Michael A. Smith - A New Antioxidant Shows Promise for Arthritis

Joint pain is not acceptable. Simply put, people in pain don’t work out and can become inactive. And considering that our bodies are meant to move, this is definitely not a good thing.

Staying active is one sure way to improve your quality of life and, for most of us, will ultimately translate into a longer life.

New research shows that the antioxidant, ergothioneine, holds promise for relieving joint pain. This means that we could potentially have another weapon in combating arthritis.

Ergothioneine is a Joint-Specific Antioxidant

The science is not conclusive yet, but it's promising. Dr. Bruce N. Ames, senior scientist at the Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, told the website Nutraingredients-USAthat, “Ergothioneine is a very weak antioxidant compared to other … compounds in the cell, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Specificity is the key.”¹

And Dr. Ames is right. Any time you can target a tissue and deliver a nutrient specifically to that tissue, the effects will be greater than using a nutrient that distributes all over the body — even if that nutrient is stronger than the more specific one. And that’s exactly what you have with ergothioneine: A potentially more joint-specific, antioxidant.

Some doctors actually think ergothioneine might someday be classified as a new human vitamin. Dr. Dirk Gründemann from the University of Cologne in Germany published a paper in 2009 that highlighted its properties as a vitamin. He wrote that it concentrates in the blood by a specific transporter and then is delivered directly into different tissues, like joints.²

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http://blog.lef.org/2012/05/new-antioxidant-arthritis-pain.html

Sayer Ji - Probiotics Destroy Toxic Chemicals In Our Gut For Us

It is an awesome fact of nature that we have trillions of organisms within our body – containing completely foreign DNA – some of which break down toxic chemicals that we humans have created to kill other things, but are now killing us, e.g. pesticides. Who are these strange helpers?

Bacteria!

Wait. Aren’t bacteria supposed to harm us? Aren’t they the enemy in the endless war against infection?  

Well, when our immunity fails, some can grow out of bounds opportunistically. But they respond to the environment within which they are raised, not unlike most other creatures. Provide organic, wholesome vegetables, for instance, and you have a hotbed of positive activity in your gut. Provide sugar, processed foods and an increasing burden of chemicals and it can get ugly in there!

Also, believe it or not, ancient bacteria teamed up with our cellular ancestors eons ago to produce the energy-producing organelles within our cells called mitochondria. So, are we really that different from bacteria? No, on some level, we ARE bacteria, spurning some researchers to describe us as "meta-organisms," composed as we are of many different living systems working symbiotically.

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http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/probiotics-destroy-toxic-chemicals-our-gut-us

Michelle Roberts - 'One in six cancers worldwide are caused by infection'

One in six cancers - two million a year globally - are caused by largely treatable or preventable infections, new estimates suggest. The Lancet Oncology review, which looked at incidence rates for 27 cancers in 184 countries, found four main infections are responsible. These four - human papillomaviruses, Helicobacter pylori and hepatitis B and C viruses - account for 1.9m cases of cervical, gut and liver cancers.

Most cases are in the developing world.

The team from the International Agency for Research on Cancer in France says more efforts are needed to tackle these avoidable cases and recognise cancer as a communicable disease.

'Preventable'

The proportion of cancers related to infection is about three times higher in parts of the developing world, such as east Asia, than in developed countries like the UK - 22.9% versus 7.4%, respectively.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17989371

Sayer Ji - Are Cancer Stem Cells the Key to Discovering a Cure?

From the perspective of conventional cancer treatment a diagnosis of multi-drug resistant cancer is equivalent to a death sentence. By the time such a diagnosis occurs, the patient’s body has been irreversibly damaged by chemotherapy and radiation, and an even more aggressive cancer has emerged to take the place of the original one.

Tragically, these treatments do not simply fail, but make the cancers more malignant.  This fact is effectively concealed by the name multidrug resistant cancer which makes it seem as if the cancer was so exceptionally resistant and malignant that the normally effective drugs used to treat it just couldn’t do the job.  

