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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
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A review of 51 studies involving 260,000 children age found no evidence that the flu vaccine is more effective than placebo.
MS patient credits orthomolecular medicine for ending painful attacks
MS patient credits orthomolecular medicine for ending painful attacks
Since he was a teenager, Peter Leeds has suffered painful attacks that render his hands and feet crippled and numb.
He had no idea he has multiple sclerosis, a debilitating disease that plagues the central nervous system, leading to physical and cognitive disabilities.
"I'd wake up and my toes and fingers would be numb," he said. "The numbness would creep up my legs, creep up my arms, until it took me over, making me numb from the neck down."
Suffering attacks at least once a year, it wasn't until four years ago, when Leeds was 31 years old, that he was diagnosed with MS.
Shortly after, as Leeds lay sobbing on the floor, his wife asked him if he was going to die.
He couldn't answer. He didn't know anything about the prognosis or treatments.
Leeds, a Toronto resident, has benign relapse-remitting MS, which is characterized by unpredictable, yet clear, attacks.
Symptoms can begin to appear over a few hours or days, and last for days or months. Between attacks, the body can recover almost completely.
Though there is no known cause or cure for MS, there are five federally approved therapies that have been proven to diminish the frequency and severity of attacks, according to Stewart Wong, national senior manager at the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada.
"They have huge benefits," he said. "Some slow down the progression, others reduce the number of brain lesions. They really improve your quality of life."
With all the benefits, however, come a number of adverse side-effects — mood changes, digestive problems or hepatitis in very rare circumstances.
Leeds, then a father of one, said he was also told the treatments might make him unable to father any more children.
"It wasn't worth it," he said. "All the side-effects were too frightening."
Not wanting to suffer through adverse side-effects, yet not wanting to continue living with constant fatigue, bowel problems and loss of sensation brought on by his MS, Leeds found himself at a dead end.
But a close friend suggested an alternative approach.
On the advice of the friend, Leeds travelled to Victoria to meet with Dr. Abram Hoffer, an orthomolecular practitioner, who died in May.
Hoffer was a Canadian psychiatrist best known for treating psychological disorders through orthomolecular medicine — a science-based approach to healing and preventing disease.
Treatments use nutrients naturally found in the body — essential fatty acids, amino acids, vitamins and minerals.
Scared, and skeptical, Leeds walked into Hoffer's office, and told the doctor he had MS.
"He looked at me," Leeds said. "And he says, 'so what?' "
Orthomolecular practitioners believe many illnesses result from an imbalance of nutrients.
Hoffer gave Leeds a list of supplements; within the month, the numbness in Leeds' limbs was going away.
In four years, Leeds says he hasn't had a single attack.
A neurologist who has followed Leeds since the diagnosis, told him she wouldn't have known he had MS were it not for the old scans.
Jonathan Prousky, chief naturopathic medical officer at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, said there isn't one treatment for every patient.
But, he said, there's an opportunity for people suffering from anything — cardiovascular disease, depression, PMS or even cancer — to be treated with orthomolecular medicine.
"Our goal is to alleviate suffering," he said. "I never tell anybody I can cure them, but that their quality of life can be vastly improved."
Prousky acknowledged some patients must take pharmaceuticals. "And no credible orthomolecular practitioner would advise an asthmatic, for example, to stop using an inhaler," he said.
"But the two methods can work together," he said, noting that chemo patients can use supplements to help curb decreased appetites that result from mouth and throat sores associated with the treatment.
Leeds' regimen includes mega doses of vitamins C and D, salmon oil, niacin, folic acid, zinc and semi-weekly shots of vitamin B-12. He also avoids all caffeine and dairy products.
Because every patient follows a different regimen, it is hard to put a price tag on the treatment. Steven Carter, managing editor of the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, said a patient shouldn't pay more that $150 per month, or about $2,000 per year.
Federally approved treatments can cost $20,000 to $40,000 per year, but some will be reimbursed.
