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The Health & Wellness Show: The Brave New World of Electroceuticals and Medical Implants


Sott.net
Fri, 01 Sep 2017 15:00 UTC
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Pharmaceutical companies and government agencies are furiously researching bio-electronic medicine or tiny implantable devices that interact with the body's natural electrical signals. Led by GlaxoSmithKline and DARPA, researchers wish to move far beyond heart pacemakers and employ devices the size of a grain of rice to interface with the peripheral nervous system to treat a host of diseases including epilepsy, Parkinson's, rheumatoid arthritis, obesity and more without the side effects of drugs or the pain of surgery. Other researchers propose microchipping drugs to track compliance and give real time feedback on the inner workings of the body.

This cutting edge science sounds promising and could technically work in some cases but is it too good to be true? Medical research is riddled with false promises, dashed hopes and epic failures. Considering DARPA's creepy experiments and the fact that Big Pharma has the opposite of the Midas Touch, do we really want to go down this road and give big business the power to control our bodies from the inside?

Stay tuned for Zoya's Pet Health Segment at the end of the show where the topic will be the pros and cons of microchipping your pet.

Running Time: 01:21:28

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How to grow and enjoy Brussels sprouts, a hardy winter crop with anti-cancer properties

Dr. Mercola
Mercola.com
Fri, 01 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC
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One cup of cooked Brussels sprouts also contains more than 240 percent of the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for vitamin K1, and nearly 130 percent of the RDA for vitamin C. They’re also a good source of fiber, manganese, potassium, choline, B vitamins, antioxidants and other health-promoting phytochemicals.
Several studies have confirmed that plant compounds called isothiocyanates, found in cruciferous vegetables, have potent anticancer activity. One particular isothiocyanate compound called sulforaphane has been shown to inhibit growth of cultured human breast cancer cells, leading to cell death.

Broccoli and broccoli sprouts have garnered a reputation for being high in these beneficial compounds, but other cruciferous veggies have them as well, including Brussels sprouts, which have actually been shown to contain greater amounts of glucosinolates than broccoli.1 Glucoraphanin is a glucosinolate precursor of sulforaphane that influences carcinogenesis and mutagenesis.2,3 Compared to mature broccoli, broccoli sprouts can contain up to 20 times more glucoraphanin.

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The Dying Pay Twice: How Novartis hijacked a cancer therapy funded by charity & taxpayers

Tony Cartalucci
The Land Destroyer
Thu, 31 Aug 2017 17:18 UTC
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A virtual cure for leukemia - paid for by taxpayers and charity, hijacked and sold for nearly half a million dollars by pharmaceutical giant, Novartis.
While Americans squabble over irrelevant political diversions, a revolutionary breakthrough in human healthcare has yielded its first FDA approval - a therapy that literally cures otherwise incurable leukemia.

It is the first of many therapies that re-engineer human cells in living patients to reprogram more resilient immune systems and even repair damaged or aging organs.

What would seem like headline news has instead squeaked through as a whimper - not because it is insignificant - but because of how this monumental breakthrough has been hijacked by special interests and how these interests plan on making Americans pay twice for its development behind a smokescreen of public ignorance.
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Time to pick up the pace: New study finds slow walking 'strongly associated' with increased risk of cardiovascular mortality

Rachel Hosie
Independent
Thu, 31 Aug 2017 09:59 UTC
walking
We've all thought about shoving slow walkers out of the way when in a hurry - but it turns out they could actually be heading for a far worse fate.

According to a new study, healthy adults who are slow walkers are twice as likely to die from heart disease as those of us who walk at a more brisk pace.

"This suggests that habitual walking pace is an independent predictor of heart-related death," lead author Professor Tom Yates said.

Researchers from the University of Leicester followed 420,727 people over a period of six years to assess death rates.

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Health

FDA approves first ever gene therapy to treat cancer


RT
Thu, 31 Aug 2017 17:46 UTC
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The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first-ever gene therapy to treat cancer in the US. The treatment offers a totally new approach to fighting the disease and could lead to novel treatments of other serious and life-threatening maladies.

On Wednesday, the FDA approved a new leukemia treatment from the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis, which the agency said is "the first gene therapy available in the United States."

The treatment, called Kymriah, is a "genetically-modified autologous T-cell immunotherapy," where each dose is created by using the patient's own T-cells, a type of white blood cell known as a lymphocyte.

Each patient's T-cells are sent to a manufacturing center where they are genetically modified to include a new gene that contains a specific protein, called a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR). The CAR-T cells known as "a living drug," are then infused back into the patient, where they target and kill leukemia cells.
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Largest and longest study of mammography finds no benefit, screenings may harm more women than they help

Dr. Mercola
Mercola.com
Wed, 26 Feb 2014 00:00 UTC
Mammogram
© Guardian Liberty Voice
It appears once again, major industry defenders will remain in complete denial and do anything possible to put profits before people.

An annual mammogram is the conventional go-to "prevention" strategy for breast cancer. But researchers increasingly agree that mammography is ineffective at best and harmful at worst.

