How Dangerous are Urinary Bladder Polyps?
It seems that more and more people are suffering from what is known as bladder polyps. Doctors are still baffled as to the exact cause of bladder polyps, although they suspect that lifestyle plays an important role. There seems to be a strong link between bladder polyps, smoking and exposure to chemical elements. Polyps are more commonly found in men, and they are usually diagnosed in people over the age of 55. Bladder polyps are also more common in people who have had an infection with the schisosmiasis parasite. This parasite releases eggs in the bladder, where they can build up in the wall, which can in turn lead to the formation of polyps and other types of cancer.
What Are Bladder Polyps?
A bladder polyp is a specific type of growth. It grows within the lining of your bladder. Often, it is a benign bladder polyp, which means it is not cancerous, but they can also be malignant. A polyp can occur in different parts of the body. They are basically abnormal growths on a mucous membrane. They are attached to the organ tissue they are growing on by a stem, giving them an almost mushroom like appearance. Most commonly, polyps grown on:
• The stomach
• The colon
• The sinus or sinuses
• The nose
• The uterus
• The bladder
• The gall bladder
What Are the Symptoms of Urinary Bladder Polyps?
It is very easy to never realize that you have a bladder polyp, as they can often have no symptoms at all. This makes bladder polyp detection very difficult. However, there are a number of common bladder polyp symptoms to watch out for, such as:
• Blood when urinating
• Needing to go to the toilet far more frequently
• Experiencing pain while urinating
Finding blood when urinating is one of the telltale bladder polyp symptoms, but it is also not one of the more common signs. It is far more likely that bladder polyps are discovered because a patient is worried about their urine frequency.
Treatment and Biopsies
If a doctor discovers bladder polyps, they will almost always request them to be removed and sent for biopsy. Generally, a bladder polyp detection is done by performing a cystoscopy. During this procedure, a cystoscope is inserted into the bladder. It has a small light and camera, which allows the doctor to view everything that is inside the bladder. The cystoscope also allows other instruments to be thread through them, which can be useful if a biopsy needs to be taken from one of the polyps. A biopsy is the removal of tissue that is then checked for cancers.
Most of the time, when someone has a bladder polyp, bladder polyp removal will be performed. Very often, this is to perform a biopsy, but it is also possible that they have grown to such a size that they are interfering with a person’s ability to pass urine, or because they cause pain and discomfort. In this case, bladder polyp removal is performed to increase someone’s quality of life. If the biopsy comes back stating that the polyp is cancerous, cancer treatment will be offered. As said, bladder polyp surgery is generally performed through a cystoscope and bladder polyp treatment is only available if the polyps are malignant.
How Dangerous Are Bladder Polyps?
Very often, bladder polyps are not cancerous, being a benign bladder polyp instead. In this case, they do not present any real danger, although they can be very uncomfortable. If they are cancerous bladder polyps, however, cancer treatment is generally very successful, so long as the cancer was caught early. The survival rates from cancerous bladder polyps are extremely high.
Facts About Ecstasy The Drug
Ecstasy, E, XTC and so on. These are all terms that describe Ecstasy the drug. People use it mainly recreationally, to enhance their party experience or to achieve spiritual liberation. It is seen by many as a reasonably safe drug, but how true are those claims? Let’s take a look at what Ecstasy really is, what its effects are and what the potential dangers and side effects are.
About Ecstasy
So what is Ecstasy? Ecstasy is available in pills and capsules. These pills come in different shapes and colors and often have a logo imprinted on them. The active substance in Ecstasy is MDMA, which is both a stimulant that boost our energy levels, as well as being a hallucinogenic.
Many people wonder whether Ecstasy is additive. Ecstasy addiction is a purely mental one. This is mainly because the user will require increasingly high dosage to achieve that same high they experienced the first time. In fact, as with many drugs, people are often chasing the dream of that first time.
What Are the Effects of Ecstasy?
