Month: March 2010

by: Aaron Turpen

(NaturalNews) Genetically modified organisms (GMO) or genetically modified crops (GM Foods) are fast becoming the only type of staple crops grown in the United States. Over 90% of soybeans, over 70% of corn, and more are all grown from GM seeds. The number one producer of GM seeds is Monsanto and that company has been busy ensuring it has a strong say in every aspect of agriculture and food labeling in America – one large market shares in every type of seed grown in the U.S. (not just corn and soybeans).

NaturalNews readers are not new to the evils of GM foods, of course.¹ From immune system problems to organ failure to severe harm to the environment, the negative impacts of GMO seeds and crops are well-documented. If that's the case, then, why is it that they are so common and why do the GMO giants seem to be ever-growing and encroaching on more and more farms and foods?

Through bullying, lobbying, and putting key figures into key positions of government. That's how.

Of course, this three-part frontal assault wasn't invented by the GM seed makers. It's been used by Big Pharma, the Military-Industrial Complex, Banking and Wall Street, and plenty of others before.

To execute the three-pronged attack, Monsanto had to gain control of the agricultural markets first, so it targeted individual crops with its GM seeds. It did this by making seeds that were herbicide tolerant (HT ready) and marketing them alongside it's flagship product, RoundUp. RoundUp is an herbicide (plant killer) derived from Monsanto's first product, commonly known as Agent Orange. That history should explain where Monsanto learned the corporate three-punch takeover game: from the Military-Industrial Complex where it was born.

Once a relatively large share of the seeds being planted were owned by the company, Monsanto then moved into politics, pushing to make more and more of their wares legal and accepted. This required lobbying efforts on a large scale. In 2009 alone, Monsanto spent over $8.5 million lobbying in Washington and untold millions in individual states.² They also began intimidating farmers and using strong-arm tactics to continue their market share growth. Eventually, of course, their political lobbying would not be enough and more direct control would be needed.

Inside control. That came recently with some key appointments.³

Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack has been appointed Secretary of Agriculture while Michael Taylor, a former chief lobbyist for Monsanto, is a new senior adviser for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Vilsack has long been a supporter of GM crops and factory farming. Taylor is the Deputy Commissioner for Foods and is in charge of policy for food safety for the FDA. Both are key positions of power over America's food supply.

It's this three-pronged encirclement of American agriculture and foods that is giving Monsanto total control over our food supply. Which means no amount of health reform will make you well if the very basis of your health, food, is unhealthy.

by: Christopher Gussa

(NaturalNews) To TCM and other natural practitioners as well as many common every day Americans, it is becoming more and more evident that MDs are programmed to simply rob, kill and destroy. This may sound a bit harsh but this is not meant to take anything away from their amazing talents of surgery and traumatic injury repair. The paradox of such a life saving talent combined with the "lowest of the low" lifestyle of deadly drug pusher is almost impossible to fathom. With all their understanding of anatomy, what is so hard to understand about keeping the body healthy with only wholesome natural substances? In fact why would this not be their first and only form of treatment?

Let`s take any common disorder….Say, high blood pressure. There is a host of herbal formulas and diets that can bring down blood pressure quite substantially, but if it is still only a few points more than 120/80 they say it is not good enough and you need to be on drugs! So many people swallow this nonsense and wind up getting hooked on deadly drugs. It should be a crime to even suggest it.

Then there is heart disease…..A little angina or a bit of arrhythmia or tachycardia and you are destined to be on extremely dangerous drugs the rest of your life. They will scare you into it with their highly manipulating tone. This all takes place when there is a very safe Chinese herb known as Dan Shen that will correct most common heart problems within 24 hours. http://www.naturalnews.com/025028_D…

How about high cholesterol? The way they lie about it is such an incredible joke! It would be hilarious if they didn`t push deadly statin drugs and get paid to do it.

Again, the question must be asked: How can such highly educated and talented surgeons and traumatic injury specialists buy this nonsense? Is it possibly the education itself? Is what doctors are learning so carefully presented in the universities (which are mostly built with money from Big Pharma) cause them just to wind up getting brained-washed? Or is it something even more evil? http://fedupwithbs.com/illuminati.html

TCM herbalists and other natural practitioners come up against this in two ways. Many times they hear just what this article is talking about from their patients (before they have to bring it up themselves). However, often they have to give this same "speech" in this article to get them to see the light. These are people that find themselves miserably hooked on pharma drugs wondering what is wrong. They will say, "But I did everything the doctor said." The practitioner must then tell them, "That is exactly what is wrong; you did everything the doctor said."

