Archive Year 2006 month 1

I must say I love the latest study that came out on how to battle Avian Flu. While it was only an in vitro study [in lab - not in human], it still showed some very statistically valid results.

The avian flu virus was sitting there happy in its petri dish until Sambucol Elderberry extract came in and sat on it. And boy did it. It suffocated it. Elderberry extract by Sambucol was 99% effective in neutralizing the avian flu virus.

"A team at Retroscreen Virology, an institute associated with the University of London, said that the extract was at least 99 per cent effective against the H5N1 virus and significantly neutralized the infectivity of the virus in cell cultures."

However, one must clearly know that this was done in a laboratory setting and not in a human trial. There is a big difference. There are human studies which have proven Sambucol effective in shortening

This article is incredible. I subscribe to Mike Adam's newsletter and it is a worthy newsletter to get. This is taken from the newsletter I received today. A direct link is provided below. Enjoy the read and refer your friends to it.

15 Ways the Auto Industry Would Change if it Operated Like Drug Companies

What would happen if you had to buy your car from a company that
operated in the same way as the pharmaceutical industries? Mike Adams,
the Health Ranger, came up with 15 unsettling changes that would occur.

Cost
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Your car would cost $4.5 million, a 30,000 percent markup over cost.

The same car would be available in Canada or Mexico for less than $5,
000.


Dealing with Competition
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Meanwhile, automakers would be'

Mike Adams recently created the Natural Health Library where he houses his interviews and publications.

One interview stood out for me, the interview with my university's founder, Dr Joe Pizzorno, ND. Joe is well-known in the nation as an extinguised author of many natural health texts.

If you'd like to know more about naturopathic medicine and what we ND's really do, then I recommend you read Mike's interview with Dr. Joe Pizzorno.

On a side note, Joe is one tough basketball

There is a foundation dedicated to providing useful information, tasty recipes and bulletins all about food and nutrition.

From their site: "The George Mateljan Foundation is a non-profit organization with no commercial interests. Our purpose is to show you a healthier way of eating that's enjoyable, affordable, quick and easy to fit your personal needs and lifestyle."

Check it out here:
The World's Healthiest Foods

We have partnered with MilkFresh.

Stephanie, a mother of 14 month twins, has somehow managed to find time to create a beautiful idea into an excellent service. She and her team of advisors, send out a weekly email educating and serving moms with useful information.

From MilkFresh:

" Hey Mamacitas! Want the inside scoop on what's fun, new, and cool for you and your babes?

Milkfresh is an authentic, editorial weekly email that will launch this January. It is the essential, must-have lifestyle guide for every expecting, new and seasoned mom. So sign up now and don't"

This is an incredible site - not related really to natural health -but certainly to nature. We have this innate desire to want to conquer nature but time after time she reminds us forcefully - or gently if we're lucky - that she is boss and not to be manipulated.

Check out

If you've ever wondered what it would be like to see a human body intact but without skin, now is your chance.

Of course, the 200 subjects donated their bodies for this amazing event in Pennsylvania.

From athletic poses to diseased organs, one can visualize the human machine.

I believe all people should be required to take a course in Anatomy so they understand the workings of their body. This would help prevent injury, aide doctor's diagnosis, and teach us to respect and maintain ourselves.

I highly recommend that all go who can. The year I spent in Anatomy Gross Lab is one that I will always

I have to breathe deeply when I approach sites that condemn naturopathic medicine and alternative medicine.


What gets me the most is many of the folks running these sites state:

• no research behind our methods
• herbs are dangerous
  
• ND's are dangerous
  
• no basis behind our methods
• and many others...too tired to list!

QUESTION:

OK, I suffered with cystic acne for years. It had finally subsided, after much change in diet and my getting a little older (32). I had been over two years with virtually NO acne--a life-long dream come true.

A few months ago, my hubby and I became friends with a couple whom we love dearly. The wife has severe cystic acne (or are these cold sores) all over her face??).

She and I use the same brand of face powder, and one day got them confused in the car. Call it coincidence, but ever since THAT DAY, my acne is BACK. Terrible cystic acne, and I am so disheartened... I have it in facial areas where I never had it before. We have teased that it must have been contagious...but now I really do wonder.

So, my question: IS there ANY way this could have been some transmission of fungus, bacteria, or virus which caused this? How do I treat it if I don't know what is causing it??

I have tried ProActiv (not all-natural,'

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From generation to generation we go.

We've seen the photos of our grandparents, our folks when they were young [hard to visualize my dad in 2nd grade], and we've heard the great flood of 19whatever.

What we didn't hear is silently bioaccumulating in all of us....from the dawn of our first generation to the present one.

How?

From maternal blood.

What?

The latest analysis of newborn babies shows they are born with an average of 200+ chemicals found in their umbilical cord blood.

Not a great start.

The good news is that many, if not all, can be removed by trained environmental medicine docs.

An informative report by the Environmental Working Group is entitled, Body Burden: The Pollution in Newborns.

I highly recommend you at least scan it.

Take a'

Hey Dr. Ben,

Great website! I will certainly forward it along.

I have a question for you. Benzophenone-4 is in a lot of the perfumed products, including almost all commercial perfumes. Could this be the ingredient that sets off my migraine? I don't have problems with other strong scents. I regularly use lavender and other essential oils. However, chemical commercial perfumes make me feel nausea and headaches are frequently the result of concentrated exposure.

