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Six reasons why iodine supplementation is essential

Dr. Sircus
drsircus.com
Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:29 UTC
iodine for health
We knew a hundred years ago that we needed more iodine and governments started putting a tiny bit in table salt. It was not enough and after the nuclear accident at Fukushima, we need more because of the radioactive iodine released into the environment.

Humans in the 21st Century have an absolute need for iodine supplementation. Iodine is the only medicinal that stands between antibiotic resistant hell and us.

There are many reasons we need iodine in abundance. There are three principle reasons, however, that stand out thrusting iodine into its place as a medicine of supreme importance:

The first is its antibiotic, anti-fungal and anti-viral effects that go beyond antibiotics because it kills viruses, which antibiotic do not. Iodine kills fungus and yeast like candida, which antibiotics do not. In addition, it does it without creating antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria. Scientists are also finding that antibiotics are causing bacteria to grow faster instead of killing them so it is almost suicidal to not employ iodine as the first line of defense in our fight against infections.
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Brain

How the gut-brain connection affects your life

Tyler Ardizzone
Organic Lifestyle Magazine
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:24 UTC
gutsy move
Your brain is the commander-in-chief of your body. It constantly receives information from your internal and external environment and decides the best course of action to take for your survival. The brain carries out this action by sending messages through the nerves of the nervous system to the appropriate parts of the body.

For example, when the sympathetic nervous system is activated, it will help simultaneously change the behavior of the heart, lungs, eyes, brain, digestive system, adrenal glands, bladder, and skeletal muscles. All of this is done to achieve one goal - survival. On the other hand, the parasympathetic branch of the nervous system stimulates digestion, recovery, and rest throughout the organs of the body when we are not faced with a threat.

These two branches of the autonomic nervous system help us explain how our brain controls our body, but can our body control our brain?

You are the Sum of Your Neurobiology

In his book, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, Neuroscientist David Eagleman explains:
...who you are depends on the sum total of your neurobiology."
Neurobiology is dictated by more than just the brain. Just like any government, even a dictatorship, the leader is influenced by other members of the governing body. Even though the brain can affect every organ in the body through the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of the nervous system, the brain cannot veto the power of the gut.
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Hearts

The vagus nerve and how it impacts health, mood and performance

Mark Sisson
marksdailyapple.com
Thu, 16 Feb 2017 09:05 UTC
vagus nerve
In recent years, I've regularly vouched for the gut as our long-abused secondary brain. Given what most of us grew up learning in school, it can feel like a mammoth shift. Science and philosophy have long revered the brain as seat of consciousness, even the seat of humanity itself. But when it comes down to it, everything is interconnected. Our consciousness extends well beyond the brain. How we feel and who we are encompasses a much more expansive and intricate system than any of us learned in high school biology. At the center of this paradigm revision is something called the vagus nerve.

Vagus...as a word it sounds a little off-putting. If someone called me a vagus, I'd probably be mildly offended. But the literary origins of this word are actually kind of mystical: "vagus" in Latin translates to "wandering." And I'd struggle to find a more apt definition.

The vagus nerve runs from the base of the brain, through the neck, and into the chest and stomach, reaching all the way to the gut. It's regularly likened to a highway, whereby vast multitudes of nerves are constantly "driving" to almost every organ in the body, delivering vital messages and returning to the brain with their own little snippets of info. Around 80% of these nerve fibers are directed outwards from the brain, while the remaining 20% or so work in reverse to send commands back to the brain from the various corners of the body.

Comment: Éiriú Eolas is a breathing and meditation program that is scientifically proven to help reduce stress while also helping to heal emotional wounds via stimulation of the vagus nerve. The program is a powerful framework which aids the processing and releasing of "negative" emotions, and helps people to face the reality of themselves and the world without falling into despair. Visit the Éiriú Eolas site (eebreathe.com) to learn more about the scientific background of this program and then try it out, free of charge.

