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Ambulance

New blood pressure guidelines will leave millions of victims in Big Pharma's wake

Marco Torres
Prevent Disease
Sat, 21 Apr 2018 16:01 UTC
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New limits, set by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology ignores the potential harms of slapping people with disease labels, according to an analysis published by Australian public-health experts. They estimate that up to 80 percent of newly diagnosed individuals will end up worse off.

Hypertension is still the most prevalent of all non-communicable chronic disease (NCCD) throughout the world including less developed countries. It is surprising that only about 50 years ago hypertension was considered an essential malady and not a treatable condition.

High blood pressure medications in the last 30 years alone have skyrocketed. In combination, Lisinopril and Norvasc make up a whopping 23% of the top prescribed medications in the world. This makes them the most prescribed generic medications (if combined) for cardiovascular disease and blood pressure.

For years, doctors considered 120/80 to be ideal and anything under 140 to be OK. But a change took place in May 2003, when American doctors got new advice from a government-sanctioned medical panel called the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure.

Comment: It's difficult not to suspect a huge influence from the pharmaceutical cartel in this decision, as this will obviously contribute significantly to their revenue stream. While helpful, medications for hypertension are not without side effects, so it's much better to prevent the condition in the first place by instituting dietary and lifestyle interventions.

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Pills

Male birth control pill on the horizon, scientists

Alexandra Thompson
Daily Mail
Fri, 20 Apr 2018 19:41 UTC
Male pill
© Shutterstock / g-stockstudioScientists have edged one step closer to creating a male 'pill', new research suggests
Scientists have edged one step closer to creating a male pill, new research suggests.

Thirty hours after infusing male macaques with a compound known as EP055, their sperm were unable to move, a study found.

Lead author Dr Michael O'Rand, from the University of North Carolina, said: 'Simply put, the compound turns-off the sperm's ability to swim, significantly limiting fertilization capabilities.'

None of the monkeys suffered side effects, which is thought to be due to EP055 having no effect on male hormones, according to the researchers.

Comment: Apparently the male birth control pill has been just around the corner for years now. And the claim that there is no side-effect should be taken with a large pinch of salt. They say that about the female birth control pill, too.

See also:

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Bizarro Earth

WHO report 95% of world's population resides in regions contaminated by life-threatening air pollution

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Fri, 20 Apr 2018 05:45 UTC
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© AP/Manish SwarupAn Indian girls holds a banner during a protest against air pollution in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016.
Most of the world's population resides in regions where air quality contains life-threatening pollutants. An estimated 95 percent of people are breathing unhealthy air where ambient (outdoor) fine particulate matter concentrations (soot particles) surpass the World Health Organization's Air Quality Guideline of 10 µg/m3, a new report has discovered.

Almost 60 percent of the world's population breathe unsafe air in areas where fine particulate matter exceeds a dangerous level of 35 µg/m3.

The comprehensive study noticed most of the world's hazardous air and the heaviest societal burdens are hitting impoverished communities the hardest.

According to the State of Global Air project, a joint venture between the Health Effects Institute, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), and the University of British Columbia, fine particle air pollution is the most significant enviormental hazard worldwide. It is "responsible for a substantially larger number of attributable deaths than other more well-known behavioral risk factors such as alcohol use, physical inactivity, or high sodium intake," said the report. Medium to long-term exposure to fine particle air pollution - contributed to an estimated 6.1 million deaths worldwide in 2016.
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Syringe

Flashback CDC admits it gave over 98M Americans polio shots containing cancer-causing Simian virus

Evilnews
Vaccines.news
Wed, 23 Sep 2015 00:00 UTC
vaccines
The CDC has admitted that between 1955-1963 over 98 million Americans received one or more doses of a polio shot which was contaminated with a cancer-causing virus called Simian vacuolating virus 40 (SV40). The CDC quickly took down the page, along with Google, but the site was luckily cached and saved to symbolize this grand admission.

