We've received a good number of letters asking us to change our font, change our background, and hey, how the heck do you print this page so that it all shows up on paper?

Black on white is the preferred color scheme. Our font is large enough so that most anyone can read it. If you are having problems, please find out how to change the Text Size in your browser.

In Microsoft's Internet Explorer, click on View (at the top, left), choose Text Size in the drop-down menu, then choose a larger text size. Mine is set to Largest.

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The newsletter will now be published whenever we've got something to publish. This means it will be smaller, and sent out irregularly. There will always be a link at the top to read the archives in case you've missed something, and a link to the subject index in case you are searching for a specific subject.

Our home page has changed a bit too. We are no longer the Wellness Directory of Minnesota; we are the International Wellness Directory. We are producing a directory of wellness practitioners from around the globe.

Additionally, we've held off for a long time from incorporating a variety of web tools at our site so that everyone can read the material. We have now found a happy medium. We now have some java script (such as our main menu on the home page) but for those who cannot see the menu (for whom java script just doesn't work in their browser) all links are provided at the bottom of every page we create. You can still get around the entire website, just go to the bottom of the page.

You will also notice some scrolling text (the links in the text do operate like normal links) that will update you to what's new at this site.

At the top is a Flash animation. As we learn more how to use Flash animations, we'll be adding them to the site to make your visit a bit more exciting. However, if your browser does NOT use flash, you're not going to miss out on anything. The pages will appear to you like everyone else. The only thing you won't get is the animation.

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Some of you might wonder how in the world these organic standards affect you. I realize that many of you do not eat organic foods. So, how does this affect you? The history of farming on this planet has been thus: use up the land and then move on. This is historical fact. I’m not sure of the latest figures, but while I was in college, I learned that 192 acres a day in California turn to desert and will not grow a thing, because of conventional farming techniques. The Sahara grows, last I heard, by 25,000 square miles each year. Additionally, fifty acres a minute of oxygen-producing plants are eaten away by some circumstance every minute of every day. The best figures, (gained from the Union of Concerned Scientists, Institute of Science in Society, and various other scientific organizations) indicate that land degradation claims 12-17 million acres of farmland each year. Land all over the world turns into desert (desertification) because we’ve overused it and stretched its capacity to sustain life beyond its limits. Organic farmers are stewards of the land. They practice “sustainable” farming practices. For this alone, we all must support them and support the standards they’ve established. Profitability I’m sure you’ve all noticed that organic foods are expensive. So have the factory farms, the agribusinesses. They want some of that profit. Imagine them being able to create organic foods and sell it for less. Imagine how much they’d rake in. I purchased a red pepper the other day that sold for over seven dollars a pound. Imagine agribusinesses selling their “organic” red peppers for three dollars a pound. People would jump at that; but sadly, the red pepper would not be organic. It is organic only due to lowered standards. Instead of them adopting the organic standards and growing organic foods, the big money in the food industry exerts a powerful influence on the government to modify the organic standards so that factory farms can call their food “organic.” In the end, the consumer thinks s/he is buying organic food and thinks s/he is supporting sustainable farming techniques, when we are actually just buying the same old crud that the conventional agribusinesses have been producing all along -- only now they’re allowed to call it Certified Organic. Profits Be Damned Normally the USDA will publish that they are considering modifying organic standards and await the response from the public. This time, Congress tried to slip one by us by burying the organic standards changes in the middle of an unrelated bill. This is proof of the profitability of the organic food market, when the monied interests pressure Congress to change the standards so they can join in—without having to change their methods. Our letters to Congress quashed the bill, at least for now. Senate lawmakers were surprised at the number of letters, calls, and faxes they got asking them to uphold the standards. The pressure caused the Senate to back off. For now, the newly diluted standards will have to wait while the Secretary of Agriculture (who does not personally eat organic foods nor has he supported organic standards) studies this issue further. From the Health Action Center we got: Although we’ve neutralized the threat in the Senate, proponents of the rider still have the ability to submit the compromising language during House/Senate conference committee sessions.  That’s why we need you to keep up the pressure. Tell your Senators and Representatives “hands off organics” during conference negotiations When we sent out our action alert last week, we asked you to send a letter to your Senator, telling him or her to oppose any amendment that would weaken organic standards.  As the Agriculture Appropriations Bill heads into conference committee, I ask you to send another letter, this time to your U.S. Representative, who until now may not have heard from his or her constituents about the threat to organic standards. Send a letter today We’re almost there.  With your help, we will send a powerful message to our elected officials and government agencies that we organic consumers value our food and are willing to fight for it. Go ahead, click the links above and send a letter. And please read the next article and learn how you can be notified immediately when our health standards are being attacked. Keep in mind that the current administration has doled out loans, grants, and tax breaks to corporate agribusiness, but has completely overlooked the small farmer who cares for the earth by employing sustainable farming methods. From the Organic Consumers Organization: UPDATE: STOP THE SNEAK ATTACK ON ORGANIC STANDARDS Over the past month, Organic Consumers Association (OCA) network members have deluged Congress with over 170,000 letters, asking policymakers to reject an industry sponsored stealth "rider" to the 2006 Agriculture Appropriations Bill. The rider would weaken organic standards and allow hundreds of synthetic substances in organic production without prior review or public participation. Feeling the heat from their constituents, the U.S. Senate stalled the rider vote and forwarded it on for discussion in the House/Senate Conference Committee. Thanks to all of you for contacting your Congresspeople! Unfortunately we are up against powerful lobbyists from giant food processors such as Kraft as well as supermarket chains. If you have not taken action, please send an email to Congress. If you have already emailed or called your Senators and Representative, thank you. Please consider forwarding this action alert on to your friends and colleagues. We hope to generate more than 250,000 letters to stop this rider from being passed by Congress. TAKE ACTION: http://www.organicconsumers.org/sos.cfm   Do everything you can to stop this; the stewardship of farmable land is all our responsibility. This Just In! Action Alert! October 25, 2005 (this alert expires 11/15/2005) Stop Factory Farm Dairy Feedlots from Labeling Their Products as "USDA Organic" Click here to sign an important petition to the USDA: http://www.organicconsumers.org/usda.htm Apologies for the unusually high number of emails from us right now. Typically, you can expect only one email from the OCA every two weeks, but the national organic standards are currently under siege, as never before. As our SOS Action Alerts and newsletter, Organic Bytes, have pointed out over the past month, there is currently an industry-sponsored Sneak Attack on organic standards in the U.S. Congress. We've kept you updated about this Sneak Attack, involving an industry rider that would greatly weaken organic standards by allowing hundreds of synthetic substances to be used in organic production without proper review by the National Organic Standards Board and the organic community. We will keep you posted on that issue, and appreciate the more than 200,000 individual emails the OCA network of consumers has generated to Congress on that issue. We need a similar response from you on the following, equally serious issue... THE PROBLEM: Under pressure from big agribusiness, the USDA is deliberately refusing to take action against factory farm dairy feedlots who are unethically selling their products as "organic." This blatant labeling fraud is compounded by a loophole in federal organic regulations that is allowing unscrupulous organic dairy farms to import young calves from non-organic conventional farms (where the animals have been weaned on cow blood, injected or medicated with antibiotics, and fed genetically engineered corn, soybeans and cotton seeds, laced with slaughterhouse waste and tainted animal fats). These confinement and feeding practices are inhumane, unhealthy, environmentally unsustainable, and unfair to the majority of organic dairy farmers, who follow strict organic principles on pasture access and animal feed, and do not import animals into their herds from conventional farms. Take action here: http://www.organicconsumers.org/usda.htm WHERE DOES YOUR ORGANIC MILK COME FROM?   Actual photo of cows "grazing" at an "organic" factory farm. Photo of cows grazing at an organic family farm.   Some of the factory farms that currently confine thousands of cows in close quarters are operated by leading organic dairies such as Dean Foods (Horizon Organic) and Aurora Organic Dairy (producer of store brand organic milk to chains such as Wild Oats, and supplier to Horizon).   THE SOLUTION: On November 16, in Washington, DC, organic consumer and farm representatives will attend the National Organic Standards Board meeting to urge the USDA to stop allowing giant intensive confinement dairy feedlots to illegally market their milk as "organic." The OCA will be presenting a petition with thousands of signatures, which you can sign online right now: http://www.organicconsumers.org/usda.htm For four years, the USDA has ignored requests from its own National Organic Standards Board to clarify standards on organic dairy farms. These clarifications would assure that animals have access to pasture, fresh air, and water, and that a considerable portion of their diet is pasture grass, as opposed to grains and other highly processed feeds used in confinement feedlots. In addition, OCA and organic advocates want the USDA to put an end to the practice of allowing organic dairies to increase their herd size by importing young calves from conventional farms. OCA and the public interest Cornucopia Institute need your help right now to pressure the USDA to stop these outrageous practices. Click here to send a petition to the USDA: http://www.organicconsumers.org/usda.htm   Despite these attacks on organic integrity, OCA is confident that we can "Keep Organic Organic," just as we've done before in 1998, 2002, and 2004--when the USDA and corporate agribusiness tried to degrade organic standards by permitting genetic engineering, food irradiation, sewage sludge, pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, and non-organic animal feed to be allowed under the "USDA Organic" label. But to preserve organic integrity, we need your continued vigilance, energy, and financial support. For more information, see the "Safeguard Organic Standards" section of the OCA website, which is updated daily. Donate Here: http://www.organicconsumers.org/donations.htm For Organic Integrity, Ronnie Cummins National Director Organic Consumers Association An article worth reading: CODEX is NOT Going Away.

