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Dr. David Perlmutter: A high-carb diet may lead to brain inflammation

Derek Beres
bigthink.com
Wed, 26 Dec 2018 20:21 UTC
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Celebrating five years since Grain Brain was published, David Perlmutter doubles down on his warnings.

Sustainability and prevention are counterintuitive to human biology, which likely explains why we tweet out screeds against climate change from smartphones that are, themselves, contributing to climate change. Is it hypocrisy if we're ignorant to all of the mechanisms behind our folly? When contemplating the bigger picture, absolutely, yet every animal leaves a planetary imprint. Some are just larger than others.

We think in years, not generations, centuries, or epochs. More to the point, we think in seconds. The fact that those seconds add up to hours (and so on) often eludes us in the moment. We're not designed to consider eras even if our imaginations entertain them.

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Blue light is causing the human eye to attack itself

Mike McRae
sciencealert.com
Thu, 09 Aug 2018 15:04 UTC
Blue light
Excessive exposure to blue light isn't great for our eyes, contributing to a slow loss of vision over the course of a lifetime.

Scientists from the University of Toledo in the US now understand precisely how this toxic effect works, which could be good news for anybody at risk of degenerative eye conditions.

For the rest of us, it's just one more reason to give serious thought to limiting our exposure to the cool glow of a screen long after the Sun goes down.

Comment: Blue Light: Is it making you sick?

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Peter C. Gøtzsche: My dismissal is scientific judicial murder


nogracias.eu
Wed, 26 Dec 2018 14:17 UTC
Peter C. Gotzsche
It is a full-blown scandal that Rigshospitalet will dismiss me. It is a clear attack on both independent research and freedom of expression.

Peter C. Gøtzsche Professor and Suspended Director, Nordic Cochrane Centre

You would not believe that this could happen in a country like Denmark. That Rigshospitalet fires an official without prior service warning who co-founded the Cochrane Collaboration 25 years ago, created the Nordic Cochrane Centre out of nothing and made it a world-class research centre.

Comment: The House of Cards is Falling: The shake up at Cochrane

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Are doctors actually giving patients any up-to-date vaccine safety information?

Children's Health Defense
Collective Evolution
Thu, 20 Dec 2018 14:44 UTC
doctors
In 1986, Congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA), a carefully crafted piece of legislation that gave vaccine manufacturers their dream come true: blanket immunity from liability for injuries resulting from childhood vaccines. Throwing a bone to the safety concerns of consumers, the Act also mandated that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) (via the CDC) develop and distribute educational materials to inform vaccine recipients and/or their parents about a given vaccine's risks and benefits.

The NCVIA stipulated that doctors give out the appropriate materials-currently called Vaccine Information Statements (VISs) "prior to every dose of specific vaccines," including before "each dose of a multi-dose series." Early on, government documentation emphasized the importance of giving VISs every time a vaccine is administered because "the health status of the child could have changed" and as an example of changes in health status, the CDC cited children with "evolving neurological disorder[s]."
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Skin tags: Early warning sign of insulin resistance


Dr Mark Vanderpump
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 00:01 UTC
skin tags
Skin tags - soft and fleshy protrusions - typically occur in folds where the skin rubs against itself. So around the neck, within the armpits, around the groin, under the breast. They can also occur on eyelids or under the folds of the buttocks.

Skin tags vary from person to person, they can be smooth or irregular; flesh-coloured or darker than the surrounding skin; they can be attached by a short thin stalk known as a peduncle or can sit squat on the surface of the skin (sessile)

Skin tags are made up of loose collagen fibres and blood vessels encased in skin and can develop equally in men and women but seldom in children. They tend to occur in:
  • older people - in 46% of people over 40, growing to 59% by 70
  • obese people -where excess folds of skin chafe against each other
  • pregnant women due to hormonal changes

Comment: Because symptoms like skin tags often show up before other overt signs of disease, it's important not to treat them lightly and get yourself checked out. Although skin tags can be removed, one shouldn't treat them as a cosmetic inconvenience.

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How to recover from holiday feasting: Holiday fasting

Megan Ramos
Intensive Dietary Management
Thu, 27 Dec 2018 16:00 UTC
Christmas party
It took a few years, but my friends and family are very supportive of my diet and fasting. In fact, most of them try to watch their intake of refined carbs and fast here and there throughout most of the year. Notice how I say MOST of the year. They rarely stick to it during the holidays, which makes it difficult for me when I'm trapped in a house full of gingerbread on Christmas Day.

Regardless of how supportive (or unsupportive) our family members are during the holidays, we are still bombarded with temptation. I often feel like my mother's home is a crack house on Christmas Day, and I'm a recovering crack addict. Just replace the crack with crackers in my case. It can be really tempting to go off the deep end with carbs during this time of year when we're surrounded by all these treats.