Sadly, some still don`t get it but it is encouraging to see more and more that do get it. These are the people that rise above the evil curse of Big Pharma and say: "My health belongs to me. I will not be lied to anymore just because the FDA gives these drug pushers permission to lie."

Best of health!

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by Mike Adams

(NaturalNews) Today the medical mafia struck another devastating blow to the health and freedom of all Americans. With the support of an inarguably corrupt Congress that has simply abandoned the real needs of the American people, the sick-care industry has locked in a high-profit scheme of disease and monopoly-priced pharmaceuticals in a nation that can ill afford either one.

And this Pharma-funded betrayal, it turns out, was led by the Democrats. Passed on a 219-212 vote that was only accomplished thanks to closed-door, last-minute secret meetings among the last holdouts, this new legislation puts America under the stranglehold of the medical mafia while doing absolutely nothing to address real health care reform. There is no mention in the bill, for example, of vitamin D for preventing cancer, or orthomolecular medicine for preventing degenerative disease. There's not even a word about protecting health freedom or ending the century of oppression that has been waged against naturopathic practitioners by the AMA, FDA and FTC.

The new legislation does, however, lock in billions of dollars in monopoly profits for the pharmaceutical companies — the same companies who spent millions of dollars pushing for its passage and who depend on the continuation of sickness and disease for their future profits.

There's only one problem with this health care reform bill: It doesn't reform health care. It has almost nothing to do with health care at all, in fact: It's really more of an effort to expand a broken sick-care system. When faced with the problem that our sick-care system doesn't work, Congress somehow decided that fixing the problem merely involved expanding the failures to include everyone!

And you don't even get a choice in the matter, either. All Americans are now required to pay into a sick-care system of monopolized, pharmaceutical medicine even if they reject that failed system of medicine. So the healthy people who actually take responsibility for their health are financially penalized and forced to subsidize profits for drug companies!

Watch my recent video called Healthy Without Health Insurance in America. It's on YouTube right now at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWuX…

Has America gone mad?

I love America. Or, more accurately, I love what America is supposed to stand for: Freedom, opportunity, abundance, free choice, diversity…

But I'm increasingly noticing that America's leaders don't believe in those ideals at all. They are betraying the American people by selling out our futures to the corporate monopolists. They are turning America into a corporatocracy, and the passage of this monopoly sick-care system is yet another perfect example of just how easily our own lawmakers will sell out the People just to appease the powerful chemical industrialists who dominate medicine today.

They have sold out our futures to keep themselves in power, and isn't that the worst kind of betrayal of all? People's live are on the line here. While people like myself and many other health freedom champions are fighting for health freedom and an end to human suffering among our fellow brothers and sisters, we've got our national leaders essentially aiming the artillery at our own people and yelling "Fire!" Through their actions with this health care reform bill, they are forcing people into circumstances that are going to cost countless lives and many trillions of dollars in wasted expenditures and lost economic productivity.

Our Congress has betrayed us (yet again). I believe that with perhaps the exception of Rep. Ron Paul, every single Senator and House Representative should be thrown out of office at the next election, stripped of their power and sent home to face their home-district families that they have now doomed to a lifetime of sickness, disease and pharmaceutical toxicity. Our national leaders claim to be voting on Health Care but what they really delivered was Hell Care, because dying of cancer while on chemotherapy while no doctor can legally tell you that vitamin D prevents 4 out of 5 cancers is, indeed, a living hell (or dying hell, in this case).

And speaking of Hell, the dark energies that have been provoked and called upon in this battle for pharmaceutical dominance over the "disease management" of the American population almost seems downright demonic, as if some evil power from other world had been summoned into Washington D.C. to ensure the passage of this legislation that practically guarantees another generation of pain and suffering at the hands of conventional medicine.

All the health solutions that really work — nutritional medicine, orthomolecular therapies, chiropractic medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine and so on — have been locked out of the system while those therapies that promote a lifetime of disease have been locked in. And in this way, our Congress has now made certain that America as we know it today will not survive another generation — because no nation can achieve greatness when its people are drowning in toxic chemicals and degenerative disease.

