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Can a hallucinogen from Africa cure addiction?

A hallucinogen called ibogaine seems to obliterate withdrawal symptoms from heroin, cocaine and alcohol. So why isn't it widely used? "The drug, derived from the root of a central African plant called iboga, had been used for centuries by the Bwiti people of Gabon and Cameroon, as part of a tribal initiation ceremony." "But it wasn't until 1962, when a young heroin addict called Howard Lotsof stumbled Read more...

Source: Orthomolecular

Fukushima radiation release is worse than you have been told - What you can do about it [Video]

People have been misinformed about the tragedy at Fukushima and its consequences. There is a continuing cover up, the reactors have not been stabilized, and radiation continues to be released. The Japanese College of Intravenous Therapy (JCIT) has recently released a video for people wishing to learn more about how to protect themselves from contamination by taking large doses of vitamin C.See it on Scoop.it, via Health Supreme Read more...

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NANCY PELOSI EXPOSES OBAMACARE

For my American friends - here is a video animation by Jon Rappoport of www.nomorefakenews.com - he loves that medium and is itching to do more... So just how many people does the American medical system kill every year?See it on Scoop.it, via Health Supreme Read more...

Source: Gaia-health

Plan to Use Highly Addictive Drug to Replace Alcohol Effects

"Testing is about to begin on a drug that’s expected to prevent alcohol intoxication by replacing it with a different high. The replacement drug, iomazenil, is a benzodiazepine, a class of drugs noted for their rapid inducement of addiction and coincident decrease in the positive sensations." "Apparently, it doesn’t matter that there’s no drug to cure benzodiazepine addiction. Or is that the next miracle drug?"See it on Scoop.it, via Read more...

Source: Naturalsociety

Beating Cancer with Nutrition - Turmeric Slows Spread of Breast Cancer

"Showcasing just one of the countless ways you can begin beating cancer with nutrition, research has shown that turmeric can slow down the spread of breast cancer. Studies out of the University of California, San Diego, published in the British Journal, NATURE, have previously discovered a molecule known as RANKL. This molecule is found in aggressive breast cancer cells, which predict more life threatening disease. Aggressive cancer cells predict that Read more...

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Harvard To Be Tried for Alzheimer's Research Fraud

The case involves the largest Alzheimer's disease [AD] research grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health (from 1980 through 2007) for a large project aimed at identifying early physical signs of Alzheimer's by scanning certain regions of the brain with MRIs. Dr. Jones was the chief statistician for the NIH grant. He blew the whistle after realizing that measurements used to demonstrate the reliability of the study Read more...

Source: Gaia-health

When Half a Million Americans Died and Nobody Noticed | Gaia Health

“We find the largest rise in American mortality rates occurred in 1999, the year Vioxx was introduced, while the largest drop occurred in 2004, the year it was withdrawn,” says Unz. “Vioxx was almost entirely marketed to the elderly, and these substantial changes in the national death-rate were completely concentrated within the 65-plus population.” “The FDA studies had proven that use of Vioxx led to deaths from cardiovascular diseases Read more...

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Iodine The Misunderstood Nutrient David Brownstein [Video]

Dr David Brownstein talks about the functions of iodine in the human body, and he explains why we need to supplement this vital nutrient. He says the RDA for iodine is pretty much insuffiencient. The body gets just enough to prevent goiter (swelling of the thyroid gland) but not enough for the positive functions of iodine to be available. Although the talk is long (an hour and fourty-some Read more...

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Could Boosting Cholesterol Levels Ease Autism?

As countries around the globe recognize April as World Autism Awareness Month, researchers are launching a new study focusing on cholesterol levels of children who have autism. (My comment:) Cholesterol is of great importance to the human metabolism and especially to the brain. In this case of autism discussed in the video, adding cholesterol to the girl's food resulted in marked improvement.See it on Scoop.it, via Health Supreme Read more...

Source: Gaia-health

Food Irradiation, Cats, and Doublespeak: Researchers Reinvent Reality

To promote a recent study involving irradiation of food, cats, and neurological damage, the study’s author and promoter has resorted to doublespeak. He claims: Irradiated food causes neurological damage in cats, but that has no bearing on humans. In other words: What happens in cats has nothing to do with humans. Cats can heal from the neurological damage, so humans may be able to heal from neurological damage, Read more...

