guru would grab the conventional apple for its nutrition content, disregarding the potential for pesticide spray and possibly "food grade" wax on the apple as well. For me, this has been hard to swallow, but I'm warming up to the notion as the numbers continue to tell the story.

When Challen Waychoff visited Pittsburgh Alternative Health a few months ago, his comments regarding GMOs, pesticides and herbicides, organic foods, junk food, processed foods, and more had quite the effect on us all. Some were flabberghasted, absolutely stunned that the dogma they've heard and preached for years was getting cast aside in favor of a new, mathematically-confirmed health program. I must admit, I was one of those folks. But as more and more anecdotal evidence arises, supported by the numbers, the proof is becoming impossible to ignore.

I will write more on this topic later in the week. In the meantime check out this vaccine conspiracy that was brought to light by the wonderful Christina England:

Freedom Of Information Request Reveals Major Government Vaccine Conspiracy - Holy freakin crap, the rabbit hole just got deeper. The MMR vaccine has quite the jaded history. Check this crazy story out, and remember that vaccines are a money-making ploy, nothing else!

Another Year With NO DEATHS from Vitamins

2012-01-01T08:06:00.000-05:00

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Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, December 28, 2011

No Deaths from Vitamins
America's Largest Database Confirms Supplement Safety

(OMNS, Dec 28, 2011) There was not even one death caused by a vitamin supplement in 2010, according to the most recent information collected by the U.S. National Poison Data System.

The new 203-page annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers, published online at http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/Portals/0/2010%20NPDS%20Annual%20Report.pdf, shows zero deaths from multiple vitamins; zero deaths from any of the B vitamins; zero deaths from vitamins A, C, D, or E; and zero deaths from any other vitamin.

Additionally, there were no deaths whatsoever from any amino acid or dietary mineral supplement.

Three people died from non-supplement mineral poisoning: two from medical use of sodium and one from non-supplemental iron. On page 131, the AAPCC report specifically indicates that the iron fatality was not from a nutritional supplement.

Fifty-seven poison centers provide coast-to-coast data for the National Poison Data System, "one of the few real-time national surveillance systems in existence, providing a model public health surveillance system for all types of exposures, public health event identification, resilience response and situational awareness tracking."

Well over half of the U.S. population takes daily nutritional supplements. Even if each of those people took only one single tablet daily, that makes 165,000,000 individual doses per day, for a total of over 60 billion doses annually. Since many persons take far more than just one single vitamin or mineral tablet, actual consumption is considerably higher, and the safety of nutritional supplements is all the more remarkable.

Over 60 billion doses of vitamin and mineral supplements per year in the USA, and not a single fatality. Not one.

If vitamin and mineral supplements are allegedly so "dangerous," as the FDA and news media so often claim, then where are the bodies?

Reference:

Bronstein AC, Spyker DA, Cantilena LR Jr, Green JL, Rumack BH, Dart RC. 2010 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers' National Poison Data System (NPDS): 28th Annual Report. The full text article is available for free download at http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/Portals/0/2010%20NPDS%20Annual%20Report.pdf

The data mentioned above are found in Table 22B. Mineral data on page 131; vitamin data on pages 137-139 .

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Bad Advice Disguised as Good

2011-12-29T17:26:00.000-05:00

Misinformation, or false information that is unintentionally circulated, really gets my goat. Throughout this blog's existence, highlighting disinformation (intentional spreading of false information) has been a primary goal of mine. Misinformation pervades the internet, and especially the blogosphere, and I've been banned from commenting on several blogs and forums for pointing out falsities being peddled as truths. On the flip side of that, I realize that I've perpetuated misinformation several times myself, as my personal journey to health and wellness has led down many avenues and created life-changing realizations on many occasions. That is why misinformation versus disinformation is sometimes hard to discern. But today, I think I've stumbled upon a great example of misinformation.

Yesterday, foodconsumer.org posted an article titled "Vegan diet provides many health benefits". The author uses similar points to those I've made in my vegan past, but have since proven to be downright false at worst, and arguable at best. The truth is that a vegan diet is extremist and not practical or healthy in practice. It is not a viable long-term solution for anyone who wants to live a long, healthy life. But that's not what gets me about this article. Let's take a look at a couple lines from the article and spot the misinformation. Since the author seems to only have the best intentions, I am going to assume this is misinformation rather than disinformation.

First of all, the author quotes some "guru" who calls soy products a superfood. In reality that is hardly the case, and back in September I covered this topic. Cholesterol is also mentioned, although by now the cholesterol myth has been covered extensively by multitudes of alternative health researchers. Another quote from the article that irks me is "dairy products contain loads of calcium." If RBTI teaches anything, it's that there are hundreds of thousands of kinds of calcium, split into seven primary groups. Different kinds of calcium affect the body chemistry in different ways. Yes, dairy products contain calcium. But they primarily contain calcium lactate, which is a cationic calcium, meaning that it pushes the body towards the acidic side. Most Americans are acidic, so this type of calcium is actually bad for them. Nowhere in the article is it suggested to eat a wide variety of calcium(s).

In the very next sentence, the author says "fortified dairy (soy and rice milk) and cereals are great substitutes for vegans to get B12 and calcium". So here is a health journalist, advocating for synthetic sources of essential nutrients? Is she kidding? I sure as hell hope so. Fortified foods are processed, and processing destroys nutrients. How can any health enthusiast advise synthetic vitamin sources?

Then, in a statement that comes as an absolute shock to me, the author says that canola oil is a source of omega-3 fatty acids. No disclaimer was provided to talk about the poison that is canola oil. There was no mention of how omega-3 supplements that come from algae are hardly effective at providing these essential fatty acids when compared to free-range chicken eggs. It was another statement short on substance, like so many in this article.

Lastly, the article finishes by mentioning that a registered dietician and spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association advises her clients to follow the government's advice for eating. The truth of the matter is that the government has no right to be telling us how to eat. The government is influenced by megacorporations who basically shaped how the "food pyramid" system works. And the "My Plate" guidelines are just another attempt by the big food companies to get the government to advise that the people eat their products, albeit in a new format to deceive the public.

The information fail in this piece is ultimately saddening, because it puts one thing in perspective. Bad advice like this runs rampant in the information age. Everyone should do their own research and follow their own intuition. Never take everything at face value, and always question authority. Here's to a better-informed 2012.

RBTI and "Cheating"

2011-12-28T17:48:00.000-05:00

Well a couple of days ago there was mention of my first "cheating" since going on the RBTI program back in early November. The cheating included chocolate, peanut butter, (possibly) white sugar and white flour, and also eating carbs and sweets after 2pm. All of those are considered "no foods" by several RBTI practitioners, and I had not partaken in any of them in over eight weeks before Christmas Day. Though the temptation was there, and memories from my obese youth came flooding back, I probably could have said no, to be perfectly honest. RBTI is such a non-restrictive program regarding foods that "splurging" becomes a thing of the past. But since my numbers have hovered in the healing range for a month now, I gave myself a reward. It turned out to be counterproductive in more ways than one.

The foods themselves weren't the problem. It was the eating heavy foods after 2pm that caused the discomfort. Digestion was obviously hindered as bowel movement frequency fell from a minimum of two per day down to one (if I was lucky) over the period from December 25-27. The slower digestion was confirmed by my numbers on Monday, which showed a saliva pH up around 7.0 instead of usual 6.45 or so that it's been at for the last month. The worst part was the bloat. I just felt "bigger", bloated, and perceived something in my digestive tract that was just "stuck" there. Distilled water and fibrous foods wouldn't help. It was glaringly noticeable that everything about me was slower. My thinking was slower and less analytic; lethargy and apathy set in; and lastly, guilt emerged as the dominant emotion. Deep down it was known that not only is cheating on the program a bad idea, but RBTI allows for so much food and dietary freedom that cheating isn't even really rewarding.

Think about it ~ RBTI stresses variety first and foremost with foods, to enable the body to access a wide array of vitamins, minerals and co-factors. Once the sugars are controlled, dessert at lunch is typically advised. Getting on an RBTI program actually helped quell my fears about eggs and dairy, as the numbers showed that veganism isn't anywhere near "healthy" status, no matter how disciplined that vegan diet is (deficiencies really do abound). Since going on RBTI, all kinds of my favorite foods have returned to my life, and that makes "cheating" and "rewards" a thing of the past. And by the past, I mean that cheating and rewarding oneself are basically tools for extreme dieters. RBTI is not a diet, it's so much more than that.

So long story short, "cheating" is gone. I won't be doing that again. I will still eat mom's tasty holiday treats like buckeyes, but they will be consumed before 2pm and in line with the program. Hell, I'm recomping like it's my job; adding dessert every day at lunch is obviously doing something right. No need to have it at night...

And now for a bit of news.
Water Fluoridation and Crime in America (pdf of study) - This study has eluded me for years; it's a real game changer. It specifically says "water fluoridation was consistently associated with high crime rates at all population levels" in the opening paragraph. The data is compelling, and this can be used as yet another reason for ending water fluoridation in America. It's not only dumbing us down and making us more open to suggestion, but it's also involved in the increase of the ever-growing crime rate in this country. Pass this study around to everyone you know. Fluoride must be removed from the world's water systems. The people must demand it!

Why Many Vitamin Studies are Absolutely Worthless - A great little piece here about how studies on vitamins are almost always skewed to benefit Big Pharma. This should be common knowledge by now, check it out. A real eye-opening part of the article is its listing of toxic ingredients in the popular multivitamin Centrum.

XMas Weekend News

2011-12-26T10:41:00.000-05:00

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend. It was actually the first time since early October that I "cheated" on my RBTI program. I ate a couple "no foods" such as chocolate, peanut butter, white flour and white sugar, and I also ate sweets after 2pm. So how did I feel, you ask? Well, to be perfectly honest, I felt like absolute crap. In fact, I still feel like crap right now and skipped breakfast this morning because my digestive system needs the break. The "cheat" was a long-time coming, because on Christmas Eve I tested my numbers and had the following awesome results:

1.2b---6.50/6.77---7C---4M---12/6

After sending those numbers to my Alan, Dr. Misak, and my current RBTI mentor Michael Olszta, I proceeded to sabotage those numbers with Christmas shenanigans. I will be testing today and I'll post my numbers again, but in the meantime here's the news from the holiday weekend.

First and foremost, the FDA, in another underhanded and blatantly deceptive move, withdrew their intentions to act against the widespread use of antibiotics in agriculture. Penicillin and tetracyclines are used in a vast majority of the feed for animals involved in the meat and dairy businesses. The antibiotics go straight from the feed into the animal and then into the meat or dairy that is purchased by consumers. It's appalling, and the FDA's impotence is just as appalling.

And in other news, research has shown that bromelain, the enzyme produced by pineapples, fights cancer better than chemotherapy. Check out the article from Activist Post here. We all hope that studies like these are easy to locate; it's great that people are taking the time to find them and disseminate them effectively to the masses.

And lastly, in other highly-informative alternative health news, check out this piece from Natural Society about natural alternatives to aspirin for heart attack prevention. Aspirin is a poison, just like all other synthetics, and the authors note many effective products from natural sources. Make a resolution to transition to all-natural supplements, hygiene and cleaning products in 2012. It will do wonders for your toxin exposure!

Cheers!

The Time is Now

2011-12-22T17:15:00.000-05:00

Recently a phrase has kept creeping back into my mind on a daily basis. This particular phrase has a profound meaning for information-hungry people like myself. It reflects a predicament that almost everyone runs into at some point in their lives, and some people actually let this theme dominate their lives. The phrase is "paralysis by analysis", meaning inaction or indecision caused by an overwhelming amount of analysis and information. In the health field, among those who like to take in a lot of information before embarking on a dietary or lifestyle change, paralysis by analysis is very common.

It is easy to become inundated by vast amounts of conflicting health information. In one publication saturated fat is made out to be evil, while in another it's carbs that are singled out. Casual health enthusiasts can easily feel overwhelmed and allow that emotion to weigh them down, preventing a decision to change their lives in one way or another. Paralysis by analysis was a problem of mine for some time. Over the course of the last few years I've read upwards of two hundred books (or quite possibly even more) about health. Every topic from veganism to toxemia to cancer to fasting was covered. All healing modalities and therapies were explored. While reading all of that information, I felt overwhelmed and tried to analyze each theory by talking it out with my wife or naturopath. It was obvious that I needed to stick to something; to become a guinea pig.

RBTI resonates with my soul, and therefore it was easy for me to jump into it and make myself a guinea pig for the readers of this blog as well as for Dr. Misak. Hopefully my experiences and documentation here have opened more eyes to the wondrous therapy that is RBTI. However, if you're still on the fence about it, or even about any healing modality, the point of what I'm saying is to shut your brain off for a while and become a guinea pig. Listen to your body, and take the time to meditate on the future. Then take the plunge. Don't overanalyze. Do not let your brain go into overdrive to the point where it prevents action.

The time is now. Take control of your health and your future. Jump in with both feet and dedicate yourself to a positive outcome. If a certain program or protocol isn't for you, you'll soon realize it as your body gives subtle signs every day concerning what does and does not work. The most important part is getting in tune with your body so that you can discern what it's saying. After that, the rest is second nature.

Another Day, Another Corporation Exposed for Deception (plus more news)

2011-12-21T16:41:00.000-05:00

Another day, another despicable act by one of the megacorporations. This morning one news story jumped out at me. It involves Frito-Lay (whose parent corporation is PepsiCo), and a lawsuit filed by a woman in California over their labeling of GMO-laden snacks as "all-natural" products. The problem is, GMO is not natural! GMOs are actually quite across the spectrum from "all-natural." Hell, even Monsanto doesn't consider GMO natural! Tostitos and SunChips were specifically mentioned, and I've even seen people who I thought knew better consuming those products. Me? I've never trusted megacorporations since I became awake and aware. Hopefully now more of the masses will understand just how deceptive these companies are and how our health means nothing to them. Remember, Pepsi has been poisoning the masses with GMO high fructose corn syrup for ages now. Important excerpt:

But because they contain GMOs from genetically modified corn and genetically modified soy, in five separate counts, plaintiff charges Frito-Lay with fraud, deception, unfair competition and false warrants under several laws including the federal Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act.

And in other (still shitty) news...

Cigarette Butts Make Up 1/3 of America's Litter! Is that not appalling? Approximately one in five adults in this country still smoke cigarettes although the packages contain warnings about their toxicity. Yes, twenty percent are still content on burdening the other eighty percent with their second hand smoke, toxic cigarette butts, and overall increase in national health care costs. While I'm all for personal freedoms, I do feel that infringing upon others' health and safety should be criminalized. Smokers have no compassion, why should us healthy folk have to grin and bear it with regards to their treatment of us?

Lastly, it's end of the year, which means resolution time for a lot of people. Consider making a health and wellness plan your number one resolution of 2012. This means time for detoxification and recharging the metabolism. I can think of no better way to do that than to take advantage of the Groupon deal from Pittsburgh Alternative Health, which is being sold throughout the end of the day on Friday the 23rd. Doctor Misak is offering two different deals. One is a detox package, and the other is an EAV food and chemical sensitivity screening! I've purchased both of those in the past and each one changed my life in a profound and positive way. Make 2012 the best year yet by getting yourself one of those deals, or buy some for friends and relatives. Spread good cheer and good health throughout the holiday season!

HFCS Rears Its Ugly Head, Plus More News

2011-12-19T16:02:00.000-05:00

FDA Does Nothing About Mercury in Processed Foods - Yes, you read that right. High fructose corn syrup has been found to be loaded with toxic levels of mercury. Do not be ignorant to the crimes being committed by our bureaucracies. At the highest levels, they know of the dangers and neglect to help. That is a crime. Hell, to me, it's treasonous to knowingly allow poison into foods in our country.

And since high-fructose corn syrup has received such bad press over the last year or two, the producers of it have devised a new way to trick the public - renaming it! Yes, deception plain and simple, to those who choose to remain ignorant. Check this out: Big Corn, Big Sugar in bitter US row on sweetener Here's an excerpt:

Sugar producers have filed suit alleging the corn industry has spent $50 million in "a mass media rebranding campaign that misleads the consuming public by asserting falsely that HFCS is natural and is indistinguishable from the sugar extracted from sugar cane and sugar beets."

High fructose corn syrup correlates strongly to obesity statistics in America, as well as learning and behavioral disabilities in children. Please, for the sake of your family, and for this country, throw away your foods containing this poison. Your kids deserve better, and so does our already overburdened medical system. HFCS is avoidable and potentially hazardous. And in related news, Denmark is about to impose the world's first tax on fatty products. Yes, the fat tax is here. The UK may be next to follow suit, and that could cause a domino effect in the Western world. This could be a preemptive move to avoid an even more obese future for this planet. It's obvious that junk food makers are marketing directly to kids. Parents who use the television or the computer to entertain their kids probably aren't aware of the barrage of junk food advertising that their kids deal with constantly.

