I have communicated with Rich concerning chelating and will post
that next week. Among other things we discussed magnesium which is needed to
increase and make both Glutathione and ATP - but magnesium levels are exceeding
difficult to increase ,unless one does it transdermally with as pure a product
as possible.
                  Blessings
                         Shan


From:         Rich Van Konynenburg
Subject:      RES, MED: How might the Blasi protocol work in CFS?

  http://listserv.nodak.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0509c&L=co-cure&P=1585

There have been enough positive results reported from taking the salts of the
Blasi protocol that I have started to think about how it might be working at
the biochemical and physiological levels, in the context of what I already
believe to be true. I will confine my remarks to CFS, since I don't have a
working hypothesis for FM.

I would like to suggest three possibilities:

First, the protocol is highest in sodium. It is known that continually taking
more sodium has the effect of raising the blood volume. We know that many
PWCs test low in total blood volume, and we also know that increasing the blood
volume raises the venous return to the heart, and its preload. In view of the
work of Dr. Arnold Peckerman et al., confirmed by the more recent measurements
reported by Dr. Paul Cheney in Texas last June, we know that diastolic
cardiomyopathy is a problem in many PWCs, especially those with more severe
symptoms.
While increasing the preload does not correct the cardiomyopathy, it will
help to increase the cardiac output somewhat in the presence of the
cardiomyopathy. Increased cardiac output would have salutory effects on many
aspects of the
pathophysiology of CFS. This may be one mechanism by which the Blasi protocol
could benefit PWCs.

A second suggestion I would make is as follows:
there is good evidence for mitochondrial dysfunction in the skeletal muscle
cells in CFS (and in the later stage of CFS, it now appears that the heart
muscle is similarly affected), and I suspect that in many cases this is due to
glutathione depletion, which allows peroxynitrite to rise and to partially block
the Krebs cycle and probably also the respiratory chain. This decreases the
rate of production of ATP in these cells. It's true that ATP is used directly on
the muscle fiber proteins to enable them to extend, in preparation for a new
contraction (sort of like arming a mousetrap; you put the energy in
when you set the trap, and it is utilized when the trap is triggered
by the mouse.) The lack of a rapid enough supply of ATP is what is proposed
to limit the relaxation of the left ventricle of the heart in the diastolic
cardiomyopathy observed in CFS by Dr. Cheney. But ATP is also utilized in a big
way in cells to power the ion pumps. The system of ion pumps maintains the
proper concentrations of sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium
inside the cells, relative to the outside. In muscle and nerve cells,
particularly, these concentration gradients are continually being degraded by
the
nerve impulses that are powered by them, and in cells in general, the sodium
gradient is used to power transport of needed substances into the cells, so the
pumps have to continue to operate to restore the concentration gradients and the
electrical potential across the cell membrane. When there is a decrease in
the rate of production of ATP, it can be expected that these pumps will not be
able to operate as rapidly as normal. The concentration
gradients of the ions can then be expected to decrease from their
normal operating values. I suspect that supplying potassium and magnesium in
the Blasi protocol may assist the underpowered ion pumps in their job of
maintaining proper concentrations of these ions inside the cells.

The third suggestion I would make is that we know that many PWCs
have mild diabetes insipidus (not the same as the more common diabetes
mellitus, which involves blood sugar). In diabetes insipidus, the person
produces
excessive amounts of urine. In the process, there is a tendency to waste more
electrolytes in the urine. The Blasi protocol may be helping to restore the
electrolytes that are wasted.

None of these actions would produce a cure of the underlying causes
of CFS, as far as I can tell, but they would be supportive of the overall
physiology and would contribute to better quality of life.

In my view, the more fundamental issues that also need to be
addressed are

(1) getting the glutathione levels and rate of production back up to normal,

(2) addressing the reasons why the glutathione went down originally (possible
genetic variations, which can perhaps be compensated using certain
supplements, and various physical, chemical, biological and/or psycholical or
emotional
stressors that probably combined with a genetic predisposition to
lower the glutathione) and

(3) correcting the problems that have subsequently arisen as a result of the
glutathione going down, which now produce positive feedback or vicious circle
mechanisms, making it difficult to restore the glutathione level. These latter
problems include infections of various sorts (viral, bacterial and fungal)
and buildup of toxins (especially mercury).

Rich Van Konynenburg, Ph.D.

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In light of especially Cheney's
( http://www.dfwcfids.org/medical/cheney/heart04.htm  )
    Myhill's ( http://www.cfids-cab.org/MESA/DrMyhill-373.pdf   &
http://www.drmyhill.co.uk/article.cfm?id=373  ) & Peckerman's
( http://www.cfids-cab.org/MESA/Lerner.html ) as well as Rich Van Konynenburg
( http://listserv.nodak.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0509c&L=co-cure&P=1585 )
cardiomyopathy comments, among others, regarding CFS, ME, & FM etc ....
I thought this was interesting.
      I  seem to have been collecting these articles. The forth url above has
several links on it regarding this issue.
                  Blessings
                          Shan

Women Are Said to Face Hidden Heart Disease Risk
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/01/health/01heart.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&
oref=slogin
By DENISE GRADY
Published: February 1, 2006

Women are more likely than men to have a hidden type of coronary disease (
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/hear\
t
disease/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier )  in which their heart muscle is
starved for oxygen even though their coronary arteries look clear and free of
blockages on X-rays, doctors are reporting.

The condition, which may affect three million American women, greatly
increases the risk of a heart attack. Its main symptom is chest pain or
discomfort.
In many women, the pain occurs but nothing shows up on an angiogram, a test in
which dye is injected into the coronary arteries and they are X-rayed in a
search for blockages, so doctors conclude that no treatment is needed.

But patients may then go on to have heart attacks or develop heart failure, a
weakening of the heart muscle that can be debilitating and ultimately fatal.

"When there are no blockages, everybody slacks off, including the patient,
and we don't want to do that," said Dr. George Sopko of the National Heart, Lung
and Blood Institute. Such patients almost certainly need treatment, he said.

The best way for a woman to find out whether she has the artery disease is to
undergo tests, including certain type of stress tests, that measure blood
flow to the heart. But not everyone needs to be tested; women with symptoms, a
family history of heart disease or severe risk factors may be candidates.

The findings are among those in a series of articles to be published today in
two medical journals — the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and
Circulation — exploring the differences in heart disease between men and
women. The subject has drawn increasing interest in recent decades, as
scientists
began to realize that the results of previous studies, done mostly in men, did
not always apply to women.

Among the differences already known are that women with heart disease tend to
be sicker than men by the time it is diagnosed, to benefit less from bypass
surgery and to have more severe symptoms when they develop heart failure. Some
of the difference is because women are older and frailer when they develop
heart disease, but that does not account for all of it.

Symptoms of heart attack also tend to differ. Men report crushing pain in the
chest, while women are more likely to feel dizzy, sick, short of breath and
sweaty.

Heart disease, strokes and other cardiovascular diseases are the leading
causes of death in the United States and other developed countries. They killed
910,600 people in the United States in 2003, the most recent year for which data
are available; more than half the deaths, 484,000, were among women.

Although women's risk is greatest after menopause (
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/meno\
pause/index.html?inline=
nyt-classifier ) and increases with age, heart disease is the No. 1 cause of
death in all women older than 25. Overall death rates from coronary disease
have declined in the past few decades, but most of the improvements have been in
men's rates.

The cause of the hidden disease being described today is a diffuse buildup of
fatty deposits inside the walls of the coronary arteries and in the very
small arteries in the heart. The deposits, or plaques, do not show up as
blockages
on X-rays, but they still interfere with blood flow and can damage the heart
muscle, causing ischemic heart disease. ("Ischemia" means "inadequate blood
flow.")

But often the condition is not recognized, and the women are told they have
nothing to worry about. Instead, Dr. Sopko said, they should be treated
aggressively for other problems that lead to artery disease like high
cholesterol,
high blood pressure and diabetes. If necessary, he added, they should also be
advised to quit smoking, lose weight and exercise more.

The researchers report that compared to a nonsmoker, a woman who smokes has a
risk of dying from heart disease equal to the risk she would have if she
weighed 90 pounds more than the nonsmoker.

"To women as patients, the message is, look, if you have symptoms, don't
think because you are a woman you are immune to having a heart problem," Dr.
Sopko
said.

The findings are based on a government-sponsored study called Wise, for
Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation. Begun in 1996, it included 936 women who
had
symptoms that led doctors to order angiograms. The women's average age was
about 58, but a quarter were young enough to be premenopausal.

Despite their symptoms, only a third of the group had obvious blockages in
their coronary arteries. In a similar group of men, three-quarters or more would
have a severe blockage, said Dr. Carl J. Pepine, the chief of cardiovascular
medicine at the University of Florida in Gainesville and one of the lead
investigators in the Wise study.

In the remaining two-thirds of the women — that is, those without blockages
—
  more than half had abnormalities in their arteries, like an inability to
dilate when needed, that could cause ischemia, Dr. Pepine said. The
abnormalities
occurred in both the coronary arteries and smaller ones that feed the heart,
a network of tiny vessels called the microvasculature.

Tests showed that the artery walls were full of plaque but had grown outward
to accommodate it, so that the opening appeared normal. But, eventually, the
condition may progress enough to start pinching the artery shut, Dr. Pepine
said.

After four years, the rate of deaths or heart attacks in the group without
blockages was 10 percent.

"That's much too high for somebody with a normal coronary angiogram," Dr.
Pepine said.

It is not clear why women seem more prone to the hidden vascular disease, the
researchers said, though it may be linked to hormonal imbalances and a
greater tendency to suffer from inflammation, which plays a role in artery
disease.



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Hi Anna,

   I'll try to complete the webpage which outlines the suggested
approach to the wellness program.  There are a couple changes that are
not yet mentioned on the website.  When I've got it done I'll email
you the link.

   You may have to do some sluething to find sources for some of the
items that are suggested.  I'm not sure it the companies that I get
them from ship outside the USA.


All the best,
Jim


--- In CFS-FMS_FIRST-Aid@yahoogroups.com, anna glynn
<annaglynn22@y...> wrote:
>
>
> jim
> can you send me a link to the website
> with details of the entire protocol
> i cant seem to find the link
> i tried
> temple health
> xmission.com
> thmi.com
>
> i need to read more on the protocol
> as i am not confident that i am following it right
>
> thanks
> Anna (irelAND)
>
>
>
> ___________________________________________________________
> Win a BlackBerry device from O2 with Yahoo!. Enter now.
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jim
can you send me a link to the website
with details of the entire protocol
i cant seem to find the link
i tried
temple health
xmission.com
thmi.com

i need to read more on the protocol
as i am not confident that i am following it right

thanks
Anna (irelAND)



___________________________________________________________
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Mineral Therapy and the Use of Gold
       International Medical Veritas Association





            The essay "The Age of Autism: Gold standards"  by Dan Olmstead of
United Press International says, "A published scientific paper suggests gold
salts -- the treatment that may have prompted improvement in the first child
ever diagnosed with autism -- can affect mental conditions." Before we set off
on a gold rush it would be helpful to see the name of this emerging branch of
medicine, mineral therapy, brought into focus. Mineral therapy does offer a hope
for autism children, their families, as well as the entire human race threatened
with plagues of chronic and infectious diseases as well as chemical poisoning.



       To focus on only one of the minerals, and not on the entire
       spectrum of minerals, will not serve the need of humanity.



           Magnesium though is the single most needed (in terms of quantity and
strategic cellular importance) and most helpful mineral (in a broad and specific
sense). Selenium also takes on a strategic importance living as we do in the age
of a rising tide of mercury because it binds so strongly with mercury before the
mercury gets a chance to cause damage. Now we are hearing of the possibility
that gold salts[i] can pull mercury off binding sites, something selenium and
magnesium cannot do.



            This is not a strange idea when we consider the relationship between
gold and mercury in gold mining. There they use the mercury to harvest the gold.
Unfortunately humanity has to deal with hundreds of thousands of tons of
environmental mercury pollution that has accumulated through the last few
centuries of gold mining.



           Dr. Boyd Haley says, "This does lend support to the possible removal
of mercury from biological proteins in individuals treated with gold salts."
Gold, he thinks, might pull mercury "off the enzyme it's inhibiting and
reactivate that enzyme." Dr. Haley though is adamant about the down side of
using gold salts. "This issue needs research as it has good possibilities for
helping the older autistics but it is also replete with danger if used
ignorantly.  Also, consider the thiols that are part of the gold salts, namely
thioglucose and thiomalate, both analogs of natural compounds.  It might be that
the delivery of these thiols to the appropriate areas of the body is what
reverses any possible mercury effect instead of the gold itself," he warns.



            Selenium is a mineral that binds with mercury in one way and gold in
another. Using minerals as a medicine is already very important in emergency
medicine where magnesium chloride and sulfate save lives. Now we have on the
table the suggestion that minerals are indicated for neurological disorders.



       In mineral therapy we understand that certain minerals are
        both the cause (when deficient) and cure of many diseases.



            Mineral therapy with magnesium is considered exceedingly safe because
of its exceptionally low toxicity. Selenium is more toxic and doses need to be
regulated, gold breaches another level of toxicity that preaches for extreme
caution.[ii] Side effects of gold salts can occur any time during treatment or
months after treatment has been discontinued. The most common adverse reaction
to aurothioglucose (gold salt) is inflamed skin. An itching sensation can be an
early warning sign of skin reaction (dermatitis). Aurothioglucose is used in
treating inflammatory arthritis.



            Exactly how gold salts work is not well understood. In patients with
inflammatory arthritis, such as adult and juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, gold
salts can decrease the inflammation of the joint lining. This effect can prevent
destruction of bone and cartilage. Gold salts are called second-line drugs
because they are often considered when the arthritis progresses in spite of
anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs and corticosteroids).



       In seawater gold occurs at 0.000004mg per liter.



            Aurothioglucose can cause grayish blue discoloration of the skin. It
can also cause a metallic taste and mouth sores. Because gold salts can cause
serious kidney and bone marrow problems, all patients require regular blood and
urine test monitoring. An unusual side effect of injectable gold is flushing,
dizziness, and fainting immediately after the injection. Patients starting
injectable gold are observed after the first dose for this problem. Rarely,
patients can have severe allergic reactions to aurothioglucose resulting in
shock.



            If we are going to use the more toxic minerals we are going to want
to set up the situation where we will need to use the least amount possible. The
mistake we commonly make in medicine is to rely too heavily on one particular
drug (with its list of side effects and potential for collateral damages) and
not supply foundation nutritional support. In mineral therapy when we use
minerals like magnesium we set the stage for the "safer" use of a mineral like
gold if we are going to try and use it for mercury removal and neurological
regeneration. Minerals are without doubt effective medical agents that must be
used with care. Minerals, the building blocks of the universe itself, represent
a revolution in medicine, a hope for something beyond the exceptional toxicity
of allopathic medicine.



       Mark Sircus Ac., OMD
       Director International Medical Veritas Association
       http://www.MagnesiumForLife.com
       http://www.imva.info
       http://www.detoxchelationclinic.com
       http://www.worldpsychology.net
       +55-83-3252-2195
       www.skype.com ID: marksircus

       IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: The communication in this email is intended for
informational purposes only. Nothing in this email is intended to be a
substitute for professional medical advice.



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       [i] "Chrysotherapy" or "aurotherapy" is the name used for treatment with
gold compounds.   Use of gold compounds, take up to two months to reach a
"steady state" in the body....and have a fairly long half life.....in 10 days,
only 70% is excreted .......this makes any gold toxicity problems that might
occur, more difficult to deal with, more difficult to overcome rapidly.  The
rates of reaching steady state are faster when injectable gold is used, than
when oral gold is used.  the effects of oral gold are both slower and said to be
less effective in rheumatoid arthritis.:Pharmacokinetics: In 5 rheumatoid
arthritic patients, the oral administration of a single 6 mg (equivalent to 1.74
mg of gold) dose of a solution of radiolabeled auranofin demonstrated that
approximately 25% of the oral dose was absorbed. Peak plasma radioactive gold
concentrations of 0.039 to 0.11 µg 95u/mL were reached in 1.5 to 2.5 hours. The
mean plasma terminal half-life was 17 days, while the mean total body terminal
half-life was 58 days. By day 10 post-administration, 77% of the initially
administered labeled gold had been excreted, 73% in the feces and 4% in the
urine. Six months after this single dose, approximately 99.6% of the initially
administered labeled gold had been excreted, with 0.4% retained in the body.

       [ii] The potential benefits of using auranofin in patients with
inflammatory bowel disease, skin rash or history of bone marrow depression,
should be weighed against: 1) the potential risks of gold toxicity on organ
systems previously compromised or with decreased reserve, and 2) the difficulty
in quickly detecting and correctly attributing the toxic effect. Chrysotherapy
is beneficial in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, but gold-induced
aplastic anemia may be fatal. Absolute identification of patients at risk of
having this hematologic side effect is not possible, but dosage reduction and
intense monitoring of laboratory and clinical signs may prevent its occurrence.



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Is this post another disguised Naziphobic propaganda piece?  Dubious
at that....



