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Cholesterol is vital: Your body is incapable of making hormones without it

Michael McEvoy
Metabolic Healing
Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:00 UTC
cholesterol
Each week I re-iterate the importance of cholesterol in the body, as well as site the prevalent mis-information that exists regarding cholesterol.

Not only is cholesterol not bad, it is one of the most vitally important substances inside of your body. Every cell of your body is made from it, and ALL of your steroid hormones are synthesized from cholesterol, including all of the sex and adrenal hormones!

How Are Steroidal Hormones Made?

There are basically 6 types of steroid hormones: mineralcorticoids, glucocorticoids, androgens, estrogens, progestagens and Vitamin D. The three steroidal hormones that are produced by the adrenals are:
  • Mineralcorticoids
  • Glucocorticoids
  • Androgens
It is the family of 50 powerful enzymes known as Cytochrome P450 that is responsible for converting cholesterol into the 'master' steroid hormone, pregnenolone. I choose to call pregnenolone a 'master hormone' because it is converted into numerous other vital hormones.

Without cholesterol which in synthesized in the liver, pregnenolone cannot be made. Drugs that inhibit the liver's production of cholesterol may have a very damaging effect upon the cascade of hormones of the endocrine system.

Comment: The war against cholesterol is total rubbish. In fact, cholesterol is good; it's a healing agent, and when levels are high it is trying to protect the organism from allergenic or inflammatory agents.

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Take 2

Doctor jumps onstage to warn crowd to leave Vaxxed film

Travis Gettys
Raw Story
Wed, 24 May 2017 23:04 UTC
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© News OneDr. Lance O'Sullivan
A doctor jumped onstage during the screening of a controversial anti-vaccine film to warn the audience they were putting the lives of their children and others at risk.

Dr. Lance O'Sullivan bought a ticket for the film, Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe, but delivered his warning before the showing began, reported the New Zealand Herald.

"I've come here not to watch the film, but to continue my battle and my challenge for my people and, importantly, for our children," O'Sullivan said. "I come here with a lot of anger because I am adamantly opposed to this. This idea of anti-immunization has killed children around the world and actually will continue to kill children whose parents are put off immunization because of misinformation — misinformation based on lies."

The Northland doctor, who was named New Zealander of the Year in 2014 for his charitable work, took aim at anti-vaxxers — including the filmmakers who explored the fraudulent claim that autism is linked to immunizations — who have deceived parents and put children at risk.

Comment: Why the documentary Vaxxed is controversial
The movie Vaxxed is controversial because the coverup of the MMR vaccine connection to autism has far-reaching implications for the very deep corruption in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the thousands of children who have suffered from a devastating disease that could have been avoided. Discrediting this information and keeping it from the public's attention is paramount for the pharmaceutical companies that profit from vaccines. [2,3]
Vaxxed is not anti-science. Nor is it anti-vaccine. Instead it presents unquestionable evidence of corruption and fraud that is anti-CDC. The film endangers the professional credibility and integrity of the nation's most powerful federal health agency as well as the private vaccine industry's profits that the CDC protects. If it were simply a visual screed of voices opposing mandatory vaccinations, the documentary would have its burst of limited popularity and quickly be forgotten as so many anti-vaccine films are. Vaxxed, on the other hand, incriminates federal officials and scientists at the highest levels, including former CDC Director Julie Gerberding, with the intentional coverup and manipulation of the agency's own research data to continue its public relations charade that vaccines under no circumstances are associated with the US's increasing autism crisis in our midst.


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Health

Magnesium and the weight loss connection

Dr. Carolyn Dean
Natural News
Mon, 29 May 2017 20:04 UTC
weight loss
OK, I give up. I admit it, the only books that people are buying are weight loss books. So in order to get the message about magnesium across to the masses, I present you with The Magnesium Weight Loss Cure.

I just read Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and just about every chapter in Wheat Belly relates to magnesium deficiency. There is a biological change on the part of the eater that's fueling this allergic response, i.e., magnesium deficiency. And with the research on magnesium deficiency associated with pancreatic enzyme deficiency, we have another clue.

I've already said a lot about weight and its association with magnesium in my book, The Magnesium Miracle. Here are some high points.

1. Magnesium helps the body digest, absorb, and utilize proteins, fats, and carbohydrates.

2. Magnesium is necessary for insulin to open cell membranes for glucose.

3. Magnesium helps prevent obesity genes from expressing themselves.
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Health

God created tumors for a reason

Tedd Koren, DC
Natural Blaze
Sun, 28 May 2017 15:43 UTC
skygazing
During an online discussion someone asked, "Why did God create cancer?" Good question. Why would a truly benevolent Creator do such a thing? Does God hate us? Why would God let cancer exist? Why does God let innocent, good men, women and even children get cancer - and die?

