In the U.S. alone... Autoimmune, Cancer and Heart Disease
Up to 40 million Americans suffer from autoimmune disease [Stephen Edelson MD and Deborah Mitchell, What your Doctor May Not Tell You About Autoimmune Disorders]. Of that number, about 75% are women, making it the fourth largest cause of disability in women. Autoimmune disease is one of the top 10 leading causes of death in female children and women in all age groups up to 64 years of age.
Researchers have identified 80-100 different autoimmune diseases and suspect at least 40 additional diseases of having an autoimmune basis. These diseases are chronic and can be life-threatening.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) estimates up to 9 million Americans have cancer and 22 million have heart disease.
Teresa Forcades i Vila is a Benedictine nun at Sant Benet of Montserrat’s monastery, near Barcelona, Spain. Before joining the monastery Teresa practiced medicine for several years as a physician specialized in internal medicine and she has a PhD in Public Health from Barcelona's University. She also carried out her specialization at NY State University, USA.
In these series of videos, Teresa discusses the swine flu's origins and how WHO's definition of pandemia was morphed to fit this swine flu as a pandemic. She also discusses the vaccination program, its details and risks, using facts from mainstream science and also including political and economical aspects.
There are some cases when a person who is not able to speak will still be able to sing as the result of a specific aphasia.
Aphasia is an impairment or loss of the faculty of understanding or using spoken or written language, even though there is integrity of the neuromuscular structures that produce language. Aphasia is caused by brain damage, and is produced by left brain hemisphere damage in right-handed people.
Almost 90% of the population is right handed and of this percentage, more than 99% have a strong left hemisphere dominance for the linguistic functions. This is the reason why in right handed people, only left hemisphere brain damage will cause aphasia. Left-handed people will have a different hemispheric brain pattern, so their linguistic functions will be represented in both brain hemispheres. As a result, damage in any hemisphere will produce aphasia which will be less severe than those with the same damage in right-handed people.
Paul Weindling is an expert on medicine in Nazi Germany and is author of Health, Race and German Politics, Epidemics and Genocide in Eastern Europe, and Nazi Medicine and the Nuremberg Trials.
According to Weindling, there were four main phases in the atrocities performed during Nazi Germany. The first phase (1939-41) is called the neurological which was linked to the euthanasia program, but it was actually a testing ground for killing techniques. He estimates that more than 70,000 adult patients were killed in mental institutions.
The second phase (1939-1944) was a large scale experiment on sterilization and human reproduction were 400,000 people with inherited disorders were presumably sterilized without their consent under the Nazi regime.
The third phase was of military experimentation, which included studies of people's reactions to high altitudes, freezing temperatures, exposure to incendiary bombs, mustard gas, poisons, and other highly disturbing practices. Prisoners were also exposed to infections of typhus, malaria, and epidemic jaundice in order to develop vaccines and other treatments.
The fourth phase was experiments on children, such as studies on the inheritance of racial characteristics.
Weindling also writes about the Nuremberg medical trial which took place after the international military trial, where the concept of medical war crime was first introduced.
Here we go again with the flu threat, this time a swine flu with the potential for a global pandemic - or so we're told. I'm kind of tired of the same old "be afraid, be very afraid" tone in regards to the whole flu threat. There are really other threats with greater implications for our well being! But still, the subject is certainly worth our attention, as there is still a good possibility of depopulation. I will not be surprised if the swine flu makes a revengeful come back this winter. This is also a great opportunity to get healthy, remind ourselves how pharmaceutical companies make their profits and how governments restrict our liberties. If anything, what makes us susceptible to the swine flu, is the toxicity within and without.
Swine flu is a contagious respiratory disease, caused by a type A influenza virus, H1N1. Symptoms include fever which is usually high, chest infection is common and pneumonia is a common complication, occasional sore throat and runny nose, coughing, severe headache, general pains and aches that can be severe, vomiting and diarrhea, tiredness which is severe, and lack of appetite.
