Tamoxifen Ups Cancer Risk

by Dr. Mercola | October 01 2000

Results of a study from the Netherlands show that the drug tamoxifen, often used to treat breast cancer and as a preventive in some high risk women as well, increases the risk of developing endometrial cancer. In addition, this risk increases with time, leading researchers to question the use of the drug in healthy women.

• Women who take tamoxifen for 2 to 5 years have twice the risk of the cancer as women who have not taken it.
• Women who have taken tamoxifen for 5 years or more have a seven times higher risk of endometrial cancer.
• The total increased risk for all women who used tamoxifen at all was 50%.
• Advanced endometrial cancers were more common in women who had taken tamoxifen long-term than in those who had not.
• The 3-year survival for endometrial cancer was “significantly worse” for long-term tamoxifen users than non-users, the team reports.

The researchers state “we seriously question widespread use of tamoxifen as a preventative agent against breast cancer in healthy women.”

In an accompanying editorial, Karen Gelmon of the British Columbia Cancer Agency in Vancouver, Canada, advises that “before bounding forward with prescriptions for tamoxifen, clinicians should remember its risks and benefits.”

The Lancet September 9, 2000;356:868-869, 881-887.

28 September, 2004

Shocking Revelation — This Cancer Drug CAUSES Cancer

by Dr. Mercola | October 23 2007

Tamoxifen is a drug that binds to your estrogen receptors. Therefore it was thought that it could prevent excess estrogen binding, hence halting cancer from forming. 

It is generally prescribed to high-risk women to prevent breast cancer, and is usually taken for five years.

However, Tamoxifen has been found to cause cancer instead. According to a study published in the International Journal of Gynecological Cancer, the treatment of breast cancer with tamoxifen results in an increased risk of uterine cancer incidence and mortality.

This is just one in a growing line of studies published, raising serious concerns about the increased risk of uterine cancer for women who take tamoxifen as a cancer preventive drug.

Despite these concerns, tamoxifen is still on the market.

Sources:

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer 2007

Dr. Mercola’s Comments:

Since October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, let’s spread some real cancer awareness. Western medicine’s approach to cancer treatment is based on profit, not safety and effectiveness.

Let’s recap just a handful of the numerous deadly conventional cancer drugs on the market, and then I’ll share with you the best cancer-avoidance techniques I know.

Cancer Drugs - All Hype, Very Little Substance

Prices for new cancer therapies have skyrocketed. Cancer drug costs rose nearly 16 percent in 2006, while other prescription drugs averaged a 3 percent price increase.

But are they worth it? The fact is, these expensive medications often give patients just a few more months of life - and sometimes they kill people prematurely.

Take a look at these examples.

• AVASTIN - Avastin, when used to treat colorectal cancer, sold for $50,000 per year. However, once it was approved to treat breast and lung cancer as well, Genentech announced a new price tag: $100,000 per year, even though it may extend your life by no more than a few months.
• ERBITUX - Another colorectal cancer drug, with a price tag of nearly $10,000 per month, even though there is not a single study showing it helps colorectal cancer patients live longer.
• EVISTA (Raloxifene) — This Eli Lilly drug was found to prevent breast cancer by one-third in a study of more than 10,000 postmenopausal women. Your true cost? Trading your breast cancer prevention for a 50 percent increased risk of fatal strokes and blood clots. Ironically, Evista was once sold as an osteoporosis drug, being illegally promoted for treating cardiovascular disease back in 2002.
• GLEEVEC - Also sold under the name Glivec. This cancer drug, used to treat leukemia, unfortunately also kills heart muscle cells, which may cause fatal congestive heart failure.
• ABRAXANE - A new version of an old cancer drug, Taxol, sells for $4,200 per dose. The older version, which has similar effects, costs 25 times less.

The financial sacrifices you might make in order to afford a “miracle” cancer drug can be staggering. But what you need to know is that these exorbitantly priced drugs do not in any way, shape, or form, treat the cause of your problem, and pharmaceutical companies earn billions of dollars on this deception.

It seems that the more serious and life threatening the disease, the more expensive your drug solution is. The very vocal former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell, sums up the situation brilliantly: “It’s really exploiting the desperation of people with a life-threatening illness.”

So, how can they get away with charging such astronomical prices that only the very wealthy can afford? In case you were not aware of it, it’s a very specific strategy. The trick is to have your insurance company pay for it, or their main backup, YOU, through the federal government and your taxes.

This kind of behavior is the reason why the United States spends more than $2 trillion every year for healthcare, and it is ruining the American economy in the process — all due to corporate greed.

Making matters worse, as soon as a drug company comes out with a more expensive alternative, that’s the pill they’ll promote to both you and your physician. Suddenly, they want you to believe the older drugs are virtually worthless even though just a few years prior, when they were the new kid on the block, they were being heavily promoted as your latest and greatest must-use approach.

How to Prevent Cancer

Is it possible to prevent cancer? Yes. It is possible. But not by swallowing a chemical cocktail.

A more sensible, safer, and less expensive approach is to simply make some lifestyle changes. Even the American Cancer Society - which is as traditional as medical organizations come — now suggest you can achieve a 62 percent risk reduction with simple lifestyle changes, including:

• Make sure you get adequate sun exposure as that will not only reduce your risk of breast cancer by 50 percent, but ALL other cancers by the same amount. Remember that one million people die EVERY year due to lack of optimal sun exposure.
• Eat healthier (ideally based on your body’s unique nutritional type)
• Incorporate more exercise in your daily routine
• Stop smoking today
• Perform monthly breast self-examinations

But, one of the skills my father drilled into me from early childhood was: “Never settle for second best.” Why would you settle for a meager 62 percent reduction?

I believe you can VIRTUALLY ELIMINATE your cancer risk if you follow these risk reduction strategies, even though they have not been formally “proven” yet by conservative researchers, including:

1.            Control your insulin levels: Make certain that you limit your intake of processed foods and sugars as much as possible.

2.            Get appropriate amounts of animal-based omega-3 fats and make sure you use cod liver oil if you don’t have regular access to sun exposure.

3.            Get appropriate exercise. One of the primary reasons exercise works is that it drives your insulin levels down. Controlling insulin levels is one of the most powerful ways to reduce your cancer risks.

4.            Normalize your vitamin D levels with safe amounts of sun exposure, or use a safe tanning bed. Alternatively you could use oral vitamin D and carefully monitor blood levels to prevent overdose.

5.            Eat according to your nutritional type. The potent anti-cancer effects of this principle are very much under appreciated. When we treat cancer patients in our clinic, this is one of the most powerful anti-cancer strategies we have.