In other news, the death of a woman in Louisiana recently has brought the "brain-eating amoeba" back into American headlines. Naegleria fowleri are known to be fatal in as little as a few days, and their proliferation is usually related to hot humid lakes and streams in the southeastern United States. However, in the story linked above as well as in other places, this amoeba has been located in unclean tap water. Neti pot users must always use sterile water. Hopefully since the news item made the mainstream media, more people will be aware of the importance of sterile neti pots, as well as the danger that tap water in America has become. Don't wash in it, don't drink it, and don't cook with it!

And one more piece of maddening news, this time about vaccines - Pro-Vaccine Immunologist Admits a Shocking Truth About Vaccines - just read it. It's appalling.

And now for some good news - biomagnetic therapy and its many benefits:

And one more video, on the chemtrail agenda. A "Coast to Coast AM" interview:

How to Kill Your Urge for Snacking

2011-12-15T17:15:00.000-05:00

An obvious and fortuitous benefit has emerged from my latest foray into "extreme" health modalities, the Reams Biological Theory of Ionization or RBTI for short. Snacking has become literally nonexistent. Urges to eat between meals are gone. I literally have to force myself to eat a piece of fruit in order to follow protocol when my brix levels drop below 1.0, which has really only happened once or twice since beginning the program. It's amazing how changing the sizes of meals results in training the metabolism as well as the psychological force driving food cravings.

In case anyone new is reading this, over the past six or so weeks my diet and eating habits have been changed dramatically in an attempt to move my numbers into the RBTI healing range. One of the primary tenets of RBTI is "the big lunch", meaning that lunch is supposed to be the biggest meal of the day in an effort to control blood sugar levels over the course of the rest of the day. In RBTI, you eat lunch like a king, breakfast like a queen, and dinner like a pauper. In addition, since I tend towards low sugar, I am to have dessert each day with lunch. So basically, my meals have changed and here's a basic idea of what I'm eating on a typical day:

Breakfast - large smoothie (raw milk, coconut butter, bananas, peaches, greens, etc) plus a bowl of oatmeal or quinoa flakes

Lunch - white bean burger on a spelt bun, a veggie side, chips with some sort of dip, Coconut Bliss ice cream, pumpkin pie

Dinner - small salad

To be honest, the small dinners sometimes even feel too large. This is due to the steady flow of sugars/carbs running through my blood during the afternoon and evening hours. So in turn, my appetite is lower while my metabolism is raging. Changing dietary habits in order to make sure a "big lunch" is a priority each day can be a lot of work for most people. Unfortunately society has made it so that we're working hard during the day and rarely sit down to a full, balanced, whole-foods based meal. I've dedicated myself to RBTI for the time being so I've made the sacrifice. It has paid off in ways I'd never imagine.

First of all, energy is constant and there's never body temperature issues. Eating this way keeps us warm all day, while providing extra focus and clarity due to high amounts of oxygen reaching the brain. Secondly, and probably firstly for a lot of people, eating this way enables profound weight loss (or weight gain if one is underweight, your body gets you to your ideal weight and stays there) and body composition changes. Eating large dinners and desserts or snacks in the evening, when the metabolism and digestive system are at their weakest, creates major imbalances in sugar levels. Often eating in the evening can lead to more eating later, as elevated sugar levels cause the brain to crave additional (and unneeded) fuel. And as I mentioned earlier, urges to eat between meals have been vanquished. This is important because the digestive system needs time to process each meal, and snacking inhibits that, leading to indigestion and even digestive disorders. Lastly, eating in this manner allows for deeper sleep. Small, vegetable-based dinners allow for quicker digestion and therefore the body can focus on rest and repair in the evening rather than food assimilation. Also, small dinners around 6pm can lead to a natural fast for twelve hours each day, or until you eat dinner in the morning. This is a form of intermittent fasting and very beneficial to the body and mind.

Seriously, kill your urge for snacking by adopting the big lunch mantra. It may get you to start wanting to read more about RBTI. Start tomorrow!

RBTI and the Urea Index

2011-12-12T08:52:00.002-05:00

In the RBTI perfect health equation above, the last set of numbers (three over three) indicates the amount of nitrate nitrogen (nitrogen oxide, the top number) and the amount of ammonia nitrogen (nitrogen sulfate, the bottom number) in the urine. Together the two numbers are referred to as the "urea index" and they represent undigested proteins in the system. RBTI practitioners say that the top number, nitrate nitrogen, represents the assimilation of animal proteins while the ammonia nitrogen number indicates breakdown of vegetable proteins. Also, nitrate nitrogen is referred to as "protein in", meaning protein coming into the system, while ammonia nitrogen shows "protein out", or proteins leaving the system.

Nitrate nitrogen is anionic (alkaline) while ammonia nitrogen is cationic (acid). The acidic ammonia nitrogen is extremely toxic when it stays in the system for too long. It basically represents proteins that are the side effects of metabolic processes in the body and they must be eliminated through the urine before they become toxic in the body. A person with a lot of ammonia nitrogen in their urine shows that the diet is lacking the ideal amount of water and fiber or bulk. Also, nitrate nitrogen in the system turns into ammonia nitrogen after about three days.

The urea numbers are very important with respect to the overall health equation. Most importantly, they show a potassium deficiency. When on an RBTI program the healing range for the urea index is 15-19, and when below that for a sustained period of time, the potassium deficiency develops because potassium requires protein for its absorption. This leads to problems with clear-thinking and other brain problems. In fact, Dr. Reams said if the number falls below 12, lesions in the brain can form within a few days, and brain tumors develop. If your urea index number is low, eat lots of potassium-rich foods!

When on a fast, the top number (nitrate nitrogen) will go to zero because there is no protein coming into the body. The ammonia nitrogen will still be there, however, because as mentioned above it represents proteins that come as by-products of natural cellular metabolism.

Dr. Don Huber on GMO's

2011-12-11T07:37:00.002-05:00

The Role of Thermography in Cancer Detection and the Folly of Breast Cancer Screenings

2011-12-10T08:06:00.002-05:00

Check out this awesome video! Great information here...

And here's a related news article from today: Breast cancer screening could cause more harm than good (click to read) - Yes, the screenings lead to misdiagnosis and therefore unneeded and harmful treatments. Our current system of medicine is broken. It's time to make the change to alternative healing modalities.

Sheeple Mag #6

2011-12-10T07:55:00.002-05:00

A Little Vacation from Work...

2011-12-07T08:26:00.002-05:00

For the next several days, I am off of work so that I can use up my paid time off that will expire at end of year. Lots of research, rest and relaxation are in store, and that's great considering my RBTI journey. In the meantime, here's two quick articles for your perusal. I hope to write about RBTI and ureas in the next day or so, look for it!

Why does the Alzheimer's Association ignore mercury as a causal factor in Alzheimer's Disease? - Wow, this is some excellent work. Please take a look at this link and pass it on to those around you who are familiar with Alzheimer's. My grandfather has it bad right now, and I've always had my concerns about his exposure to environmental toxicity through his awful diet. Here's more proof.

Steve Explains How to File Your Vaccine Exemption Form in Texas - These forms are apparently available nationwide. Pass this on to anyone with a small child. It only costs $5 to exempt a child from a lifetime of potential debilitating disease due to vaccine toxicity.

Do Aluminum Adjuvants in Vaccines Contribute to the Rising Prevalence of Autism? - Of course they do. Please read the abstract.

My Latest Numbers...

2011-12-04T06:28:00.002-05:00

Above is the equation for perfect health, according to Dr. Carey Reams. After one month of close adherence to RBTI protocol, my numbers were as follows. Please bear in mind that this reading was immediately after being in a far-infrared sauna, which I've decided to cut out for a while because it impacts my numbers and for some reason turns my urine acidic when it's normally alkaline. Anyway, here's my numbers:

1.4 5.5 / 6.4 8.5C 4.0M 8 / 8

These numbers are pretty damn good (if I do say so myself) and indicate that my energy in (brix and pH) is doing very well (especially if the urine pH is tossed because it's normally 6.8 or so, except for once a week when I do a sauna). The 6.37 saliva pH indicates that my liver is functioning efficiently, and therefore so are my other organs. The energy out numbers (conductivity, albumin and nitrates) are all in the "healing range", showing that my body is kicking out toxicity efficiently as well. So according to this chart, I'm looking good.

In talking to Dr. Misak, I've realized that the far-infrared sauna sessions increase body toxicity very quickly as the toxins are mobilized and excreted from cells and tissues into the bloodstream and ultimately the urine. Toxicity in the system is acidic, and my urine is showing that my body is trying to eliminate it immediately. I really need to get tested either before I get in the sauna, or skip the sauna whatsoever. I'm leaning towards the latter, because I don't feel it's needed and it may be hurting my body's attempts to naturally heal.

As far as results go, many noticeable changes have already begun. The first and most obvious is a body recomp. Although I gave my body some time off from exercising since it was already being shocked by a chemistry change, I am adding lean mass while losing fat and it feels great. Even Sabrina noticed that my chest looks fuller than before. It's obvious to me because I'm tightening my belt and even the jeans and pants I bought in my high-raw vegan days are getting loose. In addition to the recomp, I'm definitely thinking more clearly. I've been absorbing data non-stop as I prepare to get even more serious about RBTI. I'm literally digesting every piece of information I can find. For a while there, it was discernible that I needed less sleep to accomplish the same tasks, but lately my sleep has gone back to where it was before starting RBTI, and I think that's because the body does its healing as we sleep, and therefore extra sleep is required as my body rebuilds its diseased or dead tissues. My nails and hair are growing faster than before, and I attribute that to the extra calcium. And here's for the "TMI" part. I am having at least two normal-sized bowel movements per day. I've never been this regular in my entire life. The systematic water drinking, and the eating of the bulk calories during the period that my metabolism is strongest are helping immensely, as was bringing my pH from over seven in the beginning to the 6.3-6.8 range that I've been in over the last two tests.

I've decided to get an entire testing kit instead of just the pH and refractometer testing I've conducted at home so far. Seeing the numbers on a daily basis will help me learn how the foods I'm eating affect the numbers. Wish me luck, this has been quite the journey so far and I'm learning more than I had in the entire previous two-plus years of intense research into health and longevity.

Yet Another Reason to Avoid Chocolate

2011-12-02T20:51:00.000-05:00

70% of World's Raw Chocolate Soon To Be Genetically Modified (Click here to read)

Yes, you read that correctly. The article is a year old so shame on me for not noticing sooner. Even without the long-term effects on humans being known and confirmed, we're rushing to inundate the entire world with GMO everything. Big dollars are stealing the health of everyone. This is another victory for human greed and ignorance.

Jeff Rense & Jeffrey Smith - GMOs...Know What You're Eating!

2011-11-30T17:06:00.001-05:00

Two Vitamin C Tablets Every Day Could Save 200,000 Lives Every Year

2011-11-30T17:06:00.000-05:00

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Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, November 22, 2011

Two Vitamin C Tablets Every Day Could Save 200,000 Lives Every Year

Ascorbate Supplementation Reduces Heart Failure

(OMNS, Nov 22, 2011) New research has reported that risk of heart failure decreases with increasing blood levels of vitamin C [1]. Persons with the lowest plasma levels of ascorbate had the highest risk of heart failure, and persons with the highest levels of vitamin C had the lowest risk of heart failure.

According to the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) there are about 600,000 deaths from heart disease each year. [2] This is an enormous number. The definition of heart failure used by the study authors was on the basis of drugs prescribed, which would include all forms of heart disease that cause death. This agrees well with the CDC definition.

Specifically, the study found that each 20 micromole/liter (μmol/L) increase in plasma vitamin C was associated with a 9% reduction in death from heart failure. That works out to 54,000 fewer deaths from heart failure for each increase in 20 μmol/L plasma vitamin C. If everyone took high enough doses of vitamin C to reach the highest quartile (80 μmol/L), that would work out to approximately 216,000 fewer deaths per year. Just from taking vitamin C.

What is Heart Failure?

The heart muscle fails for many reasons. As we get older, it weakens and may not get enough nutrients to keep it healthy. A severe heart attack, that does not kill the patient but has caused significant damage to the heart muscle, may leave the heart in a very weakened state. Long standing or acute high blood pressure can put a massive strain on the heart and cause it to fail. An abnormal beating of the heart such as a very fast heart rate, an irregular beat or a lot of missed beats will result in a less effective pumping and eventual failure. Anemia will make the heart pump harder and faster in an attempt to deliver enough oxygen to the organs. The valves in the heart which direct blood flow are made up of an important fibrous strengthening tissue called collagen. Weakness or tearing of these valves can cause the blood to flow backwards, making the heart pump very inefficiently and eventually causing it to fail. When the heart muscle begins to fail, there is a buildup of carbon dioxide and waste products, resulting in weakening of the kidneys and liver. Eventually, fluid builds up in all the organs and the person presents with severe fatigue, shortness of breath (from fluid in the lungs) and swelling of the ankles.

Viruses and other microorganisms can attack the heart and weaken the heart muscle cells permanently by causing viral myocarditis. As the heart muscle cells get older they may require more energy to work and a greater level of protection from free radical damage. Nutrients such as magnesium, orotic acid, coenzyme Q10, acetyl L-Carnitine, and others may be required. Toxins, chemotherapeutic drugs, alcohol and deficiencies of some nutrients such as selenium may cause the heart to increase the size of its cells to compensate for the weakness. An enlargement of the heart muscle is called cardiomyopathy. These hearts are much more likely to fail.

Medical treatment of cardiac failure uses drugs that open the arteries, reduce blood pressure, and force the excessive fluid out of the body (diuretics). Drugs known as ACE Inhibitors improve quality of life and survival. Diet, fluid and salt restriction, and tolerable exercise are essential. For the most severe cases, a heart transplant may be required. However, many of these treatments have significant side effects. For example, treatment with diuretics to remove excess fluid will tend to lower the plasma vitamin C level and exacerbate the causes of cardiac failure.

How Much Vitamin C is Needed?

It takes less vitamin C than you may have thought. To achieve a plasma level of 80 μmol/L, and thereby reduce deaths by 216,000 per year, requires a daily dosage of about 500 mg of vitamin C. This is only one or two tablets per day, costing less than ten cents.

3,000 to 8,000 mg/day, in continued divided doses, can achieve a plasma level twice as high (160 μmol/L). This much C could save an additional 216,000 lives as it is an additional 80 μmol/L, assuming the relationship holds.
We can go still higher, and without intravenous administration. 1,000 mg of oral vitamin C per hour for 12 hours (12,000 mg/day) will result in a plasma level of about 240 μmol/L. A single 5,000 milligram dose might take you to a peak of 240 μmol/L, but only for about 2-4 hours after the intake. That is why the dosage needs to be spread out: better absorption, gradual excretion, higher plasma levels . . . and better results.

Conclusion:

Optimizing vitamin C intake optimizes the health of a person taking it. This includes persons with potentially life-threatening disorders. It is a simple, cheap, effective, and safe therapy. Vitamin C is no longer a "controversial" therapy. It is an ignored therapy. It is time for the medical profession to fully awaken to what this recent study confirms: higher vitamin C intakes mean less heart failure. That means that higher vitamin C intakes mean fewer deaths. 200,000 per year fewer.

With just two vitamin C tablets per day.

References:

1. Pfister R, Sharp SJ, Luben R, Wareham NJ, Khaw KT. (2011) Plasma vitamin C predicts incident heart failure in men and women in European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition-Norfolk prospective study. Am Heart J. 162:246-253.

2. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lcod.htm

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RBTI and Albumin (Cellular Debris)

2011-11-29T17:05:00.000-05:00

The fifth number in the equation above,.04M, is the value for the albumin count in the urine. Dr. Reams taught that this number indicates the amount of cellular debris that is being excreted through one's urine. The body naturally disposes of dead or delta cells during its natural ongoing cleansing process. The albumin/cellular debris number is significant as it relates vital information about the body's healing.

When in poor health, the body must expel mass amounts of delta cells in order to reach homeostasis. This means that during the healing process, the value for the albumin should be at least 4M, or four million cells per quart of urine. Think about that; it's a massive amount of cellular debris! But at the same time, realize that all of the cells in the body regenerate over a period of time, so of course we're always throwing off dead cells as new ones are born to replace the expiring ones.