We've Got to Save the America We Love

America doesn't need more drugs, more chemotherapy, more mammograms, more vaccines and more nutritionally-ignorant doctors pushing more poison pills onto more uninformed patients. What this country needs is a grassroots health revolution that throws out the broken, failed system of pharma-medicine that doesn't work and replaces it with a new system of healing, nutrition, patient education and personal health responsibility that would slash our health care costs and set our nation on a new path of health and prosperity.

This goal can never be accomplished when the people writing our laws are determined to protect the financial interests of the very industry that depends on sickness and disease for its profits. When it came down to a choice between the People and the corporations, our U.S. Congress chose the corporations!

I love America, and I'd love to see its health restored. But more importantly, I would love to see the American people rise up against their betrayers in Washington, peacefully sweep them out of office at the next election and make a real effort to restore the rights and freedoms that are outlined in the United States Constitution — a document that seems to have been written off by the Washington jackals who, themselves, are suffering from degenerative mental disorders and psychotropic drug side effects.

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by: E. Huff

(NaturalNews) The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Commission (EC) have been working on establishing dosage limits on vitamins and supplements within the European Union (EU) using flawed toxicology risk assessment methods to make such determinations. A recent paper published in the journal Toxicology exposes the approach as "fatally flawed," citing the junk science being used to try to limit access to effective doses of nutritional supplements.

 

Robert Verkerk PhD, lead author of the article and scientific and executive director of the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) International, has been working for years to explain to various European and international authorities the illogic of using toxicologic risk analysis to assess proper nutrient dosages. His paper in Toxicology is his most extensive and thorough critique thus far.

The Codex Alimentarius Commission, created jointly by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations back in 1963 to establish a world food code, established its guidelines for vitamin and mineral supplements back in 2005. Though not technically enforceable, especially in nations like the U.S. where such provisions would be wholly unconstitutional, the guidelines suggest establishing upper safe limits on vitamin and mineral supplements using the same toxicologic risk assessment methods used on dangerous toxins like mercury and lead.

In his paper, Verkerk lambasts the slightly modified version of the EU's method of assessing nutrients that is based on the Codex recommendations. According to his analysis, the vitamin and mineral limits currently being proposed are so low that one would exceed them by eating a simple junk food meal.

Two health trade associations in the U.K. recently conducted an analysis of their own that found that implementation of the limits in their country would end up shutting down over 700 independent retail stores, causing a loss in sales of over 100 million British pounds and costing at least 4,000 jobs. The Health Manufacturers Association and the National Association of Health Stores presented these findings to the UK Parliament back in December.

The Irish Association of Health Stores and ANH International both filed complaints with the European Parliament's Petitions Committee for redress in the matter. All petitions put forward thus far against the proposed limits, including scientific information exposing the methodology as unsound, have been ignored by both the EFSA and EC.

ANH International and other concerned groups from across Europe are proposing that the EFSA and EC stop the implementation of any vitamin and mineral supplement limits.

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"This is the most complete evidence to date that suggests obesity and drug addiction have common neuro-biological foundations," researcher Paul Johnson said.

The researchers fed rats one of three diets: a nutritious diet, a healthy diet with restricted access to junk food, or a diet of unlimited junk food. Junk foods included cheesecake, chocolate, sponge cake and fatty meat. Mice in the third group quickly became obese, while the weight of mice in the first two groups did not change.

To test the effects of junk food on the brain's pleasure centers — the areas affected by drugs — the researchers electrically stimulated those areas whenever the mice ran on a wheel. The longer a rat ran on the wheel, the more pleasure it would receive.

While rats in the first two groups did not change their wheel-running behavior, the rats eating junk food soon began running on the wheel for longer periods — suggesting that their brain's pleasure centers had become less sensitive. Consistent with this finding, the rats began eating more and more food, suggesting that their bodies had become desensitized to the pleasure the food was producing.

The researchers then began exposing rats to painful electric shocks whenever they ate junk food. The rats on the restricted junk food diet quickly stopped eating the food, but the binge-eating rats were undeterred.

"You lose control. It's the hallmark of addiction," researcher Paul Kenny said.

When the bingeing rats were deprived of junk food and given only healthy food, they refused to eat anything for two weeks.

