Month: March 2012

by: Paul Fassa

(NaturalNews) It is very encouraging to see a mainstream medicine insider with impressive credentials come out and confirm what some of us outsiders have known for a while.

Cardiovascular Healing & Rebuilding Protocol

by Dr. Suzanne Humphries, MD

It’s fall in the northern hemisphere and more than one type of darkness has set in. Vaccines are being injected at lightning speed. New vaccines, untested vaccines, double-strength flu vaccines for the over 65 group; none of which have been shown to be effective at keeping anyone healthy. The naïve are lining up at clinics, shopping malls, and retail stores. They don’t know which kind of vaccine they will receive. Which manufacturer is it? Does it have mercury? What chemicals does it contain? Why should they care? Why would they not trust their doctor (or their local pharmacist)?

by Daniel Greenfield

It’s hard not to notice that many of the most vocal ObamaCare protesters are senior citizens. And senior citizens remain the largest challenge for ObamaCare. Not in political terms, but in terms of resource management. Senior citizens are likelier to require medical care than younger workers, and contribute little or nothing to the system. From the perspective of socialized medicine it becomes all too easy to contemplate “cutting the waste” by reducing the care given to senior citizens, the disabled, infants with birth defects, the mentally retarded and anyone else who fails the system’s “Productivity in Practice or Potential” test.

Most people have not considered the fundamental change that comes in the transition to socialized medicine. But it is part of a larger social transition, one that moves the cost and decision making process from families and religious organizations, into the bowels of a “big picture” government planning system.

Let’s stop for a moment to ask why we don’t simply euthanize the elderly or anyone who in the words of White House Health Care advisor Ezekiel Emanuel is “irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens”. The answer would seem obvious to most of us, but the question is a vitally important one.

The key phrase here is “Citizens”. Since the state is doing the planning and deciding who gets medical care and who doesn’t, it is the state’s perspectives that defines socialized medicine. Once health care is shoved into one giant system chock full of resource shortages that can’t be met, the resources will have to be allocated one way or another. From the state’s perspective, it makes a certain utilitarian sense to give life to productive citizens, while denying it to non-productive citizens.

The reason we don’t do things like this is that for us morality is individual, not collective. We don’t think in terms of a system, we think in terms of individual people. And from a utilitarian standpoint, we exist on a familial level. The care we give to our children, is a return on the care that we ourselves were given by parents. And the care we give to our elderly parents is meant to be returned by our children. If we were to begin sticking the elderly on ice floes, we know in the back of our minds that our children are likely to do the same to us. Or as one bumper sticker witticism goes, “Be nice to your children, they’ll choose your nursing home.”

The family as the basis of society however has crumbled in favor of the state. As people increasingly turn over the care of their children and their parents to the state, the social investment becomes not in the family, but in the state. As the moral power of the family is transferred to the social service bureaucracies of the state, the investment that people have in their children and their elders diminishes, their investment in the social services bureaucracy grows. Birth rates drop, inheritance levels drop and the elderly begin dropping too as each generation tries to game the system in order to maximize the resources available to it at a given time.

Euthanasia of the elderly, the disabled and infants is morally wrong on an individual level, but when one begins playing with hundreds of millions of lives, morality quickly becomes hazy. That is the danger of playing god, when you sit on a high enough throne looking down at all the ant people with their ant problems, individuals cease to matter, only the welfare of the system does. That is why large centralized systems quickly become oppressive, because they become detached from the wishes and wills of individuals. At the system level, only the system itself matters.

When individuals gain the power of life and death over hundreds of millions, individual welfare gives way to the welfare of the state. Once the state has been defined as the sole source of life for everyone living under it, the state then gains the right to sacrifice the lives of any number of individuals for its own self-preservation. With ObamaCare, with socialized medicine, the state becomes the unquestioned source of life for those living under it. The individual becomes nothing more than a cog within a machine, a tiny spinning wheel marked “Citizen 5435534” whose destiny will be decided based on how well he functions within the system.

That leaves out anyone whose life does not contribute to the system, or as Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel put it, “who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens” thereby failing the Productivity in Practice or Potential test. Such people draw more from the system while giving back very little. The Nazis considered them to be “Life Unworthy of Life”. The modern formulation designates them as suffering a “Poor Quality of Life”, which is a fancy way of saying that people like Dr. Zeke have decided that their lives aren’t worth living. A problem that can be decided in an oven or a needle, or if those aren’t painful enough, by starving them to death on public view.

This is not a theoretical discussion. Hospital staff already quietly kills patients they decide are just taking up space. I know an elderly woman who spent the better part of several months staying in her husband’s room because the hospital staff kept “accidentally” unplugging him. Eventually they got their way. But while such tactics have to be covert at the present, a “Gentleman’s Agreement” cloaked in the sanctity of the white robe and the moist needle, under socialized medicine they will begin coming out of the closet more and more, as medical resource shortages turn what was once a crime into government policy.

