MINERALS anyone?

A recommended beginning article on minerals:

http://www.westonaprice.org/Mineral-Primer.html


sincerely,
sms

In Favor of Raw Foods and Fermented Foods....

******ENZYMES*********


yeahhhhhh... go enzymes, go enzymes, go, go ,go ,go ,go

Learn more about enzymes here:
http://www.westonaprice.org/Edward-Howell-MD.html

Loetshental Valley SWISS

Remember the Loetshental Valley SWISS that Dr. Price visited?

I been thinking about how to get over there and see If i could live there or not. That thinking has changed recently as I now see that it is not the same:


catch an update from one who visited the valley in the twenty-first century:
http://www.westonaprice.org/A-Visit-to-Switzerland-s-Loetschental-in-the-Footsteps-of-Weston-A.-Price.html

best,
sms

It is all coming together- HEALTH

Hey everyone,

do you remember learning about how nutitritional veternerian medicine sources were able to purposefully induce many congenital abnormalities, genetic syndromes, and etc.? they did through nutritional deficiencies... no chemicals necessary.

And remember learning about the research of price pottenger foundation? Remember how some of the healthiest humans on the planet had special diets for people planning to have children (procreate)?

well, seems like this book is modern day guide to participating in a diet and lifestyle that enriches the health of our children- BEFORE CONCEPTION!

check it out so you can decide:
http://www.preconceptionhealth.org/

Sincerest best wishes,
sms

More to Learn about HFCS and AGAVE

Wow, after studying pathways of glucose and fructose metabolism... Check all of these studies out:

http://www.westonaprice.org/Agave-Nectar-Worse-Than-We-Thought.html

The article is lengthy, but covers more than 30 references.


Further, LEARN about the fad of agave and why it does not abide by FDA labeling compl-e-t-e-l-y.

sms

How to avoid Surgery for Cardiovascular Disease

simple,
get at the root cause, not Cut out the resulting problems.

See how one doctor understands and helps people to releive the root cause:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z0kSdIoXsE&feature=player_embedded

Ten reasons why the FDA allows Cocoa Krispies cereal to make outrageous claims of boosting immunity

http://www.NaturalNews.com/027387_Cocoa_Krispies_the_FDA.html

Would You give or take 25 Aspirin in 24 Hours???

Of course not!! You know, your doctor knows, the bottle says that is, "NOT SAFE". Right?



Well, if it was 1918, and you trusted your Doctor and the Journal of the American Medical Association, and drugs were a lucrative market, You WOULD HAVE TAKEN 25 Aspirin in 24 hours!!! The evidence is outlined below, bold Blue text provides a quick scan read.



Now, Here is a question that I am asking myself, "Does that environment sound familiar to today's environment?" If so, considering today's lucrative drug market, The Journal of the Amercian Medical Association, Your Doctor's drug recommendations and prescriptions, etc. WHAT DRUGS ARE WE TAKING THAT WILL BE KNOWN TO BE HARMFUL or even FATAL in the next 30,40,50,60 YEARS?



Choosing to be a wise investor and minimize the risk exposure to my future Health, I've consider ed Naturopathic Medicine, where doctors first, "DO NO HARM" and medicines are KNOWN to not cause harmful or even fatal side effects. You are free to choose the same.

And now, the article, Enjoy! :

October 13, 2009
In 1918 Pandemic, Another Possible Killer: Aspirin
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR


The 1918 flu epidemic was probably the deadliest plague in human history, killing more than 50 million people worldwide. Now it appears that a small number of the deaths may have been caused not by the virus, but by a drug used to treat it: aspirin.
Dr. Karen M. Starko, author of one of the earliest papers connecting aspirin use with Reye’s syndrome, has published an article suggesting that overdoses of the relatively new “wonder drug” could have been deadly.


What raised Dr. Starko’s suspicions is that high doses of aspirin, amounts considered unsafe today, were commonly used to treat the illness, and the symptoms of aspirin overdose may have been difficult to distinguish from those of the flu, especially among those who died soon after they became ill.


