The Health Plus Letter
June 1, 2004, Vol. 2, No. 17
By Larry Trivieri, Jr. – founder & publisher,
http://www.1healthyworld.com
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Table Of Contents
What’s New
Quote of the Day
Fast Fact
Medical Freedom Alert
Health News and Commentary
Q & A with Garry Gordon, MD, DO, MD(H)
Self-Care Tips for Preventing and Managing Insect Bites
Recommendations
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What’s New
First off, my apologies for not getting last week’s issue out to you. As some of you noticed, our site was down for a bit. This week I’m featuring a longer than Health News and Commentary section to make up for its recent absence.
Also in this issue are self-care tips for preventing and managing insect bites, since we’re entering the summer season, and a Q&A with 1HealthyWorld medical advisor Dr. Garry Gordon. This week, Garry provides recommendations for detoxification and getting rid of age spots on the skin.
Please continue to send me your comments and suggestions. And please spread the word about The Health Plus Letter by passing it along to your friends and inviting them to subscribe.
Quote Of The Day
“For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.”
-- Freeman Dyson
Fast Fact
75 to 90 percent of all patients seen by physicians in the U.S. suffer from misdiagnosed or undiagnosed symptoms which, upon closer examination, are found to be due to acid/alkaline imbalances in the body.
Source: BioBalance by Rudolph A. Wiley, Ph.D.
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Medical Freedom Alert
Our health freedom is again under siege. Please support the following organizations, which are at the forefront of those working to protect our rights:
Citizens for Health - http://www.citizens.org (Sing their online petition to safeguard health supplements.)
Institute for Health Freedom – http://www.ForHealthFreedom.org
Health Lobby (Monica Miller) – http://www.healthlobby.com
Also, please do your part to ensure that the misleadingly named “Dietary Safety Supplement” Act (S. 722) is defeated. To become informed about S. 722 and to take action to help defeat its passage, please visit: http://capwiz.com/nnfa/S722.html
To stay informed of other developments related to medical freedom, please visit http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org the website of Dr. Mattias Rath, a leading crusader for medical freedom.
To see to what depraved lengths people will go to persecute practitioners of alternative medicine in the U.S., please read the following report by noted medical freedom advocate Tim Bolen at http://www.quackpotwatch.org/opinionpieces/Suster2.htm
And to learn how corrupt and extensive Big Pharma’s monopoly is, visit http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/online/research/index.html the website for the Campaign Against Fraudulent Medical Research. In particular, read their in-depth report The Pharmaceutical Drug Racket that you will find there.
Health News and Commentary
Antibiotics Linked to Rise in Asthma and Allergies
Research presented last week at the general meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in New Orleans indicates that the steep rise in the incidence of asthma and allergies over the last 20 years is linked to an increase in the use of antibiotics during that same period. The incidence of asthma has risen by 160 percent during that time. Epidemiological studies that have tracked the rise of both asthma and allergy reveal that in regions of the world where both health conditions have increased, there has been a corresponding rise in the use of antibiotics, as well. Researchers in Berlin, Germany, for example, found that prior to the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the incidence both asthma and antibiotic use were low in East Germany, compared to West Germany, were antibiotics were more prevalent. But after the wall collapsed and both regions were united, use of antibiotics in eastern German regions increased. With that increase came higher rates of asthma in the same areas. Additional research involving mice also showed that antibiotics inhibits the function of healthy intestinal flora, thereby provoking an allergic reaction to substances that are normally not harmful.
To read more on this story, see http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99995047
[Comment: This isn’t surprising, since it’s long been known that antibiotics destroy beneficial intestinal flora and bacteria, both of which play important roles in the immune system. As class of drugs, antibiotics are widely over-prescribed and responsible for a host of health problems, as well as the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria known as “super bugs.”]
Vitamin C Deficiency Linked to Respiratory Conditions
A study published last March in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found that vitamin C can prevent symptoms of major respiratory conditions, including asthma, cystic fibrosis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Conducted over a two-year period, the study found that vitamin C helps to keep the airway surfaces of the respiratory tract properly hydrated. Lack of vitamin C can result in dry, sticky mucus membranes that line the airway surfaces, causing “the progression of common inflammatory airway diseases by making the airways more susceptible to infections.” The research showed that this process can be prevented and reversed by vitamin C supplementation.
