Paul’s Health Blog

Why, when we know it is junk food that is not good for us and is just going to put another pound on our girth and make us sick, do we still crave it and love to eat it so much?   Well there are some secrets about you and a special secret ingredient that the food industry scientists know about and you do not.   That is right, there are some secret weaknesses you have that they take advantage of and there is a chemical ingredient (that for them is like magic) that they add to the junk food.   That ingredient opens that weakness so they can get you to buy and eat worthless food thinking it is good for you.   And I am going to tell you exactly what that weakness is and what the chemical is that they are using against you.

What is Your Weakness?

Your weakness is that your body has one major way to tell you that it needs nutrition to keep going.   Your body cannot hand you a list that says I need protein, vitamin C, magnesium and potassium.   It has only one way of doing this and that is the taste of food.   So your body, when it needs nutrition, is going to start sending urges for certain tastes so it can get the nutrition it must have.   The main powerful taste signals it will send you are for the taste of sugar and salt (the other flavors are sour, bitter and umami).   I know you are thinking sugar and salt are junk and bad for you.   Well they were not junk or bad for you until the food industry got a hold of them and refined the nutrition out.   For your body the taste of salt and sugar represent the nutrition that it needs.   Can you see the picture here, food with no nutrition going into a body that is looking for nutrition, crazy right?

So think of the taste craving as being a switch that is turned on by your body until it gets the nutrition it needs.    So, no matter how much food you eat, that switch will not go to the off position until your body gets the nutrition.   Your body has no choice here.  It must get that nutrition, your life depends on it.   Guess who knows about this problem you have?   The food industry scientists know this and use it against you.  They put their refined nutritionless salt and sugar in everything that is put on the shelves even canned meats.   But when it comes to junk food they go all out to hook you into eating it.   Why, because it costs them almost zero to make junk food, it is all profit.

What is the Secret Ingredient?    

The secret ingredient(s) has no name and is classified in the ingredients list under artificial flavor; can’t get much more secret than that can you?   I can give you the name of the company that makes the chemical(s); Senomyx is their name.   What are the chemicals used for?   To disguise the fact that there is less salt or sugar or other flavor in the food so the company such as Campbell Soup can tell you it has 25% less salt without the loss of taste, remember the one your body is looking for.     This way the food can be promoted as healthier for you because it has less of those refined ingredients, which in the refined form causes high blood pressure, weight gain and many other diseases.   But the nutrition your body is looking for is still not there; this new ingredient only makes your mouth think it is there.   Are these secret ingredients dangerous to you, no one knows because the studies that Senomyx did for an extremely short, suspicious FDA approval are, guess what, kept a secret.   Who are the companies using these ingredients?  Kraft Foods, Nestle’s, Coca-Cola and Campbell Soup so far. 

Here is what puzzles me the most about this and I have trouble wrapping my mind around it.   These companies insist on putting refined and secret products in our food when they know that these products are going to make many people like you and your family suffer with disease, why do they do it to us?   I have a college doctorate in naturopathic medicine and I know that when someone with high blood pressure adds whole nutrition filled salt to a healthy diet that their blood pressure goes down.   This is also true if you put whole sugar in a healthy diet your weight will go down.    Then my question is, why don’t these companies just do the right thing for us, what is their problem?

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I remember when a marshmallow was a marshmallow, do you?   Have you tried to roast a marshmallow lately, good luck?   What has happened to the good old marshmallow?  The same thing that has happened to most of our food.   When we were not paying any attention they took the marshmallow out of marshmallows but kept the price moving gradually upward.   What is in the marshmallow today?  Artificial color, artificial flavor, corn syrup, dextrose, gelatin (cow hooves), modified corn starch, sugar and tetrasodium pyrophosphate, sounds like a gut bomb to me.   It still looks like a marshmallow and they still call it a marshmallow but it is obviously not.   This kind of slow changing of ingredients has gone on throughout the food industry; it reminds me of the Trojan horse.   The food industry’s major concern is shelf life and marketing a lot of their junk to us, not what happens after we eat the stuff.   Now suddenly everyone is noticing that gee, we have an obesity epidemic (1/3 of the country obese) and a whole lot of other epidemics.   Medical science’s weak answer to the obesity epidemic is genetics, so they can research it and make more drugs.   But wait a minute, how does the genetics of an entire country change in a matter of years?   I am sure that your doctor cares, but does the medical industry care?   Why should they care; more sick people means more money into their industry.   Many people I have talked to blame the obese person saying “they eat too much and they are lazy”.  One third of the country and growing, I don’t think so.