6.            Have a tool to permanently erase your neurological short-circuiting, which can activate cancer genes. Even the CDC states that 85 percent of disease is caused by emotions. It is likely that this factor may be more important than all the other physical ones listed here, so make sure this is addressed. Energy psychology seems to be one of the best approaches and my particular favorite tool, as you may know, is the Emotional Freedom Technique.

7.            Only 25 percent of people eat enough vegetables, so by all means, eat as many vegetables as you are comfortable with. If you are a carb nutritional type you may need up to 300 percent more vegetables than a protein nutritional type.

Ideally, they should be fresh and organic. However, please understand that, frequently, fresh conventionally grown vegetables are still healthier than old and wilted organic ones. They are certainly better than no vegetables at all.

8.            Maintain your ideal body weight.

9.            Get enough high-quality sleep.

10.        Reduce your exposure to environmental toxins like pesticides, household chemical cleaners, synthetic air fresheners, and air pollution.

11.        Boil, poach, or steam your foods, rather than frying or charbroiling them.

Save your health and your money. You work too hard to waste either one on man-made “miracle” drugs and cures.

Related Links:

  Think Prescription Drugs are Safer and More Scientifically Proven Than Supplements? Think Again.

  How to Reduce Your Risk of Cancer By 50%

  Breast Cancer Awareness Month Story

Cancer Survivors Network

http://csn.cancer.org/node/138647

RE: Tamoxifen…HELP

Hi,
I too am on Tamoxifen and not happy about it. I found a non-profit org that has some pretty interesting documented research material. The website is: www.lef.org. I discovered that the cruciferous vegetable, i.e., brussel sprouts, kale, etc can do what the tamoxifen is doing but instead of at 60% effective at 90% effective. Now since we all can’t consume that many brussel sprouts, they have a capsule called: Indole-3 Carbinol and come 200mg. I am in conversation with my oncologist and explained I wish to take this food supplement which enhances the effect (positively this time) of tamoxifen. My ultimate goal is to just take the Indole-3 Carbinol (also called I3C) and not take Tamoxifen. I just don’t want to tick off my oncologist, so I am trying to work with him. Look up the website and read for yourself. I decided to join LEF or Life Extensions and its a tax right off. Now I can get better pricing on the I3C instead of $28 a bottle, I got 4 @ $19.50. You take two if 120 lbs, since I weigh more than that I will be taking 3 a day. Another interesting site is: jm@mercola.com
The is Dr. John Mercola and he writes a newsletter that I get via e-mail. Like all this info, you take it with of salt. He gets pretty extreme in his diet approach but I like some on his ideas. Check it out.
Lots of warm fuzzies and hugs,
Iris

Ozone is the most highly active form of oxygen in the universe. Prolozone uses the power of oxygen to cause damaged tissues, joints, ligaments, and tendons to regenerate. This usually causes a complete healing, and a permanent end to pain.

It is fast proving itself as an incredible healing modality for just about any painful disruption in the body including chronic neck and back pain, rotator cuff injuries, degenerative and arthritic hips and knees, herniated and degenerated discs, dental ostitis, sciatica, plantar faciitis, rotator cuff tears - literally anything that hurts.

How Does Prolozone Work?

The reason that some injuries completely heal and others do not has to do with circulation. In order for a damaged area of the body to regenerate and heal, it must have the critical elements that only the blood can provide: Vitamins, Minerals, and Oxygen.

Of these, by far the most important is oxygen. Low levels of oxygen cause an accumulation of lactic acid, which is what causes pain. Prolozone works in three ways. First, a local anesthetic medication is injected into the injured area to reduce pain and swelling. This leads to increased circulation. Next, the area is treated with vitamins and minerals that are critical for healing.

And finally, the area is infiltrated with oxygen in the form of ozone. The result is that the tissues get what they need to heal. And as they heal, the circulation to the area is re-established, and the treatment is complete. The response to treatment varies from person to person, but most people only need from 4-6 treatments.

Is Prolozone the Same as Prolotherapy?

No. Prolozone uses oxygen to create the healing. Prolotherapy uses inflammation to create the healing. Dr. Shallenberger used to use prolotherapy. Although he found that it was often effective, it had the following limitations. Prolotherapy is more painful than Prolozone. Pain from prolotherapy usually persists for days to weeks after a treatment. Patients receiving Prolozone often feel immediate improvement, with little to no pain at all during the treatments. Next, prolotherapy requires many injections, whereas Prolozone only requires a few. This means that Prolozone is faster and much less expensive. Prolozone therapy is especially effective in regenerating the cartilage in damaged knees and hips. Prolotherapy is usually not able to do this.

Conditions That Can Be Treated With Prolozone

Prolozone works on just about any pain problem you might have, including: neck pain, whiplash, degenerated or herniated discs, low back pain, plantar fascitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, torn tendons, TMJ syndrome, sciatica, heel spurs, tennis elbow, rotator cuff tears, knee injuries, and virtually any other sports injury. Because Prolozone treatments also result in cartilage regeneration, the technique is also remarkably effective even for severe cases of osteo arthritis of the hip or knee. The good thing about Prolozone is that it is not just a treatment for pain. The results actually represent a permanent fix.

Doctors in Washington state doing Prolozone Therapy:

Dr. John Ruhland, ND
The Natural Health Medical Clinic
4002 25th Avenue South
Seattle WA 98108
Tel: 206-723-4891
Email: mail@drruhland.com
WebSite: www.drruhland.com
Specialty: Prolozone, Major Autohemotherapy, Minor Autohemotherapy, Limb Bagging, Rectal Insufflation, UV Therapy. Offering Oxidative Therapies, chelation, nutrient IV’s, hyperbaric oxygen, and a full range of Naturopathic Therapies including Applied Kinesiology.

To find a doctor in your state, go to the following web address:

http://www.oxygenhealingtherapies.com/my_ozone_doctor.com.html

A new study has found that Vitamin D can counter the effects of Crohn’s disease.  Researchers found that Vitamin D acts directly on the beta defensin 2 gene, which encodes an antimicrobial peptide, and the NOD2 gene that alerts cells to the presence of invading microbes.

Both beta defensin and NOD2 have been linked to Crohn’s disease. If NOD2 is deficient or defective, it cannot combat invaders in the intestinal tract.

Sources:   Eurekalert January 27, 2010

 Dr. Mercola’s Comments:

Science has known for some time of the importance of vitamin D in the treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis. I posted a study on this ten years ago.

In my view it is reprehensible and irresponsible not to measure the levels of vitamin D in patients with this disease. You need to measure the vitamin D level in your blood, as it is virtually impossible to simply know whether or not it is in the therapeutic levels of 55 to 65 ng/ml.

If you or someone you know has this disease, please beg them to get their vitamin D level monitored. Most adults need at least 5000 units per day, but some may actually require up to 50,000 units per day. There is just no way of knowing without measuring.

