Traditional Naturopath

There is a chemical in your water that is harmful to your teeth, is used in rat poison, accumulates in your bones, making them brittle, effects your hormone health, increases the uptake of aluminum and lead in your blood, inhibits antibodies from forming in your blood, and confuses the immune system, causing it to attack your body’s tissue! Further, did you know that this chemical is added ON PURPOSE? It is fluoride. Check out this article from Dr. Mercola’s site:

The Truth About Tap Water

“Most tap water in the United States is laced with fluoride, a toxic industrial chemical that has been widely promoted as being healthy for the public. In reality, however, fluoride is a poison that may harm your health. Consider this:

* The American Dental Association admits that fluoride is harmful to the development of teeth
* Fluoride is used in rat poison
* Ninety percent of the fluoride used to fluoridate U.S. water systems comes from the fertilizer industry and may contain trace amounts of various heavy metals such as lead, mercury, and arsenic

The only states where less than 25 percent of the tap water is fluoridated are Hawaii, Oregon, Utah, Montana, and New Jersey. The others fluoridate from 25 percent to over 75 percent of their water supplies. Countertop and pitcher filters typically only filter out particulate matter, not fluoride. You can remove fluoride from your drinking water using a reverse osmosis filtering system.”

Public outcry against fluoride has been wide laughed off as crazy rantings of a few nuts… but recent studies have backed up concerned citizens claims. Earlier this year, the American Dental Association finally issued a warning about giving fluoridated water to infants under 1 year old! For more information check out this fascinating book:

“Fluoride Deception” by Christopher Bryson

Power. Power and money. That’s what it comes down to!

Antioxidants, bad science and failure of the press to tell the truth

“Following yesterday’s announcement of a new study showing the phenomenal benefits of antioxidants for preventing heart disease in women, the mainstream media rallied behind a blatantly false distortion of the study designed to convince the public that vitamins E and C are somehow useless. The popular press, which maintains an incestuous relationship with the pharmaceutical industry, once again demonstrates it is little more than a mouthpiece for the pro-pharma propaganda machine. There is no scrutiny of the study’s findings, no critical thinking and absolutely no independent journalism being conducted by the mainstream media on this particular topic. It’s as if these media outlets just can’t wait to be spoon-fed the latest propaganda from drug company collaborators and then parrot it out to the public as fact. The distortion in question concerns the assessment of women who participated in a nine year trial measuring the effects of vitamins E and C. According to the results published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, women who took these vitamins on a regular basis experienced a remarkable and statistically significant reduction in stroke risk (31 percent) and heart attack risk (22 percent). Not all the women in the study, of course, actually took the vitamins on a regular basis, and when you count the results of those women who never took the vitamins, the study shows no statistically significant benefits for vitamins E and C. In other words, the vitamins didn’t work on those who didn’t take them. (Is this surprising to anyone?) The mainstream media has taken hold of this statistical distortion and declared that antioxidants are now useless for preventing heart disease. Utterly ignoring the fact that the vitamins worked remarkably well in those who actually took them, the media now seems to be on a crusade to discredit nutritional supplements by lying to its readers. Having abandoned all common sense or scientific scrutiny, the media is now engaged in an organized campaign of disinformation designed to boost the profits of their largest advertisers — the drug companies — by spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt about nutritional supplements.”

Remember how earlier in the year a bunch of politicians (likely paid off by Big Pharma) were trying to MANDATE the use of Gardasil or girls that did not receive the vaccination would be denied the right to go to school? Well, those that decided to take the drug are now paying the price!

Gardasil Reactions and Deaths on the Rise

“In May 2007, it was reported that over 1,600 adverse reactions, including three deaths, had been linked to Gardasil, Merck’s new vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV). Among those reactions, 371 were classified as serious, and, of the 42 women who received the vaccine while pregnant, 18 experienced side effects including spontaneous abortion and fetal abnormalities. It appears those reactions, and deaths, are steadily rising. A review of the National Vaccine Information Center revealed the following statistic about this vaccine: 2,207 adverse reactions to Gardasil have been reported.