Through the food industry, our food is subjected to poor farming methods, irradiation, pasteurization, emulsification, over-refining, genetic modification, steriod-ization, antibiotic-ization.    Then before it gets to us they add aspartame, MSG, artificial colors, sodium nitrite, hydrogenated oils, high-fructose corn syrup, acesulfame K, BHA, BHT, olestra, bromate, sulfites, senomyx, and I could go on and on.   Good grief, what do they think we are?   You and I know that this is not right.  A marshmallow should be a marshmallow, not degrade into something chemically unrecognizable.   Food should have food value and nourish us, not turn us into an obese sickly country, you know it, I know it and they should know it. 

Not long ago the people of England got upset with the food industry over some GMF ingredients that were being put in their foods.   Some of the companies involved were pretty big and used to having their way.   Well when they realized that the public was angry, they pulled those foods and ingredients from the shelves in one week flat.   Maybe we need to do the same thing here in the United States.

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Here comes the food craving monster and it just has to have a dozen Oreo cookies with chocolate-chip ice cream and hot fudge sauce, or a bag of potato chips with your favorite dressing, a side of peanut butter on Cheez-it Crackers or chocolate, any kind will do, ppppp-please.   But nooo no no, you are on a diet and you have to have that tiny tiny dish of no cal, no fat, no salt, no carb, no taste Yuk!   Well good luck with the diet, because the craving monster is not going to give in until you do.   And you know, that deep down inside, you want the monster to win so that you can cuddle up in front of the TV and munch away at those goodies in a vain attempt to solve your favorite food craving.

The question is, why does your body and mind send you messages to eat the very things that make you fat and eventually sick?   What is wrong with your body and mind?  Why are they pushing you toward self destruction?   It is as though there is an empty place inside you that calls out for the junk, but no matter how much junk you pour in, it cannot be filled.   While in the mean time your body blows up like a balloon and disease is waiting around the corner.

Actually, there is absolutely nothing wrong with your body or your mind.   That’s right, your body and mind are just fine, running just exactly like they should.   Let me make this absolutely clear.  Your body and mind are doing exactly what they were programmed to do.   And your body and mind will do this even if your stomach is full, which I am sure many of you have experienced.             

What is the program your body and mind are on that would do this to you?   It is a nutritional program, a program that is trying to get you to eat the nutrition it needs for optimal functioning.   To run at peak performance your body needs certain amounts of water, proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals, enzymes and friendly bacteria, etc.   Some of these are needed in large amounts and some in micro doses but all of them are crucial for peak performance and isn’t that what we all want, peak performance?

Peak performance, well what does that have to do with my body craving junk food, there is little nutrition there?   That, my friend, is just the point and a big part of the craving problem.   Your body does not understand that there is little nutrition in those foods.   Your body depends on taste to tell it if there is nutrition in the food you eat.   Most junk food is either sweet or salty tasting and your body senses sweet or salty as containing the nutrition it needs (the other flavors are sour, bitter and umami).    

Let me approach this from a different angle.   The craving is your body saying to you that there is some nutrition missing and it needs to be replaced.   Your body cannot hand you a list that says I am missing vitamin C, iodine, magnesium and potassium.   Your body can only get that message to you by giving you a craving to eat foods that have the taste that tells your body the nutrition is there, salt and sugar etc.

Of course we both know that the food manufacturing companies have refined the nutrition out of the junk food.   Well what about the regular food you eat?  What about the nutrition that is in those foods, and what about the produce?   Many of those foods were grown using poor farming methods, refined, altered genetically and irradiated to extend shelf life, which also depletes their nutrition and gives you cravings for what is missing.   Oh, and lets not forget the cooking.  When the food you cook reaches somewhere between 112 and 118 degree Fahrenheit you destroy even more of the nutrition your body needs.      

Now you might very well ask about those expensive vitamins you take every day.  Some of them say that they have thousands of times the minimum daily requirement (MDR).   Sorry no cigar, easily 95% plus of those vitamins are synthetic made from chemicals not food.   Nature, God bless her, has a basic law when it comes to the nutrition of living things; “we can only get our nutrition from plants”.   We cannot sidestep that law and eat dirt, so if your vitamin does not say “made from whole foods” or something to that effect, then it does you little good and that goes for food based as well.   Plus having thousands of times the MDR is confusing to your body, a meaningless sales gimmick that will not stop the cravings.      

Are you beginning to feel like you are between a rock and a hard place?  I know how you feel, I felt the same way when I discovered this.   It is why America is now the fattest country in the industrialized world today, with 70% of our people overweight and 20% of them obese.   So, at least now you know that it is not you or your body’s fault if you are overweight, or that you are weak in the face of these food cravings, because you were not aware till now what was going on.