"It's almost as if you break these things, it's very, very hard to go back to the way things were before," Kenny said. "Their dietary preferences are dramatically shifted."

"What we have are these core features of addiction, and these animals are hitting each one."

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by: Aaron Turpen

(NaturalNews) Media headlines are full of stories about the fraudulent hucksters who lie at the edges of the natural remedies and anti-vaccine cultures, but when scientists in accepted fields of study are caught faking results and cooking the books, the stories go largely unreported. Andrew Wakefield gets censured for one paper from over ten years ago and it's front page news. When 70 scientific papers from two scientists analyzing chemical structures are found to be well-written fiction, barely a peep is heard.

This obvious bias on the part of the bulk of the media is flagrant and obvious. It took weeks for the media to pick up on the leaked emails and possible fraud going on in England at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at East Anglia. Blogs and websites circulated the story as soon as it was discovered, and they have been instrumental in cracking the case and showcasing the fraud and insider dealing that goes on in the climate research field.

That was just the tip of the iceberg.

In December, the University of Alabama at Birmingham requested that 11 protein structures be removed from databases and the papers written on them be retracted from journals,¹ including the Journal of Biological Chemistry, which has already made the retraction.²

The granddaddy of the group, however, is what was alluded to at the beginning of this article. In January, an editorial appeared in Acta Crystallographica Section E, an eminent Scottish journal of chemistry, and announced the retraction of over 70 peer-reviewed studies by two Chinese scientists from Jinggangshan University.³ At about the same time, the BBC News did a brief story on the money that may have changed hands to facilitate the scientific research – China has a black market for research as professors and others can receive large bonuses for being published in foreign journals.⁴

In 2008, Mike Adams revealed the ghostwriting of papers isn't just a Chinese phenomenon. Pharmaceutical companies have been doing it for years and were finally exposed. In-house Big Pharma writers pen the scientific papers and then pay off respected doctors and scientists outside of the pharmaceutical company to put their name on it.⁵

These are just some of the hundreds of stories of scientific fraud and mis-handling that have appeared over the past decade or more. Yet news media and academia rarely question science and pundits on the television point to "peer reviewed science" as if it's the end-all, be-all of the scientific method and provides irrefutable truths.

The peer-review process is not, however, as perfect and sacrosanct as most in academia would like you to believe. In fact, it is fundamentally flawed and is a more recent phenomenon in scientific research and publication than most people realize.

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Federal Health Care is artificial, stiff, synthetic, structured, coercive, anti-freedom, and anti-organic.  It is backed by bureaucrats, policemen, guns, and prisons.  On the other hand, true free-market health care (not the ersatz health care today that is passed off as private) is organic, flowing, non-monopolistic, pro-freedom, and decentralized.  It is marked by voluntary exchanges among free individuals.  Which would you prefer?  Slaves love the former, to be told what to do, to not have to make choices.  Free individuals vastly prefer the latter.

Time to Kill the Bill

The purpose of this Press Release is to ask all of our loyal NHF members and other readers of our messages to email or telephone their Congressional Representatives, especially Democratic-Party Representatives in the House – this week and next – and tell them that you want them to vote against the White House Health Care Reform legislation.  The NHF encourages everyone to do this more than just once – be persistent.  Now is the time for health-freedom advocates to kill this Disease-care legislation in the House once and for all.

The new Obama-care legislation is not much different from the Harry Reid Senate passed bill in that Federal bureaucrats will be in control of your health care, and US. taxpayers will be giving more money to pay for the philosophy of big government and bureaucrats “know best.”  These people push the dangerous myth that the government actually has the compassion and capability to manage and control the insurance market, as well as the bankrupt philosophy that the concentration of even more power in the hands of a few, unelected bureaucrats, is better than just reforming the insurance market and letting people freely make their own decisions.  Yet, it is a snake-headed Medusa writhing with hidden, freedom-killing laws that also have nothing to do with health care.

Speaker Pelosi and Mr. Obama are working on their latest political buy-offs with House Democrats who opposed expanded Federal payments for abortion.  This is an important issue, but it is a distraction from the rest of the controlled expansions in the final Obama-care proposal being crafted.  Mr. Obama is on the stump, playing the "insurance companies are the bad guys" routine, as was done once before.  This routine gets old; but, again, it is nothing more than a straw-man argument meant to distract the audience from the core purpose of the government health-care reform monster attempting to be shoved down the throats of the country.