When ingesting Ecstasy, all senses are intensified. Ecstasy effects include people see colors more vividly and hear sounds better. People also feel more empathic towards others, which is why it is often referred to as the Love Drug. When taking Ecstasy, the body is fooled into feeling no exhaustion, even though it is actually there. Hence, once the rush passes, fatigue hits users like a ton of bricks. Generally, the drug takes around half an hour to kick in and the feelings can last for around five hours. The next day, people tend to feel that they have used the product. During an Ecstasy trip, people also regularly notice that things taste differently and that they have problems urinating. Both can be very serious issues, as it can lead to dehydration.
Side Effects and Dangers
One of the dangers about ecstasy the drug is that it is very rare to still find Ecstasy that actually contains MDMA. Instead, it can be jammed packed with other substances that are potentially dangerous. If you are lucky, it is filled with a placebo, meaning you will feel absolutely nothing. Following an Ecstasy trip, many people feel ecstasy side effects such as depression of days. This is known as the Tuesday Blues. Since most people use ecstasy on Saturday, it is on Tuesday that their body really responds to the lack of dopamine and serotonin (both released during a trip). Since these two hormones are responsible for us feeling happy, Tuesday is usually the day on which we feel down. Also, jaw clenching is very common, leading to a bitten tongue and pain in the jaws. Palpitations are also a common side effect and difficulty to coordinate. As a result, many people experience panic attacks after wards.
Facts about Ecstasy
Some facts about ecstasy include:
• So called legal ecstasy is available on the market, but this product is seen by many as being far more dangerous than ecstasy because it is a plant feed and not good for human consumption.
• Ecstasy dangers include dehydration that can lead to death. Whenever people have died of ecstasy consumption, it is usually because they have been dancing without consuming any water and have completely dehydrated.
Ecstasy is an illegal substance so one should never advise you to take it. However, the reality is that most people will try it at some point or another. If that includes you, make sure you check the latest designs and logos on the internet to make sure that you know about ecstasy and that you know that you are taking something that actually works. Be safe, drink plenty of water and always have a trip buddy, who will refrain from using the drug and look after those who do. Also, if you have not used ecstasy in a while, make sure you only take a low dosage unless you are ready to experience the full hallucinogenic effects of MDMA. This can be a particularly frightening experience, particularly if you aren’t ready for that. Overall, however, when taking moderately, Ecstasy is a reasonably safe drug to take, so long as you know where you are getting it from.
If one would ask me if I recommend the drug, my answer would always be no. Drugs, no matter how nonaddictive or mild they are, they still drain your body from resources and always cause more harm than good! I do not recommend ingesting ecstasy, smoking marijuana or abusing alcohol because there are lots of other ways to experience a relaxed and happy state of mind and body.
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
When I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis seven years ago, at the age of 28, it felt like my life was sent spinning downhill. My fear of how this disease would weigh on me, drag me down into inevitable disability, was echoed by the concerned family and friends who cautioned me to be careful, not to take risks, to take drugs, to abandon my dream of having children. How would I cope with one day being in a wheelchair and not being able to work? Who would take care of me?
At the time, I was a longtime heavy smoker, in a toxic relationship, and my feeble attempts at exercise consisted of the occasional yoga class or visit to the gym where I’d putter around on the machines, uninspired and ignorant of how my body actually worked.
The MS diagnosis was a lightning bolt, propelling me into instant action. Leaving the doctor’s office that day, I made a decision to change my life, to embrace a path of healing and empowerment. I quit smoking on the spot (and have never smoked since). I radically changed my diet to eat more organic foods, visited acupuncturists and massage therapists, chiropractors and colonists; I got a personal trainer and went to the gym regularly and started running. The next evolution of my newfound body awareness was to take my growing yoga practice to the next level, and I attended a year-long yoga training program and became a certified Kundalini yoga teacher. Sat Nam!
Yet something was missing. I still thought of myself as a victim, a sick person, at best just slowing down the disease train that was going to smack me into submission, someday.
