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Are toxic chemicals turning boys into girls?

Dr. Melody Milam Potter
Greenmedinfo.com
Tue, 28 Mar 2017 12:56 UTC
endocrine disruptors
Male births have been in decline for decades, while researchers say developmental genital damage from chemical exposure can become hereditable.

Endocrine Disruptors Sabotage the Male Fetus

In the dark warmth of the womb, a miracle unfolds silently and inexorably. An unrecognizable glom of cells begins to take shape according to a master plan laid down eons ago. The tiny mass that will soon form a priceless treasure burgeons into human form with fingers, toes, and a minuscule nose. It is female, and only nature can read the instructions that determine whether the being remains female or transforms into a male.

The evolution of this minute universe parallels that of our immeasurable one, a big bang followed by unceasing organization of shape and form using the impetus of that force. Whether our boundless universe has proceeded according to plan may be a theoretic issue. Whether this tiny universe follows its own plan is a chemical one.

Comment: Endocrine disruptors: Weapons of mass feminization

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Another hit against fluoroquinolone antibiotics: Massive tooth damage

Lisa Bloomquist
Hormones Matter
Thu, 14 Apr 2016 13:55 UTC
cipro tooth loss
Amid the long and growing list of side effects associated with the fluoroquinolone antibiotics (Cipro/ciprofloxacin, Levaquin/levofloxacin, Avelox/moxifloxacin, Floxin/ofloxacin and a few others), dental problems seem increasingly prevalent but least understood. On the patient boards, dedicated to understanding the adverse reactions of these antibiotics, patients routinely report serious dental problems after taking fluoroquinolone antibiotics.

Susan, pictured above, age 50, reported the following:
"My top teeth started rapidly decaying after the Cipro, the bottom ones are going too, but at a slower pace. Over the summer, I had all my top teeth pulled, they were just snapping off, one by one. This is what they looked like just before having them removed."
Christopher, also age 50, reported:
"Finally my teeth started to deteriorate and calcify as well. This happened very suddenly. My teeth then began cracking and breaking off at the gum line. Eventually I lost all of my teeth. It was the scariest thing I have ever experienced in my life."
One woman wrote the following about her mother, age 72:
"My mom has had several rounds of Levaquin over the years and it destroyed her gut. Along with other chronically prescribed medications, by the time we reached her last prescription of Levaquin, she was very ill and severely depleted in several key nutrients. Through much pain and suffering, we removed all unnecessary medications, which turned out to be all of them. It took 6-8 months to titrate some of the medications down gradually before complete cessation. During that time, we cleaned up her diet (mostly organic, no gluten, no sugar, no processed food) and added nutrient supplements (B vitamins, vitamin D, magnesium, coQ10, fish oil, and others). She swims regularly. As a result, I think she has mostly avoided the side effects of these drugs. Recently, however, her teeth began falling out - just falling out. She had really good teeth before this, no problems whatsoever. Each time a tooth came out, there was a period of what I think was nerve pain, but the dentist couldn't find anything. Then, a couple days later the tooth would fall out. Three teeth have fallen out so far. We don't know what to do."

Comment: Don't get 'floxed'. Do your research on this dangerous antibiotic: Magnesium may offer some hope in combating the effects of fluoroquinolones. This commenter offers some advice:
Levaquin drastically depletes your body of magnesium, and kills mitochondria in connective tissue, as well as various other negative things.

You can certianly do a liver cleanse, but you MUST get magnesium into you.

You're right. Doctors don't particularly believe that Levaquin can hurt a body. They also don't particularly believe in vitamins and minerals.

So I think you'll agree that they're no help.

You asked about Magnesium. You want to get as much into and onto you as you can.

Epsom salt baths daily (there's magnesium in the bath salts). Topical application of magnesium sprays or creams.

Oral ingestion. As much as you can get into you throughout the day. The trick is, don't take too much at once. I'll point you to a pain talking about dosage here in a moment.

You can take as much magnesium as your body needs. It's probably a lot. In the hospital they give magnesium by IV injection, in the amount of 10,000 mg. So the body can handle whatever you're going to be able to tolerate orally. And topical application isn't an issue. The more the merrier.

Until a person gets enough magnesium into them, over a long enough time, they have little to no chance of healing.

Don't get me wrong, some people do recover 'naturally' over time. But the rest, don't. Nor will they, unless they give their body everything it needs nutritionally to have a chance to heal and repair AND to start operating properly again.

See:
Magnesium Dosage
Magnesium for Tendonitis
Magnesium Side Effects


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Question

Is there a simple solution to reduce America's lethal overdose epidemic?

Phillip Smith
Alternet
Fri, 31 Mar 2017 18:33 UTC
benzos
Another type of prescription drug is implicated in thousands of opioid ODs each year.

The United States is in the grips of the worst drug overdose crisis ever, with prescription opioids and illicit opiates like heroin killing tens of thousands of people each year, but many of those people aren't dying from opioids alone. Another class of prescription drugs is too often involved.

