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As some of you might have noticed, we’ve been closed since June. Our computers went down nearly losing everything. As a retired IT professional, I cannot tell you how important it is to keep your data backed up. Having said this, we first lost our backup drive, and two days later, we lost the main drive. It’s taken this long to recover most of our data. I now have a triple backup system in place, and have purchased another computer (a network of three) with which I will do my photography and videography. I swore I would not go into debt to keep this here project alive, but, again, I broke my promise.

Additionally, since I volunteered for Simply the Best to do their accounting and email on this system, they too were down, but we handled it the best we could manually and only made a kazillion errors.

On the plus side, with the new computer setup, I can now photograph weddings, special events, and high school portraits. All the proceeds will go to the International Wellness Directory and keep this little hobby up and running.

When the new system is installed, I’ll be posting some of my latest photography on the web, so keep your eyes pealed to David’s PhotoArt.

I’ve also been doing some more experimental photography using only a flashlight as my light source. Because of the crash, and catching up on my work, I’ve not yet even had a chance to put them on my computer, but after the holidays, I will, and I’ll post them.e holidays, I will, and I’ll post them.

And if anyone out there wants to buy me a gift for Christmas, check out the flashlight below:

EpiCore Update

In our last newsletter, I offered to send any interested readers a pound of my own personal stash of Diamond V XPC (I used it on my chicks this past summer, and I did not lose one to disease) for a donation of $15.00. We got three takers, and that was acceptable.

However, Dr David Williams, who writes the newsletter Alternatives, published a little piece about EpiCor and how he decided to buy the 90 pound bag of Diamond V XPC. He suggested to his readers to locate the product online, and suddenly I was inundated with hundreds of orders.

I am not equipped to pack up that much of anything, my supply ran out, my suppliers could no longer furnish it, and I finally found one supplier over two hours away that carried it.

So if you, like Dr David Williams’ readers wish to try it (I’ve filled capsules with it; you can find a little kit for doing this), then you’ll have to go here: Diamond V XPC. You will notice that I’ve had to raise the price of the donation. However, those using it are reporting that so far, they’ve not caught any dreaded winter bugs.

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And the next thing we can all do is get our troops home as quickly as possible. Write, call, visit your reps in Washington. We need them here at home. Now.

One last thing: the reason I do this web site, the books, and the directories (yes, I’m so far behind I don’t know where to start).

Why We Do This

This is a letter I got from a reader:

I wanted you to know that your web site helped to save my dad's life. : ) 

With info I got there, info I got from my docs and info I've read in books my dad's prostate cancer is undetectable. His type of cancer rated an 8 on the Gleason scale and his PSA levels got up to a 45. When it got that high he went ahead and had localized radiation which brought his PSA down to 11. He finally agreed to do the things I was suggesting to him and now his PSA is down to a .06 and at his physical exam yesterday the doc said he couldn't even feel the prostate anymore.

He eats a cup of raspberries every day. I got him to shift his diet to a more alkaline one. He takes green magma every day, beta glucans 1/3,1/6, zinc, saw palmetto, selenium etc.,etc.etc. He's 88 and counting!

Just thought I'd say thanks.

This is what keeps me going.

In future issues, we’ll be reviewing lots of books, CDs, you name it. We’re really behind, but we’ll catch up soon.

Oh, and if you want to make a donation to our cause this Holiday Season, please do. The software we use to create our directories and find alternative physicians, naturopaths, etcetera for our readers jumped from $200.00 per year to $1,000.00 per year.

I awoke one night with this terrible burning pain in my chest. I felt like I was having a heart attack. But could it be heartburn? I’ve never had debilitating heartburn.

The next night, I awoke to the same thing. I thought my chest was going to explode. Only one thing to do: call the VA and set an appointment.

When I arrived at the VA, my doctor called me right in. I told her the problem, and she typed at her computer, told me to go directly to the lab for blood tests and then next door to get an EKG.

A lot of people complain about socialized medicine. Most of them are the ones making lots of money in our money based system of medicine. They say that there are long waits, the service is poor, etc. etc.

Within ten minutes I was back in my doctor’s office where she told me: It’s heartburn.

Apparently, if you you’ve had a heart event, they will find specific enzymes in your blood stream.

So, it was quickly ruled out. In ten minutes, with no waits. At the lab I was taken straightaway, and ditto at the EKG lab.

The VA system is an example of how well socialized medicine can work. Yes, there are exceptions (e.g., Walter Reed) but they’ve been caused by budget cuts (during a time of war when vets are returning in droves).

My doctor wanted me to get an esophagogastroscopy. She explained that the procedure lasted less than five minutes; that they would insert a tube with a camera attached to take pictures.

I’ve always had a fear of suffocation since I was a kid. I told her this and she responded: "They give you this new drug, Versed. Once they give it to you, no matter what they do, it won’t affect you, and afterwards you’ll forget everything."

“Oh,” I said, “like high school.”

I remember the doc inserting the IV, and I felt a cool liquid entering my vein. I asked if they’d just given me the anesthesia, and he replied, “It’s not really an anesthesia.”

“Oh,” I said, “then you’re not an anesthesiologist.”

He said, “No,” and began to tell me all about the drug, but that’s as much as I remember. Now I can’t wait for my next Colonoscopy.

It turns out that there was nothing wrong with my stomach, I did not have a hiatal hernia, but they did find Candida on my esophagus.

My doctor sent me Tagamet® and an anti-fungal medicine, but I decided to use a less harsh therapy. I like the fact that my body digests food. I don’t need an acid blocker. And the anti-fungal meds had side effects I wasn’t interested in exploring.

I began a daily routine of 10 drops of Magnascent (it’s antifungal) in the morning, upping it from the usual 3 drops per day. Then I followed that by a squeeze of Grapefruit Seed Extract in the back of my throat. It’s horrid. Getting it down is difficult, but in the back of your throat, you can swallow and quickly wash it down. I also added iFlora 4 Women (was called iFlora Candida) to my regimine.

Symptoms vanished within three days, but I continued the protocol till my bottle of Grapefruit Seed Extract was finished.

I’ve been a fan of Dr Sears’ a long time. I’ve read some of his work in one of the horde of newsletters that trample down my mailbox (both physical and electronic). One day his people came to me asking if we would review one of his books.

It’s called the Pace® Program.

I began reading it, and the more and more I read, the more it seemed if I’d already written this. You see, the first chapters tore into aerobic exercise, revealing the myths so many still kneel to. It was so close to our findings, that we asked him if we could publish his first two chapters in our next edition of Bypassing Bypass. In exchange, we would link to his site so you could get the rest of the story.

I’ll give you a hint.

You work out hard, then soft, then hard, then soft, then…

At this pace, you’ll teach your body to burn more fat while resting. Oh, I should tell you that there are side effects: your heart becomes stronger, and your lung capacity grows.

Yes, it does all those things that we’ve been told aerobic exercise does. Only, research shows, it (aerobic exercise) does not.

You see, our bodies haven’t evolved much since we were hunter gatherers. The life of a hunter/gatherer was spent walking long distances, sometimes carrying great loads, interspersed with running at breakneck speeds either trying to capture something to eat, or trying to escape something that wanted to eat him. We were born to be hunter/gatherers.

Whether you jog, run, walk, swim, jump rope, or ride a bike, you can do the Pace® Program.

I chose the bike.

At this same time, I discovered Dr Hyman (he’s yet to contact us). His book Ultrametabolism caught my eye. I read it and liked it. Eating to boost our metabolism. What a concept. Some reviews say that his theories go beyond the research, but he’s done his homework. Nothing he claims has been disproven in any study. Far from it. Studies back him up.

