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For Any Illness-Stop the Wheat and Suspect Your Prescriptions

September 7, 2010 By LMND0830 Leave a Comment
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By Dr. Bruce West

What do these three patients of ours have in common? One is a 70-year-old woman who suffered with epilepsy and seizures for 50 years. These came to an abrupt end within one week of starting treatment. The second is a 60-year-old woman who could not stop her bone loss from osteoporosis, despite the proper diet, lifting weights, and taking bone-building supplements. Her osteoporosis and continuing bone loss reversed itself within 90 days of starting treatment. The last is a 65-year-old who suffered through severe fatigue and what she called “being spacey,” confused, and unable to concentrate-for more than 25 years. It all ended within one week of starting treatment.

What these three patients shared in common was that they all suffered from celiac disease and did not know it. Celiac disease occurs when your body cannot tolerate gluten-a protein found in wheat, rye, barley, and oats. For celiac patients, gluten breaks down the lining of the intestines, interfering with digestion and absorption-leading to multiple nutritional deficiencies. None had the classic symptoms of bloating, nausea, gas, diarrhea, constipation, or weight loss. And none had been tested for or diagnosed with celiac disease.

They all got better simply because we stumbled onto their problems by trying a protocol I use with almost every patient-eliminating all gluten for 30 days. Two were immediately cured, and the third felt so much better that she continued to eliminate gluten from her diet and eventually overcame incurable osteoporosis.

The moral of the story is if you suffer from any illness at all, you must eliminate gluten from your diet for 30 days, simply to test the possibility that this protein is destroying your health. Estimates are that close to 1 in 133 Americans has celiac disease. And most do not know it. It is tough to diagnose because according to modern medicine, a biopsy of the intestinal lining is the only true diagnostic procedure. Of course, this is invasive, and by the time the intestinal lining is being destroyed, celiac disease is far advanced.

It is just so much better, makes so much more sense, and is classic evidence-based medicine to simply eliminate gluten from your diet and see how you feel. If you are remarkably better, biopsy or not, you have hit the nail on the head.

Prescriptions Also

These three patients all suffered from the same-somewhat unusual-underlying cause of their problems. However, for literally thousands of our other patients, we helped them find a much more common underlying cause of their problems by simply examining their prescriptions. And the lesson here is even simpler: No matter what symptoms you have, always suspect that your prescription drugs are the underlying cause of your problem until proven otherwise.

In fact, no home should be without a drug handbook to look up prescription medications. When you find that your problems are listed as a side effect from a drug that you take, it is an obvious tip off. This is particularly true for cardiac drugs. And if you take more than two drugs, your problem may not be listed under either drug because it could be caused by the combination. By the time you take three or more drugs, there is not a human being on the planet who can determine just what may be going on in your body as a result of the combinations. So get to your doctor to take steps to change, wean, or eliminate offending drugs to find your cure. Or even better, if you can find one, get to a private-practice pharmacist who helps people wean off drugs to solve their health problems. Thanks to a glut of super powerful prescription drugs, this is one of the hottest new fields for pharmacists.

So no matter what the symptoms, problems or “disease” you suffer from, always remember to eliminate gluten as your potential cure-and suspect your prescriptions as the potential cause of your suffering. If you don’t, your suffering can go on for years, decades, or your entire life!

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Gluten-Free Family Fare

September 7, 2010 By LMND0830 Leave a Comment
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by: Barbara Walch (Plano Profile July 2010 issue)

One mom’s quest to keep her family healthy, happy and well fed.

Jennifer Cinquepalmi became very concerned about the changes she was witnessing in her daughter, Rachel. For one thing, the usually healthy 8-year-old began complaining of occasional stomachaches. She also didn’t seem to be growing at a normal rate-the shortest in her class, even though both parents are taller than average adults. When Jennifer voiced her concerns to the pediatrician, she was dismissed with a promise of a “growth spurt.”

Over time, Rachel’s stomach upset became more frequent and her belly became distended, like a child suffering from malnutrition. Plus she started having daily nosebleeds. Jennifer was becoming even more alarmed, but a visit to a second pediatrician didn’t offer any more explanation.

Finally a third doctor suggested having Rachel tested for celiac disease. Unaware of what that even was, Jennifer and her husband, Dominic, decided first to do some research. What they found was not only the possible answer to Rachel’s health issues but the likely reason Dominic had suffered with digestive problems and not being able to gain weight most of his life.

“Dominic found a checklist of celiac systems and told me that out of the 20 listed, he had 10 of them,” Jennifer explains. “If someone finds out they have it, all of the offspring of that person need to be tested as well. That’s how we found out that Dominic, Rachel and Matthew, our youngest, have celiac, and Michael, our middle child, is gluten-intolerant but does not have celiac.”

