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Growing your own healthy vegetables!

2012-04-22T15:47:03Z

The Incredible Grow Tower

In the area of “how to improve health” we see so many varied opinions being tossed about however the one area that almost 100% of everyone agrees is on the value of increasing our daily consumption of vegetables. In my working with thousands of people on health and their eating habits I have come to realize the problem is the following: Most people fool themselves by thinking they are eating pretty well when in fact it is uncommon if the average person eats more that one colored vegetable a day yet research indicates we need 9 daily. When the informed consumer truly learns the amazing benefits of eating freshly grown, chemical free colored vegetables daily they soon discover how their health can improve to a point almost beyond belief. However the problem is that organic vegetables that are available are expensive and usually picked days or weeks before you see them at the store which means they are much less nutritious than off the vine as they were meant to be when we lived off the farm.

In my continual pursuit of ways to help others get on the best path for optimal health I have discovered what I believe is the ultimate answer for today’s problems concerning cost and lack of freshness of our vegetables that are offered in stores. Several months ago I had the pleasure of getting a preview of a device called, “The Grow Tower” that is a 5 foot tower that has small holes around the outside and is surrounded at the bottom with a 20 gallon tank that is filled with whole food nutrients and water. The Grow Tower offers the ability to grow any non-root vegetable without any soil, completely organic for at least half the price of any organic foods available in stores! I am completely ignorant of gardens and growing foods and was skeptical at first but my instincts made me purchase a Grow Tower so I could see for myself if it offered anything of value to all of you. I planted our first seeds several weeks ago and to my absolute amazement we now have organic lettuce, broccoli and squash growing with very little effort or maintenance. Some of you may be thinking this is hydroponics but actually The Grow Tower differs in the fact there is a pump that disperses water, oxygen and whole food nutrition. It supplies the roots with the super whole food nutrition that allows 40lbs of lettuce to be grown in 4 weeks!!!

Nutrition World has one of the Grow Towers on display in the store at this time and the Grow Tower company is now offering them for $549.00 or they will finance it for $50.00 per month. I encourage anyone interested to stop in and look at this technology that will allow a family to grow much of their healthy food needs in a space that you won’t believe.

The Chicago airport is now using Grow Towers to grow many of the foods served in the airport restaurants who have flat roofs are placing several Grow Towers on them to offer their clients the freshest and best tasting foods possible.

For more information please talk to Shelli or Ed at Nutrition World and to see more on The Grow Tower log onto NUTRITION WORLD TOWER GARDEN

When your intestines becomes your villain.

2012-04-22T15:44:22Z

When Your Intestines Become Your Enemy…

I have watched the percentage of customers who deal with chronic digestive and intestinal issues skyrocket over the past years to a point of almost becoming epidemic. I am referring to those people who have either bowel movements maybe once per week or chronic diarrhea many times daily or have constant pains and discomforts in the gut area. Many of these people eventually get diagnosed with colitis, IBS or crohns disease. It is no wonder GI docs are covered up with patients today.

Physicians and healers from long ago were convinced that for the whole body to stay healthy the intestines must be functioning perfectly and without optimal intestines, healing of any medical condition would be far less likely. Also now known by research is the vital connection between healthy intestines and its effects on the immune system and brain chemicals. 50% off all brain neurotransmitters and immune system defenses are produced in the linings of the intestines. This is one reason we feel anxiety and odd emotions when we get the stomach bug or food poisoning.

