Innate Healer

“Statistically, if you take six different drugs, you have an 80 percent chance of at least one drug-drug interaction,” according to Wayne K. Anderson, Dean, State University of New York School of Pharmacy. “It is imperative for us to identify and develop new strategies to reduce medication errors,” said Senator Larry Craig, Chairman, Senate Special Committee on Aging, which has focused on this problem.” 

The above quote is an excerpt from an article www.drugdanger.com.  It is a great site for drug info, especially if you are taking more than one drug for a health condition. Statistic shows Amercians are taking on average more than one medication at a time.  The actor, Heath Ledger, might have died from a drug overdose or adverse reaction when his body was found next to few different meds.

If you have elderly parents or relatives, it is important for you to be aware of the problems caused by adverse drugs interactions and see if the drugs your loved ones are taking will not take them into danger zone.

Top 10 drug Interactions Most Dangerous to Seniors in Long-Term Care

Lee Iacocca’s Book, Where Have All the Leaders Gone? made some very disturbing observations. We should wake up and take notice, by all means do something…  I suggest we all vote for Ron Paul.  He may be idealistic, but this country was founded on idealism. At least, find out who Ron Paul is. His website is www.ronpaul2008.com

Here are some quote from Lee Iacocca’s book, “So here’s where we stand:”

“We’re immersed in a bloody war with no plan for winning and no plan for leaving.”

“We’re running the biggest deficit in the history of the country. We’re losing the manufacturing edge to Asia, while our once-great companies are getting slaughtered by health care costs.”

“Gas prices are skyrocketing, and nobody in power has a coherent energy policy. Our schools are in trouble. Our borders are like sieves. The middle class is being squeezed every which way.”
“These are times that cry out for leadership. But when you look around, you’ve got to ask:”

“Where have all the leaders gone? Where are the curious, creative communicators? Where are the people of character, courage, conviction, competence, and common sense? “

“Name me one leader who emerged from the crisis of Hurricane Katrina. Congress has yet to spend a single day evaluating the response to the hurricane, or demanding accountability for the decisions that were made in the crucial hours after the storm.  Everyone’s hunkering down, fingers crossed, hoping it doesn’t happen again.”

“The Great Depression, World War II, the Korean War, the Kennedy assassination, the Vietnam War, the 1970s oil crisis, and the struggles of recent years culminating with 9/11. If I’ve learned one thing, it’s this: You don’t get anywhere by standing on the sidelines waiting for somebody else to take action. Whether it’s building a better car or building a better future for our children, we all have a role to play.”

Excerpt from Lee Iacocca’s book
Ron Paul’s Prosperity Plan

 

A new documentary released last year by two independent film maker about the impact of corn on our diet, nutrition, health, national policy and economy. It is quite amazing that this plant has come to dominate our landscape and in side our homes in just a few decades.  If we want to avoid corn in our diet, it is almost impossible these days.  Another reason we need to up root this weed or do something better than putting it in our bodies.  Again, Youtube has proved to be a great resource for all kind of information–good among a mountain of  bad. I will only find the good ones of course.  I found a 3-parts interveiw of one of the film makers of King Corn.  You can get the video in rental outlets or on Amazon.com.

Conversation with Film Maker of” King Corn” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Being a reform vegetarian, I know vegetarianism offers many health benefits, albeit, short-term.  According to Weston Price, he had not found any sustained vegetarian society in his studies of indigenous cultures and their diets.  Animal foods offer superior nutrition profile for omnivores such as human beings.  A diet containing animal protein is more well-rounded and nutritionally complete for humans.  Most traditional cultures value animal foods.  I hope these two articles help clarify some of the misconceptions about vegetarianism and help you gain insights to reach and maintain optimal health.

Vegetarianism and Body Chemistry

Vegetarianism–Is it a Right Choice?

A sudden change of heart? An amazing turn of event?  Who knows, however, it is a miracle that Scientific American editors have written recently that “Some recent studies suggest that over-consumption of fluoride can raise the risks of disorders affecting teeth, bones, the brain and the thyroid gland.”

After examining hundreds of studies, a National Research Council committee concluded that “fluoride can subtly alter endocrine function, especially in the thyroid.”  The presence of fluoride in foods, beverages, medicines, water, and dental products can result in over-consumption. A series of epidemiological studies have associated high fluoride exposures with lower IQ, as well as an increased risk of bone fracture.

It is about time the “experts” get around to alert the public about the danger of water fluoridation even it is too little too late. I don’t expect the “public health” authority will let this renegade idea takes root without a fight. But you don’t have to wait until official recognition of this dangerous poison to take measures to protect yourself and your family.  If you want to get rid of fluoride which is added in the water in St. Louis, you need to have a reverse osmosis filter or a distiller.  This problem is similar to the saturated fat-heart disease issue.  Public health officials jumped the gun and made sweeping policy that affects the whole country without firm scientific ground. 

reuters.com–Second thoughts about fluoride

Fluoride Danger Video

Harvard PhD tooth-paste industry tie and Fluoride cover-up

If your MD is pressuring you to take a statins because your cholesterol is over 180, here is a book, The Great Cholesterol Con, will provide you with justification to refuse his good-intended “treatment.” Dr. Malcolm Kendrick, a British medical doctor, walks you, step by step, through your own physiology and bio-chemistry, and backs his arguments that cholesterol cannot be the cause of heart disease and statin drugs will not protect you against a heart attack by citing and summarizing published studies that support his points.

The book is technical but highly readable thanks to an easy conversational style and humors.  I know some of you may not appreciate making light of heart attacks, but humor makes a very grave subject less depressing.  If you don’t really care about arterial plaques and exactly how they’re formed (and exactly how they’re not) the take-away message is pretty much this: statins are ineffective for women, especially for women over 50 years old, and for anybody over 70 years old. Further, statistical studies may indicate that lowering cholesterol encourages cancer.

Kendrick also points out that the true cause of heart disease is STRESS. That can be a lot of things and I encourage you read it yourself.

Many of the points Kendrick makes here are also correlate with Gary Taubes’ finding in his excellent work, “Good Calories, Bad Calories.” I ordered these books together at Amazon, devoured them in two weeks, and they are worthwhile read. Both of these books are highly recommended by yours truly.

The following links take you to Dr. Kendrick’s video presentation of his findings.
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5

MONICA

This is brand new year, 2008. Here is again, time for resolution to loose that extra weigh.  If you understand what causes weigh gain, I mean the real cause, you would have a much better chance of success in reducing.

The epidemic of obesity and diabetes are rising exponentially in the last few decades despite following the low-fat diet and exercises life-style of Americans.  The conventional wisdom that overweight is caused by gluttony and physical inactivity is not able to explain the dramatic increase in obesity with the concomitant decrease in caloric intake and increased activities.  I have heard so many people complaint that they can’t loose weight even with exercising more than an hour a day with eating a low-fat diet.  Here is a webcast from University of California-Berkeley showcases a talk by journalist Gary Taubes. If you have been reading my blog, you probably are familiar with Gary’s writing.  He, again, is refuting the overeating and laziness hypothesis of obesity in this webcast.  

It is the over-consumption of carbohydrates that stimulates the production of insulin that encourages the body to store fat and refuse to use fat as energy.  If you want to loose weight, you must watch the crabs.  

Gary Taubes’ Talk–UC-Berkeley Webcast