Celiac is an autoimmune disease which affects the digestive process of the small intestine. The disease causes an abnormal response to gluten-which is a protein found in wheat, barley, and rye-damaging the small intestine, thus inhibiting the absorption of important nutrients. Because the body is robbed of needed nourishment, associated conditions like osteoporosis and anemia can develop. There is no cure but it can be effectively managed through a change in diet.

Eliminating gluten from one’s diet is no easy task, however, as Jennifer was soon to discover. But wanting to provide the same flavorful, varied meals her family had become accustomed to before the diagnosis, she was determined to make it work. “I spent many months reading books, researching food products, and shopping at new stores,” she says. “I would go to the Plano Public Library and if they didn’t have a cookbook on gluten-free cooking I wanted, they would get one for me through the library loan system.”

She continues, “I would bake and cook recipe after recipe. Then try and try again, then buy and buy again, purchasing ingredients which seemed so strange to me at the time. Then cry and cry again as many of the expensive ingredients ended up down the drain or in the trash!”

But throughout the process, she developed wonderful recipes for her family’s enjoyment, like gluten-free waffles that can be frozen then toasted for a quick, easy breakfast, or Dutch Baby Pancakes that can be served for breakfast or dessert. Another favorite is pizza dough made with a customized sorghum flour mix and cornmeal, topped with Kalamata olives, artichoke hearts, Roma tomatoes, pine nuts, and Mozzarella cheese. She also created flatbread for making wrap sandwiches for lunches.

And, of course, some sweet treats. Like chocolate meringue cookies that are a snap to make and a rich chocolate-y cake frosted with decadent chocolate icing. Also a variety of granola bars that can be baked then stored in the freezer or an airtight container for adding to lunch boxes for a quick snack. (The recipes for the chocolate cake and the wrap bread can be found at planoprofile.com.)

Jennifer prides herself on making everything from scratch. “Most of the store-bought food out there is very lacking in nutrition, and it’s very expensive,” she says. “And the funny thing is, when I sent my children to school with things like the granola bars or muffins in their lunchboxes, the other kids out of curiosity would ask if they could taste them and before I knew it, their moms were calling me and asking for the recipes!”

Out of this came the idea to write a cookbook and her first, The Complete Book of Gluten-Free Cooking, was published in 2006. On a roll converting family recipes and developing new ones, a second cookbook, Gluten-Free Deliciously, was published in 2009. (Both are available through local booksellers and at aidantbooks.com.)

“These are complete cookbooks with recipes for things like chicken spaghetti and some Cajun dishes. It’s not filled just with recipes for gluten-free baked goods, because so often the newly diagnosed feel they are doomed to a life of dry grilled chicken breasts and steamed vegetables,” Jennifer explains. “They also contain information about alternative grains like quinoa, teff, amaranth, and millet, and encourage readers to incorporate these powerhouses of nutrition into their diets.” As a result, they will appeal not just to those on a strict gluten-free diet, but also to those that need to incorporate other grains into their diets due to a wheat allergy or other health reasons.

As a result of years of research, Jennifer Cinquepalmi has also become a respected and much sought-after speaker on the subject. Today, Jennifer says, her family celebrates this diet for the restored health it has offered as well as renewed energy, increased stamina, and better resistance to illness. “We have enjoyed discovering all the wonderful alternative grains available, most of which are now staples in our diet. My children have been educated about the value of their food versus the lack of nutrition in foods left behind. And they are content, because their food tastes great.

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Meditation Far Superior To Drugs For Heart Disease

August 2, 2010 By LMND0830 Leave a Comment
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By Dr. Bruce West

“I instruct patients with stubborn hypertension that resists all therapies, including nutritional and drug therapies, to practice meditation and/or deep breathing. The results are always good…” Health Alert, Vol. 23, No. 12

There are four or five different types of blood pressure drugs. They all carry a litany of paralyzing side effects, and none of them, even if taken for 20 to 30 years, statistically provide for fewer heart attacks, strokes, or deaths. Heart disease drugs are not much better. However, another study reveals that transcendental meditation provides a 50% reduction in heart attacks, strokes, and death compared to patients who do not meditate!

A study granted by the federal government and conducted at the Medical College of Wisconsin was presented at the American Heart Association’s annual meeting (Nov 16, 2009). The results were so dramatic that medical experts said it was as if those practicing meditation were taking a new class of medications!

The amazing part of all this is simply that there are no medical treatments, surgeries, drugs or combination of drugs that can provide anything close to a 50% reduction in heart attacks, strokes, or heart disease deaths-none! And yet mediators accomplished this without any medical treatment whatsoever-simply by using the relaxing technique of meditation.

