The Health Plus Letter
October 28, 2008 Vol. 6, No. 26
By Larry Trivieri, Jr. – founder & publisher
http://www.1healthyworld.com
Table Of Contents
New This Issue
Quote of the Day
Fast Fact
Cancer: A Matter of “Terrain”, Not Genes by Dr. David Servan-Schreiber
Your Gut: The Overlooked Key to Good Health
Chemotherapy Doesn't Work, So Blame Vitamin C – A Press Release from theOrthomolecular Medicine News Service
Recommendations
Medical Freedom
Contact Information
New This Issue
Welcome to another issue of The Health Plus Letter. This week, you will find the sixth in a series of articles about cancer by researcher and brain cancer survivor Dr. David Servan-Schreiber. This week, Dr. Servan-Schreiber discusses one of the most important steps anyone with cancer can take to dramatically improve their odds of long-term survival—changing the body’s inner terrain. In a related subject, I’m also sharing an article I wrote about the importance of your gut to your overall health.
Below, you’ll also find a very important press release issued earlier this month by the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service in response to Sloan-Kettering’s recent warning about vitamin C with regard to cancer and chemotherapy that was big news in the media. As is usually the case when it comes such coverage the facts speak otherwise so be sure you read this important rebuttal.
As always, please spread the word about The Health Plus Letter by passing it along to your friends and inviting them to subscribe. Thanks!
Quote Of The Day
“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.”
-- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Fast Fact
Less than 3 percent of all cancers respond effectively to chemotherapy. (See source below in Orthomolecualr Medicine News Service article.)
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Cancer: A Matter of “Terrain”, Not Genes by Dr. David Servan-Schreiber
Genes account for at most 15% of cancers. What matters most in prevention or getting the most of treatments is not our genetic makeup but the biology we create within our body to support our natural defenses against tumor growth.
The Genetic Fallacy
Most of us live with the false belief that cancer is a genetic Russian roulette. As one in three of us will die of cancer, the odds are indeed as bad – worse actually – than those of that dreadful game. But it is NOT genetic. A large Scandinavian study of identical twins (who share exactly the same genes) found that in the majority of cases they did not share the risk for cancer. In fact, the authors concluded, in the New England Journal of Medicine, that “inherited genetic factors make a minor contribution to susceptibility to most types of {cancers}. This finding indicates that the environment has the principal role in causing common cancers.”
A New Approach to Cancer: Changing the Terrain
When it comes to treating cancer, there is no alternative to conventional treatments: surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, immunotherapy or, soon, molecular genetics. [Note: I completely disagree with the above statement. There are indeed many viable alternatives to the above treatments. Ironically, one of the most effective ones is the very one Dr. Servan-Schreiber is writing about in this article. – Larry]
However, these treatments target the tumor much like an army wages war: focusing all of its efforts on destroying the cancerous cells. Yet, it’s as important to change the environment that supports the growth new cancer cells, as it is to continue to pound them with targeted attacks.
We all need to learn to change the “terrain” – our biology – to make it as inhospitable as possible to cancer growth. As much for prevention as to increase the benefits of treatments.
The new model of cancer that has emerged from the last 10 years of research moves us away from genetics and squarely into the life-style factors that we can control.
Indeed, another New England Journal of Medicine study showed that people who were adopted at birth have the cancer risk of their adoptive parents rather than that of the parents who gave them their genes. At most, genetic factors contribute 15% to our cancer risk. What matters for 85% of cancers is what we do – or do not do enough of – with our life.
Since we all carry cancer cells in us, what determines whether we do develop cancer is to a large extent the balance between factors that promote cancer, and factors that help resist cancer.
Common promoters of cancer are:
Cigarette smoke and more than two alcoholic beverages per day
Refined sugar and white flour
Omega-6 fatty acids and trans-fats (corn, soybean, sunflower and safflower oils, hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated vegetable oils)
A variety of chemical agents present in some foods and household products (parabens, phthalates, PVCs, pesticdes and herbicides)
Complete lack of physical activity
Responses to stress that lead to feelings of helplessness and persistent despair rather than a sense that one can help oneself or count on the support of others
Factors that slow down the growth of cancer are:
Several phytochemicals contained in some fruits and some vegetables, some herbs and spices.