Wong from the MS Society said the amount returned to the patient varies by province and insurance company, but in most cases government assistance is available.
Though the cost of supplements might act as a deterrent to orthomolecular medicine, Prousky said patients should consider more than just what comes out of the wallet.
"Pharmaceuticals can cost a lot more in the long run," he said. "Sometimes a patient can't work, or their family life crumbles. . . . They're not the person they were before."
Leeds can't imagine his life without orthomolecular medicine. He went from fearing death to having two more children with his wife of 11 years.
But he didn't hear about this option from his physician, nor was it listed as one of Health Canada's approved treatments.
Wong said what's important is having options.
"Talk with your family, physician and neurologist," he said. "Choose the treatment you're most comfortable with."
Michael Scmidt and Raw Milk
Michael Schmidt, a Wake Up Alarm for Freedom
by Tim Wightman, Interim President, Farm-to-Consumer Foundation
When was the last time it happened to you?
Your alarm goes off and some how you reach over without reaching over, hit snooze or even turn it off. And you lay there, not awake, but aware of what’s going on. Nothing seems pressing you to get up, even though there may be…
Maybe a job awaits you, tasks and people depending on you to get up…to be responsible. But you just lie there in the void between the comfortable unconscious and conscious.
Some people are pretty good at it..so good that the practice tends to be carried out in their daily life.
Admit it, we all have…and we all know those whom have perfected it, being noncommittal, walking a very narrow path of directives, rules and complacency. A comfortable void….nothing seems pressing, you’re warm, you’re safe, it can wait.
Then there are those few who hear an alarm, recognize it for what it is.. throw back the covers and take that first step.
They’re cold, alone, unsure of where they are exactly, they know the room, but may misjudge things for what they are but keep moving and eventually do find the way through the door and out of the void.
Alarms are not always obvious, some are loud and intrusive, most are slow insidious attempts on our way of life, our choices, our health….geared to keep us on the straight and narrow…the perception of safety.
Michael realized 20 years ago, that the slumber we came to accept as healthy, normal and safe was in fact a detriment to our ability to achieve the vibrant life we all are told we are free to pursue and enjoy.
As ones who stood up to the loss of that freedom, Michael and his family were the ones who faced the dark alone, cold and unsure of the world they had uncovered.
But we have now seen society’s rules forced upon them, we have learned what our society really feels about pioneers like Schmidt and his cowboarding patrons. He is perceived as an outlaw, and his patrons as too small a subset of society to be allowed free choice.
There is an old saying, “you are not free unless you try the lock.”
Michael and his family tried that lock, and even if one has never thought of drinking milk fresh from the farm, has never stepped foot on a farm, or even, never met a farmer, the Schmidts did us a great favor. They have helped us realize that our government is not what it seems and we are not as free as we think we are.
Michael has uncovered the way business is done in our modern times, how money rules our government decisions. Our money pays for the choices we have in the market place, and used against us to keep us in the straight and narrow of government permitted food choices.
So the next time you feel warm and safe, no need to get to those nagging reminders of responsibility, choice, freedom…. get up, grab a glass of milk and ask where it came from, who controls your choices, is it as good as it can be, or just above the minimum.
If you want more control of your life than deciding which pretty container to buy, walk into the cold, stand with Michael and the thousands of others. For us, choice and personal responsibility is a way of life.
Or..roll over..let someone else do it…the life, the freedoms you think you have..they will always be there..it can wait.
Tim Wightman
Tim Wightman is a founder and board member of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund and its education and charitable arm, the Farm-to-Consumer Foundation. He is the author of the Raw Milk Handbook, a handy resource guide for farmers interested in producing quality raw milk, and who wish to implement testing and safety standards. A lifelong farmer, Tim is on the forefront of our nation’s transition back to a local farm economy. Over the last two decades, Tim has launched CSA’s, organic cooperatives, farmers’ markets, and was the owner operator of a major organic farm & store, bakery and in-town restaurant. Currently a consultant for Midwestern Bio-Ag for Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio, Tim works with other farmers on ecological ways to grow profitability. In this role, he helps clients to mineralize their pastures, increase soil fertility, and improve herd health. Tim now lives in Western Ohio and is currently the owner and operator of Yore Farm, a small raw milk dairy.