One thing that keeps Americans fat is that we skip breakfast, and then snack at night. That is the first thing you’ll learn to reverse when you pick up this book.

The PACE® Program and Ultrametabolism are my gift to you to start you new year. The PACE® Program can be yours in less than ten minutes. You just click and download. Untrametabolism will take a few days to arrive. You can also order a hard copy of the PACE® Program.

We received a letter from a person with contacts in Africa who wanted to make nascent iodine for the population there suffering from malaria. It seems that all those making Edgar Cayce’s iodine recipes refused to give away their secrets.

I immediately contacted John Brookshire and got both parties together.

John not only gave them the instructions, he created a video showing them the entire process.

John is an angel. I hope you will all support his work, because, suddenly the FDA has defined iodine as a controlled substance, and John spent some $2,000.00 to get a license to make his nascent Iodine.

Additionally, I discovered an error in our reports on Iodine that I will try to clear up here, and later, I’ll repair the articles.

What is sold as Atomidine today is not nascent iodine.

From 1926 to 1935, it was nascent iodine. However, today, there are forms out there made with iodine trichloride, which is simply a dangerous form.

Edgar Cayce gave two readings on how to make Atomidine. He gave both to Sunker Bisey who decided, because of cost, to make the second form (from reading 358-2, rather than the first form (from reading 358-1) since the cost of this first process was prohibitive. This all occurred during the Great Depression, and the first recipe, which sold for a dollar a bottle, was preferred by the manufacturers over something no one could afford.

The difference between the two iodines is that the weaker method charged the molecules putting them into an energetic state, while the stronger method, true nascent iodine, broke the bonds holding the molecules together. The mild form is often referred to as Atomidine or Detoxified Iodine. The stronger form is true nascent iodine, or called, by John Brookshire, Magnascent.

The results from Magnascent are astounding. It is just a darn good product.

Here is a testimonial we received from one of the people who used his iodine:

My name is Terri B. and I was diagnosed with Small Cell Cancer in June 2002. The tumor was wrapped around my coronary artery. The Dr’s told me I would live a year, maybe less, because the small cell cancer would keep coming back. Sure enough, within a year I started jumbling my words and losing my balance. The MRI found a tumor the size of a lemon inside my brain. It was around this time that I bumped into John Brookshire again. He suggested I try [Magnascent] to help with the numerous side effect from chemotherapy and radiation. I was very impressed.

I would put 3-5 drops of [Magnascent] in a glass of water in the morning and at night, and I could tell a big difference in my energy level within a week. I was able to get up more and even wanted to get out of the house to go somewhere besides to the Dr or for tests. I also read a great book on the effects of not enough iodine in our bodies, and was shown how much this wonderful potion was helping women with Breast Cancer.

Here it is 2007 and I haven’t had any symptoms for over two years. I still use the [Magnascent] daily and I thank John for helping me get stronger

We’ve not yet put Iodine in our list of Alternative Cancer Therapies, but when I get the time, I will.

We will also review a book by Dr Brownstein on iodine in the near future, but in the meanwhile, you can order it yourself. Dr Guy Abraham has been testing iodine on breast cancer and prostate cancer, and he and Dr Brownstein are thoroughly convinced that when the body gets enough iodine, these cancers simply start to melt away.

Additionally, a lack of iodine (suffered by upwards of 85% of our population) affects our intelligence. In an article from the New York Times, December 16, 2006, entitled In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt, experts suggest raising the quantity of iodine in our salt (to levels first proposed by a Dr Marlin – as we reported in an earlier article on iodine) would increase our intelligence.

“For 5 cents per person per year, you can make the whole population smarter than before,” said Dr. Gerald N. Burrow, a former dean of Yale’s medical school and vice chairman of the iodine council.

A reader sent us an interesting take on this:

I thought this was really interesting, though it doesn't mention iodine specifically. Since we know that mothers who don't get enough iodine tend to have dumber kids, it is interesting that mothers who eat a lot of fish tend to have smarter kids (even if the fish have mercury). This fits in interestingly with the "mermaid" hypothesis . . . . People living by the shore usually eat a fair bit of seaweed, which chelates mercury [bonds with mercury so it can pass], so even if the fish did have extra mercury, it might not be an issue. But the fetus would get all that nice iodine and omega-3 fatty acids to create a nice big brain.

The Thyroid Foundation of Canada published a paper on Iodine Deficiency Disorders in which they claim that “iodine deficiency currently represents a significant public health problem for 1575 million people (almost 30% of the world's population) in 110 countries. 655 million are affected by goitre, 20 million are believed to be significantly mentally handicapped as a result of iodine deficiency which is therefore the most prevalent preventable cause of impaired intellectual development in the world today.”

They go onto say:

Severe iodine deficiency may manifest itself by Cretinism i.e. children born with severe hypothyroidism. Neonates and young infants constitute the target population for the effects of iodine deficiency because, from a public health viewpoint, the most important complications of iodine deficiency are irreversible brain damage and mental retardation which result from iodine deficiency and thyroid failure during fetal and early postnatal life.

Other naturally occurring goitrogens can aggravate or simulate iodine deficiency, and these include such foods as cassava, maize, bamboo shoots, sweet potatoes, lima beans, and the Brassica group of vegetables. Iodine deficiency and/or these goitrogens interfere with the production of thyroid hormone, thus causing an increase in TSH, an increased size of the thyroid gland (goitre), and hypothyroidism.

The consequences of iodine deficiency even in developed areas such as Europe is enormous. For example the cost of the diagnosis and treatment of goitre due to iodine deficiency in Germany in 1986 was estimated at 700 million dollars, yet prevention by iodized salt would cost only 2-8 cents per person per year.

Elevated thyroid uptake due to iodine deficiency aggravates the risk of thyroid irradiation and development of thyroid cancer in the case of a nuclear accident. Even in Europe, clinically euthyroid school children born and living in an iodine deficient environment exhibit subtle or even overt neuropsychointellectual deficits as compared to controls living in the same ethnic, demographic, nutritional and socio-economic system, except that they are not exposed to iodine deficiency.

Iodine is an essential nutrient. Period. The simple fact that our government demands that our salt be iodized in a dosage that simply keeps us from developing goiters, while still keeping us iodine deficient means that each of us must get enough in our diet on our own.

John is working with a physician in Africa testing his iodine. Here is a letter he received from the good doctor:

I’m sorry for taking so long to reply on your e-mails.  I took leave for a month and went to Mozambique to have a good rest. 

I do not mind if you use my name in the newspaper.  I am still experimenting with the Iodine with lots of good results although you do not get the same results with all the medicines with everyone.  Overall it seems to work very well for Ostio-arthritis, Rumatoit-arthritis and even Gout.  I also use it for Septicemia and I find it very effective to put the undiluted drops on warts.  It also worked very well on kidney failure.  Yesterday I gave it to someone with full blown HIV on anti-retroviral treatment that failed, so I am waiting to see the response.  It is important that you mention that this study is in (it’s) experimental phase and the results were found with only a few patients.  It will take a few years and lots of patients to really come to a conclusion.  So far I had no side-effects or allergic response but, I am very positive that you can treat many illnesses with great success with this very inexpensive medicine. 

I will keep you updated on my results all the time.  Unfor­tunately most of my patients are (rural) black, so when they get cured, they do not come back to inform me about it.  They have no contact numbers, which means I can’t get into any contact with them to find out.  I do believe that God had not brought this medicine to me all the way from Zambia for nothing, so I expect that in this year, great things are going to happen.  I hope to generate some income with the Iodine, that I can go back to Zambia, to help our friend with all his good work.

We also got a letter from a woman with breast cancer who is under the care of Dr Guy Abraham. She writes: “It’s saving my life!”

