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Nutrition plays a critical role in the healing and prevention of mental illness

Dr. Mercola
Mercola.com
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 00:00 UTC
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Some mental health struggles may actually be a nutrient deficiency
Can you use specific nutrients to improve your mental health? Yes, you can. William Walsh, Ph.D., president of the nonprofit Walsh Research Institute in Naperville, Illinois, and author of "Nutrient Power: Heal Your Biochemistry and Heal Your Brain," specializes in nutrient-based psychiatry and nutritional medicine.

He and I are both fellows of the American College of Nutrition. He's designed nutritional programs for Olympic athletes, NBA players and major league baseball players. More importantly, he's spent a great deal of his career seeking to improve mental health through nutrition.
"I started off in the hard science. I was an experimentalist," Walsh says. "I worked, in the beginning, in the nuclear field ... with places like Los Alamos, the Institute for Atomic Research and University of Michigan Research Institute. I wound up at Argonne National Laboratory. While working as a scientist there, I started a volunteer project at the local prison, Stateville Penitentiary.

I eventually got really interested in why people were violent ... [W]hen we started the ex-offender program, I got to meet the families that had produced a criminal. I found some wonderful families, caring and capable families, that have other children who turned out just fine ...

I began to realize we didn't understand why people had bad behavior. We then asked the question, 'Could it be something related to their brain chemistry or the body chemistry?'... I started doing lab studies of their blood, their urine and hair. I found out that they were very, very different from the rest of the population. That's how I got started."
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Syringe

Stem cell injections could bring relief to millions with lower back pain and cut reliance on opioids

Andy Coghlan
New Scientist
Wed, 25 Oct 2017 19:41 UTC
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An injection could finally bring relief to millions of people with chronic lower back pain. If it works, the stem cell treatment could be a crucial tool for fighting the opioid epidemic killing thousands in the US.

Opioids accounted for 33,000 deaths in the US in 2015 alone. Many of those deaths occur as a result of people becoming addicted to opioids prescribed for lower back pain, which affects around 28 million people in the US and accounts for around half of all opioid painkiller prescriptions there.

Stem cells might change that. Injected into damaged discs between the vertebrae of the spine, each dose contains around 6 million cells. Called mesenchymal precursor cells, they dampen down inflammation and secrete factors that help rebuild damaged tissue.

In experiments in sheep, these cells completely rebuilt damaged vertebral discs, prompting Silviu Itescu of the firm Mesoblast in Melbourne, Australia, and his team to try the technique in people. "In 100 patients, we've shown substantial improvements in function and pain relief that last two years or more," he says.
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Evil Rays

Two-thirds of US baby foods test positive for arsenic, many also contain lead & cadmium - Clean Label Project study


RT
Thu, 26 Oct 2017 15:45 UTC
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Some 65 percent of baby food products in the US - including four out of five baby formulas - contain traces of the toxin arsenic, a new study has found, but officials say there is little they can do to remove substances that could harm developing infants.

The Clean Label Project study of 530 baby products also found that 36 percent of the products contained lead, 58 percent cadmium and 10 percent acrylamide. While most samples contained only trace amounts of the toxins, some exceeded the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommendations by up to six times.

The transparent labeling advocacy group said that Gerber, Enfamil, Plum Organics and Sprout - market-leading brands - produced some of the most contaminated baby foods.

"The baby industry needs to do a better job in protecting America's most vulnerable population," Jaclyn Brown, the executive director of the Clean Label Project, told USA Today.
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Health

Dad's nutritional status affects the survival rate of embryos

April McCarthy
Prevent Disease
Tue, 24 Oct 2017 16:01 UTC
DNA strand
The quality of the father's nutrition prior to mating affects the survival rate of embryos, according to a new study in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Medical researchers have previously shown links between a father's weight and diet at the time of conception and an increased risk of diabetes in his offspring.

Biologists have suspected for years that some kind of epigenetic inheritance occurs at the cellular level. The different kinds of cells in our bodies provide an example. Skin cells and brain cells have different forms and functions, despite having exactly the same DNA.

Scientists have long understood how inherited traits are transmitted from generation to generation via the DNA sequences of genes. They have also figured out how genes get turned on or off in different cells, so that different sets of genes are active in liver cells and skin cells, for example. This involves "epigenetic" changes that do not alter the DNA sequence, but add chemical modifications to either the DNA itself or the histone proteins with which DNA is packaged in the chromosomes. Epigenetic changes to gene expression can also result from environmental factors, such as diet or exposure to toxins.
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Bizarro Earth

Silent killers: First global study finds polluted air, water and soil responsible for the deaths of 9M people in 2015

Laura Beil
New Scientist
Fri, 20 Oct 2017 17:50 UTC
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Pollution, particularly dirty air such as seen here in New Delhi, is linked to roughly one-sixth of the world's premature deaths.
About one in every six premature deaths worldwide is linked to dirty air, water and soil.

