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Iodine deficiency in women before pregnancy linked to lowered IQ in offspring

Dr. David Brownstein
Dr. B's Holistic Medicine
Sun, 03 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
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As compared to women with higher iodine levels, women with the lowest preconception iodine levels were found to have children with lower IQs.
I have been practicing holistic medicine for nearly 25 years. Among all the items I have found successful, one stands head and shoulders above rest: iodine. Iodine is one of the most fascinating essential elements. After checking thousands of patients (along with my partners), I can state with confidence that the vast majority of our population is iodine-deficient. Sadly, most are severely iodine deficient.

I was taught in medical school that iodine deficiency was a thing of the past. My professors only mentioned iodine by declaring that the iodization of salt solved the iodine deficiency epidemic that was affecting most of the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

In my book, Iodine: Why You Need It Why You Can't Live Without It, I describe how the iodine deficiency epidemic is (unfortunately) alive and well in our modern times. In fact, due to our exposure to toxic halides that contain fluoride and bromine, our iodine requirements have increased over the last few decades.

The consequences of iodine deficiency are severe and include cancer and diseases of the glandular tissues including the breast, ovary, uterus, prostate, pancreas, and thyroid. Which cancers are increasing at epidemic rates? Glandular cancers including all that I listed above are occurring too frequently.

Comment: Read more about this life-saving essential nutrient:

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Avoid carbs - especially the white and beige ones

Dr Xand van Tulleken
BBC
Wed, 06 Jun 2018 09:55 UTC
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© BBC/Lion Television/Joe TaylorNot all carbs are created equal...
Low-carb diets have been around for a while. But did you know the colour of the carbs you eat also matters - and as Dr Xand van Tulleken explains, it's the beige ones you really have to watch out for.

Dr Faisal Maassarani is on a mission. The GP, from Kirkby, on Merseyside, wants to get his patients to eat fewer carbs and thereby improve their health.

But there are a huge number of obstacles for Dr Maassarani. He works in one of the poorest regions of the country, with high unemployment, high obesity rates and low levels of education.

The plan seemed simple to the point of naivety. He assembled a group of seven overweight and obese patients, with health problems like type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure and carried out a few basic tests.

He then enlisted chefs from a local cookery school to prepare a feast for them, to show that healthy food could be tasty, affordable and filling.

Dr Maassarani also read them the riot act on the possible consequences of obesity and diabetes (gangrene, strokes, heart attacks, ulcers and more).

Comment: For a detailed explanation on how a high carbohydrate intake can wreak havoc on the body: The Age of Metabolic Syndrome - Inflammatory Fat Is Worse Than Obesity

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Perpetual use of anti-epileptic drugs can increase your risk of dementia by 30%

Michelle Simmons
DangerousMedicine.com
Tue, 05 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
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People who continuously use anti-epileptic drugs are more likely to have Alzheimer's disease and dementia, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

In the study, researchers at the University of Eastern Finland and the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) looked at the effects of the continuous use of anti-epileptic drugs on the risk of dementia of any type and Alzheimer's disease using two datasets.

The Finnish dataset was part of the nationwide register-based MEDALZ study, which includes the 70,718 individuals diagnosed with Alzheimer's in Finland in 2005 to 2011 and their 282,862 controls. On the other hand, the German researchers studied the link between anti-epileptic drug use and dementia in the data of 20,325 people diagnosed with dementia in 2004-2011, and their 81,300 controls. The sample came from a large German statutory health insurance provider.
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Mikhaila Peterson: Meat-only diet eased her autoimmune disease symptoms

Gigen Mammoser
Healthline
Sun, 03 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
Mikhaila/Jordan Peterson
© TwitterMikhaila and Jordan Peterson
Mikhaila Peterson took the keto diet one extra step by eliminating veggies and eating only meat. She says it cured several illnesses. Experts aren't convinced.