Then, after a long meditation one day, I got an inspiration, asking myself: What does a strong, fit, powerful healthy person do? Who did I believe I could be, in my wildest dreams? At the top of my brainstorm list was “climb Mount Everest!” Well, I was sane enough to know that wasn’t a short-term option, so instead I decided on a modified plan – I would spend a month trekking in the Himalayas in Nepal, to get myself to the basecamp of the tallest mountain on Earth. That certainly didn’t seem like something a “sick person” would do!
Soon after, I found myself climbing steadily uphill, rising every day, step by step, toward “Chomolungma,” the sacred mountain the Nepalese call “Mother Goddess of the World.” At 15,500 feet above sea level, life takes on a different perspective. The oxygen levels were 40 percent lower, yet every breath was deep and pure, as I appreciated the pristine mountain air. After three weeks of hiking from dawn to dusk every day, I felt blessed by a new awareness and appreciation of my body, the rhythm of my own power to move my life, upwards, higher and higher, into what seemed like heaven on earth. One morning, I woke at sunrise and watched the daylight fan across the top of Mount Everest, and I knew I was connected to a light that would rise for me every day if I woke to greet it.
After that journey, I realized the healing power that I was seeking could be found in immersing myself in nature. I began to explore the wilderness in my own backyard, in Canada. I began to hike regularly and practice yoga outdoors, in the mountains, on the beach, in remote fields of wildflowers. I paddled canoes along backcountry lakes and swam nude in secluded rivers under the moonlight. I felt healthier and more vibrant than I ever had in my entire life! So much so, that I decided to dedicate my energy to helping other women discover their wild side and natural vitality, changing my job from an urban office worker to becoming the director of Wild Women Expeditions, an outdoor adventure travel company, and moving from the city to living on the edge of a National Park surrounded by forest, mountains and ocean.
The medicine I needed more than anything was to fall (rise!) in love with life again. To love my body and trust its infinite resilience. To love and cherish the land and the water, and let it hold me and wash over me, like a nurturing mother. Synchronicity would have it that the love of my life, who is now my husband, is a holistic life coach and personal fitness trainer at Holistic Fitness Guru, as well as a wilderness guide. We are now getting ready to welcome our first child into the world!
There have been so many lessons in the adventure of moving through the healing path, and in every way I am more alive because of the disease I chose to make a tool, not an obstacle. I have found that living more naturally is about deeply engaging in the world around you, connecting with the land and the lifecycles that bring us nourishment, daring to get our hands dirty and our feet wet.
Many scientific studies have been conducted to validate that physically and psychologically, getting outdoors and being active in nature is beneficial for our health. And intuitively, we know this to be true. Spend an afternoon walking in the woods, swim bare breasted under a waterfall, push yourself through waves in the ocean or sing your heart out around a campfire. Feel yourself wild and powerful and a precious part of the life that grows all around you.
I am continually inspired and reinforced by the words of the poet Mary Oliver, who wrote the compelling challenge to us all: “What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
Jennifer Haddow is the director of Wild Women Expeditions, Canada’s Outdoor Adventure Company for Women. She is a certified yoga teacher and believes strongly in the rejuvenating powers of nature and that wilderness immersion is essential to good health, life balance and human happiness.
Are Electronic Cigarettes Safe?
You may have heard of the electronic cigarette, also known as the e-cigarette or the healthy cigarette. It is basically a device that looks like a cigarette and allows you to inhale and exhale actual smoke, without all the toxic effects associated with smoking. In areas that have imposed a smoking ban, such as offices and restaurants for instance, it is possible to smoke an electronic cigarette, because there are also no associated risks with secondary smoking. So how does this work?
How Does the Electronic Cigarette Work?
Electronic cigarettes look like real cigarettes. They are slightly heavier, because they are made from metal. Best of all, they have a small tip at the end with a red led light, which makes them look as if they are actually burning when you take a drag. The electronic cigarette has cartridges that are put into the filter area and these release the smoke, which also has some nicotine in it. The cartridges can be purchased in different strengths. Very often, people use electronic cigarettes to help them stop smoking. We will look into how this works later. The device is charged up through your computer via a USB port that is included in the snazzy box you normally get with your electronic cigarette. In the box, you will be able to keep your cigarette, but also the electronic cigarette refills, making it look as if you are actually carrying ten cigarettes.