The first question you may ask is “what is causing the intestines to become unhealthy?”. I have come to believe that the majority of all chronic intestinal issues are probably related to the following:

Consuming foods that have antibiotics in them such as commercial beef, chicken and pork on a regular basis.
Taking antibiotics by prescription.
Drinking tap water that contains chlorine and trace amounts of antibiotics.
Taking pain killers that create severe gut damage.
Becoming infected with a pathogen from infection or food poisoning.
Eating foods that our immune system may react to as an enemy such as gluten, milk, and others.
Not having adequate probiotic levels in the small and large intestines because we don’t ingest cultured foods and take quality probiotic supplements on a regular basis. (I question the quality of many probiotic brands being sold) I recommend Jarrow, Natren, or Kyo-dophilus.
Not having the proper amount, quality or type of fiber necessary for the colon.
Low Vitamin D levels.
Past emotional trauma and unresolved emotions such as anger, fear and frustration. (I believe this is the source of at least 50% of our chronic illnesses!)
Dehydration.
Eating a diet deficient in the Omega 3 fatty acids.

The worst case is when these colon problems become colitis or Crohns disease and many times surgery or medicine is the only recommendation by doctors.

The good news is that I have witnessed many people overcome these symptoms using a combination of alternative therapies where many of the above causes are finally addressed instead of just treating symptoms. I found a wonderfully inspiring video from a show called, “The Incurables” that documents how people deal with illness using alternative methods and it shows very clearly how they accomplished their goals with far less cost and minimum potential side effects.

Make sure to watch the video below to see how Ron Mueller finally takes over his own healing journey with colitis and watch the amazing transformation in his health and life. (As always, I must legally say check with your doctor before changing any treatment.) The video is made up of six segments. You can watch all six separate videos below.

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Part Five

Part Six

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Dangers lurking right under your nose!

2012-03-02T15:24:04Z

I am very concerned about issues of health and how we are potentially destroying our bodies with technology and chemicals in our environment. The older I get the more I understand that almost all issues in life have within it a balance of positive and negative impacts on human physiology and health. The wonders of our technological age have brought us into an amazing place of instant information and incredible efficiency that were never available before but within this miracle lies the possibilities of great harm and risk to ourselves and loved ones. That is what I am wanting to tell you about today.

EMF, (electromagnetic fields) are invisible energy waves that are produced when electrical appliances, computers, cell phones or lights are operated with electricity. I have studied the potential dangers of this issue extensively over the past two years and would like to offer a word of warning on this issue.

EMF dangers today are essentially ignored by mainstream medicine however many predict it is very similar to how the dangers of cigarettes were ignored in the 1950’s and tobacco was actually promoted by physicians on TV! Only after decades did the truth finally surface and the same will be true with excessive EMF exposure. Human beings are electrical beings and anything that disrupts the natural flow of energy through our body changes this healthy harmony and results in potential dangers to your health. Excessive EMF exposure has been linked with brain tumors, memory loss, depression, ringing ears, insomnia, cancers, and poor immune systems. The items that cause the greatest threats are any devices next to our beds, all exposure within a few feet of microwave, TV, computers, and cell phones but I have found one more item that no one is talking about. Last year I purchased expensive testing equipment that analyzes every type of EMF. In checking several homes I ran across one of the highest levels of EMF being emitted was the new light bulbs that are called CFL and are promoted as being environmentally friendly. Every time my testing equipment got close to any of these CFL bulbs, the EMF showed excessive levels yet when I tested the old fashioned round incandescent bulbs that we all grew up with, they emitted far less dangerous EMF. The reason I am focusing on these bulbs is that if you don’t HURRY and purchase them right now, they will be gone forever! New laws are in place that are forcing all older style incandescent bulbs to be phased out very soon. I have been purchasing incandescent bulbs whenever I find them and I am encouraging others to do the same.

till next time

A doctor's death and truth.

