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A Tribute to a Hero. May 19, 2010
The world lost a hero this weekend, though few people know it. Most of the people touched by his work have never met him, but, he saved their lives just the same.
Dr. Bernard Bihari died on May 16th at the age of 78 years. He was a pioneer and a brave generous man. Dr. Bihari developed the protocol knows as LDN, or Low Dose Naltrexone. It is used to regulate the immune system of people who have MS, Crohn’s Disease, Fibromyalgia, Lupus, CFS, ALS, many types of cancer, and just about any other autoimmune disease you can come up with. Dr. Bihari’s work was the basis for the healing LDN work being done across the globe with Autism, and HIV. He was a brave man, who fought against mainstream medicine to bring his discovery to those who needed it most — his patients.
He helped arrange free LDN through specific pharmacies for cancer and MS patients whose resources were gone because of thier illness.
People who had been given “death sentences” by the world’s best cancer specialists are alive, and living full, cancer free, lives today because of Dr. Bihari and LDN.
Autistic children have broken through the wall of thier condition enough to speak to thier mothers or smile for the first time, or even “recover” from the Autism and live close to normal lives because of Dr. Bihari’s LDN research.
HIV positive people live active lives free of AIDS thanks to Dr. Bihari and his LDN research.
People with Multiple Sclerosis walk, see, talk, feed themselves, and hug thier children again thanks to Dr Bihari and LDN.
People with CFS and Fibro are walking, working, and thriving again due to LDN.
The cases listed above are real people who I know either personally, or through egroups use LDN and have been given thier lives back.
I have never met him, but I most probably owe a portion of every productive thing I will ever do to this man. LDN helped me regain my sight, my coordination, by balance, my energy, even my ability to talk without stuttering.
Thank you, Dr. Bihari for all you did while on this Earth. May you fly with the angels. Nameste, and Go in Peace.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=142886223
Brisbane Toddler Dies 12 Hours after Flu Shot April 26, 2010
Stories like these make my soul ache.
These poor parents.. to lose a child because you followed the advice of your doctor is just horrid. Parents are supposed to be able to trust their child’s doctor to help them make the best decisions for their children. And unfortunately, most doctors still believe the flu shot propaganda.
I’m sure there are some people for whom a yearly flu shot makes sense. I’m just not sure who those people really are. The FDA, WHO, and a bunch of other medical organizations who seem to think they have become God suggests that just about everyone get a flu shot, but are our human immune systems really so weak as to be unable to fight off a simple virus that has been around for much of human history? I don’t think so.
Independent studies show that the flu shot is NOT effective against the flu.
http://www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v04n17.shtml
http://www.naturalnews.com/028248_flu_shots_scientific_evidence.html
So why do these big organizations continue to insist we need to inject flu virus and animal DNA into our arms every year? I have my theories, but I won’t go into that here. I’d much prefer readers do their own research, read the independent studies.. the ones the FDA, WHO and big pharmaceutical companies discredit and discourage us from taking seriously.
If more doctors, pharmacists, and regular people were willing to jump in up to their hips and do their own research, instead of blindly listening to these huge organizations, and repeating their misguided statements to unsuspecting parents, maybe together we could save the lives of a few people.
Personal Note:
You know, I have severe asthma. Before I turned to natural medicine, I had to go to the emergency room several times month for my asthma. Typically, I spent at least one full week out of every month on a hospital floor, many times in ICU, because modern medicine was unable to control my asthma. I got the flu every single year, and every year it turned into bronchitis, and then, most years, pneumonia. But, like a good little patient, I kept taking that flu shot. I never expected the shot was part of the problem.
Fast forward to present day…. I eat cleanly, take supplements and herbs which balance my systems and give my body the extra nutrients it needs. I exercise almost daily, and spend time in meditation daily. I am working on balancing my adrenals, which have been depleted by years of asthma medications. I have multiple sclerosis, but have been able to reverse disabling symptoms, and stop the progression.
And.. interestingly enough, I have not gotten the flu once since I stopped taking the annual flu shot.
One of my children was in public school when the H1N1 virus hit the local school. My child was the only child in her class who was NOT vaccinated against the flu….and she was also the only one who did NOT get sick with it.