Let us investigate.

Why does cancer exist? I'm sure you'll be surprised to learn that your ability to make tumors comes factory installed - your body is genetically programmed (using oncogenes) to create tumors. Not only that, in addition to the body creating tumors, it nourishes the tumors with a blood supply. Why would this occur?

Why would an exquisite creation such as our wisdom-filled body have this built-in seemingly self-destructive mechanism? Is it a mistake? Is the body stupid?

It makes no sense unless ...

Unless the tumor the body creates and nourishes serves a purpose. What purpose could it possibly serve?
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Pills

The best probiotic for brain and gut health

Dr Jeremy Dean
PsyBlog
Sun, 28 May 2017 16:29 UTC
brain gut connection
Probiotics relieve the symptoms of depression, as well as helping with digestion problems, a new study finds.

The research was carried out on people with irritable bowel syndrome who were also depressed.

Twice as many reported improvements in depression symptoms if they took a specific probiotic.

Dr Premysl Bercik, senior study author, said:
"This study shows that consumption of a specific probiotic can improve both gut symptoms and psychological issues in IBS.

This opens new avenues not only for the treatment of patients with functional bowel disorders but also for patients with primary psychiatric diseases."

Comment: Good health begins in the gut:

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Cloud Lightning

What it is like to be struck by lightning

Charlotte Huff
Mosaic
Tue, 23 May 2017 00:00 UTC
ShirtShoeHat
© William LeGoullonHat and shirt worn by Jaime Santana and boots worn by Justin Gauger when they were struck by lightning.
If you're hit by lightning, there's a nine in ten chance you'll survive. But what are the lasting effects of being exposed to hundreds of millions of volts?

Sometimes they'll keep the clothing, the strips of shirt or trousers that weren't cut away and discarded by the doctors and nurses. They'll tell and retell their story at family gatherings and online, sharing pictures and news reports of survivals like their own or far bigger tragedies. The video of a tourist hit on a Brazilian beach or the Texan struck dead while out running. The 65 people killed during four stormy days in Bangladesh.

Only by piecing together the bystander reports, the singed clothing and the burnt skin can survivors start to construct their own picture of the possible trajectory of the electrical current, one that can approach 200 million volts and travel at one-third of the speed of light.

In this way, Jaime Santana's family have stitched together some of what happened that Saturday afternoon in April 2016, through his injuries, burnt clothing and, most of all, his shredded broad-brimmed straw hat. "It looks like somebody threw a cannonball through it," says Sydney Vail, a trauma surgeon in Phoenix, Arizona, who helped care for Jaime after he arrived by ambulance, his heart having been shocked several times along the way as paramedics struggled to stabilise its rhythm.

Comment: Knowledge protects.

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Dirty electricity and what it means for your health

Dr. Mercola
mercola.com
Sun, 28 May 2017 15:47 UTC
clean and dirty electricity
Did you know that a significant percentage of the diseases we now face is related to an artifact of electricity? In this interview, Dr. Sam Milham, author of "Dirty Electricity: Electrification and the Diseases of Civilization," explains the health hazards of dirty electricity or electromagnetic interference (EMI).

Milham is a physician and an epidemiologist, and has spent decades (he's now 85 years old) doing pioneering research in this field. In his book, he details the extensive journey he took to uncover the link between dirty electricity and human disease. In a nutshell, dirty electricity, or more accurately stated, EMI, impacts your biology, specifically your mitochondrial function, which we've now come to appreciate is at the heart of virtually all chronic disease.

What Is Dirty Electricity?

Sunlight is a natural or native form of electromagnetic frequency (EMF). There are also four basic non-native or artificial EMF exposures: magnetic, artificial light, electrical and microwave (which includes not only your microwave oven but also cellphones, routers and portable phones).

Comment: See also:

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Syringe

Italy facing unprecedented mandatory vaccine push

Jefferey Jaxen
Green Med Info
Thu, 25 May 2017 15:29 UTC
italy vaccines
The people of Italy are currently facing an unprecedented assault on their health choice and informed consent.
A 2015 government plan in Italy aimed to boost vaccination rates and introduce a series of new vaccines triggering protests among Italian citizens. The National Vaccination Plan for 2016 - 18 would instantly make Italy a European frontrunner in vaccination. At the time, many questioned the sudden vaccine push. Some suspected the hand of Big Pharma behind the government's new plan which was confirmed when the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) suspended Sergio Pecorelli, the president of its board and one of the authors of the new plan, because of his conflicts of interest with Big Pharma. In addition, GlaxoSmithKline made headlines in 2015 with their announcement to invest more than €1 billion in Italy over the next four years.

