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Objective:Health # 27 - Parasite Lost: Are Icky Worm Infections Key to Our Health‌?

Sott.net
Mon, 19 Aug 2019 00:00 UTC

One would never think that the topic of parasitic worms could be thought to require nuance. Worms are bad, anything that kills them is a good thing, end of story. But surprisingly, there has been a significant amount of research in recent years that is hinting at the idea that, in some situations, parasitic worms are actually a good thing. In fact, some attribute the loss of these worms from our digestive tracts as leading to an increase in various conditions in the west, including autoimmune conditions, asthma, Multiple Sclerosis and allergies.

There have even been a number of experiments involving the treatment of various conditions involving the deliberate infection of subjects with different types of parasites. It's known as 'helminth therapy' and, while it's not universally helpful across the board, a statistically significant number are reporting beneficial results.

Join us on this episode of Objective:Health as we look into this slightly icky but truly promising new (or very old) medical procedure. And stay tuned for Zoya's Pet Health Segment, as she tells us all about pets who can detect psychic phenomena!

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The brain-gut connection - Traditional Chinese Medicine has known this for centuries

Charley Lanyon
South China Morning Post
Sun, 18 Aug 2019 05:00 UTC

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Recent research has found that the gut can affect people's mental state, but traditional Chinese medicine has believed this for thousands of years.

Trusting your gut may be good advice, but it hardly qualifies as medical science. Or does it?

Research increasingly shows that the connection between our "gut" and our brains - especially our emotions and mental health - is closer than has ever been imagined. In recent headlines and medical research papers, doctors and researchers are employing a new term for the gut: the second brain.

Research such as that from doctors Braden Kuo and Allan Goldstein at Massachusetts General Hospital, the US, who found that bacteria in the gut can affect mood, cognition and behaviour is increasingly exciting to fellow doctors and scientists.

But practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) can be left exasperated. They say that Chinese medicine has understood the connection between the gut and the body's overall health for thousands of years.

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"Medical common sense is full of lies": The best selling book by a Japanese physicist who cured his cataracts and lived to 95

Michael Hoffman
The Japan Times
Sat, 17 Aug 2019 20:36 UTC

Truth and lies: Iwao Mitsuishi claimed CT scans are too "scientific" in a book titled "Medical Common Sense is Full of Lies."

"Lies!" "Nonsense!" What's true? What's not true? What's fake news? What's real?

It's not just politics. Politics is at least comprehensible. We may err, misunderstand and misjudge, but politics speaks our language and invites our participation. Not so medicine. Healthy, we want nothing to do with it. Ill, we turn to it with blind, ignorant, sometimes desperate faith.

What else can we do? Our bodies are strangers to us — sometimes hostile strangers. We wouldn't recognize our internal organs if we saw them. When a politician says, "Trust me," we instinctively do the opposite. When a doctor says "Trust me," we put ourselves and our organs in his or her hands — the sicker we are, the more eagerly.

Comment: It appears Iwao Mitsuishi's books are only available in Japanese but one can hope that, eventually, any of his worthwhile findings will come to light:

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New study reveals frequent use of social media negatively affects teen girls more than boys, leading to higher psychological stress

Katie Kindelan
ABC News
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 16:10 UTC

Teenage girls are affected by social media use more than boys, with the harmful effects being driven by three factors, according to a new study.

In girls, frequent use of social media harmed their health by leading to inadequate sleep, inadequate physical activity and exposing them to cyberbullying, according to the study published Tuesday in the journal Lancet. The same did not hold true for boys who frequently use social media.

Researchers from University College London tracked the social media use of nearly 13,000 teens in the U.K. from when they were 13 to 16-years-old. They also evaluated the teens' own reports about their well-being, exposure to cyberbullying and time spent sleeping or being physically active.

The study found that 27% of the teens who were frequent users of social media reported high psychological stress. Among the teens who were infrequent users, only 17% reported high psychological stress.

Modern medicine declares war on loneliness with drugs and bots - introverts threatened with extinction

Helen Buyniski
RT
Sun, 18 Aug 2019 13:23 UTC

With pharmaceutical and even robotic "cures" in the works for loneliness - a condition once considered part of the normal human emotional range but now framed as a health risk - we risk losing the ability to be alone at all.

The pathologization of emotion has been on the march for decades, especially in the US, where fully one sixth of the adult population takes an antidepressant or other psychiatric drug. Now the mental-health industry has a new target - loneliness.

Nearly half of Americans polled last year by health insurer Cigna said they lacked meaningful relationships or companionship. A solutions-based society might examine why so many people feel alienated from their peers despite the constant connectivity of smartphones and internet. A symptom-focused model, however, simply looks to stop them from feeling that way by any means necessary.

Loneliness is "worse than obesity," according to a raft of studies that have emerged linking the emotion to increased risk of premature death, and even rivals smoking. And like obesity - big business for Big Pharma, gastric bypass surgeons and weight-loss gurus - it requires medical intervention.

Pesticides + Poison gases = Cheap, year-round strawberries

Environmental Working Group
Wed, 20 Mar 2019 00:01 UTC

The average American eats about eight pounds of fresh strawberries a year - and with them, dozens of pesticides, including chemicals that have been linked to cancer and reproductive damage, or that are banned in Europe.

Conventionally grown strawberries tested by scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2015 and 2016 contained an average of 7.8 different pesticides per sample, compared to 2.2 pesticides per sample for all other produce, according to EWG's analysis.

What's worse, strawberry growers use jaw-dropping volumes of poisonous gases to sterilize their fields before planting, killing every pest, weed and other living thing in the soil.