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American Pain Foundation Shuts Down as Senators Launch Investigation of Prescription Narcotics - ProPublica

As the U.S. Senate Finance Committee launched an investigation Tuesday into makers of narcotic painkillers and groups that champion them, a leading pain advocacy organization said it was dissolving "due to irreparable economic circumstances." The American Pain Foundation, which described itself as the nation’s largest organization for pain patients, was the focus of a December investigation by ProPublica in The Washington Post that detailed its close ties to Read more...

Source: Www.alignlife

Unvaccinated Children Less Likely to have Asthma or Allergies

A new survey involving more than 25,000 children from across the globe has released some startling conclusions. Time to debunk the vaccination myth.See it on Scoop.it, via Health Supreme Read more...

Source: Campaign.r20.constantcontact

Is the European Health Claims Regulation a Precautionary Measure?

The European Health Claims Regulation seeks to precaution the risk that consumers might possibly be harmed by commercial communication concerning the beneficial effects of foods. To precaution this potential hazard, a complete prohibition of all commercial communication - including perfectly harmless communication - is installed. What makes the Regulation so peculiar and - as far as I see it - perfectly illegitimate, is that, to get the prohibition Read more...

Source: Gaia-health

Australia Ends Free Whooping Cough Vaccines for Adults: Doesn’t Protect Babies | Gaia Health

In a bow to reality, Australia has just ended free pertussis vaccines for adults. The idea of cocooning—protecting babies from diseases by vaccinating adults—simply hasn’t borne out. When they finally tried to find evidence in support of cocooning, it turned out not to be there. The Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee examined the situation and found that cocooning wasn’t providing any benefit. Will they ever admit that the best Read more...

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In Italy, one in four pediatricians uses alternative medicine

Use of complementary medicines for children is increasing - in fact, one pediatrician in four prescribes them. The number might well be higher, according to Alberto Ugazio, president of the Italian Society of Pediatrics. 23 % of Italian pediatricians are prescribing non conventional medicines, 80% of them in addition to the traditional ones. Thus it seems that the majority considers the two kinds of medicine complementary, that one is Read more...

Source: Therefusers

Pertussis vaccine ineffective - 80% to 90% of pertussis cases in Washington state are in the vaccinated

USA - Washington state health officials are trapped in a cocoon of pseudo-scientific denial. Australia just cancelled their pertussis ‘cocooning’ pertussis vaccine program because drug company scientists told them it was clinically ineffective. Meanwhile Washington state governor Gregoire and the state's health department are doing the exact opposite – expanding a useless and potentially harmful cocooning pertussis vaccination program ... despite the fact that their own employees are Read more...

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Quackbusters, Skeptics and the Web of Trust
Categories: Food for Thought
Society
The Media

What are 'quackbusters', you might ask.
Well, Tim Bolen has the answer to that question. On his site (quackpotwatch.org) he explains:
The "quackbuster" operation is a conspiracy. It is a propaganda enterprise, one part crackpot, two parts evil. It's sole purpose is to discredit, and suppress, in an "anything goes" attack mode, what is wrongfully named "Alternative Medicine." It has declared war on reality. The conspirators are acting in the interests of, and are being paid, directly and indirectly, by the "conventional" medical-industrial complex.
These so-called quackbusters seem to be a branch of a larger movement, the "skeptics". Their website at www.skeptic.com/ shows who they are. Skeptics think of themselves as having opinions based on scientific 'truth'. They are very outspoken and very much "out there" to disabuse the rest of us of any idea that does not fit into their version of the scientific world view.
While real scientific procedure requires there to be observation and experiment, formation and testing of hypotheses, and open discussion of both experiment and theories, the skeptics have firmly made up their mind on a number of issues. And they don't hesitate to tell us where we are going wrong...
Mercury and fluoride for instance are not poisons for skeptics, and anyone who thinks they are must clearly be a conspiracy nut.
Vaccination is good for you, as are chemotherapy and radiation cancer treatments offered by conventional medicine. If you oppose either of them you are simply a 'quack' or at the least you are an easy target for those who take advantage of your stupidity.
The practices of alternative medicine, including "chiropractic, the placebo effect, homeopathy, acupuncture, and the questionable benefits of organic food, detoxification, and ‘natural’ remedies" are a favorite subject of the skeptics. They know that only mainstream medicine should be relied on and everyone who is into those practices really needs to have their head examined.
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posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Thursday April 12 2012