2011-12-07T14:44:20Z

I have watched, listened, and learned from thousands of clients at Nutrition World as to their health and sadly sometimes illness cannot be overcome and death becomes imminent. As I hear the details of how the patient often gets so "caught up" in the medical machine, it has become apparent to me that their must be a better way. The following article by a physician explores the fact that perhaps at the end of our life we should resist doing everything to "save the patient" by expensive heroic measures and realize the shortcomings of this type of medicine.

ed jones

How Doctors Die

It’s Not Like the Rest of Us, But It Should Be

by Ken Murray

Years ago, Charlie, a highly respected orthopedist and a mentor of mine, found a lump in his stomach. He had a surgeon explore the area, and the diagnosis was pancreatic cancer. This surgeon was one of the best in the country. He had even invented a new procedure for this exact cancer that could triple a patient’s five-year-survival odds—from 5 percent to 15 percent—albeit with a poor quality of life. Charlie was uninterested. He went home the next day, closed his practice, and never set foot in a hospital again. He focused on spending time with family and feeling as good as possible. Several months later, he died at home. He got no chemotherapy, radiation, or surgical treatment. Medicare didn’t spend much on him.

It’s not a frequent topic of discussion, but doctors die, too. And they don’t die like the rest of us. What’s unusual about them is not how much treatment they get compared to most Americans, but how little. For all the time they spend fending off the deaths of others, they tend to be fairly serene when faced with death themselves. They know exactly what is going to happen, they know the choices, and they generally have access to any sort of medical care they could want. But they go gently.

Of course, doctors don’t want to die; they want to live. But they know enough about modern medicine to know its limits. And they know enough about death to know what all people fear most: dying in pain, and dying alone. They’ve talked about this with their families. They want to be sure, when the time comes, that no heroic measures will happen—that they will never experience, during their last moments on earth, someone breaking their ribs in an attempt to resuscitate them with CPR (that’s what happens if CPR is done right).

Almost all medical professionals have seen what we call “futile care” being performed on people. That’s when doctors bring the cutting edge of technology to bear on a grievously ill person near the end of life. The patient will get cut open, perforated with tubes, hooked up to machines, and assaulted with drugs. All of this occurs in the Intensive Care Unit at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars a day. What it buys is misery we would not inflict on a terrorist. I cannot count the number of times fellow physicians have told me, in words that vary only slightly, “Promise me if you find me like this that you’ll kill me.” They mean it. Some medical personnel wear medallions stamped “NO CODE” to tell physicians not to perform CPR on them. I have even seen it as a tattoo.

To administer medical care that makes people suffer is anguishing. Physicians are trained to gather information without revealing any of their own feelings, but in private, among fellow doctors, they’ll vent. “How can anyone do that to their family members?” they’ll ask. I suspect it’s one reason physicians have higher rates of alcohol abuse and depression than professionals in most other fields. I know it’s one reason I stopped participating in hospital care for the last 10 years of my practice.

How has it come to this—that doctors administer so much care that they wouldn’t want for themselves? The simple, or not-so-simple, answer is this: patients, doctors, and the system.

To see how patients play a role, imagine a scenario in which someone has lost consciousness and been admitted to an emergency room. As is so often the case, no one has made a plan for this situation, and shocked and scared family members find themselves caught up in a maze of choices. They’re overwhelmed. When doctors ask if they want “everything” done, they answer yes. Then the nightmare begins. Sometimes, a family really means “do everything,” but often they just mean “do everything that’s reasonable.” The problem is that they may not know what’s reasonable, nor, in their confusion and sorrow, will they ask about it or hear what a physician may be telling them. For their part, doctors told to do “everything” will do it, whether it is reasonable or not.

The above scenario is a common one. Feeding into the problem are unrealistic expectations of what doctors can accomplish. Many people think of CPR as a reliable lifesaver when, in fact, the results are usually poor. I’ve had hundreds of people brought to me in the emergency room after getting CPR. Exactly one, a healthy man who’d had no heart troubles (for those who want specifics, he had a “tension pneumothorax”), walked out of the hospital. If a patient suffers from severe illness, old age, or a terminal disease, the odds of a good outcome from CPR are infinitesimal, while the odds of suffering are overwhelming. Poor knowledge and misguided expectations lead to a lot of bad decisions.

