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7-year-old Indian boy found with 526 teeth inside his mouth

Rebecca Ratcliffe
The Guardian
Fri, 02 Aug 2019 07:39 UTC
Indian boy with 526 teeth
© P. Ravikumar/Reuters
A seven-year-old boy who had suffered occasional toothache was found to have 526 teeth inside his jaw, according to surgeons in India.

The hundreds of teeth were found inside a sac that was nestled in the molar region of his lower jaw, following surgery carried out at the Saveetha Dental College and Hospital in Chennai.

"The teeth were of variable sizes that ranged from smallest at 0.1mm to largest 3mm. They had a small crown, enamel and a small root," said Pratibha Ramani, the head of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology at the hospital.

"We had to drill down into the top [of the lower jaw], make a window and remove the sac," said Ramani. "As it [the sac] was going deeper into the tissue the size of the teeth was becoming very small."
Indian boy with 526 teeth
© P. Ravikumar/Reuters
Doctors arrange the tooth-like structures removed from the mouth of the boy.
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Paul Offit unwittingly exposes scientific fraud of the FDA's vaccine licensure

Jeremy R. Hammond
Children's Health Defense
Fri, 02 Aug 2019 19:15 UTC
science fraud
By telling parents not to do antibody blood tests to avoid needlessly vaccinating their child, Paul Offit unwittingly exposes scientific fraud by the FDA.

Many parents today are naturally concerned about the number of vaccine doses their children are exposed to by following the schedule recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). To many parents, it makes sense to avoid vaccinating their children unnecessarily, and to this end a blood test can be done to determine an antibody titer, or the level of antibodies in the blood. If a child already has a protective antibody titer, indicating immunity to a given infectious disease, then there would be no reason for the child to undergo the risks associated with vaccinating against that disease.

Comment: It is morally reprehensible for a doctor (millionaire vaccine inventor) to support and encourage vaccinations while dismissing important facts and questions regarding vaccine safety. Dr. Offit has tremendous influence in the debate:
The status accorded to him by the pharmaceutical and medical fields permits him to influence the opinions and practice of lower rung physicians regarding vaccine exemptions. Unfortunately, even doctors will simply believe the "expert"[2] without bothering to go and check their own medical literature, to see if the self-proclaimed expertise has a solid scientific foundation. Research shows that when people listen to the expert, the part of their brains that is capable of independent thought goes to sleep.[3]


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What you need to know about your fascia

Dr. Joseph Mercola
Mercola.com
Sat, 01 Sep 2018 00:01 UTC
mysterious world under the skin
The 2018 DW Documentary, "The Mysterious World Beneath the Skin," delves into the workings and functions of your fascia, the fibrous connective tissue found throughout your body. Remarkably, this thin layer of tissue accounts for about 20 percent of your body mass.

As explained by Dr. Jerry Tennant in his book, "Healing Is Voltage: The Handbook," your muscles are stacked one on top of the other in a specific order (much like batteries in a flashlight) to form a power pack. Each organ has its own battery pack, which is a stack of muscle batteries.

These muscle batteries are in turn surrounded by fascia, which acts as a semiconductor — an arranged metabolic molecule designed to move electrons at the speed of light, but only in one direction.

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The Name Game: Cultured meat could suffer the same fate as GMOs

Jenny Splitter
Forbes
Thu, 11 Jul 2019 21:20 UTC
cultured meat
New research offers a warning to companies looking to sell cultured meat. This new type of protein — meat engineered from cell tissue in a lab rather than using traditional animal agriculture — could end up suffering the same fate as GMOs if producers and proponents aren't able to shift the public narrative.

In a study published July 3 in the journal Frontiers in Nutrition, researchers found that consumers presented with images of cultured meat framed as high tech innovation felt more negatively about it than consumers who were presented with images and text highlighting the meat's societal benefits or its equivalent taste and nutrition.

Researchers separated the 480 consumers surveyed into three groups, presenting cultured meat to each group through a slightly different lens. The three different frames were "high-tech," which showed the meat in a lab spilling out of a petri dish, "societal benefits," which showed cows in a field with a sentence about helping animals and reducing environmental harms, and "same meat," which showed a meatball sizzling in a pan with text highlighting equivalent taste and nutrition.

Comment: Lab Meat: Big hype, bad investment
Seems like investors are just lining up to throw their dollars at technology's latest thing. But I have a prediction for them. Lab meat will be no more successful than soy burgers or Just Mayo. People today want real food, and vegans are mostly too poor to afford highly processed food like "cultured" meat. But meanwhile, lab meat is good way to separate a lot of dot-com millionaire fools from their money.


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Poisoned for Profit: Whether in the UK or India, we are not the agrochemical industry's guinea pigs

Colin Todhunter
countercurrents.org
Sat, 27 Jul 2019 10:01 UTC
poisoned for profits
© Global Research
Environmentalist Dr. Rosemary Mason has just written to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Chemicals Regulation Division (HSE) in the UK claiming that the glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup has poisoned her nature reserve in South Wales and is also poisoning people across the UK (she includes herself here, as she struggles with a neurodegenerative condition). She notes that the widespread spraying of glyphosate went against the advice of directive 2009/128/EC of the European parliament but was carried out at the behest of the agrochemicals industry.

Mason has sent a 24-page fully referenced document with her letter in support of her claims. It can be accessed in full here. What follows is a brief summary of just a few of the take-home points. There is a lot more in Mason's document, much of which touches on issues she has previously covered but which nonetheless remain relevant.

