I Have a Dream

Included for its values and drug-free message.

From the page:
"For the last few years I have had a dream which I believe could be your dream too. While we all watch what's going on in the world and feel powerless to change it, we are wasting time! We are the change we have been looking for and it's time to take back our god given power and lead by example. If you are ready to live in peace and love on this planet, then please join me."
Click through to the video for more information.

Twelve Things We'd Say About Health

... if we weren't afraid of getting sued"
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Magnesium Chloride for Health and Rejuvenation

MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE
for Health & Rejuvenation

by Walter Last

"Magnesium is nothing short of a miracle mineral in its healing effect on a wide range of diseases as well as in its ability to rejuvenate the aging body. We know that it is essential for many enzyme reactions, especially in regard to cellular energy production, for the health of the brain and nervous system and also for healthy teeth and bones. However, it may come as a surprise that in the form of magnesium chloride it is also an impressive infection fighter.

The first prominent researcher to investigate and promote the antibiotic effects of magnesium was a French surgeon, Prof. Pierre Delbet MD. In 1915 he was looking for a solution to cleanse wounds of soldiers, because he found that traditionally used antiseptics actually damaged tissues and encouraged infections instead of preventing them. In all his tests magnesium chloride solution was by far the best. Not only was it harmless for tissues, but it also greatly increased leucocyte activity and phagocytosis, the destruction of microbes.

Later Prof. Delbet also performed experiments with the internal applications of magnesium chloride and found it to be a powerful immune-stimulant. In his experiments phagocytosis increased by up to 333%. This means after magnesium chloride intake the same number of white blood cells destroyed up to three times more microbes than beforehand.

Gradually Prof. Delbet found magnesium chloride to be beneficial in a wide range of diseases. These included diseases of the digestive tract such as colitis and gall bladder problems, Parkinson's disease, tremors and muscle cramps; acne, eczema, psoriasis, warts and itching skin; impotence, prostatic hypertrophy, cerebral and circulatory problems; asthma, hay fever, urticaria and anaphylactic reactions. Hair and nails became stronger and healthier and patients had more energy.

Prof. Delbet also found a very good preventative effect on cancer and cured precancerous conditions such as leukoplasia, hyperkeratosis and chronic mastitis. Epidemiological studies confirmed that regions with magnesium-rich soil had less cancer than those with low magnesium levels.

Another French doctor, A. Neveu, cured several diphtheria patients with magnesium chloride within two days. He also published 15 cases of poliomyelitis that were cured within days if treatment was started immediately, or within months if paralysis had already progressed. Neveu also found magnesium chloride effective with asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia and emphysema; pharyngitis, tonsillitis, hoarseness, common cold, influenza, whooping cough, measles, rubella, mumps, scarlet fever; poisoning, gastro-enteritis, boils, abscesses, whitlow, infected wounds and osteomyelitis.

In more recent years Dr Vergini and others have confirmed these earlier results and have added more diseases to the list of successful uses: acute asthma attacks, shock, tetanus, herpes zoster, acute and chronic conjunctivitis, optic neuritis, rheumatic diseases, many allergic diseases, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and beneficial effects in cancer therapy. In all of these cases magnesium chloride had been used and gave much better results than other magnesium compounds."
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For more information, please visit the Magnesium Water site

Sometimes the old remedies are best.

Giant Babies, Obesity: Are chemicals in plastics to blame?

Are plastic chemical compounds in the environment behind the birth of giant babies and the epidemic of obesity?
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Our Stolen Future

NYT: Big Food VS. Big Insurance

Image: LAST BREAKFAST by Ron English

"...Our success in bringing health care costs under control ultimately depends on whether Washington can summon the political will to take on and reform a second, even more powerful industry: the food industry.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, three-quarters of health care spending now goes to treat “preventable chronic diseases.” Not all of these diseases are linked to diet — there’s smoking, for instance — but many, if not most, of them are.

We’re spending $147 billion to treat obesity, $116 billion to treat diabetes, and hundreds of billions more to treat cardiovascular disease and the many types of cancer that have been linked to the so-called Western diet. One recent study estimated that 30 percent of the increase in health care spending over the past 20 years could be attributed to the soaring rate of obesity, a condition that now accounts for nearly a tenth of all spending on health care.

The American way of eating has become the elephant in the room in the debate over health care. The president has made a few notable allusions to it, and, by planting her vegetable garden on the South Lawn, Michelle Obama has tried to focus our attention on it. Just last month, Mr. Obama talked about putting a farmers’ market in front of the White House, and building new distribution networks to connect local farmers to public schools so that student lunches might offer more fresh produce and fewer Tater Tots. He’s even floated the idea of taxing soda."

