iam 56.i got psoriasis attack at the age 30 and the psoraitic arthritis
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>                         Medication Pollution Spreads: Water Supply
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(NaturalNews) Analysis of tap water supplies in major metropolitan
areas conducted by the Associated Press has revealed that the water
supply in 24 major U.S. cities -- serving over 40 million people ...
>   http://www.acnehealingoil.com/naturalnews.com.php

Good article . . .

A Holistic Strategy Against Cancer
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 by: Mary Laredo (see all articles by
this
author)
| Key concepts: cancer, oxygen and nutrition

(NaturalNews) In 1971, President Nixon declared a war on cancer. In
the
ensuing decades, tens of billions of dollars have been spent on the
cause yet a cure by orthodox means remains elusive. By any standards
this campaign has been a failed endeavor; or worse, a shameful
fraud.

Progress is a myth, and sustaining hope for the development of a safe
and effective cancer drug is pointless. It's up to each individual to
empower themselves with knowledge of the myriad ways to eradicate
cancer
without harming the body. Although it's easier to prevent cancer
than to
reverse it once it has taken hold, it is nevertheless reversible with
holistic therapies that address imbalances of the body, mind and
spirit.
This is not an opinion; it is a statement of fact that's based on
this
author's first-hand experience.

A comprehensive approach to healing cancer includes at least the
following eight factors:
1. Proper nutrition and clean water
2. Detoxification
3. Immune building
4. Oxygen therapy
5. Natural chemotherapies
6. Lifestyle changes: adequate sleep, sunlight & exercise
7. A positive attitude
8. Spiritual cleansing

Regardless of the cancer's aggressiveness, the body will respond to
this
holistic approach - the speed and degree to which it does so is
commensurate with the diligence and extent to which these eight
factors
are applied. No cancer treatment, conventional or otherwise, comes
with
an iron-clad guarantee; however, it's important to consider that
orthodox treatments ravage the body and ignore the underlying causes
while alternative treatments strengthen the body and address its
healing
requirements. Reason and logic side with alternative therapies.

These guidelines are merely an overview of what a comprehensive
holistic
protocol would include. The term "cancer survivor" refers to those
who
have been diagnosed with the disease and are still alive – whether
they are in remission or not. The cancer survivor should adopt as
many
of these strategies as is feasible, slowly incorporating them into
one's
lifestyle and working with a naturopath if necessary. A holistic
healer
can be located through the help of a reputable chiropractor,
acupuncturist or other practitioner of the healing arts. A health
food
store may also provide contacts.

It's useful to determine whether the body's chronic stressors include
specific nutritional deficiencies, absorption problems and/or the
burden
of toxic heavy metals. This insight is possible through analysis of
hair, urine or blood, and will help determine which supplements and
therapies will enhance treatment. Without addressing these
conditions,
optimum healing may be delayed or prevented.

1. Nutrition

Proper nutrition and pure filtered water is critical to a successful
anti-cancer strategy. Diet alone can make or break the effectiveness
of
any cancer treatment and is therefore the most important strategic
point. Knowing which foods feed cancer cells, which interfere with
the
treatment, and which assist in healing is vital.

Refined sugar feeds and strengthens cancer cells and should be the
first
substance to be eliminated. Sugar substitutes, refined flour and
trans
fatty acids damage the body and numerous studies link them to cancer.
Dairy and all mucus-forming foods should also be avoided (1).
Processed
foods, carbonated beverages, coffee, alcohol, chlorine and fluoride
fall
into the category of foods and substances that interfere with healing
and may fuel the cancer's growth. Conversely, a diet of nutrient-rich
foods will enhance all levels of the healing process.

All plant foods contain nutrients that aid healing. Herbs, fruits and
vegetables have properties that protect against and inhibit the
proliferation of cancer while strengthening, cleansing and repairing
the
body (2). These include green leafy vegetables, cruciferous
vegetables
(broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, etc.), sea vegetables, fruits
(especially berries and dark grapes with seeds and skins), garlic,
ginger, turmeric and green tea, among many others. A diet containing
an
abundance of organic plant foods provides layers of nutritional
protection.

Concentrated fats from flax oil and olive oil may be used unheated
while
coconut oil can be used for cooking. Although these healthy oils as
well
as fats from whole foods such as avocados, nuts and seeds provide the
essential fatty acids necessary for oxygenation of cells (3), they
should nevertheless be kept to a minimum (approximately 15% of diet)
since fat slows digestion and in large quantities may accelerate
tumor
growth (4). Once the cancer is stabilized this restriction may be
relaxed.

Animal protein should be eliminated if possible; however, we are all
of
different constitutions, so for those who must consume flesh, it
should
be restricted to small amounts of organic, pasture-fed beef or
poultry,
and wild-caught fish. Beans and legumes are an excellent source of
fiber
and many important nutrients and may be consumed in moderation.

While whole grains also contain fiber and nutrients, there is
disagreement among experts as to their place in a healing diet. Due
in
part to their sugar and gluten content, and the digestive load they
place on the body already burdened by cancer, they should be
eliminated
or restricted to gluten-free varieties, at least until the condition
is
stable. Likewise, natural sweeteners such as honey and maple syrup
should also be restricted while cancer remains active. The herb
stevia
is a safe sweetener.

The cancer survivor should aim for a diet that is at least 80% raw.
This
will ensure an alkaline environment as well as an ample supply of
enzymes for healing processes. Oral supplementation of digestive
enzymes
with meals and systemic enzymes on an empty stomach will further aid
healing.

2. Detoxification

Effective healing requires the removal of accumulated toxins and
metabolic wastes. Being mindful to eliminate or minimize the
ingestion
of processed foods, substances, and environmental toxins that inhibit
the healing process is of primary importance. It's also beneficial to
begin a healing regimen with a cleanse of the kidneys, liver and
colon
to remove stored toxins. There are many effective cleansing formulas
and
procedures that can be found at health food stores, the internet, or
through a holistic healer.

In addition to consciously avoiding toxic exposure and cleansing the
organs of elimination, there are various therapies and practices that
will help purify the body. Some include daily stretching to release
acids from tissues; rebounding on a mini-trampoline to move lymph
fluid,
flush waste, and increase the number and activity of white blood
cells
(5); perspiring in a sauna to purge toxins through the skin; juicing
to
alkalize and cleanse tissues, and castor oil packs to enhance
circulation, stimulate the immune system and aid in detoxification
(6).

Toxic build-up can also be released through fasting, which helps to
heal
and rejuvenate the body. The practice of coffee enemas should also be
considered since it prevents the reabsorption of toxins, cleanses the
blood and liver, and counteracts the symptoms of a potential healing
crisis(4, 6). To be clear on how to proceed with a fast or enema it
may
be necessary to speak with a health care professional.

3. Immune Building

The immune system is our body's natural defense against harmful
substances and abnormal cell development. Any cell within the body
can
mutate in response to negative stressors, but a healthy immune system
will stop its growth and defend against an uncontrollable
malignancy.

There are various groups of white blood cells that possess an innate
intelligence for healing. Their functions include identifying,
attacking, destroying and finally removing abnormal cells through the
body's lymph system and organs of elimination. Strategies to
strengthen
and build these natural defenses to prevent or treat cancer include a
diet rich in nutrient-dense foods and supplementation. Chlorella,
mushroom extracts, aloe vera, and milk thistle are just a few of the
many supplements that strengthen the body's natural defenses.

4. Oxygen

The more toxic the body, the less oxygen is delivered to cells.
Oxygen
starvation at the cellular level leads to disease; in fact, it's an
undisputed fact that cancer cells cease to grow when blood and
tissues
are sufficiently oxygenated (3). There are many ways to oxygenate the
body, including a highly alkaline diet (80% raw).

This raises the body's internal PH which enhances the transport of
oxygen to cells. Regular exercise, deep breathing, and adequate
consumption of pure water are other simple methods to increase oxygen
uptake. Ozone, which is activated oxygen, may be used
therapeutically in
the home by drinking ozonated water and using ozone saunas.
Hospitals in
Mexico, Europe and Malaysia administer intravenous ozone infusions
with
great success. There are also clinics in the United States; however,
they operate under threat of FDA reprisal and confiscation of ozone
equipment. For more information about oxygen therapies and ozone
visit
(www.oxygenhealth.com) , (www.colecenter.com) , and
(www.ozonehospital.com) .

5. Natural Chemotherapies

There are many natural, non-toxic chemotherapies that directly or
indirectly kill malignancies. None of them are stand-alone treatments
however, and should be considered as one component of a comprehensive
protocol. Amygdalin, also known as laetrile or vitamin B17,
selectively
targets and destroys cancer cells while healthy cells remain
unharmed.
The substance is naturally occurring in many plant foods, including
apple seeds, bitter almonds and apricot pits, and may also be
obtained
through oral supplements or administered intravenously. Four decades
worth of clinical evidence and case studies attest to its efficacy
(9).
Supplements may be found online, and many hospitals in Mexico and
Europe
administer intravenous laetrile; however, the FDA has deemed this
therapy illegal in the States. Other treatments that indirectly kill
cancer cells include shark liver oil, shark cartilage and melatonin,
all
of which cut off the blood supply to tumors.

6. Lifestyle Changes

Deep, restful sleep is an important part of an effective healing
strategy. During sleep our bodies undergo the processes of
rebuilding,
detoxifying and healing. The liver works during the deepest level of
sleep, the delta level, to break down and eliminate carcinogens.
Additionally, sleeping in complete darkness contributes to healthy
levels of melatonin, a hormone secreted by the pineal gland that
promotes restful sleep (6). Eating three hours before sleep,
especially
protein, should be avoided since it diverts the body's healing
efforts
to digestion. The value of adequate sleep should not be overlooked
because without it our healing efforts will be compromised.

Other lifestyle changes include sunlight exposure and daily exercise.
Research links lack of sunlight to certain cancers and vitamin D from
sunlight has been shown to shrink tumors (7, 8). Adequate exposure
during the early morning or late afternoon hours is the safest way to
obtain the restorative benefits of sunlight. The darker one's
pigmentation, the more exposure is necessary. Avoid over-exposure
during
the hottest part of the day as sunburns can damage skin and promote
cancer.

Regular exercise speeds up the elimination of toxins and is
necessary to
keep the body oxygenated and to improve lymphatic function while
building immunity. These therapeutic benefits can be achieved through
moderate exercise at least three times per week and gradually
increasing
duration and/or intensity as new thresholds are reached.

The body, through its resilience, will heal itself when given what it
needs. Its sustenance however is not the end of the story. Addressing
the mind and emotions is the second component of the holistic
approach
that should not be overlooked.

7. A Positive Attitude

Developing a positive attitude will reduce psychological stress and
profoundly aid the healing process. A cancer survivor can achieve
this
in part by becoming proactive through researching alternative
options.
This is an empowering strategy and gives one a firm sense of control.
There are innumerable books and websites that outline alternative
cancer
therapies. One of many extensive sites and a good place to begin
research is (www.cancertutor.com) .

There are also many inspiring books and success stories written by
cancer survivors - including A Cancer Battle Plan by Anne Frahm, The
No-Dairy Breast Cancer Prevention Program by Jane Plant, Ph.D., and
Cancer: Curing the Incurable Without Surgery, Chemotherapy or
Radiation,
by Dr. William D. Kelley, DDS, to name but three. These encouraging
stories give one a strong sense of hope which is essential for
survival.

Each individual has the power to control their own thoughts and
attitudes, thereby creating their reality. A constructive outlook
perceives a cancer diagnosis as a necessary life-changing event and
an
opportunity to transform one's life.

8. Spiritual Cleansing
Spirituality is the third aspect of the holistic paradigm and refers
to
our sense of peace. It involves settling unresolved conflicts,
forgiving
and asking forgiveness, liberating toxic emotions such as anger,
bitterness, hatred, resentment, regret, and fear, while embracing our
capacity for love, compassion and joy. Spiritual cleansing is a
process
that can be achieved through various means, including meditation,
affirmations, visualization and/or prayer.

These strategies should be embraced by the cancer survivor as
permanent
lifestyle changes. Occasional diversions are to be expected, but one
should try not to lose focus. Although it may at times be difficult
to
remain faithful to the holistic protocol, its benefits over
conventional
treatments are beyond measure. Furthermore, the regimen becomes
increasingly rewarding once healing begins and measurable results are
achieved. The holistic protocol creates a physical, emotional and
spiritual environment that simply will not support cancer.

References:

1. Plant, Ph.D., J.: The No-Dairy Breast Cancer Prevention Program.
NY,
NY: St. Martin's Press, 84-113, 2000
2. Liu, M.D., McManus, M.S., R.D., and Carlino, J.: Healing Gourmet,
Eat
to Fight Cancer. New York, NY, McGraw-Hill, 53-147, 2006
3. McCabe, Ed: Flood Your Body With Oxygen: Therapy For Our Polluted
World. 6th Edition. Energy Publications, 68-9, 2003
4. Gerson, C. and Walker, M.: The Gerson Therapy. NY, NY: Kensington
Publishing Corp., 154-77; 190-2, 2001
5. Brooks, Linda: Rebounding and Your Immune System. Urbana, OH:
Vitally
Yours Press, 13-46, 2003
6. Yance, Donald: Herbal Medicine, Healing and Cancer. NY, NY:
McGraw-Hill, 268-70; 242-4, 1999
7. Diamond, M.D., W. John, and Cowden, M.D., W. Lee: Cancer
Diagnosis,
What To Do Next. Tiburon, CA: Alternative Medicine.com, Inc., 313-16,
2000
8. Last, Walter: The Natural Way to Heal. Charlottesville, VA:
Hampton
Roads Publishing Co., 348-9, 2004
9. Griffin, G. Edward: World Without Cancer, The Story of Vitamin
B17.
Westlake Village, CA: American Media 16th printing, 115-36, 2001

About the author

Mary Laredo is an artist, educator and gallery curator who lives and
works in Detroit, MI. As a breast cancer survivor who shunned
conventional treatment, she is writing a book about her experience
with
natural therapies and nutritional healing. Visit
http://marylaredo.blogspot.com

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and
> have been teaching, using and studing natural healing every
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The End of Antibiotics and the Rise of Iodine as an Effective Alternative

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   NaturalNews) Eventually antibiotics are going to be seen as one of the worst
things to ever come out of pharmaceutical science because in the end, they have
made us only weaker in the face of ever increasingly strong super bugs that are
resistant to all the antibiotics doctors have at their disposal. When we look at
how deep the rabbit hole goes with antibiotics, we will get sick in our souls.
Antibiotics have fulfilled their anti–biotic anti-life role leaving a long trail
of death and suffering in the wake of their use.

Diseases include measles, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, pneumonia,
influenza, whooping cough, diphtheria and polio. All were in decline for several
decades before the introduction of antibiotics or vaccines - Dr. Lawrence
Wilson.

Antibiotics do not kill yeast. Many women find after taking antibiotics, they
get vaginal yeast infections (because their normal bacterial balance has been
lost). Antibiotics bring on fungal and yeast infections thus will eventually be
seen as a major cause of cancer since more and more oncologists are seeing yeast
and fungal infections as an integral part of cancer and its cause. With upwards
of 40 percent of all cancers thought to be involved with and caused by
infections, the subject of antibiotics and the need for something safer, more
effective and life serving is imperative.

It may be some time before we really enter the predicted "post antibiotic era"
in which common infections are frequently untreatable - Dr. Marc Lipsitch et al.
(Harvard School of Public Health).

Antibiotics kill all bacteria in the body, including the ones we need.

An antibiotic is a substance produced by certain bacteria or fungi that kills
other cells or interferes with their growth. In nature, these substances help
some microbes survive by limiting the multiplication of other microbes that
share the same environment. Antibiotics that attack pathogenic (disease-causing)
microbes without severely harming normal body cells are useful as drugs but
there does not seem to be any from the pharmaceutical companies that do not do
damage. Dr. Lisa Landymore-Lin wrote all about this in her book Poisonous
Prescriptions asking, 'Do Antibiotics Cause Asthma and Diabetes?' We are now
beginning to question the role of antibiotics as a cause of cancer since they do
lead to pathogen overgrowth especially in the area of yeast and fungi. Chris
Woollams writes, "It is estimated that 70 per cent of the British population
have a yeast infection. The primary cause of this is our love of antibiotics.
Swollen glands? Take antibiotics. Tonsillitis? Take
  antibiotics."

Two studies in the recent past have shown an association between the use of
antibiotics with higher incidence of breast cancer.

In one study the increased risk was small, and the importance of the link has
been played down by UK breast-cancer experts, but the findings add weight to
recent studies that have found links between antibiotics and other diseases. In
the past few years, heavy antibiotic use has been linked to the inflammatory
bowel disorder, Crohn's disease, and to children developing allergies such as
Hay fever and asthma. And as we shall see below, antibiotics play a hidden role
in autism and other neurological diseases.

The Journal of the American Medical Association has reported a study on 10,000
women in which women who took over 500 days of antibiotics in a 17 year period
(dubbed 25 plus doses) had twice the risk of breast cancer as those that took
none at all. Even women taking just one had a statistical risk increase to 1.5
times.

The consequences of resistance in some bacteria can be measured as increases in
the term and magnitude of morbidity, higher rates of mortality, and greater
costs of hospitalization for patients infected with resistant bacteria - Dr.
Marc Lipsitch et al.

Broad-spectrum antibiotics are undiscriminating: in addition to "bad bacteria,"
they also kill healthy bacteria which normally live in the intestines and the
vagina, and which are a necessary part of the indigenous flora to keep the body
healthy. When the "good" bacteria are killed with antibiotics, then yeast, which
is part of the normal flora of the body, can begin to overgrow because the
antibiotics have altered the body's healthy terrain (internal ecological
balance) allowing the yeast to hyperproliferate and cause many far-reaching,
toxic symptoms.

But modern medicine so far continues to believe that antibiotics have played an
important role in staving off bacterial infections since Alexander Fleming first
discovered them in 1927. Many doctors are finally beginning to see that the
effectiveness of these so-called miracle drugs has waned as some of the very
bacteria they are meant to control have been mutating into new forms that don't
respond to treatment. Many medical experts blame this phenomenon on both the
misuse and overuse of antibiotics in recent years in both human medicine and in
agriculture.

According to several studies, obstetricians and gynecologists write 2,645,000
antibiotic prescriptions every week. Internists prescribe 1,416,000 per week.
This works out to 211,172,000 prescriptions annually in the United States, just
for these two specialties. Pediatricians prescribe over $500 million worth of
antibiotics annually just for one condition, ear infections. Yet topical
povidone iodine (PVP-I) is as effective as topical ciprofloxacin, with a
superior advantage of having no in vitro drug resistance and the added benefit
of reduced cost of treatment.

According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical
Association, taking properly prescribed medical drugs was listed as the third
leading cause of death in the U.S. Antibiotics
were listed in this category because antibiotics can be deadly.

A 17-year-old St Margaret's College student in New Zealand has exposed multiple
antibiotic-resistant bugs in fresh chicken sold in supermarkets? Jane Millar's
discovery of a range of resistant bacteria in chickens that could compromise
antibiotic treatment in humans is an important finding that the bacteria have
developed resistance to antibiotics not used in the poultry industry but
important for treating serious infections in humans.

We can create resistance to medically important antibiotics by using antibiotics
that are presumably safe in agriculture - Jane Millar.

Jane bought six fresh chickens - free-range, barn-raised and organic – from a
supermarket. She took samples from each bird and grew bug colonies, which she
used to test different antibiotics. Apramycin is an antibiotic used sparingly by
the New Zealand poultry industry to treat infections. The bacteria of two
chickens tested resistant to apramycin. They also proved resistant to another
two antibiotics from the same family - gentamicin and tobramycin - used for
serious human infections. Gentamicin is not used by the poultry industry;
tobramycin is restricted to human use only.

A recent risk assessment study commissioned by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) has estimated that about 8,000-10,000 persons in the U.S.
each year acquire fluoroquinolone-resistant Campylobacter infections from
chicken and attempt to treat those infections with a fluoroquinolone.

Every day, new strains of bacteria, fungi, and other pathogenic microorganisms
are becoming resistant to the antibiotics that once dispatched them with extreme
prejudice.

"We know that antimicrobial resistance will follow antimicrobial use as sure as
night follows day," said Dr. John A. Jernigan, deputy chief of prevention and
response from the Center of Disease Control. "It's just a biological
phenomenon." It turns out that the indiscriminate killing of harmless microbes
damages the body in complex ways we are only beginning to understand. Powerful
antibiotics introduced into the complex environment in our intestines cause
mayhem, much like a series of bombs tossed into a market square. Antibiotic
resistance is a widespread problem, and one that the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention calls "one of the world's most pressing public health
problems."

One of the deadliest germs is a staph bacteria called M.R.S.A., short for
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, which lives harmlessly on the skin
but causes havoc when it enters the body. Patients who do survive M.R.S.A. often
spend months in the hospital and endure several operations to cut out infected
tissue. Hospitalizations associated with a drug-resistant form of a
Staphylococcus bacterium doubled over six years in the U.S. to nearly 280,000
cases in 2005. The death toll rose from 4,700 in 1999 to about 6,600 in 2005. It
estimated that 94,000 Americans suffered invasive MRSA infections in 2005 and
that about 19,000 died.

