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Have dairy products set your body on fire?

Kelly Brogan, MC
Natural Blaze
Fri, 18 Mar 2016 00:00 UTC
inflammation dairy, milk, dairy
I used to be a dairy addict. When my naturopath asked me to give up gluten and dairy 6 years ago, it was approximately 2 more years before I stopped fantasizing about cheese, milk, ice cream, ricotta (yes, I'm Italian), and yogurt. It turns out we have a decent explanation for the deep pleasure associated with dairy and its best friend, wheat, and it's the exorphin compounds from these foods that interact with opiate receptors in the brain and other bodily tissues.

There is a burgeoning literature in psychiatry that supports immune responses to the protein casein in dairy, primarily cow, as playing a role in pathologies ranging from depression to schizophrenia.

This is not to say that dairy is a problem for everyone, or that all dairy is a problem for some. In my experience, reintroduction of dairy after a month of elimination is enough to tell you which camp you fall in. In fact, I have had patients report vomiting upon re-exposure - to something they have eaten daily for decades!

Comment: Consumption of all forms of dairy - including all milk products, cheese, cottage cheese, yogurt, kefir and ice-cream is related to a myriad of diseases including cardiovascular diseases, autoimmune diseases, cancer, allergies, asthma, digestive diseases, thyroid problems, and neurological diseases among others.

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General Mills to label products with GMO ingredients

Alyssa Navarro
Tech Times
Sat, 19 Mar 2016 17:37 UTC
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General Mills on Friday said it will start putting labels on all its U.S. products that contain genetically modified organisms as ingredients. The changes will hit grocery stores over the next several weeks.
American food manufacturer General Mills announced on Friday that it will begin labelling all its products in the United States that has genetically modified organisms as ingredients. The move was prompted by a new state law in Vermont, which requires companies to put such information starting July 1.

However, the company cannot label products for only one state without driving up costs for consumers, said General Mills Vice President Jeff Harmening, so the company's response is to put up labels nationwide.

Still, Harmening said one thing is needed to tackle the issue of genetically modified food: a national solution.

"All sides of this debate, 20 years of research, and every major health and safety agency in the world agree that GMOs are not a health or safety concern," said Harmening. "At the same time, we know that some consumers are interested in knowing which products contain GMO ingredients."

Comment: Overly processed, sugar-laden foods shouldn't be consumed whether they contain GMOs or not -- but thanks anyway, General Mills.

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More doctors are prescribing exercise instead of medication

Rodrique Ngowi
Seattle Times
Tue, 15 Mar 2016 17:09 UTC
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Doctors treating chronic health problems increasingly are urging patients to think of physical activity as their new drug.

When Dr. Michelle Johnson scribbles out prescriptions, the next stop for many of her patients is the gym, not the pharmacy.

Doctors treating chronic health problems increasingly are prescribing exercise for their patients — and encouraging them to think of physical activity as their new medication.

In one such program run by a health center in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood, primary care physicians, internists and psychologists prescribe access to a gym for $10 a month, including free child care, classes and kids programs. Providing affordable gym access for patients ensures compliance, said Gibbs Saunders of Healthworks Community Fitness, a nonprofit gym in Dorchester that has partnered with several health care providers to help low-income residents fill their exercise prescriptions.

Comment: The Health & Wellness Show: The Benefits of Exercise and Play

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Signs and symptoms of a deficiency in each of the B vitamins

Mark Sisson
Mark's Daily Apple
Wed, 09 Mar 2016 00:00 UTC
vitamin b
When it comes to obtaining sufficient amounts of certain micronutrients, you're hyper vigilant. Magnesium? You're eating spinach, throwing back magnesium glycinate, and adding Trace Mineral drops to your water. Iodine? You're making dulse "bacon." To bask in the holy triumvirate of vitamin K2, vitamin D3, and vitamin A, you're willing to eat fermented cod liver oil and stinky natto. But as omnivores drawing upon a broad spectrum of plant and animal foods, Primal people tend to assume they have the B vitamins covered. It's no wonder: punch a slab of beef chuck steak or a few ounces of liver into the USDA nutrient database and that whole B vitamin section seems to fill up.