At 26 years old, Mikhaila Peterson says she's finally been able to cure herself of depression, rheumatoid arthritis, and a myriad of other chronic illnesses.

Her solution: Eating meat. Lots of it.

Both Peterson and her father, Jordan Peterson - a renowned Canadian clinical psychologist and intellectual - swear by a carnivorous diet for turning their health and their lives around.

A self-described sick child, Peterson experienced juvenile rheumatoid arthritis at 7 years old. She was given immunosuppressive treatments, including injections of Enbrel and Methotrexate (typically used in cancer chemotherapy). Despite the treatments, the arthritis eventually required her to undergo hip and ankle replacement surgery at the age of 17.

She was also diagnosed with severe depression and anxiety at age 12, for which she was prescribed a high dose of Cipralex, an SSRI antidepressant.

After years of pharmaceutical treatment to manage her symptoms, Peterson eventually took a drastic step of her own. She eliminated the majority of foods from her diet, including all carbohydrates.

Comment: For more information on this transformative diet protocol, see also: Also, hear Mikhaila tell her story from the SOTT radio archive:
The Health & Wellness Show: Amazing Health Journey: Interview with Mikhaila Peterson

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'Paradigm shift': Woman beats terminal breast cancer with mass infusion of her own immune cells

James Gallagher
BBC
Tue, 05 Jun 2018 12:37 UTC
Judy Perkins
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The life of a woman with terminal breast cancer has been saved by a pioneering new therapy, say US researchers.

It involved pumping 90 billion cancer-killing immune cells into her body.

Judy Perkins had been given three months to live, but two years later there is no sign of cancer in her body.
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Who are the real "quacks" and "snake oil" salesmen?

Sayer Ji
Green Med Info
Sun, 03 Jun 2018 15:31 UTC
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Increasingly popular derogatory invectives like "quack" and "snake oil" actually have deeper historical roots than those who use them are aware of, and which indict the very conventional medical system they have uncritically adopted as the only one worth practicing.

For many centuries, the Chinese used snake oil as a treatment for joint pain, arthritis, and bursitis. They brought this folk remedy with them when they arrived in the US in the mid-1800's to build the Transcontinental Railroad. That was backbreaking work. Synthetic pain-killers such as aspirin were not yet freely available. When the Chinese workers offered their remedy to Westerners as a palliative it was likely perceived to be a "primitive" form of "quackery" by the medical experts of that time. This is one probable origin of the derogatory meaning of the word "snake oil." On the other hand, the word "quack" as used today came from the German word for "quicksilver," namely: "quecksilber" It is believed that American dentists shortened it to "quack" to describe the amalgam-hucksters. Quick-silver Associates write "It is sobering to realize that the original "quacks" were dentists who advocated the use of mercury amalgam." Learn more on this topic by reading "Quacks, Quack Doctors, and Quackery."

Perhaps the most ironic thing about modern pharmaceutical "snake oil," i.e. petrochemical-derived and patented synthetic chemicals, is that they often have considerably less value than a placebo, and in certain cases may not even compare in therapeutic value to actual snake oil. And that is over and above the fact that their safety is many orders of magnitude lower, with pharmaceuticals known to kill well over 100,000 patients each year in the U.S. even when correctly prescribed.
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What your mucus may be trying to tell you

Dr. Mercola
mercola.com
Sat, 02 Jun 2018 15:14 UTC
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Your body, even when it is healthy, produces about 1 to 1.5 liters of mucus every day. Though it's unlikely you've noticed, the majority of your mucus trickles down the back of your throat, while some is blown out through your nose or coughed up. While mucus has important functions within your body, you are most likely to notice it only because you are producing more of it or it is showing up in a consistency or color that commands your attention.

Even though it can be annoying to fill tissue after tissue with globs of snot and gooey discharge when you have a cold or sinus infection, your body needs mucus. Believe it or not, mucus serves a specific purpose and you need a certain amount of it to be healthy. Furthermore, the color and consistency of your mucus is part of the way your body lets you know what's going on inside. Here's what you need to know about mucus.

