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C H A R L O T T E G E R S O N, S H I V C H O P R A
AND CAROLYN DEAN, MD
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P RE FACE
Shiv Chopra B.V.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. Fellow,
World Health Organization *
Helke Ferrie is the author of numerous books and articles on corporate corruption and public health safety. She is also the publisher of
numerous additional books on the same subject that would otherwise
remain unknown to the public.
The United States Food and Drug Act (FDA) is arguably the most
influential regulatory authority in the world, with Health Canada
being its closest follower. Its purpose is to ensure that any merchandize that directly or indirectly gets into the human body must be
proven by its vendor to be safe and effective for the purposes indicated, prior to its approval.
The genesis of this authority traces back to 1896 when it was legislated as the Adulteration Act to guard against fraudsters selling
impure foods and drugs. Since then, it went through two separate
revisions, in 1945 and 1967, due to risks being taken to approve medically unsafe products for human consumption. Since the 1967 revision was brought about on the heels of the infamous thalidomide disaster the new Food and Drugs Act in both US and Canada was made
equally applicable to vaccines, veterinary drugs, medical devices, and
cosmetics, but not to the use of hormones, antibiotics, pesticides, herbicides, slaughterhouse waste and Genetically Modified Organisms
(GMOs) to augment food production.
What followed in consequence was unconscionable but no one
cared. As soon as the new Food and Drugs Act was passed the pharmaceutical lobbyists went on a rampage to get it deregulated. They
argued that it would hamper their ability to discover new life-saving
products. It was an outrageous claim that few politicians contested to
safeguard the public interest. In effect, the Food and Drugs Act was
neglected purely to bolster corporate profits.
* Shiv Chopra, Corrupt to the CoreMemoirs of a Health Canada Whistleblower, Kos 2009
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The real crunch came when in 1984 the newly elect President
Ronald Reagan marched on Quebec City singing Irish Eyes in concert with Vice-President George Bush, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
and the numerous corporate lobbyists orchestrating for deregulation
of the entire food and drug industry.
Thus began the push to pass more and more vaccines, pain killers,
psychiatric drugs, mood changers, anti-depressants, hormone therapies, cholesterol reducers, aphrodisiacs, Botox, breast implants, etc.,
curing no disease but inducing pandemics of numerous previously
uncommon ailments, such as autism, obesity, diabetes, etc., lasting
for life. Eventually, opening the floodgates to innumerable products
of questionable safety produced loads of money for not only the pharmaceutical outfits but also their captive associates in the scientific,
medical and veterinary academies.
Fortunately, the Food and Drugs Act is largely still intact, although
multifarious commercial interests have been lobbying to get it dismantled. Most importantly, the companies in question admit to having no great discoveries on the horizon to extend healthy life. Yet, the
promise of getting there is making whole nations sicker and sicker,
and driving the entire world to financial ruin.
The question to ask is what should the public do? This was exactly the question Canadians asked themselves when Health Canada
was pressuring me to pass rBGH (recombinant Bovine Growth
Hormone) for dairy cows and which I respectfully declined. In the
end, rBGH was not approved in this country. To my knowledge, this
was the first time Monsanto met its Waterloo in public. The same
thing happened to Monsanto in India when it pressed the government there to pass genetically modified eggplant. In both instances,
people were so outraged that they outflanked their governments to
defeat Monsanto.
This is the message Helke drives at in her latest bookCreative
Outrage. Providing a deep insight into the ongoing corporate corruption in public health safety, she advises the public not to get too hot
or too cold about it but be creative in expressing outrage.
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by Carolyn Dean, MD, ND*
Creative Outrage is Helke Ferries 4th book in print. Its a compilation
of several compelling articles shes written over the last several years
and new ones specifically for this bookall describing the intolerable
state of affairs that shape modern medicine. It provides plenty of useful information about what you, as a patient, can do to regain your
health and not become a casualty of this corporate-contaminated
system.
Injustice in a medical system that purports to care for individual
human beings sets off bells and whistles and red flags for a freedom
fighter like Helke. After all, she went head-to-head with the Ontario
government back in 1972 which refused to allow her and her husband to adopt several handicapped children from Bangladesh and
Vietnam. Helke went on a hunger strike until she shamed the Ontario
government into obeying Canadas federal immigration laws of the
time, which permitted international adoption.
In all, Helke and her husband, Dr. Robert Ferrie, adopted 11 children from Bangladesh, Vietnam, India and mixed-race Canadians
(most of them with serious health problems) and also had three of
their own. Through the years, Helke has been an advocate for her
children helping them through health and emotional crises and honing the skills that she later put to work writing for Vitality Magazine
starting in 1999.
In 1996, Helke was being successfully treated for Myasthenia
gravis by Dr. Jozef Krop when she learned he was being harassed by his
medical licensing authority, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of
Ontario (CPSO), for practicing environmental medicine. The bells
and whistles went off and the red flags flew landing Helke in the mid*
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By Charlotte Gerson*
For many years Helke Ferrie has been researching Canadas regulatory authorities and has found them severely wanting. Contrary to their
mandate, which is the public interest, officials serve the interests of
the pharmaceutical industrywhose big money corrupts those in
authority everywhere.
The result is predictably poor health, a sick environment, poisoned
fluoridated water, dangerous dentistry from mercury fillings, and
worst of all, poisoned soil and nutritionally severely depleted and
tainted food.
The obvious outcome is terrible damage to the health of the population. Nonetheless, that seems to suit the powers that be perfectly since it allows them to sell greater quantities of dangerous pharmaceuticals for preventable ills.
Helke Ferrie demonstrates with innumerable and reliable studies
cited that our only course is to be outragedenough to take action!
Most important is that she shows the reader what action can be taken:
we must learn what is really happening and provide ourselves with
clean, organic fruit and vegetables, fresh (not drugged frozen and
depleted) food, with little or no salt added, and clean water.
At last the public is waking up! Information is reaching more and
more people who are painfully aware that their doctors are not helping them and that the increasing numbers of prescription medicines
have terrible side effects, often worse than the original disease. The
public sees their friends, neighbors, and loved ones dying in pain and
misery despite those so-called best medical treatments. They are
Charlotte Gerson is the founder of the Gerson Institute in San Diego, CA, where
the work of Dr. Max Gerson is carried on: www.gerson.org. She is the coauthor
of Healing the Gerson Way: Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases, as well
as books on obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure etc. The Gerson Therapy is
discussed in Section 3 of this book.
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looking for helpand Helke Ferrie is pointing them in the right direction.
Help is available from various reliable sources. And in the absence
of official help, the public is using that information to help themselves! Books and DVDs are going out almost faster than printers can
provide them! And those who use them reap the benefit. Learn, be
discerning, and be one of them.
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There is hot outrage and there is cold outrage. With hot outrage you
end up hurting yourself. It burns you up; however justified your rage
may have been, nothing is accomplished. Cold outrage focuses the
mind steadily and creatively and fortifies the heart. It provides the
stamina for action over the long haul. Once it focuses on something
worthy of outrage it becomes a lifetimes commitment. This book is
intended to further cold outrage in my readers.
Being outraged creatively requires, in my experience, four guiding
concepts without which the horrors of the world may well become
overwhelming. First, it is essential one picks ones battle or, to put it
more accuratelypay careful attention when a battles picks you and
pulls your energy into its orbit because it resonates personally.
Second, an important misunderstanding needs to be cleared up: the
Devil is not in the details; it is God we find in the details; the Devil
operates through generalities. Third, it is essential to know the difference between confirmation bias and a search frame. Finally, if one
expects change of the revolutionary kindsomething like true justice
that sets things rightone is doomed to failure and despair. Justice is
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an ideal to keep in mind at all times, but reality operates not through
ideals but through transformation. Cold outrage becomes as ineffective as hot outrage if one seeks final justice.
But first, what am I outraged about?
I am outraged about what Dr. Joanna Moncrieff of the UKs
University College in London calls the myth of the chemical cure.
*Her objections focus on psychiatric drugs developed on the basis of
the fiction of the chemical imbalancea fantasy diagnosis that
must have wrecked the brains and lives of millions. My view includes
just about all drugs. Those which are clear exceptions to the delusions
of modern standard practice are few, but effective in specific situations and they are of course not or no longer patented.
The history of medicine is very scary when it comes to drugs.
Todays drugs almost never offer a cure. The information provided by
manufacturers in the packaging of drugs state invariably that this
drug is intended to treat symptoms, and often it is made very clear
that this drug does not cure whatever condition it was developed
for. Before the reader dismisses me as silly, let me mention parenthetically that antibiotic drugs are among humanitys greatest achievements; they are designed to hit specific targetskill bacteriawhich
when successful results in enabling the immune system to recover
and all other healing processes to restore a persons health. (Of
course, if you have my problem, which is to be allergic to all known
antibiotics, you have something standard medicine doesnt know
how to handle.) A non-curative family of drugs that must be mentioned are pain killers; the earliest evidence for them archaeologists
have found among the Neanderthals some 150,000 years ago. They
permit the body to do its repair work while reducing the stress of that
process on the patient. By extension, the same is true for anesthesia.
But most of modern pharmacology does not target a cause, but influences symptomsreal symptoms and now also more and more imagined and invented ones which very nicely keep company with delusions.
Have we all gone absolutely crazy to accept this way of doing
medicine?
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It is beyond rational comprehension that we have been bamboozled into accepting what the late Dr. Bernard Rimland called toximolecular medicine. What is this? It is the acceptance of the idea
that when one becomes sick from whatever agent (bacteria, viruses,
parasites, toxic metals, radiation, pesticides, nutrient-depleted foods,
etc.) and as the bodys organs and systems show clear signs and
symptoms of being unable to cope with the attack, we pour more poisons into the body to silence those symptoms. Whats more, pharmacology is fully aware of the fact that these poisons cannot be metabolized, that known genetic polymorphisms make such drugs deadly
in many people, and that they dangerously deplete essential nutrientsmaking the sick get sicker quicker, as environmental medicine specialist, Dr. Sherry Rogers likes to put it. Drugs are first tested
on animals: the dose that kills 50 out of a hundred establishes the
toxic level; the subsequently developed drug must then be given to
humans in dosages below that level when clinical trials commence.
If this is not totally crazy, I dont know what is. What is wrong with
us that we blindly trot along with this oxymoronic concept of therapeutic toxins, train generations of doctors into abdicating their
innate intelligence so they work with these substances on real people,
and allow our economic systems to happily make enormous amounts
of money from these reality-challenged drugs and human suffering?
The second thing I am outraged about is the universal acceptance
of statistical analysis to health and disease in the form of the so-called
risk-benefit ratio. Being sick is a personal and highly individual experience which absolutely demands individualized attention. I am
nave, old-fashioned, idealistic enough to refuse to give up that idea
of personal humanity and suffering as an individual reality first and
foremost. To be made to believe that because a certain number of people, out of a very large group of those suffering from my particular illness, appeared to benefit for some time from a chemical toxin
always of course in the short term onlymy life too is worth the risk
to try it, well, it blows my mind, as they said in the 60s when I grew
into adulthood.
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The third thing I am outraged about is the fact that this toximolecular medicine is the source of mindboggling wealth which achieves
primarily enormous additional human misery. And we must consider also the enormous waste of human intelligence and intellectual
energy which is spent on developing these drugs. The great William
Osler hit the nail on the head when observing in 1919 that medicine
does indeed become a drudgery [when] it degenerates into a business.
To sum up my points of outrage, I paraphrase James Joyce who
said in his marvelous novel about the minds awakening from collective values: History is a nightmare I wish to awake from. *For me
modern, standard, toximolecular medicine is the nightmare I wish
everybody to awake from.
My certainty that such awakening is possible is supported by the
wonderful results non-toxic medicine has already achieved. I refer the
reader specifically to my reviews of the textbooks by Dr. Alan Gaby
and Dr. Jonathan Prousky as well as to the lecture by Howards Straus
of the Gerson Institute.
Is this situation cause for despair? Hell no! There is absolutely nothing to stop us from using our brains, intuition, and human feeling.
In a deeper sense, this situation isnt new. Two hundred years ago we
lived in a world in which people were sold on open markets, and children could be legally executed for throwing a ball through a window.
Today we vaccinate them, but we can say no to that, unlike people two
hundred years ago. Three hundred years ago women could be burnt as
witchescompared to those delusions about Satan and innately evil
women, our modern psychiatric drugs, chemotherapy, or genetic explanations of mental illness stack up quite well as equivalents. But we can
say no to them all, unlike those poor witches.
Indeed, what makes cold rage creative is that it does not despair
but takes refuge in the larger picture of human evolution. We are a
comparatively young species, and as Dr. William Osler understood, to
whom I am indebted for this helpful insight: The history of the
progress of the human mind is a history of a struggle with its own
delusions.
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To those reader still with me, I say let us proceed to the examination of the four principles of creative outrage that are essentially its
tools.
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S ECTION 1
R EG U LATION TH E G RAN D D ECE PTION
The Tyranny of Government Protection
March 2011
When the Egyptians informed their president recently that they were
fed up with 32 years of government tyranny, which had been justified
as protection from harm, we all watched in amazement. Few of us
realize, though, that in North America and Europe, we are heading
for tyranny light as our governments determinedly proceed to
ensure that we are protected in every which way except the way we
want.
On January 6, Maude Barlow of the Council of Canadians commented in the Globe & Mail : [Here is] what you dont know about a
deal you havent heard of, namely the impending CanadaEuropean Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
(CETA).
In this new treaty, CETA requires harmonization of all regulatory
bodies in all the governments involved (i.e. EU countries, US, Canada
and Mexico), and eliminates the power of elected representatives
(from federal MPs down to municipal governments) to make decisions within their areas. Since the CETA treaty was created to serve the
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Brewing Rebellion
We havent taken to the streets as the Egyptians did, but there is clear
evidence of a slow, steady revolt against the hype and spin which promotes everything from prophylactic mastectomies for alleged genetic
reasons, to every possible drug to control cholesterol, pre-hypertension,
pre-diabetes, etc., while also promising one breakthrough after anotherwith more toxic drugs for new conditions we never knew we had.
Big Pharma is getting close to killing the proverbial goose that lays
the golden eggs. Fines used to be small for defrauding governments
and for killing people with drugs marketed fraudulently. Settlements
with governments and class action groups were less than a billion
dollars in 1999. By 2009, this number rose to $5 billion per company.
Such a dramatic change can only occur when there is scientific evidence to prove wrongdoing. Indeed, mainstream research is increasingly revealing the disturbing truths about pharmaceutical medicine.
Consider that in December 2010, PLoS One analyzed the evidence that
many prescription drugsespecially antidepressantscause violent
behaviour. The famous website www.ssristories.org has been chronicling these for many years, and has shown that most of the inexplicable mass murders, such as the one in Montreal and the Columbine
event, were all directly linked to antidepressant drugs.
Statin drugs, which were originally touted as so important that
even children were to take them, have suddenly proven to be less
than useless as a preventive measure (CBS, January 19, 2011). The
prestigious Cochrane Library (which takes no money from Big
Pharma) provided this analysis.
And the important American Journal of Public Health handed down
an astounding indictment of the business practices of Big Pharma by
showing that drugs were being sold for outrageous prices (90% higher than appropriate) to milk the system. Simultaneously, Stanford
University Medical School published a study asserting that Big
Pharmas products lack strong evidence that the drugs will actually
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help [and] may cause serious side effects as weight gain, diabetes
and heart disease, and cost Americans billions of dollars.
The January issue of Vanity Fair published an excellent article analyzing Big Pharma and the damage its research and marketing practices cause to people all over the world. And the American Journal of
Public Health came straight out and stated that currently permitted
drug marketing practices undermine patient safety and public health.
One of its authors was professor Lexchin of York University, an internationally-respected authority on pharmaceutical sleaze.
And now consider the fact that in spite of this growing evidence,
Health Canada and the U.S. and E.U. governments are working feverishly to harmonize our regulatory systems to supposedly protect us by
giving Big Pharma freedom to do as it pleases, while simultaneously
removing access to those products the majority of us want (natural
health products) because we found them to do what drugs can never
doprevent and heal our illnesses.
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The Mayo Clinic announced that there really is no place for mercury in children. This was in connection to dental amalgam, which
finally appears to be teetering on the brink of extinction as the FDA
reviews the evidence once again. On January 14, Harvard
Universitys Environmental Health Perspectives published data
showing that 99% of all pregnant women in the U.S. test positive for
multiple neurotoxic and carcinogenic substances, many banned for
years. Basically all babies conceived start out swimming in a toxic
soup. In all women tested, the concentrations were higher for most
chemicals than considered tolerably safe.
The American Stroke Association announced at their annual conference in February of this year that diet soda and salt increase the
risk of stroke by 61%. This was based on a large study involving 2,564
people. So, does this mean that not only are statin drugs out, but
that decent food is considered a healthy preventive substitute?
On the dirty electricity and EMF front, things are happening at
a rate that is difficult to keep up with. At the point when I started writing this article, the Swedish evidence that cell phones cause brain
cancer and cell phone towers can also be harmful, held centre stage.
Soon after, an e-mail informed me that Germany had just banned
fluorescent light bulbs, because they cause cancer in mice and contain unacceptable amounts of mercury. Germany is also calling for a
drastic reduction of CT scans, because the increased use of this diagnostic method is now known to correlate with the increase in cancer
incidence from radiation. (At the Total Health Show, April 810, 2011,
three internationally-renowned researchers in this field will be speaking
about these issues. See EMF article in Section 2 of this book.)
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For details on how Bill C-36 was passed into law and what is being down about
this unconstitutional piece of legislation go to the website of the NHPPA
www.nhppa.org and goggle www.HFNN.ca to find out what you can do to help.
For an analysis of the unconstitutionality of C-36 (identical to the problems with
the previous bills C-6 and C-52) download for free my 2008 book from my
website. The book is entitled What Part of No! Dont They Understand?
Rescuing Food and Medicine from Government Abusego to
www.helkeferrie.com
For a full overview of what is currently happening in the EU go to www.ANH.org,
the Alliance for Natural Health run by Dr. Robert Verkerk who is spearheading
current legal challenges in European and international courts especially with
regard to CODEX.
Mike McBane of the Canadian Health Coalition wrote his article on Health
Canadas safety discussions behind closed doors in FAIR, an organization that
protects government whistleblowers; published January 17, 2011.
Greg Schilhab is the editor of the Nutrition & Mental Health quarterly newsletter
published by the International Schizophrenia Foundation, 16 Florence Street,
Toronto, ON, M2N 1E9. To subscribe e-mail
centre@orthomed.org
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The full report on adverse events from drugs compiled by the US government for
2009 was published in Clinical Toxicology, vol. 48, p. 979 ff, 2010. Free download
from http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/Portals/0/2009%20AR.pdf
The Canadian data for 2009 were published in Canadian Adverse Reaction
Newsletter vol. 20, issue 2, April 2010. Google this topic for current updates
done annually.
The issues concerning adverse events, how many people are killed by properly
prescribed drugs, and the history of this research are accessed by googling the
name of the key researcher, the late Dr. Barbara Starfield (of Johns Hopkins
Medical School, Baltimore).
For the complete report on how many children became ill with which disease,
despite vaccines, the autism statistics from 1994 through 2009 and more, as
well as the WHO records google Dr. F. Edward Yazbak and/or The Wakefield
Factor.
The statistics on the increasing costs of cancer care were published in the
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Jan. 19, 2011, vol. 103 No 2
The fines paid by pharmaceutical companies for fraudulently marketed or toxic
drugs are published in Public Citizen, December 16, 2010.
The Mayo Clinics pediatric neurologist Dr. Suresh Kotagals statement that
there is no place for mercury in children referred to both vaccine
preservatives and dental amalgam fillings: FDA hearings on dental amalgam
toxicity in December 2010. Read the whole report on
www.Dr. Mercola January 28, 2011, or google S. Kotagals name.
The fact that 99% of all pregnant women tested had above-limit stores of toxic
chemicals, comes from Environmental Health Perspectives, January 14, 2011:
Environmental Chemicals in Pregnant Women in the US: NHANES 200304
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The increased risk of stroke from diet soda and salt intake was a report from the
annual conference January 2011 and can be downloaded from their website
(google American Heart Association, February 10, 2011)
The sources for the abuses of health care systems by Big Pharma were published in the American Journal of Public Health on January 13 and refer back to a
study in the UKs Lancet in 1971 on the topic of inverse care law which was tested in 2010 with current pharmaceutical marketing practices.
The findings that statin drugs are not preventive of heart disease and stroke
came from the Cochrane Collaborations Library which is currently the most
important independent watchdog of standard medicine research and clinical
findings. It is located at Oxford University, UK and has thousands of doctors and
researchers contributing to it every year. Their material is free and can be
downloaded and shared.
PLoS One stands for Public Library of Science One which is an on-line free
medical journal in which the leading people of any field publish, but only if they
can declare that they receive no money from Big Pharma and that their research
does not involves these companies. PLoS has become the largest medical journal family in the world. For the SSRI/antidepressant connection to violence see
PLoS One, Volume 5, issue12, December 2010. For further information
www.ssristories.com and the website Mad in America.
For issues on cell phones and cancer see Debra Lee Davis, DisconnectThe
Truth About Cell Phones and What the Industry Doesnt Want You To Know,
2010.
For the information on the toxicity of energy-efficient light bulbs and Germanys
stance on them go to www.communities.canada.com or
e-mail dnicholson@yaknet.ca.
The information on fluoride is available from the website of Fluoride Action
Network.
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Natural Product Numbers (NPN licenses) while other brands of identical products are denied licenses, simply on the basis of technicalitiessuch as filing the application too late or not supplying documentation acceptable to Health Canada. Single ingredient products
are more likely to receive licenses than are the complex, specialty, or
novel formulations typically sold only in health food stores. Some
products are being restricted simply because Health Canada is not
able to keep up with its backlog of license applications.
The simplest way that Health Canada takes a product off the market to is to refuse to grant an NPN license for it. This happens behind
the scenes, on a product-by-product basis, without either retailers or
the public knowing about it. The second method (also behind the
scenes) is to peruse websites looking for unlicensed products, then to
send a letter demanding that the supplier no longer sell the products
in question. One such letter demanded that the company immediately stop selling 25 of its products, the majority of which are innocuous,
traditional herbal teas used to treat constipation, congestion,
breathing relief, urinary flow, bladder control, and other non-life
threatening conditions. The third method is one that Health Canada
has not yet dared to use: that of raiding health food stores to take
products off the shelf. To go to this extreme would risk a public outcry.
Health Canadas war on the health food industry relies on the
propagation of two falsehoods: (1) that dietary supplements are
potentially unsafe, and (2) that Health Canada has the legal right to
regulate health products. Health Canada first creates a false fear,
then imposes itself as the remedy for that imaginary fear.
Dietary supplements are among the safest substances on the planet, safer than foods. In the entire 50+ year history of the health food
industry, there have been zero fatalities caused by consuming any of
its products. As a comparison, several people die each year from food
poisoning, or from anaphylactic shock from eating peanuts.
To justify its stranglehold over dietary supplements, Health
Canada distorts the concept of safety to suit its purposes. Officials
often state that they have concerns about or are not convinced of
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unfit for sale, and (c) that any claim it does not approve must be presumed to be fraudulent. Whether Health Canada is acting out of
ignorance or malice does not really matter. The resulting devastation
is the same. I find it ironic that Health Canada is committing fraud
in the name of preventing fraud.
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denced by the decades it took to prove that smoking has the potential
to cause lung cancer.
Thats why just 222 generic health claims have passed the test and
emerged successfully from the EUs health claims sausage machine.
And thats out of nearly 5,000 evaluated![1] Even more incredibly,
nearly 10 times this number were discarded because they werent supported by human studies; they were principally underpinned by animal studies or biochemical evidenceall of which is viewed as worthless by EFSA without support from human studies of healthy (as distinct from diseased) populations. Most successful claims were principally for vitamins and minerals (the most extensively studied group
of micronutrients that have benefited from over 70 years of intense
basic research). These include claims such as Calcium is needed for
the maintenance of normal bones, or Iodine contributes to normal
energy-yielding metabolism.
But it is the thousands of claims to be stripped from natural health
products thats the biggest concern. So far, not a single probiotic and
almost no botanical substances have been allocated health claim status.
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could offer a lighter regulatory regime than, say, the drug regulatory
regime of Australia, but a tougher one than the food-based regime of
the USA. However, it is the prior restraint created by the premarket
authorization requirement for NHPs in Canada that provides the biggest
stumbling block to manufacturers, suppliers or retailers of NHPs.
When one takes into account the fact that NHPs have been shown
to be many times safer than foods, and many thousands of times
safer than the average drug, it defies rationality that government regulators should be prepared to spend so much time and effort regulating NHPs. In fact, the risk of dying from a NHP, based on Canadian
data, is around 70 times less than dying in a Boeing 747 crash. [7]
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The NHPPA is working closely with ourselves in Europe, our colleagues at ANH-USA in the US (http://www.anh-usa.org), Jonathan
Emord and others, in an attempt to deliver strategies that have the
greatest likelihood of maintaining citizens access to natural health
products of their choice. While this is not the place to divulge the
detail of such strategies, we urge you to keep a close eye on all of the
websites of these organizations (listed below) to find out what is being
done, and how you can get involved and help. Some of the work
involves taking specific, targeted legal actions, whilst other elements
are based on science, advocacy or public awareness.
But perhaps even more important than our actions, are your
actions. Ultimately, it is how you choose to live and how, and on
what, you spend your money that determines which products and
companies will survive. To use an analogy, it is our continued desire
to put fuel in our vehicles, along with our reliance on ground transportation based on the internal combustion engine, that maintains
fossil fuels as the primary energy source for transportation on our
planet. Shall we all get on our bicycles and see what happens?
Accordingly, we must think very carefully about what foods and
natural health products we choose to buy, and whether or not the
advice or drug prescription from the local medical doctor is the most
appropriate and effective health care we can get. We must consider
carefully, also, how we are to spend our time, and how physically
active we are to be. You are unlikely to hear from your doctor that
Type-2 diabetes may be readily cured through appropriate diet and
lifestyle, yet it is an established fact, and one experienced by many
thousands around the world.
Quite simply, theres never been a more important time in human
history to really understand what living naturally is all about. There
has also never been a more important time to defend our fundamental rights and freedoms. Working together, we can at least offer some
kind of a future for the coming generations.
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References
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The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Hell is the place where
people are sacrificed on the altar of corporate greed, a situation cleverly disguised by assurances of the best of intentions. Government
and industry usher us onto that altar insisting that they are serving
the public interest, often perhaps believing it themselves, as they too
are often misled. To stop the mindless cooperation of our governments with those determined to turn everything (plants, animals,
people, the earth itself) into profit is the task of our time. Consider the
following examples that have now become urgent:
Antibiotic Resistance has made many infectious diseases uncontrollable, warned the World Health Organization this year on World
Health Day. Antibiotic resistance is driven by the inappropriate and
irrational use of antimicrobial medicines, including in animal husbandry, the WHO announced, observing that the world may return
to the pre-antibiotic era because none will work anymore.
Ontarios College of Physicians and Surgeons (CPSO), started to produce their Non-Allopathic Draft Policy last year. If adopted, it will reg-
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ticides and many common drugs. Thus, MCS can never become a
cash cow for the pharmaceutical and environmental toxin industry
whose profits depend on obtaining patents for synthetics.
In the past decade, the anti-pesticide and anti-perfume campaigns
worked so well that prosecuting a doctor for taking MCS seriously has
become less likely because of growing public awareness. In 2008, the
Canadian Human Rights Commission recognized this condition and
ordered accommodation and availability of treatment. Today, in the
CPSO building where only a decade ago Dr. Krop was judged to have
fallen below the standard of practice for recommending total avoidance of synthetic scented products for his asthmatic MCS patients,
posters in the buildings bathrooms show a canary wearing a gas
maskthe explanation states that scented products can cause a potentially life-threatening asthma attack, and to please be considerate.
