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#2986 From: Lee & Cindy <leeandcindy@...>
Date: Tue Jun 6, 2006 2:04 pm
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    June 6, 2006
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    The National Animal Identification System
    Mad Cow Disease is not a communicable disease among cattle; it is an acquired disease through contaminated feed; cows can pass it to their calves if the calves are born after symptoms of the disease are onset. A cow fed contaminated feed may not show signs for years.
    http://www.newswithviews.com/Stuter/stuter91.htm
    by Lynn Stuter

    Betraying Country, Self, Women and Children
    What’s wrong with this picture is that we, as American people, are 1) governmentally ignorant, 2) prefer denial to truth like all good addicts (television, drugs, genetically modified foods and water additives, etc.), and 3) remain locked in a prescribed televised loyalty to partisanship...
    http://www.newswithviews.com/Levant/nancy44.htm
    by Nancy Levant

    Hoka Hey! - Part 2
    These institutions included the first and second Banks of the United States, numerous State banks, and the National Banks first set up during the Civil War. Eventually, these schemes for the incestuous coupling of bank and state matured into the modern Federal Reserve System, under the aegis of which bank and state now appear inseparable...
    http://www.newswithviews.com/Vieira/edwin43.htm
    by Dr. Edwin Vieira, JD
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    Across the United States, state legislatures have rushed to pass laws in pursuit of federal seed money via discretionary grants which will cede to the federal government state control over animal production.

     

    THE NATIONAL ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM

     

     

     

    By Lynn Stuter

    June 6, 2006

    NewsWithViews.com

    Haven’t heard of the National Animal Identification System (NAIS)? Don’t feel bad, you join millions of Americans, including the majority of those who will be forced to identify their animals with radio frequency identification (RFID) technology in January 2009.

    Believe it or not, the whole concept of animal identification with RFID technology didn’t begin with the Patriot Act back in 2001, PL 107-56. A document from the National Institute for Animal Agriculture (NIAA), “NAIS Facts and Myths”, dated March 2006, states, “Although discussions on animal ID have taken place for many years and started well before 2002 …” Another document entitled “Summary and Future Action” published by NIAA, carries the remarks of individuals gathered at a symposium on animal identification in 1994. It is obvious from remarks made in this document that the participants were drawn from an international field:

    “Let me just say to all of you, how much I appreciate your attendance … and for many of our participants, you have had to come from abroad …”

    The document addresses a national animal identification system. Other statements in the document make reference to ISO — International Standards Organization — which has/is establishing standards of global uniformity, consistent with the needs of global government and global systems.

    Participants in this symposium included private enterprise, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), livestock associations, foreign organizations, and institutes focusing on animal health and science. The focus of the symposium was a voluntary uniform system of animal identification.

    As with so many other things, the events of September 11, 2001 provided opportunity to reframe the debate around issues of security. From Public Law, 107-56, otherwise known as the Patriot Act of 2001,

    Section 1013(9): “Improvements must be made in assuring the safety of the food supply,”

    Section 1016(d)(2)(B): “Acquisition from State and local governments and the private sector of data necessary to create and maintain models of such systems and of critical infrastructures generally.”

    Section 1016(e): “CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE DEFINED. ­In this section, the term ‘‘critical infrastructure’’ means systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters.”

    Portions of two laws, passed in 2002 - Public Law 107-171 and 107-188 - were codified into United States Code as 7 USC, Sections 8301 through 8321, deemed the Animal Health Protection Act. In this section of code, 7 USC, Section 8320, provides the authority for NAIS. However, there is no authority, beyond the authority given the Secretary of Agriculture and/or Secretary of Homeland Security to establish rules, for the dates that have been decided for implementation, January 2009 being the date stated when ALL meat producers MUST be registered, have premises identifications numbers (PIN) and animal identification numbers (AIN).

    In documents published by the USDA and private organizations advocating NAIS, three issues are addressed as impetus for NAIS:

    1. tracing and eradicating communicable and contagious diseases among livestock,
    2. food safety, and
    3. national security.

    Most prevalent among diseases pointed to in the above noted published documents is Mad Cow Disease (BSE) and Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD). Mad Cow Disease is not a communicable disease among cattle; it is an acquired disease through contaminated feed; cows can pass it to their calves if the calves are born after symptoms of the disease are onset. A cow fed contaminated feed may not show signs for years. In that period of time, the cow may have been sold many times. A group of cattle, fed the same feed, may be scattered far and wide before symptoms of the disease become apparent in any one animal in the group. The claim is made that NAIS will provide a system of 48 hour trace back to other animals at risk.

    In the past three years, there have been three incidents in which cattle have tested positive for BSE in the United States — one in Washington State, one in Alabama, and one in Texas. The epidemiology report on the cow testing positive in Texas more than adequately makes the case for why NAIS will not be effective in tracing BSE in the interests of food safety. Other cattle, deemed at risk, either because they were fed the same feed as the BSE positive cow or were offspring of the BSE cow within two years of the BSE cow showing symptoms of the disease, were largely found to have already been slaughtered. No database, focused on a 48 hour trace back on diseases such as BSE, is going to change the reality that other at-risk cattle have already been slaughtered and consumed by the public.

    It has been years since an outbreak of Foot-and-Mouth disease has occurred in the United States. It is a disease that can be vaccinated for ­— the easiest tool to prevention if the disease is known to be endemic to an area. Current measures taken have obviously been quite effective in controlling the disease in the United States for some time. Other known diseases are being similarly controlled.

    It becomes apparent that no huge mandatory national database, in the hands of the federal government, housing information on private citizens and livestock on the premises of those private citizens, is it going to change the reality that animals exposed to communicable or contagious diseases may have been slaughtered during the incubation period with the meat already having reached the consumer. Unless the Animal Identification Number (AIN) follows the meat to consumption, there is no way that NAIS is going to make the meat industry “safe” for the consumer. It is apparent that this fact is known to those advocating NAIS as documents published state that if the AIN number follows the meat through slaughter to the consumer, liability becomes an issue. Obviously, contrary to what has been stated in government documents concerning NAIS, protecting consumers from meat-born disease is not the focus or concern of NAIS, is not at issue with NAIS.

    On the level of national security, considering diseases indigenous to livestock, incubation periods and likelihood of discovery, is it feasible to believe that it would be cost effective and results effective for terrorists to introduce pathogens to livestock in the hopes of killing a large number of people when terrorists focus on more bang for the buck? While a document of the National Food Animal Identification Task Force, titled “Safeguarding Animal Agriculture, National Identification Work Plan”, 2002, concludes that an animal identification crisis looms and speaks directly of threats to biosecurity, again the AIN will not follow the meat through the slaughter process to the consumer. Any crisis that might come from purposely introduced pathogens to cattle is not going to be diminished by the National Animal Identification System.

    The National Animal Identification System will consist of three components:

    1. Premises Identification (PIN)
    2. Animal Identification (AIN)
    3. Animal Tracking

    Each premises where livestock are kept will be required to have a premises identification number (PIN). Registration will require premises GPS coordinates. Each animal on that premises will be required to have an animal identification number (AIN) except where animals are moved by group in which case they will be assigned a group identification number (GIN). The RFID implanted AIN number will be either attached to the animal by means such as an ear tag (cattle) or implanted sub-dermal in the animal, either of which must be readable by hand-held or stationary ISO certified technology. Using the PIN, AIN and GIN, animals will be tracked from birth to slaughter.

    For purposes of identifying possible exposure to communicable or contagious disease, any time an animal leaves the GPS coordinates correlating to its AIN, the federal government, by regulation, will have to be notified. “Any time” means just that.

    Problems abound with the National Animal Identification System. One of the more apparent has already been identified — the failure of the AIN to follow the animal through slaughter to the consumer negating the government claim of a safe food supply.

    Another has to do with technology and RFID tags. The internet has been rampant with articles concerning the ease with which RFID technology can be hacked. Imagine the fun a hacker could have in a flock of sheep or a herd of cattle changing RFID implanted AINs. While laws make it a crime to alter the AIN, the likelihood of hacked RFID implanted AINs being found readily is remote. It could be months before reason might present itself to scan the RFID implanted AIN number on any given animal. And, if the hacker really wanted to created chaos and frustration, he would visit areas resident to large ranches with a large number of animals present and he would change some AINs, just enough to make it impossible to ascertain which RFID implanted AINs have been hacked without scanning the entire animal populace. Ever been on a large cattle roundup where the animals are wilder than a coot? Imagine running 1500 wild-eyed, nervous, cattle by a scanner one at a time to check AINs for hacking. Once scanned, in a herd of 1500 animals, how can the “chain” of correlation between cow and offspring be reconnected when the AIN has been hacked? Imagine the fun a hacker could have on a feedlot housing thousands of cattle, hogs, or sheep where GINs may identify AINs from multiple sources. Imagine loading commercial haulers with cattle consigned for sale, hauling those cattle hundreds of miles to a sale yard and discovering the AINs on some of the animals do not correlate with the PIN, having been changed by hackers.

    In sum, there is no way the RFID technology can be made secure. As such, if hacked, the cost will be prohibitive, not to the government implementing this mandatory system, not to the various livestock associations supporting NAIS, but to the owner of that animal.

    In the same vein, government documents indicate that AIN numbers will be assigned by lot, so many numbers per given location. How those lot numbers will be divided up across the United States has not been made clear. However, it stands to reason that however lot numbers are assigned, the capability for issuing identical AIN numbers exists unless those numbers come from a centralized databank of available numbers, one with the capability to keep up with the rapid demand for numbers. There is also the capability for data entry errors. The federal government has never been known to be terribly efficient or accurate in that department. And there is the capability for computer glitches and viruses resulting in data loss.

    The cost of the technology, the implants, hacked AINs, duplicate AINs, data errors, data loss, computer systems and personnel, all add up to costing the producer more money. The likelihood of recouping that cost at the sale yard is negligible if markets are competitive. If they are not, the cost to the consumer will be prohibitive. The effect, while purported to increase the value of meat, will not increase the value enough to offset the cost, especially as the AIN will not follow the meat through slaughter to the consumer. The ultimate effect will be to put small producers out of business and make meat prices prohibitive to the consumer.

    Now we turn to the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). APHIS has been given oversight of NAIS. The APHIS Strategic Plan, 2003-2008, states as one of its three goals “Safeguard the health of animals, plants, and ecosystems in the United States.” This same document also states, “What is new (in this document), however, is that APHIS is being more specific about approaching its protection activities as a system of interdependent strategies.” (emphasis in original)

    This document makes it very apparent that NAIS is about transformation of the animal and plant production industry to coalesce systems governance in which systems are established and maintained for no other reason than the sustainable global environment.

    Across the United States, state legislatures have rushed to pass laws in pursuit of federal seed money via discretionary grants which will cede to the federal government state control over animal production.  

    Livestock associations have climbed on a moving train purposely destined for their destruction. Dissension is growing. Articles showing up in livestock publications and published in newspapers across the U.S. in late 2005 indicate dissension with what has now become a federally mandated and housed database of information of individuals inside the United States. While measures to insure confidentiality are assured, there is no such thing as security in technology. Hackers have accessed supposedly secure systems all across the United States, including the Pentagon. Beyond this, there is no reason, beyond oppression, that the federal government should have this information.  

    Right now, the 2009 mandatory date for have PINs, AINs and GINs is in regulation only. Legislation has been introduced making it law.

    Where does this stop? Can we reasonably expect it to stop with animals or will the mass implantation of RFID technology in humans for the purpose of identification be next? We are already seeing signs of it. It is naive to believe that a world system of nation states, bent on data-basing every aspect of life on earth for the purposes of controlling every system on earth to keep all systems in balance in the pursuit of a sustainable global environment, will not target the people, euphemistically referred to as “human capital”, devalued to just another system needing to be managed and controlled.

    © 2006 Lynn M. Stuter - All Rights Reserved

    E-Mail: lmstuter@... 

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    What’s wrong with this picture is that we, as American people, are 1) governmentally ignorant, 2) prefer denial to truth like all good addicts (television, drugs, genetically modified food and water additives, etc.), and 3) remain locked in a prescribed televised loyalty to partisanship.


    Other
    Levant
    Articles:

    Get Off the Globalization Grid, Part 1

    The Eco-Con That Keeps on Taking

     

    BETRAYING COUNTRY, SELF, WOMEN AND CHILDREN

     

     

     

    Nancy Levant
    June 6, 2006
    NewsWithViews.com

    We are told we are one of the dumbest countries in the world. We are also globally despised as a government. Yet, at the same time, we are told that we live in the greatest nation, have the best educational system in the world, and are the beacon of “democratic” freedom. What’s wrong with this picture?

    Actually, the answer is quite simple. What’s wrong with this picture is that we, as American people, are 1) governmentally ignorant, 2) prefer denial to truth like all good addicts (television, drugs, genetically modified food and water additives, etc.), and 3) remain locked in a prescribed televised loyalty to partisanship.

    We, the people, have become incapable of processing information apart from mass media. We have become incapable of processing big pictures, such as politics, economics, regionalization, and globalization.

    As such, we, the people, may in fact be the dumbest people in the world. We have lost intellect, the capacity for learning, the ability to care about the continuance of freedom and liberty and justice, and hence, the ability to discern fact from fiction and to act.

    American people have redefined freedom. Freedom now means the ability to act immorally, vindictively, unkindly, back-stabbingly, and with a refusal to hear or listen to others. Arrogance has become a far greater need – an arrogance that replaces compassion and knowledge with attempts to nurse insecurities, wants, fears, and the demand to be right even when we’re wrong.

    Americans have become cowardly and castrated bullies, and this is best demonstrated by “elected” officials who back stab, insult, bully, demean, and lie for their livings – all the while creating rifts and divisions between the American people – which serve to further weaken and damage our abilities, futures, and souls. Americans are left with decades of anger based upon betrayals and a lack of intelligent self-control.

    Beer and drugs, anger and complaining, television and the Internet are preferred substances over and above the substance and sustenance of faith, truth, and knowledge. We are an angry and frightened people. We take out our angers on our families, friends, neighbors, wallets, and other nations whom we know nothing about whatsoever – all the while watching our nation fall due to our inability to act and care. Public and “elected,” we have degraded into incapable, raging loud mouths instead of intelligent and thoughtful people.

    Our families have suffered, our nation has all but fallen, our rights and liberties have become token political concepts used for elections of elites, and our souls are buried in contempt for our lives and ourselves. All is blamed on others so that we can be right. “Others” are our problems, but never ourselves and our failures as compassionate, strong, and loyal Americans.

    As such, we elect liars and thieves to represent our miserable conditions, and stand steadfastly behind these liars and thieves – once again demonstrating our self-loathing. We blame political parties instead of pointing fingers to ourselves. We have, in effect, land-slid ourselves to personal and national destruction. What a way to go… and quite a demonstration of misery loving company.

    We, the people of this nation, have betrayed our nation, our freedom, our children and grandchildren, and ourselves. We are, in fact, the most pathetic people on the planet – weak, sniveling, and full of arrogance and blame-rage.

    So as we continue to validate our egos as angry and damaged pit bulls, the nation falls to the missions of our representatives, who see us as lesser brethren to be manipulated, chipped, and perhaps caged in Halliburton civilian labor camps for daring to disagree with anything “they” may say or do.

    Well folks, our mindless insistence to vote following TV’s lead, and to vote for the only people who can afford air time, has brought you and yours all the way down, according to our representatives, to the level of mental incompetents. Now, you will receive your representative government’s prescribed list of interventions. As mental incompetents, regional governors and electronic voting machines will ensure that you, in your current condition, will not vote. Your forthcoming Real ID and your current Patriot Act will assure that you have no rights, and that you are traceable as incompetents. Sub-dermal chipping will guarantee your complete control.

    As private property is to be confiscated in one way or another, you will be “relocated” into deed-restricted/planned communities (if you are a good and manageable serf) or you will be “relocated” into a civilian labor camp and put to work under the control of one paramilitary system or another. If you are highly uncontrollable or an undesirable, such as Terri Schiavo, you may be “humanely” disposed of, much like Terri Schiavo.

    We must ask ourselves if, in fact, we are so stupid that our smiley faced “representatives” can actually dismantle our Constitutional government, and at the same time enslave their fellow Americans, and all without us noticing, attempting to stop them, or giving a damn.

    Or perhaps I’m the fool. Perhaps we’re already Socialists and prefer to stay a new union without freedom, rights, liberty, or happiness. Perhaps we prefer human settlements, no private property or guns, and to be told what we can eat, how much water we can drink, and who is worthy to have food, shelter, respect, and life.  

    Perhaps we prefer weather control, sub-dermal chipping, a new god, and constant surveillance. Perhaps we prefer Martial Law and military control. Perhaps we prefer to be treated like herds instead of human beings, because it would appear that we desire to be governed by elites and aristocrats who demand that we live according to their whims and cages.

    Knock knock…
    Who’s there?
    America…
    What’s America?
    Whatever millionaires and billionaires declare…and they say America ends according to plan.  

    Well, monkeys, welcome to the world of your choosing. Just keep sitting back, enmeshed in debt and anger, arrogance and apathy, lies and deceptions, and listen to your television sets while your new dictatorship unfolds before your eyes.

    © 2006 Nancy Levant - All Rights Reserved

    E-Mail: nlevant@...

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    The fourth stage is worst of all. For, after this process has worked its insidious wiles on several generations, spiritual corruption takes over. Whatever they may believe, people act as if there were no god but Mammon, with Caesar his prophet and the bankers his priests.

     

    Other
    Vieira
    Articles:

    Are Monetary & Banking Crises Inevitable in the Near Future?

    "Homeland Security" -- For What and For Whom?

     

    HOKA HEY!


    PART 2

     

     

     

    Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr., Ph.D., J.D.
    June 6, 2006
    NewsWithViews.com

    Inasmuch as human nature never changes, hardly surprising are the similarities between the oppression visited upon the Plains Indians and the oppression common Americans suffer today. For example:

    (i) The Establishment of the late 1800s destroyed the Plains Indians' economic independence, self-reliance, self-sufficiency, and security by killing off the buffalo and thereby rendering the nomadic hunters abjectly dependent on niggardly handouts from the Great Father in Washington's corrupt Indian agents. This was economic subjugation through control of the actual physical resources necessary for the Indians' survival.

    Yet even before that era, the Establishment had already created institutions designed to deprive all common Americans of their economic independence, self-reliance, self-sufficiency, and security—as well as the ability to retain the real wealth they created and earned by dint of their own efforts. These institutions included the first and second Banks of the United States, numerous State banks, and the National Banks first set up during the Civil War. Eventually, these schemes for the incestuous coupling of bank and state matured into the modern Federal Reserve System, under the aegis of which bank and state now appear inseparable. This was—and remains—economic subjugation through control over so-called "financial" resources.

    Control over "financial" resources does provide an extensive measure of control over physical resources of all kinds—otherwise, to modern men steeped in the sin of avarice, it would be pointless. But its great strength as a devious device for social control is that it is indirect, operating through the pseudo-intellectual and legalistic fictions called "currency" and "credit" that not one person in ten thousand understands. Contemporary "currency" purports to be a medium of exchange, a measure of value, a store of value, and even "legal tender" for all debts, public and private—although, in contradistinction to the "money" of the free market and the Constitution, it is not itself composed of silver, gold, or any other valuable physical substance, and is not redeemable in any such substance at a fixed rate of exchange guaranteed by law.

    At base, such "currency" amounts to nothing more than the politicians' trick of transmuting their naked command into an instrument for transferring real wealth. After all, translated from the Latin, the familiar term "fiat currency" means "let it be currency." Such "currency" is not akin to true "money" by dint of its economic nature and free acceptance among people in the marketplace, but is required—by dint of the government's physical compulsion when other means fail—to be taken or treated as "money" by everyone. And contemporary "credit" is even more ethereal, being nothing other than the creation of new "currency" out of new debt—the bankers' alchemical trick of transforming liabilities into assets simply by saying it is so.

    Moreover, modern "currency" and "credit" are not even necessary resources for contemporary Americans. The Plains Indians could not survive without food—if not buffalo meat, then whatever rations the Indian agents deigned to provide. Their dependency was physical, and eventually became insurmountable by any actions within their power. Contemporary Americans, conversely, could easily survive without today's fictitious "currency" and "credit"—and would be far better off without them, and certainly without the parasitical politicians and special-interest groups that fatten off of them. Modern Americans' dependency is psychopathological, and its continuation largely self-imposed, proving once again the truth in the wag's dictum that "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time—and that's good enough!."

    Yet, although ultimately derived from nothing more substantive than economic, political, and legal fictions and deceptions, the Establishment's ability to create "currency" and "credit" ex nihilo and ad infinitum remains the primary source of its tremendous economic, political, and cultural power, both open and subterranean.

    On the surface, that power dominates both the economy and the political process. The entire economic life of the United States has degenerated into servile dependence upon whether the Federal Reserve System increases or decreases interest rates (and by how much)—that is, upon how fast the banks create new "currency" and "credit" (because no significant overall contraction in the so-called "money supply" has occurred since the banking collapse of the early 1930s). The Constitution identifies "We the People of the United States" as its authors. The markets are composed of We the People in their capacity as free economic actors. Congress is the agent of We the People in their capacity as political sovereign. And the Board of Governors as well as the entire Federal Reserve System are the mere statutory creatures of Congress. Nonetheless, the markets await each announcement of the bankers' pleasure with baited breath. Congress sits in awed silence as the various Chairmen of the Board of Governors lecture it. And We the People do nothing. Self-evidently, this state of affairs proves that, as a practical matter, where money and banking are concerned the free market is held captive by a special-interest group, the constitutionally empowered National legislature is not the actual lawgiver, and worst of all the titular National sovereign is subordinate to someone else.

    During the late 1800s and early 1900s, the alliance among politicians, bankers, and their clients in high finance and big business to control America was widely known as "the Money Power." As Frederick Townsend Martin observed in 1911, in his book Passing of the Idle Rich, [Also read the book; "The Coming Battle" originally published in 1899]

    [i]t matters not one iota what political party is in power or what President holds the reins of office. We are not politicians or public thinkers; we are the rich; we own America; we got it, God knows how, but we intend to keep it if we can by throwing the tremendous weight of our support, our influence, our money, our political connections, our purchased senators, our hungry congressmen, our public-speaking demagogues into the scale against any legislature, any political platform, any presidential campaign that threatens the dignity of our estate.

    Nothing has changed since then. Today, perspicacious Americans can identify the people who "own America" economically and politically. The question is what can common Americans do about them.

    Under the surface, too, the power over modern "financial" resources—the power to create "currency" and "credit" ad libitum—exercises an insidiously corrupting and self-reinforcing influence over Americans. This is no accident. Those seeking to exploit, dominate, and oppress others usually attempt, at an early stage of the process, to corrupt their victims, so that they can manipulate and control them through their vices. In the late 1800s, the Establishment corrupted the Plains Indians and undermined their personal self-respect and communal coherence by plying them with "fire water". That was simple psychological corruption mediated through physical addiction. False prosperity generated through unlimited debt made possible by expanding supplies of new "currency" and "credit" emitted by the banks is the contemporary "fire water" on which the Establishment has hooked all too many Americans.

    Importantly, whereas each Indian's addiction to "fire water" was a personal predicament, and became a social problem only after sufficient numbers succumbed, Americans' intoxication by contemporary "credit" is a socially destructive phenomenon from the inception in every instance in which it is involved. Traditional "credit" is simply a deferred execution of a contractual obligation, as when a buyer purchases some commodity today, but pays for it only later on. In such a transaction, the seller has extended "credit" to the buyer, in the form of time. The buyer may pay more for the commodity than the original price (if the "credit" incurs "interest" or some "service charge"); or the seller may receive less than that price in real terms (if the "credit" does not incur such a surcharge, and the seller has a positive time preference). But, in either event, the transaction involves just those two parties, and has no effect whatsoever on the so-called "money supply" of society as a whole. Different amounts of "money" change hands, depending on the terms of the transaction; but the total supply of "money" throughout society remains the same, whatever the terms.

    Much contemporary "credit," distinguishably, is made possible only through the creation of new "currency" when the "credit" is extended and for that purpose. A bank "credits" a client's account with some amount of "currency" created in order to make that very loan. Thus, the transaction increases the total "money supply." More consequentially, the new "currency" then enters the economy at a particular point and time, and then spreads through the market on some idiosyncratic path, changing the structure of prices and redistributing real wealth as the market realizes there has been an injection of new purchasing power, and reacts to it. Exactly who the losers in this process may be is difficult to predict. But the bank that generates the new "credit" and its client who employs it are always the winners. And surely society always loses overall. For if banks throughout the system create significant amounts of new "credit" in the capital markets—thereby imposing so-called "forced savings" on the rest of society—their actions set in motion the familiar "business" (or "boom and bust") cycle, leading eventually to depression, or perhaps to hyperinflation followed by depression. And if the banks create new "credit" for the public treasury—that is, by "monetizing public debt"—their actions facilitate a particularly vicious species of "taxation without representation," in which part of the present generation receives the benefits of governmental deficit spending, while future generations of taxpayers—who have cast no votes in the matter—are expected to pay for them.

    Although socially destructive and politically abusive, the contemporary "currency" and "credit" scheme is self-reinforcing in its degeneracy. Its first stage involves simply the organization of avarice: providing the means by which some people can obtain something for nothing by redistributing other people's wealth through spending new "currency" into circulation. This is bad enough. For the easy availability of "credit" convertible into new "currency" encourages an unbridled, debt-based consumerism, steeped in hedonism, materialism, and a mania for "economic growth" which inevitably results in a self-imposed serfdom of consumers to the creators of "credit" and "currency"—whether those consumers be private individuals or public treasuries.

    The second stage is worse. It entails support by the clients of the creators of "credit" and "currency" for the entire economic, political, and ideological system that allows the latter to ply their trade—because that system is the only source of future "credit" to subsidize the clients' on-going exorbitant life-styles that require spending beyond their real means. A never-ending cycle of overconsumption, financed with private and public debt floated by expansion of "credit" and "currency," demands support for politicians who promote policies that grease the skids for such false prosperity. This turns voters hooked on debt-based consumerism into dependents of the politicians, rather than the politicians being servants of the voters. In their turn, the politicians become dependent on the bankers—so that political, as well as economic, power inexorably gravitates towards one special-interest group to a degree no free society would ever countenance.

    The third stage is worse yet. For the types of politicians who support endless expansion of "credit" and "currency" tend to bring with them a compendious agenda of other economic, political, social, and cultural corruptions. For example, no politician who approves of Congress's creation of the Federal Reserve System, and the System's "monetization of public debt," likely employs "original intent" in constitutional interpretation, opposes the delegation of governmental powers to private special-interest groups, believes in limited government, or wants to reduce to the minimum bureaucratic intervention in the free market. Rather, he most probably advocates "the living Constitution" (that is, the Constitution politicians and judges make up as they go along, to serve their immediate interests), political-cum-economic "partnerships" between government and influential private interests, and comprehensive political "management" of the market (what used to be called "central planning," before the collapse of the East bloc finally discredited that rubric).  

    The fourth stage is worst of all. For, after this process has worked its insidious wiles on several generations, spiritual corruption takes over. Whatever they may believe, people act as if there were no god but Mammon, with Caesar his prophet and the bankers his priests.  

    In sum, contemporary "credit" and "currency" constitute a social narcotic more dangerous than the alcohol to which the Plains Indians became addicted. For chemical dependencies hardly ever approach the point at which so many people are affected that an entire society collapses. But a general breakdown has not infrequently afflicted countries hooked on the endless expansion of fictitious "currency" and "credit"1—such as Germany in the early 1920s, and Argentina and other major South American countries serially since World War II.

    And this is not the only parallel in the history of oppression that contemporary Americans need to recognize as applicable to them.

    Click here for part ----- 1,

    [TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK...]

    © 2006 Edwin Vieira, Jr. - All Rights Reserved

    Edwin Vieira, Jr., holds four degrees from Harvard: A.B. (Harvard College), A.M. and Ph.D. (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), and J.D. (Harvard Law School).

    For more than thirty years he has practiced law, with emphasis on constitutional issues. In the Supreme Court of the United States he successfully argued or briefed the cases leading to the landmark decisions Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, Chicago Teachers Union v. Hudson, and Communications Workers of America v. Beck, which established constitutional and statutory limitations on the uses to which labor unions, in both the private and the public sectors, may apply fees extracted from nonunion workers as a condition of their employment.

    He has written numerous monographs and articles in scholarly journals, and lectured throughout the county. His most recent work on money and banking is the two-volume Pieces of Eight: The Monetary Powers and Disabilities of the United States Constitution (2002), the most comprehensive study in existence of American monetary law and history viewed from a constitutional perspective. www.piecesofeight.us

    He is also the co-author (under a nom de plume) of the political novel CRA$HMAKER: A Federal Affaire (2000), a not-so-fictional story of an engineered crash of the Federal Reserve System, and the political upheaval it causes. www.crashmaker.com

    His latest book is: "How To Dethrone the Imperial Judiciary"

    He can be reached at:
    13877 Napa Drive
    Manassas, Virginia 20112.


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    Subject:: Where Can I get RAW CHEESE in the USA?Or Raw Milk?It's "ILLEGAL"!     		cheyennecin
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    Since it's only possible from natural food sources to get good lipase from natural products BANNED in THE USA, I started a 'raw cheese' access search. It's amazing hard to secure this 'legally' in America!--"Cheyenne Cin"-

    http://www.mercola.com/forms/cheese.htm

    Bouche Raw Milk Cave Cheese is an unpasteurized artisan cave cheese made from grass-fed organic raw milk. The milk is gently heated slightly so the imported culture can grow, and it protects the natural enzymes in the milk. The curd is drained, not pressed, which means even higher omega-3s and CLA for you. It is then rubbed with Celtic sea salt and placed in a cave. The blocks are turned and salted every other day to encourage the uniform growth of the mold. The cheese is kept in the cave 60 days as required by the FDA for raw milk cheese. The result is a smooth, creamy and unbelievably great-tasting cheese with a nutty-tasting mold rind.

    The bouche comes shipped in a vacuum bag to protect the cheese. When you receive it, place in the vegetable bin of your refrigerator for storage. It will last 30-45 days sealed in vacuum bag before the mold rind breaks down. The mold on natural rind cheeses may be various colors. Whatever the color of the mold, it represents a natural process and is quite edible. Only a bright yellow color should be avoided. Eating the rind is a matter of personal preference. The rind will definitely make the cheese stronger in flavor, but the choice of eating it or not is up to the individual.

    Bouche cheese cooks well but most people eat it by the piece, and it is considered one of the premier choices of cheese aficionados throughout the world for its incredible taste.

    Smethe Raw Milk Cave Cheese is an unpasteurized artisan raw milk cave cheese made in the same cave as the Bouche cheese above. The difference is that a "Camembert culture" is used. This brie-cheese type culture is formed in round molds. Even though the same mold grows on the cheese, the result is a stronger flavor than the Bouche and a mushroom-flavored mold rind.

    The Smethe cheese will soften and become even stronger in taste with age, becoming almost a cheese spread. It comes vacuum packed to protect the cheese during shipment and can last 45 days to 2 months in the vacuum pack.

    Smethe is the strongest flavored grass-fed organic cheese that Meadow Maid offers, and like the Bouche this cheese is considered premier among cheese connoisseurs. It is superb for eating by the piece.

     

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    Do you know how many people have been killed by eating raw aged cheese? None. ... My answer has been to find clean, wholesome, properly raised and slaughtered and processed ...

    http://www.caberfeidh.com/RawCheese.htm

    The Raw Truth About Raw Cheese
    By Christie Keith

    Two years ago, I used to buy a wonderful goat cheese at my local cheese market called La Garotin. It was a soft, oozy, flavorful but mild cheese, and it was just about perfect in an omelette.  One day, the nice cheese lady explained to me that the United States government, in its endless quest to make me safer, had determined that this cheese was not safe for me to eat and it was no longer available. An "improved" pasteurized version hit the market a few months later, but like most cheeses made with pasteurized milk, it tasted lousy.

    On the scale of things that really matter, this one doesn't. Whether one latte-sipping liberal in Northern California can still get raw oozy goat cheese for her morning omelette doesn't stack up in importance compared with governmental attacks on social security and education funding, or our increasingly aggressive foreign policy of "democracy at gunpoint."

    But I do have to ask why, in this era of "small government," with the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives all safely in the hands of those "conservative" Republicans, I am being protected against a non-threat that I do not care to be protected against in the first place?

    Then again, I live in California, where we can buy raw milk from certified dairies in our grocery stores, and raw cream and butter, too. Most of the people reading this aren't so lucky, as raw dairy products either cannot be sold at all in most states and all of Canada, or can only be sold or shared under the most Byzantine of legal arrangements. In some states it's actually illegal to drink milk from your own cow on your own farm. The mind boggles.

    Some of you might wonder about this. Isn't raw milk dangerous? The truth is, given the state of modern food processing, you should be asking that question about all the food you consume. Contamination with pathogens is a growing problem in pasteurized and cooked foods, especially with institutional food supplies (school food services, convalescent hospitals, food concessions, etc.).

    Do you know how many people have been killed by eating raw aged cheese? None. Zero. Zip. No one knows why the FDA has decided to crack down on the importing of aged cheeses made from raw cream, unless it has something to do with the fact that they are coming from France, home of those Kerry-loving terrorist huggers.