Mucus Plays a Vital Role Within Your Body

Your body is filled with mucus-producing tissue. More specifically, mucus is naturally occurring in the following areas of your body:
  • Gastrointestinal tract
  • Lungs
  • Mouth
  • Nose
  • Sinuses
  • Throat
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Triclosan: Antimicrobial chemical linked to inflammation and cancer in the gut

Haixia Yang
The Conversation
Wed, 30 May 2018 20:54 UTC
biomeonboardawareness.com
© biomeonboardawareness.comAntibacterials and microbiome: Now is a good time to ditch all antibacterials; stop nuking the microbiome. Read studies showing damaging affects on health & immunity.
The antimicrobial chemical triclosan is in thousands of products that we use daily: hand soaps, toothpastes, body wash, kitchenware and even some toys. Work in our lab suggests that this compound may have widespread health risks, including aggravating inflammation in the gut and promoting the development colon cancer by altering the gut microbiota, the community of microbes found in our intestines.

Our results, as far as we know, are the first to demonstrate that triclosan can promote the colonic inflammation and associated colon cancer in mice. This study suggests that health authorities must reassess regulation of triclosan for its effect on human health. That's key because it is impossible to avoid contact with this chemical.

Comment: Make sure to read labels, and be aware of the endocrine disrupting dangers of Triclosan in commonly used products:

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SOTT Focus: The Age of Metabolic Syndrome - Inflammatory Fat Is Worse Than Obesity

Gabriela Segura, M.D.
Sott.net
Sun, 03 Jun 2018 22:55 UTC
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© Creative CommonsMagnetic Resonance Imaging showing variation in visceral fat (litres) in men with the same waist circumference (84 cm). Fat appears as whiter in color.
A global survey in 2016 said the ratio of obese adults had more than doubled in the 40 years since 1975. Of about five billion adults alive in 2014, 641 million were obese. Despite efforts from government agencies and the population at large, the upwards trend seem set to continue.

According to research presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Vienna on May 23rd 2018, 22 percent of people in the world will be obese by 2045, up from 14 percent last year. One in eight people, up from one in 11, will have type 2 diabetes. In the United States, the researchers found obesity will increase from 39 percent of the population in 2017 to 55 percent in 2045, and diabetes from 14 percent to 18 percent. In Britain, the proportion will swell from 32 percent to 48 percent, with the incidence of diabetes rising from 10.2 percent to 12.6 percent.

A team of researchers obtained these from a World Health Organization database with population data for all countries in the world. They divided the population of each country into age groups and further into body mass index (BMI) categories, looking at trends to make projections.

BMI is a ratio of height to weight used to divide people into low- to high-risk categories for developing heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and certain cancers. A person with a BMI of 25 or more is considered overweight, and 30 or higher obese. A healthy BMI ranges from 18.5 to 24.9.

However, contrary to popular belief and its very definition, BMI doesn't detect people who are at most risk for developing cardiovascular disease and other chronic diseases such as diabetes. This is why doctors have guidelines that ignore BMI. In this article we'll learn why and the implications.
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Why natural medicine is not 'alternative'

Sayer Ji
Greenmedinfo
Thu, 31 May 2018 15:52 UTC
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Natural medicine was once the only medicine. It wasn't considered "an alternative." That only happened much later, after synthetically produced, patent drugs came onto the scene, and profit and not safety and efficacy became the ultimate priority.

For example, check out this amazing 1930's pharmacist's map of 'herbal cures" recently released to the public. As you can see, most "drugs" in the United States were not too long ago extracted from botanicals.

So, given where we are today (natural substances are feared and synthetic drugs revered) how do we de-marginalize the most ancient, food, herb and mind-body based methods of healing?

Comment: The war on natural medicine - the beginning of the end

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