Using the Electronic Cigarette to Stop Smoking
Many people use electronic cigarettes to stop smoking. Because the electronic cigarette refills contain nicotine, the receptors in the brain are kept quiet in the same way as other nicotine replacement therapy does. However, because a smoker can also hold the cigarette between their fingers and actually take draws, it is felt that these work better than other therapies because a large part of nicotine addiction is a psychological rather than physical addiction.
How Much Does it Cost?
Of course, you will want to know the electronic cigarette price. Needless to say, the electronic cigarette will always be cheaper than actually smoking. Prices vary on the exact brand that you want to purchase and where you are purchasing it from. There are a number of wholesale websites where you can get both the electronic cigarettes and the cartridges at significantly reduced prices. You do need to make sure that the electronic cigarette refills fit on your model of e-cigarette.
The highest cost generally is the cigarette itself, with the cartridges being reasonably cheap. One cartridge is the equivalent of around 100 cigarettes, so it easy to work out why it is much cheaper. If you are buying alternative electronic cigarette flavors, they tend to cost marginally more.
Are Electronic Cigarettes Safe?
The big question is, of course, whether the electronic cigarette is safe. The verdict is somewhat out on this one. It is absolutely agreed that the electronic cigarette is not harmful to other people in terms of secondary smoking. The main reason why you could consider that it isn’t safe is that you are still consuming a nicotine product. Also, if you use different electronic cigarette flavors, you may be subject to chemicals that are used to create the flavor. The most important thing is recognizing that you are still consuming nicotine and that this is an addiction that also needs to be resolved. Nicotine is both a stimulant and a relaxant and releases glucose and adrenaline. But, it is widely agreed that nicotine addiction is a psychological one and if the electronic cigarettes can help people overcome their cigarette addiction, the next step is very easy to overcome.
Losing Judgment, Gaining Bliss
We all come from very different places – different countries, religions, families. We are all unique with individualized beliefs and values. Certainly we are environmentally conditioned as children, but as we grow and learn, our thoughts change and develop into opinions. Eventually, as adults, we become one-of-a-kind beings with the ability to live blissfully.
So … what is stopping us?
A new study has revealed that only 25 percent of Americans consider themselves emotionally healthy. What is at the root of our unhappiness, and how can we turn this around?
A crucial piece of the puzzle, according to ancient and modern wisdom, is our incessant need to make negative judgments about others. We are all guilty of it, and it often begins from a young age and quickly becomes habitual.
One of my favorite quotes is from a lesson in the book, “A Course In Miracles.” The words are, “Today I will judge nothing that occurs.” The concept is simple, but implementing this proves to be challenging for people around the globe. We judge eachother’s cultural differences, child-rearing styles, appearances and lifestyle choices, to name a few. We even judge ourselves if we feel as though we haven’t lived up to our own standards.
Do not feel alone if you are recognizing this behavior in yourself; there are very few individuals who live their lives judgment-free.
Overall, it may seem harmless to behave this way, but ask yourself, what are you truly gaining from condemning others? Some inadvertently praise their own ego by putting others down. Then there are those who have a belief system that makes them feel they are morally superior. Many times, judgments stem from one projecting their inner conflict on another. Wayne Dyer wrote, “When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.” Regardless of where your judgment stems from, it does not have to define who you are today.
Recognizing that you have been spending too much time judging is the first step in the process of ending the habit. Stepping outside of yourself, to examine where the judgments are coming from, is next.
I experienced my own awakening recently when I spotted a woman smoking in front of a store, in a non-smoking area. Knowing I would have to walk right by her with my young children left me annoyed and frustrated. How could she be so oblivious to a law? My immediate reaction from deep within was to walk over to her and inform her this was a non-smoking area, and make it clear that her actions were unacceptable by storming by with my children.