“Vitamin C may prove to be an effective, safe, and low-cost treatment to improve current therapies, including bronchodilators, anti-inflammatory medications, and antibiotics,” says Beate Illek, Ph.D., of the Children’s Hospital & Research Center (Oakland, CA, USA), lead researcher for the study.
For more on this story, see the March 2, 2004 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
[Comment: Another finding that is no surprise to me. And quite timely, given the worldwide push currently underway to restrict our access to vitamin C and all other nutritional supplements.]
Major Drug Company Told Staff To Withhold Data Showing SSRI Drug Had No Benefit for Children
An internal document shows that international drug giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) advised its staff to withhold evidence showing that its antidepressant drug paroxetine (sold in the US as Paxil, and in the UK as Seroxat), provided no benefits for children and adolescents. The document, obtained by the Canadian Medical Association, reveals that two clinical trials conducted to determine the benefits of paroxetine for this age group showed “insufficiently robust” evidence that the drug had any merit for treating pediatric depression. As a result, GSK advised its staff to "effectively manage the dissemination of these data in order to minimize any potential negative commercial impact." As a result, paroxetine was subsequently approved as an antidepressant for children, only to subsequently be banned for use among children in both the US and the UK, along with 5 other SSRI drugs (sold as the brands Wellbutrin, Celexa, Luvox, Remerin, Zoloft, and Effexor), after they were found to increase the risk of suicide.
To read more on this story, see http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/170/5/783
[Comment: Let’s get this straight: GSK knew its clinical trials didn’t support the use of its powerful antidepressant for childhood depression, so it manipulated the data by effectively omitting its findings to obtain FDA (and presumably the UK’s Ministry of Health) approval for this application. The drug, along with 5 other of the more popular SSRIs, is then found to potentially cause suicide among children who use it. (Something this class of drugs can also cause among adults, but apparently the FDA is okay with that.) So the drug gets banned. End of story, except for maybe a fine that will be levied against GSK that will be a drop in the bucket compared to the company’s annual pro/fits. Basically a slap on the wrist, in other words.
Now imagine what the FDA would do to a manufacturer of nutritional supplements if such a company had so despicably manipulated its data to bring a nutritional product to market.]
Environmental Protection Agency Collude With Special Interests to Sidestep Its Own Regulations
“Pushing aside new scientific studies of possible health risks, the Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] approved an air pollution regulation this year that could save the wood products industry hundreds of mil/lions of dollars. In doing so, the agency relied on a risk assessment generated by a chemical industry-funded think tank, and a novel le/gal approach recommended by a timber industry lawyer. The regulation was ushered through the agency by senior officials with previous ties to the timber and chemical industries.”
So reported the Los Angeles Times on May 21 of this year, indicating yet again how cozy the EPA has become with big business and their special interests under the Bush Administration (from which the EPA currently receives its marching orders). The new ruling by the EPA enables manufacturers of wood products containing formaldehyde to abide by standards for formaldehyde exposure that are, as consequence of the EPA’s decision, about 10,000 times less stringent than the level previously used by the EPA in setting general standards for formaldehyde exposure.”
Critics of the ruling say it violates the EPA’s own Clean Air Act, passed in 1990, and that it “veers radically from standard scientific and regulatory practices.” Formaldehyde exposure has long been regarded as a possible cause of cancer, and can also cause nausea and eye, throat and skin irritation. Moreover, while the EPA was drafting its new regulation, both the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health released new studies showing that formaldehyde exposure can also cause leukemia in humans.
For more on this story, see: “EPA Relied on Industry for Plywood Plant Pollution Rule” by Alan C. Miller and Tom Hamburger. The Los Angeles Times, May 21, 2004.