Also there is NO benefit, and likely some harm if you take too much. So simply popping loads of vitamin D pills is not the way to optimize your vitamin D. The only time you don’t need to measure your vitamin D levels is when you have nearly daily access to high quality sunshine.

Crohn’s Disease is an Immune System Disorder

Crohn’s disease is a chronic condition that causes inflammation of your gastrointestinal (GI) tract.

Any area of your digestive tract can be affected, from your mouth to your anus, but Crohn’s most commonly affects the lower part of your small intestine known as the ileum. Swelling from the inflammation can be painful and often results in diarrhea.

Crohn’s is found in men and women in equal numbers and seems to have a genetic component. About 20 percent of Crohn’s sufferers also have a relative - usually a parent or sibling — with some form of inflammatory bowel disease.

The cause of Crohn’s is thought to be impairment in the way your immune system handles intestinal bacteria. This improper immune system response leads to an inflammatory condition that can result in an autoimmune disorder.

If you have an autoimmune disorder, it means your immune system is attacking and destroying healthy body tissue.

Vitamin D is the Miracle Nutrient for Your Immune System

One of the reasons that vitamin D may work is that it helps your body produce over 200 anti microbial peptides that help fight all sorts of infections. There are many experts that believe inflammatory bowl disease has an infectious trigger.

From a recent Oregon State University press release:

A new study has concluded that one key part of the immune system, the ability of vitamin D to regulate anti-bactericidal proteins, is so important that it has been conserved through almost 60 million years of evolution and is shared only by primates, including humans - but no other known animal species.

The fact that this vitamin-D mediated immune response has been retained through millions of years of evolutionary selection, and is still found in species ranging from squirrel monkeys to baboons and humans, suggests that it must be critical to their survival, researchers say.

Even though the “cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide” has several different biological activities in addition to killing pathogens, it’s not clear which one, or combination of them, makes vitamin D so essential to its regulation.

The research also provides further evidence of the biological importance of adequate levels of vitamin D in humans and other primates, even as some studies and experts suggest that more than 50 percent of the children and adults in the U.S. are deficient in “the sunshine vitamin.”

“The existence and importance of this part of our immune response makes it clear that humans and other primates need to maintain sufficient levels of vitamin D,” said Adrian Gombart, an associate professor of biochemistry and a principal investigator with the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University.

In simple terms, if you’re vitamin D deficient, your immune system will not activate to do its job. And since vitamin D also modulates (balances) your immune response, it prevents an overreaction in the form of inflammation, which can lead to autoimmune disorders like Crohn’s disease.

How Much Vitamin D Do You Need?

As I said previously, the only way to determine the correct oral dose of vitamin D is to have your blood tested.

I recommend using Lab Corp in the U.S. If you get it done by Quest, you’ll need to divide your result by 1.3 to get the number that actually correlates with all the research.

Getting the correct test is the first step in this process, as there are TWO vitamin D tests currently being offered: 1,25(OH)D, and 25(OH)D.

The correct test your doctor needs to order is 25(OH)D, also called 25-hydroxyvitamin D, which is the better marker of overall D status. This is the marker that is most strongly associated with overall health.

Next, the “normal” 25-hydroxyvitamin D lab range is between 20-56 ng/ml. As you can see in the chart below, this conventional range is really a sign of deficiency, and is too broad to be ideal.

In fact, your vitamin D level should never be below 32 ng/ml, and any levels below 20 ng/ml are considered serious deficiency states, increasing your risk of as many as 16 different cancers and autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis, just to name a few.

The OPTIMAL value that you’re looking for is 55-65 ng/ml.

This range applies for everyone; children, adolescents, adults and seniors.

These ranges are based on healthy people in tropical or subtropical parts of the world, where they are receiving healthy sun exposures. It seems more than reasonable to assume that these values are in fact reflective of an optimal human requirement.

Keeping your level in this range, and even erring toward the higher numbers in this range, is going to give you the most protective benefit. And the way you maintain your levels within this range is by getting tested regularly — say two to four times a year in the beginning, and adjusting your vitamin D intake accordingly.

Vitamind.Mercola.com: New Resource for all the Latest Vitamin D News

Vitamin D, the powerful “sunshine” nutrient, is known for its many wonderful benefits including protection from multiple sclerosis, diabetes, cancer, and other diseases.

Because it is so vital to your health, I’ve added a special section to my website dedicated exclusively to keeping my readers updated on all the late-breaking vitamin D news.

Vitamind.Mercola.com provides you with important vitamin D resources you can’t easily find on the web, such as articles, tips and an online forum that will help you avoid vitamin D deficiency and lead a healthier life.

I encourage you to bookmark this link and visit it often to stay on top of all the latest research and guidance on optimizing and maintaining your vitamin D levels.

Related Links:

  Vitamin D Doubles Colon Cancer Survival Rates

  The Sunshine Vitamin Repairs Your Skin and Boosts Your Immune System

  New Model for Cancer — Dynamite!

GM foods won’t solve the food crisis

A 2008 World Bank report concluded that increased biofuel production (crops grown for fuel rather than food) is the major cause of the increase in food prices.  GM giant Monsanto has been at the heart of the lobbying for biofuels — while profiting enormously from the resulting food crisis and using it as a PR opportunity to promote GM foods!

GM crops do not increase yield potential

Despite the promises, GM has not increased the yield potential of any commercialized crops. In fact, studies show that the most widely grown GM crop, GM soy, has suffered reduced yields.

GM crops increase pesticide use

U.S. government data shows that in the U.S., GM crops have produced an overall increase, not decrease, in pesticide use compared to conventional crops.

There are better ways to feed the world

A major UN/World Bank-sponsored report compiled by 400 scientists and endorsed by 58 countries concluded that GM crops have little to offer global agriculture and the challenges of of poverty, hunger, and climate change, because better alternatives are available.

Other farm technologies are more successful

Integrated Pest Management and other innovative low-input or organic methods of controlling pests and boosting yields have proven highly effective, particularly in the developing world.

GM foods have not been shown to be safe to eat

Genetic modification is a crude and imprecise way of incorporating foreign genetic material into crops, with unpredictable consequences. The resulting GM foods have undergone little rigorous and no long-term safety testing, but animal feeding tests have shown worrying health effects.

Stealth GMOs in animal feed — without consumers’ consent

Meat, eggs and dairy products from animals raised on the millions of tons of GM feed imported into Europe do not have to be labeled. Some studies show that if GM crops are fed to animals, GM material can appear in the resulting products, and that the animals’ health can be affected.

GM crops are a long-term economic disaster for farmers

A 2009 report showed that GM seed prices in America have increased dramatically, cutting average farm incomes for U.S. farmers growing GM crops.

