As you already know there has been and continues to be a great debate as to the safety and effectiveness of immunization through vaccination.  Despite the growing mountain of evidence which conclusively shows that the risks associated with vaccination far outweighs the benefits many people continue to subject themselves and their children to these dangerous concoctions.

The primary concern of most people is rooted in the presence of thimerosal, a mercury containing preservative found in the vaccines, and its apparent link to the ever increasing rate of Autism in this country and around the world.

In this series of articles we will attempt to illustrate why we believe that these vaccines are not only ineffective in the suppression of the diseases they are intended to remedy they are also a clear and present danger to our children.

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Now it has been claimed by many that although there is sufficient evidence that mercury does indeed effect the development of  brain function the amount of the heavy metal used in the immunization serums are safe for use on humans.

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What do the courts have to say about this issue?

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LA Times March 13, 2010|By Thomas H. Maugh II and Andrew Zajac

Reporting from Washington and Los Angeles — The federal “vaccines court” ruled Friday in three separate cases that the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal does not cause autism, a finding that supports the broad scientific consensus on the matter but that greatly disappointed parents who are convinced that their child’s illness was caused by vaccines.

The court had ruled 13 months ago that a combination of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, commonly known as the MMR vaccine, and thimerosal does not cause the disorder, so the new ruling may finally close the bulk of litigation on the matter. The earlier ruling has been appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals, and this one most likely will be also, but most experts think the court will uphold the decision.

More Court Decisions Here

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The Special Masters in those three cases found that Petitioners failed to establish causation between MMR vaccines, the mercury-laced vaccine preservative thimerosal, and autism (the court decision, which is under appeal, deferred any finding on a thimerosal-only theory of causation).  The rulings could have a significant precedential impact on some 5,000 families who opted to bring their cases in the Omnibus Autism Proceedings (OAP) hoping that the vaccine court would officially hold that the MMR vaccine or thimerosal had caused autism in their children.

The New York Times joined the government Health Agency (HRSA) and its big pharma allies hailing the decisions as proof that the scientific doubts about vaccine safety had finally been “demolished.” The US Department of Health and Human services said the rulings should “help reassure parents that vaccines do not cause autism.” The Times, which has made itself a blind mouthpiece for HRSA and a leading defender of vaccine safety, joined crowing government and vaccine industry flacks applauding the decisions like giddy cheerleaders, rooting for the same court that many of these same voices viscously derided just one year ago, after Hannah Poling won compensation for her vaccine induced autism.

But last week, the parents of yet another child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) were awarded a lump sum of more than $810,000 (plus an estimated $30-40,000 per year for autism services and care) in compensation by the Court, which ruled that the measels-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine had caused acute brain damage that led to his autism spectrum disorder.

The family of 10-year-old Bailey Banks won their case quietly and without fanfare in June of 2007, but the ruling has only now come to public attention. In the remarkably clear and eloquent decision, Special Master Richard Abell ruled that the Banks had successfully demonstrated that “the MMR vaccine at issue actually caused the conditions from which Bailey suffered and continues to suffer.”

Bailey’s diagnosis is Pervasive Developmental Disorder — Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS) which has been recognized as an autism spectrum disorder by CDC, HRSA and the other federal health agencies since at least the 1990s.

In his conclusion, Special Master Abell ruled that Petitioners had proven that the MMR had directly caused a brain inflammation illness called acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) which, in turn, had caused the autism spectrum disorder PDD-NOS in the child:

The Court found that Bailey’s ADEM was both caused-in-fact and proximately caused by his vaccination. It is well-understood that the vaccination at issue can cause ADEM, and the Court found, based upon a full reading and hearing of the pertinent facts in this case, that it did actually cause the ADEM. Furthermore, Bailey’s ADEM was severe enough to cause lasting, residual damage, and retarded his developmental progress, which fits under the generalized heading of Pervasive Developmental Delay, or PDD [an autism spectrum disorder]. The Court found that Bailey would not have suffered this delay but for the administration of the MMR vaccine, and that this chain of causation was… a proximate sequence of cause and effect leading inexorably from vaccination to Pervasive Developmental Delay.

The Bailey decision is not an isolated ruling. We now know of at least two other successful ADEM cases argued in Vaccine Court. More significantly, an explosive investigation by CBS News has found that since 1988, the vaccine court has awarded money judgments, often in the millions of dollars, to thirteen hundred and twenty two families whose children suffered brain damage from vaccines. In many of these cases, the government paid out awards following a judicial finding that vaccine injury lead to the child’s autism spectrum disorder. In each of these cases, the plaintiffs’ attorneys made the same tactical decision made by Bailey Bank’s lawyer, electing to opt out of the highly charged Omnibus Autism Proceedings and argue their autism cases in the regular vaccine court. In many other successful cases, attorneys elected to steer clear of the hot button autism issue altogether and seek recovery instead for the underlying brain damage that caused their client’s autism.

Medical records associated with these proceedings clearly tell the tale. In perhaps hundreds of these cases, the children have all the classic symptoms of regressive autism; following vaccination a perfectly healthy child experiences high fever, seizures, and other illnesses, then gradually, over about three months, loses language, the ability to make eye contact, becomes “over-focused” and engages in stereotypical head banging and screaming and then suffers developmental delays characteristic of autism. Many of these children had received the autism diagnosis. Yet the radioactive word “autism” appears nowhere in the decision.

Instead the vaccine court Special Masters rest their judgments on their finding that the vaccines caused some generalized brain injury, mainly Encephalopathy/encephalitis (brain inflammation) or “seizure disorders” — conditions known to cause autism-like symptoms. A large number of the children who have won these judgments have been separately diagnosed with autism. HRSA acknowledged this fact in a recent letter, but told us it does not keep data on how many of these children were autistic.

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The Vaccine Court, in other words, seems quite willing to award millions of dollars in taxpayer funded compensation to vaccine-injured autistic children, so long as they don’t have to call the injury by the loaded term “autism. ” That hazard is particularly acute for vaccine victims who appear before the Omnibus Autism Proceedings (OAP). Since that body’s decisions are closely watched, published and accorded the weight of precedent, many lawyers consider the burden of proof for petitioners to be impossibly high before the OAP Panel.  It was for this reason that Bailey’s attorney, Mark McLaren, elected to opt out of the OAP and try his case separately, even though Bailey has been receiving autism-related services in his home state and was eligible to file a case in the Court’s Omnibus Autism Proceedings (OAP).