Vitamins, supplements, and organic foods are under attack. CODEX is winning everywhere. You don’t think it can happen here? Oh yes, it can.

Many of us never thought America would violate international law and start a preemptive war.  We were wrong.   

It can happen here, and it will happen here if we do not stand together; if we do not act proactively and keep our leaders in Washington deluged with our demands. Our demands are very simple: Health Freedom.

In Australia, they are trying to pass a law that will put you in jail for up to 5 years for using a non-standard, non-approved therapy -- on yourself.

Yes, if the law passes, you can go to jail for ordering some oleander extract off the internet, or you can go to jail for taking the oleander plant that grows on your front porch and drinking an extract you made from it. It’s happening in Australia, and it can happen here.

You must read this article from Australia: Therapeutic Goods Administration Amendment Bill 03150.

Here are two very interesting articles from Down Under written by a health freedom fighter there:

http://www.evehillary.org/health.freedom.info.htm

http://www.evehillary.org/corp.med.1.html

To be informed immediately so that you can inform others and begin a letter writing campaign, write to me here: info@mnwelldir.org or go to our Home Page and join there. When action is needed, you'll be notified immediately.

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CONGRESS SET TO PASS LAW ELIMINATING LIABILITY FOR VACCINE INJURIES

Here is what the bill will purportedly do:

• If the Burr bill passes, "all economic incentives to insure mandated vaccines are safe will be removed and the American people are facing a future where government can force them to take poorly regulated experimental drugs and vaccines labeled as "countermeasures" or go to jail."

• BARDA The federal agency which will be in charge will be allowed: "to operate in secret, exempt from the Freedom of Information Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act, insuring that no evidence of injuries or deaths caused by drugs and vaccines labeled as "countermeasures" will become public."

Here is a site where you can sign a petition to reject the Senate bill S.1873 (Biodefense & Pandemic Vaccine & Drug Development Act). 

But you must also write your representatives in Washington.

Most people writing to us who ask about our affiliates and our income sources are antagonistic. We've been accused of taking big bucks from companies to promote their wares. One recent letter from a reader told me that he had visited the Consumer Labs web site and looked up the study of probiotics we referenced in our article: Digestion Part II. He attacked us for publishing a lie and said that the probiotics we had reviewed (by Sedona Labs) weren't even listed.

Luckily most of our readers can actually read. The full study was not published on the page he sent to us, only a sampling. We got the full study from Consumer Labs in return for linking to their site. It even states on the page this character read that what was listed there are "some" of the results of the study. This reader told us he could never trust us again. Oh well.

Do we have to give Full Disclosure to our readers? No, we don't. We've got nothing to hide (except our incompetence) and we're not only not afraid to let the world know how we survive here, we're quite proud of how we've done it.

Keep in mind that we are NOT a charitable organization because we would have to keep immaculate records. I am not a good businessperson. I have a disability that affects my memory and ability to do math, etc. I spend a lot of my time looking for things that were just in my hand. It recently took me four days to get some checks mailed to the bank because I kept misplacing them, losing the deposit slip, and then when I had it all in the envelope, I lost the envelope. Last week, I found a check on my desk that was sent to us 14 months ago. You really don't want me running your business, I'm sure.

So, here goes:

We are just a tad over $50,000.00 in debt. Half of that ($24,000.00) is owed to creditors. What are our expenses? We have $17,000.00 in printers, and a $9,000.00 computer system (and software) that is backed up to external drives. There is some 20+ years of research on our computer system that we do not wish to lose. Until recently, we were paying just under $90.00 per month for internet access (Satellite and AOL), but we now have DSL which brought down the costs significantly.

Sadly, I have to report that the company selling us our printers really put it to us. Before we had printed 200,000 pages on the printer, we were told that it was now obsolete and that we might have problems finding parts. We still owed $14,000.00 on the printers. 

Research is not free. We subscribe to many journals and newsletters, and as often as we can, we purchase a DVD that costs us nearly $300.00 and helps us to locate practitioners for our directory and for people seeking a practitioner who won't poison, burn, or slash them to death. We ask for donations when we find someone a practitioner, but not everyone pays and we don't turn anyone down.

As to where we get our funding, first off, I must preface that I do NOT recall the exact percentages we get from our affiliates. I'm not good with numbers and I'm not about to waste my time looking up every minuscule percentage we get; suffice it to say, just read on and I'll tell you as much as I know.

Barnes & Noble: this was our first affiliate. We get a minuscule percentage from them for each purchase -- anywhere from 25 to 70 dollars a year, although I do not recall getting a check from them in ages.