GM and non-GM cannot co-exist

GM contamination of conventional and organic food is increasing. An unapproved GM rice that was grown for only one year in field trials was found to have extensively contaminated the U.S. rice supply and seed stocks. In Canada, the organic oilseed rape industry has been destroyed by contamination from GM rape. In Spain, a study found that GM maize “has caused a drastic reduction in organic cultivations of this grain and is making their coexistence practically impossible”.

You can’t trust GM companies

The big biotech firms pushing their GM foods have a terrible history of toxic contamination and public deception. GM is attractive to them because it gives them patents that allow monopoly control over the world’s food supply. They have taken to harassing and intimidating farmers for the “crime” of saving patented seed or “stealing” patented genes — even if those genes got into the farmer’s fields through accidental contamination by wind or insects.
Sources:

  GM Watch February 2010

Guest Comment by Jeffrey M. Smith

1. Eating genetically modified (GM) foods may cause disease

GMOs may be the greatest health disaster in the American diet. Within 9 years of their introduction in 1996, multiple chronic illnesses jumped from 7 percent to 13 percent of the population,^[1] food allergies doubled in less time, and many other ailments have been on the rise.

Millions may already be suffering health problems caused by genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in their diet. The American Academy of Environmental Medicine has urged doctors to prescribe non-GMO diets for all patients, and cites animal studies that show how GMOs cause disorders such as vital organ damage, gastrointestinal and immune system problems, accelerated aging, infertility, and dysfunctional regulation of insulin and cholesterol.

2. GMOs might cause infertility or hurt newborns

When GM soy flour was added to the diets of female rats, most of their babies died within three weeks-compared to only a 10 percent death rate among mothers fed natural soy.^[2] The GM-fed offspring were smaller, and later had problems getting pregnant.^[3]

When male rats were fed GM soy, their testicles changed from the normal pink color to dark blue.^[4] Mice testicles also showed changes, including damaged young sperm cells.^[5]

The DNA in mice embryos functioned differently when their parents ate GM soy.^[6] And an Austrian government study reported that mice fed GM corn had fewer and smaller babies.^[7]

About two dozen US farmers say that thousands of their pigs became sterile after consuming certain GM corn varieties. Some had false pregnancies, others gave birth to bags of water.

Cows and bulls also became infertile when fed the same corn.^[8] Investigators in the state of Haryana, India, report that most buffalo that ate GM cottonseed had reproductive complications such as premature deliveries, abortions, infertility, and prolapsed uteruses. Many calves died.^[9]

3. GM corn contains a toxic pesticide in every bite

Some GM varieties produce poison-their DNA creates an insect killing “Bt-toxin” in every cell. Monsanto and others claim that the toxin is safe for humans and mammals because the gene that produces it comes from the soil bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis.

Farmers have long used these natural bacteria as a pesticidal spray. But when the spray was widely dispersed to fight gypsy moths in Washington and Vancouver, about 500 people reported allergic and flu-like symptoms.^[10]

Genetic engineers insert the bacteria’s toxin-creating gene into corn and cotton plants, which produce a more toxic poison. It’s thousands of times more concentrated than the spray and cannot be washed off.

Now, thousands of Indian farm laborers who are exposed to Monsanto’s Bt cotton plants are suffering from the same symptoms as those in the Pacific Northwest.^[11]

In addition, thousands of sheep, goats, and buffalo have died after grazing on Bt cotton plants.^[12] Countless other livestock have suffered reproductive disorders, skin disruptions, and upper respiratory ailments.

In one small feeding study, all the sheep that consumed Bt plants died within a month. Those that ate natural plants remained healthy.^[13]

Bt corn is also linked to animal deaths in Germany^[14] and The Philippines,^[15] and according to an Italian government study, evokes serious immune responses in mice.^[16] Even Monsanto’s 90-day rat feeding studies with Bt corn showed vital organ damage and signs of toxicity.^[17]

4. GMOs might cause allergies

Soon after GM soy was introduced to the UK, soy allergies skyrocketed by 50 percent.^[18] There are many reasons why people may be more reactive to GMOs.

• GM soy, corn, and papaya fail the allergy screening protocol recommended by the World Health Organization; their GM proteins have properties of known allergens.^[19]
• The widespread collateral damage resulting from the process of creating GMOs can introduce new allergens or elevate existing ones. GM corn contains a new unintended allergen^[20] and GM soy has up to seven times more of the soy allergen trypsin inhibitor.^[21]
• Preliminary allergy tests confirm that some people have skin prick reactions to GM soy, but not to a wild natural variety.^[22]
• Consuming GMOs may also provoke allergies to other foods.
• Mice not only reacted to Bt-toxin^[23] and an experimental GM pea,^[24] they then started reacting to other foods that previously had no impact.
• GM soy drastically reduces digestive enzymes in mice.^[25] If your digestive ability is also impaired, you could become allergic to many types of food.

5. GMOs have higher residues of poisonous herbicide

The primary reason crops are engineered is to allow them to drink poison. They’re called herbicide tolerant, and are inserted with bacterial genes that allow them to survive otherwise deadly doses of toxic herbicide.

Biotech companies sell the seed and herbicide as a package. Monsanto sells Roundup Ready crops and Roundup herbicide. Bayer CropScience sells Liberty Link crops and Liberty herbicide.

Between 1996 and 2008, US farmers sprayed an extra 383 million pounds of herbicide on these poison drinking GMOs.^[26]

Because weeds are becoming resistant to the overused herbicide, farmers are spraying considerably more each year. The last 2 years of the 13-year study alone accounted for 46 percent of the increased herbicide use.

6. GM genes can convert your intestinal bacteria into living factories that continuously produce pesticides or other harmful products

The ONLY published GMO human feeding study (that’s right, there’s only one) confirmed that genes transfer from GM soybeans into the DNA of bacteria living inside our small intestines and continue to function.^[27]

Human subjects that ate Roundup Ready soybeans ended up with “Roundup Ready gut bacteria”-unkillable with Roundup. If the pesticide-producing Bt gene in corn chips were also to transfer, it could turn your intestinal flora into living pesticide factories-possibly for the long term.

7. GMOs are approved without adequate safety studies

In 1992, the Food and Drug Administration claimed they had no information showing that GM foods were substantially different from conventionally grown foods. Therefore absolutely no safety studies were required.

But secret internal memos made public by a lawsuit show that the actual consensus among FDA scientists was that GMOs can create unpredictable, hard-to-detect side effects, including allergies, toxins, new diseases, and nutritional problems. They urged long-term safety studies.

Sadly, the FDA official in charge of policy ignored the warnings. He was Michael Taylor, Monsanto’s former attorney and later their vice president.