    Food safety has been framed in this country as a home kitchen issue - all the risk and all the responsibility have been passed to the individual end-consumer, totally absolving regulatory agencies, government, and industry from any need to produce safe foods. Why worry about bacterial contamination of meat, milk, and eggs if it's all going to be pasteurized, irradiated, drenched in bleach water baths, and, ultimately, cooked to death at home?

    This means that we don't get to eat real Ceasar salad dressing anymore, we don't get to eat steak tartare, we can't drink fresh milk straight from the cow, and our dogs can't eat a nice hunk of meat on the bone, not because those foods are intrinsically dirty or full of pathogenic bacteria, but because given the state of modern food production practices and standards, they have been contaminated with pathogenic bacteria.

    My answer has been to find clean, wholesome, properly raised and slaughtered and processed meats, as well as the eggs and milk of animals raised on grass and treated humanely. Such foods, grown in traditional methods and processed with the good parts of modern food science, such as closed milking systems, result in the best of both worlds, and a cleaner, healthier food supply. And a much more expensive one, even here in California.

    But the raw dairy products I buy are not a hazard to my health. Not only do they meet or exceed the standards set by the state of California for raw milk, they exceed the standards set for pasteurized milk. That's right; my raw milk is cleaner than pasteurized milk.

    I'm not against testing of foods for safety. I'm not even against the government doing that testing, because I sure don't trust industry to do it. But it's a complete joke to protect me against the non-threat of French goat cheese, and then turn around and actually prohibit American ranchers from testing their meat cattle for mad cow disease, because it might hurt the cattle industry. To cut budgets for inspecting meat processing plants, but make laws against drinking raw milk from certified dairies.

    In The Untold Story of Milk: Green Pastures, Contented Cows, and Raw Dairy Foods,  Ron Schmid, ND, writes:

    If the forces pushing compulsory pasteurization, food irradiation and other treatments of farm products - milk, meats, fruits, vegetables and grains - have their way, the end result will be a kind of food fascism that insists on the sterilization of the entire food supply - all in the name of consumer protection, of course - and every farmer in the thrall of the corporate buyer, offering him a price that cannot even cover his costs.

    The San Francisco Chronicle's Janet Fletcher quoted Cathy Goldsmith of the Cheese Board Collective as saying, "We used to get these little French goat cheeses that tasted just like the field the goats were grazing on, and we'll never see those again. I do support food safety, but is there an issue of food safety? That's my question."

    Of course this isn't about food safety, and it's  no mystery why the "small government" Republicans are tightening up on the selling of cheese made from raw cream. We aren't actually being protected from ourselves, or even from unsafe food. American corporations are being protected from having to compete with small dairies, niche food producers, and French cheese importers.

    Because if there's one thing the "small government" folks like, it's big business.

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    Chile

    • Puerto Montt: Saanen and Alpine goat's milk. Contact Zack, zdomike@... .

    Asia

    Australia/Micronesia

    Europe

    Australia

    • Adelaide: A store called Goodies and Grains sells raw goats milk.
    • Check out this Cow Share Agreement. (Microsoft Word document)
    • SE Queensland: Warradale Organics, managed by Glenn Bunter and Therese Cawte, produces high quality raw milk on its BFA Certified Organic and Biodynamic Dairy Farm, at Gympie, north of Brisbane. The Warradale herd of pure Jersey and Jersey cross cows produces milk that consistently tests with very high components i.e. protein and butterfat. Warradale Organics’ raw milk is available to participants in a Herdshare Agreement at the Northey Organic Markets in Brisbane and through distributors in South East Queensland by arrangement. Contact Warradale by email at gkbtmc@... or by phoning 07 5486 6121.
    • List of sources of raw dairy in Australia: www.rejoiceinlife.com/kefir/prodgoldcoast.php

    Belgium

    • "De Dobbelhoeve", Agriculture Biologique, Goorstraat 43, B- 2970 Schilde, Tel: 0032 (Belgium) - (0)3 / 383 07 82
    • Family Ruypers, Walem 15, Walem
    • "Het Dischhof", Walter en Magda Deberg - Rommelaere, Dodepaardenstraat 58 Keiem, Tel 0032 (Belgium) (0) 51 - 50 12 04, Fax 0032 (0) 51 51 15 61, email: dischhof@...
    • HET HINKELSPEL ) , F. Lousbergkaai 33, 9000 GENT (Belgium), Telephone: 0032 (0) 9/224.20.96
    • Peter Van Kerckhove - Vervaet Monique Eekstraat, 218 tel en fax: 09/348.88.78. Organic goat milk and cheese.
    • A reader alerts us: "Raw donkey milk is going great guns in France and Belgium. Marie Tack in Belgium sells donkey milk that meets European bacteriological standards. I visited two farms in France and drank milk directly from many burros (delicious!). I will go to Belgium next year to visit Marie myself who milks 50 head of mammoth jennets each day. Donkey milk is the closest milk to human breast milk and is ideal for feeding infants. It is in a state of rediscovery in France and Belgium and will be available here in the future.Visit www.asineriedupaysdescollines.be to see her operation. Donkeys don't carry Bovine diseases."

    Canada

    In addition to the following listings, information on raw milk is available through Consumer Health of Canada. (416)490-0986.

    British Columbia

    • Grand Forks: Jerseyland Organics, Box 1468, 2690 Almond Gardens Road, Grand Forks, B.C. V0H 1H0, Ph: (250) 442-8112, Fax:(250) 442-8737, Farm: (250) 442-8683, website: http://www.jerseylandorganics.com , email: organics@... . A wide variety of Certified Organic naturally-aged, raw milk cheeses.
    • Salt Spring: Moonstruck Organic Cheese, 1306 Beddis Road, Salt Spring, BC CANADA V8K 2C9. Web: www.moonstruckcheese.com. Fine farmstead, certified organic cheeses. We milk a small herd of Jersey cows and make all the milk into fine cheeses. Hard cheeses are raw milk, soft and surface ripened are pasteurized.
    • Vancouver: Les Amis Du Fromage, 1752 W. 2nd Avenue, Vancouver, B.C. V6J 1H6, Ph: (604) 732-4218 or toll-free 1-877-676-1166, website www.buycheese.com email: lesamis@... . Large selection of fine European and Canadian cheeses, including many raw milk varieties. *Please note: This is a busy gourmet cheese store, not a health food store. While they do mark their raw cheeses, the staff generally does not know what type of cows the milk comes from nor what the cows eat.
    • Victoria: Charelli's Delicatessen, Cheese Shop & Catering, 2863 Foul Bay Road, Victoria, British Columbia, V8R 5G5. Phone: (250) 598-4794, website: www.charellis.com.

    Nova Scotia

    • Kings County: Ran-Cher Acres, Randy&Cheryl Hiltz, R.R.#1 Aylesford, Kings Co. N.S., BOP 1Co Canada. 1-902-847-3895, www.rancheracres.com. Goat Milk Products, Raw Milk Feta, Raw Milk Cheddar, Raw Milk Gouda.

    Ontario

    • Conn: Ewenity Dairy Co-operative, RR#1, Conn, Ontario. N0G 1N0, 519 848 5694. A dairy sheep co-operative producing yogurt, cream cheese "Brebis frais," sheep milk feta, a camembert we call "Ramembert," and a gouda-style of cheese named "Eweda." We are developing more cheeses at the moment, so more to come!
    • Lanark: Back Forty Artisan Cheese, R.R. #3, Lanark, Ontario, Canada, K0G 1K0, web: www.artisancheese.ca. Hand crafted raw sheep milk cheeses.
    • Tavistock: Shepherd Gourmet Dairy, (519) 462-1067. Sheep milk feta, yogurt, and a cream cheese called "LIPTOI."

    Quebec

    • Saint-Gregoire: Fromagerie L'Ancetre, (819) 233-9157.

    Denmark

    • Smidstrupgaard, a biodynamic farm. Every saturday from 12.00 - 17.00 on the following location: Frederiksberg Rådhus foran rådhuset, Frederiksberg Sjælland.

    Eastern Europe

    • A visitor from Eastern Europe writes: In the East European countries, Romania, Hungary, the former states of Yugoslavia, you can find real (raw) milk all over the place there! It's true, you can't find the raw milk in stores, but you can ask people about farms (in-city farms!) that sell raw milk. My family buys only raw milk from some neighbors who feed their small cattle on the pastures near the city skirts. The milk is delivered almost instantly after it is milked (an hour or so). It is not even skimmed.

    France

    • Brittany: Certified organic raw cow's milk. Ferme de Kerheu, 29510 BRIEC DE LµODET, 02 98 57 92 67. Their milk is even distributed by two local supermarkets: Inter Marché in Briec and Leclerc in Quimper where it costs 0.94€/liter and 0.84€/liter respectively.
    • A reader alerts us: "Raw donkey milk is going great guns in France and Belgium. Marie Tack in Belgium sells donkey milk that meets European bacteriological standards. I visited two farms in France and drank milk directly from many burros (delicious!). I will go to Belgium next year to visit Marie myself who milks 50 head of mammoth jennets each day. Donkey milk is the closest milk to human breast milk and is ideal for feeding infants. It is in a state of rediscovery in France and Belgium and will be available here in the future.Visit www.asineriedupaysdescollines.be to see her operation. Donkeys don't carry Bovine diseases."

    Germany

    • Contact the following to find regional raw-milk selling farmers: Staatliche Lehr- und Forschungsanstalt fuer Landwirtschaft, Weinbau und Gartenbau, Breitenweg 71, 67435 Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Telefon 06321-6711.
    • Organic raw milk (and/or other organic products) are available from one of the numerous farms across Germany belonging to the Bioland "group". Bioland is a reputable brandname that promotes organic agriclture. Call your local chapter for a list of Bioland farms in your area. Interested Germans can contact the headquarters: Bioland-Bundesverband, Bundesgeschäftsstelle, Nördliche Ringstraße 91, 73033 Göppingen, to receive a list of farms in their area. The list indicates which farms sell which products, including raw milk. One can also look it up in the internet at http://www.bioland.de/kunden/bioeinkauf.html.
    • This website tells you where to find producers of Vorzugsmilch: http://www.milch-und-mehr.de/05.htm
    • Also see note, "Raw Cheeses?" under Netherlands, below, for a link to a page of raw or "almost raw" cheeses available in Holland and Germany.

    Ireland

    • Sheridans Cheesemongers Ltd., Email: info@... Web: www.sheridanscheesemongers.com. Retail farmhouse cheeses from Ireland, the UK and Europe. The majority of their cheeses are made from raw milk. Retail outlets:
      • Dublin: Sheridans Cheesemongers, 11 South Anne St, Dublin 2, Ireland. Ph: 00353 1 6793143
      • Dublin: Sheridans Cheesemongers, Pembroke Lane, Dublin 4. Ph: 00353 1 6608231
      • Galway: Sheridans Cheesemongers, Churchyard St., Galway. Ph: 00353 91 564829

    Italy

    • Cooperativa Agrituristica, A.S.C.A P.Zza Roma 11/A 67030, Anversa Degli Abruzzi Tel. +39 086449492 Fax +39 086449595, on the web at http://www.asca.dimmidove.com/index.htm. Located in the Abruzzo National Park; they sell sheep's milk cheeses and meat and have a wonderful adopt-a-sheep campaign, which aims to save traditional products and the shepherding profession.
    • Baronchelli: http://www.lattecrudobaronchelli.it/co.html
    • Cooperativa Produttori Latte Amatrice, Amatrice - (Ri), Località Ponte Sommati, 0746 826471. Located in Rieti, in the Abruzzo National Park. They produce a variety of raw milk cheeses (both sheep and cow). Recommended by Slow Food.
    • Giulio Petronio Az. Zootecnica Gran Sasso, Via San Donato 56, 333 92 95 738. Located in Castel del Monte, a small town in the Abruzzo National Park. He sells a delicious variety of raw sheep's milk cheeses, including Marcetto, a type of fermented cheese that you can spread on bread or crackers. He also produces delicious aged cheeses and an outstanding ricotta cheese (all raw) as well as meat.
    • Rome: Biolà, Via Aurelia 2449 - 00050 Fiumicino Roma, Giuseppe Brandizzi , +39 3382565400, info@... , www.biola.it. Near Fiumicino International Airport. This organic farm milks about 120 Holsteins and 15 Jerseys, offering organic raw milk through automatic dispensers in two locations near the farm: the farm is at 24,49 Via Aurelia and Cooperativa Allevatori Bestiame Testa di Lepre (www.testadilepre.it), is at 22 km Via Aurelia (2,5 km away) and Centro Commerciale Grenì, is at 28 km Via Aurelia (3,5 km away).
    • Slowfood Association promotes a petiton for the maintainance of the tradition (in Italy) of the production of raw milk cheeses:http://www.milkonline.com/fiera/settegiorni/slowfood111100.htm

    Japan

    Netherlands

    • Gestam Dutch Cheese Export Shop Online. Dutch cheese specialist, exporting Edam, Gouda, Maasdammer and other cheeses from Holland. Site gives the history of cheese market in Edam. Go to website.
    • Lunteren: Remeker raw milk cheeses made with milk from grass-fed jersey cows. remeker@...
    • Raw Cheeses? Real Milk correspondent Rob Hundscheit has compiled a list of "raw" cheeses available in Holland and Germany. However, he warns, "the cheese here is 99% pasteurised or sterilised - even the "raw" cheese here is heated between a temperature between 43 and almost 70 degrees Celcius (102 and 150 degree Fahrenheit).). Maybe there is only one kind of cheese in Holland wich is "merely, almost raw" and this is Organic-Dynamically cheese with the name Loverendale - wich is available in cow and goat. In the atachment a list of cheese which are available in Holland and Germany, of which they state that these are raw, however the truth is often different. However it is allowed in Germany to import cheese of France to Germany." So, use this list as a starting point, but be sure to ask! Cheeses in Holland and Germany.

    New Zealand

    • Auckland: In Auckland area, contact Huckleberry Farms Natural Foods Store for info about Raw goat milk. If you are interested in a cow share program, contact our new local chapter Alison Ellett at (09) 420-8548 or ellett@... .
    • Keri Keri area - contact Alan Rockell at (09) 4050 335.
    • Southland/Invercargill/Mataura/Winton - Update - March 2005: There are some Southland organic dairy farmers who are now selling raw milk direct from their farms. For details, contact Bari Caine at greenleaf@... or call 03-213-0420. Website: www.organiclifestyle.net/
    • Wellington: Organic dairy farm sells raw milk from pasture-fed Jerseys. Contact Susan Galea susangalea@... or Cedric Backhouse dekmatt@... , http://realmilk.co.nz/ .

    Norway

    Switzerland

    • Uster: raw milk or roehmilch is available at Opfelbaum (appletree) Organic Healthfoods, Zentralstrasse 18, 8610 Uster, Switzerland, 011-41-1-941-4246 (this is calling from the US). You must special order the milk with is delivered on Mondays and Thursdays. At the present time, milk is 2.70 CHF (Swiss Francs and rappen) for 1/2 liter. This is $2.29 per 1/2 liter in USD.

    United Kingdom

    • Bosbury (Near Worcester, Hereford and Gloucester): Beaconhill Farm, Nashend Lane, Bosbury, Near LEDBURY, Herefordshire HR8 1JY. Tel 01531 640275, Email beaconicecream@... . They sell freash Jersey milk (unpasteurised) as well as their own ice cream (made with Jersey Clotted Cream).
    • Cornwall, near Callington/Gunnislake: J.A.Flashman Dairy, 01579-350893, West Prince Farm, Seven Stones, (entered byTeresa Gillespie 01503-240-333), Organic Unpasturized milk available for pick up. Bring own plastic containers. Call to arrange
    • East Sussex: Plawhatch Farm, Priory Road, Sharpthorne, has raw organic milk available at their store and will deliver to the local area. They also make their own yogurt and cheese and have organic beef, lamb, eggs and chickens, as well as organic produce for sale.
    • 'Here' organic shop at the Chelsea Farmer's Market carries an extensive range of raw milk cheeses and of course Neal's Yard carries many raw milk cheeses though many are not organic.
    • Northumberland: Wheelbirks Farm, Stocksfield, Northumberland, NE43 7HY Tel/Fax: 01661 842316. They are a family run farm whom are proud to sell raw Jersey milk from their farm door. Since 1925 they have sold their milk and cream, being one of the first turberculosis tested herds in the country. To the best of their knowledge they are now the only supplier (to the public) of real milk in Northumberland. On the web at: www.wheelbirks.co.uk
    • Sainsbury's and Tesco sell Roquefort made from raw sheep's milk and Camembert made from raw cow's milk. Tesco has recently introduced an organic raw milk Swiss Emmental.
    • Waitrose supermarkets sell a new organic Welsh cheese made from raw cow's milk. They also sell unpasteurised organic parmiggiano Reggiano cheese and organic Roquefort made from raw ewe's milk. They stock Emmental and Gruyere made from raw milk but they're not organic.
    • Wales: Cnwc Goats is a small goats' dairy farm selling raw milk by mail order and some raw goats' cheeses. The goats seem to be pasture fed too. Cnwc Goats, Ysbyty Ystwyth, Ystrad Meurig, Ceredigion SY25 6DA, Tel: 01974 282634, www.cnwc-goats.co.uk/
    • This website lists producers of raw milk in the UK as well as sources of other healthy food: http://www.seedsofhealth.co.uk/

    For other sources contact the nearest local chapter
    of the Weston A. Price Foundation.

    Vote with your pocketbooks! Demand Real Milk products and they will return to the marketplace!

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    Raw-cheese fans rave about taste

    Kyle Wagner
    The Denver Post
    Oct. 14, 2004 12:00 AM

    When it comes to cheese these days, more consumers are getting a raw deal.

    Forget pasteurized processed cheese. Skip the Monterey jack. Chuck the Wisconsin cheddar. We're in a world of cheese, but to experience the amazing array of flavors and textures, connoisseurs find that unpasteurized is the only way to go.

    The difference between raw and pasteurized cheeses is simple. In pasteurization, milk is heated, usually either to 144 degrees for 30 minutes or 160 degrees for 15 seconds, to kill the bacteria inherent in all raw milk.

    But as Steven Jenkins points out in his comprehensive book on the subject, "Cheese Primer," neither process is ideal.

    "When French microbiologist Louis Pasteur took the danger out of fresh milk with his invention of the pasteurization process," Jenkins writes, "it was a great day for humankind but a sad one for many of the world's great cheeses."

    Since the 1940s, the United States has had mandatory pasteurization for milk. Within the past several years, however, the government has relaxed some of the importation laws to accept raw-milk cheeses aged more than 60 days. In addition, the increasing popularity of artisanal cheeses has nudged several domestic cheesemakers into producing their own raw-milk versions.

    Jenkins maintains that the 144-degree method is better for the cheesemaking process because it is low enough to keep the cheese from winding up with a "cooked" flavor. The 160-degree method is often preferred, however, because it is faster, and thus cheaper. And to most cheese connoisseurs, pasteurized means plastic, anyway.

    The question of safety, though, is a valid, if some say overrated, one. True, people have become sick from unpasteurized cheeses, including from listeria, E. coli and salmonella. There also was a case in 2002 in which 11 people in Spain caught brucellosis, a flulike illness, from raw goat cheese.

    "What people don't understand is that the incidence of this is very low, usually lower even than the possibility of getting sick from meat or chicken," says Ionah de Freitas, who with her husband, Hugh O'Neill, owns St. Kilian's Cheese Shop in Denver's Highland neighborhood. "European people come into the shop, and it's not even an issue, and now that American customers are starting to taste raw-milk cheese and see how amazing they are, we hardly ever get questions ."

    The one exception is pregnant women, de Freitas says. "Many doctors here warn pregnant women to avoid raw-milk cheeses," she says. "And that's a choice worth pursuing, although they certainly don't worry about it in Europe."

    Oddly, folks in this country get nervous when it comes to raw cheeses but will eat, say, green ketchup or blue margarine, or any number of foods that over the long haul are proven to be a far higher health risk than raw-milk cheese.

    "I laugh that people will eat Doritos but not raw-milk cheeses," de Freitas says. "If you ask me, there's no question which is better for you."

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    Why the State Hates Cholesterol by Chris Masterjohn
     
     
     
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    Cholesterol is found in every cell of the body.
    This fascinating molecule, found in rich
    abundance in the tastiest of foods, is the most
    critical component of mental function – surely
    one reason the State has waged its historical
    role on this vilified yet truly magnificent
    molecule, independent thought being the primary threat to its existence.

    The story of the government’s war on cholesterol
    follows – and an argument for why cholesterol is
    your best weapon against the State.

    Keys: The Anti-Cholesterol Interventionist

    In 1953, Ancel Keys kicked off the
    anti-cholesterol campaign, under the spell of
    which American health discourse has persisted
    ever since. Keys charted a graph of six
    countries’ death rates from coronary heart
    disease (CHD) against their respective available
    amounts of dietary fat, and showed that each
    country fell neatly on a line demonstrating that
    the more fat that was available, the more deaths
    from heart disease that followed.

    Yet Ancel Keys was not, first and foremost, an
    opponent of fat. Keys was, first and foremost, a
    proponent of the Interventionist State. Keys’
    1953 paper argued that the US Public Health
    Service was too narrow in scope, and should be
    expanded to the prevention of all diseases – not
    merely occupational and infectious diseases.

    Keys wrote that, even though "direct evidence on
    the effect of the diet on human arteriosclerosis
    is very little and likely to remain so for some
    time," the strength and money of the public
    sphere should be mobilized. It was not the
    conservative principles of the scientific method
    that motivated him, but the rush to lay at the
    feet of Government any problem in sight to solve
    – with the competence of a drunken elephant.

    The proponents of State Intervention will not
    stop even at burning books when the cholesterol
    hypothesis is threatened. You may have thought
    this phenomenon belonged only to history and
    futuristic dystopias, but Dr. Uffe Ravnskov’s
    <http://www.ravnskov.nu/cholesterol.htm>The
    Cholesterol Myths, has provoked the wardens of
    Dogma to such a degree that it was literally set
    on fire on national television in Finland by its opponents!

    The Scientific Bankruptcy of the Anti-Cholesterol Campaign

    Ever since Keys’ landmark paper, the
    anti-cholesterol campaign only gained strength
    over time, until the point where its claims were
    repeated so many times they would almost appear
    to be true. Yet there was a fundamental flaw in
    Keys’ chart: while he included six countries,
    there were sixteen that he didn’t include, for
    which data was available at the time.

    In his masterpiece refutation of the
    anti-cholesterol dogma,
    <http://www.ravnskov.nu/cholesterol.htm>The
    Cholesterol
    Myths<http://www.ravnskov.nu/cholesterol.htm>,
    Dr. Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD, adds in the other
    data points. Once they are included, the
    relationship falls to dust. Countries with
    similar levels of available fat have widely
    varying rates of deaths due to CHD. For example,
    Mexico and Finland have about the same
    availability of dietary fat, yet Finland is only
    second to the U.S. for heart disease mortality,
    and Mexico, with about 30 times less CHD
    mortality, has the lowest rate of all 22 countries.

    While Keys was infatuated with the "Mediterranean
    Diet" and the lack of significant heart disease
    in Italy, it is surprising that he didn’t take
    pause at the findings of George Mann and other
    researchers who found the Masai, a Kenyan
    cattle-herding tribe, to be free of heart
    disease, despite a diet consisting almost
    entirely of meat, blood, and milk, whose parties
    sometimes consist of eating four to six pounds of
    meat per person. Yet to Keys it was "abundantly
    clear" that the mission of the Public Health
    Service could and should be expanded to cut the
    reins on America’s consumption of fat.

    One of the greatest threats to science that the
    State poses is its monopoly of credibility.
    Scientific principles are inherently
    anti-authoritarian. A hypothesis must be judged
    on its merits, not by the identity of its author.
    Yet the idea of a central, all-encompassing,
    "public" institution, representing some sort of
    mythical synthesis of all humanity, gives an
    authoritative stamp upon the scientific opinions of a State agency.

    In <http://www.ravnskov.nu/cholesterol.htm>The
    Cholesterol Myths, Dr. Ravnskov traces the entire
    history of the cholesterol hypothesis and refutes
    each of its claims. He shows how most of the
    "evidence" in favor of this hypothesis can be
    traced back to claims in reviews which cite other
    reviews or studies that do not lend any support
    to the claim. All too often, authors of studies
    will make claims in the abstract (summary) that
    their study does not support, simply to conform
    to the prevailing orthodoxy. Then, other
    researchers will cite the claims in the abstract,
    rather than the findings of the study itself.

    The State, of course, with its monopoly of
    credibility given to it and its associated
    Institutes, marks its stamp of approval on the
    cholesterol hypothesis like a drunken elephant
    stomps its feet, unaware of what it tramples
    upon. The most outrageous misrepresentation of a
    study that Dr. Ravnskov demonstrates must be that
    of the Framingham study, where this point is amply demonstrated.

    One of the most famous, largest, and often-cited
    studies in support of the cholesterol hypothesis
    is one that took place in Framingham in the
    1950s. One of the findings of the Framingham
    study was that when cholesterol decreased on its
    own, every 1 mg/dL decrease in cholesterol was
    met with an 11% increase in heart disease risk.
    Yet a joint statement of the American Heart
    Association and the National Heart, Lung and
    Blood Institute in their review, The Cholesterol
    Facts, wrote, "The results of the Framingham
    study indicate that a 1% reduction . . . of
    cholesterol [corresponds to a] 2% reduction in
    CHD risk." That’s right – they wrote the precise
    opposite of the relationship that was found!

    Yet the credibility of the National Institutes
    and organizations like the AHA, which is an
    outgrowth of the government-enforced AMA cartel,
    cannot be stopped. Countless journalists,
    doctors, and authors have doubtlessly referenced
    this authoritative review, while few would be
    willing to dig up the original publication at a university library.

    The Strong Arm of the Tax Dollar

    After World War II, the scope of government’s
    influence in science began to expand through the
    creation of another layer of bureaucracy known as
    the peer-review system. Yet the result brings to
    question how beneficial government funding of
    science really is. Dr. Gilbert Ling (PhD), in his
    critique of the
    <http://www.gilbertling.org/lp11.htm>peer-review
    system, points out that at the time large-scale
    peer-review began to develop, the dominant
    paradigm held that the progress of science was
    smooth and continuous, progressing in small
    increments, while later scholarship corrected
    this view, showing that scientific progress occurs in sporadic leaps.

    Some may object that leaving funding to the
    private sphere would leave out public health
    concerns as well as general academic knowledge,
    while private interests and technologies would be
    over-emphasized. Yet let us, for a moment,
    compare the field of computers with that of
    medicine and the dietary sciences. Computer
    technology has progressed at light speeds, such
    that its products become outdated or obsolete
    within a few years of going to market, as
    evidence by the rapid price deflation that this industry has experienced.

    On the other hand, with 52 years of the
    cholesterol hypothesis and countless billions of
    wasted research dollars, we have yet to be able
    to achieve what the penniless cattle-herders of
    Kenya can do merely with possession of a cow for
    food – achieve freedom from heart disease.

    Ling’s own theory of cell physiology, the
    association-induction hypothesis, which holds
    that the water in a cell exists in "polarized
    multi-layers" that behave like the water in
    Jello, was the basis for the invention of the
    MRI, a medical success. The opposing orthodoxy,
    which holds that cells are a sac of liquid water,
    has not demonstrated any such success. Yet Ling’s
    research has been continually persecuted and he
    has been deprived of funding and facilities for
    his unorthodox views. The massive amounts of
    money the government throws towards scientific
    research merely penalizes those with successful theories!

    Dr. Alexei Koudinov (MD, PhD) has been a tireless
    struggler against corruption in Alzheimer’s
    research. Dr. Koudinov, in his
    "<http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/399/399we1\
    25.htm    >Written
    Evidence to UK Parliamentary inquiry on
    Scientific Publications," has accused several
    major scientific journals of covering up the
    financial conflicts of interest of several major
    promoters of the "amyloid hypothesis" of
    Alzheimer’s disease, who are involved with pharmaceutical companies.

    The amyloid hypothesis holds that a protein
    fragment called "beta-amyloid" accumulates in the
    brain to form plaques that cause Alzheimer’s. The
    amyloid hypothesis ignores the fact that
    beta-amyloid is an essential brain protein, and
    its proponents frequently disregard scientific
    reasoning in order to support it. (For a thorough
    discussion of this, please see my article,
    "<http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/Cholesterol-Alzheimers.html>Myth:
    Cholesterol Causes Alzheimer’s Disease.") Yet
    several of those Dr. Koudinov accuses of
    corruption have served on the National Institutes
    of Health, the National Academy of Sciences, and
    the Food and Drug Administration.

    Thus, the result of "public" institutions like
    the State and its mongrel agencies reflects the
    reality that there is no such thing as "public,"
    a meaningless abstraction. These institutions are
    composed of their human members, who have their
    own ideological biases and financial self-interests.

    How does this affect researchers in the field?
    One junior researcher wrote to Dr. Koudinov:

    "I agree whole-heartedly with your letter to
    Science concerning Alzheimer's disease and the
    amyloid beta protein. It is amazing how this
    field has been led down the "amyloid hypothesis"
    trail to the exclusion of other viable
    hypotheses. If you don't go along with the
    amyloid dogma, you have difficulty publishing and
    extreme difficulty being funded. The
    anti-intellectual, anti-science mentality
    displayed by many in this field has slowed
    progress to a crawl. This is a shame."

    When researchers feel a pressure to conform to a
    favored hypothesis, they will pursue only certain
    avenues and ideas, and will frequently sugar up
    their abstracts, introductions, and conclusions
    to fit the standard orthodoxy, even when the
    finding is precisely opposite to that orthodoxy.
    As Dr. Ravnskov has shown in
    <http://www.ravnskov.nu/cholesterol.htm>The
    Cholesterol Myths, this phenomenon has been the
    primary force driving the bankrupt cholesterol hypothesis of heart disease.

    The increased amount of money that is available
    due to government intervention is actually an
    illusion. The monopoly on credibility and
    monetary resources that the State possesses is
    like a canal that funnels these huge amounts of
    tax dollars into the toilet of unviable
    hypotheses, upheld by human ideological
    stubbornness and private interests, leading into
    a common septic tank where it shares lodging with
    countless billions of tax dollars funneled in from other government pursuits.

    State Intervention: The Results

    The results of the last half-century’s public
    health recommendations have been dismal. Honest
    farming industries have been hurt, our diets have
    been turned from rich and enjoyable cuisines to
    bland and tasteless fake food, and we have become
    guilty when we eat the things we like.

    The demonization of the egg yolk for its rich
    cholesterol content has caused many people to
    abandon eggs as a highly nutritious and healthful
    staple, and others to discard the yolk in favor
    of consuming the white. If you don’t know what an
    egg white omelet tastes like, consider yourself blissfully ignorant.

    As I demonstrate in my article,
    <http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/Egg_Yolk.html>The
    Incredible, Edible Egg Yolk, the absurdity of
    discarding egg yolks from a health perspective is
    shown by the fact that the yolk contains nearly
    all the nutrition in an egg. Egg whites serve
    almost no nutritional purpose, contrary to their
    companion super-food, the yolk. And one must
    consider the health consequences of being
    chronically deprived of tasteful food.

    Dr. Ravnskov describes the beginnings of the
    anti-cholesterol campaign in Sweden, which
    occurred much more recently than in the U.S. When
    those with high cholesterol levels were notified
    that they were supposedly at risk for a heart
    attack, many patients reported shock and fright.
    One reacted as if she was "almost paralyzed." He
    cites a Gallup poll showing that 56% of Americans
    worry about fat and cholesterol, 45% think that
    the food they like is not good for them, and 36%
    feel guilty when they eat food they like.

    The fruits of the State’s war on cholesterol have
    not been the abolition of heart disease, but the
    sowing of seeds of self-doubt and guilt. What
    better way to subdue a population, than to have
    its members constantly feeling like they cannot
    live up to the noble standards of their Government?

    A War on Cholesterol Is a War on the People

    Why is the war on cholesterol of such benefit to
    the government, despite being bankrupt as a
    scientific theory? The State relies on a
    submissive population – one in which the
    individuals do not think for themselves, and preferably do not think at all.

    It is no surprise then, that a molecule that
    plays such a central role in the brain would
    become the primary target of government. The
    brain makes up only 2% of the body’s weight, yet
    it consists of a full 25% of the body’s
    cholesterol! The
    <http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/Memory-And-Cholesterol.html>importance
    of cholesterol to mental function is enormous.
    Cholesterol was discovered in 2001 to be the
    limiting factor in the formation of synapses,
    which are the connections between neurons, or
    nerve cells. A more recent study found that
    extracting some of the cholesterol from the cell
    membrane of a neuron causes a loss of functioning
    of signaling proteins that tell the neurons what
    direction to grow in, so they can make the proper
    type of connections. And, Dr. Iwo J. Bohr has
    hypothesized that
    <http://www.lipidworld.com/content/4/1/13>a
    contributing factor to Alzheimer’s disease is a
    deficiency of cholesterol in the membranes of brain cells.

    Big Business Bed Buddies – Agricultural Subsidies

    It doesn’t stop here. Big Government’s notorious
    love affair with Big Business has intimate ties
    to the cholesterol hypothesis. Big Government
    prefers Big Business over small businesses
    because larger businesses are fewer in number.
    How can a population largely consisting of
    independent self-managers be harnessed into
    sufficient submissiveness to bow down to the
    State? Conversely, a small number of large
    businesses can enter into co-management of the
    society, as government enforces their cartels and
    monopolies, and transfers wealth into their hands.