Also, over the past decade, those medical groups that the CPSO
tended to dismiss as unscientific (homeopathy, naturopathy, Chinese
medicine) got themselves organized with their own colleges under the
Regulated Health Professions Act. This evidently alarmed the CPSO,
especially as more and more of their member physicians began to
study scientific journals and take training in new medical approaches. The elephant in the room is the fact that so-called alternative
medicine actually arises from mainstream medical research. There is
nothing alternative about alternative medicine. This development is,
however, a problem for the profit-generating engine run by Big
Pharma and whose fuel isus.
So the CPSO, which staunchly defends whatever the status quo of
the day may be, went in for the kill on three fronts:
1) In 2009 they persuaded the Ontario Liberals to pass a snitch law
(Bill 171) which requires every doctor to rat on any other doctors
if he/she thinks that a colleague is doing something potentially
weird. We know what that leads to from all the secret police activities that were supported by such snitch laws in those totalitarian
regimes of recent history. It means that the ignorant rule, and that
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the CPSO can shoot first and never ask questions if it doesnt want
to.
2) In July 2011, the CPSO had the Ontario Liberals remove a vitally
important legal safeguard which states: The fact that a member
uses or recommends a non-traditional treatment is not, by itself,
determinative of deficient clinical ability. (Section 26 (2) of
Regulation 114/94). That gives the CPSO the freedom to go after
any doctor who, in their unchallengeable opinion, is recommending non-traditional treatments.
3) The third action is this current draft policy. It is an attack on medical science itself, and will, if adopted, ensure that at least in
Ontario nothing new can happen. This draft policy requires that
any non-allopathic diagnosis and treatment (as arbitrarily
defined by the CPSO) must be supported by randomized controlled
studies (RCTs). So determined is the CPSO to protect the public
and guide the profession, they didnt notice that this key requirement is not the universal medical gold standard they pretend it is.
RCTs compare synthetic drug therapies with each other usually for
chronic conditions. RCTs are virtually impossible to design for
nutritional interventions because no ethics committee would permit a control group to be deprived of such essentials to survival.
Worst of all, about 80% of all medical practice has no RCTs or
even regular studies to support ita fact the CPSO is on record as
having recognized in various disciplinary investigations. Most of
what happens in everyday medical interventions is based on tradition and adjusted as outcomes show what can be improved. In
fact, most drugs are only partly understood and used in a trialand-error fashion, usually off-label.
University of Torontos Dr. Ross Upshur has published his research on
these types of studies and observes that RCTs are fundamentally
flawed because their methodology is vulnerable to bias, fraud, plain
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World Health Organization: Antimicrobial Fact Sheet No. 194, February 2011
S. Chopra, Corrupt to the CoreMemoirs of Health Canada Whistleblower, Kos
2009
Alliance for Natural Health www.anh.-europe.org & www.anh-usa.org
Health Canadas recent directions about Oil of Oregano, probiotics, and
enzymes go to: http://webprod.hc-sc.gc.ca/nhpid-bdipsn/searchrechercheReq.do and browse to www.chfa.ca and browse Health Canadas
Natural Health Products Directorate web information.
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law. During the past decade many more provincial and also Supreme
Court legal decisions pertaining to medical practice have made their
mark in Canada, but those two items cited above remain of key
importance because they provided the basic foundation and set the
tone for medical practice in Canada. What is profoundly disturbing is
the fact that only some of the wording is provided, but the spirit of
this draft policy and its requirements run completely contrary to
those two binding legal items.
There are two serious flaws in this revised policy which require
not just serious consideration for further revision, but are fundamentally unacceptable because they run counter to both law and science.
This draft policy effectively would make the practice of medicine pretty much impossible and would stifle innovation in bothallopathic
and non-allopathic clinical practice because it assumes that allopathic medicine functions according to the standard proposed for nonallopathic practitioners. Allopathic practice, in fact, is not at all constrained by that assumed standard; indeed, the most serious critique
to this assumed standard can be shown to come from allopathic medicine (discussed in No. 2). This draft policy is in error on:
1. The unilateral and essentially arbitrary reinterpretation of what
constitutes informed consent on the part of the patient seeking
non-allopathic treatments, and
2. The prerequisite of a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) in order for the
doctor to be able to offer non-allopathic treatments.
Nothing new can happen in diagnosis and therapy and no new discoveries about emerging diseases and previously unknown causes of
well-known diseases, if exploration and individual observation are
not protected. The new always appears through an individual
observation. Of central importance is also the unique quality of the
doctor-patient relationship which involves complexities of information and consent not as a one-time event with a signature on a piece
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cally unsupported by the most rigorous standards in allopathic medicine. Here are some of the consequences of this requirement:
It effectively undermines the patients autonomy, that conscious
risk a patient wishes to take voluntarily and for reasons that differ
in individual cases; it is a risk choosing an allopathic treatment, and
it is a risk choosing a non-allopathic one. No guarantees are associated with either. However, limiting patient powers of consent in this
pre-determined fashion, creates an artificial double standard not
applicable to allopathic treatments.
This requirement effectively annuls the intent of Section 5.1 in the
Medicine Act. That section does not require any certainty about nontraditional treatments, it also does not assume any certainty about
traditional/allopathic medicine, but merely requires that it not be
more dangerous than the usual therapies (all of which carry often
enormous risks, as most responsible doctors will agree). Section 5.1
does not require RCT to establish that it is no more risky than generally employed treatments. If Section 5.1 requires, in the opinion of the
College and based on transparently provided evidence, an additional
caveat, then the public consultation process available through legislative process is available to deal with such a suggestion. Of course,
that would mean that the College would have to provide legally
acceptable evidence proving that RCT is the universally accepted
standard in allopathic medicine and constitutes the gold standard for
clinical application. That is not the case.
This requirement also ignores and clearly bypasses Brett which
specifically addresses the need to protect the minority opinion and
experience; Brett explicitly protects the new, the not-yet-established,
as being absolutely necessary for medicine to remain alive and well.
Randomized controlled studies do not, as a rule, start something new,
but test something partly or generally known and tried already.
Anybody initiating a randomized controlled study could not even get
started, or hope to receive funding, unless a huge amount of information, which has already been used in clinical practice, can be shown
to exist, so that it is clear that compelling baseline information is
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available already from which such a randomized study can begin its
inquiry. Brett is concerned with protecting that starting point.
Progress in medicine is not possible without Brett, and even Brett itself
rests on many very important legal decisions handed down in the UK
prior to 1991. The concepts presented in Brett are entrenched in common law as well as internationally, hence the wording of the Helsinki
Accord. Indeed, it is deeply puzzling and disturbing that such blatant
disregard for both Brett and Helsinki are in evidence in this draft policy.
Brett is further undermined by the fact that RCT is by definition a
large research event involving a lot of patients, often more than one
institution, and big money. Brett, by contrast, explicitly protects the
single doctors intuition and insightful observation gained from interaction with the individual patient and the professional need to discuss and study such observations with colleagues facing similar
patients; it also protects the possibility of discovery of new diseases
and new understanding of their causesall situations that dont happen suddenly on a large scale, but most often are observed by a doctor here or there whose observations are later recognized as being
generally important and valid. If RCT had been the prerequisite for
handwashing, doctors might still not wash them. The fact is, that by
the time a randomized trial is undertaken, the treatment it is intended
to clarify, is published for the profession and available all over the world.
The importance of RCTs is affirmed as if they constitute a guarantee for safety and efficacy. A serious misunderstanding arises thereby
because randomized trials are discussed within the context of safety
and efficacy. Such trials do not necessarily establish safety and efficacy; basic biochemistry and toxicology are a lot better at that! Anyone
who has ever attended a conference devoted to drug design sponsored
by the big drug companies will know that the chief concern discussed
concerning old drugs as well as new ones hoping to get to market, is
their universally acknowledged liver and central-nervous-system toxicity. Under the best of circumstances, RCTs tend to be very good on
providing statistical information about safety and efficacy. The very
fact that statistical information is at the core of any RCT means that
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and was affirmed by prosecution witnesses in CPSO discipline investigations of CAM doctors. It is also acknowledged in the current edition of the AMA and CMAs Users Guide to the Medical Literature (more
below on it). One especially interesting example of this lack of RCT
rigor concerns vaccine safety: currently, the US Centers for Disease
Control are in the process of commencing the first ever (!) safety trials
on commonly used vaccines. They have been presumed to be safe for
almost two centuries. No risk/benefit ratio has ever been seriously
considered, even though adverse events have been faithfully recorded
by the US government; in Canada no adverse events from vaccines
are recorded, despite the repeated request from the Canadian
Medical Association to initiate such a data base.)
The many citations on the current credibility crisis in allopathic
medicine which I originally provided were all from the mainstream
allopathic community. The Wall Street Journal reported on August 10
this year that the retractions of medical publications because of fraud
and error has increased 15 fold in one decade with more than 300 of
these having occurred last year. The Mayo Clinic announced this year
(cited in the same report) that an entire decade of research into cancer therapy based on large randomized trials must be dismissed as
based on fraud and error; this prompted the editor-in-chief of the
Lancet to observe, that these fraudulent studies are a scar on the
moral body of science. The media and the standard medical publications constantly report on research and publication fraud, lack of
safety in standard medicine, soaring conflicts of interest, and the
resultant harm to patients. All of that informationno exceptions
that I know ofarises from allopathic medical practices.
Why then does this revised policy read as if the College is ever so
anxious to protect patients from harm and exploitation assumed to
be potentially lurking in non-allopathic medicine? Written as if no
credibility storm is engulfing allopathic medicine, this draft policy
clearly assumes that doctors using non-allopathic therapies often
might be crooks. This is plainly insulting. Such assumptions are
unworthy of a professional College and a mere footnote should have
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by people who do not practice CAM and, therefore, cannot be expected to know where to look for information. The learning curve would
have been very steep, but in two years it should have been easily possible to gain some healthy respect for non-allopathic medicine. The
absurd requirement for randomized clinical trials would not be in this
policy if serious research had been conducted into especially the
results of non-allopathic practices, namely patient outcome.
Since no sources are given and the working groups research is
lacking completely in transparency, it is naturally not possible for a
non-allopathic doctor to point out where the working group may
have missed crucial sources or misinterpreted something. This
approach recalls the instructions of former CPSO attorney Donald
Posluns to mind; in trials of doctors using non-traditional methods
(which they had learned by careful study with specialized medical
organizations, namely their legally protected Brett group) his
instructions to the panel used to be: You have never heard of [fill
in the professional medical group of choice, no matter how large,
how supported by published research, and how internationally prestigious] so, therefore, you must find Dr. X guilty of falling below the
standards of practice in Ontario. [Emphasis was his.] Indeed, ignorance was orderedpossibly to enforce bliss; it certainly made it plain
that total arbitrary control over standards of practice was to be seen
as an Ontario-specific privilege.
This draft policy displays the same spirit: this policy carries the
threat of disciplinary censure if not obeyed and is handed down to
doctors pre-identified by the College as being outside the pale and,
therefore, suspect. It states, in effect: We looked into this and here is
what we think you will do from now on; dont bother asking questions, because we are in charge.
Without providing the source for especially those rather insulting
assumptions about potential patient exploitation and scientific deficiencies, that homework must be deemed at best mysterious. Nothing
is spelled out. Nothing is communicated other than an assertion of
authority based on an undefined and unproven suspicion.
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6. CPSOs Questions
1: Does the draft policy address all the important issues related to physician
conduct? If not, what did we miss?
Throughout the draft policy, the assumption of harm and lack of scientific rigor in all matters of CAM/non-allopathic practices is
assumed. The policy even goes so far as to warn that Physicians
should be aware that patients might equate the [professional] affiliation with [a non-allopathic clinic] with a professional endorsement of
efficacy and safety. The doctor is expected to make sure that the
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tive, regardless of the published facts about the lack of safety of allopathic medicine and despite the extra training a doctor may have
taken in non-allopathic methodsunless, perhaps a supportive RCT
can be produced, even though such are rare even in supporting allopathic treatments the doctor also may offer. It creates the absurd situation in which a doctor is basically compelled to tell patients that
his/her non-allopathic treatments are probably just bogusjust to
make sure the patient doesnt get odd ideas which the College does
not share (for unspecified reasons). Offering bogus treatments is, of
course, a clear lapse from the accepted standard of practiceand so
the vicious circle spins around.
What did we miss?
Given that medicine is principally supposed to be a science and nonallopathic doctors are exhorted in this draft policy to be super-scientific, it is astonishing that what is missing iswell! The science! Not a
word of acknowledgement can be found in this draft policy about
even the possibility of some scientific evidence existing for non-allopathic medicine. Given that the policy clearly insists that non-allopathic practitioners must abide by allopathic standards (as misinterpreted by the authors of this policy), it is frankly amazing that there
is no reference, directly or indirectly, to that master guide of allopathic medicine, namely the current 2008 edition of the Users Guides to the
Medical LiteratureA Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice published by the American and Canadian medical associations and edited by McMaster Universitys Gordon Guyatt (a member of the CPSO
who coined the term evidence-based medicine) and JAMAs
Drummond Rennie. The editors and the long list of contributors are
among the worlds most luminous allopathic medical lights.
Importantly, many of whom are especially well-known to their peers
worldwide and to the mainstream media as well for exposing the
wave of fraud in current medical research and for their commitment
to restoring the ethical and scientific credibility of medicine.
Drummond Rennie states that the purpose of this Guide is to
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A press release of August 25, 2011, from the University of California at Los Angeles
(erivero@mednet.ucla,edu) reports that the Journal of General Internal Medicine just
published a review of RCTs undertaken by researchers from the Lancet, JAMA, the
New England Journal of Medicine, the BMJ, the Annals of Internal Medicine, and the
Archives of Internal Medicine in which they revealed the sever shortcomings of RCTs
with respect to misleading and confusing results; their research was focused on
highest-impact RCTs published between June 2008 and Sept 30, 2010.
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clinicians [to] adopt interventions even though randomized trials have never
been performed to test their effect on patient-important outcomes ... even for
medical interventions randomized evidence is usually absent when it comes to
interventions that need to be applied for specialized decisions, after some major
first decision has been made. For these interventions their adoption and
continued use in clinical practice has been based on various combinations of
basic science, preclinical, and observational evidence.
Starting on page 303, the authors give an entire section dedicated
to identifying fraud and bias in published research. One thing is certain: these acknowledged opinion leaders do not suffer from illusions
about allopathic medicine and take great pains to be transparent;
they do not suggest the reader just believe them because they are
great guys.
Given the working group spent 2 years on research, it is odd that
something as important as this manual on EBM was either not consulted or, if it was, did not inform the proposed draft policy. Setting
the standard for non-allopathic doctors as RCT is not supported by
the leaders of EBM for allopathic medicine, so why should it so exclusively be forced onto so-called non-allopathic doctors where it cannot
possibly be any more useful than allopathic medicine has decided it is?
Just providing the generic details of those 31 cases mentioned in
the MD Dialogue would have gone a long way towards fulfilling the
need for transparency that is so evident in the Users Guide which
cites so many examples of studies and/or inferences gone wrong. Is it
not the CPSOs mandate to guide the profession and protect the public? The assumption of non-allopathic medicine being not trustworthy, and the requirement of so extreme a standard (that exceeds what
allopathic medicine deems appropriate and is not even endorsed as
the gold standard) needs to be proven in order to be justifiable.
Of course, this criticism requires that I, too, provide at least some
proof as to why RCTs are not appropriate as a standard for allopath-
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conclusion was that there are marked limitations to the ability of clinical trials to
interrogate varied treatment combinations to determine the most effective
treatment strategy [and] there is no guarantee or necessity that such studies
are available at the time a clinical decision must be made.
It follows that a CAM practitioner may never, ever be able to provide the sort of proof of safety the College demands. Upshur critiqued
the EBM principles successfully because the following criticism he
offered a decade ago was explicitly acknowledged as correct and referenced by its originator, Dr. Gordon Guyatt in this current 2008
Users Guide. That original critique by Upshur stated:
if the process of EBM becomes more oriented to directing practitioners
to use pre-appraised and secondary evidence resources then authority has
once more supplanted critical rationality as the base of medicine.
The current Users Guide makes the point over and over again that
reliance on out-of-date authority is exactly what evidence-based
medicine must never become. That is, however, precisely what this
CPSO draft policy does and clearly intends to force upon non-allopathic practitioners.
Some branches of non-allopathic medicine are based on thousands of published trials; I refer the reader to the 2010 nine pound
textbook on nutritional medicine with its 150,000 citations published
last year by Dr. Alan Gaby (it weighs the same as the current edition
of Harrisons Principles of Internal Medicine). Clinical trials of nontoxic therapies (e.g. essential nutrients, bio-identical hormones, various mind-body techniques, etc) are by definition safe. However, trials
upon which allopathic medicine relies are as a rule conducted to find
out if a synthetic substance of assumed toxicity or a physically invasive technique can be used with some statistically relevant efficacy to
control symptoms of a narrowly specified naturefor as long as the
patients liver holds out, if a drug is involved. The drugs currently listed in the Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties (CPS) all
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CPSOs Question 2:
Is the revised draft policy clearly written?
It makes it clear that any Ontario physician contemplating the use of
non-allopathic practices is in very real danger of winding up in a
Kafkaesque world of prosecution without even the legal recourse
he/she once had when Section 26 (2) of Regulation 114/94, mentioned above, still existed. Insistence on relying on unsubstantiated
external authority, as opposed to real clinical experience, also comes
through loud and clear. Medical students reading this policy, which is
at variance with what they learn in university, might take flight from
Ontario or wisely join one of the other colleges under the RHPA. Worst
of all, the onus of proof of safety defined through an unattainable
and misrepresented standard makes it clear that maybe becoming a
doctor was a really bad idea. Read through the eyes of an educated
patient with experience in non-allopathic therapies, the policy is frightening because the same old fossilized attitude to currently evolving
understanding of illness is maintained with unmistakable firmness.
What also comes through very clearly is a total lack of understanding of what exactly non-allopathic medicine is, otherwise physicians would not be expected to always first err on the side of caution (emphasis mine). The insistence, that every Ontario doctor must
offer allopathic treatment first, is what patients dont want to hear
any longer. I understand the CPSO derives its mandate from serving
the public interest; this policy serves something else, but not the
public interest when doctors clinical decisions are straightjacketed in
this manner and patients are presumed to be ignorant.
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CPSOs Question 3:
If physicians recommend non-allopathic therapies, do you think their
recommendations should be based on scientific evidence?
First of all, given that Section 26 (2) is now history, thanks to the
CPSO, recommending non-allopathic treatment could get an Ontario
doctor into conflict with the CPSO, so that part of the question
requires no further response.
The second part of that question belongs in the category of the sort
that is used to manipulate a pre-determined outcome for the questioner. It is like: When did you stop beating your wife? It does not
permit you to explain that you didnt beat your wife and that maybe
you dont even have a wife. In other words: does the College seriously entertain the possibility that a person with an MD, whose intelligence must be presumed to be rather good for just that reason alone,
would answer No! to that part of the question? This question is
painfully biased and displays an alarming level of ignorance about
bothallopathic and non-allopathic medicine.
7. My recommendations
1. Scrap this policy. The entire exercise is pointless and not helpful in
the least. It is not a policyit is a bludgeon. There is no such thing
as allopathic and non-allopathic medicineand the term complementary and alternative medicine was originally invented by
the pharmaceutical companies as an intended pejorative description. This artificial distinction is historically absurd, because the
current so-called allopathic medicine is merely less than 150 hundred years old at besttaking Semmelweiss and Pasteur as the
logical starting points for modern Western medicine. It is also currently absurd because a regulatory authority, such as the CPSO, is
supposed to act in the public interest which means respecting
medical science in evidence worldwide and demonstrate that it
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does not simply favor the sort of medical practice that is known to
be the lifeblood of Big Business.
Given that homeopathy, naturopathy, and traditional Chinese
medicine are all under the RHPA with their own colleges, they certainly have proven to be helpful to contemporary patients. Given
that fact, the insistence that a CPSO member-physician may only
use such therapies if these medical traditions are proven to meet
an illusory standard is presumptuous.
Finally, since so much of non-allopathic medicine arose directly out of university-based research and at institutions, such as the
CAM Division at the US National Institutes of Health, it is vital to
recognize that these new areas will prove to be useful in clinical
settings through evolution, and must not be choked off by biased
pre-emptive regulation.
2. The only determinative factor, allopathic and non-allopathic, should be
evidencebut not arbitrarily defined, but as defined in law. In medicine that means that evidence always has something to do with
patient outcome. This is especially relevant when something new
is tried for which research begins on a larger scale after the pioneering effort shows promising results and potential for measurement.
3. The single most important action the CPSO must take, if its credibility as
a regulatory authority is to survive, is to explicitly and in the clearest
language drop the double standard contained in this policy; it is not
only scientifically and legally insupportable, it hinders doctors
from widening their scope of practice. The CPSO is supposed to
encourage widening of the scope of practice, not assume automatically that something suspect has occurred. The attitude displayed
by the CPSO in this policy, to be imposed on non-allopathic practices, will make it impossible to practice medicine effectively in
Ontario, and Ontarians will also have their fundamental rights
ignored.
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fered a heart attack, was taken off synthetic HRT and placed on bioidentical hormonesonly to be told a couple of years later (December
2011), after feeling a lot better and no longer suffering from the side
effects of synthetic HRT, that her doctor can no longer prescribe the
bioidenticals for the same reasons given in the first scenario above.
References
JAMAevidence: Users Guides to the Medical LiteratureA Manual for EvidenceBased Clinical Practice, second ed., McGraw-Hill, 2008
Ross E. G. Upshur, If not evidence, then what? Or does medicine really need a
base?, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, vol. 8 (2), p. 113-119, 2002 (Dr.
Upshur is at Sunnybrook Hospital and the University of Toronto)
Trudo Lemmens, Leopards in the Temple: Restoring Scientific Integrity to the
Commercialized Research Scene, International and Comparative Health Law
EthicsA 25-Year Retrospective, Winter 2004, pp. 641-657 (Dr. Lemmens
teaches at the University of Toronto and is an internationally recognized expert
on medical ghost writing.)
A. R. Gaby MD, Nutritional Medicine, Fritz Perlberg, 2010
R. B. Silverman, The Organic Chemistry of Drug Design and Drug Action,
Second Edition, Elsevier, 2004
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V. R. Preedy et al. Nutrition, Diet Therapy, and the Liver, CRC Press, 2010
K. N. Prasad, Micronutrients in Health and Disease, CRC Press, 2011
On the 15-fold surge in study retractions see G. Naik, Wall Street Journal, Aug.
10, 2011
For monthly updates on approved drugs being banned due to class action suits,
or FDA black box warnings, see the on-line newsletter Worst Pills Best Pills
The most current and comprehensive overview on fraud underpinning about
70% of all medical trials, including RCT, see University of Minnesota bioethicist
Carl Elliott, White Coat Black HatAdventures on the Dark Side of Medicine,
Beacon Press, 2010
On the problems caused by synthetic drugs, including over-the-counter drugs,
the best source is always the pharmacology section in Harrisons Principles of
Internal Medicine
A. D. Ruiz et al. Effectiveness of Compounded Bioidentical Hormone
Replacement Therapy: An Observational Cohort Study, BMC Womens Health,
Vol. 11:27, 2011
C. Dean MD, Hormone Balance, Adams Media, 2005for the history of
synthetic HRT, the research that showed its dangers, and the alternatives
developed by mainstream medicine in bioidentical substances.
For ongoing research into the toxicity of pharmaceutical drugs, fraud
in clinical trials, bias and misrepresentation of data on large randomized studies see especially the online medical journal PloS Medicine
(Public Library of Science-Medicine) which was founded by Nobel laureate Harold Varmus, the director of the US National Institutes of
Health at the time of the founding of the PLoS family of journals,
explicitly undertaken in order to make the fraud underlying medical
research as transparent as possible.
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All we now know is that they did not even meet the standard of a
pharmaceutical companys published research on their products
they provide lots of sources from the medical literature in all their
publications. True, Big Pharma messes with the conclusions, massages the data, picks and chooses evidence as it fits the predetermined
aim of bamboozling as many doctors as possible into prescribing the
product regardless of its clinical value, and minimizes or just takes
out actual harm observed in trials. Big Pharma then hangs on resolutely to their raw data, hidden away in some Fort Knox type safe,
to make sure nobody gets a chance to go over the full details collected from those drug-company-financed trials and finds out what really happened. As you will learn from articles yet to come in the rest of
this book, this behavior is being challenged vigorously by mainstream medical scientists, and the good news is that wherever the true
facts finally seep out, there has been hell to pay.
The CPSO doesnt massage datano need to even do that if the
decision is made to tell nobody anything at all about any data. All
we are given is references to their own, earlier policiesequally
devoid of science-based published supportand thus this new CAM
policy must be divinely or otherwise mysterious inspired: the result of
a secret communion of like minds. The question is, however, why this
final CAM policy, created as it appears to be, from thin air or unstated private opinion, should be something every doctor in Ontario
should be expected to obey, why doctors and patients alike in Ontario
should be guided by this policy, and by what authority the CPSO can
deny its members, and the patients they treat, the basic right to factual verification.
The CPSOs crest, dating back to the 1850s when it was first created, can be found on all its publications and its letterhead. It is also
reproduced below. It contains the Latin words Fidus in Arcanis which
translates to Faithful to the Secrets.
However, science and secrets are mutually exclusive. Doctors guided by secrets emperil their professional ethics, while patients fool
enough to blindly trust the implementation of secret-based policies
are in potentially fatal denial.
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1. An Emerging Epidemic
February 2009
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of 2008. The new, court-ordered, and independently produced, guidelines will appear in 2009 and be communicated through the medical
journals to doctors everywhere. Thus, appropriate government policy
has become imperative.
Considerable case law and legal decisions exist in Canada, which
since the early 1990s, have already established that no preference
may be given to just one point of view in medical practice. Yet,
instead of doctors and patients being protected and supported accordingly, Ontario doctors, if they are informed about Lyme Disease at all,
generally only are familiar with those now defunct IDSA guidelines
and are expected to abide by them, being OHIP mediated and CPSO
condoned.
Throughout the 1990s, a similar tragedy unfolded with regard to
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS), also called Environmental
Illness (EI). In 1999, ironically, the internationally recognized clinical
criteria for MCS were published simultaneously in leading medical
journals on June 19, the very same day on which one of Canadas
leading MCStreating physicians (with excellent, documented
patient outcome) was found guilty by the CPSO of diagnosing and
treating MCS, and even though the international criteria were known
for the past four years, he was accordingly reprimanded in 2003. The
CPSO had chosen not to accept the international research. Now this
case has become one of the tragic absurdities of medical history, especially because in 2007 the Human Rights Commission of Canada
affirmed the right of Canadians to treatment for MCS, and as Quebec
and Ontario passed laws against cosmetic pesticide usea major
cause of MCS.
In December 2008, Germany affirmed MCS as an official diagnosis and incorporated it into their medical, liability, and labor legislation. And yet, 10 years after the clinical criteria were defined by Johns
Hopkins Medical School and internationally published, to this day
the CPSO website carries the text of that 2003 reprimand: While he
may hold strong beliefs in the appropriateness of his diagnostic methods (on MCS), his diagnostic conclusions, and his methods of treat-
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ment, he must make it clear to his patients that they are simply
thatbeliefs. He must be candid in stating that they are unsupported by scientifically-acceptable evidence.
Given that in Ontario physicians treating Lyme Disease are now
also intimidated, and some are under threat of disciplinary investigation for merely recognizing the existence of chronic Lyme Disease,
does this mean that patients suffering from new diseases, or old ones
not seen for a long time, are expected to put their symptoms on hold
and ignore international research until the CPSO provides official
approval? MPP Monte Kwinter once observed at a University of
Toronto medical conference that, as far as the CPSO is concerned, if
it aint invented in Ontario it aint invented.