Because of him, the same biotech companies who have been found guilty of hiding toxic effects of their chemical products are now in charge of determining whether their GM foods are safe. A close look at their so-called GMO safety studies shows how they rig research to avoid problems. They’ve got bad science down to a science.

Tragically, Michael Taylor, who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death in human history, is now back at the FDA as the US Food Safety Czar.

8. GMOs cause irreversible genetic pollution

GMOs cross pollinate and spread into the environment. A total recall is impossible.

The self-propagating genetic pollution already released will outlast the effects of global warming and nuclear waste.

9. GMOs work against feeding a hungry world

The most authoritative evaluation of agriculture, the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development,^[28] determined that the current GMOs have nothing to offer the goals of reducing hunger and poverty, improving nutrition, health and rural livelihoods, and facilitating social and environmental sustainability.

The report was a three-year collaborative effort with 900 participants and 110 countries, and was co-sponsored by all the majors, e.g. the World Bank, FAO, UNESCO, WHO. In reality, GMOs reduce yield,^[29] increase farmers’ dependence on multinationals, reduce biodiversity, increase herbicide use, and take money away from more successful and appropriate methods.

In developing nations, GMOs can be catastrophic.

In India, for example, Monsanto convinced hundreds of thousands of farmers to take out high interest loans to pay for expensive GM cotton seeds and associated chemicals. Inconsistent yields left desperate farmers unable to even pay back their loans. The UK Daily Mail estimates that an astounding 125,000 indebted GM cotton farmers committed suicide.^[30]

10. By avoiding GMOs, you help create a tipping point to drive them out of our food supply

Because GMOs give no consumer benefits, if even a small percentage of us start rejecting brands that contain them, GM ingredients will become a marketing liability. Food companies will kick them out.

The tipping point can come quickly.

In Europe, for example, within 10 weeks of a high profile GMO safety scandal that hit the papers in 1999, virtually every major food company committed to stop using GM foods. In the US, a consumer rebellion against genetically modified bovine growth hormone used on dairy cows has also reached a tipping point. Drugged milk and/or yogurt has been rejected by Wal-Mart, Starbucks, Dannon, Yoplait, and about 60 of the top 100 dairies so far.

The Campaign for Healthier Eating in America is designed to achieve a tipping point against GMOs in the US. The number of non-GMO shoppers needed is probably just 5 percent of the population.

They key is to educate consumers about the documented health dangers and provide a Non-GMO Shopping Guide, to make avoiding GMOs much easier. Thus, by choosing healthier non-GMO brands, and telling others about GMOs so they can do the same, we can quickly reclaim a non-GMO food supply.

Visit the Campaign’s website for GMO educational materials to read, watch, listen to, and pass onto others.

Take Action Against GM Alfalfa Now … We Need Your Help!

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is, for the first time, conducting an analysis known as an environmental impact statement (EIS) on a GM crop. This crop is Monsanto’s genetically engineered Roundup Ready alfalfa, and we need your help to voice your opinion and help keep this plant from getting approved.

In 2006, the Center for Food Safety sued the USDA for illegally approving GM alfalfa. Federal courts agreed and banned GM alfalfa until the USDA could provide an EIS — which they did in December 2009.

There is now a comment period open to the public, but it ends on March 3, 2010 — so time is running out.

The USDA’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement admits that if GM alfalfa is approved:

• GM contamination of non-GM and organic alfalfa crops will occur
• GM contamination will economically impact small and family farmers
• Foreign export markets will be at risk due to rejection of GM-contaminated products
• Farmers will be forced to use more toxic herbicides to remove old stands of alfalfa

Yet, the USDA has brushed off these concerns as insignificant, and intends to approve GM alfalfa anyway. They even went so far as to say in the EIS that consumers don’t care if their organic food is GM contaminated and neither do organic farmers!

This case is not only important for the future of GM alfalfa … the final decision on this case could have broad implications for the future of all GM crops.

So please call your Congressional Representatives today and ask them to urge Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack to deny approval of Monsanto’s GM alfalfa.

To do so, call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask for your Senator/Representative’s office. You can find the name of your Senator/Representative here.

When you speak with the agriculture staff person (or leave a message), be sure to let them know that you DO NOT support the deregulation of GM alfalfa. You can also mention these reasons, which were compiled by the Center for Food Safety, as to why:

• GM contamination of non-GM and organic crops would be inevitable
• You won’t buy products that are GM-contaminated
• Alfalfa is a major food source for livestock and GM alfalfa would destroy the integrity of organic dairy products
• You support the rights of farmers to grow the crops of their choice, and GM contamination makes that impossible
• GM crops increase pesticide use, harming human health and the environment
• Ask your Representative and Senators to contact Secretary Vilsack and urge him to deny USDA approval of Monsanto’s GM alfalfa

You can also submit your comments online here, and the True Food Network has compiled a sample email that you can use for inspiration. 

Again, the deadline for public comment is March 3, so please let your opinion be heard. Tell your Representative and Senators that the USDA is wrong — you DO care if your organic food is contaminated with GM crops, and you do NOT support the approval of Monsanto’s genetically engineered Roundup Ready alfalfa.

About the Author

International bestselling author and filmmaker Jeffrey M. Smith is the leading spokesperson on the health dangers of GMOs. His first book, Seeds of Deception, is the world’s bestselling and #1 rated book on the subject. His second, Genetic Roulette, documents the health dangers of GMOs and why current assessments are not competent to protect consumers.

He is the executive director of the Institute for Responsible Technology, which runs the Campaign for Healthier Eating in America, and lives with his wife in Iowa-surrounded by genetically modified corn and soybeans.

References:

[2] Irina Ermakova, “Genetically modified soy leads to the decrease of weight and high mortality of rat pups of the first generation. Preliminary studies,” Ecosinform 1 (2006): 4-9.

[3] Irina Ermakova, “Experimental Evidence of GMO Hazards,” Presentation at Scientists for a GM Free Europe, EU Parliament, Brussels, June 12, 2007

[4] Irina Ermakova, “Experimental Evidence of GMO Hazards,” Presentation at Scientists for a GM Free Europe, EU Parliament, Brussels, June 12, 2007

[5] L. Vecchio et al, “Ultrastructural Analysis of Testes from Mice Fed on Genetically Modified Soybean,” European Journal of Histochemistry 48, no. 4 (Oct-Dec 2004):449-454.

[6] Oliveri et al., “Temporary Depression of Transcription in Mouse Pre-implantion Embryos from Mice Fed on Genetically Modified Soybean,” 48th Symposium of the Society for Histochemistry, Lake Maggiore (Italy), September 7-10, 2006.