But of course it’s not just patients making these things happen. Doctors play an enabling role, too. The trouble is that even doctors who hate to administer futile care must find a way to address the wishes of patients and families. Imagine, once again, the emergency room with those grieving, possibly hysterical, family members. They do not know the doctor. Establishing trust and confidence under such circumstances is a very delicate thing. People are prepared to think the doctor is acting out of base motives, trying to save time, or money, or effort, especially if the doctor is advising against further treatment.

Some doctors are stronger communicators than others, and some doctors are more adamant, but the pressures they all face are similar. When I faced circumstances involving end-of-life choices, I adopted the approach of laying out only the options that I thought were reasonable (as I would in any situation) as early in the process as possible. When patients or families brought up unreasonable choices, I would discuss the issue in layman’s terms that portrayed the downsides clearly. If patients or families still insisted on treatments I considered pointless or harmful, I would offer to transfer their care to another doctor or hospital.

Should I have been more forceful at times? I know that some of those transfers still haunt me. One of the patients of whom I was most fond was an attorney from a famous political family. She had severe diabetes and terrible circulation, and, at one point, she developed a painful sore on her foot. Knowing the hazards of hospitals, I did everything I could to keep her from resorting to surgery. Still, she sought out outside experts with whom I had no relationship. Not knowing as much about her as I did, they decided to perform bypass surgery on her chronically clogged blood vessels in both legs. This didn’t restore her circulation, and the surgical wounds wouldn’t heal. Her feet became gangrenous, and she endured bilateral leg amputations. Two weeks later, in the famous medical center in which all this had occurred, she died.

It’s easy to find fault with both doctors and patients in such stories, but in many ways all the parties are simply victims of a larger system that encourages excessive treatment. In some unfortunate cases, doctors use the fee-for-service model to do everything they can, no matter how pointless, to make money. More commonly, though, doctors are fearful of litigation and do whatever they’re asked, with little feedback, to avoid getting in trouble.

Even when the right preparations have been made, the system can still swallow people up. One of my patients was a man named Jack, a 78-year-old who had been ill for years and undergone about 15 major surgical procedures. He explained to me that he never, under any circumstances, wanted to be placed on life support machines again. One Saturday, however, Jack suffered a massive stroke and got admitted to the emergency room unconscious, without his wife. Doctors did everything possible to resuscitate him and put him on life support in the ICU. This was Jack’s worst nightmare. When I arrived at the hospital and took over Jack’s care, I spoke to his wife and to hospital staff, bringing in my office notes with his care preferences. Then I turned off the life support machines and sat with him. He died two hours later.

Even with all his wishes documented, Jack hadn’t died as he’d hoped. The system had intervened. One of the nurses, I later found out, even reported my unplugging of Jack to the authorities as a possible homicide. Nothing came of it, of course; Jack’s wishes had been spelled out explicitly, and he’d left the paperwork to prove it. But the prospect of a police investigation is terrifying for any physician. I could far more easily have left Jack on life support against his stated wishes, prolonging his life, and his suffering, a few more weeks. I would even have made a little more money, and Medicare would have ended up with an additional $500,000 bill. It’s no wonder many doctors err on the side of overtreatment.

But doctors still don’t over-treat themselves. They see the consequences of this constantly. Almost anyone can find a way to die in peace at home, and pain can be managed better than ever. Hospice care, which focuses on providing terminally ill patients with comfort and dignity rather than on futile cures, provides most people with much better final days. Amazingly, studies have found that people placed in hospice care often live longer than people with the same disease who are seeking active cures. I was struck to hear on the radio recently that the famous reporter Tom Wicker had “died peacefully at home, surrounded by his family.” Such stories are, thankfully, increasingly common.

Several years ago, my older cousin Torch (born at home by the light of a flashlight—or torch) had a seizure that turned out to be the result of lung cancer that had gone to his brain. I arranged for him to see various specialists, and we learned that with aggressive treatment of his condition, including three to five hospital visits a week for chemotherapy, he would live perhaps four months. Ultimately, Torch decided against any treatment and simply took pills for brain swelling. He moved in with me.

