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SOTT Focus: The Health & Wellness Show: Amazing Health Journey: Interview with Mikhaila Peterson


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Fri, 09 Feb 2018 16:00 UTC
Mikhaila and Scarlett Peterson
On this episode of the Health and Wellness Show, we interview Mikhaila Peterson, daughter of Psychologist Jordan Peterson, about her truly amazing recovery from serious health issues. Since she was a very young girl, Mikhaila was plagued by rheumatoid arthritis, severe depression and chronic fatigue among other health issues. She was on a cocktail of medications, including antidepressants, immune suppressants and amphetamines, to address her multiple conditions.

But through diligent research and sheer will, she was able to get her health condition under control through the implementation of a strict elimination diet. After having success in this experiment, she put both her father and husband on the same diet, who similarly suffered from health issues, repeating the success. Now she inspires many others to regain their health through her informative blog "Don't Eat That" at mikhailapeterson.com.

Join us for this episode of the Health and Wellness Show as Mikhaila shares her inspirational story of regaining her health through strategic dietary experimentation.

Running Time: 01:09:02

Download: MP3


Here's the transcript of the show:
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Syringe

Knowledge of risk was present from the beginning: Diseases with unknown etiology trace back to mass vaccination against Influenza in 1976

James Lyons-Weiler, Ph.D.
World Mercury Project
Thu, 08 Feb 2018 15:14 UTC
mass vaccination
Crohn's. Lupus. Autism. ADHD. Food allergies. Celiac disease. Sjögren's syndrome. Polymyalgia rheumatica. Multiple sclerosis. Anklyosing spondylitis. Type 1 diabetes. Vasculitis. Peripheral neuropathy. The list goes on, and on, and on. We are being increasingly diagnosed with these conditions and diseases of unknown origin, and science has very little to say - why would autoimmune diseases and mysterious diseases of inflammation be so prevalent? When did this increase start?

As an observer and participant in modern biomedical research, and a lover of deep history, I tend to focus not on the immediate or last few years, but look for trends of accumulating risk over longer periods of time. Seeking an answer to the question of "when", I used Pubmed to estimate, per yer, the number of studies and papers discussing diseases and conditions of unknown origin. I search for the term "unknown causes", and also for the term "journal" to get some idea of the percentage of studies, papers and editorials discussing disease of unknown causes. I had no idea what to expect.
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Health

A functional medicine approach to healing addiction

Dr. George Papanicolaou, DO
ultrawellnesscenter.com
Fri, 09 Feb 2018 15:18 UTC
addiction
Addiction is a powerful force that can sabotage your life and hurt those who surround you. Whereas researchers once considered addiction a weakness of character, in recent decades we've learned that brain-chemistry imbalances often underlie addiction to drugs like cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine.

Rather than slap another drug onto that addiction, Functional Medicine seeks to find the root cause of those behaviors. Functional Medicine doctors dig deeply to ask what triggers those behaviors, what continues to mediate the behaviors in a positive or negative way, and identify biologic systems that have been disrupted. Once we find those, we can craft interventions to help the systems recover from addictions.

Comment: What is the root cause of addiction, and how do you heal it?

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Brain

Light exposure: The simplest way to improve memory and learning by 30%

Dr Jeremy Dean
PsyBlog
Sat, 10 Feb 2018 09:15 UTC
memory
Getting enough bright light could be one of the simplest ways to improve memory and learning.

Too long spent indoors in dim lighting causes damaging changes to the brain's structure and function, new research finds.

Continual exposure to dim lighting hurts parts of the brain that are central to memory and learning.

The study of rodents found they lost 30% capacity in their hippocampus - a structure important for memory - when they were kept in dim light for four weeks.

Comment: The recent studies on light exposure and its relation to human health are quite fascinating. That a consequence of our technological progress could be cutting ourselves off from this healing light source was unpredictable but steps are being taken to find out how we can reconnect. See also:

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Bulb

Kelly Brogan: Tamiflu and abnormal behavior

Kelly Brogan
Greenmedinfo.com
Wed, 07 Feb 2018 13:15 UTC
tamiflu
It's a particularly nasty flu season, right - what should we do??

Last week, a student in my daughter's elementary school died. An apparently healthy, active, and vital 10-year old child suddenly departed. Despite an initial announcement of "cause unknown," the administrators followed up with a suddenly clear pronouncement that he died "from the flu." Looking beyond the fact that now even school administrators feel entitled to give clinical advice ("if you haven't yet received your flu shot, please do"), I was interested to see that this child's flu vaccine status was not mentioned. I wondered if he had received the flu shot or taken Tamiflu - especially since both have been associated with sudden death in the pediatric population.1

It's a "deadly" flu season, and the pharmaceutically-funded media would have you believe that you must head on over to CVS and get your flu shot to make it through the year. And if the flu shot doesn't work - even the CDC estimates its effectiveness around 39%2 - well then, just head to your doctor and get treated with Tamiflu!