Many important inferences can be made from the cellular debris number. Most importantly, it lets us know if the body is cooperating with the healing process. A thoroughly toxic person with a value below 4M is retaining lots of dead and dying cells in their system, and therefore staying toxic. A high cellular debris number means that the person should add Vitamin E to their regimen, as it thins the blood and therefore lessens the stress on the heart and the kidneys. When not healing, a high albumin count indicates that the person is aging faster than he or she should be. Cells are dying too quickly. For most people following an RBTI regimen, the cellular debris is the last number of the equation to make it into the "A (perfect health) Range." This is because as the body heals it will be constantly throwing off dead cells. The liver eventually rebuilds itself and only then will the person attain perfect health, and the cellular debris number will come down to the ideal .04M.

Two Quick News Items for Today

2011-11-29T16:46:00.000-05:00

Australia is coercing parents to vaccinate their children, threatening a loss of family tax benefits if the "immunizations" aren't completed! Big Pharma will stop at nothing to take your money and make your children more prone to disease, and autoimmune reactions from the poisons contained in most vaccinations! This is literally the final step before making forced vaccinations into law for the country. Is America next? And if that isn't disgusting enough, here's one that can really turn your stomach:

How food manufacturers turn mouldy, mislabelled or outright contaminated foods into edible -- and profitable -- goods - Yes, you read that right. The FDA is allowing companies to sell foods after supposedly ridding them of contamination. Check out this excerpt:

Snokist Growers, the Washington-based company that received the stern talk from FDA officials after their apple sauce packages rife with green, brown, white and grey mould this August, was the latest example of a common practice.
In order to save money, many companies remove damaged or mouldy parts of their products before blasting the goods with strong heat in order to disinfect the food.

After they use temperature changes to disinfect, the companies then repackage the food and send it off to their clients as if nothing is wrong.

The heat-blasting technique is common.

Come on now...it's time to disband the FDA. They are corrupt crooks. This is going too far!

Beagles Rescued from Lifelong Laboratory Confinement

2011-11-28T16:58:00.001-05:00

Health Care in America: Fail

2011-11-28T07:50:00.000-05:00

Shame on America. Shame on Americans. Shame on the fact that we continue to fail at improving our level of overall health and longevity although we continue to throw billions of dollars at the problem every single year. As I was reading the news on this lovely Monday morning (lovely because I don't have work today; the weather is actually awful), an article caused me to once again dwell on the miserable state of health affairs in America. Here's the piece: "What's killing America? U.S. ranks 28th in life expectancy (lower than Chile and Greece) while it pays the MOST for health care"

Yes, that headline is an eye-opener. American health care costs as of 2010 are now over $7,900 per person and yet we still cannot increase our longevity. We're dying due to ignorance. The average American lets the mainstream media lead them down avenues promising weight loss through the latest fads, miracle diets, and "instant fixes" instead of dealing with the cause. Americans waste billions of dollars annually to treat symptoms, masking the cause and allowing it to emerge as another seemingly unrelated disease in the body. The "I want it now" mentality that pervades our society leads Americans to think that although the cause of their disease took years (and sometimes decades) to manifest, all it takes is a pill or quick surgery to resolve the issue. This has never worked in the past and will never work in the future.

The stats paint a sordid picture; an entire country that simply doesn't "get it." Obesity remains the fastest-growing lifestyle disease in Western society, learning and social disabilities are increasing every year, and of course cancer and heart disease are still prevalent anywhere one looks. The answer is right in front of everyone's faces, but they're too distracted or ignorant to see it. Most of the time that's because the resolution involves lifestyle changes and a slow progression from ill health to vibrant health.

Longevity is stressed in this blog and has been since its inception. My one and only goal is to help myself and anyone else who will listen to live as long as they possibly can. And it's not just about living long (hell, we've all heard the stories about so and so's grandma who lived to 115 while smoking a pack a day for eighty years), it's about living well, for as long the body can keep up that quality of life. After a few years of doing nonstop research into the diets and lifestyles of our ancestors, different theories of disease and wellness, and using myself as a guinea pig in a variety of therapies, I feel very confident in my ability to help someone find their "A range", to borrow a term from Reams Biological Theory of Ionization. RBTI can help America. It leads to weight loss, metabolism speeding up, disease eradification, and a long, healthy life. Now that this diatribe has run its course, I hope you'll all stay with me as I continue down the rabbit hole and bring the best information I can to you, my readers.

RBTI and Conductivity

2011-11-25T15:04:00.000-05:00

In the above equation, the fourth number (6-7C) indicates the salt number, otherwise referred to as "conductivity" of the urine. Basically, the salts number refers to the minerals (electrolytes) in the urine, and is measured by a conductivity meter. The reading of the meter can help one determine whether or not the body is overcharged (too many electrolytes) or undercharged (too few electrolytes). If all other numbers are in the ideal range (as indicated by the perfect health equation above), a conductivity meter reading of 6-7C would be perfect, indicating that energy is flowing with the perfect amount of force through the body.

Conductivity of the urine shows the force at which energy moves through you. An overcharged person with salt numbers higher than ideal is having problems due the extra force at which the energy is traveling. An undercharged person is not getting enough electrolytes through the diet, and the energy is not moving with enough force due to the mineral deficiency. As conductivity rises, the fluid balance of the body becomes disturbed and fluid is forced into spaces inside or outside the cells where it isn't normally found. Drinking additional amounts of water is an easy way to lower the conductivity and wash salts out with the urine. Water breaks down fat (where minerals are stored) and therefore reduces the salt levels.

Conductivity is related to pH as well, in that "pH tells us about frequency while the conductivity tells about how much current is flowing on the frequency" (Beddoe). Problems is salt levels are directly related to high blood pressure, higher body temperature, violent heart beats (and therefore heart attacks), and more. It is very important to keep the conductivity levels in the RBTI healing range. Alcohol consumption directly affects conductivity as well, due to its diuretic or dehydrating effect. Drink a proper amount of water and follow RBTI tenets closely, and you'll never have a conductivity/salts issue.

Cell Phones and Cancer

2011-11-25T14:25:00.002-05:00

Pizza is a vegetable? Plus the FDA's Battle Against Another Proven Cancer Cure

2011-11-24T07:57:00.000-05:00

Pizza is a vegetable? Congress says yes - This is the kind of corruption and nonsense we deal with every day here in America. Big dollar industries are continuously bullying or buying off politicians at any sign of danger for their ridiculously high profit margins. Tomato paste is a vegetable, they say. French fries and pizza must remain in school cafeterias is their mantra. Back on planet earth, none of that shit is true. This is one of the many reasons I'd love to home-school my nephews. The foods served in our nation's schools are absolutely deplorable. We are FAILING our progeny.

FDA, TEXAS MEDICAL BOARD FIGHTS TO KILL CANCER CURE - More on the story of Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski and his amazing gene therapy treatment. If this doesn't rile you up, nothing will. Our own bloated government bureaucracies often fight on the side of big business. We witnessed it in the article above, and now we're seeing it pertaining to suppressed cancer treatments! When will the madness end? When the common people become aware and rise up, that's when! Inform everyone you know of the corruption running rampant in Washington!

Autoimmune Disease Myths Unraveled, by Andreas Moritz

2011-11-23T14:39:00.001-05:00

Another amazing article from one of my favorite natural health gurus, Andreas Moritz...

Dear Friends,

In this two-part miniseries on autoimmune diseases, which now account for over 100 common diseases, I would like to provide you with a different perspective than the one offered by the current medical model. Since the incidence of autoimmune disease is increasing so dramatically, this topic deserves a better explanation than “the body mistakenly attacks itself”.

Before I start, I am very happy to announce that our newly redesigned web site has just been launched, you can click here to view it. The new Health Blog Page is particularly useful for learning about the latest important health-related information. From this page you can also access all my EnerChiTV video and audio recordings, free of charge.

If you like, please take advantage of the extensive “Resources” pages. The site now also features a Search window (top right), which you can use to find more information on topics you are interested in. We will be adding new information almost every day. Soon, we shall make available over 200 informative articles and newsletters I have written in the past few years. There is a great new sharing feature on each page that will allow you to share the information with friends.

If you have any suggestions to further improve the site, please let me know.

Autoimmune Disease Myths Unraveled

Our intestinal tract is constantly exposed to a large number of viruses, bacteria, and parasites. In addition to these and many other natural antigens (foreign materials) contained in plant and flesh foods, the digestive system may also have to deal with chemical insecticides, pesticides, hormones, antibiotic residues, preservatives, and colorings contained in so many processed foodstuffs today. In addition, there is the organic plastic compound bisphenol A(BPA) – an antioxidant in plastic bottles and food packaging, leaching BPA into our food and beverages. This harmful ingredient is also found in the liners of metal food and beverage cans.
Many people are still exposed to the highly toxic chemical fluoride added to municipal water in the United States and other countries.

Some large-molecule medical drugs such as penicillin also act as toxins.

Possible naturally occurring antigens include pollen from flowers, plants, plant antibodies and enzyme inhibitors, fungi, mold, and the like.

It is the task of the immune system – most of it is located in the intestinal lining – to protect us against all these potentially harmful invaders and substances. To be able to accomplish this task every day, both the digestive and lymphatic systems must remain unobstructed and efficient. Gallstones in the liver seriously disrupt the digestive process, which leads to an overload of toxic substances in the gut, blood and lymph.

Most doctors consider arthritis an autoimmune disease affecting the synovial membrane. Autoimmunity is thought to be a condition in which the immune system develops immunity to its own cells. It results when antigen/antibody complexes (rheumatoid factors) are formed in the blood.

Click here to continue reading the entire article.

Find out more about the causes of allergies and autoimmune disease in my next newsletter.

With my best wishes, Andreas Moritz

The Source of Food Is None of Your Business, Says WTO.

2011-11-23T07:24:00.001-05:00

Click here to read the article: "The Source of Food Is None of Your Business, Says WTO." - Gee, even more blatant corruption to help the biggest companies in America to continue to scam the people...

RBTI and pH

2011-11-19T13:01:00.000-05:00

In the equation above, the second set of numbers (6.4 over 6.4) represents the values of the pH, or potential of Hydrogen, of the urine and saliva. The pH of the urine is usually indicated on top, and the saliva on the bottom. The pH value is actually a measure of resistance in the body. According to Dr. Carey Reams and his disciples, pH shows the speed at which energy moves through the body, and 6.4 refers to the ideal speed. When the pH is above 6.4, the body is said to be in alkaline state, and when the pH is below 6.4 the body is in an acidic condition. When alkaline, the body's processes are performing slower than they should be; when acid, those physiological functions are moving faster. The pH is therefore a fantastic measure of the state of resistance of energy in the body.

As mentioned in one of my introductory posts to the Reams Biological Theory of Ionization (RBTI), calcium is the most important mineral in the body based on the body's requirements of it. There are actually thousands of calciums, although the word calcium is both singular and plural. Because of this, many RBTI gurus use the word calciums, knowing full well that it's not the correct use of the plural. Anyway, the tons of different kinds of calciums effect the pH of the body in various ways. The body uses calcium to regulate the speed of energy through the body, so it has a profound effect on body pH. Some calciums have a neutral effect on pH, while others drive it in an alkaline direction (increasing resistance), and yet others move the body in an acidic direction (decreasing resistance). In RBTI, the measure of the pH indicates which calciums should be added in order to correct the pH imbalance. If the patient has an acidic pH, alkaline calcium should be used in an attempt to drive the body closer to 6.4. Conversely, an alkaline patient should be given acidic (cationic) calcium in order to decrease the pH until it hits 6.4.

The overall body pH (called a "pH index" in RBTI) is measured as follows. Multiply the saliva pH times two, then add to it the urine pH, and then divide that number by three. That is the pH index for the person. It's also important to remember that saliva pH indicates the strength of the liver, while the urine pH indicates overall body pH. When looking at the saliva pH, if it is alkaline, one can deduce that digestion has been slowed because the liver isn't functioning at its best, and colon hydrotherapy and other healing modalities may be prescribed. An acidic saliva pH shows that the body is digesting food too quickly and the body is not extracting the needed minerals from the foods ingested.

In my own current RBTI protocol, I am taking a cationic or acidic calcium because of my over-alkaline state. My urine pH and saliva pH are both alkaline and haven't fallen into an acidic range at all so far. They have both neared the golden 6.4 but haven't quite made it there yet. Because of that I am taking calcium lactate as well as Min-Col. The calcium lactate is acid or cationic while the Min-Col is neutral. My liver needs all the extra calcium it can get in order to heal and correct the digestive slowness I've experienced over the past few years.

Okay, that's a quick look at pH, and hopefully sometime in the next week I can talk about conductivity, the third number in the equation. I got a refractometer yesterday for measuring brix (or "sugar levels" of the urine in RBTI) so I have to figure out how to use it correctly. Once I do that, I'll probably be measuring the brix of my urine every time I pee. Yep, I'm trying to pee all I can pee :)

Vitamins Decrease Lung Cancer Risk by 50%

2011-11-19T07:30:00.000-05:00

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, November 18, 2011

Vitamins Decrease Lung Cancer Risk by 50%

by Robert G. Smith, PhD

(OMNS, Nov 18, 2011) A recent study [1] of the effect of B vitamins on a large group of participants reported an inverse relationship between blood serum levels of vitamin B6, methionine, and folate and the risk of lung cancer. High serum levels of vitamin B6, methionine and folate were associated with a 50% or greater reduction in lung cancer risk. This exciting finding has not been widely reported in the media, but it confirms a growing body of evidence gathered over the last 40 years that B vitamins are important for preventing diseases such as cancer.

The study gathered information about the lifestyle and diet of 385,000 people in several European countries. The average age was 64 years, and most had a history of drinking alcohol daily. Blood samples were then taken from these participants, and some of those (889) that developed lung cancer were analyzed for the level of several B vitamins and related biochemicals such as methionine, an essential amino acid. These nutrients were studied because they are known to be important in the metabolism of single carbon compounds, which is necessary for the synthesis and repair of DNA in the body's tissues [2]. Thus, B vitamins are helpful in preventing defects in DNA which can cause cancer [2-4].

Specifically, a high level of either vitamin B6, or methionine, or folate reduced the risk for lung cancer. High levels of all these nutrients together produced an even lower risk. The effects were large, so the results are highly significant.

The study divided the participants into three categories, depending on whether they currently smoked, had previously smoked, or had never smoked. While smoking is the most important lifestyle factor in the risk for lung cancer, interestingly, the effects of vitamin B6, methionine, and folate were fairly constant among the three categories. That is, those with higher levels of these B vitamins had a significantly lower risk of lung cancer no matter whether they smoked or not. The report emphasizes that this result strongly suggests that the effect of these essential nutrients in lowering the risk for cancer is real and not purely a statistical correlation. And, the report reiterates that smoking is dangerous, greatly increasing the risk for lung cancer in older people after decades of insult to the lungs.

Some widely-reported health studies have suggested that B vitamins can increase the risk of cancer. The theory is that these vitamins can help to prevent cancer from their effects in strengthening DNA synthesis and repair, but that when cancer is present, the vitamins supposedly help the cancer to grow [5]. However, there is a long history of health studies, including the above mentioned study, reporting that B vitamins including folate and vitamin B6 can help to prevent many types of cancer, such as breast, prostate and colorectal cancer [1-6].

It is just amazing how the news media could have missed this, but they pretty much did. In one much-publicized study [7] it was widely claimed that "Multivitamins increase deaths in older women!" Actually, the study found that B complex vitamins were associated with a 7 percent decrease in mortality, vitamin C was associated with a 4 percent decrease in mortality, vitamin D was associated with an 8 percent decrease in mortality, and several minerals were associated with a decrease in mortality.

Essential nutrients in a well-balanced diet, including B-complex, C, D, and E vitamins, are crucial to maintaining good health into old age for a variety of reasons. Persons taking adequate levels of vitamins will live longer, with fewer heart attacks [7] and other serious diseases such as diabetes [8], multiple sclerosis [9], and dementia [10].

The question begged by the report is, what role did vitamin supplements play in the blood levels reported for these essential nutrients? Taking a multivitamin that includes B-complex vitamins will obviously increase the blood levels of these essential nutrients. However, the value of supplements was not emphasized in the report.

So we will emphasize it here. Vitamins dramatically lower lung cancer risk. Supplements provide these nutrients in abundance. Modern diets do not.

References:

1. Johansson M, Relton C, Ueland PM, et al. Serum B vitamin levels and risk of lung cancer. JAMA. 2010 Jun 16;303(23):2377-85.

2. Xu X, Chen J. One-carbon metabolism and breast cancer: an epidemiological perspective. J Genet Genomics. 2009;36: 203-214.

3. Larsson SC, Orsini N, Wolk A. Vitamin B6 and risk of colorectal cancer: a meta-analysis of prospective studies. JAMA. 2010;303:1077-1083.

4. Ames BN. Prevention of mutation, cancer, and other age-associated diseases by optimizing micronutrient intake. J Nucleic Acids. 2010 Sep 22;2010. pii: 725071.