    The grain and soy industries are much more
    conglomerated than the beef industry. More
    importantly, animal products have a long history
    of providing independent sustenance to even poor
    people. In early 19th century rural New England,
    for example, even the poorer people tended to own
    a small piece of land with one or two cows that
    provided meat and milk products. A small mixed
    farm can provide a full dietary range at a
    smaller size than could a grain-based farm. A
    garden, pasture, and animals can co-exist
    closely, whereas grains would be ridiculously
    inefficient to harvest unless they were planted
    as a large, consolidated crop. Additionally,
    hunting animals allows for the independent procurement of food.

    Public health recommendations capable of making a
    monolithic shift in the food supply toward wheat,
    corn, and soybeans result in an overall decrease
    in the independence of the population.

    Additionally, the State-created cartel of subsidy
    receivers is heavily biased in favor of grain
    products. According
    to<http://www.ewg.org:16080/farm/region.php?fips=00000&progcode=total>
    this breakdown, between 1995 and 2003, $8.5
    billion in U.S. subsidies went to growers of
    plant-based food crops, while only $5.5 million
    went to animal products, which means that over
    99% of agricultural food subsidies go to plant
    products. The largest 10% of subsidized farms
    received 72% of subsidies, but a full 60% were
    not subsidized at all. As Brian Riedl
    <http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/WM96.cfm>points
    out, the $360,000 per year cap on farm subsidies
    is easy for large farms to pull loopholes
    through: Tyler Farms of Arkansas collected almost
    $32 million in farm subsidies between 1996 and
    2001 by dividing its farm into 66 individual "corporations."

    Not only has the cholesterol hypothesis helped
    consolidate the government’s ties to the
    agricultural industry through a shift in the diet
    away from animal foods and towards plant foods,
    but doubtlessly the massive level of soy
    subsidies – soy is the fifth most subsidized crop
    – has contributed to a surplus to be disposed of,
    whose result has been the manufacturing of a
    massive myth that this odd-tasting, highly estrogenic bean is a "health food."

    Big Business Bed Buddies – The Pharmaceutical Companies

    Now that the newest class of cholesterol-lowering
    drugs, statins, has become a bonanza of profits
    for Big Pharma, new cholesterol guidelines are
    promoted, and new junk theories about
    cholesterol’s relationship to various diseases
    are being manufactured, to maximize the
    profit-potential of these drugs by classifying
    nearly every member of society as a candidate for drug therapy.

    Not far behind are the ugly claws of the State
    ready to abuse the population to enhance these
    profiteers. According to
    <http://www.ag.arizona.edu/AZWATER/awr/septoct04/news.html>this article:

    "Fluoride in drinking water is a topic to raise
    the hackles of those doubting its dental benefits
    and resenting its addition to the public water
    supply. Meanwhile the water additive plot
    thickens as doctors in England debate whether
    drinking water might be used to administer
    cholesterol-lowering drugs to the public in an
    effort to reduce incidents of cardiovascular
    disease, the biggest cause of death in the United Kingdom."

    If your fluoridated and chlorinated municipal
    water supply wasn’t toxic enough, you may just be
    a victim of theft in the coming future: the
    unwilling robbery of cholesterol from your cells,
    and an extra hit in the wallet to finance the
    addition of expensive drugs to your water. Thanks
    to private enterprise, bottled water will (hopefully) still be available.

    It is telling that the doctor cited in this
    article as advocating water-treatment with
    statins was named "Dr. John Reckless."

    The most preposterous new cholesterol theory
    blames Alzheimer’s disease on high brain
    cholesterol. In my article,
    <http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/Cholesterol-Alzheimers.html>Myth:
    Cholesterol Causes Alzheimer’s Disease, I quote a
    researcher who was ecstatic that his group was
    able to reduce normal levels of brain cholesterol
    in Alzheimer’s patients by over 20%! The theory,
    of course, has no basis in science whatsoever. As
    the above article discusses, cholesterol appears
    to be protective against Alzheimer’s, and the
    only diet that, based on a sound scientific
    foundation, shows promise to Alzheimer’s
    treatment is the super-high-fat ketogenic diet,
    which was first used to successfully treat
    epilepsy at the famed Mayo clinic in the 1920s.

    In
    <http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/Cause-Of-Alzheimers.html>Part
    II of this article, I demonstrate how a
    deficiency of DHA, a nutrient found exclusively
    in animal products (with the exception of some
    forms of algae), especially cholesterol-rich egg
    yolks (from chickens raised on pasture), has been
    demonstrated to play a causal role in
    Alzheimer’s, as well as insulin resistance, which
    could be brought on by a diet excessively high in
    carbohydrates – derived from plant foods.

    One more (fake) reason for the government to take
    your money and put statins in your water to return the favor.

    And what a grand coincidence that a massive
    increase in the demand for pharmaceuticals means
    a massive increase in the demand for Federal prescription drug benefits.

    But We Can’t Just Do Nothing!

    Finally, the State profits from the cholesterol
    hypothesis simply because it offers the State one
    more massive campaign in which it can engage. The
    State, were it to stand idly by and do nothing,
    would deteriorate. If the State wasn’t active,
    for what purpose would it exist? And if there is
    nothing to fix, as a mere matter of
    self-sustenance, it must create a problem to
    solve. The State’s philosophy is "If it ain’t broke – break it!"

    The quantity of money that has been poured into
    researching the cholesterol hypothesis and public
    health campaigns to hook the public on an
    unsatisfying, bland, and tasteless diet piles the
    drunken elephant that thieves that money over its
    head. The State derives its sustenance from
    taxing and spending, like it is the one form of
    human relationship who was born with a terminal
    birth defect, requiring an insatiable appetite to
    fuel its exponential growth – and eventual death through implosion.

    This is especially true in a democracy, where the
    frequency with which a political leader must
    prove her- or himself, through restless
    legislative activity, is increased to a level
    that induces continuous expansion. You do not get
    elected in a democracy by making promises to ride
    the waves and wait for a problem to arise.

    Cholesterol Is Your Best Weapon Against the State

    The State makes war on cholesterol because it is
    your best defense against that State:
    Cholesterol empowers independent thought by
    strengthening mental capabilities Relieving
    oneself of the notion that cholesterol causes
    heart disease increases financial independence
    from pharmaceutical companies and the State,
    through whom the pharmaceutical companies receive
    their wealth redistribution Cholesterol-rich
    animal foods are more conducive to a more
    numerous farming population, where small and
    community-centered can still mean successful
    Eating a fulfilling, rich, and tasteful diet
    without dropping down in guilt before the State
    encourages ones emotional independence

    In truth, to be anti-cholesterol is to be
    pro-State; to be anti-State – that, dear reader, is to be pro-cholesterol.

    August 13, 2005

    Chris Masterjohn
    [<mailto:ChrisMasterjohn@...>send him mail]
    is the editor of
    <http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/>Cholesterol-and-Health.com,
    a website devoted to extolling the benefits of cholesterol.
     
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    RE: FROM: "R. J. Tavel, J.D." <rj3@...>
     
    Why the State Hates Cholesterol by Chris Masterjohn
    Old soldier Ike Eisenhower warned us all, on his
    way out of the office of president:
    see, http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/ike.htm ...

    In the councils of government, we must guard
    against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
    whether sought or unsought, by the
    military-industrial complex. The potential for
    the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

    We must never let the weight of this combination
    endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
    We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert
    and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper
    meshing of the huge industrial and military
    machinery of defense with our peaceful methods
    and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

    Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping
    changes in our industrial-military posture, has
    been the technological revolution during recent decades.

    In this revolution, research has become central,
    it also becomes more formalized, complex, and
    costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted
    for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.

    Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his
    shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of
    scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In
    the same fashion, the free university,
    historically the fountainhead of free ideas and
    scientific discovery, has experienced a
    revolution in the conduct of research. Partly
    because of the huge costs involved, a government
    contract becomes virtually a substitute for
    intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard
    there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

    The prospect of domination of the nation's
    scholars by Federal employment, project
    allocations, and the power of money is ever
    present ­ and is gravely to be regarded.

    Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery
    in respect, as we should, we must also be alert
    to the equal and opposite danger that public
    policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. ...

    sRJ

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    #2983 From: Lee & Cindy <leeandcindy@...>
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    www.NewsWithViews.com
    June 6, 2006
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    Signs of an Emerging Police State
    As with the "war on drugs," President Bush's "war on terror" is the cornerstone doctrine which allows the executive branch of the federal government to run roughshod over the Constitution and individual liberty....
    http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin305.htm
    by Pastor Chuck Baldwin
     
     
    As with the "war on drugs," President Bush's "war on terror" is the cornerstone doctrine which allows the executive branch of the federal government to run roughshod over the Constitution and individual liberty.
     
     
     
     

    SIGNS OF AN EMERGING POLICE STATE

     

     

    By Pastor Chuck Baldwin

    June 6, 2006

    NewsWithViews.com

    I was inspired (but not impressed with some of the language used) by a recent article written by Allan Uthman. While Mr. Uthman and I doubtless come from very different perspectives, I would like to borrow some of his thoughts while adding my own to what both of us agree is an impending reality for the United States: an emerging police state. Under George W. Bush, America is fast following the footsteps of past totalitarian regimes. The signs are ubiquitous and unmistakable! Consider:

    1. The War On Terror

    As with the "war on drugs," President Bush's "war on terror" is the cornerstone doctrine which allows the executive branch of the federal government to run roughshod over the Constitution and individual liberty. Whenever anyone objects to the illegality or immorality of ever-meddling, ever-growing, ever-menacing federal encroachments upon our freedoms, Bush and his apologists have a ready-made response: "We are fighting a war on terrorism." Actually, what Mr. Bush is doing is fighting a war against the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Declaration of Independence!

    2. The USA Patriot Act

    The grossly misnamed USA Patriot Act is the federal law which encapsulates the power-mad machinations of the Bush administration. For all intents and purposes, it gives to the executive branch of government dictatorial powers. The Patriot Act egregiously usurps the Constitution and Bill of Rights and has opened the legal floodgates for Orwell's Big Brother.

    I have copious information regarding the dangers of the Patriot Act on the following pages of my web site.

    *Listen to my radio interview with former congressman, Bob Barr regarding the Patriot Act.

    *Read my attorney-son's legal thesis about the Patriot Act at: [Read]

    *For an in-depth look at various articles and research regarding the Patriot Act, go to: [Read]

    3. The Construction Of Detention Camps Within The U.S.

    Several news sources (for one, see Read) have reported on the fact that the Army Corps of Engineers has authorized some $400 million via the Bush administration's most-favored corporation, Halliburton, to construct detention centers in the United States. "For what purpose?" you ask. All the public has been told is that these detention centers are for "new programs." One doesn't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that the only reason any government constructs detention centers is for the purpose of incarcerating large numbers of political dissenters and other "undesirables."

    4. Warrantless Wiretapping

    I have written previously on this subject. However, it still amazes me how so many professing Christians and conservatives can continue to ignore this ominous threat to our liberty! see [Read] and [Read]

    5. Bush's Perpetual Use Of "Signing Statements"

    Mr. Uthman is right to call our attention to President Bush's propensity to use "signing statements" to nullify laws he doesn't like. In fact, G.W. Bush has issued more than 750 such statements, which is MORE THAN TWICE AS MANY AS ALL PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS COMBINED! [Read]

    For example, Bush's signing statement waives the law against torture. Another statement orders researchers to withhold any information from Congress that he determines could "impair foreign relations, national security, or the workings of the executive branch." Another one authorizes the president to tell the military it can use illegally gathered intelligence, including information obtained about Americans. The list goes on and on. (See Read)

     

    Only the lack of space in this column constrains me from adding even more evidence that the Bush administration is very quickly turning our constitutional republic into a gargantuan police state! Obviously, Congress could do much to curtail this power-hungry president, but with the GOP in charge of the entire federal government, it has demonstrated absolutely no desire to do so.

     

    Then again, the American people could (and should) put such pressure upon their congressmen and senators that they would be compelled to act. But, alas, it appears obvious that the average American citizen is too busy watching American Idol to even notice that his once beloved nation is being stolen out from under him.

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    #2982 From: Lee & Cindy <leeandcindy@...>
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    RAW MILK or RAW CREAM, RAW BUTTER, RAW CHEESE and perhaps COCONUT MILK for lipase.
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    Smart Eating
    There are some basic guidelines for eating that assist in the healing process.
    >> Drink a lot of water. How much? Always have it around and drink, drink, drink. (try for twice your normal quantity.)
    >> Absolutely eliminate all soda pop. This is a MUST DO! See Soda, the pH Slasher.
    >> Significantly reduce the quantity of meat you consume. All meat produces phosphoric acid when digested, which hinders the alkalization of your body.
    >> Minimize your consumption of sugar and sweets. (I'd personally say no white refined sugar and no table salt, if and when possible. Use good sweeteners and use natural salt, the kind that is light gray with mineral 'flecks' still intact! --"Cheyenne Cin")
    >> Eat a lot of vegetables. Choose from the calcium rich, alkalizing varieties whenever possible
    >> As much as possible, eat raw vegetables, not cooked. The nutrient content is significantly higher.
    >> No, you don't have to eliminate coffee & tea. Just easy on the sugar.  Try Kombucha (from my friend CajunEarnie) for a seriously healthy drink.
    The bottom line for eating: Make intentional healthy choices as you select your food. If you are barely eating, then by all means, eat what ever tastes good and encourages your appetite. Drink WATER! If you have a normal appetite, then do control your diet within reason.
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    Flushing the Gallbladder/Cleansing the Liver

     

    What is the Gallbladder? What is its purpose?

    The Gallbladder is a sack that is supposed to hold a liquid called bile.  Bile is actually bile salts.  Bile Salts are made by the liver to aid in the digestion of fats and held in the gallbladder until needed for digestion.  When you eat food that contains fat, the gallbladder contracts, sending the bile salts into the small intestine.  There they help to emulsify the fats.  This means they work like a soap to draw the fats (non-polar molecules) into the aqueous (water/polar) solutions of the small intestine.

    You know how water and oil do not mix?  They want to separate as in Italian dressing.  Water is made of polar molecules and fats are non-polar.  Bile salts act like dishwashing liquid or soaps.  These types of substances are called emulsifiers.  They have one polar end and one non-polar end.  One end of the molecule "dissolves" in the water and one end of the molecule "dissolves" in the oil.  So the emulsifier will causes the oil and water mixture to become one solution and not separate.

    Once the bile emulsifies the fats, enzymes like lipase (which are polar/water based) are able to break the triglycerides down (digest them).  The digested fats are then either used for energy or go into fat storage.

    What are Gallstones?

    Gallstones are stones that can be found in the Gallbladder. 

    Here is what we know for sure:  Gallstones are chiefly composed of cholesterol, calcium salts, and bile pigments.  They also contain some proteins.  They are also called biliary calculi and biliary stones.

    If I have lots of Gallstones, where is the pain?

    First of all, people may have gallstones and not feel any pain.  They just do not have enough stones to cause them problems.  However, when the number of stones in your gallbladder becomes excessive, you will experience pain.  The main pain is usually a dull ache under the shoulder blade, usually the right shoulder blade.  Sometimes the pain runs through the body from the front to the back of the chest.  Sometimes it radiates around the right side.  By the time you are experiencing pain you probably have thousands of stones.  If you do not have a lot of stones and you are experiencing pain then the gallbladder is becoming diseased.  Either way, you need to flush it.  Cleansing out the stones and toxins will allow it to recover and you will become pain free.

    How are Gallstones formed?

    Some people feel the stones actually form in the Gallbladder from the liquids stored there.  The belief here is that, just like in chemistry lab, when you add different substances into a "test tube" or in this case the gall bladder, chemical bonding takes place, creating a precipitate.  This is plausible, and could explain why, once people have their gall bladders out they no longer have a problem with stones.  People who believe this way, usually think the pain from the stones is caused by these stones getting stuck in the bile duct.  They can then say there are no stones because there is never any pain again.  When the gallbladder is removed the duct that goes from the liver to the gallbladder is linked up with the bile duct which goes from the gallbladder to the small intestine.  So, they believe, since this "tube" never has any more "stuck" stones and therefore no more pain, there must be no more stones. 

    Interestingly, plaque that forms in the arteries (causing atherosclerosis), which leads to heart disease/heart attacks, is also made up of cholesterol, calcium salts along with other things normally found in the blood stream.  In the arteries my personal belief is that the cholesterol is our friend.  Upon examination of the artery that contains plaque there is micro fractures (cuts) on the lining of the artery and the plaque that forms I believe is an "arterial scab".  It contains cholesterol, calcium, cells similar to those that line the wall of the artery, some proteins, etc.  This material is very similar to a scab.  My personal feeling is that there is inflammation and damage being done to the arterial wall and friendly cholesterol along with other components makes a scab to protect the damaged arterial wall.  If this did not happen, you would have more and more damage and the artery would burst under the pressure of the pumped blood.  This scab is actually protecting your life, or at least prolonging it.

    This is why you can "dissolve" the plaque and reverse heart disease with natural methods.  And this is why the disease continues when surgical procedures are the only course a person takes.  Both insulin and homocystene contribute to heart disease.  Both of these substances increase inflammation in the body.  They are both a sign of poor nutrition, poor diet, and failing health.

    I can't help but believe that cholesterol is not a "bad guy" when it comes to gallstones either.  Blood cholesterol levels include such substances in the body as estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone, they include Vitamin D, adrenal hormones such as DHEA, cortical steroids, human growth hormone, T3 and T4 (hormones made by the thyroid gland), hormones that comes from the pineal, thymus, hypothyroid, and other glands.  These biochemicals are vital for life.  The liver makes most of the cholesterol found in our bodies.  If we eat cholesterol only about 50% of it is actually digested and absorbed into our bodies.  This just means that our liver will make less.  There has been a lot of bad press concerning cholesterol.  I refuse to believe that because it is present, it is the bad guy.

    The cholesterol lowering drugs actually inhibit the liver from doing its job.  Have you looked at the warnings for the statin drugs?  Most of them concern the liver.  These drugs are very hard on the liver.  Cholesterol is your friend.  Calcium is the most important mineral in your body.  Just because gallstones are made up of cholesterol, calcium, and protein, does not mean they are necessarily bad or that you should eliminate food that contains them from your diet.

    Did you know you can dissolve Gallstones too? 

    I have seen people do it with apple juice fasting and with herbs (such as Queen of the Meadow Root, Hydrangea Root and Marshmallow Root) that dissolve stones like kidney stones, gall stones and crystals in the joints that cause arthritis and gout, etc.  This takes time, but it does work.

    So what is the cause of Gallstones?

    Some people do not ever develop gallstones.  Others develop thousands of stones.  This applies to  husbands and wives who live side by side for 30 years eating the exact same food!!  That has lead some medical professionals to believe there must be a hereditary link.  The problem is that there is a hit and miss and if you go back far enough (and you do not have to go too far) there will be no history of gallstones.  In addition, there are strong links between heart disease, type II diabetes, gingivitis and gallstones.  You are probably asking, "How can these all be linked together?"  Okay, 80% of diabetics die from a heart attack.  Gingivitis is very, very high among people who have heart disease, diabetes and cancer.  People in this category tend to gain their weight in the stomach and are labeled overweight.  This group of people also tends to have their gallbladders out approximately 10 years before the have a heart attack.

    Note: You are now reading my ideas only.  I am not a doctor, just a friend who researches and meditates on things.  I am throwing out my ideas for you to think about.  Your health is yours, your body is yours.  You need to research everything and make your own decisions as to what you think the best things are for you to do.  Please check out everything I say.  Make your own decisions.

    When I worked in a hospital in Dallas, I use to do the cross matching of blood for open heart surgeries.  They did 6 surgeries each day. Over  the days and weeks I became distressed by the fact that 98% of the people having open heart surgery were people with A+ blood types.  I would check out my antisera (typing serum) and run controls every night, and sometimes recheck my patients because the results baffled me.  On the nights I was not there someone else would cross-match those units of blood for the surgeries.  I looked back at their work.  It correlated with mine.  You see about 38% of the population is O+ and about 34% is A+ (Only 9% is B+).  Therefore,  I should have had about half A+ and half O+ right?  But I didn't.  I worked there for a year and only had a handful of O blood types who underwent open heart surgery and possibly 2 B blood types.  What does this mean?  Well it means there is something to the Blood Type Diet and the Eat Right for Your Type books.  I don't agree with everything in there, but I do know there is some truth to it.

    My father was classic for the standard person fitting this "mold".  He came from a family that had problems with diabetes, though he never was diagnosed with it.  I believe in retrospect that he definitely had insulin resistance, and therefore high insulin levels, but he maintained a healthy pancreas.  My father had severe gallbladder problems when he was in his 30's and had his gallbladder surgically removed.  In those days when they operated on you to remove the gallbladder the incision went from the front all the way around the body to the back.  Recovery took weeks.  Dressings had to be changed daily and the surgical recovery was almost worse than the gallbladder attacks.  In his late 40's (10 years later) he was surprised at how little energy he had.  He often declared that old age was creeping up on him.  Dad had a "tummy" on him though he was not grossly overweight.  Though incredibly active in his youth, he had a desk job as an mechanical engineer to provide for his family.  Physical activity amounted to playing with his children, mowing the yard and taking walks.  Having been married to my mother (who is an O+ blood type) for 25 years and eating the same food as she did, my mother's energy never seemed to wane, yet his did.  He would mow the front yard one day and several days later he would mow the back yard.  He would have to take breaks while mowing because it would be so exhausting.  In hind sight I can also tell you he had those creases in his ear lobes.  Every single person I have met who has had a heart attack has had those creases.

    At 51 years of age my father was playing with my first born son and experienced pain in his right arm.  He left him on the couch and went to the bathroom.  He came back, still experiencing pain and then collapsed.  I was there and did CPR on him until the ambulance arrived.  Everything was done for him that could possibly be done, but his heart never restarted and he was gone.  My mother, who is an O blood type, still continues to eat the same foods and seems to have none of the same symptoms.  It has been 18 years since dad passed away and she is still going strong.

    All the signs were there for my father, but I just did not see them.

    Today I am approaching the age my father died at.  A few years ago I did a gall bladder cleanse.  I passed thousands of stones.  I tend to gain my weight in the exact same spot - the tummy.  I, also am A+, just like him.  So I have a keen interest in knowing what to do and how to avoid getting gallstones.

    After my first set of cleansings about 1 year later I experienced gall bladder pain again.  So I did another series of cleansings.  I realized then that if I did not change things, I would be headed for a heart attack, and would have to continually purge stones.  The following is what I have done.  It has been several years and the gallstone pain has not come back.  I do not know that I have the complete answer, but I believe I have come up with at least a partial answer.

    1. I decided that one of the reasons I had developed gallstones was because my gallbladder had not be emptying fully.  For several years prior to the pain I had been on a low fat/vegetarian diet.  I now believe that was one of my problems.  Any organ that is not used can become diseased.  If you are not a vegetarian, you may still be forming stones, but you would probably have a worse problem if you eliminated fats from your diet.
       
    2. I believe there are healthy fats and unhealthy fats.  Healthy fats are Coconut oil, Palm oil, Butter and Olive oil.  Unhealthy fats are soybean oil, canola oil, and most of the seed oils.  These seed oils, especially when heated, oxidize.  Oxidized fats have to be one of the major "foundations" to the formation of gall stones.  "Getting an oil change" as Dr. Bruce Fife says, is imperative.  Coconut oil is the most important of all these oils, second would be butter and natural palm oil.  Coconut oil will help to eliminate pathogens and toxins from the body.
       
    3. Many people, especially type A people, have low digestive enzymes.  They are not digesting their food properly.  Somehow, it seems eating probiotic foods is key for these people.  Make your own cultured vegetables, make cultured milk products, or whatever, but get good flora into your gut.  The healing of your gut, the cleansing of parasites and pathogens, and the establishment of good flora is vitally important.
       
    4. Eat a predominately alkaline diet. This means lots of fruits and vegetables, in addition to raw milk, eggs, and healthy meats and whole grains.  These latter foods should make up only about 20% of your diet.  People who have medical conditions such as  heart disease, diabetes, gallstones, kidney stones, cancer, strokes, etc., all have lower urine and salivary pH's.  The body does not run as efficiently, minerals are forced to leach out of the bones and health fails.

    These are the things I have done.  Good fats, good flora and alkaline foods; and the gall stones have not come back.

    How do I cleanse Gallstones from my body?

    Download a printable version of the Gallbladder Cleanse in a "pdf" format, which will open with Adobe Reader.

    Doing a liver flush will flush out toxins and stones from your liver and gall bladder.  Prior to doing the Liver Flush you cannot eat any fat for 24 hours.  So no Coconut Oil no dips or dressing, no meat, nothing with fat in it.

    You may eat fruit and vegetables with no dips or sauces, but I would recommend not eating anything after 2:00 PM.

    At 6:00 PM: Add 1 Tablespoon of Epsom salt to an 8 oz. glass of water and drink.  The colder the water the easier it is to drink.  Some people say it is easier to drink it through a straw.  To me it tastes very metallic.  Drink it fast and get it over with!

    8:00 PM: Repeat the Epsom salt and water drink listed above (see the directions at 6:00 PM).

    Now do all your "bedroom chores" such as brushing your teeth, going to the bathroom, showering or anything you want to do prior to retiring.

    10:00 PM: Add 1/2 cup of freshly squeezed lemon juice to 1/2 cup of extra virgin olive oil.  Shake thoroughly.  Drink and immediately go to bed.  Lay on your right side for a while with your knees tucked if you can (fetal position).  Stay in bed as long as possible.  Sleeping all night is ideal.  Of course you will not always stay on your right side.  That is fine.

    In the morning: Repeat the Epsom salt and water drink listed at 6:00 PM.

    You can also repeat the entire process for one more day.

    You will have diarrhea sometime during the day after your flush.  Do not plan on going anywhere.  If you look in the stool you may notice the stones.  Some people do not notice them until afternoon and for others it is the next day.  Still others notice them in the morning just after they wake up.  If you place a colander in your toilet prior to your bowel movement, you can catch the stones and actually see what has been flushed out of your system.

    Gallstones in a colander

    There seems to be a correlation between how full your gall bladder is and how long it takes to see the stones.  My first time I did not see any stones until 4:00 PM that second day.  But the next flush I did I see them right away.  If your gallbladder is full you may only pass a few stones the first time you do this.  A second flush may bring out hundreds and a third flush could bring out over a thousand.

    The stones can be coated with fecal material so you may not notice them.  They can be like small crescent moons, they can be large, blue green and "fuzzy", they can be like little pebbles and anywhere from blue-green to tan in color.  I believe how "freshly made" the stones are, and how full your gall bladder is determines what you see.

    A man who had a full gallbladder was told by alternative doctors in the U.S. and Greece that it was too dangerous for him to consider a liver flush.  Ultrasounds showed his gallbladder to be packed with stones.  These experts all told him his gallbladder was too full to even consider a flush.  For 20-30 years he lived with this full gallbladder and the pain.  He did not want to lose his gall bladder.  Finally he decided to go against their advice and do a cleanse anyway. 

    The first time he did the flush, he passed 4 stones.  They were large greenish-blue stones and they did not come out until the second day.  The next week he flushed out about 250 stones.  They came over a two day period following the flush.  These stones were mostly  crescent-shaped and bluish green, though some were tan.  The next week he passed another 450 stones.  Many of these were tan, although there were still some greenish-blue and some large "fuzzy" ones.  As of this writing he is still doing a flush every week.  All his gallbladder pain is gone, his skin looks better, his energy level is up, and he is excited about his results.  This man has the worst case of gallstones I have ever heard about, yet he is doing it!  Flushing stones is painless, relatively easy and a very good thing to do.

    What happens during a cleanse?

    Eating no oils or fats for 24 hours prior to the cleanse gives the gallbladder a chance to fill up with bile salts and be "bursting at the seems" if that were possible.

    The reason you do not eat after 2:00 PM is so there is no food in the digestive tract that still needs to be digested and absorbed.  Having a full stomach when you do the cleanse can cause nausea.  If the food has moved into the large intestine  and has been completely digested and assimilated you will have no problems at all.

    When you drink the Epsom Salt and water, it is high in magnesium sulfate.  The effect on the body is to dilate smooth muscle.  This means it will dilate the bile duct, making it impossible for the stones to get stuck.  In all the many years that I have done flushes and in all the many people I have known who do flushes, no one has every had a problem with a stone getting stuck, as long as they use the Epsom Salt.  Epsom Salt will also dilate the smooth muscles lining the digestive tract.  This will cause a purging of all the things in the digestive tract.  This helps to quickly eliminate the contents of the gallbladder when they are dumped.  The Epsom Salt is the cause of the diarrhea.  It will only last for a portion of the day.  I consider the diarrhea to be a good thing as there will be toxins, stones and who knows what emptying into the digestive tract.  The sooner these are out of the body, the better.

    When you take the oil and lemon juice mixture, it stimulates the emptying of the full gallbladder.  It will strongly contract as a reaction to all that oil, and because the bile duct is dilated, the stones and most of the contents of the gallbladder will empty into the small intestine.  The lemon juice is alkalinizing and helps to cleanse and neutralize toxins that will be purged from the gallbladder.

    Lying on your right side puts a little more pressure on the gallbladder so you get a little stronger emptying of the contents.  Lying down is especially important to get a good emptying.

    Here is a testimonial from the man I mentioned earlier:

    Dear Annette,

    Thank you so much for helping me have the confidence to attempt the "liver-gallbladder" flush.  I have suffered for approximately 25 to 30 years with many gastric problems.  I have suffered with bloating, gas, and various degrees of abdominal pains.

    I was advised by several health professionals I was at great risk doing any "flush" to empty my gallbladder of gallstones and I should sign on for laparoscopic surgery as soon as possible.  There was concern a gallstone would get lodged and obstruct causing infection and possible gangrene.  If infection or gangrene became an issue, I would have to have major surgery, laparoscopic surgery would cease to be an option.  The result from hesitating would be  possible negative effect to my pancreas.  This would ultimately create  diabetes.

    After much thought, I became determined to find alternative solutions.  I explored many possibilities from acupuncture to Ayurvedic treatments in different parts of the world, with no real success. I did have relief of pain from Ur-Moor treatment in Germany, but the stones remained.

    Today, after three "flushes" I am feeling much better, since approximately 1,000 stones have passed of various sizes, shapes, and colors from blue-green, turquoise, to tan.  I have noticed a tightening of my skin where my face appeared to sagging and tired.  My skin seems to have become more moist.  Incidentally I am planning more "flushes" to rid my liver & gallbladder completely of gallstones.

    The most important change is the subsiding of the gas and pain completely, plus the rise in my energy level.  It is certainly obvious one needs to hang on to their gallbladder, because there is a correlation between good health and the gallbladder.  Many medical professionals claim the gallbladder is perhaps a leftover appendage from prehistoric times and is no longer necessary.  Perhaps medical science could revisit their gallbladder research, and reevaluate the value of gallbladders?

    I am living proof of the value of maintaining ones gallbladder and doing the "liver flush" in lieu of surgery.

    Thank you,

    Jacob

     

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    More About Raw Milk

    by Sally Fallon

    We have been taught that pasteurization is a good thing, a method of protecting ourselves against infectious diseases, but closer examination reveals that its merits have been highly exaggerated. The modern milking machine and stainless steel tank, along with efficient packaging and distribution, make pasteurization totally unnecessary for the purposes of sanitation. And pasteurization is no guarantee of cleanliness. All outbreaks of salmonella from contaminated milk in recent decades — and there have been many — have occurred in pasteurized milk. This includes a 1985 outbreak in Illinois that struck 14,316 people causing at least one death. The salmonella strain in that batch of pasteurized milk was found to be genetically resistant to both penicillin and tetracycline. Raw milk contains lactic-acid-producing bacteria that protect against pathogens. Pasteurization destroys these helpful organisms, leaving the finished product devoid of any protective mechanism should undesirable bacteria inadvertently contaminate the supply. Raw milk in time turns pleasantly sour while pasteurized milk, lacking beneficial bacteria, will putrefy.

    But that's not all that pasteurization does to milk. Heat alters milk's amino acids lysine and tyrosine, making the whole complex of proteins less available; it promotes rancidity of unsaturated fatty acids and destruction of vitamins. Vitamin C loss in pasteurization usually exceeds 50%; loss of other water-soluble vitamins can run as high as 80%; the Wulzen or anti-stiffness factor is totally destroyed. Pasteurization alters milk's mineral components such as calcium, chlorine, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium and sulphur as well as many trace minerals, making them less available. There is some evidence that pasteurization alters lactose, making it more readily absorbable. This, and the fact that pasteurized milk puts an unnecessary strain on the pancreas to produce digestive enzymes, may explain why milk consumption in civilized societies has been linked with diabetes.

    Last but not least, pasteurization destroys all the enzymes in milk— in fact, the test for successful pasteurization is absence of enzymes. These enzymes help the body assimilate all bodybuilding factors, including calcium. That is why those who drink pasteurized milk may suffer, nevertheless, from osteoporosis. Lipase in raw milk helps the body digest and utilize butterfat. After pasteurization, chemicals may be added to suppress odor and restore taste. Synthetic vitamin D2 or D3 is added — the former is toxic and has been linked to heart disease while the latter is difficult to absorb. The final indignity is homogenization which has also been linked to heart disease.