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The Bio-Chemical Matrix - The Myths of Matrix Science
Categories: Food for Thought
Pharma
Society

by Jon Rappoport
www.nomorefakenews.com

The medical system kills 225,000 people a year.
(Starfield, JAMA, July 26, 2000, "Is US health really the best in the world?")

"In principle, gene therapy is a medical miracle waiting to happen ... after 17 years of trying, scientists are still struggling to make gene therapy work. Complications include rejection of DNA carriers ... [and] new genes end up where they shouldn't, or behave unpredictably."
("Gene Therapy: Is Death and Acceptable Risk?", Wired, Brandon Keim, August 30, 2007)

MARCH 28, 2012 - In discussing Matrix Science, I'm reminded of Philip Dick's sensational novel, Lies, Inc. It proposes an invention that can teleport humans light-years to a planet where a better way of life exists. The author then spends the rest of the book deconstructing this utopian legend and revealing the truth and the titanic power-grab that sit behind it.

Then there is HG Well's 1933 classic novel, The Shape of Things to Come, in which a world exhausted by war and economic collapse turns to a Global State as the only possible solution, after all other solutions have historically failed. This new ruling authority is based on Science. All religions are crushed. Education is designed to teach every child how to become a genius/global citizen. Eventually, the State withers away and is of course replaced by a spontaneous Utopia.

Science/technology: the final all-encompassing answer.

A significant aspect of Matrix propaganda revolves around myths about how human behavior can be transformed. Transformed through advances in biology and chemistry.

Populations are being trained to expect these momentous changes. A major selling point: no effort is required. Just ingest this tablet. Accept this new gene. All will be done for you by experts. Technocrats will design the future so you will fit into it happily.

The technocratic wing of Globalism has clout. It promises management of the planet through science, and who can argue with science? Central Planning will ensure proper benefits for all.

My late friend and colleague, hypnotherapist Jack True, once told me in an interview:
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posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Friday March 30 2012

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The world needs public trial of political leaders for war crimes and genocide
Categories: War Crimes

This is a guest post from Arun Shrivastava, New Delhi, India.
The world needs public trial of political leaders for war crimes and genocide
Copyright: Arun Shrivastava
Yes, public trial for treason, war crimes, and the genocide going on right now.
This is part of a very long essay on Depleted Uranium weapons, nuclear reactors and their environmental health impacts. In this article the long term consequences of radiation contamination from unilateral aggression of the US and NATO countries on South and West Asia are discussed. The Afpak (Afghanistan/Pakistan) region is being bombed daily and the cold blooded murder of nine kids out of the seventeen killed recently is just a small blip when billions are done in.
The toilet paper Amerikan $50,000 per Afghan murdered is a bloody joke. The world can pay ten times more to the survivors of each hanged western leader.
Depleted Uranium or DU [1] encased bombs have been used since 1991 by US and NATO forces knowing full well that the use of DU weapons is illegal being weapons of mass destruction [WMD] and amounts to War Crimes. These weapons were used in Gulf War 1 against Iraq, then in the Balkans and later, after 9/11 events, in Afghanistan, Iraq, North Africa, Libya and are now being used in Drone bombings in Pakistan.
“When 20 years ago I stated at the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro that a species was in danger of extinction, I had fewer reasons than today for warning about a danger that I was seeing perhaps 100 years away.” Fidel Castro Ruz - March 21, 2012 Continue reading "The world needs public trial of political leaders for war crimes and genocide"

posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Tuesday March 27 2012
updated on Friday March 30 2012

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Pharmageddon
Categories: Pharma

This is an article by Vera Hassner Sharav of the
ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP)
A Catalyst for Debate about Medicine and Ethics