“Wait a minute,” you might ask, “what about genetics, my thyroid, low metabolism, my hormone imbalance?”   Common sense tells us that the genetic makeup of the country does not change overnight.   Your genetic make up and all the organs in your body from your skin down to your bones are all tied to the nutrition your body receives.   If your body is depleted of any of the essential nutritients I spoke of before, things will not run as they should and you will start to experience symptoms.   Symptoms, like headaches, indigestion, skin problems, weight gain, dry and brittle hair (see my article “Nutritional Debt” for a full list of symptoms); until something gives way and you become sick.   Taking drugs for a disease of nutrition will lead to another disease, and so on until you have many diseases and many drugs; I see this all the time.

So until you get enough nutrition in your body you will not know if a disease you have is real or just a nutritional problem.   The worst I have seen personally, was an obese man with 5 diseases on 19 prescribed drugs telling me he just wanted to see his son graduate from high school.

So what can you do to solve this problem and protect your family and you from what is happening?   You need to get enough nutritious foods to help offset what refined foods have taken.   Produce, though we have been taught differently, has been scientifically proven to be the most concentrated food on the planet.  But the produce most markets carry isn’t the best, as I described above, but there is a trend to bring organic produce into most chain markets today.   Farmers markets and health food stores can help you and as a last resort take what is available until you can locate a better source.

Here is the optimal way to reverse what has been happening to you; at each meal, gradually bring in more raw produce till you are eating 70% of your meal (for the average person that works out to about 1 to 1½ lb or .4 to .7 kg) in raw produce.   I know, I know that sounds like a lot but if you do it gradually and juice some of it if you like, you will find that the benefits will make it well worth your while.   It will alkalize your body, drive away those symptoms I described, like the headaches and indigestion; plus your skin and hair will get more youthful and you will discover energy you never knew you had.   If I were you I would start with the morning drink for breakfast (see my article The Morning Drink).

There is a way to speed-up this process and that is by adding a whole food supplement as I spoke of before.   Adding food supplements will also help fill that nutritional hole and you will start feeling naturally full after a meal, not like you just swallowed a bowling ball.   Gradually the cravings will go away and you will move to your genetic weight as I did.   Here are some products I have used that will speed up the recovery process  Earth’s Nutrition, Bountiful Blend or Vita-Mineral see their benefits and ingredients below.

Earth’s Nutrition   

All ingredients in Earth’s Nutrition are from the richest, organic whole food sources available.  These concentrated foods such as blue green algae have the distinction of being referred to as Superfoods because of their great healing and nourishing abilities. These are Nature’s Nutrients, not chemicals unnaturally put together in a laboratory. This fat-free formula will give you quick energy, not because it is a stimulant, but because it will nourish the cells of your body and healthy cells produce an abundance of energy and vitality. We recommend that Earth’s Nutrition become the foundation of your health program as it will build your body and your health.

• Spirulina Blue Green Algae - Spirulina platensis
• Chlorella Green Micro Algae - Chlorella pyrendoidosa
• Alfalfa leaf - MedicagrJ satilla
• Barley grass - Hordeum vulgar
• Wheat grass - Triticum aestivum
• Astragalus root - Astragalus membranaceous
• Nettle leaf - Urtica dioica
• Purple Dulse Seaweed - Rhodymenia palmatta .
• Beet root - Beta vulgaria
• Spinach leaf - Spinacia oleracea
• Rose Hip - Rosa canina
• Orange Peel - Citrus sinensis
• Lemon Peel - Citrus limon
• Non-Active Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Nutritional Yeast

Bountiful Blend

Our bodies are designed to eat whole foods, just as they are found in nature. Healthy bodies feel better and have abundant energy. Bountiful Blend is a naturally balanced blend of Fruits, Vegetables, Berries, Dark Greens, Sea Vegetables and Herbs, specifically formulated to supply natural food sources of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, antioxidants and essential trace nutrients. Bountiful Blend is enzymatically rich and is easily assimilated into the blood stream because all ingredients are whole foods.

• Healthy Berry Blend …………………………………………………………………….. 2211 mg
  Raspberry Juice, Cherry Juice, Acerola Cherry, Cranberry Juice, Blueberry fruit, Camu Camu berry, Elderberry fruit, Strawberry fruit, and Schisandra berry.
• Fruit Blend ……………………………………………………………………………………1628 mg
  Pineapple fruit Juice, Lemon fruit Juice, Mango fruit Juice, Orange fruit Juice, Papaya fruit Juice, Kiwi fruit, Grape Juice, Grapefruit Juice, Apple fruit, Pomegranate fruit, Prune fruit, Plum fruit, Peach fruit Juice, and Pear fruit Juice.
• Vitamin-Rich Greens Blend …………………………………………………………….1609 mg
  Barley grass Juice, Spinach leaf, Wheat grass Juice, Kale, Alfalfa leaf Juice, and Parsley leaf Juice. 
• Sea Vegetable Blend ………………………………………………………………………1042 mg
  Spirulina, Irish Moss, Chlorella, and Kelp
• Assorted Blend ………………………………………………………………………………..892 mg
  Vanilla, Soy Lecithin, Aloe Vera gel, Stevia, Apple Cider Vinegar, Pine bark Extract, and Grape seed Extract.
• Vegetable Blend ……………………………………………………………………………. 526 mg
  Carrot Juice, Beet root Juice, Celery, Asparagus Juice, Tomato Juice, Brussel Sprout Juice, Broccoli Juice, and Cauliflower Juice.                                  
• Medicinal Herb Blend ……………………………………………………………………..492 mg
  Peppermint leaf, Spearmint leaf, Cinnamon, Astragalus root, Milk Thistle seed, Licorice root, Ginger root, Nettle leaf, Pau d’ Arco bark, Eleuthero root, Fo-ti root, Ashwagandha root, Olive leaf, and Turmeric root.

