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SOTT Focus: The Health & Wellness Show: How to become a mitochondriac with Dr. Jack Kruse


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Fri, 16 Dec 2016 15:03 UTC
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Join us for a brain-splitting follow up talk with Dr. Jack Kruse of Cold Thermogenesis, and Leptin Prescription fame. We'll talk about the the Quantlet, food as electrons, human photosynthesis, circadian biology, DHA, the intricacies of mitochondria and how their function is the key to optimal health. Do you have skin in the game?

Previous Health and Wellness Show with Dr. Kruse
The Health & Wellness Show: A conversation with Dr. Jack Kruse

Essential reading for citizen scientists:
Epi-paleo Rx: The Prescription for Disease Reversal and Optimal Health by Dr. Jack Kruse
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life by Nick Lane
Light in Shaping Life: Biophotons in Biology and Medicine by Roeland Van Wijk
The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor by Gerald Pollack
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology by Johnjoe McFadden and Jim Al-Khalili

Jack Kruse blog posts:
REALITY #1
REALITY # 2
The Redox Rx: How to Improve Your Redox Potential
REDOX Rx 2: BIOHACKING YOUR MRI

Running Time: 01:27:46

Download: MP3


Here's the transcript of the show:
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Health

Probiotics don't just benefit the gut

Mae Chan
Prevent Disease
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 17:30 UTC
bacteria face
Intestinal bacteria are the focus of intense research by scientists worldwide. They play a significant role in causing and preventing hundreds of diseases. According to a new systematic review and meta-analysis, probiotics have several advantageous effects on mental health by lessening the psychological symptoms of perceived stress, depression and anxiety.

There are over 400 species of bacteria in your belly right nowthat can be the key to health or disease. The genomes of the bacteria and viruses of the human gut alone are thought to encode 3.3 million genes.

Published in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, the study reviewed the results of seven previous studies which tested for symptoms in over 300 healthy volunteers both before and after supplementation with a probiotic.

Researchers from Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, wrote: "Interest in the gut-brain axis and emerging evidence that the intestinal microbiota can influence central nervous system function has led to the hypothesis that probiotic supplementation can have a positive effect on mood and psychological symptoms such as depression and anxiety.

Comment: See also: The Health & Wellness Show: Some of my best friends are germs

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Pills

Cure worse than the illness? As prescriptions for psychiatric drugs surge, mental health declines


Scientific American
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 17:37 UTC
psychiatric drugs, rise mental illness
© Broadway BooksRecent studies corroborate the thesis of journalist Robert Whitaker’s 2010 book Anatomy of an Epidemic that a decades-long surge in medications for mental illness has produced net harmful effects.

Mental health has declined as prescriptions for antidepressants and other drugs keep surging

Two new posts on this website have me contemplating, once again, the terrible possibility that psychiatry is hurting more people than it helps.

Reporter Sarah G. Miller notes in "1 in 6 Americans Takes a Psychiatric Drug" that prescriptions for mental illness keep surging. As of 2013, almost 17 percent of Americans were taking at least one psychiatric drug, up from 10 percent in 2011, according to a new study. Miller elaborates:

"Antidepressants were the most common type of psychiatric drug in the survey, with 12 percent of adults reporting that they filled prescriptions for these drugs... In addition, 8.3 percent of adults were prescribed drugs from a group that included sedatives, hypnotics and anti-anxiety drugs, and 1.6 percent of adults were given antipsychotics."

This increase in medications must be boosting our mental health, right? Wrong. In "Is Mental Health Declining in the U.S.?," Edmund S. Higgins, professor of psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina, acknowledges the "inconvenient truth" that Americans' mental health has, according to some measures, deteriorated.

Comment: Reviews of the scientific literature clearly show that it is our drug-based paradigm of care that is fueling this modern-day plague where millions experience debilitating and worsening psychological symptoms, an inability to work, disastrous medication side effects, altered mental functioning and even brain shrinkage. Psychiatrists in collusion with the pharmaceutical industry pushed the myth of chemical imbalances, thus setting the stage for the epidemic rise of mental illness in America.