    Powdered skim milk is added to the most popular varieties of commercial milk— one-percent and two-percent milk. Commercial dehydration methods oxidize cholesterol in powdered milk, rendering it harmful to the arteries. High temperature drying also creates large quantities of nitrate compounds, which are potent carcinogens.

    Modern pasteurized milk, devoid of its enzyme content, puts an enormous strain on the body's digestive mechanism. In the elderly, and those with milk intolerance or inherited weaknesses of digestion, this milk passes through not fully digested and can clog the tiny villi of the small intestine, preventing the absorption of vital nutrients and promoting the uptake of toxic substances. The result is allergies, chronic fatigue and a host of degenerative diseases.

    All the healthy milk-drinking populations studied by Dr. Price subsisted on raw milk, raw cultured milk or raw cheese from normal animals eating fresh grass or fodder. It is very difficult to find this kind of milk in America. In California and Georgia, raw milk was formerly available in health food stores. Intense harassment by state sanitation authorities has all but driven raw milk from the market in these states, in spite of the fact that it is technically legal. Even when available, this milk suffers from the same drawbacks as most supermarket milk — it comes from freak-pituitary cows, often raised in crowded barns on inappropriate feed. In some states you can buy raw milk at the farm. If you can find a farmer who will sell you raw milk from old fashioned Jersey or Guernsey cows, allowed to feed on fresh pasturage, then by all means avail yourself of this source. Some stores now carry pasteurized, but not homogenized, milk from cows raised on natural feed. Such milk may be used to make cultured milk products such as kefir, yoghurt, cultured buttermilk and cultured cream. Traditionally cultured buttermilk, which is low in casein but high in lactic acid, is often well tolerated by those with milk allergies, and gives excellent results when used to soak whole grain flours for baking. If you cannot find good quality raw milk, you should limit your consumption of milk products to cultured milk, cultured buttermilk, whole milk yoghurt, butter, cream and raw cheeses. Raw cheese ia available in all states. Much imported cheese is raw — look for the words "milk" or "fresh milk" on the label — and of very high quality.

     

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    LIPASE and the FAT METABOLISM

    by Walter Last

    Lipase is the fat-splitting enzyme. Lipase has vast importance for our health, not just in regard to the commonly recognized diseases of the fat metabolism such as overweight and underweight, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, strokes and degenerative muscle diseases, but also for skin problems, autoimmune diseases, cancer, degenerative diseases of the brain and nervous system, and also for rejuvenation and regeneration in general. How can lipase be important with all of these problems and diseases?

    The answer lies in the overriding importance of fats and oils not only for our energy metabolism, but even more so for the structural integrity of our body. Fats, oils and related fat-soluble vitamins and other biochemicals, such as lecithin and cholesterol, are collectively called lipids. Most of our brain, nerves and cell membranes consist of lipids. Lipase is important to maintain optimal cell membrane permeability; this allows adequate nutrient supply into the cells and wastes to flow out.  P.G. Seeger, the most prolific researcher into the relationship between nutrition and cancer, has clearly shown that the first biochemical step towards cancer is a deterioration of the cell membrane.

    Fats are chemically called triglycerides, and consist of three fatty acid molecules combined with the alcohol glycerol. The biochemical function of lipase is to split fats into their components, specifically to remove two or all three fatty acids from their glycerol base in order to transport the individual components through the intestinal wall. There are several lipases for different functions, including phospholipases, which split phospholipids, such as lecithin. Phospholipids are important structural components of brain, nerves and cell walls. Lipase is not only needed to digest and absorb lipids from food, but also for the internal use of lipids.

    Fat Absorption

    Most of our digestive lipase is released by the pancreas. It is water-soluble and works at the interface between water and lipids. Therefore, lipase can only do its work properly if the lipids in our food are finely emulsified which is done by bile released from the liver and gallbladder. The sulfur-amino acid taurine is a major component of bile. A deficiency of lipase, taurine or lecithin can lead to a lack of bile and the formation of gallstones from cholesterol. This can then lead to malabsorption of lipids and liver problems. Lipase and lecithin added to meals help to avoid deficiencies of essential lipids after gallbladder removal, and are also beneficial with liver diseases. 

    Another common cause of lipid and mineral malabsorption is gluten sensitivity. Gluten causes irritation and inflammation of the intestinal wall and this erases the absorption villi. Instead of long and slender they now become blunt with a greatly reduced absorption surface. Fat malabsorption is called steatorrhea. It leads to fatty, bulky and smelly stools that may be noticed to frequently stick to the side of the toilet bowel. The stickier it is the higher is the fat content. In this case the fat is split into fatty acids but instead of being absorbed, these combine with mineral ions, especially calcium, to form insoluble soaps. This causes chronic deficiencies of minerals, essential fatty acids and fat-soluble vitamins.

    As we age, also pancreatic lipase production declines. This combination of declining lipase production, reduced bile flow, reduced intestinal absorption surface, and poor food choices leads to internal lipid deficiencies, especially in regard to fat-soluble vitamins, phospholipids and essential omega-3-fatty acids. This, in turn, causes or contributes to the common symptoms of aging and the development of degenerative diseases. Widespread mineral deficiency despite an adequate diet is commonly due to a lack of gastric acid, or fat malabsorption, or usually a combination of both. 

    Lipid Transport

    After passing the intestinal wall, the individual components are put together again to form fats and phospholipids. Now they are combined with protein carriers, called chylomicrons, and carried in the bloodstream to all the cell structures. Chylomicrons belong to the class of lipid carriers called lipoproteins. They are the largest and least dense lipoproteins because of their high fat content.

    Another group is the VLDL or Very Low Density Lipoproteins. They are made in the liver to carry fats synthesized in the liver from glucose and fructose to the body cells. As they lose some of their triglycerides they collect cholesterol from other lipoproteins and are then called LDL or Low Density Lipoproteins. They carry cholesterol to tissue cells and fat stores. HDL or High Density Lipoproteins are the smallest and densest lipoprotein, they carry cholesterol and phospholipids back from the cells to the liver for recycling or disposal.

    Internal Lipase

    In order to split and re-assemble lipids, the liver requires its own lipase, and this is called liver lipase. Some more lipase is in the blood, and may keep blood vessels free of fatty deposits. Furthermore, before fats can enter a cell, they must be disassembled for individual components to pass the cell wall.

    Therefore, there is another lipase attached to the outside of cells or on nearby capillaries. This one is called lipoprotein lipase. The amino acid carnitine carries long-chain fatty acids through the inner cell wall into the energy-producing units, while shorter fatty acids, like some of those in butter and coconut oil, do not need a carrier. Inside the cell fatty acids may be used for energy production or to form new walls in dividing cells, or replace structures in existing walls, or they may be re-assembled into triglycerides and stored in fat cells.

    As all of the individual molecules in our body are constantly being replaced, there is a high turnover in structural fatty acids. If we have not eaten for a while, lipase in fat cells disassembles triglycerides and releases them into the bloodstream to be converted in the liver or used by other cells for energy production. Lipase is even an essential factor in the synthesis of insulin in the beta cells of the pancreas.

    Lipase Deficiency

    As you can see from this short description, there is a lot of internal lipase required to keep the body functioning and in good working order. If there is not enough liver lipase, we may develop fatty degeneration of the liver, if there is a deficiency in the blood, the blood vessels may clog up, if it is lacking in fat cells, then we may only be able to deposit fat but not mobilize it again when needed, and when lipoprotein lipase is in short supply, then chylomicrons and VLDL build up in the blood and cause a range of problems, while cells are starved of lipids for energy production or structural regeneration.

    Internal lipase deficiency may develop when more lipase is needed for fat digestion and absorption than can be produced in the pancreas. Then lipase is taken from the internal lipase store to prop up the pancreas. Actually, lipase is recycled similar to bile. For the purpose of fat digestion bile and lipase are released, but unused amounts of each are reabsorbed in the lower parts of the small intestines, and re-supplied to the liver and pancreas through the blood and lymph circulation. Internal lipase deficiency arises when we habitually eat food low in lipase. Then the body has difficulties reabsorbing and generating enough lipase as we get older, and we develop age-related degenerative body changes.

    Another problem is the increasing incidence of genetic, inherited or familial lipoprotein lipase deficiency, also called familial chylomicronemia. This leads to all of these problems already at a younger age. The most severe form is seen when a genetic lipoprotein lipase deficiency is inherited from both parents. Fortunately, this is rare with a frequency of only one in a million. Much more common is a relative deficiency inherited from only one parent. In this case problems may be mild in childhood, and become more disabling as we get older.

    Depending on the exact nature of the deficiency, cholesterol may accumulate and lead to cardiovascular disease, or problems may be due to excess triglycerides. This may cause enlargement of liver and spleen, inflammation of the pancreas or chronic pancreatitis; fatty deposits, fatty tumors or lipoma under the skin; deposits in the retina of the eye, white inner eyelids, yellow-brown skin patches, inflammatory skin and muscle diseases, chronic muscle pain, spasms and cramps, varicose veins and fragile arteries, and generally lack of energy. A frequent sign is the early formation of an arcus senilis – a bluish-white opaque arc in the top part of the iris, which may later become a full ring around the iris.

    With this I see lipase deficiency causing or contributing to a wide range of health problems and diseases such as aging skin, Alzheimer’s disease, arteriosclerosis and atherosclerosis, auto-immune disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, cystic fibrosis, dementia, depression, diabetes, eye diseases, fibromyalgia, lateral sclerosis (A.L.S.), liver diseases, malabsorption, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, obesity, pancreatitis, Parkinson’s disease, psoriasis, Raynaud’s disease, stroke, and vertigo (labrynthis or Meniere's Disease).  

    The medical solution for elevated triglycerides and cholesterol levels, apart from drugs, is a low fat diet. However, this has its own problems. It leads to severe deficiencies in essential lipids, such as fat-soluble vitamins, essential fatty acids and phospholipids; while a high carbohydrate diet predisposes to the development of diabetes, and any excess carbohydrate is converted in the liver into saturated fat and cholesterol, and is a main cause of obesity. This applies to genetic as well as acquired forms of elevated lipids.

    Overweight

    If we have a good metabolism, then we can easily gain or lose weight. When the metabolism becomes inefficient, we have difficulty either gaining or losing weight. I see the present epidemic of overweight mainly as a symptom of lipase deficiency. This is especially a problem with high-carbohydrate diets because of their low satiety value.

    The problem is this: the less fat there is in a meal, the faster it is released from the stomach into the small intestine. Unlike fats, carbohydrates are easily and rapidly absorbed. This can lead to damaging high blood sugar levels. To prevent this, the pancreas releases large amounts of insulin. This helps glucose to enter cells more quickly but if you are not doing hard work or exercise at the time, the excess glucose is either converted to lactic acid, thereby causing overacidity and mineral deficiency, or the glucose is converted to fat (mainly in the liver).

    Fat is then stored in fat cells. When the blood sugar level drops, this stored fat can now be used to generate energy – but only if you have sufficient internal lipase. If lipase is deficient, fat remains in the fat cells and you feel hungry again, having another carbohydrate meal with a replay of the same story. After several years of repeating this cycle with habitually elevated blood sugar levels, diabetes may be diagnosed.

    There are two ways to solve this problem, and it is best to use both simultaneously. Firstly get plenty of lipase, preferably from raw fats and oils, or otherwise from lipase supplements. Secondly slow down the absorption of carbohydrates. This may be done in several ways. You may use a low carbohydrate diet, or slow down the emptying of the stomach by mixing carbohydrates with sufficient oil or fat. You may, for instance, eat fruit mixed with (coconut) cream.

    Alternatively, you may eat mainly slow-digesting carbohydrates, such as legumes, especially chickpeas and sprouted mung beans and lentils, in addition to vegetable salads. Another possibility is snacking - nibble, space out the food intake. Ingest only as much carbohydrate as you need to produce energy during the next 30 to 60 minutes so that nothing is converted into fat. Then have another snack. Finally be aware that if you do have a high-calorie meal in the evening, then it just cannot help but enrich your fat cells.

    Lipase to the Rescue

    The natural solution to these problems originating from lipase deficiency is to use a diet that is high in lipase. All fatty or oily foods naturally have a high content of lipase. Lipase is destroyed by heating over 40 to 45ºC. Therefore, to improve genetic or age-related problems of the fat metabolism, we need to maximize our intake of raw, unheated and unrefined fats and oils.

    Raw butter, for instance, has formerly been used to cure psoriasis but pasteurized butter causes or aggravates it. The healing effect of raw butter is due to its high content of lipase. The same is true for heart and liver problems, which are caused or aggravated by processed cheese and butterfat. Such health problems did not occur in the inhabitants of the Caucasus and Bulgaria with their high intake of raw milk products. Cholesterol did not harm anyone in former times when mainly unheated milk products were used; cardiovascular disease was almost unknown.

    Raw milk was formerly used to cure tuberculosis but pasteurized milk is more likely to cause it. Carnivorous wild animals have diets high in fat and cholesterol but no signs of atherosclerosis and heart disease. In contrast, dogs and cats on canned food, pasteurized milk or cooked meat develop the same diseases as their masters.

    Lipase in Food

    All lipid-rich foods also are high in lipase. However, you need to be aware that lipase is water-soluble while at the same time being attracted to the lipid phase. Therefore, you cannot get much lipase by using only the lipid phase, such as vegetable oil. Even extra virgin olive oil does not contain lipase, except as unfiltered, milky or turbid oil, but this is not commercially available because lipase would cause it to spoil quickly. The same applies to avocado oil or coconut oil.

    This is not a problem with fresh avocado, coconut flesh or raw animal lipids as they usually retain enough water and, with this, all their lipase. Cream, for instance, has still about 60% water, butter 16% and egg yolk about 50%. Other animal sources of lipase (and protein-digesting enzymes) are minced raw meat and raw, possibly marinated fish (see The Raw Food Diet).

    In addition to a high intake of refined carbohydrates, I see the current epidemic of diseases, such as Alzheimers disease, cardio-vascular disease, diabetes, and obesity, largely as long-term manifestations of lipase deficiency, caused by the restrictions of health departments on the sale of unpasteurized milk products. To overcome this in countries where pasteurization is mandatory, groups of people could become part owners of a cow or a small herd managed by a farmer.

    Preferably do not use Friesian cows (which give the largest volume of milk) but rather Jersey cows which have the highest fat and lipase content in their milk. Friesians are linked to allergies and diabetes, but Jerseys and other types seem to be fine. However, only butter, cream, cottage cheese and other cheeses are safe for regular use, the high lactose content of milk tends to cause mucus problem, while milk allergy occurs mainly to whey proteins. 

    In order to obtain a high lipase intake from vegetable sources, we need to consume the whole food. This means eating the avocado instead of using just the oil, or pressing, juicing or blending the coconut flesh to make and use coconut milk or cream. This needs then to be refrigerated or frozen because the high enzyme content causes it to deteriorate rapidly at room temperature.

    We encounter another problem with nuts and oily seeds. Even if we do eat them whole, we may not get much benefit from it because of the presence of enzyme inhibitors. Eaten frequently or in high amounts these inhibitors tend to cause indigestion. The solution is to soak and possibly sprout or ferment these seeds (see Recipes). In one reported experiment all enzyme inhibition had been removed after 24 hours of soaking.

    Lipase Supplements

    Unfortunately, the richest food sources of lipase, raw butter and cream, have been outlawed in most Western countries. Individuals with genetic or age-related lipase deficiency will find it difficult to obtain enough lipase in commercially available raw food.  Fortunately, lipase powder has in recent times become more easily available.

    Originally lipase could only be obtained in relatively low concentrations as an ingredient of pancreatin from animal sources. In order to protect it from de-activation in the stomach, pancreatin is commonly available as acid-resistant or enteric-coated tablets that dissolve only in the intestines. While these can be helpful with malabsorption syndromes such as cystic fibrosis, because of their late activation, they are less effective than pancreatin released from the pancreas or enzymes already present in the food.

    Furthermore, in children high spot concentrations of pancreatin from dissolving tablets in the lower intestines have been reported to cause damage to the intestinal wall. Another problem of mixing high levels of protease with a low level of lipase is that lipase is a protein. Its activity can be diminished by being partly digested by close contact with proteases.  

    Presently pancreatin and lipase from animal sources are increasingly replaced with enzymes from plant and microbial sources. One well-known enzyme factory is papaya or pawpaw, especially the white sap in under-ripe fruit and in leaves and twigs. The highest concentration is in the green skin of unripe fruit. Besides the protease (protein-digesting enzyme) papain, it also contains appreciable amounts of lipase.

    Commercially lipase is produced mainly from special strains of fungi and bacteria. It is highly purified with no contamination from fungal or bacterial protein. Its main advantage is its activity over a wide pH range. Therefore, it is not de-activated by stomach acid, and is effective when mixed with the food in powder form before ingestion. With some fatty or oily food, it can be mixed already up to one hour before mealtime and kept in a warm place to react. However, if waiting too long an off-flavor may develop, especially in the presence of short-chain fatty acids.

    The advantage of using pre-mixed enzyme powder rather than pancreatin tablets can be seen from a reported case in which enteric-coated pancreatin tablets failed to arrest the progression of cancer of the pancreas, while fungal enzyme powder pre-mixed with food helped this patient to survive.

    Tests have revealed that under favorable conditions about 40% of pancreatic lipase powder added to food is being absorbed into the bloodstream. I assume that by taking lipase in juice or water before meals this percentage will be even higher.

    Pre-mixing of lipase with food overcomes a common problem with microbial lipases: they tend to be degraded by the pancreas enzyme trypsin in the small intestine. Pre-mixing gives lipase time to react not only before ingestion but also for a considerable time before the meal becomes too acid in the stomach and lipase becomes dormant. Lipase activity tests measure the amount of free fatty acids liberated from olive oil per minute; however for complete hydrolysis much longer reaction time is required.

    On the other hand, if we want to maximize absorption of lipase into the bloodstream, then we need to avoid the release of trypsin by taking it on an empty stomach and with a reasonably large volume of liquid. I have experimented with absorbing small amounts of high-strength lipase under the tongue, and believe that this is an effective way of getting lipase into the bloodstream, although it may be equally effective carrying it across the skin with DMSO but I have not tried it.

    Cod liver oil and other fish oils are highly beneficial for most individuals who do not eat much cold-water fish. If you suspect fat malabsorption or lipase deficiency, shake a tablespoon of cod liver oil or several opened capsules of fish oil together with some lecithin and lipase in juice before ingestion, or alternatively emulsify the oil by swishing the mixture around the mouth for a while. The omega-3 fatty acids in fish oils have been shown to reduce elevated fat levels in the blood. Cells containing plenty of omega-3 fatty acids in their walls produce up to 7 times more energy than cells with other fatty acids in their walls.

    As a general rule, fat or oil, or fatty food such as egg yolk, ingested without thoroughly chewing together with other food, or by emulsifying it with lecithin, are not well absorbed and may lead to indigestion and deficiencies. If you just swallow capsules of fish oil or vitamin E, or a spoonful of cod liver oil, the oil may just remain in a puddle and not be absorbed because lipase cannot penetrate a blob of oil or fat. Therefore always try to emulsify oils and fats by shaking, swishing or, the natural way, by thoroughly chewing with other food. 

    Technical Details

    Lipase is also used for other purposes, such as in washing powders. Therefore, when trying to source lipase, look for food-grade or supplement quality lipase. I have not been able to find single ingredient lipase supplements in the retail market. They are always in tablet form, usually in low concentration, and mixed with other enzymes. While pancreatin tablets have their place, I believe that tablets or capsules of microbial lipase are relatively inefficient as they start working only in the small intestine where they may soon be degraded by trypsin. Alternatively you may, of course, open capsules and pre-mix their content with the meal.

    For individuals with genetic or advanced age-related lipase deficiency, and no access to raw butter or cream all this is not satisfactory. Therefore, search on the Internet for enzyme manufacturers, you may be able to obtain lipase powder in kilogram quantities. Preferably store lipase powder refrigerated in a closed container. At room temperature the loss of activity is generally stated as 10% per year if kept in a tightly closed container.

    The activity is commonly expressed as Lipase Units or LU, and in the US sometimes as US Pharmacopeia (USP) units. Different lipase preparations may have different activities. For fungal lipases these may range from 2,000 to 2,000,000 LU per gram. However, to make it more complicated, activity presently is also stated as FIP units /g or FCC III LU/g.  One of these new Lipase Units is equivalent to ten of the old LU, or 1,000 FIP units/g = 10,000 LU/g. 

    Depending on the nature of your health problem you may use up to 500,000 LU daily, although no research on maximum amounts is available. Start with small amounts, such as 20,000 LU daily, and increase gradually according to your observations of any benefit or reaction. Half a level teaspoon of lipase 80,000 LU/g provides about 120,000 LU. Lipase powder easily dissolves in water. Mix more with meals high in fats or oils, and less with food of lower fat content. With cooked food always add after cooling to below 45ºC. Also add some lecithin and mix and chew well.

    For better absorption to clean congested blood vessels, or with lipoprotein lipase deficiency, or to lose weight, stir lipase in a glass of juice, herb tea or water and take before meals. Drink more afterwards. Alternatively try absorbing 100,000 to 200,000 LU under the tongue, possibly best at bedtime.

    Two US enzyme manufacturers are Valley Enzymes at http://www.valleyenzymes.com/ and American Laboratories at http://www.americanlaboratories.com/. You may inquire about a distributor near you. For retail supplies of fungal lipase in Australia you may contact wlast@....

    External Use of Lipase

    To remove fatty lumps (lipoma), or yellow-brownish skin marks (xanthomas), or to rejuvenate aging or damaged skin, mix a suitable amount of lipase with a carrier agent, such as unheated honey or fresh aloe vera gel. It may also help to add a small amount of fish oil (possibly odorless). Apply this to the problem area and cover to leave overnight or for several days. Repeat from time to time if and as required. You may also try it on external tumors, skin cancer, moles and boils, but in this case also add a capsule of halibut liver oil. I would use this method for skin cancer on a sensitive area such as the lips in preference to any harsher measures.

    To regenerate aging skin, you may rub on a mixture of lipase with aloe vera gel, deodorized fish oil and vitamin E oil, or add some lipase to your favorite natural skin lotion just before you rub it on. Alternatively, you may rub the skin with a lipase-rich nutrient, such as unpasteurized cream, or mix some raw egg yolk or avocado with your skin lotion.  Unheated coconut milk is highly germicidal, and especially good for areas affected by Candida and other fungi.

    To lose weight from specific parts of the body, such as thighs, buttocks or stomach regularly rub on lipase dissolved in an agent that easily penetrates the skin, such as aloe vera gel, vanishing cream or, possibly most effective, DMSO. In addition frequently stimulate this area by rhythmic tensing and relaxing the involved muscles, by massaging the area and using alternating hot and cold showers on it.

    Safety

    In regard to safety, tests with rats did not show any side-effects after intakes of 2 g/kg of high-potency lipase  for several months. For a human that would be equivalent to taking 100 to 150 g daily. Also there are no reported health incidents. Therefore health authorities generally do not have any concerns about lipase as nutritional supplement. A committee report of the Australian TGA states:” Authors of safety studies and reviews indicated that they could find no reports of adverse reactions for oral consumption of microbial-derived enzymes in humans”(CMEC47).

    Caution: There is a theoretical possibility that a continued high intake of lipase supplements, especially in combination with elevated blood fat levels, may cause the blood to become high in free fatty acids. This can cause overacidity, and in addition fatty acids may enter cells too rapidly. Over time, this may cause muscle problems. Therefore, if you notice overacidity or any kind of muscle problems developing, temporarily stop lipase supplementation, and possibly re-introduce it at a later date at a lower dose.  Furthermore, as enzymes are proteins, there is always the possibility of an allergy against the used lipase developing. Therefore watch out for this possibility, and possibly switch to a lipase produced by a different strain if you suspect any allergic reaction.    

    The information in this article has been provided in good faith according to my experience and understanding. I cannot guarantee results or accept responsibility for any side effects.

     

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    “Indigestion” refers to any number of gastrointestinal complaints, which can include gas (belching or flatulence) and upset stomach. “Heartburn” refers to a burning feeling that can be caused by stomach acid regurgitating into the esophagus from the stomach, by gastritis (inflammation of the lining of the stomach), or by an ulcer of the stomach or duodenum (also called peptic ulcer). In some cases, such as lactose intolerance, symptoms of indigestion are due to a specific cause that requires specific treatment. Sometimes symptoms associated with indigestion are caused by diseases unrelated to the gastrointestinal tract. For example, ovarian cancer may cause a sensation of bloating. Anyone with symptoms of indigestion should be properly diagnosed by a healthcare professional before assuming that the information below is applicable to their situation.

    The most common cause of heartburn is gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), in which the sphincter between the esophagus and the stomach is not functioning properly. Another, related cause of heartburn is hiatal hernia, in which a small portion of the stomach protrudes through the aforementioned sphincter.

    According to Jonathan Wright, MD, another cause of heartburn can be too little stomach acid.1 This may seem to be a paradox, but based on the clinical experience of a few doctors such as Dr. Wright, supplementing with betaine HCl (a compound that contains hydrochloric acid) often relieves the symptoms of heartburn and improves digestion, at least in people who have hypochlorhydria (low stomach acid). The amount of betaine HCl used varies with the size of the meal and with the amount of protein ingested. Typical amounts recommended by doctors range from 600 to 2,400 mg per meal. Use of betaine HCl should be monitored by a healthcare practitioner and should be considered only for indigestion sufferers who have been diagnosed with hypochlorhydria.

    Medical researchers since the 1930s have been concerned about the consequences of hypochlorhydria. While all the health consequences are still not entirely clear, some have been well documented.

    Many minerals and vitamins appear to require adequate concentrations of stomach acid to be absorbed optimally—examples are iron,2 zinc,3 and B-complex vitamins,4 including folic acid.5 People with achlorhydria (no stomach acid) or hypochlorhydria may therefore be at risk of developing various nutritional deficiencies, which could presumably contribute to the development of a wide range of health problems.

    One of the major functions of stomach acid is to initiate the digestion of large protein molecules. If this digestive function is not performed efficiently, incompletely digested protein fragments may be absorbed into the bloodstream. The absorption of these large molecules may contribute to the development of food allergies and immunological disorders.6 7

    In addition, stomach acid normally provides a barrier against bacteria, fungi, and other organisms that are present in food and water. People with inadequate stomach acidity may therefore be at risk of having “unfriendly” microorganisms colonize their intestinal tract.8 9 Some of these organisms produce toxic substances that can be absorbed by the body.

    Some researchers have found that people with certain diseases are more likely to have an inability to produce normal quantities of stomach acid. However, this does not mean these diseases are caused by too little stomach acid. Jonathan Wright, MD, usually tests patients’ stomach acid if they suffer from food allergies, arthritis (both rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis), pernicious anemia (too little vitamin B12), asthma, diabetes, vitiligo, eczema, tic douloureux, Addison’s disease, celiac disease, lupus erythematosus, or thyroid disease.10

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    Checklist for Indigestion, Heartburn, and Low Stomach Acidity

    Rating Nutritional Supplements Herbs
    3Stars Lactase (for lactose intolerance only) Artichoke
    Greater celandine
    2Stars Enzymes (Lipase) Caraway
    Fennel
    Ginger
    Linden
    Peppermint
    Sage
    Turmeric
    1Star Betaine HCl (in cases of hypochlorhydria) Andrographis
    Anise
    Barberry
    Basil
    Bitter melon
    Bitter orange
    Bladderwrack
    Blessed thistle
    Boldo
    Cardamom
    Centaury
    Chamomile
    Chaparral
    Cinnamon
    Cloves
    Coriander
    Dandelion (leaves and root)
    Devil’s claw
    Dill
    Elecampane
    European angelica
    Gentian
    Goldenseal
    Horehound
    Juniper
    Lavender
    Lemon balm
    Licorice (DGL)
    Marshmallow
    Oregano
    Oregon grape
    Picrorhiza
    Prickly ash
    Rosemary
    Slippery elm (symptom relief)
    Thyme
    Vervain
    Wormwood
    Yarrow
    Yellow dock
    See also:  Homeopathic Remedies for Indigestion, Heartburn, and Low Stomach Acidity
    3Stars Reliable and relatively consistent scientific data showing a substantial health benefit.
    2Stars Contradictory, insufficient, or preliminary studies suggesting a health benefit or minimal health benefit.
    1Star An herb is primarily supported by traditional use, or the herb or supplement has little scientific support and/or minimal health benefit.
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    What are the symptoms of indigestion? The symptoms of indigestion or upset stomach may include painful or burning sensations in the upper abdomen, bloating, belching, diffuse abdominal pain, heartburn, passing gas, nausea, and occasionally vomiting. The appearance of these symptoms is often associated with eating.

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    Conventional treatment options: Conventional treatment includes the avoidance of problem foods, such as citrus fruits, spicy foods, fatty foods, milk, and beans. Medications may also be prescribed to control stomach acidity: histamine H2 inhibitors (e.g., cimetidine [Tagamet®], famotidine [Pepcid®], nizatidine [Axid®], ranitidine [Zantac®]), proton pump inhibitors (e.g., lansoprazole [Prevacid®], omeprazole [Prilosec®]), and antacids (e.g., Maalox®, Mylanta®, Rolaids®, Tums®). Activated charcoal or simethicone (Gas-X®, Mylicon®, Phazyme®) may be prescribed for relief of gas and bloating.

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    Dietary changes that may be helpful: Doctors have observed that heartburn and indigestion may be relieved in some people by avoiding or reducing the intake of caffeine and alcohol. In addition, some people with symptoms of indigestion appear to have food allergies or intolerances. Avoiding such foods may improve digestive complaints in those people. While most doctors believe there is an important connection between diet and intestinal symptoms, there are few published data documenting such associations. Dietary modifications should be undertaken with the help of a healthcare practitioner.

    People who eat too fast or fail to chew their food adequately may also experience symptoms of indigestion or heartburn.

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    Nutritional supplements that may be helpful: Lipase, a pancreatic enzyme, aids in the digestion of fats and may improve digestion in some people. In a double-blind trial, a timed-release form of pancreatic enzymes was shown to significantly reduce gas, bloating, and fullness after a high-fat meal.11 Participants in this study took one capsule immediately before the meal and two capsules immediately after the meal. The three capsules together provided 30,000 USP units of lipase, 112,500 USP units of protease, and 99,600 USP units of amylase. However, the amount of pancreatic enzymes needed may vary from person to person, and should be determined with the help of a doctor.

    Are there any side effects or interactions? Refer to the individual supplement for information about any side effects or interactions.

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    Herbs that may be helpful: Three major categories of herbs are used to treat indigestion when no cause for the condition is known: bitters (digestive stimulants), carminatives (gas-relieving herbs), and demulcents (soothing herbs). The effects of these different categories on heartburn and low stomach acid will be discussed individually. Although there is overlap in the conditions, the categories are helpful.

    Action Herbs
    Bitter digestive stimulants Andrographis, Artichoke, Barberry, Bitter melon, Bitter orange, Blessed thistle, Boldo, Centaury, Dandelion, Devil’s claw, Elecampane, Gentian, Goldenseal, Greater celandine, Horehound, Juniper, Oregon grape, Picrorhiza, Prickly ash, Vervain, Wormwood, Yarrow, Yellow dock
    Carminatives Anise, Basil, Caraway, Cardamom, Chamomile, Cinnamon, Cloves, Coriander, Dill, European angelica, Fennel, Ginger, Lavender, Lemon balm, Linden, Oregano, Peppermint, Rosemary, Sage, Thyme, Turmeric
    Demulcents Bladderwrack, Licorice, Marshmallow, Slippery elm
    Multiple, unclear actions Chaparral

    Bitter herbs are thought to stimulate digestive function by increasing saliva production and promoting both stomach acid and digestive enzyme production.12 As a result, they are particularly used when there is low stomach acid but not in heartburn (where too much stomach acid could initially exacerbate the situation). These herbs literally taste bitter. Some examples of bitter herbs include greater celandine, wormwood, and gentian. Bitters are generally taken either by mixing 1–3 ml tincture into water and sipping slowly 10–30 minutes before eating, or by making tea, which is also sipped slowly before eating.

    A double-blind study found that a standardized extract of greater celandine could relieve symptoms of indigestion (such as abdominal cramping, sensation of fullness, and nausea) significantly better than placebo.13 The study employed an extract standardized to 4 mg of chelidonine per capsule and gave 1–2 tablets three times daily for six weeks. However, recent reports of hepatitis following intake of greater celandine have raised concerns about its safety for treating indigestion.14

    Artichoke, in addition to being an edible plant, is a mild bitter. Extracts of artichoke have been repeatedly shown in double-blind research to be beneficial for people with indigestion.15 Artichoke is particularly useful when the problem is lack of bile production by the liver.16 Extracts providing 500–1,000 mg per day of cynarin, the main active constituent of artichoke, are recommended by doctors.

    Wormwood is sometimes used in combination with carminative herbs for people with indigestion. One double-blind trial found that a combination with peppermint, caraway, and fennel was useful in reducing gas and cramping in people with indigestion.17 Other bitters are gentian, dandelion, blessed thistle, yarrow, devil’s claw, bitter orange, bitter melon, juniper, andrographis, prickly ash, and centaury.18 The amounts used are the same as the general recommendations for bitters when they are employed for the treatment of indigestion.