Imagine that instead of ObamaCare, we were discussing ObamaFood, as the government decided that it would end hunger in America permanently by confiscating everyone’s food and placing it in a big pile and then giving everyone an equal amount of food. The plan seems noble enough, but when all the food is gathered together, it turns out there isn’t enough for everyone. The government will have to ration the food. Some must get less. And some perhaps nothing at all.

There will of course be lifestyle penalizations. ObamaCare puts the government in a position of judging every single individual’s lifestyle and punishing “sin” by withdrawing medical resources. Do you drink more than the prescribed limit? Do you smoke? Do you drive, a notoriously accident prone activity, instead of taking public transportation? Are you above the government’s weight limit? ObamaCare puts the government in the godlike position of judging everyone and creating a health care “Water Empire” to discourage behaviors it dislikes.

But such measures will be unpopular, and will make the public more willing to shove those who consume “more than their fair share” overboard.

Euthanizing the elderly will begin by defining “End of Life” down, more and more. DNR’s will move from voluntary to mandatory. The quality of the care will drop. Wards will be grim and awful places, poorly maintained by staff that sees the elderly as disposable. Depression in the elderly will be enabled, instead of treated. Wanting to die will be seen as a rational response, rather than a suicidal one. Decreasing medical procedures will be available to the elderly, and will instead be supplemented with empty group therapy sessions. Dying will be treated as a public good, a final chance to give back to society by ceasing to be a burden on it.

The treatment of the disabled will follow suit. Comatose patients, the severely physically disabled and mentally disabled will have their humanity degraded by being called, “Vegetables”, before being euthanized, a little preview of which we got in the Terri Schiavo case. The media at the time deliberately ignored disabled protesters, focusing instead on the antics of the religious protesters, because it understood that the public would not be ready to accept the real agenda behind the case.

Screenings will help insure that defective children are never born. And if they are, hospitals will not provide any care for them. Parents attempting to provide care, rather than euthanasia, will paradoxically be charged with child abuse. Anyone who thinks this kind of legal paradox is farfetched, should remember that we currently live under the legal fiction that an unborn child can be murdered by a third party and aborted as a constitutional right by the mother. Of course the individual’s sovereign right over her body will itself become a legal fiction, when the supremacy of the state in medical matters gives it superior rights to everyone’s body.

Of course such things will not happen overnight. Most systems don’t turn monstrous over the weekend. Even Nazi Germany took nearly a decade to follow through on the logical conclusion of National Socialist philosophy regarding the Jews, going from repression to expulsion to extermination. It took nearly twice as long for the USSR to follow through on Marxism’s view of the Jews, but made up for it by skipping from repression to planned extermination. The United States has strong and deep moral roots, despite a vast amount of cultural degradation, a transition to euthanasia will not happen overnight. But the logical conclusion of the system dictates it. And those who run the system have already begun to treat it as a given. 

Absolute power corrupts absolutely by granting godlike power, without godlike wisdom. And any horror quickly becomes tenable in the name of the system, which itself becomes the god. For the liberal theology of social justice, the great dream has been of Government as God, to create a vast bureaucratic machine that will feed and clothe the poor, provide mandated equality to all and create the utopian kingdom of heaven on earth. And if Government is God—then those who run government become viceroys or avatars of the godhead of social justice. Or messiahs.

Socialist tyrants from Lenin to Stalin, to Hitler and Mussolini, and down to Castro and Saddam were praised for their supposed ability to make the chaotic tide of human affairs work through central planning. They made the trains run on time, provided health care, education and a social safety net to all, eliminated crime and insured public order. In short they created the perfect state machine, a utopian system in which everything works controlled by one godlike figure at the center of it all.

Americans were not immune from that same dream, springing from mingled awe at the recent accomplishments of technology and outrage over muckraker’s revelations about the way the other half lived. FDR was the embodiment of the great American socialist dream. It was a dream that failed, over and over again. American government is not a polished machine, it is a great creaky engine that leaks water and blows steam everywhere. It is incredibly inefficient and rarely gets anything done right. But despite everything liberals have not lost faith that the right man can make it all work, destroy the reactionary forces of capitalism and the family, to make way for Holy Liberal Empire in which no one will ever be oppressed, except those who deserve to be.

When you pull back the curtain on a Utopian dreamland, the horror behind it is a pure nightmare of death camps and firing squads, misery, oppression and brutality. A million awful things that those at the top did not care about, because all that mattered to them was the beautiful system they were building. A system that would be perfect, once all the imperfect people in its way were taken care of.

The elderly, the disabled, children struggling for life, dying people fighting to live—are all in the way of socialized medicine, which must do horrible things in the name of the larger dream of free medical care for everyone. The problem of resource consumption makes it all too easy for the dictators of health to look down from their ivory tower and decide that these people are a drain on the system and that they must go.

by Sayer Ji

[reprinted with permission by Dr. Suzanne Humphries. Original title: "Common vaccine ingredient implicated in NEJM article as causative in serious type of kidney disease."]