[7] Alberta Velimirov and Claudia Binter, “Biological effects of transgenic maize NK603xMON810 fed in long term reproduction studies in mice,” Forschungsberichte der Sektion IV, Band 3/2008

[8] Jerry Rosman, personal communication, 2006

[9] Personal communication with investigative team, and transcript of videotaped interviews

[10] Washington State Department of Health, “Report of health surveillance activities: Asian gypsy moth control program,” (Olympia, WA: Washington State Dept. of Health, 1993); see also M. Green, et al., “Public health implications of the microbial pesticide Bacillus thuringiensis: An epidemiological study, Oregon, 1985-86,” Amer. J. Public Health 80, no. 7(1990): 848-852.

[11] Ashish Gupta et. al., “Impact of Bt Cotton on Farmers’ Health (in Barwani and Dhar District of Madhya Pradesh),” Investigation Report, Oct-Dec 2005; see also numerous articles, such as Sunday Indian, October, 26, 2008

[12] See for example, “Mortality in Sheep Flocks after Grazing on Bt Cotton Fields-Warangal District, Andhra Pradesh” Report of the Preliminary Assessment, April 2006

[13] DDS researchers, personal communication and site visit

[14] “Cows Ate GM Maize & Died,” ISIS Press Release, January 13, 2004

[15] Mae-Wan Ho, “GM Ban Long Overdue, Dozens Ill & Five Deaths in the Philippines,” ISIS Press Release, June 2, 2006

[16] Alberto Finamore, et al, “Intestinal and Peripheral Immune Response to MON810 Maize Ingestion in Weaning and Old Mice,” J. Agric. Food Chem., 2008, 56 (23), pp 11533-11539, November 14, 2008

[17] Stéphane Foucart, “Controversy Surrounds a GMO,” Le Monde, 14 December 2004; referencing, John M. Burns, “13-Week Dietary Subchronic Comparison Study with MON 863 Corn in Rats Preceded by a 1-Week Baseline Food Consumption Determination with PMI Certified Rodent Diet #5002,” December 17, 2002 ; and de Vendômois JS, Roullier F, Cellier D, Séralini GE. A Comparison of the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health. Int J Biol Sci 2009; 5:706-726.

[18] Yearly food sensitivity assessment of York Laboratory, as reported in Mark Townsend, “Why soya is a hidden destroyer,” Daily Express, March 12, 1999.

[19] Gendel, “The use of amino acid sequence alignments to assess potential allergenicity of proteins used in genetically modified foods,” Advances in Food and Nutrition Research 42 (1998), 45-62

[20] See L Zolla, et al, “Proteomics as a complementary tool for identifying unintended side effects occurring in transgenic maize seeds as a result of genetic modifications,” J Proteome Res. 2008 May;7(5):1850-61 ; Hye-Yung Yum, Soo-Young Lee, Kyung-Eun Lee, Myung-Hyun Sohn, Kyu-Earn Kim, “Genetically Modified and Wild Soybeans: An immunologic comparison,” Allergy and Asthma Proceedings 26, no. 3 (May-June 2005): 210-216(7).

[21] A. Pusztai and S. Bardocz, “GMO in animal nutrition: potential benefits and risks,” Chapter 17, Biology of Nutrition in Growing Animals, R. Mosenthin, J. Zentek and T. Zebrowska (Eds.) Elsevier, October 2005

[22] Hye-Yung Yum, Soo-Young Lee, Kyung-Eun Lee, Myung-Hyun Sohn, Kyu-Earn Kim, “Genetically Modified and Wild Soybeans: An immunologic comparison,” Allergy and Asthma Proceedings 26, no. 3 (May-June 2005): 210-216(7).

[23] Vazquez et al, “Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ac protoxin is a potent systemic and mucosal adjuvant,” Scandanavian Journal of Immunology 49 (1999): 578-584. See also Vazquez-Padron et al., 147 (2000b).

[24] V. E. Prescott, et al, “Transgenic Expression of Bean r-Amylase Inhibitor in Peas Results in Altered Structure and Immunogenicity,” Journal of Agricultural Food Chemistry (2005): 53.

[25] Malatesta, et al, “Ultrastructural Analysis of Pancreatic Acinar Cells from Mice Fed on Genetically modified Soybean,” J Anat. 2002 November; 201(5): 409-415; see also M. Malatesta, M. Biggiogera, E. Manuali, M. B. L. Rocchi, B. Baldelli, G. Gazzanelli, “Fine Structural Analyses of Pancreatic Acinar Cell Nuclei from Mice Fed on GM Soybean,” Eur J Histochem 47 (2003): 385-388.

[26] Charles Benbrook, “Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on Pesticide Use: The First Thirteen Years,” November 2009, The Organic Center

[27] Netherwood et al, “Assessing the survival of transgenic plant DNA in the human gastrointestinal tract,” Nature Biotechnology 22 (2004): 2.

[28] http://www.agassessment.org/

[29] Doug Gurian-Sherman, Failure to Yield: Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops, Union of Concerned Scientists April 2009 

[30] Andrew Malone, Daily Mail, Nov. 3, 2008

I am contacting you to thank you for publishing your newsletters. A friend of mine forwarded one of your newsletters to me when she learned I was having difficulty managing my rosacea. The symptoms have been typical, I suspect, and very uncomfortable with red flaky skin around my nose and chin. I have had this problem for years. None of the medicines that my doctors have given me in the past have worked and in some cases, made matters worse.

At my friend’s suggestion, I read your newsletter that discussed rosacea and its connection to low stomach acidity. I am not normally a pill taker, as it were, and prefer to maintain my excellent health through balanced diet, exercise and lifestyle. However, I was so frustrated that I was willing to try anything which I felt would be safe and effective.

After some research, I started a daily regiment of betaine hydrochloride with pepsin pills taken with a protein meal 3x per day. That was about three weeks ago and my skin is already much improved…I am hoping that my skin stays looking this good and am thrilled that for the first time in about 10 years to see my healthy pretty pink skin.

I wish more doctors were educated in identifying the cause rather than treating the symptom. It seems to be the standard method of practice in American health care.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and wisdom.

Kindest regards,

-A.B., via e-mail

Dr. Wright: Thank you for sharing your experience with rosacea and the use of betaine hydrochloride.

It’s sad that information about the very common connection between acne rosacea and low stomach acid has been lost. In 1948, an article about rosacea in a major medical journal stated that “every dermatologist knows” about this connection. In 2009, hardly any dermatologists know about it!

It’s also important to note that Japanese researchers have reported that up to 2/3 of individuals with rosacea are actually infected with Helicobacter pylori bacteria, a common cause of low stomach acid, and also a cause of stomach and duodenal ulcers. A blood test for antibodies to Helicobacter can tell you if you’ve been exposed. If you have, there are several natural remedies.

Thanks again for writing!