    Some bitters widely used in traditional medicine in North America include yarrow, yellow dock, goldenseal, Oregon grape, and vervain. Oregon grape’s European cousin barberry has also traditionally been used as a bitter. Animal studies indicate that yarrow, barberry, and Oregon grape, in addition to stimulating digestion like other bitters, may relieve spasms in the intestinal tract.19

    Boldo has been used in South America for a variety of digestive conditions, although this may have stemmed from its impact on intestinal infections or liver function. Studies specifically showing a benefit from taking boldo in people with indigestion and heartburn have not been performed. Picrorhiza, from India, has a similar story to that of boldo. While it is clearly a bitter digestive stimulant, human studies to confirm this have not yet been completed.

    Horehound contains a number of constituents, including alkaloids, flavonoids, diterpenes (e.g., marrubiin), and trace amounts of volatile oils.20 The major active constituent marrubiin and possibly its precursor, premarrubiin, are herbal bitters that increase the flow of saliva and gastric juice, thereby stimulating the appetite.21 Similar to horehound, elecampane has been used by herbalists to treat people with indigestion.

    Carminatives (also called aromatic digestive tonics or aromatic bitters) may be used to relieve symptoms of indigestion, particularly when there is excessive gas. It is believed that carminative agents work, at least in part, by relieving spasms in the intestinal tract.22

    Among the most notable and well-studied carminatives are peppermint, fennel, and caraway. Double-blind trials have shown that combinations of peppermint and caraway oil and a combination of peppermint, fennel, caraway, and wormwood have been found to reduce gas and cramping in people with indigestion.23 24 25 Generally, 3–5 drops of natural essential oils or 3–5 ml of tincture of any of these herbs, taken in water two to three times per day before meals, can be helpful. Alternately, a tea can be made by grinding 2–3 teaspoons of the seeds of fennel or caraway or the leaves of peppermint, and then simmering them in a cup of water (covered) for ten minutes. Drink three or more cups per day just after meals.

    Linden also has a long tradition of use for indigestion. Older clinical trials have shown that linden flower tea can help people who suffer from upset stomach or from excessive gas that causes the stomach to push up and put pressure on the heart (also known as the gastrocardiac syndrome.)26 27 The reputed antispasmodic action of linden, particularly in the intestines, has been confirmed in at least one human trial.28 Linden tea is prepared by steeping 2–3 tsp of flowers in a cup of hot water for 15 minutes. Several cups per day are recommended.

    In a double-blind trial, the spice turmeric was found to relieve indigestion.29 Two capsules containing 250 mg turmeric powder per capsule were given four times per day.

    Chamomile (German chamomile or Matricaria recutita) is effective in relieving inflamed or irritated mucous membranes of the digestive tract. Since heartburn sometimes involves reflux of stomach acid into the esophagus, the anti-inflammatory properties of chamomile may also be useful. In addition, chamomile promotes normal digestion.30 However, modern studies to prove chamomile beneficial for people with heartburn or indigestion are lacking. Roman chamomile (Anthemis nobilis) has not been studied for indigestion though it has traditionally been used similarly to German chamomile.

    Typically taken in tea form, chamomile is recommended three to four times per day between meals. Chamomile tea is prepared by pouring boiling water over dried flowers, and steeping for several minutes. Alternatively, 3–5 ml of chamomile tincture may be added to hot water or 2–3 grams of chamomile in capsule or tablet form may be taken three to four times per day between meals.

    Lemon balm is another carminative herb used traditionally for indigestion.31 Lemon balm, usually taken as tea, is prepared by steeping 2–3 teaspoons of leaves in hot water for 10 to 15 minutes in a covered container. Three or more cups per day are consumed immediately after meals. Three to five milliliters of tincture can also be used three times per day.

    There are numerous other carminative herbs, including European angelica root (Angelica archangelica), anise, basil, cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, coriander, dill, ginger, oregano, rosemary, sage, lavender, and thyme.32 Many of these are common kitchen herbs and thus are readily available for making tea to calm an upset stomach. Rosemary is sometimes used to treat indigestion in the elderly by European herbal practitioners.33 The German Commission E monograph suggests a daily intake of 4–6 grams of sage leaf.34 Pennyroyal is no longer recommended for use in people with indigestion, however, due to potential side effects.

    Demulcents are the third category of herbs used to treat indigestion and heartburn. These herbs seem to work by decreasing inflammation and forming a physical barrier against stomach acid or other abdominal irritants. Examples of demulcent herbs include ginger, licorice, and slippery elm.

    Ginger is a spice well known for its traditional use as a treatment for a variety of gastrointestinal complaints, ranging from flatulence to ulcers. Ginger has anti-inflammatory and anti-nausea properties. Ginger has been shown to enhance normal, spontaneous movements of the intestines that aid digestion.35

    Licorice protects the mucous membranes lining the digestive tract by increasing the production of mucin, a compound that protects against the adverse effects of stomach acid and various harmful substances.36 The extract of licorice root that is most often used by people with indigestion is known as deglycyrrhizinated licorice (DGL). Glycyrrhizin, which occurs naturally in licorice root, has cortisone-like effects and can cause high blood pressure, water retention, and other problems in some people. When the glycyrrhizin is removed to form DGL, the licorice root retains its beneficial effects against indigestion, while the risk of side effects is greatly reduced. The usual suggested amount of DGL is one or two chewable tablets (250–500 mg per tablet), chewed and swallowed 15 minutes before meals and one to two hours before bedtime.37 Although many research trials show that DGL is helpful for people with peptic ulcers, the use of DGL for heartburn and indigestion is based primarily on anecdotal information.

    The mucilage content in slippery elm appears to act as a barrier against the damaging effects of acid on the esophagus in people with heartburn. It may also have an anti-inflammatory effect locally in the stomach and intestines. Two or more tablets or capsules (typically 400–500 mg each) may be taken three to four times per day. Alternatively, a tea is made by boiling 1/2–2 grams of the bark in 200 ml of water for 10 to 15 minutes, which is then cooled before drinking; three to four cups a day can be used. Tincture (5 ml three times per day) may also be taken but is believed to be less helpful. Marshmallow and bladderwrack may be used the same way as slippery elm.

    People in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico have long used chaparral tea to help calm upset stomachs. It is unclear into which of the above categories—if any—chaparral fits. This strong tasting tea was used only in small amounts. Modern research has not confirmed the usefulness of chaparral for indigestion, and there are serious concerns about the safety of improper internal use of this herb. Before taking chaparral, consult with a knowledgeable healthcare professional.

    Are there any side effects or interactions? Refer to the individual herb for information about any side effects or interactions.

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    Julia Chang, M.Sc.

    Prime Health Products manufactures a unique collection of all-natural Chinese herbal tinctures for chronic health problems without using drugs.  These health problems include liver congestion and stagnation, gallbladder problems and gallstone removal, estrogen dominance, endometriosis, menopause, PMS, insomnia, arthritis, thyroid disorders, allergies.

    These herbal products have been developed based on my own (Julia Chang's) personal experience in treating chronic health problems without using drugs for more than a decade, particularly those related to a weak liver, weak spleen and gallbladder problems.  Many of my clients have successfully treated their problems with these products after trying and failing with conventional medicine.  I have B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in chemistry.  In addition to my family tradition in using Chinese herbs, I have more than 15 years of experience in the natural health business plus 6 years working in the chemistry laboratory of North York General Hospital in Toronto, Canada.  For more details about my personal experience in self-healing and treatment methods, please visit my home page: Conquering Chronic Health Problems Without Drugs or Surgery.

    This page summarizes properties of the principal herbs that I use in preparing my herbal tinctures.  These herbs are commonly used in Chinese medicine for chronic health problems.  The following references have been consulted:

    1. A Barefoot Doctor's Manual, the American translation of the official Chinese Paramedical Manual, Running Press, Philadelphia (1990).
    2. Chinese Medicinal Herbs, compiled by Li Shih-Chen, translated by F. Porter Smith, M.D., and G.A. Stuart, M.D., Georgetown Press, San Franscisco (1973).
    3. Tierra, M., Planetary Herbology, Lotus Press, Sante Fe (1988).

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    Astragulus (Huang-chi)

    • Strengthens energy and maintain body resistance, transfers toxins and aids tissue regeneration.  Conditions most commonly used for are low body resistance, self perspiration, hidrosis, anemia, spleen-deficient diarrhea, and all illnesses due to inadequate prime energy. (Ref. 1)
    • Strengthens digestion, raises metabolism, strengthens the immune system.  It treats chronic weakness of the lungs with shortness of breath, and deficiency edema. (Ref. 3)


    Atractylodes (Pai-shu)

    • It supplements spleen, benefits energy, converts excessive moisture, and promotes diuresis.  Conditions most used for are spleen deficient diarrhea, indigestion, edema, chest tightness and abdominal distension. (Ref. 1)
    • Tonifies digestion and counteracts fatigue and diarrhea. (Ref. 3)


    Bupleurum (Chai-hu)

    • Conditions most commonly used for are stagnation of liver energy and irregular menstruation. (Ref. 1)
    • Used in flatulence and indigestion, muscular pains and cramps, and amenorrhea. (Ref. 2)
    • One of the major "Chi regulating" or carminative herbs that help regulate moodiness.  It is used to treat organ prolapse and raises sagging spirits.  It is capable of dredging out old emotions of sadness and anger that may be stored in the organs and tissues of the body. (Ref. 3)


    Chinese Gentian (Lung-dan Tsao)

    • It purges liver fire, clears damp heat.  Conditions most used for are acute hepatitis, acute conjunctivitis, acute tonsilitis; vaginal pruritis and discharges, open sores of the scrotum, abscesses and boils. (Ref. 1)
    • Prescribed in rheumatism and general debility, it benefits the liver, strengthens the memory, and gives lightness and elasticity to the body.  It is used locally in skin diseases and ulcers, and in affections of the throat.  It is especially recommended in nocturnal sweating, hematuria and ophthalmia. (Ref. 2)
    • Used to treat pelvic inflammatory diseases, veneral diseases, hepatitis, jaundice and most liver disorders. (Ref. 3)


    Chrysanthemum (Chu-hua)

    • Carminative, antipyretic and detoxifying.  Conditions most used for are headache and dizziness, tinnitis, conjunctivitis, boils and abscesses. (Ref. 1)
    • It benefits the blood and circulation and preserves vitality.  The flowers are prescribed for colds, headaches, and inflamed eyes.  The chrysanthemum tincture is considered beneficial in digestive, circulatory and nervous difficulties. (Ref. 2)
    • It is used for inflammations, colds, flu and headache, dry eyes and tearing, blurred vision, spots in front of the eyes and dizziness.  It is indicated for hypertension.  In combination with honeysuckle, it heightens the antibiotic properties. (Ref. 3)
    • Our experience showed that it is effective in relieving asthmatic symptoms.  A 48-year old man who had been on puffer for 25 years for his asthma does not need it any more after using Chrysanthemum for 2 months.


    Coptis (Huang-lian)

    • It detoxifies.  Conditions most used for are abdominal fullness, emaciation and abdominal cramps. (Ref. 1)
    • It is regarded by Chinese doctors as a sort of panacea for a great many ills.  It is supposed to clear inflamed eyes, benefit the chest and combat fever.  Its use in all forms of dysentery is especially recommended, as well as its use in diabetes to relieve thirst and reduce the quantity of urine. (Ref. 2)
    • Experience showed that it is effective in stimulating bile flow.  It can be helpful for people who have their gallbladders removed.


    Curcuma (Yu-chin)

    • It stimulates energy circulation and relieves congestion, cools the blood and resolves bruises and clots.  Conditions most used for are stagnation in blood and energy circulation, pain in chest, abdomin and muscles. (Ref. 1)
    • Recommended in primary syphilis and mania. (Ref. 2)
    • Aids digestion, dissolves gallstones, decongests the liver. (Ref. 3)


    Dioscorea (Shan-yao)

    • A stomach-spleen tonic, nourishes the lungs and complements the kidneys. (Ref. 1)
    • It treats digestive weakness, diarrhea, diabetes, weakness of the lungs and kidneys and enuresis. (Ref. 3)


    Gold Coin Grass (Chin-chien Tsao)

    • Clears fevers, promotes diuresis, relieves gonorrhea.  Conditions most used for are urinary tract stones and gallstones; acute and chronic hepatitis. (Ref. 1)


    Poria Cocos (Fu-ling)

    • It breaks down moisture and promotes diuresis, benefits the stomach/spleen, settles nerves.  Conditions most used for are kidney deficiency, pulmonary congestion, difficult urination, apprehension and insomnia. (Ref. 1)
    • It helps digestion, calms the mind and emotions, eliminate excess fluid retention, aids tonification of the "Chi" by dispelling dampness. (Ref. 3)


    Rehmannia (Ti-huang)

    • It moisturizes dryness and promotes salivation, nourishes the Yin and supplements the blood.  Conditions most used for are: (1) constipation or difficult urination; (2) anemia and dizziness. (Ref. 1)
    • It benefits the the eyes and ears, strengthens the marrow, "quiets the soul and confirms the spirit".  It is considered highly tonic and is used in all wasting diseases. (Ref. 2)
    • It treats conditions of Yin deficiency including night sweats, thirst, wasting and nocturnal emissions.  It is also used for kidney deficiency, back pains, and to promote the healing of bones and flesh. (Ref. 3)


    Saussurea (Mu-hsiang)

    • Promotes energy circulation, alleviates pain.  Conditions most used for are indigestion, diarrhea and dysentery. (Ref. 1)
    • It is an antiseptic and insecticidal, used for aching teeth.  (Ref. 2).  The role of bacteria in bad breath and sensitive teeth is discussed here.


    Scutellaria (Huang-ching or Chinese Skullcap)

    • It is mostly used in lung-heated coughing, jaundice.  It quiets the fetus. (Ref. 1)
    • It is a tonic to the bladder, stimulant to the respiratory organ.  It is prescribed in amenorrhea and cancer of the breast. (Ref. 2)
    • It eases premenstrual tension, strengthens the brain, relaxes nervous tension, induces calm. (Ref. 3)


    Self Heal (Hsia-Ku Tsao)

    • It clears the liver and relieves congestion, promotes diuresis and reduces edema.  Conditions most used for are lymphadenopathy, goiter, hypertension, conjunctivitis, edema and difficult urination. (Ref. 1)
    • It is used in fevers and is an anti-rheumatic, alterative and tonic remedy.  It has anti-tumour properties. (Ref. 3)


    Shou Wu (Polygonum Multiflorum)

    • It tonifies the liver and kidneys, fortifies the blood, strengthens muscles and bones and keeps the hair color. (Ref. 1)
    • Conditions most used for are:  (1) anemia and premature graying of hair, backache and pains and ahces of the knee joint;  (2) neurasthenia;  (3) lymphadenitis, traumatic bruises. (Ref. 1)


    Vitex (Man-ching)

    • It is precribed in headache, catarrh and watery eyes.  Cancer of the breast is also treated with it. (Ref. 2)
    • It counteracts premenstrual syndrome.  It also stimulates progesterone production and regulates the menses. (Ref. 3)


    Water Plantain (Tse-hsieh)

    • It promotes diuresis.  Conditions most used for are difficult urination, edema and ascites, excessive sputum production, polyuria, hermaturia and bladder distension. (Ref. 1)
    • It is cooling, a tonic, diuretic, arthritic, stomachic, astringent.  If taken for a long time, the eyes and ears become acute, hunger is not felt, life is prolonged, and the body becomes light. (Ref. 2)
    • It is used for fluid retention, urinary disorders, gravel and calculus, dysentery.  It is good for chronic urinary tract infections or "Yin" deficient heat. (Ref. 3)

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    Lipase
    Digests and breaks down fats, which are the most difficult component of the diet to process.* Lipase is important in maintaining optimum cell permeability, which allows nutrients to flow easily into cells and for wastes to be expelled.* Lipase low or deficient people may also be lacking in many fat-soluble nutrients, including vitamins A, D and E, as they have difficulty breaking down and absorbing them.*

     
     
    Lipase is the enzyme that aids the body in breaking down and storing fats. Without lipase, our fat stagnates and accumulates
     
     
     
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    Lipase - The Fat Digester !
     
    Savvy Fat Burning Food : Fat Burning Entries : August 2005 : Lipase - The Fat Digester !

    Lipase - The Fat Digester !

    Many of us for years now have been happily purchasing food products with labels proudly announcing that it has no fat or very little fat, believing that it is the root of all our unwanted weight problems. In reality fat is necessary for the optimal functioning of our bodies.

    Dietary fat has many functions which can be classified as:

    • metabolic;
    • storage; and
    • structural.[1]

    In particular fat is responsible for transporting fat soluble vitamins around the body, as well as providing vital cushioing for the body's major organs.

    When fat is consumed as dietary fat, the body can't absorb the fat directly. It needs to break down the fat into its parts. Essentially the fat is broken down by a substance known as lipase. There are many types of lipase, but those responsible for the breakdown and digestion of fat come in three flavours:

    • Lipase present in food.
    • Lingual lipase (manufactured in the mouth and present in the saliva);
    • Gastric and pancreatic lipase (manufactured in the stomach and by the pancreas).[2]

    It seems to be controversial as to whether or not, lipase is present in some foods or not. It is even more controversial as to whether or not eating such foods would be beneficial for your health and the digestion of fat.

    A German study published in 2002, found that many raw meat products contained lipase, but the heated alternatives contained very little. "..... Heated sausage was largely lipase free ..... while raw sausages contained up to 283 micrograms/kg lipases ..."[3]

    Another study completed by the Mahidol University in Thailand, isolated a yeast strain from milk that could produce lipase which was stable under 70 degrees centigrade.[4]

    Dr Kennedy on his site The Doctors' Medical Library also comments that lipases can be found in foods high in fats such as avocado and nuts. He also comments that because the western diet is made up almost totally of cooked food, our bodies miss out on lipase found in raw foods.

    Lingual lipase was thought to be instrumental in the breakdown of triaglycerides, while travelling down the esophagus, however, is now thought not to have a large affect on fat digestion.

    How the body breaks down fat

    While in the stomach, the fat goes through a process of slow breakdown and is mostly completed in the small intestine. [5]

    The fat that enters the intestine is mixed with bile and churned up to form a soup-like consistency. The fat is then attacked by lipase secreted from the pancreas which breaks down the fat into glycerol and fatty acids. The fatty acids then, depending on their chain length, will be absorbed by the body through the portal vein or the lymphatic system and into the liver [5].

    [1]  Barasi (1997) Human Nutrition A Health Perspective Oxford University Press Inc. P. 88

    [2]  Kenessaw State University Chemcases

    [3]   Braun P, Buchner S, Fehlhaber K. Quantitative determination of lipases and their heat stability in food of animal origin Berl Munch Tierarztl Wochenschr. 2002 Jan-Feb;115(1-2):24-9.Abstract

    [4]  Dharmsthiti S, Ammaranond P. Purification and characterization of lipase from a raw-milk yeast (Trichosporon asteroides). Biotechnol Appl Biochem. 1997 Oct;26 ( Pt 2):111-6. Abstract

    [5]  Aspects of Fat Digestion and Metabolism

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    Production of lipase with esterification activity from moulds isolated from Indonesian fermented foods

     
    The high activity of lipase is associated with the high amount of C18 fatty acid in the inducer. R. oryzae TR 32 could be considered as a good candidate for lipase production.
     
    Commercial lipase is produced mostly from moulds. As lipase is an inducible enzyme, its production by microorganisms is influenced by the presence of inducer.

    Our objective was to explore indigenous moulds for production of lipase with esterification activity and to investigate suitable inducer and optimum fermentation time.


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    #2979 From: Lee & Cindy <leeandcindy@...>
    Date: Mon Jun 5, 2006 7:07 pm
    Subject:: Re: Herbal Substitutes Ursodeoxycholic Acid-black bear bile gallbladder     		cheyennecin
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    I find this INTERESTING, because the American version of Actigall (urso) is synthetic black bear bile, and it apparently can be made in a lab for pennies, yet it is very expensive as a prescription drug! Go fig! It's sometimes, but rarely, prescribed to break up gallstones with no surgery, but more often for cholangitis. --"Cheyenne Cin"-P.S. I also find it interesting that the Chinese and other Oriental countries use black bears in heinous ways to get their gallbladders for real Ursodeoxycholic Acid, and seem to realize it has LOTS of medicinal value, while here in the USA it's only prescribed, and synthetically, for uses that put it far down the line of prescription drugs. And make it expensive! My husband Lee takes it because of his severed bile duct and from now having cholangitis with 'e. coli spits'!--
     
     
    Synthetic Ursodeoxycholic Acid pennies
     
     
    I’d like to get back to the farming itself, but so people can understand, what are considered to be the traditional health benefits of bear bile?
    It’ll be a shock to many of your readers that bear bile does work. In Chinese pharmacopoeia terms, it’s been used for several thousand years to treat heat-related illnesses like high fevers and temperatures; breaking down gallstones; helping red and sore eyes; and [treating] liver complaints. We went to Western scientists and, to our surprise, when we spoke to people from Minnesota University in the U.S., we very quickly established that bear bile has an essential acid, called UDCA (ursodeoxycholic acid), which could be used to very good effect apparently to rejuvenate cells in the brain that would otherwise die. It could potentially be used for Huntington’s, Parkinson’s, and even Alzheimer’s diseases. However, what both the Minnesota University and Chinese doctors emphasize is that bear bile can easily and cheaply be replaced. In Western terms, it can be replaced by synthetic UDCA—you can synthesize it in a laboratory for pennies and without using any animal parts (although you can also synthesize it from cow, pig and chicken bile). In Chinese terms it can be replicated by a myriad of herbal alternatives as well, which are much cheaper and just as effective.

    They are just as effective?
    Just as effective. There’s not one herb to replace bear bile in its common form, but combinations of different herbs to benefit the different illnesses that bear bile previously cured.
     
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    Chinese Ivy stem,Dandelion,Chrysanthemum,Common Sage and Rhubarb
     
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    IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT MY HUSBAND LEE AND HIS CURRENT SITUATION--
     
     
    Here is
    Lee's latest. We do the 'natural antibiotic' thing, until he gets a
    serious bout that we can't control. His fever goes up, he gets dizzy,
    and we take him to the hospital, and they check him into a room and
    pump intraveneous antibiotics into him. He's on Ursodiol and he upped
    the amt. he takes and besides, I think it took several mos. to
    start 'kicking in', but I think maybe it's taking some good effect
    now. He also takes pain pills. OK, the last time he was in the
    hospital, we'd been using 'natural antibiotic juice' with oregano oil
    and garlic extract, etc., and since then we've switched to straight
    pills- you have to have a strength of at least 18% oleuropein in your olive
    leaf extract, and we use the tablets, and we do have the cinnamon
    caps and some strong garlic tabs with allicin intact, and he takes
    the 'big three' combo. Also, liver helpers like milk thistle seed,
    and more. He also 'fills in' with good probiotics between the natural
    antibiotics. We're trying to get it to where, instead of them
    insisting on checking into the hospital, they would take him on an
    outpatient basis for the intraveneous antibiotics, even if he has to
    go in multiple times daily for several days. He had some symptoms
    some days ago, with the fever, and we thought it might mean hospital
    trip again, he even packed, but we tried our 'big three' and it
    worked. I think his liver (bad numbers) probably even took over, and
    perhaps not so great on the creatinine kidney readings, too. It might
    have even gone into the cirrohosis zone for liver readings, had we
    had it checked- intererstingly, when that happens, and when he's out
    of the hospital, the numbers get pretty good later, and not that many
    days later. I think he's even back to pretty good numbers again by
    now. He also took a trip to Denver VA hospital and they did a dye
    test, and where they did the reconstructive surgery after they
    severed his bile duct, the reason he has cholangitis with e. coli
    now, is too narrow. The scar tissue that grows around where they took
    a rerouted peice of his intestine and made a 'bile duct' - attached
    to his liver- out of it, has formed to make the opening too narrow,
    and they want to do yet another procedure. It will involve a balloon
    to open it up more, and they will put another temporary bile bag in
    another hole they put in him, with one end of the bag attached to his
    liver and the tube coming outside and a bag attached to the end. It
    will involve around three days in the hospital, and we don't know how
    long the bile bag will be there. We aren't looking forward to that,
    but we pretty much do as he's told. Anyway, thought maybe someone
    would benefit from the 'strong olive leaf extract, cinnamon and good
    garlic with allicin' pills advice for natural antibiotics. We're
    having great success with them- so far, knock wood- along with the
    Urso. Hope all of you who are dealing with your Cholangitis and your
    own stories are doing ok, I know this is a 'toughie'!-"Cheyenne Cin"
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    #2978 From: Lee & Cindy <leeandcindy@...>
    Date: Mon Jun 5, 2006 3:42 pm
    Subject:: Use Buckwheat Honey-dark,rich and malty,NEVER Aspartame(Nutrasweet),more     		cheyennecin
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    Okay, we know you probably don't have a yellow-capped squeezy bear of buckwheat honey in your pantry. But the next time you're in a natural-foods grocery or speciality market, pick up a jar. Although several types of honey have some antioxidant effects, researchers have pronounced buckwheat honey far and away the star. And buckwheat itself (think pancake mixes, Japanese soba noodles) is being investigated as a "functional food," thanks both to its high levels of protein, fiber, and minerals, and its lab-tested ability to reduce body fat and cholesterol and even prevent gallstones. So the next time you're making yourself a cuppa, try sweetening it with something that's got a lot more going for it than sugar's empty calories.

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    High protein buckwheat flour suppresses hypercholesterolemia in rats and gallstone formation in mice by hypercholesterolemic diet and body fat in rats because of its low protein digestibility.

    Tomotake H, Yamamoto N, Yanaka N, Ohinata H, Yamazaki R, Kayashita J, Kato N.

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    OBJECTIVE: This study evaluated the physiologic properties of high protein buckwheat flour (PBF) by examining its effects on serum cholesterol and body fat in rats and on cholesterol gallstone formation in mice. METHODS: Animals were fed experimental diets that contained casein, buckwheat protein extract (BWP), or PBF as a protein source (net protein content 200 g/kg). RESULTS: In experiment 1, consumption of PBF and BWP for 10 d caused 33% and 31% decreases, respectively, in serum cholesterol of rats fed cholesterol-enriched diets when compared with consumption of casein (P < 0.05). Dietary PBF caused a significant decrease in liver cholesterol, whereas dietary BWP caused only a slight decrease (P > 0.05). Fecal excretion of neutral and acidic steroids in the PBF group was significantly higher than those in the BWP and casein groups. In experiment 2, consumption of PBF for 10 d significantly suppressed adipose tissue weight and hepatic activity of fatty acid synthase in rats fed cholesterol-free diets compared with consumption of casein (P < 0.05), whereas that of BWP for this period caused only a slight decrease in adipose tissue weight (P > 0.05). In experiment 3, dietary PBF and BWP significantly decreased the incidence of cholesterol gallstones and lithogenic index in mice fed cholesterol-enriched diets for 27 d, which was associated with increased fecal excretion of acidic steroids. CONCLUSION: This study demonstrated that PBF has strong activities against hypercholesterolemia, obesity, and gallstone formation, suggesting a potential usefulness of PBF as functional ingredient.

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    #2977 From: Lee & Cindy <leeandcindy@...>
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    natural substitutes Ursodeoxycholic Acid UDCA Actigall Urso-
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     The active ingredient in bear bile, ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA)
     
     
     
     
     

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    The Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine (RCHM), the leading UK professional body dealing with the registration and standards of practitioners of Chinese herbal medicine, strictly prohibits the use of bear bile on the following grounds:

    1. It is wholly unacceptable for healthcare professionals to use medicinal substances derived from endangered species.

    2. The production of medicinal substances involving inhumane methods is unacceptable on ethical grounds.

    3. In most cases alternatives to the use of bear bile can be found among plant medicines with similar therapeutic functions.

    Anthony Harrison
    Vice President RCHM

    Alternatives to Bear Bile
    Herbs

    A report by the Chinese Association of Medicine and Philosophy and EarthCare has established that there
     
    are at least 54 herbal alternatives to bear bile including Chinese Ivy stem, Dandelion, Chrysanthemum,
     
     
    Common Sage and Rhubarb. The alternatives are both cheap and effective.
     
     
     
    Professor Liu Zhen Cai, Sichuan, China


    “Give up bear gall bladder and use herbal substitutes.”
     
    Dr. Lo Yan Wo
    National Association of Chinese Medicine
    Hong Kong Chinese Herbalist Association, Hong Kong
    Practicing Pharmacists Association, Hong Kong

    Synthetics

    • The active ingredient in bear bile, UDCA, was first synthesised in 1954 in Japan from dead chickens and is proven to be efficacious in treating liver disease.

    • Ironically far more synthetic bile is consumed in Asia than bear bile - Japan, Korea and China together consume 100 tonnes of synthetic bile annually. (World consumption is estimated to be double this figure.)

    • Synthesised UDCA (using cow or pig bile - and even no animal parts) is a safe medicine with no side effects. It has been successfully used worldwide to treat gallstones, primary cirrhosis, autoimmune hepatitis and colon cancer.

    • The generic drug name for UDCA is ursodiol. Brand names for UDCA include Actigall and Urso (US); Destolit, Urdox, Ursofalk, and Ursogal (UK); Ursotan (South Africa).

    • Clinical studies are currently being conducted on the use of UDCA in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C and cancer.

    • The latest medical research in 2002 in America, has shown that bile acid is able to cross the blood-brain barrier and may be beneficial in treating Parkinson's, Huntington's and Alzheimer's disease. Researchers stress that this bile acid can be produced synthetically.

    • Professor Clifford J. Steer M.D., Professor of Medicine and Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, is at the forefront of groundbreaking research into the application of synthetic UDCA in the treatment of Huntington's Disease. He has confirmed that UDCA can be synthesised without the use of animals - and costs pennies to produce.
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    Traditional Medicine

    Bear Bile    
         

    Bear bile is a prized ingredient of Traditional Medicine with a 3,000-year history of usage. The bile liquid within bear gall bladders is classed as a "bitter, cold" medicine with the function of expelling heat in the body. It is used to treat heat-related illnesses such as high temperatures, liver complaints and sore eyes. Bear bile medicines are used in China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam and countries across the world with significant Asian populations.

    The active ingredient in bear bile, ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA), is more abundant in bears than in any other animal. However, Chinese medical practitioners stress that all bear bile products can be easily replaced by herbal or synthetic alternatives, which are cheaper, more readily available and just as effective.

    The main products of bear farms are dry bile powder and some Chinese patent medicines. Bear bile is used mainly as a secondary element with limited composition. The use of bear bile can be divided into two categories; bear bile as medicine, (both treatment and preventative,) and bear bile as tonics and food. China's state pharmacopoeia asserts that its actions include

    • removing heat from the liver

    • relieving convulsions and spasms

    • improving acuity of vision

    • clearing away heat and toxic materials

    There are 28 kinds of patent medicine containing bear bile, which are divided as follows:

    • 15 used in ophthalmology

    • 8 in external surgery

    • 4 in internal medicine (vascular and gastric illnesses)

    • 1 in cancer treatment.

    Production

    The output of dry bile powder from each individual bear is approximately 2 kg per year on average. Before bear farms began to produce bile in large quantities the domestic demand was only 500 kilos annually. Today this has risen dramatically to 4000 kilos and the annual output of dry bile powder from 1994-1998 was approximately 7 tonnes - nearly twice the demand.

    Tragically, because the market has been saturated with bear bile, many farmers have now turned to producing non-essential products, such as throat lozenges, shampoo, wine and tea, in order to utilise the surplus. These products have no known health benefit, but allow the farmer to continue making a profit by exploiting the symbol of a majestic species and the trusting minds of naive consumers.

    Price

    The retail price of farmed bear bile in China varies from province to province. Research in March 2004 by Animals Asia investigators in Sichuan Province revealed that the wholesale price of bear bile powder was RMB4,700 (US$604) per kg. A whole gall bladder in South Korea sells for about US$10,000, whilst in Japan the average price for a wild bear gall bladder is US$33 per gram.

    		  
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    HERBAL INGREDIENTS:  Proprietary blend of standardized herbal extracts of Artichoke (Cynara scolymus), Catnip (Nepeta cataria), Chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla), Chicory Root (Chicorium intybus), Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara), Dandelion Root (Taraxacum officinale), Fennel Seed (Foeniculum vulgare), Ginger Root (Zingiber officinalis), Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum), Oregon Grape Root (Mahonia aquifolium), Parsley Leaf (Petroselinum crispum), Peppermint Leaf (Mentha piperita), Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius), and Wild Yam (Dioscorea villosa). Also contains Vitamin C.
     
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    Bear gall bladder and bile Bears are the only mammals to produce large amounts of bile (ursodeoxycholic acid). This is used in traditional Chinese medicine, although herbal and synthetic alternatives are available. Bears are hunted and killed for their gall bladders and other body parts. The Asiatic black bear is most commonly associated with this practice but other species have also been targeted. Bear farms were set up as an alternative to killing bears in the wild. Thousands of bears were trapped and are now kept on farms where their bile is removed either through permanent catheters or during operations. Bear farming is most common in China, Vietnam and Korea.
    Poaching black bears for their gall bladders has occurred in the US and Canada.
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    Bear bile from the bear gall bladder is one of the most treasured of traditional Chinese medicines.
    Prescriptions for bear gall first appeared in writing in the 7th century (Bensky and Gamble 1986).
    Bear bile is believed to have special qualities to treat ailments of the liver, stomach and a diverse illnesses from fever to digestive disorders.
    As Asian bear populations decline and wild bear bile and other bear parts become more difficult to obtain, sources of bear parts outside Asia will be developed by traders and others willing to make significant profits.

