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Breastfeeding boosts babies' brain growth

Karen Foster
Prevent Disease
Mon, 29 Apr 2019 21:20 UTC
breastfeeding
© Ezequiel Becerra / AFP
Preemies who primarily consume breast milk have significantly higher levels of metabolites important for brain growth and development, according to sophisticated imaging conducted by an interdisciplinary research team at Children's National.

Breast milk is always better than formula because it provides critical nutrients and a diverse array of antioxidant protection as well.

Earlier studies have shown that breast milk lowers the incidence of diarrhea, influenza and respiratory infections during infancy, while protecting against the later development of allergies, type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis and other illnesses.

Some studies have even suggest that children up to the age of one that are fed beverages other than breast milk are at risk of becoming malnourished.

The excitement around the impact of breast milk on microorganisms in the gut, called the microbiota, has largely focused on bacteria, with little known about fungi. But fungi could be important to the development of allergies or disease later in life.

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Ambulance

British woman wakes up from coma speaking fluent French

Helen Rudd
The Guardian
Wed, 29 May 2019 14:05 UTC
Helen Rudd
© Sophia Evans/The GuardianHelen Rudd: ‘I had done French O-level, but never had any desire to visit France.
It was May 2006, and I had just been swimming. I was on my way from my home in Hastings to work as a revenue executive for HMRC. It was raining hard, and the visibility was terrible. I was crossing the road when a white van drove into me and I fell, hit the side of my head, and rolled under a parked car. I have no memory of it. In fact I didn't remember anything from a year before the accident until four years afterwards; I began to work out what had happened to me from what other people told me.

I was in an induced coma for three weeks in the neurological unit attached to Haywards Heath hospital. The medical staff tried to bring me out of the coma after about 10 days, but it was too early. I've got no medical notes about my time in hospital, but my family and friends were there every day. My coma was marked grade 3 in the Glasgow Coma Scale: the deepest one you can be in but still be alive; luckily I didn't need brain surgery.

When I started coming round I was moved to my local hospital. The strangest thing was that the first words I spoke were French. A friend asked the nurses whether he should speak to me in French; they thought it was a good idea, to encourage communication. So he would ask me a question in French, and I would reply in fluent French. No one knew why, but I had done both German and French at O-level almost 30 years earlier. After a while, the doctors decided speaking French was not helping me, because I'm English. So posters were put on the wall asking people not to speak in French.
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Burnout is an official medical diagnosis, World Health Organization says

Ryan Prior
CNN
Tue, 28 May 2019 15:11 UTC
burn-out
It's a feeling of extreme work stress that's long been embedded in the cultural lexicon, and now it might be codified in your medical records as well.

Burnout is now a legitimate medical diagnosis, according to the International Classification of Diseases, or the ICD-11, the World Health Organization's handbook that guides medical providers in diagnosing diseases.

Burnout now appears in the ICD-11's section on problems related to employment or unemployment. According to the handbook, doctors can diagnose someone with burnout if they meet the following symptoms:

1. feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion

2. increased mental distance from one's job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one's job

3. reduced professional efficacy

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SOTT Focus: Objective:Health #17 - ‌Are We Living In A Medical Police State?


Sott.net
Sat, 01 Jun 2019 00:00 UTC
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We seem to be confronted almost daily with stories about ordinary citizens being the victims of state overreach in enforcing what is deemed "the right medical treatment". When citizens want to pursue healing modalities that don't conform to the mainstream medical establishment's enforced treatment protocol, they can end up with a gun in their face or even having their children taken away.

Looking for alternatives to chemotherapy; using CBD to control seizures or pain, resisting the forced psych meds for children, dissenting against mandatory vaccinations - there are many examples of people trying to go their own way in healing, only to be confronted by the Medical Police State. Meanwhile, access to natural healing modalities, like kratom, IV vitamin C, raw milk or medical marijuana are strictly prohibited, with many people risking jail time in order to heal.

Are we living under a medical tyranny? Can anyone be said to be living in a free country when they don't have the power to choose their own healing protocols? Is trying a modality not recognized by the medical fascists grounds for removing one's children?

Join us on this episode of Objective:Health for an in-depth discussion on medical fascism: Do we already live in a medical police state?


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Cow

The cult of veganism is riddled with inconsistencies

Paul Murray
The West Australian
Tue, 28 May 2019 20:00 UTC
paleo vegetarian cave man
© Illustration: Don Lindsay
Do vegans think that lions, hyenas - even feral cats - and other carnivores also should give up eating meat?

And if so, can I negotiate the video rights with Direct Action Everywhere to catch their silent walk-by protests live?

Or maybe not so live.

If veganism is driven by a moral issue about exploiting animals, why does it not logically extend to other meat-eating primates - our closest relatives, chimpanzees, are omnivores too - or to other predators?

Comment: This article doesn't even scratch the surface of the inconsistencies in the vegan philosophy.

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Heart - Black

Consumer alert: Tylenol's empathy-killing properties confirmed in 2nd study

Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo
Sun, 21 Apr 2019 10:30 UTC
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Two highly concerning clinical studies in four years reveal that Tylenol not only kills pain but human empathy as well, adding soul-deadening properties to its well known list of serious side effects.