Amazon Dot Com: we have the same relationship with Amazon as we have with Barnes & Noble. We've never received a check from them yet. Our book links are through either Barnes & Nobel or Amazon. If you wish to purchase from them, fine; if not, that's your decision.

Buy Dot Com: same as above. I don't recall receiving a check from them in over two years.

Wilderness Family Naturals: this is one of our newest affiliate links. We get a slightly larger percentage than the first three listed, but then again, it's based upon actual sales from our links. If you go there through our link, we get a percentage; if you return, but do NOT go through our link, we get nothing. We've earned about $12.00 a month since becoming their affiliate. Apart from that, this is where I order all my coconut products and I really like these people and want to support their efforts.

Simply the Best: A lot of people have asked about our connection to Simply the Best. It's very simple. I helped them get started. The main idea was to support our work, support the small companies that produce great products, get people (especially our readers) the products at a discount, and hire the disabled. I am a part time volunteer for them, downloading their figures at the end of the month to bring to an accountant at the end of the year. I answer letters at times, and help to put out forest fires. However, the business is not going well. The shipper has made a few mistakes (he's recovering from a brain injury), there were a lot of returns (which the company supplying the product would not stand behind), and some bad luck involving bad checks and undelivered products. Were they making a profit, we'd be receiving some of it. But so far, their contribution has been rather small. We're just glad that they now have some good products, that they give discounts to our readers, and that the companies they support are doing well.

Learning Strategies: this is a local company that produces CDs, DVDs, and video/audio tapes. Their products are top quality and we do get a hefty percentage of each sale. I think it's greater than 25%. We've gotten about $300.00 in the past two years from them. They make one of the best Qigong packages we've ever seen. Additionally, they produce some of the best CDs and audio tapes for meditation. Well, it's not really your normal meditation. They are called Paraliminal CDs and tapes. They really are unique. I've been using them since 1991 when I first discovered them. You really should check them out: Paraliminal CDs and Tapes.

Ultimate Immune: is our latest affiliate. We've used their products for over a year now (when needed) and have sent many readers to their site. We will soon review their products for you, but in the meantime, you can go there to purchase  immunosupportive products to be ready for the cold and flu season. We've received nothing from them yet, and their affiliate percentage is quite small. But their products are the best and we will review them for you in the near future.

Our longtime readers know that we maintain the highest standards of integrity here. When the Masters Miracle people split with the originator of the company, we ripped every reference to their products off our website and promoted the original product, Miracle II, instead. Master's Miracle had been a big source of income; Miracle II gives us nothing.

It is not uncommon for readers to find references to products suddenly absent at our site. It's very simple: if a person or company is not straight with us; if their business ethics are less than perfect, they will not find any support at our site. I really don't care if they've discovered a cure for death. In this life, the only thing we have that we can truly call our own is our integrity.

We are all volunteers here. Not a one of us earns a dime from our work. When we go to print, we do pay the advertising salespersons a commission, which is expected. If you have trouble believing any of this, then you should read this letter from our accountant. You can even give her a call (her phone number is on the letter).

We do not "exchange" links with other sites. If they have a good product we will review it and then link to them. Daily, webmasters come to us asking if we will exchange links. We won't.

As to reviews, if you have something out there you want reviewed, just write and we will contact the manufacturers, distributors, or author and try to get a review copy. We've only been turned down a few times, but that has been their loss, as many of the companies whose products we've reviewed will tell you.

Lastly, if you've made it this far, you probably remember that I said, above, that half of our debt is owed to creditors. This begs the question, "To whom is the other half owed?" It's simple; it's owed to the management of this company. We've all put our own money into keeping this ship afloat. Perhaps one day we'll get it back, perhaps we won't. The important thing is that we're going to do this until we can no longer do it.

Keep in mind that we sell none of the products we write about. We do sell promotional items and our books. Some people assume that this must be profitable, but because we give away more books than we sell, no publishing company will take on our books, and we've lost money on most of our publications. When we finally sat down to figure out our profits from our second edition of the directory, we discovered that we had lost $4.00 on each book we sold, putting us $12,000.00 into debt.

We will continue selling our books, asking for donations, and selling promotional items that will pay our debts. This month we are selling a t-shirt that is quite unique. We've only got a few left, so if you want one, you'd better order soon.

In the future, since publishing companies have finally been knocking at my door concerning my fiction, we've decided to publish a collector's edition of that fiction. Each book will be handmade, the dedication page will contain whatever the purchaser wishes to have printed there, along with its "printing number" out of 100, and my signature. It will sell for $200.00. It will be covered in hand made paper (from weeds and cattails and the like). This book will be something very special. After each short story, you will find an essay on how the story was written. If you have any interest, it would be best to write and tell me, since once we do this (by next summer) we're pretty sure they'll go fast. You'll have a unique book, and we'll be able to pay our creditors off.

Additionally, since my reputation as a photographer is growing, we sell numbered prints of my photos for $200.00 each now. Again, if you want a copy, numbered and signed, you must write to me.

We apologize if our newsletter seems a bit commercial with links everywhere to buy products, but that's life. We have to pay our bills and we support only the best companies out there. That's how we do it and that's how we'll continue doing it.

And if you want to support our efforts, keep in mind that 99% of the time when you re-order from one of our affiliates, you have to go through a link at our site in order for us to get credit.

We've touched upon probiotics (acidophilus being one most people are familiar with) in the past, especially in our Digestion Articles (Part Two), but felt that we really needed to get into more depth on this subject since it is of such importance. We've found some amazing new research into the role of probiotics in our immune system.

Since we've focused in depth in this issue on the Avian Flu (scare), much of what we have learned comes down to this: your preventive program MUST contain probiotics.

So we've updated the Digestion articles with this new information. You can find it right here: Probiotics.

And if you are looking for probiotics, the best we've found (the best Consumer Labs has found) are from Sedona Labs and are on sale to our readers at Simply the Best.

Simply the Best is having an unadvertised sale that only YOU will know about: Buy 4 and get 1 free of any Sedona Labs product at the site. This is a spectacular discount. I did the math on this one and they're barely making a profit on this sale. You will NOT find any information at the site on this discount, simply order 4 of one Sedona Labs product and you will get a notification that you will be receiving 5 in your shipment. If not, write me and I'll check this out.

We are in shock. The Russians know something we've not yet caught on to: a healthy population makes for a stronger democracy.

How can people who are sick and exhausted fulfill their responsibilities or their obligations as guardians of a democracy?

In a democracy, the president is a leader and a servant. He is a servant to the people. The people hold the power.

How much power can an ailing population hold?

Democracy demands we all participate. It takes a healthy people to participate fully.

This is why Russia outlawed microwaves. Microwave ovens are slowly killing us. Microwave ovens create food that was never meant to enter our bodies.

As we fill our bodies with microwaved poisons, we slowly fill up with inflammation and all the various diseases inflammation brings on: cancer, heart disease, diabetes, chronic fatigue, MS, fibromyalgia, and the list goes on, and on, and on.

We've written about microwaves in a previous newsletter. One of the first links ever at this site is Hidden Hazards of Microwave Cooking, the report of an actual study that was blocked from publication.