We spent the next eight months doing a bunch of things that he enjoyed, having fun together like we hadn’t had in decades. We went to Disneyland, his first time. We’d hang out at home. Torch was a sports nut, and he was very happy to watch sports and eat my cooking. He even gained a bit of weight, eating his favorite foods rather than hospital foods. He had no serious pain, and he remained high-spirited. One day, he didn’t wake up. He spent the next three days in a coma-like sleep and then died. The cost of his medical care for those eight months, for the one drug he was taking, was about $20.

Torch was no doctor, but he knew he wanted a life of quality, not just quantity. Don’t most of us? If there is a state of the art of end-of-life care, it is this: death with dignity. As for me, my physician has my choices. They were easy to make, as they are for most physicians. There will be no heroics, and I will go gentle into that good night. Like my mentor Charlie. Like my cousin Torch. Like my fellow doctors.

Ken Murray, MD, is Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at USC.

*Photo courtesy of patrick.ward04.

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Intensive Care Treatments? Perhaps a waste?

2011-10-27T13:39:01Z

Dr Keith Scott has a wonderful insightful article on something that I have observed myself for decades but really always was fearful of expressing over the years and it is regard to the claim of miracles in the emergency rooms that doctors take credit for in saving lives and perhaps they should not. I have witnessed animals in nature with horrible injuries due to cars and hunting that looked as if the animal would be dead within days yet I would see these same animals next year in perfect condition except for the scar from the injury. Dr Scott explains the power of our own inherent system of healing that has served us from the day we began life on this earth and this miracle of healing still resides deep within us if we honor and respect its power and not negate it by over aggressive medical treatments.

Keith Scott-Mumby MD, PhD
comments on an article in "New Scientist"

by Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby MD, PhD

I was fortunate to be resident in a medical unit when it was designated a facility for intensive care; the first of its kind in the city. The latest high tech equipment arrived; we did things that doctors had hitherto been unable to do; we saved lives dramatically; we were the new white knights on horseback galloping to the rescue (well, charging with the crash trolley!) It was exhilarating; a great feeling for a 24-year old.

That was nearly 42 years ago (see, I wasn’t always an ornery alternative doc!)

Most people, I think, would pray to find themselves in ICU pretty promptly, if they had serious life-threatening trauma or disease.

But the boundless confidence in the ability of intensive care medicine to save you is not well founded.

The speciality is only 50 years old and there has been very little progress over the decades. The expectation of getting better results at the boundaries between life and death and saving more lives has not been fulfilled, statistically, though I’m sure there are many heart-warming stories to tell.

The truth is a lot of people die DESPITE being given the very “best” of intensive care medicine. All the tubes, drugs, electronics and gizmos have done very little to alter the chances of someone entering ICU who is gravely ill. In fact, for a time, the technical stuff worsened your chances.

We’ve passed the point of realizing that less is more. ICU doctors (the good ones) have come to realize that pumping oxygen into under-performing lungs; dosing the patient with sedatives to take away stress; pouring in lots of antibiotics and bringing in kidney dialysis could all be counter-productive.

Bluntly, more patients survive if the doctors do less. That’s pretty humbling. But why should that be?

Some doctors have started to ask unthinkable questions. Like: maybe Nature’s way works OK without all this high-tech intervention? We have evolved to cope with injury, stress, disease and trauma. We have fabulous life-saving mechanisms to deal with this. Maybe we should work with Nature, instead of assuming she’s out of it?

Nature knows her job and does it well!

Look at military history. There’s plenty of trauma there and not an ICU in sight for millennia!

The Battle of Trafalgar (1805) shed a lot more blood than just Admiral Horatio Nelson’s. By the end of the day there were more than 450 British fatalities; 3200 on the French and Spanish side. Thousands more were wounded, having lost limbs and all but bled out.

Aboard the British flagship HMS Victory alone, there were 102 wounded and the ship’s surgeon performed 10 amputations. Yet out of these 102, only six subsequently died of their injuries. That’s remarkable and I don’t think it can just be written off by saying “Man, those guys were plenty tough”, though clearly they were men of iron in today’s terms.