My mother in law has chronic migraines and I noticed that every sink in her house has a bottle of benzophenone laden perfumed soap. What do you think?

Signed,
Benzo'd Out

Hi Benzo'd Out,

If you are sensitive to it - then you should avoid it. Repeat exposures only make it worse. Chemical sensitivies are typically a sign of toxic burden. We all carry pesticides, solvents, herbicides, heavy metals - mainly in'

• Pathogenic bacterial overgrowth due to antibiotic use in last 5-10 years. Locate a quality probiotic to restore healthy bacteria
• Weak digestion due to stress causing little release of HCl from the stomach or enzymes from pancreas or bile from liver. [Weak digestion typically means constipation - or diarrhea. both of

This is a guest article from Eve Stahl. She is a member of the organic consumers co-op email list and that is how she found my blog. Having seen her website and read her article, I thought it may be useful to my fellow readers. She is absolutely right in saying that what you put on your skin should be what you would put in your mouth. Your skin absorbs some ingredients right into your bloodstream so it is important that you are reading labels. Aluminum?? Titanium?? Avoid those.

I recently posted about the hazards of anti-perspirant and its relation to breast cancer.

Enjoy Eva's article:

• Limit the intake of sugar, dairy, red meats, nuts, beans.
• Go to town munching on vegetables, fruits, organic chicken and organic eggs, brown rice, wild red or pink salmon and pure water.
• Avoid farmed fish!
• Avoid the Dirty Dozen Fruits and Vegetables! Eat the safe ones!
• Exercise daily for 15-30 minutes - any form whatever you like. Ease up to 30 minutes.
• Get 8 hours of sleep - extremely important.
• Drink pure water - filtered in a non-toxic water bottle

Farmed Salmon.

AVOID IT like you would crawling through a sewage tunnel.

Read the full report from the Environmental Working Group.

This website kicks incredible butt in terms of providing the latest research on food safety. I highly recommend visiting their site often.

Eat wild alaskan salmon.

The Red Salmon and Pink Salmon are the best options as they are not as big of fish. The bigger the fish the more they eat other fish. More a fish eats other fish, the more PCB's and heavy metals they bioaccumulate. The more big fish and farmed fish you eat, the more PCB's and heavy metals you bioaccumulate. The more you bioaccumulate, especially as a woman, the more your future child is born with.

Proven. Fact. No BS.

If you see Atlantic Salmon - do not buy it. It is farmed fish.


Hopefully some day we will convince the FDA

QUESTION:

Hi Ben, I have a question about organic egg.

Please correct me if I am wrong. Organic eggs on market are not necessarily free-range organic eggs, aren't they? On the other hand, free-range is not necessarily organic. Organic implies organic feeds and free of antibotics and hormones, but that is not the case for free-range. So ultimately we want free-range and organic chiken (and eggs) for our consumption.

So when an average Joe wants to buy eggs at a store, should he cares if they are organic (some are DHA fortified) or free-range?

I eat eggs and meats. I have watched for antibiotic and hormone use for my sake. Free-range is more humane for the short-life of chicken, but I did not extend my compassion to chickens that are destinated to be food.

The avian flu issue also makes me think that I want antibotic-free chichen because if virus infected checken does not get'

QUESTION:

Good Day,

First wanted to say I enjoy reading your blogs and the products you offer on your website. I was wondering if you could assist me in some knowledge about some health issues I have had for past 2 years. My symptoms are: I eat food, it feels as if it doesn't sit right, stomach kinda blows up, not to gassy or anything just uncomfortable when eating. After meals I feel cramping pains in stomach, not much indigestion, just bad cramping and sometimes i belch up chunks of food i ate hours before. I am constipated also. I usually feel really dizzy and disoriented if I don't eat in a timely mannor. After eating I kinda have this fog in my head allot a haze of thoughts. I get really irritable easily. Very anxious and stressful person, hard to deal with stress now.

I have did all the major tests, Upper GI, Colonoscopy, Barium Test, Ultrasound, Cat Scan of head and Abdomen, Blood tests etc. Everything pretty negative,

• Too much ingestion of vitamin D, too much milk.
• Too much ingestion of antacids.
• Burnett's syndrome.
• Cancers - some cancers cause high levels of calcium.
• Hyperparathyroidism - your parathyroid glands are not balanced due to cancer, low blood phosphate or other issues.

I'm off to the university now but wanted to share this quickly:

Coffee contains an oil which can raise your cholesterol levels.

There is a way to remove this cholesterol-raising oil. Use a paper filter - preferably use a non-bleached filter as it is non-toxic. The filter removes the oil providing those with higher levels of cholesterol to lower it.

If you have high cholesterol and do not filter your coffee, consider using the paper filter in the old school drip system. The French Press and Espresso style coffee contains the cholesterol-raising oil.

I will soon locate a research article on this to provide confidence in my readers.

Enjoy your filtered coffee! :)

In health,

Ben

Patient came in yesterday to our teaching clinic and reporting how she was doing with her horribly dry and itchy skin and scalp. She had been in a month prior in despair.

She had been recommended to take fish oil a few times a day. Her improvement was excellent yet not completely resolved.

My first thought was to include a shower filter which would remove the harmful effects of chlorine.


Dry skin's main cause is either due to:

• diet
• environmental