But wouldn’t it be more accurate to call this multi-drug failed cancer, putting the responsibility back on the medical establishment, as it should be, in recognition of the impotence, or worse, cancer-promoting nature of its treatment choices?

In other words, instead of blaming the treatment failure on the patient’s body – or a set of virulent gene mutations within their cancer – it is time we look more closely at why conventional chemotherapy and radiation-based treatments breed multidrug resistance within the cancer of patients, who ultimately succumb to the effects of the treatment and not the cancer they were originally diagnosed with.

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http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/are-cancer-stem-cells-key-discovering-cure

Oral Zinc Found To Reduce Common Cold Symptoms In Adults More Than Kids

People who take oral zinc may experience shorter common cold symptoms than those who do not, researchers from The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto, and McMaster University reported in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).The authors added that adverse effects, especially when higher doses are taken, are common.

The authors gathered data on 17 randomized human studies involving 2,121 individuals aged from 1 to 65 years. They wanted to find out how efficient and safe oral zinc might be as a treatment for the common cold. All the trials used placebos and oral zinc preparations, and were double-blinded.

They found that zinc significantly reduced cold symptom duration, compared to placebos. However, they emphasized that the evidence was of "moderate" quality. Higher doses appeared to have a better effect.

Dr. Michelle Science said:

"We found that orally administered zinc shortened the duration of cold symptoms. These findings, however, are tempered by significant heterogeneity and quality of evidence."

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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/245078.php

Amish farm kids remarkably immune to allergies: study

Amish children raised on rural farms in northern Indiana suffer from asthma and allergies less often even than Swiss farm kids, a group known to be relatively free from allergies, according to a new study.

"The rates are very, very low," said Dr. Mark Holbreich, the study's lead author. "So there's something that we feel is even more protective in the Amish" than in European farming communities.

What it is about growing up on farms -- and Amish farms in particular -- that seems to prevent allergies remains unclear.

Researchers have long observed the so-called "farm effect" -- the low allergy and asthma rates found among kids raised on farms -- in central Europe, but less is known about the influence of growing up on North American farms.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/04/us-kidsallergies-idUSBRE8431J920120504

Dandelion-root extract a cancer-killer in lab

Cancer researchers in Windsor hope to start clinical trials soon to find out if dandelion root extract can kill cancer cells in humans without harming healthy cells.

"We are very excited," said Dr. Siyaram Pandey, a biochemist at the University of Windsor, describing the result of lab tests that so far confirm dandelion-root extract kills cancer cells from leukemia blood samples.

He and oncologist Dr. Caroline Hamm of Windsor Regional Hospital are submitting their application to Health Canada for approval of a stage 1 clinical trial to determine what dose of dandelion-root extract is tolerable and effective in patients with an aggressive form of leukemia known as chronic myelomonocyctic leukemia (CMML) and other cancers, including pancreatic cancer and melanoma.

The research could lead to a cancer treatment that is non-toxic and not derived from synthetic chemicals.

"It triggers a very specific kind of suicide," Pandey said of the process in which the dandelion-root extract causes cancer cells to die.

"The fantastic observation was that it was very selective to cancers."

In other words, the extract only targeted cancer cells and not healthy cells.

This is a contrast to current chemotherapy treatments, which are very toxic and damage normal cells in the process of killing cancerous ones.

Pandey said the same cell-suicide result was observed when the dandelion-root extract was applied to other types of cancers, including bone cancer, pancreatic cancer, colon cancer and neuroblastoma.

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http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/dandelion-root-extract-a-cancer-killer-in-lab-148364365.html

Richard Duncan - Is ACLU Aware? Sebelius, HHS Censor Vaccine Concerns, Produce ‘Fertility Impairing Vaccine’

The ACLU produced a paper on the pandemic laws pointing out that they lack public health measures. They are solely about “security” (martial law). The laws can be invoked without proof of even an infectious disease in the area and yet include the forcing of unknown, untested vaccines on the country, with no exceptions. People could be taken away (imprisoned) for refusing, where they would likely be vaccinated in any case.