The CPSO is on record in the 2001 Glasnost Report for having
taken the same approach to the new and emerging treatment protocols for chronic pain, asthma, and allergyand now also to chronic
Lyme Disease. We feel this is so because no safeguards exist in the
RHPA that require regulatory bodies to move with the times and to
make positive patient outcome central to the law. The Glasnost
Report... focused on the lack of checks and balances in the Section 75
provisions of the RHPA which (permits)... astonishing disregard for
patients right to treatment choice and (ignores) the physicians right
to explore all available medical literature for treatment options. This
is true once again for chronic Lyme Disease patientsand the doctors
able and willing to treat them.
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integrity of our blood supply cannot again be allowed to be in jeopardy. Our doctors must be allowed to think when confronting emerging medical conditions without fear of sacrificing everything, especially their professional integrity. Every family doctor must learn how
to recognize and treat Lyme. This is as basic as washing ones hands.
Canadians must join international efforts to contain this infectious
disease and to expect as a matter of course that every spring Lymetick endemic parks and areas in the country carry warning and
instruction signs.
This book, the proceeds of which go entirely towards Lyme awareness work, will be a useful tool in this necessary and overdue public
health campaign. You will learn from it how to protect yourself, your
loved ones, and the health of Canada.
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nant patient had positive Ontario test results because she was infected with an Asian variant of Borrelia burgdorferi that the Ontario test
does recognize.
In Ontario, a self-satisfied blind government appears to lead a
medical profession kept blind too, with a testing protocol that ensures
everybody stays blind, because that test too is almost totally blind,
occasionally able to recognize a few cases and thereby lull us all into
a totally false sense of public health security. How are doctors supposed to know how to recognize Lyme disease when our testing protocol prevents recognition so perfectly? When they do see it, they are
unprepared to treat it. All that sophisticated medical research published in the most prestigious international journals is kept out of
medical practice by a government policy that ensures complex new
scientific discoveries about Lyme do not confuse medical minds with
the true facts about this messy disease. A friend of mine summarized
current government policy beautifully: All we need to knock off the
human race is a Lyme tick to wreck our immune systems and a cell
phone to fry our brains. (See my April feature in Vitality.)
Our family got help fastthrough an ILADS-trained physician
and our pregnant friend was treated with daily antibiotic shots during the crucial months of pregnancy when additionally Lyme-mediated potential kidney failure in the mother needed constant monitoring with various antibiotics. During the first six months ultrasounds
showed that the fetus was abnormally small, but as soon as the
appropriate antibiotic protocol commenced, the baby grew fast to a
normal size. Finally, a Lyme-literate homeopath, midwife, and a professor of obstetrics brought about that rare and wonderful event: a
baby grown in a Chronic Lyme patients body but born Lyme-free
weighing 7 pounds 9 ounces; the mother is in equally good health
and six weeks post-partum had a negative Lyme serology. This success happened despite Ontarios insupportable policy which misguides Ontarios infectious disease doctors. All the thanks go to the
research of Dr. Charles Ray Jones, an expert on Lyme in pregnancy
who presented last October at the annual international ILADS confer-
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ence, held in Toronto for the first time. And yes, the rest of us are also
on the mend.
Who benefits from this insupportable government policy? Jim
Wilson, founder and director of the national patient support group,
CanLyme, agrees with the author of the famous book Cure Unknown,
Pamela Weintraub, writing that the consistent downplaying of the
severity of Lyme disease, only benefits the global medical insurers,
who underwrite all of our employee disability coverage who do not
want to incur the cost of this global pandemic, and the workers compensation boards across Canada. The pharmaceutical industry benefits greatly by inventing a new drug to treat each of the many symptoms of Lyme Disease, making billions of dollars globally while doing
no research to treat the cause of the disease or to find better diagnostic tools.
Under the leadership of Jim Wilson the Lyme-afflicted residents of
BC have worked for more than two decades now to get the attention
of their provincial government. Naturopaths in British Columbia,
Jim writes, who have passed the pharmacology exams have been
allowed to prescribe and several have stepped up to the plate by diagnosing and treating patients who require antibiotics. We are hoping
the situation is about to improve again in BC. In 2010 the BC government, in response to pressure exerted by the Canadian Lyme Disease
Foundation and patients across the province, announced the opening
of a Complex Chronic Disease Clinic. The clinic will focus on chronic
Lyme Disease, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, and Lupus.
Board members from CanLyme and representatives from the other
disorder groups have played a limited but hopeful role in the set up
of the clinic Interviews for the medical director position for this new
BC clinic, housed at the BC Children and Womens Hospital in
Vancouver, were completed at the end of March, 2012. The clinic is to
be operational by May 1st, 2012.
Terrible as Lyme disease is, it is also true that some of the finest
medical minds have figured out its deep and complex puzzles so that
many treatment protocols have been developed, some of which do
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S ECTION 2
T H E H U MAN L I FE S U PPORT S YSTE M
The Reach Treaty
December 2007*
The ancient Chinese believed that a cosmic force, the Will of Heaven,
controlled the rise and fall of their imperial dynasties. As soon as an
emperor failed to act in accord with the laws of nature, understood
as the Tao, the so-called Mandate of Heaven passed to a contender
who founded a new dynasty. The ancient Greeks understood this
mandate which required human obedience as coming up against
Anananke, the goddess Necessity.
This being written close to Christmas, some seasonal thoughts
are in order. Our own tradition also depicts, in the familiar scene of
the nativity crche, this ancient and universal insight that all earthly power must serve life as shown in the newborn baby experienced
as divine. At the height of the Roman Empire, the Christmas story
tells us, God appeared in human form to teach humanity how to live
in harmony with divine intent. Today we rarely are conscious of the
symbolic images contained in the nativity scene which to people in
the Roman world would have been obvious: the ox resting near the
Christ childs crib represented the mighty powers of the past,
Mesopotamia and Egypt, as well as the Romans for all of whom the
bull was the symbol of royal power derived from the divine bulls in
their pantheons. The donkey stood for labor, obedience, and service
to commerce. The sheep represented the agricultural and farming
base as well as the obedience to the gods as they were the preferred
*
This article was originally published in a shorter version in Vitality Magazine under
the title The New Green Superpower.
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In fact anything and everything is outmore than 60,000 chemicalsif science has shown it to be, or suspects it to be, cancer-causing, hormone-disrupting, birth defect promoting, fertility compromising, toxic to aquatic life, or damaging to the environmentfrom
ozone-depleting to CO2-increasing. This move is especially amazing
in view of the fact that Europe, not the U.S., was the worlds largest
producer of toxic chemicals. It is their own industries they are cleaning up the most, and it is the European scientists who are working
overtime to find safe substituteshaving found many already.
The Europeans have a new word for their attitude: glocalism
thinking locally and acting globally, the phrase antibiotic researcher
and environmentalist Renee Dubois coined. What was once the Cold
Wars greatly feared domino effect (then attributed to communism and socialism), has now become reality in the sphere of environmental stewardship arising out of the socialism of the European
Green Party that started this whole process in the 1970s and kept up
the momentum of change. Now China, Japan, India, several South
American countries (even Mexico has found the courage to oppose
the U.S.) have either already adapted their environmental laws to the
E.U., or are in the process of doing so. No wonder, since the E.U. is
pouring hundreds of millions of Euros into helping these countries
clean up their own technologies.
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consumer lifestyle that causes the greenhouse gases that cause climate change. Until we end consumerism and the rampant advertising that drives it, we will not solve the climate crisis. (I imagine the
Three Kings chose their gifts without prompting from television or
glossy magazines.)
A similar attitude was evident when the first French court dealt
with farmers who had destroyed vast tracts of Monsantos test fields
growing genetically engineered corn: they were all acquitted on
grounds of self defense. The court accepted the reason provided by
the farmers who had all pleaded guilty. The asserted, correctly as it
turned out since, that there is no earthly way to prevent cross-pollination with the natural corn grown everywhere else which would ruin
their livelihood because GMO crops are not saleable in Europe.
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MeantimeBack In Canada
In the meantime, a lot remains to be done. Here in Canada we still
have cancer-causing hormones and antibiotics in our food-producing
animals. Slaughterhouse waste is still being fed to herbivores exposing
us to the risk of Mad Cow Disease. Our food is contaminated with pesticides and genetically engineered substances. Sure, we cant sell any
of this to Europe, but North America will become a toxic island if we
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with respect to GE crops, protect farmers seed rights, and ensure that
no cross contamination takes place.
A month earlier, Monsanto suffered a landmark defeat in the
courts when it had to agree on March 19, 2008, to pay all the cleanup costs of the Roundup ready canola that contaminated Percy
Schmeisers fields. This sets an important precedent because it is now
legally established that patented plants are potential trespassers,
which makes them contaminants to be treated as genetic pollutants.
This ensures that all those farmers currently threatened by
Monsantos legal actions for having GE seeds drift into their non-GE
fields, will have their own, natural, crops protected.
Back in the 1990s, without his knowledge, Schmeisers fields had
been contaminated with Monsantos GE canola for which Monsanto
sued him on the grounds of patent infringement. Back in 2004, our
Supreme Court judges ordered the Canadian government to amend
patent laws to reflect this new technological realitywhich has so far
not happened.
Schmeiser won the 2007 alternate Nobel, Swedens Right
Livelihood Award, for having given the world a wake-up call about
the dangers to farmers and biodiversity everywhere from the growing
dominance and market aggression of companies engaged in the
genetic engineering of food crops.
The myth the GE industry so desperately tried to palm off as reality has totally bitten the dust on both claims, namely that these foods
are good for us and just as good as natures products. Interestingly,
the first health disaster maliciously attributed to natural health products turned out to be a GE-caused tragedy. Jeffery Smith, who recently published a magisterial survey of all the known science to date on
the health effects of GE foods, first uncovered the true story involving
tryptophan.
In its natural form, tryptophan is an essential amino acid found
in milk, turkey meat and other foods. Being an essential amino
acid means that it is an absolute requirement for life, and as such it
interacts with a host of targets within an organism. Messing with an
amino acid means messing with everything.
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Smith tells the story of how in the late 1980s a lot of people suffered sudden and extreme nerve pain, and their legs and arms filled
with fluid; they also had trouble breathing. The Mayo Clinic discovered that these had taken this supplement. About 100 people died
and thousands became seriously ill and the symptoms were given the
name eosinophilia myalgia syndrome (EMS). The Journal of the
American Medical Association reported on July 11, 1990, that all these
victims had in common the fact that they had taken GE-contaminated tryptophan pills traced to one manufacturer who had used genetically engineered bacteria: genes had been inserted into these bacteria to produce higher concentrations of this amino acid. When Science
reported these findings as well, the FDA blasted the authors for
causing an adverse impact on the industry.
The scientists presented in Smiths book document how GMOs do
harm, such as by promoting sterility, increasing infant mortality, provoking serious allergies, setting in motion cascades that result in
organ damage, increasing vulnerability to childhood diseases, challenging and breaking down immune responses, harming the nervous
system andmost importantlythat these foods do not nourish.
Smith tells an interesting story about Health Canadas concern for
public health in the age of GMOs: Tracking down the impact of GM
foods is even more difficult in North America where these foods are
not labeled [no control groupas the GE industry hoped to escape liability]. Regulators at Health Canada announced in 2002 that they would
monitor Canadians for health problems from eating GM foods. A
spokesperson said, I think its just prudent and what the public
expects But according to the CBC TV news on Current Affairs,
September 25, 2006, Health Canada abandoned that research less
than a year later saying that it was too difficult to put an effective surveillance system in place.
Science is moving so rapidly in dispelling GE myths, I have a hard
time keeping up with the rapidity of results published by universities
focusing on health effects and comparing GE crops with organic and
regular crops: GE corn has been shown to cause kidney damage and
measurable liver toxicity in animal studies; GM potatoes show cancer
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gates the finest and the best, a sort of eugenics program for food producing farm animalsthe best steak replicated forever and ever.
However, that is not how those see it who actually are familiar with
the processes involved. One of the leading cloning scientists in the
world, Rudolph Jaenisch of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
said recently: You cannot make normal clones. The ones that survive will just be less abnormal than the ones that die early. There
has been no progressnonein the last six years in making cloning
more safe.
The UK Alliance for Natural Health won three court cases in the
EU (2005), the International Court of Justice (2006) and the British
High Court (2007) on behalf of natural medicine and the GMO issues
versus Codex regulation. In an interview on June 24, 2008, its chair,
Dr. Robert Verkerk, explained that the Irish No vote against the EU on
June 12 was primarily due to issues of natural health products and
the desire to have foods remain uncontaminated by genetically engineered varieties. The latter issue motivates the current injunction
against the ratification of the EU Constitution filed in the British High
Court; one of its justices even went public and told the Prime Minister
to stop all ratification work until the case has been heard (Times, June
21, 2008).
The populations of the UK, France, Denmark and the Netherlands
are demanding a national referendum on the EU question primarily
because they dont want GMOs allowed in Europe (EU-Referendum.org,
June 5, 2008). Here in Canada, we still have two bills awaiting our
joint demand for passage: C-510 which would make GE crops illegal
and ban pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, and rendered slaughterhouse waste from food production; and C-448 which would ban terminator technology as well.
Who would have thought that food and medicine would become
the worlds central concerns! But what else could possibly be more
important?
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In May, the food labeling committee of the international food standards authority (Codex) had its annual meetingthis time in
Calgary. Its new chair is Health Canadas Paul Mayers, well-known
for his unconditional support of genetically modified foods. At the
meeting, he tried is bestunsuccessfullyto ensure that genetically
modified (GM) foods would not be labeled as such. The European
Union and others kicked up a big fuss and the matter is, once again,
postponed to next years meeting.
When Codex was founded in 1963, genetic engineering was not
even on the radar; today, it is a living science nightmare that 97% of
Canadians would like to awake from. In direct contradiction to well
documented public rejection of GM foods in Canada, our government
supported representatives of those countries present at the Codex
meeting which are producers of GMO foods, namely the USA,
Argentina, New Zealand, and Australia. The citizens of these countries are also opposed to GM foods, but their governments dont listen
to them either. According to the US National Health Federations
lawyer Scott Tipps, who represented anti-GMO groups at the Calgary
Codex meeting, these GM-pushing countries have decided that the
consumer is too stupid to understand [that GM foods are good for us
and] and wished to see GM-food labeling disappear into a black hole.
However, international scientific consensus supports the rights of
the consumer to have access to clean, unadulterated food. Last year,
the 63-nation committee on International Assessment of Agricultural
Science and Technology Development (IAASTD) stated in their final
unanimous report that the agriculture of the future is one that works
with nature and the peoplenot against them and that genetically engineered crops will not play a substantial role in addressing the
key problems of climate change, biodiversity loss, hunger, and poverty. Indeed, the report urged governments to recognize consumer
preference with respect to GM foods, protect farmers seed rights, and
ensure that no cross contamination takes place. Included in this
international committee were enlightened scientists from those same
countries fighting labeling in Calgary. (Vitality, July 2008)
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Today, the U.S. government has to subsidize farmers up to $5 billion annually to cover GM-related crop failures and damage. This
may become as expensive as their wars, because long predicted
superweeds have emerged in the Sun Belt states, where pigweed has
mutated into chemical invincibility through constant applications of
Roundup (glyphosate), devastating cotton and soybean crops. In
2008, about 45% of all those vast fields had to be hand weeded.
(www.naturalnews.com)
Last year, 80% of South Africas GM corn harvest failed:
82,000 hectares grew fine-looking corn, but with no kernels at all.
Actually, this really is all about control, not health or global food
security. When the U.S. invaded Iraq, American diplomat Paul
Bremer issued a series of directives to serve as building blocks for the
new Iraq. Among them was Order 81, which compelled Iraqi farmers to abandon their 10,000 years of agricultural history and instead
use Monsantos seed and plant products if they wanted to do business
with the U.S. The concern is that Iraqi farmers will have the same fate
as those in India, where some 1,500 farmers committed suicide
because their crops failed year after year and their biotech contracts
could not be fulfilled. (www.INEAS.org, www.alternet.org)
Prince Charles, ignoring the pressure to shut up exerted by Prime
Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, called for an end to biotech
farming, quoting Mahatma Gandhis warning against commerce
without morality and science without humanity. He was referring
to the suicides among Indian farmers, terminator technology, and
recent research conducted by Syngenta which used children for GM
food trialssponsored by Bill Gates and the Rockefeller Foundation.
The Prince also called attention to the lie that biotechnology is
necessary to feed the world. In fact, according to organizations studying hunger and food shortages, the world produces annually about
twice as much food as requiredthrough non-biotech farming.
Organic methods consistently outperform conventional and biotech,
methods: Brazil and Ethiopia increased their yields by 250% when
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Smith, Jeffrey M., Genetic Roulette, Yes! Books 2007. Also: GMO Trilogy
Unnatural Selection, Hidden Dangers in Kids Meals, Youre eating WHAT? DVD.
For research showing the nutritional content of conventional food compared to
organic, google International Academy of Nutrition and Preventive Medicine,
Biodynamics, the November 2008 issue of the CCPA Monitor, and
http://www.organic_center.org
www.soilandhealth.org
www.i-sis.dircon.co-uk
www.responsibletechnology.org
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www.orthomolecularhealth.com
www.helpyourselfcommunity.org
www.verifiedeggs.com check to buy omega-3 containing eggs from humanely treated animals
www.ewg.org download free guide to pesticide-free produce
www.stjohnsbakery.com in Toronto, for Red Fife flour and healthy breads
2011
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growth depends. American and Dutch scientists are pointing out that
it takes a community of soil microbes to protect plants from disease.
The upshot of this mad-science-inspired dirty agribusiness is that
50% of all children in the U.S. now have chronic diseases and 21%
suffer from developmental disorders. The estimated cost of these
human-made diseases and malnutrition is estimated at $76.6 billion
annually. Now governments around the world are starting to
acknowledge that their countries children are adversely affected by
these deadly agricultural practices. In one example, Indias Supreme
Court imposed a temporary ban on the pesticide endosulfan in May,
and urged the government to join the international campaign to stop
its production and use completely. The judges stated that when something affects the right to life, the fundamental right to business has
to take the back seat because the right to life is higher than all
laws and rights.
Since such enormous profits are at stake for those who wish to control the worlds food supply through transnational corporations, they
are not likely to give up anytime soon. Supported by the Bill Gates
Foundation, they promise medicines engineered into plants, and are
ready to bring the first GM foods to market that contain human
genesif we let them. A really appetizing offer comes from Japan
where they have developed edible meat from human excrement. Bon
apptit! The only new offering that I find worthy of consideration
involves test-tube burgers, the development of which would stop the
horrendous suffering of all those millions of farm animals slaughtered to sustain the current burger industry. I recommend for contemplation the Test-tube Burgers article published in the May 23 The New
Yorker.
A recent United Nations report showed that eco-farming increased
average crop yields by about 80% in 57 developing countries in the
last decade; in many areas in Africa crop yields doubled at 3 to 10
years, depending on the region. The report states: Todays scientific
evidence demonstrates that agro ecological methods outperform the
use of chemical fertilizers in boosting food production where the hun-
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gry liveespecially in unfavorable environments. In China especially, chemical-free pest management, achieved through intercropping
different rice varieties, drastically cut rice losses. And in California,
organic strawberry production, which is difficult to manage, took off
gloriously.
In the U.S., the state of Maine was the first to assert its right to food
sovereignty, for which it was vigorously attacked, but was able to
prove that food sovereignty is a constitutional guarantee. In
California, people forced the powers-that-be to label GM fish, and
now the state is poised to ban GM salmon outright. The E.U. also
refuses GM fish products.
Not surprisingly, Monsantos shares fell after this news, but it
plans to succeed with GM wheat. That seems unlikely, given that the
U.S. made itself unpopular in the E.U., as Wikileaks revealed earlier
this year, by trying to bully the E.U. into accepting GM crops with
heavy-handed threats. That backfired: the EUs agricultural commissioner, Dacian Ciotos, made it clear that traditional agriculture would
be favoured above all, and that the diversity of diets arising from natural biodiversity was the EUs primary interest. In March, the member
states agricultural ministers got together and discussed how to outright ban all GM crop cultivation within the E.U.; their main concern
is the protection of biodiversity, something that GM agribusiness simply cannot do if it wishes to pursue a profitable business model.
Europe as well as Japan cancelled their grain contracts with Australia
because of GM contamination.
This spirit of rebellion gave rise to a law suit launched against
Monsanto by some 60 Canadian farmers, seed businesses, and organic organizations to protect themselves preemptively against the tactics the company used in the infamous Schmeiser case some years
back. Organic Seed Growers & Trade Organizations vs. Monsanto was
filed by the 270,000 member strong group on March 30 in federal district court in Manhattan, and hopes to achieve protection from GM
seed contamination for organic farmers.
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The studies showing that 50% of US children have chronic diseases and 21%
developmental disabilities is found in the June 2011 issue of Pediatrics
L. Trasande et al. Reducing the staggering cost of environmental disease in
children estimated at $ 76.6 billion in 2008, Health Affairs, May 2011
The story about the Supreme Court of India temporarily banning endosulfan was
in The Times of India, May 14, 2011
R. Ananda, More problems with glyphosate [Roundup]: US rice growers sound
alarm, May 23, 2011, from www.globalresearch.ca
The toxic origins of disease in PLoS, web-based medical journal, July 2007,
vol. 5/7, www.plosbiology.org
On the UN admitting that ecological agriculture outperforms all GM methods,
see www.stltoday.com/business
Report on chemical-free pest management cutting rice waste, see Eureka March
19, 2011 On strawberries grown organically see www.grist.org/organic-food
On the State of Maine laws on food sovereignty see www.globalresearch.ca and
www.globalmotherdivine.org
NDP Leader Jack Layton on food labeling, e-mail from canadasndp@ndp.ca
April 26, 2011
The editorial on need for more than the GMO message in world farming is in the
journal Nature, July 29, 2010; the whole issue is devoted to agriculture
J.P. Reganold et al. Transforming US Agriculture, Science, May 5, 2011
The editorial on the harmful effects on agriculture and food safety from
globalization was published in American Society for Microbiology, May 23, 2011
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The most fundamental needs for healthy living include air, water and
food. During the last fifty to sixty years all three of these gifts of
nature have increasingly been polluted with a concomitantly increasing incidence of untimely death due to cancer and various other
chronic diseases.
For instance, air is no more its natural self to contain appropriate
proportions of nitrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide. It is being forced
to contain larger and larger amounts of sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxide,
carbon monoxide, methane and other toxic gases of industrial origin.
Similarly, water is no more its natural self. It is chlorinated, fluoridated and made to contain a huge variety and quantity of toxic
products that not only are harmful to human health but also to that
of every living being on the earth.
The worst harm of all is due to what is occurring in factory farm
operations to obtain extra yields of food. Crops and food-producing
animals are being stimulated with the following five harmful materials, including:
Hormones
Antibiotics
1 Dr. Chopras Five Pillars of Food Safety is published here with his kind permission.
HF
2 Author, Corrupt to the Core - Memoirs of a Health Canada Whistleblower, Kos
Publishing 2009 www.shivchopra.com
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EMF Protection
1. The Damaging Effects Of Electropollution*
April 2011
The good news is that many of these EMF diseases
may be preventable by simple environmental manipulation,
if society chooses to pay attention. Unless public outrage
intervenes, I am afraid that our diseases of civilization
will get worse. Good science is not enough to force
sensible public policy. Only citizens can do that.
Dr. Samuel Milham in Dirty Electricity, 2010
Ignorance may or may not be bliss, but one thing is certain: it is very
profitable. According to Buddhism, all suffering derives from ignorance, and it rarely hurts until it is too late; ignorance keys into the
addictive potential in all of us and, thereby, allows somebody to make
a huge pile of money on enslavement.
The detrimental health effects of cell phones, WiFi, electromagnetic fields (EMFs), and the microwave-based technology we use daily
makes worrying about our kids experimenting with drugs, sexual
escapades, alcoholic binges, or a touch of crime insignificantin
comparison to the WiFi-equipped school you send them to, the cell
phones you may have bought for them, the hours they spend in front
*
In April 2011 and March and April 2012, Vitality Magazine published an article by
me on EMF issues; they have here been combine into one item and updated to
December 2012.
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proved beyond any doubt that the risk for this disease is directly related to the presence of power lines, and subsequently also cell phone
towers; those areas of the world that have little or no electricity have
almost no incidence of leukemia. In addition to leukemia, evidence
now supports that cell phones cause especially brain tumors, cancer of the eye, salivary glands, testicles, non-Hodgkins lymphoma,
and Alzheimers. This radiation also contributes to the development
of autism and ADHD. While several causes are known for all of these
conditions, research has confirmed that the use of cell and cordless
phones and lap-top computers, speed up their manifestation such
that people in their 30s are now beginning to be diagnosed with
advanced Alzheimers. The degranulation process of live brain cells
when exposed to cell phone radiation has been experimentally
demonstrated. Cancer incidence is also significantly higher within
400 meters of a cell phone tower or transmitter site. Trent University
researcher Magda Havas may now have discovered a third type of
diabetes caused exclusively by electromagnetic radiation.
The most vulnerable are children, pregnant women, human
brains in general, testicles, and ovaries. This was confirmed in 2007
by the World Health Organization and the International Agency for
Research on Cancer and in 2010 by a Swedish government study, all
showing that cell phone use increases the chances of brain cancer
by 40%. Last year, the European Journal of Oncology reported that
serious heart and related problems (e.g. arrhythmia, palpitations,
heart flutter, racing heart beat, fainting, profuse sweating etc) can
occur to pulsed radiation as low as 0.5% of the existing Canadian
and US federal guidelines which permit 10 mill micro/Wm2. The truly
science-based exposure guidelines demonstrate that nobody should
be exposed to more than 1 microW/m2.
When it comes to any type of death industry, the most reliable
information comes from the military. On the website www.safeschool.ca
you can download a recently declassified US Navy document from
1971 which summarizes the more than 2,300 studies on the health
effects from microwave radiation known way back then! Of course
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U.S. government was fully aware of this Soviet espionage project, but
kept silent for yearsjust to see what would happen. After all, it was
a perfect science project (for the sake of which the glaring ethical
inconsistency with the 1940s US-led Nurnberg trials was conveniently ignored). The Germans doing medical experiments on people was
evil; this project, however, could be massaged to aid some greater
good. The U.S. ambassador died of cancer and many staff members
developed those forms of cancer, birth defects, infertility, and more
which are characteristic of such non-thermal radiation exposure. Not
until 1976 did this government betrayal of its own staff become the
subject of congressional investigation.
Today, the complete bibliography of more than 2,000 scientific
reports on non-thermal radiation damage compiled before 1970 are
available. They were declassified by the military in 1971 (see
www.magdahavas.com).
When cell phones hit the market in the early 1990s and WiFi for
computers was invented, it was already known what damage these
products were capable of causing. Most importantly, that early literature, now supported by an ever-growing body of high-tech and epidemiological research, negates the assertion that just some people
are hypersensitive. That same myth was used for decades to downplay Multiple Chemical Sensitivity as well. The profit from war gadgets,
communication technology, and pesticides is simply too big to resist;
better to blame those few weirdoes who stand in the way of profit.
To put this hypersensitivity of the few into perspective, consider
Swedish and American research published last fall which shows that
within the coming decade we are likely to face a 25-fold increase of
brain cancer incidence worldwide. There is no way that any government or insurance company can pay for this. Not surprisingly, two of
the worlds largest insurance companies, Lloyds and Swiss Re, have
recommended exclusion clauses to the entire industry for damage
from long-term use of such radiation-producing gadgets.
Researchers have found that cell phone use impairs DNA cellular
repair, and has caused a sharp rise in brain cancer (documented from
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cell phone use over the past decade). The facts became so unavoidable
that the usually arch-conservative World Health Organization had no
choice last summer but to declare radiofrequency electromagnetic fields
(RE-EMF) produced by cell phones, Bluetooth, cordless phones, Smart
Meters, baby monitors, and WiFi to be a Class B carcinogen (like
asbestos and DDT).