Omega-3 fatty acids (fatty fish, canola and flaxseed oil, flaxseeds, walnuts, some green vegetables)
Physical activity (at least 30 minutes of walking six times a week)
The ability to manage stress so as to avoid helplessness (emotional management through meditation or yoga or good psychotherapy) or benefiting from the support of intimate relationships, or both.
Knowing that genetics are only a minor contribution to cancer helps us realize how much is in our power to help our body be a stronger partner in nourishing life and resisting cancer.
About the Author
David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PHD is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at theUniversity of Pittsburgh, and a cancer survivor for 16 years. His book, Anticancer – A New Way of Life, is an international bestseller and I highly recommend it.
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Your Gut: The Overlooked Key to Good Health
Your gut (your body’s gastrointestinal tract) is one of the most important yet often overlooked keys to good health. To understand why, let’s take a look at your GI tract and the important functions it performs.
Your body’s gastrointestinal (GI) tract consists of hollow tube known as the alimentary canal. The alimentary canal is between 26 and 32 feet long. It begins at your mouth and ends at your anus, and also includes the pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine and large intestines, and the rectum.
One of the main functions of the GI tract is to provide your body with the nutrients it requires to maintain its health. The GI tract is assisted in this digestive process by the liver, gallbladder, and pancreas. Additionally, and of equal importance, the GI tract is also responsible for preventing unhealthy substances from being absorbed into your body. These interrelated functions are accomplished in three ways: the movement of food along the alimentary canal that occurs as muscles in the GI tract push food particles forward; the secretion of gastric juices by the stomach, pancreas, and liver, which enables food particles to be broken down; and the absorption of the fluids and nutrients contained in food by the small and large intestines.
A Tour of Your Digestive System
The process of digestion begins from the moment that you start eating food. As you start chewing, your body’s saliva and parotid glands secrete enzymes that begin the process of breaking down food. Then, as you swallow, the food moves rapidly though your esophagus to enter your stomach. Food remains in the stomach until it is further broken down, liquefied, and processed as it comes in contact with additional enzymes and gastric juices such as hydrochloric acid, which is necessary for the breakdown of proteins into smaller sized particles known as polypeptides that are then used by your body to perform a wide variety of tasks.
Once food passes out of the stomach, it enters the small intestine. There, food particles are further broken down by a combination of digestive enzymes secreted by the pancreas and bile secreted by the liver. On average, an adult’s small intestine is over 20 feet long. During the first four to six hours that food passes through it, most of the nutrients and fluids the food contains are assimilated as food particles through the first 40 inches of the small intestine. This is accomplished by a “work force” of tiny, hair-like organisms that line the intestinal wall, called microvilli. The microvilli sift through food particles and soak up various nutrients such as carbohydrates, fats, minerals, proteins, and vitamins, passing them through the intestinal walls and into the bloodstream, where they are transported throughout your body, to be used where they are most needed. At the same time, the microvilli also act as the front line of the digestive defense system, preventing toxic substances from being absorbed into the bloodstream as well.
Whatever food particles remain after this process then pass through the remaining 20 or so feet of the small intestine, which continues the absorption process, primarily of bile salts, water, electrolytes, and vitamin B12. Any leftover food particles and fluids are then passed into the large intestine, where they are assimilated, while undigested food content, toxins, and waste byproducts are prepared for elimination.
Your Body’s “Second Brain”
In addition to digesting foods and liquids and eliminating wastes and toxins, the gastrointestinal tract is also home to your body’s “second brain,” which is a very apt description of the enteric nervous system that is located in the linings of the esophagus, stomach, and small and large intestines. Research conducted in the last few decades indicates that that the enteric nervous system acts as a single entity, brimming with neurotransmitter proteins. (Neurotransmitters transmit nerve impulses from nerve cells to other cells and are essential for your body to be able to properly perform its many functions.) These proteins are produced by cells that are identical to those found in the brain, and research has shown that this complex circuitry enables this “GI brain” mimic actual brain function in that it is able to act independently, learning, remembering, and producing so-called “gut feelings.”
All of these processes are part of the overall operation of your body’s autonomic nervous system (ANS). The nerve endings that are attached linings of the GI tract provide nerve impulses that stimulate the operation of the various organs and glands within your body. The type of stimulation that the ANS is able to provide to your organs and glands is a direct reflection of the health of your GI tract.
