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Water options-The tip of the day

Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:29:03 GMT

Tip of the day: Drinking all that doggone water!

As many health oriented folks know, sometimes drinking water seems like a big chore. Sometimes you just don't like the taste of your water no matter how pure and clean it's supposed to be. Luckily there's a healthy and great tasting way to fix this without unhealthy sweeteners and flavoring. Go to my site and pick up a bottle of one of these two great options that'll mineralize your water like the human body craves but remains sweet to the taste buds with no artificial sweeteners:

CHERI-MINS: Now you can have the best mineral water available with a delicious all-natural cherry flavor.

HERBAL RAINFOREST: This product not only gives you great taste and mineralizes your water with the highest quality plant derived colloidal minerals available ANYWHERE like our CHERI-MINS but also adds a blend of 16 beneficial herbs like chamomile, passionflower and echinacea. This is one of my top ten favorite products.

With these two products, you won't find a healthier way to flavor your water or a more pleasant way to get your kids to drink their water as opposed to soda pop which IMPAIRS mineral absorption as well as the digestion of protein and vitamin B-12 among other harmful effects.

Worried about your water quality? You certainly should be! Just the amount of chlorine you get from a shower can tax your body, even aggravate conditions like asthma. Find our new filters under the Tidal Wave section of my site for your shower and your drinking water. Chronic dehydration is common and goes unnoticed far too often! It's not uncommon that an elevated BP, chronic pain of muscles and joints and even frequent headaches can all be signs of dehydration that happen BEFORE you feel thirsty. Read Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj's book ''Your body's many cries for water'' to learn why your body simply CANNOT reach it's maximum health without plenty of water.

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Tags: Holistic Health, Nutrition, Water, Herbal Rainforest, Cheri-mins, Dr. Batmanghelidj

An easy way to save your freedom in America

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:50:43 GMT

Okay, I think we're back! After my first posts on this blog, we had many glitches to work out. Posts I made in hopes of carrying out a diabetes related list of topics did not show up. Since that time, I'd found that even though I couldn't get posts to show, I could however edit previous posts. So no one would read my list of planned diabetes related topics and try to follow a dead end where no further posts were made, I was able to edit out anything alluding to future posts being scheduled. Now, I believe I've got the kinks worked out and this post SHOULD go through...I hope. In case it doesn't and problems persist, I won't mention making future posts until everything seems cleared up and I'll keep this short in case it's all in vain. Today I want to get out a simple health freedom alert. It's political and it involves anyone who has literally just a few minutes and I'll add that previous activity with this method HAS made a big difference so your cooperation will NOT be in vain.

For those of you who subscribe to the newsletter and have for several months, you might remember an alert I sent out urging you to take action against Codex on advice of Dr. Rima Laibow of the Natural Solutions Foundation and http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php. For those of you uninitiated to the Codex struggle, please for the sake of all of our freedom see the health freedom USA site above for the details and the ability to voice your support with ease.

Later on after issuing that Codex alert, I was going to send an alert about supporting the H.R. 2117 bill sponsored by Congressman Ron Paul. I was informed too late to alert my subscribers but apparently Ron Paul isn't giving up on his convictions anymore than Dr. Laibow has. Thanks to Dr. Laibow's alerts, I see we all have another chance to bring this bill to fruition. This bill is one of the few credible examples I've seen by a politician that is PRO-SUPPLEMENT and seeks to level the playing field for supplements VS pharmaceuticals giving the people of America the chance to see the real scientific evidence that the FDA has tried to stifle at every turn. This stifling doesn't happen to drug companies but always happens to credible, nutritional science. Almost unbelievable. I support this bill and hope you will too. Among Ron Paul's fans is a man known to probably most of us - Natural health warrior Dr. Joseph Mercola. I tell you this because for many of you an endorsement by Dr. Mercola carries a lot of weight and that goes for me as well. Searching Mercola.com for Ron Paul's name will back up Dr. Mercola's admiration of the man. Ron Paul is not just Congressman Paul by the way but an honest to goodness medical doctor and presidential candidate for the next election. How about that? For more information on Dr./Congressman Paul, click on this link: Congressman Ron Paul or copy and paste the following address to your browser: http://www.house.gov/paul/bio.shtml

Several of you might be familiar with all of this already and some of you like myself received the latest alert from Dr. Laibow's camp directly. If the word CODEX is new to you as well as the HR 2117 bill, I'd feel foolish explaining it all in my words when Dr. Laibow and company have stated it as well it can be stated already. That considered, I'll simply point you to her web-page directly in which you can send a pre-written but fully editable letter to your local politicians and be heard in support of one of our seemingly few political leaders who are pro-nutrition/anti-pharmaceutical corruption and also take part in other anti-Codex activity. This site allows you to simply fill out your information and sends the text to your local politicians' email addresses automatically, you don't have to know them, only provide your information.

CODEX Action Alert

or try copying and pasting this address to your browser: http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/healthfreedomusa/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=11754

In hopes that the bugs are worked out and you get this time-sensitive message, I'll add that you can subscribe to this blog for free receiving the posts directly into your mailbox by clicking on the ''get the feed'' link on the upper right corner of this page.