Some doubts were raised even at the time. At least one contemporary pathologist working for the Public Health Service thought that the amount of lung damage seen during autopsies in early deaths was too little to attribute to viral pneumonia, and that the large amounts of bloody, watery liquid in the lungs must have had some other cause.


Dr. Starko acknowledged that she did not have autopsy reports or other documents that could prove that aspirin was the problem. “There was a lot of chaos in these places,” she said, “and I’m not sure if there are good records anywhere.”


But of the many factors that might have influenced the outcome in any particular case, Dr. Starko wrote, aspirin overdose stands out for several reasons, including a confluence of historical events.


In February 1917, Bayer lost its American patent on aspirin, opening a lucrative drug market to many manufacturers. Bayer fought back with copious advertising, celebrating the brand’s purity just as the epidemic was reaching its peak.


Aspirin packages were produced containing no warnings about toxicity and few instructions about use. In the fall of 1918, facing a widespread deadly disease with no known cure, the surgeon general and the United States Navy recommended aspirin as a symptomatic treatment, and the military bought large quantities of the drug.


The Journal of the American Medical Association suggested a dose of 1,000 milligrams every three hours, the equivalent of almost 25 standard 325-milligram aspirin tablets in 24 hours. This is about twice the daily dosage generally considered safe today.


Dr. Starko’s paper, published in the Nov. 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, has stirred some interest, if not enthusiastic endorsement, among other experts.
“I think the paper is creative and asking good questions,” said John M. Barry, author of a book on the 1918 flu titled “The Great Influenza.” “But we don’t know how many people actually took the doses of aspirin discussed in the article.”
The pharmacology of aspirin is complex and was not fully understood until the 1960s, but dosage is crucial. Doubling the dose given at six-hour intervals can cause a 400 percent increase in the amount of the medicine that remains in the body. Even quite low daily doses — six to nine standard aspirin pills a day for several days — can lead to dangerously high blood levels of the drug in some people.


Peter A. Chyka, a professor of pharmacy at the University of Tennessee, said he found Dr. Starko’s theory “intriguing.” Little was known about safe dosages at the time, he said, and doctors often simply raised the amount until they saw signs of toxicity.


“In the context of what we know today about aspirin and aspirinlike products, Starko has made an interesting effort to put this together,” Dr. Chyka said. “There are things other than flu that can complicate a disease like this.”


Although he doubted that more than a small number of deaths could be attributed to aspirin overdose, Dr. David M. Morens, an epidemiologist with the National Institutes of Health, said the paper was valuable in that “it makes an attempt to look at environmental or host factors that may be involved.” He said, “We haven’t been able to explain all the deaths in young adults with the virus itself.”
Dr. Starko was hesitant to estimate how many deaths aspirin overdose could have caused, but suggested that military archives might be one place to look. “I’m hoping others will follow up,” she said, “by examining available treatment records.”

How important is H1N1? VERY IMPORTANT!!!

The Controversy / Confusion surrounding the H1N1 Vaccine and its mandate or not, is a VERY IMPORTANT TOPIC!

WHY?

This current issue is very important and deserves your Sober Attention, not because YOU NEED H1N1 NOW, but rather because it exposes several forces that act upon "Health" and "Health care" in the United States:

• Organizations that seek to manipulate and maintain Market Share
• Profit Driven-at the expense of your health and life-numb to your death- Profit Driven people and companies
• Unfounded medicine- sure its very well researched in Laboratories with Millions of $s invested... Does it help you heal, cure, prevent illness and disease?

Now, to everyone's main question, "Should I take it? or Do I need it?" To help you make this decision, consider the following:

Tom Jefferson, MD, is considered the world's leading authority on influenza vaccinations. He has authored ten reviews for the Cochrane Collaboration, which is the most respected international center that evaluates medical research. Dr. Jefferson has asserted, "There is no evidence whatsoever that seasonal influenza vaccines have any effect, especially in the elderly and young children No evidence of reduced [number of] cases, deaths, complications."