What did we do? Well, all my kids eat as clean a diet as we can manage, no gluten, no sugar, no artificial chemical. I make all our meals from scratch. I don’t always buy organic, but we do try. We keep everyone’s immune system healthy and strong by, among other things, making sure vitamin D3 level are at their ideal.
Uses of Magnesium April 26, 2010
Magnesium is an important mineral, which is often overlooked by health care professionals. In our primarily meat eating, fast-food society, it’s easy to become magnesium depleted. Multiple studies list 68-80% of all Americans don’t get enough of this vital mineral in their diet.
The majority of dietary magnesium comes from dark green vegetables, nuts, seeds, and legumes.
Magnesium acts as a natural calming agent to the body. It relaxes smooth and skeletal muscles. In his book, Staying Healthy with Nutrition, Dr. Elson Haas, MD lists magnesium as “an important part of preventing coronary artery spasm, (which) is a significant cause of heart attacks.”
In the same book, Dr. Haas lists some of the medical problems which can be helped by magnesium. A few of those conditions include, PMS, hyperactivity, alcoholism, angina pectoris, autism and asthma.
Personally, I use oral magnesium to help manage my severe asthma. I also add extra magnesium to my diet when I have Multiple Sclerosis related muscle spasms. The magnesium relaxes my muscles and stops the spasms.
Magnesium is also used as non-chemical, gentle laxative for occasional constipation.
It is, however important to keep a proper balance between calcium and magnesium, and if you choose to take this supplement be sure to also take a good calcium supplement, and consider having a nutritional analysis done to be sure these minerals remain in balance.
For more information I suggest :
Staying Healthy with Nutrition by Dr. Elson Haas, MD
What is LDN? April 21, 2010
I’ve been talking about LDN lately, and I bet many of you are wondering what LDN is and what it can do for you.
LDN, or low dose naltrexone, is simply the use of naltrexone in doses up to 4.5 mg each night.
In it’s full strength form of 50 mg, naltrexone is used to help alcoholics and drug addicts recover from their addiction. It blocks the receptors that derive pleasure from those addictive substances. Naltrexone has been used in this way for several decades.
In low doses, naltrexone blocks endorphin production for a few hours. You take LDN at bed time, and endorphins are blocked while you sleep. The medication wears off in the early morning hours, right around the time your body scans for endorphin levels and releases an amount based on those levels. Because your levels are low in the early morning, thanks to the LDN, your body releases a higher endorphin amount that it normally would.
These extra endorphins regulate the immune system.
LDN is commonly used to treat the following illnesses:
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Lyme Disease
- IBS
- Crohn’s Disease
- Autoimmune cancers
- Lupus
- ALS
- Fibromyalgia
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Chronic Pain
- Hashimoto’s
- HIV
- Autism
In addition, many have noticed a decrease in depression, lessoning of allergies, asthma, and eczema, increased energy, decrease in migraine activity and a host of other positive effects.
You can learn more about LDN from LDN infor.org
LDN Conference in Glasglow April 20, 2010
For those who are following research and activism on the Low Dose Naltrexone front, I received an email this morning form the Chairperson of LDNNOW, Jayne Crocker. In her email, Jayne gave me a heads up on a few of the expected presenters at the LDN Conference in Glasglow on April 24, 2010.
This time around we really will be getting up the the minute research information, as Dr. Jarred Younger will be presenting the results of his recent study of LDN and Fibromyalgia. Dr. Younger says, “‘I’ll be presenting the news even before my own lab knows the results. I am still conducting the analysis – so the results will be hot off the press.” Dr. Younger will be presenting his results by video and live phone link. Questions will be taken.
Dr Tom Gilhooly from Glasglow will be on hand to discuss his research findings, and answer questions. Dr. Gilhooly is considered the front runner in Multiple Sclerosis and Fibromyalgia treatment, he is also the organizer of the LDN Conference.
Flying in from Canada, Dr. Bill Code will attend the conference. Dr. Code wrote the book, “Winning the Pain Game.” While researching for his book, Dr. Code was diagnoses with a progressive form of Multiple Sclerosis. He is familiar with LDN from both a research/clinical perspective, and a personal perspective.
Dr. Chris Steele will also be attending. Dr. Steel said of the LDN Conference, ” ‘It promises to be an important conference for people suffering from MS and fibromyalgia, and I anticipate wide interest from the medical community.” Here is a youtube video of Dr Steele talking about LDN