Unfortunately, breast cancer is big business, and mammography is one of its primary profit centers. This is why the industry is fighting tooth and nail to keep it, even if it means ignoring the truth.

Several studies over the past few years have concluded that mammograms do not save lives, and may actually harm more women than they help, courtesy of false positives, overtreatment, and radiation-induced cancers.

The latest study to reach this conclusion is also one of the longest and largest. As reported by the New York Times:1
"One of the largest and most meticulous studies of mammography ever done, involving 90,000 women and lasting a quarter-century, has added powerful new doubts about the value of the screening test for women of any age.
It found that the death rates from breast cancer and from all causes were the same in women who got mammograms and those who did not. And the screening had harms: one in five cancers found with mammography and treated was not a threat to the woman's health and did not need treatment such as chemotherapy, surgery or radiation."

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Take 2

Fatal addiction: Chris Hedges reports on America's opioid crisis

Chris Hedges
jefferyjaxen.com
Sun, 11 Jun 2017 21:19 UTC
Opioid deaths
© New York Daily News
Opiate overdoses in the United States are a public health catastrophe.
The American opioid crisis has been primed by Big Pharma's intentional flooding of their opioid products into our communities creating the initial circumstances of addiction. The crisis is supplied by the military-industrial complex whose Afghani opium poppy fields, controlled and guarded by US troops, supply upwards of 90 percent of the world's heroin. Heroin is turned to as the path of least resistance once pharma-addicted individuals run out of their opioid prescriptions, by systemic design. And finally, the American opioid crisis has been guaranteed by insurance companies with the help of Obamacare which does little to nothing to address root causes and cover proper rehab and treatment.

The tipping point is approaching if not here already. The window of opportunity to rescue an entire American generation from the combined effects of both an opioid crisis and an autism epidemic is limited as both have gripped this nation's children and young adults. Through their continued actions, both the American government and health system have shown that they would rather render our country's suffering generation invisible rather than provide any meaningful change.
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Evil Rays

Cell phone tower hypocrisy: Rescuing firefighters not kids

Susan Foster
Fearless Parent
Wed, 30 Aug 2017 10:24 UTC
cell phones

Editor's note: California is once again in a trendsetting legislative battle with dramatic implications for our collective public health. Big Telecom wants fewer impediments to deliver next generation connectivity: more, faster, e-ver-y-where. It's time to say: NO. The technology we love is harming us and, most of all, our precious children who absorb ten times more radiation than adults, with their thinner skulls and higher water- and ion-content brains. Please share this post widely.

Dear Gov. Jerry Brown,

I have a story to share with you. It involves inside information from the telecommunications industry; firefighters and what their brains look like following a five-year exposure to a cell tower outside their station; and a bill currently flying through the California Senate and Assembly.

SB 649 is going to land on your desk sometime in early September.
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Monsanto Toxicity: It ain't Glyphosate, it's the additives!

William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:36 UTC
Monsanto

Sometimes your future food is so poisonous that it’s dangerous for you to get anywhere near it.
Famously corrupt and unscrupulous, Monsanto Corporation has now been discovered in covering up the highly toxic effects of the secret additives it combines with glyphosate in Roundup, the world's most-used herbicide. The IARC, an agency of the World Health Organization, released a report in March, 2015 that declared the chemical glyphosate to be "probably carcinogenic to humans (Group 2A)." They were not provided tests that included the effects of glyphosate combined with specific trade secret additives. Monsanto is desperate to hide the true carcinogen in its Roundup weed-killer.

Glyphosate is the largest component of Monsanto Roundup, the world's largest weed-killer and the toxin mandated in every Monsanto Genetically Manipulated (GMO) planting. But what Monsanto refuses to disclose is what additives it uses, otherwise termed surfactants or adjuvants, ostensibly to give the glyphosate a "turbo" weed-killer effectiveness boost.

Comment: Not so inactive: So-called inert ingredients make Roundup far more toxic than glyphosate alone

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Health

Soy formula is a formula for disaster

Dr. Mercola
mercola.com
Wed, 30 Aug 2017 17:33 UTC
bottle feeding baby
The food you feed your baby during his or her first years has an enormous impact on their development and long-term health. I strongly encourage all mothers to do everything possible to exclusively breast-feed for least six months or longer for this reason, as breast-feeding has tremendous benefits for both mother and child. It may even be a good idea to begin planning for successful breast-feeding before your baby is even born. If it turns out you can't breast-feed, then you can't, but it's good to have an optimal goal.

La Leche League1 is a great resource whether you want to prepare beforehand or find you're having trouble breast-feeding once your baby is born. Also find out whether your hospital of choice offers breast-feeding classes and lactation consultants. If it doesn't, you may want to select a hospital that offers greater support. If for whatever reason you're unable to breast-feed, or you have adopted your newborn, donated breast milk may be an option.

Like the Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF), I do not recommend using human milk banks, though, as they require the milk to be pasteurized. An alternative may be to work with a physician or pediatrician who is willing to help you find a safe milk donor, and who will be involved in a screening process to ensure the milk is safe. If neither breast-feeding nor milk donation work out, your next best bet is to make your own infant formula.
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