To put it mildly, these are vaccine safety issues.

The ACLU is focused on the First Amendment. Is it aware that Kathleen Sebelius at the Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS) censored media from reporting on vaccine safety issues? Is the ACLU aware that large range of “concerns” about vaccines are breaking out around the world?

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and GAVI’s polio vaccines are causing mass paralysis in India and Pakistan and with a more deadly strain than natural polio; the pertussus vaccines are spreading pertussis via vaccinated populations and creating a more virulent strain; the measles vaccines aren’t working to protect against measles; the pentavalent vaccine is causing a high number of adverse events and deaths; Andrew Wakefield’s work on the MMR vaccine has been substantiated; and these are only the most recent stories showing up primarily in foreign media.

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http://foodfreedomgroup.com/2012/04/30/aclu-sebelius-hhs-censor-vaccine-infertility/

Robert Fisk - The Children of Fallujah - the hospital of horrors

The pictures flash up on a screen on an upper floor of the Fallujah General Hospital. And all at once, Nadhem Shokr al-Hadidi's administration office becomes a little chamber of horrors. A baby with a hugely deformed mouth. A child with a defect of the spinal cord, material from the spine outside the body. A baby with a terrible, vast Cyclopean eye. Another baby with only half a head, stillborn like the rest, date of birth 17 June, 2009. Yet another picture flicks onto the screen: date of birth 6 July 2009, it shows a tiny child with half a right arm, no left leg, no genitalia.

"We see this all the time now," Al-Hadidi says, and a female doctor walks into the room and glances at the screen. She has delivered some of these still-born children. "I've never seen anything as bad as this in all my service," she says quietly. Al-Hadidi takes phone calls, greets visitors to his office, offers tea and biscuits to us while this ghastly picture show unfolds on the screen. I asked to see these photographs, to ensure that the stillborn children, the deformities, were real. There's always a reader or a viewer who will mutter the word "propaganda" under their breath.

But the photographs are a damning, ghastly reward for such doubts. January 7, 2010: a baby with faded, yellow skin and misshapen arms. April 26, 2010: a grey mass on the side of the baby's head. A doctor beside me speaks of "Tetralogy of Fallot", a transposition of the great blood vessels. May 3, 2010: a frog-like creature in which – the Fallujah doctor who came into the room says this – "all the abdominal organs are trying to get outside the body."

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http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-the-children-of-fallujah--the-hospital-of-horrors-7679168.html#

Why Did Russia Ban The Use Of Microwave Ovens?

Consumers are dying today in part because they continue to eat dead foods that are killed in the microwave. They take a perfectly healthy piece of raw food, loaded with vitamins and natural medicines, then nuke it in the microwave and destroy most of its nutrition. Humans are the only animals on the planet who destroy the nutritional value of their food before eating it. All other animals consume food in its natural, unprocessed state, but humans actually go out of their way to render food nutritionally worthless before eating it. No wonder humans are the least healthy mammals on the planet.

In Russia, microwave ovens were banned in 1976 because of their negative health consequences as many studies were conducted on their use. The ban was lifted after Perestroika in the early 90’s.Numerous documents can be found online relating to this topic.

The invention of the microwave and its mass adoption by the population coincides with the onset of obesity in developed nations around the world. Not only did the microwave make it convenient to eat more obesity-promoting foods, it also destroyed much of the nutritional content of those foods, leaving consumers in an ongoing state of malnourished overfeeding. In other words, people eat too many calories but not enough real nutrition. The result is, of course, what we see today: Epidemic rates of diabetes, cancer, heart disease, depression, kidney failure, liver disorders and much more. 

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http://zen-haven.dk/why-did-russia-ban-the-use-of-microwave-ovens/