--- In CFS-FMS_FIRST-Aid@yahoogroups.com, "Mark Sircus Ac., OMD"
<director@i...> wrote:
>
>       Dear IMVA,
>
>
>
>           I would like to share some interesting responses I
received from readers after publishing yesterday's essay on politics
and medicine. I would like to encourage more of this in the future
because actually it is two way communication that is most dynamic
and fulfilling. I will only publish people's names when requested to
do so.
>
>
>
>       "Yesterday afternoon Oprah had a whole show about the threat
of pandemic flu and treatment or lack of. However vitamin C was
never mentioned nor anything else regarding research studies that
would point to a natural way to solve the 'threat'. I find it most
interesting to have received Where Medicine and Politics Meet. There
are NO accidents."
>
>
>
>           It never ceases to amaze me how much control the medical
industrial complex has over society and how even families can be
divided over medical issues. Linus Pauling said pointedly, "Do not
let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you.
Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how
to live a happy life and how to work for a better world." We live in
a world though very similar to what existed in Nazi Germany where
people just eat authority for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Though
Americans hate to admit it they have fallen into the shadows of
fascism - in the area of medicine they think it is just perfect. The
medical freedom movement is in reality a struggle against medical
fascism.
>
>
>
>           I read some interesting words yesterday from a Mark S.
Tucker who asked, "To whom might we go for a reliable working
understanding of `fascism'? Why, to a fascist, of course! And who
better than Duce Benito Mussolini, a figure who once extolled it as
the marriage of corporations and the State." Tucker went on to
say, "Fascism will have descended upon America, not roaring and
fierce, not raking the air with bloody claws, not squalling and
preening, but softly, quietly, unnoticed, on cat's feet." Under this
very straight definition we have to come to the unfortunate
conclusion that both democrats and republican parties are fascist
for both are in bed with corporations and cannot be separated from
them.
>
>
>       "There are two mammoth factors that the IMVA has discovered
>       are linked to the horrendous rise in diabetes in adults and
children
>        that the western medical establishment has not paid
attention to.
>        The first is deficiency in magnesium. The second the
tremendous
>        rise in chemical toxicity in the environment and in our
foods"
>
>
>
>           One person not known to me reacted heavily to this
statement after the magnesium and diabetes post of last week was
forwarded to them; and I was informed that in the main diabetes
groups online there is no openness to these kinds of thoughts. In
the complicated world of diabetic medicine it is a big problem when
certain groups or individuals focus on a particular aspect of this
very complex disease. Ignoring the many aspects and focusing
exclusively on any one, on genetic, dietary, lifestyle, or
environmental to the exclusion of the others is not medically
supportable. Yet there are principle causes like magnesium that are
rightfully being thrust forward but such is the stretch of medical
fascism that it will be years before magnesium as a simple and safe
treatment will be acknowledged and embraced. In the meantime people
around the world will continue to be losing limbs at the rate of one
every thirty seconds. Pain and death are the watch words of medical
fascism.
>
>
>
>           One of my regular readers said, "I think you would be
far more effective if you stuck to medicine and stayed away from
politics.  You have many wonderful ideas regarding health, but much
of what you say politically in this essay is speculative,
inflammatory, and offensive.  That picture was really over the top --
  you lose all credibility with that kind of thing, and no one will
listen to your medical ideas unless they totally agree with your
politics, and that's a shame."
>
>
>
>           I was not quick to agree and instantly received another
response from another dedicated reader who said, "Mark: Excellent
article. Let us not, however, forget Hillary who wishes to bring
back Hillarycare and seeks to create an electronic medical tracking
system with Frist. We saw what she did in vaccines with the
mandates."
>
>
>
>            I wrote back to the first reader, "I expect to get
responses and reactions from all over the compass. The point you
missed is that medicine is politics, and politics is very much into
medicine. And if this essay is not offensive I quit! The subject of
iatrogenic death and disease is an absolute horror." Yes we do not
have smoke stacks near our home towns, no ashes from the burning of
the dead from concentration camps. What we have are massive deaths
and even more massive crying and suffering that falls 'softly,
quietly, unnoticed, on cat's feet' in society.
>
>
>
>           Today I personally met the first mother who allowed the
western medical establishment to inject her child with the flu
vaccine containing mercury. How anyone can lead their child
willingly into the grips of medical fascism as they were forced 60
years ago into the Nazi doctors office for medical experimentation
is truly beyond my ability to understand. Am I being overly dramatic
in my use of Nazi imagery? No! It's a perfect environment for
fascism to expand its hold on civilization. As it was before it is
now. Without the willingness to look fascism right in the eye and
spit on it - it thrives.
>
>
>
>           We let fascism rule when we cut ourselves off from the
whole. It is in human separation that the dark forces find their
rule. Few even know anything today about what I call THE ONENESS OF
BEING for separation is all they know. My essays draw some pretty
clear lines; they show where the invisible separations are. This
comes in loud and clear when the extremes are communicated. For
instance I was recently graced with some kind words from Peter
Bowditch of The Millenium Project. It seems Peter would rather see
people dead then listen to anything I might have to say. I will
spare you all his choice words but like all defenders of medical
fascism they attack and accuse without offering substance to
substantiate anything they say. He calls me a vaccine liar, which is
a perfect projection of the vaccinationists - they practice the
really big lie - meaning they are the inheritors of the worst that
fascism has to offer.
>
>
>
>           Although I am popular among my readers the reality is
that we live in a world that does not listen, not really, not
deeply. Those who take any excuse to stop listening to truth when
they see it were probably not listening deeply in the first place.
Real listening is not fickle, certainly it's not political. The real
reason civilization is in jeopardy is just because listening is not
mandatory in politics meaning people in power do not listen when
they don't want to and sadly that's most of the time.
>
>
>
>           Actually to be fair I am not popular with all my readers
for there are those who at best tolerate me. Since I came on the
autism and vaccine scene almost three years ago I have been looked
upon with suspicion and many have been warned to stay clear of me. I
think many are disappointed that I have not simply faded away and
will be further dismayed by my future plans and my rapidly expanding
readership.
>
>
>
>           The IMVA intends to assault the mainstream medical
community not give lip service to it. I can personally assure
everyone that not an ounce of Richard Chamberlin lives in my blood.
You will not see me come off a plane with a paper like the prime
minister of England did after he met with Hitler..Peace in our Times
he announced..just before the Nazi war machine raced across Poland.
I was raised to detest the Nazi and that was probably one of the
best educations my mother ever gave me. In the medical world that
brings me face to face with the FDA, the CDC, the World Health
Organization and a host of medical organizations. I do not ever need
to treat with the enemy for they will never treat with me.
>
>
>
>       Mark Sircus Ac., OMD
>       Director International Medical Veritas Association
>       http://www.MagnesiumForLife.com
>       http://www.imva.info
>       http://www.detoxchelationclinic.com
>       http://www.worldpsychology.net
>       +55-83-3252-2195
>       www.skype.com ID: marksircus
>
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>
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Dear IMVA,



           I would like to share some interesting responses I received from
readers after publishing yesterday's essay on politics and medicine. I would
like to encourage more of this in the future because actually it is two way
communication that is most dynamic and fulfilling. I will only publish people's
names when requested to do so.



       "Yesterday afternoon Oprah had a whole show about the threat of pandemic
flu and treatment or lack of. However vitamin C was never mentioned nor anything
else regarding research studies that would point to a natural way to solve the
'threat'. I find it most interesting to have received Where Medicine and
Politics Meet. There are NO accidents."



           It never ceases to amaze me how much control the medical industrial
complex has over society and how even families can be divided over medical
issues. Linus Pauling said pointedly, "Do not let either the medical authorities
or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own
decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world." We
live in a world though very similar to what existed in Nazi Germany where people
just eat authority for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Though Americans hate to
admit it they have fallen into the shadows of fascism - in the area of medicine
they think it is just perfect. The medical freedom movement is in reality a
struggle against medical fascism.



           I read some interesting words yesterday from a Mark S. Tucker who
asked, "To whom might we go for a reliable working understanding of `fascism'?
Why, to a fascist, of course! And who better than Duce Benito Mussolini, a
figure who once extolled it as the marriage of corporations and the State."
Tucker went on to say, "Fascism will have descended upon America, not roaring
and fierce, not raking the air with bloody claws, not squalling and preening,
but softly, quietly, unnoticed, on cat's feet." Under this very straight
definition we have to come to the unfortunate conclusion that both democrats and
republican parties are fascist for both are in bed with corporations and cannot
be separated from them.


       "There are two mammoth factors that the IMVA has discovered
       are linked to the horrendous rise in diabetes in adults and children
        that the western medical establishment has not paid attention to.
        The first is deficiency in magnesium. The second the tremendous
        rise in chemical toxicity in the environment and in our foods"



           One person not known to me reacted heavily to this statement after the
magnesium and diabetes post of last week was forwarded to them; and I was
informed that in the main diabetes groups online there is no openness to these
kinds of thoughts. In the complicated world of diabetic medicine it is a big
problem when certain groups or individuals focus on a particular aspect of this
very complex disease. Ignoring the many aspects and focusing exclusively on any
one, on genetic, dietary, lifestyle, or environmental to the exclusion of the
others is not medically supportable. Yet there are principle causes like
magnesium that are rightfully being thrust forward but such is the stretch of
medical fascism that it will be years before magnesium as a simple and safe
treatment will be acknowledged and embraced. In the meantime people around the
world will continue to be losing limbs at the rate of one every thirty seconds.
Pain and death are the watch words of medical fascism.



           One of my regular readers said, "I think you would be far more
effective if you stuck to medicine and stayed away from politics.  You have many
wonderful ideas regarding health, but much of what you say politically in this
essay is speculative, inflammatory, and offensive.  That picture was really over
the top -- you lose all credibility with that kind of thing, and no one will
listen to your medical ideas unless they totally agree with your politics, and
that's a shame."



           I was not quick to agree and instantly received another response from
another dedicated reader who said, "Mark: Excellent article. Let us not,
however, forget Hillary who wishes to bring back Hillarycare and seeks to create
an electronic medical tracking system with Frist. We saw what she did in
vaccines with the mandates."



            I wrote back to the first reader, "I expect to get responses and
reactions from all over the compass. The point you missed is that medicine is
politics, and politics is very much into medicine. And if this essay is not
offensive I quit! The subject of iatrogenic death and disease is an absolute
horror." Yes we do not have smoke stacks near our home towns, no ashes from the
burning of the dead from concentration camps. What we have are massive deaths
and even more massive crying and suffering that falls 'softly, quietly,
unnoticed, on cat's feet' in society.



           Today I personally met the first mother who allowed the western
medical establishment to inject her child with the flu vaccine containing
mercury. How anyone can lead their child willingly into the grips of medical
fascism as they were forced 60 years ago into the Nazi doctors office for
medical experimentation is truly beyond my ability to understand. Am I being
overly dramatic in my use of Nazi imagery? No! It's a perfect environment for
fascism to expand its hold on civilization. As it was before it is now. Without
the willingness to look fascism right in the eye and spit on it - it thrives.



           We let fascism rule when we cut ourselves off from the whole. It is in
human separation that the dark forces find their rule. Few even know anything
today about what I call THE ONENESS OF BEING for separation is all they know. My
essays draw some pretty clear lines; they show where the invisible separations
are. This comes in loud and clear when the extremes are communicated. For
instance I was recently graced with some kind words from Peter Bowditch of The
Millenium Project. It seems Peter would rather see people dead then listen to
anything I might have to say. I will spare you all his choice words but like all
defenders of medical fascism they attack and accuse without offering substance
to substantiate anything they say. He calls me a vaccine liar, which is a
perfect projection of the vaccinationists - they practice the really big lie -
meaning they are the inheritors of the worst that fascism has to offer.



           Although I am popular among my readers the reality is that we live in
a world that does not listen, not really, not deeply. Those who take any excuse
to stop listening to truth when they see it were probably not listening deeply
in the first place. Real listening is not fickle, certainly it's not political.
The real reason civilization is in jeopardy is just because listening is not
mandatory in politics meaning people in power do not listen when they don't want
to and sadly that's most of the time.



           Actually to be fair I am not popular with all my readers for there are
those who at best tolerate me. Since I came on the autism and vaccine scene
almost three years ago I have been looked upon with suspicion and many have been
warned to stay clear of me. I think many are disappointed that I have not simply
faded away and will be further dismayed by my future plans and my rapidly
expanding readership.



           The IMVA intends to assault the mainstream medical community not give
lip service to it. I can personally assure everyone that not an ounce of Richard
Chamberlin lives in my blood. You will not see me come off a plane with a paper
like the prime minister of England did after he met with Hitler..Peace in our
Times he announced..just before the Nazi war machine raced across Poland. I was
raised to detest the Nazi and that was probably one of the best educations my
mother ever gave me. In the medical world that brings me face to face with the
FDA, the CDC, the World Health Organization and a host of medical organizations.
I do not ever need to treat with the enemy for they will never treat with me.



       Mark Sircus Ac., OMD
       Director International Medical Veritas Association
       http://www.MagnesiumForLife.com
       http://www.imva.info
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Anna,

   Thank you for the japanese research article.  I had already had this
particular article but was not sure if you may have had something
different.

   When the abstract of this article was posted in another forum a
couple months ago I checked with the universities medical library to
see if they subscribed to the journal that published it.  They did
not.  I ended up purchasing the article for $20.  I'm glad to see that
others sought out the information too.

   I've been meaning to write something about it; Provide a general
outline of the information presented in the article.  There were a few
things that I found interesting in the article.  One is the authors
noting of Dr. Peckerman's research findings and based on results that
they had found in other research using thermal therapy apparently lead
them to the trial of thermal therapy for people with CFS.  Maybe that
is why they only had 2 participants, they had not been focused on
treating CFS so probably did not have access to many patients with the
condition.  Also, I wonder if the asians w/ CFS are as skeptical as
westerners w/ CFS?

   I've gathered most of the articles that are used in the thermal
therapies article list of references.  Most of these other research
articles deal with the application of the modality for people with
congestive heart failure.  The clinical findings are very interesting.
  I can't see how anyone could read them and not think there is some
potential benefit to be gained by its application.

   While there were only 2 participants in this study.  The thing to
consider is that the success rate was 100%.  Each of the participants
that had not been able to work for a couple of years prior to the
trial were back in the workforce in 6 months.

   I feel confident that with the modifications that have been made to
the program I suggest, that the chance of regaining ones health
following it are very good.  This is a general approach to wellness.
I just need some willing people that are actively seeking answers
rather than waiting for others to find them.

   In the scriptures it is said that in the last days, mens hearts will
fail them.  I'm not sure if that is meant to be literal or figurative
in the sense that people will lose hope, the substance of which is
faith.  Which ever may be the case, I think that they both apply to
our day.

   Keep your eyes on the good days to come.  Count your blessings, they
are many.

All the best,
Jim

>  I've been communicating with a chinese manufacturer and the next
>order I place will probably be with them.  The heater is a little
>different in looks but has some nice features.  I will also be able to
>sell it for 30% less.

I'm a little confused by all this, perhaps I've missed something as
I've only recently joined.
I would like to know the cost of the heaters, the specs, and if they
can be shipped to Europe, and if so, how much shipping would be.
I've spend days looking for such heaters here (France), and although
a mini-sauna FIR is available from Germany, I cannot find individual
heaters.

Thanks in advance,

Sandra

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--- In CFS-FMS_FIRST-Aid@yahoogroups.com, "Rowena" <newses@a...> wrote:
> Oh, now I get it!  I had thought you were building the heaters.
> How many do you need to order in one go?

   The heaters that I market are not the manufacturers standard item.
I have been doing an individual inspection of each heater to make sure
that the assembly quality is okay.  In some cases it has been like I
built the heater myself, making sure that all the nuts and bolts are
tightened securely and that it is in good working order.

   The order is custom assembled per my specifications.  Their standard
product is too hot for use as sauna.  The minimum order is 200
heaters.  I'm not in a position to sit on much inventory so when I do
place the order, most of the heaters will be spoken for.  Just in case
their may be someone thinking that they'll wait till I place an order
and have something in stock.

   I've been communicating with a chinese manufacturer and the next
order I place will probably be with them.  The heater is a little
different in looks but has some nice features.  I will also be able to
sell it for 30% less.

All the best,
Jim

Dear IMVA,



            Below is an explosive essay bringing together politics and medicine.
The politics of medicine is not divorced from politics in general unfortunately,
so it means we do have to take a walk through the dark side of politics and
medicine and take sides.



            Victory in the complex and multi-sided war on our Health Freedoms
will not come easy; certainly it will not come if we cannot identify the
politics of medicine and how medicine has been subverted by it. It is exactly
because we have been led into the illusion that medicine is separate from the
politics of money and power that the medical industrial complex gets away with
murder.



           Many think in their dream state that the medical establishment and
pharmaceutical companies, the FDA and CDC are trying to sincerely help people
not realizing that the great majority of the central players in the medical
industrial complex have had their minds conditioned past all sense and medical
reason. Meaning medical lunacy rules supreme in many areas of medicine, and this
translates into millions of deaths and untold scores of suffering via chronic
disease.



       There has been a substantial change in the way pharmaceutical
       companies function over the last decade. Drug makers are far
       more aggressive in their marketing efforts and these efforts
       are having a deleterious effect on the practice of medicine.
                                                                                          
Dr. Catherine DeAngelis

                                                                 Editor in chief
of The Journal of the American Medical Association



           Taking sides does not mean voting Democratic or Republican for truly
it would be impossible to decide which has drowned more in medical madness. As
far as I am concerned the politics of medicine would drive one to revolutionary
thoughts and actions unless one has become complacent about life. There is no
political party focused on medical terrorism and reforming the medical system.
Taking sides means we are for having freedom of choice, freedom to choose and
play a role in deciding what in the way of medicine is best for us, not to have
it all imposed upon us by gigantic financial interests.



       The drug industry spends tens of billions of dollars a year to woo
doctors,
        far more than it spends on research or consumer advertising. Most doctors
        do not believe that these gifts influence their medical decisions,
although
       most believe that they do affect their colleagues' medical judgment.[1]

                                                                                                      
New York Times



            I think it is safe to say that if Bush, Chaney, Frist and Rumsfeld
are your favorite kinds of people you will not enjoy the following one bit. In
fact you will probably go ballistic so if you proceed you are forewarned and
thus responsible for your reactions.