Comment: Read more about Tamiflu and abnormal behavior: Tamiflu hitting record sales, yet it's making kids hallucinate and turn violent

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Pills

Tamiflu hitting record sales, yet it's making kids hallucinate and turn violent

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 08 Feb 2018 00:01 UTC
Tamiflu side effects
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Parents across the country are reporting horrifying and deadly stories of their kids hallucinating and turning violent or suicidal after taking Tamiflu.

The 2017-2018 flu season is turning out to be one of the worst outbreaks in recent history. Already this year, the flu has claimed the lives of dozens of children and hospitalized countless others. In the midst of the turmoil and sickness, however, the medication to treat the flu-Tamiflu-is also reportedly claiming lives.

As this is one of the worst outbreaks, the makers of Tamiflu are seeing record sales. However, this is not good for the children whose parents are coming forward to expose the horrendous side effects caused by the medicine which-in some instances-have proven to be far worse than getting the flu.

Oseltamivir, the antiviral medication marketed as Tamiflu, is used to treat flu symptoms caused by influenza virus in patients who have had symptoms for less than 2 days. While there are plenty of common side-effects ranging from hives to difficulty breathing, some of the less common side effects have parents crying foul.

Comment: When the potential side effects from the drug are worse than the symptoms of the disease, one has to wonder what possible reason there is to take the drug, especially when severe side effects can effect one in fifty children. Controversial drugs like these should really be reserved for worst case scenarios.

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Health

Cat plague is back after nearly 40 years in hiding

Dr Mark Westman and Dr Richard Malik
ABC Australia
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 09:44 UTC
Unvaccinated young cats and kittens are most at risk of contracting the disease.
© ABC News: Jane Cowan, file photoUnvaccinated young cats and kittens are most at risk of contracting the disease.
A deadly feline disease is now spreading between cats after hiding in nature for nearly 40 years.

Multiple cases of feline parvovirus, also known as cat plague, or panleukopenia, have been reported in stray kittens in the greater Melbourne area this week.

Feline parvovirus was a common disease in the 1960s and 1970s. Australia was one of the first countries to develop an effective vaccine.

Comment: What is interesting is that even though rates of vaccination haven't significantly dropped, the disease is back on the rise. So was it the vaccines that were working or was there something else? What is clear is our understanding of viruses is lacking:

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Cut

North Texas man now an amputee after flu complications

David Goins
WFAA
Wed, 07 Feb 2018 02:00 UTC
Brian Herndon
A North Texas man is working to recover after losing both feet to amputation as part of complications from the flu.

The series of serious complications mark the latest example of a dangerous and deadly flu season nationwide and in Texas.

Brian Herndon, 51, was diagnosed with the flu on January 4. He was admitted to a Fort Worth hospital the following day with pneumonia and quickly went into septic shock.

The husband and father of two was airlifted to Baylor Hospital in Dallas on January 6 where he has been for the past four weeks, most of that time intubated and in and out of consciousness.

Comment: At least he didn't take the flu vaccine this year. Perhaps could have been worse. See also: Identifying and treating sepsis: The real reason why some die of flu

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Pills

Big Pharma drug companies sell us remedies for problems caused by their own products and the Federal Government has their back

Kate Harveston
Alternet
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:11 UTC
drugs
This should be a clear violation of antitrust laws.

Like most folks, you dutifully rub shampoo into your hair daily or a few times each week. After it strips out your hair's natural moisture and liveliness, you apply a conditioner to get that moisture and liveliness back.

Much about modern life seems to follow this general pattern.

Mounting evidence suggests multinational companies negligently sell products to the public that are leading drivers of public health issues, while at the same time another division presents the "remedy" for that same harm. A panacea for their own poison, as it were. In this way, they profit twice: once when they supply the cause of our ailments, and again when we come to them for the cure.
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Wine

Mouse study suggests there's an amount of alcohol that's good for the brain

Dr Jeremy Dean
PsyBlog
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 00:01 UTC
lady glass of wine
Alcohol helps remove damaging waste from the brain.

A couple of alcoholic drinks can help clear the brain of toxins, new research finds.

Low levels of alcohol - the equivalent of around 2.5 standard drinks per day - may help to remove waste linked to Alzheimer's disease and reduce inflammation in the brain.

Comment: Alcohol is one of those tricky areas where there is a lot of back and forth. The jury's still out, but if this study is correct, it may conform to the old adage that 'the dose makes the poison'. See also:

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