From December 2005 to February 2009, the US had 12 cases of human infection with swine influenza. The outbreak in Mexico might have started as early as March 18, when authorities began detecting a surge in influenza-like illnesses in the country. It was thought that it was seasonal influenza, but on April 21, the US Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention reported two isolated cases of a novel swine influenza in California. On April 24, Mexico announced that the same virus had been detected in the country's outbreak of influenza-like illness.
Even though the World Health Organization stated clearly that it was not possible to contain the spread of the swine flu, we saw at the beginning of the month some nations imposing travel bans, or making plans to quarantine air travelers. Nations were supposed to take mitigating measures, not travel restrictions, but the paranoia level is so high that any excuse is a good one to scare us with unnecessary restrictions.
Our bodies are simply not made to process the high quantities of the types of sugar that we consume nowadays.
Sugar is in no way nutritional and it actually depletes the body of its vitamin and mineral resources. High sugar consumption is tied to mental disorders, lower IQ, anxiety, aggressive behavior, hyperactivity, depression, eating disorders, fatigue, learning difficulties, and premenstrual syndrome among others.
One of the most important factors in brain aging and inflammation is sugar. Insulin triggered by sugar triggers oxidative stress which leads to mitochondrial damage, which in turn contributes to insulin resistance. Insulin also triggers the inflammatory cascade, including cytokines like TNF alfa and interleukins which spreads the damage into the brain and body in general.
Sugar produces high levels of insulin which is the main cause of our chronic disease epidemic and an important factor in mood disorders and dementia. Our insulin response is designed to handle vastly lower levels of sugar than what we consume today. For example, the body can process fruit sugar, but not high fructose corn syrup, which is a potent form of sugar that is sweeter than regular sugar, increases appetite, promotes obesity more than regular sugar, is more addictive than cocaine, and leads to diabetes and an inflammation of the brain.
Looking for something to watch during my far infrared sauna session, I stumbled upon The Glass Menagerie, based on Tennessee Williams's play. I suddenly remembered that this play was referenced in Barbara Hort's book, Unholy Hungers, in the context of the feminine vampire archetype. Although the label "vampire" may sound too drastic, it is actually very appropriate because the book is basically about psychic feeding dynamics. After watching the movie, I felt compelled to review what was said in the book about the female vampire archetype. The book is probably one of the best psychology books I've ever came across with, so I'll include the relevant quote here related to the movie as food for thought:
The vampire in Williams's autobiographical work is Amanda Wingfield, a fading Southern belle whose husband has left her alone to raise their two children-the discontented dreamer, Tom, and Laura, his crippled, reclusive sister. Although Amanda devotes most of her energy to feeding on the resistant Tom, she achieves her greatest vampiric success with Laura. Bled to the point of transparency by her mother, Laura drifts through each day by playing with her glass menagerie, the little crystal animals that are as fragile and as translucent as Laura become in the grip of Amanda's vampiric "love."
Amanda clearly operates under her vampiric veil of vulnerability when she confronts Laura with her truancy from the secretarial school in which Amanda has forcibly enrolled her: [Amanda leans against the shut door and stares at Laura with a martyred look.]
Multiple factors like lack of sleep, electromagnetic fields, aluminum (found in anti-acids, water, foil wrap, deodorants, cookware) interact with our genes to produce diseases like Alzheimer's. In addition, inflammation is always present in most diseases and Alzheimer's is not an exception. Inflammatory-promoting factors include trans fats, saturated fat, stress, infections, lack of exercise, autoimmune diseases, vitamin deficiencies, celiac disease, colitis, sugar, and diabetes, all of which increase the risk of dementia and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.
Scientists had linked sugar and its ability to create insulin resistance, prediabetes, and diabetes to Alzheimer’s disease. This news item highlights exactly this:
New research confirms that diabetics have an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. Researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and the Stockholm Gerontology Research Center reported that people with diabetes are 70 percent more likely to develop Alzheimer's compared to those with normal blood sugar levels.