Among many other things, what is not being revealed is that unelected Federal councils and commissions will be in control of what medical treatments will be covered under a private insurance company-Federal cooperative.  Also hidden behind curtains are the facts that these people would change Medicare for the worse and expand the Federal bureaucracy’s control with a “Medical and Cost Effectiveness” regime that will shut out true alternative health care.  There also remains the issue of forcing people to buy expensive health insurance or else face paying stiff penalties (backed by guns and prison of course).  There are numerous other health-freedom and government-control issues still in the Obama-care legislation.  It is not just about eliminating pre-existing conditions exclusions by insurance companies. The NHF believes that true health-care reform is, among many other things, about allowing true free-market interstate competition among the insurance carriers, not requiring consumers to buy their insurance through third parties, broadening the scope of medical-insurance coverage to include a wide array of alternative practitioners, ending the conventional medical monopoly, and basically getting the Federal government out of health care altogether.

As Americans of independent thought and action have learned over the past 18 months, Congressional and Presidential elections do have consequences.  The final script for the shape of our new health-care system is struggling to be completed in Congress.  Americans’ Constitutional rights are once again being trampled on, like so much trash, along with individual health freedom of choice.  The strong cry against this usurpation of our liberties has been heard across the country, yet the Pelosi, Reid, and Obama wing of the Democratic party are completely and utterly deaf to what the majority of Americans want and believe is really needed.  The truth is that the health-care “reform” plan Congress wants to push through will result in less compassion, not more.  It will result in more sickness, not less.  It will result in more misery and less health-care freedom.  This is the biggest threat to your health freedom and your health in years because virtually all health-care monies will circle and be sucked down into the toilet of the failed conventional medical monopoly, leaving very little left for the average consumer to spend elsewhere!

The debate and political posturing will soon come to a head.  Your help is needed NOW to defeat Obama-care in the House.  This is a critical, tipping-point time in which you can maximize your efforts.  Take action now and over the following weeks to slay this Medusa that will turn us all into stone!

 

Sample Petition Letter: http://www.thenhf.com/press_releases/HR3590_SamplePetition.doc

It is difficult to treat any disease today without paying attention to the profound magnesium deficiencies that exist in nearly 100 percent of sufferers of chronic disease. We could easily say the same for bicarbonate and iodine and when we pay attention to all three at the same time our work in helping people recover from their suffering and pain is greatly eased. This is especially true when it comes to neurological diseases.
 
The central nervous system is extremely sensitive and reacts to a combination of factors that allopathic doctors don’t normally touch down on. Toxic exposures, nutritional deficiencies and emotional anguish converge most pointedly on the nervous system with often catastrophic results. As we will see below one of the main disasters facing people today are wide ranging exposure to both mercury and aluminum; metals at the top of the list that cause neurological damage.
 
Toxic substances, such as mercury, which the body is chronically exposed to, accumulates in the brain, pituitary gland, CNS, liver, kidneys, etc. and can damage, inhibit, and cause imbalances at very low levels of exposure. Heavy metals can cause major neurological, immunological, and metabolic damage.
 
Each individual will be seen to have their own unique combination of neurological, endocrine, and enzymatic imbalances along with autoimmunities that result from the above factors. Symptoms will vary resulting in different differential diagnoses: multiple sclerosis (MS), Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), or Parkinson’s Disease (PD), Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), and eve rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
 
Multiple Sclerosis is difficult to address, both because the symptoms are so variable and treatments are often ineffective. This disease affects the central nervous system by damaging the myelin sheaths surrounding nerves of the brain and spinal cord. Primarily affecting teenagers and young adults of Northern European descent, the disorder begins between ages 10 and 50 in almost all affected individuals. About 400,000 people in the United States have MS; twice as many women as men.
 
Although the cause remains officially unknown, it is widely thought to begin as an autoimmune inflammation with magnesium deficiency at the core.  In studies it’s been shown that there was a significantly lower value of magnesium than that seen in control cases. The most marked reduction of magnesium content was observed in CNS white matter including demyelinated plaques of MS samples.[1]
 
Magnesium protects the cells from aluminum, mercury, lead, cadmium, beryllium and nickel. Evidence is mounting that low levels of magnesium contribute to the heavy metal deposition in the brain that precedes Parkinson´s, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer´s. Research has shown that the symptoms of MS are very similar to Mercury poisoning.[2] Mercury is a primary cause of inflammation in our bodies.
 