Here is another letter:

Just good health info to pass on.  3 months ago my doctor tried to prescribe thyroid medicine to me.  I convinced him to let me try liquid iodine in my water morning and night before committing to the pills.  I just got my results in today and good news.  My thyroid went back up to normal.......no thyroid prescriptions.

Word to the wise:  We do not have enough iodine in our diets.

What can you do? Help yourself and your family by supporting John’s work.

To order Magnascent, Click Here: Magnascent, from Simply the Best.

Additionally, here are two books you really need to read.

 
Iodine: Why You Need It, why You Can't Live without It

Author Rob van Overbruggen PhD shares his expertise and utilizes the power of the human mind to influence the cancer process in Healing Psyche

ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands - In Healing Psyche: Patterns and Structure of Complementary Psychological Cancer Treatment (CPCT), author Rob van Overbruggen describes the evolution of his ground-breaking concepts in psychological cancer treatment, how they differ from the more traditional psychological modalities, and how they have been carefully developed into a complete and complementary approach to treating cancer by tapping into the powers of the human mind.

During the research process, Van Overbruggen discovered overlapping patterns from different psychological approaches to cancer therapy.  In his book, he identifies those psychological patterns that influence the cancer process and how those patterns can be changed to aid the healing process.  Supported by many references to scientific literature, Healing Psyche is an analysis of the influence of mindset, behavior, emotions, and coping styles on cancer.

Based on his meticulous research, Van Overbruggen makes scientifically based suggestions for creating effective programs for somatic healing and offers tips for further research into the healing potential of the mind.  The book will be of great help and interest to a wide range of health practitioners and therapists who work with patients diagnosed with cancer. Patients themselves will also benefit from the new hope that these alternative healing approaches provide. Part therapeutic guidebook and part research dissertation, Healing Psyche will serve as a valuable addition and support to integrative medicine.

"This is a groundbreaking research paper that reads more like a page-turning novel. Full of absorbing case studies, Van Overbruggen presents some of the most provocative and mind-bending cancer research around."
- Ellen Tanner Marsh, New York Times best-selling author

For more information or to request a free review copy, members of the press can contact the author at his site 'healingpsyche'.  Healing Psyche: Patterns and Structure of Complementary Psychological Cancer Treatment (CPCT) is available for sale online at Amazon.com, BookSurge.com, and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide.

About the Author:

Rob van Overbruggen holds a doctorate in clinical hypnotherapy, and is an internationally licensed hypnotherapist, neuro linguistic programmer, and time line therapy trainer. He is the founder and director of Mexion, a company specializing in therapy and training.

From the Author:

After decades of research and billion dollars spent biomedical science has not yet discovered the cause for breast cancer. Every 13 minutes someone dies of breast cancer. Even if biomedical methods and technologies have enormously improved, health care costs have risen at a very high rate synchronistically.

Many organisations work together to beat this disease, however the Heal Breast Cancer Foundation is the only independent organisation that truly works on a holistic approach. Their independent research projects will shift the mainstream focus away from a biomedical, symptomatic therapy model towards a biopsychosocial prevention model.

That is why I support them and want to donate ALL my profits to them. All (!!!) revenue of the sales of my book (sold on December 12 2007) "Healing Psyche" will be donated to their campaign and research. If my book ends up in the top 5 of amazon.com then I will make an additional donation of $500 to support their cause.

Tony Isaacs, a good friend of our work, and author of Cancer's Natural Enemy, sent me a couple of bottles of Advanced Colloidal Silver. I used it for a few infections and it worked.

How It Works: Silver inhibits the growth of one-celled organisms, (such as bacteria and viruses) by deactivating the organism's oxygen metabolism enzymes. In turn, this destroys its' cell membranes, stopping the replication of its' DNA.

The historical use of the mineral silver by mankind is long and indisputable. For thousands of years, it has been used for the same reasons we are using it now in our Advanced Colloidal Silver supplement form. From mankind'searliest history, silver has been used in the making of food and drink vessels, as well as eating utensils. Today, silver is being used in swimming pool filters, food cutting boards, bandages, burn dressings, and water filters for NASA.

One minor drawback to using colloidal silver is that it can't distinguish between good an bad bacteria, so you'll need to supplement with a good probiotic. My personal favorites are, as many of you know, the iFlora line from Sedona Labs.  

Advanced Colloidal Silver is the purest form around. We invite you to take a look at it, and we request that those using it send us their thoughts. We always like feedback. Click here to visit the shop of our newest partner: Utopia Silver.

New research has uncovered a gene that can increase lifespan dramatically, as much as 100 percent in one study.1 All living things carry it – including humans. Even more exciting is the discovery that natural substances found in certain foods have the power to activate this gene.

We first discovered evidence of this “longevity gene” about twenty years ago. If you starve mice, giving them a nutritionally balanced diet with very few calories, their lifespan increases dramatically. Later studies revealed that this strange effect wasn’t limited to mice: calorie-restricted diets produced similar results in many life forms, from single celled organisms to plantVery recently, we found the explanation for this mysterious phenomenon. They isolated a family of genes called sirtuins (“silent information regulator proteins”). Sirtuins kick in under conditions of severe stress, bringing about a miraculous transformation.

They transmit signals to every cell in your body that literally cancel out the effects of aging. The processes that lead to cell death slow to a crawl, buying your body more time. o a crawl, buying your body more time.

The discovery of sirtuins pointed to another amazing fact. Most folks think of genetics as written in stone. You have the genes you inherited, and that’s it. What sirtuins show is that certain genes can be awakened and called upon to change your body in the course of a single lifetime.

You’re probably saying to yourself, “Do I have to starve myself to live longer?” Good point. The problem of how to “wake up” sleeping sirtuin genes had scientists stumped for years. They had to find some other way to flip the “off switch” on aging.

That’s where foods come in. Turns out some contain a natural compound that unleashes the anti-aging power of sirtuins as effectively as calorie restriction. It’s called resveratrol.

Nature’s Solution

Resveratrol’s higher in plums, grapes, blueberries and cranberries. Other plants also make smaller amounts. Its power to enhance and prolong your life goes beyond anti-aging. Years of research have shown that resveratrol boosts heart health, combats cancer, ramps up energy levels, limits the inflammation that causes arthritis, and benefits a number of major organs, including the heart, liver, and pancreas. It also has the remarkable capacity to halt cell “malfunctions” that can be lethal, like tumor generation.

As if that weren’t enough, resveratrol also acts as a potent antioxidant, binding with “free radicals,” the molecules that cause cell damage and lead to death over time.

The list of resveratrol’s many health benefits is long indeed. Let’s start with the heart.

Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too

Back in the 80’s, researchers stumbled on a mystery they called “the French Paradox.” Conventional wisdom had long held that if you eat a lot of saturated fats, your arteries would clog up, putting you on the fast track to a major heart attack.

But when they compared the average diets among people in different countries, their theory went out the window. The French were eating all the fat they wanted – cheese, cream, meat, buttery pastries, cakes, and desserts, even foods made out of pure fat like pâté – and yet they had much lower rates of heart disease than Americans, who ate just as much fat.

In other words, the French were having their cake and eating it, too. Why?

Further analysis offered a clue: the French love wine as much as they love fatty foods. Something in wine, they realized, was highly beneficial. So they performed more testing in the lab and uncovered the one of the main causes: the grapes used to make wine were rich in resveratrol.

It turns out that different wines have different levels of resveratrol. Wines made from Muscadine grapes have the highest levels.

Meet One of Your Heart’s Best Friends

I’ve been studying ways to boost heart health for thirty years, and I’ve never come across anything more powerful than resveratrol.

There are actually two kinds of resveratrol, “cis-“ and “trans-resveratrol.” It’s the second kind appears to be the most beneficial.