Dr. Jefferson further asserts, "What you see every year as the flu is caused by 200 or 300 different agents with a vaccine against two of them. That is simply nonsense." Further, Dr. Jefferson has also declared, "the H1N1 is not a major threat (this link is to an excellent short interview with him)." Dr. Jefferson has noted that Australia has just completed its winter, and there were only 131 deaths related to flu out of 22 million Australians.


The afore post, in gray, is reflected directly-without change- from the Blog of Dr. Steve Nenninger- http://drstevenenningerdailyblog.blogspot.com/

FDA, FTC threaten Dr. Weil over immune-boosting supplements for H1N1 swine flu (opinion)

http://www.NaturalNews.com/027303_the_FTC_America_vaccines.html

A pictorial guide to instant atherosclerosis

http://www.inquisitr.com/42141/bacon-cheese-stuffed-pizza-burger-a-pictorial-guide-to-instant-clogged-arteries/

Historical Data Shows Vaccines are Not what Saved Us

http://www.NaturalNews.com/027203_vaccination_health_vaccines.html

You are not behind scientifically... you are ahead.

Dear Class, You are ahead scientifically, not behind as some would like to argue.

Considering Homeopathy,
Check out this argument and compare it to what you now know about "ultra-dilutions" and the several experiments that we reviewed in Homeopathy Tuesday, September 29, 2009:

Taken from http://www.naturowatch.org/general/debate.shtml accessed October 9, 2009.

Article Titled: My Debate with a Naturopath
By: David Fowler

"A few years ago I retired from teaching chemisty at our local high school. The philosophy teacher there structures debates for his class. Each pair of students picks a topic and asks a local "expert" to participate. The most recent topic was whether naturopathy is more effective than "mainstream" medicine. The teacher recommended that a student contact me to debate a local naturopathic "doctor" and I agreed...

... I thought it might be useful to demonstrate the foolishness of homeopathy, which naturopathic schools teach in several coures. I displayed a flask with dark purple potassium permanganate solution in it. I told the students that this solution is poisonous, and that first I was going to make it stronger and then drink it. I took a few drops of this solution and diluted it with a couple of hundred milliliters of water. I told them that I was going to increase its strength by shaking it in a special way. I then took a couple of drops of this, and repeated the process. After doing tthis a few more times, I drank the resulting solution and told them to get ready to call 911.
Of course, several students were laughing at this, but I turned to the "doctor" and asked, "did I do this correctly?" She replied that each step with its special shaking was called a "succussion" and that basically I had the right idea. I remarked, "So it is possible to make a substance stronger by diluting it to infinity?" and she said it was. Her next remark was that she was just as astounded about homeopathy when she first learned it in school, but the point was that we didn't need to understand HOW it worked—all we had to do was observe that it does.
I tried to bring up the usual ideas of double-blind scientific studies being needed and the placebo effect. She replied that homeopathy works with animals that can't be affected by the placebo effect, and also pointed out that with her own child she observed immediate relief of teething pain when administered homeopathic medicine. She rejected the idea that a baby might be soothed by attention and even a few drops of water administered by her mother.

... I was both pleased with how the class went and somewhat discouraged. I believe that my demonstration reached some of the students. However, a few thought that there "had to be something to it" when these succussions were performed in the correct way, and a couple asked for her card afterwards and whether they could visit her at her office. ..."

Urgent lawsuit filed against FDA to halt swine flu vaccines; claims FDA violated federal law

http://www.NaturalNews.com/027205_vaccines_swine_flu_the_FDA.html

Health Insurance... Healthcare... Rethinking...