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As in most debates between naturalists and the scientific community the topic of natural foods verses those cultivated  from GMOs is hotter than ever.  In this series of articles we will broach the topic of GMOs to further your understanding of the issue at hand.

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Overview

Genetic modification of food is not new.
For centuries, food crops and animals have been altered through selective breeding. While genes can be transferred during selective breeding, the scope for exchanging genetic material is much wider using genetic engineering. In theory, genetic engineering allows genetic material to be transferred between any organism, including between plants and animals. For example, the gene from a fish that lives in very cold seas has been inserted into a strawberry, allowing the fruit to be frost-tolerant.

By far the most common genetically modified (GM) organisms are crop plants. But the technology has now been applied to almost all forms of life, from pets that glow under UV light to bacteria which form HIV blocking “living condoms” and from pigs bearing spinach genes to goats that produce spider silk.

When did genetically modified foods originate?
Between 1997 and 1999, gene-modified (GM) ingredients suddenly appeared in 2/3rds of all US processed foods. This food alteration was fueled by a single Supreme Court ruling. It allowed, for the first time, the patenting of life forms for commercialization. Since then thousands of applications for experimental GM organisms have been filed with the US Patent Office alone, and many more abroad.

The first commercially grown genetically modified whole food crop was the tomato (called Flavr Savr), which was made more resistant to rotting by Californian company Calgene. The tomatoes were released into the market in 1994 without any special labeling.
In February 1996, J. Sainsbury and Safeway Stores in the United Kingdom introduced Europe’s first genetically-modified food product. A variant of the Flavr Savr was used by Zeneca to produce tomato paste which was sold in Europe during the summer of 1996. Following GM crops included insect resistant cotton and herbicide-tolerant soybeans both of which were commercially available in 1996.

In 2003, countries that grew 99 % of the global transgenic crops were the United States (63 %), Argentina (21 %), Canada (6 %), Brazil (4 %), China (4 %), and South Africa (1 %) and today the Grocery Manufacturers of America estimate that 75 % of all processed foods in the U.S. contain a GM ingredient.

Between 1995 and 2005, the total surface area of land cultivated with GMOs had increased by a factor of 50, from 17,000 km² (4.2 million acres) to 900,000 km² (222 million acres), of which 55 percent were in Brazil.

In the US, by 2006 89 % of the planted area of soybeans, 83 % of cotton, and 61 % maize were genetically modified varieties.

Today many GM crops are grown in North America. India has also come aboard the bandwagon in 2002 with a rapid and continuing expansion of GM cotton varieties.
“Genetic engineering is inherently dangerous, because it greatly expands the scope for horizontal gene transfer and recombination, precisely the processes that create new viruses and bacteria that cause disease epidemics, and trigger cancer in cells.” – Dr. Mae-Wan Ho

The Problem

The way we see it the problem of GMOs being used on our food supply is three fold.  For most Americans it is a question of civil liberty.  For the time being American consumers have the right to eat the kinds of foods that they desire.  They have the right to chose weather they consume GMO foods or not.  Or do they?

There are no labeling requirements imposed on those who grow GMO crops or produce processed or natural foods for that matter,  As has been stated above GM ingredients can be found in 2/3rds of the processed foods consumed by Americans.  It is also known that these GMO crops find their way into our food chain and subsequently onto our family dinner table, through livestock which feeds on these GMO products.

The Bottom Line here is that weather we trust in the science behind these products or not, weather the products are believed to be safe or not or weather we want to consume these products or not WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW WHAT WE ARE PUTTING INTO OUR BODIES AND THAT CHOICE HAS BEEN TAKEN FROM US in terms of GMOs and our food supply.

Be on the look out for Part 2 of this series where we will discuss the controversy surrounding GMOs in terms of their relative safety.

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There seems to be a growing segment of the scientific community that believes there is soon to be a paradigm shift in terms of the treatment of disease.  Simply Stated the new paradigm is that people need to take drugs before they get sick, as a preventive measure, rather than turning to drugs only after they have already become ill.

As we all know the concept of prevention in terms of health care is nothing new.  Many people within the alternative medical community have been touting the benefits of a more proactive approach to health care for decades.   The problem here is not so much in the objective of achieving and maintaining good health rather in the path that we take to reach that end.  While the conventional medical community tends to take the approach of treating disease with the use of pharmaceutical drugs the alternative medical community has ALWAYS been on the forefront of the concept of an ounce of prevention being worth a pound of cure and that these cures can be found in nature rather than in a laboratory .

Today, in it’s infinite wisdom, conventional medicine has apparently discovered that prevention is the most logical approach to good health and is actively seeking a way to become more proactive in it‘s roll to provide preventive healthcare to the masses.  Although this philosophical shift is definitely welcome and long overdue in our society the problem, as usual, is found in the course of treatment rather than in the objective.   We believe that in the natural course of events western medicine will develop a whole new class of drugs (preventive pharmaceuticals) and eventually some form of mandatory inoculation program liken to the one currently imposed on our infants and children.

Setting aside the monetary and social tenets of this philosophy, for the time being anyway, I’d like to take a little time to explore the therapeutic value of vaccination.

According to medicine net.com:

Vaccination is the injection of a killed microbe in order to stimulate the immune system against the microbe, thereby preventing disease. Vaccinations, or immunizations, work by stimulating the immune system, the natural disease-fighting system of the body. The healthy immune system is able to recognize invading bacteria and viruses and produce substances (antibodies) to destroy or disable them. Immunizations prepare the immune system to ward off a disease. To immunize against viral diseases, the virus used in the vaccine has been weakened or killed. To only immunize against bacterial diseases, it is generally possible to use a small portion of the dead bacteria to stimulate the formation of antibodies against the whole bacteria. In addition to the initial immunization process, it has been found that the effectiveness of immunizations can be improved by periodic repeat injections or “boosters.” Also see Vaccines (in the plural) and Vaccine of a specific type (such Vaccine, Polio).