5. Mason JB. Unraveling the complex relationship between folate and cancer risk. Biofactors. 2011 Jul;37(4):253-60.

6. Giovannucci E. Epidemiologic studies of folate and colorectal neoplasia: a review. J Nutr. 2002;132(Suppl):S2350-S2355.

7. Mursu J, Robien K, Harnack LJ, Park K, Jacobs DR Jr. Dietary supplements and mortality rate in older women. The Iowa Women's Health Study. Arch Intern Med 2011. 171(18):1625-1633.

8. Pfister R, Sharp SJ, Luben R, et al. Plasma vitamin C predicts incident heart failure in men and women in European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition-Norfolk prospective study. Am Heart J. 2011 Aug;162(2):246-53.

9. Harding AH, Wareham NJ, Bingham SA, et al. Plasma vitamin C level, fruit and vegetable consumption, and the risk of new-onset type 2 diabetes mellitus: the European prospective investigation of cancer--Norfolk prospective study. Arch Intern Med. 2008 Jul 28;168(14):1493-9.

10. Solomon AJ. Multiple sclerosis and vitamin D. Neurology. 2011 Oct 25;77(17):e99-e100.

11. Selhub J, Troen A, Rosenberg IH. B vitamins and the aging brain. Nutr Rev. 2010 Dec;68 Suppl 2:S112-8.

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Life is But a Quest for Knowledge

2011-11-17T16:30:00.000-05:00

"When an honest man discovers he is mistaken, he will either cease being mistaken or cease being honest." - Anonymous

Yesterday, a friend sent me the above quote in support of my transition away from a vegan diet. It is a perfectly fitting description of the dilemma faced by yours truly after having my body fluids tested. Realizing that I was not the perfect picture of health that I thought I was, and being an honest man, I have taken to the task of spreading the truth about my personal experience with a vegan diet. I most certainly was mistaken, and I'm the first to admit it, as I will never cease to be honest. What makes the whole issue more complex is the glowing aura that has surrounded my being since first going vegan.

Over the past two years, the flu and even the common cold have not made their way into my life. My energy steadily increased, my skin and hair improved dramatically, and a host of other positive changes arose from my abstaining from animal products. If asked to name one thing about my health that gave me concern over the past twenty-some months, it would definitely be the dark marks under my eyes that made themselves evident anytime I was undernourished the day before. Unfortunately I was blind to the fact that although I was eating a vegan diet "the healthy way" (as I understood it - lots of leafy greens, basically mostly vegetables and fruits with nuts and seeds), my body wasn't able to get the minerals from the food I was eating due to an overly alkaline body state.

Eliminating almost all acid-forming foods in the diet was actually a slow death sentence, as shown by my first set of RBTI numbers. My body was so anionic (alkaline) that all body processes were slowed due to the high resistance in my system. Although constipation wasn't experienced, I was only having one bowel movement per day, tops, because of the lack of overall nourishment consumed. Juices, smoothies and other plant-based foods should certainly be incorporated into most diets, but to recommend a lifestyle of highly alkaline foods sets one up for deficiencies and poor health.

While lauding the vegan diet and way of life, I neglected the significance of context concerning what is eaten. To ignore meal timing, or to generally eat in a manner that is combative to metabolic and physiological rhythms is a recipe for disaster. The context of what is eaten cannot be underestimated. The same foods that cause problems when eaten at one time of the day can actually be beneficial or at the very least not "unhealthy" when eaten at other times of the day. And although I was a mighty vegan, I still ate my largest meal in the evening, and almost always followed it with something sweet, and my health slowly suffered as a result.

Now that we have discovered RBTI and learned its merits first-hand, steps are being taken to help me gain the glowing health I've always yearned for. The end goal is the same as the vegan diet I had adopted; longevity and everyday wellness remain my aim. In changing my meal sizes according to the principles of Dr. Carey Reams and his students, I have seen those bags under the eyes disappear, and my energy levels can no longer be described as a "roller coaster" due to varying sugar levels throughout the day. I have stabilized my sugars while lowering the resistance (pH) of my body from its over-alkaline state to one closer to homeostasis. And most importantly, I am feeling the best I've ever felt.

I'm really glad that I haven't lost any readers as a result of my evolution away from a vegan diet. And of course, I'm also grateful that so many people check this blog out each day to let my personal experiments as a "guinea pig of nutrition" help them mold their own sets of values and their lifestyles.

Humbly and Honestly, Rick the Health Sleuth

Bear With Me....

2011-11-16T17:38:00.000-05:00

Please bear with me, dear readers, as I do realize the updates haven't been coming as often as I'd hoped. Preparation for a workplace "lunch and learn" about health, plus planning for the open house at Pittsburgh Alternative Health has kept me extremely busy lately.

I hope to give an update on my RBTI journey while also discussing pH, conductivity, albumin and urea levels as soon as humanly possible.

Thanks everyone.

- Your favorite sleuth

Open House @ Pittsburgh Alternative Health

2011-11-14T06:27:00.000-05:00

Dr. Misak's OPEN HOUSE AT PITTSBURGH ALTERNATIVE HEALTH, INC.

Have you seen the health of those around you, or even worse, your own personal health as not what it should be? Have you started thinking that natural medicine is just trying to replace drugs with nutrients and herbs? Come see how PAH is different.

Bring a friend and receive a gift, as you invite them to an evening of increasing awareness and health opportunity. Learn a new understanding of basic food and body chemistry concepts that could change how you view natural medicine. Enjoy a time of good food, free services, special offers and learning opportunity. Go to our website (www.PittsburghAlternativeHealth.com) and print the flyer to see the special offers.

WHEN: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22nd, 2011 FROM 4pm - 9pm.

I look forward to meeting many of you, and the opportunity to teach you what I am finding as truth in health.

~Dr. Misak

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Our Mission: "Seeking Truth In and Through Natural Medicine." John 18:37

RBTI and Overeating

2011-11-12T17:22:00.000-05:00

As I sit here typing this post while also eating my light dinner of roasted red pepper and smoked gouda soup (thank you Soup Nancys!), I realized that RBTI could quite possibly be the anti-obesity panacea that the world has been spending billions of dollars searching for over the past few decades. It has only been two weeks that I've been ardently following my doctor's advice and yet I can feel and see my body undergoing a slight recomposition. My muscles seem fuller than they were on my vegan diet, and the pants are getting looser in the waist while getting tighter in the thighs. And to think that all of this is going on while I am not doing any exercising; that is just astonishing to me. I have personally decided to take a month away from serious exercising (I still do some walking in our hilly neighborhood) because I've read that exercise uses vital energy that my body needs right now to accomplish its healing and transition in the "A range" of RBTI. Next month I'll get back to exercising, but lots of rest has been the order lately.

On an RBTI eating plan, it's proving impossible for me to overeat. Eating the largest meal (with dessert) at lunchtime absolutely kills my cravings for any food after that. The body's sugars rise naturally after 2pm, so I do not eat any sweets or carb-y foods after that time. But you know what? I don't care! I never get a craving for sweets due to having dessert or something really sweet at lunchtime. In having a sizable breakfast and then the main meal at dinner, I'm setting myself up for consistent sugar levels throughout the day and evening. The sweetened lemon-water drink helps with that as well. Energy stays consistent and I never crash. Hell, it's Saturday and I've already accomplished so much, including getting some things done at work, and here I am rambling about the merits of RBTI before reading more about it (re-reading Beddoe's book).

Sometimes it's even hard to have a light dinner because I'm just not hungry. But I always make sure to have something as I'm sure my body is used to underfeeding during my vegan days. It's downright amazing how much context matters regarding obesity, weight gain, and the foods we eat. For this Sleuth, eating snacks or appetizers before dinner, or eating heavy foods and sugar with dinner, or having dessert after dinner causes a ravenous appetite for the rest of the evening. My body can't turn off its cravings and I tend to end up snacking all night or even eating a second dessert. But if those foods are taken at mid-day as part of the "big lunch", they actually help to speed my metabolism, eliminate cravings later in the day, and even help me lose body fat while also seeing serious recomp. I am loving this little experiment so far and I'm already convinced of the merits of its primary instructions and will be incorporating them into my life forever. Those are the big lunch and small dinner, distilled water, lemon water, eating a broad and varied diet, and testing myself regularly while attempting to reach the A range.

Microwave radiation dangers in your home

2011-11-12T10:10:00.001-05:00

What Does RBTI Tell Us?

2011-11-11T07:31:00.000-05:00

A lot of people are asking me what my exact goals are as I embark on my RBTI journey. I tell them mostly "to correct my sugars, pH, salts, cellular debris and ureas." Then, they look at me like I'm crazy. So I explain how all disease is the result of a mineral deficiency, and that the Reams equation helps to correct the deficiencies. In case I'm not wording it correctly, he's a short excerpt, from the genius Dr. Carey Reams himself, in his book "Choose! Life or Death":

“The theory of the entire equation is:

Whether the body has too much carbohydrate, or not enough.
Whether the body chemistry is too acid, or too alkaline.
Whether the body is retaining too much salts or not enough. (There are many different kinds of salts. Chlorine salts, and salts without chloride. Even insulin is a salt.)
Whether the body is throwing out the worn-out cells, or not throwing out the worn-out cells.
Whether or not the proteins are digesting.
Whether there is too much manganese, or not enough.
Whether there is too much iron, or not enough.
Whether there is too much iodine, or not enough.
Whether there is too much arsenic, or not enough.
Whether or not there is enough potassium, phosphates, etc., of all the elements.

The perfect equation is: 1.5 – 6.40/6.40 – 6-7C – .04M – 3/3

The first number denotes the carbohydrates. The second and third numbers denote the lack of calciums. This is a key factor in measuring the total amount of energy in our bodies, and is the key factor in the reserve energy, however, it is not the whole key. The fourth number denotes the total salt measurement in micro numbers. This indicates whether the body retains too much salt or not enough. The fifth number indicates the basic change of worn-out cells.

The sixth and seventh numbers cover or indicate many things. If these numbers are running too high it indicates that the proteins are turning to urea because of the high salt, and causes the heart to beat too hard, and the person is a candidate for a pectoris heart attack, also the person is too tired, or tensions are building up. If the worn-out cells are flushed out of the system in three days it does not turn to urea. Urea is undigested protein. The iron, iodine, manganese, and arsenic are measured by the process of elimination. These numbers show where, or in what area or areas, is the greatest loss of energy. The combined salt reading and the urea reading covers many reasons for the loss of energy in the body.

Practically all diseases start with mineral deficiency, which begins with the liver and has an effect on the other vital organs. As these vital organs begin to malfunction this affects the muscular action of the cranial nervous system, therefore it may make the symptom in a different location from the cause of the symptom.”

RBTI and Carbohydrates

2011-11-09T16:35:00.000-05:00

The first and most important number in the RBTI equation is the brix or carbohydrate value (also sometimes called the "sugar number"). A refractometer (shown in Monday's post) is the instrument used to measure the brix in the urine. They are the same tools used to analyze the brix values of crops growing in the field. The refractometer records all sugars present in the urine - glucose, fructose, galactose, etc. In the Reams perfect health equation, the first number (1.5) represents the "perfect carbohydrate level" of the urine, given that all other numbers are perfect as well. Since most people aren't perfect, the 1.5 number is therefore relative to the rest of the equation. Also, other numbers (especially the salts/conductivity) can directly impact the brix reading.

The carbohydrate number reveals the amount of potential energy available in the person (per pound of body weight). For the average person, this number is very valuable. When most people think of potential energy, they think of the energy in terms of calories. But brix values are very different from caloric values, and point to different things. In the urine, potential energy is measured in brix, and it literally indicates the true amount of "energy in" that is accessible by the body. Available energy can have a profound impact on one's health, including mental health. But energy isn't all about sugars, of course.

The brix value is directly related to available oxygen in the body as well. Oxygen is just as important as carbohydrates for the functioning of the liver, brain and other primary organs. When there's too much sugars in the bloodstream, oxygen is decreased, and disease symptoms can emerge. When brix are too low, a different set of symptoms will manifest. The energy in your system represented in brix is extremely valuable because all cells need energy to function and improper "energy in" will adversely effect all physiological functioning. And most importantly, the body needs an abundance of energy in order to process its required minerals obtained from food. So basically, if you have brix issues, you can be assured that your body is minerally deficient. A refractometer could be a lifesaver when used as part of a RBTI regimen.

When I first started on my RBTI program, my sugars were high because of my erratic eating patterns. Eating dessert at night was stressing my liver and colon. It became imperative that I change my eating in order to stabilize my sugars throughout the day. By making lunch my biggest meal and adding dessert to it, I eliminated any sugar crashes I used to have, as well as any cravings. I'm never hungry after work anymore, my energy levels are the same throughout the day, and I'm usually not even in the mood for dinner even six or seven hours after lunch. It's seriously amazing; I can't say enough about the "big lunch."

Please pardon my brevity as I'm still learning a lot every night regarding my own personal RBTI program. I will keep pumping out information as quickly as I can, bear with me :)

Interview - Marco Kaltofen - Airborne Radiation Spread

2011-11-09T16:34:00.000-05:00

Related (Source):

The case of acute lymphocytic leukemia:

No, not in a young child in a high radiation spot that is often talked about on Twitter. A 63-year-old TV newscaster has been diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia and is now hospitalized, getting ready for chemo. He felt a strange lump in his neck on October 28, he says. (Various news sources including: Zakzak 11/7/2011, Yomiuri Shinbun 11/6/2011)

In his morning program on Fuji TV he's been promoting Fukushima produce by eating them in the show. He also happened to be in Fukushima in March 15. Just a coincidence. Never mind that ALL is predominant in small children, and an adult case is one in 100,000 annually in Japan.

One Week of RBTI ~ Reflections

2011-11-07T16:20:00.000-05:00

Sorry for the lack of posts since Thursday. It was a long weekend with the nephews and gorgeous weather throughout the tri-state area. When we weren't with the kids, we were at Pittsburgh Alternative Health, doing a bit of detoxification while also checking my RBTI numbers. The first week of RBTI has been completed, and to say that I'm amazed at my progress already would be a serious understatement. In just seven days of strict adherence to "the rules" of RBTI (Dr. Challen Waychoff's version), visible results have emerged.

Refractometer - used for measuring brix

To recap, since I haven't visited Challen yet, I am only slowly starting out with RBTI while having Dr. Misak at PAH check my numbers twice a week. Doc is in contact with Challen and I plan on seeing him myself eventually, but since I had no glaring health problems that I was aware of (although the first sets of my numbers certainly told a different story), I put off the trip to West Virginia for a couple weeks. In the meantime, I am following these five basic tenets of RBTI, tailored to my personal situation. Please do not follow these rules yourself as they vary based on the individual's numbers.

Only take RBTI supplements to help the numbers. Currently I'm taking Min-Col (a general neutral calcium supplement recommended for everyone), Cal-Lactate (a cationic calcium), Dolomite (to help with my high nitrates), a B complex (for nerves), Vitamin C, and Vitamin E
I am drinking four ounces of distilled water every hour on the hour, and I'm drinking four ounces of fresh-squeezed lemon water every hour on the half-hour. The lemon water is helping to stimulate my liver so that I can metabolize everything better, while the distilled water helps to flush my system.
Every single day, I eat a big lunch. The hallmark of RBTI, and something I think everyone should adopt, is making lunch the biggest meal of the day. Breakfast should be second biggest, and dinner should be smallest. Currently I'm eating a huge lunch with dessert, right around noon every day. The reason for the large breakfast and lunch is to stabilize my blood sugar and energy levels throughout the day. Dinner is usually just soup, or sauteed greens and mushrooms, or root veggie roast, or something like that.
No sweets after 2pm. Dessert after dinner wreaks havoc on the digestive system, and it's proven in urine brix and pH numbers. I have my dessert with lunch, and then no sweets or desserts after that. Believe it or not, this is much easier to do than one would think.
Avoid all the "no" foods (pork, skinned fish, white rice and sugar, chocolate, nutmeg, sea salt, popcorn, nuts, coffee, tea, etc.) to assure myself that I'm not wasting any energy.

In just seven days, I've seen drastic improvements in nitrates, conductivity (salts), brix (sugars), and albumen (cellular debris). Most importantly for me is that my sugars have stabilized, due to the fact that I'm doing the big lunch with dessert. A noticeable increase in energy throughout the day can be discerned from last week to this week, and more importantly, my metabolism is way up. It's easy to notice that part, as my body temperature has been up every day since starting RBTI, and I've started sweating a bit again when doing minor work. There's no cravings for sweets anymore ever. Typically, on the weekends I tend to "cheat" on my healthy ways and eat a bunch of sweets or snacks after or with dinner. However, this past weekend there was none of that. I didn't even get an urge for that Coconut Bliss in the freezer even though I had bought a bunch of it last week for lunchtime desserts.

