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Three little-known cancer killers


Dr. Danenberg
Mon, 11 Feb 2019 00:01 UTC
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I'm not only surviving; I'm thriving! But I still have bone marrow cancer.

I know that IgA Kappa Light Chain Multiple Myeloma is not curable through conventional medicine. However, precancerous and cancerous cells may be susceptible to many natural therapies [1]. Although everything I describe below is controversial, there may be specific "cancer killers" out there that might help those with a personal challenge of malignancy.

Some medical research describes cancer as a mitochondrial metabolic disease [2],[3]. But most conventionally trained medical doctors are unaware of this concept. Most doctors don't know about various natural therapies that have been suggested and used to treat cancer. Peer-reviewed research supports the use of many non-toxic products and technologies. Unfortunately, there are not many human studies that prove success with these alternative methods. The reason? It would be rare for pharmaceutical companies to finance research that couldn't be patented and made into money-making drugs! Yet, my alternative treatment plan includes many of these ideas, which are not part of mainstream medicine.

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Measles virus wipes out golf-ball-sized cancer tumor in 36 hours

Sara Burrows
Return to Now
Sat, 09 Feb 2019 01:35 UTC
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The measles could be a "single-shot cure for cancer," Mayo Clinic doctor says.

Clinical trials underway at the Mayo Clinic are revealing an unlikely friend in the fight against cancer... the measles virus.

Scientists have long known that getting sick with the measles can sometimes trigger spontaneous reduction in the size of tumors, but recent clinical trials at the Mayo Clinic have demonstrated just what a powerful weapon the little virus can be.

In a 2014 trial, a concentrated dose of the measles put a late-stage cancer patient into long-term remission.

Comment: Fascinating. In the SOTT Radio Network's interview with Dr. Stephanie Seneff, the idea that what we think of as pathogenic bacteria and viruses may actually serve a helpful function to the organism was discussed. We clearly have a rather simplistic understanding of what the effect viruses and bacteria actually have on the organism; so much so that a discovery such as this seems completely baffling.

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Health

Measles outbreak rocks Madagascar

Jef Akst
New Scientist
Thu, 07 Feb 2019 22:18 UTC
Measles virus
© WIKIMEDIA, CDC/CYNTHIA S. GOLDSMITH; WILLIAM BELLINITransmission electron micrograph of a single measles virus particle.
While the US faces measles outbreaks from New York to Washington state, reigniting discussions about the risk of parents who refuse to vaccinate their children, Madagascar has been fighting the worst eruption of the disease in decades. Since October, the African island nation has seen more than 50,000 cases of the highly contagious viral infection, which has so far taken the lives of more than 300 people, mostly kids, the country's secretary general of the ministry of health tells CNN. That's more than double the numbers reported by the World Health Organization (WHO) in mid-January.

"We heard rumblings of a measles outbreak in the capital between December and January and I just knew we were going to get hit," Lon Kightlinger, a former South Dakota state epidemiologist and regular Peace Corp volunteer in Madagascar, tells CNN. "Our one doctor here, who has been [a] practicing physician for 12 years, had never seen a case of measles until a month ago. And then boom, boom, boom, they started walking through the door. And it hasn't stopped." Measles cases have now been reported in all major Madagascan towns and cities and throughout rural areas as well.
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Marijuana

Marijuana smoking linked with higher sperm concentrations

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Medical Xpress
Sun, 10 Feb 2019 10:56 UTC
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Men who have smoked marijuana at some point in their life had significantly higher concentrations of sperm when compared with men who have never smoked marijuana, according to new research led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study, conducted in the Fertility Clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital, also found that there was no significant difference in sperm concentrations between current and former marijuana smokers.


Comment: Another variable would be whether they smoked pure Cannabis or whether it was mixed with tobacco (as it often is) and what effect, if any, this may have had.


"These unexpected findings highlight how little we know about the reproductive health effects of marijuana, and in fact of the health effects of marijuana in general," said Jorge Chavarro, associate professor of nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard Chan School. "Our results need to be interpreted with caution and they highlight the need to further study the health effects of marijuana use."

The study will be published on February 5, 2019 in Human Reproduction.

Comment: It is probably best remembering that pretty much everything we do will have an effect on our overall health, which is why it is best to educate ourselves the best we can and be as conscious as possible towards how we live our lives: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Health & Wellness Show: The Highs and Lows of Cannabis as Medicine

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Fish

PFAS blamed for animal deformities and losses to farmers in New South Wales

Rosie King
abc.net.au
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 13:43 UTC
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© ABC Riverina: Rosie KingThe owner of Murray Cod Hatcheries in Wagga Wagga shut it down for safety and financial reasons.
The heartbreak of watching thousands of fish grow with twisted spines and deformed skulls has taken Greg Semple to a "pretty dark place, mentally".

The owner of Murray Cod Hatcheries in the south-western New South Wales town of Wagga Wagga took over the business in 1996.

"It's all been downhill since then," Mr Semple said.

"In the spring-summer breeding season in 1996, we produced 1.2 million healthy native fingerlings in just one hectare of ponds.

"Other ponds were being used to grow tons of food-sized fish.