On the surface this seems to be a logical approach to the problem of combating disease.  As we dig a little deeper however we discover a few major flaws in the concept which raise a few obvious questions.

Do vaccines actually work?

Many proponents of vaccination point to the decline in the mortality rate since the turn of the 20th century as evidence that immunization by vaccination is effective in preventing disease.  We do not believe this to be true.  First and foremost we believe that this increase in our life span is attributed to better sanitary conditions as well as advancements in nutritional science.  Sickness and death historically were caused mostly by poor nutrition, inadequate housing, unsanitary living conditions, poverty, warfare and as population density and urbanization grew exposure to bacteria, parasites, and communicable diseases followed suit.  These conditions gave rise to acute illnesses such as influenza, scarlet fever, whooping cough, polio, pneumonia, and tuberculosis to name a few. In most cases, acute illnesses occur suddenly and are characterized by a sharp increase in discomfort and pain due to an inflammation, and are of short duration. Whether endemic or epidemic, these illnesses contributed heavily to the high mortality rates and short life spans among persons living in pre-industrial societies.

Read more: Chronic Illness – Sickness In Historical Context – poverty, theory, family, development http://family.jrank.org/pages/257/Chronic-Illness-Sickness-in-Historical-Context.html#ixzz0mOGFgbfF

Are vaccines safe?

The value of vaccination, as with many things in life, can be determined in terms of risk verses reward.  The primary health risk associated with immunization by vaccination has always been contamination of the serums by harmful bacteria.  As a solution to this problem antibacterial agents were introduced to the products.  One such agent called thermisol (thimerosal, thiomersal, thiomersalate), also known as Merthiolate, is a mercury containing agent used as a preservative in pharmaceutical preparations.  As you probably know there is an ongoing debate within the medical community as to the safety of this agent.  It is believed by many that the use of this agent is directly connected with the rise of the Autism rate in the US and world wide.

There are many who believe that antivaccinist leadership are simply countercultural types who view life through a prism of conspiracy theories (the government lies, the drug companies are evil, the medical profession is corrupt;).  Perhaps to some greater or lesser degree the vaccinists are right.  There are many who see conspiracy around every corner.  Be that as it may I do not believe this to be the case in this situation.  There is a mountain of evidence that shows there has been and continues to be a massive cover up regarding the connection between thimerosal and autism.  This evidence will be reveled in depth  in a future article “Our Children Under Attack”.

The final and perhaps the most important question is; should we have the personal choice as to weather we and or our loved ones opt out of any immunization program?  Obviously we believe that as Americans and as consumers, do indeed have that right.

In closing ladies and gentlemen I’d like to say that this article is meant to serve as a warning.  The idea of imposed adult vaccination is not as far fetched or futuristic as you might think.  The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation  in 2008 has allotted a $100,000 grant to an Japanese research team working on genetically engineered mosquitoes to deliver vaccines.  Edible vaccines, as GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) foods, are in the future as well. Meat and Poultry, a business journal for meat and poultry processors, reports in a May 5, 2009 article , by Bryan Salvage, that researchers at Iowa State University are working on creating a method to install vaccines into corn crops.

“We’re trying to figure out which genes from the swine influenza virus to incorporate into corn”, stated Hank Harris, a researcher on the project. “If a swine flu virus breaks out, the corn could be shipped to the location to try to vaccinate animals and humans in the area quickly. . . . there is no need for extensive vaccine purification, which can be an expensive process.”

This way even corn products, including corn chips and corn syrup, which is ubiquitous in processed foods, can serve as vaccination vehicles for humans while the corn itself is fed to hogs. Starting in 1996, bananas have been considered as a vaccination vehicle for developing countries. Keep in mind that this will be genetically engineered, or GMO so you won’t know where and when it will show up on the food shelves.

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Ladies & Gentlemen I believe that there is something radically wrong here.  The more I investigate this health issue the more sinister it appears to be.  Let’s take a quick look at some of the facts.

• The World Health Organization raised the pandemic alert to five on April 29, one short of declaring a global pandemic.

• In May 2009 the WHO declared that 12,515 people had been effected by the H1N1 virus world wide resulting in 91 fatalities.

• Influenza kills 100 people every day and is not considered a “pandemic” by the WHO.

• While the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimated last week that as many as 1 million Americans may have contracted the H1N1 virus, it doesn’t seem to be any more dangerous than the seasonal flu, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told reporters on a teleconference call, July 10.  “At least to date, it appears that while a lot of people may get the H1N1 virus, it doesn’t appear to be significantly more lethal than seasonal flu is,” Sebelius explained.

Almost every study or opinion that I have been able to find states that the H1N1 virus is no more lethal than the seasonal influenza virus.  Yet the WHO is calling this a “pandemic”.   Also noteworthy is that there is a mountain of evidence which shows that the H1N1 vaccine itself is going to prove to be a far greater health hazard than the virus it has been designed to battle.  There have also been claims that the virus has begun to mutate.  If this is true the vaccine will prove to be useless in that it has been created using only fragments of H1N1.

Now Ladies and Gentlemen I don’t know if this virus was created in a laboratory or not and I’m certainly not here to make that argument.  I am only here to present the facts as I know them.  Speaking of which, here is another interesting fact that I stumbled  upon the other day that I found quite interesting:  a patent application dealing specifically with H1N1 (Swine Flu) and it’s sub-types was filed by Baxter Pharmaceuticals almost two years before the first actual case of Swine Flu was reported.  See the Patent Application Here

Finding this application rather conspicuous I began going through my research and play a little game of connect the dots and here is what I found.

It is believed that Ground Zero for the H1N1 outbreak is Mexico City, Mexico.

Baxter Pharmaceutical’s manufacturing plant lies in Cuernavaca which just happens to be located 50 miles from Mexico City.

Baxter sent vaccines contaminated with deadly live H5N1 avian flu virus to 18 countries before someone caught the mistake and the vaccine got injected thousands of people.