If you are backed into a corner with stubborn hypertension or heart disease that will not quit, be sure to start meditating, or at least practice deep breathing daily. To learn to meditate, simply go to www.tm.org and find out how to learn transcendental meditation. At the very minimum, practice deep breathing. If you need help, simply send me a self-addressed, stamped (with two stamps) envelope and write DEEP BREATHING. The address is Health Alert, 30 Ryan Court, #100, Monterey, CA 93940. I will send you my free flyer to get you started.

Better yet, start meditating or practicing deep breathing while you eat a new, healthy diet and start exercising. In addition, use a protocol that includes the cardiotonic nutrients that really make a difference. If you need help with this, just use my protocols, or drop me a line about your problem with a self-addressed, stamped (with two stamps) envelope. The address is Health Alert, 30 Ryan Court, #100, Monterey, CA 93940.

When you combine meditation with nutrition and exercise, you simply hit a home run. After a few months on this type of protocol, the only thing left to do is to have your physician wean you off the paralyzing blood pressure and/or heart drugs that were prescribed in a futile effort to resolve your problems. Meditation alone is better than all medical therapies-including drugs, combined drugs, heart surgeries, and more. But you will never get a prescription for meditation-except here.

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Mammogram Alternatives

August 2, 2010 By LMND0830 1 Comment
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By Dr. Bruce West

A screening test should be used when evidence shows that it prevents disease, prolongs life, and is not harmful to the patient. Annual mammograms for all women over age 40 do not fall into this category. They do not prevent disease, and their early detection of disease does not prolong life. They can be harmful-even causing cancer—because the female breast is highly susceptible to the cancer-causing effects of radiation. And the breasts of premenopausal women are even more susceptible to radiation damage-one more reason to forego mammograms until after menopause.

Mammograms very often miss serious cancers. And they often detect false positives, or “cancers” that are not really there-that is, spots that are not cancerous. Further, they often detect tiny cancers that would never be of consequence to the woman. Unfortunately there are no tests to determine which tiny cancers will develop into anything serious or life threatening.

Because of this, women who discover “spots” on their mammograms are routinely subjected to further, often invasive testing. And because even more advanced testing is often inconclusive, thousands more women are injured or maimed by therapies and surgeries for “cancers” found on a mammogram. Many of these are later proven non-cancerous by post-operative examination of the removed tissue. Some women even opt for a mastectomy based on a shadow or spot on their mammogram-fearing that it is or will become cancerous. For all these reasons, routine mammograms for all women over age 40 are problematic. And the latest findings and suggestions about cutting back on mammograms are well considered.

All the uproar over mammogram cutbacks is a national disgrace as groups jockey for a position that will provide them benefit. The mammogram, physician, and hospital groups stand to lose money. Politicians are doing what they always do-use a subject, about which they know nothing, to promote their agenda. And women’s groups, perhaps swayed by “expert medical opinion” may not understand that they are doing women a disservice by howling that their mammograms are being taken away.

In addition, no one knows how many false positives and tiny cancers (that would never develop) found on mammograms are thrown in the scientific database of breast cancer “cures.” Are the survival rates skewed by the false positives? Have we really improved the survival rates or are these numbers just skewed to look better because they include women who never had cancer in the first place?

It all gets murky. But one fact remains-the statistics about the effectiveness and safety of mammograms do not lie. They show that mammograms do little good with plenty of harm. And that is not the definition of an effective screening test. But what is a woman to do? What if you have a family history of breast cancer? What if you have already had breast cancer and you are desperate to prevent a recurrence?

Well naturally, taking care of yourself with a good diet, exercise, pure water, and proper supplements is paramount. There are also tests that are actually better than mammograms. Simple blood tests, which are routinely administered after a mastectomy to determine if any cancer is still present, should be the screening test of choice before any radical treatment. The best of these are tumor marker tested called Cancer Antigen 15-3 (CA 15-3) and Cancer Antigen 27-29 (CA 27-29). When your doctor prescribes repeated mammograms, just ask him or her for a tumor marker test.

There are no cancer tests that are 100% accurate. But at least with this testing, the procedure is non-invasive and a clear yes or no answer is provided. If you are in the high-risk group for whatever reason, you can have a CA 15-3 every 3-4 months. If a positive turns up, you can back this test up with a mammogram, and then a biopsy if needed.

Breast Cancer and Estrogen

Every woman who is worried about breast cancer, or who is in a high-risk group, should have a test for excess estrogen (estradiol). Estrogen causes cancer, and high estrogen is the single most powerful predictor of cancer (especially breast cancer) recurrence in women who have already been treated for cancer.

Excess estrogen is normally swept up and excreted by your body’s detoxification mechanisms. These mechanisms are a

complicatedbiochemical system of toxin removal that involves the liver, digestive tract, kidneys, and more. And cruciferous vegetables such as kale, broccoli, brussels sprouts and others are critical to detoxification mechanisms-especially when related to the removal of excess estrogen.

