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How-To protect yourself from SARS
Flax seed. Lower Cholesterol, Reduce risk of breast and prostate cancer, slow down tumor growth, retard atherosclerosis
Tea may be a powerful infection fighter
Toxic Sunscreen?

SARS

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

Conventional medicine has no treatment at the moment.

If you are concerned about infection, you should up your vitamin C to about 6 grams a day, keep a good diet, indulge in moderate exercise and take a potent multivitamin and mineral supplement. There is not much more you can do. Just like you should do for any other cold or flu.

This article sheds some light.

Fever and the Mystery Disease SARS:
A Bio-Terror Weapon Spreads Around the World

The "mystery" disease SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome, is being used as a "bio-terror campaign" by the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). They have used normal diseases with strange new names to terrorize people many times in the last 30 years. SARS is clearly a new variation of an old Influenza. So what makes SARS so dangerous?

Most flu comes from China, as in Asian Flu, Hong Kong Flu or Swine Flu, since it is mostly caused by rare avian or bird viruses crossing species with pig viruses. Many rural Chinese farmers raise flocks of geese side-by-side with herds of swine or pigs. Geese and pigs are a traditional Chinese food source. Humans have no natural immunity to avian bird viruses, and are able to "catch" pig or porcine viruses because of the similarity of human and porcine lung and organ tissue.

If a pig is ill with porcine flu and then eats droppings from an avian-virus-infected goose the result is a new cross-species flu virus, with the outer lining of a pig and the inner viral core of a goose, which spreads from central China around the world and usually kills about 100,000 or more each year in the U.S. Several new variations of goose-pig generated influenza occur each year coming mostly from China.

Skip all the CDC recommended flu shots. They are much more dangerous killers than any Influenza. Here's why.

The problem is the method of treatment. The viral core molecule of RNA cannot reproduce if the body temperature is above 101 degrees. Humans have genetically developed a natural method to defeat viral infections called a fever. With a mild fever of 101 degrees the telomers on the ends of the RNA molecule cannot attach and the virus cannot reproduce itself, and the body's white blood cells quickly destroy the invading virus. But the modern "regular" treatment for a fever from a cold or flu is to reduce the fever to ease the discomfort. This is wrong.

By lowering the fever below 100 degrees, the invading virus is allowed to reproduce and spread massively throughout the body. If the multitude
of viruses finally cross the blood/brain barrier the result is a fever of 104 or more, causing brain damage or death. This is often called Reyes Syndrome or Viral Encephalitis and is not a disease but the result of improper treatment with aspirin or other NSAIDs to lower the natural
viral infection fever

When European immigrants began to settle in the New World in the 17th and 18th centuries, they discovered that many native American tribes were treating their "patients" who had coughs, colds, chills and fever with something called a "sweat lodge." The infected ill "patient" was isolated in a small quickly made thatched hut with a small hole dug in the center of the floor filled with water. Hot rocks from a nearby fire were put into the water until it boiled and produced steam. The "feverish patient" slept overnight in the steamy sweat lodge and the next morning took a quick brisk dip in a nearby cold stream and was completely cured. The dip in the cold water was not actually part of the anti-viral treatment, but was really a morning kick-start for the circadian rhythm system to remove the logy "jet-lag" symptoms from having just had a high fever. Thus the "patient" is now invigorated and cured with a sense of health and well-being. No, the Indians did not know about viruses, bacteria or circadian rhythms. They only knew what worked best after thousands of years of medical trial and error. Sometimes grandma's old folk remedy does work best. In this case it does.

The North American Indians were not the only ones to use the "sweat
lodge." It was well known and used worldwide in ancient times. It is the source of the healthful Scandinavian "Sauna Bath." Even 2,000 years ago when the ancient Romans invaded Britain,they found that the locals were curing coughs and colds by placing the patients in small huts near a bubbling geothermal pool which produced natural steam. That natural steam pool was located at a village called Bath, England.