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Tags: Health, J. D. Shafer, Holistic Health, Codex, Codex Alimentarius, Ron Paul, Congressman Paul, Dr. Paul, Dr. Laibow, Rima Laibow, Dr. Mercola

90+ Health Tip: Bones STILL aren't made out of Boniva

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:58:27 GMT

Bones STILL aren't made out of Boniva!

Going over some material on the National Osteoporosis Foundation website, I'm reminded once again that people are generally unfamiliar with any legitimate information about minerals in health. What really brings that home is looking at the information people SHOULD have and the modern day habits that tend to work against that information. Worsening osteoporosis statistics seem bound to happen here. I wrote about one of the bigger mainstream failures of supplement recommendations for calcium in the newsletter ''Bones aren't made out of Boniva''. This unfortunate practice is where doctors recommend calcium tablets alone or just with Vitamin D and NO MAGNESIUM. This is a big failure here by family physicians trying to help although nutrition is rarely something they're well educated on. If a medical doctor wants to hold off on osteoporosis drugs and tells you to try calcium tablets first and doesn't suggest or consider at least some of the things I'll mention shortly, that doctor is not informed and that's a problem for you and any patient of that doctor. Meaning well doesn't mean you're well informed. There are a host of factors to consider when it comes to nutrition and your bones and if you attend to just one and it still doesn't help, then that's just no wonder. Bones still aren't made out of Boniva and they still aren't just calcium. Lazy, careless recommendations to take calcium tablets [usually a form of calcium on par with chalk] are rarely going to give you any real bone benefits.

First, here are some facts from the National Osteoporosis Foundation:

There has been a five-fold increase in office visits for osteoporosis (from 1.3 to 6.3 million) in the past 10 years.

One in two women and one in four men over age 50 will have an osteoporosis-related fracture in her/his remaining lifetime.

Osteoporosis is responsible for more than 1.5 million fractures annually, including:

over 300,000 hip fractures; and approximately
700,000 vertebral fractures;
250,000 wrist fractures; and
300,000 fractures at other sites.

In 2001, about 315,000 Americans age 45 and over were admitted to hospitals with hip fractures. Osteoporosis was the underlying cause of most of these injuries.

An average of 24 percent of hip fracture patients aged 50 and over die in the year following their fracture.

The sixty minerals that need to be in your bones are in our Ultimate Classic liquid multivitamin/multi-mineral supplement, including optimal vitamin amounts needed to assimilate them properly. Our Ultimate Gluco-Gel capsules contain further building blocks of bone matrix, cartilage, ligaments, tendons and connective tissue that your body may have a difficult time producing properly. Don't leave the potential of osteoporosis in the hands of the modern American Diet [or any similar] and globally deficient soils caused by over farming and agriculturally disruptive methods.

Let's take a look at some of the things you should know about mineral absorption and decreased capacity to get what you want from minerals as you age.

Absorption of minerals:

1. Salt restriction and iodine deficiency can cause the environment in your stomach to be far less acidic than it should be. The older you are, the more likely a doctor places you on a salt restricted diet in a misguided effort to combat high blood pressure. While it is purported that acid is some kind of enemy and that pretty much everyone, the older they get, are more likely to have hyperacidity and the resulting heart burn, any medical text book may tell you that as you age, you produce LESS stomach acid, not more. Got heartburn? Gas can cause similar sensations. Not producing enough acid? That might cause GAS! You WANT an acidic stomach. You want a stomach SO acidic that harmful germs will get ''cooked'' and protein will break down and minerals will be utilized. Much is said about the benefits of alkalizing the body and I am on board that many fluids in the body being even slightly less alkaline then they are supposed to be may indicate big problems and a disease breeding ground. Your stomach however, is SUPPOSED to be very acidic unlike most other bodily fluids. Acid is your stomach's friend. Ask anybody who has used simple raw apple cider vinegar to combat the symptoms of SUPPOSEDLY excessive acid in their stomach. It's clear we have a misunderstanding. So, an under acidic stomach means a break down in the natural defenses for germs and malnutrition among other things. Frankenstein Factoid for the day: Acid Good! Fire Bad!

2. As you age, in addition to less stomach acid, you also produce less of several key enzymes involved in digestion. Worse digestion leads to worse mineral absorption. Our Ultimate Enzymes product is an ideal replacement for this decreased enzyme production. I recall a study out of Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital where they found that the enzyme of the saliva in young adults is 30 times stronger than people 69 and older.

3. Taking forms of minerals commonly found at your local pharmacy often means taking the cheapest grade of minerals with the least absorbability. These include all ''solid'' minerals which are not chelated. All minerals found in our Ultimate Classic are either colloidal, chelated or colloidal chelates. Our iron isn't rust and our calcium isn't chalk. Chalk and rust are both very cheap, but not very effective.

4. Carbonated beverages neutralize stomach acid and so even seltzer water is not beneficial at or around meal time. Too much of any fluid at or around meal time may dilute stomach acid significantly enough to cause a problem but carbonated fluid neutralizes it, so it is far and away the worst beverage choice when minding your minerals and bones. If you need fluid at meal time to help you swallow for any reason, one cup of warm tea may be your best bet as opposed to big glasses of water and certainly soda pop. If you take your liquid mineral drink with your meals as you should, this should be enough fluid to help you swallow during those meals.