Most of those deaths are concentrated among the world's poorest populations, according to a study published online October 19 in the Lancet that documents the health and economic toll of pollution in 2015. In the most severely polluted countries, 25 percent of premature deaths could be attributed to pollution, especially in the air. More than half of the global deaths from air pollution in 2015 occurred in India and China.

Previous reports have documented the health cost of environmental damage according to individual types of pollutants. But this report, by the Lancet Commission on pollution and health, "is the first time that it has all been brought together under one umbrella," said study coauthor Richard Fuller, president of the nonprofit Pure Earth.

Comment: For more information on the role of environmental toxins in disease and ways to mitigate its effects:

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Health

There's a new type of diabetes that's being misdiagnosed as Type II

Andrew McGovern
Science Alert
Tue, 24 Oct 2017 22:41 UTC
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Most people are familiar with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

Recently, though, a new type of diabetes has been identified: type 3c diabetes.

Type 1 diabetes is where the body's immune system destroys the insulin producing cells of the pancreas. It usually starts in childhood or early adulthood and almost always needs insulin treatment.

Type 2 diabetes occurs when the pancreas can't keep up with the insulin demand of the body. It is often associated with being overweight or obese and usually starts in middle or old age, although the age of onset is decreasing.

Type 3c diabetes is caused by damage to the pancreas from inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis), tumours of the pancreas, or pancreatic surgery.

This type of damage to the pancreas not only impairs the organ's ability to produce insulin but also to produce the proteins needed to digest food (digestive enzymes) and other hormones.
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Red Flag

World Bank ministers rehearse for a pandemic that will come 'sooner than we expect'

Lena H. Sun
Washington Post
Tue, 24 Oct 2017 19:53 UTC
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The government ministers were facing a new infectious disease outbreak. The mysterious virus was sickening and killing people with alarming speed. Some patients had to be placed on ventilators to help them breathe. The new virus seemed resistant to antibiotics and antiviral medicine.

Within a week, officials had closed a major hospital and schools and quarantined thousands of people. Fear and panic spread quickly as people in neighboring countries became infected and died.

That scenario was part of a pandemic simulation held during the World Bank's annual meeting in Washington this month. It's not the kind of event that people would typically associate with the World Bank. But it's the fourth such exercise the bank has helped organize in the past year, reflecting what experts say is the growing awareness outside the traditional global health sector of the increasing threat and economic disruption posed by a global pandemic.

The chaotic and "horrendously inefficient" early response to the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa that killed more than 11,000 people was the catalyst for the simulations, said Tim Evans, senior director for health, nutrition and population at the World Bank.

Comment: Are they planning for a false flag pandemic?

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Health

Research finds ketamine can help greatly reduce migraine pain


RT
Tue, 24 Oct 2017 16:39 UTC
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Research has suggested that the horse tranquiliser ketamine could help millions of migraine sufferers overcome the throbbing pain of the debilitating headaches.

The drug, which is widely abused for recreational purposes, has been found to be an effective treatment for people who fail to respond to other medications.

A study published in the Journal of Headache and Pain found that the drug, which is know by the street name of "Special K," reduced the severity of headaches for 75 percent of sufferers. Details of the study were presented at the Anesthesiology Annual Meeting which is taking place in Boston, MA, this week.
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Syringe

The Great Vaccine Con: Former pro-vaxxer launches a shocking expose on how the vaccine industry has been involved in a large-scale medical fraud


australiannationalreview.com
Mon, 16 Oct 2017 16:24 UTC
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Albert Einstein once said, "the world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything". Inspired to implement Einstein's ideals, educator and author of best-selling book What I Didn't Learn At School But Wish I had, Jamie McIntyre has launched a new book entitled The Great Vaccine Con.

McIntyre's book - The Great Vaccine Con is a shocking expose' on how the vaccine industry has been involved in a large-scale vaccine medical fraud. It also reveals the industry's desperate attempts to cover up millions of vaccine injuries and the trillions the industry will have to pay in the future as compensation.

McIntyre has challenged the pro-vax community to a $1million reward for anyone who can prove that vaccines are safe and effective, however, there have been no takers as of now.
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Health

The importance of a healthy lymphatic system


wisehealthbody.com
Fri, 20 Oct 2017 18:43 UTC
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The truth is, most people have never heard of lymphatic drainage or even the lymphatic system. This is because it is not often talked about, however, in 2012 researchers at USC made this statement: "... the lymphatic system is no less essential than the blood circulatory system for human health and well-being." Researchers found that the lymphatic system is vital for both tissue repair and controlling inflammation in most organs of the human body. The improper drainage of the lymphatic system, results in an impaired immune system, or even tumors in the lymph nodes. Even though you exercise your body daily, you also need to exercise your lymphatic system by helping it drain properly. Keeping your lymphatic system in great shape is necessary for optimal health.

Comment: Additional information on how to stimulate the lymphatic system:

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