Vita-Mineral

Most multi-vitamin formulas are primarily synthetic (e.g. petroleum-derived) vitamins plus crushed industrial rocks, yet even peer reviewed medical research has concluded that food vitamins are superior to synthetics. Numerous scientific papers have concluded that Food vitamins and minerals such as Vita-Mineral are better than USP isolated ‘nutrients’ because they contain important enzymes, peptides and phytonutrients which are critical to the utilization of vitamins and minerals that are lacking in isolated USP nutrients.

Contains in Tablet Form naturally occurring calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins (including all ten essential amino acids), monosaccharides (including all considered essential), and superoxide dismutase as found in enzymatically processed Saccharomyces cerevisiae, acerola cherry, mixed citrus fruits, carrots, horsetail herb, alfalfa sprouts, kelp, soy, corn, and aloe vera extracts–all the nutrients shown above are contained in these foods. Unlike many so-called “natural” vitamin formulas, Food Vita-Mineral is a food vitamin (and not a synthetic isolate), it contains no synthetic USP nutrients, and only contains foods, food complexes, and food concentrates. Studies indicate that Food nutrients ARE better than isolated USP nutrients and are better absorbed, retained, and utilized than USP nutrients.

Cheating

Eating this way is perfect for your body but maybe a little too perfect for your mind.   So cheat once a week, yes that’s what I said, cheat!   Once a week completely throw the whole system out the window and completely cheat.   Go out somewhere and have an ice cream sundae or something like that, that is completely off this lifestyle change, once a week.   You have got to have some flexibility or you will just give up, it’s too much to ask, so like I said cheat.   The cheating will not hurt you because you have all those other days, when you were spot on, that will offset any cheating.    So completely relax, cheat and enjoy it. 

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Pre-polluted children moving toward an autoimmune nightmare

To open a Pandora’s Box means to unwittingly unleash chaos on yourself and the world around you.   One toxicologist said, “We’re already to the point where it is in people and getting near the point where there’s significant risk.”   Kenneth Cook, the president and founder of the Environmental Working Group.   “It is found everywhere from babies in the womb to whales in the ocean.   And beyond that, it is indestructible in the environment.   It lasts forever.”  Author, “It appears that we, through science, have opened a Pandora’s Box upon the world unleashing chaos upon ourselves and, what’s worse, our children”.

Infertility Linked to PFOA and PFOS (Perfluoriated Teflon Pollutants)
A new study finds that women who have difficulty getting pregnant have higher concentrations of certain nonstick-chemical pollutants in their blood.   The pollutant compounds are known as PFOA and PFOS; they are the primary constituents of Teflon and Scotchguard products.  In the January 28^th issue of Human Reproduction, released online, Chunyuan Fei and her coworkers at the University of California, Los Angeles report that “higher maternal PFOA and PFOS (chemicals released from Teflon) levels measured in early pregnancy were found to be associated with longer time to pregnancy.”   Indeed, the proportion of women defined as experiencing infertility means it took them more than a year of trying to become pregnant  These woman had higher perfluorinated pollutants in their blood compared to those who had no conception problems.  

EPA Charges DuPont with Withholding Tests that Show Risk to Humans from PFOA in Products (a Teflon Perfluoriated Pollutant)
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) charges that DuPont failed to provide immediate notification of tests showing “substantial risk of injury to human health”, including birth defects and liver damage.    PFOA, a chemical found in products ranging from pots and pans to clothing and stain repellents (Scotchgard), to food packaging and cosmetics, and a component of Teflon production, poses developmental and reproductive risks to humans, according to a risk assessment from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Exposure Levels of PFOA in Children
Current PFOA exposures in children may be well above safe levels, and some children have high enough blood levels of PFOA to cause serious toxicity in laboratory studies.
 

Some of the effects of these chemicals:
Children’s health and development problems.   Risks of liver, pancreatic, testicular and mammary gland tumors.  Altered endocrine system including decreased levels of reproductive hormones, disrupted thyroid hormone regulation.  Damaged and weakened immune system. 