[Comment: You read that correctly—the new EPA regul/ations regarding formaldehyde are n/o/w 10,000 times less stringent than before, even though formaldehyde is known to pose major health risks, including acting as a carcinogen. This is what is known as “compassionate conservatism” in the marketplace, the public’s welfare be damned. And there’s more …]
Bush Officials Weaken Organic Food Standards
Last April, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), issued three “guidances” and one directive, all of which are legally bindings, that substantially weakened organic farming standards in the US. As a result of the USDA’s actions, the use of antibiotics on organic dairy cows, synthetic pesticides on organic farms, and more, will be allowed. In addition, because of the USDA’s actions, farmers will also be allowed to feed their cattle “non-organic fishmeal that could be riddled with synthetic preservatives, mercury, and PCBs, and still sell their beef as organic,” according to Grist Magazine, the watchdog journal that first reported this story. The USDA acted “with zero input from the public or the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), the advisory group that worked for more than a decade to help craft the first federal organic standards, put in place in October 2002.” Though the USDA insists that these changes are harmless, Richard Wood, a recent member of the FDA's Veterinary Medicine Advisory Committee and executive director of Food Animal Concerns Trust, strongly disagrees "This new directive makes a mockery of organic standards," he charges.
To be kept informed about this story, visit http://www.bushgreenwatch.org
[Comment: And there’s still more …]
FDA N/o/w Helping Big Pharma Defend Against Lawsuits
Last week, the Denver Post reported: “In a New York City ballroom days before Christmas, a powerful Bush administration lawyer made an unprecedented offer to drug companies, one likely to protect their pro/fits and potentially hurt consumers. Daniel E. Troy, lead counsel for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, extended the government's help in torpedoing certain lawsuits. Among Troy's targets: claims that medications caused devastating and unexpected side effects.
Pitch us lawsuits that we might get involved in, Troy told several hundred pharmaceutical attorneys, some of them old friends and acquaintances from his previous role representing major U.S. pharmaceutical firms.”
For the full story, see “When advocates become regulators.” by Anne C. Mulkern. The Denver Post, May 23, 2004.
[Comment: What more can I say? This is a blatant disregard of the FDA’s avowed purpose—namely protecting us from harmful medications and other violations by Big Pharma. Instead, n/o/w the FDA, using taxpayer monies, wants to actually defend an industry notorious for its disregard of human safety when its products cause “devastating and unexpected side effects.” Such as killing over 100,000 Americans each year when properly prescribed, and seriously injuring over 2 million others. What more proof does anyone need that the FDA is in bed with the very industry it is supposed to oversee on our behalf?
But the travesty doesn’t stop there. The same Denver Post article revealed that President Bush has appointed “more than 100 top officials who were once lobbyists, attorneys or spokespeople for the industries they oversee” to the very federal agencies charged with regulating them.
A handful of my readers in the past have taken me to task when I’ve criticized the President and his administration. No doubt, some of them will be angry at me for running the above three stories. Be that as it may, facts are facts and all the ploys of dissimulation and press release spin can nev/er alter the truth. Which, when it comes to politics, is the fact that both parties have long sided with special interests against the public welfare. But no president and his administration in recent times has done so as blatantly and as cavalierly as have the current White house occupants.]
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Q&A with Dr. Garry Gordon
“Dear Dr. Gordon—I remember someone mentioned bathing in commercial grade EDTA to remove aging spots. It sounds like a great idea to detoxify via the skin in a relaxing ba/th. Where can I get commercial grade EDTA for this purpose and how much do I put in the ba/th? ”
I am glad you can see the wisdom of this approach. This was actually proven in my work with Proctor and Gamble, which resulted in a 20 percent increase in lifespan of rats and marked reduction of skin cancer and skin aging/wrinkling when EDTA was applied topically. I personally am hooked on this and feel cheated if I do not throw 3-4 tablespoons of Beyond Clean in my tub daily. This product does exactly what you are interested in. So enjoy your bathing and know that lowering skin iron really has many benefits, including better tolerance to sun without developing skin cancer so that you can maintain adequate levels of Vitamin D (now proven marginal in 70 percent of all Americans).