SARS is not even a statistical drop in the medical bucket. And there is no indication that SARS is any different from any other form of cold or flu from a viral infection. So how does the CDC get to scare or terrorize you into believing that SARS is any worse or more dangerous than any other annual flu? Mostly its done with the assistance of an uninformed press and media which simply publishes the CDC handouts without any knowledge of what it means. This has been going on for about 25 years. I squarely target the news media as the primary cause of such medical nonsense for publishing without investigating the facts.

Best advice: do not try to lower a fever, it is your genetically derived natural human defense against any viral infection. Stay wrapped up and warm to cause a sweat. Drink fluids to replace the water lost by sweating. And within 6 to 8 hours overnight the cold or flu is gone. Many older doctors knew this, which is the reason for the old docs advice, "go to bed, stay warm, drink fluids." But younger docs just out of med school have been taught there is a drug or pill to treat everything. The result of using expensive pills or over-the-counter medications to reduce the fever from colds and flu is prolonged illness, the epidemic spread of viral diseases and the unneeded deaths of hundreds of thousands each year. Don't buy it.

Flax seed. Lower Cholesterol, Reduce risk of breast and prostate cancer, slow down tumor growth, retard atherosclerosis

Do you want to lower your cholesterol without taking dangerous cholesterol-lowering drugs?

Use Flax seed.

If you want to reduce your risk of breast or prostate cancer,

Or slow down tumor growth, if you have cancer?

Use Flax seed.

Flax seed is one of the most uniquely beneficial foods available.

The dominant fat in Flax seed oil is an essential omega 3 fatty acid that is converted in the body into EPA and DHA. These are the same fats that give fish oil its broad range of cardiovascular and anti-inflammatory effects. Flax seed contains far more of this important fat than any other plant.

Flax seed is also nature's richest source of compounds that may be

Its most potent disease-fighting weapon: Lignans. Lignans are found in the cell walls of many plants, but in no other plant as abundantly as Flax seed.

These lignans are potent antioxidants, even more potent than vitamin E, according to some studies. They protect against free radical damage that is at the root of many of our most devastating diseases.

Flax seed interferes with the absorption of cholesterol into the blood. Yet Flax seed goes beyond cholesterol reduction. In a steady just published in the Journal of the American College of nutrition, It significantly lowered triglycerides as well. Furthermore, the omega three fatty acids in Flax seed reduce inflammation, which improves the health of the arteries, and helps smooth out cardiac arrhythmias.

The essential fats have also been shown to discourage platlets in the blood from clumping together, thereby reducing the risk of blood clots that may lead to heart attack.

Diabetics will be interested to know that the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that 50 g of Flax seed, or 25 g of Flax seed fiber, lowered glucose levels by an average of 27%.

Kidney disease:

Early research suggests that Flax seed also protects the kidneys.

In animal studies flax seed lowers creatinine levels(a blood marker of kidney function) and delays the onset of proteinuria (Protein in the urine, a sign of failing kidneys)

Cancer:

Most of the cancer research on Flax seed has focused on the Phytoestrogenic properties of lignans. Taking as little as 5 to 10 g of flax seed on a regular basis will lower the level of the 2 types of estrogen that may increase risk of breast cancer in women.

Several human and animal studies have shown that Flax seed slows tumor development in study subjects with prostate cancer.

If you are at risk of prostate cancer avoid Flax seed oil , as there are conflicting reports as to its safety, and take whole Flax seed ground in a coffee type grinder. The seeds are a much less concentrated source of oil, much less expensive plus, they contain Cancer-fighting lignans.

Flax seed's shelf life, when kept dry at room temperature, is roughly 1000 to 2000 years. When you grind up the 50 grams (1/4 cup) seeds, use them immediately and consider the forces of dormant life enriching and protecting you.

Source Dr Julian Whitaker

Toxic Sunscreen?