PFOA affects the body’s endocrine system
Already, the C8 study indicated that PFOA is associated with significant dose dependent effects on the endocrine system, including decreased levels of reproductive hormones; weakened immune response, detected as decreased levels of disease-fighting blood proteins; and increased levels of uric acid, a bodily waste linked to hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases. PFOA is also associated with higher levels of cholesterol, another predictor of chronic health problems.

ABC’s 20/20
A year and a half ago an airing of ABC’s 20/20 with representatives from an organization called the Environmental Working Group demonstrated how a Teflon-coated pan can easily reach a temperature of 500 degrees while cooking bacon.   And at around 680 degrees the pan will begin to emit toxic gases. When inhaled, the gases may cause a reaction with symptoms that are typical of the flu, including a rise in body temperature, chills, headache, etc.DuPont has said that the temperatures needed to release the fumes cannot be reached during normal cooking.   As the Environmental Working Group showed 20/20 in the kitchen demonstration, however, a pan can reach that temperature in just a few minutes.

“At 554 degrees Fahrenheit,” said Houlihan, “studies show ultrafine particles start coming off the pan.   These are tiny little particles that can embed deeply into the lungs.”

The hotter the pan gets, the more chemicals are released. “At 680, toxic gases can begin to come off of heated Teflon,” Houlihan said.   It also turns out that, DuPont has known about the “Teflon flu” for years.

Environmental Lottery Nightmare, More of the Iceberg Exposed
Everyone, knows that your chances of winning a lottery are next to zero.   For instance, the odds of winning the New York lottery’s first prize of $26 million dollars are 1 in 175 million.   Think of this, what if the odds were 1 in 100?   You would convert everything you had into cash then beg, borrow and steal every dollar you could get your hands on to buy lottery tickets for that lottery, wouldn’t you?    Well there is another game of chance with the odds of 1 in 100 that I guarantee you; you do not want to win.   That is the chance of 1 in 100 that your wife or daughter could give birth to a son with Hypospadias.    And the chances improve every year; when I first heard of this defect 2 years ago the odds were 1 in 300.  Hypospadias is a male birth defect that affects roughly 1 in 100 boys where the opening of the urethra is not at the tip of the penis.   The opening can be anywhere along the shaft, within the scrotum or even in the perineum.   The child may have ambiguous genitelia making accurate sex determination difficult and cause serious psychological problems later.   Severe hypospadias can be associated with a number of other problems, including undecided testis, enlarged prostate, stone formation and infertility.    Hypospadias is linked to exposure during the first trimester of pregnancy to certain environmental toxicants, mainly those that mimic hormones called Phthalates.   These chemicals are used in a wide variety of products including plastics, detergents and personal care products, such as deodorants, fragrances, nail polish and hairspray. These chemicals of course affect hormones.

In 2005, researchers from the Environmental Working Group found something very frightening: a cocktail of 287 pollutants – PFOA’s, pesticides, dioxins, flame retardants — in the fetal-cord blood of newborn infants from around the country.

Children Pre-polluted
It is morally wrong that kids are born pre-polluted with hundreds of toxic chemicals.   It is the worst kind of violation of human rights, I know it, and you know it.   Shouldn’t Congress know it??    We think so.   (At end of this article find a website that will send your message to Congress letting them know how you feel)

Autoimmune Soup Anyone
Scientific arrogance has led us down the wrong path we better stop and take a close look at what is happening.   This month 150 new chemicals (that is 7 each day) will be added to the 85,000 which are a major cause of disease.   They will be added to industry with no oversight control at all, zero.   Did you think that there was a United States Government watch dog system keeping you and your family safe from chemical harm, sorry it’s a paper tiger.   The U.S. government has no adequate chemical regulation policy, therefore companies are allowed to manufacture and use chemicals without ever establishing their safety.

Because of the many chemicals in farming and industry, the methods science uses for detecting chemicals in our environment have improved.   There is increased pressure and interest by the public and their representative groups to understand the dangers these types of toxic, polluting chemicals pose.    In response, more scientists and toxicologists are identifying what are called “emerging chemicals of concern,” or ECCs.   Of the thousands of chemicals in use about 400 resist breaking down in the environment and are known to accumulate in fish and wildlife.   When a chemical accumulates in fish and wild life, that is the clue that it will accumulate in us as well.   Researchers estimate that of this 400, only 4 percent are routinely analyzed and about 75 percent have not been studied.   Emerging Chemicals of Concern, www.dtsc.ca.gov