If your estrogen is high or even high-normal, you need to take 4-6 Cruciferous Complete daily-probably for the rest of your life. This supplement, made from cruciferous vegetable concentrates by Standard Process, helps women to naturally excrete excess estrogen-a prime cause of female cancers including breast cancer. To order Cruciferous Complete contact Lynn (click here). Women with highest estrogen levels have 5 x the rate of breast cancer as those with normal estrogen levels. You can monitor your success by follow-up estrogen testing.

So be sure to use tumor marker blood tests, test your estrogen level, and treat with Cruciferous Complete if your levels are high or even high-normal. Eat a healthy Mediterranean diet that includes healthy oils like Blue Ice ™ High Vitamin Fermented Cod Liver Oil. Stay away from processed foods and all store bought oils and salad dressings. Avoid soy and anything deemed “low-fat,” “low-cholesterol,” “zero-fat,” or any other processed concoction that most medical organizations say is good for you.

Drink pure water, drink less alcohol, don’t smoke, and get plenty of exercise and sunshine. And always remember that whole food, phytonutrient, and phytochemical vitamins and supplements are your best ammunition to fight cancer. Over 15 years ago Newsweek (April 25, 1994) proclaimed on its cover, “Better Than Vitamins-Can Phytochemicals Prevent Cancer?” The article stated that “in the search for the magic pill, phytochemicals may be the best hope for stopping some of the most stubborn diseases, including cancer.” The latest research shows this to be true.

If you are overwhelmed and do not know how to proceed to fight or prevent cancer, drop me a line with a self-addressed, stamped (with two stamps) envelope and write CANCER. The address is Health Alert, 30 Ryan Court, #100, Monterey, CA 93940. Tell me briefly about your cancer, and I will see that you get the cancer-fighting information that you need.

And remember, when it comes to screening, proceed cautiously with mammograms, and be sure to use alternative, tumor market testing. Despite the uproar, the medical scientists who analyzed all the data and determined that we should use fewer mammograms deserve applause-they have done a great service to all women nationwide.

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Laughter… Real Medicine

July 1, 2010 By LMND0830 1 Comment
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by Val Ge

The power of laughter as real medicine is often undervalued. If you consider the benefits of laughter, it should be everyone’s top priority as a healing tool because of the many positive qualities. Consider this-it doesn’t cost a cent; it can be self-prescribed and self-administered; it can be used any time, almost anywhere; and it has no adverse side effects. More importantly, it makes you feel good about yourself and the people around you.

Here’s a wonderful story that illustrates the healing power of laughter. A minister was in the hospital recuperating from a serious accident. It became a routine that when his pain was too much he rang a buzzer and a nurse would come and give him a shot. On this particular day, he rang for the nurse, rolled on his side with his back to the door, prepared for the shot. On hearing the door open, he pointed to his backside and said, “I’m ready!” After a few moments of uncomfortable silence he looked over his should to see a couple from his church standing there aghast! Totally embarrassed they had a brief conversation and left. The minister, realizing what he had done, began laughing and he could not stop. He laughed until tears ran down his face. When the nurse arrived to administer the pain medication, he laughed even harder trying to explain what happened. Finally, after he told the nurse the whole story he realized his pain was gone. He didn’t need pain medication for another two hours.

What does laughter do to your body? It triggers the release of endorphins, the body’s natural painkillers and produces a general sense of well-being, which is what happened to our minister in the hospital.

Laughter can have a placebo affect; your body doesn’t know the difference between simulated laughter and real laughter. As long as you are laughing, you are producing the same “happy” body chemistry and powerfully boosting your immune system whether your laughter is genuine or forced. Studies on the effects of laughter show that it lowers blood pressure, reduces stress hormones, increases muscle flexion, raises levels of infection-fighting T-cells and produces disease-destroying antibodies. Author of Love, Medicine and Miracles, Bernie Siegel, M.D, said it best, “The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick. Laughter can always remove fear and anxiety, no matter what the situation. You cannot suffer when you are laughing. The two just can’t be experienced together. It has to be one or the other, and joy always overcomes fear. Love creates, but laughter is the cement that holds our lives together.”

How does a person laugh when there seems to be nothing to laugh about or no one is around to make a joke or share a funny thought? Thankfully, there are many laughter exercises created to help stimulate laughter. Many of them have been devised by the proliferation of ‘Laughter Clubs’ springing up all over the globe. The first Laughter Yoga Club was started in 1995 in Mumbai, India. It began with just five people in a local public park, but the concept rapidly spread worldwide and as of 2009 there are more than 6,000 laughter clubs in 60 countries. The conscious practice of laughter created by these clubs is being used in companies and corporations, on cruise ships, in fitness centers, yoga studios, senior centers, schools, colleges, prisons, universities, self-help cancer groups and for the physically and mentally challenged. “Most of our happiness depends on our disposition not on circumstances” – Martha Washington.