       Mark Sircus Ac., OMD
       Director International Medical Veritas Association
       http://www.MagnesiumForLife.com
       http://www.imva.info
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       Politics and Medicine Meet





            "There is an enemy that lurks, a dangerous group of people that want
to do harm to the American people," said President Bush. Bush is ever vigilant
against the "fight against brutal killers," but like all men of history he
points the finger away from himself and others on 'his team.' The president is
of course correct, there are very dangerous groups of people and they are brutal
and cruel, even to the children. "The terrorists still want to hit us again,"
Mr. Bush said, and he is right again for crimes have been committed repeatedly
against humanity that are "systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, brutal,
indifferent, scornful and ruthless," as Harold Pinter reminded us in his
acceptance speech for the Noble Prize. Unfortunately he was talking about the
United States being the cruel and heartless. At the center of the medical world
is a plague, a nightmare of obscene proportions.



       Gutting lifeline services for the poor while they plough full
        steam ahead with abolishing all tax responsibility for the wealthy.



            Sounds like something true vampires would do. It should come as no
surprise that a person does not have to have fanged teeth and suck on blood to
qualify as a vampire. Much of the imagery and symbology we use in films really
are a reflection of reality. The problem though is that we have created so much
imagery on films and TV that we are confused and cannot identify real monsters
when we see them - because we have created so many false ones. The problem is
grave for no matter what is said and is happening we really are not going to do
anything fundamental to change anything. Our directors and producers have made
films about it for it makes thrilling watching of what can be done and is being
done to humanity. Films like the Matrix and now the Island, and even The Time
Machine by HG Wells shows clearly what some people are capable of doing to
others.







       The charge of unchecked power implies that he (Bush)
        is asserting a kind of dictatorial authority -- precisely
       what Americans fought, and continue to fight, against in Iraq.[2]
                                                                                          
Washington Post

           The president and his vice have made a joke of democracy, destroying
whatever example it could have been for the rest of the world. Democracy in
America is an image to hide atrocities behind and it has been used ruthlessly to
sell out the public to corporate interests, especially in the area of medicine.
Senator McCain says that Americans are "becoming disenfranchised from their own
democratic process," yet Mr. Bush has the audacity to say that Americans should
insist on a debate "that brings credit to our democracy, not comfort to our
adversaries."

           It seems like the president is the last person to preach democracy as
we begin to hear the first cries for impeachment as President Bush and Vice
President Cheney move closer to a serious confrontation with Congress over
constitutional power. For the first time since their election in 2000, both face
open rebuke in Congress. Georgia Democratic congressman John Lewis said Bush
should be impeached if he broke the law in authorizing spying on Americans.
"It's a very serious charge, but he violated the law," said Lewis. "The
president should abide by the law. He deliberately, systematically violated the
law. He is not king, he is president."[3] A New York Times editorial says, "Dick
Cheney has turned back the clock to the Nixon era, bringing back presidential
excesses like wiretapping along with presidential power."

       Washington is the most corrupt capital in the world.
                                                                                 
Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski
                                                                                  
Former National Security Adviser

           West Virginia's senior Democratic senator, Robert Byrd, recently set
forth the case for impeachment: "The President claims that these powers (to spy
on Americans without warrants) are within his role as Commander in Chief," Byrd
said in a December 19 statement. "Make no mistake, the powers granted to the
Commander in Chief are specifically those as head of the Armed Forces. These
warrantless searches are conducted not against a foreign power, but against
unsuspecting and unknowing American citizens. They are conducted against
individuals living on American soil, not in Iraq or Afghanistan. There is
nothing within the powers granted in the Commander in Chief clause that grants
the President the ability to conduct clandestine surveillance of American
civilians. We must not allow such groundless, foolish claims to stand."[4]

       It's scary to think that it may just be a matter of time before Googling
       will invite an F.B.I. agent to tap your phone or interrogate you.[5]
                                                                                                
Ming-Wai Farrell

             It should come as no surprise how closely "a thriving democracy"
like America borders on tyranny with the president claiming he can wiretap
ordinary Americans without a warrant, insisting on his right to imprison without
trial anyone he labels an "enemy combatant." President Bush said recently that
he found it "amazing" to be accused of breaking the law by ordering a secret
program to intercept international calls and e-mail messages. Amazing how far an
American leader can travel away from the original spirit of America justifying
it all with fingers pointed to some external enemy. Fascist leaders lie and go
to war and get away with it as Bush has done.

            All of these political issues find their expression in medicine.
Donald "Aspartame" Rumsfeld's name is on top of the vampire list owning a
company (manufacture of Tamiflu) which has killed people it is administered to.
Not only is he responsible for the most complained about food additive in
history, aspartame, which is recognized by the FDA to have 91 serious side
effects including death, but now he has convinced the US government to spend
billions on Tamiflu, which may not have any effect on the bird flu at all.



       Tamiflu and similar antiviral drugs should not be broadly used
        during the flu season or to treat an epidemic of avian-flu because
       they are simply not as effective as they have been represented to be.[6]
                                                                     The British
medical journal the Lancet
                                                                                                     
January 19, 2006



            The primary drug promoted against a threatened pandemic of avian flu
is in all likely useless and could make the pandemic worse, say scientists. This
warning came recently after a study of 13 Vietnamese patients infected with
avian flu and treated with the anti-viral drug Tamiflu found two developed a
resistant virus which contributed to their deaths. Seven of the 13 patients
died. The New England Journal of Medicine, which published the findings,
describing them as "frightening."



            Governments are stockpiling Tamiflu to be used as the first line of
defense against a pandemic. In a system of government or medicine based on truth
all Tamiflu production would be suspended immediately and resources put behind
safer and more reasonable medical protocols. In American democracy and in the
American medical system the information will simply be ignored. And in fact it
is already being ignored.  Instead they are looking to raise doses of Tamiflu,
give it earlier on, and Roche is defending it's efficacy by stating the recent
study published in the Lancet is "irresponsible."



       This shocking and horrific action by the American medical authorities
       in allowing such a deadly drug to be used on their children stands in
       sharp contrast to the mounting evidence of Tamiflu's dangers.[7]

                                                                                                
Sorcha Faal

                                                                                                  
Russian Reporter



            According to the FDA, Efficacy of Tamiflu for the prevention of
influenza has not been established in immunocompromised patients.[8] It is
pathetic that modern allopathic medicine cannot come to terms with the fact that
a huge segment of the population of the world today is immunocompromised for one
reason or another and thus medications like Tamiflu and vaccines are
contraindicated. Pediatricians, our revered baby doctors, were the first to cast
caution and all medical logic aside and inject all the kids all the time without
checking for compromised immune systems.



            "You can prevent or treat the Avian Flu easily, simply, cheaply,
safely and naturally," says Dr. Rima E. Laibow, Medical Director of Natural
Solutions Foundation.[9] "How does the Avian Flu do its damage? Birds (or humans
if the virus mutates spontaneously - or is mutated in a lab) die because the
H5N1 virus depletes Vitamin C stores so quickly that the cause of death is
fulminate scurvy." Though it would be difficult to find scientific evidence for
this in PubMed several pathology studies have certainly discussed the
hemorrhagic nature of the bird flu.

           Dr. Laibow, following medical logic, says it makes sense to assume
that this particular type of virus is using up Vitamin C stores so quickly that
the blood vessels would lose their structural integrity and begin to leak. As
more and more vessels erupted both animals and people would literally bleed to
death. It is staggering to imagine the implication if this is true for it
implies a cancer at the center of the medical world. When possible safe medical
solutions are cast aside (or not even considered) in favor of toxic drugs (that
don't even work) we have direct evidence of the medicine cruelly corrupted by
the machinations of politics and money.

           And let us not leave out Sen. Bill Frist from the lineup. A provision
in the defense bill inserted by Sen. Bill Frist in December is troublesome in
that the provision exempts from all liability (not just punitive damages)
manufacturers of not only vaccines, but all drugs used to treat a pandemic,
epidemic, or biological attack. Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) said the final
language in the bill provides "a basic blank check for the industry, not only on
pandemic flu, but just about any other kind of, quote, epidemic that anyone can
think of." Under the law, manufacturers would receive the protection from
lawsuits when the Secretary of Health and Human Services declares a particular
disease as an "epidemic." Already HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt has used the word
epidemic in relation to AIDS, obesity, diabetes and chronic diseases in general,
potentially broadening the legal protections to many drugs now in existence or
under development.



            When one does a Google search using "depression epidemic," you get
1,760,000 hits. So, if the Secretary of HHS decides that depression is an
epidemic, then he could shield all antidepressant-makers from liability for
drug-induced injuries. According to Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif.: "This liability
shield can be granted to any product used to prevent or treat an epidemic or a
pandemic, and the secretary gets to decide what that means. No court can review
that decision."


           This is not the first time Frist has tried to use a military bill as a
"cover" to give special protections to the drug industry. In 2002, he authored
protections for Eli Lilly's vaccine additive Thimerosal (fifty percent mercury)
that were inserted into the Homeland Security bill. It was only after a public
backlash that Congress repealed the measure. Frist easily could qualify as
public enemy number one of children everywhere with his insistence to inject
every child in America with a highly neurotoxic mercury compound. Vampire truly
is too good of term for a man like Frist.


       Children's advocacy and consumer watchdog organizations
       are calling this provision an affront to democracy and civil rights.
                                                                                   
National Autism Association



            According to National Autism Association board chair Laura Bono,
"Families of vaccine-injured children have witnessed the emotional, physical,
and financial devastation caused by the pharmaceutical industry's reckless
disregard for safety standards. Now, the misplaced priorities of Senate
leadership have sacrificed public health and basic civil rights to the greed of
an industry willing to overlook safety concerns for the sake of profit."



       The current avian flu fright is sanctioned by military- medical-
        pharmaceutical-petrochemical industrialists operating above the law
        in many documented instances. Having testified before the U.S. Congress,
        I personally experienced how premiere pharmaceutical industrialists
        direct our political- economic representatives in government.

                                                                               
Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz



            Though medical and government officials seem hell bent on hurting
children and their families there are many people like Laura Bono who care
deeply about the children and who would do almost anything to protect them. At a
recent convention of psychologists, Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams displayed on a
giant projection screen photos from around the world of burned children,
starving children, diseased children, some lying in their own filth. He called
for a "last stand of loving care" to prevail over the misery in the world, its
wars and "our fascistic government." In the first world the job is to protect
the children from the people that Dr. Horowitz talks about.



            As we enter 2006 let us remember and identify with the good in our
lives for there is so much bad that is coming our collective way to deal with.
There is a kind of false optimism built into our species that seems to prefer to
pretend everything is all right when its not. We enjoy living in our comfortable
present rather than confront negative issues that can affect us and our loved
ones in the future.  The possibility of something terribly wrong is going to
happen, we seem to believe, is not going to happen to us and our children, not
now, not ever.



            There is nothing new in this attitude. We have an almost willful
blindness to what is happening to our civilization and to what our government
and doctors are doing, but why worry after all, the sun still rises, we still
brush our teeth every morning with fluoride poisoned toothpaste - why worry? Our
willing blindness is going to haunt us and the generations yet to come. It is
true that it is not pleasant and psychologically unhealthy to focus too much on
the negative, but sometimes it is in our best interest to do so. Sometimes we do
need to see what we are doing wrong, what needs changing inside of ourselves.
And sometimes we have to take a long hard look at what is happening in the world
and in our government and in our hospitals and medical clinics and stand up and
shout!



            "The coming years, like those of the present and the past, will see
the continued spewing of fictionalized propaganda designed to manipulate the
fears, hatreds, xenophobia and nationalistic tendencies of the population. The
level of control over the masses and power over the nation in the years after
9/11 by corporatists intent on hijacking the country became, to them, a rousing
success, thanks to the intense levels of fear and hatred engendered by the
horrific events of that day. In the span of a few infamous days the corporatists
had unleashed massive psychological warfare upon us, its effects still lingering
in the minds of millions," writes Manuel Valenzuela.



             In a recent video Osama bin Laden promised the same treatment for
Americans as they had given others, but he offered a truce so Iraq and
Afghanistan could be rebuilt. Dick Chaney's response, "We don't negotiate with
terrorists." It is interesting that we cannot see that we have external enemies
like bin Laden because we cannot clean up our own shop, because we cannot
confront our own cruel terrorism that we take even to the shores of our own
newborns as they arrive. Wars have been fought for all kinds of reasons but the
one that should be fought is against the Fourth Reich, against the
pharmaceutical companies and those in the political/medical world who are owned
by them.



            In the western world terrorists are dressed in sharp suits and wear
nice ties. They do not look like terrorists to the untrained eyes and they slip
right through the myopic perception of the intelligence services. In the world
of medicine they all wear white coats and we are easily fooled. Many whisper the
words medical Gestapo when they think of the FDA and how they send in their Swat
teams into alternative doctors offices and rip the IV lines out of patients as
they wave their automatic rifles around. The clouds have been darkening for
decades on the medical frontiers as millions have been mowed down. Only the fool
does not see how all the above is connected, how politics, medicine, economics
and even psychology converge and how we are all caught up in the middle of a
strange nightmare that we can only fully express in the making of our movies.





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       [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/25/national/25doctor.html?th&emc=th

       [2]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/23/AR2005122302050.\
html

       [3] http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=73503

       [4] http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0552,ridgeway,71265,2.html

       [5]
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/25/national/25privacy.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

       [6] http://www.newsinferno.com/storypages/01-20-2006~001.html

       [7] http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index865.htm

       [8] http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/infopage/tamiflu/default.htm

       [9] http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/



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Reposted with permission
     Why I am posting something supposedly for athletes when most of us are
too ill to be nearly that physically active?  Because I like to know as much as
I can about how my body works so I can make decisions on what I need to make
it work better.  And there is much info here that is helpful.
           It mentions how being very active causes more stress to the body -
is it such a leap that being ill causes much stress physically too? Physical
stress is physical stress, whether it is caused by sweating from running a
marathon or having an infection or inflammation or virus or detoxing or doing a
sauna.  The metabolism & our organs etc don't say "this will only happen if the
sweat & stress is caused by a healthy individual taking part in athletic
activity". This info is just expressed in a different context . Maybe I am
biased,
but I don't think you can find more stressed physical bodies then those that
are ill. I think you will find there is much here that is pertinent.
                Blessings
                           Shan

Transdermal Magnesium Mineral
      Therapy in Sports Medicine
      International Medical Veritas Association

      Magnesium nutrition is an area that
      no serious athlete can afford to overlook.

Despite magnesium's pivotal role in energy production, many coaches and
athletes remain unaware of its critical importance in maintaining health and
performance. Research suggests that even small shortfalls in magnesium intake
can
seriously impair athletic performance.[1] Magnesium deficiency reduces metabolic
efficiency, increases oxygen consumption and heart rate required to perform
work, all things that would take the edge off of performance. The last thing
any trainer or sports doctor wants to see is their athletes lose their
competitive edge. Not performing to full capacity because of the lack of a
mineral like
magnesium is simply not an option for winners. Athletic endurance and
strength performance increases significantly when a large amount of magnesium is
supplemented transdermally/topically and orally. 

      A magnesium shortfall can cause a partial uncoupling
       of the respiratory chain, increasing the amount of
      oxygen required to maintain ATP production.

      
Athletes, who might be expected to take greater care with their diets, are
not immune from magnesium deficiency. For example, studies carried out in
1986/87 revealed that gymnasts, footballers and basketball players were
consuming
only around 70% of the RDA,[2] while female runners fared even worse, with
reported intakes as low as 59% of the RDA.[3] There is ample evidence that a
magnesium shortfall boosts the energy cost, and hence oxygen use, of exercise
because it reduces the efficiency during exercise of muscle relaxation, which
accounts for an important fraction of total energy needs during an activity like
cycling.[4] One study of male athletes supplemented with 390mgs of magnesium per
day for 25 days resulted in an increased peak oxygen uptake and total work
output during work capacity tests.[5]

      Sub-optimum dietary magnesium
       intakes impairs athletic performance.

      
The regular advice given athletes is to make a conscious effort to increase
the proportion of magnesium-rich foods in his or her diet. Even a simple change
like eating more whole grain products and boosting your intake of vegetables,
nuts and seeds can make an impact. But that is not enough, not for an athlete
who loses magnesium much faster than the average person. It is not even
enough today for a regular person. According to the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology Studies show that as many as half of all Americans do not consume
enough magnesium. The latest government study shows a staggering 68% of
Americans
do not consume the recommended daily intake of magnesium.

      
Even more frightening are data from this study showing that 19% of Americans
do not consume even half of the government's recommended daily intake of
magnesium.[6] The nutrient content of foods can no longer be relied upon. The
effects of stress, intense physical activity, or the use of certain medications
cause magnesium deficiency as do many other factors.[7] If an athlete is not
eating a heavy diet of Pumpkin seeds (roasted), Spirulina, Almonds, Brazil nuts,
Sesame seeds, Peanuts (roasted, salted), Walnuts or Rice (whole grain brown),
the only common foods with over 100 milligrams of magnesium content for every
100 grams, it is not really in the realm of possibility that sufficient
magnesium would be consumed. Add white bread and other junk food and it can
safely be
assumed that it is exceedingly impractical for athletes to consume enough
magnesium through dietary sources alone.

      
It is commonly thought that magnesium intakes above the RDA are unlikely to
boost performance, but this is absurd advice that no athlete or coach should
pay attention to. First, RDAs are almost universally understated even for the
general population. For athletes they are sure guides to failure for they do not
take into account all the extra demands and needs of an athlete's body. When
it comes to magnesium we should be thinking many times the RDA if we are
thinking of maximizing athletic performance.