It's hard to keep talking about these changes without thinking someone is going to call bullshit. I mean seriously, is it really this easy? Can perfect health truly be attained, as Reams and his students believe? Speaking of that, I've posted the perfect health equation several times in this blog. Unfortunately I keep forgetting the best part, and that's because I can't find a good jpeg of it online. In the equation below, there should be a (CS) + before the numbers begin, and then an = (PH) at the end. CS stands for common sense, and PH stands for perfect health. Therefore, the true equation is common sense plus the equation below equals perfect health.

This is an important fact to consider, because Reams was ultimately saying to use common sense! It's not hard to attain perfect health if you match common sense with the foods and supplements to keep your numbers in the "A Range" according to some of Reams' disciples.

More on this tomorrow, gotta catch up on the stuff I missed while babysitting...

"Why Aren't We Talking About the Weather?" by Mary Maxwell, PhD

2011-11-07T16:19:00.000-05:00

Why Aren't We Talking About The Weather? Are We Scared Stiff?

By Mary W Maxwell, PhD, LLB - 11/5/11

How can the gargantuan elephant in the room, the technological creation of weather disasters, continue to go 'unnoticed'? What is the epistemology of this peculiar situation?

I am referring to the branch of philosophy, call Epistemology, that inquires about the process of thinking. Although neuroscience and psychology have largely taken over that area of inquiry, the label 'epistemological' is still appropriate for the question of why people might deal with a particular subject (in this case, the weather) in a stupid way.

In my opinion, many recent weather events, such as tornados, earthquakes, floods, and bushfires, are maliciously man-made. The question I pose is: How is it that many people who have heard of the existence of 'weather weapons' refrain from pursuing the matter?

Wouldn't it be more normal for them to talk it up, either for self-preservation or out of plain intellectual fascination? For instance, once you have heard that rainmaking is now 'ordinary,' wouldn't you want to question the continuing occurrence of droughts? As far as I am aware, no country need ever suffer drought again!

Granted, some people have honestly never heard that weather can be tampered with on a grand scale. I don't know how many of those persons there are; they might even constitute a majority of the population, but they are not the subject of this article. This is strictly about persons who do realize that Hurricane Katrina and the eruption of Iceland's volcano were most likely planned.

It's a very large group: those who now stand in line to be on the receiving end of the next bunch of tornados, floods, etc. I believe that by talking, such persons could improve their situation, that is, they could do something to prevent these 'natural' disasters from happening. So there must be some strong factors causing their silence.

My analysis will be limited to Americans. It appears from the Internet that Europeans are more willing than Americans to discuss 'weather war.' I lack data about the views of South Americans, Asians, or Africans, but they would predictably like to throw some blame at the holders of advanced technology. (Pakistanis have blame Yanks for the floods; a Venezuelan leader says we quaked Haiti.)

Which Weather Events Are in the News?

On December 26, 2004 the word 'tsunami' entered our vocabulary.

That tidal wave, hitting the islands of Indonesia and the east coast of India, was quite a shock to the world. Deaths were estimated to be a quarter of a million. (I recall a donation box at the teller's window of my local bank in which we could send 'relief.' Fathom it!) Just over nine months later, on August 29, 2005, the United States' gulf coast was hit by Hurricane Katrina, another amazing occurrence.

In the last three and a half years we have experienced major events frequently. For example:

Volcano in Iceland (April, 2010), and in Chile (June, 2011)

Tornados in America's heartland (May, 2011)

Bushfires in California (May, 2009), and in Australia (February, 2009)

Floods in Pakistan (August, 2010) and in Australia (December, 2010)

Earthquake in China (May, 2008) and in Haiti (January, 2010)

Heat wave in Argentina (August, 2009), and in US (July, 2011)

Tsunami in Japan (March, 2011)

A Few Ordinary, Justifiable Reasons for the Silence

In an effort to explain the lack of public discussion about the 'causes' of these weather events, I begin by listing four items. These have merely to do with general habits of thinking.

Firstly, the weather phenomena are not new. Fires and floods are a normal part of history. Since they have not previously triggered public debate, it seems comfortable to refrain from conducting such a debate now.

Secondly, most individuals feel embarrassed if they start to talk, and then a more in-the-know person chimes in with comments that 'show them up'. After making a perfectly respectable layperson's observation "That fire burned much more aggressively than I've seen before," one might be told that the amount of dry tinder would explain it. ("You dummy.")

Thirdly, any hint that weather is a weapon will cause a wall of patriotic protection to rise up. One should simply never peer into the fact that one's own nation may have an interest in hurting another nation. To say that this is not table talk is an understatement. For most people it is utterly forbidden. The rule applies to any issue of foreign policy; not just weather war.

Fourthly, most people get their news from television, and the way it is delivered by the newsreader has a natural effect. If the reader reports an event using a tone of condemnation we are likely to evaluate that event emotionally. If the reader narrates, in a fairly unexcited tone, "the Mississippi has just overflowed," we can stay relatively cool.

It Must Be That Folks Are Intimidated

The above reasons why people might refrain from chatting about the rather obvious possibility of weather-tampering are not the ones that I am keen to delve into. I identified them mainly so we can lay them aside. Granted they are 'epistemological'; they influence our thought processes. But I am trying to explain the amazing case of people choosing to suppress a subject that bears directly on their survival. What is going on inside their brain?

One thing I have noticed, when I have dared to mouth the subject of weather war, is that someone usually demands proof. It is as though everyone must suddenly honor the formalities of a court of law. You can get away with the casual remark "Woolworth's is going to buy out Macy's next year" without a neighbor saying "How do you know that?" but if you mention "earthquakes" you had better have excellent evidence at hand.

The person who demands the proof does not, however, want you to supply it. She is hoping to end the conversation. (I note that when I make an unwanted statement about possible malice, my challengers NEVER ask me to cough up what I really know. They change the subject rapidly.)

They are censoring their own brain. I venture to guess that any quick self-censorship done by a citizen is based on fear. I recognize some "Don't go there" areas in my own life that are sad or scary, and I sure as heck don't go there.

Of course, that way of dealing was not invented by me on the day I first needed it! Every psychologist knows that it is a hard-wired species trait of Homo sapiens. Indeed all mammals have ways to resolve the painful emotion of fear. When a fearsome predator approaches, they instinctively defend aggressively or run. "Fight or flight." Upon hearing "weather weapon" most humans resolve the painful emotion of fear by fleeing from the topic!

There's another aspect to the intimidation of the public today, although it isn't one of the mental habits being aired here; it is external. I refer to the veritable army of disinformation artists who make it hard to know the truth. And a separate army, of defamers, lurks around any person who does dare tell the truth, pouncing swiftly on his/her reputation. (Isn't it fun to imagine them reporting their income to IRS as "paid smearers"?)

From the Epistemological to the "Therapeutic"

Let's now depart from the subject of epistemology. Surely the major explanation for how folks can see a definite danger, and yet shrink from taking survival action, must boil down to fear.

One instinct that helps us avoid the worrying facts can be labeled over-optimism. All animals are constantly calculating risk, and it has been found that humans tend to judge a risk to be lower than is actually is. So, if there's even a small chance that our city will never suffer the fires, tornados, bombs, or whatever, that we see others suffer, we cling happily to that 'probability.'

Similarly, there is the natural habit of holding off on a decision for "just a few more days," and the days can turn into years. (Americans always seem to think that a new election is going to bring some kind of relief from political corruption!) Both this procrastinating behavior, and the aforementioned one of miscalculating risk, can help explain why we are not jumping up and down about the rash of earthquakes today.

I recommend that we look STRAIGHT AT THE FEAR that underlies this peculiar behavior, in the way a therapist trains his patient to dump some of his fantasies, defense mechanisms, and escapist behavior. Can a practical solution to our problem emerge from an understanding of what's going on in the old noodle? I think so!

So, then, I propose that we agree, loudly, that there's a huge amount of fear going on in our country today. Why wouldn't there be? Our house might get flooded, or our child may get hit by a falling roof in an earthquake. Those things are pretty unbearable to think about.

Ah, how did we deal in the old days with troubles? No doubt we did a fair amount of switching off, but if the threatened trouble was coming at us from an enemy we could at least fight against him. We have our ways of putting anger to use. We're built for it.

I think we should try some new mental exercising in regard to the threat of weather weapons. Namely, instead of suppressing the worry we should blame it on the appropriate parties. It's very easy to find out who is doing it. (Pertinent videos are flourishing on Youtube.)

I recommend (seriously) that we get our brains to do what our brains do quite well when the subject of 'enemy' comes up. Namely we fight the enemy, we plot against him, we express our absolute disregard for him. Best of all, we buzz around with neighbors, collaborating in this noble endeavor.

Can you think of a reason NOT to do that, with regard to the enemy who brought Katrina (and its rough treatment of citizens) to our shores, who made the Missouri River overflow, who burnt down hundreds of homes in California, and killed off grandmothers with heat waves in New England?

I can't.

Mary W Maxwell, PhD, LLB hopes you will reprint this article like mad. Her new website is: kisskiss.us.com

RBTI, Chocolate, and Fraud

2011-11-03T17:50:00.000-04:00

Health food or Poison?

Raw chocolate could quite possibly be a huge health fraud. Yes, you read that correctly. When telling people about my "No-List" of foods as dictated by Dr. Challen Waychoff, the first question I get from people is "How can you give up chocolate? I could never do that!" Well, the reason given by Waychoff is that chocolate is a negative energy food. The way I understand it, is that it takes the body more energy to process chocolate than the body receives back from the chocolate as nourishment. Therefore, it has a net negative energy effect on the body. However, there's a much darker side to chocolate.

In the last decade-plus, raw cacao/chocolate has been praised as a health panacea by several health "gurus" and raw food community icons. However, the truth has been obscured, just like it is with tons of other fads. And to complicate matters and make things worse, some of these raw food icons peddle cacao although they are fully aware of its harmful toxic properties. Jeremy Safron is one of the primary folks speaking out against cacao, and he has every right to, as it was apparently him who introduced David Wolfe (a huge raw cacao promoter) to chocolate in the first place. Check out this video to hear what Safron has to say:

To summarize, Safron found that chocolate is literally one of the most addictive substances on the face of the earth. Cacao use can result in a number of mental problems, similar to those found in drug addicts. These include depression, mood swings, fits of rage and violence, insomnia, the shakes, and more. It is extremely toxic to the liver as well as the blood. In addition, it's a heart stimulant due to the caffeine and theobromine. The oils in cacao beans prohibit efficient digestive function, and require a massive amount of energy for processing (exactly what my RBTI coaching alludes to).

Safron also investigated cacao in the wild. He noted that wild animals will not go near cacao. Some animals eat it when it is sweetened or made less potent by adding milk, sugar, or whatever else, but that's due to deception. Animals have such a hard time processing chocolate that it can easily kill them and almost certainly decreases lifespan. Native peoples of the lands where chocolate is found will only use it for hallucinogenic purposes, as cacao has a strong LSD-like action on the brain when given in high quantities. Safron basically renounced chocolate, and he was joined by Dr. Doug Graham, Dr. Neal Barnard and others in their disdain for it.

Yet we still have people hailing cacao as a superfood, and regular folks have bought the hype hook, line and sinker. In light of learning what I have about raw cacao, I have decided to sever my affiliation with Gnosis Raw Vegan Chocolate. Supporting chocolate companies is something that I simply can no longer do. Who would have known that it would take my RBTI adventure to finally gain the knowledge about its true nature. I love learning, I hope you do too.

The Perfect Health Equation

2011-11-02T17:48:00.000-04:00

Every day is a learning experience when RBTI enters one's life. Over the past forty-eight hours or so, I've been trying to make sure what I'm doing is 100% correct for my current RBTI numbers. It's looking good. Last night I spent some time with Dr. Misak, and earlier that day I talked to some other RBTI researchers who confirmed a lot of my suspicions. Now that I think the diet and lifestyle are "dialed in" so to speak, I'm going to get back to talking about Reams and his amazing theory.


Urine and Saliva hold the key

In the above equation, the first number (1.5) refers to the brix level of the urine, measured with a refractometer. Since this is a vague overview, we'll say that brix refers to the sugars in the urine. The second set of numbers are the pH levels of the urine and the saliva. Carey Reams declared that when all other conditions in the equation are perfect, the perfect pH level is 6.4, for both urine and saliva. The third number is a measure of conductivity of the urine. This refers to the amount of salts present. The fourth number (.04M) refers to the dead cells that are excreted through the urine. This is also referred to as cellular debris by some. The .04M is read as .04 million cells per quart of urine. It's an important indicator of how fast someone is aging. The last set of numbers make up the urea content of the urine (yes, all these numbers come from urine except for the saliva pH). The urea value contains the two numbers added together (3+3) and those 3's refer to the nitrate and ammonia levels. Urea is basically undigested protein.

Who'd have thought that by reading someone's numbers in the above equation that a well-trained doctor could know exactly what foods were causing a person harm? Carey Reams did. He understood energy, mineral deficiencies, and the implications of anyone's numbers. As anyone studying RBTI would say, "it's all in the numbers." Tomorrow I'll talk more about the perfect health equation - in the meantime I have to go eat my small dinner for the evening. Today's "big lunch" was amazing. My energy levels were perfect all day long. So it's definitely been a great first day of "getting serious about RBTI."

The Gardasil story is dominating the alternative health media lately. Although I am against vaccinations, the RBTI research I've been doing has shown to me that it's not the vaccine itself that causes the damage, but it's the body chemistry (the "numbers") of people who get the vaccine. This is why it harms some people and not others. The ones who aren't harmed have the body chemistry to enable them to get rid of the poisonous ingredients with no bodily burden. That being said, here's the news...

Merck’s Profits Explode as Government-Backed HPV Shot Gardasil Sales Skyrocket - Merck is making a shit-ton of money on their most-publicized poison in the last few years. And in a related story...

Class action on cancer vaccine Gardasil - Hopefully they'll have to give some of that money up, in this lawsuit...

And in other news...

Group urges Johnson & Johnson boycott over baby shampoo chemicals - J&J is despicable; why parents still trust them is beyond me. Oh yeah that's right, it's called programming.

U.S. Government Glossed Over Cancer Concerns As It Rolled Out Airport X-Ray Scanners - Of course they did. They were paid to. Profits always trump health risks.

Easing Into RBTI

2011-11-01T12:33:00.000-04:00

Quote of the Day: "Walter Breuning, who recently died at 114 years old and was the world's oldest man, said that he ate a large breakfast and lunch and never ate dinner. He hadn't eaten dinner for decades. Coincidence?" - comment on another blog post

It's hard to describe the thoughts that have been going on in my head over the past week or so. Reams Biological Theory of Ionization (RBTI) remains the topic that's been racing through the mind, causing synapses to fire nonstop as new theories, formulations and plans are getting made. As I mentioned a while back, Reams was all about numbers. He developed the "equation for perfect health" and ever since learning it, I've been on a mission to figure out just how to manipulate my numbers to get them closer to this level of perfect health. Reams related that (to paraphrase) all diseases are related to mineral deficiencies in the body. This falls right in line with the deficiency/toxemia posts that I was making last week.

The equation for perfect health

Since my RBTI testing yielded unsatisfying results, I've ditched the vegan diet. Not only have I had a terrible time trying to find any proof that vegans experience longevity, but my own energy levels have slowly decreased in the two years I was vegan. I'm not going to bore you with the science today, but I am going to mention the drastic changes that will be going on in my life and nutrition over the next several months. If this yields better results than my ayurvedic lifestyle last year (which I absolutely loved and think was probably the healthiest in body and mind that I've ever been), I will be adopting it forever. Here's a few things I'm doing...

First, the "No-Foods" (not to be eaten at any time):

Chocolate
Nutmeg
Sea salt
Popcorn
Nuts (except coconut) and seeds
White potatoes
White rice

And these foods are not absolute no's (per the rules), but I'll be avoiding them big time:

White flour
100% whole grain flour
White sugar
Butter
Whole milk
Black and white pepper
Sourdough Bread

In addition, I've ditched all supplements I'm taking except calcium lactate, Min-Col (a neutral calcium), dolomite, and a B-complex. I will be drinking four ounces distilled water at every hour on the hour (for eight hours a day), and four ounces of distlled water plus fresh-squeezed lemon juice every hour on the half-hour (also for eight hours a day). And lastly comes the biggest change...

The mainstay of RBTI, and of many people who've lived long lives, is "the big lunch." I will be eating a big breakfast, a big lunch, and a very small dinner. Again, I'll relate why in a later post, as tonight I'm going to get my numbers run and make sure that all the things I'm doing are correct.

Guinea pig Rick, reporting for service!