English comedian John Cleese went to India to do research on this phenomenon as part of a BBC documentary about the human face. He visited a prison in Mumbai where he witnessed prisoners going through a range of laughter exercises. Prison officials found that laughter diminished the prisoner’s feelings of anger and depression. Cleese said, “Laughter connects people, no matter what the language. Laughter created positive changes in prisoner attitude, better prisoner-staff relations and reduced violence.”

If you want to have a good laugh you can always join a Laughter Club, or try some of these favorite laughter exercises on your own.

  • Laughter cream: Rub your hands together rapidly for a few seconds until you start feeling some heat. You are preparing some powerful and healing laughter cream. When ready, apply the cream all over you and laugh as you do so!
  • Find your laughter center: Probe your head with one finger as if looking for your laughter center. Imagine that each spot you push on triggers a different laughter sound.
  • Motorboat (or lawnmower) laughter: Start an old gas engine lawnmower. Put one foot on the machine to hold it still, grab the pull cord and crank it in 4 powerful laughs. Move around and keep laughing once your engine is started. Ready? Go! HA! – HA HA! – HA HA HA! – Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha…

Doing any of these exercises will change your breathing pattern, which affects your state of mind. The breathing patterns of people under stress become faster, shallow and irregular. Stressed people often hold their breath, which triggers the build up of carbon dioxide in the blood and creates a toxic environment in the body. Laughter shifts the breathing pattern from shallow to deep diaphragmatic breathing; it brings oxygen-rich air to the lungs and prevents the stress arousal system from being triggered. Focusing awareness on your breath will keep you in the present moment, as both breathing and laugher are activities that can only be performed in the present, it’s impossible to breathe in the past or future.

One of the best ways to find laughter is to want to find it. Look for the funny side of situations, because there always is one. Don’t take yourself too seriously and let go of having to be right in every encounter. I know a couple that regularly fight over how they load the dishwasher and how they shop for groceries; he buys generic brands, she loves brand names. It’s a power struggle. Imagine if either one of these powerful individuals decided to have a goal of making the other one laugh? Their entire relationship would change. When my husband and I go grocery shopping, we toss things at each other; an apple, an orange, a roll of paper towels; people look at us as if we’re crazy, but they also smile.

Laughter is an on-going pursuit. A while ago my husband, Jeff, and I realized that we were bickering. We wanted to have a simple reminder to wake up and stop arguing. We decided that if one of us put our forefinger and thumb together, made a circle, and put it up to our eye, the other person had to do the same. And even though sometimes the ego just doesn’t want to let go of the argument, we both did it. What we found was remarkable; it’s impossible not to laugh when you’re looking at another human begin through a circle of fingers!

However you decide to bring laughter into your life, make a commitment to do it for your health and well-being. You’ll soon realize that the more you laugh, the more you’ll find things to laugh about.

Laughter is real medicine that makes your life fun and creates positive energy. What can it hurt? Nothing. What can it help? Just about everything. Try it. You’ll like it!

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Pandemonium over New Mammogram Guidelines

July 1, 2010 By LMND0830 Leave a Comment
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By Dr. Bruce West

The uproar over the change in recommendations for mammograms has been predictable, unreasonable, political, and financial. It all happened after a well-respected organization, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) broke ranks with the medical establishment and sided with Health Alert and others. They recommend that mammogram screenings begin at age 50, instead of age 40, and that they be done every other year instead of yearly. What followed was shock, horror, anger, resentment, blustery political posturing that used the new guidelines for political gain, and more.

To date, all the women’s groups, mammography groups, most medical groups, (including the American Cancer Society and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists), congressmen, and even the President’s office have distanced themselves from these new meaningful and evidence-based recommendations. Even Rush Limbaugh has ridiculously called the new recommendations an insult to women and the first of the new onslaught of “rationed care.”

The truth is exactly the opposite! The evidence to start mammograms was based on one study back in the 1970s! That study showed that mammograms could result in a 30% reduction in breast cancer deaths in women over age 50, but no benefit for women in their 40s. The clinical trial, for the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York, followed women for 3 to 5 years, and did not even bother to follow them after that time. These study results were picked up by all the medical groups who sought to lower the age for first mammograms to 35. The American Cancer Society (ACS) agreed, and mammograms were started at age 35! The ACS quietly rescinded the age 35 recommendation in 1992, but the practice continued for 10 years anyway.

Over-treatment

The truth is that mammograms do not save lives. Even The Lancet reported in 2001 that mammography screening resulted in overtreatment without reducing mortality. To date, the Cochrane Collaboration continues to monitor mammography research. According to the Chochrane analysis of all the research, mammograms detect tiny cancers. One in three of these are meaningless and will not cause a problem. But there is no test that can sort out the potentially lethal cancers from those that are meaningless. Therefore, virtually all cancers are treated aggressively with biopsies and radiation, and even chemotherapies, surgeries, and more. Some women have even undergone double mastectomies because of these findings when they didn’t have a real problem at all! In the medical research world, this is simply referred to as over-treatment.