Tim was recently profiled in a Huffington Post article by Julie Moulden, How Small Farmers are Saving the World.
The Farm-to-Consumer Foundation is selling a DVD about Michael Schmidt, all proceeds go to support Michael Schmidt.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Swine Flu Czar needed for Canada?
The Swine Flu has been steadily spreading worldwide and has followed a similar pattern to the seasonal flu. The Canadian Medical Association Journal editor-in-chief, Dr. Paul Hebert, is suggesting Canada needs a national swine flu czar with greater legislative powers than Canada’s Chief Health officer.
I don’t know what legislative powers he is referring to, but it raises the question of whether or not we will have mandatory H1N1 vaccinations in Canada. So far, the Swine Flu has not been any more dangerous than the seasonal flu but experts are worried that the H1N1 virus will mutate into a much more virulent and deadly form. The development of H1N1 Vaccines has been fast tracked and will be brought to market without adequate human testing for safety and efficacy. In addition, the pharmaceutical industry has been granted legal immunity from any damages resulting from the H1N1 Vaccines which are reported to contain adjuvants like squalene, live attenuated virus and heavy metals such as mercury and aluminum.
In my opinion, educating the the public about natural ways to prevent and deal with flu is a superior policy than recommending (or requiring) the population to be inoculated with an unproven, untested and possibly dangerous vaccine.
… In an editorial in this week’s journal, the editor-in-chief Dr. Paul Hebert says the country needs a national champion with the necessary legislative powers to be able to facilitate the response across provincial and territorial boundaries.
Hebert says the health czar for flu should convene a summit to link public health officials, critical care staff, first responders and other decision makers and community planners to ensure actions taken will work in practice.
Hebert says Canada has done a lot of pandemic planning, but there are holes in the plan that need to be fixed before flu activity picks up again in the fall or winter.
He says the czar he envisages would have more powers than Canada’s chief public health officer, a post held by Dr. David Butler-Jones…
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Podcasting Patented - Could affect twitter and facebook!!!!
Podcasting Patented - “Episodic Media” now controlled by one company!
I was reading my emails this morning when I came across some troubling news.
I have set up google alerts for a number of terms or phrases that I like to follow so that I am always up to date on the latest news that is of interest to me. One of the keywords I follow is “podcasting”.
“As consumers recognize the convenience of automatic downloads for episodic media, podcasting has gone mainstream with major media companies and more than 37 million U.S. consumers engaged. This automatic downloading of episodic media closely resembles how one-third of U.S. households are using a DVR to watch television today. This patent recognizes our technical leadership in setting the trend for a broad-based movement towards downloading episodic television shows and making them portable,” said Murgesh Navar, founder of VoloMedia.
Yesterday the US Patent and Trademark Office granted a patent for “episodic media” to VoloMedia, a California based company that offers services to podcasters and media companies. VoloMedia’s products deliver advertising and reporting solutions for portable media, which extends the reach and monetization of video and audio podcasts. They apparently filed for the patent in 2003, before podcasting became a popular method of media distribution. The patent doesn’t only cover podcasting, which is the distribution of media over the internet via RSS feeds but covers any technology which would accomplish the same result.
The US Patent number 7568213 can be viewed at the United States Patent and Trademark Office Website.
Volomedia founder, Murgesh Navar, wrote a blog post responding to the initial reaction to the patent. He states that the company is not interested in interfering with podcasters and has the industries best interest at heart.
… sometimes, patents end up in the hands of entities that have neither products nor technologies, but just obtain and hold patents to pursue infringing behavior through litigation. VoloMedia is not one of these. We are a real business, a founding member of the ADM, and an engaged participant in the episodic media download ecosystem with marquee publisher customers such as ABC News, MSNBC, Fox News, Washington Post and PRI, to name a few.