The rate of relapse in multiple sclerosis was found to be
decreased with dietary magnesium supplementation.[3]
 
Magnesium deficiency causes and underpins chronic inflammatory build ups. Inflammation is the missing link to explain the role of magnesium in many pathological conditions. Dr. Mazur says, “Magnesium deficiency contributes to an exaggerated response to immune stress and oxidative stress is the consequence of the inflammatory response.”  Magnesium deficiencies feed the fires of inflammation and pain and it is magnesium that modulates cellular events involved in inflammation.  Increases in extracellular magnesium concentration cause a decrease in the inflammatory response while reduction in the extracellular magnesium results in cell activation.
 
Magnesium is central to immunocompetence and
plays a crucial role in natural and adaptive immunity.[4]
 
MS sufferers have a wide variety of symptoms that often begin rather abruptly and proceed at a highly variable and unpredictable pace. Common early symptoms include numbness, pins and needles sensations, incoordination, weakness especially in the legs, painful loss of vision in one eye, double vision, dizziness, pain at various sites, urinary symptoms and impotence. Symptoms of MS that are also symptoms of magnesium deficiency include muscle spasms, weakness, twitching, muscle atrophy, an inability to control the bladder, nystagmus (rapid eye movements), hearing loss, and osteoporosis.
 
What is essential to remember about treating pain with magnesium is
that it treats both the symptom and the cause of pain. Meaning the
cause of the pain can often be traced back to a magnesium deficiency.
 
Researchers have found oral magnesium therapy effective on patients with multiple sclerosis. In one formally reported case a 35-year-old woman suffered with severe spastic paraplegia resulting from multiple sclerosis (MS). A significant improvement in the spasticity was found after only 1 week from the onset of the treatment on the modified Ashworth scale, an improvement in the range of motion and in the measures of angles at resting position in lower limbs.[5]
 
Nystagmus is characterized by an involuntary movement of the eyes, often noted as a shaky or wiggly movement and has been directly tied to magnesium deficiencies.  People with MS also have higher rates of epilepsy than controls.  Epilepsy has also been linked to magnesium deficiencies. Without doubt magnesium supplementation accompanied by pH control via diet and the use of sodium bicarbonate will do wonders for not only Multiple Sclerosis patients but also Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease sufferers.
 
Iodine
 
The relatively low prevalence of multiple sclerosis in Japan, despite its temperate latitude, has puzzled many researchers. We know though that their soils have some of the world’s highest known levels of iodine caused by the use of seaweed as a fertilizer. Deficiencies of this essential trace element appear to be associated with many diseases, or birth defects, including goitre, cretinism, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and cancer of the thyroid and nervous system. Although the evidence is weaker, iodine deficiency may also be implicated in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. It should be obvious to physicians that mineral deficiencies are at the center of chronic diseases, which can be largely avoided if appropriate replenishment is stressed.
 
People with MS may also have low levels of selenium or of glutathione peroxidase, an enzyme produced from selenium. A theory explaining the pathogenesis of MS concerns an increased stickiness of cellular plasma membranes, hampering normal vascular function of the brain. In agreement with that theory researchers have found significantly lowered selenium values and lowered glutathione peroxidase activities.[6]
 
MS and Mercury Exposure
 
Dental amalgam is documented by medical studies and medical lab tests to be the largest source of both inorganic and methyl mercury in most people who have several mercury amalgam fillings. Very low levels of exposure have been found to seriously affect individuals who are immune sensitive to toxic metals, or have an inability to detoxify metals   due to such as deficient sulfoxidation or metallothionein function or other inhibited enzymatic processes related to detoxification or excretion of metals.
 
Amalgam exposures are commonly above government health guidelines. This is due to continuous vaporization of mercury from amalgam in the mouth, along with galvanic currents from mixed metals in the mouth that deposit the mercury in the gums and oral cavity. Mercury is one of the most toxic substances in existence and is known to bioaccumulate in the body of people and animals that have chronic exposure.
 