To further enhance detoxification of chemicals and heavy metals, I also recommend my oral products, Beyond Chelation and Essential Daily Defense. We n/o/w have exciting evidence that everyone who regularly uses Beyond Chelation, which has the Essential Daily Defense in it, has the lowest blood viscosities seen by the leading world expert in this area, Kenneth Kensey, M.D. (Visit his website, www.rheologics.com and watch the graphic on blood viscosity that proves why bypass surgery is the wrong approach!)
Sincerely, Garry F. Gordon, MD,DO,MD(H)
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Self-Care Tips for Preventing and Managing Insect Bites
Symptoms: Swelling, redness, pain, dizziness, loss of breath, anxiety.
Special Notes: Though it takes the venom of 100 bees to create a fatal dose for most adults, one bee sting may cause a fatal allergic reaction in a hypersensitive individual. In the United States, there are three to four times more deaths from bee stings than from snake bites. The venom in these cases causes the heart to collapse. People with known hypersensitivities should carry a kit containing antihistamine and epinephrine when in areas likely to hold risk.
If you are experiencing symptoms such as flushing, generalized hives, swelling around the neck or tongue, difficulty breathing, faintness, or loss of consciousness or diarrhea, immediately consult your physician or go to the emergency room, as this may indicate a severe reaction to the sting.
Nutritional Therapy: Take vitamin C as soon as possible (5 grams) with vitamin B5 (1 gram). Continue to take 1 gram of vitamin C and 500 mg of B5 every hour until pain and swelling subside. Vitamin E oil can also be applied to the sting.
Aromatherapy: According to Jean Valnet, M.D., basil, cinnamon, garlic, lavender, lemon, onion, sage, savory, and thyme are effective applications due to their antitoxic and antivenomous properties. Lavender may be effective in treating itching from stings.
Flower Essences: Rescue Remedy. Rescue Remedy CreamÒ
Herbs: Apply the fresh bruised leaf or juice of plantain to the sting. Aloe gel can also be applied.
Homeopathy: Immediately use Aconite, Lachesis, Apis mel., Hypericum, Urtica Urens. For insect bites, use Ledum, Hypericum, Calendula. For wasp stings, use Apis mel., Calendula.
Hydrotherapy: Cold compress as needed to reduce pain and swelling.
Practical Hints: If you have a severe allergy to insect stings, you should take preventive measures when outdoors. Wear slacks, footwear, and gloves while gardening and avoid cosmetics, perfumes, and hairsprays if you are going to be outdoors.
Topical Treatment: Apply vinegar or lemon juice or a paste made of baking soda as soon as possible to neutralize the bite. The pulped heads and buds of marigolds (calendula) make a tincture (preserved in alcohol) that may be applied to stings and other surface injuries. The pulped fresh (marigold) flower may also be applied directly to a sting and bandaged in place.
Alternatively, you can crush a charcoal tablet on a cotton ball, place over sting, and cover with bandage to reduce pain and swelling. Use ice packs to relieve pain and swelling and to keep the poison from spreading. For wasp stings, apply vinegar immediately. To remove a bee stinger, try to scrape and lift it out with the dull edge of a knife or tweezers. After removing stinger, treat with a strong, cold solution of three parts baking soda and one part water. If there is no access to any of the above listed items, mud applied to the sting will help draw out toxins as it dries.
Note: The information above was adapted from Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition, co-authored and edited by Larry Trivieri, Jr. (Celestial Arts, 2002).
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Recommendations
Website:
http://www.mindfully.org - calling itself a “nonprofit research tool,” this site offers links to a wide variety of news stories related to health, farming, technology, nuclear energy and waste, and many other categories of interest.
Book:
I’m A Stranger He/re Myself by Bill Bryson. Based on a series of columns Bryson wrote following his return to the US after living abroad for 20 years, this book at turns had me laughing out loud and then marveling at the facts and figures Bryson unearths. A very enjoyable and educational read that accurately depicts life in the United States.
Health and Blessings!
Larry Trivieri, Jr. (larry@1healthyworld.com)
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