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Damning new report shows the entire global ecosystem contaminated by glyphosate

Catherine J. Frompovich
Activist Post
Tue, 18 Oct 2016 12:24 UTC
pesticide spraying
PAN, the Pesticide Action Network International, issued a 96-page report dated October 2016 titled "GLYPHOSATE" that every person on the planet ought to be concerned about, especially if you are using it in agriculture and farming; as a homeowner on your weeds; or as an unsuspecting member of society who unknowingly is forced to eat food crops sprayed with it!

According to that Report's Summary, glyphosate—Roundup—Monsanto are synonymous with the number one selling herbicide used in genetically modified crop agriculture, even though glyphosate is manufactured by many companies in other countries.
The herbicidal action of glyphosate is primarily due to its capacity to block the production of essential amino acids in plants and some microorganisms through a pathway called "shikimate", which is present only in plants. Thus it was sold as 'safe' for animals and humans. [1]
The World Health Organization's IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer) classified glyphosate as probable carcinogen [Group 2A] in 2015! How come it took so long? I find myself asking.
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How dirty production of NHS drugs helps create superbugs

Andrew Wasley and Madlen Davies
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Tue, 18 Oct 2016 11:22 UTC
ER India
© Jagan. S
The emergency room at a hospital in Hyderabad, India, where antibiotic resistance is a public health crisis.
The NHS is buying drugs from pharmaceutical companies in India whose dirty production methods are fuelling the rise of superbugs, and there are no checks or regulations in place to stop this happening.

The growth in superbugs - infections which are resistant to antibiotics - is one of the biggest public health crises facing the world today, and pollution in drug companies' supply chains is one of its causes. Yet the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has established that firms with a history of bad practice and pollution are supplying the NHS, and environmental standards do not feature in NHS procurement protocols.

New tests on water samples taken outside pharmaceutical factories in India which sell to the NHS found they contained bacteria which were resistant to the antibiotics made inside the plants.

This suggests industrial waste containing active antibiotic ingredients is being leaked into the surrounding environment. Studies have shown how this causes nearby bacteria to develop immunity to the drugs - creating "superbugs" - and that those resistant bacteria then spread around the world.

Responding to the Bureau's findings, the Department of Health (DoH) said it would consider bringing in new rules for antibiotic factories which export drugs to Britain.

Comment: These companies don't care about other people's deaths and suffering, nor about the huge problem they're creating for the rest of the world. They only care about profits. A perfect example of corporate psychopathy.

It is also interesting to see how the root of the problem might stem from the factories and companies, and not necessarily from the hospitals.

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Depression as a symptom of inflammation

Chris Kresser
chriskresser.com
Tue, 19 Aug 2014 04:07 UTC
The idea that depression and other mental health conditions are caused by an imbalance of chemicals (particularly serotonin and norepinephrine) in the brain is so deeply ingrained in our collective psyche that it seems almost sacrilegious to question it.
inflammation
© altered-states.net
Of course Big Pharma has played a role in perpetuating this idea. Antidepressant drugs, which are based on the chemical imbalance theory, represent a $10 billion dollar market in the U.S. alone. According to the CDC, 11 percent of Americans over 12 years old take antidepressants, and they are the second-most prescribed medications (after cholesterol-lowering drugs). Doctors wrote a staggering 254 million prescriptions for antidepressants in 2010. (1)

Yet as popular as this theory has become, it is riddled with problems. For example:
  • Reducing levels of norepinephrine, serotonin and dopamine does not produce depression in humans, even though it appears to do so in animals.
  • Although some depressed patients have low levels of serotonin and norepinephrine, the majority do not. Several studies indicate that only 25 percent of depressed patients have low levels of these neurotransmitters.
  • Some depressed patients have abnormally high levels of serotonin and norepinephrine, and some patients with no history of depression have low levels of them. (2)

Comment: For more information, listen to our radio show Inflammation: The Root of Disease

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Probiotics can aid recovery from spinal cord injuries


Science Daily
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC
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© Kigerl et al., 2016
Disrupting the gut microbiome with antibiotics before spinal cord injury (bottom) increases the number of inflammatory cells (brown) in the damaged region of the spine.
Researchers from The Ohio State University have discovered that spinal cord injury alters the type of bacteria living in the gut and that these changes can exacerbate the extent of neurological damage and impair recovery of function. The study, "Gut dysbiosis impairs recovery after spinal cord injury," by Kristina A. Kigerl et al., which will be published online October 17 ahead of issue in The Journal of Experimental Medicine, suggests that counteracting these changes with probiotics could aid patients' recovery from spinal cord injuries.