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Pills

Private emails reveal Monsanto tactics to whitewash cancer connection to glyphosate

Alexa Erickson
Collective Evolution
Sat, 18 Mar 2017 21:54 UTC
Glyphosate
Chemical giant Monsanto has faced continued scrutiny, primarily over its flagship product Roundup, whose active ingredient serves as the world's most used weed killer. Despite public resistance and research revealing the dangers it has on humans and the environment, Monsanto has stood by its product, refuting the studies and instead promoting it as a safe product.

Now, a federal court case in San Francisco has challenged Monsanto's claim that its product is, indeed, safe, building on the findings of a panel that discovered Roundup's main ingredient, glyphosate, can cause cancer.

Two years ago, when a U.N.-sponsored scientific agency announced the popular weed killer may cause cancer, chaos broke out, with Monsanto releasing a campaign to discredit the International Agency for Research on Cancer's results.

Comment: Considering Monsanto's history, this is most likely inter-agency manipulation, and not 'free-flowing' of information. To learn more about Monsanto as a whole, you can watch this documentary.



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Beaker

The world of chemical exposure - Polytoxicity

Dr. Mercola
Mercola.com
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 19:57 UTC
chemical exposure
Have you ever wondered how many chemicals you're exposed to on any given day? How about your kids? It's really anyone's guess. The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) requires that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) compile and keep a current list of chemical substances manufactured or processed in the U.S.

That list includes about 85,000 chemicals,1 but even the EPA is largely in the dark about what that actually means for people's health and the environment.

As noted in Chemical & Engineering News, "The agency is struggling to get a handle on which of those chemicals are in the marketplace today and how they are actually being used."2

Very few chemicals on the market are tested for safety, but even those that are, are not necessarily safe. Part of this is because safety testing is typically done on just one chemical at a time, and under laboratory conditions.

The way you're actually exposed to chemicals — in combination and under countless different real-world scenarios — may increase their toxicity exponentially.
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Eye 1

Precision addiction medicine - A Brave New World in medical techniques?

Kathy Jean Schultz
The Fix
Thu, 09 Feb 2017 17:15 UTC
Fix the brain, fix the problem?
Fix the brain, fix the problem?
New medical technologies and computer-driven algorithms are combining to create entire paradigm shifts in the diagnosis and treatment of many diseases, which is unalloyed good news for people suffering from a variety of serious medical illnesses. And clearly these technologies will have a significantly positive impact in the realm of behavioral health as well. But in the behavioral health arena, and specifically where addiction is concerned, where motivation, behavior, stigma and questions about the true nature of addiction-as-illness are always part of the clinical presentation, these developments need to be incorporated mindfully. Kathy Jean Schultz describes the available technologies and advises caution regarding their implementation....Richard Juman, PsyD

Moneyball is a story about discarding old-fashioned ways to assess athletes' skills, in favor of modern statistics. In the plot, new math spawns serious athletic wins, along with the question: Is there any place it can't do the same? According to its author, Michael Lewis, "If the market for baseball players was inefficient, what market couldn't be? If a fresh analytical approach had led to the discovery of new knowledge in baseball, was there any sphere of human activity in which it might not do the same?"
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Hearts

Proof modern life really does kill as remote Amazon tribe have healthiest arteries ever studied

Stephen Beech
Mirror
Fri, 17 Mar 2017 19:04 UTC
Tsimane diet
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Modern life really does kill after a remote tribe living deep in the Amazon were found to have the healthiest arteries ever studied.

A new study estimates that an 80-year-old from the Tsimane has the same vascular age as an American in their mid-fifties.

Heart rate, blood pressure , cholesterol, and blood glucose were also much lower, probably as a result of the tribe's lifestyle, according to the researchers.

The indigenous Tsimane people, who live in the Bolivian Amazon, have the lowest reported levels of vascular ageing for any population.
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2 + 2 = 4

Scarlet fever is back and every parent needs to watch out for these warning signs


The Hearty Soul
Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:36 UTC
scarlet fever
When our children are struck with an illness we are eager to find the right solution to bring them back to normal. When Scarlet Fever strikes, characterized by its rash, the itch, and sore throat, we rush into a frenzy to try anything to stop it. This frenzy has become more common since 2015 as there was a huge increase in scarlet fever cases, caused by a new aggressive strain. [i] Luckily, we've come a long way since the pre-antibiotic middle-ages and have developed ways to treat both the symptoms and cure the infection.