Back to Square One

2011-10-31T19:09:00.000-04:00

I feel as if the whole foundation of my theory of health has been shaken. I have to rethink many things, and throw away all preconceived notions. It's time to once again become a guinea pig. You see, today I was emailed a profound statement that makes sense along with my RBTI research.

"You know how they say 'you are what you eat?' Well, you are not what you eat, you are what your body does with what you eat."

I have decided to put my money where my mouth is and get immersed in RBTI. Since my previous vegan diet was leaving me weaker after two years and also showing obvious health issues based on my RBTI numbers, I made the decision to become a guinea pig and follow whatever recommendations are given to me. I will most certainly be adding raw dairy and eggs back into the mix. I'm hoping to acquire those foods from a local farmer whose product I can become familiar with before buying.

Life is supposed to be about learning. I'm doing just that, by taking steps most aren't willing to take. RBTI rules involve some strict lifestyle changes on my part, and I'm going to accept them in stride and do my best to not stray the path. Please follow me on my journey to becoming a more truly healthy person.

More to come in posts starting tomorrow. Tonight I'm still trying to absorb and basically understand the magnitude of the principles of RBTI and how following the rules will involve the most radical lifestyle change of my entire life, even more so than going vegan. Stay tuned....

False Gurus? Monarch, Wolfe and others, Plus News

2011-10-28T16:22:00.000-04:00

False gurus seem to pervade the nutrition and health landscape nowadays. Unfortunately, most folks are too busy to take the time to do their own research, so they submit to the advice of a self-professed health guru like David Wolfe or Matt Monarch. But after doing a lot of digging, soul-searching, and personal fact-finding, I've come to the conclusion that most of the "leaders" of the raw, vegan, and other food movements are wolves in sheep's clothing. Behind the veil of offering the latest longevity science or nutrition research, these folks are actually just trying to sell more products and control new vital niche food markets. I've found that the main distributor for the latest and greatest exotic "superfoods" and other raw foods are controlled by a small group of people. The power struggle at the top has led to propaganda, and last year we all saw the perfect example with agave nectar. These people really can't be trusted.

To give another example, check out what I unearthed about David Wolfe while doing research. Oh and by the way, he doesn't even have a Wikipedia page. Pretty interesting that someone who's noted in Google search results as being "considered by peers to be one of the world's leading authorities on nutrition". The only mention of him on Wikipedia is for his participation in a reality TV show on the Sci-Fi network a few years back. And it gets worse. Wolfe actually plagiarized a book and the proof is right here. The original was written over forty years ago by an Iranian. Perhaps he didn't think he'd get outed?

Wolfe promotes so many supplements during interviews and speeches that it's hard to take him seriously. Is he directly related to the sales and importing of a lot of these foreign foods and herbs? I'm not sure, but I'd love to find out. David has also maligned others in the nutrition community and created a lot of negative energy within it. Lastly, he promoted (not sure if he still does) a very high-fat diet for years. Fats don't contain minerals, so a high-fat diet can lead to serious deficiencies (a topic I've spoken about this week).

This morning, however, the reason for this rant appeared in my inbox. Although having unsubscribed from the RFW newsletter ages ago, I received an email this morning from Matt Monarch. He says he's starting a new non-raw food newsletter to discuss topics ranging from UFO's to the most startling of all:

"Tips on how to become a multi-millionaire, including my own story on how I accomplished this"

That's right, he's a multi-millionaire. How does a person become so wealthy when simply hawking raw foods and supplements, with the most popular ones being sold "at cost" every month? I smell something. Oh yeah that's right...

I am going to keep at this topic and of course I'll keep relaying everything to the readers. It's frustrating to see a promising health movement being perverted by false gurus whose ultimate goals are not the abundant healthy of millions of people, but instead to pad their bank accounts and become millionaires. Sounds like snake-oil salesmen, doesn't it?

Now on to today's news...

CDC Director Arrested for Child Molestation and Bestiality - As if the CDC wasn't already a known fraud bureaucracy among the awake and aware. This story has already made it to the mainstream, so now the sheeple will be made cognizant of the kinds of criminals, crooks and frauds who are chosen to make choices for the people concerning disease and "epidemics." Lock this woman up, throw away the key, or better yet, force her to submit to the bestiality that she made a six-year girl engage in!

HPV vaccine cocktail targets not only HPV - It seems as though every day a new investigative journalist or researcher finds another dark side of the HPV controversy. This article talks about the aluminum in the vaccine and its connection to neurological damage. That vaccine must go, period.

Promise Me No Harmful Chemicals: Breast Cancer Group Calls for Greater Accountability in Fundraising - I abhor mainstream charities. They waste our money, obscure the truth, and tend to also ignore or suppress honest effective treatments when they're discovered. In my humble opinion, cancer charities are by far the worst of them all. Read this article to see how despicable the "Susan G. Komen for the Cure" foundation can be. I would love to see all charities disbanded. It's not that I'm against charity, it's that most (if not all) of the mainstream charities are frauds.

Enough Tricks: Consumers Speak Up Against Monsanto’s GE Sweet Corn - "With the threat of genetically engineered sweet corn hitting grocery stores next year looming, 264,000 people petition top retailers and food makers" - This is Health-Sleuth approved! Keep petitioning and protesting! Speak with your mouths as well as your wallets. Don't support industrial agriculture or any of the Big Chemical companies! Do you really want to have to worry about GMO sweet corn? I sure as hell hope not!

"The overwhelming number of people who have signed this petition once again reiterates the fact that consumers don’t want genetically engineered food on their plates," said Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director of Food & Water Watch. "Consumers should be outraged that as early as next year, GE sweet corn in cans, frozen and fresh off the cob could show up in grocery stores across the country and we will have no way of telling it apart from other corn."

Here's more from my latest favorite whistleblower, Dr. Joel Wallach:

Medical Corruption Running Rampant

2011-10-27T16:32:00.000-04:00

Quote of the Day: "In addition to their income from office fees, and surgical fees, and lab fees, and hospitalization, doctors get a kickback from the labs, and the xray labs, and clinics and hospitals, $421 everytime they send you in for a Catscan, or an MRI. And doctors tell you, "Oh we do that because we're practicing defensive medicine. Cause if I miss something, one in ten billion, you're going to sue me. So I do this just to protect myself." Well, if it was just to protect themselves, and you knew them, and they knew you, 90% of the people say, "Ah just skip it Doc," you don't really think it's necessary, let's save the money. But they've got something more than defensive medicine to worry about. They get $421 and a kickback for every time they send you in for an MRI or a Catscan." - from Dead Doctors Don't Lie by Dr. Joel Wallach

Yes, it is true. Thousands of doctors in this world are glorified crooks. In Dr. Wallach's book, he exposes the benefits that are hidden from the public eye, including many kickbacks for doctors for using certain treatments and procedures. His words reminded me of my mom, who is a Registered Nurse, and her reaction to getting "wined and dined" by pharmaceutical company reps. They would give her gift cards, take her to very expensive restaurants, and hand out any of a multitude of other "promotional materials" in order to get her to use a certain drug treatment in the hospital ward where she worked.

Unfortunately, a significant number of physicians and nurses succumb to the veiled bribery, and the health of our country has severely declined as a direct result. As Dr. Wallach notes, there's no money in treating mineral or vitamin deficiencies. It costs less than a dollar a day for the average person to get micronutrients they show a deficiency in, whereas other "preventive care" modalities such as mammograms and CAT scans add to the skyrocketing cost of health care in America. There's nothing to be gained for a doctor who recommends dietary and lifestyle changes while providing the missing minerals and vitamins their patients need. On the flipside, there's mansions, vacation homes, Ivy League educations for their children, four-car garages, swimming pools, country clubs and other "benefits" for corrupt doctors who let the Big Pharma and Big Medicine cartels decide what they can prescribe.

Such a sordid state of affairs as this can only be overcome by an educated populace. It's not enough to simply learn for yourself; instead, scream it from high on a mountain top! Most average Americans are too distracted or just plain don't care about the fraud being perpetrated around them. Those of us who are awake and aware must do our part to inform the masses. Drugs, invasive surgeries, radiation, and other common practices are not "the cure for what ails us". The only way to truly heal the world is to change everyone's perceptions and understanding of health. The misconceptions must be eradicated from the mind just like toxins from the blood. Only then will natural, holistic health be attained by a majority instead of the miniscule minority.

Okay, enough of my diatribe for today, here's some news. We start with a PubMed study...

Glutathione peroxidase deficiency and childhood seizures - Most are deficient in selenium! Check this out

Abstract

4 children with intractable seizures, repeated infections, and intolerance to anticonvulsants had evidence of glutathione peroxidase deficiency. 2 had low intracellular enzyme activity but normal blood selenium and high plasma glutathione peroxidase concentrations. The other 2 had low intracellular glutathione peroxidase activity with low circulating glutathione peroxidase and selenium concentrations. The clinical state of the children improved after discontinuation of anticonvulsant medication and selenium substitution.

And we continue with Big Pharma, only this time we're referring to mental health and psychiatry (talk about a fraud industry!)...

Whistleblower in Coventry: Dr Yolande Lucire and Big Pharma - They just keep making up mental diseases and drugging everyone. That's their plan. The proof keeps mounting...

Toxemia, Deficiencies, Musings and News-ings

2011-10-26T17:28:00.000-04:00

Quote of the Day: "You can prevent, totally prevent, cardio myopathy for ten cents a day. And if we don't do it, we are malignant dumb, I like to call it. Malignant dumb if you don't take in ten cents a day of Selenium. It's a waste of your life. It's one of those landmines that you can avoid. The medical treatment of choice for cardio myopathy is a heart transplant, costs $750,000. I want you to think about that. They get the heart free from a donor, they get the blood free for the surgery from the relatives. They use $2.50 of suture material, and they charge you $750,000 for that procedure.
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"Reggie Lewis was a great athlete, he didn't use four letter words, didn't use drugs. Not a bad word came out of his mouth. In April, 1993, he collapsed on the floor during a game with the San Antonio Spurs, and his diagnosis was cardio myopathy. Now because he was an athlete and in good shape, he survived that first heart attack. The Boston Celtics paid 12 cardiologists a million dollars each on the front end to save Reggie. Save Reggie, they spent 12 million bucks. They didn't take 20 dollars and send a medical student to the library to find out what are all the causes of cardio myopathy, they just argued and bickered over who was going to get famous and rich by doing the heart surgery, the transplant, on Reggie. Well, July 28, 1993, Reggie died of his cardio myopathy. Now here is a 65 million dollar a year athlete, and they paid 12 million dollars for 12 cardiologists to save him. What chance do you think you have, in a hospital where the cardiologist needs a Mercedes payment or has 5 ex-wives to pay. He's not going to give you ten cents a day of Selenium. He wants $750,000. He earned it! He went to medical school for eight years! Well if you believe that's true, then you just go right ahead and get in line. But if you object to that, don't get in line, and take your Selenium." - from Dead Doctors Don't Lie by Dr. Joel Wallach

The above quote represents my mindset as of late, as Tilden's "Toxemia Explained" continues to weigh on my thoughts. The book basically says that the onset of all diseases is caused by a condition where the toxins in the blood overwhelm the systems that are used to eliminate those toxins. It's a fabulous idea, and has been adopted by most natural hygienists for decades. However, another doctor and natural hygienist, Dr. Stanley Bass, added to Tilden's theory. Dr. Bass says that yes, toxemia is a primary cause for disease. However, he adds to that another factor in the onset of disease, and that's micronutrient deficiencies. Whether it's vitamins, minerals, or other necessary co-factors, if a person is deficient in a vital micronutrient, disease can result. Deficiency is related to toxemia, as person who's deficient in a certain mineral, for example, won't have the proper tools to effectively rid his or herself of the toxins overburdening a specific organ.

Natural hygiene and true traditional naturopaths have my full attention lately with regards to health. Their motto is that nature cures all, as long as one pays respect to nature and one's self. Capacity to heal is increased by eating better, changing one's lifestyle, and basically living a less toxin-addled life. Recently I mentioned the name Carey Reams, and his life's work will also be added to the other information I've accumulated as I try to put together what I consider the whole picture concerning health. Reams Biological Theory of Ionization basically explains why deficiencies occur, and also why toxemia manifests itself. His insights could change naturopathic medicine forever, if only more people understood it (he died after only writing one small book; tons of valuable information he had went to the grave with him).

Toxicity and deficiencies plague humans, and their links to debilitating diseases are finally coming to the forefront of medical research. Unfortunately, the average person does not read the latest health news and instead pays attention to headlines in the mainstream media. Or else that person heeds the advice of his or her favorite sports star or celebrity. And that's where this blog comes in...

And now for some news, loaded with videos instead of reading. But of course I have to make you read at least one or two articles, to keep you awake and aware. First, a really good, informative video....

...followed by a seriously maddening, let's-hope-it's-not-true video.

Panel: Boys should get vaccine for HPV, too - This makes me sick. I've posted probably three dozen or more articles and links regarding the HPV scandal. Girls are dying or being permanently disabled by this poison. California is now mandating it for girls in school. Rick Perry tried for the mandate in Texas and succeeded as well. Everyone on that CDC panel should be fired, and Gardasil should be outlawed. This is an outrage!

And here's a video where the information is scientifically supported, and still horrible...

Simple Rules for Healthy Eating, by Andreas Moritz

2011-10-25T16:35:00.002-04:00

Simple Rules for Healthy Eating by Andreas Moritz (Ener-chi.com)

Dear Friends,

The sense of taste is responsible for our enjoyment of food. Weight problems and other physical imbalances are due to loss of enjoyment from food. If we could truly enjoy food, we would never have a weight problem. The following awareness techniques maximize the enjoyment of food, improve digestion and metabolism, and increase energy and vitality:

1) Whenever you eat or drink anything, however little it may be, make it a rule to sit down.

Food can only be digested properly when we eat in the sitting position. To eat while in the lying position impairs blood and lymph flow throughout the gastrointestinal tract, and eating while walking or standing causes indigestion.

2) When you eat, don't do anything else such as listening to the radio, watching television, reading or driving a car.

A major reason for having taste buds on the tongue is that the brain can receive signals as to what type and quantity of food is entering the digestive system. This enables the body to produce and release sufficient amounts of various enzymes required for the digestion of the food. If we didn't have such a facility, our digestive system would secrete enzymes indiscriminately which would be a wasteful action the body cannot afford. When we turn our attention to anything else but the food we are eating, our taste buds cannot make sufficient 'conscious' contact with the various foods and their tastes. This restricts the release of the appropriate digestive enzymes for each particular taste and reduces AGNI, the digestive fire. It also confuses the body for it will no longer know when the saturation point for a particular type of taste, such as salty or sweet, has been reached. Hence, foods cravings begin to emerge which are linked with insufficiently digested and absorbed foods, as well as with the lack of pleasure hormones, normally secreted when food is eaten with full attention. Since eating is an act of enjoyment, we might as well do it with an undivided mind. As a golden rule, everything we do with joy and attention is beneficial, and everything we do with displeasure and lack of attention generates problems.

3) Eat only when the stomach is empty.

Otherwise you interfere with the enjoyment of food. When the stomach is still full or is in the process of digesting food, the taste buds are desensitized to prevent a person from eating. Natural hunger only occurs when the stomach is empty. On the other hand, false hunger or food cravings emerge when the basic natural rules of eating have been violated for a long time and emotional imbalances exist; both these causes override or suppress the normal signals of satiation coming from the stomach and taste buds. The urge to eat food while the stomach is still digesting, is often connected to occurrence of gallstones in the liver and gallbladder and disappears once they have been removed through a series of liver cleanses.

4) Do not put food into your mouth till the previous bite has gone into the stomach.

The process of eating is a unique opportunity to practice mindfulness and patience. By chewing the food until it has been masticated enough to produce a sweet tasting liquid, greatly enhances the enjoyment of food and keeps your attention on the present moment, which is the key to all happiness. Mahatma Gandhi advised people to 'drink' their food and 'eat' their drinks. Eating and drinking in this way is one of the most powerful methods of overcoming emotional problems in life.

5) Do not speak while there is still food in the mouth.

When you speak while there is food in your mouth, you tend to swallow before it is properly masticated, and you miss out on enjoying your food. It is better to speak only when there is no food left in the mouth. For your first helping, take about two cupped hands full of food. This will fill up two thirds of your stomach; the rest is empty space that is needed to propel the food and mix it with digestive juices. If you are still hungry, wait for five minutes. If the feeling of hunger has not subsided by this time, you may take some more food. Leaving the table slightly hungry is a good method to increase one's will power, determination and self-confidence. Completely filling the stomach leads to indigestion, dullness, lethargy and food cravings.

6) Make certain to have all the six tastes of food at least once a day.