5. The heavy reliance on vegetable oils brings with it several problems, among them a SEVERE imbalance of the Essential Fatty Acids categorized as omega-6 and omega-3. With rare exception most culinary oils we use whether considered healthy or unhealthy are overabundant in omega-6 fatty acids and carry little or even no omega-3 fatty acids. This is a huge nutritional no-no that I have touched on before and will again. Secondarily, the oils in salad dressing and fried food while very pleasing to the palate of most, often bind to minerals and make a tallow-like substance rendering several minerals useless as you'll be unable to assimilate them after this binding happens. As we're told how healthy these ''good fats'' supposedly are, we are not informed that their benefits are disputed and that they pose some unusual problems for human physiology. If you're going to supplement with minerals, do so at a meal where nothing is deep fried or you have salad drenched with oil. Even when putting oil in your dog's food, mind that your standard dry dog food has supplemental minerals and the same effect will happen. If you think giving them the oil is good for them, consider giving it to them apart from meal time. Imposing our dietary practices on animals often gives them the same diseases and symptoms that we get.

6. Perhaps the major enemy of nutrition as far as our dietary practices are concerned is food allergens or the less serious sounding ''sensitivities''. Many people without knowing it are destroying their intestinal capacity for absorbing nutrients by eating things to which they are intolerant. Whereas wheat and other grains have been advertised as good for all like vegetable oils have been, this doesn't prove true. High estimates exist for what percentage of people are very poorly equipped to eat grains, soy and other ''health foods''. I'll get into this more again but if you know that nutrition plays a major role in health, you need to understand that this is a large factor in nutrition and may even be a predominant factor in a nutritional deficiency. There is a test you can apply to yourself which is free to you but requires diligence and effort. If all else seems to fail for you, this may be the missing puzzle piece you're looking for no matter your ailment. Osteoporosis, type II diabetes, cancer, if you've degraded to any of these points already, you may want to check for food allergens. Sure enough whereas your spouse might find positive changes in health from a whole wheat muffin and raw milk in the morning, you might find a decline. You CAN have a bad reaction to food without knowing it. It's the principle of ''What's good for you might kill the person standing next to you...even if it takes thirty years''. If acid is a crucial role for mineral absorption in the stomach, then avoiding foods you're intolerant to is crucial for mineral absorption in the intestine. For the zero-technology approach to checking for these allergens, please see this guide:

Wild Rose College and Wholistic Clinic or http://www.wrc.net/wrcnet_content/dietplans/cocoa_pulse_test.htm

Avoid at least these pitfalls in your quest for getting and/or maintaining healthy bones with nutrition.

PS: Many of you do not know about the Dead Doctors Don't Lie radio program. On this show you can ask doctor Wallach yourself about your health complaints. Doctor Wallach of course is in charge of Youngevity and it's products and his recommendations pretty much rely on his own products. Therefore, I say that it's a really good resource for you if you are not a Youngevity customer but a GREAT resource if you are. You can call between 12:00 PM and 1:00 PM PST by using the Priority Line at 831-685-1080.

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~ J. D. Shafer

*This information is for educational purposes only. It is not intended to diagnose, treat or cure any disease nor replace advice of your personal doctor or make health claims as to the efficacy of natural substances on treatment of any ailment. Many products have contraindications with pharmaceuticals and other conditions. Please check with a healthcare professional before using these highly potent nutritionals, oils and other such products in case of conflict.

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The Chromium-Diabetes connection: Do you know about GTF?

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:35:21 GMT

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Welcome to today's post. I thought I'd start off by showing you what a thinly drawn parallel is, so you'll know one when you see it. ''Bird strong. Bird eat plant. Plant make you strong.'' says Dr. Frankenstein, Chief researcher of the Moneytakers Clinic. Today I'm going to draw a parallel for you in regards to Chromium depletion and the incidence of diabetes. It's not a new idea that the two are possibly related. Doctor Wallach has been pointing this idea out for many years now. The kind of insanely poor parallels that I come across in supplement advertisements when doing health research are often completely on par with the idiotic fake AD above that I wrote. Now, I want you to recognize the difference between that AD and the idea that Chromium can play a very significant role in diabetes related nutritional plans. I, as well as many others, believe that Chromium is part of the puzzle of dramatically increasing diabetes rates.

To start, yet another thing that I just haven't gotten around to in the 90+ newsletter articles is GTF which stands for Glucose Tolerance Factor. It's a centerpiece of Doctor Wallach's feelings on helping to regulate blood sugar naturally with nutrition. GTF is NECESSARY for blood sugar control. Briefly, I'll mention that you need vitamin B3 aka Niacin to make Glucose Tolerance Factor, so getting adequate amounts should certainly be an obvious thing to pay special attention too. Chromium is a trace mineral. Chromium like Niacin is NECESSARY to make GTF. Here's where it gets interesting when you consider the epidemic incidence of diabetes cases. Since GTF is Necessary for blood sugar control, you must then reason that Niacin and Chromium are NECESSARY for blood sugar control by default because without them, there's no GTF.