Comment: While irritants in general are good to stay away from, here is some relevant info on smoking:

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Evil Rays

5G networks will use the same frequencies as pain-inflicting crowd control weapons


Washington's Blog
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 00:00 UTC
5G technology
No part of the country will be safe from ultra-high frequency signals.
We previously noted that the Internet of Things (IoT) is a scam ... being pushed so that Big Brother can spy on us.

Believe it or not, IoT may also pose health and safety risks.

Devra Lee Davis - Founding Director of the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology of the U.S. National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, Founding Director of the Center for Environmental Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, who has taught at the University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Harvard, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and other major universities, and has had articles published in Lancet, Journal of the American Medical Association to Scientific American, the New York Times and elsewhere - says that the 5G wavelengths used in IoT have never been tested for health effects, and may adversely impact our skin and sweat glands:


Comment: Beware 5G technology
The implications of 5G on consumer well-being and safety do not look good for one reason: devices that will operate within the 5G electromagnetic spectrum will use antennas that are physically small i.e. from a few millimetres to a centimetre in length. This means that industry will produce a variety of different antenna systems to do different things. The weird fact of operating within this very high frequency range is that signals are mostly line of sight or they are easily reflected, refracted or 'lost' within the differing build composition of urban environment structures. In other words, without careful antenna design and recognition of many of the pitfalls trying to propagate microwave signals within urban environments, the signal can be easily degraded or completely lost. In response to these challenges, the advantages in using very small physical size antennas in the millimetre wavelength is you can feed many antennas in various configuration arrays e.g. vertical or horizontal arays, waveguide, coned or highly directional beam type designs. These types of antenna designs focus most of the transmitted power into specified directions. This is bad news for consumers because these very small physical size antennas will pack a mighty punch to our biological systems if we step into them.

Getting back to consumer safety and well-being and all things microwave, it is clear that the latency period for adverse biological effects from devices using microwave frequencies from say 1 GHz to 5 Ghz is approximately 10 - 20 years. In 2016 there are now many thousands of peer-reviewed medical and epidemiological studies that show, illustrate or correlate, adverse biological effects with use of mobile phone technology or WIFI. Using frequencies even higher than 5 GHz (and up to 100 GHz) will compress the timeframe in which cancers and other biological effects show themselves within society. It is anyone's guess on what might happen in terms of biological safety yet it is clear to see that the pulsed nature of these high frequency, high signal intensity signals do not harbour good news for humanity, particularly in relation to the functioning of our DNA.
See also: Drowning in a sea of microwaves: Wireless pollution 'out of control' as corporate race for 5G gears up

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Biohazard

Cancer radiation treatments are the equivalent of standing in front of a nuclear firing squad

Dr. Mark Sircus, Ac., OMD, DM
DrSircus
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 00:00 UTC
radiotherapy, radiation treatments nuclear firing squad
One of the worst consequences of radiation therapy is the development of a secondary cancer because increased radiation exposure leads to more incidences of cancer.
Doctors, specifically radiologists, are more than ready to line up their patients against a wall (actually a table) and fire nuclear projectiles at their bodies in massive quantities. No, you will not drop dead as fast as rifles loaded with lead but on a cellular level the death and devastation can be as great. Radiotherapy can leave patients with a lifetime of suffering with life expentacy severely shortened. The New York Times said, "These interventions can be just as brutal on the patient as they are on a tumor."

Thousands of cancer survivors have developed terrible conditions as a result of the radiotherapy treatment that helped save them. Radiation treatments do, in the short run, save people and children's lives yet often at a terrible cost in the future. What is unforgiveable is that they do not try safer things first.

One of the worst consequences of radiation therapy is the development of a secondary cancer because increased radiation exposure leads to more incidences of cancer. The cancer epidemic is getting worse but it is a survivable disease; yet the treatments cause considerable collateral damage - including initiating new, second cancers, terrible burns, and a long list of other problems depending on the target area of treatment.

Comment: What most doctors never tell their patients is that there ARE effective and far less dangerous methods to treat cancer:

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