VoloMedia may be a real company, firmly entrenched in the podcasting and new media industry. They may be motivated to improve distribution of podcasts, increasing exposure and bringing podcasts into mainstream consumption. Nevertheless, I find this development extremely disturbing.
Companies can be bought and sold, or taken over. Intellectual Property can be sold or transferred to other entities. In the short run VoloMedia and their patent may have a positive effect on the industry but in the long run I don’t think so. Having one corporate entity controlling the distribution of “episodic media” can not be a good thing. I am a big proponent of the open source movement and believe that the distribution of episodic media should not be owned by anyone.
…specifically to VoloMedia’s motivation: The episodic media download “technology” ecosystem needs to become more seamless, more standardized, and more interconnected before it can become a mass medium. There are a few ways such seamlessness can be achieved: (1) A standards body is created with all the constituent technology providers (e.g., directories, media players, devices, analytics, advertising, etc.) participating and agreeing to common standards, (2) a large company with a lot of market influence and momentum creates a de facto standard, and everyone else follows or (3) a company uses its intellectual property to help drive a standard, using its IP to help define and improve the ecosystem for the benefit of all participants. VoloMedia’s motivations are primarily driven by the desire and need to make the episodic download ecosystem work, so consumers have a real choice in how they consume any media that is available on the Internet - whether in a web browser at an aggregation site like Hulu, or on a downloaded and portable basis using Apple’s iTunes and iPhone or Microsoft’s Zune. We will use our products, technologies, and patents towards this goal…We are intent on helping accelerate the growth and viability of downloadable, episodic media - much of its potential lies in the future.
The future of podcasting now lies in the hands of one company. Podcasting enables anyone to create content and share their passions with the world. At no other point in history has the individual had the ability to distribute their message to the masses like they can using Podcasting and Social Media. I sincerely hope that “episodic media” continues to be freely distributed and open to the public.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Life and Death - Oxygen and Cancer
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We can live a long time without food, a couple of days without drinking, but life without breath is measured in minutes. Something so essential deserves our full attention but rarely gets it unless you are a yoga practitioner. Breath is the most important of all the bodily functions and without it we simply are dead. In reality we take O2 for granted and with it our breathing, which most of us do quite badly. And now we even have a huge federal government wanting to make oxygen’s twin into public enemy number one1 and that is a sin. |
Researchers found that an increase of 1.2 metabolic |
The makeup of the human body is largely composed of the element oxygen. Oxygen (O2) physiology takes us down to the foundation of life and it is there where we meet up with some other structural substances like water (H2O), carbon, bicarbonate and CO2 (Oxygen’s necessary twin gas), magnesium, sulfur and then a host of other important substances like iodine and selenium and all the basic amino acids and on and on. We need all the basic building blocks of life and even the absence of one vitamin can make us deadly sick. But we need carbon and oxygen every moment of everyday or we will die. We humans are kind of like blow torches or blazing rockets, the flame of our lives are fed second to second from the twin gases of O2 and CO2. |
The prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of |
Oxygen levels are sensitive to a myriad of influences. Toxicity, emotional stress, physical trauma, infections, reduction of atmospheric oxygen, nutritional status, lack of exercise and especially improper breathing will affect the oxygen levels in our bodies. Any element that threatens the oxygen carrying capacity of the human body will promote cancer growth. Likewise any therapy that improves the oxygen function can be expected to enhance the body's defenses against cancer. In order for cancer to 'establish' a foothold in the body it has to be deprived of oxygen and become acidic. If these two conditions can be reversed cancer can, not only be slowed down, but it can actually be overturned. |
Oxygen is the source of health. Oxygen is essential to |