Baxter just missed creating its own pandemic then by mixing  deadly H5N1 virus with a mix of H3N2 seasonal flu viruses, or did they?

By possibly creating the pandemic, maybe Baxter already has the cure and that is why the World Health Organization (WHO) has deemed them the appropriate pharmaceutical company to lead the way for a swine flu vaccine.

Oh did I mention that Baxter’s Stock is doing quite well these days?  Have a Look For Yourselves

Do you eat all of the right foods in the right amounts?  Do you consume only organic produce?  Eat lots of fruits and veggies?  Plenty of protein and grains  in your diet?   That’s great!  You are way ahead of the pack.

More people than ever before have a raised consciousness with regard to their diet.  They eat right, get plenty of fresh air and exercise.  Gym memberships are up and home exercise equipment sales are through the roof.  Why then are we, as a nation, sicker than ever before in our history?

People are quite shocked to learn that even though they are doing “all of the right things” they are actually undernourished.  There are critical elements missing from their diets that prevent their bodies from getting the proper nutrition needed for good health.  Many people are aware of the fact that our food supply has been tainted with chemical and biological agents designed to increase volume at the expense nutritional value.  In response to this issue they have turned to the organic marketplace which, in my opinion, is a good thing.  It has been shown, in terms of organic produce, that these products deliver proximately 30% nutritional value than their non organic counterparts.  They are also free of chemical fertilizers, synthetic vitamins/minerals (used to replenish the nutrient depleted soil) and genetically engineered elements designed to produce more volume in less time.

When you weigh the benefits of  going organic as compared to non-organic foods, regarding nutritional value price point, you find that it is actually a wash.  You pay 30% more for the products to receive 30% more nutrition.  The fact of the matter is that even if you use organic products you are still getting proximately 50% LESS NUTRITION than you did consuming the non-organic produce grown 50 years ago.

The evidence of this fact can be seen in The Dietary Guidelines for Americans published jointly every 5 years since 1980 by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) which states:

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On page 62 of this Document you will find “The DASH eating plan” which will give you the number of servings and the serving size of each food group that you need to consume per day broken down by targeted caloric intake.  I believe upon review of this document that most people will be shocked to learn how far short they actually fall from this bench mark.  Those of us who are aware of these “standards” know how much the “necessary quantities” of these food’s have increased over the years to compensate for the decrease in their nutritional value.  Although the number of servings have remained the same over the years the serving sizes continue to grow every 5 years.

As can be seen in the growth of the vitamin /mineral supplement sector of the health & wellness industry over the years people realize the need to supplement their diets.  Although supplementation, in our opinion, is a wise decision you must beware that “All Supplements Are Not Created Equal!

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You  probably already know Patrick Swayze succumb to cancer this week.  We can add his name to the list of notables, Farrah Fawcett. Tony Snow and Peter Jennings (to name a few) who have lost their battle with this disease over the last few years.  The sad truth is that there are some 1,500 deaths per day that are attributed  to this disease.  My question here is weather it is the cancer that is killing these people or the treatment?

While chemotherapy has prolonged lives, it is running up against limits. Lung, colon, breast and prostate cancers, the four main killers, essentially ”remain incurable by standard chemotherapy” once they have spread to other parts of the body, said Dr. Lawrence N. Shulman, chief medical officer of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.  More target therapies are under development however they are in the infant stages in terms of research and development.  Even if these targeted therapies do happen to show promise in the future they are still years down the road from being considered as accepted effective therapies.

We all know that chemotherapy is a drug treatment that uses powerful chemicals to kill fast-growing cells in your body. Chemotherapy is most often used to treat cancer, since cancer cells grow and multiply much more quickly than most cells in the body.  The agents (drugs) that are used (mimic immune system response) identify and attack the cells in the body that grow rapidly.  This also includes fast growing non cancerous cells such as those found in hair, bone marrow and crypt cells of the lining of the small intestine and cells lining the reproductive tract to name a few.  The destruction of the bone marrow cells may very well be an important factor in the cure being equally as detrimental as the disease.   As we know leukocytes are produced in the bone marrow and are reasonably fast growing cells (especially in times when the body perceives that it is under attack).  Among these leukocyte cells are the lymphocyte type  (B cells, T cells {CD4 & CD8} & NK {natural killer cells}) which are critical in dealing with the mechanisms of disease.  These cells are the core members of the immune systems response to cancer.  Chemotherapy subsequently leaves the body totally unprotected against any cancer cells that remain in the body after the Chemo & Radiation treatments have been given.

The effects of the chemotherapy is not seen during the onset of treatment rather in the latter stages.  Many white blood cells grow and divide rapidly to deal with an illness and have a very short life span (hours to days).  In the case of Leukocytes however, although they do tend to grow rapidly and have a much longer life span (months to years) and they do not divide rapidly.  Basically this means that the extra cells needed to fight disease must come from the production of new cells and not from (cell division) the existing cells.  It is this slow cell division combined with the severely diminishes capacity of production that is the main problem with this type of therapy.

The fact is that both chemotherapy and radiation therapy are both carcinogenic, which means that they can cause cancer.  Many times, months or years after the treatments, patients develop secondary cancers.  Chemotherapy destroys cancer cells by disrupting cell division. However, normal cells are also affected, especially if the dose is too high or if certain drugs are used. For example, etoposide is associated with an increased risk of acute leukemia compared to other chemotherapy drugs. Furthermore, secondary cancers are more frequent in patients who receive radiation therapy and chemotherapy compared to either treatment alone.

How can secondary cancers be prevented?

Define the risk of recurrence and tailor the intensity of cancer therapy: Over the past decade there has been great progress in defining risk groups for various cancers.  The importance of defining risk groups is that less treatment can be given to those who have a low risk of recurrence of cancer with standard treatments and more treatment can be given to those at high risk. Lowering the dose of treatment for low risk groups is probably the most important way to prevent secondary cancers since these cancers occur more often in intensively treated patients.

Avoid radiation therapy: Another way to decrease the incidence of second cancers is to avoid radiation therapy.  This has been successful in childhood ALL where intrathecal (into the spinal fluid) chemotherapy has been substituted for radiation therapy.  Radiation therapy is also being used less in the treatment of Hodgkin’s disease and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma where certain groups of patients have been found to survive just as well with chemotherapy alone as with chemotherapy plus radiation therapy.