One out of every 20 patients contracts an infection during a hospital stay in
the US. Hospital infections kill an estimated 103,000 people in the United
States a year, as many as AIDS, breast cancer and auto accidents combined. The
vast majority of lethal cases occur in hospitals and nursing homes, where open
wounds and punctures provide the opportunistic staph a ready path to the
bloodstream and organs. The dangers of infection are worsening as many hospital
infections can no longer be cured with common antibiotics.

More than half the time, doctors and other caregivers break the most fundamental
rule of hygiene by
failing to clean their hands before treating a patient.

"Recently there has been an alarming epidemic caused by community-associated
(CA)-MRSA strains, which can cause severe infections that can result in
necrotizing fasciitis or even death in otherwise healthy adults outside of
healthcare settings," is the word coming from the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) research team, headed by Dr. Michael Otto.

Necrotizing fasciitis is the so-called flesh-eating disease that can destroy
healthy tissue and even kill patients. The team found that some strains on MRSA
secrete a compound called phenol-soluble modulin or PSM. It attracts immune
system cells called neutrophils, the researchers found, and then blows them up
in a process called lysis. Neutrophils are key immune cells involved in clearing
bacterial infections, so destroying them would allow the bacteria to thrive
almost unmolested.
"In the United States, CA-MRSA is now the cause of the majority of infections
that result in trips to the emergency room. It is unclear what makes CA-MRSA
strains more successful in causing human disease compared with their
hospital-associated counterparts," they add.

When the peaceful activities of a normal microbial population are disrupted,
malevolent bacteria may take full advantage of the opportunity to strike. The
intestinal infection C. difficile colitis, now rampaging through hospitals
around the world, is one of the worst such complication of antibiotic use.

Clostridium difficile was first recognized as a hospital microbe in 1978. By
1996, it had increased to 31 cases per 100,000 people discharged from U.S.
hospitals. In 2003, the most recent year for complete statistics, prevalence had
risen to 61 per 100,000. C. diff is part of the natural flora, or bacteria, in
the colon. "We're seeing all of the warning signs that this is the next MRSA,"
said former New York Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey, founder of the Committee to
Reduce Infection Deaths, a Manhattan-based nonprofit. "It spreads like wildfire
in hospitals."

Clostridium difficile is a spore-forming toxin-producing bacterium that is
overtaking peoples' large intestines from which it mounts an attack on the
bloodstream. Like MRSA, Clostridium difficile has become multi-drug-resistant.
Although once a bacterium that mostly affected elderly, hospitalized patients, a
bolder strain is crippling the robust. In emergency efforts to save some
patients' lives surgeons remove the entire large intestine to prevent
overwhelming infection.

One case had been treated by a dermatologist for an ingrown hair on his back and
prescribed an antibiotic. He took only a few pills, but quickly became ill.
Based on what his doctors told him, the short course of antibiotics proved
sufficient to destroy virtually all the natural bacteria in his intestine -
except C. diff, which was freed to ravage his colon.

Frequently, stethoscopes, blood-pressure monitors and other equipment are
contaminated with live bacteria. Yet doctors and nurses almost never clean the
stethoscope before listening to a patient's chest.

"It strikes precisely those hospitals which are more 'high-tech', and handle
more serious illnesses. Applying more disinfectant is not the answer; some
strains of germs have actually been found thriving in bottles of hospital
disinfectant! The more antibacterial chemical 'weapons' are being used, the more
bacteria are becoming resistant to them," writes Dr. Carl Wieland.

Health-care officials are increasingly concerned about emerging new forms of
drug-resistant Tuberculosis (TB). According to the WHO, outbreaks of
drug-resistant tuberculosis are showing up all over the world and threaten to
touch off a worldwide epidemic of virtually incurable tuberculosis. An October
1997 survey by the WHO, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and
the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease estimates that 50
million people are infected with a strain of TB that is drug-resistant. Many of
those are said to carry multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, incurable by two or
more of the standard drugs.

New DNA technology has found hundreds of previously unrecognized species in the
traditional stomping grounds of the mouth and intestine, and traces of bacteria
even in tissues previously thought to be sterile.

Lessons from Autism

Medical scientists at Arizona State University tell us that antibiotic use is
known to almost completely inhibit excretion of mercury in rats due to
alteration of gut flora. Thus, higher use of oral antibiotics in the children
with autism may have reduced their ability to excrete mercury. Higher usage of
oral antibiotics in infancy may also partially explain the high incidence of
chronic gastrointestinal problems in individuals with autism.

Many physicians are unaware of lasting adverse effects caused by routinely
prescribed medications such as antibiotics. Antibiotic therapy for minor colds
and runny noses is a common practice. People routinely receive multiple courses
of broad-spectrum antibiotics throughout life or are injected with long-acting
corticosteroid medicine for joint or muscle pain. Once established, sub-clinical
colonization with yeast in the body may persist unrecognized for many years.
Antibiotics, such as tetracycline, can greatly increase yeast in the colon after
only a few days.

The extensive use of antibiotics will make the condition of Candida much worse
because it reduces heavy metal excretion, which is a food source for the yeast
like organism and also killing the beneficial bacteria at the same time.

Normally, candida albicans lives peacefully in our intestines and elsewhere, in
harmony with other flora that keep the yeast in check. Take an antibiotic and
all this changes. By suppressing the normal flora, candida takes over and
problems begin. In its mild form, the result is diarrhea or a yeast infection.
Dr. Elmer Cranton says that, "Yeast overgrowth is partly iatrogenic (caused by
the medical profession) and can be caused by antibiotics and cortisone
medications. A diet high in sugar also promotes overgrowth of yeast. A highly
refined diet common in industrialized nations not only promotes growth of yeast,
but is also deficient in many of the essential vitamins and minerals needed by
the immune system. Chemical colorings, flavorings, preservatives, stabilizers,
emulsifiers, etc., add more
stress on the immune system."

Children with autism had significantly (2.1-fold) higher levels of mercury in
their baby teeth but similar levels of lead and similar levels of zinc. Children
with autism also had significantly higher usage of oral antibiotics during their
first 12 to 36 months of life. Reporting in the July 11, 2007 issue of the
Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers say the use of
antibiotics as prevention boosts risks for drug resistance while doing nothing
to shield kids from future urinary tract infections (UTIs). Giving antibiotics
to prevent recurrent urinary tract infections in small children not only will
not help but will hurt these children. Prior use of antibiotics to prevent
infection did boost the likelihood of developing a drug-resistant infection by
nearly 7.5 times. Indeed, 61 percent of recurrent urinary tract infections were
caused by a pathogen with antibiotic resistance, the researchers pointed out.

In a 2005 study, the antibiotic Augmentin TM has been implicated in the
formation of autism. The study strongly suggests the possibility of ammonia
poisoning as a result of young children taking Augmentin. Augmentin has been
given to children since the late 1980's for bacterial infections.

Many physicians seem to be unaware that birth control pills comprised of the
hormones estrogen and progesterone can also make the body more susceptible to
fungal infections. If antibiotics are prescribed, it acts as a double whammy to
ensuring a fungal infection will take hold by diminishing the protective
bacteria in the intestines. Many pregnant women seek medical treatment for minor
problems and are indiscriminately given antibiotics and this begins a long
decline into problems that are complicated at each turn by OBGYN doctors at
birth and by pediatricians who just love to poison children with the toxic
chemicals found in vaccines. In many places in the world they still give mercury
shots at birth.

Microforms poison us with their waste products.

The waste products are acetylaldehyde, uric acid, alloxin, alcohols, lactic
acid, etc.

Antibiotics may be to blame for hundreds of children developing autism after
having the controversial MMR jab. More than two-thirds of youngsters with the
condition received four or more antibiotics in their first year, a British
survey has revealed. It is thought the drugs weakened their immune systems,
leaving them unable to withstand the impact of the triple jab. Allopathic
medicine has been stubborn and slow to look at its abusive use of antibiotics.
It's the same with vaccines, the holy grail of medicine. But with
last-line-of-defence antibiotics failing on increasingly drug-resistant
superbugs and young children's systems being destroyed by them you would think
they would wake up and find some alternatives.

Antibiotics are mostly derived from fungi and are therefore classified as
mycotoxins. Mycotoxins Are Poisons.

Iodine - a Pillar Against Infections

Iodine offers a serious and potent replacement for much of the antibiotics that
are literally destroying people's lives and can be used safely with children.
Parents, who chose not to dose their kids with dangerous vaccines will be glad
to know that iodine can be very effective against a host of viral infections
that medical officials insist threaten children.

Though it kills 90 percent of bacteria on the skin within 90 seconds, its use as
an antibiotic has been ignored. Iodine exhibits activity against bacteria,
molds, yeasts, protozoa, and many viruses; indeed, of all antiseptic
preparations suitable for direct use on humans and animals and upon tissues,
only iodine is capable of killing all classes of pathogens: gram-positive and
gram-negative bacteria, mycobacteria, fungi, yeasts, viruses and protozoa. Most
bacteria are killed within 15 to 30 seconds of contact.

Iodine is by far the best antibiotic, antiviral and antiseptic of all time - Dr.
David Derry

Dr. Derry says that iodine is effective "for standard pathogens such as
Staphylococcus, but also iodine has the broadest range of action, fewest side
effects and no development of bacterial resistance." There is a world of
difference between using an antibiotic – anti-life substance – and an
antibiotic, antiviral and antifungal substance like iodine, which is life
serving because it is a basic and most necessary nutritional substance.

Iodine kills single celled organisms by combining with the amino acids tyrosine
or histidine when they are exposed to the extra-cellular environment. All single
cells showing tyrosine on their outer cell membranes are killed instantly by a
simple chemical reaction with iodine that denatures proteins. Nature and
evolution have given us an important mechanism to control pathogenic life forms
and we should use it and trust it to protect us in ways that antibiotics can't.

"My husband Ron had a small infection at the base of the nail. This very quickly
turned nasty and our doctor agreed it looked like gout. Three weeks later Ron
heard back from his Doctor who was in a mad panic saying Ron had septicemia. On
seeing the surgeon that same day the surgeon wanted to go in and cut the finger
open end for end and look at the finger and that she would probably have to take
it off anyway. Finally the Nascent Iodine we ordered arrived (my husband was
refusing to take antibiotics) He started on quite a hefty dose of 15 drops while
continuing to apply magnesium chloride transdermally."

"Two days after starting the iodine there was feeling starting to regenerate and
pain again in the finger and Ron thought it looked less discolored. Then the
following day the swelling had started to go down and the normal healthy
pinkness was returning at the base of the finger. Over a period of days it has
progressively improved with no other treatment than the iodine and magnesium
chloride. We also then made a poultice with a mixture of comfrey, honey and
garlic for a few days, then the Nascent Iodine dripped into a goldenseal
ointment."

Magnesium chloride is the only form of magnesium known to have anti-infectious
properties. When it comes to fighting infections, iodine and magnesium chloride
are a dynamic duo that should not be overlooked by allopathic or naturopathic
physicians or by anyone else. I talked a few months ago to a missionary in
Africa who was using iodine (in the atomic or detoxified form) to successfully
treat malaria. My own children have recently had bad coughs and it is iodine,
not dangerous over-the-counter cough medicines I reach for.

The feeling of security for a parent comes from administering substances like
iodine (Nascent and other forms) and magnesium chloride (natural forms) to their
children. Yes in dire emergency we would still use an antibiotic when fever is
high and all else has failed but until that kind of critical point, iodine,
backed up by magnesium chloride, sodium bicarbonate and even clay, is our main
line of defense against a full range of pathogens.

Determining what is an appropriate use of an antibiotic is a judgment call in
which cultural, social, psychological, and economic factors play at least as
great a role as clinical and epidemiological considerations - Dr. Marc Lipsitch
et al.

The way to combat antibiotic resistance is not bigger, better, stronger
antibiotics but, rather, no antibiotics at all. Instead, other molecular weapons
are available with the ability to disable bad germs without bothering good ones.
Iodine is the ideal broad spectrum antibiotic that is not an antibiotic - it is
not against life. Not against human life that is but you can hear the little
pathogens screaming as high enough levels of iodine fan out through the system.
Meaning all the viruses, bacteria, yeasts and molds that are threatening us are
threatened with instant death when iodine is used orally to fight infection.
It's hard to make a mistake with iodine but with pharmaceutical antibiotics we
are playing at the crap table hoping our choice of which one to use works
against the pathogen that is actually threatening a person.

Infection depresses levels of vitamins B6 and C.

"The right dose of Vitamin C will stop every infection in its tracks without
needing to use antibiotics" - Dr. Gary Gordon.

Another reason to avoid antibiotics, except in the most dire emergencies, is
that they interfere with the absorption of many vitamins and minerals, leading
to their deficiencies. Deficiencies in these nutrients can set the stage for
increased susceptibility to more infections.

Following is a list of the Drug/Substance and the Nutrients which are depleted
by that substance:

* Antibiotics - (Nutrients Depleted) Vitamin A, B-12, C, E, K, Biotin, Calcium,
Iron, Magnesium, Potassium

* Chelators - Copper, Iron, Magnesium, Zinc

* Anticonvulsants - Vitamin B-2, B-12, C, F, K, Folic Acid, Calcium, Magnesium

* Antidiabetics (Oral) - Vitamin B-2, B-12, C, D, Folic Acid

* Antihistamines - Vitamin C

* Aspirin - Calcium, Folic Acid, Iron, Potassium, C, B Complex

"When I was finally discharged from hospital, I still had a strain of supergerm
colonizing my body. Nothing had been able to get rid of it, after months in
hospital. However, I was told that all I had to do on going home was to 'get
outdoors a lot, occasionally even roll in the dirt, and wait.' In less than two
weeks of this advice, the supergerms were gone. Why? The reason is that
supergerms are actually defective in other ways, as explained. Therefore, when
they are forced to compete with the ordinary bacteria which normally thrive on
our skin, they do not have a chance. They thrive in hospital because all the
antibiotics and antiseptics being used there keep wiping out the ordinary
bacteria which would normally out compete, wipe out and otherwise keep in check
these 'superwimps,'" wrote Dr. Carl Wieland

Interestingly enough Dr. Weston Price, who studied the diets and health of many
primitive societies during the early 20th century, found that many primitive
people would eat food that has been dipped in water dissolved with clay – in
order to prevent upset stomachs from food poisoning. Two types of clay are today
commonly sold for consumption as health supplements – bentonite and
montmorillonite. These have been variously called "living clay", "healing clay"
or just "edible clays". Clay is highly absorptive. It readily absorbs toxins,
heavy metals, bacteria, virus and fungi. But because clay itself is not absorbed
by the body, whatever it absorbs is passed out in the stools.

Mutating Viruses

Did you know that a nutritional deficiency can cause a virus to mutate to a more
virulent form? That is the news from the United States Department of Agriculture
(USDA) who are reporting that a human virus, normally harmless in laboratory
mice, mutated into a heart-damaging pathogen when the animals were raised on a
diet devoid of the essential element selenium. And, once mutated, the virus
continued to damage hearts - even in mice that got ample selenium in their feed.

The importance of this is not limited to nutritionally-deprived populations, say
researchers with the University of North Carolina and Agricultural Research
Service of the government, who collaborated on the studies. In theory, one
selenium-deficient person or animal could produce a new family of virus mutants
that could cross species and spread worldwide, causing disease even in well
nourished people.

The USDA is now officially on record that nutritional deficiencies cause viral
mutations and they expect to find the same results with vitamin-E-deficient mice
because both selenium and vitamin E are nutrients that serve as antioxidants in
the body. This means that the government is recognizing that free radicals and
oxidative stress affects the world of pathogens creating super bugs out of
regular critters. They are even going as far as saying that this may help
explain the many new strains of influenza virus arising in China, which has
widespread selenium-deficient areas.

The implications are enormous for a form of medicine that understands absolutely
nothing about nutrition and the science of low level toxicity. Part of our
infection fighting arsenal needs to include selenium and ALA (Alpha Lipoic Acid)
and this is critical not only for maintaining glutathione levels but also for
the neutralization of mercury. Mercury provides the ideal environment for
viruses, bacteria, fungi and yeast infections. Though most are in total denial
of it, we are as a race being overrun by mercury pollution that is everywhere in
the air, water, food, vaccines, dental amalgam and even beauty products.

When a person is bitten by a snake, spider or scorpion it helps the doctors to
know which poison they are treating. One cannot say anything about health or
disease anymore without dealing with mercury and its rising tide. You cannot
treat infectious diseases in effective ways without dealing with the soil of the
infection, with the mercury and other chemical toxicities that are driving the
pathogens. A doctor needs to know his poisons but most of them find their minds
obscured by the denial of the fact that most of the pharmaceuticals they use are
mitochondrial poisons. Modern medicine is lost when it comes to dealing with
mercury and in fact endorses its use in vaccines and dental medicine.

Garlic is one food that has powerful anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties
and some scientific studies have found it to be at least as effective as the
popular anti-fungal drug, Nystatin, in destroying candida albicans.

We have to change our perceptions about infections and infectious processes. We
need to shift away from the competing paradigms of pathogen vs. terrain. We need
to deal simultaneously with pathogen, terrain and poison. Certainly we need to
deal with nutrition and the use of concentrated nutritional substances that help
us deal safely and effectively with infections.

Much more could be said about natural remedies and other substances like
colloidal silver, which is known to have antibacterial properties. I would
choose iodine first because the body needs it anyway where it does not need
colloidal silver. When we use concentrated nutritional substances as antibiotics
we are doing a lot more than confronting hostile pathogens. We are supporting
total body physiology as well as elimination of heavy metals and other toxic
poisons.

Nearly 500,000 people are dying yearly in America due to infectious disease. It
now ranks number 3 behind heart disease and cancer in claiming American lives.


   About the author  Mark A. Sircus Ac., OMD, is director of the International
Medical Veritas Association (IMVA). Dr. Sircus was trained in acupuncture and
oriental medicine at the Institute of Traditional Medicine in Sante Fe, N.M.,
and in the School of Traditional Medicine of New England in Boston. He served at
the Central Public Hospital of Pochutla, in México, and was awarded the title of
doctor of oriental medicine for his work. He was one of the first nationally
certified acupuncturists in the United States. Dr. Sircus's IMVA is dedicated to
unifying the various disciplines in medicine with the goal of creating a new
dawn in healthcare.

He is particularly concerned about the effect vaccinations have on vulnerable
infants and is identifying the common thread of many toxic agents that are
dramatically threatening present and future generations of children. His book
The Terror of Pediatric Medicine is a free e-book one can read. Dr. Sircus is a
most prolific and courageous writer and one can read through hundreds of pages
on his various web sites.

He has most recently released his Survival Medicine for the 21st Century
compendium (2,200 page ebook) and is racing to finish his Winning the War
Against Cancer book. Dr. Sircus is a pioneer in the area of natural
detoxification and chelation of toxic chemicals and heavy metals. He is also a
champion of the medicinal value of minerals and is fathering in a new medical
approach that uses sea water and different concentrates taken from it for health
and healing. Transdermal Magnesium Therapy, his first published work, offers a
stunning breakthrough in medicine, an entirely new way to supplement magnesium
that naturally increases DHEA levels, brings cellular magnesium levels up
quickly, relieves pain, brings down blood pressure and pushes cell physiology in
a positive direction. Magnesium chloride delivered transdermally brings a quick
release from a broad range of conditions.





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Growing concern over safety of cellphones for children

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   PARIS: The MO1 beginner mobile phone is not as cuddly as a teddy bear, but
manufacturers of the curvy, crimson and blue cellphone for 6-year-olds promise a
similarly warm and fuzzy relationship. They boast about socialization, emotional
health and the comforts of "peace of mind."
   But the shiny child-size phones are stirring some parental and government
unease, particularly at a time when the mobile telephone industry is reaching
deeper into saturated markets to tap customers with chubby hands capable of
cradling both dolls and phones.

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Big Pharma really makes me feel sick
   Ian Bell on the drug industry

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     FOR CLARITY'S sake, remind yourself that nobody at GlaxoSmithKline,
Britain's biggest pharmaceutical company (2006 revenues: $42.8 billion; income
$10.135bn), is to face prosecution. The company insists that it did nothing
wrong with regard to the anti-depressant drug Seroxat.

   The Medical and Healthcare Regulatory Agency believes, on the other hand, that
the company withheld the full results of trials, particularly those suggesting
that the medication could increase the chances of suicide among teenagers. The
government is content, however, to "tighten" rules on information disclosure as
they affect an industry that ranks, after oil, as Britain's second biggest
export earner.

   Ministers may yet be equally resolute in their treatment of Reckitt Benckiser,
makers of Gaviscon, the heartburn treatment. In this case it is alleged - and
denied - that the firm's executives "schemed" to block rival manufacturers from
marketing generic copies after the patent had lapsed. The company describes
itself as "a responsible firm which behaved honestly and ethically". Its critics
say that it cheated the NHS out of perhaps £40 million.

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   That is, simultaneously, a lot of money and a trivial sum, at least within the
strange universe of health spending. Some £90.7bn is earmarked for the NHS in
2007/2008, up from £34.6bn in 1998. Already, most of the extra has gone on
wages, 52% of it in 2005/2006. But in that same period at least 17% of extra
funding has gone on what the NHS Confederation defines as "extra drug costs"
compared with a mere 7% on capital costs.