Comment: The polio vaccine: A worthless and carcinogenic threat to humanity
One of the largest and most devious medical scandals in the history of American medicine also concerns the polio vaccine. In an excellent history about the polio vaccine, Neil Miller shares the story of Dr. Bernice Eddy, a scientist at the NIH who in 1959 "discovered that the polio vaccines being administered throughout the world contained an infectious agent capable of causing cancer." As the story is told, her attempts to warn federal officials resulted in the removal of her laboratory and being demoted at the agency.[5] It was only later that one of the nation's most famous vaccine developers, Maurice Hilleman at Merck identified the agent as a cancer causing monkey virus, SV40, common in almost all rhesus monkeys being used to culture the polio virus for the vaccine. This contaminant virus was found in all samples of the Sabin oral polio vaccine tested. The virus was also being found in Salk's killed polio injectable vaccine as well. No one knows for certain how many American's received SV40 contaminated vaccines, but some estimates put the figure as high as 100 million people. That was greater than half the US population in 1963 when the vaccine was removed from the market.

Many Americans today, and even more around the world, continue to be threatened and suffer from the legacy of this lethal vaccine. Among some of the more alarming discoveries since the discovery of the SV40 in Salk's and Sabin's vaccines and its carcinogenic footprint in millions of Americans today are:
  • Loyola University Medical Center identified SV40 in 38% of bone cancer cases [6]
  • 58% of mesothelioma cases, a life threatening lung cancer, had SV40 present
  • A later analysis of a large national cancer database found mesotheliomas were 178% higher among those who received the polio vaccines
  • A study published in Cancer Research found SV40 in 23 percent of blood samples taken and 45% of semen samples studied, thereby confirming that the monkey virus can be sexually transmitted.[7]
  • Osteosarcomas are 10 times higher in states where the polio vaccine contaminated with SV40 was most used, particularly throughout the Northeastern states [8]
  • Two 1988 studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine discovered that SV40 can be passed on to infants whose mother's received the SV40 tainted vaccines. Those children later had a 13 times greater rate of brain tumors compared to children whose mothers did not receive the polio vaccines. This would also explain why these childrens' tumors contained the SV40 virus present, even though the children themselves did not receive the vaccine. [9]


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Evil Rays

Gluten sensitivity was ridiculed until "Celiac Disease" - but "Microwave Sickness" or "ElectroSensitivity" was discovered in the 1950s - and is STILL Ridiculed

BN Frank
Activist Post
Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
microwave sickness
Everybody now seems to know someone who has "gluten sensitivity" or Celiac Disease. "Gluten-free" products are big business now. Most chain grocery stores have large sections devoted to them.

This was not the case 20+ years ago when I was much younger and my immune system was shot. I was fortunate to have good health insurance. I went to a couple of doctors and eventually I was referred to an allergist. He had me endure horrible skin prick tests which revealed only that I had a light allergy to mold. I knew that already.

He recommended an Ear-Nose-Throat doctor who put me on steroids. That didn't help at all. After pleading with the ENT, he ran a camera up my nose and down into my throat. Nothing looked unusual.

Naturally I was upset. The ENT was kind enough to tell me about another one of his former patients who he had not been able to help. She later called him and said that another doctor had run different tests on her and discovered she had high levels of mercury. The ENT didn't validate the test or the diagnosis. However, he offered me the name and phone number of that doctor as long as I understood that it was NOT a referral. I accepted it and thanked him.

Comment: Further reading on this rapidly growing problem that has been poo-pooed by the big money interests:

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Alarm Clock

Many insomniacs remain conscious during sleep, which makes them think they haven't slept a wink

Dr. Mercola
Mercola.com
Thu, 19 Apr 2018 16:14 UTC
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© Beliefnet
According to the American Sleep Association,1 up to 70 million Americans have a sleep disorder, nearly 40 percent unintentionally fall asleep during the day at least once a month and nearly 5 percent have nodded off while driving at least once. Insomnia is the most common sleep disorder, with 10 percent of American adults struggling with chronic insomnia and 30 percent reporting occasional or short-term insomnia.