Dr. D. F. Treacher and Dr. R. M. Leach write, “Mammalian life and the bioenergetic processes that maintain cellular integrity depend on a continuous supply of oxygen to sustain aerobic metabolism. Reduced oxygen delivery and failure of cellular use of oxygen occur in various circumstances and if not recognized result in organ dysfunction and death. Prevention, early identification, and correction of tissue hypoxia are essential skills. An understanding of the key steps in oxygen transport within the body is essential to avoid tissue hypoxia. Although oxygen is the substrate that cells use in the greatest quantity and on which aerobic metabolism and cell integrity depend, the tissues have no storage system for oxygen. They rely on a continuous supply at a rate that precisely matches changing metabolic requirements. If this supply fails, even for a few minutes, tissue hypoxaemia may develop resulting in anaerobic metabolism and production of lactate.”3 |
Not enough oxygen to the brain is the main cause of |
In the 1920s Dr Otto Warburg carried out a great deal of work on cancer's basic mechanism and was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1932. Warburg's work clearly demonstrated that cancer is, fundamentally, a relatively simple disease where cell oxygen levels fall to a level sufficiently low enough for the cell to change in nature. Without a dependable supply of oxygen, the cells in our bodies cannot function properly. Nutrients in our diets must have oxygen present to convert their potential energy into usable energy. In order for new cells to be formed, hundreds of amino acids must link together using oxygen as the source of their energy. |
All normal body cells meet their energy needs |
Poor oxygenation comes from a buildup of carcinogens and other toxins within and around cells, which blocks and then damages the cellular oxygen respiration mechanism. As more acid wastes back up, and the body slowly stews in its poisonous wastes, a chronically over acidic body pH corrodes body tissue, slowly eating into the 60,000 miles of our veins and arteries like acid eating into marble. Clumping up of red blood cells slows down the bloodstream, and restricts flow of O2 into capillaries, which just adds to the worsening conditions. Even lack of the proper building blocks for cell walls, essential fatty acids and magnesium, restricts oxygen exchange. |
Cancer needs anaerobic - airless - conditions to grow and spread. What orthodox oncologists don’t see clearly is that cancer is not only human cells, which have changed their nature, but infectious entities that are thriving under these low O2 conditions. Doctors need to consider both the altered cells and the infectious pathogens thriving off these cells as the combined enemy we call cancer. |
In 1966, after his efforts had been ignored by the cancer industry for over thirty years, Warburg addressed a group of fellow Nobel Laureates, reiterating his views and concluded, "Nobody today can say that one does not know what cancer and its prime cause be. On the contrary, there is no disease whose prime cause is better known.” Dr Warburg's work has never been refuted but it certainly has been avoided by orthodox oncology. |
So its no surprise on the first day of August 2009 that we find published in the journal Cancer Today a ground-breaking study revealing that injecting oxygen into cancerous tumors significantly boosts the chances of recovery. Scientists at Oxford University found slightly increasing the supply strengthened blood vessels in cancer cells, making chemotherapy more effective. 4 Scientists had previously tried to starve tumors of oxygen, believing a more stable blood supply would only help the cancer spread. |
In all serious disease states we find a concomitant low |
Medical scientists are excited to have uncovered what they thought was a brand new approach to cancer treatment. Because they never paid Warburg any attention they thought that by increasing an oxygen supply to tumor cells they would help them grow. But actually by oxygenating the cell they found the opposite and were able to do a better job of killing them. They even found in patients with pancreatic cancer, which is notoriously difficult to treat, that the results were also positive. |
A CO2 deficit caused by deep breathing |
The response of a tumor to chemotherapy or radiation is directly related to the level of tumor hypoxia (low O2) so these researchers from England got excited because they saw their radiation and chemo protocols effectiveness increase. More hypoxia corresponds with greater resistance to treatment as well as increased tendency to metastasize. It is all laid out in front of us now; there is a growing consensus about this universal constant of cancer. Cancer thrives in low oxygen high acid conditions so we are practicing good medicine (appropriate oncology) when we increase total tissue O2 levels. |
A healthy cell breathes oxygen for energy. |
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Because of this difference between healthy |