The Autoimmune Disease Epidemic
What disease born of toxicity and pollution can be triggered just by taking aspirin or any medication, or by starting a new exercise routine, stretching unused muscles, even too much stress, a car accident or giving birth?   Latest research says the answer is an autoimmune disease and there are plenty of them to go around.   There are approximately 80 to 100 autoimmune diseases with another 40 still waiting for a name.   It’s like popcorn popping up faster as it heats till you can hardly keep up with all of them and there are some real monsters in this popcorn.   For those who have one, get ready because many people with an autoimmune disease generally get another.   Statistically about 25 percent of patients with autoimmune diseases have a tendency to develop additional autoimmune disorders

Women, Chemical Endocrine Disruptors and Autoimmune Diseases
Recent studies have shown that some of these chemicals can act as endocrine disruptors, disrupting normal hormone function.   These dangerous chemicals can produce effects at parts per billion or parts per trillion levels.  Also, effects of some ECCs can be transgenerational.   Transgenerational means when animals are exposed in utero, effects are transmitted not only to the offspring, but are inherited for many generations thereafter, from exposures to the grandmother or the great-grandmother animal.  In addition, scientists are worried about the effects from exposures to mixtures of these ECCs and/or other chemicals.It is possible that endocrine disruptors that mimic estrogenic activity may be involved in the increased incidence of autoimmune diseases such as SLE (Ahmed, 2000).   It has been widely noted that females have stronger immune capabilities (particularly B-cell–mediated immunity) than males, as evidenced by their better immune responses to a variety of self-antigens and non-self-antigens. This phenomenon of gender-based immune capability is largely attributed to the effects of sex hormones (Ahmed, Penhale, and Talal, 1985 ; Grossman, 1984; Homo-Delarche et al., 1991).  

Etiologic factor in the development of autoimmune diseases. …
toxsci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/81/1/139

Here is what this basically means; that women because of their stronger immune capabilities are more sensitive to chemical endocrine disruptors and so develop autoimmune diseases more easily then men.   For reasons we do not understand, about 75 percent of autoimmune diseases occur in women, most frequently during the childbearing years.  Hormones are thought to play a role, because some autoimmune illnesses occur more frequently after menopause, others suddenly improve during pregnancy, with flare-ups occurring after delivery, while still others will get worse during pregnancy.

From the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association, Michigan National Bank Building, 15475 Granot Ave, Detroit, MI 48205, (313) 371-8600.

Men, Chemical Endocrine Disruptors and Autoimmune Diseases
Autoimmune diseases that develop in men tend to be more severe.   Women with multiple sclerosis begin to show symptoms earlier than do men with the disease.   At the same time, the disease seems to progress faster in men than in women.   Women tend to develop lupus during their childbearing years while men are affected much later in life.A study by Dr. Michelle Petri from Johns Hopkins University tried to address the differences in men and women lupus patients by comparing the clinical and laboratory features of a group of 41 males and 545 females.   She found that men had an increased frequency of seizures, immune-mediated anemia, and lupus anticoagulant (which may lead to clotting problems), but a lower frequency of Sjogren’s disease.   Her study suggests that men may have more severe disease than women.

Medical drug-induced lupus erythematosus (DILE) tends to occur more frequently in men illustrating the role of environmental triggers in the development of lupus.   DILE is commonly associated with hydralazine, procainamide, and isoniazid, and is more common in men because the disorders for which some of these medications are used (e.g., high blood pressure, irregular heart rhythms) are diagnosed more often in men.Again as with women, hormones play a role in the disease and so chemicals that mimic hormones the endocrine disruptors could be a factor.   Some studies have noted lower levels of a specific androgen, testosterone, in some men with lupus.   Men with lupus, however, are in no way less masculine than men without lupus, and sexual activity, potency, and fertility in men with lupus does not differ from men without lupus.

Why is there an Autoimmune Epidemic?
How could there not be an autoimmune epidemic?   That question makes more sense.   We are breaking every natural law and dirtying up our own nest as we go.   We think we can do anything to this planet and ourselves with no repercussions, no dept to be paid.   I remember when I was a little boy in the early 1950’s it was announced on TV that it is going to be a throw away world with the new plastics coming out.   Well, we have just about thrown the world away.    

You only have to look around you to see the obvious human problems.   America is now the fattest country in the world with 75% of its people fat and 20% of them obese.   We eat for entertainment with barely a thought about what happens after we eat that meal.   I read in the news yesterday that the military is having a difficult time finding anyone physically qualified because so many applicants are too overweight.   There is no genetic mystery as to why there is an autoimmune epidemic and everyone is fat.   We are swimming in chemical pollution and eating trash; that is the answer no one wants to look at.   We better clean up ourselves and the environment pretty quick before Mother Nature swats us like a fly.   

Some Simple Naturopathic Answers to Get Started on the Human Problem
More raw produce every day; I am talking 70% of your diet or more. ?
Start every morning with a fruit smoothie; see my article “Make this Energy Packed, Healing Fruit Smoothie your Everyday Morning Drink“.