As Doctor Wallach documents rather clearly in the book ''Rare Earths: Forbidden Cures'' Chromium levels of human blood since they were first tested in 1948 have dropped an awe striking amount rather steadily. No shock there as soil has become increasingly more deficient from a fertilization system which focuses on only what the plant needs to get the cheapest maximum yield, not what the human being eating the plant needs to flourish. In addition to this method, we're further compromised by the over-farming of that poorly fertilized soil. Keep in mind that a person's blood levels of minerals are naturally kept in VERY narrow ranges typically and when a deficiency shows up in the blood, it usually means it is rather extensive in the total body. Keeping all of that in mind, the documentation is that blood levels of Chromium [Cr] measured in ng/ml registered at an astonishing 28-1,000 ng/ml range when first tested back in 1948. Fast forwarding to 1971 it was down to 13 ng/ml! Diabetes cases have been on the rise right along with plummeting blood Cr levels. After several tests documenting the continual decline even after 1971 we arrive at the 1985 amount that had gone from 13 ng/ml in 1971 down to .13 ng/ml! Although I won't fully address it yet, not only is this result likely to have much to do with soil depletion but also much to do with dietary habits which affect minerals a great deal-which will be explained later.

Dr. Richard Anderson, researcher for the USDA was quoted as saying '' 90% of Americans are deficient in Chromium''

Now, I'm not saying that Chromium and Niacin are the end all of blood sugar control. That would be wrong, ignorant and illegal. However, based both off of this evidence and much more to be mentioned, it seems that Chromium is something you have to look into as a piece of the puzzle. Due to a wealth of evidence in regard to blood sugar improvement from people who have supplemented with Cr and the simple biological facts at hand, I would think that this is certainly not one of those thinly drawn parallels which I've become very accustomed to in health and nutritional research and mocked at the beginning of this post. Claims that read like the Bumpy Bird example don't compare to the kind of scientific documentation and explanation like we have with Cr. This is a main nutrient that all diabetics should be aware of so that they may make an informed decision about nutritional help.

Our Ultimate Classic has 30 mg of niacin per ounce which is 150% of your RDA and 200 mcg of chromium/ 167% RDA also per ounce

We have additional help with our Sweeteze product which contains a blend of healthy blood sugar supportive herbs as listed: Gymnema leaf, Bitter melon and Jambul seed.Also, it carries that extra dose of Chromium you may want to try and another trace mineral called Vanadium which has it's own function in supporting blood sugar maintenance but in keeping these posts short and sweet, I'll leave its explanation for another post.

One last note: What I find interesting is that diabetics typically suffer from an inability to control their levels of cholesterol and triglycerides and both Chromium and Vanadium deficiency symptoms have been listed as elevated levels of cholesterol and triglycerides as well as the inability to stabilize blood sugar levels. This doesn't seem like a big coincidence to me or one of those thinly drawn parallels. How about you?

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Tags: Doctor Wallach, J. D. Shafer, Doctor Richard Anderson, Nutrition, Holistic Health, Diabetes, Diabetic, Chromium, Vanadium, Sweeteze, Ultimate Classic, Niacin, Herbs

90+ Health Alert: Inflammatory Breast Cancer: What you don't know CAN hurt you

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:34:25 GMT

Inflammatory Breast Cancer: What you don't know CAN hurt you

A few months back a fellow researcher sent me an email with a video clip about IBC-Inflammatory Breast Cancer. She said she was surprised she'd never heard of it and having combed through as many studies as I have, I was fairly surprised to find something of this nature that I'd never heard of either. Apparently we're not alone as you'll see in the included link to a video clip I'd like you to watch carefully.

What makes IBC different from ''normal'' breast cancer?

Women today have been trained very carefully to look for a lump giving themselves regular breast exams. Early detection is the key we're told over and over again. We'd be telling people that prevention was the bigger key except ''we'' are still generally unwilling to speak forcefully about specific causes of complex epidemics like cancer. Aside from that argument, many women are being completely blind-sided by a unique breast cancer of which they've never heard. The lump-location-training that's been dinned into your heads is not a bad thing, it's just that some breast cancer cases get overlooked because they present with no lumps. IBC for instance, although it MAY have a lump, typically does not. If you rely only on locating a lump, you might be beyond lifesaving help by the time you see your doctor. IBC is EXTREMELY aggressive. You have to rely on symptoms other than the classic lump, which may include the appearance of something that looks like no more than a mosquito bite. I'm addressing this issue because it's a sneaky disease that isn't well known to the public because it's ''rare''. Before you watch the clip let me just give you one thought.

Beware of ''RARE'':

The National Cancer Institute says that IBC is a ''rare but very aggressive type of breast cancer in which the cancer cells block the lymph vessels in the skin of the breast. ''

Then they go on to say that IBC accounts for 1-5% of all breast cancer cases in the United States. Now, even if it were only 1% the word ''rare'' would be deceptive. It's rare when you look at the percentage but when you consider how many cases of breast cancer there are...it's not REALLY that rare at all.The National Cancer Institute states the following statistics:

''Estimated new cases and deaths from breast cancer in the United States in 2007:


	New cases: 178,480 (female); 2,030 (male)

	Deaths: 40,460 (female); 450 (male)''

Inflammatory Breast Cancer: Questions and Answers - National Cancer Institute

Breast Cancer Home Page - National Cancer Institute

Many might think even just 1% makes ''rare'' come a lot closer to home if it's 1% of 178,480, not even counting the also susceptible men. IBC is one instance of ''rare'' being deceptive in terms of disease statistics, another is in male breast cancer. Notice that 2,030 men were diagnosed with breast cancer this year. Most of us are aware that men CAN get breast cancer but of course most men think the word ''rare'' is some kind of protection and sure 2,030 doesn't look like much as a percentage of the total but let's look at it another way. If a terrorist attack occurred in the United States every year and killed exactly 2,030 people each time, can you picture anyone claiming that ''Getting killed by a terrorist attack is really rare.'' Of course that wouldn't be how we'd look at it. ''Rare'' is a tricky term. So, men keep these issues in mind too.