Avoid drugs with high carcinogenic potential: This is difficult to do since all chemotherapy drugs are carcinogenic.  However, etoposide is associated with a relatively high incidence of myelodysplasia and acute myeloid leukemia and in some instances other drugs could be used instead.

Again,  I can’t state this enough and will continue to pound it into you, the BEST way to prevent any illness is to unsure that your immune system if functioning at optimal levels at all times.  Your body is designed to deal with any invader on it’s own.  I agree that early detection is the key to fighting this disease.  However I also believe that if your immune system, as well as the rest of your body, is functioning properly at the cellular level the risk of getting cancer is greatly diminished.

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I’d like to take another path in broaching these issues here if I may.  As I have previously stated I believe that these vaccines are dangerous and should be avoided at all costs.  Again, this is my personal opinion and I do not advise others to take the same path that I have chosen.  I am simply providing you with information that can help you to make the best decisions concerning your health and the health of your families and friends.

Having said that I’d like to take a little time here to offer you some food for thought about vaccinations in general.

“There is a great deal of evidence to prove that immunization of children does more harm than good.”
Dr J Anthony Morris, former Chief Vaccine Control Officer, US Food
and Drug Administration

“In our opinion, there is now sufficient evidence of immune malfunction following current vaccination programmes to anticipate growing public demands for research investigation into alternative methods of prevention of infectious disease.”
Dr’s H. Buttram and J. Hoffman (Vaccinations and Immune Malfunctions)

“Every vaccine carries certain hazards and can produce inward reactions in some people…in general, there are more vaccine complications than is generally appreciated.”
Professor George Dick, London University

“The only wholly safe vaccine is a vaccine that is never used”
Dr James A. Shannon, National Institute of Health, USA

“Live virus vaccines against influenza and paralytic polio, for example, may in each instance cause the disease it is intended to prevent…”
Dr Jonas Salk, developer of first polio vaccine (Science 4/4/77 Abstracts)

Are you beginning to get the picture here?  These people are recognized as leaders in their area of expertise who all agree that immunization is not only useless it has actually exacerbated many of the health issues confronting us today.

Greg Bettie, author of; Vaccination a Parents Dilemma, shows that the death rate due to infectious diseases in Australia ( Whooping Cough, Diphtheria, Measles and Polio to name a few) were already, dramatically, on the decline by the time vaccinations were given and that these serums had nothing to do with the reduction of the morbidity rate.

Dr Henry Bieler, author of ‘Food is Your Best Medicine’ writes, “The primary cause of disease is not germs. Disease is caused by a toxaemia which results in cellular impairment and breakdown, thus paving the way for the multiplication and onslaught of germs”.

The causes of toxaemia are numerous. In third world countries the causes are related primarily to malnourishment, impure water, poor sanitation, poverty and overcrowding. In the developed countries like USA, Australia, England etc the causes are more related to over consumption of animal, dairy and refined processed foods, particularly cereals and grains, chemical additives in food and water, drugs, vaccines, pesticide residues and industrial poisons. Other causes can include poor parental health, traumatic childbirth, impoverished or polluted breast milk, too early introduction of solid foods, spinal misalignment, muscular spasm, and nutritional deficiency.

This is why I believe so strongly that vaccines are at least totally ineffective and at best a clear and present danger to our health.  Studies have shown that this is especially true in the case of children. Vaccines contain not only poisonous chemicals, such as formaldehyde which is commonly used to embalm corpses and is a known carcinogen, thiomersal, a derivative of mercury which is a toxic heavy metal and aluminum phosphate which is a toxin used in deodorants (to name a few) but also foreign proteins such as chick embryo, calf serum, rabbit brain tissue and monkey kidney cells. These foreign proteins can trigger numerous allergic and inflammatory reactions and can produce anaphylactic shock in susceptible infants.

In many children, the retention of vaccine poisons within the body may not cause any acute or noticeable symptoms, but it will cause a lowering of the child’s vitality, which in turn, weakens and impairs it’s intellectual, creative and imaginative powers, it’s physical energy and strength, and all of its internal metabolic functions and immune activities. What this means is that the child will operate at a level well below its true potential.

The toxic build-up within the child’s body and the subsequent depletion of its vitality through vaccines, drugs, fluoridated water, food additives, pesticide residues, atmospheric pollutants, electromagnetic radiation and other adverse factors in the lifestyle makes the child more susceptible to chronic disease at an earlier age, and it’s worth noting that the dramatic rise in childhood cancer, autism, juvenile diabetes, asthma and neurological disorders over the past fifty years, has directly coincided with the era of drugs, vaccines and chemical poisons in our food, water and environment.

Why do vaccinations continue if they have no benefit or more importantly are dangerous?  We will be discussing this question in a later article.

In the mean time I’d like you to keep this in mind.  There is a beneficial nature to childhood infection.  Let’s take a look at some of the symptoms associated with illness and how they actually benefit the body.

Fever – speeds up bodily elimination of toxic waste.

No Appetite – when a fever is present, the digestive system shuts down thus removing the need and desire for food.

Vomiting/Diarrhea – the body’s way of eliminating undigested foodstuff from the digestive tract.

Tiredness/Lethargy – the body’s way of forcing a sick person to rest thus conserving its energy for the vital tasks of cleansing and repair.

Glandular Swelling - the lymph glands filter the blood for toxic substances. Swelling of these glands greatly increases their filtering capacity.

Skin Rash - represents an elimination of toxic waste, the skin being a major eliminative organ.

Mucus Elimination – also an elimination of toxic waste. Mucus is made up of the body’s white blood cells which are the body’s garbage cans containing toxic residue. A good example is the runny nose.

Inflammation – serves the same purpose as fever, to cleanse and repair damaged or poisoned tissue in the body.

Now I’m not saying that we want our children to become ill.  What I am suggesting however is that the presence of these symptoms are not necessarily a bad thing.  They show that the body is functioning properly and is trying to rid itself of the malady that is effecting it.