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Gene-edited chickens are here

Dr. Mercola
mercola.com
Tue, 05 Feb 2019 12:13 UTC
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© geneticliteracyproject.org
The first gene-edited chickens are scheduled to hatch at the Roslin Institute at The University of Edinburgh in Scotland. The designer birds have been modified to resist flu, which spreads rapidly among CAFO (concentrated animal feeding operation) birds and has the potential to be transmitted to humans.

"If we could prevent influenza virus crossing from wild birds into chickens, we would stop the next pandemic at source," Wendy Barclay, a virologist at Imperial College London, said in a news release.1The simplest way to stop the widespread transmission of bird flu would be to change the way chickens are raised, putting them outdoors on pasture as opposed to crowded in disease-ridden CAFOs.

But researchers discovered in 2016 that the ANP32 gene in chickens codes for a protein that flu viruses depend on,2 and cells without the gene were impervious to flu. Since then, they've been on a mission to change the gene in live chickens, and now it appears they've succeeded.

Comment: Study finds: Potential DNA damage from CRISPR 'Seriously underestimated'
From the earliest days of the CRISPR-Cas9 era, scientists have known that the first step in how it edits genomes-snipping DNA-creates an unholy mess: Cellular repairmen frantically try to fix the cuts by throwing random chunks of DNA into the breach and deleting other random bits. Research published on Monday suggests that's only the tip of a Titanic-sized iceberg: CRISPR-Cas9 can cause significantly greater genetic havoc than experts thought, the study concludes, perhaps enough to threaten the health of patients who would one day receive CRISPR-based therapy.

The results come hard on the heels of two studies that identified a related issue: Some CRISPR'd cells might be missing a key anti-cancer mechanism and therefore be able to initiate tumors.

The DNA damage found in the new study included deletions of thousands of DNA bases, including at spots far from the edit. Some of the deletions can silence genes that should be active and activate genes that should be silent, including cancer-causing genes.


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Health

Researchers warn that 'zombie' deer disease will spread to humans

Lia Eustachewich
New York Post
Fri, 08 Feb 2019 16:50 UTC
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A fatal neurological disease that turns deer into zombies could spread to humans, health experts are warning.

The sickness, called chronic wasting disease, affects deer, elk, reindeer, sika deer and moose and causes the animals to dramatically lose weight and walk in repetitive patterns. Other symptoms include loss of fear of humans, stumbling and listlessness.

As of Jan. 24 states in the United States - including New York - have reported CWD in free-ranging deer, elk and moose, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

CWD hasn't yet been reported in humans but experts from the University of Minnesota stressed at a hearing Thursday that the disease should be treated as a public health issue, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported.

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Vaccines distributed in Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana causing infections


Local 12
Sat, 02 Feb 2019 12:00 UTC
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The vaccine you received for the flu, whooping cough or hepatitis A might not work. And on top of that, it might have actually infected you.

Kentucky's health department is sounding the alarm Friday night about a vaccine made in Mount Sterling. Location Vaccination started providing vaccines for businesses in Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana in September. Shortly after, some people started noticing swelling and lumps at the injection site.

The health department says the vaccine was contaminated because it wasn't stored properly. The company is stopping its distribution.

Comment: This isn't the first time that a vaccine has had the opposite of its intended affect: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Health & Wellness Show: Vaccines and Flu Shots

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Music

Singing helps brain injury sufferers with aphasia learn to speak again

Lucy Murray
abc.net.au
Thu, 17 Jan 2019 13:39 UTC
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© National Aphasia Association
A Queensland choir is using music therapy to unlock language problems and in turn, help sufferers learn to speak again after a brain injury.

A person with Aphasia loses the ability to speak following a brain injury like a stroke, but the music therapy bypasses the injured brain cells using rhythm and memory to prompt the words.

Band manager Peter Stuart has mild aphasia and said it sometimes feels like the word he wants to say is on "the tip of his tongue" but he just cannot get it out.

"It is extremely frustrating, it got to some stages there where I had to play charades with my wife."

Comment: Neuroplasticity may explain the healing powers of music

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Measles scare tactics hurt us all

Anne Mason
blog.usejournal.com
Mon, 04 Feb 2019 13:52 UTC
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© VosIzNeias
By the time the measles vaccine was patented in 1963 in the US, the mortality rate from measles was about 1 in 500,000.¹ This is less than your risk of death from falling off furniture.² Let's also consider that over 600,000 people annually die of heart disease in the US, over 500,000 people die from cancer in the US each year and over 250,000 annually die from medical errors alone.³

So why is the media reporting tiny measles outbreaks as if the sky itself is about to fall? Doesn't it seem as if everywhere you turn, another outbreak is reported with dire warnings that the unvaccinated are about to bring us an epidemic, the likes of which we've never seen? Kind of reminds you of the media frenzy over the Disneyland outbreak in 2014-2015, doesn't it? That's when Big Pharma focused their efforts on California and pushed through SB277, a law which removed religious and personal belief exemptions from the mandatory vaccine schedule in order for a child to attend daycare or school - public or private. Perhaps they figured that if they could manage to remove parental health choice in California, it would be a domino effect in the rest of the country.

Comment: Government research confirms measles outbreaks are transmitted by the vaccinated
Not only does the MMR vaccine fail to consistently confer immunity, but those who have been "immunized" with two doses of MMR vaccine can still transmit the infection to others - a phenomena no one is reporting on in the rush to blame the non- or minimally-vaccinated for the outbreak.


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