* 5 girls died
* 31 were considered life-threatening
* 1,385 required a visit to the emergency room
* 451 of the girls have not recovered as of July 2007
* 51 of the girls were disabled

Gardasil ‘may be more dangerous than consumers have been led to believe,’ according to one public-interest group, and an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine has also raised questions about the vaccine’s effectiveness.”

Artificially created drugs are dangerous. Mandating the use of them is anti-freedom, and anti-American! We have to stand vigilant against losing our rights to health freedom!

Diabetes has long been linked to deficiency in the diet, and the overconsumption of sugars, but now many of the “side effects” of diabetes is potentially caused by dietary deficiencies as well!

Diabetes problems ‘vitamin link’

“A simple vitamin deficiency may be the cause of many of the side effects of diabetes, a study suggests. Researchers found people with the disease expelled thiamine – vitamin B1 – from their bodies at 15 times the normal rate in a study of 94 people. The Warwick University team said thiamine helped ward off complications such as heart disease and eye problems, the Diabetologia journal said. Experts said diet supplements could potentially help people with diabetes. t is the first time a deficiency of the vitamin, which is found in meat, yeast and grains, has been identified in people with diabetes. It has been missed in the past because of the way thiamine levels were measured. Traditionally, the activity of an enzyme called transketolase in red blood cells has been used to indicate thiamine levels. But the researchers found that increased activity – usually a sign of high thiamine levels – was also associated with the body’s response to deficiency. Instead, the team measured thiamine levels in blood plasma and found concentrations were 76% lower in people with type 1 diabetes and 75% lower in people with type 2. Thiamine is key to warding off vascular problems such as kidney, retina and nerve damage as well as heart disease and stroke. It works by helping protect cells against the effect of high glucose levels.”

There are a lot of benefits of chocolate… but the latest research shows that it may help regulate blood sugar!

Cacao stabilizes blood sugar; chocolate may actually help diabetics

“Obese, diabetic mice whose diet was supplemented with an extract of cacao liquor demonstrated a significant reduction in blood sugar levels in a Japanese study reported in the journal Nutrition. ‘The dietary intake of food or drinks produced from cacao beans might be beneficial in preventing the onset of Type 2 diabetes,’ the study’s authors wrote. Type 2 diabetes occurs when the body becomes desensitized to the sugar-regulating hormone insulin. Type 1 diabetes is caused by an actual deficiency of insulin due to low production by the body. Both lead to high blood sugar levels (hyperglycemia). An estimated 7 percent of the U.S. population — 21 million people — have been diagnosed with diabetes. The American Diabetes Association further estimates that 6.2 million people remain undiagnosed and another 41 million are prediabetic. Researchers supplemented the diets of obese, diabetic mice with either 0, 0.5 or 1.0 percent cacao liquor proanthocyanidins (CLPr) — containing 72 percent polyphenols — for three weeks. They found that blood sugar was reduced in direct correlation with the dosage of CLPr. Proanthocyanidins are a type of flavonoid, a plant chemical known to have antioxidant properties. Previous studies have found evidence that eating flavonoid-rich chocolate reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease. The current study, however, is the first to record an effect of cacao chemicals on blood sugar levels.”

The FDA is in the pocket of the drug industry, that much is clear. But the newly approved “diet drug” called “Alli” (pronounced like the friendly term “ally” of all things) has a decade of documentation that it can lead to pre-cancerous lesions!