My biggest issue over the years has been the "all or nothing" syndrome. I either eat ALL the processed carbs or NONE of the processed carbs. Note how I say processed carbs. I've ever eaten enough brussels sprouts to kick me out of ketosis (fat burning).

Comment: For more on the benefits of fasting, see:

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Study shows gluten-free foods found to contain more arsenic and glyphosate than wheat


Get Holistic Health
Fri, 28 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC
Gluten free
The gluten-free diet trend is taking millions of consumers for a ride, says the Weston A. Price Foundation.

A non-profit organization dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense foods to the American diet, the board members of WAP have never been fans of the gluten-free "craze." But a recent study and testing by the Canadian government have just given them two more reasons not to like gluten-free foods: heavy metals and glyphosate.

Heavy Metals

A recent study published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology found that people on gluten-free diets had significantly higher levels of arsenic, mercury, lead, and cadmium in their bodies.

Out of nearly 4000 participants the 32 participants adhering to a strict gluten free diet had twice as much arsenic in their urine and 70 percent more mercury in their blood than those eating a standard diet.

The Weston A Price Foundation's board members believe this is primarily because of the standard gluten-free dieter is heavily dependent upon rice. Even if they aren't steaming it up every night, many of the packaged gluten-free baked goods use rice flour as a primary ingredient.
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Connecticut parents now required by law to vaccinate children against flu by Dec. 31

Sarah Taylor
The Blaze
Wed, 26 Dec 2018 17:06 UTC
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Connecticut parents of pre-K children are required to vaccinate their children against the flu if they want to go to school in the fall - and have until Dec. 31 to complete the treatment.

According to WTNH-TV, the State Department of Public Health in Connecticut is requiring that children between the ages of 2 and 4 years old receive their annual flu shot by the end of December.

If parents refuse to vaccinate their children against the flu, those children will not be able to attend school until they obtain the flu shot. The state does offer a religious exemption.

Comment: It's that time of year again - everybody line up for your annual ineffective and dangerous flu vaccination! This time, it's mandatory!

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Intravenous vitamin C for cancer: Cheap, effective and safe


Dr. Ronald Hoffman
Fri, 04 Oct 2013 00:01 UTC
IV intravenous vitamin C
For more than 20 years, the Hoffman Center has been using high-dose vitamin C drips in its cancer support protocols. The initial impetus was from Linus Pauling who, together with Ewan Cameron, pioneered the use of high-dose C in cancer in the 1960s.

Now, there's new interest in this modality for fighting cancer based on new, exciting research under way at the National Institutes of Health.

Cameron and Pauling found that vitamin C helped cancer patients live about four times longer than cancer patients not given vitamin C. They administered high-dose vitamin C in the form of sodium ascorbate given orally and intravenously to treat more than 1,000 cancer patients.

Comment: It's rather unsurprising that treatments like intravenous vitamin C would be pooh-poohed by the mainstream medical establishment - after all, a great deal of evidence points to the fact that it actually works. "Cancer research" only focuses on pharmaceuticals and chemo-agents, never on actual safe and effective treatments. It's almost like they don't want people to get better...

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Bacteria found in soil at ancient sacred site in Ireland halts growth of superbugs

Swansea University
Eureka Alert
Thu, 27 Dec 2018 12:00 UTC
Streptomyces sp. myrophorea
© G Quinn, Swansea UniversityGrowth of the newly discovered Streptomyces sp. myrophorea, so named because it produces a distinctive fragrance similar to that of oil of wintergreen. Although superficially resembling fungi, Streptomyces are true bacteria and are the source of two-thirds of the various frontline antibiotics used in medicine.
Researchers analysing soil from Ireland long thought to have medicinal properties have discovered that it contains a previously unknown strain of bacteria which is effective against four of the top six superbugs that are resistant to antibiotics, including MRSA.

Antibiotic resistant superbugs could kill up to 1.3 million people in Europe by 2050, according to recent research.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) describes the problem as "one of the biggest threats to global health, food security, and development today".

The new strain of bacteria was discovered by a team based in Swansea University Medical School, made up of researchers from Wales, Brazil, Iraq and Northern Ireland.

They have named the new strain Streptomyces sp. myrophorea.

The soil they analysed originated from an area of Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, which is known as the Boho Highlands. It is an area of alkaline grassland and the soil is reputed to have healing properties.

Comment: It seems that while these discoveries are at least beneficial in the short term, as has become clear over the years with the rise of these 'superbugs', bacteria and viruses are always evolving. And so while it seems our bodies will always be a battle ground, a better route to sustained health would be in prevention; by strengthening our immune systems and observing practises which do not enable the otherside to get the upper hand in the first place. See: Lethal Sex -The Rise of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the Age of Postmodernist Liberalism

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