Type II diabetes is characterized by insulin resistance, a condition where chronic high blood sugar levels have caused an overproduction of insulin. Along with many other side effects, high insulin levels produce inflammation in the body. This inflammation can cause damage in the brain.
Toxoplasma gondii is a parasite that lives in the intestines of cats, shedding eggs that can be picked up by rats and other animals. Humans and other animals can be hosts to Toxoplasma as well. People get infected by its eggs by handling soil or kitty litter. It is thought that for most people the parasite lives "quietly" in their bodies including the brain, and about half of the world's population is infected. Toxoplasmosis is only an immediate threat for people with low defenses (i.e. AIDS, pregnancy).
In general, healthy rats get anxious with the odor of cat urine and they shy away from it, making them more cautious. But scientists at Oxford discovered that Toxoplasma changes this self-preserving mechanism in rats, making them more likely to get themselves killed. The scent of a cat didn't make them anxious or cautious. Instead, they even took a special interest in the odor and came back to it repeatedly.
The scientists speculated that Toxoplasma was capable of secreting a substance that was altering the patterns of brain activity in the rats. Given the similarity between the basic anatomy and brain chemical activity between rats and humans, the question then became if toxoplasmosis could alter human behavior as it did with our formerly cautious rats. Furthermore, a link between schizophrenia and toxoplasmosis has been made which was confirmed with recent research where it was proven that toxoplasmosis changes some of the chemical messages in the brain. These chemical changes can have an enormous effect on human behavior. The parasite infects the brain producing an enzyme called tyrosine hydroxylase, which is needed to make dopamine. Dopamine's role in mood, sociability, attention, motivation and sleep patterns are well documented, and it also has an important role in schizophrenia:
One of the things I dread the most as a heart surgeon is... calcium. Yes, severely calcified valves and arteries are probably my worst nightmare. To remove the calcium, we have to use surgical instruments such as the "bone eater" - and even with that you struggle a lot! Eventually the instruments end up losing their sharp cutting edge. It is like cutting a rock, I kid you not. Tissues that should be smooth and silky are calcified and have the consistency of a rock or a bone. It has gotten worse over the years and there could be other factors involved as well, but magnesium is one of those things that is absolutely essential -and usually it shines by its absence in most therapies!
Magnesium helps to dissolve calcium; it becomes more water soluble. So with foods artificially enriched with calcium, and the boom of calcium supplementation, there is never enough magnesium. Already in 1936 in the US Senate, there were discussions about dangerous diet deficiencies due to mineral depleted soils. Foods raised on millions of acres of land no longer contain enough of certain minerals, no matter how much of them you eat (and this was in the 1930's!). So usually there is always a constant deficiency in magnesium in most populations.
If you don't have enough magnesium to help keep calcium dissolved, you end up with calcium-excess spasms, calcification of arteries, calcium deposits, kidney stones, spasms of your blood vessels (which can lead to heart attacks and angina), migraine headaches, broncospasm (asthma), arrhythmias, etc. Magnesium deficiencies are also seen in depression and anxieties!
People who will sing but not speak.
Here we go again with the flu threat, this time a swine flu with the potential for a global pandemic - or so we're told. I'm kind of tired of the same old "be afraid, be very afraid" tone in regards to the whole 
Our bodies are simply not made to process the high quantities of the types of sugar that we consume nowadays.
Looking for something to watch during my
Multiple factors like lack of sleep, electromagnetic fields, aluminum (found in anti-acids, water, foil wrap, deodorants, cookware) interact with our genes to produce diseases like Alzheimer's. In addition, inflammation is always present in most diseases and Alzheimer's is not an exception. Inflammatory-promoting factors include trans fats, saturated fat, stress, infections, lack of exercise, autoimmune diseases, vitamin deficiencies, celiac disease, colitis, sugar, and diabetes, all of which increase the risk of dementia and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.