How Disease Occurs in the GI Tract
Healthy functioning of the GI tract depends in large part on the health of the gastrointestinal lining. The health of the GI lining, or intestinal walls, depends in turn on a coating of “friendly” bacteria. Between 300 and 500 distinct species of bacteria exist within the GI tract. All told, approximately 100 trillion such bacteria inhabit the GI tract. This equates to ten bacteria for every cell in the body.
These friendly bacteria, also known as flora, form a protective shield that covers the intestinal walls and prevents harmful and damaging substances such as toxins and “non-friendly” bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms, from passing through the GI lining into the body’s bloodstream. At the same time, these friendly flora play an integral role in enabling vital nutrients and fluids to pass through the GI lining into the body.
So long as the friendly flora are present in sufficient numbers and remain unharmed, the overall functioning of the GI tract remains intact as well. However, if these flora are subjected to repeated exposure to harmful substances, then the white blood cells within the microvilli that also line the GI tract go into attack mode. In cases in which healthy flora are temporarily exposed to harmful substances, the white blood cells are soon able to resolve the problem by attacking and eliminating these substances. But when chronic exposure to such substances occurs, the effort of the white blood cells to dispose of them can cause the lining of the GI tract to become irritated and inflamed.
This ongoing assault of harmful substances, combined with the irritation and inflammation, results in a breech in the defensive capacities of the friendly flora, making the intestinal walls increasingly permeable so that toxins, abnormal proteins, and other harmful substances now find themselves able to pass through the walls into the bloodstream. In laypeople’s terms, this is known as “leaky gut syndrome.”
If this process is allowed to continue unchecked, the body becomes overburdened with growing numbers of harmful substances, setting the stage for disease to occur, first within the GI tract itself, and then, potentially, in other areas of the body. During this process, healthy bacteria are forced to contend with unhealthy bacteria, leading to a condition known as dysbiosis, which is characterized by the proliferation of harmful flora from the lower colon, where they are normally kept in check by friendly bacteria, into other areas of the GI tract and into the bloodstream. In addition, further damage is caused by the spread of free radicals that are produced as a side effect of the chronic inflammation besieging the GI tract, and the overall functioning of the GI tract continues to be diminished, resulting in impaired digestion and absorption of essential nutrients. Eventually, this creates a vicious circle in which the body is not only under attack from within the GI tract, but also unable to mount an effective defense because it is no longer able to obtain sufficient nutrients.
Not only is the situation described above very serious, it is also one that in recent decades has affected an ever-growing section of the American public, as well as many people in other Western nations. Today, this problem is so severe that the social, medical, and economic costs of gastrointestinal problems and related disease account for a significant portion of our nation’s annual $2 trillion health care costs.
Up to 100 million Americans suffer from some type of digestive diseases and the estimated lost work, lost wages, and medical costs comes to over $50 billion per year.
Health statistics also show that more Americans are hospitalized due to diseases of the intestinal tract than for any other group of disorders.
Next issue, I will show you how you can avoid being a part of such grim statistics. And I’ll also share self-care steps you can take to improve the health of your gut and, in doing so, improve and maintain your overall health as well.
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Chemotherapy Doesn't Work, So Blame Vitamin C – A Press Release from theOrthomolecular Medicine News Service
(OMNS, October 7, 2008) When Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center announces that vitamin C may interfere with chemotherapy, the news media trumpet it far and wide. But before cancer patients throw away their vitamin C supplements, they need to know rest of the story.
Most of the media dutifully reported the researchers' claim that the equivalent of 2,000 mg of vitamin C "blunted the effectiveness of the chemotherapy drugs." But only some of the media included a study author's incredible statement that "If you take an oral dose even as low as 100 milligrams a day" even "that could be harmful" during chemotherapy (1)
100 mg "could be harmful"? That's the amount of vitamin C in a few glasses of orange juice. Something is very wrong here.