True, the actual mechanism by which this low-level radiation
caused harm was not understood in the 1940s, even though the fact
of harm was known and documented. Today, our understanding is so
thorough, it exceeds the evidence we have of the harm done by DDT,
asbestos, and smoking by far. Yet, the International Commission on
Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP), established in 1992,
continues to stick to Schwanns standard and even deliberately misquotes, disguises, or ignores this enormous body of knowledge. It continues to provide guidelines to governments and industry based on
research published before WiFi technology had even left the laboratory and become commercially available. To support these absurd
guidelines, even fraudulent research projects were undertaken in the
UK (see Mark Anslow).
In Canada an interesting case of suppression of evidence exists in
the federal Report LTR-CS-98 of April 1973. It provided the evidence
that microwave radiation is an environmental pollutant and a
threat to human health. And yet, Health Canada established its
Code 6 by following ICNIRP guidelines for radio frequencies and publicly repeated that propaganda about non-thermal radiation as
being safe as recently as September 2010.
The many international resolutions presented by scientists to governments the world over demanding the public be protected from this
technology are simply ignored, but their urgency is increasing. When
cell phones first became available in the early 90s, the Council of
Europe, aware of the science since the 1930s about the dangers of
radar to human health, requested that young people in particular be
protected from such commercial devices. Last April, the Council did
so again, in even stronger terms and armed with even more research.
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lic health through successful case law. That will force the invention of
better technology. Last year the famous microwave activist Arthur
Firstenberg brought a case regarding deployment of cell phone-related technology before the federal district court in New Mexico on the
basis of the industrys infringement of the Americans with Disability
Act. The judge ruled that the Telecommunications Act preempts the
Americans with Disabilities Act, even if such an interpretation would
condemn a class of citizens to death because of their disabilities. The
judge also ruled that the Equal Protection Clause and the Due Process
Clause of the U.S. Constitutions 14th Amendment was not applicable.
An appeal was launched on February 21. My hunch is that
because of the denial of fundamental human rights, this legal action
will now move out of the polarization between industry and science
and into the territory of what lawyers call first principles, in this
case liability law and established case law on harm done from whatever source.
Yes, the danger posed by EMF radiation is significant, but it is possible to save yourself and your loved ones. In Part 2 of this article, I
will share the information and resources that I used to restore my
health and make my home and workplace safe. Put simply, the answer
to bad technology is not no technology, but good technology, just as
bad medicine is cured by good medicine.
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The fears of Henry Higgins may now become reality for you, dear
readers, whose lives and homes might be turned upside down by what
I hope to teach you about protection from electro pollution that
invades us all without our knowledge or consent. As promised last
month: the answer to bad technology is good technology, and there is
lots. Here are two compelling reasons to act on this information.
Firstly: The symptoms of electro pollution-induced sickness involve
all organs with many debilitating symptoms, from skin rashes to cancer; they are part of the Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) spectrum. In fact, Dr. William Rea of the American Academy for
Environmental Medicine became EMF sensitive himself from the operating room lights used when he was still a surgeon. Today, treatment
of EMF sensitivity is as much a part of the work and training of
AAEM-trained doctors as is everything involving environmental
chemical toxins. The symptoms of environmental illness provide
potentially inexhaustible revenues for Big Pharma and related industries. Your personal descent into a nightmarebe it by cell phone or
lawn pesticidesis a dream come true for a business that treats only
symptoms, rarely causes. Recovering from encounters of the EMF kind
is not only a personal achievement but can be a public service: you
speak truth to the power of phony medicine that grows and profits by
sickness.
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Then there are thyroid problems with weight gain and hair loss,
swollen lymph nodes, bleeding ears or nose, frequent urination,
constant ringing in the ears, night sweats, pain in teeth with mercury fillings which act as conductors, and finally very specific cancers, especially gliomastwo thirds of which are attributed to wireless gadgets, especially cell phones.
Prevention
Fatigue and headaches, infertility, and your kids ADHD are likely
caused by your home, school, or office environments, which have
become EMF central. Your DNA and every cell in your body is stressed
out as glutathione and melatonin production decrease and cell membranes become porous and leak calcium.
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Remedial action:
Replace your bed with a wood frame and a foam or cotton mattress.
If you have become extremely sensitive, you need a radiation-protective canopy (only the Swiss products are reliable). And the advice to
sleep with your feet facing south is given in old medical textbooks
including Oslers. This is also recommended by Chinese medicine
practitioners. However, if your bedroom has digital gadgets (clock, TV,
cell phone, portable phone, baby monitor, lap-top on standby, and
the rest of the deadly WiFi stuff), sleeping N-S wont make any difference. Its all got to go out of the bedroom and then N-S orientation
may have a beneficial effectwhich by the way is not just an opinion but can be objectively measured with a body voltage meter, as I
have done.
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Kitchen Appliances:
That electric cooking range is literally a pain, as is the blender. I
always wondered why I was dead tired just before my parties had
even begun. I was zapped from standing at the stove, which resulted
in my sleepwalking through years of family events with a smile and
a handful of Advil in my system to control terrific headaches. I eat
organic, so my liver let me get away with it. I now cook on a fully
vented gas stove; funnily, I had to get rid of my gas stove 16 years ago
as it was poisoning me with carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide
because then exterior venting hoods were not mandatory and pilot
lights were permitted. I switched to electric which rescued me from
chronic low-grade gas poisoning, but I got zapped by EMFs instead.
Now, back to exterior vented gas cooking without pilot lights, I am actually present in mind and body and undrugged at family gatherings!
That microwave oven will radiate you within 9 feet, and wrecks
the nutrients in your food. (In my view, its smart to dismantle your
microwave before discarding, so nobody thinks they found a treasure.) And the telephones sound-amplifying magnet kills off brain
cellsnot as badly as cell phones though; blurred vision and earache
is often the first sign of intolerance. Use the speaker phone. Your
metal-base office chair, and metal filing cabinet and window frame,
if in direct line with a cell phone tower, cause EMFs to bounce around
and penetrate you in front of a computer which (God forbid!) may be
equipped with a wireless keyboard and mouse. Those EMFs take you
in their stride as a conveniently conducting bag of water. I now use a
wooden chair and desk and no metal filing cabinets are nearby.
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Remedial action:
Dirty electricity problems are solved with Graham / Stetzer filters.
What a relief they are! Your body heaves a sigh of relief when these
are plugged into outlets. And relocating Smart Meters to a safe distance from your house (more viable in rural areas) requires a fight,
but you are legally entitled to protection from them (see Vitalitys webbased exhaustive resource list). You can have them moved at your
own cost. As well, shielding materials (metal plates, radiation-repellant paint, curtains) are available for apartments, subdivisions, and
city homes. (See Resource List.)
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and most reliable source of correct information that is not bent out of shape by
industry and government interests.
P. Brodeur, The Zapping of AmericaMicrowaves, their Deadly Risk and the
Cover-up, Norton, 1977
EM-Radiation Research Trust: Smart Meters-Smarter Practices: Solving Emerging
Problems: UK: Dr. I. Jamieson, 2008 www.radiationresearch.org
R. O. Becker MD & G. Selden, The Body Electric, Quill, 1985. This book
contains the basic research and clinical experiments conducted by this
orthopedic surgeon; his work is also the basis for current pulsated
electromagnetic field therapy. The best book to start with to understand both
harmful as well as the potential and actual healing effects of electromagnetism.
R. O. Becker MD & A. A. Marino, Electromagnetism and Life, 1987 (out of print,
but available on amazon.com as Print on Demand copy or google for various
sources, one of them is www.biotele.com/EL/ELTOC.html)
Here Dr. Becker takes the reader through all the organs and systems of the
body and how electromagnetism effects their function and repair, and how they
are negatively affected by radiation. This book is key to understanding the
pathways of both harm and healing. For details on Dr. Beckers life and work as
well as his lifes work (bibliography available through PubMed) go to
www.microwavenews.com and www.earthpulse.net
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Note: The various pendants, chips, bracelets and the like vary immensely in
their claims and effectivenessan effectiveness that is always limited. Again,
measurement is key. People who are EMF sensitive often find that pendants can
help them get through situations like airports and flights, bus-rides etc. better
than without them. However, those pendantseven if they are moderately
effectivecannot substitute for the absolute requirement of avoidance from
constantly intensifying radiation injury. These injuries are outright burns and
they can only heal if no further burns take place coming from computers,
microwave ovens, and especially cell phones etc. etc. A cell phone can NOT to
my knowledge be made safe. Those alleged safety claims can be tested with the
body voltage meter and the Gauss Meter. Putting some sort of chip on a cell
phone and believe you are safe is absurd. The bottom line is this: there is NO
shield against EMF damage. There are helpful items that can diminish the effect
in the short run, and only if you arent already actually injured, but there is
nothing that will shield the human body from radiation. Reliance on such
gadgets can be harmful because the actual damage of such radiation is not taken
as seriously as it should.
EMF Solutions Canada (distributor of Graham Stetzer Filters): Kevin Byrne,
www.EMFSolutions .ca, call 1-877-987-5185, email: kbryne@emfsolutions.ca
Note: Some people find they do not tolerate Graham/Stetzer filters because
the wiring in the house (which differs immensely between buildings and their
date of construction); faulty wiring can greatly increase the EM radiation around
those plugs for a distance of a couple of feet, but placing Graham-Stetzer plugs
into them will simultaneously stop the pulsation of the dirty electricity. If the
radiation itself is not reduced, the best thing would be to simply shut the power
off during the night instead of using those filters. It is also possible to have a
demand switch installed in the basement panel, which cuts the electrical
supply to those areas of the house at night that are sleeping areas, but does not
affect freezers etc. Demand switches work great but are expensive. Alternatively,
one can figure out which switches on the main panel supply electricity to the
bedrooms and shut just those off at night. With regard to the potential hazards
of dirty electricity filters read Black on White by Rigmor Garlund Lindt. The
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bottom line is: you need proper measuring devices and understand your
specific needs.
Electrical services: shielded, non-radiating wiring, call Michael Lizotte 416-7693554, email: mlizotte410@rogers.com
Jaconello Health Center makes iMRS devices available to the public. Monthly
memberships, or 10/20 sessions, or purchase/rent. Call 416-463-2911
For details on coffee enemas, see Glutathione, the last item in Section 3
below. The scientific research on this therapy is in the bibliographies of C.
Gerson, Healing The Gerson Way, Gerson Health Media, 2010 and the books by
Dr. Nicolas Gonzalez, especially in One Man Alone listed on his website
(google).) To learn more about glutathione and magnesium I recommend the
summary by Dr. Mark Hyman on Huffington Post www.huffingtonpost.com/drhyman and the International Medical Veritas Society: www.remarkablerecovery.com/article/00059.php .
The details of the World Health Organizations decision to classify human-made
EMF fields (cell phones, Smart Meters, baby monitors etc. etc) as Group 2B
carcinogens can be found by googling WHO + EMF + Group 2B; these include
lead, diesel fuel, pesticides, DDT and asbestos.
Andrew Goldsworthy Witness Statement April 2010 before Standing Committee
on Health in Ottawa. This is the most important document for any reader to
download. Goldsworthy is a biologist from the UK and summarizes in clear
language exactly what the problems are in Canada and what should be done.
This sworn presentation is key for legal and political action as well as accurate
information on all things EMF and health. His materials can be accessed through
goggling his name. Goldsworthy also has a one-page statement on WiFi and
schools from Nov 2011
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The human body can act as an antenna and the signals make electric currents
flow through it in time with the pulsations. It is this that does the bulk of the
damage by destabilizing the delicate membranes that surround each cell and
also divide it into internal compartment such as mitochondria (the energy
factories of the cell) and the lysosomes (the cells recycling factories).
All of these membranes are just two molecules thick and have a similar basic
structure. They are liquid crystals, made largely of negatively charged molecules
(which repel one another) stabilized by divalent positive ions (mostly calcium) that
sit in between them by mutual attraction and hold them together like mortar holds
together the bricks in a wall.
It was first shown by Bawin et. al. in the 1970s that weak amplitude modulated
radio waves, where the strength of the signal rises and falls at low frequencies,
could remove some of this calcium from brain cell membranes. This destabilizes
them and make them more likely to leak. The low frequency pulsations of Wi-Fi
and mobile phone signals can be expected to behave in much the same way.
This is important in the brain because the normal function of brain cells
depends on the controlled passage of specific ions through their membranes.
When these membranes leak, ions flow through them in a relatively uncontrolled
way, which results in brain hyperactivity and may cause attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in some people. When this occurs in the brain of
a fetus or very young child it prevents normal brain development, which may
result in autism (see http://mcs- america.org/june2011pg2345.pdf ) . Wi-Fi
should therefore be considered as an impediment rather than an aid to learning
and may be particularly hazardous for pregnant teachers.
Effects on the peripheral nervous system are equally damaging since
hyperactivity here causes false sensations such as pain, heat, cold, and pins and
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of both studies found that more than 50% of children who were allowed to use
cell phones or whose mothers used them consistently had behavioral problems.
www.next-up.org/pdf/EMFs_and_changes_in_the_Complete_Blood_Count.pdf is a
good site to find the sources and information on the changes in blood count
that exposure to artificial EMFs causes in people and the damage that results
from this finding.
The reduction of human sperm count to the level of infertility in men using
laptop computers has been studied in various parts of the world. A source for
the latest research is www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(11)026781/references
The report presented by the German medical associations urging immediate
action against EMF radiation in schools etc. is obtainable via google through the
name of the reports co-author and editor: Dr. Cornelia Waldmann-Selsam.
O. Johansson, Disturbance of the immune system by electromagnetic fieldsA
potentially underlying cause for cellular damage and tissue repair reduction
which could lead to disease and impairment. Pathophysiology 2009 (google)
The Lancet Oncology, Volume 12, Issue 7, Pages 624626, July 2011
Carcinogenicity of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields. This mainstream
medical publication is of vital importance because it also carries legal weight
when taking action in your situation. This article contains information also about
Smart Meters. Its authors were involved in the WHO decision to declare EMFs a
carcinogen.
National Council on Radiation Protection & Measurements: Medical Radiation
Exposure Of The U.S. Population Greatly Increased Since The Early 1980s,
March 5, 2009. Report number 160, Ionizing Radiation Exposure of the
Population of the United States, available for purchase at
www.ncrppublications.org That people are being subjected to far too much
medical radiation, such as CAT scans etc. has also been reported.
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above. NOTE: these mats are only effective if you have bare feet; socks reduce
the effect to less than half, and shoes cancel it out completelythis can be
verified with a body voltage meter. The cotton grounding sheet contains thin
wires which you cannot feel and a cord that connects the sheet to the
grounding (round) portion of a nearby electric outlet. However, exposure must
be through bare legs or your naked body. If you wear pajamas as well as socks
to bed, forget it, as no grounding effect is measurable with a body voltage meter.
My husband and I sleep on this mat and have found it very helpful because it
improved sleep quality dramatically. Our bedroom has no electrical wires in the
ceilings, which is why are able to use this sheet.
www.dirtyelectricity.ca for Graham/Stetzer filters. New ones are in production
which may shield also against WiFi.
Robert Steller, a German-trained building biologist: EMF assessments, can help
remove or shield a Smart Meter, design a safe new house, or renovate yours
properly www.breathing-easy.net He trains electrical engineers and architects all
over the world.
www.safelivingtechnologies.ca body voltage and Gauss Meters: essential! You
cannot make your home and office environments safe from harmful EMF levels
without these two measuring devices. Buy them, borrow them, or get one of the
EMF experts (e.g. Kevin Bryne, Andrew Michrowski, Robert Steller) to do these
measurements for you. This assessment will also reveal whether your wiring is
coupling to water pipes, if telephone wires are coupling on to electrical wiring, if
underground wiring or water pipe problems exist, what shielding can be useful
in the way of special curtains and paint (such as U of T uses in some of its
buildings) and what wiring to change if necessary.
Shielded, non-radiating wiring for lamps, printers, computers etc. Michael Lizotte
416-769-3554 mlizotte419@rogers.com My husband and I rewired all our
lamps and replaced the cords for computers, printers etc. with these nonradiating ones. We measured the radiation levels before and after with a Gauss
Meter.
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Jaconello Health Center is making the iMRS device available to the public.
Monthly memberships, or 10/20 sessions, or purchase/rent. Call 416-4632911
A turbo stick-equivalent, called a hub, that can be placed outside the window
or even inside your room, so you dont get radiated at your desk; this enable
you to hook up more than one computer:
www.bell.ca/Mobility/Products/NETGEAR_MBR1210_Turbo_Hub
www.irda.org links to the Infrared Data Association which promotes infrared
communication technology www.siemens.com/innovation/en/news/2010/500megabits-second-with-white-led-light.htm they have proven that something
other than wifi is viable as well as radiation free.
Cell phones and children www.saferphonezone.com and
www.citizensforsafetechnology.org
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S ECTION 3
C ANCE R T H E WAR O N C ANCE R
The War on Cancer: Anatomy of Failure
by Guy B. Faguet, Springer, 2005.
Reviewed by Helke Ferrie, Vitality Magazine, May 2005
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years later at the end of the 19th century. So, dont hold your breath
while waiting for change in your nearby cancer hospitalbut it is
inevitable.
Readers who want a truthful (and hair-raising) history of cancer
research, chemotherapy, and the politics of cancer will not be disappointed. Faguet lets it all hang out and will satisfy even the most disillusioned among us. He has a quote at the beginning of the book by
Jean Rostand: What is surprising is the numbers of qualifications
of those gone astray. They were not half-wits, fools, or friends of the
wondrous. No, they were true men of science That is how Faguet
views the Cancer Establishment as a member of which he passed his
own entire professional life.
Faguet argues that the fundamental error on which the bulk of
cancer research is based came from 19th century bacteriology due to
which researchers view cancer as being caused by an invader which
makes cells go bad. The result: the illusion of the cell-kill therapies
designed to stop uncontrolled cell proliferation. Once genetics discovered the oncogenes which can be switched on by carcinogens and
then proceed systematically to assist in cancer growth, Faguet argues,
it should have been clear that cancer is not a localized disease of
nasty cells gone mad, but a systemic condition that could be prevented. This bacteriological misconception, he argues, produced the drug
industry with its ever more toxic drugs designed to kill those bad cells,
but none of those offer anything better than a maximum 5-year survival rate.
Faguet is especially appalled at the very definition of oncological
success which is based on the totally false and tragically misleading
measure of tumor reduction. Millions of tumors have been and are
reduced by horrific drugs, radiation and surgery, and just about
everybody with those reduced tumors died and still dies: a mere 2% of
all cancers are cured and cancer incidence has risen every year by
1.5% since the 1950s. No wonder, the chapters devoted to cancer statistics is the stuff of nightmares. Here is everything you ever wished
you didnt have to know about cancer in numbers, graphs, and tables
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documented real cure rate of more than 40%; it even cures pancreatic cancer. Its known as nutritional medicine, or the Gerson Therapy.
Therapeutic doses of nutrients combined with detoxification restores
those molecular genetic pathways perfectly, predictably, and measurably. The dream of standard oncology is daily reality with this therapy.
Faguet has started the destruction of that web of myths, self-serving illusions, and outright lies in cancer research and therapy; this is
a truly great achievement. It looks also as if this book is not an isolated bombshell: at the same time that it came out, the journal of the
National Institutes of Health (Sept. 20, 2005) announced that vitamin
C actually selectively kills cancer cellswhat chemotherapy hoped
to achieve in vain.
Let us hope that a truly evidence-based era of
cancer research and therapy has begun at last.
Forced Medicine
Sarahs Last Wish: A Chilling Glimpse into Forced Medicine,
by Eve Hillary www.sarahs-last-wish.com, 2010
October 2011
The Australian environmental health activist, Eve Hillary, has written
a book thats become a bestseller in her country and, thereby, started
a process of reform and awareness in Australia about the abomination of forced medical care and the human right to freedom of choice.
This book is so well written and so exhaustively documentedboth
legally and scientificallythat its hard to put down. It is also such a
terrible a story that I kept wishing it was not true. But it is.
Eleven year old Sarah suddenly developed a painful lump in 2002
which was misdiagnosed as being pregnant, even though she was
pre-pubertal. It turned out to be a rare form of ovarian cancerand
it became of great scientific interest to the oncological community
there. Once she became the focus of an unusual scientific research situation, the humanity of the patient had disappeared, and the sci-
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bankrupted Sarahs parents because even their own lawyer was not
willing to stand up to the juggernaut of the state and the medical
community combined, once the evidence was thus polluted.
When Sarah lay dying in 2004, she made her father promise that
he would do everything he could to ensure that no other kid would
have to endure what she had suffered. Hence the books title.
Is this story a freakish exception? Not at all. Freedom of choice in
healthcare has become one of the most important human rights
issues of our time. Modern medicine is fueled by an engine designed
to churn out ever higher profits in the wake of dazzling research fired
up by ludicrous claims, while patients are more often than not merely the fuel for that engine. In cancer therapy especially, the cut-burnpoison paradigm is still the central dogma. And being a dogma it
does not and cannot serve living people, but a profitable ideology.
Children with cancer will find themselves in the care of the state
just as easily here as in Australia, if parents dont toe the line of the
oncological cabal.
While reading this horrific story, I realized how lucky my husband
and I were in escaping such an experience in the 1980s. We had
adopted a girl who had a rare form of aplastic anemia, a condition
in which production of both red and white blood cells break down
completely and the patient requires transfusions every 34 weeks. She
had acquired this condition as a result of sustained DDT exposure in
India starting at birth as her parents worked in fruit orchards in Goa.
She was brought to our attention when her parents relinquished her
to an orphanage, being unable to care for her by the time she was 4
years old because of her need of monthly transfusions, something
beyond their ability to obtain or pay for.
The hematologist at Sick Childrens Hospital committed us to
making our daughter available for researchalive and dead. She,
too, was a highly unusual case, and we were at that time still staunch
believers in serving the putative great promise of research and the
future of medicine. She surprised everyone because she lived to be
almost 16 years old, even though the maximum life expectancy for
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designated victims, most could not harm them. Morality is inextricably tied to human proximity, a researcher studying these experiments observed, pointing out that personal images will override
obedience to abstract categories.
Milgram designed these experiments following the Nuremberg
war crimes trials when learning that the plan to exterminate the Jews
in Germany had begun with orders given to Nazi SS officers to round
up and kill entire families in a systematic way, which very quickly
failed. They wouldnt do it when confronted with those families. Hitler
changed the plan such that those who gave the extermination orders
were totally removed from the reality of their actions; often even those
who herded their victims into the gas chambers were themselves deceived
at first and did not know that they were actually killing these people.
I suggest that governments which allow themselves to become the
tools of the corporate tendency to psychopathy, which itself is the
result of their own vast structural impersonality described by Joel
Bakan, are falling into the pattern of behavior Milgram showed is
latent in almost everybody.
World consensus on the carcinogenicity of asbestos seems not to
deter policies that continue to ruin the lives of millionswho are all
conveniently out of sight. There is a secret medicine given only to
those who hurt so hard, they cant hope wrote the great Arabic poet
Rumi (12071273). I believe that secret medicine is individual moral
determination, which in the long run worksunlike mere hope.
Governments can be compelled to act morally only through wide
awake moral citizens and voters. We must relentlessly go after our
MPs and tell them what we want and what they must absolutely stop
doing. Harpers policies have the support of less than one third of
Canadians, most of whom probably dont even know about this
asbestos crime. None of us would personally hand a bag of asbestos
to a construction worker in India and tell him its quite OK to work
with it day after day.
US president Barak Obama said in Ottawa on February 19, that
since NAFTA has various labor provisions and environmental provi-
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Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ): free on-line. See October 21,
2008, vol. 179 (9)
L. Elliott & D. Atkinson. The Gods That FailedHow Blind Faith in Markets Has
Cost Us Our Future, Nation Books, 2009
C. Gerson. Healing The Gerson Way, Totality, 2007
P. Kraus. Surviving Mesothelioma and Other CancersA Patients Guide, 2005,
via www.cancermonthly.com
D. Michaels. Doubt Is Their ProductHow Industrys Assault on Science
Threatens Your Health, Oxford, 2008
J.R. OConnor. They said months. I chose years! A Mesothelioma Survivors
Story, 2008, via www.cancermonthly.com
K. Ruff. Exporting HarmHow Canada Markets Asbestos to the Developing
World, October 2008. Free download www.rideauinstitute.ca
D. J. Savoie. Court Government and the Collapse of Accountability in Canada
and the United Kingdom, UTP, 2008
J. Stanford. Economics for EveryoneA Short Guide to the Economics of
Capitalism, Fernwood, 2008
G. Tweedale & J. McColloch. Defending the IndefensibleThe Global Asbestos
Industry and its Fight for Survival, Oxford, 2008
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drug companies know about my work but hope I get hit by a bus he
observes wryly.
Examining evidence in the light of ones own understanding,
rather than accepting other peoples interpretations, and then departing from established norms somehow always winds up as an ordeal
by fireat the stake in past centuries, or in trials by regulatory bodies who know how to torture and cripple in contemporary ways.
Orthodoxy of any stripe never is what it pretends to be, but constitutes a rigorous system designed to protect revenues, power, and egos,
and thus serves an elaborate structure which enjoys the comfort of
opinion and defends in every way possible against the discomfort
of thought, as John F. Kennedy put it.
Yet, every orthodoxy is cracked by some heretic arising within that
system, in this case decorated with academic honors galore, such as
Dr. Gonzalez, an immunologist and medical doctor, who received his
degrees from Columbia and Cornell universities. His mentor was
none other that Dr. Robert Good, a world-famous oncologist and the
then director of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Dr.
Good encouraged him to examine the cancer treatment developed by
a maverick dentist, Donald Kelley. Having cured himself of pancreatic cancer, just about the deadliest one there is, Kelley developed a protocol based on the earlier work by Dr. Max Gerson and the discovery
made in the early 1900s by John Beard of Edinburgh University about
the central importance of pancreatic enzymes for cancer prevention
and treatment.
Starting in 1981, Dr. Gonzalez systematically studied 10,000 cancer cases from Dr. Kelleys files, but the book Gonzalez wrote on this
project, One Man Alone, in 1987 was stonewalled by all publishers: it
became available finally this year, and you can buy it at the EXPO.
Kelley was hounded throughout his life by the establishment, imprisoned, and bankrupted. Similarly, Dr. Gonzalez was put through various disciplinary trials and punishments, also in an effort to stop the
heresy of curing cancer with enzyme therapy, nutrition, and detoxification protocols. When the US National Institutes of Health and the
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American government and various cancer organizations found themselves unable to stop Dr. Gonzalez success with cancer patients, they
tried to mess with his clinical trials insteada horrendous story, now
in press, and reviewed in Vitalitys October issue. Unlike the tragic
Kelley, Dr. Gonzalez is prevailing.
At the heart of the battle are two opposing views on cancer.
Orthodoxy sees the cancer patient as a battlefield and embarks on
what Dr. Julian Whitaker describes, in Suzanne Somers absolutely
superb book, Knockout, as a search-and destroy mission to purge the
body of cancer cells find a tumor, cut it out, poison it with
chemotherapy, or obliterate it with radiation; the result of this
approach has been that for the past half century the death rate for
cancer has not budged. All wars are extremely lucrative for the
weapons industry and very bad for the health of those on the receiving
end of that industrys products.
The opposing view, Dr. Gonzalez told Somers, is that tumors are
not the illness, but rather the bodys way to sequester waste material
the tumor has a purpose [it is] a sign that the body is too filled
with toxins, and these can overwhelm the livers ability to process
them, [then] confronting the body with an enormous load of toxic
waste that produces tumors which are like accessory livers , namely additional, desperately and hastily constructed toxic waste dumps.
For Drs. Beard, Gerson, Kelley, Gonzalez and other past and contemporary heretical cancer doctors, the body is not a battlefield, but
rather an exquisitely constructed living entity capable of perfect selfrepair. It requires biologically appropriate and bio-friendly assistance
in order to do its inherent repair process in all those ways it knows
better than any doctor could ever hope to understand. This sort of
therapeutic dialogue with the cancer, and a body known to be capable of self-repair, is fundamentally nurturing; it also does not generate obscene wealth for any body of professionals, nor for any kind of
industry, arms or drugs.