   But why not? Drugs save lives. The pharmaceutical industry spends billions on
research and development to spare us from sickness. We are the healthiest,
longest-lived, best-tended generation humanity has produced. Big Pharma surely
deserves credit.
   That depends on who you believe. According to the anarcho-syndicalists at
PriceWaterhouseCoopers, the global pharmaceutical market is expected to double
by 2020 to $1.3 trillion. This market will depend, as it has for a quarter of a
century, on the often-extraordinary prices achieved for pills and potions. But
as the industry never fails to say, remarkable profits are required to justify
the huge costs of research. Humanity pays, but humanity benefits.

   Up to a point. Take Pfizer, biggest, by most estimates, of the big. In 2006
its "healthcare revenues" stood at $48.3bn. It spent $7.59bn on R&D. Despite
that effort, Pfizer managed to finish the year with a net income of $19.33bn. As
a proportion of sales, that figure tends to make most FTSE and Fortune 500
companies gape. In 2003, in the US, the profits of the top 10 drugs companies,
US and European, fell to 14.3% of sales. The Fortune median was 4.6%.

   The allegation is simple: profiteering. Add to that the claim that the
pharmaceutical industry is "disease-mongering", promoting minor conditions to
the status of illnesses requiring drugs. Add again the fact that "marketing"
expenditure - $67bn in the US in 2002 - is generally two-and-a-half times the
amount spent on R&D.

   Add further the claim that "innovation" within the industry is trivial, that
truly new drugs are few and far between, and often originate in academia and the
public sector. Add finally the charge that this is an industry with no sincere
interest in producing medicines for those in the third world who need them most.
According to Oxfam, the richest 15% of the world population puts away in excess
of 90% of its pharmaceuticals. The drugs trade, having fought a long (though
unsuccessful) battle to deny the HIV victims of South Africa cheap retrovirals,
is still failing to put its famous R&D effort at the service of billions.
   Between 1999 and 2004, according to the charity, 163 medicines were "brought
to market". Only three were new drugs aimed at the diseases afflicting the third
world. TB is now killing two million people a year. Sufferers require six months
of treatment. But according to Helena Vines-Fiestas, author of an Oxfam report,
"the most recent medicine is 30 years old".

   According to the Commons public accounts committee, Big Pharma spends £850m a
year "marketing" products to GPs. This revelation followed a National Audit
Office survey showing that one in five of GPs is "more influenced" by drug reps
than by official advisers. Influenced in what sense? To keep pace with the very
latest in medical advances? To study the favourable (but not the less
favourable) data that the drug firms supply? To attend conferences funded by the
pharmaceutical industry? To heed the fellow professionals employed - for their
expertise, surely, and not for their endorsement - by Big Pharma, the people who
sometimes also manage to serve on regulatory bodies? Or just to take receipt of
free samples?

   Prefer, for now, to concentrate on all those dedicated GPs who just want to
know about breakthroughs. Marcia Angell, a lecturer in social medicine at
Harvard and an industry critic, has alleged there are far fewer of these than
the R&D propaganda would have us believe.
   Angell recorded that between 1998 and 2003, 487 drugs were approved by the US
Food and Drug Administration. Of these, 78% were classified as "similar" to
drugs already on the market; 68% were not new compounds; and only 14% were
"likely to be improvements over older drugs". Hence the huge marketing effort
devoted to mere "me-too" medicines. As Angell noted, "a uniquely important drug
would require very little promotion". The cure for cancer is still awaited, but
the me-toos get that precious patent protection.

   They need it. Between 2000 and 2004, according to the European Commission, the
number of actually new drugs coming to market had dropped from 40 to 29 a year.
The stock markets also fret over "thinning pipelines" as multi-billion dollar
"blockbuster" drugs fall out of patent. So Big Pharma has turned increasingly to
"partnerships" with universities and the public sector. State aid, if you like.

   They appear to believe they have no other choice. Angell recalls that in 2002
the FDA approved 78 drugs. Only 17 contained new active ingredients and only
seven of those were classified as improvements on older medicines. The rub? Of
"those seven, not one came from a major US drug company".

   Still, there's hope for Big Pharma. If they can't find new ways to cure us,
they can always invent new ways to make us ill. Journalist and author Ray
Moynihan will tell you that these days "marketing strategies have focused on
promoting illness, rather than simply promoting drugs". "Female sexual
dysfunction", "irritable bowel syndrome", "adult attention deficit disorder" and
the rest have been discovered as serious ailments, the better to sell pills,
while the companies "work" with patients' groups, medical groups, politicians
and the media.

   Such strategies make a nonsense of the NHS ethos. The economic power of the
industry makes a nonsense of democratic oversight. The damage done to medicine
itself by a parasitic trade that is, in essence, robbing the sick is close to
incalculable. And the drugs, increasingly, don't work, not as billed, any more.

   GlaxoSmithKline probably isn't too concerned by British legislation. In
January, the European Commission staged raids at its offices, and the offices of
a clutch of other drugs firms. "Possible anti-competitive behaviour" to prevent
cheap generics from reaching the market is the allegation. Now who would dream
of doing such a thing to those who are ill and in desperate need? And which
democracies would allow it?



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AP Probe Finds Drugs in Drinking Water 
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   By JEFF DONN, MARTHA MENDOZA and JUSTIN PRITCHARD – 4 hours ago
   A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants,
mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water
supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation
shows.
   To be sure, the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in
quantities of parts per billion or trillion, far below the levels of a medical
dose. Also, utilities insist their water is safe.
   But the presence of so many prescription drugs — and over-the-counter
medicines like acetaminophen and ibuprofen — in so much of our drinking water is
heightening worries among scientists of long-term consequences to human health.
   In the course of a five-month inquiry, the AP discovered that drugs have been
detected in the drinking water supplies of 24 major metropolitan areas — from
Southern California to Northern New Jersey, from Detroit to Louisville, Ky.
   Water providers rarely disclose results of pharmaceutical screenings, unless
pressed, the AP found. For example, the head of a group representing major
California suppliers said the public "doesn't know how to interpret the
information" and might be unduly alarmed.
   How do the drugs get into the water?
   People take pills. Their bodies absorb some of the medication, but the rest of
it passes through and is flushed down the toilet. The wastewater is treated
before it is discharged into reservoirs, rivers or lakes. Then, some of the
water is cleansed again at drinking water treatment plants and piped to
consumers. But most treatments do not remove all drug residue.
   And while researchers do not yet understand the exact risks from decades of
persistent exposure to random combinations of low levels of pharmaceuticals,
recent studies — which have gone virtually unnoticed by the general public —
have found alarming effects on human cells and wildlife.
   "We recognize it is a growing concern and we're taking it very seriously,"
said Benjamin H. Grumbles, assistant administrator for water at the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency.
   Members of the AP National Investigative Team reviewed hundreds of scientific
reports, analyzed federal drinking water databases, visited environmental study
sites and treatment plants and interviewed more than 230 officials, academics
and scientists. They also surveyed the nation's 50 largest cities and a dozen
other major water providers, as well as smaller community water providers in all
50 states.
   Here are some of the key test results obtained by the AP:
   _Officials in Philadelphia said testing there discovered 56 pharmaceuticals or
byproducts in treated drinking water, including medicines for pain, infection,
high cholesterol, asthma, epilepsy, mental illness and heart problems.
Sixty-three pharmaceuticals or byproducts were found in the city's watersheds.
   _Anti-epileptic and anti-anxiety medications were detected in a portion of the
treated drinking water for 18.5 million people in Southern California.
   _Researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey analyzed a Passaic Valley Water
Commission drinking water treatment plant, which serves 850,000 people in
Northern New Jersey, and found a metabolized angina medicine and the
mood-stabilizing carbamazepine in drinking water.
   _A sex hormone was detected in San Francisco's drinking water.
   _The drinking water for Washington, D.C., and surrounding areas tested
positive for six pharmaceuticals.
   _Three medications, including an antibiotic, were found in drinking water
supplied to Tucson, Ariz.
   The situation is undoubtedly worse than suggested by the positive test results
in the major population centers documented by the AP.
   The federal government doesn't require any testing and hasn't set safety
limits for drugs in water. Of the 62 major water providers contacted, the
drinking water for only 28 was tested. Among the 34 that haven't: Houston,
Chicago, Miami, Baltimore, Phoenix, Boston and New York City's Department of
Environmental Protection, which delivers water to 9 million people.
   Some providers screen only for one or two pharmaceuticals, leaving open the
possibility that others are present.
   The AP's investigation also indicates that watersheds, the natural sources of
most of the nation's water supply, also are contaminated. Tests were conducted
in the watersheds of 35 of the 62 major providers surveyed by the AP, and
pharmaceuticals were detected in 28.
   Yet officials in six of those 28 metropolitan areas said they did not go on to
test their drinking water — Fairfax, Va.; Montgomery County in Maryland; Omaha,
Neb.; Oklahoma City; Santa Clara, Calif., and New York City.
   The New York state health department and the USGS tested the source of the
city's water, upstate. They found trace concentrations of heart medicine,
infection fighters, estrogen, anti-convulsants, a mood stabilizer and a
tranquilizer.
   City water officials declined repeated requests for an interview. In a
statement, they insisted that "New York City's drinking water continues to meet
all federal and state regulations regarding drinking water quality in the
watershed and the distribution system" — regulations that do not address trace
pharmaceuticals.
   In several cases, officials at municipal or regional water providers told the
AP that pharmaceuticals had not been detected, but the AP obtained the results
of tests conducted by independent researchers that showed otherwise. For
example, water department officials in New Orleans said their water had not been
tested for pharmaceuticals, but a Tulane University researcher and his students
have published a study that found the pain reliever naproxen, the sex hormone
estrone and the anti-cholesterol drug byproduct clofibric acid in treated
drinking water.
   Of the 28 major metropolitan areas where tests were performed on drinking
water supplies, only Albuquerque; Austin, Texas; and Virginia Beach, Va.; said
tests were negative. The drinking water in Dallas has been tested, but officials
are awaiting results. Arlington, Texas, acknowledged that traces of a
pharmaceutical were detected in its drinking water but cited post-9/11 security
concerns in refusing to identify the drug.
   The AP also contacted 52 small water providers — one in each state, and two
each in Missouri and Texas — that serve communities with populations around
25,000. All but one said their drinking water had not been screened for
pharmaceuticals; officials in Emporia, Kan., refused to answer AP's questions,
also citing post-9/11 issues.
   Rural consumers who draw water from their own wells aren't in the clear
either, experts say.
   The Stroud Water Research Center, in Avondale, Pa., has measured water samples
from New York City's upstate watershed for caffeine, a common contaminant that
scientists often look for as a possible signal for the presence of other
pharmaceuticals. Though more caffeine was detected at suburban sites, researcher
Anthony Aufdenkampe was struck by the relatively high levels even in less
populated areas.
   He suspects it escapes from failed septic tanks, maybe with other drugs.
"Septic systems are essentially small treatment plants that are essentially
unmanaged and therefore tend to fail," Aufdenkampe said.
   Even users of bottled water and home filtration systems don't necessarily
avoid exposure. Bottlers, some of which simply repackage tap water, do not
typically treat or test for pharmaceuticals, according to the industry's main
trade group. The same goes for the makers of home filtration systems.
   Contamination is not confined to the United States. More than 100 different
pharmaceuticals have been detected in lakes, rivers, reservoirs and streams
throughout the world. Studies have detected pharmaceuticals in waters throughout
Asia, Australia, Canada and Europe — even in Swiss lakes and the North Sea.
   For example, in Canada, a study of 20 Ontario drinking water treatment plants
by a national research institute found nine different drugs in water samples.
Japanese health officials in December called for human health impact studies
after detecting prescription drugs in drinking water at seven different sites.
   In the United States, the problem isn't confined to surface waters.
Pharmaceuticals also permeate aquifers deep underground, source of 40 percent of
the nation's water supply. Federal scientists who drew water in 24 states from
aquifers near contaminant sources such as landfills and animal feed lots found
minuscule levels of hormones, antibiotics and other drugs.
   Perhaps it's because Americans have been taking drugs — and flushing them
unmetabolized or unused — in growing amounts. Over the past five years, the
number of U.S. prescriptions rose 12 percent to a record 3.7 billion, while
nonprescription drug purchases held steady around 3.3 billion, according to IMS
Health and The Nielsen Co.
   "People think that if they take a medication, their body absorbs it and it
disappears, but of course that's not the case," said EPA scientist Christian
Daughton, one of the first to draw attention to the issue of pharmaceuticals in
water in the United States.
   Some drugs, including widely used cholesterol fighters, tranquilizers and
anti-epileptic medications, resist modern drinking water and wastewater
treatment processes. Plus, the EPA says there are no sewage treatment systems
specifically engineered to remove pharmaceuticals.
   One technology, reverse osmosis, removes virtually all pharmaceutical
contaminants but is very expensive for large-scale use and leaves several
gallons of polluted water for every one that is made drinkable.
   Another issue: There's evidence that adding chlorine, a common process in
conventional drinking water treatment plants, makes some pharmaceuticals more
toxic.
   Human waste isn't the only source of contamination. Cattle, for example, are
given ear implants that provide a slow release of trenbolone, an anabolic
steroid used by some bodybuilders, which causes cattle to bulk up. But not all
the trenbolone circulating in a steer is metabolized. A German study showed 10
percent of the steroid passed right through the animals.
   Water sampled downstream of a Nebraska feedlot had steroid levels four times
as high as the water taken upstream. Male fathead minnows living in that
downstream area had low testosterone levels and small heads.
   Other veterinary drugs also play a role. Pets are now treated for arthritis,
cancer, heart disease, diabetes, allergies, dementia, and even obesity —
sometimes with the same drugs as humans. The inflation-adjusted value of
veterinary drugs rose by 8 percent, to $5.2 billion, over the past five years,
according to an analysis of data from the Animal Health Institute.
   Ask the pharmaceutical industry whether the contamination of water supplies is
a problem, and officials will tell you no. "Based on what we now know, I would
say we find there's little or no risk from pharmaceuticals in the environment to
human health," said microbiologist Thomas White, a consultant for the
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.
   But at a conference last summer, Mary Buzby — director of environmental
technology for drug maker Merck & Co. Inc. — said: "There's no doubt about it,
pharmaceuticals are being detected in the environment and there is genuine
concern that these compounds, in the small concentrations that they're at, could
be causing impacts to human health or to aquatic organisms."
   Recent laboratory research has found that small amounts of medication have
affected human embryonic kidney cells, human blood cells and human breast cancer
cells. The cancer cells proliferated too quickly; the kidney cells grew too
slowly; and the blood cells showed biological activity associated with
inflammation.
   Also, pharmaceuticals in waterways are damaging wildlife across the nation and
around the globe, research shows. Notably, male fish are being feminized,
creating egg yolk proteins, a process usually restricted to females.
Pharmaceuticals also are affecting sentinel species at the foundation of the
pyramid of life — such as earth worms in the wild and zooplankton in the
laboratory, studies show.
   Some scientists stress that the research is extremely limited, and there are
too many unknowns. They say, though, that the documented health problems in
wildlife are disconcerting.
   "It brings a question to people's minds that if the fish were affected ...
might there be a potential problem for humans?" EPA research biologist Vickie
Wilson told the AP. "It could be that the fish are just exquisitely sensitive
because of their physiology or something. We haven't gotten far enough along."
   With limited research funds, said Shane Snyder, research and development
project manager at the Southern Nevada Water Authority, a greater emphasis
should be put on studying the effects of drugs in water.
   "I think it's a shame that so much money is going into monitoring to figure
out if these things are out there, and so little is being spent on human
health," said Snyder. "They need to just accept that these things are everywhere
— every chemical and pharmaceutical could be there. It's time for the EPA to
step up to the plate and make a statement about the need to study effects, both
human and environmental."
   To the degree that the EPA is focused on the issue, it appears to be looking
at detection. Grumbles acknowledged that just late last year the agency
developed three new methods to "detect and quantify pharmaceuticals" in
wastewater. "We realize that we have a limited amount of data on the
concentrations," he said. "We're going to be able to learn a lot more."
   While Grumbles said the EPA had analyzed 287 pharmaceuticals for possible
inclusion on a draft list of candidates for regulation under the Safe Drinking
Water Act, he said only one, nitroglycerin, was on the list. Nitroglycerin can
be used as a drug for heart problems, but the key reason it's being considered
is its widespread use in making explosives.
   So much is unknown. Many independent scientists are skeptical that trace
concentrations will ultimately prove to be harmful to humans. Confidence about
human safety is based largely on studies that poison lab animals with much
higher amounts.
   There's growing concern in the scientific community, meanwhile, that certain
drugs — or combinations of drugs — may harm humans over decades because water,
unlike most specific foods, is consumed in sizable amounts every day.
   Our bodies may shrug off a relatively big one-time dose, yet suffer from a
smaller amount delivered continuously over a half century, perhaps subtly
stirring allergies or nerve damage. Pregnant women, the elderly and the very ill
might be more sensitive.
   Many concerns about chronic low-level exposure focus on certain drug classes:
chemotherapy that can act as a powerful poison; hormones that can hamper
reproduction or development; medicines for depression and epilepsy that can
damage the brain or change behavior; antibiotics that can allow human germs to
mutate into more dangerous forms; pain relievers and blood-pressure diuretics.
   For several decades, federal environmental officials and nonprofit watchdog
environmental groups have focused on regulated contaminants — pesticides, lead,
PCBs — which are present in higher concentrations and clearly pose a health
risk.
   However, some experts say medications may pose a unique danger because, unlike
most pollutants, they were crafted to act on the human body.
   "These are chemicals that are designed to have very specific effects at very
low concentrations. That's what pharmaceuticals do. So when they get out to the
environment, it should not be a shock to people that they have effects," says
zoologist John Sumpter at Brunel University in London, who has studied trace
hormones, heart medicine and other drugs.
   And while drugs are tested to be safe for humans, the timeframe is usually
over a matter of months, not a lifetime. Pharmaceuticals also can produce side
effects and interact with other drugs at normal medical doses. That's why —
aside from therapeutic doses of fluoride injected into potable water supplies —
pharmaceuticals are prescribed to people who need them, not delivered to
everyone in their drinking water.
   "We know we are being exposed to other people's drugs through our drinking
water, and that can't be good," says Dr. David Carpenter, who directs the
Institute for Health and the Environment of the State University of New York at
Albany.
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example. I found the best way of healing the infection (and it worked very well)
was to squirt a few drops of  homemade colloidal silver in. Worked everytime -
and got rid of my (herpes?) lip blisters that formed everytime I went out in the
sun   Jonathan

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How Scientific Is Modern Medicine?
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Blaylock - What To Do If You Have Used Aspartame
By Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, MD
3-8-8

   http://www.rense.com/general81/aassp.htm



The most important starting point of any detoxification program is to stop
exposure to the toxin or toxins. This means avoiding even small amounts, since
once sensitized to the toxin even minute amounts can produce full-blown
toxicity. This is especially so with accumulative toxins, such as aspartame. It
has been shown conclusively that the metabolic products of methanol breakdown,
formaldehyde in particular, accumulates on the DNA and cellular proteins.


Once you have cleansed your diet of the toxin, removal of the toxin and its
metabolic products from your system will begin. Central to this process is the
body's detoxification system, which exist in all cells of the body, with the
bulk of detoxification taking place in the liver. The detoxification system is
divided into two components called phase I and phase II, which work in tandem.
Toxins pass through phase I and then pass to phase II where they are further
detoxified and made water-soluble for eventual disposal. It is now known that
you can significantly enhance the body's ability to detoxify these substances
through the judicious use of specific supplements. Of the two systems phase II
is most important and most often impaired.

The following is a list of nutrients that enhance detoxification:

* Indole-3 carbinol-100 mg twice a day. This natural substance enhances phase
II. It is extracted from cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, Brussel's
sprouts and cauliflower. It can be purchased as an extract.


* Taurine 500 mg a day- This is a sulfur-containing amino acid that is used by
the liver for sulfonation reactions. It is to be taken between meals.


* Milk Thistle (silymarin) 175 mg. Take two twice a day. This extract has been
shown to substantially enhance liver detoxification and is also a very powerful
antioxidant for all cells.

* Curcumin- 500 mg three times a day with olive oil. This is an extract taken
from turmeric. It is an extremely powerful antioxidant, enhances both phases I
and II detoxification, is a radioprotectant, enhances bile flow, inhibits cancer
growth, and is a very powerful anti-inflammatory. Also enhances DNA repair
enzymes.

* Panthethine 250 mg Take one capsule 3X a day- This vitamin is the enzyme form
of pantothenic acid. It plays a vital role in enhancing the aldehyde
dehydrogenase enzyme. (For formaldehyde detoxification)


* Thiamine- 100 mg. Take three a day. (Vitamin B1) This vitamin plays a major
role in protecting nerves as well as the brain. It is commonly depleted with
pesticide exposure.

* Pyrodoxyl-5 phosphate 50 mg- Take one a day. This is the functional form of
vitamin B6. People exposed to chemical toxins frequently have low levels of this
vitamin. When vitamin B6 is deficient, taurine is also low. It plays a major
role in protecting against glutamate and aspartate toxicity.

In addition to detoxification, other nutrients play a more direct role in
protecting cells and in promoting their recovery from toxicity. These include:

* Magnesium- 750 to 1000 mg a day. (Magnesium citrate/malate) Magnesium plays a
major role in cell protection, especially against excitotoxicty. In addition it
protects against strokes and heart attacks.


* Selenium- 200 ug a day. This mineral also plays a role in protecting cells
from toxins, especially mercury. It plays a major role in protecting against
free radicals.