One way it protects your heart is by preventing blood clots, a major cause of heart attack, particularly in older folks. In one study, researchers gave healthy male subjects a blood-clotting factor along with high doses of trans-resveratrol. They found that trans-resveratrol prevented their blood platelets from sticking together.3 Not only does this help your heart – it also prevents strokes, another effect of clotting.

Another way it powers your heart involves miraculous capability called “angio-genesis,” a fancy term for blood vessel growth. Trans-resveratrol acts a bit like bypass surgery by creating new blood vessels to deliver more oxygen to your heart when it’s not getting enough.

Finally trans-resveratrol drives down levels of bad fats called triglycerides. These are the fatty acids that clog your arteries. Scientists have been able to lower triglyceride levels as much as 15 percent in pre-menopausal women using concentrated grape powder.4 It’s this particular property that helped to explain the “French Paradox.” The French were eating fat, but it wasn’t clogging their arteries as fast as in Americans.

A “His-and-Hers” Cancer Fighter and Natural Sun Block

Resveratrol is a major weapon in the battle against cancer – in both men and women.

Someday, doctors may turn to resveratrol instead of drugs or surgery as a first-line defense and treatment for prostate cancer. In mice, it’s been shown to reduce prostate cancer risk as much as 87 percent. And in those who’d already developed prostate cancer, resveratrol slowed tumor growth up to 49 percent.5

For women, resveratrol may prove just as powerful in the fight against breast cancer. Another study on mice found that it slowed tumor growth and killed off cancer cells and the blood vessels they need to grow.6

This is truly amazing, if you think about it. Resveratrol acts just like chemotherapy in mice, but naturally and without any of the horrific side effects of chemo. And while it stimulates blood vessel growth to benefit the heart, it kills the blood vessels that feed tumors. When it comes to preventing cancer and heart disease, it’s you’re guardian angel.

What’s more, a number of studies suggest that resveratrol may prevent leukemia, pancreatic cancer, colon cancer, and lung cancer.

Plants use resveratrol to protect themselves from the harmful effects of too much sun. It may be able to do the same thing for humans. Scientists looked at resveratrol’s effects on skin tumor development in mice caused by harmful UVB rays.7 They used it just like a lotion, applying it to the skin twice weekly for 28 weeks. Not only did it prevent skin cancer; it also slowed tumor growth significantly.

Ramp Up Your Physical Strength and Vitality

Resveratrol may also turn out to be for humans what spinach was for Popeye. In one study, it turned mice into Mighty Mice, granting them extraordinary strength and stamina. Once fed resveratrol, they ramped up their aerobic capacity, lengthened their running time, and burned more oxygen. Researchers also noticed that resveratrol enhanced their muscles’ ability to turn fuel into energy.

Adding icing to the cake, the same study confirmed resveratrol’s power to enhance overall health and vitality: it boosted the immune system, protected the nervous system, and optimized liver, muscle, and fat cell function. It also prevented diabetes and obesity by lowering insulin resistance, the main cause of type 2 diabetes.8

Unlock Your Body’s Native Power

Resveratrol taps into your body’s natural, life-giving force, unleashing vitality, energy, strength, and stamina. It can literally add years to your life.

The problem is how to get enough of it.

Nearly all the experiments I mentioned used quantities of resveratrol well beyond what you’d be able to get from drinking a lot of wine or eating plums all day. So this is a case where supplements are a better option. They’re inexpensive and safe. You can find them in health food stores or on line. I recommend around taking 10 mg per day.

I’ll also be formulating my own mix of resveratrol in the coming months. Once it’s ready, I’ll let you know.

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1. Howitz et al, “Small molecule activators of sirtuins extend Saccharomyces cerevisiae lifespan,” Nature, 2003, 425(6954):191-6.

2. Sinclair DA, Guarente L, “Unlocking the secrets of longevity genes,” Scientific American, 2006, 294(3): 48-57.

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I never get tired talking about Ron Salley’s line of creams. Ron has gotten orders from around the world because of our efforts to promote them. As many of you know, if it’s good, if it works, we’ll promote it, and if we receive negative lots of negative feedback, we’ll drop them and erase every mention of them found at this site.

Simply the Best started up because of the unique products we’ve discovered in this journey to perfect health. Simply the Best is the only site on the web handling Ron’s amazing creams.

Diabetic Wounds: Ron has received tons of letters from his customers who have used HealonPF™ for their diabetic wounds. I am currently researching products that can help these nearly untreatable inflictions for a future article, but the findings are slim. I cannot even tell you the number of people who’ve told Ron that his HealonPF™ saved a limb.

One recent customer had a team of doctors working on his foot for more than six months only to tell him that it would, in all probability, have to come off. He got a bottle of HealonPF™, used it twice a day over a six week period, and it healed right up. His doctors claimed it to be a “miracle” and then went on to take full credit for the event.

We expect to receive photographs (before and after soon), so stay tuned.

Two cases of spider bites (by the Brown Recluse) healed completely with no rotting flesh.

One young man in Texas had a lung condition that limited his lung capacity, and it was progressive. Each day he had more and more trouble breathing. When the doctors could no longer help him, he got some HealonPF™, put a few drops of it into a sauce pan, simmered up the solution, put a towel over his head and breathed in the steam. He did this once a day for ten days. He reports that he can finally breathe without straining; that he feels like he’s been given a new set of lungs. When he showed his doctor the bottle of HealonPF™ that had worked its magic, the doctor told him he didn’t want to hear about it, but added that he should continue using it.

Personally, I’ve found that when I have a sinus inflammation, I first put a few drops of Magnascent into a netipot and thoroughly clean out my nasal cavities. I then spray some SinusBuster up there with a bit of Colloidal Silver. Finally, I do the procedure mentioned above, and it’s gone.

Ron has created an ointment from his HealonPF™, and it’s currently being tested by Dr Hall (who is one of his admirers). For deep core diabetic wounds (that go right down to the bone), the doctor has found that he can pack the wound, which has saved some limbs that had, according to the medical world, not a chance of ever healing. Ron is not currently manufacturing this new product; it’s in the testing phase. His products are expensive to make, and he wants more clinical studies before it goes into production. We’ll be the first to tell you when this happens.

It seems that beauticians have been using the HealonPF™ for sever acne with great results. Ron also makes an Acne Formula, and used together, he’s not seen an acne condition that can’t be cleared up.

Ron is also working with veterinarians. Hot spots on dogs can clear up in two weeks with HealonPF™. One of the top horse Vets in Texas is now testing Ron’s experimental Healon™ Ointment on Laminitis. Laminitis is deadly in horses. In fact, a recent Kentucky Derby winner was put down because of it. We’ll get back to you soon on the results. There is no cure for Laminitis. If Ron’s ointment is successful, he’s taking me to Jamaica, because he’ll be a multi-millionaire.

For third degree burns, nothing seems to compare to HealonPF™. Even blisters clear up quickly.

Ron recently got a large order from Korea, due to our web site, and he sent us half the profits from the sale, and just in time; we had to pay our computer guru for recovering our 19 years of research. We cannot thank him enough for this.

So, if you don’t have a bottle of HealonPF™ in your first aid kit and one in your car, this Christmas Ron will send you a free bottle of HealonPF™ for any orders over $100.00.

Additionally, I convinced Ron to market his amazing lip balm. Most lip balms contain petroleum products (which have been linked to cancer, in fact, Vaseline Petroleum Jelly® has been outlawed in Europe because of this). Ron’s product are 100% natural, kosher, and organic (when possible). We’ve read testimonials about this stuff that are unbelievable. Some women have been using it on their crows feet and bags under their eyes. Whenever I let someone try mine, they love it. In fact, they often walk off with it.