Cleanse and detox 4 times a year with the change of the seasons, see my article “Seasonal Cleansing and Detoxing” for instructions 

Water, if you are sick, take your body weight divide by 2, drink that many ounces of distilled water each day.   Distilled water acts as a vacuum drawing toxins as it moves through your body.

If you are overweight read my article “Are You Gaining Weight Because of Nutritional Debt?”

Do you exercise at least 3 times per week? The lymph system plays a large part in our total immune system.   There are 45 pints of lymph (3 times more than blood) that move throughout the body.   Breathing and movement are two ways that lymph is moved, as it does not have a heart.   For breathing, go to my site; go to “Programs” then to Yoga.   Study this breath, “Kapalabhati” is an incredibly energizing breath it will strengthen your lungs relax your heart and nervous system and oxygenate every cell of your brain and body.  

Through these simple techniques you can move away from the sick life style that is making everyone fat and sick.   They will give your body the ability to start. 

Summation

Before poison air sensing equipment was developed birds were used to alert humans to the presence of toxic poisonous air.   This very sad story has something to say to everyone. In December 2002 a family lost more than 55 birds and 2 dogs after a defective nonstick pan on their stove overheated when the water burned off.   “As I walked into the kitchen, I saw the pan that was smoldering. The pan had been full of water and the burner turned off, but a short circuit had turned it on even though the handle/ indicator said it was off. I then noticed a sun conure flying by dropping to the ground, also, immediately dead.”“The next few hours are the hardest I will probably ever go through. One by one the birds were dying. Agonizing, screaming… we opened up everything in the house. It was snowing and freezing. I placed fans everywhere to exhaust the fumes. (I lost 2 Boston terrier puppies from pneumonia 2 days later)… We did our best to hold each and every one of the macaws as they were dying, I didn’t want them to be alone in their pain. In my mind will always be etched my husband  holding Caleb, the Camelot Macaw, and Max, a Nanday tucked under his shirt, as I went down the steps to pull DeeDee, a 50+ Blue and Gold and hold her as she was screeching her last breaths away…. My husband sounded so vulnerable as he screamed out, “Oh God, Not DeeDee.”

I am sorry but I wanted to shock and create some discomfort for you so you will understand how bad things are; not to make you paranoid, just educated and a little angry.   When enough people are educated and feeling a little angry, things will change very quickly.   Those people who place more value on money than they do on the welfare of human beings will become frightened, and when they do, they will change things immediately; you are more powerful then you think.   This happened in England a few years back regarding genetically modified products and within one week all manufacturers changed out of fear.

Pandora

Finally she could stand it no longer. One day when everyone was out she crept up to the box, took the huge key, fitted it carefully into the lock and turned it.   She lifted the lid to peep in but before she realized it the room was filled with terrible things: disease, despair, malice, greed, old age, death, hatred, violence, cruelty and war.   She slammed the lid down and turned the key again…keeping only the spirit of hope inside.

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Are You Gaining Weight, Losing Weight, Fatigued, Too Much Energy, Diminished Sex Drive, Severe PMS, Losing Hair, Sleeping Too Much, Insomnia, Brittle Nails?   Could it be an Autoimmune Disease is Attacking Your Thyroid?

The title of this article has a lot of contradictory symptoms in it; well thyroid disease is very contradictory in this modern unhealthy world.   Thyroid diseases are actually very rare but they have reached epidemic numbers; there I go again a contradiction but it is true.   Why because autoimmune diseases are involved here and autoimmune diseases are a total contradiction when you look closely.

Medical science has identified 80-100 different autoimmune diseases at this point and suspects at least an additional 40 exist, unnamed.   Here are some examples of well known and dangerous autoimmune diseases; muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig’s (ALS) Disease, Parkinson’s,  Crohns disease, Ulcerative Colitis, Hepatitis C, Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.   And though they have been with us for a long time medical science cannot explain why and has not found a cure for even one.

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The 2 most common forms of arthritis are osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. Both are characterized by an inflammation and/or pain in a joint or joints. Both diseases are related to nutrition. Osteoarthritis is from a lack of proper nutrition to replace what is lost through the wear and tear of aging and involves deterioration of the cartilage at the ends of the bones.

Rheumatoid, adult and juvenile arthritis is a type of autoimmune disease that attacks the synovial fluid membranes surrounding the lubricating fluid in the joints. This autoimmune disease like all autoimmune diseases is due to poor nutrition and pollutants that cause your immune system to not recognize and so attack you. Both arthritic diseases are due to the poor American food supply, low in nutrition that contains toxic and chemical pollutants. Other forms of arthritis such as gout, ankylosing spondylitis (AS), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) also respond positively to proper, absorbable nutrition.

