Your World and You: Tips to Improve Your Family’s Health – Issue 51 (Premium)
Environmental and Nutritional Tips to Improve Your Family’s Health
This feature highlights reports, studies, and feedback on efforts that can make a positive impact in our quest for health. Topics we cover in this issue are included below. We invite you to share material with us that you think would be of interest to our readers.
Articles in this issue
- 5 key tests for environmental toxicity: mark your calendar for webinar
- High dose vitamin C for fighting cancer
- Treatments for mold-exposed patients: A review of research (video)
- Natural ways to treat sunburn; advice from Feingold Association
- Low vitamin D in babies can lead to high blood pressure later
- Clueless college kids eat too much toxic tuna
- Mice with deadly tick-born virus respond to flu drug
- Soy shown to be good for the heart in contrast to FDA claims
- Tips on avoiding those nasty mosquitoes
- Vanilla added to milk makes it taste sweeter
- Antibiotics can make a viral flu worse
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5 key tests for environmental toxicity: Mark your calendar
Webinar: Thursday July 25, 2019 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM EDT William Shaw, Ph.D. and The Great Plains Laboratory are sponsoring “The Five Key Tests for Environmental Toxicity Assessment” on July 25th, 2019. This lecture will discuss the 5 essential tests to perform from the laboratory for a comprehensive assessment for environmental toxin exposure and certain corresponding biochemical imbalances.
Presenter Dr. Kurt Woeller has been an integrative medicine physician and biomedical autism specialist for 20+ years offering specialized treatment and testing for individuals with complex medical conditions. He is an international speaker and author of multiple books including Autism – The Road To Recovery, Methyl-B12 Therapy for Autism, Methyl-B12 for Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia, and 5 Things you Must Do Right Now To Help With Your Rheumatoid Arthritis.
FREE Register here
NOTE: This is a one-time, live event. A week after the live broadcast, the webinar will be available to watch on the Great Plains Laboratory website in their webinar library.
High dose vitamin C for fighting cancer
Press release from Orthomolecular Medical News Service July 2019: The success of intravenous vitamin C for cancer patients is a repeatedly-demonstrated clinical reality. Here is the full, detailed Riordan IVC protocol, a free download for everyone.
http://www.doctoryourself.com/RiordanIVC.pdf
Do not let loved ones suffer unnecessarily from one-sided care directed exclusively by physicians educated in pharmaceutical-funded medical schools. Bring your oncologist up to speed. No more leeches; no more calomel. No more procrastination about utilizing nutritional therapy. Enough is enough! Drop this protocol on your doctor’s desk and demand an IV of vitamin C now. If the doctor refuses, go over their head or sue them for denying treatment.
Cancer cells are killed by vitamin C precisely because cancer cells are different. Inside a cancer cell, vitamin C, normally an antioxidant in a healthy cell, actually acts as a pro-oxidant and kills a cancer cell. Give enough C and you can kill malignant cells almost anywhere they may try to spread or try to hide. See the full news report online
Treatment for mold-exposed patients: A review of research (video)
Dr. Janette Hope presents a professional-level review of treatments for mold-exposed patients. She analyzes available medical literature supporting various aspects of the treatment of mold exposed patients as well as risks, benefits and side effects of specific treatments; includes a strategy for approaching complex and/or treatment resistant patients including assessing underlying factors contributing to unsatisfactory response to treatment.
Dr. Hope is a national speaker on the health effects of mold and complex issues surrounding treatment. The presentation was give at a conference for the American Academy of Environmental Medicine.
Natural ways to treat sunburn; advice from Feingold Association
- Aloe Vera, which is used in the treatment of burns, is quite effective in the treatment of sunburn.
- Simply apply a thin layer to the affected area and repeat the application every hour. Aloe Vera is
- very high in salicylate for those of you on Stage One.
- Try alternating with emu oil, another ingredient used in the treatment of burns.
- Bathing in cool water is helpful to reduce the heat. Try an herbal bath using either dried chamomile or lavender essential oils. This is another effective means by which you can relieve severe sunburn.
- Soak a t-shirt or towel in vinegar and place it directly onto the skin. The vinegar will help to
- soothe the sunburn and alleviate the sting.
Additional Comments ~Hopefully if you overdid it in the sun, you only have a mild sunburn. In extreme cases, however, it’s important to see a doctor. If you have a fever or chills or feel nauseous, it’s probably a good idea to call your physician or visit the ER. Do the same if you feel dizzy, faint, or fatigued. www.Feingold.org
Low vitamin D in babies can lead to high blood pressure later
Researchers followed 775 children from birth to age 18 at the Boston Medical Center.