These days, pouring on the sunscreen lotion has become a national summertime obsession. But more than that, the idea is to somehow hide from the sun whenever we go outside. The catch-phrase recommendation of the American Cancer Society is to, "Slip! Slop! Slap! ...and Wrap!" That is: Slip on a shirt, slop on the sunscreen, slap on a hat, and wrap on a pair of sunglasses to avoid the ultraviolet (UV) light that is believed to cause skin cancer.

But there are two problems with this advice: 1) most sunscreen products contain a chemical that may be toxic, and 2) the best protection for your skin comes, not from the outside, but from the inside - provided that your body is getting the right nutrients.

When you limit your sun exposure to short periods at the beginning of the season, your skin will adjust and prepare natural defenses so you can spend more time in the sunlight by the time summertime is in full swing. But you certainly don't have to spend the whole summer hiding under the boardwalk, wearing long-sleeved shirts, and covered scalp to toe in SPF 2,000.

Writing in his Nutrition & Healing newsletter last year (June 2002), Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., took a long look at sun exposure and skin damage, noting that for many millennia before sunscreen was developed, humans spent plenty of time in the sun. And, not coincidentally, for most of those millennia, humans ate whole foods that weren't stripped of nutrition by chemicals, herbicides, and pesticides.

Dr. Wright makes the excellent point that many of today's most common dietary deficiencies involve the very nutrients we most need to protect our skin from the sun damage that can lead to skin cancer.

The "DNA Repair Group" is what Dr. Wright calls the foods and supplements that everyone (and especially sun-lovers) should be consuming in abundance.

He begins by singling out folic acid in particular, which he says rivals essential fatty acids for the number one spot on the vitamin deficiency list. Dr. Wright calls folic acid deficiency "a major contributor to skin cancer risk," and he adds, "Folic acid is destroyed rapidly by heat, cold, and exposure to light, including sunlight. So it's sunlight's destructive effect on folic acid in the skin, not the actual sun exposure itself, that accounts for a significant part of the skin cancer problem. Folic acid (along with vitamin B12 and zinc) is absolutely key to DNA reproduction and repair."

The best dietary sources of folic acid include spinach and other dark green vegetables, brewers yeast, lima beans, cantaloupe, watermelon, wheat germ, and liver from organically raised animals. In addition, Dr. Wright suggests supplementing with 1,000 mcg of folic acid per day, and more if you spend a good amount of time in the sun or have a family history of skin cancer. (Just a quick note: in an effort to further protect us from ourselves, the FDA has made it illegal to sell folic acid in a daily supply of more than 800 mcg, so don't waste your time trying to find a 1,000 mcg dose when looking for a supplement.)

Dr. Wright adds that to further relieve stress to the skin, extra doses of vitamin C and antioxidants such as vitamin E round out the nutrients in the DNA Repair Group that will do far more for skin health than any number of applications of the highest SPF sunscreen.

But even if you're getting sufficient nutrition, you might still find yourself turning to sunscreen to help prevent sunburn. Unfortunately, most sunscreen products contain a chemical that could be destructive to your skin in another way.

A 2000 study conducted by the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority, showed that low doses of octyl methoxycinnamate (OMC - the UV ray absorbing ingredient included in almost all sunscreen products) killed mouse skin cells. According to researchers, their results suggest that OMC may be toxic to human skin tissue as well. I've tried to find further research on OMC, but as far as I can determine no studies have yet examined the effects of OMC on human skin. So until we know more about OMC, the Norwegian research suggests that the safe choice would be to look for effective sunscreen alternatives that don't contain this chemical.

Robert A. Sinnott, Ph.D., wrote about a shrub that grows in the Arizona desert called Larrea tridentata, or creosote bush, that protects itself by producing natural chemicals that function as both a sunscreen and an antioxidant. Dr. Sinnott has developed a creosote bush extract, which he calls Larreastat, that contains antiviral and anti-inflammatory agents.