Ten years later, at the Battle of Waterloo, which finally vanquished Napoleon’s imperialistic aims, only three of the 52 wounded soldiers recorded for one regiment (13th Light Dragoons) later died of their wounds. And I mean wounds: I’m talking legs and arms shot off etc. One of the officers was famously talking with The Duke Of Wellington, who calmly asked “Where’s your leg?” The officer looked down and saw it had been shot off completely by a cannon ball. He hadn’t even noticed in the noise, violence and adrenalin frenzy!

Same statistics in the American civil war: twice as many soldiers died from diseases caused by lousy sanitation and living conditions as died of battle wounds. In the main battles surgeons sometimes worked round the clock, chopping off limbs and parts. Operations often took no more than 10 minutes and, with little water available, hands and instruments went unwashed between procedures. Despite all this, around three-quarters of amputees survived!

So, what does this look backwards tell us about intensive care? Well, we should be able to do better, I suppose. Yet our modern techniques are not even close to these survival rates. ICU doctors are doing something very wrong.

Now here’s Mervyn Singer, director of the Bloomsbury Institute Centre for Intensive Care Medicine at University College London: "Virtually all the advances in intensive care in the past 10 years have involved doing less to the patient."

Doing less, not more!

And Singer goes further, arguing provocatively that modern critical care interferes with the body's natural protective mechanisms—that patients often survive in spite of medical interventions rather than because of them.

Singer believes in an evolutionary perspective and points out that the human body is adapted to deal with the types of threats to which our ancestors were exposed and those include critical illness. Our immune system can fight off infections, our blood clots so that we don't bleed to death with every cut, tissues regenerate and bone fractures heal, if imperfectly, over time. "We have evolved to deal with temperature extremes, starvation, trauma and infection," says Singer.

And, ironically, he adds: "We haven't evolved to cope with being sedated, put on a ventilator and pumped full of drugs."

He’s not the only doctors thinking along evolutionary lines but, as you can imagine, this isn’t a common view in orthodox medicine.

The Miracles of Mushrooms

2011-10-07T17:57:50Z

Elixir of Longevity?

I suppose you could say I have been a detective in regard to health and wellness for decades because nothing fascinates me more than my belief that the earth offers a remedy for almost all health challenges. My present fascination is in the area of mushrooms and the emerging research on their amazing effects on our health. Mushrooms have been called “soil magicians” because of their abilities to turn very toxic matter into healthy vibrant living materials. Mushrooms also have been revered for centuries by cultures around the world and many believe they are true elixirs of health and longevity.

I just returned from Baltimore Expo Convention where several companies who specialize in mushroom products had experts available and I learned even more on this exciting topic. I never knew that mushrooms are attacked by the same bacteria and viruses as humans however mushrooms have developed very advanced methods of curing themselves by the production of their own antibiotics and other substances. Considering mushrooms are one of the oldest organisms on earth, it would be foolish to not study how they have stayed so vibrant and healthy for so long. I also was stunned to learn that mushrooms have the ability to even take radiation and use it as a source of energy! Mushrooms actually have external stomachs and lungs that allow for its transfer of nutrients and oxygen. Studies are mounting showing strong evidence of mushrooms potential in the following: maintaining a very strong immune system, keeping white blood counts in optimal range, allowing for optimal blood sugar levels, liver health, inflammation and helping greatly to maintain healthy cells in different organs such as breast, prostate and others.

When looking at mushrooms positive effects on health I must clarify that I am not speaking of the canned mushrooms that you find in Chinese food but am talking about mushrooms that have names such as maitake, chaga, cordycep, agarikon, reishi, shiitake and many others. Each specialized mushroom has its own set of potential benefits so becoming informed is important if you want to pursue using these products.