* N-acetyl L-cysteine (NAC)- 750 mg a day. This is a substance that in cells is
converted to glutathione. Glutathione is your cell's major protection against
free radicals produced by toxins such as aspartame.. In addition, NAC removes
mercury. NAC also enhances detoxification.


* Multi-"B" vitamins- This should be a multivitamins that contains 25 to 50 mgs
of each of the B vitamins. The multivitamin should not contain iron. Take one a
day.


* Vitamin E (as mixed tocopherols) 400 IU twice a day. A powerful antioxidant,
prevents heart attacks an stokes and the gamma-tocopherol is a powerful
anti-inflammatory.


* Vitamin C (as magnesium ascorbate) 2000 mg twice to three times a day. Plays a
major role in cell protection against oxygen stress, protects the nervous system
and enhances tissue repair.


* CoQ10 100 mg twice a day. This is a major energy molecule and protects the
brain against excitotoxicity.

* DHA 200 mg a day. This is a component of omega-3-fatty acids. It plays a vital
role in membrane repair and repair of synapses.

In addition to avoiding aspartame you must avoid other toxins as well. This
includes MSG, pesticides, herbicides, bug sprays, fluoride, mercury, cadmium,
aluminum and the many other toxins found commonly in the environment. Many of
these toxins act synergistically, that is, when combined they have toxic effects
that exceed their additive effects.

In addition, you need regular, moderate exercise (never aerobic), avoid soy
products, cheese, and vegetable oils. Do not smoke or use drugs. All of these
things increase free radical damage and prevent tissue repair. You should eat a
diet high in vegetables and with some fruits, no sugar (or honey), moderate
complex carbohydrates and pure water free of contaminants, including fluoride.
Do not use fluoride toothpaste, mouthwashes or receive fluoride treatments. If
you follow these principles you will notice quick recovery from your toxic
encounter. More serious toxic encounters may take several months for recovery.

Please refer to my web site at http://www.russellblaylockmd.com for more
information on my books. Russell Blaylock, M.D. (Health & Nutrition Secrets To
Save Your Life, Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, etc.) CD: The Truth About
Aspartame, DVD, Nutrition and Behavior
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Broccoli Compound Boost For Immune Health  By Stephen Daniells 
http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=83799&m=1NIU307&c=hexeybtitgrh\
vkp  07-Mar-2008 - A compound found in broccoli, previously linked to
anti-cancer benefits, may also counter the decline in the body's immune system
associated with age, says a new study from UCLA. The compound sulforaphane was
found to activate a set of antioxidant genes and enzymes in specific immune
cells, which then combat the detrimental effects of free radicals that can
damage cells and lead to disease, reports the study in the Journal of Allergy
and Clinical Immunology.

"Our defence against oxidative stress damage may determine at what rate we age,
how it will manifest and how to interfere in those processes," explained lead
researcher Andre Nel from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

"In particular, our study shows that a chemical present in broccoli is capable
of stimulating a wide range of antioxidant defence pathways and may be able to
interfere with the age-related decline in immune function."

Broccoli and mice

Using mice as test animals, the UCLA researchers administered sulforaphane (nine
micromoles per day per mouse) for five days before being challenged with
infection, and for a further 11 days.

Direct administration of broccoli compounds resulted in a reversal in the
age-related decline in immune function in old mice. Similar results were also
obtained when individual immune cells were taken from old mice, exposed to
sulforaphane and then injected back into the animal.

"We found that treating older mice with sulforaphane increased the immune
response to the level of younger mice," said lead author Hyon-Jeen Kim.

In particular, sulfurophane was found to restore immune function in the older
animals by directhe scientists discovered that dendritic cells, which introduce
infectious agents and foreign substances to the immune system, were particularly
effective in restoring immune function in aged animals when treated with
sulforaphane.

Antioxidant boost

Previous studies have reported that sulforaphane works by inducing the body's
natural phase-2 enzyme antioxidant defences, and the researchers looked at the
Nrf2 pathway, said to be the most sensitive oxidative stress response, and a
master regulator of the body's overall antioxidant response, capable of
switching on hundreds of antioxidant and rejuvenating genes and enzymes.

"As we age, the ability of the immune system to fight disease and infections and
protect against cancer wears down as a result of the impact of oxygen radicals
on the immune system," added Nel.

The researchers report that, while there is a natural decline in the activity of
Nrf2 with ageing, the pathway did remain accessible to compounds like
sulforaphane that are capable of restoring some of the ravages of ageing by
boosting antioxidant pathways.
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"This finding could be of major significance in preventing or reversing the
effects of immune senescence in elderly human subjects," wrote the authors.

"Dietary antioxidants have been shown to have important effects on immune
function, including improvement of contact hypersensitivity (CHS) and
vaccination responses in human subjects. To this list we can now add broccoli
and other cruciferous vegetables that are deserving of a human trial," they
added.

In the meantime, Nel suggested including these vegetables as part of a healthy
diet.

And looking to the future, Nel said that free radicals may only be part of the
answer.
"It may prove to be a more multifaceted process and interplay between pro- and
antioxidant forces," he said.

Moreover, the chemistry leading to activation of this gene-regulation pathway
could be offer a means to combine pharmaceutical science and nutrition,
suggested the researchers.

"This is a radical new way of thinking in how to increase the immune function of
elderly people to possibly protect against viral infections and cancer," said
Nel. "We may have uncovered a new mechanism by which to boost vaccine responses
by using a nutrient chemical to impact oxidant stress pathways in the immune
system."

The study was funded by the National Institute on Aging, the UCLA Claude D.
Pepper Older Adults Independence Center, and the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases.

History of sulforaphane

In 1992 researchers from John Hopkins University School of Medicine were the
first to isolate sulforaphane glucosinolate (SGS) - the precursor to
sulforaphane - and subsequently created Brassica Protection Products to develop
and commercialise the broccolis sprouts in the US.

In December 2005 British researchers announced the development of Super
Broccoli, which contains three times the levels of sulforaphane than normal
mature broccoli, but still less than that found in the three-day old sprouts.

Source: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (Elsevier)
Published online ahead of print 5 March 2008, doi:10.1016/j.jaci.2008.01.016
"Nrf2 activation by sulforaphane restores the age-related decrease of TH1
immunity: Role of dendritic cells"
Authors: H.-J. Kim, B. Barajas, M. Wang, A.E. Nel


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From The April 2000 Issue of Nutrition Science News     Features
   Cancer's Sweet Tooth  by Patrick Quillin, PHD, RD, CNS

   http://www.newhope.com/nutritionsciencenews/NSN_backs/Apr_00/cancer.cfm

   During the last 10 years I have worked with more than 500 cancer patients as
director of nutrition for Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Tulsa, Okla. It
puzzles me why the simple concept "sugar feeds cancer" can be so dramatically
overlooked as part of a comprehensive cancer treatment plan.
   Of the 4 million cancer patients being treated in America today, hardly any
are offered any scientifically guided nutrition therapy beyond being told to
"just eat good foods." Most patients I work with arrive with a complete lack of
nutritional advice. I believe many cancer patients would have a major
improvement in their outcome if they controlled the supply of cancer's preferred
fuel, glucose. By slowing the cancer's growth, patients allow their immune
systems and medical debulking therapies—chemotherapy, radiation and surgery to
reduce the bulk of the tumor mass—to catch up to the disease. Controlling one's
blood-glucose levels through diet, supplements, exercise, meditation and
prescription drugs when necessary can be one of the most crucial components to a
cancer recovery program. The sound bite—sugar feeds cancer—is simple. The
explanation is a little more complex.
   The 1931 Nobel laureate in medicine, German Otto Warburg, Ph.D., first
discovered that cancer cells have a fundamentally different energy metabolism
compared to healthy cells. The crux of his Nobel thesis was that malignant
tumors frequently exhibit an increase in anaerobic glycolysis—a process whereby
glucose is used as a fuel by cancer cells with lactic acid as an anaerobic
byproduct—compared to normal tissues.1 The large amount of lactic acid produced
by this fermentation of glucose from cancer cells is then transported to the
liver. This conversion of glucose to lactate generates a lower, more acidic pH
in cancerous tissues as well as overall physical fatigue from lactic acid
buildup.2,3 Thus, larger tumors tend to exhibit a more acidic pH.4
   This inefficient pathway for energy metabolism yields only 2 moles of
adenosine triphosphate (ATP) energy per mole of glucose, compared to 38 moles of
ATP in the complete aerobic oxidation of glucose. By extracting only about 5
percent (2 vs. 38 moles of ATP) of the available energy in the food supply and
the body's calorie stores, the cancer is "wasting" energy, and the patient
becomes tired and undernourished. This vicious cycle increases body wasting.5 It
is one reason why 40 percent of cancer patients die from malnutrition, or
cachexia.6
   Hence, cancer therapies should encompass regulating blood-glucose levels via
diet, supplements, non-oral solutions for cachectic patients who lose their
appetite, medication, exercise, gradual weight loss and stress reduction.
Professional guidance and patient self-discipline are crucial at this point in
the cancer process. The quest is not to eliminate sugars or carbohydrates from
the diet but rather to control blood glucose within a narrow range to help
starve the cancer and bolster immune function.
   The glycemic index is a measure of how a given food affects blood-glucose
levels, with each food assigned a numbered rating. The lower the rating, the
slower the digestion and absorption process, which provides a healthier, more
gradual infusion of sugars into the bloodstream. Conversely, a high rating means
blood-glucose levels are increased quickly, which stimulates the pancreas to
secrete insulin to drop blood-sugar levels. This rapid fluctuation of
blood-sugar levels is unhealthy because of the stress it places on the body (see
glycemic index chart).
   Sugar in the Body and Diet
Sugar is a generic term used to identify simple carbohydrates, which includes
monosaccharides such as fructose, glucose and galactose; and disaccharides such
as maltose and sucrose (white table sugar). Think of these sugars as
different-shaped bricks in a wall. When fructose is the primary monosaccharide
brick in the wall, the glycemic index registers as healthier, since this simple
sugar is slowly absorbed in the gut, then converted to glucose in the liver.
This makes for "time-release foods," which offer a more gradual rise and fall in
blood-glucose levels. If glucose is the primary monosaccharide brick in the
wall, the glycemic index will be higher and less healthy for the individual. As
the brick wall is torn apart in digestion, the glucose is pumped across the
intestinal wall directly into the bloodstream, rapidly raising blood-glucose
levels. In other words, there is a "window of efficacy" for glucose in the
blood: levels too low make one feel lethargic and can create
  clinical hypoglycemia; levels too high start creating the rippling effect of
diabetic health problems.
   The 1997 American Diabetes Association blood-glucose standards consider 126 mg
glucose/dL blood or greater to be diabetic; 111­125 mg/dL is impaired
glucose tolerance and less than 110 mg/dL is considered normal. Meanwhile, the
Paleolithic diet of our ancestors, which consisted of lean meats, vegetables and
small amounts of whole grains, nuts, seeds and fruits, is estimated to have
generated blood glucose levels between 60 and 90 mg/dL.7 Obviously, today's
high-sugar diets are having unhealthy effects as far as blood-sugar is
concerned. Excess blood glucose may initiate yeast overgrowth, blood vessel
deterioration, heart disease and other health conditions.8
   Understanding and using the glycemic index is an important aspect of diet
modification for cancer patients. However, there is also evidence that sugars
may feed cancer more efficiently than starches (comprised of long chains of
simple sugars), making the index slightly misleading. A study of rats fed diets
with equal calories from sugars and starches, for example, found the animals on
the high-sugar diet developed more cases of breast cancer.9 The glycemic index
is a useful tool in guiding the cancer patient toward a healthier diet, but it
is not infallible. By using the glycemic index alone, one could be led to
thinking a cup of white sugar is healthier than a baked potato. This is because
the glycemic index rating of a sugary food may be lower than that of a starchy
food. To be safe, I recommend less fruit, more vegetables, and little to no
refined sugars in the diet of cancer patients.
   What the Literature Says
A mouse model of human breast cancer demonstrated that tumors are sensitive to
blood-glucose levels. Sixty-eight mice were injected with an aggressive strain
of breast cancer, then fed diets to induce either high blood-sugar
(hyperglycemia), normoglycemia or low blood-sugar (hypoglycemia). There was a
dose-dependent response in which the lower the blood glucose, the greater the
survival rate. After 70 days, 8 of 24 hyperglycemic mice survived compared to 16
of 24 normoglycemic and 19 of 20 hypoglycemic.10 This suggests that regulating
sugar intake is key to slowing breast tumor growth (see chart).
   In a human study, 10 healthy people were assessed for fasting blood-glucose
levels and the phagocytic index of neutrophils, which measures immune-cell
ability to envelop and destroy invaders such as cancer. Eating 100 g
carbohydrates from glucose, sucrose, honey and orange juice all significantly
decreased the capacity of neutrophils to engulf bacteria. Starch did not have
this effect.11
   A four-year study at the National Institute of Public Health and Environmental
Protection in the Netherlands compared 111 biliary tract cancer patients with
480 controls. Cancer risk associated with the intake of sugars, independent of
other energy sources, more than doubled for the cancer patients.12 Furthermore,
an epidemiological study in 21 modern countries that keep track of morbidity and
mortality (Europe, North America, Japan and others) revealed that sugar intake
is a strong risk factor that contributes to higher breast cancer rates,
particularly in older women.13
   Limiting sugar consumption may not be the only line of defense. In fact, an
interesting botanical extract from the avocado plant (Persea americana) is
showing promise as a new cancer adjunct. When a purified avocado extract called
mannoheptulose was added to a number of tumor cell lines tested in vitro by
researchers in the Department of Biochemistry at Oxford University in Britain,
they found it inhibited tumor cell glucose uptake by 25 to 75 percent, and it
inhibited the enzyme glucokinase responsible for glycolysis. It also inhibited
the growth rate of the cultured tumor cell lines. The same researchers gave lab
animals a 1.7 mg/g body weight dose of mannoheptulose for five days; it reduced
tumors by 65 to 79 percent.14 Based on these studies, there is good reason to
believe that avocado extract could help cancer patients by limiting glucose to
the tumor cells.
   Since cancer cells derive most of their energy from anaerobic glycolysis,
Joseph Gold, M.D., director of the Syracuse (N.Y.) Cancer Research Institute and
former U.S. Air Force research physician, surmised that a chemical called
hydrazine sulfate, used in rocket fuel, could inhibit the excessive
gluconeogenesis (making sugar from amino acids) that occurs in cachectic cancer
patients. Gold's work demonstrated hydrazine sulfate's ability to slow and
reverse cachexia in advanced cancer patients. A placebo-controlled trial
followed 101 cancer patients taking either 6 mg hydrazine sulfate three
times/day or placebo. After one month, 83 percent of hydrazine sulfate patients
increased their weight, compared to 53 percent on placebo.15 A similar study by
the same principal researchers, partly funded by the National Cancer Institute
in Bethesda, Md., followed 65 patients. Those who took hydrazine sulfate and
were in good physical condition before the study began lived an average
  of 17 weeks longer.16
   In 1990, I called the major cancer hospitals in the country looking for some
information on the crucial role of total parenteral nutrition (TPN) in cancer
patients. Some 40 percent of cancer patients die from cachexia.5 Yet many
starving cancer patients are offered either no nutritional support or the
standard TPN solution developed for intensive care units. The solution provides
70 percent of the calories going into the bloodstream in the form of glucose.
All too often, I believe, these high-glucose solutions for cachectic cancer
patients do not help as much as would TPN solutions with lower levels of glucose
and higher levels of amino acids and lipids. These solutions would allow the
patient to build strength and would not feed the tumor.17
   The medical establishment may be missing the connection between sugar and its
role in tumorigenesis. Consider the million-dollar positive emission tomography
device, or PET scan, regarded as one of the ultimate cancer-detection tools. PET
scans use radioactively labeled glucose to detect sugar-hungry tumor cells. PET
scans are used to plot the progress of cancer patients and to assess whether
present protocols are effective.18
   In Europe, the "sugar feeds cancer" concept is so well accepted that
oncologists, or cancer doctors, use the Systemic Cancer Multistep Therapy (SCMT)
protocol. Conceived by Manfred von Ardenne in Germany in 1965, SCMT entails
injecting patients with glucose to increase blood-glucose concentrations. This
lowers pH values in cancer tissues via lactic acid formation. In turn, this
intensifies the thermal sensitivity of the malignant tumors and also induces
rapid growth of the cancer. Patients are then given whole-body hyperthermia (42
C core temperature) to further stress the cancer cells, followed by chemotherapy
or radiation.19 SCMT was tested on 103 patients with metastasized cancer or
recurrent primary tumors in a clinical phase-I study at the Von Ardenne
Institute of Applied Medical Research in Dresden, Germany. Five-year survival
rates in SCMT-treated patients increased by 25 to 50 percent, and the complete
rate of tumor regression increased by 30 to 50 percent.20 The
  protocol induces rapid growth of the cancer, then treats the tumor with toxic
therapies for a dramatic improvement in outcome.
   The irrefutable role of glucose in the growth and metastasis of cancer cells
can enhance many therapies. Some of these include diets designed with the
glycemic index in mind to regulate increases in blood glucose, hence selectively
starving the cancer cells; low-glucose TPN solutions; avocado extract to inhibit
glucose uptake in cancer cells; hydrazine sulfate to inhibit gluconeogenesis in
cancer cells; and SCMT.
   A female patient in her 50s, with lung cancer, came to our clinic, having been
given a death sentence by her Florida oncologist. She was cooperative and
understood the connection between nutrition and cancer. She changed her diet
considerably, leaving out 90 percent of the sugar she used to eat. She found
that wheat bread and oat cereal now had their own wild sweetness, even without
added sugar. With appropriately restrained medical therapy—including high-dose
radiation targeted to tumor sites and fractionated chemotherapy, a technique
that distributes the normal one large weekly chemo dose into a 60-hour infusion
lasting days—a good attitude and an optimal nutrition program, she beat her
terminal lung cancer. I saw her the other day, five years later and still
disease-free, probably looking better than the doctor who told her there was no
hope.
   Patrick Quillin, Ph.D., R.D., C.N.S., is director of nutrition for Cancer
Treatment Centers of America in Tulsa, Okla., and author of Beating Cancer With
Nutrition (Nutrition Times Press, 1998).
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4. Leeper DB, et al. Effect of i.v. glucose versus combined i.v. plus oral
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Drugs firms face new laws on test results        This article appeared in the
Guardian on Thursday March 06 2008 on p1 of the Top stories section. It was last
updated at 01:01 on March 06 2008.




   A major tightening of the law governing the oversight of drugs companies will
be announced today when the government says GlaxoSmithKline delayed informing
the authorities that a controversial drug increased the likelihood of suicide
among teenagers.
   The health minister Dawn Primarolo will tell MPs that new legislation will be
introduced by the end of the year to ensure drugs companies pass on results of
clinical trials as soon as the alarm is raised about one of their medicines.

   The government is to intervene after a four-year investigation by the drug
regulatory body into the way GSK withheld the full results of their trials of
the antidepressant Seroxat on children.

   The trial data, which was finally handed to the Medicines and Healthcare
Regulatory Authority (MHRA) in May 2003, identified two problems of which the
company had been aware as early as 1998:

   · A higher risk of suicidal behaviour among under 18s using Seroxat rather
than a placebo.
   · Seroxat was ineffective in dealing with depressive illness among under 18s.
   Primarolo will announce that GSK should have told the MHRA earlier than it did
about the results. But GSK will not face criminal prosecutions, she will say,
because the legislation in this area is insufficiently clear on whether and when
drugs companies should inform the regulator.

   The minister will announce that new legislation will be introduced by the end
of the year placing a greater obligation on companies to disclose results of
trials.
   The MHRA's investigation asked whether GSK had informed the regulatory body in
reasonable time. It shows that the drug company had the information about the
potentially suicidal effects of Seroxat and concludes that GSK should have
informed the MHRA earlier. However, it finds that the company acted within the
letter of the law by withholding data that would have shown up a problem. The
failure to take stronger action against GSK will anger the many critics of the
regulatory body, who say it is not up to the job of policing the pharmaceutical
industry.

   Patients and some doctors have been urging a tough line against GSK ever since
the MHRA suddenly announced, in June 2003, that doctors must not give Seroxat to
children and under 18s.

   The agency said it was acting within two weeks of being given the full set of
data from trials of Seroxat in children. The statistics contained in those
results showed that the drug was no better than a placebo in alleviating
depression in children and that those on the drug were more likely to develop
suicidal tendencies than those on placebo. In one of the trials, 6.5% of those
taking Seroxat became suicidal compared with 1.1% in the placebo group.
   A leaked internal document from GSK, dated to 1998, said the company would
have to "effectively manage the dissemination of these data in order to minimise
any potential negative impact".

   In the United States, GSK was sued by the New York state attorney general,
Eliot Spitzer, and settled for $2.5m (£1.25m) and an agreement to publish all
its trial results - negative or positive - on a publicly available database.

   Critics have called for big changes to the MHRA. In its report into the
influence of the pharmaceutical industry, the Commons' health select committee
expressed concern that the MHRA did not get all the information it needed from
manufacturers before it licensed drugs. It called for a new regime of random
audits of the raw trial data collected by companies and for more staff to be
employed.