Ever have your eyelids twitch? Anything from a few twitches here and there to that annoying, “won’t stop twitching all the time” routine? Even if it did seem to go on endlessly, chances are you didn’t see the doctor about it and assumed that it was nothing serious. After all, the twitching probably went away on its own sooner.

But even though they may have gone away, those twitches were trying to tell you something. By twitching, your eyelids were sending you a signal that they needed potassium. And if your eyelids need potassium, it’s very likely that other parts of your body need it too.

Perhaps you haven’t been getting as many fruits and vegetables-the best dietary sources of potassium-as your individual body needs. If so, it’s time to make a permanent adjustment in that area, so (if nothing else) your eyelids won’t twitch at you with that “secret signal” again.

But while you’re getting that diet improvement underway, there’s a simple switch you can make-starting today-that will eliminate those eyelid twitches and give your body the potassium it needs even faster than fruits and vegetables alone.

Go to your local natural food store, or even the supermarket, and look for 100% potassium chloride salt (not sodium chloride). It’s usually sold in 3-ounce “twist-lid” shakers. Once you get home, switch out your “regular” salt with the potassium chloride salt and sprinkle as much of it on your food as your taste buds can tolerate. (One note of caution: Be sure to taste as you go! Some people find that potassium chloride salt is “stronger” or more pungent than regular sodium chloride salt.)

And don’t worry-it’s nearly impossible to overdose on potassium chloride salt when you’re simply sprinkling it on food or using it in cooking (it will make the food inedible well before you could reach a potentially harmful dose).

If you prefer not to use it in your food, you can dissolve 1/4 teaspoon of potassium chloride salt in water or another liquid and swallow that once a day. But don’t take any more than that without checking with a physician skilled and knowledgeable in nutritional and natural medicine!

After your eyelid twitches are gone, you may want to consider switching your salt once again, this time to the heart-healthy salt I told you about in the December 2009 issue of Nutrition & Healing. This salt has been credited with reducing the death rate from cardiovascular disease in Finland by 75 percent. And according to research reports, despite significant increases in obesity and cigarette smoking, adult life expectancy has actually increased by to six to eight years during that time, too.

This heart-healthy salt does contain some sodium chloride, but the rest is potassium chloride and magnesium chloride, with tiny traces of selenium, iodide and other minerals. Right now, it’s available through the Tahoma Clinic Dispensary, and through Ayush Herbs, www.ayushherbs.com.

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(NaturalNews) I’ve been a fan of Tooth Soap for years. This is the product that replaces the usual toothpaste products with far more natural, gentle teeth-washing ingredients. That’s why, along with Dental Miracle (www.DentalMiracle.com), it has remained among my top-recommended products for oral health. (Many other products are mentioned below…)

Because let’s face it: You don’t actually need to “scrub” your teeth with sand, chemical preservatives and sweeteners. Most toothpaste products are truly a joke — they’re loaded with synthetic chemicals that simply can’t be considered safe for human consumption by any reasonable person. Cleaning your teeth only requires a type of soap, some water and some brushing action. You don’t need dyes, sweeteners, sand and other nonsense ingredients.
Did I say sand? Yep: Most conventional toothpastes are made with “silicates” which is just another fancy word for sand. If you want to brush away your tooth enamel, scrub them with sand! But if you want to protect your teeth, then brush them with soap and water.

Of course, you wouldn’t want to brush your teeth with regular household soaps. They’re often loaded with fragrance chemicals that would taste awful. That’s why Tooth Soap was created: It’s formulated specifically for brushing your teeth, and it contains NO sweeteners, NO sand (silicates), NO fluoride, NO dyes, NO chemical stabilizers and absolutely none of the other chemicals often found in tooth-brushing products.

The ingredients of Tooth Soap are pure and simple:

• Specially formulated soap made from saponified coconut, palm, extra virgin olive oils

• Pure essential oil

That’s it! (Plus, it’s certified Kosher by Star-K.)

Tooth Soap, you see, really is soap for your teeth. This isn’t a paste. It’s not a gel. It’s actually available in two forms: Liquid and Shreds. And it comes in Peppermint, Cinnamon, Spearmint and Ginger.

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Why I like Tooth Soap shreds

When it comes to Tooth Soap, I’ve used both the liquids and the shreds. They’re both good products, but here’s why I prefer the shreds:

The liquid is a bit difficult to keep on your tooth brush. As a liquid soap, it drips off easily. It’s also not recommended for travel because a broken bottle causes all your liquid Tooth Soap to be lost.

The shreds, on the other hand, are small waxy bits of solid Tooth Soap that dissolve into soap when you slightly chew on them and start brushing. So you put one in your mouth, chew on it a couple of times, then start brushing with a wet toothbrush. It immediately starts foaming up, generating an astounding volume of cleansing soap right in your mouth. It’s super easy to use, and it really works! (I love these shreds. They’re also perfect for traveling…)

Tooth Soap is also remarkably affordable! Way cheaper than most toothpaste products. One bottle of Tooth Soap shreds will last two people up to 3 months because you only need to use one shred per brushing. If you figure that’s roughly 90 brushings multiplied by two people, it’s 180 brushings in one container of Tooth Soap shreds. And thanks to the 40% off special we have going on right now, the price of this bottle is only $15.57 instead of the retail price of $25.95.

Dividing the sale price into 180 brushings means you’re spending approximately 8.7 cents per brushing for what may be the most truly natural tooth cleansing product in the world!

That’s competitive with products made with synthetic chemicals that fill your mouth with molecules that simply don’t belong there!

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Avoid the horrors of chemical toothpaste products

Do you want to know what’s in Colgate Whitening Oxygen Bubbles Brisk Mint Toothpaste? (I almost can’t stop laughing just from reading the name…)

• Sodium Monofluorophosphate
• Hydrated Silica
• Propylene Glycol
• Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate
• Sodium Bicarbonate
• Sodium Saccharin
• Pentasodium Triphosphate
• Sodium Lauryl Sulfate
• Carrageenan
• Artificial flavor
• Sodium Hydroxide
• Calcium Peroxide

Sodium Hydroxide is lye, by the way. Yep: Drain cleaner. Maybe that’s why conventional toothpaste tubes come with a poison control center warning printed on the side…

Amazingly, many parents still push these chemical toothpaste products onto their own children! “Brush your teeth,” they’re told. “It’s good for you!” Meanwhile, an alarmingly large number of children actually EAT this stuff because the flavors fool their tongues into thinking it’s good for them…

Other brands of tooth products

Don’t even get me started on Tom’s of Maine. That brand is owned by Colgate-Palmolive, one of the largest corporations selling consumer products made with synthetic chemicals. (Burt’s Bees, by the way, is now owned by Clorox, too. Just because a brand “sounds” small and personal doesn’t mean it really is…)

Tom’s of Maine may have had humble beginnings when it was created many years ago, but since selling out to Colgate-Palmolive, it has lost touch with its original vision and philosophy, in my view.