Those drugs are the benzodiazepines—with brand names like Valium and Xanax—and are prescribed by the millions to treat anxiety, They can be deadly on their own, with federal data showing nearly 9,000 fatal benzo ODs in 2015. But here's the kicker: Nearly half of all fatal benzo ODs involve both them and opioids.

And a new study published in the British Medical Journal provides further evidence of the risks of doing benzos and opioids together. That study drew on a sample of more than 300,000 patients continuously enrolled in private health insurance plans between 2001 and 2013, and researchers looked at emergency room visits for drug overdoses among those prescribed only opioids versus those prescribed both opioids and benzos.
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Syringe

When it comes to vaccines what is herd immunity?

Kalee Brown
Collective Evolution
Thu, 30 Mar 2017 18:02 UTC
herd immunity
Vaccine safety has been making major headlines lately, and for good reason. More and more people are starting to recognize the risks associated with vaccines, particularly with some of their more dangerous ingredients like mercury and aluminum. However, many still argue that we're better off getting vaccinated than not, so much so that children are ostracized from their schools if their parents decide they don't want them to be vaccinated.

People all over the world have voiced their opinions on this topic, many of whom seem to think that their children will be in danger if they're in contact with other children who aren't vaccinated. Do unvaccinated children really pose a threat to society, or is this just something Big Pharma and the government have conditioned us to believe?

Because of a concept called "herd immunity," many people believe that through the widespread implementation of vaccinations, we can completely eradicate the spreading of disease. However, this commonly used term is vastly misunderstood and is, as a result, used misleadingly to support the pro-vaccine argument.

Comment: Where are the epidemics, if only half of America is properly vaccinated?
While herd immunity may not exist, herd mentality most definitely does. Health authorities, media commentators, and schools and their parent - teacher associations waste no opportunity in perpetuating this myth. Proponents have done such a thorough job of convincing the public that a parent who questions it is treated like someone who thinks the earth is flat or believes climate change is a conspiracy. On the contrary: an unprejudiced view of the science about vaccines, and an examination of history, clearly show that the herd immunity theory is—and always has been—flawed.

Vaccines may have a place in our medical arsenal, but they are not the silver bullet they're portrayed to be. Year after year the pharmaceutical industry, looking for lucrative new profit centers, churns out new vaccines. They use pseudo-science to convince the public that these products are safe and effective, and they use public shaming to convince the citizenry that non-compliance is a public health threat. This entire racket completely falls apart with a close examination of the herd immunity myth. Until we are honest in our assessment of both the safety and efficacy of vaccines, kids will continue to be hurt, rights will continue to be trampled, and mythology will continue to trump science.


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World Health Organization: Depression is leading cause of illness in the world


RT
Fri, 31 Mar 2017 18:27 UTC
Media depression
Depression is the leading cause of illness and disability across the globe, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced. The condition's prevalence rose more than 18 percent in a decade, with 300 million people now suffering from it.

The WHO's figures, released Thursday, studied worldwide depression from 2005 to 2015, showing an increase of more than 18 percent during that period.

The organization said it has identified "strong links" between depression and other non-communicable disorders and diseases.

"Depression increases the risk of substance use disorders and diseases such as diabetes and heart disease," it said in a statement, noting that the reverse is also true - that people suffering from those conditions also have a higher risk of depression.
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Health

High doses of Vitamin C can treat cancer safely and effectively


Huffington Post
Fri, 31 Mar 2017 17:54 UTC
cancer patient and chld
© Getty Images
High doses of vitamin C injected into the blood stream could prove effective in treating cancer, according to new research.

Scientists said vitamin C infusions, which were up to 1,000 times higher than recommended intake levels, selectively targeted tumour cells in cancer patients.

This increased the rates of cell deaths and sensitised them to radiation and chemotherapy.

The treatment also appeared to be safe, producing mild side effects such as frequent bathroom trips and a dry mouth.

Comment: Intravenous vitamin C does more than just kill cancer cells. It boosts immunity and can stimulate collagen formation to help the body wall off the tumor. It inhibits hyaluronidase, an enzyme that tumors use to metastasize and invade other organs throughout the body and corrects the almost universal scurvy in cancer patients.

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U.S. poultry producers and what they do not want you to know about bird flu

Martha Rosenberg
Alternet
Fri, 24 Mar 2017 17:47 UTC
caged birds
© Enrico Jose
A bird flu outbreak exposes the unethical and deceptive practices of poultry producers.

Once again, bird flu is back in the U.S. From 2014 through mid-2015, 48 million chickens and turkeys were killed in the U.S. to prevent the disease's spread and protect farmers' profits.

Factory farmers routinely fight to keep images of how poultry are raised out of public view, so consumers do not lose their appetites and will continue eating their products. Industrial farmers also fight hard to keep images of how chickens and turkeys are "euthanized" out of the public view.