A June, 2011 New England Journal Of Medicine article titled “Early-Childhood Membranous Nephropathy Due to Cationic Bovine Serum Albumin”[1] recently caught my attention. Namely, because it admits the plausible association between circulating cationic bovine(cow) serum albumin (BSA, a common vaccine ingredient) and a very difficult-to-treat form of kidney disease called idiopathic membranous nephropathy (IMN). Skeptics often demand peer-reviewed articles to support the fact that vaccines cause bodily harm. Often, while we know what we see in front of us, “scientific” proof is non-existent due to lack of motivation by researchers in exploring the likely associations.

Well, here in one of the world’s most respected medical journals lies some very interesting information, and it was conducted by two renowned nephrologists. Dr. Giuseppe Remuzzi is an expert in the field of protein trafficking within the kidney, and Dr. Pierre Ronco is a well-known and highly respected nephrologist.

First, let me explain what nephrotic syndrome and membranous nephropathy are. Nephrotic syndrome is a condition where the kidneys leak large amounts of protein into the urine and is defined in detail HERE. The term just describes a clinical condition that can have one of several causes. This article discusses one cause called membranous nephropathy.

The kidney is composed of millions of microscopic filters that cleanse the blood. This is a schematic of one of those filters.

schematic of normal glomerulus (kidney filter)

Approximately one quarter of the blood leaving the heart goes to the kidneys, which filter 140- 180 liters of your blood per day. In health, the kidneys retain your albumin and proteins and filter excess water, toxins and minerals. The filters are composed of membranes that are negatively charged and thus repel negatively charged molecules like your own proteins.

Here is an electron microscope photo of a normal glomerular capillary membrane, the thing that serves as a filter for your blood. It is a close-up photo of the schematic from above.

High power electron microscope photo of normal filter membrane

Below is a similar photo of a membrane that contains deposits of antibody attached to bovine serum albumin trapped in the membrane – as in membranous nephropathy.(MN)

High power electron microscope photo of diseased filter membrane with deposits of BSA-antiBSA

It should now be obvious why this creates dysfunction and leakage of the filter.

Because the cationic bovine serum albumin carries a positive charge, it will be more difficult for the membrane to effectively impede the protein during the filtration process. And…when the bovine serum albumin is attached to an antibody, the complex may deposit in the membrane of the kidney. This leads to inflammation and breakdown of the filter membrane barrier, allowing it to leak important bodily proteins, clotting factors, immune globulins etc. that normally would be held back in the selective filtration process. Some diseases that are “nephrotic” include idiopathic membranous nephropathy(IMN), minimal change nephropathy (MCN, most common in children), and focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis(FSGS,second most common in children). Protein-losing nephropathies like this result in several other problems in the body, namely high blood pressure, high cholesterol and kidney insufficiency. They can also lead to clotting disorders from loss of antithrombin, infections due to loss of important immune globulins, and vitamin D deficiency due to loss of vitamin D binding proteins among other things.

While the medical literature considers prognosis for IMN to be relatively good in adults, nephrologists are well aware that one-third of such cases progress to dialysis despite aggressive treatment. Doctors are aware of the potentially devastating side effects of treatment, which consists of very high doses of corticosteroids and immune-suppressing drugs such as cyclophosphamide or chlorambucil, prescribed for months. It is safe to say that once these drugs are used, the patient will never be the same, barring a miracle or aggressive alternative and nutritional/detoxification intervention. Atherosclerosis, cancer, and diabetes are among the more common side effects of these drugs. Life–threatening infections can and do occur.

Idiopathic membranous nephropathy (IMN) in children is a less-known entity and admittedly much more of a PROBLEM,

“IMN is a rare but serious glomerulopathy in pediatrics. Long-term prognosis is guarded because approximately 50% of patients may have evidence of progressive kidney disease.”[2]

While much of how we treat children is based upon experience in treating adults, treatment is not always parallel in success or side effects. Greater than 80% of membranous nephropathy in adults is IDIOPATHIC, and the best form of treatment is controversial. Treatment is always touch and go, and quite nerve racking to doctor and patient. Don’t you think that this degree of idiopathic disease is very high, given that idiopathic means that doctors will never determine the cause?

Idiopathic membranous nephropathy (IMN), the topic of the article, is more common among adults, and while relatively rare in children, may be on the rise. When children present with nephrotic syndrome, they are initially treated with a 28-day course of steroids. If they do not respond to that, they undergo a kidney biopsy. Nephrology literature suggests that the underlying pathology of childhood nephropathy is changing and has become more severe and steroid resistant.[3]

The NEJM article focuses on the 4 children and 11 adults of 50 membranous cases that had high levels of circulating anti–bovine serum albumin antibodies(anti-BSA). These patients also had elevated levels of circulating BSA. So, of all cases reviewed, 30% had pathological evidence that implicated a cow protein as causative, and none of them tested positive for milk allergy. As you continue reading, consider when and where infants might encounter BSA.

The article discusses how “patients with childhood membranous nephropathy have both circulating cationic bovine serum albumin and anti–bovine serum albumin antibodies. Bovine serum albumin is present in immune deposits, suggesting that cationic bovine serum albumin is pathogenic through binding to the anionic glomerular capillary wall and in situ formation of immune complexes, as shown in experimental models.”