Again I say in closing that the best defense Is a strong offence.  Do not wait until you or a loved one become ill to take action.  Be proactive not reactive.  Eat properly, supplement your diet with natural vitamins and minerals and keep your immune system strong.

As with all disciplines you only need to be proficient at those you practice.  In the case of health and wellness people often simply wait until they become ill and even they defer to their doctors.  They do not take the time to learn about what it takes to achieve and maintain health.

Most experts in the field of nutrition agree that almost all illnesses are caused, either directly or indirectly, by poor nutrition.  The foods that we eat or lack there of, as well as the quality and the quantity of those foods are directly related to our overall health.  Lack of proper nutrition makes us susceptible to any number of malady’s.  These illnesses are a result of one simple cause.  Immune Deficiency Syndrome.

The perfect illustration of this fact can be seen when looking at the aids epidemic.   The important lesson that we learn here is that people do not die from the aids virus directly rather from a secondary illness  allowed to ravage the body because it’s natural defenses could not protect it or destroy the invader once it has penetrated our natural defenses.  Our bodies are placed under stress daily by being subjected to  environmental contaminants both chemical and biological.  This is true of everyone that does not live in a bubble.

We all need to smarten up as people and a culture and learn the facts about our bodies and our health.  We need to learn about how our body functions and the important roll that nutrition plays in those functions.  For example in the case of immune system health there are a few things that we can do to insure that our natural defenses are maximized.  As mentioned in previous articles we at Health Products Guru honestly believe, in terms of proper nutrition, that the body needs nutritional supplementation because we do not get the nutrients we need from the foods we consume.

We also believe that a person can take 4 simple steps today that will greatly improve their immune system function.  The first is to begin to detoxify your body.  It is critical to optimal health to be sure that there are no foods left in the digestive tract to putrefy and release toxins into the body.   Secondly you must eat the right foods in the qualities that we need to maintain health.  This includes vitamin and mineral supplementation. Third, we must be sure that the foods that we consume are being broken down into bio-available nutrition.  Lastly we must give our body what it needs to assure that the now bio-available nutrition can metabolized.

In terms of supplementation this adds up to taking vitamin & mineral supplements, both digestive and metabolic enzymes (to break down foods & improve metabolism) eat as much organic food as you can (to insure better nutritional value of the foods that you do consume and to avoid adding toxins such as pesticides into your body) and use a safe digestive tract cleansing product.  We believe that simply adding to your digestive enzyme intake will aid this process in a gentle but effective manner.  It is important to
remember to be careful if you decide to use colon cleansing products.  Check the ingredients carefully and be sure that they work in a slow steady and safe manner as opposed to taking a fast acting laxative product for example.

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It is believed that there will be 50million doses of the H1N1 vaccines available by the end of August and another 150million available sometime around the end of September. This leaves some 150million Americans “unprotected” against the virus.

The question here? Is this a blessing or a curse?

The bottom line is that this vaccine, which is being produced by 5 American companies, is being prepared for mass injection into infants, children, teens and adults has not been tested. The fact is that it will not be tested before the injections begin. This makes those receiving the injections the test subjects or ginnie pigs. Although this practice is uncommon to the American heal care system it is a normal practice in Europe where The European Medicines Agency is allowing companies to skip the testing process entirely. Even more interesting is that when the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. announced a swine flu vaccine trial beginning in early August, it was inundated with phone calls and emails from people desperate to play the role of human guinea pigs. Truly Amazing!

Especially alarming is that there is no safety data available on the use of adjuvants on infants and pregnant women who are particularly susceptible to the N1H1 virus. An immunological adjuvant is an agent in the serum intended to stimulate the immune system and increase the response to a vaccine. In addition, as it was recently unveiled by the Washington Post, many doses of the new H1N1 vaccine will be stored in multi dose vials which will contain thimerosal (mercury in its most common form used as a preservative). Due to the use of thimerosal in vaccines given to kids during the 1976 swine flu scare, the number of cases of autism has increased by 1500 percent since 1991. This number corresponds to the period of time during which the number of vaccines for kids also increased. While in 1991 there was one kid diagnosed with autism for every 2500, today there are 166 kids diagnosed for the same 2500. These numbers as well as public pressure to stop using mercury in vaccines, has made forced some companies to allegedly reduce the amounts of thimerosal used in their products. This is not the case however in the new batches of the H1N1 vaccine.

I probably don’t need to remind you that in 1976, a failed swine flu vaccine caused irreparable damage to the nervous systems of hundreds of people, paralyzing many. Medical doctors gave the problem a name, of course, to make it sound like they knew what they were talking about: Guillain-Barre syndrome. (Notably, they never called it “Toxic Vaccine Syndrome” because that would be too informative.)

But the fact remains that doctors never knew how the vaccines caused these severe problems, and if the same event played out today, all the doctors and vaccine pushers would undoubtedly deny any link between the vaccines and paralysis altogether.

Conclusion:

There is a great deal that we don’t know about this vaccine in terms of the potential health hazards it may pose to those subjected to it. What we do know however, that the adjuvants have not been tested on infants and pregnant women, that mercury is being used in the serum as a preservative and that it has bee proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that mercury is directly linked to autism.

It is also note worthy that influenza spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands annually — millions in pandemic years. Three influenza pandemics occurred in the 20th century and killed tens of millions of people, with each of these pandemics being caused by the appearance of a new strain of the virus in humans. Often, these new strains appear when an existing flu virus spreads to humans from other animal species, or when an existing human strain picks up new genes from a virus that usually infects birds or pigs. An avian strain named H5N1 raised the concern of a new influenza pandemic, after it emerged in Asia in the 1990s, but it has not evolved to a form that spreads easily between people.

The World Health Organization (WHO) reported yesterday (8/1/09) a total of 183,826 confirmed cases with 1,301 deaths from 167 countries. Two new countries reported to have been infected were Channel Island and Moldova. Please believe me when I say that I am not trying to understate the potential for a major health crisis here nor am I trivializing the single death of any individual.  What I am saying however is that based on statistics alone this H1N1 “Pandemic” is a blip on the radar when compared to the hundreds of thousands of influenza death’s that occur every year, yet it is being touted as some kind of black plague.