Doctors Outraged–FDA Ignored Cancer Risk When Approving Alli

“In February 2007, the FDA approved Alli–an over-the-counter version of the diet drug Orlistat (Xenical). The Public Citizen’s Health Research Group has voiced concerns about Orlistat’s safety and efficacy for the past 10 years, as it’s been shown to cause pre-cancerous lesions of the colon. In April of 2006, a group of doctors with Public Citizen petitioned the FDA to ban Orlistat and deny OTC status to the lower dosage version Alli, offering testimony that Orlistat raises the risk of both colon cancer and gallstones. Public Citizen cited unpublished studies on Orlistat, showing:

* Orlistat increases the precursor markers to colon cancer by 60 percent in rats.
* When eating a high fat diet and taking Orlistat, the cancer risk increased 2.4 fold.
* Fat soluble vitamin E depletion, due to Orlistat’s fat blocking action, raises the risk of colon cancer even further.
* Recorded adverse reactions to Orlistat include: 39 cases of increased abnormal blood thinning; several cases of bleeding episodes; 10 hospitalizations, four with life threatening reactions, and one death.
* Dangerous thinning of the blood can occur in people taking drugs like Warfarin (an anti-coagulant), or who suffer from vitamin K deficiency.

In addition, the FDA itself found 37 cases of gallstones in patients of all ages, between 1999 and 2006, prior to releasing Alli for over-the-counter sale. The safety analysis from the Public Citizen’s Health Research Group is that Alli ‘has marginal weight loss benefits, common and bothersome G-I tract reactions, significant decrease in absorption of fat soluble vitamins, and problematic use in the millions of people using Warfarin or Cyclosporine.’ The FDA denied Public Citizen’s petition on the same day they approved Alli as an OTC.”

We knew that Omega-3 Fish Oil is very powerful and effective in helping maintain health, but now new research is demonstrating just how beneficial it can be!

More Research Highlights the Broad Health Benefits of Omega-3 Fish Oils and Fatty Fish

“Research on omega-3 fish oils keeps looking better and better: new studies have found that omega-3s fish oils can help with three catastrophic diseases — Alzheimer’s, heart failure, and cancer. Ernst J. Schaefer, MD, of the USDA’s nutrition research center at Tufts University, Boston, analyzed levels of omega-3s and the risk of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease. He and his colleagues measured blood levels of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, one of the principal omega-3s in fish) in 899 elderly men and women. More than half of the subjects also completed dietary questionnaires, which were used to assess intake of DHA and fish. Over nine years, 99 of the subjects developed dementia. Schaefer determined that people with the highest blood levels of DHA were about half as likely to develop dementia, compared with people who consumed little DHA. They were also 39 percent less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease. People with the highest DHA levels consumed about three servings of fish each week, which provided the equivalent of 180 mg of DHA daily. Fats form about 50 percent of the brain’s nonwater weight, and DHA is the predominant fat found in cell membranes of the brain’s gray matter.”

On July 11th, the U.S. House of Representatives sold out our interests by granting the FDA even MORE oversight and authority WITHOUT excluding vitamins and supplements. There are possible dark days ahead for our access to these beneficial items. For details, read the link below!

FDA tyranny to become law: HR.2900 analysis by Richards and Adams

“On July 11, 2007, the U.S. House of Representatives passed HR 2900, blocking debate on the law and preventing the introduction of any amendments that might have provided meaningful drug safety protections for consumers. This action demonstrates that the House of Representatives, much like the Senate, is utterly controlled by Big Pharma and has abandoned any responsibility to defend the interests of the voters. Drug companies now have complete control over the U.S. Congress, and through a campaign of intense lobbying and financial influence, they have managed to easily water down a law that once proposed to end the American monopoly on pharmaceuticals and ban advertising on new drugs. Instead of placing new restrictions on Big Pharma and the increasingly dangerous power of the FDA, this new law (a combination of HR.2900 and S.1082, when it is hammered out in conference) grants more power to the FDA while deepening the financial ties between the agency and drug companies. The law effectively surrenders America to a system of medical tyranny under which a criminally-operated FDA will continue to promote pharmaceuticals, censor nutritional education and discredit alternatives that threaten drug company profits. Nothing in the new law protects consumers’ access to dietary supplements or natural medicine.”