As for the video clip, it is graphic as it warns at the beginning and it DOES show actual cases of IBC. I would say that if you didn't feel comfortable watching the footage you should just read up on the descriptions but I'm more apt to say ''Deal with it''. The saying ''A picture is worth a thousand words'' is an understatement for an issue like this. Being able to identify a potential case of IBC could save your life so, I'd ask you to reconsider if you're thinking you'll forego the images and opt for a description OF the images instead.

KOMO-TV - Seattle, Washington | Inflammatory Breast Cancer - You can read the article and/or watch the video here. If you have trouble viewing the video on this site, It's been posted here on Youtube a few times as well:

YouTube - IBC: Inflammatory Breast Cancer news story

PS: As we're moving out of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and going into National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month I'd like to acknowledge doctors like Jorge Flechas, M.D., James Howenstine, M.D. and David Brownstein, M.D. for their efforts in bringing epidemic iodine deficiency information to the world and informing the public of its major relationship to breast and ovarian health as much as that of thyroid health. Pink ribbons don't heal bodies. They're a nice idea but your time is probably better spent introducing yourself and others to the matter of iodine scarcity than displaying this symbol. Please see articles like:

Dr. James Howenstine -- Iodine is Vital For Good Health

Article Library - A Review of an Unforgettable Gathering of Experts

By David Brownstein, MD - This article is basically coverage of an iodine conference for doctors, very interesting stuff.

While Youngevity is my preferred company for most supplements, it does specialize in nutritional formulas more than single nutrients. We don't have a specific iodine supplement that I feel would practically cover the type of recommendations Doctors like Flechas tend to have [recommendations which I support]. I endorse the same form of iodine Doctor Flechas prescribes to his patients; it's called Iodoral. I purchase mine from the Life Extension Foundation to whom I have no financial affiliation like I do with Youngevity. There is more than one distributor for Iodoral but I purchase from LEF because I find them reputable providers although a rival company technically. While some useful amounts occur in our (Youngevity's) products, the kind of iodine that these doctors refer to using is much, much higher and I feel the larger doses they recommend do prove logical. We get dietary iodine only in MICROGRAMS in most of our diets and even from your standard mix of nutritional formulas, Youngevity included. The dose that these guys bring to our attention is the use of MILLIGRAMS. You gym junkies out there need to pay special attention to those amounts. Many of you are sweating out more on workout days than you're likely to be taking in even considering that you might supplement with a standard multivitamin/multimineral. Sweating in general is a tricky subject because while sweating out toxins, you also lose valuable minerals which need replaced-NOT JUST SALT! I rarely point to products not in our line when I make recommendations anymore, so in order for me to do so, I have to feel just as strongly about them as I do the ones I sell. That's of course the case here, I feel quite strongly about iodine supplementation as a specific nutrient. Should you wish to try out iodine, this would be my recommended site, at least until Youngevity starts to carry something similar to Iodoral.

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~ J. D. Shafer

Tags: Cancer, IBC, Inflammatory Breast Cancer, Doctor Flechas, Doctor Howenstine, Doctor Brownstein, Iodoral, Iodine, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, Health Alert, Breast Cancer

Parkinson's Disease linked to low cholesterol levels

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:36:11 GMT

Alzheimer's disease, Lou Gehrig's disease, Multiple Sclerosis, grand mal seizures and depression

These are all afflictions I discuss in my cholesterol report direcly relating to low cholesterol. I just updated that report a few days ago here and I think I'll add to it again with something that I just came across today. Reaffirming my position that low cholesterol can be a possible risk factor for the diseases mentioned OR at the very least a factor contributing to a faster decline as some of those diseases or symptoms progress, I'll introduce a video clip of an interview conducted by the BBC. Due to my vast research into cholesterol and the ''controversial'' position I've clearly taken on it, this piece of information is not at all surprising to me. I touched on the Parkinson's/low cholesterol connection only very slightly in my report so I don't feel that I'm wasting anyone's time by overstating my case with this additional attention if you've read the 90+ report already. With the addition of this blog recently and the considerable amount of statin drug prescriptions out there, I feel a need to get into this some more with the latest material available to me, so... stop rolling your eyes Bucko!

