Health & Wellness

International OB-GYN report warns: Chemical exposures are a major threat to human health & reproduction

Dr. Mercola
Mercola.com
Tue, 13 Oct 2015 23:36 UTC

According to a newly released report^1,2 by the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics³ (FIGO), which represents OB-GYNs in 125 countries, chemical exposures represent a major threat to human health.

Toxic chemicals are all around us; in our food, water, air, and countless commonly used products and goods, and this onslaught is having a definitive effect — even when exposures are relatively low.

This is particularly true during pregnancy and early infancy. According to the report:

"Exposure to toxic environmental chemicals during pregnancy and breastfeeding is ubiquitous and is a threat to healthy human reproduction."

The report is being shared during this year's global conference on women's health issues in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Comment: What makes a poison?

The chemicals that we're exposed to in our daily lives are often approved by the government under the assumption that they're safe in small doses, even over a long period of time. For years, regulators relied on the old adage "the dose makes the poison" to try to explain their logic. While that might have appeared true for certain chemicals for many years, we now live in a world where exposure to a large variety of chemicals is unavoidable and it's finally becoming clear that we can't evaluate these chemicals in isolation.

Listen to the SOTT Health & Wellness Show to learn more about environmental toxins and pollution.

More corruption within the CDC: Lyme Disease Community blows the whistle

Jessica Bernstein
Truthout
Wed, 13 Nov 2013 19:51 UTC

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently announced that rather than 30,000 new cases of Lyme disease each year in the United States, there are likely 300,000. What the CDC failed to explain is why it's taken them so long to acknowledge that Lyme disease has reached epidemic proportions.

The Lyme disease community has been battling for years to get the CDC to admit that Lyme disease is a mass public health crisis.

Meanwhile, the CDC itself has been informally saying since 2004 that Lyme disease is probably 6 to 12 times more prevalent than the reported cases. Why then have they suddenly decided to formally acknowledge these higher rates?

Comment: Chronic Lyme Disease: A silent epidemic the government chooses to ignore

Anorexia nervosa may be partly related to an imbalance of the gut microbiota

Madlen Davies
Daily Mail
Tue, 06 Oct 2015 19:06 UTC

Anorexia may be linked to the balance of bacteria in the gut, new research suggests.

People with the eating disorder have fewer and less diverse communities of microbes in their digestive tracts compared to those without the disorder, the study found.

This imbalance could be associated with some of the psychological symptoms of the condition, such as depression, anxiety and further desire for weight loss, the researchers said.

Previous studies have linked the gut microbiota - the trillions of bacteria that affect digestive health and immunity - with brain health.

Comment: Mind-Gut Connection: Why Intestinal Bacteria May Have Important Effects on Your Brain:

Medical revolutions in America

Jack Phillips
Greenmedinfo.com
Sun, 18 Mar 2012 18:09 UTC

© wikipedia
1857 painting by Alexander Beydeman showing historical figures and personifications of homeopathy observing the brutality of medicine of the 19th century

About 170 years ago our ancestors forced the repeal of licensing laws which had created a monopoly over the practice of medicine for orthodox physicians. Ordinary people, farmers, artisans, tradesmen and others got together and forced politicians to act on their behalf. They were tired of bloodletting, and harsh medications like mercury compounds that ruined their teeth and weakened their bodies. They opted for kinder and gentler alternatives with lower casualty rates, particularly the newly introduced homeopathy. They were impressed that tiny doses of medicine were able to cure cholera much better than the massive doses used by orthodox physicians.

Comment: The following articles present interesting information about Why Skeptics Love to Hate Homeopathy:

Most homeopaths of the 1800s were former allopaths who had abandoned their brethren because they found Hahnemann's system to be more successful in battling cholera, typhus, yellow fever, diptheria, influenza, and other epidemics of the 1800s. In retaliation, the preamble to the AMA's charter forbade its members to associate with homeopaths or to use their medicines, and many doctors were expelled for failing to comply.

But does homeopathy really pose such a threat to conventional medicine today? To see how the little David of homeopathy could take down the Goliath of Big Pharma, we need to take a closer look at what homeopathy is all about.

Infectious bacterium causing Query fever linked to increased risk of lymphoma

Science Daily
Tue, 13 Oct 2015 00:00 UTC

The bacterium that causes Q fever, an infectious disease that humans contract from animals, is associated with an increased risk of lymphoma, according to a study published online today in Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology (ASH).

Q fever is caused by infection with Coxiella burnetii, a bacterium primarily transmitted through the excrement of cattle, sheep, and goats. Approximately 3 percent of healthy adults in the United States and 10-20 percent of those in high-risk occupations such as veterinarians and farmers have antibodies for C. burnetii, suggesting previous infection.¹ Symptoms of Q fever vary from person to person and can be acute and resolve spontaneously, or chronic and persistent. Because some patients have been reported to also suffer from lymphoma, researchers believed that this type of cancer could be a risk factor for Q fever. However, the experience of one patient prompted doctors to consider the opposite -- that the infection might actually cause the lymphoma.

"During a follow-up scan in a patient we had successfully treated for Q fever, we observed a tumor close to the location of the previous infection," said senior study author Didier Raoult, MD, PhD, of Aix-Marseille University in Marseille, France. "The discovery that it was a lymphoma tumor containing C. burnetii encouraged us to consider that the infection might have contributed to the development of the cancer."

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Duke, the rescue dog warns his family when their 9-week old infant stopped breathing

Huffington Post
Wed, 14 Oct 2015 16:33 UTC

A rescue dog is being called a hero after saving the life of a Portland, Conn., family's infant daughter.