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Unscrupulous physicians are like businessmen without a conscience: Doctors intentionally diagnosing healthy people with cancer to make money

Dave Mihalovic
Prevent Disease
Wed, 07 Jan 2015 14:11 UTC
fake doctors

It happens more often than you can imagine, but more doctors are finally getting caught in the act of misrepresenting their oath and fraudulently diagnosing healthy patients with cancer to turn a quick buck from kickbacks on chemotherapy poisons.

Why shouldn't Doctors lie when the entire cancer industry is one gigantic fabrication from start to finish? Is it any wonder that cancer societies worldwide put a far greater financial initiative on chemotherapy and radiation research than disease prevention techniques? Preventing disease doesn't make money, but treating disease certainly does.

Take Dr. Farid Fata, a prominent cancer doctor in Michigan who admitted in court one year ago to intentionally and wrongfully diagnosing healthy people with cancer. Fata also admitted to giving them chemotherapy drugs for the purpose of making a profit.

Were his patients shocked? You bet they were. Who would ever suspect a Doctor of faking a diagnosis to collect money. It's unconscionable. Yet it happens with cancer and almost every disease that medical doctors can generate income through kickbacks and commissions based on the volume of patients treated with specific pharmaceuticals. Like anything people are used as a commodity.

Comment: Read more about the cardiotoxic effects of chemotherapy and the landmark study that shows high death rates from chemotherapy treatment - not cancer itself
Long the mainstay for treating various cancers, chemotherapy has finally drawn criticism in recent years, as the medicine does not differentiate between healthy and cancerous cells. Now, this study — published in the Lancet — shows how that powerful cell-destroying property can mean the demise for patients as well.


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Gouging the elderly: Prices skyrocket on drugs widely prescribed to seniors


Medical Express
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 00:00 UTC
drug prices seniors, drug prices skyrocket
The prices of brand-name drugs used by many older Americans rose nearly 130 times faster than inflation last year, a new study reports.

"This new report once again highlights the high and unrelenting price increases that are shockingly common in the pharmaceutical market," said Debra Whitman. She is chief public policy officer at AARP, a nonprofit organization focused on social welfare issues.

"What's particularly remarkable is that these incredibly high price increases are still occurring in the face of the intense public and congressional criticism of prescription drug pricing practices," Whitman said in an AARP news release.

The researchers examined the prices of 268 brand-name prescription drugs widely used by seniors, including 49 in drug categories that are used to treat common and often chronic conditions, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes.

The retail prices of the drugs rose an average of 15.5 percent in 2015, compared with a 0.1 percent increase in the general inflation rate, according to the AARP report.

Comment: As Americans increasingly seethe at Big Pharma's money racket, Govt is coddling its power more than ever

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The risks of low-dose aspirin therapy

Dr. Mercola
mercola.com
Mon, 12 Dec 2016 22:07 UTC
aspirina
© CorbisAspirin
Low-dose aspirin therapy has long been recommended to lower your risk of heart attack, and an estimated 36 percent of American adults are currently on it.1 Think about it: That's more than 1 in 3 persons in the U.S.

The conventional justification for this recommendation is that aspirin slightly decreases your blood's ability to form dangerous clots due to prostaglandin inhibition.

However, a number of studies have refuted its benefits, and there's no shortage of controversy surrounding this subject. In 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration even reversed its stance on daily aspirin therapy, noting:2,3
"FDA has concluded that the data do not support the use of aspirin as a preventive medication by people who have not had a heart attack, stroke or cardiovascular problems, a use that is called 'primary prevention.'
In such people, the benefit has not been established but risks — such as dangerous bleeding into the brain or stomach — are still present."
1 in 10 People May Be Inappropriately Using Aspirin Therapy

According to a 2015 study4 published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), more than 10 percent of patients are inappropriately using aspirin therapy for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD), as they have a 10-year CVD risk that is lower than 6 percent (low risk).
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Health

Sunshine, spice and everything nice for treating psoriasis

Dr. Mercola
mercola.com
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 21:52 UTC
psoriasis
© Desconocido
More than a superficial skin condition, psoriasis is a chronic condition of your immune system that triggers cells to build up on the surface of your skin. This leads to thick, scaly, red patches that itch and are sometimes painful.