Howard Straus, Dr. Max Gersons grandson working at the Gerson
Institute, and Dr. Gonzalez observed in a recent as yet unpublished
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paper: The human body is made up of about 100 trillion cells All
cells in the body are replaced at least once every year and a half.
Many structures (such as the liver or the lining of the intestines) are
replaced in days or weeks. When the organs are replaced, they are
replaced with healthy, new cells. This replacement and repair process
generates 180 billion cells per day and also, simultaneously removes
exactly as many dead cells every day in a perfect 1:1 ratio, or any
one organ would decrease or increase in size and create unimaginable problems. Toxins interfere with this process and without proper
nutrients their work is stopped. Then the immune system cannot work
properly either. There is no need to stimulate the immune system,
as many [pharmaceutical] immune therapies today attempt to do;
the immune system is designed and optimized to repair any dysfunction on its own Once the proper support is supplied to the immune
system, it awakens and acts with a speed and power that can only be
termed awesome to behold.
This perfectly balanced process of health maintenance can only
function properly if our bodies receive healthy (bio-identical) fuel,
otherwise cancer may begin. Everything in our bodies comes from
one place: our diets, states Dr. Gonzalez. Nutrition is key. Its the
foundation. Its not the end, its the beginning. Its the ultimate foundation for good health. If you dont have that, nothing else is going
to work. But, he continues, the fact is that we treat our cars better
than we treat our bodies. No one would think about putting the
wrong fuel into their expensive car, but [people] go and put the
biggest pile of junk into their mouths and are shocked to find that
their cancer diagnosis stems from the garbage the food industry
serves up. Indeed, so much of what we eatoften unknowinglyis
outright carcinogenic. Back in the late 19th century Sir William Osler
already observed that we dig our graves with our knives and forks.
If indeed it is so simple to cure cancer and prevent it by removing the garbage and providing healing nutrients, instead of bombarding the body with even more toxic substances (imagined to be
the appropriate weapons of cellular mass destruction), it would put
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an end to all the marches and research dollars, and most of all to a
big huge chemotherapy business [of] $ 200 billion a year, observes
Suzanne Somers. Well, the proof is in that it is that simpleand that
complex, and certainly possible.
The underlying complexity of nurturing protocols is startling in its
effect. Any one biological substance affects multiple targets at once,
and all of them interact with each other. The notion of sending one
synthetic chemicalname any cancer drug on the marketinto a
system in which trillions of intelligent cells communicate simultaneously with each other, and expecting to hit a target imagined to be
the enemy, like some sort of smart bomb, is so silly as to leave one
speechless. In war, smart bombs always have collateral damage
information usually suppressed to the preserve political spin of the
day. In cancer therapy, devastating side effects to such smart drugs
are equally downplayed to preserve profits. As a member of the cancer establishment, said to Suzanne Somers: The truth is, we dont
want to find a cure for cancer. Its too big a business.
Once a lie begins to become apparent and doubt arises, more and
more people begin to think in different and new ways, too. On a daily
basis the internet-based medical research websites report on how very
wrong the cancer establishment in fact is on just about everything
once considered unquestionable. A decade ago, the American Cancer
Society absolutely denied that nutrition has anything at all to do with
cancer prevention or could be useful in treatment. However, the
Presidents Cancer Panel Report this year stated exactly the opposite.
Indeed, now basic research scientists are even identifying the natural
chemicals found in specific foods that help the body prevent cancer,
such as are found in broccoli and similar plants. We learn now, that
exposure to toxic environmental chemicals, once denied as even
existing, can program the body for cancer decades later; the timing
process of these evolving time bombs is beginning to be understood
also. The newly initiated Cancer Genome Project, designed to examine a great many different cancers, will undoubtedly provide information on why the work of Dr. Gonzalez and his past and present col-
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leagues are workingafter all we knew that sunshine and cod liver
oil prevented and cured rickets long before we knew why and how.
As for the battlefield approach to cancer patients bodies, it is gratifying to see how the establishment must time and again acknowledge that their weapons usually injure, and do not nurture or protect.
The reports are in on how pharmaceutical drugs which are intended
to treat symptoms of diabetes, high blood pressure, depression and
more, go on to cause cancer. Only a couple of years ago anyone, like
myself, asserting that mammograms and CAT scans are bad news
and should be avoided because radiation causes cancer, was treated
like an ignoramus of the most dangerous type. That, too, has
changed, and the establishment even admits that it is now known
exactly how these more often than not unnecessary diagnostic or
preventive tests cause cancer. They even admit that cancer is dangerously over-investigated through the use of these and other routine
tests on people already diagnosed with cancer, thereby further decreasing their life expectancy and quality of life.
Yet, the statistical musical chairs claiming that cancer is decreasing still goes on. Recently, the statistical decrease in certain cancers
was hailed as just ever so wonderful, turning out to be an insignificant 1.3%. There are, however, some trends showing a decrease of certain cancers which nicely dovetail with the decline in the use of the
birth control pill and the increasing refusal to undergo cancer-promoting mammography; women are turning more and more to noninvasive thermography.
Best of all, the truth about the underlying fraud and sleaze is
emerging at a rate that I find difficult to keep up with, even though I
study this nauseating stuff on a daily basis: for example, the fraud in
breast cancer research most of which is based on the use of the wrong
cell lines; or the all-pervading conflicts of interest in cancer research
resulting in lucrative fantasies rather than science, are just two
instances. The literature on the uselessness and deadly nature of
chemotherapy is now mainstream and found in the leading journals
with recommendations to drastically decrease its use.
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What Went Wrong: The Truth behind the Clinical Trial of the
Enzyme Treatment of Cancer, by Nicholas Gonzalez, M.D.,
583 pp., New Spring Press, 2012.
Reviewed by Howard D. Straus of the Gerson Institute, reprinted
with the permission of the author and The Townsend Letter for
Doctors and Patients, published there December 2012.
Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez, a regular contributor to TLDP, has written a
book chronicling the ins and outs of the much-awaited NCI/NCCAM
clinical trial of his holistic, enzyme- and nutrition-based treatment for
pancreatic cancer. Many of us in the alternative medicine world had
waited for years with bated breath for the results, which ended up disappointing at best. Now, we can find out What Went Wrong.
Though the trial began with the major parties in general agreement that significant preliminary results warranted a full-scale, federally funded, controlled trial, the implementation left much to be
desired from the very beginning. The difficult start was exacerbated
over the first couple of years of the study when the administrators
who were originally positive or enthusiastic about the trial moved on
to other positions in government or private foundations, and were
replaced by officials who were either neutral or openly hostile to the
protocol being tested.
Dr. Gonzalez and his partner, Dr. Linda Isaacs, found themselves
constantly battling their colleagues on the trials steering committee on points of enrollment, a key parameter when the treatment to
be tested depends on the cooperation and support of family and local
physicians. In addition, a ludicrously inappropriate provision (one of
many) was added over Gonzalez vigorous objections. If a patient
who was enrolled in the study, appropriately or not, and sent by the
chief investigator to the nutritional arm of the trial, in other words,
to Dr. Gonzalez for treatment, failed for any reason, the patient was
considered a Gonzalez failure, because of his intent to treat. This
ridiculous provision was enforced rigorously, as opposed to the rules
that might have benefited the nutrition arm of the trial. Time and
again, patients were enrolled inappropriately and excessively late to
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the study (a virtual death sentence for an advanced pancreatic cancer patient), making it impossible for them to ever take a single treatment, yet these were considered Gonzalez failures. This provision
clearly has far more to do with politics than with a dispassionate and
honest test of a medical procedure. There is no parallel in any other
science for this kind of nonsense. (Imagine a breaking strength test on
a steel beam, except that the beam was not properly delivered to the
testing facility. The result would never be recorded as beam failed.)
Lest the reader think that was the only, or even the worst roadblock, there were many more, and more serious breaches of scientific
protocol by the chief investigator, Dr. John Chabot of Columbia
University, some rising to the level of federal crimes. Dr. Gonzalez has
documented these breaches in his book in painful detail, dispassionately and exhaustively, quoting directly from official correspondence
with government regulatory agencies, investigators, even congressmen and other government officials, asking them to enforce, even
obey, their own rules and laws. None of these pleas for fairness, or
even enforcement of the regulations concerning research integrity or
trial participant safety, were heeded.
There is no doubt about the complaints. In many cases, the violations were admitted to in writing by the very agencies responsible for
enforcing the rules and regulations. Still, there were no enforcement
actions, no sanctions against the violators, no adverse consequences,
and the infractions continued unabated, unpunished. The Office of
Research Integrity (ORI), charged with guaranteeing the integrity of
scientific research funded by the federal government, failed to take
any substantive action despite the thoroughly documented lack of
integrity by the principal investigator. The Office for Human Research
Protections (OHRP), whose task it is to ensure the subjects of human
trials funded by the federal government are treated with maximum
safety consistent with the experiment, failed repeatedly to protect the
patients so callously treated by the Columbia team. When the violations of the patients safety and survival were documented, the OHRP
left it to the University to investigate itself! Of course, nothing came
of that, either.
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Probably the most egregious failure of the entire trial, and the one
that explains much of the blatant bias in the way the trial was conducted, was appointing Dr. John Chabot as principal investigator of
this trial. Despite his complete ignorance of any aspect of the treatment being tested, Dr. Chabot was charged with scientifically comparing a complex nutritional and enzyme therapy for advanced pancreatic cancer against a novel chemotherapeutic regime as a control.
But Dr. Chabot was one of the main developers of the very protocol
against which the nutritional therapy was being tested, a fact that
was never brought to the attention of Drs. Gonzalez and Isaacs, and
only came to light some years into the trial. None of the federal or
university organizations seemed to have any problem with this most
blatant conflict of interest, a fact that alone should have disqualified
him as the principal investigator. None of the agencies that were supposed to protect patients seemed to care that advanced, pancreatic
cancer patients were left untreated for weeks, a period of time that
anyone familiar with the rapid progression of the disease knows, like
Dr. Chabot does, would lose the window of opportunity for treatment, and condemn the patient to a painful and hopeless death. In
the majority of the cases assigned to the nutrition arm by Dr. Chabot,
patients were kept waiting for weeks beyond their availability for
treatment, untreated by any means. No explanation was offered for
the unreasonable and unconscionable delays.
This book offers copious extracts from years of correspondence and
patient records, and should be a warning to any alternative practitioner, or any physician who goes against the immensely profitable
pharmaceutical paradigm, that they will not be treated well, they will
not even be treated fairly by government or by their colleagues,
whether the actions of the establishment are ethical or even legal. But
even more chilling is the callous and cynical disregard with which the
desperate pancreatic cancer patients were casually tossed under the
bus for the agendas and egos of the investigators. These patients, who
had faith that the medical profession was trying to cure their cancer,
or at least do ethical research, were abandoned to their disease so the
allopathic physicians could prove a point, sabotage a competitive
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This lecture was originally delivered at the Cancer Control Society in Japan in July
2009. For further information got to www.gerseonmedia.com
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viding the ideal conditions for generation of cancer. In the past year,
we have developed our understanding of the influence of pH considerably, and present that below.
In 2010, Nicholas Gonzalez, MD, Ph.D. and his partner, Linda
Isaacs, MD published The Trophoblast and the Origins of Cancer. When
we read this volume, it stimulated many questions and led to a spirited and highly illuminating discussion with Dr. Gonzalez.
Clearly, since the Gerson Therapy has been producing excellent
results with chronic and degenerative diseases over the past eight
decades, its practitioners understanding and explanation of the
causes of cancer and other ailments must have some basis in reality.
Unlike the highly manipulated data of chemotherapy manufacturers,
the Gerson Therapy has always produced long-term recoveries from
terminal cancer measured in decades, not weeks or months. But
there is always room for improvement. It was clear that Trophoblast
had the seeds of a fuller understanding of the origins of cancer, and
of chronic disease in general, based in part on the brilliant work of
John Beard, a late 19th and early 20th century researcher and professor of comparative embryology at the University of Edinburgh, who
was later nominated for the Nobel Prize.
Active and Passive Immune Systems
Our body has numerous defenses against attack by pathogens of
all kinds. Some of these defenses are active, some passive. The difference is analogous to a high stone wall or a castle moat, as opposed
to a troop of soldiers. Neither is absolute proof against attack, but the
defenders effectiveness is magnified many-fold by the presence of
powerful defensive fortifications. In the case of our own immune system, the active immune systems consist of miniscule warriors, such as
white blood cells, that can seek out and destroy threats to the body.
Similarly to an army, active systems must be constantly maintained
by a logistics train, typically an expensive exercise. A passive system,
however, such as a high and thick stone wall, once constructed,
requires minimal maintenance and care, and acts to discourage any
potential attacker, while offering the active force a powerful strong
point in any conflict.
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Renewal
It is generally accepted that the number of individual cells in the
human body is some large fraction or small multiple of 100 trillion
(1014) cells, so just for the sake of simplicity, we shall use 1014 as a
round number. The count does not need to be precise for the purpose
of this discussion, as the arguments hold true for numbers plus or
minus an order or two of magnitude. It is also widely accepted that
virtually every cell in the body is replaced at least once every year and
a half. Many structures, such as the liver or the lining of the intestines, are replaced far more quickly, in the order of days or weeks. When
the organs are replaced, they are replaced with healthy, new cells.
The numbers that this implies are staggering. A year and a half is
approximately 550 days (1.5 x 365 days). Since there are about 1014
(about 100 trillion) cells to be replaced in 550 days, an average of
1014 / 5.5 x 102, or approximately 1.8 x 1011 cells are replaced each
day. That means 180 billion cells per day must be generated, and
another 180 billion cells that have died must be digested and quickly
and efficiently removed from the system. This would be an impossible task if the cells were managed from a central control point. The
only way that it is possible is if each cell, when generated, knows
what to do on its own, and comes into existence in a medium conducive to its birth, development, growth, life cycle and eventual disposal.
A question that sprang to mind immediately upon looking at the
above numbers for daily cell creation, was, Where do these cells
come from?
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It is our belief that each cell develops from an adult stem cell, of
which we must have, or can create, almost as many as we have cells
themselves. In addition, the cells that die must be replaced by new
cells at a rate that is virtually indistinguishable from unity (1:1). The
very mathematics of compounding show that if the replacement rate
were so much as one percent higher than unity, or 1.01:1, then an
organ that was replaced every six weeks, like the liver, for instance,
over the course of a mature human lifespan would end up over 90
times larger at the end of life than at the beginning. Conversely, if the
replacement rate were one percent lower than unity, or 0.99:1, the
organ would end up just over one percent of its original size at the
end of a normal 75-year lifespan.
Since neither is true, we may assume that the replacement rate is
indistinguishable from unity. How this rate is regulated is a mystery:
either an electrical or chemical signal is sent out when a cell dies, or,
perhaps, a biological or other signal that we do not yet have the
means to detect. When this signal is sent, a stem cell is either activated, or duplicated, then activated to begin the growth and replacement process.
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handle that, the fact that these cells are being created implies a serious depression in those functions, too. It does not require many surviving cancer cells being created every day to start or restart cancer,
and their location in the body is almost irrelevant.
When a cancer patient is subjected to tumor removal surgery, and
nothing is done about his overall internal environment, the very
environment that gave rise to cancer in the first place, the daily
processes in his body, when operating in the same environment, will
continue to create cancer cells at an enormous rate, some of which
will result in additional cancerous lesions. The insult to the body of
surgery, of course, will accelerate the process.
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even lower. Topical or local solutions (surgery) for such a global problem are doomed to failure from the start. Likewise, poisoning various
important physiological processes using targeted chemicals (pharmaceuticals) adds to the problem, rather than alleviating it. The dismal
record of standard cancer treatment in the United States is mute testament to the above statement.
The only way to restore sanity to the sick bodys environment is to
raise the pH level to its normal 7.35 or 7.36. Otherwise, we are cleaning
the carpet in a rainstorm, while ignoring the gaping hole in the roof.
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The way the necrotic material is normally handled is by the proteolytic enzymes that should be perfusing the entire body and digesting dead cell matter for removal by the blood stream. If there is a
shortage of proteolytic enzymes in the environment due to their use
by the digestive system (to metabolize meals of animal protein, for
instance), or if the environment is so acidic that the required enzymatic action is deactivated, the enzymes cannot perform their critical
functions, the dead material is not removed, and the local environment becomes ever sicker and more acidic, and less conducive to
healing and a healthy metabolism.
To put a more vivid image to this problem, imagine carrying an
empty backpack around, and every day placing a single quarterpound (115g) raw hamburger patty into the top. If the backpack is
never emptied, it will not be very long before the backpack with several pounds of rotting carrion becomes the major issue in your life, yet
the daily addition of more carrion continues. Essentially, this is the
process that goes on inside our bodies when the proteolytic enzymes
that should be dissolving and carting away the waste are disabled.
The Gerson therapy, as well as the Kelley protocol further developed by Gonzalez, both provide copious amounts of supplemental
proteolytic enzymes to the body. Gonzalez describes in Trophoblast
how he has researched the potency and production of pancreatic
enzyme supplements, and developed what he considers the optimal
supplement to supply his patients. To date, Gerson practitioners and
patients have been using commercially produced enzymes, some
manufactured in Europe, but they are now preparing to test
Gonzalez preparation for any improvement in results it could bring.
In both therapies, supplemental proteolytic enzymes are a critically important element of the regime. It is certainly clear, at least to this
author, that the enzyme-enabling alkaline environment is also of
critical importance to the removal of masses of dead cells every day.
Both important elements are partially or completely negated by a diet
high in animal protein due to the use of the enzymes to digest the
animal protein-rich meal and their resulting unavailability for other
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Conclusion
We have attempted to extend the rationale of the Gerson Therapy to
the cellular level by explaining, with the help of Dr. Gonzalez work
on trophoblasts and proteolytic enzymes, how stem cells developing
into differentiated cells, and the removal of dead cells in our structural matrix need adequate levels of proteolytic enzymes, plus the proper pH levels for them to function. The Gerson Therapy has for over 80
years succeeded in preventing and reversing chronic or incurable
diseases in part because it quickly adjusts the pH levels in the internal environment to an alkaline level using nutritional input as the
prime means of manipulation, and restores the pancreatic enzyme
levels and functionality to normal levels.
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Rates of Melanoma Patients Treated by Diet Therapy After the Manner of
Gerson: A Retrospective Review. Alt Ther, Vol.1, No. 4, September 1995.
Gonzalez, N MD, PhD, Isaacs, L MD. The Trophoblast and the Origins of
Cancer, New Spring Press, New York City, 2010.
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Chronic Diseases, Second Edition, Totality Books, Carmel, CA, 2009.
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http://ezinearticles.com/?Pancreatic-Digestive-EnzymesDeficiency&id=3291730 Acidity literally kills pancreatic function, which leads to
indigestion, deficiencies of vital nutrients, and deficiencies of vitamins, minerals
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and trace elements. Poor digestion caused by excessive acidity can be the
underlying cause of many diseases and disorders.
http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/glossary/ Stem cell: An
immature cell capable of both indefinite proliferation and specialization into all
cell types found in the body, e.g. in the blood or in the brain.
Acknowledgements
We are grateful to Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez, MD of New York City, coauthor of The Trophoblast and the Origins of Cancer, for his generous
encouragement, patient responses to our questions and gentle prodding to publish this essay. We gratefully acknowledge the time and
editorial eye of Dr. Andrew Saul, DC, PhD, Assistant Editor of the
Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, who pointed out some deficiencies
that we hope have been remedied. Charlotte Gerson, co-founder of
the Gerson Institute, co-author of Healing the Gerson Way and daughter of Dr. Max Gerson, MD has championed the Gerson Therapy for
the past 40 years, and grounded our understanding of the mechanics
of defeating cancer and chronic disease and rebuilding the body
using Dr. Gersons holistic methods.
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S ECTION 4
O LD T RUTHS I N N EW I DEAS
Vitamin DNatures Magic Bullet
June 2009
Can you imagine what would happen if a drug company
came out with a single pill that reduces the risk of cancer,
heart attack, stroke, osteoporosis, PMS, SAD, and various
autoimmune disorders? There would be a media frenzy
the likes of which has never been seen before!
Well, guess what? Such a drug exists it is the sun.
M. F. Holick MD, discoverer of Vitamin D3
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Vitamin D3 is the single most important precursor (a pro-hormone) of all hormones, vitamins, and minerals that we need.
Without this vitamin, the bodys signal systems (described
variously by hormones, neurotransmitters, or peptides which are all
the sametheir names are different depending on the systems they
are found in), and super-catalysts (minerals), cannot enable all
other catalysts (vitamins) to cause the liver to create the 600 vitamin/mineral-dependent enzymes our bodies depend on. Vitamin D
regulates also calcium and phosphorus levels, without which our food
cannot nourish us properly.
A healthy human body uses first the liver and then the kidneys to
convert vitamin D obtained through diet and sunlight into an active
form that the body can use. Up until 1998, it was believed that
patients with chronic kidney disease are unable to complete the second step.
While still a graduate student in 1970, Michael F. Holick proved
that actually every cell in our bodies has D3 receptors, not just the
liver and kidneys. Holick also discovered that vitamin D3 is the only
active form of Vitamin D, and therefore is essential.
Vitamin D3 prevents 17 types of cancer. Exactly how it prevents
breast, colon and prostate cancers is now fully understood. Several
long-term studies have shown that simply fortifying a person with
1,100 IU of D3 daily reduces the incidence of cancer by 77% over a
three-year period. D3 also protects us against approximately 100
autoimmune diseases. NOTE: the nonsense Health Canada publishes, asserting that only 400 IU are needed is just that: nonsense. Health
magazines of the kind that consist mostly of advertisements and fashion/cosmetics information repeat this nonsense faithfully.
As well, D3 in therapeutic doses revs up all those activities in the
immune system that fight viral and bacterial infection, thus its
emerging reputation as the antibiotic vitamin. In a historical context, for a century before the advent of antibiotics, it was observed
that daily, long-term exposure to sunshine was the most successful
cure for tuberculosis. The proof that sunlight can cure rickets and TB
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won Dr. Niels Ryberg Finson the Nobel Prize in 1903. Rickets in children had been treated since the 1700s by exposure to sunlight.
Indeed, the Floating Hospital in Boston in the 19th century was a
hospital ship on which rickets-afflicted children were taken on long
trips for heliotherapy. The effects were observed, but the pathways
were then unknown.
The research of the last five years has further shown how D3 works
to prevent (and even cure) certain types of liver disease (such as fatty
liver), as well as bacterially-caused pregnancy problems, tooth decay,
organ rejection in transplant surgery, certain skin diseases (atopic
dermatitis, psoriasis), Type I diabetes in children, Multiple sclerosis
and Parkinsons disease. D3 also reduces the need for painkillers in
chronic pain patients.
Adequate levels of this vitamin in our bodies are only present if we
invite sunlight in. Our bodies can only make D3 by exposure to the
sun. Consequently, when sunlight is geographically or seasonally
unavailable, or if (for reasons of bio-individuality) some people
cannot expose themselves for too long to sunlight, supplementation
is absolutely necessary. Immigrants from sun-drenched countries to
Canada also require D3 supplementations; the darker the skin, the less
they are able to make enough D3 when living in higher latitudes.
And so, fortified by the very best published science, you can confidently tell your doctor you wont need the (mercury-laced) flu shot
for any strain of influenza because nothing can prevent a flu as effectively as D3. It has been shown that the flu season is strictly associated with seasonal lack of sunlight, and that taking D3 supplements protects you in fall, winter, and spring.
You can also rest assured that your blood pressure will be just fine,
too, if you have optimal amounts of D3 in your cellsoptimal being
dictated by the geographical region you live in: the more sun, the less
blood pressure problems; the less sun, the more D3 supplementation
is required to normalize and maintain healthy blood pressure. In fact,
it is imperative not to take statin drugs and blood thinners for reducing blood pressure, since they prevent D3 from being absorbed, as do
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Being a pro-hormone as well as a vitamin, D3 is subject to the preventive biological mechanism of self-destruction that kicks in when
the body signals it has enough D3. Back in 1999, Vieth and his colleagues challenged the international medical community to provide
evidence of toxicity. Today, the National Institutes of Health agrees
with him (Archives of Internal Medicine, 169 /6, 2009): you would have
to take 40,000 IU daily for a very long time to have symptoms of toxicity. Cancer patients on nutritional therapy achieve 30,000 IU daily.
Vitamin D2, however, is toxic! It is useful only to plants, fungi, and
invertebrate creatures (mammals are vertebrates dependent on D3). If
you are victim of some foolish advice and take synthetic D2, calcium
will be driven into your arteries producing atherosclerosis, the lead in
pesticides and contaminated water and air will be driven into your
bones, and the queen of all minerals, magnesium, on which your
nervous system and muscles depend, will be driven out in the
urine. This was demonstrated years ago by Simon Fraser University
researchers led by Dr. J.C. Moon.
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ScienceDaily (on-line science service) reported on March 27, 2009, and the
BBC reported on March 25, 2008, on research done by the Mayo Clinic and the
British Society for Rheumatology respectively. This showed the reduction in
inflammation and chronic pain when patients were supplemented with high
doses of vitamin D3.
Circulation published in January 2008 the results of research done by Harvard
Medical School on vitamin D3 deficiency always being associated with heart and
stroke disease.
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The fact that glass filters out UVB rays that cause vitamin D3 production is in
Medical Hypothesis, vol. 72:434-443, 2009
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, May 14, 2009, reported on the
vitamin D-deficiency involved in infections that cause pregnancy problems
Research on liver diseases being mediated through D3 deficiencies was reported
at the 73rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of
Gastroenterology in Orlando, Florida, October 2008
The Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, February 19, 2009, reported on
the many research publications showing that tooth decay and vitamin D3
deficiency are causally related.
The need for vitamin D3 supplementation during acute illness was provided by
the Garvan Institute of Medical research in Sydney, Australia, and reported in
ScienceDaily, May 2, 2009
Vitamin D3 and cancer was reported in the Globe & Mail, June 8, 2007 (by
Martin Mittelstaedt), the American Journal of Public Health, vol. 10, 2004, and
the moist relevant sources are in Holicks UV Advantage, 2003, as well as a slew
of research best accessed through PubMed by searching with the key words
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sions about its known toxicity and side effects, and after having compared how nutritional medicine handles that same illness as Dr. Gaby
describes itwell, I guess, then God help you. In May, the University
of Arizonas College of Pharmacy published findings about those clinical software systems with which pharmacies work everywhere, showing that they are generally unable to alert pharmacists to potentially
deadly drug-drug interactions. Encouragingly it has been pharmacists for almost a decade who publish the information on which
essential nutrients are depleted by all commonly prescribed drugs
(Pelton & LaValley) and so enabling patients to top up on those nutrients while taking prescription drugs. Just remember, that mainstream
medicine acknowledges that the leading cause of death is correctly
prescribed drugs. Noteworthy is the fact published in May that for
most new drugs the FDA did not publish any comparative efficacy
data (Nikolas); Gabys book is essentially one huge comparative efficacy data base!
Gabys textbook is not a cookbook and mercifully free of guidelines that suggest standards of practice for the herd to follow, instead
of using their brains to address the biological individuality and
unique history of the patient. Gabys textbook is more like a road
map. Thus, the cause of a persons multiple sclerosis may be chronic
Lyme disease infection, toxicity from mercury amalgam, an infection
from a root canal gone systemic, vitamin D deficiency, or long-term
exposure to electromagnetic pollution. Similarly, childhood autism
may have come from fetal exposure to all of the above or vaccines in
the first few months after birth. Migraines can be caused by hidden
food allergies or hormone imbalances or infections attacking the central nervous system. Pharmaceutical drugs can cause disease complexes while attempting to treat certain conditions. However, what all
medical conditions have in common is nutrient deficiencies associated with their initiation and development. Gabys discussion and supporting evidence show what nutritional research has proven to be
curative, and what commonalities in possible deficiencies will always
apply. For even more refined detail and case histories, Gabys text-
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Sources cited:
A. R., Gaby, MD, Nutritional Medicine, Fritz Perlberg Publishing, 2011, ISBN 13978-0-9828850-0-0, orders www.doctorgaby.com
Interview with Dr. A. Gaby by D. Redwood in Health Insights Today (Cleveland
Chiropractic College), March/April 2011, Vol. 4 (2), available from
www.healthinsights.today.com
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To find a doctorGoogle:
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Dr. Prouskys new and updated edition of this now classic textbook is
a goldmine for patients and doctors alike who wish to find out just
exactly what the difference in practice and diagnosis is between
orthomolecular medicine and toxicmolecular medicine. The first
term was coined by the late great Linus Pauling and refers to the right
natural molecule needed by the organism to maintain health and in
pharmaceutically effective doses to cure much disease. The second
term was coined by the late Dr. Bernard Rimland, author of Infantile
Autism (that so infuriated mainstream defenders of vaccines).