Compared to children who were born with adequate vitamin D levels:
- Children born with low levels of vitamin D had an approximately 60% higher risk of elevated systolic blood pressure between ages 6 and 18;
- Children who had persistently low levels of vitamin D through early childhood had double the risk of elevated systolic blood pressure between ages 3 and 18.
- Systolic refers to the first or top number in a blood pressure reading. It indicates how much pressure your blood is exerting against your artery walls when your heart beats. High systolic blood pressure readings increase the risk of cardiovascular disease even when diastolic blood pressure, the second number in a blood pressure reading, is controlled.
See American Heart Association article
Tips on avoiding those nasty mosquitoes
Ever notice how some people get bitten by mosquitoes much more often than others? Turns out it’s not just that they are attracted to certain “odors” on the skin. But heat—at very close range—also is very attractive for female mosquitoes.
“Mosquitoes are exquisitely sensitive to differences in temperature on surfaces. When it comes to heat or carbon monoxide, it can be a beacon for mosquitoes as well.”
Lastly, researchers have found that in addition to odor and heat, mosquitoes can use the sense of taste to decide whether to feed.
“Once a mosquito lands on the skin, they taste the skin to decide whether this is a good host or not,” Pitts said. “They can actually taste DEET, which is long-range repellent. They can smell it and avoid it. When they taste it, they will also fly away. Therefore, we know that taste is also important in some ways. Taste is the final choice before blood feeding.”
If you use DEET, wash it off as soon as you can, and avoid its use with kids. Try to cover up rather than spray it on. Natural products are, of course, available and should be considered. See more
Vanilla added to milk makes it taste sweeter
Adding vanilla to sweetened milk makes consumers think the beverage is sweeter, allowing the amount of added sugar to be reduced, according to new researchers, who will use the concept to develop a reduced-sugar chocolate milk for the National School Lunch Program.
In a blind taste test that provided new insights into taste enhancement by an aroma, participants — who did not know vanilla had been added to the milk — consistently indicated that samples with vanilla were significantly sweeter than their added sugar concentrations could explain. The subjects’ responses indicate that with the addition of vanilla, the added sugar content in flavored milk could potentially be reduced by 20 to 50 percent, suggested lead researcher Gloria Wang, and people should not be able to perceive the beverage as less sweet.
Clueless college kids eat too much toxic tuna
Some students are helping themselves to servings of tuna well beyond the amounts recommended to avoid consuming too much mercury. Researchers surveyed students on their tuna consumption habits and knowledge of mercury exposure risks, and also measured the mercury levels in hair samples. Hair mercury levels were closely correlated with how much tuna the students said they ate. And for some, the measurements were above what is considered a ‘level of concern.’ More
Mice with deadly tick-borne virus respond to flu drug
Press Release: Bourbon virus has sickened people in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma. Only a few cases of the newly discovered Bourbon virus have been reported, and two of them ended in death, partly because no specific treatments are available for the tick-borne illness. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified an experimental antiviral drug that cures mice infected with the potentially lethal virus. The drug, favipiravir, is approved in Japan but not the U.S. for treatment of influenza, a related virus.
“Without the flu drug, 100 percent of the infected mice died, and with the treatment, 100 percent survived,” said Jacco Boon, PhD, an assistant professor of medicine and the paper’s senior author. “Up until now, doctors have not had any way to treat Bourbon virus. We’ve found something that works, at least in mice, and it suggests that antivirals for flu are a good place to start looking for a treatment for Bourbon.”
The findings are published June 13 in the journal PLOS Pathogens. See here.
Soy shown to be good for the heart in contrast to FDA claims
Researchers have found a consistent cholesterol-lowering effect for soy protein based on data from dozens of clinical trials over the last two decades. The study calls into question the US Food and Drug Administration’s current proposal to revoke the health claim for soy protein and heart disease.
The researchers showed a reduction from soy in both total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, which can damage the heart. The effect is steady across all 46 trials that the FDA cited in 2017, when it first proposed to revoke the health claim for soy based on recent trials that showed variable results. More
Antibiotics can make a viral flu worse!
Antibiotics, of course, save lives and are a valuable medical resource. But far too many times they are prescribed when the problem is viral, not bacterial. It is not uncommon for doctors to prescribe, patients to request, an antibiotic when they have flu symptoms–just in case it helps speed things up or avoid symptoms worsening.
But a new study had the startling finding that antibiotics can leave the lung vulnerable to flu viruses, leading to significantly worse infections and symptoms.
It’s all about the gut. The research discovered that signals from gut bacteria help to maintain a first line of defense in the lining of the lung. When mice with healthy gut bacteria were infected with the flu, around 80% of them survived. However, only a third survived if they were given antibiotics before being infected.
Read the full report from the Francis Crick Institute.
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