I was asked by a reader what I thought of Kevin Trudeau’s book,

I told him I hadn’t read it, and probably wouldn’t. So, that reader went out, bought it and sent it to me. I read it.

If you know anything about Kevin Trudeau, you’ll know he spent time in a federal penitentiary for credit card fraud and has been investigated by practically everyone over some scheme.

However, I never hold anyone’s past against them. Let’s face it, St Augustine was a sinner long before he became a saint.

Having said that, I can judge Trudeau’s book, Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know About in and of itself.

First off, there are NO secrets in medicine, only things you’ve not yet heard of.

Second, no one from the pharmaceutical industry cares one whit about what you know or don’t know. The pharmaceutical industry is not spending a dime trying to suppress information.

The pharmaceutical industry is spending billions to keep alternative health products away from you. They want to own the vitamin and supplement industry too, and overcharge you for that like they’ve overcharged for their drugs. They want to make sure that cheap alternatives are outlawed. THIS is how they are spending their money, and they are doing a bang up job. Read the articles about what is going on in Australia.

Don’t buy into the hype.

Trudeau’s book is chock-full of information. It is presented plain and simple. There is no depth to his research. In fact, his research is not really research, but simple plagiarism. He hardly gives credit to anyone or tells you where he found the information. It’s as if he bought a few books on natural cures, garnered information from the web and slapped this together. Which, in my opinion, is exactly what he did.

I, too, could have created a web site that same way, if my goal had been to make money. However, my goal was to heal and help others to heal. And I won’t just write out something that I do not understand fully. I try to make the difficult, obscure and complex a bit less difficult, obscure, and complex to my readers. I try to simplify without oversimplifying.

Trudeau’s book is designed to make money only. He is not the consumer advocate or the expert he claims to be, but he is an expert at separating people from their money.

His book is one huge advertisement for his web site and his newsletter for which you can buy a lifetime subscription at the minuscule cost of $495.00.

Or, you can come to our web site for free. [What am I doing wrong?]

Here’s some further reading about Trudeau and his schemes:

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art36180.asp
http://www.mlmsurvivor.com/felon.htm

So, when you get something in the mail about this hidden secret or this secret ingredient, don’t believe it. It’s not a secret.  Many common substances are sold under "new names" in order to generate bigger profits. If you really want to know the truth about something, you can write to us and ask. If we don’t know about it, we will look it up.

Continuing our examination of the history of medicine, we have found an extraordinary woman who served the Union army as the first female surgeon the military had ever employed.

For those of you who missed the Civil War article from our last newsletter, written by a surgeon and medical historian, Dr Julius Prestigiacomo Bonello, here you go: Civil War Medicine.

For the rest of us, let's take a look at this Dr Mary Edwards Walker.

Dr Garry Gordon's book, The Omega-3 Miracle is the most thoroughly researched and delightfully presented book on these miracle fats I've ever read. In fact, I was given two books on the same subject and the other was so eclipsed by this one, I refuse to hurt the author by publishing that review here. Click here to read our review of The Omega-3 Miracle.

The Calcium Bomb: The Nanobacteria Link to Heart Disease and Cancer

This entire story is amazing. The discovery, the battle over the discovery, the tests and further studies, and finally the simple fact that our arteries have another enemy that came from nowhere. Click here to read our review of The Calcium Bomb.

Dr Bruce Fife loves our little web site. He sent me two more review copies of his latest coconut books. They are a must in every kitchen and first aid kit. Click here to read our review of Coconut Cures, and click here to read our review of Cooking with Coconut Flour.

Note: GasAway has been discontinued because their new digestive enzymes called NextZyme contain those gas fighting enzymes. Read about NextZyme.

I have tried everything. When the Sedona Labs rep called me offering me a couple bottles of GasAway, I told them just that. I’ve tried all the probiotics, digestive enzymes, BeanO, GasX, you name it. If someone makes a product for flatulence, I’ve tried it.

A little gas is normal. A lot of gas is a sign that you are not properly digesting your food. It’s a struggle to find out what’s missing. Like I said, I’ve tried everything. So when the rep from Sedona Labs told me they had an anti-flatulence formula for me to review, I jumped at the chance to test it.

The most amazing thing about GasAway is its price. I thought it would cost as much as their other products, but when I called and asked for the retail price, they told me $8.99.

But first let me tell you how I tested it.

I took two capsules before the meal. The recommended dose is one capsule before a meal. Yeah, right.

I sat down to one of my favorite Mexican meals: Bean burritos, chips, salsa, hot sauce, and a good beer (life is too short to drink cheap beer).

Normally, within 45 minutes of this meal, I’m tooting like a tug boat.

That night: Nothing.

Later that night, just one “pfffft” escaped, but beyond that, nothing.

I was in shock.

I ordered a case.

I can date again. :o)

So, if you have a toot or two now and then, this isn’t for you. But if the US Department of Energy has your tush listed on their natural gas reserves, you might want to consider using GasAway.

Contact our friends at Simply the Best, and keep in mind they’re having an unadvertised Buy 4 get 1 Free sale.

No matter where I go or what I’m doing, the one thing people want to know, the question I am most often asked, goes something like this: from all your research, what has been your best finding?

Most of the time, the person asking the question means products; something solid like an herb or a vitamin. They don’t want to hear about the spiritual healing processes I’ve discovered in which one can heal ones life in an instant, but, sadly, hardly anyone does because her/his belief system will not allow it.

So, what are my best discoveries on this journey so far?

1. Electrolyzed Water

I put off reviewing Electrolyzed water for over a year. I was so busy being busy that it had to take a back seat. Funny, eh?

This is the most amazing stuff in the world. We are continually receiving testimonials on this stuff; continually learning more and more about its uses.

If you’ve not read our review of Electrolyzed Water, you can click the link above. If you have read it, then we’re just going to touch on a few new things we’ve picked up since our last newsletter.

I’ve had people approach me to sell machines that Electrolyze Water. They run for about $3,000.00. The machines make darn good water. The only problem is that the water will eventually return to normal. We plan on testing this in the future and reporting back to you on how long you can expect your water to maintain its pH.  

Super Detox

What I’m about to tell you is something that just a few months back (when I first heard of it) I said to myself, well this is something I’m not about to pass on. Well, now I have to. It’s the only way to explain the anecdotal evidence we’re getting in testimonials about how powerful a detoxicating agent this water really is, so here goes.

A woman came to me wanting to quit smoking. She said she’d trade housekeeping for my helping her quit. She said that in the past, when she’d try to quit, she’d get a migraine that was so powerful that by the second day, her moaning and screaming forced her family members to run to the store to get her some smokes. One puff, and the migraine began to fade.

From the first day, I had her drink a quart a day of the alkaline water.

She experienced no withdrawal symptoms. Not a one.

She calls me nearly daily, telling me how I saved her life. Sure, she’s starting to gain a little weight (that oral fixation is hard to placate). But she has quit smoking; any addiction she has is only mental, not physical, because the electrolyzed water detoxed her body of that nicotine within 24 hours. That is the only explanation. (I’ve added this to our How to Quit Smoking article and our article Cleaning House – The Correct Way to Detox.)