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A total 41% of American workers interviewed reported an increase in work stress on their jobs compared to a year earlier.   Another poll taken among Americans showed that more than one half of the respondents (58%) reported having experienced insomnia at least a few nights a week.   This is a trend in American health, where we are seeing many common psychological problems such as stress and insomnia moving to an epidemic stage (epidemic means 1 in 4 have the ailment).

Why have these psychological problems reached epidemic numbers?   There are many reasons for stress, insomnia, restlessness and anxiety, such as significant personal events, like losing a job, marital problems, money worries and generally worrying.   Other causes can include physical illness that causes pain, depression, shift work, caffeine or alcohol consumption, and medication side-effects.   Each one is a drain on your nutritional support system, this is a scientific fact.

The drain on your nutritional support system is the common thread here which runs through all of these problems.   What do I mean when I say drain on your nutritional support system?   I mean that each one of those problems burns up large amounts of your B vitamins and minerals.   Those B vitamins and minerals are your nutritional support and if they get low the problems you are experiencing will seem to grow in number and severity.  

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America Is Number One, The Fattest Industrialized Country In The World, With 74% Of Our People Overweight And 25% Obese.   What Is There About The American Diet That Is Producing Billions Of Fat and Obese People All Over The World?   Is gaining weight and obesity the outward expression of a symptom of Nutritional Debt?

Everyone thinks that they have gained weight because they eat too much or because they are genetically prone or they do not exercise.   Those answers are only partially true; they are missing the root cause of why so many people are gaining weight and also getting sick in America.   There are some details being left out, that give you the real answer and the root cause of why you are gaining weight and getting sick, no matter what you do.

There are some spectacular diets out there that can have you losing weight at a very fast rate but what about your health?   These diets can make you look good but why are you getting sick and on medication and what happened to your energy?   About 80% of Americans are on medication and so are most kids over 12 years of age.   Hey, we have a real problem here and it is not getting better, it is getting worse.   I do not expect that this article is going to solve the health problems of Americans but maybe I can help you as I was helped by someone a long time ago.

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When I had cancer 20 years ago; I went to a number of seminars where speakers talked about different forms of natural healing, Chinese Medicine, Homeopathy, etc.   The most motivating of these was a presentation by a doctor of Thompsonian Naturopathic medicine; his subject was “The Colon and Colon Cleansing”.   I had no interest at all in the subject but I had read a few remarkable articles by the doctor and I wanted to hear him speak.

One extraordinary thing about the lecture was the response of the people in the room to what the speaker said about the colon; remember this is 20 years ago.   He made a lot of jokes about the American people being the most constipated in the world followed by England and Germany; the reaction to that was a lot of nervous laughter.   Then, he spoke at length about individual constipation with a few more jokes and more nervous laughter.   Then he said that modern medicine has spent 50 years denying that constipation and the health of the colon have anything to do with disease.   He said that this was ironic because the name “Physician” comes from the word physic which means to clean out the colon; they are colon cleaning doctors.   This went on for at least 10 more minutes.   Throughout the lecture I found it interesting to observe the reaction of the audience and myself to the subject and what the speaker said.   It was to some degree a taboo subject at that time, no one talked about it and yet here was this speaker; breaking all the rules and we all laughed as he did so.

Then he got serious and talked about why the colon is so dangerous if it is not taken care of.   By the end of the lecture I knew that a major reason I had cancer was because I had not been taking care of my own colon.   I never paid any attention to how often I went.  I did know that sometimes I did not go for a day or two, more for all I knew.   Sometimes I went from not going to having the runs (called spastic bowel) which might go on for a few weeks to a month, from constipated to the runs over and over.   I felt bloated all the time and I had flatulence almost all of the time.   In those last few years there had been times when I saw blood in my stool, which worried me greatly.   I was very inspired by his lecture.  I took the notes he handed out (see bottom of page). I bought the 2 formulas (Colon Cleanse and Colon Detox), and I went home and started taking the cleanse that night at supper.   I made a lot of other changes beginning that night and I did a lot of work on myself beyond cleansing and detoxing (see my website http://www.theherbprof.com/).  Three months later my prostate cancer symptoms were gone.

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Slows down aging process while helping you fight disease and lose weight

When I had cancer I made a very carefully thought out decision to put a strong effort into using natural healing before I turned myself over to modern medicine. I put in a great deal of time studying Chinese, Ayurvedic, European Herbal medicine, herbal healing and many other styles of natural healing. I finally decided to follow the advice of a Thompsonian Naturopathic Doctor. His was the first advice that made it real clear, how I got sick and how I would get well.

The very first thing he told me was “make a fruit smoothie every morning for breakfast for the rest of your life.” That was twenty years ago and I have not varied from that advice and it has turned out to be one of the best decisions I ever made.

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