Hypoxemia or what might be called "blocked oxidation," is followed by fermentation of sugar in cells, which then leads to the primary condition upon which cancer, infectious and inflammatory processes feed. Viruses are "anaerobic" creatures which thrive in the absence of oxygen. Yeast, mold and fungus live in an anaerobic environment. Most strains of harmful bacteria (and cancer cells) are anaerobic and are not comfortable in the presence of higher oxygen levels so doctors will find cancer cells easier to kill when oxygen levels are increased. What they did not guess at is that O2 levels can be dramatically increased by the simple administration of sodium bicarbonate. Increasing Co2 levels through the use of sodium bicarbonate is good in cancer treatment because bicarbonate drives up CO2 levels in the blood, which increases oxygenation to the cells. This is discussed fully in the chapter on carbon dioxide. |
There are many homeostatic adaptation responses that fight to maintain pH balance but the principle one is using high pH bodily fluids such as water as a solvent to neutralize acid residues. The second greatest resistance the body puts up against dropping pH is pulling bicarbonate from the pancreas and kidneys into the blood as an alkalizing agent. Bicarbonate ions are generated from carbon dioxide and diffuse into the plasma. Then there are other levels of protection but when they are all overwhelmed the end result is accumulated acid residues at the cellular level that drown out oxygen. |
Sodium bicarbonate is safe when taken with appropriate caution6 and knowledge, extremely inexpensive and effective when it comes to reducing cancer tissues. It’s an irresistible chemical, cyanide to cancer cells for it hits the cancer cells with a shock wave of alkalinity, which allows much more oxygen into the cancer cells than they can tolerate. Cancer cells do not survive well in the presence of higher levels of oxygen. |
Oncologist Dr. Tullio Simoncini, the founder of the bicarbonate approach to cancer, believes that only several types of cancer can be approached through oral application of bicarbonate. He suggests expensive and hard to get (meaning hardly any physician will do them in any country) medical procedures (placement of catheters) and IVs to get the bicarbonate as close to the tumors as possible. |
Dr. Simoncini never realized that when bicarbonate is taken orally the full body pH is shifted dramatically higher affecting all tissues including the brain and bones. He does not understand that oral administration is actually a superior method for all cancers because higher pH and oxygen levels can be maintained 24 hours a day constantly wearing down tumors and individual cancer cells wherever they might be. The different in costs between oral and transdermal dosing with bicarbonate and catheters and IVs is enormous with the oral weighing in at pennies a day. That alone can make the difference between life and death for millions of people who could not get and cannot afford expensive treatments. I recommend people contemplating doing the oral method to also use bicarbonate heavily transdermally and to read my book Sodium Bicarbonate – Rich Man’s Poor Man’s Cancer Treatment because one needs to really understand what they are doing. |
Just as there are many ways to skin a cat there are many important ways to approach cancer and the task of increasing O2 to all the bodies’ tissues. Other doctors have concentrated on hydrogen peroxide, ozone and hyperbaric oxygen chambers. In following sections we address exercise, proper breathing (which is very important) and magnesium supplementation, which are basic elementary approaches available, affordable and legal for all. |
Oxygen Carrying Capacity and Magnesium |
In another chapter we will see how important magnesium is when it comes to oxygen metabolism and oxygen carrying capacity. We will see that magnesium ions regulate the stability of the red cell membrane, which is crucial. Magnesium enhances the binding of oxygen to haem proteins and abnormal magnesium deprived red blood cells lack flexibility that allows them to enter tiny capillaries. Red blood cell (RBC) deformability is an important factor in determining movement of red blood cells through the microcirculation and appropriate magnesium levels help to insure the microcirculation does not contract and calcify. |
Diet is very important and there is nothing like green leafy vegetables (lots of magnesium and chlorophyll, which has the same chemical structure as hemoglobin) and an all round alkaline diet for bringing up the oxygen carrying capacity of the body. Magnesium chloride and sodium bicarbonate are the perfect combination of concentrate nutritional substances helping to fire up the mitochondria’s normal energy producing functions as well as increasing overall oxygen carrying capacity. Both can be taken orally as well as applied transdermally and they both can be added to mineral or distilled water to make ones water intake into medicine. |