Still doing my best to keep it brief:

Here's the link to the video clip which is under three minutes long: BBC News Player - Cholesterol link to Parkinson's

or copy and paste this address into your browser: http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_6690000/newsid_6690300/6690311.stm?bw=nb&mp=rm&nol_storyid=6690311&news=1

If you have any technical difficulty watching this video clip, here's the outline of the clip and brief summary [some of the information is not from this clip but an article on U.S. News and World Report entitled ''Low LDL Cholesterol Levels Linked to Parkinson's'' by Adam Voiland:

The BBC interviewed a North Carolina researcher/doctor who finds direct correlation of low cholesterol with her patients who have Parkinson's disease. Doctor Xuemei Huang-University of North Carolina School of Medicine neurologist specializing in Parkinson's- is with orthodox medicine it seems in the assumption that high cholesterol is a risk factor for heart disease and stroke [Yes, I disagree with that orthodox assumption] but she's also concerned about a dangerous cholesterol minimum that is as yet not well established let alone publicized like we all know the supposed maximum has been. They briefly interview a man who had heart trouble, lowered his cholesterol to be SAFE and now has low cholesterol plus Parkinson's and I would personally add- no guarantees of having helped his heart one iota directly from cholesterol reduction. In the U.S. News article, the finding quoted was that those with a low LDL cholesterol level-lower than 114 mg/dl [LDL is the one deemed the ''bad'' cholesterol] had a ''3.5-fold higher occurrence of the disease than those with higher LDL levels (more than 138 mg/dL).''

I have more that I hope to touch on in this blog or in the newsletters with regard to a commonly known infection which may cause low cholesterol, Parkinson's and some of these other diseases but I need to do more research before I'm comfortable writing about it. I hope you've found this post informative and can put it to good use.

~ J. D. Shafer

Tags: Multiple Sclerosis, Cholesterol, Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's Disease, ALS, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's Disease, grand mal seizures

Statin drugs increase cancer risk: Add it to a long list of problems with statins

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:51:11 GMT

*Update:

Today I'm updating my cholesterol report entitled ''A fool and his yolks are soon parted'' with an unsurprising blurb I've come across several times since writing it.

There's a somewhat recent piece of information floating around the ''alternative'' health circle which supports my disgust over statin drugs and cholesterol lowering mania. In the July 31, 2007 Journal of the American College of Cardiology we're informed that there's a higher incidence of cancer in individuals with drug induced low cholesterol levels. Remember, statins are the most popular class of cholesterol lowering drugs. As I'm sure you can expect, this discovery is downplayed as much as possible. We're told about how small an increase it is and how nobody even knows if one has anything to do with the other and if you just close your eyes and think of home, it will still be sensible to poison yourself for no good reason as part of your daily health regimen. If you haven't yet seen the 90+ cholesterol report, just write me at ninetyplus4life@aol.com for a free copy which should explain why this increased cancer rate is no surprise at all and why I seriously doubt that this is the last grim detail that'll slip out to the public on the subject. If you're not a subscriber to my newsletter, make sure to write ''free subscription'' in the subject line of your email.

Let me also mention that I'm flabbergasted by the fact that one of the articles I've read recently alluding to this study referred to the B vitamin known as niacin as a ''DRUG used to lower cholesterol''! Vitamins...are not drugs, even if you give them nifty pharmaceutical sounding names like NIASPAN[a niacin pill used to lower blood cholesterol primarily] Do I really need to say this? Adding to the stupidity of vilifying cholesterol, niacin is one of the few vitamins that people typically can't tolerate at massive doses. So, of course it makes perfect sense that this is one of the nutrients which doctors actually use and tend to do so at massive doses to attack one symptom[a supposedly high cholesterol], which likely doesn't need attacked in the first place.

Beautiful! Drug-like usage of a nutrient is a perversion of the very philosophy behind nutritional therapy. The hope for me is not just that doctors use nutrition but that they use a holistic approach with that nutrition. One nutrient is nothing more than a puzzle piece. Using a nutrient like a drug can irritate the human body. Anyway, I just thought I'd pass the mention of increased cancer rates along since I've come across it so many times. In keeping this short and simple, I'll cut myself off here and spare you the three paragraphs of ranting that I'm dying to type. You're welcome.

~ J. D. Shafer

''If you believe you need all the pills the pharmaceutical industry says you do...then you're already on drugs.'' - political pundit Bill Maher on Real Time with Bill Maher.

Tags: Holistic Health, nutrition, J. D. Shafer, cholesterol, cancer, statin drugs, niacin, Niaspan, Real Time with Bill Maher, Bill Maher

Diabetic Drugs: Nutrition Concerns for those on Metformin, much bigger concerns for Avandia takers

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:52:38 GMT

Today, let's talk about diabetic drugs:

Those of you who were placed on Avandia are now no doubt either horribly hurt, horribly frightened, horribly outraged, horribly dead or whereabouts of three out of four. GlaxoSmithKline's drug Avandia aka Avandamet or technically known as rosglitizone maleate is worth billions per year to them [GSK]. Pharmaceutical Business Review Online reports that for 2006 this one drug made over 2.6 billion dollars for GSK and that was just their 2nd biggest seller. This drug was found to increase the risk of heart attack by 43% in a New England Journal of Medicine study. Some want to blame recent discoveries like these on the fact that the FDA budget keeps getting cut...the real problem of course is that the FDA and big pharmaceutical industries are in bed together doing things that aren't even in the Kama Sutra. Avandia was blamed for liver failures all the way back in the year 2000 by the way. So, onto another diabetes drug-Metformin.

Combing through a great deal of articles this month, I find that Life Extension magazine again brings us important information. In their August 2007 issue we get to hear about more nutritional problems for diabetics. Although this report seems far more benign than the recent Avandia fiasco, you should definitely know about it. Registered Pharmacist James S. Scozzari points out what any health pundit should already know but the average person is oblivious too in that drugs can cause nutritional problems. I've known for years one simple fact which makes me generally hesitant about many drugs that are prescribed for daily use:

Drugs can increase your need for nutrients, impair absorption of nutrients and stop some nutrients from doing their jobs altogether!!!