      
Studies have shown that supplementing with 30mg of Zinc and 450mg of
magnesium per day can elevate testosterone levels up to 30%. Dr. Lorrie Brilla,
at
Western Washington University, recently reported that magnesium and zinc, when
supplemented orally, significantly increase free testosterone levels and muscle
strength in NCAA football players.[8]  In another study, young athletes
supplemented with 8mgs of magnesium per kilo of body weight per day experienced
significant increases in endurance performance and decreased oxygen consumption
during standardized, sub-maximal exercise.[9]

      
Dr. Brilla reported that during an eight-week spring training program
athletes had 2.5 times greater muscle strength gains than a placebo group.[10]
Any
athlete looking to gain strength, increase athletic performance, and muscle mass
should consider greatly increasing their magnesium intake, as well as zinc.
And according to a recent study published in Journal of the American Geriatrics
Society, higher intake of magnesium is significantly related to higher bone
mineral density (BMD). According to the paper, there was an approximate 2
percent increase in whole-body BMD for every 100 milligram per day increase in
magnesium. Magnesium is a "lesser-studied" component of bone that may play a
role
in calcium metabolism and bone strength.      

      Muscle endurance and total work capacity,
       declines rapidly with nutritional deficiency in the
      area of key minerals like zinc and magnesium.

      
  "Magnesium is essential to a diet for people are under a lot of stress or
want to experience the ultimate rush," says Dr. James Thor, National Director of
Extreme Sports Medicine. "Several reasons, one is if you are working out in a
gym, or continual stress excessive amounts of lactic acid in the muscle have
been linked to higher levels of anxiety," Dr. Thor adds. Large amounts of
magnesium are lost when a person is under stress and when magnesium chloride is
applied to the muscles topically it promotes the release of lactic acid from the
muscle tissue.

      
The combination of heat and magnesium chloride increases circulation and
waste removal and this principle can be applied during breaks in competition as
well as after the game in deeply relaxing baths similar to Epsom salt baths, but
much stronger. A magnesium chloride bath helps draw inflammation out of the
muscles and joints. Dr. Mark Steckel recommends a hot bath with Epsom salts
(magnesium sufate) after a long run when the muscles are just aching. He also
recommends soaking once a week "as a treat to your legs, just to keep them
happy!" Switching to magnesium chloride takes the experience to an entirely new
level of therapeutics.

      Transdermal magnesium chloride mineral therapy
      enhances recovery from athletic activity or injuries.

      
A whole new world of sports medicine is going to explode onto the scene when
athletes and coaches find out that magnesium chloride from natural sources is
available for topical use. In this new and exciting breakthrough in sports
medicine coaches can now treat injuries, prevent them, and increase athletic
performance all at the same time. Magnesium chloride, when applied directly to
the
skin is transdermally absorbed.[11] Transdermal magnesium chloride mineral
therapy is ideal for athletes who need high levels of magnesium. Oral magnesium
is not easily absorbed and at high doses creates diarrhea. Oral magnesium also
has little to no application in the treatment of injuries and tired worn out
muscles.[12] (See important note on oral intake.)

      
Until now it was thought that the best forms of supplemental magnesium were
the ones chelated to an amino acid (magnesium glycinate, magnesium taurate) or
a krebs cycle intermediate (magnesium malate, magnesium citrate, magnesium
fumarate). These forms seem to be better utilized, absorbed, and assimilated.
Some have correctly advised to stay away from oral intake of inorganic forms of
magnesium like magnesium chloride (taken orally) or magnesium carbonate because
they may not be absorbed as well and may cause gastric disturbances. But now
we have a magnesium chloride lotion/bath salt that can be applied directly to
the skin so dosage levels can be brought up safely to high levels without
diarrhea and problems with absorption.

      Maximal contraction of the quadriceps is
      positively correlated to serum magnesium status.[13]

      
Dr. Jeff Schutt insists that hamstring injuries can at least partially be
avoided through nutritional support because contraction and relaxation is
dependant on adequate cellular levels of magnesium. A shortened hamstring is a
result
of lack of available magnesium he says. Now we have what is called "Magnesium
Oil," which is a thick magnesium chloride liniment that can be simply sprayed
and rubbed into a sore Achilles tendon to decrease swelling. And soaking the
feet in a magnesium chloride foot bath is the single best thing - apart from
stretching - that you can do for yourself to protect from or recover from
hamstring and other injuries. The only thing better is a full body bath or to
have
a massage therapist use it to rub it in as they work deeply on the muscles.
     
       The heavy use of magnesium for athletic performance
      will be enough to make a difference between
      winning and losing on a regular basis.

            Magnesium is the single most important mineral to sports
nutrition.

Adequate magnesium level will help your body against fatigue, heat
exhaustion, blood sugar control, and metabolism. It also offers part of the
secret why
athletes die young -- magnesium levels in tissue analysis are usually very low,
and often mercury very high in athletes who  have heart attacks. Congestive
heart failure patients have recently been reported to have 22,000 times more
mercury and 14,000 times more antimony in their hearts.[14] Most coaches do not
know it but the very best hospitals inject either magnesium chloride or
magnesium sulfate for both stroke and heart attack patients. In Los Angeles they
are
even giving it to patients in the ambulance, in a new study, for it
dramatically increases survival rates as well as diminish disabilities down the
road.

      
Zinc, chromium and selenium in addition to magnesium are lost in the
sweat[15]-[16] or in the actual accelerated metabolism of strenuous exercise and
are
difficult to replenish.[17] When we sweat, we lose more than just water. Other
components of sweat include electrolytes, principally sodium and magnesium.
Loss of magnesium by sweating takes place at an accelerated pace when there is a
failure in sweat homeostasis, a situation which arises when exercise is made
in conditions of damp atmosphere and high temperature.[18] Increased energy
expenditure causes an increase in magnesium requirements. Selenium is important
in that it neutralizes the toxic effects of mercury and this is especially
important for athletes who have a mouth full of mercury containing dental
amalgam.[19] Beware the sports people who say that the amount of magnesium lost
through sweat is negligible, making magnesium supplementation unnecessary.[20]
Dr.
Sarah Mayhill says, "Heavy exercise also makes you lose magnesium in the urine
and explain why long distance runners may suddenly drop dead with heart
arrhythmias." Magnesium intake is most often marginal at best and heavy exercise
is
a factor that is particularly likely to expose athletes to magnesium deficit
through metabolic depletion linked to exercise.

      
Also beware nutritionists who mistakenly say that magnesium is stored in the
body, so deficits are rare.[21] Dr. Mayhill says, "Treating magnesium
deficiency is the most difficult deficiency to correct. In evolutionary terms,
magnesium was abundant in the diet and therefore no good mechanisms to conserve
magnesium evolved. It appears to be poorly absorbed and easily excreted even by
normal people."
      

      Magnesium depletion and deficiency play a role
       in the pathophysiology of physical exercise.[22]

      
Many in sports medicine think that supplements should only be taken when
there is proof that the diet cannot provide the quantities of nutrients needed
and
that supplements require a proper medical diagnosis and should only be
prescribed by the sports physician and dietician in writing. Some go as far as
insisting that fitness coaches and conditioning staff should not prescribe any
supplements. But trainers need to be aware of anything that would enhance or
help
reduce the amount of time for rehabilitation due to an injury. The job of
trainers and coaches is to prevent injuries or to get the players well as fast
as
possible.

      
Everyone involved in athletics need to be acutely aware that the medical
industrial complex is not going to act in the best interests of athletes. Many
are
becoming more conscious about how good ideas and sound natural medicine are
being professionally suppressed by intricate campaigns of discreditation, spun
by the vested interests of corporate science and backed by the pharmaceutical
industry and even the government which is in bed with the drug companies. The
last thing they do not want athletes or the general public to know is that it
is now virtually impossible to receive needed and necessary nutrition from
foods grown from modern agricultural methods.[23] Nutritional values of foods
have been dropping precipitously over the last fifty years and the increasing
toxic exposures put additional demands on an athlete's nutritional status. This
is especially true with magnesium. There is virtually no one that cannot
benefit greatly from increasing daily magnesium intake. In terms of health and
longevity magnesium is essential. For the professional athlete it means the
difference between winning and losing. 

Mark Sircus Ac., OMD
Director International Medical Veritas Association
Email: director@...
http://www.MagnesiumForLife.com
http://www.imva.info
http://www.detoxchelationclinic.com
http://www.worldpsychology.net
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[1] In a very tightly controlled three-month US study the effects of
magnesium depletion on exercise performance in 10 women were observed - and the
results make fascinating reading . In the first month, the women received a
magnesium-deficient diet (112mgs per day), which was supplemented with 200mgs
per day
of magnesium to bring the total magnesium content up to the RDA of 310mgs per
day. In the second month, the supplement was withdrawn to make the diet
magnesium-deficient, but in the third month it was reintroduced to replenish
magnesium levels. At the end of each month, the women were asked to cycle at
increasing intensities until they reached 80% of their maximum heart rate, at
which
time a large number of measurements were taken, including blood tests, ECG and
respiratory gas analysis. The researchers found that, for a given workload,
peak oxygen uptake, total and cumulative net oxygen utilization and heart rate
all increased significantly during the period of magnesium restriction, with the
amount of the increase directly related to the extent of magnesium depletion.
In plain English, a magnesium deficiency reduced metabolic efficiency,
increasing the oxygen consumption and heart rate required to perform work -
exactly
what an athlete doesn't want!

[2] J Am Diet Assoc;86: 251-3 (1986) and Nutr Res;7:27-34 (1987)

[3] Med Sci Sports Exerc; 18(suppl):S55-6 (1986)

[4] J Appl Physiol 65:1500-1505 (1988)

[5] Endocrinol Metab Clin N Am 22:377-395 (1993)

[6] King D, Mainous A 3rd, Geesey M, Woolson R. Dietary magnesium and
C-reactive protein levels. J Am Coll Nutr. 2005 Jun 24(3):166-71.

[7] Deficiency is also more common when magnesium absorption is decreased,
such as after burns, serious injuries, or surgery and in patients with diabetes,
liver disease, or intestinal mal-absorption problems. Also deficiencies
develop when magnesium elimination is increased, which it is in people who use
alcohol, caffeine, or excess sugar, or who take diuretics or birth control
pills.

The food supply has been steadily becoming magnesium-poor since 1909:[7]

            1909 intake
           408 mg/day
          
            1949 intake
           368 mg/day
          
            1980 intake
           349 mg/day
          
            1985 intake
           323 mg/day (men)
          
            1985 intake
           228 mg/day (women)
          
There has been a steep decline of dietary magnesium in the United States,
from a high of almost 500 mg/day at the turn of the last century to barely
175-225 mg/day today. The National Academy of Sciences has determined that most
Americans are magnesium deficient, with men obtaining only about 80 percent of
their daily needs with women fairing even worse obtaining about 70 percent of
their needs.

[8] Brilla, Lorrie. ACSM journal, Medicine and Science in Sports and
Exercise, Vol. 31, No. 5, May 1999.

[9] Med Exerc Nutr Health 4:230-233 (1995)

[10] Pre and post leg strength measurements were made using a Biodex
isokinetic dynamometer." The strength of the ZMA group increased by 11.6%
compared to
only a 4.6% increase in the placebo group.

[11]"Magnesium Oil" (natural transdermal magnesium chloride from
http://www.globallight.net ) delivers high levels of magnesium directly through
the skin
to the cellular level, bypassing common intestinal and kidney symptoms
associated with oral use. Magnesium chloride has a major advantage over
magnesium
sulfate because it is hygroscopic and will attract water to it, thus keeping it
wet on the skin and vastly more likely to be absorbed, while magnesium sulfate
simply "dries" and becomes "powdery". Magnesium Oil feels "oily" on the skin.
The biggest benefit of topical magnesium chloride administration is that the
intestines are not adversely impacted by large doses of oral magnesium.

[12] The problem with oral magnesium is that all magnesium compounds are
potentially laxative. And there is good evidence that magnesium absorption
depends
upon the mineral remaining in the intestine at least 12 hours. If intestinal
transit time is less than 12 hours, magnesium absorption is impaired, and this
is the case when high does of oral magnesium are administered. Thus it is
very difficult to administer what would be considered medicinal does for active
athletes orally. Magnesium supplementation is actually crucial for everyone
today but we have to pay especial attention to the method of supplementation
because this is critical in terms of effective body utilization. Magnesium is
absorbed primarily in the distal small intestines or colon. Active uptake is
required involving various transport systems such as the vitamin D-sensitive
transport system. Since magnesium is not passively absorbed it demonstrates
saturable absorption resulting in variable bioavailability averaging 35-40% of
administered dose even under the best conditions of intestinal health. Magnesium
levels in the body, presence of calcium, phosphate, phytate and protein can
affect
rate of absorption. These and other conditions make oral magnesium
supplements intake chancy and inefficient compared to transdermal intake.
Transdermal
application of magnesium is far superior to oral supplements and is in reality
the only practical way magnesium can be used as a medicine besides by direct
injection. One of the major disadvantages of oral magnesium compositions that
are currently available is that they do not control the release of magnesium,
but instead immediately release magnesium in the stomach after they are
ingested. These products are inefficient because they release magnesium in the
upper
gastrointestinal tract where it reacts with other substances such as calcium.
These reactions reduce the absorption of magnesium. "When people are ill, faced
with magnesium deficiency and poor digestion, what do you think the odds are
of fixing that problem with oral magnesium supplementation and digestive
enzymes alone?" asks Dr. Ronald Hoffman. Mildred Seelig, Ph.D., renowned
researcher
of magnesium, predicts it would take 6 months to normalize magnesium levels
in a woman who is magnesium deficient with oral supplementation. In his clinic
Dr. Hoffman carefully measures magnesium and found that many patients with low
magnesium who take just oral supplements do not normalize. The bottom line is
that transdermal magnesium therapy speeds up the process of nutrient
repletion in much the same way as intravenous methods.

[13] G. Stendig-Lindberg, et al., "Predictors of maximum voluntary
contraction force of quadriceps femoris muscle in man. Ridge regression
analysis,"
Magnesium 2 (1983): 93-104.

[14] Frustaci, A., et al. Marked Elevation of Myocardial Trace Elements in
Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy Compared With Secondary Dysfunction.
Department of Cardiology, Catholic University, Rome Italy Journal of the
American
College of Cardiology. Vol. 33, No. 6, 1999, pp. 1578-1583: A large increase (>
10,000 times for mercury and antimony) of TE concentration has been observed in
myocardial but not in muscular samples in all pts with IDCM.  Patients with
secondary cardiac dysfunction had mild increase (<5 times) of myocardial TE and
normal muscular TE.  In particular, in pts with IDCM mean mercury concentration
was 22,000 times (178,400 ng/g vs. 8 ng/g), antimony 12,000 times (19,260 ng/g
vs. 1.5 ng/g), gold 11 times (26 ng/g vs. 2.3 ng/g), chromium 13 times (2,300
ng/g vs. 177 ng/g) and cobalt 4 times (86.5 ng/g vs. 20 ng/g) higher than in
control subjects.

[15] C. Consolazio, et al., "Excretion of sodium, potassium, magnesium, and
iron in human sweat and the relation of each to balance and requirements," J.
Nutr 79 (1963): 407-415.

[16] R. McDonald and C. Keen, "Iron, zinc, and magnesium nutrition and
athletic performance," Sports Med. 5 (1988): 171-184.

[17] P. Deuster, et al., "Magnesium homeostasis during high-intensity
anaerobic exercise in men," J. Appl. Physiol. 62 (1987): 545-550.

[18] According to Dr. Jeffrey Sankoff, "Because our bodies can only function
within a narrow range of temperature, mechanisms exist for cooling. The most
important of these mechanisms is the production of sweat. When sweat is formed
on the skin, the heat from the body evaporates the water and energy is
dissipated. However, if it is very hot sweating becomes less efficient as the
air --
rather than heat generated by the body -- evaporates the sweat. And in humid
conditions water evaporation slows, so sweating becomes less effective."
http://www.insidetri.com/train/tips/articles/2218.0.html

[19] The average size amalgam filling contains approximately 750,000
micrograms of mercury (Hg) which releases part of that everyday for as long as
the
filling is in a person's mouth. A microgram (mcg) is 1/1,000 of a milligram in
weight or one-millionth of a gram. A milligram (mg) is 1/1,000 of a gram by
weight. People with amalgam are exposed to from tens to several hundreds of
micrograms of mercury per day depending on how many fillings are in their mouth,
how
old the fillings are, how much a person brushes their teeth, chews and eats,
the bacteria count in the mouth, and even the temperature of the body. Dr.
Murry Vimy, professor of dentistry says, "It is estimated that the average
individual, with eight biting surface mercury fillings, is exposed to a daily
dose
uptake of about 10 micrograms mercury from their fillings. According to Dr.
Magnus Nylander, "Data suggest that approximately 19 to 20% of the general
population may experience sub-clinical CNS and/or kidney function impairment as
a
result of the presence of amalgam fillings." Dr. Robert Gammal states, "Mercury
from amalgam fillings has been shown to be neurotoxic, embryotoxic, mutagenic,
teratogenic, immunotoxic and clastogenic. It is capable of causing immune
dysfunction and auto-immune diseases." It is important to remember that mercury
toxicity is a retention toxicity that builds up during years of exposure. The
toxicity of a singular level of mercury is greatly increased by current or
subsequent, low exposures to lead or other toxic heavy metals.

[20] Y. Rayssiguier1, C. Y. Guezennec, and J. Durlach. INRA, Laboratoire des
Maladies Métaboliques, France: Urinary Mg losses during an endurance event
could play a role in this depletion but are often reduced, reflecting renal
compensation. Loss of Mg by sweating takes place only when there is a failure in
sweat homeostasis, a situation which arises when exercise is made in conditions
of damp atmosphere and high temperature. Stress caused by physical exercise is
capable of inducing Mg deficit by various mechanisms. A possible explanation
for decreased plasma Mg concentration during long endurance events is the
effect of lipolysis. Since fatty acids are mobilized for muscle energy,
lipolysis
would cause a decrease in plasma Mg.