Toximolecular medicine is such a wonderful word! It captures the
whole mess that is modern medicine so perfectly in a single word, it
feels like an educational moment of enlightenment.
Jonathan Prousky is the editor of the Journal of Orthomolecular
Medicine, founded originally by Dr. Abram Hoffer. This small and
thoroughly truthful journal, upon which I have relied for so many
years now, shares with the justly famous online open access journal
PLoS Medicine the property of presenting careful research and a focus
on clinical resultspatient outcome, as opposed to the lure of fame
and fortune.
As the Chief Naturopathic Medical Officer of the Canadian
College of Naturopathic Medicine, located in Toronto, Dr. Prousky has
taught the Year Three Clinical Nutrition Course there for the past 12
years. He holds enough impressive degrees and has so many years of
teaching and clinical practice experience, that it is no surprise he can
so clearly and systematically lay out the facts about food and health
and the therapeutic applications of specific nutrients to specific diseases. He does this so beautifully and provides such excellent sources
from mainstream research, that one gets drawn into reading this
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TOXIC M E DICI N E
Lies*
April 2006
This article was published in 2009 when this information was new and scandalous.
The only difference between 2009 and 2013 is that the reports on fraud now are
weekly and sometimes daily.
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great credit, most of the CMAs editorial board resigned, as did most
of the journals staff, as did the next two appointees expected to fill
their places. It is anybodys guess when the next issue of the 95-year
old CMAJ will appear.
The CMAJ is internationally recognized as one of the five leading
medical journals in the world, and deservedly so ever since Dr. Hoey
became its editor ten years ago. The other four are the British Medical
Journal, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet and the Journal
of the American Medical Association. Dr. Hoey made the CMAJ the first
medical journal freely available on-line, opened the CMAJ to research
in nutritional and environmental medicine, relentlessly called Big
Pharma and medical researchers conflicts of interest to account, and
set new international standards and rules in 2004 for research integrity as the president of the Vancouver group (the international association of medical journal editors). Dr. Hoey is a living embodiment of
the conscience of medicine. (Treat yourself to Dr. Hoeys fiery editorials over the past six years, free on-line.)
To the surprise of the forces in corporate medicine undoubtedly
happy to see Dr. Hoey go, the editors of the other four leading journals roared and closed ranks in support of Dr. Hoey. Dr. Cathrine
DeAngelis, editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Medical
Association went through a similar confrontation on editorial independence with Big Pharma and government forces 6 years agoand
she won, with the result that JAMA has finally become worth reading.
She observed, If they (the CMA) think theyre going to get any
[replacement] editor worth anything or any editor that anybody
would respect, theyre kidding! And if they think anybody in their
right mind would send any decent paper there, theyre wrong. They
destroyed their journal. (www.cnews.canoe.ca, March 1,2006; see
also New England Journal of Medicine editorial, March 30, and Google
The Globe & Mail and CBC for the whole story.)
Retired chief Canadian Supreme Court justice, Antonio Lamer, has
been appointed to head a panel charged with sorting out this mess.
Whether Dr. Hoey will again lead the CMAJ is unclear, but leading
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medical editors will not bend. This is finally the beginning of open
war declared by the leaders of medicine against corruption. When
this is over, we will all be a lot healthier.
Recommended Reading
J. P. Kassierer, On The Take: How Medicines Complicity With Big Business Can
Endanger Your Health, Oxford University Press, 2005. Dr. Kassierer was, until
recently, the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine; he is a leader in the
current battle for research truth and editorial freedom. For book reviews go to
www.helkeferrie.com .
The following are highly recommended; almost all are written by leading
mainstream doctors who are also medical researchers.
C. Elliott, White Coat Black Hat, Beacon, 2010
D. Healy, Pharmageddon, California University Press, 2012
D. Healy, Let Them Eat Prozac, Lorimer 2004
I. Kirsch, The Emperors New Drugs, Basic Books, 2010
H. W. Welch et al. OverdiagnosedMaking People Sick in the Pursuit of Health,
Beacon 2011
R. Fitzgerald, The Hundred-Year Lie, Plume, 2009
R. Whitaker, Anatomy of An Epidemic, Broadway 2010
A. Cassels, Seeking Sickness, Greystone, 2012
M. Makary, Unaccountable, Blumbury, 2012
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For medicine, 2008 brought some true progress, some astonishing revelations, and the initiation of huge challenges of profound importance for 2009. Lamenting the fact that medical politics continues to
reveal relentless corruption and that standard medicine mostly continues to lumber on in a fog of prejudice to the drumbeat of realitychallenged dogmas comes naturally, but not everything that comes
naturally is helpful. The ancient Chinese got it right (as usual) with
the insight that success comes not from seeking perfection, but from
engaging with what is spoiled, harmed, injured, broken and truly in
need of the creative imagination of the human mind. Imagination is
creative when it does not forsake humanity because then it remains
undefeated because we have gone on trying, as T.S. Eliot put it.
Progress
Evidence for true progress came this year from official recognition of
Gulf War Syndrome, thereby defeating the US governments two
decade long attempt to discredit this illness, which ruined the lives of
hundreds of thousands of soldiers. In fact, GWS is an extreme form of
I have included this article because it makes the following ones more intelligible.
With not a week now passing without the announcement of some totally absurd
study showing how multivitamins kill old ladies, vitamin E causes heart attacks,
vitamin C promotes kidney stones, and margarine reduces death from heart
attacks given this desperate attempt to keep drugs or some harmful food
industry in business, a historical overview, such as in this piece, can be helpful to
calm the nerves.
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hospitals use the Gerson Therapywith deadly results for the Cancer
Industry and cures at last for patients.
The University of Texas Anderson Cancer Center announced that
vitamin E levels make all the difference in the susceptibility to lung
cancer; high serum levels of E reduced the risk of lung cancer by 61%.
Having warned so many people against vaccines, especially, the
flu shot, I was personally most gratified to learn that even the venerable British Medical Journal, the Archives of Internal Medicine, and the
Lancet no longer think it works; they observed that its use has no beneficial effects at all, especially not for elderly people. No less than
11,000 serious adverse events, including deaths, were reported to the
FDA for the flu vaccine in just one year.
Mainstream medicine made a significant discovery in the field of
antibiotic resistance. So-called superbugs are resistant even to the
drug of last resort, vancomycin. Rockefeller University developed a
new antibiotic called ceftobiprole which knocked out even the most
resistant bacterial strains (Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, August
2008). Let us hope and pray this drug is not too harmful to the liver
and wont be used in food-producing animals which would likely
make it, too, useless over time. Bacteria have so far always outsmarted all human efforts, as Dr. Shiv Chopra describes in his fabulous new
book, Corrupt to the Core.
Canadas Supreme Court did us proud once again with a
November ruling against polluters who justify their behavior by
insisting they are in compliance with whatever the government pretends are regulations. Some 2,000 Quebec City residents fought for
several decades to stop St. Lawrence Cement Inc. from wrecking their
air quality with toxic dust. Polluters must pay, said our top judges,
based on the effect of that pollution on the victim, rather than on
the conduct of the person who caused them. Holy smokes! Results
finally matter. This is an earthquake. Humanity may perhaps
become the measure of all things at last. I am looking forward to
many more polluters being made to face the fact that human health
takes precedence over corporate convenience.
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Revelations
Among the revelations 2008 provided, we find that truth oozes out no
matter how heavy the lid placed on top. The misinformation about
the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil came out, so much so that the
UK government stopped supporting its use by public funds. The whole
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for chronically ill patients, pharmaceutical companies, and deliberate exclusion of international scientific studies on Chronic Lyme. The
new panels chair is a famous medical ethicist, H. Brody (see his book
below). Doctors in Canada treating Lyme patients are as persecuted
as they were not too long ago when they dared to treat any form of
Environmental Illness.
The third big challenge has to do with the Charter of Health
Freedom which was authored by lawyer Shawn Buckley who also is
the president of the Natural Health Products Protection Association
(www.nhppa.org), a Canada-wide organization brought about as a
result of the battle against Bill C-51. It will require a couple of million
petition signatures to give natural health products their own governing legislation, similar to the way these products are regulated and
protected in the US through their law known as DESHA. Go to that
website and take part in the action as it unfolds. As long as Health
Canada controls the availability of natural health products along the
lines of the pharmaceutical model (with its assumption of toxicity),
medicine will remain monolithic, symptom-control oriented, and
authoritarian. Remember: all the dead bodies, adverse events, and
therapeutic failures are in that lucrative pharmaceutical drug-based
medicine.
The establishment of truth requires patient dedication and unshakable resolve to work on the spoiled for the sake of human values.
Breggin, P. R. & Cohen, D. Your Drug Maybe Your Problem: How and Why to
Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications, Perseus, 2007
Brody, H. Hooked: Ethics, the Medical Profession, and the Pharmaceutical
Industry, Rowman & Littlefield, 2007
Chopra, Shiv. Corrupt to the Core: Memoirs of a Health Canada Whistleblower,
Kos, 2009 (519-927-1049)
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Ferrie, Helke. What Part of No! Dont They Understand? Rescuing Food and
Medicine from Government Abuse, Kos, 2008. Now free for downloading from
www.helkeferrie.com
Michaels, D. Doubt Is Their Product: How Industrys Assault on Science
Threatens Your Health, Oxford, 2008
Weintraub, P. Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic, St. Martins Press,
2008
Subscribe to the free Orthomolecular Medicine News Service:
omns@orthomolecular.org
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October 2012
When the roof and the foundations of a house begin to collapse, the
demolition guys get called in. Likewise, as the foundations of conventional medicine begin to collapse, the medical demolition crews have
arrived. Within the last few years in medical science, what has happened is unprecedented: the leaders of mainstream medicinefar
more than its criticshave systematically uncovered the rot underneath the edifice of standard medicine, and they are making it public in leading journals and bestselling books. These medical demolition crews admit that they dont know what will come next, but
cleaning up the mess is more important to them than clinging to theories and practices that are, well, rotten to the core.
In August 2005 an article appeared in PLoS, now the worlds
largest medical science journal (which does not permit drug advertising and has the most stringent conflict-of-interest rules for authors),
entitled Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. The
author, John Ioannidis, teaches medicine in Greece and the U.S. and
is known to North American medical students from JAMAevidence,
the bible for evidence-based clinical practice (his contributions to it
explain how to detect research fraud and bias). His 2005 article
began: There is increasing concern that most current published
research findings are false claimed research findings may often be
simply accurate measures of the prevailing bias. Not surprisingly,
this fired up the demolition crews.
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If Ioannidis is correct, what are professors teaching medical students and do they even know if what they are teaching is true? Can
practice guidelines be trusted at all? Has continuing medical education become an oxymoron? What illusory standards of practice are
medical regulatory authorities, such as the provincial colleges for
physicians, pretending to uphold under the laws governing them? Is
it even safe for patients to trust any information doctors provide?
What about informed consent, given that those consenting and those
providing healthcare are possibly equally clueless? And who is responsible for this mess? Most importantly, what will it take to clean this up?
The usual suspectsBig Pharma and governmenthave been
working hand-in-hand for years to convince the public that pharmaceutical medicine is safe and effective. But now renewed scientific
investigation of Big Pharmas fraudulent claims about their products
has appeared in mainstream journals and can no longer be ignored.
The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
(CAPE) staged a mock funeral in July in front of the parliament buildings in Ottawa to draw attention to the death of evidence in sciencekilled, they assert, by government. Some 2,000 Canadian scientists accompanied the coffin. In the U.K., such a mock funeral was also
held with the dramatic splendor only the land of Shakespeare can produce: magnificently adorned, purple-draped black horses pulled a coffin in a hearse that would have been fit for Queen Victorias funeral.
In both countries, scientists accuse their governments of controlling research funds to serve market interests only. CAPEs list of indictments included the Harper governments attack on environmental
protection which is the same thing as attacking public health. Bill C38, the infamous Omnibus Budget Bill which recently passed into
law, includes exemptions for pest control products so they are no
longer listed as poisonous or harmful. It also removed the safety
requirements that previously limited agricultural chemicals and veterinary drugs to specified safe levels in food. And C-38 also handed
Big Pharma a blank cheque by permitting prescription drugs to
bypass important regulatory hurdles. With this Bill, the government
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Sea Change?
Consider the following list of recent developments in medicine, all of
which, significantly, came to light because of outrage in the mainstream medical world:
As reported in March, a team of 100 scientists tried to replicate
the results of 53 of the most widely cited landmark cancer research
papers. This re-analysis resulted in only 6 research studies being validatedthe rest are bogus. Shockingly, this was not Pharma-generated junk science, but came from university researchers who misled
companies wanting to use their research for new cancer drugs.
Indeed, there is no honour among thieves.
Lancet Oncology reported that cancer incidence is predicted to rise
by at least 75% by 2030 wherever westernized lifestyles prevail, as
measured by the Human Development Index (i.e. the more developed, the more cancer). The steady rise in breast cancer is well known,
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as are its major causes: pesticides and chemical hormone replacement therapy. And another cause of profitable abuse of women,
known since the mid-1990s, comes from breast screening programs
that supposedly provide the benefit of early detectiona myth which
is no longer even supported by the Radiology Society of North
America. In fact, the more screening done by mammography, the
more radiation-related cancer incidence and the more false-positive
results leading to unnecessary surgery.One big surprise is that even
the ultra-conservative Institute of Medicine (IOM) acknowledges the
increased risk of cancer caused by unnecessary mammography. The
IOM went further and launched a frontal attack on Big Pharma. In
the spirit of its motto, Advising the nationimproving health, the
IOM published a position paper in May that outlines how the U.S.
FDA should proceed to make drugs safer before approval, and monitor them after getting to market, so new drugs dont continue being
lucrative human toxicity trials.
The most reliable and truly independent watchdog of medical
research is the international Cochrane Collaboration. One of its
members, Dr. Peter Gtzsche, published a book this year exposing
fraudulent claims about the benefits of mammography, which
became evident after 10 years of research analyzing the data involving millions of women. He concludes: The collective denial and misrepresentation of facts and the little benefit there is of screening, if
any, coupled with the disregard of the principles for informed consent
and national laws, may be the biggest ethical scandal ever in healthcare. Hundreds of millions of women have been seduced into attending [mammography] screening without knowing it could harm them.
This violation of their human rights is the main reason we have done
so much research on mammography screening and also why I have
written this book.
After a two-year delay, Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez amazing book,
What Went Wrong: The Truth Behind the Clinical Trial of the Enzyme
Treatment of Cancer, is now available. It shows how the National
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the above, along with their hep B vaccine, one side effect of which can
be liver cell death.
Pfizer has to pay out $45 million for damage done by its
menopause drug Pempro. This drug was prescribed to six million
women even though the Womens Health Initiative study of 2002
proved that Premarin (the estrogenic HRT) and synthetic progesterone
alone or in combination increase the risk of cancer and blood clots.
Medical rights activist in India, Anand Rai, found that 2,061
deaths were caused in clinical trials, between 2008 and 2011, but only
22 were compensated. Big Pharma outsources its trials increasingly to
reduce costs and avoid scrutiny. India also halted a Gardasil vaccine
study after six children died.
In a striking parallel to the way Big Tobacco finally became vulnerable to legal challenge, patients have launched a class action suit,
with the support of the UK government, against various medical
authorities for making them into lifelong addicts to Valium.
This veritable hailstorm of protest and legal action is beginning to
be matched by positive work also coming from mainstream medicine.
The World Health Organization announced that the use of mercury
in vaccines, dental restoration, and all other medicines must be
phased outover the fervent objections by dental associations and
worst of all, from the American Pediatric Association which continues
to insist that mercury in vaccines is just fine.
Similarly, the European Union is about to pass legislation requiring an unprecedented cleanup of Europes water supply from contamination by birth control pills, at the estimated starting cost of 30 billion Euros. Canadian research in 2001 showed that, at 5 parts per trillion, these drug residues cause fish stock collapse in lakes. The safe
limit the EU must achieved is 0.035 parts per trillion.
Prominent doctors are increasingly objecting to redefining
patients as customers. Drs Groopman and Hartzband of Harvard
wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine that reducing medicine
to economics makes a mockery of the bond between the healer and
the sick. For centuries, doctors who were mercenary were publicly cas-
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tigated. Such doctors betrayed their calling. Should we now be celebrating the doctor whose practice, like a successful business, maximizes profits from customers?
The total truth has perhaps never before been spoken so forcefully. This can only be good.
J. P. A. Ioannidis, Why most Published Research Findings are False, PLoS, Aug.
1, 2005. This is one of the first research efforts to expose the underlying fraud
or massaging of date or absence of data in medicine. Dr. Ioannidis is also a key
author and co-editor of the latest version of the Manual of Evidence Based
Medicine published by the Journal of the American Medical Association,
JAMAevidence, used in North American medical schools. JAMAevidence: Users
Guide to the Medical LiteratureA Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice,
Second Edition, McGraw Hill, current edition.
On www.GreenMedInfo.com and Best Pills Worst Pills you get the full
information on the known safety and effectiveness on any drug currently in use.
These sites are the ultimate No Bull zones; the first gives direct access to all
the published literatureno summaries, only facts.
The National Post reported the changes to the transparency regulations of the
CIHR on May 29, 2011 by Tom Blackwell. Go to NHPPAs Discussion Paper on
Bill C-38, June 21, 2012, showing how the Harper government snuck into the
Omnibus Bill Big Pharma-friendly provisions scrapping accountability.
N. J. Gonzalez MD, What Went Wrong: The Truth behind the Clinical Trial of the
Enzyme Treatment of Cancer, New Spring Press, 2012
The sources for the mammography facts are: How a charity oversells
mammography by S. Woloshin and L. M. Schwartz, British Medical Journal, Vol.
345, 8/2/12, August 2, 2012.
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R. Owen & S. Jobling, The hidden costs of flexibility on the multi-billion dollar
cleanup of water from birth control pills, Nature, May 24, 2012. The research
showing how birth control pills compromise water quality and make it deadly for
fish is at K. A. Kidd et al, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA,
vol. 104, pp. 8897 ff, 2007
On the FDA spying on its own scientists and the legal action taken by them see
editorial in Nature, July 26, 2012 and article by M. Wadman page 416. On
September 6, 2012, Natures editorial demanded that the new conflict-ofinterest rules, which became law in August 2012 in the US for bio-medical
researchers, must be available for public scrutiny on the internet to be
meaningful. J. Neuman et al., Prevalence of financial conflicts of interest among
panel members producing clinical practice guidelines in Canada and the United
States: cross sectional study, British Medical Journal, vol. 343, 2011. The Nature
editorial on how all of science has become undermined by the poison of profit
motive was published May 10, 2012 p. 149. Nature, August 2, 2012, has two
editorials on the need for transparency of all industry-generated data.
For the story about the fraud pertaining to Alzheimers research by Harvard
Medical School researchers now being criminally prosecuted see www.omsj.org,
May 2012
The $ 3 billion fine imposed on GlaxoSmithKline for fraud involving deaths and
harm from antidepressants Paxil, Seroxat, Wellburin and the diabetes drug
Avinda was reported in many places; my source was the Daily Mail, UK online
version in July 2012. A detailed analysis is found on Dr. Mercolas website.
The story of the whistleblower scientists from Merck on the fraudulent claims
made for the mumps vaccine and the legal action initiated by the insurance
company Chatom Primary Care, see Natural News June 28, 2012 where the
relevant links are provided.
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The story about Roche hiding some 15,000 deaths and more than 65,000
adverse events from various drugs manufactured by Roche see Daily Mail, UK
online July 9, 2012. The drugs involved are: the cancer drug Herceptin, the eye
medication Lucentis, the hepatitis B vaccine, Avastin, Tarceva, Rituxan, Alteplase,
Actemra, Pegasys, Raptiva. To find out if you are taking the North American
version of any of these, google this British drug name and the Canadian/US
brand name will come up too. See Dr. Mercolas website, September 2,2012, on
the thousands of deaths during clinical trial outsourced to India.
See One Click Group with sources from Bloomberg, January 9, 2012 on the
court ordering Pfizer to pay out $ 45 million for its drug Prempro for having
caused cancer in many women; it is a combination of the original Premarin and
synthetic progesterone Provera; Premarin is known since the 2002 Womens
Health Initiative study to be carcinogenic; the protective claims originally made
for Premarin were fraudulent. NOTE: only bioidentical hormones are safe
google for literature.
The class action suite against doctors who kept prescribing Valium, which made
tens of thousands of people addicts, began in December 2011. See One Click
Group Dec. 30, 2011.
Regarding the Hep B vaccine killing liver cells making it potentially very toxic,
see the studies published and referenced at www.vaccineliberationarmy.com
On cancer incidence expected to rise by 75% by 2030 due to lifestyle and
environmental problems, see the online edition of the Lancet Oncology, May
May 31, 2012. See One Click Group for the info and sources (including Nature,
March 28,, 2012) on the fact that only 6 of the currently most important 53
cancer research papers could be reproduced; the rest are unreliable and
probably based on fraud.
The New England Journal of Medicine, October 12, 2011, had an excellent
article by Dr. Jerome Groopman on how medicine has become reduced to
economics. See his excellent book How Doctors Think, Houghton Mifflin, 2007
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Toxic Psychiatry
November 2012
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Psychiatric illness is a terrible medical reality; people can suffer paralyzing depression, frightening hallucinations, or disabling flashbacks
to horrific traumas suffered in the past. Robert Whitaker discovered in
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M. Angell, The New York Review of Books: The Epidemic of Mental Illness:
Why?, June 23, 2011. Google will get you to the series of articles as well as to
her Yutube lectures at various medical schools. Her information is the best
introduction into the problem and valuable because condemnation of psychiatric
drugs (and for all the right mainstream reasons) from somebody as thoroughly
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Columbia and has here compiled the information showing how testing is used as
a marketing tool by Big Pharma, also for especially psychiatric drugs.
Dr. J. Glenmullen, a psychiatrist at Harvard medical school, was among the very
first to blow the whistle on Prozac in his now famous book Prozac Backlash,
Touchstone, 2001.
G.E. Jackson, Drug-Induced DementiaA Perfect Crime, AuthorHouse, 2009
David Healy, The Antidepressant Era, Harvard University Press, 1997. History of
these drugs and their evolution into lifestyle drugs marketed like a consumer
good.
David Healy, The Creation of Psychopharmacology, Harvard University Press,
2002. Professor Healy is a practicing psychiatrist as well as a professor of
pharmacology in the UK and provides here a history of the entire field.
David Healy, Let Them Eat Prozac, Lorimer, Toronto, 2004. This book caused
the FDA to put warnings on Prozac packaging about increase of suicides from
SSRIs.
David Healy, ManiaA Short History of Bipolar Disorder, Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2009. Bipolar is the flavor of the year now for psychiatry and
Healy shows here how it evolved out of the side effects resulting from the
toxicity of psychiatric drugs.
Katherine Sharpe, Coming of Age on Zoloft: How Antidepressants cheered us
up, let us down, and changed who we are, Harper, 2012. A young womans
story of how her life was wrecked as a university student when the counseling
department put her on Zoloft. Foreword by David Healy.
Gary Greenberg, Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern
Disease, Simon & Schuster, 210. A psychotherapists perspective based on
treating and rescuing antidepressant-poisoned patients.
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stood) that schizophrenia is a brain disease and not the result of poor
parenting. That is what got him into trouble.
His clinical trial involved only 11 patients, was positive for the use
of vitamin B3, but his results have never been replicated. An Israeli
study designed to test this hypothesis was begun in 2005 and completed in 2008. There were 55 patients enrolled and as of January 10,
2013 no findings have been presented so I can only assume the findings were negative.
And Hoffer was never opposed to the proper use of medications. In
a letter to the Medical Post (Vol. 37, No. 21, June 5, 2001, he wrote we:
do not recommend the use of medication be stopped ........ The program combines the best of modern psychiatry, including the use of all
the drugs essential for the treatment of these patients, but it also
includes the use of the optimum nutrients given in optimum doses .
He then added, it is our aim to have all of our patients eventually
drug free or to need such a small dose of medication that they are no
longer suffering from the side-effects of these medications. This is
everyones aim, but unfortunately the science isnt quite there yet.
These are the kind of trade-offs that sometimes have to be made
in the management of any serious illness. I appreciate the opportunity to set some of the record straight.
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Research currently focuses on pharmacogenomics to predict bioindividual drug response. Simply accepting that all drugs have side
effects ignores biological variability with its life-or-death implications. Vitamin C is not comparable because drugs can kill. Vitamin C
is an essential nutrient 3 enabling enzymatic function throughout life;
lowered plasma levels impair detoxification.4 Loose stool indicates
bio-individual bowel tolerance and requires dose adjustment.5
Tolerance levels are highly individual for drugs and vitamins.6
True, Parkinsons and epilepsy drugs also cause brain changes like
psychiatric drugs,7 and this is unacceptable in them all . It is unethical that human suffering becomes a risk statistic. Any drug capable
of harmful side effects should be avoided in favor of available nontoxic methods.
More than 50 genetically-anchored conditions, most with psychiatric implications, require enzyme-stimulating nutrients rather than
drugs. Toxin-specific nutrients can prevent side effects of psychotropics, such as tardive dyskinesia8. Optimal provision of requisite nutrients for enzyme function should be routine.9 Currently, patients
assume all the risks and our corporatized medical system reaps all the
benefits. Hence, prescription drugs are the leading cause of death,
greatly surpassing street drugs.10
Dr. Hoffer supported some psychotropics: first-generation off-patent
ones, used in minimal doses, short-term, with optimal nutrient protection, as described in his memoirs. The current niacin-schizophrenia study is not abandoned but completed by Vladimir Lerner, of
Israels Ben Gurion University (past co-editor of the Nature Groups
Journal of Molecular Psychiatry) to be published soon.11 Lerner research
focuses on clinical applications of essential nutrients in psychiatry.
The projects director, R.H. Belmaker in 1987 became the first to hold
the Hoffer-Vickar Chair for Psychiatry at Ben Gurion University,
established in honor of Dr. Abram Hoffer.
If a double-blind placebo-controlled study exists prior to Hoffers
on nutrient treatment of schizophrenia12, let me know for inclusion
in a new edition of Dr. Hoffers scientific memoirs.13
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Research does not show that antidepressants are statistically better than placebo when all published and unpublished studies are
considered, especially long-term research; for a potentially chronic
disease this matters most.14
Mr. Ross refers to Andreason, Zipursky, Leucht, and Gibbons as
providing proof for efficacy and safety of psychotropics, prevention of
suicide, brain damage in schizophrenics before medication and becoming worse or relapse without. The facts are:
Dr. Nancy Andreasens concern was in context of the dangers of
abruptly stopping medication when her fMRI research in humans,
showing that psychiatric meds cause shrinkage of crucial grey brain
matter (also in animals) was confirmed through autopsies of schizophrenics and became public.15
Dr. R. Zipurskys article is not drug-supportive but states that fMRIobserved brain changes are explicable by the effects of antipsychotic medication and that the evidence is compelling that psychotropics cause brain damage apparent after 12 weeks of [drug]
treatment, but absent before medication, all put beyond doubt by
animal studies. He urges greater access to skilled mental health
services and social supports needed to achieve recovery.16
Leuchts study shows that relapses during the first 7 to 12 months
after diagnosis are less frequent in medicated patients. He urges further study of the serious side effects, apparent already in the short
term.17 Gibbons 2007 and 2012 studies were judged fraudulent by
Harvards School of Public Health for pretending that more suicides
took place after the FDAs 2004 Black Box warnings when prescriptions decreased. The Centre for Disease Control and European data
show the exact opposite.18
Surprisingly, Mr. Ross cited Seikkula as proof of the necessity for
psychiatric drugs19. Seikkulas now 20-year project in Finland, a community-based psychotherapeutic approach, is possibly the most successful ongoing experiment in rehabilitation of schizophrenics without drugs. At five-year follow-up 85% were fully employed, 80% had
no psychotic episodes, and 23 never medicated or only initially. The
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ENDNOTES
1 On the bodys detoxification system, specifically Cytochrome P450.
Indiana Universitys Division of Clinical Pharmacology has
a website, www.medicine.iupui.ed/clinpharm/ddis/table.aspx on
which all currently available drugs are listed which interact with
cytochrome P450. By clicking on each drug name, the details of
its interaction (=dangers) can be ascertained rapidly.