The trillions of bacteria that live in the gastrointestinal tract are collectively known as the gut microbiome. Disruption of this microbial community, or dysbiosis, occurs when nonpathogenic gut bacteria are depleted or overwhelmed by pathogenic inflammatory bacteria. Autoimmune diseases (including multiple sclerosis, type I diabetes, and rheumatoid arthritis) have been linked to dysbiosis, and it has been implicated in the onset or progression of neurological disorders, including autism, pain, depression, anxiety, and stroke.

Traumatic spinal cord injuries have secondary effects or comorbidities, including loss of bowel control, that are likely to cause dysbiosis. The authors reasoned that if any changes in the gut microbiome occur, they might, in turn, affect recovery after spinal cord injury.

Comment:
The benefits of probiotics--more than ever

Probiotics promote a healthy immune system and decrease the incidence of colds, allergies, and even eczema by boosting your immune system. Some experts now claim that your beneficial bacteria may account for as much as 80-90% of your immune function. By lining every square inch of your intestinal tract, they not only provide a barrier to entry for many microorganisms that arrive with your food, they also directly kill many pathogens such as bad bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites, and yeast. They also function as immunomodulators and produce a number of immune factors such as lactoferrin that directly boost immune function as well as a number of B vitamins that offer nutritional support for the immune system. And finally, it is estimated that some 70% of your immune system cells reside within your colon in a layer of lymphoid tissue just below the surface epithelial cells.
See also:
36 Immune Benefits of Probiotics
The cutting edge of gut health and disease
How your microbiome controls your health

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Gut microbiome emerges as new target for controlling viral infections

Andreu Prados
Gut Microbiota for Health
Fri, 05 Feb 2016 17:14 UTC
virome
A recent review by Julie Pfeiffer and Herbert Virgin suggests that studying the interactions between the enteric virome, other microbes in the microbiota and host genes could be a useful tool with therapeutic benefits.

The mammalian gut microbiome is a complex community in which the virome plays an important role in regulating immunity and homeostasis. Nevertheless, recent data indicate that the enteric virome has been profoundly underestimated and researchers say enteric viruses (poliovirus, retrovirus, norovirus, reovirus) can interact with other microbial constituents that inhabit the intestine through both direct and indirect mechanisms. The coordinated interactions between these different microbial kingdoms - including viruses, bacteria, fungi, eukaryotes and helminths (termed "transkingdom interactions") - have important effects on enteric and systemic immune responses. Genetic variations in the host also affect these interactions and can influence the occurrence of enteric viral diseases.

Comment: For more information on how to heal your microbiome, listen to our radio show Some of my best friends are germs:
Download: OGG, MP3 

The human body is teeming with billions -- nay, TRILLIONS -- of microbes with over a thousand different species populating the gut alone. We are covered with bacteria, fungi, viruses and parasites from the top of our heads to the bottom of our feet, inside and out. How did we come to be populated with such a vast array of these little beasties and what's their purpose? What influence do they exert on our physical and mental health and, more importantly, what can we do (and what can we avoid doing) to keep our microbial community happy and in balance?

Join us on this episode of the Health and Wellness Show as we take a look at the role these microbiota play from infancy to adulthood, in sickness and in health. Learn how to create poo you can be proud of and a microbiome that works in your favor. Cause -- let's face it -- germs are here to stay! 


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Health

Tasmanian devil offers a whole new way to fight antibiotic resistance

Bec Crew
www.sciencealert.com
Tue, 18 Oct 2016 14:50 UTC
Tasmanian devil babies
© Adam Cox
Scientists have discovered that Tasmanian devil milk contains an arsenal of antimicrobial compounds that can kill some of the most deadly bacterial and fungal infections known to science - including golden staph.

Tasmanian devils were found to produce six different types of these antimicrobial compounds - humans produce just one - and scientists were able to successfully synthesize them in the lab to test their effectiveness against a number of drug-resistant bacterial and fungal pathogens.

When tested against 25 different bacterial and six fungal strains, the six varieties of antimicrobial compounds were found to kill golden staph (Staphylococcus aureus) - responsible for food poisoning, pneumonia, and toxic shock syndrome - and Enterococcus, which can cause urinary tract infections and meningitis.