   GSK has always completely rejected allegations that it improperly withheld
data on the drug. It said Seroxat had never been approved by EU or US regulators
as a medicine for those under 18, and that the company had therefore never
marketed the drug for that age section. It also said its trial results had been
submitted to regulators and were presented publicly in journals and on its
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Vegas Hepatitis Exposure List Incomplete
         By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY, Associated Press Writer

   http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080306/ap_on_re_us/hepatitis_exposure

   LAS VEGAS - Health officials used an incomplete patient list to notify people
exposed to hepatitis and HIV at a Las Vegas clinic, an epidemiologist testified
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   "We know of patients who had been there whose names were not on the list,"
Southern Nevada Health District epidemiologist Brian Labus told a state
legislative committee on health care.
   The public hearing was the first investigating the spread of hepatitis C from
unsafe practices at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada. An outbreak of six
cases of acute hepatitis C was made public last week. The surgical center and
five other affiliated clinics have been closed.
   Nearly 40,000 patients who received treatment at the center from March 2004 to
mid-January have received letters telling them they are at risk for exposure and
urging to be tested for hepatitis B and C, and HIV.
   Labus said the patient list was provided by the center and based on financial
records. He did not explain why some patient names would not have appeared.
   Health officials believe the clinic spread the virus by reusing syringes and
vials of medication. Health District chief Lawrence Sands said it was a
well-known violation of common safety standards.
   The clinic's records show the practice of using single-patient vials of
medication to treat more than one patient has been in use since March 2004, when
the clinic underwent a renovation and expanded operation, Labus said. Inspectors
could not be certain the practice wasn't in place before March 2004, he said.
   The clinic's majority owner, Dipak Desai, and member of the governor's
commission on health care, has refused to answer questions about the
allegations. He took out a full-page ad in Sunday's Las Vegas Review-Journal
insisting that needles had not been reused and that the chances of contracting
an infection at the center in most of the last four years were "extremely low."


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I'll Have My Cosmetics with a Side of Infertility, Please

By Heather Gehlert, AlterNet.

Author Stacy Malkan reveals the dangerous truth about everyday
products we put in our hair and on our skin.

http://www.alternet.org/story/66074/?page=entire

Carcinogens in cosmetics? Petrochemicals in perfume? If only this
were an urban legend. Unfortunately, it's a toxic reality, and it's
showing up in our bodies.

In 2004, scientists found pesticides in the blood of newborn babies.
A year later, researchers discovered perchlorate, a component of
rocket fuel, in human breast milk. Today, people are testing
positive for a litany of hazardous substances from flame retardants
to phthalates to lead.

In her new book, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty
Industry, Stacy Malkan exposes the toxic chemicals that lurk, often
unlabeled, in the personal care products that millions of American
women, men and children use every day.

AlterNet spoke with Malkan about these toxins and her five-year
effort with the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics to get the beauty
industry to remove them from its products.

Heather Gehlert: There are so many environmental issues you could've
written a book about. Why cosmetics?

Stacy Malkan: I think cosmetics is something that we're all
intimately connected to. They're products that we use every day, and
so I think it's a good first place to start asking questions. What
kinds of products are we bringing into our homes? What kinds of
companies are we giving our money to?

It has something pretty interesting in common with global warming
too.

It does. I think of it as global poisoning. I think that the
ubiquitous contamination of the human species with toxic chemicals
is a symptom of the same problem (as global warming), which is an
economy that's based on outdated technologies of petrochemicals --
petroleum. So many of the products we're applying to our faces and
putting in our hair come from oil. They're byproducts of oil.

Many cosmetic products on the market right now claim they are pure,
gentle, clean and healthy. But, as you reveal in this book, they're
far from it. Toxic chemicals in these products are showing up in
people. What were some of the most surprising toxins you discovered
in cosmetics?

Lead in lipstick was pretty surprising. We (the Campaign for Safe
Cosmetics) just released that report last week. Many personal care
products have phthalates, which is a plasticizer and hormone
disruptor. That's why we started the cosmetics campaign -- because
we know that women have higher levels of phthalates in their bodies,
and we thought that cosmetics might be a reason. But, I think
overall, the most surprising thing was to know that there's so much
that we don't know about these products. Many, many chemicals are
hiding in fragrance. Companies aren't required to list the
components of fragrance. Products also are contaminated with
carcinogens like 1,4 dioxane and neurotoxins like lead that aren't
listed on the label. So it's difficult for consumers to know what
we're using.

As a consumer I just want to know what ingredients to avoid, but you
say in the book, protecting myself is not as simple as that. Why
not?

There are no standards or regulations like there are in, for
example, the food industry, where if you buy organic food or food
labeled "natural," there's a set of standards and legal definitions
that go behind those words. We might like to see those be stronger,
but nevertheless, there are meaningful legal definitions. That's not
the case in the personal care product industry, where companies
often use words like "organic" and "natural" to market products that
are anything but. And some of the most toxic products we've found
actually had the word "natural" in their name, like natural nail
strengtheners that are made with formaldehyde.

Generally speaking, risk assessment involves two factors: a hazard
and people's exposure to that hazard. Could you explain some of the
unique challenges to assessing risks with cosmetics?

That's a good question. Risk assessment is an extremely
oversimplified way of pretending we have enough information to know
how much chemicals we can tolerate in our bodies. A risk assessment
equation will say, "How hazardous is a chemical, how much are we
exposed to it from this one product, and is that harmful?" There's a
lot of information left out of that picture: studies that haven't
been done to determine impacts on fetuses, the fact that we're
exposed to so many of these chemicals in so many places every day,
and the fact there have been no -- or very few -- studies about
chemical mixtures.

In chapter 2, you say that toxic cosmetics should raise concern for
men too, regardless of whether they use any themselves. How so?

Well, men do, first of all, use personal care products. When I ask a
group of people what products they've used today, the men will be
keeping their hands down and eventually, reluctantly, raising their
hands because they're using shampoo, conditioner, deodorant,
cologne, lotion.

So it's not just a makeup problem.

No, it's not just a makeup problem. It's all products. And we know
that some chemicals in these products are particularly problematic
for men. We're all exposed to phthalates, and phthalates interfere
with the production of testosterone, and they're linked to health
effects like lower sperm counts, birth defects of the penis,
testicular tumors.

You've had to struggle with some scary health problems. Tell us
about that.

Like many of us, I've had bizarre health problems that nobody can
explain: benign lumps in my breasts and thyroid, which is quite
common among young women to have thyroid problems. And then also
infertility, which is something that's becoming an increasingly
common experience for people. And so many of us have heard from our
doctors, "Well, we don't know why; we can't tell you why." But I
think that's an interesting disconnect that we're looking at how to
treat disease, but we're not looking at how to prevent disease.

You admit in the book that you used to be addicted to makeup and so-
called personal care products. Do you think that could be related to
the health issues you've had?

Well, who knows, and we can never say what caused what and so that's
why risk assessment is not a useful tool to -- how do I want to say
this -- that's why, in my opinion, we need to get rid of toxins
wherever we possibly can in makeup, shampoo and lipstick is
obviously a place where they don't need to be. But, yes, I did use a
lot of cosmetic products -- 200 chemicals a day just in those
products. And I also grew up in a very industrialized neighborhood
near one of the largest incinerators in Massachusetts, near oil
refineries. And we really didn't talk about these issues at all.

Do you think part of the problem with creating awareness around this
issue is that the effects from toxins are often not that immediate?
People don't say, Oh, I've been to this toxic site and now I have a
rash all over my body.

Right, and that's what we hear from the cosmetics companies when
they say, "Well, my product is safe if used as directed, and you
can't prove otherwise." Which is true. We can't say that use of X
product led to X disease because we're talking about long-term
diseases with contributing factors. Doctors usually can't tell us
why we got cancer, because it could be due to multiple factors in
our pasts. We also know that exposures during critical windows of
development -- babies in the womb, even teenagers -- can lead to
later-life diseases.

Can you give me an idea of how many chemicals one product can
contain? Earlier you said you were exposed to 200 chemicals a day
during your youth, but that's not all from one product.

No, I used about 20 products a day. The average woman in the U.S.
according to our survey uses 12 products a day with about 180
chemicals. And men use about six products with 80 chemicals
combined. But it depends on the product. Some products have dozens
of chemicals -- fragrances can have dozens or even hundreds of
chemicals that aren't listed on the label. And even fragrance-free
products can have a masking fragrance.

Talk a little about the history of the cosmetics industry. When did
it come about and why is it so unregulated?

The cosmetics industry has fought really hard to keep itself
unregulated for the last 30 years. It was first regulated under the
Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act of 1938. That is a 350-page law with
about 1.5 pages that address cosmetics. But it didn't give the FDA
the power to require testing (cosmetic) products before they go on
the market. The FDA can't require follow-up health monitoring; they
can't even recall products. Basically, the FDA has to prove in court
that a product is harmful before it can take action. There were
several attempts to regulate the industry over the years, and the
most well-known was in the 1970s with Thomas Eagleton, a senator
from Missouri. He proposed that cosmetics should be regulated more
like drugs, where there's a rigorous testing protocol that has to
happen before products go on the market, but that was shot down and
co-opted. What the industry has done is propose voluntary
regulations every time a regulatory threat arises. And so the system
that we have now is an industry-sponsored and run panel called the
Cosmetics Ingredients Review Board, which is in charge of
determining the safety of ingredients in cosmetics. We found lots of
problems with that panel. They rushed through ingredients quickly,
they hadn't looked at most of the ingredients or actually used these
products and, most of the time, they find things to be safe. Even
when they do make recommendations to restrict or eliminate
ingredients, the industry is free to ignore them and sometimes does.

You say in the book that some companies have different formulations
of the same products. Some, with harmful toxins removed, go to
Europe, and others, with toxins, go to the U.S. Why is that?


Well, it's outrageous, but Europe has much better health protection
laws, and they really take a precautionary approach. The European
Union has banned 1,100 chemicals from cosmetics that are thought to
cause cancer or reproductive harm, and so they take a precautionary
approach by saying, "We know these chemicals are hazardous." Nobody
argues about that. Instead of arguing about at what level are they
safe in products, we need to take them out of the products and
figure out how to make products without them. The United States, on
the other hand, says, "We need to be able to prove that an
ingredient in this product causes harm before we're going to do
anything about it. Consequently, there are lots of known toxins in
consumer products. It's not just cosmetics. Another example is
formaldehyde in kitchen cabinets -- perfectly legal in the United
States. You can buy kitchen cabinets, and they're wafting the
carcinogen formaldehyde into your kitchen. You can't sell those
cabinets in Europe, in Japan, even in China.

Is it really expensive for companies to reformulate their products
to remove toxic chemicals?

It's not expensive to reformulate; many companies have already done
it because they had to do it if they want to sell in the European
market.

When did you begin working on cosmetic issues? How has the industry
changed since then? What's the future outlook?

Well, we started the cosmetics campaign in 2002, when we were
concerned about phthalates and found out they were in the majority
of cosmetic products. At that time, we started to contact companies
to try to have a dialogue with them about the chemicals they were
using. ... Overall, I would say the mainstream companies have been
incredibly resistant to any kind of change, but we have seen a big
change in some products in the last few years. Because Europe banned
phthalates, we were able to use that to pressure companies to remove
phthalates from some U.S. products, particularly nail products. So
we've seen a major shift in the formulation of nail products in the
last few years because of the campaign (formaldehyde, toluene, and
dibutyl phthalates have been removed from most nail products). So,
it's possible that companies can change. They are changing, but not
enough and not fast enough.

One thing that struck me about this book is that it's not just a
story about cosmetic hazards. It's a story about activism. What was
the thinking behind that?

Well, activism is fun, first of all. I think it's the best job in
the world. And the inspiring stories from so many people from moms
to former models who are speaking out, to the teenagers who have
lobbied in Sacramento to get bills passed and now realize they have
a political voice that they want to keep using, to nurses who have
come together to pressure companies to pass protective policies. I
think that's all so positive, and I think that people are coming
together in ways that we haven't before.

What practical advice can you give to people wanting to clean up
their cosmetics bags?

My best advice is that simpler is better. Really, fewer ingredients,
fewer products. For instance, hair color and bubble bath are two
things that I've given up. But there are a lot good (nontoxic)
products out there on the market, and I would say start by switching
out the ones that you use the most frequently like shampoo and
deodorant that we're putting by our breast tissue, experiment with
different kinds of natural products and just make changes as you
can. You can also use the skin deep database to research your
products. ... The onus at this point is on consumers to do our own
research.

Anything else you'd like to add?

I think it's really important, especially for women in this culture,
to recognize that the beauty industry is all about profit and bottom-
line thinking. It's not concerned about our health issues. It is not
concerned with telling the truth about its products.

To learn more and take action, visit safecosmetics.org. To find out
what toxins are in your personal care products, go to
www.cosmeticdatabase.org. And to buy the book, check out
notjustaprettyface.org.

--- In Alternative-Medicine-Forum@yahoogroups.com, surpriseshan2@...
wrote:



The Many Benefits of Hydrogen Peroxide

By Dr. David G. Williams
_http://educate-
yourself.org/cancer/benefitsofhydrogenperozide17jul03.shtml_
(http://educate-
yourself.org/cancer/benefitsofhydrogenperozide17jul03.shtml)
Posted July 17, 2003
(Original title: Hydrogen Peroxide - Curse or  Cure?)

When it comes to hydrogen peroxide therapy there seems to  be only
two points
of view. Supporters consider it one of the greatest healing
miracles of all
time. Those opposed feel its ingestion is exceptionally  dangerous,
and only
the foolhardy could think of engaging in such behavior.  Before
either
condemning or endorsing hydrogen peroxide, let's take a real  close
look at what we're
dealing with.

If any substance is interesting,  it's hydrogen peroxide. Hydrogen
peroxide
should really be called hydrogen  dioxide. Its chemical formula is
H2O2. It
contains one more atom of oxygen  that does water (H20). By now
everyone's aware
of the ozone layer that  surrounds the earth. Ozone consists of
three atoms of
oxygen (03). This  protective layer of ozone is created when
ultraviolet
light from the sun  splits an atmospheric oxygen molecule (02) into
two single,
unstable oxygen  atoms. These single molecules combine with others
to form ozone
(03). Ozone  isn't very stable. In fact, it will quickly give up
that extra
atom of oxygen  to falling rainwater to form hydrogen peroxide
(H202). (Bear
with me: all this  chemistry mumbo jumbo I'm going through actually
will help
you understand the  importance of hydrogen peroxide.)

Helps  Plants

It is this hydrogen peroxide in rainwater that  makes it so much
more
effective than tap water when given to plants. With the  increased
levels of
atmospheric pollution, however, greater amounts of H202  react with
air-borne toxins
and never reach the ground. To compensate for  this, many farmers
have been
increasing crop yields by spraying them with  diluted hydrogen
peroxide (5 to 16
ounces of 35% mixed with 20 gallons of  water per acre). You can
achieve the
same beneficial effect with your house  plants by adding 1 ounce of
3% hydrogen
peroxide (or 16 drops of 35% solution)  to every quart of water you
give your
plants. (It can also be made into an  excellent safe insecticide.
Simply
spray your plants with 8 ounces of 3%  peroxide mixed with 8 ounces
of white sugar
and one gallon of water.)
Hydrogen peroxide is odorless and colorless, but  not tasteless.
When stored
under the proper conditions, it is a very stable  compound. When
kept in the
absence of light and contaminants, it dismutates  (breaks down) very
slowly at
the rate of about 10% a year. (This can be slowed  even further by
storing the
liquid in the freezer.) It boils at 152 degrees C  and freezes at
minus 2
degrees C.

When exposed to other compounds  hydrogen peroxide dismutates
readily. The
extra oxygen atom is released  leaving H20 (water). In nature oxygen
(02)
consists of two atoms--a very  stable combination. A single atom of
oxygen, however,
is very reactive and is  referred to as a free radical. Over the
past several
years, we've continually  read that these free radicals are
responsible for
all types of ailments and  even premature aging. What many writers
seem to
forget, however, is that our  bodies create and use free radicals to
destroy
harmful bacteria, viruses, and  fungi. In fact, the cells
responsible for fighting
infection and foreign  invaders in the body (your white blood cells)
make
hydrogen peroxide and use  it to oxidize any offending culprits. The
intense
bubbling you see when  hydrogen peroxide comes in contact with a
bacteria-laden cut
or wound is the  oxygen being released and bacteria being destroyed.
The
ability of our cells  to produce hydrogen peroxide is essential for
life. H202 is
not some  undesirable by-product or toxin, but instead a basic
requirement for
good  health.
Newer research indicates we need hydrogen peroxide  for a multitude
of other
chemical reactions that take place throughout the  body. For
example, we now
know that vitamin C helps fight infections by  producing hydrogen
peroxide,
which in turn stimulates the production of  prostaglandins. Also
lactobacillus
found in the colon and vagina produce  hydrogen peroxide. This
destroys harmful
bacteria and viruses, preventing  colon disease, vaginitis, bladder
infections
and a host of other common  ailments. (Infect Dis News Aug.8,91:5).
When
lactobacillus in the colon or  vaginal tract have been overrun with
harmful
viruses, yeast, or bacteria, an  effective douche or enema solution
can be made
using 3 tablespoons of 3% H202  in 1 quart of distilled water. Keep
in mind,
however, that a good bacterial  flora must always be re-established
in theses areas
to achieve lasting  results.
Aerobic versus  Anerobic

While we  are discussing enemas and douches, there is another
misconception
about H202 I  need to address. The friendly bacteria in the colon
and vagina
are aerobic. In  other words, they flourish in high oxygen
environments and
thrive in the  presence of oxygen rich H202. On the other hand, most
strains of
harmful  bacteria (and cancer cells) are anaerobic and cannot
survive in the
presence  of oxygen or H202. We can agree that hydrogen peroxide
produced within
individual body cells is essential for life. And no one doubts its
effectiveness when it comes to treating infections topically. The
controversy  deals
with ingesting the substance orally or introducing it into the body
intravenously. The dispute has been going on for decades, and
considering the  attitude
of our medical community, it will continue for many more decades to
come.
I'll admit I was skeptical when I first learned  about using H202
orally or
intravenously. This healthy dose of skepticism,  however, lead to a
great deal
of investigation, clinical work and  experimentation. And while I
realize a
large majority of readers will probably  never be convinced that
H202 is a safe
and effective compound, I am. Hydrogen  peroxide is safe, readily
available
and dirt cheap. And best of all, it works!  No one yet fully
understands the
complete workings of hydrogen peroxide. We do  know that it is
loaded with
oxygen. (A pint of the food-grade 35% solution  contains the
equivalent of 130 pints
of oxygen. A pint of 3% hydrogen peroxide  found at the local
drugstore
contains 10 pints of oxygen. And a pint of the 6%  solution used to
bleach hair
contains 20 pints of oxygen.) We also know that  when H202 is taken
into the body
(orally or intravenously) the oxygen content  of the blood and body
tissues
increases dramatically. Early researchers felt  these increases were
simply due
to the extra oxygen molecule being released.  This doesn't however,
appear to
be the case.
Only very diluted amounts of H202 are ever  introduced into the
body. The
small amount of oxygen present couldn't be  solely responsible for
the dramatic
changes that take place. Dr.  Charles Farr, a strong proponent of
intravenous
use, has discovered  another possible answer. Dr. Farr has shown
that hydrogen
peroxide stimulates  enzyme systems throughout the body. This
triggers an
increase in the metabolic  rate, causes small arteries to dilate and
increase
blood flow, enhances the  body's distribution and consumption of
oxygen and raises
body temperature  (Proceedings of the International Conference on
Bio-Oxidative Medicine 1989,  1990, 1991).
Father Richard  Willhelm

We are  just beginning to learn exactly how H202 works. It was
reported to
work as far  back as 1920. The English medical journal, Lancet, then
reported
that  intravenous infusion was used successfully to treat pneumonia
in the
epidemic  following World War I. In the 1940's Father Richard
Willhelm, the pioneer
in  promoting peroxide use, reported on the compound being used
extensively
to  treat everything from bacterial-related mental illness to skin
disease and
polio. Father Willhelm is the founder of "Educational Concern for
Hydrogen
Peroxide" (ECHO, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the
public on
the safe use and therapeutic benefits of hydrogen peroxide.) Much of
the
interest in hydrogen peroxide waned in the 1940's when prescription
medications
came on the scene. Since that time there has been little economic
interest in
funding peroxide research. After all, it is dirt cheap and  non-
patentable.
Even still, in the last 25 years, over 7,700 articles relating  to
hydrogen
peroxide have been written in the standard medical journals.
Thousands more,
involving its therapeutic use, have appeared in alternative  health
publications.
The number of conditions helped by hydrogen peroxide is  astounding.
The
reported dangers and side effects are few and often  conflicting.
Emphysema