Aruas, I. M. et al, The LiverBiology and Pathobiology, Raven
Press, 1994. Harrisons Principles of Internal Medicine, 18th edition
provides the most concise overview of drug toxicity, metabolism
etc. in its pharmacology section. Also see W. M. Lee in footnote
1. An excellent PowerPoint presentation on the function of P450
is available from the National Institutes of Health, Markay, S.P.
Laboratory of Neurology, NIMH, NIH, Nov. 16, 2006.
2 On the CYP2D6 is a sub-group of cytochrome P450.
Detoxification enzymes have a great deal of genetic variability. See W.M. Lee and Harrisons above. A useful overview of the
problems with poor and fast metabolization in people with differing genetic variants is found in Meyer, U. A. & Zanger, U. M.,
Molecular mechanisms of genetic polymorphisms of drug metabolization. Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology, 1997, vol.
37:269-296. See also the detailed review of the problem by
Ingelman-Sundberg, M. Genetic polymorphisms of cytochrome
P450 2D6 (CYP2D6): clinical consequences, evolutionary aspects
and functional diversity. Pharmacogenomics Journal, vol. 5, p. 513, 2005. Currently, the Canadian Centre for Addiction and
Mental Health in Toronto is initiating a trial specifically to investigate cytochrome P450 variability.
3 On Vitamin C.
This is an essential nutrient, i.e. it is required for normal
body functioning but can only be obtained from the diet. These
include fatty acids, amino acids, vitamins, minerals, and some
phytonutrients. Because of their essential status they cannot be
patented.
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4 On Vitamin C requirements.
The body requires more essential nutrients when under stress
due to due to sickness, pregnancy, lactation, physical/emotional
stress, or exogenous toxins (e.g. legal or illegal drugs, environmental toxins, food allergies, radiation) which require provision
of more protective vitamins and especially vitamin-catalyzing
minerals. Sources footnote 6.
5 Loose stools:
For information on vitamins in general, ongoing research
into them and their clinical applications the best source to date
is the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University in
Corvalis, OR. Another Canadian source is Prousky, J. Integrative
Clinical Nutrition, 2012. Also useful: Balch, P.A., Prescription for
Nutritional Healing, fifth edition, Avery, 2010. For specific clinical application, see the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine.
6 Tolerance levels of drugs and vitamins
See footnote 5.
7 For details on drug harm, mechanisms etc.
A good introduction to harm from psychotropic drugs is
Moncrieff, 2009, see footnote 1. Stine, K. E. & Brown, T. M.,
Principles of Toxicology, Second Edition, Francis & Taylor, 2006.
Silverman, R. B. The Organic Chemistry of Drug Design and Drug
Action, Elsevier, 2004. While much of the literature is in CYP450
issues and liver damage, drugs that cross the blood-brain barrier
and directly harm the brain are especially important to understand. See footnote 16. On what nutrients are required for a
healthy brain and to counteract drugs with brain toxicity a good
introduction is Gomez-Pinilla, F. Brain Foods: the effects of nutrients on brain function. Nature Review Neuroscience, vol. 9 (7):568578, 2008. See also Boskovic, M. et al. Oxidative stress in schizophrenia, Current Neuropharmacology, June, 2011, vol. 9(2):301- 312
8 On nutrition and disease.
Possibly the best known expert on nutrition and disease is
University of California at Berekleys Bruce Ames. The 87-page
study on the 50 + disease states known to be genetically based
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Dorph-Petersen, K-A., et al. The influence of chronic exposure to antipsychotic medications on brain size before and after
tissue fixation: a comparison of Haloperidol and Olanzapine in
Macaque monkeys. Neuropsychopharmacology, vol. 30:1649-1661,
2005. Konopaske, G. T. et al. Effect of Exposure to antipsychotic
medication on cell numbers in the parietal cortex of Macaque
monkeys. Neuropsychopharmacology, vol. 32:1216-1223, 2007.
Beng-Choon Ho et al. Association between brain-derived
enurotrophic factor Val166Met gene plymorphism and progressive brain volume changes in schizophrenia, American Journal of
Psychiatry, vol. 167 (12):1890-1899, 2007. Same authors: Longterm antipsychotic treatment and brain volumes, Archives of
General Psychiatry vol. 68 (2) February 2011.
16 On the misrepresented research of R. B. Zipurksy of Macmaster
University.
Zipursky, R. B. et al. The myth of schizophrenia as a progressive brain disease. Schizophrenia Bulletin, Dec. 7, 2012.
See also: Harding, C.M. & Zahniser, J. H. Empirical correction
of seven myths about schizophrenia with implications for treatment. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavia vol. 90, supplement 384, 1994
Natures special issue of November 11, 2010 included recommendations for necessary research focus. See Wykes, T. Cognitive
remediation therapy needs funding, p. 165-166. The Nov 11,
2010 issue of Nature was devoted to schizophrenia. The most
urgent recommendation was to fund cognitive remediation,
because it works so well and is relatively cheap, while medications are blunt instruments whose side effects even worsen
cognitive problems. More than 100 trials documenting such
non-drug based approaches are cited.
17 The study Mr. Ross refers to about showing that drug treatment is
essential:
Leucht, S. et al. Antipsychotic drugs versus placebo for relapse
prevention in schizophrenia: a systematic review and metaanalysis. Lancet , June 2, 2012. In the March 2008 issue of
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Schizophrenia Bulletin S. Leucht and J.M. Kanel disussed the problems with this type of research in a long article making it clear
that no one trial, regardless of size, can answer the complex
questions involved in schizophrenia treatment. They especially
emphasize that all studies tend to be industry-sponsored, that
optimal drug provision for a first episode is unknown and probably impossible to know, they identify social and financial pressures, and conclude that using many psychiatric drugs is not
supported by the evidence and that using many drugs (polypharmacy) is far in excess of the supporting data. They also state
that relapse rates tend to be high once placed on drugs anyway.
They especially are concerned about the fact that there has
never been a clinical trial to address what to do when a relapse
occurs.
See Ciudada, A. et al. Relapse and therapeutic interventions
in a 1-year observational cohort study of non-adherent outpatients with schizophrenia. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology
and Biological Psychiatry, vol 30 (2):245-250, March 30, 2012. This
study was released almost at the same time as that by Leucht in
2012. This Spanish research indicated that non-compliant
patients who just wouldnt take their drugs did a lot better after
one year than those who continued taking them.
18 Mr. Ross refers to the 2012 study by Robert D. Gibbons as proving
that antidepressants prevent suicide.
Gibbons is not a physician and has never had to face the
results of his opinions. He is an expert in statistics and was on
the FDA panel that voted to have Black Box Warnings on
increased risk of suicide with Prozac and other SSRIs. He voted
against such warnings, despite the evidence. He also works for
the pharmaceutical industry as an expert witness in court cases
when suicides took place. He produce 10 studies to show that
the FDA should reverse its warnings. One from 2007 and again
the 2012 persist in not mentioning the suicide data in relation to
SSRI prescription rates that are available and in the public
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S ECTION 6
H AVE TH E C OU RAG E TO
U SE YOU R O WN R EASON !*
People ask me frequently how I can manage to work in the area of
medical politics and not get depressed and overwhelmed. To address
that very reasonable question I wrote two articles, given below. They
were originally published in Vitality magazine under the titles Time
for Celebration and Coping with Reality respectively.
2009
You are invited to a great annual bash this month, namely Torontos
Whole Life EXPO (November 2729, 2009), where for the 23rd year we
can celebrate health, critical thinking, and the inexhaustibility of
good ideas. I intend to be there with a great, big organic, home-made
carrot cake at the Kos Publishing booth to celebrate the fact that I
have been writing for Vitality for 10 years! If you got shocking,
empowering, and thought-provoking information from my articles, I
am very happybut just think what a dizzying learning curve it has
been for me! Writing for an information-hungry audience imbued
with doubt, and ready to question any claim to authority, has been a
journey towards enlightenment and an exercise in humility. It has
also been a breathtaking trip through medical politics as it unfoldedwith editor Julia Woodford hot on my heels wanting it all in print
for you
Voltaire (16941778)
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medicines, and farming. I kept you informed on those unfolding stories; the war is not over, but it will be and in the end the truth wins
out, but it is always painful. Unlike wars with guns and bombs, wars
for truth and liberty leave behind deeper understanding and transformed minds even among those who once were enemies.
In 1998, I met Dr Abram Hoffer for the first time, and in 2005 was
privileged to publish his scientific memoirs. He died in his nineties on
May 27, 2009. All my articles, one way or another, over the past
decade, reported on what he and Linus Pauling called orthomolecular medicine, meaning the right molecule (nutrient, not synthetic
toxin) which sets healing in motion. The conceptual basis applies to
everything from farming, to disease, to mental health.
Orthomolecular thinking is reality-based, not profit-based. That is the
challenge of and for our time.
For me the most important development in the past ten years,
regarding food and drugs, was the Human Genome Project. Big
Business was certain that cracking the DNA code would lead to
enormous wealth and control. Well, undoubtedly lots of people are
trying, and in part succeeding, to making money out of this project.
However, the big surprise was that most of the regulatory genes
(which control entire biological systems) are exquisitely vulnerable to
environmental toxins, and so those toxins will have to go if we want
to keep those genes working. Not much profit there. Furthermore, the
nice, neat fit hoped for between genes and specific diseases did not
materialize either. Testing people for their allegedly geneticallyanchored disease is a pipe dream, too. Every disease, with or without
a genetic anchor, needs a trigger to start it, and those triggers are: (1)
environmental toxins and (2) lack of the right molecules decreed by
nature as essential, namely nutrients. Indeed, the genetic code now
cracked us. In June 2008, the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences reported that taking vitamins and minerals can actually fix
genetic defects. Well, the ghosts of Linus Pauling and Abram Hoffer
must be having a great belly laugh!
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Looking back on the letters I received over the years from Vitality
readers, I notice that they used to be requests for information on
good doctors or dentists. While those are still in high demand and
still often embattled, now the letters are far more often about specific
nutrients, how they work, which alternative cancer therapy clinic I
recommendnot: whether alternative is a good idea; thats taken
for granted in such inquiries. Collective attitudes have undoubtedly
changed. Blind faith in medical authority is diminishing rapidly.
Back in 1998, when a University of Toronto and FDA research project
investigated how many people were using alternative medicine, the
answer was about 50%. Today, about 92% of Canadians find especially herbal medicine helpful and two thirds use it and other forms
of alternative (to synthetic drugs) therapies. Indeed, within just a
decade, Canadians understood the fraud involved with genetically
engineered foods, and polls consistently show that close to 98% of us
dont want the stuff, and for all the right reasons, namely immune
dysfunction and cancer.
It is, therefore, interesting that the governments main worry
about the H1N1 vaccine (unnecessary, untested, and dangerous) is
that most people might not want it. Politically, that new skepticism in
the public mind is reflected in the recent letter many of us received
from the federal Minister of Health assuring Canadians that there are
absolutely no plans for implementing a program of compulsory vaccinations. The public has become rather like a mouthy teenagerimpossible to control, but sometimes can be persuaded to comply. In this case,
however, the teenage f-off approach might be the wiser choice.
Another astounding development over the past decade has been
the phenomenal increase in medical fraudand its relentless public
exposure and equally determined pursuit by the courts. Big Pharma
cannot make drugs that heal and must resort to pretense, fraud, and
glitzy propaganda. Dictatorships and tyrannical systems are always
the most vulnerable in their propaganda departments. Public opinion shifts when the lies become obviousand the material for joke!
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The giant pharmaceutical companies have been crippled by multibillion dollar liability rulings that have run out of appeals. True, they
are explicitly protected from liability with regard to the H1N1 vaccinebut our government remains liable and answerable to the
courts, should this become a public health disaster. Indeed, the courts
even rule frequently against patents for genetic engineering, making
the whole GMO food enterprise increasingly vulnerable to collapse.
World-class researchers, who were once duped into cooperating with
Big Pharma scams, spill the beans, blow the whistle, come out of their
laboratory closets, and raise hell. Corruption is as old as human institutions. I am sure Neanderthals cheated each other over choice mammoth steaks. Nothing new there. What is new today is the hunger for
truthno, for not scandal, but for the truth, facts, verifiable information.
In this context I find one of the most helpful developments the rise
of the documentary film. Documentaries have become truly educational. I am thinking of the 2001 film from the National Film Boards,
The Genetic Takeover, which made a splash around the world. One
of the greatest ones surely is the 2004 film, The Corporation. Most
of the scientists featured in it I got to interview and reported on their
work in Vitality. Since then, we have had fantastic revelations through
Supersize Me, the various GMO and Monsanto films, and now
Food Inc.
Ten years ago, the medical, dental, regulatory Establishment was
firmly in charge andlike most of us, myself includedoften were
innocently unaware of the fact that they were in the most horrendous
conflicts of interest between their duty to their patients and the industries that got rich on product lines which we now, without any irony,
correctly call the Death Industry. When awakening strikes, everybody
ceases to slumber, one way or another.
Two hundred years ago we lived in a world in which human
beings were sold in open markets. Those who questioned such practices were harshly treated because slavery was perceived as indispensable to a thriving economy. When slavery was outlawed in 1832 in
Britain, it still took the American Civil War to stop it in this hemi-
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sphere, and I was in high school when African Americans finally got
the vote. Yet, the change that began in 1832 is inexorably continuing.
We are in the midst of such a fundamental change of perception with
regard to food and medicine. The Sickness Industry will cease to be
the basis of our economy. We have millions of years ahead of us
because we are getting smarter.
2011
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.
VoltaireFrench Enlightenment philosopher 16941778
Many people have asked me how I manage to cope with the monumental task of researching medical corruption, corporate and political sleaze, and the associated statistics on death and injury, while still
retaining my sanity and optimism. The fact is that horrible things
keep happening, so denial wont work. What follows are my thoughts
on the matter, along with my guiding principles which so far have
been helpful. But first, a little rollercoaster ride through some current
highs and lows is necessary to illustrate my approach.
We receive enormous amounts of bad and good news all the time.
If we only try to shut our eyes to the bad stuff while fervently hoping
for more good stuff, we could become very frustrated and stressed out.
So we often cant help but look for a trend, a clear pattern in the tea
leaves, a guiding message from the stars, a definitive and authoritative interpretationsomething (anything!) that allows us to grab
reality by the tail and shout: Gotcha! Now I know what this is all
about. (I, too, read the astrology section in Vitality faithfully every
month and that can be sometimes very amusing.)
The relentless, repetitive nature of destruction and evil is especially exhausting. German philosopher Hanna Arendt used to refer to
this as the banality of evil. How very true. One feels this peculiar
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mix of boredom and outrage. Consider this pile of bad news and
notice how strangely and imperceptibly sometimes the bad slides over
into the good newsreality seems to be elastic:
The U.S. spends $7,538 per person annually on health care, far
more than other industrialized countries, yet has the worst life
expectancy. Given the garbage that they seduce their population into
eating, the toxicity of their environment, and the state-sponsored
support of toxic drugs and useless often maiming procedures, this figure does not surprise. Unfortunately, the beneficiary of all those
health care dollars is the medical industry, not the patient.
Arising from the same policy that produces wealth from sickness
comes the statistic that more than 2,000 American babies died within the last few years from vaccines alone. (When four died in Japan,
the vaccines were removed at once.) Between 2006 and 2010, the U.S.
Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), operated by the
FDA and the CDC, received 59,000 such reports from pneumococcal
and influenza B vaccines alone, of which 30,094 required hospitalizations from which 2,169 died; 95% of the deaths were in babies. In
Canada, we dont even have such a reporting system!
Simultaneously, we learn that the Danish researcher hired by the
CDC to prove that vaccines dont cause autism has just been indicted on 13 counts of fraud and money laundering; his study on MMR
vaccines was also totally fraudulent, relying on databases that dont
exist, but his research continues to be cited as proof that these vaccines are safe.
After some Herculean efforts to purge medical research of conflicts
of interest, McGill University researchers revealed in the Journal of the
American Medical Association in March 2011 that such conflicts are
starting to sneak back in: the drugs being recommended are praised
by those who are paid to do so.
An analysis reported in the Canadian Medical Association Journal in
February showed that those journals allowing disguised advertising
to appear as research articles also rely on drug ads for profit; journals
that do not allow ads at all, being non-profit, publish research that
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dismisses the identical drugs that were advocated in the journals relying on drug ads.
The same findings were made for synthetic (carcinogenic!) HRT
drugs: doctors who received money from HRT manufacturers continue to recommend them despite the mountain of evidence proving the
harm that these drugs cause and despite the results of the Womens
Initiative Report. On the other hand, Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT) is totally safe, a published and researched
factand like vitamins carries no bad side effects or the risk of death,
and yet is virtually ignored by mainstream practitioners. (Go to amazon.com for an excellent list of books on natural hormone replacement;
highly recommended are those by Dr. Terry Hertoghe.)
Psychiatric drugs are possibly the worst of all, as they are usually
prescribed in situations where informed consent is meaningless.
Added to the long list of drugs causing likely harm, Seroquel and
Zyprexa are now linked to a high incidence of blood clots leading to
strokes. AstraZeneca paid out $198 million to settle successful claims
by 17,500 injured patients in 2011. Recently, Eli Lilly paid out a
whopping $1.42 billion to people harmed by Zyprexa, and GlaxoSmithKline paid more than $1 billion for injuries from Paxil. This led
to a very interesting decision: Big Pharma announced that they will
no longer invest in psychiatric drug development. Now if that isnt
good news, I dont know what is!
In February, President Obama announced that the government
will change patent law in various waysapparently drugs and war
have simply become too expensive. The estimated savings over the
next 10 years from such changes to drug patents would be $11 billion.
It was also noted that FDA warnings on specific classes of antipsychotics, which injure the brain, promote cancer and diabetes, and
cause sudden death, resulted in a decline in prescriptions and compliance. Publishing facts makes a difference. Similarly, the anti-depressant drugs known as SSRIs (e.g. Prozac) are in trouble now that large
studies showed that 70% of users remain depressed, no matter how
many SSRIs they take. (See Toxic Psychiatry in this book.)
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And now for the most amazing piece of good news: after decades
of filling millions of mouths with mercury amalgam, a neurotoxic
poison, the U.S. government finally accepted scientific fact and
announced in April 2011 that its use is now being phased out.
Especially surprising was a development in the U.S. in January:
the so-called State Boards, which control doctors licenses like the
Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons do in Canada, have for decades
been accustomed to enjoying unchallenged authority on the enforcement of whatever arbitrary standards of practice their friends in Big
Pharma desire. The same is true for the Colleges in Canada, which
routinely ignore published literature that they dont like when prosecuting a doctor for innovative work, usually without patient complaint (Google Glasnost Report 2001 for details or read/download it
from my website www.helkeferrie.com). Well, several medical associations sued the Texas Board when it went after the world-famous
expert in environmental medicine, Dr. William J. Rea, and won! This
decision serves notice to the medical establishment throughout the
U.S. and Canada that business as usual is over. The shift has begun
towards patient outcome as being of primary importance and that
the outcome is not to be decided by the regulators, but by the
patient. The arbitrary enforcement of standards of practice, regardless
of patient outcome, will not be tolerated anymore. Texas has also
now introduced an excellent health freedom bill to clinch the matter.
This constant barrage of bad news and good news can make the
nerves raw. What attitude may we hope to develop that allows one to
remain anchored in a Still Point, rather than becoming exhausted
and discouraged by it all? Clearly, the silly advice that all will work
out in the end is of no use; there simply is too much that does not
work out. Turning ones back on the world is morally unacceptable to
me, and giving way to cynicism or despair is a waste of life and
brains. A quick overview of human nature, as science is beginning to
see it, might be helpful.
This year, the Allen Institute for Brain Science published the
worlds first anatomically and genomically comprehensive brain
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Henry Waxman, The Waxman Report, Twelve Hachette Book Group 2010
Dan Gardner, Future BabbleWhy Expert Predictions FailAnd Why Believe
them Anyway, McLelland & Stewart, 2010
A. S. Wohl, Endangered LivesPublic Health in Victorian Britain, Harvard 1983
H. Heeney, editor. Life Before Medicarethe Canadian Experience, Stories
Project 1995
For the scandal about Dr. Poul Thorsen and his indictment in April 2011 on 13
counts of fraud and money laundering go to my book review of Dr. Andrew
Wakefields book in Vitality, March 2011, in which his fraudulent methodology is
discussed in detail, showing how he invented the data to prove that MMR
vaccines cannot cause autism.
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The report that Big Pharma is stepping back from even developing psychiatric
drugs because of cost, liability etc. was originally published in Science on July
10, 2010. An analysis of this article and subsequent events was published by
Garry Cooper in Psychotherapy Networker, an on-line publicationgoogle.
The move by US President Obama to reduce patent years for drugs was widely
reported. For a summary and sources see Jonathan Benson at
www.naturalnews.com for February 21, 2011.
The details on US spending on healthcare were published widely; my source is
Mark Whitehouse in a mailing by croft.woodruff@gmail.com on April 12, 2011.
The story about Ireland, Japan and Egypt banning GMO crops came from news
service georgefreund@hotmail.com on April 21, 2011 and contained many
websites as sources.
The salt reduction story was published on January 13, 2011 in Circulation, the
journal of the American Heart Association; my information comes from the
summary provided in www.sciencedaily.com of January 14, 2011. This is a daily
free internet service that provided the latest news published in scientific journals
throughout the world.
The story about Quebecs largest union announcing it no longer supports the
mining of asbestos was reported in the Montreal Gazette on March 10, 2011 (by
Michelle Lalonde).
The US governments decision to phase out the use of dental amalgam due to
the toxicity of mercury comes from www.bolenreport.com dated April 5, 2011
The fact that Ontarios ban on the cosmetic use of pesticides is showing
improvement in Ontarios water, and the decision to ban 2,4-D in Ontario
despite Health Canadas decision to judge it to be harmless was reported on
CBC news on April 20, 2011.
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The story about satisfied, engaged people being more likely to vote than
unhappy people was published by P. Flavin & M.J. Keane under the title Life
Satisfaction and Political Participation: Evidence from the United States in the
Journal of Happiness Studies, April 20, 2011.
That physicians empathy is directly related to clinical results was published in
the March 2011 issue of Academic Medicine; the summary comes from
www.sciencedaily.com March 8, 2011.
The story on positive emotions reducing stress hormones and inflammation was
published by A.D. Ong. Pathways linking positive emotion and health in later life.
Current Directions in Psychological Science, vol. 19 (6), 2010.
The January 2011 issue of the Journal of Occupational Psychology published an
article on Resilience on the battlefield: Soldiers with a positive outlook less
likely to suffer anxiety, depression. Summarized on www.sciencedaily.com Jan 5,
2011.
The results of the 20-year study called The Longevity Project were
summarized on www.sciencedaily.com, March 12, 2011
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Over the past couple of years, public opposition to corporate agendas aiming to make people into consumers and nothing but (at great
cost to health and environment) has gained momentum. Indeed, the
famous Flynn Effect appears to be validated. It states that average
intelligence rises with every generation in all measurable areas of
cognition, language/semantics, and memory. This effect has been
measured in all cultures. I am especially impressed by the intelligence
that people demonstrate in the art of saying No! They trust their own
judgment and ignore experts in droves. Here are some inspiring
examples of vital significance because they are funded by governments and institutions whose focus was forced to shift by overwhelming evidence.
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Unlike Dr. Thorsen, one of the key researchers into the Gardasil vaccine Cevarix, Dr. Diane Harper, said No! to her employers and went
public. She had worked on the development of this vaccine, which
supposedly protects against cervical cancer. But then she became a
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whistle blower and informed the UKs Sunday Express and the New
York Times that this vaccine does nothing but possibly prevent genital
warts and will not decrease cervical cancer rates at all. She also stated
that this vaccine was being over-marketed and that parents of young
girls should know that it carries the danger of serious side effects. Dr.
Harper recalled that Merck had lobbied every opinion leader, womens
group, medical society, politician, and went directly to the people it
created a sense of panic that says you have to have this vaccine now
The last place I would have expected a resounding No! to come
from is the German army. In Germany, obedience to authority is a
virtue. Last September, when the H1N1 hysteria gripped the world,
Germanys soldiers said Nein, danke! and refused the vaccine. That
prompted Germanys Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, chair of the Council of
Europes 47-nation Sub-Committee on Health, to launch an investigation into the vaccine and the pandemics origins. Its findings included testimony from key researchers of the World Health Organization.
The Sub-Committee ended up declaring that the pandemic is a
hoax and the vaccine is a bust. Dr. Wodarg said that people are
much cleverer than the government and figured it out for themselves, and so less than 6% of the citizens of France and Belgium, for
example, took the vaccine. Even in Japan, where obedience also tends
to be regarded a virtue, only a tiny minority took it.
With regard to food safety, refusal to put up with business as usual
was also unexpected and dramatic. The National Cancer Institute
took on the food industry, declaring that restaurant meats are high in
carcinogens and that foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids essentially
reverse the risk for prostate cancer.
The U.S. food industry voluntarily stopped the use of bovine
growth hormonea cause to which Dr. Shiv Chopra devoted most of
his rebellious career at Health Canada. That long battle which he and
his colleagues waged also publicized the cancer-producing effect on
humans from food-producing animals given prophylactic antibiotics
throughout their lives, as is the norm in industrial farming. The
research supporting these findings has increased all over the world,
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and now this practice may soon be history because a natural substance, chitosan, appears to be a great deal better.
Monsanto was hit as hard as Big Pharma: the BBC reported on
October 15, 2009, that the Supreme Court of France found Monsanto
had lied all along about the safety of its flagship herbicide, the
allegedly environmentally safe and harmless Roundup; the European
Union classified it as dangerous to the environment because it is a
carcinogen and environmentally unsafe.
The next blow came from an international team of researchers
who proved that genetically modified corn causes damage to the
heart, the adrenal glands, the spleen, the blood, and is toxic to the
liver. This study certainly was welcome support for a chorus of No!
that greeted the EUs approval of a GM potato for certain restricted
purposes; several countries announced their absolute refusal to cooperate with this EU decision.
In India last fall an eggplant war broke out, the fires of which were
fanned by our very own Dr. Shiv Chopra who traveled throughout
India explaining GMOs to the crowds. India has several hundred
varieties of this vegetable, a staple in the Indian diet. When India
approved a GMO variety, 11 States declared themselves GMO-free
zones, and a dozen federal cabinet ministers expressed their unconditional refusal to cooperate. A proposed law limiting freedom of
speech on GMO issues was publicly dismissed as lunacy and is now
under review; although Dr. Chopra suggested it might be useful
because millions of people would crowd the jails and information on
the truth of GMOs would spread unchecked and then pour forth from
Indias jails to rid not only that country, but possibly the world of this
science fiction nightmare.
One of the greatest successes was scored by the American people
who rose in protest against a bill proposed by Senator McCain that
would have essentially handed over the natural supplements industry to Big Pharma and abolished the current protective legislation.