I quickly recognized my inner reaction as a judgment and calmed myself to the point where I was able to see this woman for who she truly is. My mind did not take into account that she was likely a kind human with a different set of beliefs and values, and perhaps she simply did not see smoking in front of the store as an issue. Certainly she did not want to offend me or harm my children. I simply walked further away so that my children were not exposed to the secondhand smoke. I continued my day with a mild sense of inner peace that I had not had beforehand.
Once I experienced this “judgment awakening,” it allowed me the ability to recognize future instances where I placed my values or beliefs on someone else or a situation. As Eckart Tolle has written, “Awareness is the greatest agent for change.” There are still times that I fall back into my old habit of negative judgment, but the most difficult walls have been torn down.
The final step, after recognition and learning the possible root of the problem, is actively seeking out ways to end the reaction when it occurs. There are many options for overcoming this challenge.
First, I believe it is vital to seek out one person with whom you can have open lines of communication to discuss such topics. Whether it be a spouse, a friend or a therapist, it is helpful to dialogue your thoughts to help you work through them. This person could also point out certain things to you that you may not see yourself.
Another important aspect is to spend time reading about the topic of judgment. There are many spiritual authors, speakers and religious texts that put into words the different methods for helping us through our internal struggles. This can be individualized as well, depending on your beliefs, and can help you grow further than you could ever imagine. Perhaps this is the catalyst to push you toward inner growth so you can have a deep sense of joy and gratitude in your life.
Lastly, I believe it is important to find or develop a carefully formatted statement, similar to a daily affirmation, to help guide you to a conscious perspective. For me, it is a Deepak Chopra quote: “It helps if you remember that we are all doing our best from our own level of consciousness.” It completely puts things into perspective for me. How could I possibly judge another human being when they are living the only way they are capable of at the present time?
Individual achievement, competition and the belief that we are separate from each other are prevalent in our society. The reality of the situation is that many of us are striving for the same thing: happiness. You can move into a state of peace and pure joy only by investing time and effort into a new way of thinking and living.
Mother Teresa’s eloquent words said it best: “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” Ask yourself, how do you want to spend your time?
Heidi Oran is a freelance writer, and founder of “The Conscious Perspective,” a blog that focuses on educating readers about current events, personal growth, and holistic living. She resides outside of Toronto, Canada, on an organic hops farm with her husband and two young sons.
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Drinking Soda Pop May Kill You!
Researchers from Cleveland Clinic’s Wellness Institute and Harvard University have found that greater consumption of sugar-sweetened and low-calorie sodas is associated with a higher risk of stroke.
The study – recently published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition – is the first to examine soda’s effect on stroke risk. Previous research has linked sugar-sweetened beverage consumption with weight gain, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, gout and coronary artery disease.
“Soda remains the largest source of added sugar in the diet,” said Adam Bernstein, M.D., Sc.D., study author and Research Director at Cleveland Clinic’s Wellness Institute. “What we’re beginning to understand is that regular intake of these beverages sets off a chain reaction in the body that can potentially lead to many diseases – including stroke.”
The research analyzed soda consumption among 43,371 men who participated in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study between 1986 and 2008, and 84,085 women who participated in the Nurses’ Health Study between 1980 and 2008. During that time, 2,938 strokes were documented in women while 1,416 strokes were documented in men.
“The answer to the increase in strokes from drinking soda is quite simple – sugar is a metabolic acid and is poisonous to the body in all of its forms,” states Dr. Robert O. Young. Dr. Young further states, “other acids including carbonic and phosphuric acid also contribute to inflammation, atherosclerosis, acidic plaque, thrombosis, obesity, glucose intolerance, insulin resisitance, diabetes high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke.” In sugar-sweetened sodas, the sugar load may lead to rapid increases in blood glucose and insulin which, over time, may lead to glucose intolerance, insulin resistance, and inflammation. These physiologic changes influence atherosclerosis, plaque stability and thrombosis – all of which are risk factors of ischemic stroke. This risk for stroke appears hy igher in women than in men.
