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Popular acid reflux drugs linked to silent kidney damage

Bruce B. Vanderburg
Reliawire
Tue, 28 Feb 2017 17:07 UTC
nexium
People taking heartburn drugs called proton pump inhibitors, including Prevacid, Prilosec, Nexium, and Protonix, may not be aware of kidney damage linked to the medications, new research suggests.

The study evaluated the use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) in 125,000 patients. Results show that over 50% of patients who develop chronic kidney damage while taking the drugs don't experience acute kidney problems beforehand. That means patients may be unaware of a decline in kidney function, according to researchers.

For that reason, people who take PPIs, and their doctors, should be more vigilant in monitoring use of these medications.

Comment: Ditch the proton pump inhibitors. Here are some causes of acid reflux and natural remedies.

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Health

Weak muscles? Low vitamin D may be the culprit

Mae Chan
Prevent Disease
Mon, 27 Feb 2017 16:55 UTC
vitamin D benefits
Age-associated decline in muscle function represents a significant public health burden. Vitamin D-deficiency is also prevalent in aging subjects, and has been linked to loss of muscle mass and strength. New research published in the journal PLOS shows specific forms of active vitamin D can help to optimise muscle strength.

In the absence of Vitamin D from sunlight, disease increases more than 1000 percent. Experts suggest that the chances of getting vitamin D from your diet are very low. And if you are a vegetarian, it is all the more difficult to gain vitamin D. What they repeatedly suggest is exposure to sunlight is the best source of vitamin D. Humans spend less time in the sun today than at any point in human history -- which is why more than 1 billion people worldwide are vitamin D deficient.

Humans make 90 percent of our vitamin D naturally from sunlight exposure to our skin -- specifically, from ultraviolet B exposure to the skin, which naturally initiates the conversion of cholesterol in the skin to vitamin D3.

Several studies have reported that the D3 form of the vitamin is more potent that D2, with a study led by Robert Heaney, MD, from Creighton University in Nebraska reporting that D3 was 87% more potent than D2.

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2 + 2 = 4

ADHD solved when Texas schools increase recess time

Vic Bishop
Waking Times
Tue, 28 Feb 2017 16:58 UTC
playground kids
Public education is more stressful than ever for our children, as standardized testing requirements increase and programs like art, music and physical education are being phased out. The result of this type of environment is predictable, and the medical establishment and big pharma are making a killing by drugging active children with ADHD medications and other psychotropic drugs in order to ensure conformity.

There are better solutions. Meditation in schools is highly effective at reducing school violence and increasing concentration for learning. Higher quality nutritious and organic foods, rather than processed snack foods and fast foods, when served in school cafeterias are another part of creating an environment more conducive to the needs of children.

The most common sense, natural solution to inattentive behavior in school children, however, may be the basic idea of giving children more time to free play and to engage their bodies in physical activity. It's such a simple notion in such unusual times that it actually sounds revolutionary, and several schools in Texas are being hailed for trying a new program which solves behavioral problems by doing nothing more than allowing children to play outside more often during the school day.

Simple ideas like this have been proven to work well in places like Finland, where students' test scores improved along with increased play time, a case which serves as the inspiration for a program in Texas schools which have quadrupled the amount of outdoor recreational time, seeing amazing results in terms of overall increase in focus and decreases in distraction and behavioral interruptions.

Comment: Kudos to these schools. Children should be outside playing and not forced to sit at a desk for hours on end.
Kids need less class time and more play time in school

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Syringe

Pro-vaccine advocates need to check their hypocrisy

Tami Canal
March Against Monsanto
Wed, 01 Mar 2017 17:01 UTC
vaccine hypocrisy
© KAZVorpal via Visual hunt / CC BY-SA
The common sense, or lack thereof, of some people truly baffles me and I have reached a point where I'm going to call out the hypocrisy of certain individuals. If the following offends you, I make no apologies. Instead, I encourage you to focus your outrage on the thousands of innocent victims of the CDC's vaccination program. (Read more about that by clicking here.)