More and More Uses Coming In

The latest was from my cousin. She took some of the acidic water along on her vacation. She loved it for all its uses, but one day she spilled red raspberry juice down her white shirt and onto her pants. She had no quick change of clothing, but thought about using electrolyzed water.

To her surprise, it took out the stain. No one could believe it.

And of course, she’s like me. When she got to her destination and used the acidic water with her relatives there, she had to leave them the bottle when she drove off. She just had to. It’s in my family’s genetic structure. We are all missionaries for these wonderful products.

My Personal Use

I make ice with the alkaline water and at night, I fill a mug with the ice, pour in 8 – 16 ounces and drink her down. I keep it at my bedside and drink all night. I’ve never felt better in my life.

You can go without food for a very long time. We can’t go that long without water.

2. Omegasentials

This was number one on my list till I discovered Electrolyzed Water.

Our diets lack these essential fats and we are a society on fire with inflammation. I’ve probably mentioned Omegasentials more than any other product at this web site, mostly because our diets lack these essential fats, but also because this is the best way I have found to get these life-saving lipids.

The product has cofactors that just stand it head and shoulders above any other form of flax (and flax oil) we’ve found, and it is water soluble, hence more bio-available.

It has fish oils added to it to make sure you get your DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) and EPA (eiocosapentaenoic acid) for brain and nervous system support.

At the time of this writing, we are having an Omegasentials Baking Contest.

The recipes we’ve created already have been received well by our readers, and we’ve gotten lots of feedback, with most people saying they never thought health food could taste so good.

Simply the Best was created to sell Omegasentials to our readers at a hefty discount. You might want to check them out.

Personally, I love this stuff and use it daily, whether on yogurt or in a smoothie, or in one of my Omega-Muffins. And I know, after five physicians told me that I should have been killed from a horse kick some four years ago now (that my aorta should have burst from the kick) that it is my daily use of Omegasentials that keeps my arteries supple and young.

3. Salt

You’d never expect salt to be much of a discovery. It’s taken a lot of abuse over the years. When Dr Albert Schweitzer found the first cases of cancer in the African jungles, he suspected the culprit to be the salt from American foods sent there. Your cardiologist will tell you to cut back on salt if you have a tendency toward high blood pressure.

But the salt I’m talking about here, my favorite, is not processed, white table salt. It’s not processed sea salt. It’s unprocessed salt. Processing changes the salt; minerals are removed (in their natural state) and sold back to us in an unnatural state. We can buy them in health food stores or get them from fortified cereals. In this form, they probably do nothing for us. It won't stop the advertisers hyping their "fortified" foods. 

In Celtic Sea Salt® Brand or Himalayan Crystal Salt, the minerals are ionic. Ions are electrically charged particles. For a mineral to work in the human body, it must be in an ionic form. I’ve written about both the Celtic Sea Salt® Brand and the Himalayan crystal salt at this web site. I love them both. Both are charged with ionic minerals.

I was diagnosed as being bipolar and the doctor wanted me to try some lithium. I opted for the natural lithium salts in Celtic Sea Salt® Brand, and less than a year later, they had to change my diagnosis.

Crystals are energy. We read about electrolytes being added to solutions for babies and runners. Electrolytes is just another word for an ion. Adding just a pinch, a homeopathic amount, of Himalayan Crystal salt to your water can improve your well-being and overall health immensely.

Personally, people were amazed this past spring when I traveled about the country. At a restaurant, I’d whip out my bag of salt and share it. I don’t like putting white, processed salt into my body. The natural energy is gone; all that’s left are the chemicals.

I’ve received a lot of mail from people selling Himalayan salt who send me articles about how polluted Celtic Sea Salt® Brand is. Celtic Sea Salt® Brand does take a lot of abuse from the ocean since the oceans are the worlds garbage dump, but Celtic Sea Salt® Brand is cleaned and assayed each year. The stories of it being filled with mercury and petrochemicals are promulgated by people selling other salt. (Again, this is why we sell nothing. Our opinions are based upon facts, not profits.) I use the Celtic Sea Salt® Brand for the mineral content and I use the Himalayan salt for its subtle energies.

4. Automodine (Detoxified Iodine)

You can read my write up on Detoxified Iodine if you’ve not done it already, but in short, it’s a form of iodine that Edgar Cayce described in one of his trances. The stuff works and works well. It’s a nutritional substance.

Automodine has been known to help clear up malaria in just a few hours. It is antifungal and antibacterial. Someone asked me: if I had an earache which would I use? Automodine or Electrolyzed Water? They both work well.

My answer was Automodine. Why? Because it is a nutrient our bodies need. Putting it on your skin (or under your toenails or between your toes; great for toenail fungus or athletes foot, though it stings a bit) gets it into your body (as does anything we put on our skin).

Did you know that the US Military is stockpiling potassium iodide? This is a form that can be taken orally and protects the body against thyroid cancer caused by exposure to radiation. We’ve written about this previously: after the nuclear holocaust in Japan, the people there detoxed themselves of the radiation by eating miso soup with seaweed. Seaweed contains iodine.

Our military seems to think that there is a pretty good likelihood of our being hit with a nuclear or dirty bomb. Some seem to think that America is ready to launch a nuclear war with Iran (who could put it past us, eh?). Either way, there seems to be a shortage of potassium iodide in the world right now.

One problem with this solution to high radiation levels is that it must be taken prior to or right after contact with the radiation. Thus this stockpile of potassium iodide must be located near the contamination area, which is pretty hard to determine beforehand.

Iodine is a needed nutrient that is lacking in most diets. Our government requires salt companies to add iodine to salt so that we get our daily requirements. The required amounts established by our government are far less than what good research tells us (as you can see in the article we wrote).

We reviewed a form of iodine made by Phil Thomas. He has recently sent us his latest batch made from kelp.

Some people are allergic to iodine and must avoid it, and those with thyroid problems must be monitored if using it.

If you want to take it orally in the automodine form, Phil gleaned these instructions from the Edgar Cayce readings: In a glass of water, on Monday put one drop. On Tuesday put 2; Wednesday 3; Thursday 4; and Friday 5 drops.

Potassium Iodide might require a prescription (there are ways to get around this) though Phil’s automodine does not. (See below the article on Potassium Iodide.)

The importance of iodine in our diet is enormous, yet we hear very little about it, so it is my job to inform you just how important iodine is to health and wellness:

From the American Thyroid Association

The thyroid gland is a butterfly-shaped endocrine gland that is normally located in the lower front of the neck. The thyroid’s job is to make thyroid hormone, which is secreted into the blood and then carried to every tissue in the body. Thyroid hormone is essential to help each cell in each tissue and organ to work right. For example, thyroid hormone helps the body use energy, stay warm, and keep the brain, heart, muscles, and other organs working as they should.

Let me emphasize: "The thyroid’s job is to make thyroid hormone, which is secreted into the blood and then carried to every tissue in the body."

That hormone is called thyroxine and it contains 4 iodine atoms. Without iodine, your body will not function properly, period.