The six tastes are sweet, sour, salty, bitter, pungent and astringent. Sweet taste, for example, is the dominating taste in carbohydrates such as fruits, vegetables, grains, and many nuts. Pungent taste is found in most spices, such as pepper, ginger, cardamom, cumin, turmeric, etc. Sour taste occurs in fermented foods, vinegar, lemon, and other citrus fruits. Salt is best taken in its natural, unrefined state, as sea salt or rock salt. Astringent taste is found in beans, lentils and walnuts, persimmon and also in green, unripe bananas. Blood-cleansing herbs or teas generally taste bitter. Bitter taste is also found in lettuce, broccoli, and leafy green vegetables, as well as in cocoa, coffee, tea, and beers.

If the body receives all the six tastes, i.e. sweet, sour, salty, pungent, astringent, and bitter, it will be stimulated to produce many of the important nutrients itself and thus remain balanced. The sense of taste is our body’s supreme judge to know whether certain foods are right for us or not. Situated in the taste buds of the tongue and in coordination with the constantly changing requirements of the body, the sense of taste controls our natural instinct and desire for healthy food.

This can effectively help to reduce food cravings and prevent nutrient deficiencies. Be careful not to eat more than 3-4 main ingredients in one meal at a time or have more than one type of starch or protein in a meal.

Some Tips for Better Taste

There are two methods to improve the performance of our taste buds and to lubricate and sensitize them for greater enjoyment of food:

1. When your tongue is coated white or yellow, clean it with a tongue scraper or a tablespoon every morning after awakening and every evening before going to bed. This removes sticky AMA (with billions of bacteria) from your taste buds.

2. Swish 1 or 2 tablespoons of cold pressed and unrefined sunflower or sesame oil in your mouth cavity for 3-4 minutes every morning, and perhaps also in the evening before bedtime. The oil draws and absorbs toxins and microbes from the throat, tonsils, ears, eyes, blood, chest etc. Then spit it out and rinse your mouth with water.

When the tongue is clear and the taste buds are unobstructed, we tend not to overeat because the natural satiety level or satisfaction from food is reached more easily. Those who tend to overeat or smoke cigarettes have dull taste buds. They have a 'high-flavored' threshold, which means that they need much stronger and more stimulating foods to be satisfied; this may lead to food cravings and substance addictions.

Warmly,

Andreas

A Quickie...

2011-10-24T20:19:00.000-04:00

Quote of the Day: "Stewart Berger? He wrote 5 best-selling books on diet, and health and nutrition. He got his degree from Tuft Medical School, which is a very fine medical school in Boston, not too far away from Harvard Medical School. And the books he wrote, "The Southhampton Diet for Weight Loss", he wrote "Forever Young," "20 years Younger in 20 weeks", and "How to be your own Nutritionist". And he died at age 40. How would you like to follow his dietary practices? He died at age 40 of cardio myopathy, which is a Selenium deficiency. The same as white muscle disease, or stiff lamb disease, and any farmer can go to a feed store and get Selenium pellets or Selenium injections, things like Seletok and Bozie. And Dr. Stewart Berger, a fellow who wrote 5 best-selling books on nutrition, died of a nutritional deficiency. He didn't have expensive urine." - from Dead Doctors Don't Lie by Dr. Joel Wallach

I'm sorry, today I'm totally on the run and only have time to relay some information. As usual, only the most news-worthy items on the 'Net of relevance from the last few days...

A video about the garbage that is school lunch...

Toxic Metals Arsenic and Cadmium Found in Baby Food - Yes, baby food. Everything is contaminated. Hence my mantra of constant detoxification. Too many toxins in the system overburdens it and toxemia develops. It's important to breast feed the baby for as long as possible to build up its natural immune system protection.

Patent on Broccoli will not be revoked – Monsanto tightens death grip on food - The noose is starting to feel really uncomfortable, isn't it?

Talk of treaty ban on mercury concerns scientists - This article is pretty much laugh-worthy. First they admit that mercury is one of the ten most deadly chemicals in the world, and then they quote a top World Health Organization official as saying "Not being able to use mercury [in vaccines] is not a viable option." The WHO, WTO and other Orwellian organizations should be abolished, as should mercury use, period. This is getting ludicrous and the people are beginning to see the shenanigans that are going on regarding environmental poisons.

This is awful...

Pfizer Pays $14.5M To Settle Detrol Off-Label Suit - Another case of extreme corruption on the part of Big Pharma. Kickbacks, deceptive marketing, murder - just another day in their world.

Genetically modified canola goes wild - Yes, GMOs proliferate across the landscape on the U.S.-Canada border. And it gets worse...

Perhaps most significant, they said, is the fact that two of the plants had combinations of herbicide resistance that had not been developed commercially.

"That suggests to us there is breeding going on, either in the field or in these roadside populations, to create new combinations of traits," said Sagers. "In terms of evolutionary biology it's pretty amazing."

She says the findings raise questions about whether the escaped or "feral" GM canola might pass on man-made genes to wild species like field mustard, which is an agricultural pest.

"It is conceivably a very large problem," said Sagers.

Another Fukushima Update ~ Cesium in San Fran Milk! Japanese Seafood!

2011-10-23T08:55:00.000-04:00

UCB Milk Sampling Results - San Francisco Area Milk Cesium 137 Above EPA Max Safety Levels - And still not reported in the American mainstream media...

Related: Greenpeace criticises Japan radiation screening - Looks like the seafood over there is showing potentially dangerous levels of radiation...

What are officials hiding about Fukushima? - Yes, radiation levels in Canada are far worse than originally admitted...

And a related video...

As I Am Naturals

2011-10-21T16:58:00.000-04:00

When visiting the Mother Earth News Fair last month, we noticed that although several exhibitors were peddling all-natural soap and hygiene products, one company's booth seemed to have a perpetual line of folks excited to buy their products. That company is called As I Am Naturals, and its proprietor Alyssa Sineni Truckenbrod is an artisan as well as a Master Reiki Practitioner. As I Am Naturals is the skin care line from her "Map to the Imagination Ideas" business. The products are hand-crafted with botanicals and essential oils, and I was in awe when checking out the ingredient listings.

As I Am Naturals skin care products nourish and thoroughly cleanse, while also moisturizing and soothing any problem areas. There's no synthetic ingredients in any of the products. Only the finest natural oils and plants. Sabrina bought one of her lip balm products and said it was probably the best she'd ever had. She should know too, because she's a lip balm connoisseur. At the fair, samples of most of the products were available and fair-goers just kept coming back for more. Whether it was a balm, scrub, soap or serum, the people showed high interest in it.

One of the things I like to tell people when they're talking about hygiene products is "only put on your skin what you'd put down your throat." As I Am Naturals uses organic and food-grade ingredients, which means nothing toxic. The skin absorbs just as if you're eating food, so nourishing it with food grade ingredients is important.

Give As I Am Naturals a try today!

How to Make People Believe Any Anti-Vitamin Scare

2011-10-21T12:36:00.000-04:00

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, October 20, 2011

How to Make People Believe Any Anti-Vitamin Scare
It Just Takes Lots of Pharmaceutical Industry Cash

by Andrew W. Saul

Editor, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service

(OMNS, Oct 20, 2011) Recent much trumpeted anti-vitamin news is the product of pharmaceutical company payouts. No, this is not one of "those" conspiracy theories. Here's how it's done:

1) Cash to study authors.
Many of the authors of a recent negative vitamin E paper (1) have received substantial income from the pharmaceutical industry. The names are available in the last page of the paper (1556) in the "Conflict of Interest" section. You will not see them in the brief summary at the JAMA website. A number of the study authors have received money from pharmaceutical companies, including Merck, Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis, AstraZeneca, Abbott, GlaxoSmithKline,
Janssen, Amgen, Firmagon, and Novartis.

2) Advertising revenue.
Many popular magazines and almost all major medical journals receive income from the pharmaceutical industry. The only question is, how much? Pick up a copy of the publication and count the pharmaceutical ads. The more space sold, the more revenue for the publication. If you try to find their advertisement revenue, you'll see that they don't disclose it. So, just count the Pharma ads. Look in them all: Readers Digest
http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v06n11.shtml , JAMA, Newsweek, Time, AARP Today, NEJM, Archives of Pediatrics. Even Prevention magazine. Practically any major periodical.

3) Rigged trials.

Yes, it is true and yes it is provable. In a recent editorial, we explained how trials of new drugs are often rigged at http://www.cihfimediaservices.org/12all/lt.php?c=160&m=237&nl=3&s=31235e0b994f15419602e5400c52bf91&lid=1522&l=-http--orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v04n20.shtml . Studies of the health benefits of vitamins and essential nutrients also appear to be rigged. This can be easily done by using low doses to guarantee a negative result, and by biasing the interpretation to show a statistical increase in risk.

4) Bias in what is published, or rejected for publication. The largest and most popular medical journals receive very large income from pharmaceutical advertising. Peer-reviewed research indicates that this influences what they print, and even what study authors conclude from their data.
http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v05n02.shtml .

5) Censorship of what is indexed and available to doctors and the public. Public tax money pays for censorship in the largest public medical library on the planet: the US National Library of Medicine (MEDLINE/PubMed).

http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v06n03.shtml. See also:

http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v06n05.shtml.

Don't Believe It?

How well were these pro-vitamin, anti-drug studies covered in the mass media?

A Harvard study showed a 27% reduction in AIDS deaths among patients given vitamin supplements. (2)
There have been no deaths from vitamins in 27 years.
http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v07n05.shtml
Antibiotics cause 700,000 emergency room visits per year, just in the US. (3)
Modern drug-and-cut medicine is at least the third leading cause of death in the USA. Some
estimates place medicine as the number one cause of death. (4)
Over 1.5 million Americans are injured every year by drug errors in hospitals, doctors' offices, and nursing homes. If in a hospital, a patient can expect at least one medication error every single day. (5)
More than 100,000 patients die every year, just in the US, from drugs properly prescribed and taken as directed. (6)

Double Standard

Countless comedians have made fun of the incompetent physician who, when called late at night during a life- threatening disease crisis, says, "take two aspirin and call me in the morning." It's no longer funny. One of the largest pharmaceutical conglomerates in the world ran prime- time national television commercials that declared: "Bayer aspirin may actually help stop you from dying if you take it during a heart attack." The company also promotes such use of its product on the Internet.

http://www.wonderdrug.com/ , formerly

http://www.bayeraspirin.com/news/heart_attack.htm

Daily Aspirin Use Linked With Pancreatic Cancer

Here's something you may have not seen. Research has shown that women who take just one aspirin a day, "which millions do to prevent heart attack and stroke as well as to treat headaches - may raise their risk of getting deadly pancreatic cancer. . . . Pancreatic cancer affects only 31,000 Americans a year, but it kills virtually all its victims within three years. The study of 88,000 nurses found that those who took two or more aspirins a week for 20 years or more had a 58 percent higher risk of pancreatic cancer." (7) Women who took two or more aspirin tablets per day had an alarming 86 percent greater risk of pancreatic cancer.

Study author Dr. Eva Schernhammer of Harvard Medical School was quoted as saying: "Apart from smoking, this is one of the few risk factors that have been identified for pancreatic cancer. Initially we expected that aspirin would protect against pancreatic cancer."

How about that.

Say: What if there was one, just one case of pancreatic cancer caused by a vitamin? What do you think the press would have said about that?

The fact is, vitamins are known to be effective and safe. They are essential nutrients, and when taken at the proper doses over a lifetime, are capable of preventing a wide variety of diseases. Because drug companies can't make big profits developing essential nutrients, they have a vested interest in agitating for the use of drugs and disparaging the use of nutritional supplements.

(Orthomolecular Medicine News Service editor Andrew W. Saul taught nutrition, health science and cell biology at the college level, and has published over 100 reviews and editorials in peer-reviewed publications. He is author or coauthor of tent books and is featured in the documentary film Food Matters. His website is http://www.doctoryourself.com/ .)

References:

1. Klein EA, Thompson Jr, IM, Tangen CM et al. JAMA. 2011;306(14):1549-1556.

http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/306/14/1549

2. Fawzi WW, Msamanga GI, Spiegelman D, Wei R, Kapiga S, Villamor E, Mwakagile D, Mugusi F, Hertzmark E, Essex M, Hunter DJ. A randomized trial of multivitamin supplements and HIV disease progression and mortality. N Engl J Med. 2004 Jul 1;351(1):23-32.

3. Associated Press, Oct 17, 2006.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15305033/

4. Null G, Dean C, Feldman M, Rasio D. Death by medicine. J Orthomolecular Med, 2005. 20: 1, 21-34.

http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/2005/pdf/2005-v20n01-p021.pdf

5. The Associated Press. Drug error injure more than 1.5 million a year. July 20, 2006.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13954142

6. Leape LL. Institute of Medicine medical error figures are not exaggerated. JAMA, 2000. Jul
5;284(1):95-7; Leape LL. Error in medicine. JAMA, 1994. Dec
21;272(23):1851-7; Lazarou J, Pomeranz BH, Corey PN. Incidence of adverse drug reactions in hospitalized patients: a meta-analysis of prospective studies. JAMA, 1998. Apr 15;279(15):1200-5.

7. Fox M. Daily aspirin use linked with pancreatic cancer. Reuters, Oct 27, 2003.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/10/27/cancer.aspirin.reut/index.html

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Vitamin E Controversy, and Depressing Antidepressant News

2011-10-21T07:06:00.000-04:00

Quote of the Day: "(in) 1957 we learned that aneurysms were caused by a copper deficiency. We had a pilot project, 250,000 turkeys, and we made complete food pellets where you put all 90 nutrients in there, and in the first 13 weeks, fully half of those turkeys died. 125,000 died. Farmers were out there every morning picking them up by the bushel basket. They took them to the State diagnostic labs for an autopsy, and they found out that they all had died of a ruptured aortic aneurysm. So they doubled the amount of copper in there, and the next year they tried to raise 500,000 turkeys, and they didn't lose a single turkey from a ruptured aortic aneurysm. And they ran that experiment in mice, and rats and rabbits and dogs and cats and calves and sheep and pigs, and guess what? They found out that there is a whole series of diseases that are caused by copper deficiency. Gray hair is the first sign. We start getting gray hair, regardless of age, you have a copper deficiency. You get skin wrinkles, because the elastic fibers in your skin are going... those little crows feet around your eyes, facial and body skin wrinkles. You look like you're a little prune, drying up." - from "Dead Doctors Don't Lie" by Dr. Joel Wallach (emphasis added)

Vitamin E Attacked Again Of Course. Because It Works. - After reading "Dr. Wright's Book of Nutritional Therapy: Real-Life Lessons in Medicine Without Drugs", some strong conclusions made themselves apparent to me. The first is that vitamin and mineral therapy has been used for quite some time with a measurable amount of success. The other is that the powers that be are constantly attacking the most beneficial micronutrients. Read this article and see just how powerful Vitamin E is, and how it is implicated in treatment of dozens of diseases. Dr. Wright was a strong proponent of Vitamin E, along with B-6 and some others. What a great article...

And in other news, the statistics on antidepressant use in America caused me to do a double-take. The mainstream news article appeared in USA Today, entitled "CDC: Antidepressant use skyrockets 400% in past 20 years", and the alternative news sites and blogs ran with it, like this Activist Post article - "More than 1 in 10 Americans on Suicide-Linked Antidepressants". Does this not spell "mission accomplished" for the pharmaceutical corporations, whose goal seems to be to have everyone in our country on some sort of pill? I'd say it does. Americans are brainwashed into thinking their lives suck, through propaganda about "keeping up with the Joneses" and nonstop negative news being shown in the MSM. Some people are truly depressed, but those emotions can be kept in check and also reversed through dietary and lifestyle changes. The compassionate side of me can't help but really feel for these people who have been duped into thinking life is not worthy of a daily celebration. Life is grand, and with proper nutrition and habits, it can be made even grander!

More on Toxemia, and Fukushima Update (It's Here!)

2011-10-19T17:31:00.000-04:00

Quote of the Day: "We filed a request for two pieces of information. We wanted all the safety data the CDC had in its possession prior to recommending the hepatitis B vaccine for new babies at birth. Moreover, we wanted the statistical model they used to prove safety and justify this policy decision. To my surprise, the CDC refused to respond to our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. We made our request more than 10 years ago and we are still waiting for this information today." - 01/10/11 – Michael Belkin

Now that my vision is back to normal, let's back into the subject of toxemia. First, a quick review. On Monday I talked about what toxemia is, and how it explains all disease. John Henry Tilden, MD, in his seminal work Toxemia Explained, described the disease process as a never-ending cycle of enervation and toxemia. Enervation refers to a loss of energy attributed to overeating, overactivity, lack of appropriate amount of rest, an intense emotional state, or other factors. This inevitably results in the body losing its ability to properly metabolize, and an increase in the amount of toxic waste products (the result of metabolism) in the body. This additional toxic load causes disease, and in order to heal itself the body needs a surplus of energy. Since the body is using all of its energy that it can to battle the disease, other bodily processes are negatively effected (they are slowed due to the lack of required energy), thereby causing more toxins to be stored. It's a cycle that can accurately explain the cause of nearly all diseases. A few modern natural hygienists have added deficiencies (be they mineral, vitamin, enzymes, etc.) to the theory of disease causation, effectively perfecting Tilden's original theory.