The process to make his Lip Balm is long, tedious, and expensive and he never wanted to market it. I told him you have to sell this stuff, so why not sell it for $15.00? He said that’s awfully steep for a Lip Balm. I said, “No, it isn’t. Not for this stuff!”

Finally, Ron’s Psoriasis formula has help a lot of people, but on some, it’s done nothing. Psoriasis is a weird condition. There are a lot of products out there, and like Ron’s formula, sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t. We could easily publish only the positive testimonials here, but that’s not our style.

Just click on the link below to go to the only site on the web supplying these amazing products.

Get a free bottle of HealonPF™ for orders over $100.00 made before 12/31/07.

Aside from the fact that we’re six months behind in our work, we do plan to review a lot of CDs on meditation and hypnosis.

HoloSync™  is just one of the recording schemes we will investigate in depth in a future newsletter.

We get a lot of letters here, and one subject we get often is: I CAN’T MEDITATE!

Our society runs at a ridiculous pace. The American Dream has become a nightmare. Most families have both parents working full time, and far too many have to maintain two jobs. Finding a peaceful space (or time) to meditate is difficult. Trying to clear one’s mind seems impossible. This is where HoloSync™ comes in.

As you read this, your brain is sending the words you see through your brain in electrical impulses. The speed at which these impulses travel is called frequency. Brain frequencies are measured in cycles per second, or hertz.

Let’s take a look at these frequencies:

• Delta: 0-4Hz
  In the Delta state, you are in a profoundly deep sleep. The Delta phase serves as regenerative state.

• Theta: 4-8Hz
  This is a trance state. If you’ve ever seen someone staring off into nowhere (or have done it yourself) then you know the Delta phase. It is our most creative state. Our thoughts are visual or emotional, rather than linguistic or, as some would say, rational.

• Alpha: 8-12Hz
  When you open your eyes and passively view your surroundings, without much thinking, just observing, you are at the Alpha state. When you listen, you simply listen. The moment you stray and start thinking of other things, or how to respond, you enter the Beta phase.

• SMR: 12-16Hz
  When you are doing things automatically without thinking, you are in the SMR phase. Driving a car is mostly done in this phase. Most of the time you don’t have to think about how to steer or use the accelerator or clutch. Only when you reach an intersection or a stop light do you have to think about what you are doing. Or, of course, should you suddenly find yourself sliding on ice, your brain kicks in high gear, and you reach the Beta phase. Professional dancers, skaters, and musicians often perform their art in this state. The rest of us have to think about what we’re doing.

• Beta: 16-20Hz
  This is your active thought state. We study, learn, and plan in the Beta phase. Pick up a pencil and add a group of numbers, and the Beta phase kicks in.

It is possible to alter your brain frequencies. We do this by finding a quiet place and entering a meditative state. However, as most report to me, they just can’t do it.

In meditation, we try to focus on nothing. Many techniques tell you to focus on your breathing. When something comes into your mind, acknowledge it, and push it to the side, and continue to focus on your breathing.

Meditation slows the brain waves and synchronizes both hemispheres. (Yes, one side can be running at a different frequency than the other.) When you reach a state of consciousness where the Theta phase takes over, and both hemispheres are in sync, you reach a place of peace and well being.

However, many people tell me they just cannot do this. The moment they sit down, begin to breathe and center, thoughts of taking the kids to the dentist, getting to the supermarket, the laundry in the basket, a meeting with the PTA, or an upcoming holiday just begin to bombard them.

Again, this is where HoloSync™ comes in.

HoloSync™ is a process used to synchronize both hemispheres of the brain at a desired frequency by playing audio patterns containing binaural beats or tones. Binaural means “two tones.” All mammals are binaural, in that we have two ears.

The secret behind HoloSync™ is that, using earphones, one ear gets one tone, while the other gets another, but the brain hears a third tone created by the two combining.

In one set of CDs we will review (someday), they gave a great demonstration. First they played one tone in my left ear. Then they played another (very similar) in my right ear. Then they played them both together, and it was amazing: I heard this fluctuating “wawa” sound in my brain. It was a great demonstration.

The HoloSync™ CDs aim at bringing you slowly into the Theta or Delta states.

While first using the CDs, I and others with whom I shared the experience, found that focusing on nothing became quite easy. When something intruded our thoughts, they automatically vanished and again we were focused and centered.

I’ve heard reports from a Buddhist Monk who spent years learning to attain higher forms of consciousness that he was absolutely amazed at this recording process that helped so many get instantly what he’d been working on for years.

So, to all my readers, if you want to get the gift of peace, tranquility, and well being for Christmas this year, this is one gift to give your self (or a loved one).

Learning Strategies has a series of CDs called Euphoria. Check it out by clicking here: Euphoria. This is a large package with advice from some of the top experts in the field of self-empowerment, including Chunyi Lin, my qigong instructor.

Other CDs at this site are called Paraliminals. We've reviewed their Smoke-Free CD in the past (in our article on Quitting Smoking. Other's we've been privilaged to review are: Deep Relaxation, Ten Minute Supercharge, Ideal Weight, and New Behavior Generator. All of them can be viewed by clicking here: Learning Strategies Paraliminals. They make an excellent Christmas gift to yourself or a loved one.

I have a very eclectic taste in movies and audio CDs. In fact, since my retirement, I've become a movie nut, and often contribute to the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com).

My collection of movies is way over the 3,000 mark now and still climbing.

But even with 500 channels on your TV, it's amazing how many kids today don't know who Laurel and Hardy were or have never seen a Charlie Chaplin film.

Charlie Chaplin

Hollywood knows Charlie Chaplin. Movies today even steal many of his gags.

For the best introduction to Charlie Chaplin that will give you hours of pleasure, I suggest the Essential Charlie Chaplin Collection.

However, if that's a bit too spendy for you, then I would suggest this "must have" two DVD collection: The Chaplin Review.

All of the films in this little collection are priceless, but one, The Idle Class, has been a favorite of mine since I was a kid. One of the first gags in the film has Charlie, an upper-class drunk, forgetting his pants and entering the lobby of his hotel. As he makes his way to the phone booth, the characters upstage of him perform their functions coincidentally covering his trouserless body. This gag has been subsequently lifted by the writers of the Spy Who Shagged Me. However, the way Charlie, once he realizes his situation, gets back to his room is pure Chaplin.

Another scene to watch for is when he gets a letter from his wife that she's not coming back till he quits his drinking. I've not found anyone who can keep a straight face watching this gag.

The product is sold by a seller for whom we are not an affiliate, but heck, it's Christmas.

Laurel and Hardy

This comic duo has no equal. Stan Laurel was a comic genius. All comic duos have their problems, but Laurel and Hardy never quibbled about a gag, since Hardy trusted Laurels sense of comedy explicitly. Though their work is old, their gags are timeless, and often lifted by contemporary Hollywood directors.  

Laurel wrote many of the scripts, directed some, and produced some, though only one movie actually lists Laurel as the producer, Way Out West.

Hardy helped write just one movie, Sons of the Desert.

They were awarded an Academy Award for only one short film: The Music Box, and Stan did receive a special lifetime achievement Oscar shortly before his death.

Only recently has Turner Classics started showing their work, though in the mid eighties, local channels still ran a Laurel and Hardy Comedy Hour (which I recorded to video tape religiously). Sadly, today many people have never heard of them.

I’ve introduced this duo to teens of friends, and at first they respond with something like, “Oh, black and white,” but within minutes, they’re rolling with laughter. Stan Laurel’s comic timing is impeccable.