From the World Health Organization:

Iodine Deficiency is the world’s most prevalent – yet easily preventable – cause of brain damage. Today we are on the verge of eliminating it – an achievement that will be hailed as a major public health triumph, ranking together with smallpox and poliomyelitis.

Iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) jeopardize children’s mental health – often their very lives. They start before birth. Serious iodine deficiency during pregnancy may result in stillbirths, abortions and congenital abnormalities such as cretinism, a grave, irreversible form of mental retardation that affects people living in iodine-deficient areas of Africa and Asia. However, of far greater global and economic significance is IDD’s less visible, yet more pervasive, level of mental impairment that lowers intellectual prowess at home, at school and at work.

From Dr David Brownstein’s book Iodine: Why You Need It; Why You Can’t Live Without It:

Of all the elements known so far to be essential for human health, iodine is the most misunderstood and the most feared. Yet, iodine is the safest of all the essential trace elements, being the only one that can be administered safely for long periods of time to large numbers of patients in daily amounts as high as 100,000 times the RDA. However, this safety record only applies to inorganic, nonradioactive forms of iodine. Some organic iodine containing drugs are extremely toxic and prescribed by physicians. The severe side effects of these drugs are blamed on inorganic iodine although studies have clearly demonstrated that it is the whole molecule that is toxic, not the iodine released from it.

How important iodine is to overall health and wellness can be summarized by listing all of the conditions it affects:

Iodine is antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, antiparasitic, and anti-inflammatory when it comes to preventing Hashimoto’s Disease, or autoimmune inflammation. [www.drbrownstein.com]

It helps to regulate moods, prevent cancer (especially in breasts, ovaries, uterus, prostate and thyroid gland), prevent and treat fibrocystic breasts in women, regulate blood pressure, regulate blood sugar and prevent and treat diabetes, and prevent abnormal cardiac rhythms. [http://www.mbschachter.com/Iodine.htm and the New England Journal of Medicine, http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/332/9/562]

Dr Brownstein's book points out that iodine is effective for the following conditions:

Breast Disease, Dupuytren’s Contracture, Excess Mucous Production, Fatigue, Fibrocystic Breasts, Hemorrhoids, Headaches and Migraine, Headaches, Keloids, Ovarian Cysts, Parotid Duct Stones, Peyronie’s, Sebaceous Cysts, Thyroid Disorders, Cancers (breast, ovarian, thyroid, prostate)

And finally, iodine is utterly important in the event of nuclear holocaust. In our detox paper, Cleaning House - The Correct Way to Detox, we point out how after Hiroshima, the Japanese used seaweed soup to help detox the radiation. Seaweed contains iodine. Having the proper amount of iodine in your thyroid gland will protect against radiation poisoning. Here is an article that will show you how important iodine is, and how important our government thinks it is too: WHY YOU SHOULD BUY POTASSIUM IODIDE NOW

Unlike Dr Howenstine, I prefer Automodine over potassium iodide.

Editor's Note: Before I go on to number five, I should tell you that these first four products, when used together, work in synergy. The first three are about oxygen and energy. This last is a nutrient that cares for the thyroid gland first, and then every cell in the human body. Dr Budwig created a diet that cured cancer with omega-3 fatty acids. Adding Electrolyzed Water to this diet makes it even better. Electrolyzed Water will not cure cancer on its own, though we've received some great testimonials. Together, Electrolyzed Water and Omegasentials make the body stronger and healthier, and cancer cells just cannot compete in this environment. Add the two salts and iodine, and you have a foundation of perfect health. The minerals from salt will affect every function in our bodies and assist in healing anything that comes along. Iodine will also help every function in the body, and protect against disease. These first four of my favorites are all about complete essential nutrition and energy.

5. Berries

Up till now, all the things we’ve talked about can be considered essential to life. I read that the average American could go 54 days without food. We can’t go very long without water. (I just happen to like Electrolyzed Water the best.)

Omega-3 Essential Fatty Acids are essential to good health. Without salt, we die. Iodine, too, is an essential nutrient. The essentials are at the top of my list. After this, nearly all are ranked the same (at least in my book), but if we have to assign a hierarchy, here is the order in which they randomly popped into my head.

Berries are optional, though for me, they are essential. I’ve written about berries many times here. The chemicals in berries are more powerful than chemotherapy yet they don’t do a single disservice to your body. They help fight cancer, heart disease, and are just fantastic in smoothies.

One of my favorite statistics involving red raspberries is this: “One cup of red raspberries will stop prostate cancer growth for one week.” We found this in a tiny booklet (Chemopreventive Properties of Phytochemicals) sent to us by one of our readers. The booklet is NOW available online: Chemopreventive Properties of Phytochemicals. 

In the future I'll tell you about some new berries I've discovered that have many healthful properties.

6. Mushrooms

I’ve enjoyed very much my discovery of mushrooms. In the early nineties I actually grew my own shitake mushrooms because the dehydrated shitakes sold for over $90.00 per pound. Today, the supply has burgeoned dramatically and the prices have dropped dramatically, for the shitake and the other medicinal mushrooms. The only medicinal mushroom that has a nasty taste is the reishi which can be found in an extract form. It is very bitter and does not go good in recipes. However the rest: shitake, maitake, and (my favorite) the ABM mushroom are great in recipes. These things just plain boost your immune system, and with the cold and flu season on the horizon, this is the time to start stocking up. I always have bottles and bottles of mushroom extracts (and vitamin C & Echinacea) on hand for those first signs of a cold or flu (How to Beat the Cold & Flu Season).

Our most recent affiliation is with a company called Ultimate Immune. I've been using their products for months now, and I have found them to be very powerful and effective. I will soon post a review of their products, though we have mentioned them from time to time in some of our testimonials. They produce some very high-quality beta-glucan products from mushrooms; they also handle other immunosupportive products.

My most recent discovery involving berries is the Elderberry. Elderberry extract cuts your influenza down time in half (and it’s been added to the article How to Beat the Cold & Flu Season.

7. Coconut

On the islands, this is called the Medicine Plant. We’ve written so much about this wonderful food (and we have two new book reviews by Bruce Fife on coconuts) that we really can’t say much more right here, except to point to our past articles: Coconut Oil; Coconut Recipes.

8. Ron Salley Creams (Miracle Skin)

Ron had an idea. He wondered if you could pull the good stuff out of herbs without heating them. He was told that it was impossible. So, he set out to do the impossible, and in doing so, he discovered that it wasn’t impossible at all.

Ron’s creams are called Miracle Skin, and his customers agree that they are miraculous. Personally, I’ve never found a better foot cream than Sugar Foot. It heals cracks in just a day or two. His Healon PF is something that I take with me everywhere I go. It’s perfect for cuts, scrapes, rashes, mold and fungus.

And now we’ve just discovered it’s great on burns, even third degree burns.

I’ve updated the newsletter with our review of Ron’s products by adding a letter from a physician and two very convincing before-and-after photos.

You can read the letter here: Dr Hall's Letter (and photos).