In the end, mammographic screening for breast cancer results in the overtreatment of huge numbers of women-all for no benefit. The screening does not affect overall mortality (deaths from all causes), and the benefit for breast cancer mortality (the number of women who would die from breast cancer) is small to insignificant. And this is for all women who start mammography at either age 50 or 40! In fact, the USPSTF, after examining the real statistics, concluded only 1 in 1,900 women who undergo mammography for 10 years would avoid a breast cancer death!

So a smart group has finally called for a reduction in a procedure that can result in overtreatment that can maim, injure, and even kill women-a procedure that offers little statistical benefit, even when started at age 40. But everyone is horrified, the politicians are distancing themselves because they want to pass “health care reform,” and the doctors and medical groups, who will lose business, are up in arms.

Over the years, women have been sold a bunch of lies-lies for money, politics, power, vanity, paybacks to special interests, and worse. It is all sickening and still going on. The mammography debacle is having a light shined on it. In addition, these same “experts” also caused, at the very least, 20,000 cases of invasive breast cancer a year for 25 years with estrogen prescriptions. This practice continued even though lots of people like myself begged them to quit. Quite frankly, all these medical “experts” owe an apology-on their knees-to the collective female population over the age 35! Instead, women get even more confusion because their doctors and the medical groups in whom they have placed their trust, are “angered,” “shocked” and in “horror” over the new mammography recommendations. In fact, the USPSTF and all non-biased medical scientist agree that these recommendations are the only ones that really make any sense.

Who was that Health Alert guy who was condemned for saying the same thing for years!?

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Limited Time/Limited Budget: 20 Ways to Keep Your Family and Your Finances Well – by Sally Fallon with Mary G. Enig, PhD

June 13, 2010 By LMND0830 Leave a Comment
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limited-budgetNo one in modern America deserves more sympathy than the working parent on a limited budget. Finding the time, energy and means to prepare nutritious meals for a family poses a real challenge, especially as the temptation to opt for convenience foods is great.

The first step is to realize that fast foods are a terrible trap that lead to diminished vitality and even greater restrictions on one’s time, energy and budget. Plus, regular consumption leads to the onset of serious disease. Commit a little time to these suggestions, and you, your family and your bank account will be much healthier.

1. Plan Ahead - While it’s not necessary to spend long hours in the kitchen in order to eat properly, it is necessary to spend some time in the kitchen. Simple, wholesome menus require thoughtful planning. Much can be accomplished with advanced preparation by dedicating four or five hours per week which may include shopping, starting a large pot of stock to last the week, putting up a jar of fermented vegetables, making a batch of cookies for school lunches and preparing a large casserole of soup or stew that can last for several meals. Simple, nutritious meals can be prepared very quickly when you lay the groundwork ahead of time.

2. Oatmeal is the Best Cereal – Don’t buy boxed cold breakfast cereals, even those made of whole grains. They’re very expensive, poor in nutrients and difficult to digest. A serving of the best quality organic oatmeal costs half the amount of the average boxed breakfast cereal and is infinitely more nutritious. For optimum nourishment think ahead and soak your oatmeal overnight.

3. Make your own salad dressing – By using the finest ingredients for about the same cost as the average bottled dressings, most of which contain rancid vegetable oils, trans fatty acids and numerous additives, you’ll discover it takes just a few minutes to produce a delicious dressing for your salad.

4. Always Buy Butter - Margarine and shortening may cost less but it is a false economy, one that leads to numerous impoverishing diseases. If the cost of butter is prohibitive, use lard.

5. Make Stock – Meat stocks have formed the basis of nourishing peasant diets for millennia. They cost little to make, are very nourishing and have a protein-sparing effect. That means you can get by with very little meat in the diet when you use properly made stock for soups and stews. Use congealed fat from stocks for cooking and leftover meat for soups, meat salads and other dishes. Do this once a week and you’ll save a bundle.

6. Cod Liver Oil – It’s better to put your money into whole foods than vitamins. However, most benefit from a daily teaspoonful of cod liver oil, one of the least expensive supplements on the market, and from Azomite powder, a very inexpensive mineral supplement. Lacto-fermented beet kvass contains a large array of nutrients in easily assimilated form and is simple and inexpensive to make.

7. Use Dairy – Good quality dairy products are worth the price. If you live in the country, look into an arrangement for keeping a Jersey cow or goats. If not, spend the money on organic dairy products. Don’t forget eggs as a nourishing, low-cost alternative to meat. It pays to buy the best quality.