The Brousseau family had already gone to bed on Sunday night when their dog, Duke, who was adopted nearly six years ago, jumped on their bed and began shaking uncontrollably. Duke's behavior immediately woke the couple up, reports the Orlando Sentinel.

"He is insanely obedient, so this was extremely bizarre," Jenna Brousseau told WFSB News.

Duke had never acted like this before, according to the Brousseaus, so they knew something had to be wrong. When they went into their 9-week-old daughter Harper's room to check on her, she wasn't breathing.

According to ABC, Jenna's husband immediatley called an ambulance. Baby Harper was then revived by paramedics, and taken to the hospital.

"If Duke hadn't been so scared, we would have just gone to sleep," Jenna Brousseau said of her heroic dog.

She added, "He's the perfect dog, he was meant, meant to be ours."

U.S. Midwest experiencing massive outbreak of mysterious oak leaf itch mite

Phys.org
Tue, 13 Oct 2015 00:00 UTC

The mysterious bug bites first appeared a few weeks ago.

George Monks, a dermatologist in Tulsa, Okla., started hearing complaints about weird, itchy welts. The bites had strange, tiny blisters in the center, ruling out mosquitoes. Appearing on arms, necks and faces, they were in the wrong places to be from chiggers, which tend to attack around waistbands and sock lines.

Then Monks' friends got bitten. Then his kids. And when he then posted on Facebook about the odd welts, he couldn't believe how many people responded that their kids had bites too.

That's when Monks realized that some kind of epidemic must be unfolding before him - except nobody had seen the culprits.

"It's a massive, massive outbreak," said Monks, who says about 1 in 5 of his patients coming in for other skin issues have the mysterious bites. "I've been in practice for 13 years and never seen an outbreak like this."

FDA to approve flu shot containing squalene which has been shown to cause severe autoimmune disorders

Paul Fassa
Natural Blaze
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 00:00 UTC

The FDA has granted fast track approval for Swiss based Novartis's flu shot that contains squalene as an adjuvant to boost what they consider an immune response.

Fast track approval is normally reserved for crucial emergencies during vaccine shortages. You might be aware that there is no shortage of flu vaccines and most hyped flu epidemics are bogus.

But what they call an immune response is mostly a localized cytokine response to toxic adjuvants and preservatives. But the process of creating a cellular memory to defend against future viral attacks is usually bypassed by vaccinating.

Comment: The former Chief Vaccine Office at the FDA, Dr. Anthony Morris stated that "there is no evidence that any influenza vaccine thus far developed is effective in preventing or mitigating any attack of influenza." Considering the ineffectiveness of the vaccines and the potential side effects that go along with all vaccines, they are not worth the potential risks.

Medicated and Mighty? Mom starts pro-psychotropic drug movement (with the help of a PR firm)

Source
Tue, 13 Oct 2015 16:29 UTC

The corporatists at Big Pharma, as well as the purveyors of political correctness, have scored another victory with Americans: shaming anyone who thinks that dangerous psychotropic, mind-and-mood-altering medications are ultimately bad for your health.

They even have a catchy new hashtag campaign underway.

As reported by the left-leaning Buzzfeed news site, #MedicatedAndMighty is a hashtag developed by Erin Jones, a blogger who posted a photo on her Facebook page of her holding a pair of prescriptions for psychotropic drugs after being offline for a while, with this accompanying explanation:

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Helping the Microbiome with mushrooms & mycelium

Paul Stamets
fungi.com
Thu, 08 Oct 2015 14:48 UTC

Trametes versicolor, commonly known as the Turkey Tail Mushroom

Few people know that we are more closely related to fungi than to any other kingdom. 650 million years ago, we split from fungi. We evolved to encircle our nutrients within a cellular sack, a stomach, and digested nutrients within. Fungi evolved to externally digest its nutrients, and projected a fine filamentous, cobweb like cellular networks known as mycelium. In both cases, over millions of years, choosing beneficial bacteria to aid in this process became essential for good digestion. By selecting commensal bacteria to help digest food, both humans and mushroom mycelium created complex communities - microbiomes - to help digestion, prevent disease, and extend longevity. Not only do we benefit from a healthy microbiome, but so too does the mycelium.

Comment: Four medicinal mushrooms to add to your home pharmacy

Bill Gates is going to be the one with the uncertain future,,, * New Lt. Governor of Virginia Winsome Sears: "We're going to have safer...

parzival

The more we hear about adverse affects the more we will merely shrug. It's a catch 22. Is that an asteroid trail in the photo?

sass

Welcome to the new normal. The more sensory exposure we have about such things, the less it is an issue.

sass

more misbehaving phuqqin' jewzskies starring on the sott; speaks for itself

Jibrish

Robert F. Kennedy talks about what is in his book about Fauci: [Link]

parzival

Health & Wellness

International OB-GYN report warns: Chemical exposures are a major threat to human health & reproduction

More corruption within the CDC: Lyme Disease Community blows the whistle

Anorexia nervosa may be partly related to an imbalance of the gut microbiota

Medical revolutions in America

Infectious bacterium causing Query fever linked to increased risk of lymphoma

Duke, the rescue dog warns his family when their 9-week old infant stopped breathing

U.S. Midwest experiencing massive outbreak of mysterious oak leaf itch mite

FDA to approve flu shot containing squalene which has been shown to cause severe autoimmune disorders

Medicated and Mighty? Mom starts pro-psychotropic drug movement (with the help of a PR firm)

Helping the Microbiome with mushrooms & mycelium

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