Let's look  at several conditions that seem to respond especially
well to
H202 therapy.  First, keep in mind that there are two methods of
administering
the  peroxide-1) orally and 2) intravenously. While most conditions
respond
remarkably to oral ingestion, emphysema is one condition in which
intravenous
infusion can be a godsend. Emphysema involves destruction of  the
alveoli (the
small air sacs in the lungs). Although chemical fumes and  other
irritants can
cause the destruction, it is most often the result of  smoking. As
the disease
progresses, the patient finds it more and more  difficult to
breathe. A wheel
chair and supplemental oxygen become necessary  as the disease
progresses.
Lack of adequate oxygen reaching the tissues forces  the heart to
pump more
forcefully. This leads to high blood pressure,  enlargement of the
heart itself
and eventually heart failure. Conventional  medicine offers little
help for
emphysema. There is no cure. The best that can  be hoped for is
symptomatic relief
and the prevention of any serious  complications that might result
in death.
H202 therapy can offer more. Using 1  ounce of 35% peroxide per 1
gallon of
non-chlorinated water in a vaporizer  improves nighttime breathing
tremendously.
But intravenous infusion holds the  real key to relief. It has the
ability to
cleanse the inner lining of the  lungs and restore the ability to
breathe.
We continue to hear the same story from Dr. Farr  and others who use
intravenous infusion for emphysema and congestive lung  problems.
Within minutes
oxygen from hydrogen peroxide begins to bubble up  between the
membrane lining the
lungs sacs and the accumulated mucus. (Dr.  Farr refers to this as
the
"Alka-Seltzer effect.") The patient begins to cough  and expel the
material that has
accumulated in the lungs. The amount of  bubbling, coughing, and
cleansing can
be regulated by simply turning the H202  on and off. As the peroxide
clears
the lung surface and destroys the bacterial  infections, the patient
regains
the ability to breath more normally. We  continue to receive reports
from
patients for whom the technique has improved  breathing so much that
a wheelchair
and supplemental oxygen are no longer  needed. If you would like to
find a
doctor in your area trained in the use of  intravenous H202
infusion, contact the
International Bio-Oxidative  Medicine Foundation (IBOM), P.O. Box
13205,
Oklahoma City, OK 73113 at (405)  478-4266. They can provide names
and addresses of
doctors using the  procedure in your area.
If emphysema were the only ailment successfully  treated with H202
therapy,
it would still rank as one of the top health  discoveries of all
time.
Fortunately, H202 works wonders on a multitude of  health problems.
It does so by
increasing tissue oxygen levels. A closer look  at how we have
decreased the
availability of external and internal oxygen,  will show you just
how important
this can be. If you were not too occupied  with trying to hide
dissection
specimens in the other student's desks, you  might remember from
elementary science
courses that our atmosphere contains  about 20% oxygen. That is
under ideal
circumstances. It has recently been  reported that in many of our
more polluted
cities, there levels have dropped  to around 10%! (I have already
mentioned how
less hydrogen peroxide-containing  rain is reaching the earth's
surface. With
increased pollution it is reacting  with airborne toxins before it
even
reaches the ground.) And everyone, by now,  knows the oxygen-
generating rain
forests are being destroyed worldwide, which  further reduces
available oxygen.
Internal oxygen availability is also under  attack.
Chlorination of drinking water removes  oxygen. Cooking and over-
processing
of our foods lowers their oxygen  content. Unrestrained antibiotic
use destroys
beneficial oxygen-creating  bacteria in the intestinal tract. Dr.
Johanna
Budwig of Germany has shown that  for proper cellular utilization of
oxygen to
take place, our diets must  contain adequate amounts of unsaturated
fatty acids.
Unfortunately, the oils  rich in these fatty acids have become less
and less
popular with the food  industry. Their very nature makes them more
biologically active, which  requires more careful processing and
gives them a shorter
shelf-life. Rather  than deal with these challenges, the food
industry has turned
to the use of  synthetic fats and dangerous processes like
hydrogenation.
It's obvious that our oxygen needs are not being  met. Several of
the most
common ailments now affecting our population are  directly related
to oxygen
starvation. Asthma, emphysema, and lung disease are  on the rise,
especially in
the polluted metropolitan areas. Cases of  constipation, diarrhea,
intestinal
parasites and bowel cancer are all on the  upswing. Periodontal
disease is
endemic in the adult population of this  country. Cancer of all
forms continues to
increase. Immune system disorders  are sweeping the globe. Chronic
fatigue,
"Yuppie Flu" and hundreds of other  strange viral diseases have
begun to
surface. Ironically, many of the new  "miracle" drugs and
nutritional supplements
used to treat these conditions  work by increasing cellular oxygen
(oftentimes
through H202 formation). For  example, the miracle nutrient,
Coenzyme Q10,
helps regulate intercellular  oxidation. Organic germanium, which
received
considerable publicity not too  long ago, also increases oxygen
levels at the
cellular level. And even  substances like niacin and vitamin E
promote tissue
oxidation through their  dilation of blood vessels.
Hydrogen peroxide is only one of the many  components that help
regulate the
amount of oxygen getting to your cells. Its  presence is vital for
many other
functions as well. It is required for the  production of thyroid
hormone and
sexual hormones. (Mol Cell Endocrinol  86;46(2): 149-154) (Steroids
82;40(5):5690579). It stimulates the production  of interferon (J
Immunol
85;134(4):24492455). It dilates blood vessels in the  heart and
brain (Am J Physiol 86;250 (5
pt 2): H815-821 and (2 pt  2):H157-162). It improves glucose
utilization in
diabetics (Proceedings of the  IBOM Conference 1989, 1990, 1991).
The closer
you look at hydrogen peroxide,  the less surprising it becomes that
it can help
such a wide variety of  conditions.
The following is only a partial listing of  conditions in which H202
therapy
has been used successfully. (Many of  these conditions are serious,
if not
life-threatening. As always, I would  highly recommend seeking the
advice and
guidance of a doctor experienced in  the use of these techniques.)

Allergies Headaches
Altitude Sickness Herpes  Simplex
Alzheimer's Herpes Zoster
Anemia HIV Infection
Arrhythmia  Influenza
Asthma Insect Bites
Bacterial Infections Liver  Cirrhosis
Bronchitis Lupus Erythematosis
Cancer Multiple  Sclerosis
Candida Parasitic Infections
Cardiovascular Disease  Parkinsonism
Cerebral Vascular Disease Periodontal Disease
Chronic  Pain Prostatitis
Diabetes Type 11 Rheumatoid Arthritis
Diabetic  Gangrene Shingles
Diabetic Retinopahty Sinusitis
Digestion Problems  Sore Throat
Epstein-Barr Infection Ulcers
Emphysema Viral  Infections
Food Allergies Warts
Fungal Infections Yeast  Infections
Gingivitis

Grades of Hydrogen  Peroxide

Hydrogen  peroxide is available in various strengths and grades.

A) 3.5% Pharmaceutical Grade:  This is the grade sold at your local
drugstore
or supermarket. This product  is not recommended for internal use.
It
contains an assortment of  stabilizers which shouldn't be ingested.
Various
stabilizers include:  acetanilide, phenol, sodium stanate and
tertrasodium phosphate.

B)  6% Beautician Grade: This is used in beauty shops to color  hair
and is
not recommended for internal use.
C) 30% Reagent Grade: This is  used for various scientific
experimentation
and also contains stabilizers.  It is also not for internal use.
D) 30% to 32% Electronic Grade:  This is used to clean electronic
parts and
not for internal use.
E) 35% Technical Grade: This is  a more concentrated product than
the Reagent
Grade and differs slightly in  that phosphorus is added to help
neutralize
any chlorine from the water used  to dilute it.
F) 35% Food Grade: This is used  in the production of foods like
cheese,
eggs, and whey-containing products.  It is also sprayed on the foil
lining of
aseptic packages containing fruit  juices and milk products. THIS IS
THE ONLY
GRADE RECOMMENDED FOR INTERNAL  USE. It is available in pints,
quarts, gallons or
even drums. Various  suppliers are mentioned later in this article.
G) 90%: This is used as an  oxygen source for rocket fuel.

Only 35% Food Grade hydrogen peroxide is  recommended for internal
use. At
this concentration, however, hydrogen  peroxide is a very strong
oxidizer and if
not diluted, it can be extremely  dangerous or even fatal. Any
concentrations
over 10% can cause neurological  reactions and damage to the upper
gastrointestinal tract. There have been two  known fatalities in
children who ingested
27% and 40% concentrations of H202.  Recently, a 26 month old female
swallowed
one mouthful of 35% H202. She  immediately began vomiting, followed
by
fainting and respiratory arrest.  Fortunately, she was under
emergency room care and
although she experienced  erosion and bleeding of the stomach and
esophagus,
she survived the incident.  When she was re-examined 12 days later,
the areas
involved had healed (J  Toxicol Clin Toxicol 90;28(1):95-100).
35% Food Grade H202 must be

1) handled carefully (direct contact will burn  the skin--immediate
flushing
with water is recommended).
2) diluted properly before use. 3) stored safely  and properly
(after making
a dilution the remainder should be stored tightly  sealed in the
freezer).

One of the most convenient methods of dispensing  35% H202 is from a
small
glass eye dropper bottle. These can be purchased at  your local
drugstore. Fill
this with the 35% H202 and store the larger  container in the
freezer
compartment of your refrigerator until more is  needed. Store the
eye dropper bottle
in the refrigerator. The generally  recommended dosage is outlined
in the chart
below. The drops are mixed with  either 6 to 8 ounces of distilled
water,
juice, milk or even aloe vera juice  or gel. (Don't use chlorinated
tap water to
dilute the peroxide!)
Suggested  Protocol

The  program outlined is only a suggestion, but it is based on years
of
experience,  and reports from thousands of users. Those who choose
to go at a
slower pace  can expect to progress more slowly, but that certainly
is an option.
The  program is not carved in stone and keep in mind that it can be
adapted to
fit  individual needs. Individuals who have had transplants should
not
undertake an  H202 program. H202 stimulates the immune system and
could possibly
cause a  rejection of the organ.
Day # -Number of Drops/ Times Per Day
1 - 3 /  3
2 - 4 / 3
3 - 5 / 3
4 - 6 / 3
5 - 7 / 3
6 - 8 / 3
7 - 9 /  3
8 - 10 / 3
9 - 12 / 3
10 - 14 / 3
11 - 16 / 3
12 - 18 /  3
13 - 20 / 3
14 - 22 / 3
15 - 24 / 3
16 - 25 / 3
Maintenance  Dosage

In most situations after the above 21 day program,  the amount of
H202 can be
tapered off gradually as follows:
25 drops once  every other day for 1 week
25 drops once every third day for 2 weeks
25  drops once every fourth day for 3 weeks
This can then be reduced to between 5 and 15 drops  per week based
on how one
feels. Those with more serious problems will often  benefit from
staying on
25 drops three times a day for one to three weeks,  then tapering
down to 25
drops two times daily until the problem is resolved  (possibly as
long as six
months). Those with chronic systemic Candidiasis may  need to start
with 1 drop
three times a day, then 2 drops three times a day  before starting
the above
schedule. It is important that H202 be taken  on an empty stomach.
This is best
accomplished by taking it either  one hour before meals or three
hours after
meals. If there is food in the  stomach, the reaction of H202 on any
bacteria
present may cause excess  foaming, indigestion, and possibly even
vomiting.
Additionally, some animal  research indicates that when H202 given
orally
combines with iron and small  amounts of vitamin C in the stomach,
hydroxyl radicals
are created (J Inorg  Biochem 89;35(1):55-69). The bleach-like
aftertaste of
H202 can be lessened by  chewing one of the sugar-free cinnamon
gums. Some
individuals taking H202  immediately before bedtime have a difficult
time getting
to sleep. This is  probably due to a sense of alertness triggered by
an
increase of oxygen at the  cellular level. The oral dosage schedule
is basically
the same for all  conditions. There are several points to keep in
mind, however.

Some individuals may experience upset stomach. If  this occurs it is
recommended that one not stop the program, but rather remain  at the
current dosage
level or reduce it to the previous level until the  problem stops.
(Some
patients have been able to solve the nausea problem by  taking three
or four lecithin
capsules at the same time they take the H202.)  During the program
it's not
uncommon to experience what is known as a healing  crisis. As dead
bacteria and
toxins are released from your body it may  temporarily exceed your
capacity
to eliminate them quickly enough. In some  individuals this overload
may cause
fatigue, diarrhea, headaches, skin  eruptions, cold or flu-like
symptoms,
and/or nausea. One should not  discontinue using the peroxide to
stop this
cleansing. By continuing the  program, toxins will clear the body
sooner and this
healing crisis will pass  rather quickly.
If you are not already taking vitamin E and an  acidophilus product,
I
recommend starting them before going on H202. Vitamin E  can make
more efficient use
of any oxygen available and acidophilus will help  re-establish the
beneficial bacterial flora in the lower bowel and also help  in the
internal production
of hydrogen peroxide.

Making and Using 3%  Solutions of H202

A 3.5% solution can be made quite easily by first  pouring 1 ounce
of 35%
H202 into a pint jar. To this add 11 ounces of  distilled water.
This will make
12 ounces of 3.5% H202. 3.5% H202 has a  variety of medicinal uses.
1. Three tablespoons mixed with a quart of  non-chlorinated water
makes a
good enema or douche formula.

2. It can be used full strength as a mouthwash or mixed with  baking
soda for
toothpaste.

3. It can be used full strength as a foot bath for athlete's  foot.
(Diabetics have found relief from circulation problems by soaking
their  feet in 1 pint
of 3% peroxide mixed with 1 gallon of warm, non-chlorinated  water
for 30
minutes nightly.)

4. A tablespoon added to 1 cup of non-chlorinated water can  be used
as a
nasal spray. Depending on the degree of sinus involvement, one  will
have to
adjust the amount of peroxide used. I have seen some who can use  it
at the full
3% strength and others who had difficulty with using a few  drops
and mixed
with a cup of water.

5. 3.5% H202 can be added to pets drinking water at the rate  of 1
ounce per
quart of non-chlorinated water. Sick cattle reportedly benefit  from
1 pint
(of 3%) to each 5 gallons of water. (Chickens and cows have
remained healthy by
using 8 ounces of 35% H202 per 1,000 gallons of drinking  water.)
Additional Information

There are two sources you  should contact if you have an interest in
using
hydrogen peroxide therapy. The  first, ECHO, was founded by Father
Richard
Willhelm and is run by Walter  Grotz. Their information packet
includes a sample
newsletter, a list of H202  distributors and several other items.
The packet is
being made available to  interested ALTERNATIVES readers for only
$3. Their
address is
ECHO Box 126
Delano, MN 55328
If you have an interest in contacting doctors who  provide
intravenous
hydrogen peroxide therapy you can write to the  International Bio-
Oxidative Medicine
Foundation (IBOM) at the address listed  earlier in this article.
You should
also be aware that there are now numerous  hydrogen peroxide
products on the
market. Some are simply peroxide that has  been flavored and mixed
with sea
minerals, aloe vera, inner tree bark or other  ingredients to make
the peroxide
more palatable (Superoxy, Oxy Toddy,  etc.).
Others claim to have developed products that  deliver more oxygen
than does
simple hydrogen peroxide (Aerox,  Anti-Oxid-10, Di-Oxychloride,
Aerobic 07,
Aqua  Pure, etc.). Basically you'll end up paying a small fortune
and at best
achieving the same results you can get for pennies by using
hydrogen  peroxide.
Conclusion

Hydrogen peroxide is one of the few simple  miracle substances still
available to the public. Its safety and multiple uses  ranks it
right up there with
DMSO. If you've never used either of these  compounds you are
overlooking two of
the most powerful healing tools ever  discovered. Most of us started
on
hydrogen peroxide shortly after birth. Not  only does mother's milk
contain high
amounts of H202, the amount contained in  the first milk (colostrum)
is even
higher. This seems only reasonable now that  we know one of its main
functions is
to activate and stimulate the immune  system. Although I am a strong
supporter of H202 therapy, I am not suggesting  that everyone needs
to be using it.
There are probably some individuals whose  health and well-being
would not be
enhanced with hydrogen peroxide. But there  are also millions of
others who are
suffering needlessly because they either  do not know about hydrogen
peroxide
or they have been misinformed about its  use.
~ Afterword ~
The above  copyrighted article has been reprinted with permission
from
Mountain House  Publishing, P.O. Box 829, Ingram, TX 78025. It
appeared in a recent
issue of  the health newsletter, ALTERNATIVES ($39.00/yr. 12
issues).
Subscription  information and/or a sample issue can be obtained by
writing to the
above  address.
Source: Family Health News
____________________________________

Related
_Alternatives  in Cancer Therapy - Hydrogen Peroxide _
(http://educate-
yourself.org/cn/hydrogenperoxidecancertherapybookexcerpt.shtml)
_http://educate-
yourself.org/cn/hydrogenperoxidecancertherapybookexcerpt.shtml
_
(http://educate-
yourself.org/cn/hydrogenperoxidecancertherapybookexcerpt.shtml)
_Hydrogen  Peroxide v. Prostate Cancer by Bill Munro (Oct. 14, 2005)
_
(http://educate-
yourself.org/cn/hydrogenperoxideandprostatecancer14oct05.shtml)
_http://educate-
yourself.org/cn/hydrogenperoxideandprostatecancer14oct05.shtml
_ (http://educate-
yourself.org/cn/hydrogenperoxideandprostatecancer14oct05
.shtml)
_Hydrogen  Peroxide Nasal Sprayer & Garden Applications by Bill
Munro (Feb.
7,  2005)_ (http://educate-
yourself.org/cn/hydrogenperoxide07feb05.shtml)
_http://educate-yourself.org/cn/hydrogenperoxide07feb05.shtml_
(http://educate-yourself.org/cn/hydrogenperoxide07feb05.shtml)
_Hydrogen  Peroxide by Walter Grotz_
(http://educate-
yourself.org/cn/hydrogenperoxidewaltergrotz20nov04.shtml)
_http://educate-
yourself.org/cn/hydrogenperoxidewaltergrotz20nov04.shtml_
(http://educate-
yourself.org/cn/hydrogenperoxidewaltergrotz20nov04.shtml)







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Articles on Hydrogen Peroxide

By Ken Adachi <_Editor_ (http://educate-yourself.org/contactus/) >
_http://educate-yourself.org/hp/index.shtml_
(http://educate-yourself.org/hp/index.shtml)
September 2006
I decided to organize the various articles and  notes I've posted on
hydrogen
peroxide into a single location to make it  easier to find them. The
first
article by Walter Grotz, a retired Postmaster  and late 20th century
promoter of
hydrogen peroxide, is as good an  introduction  as any to the
subject of
hydrogen peroxide.
Hydrogen peroxide is a simple chemical compound.  It's water with an
extra
atom of oxygen attached to it, H2O2. Hydrogen  peroxide is valuable
as an
oxidizing agent (like ozone, or bleach for  example) because it can
release that
single oxygen atom in the  presence of another reactive substance.
This reaction
is called  oxidation or bleaching. It's important to remember that
the gas we
call "oxygen" is really TWO atoms of oxygen, O2, tightly bound
together.
Human beings and animals are oxygen and carbon  based. We utilize
oxygen (O2)
for respiration and expel carbon dioxide, CO2.  Most of the microbes
that
cause infections (and are associated with cancerous  tumors) don't
like an oxygen
rich environment. Some types of bacteria  (anaerobic) can't survive
at all if
oxygen is present, while other bacteria  can tolerate it in low
concentrations. That single atom of oxygen,  though, is really bad
news for microbes
because the outer electron shell of an  oxygen atom needs two more
electrons to feel
happy and "complete". The reason  that water is so stable is because
the two
atoms of hydrogen (in water)  provide one electron each to the outer
orbit
shell of one atom of  oxygen, making it (the oxygen atom) chemically
stable.
As a teenager, I was encouraged by a doctor to use  a mixture of 1/2
water
and 1/2 hydrogen peroxide for two or three days to help  get rid of
a mouth
infection. He told me the peroxide would help get rid of  the
infection, but not
to overdue it, just rinse -once a day- for two  or three days and
that's it! He
led me to believe that it's a powerful  germicidal, but that it was
also
dangerous,  for some  unexplained reason, and that you might get too
much of it if
you  overdid it! I held that belief for many years until the mid
1990's  when
I started attending health expos here in southern California, I was
exposed
to new information about hydrogen peroxide that led me to realize
that  it's
not dangerous, that it can be used full strength as a mouthwash, and
that  it
can be used quite often, rather than sparingly (now for you nurses
and  health
professionals out there, before you start jumping up and down about
using up
the body's store of catalase, please read the articles first and
realize that
the notion of depleting catalase has been exaggerated in school
texts and
training manuals).
Besides using it topically or as a mouthwash,  hydrogen peroxide can
be taken
into the body as drops, or intravenously, or by  injection, or even
inhaled!
Read Bill Munro's articles below to see how   he used a nasal
sprayer,
obtained from the drug store, to create a fine mist  of hydrogen
peroxide and inhaled
the mist You'll discover why when you read  his articles.
It's a good idea to get a few books on hydrogen  peroxide. I like
the one by
Dr. William Campbell Douglass called "_Hydrogen  Peroxide, Medical
Miracle_
(http://www.amazon.com/Hydrogen-Peroxide-William-Campbell-
Douglass/dp/9962636256/
sr=1-1/qid=1159286101/ref=sr_1_1/104-6619647-7709533?
ie=UTF8&s=books) " You
can find it at amazon.com
I've been asked by many people where to get food  grade hydrogen
peroxide.
There are many outlets over the internet, but I've  been perfectly
satisfied
with the _Guardian of  Eden_
(http://www.dfwx.com/h2o2products.html)  web site.
They are located in Texas. I have no  connection with them except as
a
customer.
Food Grade Hydrogen Peroxide from Guardian of Eden  _
http://www.dfwx.com/h2o2products.html_
(http://www.dfwx.com/h2o2products.html)