Firesign Theater

As a child of the sixties (yes, with flowers in my hair and roaming the strip in Hollywood) I was introduced to the Firesign Theater while still in high school. Their comedy, though slightly over my head at the time, had me in tears. All of the players are highly educated. Their comedy pokes fun at our mass media, with most of their “radio” skits involving a character watching television (and often channel surfing).

I was first introduced to the word “hologram” in their work. These fellows are all degreed from top universities, and their allusions to history, science, literature, and pop culture are wide, varied, and deep.

When youngsters hear them today, they think: “Oh, that’s really old.” However, the clichés heard were not clichés when recorded. Some of their lines have made it firmly into our language today.

One thing you will quickly learn is that for the next ten to twenty years, every time you listen to them, you will hear something new.

Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers is the story of a man watching himself on TV all night long. It is rated R. Lots of references to drugs (heck, it was the sixties).

How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You’re Not Anywhere at All has a different skit on each side (though they reference the other side of the phonographic album during the skits). One side has the Further Adventures of Nick Danger, Third Eye, while the other side begins with one of those ubiquitous Car Commercials (come on down!) we all heard in the LA area in the sixties, and ends with James Joyce’s Ulysses. The anti war theme is relevant today. It is rated R with even more of references to drugs.

I Think We’re All Bozos on this Bus is a trip to a Disneyland like theme park called The Future Fair. Even the word Bus is a reference to computers (which back in their day used up half a city block and had less than ten megabytes of memory). Welcome to the Future! (It’s smaller, but, ahhh, cleaner.)

They will all make you think, make you laugh, and make you play them again and again.

P.S. I've just introduced a few friends to my collection of the Firesign Theater this past month. They're still laughing.

Betty Boop

Here’s a question for you: What color is Betty Boop’s hair?

Everyone says, “black” because she’s always drawn that way in posters. However, in her two color cartoons, her hair was red.

Another question: What was Betty Boop before she was human?

Weird question? Not really. She was a dog. In her first seven cartoons Betty was a dog. She quickly transformed into a spicy flapper from the twenties, and after the Hays Office started enforcing their edicts(1934), Betty’s character and clothing began to get toned down. Her skirts grew longer, and her fans fell away. Her voice, Mae Questel, stayed with Max Fleisher’s studio to become the voice of Olive Oyl, Popeye’s goilfriend.  

The double collection (below) is a great introduction to Betty’s early years. In fact, the first time Louis Armstrong appeared on film was in a Betty Boop Cartoon that went by the name of the song Louis and his Band perform: I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You.

You’ll also find Cab Calloway in this collection, singing about Cocaine and Heroin, but the kids won’t know; they’re presented in street slang. Many of Betty’s early work would not have made it past the Hays Office had they established just a few years earlier.

Much of these old cartoons, though, as well as Charlie Chaplin’s work, and some Loony Tunes, are filled with racism. They are the product of their time, and you might want to explain a few things to your kids.  

Loony Tunes

The Loony Tunes Collections are my absolute favorites. These cartoons were not produced for solely for children. They were created for the child in all of us.

In the “olden days” when we went to a movie, we went for entertainment. Today, we go for entertainment, but we get assaulted with advertisement after advertisement and movie trailers followed by movie trailers.

In my day, each film was preceded by a cartoon. So now, when I make a DVD (recorded from my Tivo), if there is room, I always add a cartoon.

These collections are sheer gems. They contain commentaries, historical documentaries, and lots of special features. You will meet the crazy geniuses behind the Tunes, such as Tex Avery who was to the cartoon what Color and Sound were to movies. You’ll meet Frank Tashland (who went by many names, such as Tish Tash) who sped up cartoons faster, even faster than his mentor Tex Avery, and used camera angles that influenced Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Wells. Tashland went on to direct films for Hollywood, which the boys of Termite Terrace referred to as “a step down.”

You’ll learn that the voice of Bugs Bunny (and Daffy Duck, Sylvester, Speedy Gonzalez, and more), was done by Mel Blanc, who, by the way, hated carrots. However, after trying everything from raw potatoes to celery and apples, found that the only way to get the crunch-crunch sound of a carrot was by munching on a carrot. So, after every bite of a carrot followed by a line, Mel spit the carrot into a bucket.

You’ll learn about all the people behind the characters and gags from Warner Brothers. You’ll meet Chuck Jones, who first designed Bugs Bunny, and later you’ll meet Robert McKimson who finalized Bug’s Character in his model sheet drawn in 1943. You’ll meet a lot of people who never got credits in the openings, such as the animators, the sound effects people, and many voices. June Foray did a lot of female character voices for Warner Brothers, but was virtually unknown till she created the voices for both Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Natasha on the Bullwinkle Hour.

And don’t forget to watch The Wabbit Who Came To Supper, for its famous “shower scene” in which those nutty guys managed to slip a few frames past the people in the Hays Office. And don’t forget to pay attention to the paintings on Elmer Fudd’s walls. He has four nudes.

And be sure to watch a few cartoons with the music (and sometimes sound effects) only. The artwork alone in these pieces are remarkable. The sunrise in Claws For Alarm, is sheer artistic genius. Additionally, this is just one of two cartoons in which Sylvester is Porky Pig’s pet, and gets no lines, though in the first one, Scaredy Cat, Sylvester does get to meow.

Disney's On the Front Lines

Did you know that Walt Disney played an integral role in defeating the Germans during WWII?

When the war began, Disney was nearly shut down. Many of his employees had been drafted. With hardly a workforce, Disney got contracts from the US Military to make training films (a few are in the collection below).

While working for the military, Disney read a book by Alexander Procofieff de Seversky, an aviation pioneer. The book was Victory Through Air Power.

Disney created his own Victory Through Air Power, which started out with the history of flight in cartoon form. As a child, I watched excerpts from this documentary, but only as an adult, with the release of Disney’s On The Front Lines, was I able to see the entire production of Victory Through Air Power.

With Seversky himself lecturing, Disney intersperses animations of Serversky’s theories on the tactics of long distance bombing. The animation is simply amazing and the quality…well, Disney never did anything poorly.

When the film was released, Winston Churchill went to see it. Upon meeting with Roosevelt, he was surprised to learn that Roosevelt had not yet seen the movie and arranged for a copy to be sent to Roosevelt. Roosevelt watched it, and within a month, our factories began producing long distance bombers; and the rest is history.

Included in this collection is the Academy Award wining cartoon, Der Fuehrer's Face. Donald also joins the army in one of the cartoons, and we get to see his middle name: Fauntleroy.

This is an amazing piece of history. Your children will love the cartoons, and you don’t even have to tell them they’re getting a college course in the history of WWII.

Jaques Tati

Finally we have two works by a French director, writer, producer, editor, and actor. He was voted the 46th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly, and of the list of fifty, he was the only one who had directed a paltry 9 films.

I’ll lay odds that no one reading this has ever heard of this man, let alone having ever seen his films.

They are masterpieces. Tati is a genius of visual gags. He’s also an audio gag genius. You can hardly hear the dialogue, but you can hear the sounds he’s amplified. In fact, the dialogue is hardly central to his work.

For Playtime, the most expensive French film of its day, Tati employed 100 construction workers to build two buildings using ,700 square feet of glass, 38,700 square feet of plastic, 31,500 square feet of timber, and 486,000 square feet of concrete. The production began in October of 1964 and ended in October of 1967. Tati went bankrupt making this film, and it did not make a very big splash at the box office. However, Tati lived long enough to get the recognition he deserved. Even Roger Ebert added Playtime to his “great movies” list in August of 2004.

The movie comes with a documentary showing the work that went into the production.

Together, Mon Oncle and Playtime have been compared to Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times, the story of an anonymous character trapped in a modern world.

Tati plays the main roll of Mr Hulot, an eccentric, conservative, goofy yet good-willing character who seems to be doomed to do everything wrong in the modern world.