When will we learn? Synthetic, patented chemicals have profound unintended, adverse health effects which take decades to be recognize, long after exposed populations have suffered profoundly. The risks of these pharmaceuticals are sometimes several orders of magnitude higher than their natural alternatives. Over-the-counter painkillers have become classical examples of this, with so-called "low-dose" aspirin no longer considered safe enough to use for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease and stroke, ibuprofen causing tens of thousands of deaths each year due to its recently discovered cardiotoxicity, and Tylenol's adverse effects on the psychospiritual constitution of humanity only just beginning to surface on top of it's already well-established extreme toxicity to the liver.

In 2015, a groundbreaking study found that Tylenol (known by the chemical names acetaminophen and paracetamol) not only blunts pain, but has potent psychotropic side effects highly relevant to human social connection and behavior, such as blunting both positive and negative emotional stimuli, also known as "affect flattening" in psychiatric terminology.

Comment: We don't normally think of minor over-the-counter pain medications as having a serious detrimental effect on our bodies; even less so on our brains. But increasingly studies seem to be finding that they do just that. It would behoove us all to try to find natural alternatives to pharmaceutical pain killers. The side effects can be a real killer.

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Letter to doctors: It's time to redefine 'EMF sensitivity'

Billene Spellins
Natural Blaze
Thu, 30 May 2019 00:00 UTC
EMF sensitivity
Even though I too am hypersensitive to EMF, I am concerned that the terms EMF Sensitivity and Hypersensitivity may be too compartmental, when the ramifications are so profound and universal. By identifying our symptoms as somehow unique to us alone, we are separating ourselves from the rest of humanity. We become "those" people, different from all the rest. However, there are at least two other categories: Those who are experiencing symptoms, but neither they nor their doctors are aware of the issue, and there could be millions of them. Then there those who are aware, but are not experiencing symptoms, so they feel free to ignore the issue, thinking it's just "those" people who have a problem.

Unfortunately, EMF Sensitivity is not the same as an allergic reaction. Without intervention, those allergic to peanuts would likely die, while others can eat peanuts to their hearts content, with no ill effects, ever. But with EMF, the reality is that every living thing on the planet suffers damage when exposed to non-ionizing Radio Frequency radiation, whether you experience symptoms or not, whether you know it or not. If you are exposed, the damage is happening.
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Cow

Study finds red meat as part of a healthy diet linked to reduced risk of multiple sclerosis


Medical Xpress
Wed, 29 May 2019 00:01 UTC
french butcher counter
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People who consume unprocessed red meat as part of a healthy Mediterranean diet may reduce their risk of multiple sclerosis (MS), new research led by Curtin University and The Australian National University has found.

The research, published in The Journal of Nutrition, examined data from 840 Australians who took part in the Ausimmune Study to determine whether there was a link between consuming a Mediterranean diet that includes unprocessed red meat, such as lamb, beef and pork, and a reduced risk of a first episode of CNS demyelination, a common precursor to MS.

Lead author Dr. Lucinda Black, from the School of Public Health at Curtin University who completed the research as part of her MSWA Postdoctoral Fellowship, said the number of people being diagnosed with MS was increasing globally, suggesting that environmental factors such as low sun exposure, low vitamin D, and poor diet may be contributing factors.

Comment: It's no surprise that meat was found to be beneficial for Multiple Sclerosis. What is surprising is that its taken so long for science to catch up with what Weston A. Price was saying generations ago - meat is healthy and helps to fight disease.

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Bye-bye superbugs? Scientists discover compound toxic to antibiotic resistant bacteria


RT
Tue, 28 May 2019 09:56 UTC
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Deadly, drug-resistant superbugs that endanger millions every year could soon be knocked out after scientists have discovered a compound that is toxic to the dangerous bacteria but not to humans.

Gram negative bacteria is a multi-drug resistant bug that threatens hospitals and nursing homes with deadly illnesses like pneumonia and bloodstream infections. It is an incredibly difficult infection to treat and is top of the World Health Organization's list of priority pathogens that need new medicines. No new treatments have been created in 50 years.

However that looks set to change after researchers from Sheffield University tweaked the structures of metal-based compounds found in anticancer drugs. "We ended up with something that was toxic towards bacteria, particularly gram negative bacteria, and not toxic towards humans" said Jim Thomas, professor of bio-inorganic chemistry at Sheffield University.

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Poster girl for the meat-free revolution, Virpi Mikkonen: 'My vegan diet brought on early menopause'

Sally Williams
Daily Mail
Mon, 27 May 2019 11:54 UTC
Virpi Mikkonen
© Suvi KesäläinenTuck in: Virpi Mikkonen’s (pictured) health improved once she gave up veganism
Early last year, Virpi Mikkonen was alarmed by the appearance of a rash on her face.

There were other problems: a bout of flu that was hard to shift; crumbling nails; feeling low; and, most worrying, her periods stopped. A blood test revealed her follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) levels had sky-rocketed to the level at which women hit the menopause. Virpi was 37 and having hot flushes.

'I thought, what's wrong with me? I am healthy, I exercise,' Virpi says. 'I was really scared.'

Comment: Whether Mikkonen actually believes some people are suited to veganism or not, she's still perpetuating the myth that the diet is healthy for some. Hopefully at least some vegans will be able to take her example on board and take an objective look at their own health and follow in her footsteps.

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