We at Heal Products Guru stand by our position that the H1N1 flu vaccine should be avoided at all costs. We also stand strongly in our advocacy of natural immune system optimization. This is my personal opinion and the action I choose to take. You must do what you believe is right for you and your families. I wish you all health and wellbeing in the days to come.

We left off, in the first part of this article, with opening up the idea of juicing to extract the desired enzymes from foods that are hard to digest in their whole form.  This is actually a very logical approach to resolving the problem of getting enzymes into our bodies from natural sources that are difficult to digest.  Juicing also offers you a way to quickly and easily consume the large quantities of fruits and vegetables required to meet daily requirements.  There is one flaw in this logic however.

Scientific studies have shown that the fruits and vegetables available in today’s marketplace are lacking, if not devoid, of much of the nutrients present in the produce grown some 50 years ago.  It is believed that today’s produce is grown in soil depleted of, or having less concentrations of, the minerals necessary to produce crops with the same nutritional value as were grown when we were children.  Also worthy of consideration is the fact that much of the fruits and vegetables available today have been genetically engineered and may not have the same nutritional value found in the produce of years gone by (there is not enough available research on this issue to draw an informed conclusion one way or the other).

What all of this adds up to is the simple fact that even though juicing these products does make them easier for the body to use it does not guarantee that you are getting the desired nutrients into your body.
The best option available to you as a consumer, to assure that you are getting the desired nutritional value from your fruits and vegetables, is to purchase only organically grown produce.  As most of you know this can be  quite costly especially if you have a large family.  Weather you can afford to go the organic route or not I believe that using a high quality therapeutic enzyme supplement is the only way to go.  By utilizing enzyme therapy you can guarantee that you are getting the necessary enzymes, in the proper quantities, to assure that your body will break down and utilize the nutrients when they are needed, at the cellular level.

Digestive Enzymes breakdown food particles for storage in the liver and muscles.  This stored energy is later converted, when needed,  for the body to use  by other enzymes called Metabolic Enzymes.  The presence of both of these enzymes are essential for the body to function at optimal levels and carry out critical functions.  Iron, for example, is concentrated in the blood by enzymes to help the blood to coagulate and stop bleeding.  Uricolytic enzymes catalyze the conversion of uric acid into urea.  Respiratory enzymes facilitate the elimination of carbon dioxide from the lungs.  Enzymes also assist the kidneys, lungs, colon and the skin in removing toxins from the body as well as utilize the nutrients ingested to construct new muscle tissue, nerve cells, bone, skin and glandular tissue.   All of these bodily functions depend on the right types of enzymes being present in the body at the right time and at the correct levels to insure optimal utility.

I hope that you are  beginning to see the importance of the presence of enzymes in your bodies and how they contribute to your health.  Conversely I hope you see that enzyme deficiency prevents your body from working properly at the cellular level and subsequently makes you vulnerable to physical maladies.  This has been found to be true especially true in the elderly where the body’s production of enzymes has slowed.  Think about this for a moment.  Enzymes are essential for digesting food,  stimulating the brain, providing cellular energy and for repairing tissues and cells.  If the body’s production of enzymes has slowed and we don’t get the proper enzymes from food sources what might we see as a result?   Weight gain, diminished thought processes, lack of energy, organ failure and prolonged healing time to name a few.  These are all symptoms of the body not functioning correctly.  Some might also see these symptoms as signs of aging.

I’m not saying that enzymes are a fountain of youth.  I have however seen remarkable results in overall health by people of all ages who incorporate enzyme therapy into their diets.  Just some food for thought.

Pun intended!

We all know that the presence of vitamin D in our bodies is important for a variety of reasons notably for the absorption and utilization of calcium & phosphorus by the intestinal tract, to enable normal mineralization of the bone, reduce cancer risk and may play a role in the prevention or treatment of type 1 and type 2 diabetes, hypertension and multiple sclerosis.

The question here is what is the best source of vitamin D?

Science seems to be divided on the answer to this question especially in the area of supplementation. There are some scientists who believe that our diets are deficient in vitamin D and that supplementation is necessary. Others say that the recommended dosages for adequate vitamin D supplementation are inadequate (Michael Holick, M.D., and a group of other nutrition experts writing in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (March, 2007, 85(3);649-650.) Still others claim that vitamin D supplementation suppresses the immune system (Trevor Marshall, Ph.D., professor at Australia’s Murdoch University School of Biological Medicine and Biotechnology).

In the absence of a clear scientific conclusion where should we turn for the answer to the question at hand? Personally, when I am conflicted, having no clear choice I always chose to err on the side of safety and turn to the body’s built in mechanisms. The body produces vitamin D naturally when the skin is exposed to ultraviolet rays. In my opinion this is the most natural method of assuring that vitamin D is present in the body. Many studies show that most people meet their vitamin D needs through exposure to sunlight. The factors that affect UV radiation exposure and research to date on the amount of sun exposure needed to maintain adequate vitamin D levels make it difficult to provide general guidelines. It has been suggested by some vitamin D researchers, for example, that approximately 5-30 minutes of sun exposure between 10 AM and 3 PM at least twice a week to the face, arms, legs, or back without sunscreen usually lead to sufficient vitamin D synthesis and that the moderate use of commercial tanning beds that emit 2-6% UVB radiation is also effective. Individuals with limited sun exposure need to include good sources of vitamin D in their diet (milk or fish) or take a supplement.

It is important to note that vitamin D obtained from sun exposure, food, and supplements is biologically inert and must undergo two hydroxylations in the body for activation. The first occurs in the liver and converts vitamin D to 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D], also known as calcidiol. The second occurs primarily in the kidney and forms the physiologically active 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D [1,25(OH)2D], also known as clairol. For people who suffer from some kind of dysfunction of the liver or kidney further supplementation may be necessary for the body to hydroxylate the vitimin. If you do suffer from inadequate liver or kidney function and desire to optimize the way your body uses vitamin D you should consult your physician.