Weleda is a brand of toothpaste that I know and trust. This is one of the rare GOOD brands of tooth cleaning products, and their products are truly natural. They have a very nice calendula toothpaste, for example, that I highly recommend. This is what I was using before I discovered Tooth Soap shreds.

I’ve already mentioned Dental Miracle (www.DentalMiracle.com). This is a fantastic dental powder product that you add to other toothpastes (or Tooth Soap) during brushing. It’s made of extremely beneficial herbal ingredients to protect and promote gum health.

Another great dental product I recommend is called Perigum (www.Peri-Gum.com). This is a liquid tincture made with very hot with cayenne pepper. It promotes gum tissue circulation and rapid healing. You simply drip this product into your mouth before brushing with whatever other brushing product you’re using.

These products, combined with Tooth Soap or Weleda toothpaste, make for a very healthy, chemical-free mouth! These are the products I use, and I haven’t had a cavity for so many years that I forgot what it’s like to even get one… (of course, I don’t eat cake and cookies all day long, and I don’t chug sugary soft drinks either).

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(NaturalNews) In Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lyme disease is treated as toxic fire. These fire toxins are treated with extreme heat clearing herbs. From the western point of view, fire toxins include aggressive entities such as bacterial and viral infections but are not limited to them. They can be amoebic parasites and even just toxins of chemical nature or metal particles. Likewise, from a western point of view, the heat clearing herbs have been proven to have a very effective anti-viral and antibacterial action as well as a “cleansing of the blood” effect on other small particles.

Below is a TCM protocol for Lyme Disease grouped into three parts:Clearing The Toxic Fire (Killing The Bacterium)

Based on the best of TCM protocols, here is a “clear toxic heat” formula for use as an anti-toxin or “fire quenching agent.” These amazing herbs have been successfully used against fire toxins such as malaria, pneumonia, diphtheria, septic angina, typhoid fever and others.

The 6 herbs used in this formula to clear toxic heat are 5:1 extracts of:
Chuan xin lian - Andrographis paniculate (a very effective anti-toxin heat clearing herb with anti-spirochetal action in particular)
Huang Lian - Coptis chinensis (Anti-toxin heat clearing)
Jin Yin Hua - Flos Lonicerae japonicae (Anti-toxin heat clearing)
Da Qing Ye - Folium Isatidis (Anti-toxin heat clearing)
Ban Zhi Lian - Scutellaria barbata; Herba (Anti-toxin heat clearing)
Tu Fu Ling - Smilax glabra; Rhizoma (Anti-spirochetal action)

As part of this protocol it is also important to take 2 grams twice daily of Hu Zhang powder (Natural resveratrol from Knotweed in 5:1 extract). It is positive against Leptospirosis, Treponema denticola (spirochetes in oral flora), Bartonella (Buhner) and many gram neg and gram pos bacteria.

Continually Removing The Toxins From The Joints:

Xu Duan (ChineseTeasel Root) taken with a “Clear Toxic Heat” formula will help drive the spirochetes from the joints into the blood stream (where it can be killed by the heat clearing herbs). Xu Duan Teasel in tincture form is the best way your body can absorb it.

Maximizing Your Immune System With a Strong Defense:

There must also be an effective formula for the immune system that is suitable for long term use. Reishi mushroom and Chinese Astragalus 5:1 (Called Strong Defense) are perfect.

Together all these herbs become the building blocks of a true hard working lyme disease protocol that, although formulated from ancient herbs, becomes “cutting edge” in fighting this toxic fire we call Lyme Disease.

Sources: This protocol is based entirely on author’s research and knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

About the author

Christopher Gussa founded Plant Cures Inc. which handcrafts over 150 Serious Herbal Medicine Products for Specific Disorders all created through clinical application. Their products are for Serious Disease and also Powerful Tonic Health. Please visit Plant Cures at WWW.PLANTCURES.COM or call them at 1-800 979 2027
Christopher Gussa is a formulator of Natural Medicine. He is also a TCM practitioner and Certified Master / Clinical Herbalist for 30 years. He is certified in both Western Herbal Therapy and Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine.
Chris Gussa: “Plant Cures is currently working with over 9,000 medicinal plants to bring about healing through the true science of combining the whole energies of whole plants. A plants energy is from its whole part. (flowers, fruit, leaves, stems, roots etc) While the “science” of seeing some of the isolated molecular constituents in food and herbs can be interesting at times, there is no “one magic ingredient” in any plant. (You would think it would be science trying to tell you this type of logic, instead of me) But no! They would rather play this childish game of trying to find the “Pot of gold” in a plant so they can synthesize it and dazzle the FDA with a “New Drug” that will most likely cause the usual death and destruction!
Here is a link to musicial message called “Pharmaceutical Drug Guys” Let’s Give Big Pharma The Boot!
http://plantcures.com/PharmaGuys.mp3

Dr. Wright: When knee pain occurs in children between the ages of 10 and 15, it’s not typically arthritis. Instead, it’s usually a condition called Osgood Schlatter’s disease, which is characterized by a tender swelling an inch or two below the kneecap, right over the front and top of the tibial bone. Most pediatricians will tell you that there’s nothing to do except take aspirin and wait for it to go away. But that can take a year or more, and in the meantime, the child has to sit on the sidelines and watch his classmates play at recess.

But there’s a better solution: 250 micrograms of selenium and 400 IU of vitamin E as mixed tocopherols will usually get rid of the pain in just four to six weeks. I’m not sure why most pediatricians haven’t heard of this simple technique, but I’ve been writing about it since 1979.

Of course, as always, it’s best to confer with a physician skilled in nutritional and natural medicine before starting yourself or anyone in your family on a new supplement regimen.

Dr. Wright: While I can’t say for sure without examining your hands (and you should consider having this done by a physician skilled in natural medicine), a Texas physician named John Ellis discovered years ago that many conditions involving the hands can be alleviated with vitamin B6.

The first thing to do is look for “Ellis signs” in your hands. Try holding your hands upright, keeping the joints joining your palms and fingers perfectly straight. Now try and bending the middle and end joints so that your fingertips touch your palms. If you can’t do it, it’s a positive “Ellis sign,” which could indicate a need for extra vitamin B6.

You may want to consider taking 100 milligrams of vitamin B6 three times daily for up to six months, or until all the puffiness and the “Ellis sign” is gone, and your hands are more flexible. And, if you’re interested, you can try to find an old copy of Dr. Ellis’ book The Doctor Who Looked at Hands at the library or on the Internet.