Now recently, The Council of Ministers, on the proposal of President Paolo Gentiloni and the Minister of Health Beatrice Lorenzin, approved an emergency decree containing what they deemed "urgent measures in disease prevention." According to the decree, vaccinations may only be omitted or deferred in the event of an established health condition in relation to specific, documented proof by a general practitioner or pediatrician. The full language of the decree has not been made public, causing many in Italy to speculate as to what is in the document. Only a short list of bullet points has been posted on the government's website containing the information below.
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Millions of Americans uneasy about vaccine safety are now labeled "notorious"?

Marco Cáceres
The Vaccine Reaction
Sun, 28 May 2017 13:25 UTC
vaccine debate
© ignoring data
The biased, vicious, and personal attacks against vaccine safety advocates by the mainstream media continue and seem to show no signs of abating.

Coming on the heels of a column published on May 8, 2017 by the editorial staff of the Boston Herald calling for those concerned about the safety of vaccines to be hung,1,2 and an opinion piece on March 3, 2017 in Scientific American by Peter Hotez, MD saying that steps should be taken to "snuff" out the antivaccine movement,2,3 senior health writer Maggie Fox of NBC News has now written an article describing vaccine skeptics as "notorious."

Fox's piece, "Vaccine Debate Vexes Vermont Ski Resort Town,"4 opens:
A planned symposium featuring notorious vaccine skeptics has set off a testy but polite debate in the Vermont ski resort town of Stowe.4
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the word notorious as: "well-known or famous especially for something bad."5 Examples of the word's usage include: "a notorious gangster" or "a notorious mastermind of terrorist activities."6

Comment: Dr. Peter Hotez is calling for the anti-vaccine movement to be "snuffed out"
Dr. Hotez also mentions the Revolution for Truth march in Washington, D.C. on Mar. 31 sponsored by what he labels as "anti-vaccine groups" in Washington, DC on Mar. 31 and and he ridicules the idea of a vaccine safety commission reportedly being considered by the new administration.

These are all things that are of great concern to Dr. Hotez, who wrote:
I'm worried that America's anti-vaccine movement has sufficient strength and momentum to affect vaccine coverage globally. Whether it's Hollywood movies, rap music, or soft drinks, the world is quick to embrace American culture. The "Vaxxed" tour has already begun with showings so far in the United Kingdom, Australia, and elsewhere, but I'm especially concerned about the large middle- and low-middle income nations such as Bangladesh, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Russia. A small drop in measles vaccine coverage in those nations would lead to measles outbreaks and deaths on a scale that we haven't seen since the years prior to EPI (Expanded Program on Immunization).1
Dr. Hotez added:
Things might only get worse pending the imminent expansion and export of an American-led antivaccine movement. We need to recognize that the current activities in Texas and Washington DC could ignite reversals of global disease elimination and eradication efforts that are now more than 50 years in the making.1
Dr. Hotez is also a vaccine developer and president and director of the Sabin Vaccine Institute's Product Development Partnership (PDP),5 and he is so worried about the growth in size and influence of the grassroots movement of well-educated people, who are questioning mainstream vaccine science and demanding that their informed consent rights and basic civil liberties be respected that he is actually calling for this movement to be snuffed out.

Dr. Hotez closed his opinion by saying:
An American antivaccine movement is building and we need to take steps now to snuff it out.1


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Pills

Opioid addiction and other iatrogenic health problems re-evaluated

Catherine J. Frompovich
Natural Blaze
Mon, 22 May 2017 14:23 UTC
pill bottles
The opioid addiction problem in the U.S. is growing dramatically and urban areas are having a hard time trying to cope with both sides of the issue. For a few days, all news talk radio KYW 1060 reported on those problems in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the fifth largest U.S. city [3], not very far from where I reside.

According to Philly.com, statistics are frightening:
Drug overdose deaths in Philadelphia surged to 900 last year — nearly a 30 percent increase in a single year — as the nation continued to grapple with an epidemic of opioid use and abuse. [1]
A 30 percent increase in a single year!

According to the City of Philadelphia Department of Public Health, data every year since 2004, with 358 deaths, have risen year-after-year until in 2016, 900 deaths! However, Philly is not an anomaly; opioid addiction/deaths are a national problem, as the CDC indicates. Nationally in 2015, opioids contributed to 52,404 deaths per the CDC's "Drug Overdose Death Chart" listing state-by-state [2].
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