      [21] Dr. Nan Kathryn Fuchs, author of The Nutrition Detective, says
that, "Our diets today are very different from those of our ancestors though our
bodies remain similar. Thousands of years ago, our ancestors ate foods high in
magnesium and low in calcium. Because calcium supplies were scarce and the
need for this vital mineral was great, it was effectively stored by the body.
Magnesium, on the other hand, was abundant and readily available, in the form of
nuts, seeds, grains, and vegetables, and did not need to be stored
internally. Our bodies still retain calcium and not magnesium although we tend
to eat
much more dairy than our ancestors."

      [22] Y. Rayssiguier1, C. Y. Guezennec, and J. Durlach. INRA,
Laboratoire des Maladies Métaboliques, France

      [23] We humans are not getting the minerals we need because modem
agricultural methods, including widespread use of N P K fertilizer, over
farming,
loss of protective ground cover and trees, and lack of humus have made soils
vulnerable to erosion. The result is a reduced nutrient content of crops. N P K
fertilizer is highly acidic. It disrupts the pH (acid/alkaline) balance of the
soil, as does acid rain. Acid conditions destroy soil microorganisms. It is
the job of these microorganisms to transmute soil minerals into a form that is
usable by plants. In the absence of these microbes, these minerals become
locked up, unavailable to the plant. Stimulated by the N P K fertilizer, the
plant
grows, but it is deficient in vital trace minerals. In the absence of trace
minerals, plants take up heavy metals (such as aluminum, mercury and lead) from
the soil. Between 1950 and 1975, the calcium content in one cup of rice
dropped 21 percent, and iron fell by 28.6 percent.
    





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Jim said: I've had a few requests for heaters but I'm not in a position yet
to
place an order.  I will when enough people are willing to commit to
the investment, that is, give their word that if I make the purchase
they will buy.  Unfortunately, few people are willing to wait.  I've
had some contact with a manufacturer of the box type saunas, if any
one is interested I can probably get the 2-person box for a good price.


Oh, now I get it!  I had thought you were building the heaters.
How many do you need to order in one go?

My question: what would be involved in adapting them to the Australian
electrical grid, or is it a firm that produces them for more than one
country?  Are they made in America?  It's not just the plug, that's easy
enough, but the power supply being different, I have had problems in the
past with American made electrical goods.  The UK power system may be
similar (though not the same).
Also, as you know how heavy the goods are from posting, could you check what
it would cost to post to Australia?
As I already have the portable sauna with the heaters, I am in no rush and
could wait any length of time; my sauna room won't be ready for a long time.
It would be something to work towards.

It's what I was looking for all along, but didn't find.

R

wow Jim, you are doing a great job on all fronts.  You are a hard solid worker. 
GOod luck with the doc that you gave your notes to.  Hope you get good results
from him.  You keep up the good work.  I'm proud of you.

kathy (from Ottawa Canada)
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   Subject: [CFS-FMS_FIRST-Aid] Hope things are going well.


   Hello All,

     Working at a School of Medicine (in a non medicine capacity) I am
   able to sit in on presentations made by visiting researchers.  A few
   weeks ago I saw a couple interesting presentations one on
   mitochondrial dysfunction and the other on Heart Disease.  The
   presenter is the director of the cardiology Department at Washington Univ.

     One of the slides that sticks in my mind is the fatty deposits on
   the heart in a person w/ diabetes.  I don't know how long it took for
   the deposits to build up but you could not even tell that it was a
   heart in the picture, the fat deposits were so thick.

     I gave this Dr. a few articles that I had on studies done in Japan
   employing thermal therapy using FIR sauna on patients w/ chronic heart
   failure.  The conclusion in the articles are all favorable for the
   modality.  I've not yet heard what the Dr. thought of the information.

     Based on the way that the thermal therapy was applied in these
   articles, I have modified my suggested use of FIR sauna, at least for
   ill people.

     I've also come upon another item to add to the suggested program.
   I've been using it regularly and it seems to have provided some good
   health benefits.  I'll put it in my revised program notes, when I
   write them. :)

     I've had a few requests for heaters but I'm not in a position yet to
   place an order.  I will when enough people are willing to commit to
   the investment, that is, give their word that if I make the purchase
   they will buy.  Unfortunately, few people are willing to wait.  I've
   had some contact with a manufacturer of the box type saunas, if any
   one is interested I can probably get the 2-person box for a good price.

     I am confident that the modifications made to the program will
   produce more positive results.  I hope to find a few people in the
   local area that I can work with.

   All the best,
   Jim






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Hello All,

   Working at a School of Medicine (in a non medicine capacity) I am
able to sit in on presentations made by visiting researchers.  A few
weeks ago I saw a couple interesting presentations one on
mitochondrial dysfunction and the other on Heart Disease.  The
presenter is the director of the cardiology Department at Washington Univ.

   One of the slides that sticks in my mind is the fatty deposits on
the heart in a person w/ diabetes.  I don't know how long it took for
the deposits to build up but you could not even tell that it was a
heart in the picture, the fat deposits were so thick.

   I gave this Dr. a few articles that I had on studies done in Japan
employing thermal therapy using FIR sauna on patients w/ chronic heart
failure.  The conclusion in the articles are all favorable for the
modality.  I've not yet heard what the Dr. thought of the information.

   Based on the way that the thermal therapy was applied in these
articles, I have modified my suggested use of FIR sauna, at least for
ill people.

   I've also come upon another item to add to the suggested program.
I've been using it regularly and it seems to have provided some good
health benefits.  I'll put it in my revised program notes, when I
write them. :)

   I've had a few requests for heaters but I'm not in a position yet to
place an order.  I will when enough people are willing to commit to
the investment, that is, give their word that if I make the purchase
they will buy.  Unfortunately, few people are willing to wait.  I've
had some contact with a manufacturer of the box type saunas, if any
one is interested I can probably get the 2-person box for a good price.

   I am confident that the modifications made to the program will
produce more positive results.  I hope to find a few people in the
local area that I can work with.

All the best,
Jim

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For those of you who can see BBC Television (either in the UK or via
satellite in parts of Europe), BBC2 is showing a new 3 part series on
alternative medicine starting on Tuesday 24th Jan at 9pm UK time.

Alternative Medicine
For thousands of years, what we now think of as Complementary and
Alternative Medicine (CAM) was the only medicine; now, traditional cures are
being treated with a fresh respect. For BBC TWO, Kathy Sykes investigates
why science is starting to respond to these centuries-old remedies.

Further details about the series can be found online:
http://www.open2.net/alternativemedicine/

Programme 1: Acupuncture
http://www.open2.net/alternativemedicine/programme1.html

Programme 2: Herbalism
http://www.open2.net/alternativemedicine/programme2.html

Programme 3: Healing
http://www.open2.net/alternativemedicine/programme3.html

For those of you who cannot see this series, BBC Radio 4 made a similar
series called "The Other Medicine" which can be heard online:
http://www.open2.net/othermedicine/programme1.html

Enjoy...

Peter
www.rife.de


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One of the things I remember quite clearly was that they had a
bottle of cell salts...homeopathic...next to the door and took them
quite often.

Possibly the product that contians all twelve cell salts would be a good way
to go - the Schuessler salts.  Golden Glow sell them in Australia, but they
must be available most places.  Save having to take the separate ones.
R

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Lessons in Low-Level Toxicity

       International Medical Veritas Association



             The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States recently
recommended a stricter limit of lead, which is allowed to be contained in
certain types of children's candy.[i] The new limit recommended for the highly
toxic metal in children's candy is not more than one-tenth of a part per
million, compared to the previous, decade-old level of one-half a part per
million. The Food and Nutrition Board of Institute of Medicine of the National
Academies recommends that foods contain no more than 2 ppm (parts per million)
of lead and no more than one ppm of mercury. Many, of course, feel these numbers
are too high and that foods given to children should have nowhere near these
levels of neurological poisons.

         About a quarter of the nation's children are exposed to lead at home,
       and more than 400,000 children are found each year to harbor amounts
        of lead deemed hazardous to normal mental and physical development.

            A few parts per million sounds like very little though, until you
scale it to parts per billion. The old standard for lead in candy allowed for
500 parts per billion, and now the recommendation is to bring that down to 100
parts per billion. Our official government benchmark is 2,000 parts per billion
of lead and 1,000 parts per billion of mercury. Officials cringe at mention of
parts per billion and, when we take it down to the parts per trillion scale,
things start to look particularly devastating. One part per million is one
thousand parts per billion, which translates to one million parts per trillion.



       Environmental exposure to lead in early childhood is a prelude to a
        host of societal ills. It is associated with an increased risk of
       reading problems, school failure, delinquency and criminal behavior.
       As it is with lead it is with mercury, only much worse.



            When bringing children to the doctor for flu vaccinations, the last
thing on a parents' mind may be that the vaccine is a gamble for something far
worse than the flu. The number of ppm of mercury in a current influenza vaccine
varies depending on the flu vaccine used.[ii] It is 50 ppm (50,000 ppb) (50
million parts per trillion) mercury for the "Thimerosal Preserved" vaccines
(Chiron's Fluvirin and Aventis' Fluzone). Though governmental medical
authorities insist this is safe and are even poised to force all parents to
subject their children to these shots in a declared epidemic, even though these
shots contain fifty times the current government-recommended safe levels for
mercury in food.



       Risks associated with lead and mercury exposure begin in the womb.



            We do not even want to think about the enormous difference in
absorption rates for injected mercury vs. mercury ingested through food
consumption. We can safely eat much more mercury for not only will a great
portion of it not be absorbed but also any selenium in the food will neutralize
the mercury. Injecting mercury directly into children bypasses all their natural
defenses and has to be the worst idea ever thought up by man. Yet, in a recent
poll, 69% of doctors and 62% of nurses voted to keep thimerosal in flu vaccines
to protect against avian flu.[iii] Even though mercury toxicity can cause flu
and or lead to worsening consequences of having the flu, doctors and nurses
stubbornly back medical experiments on our children for no one, in fact, knows
what the long-term effects are of having yearly mercury-laden flu vaccines
administered starting at age of six months.

       The FDA questioned Thimerosal safety several times and decided
        in 1982 that it was "not safe for 'over-the-counter' topical use,
        because of its potential for cell damage," The FDA never did
        anything to question its use in childhood vaccines.

            There has been much confusion about the actual amount of mercury in
vaccines even among the medical establishment[iv] that got caught with its pants
down at the end of the 1990's when the FDA, as mandated by FDAMA, the Food and
Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997, demanded a review of all medical
products containing mercury. Today, confusion remains because the number of
micrograms of mercury per mL of vaccine (ppm of mercury) in the vaccine is
confused with the micrograms of mercury in each dose of vaccine administered.
For the "Thimerosal Preserved" vaccines, a 0.5-mL adult dose provides about 25
micrograms (25,000 nanograms) of mercury and a 0.25-mL children's dose provides
about 12.5 micrograms (12,500 nanograms) of mercury.

       200 micrograms of mercury would fit on the head of a pin.
       According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),
       dropping that pinhead of mercury into 23 gallons of water
        would make it unsafe for human consumption.[v]

            Since the molecular weight of mercury is 200.59 g/mole (or 200.59
micrograms per micromole) and a g mole contains about 6.0221367 X 10 to the 23
power atoms, 50 micrograms of mercury is about 2.1425 X 10 to the 11 power atoms
or about 214,250,000,000 atoms of mercury. Divide that huge number by four and
you get the approximate number of atoms injected into a six month baby if
Chiron's Fluvirin and Aventis' Fluzone is used. [Note: Since the guidelines
recommend 2 doses of flu vaccine [30 days apart] for the initial vaccination,
the 6-month-old child will get twice this amount by 7 months if the recommended
schedule is followed.]



            If all these numbers and zeroes makes you dizzy, it comes down to
this: There are many doctors, nurses and public health officials that recommend
you inject your baby with approximately 53 trillion atoms of mercury on a
regular basis starting at six months of age. In general, the FDA accepts an
each-dose range for the mercury level from 75% to 125% of the nominal level in
each formulation; so, at six months, your child could get upward of
approximately 75 trillion atoms of mercury injected directly into their bodies
from the Thimerosal-preserved vaccine alone.[vi]



            Different researchers have done experiments with what are considered
traces and have shown that thimerosal "to cause adverse effects on MS activity
at concentrations well below the levels produced by thimerosal containing
vaccines," said Dr. Waly and associates at Northeastern University.[vii] Dr.
David Baskin at the department of Neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine
demonstrated, "that thimerosal in micromolar concentrations rapidly induce
membrane and DNA damage, and initiate caspase-3 dependent apoptosis in human
neurons and fibroblasts." In their studies cells were incubated with 125nM -
250uM concentrations of thimerosal and they reported that thimerosal is toxic if
applied in micromolar concentrations from 1uM to 250uM.[viii] Dr. J. Curtis
Pendergrass and Dr. Boyd Haley who did experiments at Kentucky University concur
saying, "Pure thimerosal was toxic at the low nanomolar level - an extremely low
concentration, about 10,000 times less than the thimerosal concentration found
in most vaccines. These results leave little doubt about thimerosal being the
toxic agent in the vaccines."

       I am ashamed that our country is misleading other
        parts of the world with regards to the thimerosal issue.[ix]
                                                                                                 
Dr. Boyd Haley

           A new report, 'Making Sense of Chemical Stories', published by the
charity Sense About Science Campaigns, is an example of how the mainstream
scientific and medical establishment would confuse the real issues of chemical
toxicity. They report about environmental groups who have highlighted the
presence of dangerous chemicals in pregnant women and their unborn babies
pointing out that these groups never mentioned that the toxins are present in
parts per billion. And they laugh at the idea that traces of different man-made
chemicals can combine to produce a single, highly toxic effect.



           Trust chemicals, beware of nature is the swan song of an empire under
attack for poisoning the planet and all the people on it. From cosmetics to
medicine the campaign is on that warns we are wrong to think natural must be
best. Britain's leading chemists warn in the above report that far from being
the best forms of nutrition, medicine or cosmetics on the market, natural
products can pose serious health risks. Though it is true that nature
manufactures many potent poisons like snake, scorpion and spider venom, these
scientists who cry that  synthetic chemicals are often much safer for human
health than so-called "natural" ones are truly missing the boat about the
realities of low level toxicity.



           Certain ideas are indecent, mean and cruel. Putting down nature and
lifting up toxic chemicals is one. But injecting mercury directly into our
children easily qualifies as the all time meanest, cruelest, most indecent
medical practice in history and those who favor this will be remembered as
medical barbarians. These doctors are worse than surgeons refusing to wash their
hands. Their crimes and practices of medical insanity, injecting the most toxic
non radioactive substance into babies, is made much worse because the scientific
information about the toxicity of mercury is widely available.



            The FDA does not seem to care and are themselves busy passing new
rules (about labeling) designed to preempt lawsuits filed by patients under
state law, potentially leaving victims of FDA-approved drugs with no remedy for
any harm caused by the approved drugs. The FDA and the CDC are at the center of
something ugly and researchers all over the globe are busy proving how "dead"
wrong they are in their basic assumptions.



            For instance the CDC considers 10 micrograms per deciliter (mcg/dL)
the "level of concern" for lead in the bloodstream, but researchers in Mexico
found that maternal blood lead levels well below 10 mcg/dL appeared to have a
lasting impact on their children's IQ, at least up to the age of 10. Everyone
involved in autism have heard repeatedly how safe thimerosal is and how it
cannot possibly be related to the rapid rise in autism and other childhood
neurological conditions.



           It is a sad testimony that the majority of medical doctors sustains
governmentally sponsored medical terrorism and continues to inject thimerosal
containing vaccines into children. The Nazi doctors in the concentration camps
at least had conscious sinister purpose, they were trying to kill as many as
possible. Their modern day allopathic medical counterparts only have medical
insanity as a defense. In a medical world where insanity is the accepted
governmentally backed norm we are in trouble.



       Mark Sircus Ac., OMD
       Director International Medical Veritas Association
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       [i] The step was taken after it was found additional ingredients such as
chili powder, tamarind pulp and some salts used in some sweets can boost the
lead content beyond allowable levels. The lead is believed to come from
improperly washed and stored ingredients grown in lead-contaminated soils.
Another source is the candy wrapper printed with inks containing the metal.
"This new guidance level will further reduce an already minimal risk from lead
exposure in candy," said Acting FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach. The new
guidance is expected to take effect next year, the FDA said. Lead poisoning is
linked to behavioral problems and learning disabilities and can even cause
seizures or death. The risk is the highest for children under age 7 because of
their quick growth.

       [ii] 2.5 ppm (2,500 ppb) for the GSK "reduced Thimerosal" Fluarix vaccine
to: 2.0 ppm (2,000 ppb) for the Chiron "Trace Thimerosal" Fluvirin (not being
delivered in 2005) vaccine to: "0" ppm for the Aventis "preservative free"
Fluzone (Aventis' alternative to their previous "trace Thimerosal" vaccine.

       [iii] At a recent meeting of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee, some
experts said that state laws banning the use of thimerosal, a mercury-containing
vaccine preservative, could hinder efforts to protect the US population from
avian influenza. Which of the following would you prefer? Total Responses: 760
Poll conducted 20-Dec-2005 - 27-Dec-2005

      
http://www.medscape.com/px/instantpollservlet/filterpoll?PollID=1641&BackURL=/px\
/instantpollservlet/result?PollID=1641&Profession=Nurse/Advanced%20Practice%20Nu\
rse

       [iv] The fact is that today, most routinely recommended pediatric vaccines
manufactured for the U.S. market still contain thimerosal, though according to
the IOM, "only trace" amounts remain. And of course this is exactly what they
thought five years ago. In 1999, Dr Neal Halsey, who heads the Hopkins Institute
for Vaccine Safety said, ''my first reaction was simply disbelief, which was the
reaction of almost everybody involved in vaccines. In most vaccine containers,
thimerosal is listed as a mercury derivative, a hundredth of a percent. And what
I believed, and what everybody else believed, was that it was truly a trace, a
biologically insignificant amount. My honest belief is that if the labels had
had the mercury content in micrograms, this would have been uncovered years ago.
But the fact is, no one did the calculation."