Is that not genius? Once one understands Tilden's core theory, the whole mystery behind illness is solved. As Tilden says, "how to cure is an obvious sequence." Since his day, the word cure has been eliminated from naturopathy and natural hygiene in general, because the FDA seems to use Gestapo tactics to preserve that word and prevent anyone but medical doctors to use. To break it all down into one simple statement, treating any disease is as easy as improving one's lifestyle, diet, frequency of exercise, rest and sleep, exposure to sunlight, and thought processes. All of those factors contribute to toxin buildup if they aren't properly practiced.

To finish today's short lesson on toxemia, I'd like to talk about the two causes of it that are mentioned by modern natural hygienists. The first cause is toxic foreign substances being ingested by the body. They can be drugs, food additives or preservatives, heavy metals, chemicals, or any other unnatural substance. The accumulation of those toxins leads to organs being overloaded, manifesting as inflammation or general irritation. The second cause toxemia stems from our diet. As we metabolize our foods and beverages, toxic waste is created as a byproduct and it's normally excreted by the body. However, when we overeat, or eat unnatural (processed) foods, our bodies cannot metabolize the food or beverage, leading to it putrefying in the body. This retention of decomposed foodstuff is a breeding ground for a plethora of debilitating microbes. Those microbes give off their own toxic waste as a byproduct of their metabolism, further increasing our toxic load.

I hope this was a nice easy introduction to toxemia. I'm going to talk about why it's such an amazing theory in future posts. In the meantime, here's today's crucial news. Read, watch and pass on.

Professor Chris Busby gives an update on supplements to block Fukushima radioactivity effects....

Radioactive Tea from TOKYO: 3 Exceeding Provisional Safety Limit for Cesium - "550 to 690 becquerels/kg of radioactive cesium detected in the commercial teas grown in 3 tea plantations in Tokyo. The Tokyo Metropolitan government tested 30 teas in early October, and radioactive cesium was detected from 29 of them." Yes folks, that's just about all the tea in Tokyo. I've been talking about this disaster for a while now; when is the MSM going to wake up? Japan could be a quarantined area forever once the diseases start to manifest.

And yes, it's here in America too...2.76 mR/hr Fukushima Rainfall in Saint Louis Missouri on 10/17/11

Wake up America!!!

I'm Blind!

2011-10-18T16:49:00.001-04:00

Quote of the Day: "...in 1957 we learned that aneurysms were caused by a copper deficiency. We had a pilot project, 250,000 turkeys, and we made complete food pellets where you put all 90 nutrients in there, and in the first 13 weeks, fully half of those turkeys died. 125,000 died. Farmers were out there every morning picking them up by the bushel basket. They took them to the State diagnostic labs for an autopsy, and they found out that they all had died of a ruptured aortic aneurysm. So they doubled the amount of copper in there, and the next year they tried to raise 500,000 turkeys, and they didn't lose a single turkey from a ruptured aortic aneurysm. And they ran that experiment in mice, and rats and rabbits and dogs and cats and calves and sheep and pigs, and guess what? They found out that there is a whole series of diseases that are caused by copper deficiency. Gray hair is the first sign. We start getting gray hair, regardless of age, you have a copper deficiency. You get skin wrinkles, because the elastic fibers in your skin are going... those little crows feet around your eyes, facial and body skin wrinkles. You look like you're a little prune, drying up." - from Dead Doctors Don't Lie by Dr. Joel Wallach

I had every intention of continuing the toxemia topic today, but unfortunately I can't see shit right now. I was forced to have an eye exam (I am against this practice but had to because my friend who's also an optometrist said he wouldn't give me glasses without a recent prescription), and the eye doctor got me with that crap they put in your eyes to dilate the pupils. After that you get the good news that you don't have glaucoma, but also you get the bad news that you won't be able to see for a while. So I am half-blind as I type this. Let's get to some news and tomorrow I'll post on toxemia and also keep bitching about annual eye exams, contact lenses, and other unhealthy practices.

FCC Cell Phone Safety Guidelines Underestimate Harmful Radiation Absorbed by Children and Small Adults, Says New Analysis - Please send this everyone you know. There's so much money and profits involved in cell phone usage that corruption is running rampant and studies are obscured or tainted. Anyone with common sense can understand how electromagnetic pollution can cause physiological systems to go awry. We are electric beings in an electric universe. Anything that pollutes our delicate electromagnetic field is going to wreak havoc on our cells. It's about time everyone knew about these dangers, is it not?

SHADOWS OF THE FUTURE - a short film by Kevin P. Miller

Filmmaker Kevin P. Miller examines the possibilities of a future where international government bureaucracies like the WTO and Codex Alimentarius — working in league with multinational corporations — control the food and medicine supply worldwide. PLEASE Share on Twitter, FB and elsewhere. GET THE TRUTH OUT! Don't let others speak for you!

The BPA Solution -- How to Naturally Reverse the Effects - This is also a must-read, and a must send to others. Melatonin, black tea, probiotics, quercetin, folic acid and other common supplements have been proven to combat BPA in the body. If you or a loved one feel that you're showing BPA toxicity symptoms, consider one of those natural remedies.

Spooky Pics, Classic Quote, Short Rant, Fluoride's Effect on the Soul, and Food Chain Doom

2011-10-17T17:53:00.000-04:00

These pics are my favorite from the lake. Each year in spring and fall, the fog gets soupy thick and one finds themself in what seems to be nothingness. And then slowly but surely, the fog lifts and an absolutely gorgeous day presents itself. Check these pics out...

Quote of the Day: "...we learned in the agricultural industry how to prevent and in the early stages, cure, Alzheimer's Disease. We deal with high doses of vitamin E and low doses of vegetable oil. You say, 'Wallach, that's crazy. High doses of vitamin E?' Well, you should have gotten a recall notice from your doctor in July, 1992, because the University of California, a sophisticated medical research school, University of California, San Diego, came out and said, 'Vitamin E eases memory loss in Alzeimers victims.' Now they are only 50 years behind on that, from veterinary medicine, so you might be safer going to a veterinarian!" - from Dead Doctors Don't Lie by Dr. Joel Wallach

Since it's been a while, I feel compelled to rant about various topics, as per my old usual self. Lately, the research has focused on the origins of natural hygiene, naturopathy, and basic modalities for healthy living. In reading books dating from the years 1865-1950, it's hard not to stop, walk up to a modern doctor, and slap him or her upside the head. Our education system has created a profession that prefers to defer to allopathic therapies rather than common sense. Perhaps the most famous of the natural hygienist, J.H. Tilden, MD, said it best in his classic book Toxemia Explained - "Few people know anything about the cause of disease." Modern medical doctors and other "health professionals" don't even seem to be interested in the cause of disease anymore. They treat the symptoms with whatever is deemed "quickest" to work, and the underlying cause is always ignored. The vast majority of modern doctors would rather coin a new "disease" rather than coming to the common sense conclusion that all disease conditions are manifestations of an underlying toxemia.

Toxemia, according to Tilden, is a common sense explanation for the seemingly hundreds if not thousands of diseases running rampant today. Allow me to explain. Tilden states that all metabolic processes produce toxins as a waste-product. Under normal circumstances, the body excretes the toxins through a variety of pathways (sweat, mucus, feces, urine, etc.), and that's that. However, when the body is unable to get rid of its toxins as quickly as they are produced, a toxemic condition emerges. Toxins then are retained in the blood, and the buildup results in various symptoms manifesting in the diseased person. Yes, it's that easy. The first and only cause of disease is retention of those metabolic toxins to a point where the body cannot do anything but break down, slowly but surely.

More on toxemia in the coming days; unfortunately duty calls...so here's some news.

Fluoride: Calcifier of the Soul - The pineal gland is the most mysterious of all glands in the body. It is believed that the pineal is the seat of the soul of humans. Indigenous civilizations drink ayahuasca tea and other concoctions in hopes of stimulating the pineal gland. And of course, fluoride has been found to cause calcification of the pineal, effectively crippling it.

Radioactive cesium found in plankton off N-plant - This is dangerous. As it says in the article, "...a wide range of fish feed on animal plankton and that the contamination could accumulate in the food chain and have a more serious impact when it gets into relatively large fish."

Vegan in Pittsburgh: The Soup Nancys

2011-10-15T18:00:00.001-04:00

It's hard to not feel bad that it's taken so long to write this post. The reason for that is Sabrina and I have been religiously buying at least a quart per week of these ladies' soup since sometime in the spring. And every single week the reaction is the same - "Oh my goodness this is a masterpiece in the art of vegan soup-making!"

In my never-ending quest to find vegan-friendly eateries with high standards regarding ingredient sourcing, the real winner are few and far between. A little over a year ago, the Pittsburgh Public Market open its doors. It is a throwback to the golden days of open-air markets loaded with local vendors, all of them homemade. I was instantly drawn to it as I love to support local business. After the winter ended last year, I was excited to read the weekly e-newsletter informing me that the Soup Nancys would be having their first weekend as a vendor. The description said that they would have vegetarian and/or vegan choices each week. I had to go right away.

The Soup Nancys have a clever business operation going. The name and slogan ("Good Soup for You!") are a great example of wordplay, using Seinfeld's Soup Nazi and his hilarious tagline "No soup for you!" The proprietors, Sara Raszewski & Linzee Mihalcin, concoct three delicious soups each week as well as a sandwich. The vegan soups sold so well early on that they seem to offer a vegan option every single week. But it's not just the veg-soup that keeps the customers coming; last week the crab bisque got rave reviews. The soup is sold in cups or quarts - we buy a quart of however many vegan soups there are each week, and we've never once even thought one of their soups would get an eight on a scale of 1-10. It's always nine or ten.

Another interesting tidbit about The Soup Nancys is that they try to source their ingredients locally, and as often as possible from other Pittsburgh Public Market merchants. The market has organic and all-natural farms, grass-fed beef providers and other relevant opportunities to do just that. The flavors therefore can be seasonal or exotic, according to the mood for the week. I am a huge fan of spicy soups and let me tell you that the ladies can bring the heat. Even the subtle spicy soups, like the Sweet Potato with Chipotle, rocked my socks.

This week the vegan option is Vegetable Curry soup. We got our quart this morning. They're there tomorrow, get it before it's gone...

One of Those [Big News] Days....

2011-10-13T18:09:00.000-04:00

Quote of the Day: "The average life-span for an American today is 75.5. The average life-span for a doctor or an MD is 58. If you want to gain 20 years, statistically, just don't go to medical school. Also, if you want to know information about longevity, you are going to be better off asking a bus driver than you are a physician. For longevity." - from Dead Doctors Don't Lie by Dr. Joel Wallach

Before getting into today's post, I wanted to show a picture of this vegan broccoli quiche we made last week with Isa's recipe from Vegan Brunch. It tasted out of this world, like pretty much all of Isa's creations do. That cookbook is magical, I tell ya!

Heaven on a plate

As I was reading last night, I couldn't help but want to add almost every article to today's blog post. It's a huge news day, and everything here is worthwhile and educational. Enjoy.

Unprecedented Arctic ozone hole may lead to health and crop damage in North America - Holy crap. 700 million people could be affected. Please read. I have no idea how this flies under MSM radar; I mean come on, it's a piece that can instill fear in anyone. Nothing like some radiation doom for MSM ratings...

ENERGY SAVING BULBS – WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES - This is is gross. Everyone must know the dangers that come from the mercury in these things. Go to full-spectrum, don't listen to the government about your light bulbs.

Radioactive Cesium from Breast Milk from Mothers in Hiroshima Prefecture, 840 km from Fukushima I Nuke Plant - Yep, we're not getting the real story about radiation in Japan. Everyone is ignoring it. Just wait five years...and in related news: Fukushima Rice All Cleared for Shipment, Radioactive or Not - this is just awful.

And speaking of environmental pollution, smart meters must be banned. Check this out, it's sobering and eye-opening.

End the Great GMO Cover-up: Demand Labeling NOW! - I fully agree with the author's sentiments. This is a great way to get active. Do it!

FDA Allowed Unsafe Levels of Contaminants in Seafood after BP Oil Spill, Study Finds - Of course they did, they're the most corrupt bureaucracy in our gooberment.

What Kind of Medical Study Would Have Grandma Believe that Her Daily Multivitamin is Dangerous? - Another flawed study used to dupe the public, and in particular, older women.

Major Agribusinesses Competing with Organics on the Cheap, “Natural” Food Products with Toxic Chemicals and GMOs Deceiving Consumers - Last but certainly not least, this article is full of facts that bring to light the evil methods of trickery employed by big corporations. Here's the most interesting fact from the article, in my eyes.

"Natural" cereals from brands including Kashi (Kellogg’s), Mother’s (PepsiCo), Nutritious Living, Barbara’s Bakery (Weetabix), and 365 (Whole Foods Market) contained high levels of genetically engineered ingredients (all above 28%, some as high as 100%) —even though a number of these companies represent their products as "non-GMO" to the public.

Sleuth Eats, Pissed Over Pesticides, Another RBTI Test, and an Award

2011-10-12T17:21:00.000-04:00

Quote of the Day: "Well, again to make a long story short, over a period of some 12 years, I did some 17,500 autopsies on over 454 species of animals, and 3,000 human beings who lived in close proximity to zoos, and the thing that I found out was this. Every animal and every human being who dies of natural causes dies of a nutritional deficiency. That fascinated me. That took me back to those calves. I said, "Gee, that's fascinating. Everybody is dying of nutritional deficiencies, and we can document this at autopsy, both chemically and biochemically, and so forth, and things that you saw with eye at the autopsy table." -- from Dead Doctors Don't Lie by Dr. Joel Wallach

This week's Sleuth eats is all about the veggies. Oh yeah, there's some black beans as well, oops!

Mexi-fiesta salad, made by my mom

Brussels sprouts, mushrooms, sun-dried tomatoes, and kale

We come back to this dish again and again

Isn't it gorgeous?

And in good news....

Last night I had my urine and saliva tested again and my RBTI results given to me. Fortunately, it looks as though my numbers are showing that I'm healing from the toxic overload my body seemed to have when I first returned home from vacation. My urine had an acidic pH, showing that I'm excreting lots of toxins. But the amazing thing was my brix (sugars) level. On Saturday it was 0.9, but last night it was 7.5! Talk about a ton of sugar being shed by my cells! It's obvious that I'm eating too much fruit, because we don't get sugars in any other way. Heck, I can't even remember the last time I added agave to a smoothie! My nitrates were high as well, and so was the urea. So I've got a lot of crap still in my bloodstream (crap = toxins) and my salts and conductivity also need brought down a bit. Anyways, the numbers are indicating an adjustment that my body is making, as I get "back to normal" regarding my eating and living habits. I will have the numbers run again on Saturday, and report back.

Now here's the shitty/maddening/ridiculous news of the day.

Chemical warfare: the horrific birth defects linked to tomato pesticides - Yet another reason to grow your own tomatoes or know your farmer. Then learn canning and preserving, and eat local homegrown pesticide-free tomatoes all year long! It's as easy as it sounds.

More Proof for Diabetes, Pesticide Link - Of course people are going to develop debilitating diseases if their health related to poor diet is exacerbated by adding poisonous pesticide to their tissues...But here's the evidence.

Today's "ARE YOU F*CKING KIDDING ME?!?!" award goes to MSN, Men's Health, and anyone who actually heeds ridiculously awful advice such as this - Top 10 Guilty Restaurant Pleasures - That has got to be a joke. Oh wait, it isn't. It's the joke that is called mainstream media. They pray on people's addictions, insecurities and willpower. The items in the "eat this!" category include tons of artery-clogging, GMO-laden, toxic poisons! Who in the hell would ever tell someone that they should be eating bacon? And where's the mention of problems with grains that are peculiarly omitted from all the descriptions? How can they tell people that cheating is good for their waistline?

The article also says that monotonous dietary habits inevitably fail. Well of course! Everyone deserves variety in their lives, but to get that variety you don't need to go to IHOP and eat a smothered frickin' waffle or a (gasp!) sausage pizza! How about trying a new vegetable every other week? I know tons of people who have never had a sunchoke or celery root, for example. Add that for variety, not a gosh damn McDonald's hamburger! Shame on the MSM, and Men's Health, seriously. I don't know what to think of people who subscribe to mainstream media advice regarding diet, but one thing's for sure - they need to look inside and listen to their bodies.

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