8. Vegetables – The less expensive organic vegetables include some of the most nourishing-potatoes, cabbage, carrots, zucchini, onions, broccoli, chard, beets and kale-and they are easy to prepare. Always prepare or serve vegetables with butter for best assimilation of the minerals they contain.

9. Fish Roe – If you can’t afford caviar (few can) buy different varieties of uncured fish roe from a good fish merchant. It can be purchased at a reasonable price-possibly even for free. Use it to make roe cakes, or in quantity and store in the freezer to sue throughout the year. Fish roe is just loaded with nutrients and has always been prized by healthy primitive peoples.

10. Make Soups Part of Your Repertoire - Blended soups can be put together in very little time and are extremely nourishing. Invest in a handheld blender, which costs about $25, and you can blend your soups right in the pot, thereby saving time and dishes to wash.

11. Eat Liver – It’s not expensive but is worth its weight in gold, nutritionally speaking.

12. Leftovers Turn into Delicious Meals – Leftover pureed vegetables can be made into pancakes, leftover oatmeal is delicious fried; tender meat reserved from making broth can be added to soups or used for meat salad and sandwiches.

13. Delicious Budget Stretchers – A judicious choice of recipes will make a little go a long way. Budget stretchers include stir-fry, stews, fish cakes, ground meat dishes, kidney-rice casseroles, chicken gumbo and lamb shanks. For special meals, consider leg of lamb which can provide several days of leftovers in the form of leg-of-lamb soup.

14. Buy in Bulk – Buy organic, whole grains in bulk and store them in 5-gallon covered plastic buckets, available at hardware stores.

15. Buy Good Grains – If you can’t afford a grain grinder, buy whole grain flours at your health food store or supermarket and store in the refrigerator. Use them to make easy and low-cost pancakes, muffins, gingerbread, brownies, crackers, etc. If you have time you can save money making your own bread. Otherwise, buy good quality sourdough or sprouted grain breads.

16. Learn to Make Basic Brown Rice - It’s delicious, economical and nutritious. Leftovers make wonderful salads, fillers or tacos or added in soups and stews.

17. Be a Cookie Monster - Children love cookies; adults do too. Make your own. Cookies are the most economical treats. Always use good ingredients. You’ll find that Arrowroot powder can be expensive. (Asian markets often carry it at a good price). Bulgur flour is more economical but takes time to prepare. Your family will treasure these wholesome treats.

18. Make Kombucha! – It costs less than 20 cents per quart; the taste is better than most expensive soft drinks, beer or wine.

19. Don’t Over-Economize – Rather, cut out junk food, prepared cookies and cakes, soft drinks, frozen foods, fast foods and use the saving to buy quality, whole foods.

20. Use Good Fats – Above all, use good quality fats-they keep you healthy during times of stress.

If you commit a little time to these suggestions, you’ll find that you and your family are eating better and feeling better. The best reward is you’ll have more time and money for the things that really matter.

Recipes for all these ideas can be found in the cookbook Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats by Sally Fallon with Mary G. Enig, PhD.


This article is courtesy of HealthKeepers magazine: www.HealthKeepersMagazine.com

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Traveling Tips: Food Poisoning and Circulation – by Dr. Bruce West

June 13, 2010 By LMND0830 Leave a Comment
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summer-travelMy wife, the nurse, never travels without a few special things that most people would never take along.

The first is a good supply of Gastrex from Standard Process. Gastrex is the supreme food poisoning antidote.  It is made with the super-absorbing and detoxifying agent montmorillonite clay.  This clay is combined with okra, chlorophyll, duodenal extract, and silica to promote healing.  Gastrex quickly relieves an over-acid stomach, and helps resolve food poisoning quickly and effectively.  You can even make a poultice out of it to place on weeping ulcers, wounds, and lesions.  It’s the best all-around substance for food poisoning, digestive upset, and healing wounds.  Simply take 3-15 capsules at the first sign of food poisoning.  It generally clears in hours.

The second substance my wife brings is Collinsonia Root, which should be considered if you have any problems with leg circulation or blood clots.  If you are going to be driving or flying for long periods, and you know you have circulation problems, simply take 2-6 Collinsonia Root capsules on an empty stomach before you leave.  This simple herbal solution made from the collinsonia or stone root plant could alleviate thousands of cases of blood clots and leg circulation problems for travelers around the world.

In addition, if you are going to a high altitude, make sure you have some Cataplex E2 on hand.  This is the oxygen-sparing part of the whole vitamin E complex.  It allows your system and your heart to function well on less oxygen (which occurs naturally at higher altitudes).  Ski trip, hikes, and mountain climbing are times when you can get an attack of altitude sickness.  This is no picnic-with severe headaches, nausea, dizziness, vomiting, and more.  Six tablets a day can almost always alleviate this serious problem.  And remember that elite mountain climbers never attempt to climb a mountain without Cataplex E2.  To order Gastrex, Collinsonia Root or Cataplex E2, click here to contact us.