The link below provides a 2002 list of American  and international
physicians
from the International Oxidative Medicine  Association (IOMA) who
offer
intravenous hydrogen peroxide infusions,  bioluminescence therapy,
and other
therapeutic oxidative modalities. .
_http://educate-
yourself.org/hp/hydrogenperoxidephysiciansIOMAlist2002.shtml_
(http://educate-
yourself.org/hp/hydrogenperoxidephysiciansIOMAlist2002.shtml)


Articles on Hydrogen Peroxide
_Hydrogen  Peroxide by Walter Grotz_
(http://educate-
yourself.org/cn/hydrogenperoxidewaltergrotz20nov04.shtml)
http://educate-
yourself.org/cn/hydrogenperoxidewaltergrotz20nov04.shtml
_The  Many Benefits of Hydrogen Peroxide by Dr. David G.  Williams_
(http://educate-
yourself.org/cancer/benefitsofhydrogenperozide17jul03.shtml)
http://educate-
yourself.org/cancer/benefitsofhydrogenperozide17jul03.shtml
_Alternatives  in Cancer Therapy - Hydrogen Peroxide  _
(http://educate-
yourself.org/cn/hydrogenperoxidecancertherapybookexcerpt.shtml)
http://educate-
yourself.org/cn/hydrogenperoxidecancertherapybookexcerpt.shtml
_Hydrogen  Peroxide v. Prostate Cancer by Bill Munro (Oct. 14, 2005)
_
(http://educate-
yourself.org/cn/hydrogenperoxideandprostatecancer14oct05.shtml)
http://educate-
yourself.org/cn/hydrogenperoxideandprostatecancer14oct05.shtml

_Hydrogen  Peroxide Nasal Sprayer & Garden Applications by Bill
Munro (Feb.
7,  2005)_ (http://educate-
yourself.org/cn/hydrogenperoxide07feb05.shtml)
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/hydrogenperoxide07feb05.shtml
_The  Therapeutical Applications of Hydrozone and Glycozone by
Charles
Marchand  (1904)_
(http://educate-
yourself.org/cn/hydrogenperoxidecharlesmarchand1904.shtml)
http://educate-
yourself.org/cn/hydrogenperoxidecharlesmarchand1904.shtml
_Vinegar  and Hydrogen Peroxide as Disinfectants_
(http://educate-yourself.org/cn/vinegarandperoxide21oct06.shtml)
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/vinegarandperoxide21oct06.shtml
____________________________________

Letters from Readers
_Gains  Benefits from Taking Hydrogen Peroxide Drops Daily (Sep.
23,  2007)_
(http://educate-
yourself.org/lte/benefitsfromH2O2takendaily23sep07.shtml)
http://educate-
yourself.org/lte/benefitsfromH2O2takendaily23sep07.shtml
_Relief  from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease & Emphysema
Using
Hydrogen  Peroxide (April 19,  2007)_
(http://educate-
yourself.org/lte/hydrogenperoxideandpulmonarydisease14apr07.shtml)
http://educate-
yourself.org/lte/hydrogenperoxideandpulmonarydisease14apr07.sht
ml
_Hydrogen  Peroxide Handles Stomach Bug & Ideas for Germ Fighters
(Feb. 12,
2007)_ (http://educate-
yourself.org/lte/hydrogenperoxidehelpsJo12feb07.shtml)
http://educate-yourself.org/lte/hydrogenperoxidehelpsJo12feb07.shtml








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Ozone's Reaction with Common Chemicals

[Editor's Note: This paper, Ozone's Reaction with  Common Chemicals,
was
passed out by Dr. Bob Beck at the Beck Tuesday morning  breakfast
meeting
somewhere around 1996. Bob said he got it from a helpful  fellow at
one of the health
expos where Bob gave a talk. I don't know who  wrote it or where it
was
extracted from, but we thank him for his efforts,  whoever he may
be.
I scanned the papers and fixed them up after  running them through
OCR. I
tried to take care to match the originals, but  it's always possible
that I could
have overlooked something or there was an  error in the original
documents.
If anyone discovers a boo boo in any of the  following formulas or
the
reactions with ozone, don't hesitate to _let me  know_
(http://educate-yourself.org/contactus/) . ..Ken]
From Ken Adachi <_Editor_ (http://educate-yourself.org/contactus/) >
_http://educate-
yourself.org/ozone/ozonereactionswithcommonchemicals29sep06.sh
tml_
(http://educate-
yourself.org/ozone/ozonereactionswithcommonchemicals29sep06.shtml)
September 29, 2006
Introduction
Organic Compounds react with Ozone in a process  similar to
combustion. The
reaction of an organic compound with ozone and the  combustion of
the same
compound yield carbon dioxide and water as the main end  products.
Ozone also
combines with most of the Hetro-elements found in organic  compounds
to produce
the elemental oxide with the highest oxidation  number.

Inorganic compounds of lower oxidation numbers react with Ozone  to
produce
oxides, however, there are many inorganic compounds which will not
react. This
report indicates the number of O2 molecules consumed to neutralize
one
specific compound molecule. The compounds discussed in this report
have  been
divided into groups according to commonly used organic and
inorganic
classifications to show products common to all the compounds in the
group. The  reactions
are grouped according to the following classification
I. ACIDS, ALCOHOLS, ALDEHYDES AND  KETONES.

II. AROMATIC COMPOUNDS

III.  ALIPHATIC COMPOUNDS

IV.  CHLORIDES

V. NITROGEN CONTAINING  COMPOUNDS
VI. SULFUR CONTAINING COMPOUNDS
VII. OTHER

VIII.  NON-REACTIVE COMPOUNDS


SUMMARY
I. _ACIDS, ALCOHOLS, ALDEHYDES AND KETONES_
(http://educate-
yourself.org/ozone/ozonereactionswithcommonchemicals29sep06.shtml#aci
ds) .
This  group breaks down into carbon dioxide, water and oxygen This
group
includes:  Acetic Acid, Acetone, Formaldehyde, Isopropyl Alcohol.
M.E.K [methyl
ethyl  keytone], Propylene Glycol. The sources of these chemicals in
our homes
include: Tobacco smoke, plywood, cabinets, furniture, particle
board, office
dividers, new carpets, new drapes, wallpaper, and paneling. Also in
cosmetics,
  shampoo and in packaged, bottled. and canned supermarket foods.
1. Acetic Acid, 2. Acetone, 3. n-Butyle  Acetate, 4. Butoxyethanol,
5. Cetyl
Alcohol, 6. Formaldehyde,  7. Isopropyl Alcohol, 8.Gylcerol, 9.
Methacrylic
Acid, 10. Methyl-ethyl Keytone (MEK), 11.Propylene  Gylcol,
II. _AROMATIC COMPOUNDS_
(http://educate-
yourself.org/ozone/ozonereactionswithcommonchemicals29sep06.shtml#aro
matic)
This group breaks down  into carbon dioxide, water and oxygen This
group
includes: Benzene. Camphor,  and Toulene. These chemicals are
associated with
paint, new carpets, new  drapes and upholstery.
12 Benzene, 13. Benzyl Alcohol,  14. n.Butyl Phthalate, 15. Camphor,
16.
Para-Phenylenediamine, 17. Resorcinol, 18.  Styrene, 19. Tricresyl,
20. Toulene,
21. Xylene
III. _ALIPHATIC COMPOUNDS_
(http://educate-
yourself.org/ozone/ozonereactionswithcommonchemicals29sep06.shtml#ali
phatic)
This group breaks down  into carbon dioxide, water and oxygen This
group
contains Butane, L.P.G.  {Liquid Propane Gas]. Propane, Mineral
Spirits. These are
associated with  hydrocarbons, tobacco smoke, gas burners, and
furnances.
22  Butane, 23. Isobutane, 24. Liquified  Petroleum Gas (LPG),
25.Mineal
Spirits, 26. Propane,
IV. _CHLORIDES_
(http://educate-
yourself.org/ozone/ozonereactionswithcommonchemicals29sep06.shtml#chl
orides)
This group breaks down into carbon  dioxide, water, CL20 and oxygen.
This
group includes: Methyl  Chloroform,
27. Methylene Chloride, 28. Chloroform, 29. Methyl  Chloroform, 30.
Perchloroethylene, 31.Trichloroethylene, 39. Phenacetin,
..
V. _NITROGEN CONTAINING COMPOUNDS_
(http://educate-
yourself.org/ozone/ozonereactionswithcommonchemicals29sep06.shtml#nit
rogen)
This group  breaks down into water, nitrogen and oxygen. Ammonia,
and
Hydrogen Cyanide are  members of this family.
32. Hydrogen Cyanide, 33 Amino Phenol, 34 Ammonia,  35 Ammonium
Hydroxide,
36. Benzopyrene,  37. EDTA (Ethylene Diamine  Tetracetic Acid), 38.
Ethanolamine,
VI._ SULFUR CONTAINING COMPOUNDS_
(http://educate-
yourself.org/ozone/ozonereactionswithcommonchemicals29sep06.shtml#sul
fur)
This group  breaks down into carbon dioxide, water, sulfuric acid
and oxygen.
Members of  this group include: Ammonium Persulfate and Sodium
Bisulfite
40. Ammonium Persulfate, 41. Ammonium  Thioglycolate, 42. Sodium
Bisulfite,
43. Thioglycolic Acid,

VII. _OTHER_
(http://educate-
yourself.org/ozone/ozonereactionswithcommonchemicals29sep06.shtml#oth
er)
Of particular note: Alkylated  Silicates form Carbon Dioxide, water,
Silicon
Dioxide and Oxygen.  Silicon Dioxide is considred a respiratory
hazard.
Members of  this group include: Non-ionic Detergents
44. Alkylated Silicates, 45. Non-Ionic Detergents,
VIII. _NON-REACTIVE COMPOUNDS_
(http://educate-
yourself.org/ozone/ozonereactionswithcommonchemicals29sep06.shtml#non
reactive)  Members of this group
include: Hydrogen Peroxide, Potassium Persulfate Sodium Bromate.
46. Calcium Oxide, 47. Hydrogen  Peroxide, 48. Phosphoric Acid, 49.
Potassium
Persulfate, 50. Silicas, 51.  Sodium Bromate, 52. Sodium Persulfate,
53.
Strontium Peroxide, 54. Tetrasodium  Pyrophosphate, 55. Titanium
Dioxide, 56.
Carbon Tetrachloride (low  temperature)

REACTIVITV WITH OZONE:
I . ACIDS, ALCOHOLS,  ALDEHYDES, AND KETONES.
1. ACETIC ACID, Formula:  CH3COOH
Reaction with Ozone: C2H402 + 4 03 ----> 2 C02  +  2  H2O +  4 O2 .
Number of
O2 molecules consumed per molecule of compound =  2
2. ACETONE, Formula:  CH3COCH3,
Reaction with Ozone: C3H6O + 8 03 ----> 3 C02 + 3 H2O + 8 O2 .
Number of O2
molecules consumed per molecule of compound = 4
3. n-BUTYL ACETATE Formula  C6H12O2.
Reaction with Ozone: C6H12O2 + 16 O3 ----> 6 C02 + 6 H2O   +  16 O2
Number
of O2 molecules consumed per molecule of compound =  8
4. BUTOXYETHANOL Fonnula:  C6HI4O2.
Reaction wtih Ozone: C6HI4O2 + 17 O3 ---- > 6 CO2   + 7  H2O +  4
O2 . Number
of O2 molecules consumed per molecule of compound =  20.5
5. CETYL AlCOHOL Formula  CH3(CH2)15 OH
Reaction with Ozone: CH3(CH2)15 OH + 48 03 ----> 16 CO2 +  17 H2O +
4 O2 .
Number of O2 molecules consumed per molecule of compound =  24
6. FORMALDEHYDE Formula  HCHO
Reaction with Ozone: HCHO + 2 O3 ----> C02 + H2O + 2 O2 . Number of
O2
molecules consumed per molecule of compound = 1
7. ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL Fornula  CH3CHOHCH5
Reaction with Ozone: CH3CHOHCH5 +  9 O3 ---- > 3 CO2 + 4  H2O + 9 O2
Number
of O2 molecules consumed per molecule of compound =  4.5
8. GLYCEROL Formula  CH2OHCHOHCH2OH
Reaction with Ozone: CH2OHCHOHCH2OH + 7 O3 ---- > 3C02 +  4H2O + 7
O2  Number
of O2 molecules consumed per molecule of compound =  4.5
9. METHACRYLIC ACID (glacial)  Formula CH2C (CH3) COOH
Reaction wtih Ozone: CH2C (CH3) COOH + 9 O3 ----  > 4 CO2 + 3 H20 +
9 O2 .
Number of O2  molecules consumed per molecule  of compound = 4.5
10. METHYL-ETHYL-KETONE Formula  CH3COC2H5.
Reaction wtih Ozone: CH3COC2H5 + 11 O3 ---- > 4C02 + 4 H2O +  11
O2 . Number
of O2 molecules consumed per molecule of compound =  5.5
11. PROPYLENE GLYCOL Formula  C3H8O2.
Reaction wtih Ozone: C3H8O2 + 8 O3 ---- > 3 CO2 + 4 H2O + 8  O2
Number of O2
  molecules consumed per molecule of compound =  4


II. AROMATIC  COMPOUNDS
12 BENZENE Formula  C6H6
Reaction with Ozone C6H6 + 11 O3 ---- > 6C02 + 3 H2O + 11 O2
Number of O2
molecules consumed per molecule of compound = 5.5
13 BENZYL ALCOHOL. Formula  C6H5CH2OH
Reaction wtih Ozone. C6H5CH2OH + 17 O3 ----> 7 C02 + 4 H20 +  17 O2
Number
of O2 molecules consumed per molecule of compound =  8.5
14. N.BUTYL PHTHALATE Formula  CI2H14O4.
Reaction with Ozone:  CI2H14O4 + 27 O3----> 12 C02 + 7  H20 + 27 O2
Number
of O2 molecules consumed per molecule of compound =  13.5
15 CAMPHOR Formula  C10H16O
Reaction Wlih Ozone: C10H16O + 27 O3 ---- > 10 C02 + 8 H2O + 27
O2 . Number
of O2 molecules consumed per molecule of compound =  13.5
16. PARA-PHENYLENEDIAMINE   Formula C6H8N2
Reaction with Ozone: C6H8N2 + 16 O3 ----> 6 C02 + 4 H2O +  N2 + 16
O2 Number
of O2 molecules consumed per molecule of compound =  8
17 RESORCINOL Formula  C6H6O2
Reaction with Ozone: C6H6O2 + 13 O3 ----> 6 C02 + 3 H20 + 13  O2
Number of
O2   molecules consumed per molecule of compound =  6.5
18. STYRENE Formula:C6H5CHCH2
Reaction with Ozone: C6H5CHCH2  + 20 O3 ---- > 8 C02 + 4 H2O + 20
O2 .
Number of O2 molecules consumed per molecule of compound = 10
19. TRICRESYL Formula  C21H21PO4.
Reaction with Ozone C21H21PO4.. + 102 O3 ---- > 42 C02 + 21  H2O +
P2O5 + 102
O2 Number of O2 molecules consumed per molecule of compound =  51
20  TOULENE Formula  C6H5CH3.
Reactlon with Ozone: C6H5CH3 .+ 18 O3 ----> 7 CO2 + 4 H2O + 18  O2
Number of
O2 molecules consumed per molecule ot compound =  9
21 XYLENE Formula  C6H4(CH3)2
Reaction with Ozone C6H4(CH3)2  + 21 O3 ----> 8 CO2 + 5  H2O + 21 O2
Number
of O2 molecules consumed per molecule of compound =  10.5


III.  ALIPHATIC COMPOUNDS
22 BUTANE Formula  C4H10
Reaction with Ozone: C4H10 + 13 O3 ----> 4 CO2 + 5 H2O + 13 O2
Number of O2
molecules consumed per molecule of compound = 6.5
23. ISOBUTANE. Formula (CH3)3CH  (need to check for accuracy)
24. LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS [LPG]  General Formula CnH2N+2. Both LPG
(Liquefied petroleum gas) is a mixture of  aliphatic, saturated
hydrocarbons,
therefore only a generic formula was used  to describe the reaction
with Ozone .
Reaction wtih Ozone: CnH2N+2 + O3  ---- > nC02 + (n+1) H2O + O2
Number of O2
molecules consumed per  molecule of compound: 3/2 n + 1/2 O
25. MINERAL SPIRITS General  Formula Cn H2n+2
Mineral spirits are mixtures of aliphatic, saturated  hydrocarbons,
therefore
only a generic formula was used to describe the  reaction with
Ozone.
Reaction wtih Ozone: Cn H2n+2  + O3 ---- > nCO2 +  (n+ 1) H2O + O2 .
Number of O2
molecules consumed per molecule of compound:  3/2 n + 1/2 O
26. PROPANE Formula  C3H8
Reaction wtih Ozone: C3H8 + 10 O3 :----> 3CO2 + 4 H2O + 10 O2
Number of O2
molecules consumed per molecule of compound = 5


I V.  CHLORIDES
Chlorides are organic compounds which have one or  more chlorine
atoms in
their structure. These compounds react with Ozone to  produce
hypochloride which
in turn decompose to produce chloride and release  oxygen, as shown
in the
following reaction: CL2O ---- > 2CL-1 + 1/2  O2
27. METHYLENE CHLORIDE  (Dichloromethane), Formula CH2CL2
Reaction with Ozone: 2CH2CL2 + 4 O3 ----  > CO2 + H2O + CL2O + 4 O
Number of
O2 molecules consumed per molecule of  compound = 1
28. CHLOROFORM, Formula  CHCL3.
Reaction wtih Ozone: 6 CHCL3 + 6 O3 --- > 6 CO2 + 3 H2O + 9 CL2O
Number of
O2 molecules consumed per molecule of compound = 2/9 O
29. METHYL CHLOROFORM, Formula  CH3CCL3
Reaction with Ozonee: 2CH3CCL3 + 14 O3 ---- > 4 CO2 + 3 H2O + 3
CL2O + 14 O2
Number of O2 molecules consumed per molecule of compound =  3.5
30. PERCHLOROETHYLENE Formula  CCL2CCL2
Reaction with Ozone: CCL2CCL2 + 6 O3 ---- > 2 CO2 + 2 CL2O  +  6 O2
Number of
O2 molecules consumed per molecule of compound =  1.5
31. TRICHLOROETHYLENE Formula  CHCLCCL2
Reaction with Ozone: 2 CHCLCCL2 + 12 O3 ---- > 4 CO2 + H2O + 3  CL2O
+ 12 O2
. Number of O2 molecules consumed per molecule of compound =  3


V. NITROGEN  CONTAINING COMPOUNDS
32. HYDROGEN CYANIDE Formula  HCN
Reaction with Ozone: 2HCN + 5 O3 ---- > 2 CO2 + H2O + N2 + 5  O2
Number of
O2 molecules consumed per molecule of compound = 1.25
33 AMINO PHENOL General Formula  CH3C6H4NH2 (need to check for
accuracy)
34 AMMONIA. Formula  NH3
Reaction with Ozone: 2NH3 + 3 O3 ----> N2 + 3 H20 + 3 O2 . Number
of  O2
molecules consumed per molecule of compound = 0.75
35 AMMONIUM HYDROXIDE Formuta  NH4OH
Reaction with Ozone: 2NH4OH +3 O3 ----> N2 +5 H2O + 3 O2   Number of
O2
molecules consumed per molecule of compound = 0.75
36. BENZOPYRENE Formula  C20H12
Reaction with Ozone: 3C20H12 + 46 O3 ---- > 60 CO2 + 18 H2O .
Number of O2
molecules consumed per molecule of compound = 17
37. EDTA (Ethylene Diamine  Tetracetic Acid) Formula C10H16N2O8
Reaction with Ozone: C10H16N2O8 + 20 O3  ---- > 10 CO2 + 8 H2O + N2
+ 2 O2
[possible error, original document listed  "2 CO2" at the end, but
it didn't
make sense to me]. Number of O2 molecules  consumed per molecule of
compound = 30
38. ETHANOLAMINE Formula  NH2CH2CH2OH
Reaction with Ozone: 2NH2CH2CH2OH + 13 O3 ---- > 4 CO2 + 7  H2O + 13
O2 + N2
. Number of O2 molecules consumed per molecule of compound: =  3.25
39. PHENACETIN. Formula  CH3CONHC6H4OC2H5.
Reaction with Ozone : CH3CONHC6H4OC2H5. + 49 O3 .----  > 20 CO2 + 13
H2O + N2
+ 49 O2 . Number of O2 molecules consumed per  molecule of compound
= 24.5



VI.  SULFUR CONTAINING COMPOUNDS
These compounds react with OZONE to produce sulfur  trioxide (S03),
which in
the presence of water forms sulfuric  acid, a strong mineral acid.
40. AMMONIUM PERSULFATE Formula  (NH4)2S2O8
Persulfuric acid (H2S2O8) is a very unstable acid which releases
oxygen upon
exposure to heat. Its decomposition product is sulfuric  acid
(H2S04) a very
strong mineral acid.