The photos are there, or you can see one right now: This man had third degree burns on his nose and his doctor felt that he was going to lose the nose. The patient used Healon PF twice a day for three weeks. The doctor was astounded, and so will you be: Before and After.

I must tell you of a personal experience with Ron Salley’s creams:

This summer, while banging away at my computer keyboard, I noticed that my arm pits where burning. I noted this and went back to work. I ignored the pain till I could ignore it no longer. I got up, went to a mirror, and raised up my arms. My armpits had a terrible heat rash. It was painful just to move my arm a tiny bit because the hairs would pull at the red burning skin. I knew I had to do something, so I grabbed my trusty Golden Touch and sprayed. It felt good, but when I put my arms back down, the burning came back. Ron Sally’s Healon PF came to mind. It’s a very powerful lotion, but it can also be quite painful, and since I’m a wimp and I was already in enough pain, I thought maybe I could put some SugarFoot on the rash instead. So I did. Within 30 seconds, complete relief. I could go on typing and no pain whatsoever. That night, I looked and the rash was completely gone. Ron Sally’s Miracle Skin creams and lotions are unparalleled in this world. We’ve truly been honored to help him promote his products.

Ron is presently creating three new products: an Acne Formula, a Psoriasis Formula, and one called Advanced Skin Care (ACS) formula. Again, he’s been receiving lots of testimonials from these products and Simply the Best will soon be carrying them.

9. Digestive Aids

One statement that really opened my eyes, which we published in our series on digestion, is: The inside of your colon is still the outside of your body.

This says it all. You can eat the best foods in the world, but still not get their nutrition.

We’ve already focused on probiotics and GasAway in this newsletter, and we’ve also focused on digestive enzymes and a cluster of digestive aids in the two articles on digestion: Digestion Part One and Digestion Part Two. We can now tell you that Simply the Best is now carrying Sedona Labs digestive aids and not only do they give our readers (we are the only site advertising them) a hefty discount, they currently are running an unadvertised special that only you know about: Buy 4 of any ONE product and they will send you one free bottle.

I’ve checked out the math behind this and I can tell you that this sale makes them very little profit. They are doing this for our readers, as an introduction to Sedona Labs’ wonderful digestive aids. As I said above, you will not see any mention of this sale at their site; only our readers know about it.

If you order 4 bottles, they will write to you that you will be getting 5 in the mail. If not, PLEASE write to me: info@mnwelldir.org.

When the sale is ended, we will remove all references to it at our site, and they will post at their site that the buy 4 get 1 free sale has ended.

So, for now, if you want to get a great deal on digestive aids, just go here: Simply the Best.

10. Chi, Love, Beauty, and Joy

Healing works on many levels. To be true to the holistic model, we can’t just take a vitamin, or an immunomodulator, we must treat the whole person, body, mind, and spirit.

When I discovered Chi (Qi), a whole nother world opened up for me. Qigong changed my life. It allowed me to build the subtle energies from within and to help others heal. I’ve witnessed miracles:

Thank you, David for your healing. I went back to the doctor and he said to me, “I don’t know what you’ve done, but your tumor is contained and we can now remove it.”  Roxie.

That was from a letter I received from a dear friend I’d met online, in a cancer support room. I went to visit her and she took me on my very first trip to see Niagara Falls. Afterwards, with friends and relatives focusing their thoughts on healing her, I did my first “group” healing. When we were finished, she gave me the warmest hug of my life and told me, “David. I can breathe.”

She’s smoked for years and had lung cancer. It had spread through the lungs and was no longer operable. As you can see from her letter to me, something had happened, something miraculous. I was overjoyed to be a witness to this.

However, we cannot stop death. Death is not an enemy. Death comes no matter how healthy we are, but for those healthy in body, mind, and spirit, it comes quickly and greets them like an old friend.

Roxie died of cancer just a while back. She refused to quit smoking, and her cancer came back. We cannot change others; we can only change ourselves, and even that is a struggle with much screaming and kicking.

It was not just the Chi that helped Roxie during her healing, but the love. Love and chi are sometimes the same. And the unconditional love from the greatest power in the universe is the most healing energy we’ll ever know.

And when you are healed and full of love and the chi flows freely, we can discover beauty. My journey to health has brought me to a place where I’ve been allowed to capture beauty, the beauty of creation and nature and the beautiful creation that is human. Artists throughout the ages have painted and sculpted the human form. It is one of the Great Spirit’s creations that we’ve marveled at since the beginning of time. When I read that “God created us in His image,” to me that means something a bit different than the usual accepted meaning. To me it means that our creator is in everything created, and the beauty we see around us and within us is that creator, shining through the creation.

I want to thank you all for allowing me to share my journey with you, and I wish you all the best: the best healing, chi, love, beauty, and joy. It’s right there. All you have to do is reach out and grab it.

We've received a few requests to extend the Omegasentials Baking Contest and so we are doing just that.

We are extending the contest to February 2nd, 2006, Ground Hog's Day. And we're sweetening the pot by offering the winner, not only three bags of Omegasentials, but a copy of Bruce Fife's new book: Coconut Cures.

Our friends at Wilderness Family Naturals who supply us with all our coconut needs just love us and sent us a copy of Coconut Cures not knowing that Bruce Fife had already sent us a copy. So, we'll be passing that on to the winner of the Omegasentials Baking Contest.

You should note that we've changed our recipe for Omega-Muffins just a tad. On the coconut recipe page we substitute Coconut Flour for wheat, and in all our Muffin recipes we've now changed the amount of Omegasentials per recipe to one and a half cups. This guarantees that each muffin will have two tablespoons of Omegasentials, the recommended daily amount.

If you've not yet made our Omega-Muffins, you'll never know how good healthy food can taste.

The following article was sent to me by International Advocates for Health Freedom. The person running this organization is a bit wacko and a fanatic. As most of my readers know, I like to err on the side of wackos. We've already covered this once in a newsletter: May 2003, but this article goes even further in depth.

After this article, we will give you preventive steps we can all take. Things you can do right now to strengthen your immunity for the coming season.

The Avian Flu and Drugless Doctors

BBC carried an article on 5 February titled "1918 killer flu secrets revealed" which tells us that the scientists claim to now have figured out that 50 million people were killed by a virus that "jumped from birds to humans".

Obviously this is to prepare us for a "killer epidemic", something that is supposed to hit any time now, be it this winter or the next or the one after that.

Jon Rappoport found the most interesting analysis of the 1918 flu disaster, in a book by Eleanor McBean. And if you haven't heard of drugless doctors yet, here's the place where you'll meet them.

THE FLU: 1918 AND NOW

FEBRUARY 7, 2004. You may have noticed that researchers are now saying they have analyzed the virus that caused the 1918 global pandemic of flu. They are linking it to a bird virus, which stirs the pot on the current flap about avian flu in Asia.

The PR goes this way: If this current bird virus mutates just a little bit in the wrong direction, we could see a replay of the 1918 disaster.