First of all, this research involved mice with implanted cancerous tumors; it was not a trial on cancer patients. A mouse study is a long way from a human clinical trial. This obvious difference was conceded by the study authors. However, there is a more subtle, and probably much more important factor they did not consider: all mice make their own vitamin C. Indeed, mice make quite a lot. Adjusted for body weight, mice synthesize the human body weight equivalent of approximately 10,000 milligrams of vitamin C each day. (2) Incredibly, sick mice make even more. Mice given transplanted tumors become sick mice.
Secondly, previous research has demonstrated that mice with cancer respond well to high-dose vitamin C therapy. One study found, "With an increase in the amount of ascorbic acid there is a highly significant decrease in the first-order rate constant for appearance of the first spontaneous mammary tumor. . . Striking differences were observed between the 0.076% ascorbic acid and the control groups, which synthesize the vitamin." (3) Another study concluded that: "A pronounced effect of vitamin C in decreasing the incidence and delaying the onset of malignant lesions was observed with high statistical significance. By 20 weeks, approximately five times as many mice had developed serious lesions in the zero-ascorbate as in the high-ascorbate group." (4) Interestingly enough, when this research was first publicized, the media discounted these findings saying that mouse studies were not particularly applicable to people.
Thirdly, a mouse's ability to make vitamin C, and a great deal of it, is an overlooked confounding factor that may well render the entire experiment invalid. If the Sloan-Kettering team had tried their experiment on Guinea pigs, their results might have been very different. Guinea pigs are more like human beings in that they cannot make their own vitamin C. As controls for comparison, the researchers also treated "no-added-vitamin C" mouse cancers with chemotherapy. Chemo worked just fine on those mice, by the researchers own admission. And each of those mice was internally synthesizing a body weight equivalent of 10,000 mg/day of vitamin C, even though given none supplementally.
So how come 10,000 mg of vitamin C does not interfere with chemo treatment, and 2,000 mg - or even 100 mg - supposedly does?
A sweeping recommendation warning cancer patients to not take supplemental vitamin C, not even 100 mg, is irresponsible. It is impossible to justify caution about taking 100 mg of vitamin C daily when your animal subjects made the equivalent of one hundred times that amount, and chemotherapy in them was still reported as effective. You cannot have it both ways. If a synthesized 10,000 mg of C does not interfere, there can be no real "interference" or "blunting" from a supplemental 2,000 mg. And most certainly not from 100 mg.
The study did report tumor shrinkage, in both groups of mice receiving chemo. That is not surprising. Chemotherapy's claimed success is based on tumor shrinkage. But tumor shrinkage, encouraging though it is, is not a reliable indicator of long-term cancer survival. As cancer research critic Philip Day puts it, many patients are "cured but dead" after five years, hardly a long-term survival. Day, noting that this is not because oncologists are not trying, explains the chemotherapy quandary: "You can be insincere, or you can be sincerely wrong." (5)
The Sloan-Kettering study team seems to have missed the essential point that vitamin C is not just an antioxidant. Inside cancer tumors, it also acts as a prooxidant, killing malignant cells. Comments Dr. Steve Hickey, of Manchester, UK: "Essentially, the paper seems to be rather misguided and shows a lack of understanding of the dual nature of vitamin C in tumors. Chemotherapy has been shown by over 40 years of clinical trials not to work in the majority of tumors, and its use is counterproductive."
Chemotherapy drugs have come and gone; the five-year survival rate for cancer treated with chemo has remained virtually unchanged for decades. Unfortunately, just over 2% of all cancers respond to chemotherapy. Specifically, one scientific review concluded, "The overall contribution of curative and adjuvant cytotoxic chemotherapy to 5-year survival in adults was estimated to be 2.3% in Australia and 2.1% in the USA . . . chemotherapy only makes a minor contribution to cancer survival. To justify the continued funding and availability of drugs used in cytotoxic chemotherapy, a rigorous evaluation of the cost-effectiveness and impact on quality of life is urgently required." (6)
Perhaps this new, very well-publicized study results from an ever-growing realization that chemotherapy is largely ineffective, and the search is on for the reason why. Vitamin C should not be made the scapegoat.