Last year I wrote a rather long and fully-referenced TOME where I suggested that if doctors started to look for the cause of “idiopathic” kidney disease, they would discover readily identifiable stimuli, and among them will be vaccines. Here, the authors validate this suggestion:

“It is likely that a growing number of cases of “idiopathic” membranous nephropathy will be reclassified as secondary once nonglomerular antigens are identified.”

And while they implicate dietary cow’s milk as one possible stimulus, they ultimately squeeze in a little statement at the end, saying…

“Although further epidemiologic studies are needed, absorption of dietary modified bovine serum albumin and immunization against bovine serum albumin should be considered a potential cause of membranous nephropathy in young children and should prompt a search for bovine serum albumin in immune deposits.”

Why suggest a dietary source of BSA as causing “immunization,” when a key problem is that most vaccines have BSA in the manufacturing process and the end product? So are these children developing antibodies from the BSA in vaccines, or in milk? Which do you think sets a better situation for reactivity – ingestion or injection? Consider that SQUALENE and mineral oil have therapeutic effects when swallowed, but are quite inflammatory upon injection. Mineral oil was put in vaccines in the past and later removed for causing sterile abscesses and ulcerations. Squalene is developing a nasty reputation today when used as an adjuvant. Adjuvants such as aluminum and squalene are added to vaccines specifically to rev up the inflammatory response.

I find this discussion very interesting in view of what non-vaccinating doctors and parents favor – both breastfeeding and avoiding vaccinations. In the discussion of milk, the authors state:

“In young children, cow’s milk is a major source of bovine serum albumin.”

“IgG antibodies to cow’s milk proteins are present in virtually all infants exposed to cow’s milk and have been considered physiologic.”

“Anti–bovine serum albumin antibodies directed to other regions of bovine serum
albumin have been identified in rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis, where they cross react with collagen and myelin basic protein, respectively.”

Idiopathic membranous nephropathy has also been reported ELSEWHERE to be related to cow milk processing.

At this point you may be saying, “But they say these proteins are present in all infants exposed to cow’s milk and so how can you implicate cow’s milk?” It is because of what they say next, that we must consider cow’s milk together with vaccination as potentiating factors.

“Taken together, these observations suggest that at least two additional factors are necessary for membranous nephropathy to develop: the first is the physicochemical properties and amount of circulating antigen; the second is the predominance of the T-helper type 2 (Th2) immune response.”

The Th2 immune response is the one that the immune system gets thrown into after vaccination. This is common knowledge in immunology/vaccine literature.[4]

“Such reprogramming would, in concert with the Th2-polarizing effect of aluminium phosphate, dampen protective cellular immunity in general,” LINK HERE
and thought by the vaccinationists to be no problem at all.

Many studies have been done in experimental animals whereby membranous nephropathy is purposefully induced by injecting cationized bovine serum albumin intravenously.

“Membranous nephropathy developed only in the animals that were given chemically modified cationized bovine serum albumin intravenously after immunization with cationic bovine serum albumin.”…not by feeding it to them.

What that statement says, is that membranous nephropathy developed in the animals injected with bovine serum albumin; the same albumin that is in many vaccines.

“Membranous nephropathy is characterized by a predominant Th2 immune response”…the same immune response that vaccines elicit.

The authors must be aware that they hit upon a very touchy subject since they implicate “immunization” in the body of the article, but conclude by simply saying,

“If bovine serum albumin is detected [in kidney biopsy specimens], eliminating it from the diet could be beneficial.”

First off, it seems a bit late to eliminate bovine albumin from the diet of children after they’ve developed a devastating kidney disease, doesn’t it? If you take this NEJM article at face value, it may support the belief that cow’s milk– especially pasteurized cow’s milk which is a whole different nutrient than raw cow’s milk – is not good food for humans and reinforces the fact that infants should breast feed whenever possible. Additionally, mothers should not accept the dogma that formula is just as good for their babies as breast milk and that weaned children need cow’s milk in order to be healthy. Calves need cow’s milk. If you have any doubt as to the benefit of human milk for human infants and toddlers, read “Breastfeeding, missing the bigger picture.”

What the NEJM authors don’t say is that eliminating direct injection of bovine serum albumin may be beneficial in preventing the susceptible child or adult from developing kidney disease. The following list of BSA-containing vaccines could possibly throw children or adults onto dialysis and/or a kidney transplant and will require immune suppressing drugs either way.

MMRV (ProQuad) – measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox
Pneumococcal (Pneumovax) – pneumococcal pneumonia
Rabies (Rab vert) – rabies
Rotavirus (Rota Teq) – rotavirus
Td (Decavac) – Tetanus, diptheria
Tdap (Boostrix) – Tetanus, diptheria, pertussis
Varicella (Varivax) – chicken pox
Zoster (Zostavax) – shingles

So I will say it… in an age where “idiopathic” and devastating kidney diseases occur in children, you might want to consider the health of your children’s kidneys before vaccinating them. Given that glomerulonephritis is a relatively low-incidence disease, it will take a miracle to get a study large enough to detect the difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated children, and we know that isn’t going to happen any time soon. In the meantime, recommendations for childhood vaccinations may consider the poor outcome in your child as part-and-parcel for “the greater good” of society.