Health Insurance Isn’t Health Care

How often have you heard a politician say that millions of Americans “have no health care,” when he or she meant they have no health insurance? How has a method of financing health care become synonymous with care itself?
The reason for financing at least some of our health care with an insurance system is obvious. We all worry that a serious illness or an accident might one day require urgent, extensive care, imposing an extreme financial burden on us. In this sense, health-care insurance is just like all other forms of insurance—life, property, liability—where the many who face a risk share the cost incurred by the few who actually suffer a loss.
But health insurance is different from every other type of insurance. Health insurance is the primary payment mechanism not just for expenses that are unexpected and large, but for nearly all health-care expenses. We’ve become so used to health insurance that we don’t realize how absurd that is. We can’t imagine paying for gas with our auto-insurance policy, or for our electric bills with our homeowners insurance, but we all assume that our regular checkups and dental cleanings will be covered at least partially by insurance. Most pregnancies are planned, and deliveries are predictable many months in advance, yet they’re financed the same way we finance fixing a car after a wreck—through an insurance claim.
Comprehensive health insurance is such an ingrained element of our thinking, we forget that its rise to dominance is relatively recent. Modern group health insurance was introduced in 1929, and employer-based insurance began to blossom during World War II, when wage freezes prompted employers to expand other benefits as a way of attracting workers. Still, as late as 1954, only a minority of Americans had health insurance. That’s when Congress passed a law making employer contributions to employee health plans tax-deductible without making the resulting benefits taxable to employees. This seemingly minor tax benefit not only encouraged the spread of catastrophic insurance, but had the accidental effect of making employer-funded health insurance the most affordable option (after taxes) for financing pretty much any type of health care. There was nothing natural or inevitable about the way our system developed: employer-based, comprehensive insurance crowded out alternative methods of paying for health-care expenses only because of a poorly considered tax benefit passed half a century ago.
In designing Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, the government essentially adopted this comprehensive-insurance model for its own spending, and by the next year had enrolled nearly 12 percent of the population. And it is no coinci­dence that the great inflation in health-care costs began soon after. We all believe we need comprehensive health insurance because the cost of care—even routine care—appears too high to bear on our own. But the use of insurance to fund virtually all care is itself a major cause of health care’s high expense.
Insurance is probably the most complex, costly, and distortional method of financing any activity; that’s why it is otherwise used to fund only rare, unexpected, and large costs. Imagine sending your weekly grocery bill to an insurance clerk for review, and having the grocer reimbursed by the insurer to whom you’ve paid your share. An expensive and wasteful absurdity, no?
Is this really a big problem for our health-care system? Well, for every two doctors in the U.S., there is now one health-insurance employee—more than 470,000 in total. In 2006, it cost almost $500 per person just to administer health insurance. Much of this enormous cost would simply disappear if we paid routine and predictable health-care expenditures the way we pay for everything else—by ourselves.

Read the whole story at http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200909/health-care/2
thanks to Ashley Russell for sharing this article!

Steven M. Sabatier

Evidence Based Medicine

In regards to the debate found at http://nationalcenterforhomeopathy.org/media/in_the_news_view.jsp?id=789 accessed 9-9-09, I am now rethinking what constitutes "Evidence Based Medicine".

As seen in the debate, some doctors and medical literature argues that Homeopathy is not evidence based.

Wow! Historical accounts during times of epidemic. Now that is evidence based. Homeopathy is not missing "Evidence". Seems like there is plenty of evidence (see below for a sample). What Homeopathy is missing is people who understand the mechanism in terms of conventional medicine and newtonian physics. Some want a meachanism, one that fits into their current understandings.