One of the experts in the world at this time is Paul Stamets and he has given an amazing lecture on “how mushrooms can save the world” and I encourage you to watch this if you want to learn the most mind-blowing facts on mushrooms. Click on the picture below to watch the full-length video on YouTube.

Three mushroom companies that I have confidence in their quality and effectiveness are Fungi Perfecti Host Defense, Mushroom Wisdom and Mushroom Science. I must say that I would not use mushrooms produced by companies that don’t specialize in this area due to the fact that improperly processed mushroom products are probably worthless. I personally have used mushroom products for years and right now I have the following protocol for myself to insure staying healthy.

I take two Host Defense My Community product which contains 17 medicinal mushrooms mixed together and I also take several capsules of straight maitake for additional immune support. The literature does state that those who have autoimmune or taking serious blood thinners should not use mushrooms.

I will never again underestimate the power of medicinal mushrooms in affecting the health of the our bodies so the next time you reevaluate your supplement program for long term health, consider looking into adding some “magic of mushrooms”.

Other sites for more information.

Mushroom Wisdom

http://www.mushroomscience.com/

www.hostdefense.com

Sloan Kettering has information on mushroom effects on diseases.http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/5707.cfm?Criteria=mushroom&x=0&y=0

Till next time, ed

Must read!

2011-07-13T19:33:23Z

JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY .

Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins:

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.

3 When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size.. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.

CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

a.. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells.. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.

b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

14.. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the bodies own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.

15... Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

1.. No plastic containers in micro.

2. No water bottles in freezer.

3. No plastic wrap in microwave.

Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter=2 0Reed Army Medical Center as well. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Cast le Hospital, was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of=2 0fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body.. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.

Key to True Healing.

2011-04-25T19:51:00Z

I never post material from other people however this article is so important that I must have it available for readers.

I want to thank Earthclinic.com and the author of this article Bill Thompson.

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Attitudes Towards the Naturopathic Approach

by Bill Thompson

Contributing Writer

San Fernando, Philippines

bt130550@gmail.com

"Diseases are crises of purification, of toxic elimination"

-- Hippocrates.

I have a good friend who is certainly a clever guy. He's University educated with a Master's degree in Pure and Applied Math's. He's also pre-diabetic. We gather sometimes with other friends and we talk, sort out the world and enjoy ourselves. Sometimes our conversation turns to ailments and alternative healing and I can tell, as I watch him tip his third heaped spoonful of sugar into his cup of coffee, that he is very skeptical about alternative healing methods. In fact, I don't argue any more, he is a friend after all, so I end up just biting my tongue - hard.

Here, perhaps, is the greatest example of the difference between training or conditioning by rote or accepted belief and beliefs that are fully realized by self-education and direct experience - using methods that are perhaps well outside the mainstream - and all achieved through using your own ferocious and honest curiosity to discover the real truth. I am not talking about math here, I'm just referring to many people's belief that the allopathic way is the only acceptable and proven way of medicine and healing.

So perhaps an exploration of the differences in approach between scientific allopathic methods and alternative naturopathic methods is called for.

Around 1900, the modern scientific medical approach really began in earnest with the final acceptance and introduction of the Germ Theory by Louis Pasteur. But there was another competing theory at the time - called the Terrain or Cellular Theory by Antoine Bechamp and it was a close-run thing between the two, but in the end Pasteur's Germ Theory approach towards disease prevailed. These two hypotheses were, at the time, merely competing theories on the nature and origins of disease. Pasteur was not only a chemist but he was also a rich man, an extrovert entrepreneur, who had powerful and influential friends. By contrast, Antoine Bechamp was a highly acknowledged and respected professor in Belgium, an honest scientist through and through, and a quiet and humble man. Bechamp actually taught Pasteur in his earlier years for a while.

The difference between the Terrain Theory and the Germ Theory can perhaps best be summed up by these two simple quotes:

Antoine Bechamp - "The primary cause of disease is in us... Always in us."

Louis Pasteur - "Pathogens cause disease... Eliminate the pathogen to prevent the disease."