~ Michael Pollan
Read the rest of his op-ed at the New York Times

Worms infect more poor Americans than thought

Doctors scoff, but Americans may have as many parasites as people in third-world countries do. Sequelae can be neurological, as parasites rob us of needed nutrients, and once in the body, can go to the brain.

Image: Neurocystercosis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cysticercosis
Read a discussion of health care and parasites at Democratic Underground and marvel at America's lack of health care and the billions going towards swine flu while nothing is done about parasites.
You may also find this information of interest.
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From truth to fiction....
Colin Wilson's sci fi/horror novel THE MIND PARASITES thrilled us years ago, and we're delighted by this great review: http://realitystudio.org/texts/reviews/mind-parasites/
Wilson's parasites seem to be the sinister love child of
Dow's Scrubbing bubbles... and Cthulu.

Vitamin D and Mental Health

"I've been wondering how vitamin D and mental illness are related,
so I did a search and found that vitamin D does, indeed, play a role in mental illness based on these reasons from the Vitamin D Council's website:

Epidemiological evidence shows an association between reduced sun exposure and mental illness.
Mental illness is associated with low 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] levels.
Mental illness shows a significant comorbidity with illnesses thought to be associated with vitamin D deficiency.
Theoretical models (in vitro or animal evidence) exist to explain how vitamin D deficiency may play a causative role in mental illness.
Studies indicate vitamin D improves mental illness."

From the Huffington Post.
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Exploring Vaccines

Image: THE NEW MAN, by Salvador Dali

From the site:
"Exploring Vaccines takes an indepth look into vaccines, the diseases, and the issues that surround it.

Making an informed decison is based on the pros and cons of the vaccines and the diseases.

It is not an ‘anti-vaccine’ blog nor is it the purpose nor the intention to be. The first and foremost purpose and intention is:

*To educate the basics of the diseases and the vaccines.

*A resource for people to understand the law(s) in relationship to vaccines-the mandates and exemptions in the U.S.

*History of where we’ve been, where it has led, where we are now, and where we are headed.

* If you want all ‘pro-vaccine’ information just go to the pharmaceutical drug companies websites and read. Then come back here and read what they don’t tell you. Without both, you won’t have full informed consent.

*Our intent and purpose is for people to take ownership of their choice, whether it is to fully vaccinate, not vaccinate, or selective/delay.

*There are also articles on nutrition, vitamins and minerals, holistic alternatives and treatment for the diseases, if that is of interest to the reader.

DISCLAIMER: Natural Remedies and/or Vitamins and Minerals Section is used for educational and information purposes only, based on research done by the author. It is not a substitute for professional medical advice and should not be substituted for your own doctor’s medical advice.

FAIR USE NOTICE: The following information may contain quotations/excerpts from copyrighted (©) material or information from the FOIA or other sources and images. Quotations and/or excerpts will be linked to the original author. Material is made available for educational purposes, scientific, ethical, social, human rights issues, research, comments, and/or other issues. The author’s quoted statements are of ’fair use’ as provided for in Title 17 U.S.C. section 107 of the US intellectual property law."

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Our kind of site...

Former drug rep: Pharma not in business of healing

With thanks to - http://www.myspace.com/psychtruth

Ex-Pharma Sales Reps Speaks Out - Pharma Not in Business of Health, Healing, Cures, Wellness.

Gwen Olsen spent fifteen years as a pharmaceutical sales rep working for such healthcare giants as Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Abbott Laboratories. She enjoyed a successful, fast-paced career until several conscious-altering experiences began awakening her to the dangers lurking in every American medicine cabinet. Her most poignant lessons, however, came as both victim and survivor of life-threatening adverse drug reactions. After leaving pharmaceutical sales in 2000, Gwen worked in the natural foods industry first as an Account Manager for Nature's Way, and then as a Regional Sales Manager for Gaia Herbs. She is currently a writer, speaker, and natural health consultant.

The United States health care system is killing Americans at an alarming rate, even though we spend over fifteen percent of the Gross National Product (GNP) on health care. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, our health care outcomes ranked only fifteenth among twenty-five industrialized nations worldwide. Adverse effects from prescription drugs have become the third-leading killer of Americans. Only heart disease and cancer claim more lives. We trust our doctors to inform us and our government to protect us from medical malfeasance that may put profits ahead of consumer health and safety. But the fine line walked by the FDA between the interests of the pharmaceutical manufacturers and the American public has continually been crossed. The result is the unleashing of an unprecedented number of lethal drugs on the U.S. market!

Gwen Olsen learned firsthand the danger that lurks in every American's medicine cabinet, working in the pharmaceutical industry. But her most poignant education would come as a victim and, ultimately, as a survivor.

Visit Gwen's Website at

http://www.gwenolsen.com/

Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher
God's Call to Loving Arms

http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Rx-...

