Posted July 21, 2013: by Bill Sardi
It was S.C. Gilfillan in 1965 who wrote in the Journal of Occupational Medicine that chronic lead poisoning resulted in the fall of the Roman Empire centuries ago.
It was lead, largely in wine, grape syrup and preserved fruit as well as in paint, which resulted in infertility among the ruling classes in Rome. Sterility, miscarriage, stillbirth and premature labor rose to the point where the inheritance of the Roman culture was left to the less capable who were unable to bear the responsibilities of government. Rome fell from within.
Now another hidden dietary threat is ready to topple well-fed modern civilizations, and according to one expert, it poses the same severe threat to modern human civilization as lead did in Rome centuries ago.
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Posted July 17, 2013: by Bill Sardi
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Posted July 12, 2013: by Bill Sardi
It is strange that modern medicine has no arterial cleansing regimens beyond that of ineffective statin cholesterol-lowering drugs. Statin drugs only reduce production of cholesterol from the liver, thus reducing circulating levels of cholesterol, not cholesterol plaque itself.
The unnatural and problematic method by which statin drugs lower cholesterol has been graphically portrayed. Cholesterol numbers are essentially worthless in gauging whether a person is at risk for a sudden mortal heart attack.
More troubling is the realization that baby-dose (81 milligram) aspirin tablets with a red heart on the bottle to signify they promote heart health, do not protect against sudden mortal heart attacks. An estimated 40 million Americans take a baby aspirin in an ineffective attempt to reduce their risk of dying suddenly from a fast-forming blood clot in a coronary artery that supplies the heart with oxygenated blood.
The realization that aspirin and statin drugs are ineffective and even problematic prompts a search for other ways to maintain arterial health.
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Posted July 10, 2013: by Bill Sardi
Modern medicine is right on cue. In the wake of a vaccine advocate peddling a book that offers pseudoscience as evidence against consumption of antioxidant supplements (his false assertions have been roundly rebutted), now an animal researcher claims his lab rats lived shorter lives when their diet was supplemented with antioxidants and humans shouldn’t make the same mistake.
Hate to interrupt their anti-vitamin campaign, but about 7 in 10 Americans take dietary supplements and most daily vitamin regimens include the very same antioxidants used in this animal study (vitamins C and E), yet no decline in life expectancy has been noted yet (see chart from Centers for Disease Control below).
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Posted July 7, 2013: by Bill Sardi
The inconceivable is being contemplated – that the intellectual disability among individuals with an inherited developmental disorder (Down’s syndrome) is being partially reversed in animal models of this syndrome with small molecules (example: EGCG from green tea) and may be ready for human application within the next decade, say medical researchers.
Genetic researchers are raising the possibility that certain features of Down’s syndrome, an inherited developmental disorder that affects an estimated 5.8 million people worldwide, can now be reversed or partially corrected by use of small natural molecules. Recent successes in the animal lab provide hope.
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Posted June 21, 2013: by Bill Sardi
In May of 2008 this health writer published an almost unbelievable report of four published studies of 4-7 year remissions from colon and breast cancer facilitated by weekly injection of an abundant sugar-like protein in human blood serum called Gc macrophage activating factor (Gc-MAF). A year later I wrote a follow-up report showing lack of interest by the cancer care community in this remarkable development.
Cancer cells secrete an enzyme called nagalase that completely blocks the conversion of Gc-protein to Gc-MAF which is needed to kill cancer cells via activation of white-blood cells known as macrophages. Macrophages track down and engulf cancer cells.
The startling aspect of these published reports is that the cancer community is ignoring them when there are simply no published studies showing long-term cures for any adult cancers. For example, typical survival for lung and colon cancer is 2-years or less.
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Posted June 17, 2013: by Bill Sardi
A published report explains the case of a 10-year old boy presented to the emergency department of a hospital in Philadelphia with a six-month history of bloody nose (epistaxis).
The child also exhibited bleeding gums and red eyes (subconjunctival hemorrhages). The child was not taking any medications.
The child was diagnosed with hepatitis (liver inflammation) and started on steroid drugs to relieve symptoms. Elevated liver enzymes declined. Not at any point in the 7-page report on this patient was scurvy suggested, even though the patient exhibited overt signs of vitamin C deficiency (gums, eyes). Steroids deplete vitamin C and represent inappropriate medication.
A common reason for misdiagnosis of bloody nose is the lack of recognition that aspirin depletes vitamin C which then weakens blood capillaries which results in hemorrhage.
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Posted June 13, 2013: by Bill Sardi
You read Dr. Paul A. Offit’s denunciation of vitamin pills in The New York Times (Don’t Take Your Vitamin, June 8, 2013) and you have no doubt left in your mind – the vitamin pill makers must be hiding thousands of dead bodies. Why beta carotene increased the death rate among smokers in Finland in 1994 and that fact was published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine.
In all, Dr. Offit refers to five published studies, which in his mind, prove vitamin pills unequivocally represent death in a bottle, might as well have a skull and crossbones printed on their labels and the public should be warned away from them.
Only for Senator Proxmire in the 1970s bending to the demands of vitamin fanatics that vitamin pills now remain beyond the reach of the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), says Dr. Offit. Why the FDA would like to wrap their hands around those irresponsible vitamin extremists that peddle thousands of unproven potions and pills if they were permitted to do so, claims Dr. Offit.
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Posted June 10, 2013: by Bill Sardi
A hidden plague in modern society has been described in an earlier report. Not a true nutrient deficiency by lack of dietary provision or poor intake but rather by impaired absorption has lulled modern medicine into assuming beri beri has been conquered.
Yet it appears large portions of human populations in developed nations suffer from a shortage of thiamin, vitamin B1 due to use of vitamin-blocking medications, overconsumption of refined sugar and beverages that impair B1 absorption – alcohol, tea and coffee.
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Posted May 22, 2013: by Bill Sardi
One would think the news media with its army of biology-trained medical reporters would serve as a watchdog for breakthroughs that could dramatically improve the health of Americans who face challenging health problems. But today the news media appears to be almost totally bought off by commercial interests. The public hears about every newly approved FDA drug, but little about remarkable natural remedies that often work when existing medicines fail, remedies that are also likely to lower the cost of care significantly.
While in recent months there has been an upsurge in published studies that demonstrate successful use of vitamin C for a wide range of medical applications, it is not likely the public has heard of even one of them.
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