If you advocate for any of the following issues, but allow your child to be vaccinated...you are a hypocrite.
1. Pro-Life
You cannot be pro-life and pro-vaccine...unless there's a clause in the pro-life rule book that allows for the use of aborted fetal cells in vaccinations given to humans.

This is not fear-mongering or "woo", as the trolls will cry. It's a plain and simple fact that a minimum of 27 vaccines contain aborted fetal tissue, DNA, proteins and cells including:
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Syringe

Best of the Web: Aluminum adjuvant, cytokines, brain inflammation, autism: Did China discover the missing piece of the autism puzzle?

J. B. Handley
Healthcare in America
Wed, 22 Feb 2017 17:57 UTC
china puzzle
Scientists appear to be far closer to explaining the mechanisms of action within the body that cause autism. Most of the research that has created this understanding has been published in the last 36 months, and largely from international scientists in Canada, France, Israel, and China. Four clear, replicable, and related discoveries explaining how autism is triggered are forming an undeniably clear picture of autism's causation, and possibly ways to alleviate the symptoms, too.

When Caltech scientist Dr. Paul Patterson passed away in 2014, I had little appreciation that he had triggered a chain of events over the course of his career that may now provide a clear and unambiguous explanation of how and why my son developed autism back in 2004. Knowing exactly how my son's autism was caused is incredibly important to my wife and I, because the more information we have about causation, the more chance we have to do something about it, and perhaps recover my son from an affliction now impacting 1 in 48 American kids.

What you're about to read is the product of more than two dozen very recent peer-reviewed published scientific studies, with really no original thought by me. I'm a businessman and a father, but what follows is a "grand theory of autism" so complete and well-supported that I think it deserves the attention of every member of the autism community. When the totality of this explanation became clear to me, not only did my jaw hit the floor, but I was immediately consumed with thoughts about how this clear explanation might impact the way we treat our son's autism, and I hope it does the same for you and perhaps your doctor as well. What I'm certain of is that this "grand theory" needs to be heavily debated, and I hope by putting it in the public realm I help move it along that path. (I'm indebted to an anonymous scientist who runs a website called Vaccine Papers, where many of these insights came from. I will quote VP throughout this piece, referring to VP as "VP." I highly recommend you read the totality of his website, where the explanations are far more scientific than what you will read here.)
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Life Preserver

LED light therapy shows promise in treating chronic pain


Science Daily
Tue, 28 Feb 2017 00:00 UTC
light therapy, chronic pain
Chronic pain afflicts over 100 million people across the United States. It diminishes their productivity and their quality of life and costs hundreds of billions of dollars each year to medically manage. It shatters people's emotional wellbeing, tears apart families and claims lives through suicides and accidental drug overdoses.

But now researchers at the University of Arizona have found promise in a novel, non-pharmacological approach to managing chronic pain -- treating it with green light-emitting diodes (LED).

Results of the study appear in the February 2017 issue of the journal Pain.

In the study, rats with neuropathic pain that were bathed in green LED showed more tolerance for thermal and tactile stimulus than rats that were not bathed in green LED.

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Attention

Increased risk of 11 types of cancer shows evidence linked to being overweight, researchers warn

Nicola Davis
The Guardian
Tue, 28 Feb 2017 18:30 UTC
Overweight
© Chris Radburn/PAScientists warned that the increased risk is not confined to those who are obese; anyone who carries excess fat is at some degree of risk, they say.
Study shows strong evidence of a link between excess body fat and cancers of the colon, breast, pancreas and ovary among others.

Being overweight could increase the risk of a host of cancers, including those of the colon, breast, pancreas and ovary, researchers have warned following a wide review of more than 200 studies.

According to previous figures from two leading charities, almost three quarters of people are expected to be overweight by 2035, with 700,000 new cases of obesity-related cancer expected over the next 20 years.