Let's take a look. You may be right. You may be totally fine. But it's always nice to refresh your focus.

Comment: One major factor that could increase one's need for B vitamins is stress, which can deplete B vitamins (along with magnesium and zinc), in which case one might benefit from supplementing with B vitamins and using stress reduction tools; sufferers of adrenal fatigue often require more B vitamins due to prolonged stress. Other factors could be environmental toxins and various types of physiological damage, including inflammation, that need B vitamins to repair, which could increase one's needs for a period of time, after which maintenance doses would be sufficient to meet one's needs. Leaky gut and poor absorption and utilization are also factors that could affect one's need for B vitamins. In addition, when one is deficient in one B vitamin, often times they're deficient in some or all of them as well, though this may not be the case in every instance.

Either way, liver from pastured animals is likely a good addition to one's diet, due to its abundance of nutrients, with egg yolks being a good second choice. Eggs may need to be approached with caution however, due to the possibility of egg allergies or intolerances. Those with iron overload or hemochromatosis should also exercise caution with liver and egg yolks, due to their iron content.

For those who don't like liver, try making liver pate, or adding onions and garlic and maybe ginger to mask the flavor a bit, and make sure not to overcook the liver. Or just get over it and eat the liver because it's good for you.

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The Stephan family faces criminal prosecution & loss of children for not vaccinating

Terri LaPoint
Health Impact News
Sat, 19 Mar 2016 15:32 UTC
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The Stephan family. Ezekiel will always be in their hearts.
As we have reported frequently here at Health Impact News, State governments in the U.S. and countries around the world are trying to eliminate vaccine exemptions, and make all vaccinations mandatory, by force if necessary.

In those situations where legislative efforts fail, could vaccine extremists now have a different strategy by using the courts to prosecute parents who choose to not vaccinate their children, and then later their child comes in contact with an illness from which there is a vaccine in the market to allegedly prevent? If a child is found to have contracted chickenpox, for example, and their parents had chosen not to administer the chickenpox vaccine believing that natural immunity was better than the vaccine, could the threat of being criminally prosecuted for failing to vaccinate become a de facto method of forcing everyone to comply with mandatory vaccines?

In this report out of Canada, this exact scenario is being tried in the courts this week, where the tragic death of one family's child is viewed by some as setting a precedent for the extremist pro-vaccine lobby. The Stephan family, leaders in the alternative health field in Canada, face time in prison and the removal of their remaining children for simply refusing to vaccinate their child who later died in a hospital that failed to save him. The authorities want the court to rule that his death was preventable by a simple vaccine, something that could never be proven scientifically.
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WHO wants to market vaccines like soda & burgers

Marco Cáceres
thevaccinereaction.org
Wed, 09 Mar 2016 18:51 UTC
vaccine ads

All that really matters is the power of the story. Consumers care about benefits, not supporting facts. Brand = product + compelling story. Reason leads to conclusions, while emotion leads to action (i.e. change comes from feelings, not facts).
On August 18, 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a press release from Geneva, Switzerland titled "Vaccine hesitancy: A growing challenge for immunization programmes."1 The focus of the release was to highlight views expressed by public health officials in a special edition of the journal Vaccine, which was "guest-edited" and published by the WHO.1

Foremost among the views was the continuing concern by health officials over the number of people around the world who remain unvaccinated despite the availability of vaccines. According to the release, approximately 1 out of 5 children globally do not get vaccinated. The WHO attributes the situation to a phenomenon called "vaccine hesitancy," which the organization describes as a "delay in acceptance or refusal of safe vaccines despite availability of vaccination services."

Comment: Current vaccine paradigm: Media struggles to pin stupid label on well-educated vaccine dissenters
If you choose to reject any part of the current vaccine paradigm, as crafted by the government and the pharmaceutical industry, you will be put on to stupid list, even though, ironically, it is widely acknowledged that people who choose to chart their own way on the issue of vaccines tend to be extremely well-educated and often have advanced degrees.