The pH of soda drinks are highly acidic with a pH of less than 3 and an oxidative reduction potential of over +450mV. According to Dr. Young, “soda sucks the life right out of you!”
In addition, study findings show that men and women who consumed more than one serving of sugar-sweetened soda per day had higher rates of high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol and lower physical activity rates. Those who drank soda more frequently were also more likely to eat red meat and whole-fat dairy products. Men and women who consumed low-calorie soda had a higher incidence of chronic disease and a higher body mass index (BMI). The investigators controlled for these other factors in their analysis to determine the independent association of soda consumption on stroke risk.
“According to research from the USDA, sugar-sweetened beverage consumption has increased dramatically in the United States over the past three decades, and it’s affecting our health,” said Dr. Bernstein. “These findings reiterate the importance of encouraging individuals to substitute alternate beverages for soda.”
Dr. Young suggests, “drinking soda drinks compromises the alkaline design of the body setting the stage for sickness, dis-ease, disease and death. People are digging their graves with their own teeth when they ingest foods and beverages that are highly acidic/toxic to the blood and tissues. These acidic foods and beverages include, animal flesh, dairy products, alcohol. coffee, tea, soda drinks, sports drinks, high sugar fruit drinks, vinegar, and sugar in all of its forms both natural and artificial.”
If you are ingesting acidic drinks like soda pop, the following article may help you kick the acidic habit before its too late!
Woman’s Coca-Cola ‘habit’ cited in death
By Eric Pfeiffer | The Sideshow – Fri, Apr 20, 2012
Experts say Natasha Harris Coca-Cola habit probably contributed to her death (AP/New Zealand Herald)When people attribute someone’s untimely death to a Coke overdose, they’re usually not talking about the world’s most popular soda.www.phmiracleliving.com
America Has the Saltiest Fast Food in the World
We're number one, America—when it comes to our ability to pump as much salt into our food as humanly possible! A new global study of fast food found that U.S. pizzas, burgers, fried chicken, and fries are packed with even more salt than the fast foods exiting drive-through windows elsewhere in the world.
The study, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, examined the salty offerings of six fast food chains—Burger King, Domino’s, KFC, McDonald's, Pizza Hut, and Subway—in six countries—Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The U.S. fast food industry consistently delivered more salt per gram than the (still very salty!) fast-food average. America has got the saltiest pizzas in the world. The salt levels in our "savory breakfast items" are comparatively ridiculous. McDonald's Chicken McNuggets sold in the United States contain two and a half times more salt than do British McNuggets. (Impressively, our fast food salads contain only an average amount of salt).
This is a problem for American lifespans—according to the study, a moderate reduction in our collective salt intake could save more American lives than similar public health efforts to cut smoking. But the processed food industry has been slow to come on board with salt reduction efforts, claiming that cutting salt from its foods is just too technically difficult to pull off. Besides, salt acts like crack to eaters who get hooked on it.
Photo via (cc) Flickr user LabyrinthX
America Has the Saltiest Fast Food in the World
We're number one, America—when it comes to our ability to pump as much salt into our food as humanly possible! A new global study of fast food found that U.S. pizzas, burgers, fried chicken, and fries are packed with even more salt than the fast foods exiting drive-through windows elsewhere in the world.
The study, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, examined the salty offerings of six fast food chains—Burger King, Domino’s, KFC, McDonald's, Pizza Hut, and Subway—in six countries—Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The U.S. fast food industry consistently delivered more salt per gram than the (still very salty!) fast-food average. America has got the saltiest pizzas in the world. The salt levels in our "savory breakfast items" are comparatively ridiculous. McDonald's Chicken McNuggets sold in the United States contain two and a half times more salt than do British McNuggets. (Impressively, our fast food salads contain only an average amount of salt).
This is a problem for American lifespans—according to the study, a moderate reduction in our collective salt intake could save more American lives than similar public health efforts to cut smoking. But the processed food industry has been slow to come on board with salt reduction efforts, claiming that cutting salt from its foods is just too technically difficult to pull off. Besides, salt acts like crack to eaters who get hooked on it.