    Commercialization of wildlife and unregulated trade have been contributing factors in the reduction and loss of many wildlife species. bear, traditional medicine.
     
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    LEE, my HUSBAND had his BILE DUCT SEVERED in gallbladder surgery almost 2 years ago, and is on Actigall, Urso drug now- synthetic black bear bile. ---
     
     
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    CHOLESTASIS- low or impure bile secretion, info about bile salt replacement
     
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    Synonyms and related keywords: reduced bile formation, reduced bile flow, bile duct obstruction
     
     
    Fats cannot be digested without bile, which is made in the liver, stored in the gallbladder, and released as needed into the small intestine. Bile (specific bile "acids"), acts somewhat like a detergent, breaking apart the fat into tiny droplets so that it can be acted upon by intestinal enzymes and absorbed. Bile is also essential for the absorption of vitamins A, D, E, and K, the fat soluble vitamins. After digestion, bile acids are reabsorbed by the intestine, returned to the liver, and recycled as bile once again.
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    Actually, because Lee's bile duct was severed and he can't pour the bile back in, I'm looking for something to help him replace lost bile salts. However, for those with sluggish bile output, I keep seeing "Sam-e" helps to get the liver healthy and bile flowing. http://www.youngagain.com/same1.html
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    I found out that sometimes people without their gallbladders, and pregnant women also suffer from
    Cholestasis, so here is something from the help for pregnant women site: (apparently their bile gets
    impure sometimes, although not slowed down, and I am not taking much from this site)
     
    Ursodeoxycholic Acid - UDCA (Actigall, Urso)
    UDCA is one of the most important treatments. It's natural bile acid composition improves liver funtion by replacing the more toxic bile acids in bloodstream. Studies have shown that it also improves bile acid transport.
     
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    also, not for Lee but for some, watermelon is good: (I'd watch the 'sugar candy' suggestion with it, however-Cindy)
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    Taurocholic acid, sodium salt
    taurocholic acid from cattle bile which is a by-product of the meat processing industry.
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    Glossary: Bile
     
    (There's lots more on this page)
     
     
    Biliary Dyskinesia

    Related Topic
    "Inability to secrete bile..."
    Cholestasis
    Related Topic
    "Cessation or suppression of bile flow..."

    Cholestatic
    Related Topic
    "Often Cholestatic liver disorder: An arrest in the flow of bile from the liver..."
    Consequences of Gallbladder Surgery
    The Condition
    "...One of the most serious complications of gallbladder surgery is injury to the common bile duct..."

    Recommendation Low/Decreased Fat Diet
    "...Fat is the primary stimulus for bile acid production..."

    Recommendation High/Increased Fiber Diet
    "Dietary fiber (which is only present in plant foods) will combine and deactivate bile acids, thus protecting the bowel..."

    Recommendation Activated Charcoal
    "If a change in your diet fails to relieve diarrhea, then the next step in treatment is to use bile acid sequestering agents, such as activated charcoal or doctor-prescribed cholestyramine (Questran) or colestipol (Colestid)..."

    Recommendation Bile Salts
    "Once a gallbladder is removed it is important to be on bile acid supplements..."

    Cystic Fibrosis
    Recommendation Bile Salts
    "...Pancreatic enzymes and bile salts may help..."

    Dandelion Root (Taraxicum officinale)
    As A Treatment
    "Stimulates the flow of bile and is a liver and digestive tonic..."
    Diarrhea
    The Condition
    "...Bile salt deficiency due to biliary tract obstruction, cholestatic liver disease, bacterial overgrowth or excessive stool losses (IBD, terminal ileal resection) also can lead to maldigestion but..."

    Digestive Enzyme Need
    Recommendation Bromelain
    "...The combination of ox bile, pancreatin, and bromelain is effective in lowering stool fat excretion in patients with pancreatic insufficiency and resulting in a symptomatic improvement in pain, flatulence and stool frequency..."

    Dosha
    Related Topic
    "...They are vata, pitta and kapha, represented in the body by wind, bile and mucus respectively..."
     
    Recommendation against Ginger Root (Zingiber officinalis)
    "...large doses of dried ginger extract) if you have gallstones because it increases bile flow..."

    Recommendation Beets
    "Consuming beets, or beet extracts, and taurine has been shown to thin bile and cause it to flow more freely..."
     
    General Detoxification Requirement
    The Condition
    "...The liver helps transform many toxic substances into harmless agents, dumping them via bile into the intestines for passage out of the body..."
     
    Giardiasis Infection
    The Condition
    "...This diet will ensure adequate amounts of lignins and insoluble and soluble fibers are consumed, which can increase mucin production in the small bowel, sequester bile acids, and help to mechanically sweep trophozoites out of the small intestine..."
     
    Recommendation Low/Decreased Fat Diet
    "...Dietary fat is also the main stimulator for the release of bile acids into the intestinal lumen, which giardia trophozoites depend on for survival in the small bowel..."
     
    Glycine
    As A Treatment
    "...Necessary for the synthesis of bile acids, nucleic acids and other amino acids..."
     
    Jaundice
    The Condition
    "...Normally the bilirubin is removed from the bloodstream by the liver and eliminated from the body in the bile, which passes from the liver into the intestines..."

    Liver
    Related Topic
    "...It has many important functions, such as removing harmful material from the blood, making enzymes and bile that help digest food, and converting food into substances needed for life and growth..."

    Liver Detoxification / Support Requirement
    The Condition
    "...The congested or sluggish liver is characterized by a diminished bile flow, a condition known in medical terms as cholestasis, while impaired hepatic detoxification refers to decreased phase I and/or phase II enzyme activity..."

    Recommendation Coffee Enema
    "The coffee enema causes the liver to produce more bile (which contains processed toxins) and moves bile out towards the small intestine for elimination..."
     
    Liver/Gall Bladder Flush
    As A Treatment
    "...A different cathartic such as Citroma (magnesium citrate) can be used, but Epsom salts may be best because it helps relax bile ducts and valves..."
     
    Low Total Cholesterol
    The Condition
    "...Fat absorption requires the presence of bile as an emulsifier..."
    Our Question about yellow skin tone
    "Jaundice may be due to blockage of the bile duct from the inflamed pancreas..."
     
    Peritonitis
    The Condition
    "...The condition can also occur when pancreatic enzymes leak into the peritoneum during pancreatitis or when bile leaks from the biliary tract due to injury because these chemicals can irritate the peritoneum..."
    Probiotics
    As A Treatment
    "...Problems with Lactobacillus administration include the failure of organisms to adhere to the intestinal mucosa or to survive damage from gastric acid and bile..."

    Problems Caused By Being Overweight
    Relationship to Gallbladder Disease
    "...This may be a result of lower levels of bile salts relative to cholesterol in the bile causing a higher risk for cholesterol supersaturation and the formation of stones..."
     
    Sulfur Requirement
    The Condition
    "...Sulfur contributes to fat digestion and absorption, because it is needed to make bile acids..."

    Taurine
    Related Topic
    "...Taurine's role in bile formation is important for fat metabolism and blood cholesterol control..."

    Turmeric Extract, Curcumin
    As A Treatment
    "...It is believed to be converted to a bile production stimulating compound, perhaps caffeic acid..."
    Vitamin E Requirement
    The Condition
    "...Bile salts, produced in the liver, are required for the absorption of fats..."
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    Fibre in flax is famous for its effect of lowering cholesterol, probably because it prevents cholesterol and bile acids from being reabsorbed into the body. Instead, they attach to the fibre and are carried out of the body with the wastes. Finally, fibre is known for its ability to soften the stool, prevent constipation, and maintain regularity.
     
     
    The natural dietary fiber in flax seed is not digested in the stomach, passing instead to the large intestine (colon), where it acts like a sponge drawing water to the stool and increasing the number of bacteria in the colon. Both contribute to a larger, softer and easier-to-pass stool. Experts also recommend plenty of water, regular exercise, and avoidance of long-term use of over-the-counter laxatives.
     

    Two tablespoons of flax seed stirred into a glass of boiling water will thicken up quickly and have the consistency of a pudding. To use flax as a laxative, drink the mixture before it thickens…the thickening will occur in the stomach. The unbroken flax seed, protected by the shell, will pass through the digestive system without breaking down.

    For a person’s body to digest flax seeds and benefit for their many nutritional qualities, including the oils, the shell or hull must be broken.

    The mucilage formed by flax can serve another important purpose: the repair of damage caused by taking massive doses of antibiotics. The friendly bacteria in a person’s intestines are destroyed in large quantities if he or she takes antibiotics, birth control pills, or other drugs, especially for a prolonged period. Chronic constipation may develop. Flax mucilage assists intestinal flora in re-establishing itself.

    Scientists have found that both the soluble and insoluble types of fiber in flax seed are beneficial. Two-thirds of the fiber in flax is insoluble, consisting of cellulose and lignin. This fiber cleans out the intestines, reducing bowel transit time, therefore helping a person to avoid constipation. The other one-third (soluble) plays an important role in reducing serum cholesterol levels and helps to regulate blood glucose levels.

    Some people develop diarrhea after stomach surgery or removal of the gall bladder. The reason may be a change in how quickly food moves through the digestive system after stomach surgery or an increase in bile in the colon that can occur after gallbladder surgery. In many cases, the cause of diarrhea cannot be found. As long as diarrhea goes away on its own, an extensive search for the cause is not usually necessary.

    How and why does flax seed work so well?
    Flaxseed works in an excellent manner for individuals suffering from common constipation or diarrhea because it moves thorough the digestive tract quickly and results in softer stools. As noted, doctors and nutritionists say it is important to drink water directly after consuming flax seed since it absorbs 10 to 14 times its weight in liquid. Flax seed will help cleanse the colon and continued usage can help avoid colon cancer.

    For persons with chronic diarrhea or IBS, flax seed will add substance to their stool

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    I am thinking more about the effects in the mouth, on teeth and gums, for sucking on a clean silver coin, than of colloidal silver. However, for search purposes, It's much easier to insert the word 'colloidal' --'Cheyenne Cin'-P.S. So I guess what I'm thinking here is that you don't need the 'colloidal' kind, if you have a good clean silver coin larger than something you could accidentally swallow, USE THAT! (As long as you don't mind having it held in place by your teeth!)
     
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    SUCKING ON A CLEAN SILVER COIN (NOT STERLING SILVER!)  (Held in place by teeth)--

     

    I am going to put this here, because I really haven't found any good info. Was thinking about loose teeth (in front)-- and how to hold them in place to a great degree, allowng them potentially to tighten up. Haven't seen any really good options for 'do it yourself at home', so got to thinking about old pure (or almost pure) silver coins, cleaned up of course. What if you insert a silver coin - too large to swallow - between your top and bottom teeth in front, and just sort of keep it there, except when you are eating, drinking or sleeping, etc... and it might give the loose tooth some relief, while also being a healthy additive for the benefits of silver itself! However, I couldn't find anything about this -- maybe haven't done a thorough enough search yet!-"Cheyenne Cin"

     
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    Excerpts from History and Uses of Colloidal Silver  

    Everyone knows what silver is.  It’s the white, shiny metal used to make jewelry, cutlery, and coins, not to mention the bullets of a certain legendary masked man who rode a horse by that name.  But besides all its beauty, ordinary metallic silver has legendary properties.  In ancient Greece and Rome, those who could afford it often stored their perishable liquids in silver containers, because the metal helped retard the growth of microorganisms that spoil food.  Prior to the development of refrigeration, it was once common to drop a silver coin into a container of milk to retard spoilage.  Hence, the old saying "born with a silver-spoon in his mouth" which means deriving from a rich family.  But, the real reason why rich-people fed their children food on silver spoons is because they knew that microscopic bugs can't survive on silver.

    In order to use one of the most effective types of silver available, the authors used mild silver protein (MSP).  Combining silver with protein enhances the mineral's action.  The protein acts as a stabilizer and solubilizer for the silver particles, preventing them from combining with each other to form ever-larger particles that would settle out of suspension.

    Mild Silver Protein, a patent-pending stabilized form of colloidal silver, may be an alternative choice.  It is made from atoms (not ions), has no known side effects, and does not lead to the development of resistant organisms.

    Can these statements possibly be true?  If so, why do so few physicians know about it?  To answer these questions, we need to know a little something about the history of silver-based alternatives.

    In more modern times, the development of silver-based therapies closely paralleled the growing awareness of supporting a healthy body.  Silver’s action was first documented during the late 1800s.  A few years after Louis Pasteur in France and Ignaz Semmelweis in Hungary began touting the benefits of high temperatures and hand washing, respectively, silver therapy pioneers such as Lea, Crookes, and Credé, began developing early colloidal silver products that appeared to support optimum health.

    Beginning in the early 1900s, it became common practice to place a few drops of silver nitrate solution in the eyes of newborn babies at birth to help with eye health.

    Side Effects:  A condition known as argyria can result with silver made from ions (most other silver products on the market).  This well-known effect of an overdose of silver salts appears as a permanent ashen-grey discoloration of the skin, conjunctiva, and internal organs.  As for safety, argyria is not a recognized side effect of this product - Mild Colloidal Silver Protein.  It does not cause argyria with prolonged use of high doses.  The scientists found that their colloidal silver product was effective, yet completely nontoxic.  

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    SILVER is currently the most interesting precious metal for me to study
    because it's so much cheaper and available than gold, platininum, iridium,
    etc. I have on hand a couple of .999 fine silver rounds (1 OZ pure silver
    coins available at any coin store for about $6.00 each now]. "Sterling
    Silver" is NOT pure silver.

    If many of these elements have similar beneficial effects, why not start
    with the easiest test?

    Wanting keep this as simple and cheap as possible, I took two silver coins,
    dipped them partly in a plastic cup of the well water I drink, and hooked
    them up to a 12 volt batter charger. A few minutes later:

    VOILA! COLLOIDAL SILVER!

    I REALLY LIKE this solution because it uses only things I already have to
    hand, and is thus FREE and INSTANT! I quickly get a small streamer of
    silver "smoke" drifting down from the positive electrode. The current is so
    small the needle on the charging meter hardly twitches from zero. The
    colloid mostly drifts to the bottom of the cup. I keep the apparatus in
    heavy shade to minimize discoloration. I stir or shake the cup to mix the
    silver, and drink it. I cook about a quart of the mixture for several hours
    or even overnight to get something that is opaque when shaken. I keep it in
    an insulated drink cup with a snap lid that keeps the light out and allows
    me to shake it without spilling. The mixture starts out as a
    whitish-silvery-gray, and darkens over a few days or a week to a milk
    chocolate or sepia color. The slightly metalic taste is mild in the lighter
    colors, and gets more pronounced as the mixture darkens, but is still
    palatable even when the appearance has gotten dark and funky.

    The electrodes darken and discolor, and my positive electrode gets a
    yellowish coating which is easily wiped off, but after many hours of
    electrolysis, I see no physical erosion of the the coins themselves, so the
    amount of silver used is incredibly small. [They look pretty funky though,
    so don't plan on selling them back to the coin store.] I've read somewhere
    recently that the colloid particle size is supposed to be around 15
    molecules, but I don't remember the source. The speed of the reaction
    appears to slow down when the electrodes get dirty, so I scrub them off with
    a nylon scrub pad after a few hours when they start to look ratty.

    I've been experimenting with these for roughly two weeks now. I generally
    drink a few swallows of it several times a day, but have not been consistent
    or rigorous. I haven't measured my intake, but I've been swilling down a
    lot of this stuff, maybe a pint or more a day of really dense mixture. My
    observations follow:

    The only possible negative side effect I have observed is minor abdominal
    bloated feeling and minor diarrhea several times for a few hours. I thought
    I might be killing off some of my intestinal flora, and ate a little sour
    cream or yogurt each time. I don't know if the problem was caused by the
    silver colloid or cured by the bacterial infusion, but it was a minor
    annoyance at worst.

    The taste of the silver colloid itself is rather mild, but it causes a very
    large change in the taste of other things that you consume afterwards.
    After you have the silver in your mouth, other things will taste really wierd.

    I was particulary interested in reports that the silver colloid is useful
    for dental/gum problems, which I suffer from. I did notice that sensitive
    inflamed gums around three teeth subsided in a day or so after several times
    holding the mixture in my mouth and swishing it around on the problem area.
    I can't say that my overall condition has changed greatly, but at least the
    immediate effect seems to be positive. [Its hard for me to assess changes
    in this condition, which has persisted for many years, but I will be
    watching this area.]

    It seemed to me that my liver was very active for the first day or two I was
    drinking the silver. I have no real data, but it occurred to me that if I
    did have any parasites in my liver, I might be experiencing their death
    throes and cleanup.

    I had a minor burn on my arm which was not bad enough to blister, but which
    was red and mildly but steadily painful. I dipped my hand in the silver I
    was drinking, and rubbed it on the burn. The next time I thought of it was
    than night, when I realized that he pain had stopped within a few seconds
    and never returned. The redness slowly faded over a few days. The claims
    of the silver proponents that it is very good for burns seem to be very true
    in my experience. I would definitly try the silver colloid again in any
    burn situation I was exposed to.

    I think that drinking the silver has reduced my appetite, and put me into a
    more positive frame of mind, where I am concentrating more on what I want to
    go right, and less on what has or might go wrong. I feel generally more
    focussed. I have lost 5 or 10 pounds in the last couple of weeks. It's
    very hard to sort out the variables here, as a number of other things in my
    life have also changed in the last two weeks, but I cautiously feel the
    silver has been beneficial to me, and possibly very beneficial.

    I'm very sure I have seen no serious negative effects. After several weeks
    I am still drinking it fairly regularly, which for me is a pretty strong
    endorsement.


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    #2973 From: Lee & Cindy <leeandcindy@...>
    Date: Sat Jun 3, 2006 7:02 pm
    Subject:: Now I lay me down to sleep, "Wannabe Slender & Young" woman's prayer     		cheyennecin
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    N    ow I lay me   http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001       Down to sleep  http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001        I pray the Lord  http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001         My shape to keep.   image004.gif

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    #2972 From: Lee & Cindy <leeandcindy@...>
    Date: Sat Jun 3, 2006 3:56 pm
    Subject:: Re: Digestion,"GERD",acid reflux,lack of HCl,being over age 70,stomach,etc..     		cheyennecin
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    NOTE THAT FROM MY RESEARCH, the LICORICE is not the ANSWER, the HCl is! LICORICE might be helpful for coating and soothing. But the DIGESTION has to be revved, and if you are at an age when the reason they have you on the HORRIBLE Prilosec antacid is because you are no longer digesting, and your food has been rotting, and causing heartburn from LACTIC ACID, you don't need further antacids, you need to put the Hydrochloric (stomach, digestive) acid BACK in, so the food doesn't rot and the lactic acid doesn't form - along with bacteria, viruses, parasites and all of the stuff that accompanies rotting food! ---"Cheyenne Cin"

     
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    Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 2:54 PM
    Subject: Re: [WNHO-Aspartame-Information] hi guys..(Acidity,cancer, Prilosec, etc.) Note to Aspartame Information List from Betty

    This is excellent information which I knew about.  I printed this out
    from the web site, and whereas it looked like one page there were
    many.  I thought I would take this time to warn aspartame victims
    about Prilosec.  So many victims suffer with heartburn, especially if
    they have been drinking lots of diet pop with phosphoric acid.

    I live in Atlanta, Georgia, home of Coca Cola and while I never used
    diet drinks I grew up on Coca Cola, as a little girl when they still
    used citric acid instead of phosphoric.   I quit the day I read the
    protest of the National Soft Drink Association admitting to the
    dangers of aspartame, because the pop companies turned around and put
    this toxin in soda with full knowledge.  I have boycotted and asked
    others to do the same ever since, and listed the boycott with the
    Boycott Quarterly.   Why give them profit for poisoning the world and
    even regular pop is not good for you?  However, Coke makes a good
    toilet cleaner because it has phosphoric acid which is what is used
    for these type cleaning products.

    Two or three years ago I saw a gastroenterologist because of
    heartburn  and  a hiatal hernia.  He told me to just use Prilosec for
    life.  At the time I said to him:  "I think that's a bad idea because
    you need acid to digest your food and Prilosec is a proton pump
    inhibitor. "  He said simply "don't worry about it".   So when I
    started using it, I thought I would just use it awhile, I knew
    better.  Sometimes its simple to take a pill and not have the problem
    and I stay so busy I had meant to do something.

    About a month or so ago I was getting ready to leave town and got a
    severe pain on the right side you couldn't ignore.  I mentioned it to
    my physician who said to go to the hospital which I didn't want to
    do.  I thought it had something to do with the reflux and I knew they
    would do studies for everything but which they did.  And I can tell
    you an hour in an ER these days will cost you about $2500.00.  I left
    with the same pain I came with.

    And when I saw my physician he told me it was reflux.  Later I woke
    up with reflux so bad I felt like I had a strep throat and I sounded
    like I had bronchitis requiring me to reschedule  radio shows because
    it was hard to speak.

    I went ahead and had an endoscopy which showed bile in the
    tummy.   When bile backs up into the stomach it means there isn't
    enough stomach acid to digest food and the stomach becomes alkaline
    with the bile.  So, it's not acid reflux but bile reflux.  I should
    have never listened to the first gastroenterologist.   I was right
    about the Prilosec.

    Dr. Blaylock in Health & Nutrition Secrets To Save Your Life
    (www.russellblaylockmd.com) goes into the fact that proper acidity is
    critical to proper digestion and when the stomach's acid level is
    low, bacteria and viruses can colonize the GI tract.  As we age our
    ability to maintain stomach acidity decreases.  Dr. Blaylock says
    after age sixty, over 50% of people suffer from low stomach acidity
    associated with a number of conditions such as chronic autoimmune
    diseases, food allergies, gastritis, pernicious anemia.  He tells you
    that even small decreases in pancreatic enzyme activation can produce
    serious digestion problems which can lead to abdominal bloating,
    cramping pains, upset stomach.  It also leads to malnutrition since
    absorption of vital nutrients including vitamins and minerals is impaired.

    Like I said, I knew better and I immediately stopped the
    Prilosec.  The pain in my right side disappeared as did the
    heartburn.  I have nothing left but a soreness to remind me always
    practice what I preach.  And this is why I told people on this list
    to get Dr. Blaylock's book because it goes into so many things
    aspartame victims are suffering from and will tell you how to get
    well.  In this case pancreatic enzymes are so important which I have
    always known and which Dr. Blaylock mentioned and Dr. Carolyn Dean
    told me about them too.

    Dr. Bowen told me to just take licorice, and Dr. Carolyn Dean gave me
    an excellent web site which I will give you later.   Licorice is
    suppose to promote a healthy stomach lining and intestinal flora but
    I was using the wrong kind.  You have to use deglycyrrhizinated
    licorice.  In this case the glycyrrhetinic and glycyrrhizinic acids
    have been removed.  The acids are associated with high blood pressure.

    Prilosec  has been associated with pneumonia and clostridia
    infections in hospitals, and they are trying to cover it up,
    according to one physician.  This explains the problems in my
    bronchial tubes which immediately went away when I stopped the Prilosec.

    Here is the web site Dr. Dean gave me for the right kind of licorice:
    She recommended Planetary Formulas brand or Ecological Formulas
    <http://vitanetonline.com/description/PF0501/vitamins/DGL-Licorice/>http://vitanetonline.com/description/PF0501/vitamins/DGL-Licorice/


    Now about this gastroenterologist.  When I meet a new physician I
    always bring a packet on aspartame.  And usually I have no trouble
    convincing them if I can talk to them, bring books for them to see,
    and reports.  In fact, one physician told me:  "Is this my assignment
    for today" as I dropped a packet of papers in his lap.  I said, "You
    have to keep up with new research".  Remember for every physician who
    knows about aspartame he can save thousands of his patients.  But
    this particular gastroenterologist was hard-headed.  He said, "I
    don't have time to read this." and I replied, "So I don't have time
    for an endoscopy."  I explained that aspartame causes irritable bowel
    syndrome (IBS)  big time and other gastrointestinal problems and  he
    needed to know about it so he could get his patients off of it.  So
    he was going to read.

    When I came back for the endoscopy I said, "well, did you read it?"
    and he hadn't.  The room had doctors and medical personnel.  So I
    said, "Doctor, patients go from doctor to doctor as Dr Roberts says
    in his books, paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for needless
    surgery and diagnostic studies, when only getting off aspartame will
    help.  70% of the population is using it and a good deal of your
    patients.  They can't get well as long as they use it.  Have you
    forgotten "First Do No Harm", don't you want to stop human
    suffering?  Well, I was embarrassing him in front of others so again
    he agreed to read it.  But I noticed they quickly released the anesthesia.

    So a couple of days later I was in Barnes & Noble and decided to see
    what books they had on irritable bowel syndrome and  would you
    believe there was one by our Dr. Carolyn Dean I didn't know about -
    Irritable Bowel Syndrome for Dummies!  And, of course, aspartame was
    in it.   Incidentally if you want Dr. Dean's books you can go to her
    web site.  She has also written an excellent book, The Miracle of
    Magnesium, and as you know everyone has to take it to protect the
    brain and heart from excitotoxins.  She also wrote Death of Modern Medicine.

    Soon we're going to have all the aspartame detoxification centers
    listed because so many patients can't find a physician who knows
    about aspartame.  And Dr. Dean does phone consultations.  Here is her
    information:

    Dr. Carolyn Dean MD ND: <http://www.carolyndean.com>http://www.carolyndean.com
    Telephone Consultations and Books:
    <http://www.carolyndean.com/store>http://www.carolyndean.com/store
    Medical Advisor to Yeast Connection
    <http://www.yeastconnection.com>http://www.yeastconnection.com

    As I've told you before the aspartame experts have all the true facts
    and all the answers, take advantage of the resources.

    I'll see if this gastroenterologist has finally read the material on
    aspartame and if so I'll make him a gift of Dr. Dean's
    book.  Otherwise, I think I need to avoid gastroenterologists.

    Interestingly, once I got off Prilosec the licorice began to help as
    Dr. Bowen had said.  As long as I was on Prilosec nothing
    worked.  Its like with aspartame, until you get off of it nothing is
    going to help as Dr. Roberts says so many times in his books.
    (www.sunsentpress.com)

    I happen to be talking to a friend of mine about the Prilosec and she
    said, "My husband uses it too, and he has problems with bile in his
    stomach".  This stuff is sold across the counter and who knows how
    many millions are using it.  Every problem I had has been caused by
    it.  Be warned.  Read on, the web sites below from Moon.  Also, Dr.
    Blaylock does have a book on cancer - "Natural Strategies for Cancer
    Patients".

    All my best,
    Betty

    At 09:38 PM 5/28/2006, Moondancermom@... wrote:
    >The American Cancer Society is a Big Pharma criminal entity that is
    >more about profit than prevention, and has a significant financial
    >interest in continuing the lies about cancer.  Just like the rest of
    >the criminal medical industry, they do not want the public to know
    >that cancer is curable and can be easily prevented with an organic
    >healthy diet 60% alkaline/40% acid, and exercise.
    >
    >
    >The cause of cancer is due to acidosis...........
    >
    >Commonly-consumed acid-forming foods and beverages include meat, processed foods, preservatives, artificial sweetners, and other
    >synthetic food toxins, dairy products, sugar, soda, coffee, and
    >alcohol. Environmental exposure to solvents, herbicides, pesticides
    >and other chemical toxins boost our tendency to become acidic.
    >
    >Understanding the acid/alkaline balance, the following summary makes perfect sense:
    >
    >The prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of
    >oxygen in normal body cells by a fermentation of sugar.
    >
    >Over 75 years ago, Dr.
    ><http://www.advancedscientifichealth.com/pweb_research_warburg.asp?SID=–0761>Otto
    >Warburg was awarded two Nobel prizes for demonstrating that cancer
    >results when weakened cell respiration occurs due to lack of oxygen
    >at the cellular level. According to
    ><http://www.advancedscientifichealth.com/pweb_research_warburg.asp?SID=–0761>Warburg,
    >damaged cell respiration causes fermentation, resulting in low pH at
    >the cellular level.
    >
    >Dr. http://www.advancedscientifichealth.com/pweb_research_warburg.asp?SID=–0761>Warburg,
    >in his Nobel Prize winning papers, described the environment of the
    >cancer cell: A normal healthy cell undergoes an adverse change when
    >it can no longer take in oxygen to convert glucose into energy. In
    >the absence of oxygen, the cell reverts to a primal nutritional
    >program to nourish itself by converting glucose through the process
    >of fermentation. The lactic acid produced by fermentation lowers the
    >cell pH and destroys the ability of DNA and RNA to control cell
    >division. Cancer cells then begin to multiply without restraint.
    >
    >The lactic acid simultaneously causes severe local pain as it
    >destroys cell enzymes; the cancer appears as a rapidly-growing
    >external cell covering with a core of dead cells. We know cell
    >masses of this description as "tumors."
    >
    >Subsequent research by
    ><http://www.advancedscientifichealth.com/pweb_research_brewer.asp?SID=–0761>Keith
    >Brewer, Ph.D and H.E. Satori has shown that cancer cannot exist when
    >the body's pH is raised to 8.0.
    >
    ><http://www.advancedscientifichealth.com/pweb_research_brewer.asp?SID=–0761>Dr.
    >Brewer developed a protocol to therapeutically raise pH with the
    >element cesium in conjunction with potassium.
    ><http://www.advancedscientifichealth.com/pweb_research_cancer.asp?SID=–0761>http://www.advancedscientifichealth.com/pweb_research_cancer.asp?SID=–0761
    >
    >http://www.heall.com/body/askthedoctor/disease/cancer/orthomolecular.html
    >
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    #2971 From: IBAngelofLight@...
    Date: Sat Jun 3, 2006 3:17 am
    Subject:: Dark soya sauce stops cell damage: study - Breaking News - World -     		ibangel22
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    Dark soya sauce stops cell damage: study
    • June 3, 2006 - 4:34PM
    Dark soya sauce, widely used in Asian cooking, may prove to be more effective than red wine and vitamin C in combating human cell damage, researchers in Singapore say.

    Scientists have found that the sauce - derived from fermented soya beans - contains antioxidant properties about 10 times more effective than red wine and 150 times more potent than vitamin C, Singapore's Strait Times reported on Saturday.

    Antioxidants - found in fruits and vegetables, as well as red wine - counter the effects of free radicals, unstable atoms which attack human cells and tissues.

    Free radicals have been linked to the ageing process as well as a range of ailments including Parkinson's disease, cancer and heart disease.

    The National University of Singapore study also found that the sauce improved blood flow by as much as 50 per cent in the hours after consumption.

    "There's a preventative aspect, showing that it may potentially slow down the rate of cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases," research team leader Professor Barry Halliwell said.

    But he cautioned against taking large amounts of dark soya sauce because of its high salt content, which could lead to high blood pressure.


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    #2970 From: Lee & Cindy <leeandcindy@...>
    Date: Sat Jun 3, 2006 5:24 am
    Subject:: 18 Tricks to Teach Your Body-Soothe burn,cure toothache,clear stuffed nose...     		cheyennecin
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    #5 addresses sinus issues
    #6 addresses acid reflux
    #10 addresses side aches
    # 12 addresses 1st date jitters
    #18 addresses memory

    Don't know if any of this stuff works but it's a fun read anyway!  Happy weekend, folks!
     
     
    18 Tricks to Teach Your Body
    Soothe a burn, cure a toothache, clear a stuffed nose...
    by Kate Dailey, Men's Health; Photograph by Michael Cogliantry; Illustrations by Headcase Design & Zohar Lazar
     

    1. If your throat tickles, scratch your ear.
     
    When you were 9, playing your armpit was a cool trick. Now, as an adult, you can still appreciate a good body-based feat, but you're more discriminating. Take that tickle in your throat; it's not worth gagging over. Here's a better way to scratch your itch: "When the nerves in the ear are stimulated, it creates a reflex in the throat that can cause a muscle spasm," says Scott Schaffer, M.D., president of an ear, nose and throat specialty center in Gibbsboro, New Jersey. "This spasm relieves the tickle."
     
    2. Experience supersonic hearing!
     
    If you're stuck chatting up a mumbler at a cocktail party, lean in with your right ear. It's better than your left at following the rapid rhythms of speech, according to researchers at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. If, on the other hand, you're trying to identify that song playing softly in the elevator, turn your left ear toward the sound. The left ear is better at picking up music tones.
     
    3. Overcome your most primal urge!
     
    Need to pee? No bathroom nearby? Fantasize about Jessica Simpson. Thinking about sex preoccupies your brain, so you won't feel as much discomfort, says Larry Lipshultz, M.D., chief of male reproductive medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine. For best results, try Simpson's "These Boots Are Made for Walking" video.
     
    4. Feel no pain!
     
    German researchers have discovered that coughing during an injection can lessen the pain of the needle stick. According to Taras Usichenko, author of a study on the phenomenon, the trick causes a sudden, temporary rise in pressure in the chest and spinal canal, inhibiting the pain-conducting structures of the spinal cord.
     
    5. Clear your stuffed nose!
     
    Forget Sudafed. An easier, quicker, and cheaper way to relieve sinus pressure is by alternately thrusting your tongue against the roof of your mouth, then pressing between your eyebrows with one finger. This causes the vomer bone, which runs through the nasal passages to the mouth, to rock back and forth, says Lisa DeStefano, D.O., an assistant professor at the Michigan State University college of osteopathic medicine. The motion loosens congestion; after 20 seconds, you'll feel your sinuses start to drain.
     