Bill S. 3002 was killed on March 10th.
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Understanding Propaganda*
November 2011
Originally published under the title: Dietary Supplements Increase Mortality Rate
in Older WomenOr Do They? A Look at the Propaganda Behind the Headlines
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Multiple FlawsIntended?
Here is a short list of what is wrong with this study, and as usual
the truth shall set you free, but in this case it doesnt even hurt first.
1) The participants were given questionnaires in 1986, 1997, and
2004. The entire research is based on this self-reported material;
none was verified independently, and there was no attempt at a
control group, such as following women who take no supplements
or who took a placebo sugar pill. Since the causes of death recorded were many (only deaths by accidents were ruled out from con-
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sideration), it is difficult to understand what influence those various supplements actually had. The recorded data float in a sea of
the undeterminable.
2) No attempt was made to determine the quality of the supplements, whether they were synthetic or natural-based products,
whether the same ones were taken throughout each large time
interval. And given that different participants took different combinations and amounts of supplements, nobody knows what was
influencing what. Between 1986 and 2004 a lot happened in the
supplement and food industries, so the qualitative considerations
would be key if any meaningful association between health/death
and supplements was to be examined scientifically.
3) The food portion of the questionnaire made no differentiation
between organic and conventional foodsunderstandable in
1986, but totally inappropriate by 2004. We will never know how
many old ladies figured out they better eat organic and got even
more vitamins, wholly absorbable, than they could possibly know
how to report.
4) Then the data had, of necessity, to be manipulated so that some
sort of correlation could be imagined. As a result, it will be impossible to replicate itthe protocol is anchored in nothing and the
resulting data are jelly. If you cant replicate something in science,
it is by definition fraudulent research.
5) Those who know something about statistical analysis will see
quickly that all the so-called relative risks are meaningless
because they are so low as to be drowned out by the recorded deaths.
6) Although the authors conclude that taking supplements hastens
death, when you look through the data you find something
extremely funny: in the U.S., women currently have a life expectancy of 80 years; but no less than 50% of the study participants were
still around at 82! Now that is statistically significant! Did the
media actually read this whole article? Had they done so, they
would have had to headline the news with Supplements found to
extend life expectancy!
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In Jacobs 2004 study, again, the diabetes is self-reported, not independently diagnosed and confirmed. His team did certain standard
tests on the subjects, but they arrived strictly as self-reported diabetics.
In regards to the vitamin C aspect of the study, Jacobs reports that
high intake is equivalent to 300 mg daily. Yet even back in 2004 the
recommended maximum daily amount for healthy people was 2,000
mg, as published by the U.S. government and Health Canada. The
RDAs were developed after World War II and based on the mythic
healthy 24-year old malebut only in amounts to just prevent actual disease, i.e. scurvy in the case of vitamin C. Soon these RDAs were
found to be so fact-challenged and its guideline authors shown to be
so bent on pursuing confirmation bias while Big Pharma took ever
more control of science and the healthcare market, that they finally
had to cave in to the accumulating tide of scientific data that contradicted their illusions (and their paymasters interests), and they had
to increase the maximum RDA in 2000.
Now, thats four years before this diabetes study was conducted
and Jacobs, a professor of public health, ought to have known that.
Public health research and activities are grounded in government statistics and public health guidelines. It is impossible that Jacobs did
not know about these government RDA recommendations. It is,
therefore, very strange that he only used about 1/7 of the maximum
recommended dosage for healthy people to conduct his study on sick
people, especially the type of sickness (diabetes) that is generally
acknowledged to be essentially an extreme complication of vitamin C
deficiency induced by various factors. Worst of all, diabetics even lose
their limbs to neuropathy because less and less vitamin C is available to
repair and maintain their blood vessels over time, after the pancreas
ceases to make insulin, thereby causing what is called localized scurvy.
Whats ironic here is the fact that the beneficial use of vitamin C
in truly high doses has actually prevented diabetic neuropathy and
saved patients legs from amputationthis has been confirmed by
double-blind studies, the gold standard of mainstream medicine
(Gaby p. 1094 ff). Those reports show that amputations were success-
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personal judgment determines the so-called market forces. In medicine, patients are the market force. In that particular court of public
opinion, which is informed by the direct experience of what actually
works and what harms, the likes of Jacobs junk science will
inevitably wind up in the garbage heap of medical history.
Meanwhile, a small detective effort, such as the one I undertook for
this article, provides you with tools and testable questions.
The next time some headline announces that vitamins give you
cancer, and that organic food lacks nutrients, you will know how to
check out the real truth behind the headlines for yourself.
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that so many people are aware of all this sleaze and the good science
as well. Ten years ago people asked questions only at my boothnow
they tell me things I write down for further follow-up!
The trust in the systemany systemappears to be fading fast.
More and more people are taking charge of their health, ask questions and refuse to cooperate blindly. The support for the Charter of
Health Freedom written by lawyer Shawn Buckley of the Natural
Health Products Protection Association is a good measure for this shift
in public opinion. Signatures are close to 100,000 now (to sign go to
www.NHPPA.org ). Back in the 1970s, it took 600,000 names on that
famous petition that resulted in us getting our constitution in the
1980s, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. A great many of us have
decided to re-occupy our bodies and lives and assert our birthright
freedom of choice. May 2012 continue this trend!
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The news discussed in this article isnt actually new. Whats new is
that this information is now seen as news. My October and November
Vitality features gave examples of mainstream researchers and clinicians who are reporting on how toxic and useless most drugs are. My
earlier articles showed only the tip of the iceberg.
What is definitely new is that those responsible for the spin are losing control. Something is stopping the Semmelweis Reflex, named
after the Hungarian doctor who demonstrated that maternal deaths
were reduced ten-fold when doctors washed their hands before delivering babies. Ignaz Semmelweis (18181865) met with determined
opposition led by then-leading gynecologist, Charles D. Meigs, who
dismissed hand-washing because doctors are gentlemen, and gentlemens hands are clean. Semmelweis responded, The facts cannot be
changed, and denying the truth only increases guilt.
The Semmelweis Reflex is in evidence whenever established norms
are affirmed in the teeth of contradictory evidence. It is also called
confirmation bias, i.e., when only confirmatory evidence is reflexively sought to silence contradictory facts. Psychologists refer to cognitive dissonance to describe the emotional pain caused by irreconcilable conflicting information: you may believe vaccines are good,
but you also read the vaccine manufacturers list of toxic preservatives and now what? Or you may try calming your fears about a
drugwhich is under attack from international class action lawsuits
because of many reported deathsby reassuring yourself that your
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doctor must know what he/she is doing. Accepting the possibility that
doctors do not necessarily know what they are doing causes mental
indigestion.
This year it was challenging to keep up with the flood of revelations
and the amazing reversals in many mainstream medical attitudes.
For the first time, Consumer Reports investigated hospital safety
this year. And the British Medical Journal informed readers that only
11% of all current medical treatments used in North America and
Europe can be shown to be beneficialthe rest is likely to lead to
harm, accounting for the roughly 200,000 annual deaths from properly prescribed drugs in American hospitals; and the additional 1.4
million patients who are seriously harmed by pharmaceuticals in the
U.S. alone. Altogether more than three million deaths are known to be
related to prescription drugs, properly taken as prescribed. A statistical
analysis in 2009 showed that in the U.S., deaths from pharmaceutical
drugs now annually exceed those from traffic-related accidents.
Whats newsworthy here is the fact that magic bullets are more
like bullets and less like magic; the miracle cures which modern medicine kept promising decade after decade have been revealed as nothing more than marketing spin. Most standard drugs, diagnostic tests,
therapies, and preventive protocols are saturated with the stench of
fraud, consumer exploitation, and coercion spun from fear-mongering and even the outright invention of diseasesas if we dont have
enough of them already!
The image that comes to mind is the scene in The Wizard of Oz
when Dorothy, her dog Toto, Scarecrow, Lion, and Tin Woodsman
arrive in the throne room of the great Wizard of Oz. Toto knocks over
the screen behind which hides an insignificant fellow who had pretended for so long to be Oz the Great and Terrible and who now
admits: Im a humbug. He explains how he became hopelessly
entangled in a web of pretenses. No... Im a very good man, Oz tells
Dorothy, Im just a very bad Wizard. (Lets add that to the
Hippocratic Oath to help doctors remember that they may be good
people but definitely are always lousy wizards.)
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Donald W. Light and Joel R. Lexchin from Princeton and York universities, respectively, performed a remarkable equivalent of Totos
revelatory action this year. It was published on August 7 in the British
Medical Journal under the title Pharmaceutical research and development: what do we get for all that money? The authors examined the
so-called innovation crisis in drug development and found that it is a
total myth.
Even Pfizer, now the worlds largest pharmaceutical company,
stated so in 2005 showing that drug innovation (as defined by the
industry, not as the patient experiences it) has proceeded at roughly
the same pace since 1970. While it is perfectly true that not many
new active synthetic molecules have been developed over the past
four decades, lots of drugs came to market with no clinical advantage
over older non-patented drugs.
Between 1978 and 1989, only 34 (15.6%) of the drugs on the market were judged by independent investigators to be of therapeutic usefulness. Examining approximately the same period, the industry itself
(!) concluded that only 11% of their products were innovative and clinically useful. All independent reviews covering that same four-decade
period put it the other way around, stating that between 85 and 90% of
all new drugs had few or no clinical advantage at all. Talk of humbug!
The U.S. National Science Foundation looked at just how much of
the billions upon billions of Big Pharma revenues are actually used
for research and development. It boggles the mind to learn that only
1.3% of all that money goes to research and development. Instead,
most of those huge revenues go to marketing (e.g., $4 billion annually just in free samples and gifts to doctors, who also may get about
$20,000 per patient they enroll in drug trials).
The actual cost of searching for new drugs is borne entirely by the
taxpayer. So huge amounts of our tax dollars go toward the development of drugs that neither cure nor prevent death, and are actually
the cause of thousands of deaths annuallyin fact we pay for our
own leading cause of death (first for research and then at the phar-
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macy) and also help bankrupt Medicare which is swamped with the
increasing tide of disabling drug side effects.
In their report, Light and Lexchin then zeroed in on what is supposedly new. Turns out that over the past three decades, Big Pharma
has fine-tuned its manipulation of governments to achieve more and
longer patent protection for drugs that mostly dont work and tend to
do harm. Governments also protect Big Pharma from free market
forces such as competition from generic manufacturers. Thus, Big
Pharma is constantly rewarded for bad or useless drugs under the pretext of serving the public interest.
On October 18, Macleans Magazine reported on Oakville MP
Terence Youngs address to the Canadian Senate. He described the situation in Canada like this: at least 20,000 die annually in hospitals
from properly prescribed and administered drugs; about another
150,000 are victims of serious side effects from the 4,852 prescription
drugs Health Canada allows on the market. Indeed, in 1997 Big
Pharma replaced Canadian citizens as the client of Health Canada
which is now mandated to protect trade secrets. Therefore, with perverse logic, the Health Protection Branch changed its name in 2000 to
Marketed Health Products Directorate.
MP Young has now tabled a Bill that calls for the establishment of
an Independent Drug Agency wholly responsible to the public, not to
industry. That is a truly great idea. However, he works for the wrong
boss: Stephen Harper promised similar reforms in 2004 (I was a recipient of his letter), but has since joined forces with Big Pharma, as we
all saw during the public uproar over the proposed changes to the
Food and Drugs Act (e.g., Bill C-51). Now the Harper government has
even fast-tracked the drug approvals process and removed virtually
all safeguards against harm.
But, wait! People arent stupid and not all medical research is controlled by Big Money. Not everybody is looking for illusory confirmation of the status quo. Some are willing to cut through the B.S. That a
Conservative MP tells truths that fly in the face of his partys policies
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one was protected against the flu. Amazingly, there is also no evidence to support the belief that vaccination prevents person-to-person
transmission. What the evidence does show, though, is that flu shots
given to pregnant women have increased fetal deaths by 4,250%
since 2009.
Cancer medicine offered some surprises, too. The fact that workplace exposure to toxins can cause breast cancer was widely reported
in the media. This was nothing new to Vitality readers (see list of my
articles on this issue in the Sources), but it was new that the Canadian
Breast Cancer Foundation supported this information, reversing their
decades-long silence on environmental carcinogens.
However, the nonsense about mammography saving lives continues in the media, but not in the science journals. On November 22,
the venerable New England Journal of Medicine published a threedecade review by Drs Bleyer and Welch, surgeons and experts in medical statistics, on the effect of mammography on cancer incidence.
The result: at least 31% of all cancer diagnoses were found to be false
positives that resulted in unnecessary surgery, chemo, and radiation.
In the U.S. in 2008 alone, 700,000 women were treated for cancers
they didnt have. What this NEJM article did not discuss, but is also
published by experts like Swedish Right Livelihood Award recipient
Samuel Epstein of the University of Chicago, is the increased risk of
developing breast cancer from the radiation exposure caused by having regular mammograms.
On November 14, the Journal of the American Medical Association
published the results of two large randomized controlled studies
designed to see if taking multivitamins reduces cancer incidence and
cardiovascular disease. The surprise is not that vitamins did make a
big difference, but that these trials were conducted at all and that the
data werent fudged! Then I thought I was hallucinating when I read,
in the straight-laced Medical Post on October 9, that integrative cancer therapy is becoming the norm in Canada as provincial governments fund acupuncture, nutrition, meditation, etc., for cancer
patients and even refer to these therapies as evidence-based! Not
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too long ago, merely suggesting them as adjuncts to standard therapy caused doctors to lose their licenses!
The fight against junk food has taken a turn to cheer the most
depressed pessimist: the Ontario Medical Association announced in
October that disease-causing junk food must be fought just like the
successful battle against cigarettes was, by taxing high-sugar, highfat, low-nutrient junk foods. They attacked even industry advertising
to children and want it outlawed. Three cheers for the OMA! Also,
remember that in 1995 Torontos Dr. Carolyn Dean had her license
revoked by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario for publicly discussing the science on how excessive sugar consumption causes diabetes. The revocation was based on a complaint from the
Canadian Sugar Institute. (Google Glasnost Report 2001.)
Meanwhile, Europes Alliance for Natural Health showed that
mega-vitamin intake is so safe that you are 900 times more likely to
die from food poisoning and 300,000 times more likely from preventable medical injury. The U.S. Poison Control report still didnt have
any deaths to record for the 27th year running. Gore Vidal might be
right here: The four most beautiful words in our common language:
I told you so.
Are we passing into that third stage that the self-evident
Schopenhauer spoke of? Indeed, it seems that we begin to agree that
putting toxic chemicals into people who are already sick is not a good
business plan; that junk foods lead to medical emergencies; that lifesupporting vitamins and probiotics can prevent disease and achieve
a lasting truce between pathogens and us; that flu shots are harmful
and expensive mythology.
Evidence isnt a matter of choice anymore, controlled by those
who pay for the best evidence money can buy. As for protecting the
public, those Wizards of Ottawa are found out to be downright silly:
our government policies are embarrassing in their blatant disregard
for medical science and mendacious support of Big Money. Wizards
everywhere are turning into humbugs.
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Fifteen years ago, finding the good in medical research was very
much harder than it is nowbut it existed. Today, the conscience of
medicine appears to be rising from its ashes. In the 1950s and 60s,
the leading medical journals published superb research showing how
even the worst diseases can be prevented and treated with methods
that often rely on nutritional medicine, and do not involve synthetic
drugs. Those published cures of polio, cancer, and infection (without
antibiotics) were never disproven, they just mysteriously became
unfashionable.
Starting in the 1970s, the spin and industry-funded propaganda
announced more and more miracle drugs. By 1978, pharmaceuticals
were traded on the stock market and now sickness (not health)
became a commodity. Inhibitors, promoters, catalyzers, gene modulators, hormone mimickers, balancers of fantasized chemical imbalances, and poisoners of enzymatic pathways to control symptoms of
unknown origins became the standard. Almost everybody got sucked
into this high-tech disease-for-profit mythology.
Doctors unwilling to praise this development as being good, and
who remained far from the madding crowd, were marched into disciplinary trials in the U.S. and Canada, usually losing their licenses in
spite of no patients harmed and despite documented cures. Some
managed to survive, especially in universities, and carried on good
research that helped people.
It is instructive to recall Hans Christian Andersens tale, The
Emperors New Clothes. In it, a child exclaims that the emperor in
the parade is buff naked and everybody else agrees, but the emper-
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In 1998, the University of Torontos Bruce Pomeranz and his team
published evidence in the Journal of the American Medical Association
that properly prescribed drugs, taken as directed, had become the
fourth leading cause of death in America. This explosive statistic had
been obtained directly from the U.S. FDAs own enormous database.
By 2007, when the next large-scale analysis of pharmaceutical outcomes was undertaken, deaths and adverse events had increased 2.7
fold and a public health disaster was recognized. In January 2013, the
Institute of Medicine published a report showing that even wealthy
Americans are sicker than people in the 16 most affluent countries.
The U.S. also spends far more money on healthcare than any other
country.
In his 2012 book Unaccountable, Dr. Marty Makary, a Johns
Hopkins School of Medicine researcher, shows how mining sickness
for profit makes everybody unaccountablehence the books title.
The book goes on to outline a description of how hospitals are a
major cause of death, and how at least 30% of conventional healthcare is unnecessary and leads to deadly harm. Almost half of what
doctors do is not in synch with the published research evidence, and
the resulting mistakes are the fifth leading cause of deathprescription drugs stand at second, depending on which data bases are consulted. The cause? The corporatization of health care. We need to
change the culture of medicine, says Dr. Makary.
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because its editors take on all sacred cows and (so far) cannot be
bought.
In medicine, business as usual is no longer an option: there are too
many dead bodies and the carnage is too expensive. So, for example,
Americas largest insurance group, Kaiser Permanente, began conducting the Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) study. ACE has produced more than 60 major research papers showing how much more
financially efficient and effective psychiatric intervention can be
when first considering one of the major sources of mental health
problemsemotional traumabefore handing out ultimately ineffective, almost certainly toxic, and very costly drugs.
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Introduction
Examples of excellent medical outcomes published in mainstream
medical journals include Dr. F. R. Klenner who in the 1930s and 40s
cured polio in children with intravenous vitamin C long before the
vaccine was created; he also cured various autoimmune diseases and
untreatable viruses and published the results in the 1950s. To obtain
a full list of his publications go to Townsend Letter for Doctors and
Patients 2005 where a 2-part series was re-published on his work with
a full bibliography.
A second excellent source for the successful treatment of anaphylaxis, allergy, infections like double-sided pneumonia etc without the
use of antibiotics but the use of autogenously produced vaccine
(made from the patients white blood cells) go to the magisterial work
by Dr. Theron Randolph (taught at Chicago University): Environmental
MedicineBeginnings & Bibliographies of Clinical Ecology, 1987.
Dr. Max Gersons books from the 1930s on curing cancer and his
bibliography published in mainstream journals in Germany and the
USA are available through the Gerson Institute: www.gersonorg . See
A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases, 1958. These cases were presented before the US Congress.
For successful treatments of even the most severe types of schizophrenia see Dr. Abram Hoffer, Adventures in Psychiatry, Kos 2005. Dr.
Hoffer was professor of psychiatry at the University of Saskatchewan
and reformed the mental hospitals there at the request of then
Premier Tommy Douglas. Hoffer did the first known double blind
placebo controlled studies on treatment of schizophrenia with nutrition and high-dose B vitamins. They were published in the Lancet.
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The article that caused such a (because it showed that prescription
drugs are a leading cause of death, was published in JAMA by J.
Lazarou, N. H. Pomeranz, P. N. Corey, Incidence of Adverse Drug
Reactions in Hospitalized Patients: A Meta-analysis of Prospective
Studies, vol. 279 (15), 1998.
The follow up in 2007 is by T. J. Moore at al. Serious Adverse Drug
Events Reported for the Food and Drug Administration: 1998-2005,
Archives of Internal Medicine, vol. 167 (16), 2007
The US Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a report in January
2013 with the statistics that show that the health of US citizens, even
in the high income groups, is worse than the health of people living
in 16 other developed countries. Google National Academy of
Sciences, posting date January 9, 2013.
Makary MD, Unaccountable: What Hospitals Wont Tell You and
How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care, Bloomsbury Press
2012. While the information is tailored to a US population, the basic
facts apply to Canada as well.
Prof. Alan Cassels wrote the article on hopes for a preventionpropaganda-free year in Common Ground, January 2013. Highly
recommended is his new book Seeking SicknessMedical Screening and
the Misguided Hunt for Disease, Keystone 2012
D. W. Light, The Risks of Prescription Drugs, Columbia University
Press, 2010
R. Fitzgerald, The Hundred-Year Lie: How to Protect Yourself from the
Chemicals that Are Destroying Your Health, updated edition, Plume 2007
The source for the call to stop mammography screening is P. C.
Gotzsche MD, editorial in CMAJ, November 22, 2011: Time to stop
mammography screening?
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The details on screening tests in general and why they are neither
reliable nor useful, see Dr. H. G. Welch et al., Overdiagnosed: Making
People Sick in the Pursuit of Health, Beacon, 2011. A Must-Read before
agreeing to any test!
On the corruption of prescribing habits, pharmaceutical control of
medical groups and patient support organizations, and especially
continuing medical education conferences see the books by Dr. Carl
Elliott, White Coat Black Hat, 2010, Dr. Jerome Kassirer (Yale University
Medical School, past editor of the New England Journal of Medicine), On
The Take, 2004; Dr. David Healeys 2012 book Pharmageddon, Dr.
Marcia Angells (editor New England Journal of Medicine for 19 years,
now professor of public policy at Harvard University) The Truth About
the Drug Companies, 2003. For the evidence on how medical journals
are controlled through pharmaceutical advertising see Richard
Smith, The Trouble With Medical Journals, 2006. Dr. Smith was the editor in chief of the British Medical Journal for 20 years. The comments
about medicines relationship with the pharmaceutical industry by
Dr. Marcia Angell were published in the British Medical Journal,
February 7, 2009, p. 328f
The source for the industry-friendly attitude of the American
Academy of Pediatrics is on their website: accessed January 24, 2013.
An analysis of the financial conflicts of interest within the AAP was
published by FOX News.com December 13, 2010: Conflicts of
Childrens Interest inside the American Academy of Pediatrics by D.
Imus. The AAP published their unsupported and insupportable opinions on organic foods for children in their October 22, 2012 issue.
Their fight to keep mercury in vaccines and medicines is detailed in a
report by the Alliance for Natural Health-USA, January 15, 2013.
J. Neuman et al. Prevalence of financial conflicts of interest
among panel members producing clinical practice guidelines in
Canada and the United States: cross sectional study, British Medical
Journal, 2011. This is an open access article and can be downloaded
fro free.
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The Toronto Star reported on September 29, 2012, that the death
toll from ADHD drugs in Canada among children is at over 600, but
Health Canada refuses to publish the full data on the drugs used for
this diagnosis. For information on how Health Canada fails to monitor adverse drug events and supports the industry regardless of the
death toll, go to the website of Oakville MP Terence Young, read his
book Death by Prescription, 2009, and go to the following link to
watch him and Dr. David Healy, Dr. Sholom Glouberman, professor Joel
Lexchin at an event that took place at the AGO in Toronto, January 15,
2013. http://wp.rxisk.org/videos/ and http://www.billiamjames.com.
See also the excellent report on this event in the National Post by
Joseph Brean: Poison in healthy doses.
Among the highly welcome surprises on good medical science:
The Medical Post published an article December 18, 2012, on how
to evaluate medical guidelines. The chief source is Dr. Gordon Guyatt
of MacMaster Medical School in Hamilton and co-author of the textbook on evidence-based medicine. Excellent! Every doctor should be
required to pass an exam on this topic.
In December 2012 a US court awarded a the family of a child who
became autistic after receiving his MMR shots in 2003, $969,474.91 in
compensation, after affirming that the cause of his autism was the
vaccine. For the whole story and the 83 other cases of this kind go to
www.vactrtuth.com
JAMA Pediatrics expressed its concern in a study it published on
January 21, 2013, showing that almost half of all US children either
are not vaccinated or receive less vaccines or on a different schedule
determined by their parents (i.e. later in life when the immune system
is more developed and better able to cope with vaccines). JAMA is
concerned because this would allegedly mean that such children
would be less likely to visit their doctors offices and more likely to be
admitted to hospitalswithout citing a shred of evidence to prove
that such children are more likely to be sick! The existing evidence is
exactly the opposite. Nevertheless, this is welcome information: parents are getting smarter!
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The use of grape seed extract for advanced stage IV breast cancer
was published in Cancer Letters on January 21, 2013. The research
was conducted by the University of Colorado Cancer Centre.
The use of sublingual immunotherapy to desensitize sever peanut
allergy was reported in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, vol.
131 (1), 2013 by D. M. Fleischer et al.
Using plant extracts instead of drugs to treat diabetes was a press
release by the University of Greenwich, UK, January 16, 2013
That diet sodas and sugared drinks cause depression was a press
release from the American Academy of Neurology, January 8, 2013.
For contact: helkeferrie@gmail.com
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N OW W HAT T H E H ECK D O I D O
W ITH A LL T H IS I N FORMATION ?
When an old and distinguished person speaks to you,
listen to him carefully and with respectbut do not believe him.
Never put your trust into anything but your own intellect.
Your elder, no matter whether he has gray hair or has lost his hair,
no matter whether he is a Nobel laureatemay be wrong
you must always be skepticalalways think for yourself.
Linus Pauling (19011994)
two-time Nobel laureate (chemistry and peace)
You now have plowed through a lot of material and maybe you were
shocked by much of it and, hopefully, encouraged a lot too.
Everything provided here can be verified. Nothing is hidden.
Personally, my fond hope is that readers will start reading bibliographies. Whenever I pick up a book or a medical journal article, the first
thing I read is the bibliography! Scientific literature is ultimately a
dialogue with the sources cited by the authors. If the topic of the book
or article focuses on a specific problem, the sources at the end tell you
immediately whether the writer is with it or not. If, for example, the
subject matter is MCS (multiple chemical sensitivity) and the author
does not mention the 1999 Consensus Statement published by Johns
Hopkins Medical School, you can be pretty sure he/she is either ignorant or has an anti-MCS agenda. Many examples of this sort of
phony scholarship were provided in this book. You can apply the
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al deficiencies you are likely to have, ask you helpful questions about
your eating habits, check for signs of food intolerances, ascertain hormone imbalances (and suggest bioidentical hormones, if necessary,
not carcinogenic drugs). You will learn about essential fatty acids,
how to make your home and work environment safe from environmental toxins, and above all you will learn how to eat so that your
body is properly fueled and your immune system becomes happier.
You will have read earlier my review of Dr. Prouskys Textbook on
Integrative Clinical Nutrition. In it he outlines how a naturopath is supposed to check out a clients health status along the lines I just listed.
The Chinese Medicine doctor will balance your bodys energy systems,
and the homeopath will identify your highly personal needs.
However, your medical doctor wouldnt know anything about all
this, even though in terms of training, both the MD and the ND study
for at least seven years.
At the very least, if alternative medicine is not available to you, go
on the internet and check out what you were told by your MD.
Something I do almost daily is to check on the internet what critics say. Take a drug like Lipitorthe biggest blockbuster drug of all
time. Read what the manufacturer has to say, then put into the
search box: Lipitor + side effects, then Lipitor + legal action, then
Lipitor + critics and so on. Try this for mammography, cholesterol,
cancer, and the flu vaccinebe prepared to amaze yourself. The key
idea is simple: what is the whole truth and who profits from these drugs
and tests? Where is the evidence that people are actually helped?
You might learn the most from this book by going back over the
source and resource information in this book, following those articles
that interested you the most, and maybe subscribe to Dr. Sherry
Rogers Total Wellness newsletter or browse through the issues of The
Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients and the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine in search of information on whatever health question you have. Those are sources a patient can understand.
A comment I frequently hear from readers is that they are afraid
to antagonize their family doctor. If he or she cannot answer ques-
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