Studies have found that 10-30% of patients taking Metformin experience below-normal levels of serum B12 and that those people were also tested prior to taking the drug and did previously have normal serum levels of B12. Metformin in this report is not only blamed for eventual B12 deficiency status, but also implicated in an interference in calcium absorption as well.

Therefore, it is recommended that you be on calcium and B12 supplementation while on Metformin. The big DUH factor for me is that you should be supplementing with those nutrients anyway, as you should with all 90+ essential nutrients but it's still a respectable warning for those of you on Metformin that you should increase your intake to make up for the problem. The article also points out that Metformin is sold under brand names Glucophage®, Fortamet®, Riomet®, Glumetza® and Glucophage®XR.

B12 is of course vital to the formation of red blood cells, DNA synthesis, neurological function and the nervous system. Also of note is that you need B12 for sperm production. If you suffer from male infertility, nutritional deficiency is the number one place to look with a focus on B12, Zinc and Selenium. Reproductive difficulty in men and women both should result in an aggressive effort of both to get the best nutrition possible because it's a sign of a nutritional lack, imbalance or malabsorption.

Of course our Ultimate Classic supplement-the finest multivitamin/multimineral out there contains 8333% of your RDA for B12 and 60% of your RDA for calcium in a form that is so much more absorbable than most calcium supplements on the market that you'd have to take several times the amount listed to get anything close to your bodies optimal needs.

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- J. D. Shafer

Tags: Nutrition, Holistic Health, Diabetes, Diabetic, Avandia, Metformin, GlaxoSmithKline, Infertility

90+ Nutrition News: A Balanced Diet in One Hand and Something Far Less Appetizing in the Other-P1

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:27:52 GMT

90+ Nutrition News:

A Balanced Diet in One Hand and Something Far Less Appetizing in the Other

Part 1:

A bit of health politics to start:

Will the government ever have a realistic policy about nutrition? If they want people physically fit enough for manual labor or smart and focused enough for mental labor, they eventually will have to. If not,...I guess robots are getting more advanced everyday. Speaking of government and health freedom, here are some interesting current endorsements. After mentioning a while back that Dr. Mercola was a fan of Congressman and MD Ron Paul, I see that Chet Day of Chet and Josh Day's Health and Beyond Weekly has endorsed Congressman/MD Ron Paul for president. I just thought I'd throw that in there since it seems Ron is the only presidential candidate to acknowledge Dr. Rima Laibow and HealthFreedomUSA.com's questionnaire about the health concerns we should all be getting straight answers about from AT LEAST every presidential candidate. If Dr. Paul is the only one who thinks it's important, that tells us a lot right there. See at: Congressman Paul Answers our Health Freedom Questions

Also, I'm sure many of you fellow Youngevity associates and associates of other supplement companies know Jonathan W. Emord, legal health freedom warrior. Emord is famous for taking the FDA to school in the courtroom. No small task I'd imagine since I cannot picture a group more slippery and sly as the FDA. On the Emord and Associates web site there's an icon towards the bottom of the page which simply reads '' Ron Paul 2008''.

See here: Constitutional and Administrative Law - Emord & Associates

Please also familiarize yourself with Mr. Emord's legal perspective on FDA power here:

FDA Violation of the Rule of Law - Emord & Associates

He gives us a very realistic view of why FDA power is really against the very founding principles of American government. For those readers in other countries, please don't be annoyed by the nationcentric topics that must be discussed here. I hear the talk about how solid nutrition is ideally from a ''balanced diet'' and how supplementation shouldn't be necessary with this flaky term firmly in play. It's partly flaky because most lay people are completely ignorant about what a balanced diet is, concerning their own needs. I hear about how a vitamin and mineral supplement doesn't replace a good diet. Well this is ludicrous. As a matter of fact a good and ''balanced diet'' doesn't replace a good supplement because that's exactly where we are right now. The RDAs we have are continuously shown to be too low on several nutrients. Some essential nutrients as of yet don't even HAVE RDAs! On top of this, our foods...even the healthiest foods in their raw state are losing some of the most valuable nutrients and many experts believe we need MORE of certain nutrients now than we would under biologically natural circumstances [which we are clearly not in]. This is why the title of today's post seems dismissive of the term ''balanced diet''. So, today let's go with two pieces on nutrition. Part 1, a USDA comparison of the depletion I've mentioned to back up my position in case you are skeptical by way of ignorance and part 2, yet another urging that just came out this month where a whole panel of doctors have made recommendations for several nutrients to have their RDA modernized to meet the requirements that are suspected to be optimal-raised that is. As I suspected, they clearly steam rolled over the vitamin C RDA. Some RDA levels are reasonable in my estimation, some are way off but at least valuable. The RDA of vitamin C however has always been laughable to the point of silly. They suggest you need no more than what will keep you from a definite full blown case of SCURVY! Seriously, that's the reasoning behind that RDA level of 60 mg. That's how much you need to keep from eventually dying of scurvy. That's like recommending that you drink no more water than the amount you'd need to not die of dehydration. Sound logical? So that answers the common person's question of whether they set RDAs as the maximum of a nutrient you should ever allow yourself, the minimum you should ever have or the best you should have. That gives a pretty good idea of our standards, I think.