Interestingly, insomniacs will often insist they've not slept a wink all night, even though they've actually been sleeping. Researchers have now discovered there's a reason for this discrepancy in experience, and it has to do with consciousness. In a nutshell, even though the brain is sleeping, insomniacs remain consciously aware, and therefore believe they've not slept at all.
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Health

Sore muscles? It's okay to exercise anyway

Dr. Mercola
mercola.com
Fri, 20 Apr 2018 17:14 UTC
sore muscle
If you've been active at all - gardening, lifting weights or trying a new workout routine - you've very likely experienced some type of muscle soreness, whether acute or delayed onset. While it is common to experience post-exercise muscle soreness when you have just resumed activity after a period of inactivity, delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) can occur even during periods of consistent exercise.

Understanding why your muscles are sore and how you can both minimize and accommodate sore muscles will help you deal with muscle discomfort, tenderness and stiffness. You might be surprised to learn that sore muscles are not always a reason to skip your workout.

Why Exercise?

If you are still wondering why exercise is important, I'd like to remind you of a few of the reasons why your body needs physical activity on a regular basis. Because most of these benefits are temporary, not permanent, you will benefit most by getting active and staying active. In terms of benefits, exercise:

Comment: Delayed onset muscle soreness and what you can do about it

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Bulb

You don't need to be hacked - The human body is too complex for easy fixes

Samuel Arbesman
The Atlantic
Thu, 12 Apr 2018 16:35 UTC
sleep
© Corbis / Getty
In 2016, I became the lucky parent of a newborn who slept horribly. Of course, this meant that my wife and I slept horribly, too. We rested in small snatches and were constantly irritable. We were a mess.

As a result, I became consumed with the idea of minimizing my need for sleep as much as possible. I had always required less sleep than my wife, but I thought that if I could just find some clever solution, some trick or tool, I might be cured of this time suck forever. I wanted to hack my need for sleep.

Eventually, I researched polyphasic sleep, a trend among the kind of people who quantify every aspect of their nutrient intake. Taken to its extreme, the practice promised the magic I was looking for: Simply sleep for 20 minutes or so every few hours, and eventually you'll only need two or three hours of sleep a day. Sleep would be conquered! In its place, productive bliss.
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Brain

The brain suffers most from a poor diet

Allana Ketler
Collective Evolution
Sun, 15 Apr 2018 16:43 UTC
food
By now, the majority of us realize that having a poor diet and lifestyle is directly related to our overall health. In many ways, healthy eating has become somewhat trendy as people are starting to understand that they do indeed have control over their own health and are ready to take responsibility for their lives.

Unfortunately, there are still a large number of people who generally 'feel fine,' and thus don't realize the damage they actually may be causing to their bodies. Luckily, the human body is an amazing organism that, if given the right environment is perfectly capable of healing itself.

Comment: Read more about how food affects the brain:

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SOTT Focus: The Health & Wellness Show: Broccoli for Brains: Do you have to be mental to be a vegan?


Sott.net
Fri, 20 Apr 2018 15:00 UTC
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Veganism, the strict practice of abstaining from the consumption and use of animal products, is on the rise. Reportedly, there are about 1.6 million vegans in the United States. The trendiness of being vegan dwarfs their actual representation in the population and a closer look at vegans tends to reveal something not quite right. Occasionally, a news story pops up where a vegan does something that most folks would find utterly bonkers such as wanting to feed dogs vegan diets, harassing meat-eating restaurant patrons, sitting idly by while a vegan baby dies of malnutrition, and most recently, shooting up people at a YouTube office.

We don't mean to cast aspersions, but are vegans nuts? Join us for this episode of The Health and Wellness Show where we explore this question and the very real underlying dietary reasons for why this may be so.

And stay tuned for Zoya's Pet Health Segment, where she speaks about the inappropriateness of vegetarian diets for pets.

Running Time: 01:43:49

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