    6. Fight fire without water!
     
    Worried those wings will repeat on you tonight? "Sleep on your left side," says Anthony A. Star-poli, M.D., a New York City gastroenterologist and assistant professor of medicine at New York Medical College. Studies have shown that patients who sleep on their left sides are less likely to suffer from acid reflux. The esophagus and stomach connect at an angle. When you sleep on your right, the stomach is higher than the esophagus, allowing food and stomach acid to slide up your throat. When you're on your left, the stomach is lower than the esophagus, so gravity's in your favor.
     
    7. Cure your toothache without opening your mouth!
     
    Just rub ice on the back of your hand, on the V-shaped webbed area between your thumb and index finger. A Canadian study found that this technique reduces toothache pain by as much as 50 percent compared with using no ice. The nerve pathways at the base of that V stimulate an area of the brain that blocks pain signals from the face and hands.
     
    8. Make burns disappear!
     
    When you accidentally singe your finger on the stove, clean the skin and apply light pressure with the finger pads of your unmarred hand. Ice will relieve your pain more quickly, Dr. DeStefano says, but since the natural method brings the burned skin back to a normal temperature, the skin is less likely to blister.
     
    9. Stop the world from spinning!
     
    One too many drinks left you dizzy? Put your hand on something stable. The part of your ear responsible for balance—the cupula—floats in a fluid of the same density as blood. "As alcohol dilutes blood in the cupula, the cupula becomes less dense and rises," says Dr. Schaffer. This confuses your brain. The tactile input from a stable object gives the brain a second opinion, and you feel more in balance. Because the nerves in the hand are so sensitive, this works better than the conventional foot-on-the-floor wisdom.
     
    10. Unstitch your side!
     
    If you're like most people, when you run, you exhale as your right foot hits the ground. This puts downward pressure on your liver (which lives on your right side), which then tugs at the diaphragm and creates a side stitch, according to The Doctors Book of Home Remedies for Men. The fix: Exhale as your left foot strikes the ground.
     
    11. Stanch blood with a single finger!
     
    Pinching your nose and leaning back is a great way to stop a nosebleed—if you don't mind choking on your own O positive. A more civil approach: Put some cotton on your upper gums—just behind that small dent below your nose—and press against it, hard. "Most bleeds come from the front of the septum, the cartilage wall that divides the nose," says Peter Desmarais, M.D., an ear, nose, and throat specialist at Entabeni Hospital, in Durban, South Africa. "Pressing here helps stop them."
     
    12. Make your heart stand still!
     
    Trying to quell first-date jitters? Blow on your thumb. The vagus nerve, which governs heart rate, can be controlled through breathing, says Ben Abo, an emergency medical-services specialist at the University of Pittsburgh. It'll get your heart rate back to normal.
     
    13. Thaw your brain!
     
    Too much Chipwich too fast will freeze the brains of lesser men. As for you, press your tongue flat against the roof of your mouth, covering as much as you can. "Since the nerves in the roof of your mouth get extremely cold, your body thinks your brain is freezing, too," says Abo. "In compensating, it overheats, causing an ice-cream headache." The more pressure you apply to the roof of your mouth, the faster your headache will subside.
     
    14. Prevent near-sightedness!
     
    Poor distance vision is rarely caused by genetics, says Anne Barber, O.D., an optometrist in Tacoma, Washington. "It's usually caused by near-point stress." In other words, staring at your computer screen for too long. So flex your way to 20/20 vision. Every few hours during the day, close your eyes, tense your body, take a deep breath, and, after a few seconds, release your breath and muscles at the same time. Tightening and releasing muscles such as the biceps and glutes can trick involuntary muscles—like the eyes—into relaxing as well.
     
    15. Wake the dead!
     
    If your hand falls asleep while you're driving or sitting in an odd position, rock your head from side to side. It'll painlessly banish your pins and needles in less than a minute, says Dr. DeStefano. A tingly hand or arm is often the result of compression in the bundle of nerves in your neck; loosening your neck muscles releases the pressure. Compressed nerves lower in the body govern the feet, so don't let your sleeping dogs lie. Stand up and walk around.
     
    16. Impress your friends!
     
    Next time you're at a party, try this trick: Have a person hold one arm straight out to the side, palm down, and instruct him to maintain this position. Then place two fingers on his wrist and push down. He'll resist. Now have him put one foot on a surface that's a half inch higher (a few magazines) and repeat. This time his arm will fold like a house of cards. By misaligning his hips, you've offset his spine, says Rachel Cosgrove, C.S.C.S., co-owner of Results Fitness, in Santa Clarita, California. Your brain senses that the spine is vulnerable, so it shuts down the body's ability to resist.
     
    17. Breathe underwater!
     
    If you're dying to retrieve that quarter from the bottom of the pool, take several short breaths first—essentially, hyperventilate. When you're underwater, it's not a lack of oxygen that makes you desperate for a breath; it's the buildup of carbon dioxide, which makes your blood acidic, which signals your brain that somethin' ain't right. "When you hyperventilate, the influx of oxygen lowers blood acidity," says Jonathan Armbruster, Ph.D., an associate professor of biology at Auburn University. "This tricks your brain into thinking it has more oxygen." It'll buy you up to 10 seconds.
     
    18. Read minds!
     
    Your own! "If you're giving a speech the next day, review it before falling asleep," says Candi Heimgartner, an instructor of biological sciences at the University of Idaho. Since most memory consolidation happens during sleep, anything you read right before bed is more likely to be encoded as long-term memory.
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    #2969 From: Lee & Cindy <leeandcindy@...>
    Date: Sat Jun 3, 2006 5:01 am
    Subject:: New research aims to restore lost hearing-when HAIR CELLS were killed!     		cheyennecin
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    Now Hear This

    New research aims to restore lost hearing

    Christen Brownlee

    It was a matter of life or death. As 14-month-old Peter Steyger lay in a hospital bed stricken with bacterial meningitis, his parents were faced with a critical decision. Doctors could rescue the toddler with intravenous doses of the antibiotic streptomycin. However, that lifesaving treatment could have a lifelong consequence. For Steyger's parents, the choice was an easy one. Their son received the antibiotic and lived to tell the tale. However, Steyger, who's now in his early 40s, suffered hearing loss that he says has affected virtually every sector of his life, including his choice of career.

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    DEATHLY SILENCE. These pyramids mark a layer of cells—called hair cells for the bristles making up each extension—that can be killed by loud noises, toxic chemicals, and normal aging. Scientists are trying to learn how to restore hearing by inducing the growth of new hair cells.
    J. Myers

    "What I'm doing [in my research] is explaining why I'm deaf," says Steyger, who investigates hearing at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland. "That's what drives me."

    Steyger's research focuses on how drugs such as streptomycin enter and kill hair cells, the sensory cells in the inner ear that are pivotal to hearing. Each hair cell has a bundle of hairlike extensions that jut out from the inside surface of the cochlea, a snail-shaped coil of tissue deep in the inner ear. As sounds pass into the ear, their vibrations rumble cochlear fluid, which pushes the hair cells back and forth. These cells translate each sway into an electrical signal that travels through nerve fibers to the brain. There, the brain decodes these signals as hearing.

    Normal aging and life's daily cacophony cause some of the 16,000 hair cells that each person is born with to eventually wear out and die. The death of hair cells causes most instances of acquired hearing loss, although deafness can also result from other causes, such as glitches in nerves that connect the ear to the brain.

    Traditionally, scientists have considered people's hair cells—and good hearing—to be irreplaceable. However, genetics research, work with stem cells, and studies of the delicate architecture of the inner ear now suggest that it may be possible to replace lost hair cells and thus restore hearing. And Steyger's research on how certain drugs damage hair cells may someday prevent others from facing a silent future.

    "[Hearing loss] really has a profound effect on society," says Jeffrey Corwin, who investigates hair cell regeneration at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. "Now, I think it's only a matter of when—not if—we or others in the field will succeed in getting the ability to bring hair cells back."

    Hair and now

    Hair cell death doesn't equal deafness for all animals. Most vertebrates—including sharks, chickens, and frogs—can grow new hair cells when old ones die. But at some point in evolution, Corwin notes, all mammals lost this innate replacement plan. Researchers haven't completely figured out how other vertebrates regenerate hair cells in adulthood.

    Mammalian hair cell growth during development, however, is fast and furious. For nearly a decade, Corwin and his team have been investigating which genes have different inner ear activity in the embryo than they do later in life. These genes, he surmises, may hold clues for prompting hair cells to grow.

    "Early on, some genes really jumped out," Corwin says. The genes that he and his team were most excited about seemed to regulate how inner ear cells divide or which of various cell types they became.

    Eventually, he and his colleague Zheng-Yi Chen of Harvard University narrowed their focus to the gene called Retinoblastoma1 (Rb1). This gene is associated with a type of eye cancer, but the scientists found that Rb1 also turns on in the inner ear as mammals near birth. Sure enough, when Chen, Corwin, and their collaborators eliminated Rb1 in the inner ears of mice, the rodents' hair cells continued to multiply long into adulthood. The team reported its results in the Feb. 18, 2005 Science.

    Other scientists have had similarly promising results by examining some well-studied genes. For example, researchers have known since the late 1990s that a gene called Atoh1 (also Math1) seems to be critical early in development for prompting immature cells to become hair cells.

    Yehoash Raphael of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and his colleagues reported in the March 2005 Nature Medicine that when they inserted Atoh1 in deafened adult guinea pigs' ears, the animals regrew fully functioning hair cells (SN: 2/19/05, p. 115: http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050219/fob1.asp). The research suggests that gene therapy may be a feasible treatment for hearing loss.

    However, researchers estimate that hundreds or thousands of yet-undiscovered genes participate in hair cell formation. Chen, Corwin, and their team have already identified some prospective candidates.

    Gone but not forgotten

    Another approach to replenishing hair cells in the inner ear is to cultivate and transplant stem cells. Unlike most cells in the body, which have become set in their ways, stem cells act like wild cards. They can morph into other types of cells (SN: 4/2/05, p. 218: http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050402/bob10.asp). For example, stem cells in bone marrow can make several types of blood cells. Researchers have looked in the ear for stem cells that might produce new hair cells.

    Stefan Heller of Stanford University and his colleagues reported 3 years ago that they had located hair cell-making stem cells in the vestibular organ, a part of the inner ear that's located near the cochlea. The hair cells in the vestibular organ aren't used to hear but to sense acceleration changes to help an animal keep its balance.

    Other researchers had previously reported that the vestibular organ has a limited capacity to regenerate hair cells. Heller says that the newfound stem cells are probably responsible for this effect.

    He and his team are currently working to determine whether harvesting these stem cells from the vestibular organ and transplanting them into the cochlea could replace hair cells lost there. Heller also announced last November at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting in Washington, D.C., that his team has found evidence that the adult cochlea itself harbors stem cells. "There's probably some regenerative capacity that exists in the cochlea, but we think it's much more hidden, much harder to unlock," says Heller. "We're taking cues from our previous study to try to find whether we can identify these stem cells in the cochlea and unlock their potential."

    Following a pattern

    Even if scientists succeed in regenerating hair cells in the cochlea, it's unclear whether simply restoring these cells would return hearing to an animal that's lost it. According to Matthew Kelley of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) in Bethesda, Md., the exact positions of hair cells are critical to whether they function effectively.

    Unlike other vertebrates' hair cells, which spring up haphazardly across a wide swath of the cochlea, hair cells in people and other mammals grow in an extremely orderly fashion. A line of inner hair cells, which transmit sound signals to the brain, snakes from the cochlea's base through each of its spiral turns. This line is flanked on one side by three rows of outer hair cells, which seem to amplify the sound waves that reach the inner cells.

    The hairs in the bundles that top both the inner and outer hair cells are stacked like staircases, and all the stacks face in the same direction. Surrounding each hair cell are four supporting cells, which recycle the ions that hair cells use to send their electrical messages.

    Researchers have long suspected that this strict order underlies mammals' capacity to hear better than other vertebrates do. "But how these cells sort and arrange themselves in such a perfect pattern remains a very intriguing question," notes Kelley.

    Two years ago, Kelley and his colleagues reported that the hair cells themselves seem to recruit surrounding support cells. The researchers employed Atoh1, the same gene that Raphael used in his study of deaf guinea pigs. The team slipped Atoh1 into cochlear tissue called the greater epithelial ridge, which doesn't normally have any hair or supporting cells. The researchers weren't surprised to see hair cells begin to sprout. However, within several days, they noticed that cells around each hair cell were morphing into supporting cells.

    "We demonstrated the first sign of self-organizing ability in the inner ear. These hair cells took cells that wouldn't have been supporting cells and pushed them into a supporting role," says Kelley.

    He and his colleagues are currently studying whether a hair cell's reach extends beyond the supporting cells—for example, whether hair cells can coax other cells to become hair cells.

    Kelley's team is also investigating how each hair cell bundle grows to face the same way. "Having a hair cell that's not oriented properly won't work. It's not much better than having no hair cells at all," says Kelley.

    Kelley and his colleagues made a breakthrough discovery 3 years ago. They observed that two types of mutant mice with abnormal curls in their tails had randomly oriented hair cell bundles. Eventually, the researchers found that the mice had mutations in one of two genes. The mice called circle-tail had a mutated scribble1 gene, and the loop-tail mice had a mutated vangoghlike2.

    When researchers work out the function of these genes, they may discover how hair cells orient themselves, says Kelley.

    He adds that each new piece of information about hair cells that researchers acquire puts them closer to rebuilding a fully functional inner ear. "It's not enough to say that we got some function back. We need to be able to say that we can do better with regeneration than people can do with a cochlear implant," he says. Currently the most advanced treatment available for restoring hearing, the device is most effective when implanted in young children.

    Hairy issues

    Such work will prove invaluable to people who lose their hearing when hair cells die. But for people such as Steyger, who are forced to accept hearing loss as an unavoidable consequence of a life-saving antibiotic, it would be better to prevent the damage in the first place.

    Hair cell-killing, or ototoxic, antibiotics are used against a variety of life-threatening infections. These drugs leach from the blood into the cochlear fluid, collect inside hair cells, and at high concentrations, kill them.

    It's unclear, says Steyger, how ototoxic drugs get inside hair cells. Some scientists have suggested that most cells take up the drugs through a process called endocytosis. The cells form tiny packets around the chemical to pull it inside.

    However, Steyger and his colleagues reported in the June 2005 Hearing Research that hair cells don't use only endocytosis to take in drugs. The researchers worked with an ototoxic drug, called gentamycin, labeled with a red dye. They added the drug to lab dishes of kidney cells, which are less fragile than hair cells but can also be damaged by drugs. The result was surprising: The cells snapped up the dyed drug within seconds.

    "Endocytosis is a time-consuming process. It can last from minutes to several hours," says Steyger. "Since we were seeing uptake within 10 seconds after application of the drug, we knew that endocytosis couldn't be the only process involved."

    Another study by Steyger and his colleagues gave some hints of how gentamycin entered the cells. When the researchers added a solution rich in calcium ions to kidney cells just before they added the drug, only small amounts of gentamycin made it into the cells.

    This suggests that ototoxic drugs could enter cells through ion channels, pores through which calcium and other ions cross the cell membrane, the team concluded in the June 2005 Hearing Research.

    Steyger's research has now moved from cells growing in the lab to those in living bullfrogs, chicks, guinea pigs, and mice. This March, the group reported in Hearing Research that it has tracked the dye-tagged antibiotic as it collected in and killed hair cells and kidney cells in living animals.

    By studying animals, scientists may develop a drug to give before or with ototoxic drugs to close the ion channels and prevent the drugs from collecting in and killing the cells, Steyger says.

    He adds: "Prevention is better than a cure—a stitch in time saves nine, or so they say."
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    Date: Fri Jun 2, 2006 11:03 pm
    Subject:: Re: Boost Adrenal Glands,Adrenaline-(Addison's Disease)-metabolism,sleep,more     		cheyennecin
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    Metabolism Enhancers-Good Coconut Oil,Green Tea,Kelp,more (my guess is these will be good for adrenal glands, too!--"Cheyenne Cin"-P.S. Probably also good for the underactive thyroid gland or hypothyroidism!)
     
     
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    Our metabolism is most affected by these things:

    • Nutrition - the type, and amount of food eaten
    • Hydration - the amount of water we drink
    • Our level of physical activity
    • Our bone structure, body type, genetic make-up, and, body composition - that is, the amount of muscle we have compared to the amount of fat

    Muscle tissue uses more calories to maintain itself than fatty tissue. Therefore, people who are more muscular (and have a lower percentage of body fat) tend to have a higher metabolism than those who are less muscular or who have a higher percentage of body fat.

    People who are more active or exercise more also burn more calories than someone who is less active, so these people also have a higher metabolism. That's why increasing our muscle mass through strength training, or increasing our activity levels through cardiovascular training, are such effective ways to boost metabolism.

    Ways to boost metabolism by increasing muscle mass - resistance exercises, like weight lifting, push-ups, sit-ups, and others. Try to find something you enjoy, and vary your routine if you're getting bored with it.

    Ways to boost metabolism by decreasing the amount of fat in our bodies - aerobic exercise, at least 3 times a week, for longer than 20 minutes each session. This can include jogging, walking, either high or low impact aerobics, swimming, cycling, or many others.

    Metabolism and The Thyroid Gland

    Many of the herbs and foods that boost metabolism have a beneficial effect on the thyroid gland. The thyroid gland releases hormones that regulate energy, metabolism, and growth.

    The thyroid hormones:

    • increase metabolism in all the body's tissues except the retina of the eye, the lungs, spleen, and testes
    • the basal metabolic rate can increase by 60 - 100% above normal when large amounts of the thyroid hormone thyroxin, are released
    • when this happens, glucose (from carbohydrates), fat, and protein use by the body increases
    • fats stored in our body are released, the breakdown of cholesterol by the liver is increased
    • proteins stored in the muscle are also broken down and used as fuel
    • more glucose is also absorbed from the intestinal tract
    • increase production of gastrointestinal secretions
    • increase appetite, but more calories are also used, hence weight loss usually occurs

    Coconut Oil  (REMEMBER, do not get the kind of coconut oil that was dried in processing, it can be more dangerous than useful!--"Cheyenne Cin")

    Coconut Oil has a beneficial effect on the thyroid gland. It is a medium chain fatty acid, and is said to 'activate' the metabolism. These types of fats are used directly by the liver instead of being stored in the body's tissues as fat. Dr Ray Peat has a very interesting article here on coconut oil - This article provides a greater understanding on how coconut oil is one of the may ways to boost metabolism available to us.

    In the article above, Dr Peat tells this interesting story:

    "In the l940s, farmers attempted to use cheap coconut oil for fattening their animals, but they found that it made them lean, active and hungry. For a few years, an antithyroid drug was found to make the livestock get fat while eating less food, but then it was found to be a strong carcinogen, and it also probably produced hypothyroidism in the people who ate the meat. By the late l940s, it was found that the same antithyroid effect, causing animals to get fat without eating much food, could be achieved by using soy beans and corn as feed." (www.efn.org)

    He also describes how two people, G. W. Crile and his wife, found that people in the Yucutan had a higher metabolic rate (25%) than people in the US. And this was despite living in a tropical climate where the metabolic rate is usually lower than in a cold climate. Coconuts are a staple in the Yucutan. So, using coconut oil instead of regular cooking oil, or taking 2 tablespoons of coconut oil directly per day, is another of the various ways to boost metabolism through nutrition.

    Green Tea

    Green tea has a mild thermogenic effect. This means it increases, by 3 to 4 percent, the amount of energy used in heat production by the body that is unrelated to either physical activity or resting metabolism. It is not the caffeine in green tea which does this, and you can get caffeine free green tea if you are sensitive to it.

    The catechin polyphenols in green tea extract are believed to alter the body's use of norepinephrine, which is a chemical transmitter in the nervous system, to increase the rate of calorie burning. Thus green tea may be a mild and pleasant way to boost metabolism.

    More information on green tea here: Green tea weight loss

    Kelp

    Kelp has metabolic precursors of the active hormones of the thyroid gland (Fisher and Painter)

    It also has naturally occurring iodine in it, which together with the above precursors, is believed to increase basal metabolic rate, and help with fat metabolism. Fisher and Painter describe a clinical trial that found those taking kelp lost twice as much weight as those who didn't take it. Both groups were on the same calorie controlled diet, and the study lasted 60 days. They do say that they don't know how effective kelp would be helping those people with no 'obvious' thyroid problem, however. Like vitamins, it may be something that can help only those who have a need for a particular vitamin, or in this case, thyroid benefiting herb.

    If taking kelp, don't take more than the equivalent of 1000mcg of iodine per day. The label usually has recommendations taking this into account.

    Finally, one of the old tried and true ways to boost metabolism, is to eat 5 or 6 smaller meals per day instead of 3 larger ones.


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    Date: Fri Jun 2, 2006 10:48 pm
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    Definition of adrenal gland: This gland is found above each kidney, and it is made up of an outer wall (cortex) that secretes important steroid hormones and an inner portion (medulla) that produces adrenaline (epinephrine) and noradrenaline. The hydrocortisone produced by the adrenal's is a natural hormone constantly used in everyone's body for health and energy. If with natural thyroid supplementation, a person does not see total improvement, then the adrenal's may need to be supplemented as well. You see when thyroid is supplemented, the resultant increase in metabolic function can accelerate a low adrenal function. Many Americans have low adrenal function and do not know it and it is never diagnosed. Note standard adrenal tests, which are very often never done, do not generally reveal mild dysfunction of the adrenal's anyway. Low adrenal's can be simply caused by the fast paced American lifestyle. Daily stress, burn out, excessive anger, poor diet, use of chemical and natural stimulants will all contribute to low adrenal's, they simply become exhausted and need to be boosted. Here is a list of symptoms for you to consider adding adrenal complex to your thyroid supplements:
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    • Excess mood responses from eating carbohydrates such as pasta, sugars - hypoglycemia
    • Chronic infections
    • Low blood pressure
    • Chronic allergies
    • Tired but wired feeling... Poor sleep (I hear that if you don't sleep five hours straight, you don't make enough adrenaline, and then you don't utilize        magnesium. So sleeping five hours without waking up is crucial for the body's ability to make it's own adrenaline!--"Cheyenne Cin")
    • Low stamina for stress
    • Dry unhealthy skin, excess pigmentation
    • A sense of aging prematurely
    • Chronic inflammatory responses in the body - body pain
    • Irritability - chronic
     

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    Adrenal glands

    The body has two adrenal glands, one near the top of each kidney. The inner part of the adrenal glands secretes hormones, such as adrenaline, that help control blood pressure, heart rate, sweating, and other activities also regulated by the sympathetic nervous system. The outer part secretes different hormones, including corticosteroids and mineralocorticoids. The adrenal glands play a role in stimulating the production of androgens.

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    Adrenal failure   A condition in which the adrenal glands do not produce enough of the hormones that control important functions such as blood pressure.
    Adrenal glands   Two small glands located on top of the kidneys that secrete several important hormones into the blood.
    Adrenaline   A hormone produced by the adrenal glands, particularly in response to acute stress.

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    Adrenal Weakness

    The adrenal glands are located just on top of the kidneys. The adrenals are an integral part of the endocrine system. They are responsible for producing several important hormones and are critical to the stress response. They have two parts: the cortex, and the medulla. The cortex is the outer wrapping of the gland. It produces cortisol which is a powerful anti-inflammatory hormone. Cortisol controls inflammation. The level of Cortisol in the body affects allergies, wound healing, asthma, arthritis, and lupus, just to name a few.

    The medulla, which is the inner part, pours out epinephrine (adrenaline) and norepinephrine. These hormones speed up the body's metabolism in order to help us to cope with stress. These are the two most important hormones in the body. They govern the fight or flight response (alarm reaction), and are almost a direct extension of the nervous system.

    How the Adrenal Gland Can Impact Energy

    The adrenal glands produce their array of hormones in a complex symphony that is orchestrated by two structures in the brain called the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland. When stress and poor nutrition lead to altered hormone levels, imbalance in endocrine function can lead to substantial fatigue. The kinds of stressors that tax the adrenal glands include:

    Physical trauma Chemical toxins Poor diet
    Excess exercise Lack of sleep Infections
    Emotional trauma Anxiety, depression Prescription drugs
    Pregnancy


    Most people have had the experience where they have felt extremely tired and exhausted and then all of a sudden a new surge of energy comes to their aid. Likewise, when we experience fear and our heart starts racing the adrenal gland is secreting adrenaline and other stress related hormones to come to the rescue and give us the extra boost of energy that we need to get through the emotional stress. When the brain interprets an event as threatening (stressful) the adrenals begin to work. They signal the nervous system to prepare to fight or flee. This signal mobilizes the respiratory and circulatory systems of the body for emergency action. Reserve energy in the body is called upon, and functions are diverted away from normal, homeostatic body function including those of the immune system. Even though the fight or flight response may be over, the resistance reaction allows the body to continue fighting the stressor long after the effects of our alarm system have gone off. When this state of emergency is maintained for unrelieved periods of time, the body's reserves become depleted and the immune system is weakened. Long term over-activation of these hormones can deplete the kidneys and adrenals, severely impairing the ability of the immune system to function.

    When adrenal function is impaired or weak, a person may suffer from low blood sugar, low blood pressure, low body temperature, and a total feeling of exhaustion. When stress is prolonged the organs begin to weaken and other health related problems can set in such as hypoglycemia.

    Some of the common causes that contribute to adrenal exhaustion are continued stress, poor diet, over-consumption of sugar and refined carbohydrates, overuse of caffeine, alcohol, drugs, nicotine, and vitamin B and C deficiencies. Unfortunately, the body reacts the same way to both real and imagined threats. For instance, unrelieved worrying about losing your job can cause the same over-taxing of the adrenals and the resultant suppression of the immune system as actually losing your job.

    If a person succumbs easily to allergies and infections, feels constantly drained and exhausted, suffers from low blood sugar and blood pressure, then the culprit may well be weak adrenals. For instance, most of the asthma sprays contain adrenal-like hormones that mimic cortisol in the body. One of the most prominent signs of adrenal gland insufficiency is chronic fatigue. In some fatigued patients, thyroid problems overlap adrenal problems. In these cases, the status of the adrenal glands and the thyroid gland must be assessed. The appropriate treatment should be undertaken only after this determination is made.

    Signs and Symptoms

    Fatigue, Weakness
    Depression
    Frustration
    Premenstrual tension
    Nervousness
    Scanty perspiration
    Inability to concentrate
    Lightheadedness
    Sweet cravings
    Irritability
    Insomnia
    Allergies
    Headaches

    Treatment for Adrenal Weakness

    There are many methods that one can use to strengthen the adrenals. Acupuncture, herbs, meditation and relaxation techniques, exercise, and nutrient saturation through diet and supplementation can all help promote the healing process. Adrenal problems that are not serious or life-threatening are often treated with a combination of low doses of cortisol, DHEA, various herbs, and nutrients. Each of these is used under very specific circumstances determined by laboratory tests. When problems of adrenal insufficiency are identified and corrected, the result of treatment can be very rewarding. The positive effect on energy, stamina, and vitality can be substantial.

    Acupuncture and acupressure can sometimes give the adrenals a good boost. Chiropractic adjustments can also be helpful. The adrenal glands are richly fed by nerves that connect to the spine, and by releasing blockages through these simple and effective techniques, the glands can be stimulated and strengthened. In Chinese Medicine the kidney meridian often relates in western terms to the adrenals. Those who are susceptible to infections or allergies are often told that they have weak kidney energy, so the acupuncture points along that meridian can stimulate the healing process.

    Whole Foods Diet is Recommended

    Buy organically grown produce as much as possible. Avoid consumption of sugar. Refined carbohydrate, caffeine (adrenal stimulants), and alcohol should be avoided. Fasting and detoxification should not be used at the beginning of adrenal strengthening. The diet should be a building and strengthening diet. Eat plenty of fresh and lightly steamed vegetables and their juices as they contain minerals to prevent fatigue.

    In restoration of the adrenal gland function one should include potassium rich foods and avoid foods high in sodium. This will help to keep the sodium/potassium balance in the body. In the standard American diet, people consume way too much sodium. Researchers recommend a dietary potassium-to-sodium ratio of greater than 5 to 1. Intake of potassium should be about 3 to 5 grams per day.

    Potassium Content of Selected Foods

    Milligrams (mg) per 100 grams edible portion (100 grams = 3.5 ounces)

    Dulse 8,060 Cauliflower 295
    Kelp 5,273 Watercress 282
    Sunflower seeds 920 Asparagus 278
    Wheat germ 827 Red cabbage 268
    Almonds 773 Lettuce 264
    Raisins 763 Cantaloupe 251
    Parsley 727 Lentils, cooked 249
    Brazil nuts 715 Tomato 244
    Peanuts 674 Sweet potatoes 243
    Dates 648 Papayas 234
    Figs, dried 640 Eggplant 214
    Avocados 604 Green peppers 213
    Pecans 603 Beets 208
    Yams 600 Peaches 202
    Swiss chard 550 Summer squash 202
    Soybeans, cooked 540 Oranges 200
    Garlic 529 Raspberries 199
    Spinach 470 Cherries 191
    English walnuts 450 Strawberries 164
    Millet 430 Grapefruit juice 162
    Beans, cooked 416 Cucumbers 160
    Mushrooms 414 Grapes 158
    Potato with skin 407 Onions 157
    Broccoli 382 Pineapple 146
    Kale 378 Milk, whole 144
    Bananas 370 Lemon juice 141-
    Meats 370 Pears 130
    Winter squash 369 Eggs 129
    Chicken 366 Apples 110
    Carrots 341 Watermelon 100
    Celery 341 Brown rice, cooked 70
    Radishes 322

    Source: "Nutritive Value of American Foods in Common Units," U.S.D.A. Agriculture Handbook No. 456


    It is recommended that a person eat small, instead of large meals. According to the Oriental philosophy, foods which nurture deficient kidney energy are as follows:
    millet barly tofu string bean
    black bean black soybean mung bean mung sprouts
    kidney bean blackberry mulberry blueberry
    melons wheat germ potato seaweeds
    spirulina chlorella black sesame seed water chestnut
    crab clam sardine eggs


    Vitamin/Mineral Therapy

    Nutrients important in adrenal gland function include: pantothenic acid, vitamin C, Vitamin B 6, Zinc, and Magnesium. Particularly important is pantothenic acid (100 milligrams a day), as a deficiency may result in adrenal atrophy. Foods rich in pantothenic acid include: whole grains, legumes, cauliflower, broccoli, salmon, sweet potatoes, and tomatoes.

    Adrenal extracts made from beef have been used in medicine since the 1930's. The proper procedure is to start with a dosage lower than what is recommended on the label of most adrenal extract supplements (1/3 of the normal dosage), and then slowly increasing the dosage every two days until one notices the stimulatory effect. Once that effect is noticed then simply reduce the dosage to a level just below the level that will produce stimulation. As the adrenals rebuild, keep reducing the dosage until there comes a time when you no longer need the support.



    Recommended Supplements:

    • Extra vitamin C with bioflavonoids for stress.
    • Vitamin E to get oxygen to the cells.
    • Multi-minerals (chelated or liquid marine minerals for better assimilation). Vita Balance 2000 is a properly balanced, vitamin and chelated mineral complex. It includes all the trace minerals and a herbal base of related micronutrients.
    • Extra calcium and magnesium, chromium, iron, potassium, selenium and zinc.
    • Licorice root to stimulate the adrenals. (Not for people with high blood pressure).
    • Flax oil, 1-2 teaspoons a day.
    • Omega 3's (Marine Lipids). New Life 1000 provides essential fatty acids from cold water salmon oil.
    • Co Enzyme Q10. 30 mgs per day as an antioxidant. Bio-Avail 265, Coenzyme Q10 contains the most potent Co-Q10 available.
    • Multi-vitamin with extra B6, B12, and Pantothenic Acid (promotes energy).
    • Green Superfood blends are good for their high concentrations of minerals, amino acids, antioxidants, and micronutrients. Green Magic has a broad spectrum of vitamins, minerals, enzymes, & micronutrients that provide the basic building blocks for rejuvenation at the cellular level.
    • Lecithin for the nerves and for quick energy to the brain. Premium De-Oiled Lecithin
    • Proanthocyanidins (grape seed extract) helps reduce the effects of stress. Mega Pro contains concentrated Proanthocyanidins: possibly the World’s Most Powerful Antioxidant.
    • Lower Bowel Cleaner or ground flax seed. This will help to assimilate nutrients better. Nutri Cleanse is an all natural colon cleanser.
    • A good digestive enzyme with each meal. When the body is fatigued the digestion usually is impaired. Phyto Opti-Zymes contains a complex mixture of enzymes to give you extra digestive support.


    Herbal Therapy

    Botanicals can be used to help restore adrenal function. Teas made from Licorice Root, Hawthorne, and Gotukola are good. However, Licorice Root is not good for people with high blood pressure as it causes the body to retain sodium. Effective extracts include Echinacea Root, Astragalus Root, and Milk Thistle Seed.

    Wild Yam which is known for it's progesterone activity is excellent. Wild Yam containing diogenim may provide actual DHEA activity. Natural Balance Wild Yam Creme provides a new approach to balancing hormonal levels, relieving symptoms of PMS and Menopause, and helping to reverse Osteoporosis.