There was much conflict between the two because of their competing theories on the origin of disease. Read the full history here.

What Bechamp was essentially saying was that if you have a healthy body with a strong immune system, then this was enough to suppress the destructive pathogens already within your body, so build up and maintain a healthy body terrain, and if you are ill then you must treat the whole body to make it healthy again. Bechamp further postulated and proved through several experiments that the human body has a huge number of bacteria, viruses etc. already contained in it. It is a well accepted fact that there are more bacteria and other organisms in our intestinal tract than exist in the rest of our body. If you are healthy then these organisms revert to a symbiotic relationship that is both beneficial and healthy for the body -- but if your body terrain changes and becomes unhealthy (via toxins, unhealthy diet, lack of nutrients), then these organisms will be triggered into a physical and functional change of state - via something called pleomorphism - into completely different organisms that become parasitic, destructive and deadly for the human body.

And what Pasteur's Germ Theory was essentially saying was that if the body is ill, then we must always regard the causative pathogen as an outside invasive threat and get rid of it with drugs, vaccines etc.

In the 1920s, a brilliant microscopist, inventor and researcher called Royal Raymond Rife, with his high powered and unique bright-field microscope, discovered some interesting aspects about the nature and behaviour of disease:

"Rife showed that by altering the environment and food supply, friendly bacteria such as colon bacillus could be converted into varied "pathogenic" bacteria. For example, Rife also observed that bacillus coli could in time be modified into the bacterial agent associated with typhus, and the process actually reversed. In Rife's words:

'In reality, it is not the bacteria themselves that produce the disease, but we believe it is... the unbalanced cell metabolism of the human body that in actuality produce the effect of disease. We also believe if the metabolism of the human body is perfectly balanced... it is susceptible to no disease.'

This observation closely parallels Alexis Carrel's earlier research at the Rockefeller Institute where he was able to control the rates and levels of infectious disease mortality among mice. Beginning with the standard diet he observed a corresponding death rate of 52 percent. By making specific dietary improvements he was able to reduce mortality rates downward to 32 percent, then 14 percent, and finally to a rate of 0.45 " -- Dr. Raymond Obomsawin

Strange indeed that through the years from the 1930s when the Electron Microscope was discovered, no other scientific researcher ever noticed what Rife had seen with his own powerful bright-field microscope (light, prism driven). This is probably because the Electron Microscope (or dark-field microscope) had less magnification as well as the fact that it instantaneously kills any organism that is viewed by it, whereas Rife's own high-powered bright-field microscope did not kill organisms, so only the bright-field type of microscope was capable of actually observing the pleomorphic changing behaviours of these organisms. Modern microbiological scientific research has also always favoured Electron Microscopes in their own scientific research studies.

Over the years, other educated researchers like Gaston Naessens (another bright-field microscopist and inventor), Virginia Wheeler and Tullio Simoncini also discovered the strange pleomorphic nature of pathogens.

The strange thing and what must be acknowledged here is how Antoine Bechamp's Terrain Theory of disease ties in so closely with the more ancient healing systems of Ayurvedic Medicine, Chinese Medicine and Tibb - the Middle Eastern System. Bechamp's approach is every bit as holistic as these ancient systems - Heal the whole body terrain in order to fight off and prevent disease in the body.

In his experiments, Dr. Max Gerson, who discovered a famous method of curing cancer using just a strict vegetarian diet, vegetable and fruit juicing, mineral supplements, iodine and coffee enemas, completed a most remarkable experiment. He connected the blood systems of two rats so that the blood of each flowed through the other - one of the rats had bone cancer and the other was a completely healthy rat -- and the results were nothing less than astounding. After only a few weeks, the rat with cancer was completely healed and the healthy rat remained healthy!! This is indeed confirmation that the strength and health of your own body terrain and immune system -- just on their own -- are easily enough to defeat and heal even bone cancer.

So perhaps both Antoine Bechamp and Hippocrates were right after all.