Approximately 7.5 million Americans suffer with psoriasis, which also has a surprising economic impact.1

The combined annual cost of psoriasis reached nearly $112 billion in 2013.2 Although it commonly affects the skin, it may also affect your joints (psoriatic arthritis), and has been associated with diabetes, asthma, cardiovascular disease and depression.3

Psoriasis can also have significant emotional and mental impact on patients, with the prevalence of depression measured as high as 50 percent.4

While psoriasis is an inflammatory response, it can lead to an infection if you frequently scratch the affected areas. However, psoriasis is not contagious, and you may be able to prevent outbreaks by using some of the strategies outlined below.

Not All Psoriasis Is Created Equally

There are actually five different types of psoriasis. Each of these have different symptoms but they are all just as irritating and itchy.

Plaque psoriasis is the most common type.5 It is characterized by red, raised skin patches that are often covered with dead skin cells appearing silvery white. The patches show up most often on the elbows, scalp, knees and lower back.

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Blackpool, UK mass-medicates schoolchildren with fluoridated milk

Anna Hunt
Waking Times
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 16:14 UTC
fluoridated milk
The town of Blackpool, located on the northwest coast of England, began distributing fluoridated milk to about 8000 primary school children, after The Blackpool Town Council approved the program in early 2016. Fluoridated milk is now available via the town's free school breakfast program.

This program aims to address the problem of tooth health in children, and the Council states that half of the 12-year-olds in Blackpool have at least one decayed, missing or filled tooth, whereas the average for England is 33%, and 41% of 5-year-olds in Blackpool have tooth decay, 13% higher than the national average.

Despite the plan's roll out, there are many opponents to mass medication via programs such as milk fluoridation.
"There is a lot of conflicting evidence about adding fluoride to milk, including that it cancels out the good effects of calcium. You can't mass medicate children, which is what they are doing. Who is going to monitor how much fluoride children will have in them?" ~ Blackpool Councillor Tony Williams
Councillor Williams voices another concern about how public health officials will monitor the level of fluoride in each child. There is no way to ensure that children will not be over-medicated. Under the fluoridated milk scheme, each 189ml carton will contain 0.8mg of fluoride, which is equivalent to 4.2 parts per million (ppm). For comparison, the recommended safe level of fluoride in water in the U.S. is 0.7 ppm. This was lowered in 2015 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from the range of 0.7-1.2 ppm, who decided that it was a potential danger to maintain the higher levels.

Comment: Blackpool just laid out the welcome mat for dental fluoroses, calcified arteries and pineal glands, lowered IQ's and cancers.
15 facts people should know about fluoride

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Optimism and good health go hand-in-hand

Josh Richardson
Prevent Disease
Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:07 UTC
happy person
© kati / Global Look Press
What helps people live longer than anything else? What about having an optimistic outlook on life -- a general expectation that good things will happen? According to a new study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, that's the case.

"The absence of the negative is not the same thing as the presence of the positive. We found that factors such as optimism, life satisfaction, and happiness are associated with reduced risk of CVD regardless of such factors as a person's age, socioeconomic status, smoking status, or body weight," said author Julia Boehm, research fellow in the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health at HSPH.

"While most medical and public health efforts today focus on reducing risk factors for diseases, evidence has been mounting that enhancing psychological resilience may also make a difference," said Eric Kim, research fellow in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and co-lead author of the study. "Our new findings suggest that we should make efforts to boost optimism, which has been shown to be associated with healthier behaviors and healthier ways of coping with life challenges."
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Vaccines: A violation of human rights

Vin Armani
Activist Post
Mon, 12 Dec 2016 14:36 UTC
Vaccines are often full of carcinogenic emulsifier
The video below is a rational discussion about vaccines with Christina Hildebrand, President of A Voice For Choice, Inc. where she explains why mandatory vaccines are a violation of your human rights and how they are potentially dangerous to you or your child's health.

Christina is passionate about ensuring people know what they are putting into their bodies - be it food, air, water or medications. For the past 12 years, Christina has spent many thousands of hours researching and sharing her knowledge within her local community. However, with the growth of the Big Ag and Big pHARMa's influences on US politics, Christina realized that she needed to take this to a different level and educate the masses on their right to informed choice and transparency of what goes into their bodies.

Comment: The Vaccine Safety Myth

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