    Several varieties of Ginseng are good to use as a tonic as they have revitalizing and energy enhancing properties. Ginseng is not only an energy booster but it helps restore energy reserves by increasing carbohydrate metabolism and glycogen storage. Siberian Ginseng possesses a significant ability to increase nonspecific body resistance to stress, fatigue, and disease. It may actually inhibit the fight or flee reaction. This effect is thought to prevent much of the suppression of the immune system. Taking 2 to 4 grams a day for periods of up to 60 days is usually well tolerated. Panax Gingseng is also known for it's revitalizing and energy-enhancing properties. Panax has been shown to enhance many immune functions. The best preparations are those from the main root of the plant.

    Dong Quai and Gingko Biloba strengthen the body.

    Schizandra improves oxygen utilization and restores energy reserves.


    Exercise Therapy

    The following movements help us revitalize our kidneys and adrenals through mental and physical relaxation. They are specifically designed to restore vitality to our endocrine system through the cleansing of toxins and the release of tension.

    Kidney Pat-and -Hum

    Heat and energy from the hands
    and vibration from the voice
    can revitalize the kidneys and adrenals,
    reducing the negative effects of stress.

    Visualization and Positive Suggestion: "I am toning and revitalizing my kidneys, adrenals, and my immune strength."

    Shoulder Release

    Releases tension from pressure building points on the upper part of the shoulders. Tones, expands, and stimulates the thymus.

    Visualization and Positive Suggestion:
    "I am squeezing out tension and building a strong defense against disease."

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    Walking, trampoline exercise, martial arts for strengthening the various organs of the body, meditation and visualization, yoga and stress management all will have a complementary beneficial effect for adrenal rejuvenation.

     

    Rebound exercise on the mini-trampoline stimulates the lymph flow better than any other form of exercise.

    		Case histories show that people have experienced relief from years of aches and pains after just a few hours, days, weeks, or months of jumping regularly. Exercising on a trampoline actually helps one to gain endurance. Without a strong circulation of the lymph, waste can build up within the body leading to the accumulation of toxins. This form of exercise is a very powerful rejuvenator.
    Increased oxygenation that comes with all forms of exercise, and aerobics in particular, more fully feeds the oxygen-starved and sleepy brain cells. The exerciser feels more fully and pleasurable awake, alert, and aware. It is important to note not to over-exercise because that will in turn exhaust your adrenals.


     
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    Adrenal Dysfunction

    The adrenal glands are small but very powerful glands that sit atop each of your kidneys located in the middle of your back. They are really two separate organs combined into one location - the outer portion acalled the adrenal cortex and the inner portion called the adrenal medulla. The focus of this text is on the adrenal cortex.

    The cortex serves primarily a hormonal function - among the main functions of the adrenal cortex are the regulation of the mineral metabolism (sodium, potassium, chloride), water balance, metabolism (utilization and distribution of carbohydrates, protein, and fat), allergic and immune reactions (such as hypersensitivity, allergies, and autoimmune diseases), and production of the male and female hormones (progesterone, testosterone, estrogens, DHEA, etc.).

    Some of the signs of adrenal insufficiency are often similar to those found in persons who are hypoglycemic. These chief complaints listed in order of prominence are:

    1. Inability to concentrate
    2. Excessive fatigue
    3. Nervousness & irritability
    4. Mental depression
    5. Apprehensions
    6. Excessive weakness
    7. Lightheadedness
    8. Faintness and fainting
    9. Insomnia

    Patients with low adrenal cortex function may have hypoglycemia (or disturbed carbohydrate metabolism) although not all hypoglycemic patients have low adrenal function. A low flat glucose tolerance curve obtained from an oral glucose tolerance test suggests hypoadrenocorticism but can also reflect reactive hypoglycemia, some form of allergy, gouty or rheumatoid arthritis, or schizophrenia.

    When patients receive support for their adrenal cortex (such as with Adrenal Cortex Extract injections), they often report improvements in arthritis, pain in shoulders and back muscles, allergies, premenstrual problems, headache, migraine, ringing of the ears, tension, depression, suicidal thoughts, nervousness, apprehensions, noticeable heart action (palpitations), gastrointestinal problems, heat exhaustion, and an inability in handling stress.

    The following physical findings suggest low adrenal function.

    1. Skin thin and dry or scaly, pigmentation of temples, red palms or fingertips, and cold clammy palms.
    2. Deep Tendon Reflexes are exaggerated.
    3. Lymph Gland inflammation of the neck (swelling, pain, or tenderness).
    4. Blood Pressure is usually low, and drops upon standing (105/60) and then elevated to (120 or 130/70 or 80) on reclining (postural or orthostatic hypotension). This change from low to higher when lying down may be the reason why many patients find it difficult to fall asleep. It is conducive to falling asleep to lie in a semi-reclining position for 15 or 20 minutes. Another way to describe postural hypotension is that there may be a sudden drop in blood pressure to below normal upon suddenly arising from bed, or from standing still, causing temporary darkening of vision, dizziness, light-headedness, faintness, or fainting.
    5. Body Conformation is of the thin muscle-type (this is called asthenic habitus). The typical person is also tall with an angular appearance but a shorter person may have what we call "signs of tallness" - a moderately long neck, an index finger longer than the 4th (ring) finger, and a 2nd toe longer than the big toe. There are long arms and legs, and the arm span is greater than the height.
    6. Hair is sparse on the body but there is usually a full head of fine and abundant hair. The typical person is blond and blue eyed, or red headed. A tall, thin blonde with skin allergies can be diagnosed immediately.
    7. Dentition shows crowded lower teeth with a high palatal arch (roof of mouth).
    8. Pain and tenderness over adrenal area of mid-back when pressure is applied (called Rogoff's sign).
    9. Urination is either very frequent in small amounts or infrequent in large amounts. This person usually does not do well in the heat or in the summer, particularly in conditions of high temperature, high humidity, and low barometric pressure.
    10. Scanty perspiration (except under arms or hands and feet). This person may be a "salt loser" (the tendency is to lose salt and to retain potassium). The urine and perspiration of the salt loser is saltier than normal and there is consequently a greater salt concentration on the skin. Animals are attracted to the salt on the skin, and often the low adrenal patient will be a favorite of animals to lick.
    11. Ankle and/or Finger Swelling. John Tintera, M.D. was an early pioneer in recognizing and treating adrenal insufficiency. He wrote that salt is a diuretic and that hypoadrenocortics (patients with low adrenal cortex function) retain fluid because the body is trying to hold onto the salt. When enough salt is consumed, the body takes what it needs and excretes the rest. If the ankle edema is due to insufficient salt, the edema will usually disappear in three days after taking adequate salt. If it does not disappear in five to six days, potassium may also be needed. Vitamin B6 is also helpful for edema not only because it has a diuretic effect but also supports the adrenal cortex.

    The Importance of Salt

    For the person with depleted adrenals sunbathing on the beach can have devastating results. The salt loser that attempts to function on low salt does not understand why he feels faint, or is suddenly unable to function in the heat, or he feels his mind is cloudy and his energy gone. He may become very weak, tired, and depressed. Salt is needed for the electrical function of the heartbeat, to make hydrochloric acid in the stomach, and for the fluid around the cells. Sodium is the principal fluid outside of the cell (extra-cellular fluid) and as a result affects the proper function of all cells. The nerve cells of the brain, and consequently all of our emotions, are affected by the salt levels. Adding enough sodium chloride (salt) to the diet may be all that is needed for some patients.

    Even other types of conditions, like kidney disease, need "some" salt and should have a moderate amount. According to Richard H. Ahrens, Ph.D. of the USDA and an Associate Professor of Nutrition at the University of Maryland, salt use does not cause hypertension as is frequently claimed. There should be no salt restrictions during pregnancy and no diuretic use. If there is edema in pregnancy, extra salt brings about diuresis. It can be a serious mistake for an individual to avoid salt for no apparent reason. For any loss of body fluids - excessive perspiration or urination, vomiting or diarrhea - the lost salt must be replaced. A person with undiagnosed adrenal dysfunction (who is therefore a salt loser) on a salt restricted diet may be slowly deteriorating as the result.

    There appears to be no food that naturally contains more sodium than potassium and therefore salt must be added to the diet. This is why Gandhi led the revolution in India. Salt is essential to life. In Addison's Disease, where there is a complete non-function (atrophy) of the adrenal cortex, patient’s can suffer from prostration, die from excess perspiration or a diet high in potassium or low in sodium.

    To find the amount of salt you need, gradually increase your salt intake until you find the amount you feel best on - usually 2 to 10 grams or roughly 1/2 teaspoonful to 1 tablespoonful. After determining the amount, try to cut back and see if that is just as effective. The addition of a small amount of sugar actually helps you absorb salt. In fact this is the basis for many popular electrolyte replacement products like GatoradeÒ . Some individuals may also need potassium.

    Some may suggest using sea salt, but in the larger amounts that hypoadrenocortics need, you may overdose on trace minerals. The name trace minerals means one needs only a trace amount. The main minerals and electrolytes such as calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, phosphorus, iron, iodine, and zinc are needed in larger amounts on a regular basis. Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt is plain sodium chloride without additives. When dissolved in water, it results in a clear solution indicating no additives.

    Adrenal Steroids

    The adrenals have a close connection with the sex glands, the ovaries and testes. The adrenal cortex produces about 25% of the estrogenic hormones in women and 65% of the androgenic hormones in the man. The inability of the adrenals to produce the additional sex hormones may result in the flat chested female or the sparse chest-haired male. In patients in their thirties or older may also have an absence of hair on the lower two-thirds of the legs, which is not due to being worn off by the trousers as is supposed.

    There can be a great variation possible among the large numbers of adrenal steroids, causing a person's individual physical characteristics to vary widely from the typical. These variations may bring on precocious sexual development in boys and girls. They also cause changes in adults in psychological makeup and direction of sexual desire, or can actually produce feminism in men and masculinity in women. This of course does not have anything to do with sexual orientation.

    Hypoadrenocorticism rarely exists without involvement of other glands and organs. The liver must detoxify each and every substance in the body. This includes not only medications and drugs, but also hormones produced by your own body. Thus the effectiveness of the adrenal in part depends on the efficiency of the liver. The laboratory tests commonly called "liver function tests" in fact do not tell how the liver is functioning but rather only tell if the liver is inflamed or injured.

    Stress and the Adrenals

    It is absolutely necessary to remove the dietary stress, sugars, excess or processed starches, caffeine, alcohol, stimulant drugs, and as much nicotine as possible. To rejuvenate the adrenal cortex extra vitamin C, salt, and fat - both saturated and unsaturated is needed. Avoiding animal fats, as seems to be the popular thing to do, is avoiding the kind of fat adrenal hormones, estrogens and androgens are made from. The adrenals contain more vitamin C and cholesterol than any tissue in the body. Avoid or reduce excessive heat, cold, overwork, lack of sleep, arguments, diseases, and the like. Oxygen is necessary for the utilization of glucose by the body, and proper breathing must be practiced. Rest periods and relaxation is necessary with a bedtime no later than 11 p.m.

    A discussion on stress should include recognition of Dr. Hans Selye. His classic work on stress (The Stress of Life, McGraw- Hill Book Co., N.Y.) and his many other publications report "that our various internal organs, especially the endocrine glands and the nervous system, help to adjust us to the constant changes which occur in and around us. He calls this adjustment the General Adaptation Syndrome. Selye concluded that the adrenals were the body's prime reactors to stress. He stated that the adrenals "…are the only organs that do not shrink under stress; they thrive and enlarge. If you remove them, and subject an animal to stress it can't live. But if you remove them, and then inject extract of cattle adrenals (cortex), stress resistance will vary in direct proportion to the amount of the injection, and even be put back to normal." Likewise a person's stress resistance will vary with the competence of his adrenals, but continually stressing the adrenals finally depletes them.

    As with all chronic conditions, there are three things that must be addressed in order to be successful:

    1. Give the body the nourishment it needs to heal itself. In this case, vitamins C, B5, and B6, salt (natural salt with minerals still intact, not table or refined salt!--"Cheyenne Cin") , and select minerals are often required. More specific nutritional support is usually necessary at least in the initial treatment phase.
    2. Avoid those things or activities that will make you worse. Stress, sugar, and caffeine top the list.
    3. Detoxify or de-infect something that needs to be removed from the body in order to heal. Hypoglycemia, as is the case in many patients, often is associated with yeast overgrowth from excess sugar intake.

    Successful management of adrenal conditions is among the most satisfying result a doctor will see. I have had alot of experience in helping people rejuvenate themselves through hormonal balancing.

     
     
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    (Rembember the relationship- foods that contain high levels of glutamate or glutamic acid help rid the body of excess ammonia or urea!--'Cheyenne Cin'-P.S. The anti-gout or anit-uric acid connection, well I don't think kelp, seaweed, tomatoes are the highest recommeded remedies, but haven't really searched them for this!)
     
     
     
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    Gout, a kind of rheumatoid arthritis, gets aggravated when sharp crystal shards of uric acid collect between joints and cause painful inflammation. The body breaks down foods containing purines into uric acid, usually a neutral but unnecessary chemical that is then filtered out of the bloodstream by our kidneys. Certain proteins, as well as beans and vegetables, contain such high levels of purines that these foods can cause gout.

    In general, foods that cause gout are high in fat, which is why dietary recommendations for people with this kind of arthritis advise that less than 30% of their calories come from fat. Proteins with large concentrations of purines include meat and dairy products. Fish, like mackerel, sardines, oysters, mussels, and scallops, should be avoided, as well as red and white meat like poultry, pork, and beef. Sweetmeats, or organ meat, like kidney, heart, or liver, are especially bad for those suffering from gout. Even foods related to meat, like chicken or beef broth, caviar, and bouillon might produce high levels of uric acid.

    Other foods that cause gout are dairy and vegetables, because they have lots of purines as well. High-fat dairy, like whole milk, ice cream, butter, and cheese, must be avoided in favor of low-fat dairy, or soy replacements. Spinach, mushrooms, cauliflower, peas, and asparagus have been shown to be rich in purines. In an unrelated food category, lentil beans and yeast increase one's chance of gout flaring up. For this reason, even beer and alcohol, because they are derived from yeast and grains, can increase the discomfort of gout.

    Ingesting purines is not the only way to build up an unusually high concentration of uric acid, called hyperuricemia. Poor kidney function, since the kidneys filter out uric acid, works in conjunction with foods that cause gout. Thus, drinking plenty of water and eating tofu, olive oil, and nuts, actually seems to counteract weakened kidneys to eliminate uric acid from the bloodstream. A diet rich in complex carbohydrates, in the form of vegetables, fruits, and whole grains like bread and pasta, may ease the symptoms of gout. A doctor might combine these diet restrictions with anti-inflammatory medication and an overall weight loss plan.

     

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    Essential Amino Acids

    Arginine
    Histidine
    Isoleucine
    Leucine
    Lysine
    Methionine
    Phenylalanine
    Threonine
    Tryptophan
    Valine

    Non-Essential Amino Acids

    Alanine
    Beta Alanine
    Aspartic Acid
    Carnitine
    Citrulline
    Cysteine and Cystine
    GABA (Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid)
    Glutamine and Glutamic Acid
    Glutathione
    Glycine
    Ornithine
    Proline
    Taurine
    Tyrosine

    glutamate or glutamic acid-(links to info about other amino acids, too)-Apparently Glutamic acid is A GOOD THING- keeps out the ammonia, for one thing!
     
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    Glutamine and Glutamic Acid Information

    Glutamine is a non-essential amino acid. J. Bland, a nutrition researcher, however, suggests that under certain conditions it may become a 'contingency nutrient', and, therefore, be considered essential. He points out that glutamine is synthesised in certain tissues for use in others. Glutamic acid can be synthesised from a number of amino acids.

    Glutamine and Glutamic Acid Benefits - Functions in the Body

    Known as the 'sobriety amino acid', glutamine is involved in two important roles. Along with glucose, it is fuel for the brain cells. The second function of glutamine is to act as a detoxifier of ammonia from the brain. As it picks up ammonia, glutamic acid is reconverted to its original form of glutamine. Glutamic acid also plays an important role in the metabolism of ammonia.

    Glutamine is considered beneficial in the treatment of alcoholism. It plays a protective role in the body's relationship with alcohol. An amount of two to four grams glutamine taken daily, is the suggested treatment for alcohol problems.

    Dr Bernard Rimland of the Institute for Child Behaviour has successfully improved behavioural problems in children by nutritional means, which include glutamic acid as a major component.

    Other noted areas in which glutamine can be used beneficially are depression, IQ improvement in mentally deficient children, healing of peptic ulcers, epilepsy in children, and schizophrenia.

    Glutamine Supplements

    L-glutamine (the natural form of glutamine) is available as a supplement in 500 mg capsules. Recommended dosage is up to three 500 mg capsules or tablets either half an hour before or two hours after eating. You may start with 500-1000 mg for the first few weeks and build up to 1500 mg over the course of a month.

    Glutamine and Glutamic Acid Deficiency Symptoms

    Glutamine deficiencies are seldom seen. However, a contingency status may be reached through extensive demand in relation to genetic factors which lead to an inadequate synthesis in the body.

    As the brain is able to store relatively small quantities of glucose, it is dependent upon glutamic acid. The shortage of glutamine or glutamic acid in the brain results in brain damage or dullness of brain due to excess ammonia.

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    Drug for Bones Is Newly Linked to Jaw Disease
    By GINA KOLATA
    Some people taking bisphosphonates to prevent bone breaks have reported death of areas of bone in the jaw.

     

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    Drug for Bones Is Newly Linked to Jaw Disease

    By GINA KOLATA
    Published: June 2, 2006

    In the last 10 years, millions of patients have taken a class of drugs that can prevent agonizing broken and deteriorating bones. The drugs once seemed perfectly safe and have transformed life for patients with cancer or osteoporosis.

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    Joan McDevitt suffered badly after developing osteonecrosis of the jaw.

    But recently there have been reports of a serious side effect: death of areas of bone in the jaw.

    Everyone agrees that the condition, osteonecrosis of the jaw, is an uncommon complication, but that its true incidence is not known. It is estimated that among the 500,000 American cancer patients who take the drugs because their disease is affecting their bones, 1 to 10 percent may develop the problem.

    As for the millions of osteoporosis patients, who take lower doses, the condition seems less common. But no one knows how much less. Some oral surgeons have as many as a couple of dozen cases, but their clinics have become centers to which patients elsewhere are referred. Among people with osteoporosis, only 15 cases of the new ailment have been reported in the medical literature.

    So for now, doctors and dentists are perplexed. Firm data are scarce to nonexistent, studies that may provide answers are only about to begin, and medical organizations and drug companies are scrambling to provide guidance, often based only on hunches. Some dentists are refusing to treat patients taking the drugs, fearful that the dental work will induce a case of osteonecrosis, and lawyers are lining up to sue the drugs' makers, saying they failed to give patients adequate warning.

    Doctors say worried patients hearing about the ailment are starting to besiege them. The patients want to know whether they should stop taking the drugs, called bisphosphonates. They want to know whether they should shun invasive dental procedures, like tooth extractions and implants, which appear to set off the condition. They want to know whether osteonecrosis of the jaw can be treated and, if so, how likely it is that a person will recover.

    Some patients who have not developed osteonecrosis have decided to stop taking the drugs until more is known.

    "I'm giving myself a little holiday," said Judy Langley, 63, of Anacortes, Wash., who because of osteoporosis has been taking a bisphosphonate for seven years.

    Doctors also say the level of alarm among patients, as well as some physicians and dentists, is itself alarming. "The whole thing has spun out of control," said Dr. Ethel Siris, director of the Toni Stabile Osteoporosis Center at Columbia University.

    The Food and Drug Administration is aware of the issue, said Laura Alvey, a spokeswoman, and has required that all bisphosphonate labels disclose the link to osteonecrosis of the jaw. The problem is that patients cannot easily abandon the drugs.

    Cancer patients, mostly those with multiple myeloma and breast cancer whose disease has spread to their bones, generally take one of two bisphosphonates, Zometa or the older Aredia, intravenously. The drugs, doctors say, largely prevent excruciating bone pain and fragile bones that break like kindling.

    Osteoporosis patients, on the other hand, usually take bisphosphonates as pills, in much lower doses. Those drugs — Fosamax, Actonel and Boniva — reduce the risk of fractures of the spine or hip, injuries that can create a steady downward spiral in pDrug for Bones Is Newly Linked to Jaw Disease

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    06/02/06

    If you're like me, you expect the government to lie to you. And we expect lies, too, from email scammers who seek to sell all kinds of things or claim they're from Nigeria and need our help to collect millions from some phony bank account.

    But we don't expect respectable health authorities such as the American Cancer Society to lie. From these we have a reasonable expectation of honesty, even truth.

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    Unfortunately, in the United States, the Establishment’s goal of a One World Order is reaching fruition through complacent consent and subversive conquest.
     
     
     

    THE ONE WORLD ORDER, BY CONQUEST OR CONSENT?

     

    PART 1

     

     

     

    Deanna Spingola
    June 1, 2006
    NewsWithViews.com

    On February 17, 1950, James Paul Warburg confidently declared to the United States Senate: “We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.”[1] James Paul Warburg (1896-1969) was the son of Paul Moritz Warburg, nephew of Felix Warburg and of Jacob Schiff, both of Kuhn, Loeb & Company which financed the Russian Revolution through James’ brother Max, banker to the government of Germany.[2] A world government is a world without borders, national sovereignty, constitutions, privacy, autonomy, individual liberties, religious freedoms, private property, the right to bear arms, the rights of marriage and family and a dramatic population reduction (two thirds). A world government establishes a slave/master environment wherein the state controls everything.

    Unfortunately, in the United States, the Establishment’s goal of a One World Order is reaching fruition through complacent consent and subversive conquest. America, a Constitutional Republic, is plunging into the satanical One World Order facilitated by the calculated placement of unscrupulous individuals deeply dedicated to the goals of the secret societies they belong to. America, formerly the home of the brave and the free, is currently the home of the people who merely think they are free. None are more enslaved and manipulated than those who mistakenly view themselves as free, therefore rendering them exceptionally vulnerable.

    Consent, using mass population management can be achieved by using elements of Hegelian Dialectics. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831),[3] the political and social scientist and professor at the University of Berlin from 1817 until his death in 1831, clearly defined his philosophical/political concepts that came to be known as Hegelianism. His ideas are still taught[4] and authors continue to elaborate on his philosophies,[5] though inattentive Americans fail to acknowledge or even distinguish their application in our own society despite the obvious and devastating consequences.

    “The philosophy which has dominated the Western world since the mid 19th century can be reduced to one tenet—ultimate peace comes only through conflict… It proposes that a clash between ideologies (thesis and antithesis) is a normal historical phenomenon which always results in compromise (synthesis) that advances civilization to a higher level of order. “Conflict, in other words, is good, and peace is not necessarily desirable (or profitable).”[6] The essence of Hegel's dialectical process is that an idea (thesis) is challenged by its opposite (antithesis) creating a crisis, problem or conflict and the two are ultimately reconciled into a third idea (synthesis) or compromise which includes both. As compromise (synthesis) is achieved the process is incessantly repeated, with synthesis posturing as thesis, for sustained conflict-filled advancement. And like spectators at a tennis match, the populace is so totally distracted by the contrived contentious confrontations that we do not perceive the motives of the entire conflict charade. Government creates a crisis for which the public demands a solution. That solution instigates the changes that the government initially wanted but which the people would have been unwilling to accept. It is Order out of Chaos! Worldwide chaos will lead to worldwide solutions which will establish the One World Order.

    Several current crises receiving media attention definitely demand serious scrutiny. Trust me; the government already has the perfect solution for each problem.

    Crisis #1: Deliberate destabilization is occurring: well financed demonstrations donning foreign flags, government fines of small business, chaos, high crime rates, eradicated contagious diseases returning, bankrupt hospitals, high welfare burdens, lost American wages, and overcrowded schools are emotionally eviscerating Americans. Minutemen marches and justified activities are ineffective against the floodgate of the Mexican masses. Public demand is high as we witness the seemingly impotent government (thesis) apathetic to the voter’s wishes while their usually supportive squad of talk radio show shills and the Fox News faction posture as a very effective opposition (antithesis) purportedly embracing the average citizen’s viewpoint against the government.

    Solution or synthesis: The completely orchestrated invasion by invitation is essentially the well planned stealthy strategic function of combining the countries of Canada, the United States and Mexico according to the treacherous treaty signed on March 23, 2005, by the top political leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada: Bush, Fox and Martin.[7] Download the CFR associated document, Building a North American Community, Task Force Report 53 for comprehensive details. This invasion enables their goal with additional perks: thousands of additional jobless citizens will be available for perpetual warfare paid by borrowed funds from the international banking cabal. Rampant chaos, assisted by the predicted avian pandemic may necessitate permanent Martial Law or military order (as after 9-11) which may prevent the 2006 and 2008 “elections” from taking place. Those “representatives” loyal to the One World Order would then remain in office, an unlikely circumstance, if our votes actually counted, after their duplicity in this immigration fiasco.

    For security, “voters” (people who actually think they have a voice) will settle for the compromise legislation that we were unwilling to accept originally. To prove our legality, we will be amenable to an implanted ID chip. We won’t complain too loudly about the incarceration of illegals in those FEMA Concentration Camps. This will make it easier for the government to imprison dissenters, whistleblowers and patriots. What they can do to one person, they can do to multitudes.

    Crisis #2: Members of the government-friendly mass media are apparently attempting to provoke public alarm by castigating watchdog journalists who allegedly leak information which might affect our “national security.” One popular obedience-trained radio talk show shill suggested subpoenas instead of Pulitzers. William J. Bennett, Neo-con war hawk PNAC member said: “But these people who reveal our secrets, who hurt our war effort, who hurt the efforts of our CIA, who hurt efforts of the president's people--they shouldn't be given prizes and awards for this; they should be looked into--the Espionage Act, the investigation of these leaks.”[8]

    Journalistic exposés about Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-California), Bush’s warrant-less domestic surveillance program and the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal expose government abuse and corruption. Government is accountable to the people, not the other way around. In an attempt to prevent publication of Bush’s illegal assault on our privacy “Bush met with Executive Editor Bill Keller and Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. to argue against publication.”[9] Gagging the press is censorship – typical only in a tyrannical government. Freedom of speech is always lost gradually – unfortunately with the consent of a propagandized frightened populace willing to give up their freedoms for a measure of security.

    “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” - Harry S. Truman

    Solution or synthesis: Full ramifications of the legislation already in place will unfold, which the unwitting populace will readily accept, with the next contrived crisis or pandemic – the 2007 Intelligence Authorization Act spells total control from just about every major bureaucratic agency. “H.R. 5020 provides strategic and substantial enhancements in funding for critical, world-wide intelligence capabilities, strengthens our overall capabilities, and gives America the modern, lean, mean, agile, and aggressive Intelligence Community it needs.”[10]

    “Finally, the bill requires the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to develop a comprehensive overhead architecture program to eliminate waste and ensure rational and coordinated technical programs; improves coordination between the Intelligence Community and military to increase our efforts and effectiveness in the Global War on Terror; and increases House Intelligence and Armed Services coordination to advance common systems and capabilities to fight the Global War on Terror.”[11] The “war of terror” is significantly defined as global, the ominous foreshadowing of “perpetual war for perpetual peace”. Anti-war advocates will be classified as unpatriotic or worse – probably depicted as traitors via a daily “2-minute hate session.” “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”

    Obviously, there are other crises, orchestrated oppositions, for which Americans are and will demand solutions – premeditated plans that bring us closer to the One World Order. People are demanding a solution to the gas prices which affect every aspect of American life. It isn’t just about gas availability for summer vacations. Petitions against profanity from friends and family are wending their way through the Internet asking for a government solution. Hey people, police yourself and your children – turn the television off – read a book! Don’t hand the job of parenting to Big Brother! If they can eliminate profanity, they can eliminate anything – religion, etc.

    Criminal activity, hyped in the news and exacerbated by numerous CSI style shows, creates the perception of pervasive crime which promotes a general feeling of fear and vulnerability. Some Chicago churches are compensating individuals for turning in their guns. Is this a faith-based initiative - churches collecting guns appears very benign compared to confiscation by uniformed government agents. Gun control is a major step! Only criminals and the government (excuse the redundancy) will have guns – now that is the scariest scenario.

    “Our main agenda is to have all guns banned of course. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn’t matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.” --Sarah Brady, 1994

    It is amazing that the government can predict the pandemic arrival of the avian flu Small business suffers while big multinational agri-business increases. And who knows what is in that vaccine serum – metal, mercury or some other waste product? Collateral benefit: Donald Rumsfeld makes big bucks on Gilead stock.

    Is another war on the horizon? Should we preemptively nuke Iran – the threat is whatever the Ministry of Truth and the complicit news media says it is. Collateral benefit: war profits for the Carlyle Group, that well-connected defense contractor and don’t forget about Halliburton.

    Warrantless domestic surveillance is an affront to our basic Constitutional freedoms but has been going on for decades. The latest incident was intentionally “leaked” to evaluate mass response to a more intense invasion of our privacy. Naïve citizens who aren’t “guilty of anything anyway” claim they don’t mind if Big Brother listens to their private conversations. “Just keep us safe from those bogeymen terrorists!”

    Certainly, there is a massive amount of contrived crises but I hope I made my point regarding thesis, antithesis and synthesis.

    To provide the ongoing application of these devilish dialectics individuals from well established covert societies, some more secret than others, finagle their way into powerful positions within the three branches of the federal government. This is accomplished through complicit consent and contrived choice. The quantity of such infiltration is insignificant especially if we consider the “one rotten apple in a basket” concept. Secret societies, the genuine conspiracies, are secret for a reason and they exist despite denials and well-placed “official” counter charges. Activities carried on under the darkness of concealment are most frequently illegal. Secrecy is not essential in the glaring light of day.

    Antony Sutton stated: “Secret political organizations can be and have been extremely dangerous to the social health and constitutional validity of a society. In a truly free society the exercise of political power must always be open and known.” “Moreover, organizations devoted to violent overthrow of political structures have always, by necessity, been secret organizations. Communist revolutionary cells are an obvious example. In fact, such revolutionary organizations can only function if their existence was secret. In brief, secrecy in matters political is historically associated with coercion. Furthermore, the existence of secrecy in organizations with political ambitions or with a history of political actions is always suspect. Freedom is always associated with open political action and discussion while coercion is always associated with secrecy.”[12] We have been brainwashed into believing absolute secrecy is imperative for our national security.

    President Kennedy said of Freemasonry: “The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it.” President John F. Kennedy— address to newspaper publishers, April 27, 1961

    Most of these groups or societies embrace One World Order goals; they include but are not limited to: The Illuminati, Club of Rome, the Bilderbergs, the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), also known as The Chatham House Study Group founded 1919 in Great Britain and its sinister sister the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) founded 1921 in America. The CFR is the largest group. “The plans for these two groups were drawn up at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. The RIIA was largely funded by the Astor family, The Rhodes Trust and certain British banks whilst the CFR was a front for JP Morgan &Co.”[13]

    “The main purpose of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is promoting the disarmament of U.S. sovereignty and national independence and submergence into an all powerful, one world government.” Chester Ward, Rear Admiral and former Navy Judge Advocate 1956 – 1960 and a CFR member for 15 years. Is his attitude reflective of other military leaders who have also sworn to uphold the Constitution?  

    Both of these groups were established as proxies for the Rhodes-Milner Group which was founded at All Souls College, Oxford University by diamond tycoon Cecil Rhodes (Rhodesia was named for), inspired by John Ruskin, professor of Fine Arts at Oxford University and Lord Alfred Milner at the end of the 19th century. The Rhodes Scholarships were created as a result of an attachment to the 1902 will of Cecil Rhodes:  

    “The idea gliding and dancing before our eyes like a willow – a wish at last frames itself into a plan. Why should we not join (or form as other writers have interpreted Rhodes’ handwriting) a secret society with but one object: the furtherance of the British Empire, for the bringing of the whole uncivilized world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for the making the Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire.”[14]


    Footnotes:

    1, Liberty Tree
    2, Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution By Antony C. Sutton
    3, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    4, Dean of the Faculty
    5, Publications on Hegel
    6, Freedom Through Order
    7, Building a North American Community
    8, Bennett: Pulitzer Winners Risen, Lichtblau, Priest 'Worthy of Jail'
    9, Post Wins 4 Pulitzer Prizes; 2 Go to New Orleans Paper
    10, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007
    11, Ibid
    12, America's Secret Establishment, An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones by Antony c. Sutton, 2002, pg. 185
    13, The Great Trust and Western Foreign Policy, Chapter 3
    14, How The World Really Works by Alan B. Jones, pg. 67

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    Today we’re hearing a lot about Spiritism or Spiritualism, not to be confused with spiritual or spirituality, as in “I’m not religious, I’m spiritual,” or “I’m into spirituality.” The term Spiritism has replaced what was once called animism and other religious practices involving the invocation of spiritual beings. Some religions meld Spiritualism with Christianity. For example, a blend of Christian and African folk beliefs that originated in Brazil is now practiced in the U.S. Spiritualism is much the same as Spiritism only it has adopted Christian rites and prayers. People visiting Spiritualistic services can be misled into thinking they’re Christian churches. The problem is, Christianity cannot be melded with any other religion or practice.

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