It is easy to see why. To prevent the spread of bird flu, healthy, floor-reared turkeys and broiler chickens are herded into an enclosed area where they were administered propylene glycol foam to suffocate them. Michael Blackwell, chief veterinary officer at The Humane Society of the United States, likens death by foam to "cuffing a person's mouth and nose, during which time you are very much aware that your breathing has been precluded."

Comment: The horrific truth about factory farmed chickens

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Red Flag

EPA Chief Scott Pruitt scraps scheduled ban of chlorpyrifos pesticide

Alex Formuzis
Environmental Working Group
Fri, 31 Mar 2017 17:28 UTC
EPA corruption
© Waking Science
In one of his first major decisions as Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Scott Pruitt sided with the pesticide lobby over scientists in an eleventh-hour decision to abort the agency's proposal to ban chlorpyrifos - an insecticide that at small doses can harm children's brains and nervous systems - from use on food crops.

Pruitt and the Trump administration's decision ignored overwhelming evidence that even small amounts of chlorpyrifos can damage parts of the brain that control language, memory, behavior and emotion. Multiple independent studies have documented that exposure to chlorpyrifos impairs children's IQs, and EPA scientists' assessments of those studies concluded that levels of the pesticide found on food and in drinking water are unsafe.

"The chance to prevent brain damage in children was a low bar for most of Scott Pruitt's predecessors, but it apparently just wasn't persuasive enough for an administrator who isn't sure if banning lead from gasoline was a good idea," said EWG President Ken Cook. "Instead, in one of his first major decisions as head of the EPA, like a toddler running toward his parents, Pruitt leaped into the warm and waiting arms of the pesticide industry."

Comment: "The EPA proposed the ban in October 2015 and was under court order to issue a final rule by the end of March." Why does the EPA continue to delay and deny the obvious?

According to Elizabeth Grossman at Yale Environment 360
Organophosphates are well known neurotoxins - some were developed as nerve agents for use in chemical weapons - and work on insects by targeting the nervous system. They have been on the market since after World War II, but their use increased in the 1960s and 1970s, when they were promoted as an environmentally preferable, rapidly degrading alternative to more persistent organochloride pesticides, such as DDT. By the 1990s, organosphosphate pesticides were one of the world's most widely used type of insecticides. Such pesticides include chlorpyrifos - used in household bug sprays, termite control, lawn care products, domestic pet flea and tick collars, and commercial agriculture - and malathion, used to control mosquitoes, fruit flies, and lice. Roughly 33 million pounds of organophosphate pesticides were used in the U.S. in 2007, the last year for which government statistics are available.


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Biohazard

Chemical cleaning agents linked to thyroid cancer

Lisa Rapaport
Yahoo News
Thu, 30 Mar 2017 17:26 UTC
biocides
Workers exposed to chemicals like deodorizers, sanitizers, disinfectants and sterilizers on the job may be more likely than other people to develop thyroid cancer, a recent study suggests.

Occupational exposure to these chemicals, known as biocides, was associated with a 65 percent higher risk of thyroid cancer, the study found. For people whose jobs might have led to the most cumulative exposure to biocides over time, the odds of thyroid cancer was more than doubled.

The study also looked at pesticides, and didn't find an increased risk of thyroid cancer linked to these agricultural chemicals.

"Limited studies have investigated occupational exposure to pesticides in relation to thyroid cancer and have reached inconsistent results," said lead study author Dr. Yawei Zhang, an environmental health researcher at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

"Our study did not support an association between occupational exposure to pesticides and risk of thyroid cancer, but suggested that occupational exposure to other biocides might be associated with an increased risk of thyroid cancer," Zhang said by email.

Scientists aren't certain what causes thyroid cancer, though the odds of these malignancies are higher with certain genetic disorders and with exposure to high amounts of radiation, especially during childhood.

Women are much more likely to get thyroid tumors than men, and this type of cancer is more common in white people than in other racial or ethnic groups.

Comment: No matter your occupation, iodine is essential for thyroid health.

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Info

Feeling lonely can make the common cold worse

Daniel Steingold
Study Finds
Fri, 31 Mar 2017 17:21 UTC
lonely cold

Having a cold is no fun. But if you’re lonely, it’s even more miserable, a new study finds.
If you feel lonesome, you might have a harder time with acute illnesses like common colds, a new study finds.

Researchers at Rice University discovered that people who are lonely are likely to feel lousier when fighting a cold than someone would who is in a relationship or surrounded by a vast network of friends.

"Loneliness puts people at risk for premature mortality and all kinds of other physical illnesses," says graduate student and study co-author Angie LeRoy in a university release. "But nothing had been done to look at an acute but temporary illness that we're all vulnerable to, like the common cold."

To reach their conclusion, the research team sampled a group of 159 individuals, aged 18-to-55, from a larger study. Nearly 60 percent of those examined were men. The participants were intentionally given a cold via virus-laden nasal drops, and then quarantined in a hotel room for five days.
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