Tati’s genius is the gag. Every scene turns into something else. There is so much going on, you will have to see these over and over to catch it all.

Guaranteed, if you order these films, you’ll be the only one on your block to own them; perhaps the only one in your city. And everyone will wonder what the heck you’re laughing at.

Go to original.

From the Silver Bulletin e-News Magazine |
The Fluoride Conspiracy
"Fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this century." - Robert Carlton, Ph.D, former EPA scientist, 1992

The history of forcing fluoride on humans through the fluoridation of drinking water is wrought with lies, greed and deception. Governments that add fluoride to drinking water supplies insist that it is safe, beneficial and necessary, however, scientific evidence shows that fluoride is not safe to ingest and areas that fluoridate their drinking water supplies have higher rates of cavities, cancer, dental fluorosis, osteoporosis and other health problems. Because of the push from the aluminum industry, pharmaceutical companies and weapons manufacturers, fluoride continues to be added to water supplies all over North America and due to recent legal actions against water companies that fluoridate drinking water supplies, precedent has been set that will make it impossible for suits to be filed against water suppliers that fluoridate. There is a growing resistance against adding toxic fluoride to our water supplies, but unfortunately, because fluoride has become "the lifeblood of the modern industrial economy"(Bryson 2004), there is too much money at stake for those who endorse water fluoridation . The lies of the benefits of water fluoridation will continue to be fed to the public, not to encourage health benefits to a large number of people, but to profit the military-industrial complex.

The story begins in 1924, when Interessen Gemeinschaft Farben (I.G. Farben), a German chemical manufacturing company, began receiving loans from American bankers, gradually leading to the creation of the huge I.G. Farben cartel. In 1928 Henry Ford and American Standard Oil Company (The Rockefellers) merged their assets with I.G. Farben, and by the early thirties, there were more than a hundred American corporations which had subsidiaries and co-operative understandings in Germany. The I.G. Farben assets in America were controlled by a holding Company, American I.G. Farben, which listed on it’s board of directors: Edsel Ford, President of the Ford Motor Company, Chas. E. Mitchell, President of Rockerfeller’s National City Bank of New York, Walter Teagle, President of Standard Oil New York, Paul Warburg, Chairman of the federal reserve and brother of Max Warburg, financier of Germany’s War effort, Herman Metz, a director of the Bank of Manhattan, controlled by the Warburgs, and a number of other members, three of which were tried and convicted as German war criminals for their crimes against humanity. In 1939 under the Alted agreement, the American Aluminum Company (ALCOA), then the worlds largest producer of sodium fluoride, and the Dow Chemical Company transferred its technology to Germany. Colgate, Kellogg, Dupont and many other companies eventually signed cartel agreements with I.G. Farben, creating a powerful lobby group accurately dubbed "the fluoride mafia"(Stephen 1995).

At the end of World War II, the US government sent Charles Eliot Perkins, a research worker in chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and pathology, to take charge of the vast Farben chemical plants in Germany. The German chemists told Perkins of a scheme which they had devised during the war and had been adapted by the German General Staff. The German chemists explained of their attempt to control the population in any given area through the mass medication of drinking water with sodium fluoride, a tactic used in German and Russian prisoner of war camps to make the prisoners "stupid and docile"(Stephen 1995). Farben had developed plans during the war to fluoridate the occupied countries because it was found that fluoridation caused slight damage to a specific part of the brain, making it more difficult for the person affected to defend his freedom and causing the individual to become more docile towards authority. Fluoride remains one of the strongest anti-psychotic substances known, and is contained in twenty-five percent of the major tranquilizers. It may not seem surprising that Hitler’s regime practiced the concept of mind control through chemical means, but the American military continued Nazi research, exploring techniques to incapacitate an enemy or medicate an entire nation. As stated in the Rockerfeller Report, a Presidential briefing on CIA activities, "the drug program was part of a much larger CIA program to study possible means of controlling human behavior"(Stephen 1995).

The ‘dental caries prevention myth’ associated with fluoride, originated in the United States in 1939, when a scientist named Gerald J. Cox, employed by ALCOA, the largest producer of toxic fluoride waste and at the time being threatened by fluoride damage claims, fluoridated some lab rats, concluded that fluoride reduced cavities and claimed that it should be added to the nation’s water supplies. In 1947, Oscar R. Ewing, a long time ALCOA lawyer, was appointed head of the Federal Security Agency , a position that placed him in charge of the Public Health Service(PHS). Over the next three years, eighty-seven new American cities began fluoridating their water, including the control city in a water fluoridation study in Michigan, thus eliminating the most scientifically objective test of safety and benefit before it was ever completed.

American ‘education and research’ was funded by the Aluminum Manufacturing, Fertilizer and Weapons Industry looking for an outlet for the increasingly mounting fluoride industrial waste while attaining positive profit increase. The ‘discovery’ that fluoride benefited teeth, was paid for by industry that needed to be able to defend "lawsuits from workers and communities poisoned by industrial fluoride emissions" (Bryson 1995) and turn a liability into an asset. Fluoride, a waste constituent in the manufacturing processes of explosives, fertilizers and other ‘necessities’, was expensive to dispose of properly and until a ‘use’ was found for it in America’s water supplies, the substance was only considered a toxic, hazardous waste. Through sly public re-education, fluoride, once a waste product, became the active ingredient in fluorinated pesticides, fungicides, rodenticides, anesthetics, tranquilizers, fluorinated pharmaceuticals, and a number of industrial and domestic products, fluorinated dental gels, rinses and toothpastes. Fluoride is so much a part of a multibillion-dollar industrial and pharmaceutical income, that any withdrawal of support from pro-fluoridationists is financially impossible, legally unthinkable and potentially devastating for their career and reputation.

Funded by US industrialists, in an attempt to encourage public acceptance of fluoride, Edward Bernays, known also as the father of PR, or the original spin doctor, began a campaign of deception to persuade public opinion. Barnays explained "you can get practically any idea accepted if doctors are in favour. The public is willing to accept it because a doctor is an authority to most people, regardless of how much he knows or doesn’t know"(Bryson 2004). Doctors who endorsed fluoridation didn’t know that research discrediting fluoride’s safety was either suppressed or not conducted in the first place. Fluoride became equated with scientific progress and since it was introduced to the public as a health-enhancing substance, added to the environment for the children’s sake, those opposing fluoride were dismissed as cranks, quacks and lunatics. Fluoride became impervious to criticism because of a relentless PR offensive, but also because of it’s overall toxicity. Unlike chemicals that have a signature effect, fluoride, a systemic poison, produces a range of health problems, so it’s effects are more difficult to diagnose.

Recently declassified US Military documents such as Manhattan Project, shows how Fluoride is the key chemical in atomic bomb production and millions of tons of it were needed for the manufacture of bomb-grade uranium and plutonium. Fluoride poisoning, not radiation poisoning, emerged as the leading chemical health hazard for both workers and nearby communities. A-bomb scientists were ordered to provide evidence useful for defense in litigation, so they began secretly testing fluoride on unsuspecting hospital patients and indignant, mentally retarded children.. "The August 1948 Journal of the American Dental Association shows that evidence of adverse effects from fluoride was censored by the US Atomic Energy Commission for reasons of "national security" (Griffiths 1998). The only report released stated that fluoride was safe for humans in small doses.