       [v] EPA - Consumer Fact sheet on: MERCURY - Safe limit in water is 2ppb

       [vi] The variability is lot-to-lot; levels of 48 to 55 micrograms of
mercury per mL have been observed in limited testing of lots of a variety of
"Thimerosal Preserved" vaccines.

       [vii] Waly, M. et al Activation of methionine synthase by insulin-like
growth factor-1 and dopamine: a target for neurodevelopmental toxins and
thimerosal. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University.
Molecular Psychiatry (2004) 1-13

       [viii] Baskin, David, Ngo, Hop,  Didenko, Vladamir. Thimerosal induces DNA
breaks, capase-3 activation, membrane damage, and cell death in cultured human
neurons and fibroblasts. ToxSci Advanced Access published May 28, 2003

       [ix] Haley, Boyd. Personal Email August 1, 2004




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Dear IMVA,



       The International Medical Veritas Association is now two years old. If you
visit the IMVA site you will see the new face we are putting out into the world
with our focus in seven areas:



                   1) The Rising Tide of Mercury (Dental, Vaccines,
Environmental)

       2) Diabetes and Diabetic Neuropathy

       3) Transdermal Magnesium Mineral Therapy

       4) Sports Medicine

       5) Childhood Immunization & Autism

       6) Natural Detoxification and Chelation of heavy metals.

       7) Natural Child Birth



       Below find the beginning of a series on diabetes. The International
Medical Veritas Association (IMVA) introduces a much needed medical intervention
for the prevention and treatment of diabetes and the many complications that
come from it. There are two mammoth factors that the IMVA has discovered are
linked to the horrendous rise in diabetes in adults and children that the
western medical establishment is not willing to acknowledge. The first is
chemical poisoning and the second is magnesium deficiency.  When we confront the
fact that every 30 seconds a leg is lost because of diabetes somewhere in the
world, there is much to get excited about in our safe and natural treatment for
Diabetic Neuropathy.



       I have just recently begun to receive some mail from people worried about
me. Sorry to have been away for so long but have been working in earnest to
finish the magnesium book and to open our work in the area of diabetes and
sports medicine.



       We are a very young organization and have been working without financial
resources though a few people have stepped in to lend a helping hand. That help
has been instrumental and for that we owe a debt of gratitude. We have not asked
directly for donations to our readers but we appeal to any and everyone who can
support our work. Global Light Network, which donated quite a bit of its
Magnesium Oil for our research last summer, is now donating a percentage of all
magnesium sales to the IMVA. Thus a great way to support our work is to stock up
your medicine cabinets with magnesium chloride.



       We also are intimately involved with FEBICO, a fine producer of spirulina
and chlorella at the very southern tip of Taiwan, Natural Body Beautiful, a
company that deals in the finest calcium bentonite clay, and with Science
Formulas, which produces Chelorex, a natural chelation product for adults. All
these companies have donated their products to facilitate our work in helping
others recover from chemical poisoning.



       Replacing billions of dollars of pharmaceuticals with a safe
mineral/medicine like magnesium chloride is now one of our primary goals. It's
our medical revolution in progress. We need people to work with us. We need
people to study with us and then visit health food stores, doctors,
chiropractors and everyone who is involved in the health field.



       As you will see below and on the IMVA site, our big push right now is into
the nightmarish realm of diabetes, which in a medical sense is hitting the
worlds population in a much more intense way than the tidal waves that reached
around the Indian Ocean. We intend to kick many doors down on this issue though
this does not diminish our commitment in the area of autism and childhood
immunization. Please see our new presentations on these subjects on the new IMVA
site.



       Mark Sircus Ac., OMD
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       Magnesium and Diabetic Neuropathy

       International Medical Veritas Association



       If diabetes has no cure,

       if its like a wind that never ends,

       at least we can slow that
        wind down and even make it stop.





       Introduction



            Diabetes is commonly thought to have no cure. It is progressive and
often fatal, and while the patient lives, the mass of medical complications it
sets off can attack every major organ. Though public health officials
acknowledge that their ability to slow the disease is limited, and though
doctors fear a huge wave of new cases will overwhelm public health systems,
"Public health authorities around the country have all but ignored chronic
illnesses like diabetes, focusing instead on communicable diseases, which kill
far fewer people," according to the New York Times. Hospitals around New York
City are full of diabetic patients and on any given day, nearly half the
patients are there for some trouble precipitated by the disease.[i]



       Type two diabetes is being declared
       an epidemic in New York City.



           With one in three children born in the United States expected to
become diabetic in their lifetimes, a close look at its surge in New York City
offers a disturbing glimpse of where the city, and the rest of the world is
headed. Diabetes has swept through families, entire neighborhoods in the Bronx
and broad slices of Brooklyn. While the ranks of American diabetics have
exploded by an extremely painful 80 percent in the last decade, New York has
seen a devastating explosion of 140 percent. New York is not the only place
where the disease is exploding. "Half of Texas children born after the year 2000
will develop diabetes," said Department of State Health Services Commissioner
Dr. Eduardo Sanchez.[ii]



       Type 2 Diabetes is sweeping so rapidly through
        America we need not waste time giving
        children bicycles. Just roll them a wheelchair.

                                                                                              
Boston Globe[iii]



            This medical review of diabetic neuropathy introduces a much needed
medical intervention for the prevention and treatment of diabetes and the many
complications that come from it. Though safe effective treatments are
desperately needed there is something strange in the medical establishments
approach to diabetic care. The New York Times says in this regard, "In the
Treatment of Diabetes, Success Often Does Not Pay." "It's almost as though the
system encourages people to get sick and then people get paid to treat them,"
said Dr. Matthew E. Fink, a former president of Beth Israel Medical Center in
Manhattan. The Times bemoans "a medical system so focused on acute illnesses
that it is struggling to respond to diabetes, a chronic disease that looms as
the largest health crisis facing the city."[iv] Something is wrong with the way
allopathic medicine is dealing with diabetes and that starts with its refusal to
look honestly at what is causing the disease.



            Diabetes gives us a clear picture of how the human race is being
caught between a rock and a hard place, a kind of devils anvil of our own
corporate making. The human body is failing to deal with massive chemical
exposure in the face of hugely increasing deficiencies in basic nutrients like
magnesium. Malnutrition is now in full bloom in the first world even among the
obese.



       Magnesium and Diabetic Neuropathy



       Magnesium is necessary for the
        production, function & transport of insulin.



            Magnesium is known to be necessary for nerve conduction; deficiency
is known to cause peripheral neuropathy symptoms and studies suggest that a
deficiency in magnesium may worsen blood glucose control in type 2 diabetes.
Scientists believe that a deficiency of magnesium interrupts insulin secretion
in the pancreas and increases insulin resistance in the body's tissues.



            Magnesium deficiency played a role in the constriction of arteries
and enhanced injury to the cellular tissues lining the blood vessels. 
Peripheral artery disease, or peripheral vascular disease, refers to diseases of
the arteries and veins of the extremities, especially atherosclerosis with
narrowing of the arteries. This opens the door to the development and
progression of atherosclerosis and sets the stage for the development of
neurological events such as strokes. These same conditions set the stage for the
development of peripheral diabetic neuropathy.[i] This entire scenario described
here also sets the stage for the development of peripheral neuropathy even when
diabetes is not present.



            A recent analysis showed that people with higher dietary intakes of
magnesium (through consumption of whole grains, nuts, and green leafy
vegetables) had a decreased risk of type 2 diabetes.[ii] Magnesium has
potentially beneficial effects at several key steps of glucose and insulin
metabolism. In animal studies, dietary magnesium supplementation can prevent
fructose-induced insulin resistance and elevations of blood pressure in rats.
[iii]



           The convergence of large drops in cellular magnesium, which offers
protective coverage against chemical toxicity, with increasing poisoning of
people's blood streams with heavy metals like arsenic, mercury and lead, as well
as a literal host of other chemical toxins in the environment, are teaming up to
disrupt normal cell phsyiological. Eating junk food fits into an alarming
picture for modern diets of highly processed foods translates into magnesium
deficiencies, and processed food are also high in chemical preservatives,
pesticides, and food additives that are harmful to health and put further
strains on magneisum reserves in the body.



       Magnesium deficiency is associated with insulin
        resistance and increased platelet reactivity.



           An abstract from Disorders of Magnesium Metabolism[iv] concludes,
"Magnesium depletion is more common than previously thought. It seems to be
especially prevalent in patients with diabetes mellitus. It is usually caused by
losses from the kidney or gastrointestinal tract. A patient with magnesium
depletion may present with neuromuscular symptoms, hypokalemia, hypocalcemia, or
cardiovascular complication. Physicians should maintain a high index of
suspicion for magnesium depletion in patients at high risk and should implement
therapy early."



       A separate Gallup survey (in 1995) of 500 adults with diabetes
        reported that 83 percent of those with diabetes are consuming
        insufficient magnesium from food, with many by significant margins.[v]



            Diabetic neuropathy and other complications of diabetes are made
worse as a result of concurrent magnesium deficiency.  Magnesium is known to be
deficient in over 68% of the US population, and more so in diabetics who waste
magnesium more than others when blood sugars are out of control. Up to 80% of
type 2 diabetics have a magnesium deficiency.[vi] Children labeled "pre
diabetic" (now 41 million) are in great need of magnesium, which has been linked
to preventing the development of type 2 diabetes.[vii]  In a series of papers,
Dr. L. M. Resnick has shown in the test tube that an increase in glucose in the
fluid leads to the release and/or displacement of Magnesium from the red blood
cells, thus in the body hyperglycemia, high blood sugar, will cause a total body
Magnesium deficiency.[viii]



            A more recent study shows us that "Serum magnesium depletion is
present and shows a strong relationship with foot ulcers in subjects with type 2
diabetes and foot ulcers, a relationship not previously reported."
Hypomagnesemia is associated with the development of neuropathy and abnormal
platelet activity, both of which are risk factors for the progression of ulcers
of the feet.[ix]



       Lower serum magnesium levels are associated
        with more rapid decline of renal function.



            Thus we can expect to find that magnesium can be used to prevent and
treat both diabetes and the complications that come from it including severe
peripheral neuropathy. Dr. S. E. Browne makes a strong case for intravenous
magnesium treatment of arterial disease and has used magnesium sulphate in his
general practice for over three decades. "Magnesium sulphate (MgSO4) in a 50%
solution was injected initially intramuscularly and later intravenously into
patients with peripheral vascular disease (including gangrene, claudication, leg
ulcers and thrombophlebitis), angina, acute myocardial infarction (AMI),
non-haemorrhagic cerebral vascular disease and congestive cardiac failure. A
powerful vasodilator effect with marked flushing was noted after intravenous
(IV) injection of 4-12 mmol of magnesium (Mg) and excellent therapeutic results
were noted in all forms of arterial disease."[x]



            Dr. Herbert Mansmann Jr., Director of the Magenesium Research
Lab,[xi]  who is a diabetic with congenital magnesium deficiency and severe
peripheral neuropathy, shares that he was able to reverse the neuropathy and
nerve degeneration with a year of using oral magnesium preparations at very high
doses. "For example it took me 6 tabs of each of the following every 4 hours,
Maginex, MgOxide, Mag-Tab SR and Magonate to get in positive Mg balance. I tell
people this not to scare them, but to illustrate how much I needed to saturate
myself. Most will only need 10% of this amount. I was doing an experiment on
myself to see if it helped my diabetic neuropathy. It worked so I did it for one
year, and I have had significant nerve regeneration. I could never have been
able to do this with MgSO4 baths (Epsom Salt), since I could not get into and
out of a bath tub" [xii]



        "I was saturated at about 3 grams of elemental Mg per day, but went to 20
grams for over a year. I now take 5 grams, and stools are semi-formed, and the
surrounding water is clear, 3-4 per day."  "Mg is very safe, since the gut
absorption is regulated by serum Mg levels, and then the Mg stays in the gut and
results in varying degrees of diarrhea. Then the dose is too high. Want soft
semi-formed stools. Mine, while on high dosages of magnesium were liquid every
2-4 hours for 2 years, the electrolytes every month were normal, but for low
potassium, part of my urinary Mg wasting, both," wrote Mansmann.



           Dr. Mansmann concludes, "I have had diabetic neuropathy for over 10
years. The most significant symptom is my neuropathic pain of burning feet,
called erythromelalgia. With the aid of Mg I can completely suppress the
symptom, but if my blood glucose level is acutely elevated, because of a dietary
indiscretion, the pain flares in spite of an apparent adequate dose of Mg. It
goes away with extra Mg gluconate (Magonate) in an hour or so in either case.
Without the Mg it will last for six plus hours, even though the blood glucose
level is normal in about two hours." "It is my belief that every one with
diabetes should be taking Mg supplementation to the point of one's Maximum
Tolerated Dose, which is until one has soft-semi, formed stools. In addition,
anyone with neuropathy, without a known cause, must be adequately evaluated for
diabetes and especially those with poorly, slowly, healing foot sores of any
kind. Since the use of Mg is safe I see no reason that this should not be "the
standard of care".[xiii]



       Conclusion



       Prolonged use of Magnesium will prevent
       chronic complications from diabetes.[xiv]



           "The current "party line" on this subject is not universally accepted,
but many of us believe the establishment is too conservative and will some day
change. While admitting its importance, for some unknown reason they remain
reluctant to recommend magnesium supplements. They just do not know how poor the
American diet is in Mg and the frequency of magnesium deficiency" says Dr.
Mansmann.[xv]



       Poorly controlled diabetes increases loss of magnesium in urine.



           It would be prudent for physicians who treat diabetic patients to
consider magnesium deficiency as a contributing factor in many diabetic
complications and as a main factor in exacerbation of the disease itself. Recent
research from many sources suggests that magnesium for the treatment of diabetes
should be paramount in physicians' minds.  The most recent example, after only 8
weeks of oral magnesium, thermal hyperalgesia was normalized and plasma
magnesium and glucose levels were restored towards normal in rats.[xvi]



            Repletion of the deficiency with transdermal magnesium chloride
mineral therapy[xvii] is the ideal way of administering magnesium in medically
therapeutic doses. Such treatments will, in all likelihood, help avoid or
ameliorate such complications as diabetic peripheral neuropathy, arrhythmias,
hypertension, and sudden cardiac death and will even improve the course of the
diabetic condition in general.[xviii]



           Once doctors, primary healthcare providers and the public are made
aware of the role of magnesium in diabetes there will be no excuse to not
increase public magnesium consumption, which can even be added to water
supplies[xix] instead of poisonous fluoride[xx] and dangerous
statins[xxi],[xxii],[xxiii] which are also known to cause peripheral neuropathy
with long term use. During a stroke or heart attack it would be cruel, medically
incompetent and life threatening to not use magnesium chloride or magnesium
sulfate immediately.  The same kind of treatment that saves lives in dramatic
life threatening situations is urgently needed in the treatment of diabetes and
diabetic neuropathy.



        Incredible as it seems, researchers at Washington University School of
Medicine in Missouri are currently evaluating BOTOX® injections to help treat
foot ulcers.[xxiv] Botox injections are a diluted form of botulism that will
paralyze the specified muscle area.  Botulinum toxin is made by the bacteria
Clostridium botulinum. The bacteria themselves (and their spores) are harmless,
but the toxin is considered one of the most lethal known poisons, one that has
been a principle agent in biological warfare.[xxv] It binds to nerve endings
where they join muscles, leading to weakness or paralysis. Recovery from
botulism occurs when the nerves grow new endings, which can take months,
according to the FDA.[xxvi] Choosing highly toxic options has no medical merit
when there are infinitely safer treatments like magnesium chloride that is so
safe that it helps prevent the development of foot ulcers and diabetic
neuropathy in the first place.

           And if Botox injections are not absurd enough "Maggot Therapy" is on
the rise again. Maggot therapy was the standard treatment for healing wounds in
the 1930s. Maggots are placed in the wounds and used to digest the necrotic
tissues that prevent healing. Medicinal maggots produce enzymes that dissolve
dead tissue on a wound, disinfect the wound, and stimulate the production of
granulation tissue.[xxvib] Maggot therapy is promoted at the point of no return,
when all else has failed to heal wounds and infections, before amputation is
done. Medically things would rarely progress to this point if magnesium chloride
is used in prevention and treatment of such problems. Magnesium chloride has the
added advantage over other magnesium forms in that it is antiseptic as well as
cytophilactic.

       Rapid increase of magnesium stores are necessary
        in some cases and may be lifesaving for diabetics
        as they are for other patients in emergency rooms.


           Preventative effects of magnesium may go a long way to protecting the
children of the future from early onset of both diabetes and the complications
that come from it. The safety profile of magnesium chloride is extraordinary
compared to today's pharmaceutical drugs. It is only with severe renal
insufficiency that problems have been observed with magnesium treatments. The
elderly are at risk of magnesium toxicity only because of possible decreased
renal function so caution is necessary.



       Special Note: While Dr. Mansmann makes a strong case for high doses of
magnesium, it cannot be ignored that GLA has also been recognized for it's
ability to stop and/or reverse peripheral neuropathy and is endorsed by Dr.
Atkins, of the famous Atkins diet, which many diabetics follow. Dr. Atkins says,
"Science has established rather conclusively that GLA halts the otherwise
inevitable advance of nerve damage caused by diabetes. GLA helps the nerves to
heal. As one study of 111 patients showed, people with either form of diabetes,
Type I or Type II, can benefit, using a dose as small as 480 mg of GLA per
day.[xxvii] Other research suggests that the fatty acid may even prevent the
nerve deterioration from starting up.[xxviii] Some kind of abnormality in fatty
acid metabolism is very likely involved in the development of diabetic
complications and maybe even the development of diabetes itself. People who have
the disease seem unable to make GLA from dietary fats and therefore may suffer
from an insufficiency of PGE1, (Prostaglandin E1, a beneficial hormone-like
compound). Coincidentally enough, this substance can potentiate the work of
insulin and exerts insulin like actions of its own. Therefore diabetics need all
the PGE1 that GLA can help them make." Spirulina is very high in both magnesium
and GLA.