Here is another analysis, written about 25 years ago by Eleanor McBean. This excerpt, from chapter two of her book, Vaccination Condemned [the book is out of print], makes a quite different observation:

I WAS AN ON-THE-SPOT OBSERVER OF THE 1918 INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC

All the doctors and people who were living at the time of the 1918 Spanish Influenza epidemic say it was the most terrible disease the world has ever had. Strong men, hale and hearty, one day would be dead the next. The disease had the characteristics of the black death added to typhoid, diphtheria, pneumonia, smallpox, paralysis and all the diseases the people had been vaccinated with immediately following World War 1. Practically the entire population had been injected "seeded" with a dozen or more diseases — or toxic serumss. When all those doctor-made diseases started breaking out all at once it was tragic.

That pandemic dragged on for two years, kept alive with the addition of more poison drugs administered by the doctors who tried to suppress the symptoms. As far as I could find out, the flu hit only the vaccinated. Those who had refused the shots escaped the flu. My family had refused all the vaccinations so we remained well all the time. We knew from the health teachings of Graham, Trail, Tilden and others, that people cannot contaminate the body with poisons without causing disease.

When the flu was at its peak, all the stores were closed as well as the schools, businesses — even the hospital, as the doctors and nurses had been vaccinated too and were down with the flu. No one was on the streets. It was like a ghost town. We [who didn't taken any vaccines] seemed to be the only family which didn't get the flu; so my parents went from house to house doing what they could to look after the sick, as it was impossible to get a doctor then. If it were possible for germs, bacteria, virus, or bacilli to cause disease, they had plenty of opportunity to attack my parents when they were spending many hours a day in the sick rooms. But they didn't get the flu and they didn't bring any germs home to attack us children and cause anything. None of our family had the flu — not even a sniffle— and it was was in the winter with deep snow on the ground.

It has been said that the 1918 flu epidemic killed 20,000,000 people throughout the world. But, actually, the doctors killed them with their crude and deadly treatments and drugs. This is a harsh accusation but it is nevertheless true, judging by the success of the drugless doctors in comparison with that of the medical doctors.

While the medical men and medical hospitals were losing 33% of their flu cases, the non-medical hospitals such as BATTLE CREEK, KELLOGG and MACFADDEN'S HEALTH-RESTORIUM were getting almost 100% healings with their water cure, baths, enemas, etc., fasting and certain other simple healing methods, followed by carefully worked out diets of natural foods. One health doctor didn't lose a patient in eight years.

The very successful health treatment of one of those drugless doctors who didn't lose any patients will be given in the other part of this book, titled VACCINATION CONDEMNED, to be published a little later.

If the medical doctors had been as advanced as the drugless doctors, there would not have been those 20 million deaths from the medical flu treatment.

There was seven times more disease among the vaccinated soldiers than among the unvaccinated civilians, and the diseases were those they had been vaccinated against. One soldier who had returned from overseas in 1912 told me that the army hospitals were filled with cases of infantile paralysis and he wondered why grown men should have an infant disease. Now, we know that paralysis is a common after-effect of vaccine poisoning. Those at home didn't get the paralysis until after the world-wide vaccination campaign in 1918.

End of excerpt

JON RAPPOPORT
www.nomorefakenews.com 

See also

The Poisoned Needle - Suppressed Facts About Vaccination by Eleanor McBean

The following links are a must to those worried about vaccinations and their consequences:

http://www.redflagsweekly.com/conferences/shaken_baby/2004_dec10.html

http://www.redflagsweekly.com/conferences/vaccines/sept15_Fisher.html

http://www.healthy.net/scr/article.asp?ID=539

http://www.909shot.com/History/Newsletters/nlr696.htm

Wash your hands often and avoid people who are sick. It was discovered that cold and flu germs are picked up by our hands and brought to our faces when we scratch, rub, poke, explore, etc.

Increase your Vitamin C intake. Determining how much vitamin C one needs can be confusing. The first determining factor is your pollution intake. If you are a smoker, you need at least 6,000 mgs daily (and you need to quit smoking). The same goes if you live in, say, Los Angeles county. You too need about 6,000 mgs daily. For the cold and flu season, you will need to up your daily amount to anywhere between 1,000 mgs and 3,000 mgs. Taking 400 to 800 IU of a good vitamin E (mixed tocopherols and mixed tocotrienols plus a bit of selenium) is also a good idea. Taking Beta Carotene is also a good idea unless you smoke or live in a smoky community; it can shorten your life.

Echinacea, though recently attacked by the AMA, will boost your T-Cell levels. However, never take it longer than two weeks. Actually, a few droppers-full for three days is all you need every two weeks.

Important: Goldenseal is also an immunostimulant, but is often sold in an Echinacea combination. Two top herbalists have told me never to mix Goldenseal with Echinacea because Goldenseal goes "deep" into the body, and can bring the Echinacea along with where it can actually play havoc with the immune system. Now, I am not sure as to how this works or what is entailed in all this, only that two very good herbalists who I have no reason to doubt, have passed this information on to me, and now I've passed it on to you.

Astragalus can be taken daily. One dropper-full is all you need.

Ginseng (both the Chinese and Siberian forms) also bolster the immune system.

Zinc has been touted lately as a supplement to help prevent colds or shorten their length, but not if you take too much. It seems that too much can actually work against you. Fifty milligrams is the optimal amount per day.

Most important, is to get your basics. You need iodine in your thyroid gland, minerals, essential fatty acids, and most of all, an alkaline terrain. As we learned in The Lost History of Medicine, the most important is an alkaline terrain. However, in today's life filled with processed dead foods, our bodies are very acidic. Eating a lot of greens, drinking Electrolyzed water, and a bit of lemon squash now and then is going to help, but to truly turn your terrain alkaline, you need to do even more. Eating superfoods filled with supergreens is very alkalizing. Drinking a shot of apple cider vinegar with a touch of honey in the morning is also very helpful (put your iodine into this to disguise the taste).

And you need your probiotics. Every article I've found on the immune system tells us that our immune systems are not the best they can be if our probiotics are lacking.

Next you'll need some powerful immunostimulants, such as those found in mushrooms. We've talked about many at this site. A new one that I am currently using is Glucan Infusion from Ultimate Immune. Others we've talked about are Transfer Factor Plus, the ABM Mushroom, RAAX11, and OPC Rainforest Mixture. These can be found at http://takesun.com/index2.html and at www.agaricus.net.

So, you've now got your fab four (my favorite four: Electrolyzed Water, Omegasentials, Celtic/Himalayan Salt, and Iodine), and you've got your probiotics, and are eating superfoods, taking your vitamins, etc etc etc....what else can you do?

There are two herbs I've just discovered (like most herbs, they've been around a long time) that also seem to help stave off colds and flu. If you're already down with a cold or flu, these will decrease the symptoms and significantly shorten the time you suffer.

The first comes from our Native American Pharmacopoeia: Devil's Club Root.

Natives prized this root for helping to stave off colds and flu and shorten their duration. Modern herbalists have discovered that it stabilizes blood sugar levels and shares some similarities with ginseng. It is a safe and strong respiratory stimulant and expectorant. The natives also used it to treat cancers. 

The next herb I discovered is an ayurvedic herb called Andrographis paniculata.

A recent published review of 11 clinical trials shows that andrographis is safe and