Comment: Objective:Health: #22 - Poisoned Agriculture, Poisoned World

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Dr. Valdeane Brown: Optimizing your nervous system with Neuroptimal neurofeedback

Dr. Josh Handt
Lifestyle Locker Radio Podcast
Mon, 29 Jul 2019 20:49 UTC
Neurofeedback
© neuroedge.ca
Dr. Brown had a long and varied history in the field of mental health before even pursuing his Ph.D. in Psychology. For over 25 years he taught Continuing Medical Education courses across a wide range of clinical topics including Rapid Transformation of Borderline Phenomenology, Dual Diagnosed Clients, Dynamics of Family Therapy, Working With Angry Adolescents.

For many years he was a featured and keynote speaker at numerous national and international conferences in the fields of neurofeedback, child psychology, Total Quality Management, and others. He developed and published the Five Phase Model of Neurofeedback which was the first and still the only, approach to clinical neurofeedback that integrated multiple protocols into a single comprehensive approach that could be used regardless of clinical presentation.


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Brain

The brain-eating amoeba is a nearly perfect killer

Haley Weiss
The Atlantic
Mon, 29 Jul 2019 00:01 UTC
kids swimming
© Ognen Teofilovski / Reuters
Last week, a North Carolina man became a notorious microbial killer's first confirmed victim this year. Fifty-nine-year-old Eddie Gray had unknowingly come across a brain-eating amoeba while swimming in a man-made lake near Fayetteville in mid-July; 10 days later, he was dead.

Since the brain-eating amoeba was first recognized and named, in 1970, grisly reports of its disastrous attacks have made headlines nearly every year. About 97 percent of confirmed cases in the United States have been fatal. But the infection is also incredibly rare, and the small sample size leaves the epidemiologists who study it and the doctors who encounter it with their hands tied. It may be one of nature's most perfect crimes.

Despite their gruesome moniker, most brain-eating amoebas never eat a single brain. The single-celled swimmer, formally known as Naegleria fowleri, passes its time resting in a dormant state or, when it's warm enough, splashing around and munching on bacteria. Unlike most waterborne pathogens, it's utterly benign if you drink it. It becomes dangerous only when, thanks to a person enjoying a day at a water park or a quick rinse in a stream, the amoeba is yanked from its bacterial buffet and swept into the dark recesses of the human nose.

Comment: Following the above safety precautions is probably a good idea, despite the rarity of the infection. But it is curious that a number of cases have surfaced recently. The spate of new infections that seem to be springing up as of late does make one wonder what exactly is going on.

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Biohazard

Study finds 90% of families have glyphosate in bodies with significantly higher levels found in children


Center for Environmental Health
Wed, 24 Jul 2019 00:01 UTC
glyphosate


Results released as Trump's EPA poised to approve the continued use of glyphosate in the U.S. for 15 more years

A new study by Center for Environmental Health (CEH) found over 90% of families tested had glyphosate in their bodies. The study sought to determine whether children are more exposed to Monsanto's toxic weed killer than their parents. The results were unequivocal. Nine of the twelve parent-child pairs tested (in one family both parents and two children participated), the child had higher concentrations of glyphosate in their body than their parent. Six children had twice the amount than their parents and one had nearly a hundred times more. The families tested lived in a variety of states from across the country. CEH's findings corroborate other recent studies that found glyphosate in the bodies of 70 to 93% of those tested.

"Our findings are particularly alarming for children, whose bodies are still developing," said Caroline Cox, CEH's Senior Scientist. "A toxic weed killer known to cause cancer has no business in our bodies or our food. Human health and the health of our children should outweigh the chemical industry's right to profit. These results warrant immediate, long-term, independent follow-up studies with increased sample sizes."

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Biohazard

Former Pittsburgh Steeler Merril Hoge sues Roundup maker, alleges it caused his cancer

Megan Cerullo
CBS News
Wed, 31 Jul 2019 19:50 UTC
Merril Hoge Pittsburgh Steelers
Former Pittsburgh Steelers running back Merril Hoge is among the thousands of plaintiffs suing Roundup maker Monsanto alleging his exposure to its weed killer caused him to develop non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

The former football star, 54, alleges in a lawsuit filed this month that he was first exposed to Roundup in 1977, while working on a potato farm in Idaho. He developed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2003.

More than 11,200 plaintiffs allege in pending lawsuits that exposure to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, caused them cancer or other injuries.

Comment: It's interesting, yet unsurprising, that a corporate media story about an ex-sports star suing Bayer because he says Roundup caused his cancer contains almost exclusively quotes from the corporate giant denying their products are unsafe, yet no information to counter that claim. Also note the lack of a statement from Hoge. Spin anyone?

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Florida health officials say mosquito-borne virus that causes brain swelling, death detected in state

Madeline Farber
Fox News
Mon, 29 Jul 2019 16:40 UTC
mosquito
Heads up, Floridians: A dangerous and potentially deadly mosquito-borne virus has been detected in the state, the Florida Department of Health in Orange County (DOH-Orange) announced late last week.

"Several sentinel chickens in the same flock" tested positive for Eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV), per the DOH-Orange, which noted, "the risk of transmission to humans has increased."

EEE, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is a rare disease that's spread by infected mosquitoes. EEEV "is one of a group of mosquito-transmitted viruses that can cause inflammation of the brain (encephalitis)," the federal health agency says.
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