Vitamin C, in doses well over 100 mg/day, is known to help prevent cancer. (7) Nearly 30 years ago, a review concluded that "Many factors involved in host resistance to neoplasia are significantly dependent upon the availability of ascorbate." (8) Beginning in the 1970s, many well-designed studies show that very large doses of vitamin C improve both quality and length of life for cancer patients since they invariably are "significantly depleted of ascorbic acid." When given intravenous vitamin C, "The mean survival time is more than 4.2 times as great for the ascorbate subjects . . . This simple and safe form of medication is of definite value in the treatment of patients with advanced cancer." (9) Additional clinical trials have confirmed this over the past several decades. (10)
Even more importantly, recent research indicates that in high doses, vitamin C is selectively toxic to cancer cells. That means vitamin C can function very much like chemotherapy is supposed to, but without the severe side effects of chemotherapy. "A regimen of daily pharmacologic ascorbate treatment significantly decreased growth rates of ovarian, pancreatic, and glioblastoma tumors established in mice. Similar pharmacologic concentrations were readily achieved in humans given ascorbate intravenously." (11)
"Cautioning" the public to avoid taking any supplemental amount of vitamin C will decrease host resistance to cancer, increase the incidence of this dreaded disease, and shorten survival times. A cynic might say it will also create a larger market for chemotherapy.
Is vitamin C a commercial competitor for chemo? To answer this, one needs to consider what appears to be serious conflict of interest at Sloan-Kettering. Bristol-Myers-Squibb makes chemotherapeutic drugs. According to a DEF 14A SEC filing of March 22, 2006, the Chairman of the Board of Bristol-Myers-Squibb is also a director of the Coca-Cola Company, and Honorary Chairman of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. (http://sec.edgar-online.com/2006/03/22/0001193125-06-060566/Section8.asp). A previous Bristol-Myers-Squibb Chairman of the Board was a director of the New York Times Company. He was also Vice Chairman of the Board of Overseers and the Board of Managers of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Chairman of the Board of Managers of Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. (http://www.secinfo.com/dsvrt.bC7.htm) Some sources say that there are even more Bristol-Myers-Squibb directors who have or held positions on the board at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. (12)
Positive endorsements for vitamin C as a cancer fighter are not in the interests of any pharmaceutical company. Scaring the public away from vitamin C might be profitable. It appears that Sloan-Kettering is biased. So are media reports that attack vitamins.
If the Sloan-Kettering study authors' recommendations to not take 2,000 mg, or even 100 mg, of vitamin C are followed, there will definitely be an increase in the number of people that need chemotherapy.
References:
(1) Doheny K. Vitamin C and chemotherapy: bad combo? Supplementing with vitamin C may reduce effectiveness of chemotherapy drugs, study shows. WebMD Health News. http://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20081001/vitamin-c-chemotherapy-bad-combo
(2) Chatterjee IB, Majumder AK, Nandi BK, Subramanian N. Synthesis and some major functions of vitamin C in animals. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1975 Sep 30;258:24-47.
(3) Pauling L, Nixon JC, Stitt F et al. Effect of dietary ascorbic acid on the incidence of spontaneous mammary tumors in RIII mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1985 Aug;82(15):5185-9.
(4) Pauling L. Effect of ascorbic acid on incidence of spontaneous mammary tumors and UV-light-induced skin tumors in mice. Am J Clin Nutr. 1991 Dec;54(6 Suppl):1252S-1255S. Read the full paper free of charge at http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/reprint/54/6/1252S
(5) Day P. in the documentary film Food Matters, http://www.foodmatters.tv See also: Day P. Cancer: why we're still dying to know the truth. Credence Publications, 1999. ISBN-10: 0953501248; SBN-13: 978-0953501243
(6) Morgan G, Ward R, Barton M. The contribution of cytotoxic chemotherapy to 5-year survival in adult malignancies. Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol). 2004 Dec;16(8):549-60.
(7) Enstrom JE, Kanim LE, Klein MA. Vitamin C intake and mortality among a sample of the United States population. Epidemiology. 1992 May;3(3):194-202.
(8) Cameron E, Pauling L, Leibovitz B. Ascorbic acid and cancer: a review. Cancer Res. 1979 Mar;39(3):663-81.