While researchers occasionally stumble upon vaccine ingredients and accidentally show causation in childhood kidney disease, the cause for the most common form of childhood nephrotic syndrome, minimal-change disease (prevalence 15 per 100K, affecting mostly children under 10 years), remains unknown. The US Department of Health and Human Services/NIH says

“The condition most commonly associated with childhood nephrotic syndrome is minimal change disease. Doctors do not know what causes it.”LINK HERE

Today we have shown you that a less-common form of nephrotic syndrome could be caused by a common vaccine ingredient – Bovine Serum Albumin. How much minimal change nephrotic syndrome is caused by vaccine ingredients? We don’t know. Doctors just give children steroids to suppress the symptoms, never knowing what the cause was, and seem all too comfortable in labeling it “idiopathic.”

For now, parents have to rely on their common sense and good judgment.

References
[1] Debiec, H. et al., 2011, Early Childhood Membranous Nephropathy Due to Cationic Bovine Serum Albumin,” NEJM. Jun 2;364(22):2101-10.
[2] Chen, A. et al., 2007, “Idiopathic membranous nephropathy in pediatric patients: presentation, response to therapy, and long-term outcome.” BMC Nephrology, 8:11
[3] Filler, G. et al., 2003, “Is there really an increase in non-minimal change nephrotic syndrome in children?”Am J Kidney Dis, Dec;42(6):1107-13.
[4] White OJ, et al.,2012. “A genomics-based approach to assessment of vaccine safety and immunogenicity in children.”Feb 27;30(10) PMID 22230586

by Dr. Suzanne Humphries, MD

[Dr. Humphries is on the board of directors of the International Medical Council on Vaccination.  Visit her website is drsuzanne.net]

As you can see here, scientists are running out of options. Many drug resistant micro-organisms are no longer responding to the older drugs, and there are less and less new ones being developed. The only solution is to stop the rampant use of these largely unnecessary drugs.

 

Antibiotics, antivirals and antifungals are among the most abused and overused pharmaceutical agents that contribute to human disease.  Louis Pasteur became famous for his “discoveries”, and his contribution to the idea that germs could or should be killed.  The problem with this paradigm is that while germs do exist and can be killed, it is not the way to create a healthy living environment.  Most people are unaware that Pasteur was a political-celebrity pseudoscientist, who lifted much of his information from Antoine Bechamp, his contemporary, and true scholar.  Pasteur had a very poor understanding of the gestalt of living systems and in his hijacking of Bechamps information, which he couldn’t have understood enough to even take credit for, he made some incorrect assumptions.  Nevertheless, like today, celebrity doctors and scientists, even then, made headlines and were adorned with respect that was wholly undeserved. For more information on Bechamp and Pasteur please read “Bechamp or Pasteur.  A lost chapter in the history of biology” by Ethel D Hulme.  You will be surprised and entertained by the information that was withheld from your history and science books.

Probiotics
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Antibiotics contribute to the killing of many commensal organisms that are important for proper bodily homeostasis, immunity, digestion, metabolism and organ health.  Our bodies are dependent on a rich mixture of micro-organisms both inside and outside.  Sterilization is neither possible nor necessary.  The conventional approach to an imbalance of micro-organisms is to kill the “invader.”  Sometimes this will appear to give temporary success, but most often the trouble will recur if there is no intervention into the whole system.

Sometimes the problem with antibiotics is painfully obvious, e.g. when a fungal infection or intestinal infection with “c-diff” takes hold after a course of antibiotics.  But the truth is, every course of antibiotics weakens the constitution and, if the beneficial micro-organisms that died off do not grow back or are not replaced, all sorts of degenerative diseases, including cancer, can evolve. Are you aware that approximately 70% of immunity lies within the bowels?  Now imagine the consequences of wiping out populations of micro-organisms from the intestines, as a “side effect” of antimicrobial use.

Antibiotics: Killing Off Beneficial Bacteria … for Good?

Antibiotics can permanently kill off beneficial gut flora, which amongst other things, leads to far worse bacterial infections than the one being “treated” in the first place.  Antibiotics are infamous for creating superbacteria which then turn and potentially bite everyone, including those who don’t use antibiotics. For this reason, Dr Humphries will not prescribe antibiotics and would not recommend them except under dire, truly life-threatening circumstances.  Instead, creating a healthy background where infection cannot take hold is the aim.  Disease cannot live in healthy terrain.  This is a truth that has been demonstrated time and again in plant and animal life. Most doctors are unaware of this problem because it is denied in the conventional medical system.  Instead, drugs are prescribed to try to rectify the problems that later occur after a seemingly successful course of antibiotics are completed.