The new study by an international team adds weight to the warning, revealing that there is currently strong evidence for a link between excess body fat and an increased risk of 11 cancers: colon, rectum, endometrium, breast, ovary, kidney, pancreas, gastric cardia, biliary tract system and certain cancers of the oesophagus and bone marrow.

"I think now the public and physicians really need to pay attention to obesity with respect to cancer," said Marc Gunter, a co-author of the research from the International Agency for Research on Cancer. "Telling people to avoid being overweight not only reduces their risk of, say, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, it also reduces their risk of many different cancers."

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Bulb

Dim light at night is dangerous to your metabolism


Chronobiology
Wed, 01 Mar 2017 16:24 UTC
dim light bedtime
Are you exposed to even small amounts of light throughout the night? If so, this constant low level of light may be having negative effects on your metabolism.

With obesity and the diseases that it causes on the rise in the Western world, many doctors and researchers struggle to find the root causes of this epidemic. At the same time, losing weight can be a personal struggle for the more than half of American adults who simply have too much body fat. New research suggests that dim light at night, which is common in our light polluted world, may be contributing to the ever-expanding American waistline.

Light and Your Circadian Rhythm

Although our bodies have internal clocks that regulate our circadian rhythm even in the absence of external cues, we also set our clocks partly by cues from the outside world. Light is a major circadian cue. When our retinas sense light, the message is passed to the suprachiasmatic nucleus of the hypothalamus of our brains. The suprachiasmatic nucleus in turn tells the pineal gland not to make melatonin.

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Question

Does everything cause cancer these days?

Pedro Aquila
Waking Times
Tue, 28 Feb 2017 17:24 UTC
supermarket shopping
When a person attempts conversation about how something causes cancer, they are often met with the dismissive response "but everything causes cancer." They are right, in a way. Almost everything does cause cancer, yet it is possible to avoid.

This article can be a resource for avoiding carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, and health damaging chemicals. It only scratches the surface, but this should be a perfect introduction for someone who is unaware that many things are too toxic to tolerate.

1. Chemicals in Food

A. GM, pesticide contaminated soy is linked to endocrine disruption and cancer

As you may have heard, the pesticide RoundUp or glyphosate is an enemy to public health in several ways, but did you know many soy products are contaminated with it, and can cause endocrine disruption and cancer?

Genetically modified soybeans are grown in great abundance, and the result is cheap, plentiful soybean oil. The soybean oil is put into just about every processed food product you can think of, and it often contains the pesticide it is genetically modified to be resistant to.
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Sun

Are humans solar powered?

Gina Bria
Green Med Info
Mon, 20 Feb 2017 17:20 UTC
Are Humans Solar Powered?

Are we, too, solar powered, like plants? It's no longer a question, it's an answer.

Summary of TEDxtalk: Water, Cells, Life by Dr. Gerald Pollack, a water scientist at the University of Washington, tell us where the energy comes from that supplies our bodies with get up and go. In it, Dr. Pollack challenges the long-held explanation that the bulk of our energy comes from food, in the form of calories. He provides an entirely new and very exciting paradigm, one that will open up new dimensions of body energy for accelerated healing and vitality. And he shares his unexpected laboratory results to back his explanation up. This will surely be a seminal TEDxtalk.

In it Dr. Pollack makes two unexpected and paradigm-advancing points. Hold onto your hat.

The first point is that there is a new form of water, H3O2. Just give yourself a sec to take that in. The news of a new form or phase of water is really starting to circulate. The old paradigm of vapor, liquid, ice has been facing theoretical challenges for at least a 100 years, but the three-phase paradigm remained a convenient knowledge package, given the complexities and doggedly unexplained mysteries of water behavior. Don't you love that water has unexplained behavior? Water scientists always speculated that water exists on a spectrum, but where they drew the boundary lines was more arbitrary than we first understood, and they actually missed one elementally important phase.
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