This video was produced by Psychetruth

http://www.myspace.com/psychtruth
http://www.youtube.com/psychetruth

© Copyright 2008 Gwen Olsen. All Rights Reserved.

Is chronic illness at the heart of our economic crisis?

Image: Summer, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1573

Simple, eloquent, true.

"We can virtually match the exponential climb in chronic illness with an exponential climb in all-things-industrialized! Our innate genetic requirements for health require purity and sufficiency in the way we eat, move and think, with minimal toxicity and deficiency. How are we doing in these areas in the past 50 years?

We have more toxins in our food and agricultural industry, nutritionally deficient foods, toxic water supply, more fake and processed foods, we move less as a society than ever before, we're fatter than ever, we take far more drugs than ever, we sit in traffic more than ever, we have rampant pollution, we're inundated with an overwhelming amount of stimuli like no other time in our history, we're financially stressed, we spend more time indoors in artificial lighting and temperatures, we use more toxic chemicals on our bodies, on our lawns and in our homes, our relationships are stressed, we've lost a sense of community, we're more rushed... and on and on.

As a culture, we've moved away from what we know creates health and happiness."

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Drug Safety and Health Canada Going, Going… Gone?

Health Canada’s drug safety procedures lacking, says study
April 20, 2009 | National Office | Topic(s): Health, health care system, pharmacare | Publication Type: Press Release

OTTAWA—Health Canada’s drug safety procedures leave a lot to be desired, says a new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Drug Safety and Health Canada: Going, Going… Gone? by Dr. Joel Lexchin says Health Canada’s priorities are skewed in favour of rapid approval of new drugs at the expense of the post-marketing pharmaco-surveillance system.

“In Canada 3-4% of drugs approved will eventually be withdrawn from the market because of safety issues and the number of people exposed to these drugs is increasing because of aggressive marketing tactics by the pharmaceutical industry,” says Dr. Lexchin.

According to the study, there are significant limitations to The Food and Drugs Act.

“Health Canada cannot force a drug company to recall drugs deemed harmful from pharmacy shelves,” says Dr. Lexchin. “Nor can they directly compel a company to revise product labels to reflect new safety information.”

In order to improve drug safety, the study makes several recommendations for Health Canada, including:

Stop the treatment safety information as confidential and make it public available promptly after approving a new drug;
Decrease dependence on industry for safety information by using progressive licensing and ensuring post-market studies are undertaken, analyzed, and reported on, independent of industry;
Reorient priorities so that post-marketing pharmaco-surveillance is on equal footing with the approval of new drugs; and
Undertake a systematic study to examine whether faster drug approvals lead to more post-marketing safety issues.
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Drug Safety and Health Canada: Going, Going… Gone? is available from the CCPA website at http://www.policyalternatives.ca http://www.policyalternatives.ca

For more information contact Kerri-Anne Finn, CCPA Senior Communications Officer, at 613-563-1341 x306.


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Antibiotics Versus Iodine

Antibiotics are unsafe (package insert information can be found here). Some can promote cancer (fungus connection) and others, like Prozac and Accutane, can make you lose contact with reality. What's left? Iodine. Link
Iodine makes good nutritional sense. Read about it at the United Nations Standing Committee on Nutrition, here.

Judi Chamberlin, Mental Health Activist, in Hospice

Sad news...we wish her comfort.
Judi is blogging here.

Pharmer's Market: Bill Maher Talks About Big Pharma

Videos: Derrick Jensen

What Works


waiting alone for some rain
i'm lost in my brain but i cant complain
they saying i'm drifting away
but i dont want to stay
as a structural slave to this claim staked to this snake state
brainwash like backdrop baseline slipping away
i don't know what to say to make myself feel ok to tell my mixed mine you're still not insane
but as we wait for our fate
i hope we want what we gain
and all that i know that i need
is laid out in front of me

well i been blowing my mind
these nights when i write down these rhymes
well i aint buying the lies
said are you a man or a landmine
will you lay low or explode and know that you know what you know you should know right
i just want what works
what works, for me, is just fine.

http://www.derrickjensen.org/


More Derrick Jensen here: The Other Side of the Darkness

Video - Money Talks: Profit Before Patient Safety

This 50-minute documentary was created to give an in-depth, academic perspective on the questionable marketing tactics of the pharmaceutical industry, and features the commentary of investigative journalists and medical professionals including Dr. John Abramson, author of Overdosed America, and Prescription Access Litigation Project Director, Alex Sugerman-Brozan. Other notable interviewees include Dr. Bob Goodman of Columbia University, founder of the 'No Free Lunch' program, and Dr. Jerome Hoffman of UCLA Medical School.

But these day may be numbered. Pharma may soon have to disclose its contacts. Read more here.