“To Drug or Not to Drug” by Suzanne Humphries, MD

There are myriad ways to deal with imbalances that lead to altered bacterial and fungal balance in the body such as urinary tract infections, chronic diarrhea, sinusitis and just about all seeming infections.  Often the cure does not happen overnight like the apparent effect of an antibiotic, but with the approach of strengthening the whole body, the infection will retreat on its own.  This approach often takes discipline and willingness to give up addictive habits.

Strengthening the bowels in people who have had antibiotics in the past is also possible.  If you would like a holistic approach to an issue diagnosed as an infection, please schedule a consult.  Chances are, there are many things you can do to bring yourself back to a higher state of health.

by: Jonathan Benson

(NaturalNews) Each year, roughly 200,000 women undergo a surgical procedure that involves the removal of their uteruses due to the growth of non-cancerous tumors known as uterine fibroids, which commonly develop in and around the walls of the uterus. But a new study published online in the journal Biology of Reproduction has found that vitamin D may effectively reduce the size of existing uterine fibroids, and may even help prevent them from forming in the first place.

Vitamin D3-5

by: Ethan A. Huff

(NaturalNews) The processed beverage industry is fighting tooth and nail to stop federal regulators from publicly identifying a toxic ingredient in many popular cola brands as being a cancer-causing chemical. 4-methylimidazole (4-MI), a chemical used to make the "caramel color" agent added to Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, Snapple Group Inc.'s Dr. Pepper, and Whole Foods' 365 cola, among others, has been found to cause cancer in mammals, and yet the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) refuses, thus far, to ban it from use in food.

by: Ethan A. Huff

(NaturalNews) Incensed by the idea that Iowans might soon be able to make their own food choices when it comes to fresh dairy products, Daniel H. Gervich, M.D., a board-certified infectious diseases and critical care medicine doctor from Des Moines, Iowa, recently declared that feeding raw milk to babies is "child endangerment."

by The Health Coach

Of all the dental procedures and dental materials utilized throughout the field of dentistry there is none more destructive to human health than root canals.

“It like putting a bullet in your mouth, and then just waiting for the day it might kill you.”
~ A Dental Consultant after years of observing the ravages of root canal ‘treatment’

Let’s first draw the picture – in living color – for you to look at closely before you choose to do a root canal(s) in your mouth.

This routine procedure involves the following technique every time the endodontist or general dentist gets busy in your mouth making canals in your teeth, some of which may be stubs at that point.

First the dentist removes all the dental pulp from the tooth. “The dental pulp is the part in the center of a tooth made up of living connective tissue and cells called odontoblasts.” This vital pulp, which is necessary for a living tooth to remain living, is full of blood vessels and nerve tissue. When this blood supply and network of nerves is extracted, the tooth is essentially devitalized, aka killed. The tooth is then completely unable to perform all the normal activities which are required for optimal tooth health.

Why would anyone, ever, want a dead tooth in their mouth … for the rest of their life?!

So, the first question any rational person would ask themselves is: “Why would I want a dead tooth in my mouth … for the rest of my life?”

Good question!
Answer: You don’t want a dead tooth in your mouth for the rest of your life.

Please show us — The Health Coach — another instance in your body where a dead organ, tissue, limb, digit, etc. is purposefully kept in or attached to your body by the Medical Practitioner. Show us just one example.

Our experience has been that wherever an organ dies, the doctor removes it pronto. Whenever a limb becomes gangrenous, the surgeon amputates post haste. If your eye were to “die” due to some traumatic injury which became infected, the ophthalmologist would completely remove the eye leaving an empty socket cleaned out of all infected tissue, yes?

Why then does an endodontist go out of his way to keep your white shiny tooth in place even though he has just killed it?! The only reason he is able to get away with this extremely dangerous procedure is because of our ignorance often coupled with vanity, together with his/her ‘compelling’ sales pitch as to why you don’t want to lose the tooth (that’s another very long story for another dental coaching session).

Let’s revisit the dead tooth that sits in your mouth after the root canal is completed. Because it still appears white does that mean it is okay. If it turned black and oozed pus, what would you do with it? Wouldn’t you take it out? Well, here’s what’s REALLY going on with that tooth.

The human body was designed to rid itself of all dead and infected cells, tissues, organs, etc. Teeth are no different and it’s why we see so many toothless people around the world where there is not adequate preventive dental care and maintenance-oriented oral health. The body gets rid of the tooth that’s “gone bad”… one way or another.

You see, the tooth dentin* is full of thousands of microscopic dentin tubules which are critical to maintaining healthy teeth. Once the root canal is performed these tubules become home to all sorts of pathogenic bacteria and accumulated toxins which can no longer be removed because the tooth’s vascular system has been removed (and the tooth’s natural self-healing system has been totally incapacitated). All the normal activities that are carried out within this matrix, “which radiate outward through the dentin from the pulp to the exterior cementum or enamel border“, cease to take place. It’s important to understand that “these tubules contain fluid and cellular structures. As a result, dentin has a degree of permeability which can increase the sensation of pain and the rate of tooth decay.“

*“Dentin is bone-like matrix characterized by multiple closely packed dentinal tubules that traverse its entire thickness and contain the cytoplasmic extensions of odontoblasts that once formed the dentine and maintain it.” (Per Wikipedia)

That’s enough anatomy for the time being; the upshot is that your dead, root-canaled tooth has now become a haven for all sorts of nasty pathogenic microorganisms which sit there for the lifetime of the body doing more damage than you’ll ever know. Much of the havoc actually starts around the roots of the root-canaled tooth. This is where the body sets up it first line of defense against a tooth that has died and is on the way to becoming necrotic.