Larreastat is rich in flavonoid compounds, which are especially helpful in absorbing the light from the regions of the solar spectrum that are most likely to cause skin damage (the UV-A and UV-B regions). In addition, the flavonoids and the lignans in Larreastat function as powerful antioxidants. If some ultraviolet energy does make it through the sunscreen layers, the antioxidants in Larreastat quench the free radicals before they cause damage.

You can find more information about Larreastat and its use as a sunscreen at larreacorp.com.

Obviously it's time to stop blaming the sun for the sins of insufficient nutrition. Especially when Dr. Wright has spelled out the exact dietary and supplement needs for optimal skin health.

Sources:
"Sun-Care Chemical Proves Toxic in Lab Tests" Mark Henderson, The Sunday Times, 10/15/00, mercola.com

Tea boosts the body's defenses

By Paul Recer

April 22, 2003 | WASHINGTON (AP) --

An ordinary cup of tea may be a powerful infection fighter, a study suggests. Researchers report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they have found in tea a chemical that boosts the body's defense fivefold against disease.

They said the chemical primes immune system cells to attack bacteria, viruses and fungi and could, perhaps, be turned into a disease-fighting drug someday.

Dr. Jack F. Bukowski of Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston and Harvard Medical School said Monday that he and his co-authors isolated the chemical in the laboratory and then proved with a group of volunteers that it did protect against germs.

"We worked out the molecular aspects of this tea component in the test tube and then tested it on a small number of people to see if it actually worked in human beings," said Bukowski. The results, he said, gave clear proof that five cups of tea a day sharpened the body's defenses against disease.

Penny Kris-Etherton, a nutrition specialist at Pennsylvania State University, said Bukowski's study adds to a growing body of evidence that tea is an effective disease fighter.

"This is potentially a very significant finding," she said. "We're seeing multiple benefits from tea."

But she said the work needs to be confirmed in a much larger study, involving more people.

In the study, Bukowski and his co-authors isolated from ordinary black tea a substance called L-theanine. He said the substance is found as well in green and oolong tea, which also are processed from traditional tea tree leaves.

Bukowski said L-theanine is broken down in the liver to ethylamine, a molecule that primes the response of an immune blood cell called the gamma-delta T cell.

"We know from other studies that these gamma-delta T cells in the blood are the first line of defense against many types of bacteria, viral, fungal and parasitic infections," he said. "They even have some anti-tumor activity."

The T cells prompt the secretion of interferon, a key part of the body's chemical defense against infection, Bukowski said.

"We know from mouse studies that if you boost this part of the immune system it can protect against infection," he said.

To further test the finding, the researchers had 11 volunteers drink five cups a day of tea, and 10 others drink coffee. Before the test began, they drew blood samples from all 21 test subjects.

After four weeks, they took more blood from the tea drinkers and then exposed that blood to the bacteria called E-coli. Bukowski said the immune cells in the specimens secreted five times more interferon than did blood cells from the same subjects before the weeks of tea drinking. Blood tests and bacteria challenges showed there was no change in the interferon levels of the coffee drinkers, he said.

Bukowski said it may be possible to further isolate and refine L-theanine from tea and use that as a drug to boost the infection defense of the body.

The health effects of tea have been extensively studied. It has been linked to lower heart disease and cancer risk through the action of flavonoids, a type of antioxidant. Other studies have linked tea to helping combat osteoporosis, the brittle bone disease, and to relieving some allergy symptoms.

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1. The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the Canadians, British or Americans.

2. The Mexicans eat a lot of fat and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the Canadians, British or Americans.

3. The Japanese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than the Canadians, British or Americans.

4. The Italians drink excessive amounts of red wine and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the Canadians, British or Americans.

5. The Germans drink a lot of beer and eat lots of sausages and fats and suffer fewer heart attacks than the Canadians, British or Americans.

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