Conclusion: Until there is a clear consensus on weather vitamin D supplementation is beneficial or harmful I suggest letting your body produce it’s own vitamin D from sunlight as it was designed to do.

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This simplistic yet sound advice is more applicable today than ever before.  It has been reported that thousands of  people in America alone have been infected with the H1N1 (Swine Flu) Virus.  There is however a greater danger lurking in the darkness that is receiving very little press.

According to the National Institutes of Health, over the past forty years, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA – “flesh eating” Pneumonia)) has changed from a usually controllable nuisance into a serious public health problem.  It is believed that the over use of antibiotics has caused this mutation and subsequently created an antibiotic-resistant bacteria.  In a paper published in the June (09) addition of The Lancet Infectious Diseases a type pf pneumonia is discussed that has proved fatal in 75% of reported cases.  At first, it was primarily one of the most common hospital-acquired infections. But in recent years, new strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, often dubbed “super bugs”, have popped up in communities and caused severe, even life-threatening infections in otherwise healthy people, involving the skin, heart, blood or bones.  The weakening of the immune system by the H1N1 virus has made people particularly susceptible to the CA-MRSA virus.  Since CA-MRSA  is a community acquired virus it is best to avoid hospitals at all costs if you have been effected by the H1N1 virus or any other malady that may have weakened your immune system.

Doctors at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta write in The Lancet Infectious Diseases article that CA-MRSA has become well known for causing skin and soft-tissue infections that are transmitted by person-to-person contact or contact with contaminated objects. However, now there are increasing cases of CA-MRSA caused pneumonia that kills lung tissue. And those becoming sick with the disease aren’t necessarily the old and/or physically weak. In fact, according to the report from the Emory team led by Alicia Hidron, MD, an infectious diseases fellow and Henry Blumberg, MD, professor of medicine and epidemiology at Emory, CA-MRSA pneumonia appears to most commonly affect young and previously healthy patients.

Dr. Hidron and Dr. Blumberg also noted in their paper that, besides causing a high fever, CA-MRSA pneumonia can sometimes cause low blood pressure that progresses to septic shock and requires patients to be placed on mechanical respirators in order to breathe. Another important point discussed in the article may turn out to have special relevance due to the emergence of H1N1 influenza, especially by the time flu season rolls around this fall: potentially deadly CA-MRSA pneumonia appears to occur most commonly following a flu-type illness.

Serious MRSA disease can strike anyone, regardless of age, health or where they live. Outbreaks have occurred among young athletes who play contact sports and among people living in close quarters, such as nursing homes, military facilities, nursing homes, and childcare centers.

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases advises using these precautions to help prevent CA-MRSA infections:

Practice good hygiene.
Keep cuts and scrapes clean and bandage until healed.
Avoid contact with other people’s wounds or bandages.
Don’t share soiled or used personal items, such as towels, washcloths, razors, or clothes.
Use hot water and bleach to wash soiled sheets, towels and clothes.

The greatest misconception about the use of “natural” supplements in the treatment of a particular malady is that they are safe to use in any manner you choose.  This caviler attitude towards natural remedies has created the greatest barrier to their acceptance in mainstream society.  Consumers of natural supplements must be made aware of the personal responsibility that comes with their choice to utilize them.  It is both a blessing and a curse that the restraints on natural supplements are not as restrictive as those placed on pharmaceuticals (for the time being anyway).  Pharmaceutical prescriptions lay down the guidelines, in terms of dosage and dispensation, for the use of those products and the prescribing physician as well as the pharmacologist  basically bear the responsibility of doing so.  Natural supplementation, on the other hand, have no real restrictions in terms of frequency of use and has the potential to cause harm due to improper application.  The consumer bears the responsibility here.

As far back as 1785, the use of Digitalis (from the common Foxglove -  Digitalis purpurea) was used for the treatment of heart conditions, especially arterial fibrillation, and is considered by many as the beginning of modern therapeutics.  A group of phenomenologically active compounds are extracted mostly from the leaves of the second year’s growth, and in pure form are referred to by common chemical names such as digitoxin or digoxin, or by brand names such as Crystodigin and Lanoxin, respectively.   Many people don’t realize that approximately 10% of the drugs on the market today are still made from actual plant materials.  This shows us that plant material, in practical terms, are drugs.   It must be understood that natural remedies, although usually free of side effects, can be just as dangerous as pharmaceuticals.  More is not better just because it is natural!  Every time a consumer misuses a natural supplement and causes harm to themselves it feeds the fire of those opposed to these therapies.

The main problems with conventional medicine’s involvement in natural supplementation can be seen in two specific areas.  The first is the arrogance of man.  Some chemists believe that they can improve on nature.  Subsequently they attempt to isolate  particular constituent’s of a plant that they believe to be therapeutic and package it as a standardized remedy.  What they fail to take into consideration is that a plant may contain tens if not hundreds of constituents that work together toward a therapeutic result.  Therefore selecting a natural remedy that uses whole plant material often offers more therapeutic value than it’s standardized counterpart.

The second problem is greed.  Organizations such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), for example, are often disingenuous at best in terms of the way they treat natural supplements in the marketplace.  They often site biased and or tainted clinical studies to support their position against particular natural supplements.  The truth is that the FDA is in bed with the pharmaceutical industry and has a vested interest in discrediting natural supplementation (in the name of public safety).   The FDA claims that many natural remedies may be harmful or have no therapeutic value based on the lack of supporting evidence in the form of clinical studies.  Thousands of products are prohibited from being sold in the US due to FDA regulations yet they are highly praised in other countries for their proven therapeutic value.  Why is this so?  Because the pharmaceutical companies can’t patent a plant or herb or other natural whole food or mineral and subsequently can not make any money on that product.  It’s really that simple!

What does all of this add up to?  Consumers of natural supplements and remedies must act in a responsible manner.  They must treat and use these products just as they would a pharmaceutical in terms of dosage.  Always use products made from whole organic plant materials and processed by natural methods.   Only use supplements that are made from the highest quality materials.  Check to see that the manufacturing standards are also of the highest quality and that the final product is pharmaceutical grade.   Doing these things will insure that you receive the highest therapeutic benefit from natural supplementation.