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Is grass-fed beef really better for the planet? Here's the science

Nancy Matsumoto
NPR
Tue, 13 Aug 2019 07:00 UTC

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Cows graze on a grass field at a farm in Schaghticoke, N.Y. The grass-fed movement is based on the idea of regenerative agriculture.

For the environmentally minded carnivore, meat poses a culinary conundrum. Producing it requires a great deal of land and water resources, and ruminants such as cows and sheep are responsible for half of all greenhouse gas emissions associated with agriculture, according to the World Resources Institute.

Comment: A dodgy figure, on many levels, but let's hear them out. See: Even if CO2 caused climate change, it would be the cars, not the cows

That's why many researchers are now calling for the world to cut back on its meat consumption. But some advocates say there is a way to eat meat that's better for the planet and better for the animals: grass-fed beef.

But is grass-fed beef really greener than feedlot-finished beef? Let's parse the science.

Comment: As long as these 'experts' continue to reduce everything down to 'carbon emissions' they'll be woefully out of touch with what a growing contingent of consumers is looking for. Many who are seeking grass-fed beef aren't buying the anthropogenic global warming narrative and are not basing their buying decisions on this narrative.

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EPA defies California rules over Monsanto Roundup; still insists the herbicide is safe

Sommer Brokaw
UPI
Sat, 10 Aug 2019 17:24 UTC

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The Environmental Protection Agency told companies Thursday they would not approve labels which abide by California requirements to warn customers that glyphosate in Monsanto Roundup has been linked to cancer.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has defied California regulators by no longer approving labels claiming Monsanto Roundup is known to cause cancer.

The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment has listed glyphosate, a chemical compound-base for Monsanto Roundup herbicide weed killer, as causing cancer since July 2017. Furthermore, glyphosate was added to the state's Proposition 65 list, which requires businesses to warn customers about chemicals known to cause cancer.

The EPA defied that regulation Thursday by saying it will no longer approve product labels claiming glyphosate is known to cause cancer.

Comment: The EPA is absolutely shameless in their insistence that a known carcinogen is not carcinogenic. For them to state their 'independent evaluation' was more 'extensive and relevant' than the IARC finding is laughable. It is so obvious they've been paid off its pathetic.

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Want to protect the planet? Eat more beef, not less

Patrick Holden
The Telegraph
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 06:00 UTC

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The key is to educate people about where their food comes from and to encourage responsible consumption of beef and dairy produced to the highest standards.

If students and staff at Goldsmiths University really want to help the environment, they should end their ban on selling beef on campus. Far from being the bogeymen portrayed by environmental campaigners, sustainably farmed beef and dairy cattle are integral to maintaining our green and pleasant land, keeping our waterways free of chemicals and feeding our population in the most efficient manner possible.

Two thirds of UK farmland is under grass and in most cases cannot be used for other crops. The only responsible way to convert this into food is to feed it to cattle, which are capable of deriving 100 per cent of their nutrition from grass and therefore are more efficient on such land than chickens or pigs. Even on grassland where crops could be grown, ploughing it up to create arable farms would release huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere and require the use of pesticides, herbicides and fertiliser, all of which can devastate biodiversity.

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Corporate free speech precedents allow corporations to legally put carcinogens in our food without warning labels

Matthew Rozsa
Salon
Sun, 14 Jul 2019 14:00 UTC

Cheerios has so much glyphosate in it, it should be labeled as toxic. Corporate free speech precedents prevent that

A recent study by the Environmental Working Group revealed something horrifying: Glyphosate, the active ingredient in the popular weedkiller Roundup, was present in 17 of the 21 oat-based cereal and snack products at levels considered unsafe for children. That includes six different brands of Cheerios, one of the most popular American cereals.

I've written before about the limits of corporate free speech when it comes to public safety, but on that occasion I discussed this insofar as it involved corporate-sponsored climate change denialism. Yet here we have something more tangible, more direct: The safe glyphosate limit for children is 160 parts per billion (ppb), yet Honey Nut Cheerios Medley Crunch has 833 parts per billion and regular Cheerios has 729 ppb. While the potential risks of glyphosate are fiercely debated, many scientists believe that it is linked to cancer.

Comment: The idea that corporations have constitutional rights is extremely harmful in many ways, the above article outlining only one of them. The idea that a fictional entity has 'rights' is absurd, yet it's used to allow corporations to get away with murder.

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With mail in voting likely to become a thing, does it really matter any more? Stick a fork in us...this country is done.

Bezel Bub

Other comets coming sooner, although not quite as big. E.g. "Leonard" this December https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2021_A1_(Leonard)

Tsidkenu

Tornadoes here in Aus too, as I reported here [Link]

Tsidkenu

Small tornado also struck Armidale. We had another tornado hit farmland near Bathurst last week. This summer will be the summer of floods, hail...

Tsidkenu

What mandate? There still is no "mandate" [Link]

Tsidkenu

Health & Wellness

Objective:Health # 27 - Parasite Lost: Are Icky Worm Infections Key to Our Health‌?

The brain-gut connection - Traditional Chinese Medicine has known this for centuries

"Medical common sense is full of lies": The best selling book by a Japanese physicist who cured his cataracts and lived to 95

New study reveals frequent use of social media negatively affects teen girls more than boys, leading to higher psychological stress

Modern medicine declares war on loneliness with drugs and bots - introverts threatened with extinction

Pesticides + Poison gases = Cheap, year-round strawberries

Is grass-fed beef really better for the planet? Here's the science

EPA defies California rules over Monsanto Roundup; still insists the herbicide is safe

Want to protect the planet? Eat more beef, not less

Corporate free speech precedents allow corporations to legally put carcinogens in our food without warning labels

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