The compounds also killed Candida krusei - a rare yeast species associated with high mortality - and the deadly and hyper-virulent airborne fungus called Cryptococcus gattii.
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Snakes in Suits

Big Pharma's greed in the politics of pain

Kelly Burch
The Fix
Sun, 16 Oct 2016 14:11 UTC
cat vs. lion


“Big Pharma continues to not care about people, only about profit,” she told The Fix.
When it comes to campaign contributions, Big Pharma outspends even the powerful gun lobby. But despite the odds, heartbroken parents and addiction survivors continue to fight.

When Jodi Barber found her son Jarrod on the couch barely breathing, she rushed to call 911 while her husband administered CPR. The ambulance whisked Jarrod to the hospital where he was born, but it was too late. Nineteen years after they welcomed him into the world, Barber and her husband said goodbye to him in the same building.

The same year, three of Jarrod's friends also died from using Opana, a prescription opiate. In the six years since his death, Barber has watched many more young lives ended too soon by opiate addiction, and in her mind it is clear who is to blame.

"Big Pharma continues to not care about people, only about profit," she told The Fix.
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Are you ready? Starting your preparedness journey

Lizzie Bennett
Underground Medic
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 13:47 UTC
preparedness
Regardless of what you think the future may throw at you there are some things that will put you in good stead whatever happens.

A crisis will fall into one of five categories:
  • Personal
  • Local
  • Widespread
  • National
  • International
  • Global
Each one of them is important if you happen to be the person living through it and dealing with the aftermath of it. The difference between making sure you have enough food in store to see you through the first few weeks after a job loss and having enough in store to see you through a global collapse just comes down to the amount you have in the pantry - the principle behind why there is extra food in the pantry is exactly the same.

Comment: What will the coming civil unrest look like?
According to a survey conducted by the Adelphi University Center for Health Innovation, 55 percent of Americans believe that the government will come to their rescue when the proverbial poop hits the fan because your big brother really cares. Literally, every alternative media outlet could show conclusive proof that an EMP was going to wipe out the power grid. We could conclusively prove that nuclear bombs were going off in 39 American cities in the most horrific false flag attack in world history and it would not make any difference to 55% of all Americans because of their cognitive dissonance.
In Part One of this series, I detailed how the present administration, through Executive Order 13603, is positioning itself to impose martial law and subsequently control all food and food production. Part One further pointed out that despots use the control of food, and subsequent starvation of millions, as a means to subjugate an unruly population.
Read more about the importance of being prepared for anything...

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Natural herbal HPV "cure" discovered

Sayer Ji
Greenmedinfo.com
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:04 UTC
Natural HPV cure

Despite the widespread belief that HPV infection is a lethal force against which we only have vaccination and watchful waiting to defend ourselves, both ancient herbal medicine and our body's inherent immune defenses have newly been confirmed to have significant power against it.

A groundbreaking study published in the Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, titled, "Clearance of Cervical Human Papillomavirus Infection by Topical Application of Curcumin and Curcumin Containing Polyherbal Cream: A Phase II Randomized Controlled Study," reveals that vaccination and watchful waiting are not the only recourse against HPV infection.

The study is believed to be the first of its kind to find an effective and safe therapeutic intervention for the clearance of established cervical human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. Moreover, the study confirmed that HPV infection is self-limiting and clears on its own in 73.3% of the untreated placebo group within 37 days.

The researchers evaluated the effectiveness of two herbal interventions in eliminating HPV infection from the cervix of women who were determined to have HPV infection through Pap smear and HPV DNA tests (PCR), but whose condition had not yet progressed to high grade cervical neoplasias (i.e. cervical pre-cancer).

Comment: Are HPV vaccines worthless? Study: HPV infections not necessary for development of cervical cancer

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Placebo pills work for chronic back pain even when patients are in on the ruse

Bruce B. Vanderburg
Reliawire
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 12:24 UTC
back pain
It is conventional medical wisdom that placebo effects depend on patients' belief they are getting pharmacologically active medication. A recent paper is the first to demonstrate that patients who knowingly took a placebo in conjunction with traditional treatment for lower back pain saw more improvement than those given traditional treatment alone.

Joint senior author Ted Kaptchuk, director of the Program for Placebo Studies and the Therapeutic Encounter at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, says:
"These findings turn our understanding of the placebo effect on its head. This new research demonstrates that the placebo effect is not necessarily elicited by patients' conscious expectation that they are getting an active medicine, as long thought.

Taking a pill in the context of a patient-clinician relationship, even if you know it's a placebo, is a ritual that changes symptoms and probably activates regions of the brain that modulate symptoms."

Comment: The placebo effect is so...effective it should be used in medical settings everywhere.

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