During the Cold War, Dr. Harold C. Hodge, who had been the toxicologist for the US Army Manhattan Project, was the leading scientific promoter of water fluoridation. While Dr. Hodge was reassuring congress of the safety of water fluoridation, he was covertly conducting one of the nation’s first public water fluoridation experiments in Newburgh, New York, secretly studying biological samples from Newburgh citizens at his US laboratory at the University of Rochester. Since there are no legal constraints against the suppression of scientific data, the only published conclusion resulting from these experiments was that fluoride was safe in low doses, a profoundly helpful verdict for the US Military who feared lawsuits for fluoride injury from workers in nuclear power plants and munitions factories. Fluoride pollution was one of the biggest legal worries facing key US industrial sectors during the cold war. A secret group of corporate attorneys, known as the Fluorine Lawyers Committee, whose members included US Steel, ALCOA, Kaiser Aluminum, and Reynolds Metals, commissioned research at the Kettering Laboratory at the University of Cincinnati to "provide ammunition"(Bryson 2004) for those corporations who were fighting a wave of citizen claims for fluoride injury. The Fluorine Lawyers Committee and their medical ambassadors were in personal and frequent contact with the senior officials of the federal National Institute for Dental Research, and have been implied in the ‘burying’ of the forty year old Kettering study, which showed that fluoride poisoned the lungs and lymph nodes in laboratory animals. Private interests, sought to destroy careers and censor information by ensuring that scientific studies raising doubts about the safety of fluoride never got funded, and if they did, never got published.

During the 1990’s, research conducted by Harvard toxicologist Phillis Mullenix showed that fluoride in water may lead to lower IQ’s, and produced symptoms in rats strongly resembling attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Just days before her research was accepted for publication, Mullenix was fired as the head of toxicology at the Forsyth Dental Center in Boston. Then her application for a grant to continue her fluoride and central nervous system research was turned down by the US National Institute of Health (NIH), when an NIH panel told her that "fluoride does not have central nervous system effects"(Griffiths 1998).

Despite growing evidence that it is harmful to public health, US federal and state pubic health agencies and large dental and medical organizations such as the American Dental Association (ADA), continue to promote fluoride. Water fluoridation continues, despite the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s own scientists, whose union, Chapter 280 of the National Treasury Employees Union, has taken a strong stand against it. Dr. William Hirzy, vice president of Chapter 280, stated that "fluoride (that is added to municipal water) is a hazardous waste product for which there is substantial evidence of adverse health effects and, contrary to public perception, virtually no evidence of significant benefits"( Mullenix 1998). Although fluoride is up to fifty times more toxic than sulfur dioxide, it is still not regulated as an air pollutant by the American Clean Air Act. Since thousands of tonnes of industrial fluoride waste is poured into drinking water supplies all over North America, supposedly to encourage gleaming smiles in our children, big industry in the US has the benefit of emitting as much fluoride waste into the environment as they like with absolutely no requirement to measure emissions and no way of being held accountable for poisoning people, animals and vegetation.

In August 2003, the EPA requested that the National Research Council, the research arm of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), re-evaluate water fluoride safety standards by reviewing recent scientific literature, because the last review in 1993 had major gaps in research. "Neither the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), nor the National Institute for Dental Research (NIDR), nor the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry has any proof on fluoride’s safety or effectiveness"(Sterling 1993). The International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology has classified fluoride as an unapproved dental medicament due to it’s high toxicity and the US National Cancer Institute Toxicological Program has found fluoride to be an "equivocal carcinogen" (Maurer 1990).

Currently the US government is continuing to introduce further fluoridation schemes throughout the country, including the Water Act passed in November 2003, which has made it impossible for water companies to undergo civil or criminal hearings as a result of adding fluoride to public water supplies.

In a society where products containing asbestos, lead, beryllium and many other carcinogens have been recalled from the marketplace, it is surprising that fluoride is embraced so thoroughly and blindly. It seems absurd that we would consider paying the chemical industry to dispose of their toxic waste by adding it to our water supply. Hiding the hazards of fluoride pollution from the public is a capitalist-style con job of epic proportions that has occurred because a powerful lobby wishes to manipulate public opinion in order to protect it’s own financial interests. "Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country... our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of" (Bernays 1991).

If you're over the age of 50, you may have noticed that your muscles are getting weaker. It happens to all of us, even when we follow a good exercise and weight lifting program. And it's very dangerous, as it makes you more prone to losing your balance and falling. Fortunately, there's a simple way to slow down how fast you lose that muscle strength.

Researchers recently studied 891 seniors and their selenium levels. They found that those who are low in this essential mineral have a 69% increased risk of poor hip strength. They also found that they had nearly double the risk for poor knee and grip strength compared to those who had higher levels.

This study confirms other studies that showed the same results. In fact, in China there are areas of very low selenium in the soil. People in those areas tend to age much quicker than areas where selenium is more common.

Selenium is one of my favorite nutrients. I use it with almost all of my patients. All of us have toxic heavy metal in our system. Selenium protects you from these. Here's how: Toxic metals, such as mercury and lead, bind with selenium. The selenium inactivates the metal when they bind together. However, that process costs you a selenium ion for each toxic metal ion it binds. So it's important to get plenty of selenium.

I usually recommend 200 mcg per day. In some cases, I use up to three times that amount. There are great preparations on the market. But most high quality multivitamin/mineral formulations will have between 100-200 mcg (this includes Healthy Resolve's Max Plus www.healthyresolve.com/maxplus, which has 200 mcg). So, if you are taking one of these and doing well, you shouldn't need more.

The one exception is if you have a lot of amalgam fillings. In these cases, you should consider an additional 200 mcg on top of your multivitamin/mineral.

Yours for better health and medical freedom,
Robert Jay Rowen, MD

Ref: Am J Clin Nutr, 2007; 86(2): 347-52.

More and more information is circulating on how Vitamin D can slash your risk of various cancers by up to 77%. However, at the same time, a study published in JAMA has been reported negatively, even though it supported all the previous studies. Guess who owns the media?

In Canada, their Canadian Cancer Association has published volumes on Vitamin D and cancer prevention, but our own American Cancer Society refuses to follow in step. One more reason to boycott this horrid organization.

Most studies seem to feel that we should be getting between 1000 - 1500 IU of Vitamin D daily. That’s an awful lot of sun for fair skinned people (who require the upper limits), and impossible in the winter time up north. Personally, I take at least 2,000 IU daily.

I found a sites that sell Vitamin D in 1000 IU doses inexpensively.

This just in (3/30/08): The FDA has just published the following:

Studies show that Selenium can reduce DNA damage, reduces oxidative stress (a precursor to many cancers), and has a positive impact on genes that are linked to the progression of cancer.

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• 1 lb golden raisins (sometimes called white raisins, not ordinary black raisins)
• gin (approximately 1 pint)
• shallow glass bowl (Pyrex^® is good; crystal is bad)
• glass jar with lid
• eat just nine of these raisins daily

Spread the golden raisins evenly on the bottom of the glass bowl and pour enough gin over them to completely cover. Let them stay that way until all the gin is absorbed. It can take up to a few weeks.

When the gin is absorbed, transfer the raisins to the jar, put the lid on and keep it closed. Do not refrigerate.

This morning on the way to work I rear-ended a car at a stop light while not really paying attention.

Anyway the fellow who was driving got out.

And he was a dwarf.

He said "I'm not happy."

I said "Well, which one are you then?

So, there I sat in a pair of shorts with my reading glasses perched delicately on the bridge of my nose, directions in one hand, Tazer in the other.  The directions said that a one-second burst would shock and disorient your assailant; a two-second burst was supposed to cause muscle spasms and a loss of bodily control; a three-second burst would purportedly make your assailant flop on the ground like a fish out of water.

All the while I'm looking at this little device (measuring about 5" long, less than 3/4 inch in circumference, pretty cute really, and loaded with two itsy, bitsy AAA batteries) thinking to myself, "no way!" Trust me, but I'm getting ahead of myself. What happened next is almost beyond description, but I'll do my best.