Doctor Wallach was right when he declared that the balanced diet rhetoric has more or less killed more people than any other mainstream medical theory. In order to get just your day's RDA for calcium from milk alone you'd have to drink between three cups to a whole quart of milk everyday. Two ounces of Ultimate Classic provides 120% of your calcium RDA with grossly more assimilability than you'd get in T-T-T-TUMS. I apologize for stuttering on that particular brand name. You couldn't see it but I also have a facial tick that goes off when T-T-T-TUMS comes into the conversation. That's two ounces equating one quart of milk plus an astonishing amount of nutrition that milk doesn't even come close too either for minerals or vitamins and that's ESPECIALLY the homogenized, pasteurized FMF they sell these days.

*FMF stands for FauxMilk Fluid...if you're me anyway.

I've always been on the fence about milk because there is just so much conflicting study on its place in a human diet. It's not unheard of for one species to drink the milk of another species for survival but as a staple of a healthy diet it's an interesting but murky concept. Dairy ends up providing most of the calcium of a modern unsupplemented human these days but there's much to consider. If it's pasteurized, homogenized, defatted and pumped full of hormones, pesticide residues and remnants of antibiotics...I can't even consider it milk, cheese or yogurt anymore...it's not even close to food in that case and it shouldn't be part of the ''to moo or not to moo'' question. Sadly, most dairy products have all those qualifications and the government has been cracking down on the superior raw milk and raw milk products as if it were more of a threat than say Tamoxifen...you've heard recently I'm sure that this breast cancer preventive agent and FDA approved wonderdrug was found to increase uterine cancer, right? That's just another fun thing I thought I'd slip in there.

See: Shocking Revelation -- This Cancer Drug CAUSES Cancer - Articles Although this was covered by several sites, I'm directing you to the Mercola coverage because I'm playing favorites.

Anyway, bringing you up to speed on how well a balanced diet you can really have...

The USDA had something interesting to say:

In spite of the fact that this following comparison exists, most doctors still think supplementation is generally useless and that you get all you need from a ''balanced diet''. ''Balanced diet'' of course refers to your waiter balancing the plate on the palm of his hand? The USDA Nutrient Data Base Compared 1975 food values with 2004 food values. That's real food like fruits and vegetables, not real food as in crackers and fruity pebbles. What they found supported the necessity of supplementation. Quite frankly, it did so more convincingly and even less disputably than the senate document back in 1936 when our government should have stepped up on this issue as it was well warned of then. See, their argument against that 1936 take seems to be that tests were old and meaningless and that our low mineral range fertilizers consisting mostly of potassium and phosphorus mineral-wise are getting the job done for humans because they're doing it for plants.

The last that I heard, plants didn't need a skeletal system Bubba. Human bones once again, consist of sixty minerals by analysis. Plants have a ''mineral profile'' of what they'll pick up and how much, and they need far fewer minerals than your spine does or your enzymatic catalyst system. The USDA data base reveals just to cite a small piece of the scary example, that our soil is likely to be worsening rapidly. Plants don't ''make'' minerals, if they're not there for the plant to use, they won't be in the plant. Counting on even the ''known'' amount of each mineral and vitamin in standard produce to be accurate is a stretch since they come from different places with different soil and different methods of farming. When you want to know the nutrient values of any one food, you are only in a guesstimate predicament. With supplements being tested continuously, that guessing game is not a problem, it's definite for multivitamin/mineral formulas. Although wholefood supplements may vary, good companies ensure that they can supply a bare minimum of whatever the potent nutrients you seek from the labels are. So, the mineral contents are shaky with even healthy fruits and veggies, does that mean the vitamins are safe? Plants do make vitamins, but this USDA comparison shows that clearly something is even inhibiting that, like perhaps a mineral catalyst to help make the vitamins? Here are some of the tested fruits and vegetables from the USDA Database Comparison.

The comparisons include:

Loss of iron from the 1975 to 2004 USDA comparisons:

Carrots: 57% loss

Strawberries: 58% loss

Apples: 60% loss

Onions: 62% loss

Blueberries: 72% loss!

Loss of Calcium from the 1975 to 2004 USDA comparisons:

Corn: 33% loss

Green beans: 33% loss

Kale: 46% loss

Broccoli: 54% loss

Blueberries: 60% loss!

Next we have vitamin losses. Although plants make vitamins whether because the minerals aren't present at the same rates or some agricultural practice is altering their normalcy, those vitamin rates are dropping too.

Vitamin A loss from the 1975 to 2004 USDA comparisons:

Blueberries: 46% loss

Strawberries: 80% loss

Onions: 95% loss

Corn: 400% loss!

Lastly we have Vitamin C loss from the 1975 to 2004 USDA comparisons

Blueberries: 31% loss

Onions: 36% loss

Potatoes: 43% loss

Spinach: 45% loss -Whoops, Popeye's forearms have shrunk and he just lost some of his night vision

Now...what are those vegetables and fruits considered the most healthful these days? EXACTLY...See Part two for the rest. I could not fit the whole article on one blog post unfortunately.

~ J. D. Shafer