Will a mechanim ever be understood? Does it matter?
Surely it matters for "Mechanism-Based" medicine. Does it matter for evidence based medicine? I think that what matters for Evidence Based Medicine is *** EVIDENCE!***


Andre Saine, ND
With more than 25,000 volumes, the homeopathic literature is very rich in reports about the results obtained by homeopathy during epidemics. Results obtained by homeopathy during epidemics reveal a very important and clear constancy--namely, a very low mortality rate. This constancy remains, regardless of the physician, institution, time, place, or type of epidemical disease, including diseases carrying a very high mortality rate, such as cholera, smallpox, diphtheria, typhoid fever, yellow fever, and pneumonia. This low mortality rate is always superior to the results obtained by the allopathy practiced at that particular time and, as a rule, the allopathy of today. Despite well-documented and official reports, the results obtained by homeopathy have been almost completely ignored by the scientific and medical communities, as if they had occurred in a void of time and space.I will now give five examples to illustrate these results:When cholera first invaded Europe in 1831, the mortality throughout Europe was generally between 40-60%. To the surprise of many, mortality rates reported by homeopathic physicians was generally below ten percent and, commonly, under four percent.I will now present two typical cholera reports, which have an official stamp to them. The first one comes from the territory of Raab in Hungary where, in 1831, a Dr. Joseph Bakody treated 223 patients with mild-to-severe cholera, 14 of whom were in the collapse state. He lost a total of eight patients, a mortality of 3.6%.A similar situation occurred in Cincinnati in 1849. The Board of Health issued an order calling for physicians to report all cases of cholera. The Board received reports of a high mortality rate from the city hospital and allopathic physicians. However, six homeopathic physicians attracted national attention when they reported not one single death out of their first 350 cases of cholera. Two of these homeopathic physicians, Dr. Pulte and Ehrmann would eventually report treating 2,646 cases with 35 deaths, or a mortality rate of 1.3%. Allopaths reported fatal outcomes in 50% of their cases.Now, let's move on and look at pneumonia, whose incidence and virulence has remained quite uniform throughout time. Before the era of antibiotics, the average death rate from pneumonia was 30%. Since the introduction of antibiotics, the death rate has only gone down to 18%. On the other hand, the death rate under genuine homeopathic treatment has always been less than one to three percent, even in patients suffering from the most fulminate type of pneumonia.Let's push our inquiry a bit further and look at the most fatal of all infectious diseases, rabies. I have been able to document more than a dozen well-described cases with unmistakable, fully developed clinical rabies that had uneventful recoveries under homeopathy without any prophylaxis whatsoever to assuage the virulence of the disease.This small sample of reports should be sufficient to illustrate the potential of homeopathy and incite real scientists, honest physicians, and intelligent people to examine homeopathy more seriously. Such extraordinary outcomes are not an exception in homeopathy but are the rule for all 33 infectious diseases I have so far investigated, which include typhus, malignant scarlet fever, meningitis, tetanus, anthrax, septicemia, and malaria.What you have seen today makes it clear--homeopathy is very plausible, and there is both ample clinical and epidemiological evidence that it works. Homeopathy will become an integral part of medicine despite the paradoxical nature of its remedies and all other prejudices against it, simply because homeopathy is safe, efficacious, and cost-effective.”

A Debate: Homeopathy--Quackery or a Key to the Future of Medicine? University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut, October 25, 2007

http://nationalcenterforhomeopathy.org/media/in_the_news_view.jsp?id=789

Article about homeopathy research featuring Rustum Roy from Penn State

How Science Reporting Works

The best explanation yet!!

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Our School in the News... and the Nation's Replies!

I've recently been reviewing the story Dr. Mittman referred to during Orientation whereby ABC News interviewed him.

What strikes me this time is the passion, testimonies, once incurable people who were cured, FDA whistle blowers, History, and etc. interwoven within the 111 replies. Like a gripping drama, these replies are filled with lies, deceitful perceptions, death, life, battle, greed, healing, revelation, change, and triumph. It accelerates me and... my soul hearkens to the need for us to be awesome naturopathic physicians, or termed more accurately, Nature Servants (contact me to discuss more of what this term Nature Server means). Put simply, the need for us to help sick people get Healthy.

Take a look at the article and or Replies at: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/WellnessNews/comments?type=story&id=8215703


And let me know what you think / feel...


Onward,


Steven M. Sabatier, MBA-HCA

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