Finally, for first aid (cuts, bites, and rashes) do like my wife and always take bottles of Tea Tree Oil and No Itch Spray with you.  Tea tree oil from Australia is the supreme antiseptic, antibacterial, first aid treatment for any kind of cut, abrasion, wound or most anything else external. No Itch Spray is the supreme anti-itch substance for bites, stings, and rashes.  It is made from burdock root, sheep sorrel, cudweed plant, watercress, slippery elm bark, pineapple skin extract, and turkey rhubarb root.  This stuff really works!  Both Tea Tree Oil and No Itch Spray are available at the best price from the Health Alert Store at www.healthalertstore.com

So be like my wife, the nurse-travel safe and happy.

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GALLBLADDER, GAS AND BLOATING? by Dr. Bruce West

June 13, 2010 By LMND0830 2 Comments
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bloatingAre you chronically nauseous? How about constipated? Or constipated with diarrhea? Or do you constantly have the uurps and burps-where fatty foods repeat on you and even get back into your throat? Are you chronically bloated with gas and pressure? Or have you even had one or more “gallbladder attacks?”

These are all symptoms of gallbladder problems-including a sluggish gallbladder and a congested liver. But take heart. The miracle treatment of the month is betaine. Betaine is one of the factors in the B vitamin complex. And the richest source is found in growing beet leaves and their juice. Betaine is known as a lipotrophic agent-it aids in fat digestion and metabolism.

Standard Process makes a product called A-F Betafood. It contains vitamins A and F complexes combined with Betafood, which contains betaine from beet leaf juice. The vitamins A and F thin the bile, while Betafood flushes the bile route-getting it moving again. Without adequate nutrition like this, your bile becomes thick like cream. Thick, congested bile does not flow smoothly, and eventually clogs, forming gravel of even gallstones. When this happens, you are in trouble with all the symptoms listed-including an eventual, inevitable gallbladder attack.

When you have chronic gallbladder problems such as these, you are also sure to be toxic. Aside from helping you break down fats for digestion, smoothly flowing bile is a major detoxifier. Toxins are picked up and carried in your blood to your liver. Your liver is like your car’s filter. The liver removes the toxins from the blood and dumps them into the bile. The bile then carries them to the intestines for elimination.

So if you have these problems, be sure to take 2-4 A-F Betafood capsules with water at mealtime. This protocol will help you thin bile that has become thick and less viscous. It will also help you flush the bile route from the liver through the gallbladder. Once this is accomplished, your symptoms will begin to disappear. And better yet, you most likely will be able to save yourself from a gallbladder attack, or worse-removal of your gallbladder.

And take special note-millions of Americans suffer from celiac disease and do not know it. Celiac disease is an intolerance to the protein gluten found in wheat, rye, barley and oats. Some of the symptoms of celiac disease mimic those of gallbladder problems. So make sure to eliminate gluten from your diet for at least 30 days to determine if you suffer from hidden celiac disease. If gluten is your problem, you will be better within days of eliminating it from your diet. Untold thousands of people who had undiagnosed celiac disease have had their gallbladder removed-only to find out that their symptoms continued after surgery!

Avoid Symptom Treatment

If you have already had your gallbladder removed, remember that surgery simply corrects the symptom and does nothing about the cause. Your sluggish and congested bile will remain a problem, even after gallbladder surgery. After gallbladder removal, you still need to use the A-F Betafood protocol to improve your bile flow and fat digestion and metabolism, as well as to insure proper detoxification and removal of toxins from your body.

And once you start to clean up your liver/gallbladder/bile pathways, you can use a once-or twice-a-year gallbladder cleanse to make your protocol even more powerful. A gallbladder cleanse involves mixing 2 cups of shredded, raw, preferably organic, ripe beets with the juice of a lemon and 2 tablespoons of extra-virgin, first-pressed olive oil. Eat this mixture between breakfast and lunch and between lunch and dinner daily for 10 days.

It is best to do everything you can to avoid having your gallbladder removed. Too many older adults have had this procedure start a downward medical spiral that often leads to debilitation and even death. Remember that simply having a cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal) only treats the symptoms. And the only medical treatments for gallbladder problems consist of a low-fat diet, drugs to mask symptoms, or surgery. It is all ineffective, sometimes dangerous, and expensive (gallbladder and knee surgeries keep most hospitals financially afloat).

Uurps, burps, gas, bloating, nausea, pain, constipation, diarrhea, and gallbladder attacks? Use A-F Betafood and a gallbladder flush to thin the bile and flush your liver and gallbladder-and put an end to being sick and in pain. Treating the cause-and all without side effects of any kind. Now that’s a protocol, and the miracle, secret treatment of the month. To order A-F Betafood or any of the products mentioned in this article, contact us.

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