What are Focal Infections?

They are called focal infections and they are found around the roots, especially the tips of every root-canaled tooth. These infections are almost always subclinical in nature which means the dentist or doctor doesn’t pick up any symptoms upon physical examination. Those who observe their bodies closely and are intuitive rarely miss the telltale signs that something has gone awry in their mouth.

Incidentally, many abscesses in the mouth are directly the result of infections that occur around the roots of root-canaled teeth. These often start out as a very small swelling, but they can easily evolve into painful inflammations requiring the use of antibiotics and the immediate extraction of the tooth. The swelling, pain and inflammation is simply the body’s response to the dead tooth. The older the root canal, the greater the likelihood that a full-blown infection will require urgent, if not emergent, care.

This unfortunate state of affairs is not the most serious aspect of root canals, however. The real caveat surrounding this extraordinarily harmful procedure are the FOCAL INFECTIONS which inevitably result in teeth which exhibit no symptoms, have no pain, and seem perfectly ‘healthy’.

Just what is a focal infection? Here you go from The Free Dictionary (by Farlex):

focal infection
n.
A bacterial infection localized in a specific part of the body, such as the tonsils, that may spread to another part of the body.
n.
the site or origin of an infectious process. Endodontically treated teeth have frequently been accused of being the source of septicemias….

This is where root canals really rear their ugly heads. However, it takes a very perceptive individual to recognize that ugly head for what it is before it takes an awesome toll on their health, even to the point of death.

What we have seen with root canals with over 25 years of close observation is that each individual possesses his/her own signature points, weaknesses if you will, which are targeted by these focal infections. In one person it may be their heart, another their thyroid, yet another it may be their brain or kidneys which are targeted. No matter what the target organ(s)/tissues(s), the particular organ or tissue or bodily location becomes the recipient (focus) of the infection that began in the mouth (most often a root-canaled tooth).

A Root Canal in process

What ultimately can occur if this condition is allowed to proceed undiagnosed or unattended ranges anywhere from a heart attack or worse, cardiac arrest, to a brain attack or stroke. When the cerebrovascular accident is less severe it may only take the form of a TIA (transient ischemic attack) or mini-stroke. Nevertheless, you hopefully get the picture of how serious these focal infections can be.

After reviewing the thorough and painstaking work of Dr. Weston A. Price, it has become clear that many a heart attack which has killed its victim actually started in the tooth socket cavitation, the root-canaled tooth or the infected crowned tooth which went unnoticed or untreated for two or three or four decades. By removing the infected teeth of an individual who died of cardiovascular disease and implanting them under the skin of a rabbit, Dr. Price documented that the rabbit then succumbed to the same type of heart disease as the original human victim.

Dr. George Meinig to the rescue

The Health Coach who is the author of this Root Canal coaching session was fortunate to study under Dr. George Meinig, DDS, FACD. With Dr. Meinig as our mentor for over ten years we were able to fully apprehend the catastrophic consequences to the health of those countries where root canals are performed in the greatest numbers. Clearly the incidence of the Alphabet Soup Diseases, Multi-Infection Syndromes and New Millennium Maladies have skyrocketed in those areas where root canals are prevalent. Dr. Meinig’s book Root Canal Cover-Up nicely details all the reasons why you ought to re-consider the dentist advice of root canal ‘therapy’.

There is no question that autoimmune disorders have become a predominant theme in the aforementioned groupings of syndromes, diseases and infections. Here’s why:
When the human body is subjected — day after day, month after month, year after year — to relentless, raging focal infections, completely under the radar, they take a HUGE toll on the individuals immune system. So huge, as a matter of fact, that the immune system goes into a fritz. Call it auto-immune dysregulation, autoimmune disorder, autoimmune disease, or autoimmune syndrome; you know when you have it, because your quality of life is absolutely miserable.

So important is this connection to dental procedures/materials that we reflexively recommend all clients who have autoimmune type symptoms to check out their mouth very carefully. If they refuse to address those areas of obvious need, we can no longer guide them on the healing journeys so profound and fundamental is the origination of disease in the mouth.

The Health Coach has also has the good fortune of consulting with Dr George Meinig’s top two students and experts on the ongoing health disaster known as root canal treatment. Both Dr. Christopher Hussar, DDS, DO of Reno NE and Dr. Robert Kulasc, DDS of Mt Kisco NY have made great contributions to this field of study and have written and spoken extensively on the scientific basis of the inherent risks associated with root canal treatment, as well as actual case studies which graphically illustrate the dangers to human health.