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Dangerous side-effects of common NSAID painkillers: Increased risk of ulcers, heart attacks and high blood pressure


Science Daily
Thu, 17 Mar 2016 00:00 UTC
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Many patients are prescribed NSAIDs for the treatment of painful conditions, fever and inflammation. But the treatment also comes with side effects, including the risk of ulcers and increased blood pressure. A major new study now gathers all research in the area. This shows that arthritis medicine is particularly dangerous for heart patients, and also that older types of arthritis medicine, which have not previously been in focus, also appear to be dangerous for the heart.

"It's been well-known for a number of years that newer types of NSAIDs -- what are known as COX-2 inhibitors, increase the risk of heart attacks. For this reason, a number of these newer types of NSAIDs have been taken off the market again. We can now see that some of the older NSAID types, particularly Diclofenac, are also associated with an increased risk of heart attack and apparently to the same extent as several of the types that were taken off the market," says Morten Schmidt, MD and PhD from Aarhus University, who is in charge of the research project.

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Black salt: An elixir for hair, skin and body


Cure Joy
Mon, 14 Mar 2016 19:19 UTC
black salt
Black salt, A type of rock sat, composed largely of sodium chloride with several other components lending the salt its color and smell. Black salt benefits are plenty, and it acts as a cooling spice and recommended as a treatment for many health issues. It is very popular in India, Middle East, France, Japan and Spain. It's also called as 'Black lava salt', 'kala namak' salt or 'sanchal' and is a type of volcanic rock salt. It's commonly used in Asian countries surrounding the Himalayan Mountains like India and Pakistan. It has been used for hundreds of years as traditional medicine, for cooking and as a beauty aid.

In the hot, arid climate of the Middle East and India, people tend to perspire profusely. Sweat generally contains important electrolytes, including sodium. Thus people of these dry sweltering atmospheres consume black salt in foods or liquids to ensure proper sodium-potassium balance. Benefits of Indian black salt must not to be confused with Hawaiian black salt, smoked sea salt or black salt used in Wiccan ceremonies (for jinx removing).
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The Health & Wellness Show: The benefits of cold adaptation


Sott.net
Fri, 18 Mar 2016 15:00 UTC
cold therapy
Is cold actually good for you? We've all heard stories about long-lived people from Northern Europe and the hardiness of those who live in cold environments, but can these benefits be available to everyone? Can you avoid sickness and infirmity by exposing yourself to the cold? What are the actual mechanisms of how cold adaptation affects the human body? These are the questions we explored on this week's Health and Wellness show: The Benefits of Cold Adaptation. We also discussed Wim Hof's remarkable story, cold adaptation techniques, and heard some live testimonials.

Included as always was Zoya's Pet Health Segment, discussing dog bites: why they happen, how to know the warning signs, and what to do about them. Join us weekly on Fridays on the SOTT Radio Network!

Running Time: 01:54:22

Download: MP3


Here's the transcript of the show:
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A case of gut-induced mania resolved with charcoal

Dr. Kelly Brogan
Natural Blaze
Tue, 15 Mar 2016 18:31 UTC
mania
Sometimes, it just takes one case to bring an entire medical construct to its knees. Because if the current model can't encompass it, then the model must evolve to accommodate the seeming outlier. Currently, psychiatry is in a freefall. With its priesthood abandoning its own tenets around biomedical explanations for mental illness, there is room now, for a new model to emerge.

In this model, behaviors stem from many different stalks. Mania and even psychosis may represent transitional awakenings that our mechanically-oriented, productivity-focused secular society makes no room for. It has been my passion to illuminate the reversible physiologic causes of behavioral disturbance, from panic attacks to ADHD, that melt away when the body is supported. These can range from blood sugar imbalance to single nutrient deficiency to thyroid dysfunction. When the body is well, the mind can be free, and purposeful examination of one's life can begin.

Comment: Detoxify and improve immune functioning with activated charcoal
Eastern medicine has been using activated charcoal for centuries to combat different health problems. Activated charcoal has been known to relieve gas and bloating and pull and remove toxins from the body that can assault our health with things like pain and inflammation.


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