By way of introduction, Sharav cites a recent item in the New York Times about warnings the FDA is now requiring on statin drugs...
New York Times news item, Business Section, February 29, 2012: Safety Alerts Cite Cholesterol Drugs’ Side Effects by Gardiner Harris
“Federal health officials [ ] added new safety alerts to the prescribing information for statins, the cholesterol-reducing medications that are among the most widely prescribed drugs in the world, citing rare risks of memory loss, diabetes and muscle pain.
It is the first time that the Food and Drug Administration has officially linked statin use with cognitive problems like forgetfulness and confusion, although some patients have reported such problems for years. Among the drugs affected are huge sellers like Lipitor, Zocor, Crestor and Vytorin.
But federal officials and some medical experts said the new alerts should not scare people away from statins. “The value of statins in preventing heart disease has been clearly established,” said Dr. Amy G. Egan, deputy director for safety in the F.D.A.’s division of metabolism and endocrinology products. “Their benefit is indisputable, but they need to be taken with care and knowledge of their side effects.”
Diabetes patients and even those who develop diabetes while taking statins should continue taking the medicines, said Dr. Steven Nissen, chairman of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic who has studied the medicines extensively.
“These are not major issues, and they really do not alter the decision-making process with regard to statins,” Dr. Nissen said. Last year, nearly 21 million patients in the United States were prescribed statins.”
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posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Friday March 2 2012

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Infoholix on CAM - Complementary and Alternative Therapies
Categories: Health

A recent blog post on the Infoholix site, Euro notes with mint sauce Part 5, lights up the world of alternative medicine with some little known facts.
Definitely worth reading...
There is also a whole archive - actually a veritable treasure trove - of information on that site you might want to look into.
Find it here
http://infoholix.net/
"By definition an infoholic is someone who cannot obtain enough information.
The world of COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE is an infoholic's paradise.
For within this world there is to be discovered a stunning, treasure trove of diversity, yielding wonderous and life-changing opportunities.
Within the pages of this FREE DIRECTORY of COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE you will discover worldwide connections to many different forms of healing and enlightenment.
Each category is accompanied by an introduction to the therapy. The entries are colour coded, according to the world map.
You will find new therapies added to the list periodically in my timeless quest for knowledge."
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posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Thursday February 9 2012

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FDA purposely hid aspartame dangers: open letter to the European Food Safety Authority
Categories: Health

In June 2011, the European Food Safety Authority has called for submission of relevant scientific data on the safety on aspartame, a contested sweetener made of two amino acids and methanol.
Campaigners have pointed out that the Authority (EFSA) is missing important but damning details in its review. The FDA's approval of the substance, says Betty Martini "was a political decision, taken over the objection of the FDA's own scientific panel. Studies used to obtain approval were sanitized, to hide damaging effects the sweetener had on laboratory animals and eventually, Donald Rumsfeld was brought in to push through the approval."
Now, new data has come to light confirming that early studies showed serious problems and that the FDA knew about the dangers the studies found. In an open letter to the European Food Safety Agency, which is reproduced in the second part of this article, Betty Martini points to those studies, which recently emerged, only as a result of citizens making and pushing through FOI act information requests for the documents.
Here is Betty Martini's open letter to EFSA ...
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posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Friday February 3 2012

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Does smoking tobacco fulfill a nutritional need?
Categories: Health

As counter-intuitive as this question might seem, nicotine is actually a nutrient source. It is one form in which we can obtain a vital nutrient: vitamin B3, also called niacin or nicotinic acid.
I have never seen this angle to smoking discussed in a clear form until I came across, through some friends on facebook, a very informative but kind of hidden away write-up by a parent who refused to just accept as fact what "everybody knows" - that kids start to smoke because of tobacco company propaganda.
Ironically, the article was languishing in a place called the CyberCemetery, an archive of government websites that have ceased operation (usually websites of defunct government agencies and commissions that have issued a final report).
The source URL is at govinfo.library.unt.edu/tobacco/
Here is the text...
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posted by Sepp Hasslberger on Wednesday January 25 2012

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