A large epidemiological study of 35,000 Americans by the National Institute of Health, the nation’s principal health statistics agency, found that there was a significant correlation between having a greater than average number of dental amalgam surfaces and having chronic conditions such as epilepsy, MS, or migraine headaches. MS clusters in areas with high metals emissions from facilities such as metal smelters have been documented.
 
Mercury has been found to accumulate preferentially in the brain, major organs, hormone glands, and primary motor function related areas involved in ALS- such as the brain stem, cerebellum, rhombencephalon, dorsal root ganglia, and anterior horn motor neurons, which enervate the skeletal muscles.
 
Mercury and magnesium deficiencies are at the root of inflammation so it is important to understand that chelation of mercury will relieve many of the problems caused by it, and that magnesium will protect our cells from the inflammation that mercury causes. Magnesium is a necessary factor in chelation, for without it chelation will not be successful.[7] Heavy metals like cadmium, lead, & mercury compete with nutritional magnesium, keeping it from availability to protect our cells. The healthy cell wall favors intake of nutrients and elimination of waste products and this is one of the reasons magnesium is so important in detoxification and chelation.
 
Magnesium is a crucial factor in the natural self-
cleansing and detoxification responses of the body
 
Because magnesium protects cells from aluminum, mercury, lead, cadmium, beryllium and nickel, it explains why re-mineralization is so essential for heavy metal detoxification and chelation. Magnesium protects the cell against oxyradical damage and assists in the absorption and metabolism of B vitamins, vitamin C and E, which are anti-oxidants important in cell protection.
 
According to Dr. Russell Blaylock, low magnesium is associated with dramatic increases in free radical generation as well as glutathione depletion and this is vital since glutathione is one of the few antioxidant molecules known to neutralize mercury. Chelation of mercury and supplementation of magnesium must take place together.
 
Other Factors
 
 
Eating a deficient diet is not the only way we can strip our body of the minerals it needs to protect itself from heavy metal exposure. Many pharmaceuticals including over the counter medicines drive down magnesium levels creating ripe conditions for neurological devastation. For example in 1992 researchers reported a case of magnesium deficiency associated with acetaminophen abuse. Metabolic studies showed that the patient’s fractional excretion of magnesium was 12% when her serum magnesium level was 1.0 mg/dL. Renal biopsy demonstrated severe tubulointerstitial disease. The significant wasting of magnesium at a time when serum magnesium levels were depressed suggests renal magnesium wasting syndrome. This defect was related to abuse of acetaminophen.[8]
[1] Magnesium concentration in brains from multiple sclerosis patientsACTA NEUROL. SCAND. (Denmark), 1990, 81/3 (197-200)
[2] http://www.flcv.com/ms.html
[3] Multiple sclerosis: Decreased relapse rate through dietary supplementation with calcium, magnesium and vitamin D; MED. HYPOTHESES (UK), 1986, 21/2 (193-200)
[4] Mag Res. 1992:5:281-93
[5] P. Rossier , S. van Erven and D. T. Wade  Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre, Abingdon Road, Oxford England (DOI) 10.1046/j.1468-1331.2000.00142.x
[6] Biol Trace Elem Res. 1988 Jan-Apr;15:179-203. Selenium in chronic neurologic diseases. Multiple sclerosis and Batten’s disease. Clausen J, Jensen GE, Nielsen SA. Institute for Life Sciences and Chemistry, University of Roskilde, Denmark.
[7] Magnesium ions constitute the physiologically active magnesium in the body; they are not attached to other substances and are free to join in biochemical body processes.5 This is one basic reason magnesium helps to detoxify toxic chemicals and helps eliminate heavy metals from the body. Another reason would be the part it plays in glutathione production but undoubtedly, as Dr. Haley indicates, the Mg-ATP provides the crucial energy to remove each toxicant. A magnesium ion is an atom that is missing two electrons, which makes it search to attach to something that will replace its missing electrons so it is actively and directly involved in diminishing heavy metal toxicity. Magnesium appears to be a competitive inhibitor of lead and cadmium. An increased level of magnesium has been shown to eliminate lead and cadmium through the urine and has also been reported to reduce the toxic effects of aluminum.
[8] Renal magnesium wasting associated with acetaminophen abuse. Tuso PJ, Nortman D. UCLA School of Medicine. Conn Med. 1992 Aug;56 (8):421-3.

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