Some of the other unintended consequences of root canal treatment include periodontitis, bacteraemia and infective endocarditis. Each of these medical conditions have been documented through biomedical research published at the National Library of Medicine to have a causal relationship with root-canaled teeth, as seen at the hyperlinked abstracts. Feel free to make copies of these PubMed research papers and bring them to your dentist/endodontist for his review and serious contemplation.

In closing let us say that of all the medical and dental operations which are regularly performed on the unsuspecting public, the root canal procedure is the most misrepresented, potentially injurious and underestimated in its repercussions to systemic health. No matter which tooth has been compromised beyond repair, we universally recommend that the tooth be extracted and the tooth socket be thoroughly cleaned out as per the protocols offered by Dr. Meinig in Root Canal Cover-Up.

With every good wish,
The Health Coach

Caveat to all Parents: Systemic health risks are the REAL concern with root canals, so everyone is well advised to be extra special careful not to subject our delicate and sensitive children to such a pernicious procedure as root canal treatment at such a tender age.

The Coach’s Personal Testimony:
Back in the mid ’90s, I consulted with an oral surgeon in South Florida about the best way to address a number of cavitation sites. An old root canal site was particularly challenging. We decided to re-open the site and completely clean it out. What we found was an inordinate amount of black, dead, necrotic bone where the roots of the tooth used to be. What happened?
When a tooth is root canaled, it dies and becomes very brittle lacking the resilience and flexibility of a living tooth. With year after year of continued chewing, the stresses can easily cause the delicate roots to crack. When this occurs the filling material – gutta-percha and all – seep into the jawbone forever compromising it based on the toxicity load of the mix of filling ingredients.
Therefore, in this case, the surgeon was compelled to saw out little chunks of black, dead, necrotic bone and put them on the silver tray for my consideration.
You can imagine that the post-surgical therapies and treatments were then much more creative and time-consuming than the surgery itself. Needless to say, it’s the last root canal ever performed on this body.

Warning to all who read this:
Many laboratory studies have been conducted on teeth and cavitation sites where root-canaled teeth once sat and the results have been alarminig. There are strains of anaerobic bacteria which proliferate in these sites that have not been found anywhere else on earth. Not only that, but these same anaerobic bacteria have been found to produce toxins that are as detrimental to the human body as any that have ever been found in vivo. These same toxins have likewise never been found in any other environment on the planet – either living or inanimate – and are considered poisonous by toxicologists who have studied them.

Correlation between the teeth and their respective meridians:
As you may already know, each tooth sits on a meridian the correlation of which can be very revealing about the linkage between longstanding health complaints and imbalanced tooth sites (cavitation sites are notorious for reflexing to the respective body part). We found this Tooth Meridian Chart at Oasis Advanced Wellness to be particularly helpful. This just might be the only tool available for some of us to track down some of our more intractable ailments. All it takes is focus, intuition and self-observation.

Dr. George Meinig, a true American Health Hero:
Dr. George Meinig was a founding member of the American Association of Endodontics, the organization of dental specialists who perform root canal treatment. Therefore, you can imagine how profoundly and dramatically his life changed when he happened upon the conclusive research conducted by Dr. Weston Price. From that day forward, Dr. Meinig never offered traditional root canal treatment again.
In fact he spent the rest of his dental career treating the many patients to whom he had originally given root canals. He also spent much of his professional and personal time offering counsel and consultation to the many seriously ill individuals whose immune systems had been gravely affected by this procedure. He gave of himself tirelessly up until the day he died at 93 years old.
He was ostracized by his peer professionals, marginalized by the dental establishment and belittled by those who never even reviewed the hard science undergirding his rock solid refutation of root canal safety. Through it all, he remained stalwart in his crusade and unintimidated by anyone who attempted to undermine the evidence which he accumulated. In spite of any obstacles thrown before him or ridicule heaped upon him, he remained unusually cheerful, gracious and generous to the max.
Truly, he was a HERO of Global Health and Wellness.

Advice to those whose dentists are clueless:
Here again The Health Coach has two experiences to share which are quite instructive.
I. After having x-rays taken of my root-canaled tooth I asked the dentist what the shiny, narrow reflection was on the x-ray. The dentist replied casually and without hesitation: “Oh, that’s a broken piece of the instrument that the previous dentist used to pack in the filling material in the root of the tooth.”
I replied, “So is that standard operating procedure to leave the broken instrument in the tooth?!”
“Yes it is”, he responded. “After all, it just becomes part of the filling material.”
“Maybe we should just throw in the kitchen sink while we’re at it.” <——I didn't really say this but wanted to.
II. A second experience brought me to another dentist (I've been fired by many of them over the years) where we again were reviewing my full mouth x-rays. I asked him what the obvious discoloration the size of a quarter around my root-canaled tooth was. He said it was nothing and not to worry. I persisted and asked again what he thought it might be. I left his office without an answer. A few days later my wife and I received a letter in the mail in which he terminated our dental relationship. A few days later I had the same x-rays reviewed by an oral surgeon who confirmed my fears that the discoloration was an obvious sign of long-term infection surrounding the entire root-canaled tooth. He recommended immediate surgery before it abscessed.