Reaction with Ozone:  (NH4)2S2O8 + 3 O3 ---- >N2 + H2S2O8 + 3 H2O +
3 O2
Number of O2  molecules consumed per molecule of compound = 1/5 O
41. AMMONIUM THlIOGLYCOLATE  Formula NH2COCH2SH
Reaction with Ozone: [possible error] 2C2H5SNO + 17 O3  ---->4  C02
+ 5 H2O +
N2 + 2SO3 + 17 O2 Number of O2 molecules  consumed per molecule of
compound =
2
42. SODIUM BISULFITE Formula  NaHS03.
Reaction with Ozone: NaHS03 + O3 ---- > NaHSO4 + O2  Number  of O2
molecules
consumed per molecule of compound = 1.5
43. THIOGLYCOLIC ACID Fonnula  HSCH2COOH
Reaction with Ozone: HSCH2COOH + 7 O3 ---- > 2 CO2 + 2 H2O +  S03 +
7 O2 .
Number of O2 molecules consumed per molecule of compound =  3.5


VII.  OTHER
44. ALKYLATED SILICATES General  Formula (RnSiO)m. These silicates
produce
SILICA (silicon dioxide) which is  considered a respiratory hazard
Reaction with Ozone: (RnSiO)m + O3 ---- > CO2 +  H2O + SiO2 . Number
of O2
molecules consumed per molecule of compound = 4  5m
45. NON-IONIC DETERGENTS Formula  CxHy , Non-ionic detergents do not
have a
generic formula. therefore the  formula CxHy is used to define this
class of
compounds.

Reaction with  Ozone: CxHy + O3 -- > CO2 + H2O + O2 . Number of O2
molecules
consumed per  molecule of compound = 6x + 1.5y


VIII.  NON-REACTIVE COMPOUNDS The following compounds do  not react
with
OZONE.
46. CALCIUM OXIDE Formula  CaO
47. HYDROGEN PEROXIDE Formula H2O2
48.  PHOSPHORIC ACID Formula H3PO4
49. POTASSIUM  PERSULFATE. Formula K2S2O5
50. SILICAS Formula  SiO2
51. SODIUM BROMATE Formula NaBrO3
52.  SODIUM PERSULFATE Formula Na2S2O5
53. STRONTIUM  PEROXIDE Formula SrO2
54. TETRASODIUM  PYROPHOSPHATE Formula Na4P2O7
55. TITANIUM  DIOXIDE Formula TiO2
56. CARBON TETRACHLORIDE  (low temperature)Formula CLC4







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_http://educate-yourself.org/cancer/ozonebymajidli17jul03.shtml_
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July 17, 2003

(Abridgement from The Journal of  Integrative Medicine article:
Oxidative
Regression To Primordial  Cellular Ecology (ORPEC))
The author's clinical experience has led him to  conclude that
oxygenative
antioxidant therapies such as nasal oxygen and  intravenous
infusions of
ozone-oxygen gas mixture and hydrogen peroxide are  among the most
beneficial
therapies for reversing the ORPEC state.
Since oxygen, ozone and hydrogen peroxide act as  oxidants in a
laboratory
setting, therapies employing those agents are  generally deemed
oxidative
therapies.191-193 Until recently, the author  accepted that view
uncritically.
However, it is clear from studies presented  in this article that
this is a gross
error. In reality, such therapies in the  context of the ORPEC state
are
powerful oxygenative and antioxidant therapies.  The reason for that
widespread
misconception is the failure to clearly  understand the complex
biologic
consequences of adding oxygen, ozone, and  hydrogen peroxide to
severely impaired
enzymatic and cellular ecosystems in  patients with accelerated
oxidative injury.
A Burst of Thunderstorm, A Burst of  Oxidants

An analogy of a burst of thunderstorm may be used  to explain the
possible
mechanism action of ozone. The still air in a city on  a hot, humid
summer
afternoon is thick with stagnant smog. The traffic on city  streets
is snarled.
Tree leaves are dry and limp. Many persons are distressed  by air
pollution.
Suddenly, dark clouds loom large and bring a heavy  thunderstorm.
Strong winds
push out the polluted air. Tree leaves are  bombarded by heavy
rains. The healthy
and robust leaves of trees withstand the  storm well, while older
and
weakened leaves are severely damaged. Many  withering leaves on tree
brances are
blown away. After the thunderstorm  subsides, the air is clean and
crisp. The
trees looked washed, their leaves  fresh and shiny. Bursts of
intravenously
injected ozone and hydrogen peroxide  affect the blood elements the
same way. The
membranes of healthy erythrocytes  withstand the oxidative stress of
ozone and
hydrogen peroxide well, recovering  their normal morphology after
initial
membrane deformities. The senescent  cells, by contrast, shrink and
undergo lysis.
Below, some theoretical, clinical and experimental  considerations
are
presented that shed light on the apparent paradox of agents  that
are oxidizing in
their essential roles, and yet provide the basis for  oxygenative
antioxidant
therapies.
Intermittent Nasal Oxygen

The oxygenative role of nasal oxygen is  self-evident. Oxygen is
also a
powerful oxidizer, as discussed earlier in the  section devoted to
spontaneity of
oxidation in nature. The ORPEC hypothesis  provides a clear
scientific basis
for oxygen's ability to also serve the  opposing antioxidant role.
As discussed
earlier, anoxia increases oxidative  stress directly by facilitating
the
generation of toxic reactive species as  well as indirectly by
causing acidosis.
In this author's clinical experience, the use of  intermittent nasal
administration of oxygen (2.5 to 3.5 L/min given for  periods of one
hour two or three
times a day) benefits most patients in the  ORPEC state. It is also
the
opinion of the author that oxygen therapy is very  underutilized in
the care of
patients in the ORPEC state, such as those with  fibromyalgia,
chronic fatigue
state, severe autoimmune disorders, and  spreading malignant tumors.
Oxygen is
readily and inexpensively available to  all patients. Also available
are
inexpensive portable rental units that may be  used in travel as
well.
When used intermittently and in moderate doses as  described here,
this
therapy has been found to be completely free of adverse  effects.
The author also
has limited experience with oxygen therapy in  patients with severe
pulmonary
emphysema and pulmonary interstitial fibrosis.  Evidently, the use
of oxygen in
such patients must be monitored closely so  that oxygen therapy does
not
cause further deterioration in the function of  central sensors for
oxygen and
carbon dioxide.
Intravenous Ozone Therapy

Ozone is triatomic oxygen  with a high electrovoltaic potential.
Ozone gas
infused intravenously at the  Institute consists of a gaseous
mixture with
oxygen containing a very low  concentration of ozone. It is prepared
by passing
pure oxygen through a high  voltage field. The concentration of
ozone generated
depends on the rate of  flow of oxygen as well as on the conditions
of voltage
and spacing of  electrodes. The gaseous mixture used in our clinical
practice
is titrated to  contain from 0.3 to 2.5% (30 to 50 ug O3/ml O2).
Thus,
intravenously  administered "ozone" in reality represents 97 to
99.7% of pure
oxygen.
Practitioners who have never administered ozone gas  mixture
intravenously
often express concern about the possibility of air  embolism caused
by gas
infusion. Such concern is totally unwarranted. Pure  oxygen and
ozone diffuse
immediately into the blood and do not persist as  gases. The author
has tested for
that on numerous occasions by injecting 2 ml  of the ozone mixture
into a
large vein, then immediately drawing the blood  back. Except on
uncommon
occasions, the blood drawn back from the vein is pink  (ozone turns
dark venous blood
into pink blood) and free of any gas bubbles.  One can safely
presume that the
process of dissolution of the gas mixture  would be complete by the
time it
reaches the large veins in the  thorax.
Another concern expressed by those unfamiliar with  the clinical
uses of
ozone mixture is the toxicity of ozone as discussed by
environmentalists. It must
be recognized that those individuals are perturbed  by the products
of
reaction of ozone with other ecopollutants such as oxides  of
nitrogen. Ozone is a
highly reactive molecule. Indeed, ozone owes its many  antiviral,
antibacterial, and antifungal properties to this aspect of this
specific aspect.
Microscopic Evidence for the  Antioxidant Role of Intravenous Ozone
Therapy
In  the concentration used our in clinical practice, ozone causes
temporary
and  reversible erythrocyte membrane damage as evidenced by clumping
and red
cell  membrane deformity. The evidence for the oxidative nature of
such
erythrocyte  membrane deformities has been previously demonstrated
by the
reversibility of  such changes with antioxidants such as ascorbic
acid, tocopherol, and
taurine.56,57
How may the observed overall invivo antioxidant  effects of ozone, a
powerful
invitro oxidant, be explained? Ozone has well  established effects
of
improving tissue perfusion and cellular oxygenation.67  Just as the
duality of oxygen
allows it to be a molecular Dr. Jekyll and Mr.  Hyde, reactive
oxidant
species also play dual roles. Not only do they inflict  oxidative
damage to enzymes,
induce mutations, and damage cell membranes, they  also serve many
useful
functions such as modulation of cellular redox  dynamics, activation
of gene
transcription, signal transduction, and  apoptosis.93-95 It seems
that ozone
evokes an upregulatory response from cell  membrane-associated
antioxidant enzyme
systems just as all oxidants do from  all biologic antioxidant
systems. Though,
direct quantitative data for those  effects are not yet forthcoming.
One may
also, with good reason, speculate  that ozone elicits similar
responses from
other matrix- and cell  organelle-related antioxidant systems. There
is yet an
other important  mechanism by which ozone protects patients with
chronic
illnesses from  accelerated oxidative stress. Viruses, bacteria,
fungi, PLFs and
parasite  inflict cellular injury by causing oxidative stress. Ozone
also is a
well  established antiviral, antibacterial, and antifungal agent.58-
63. Ozone
through its powerful antimicrobial effects reduces the overall
oxidative
stress on persons with chronic viral, bacterial, fungal and PLF
overgrowth
syndromes. Thus, the ORPEC hypothesis carries strong explanatory
power for the
empirically observed biologic antioxidant effects of ozone.
Intravenous Hydrogen Peroxide Therapy for the  ORPEC State

The biologic antioxidant  effects of hydrogen peroxide, a potent
oxidizer
like ozone, are mediated by  all the mechanisms cited for ozone in
the preceding
section. The clinical  benefits of hydrogen peroxide infusions
observed at the
Institute in patients  with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue
syndrome are the
subject of a separate  report.72
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Introduction

Ozone is an  unstable, but highly beneficial molecule. It's the tri-
atomic
form of  oxygen: Instead of the normal arrangement of 2 atoms of
oxygen (O2),
ozone is  comprised of 3 atoms of oxygen (O3). Ozone, however,
doesn't want to
stay in  that tri-atomic state very long and unless held in check or
bound by
other  molecular couplings, ozone will usually break down from O3 to
O2 + O1
within  20 minutes of so (at atmospheric pressure at least). O1 is
called a
singlet  oxygen atom and it's HIGHLY REACTIVE. with just about any
substance that
should NOT be in the human body including all pathogens (virus,
bacteria,
etc.) and synthetic compounds or their metabolites such as  drugs
and their
metabolite residues.
There are 3 common methods of  producing  ozone.
1. Hot Spark
2. Ultraviolet light
3. Cold Plasma
Hot spark (corona discharge) production was used  mostly for
industrial
applications, but today you will corona discharge ozone  available
for personal
application. Ultraviolet and cold plasma are most  commonly offered
in
therapeutic work.
Cold plasma will produce far greater quantities of  ozone in a given
space of
time compared to ultraviolet production. However,  that is not to
say that
the ultraviolet method is not a useful method of  producing ozone.
When you want
a smaller, steady trickle of ozone, then UV  might be the better
choice.
Some cold plasma units also have the capability of  producing short-
lived
isotopes of ozone which include O4, O5, O6, O7  etc.   These
isotopes are even
more reactive than ordinary  O3.
Therapeutic Applications

Ozone can be  applied to the body in a number of ways. The Germans
have a
long history of  applying ozone in a therapy known as
Autohematherapy. This
therapy  requires the removal of  a pint of blood from the body,
ozonating it, and
reintroducing the blood into the bloodstream.
A second technique is to introduce the ozone  directly into the
bloodstream
via intravenous injection. The idea of  intravenous injection has
raised
concern with some people concerning the  notion of gas embolism
which might lead to
a heart attack or blockage in  the lungs. Gas embolisms, however, do
not occur
with pure ozone.  Air, which is largely composed of 80% nitrogen and
20 %
oxygen, will  create a gas bubble in the blood at atmospheric
pressure, but not
ozone. Nitrogen will create a gas bubble in the blood at
atmospheric
pressure, but not ozone. The rate of ozone delivery  and the very
small needle used to
inject the ozone, guarantee no  possibility of gas embolism. Do not
allow
this bogus fear tactic to keep you  from investigating this highly
effective and
safe therapy!
A third technique is to introduce the ozone gas  stream into the
colon via
the rectum (called Rectal Insufflation).
A fourth technique is to ozonate water and  have the patient drink
it.
A fifth method is something that I learned from a  cancer patient
(Mark
Blakemore) who was given a couple of months to live  by his
oncologist. He  was
able to cure himself of cancer with ozone by  allowing a gentle
stream of ozone
to enter the bloodstream by holding the  ozone output tube about one
inch from
his eardrum in a process known as ear  insufflation..
A sixth technique for assimilating ozone through  the skin  is
called an
Ozone Shower. You enclose the body  part  (or the entire patient
from the neck
down) in a plastic bag or a  jumpsuit made of Tyvek (a permeable
synthetic fiber)
and attach a tube  carrying the ozone stream into the bag. The
patient is
nude if it's a full  body application. It's best to warm up the skin
and open
pores by taking a  warm shower beforehand. Breathing a substantial
concentration
of ozone is  irritating to lung tissue, so you should point a fan at
the
patient's face to  keep him from breathing the ozone directly.
The therapeutic properties of ozone can be  astounding. Organized
Medicine,
the FDA, and above  all the Pharmaceutical giants have been actively
suppressing  information about ozone therapy for the better part of
this century.
Officially, the FDA list ozone  as a toxic gas, an utter and
contemptible
falsehood. Many healers,  including licensed MD's and chiropractors
have been jailed
and viciously  harassed for treating (and healing) patients with
ozone. Why? It
works  and the pharmaceutical houses, along with their puppets in
the FDA and
local  medical boards don't want you to know that it works! That's
why.
Ozonated Water

Ozonated  water is highly beneficial for either healthy or sickly
people.
It's easy to  make and should be consumed regularly. Besides
providing more
oxygen to the  brain (greater alertness and mental clarity),
Ozonated water will
_oxidize  pathogens_ (http://educate-
yourself.org/ozone/ozoneart2.shtml)  and
synthetics residues in the body,  allowing their complete
elimination through
excretion. To make Ozonated water  using our generator, simply place
the output
tubing with the attached air  stone bubbler into a large empty glass
or
pitcher. Fill half of the glass with  ice and top off with clean
water ( I normally
use distilled or spring water  and avoid tap water, but use tap
water if you
have nothing else. The ozone  will oxidize out the undesirable
contaminants in
tap water).
Run the generator for 5-10 minutes for a large  glass of water and
20-25
minutes for a pitcher of water. The purpose of the  ice is to make
the water as
cold as possible in order to absorb more ozone and  hold onto it for
a longer
period of time. Room temperature water loses its  ozone within a few
minutes.
Drink the Ozonated water as soon as you can after  making it. The
ozone is
constantly coming out of solution and will completely  dissipate in
about 20
minutes, so the sooner you drink it, the more ozone  you'll get.
Don't try to guzzle
it because it's icy water, but keep on sipping  it steadily until
its all
down.
You can extend the 'shelf life' of Ozonated water  by adding a
couple of
drops of  ConcenTrace (available in most  health food stores as a
trace mineral
supplement) to the water before you  ozonate it. You can then bottle
it and keep
it in the refrigerator for a few  days. Some ozone will attach
itself to the
minerals in ConcenTrace and  prevent it from bubbling out of the
water so
quickly.
Ozonated Olive Oil

You can ingest a teaspoon of  ozonated olive oil once or twice a day
and get
a steady  internal application of ozone. You can use any olive oil,
but I
prefer to use  organic Extra Virgin Olive oil. I nearly fill an 8
0z. glass jar
(with a screw  on lid) with olive oil. You can bubble ozone through
the oil for
60 minutes if  you're using a 100-200mg ozone machine or 30 minutes
if you
have a 400 mg.  ozone machine. After screwing on the lid, you can
store it in the
refrigerator  for about 30 days.
If you have an ozone machine  with a heavy duty air pump, you can
make
concentrated ozonated olive  oil by bubbling ozone through olive oil
for 2 or 3 or 4
weeks, 24  hours a day. I usually use a round fish bowl half filled
with
olive oil. At  one point in the production process (after a few
days), the
viscosity of the  olive oil will be such that you will get foaming
for a while. Using
the round  fish bowl will cause the foam bubbles to climb up the
inside of
the fish bowl  where its own weight will cause it to drop back into
the main
body of oil.  It's the ideal shape to use to prevent foaming oil
from going over
the top of  your container. I prefer to use a cold plasma ozone
generator  for
all types of ozone applications. Cold plasma has zero nitrogen by-
products
(a potential drawback to corona discharge machines for internal
applications.
It's OK for external applications) and yet a very high output of
ozone
compared to UV, which has a substantially lower ozone output and
lower  electron
spin velocity than cold plasma produced ozone. After placing it in
a  small jar,
you stick it into the freezer for storage (always put it back into
the
freezer after use in order to retain the maximum potency of
ozone).
Technique for  Concentrated Olive Oil

Take a wide mouth glass jar  or lab beaker or (ideally) a round
glass fish
bowl and fill it somewhere  between one third and one half with
olive oil. Don't
add more than one half  olive oil because you're going to have a
mess on your
hands later on. Place  the special tubing for Ozonated olive oil
that came
with the generator into  the bottom of the jar and turn the
generator on. Adjust
the flow output valve  for a nice even bubbling. I usually loosely
place a
glass plate on top of the  beaker to keep out dust. Any kind of
loose tent will
work though. After 10 or  12 days, the olive oil will go through a
phase where
it will produce lots of  big foamy bubbles which can rise to the top
of the
beaker (and possibly  overflow-thus the caution about not adding too
much olive
oil). That phase  will pass and the bubbles will soon become much
finer and
the foam will then  become smaller in volume. Eventually, the
foaming will stop
altogether. After  running the process for 3 or 4 weeks, the olive
will have
a thick, syrupy  consistency. You can use this form for oral
application or
use it for other  applications with require a semi- liquid
consistency. Use your
imagination and  run some experiments. Ozonated olive oil is
extremely
useful. I'm sure  you can come up with a few tricks of your own.
By attaching the ozone molecule to  the olive oil molecular matrix,
you can
apply the ozone topically to  lesions, cuts, abrasions, infections,
scars,
wounds, etc. Its therapeutic  capacities can be amazing. If you have
a serious
external lesion or infection  that is not healing, you should
consider using
Ozonated olive oil.
Ozone  Generators
Send me an E mail for more  information regarding ozone generators.
. (_Editor@..._ (mailto:editor@...) )
(My thanks to Ed McCabe, Merlin Wolf,  Dr Bob Beck and  Mark
Blakemore (self
described during a radio interview as "just a dumb  farmer") for
their
contributions in helping to educate the public about the  many
benefits of ozone
therapy.)
Articles on Ozone & Hydrogen  Peroxide:
_Oxygen,  Ozone, & Hydrogen Peroxide by Dr. Majid Ali (July 17,
2003)_
(http://educate-yourself.org/cancer/ozonebymajidli17jul03.shtml)
_http://educate-yourself.org/cancer/ozonebymajidli17jul03.shtml_
(http://educate-yourself.org/cancer/ozonebymajidli17jul03.shtml)
_The Many Benefits of  Hydrogen Peroxide (July 17,  2003)_
(http://educate-
yourself.org/cancer/benefitsofhydrogenperozide17jul03.shtml)







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Study shows why winter is 'flu season'

Reuters
1:38 PM EST March 3, 2008

Influenza viruses coat themselves in fatty material that hardens and
protects them in colder temperatures - a finding that could explain
why winter is the flu season, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday.
This butter-like coating melts in the respiratory tract, allowing the
virus to infect cells, the team at the National Institutes of Health
found.

"Like an M&M in your mouth, the protective covering melts when it
enters
the respiratory tract," said Joshua Zimmerberg of the National
Institute
of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), who led the study.

The NICHD is one of the National Institutes of Health.

"It's only in this liquid phase that the virus is capable of
entering a
cell to infect it."
Experts have long pondered why flu and other respiratory viruses
spread
more in winter. No one explanation, such as people staying indoors
more,
or the destructive effect of the sun's radiation in summer, has fully
explained it.

The new report, published in the journal Nature Chemical Biology,
could
lead to new ways to prevent and treat flu, said NICHD Director Duane
Alexander.

"The study results open new avenues of research for thwarting winter
flu
outbreaks," Alexander said in a statement.
"Now that we understand how the flu virus protects itself so that it
can
spread from person to person, we can work on ways to interfere with
that
protective mechanism."
Zimmerman's team used a type of imaging called nuclear magnetic
resonance imaging to look at the outer coat of flu viruses.

Going out into the world

Viruses cannot replicate on their own but instead must hijack a
living
cell. Influenza viruses have a membrane-like outer coating that they
fuse to the victim cell.
They inject genetic material into the cell, turning it into a virus
factory. Some types of viruses simply explode out of these hijacked
cells, but influenza instead "buds" out, and uses lipids such as
cholesterol from the cells to make a membrane to help it do so.

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EPA Dismisses Neurotoxin Specialist
Tue Mar 4, 2008 10:55 am (PST)
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(NaturalNews) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) dismissed an
award-winning neurotoxin specialist from a toxicology review panel in
August, in compliance with a request from the industry lobby group the
American Chemical Council....

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