       Copywrite International Medical Veritas Association 2006. All rights
reserved.




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       [i] New York Times. January 9, 2006

      
[ii]http://www.dailytexanonline.com/media/paper410/news/2005/04/18/TopStories/St\
ate.Recognizes.Need.For.Diabetes.Prevention.Plan-927680.shtml

       [iii] Derrick Z. Jackson, Diabetes and the trash food industry. Boston
Globe. January 11, 2006

       [iv] NY Times. January 11, 2006.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/11/nyregion/nyregionspecial5/11diabetes.html?th&e\
mc=th



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       [i]Amighi J, Sabeti S, Schlager O, Mlekusch W, Exner M, Lalouschek W,
Ahmadi R, Minar E, Schillinger M. Low serum magnesium predicts neurological
events in patients with advanced atherosclerosis. Stroke. 2004 Jan; 35(1): 22-7.
Epub 2003 Dec 04. Researchers conducted the study to see if magnesium levels
were associated with stroke risk in patients with peripheral artery disease. The
study authors followed 323 patients with symptomatic peripheral artery disease
and intermittent claudication (www. age was 68 years) for 12 to 25 months.
Thirty-five of the subjects (11%) developed neurologic events such as strokes. 
Subjects who had the lowest magnesium serum levels had triple the risk for
stroke and other harmful neurologic events compared to the patients with the
highest serum magnesium levels.
       [ii] http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/alternativetherapies/

       [iii] Total serum magnesium was reduced in the high-fructose group
compared with control or high-fructose plus magnesium-supplemented groups. Blood
pressure and fasting insulin levels were also lower in the
magnesium-supplemented group. These results suggest that magnesium deficiency
and not fructose ingestion per se leads to insulin insensitivity in skeletal
muscle and changes in blood pressure. Dietary magnesium prevents
fructose-induced insulin insensitivity in rats.Batan et.al; Hypertension. 1994
Jun;23(6 Pt 2):1036-9. 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstra\
ct&list_uids=8206589&itool=iconabstr&query_hl=7&itool=pubmed_docsum

       [iv] Endocrinology & Metabolism Clinics of North America. 24(3):623-41,
1995 Sep.

       [v] v57, Better Nutrition for Today's Living, March '95, p34. 
http://www.mgwater.com/articles.shtml

       [vi] Carper, J. Mighty Magnesium. USA Weekend. 2002 Aug 30-Sept 1.

       [vii]Magnesium Deficiency Linked to Type 2 Diabetes 
http://www.newstarget.com/006121.html

       Studies conducted at Harvard University indicate that people who have high
levels of magnesium in their blood are less likely to develop type 2 diabetes or
insulin resistance than those with lower levels. Studies in Mexico have also
found an alleviation of diabetes symptoms in patients who took dietary
supplements containing magnesium. Original Source:
http://www.health24.com/dietnfood/General/15-742-775,31268.asp

       [viii] Diabetologia" 36(8):767-70, 1993

       [ix] Low serum magnesium levels and foot ulcers in subjects with type 2
diabetes.  Rodriguez-Moran M, Guerrero-Romero F.  Arch Med Res. 2001
Jul-Aug;32(4):300-3.  
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstra\
ct&list_uids=11440788&itool=iconabstr&query_hl=3&itool=pubmed_docsum

       [x] S. E. BROWNE. The Case for Intravenous Magnesium Treatment of Arterial
Disease in General Practice. Journal of Nutritional Medicine (1994) 4, 169-177

       [xi] Herbert C. Mansmann Jr. MD. Honorary Professor of Pediatrics. P.O.
Box 791, Rangeley, ME 04970 Associate Professor of Medicine (1968-03) Director
of the Magnesium Research. Laboratory (1989-03) Thomas Jefferson University
http://www.magnesiumresearchlab.com

       [xii]
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/MagnesiumResearchLab/message/2863

       [xiii] http://magnesiumresearchlab.com/Diabetes-and-Mg-5-11-04.htm

       [xiv] The effect of magnesium supplementation in increasing doses on the
control of type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care. 1998 May;21(5):682-6. 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstra\
ct&list_uids=9589224&itool=iconfft&query_hl=34&itool=pubmed_docsum

       [xv] http://magnesiumresearchlab.com/Diabetes-and-Mg-5-11-04.htm

       [xvi] Hasanein P. et al. Oral magnesium administration prevents thermal
hyperalgesia induced by diabetes in rats. Department of Biology, Bu-Ali Sina
University, Hamadan, Iran. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2006 Jan 14

       [xvii] See http://www.MagnesiumForLife.com for full information on
transdermal magnesium chloride mineral therapy. And go to
http://www.globallight.net to see the recommended natural seawater product with
the highest concentration and lowest toxicity that the International Medical
Veritas Association endorses.

       [xviii] Long term magnesium supplementation influences favourably the
natural evolution of neuropathy in Mg-depleted type 1 diabetic patients (T1dm);
De Leeuw et al; Magnes Res. 2004 Jun; 17(2):109-14 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstra\
ct&list_uids=15319143&itool=iconabstr&query_hl=12&itool=pubmed_docsum

       [xix] http://mgwater.com/

       [xx] Because fluoride is excreted through the kidney, people with renal
insufficiency would have impaired renal clearance of fluoride (Juncos and
Donadio 1972). Elderly people are more susceptible to fluoride toxicity.

       [xxi] Statins and peripheral neuropathy; U. Jeppesen , D. Gaist , T. Smith
S. H. Sindrup European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology  Volume 54, Number
11;835 - 838   January 1999

       [xxii] The Peripheral Neuropathy Caused by Statins Petition to
Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of America and companies listed was
created by DrugIntel Statin Users with Neuropathy and written by John Lehmann.
"We users of statin drugs have experienced some of the symptoms listed below [1]
that characterize peripheral neuropathy (damage to nerves outside the brain).
Medical research published in peer-reviewed journals has shown that statins are
able to cause peripheral neuropathy or a syndrome that is very similar to it. We
petition the pharmaceutical manufacturers of statins [2] to: 1. Notify patients
(past, current, and prospective users of statins) and healthcare professionals
(physicians, pharmacists, nurses, physicians' assistants) of the risk associated
with statin use and what to do once the first signs and symptoms of neuropathy
have appeared. 2. Sponsor and perform research on how statins cause neuropathy.
3. Sponsor and perform clinical research on how to cure and reverse the
neuropathy caused by statins. 4. Perform clinical research and recommend the
best drug treatments to mitigate the pain and make other symptoms of
statin-induced neuropathy more tolerable.
       5.Proactively offer reparation to statin users who have suffered
neuropathy. The petition will be presented to the Pharmaceutical Researchers and
Manufactuers Association and to the Medical Affairs Departments of the companies
listed, as well as any additional companies that may be identified as relevant
over time http://www.petitiononline.com/Statins/petition.html

       [xxiii] Statins and risk of polyneuropathy
       D Gaist, MD PhD, U Jeppesen, M Andersen, LAG Neurology 2002;58:1333-1337 ©
2002 American Academy of Neurology
       Statins and risk of polyneuropathy.

       [xxiv] Participants receive injections of the toxin in six places in the
calf muscle and then the leg is put into a cast. The idea is that this will help
prevent pressure on the ball of the foot during walking. The ball if the foot is
the area most affected by foot ulcers and allowing an ulcer to heal completely
helps prevent recurrence.
http://www.diabetes-and-diabetics.com/about-diabetes/diabetic-complications-02.p\
hp

       [xxv] Botulinum toxin has been a concern as a potential biological warfare
agent since World War II. In response to concerns about Germany's botulinum
toxin research, the United States and Great Britain developed countermeasures
against the toxin before the invasion of Europe. More recently, Iraq has been
accused of producing large amounts of botulinum toxin for use as a biological
warfare agent. The extreme toxicity of botulinum toxins and the ease of
production, transport, and delivery make this an agent of extreme bioterrorism
concern. http://www.niaid.nih.gov/publications/botulism.htm

       [xxvi] Overview of Botulism:
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/bt/botulism/biofacts/botulismfactsheet.\
html

       [i] Maggot Therapy Speeds Healing of Diabetic Foot Ulcers.
http://bastyrcenter.org/content/view/757/

       http://www.larve.com/copy_of_maggot_manual/docs/current_status.html

       [xxvii] Keen, H., et al., Diabetes Care, 1993; 16: 8-15.

       [xxviii] Jamal, G., Diabetic Medicine, 1994; 11(2): 145-49. 
http://www.diabeteslibrary.org/news/news_item.cfm?NewsID=241



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Hi Anna!

I know just a little bit about the scientology sauna treatment. My
brother and his wife had the treatments and I observed and did one
about 13 years ago, so I don't remember exacts.
  One of the things I remember quite clearly was that they had a
bottle of cell salts...homeopathic...next to the door and took them
quite often.  I think they were by "standard homeopathics."  I can't
tell you how often, but he had a huge bottle of them, like a quart
jar of them for two people.  It seems to me that they saunaed for 3
or 5 hours a day.  Another thing is they guy had them drink almost a
half of a cup of oil a day.
   In her book "Detox or Die" Sherry Rogers has a whole list of
supplements you should take while doing saunas to detox.  I think
her list is a little confusing, but you might want to look into it.
On another lists (sauna_detox), Graham did saunas for quite a long
time and he had heart problems...I think even ended up in surgery...
from a salt depletion.  I wonder if the cell salts would have been
the ticket for him?  I know Sherry Rogers insisted on magnesium as
one of the very important things to replace.

Anyway, I really think you should look into making sure you are
replacing stuff being sweated that you need.

Good luck!!!!

Judy



-- In CFS-FMS_FIRST-Aid@yahoogroups.com, anna glynn
<annaglynn22@y...> wrote:
>
> my name is anna glynn
>
>
> when i began to sauna i was great at perspiring plenty
> into the second month of the protocol i was exhausted
> i could sauna every second day but on my non sauna day
> i just couldnt get out of bed
> i was so disillusioned at feeling worse on the
> protocol
> but i read in the study done in japan that the
> patients there also experienced a worsening of
> symptoms before any improvement
>

Anna,

thank you for writing to the group about your sauna experience. are you any
better now? i would DEFINITELY   like to receive the japanese study, please
email to sce2255@.... thank you.

also, have you seen in that study or anywhere else any comments or work done
with people who have MCS?

thank you,

sara
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   Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 6:21 AM
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   my name is anna glynn
   and i am following the sauna protocol for 2 months now
   i have a wooden sauna about the size of a wardrobe
   and it came from austria ( www.wellnessonline.com)
   and i drink ionised water
   about 6 pints a day
   my ionizer came from www.hiddencures.com
   but this particular ionizer does not come with jim's
   recommendation
   i take 1200mg magnesium in tablet form
   and udo's probiotic capsules

   when i began to sauna i was great at perspiring plenty
   into the second month of the protocol i was exhausted
   i could sauna every second day but on my non sauna day
   i just couldnt get out of bed
   i was so disillusioned at feeling worse on the
   protocol
   but i read in the study done in japan that the
   patients there also experienced a worsening of
   symptoms before any improvement

   i am writing now to the group to encourage others who
   might be starting the protocol and may also experience
   a worsening of symptoms

   my illness was first diagnosed as m.e. and then later
   as fibromyalgia because of the chronic pain i guess.

   i know we have a very complicated illness
   and that recovery is slow and unpredictable.

   if you would like to read the japanese study please
   email me can forward to you

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my name is anna glynn
and i am following the sauna protocol for 2 months now
i have a wooden sauna about the size of a wardrobe
and it came from austria ( www.wellnessonline.com)
and i drink ionised water
about 6 pints a day
my ionizer came from www.hiddencures.com
but this particular ionizer does not come with jim's
recommendation
i take 1200mg magnesium in tablet form
and udo's probiotic capsules

when i began to sauna i was great at perspiring plenty
into the second month of the protocol i was exhausted
i could sauna every second day but on my non sauna day
i just couldnt get out of bed
i was so disillusioned at feeling worse on the
protocol
but i read in the study done in japan that the
patients there also experienced a worsening of
symptoms before any improvement

i am writing now to the group to encourage others who
might be starting the protocol and may also experience
a worsening of symptoms

my illness was first diagnosed as m.e. and then later
as fibromyalgia because of the chronic pain i guess.

i know we have a very complicated illness
and that recovery is slow and unpredictable.

if you would like to read the japanese study please
email me can forward to you

this email reads a bit scatty
i am not so great on the computor







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These are from the FMS COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER # 72, January 2, 2006
     Recently I have been having truly painful/blinding headaches - though I
foolishly did try taking aspirin, it did zilch for the headaches.  A friend
from an ME/CFS organization (MESH) suggested I  drink a few glasses of water,
and
to my surprise, it worked! (but I have to drink at least 2  - 8oz glasses of
water, so hope you have filtered water if you try this)  I have noticed that
the transdermal magesium chloride baths help with the headaches too, but the
headaches come back sooner then with drinking water. But I figure my mag levels
need to come up & I know that magnesium does  get rid of headaches; so am
doing both for 'now' relief as well as hopefully long-term relief.  (I am not
used
to having headaches and don't seem to have much tolerance nor patience with
them.) I have since been reading about what is called 'The Water Cure' at
www.watercure2.com  If nothing else; it is interesting and there just might be
something in what it says ..........
          Blessings
                            Shan

Non-pharmacologic treatment of migraine

ProHealthNetwork.com
08-31-2005 Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2005 Jun;9(3):202-5.
Sandor PS, Afra J.
Headache and Pain Unit, Neurology Department, Frauenklinikstr 26, 8091
Zurich, Switzerland. peter.sandor@....

Non-pharmacologic treatment of migraine is often used by patients and can
provide interesting options for physicians. Knowledge about the evidence and its
absence is important. Avoidance of trigger factors can help, if
individualized. Behavioral approaches, such as relaxation techniques,
biofeedback, and
cognitive-behavioral therapy, require far more specialist time or technical
devices, but are supported by some evidence, which is mostly old. The same is
true
for hypnosis. A new approach in migraine prevention is aerobic exercise, which
is associated with positive side effects.

Whether it will take a strong role, similar to the treatment of depression,
remains to be seen. There is no convincing evidence for the efficacy of spinal
manipulation. Hyperbaric oxygen may be an effective, but rarely practical
prophylactic measure. The evidence pertaining to the efficacy of acupuncture is
controversial because of methodologic difficulties, but an ongoing large German
study may provide valuable evidence in the near future.

Nutritional supplements acting on mitochondrial metabolism, such as
magnesium, riboflavin, and coenzyme Q10, were shown to be effective in small,
randomized, controlled trials. More studies on the different therapeutic
interventions
are needed, using modern diagnostic standards and state-of-the-art trial
methodology.
PMID: 15907259  http://prohealth.com/library/print.cfm?ID=2622

Can Dehydration Cause Headaches?

Do Americans Drink Enough Water?

I frequently read that 75% of Americans do not drink enough water. Even the
CIGNA Behavioral web site authors referenced this statement by B. Levine, “
Hydration 101: The Case for Drinking Enough Water.” This same web site claimed
that dehydration was a major cause of headaches. My clinical experience confirms
that many of my patients with headaches are also not drinking adequate amounts
of water.

I don’t know if 75% is the exact percentage of Americans who don’t drink
enough water but I am certain that many of my patients are not properly
hydrated.
People perceive that they are too busy to drink water. They don’t want to
waste time with the very normal process of urination. And some people hate the
taste of water.

In other words, many individuals consider the frequent consumption of water
to be a real headache.

Symptoms and Signs of Dehydration and Dehydration Headaches
Thirst is not usually the first symptom or the only symptom of dehydration.

Other symptoms of dehydration include:

Fatigue
Headache
Dry Mouth
Dizziness
Weakness
Rapid Heartbeat
Dry, Flushed Skin
Muscle cramps.

A common sign of dehydration observed in my clinic is extreme muscle pain
upon palpation of the muscle tissues. This muscle pain is exhibited upon
examination with a positive jump sign. A positive jump sign occurs when a
patient
reacts strongly to gentle touching of the involved muscles and quickly moves
away
from the palpating fingers.

Read the rest of this article at:
http://nutrition.about.com/od/hydrationwater/a/Water_headaches_2.htm

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HR 2830 -  Contact Congress about Section 307

Some members of Congress have snuck an amendment into the House version of
the Pension Protection Act of 2005.
(H.R. 2830).

The bill can be read here   http://tinyurl.com/bwu9y

then link to:  http://www.govtrack.us/data/us/bills.text/109/h2830.pdf
  (caution: HUGE file-but searchable)

The proposed Amendment, Section 307 of H.R. 2830, (page 333 of 451 pages)
allows for the insurance companies to subrogate for claims they have paid.

It's been advisable to not repay the overpayment caused by a Social Security
award in a lump sum. Instead, tell your LTD carrier to take it out of future
payments. Too often, following a lump sum repayment, the carrier finds the
claimant no longer disabled and terminates the benefits. As the law stands
presently, the carrier cannot sue to recover the money unless it can point
to a specific sum of money and say there is the Social Security money.

This amendment would allow the carriers to sue you, recover from
your Social Security benefits, and then terminate the claim.

Since the Senate passed a bill which does not contain the subrogation
provision, the bill must go to a conference committee.

It's important that you to contact your representatives in the House and the
Senate and urge them to vote  No on the Pension Protection Act of 2005 if it
contains the provision in Section 307 of House Bill H.R. 2830. 
Email or fax your comments, or call - it's a quick call since the staffer who
answers will simply record your "vote."

You can read more about it here  http://tinyurl.com/7e8tp

will take you to

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2006_01/007991.php

a blog, here: http://www.erisa-claims.com/blog/index.cfm

See entry on January 6, 2006.