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_________________________________________ 1 The element carbon is perhaps the single most important element to life. Virtually every part of our bodies is made with large amounts of this element. The carbon atom is ideal to build big biological molecules. The carbon atom can be thought of as a basic building block. These building blocks can be attached to each other to form long chains, or they can be attached to other elements. This can be difficult to imagine at first, but it may help to think about building with Legos. You can think of carbon as a bunch of red legos attached together to form one long chain of legos. Now, you can imagine sticking yellow, blue and green legos across the tops of the red (carbon) legos. These other colors represent other elements like oxygen, nitrogen or hydrogen. As you stick more and more of these yellow, blue and green legos to the red chain, it would start to look like a skeleton of legos with a "spine" of red legos and "bones" of yellow, blue and green legos. This is a lot like the way that big molecules are made in the body. Without carbon, these big molecules could not be built. Now, virtually every part of your body is made up of these big molecules that are based around chains of carbon atoms. This is the reason we are known as "carbon based life forms". Without carbon, our bodies would just be a big pile of loose atoms with no way to be built into a person. 3 BMJ. 1998 November 7; 317(7168): 1302–1306 4 www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1203600/Injecting-oxygen-cancerous-tumours-improves-chances-recovery.html 5 Recent research from Boston College and the Washington School of Medicine is reigniting interest in Warburg’s work. (“Nearly a Century Later, New Findings Support Warburg Theory of Cancer”, Science Daily, January 14, 2009) Specifically, they examined mitochondrial lipids in a diverse group of mouse brain tumors and found a significant difference in a complex lipid known as cardiolipin. 6 Even something as safe as sodium bicarbonate has to be used with caution. Case in point: A 68-year-old man presented to the Emergency Department with a severe metabolic alkalosis after ingesting large quantities of baking soda to treat his dyspepsia. His underlying pulmonary disease and a progressively worsening mental status necessitated intubation for respiratory failure. Laboratory studies revealed a hyponatremic, hypochloremic, hypokalemic metabolic alkalosis. The patient was successfully treated after cessation of the oral bicarbonate, initiation of intravenous hydration, and correction of electrolyte abnormalities. Sodium bicarbonate is an extremely well-known agent that historically has been used for a variety of medical conditions. Despite the widespread use of oral bicarbonate, little documented toxicity has occurred, and the emergency medicine literature contains no reports of toxicity caused by the ingestion of baking soda. Risks of acute and chronic oral bicarbonate ingestion include metabolic alkalosis, hypernatremia, hypertension, gastric rupture, hyporeninemia, hypokalemia, hypochloremia, intravascular volume depletion, and urinary alkalinization. Abrupt cessation of chronic excessive bicarbonate ingestion may result in hyperkalemia, hypoaldosteronism, volume contraction, and disruption of calcium and phosphorus metabolism. The case of a patient with three hospital admissions in 4 months, all the result of excessive oral intake of bicarbonate for symptomatic relief of dyspepsia is reported. Evaluation and treatment of patients with acute bicarbonate ingestion is discussed. Legal Notice:The Author specifically invokes the First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and of the press without prejudice. The information written is published for informational purposes only under the rights guaranteed by the First Amendment of the Constitution for the United States of America, and should not in any way be used as a substitute for the advice of a physician or other licensed health care practitioner. The statements contained herein have not been evaluated by the FDA. The products discussed herein are not intended to diagnose, cure, prevent or treat any disease. Images, text and logic are copyright protected. ALL rights are explicitly reserved without prejudice, and no part of this essay may be reproduced except by written consent. ©2009 by Mark Sircus |
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13 Secret Toxins Lurking in Your Food
13 Secret Toxins Lurking in Your Food, and How to Avoid Them By Tina McCarthy, EcoSalon |
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Monday, August 10, 2009
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