(9) Cameron E, Pauling L. Supplemental ascorbate in the supportive treatment of cancer: Prolongation of survival times in terminal human cancer. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1976 Oct;73(10):3685-9. Read the original paper at http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/MM/B/B/K/Z/_/mmbbkz.pdf
(10) Murata A, Morishige F, and Yamaguchi H. Prolongation of survival times of terminal cancer patients by administration of large doses of ascorbate. International Journal of Vitamin and Nutrition Research Suppl., 23, 1982. p. 103-113. And: Null G, Robins H, Tanenbaum, M, and Jennings P. Vitamin C and the treatment of cancer: abstracts and commentary from the scientific literature. The Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, 1997. April/May. And: Vitamin C and cancer revisited. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Aug 12;105(32):11037-8. Also: Riordan HD, Riordan NH, Jackson JA et al. Intravenous vitamin C as a chemotherapy agent: a report on clinical cases. Puerto Rico Health Sciences J, June 2004, 23(2): 115-118.
(11) Chen Q, Espey MG, Sun AY et al. Pharmacologic doses of ascorbate act as a prooxidant and decrease growth of aggressive tumor xenografts in mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Aug 12;105(32):11105-9. See also: Chen Q, Espey MG, Sun AY et al. Ascorbate in pharmacologic concentrations selectively generates ascorbate radical and hydrogen peroxide in extracellular fluid in vivo. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 May 22;104(21):8749-54. And: Chen Q, Espey MG, Krishna MC et al. Pharmacologic ascorbic acid concentrations selectively kill cancer cells: action as a pro-drug to deliver hydrogen peroxide to tissues. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Sep 20;102(38):13604-9. And: Padayatty et al. Intravenously administered vitamin C as cancer therapy: three cases. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2006. 174(7), March 28, p 937-942. http://www.cmaj.ca/! cgi/reprint/174/7/937. Also: Riordan NH et al. Intravenous ascorbate as a tumor cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agent. Medical Hypotheses, 1995. 44(3). p 207-213, March.
(12) Moss R. Questioning Chemotherapy. Equinox Press, 1995. ISBN-10: 188102525X; ISBN-13: 978-1881025252. See also: The Cancer Industry. Equinox Press, 1996. ISBN-10: 1881025098; ISBN-13: 978-1881025092.
For more information:
Cameron E. and Pauling L. Cancer and vitamin C, revised edition. Philadelphia: Camino Books, 1993.
Hickey S and Roberts H. Cancer: nutrition and survival. Lulu Press, 2005. ISBN: 141166339X.
Hoffer A. Healing cancer: complementary vitamin and drug treatments. Ontario: CCNM Press, 2004. ISBN-10: 1897025114; ISBN-13: 978-1897025116.
For free access to an online archive of peer- reviewed, full-text nutrition therapy papers: http://www.orthomed.org/jom/jomlist.htm or http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom
Recommendations
Books
Sage-ing While Age-ing by Shirley MacLaine. There’s no question that Shirley MacLaine can be “out there” at times, yet overall I tend to find her speculations about life interesting and this, her latest book, held my interest to the very end. For health related matters, I especially recommend the information she shares in Chapter 4.
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. This magnificent historical novel about the construction of a cathedral in 12th century England had me riveted to the very last page, which is saying a lot since the book is nearly 1,000 pages long!
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. Once again fantasist Neil Gaiman delivers the goods in this, his latest novel. A thoroughly enjoyable read featuring characters that I hope he revisits in a future book.
Websites and Links
http://www.naturalhealthresearch.org - This is the website of the Natural Health Research Institute, where you can find excellent information on the value of supplements and other natural therapies.
http://honestnutrition.blogspot.com - Here’s another excellent source of information about health and nutrition, written by acclaimed nutritionist and researcher Neil E. Levin.
http://tinyurl.com/47qayl - With the current state of the economy causing a lot of stress for many people, and therefore negatively impacting their health, the article this link takes you too may not be helpful for managing stress. Still, I always believe it’s important to know what’s going on and what may be around the corner. See if you agree after reading about the derivatives “time bomb.”
Medical Freedom
Please contact and support the following organizations dedicated to protecting our health freedoms.
Citizens for Health - http://www.citizens.org
Alliance for Natural Health – http://www.alliance-natural-health.org (The leading organization fighting to preserve health f/r/e/edom in England and the EU.)
Institute for Health Freedom – http://www.ForHealthF/r/e/edom.org
International Advocates for Health Freedom (IAHF) – http://www.iahf.com
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.
That’s all for this week.
Health and Blessings!
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
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