The identity of your Congressperson can be found:

http://www.house.gov/writerep/

How your Congressperson voted on H.R. 2830:

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll635.xml

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LIFE UNDER CODEX - By Helke Ferrie 
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2005/01/24/life_under_codex.htm
Vitality Magazine February 2005

It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling
into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from
falling into error.

Robert Houghwout Jackson, Chief Judge, War-Crimes
Tribunal, Nuremberg, 1945

If the following information were a horror movie, we could all sit back with
our popcorn and enjoy it. Unfortunately, this is not fiction - and if you
don't do something about it, this nightmare will become waking reality in
Canada sometime soon after August 1. Whatever happens, you will never forget
Codex Alimentarius.

CODEX

Codex is a sub-committee of the United Nations mandated to establish
guidelines on food trade issues. Such guidelines are not legally binding for
any nation, but nations which are part of the World Trade Organization can
be severely sanctioned anyway. In the early 1990's, Codex began to look at
establishing internationally harmonized standards for food supplements. In
2002 a European Union Directive produced such guidelines for Codex. It turns
out, their effect will with certainty be to stop the availability of all
vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and most other essential nutrients as food
supplements; they are slated to be treated as pharmaceutical drugs,
eventually available on prescription only and manufactured by pharmaceutical
companies from synthetic materials, including from genetically engineered
substances.

Due to interlocking international treaties, specifically the WTO established
in 1995, and the still to be ratified Free Trade Agreement of the Americas
(FTAA), Canada and the US would be faced with serious sanctions if they do
not adopt these guidelines. Codex authority is already part of these treaty
texts. Australia, Norway, Denmark and Germany have already adopted these
"foods as drugs" guidelines.

Health Canada's website already lists the European Parliament Commission's
"upper safe limits" on supplements as desirable for Canadians to follow.

Without parliamentary debate, Health Canada snuck upon us and moved all
supplements under the "drug"category effective January 2004, in order to get
us ready to be "harmonized". This treachery prompted Bill C-420 (discussed
below).

Consumer groups and various medical associations throughout the world have
joined forces with the "Alliance for Natural Health", Europe's voice for the
supplement industries to challenge this Directive in the International Court in
Luxemburg as a violation of the EU Constitution.

The 25 EU member states differ widely in medical norms. Article 152 of the EU
Constitution expressly forbids any harmonization regarding availability of
medicinal and food substances related to health. This provides a solid legal
argument for the case to be heard on January 25th. The decision will be
published in March.

Because the biotech and pharmaceutical industries dominate Codex and the EU
food regulatory authority, which wrote this Directive,the International
Court's decision will be decisive for either consumer freedom of choice or the
multi-national corporations.

LIFE UNDER CODEX

In the mid-1990's my mother, then in her 80's, had a stroke. She lived in
Germany. When she left hospital, I was ready with a nutritional plan that
included high-dose vitamins: C, E, and B - especially Inositol, as well as
Co-enzyme Q 10.

I went to the pharmacy, whose owner was a family friend for some 25 years,
and handed him my list. He gave me a small packet with a price sticker of DM
200 (then about $ 200) containing vitamin E capsules manufactured by one of
Germany's largest pharmaceutical companies. The source was synthetic,
not the mixed" version from living plant sources I wanted which contains the
whole E spectrum. The package contained a total of 10,000 international
units of E, the equivalent of a mere 25 capsules of 400 IU each that we are
used to buying (I take that many in 3 days). Our bottles contain 90 capsules
and cost about $ 20. If Codex rules in Canada, we will likely pay $ 800 for a
bottle of 90 capsules of low-quality vitamin E ? if Health Canada lets us
buy that many at once, and if you can find a doctor willing to prescribe it.

He then handed me a tube-shaped metal container with vitamin C effervescent
tablets. Each tablet , when dissolved in water would release 10 mg of vitamin C
in a refined sugar solution. Thus, this ridiculously low amount,
was to be taken in a toxic medium that would neutralize the vitamin without
it doing anything at all. The cost: about $ 10 for 12 tablets.

Then he asked me, "What's Co-enzyme Q 10? Are you allowed to buy all this in
Canada in such dangerous dosages?" When I told him what I take daily, his
eyes popped.

Then I asked, "Why can't I buy these supplements here?"
He replied, "Well, Germany is a Codex country."

Oddly, Germany has several government-run hospitals where environmental
illness is treated with nutrients only, intravenous vitamin C etc. Life is full
of
paradoxes and few more follow below.

CODEX AND THE EU

Dr. Carolyn Dean, a medical doctor and naturopath well known to Toronto
readers, is currently the president of "Friends of Freedom International" in
which capacity she attended the Codex meeting in Bonn last November. She
describes Codex as "the ultimate Big Brother marching backwards into the
future."

Effective August 1, all vitamin and mineral supplements on the so-called
"positive list", including everything from Beta Carotene to Zinc, will only
be available in the 25 EU countries if they comply with specific rules set
out in the June 10, 2002, EU Directive Relating to Food Supplements. All
products must show maximum safe levels "as established by science". Those
nutrients found in the mythic "balanced diet" are to be subtracted from the
final values, and Article 6 (2) decrees that labels shall "not attribute to
food supplements the property of preventing, treating or curing a human
disease, or refer to such properties." So, the Directive's "science" knows
nothing of Vitamin C preventing and curing scurvy, Vitamin D preventing and
curing rickets and osteoporosis, or vitamin B curing and preventing anemia.

It also ignores the mountain of evidence showing our diets are chronically
deficient in essential nutrients because of factory-style farming practices.

To "ensure a high level of protection for consumers and facilitate their
choice", they even included baking soda and table salt. We must assume they will
be unavailable as of August 1 anywhere in Europe
- with interesting consequences for the tourist industry in the baked
goods paradises Austria, Switzerland and France.

Now, there is also a "negative list" covering essential fatty acids,
phytonutrients, all the enzymes and more. Those cannot be marketed at all,
until the EU scientific committee in charge has made a final decision. So,
forget omega-3 and omega-6 fats, cod liver oil, and much more. The effect of
this directive will be that thousands of products and businesses will be
gone this year. In the UK alone some 21 million people will suddenly have no
access to any supplement vitamins, minerals, enzymes, fatty acids and more.

Since the onus is on businesses to produce the scientific information on
safety, they can't produce or sell anything ?not even to physicians who have the
power to prescribe any toxic drug as well as any essential nutrient.

Obviously, there will be ludicrous enforcement issues:
Picture basement-concocted vitamins sold in dark alleys alongside crack and
Ecstasy.

TOBACCO SCIENCE

Health Canada's famous food safety activist, Dr. Shiv Chopra, refers to
corporate-generated pseudo-science (designed to look snazzy but being in fact
sleazy) as "tobacco science", which is what obviously informed the Directive.

For example, the misleadingly named "International Alliance of Dietary
Supplements" (see www.iadsa-exposed.tripod.com  )
has already started the process of establishing "safety limits" for
supplements by providing Codex with a report: it is based on outdated
secondary literature, cites no evidence of dead bodies from vitamin overdosing,
asserts nonetheless that we are all overdosing, and it is produced by a
"scientific" committee chaired by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer's very own Randy
Dennin.

Nutrients are essential to life and cannot be subjected to safety analyses
like environmental toxins or synthetic drugs.

Virtually all research published in mainstream journals is focused on how
essential nutrients heal organisms on the cellular level, which nutrients act
together to bring about organ repair, and how they cause systemic healing
when given in very high doses.

Science has known for at least a century that deficiencies cause standard
diseases. In the presence of certain viruses and environmental toxins, such
deficiencies are major contributing factor to AIDS and all cancers. Indeed, the
South Africans recently renamed AIDS to NAIDS which stands for "Nutritionally
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome" because recent research showed that for the
HIV virus to cause illness, a person must also be deficient in the
immune-system-controlling mineral Selenium
(Foster 2004).

Toxicity studies basically don't exist for essential nutrients (one of a few
is vitamin A under certain circumstances). To establish the lethal dose 50,
half of a hundred lab rats or mice dies at a substance's concentration which
is then designated as the toxic level. Well, you can't do that with Vitamin
C or essential fatty acids, for example. They can't kill. The body
metabolizes these substances and excretes excesses.

The occasional individual allergy to a specific type of vitamin does
not invalidate general biocompatibility. Meeting the August 1 deadline is
impossible in principle and in practice. It is a trap.

By contrast, all synthetic drugs without exception are systemically toxic,
meaning they are toxic to more than one body system as well as on a cellular
level . Hence the constant need to weigh the benefits of their use with the
known risks of their toxicity, specific doses of just so many mg, timing of
ingestion, duration of treatment - and the prescription requirement.

All this doesn't apply to apples, magnesium or probiotics.
If you eat too many apples, you get the runs - same mess for too much
vitamin C.

Furthermore, all drugs, from Aspirin to Zocor, also deplete essential
nutrients. Most accumulate in body tissues because they cannot be metabolized by
our
enzymes which freak out when encountering this phony chemistry and simply move
on.

Used for a long time, drugs frequently shut down the body's natural
detoxification center, the liver, and in extreme cases destroy it ?
ecessitating a liver transplant.

Of course, essential nutrients are readily metabolized and distributed in
accordance with the laws of nature, while simultaneously nourishing the liver.

RESISTANCE

About 800,000 people die every year in North America from properly
prescribed and ingested drugs. No toxicity levels are ever published on
drugs. They are assumed and were protected by a conspiracy of silence until

Johns Hopkins Medical School published the data on this carnage in 2003 (see
Dean below).

Codex's effort to save us all from supposedly dangerous food supplements, by
requiring their (non-existent) toxicity levels, is a determined backlash
against the turn medical science took starting with Linus Pauling, Abram Hoffer,
Carl Pfeiffer and Roger Williams in the 1950's.
They established the concepts of bio-individuality in absorption and
detoxification, high-dose essential nutrients as disease curing, and
environmental toxins acting as nutrient depleting.

Today, we have a flood of evidence showing that drugs have a very limited
usefulness and that high-dose nutrients can do anything better than drugs can.

The pharmaceutical industry is anything but slow-witted, and good business
practice dictates outfoxing the competition ? one way or another - to secure
the market. If this Directive is not stopped, there will be only one medical
world: the pharmaceutical world.

When this Codex project began in 2001, some 180 million protest letters
reached their office, but Codex doesn't give up on protecting us. Now the fight
is
on in each country,because Codex is now our problem as well.

South Africa announced on January 17th that it will not follow the
foods-as-drugs Directive. Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang stated
her country disagrees with the "false dichotomy between natural and
allopathic medicine, a division fostered by the need to make money from
patented drugs through discrediting the use of natural products." At the
November Codex meeting the South African delegate, Dr. Antoinette Booyzen (a
naturopath and medical doctor) stood firm on rejecting the Directive's
notion that supplements don't treat, prevent or cure, but the Codex
chairman, who is routinely supported by the EU delegate commanding 25 votes,
simply stonewalled all opposition, even the World Health Organization's
report entitled Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Disease. Since
chronic disease is the source of Big Pharma's wealth (see my book), the last
thing Codex wants is prevention.

Dr. Dean described how India's delegate, who represents one third of the
human race with one vote, objected to the Codex and EU-promoted baby formulas
containing chemicals that cause brain-destroying inflammation in
susceptible babies. He was ignored. When he insisted on debate, he was
removed from the room. Naturally, India is mounting it's resistance to
Codex, the EU Directive, the WTO and all the rest of the regulatory alphabet
soup.

Despite Bush the Bizarro in the White House, the US has bill H.R. 4004 before
Congress, sponsored by Republican Congressman Ron Paul from Texas.
Known as the Health Freedom Bill, it is an anti-Codex, anti-harmonization
bill that would ensure supplements to remain foods available according to
individual choice.

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons expressed their
opposition to Codex by formally adopting on December 10th last year a resolution
"supporting freedom for patients and physicians to choose natural remedies".

The Dietary Supplement Education Alliance presented recently before Congress
an extensive analysis of the effect of supplements taken on the basis of
individual choice. Their data showed that supporting such health freedom would
save
the government a minimum of US 15 billion annually.

Doctors' associations also prepared a superb rebuttal to the reports Codex
relies on.

One of the most important tools is available for free to the health activist
on www.garynull.com where you can download the entire available mainstream
scientific information on all vitamins and minerals up to 2003. This material
was
assembled with Dr. Carolyn Dean's assistance specifically to counteract
Codex's tobacco science.

In the UK, physicians practicing natural medicine have been equally active.
They are supported by many members of the House of Lords and the Royal
Family who subscribe to homeopathy.

Tony Blair's pro-Codex policy was attacked publicly by his wife's personal
trainer, who supervises the Blairs' supplement regime; she accused the Blairs of
hypocrisy and urged Britons not to vote for him.

In Canada we have an utterly unique opportunity to save freedom of choice by
supporting Bill C-420 which is going into second reading in Parliament in
early March. By that time MPs Dr. James Lunney and Dr.Colin Carrie need to
show the government that their bill is supported by Canadians ? just as we
did a few years ago with more than a million letters.

At that time, Health Canada was poised to place all 60,000 natural products
into the drug category. This immense protest resulted in a promise
to establish a "third category". Without debate or public knowledge , all
natural products were simply moved into the drug category January 1, 2004.
Outraged by this treachery, MP Dr.J. Lunney launched bill C-420 which
would change the definition of food and drugs such as to achieve what
that publicly supported "third category" would have done. Now we have a
minority government and a chance to win. The simple fact is that if our
supplements are defined, in law, as foods, Codex has no jurisdiction.

So, what can you do?

First: Go to my website www.kospublishing.com , scroll down to Make A
Difference , go to "CODEX Action Canada".
A letter for our Minister of Health and detailed instructions are provided,
with the addresses and e-mails of the relevant MPs. You may write your own
letter, of course.
For a hard copy 519-927-1049.

It demands (summary below):

1. Support Bill C ?420, which is coming up for second reading in March.

2. Take the necessary steps to implement the CAUT recommendations by Canada's
university teachers (i.e. stop Health Canada from doing Big Pharma's
bidding).

3. Initiate a "Truth Commission" composed of medical, toxicology, and
research experts with no ties to the pharmaceutical industry, charged to
investigate the validity and reliability of the research of every drug in
the current Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties (CPS)

4. Amend the regulatory requirements of Health Canada such that, beginning
with the 2005 edition of the CPS, every drug therein must show its toxicity
level in addition to potential adverse effects.

5. Support the Minister's call for compulsory adverse event reports on drugs.

Second: Become a member for $ 25 annually of Friends of Freedom
International.

Download membership form and information on Bill C-420 from my website, or
call me for a hard copy. They handle the most important current legal actions
against Health Canada.

If everyone of the 50,000 readers of this article were to act now, Canadians
would ensure their right to freedom of choice in medicine. In a
minority-government, Bill C-420 is certain to pass with public support, and the
pending law
suits against Health Canada's high-handed attack on vitamin and supplements
could be won. Instead of having your (tax) money support the pharmaceutical
industry, this would be certain support for Life and Health.

Sources:

On Codex and the EU Directive :
www.friendsoffreedom.org  and www.alliance-natural-health.org

For international treaties affecting supplements www.citizen.org

M. Angell, The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive us And What
To Do About It, Random House, 2004

J. Bakan, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power,
Viking, 2004

H. Ferrie, Dispatches from the War Zone of Environmental Health, Kos 2004

H. Foster, What Really Causes AIDS, Trafford 2002

S. & H. Hickey, PhDs, The Ridiculous Dietary Allowance (available at LULU)

S. Rampton & J. Stauber, Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates

Science and Gambles With Your Future, Tarcher-Putnam, 2001

http://gyxe.com/depression/17-731-life-under-codex-read.shtml


   

   



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wow, sounds dangerous.  could their be a defect in that one maybe.  dont want
anyone receiving dangerous burns now do we?

kathy

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   As far as I could tell, the air coming out of the heaters was 70 degrees
   Celsius.
   The temperature inside the cubicle was 65 degrees celsius.  According to the
   thermometer, that was "scalding" temperature - but that, of course, would be
   if it was water.


   Further to that, I spoke tonight to a friend who tried out my sauna when she
   came to stay overnight last week.
   She says her legs are still red from it.  She did lift her legs onto the
   heater tops as the firm who sold it advised when I rang to report the
   excessive temperature of the air coming out.

   What a shame that something sold around the world like this can't be
   heartily recommended to one's friends.

   Rowena


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As far as I could tell, the air coming out of the heaters was 70 degrees
Celsius.
The temperature inside the cubicle was 65 degrees celsius.  According to the
thermometer, that was "scalding" temperature - but that, of course, would be
if it was water.


Further to that, I spoke tonight to a friend who tried out my sauna when she
came to stay overnight last week.
She says her legs are still red from it.  She did lift her legs onto the
heater tops as the firm who sold it advised when I rang to report the
excessive temperature of the air coming out.

What a shame that something sold around the world like this can't be
heartily recommended to one's friends.

Rowena

Re the Prime Infralite / Relax portable sauna:

Last night I had the thermometer in there with me, hanging from the inside
of the zip, just right to give me a hot shock whenever I moved and forgot
it.

As far as I could tell, the air coming out of the heaters was 70 degrees
Celsius.
The temperature inside the cubicle was 65 degrees celsius.  According to the
thermometer, that was "scalding" temperature - but that, of course, would be
if it was water.
I started with five to ten minutes of standing to get the rear end cooked a
bit, then brought the chair in and sat.
It is not too bad sitting with the legs up out of the air flow.
But I did notice later when I had a bath that the skin was reddened and
patchy below the waist.

R
I am reporting this for the benefit of anyone studying the various models
available.
I am not saying mine is the one to get.  I wish I'd had a variety to look at
and try.
I didn't know about Jim's when I bought it.
This one suits the Australian electrical grid, at least.