Photo via (cc) Flickr user LabyrinthX
pH Paranoia: The Truth For Understanding Acid/Alkaline Water Claims
Dr. Robert O. Young: There are exhaustive research studies from around the world that show credible evidence of the positive health benefits and safety of drinking alkaline water. Millions of people from around the world have been drinking alkaline water with significant health and fitness benefits. The following are just a few examples of scientific research on the health and fitness benefits of drinking alkaline water:
Physiological effects of alkaline ionized water: Effects on metabolites produced by intestinal fermentation by Takashi Hayakawa, Chicko Tushiya, Hisanori Onoda, Hisayo Ohkouchi, Harul-~to Tsuge (Gifu University, Faculty of Engineering, Dept. of Food Science) We have found that long-term ingestion of alkaline ionized water (AIW) reduces cecal fermentation in rats that were given highly fermentable commercial diet (MF: Oriental Yeast Co., Ltd.). In this experiment, rats were fed MF and test water (tap water, AIW with pH at 9 and 10) for about 3 months. Feces were collected on the 57th day, and the rats were dissected on the 88th day. The amount of ammonium in fresh feces and cecal contents as well as fecal free-glucose tended to drop down for the AIW group. In most cases, the amount of free-amino acids in cecal contents did not differ sign- icantly except for cysteine (decreased in AIW with pH at 10) and isoleucine (increased in AIW with pH at 10). Purpose of tests Alkaline ionized water electrolyzers have been approved for manufacturing in 1965 by the Ministry of Health and Welfare as medical equipment to produce medical substances. Alkaline ionized water (AIW) produced by this equipment is known to be effective against gastrointestinal fermentation, chronic diarrhea, indigestion and hyperchylia as well as for controlling gastric acid.*1 This is mainly based on efficacy of the official calcium hydroxide. *2 By giving AIW to rats for a comparatively long time under the condition of extremely high level of intestinal fermentation, we have demonstrated that AIW intake is effective for inhibition of intestinal fermentation when its level is high based on some test results where AIW worked against cecal hypertrophy and for reduction in the amount of short-chain fatty acid that is the main product of fermentation.*3 We have reported that this is caused by the synergy between calcium level generally contained in AIW (about 50ppm) and the value of pH, and that frequency of detecting some anaerobic bacteria tends to be higher in alkaline ionized water groups than the other, although the bacteria count in the intestine does not have significant difference. Based on these results, we made a judgment that effect of taking AIW supports part of inhibition mechanism against abnormal intestinal fermentation, which is one of the claims of efficacy that have been attributed to alkaline ionized water electrolyzers. *4 On the other hand, under the dietary condition of low intestinal fermentation, AIW uptake does not seem to inhibit fermentation that leads us to believe that effect of AIW uptake is characteristic of hyper-fermentation state. Metabolites produced by intestinal fermentation include indole and skatole in addition to organic acids such as short-chain fatty acid and lactic acid as well as toxic metabolites such as ammonium, phenol and pcresol. We do not know how AIW uptake would affect the production of these materials. In this experiment, we have tested on ammonium production as explained in the following sections. Testing methods Four-week-old male Wistar/ST Clean rats were purchased from Japan SLC Co., Ltd. and were divided into 3 groups of 8 each after preliminary breeding. AIW of pH 9 and 10 was produced by an electrolyzer Mineone ROYAL NDX3 1 OH by Omco Co., Ltd. This model produces AIW by electrolyzing water with calcium lactate added. On the last day of testing, the rats were dissected under Nembutal anesthesia to take blood from the heart by a heparin-treated syringe. As to their organs, the small intestines, cecum and colon plus rectum were taken out from each of them. The cecurn was weighed and cleaned with physiological saline after its contents were removed, and the tissue weight was measured after wiping out moisture. Part of cecal contents was measured its pH, and the rest was used to assay ammonium concentration. The amount of ammonium contained in fresh feces and cecal contents was measured by the Nessler method after collecting it in the extracted samples using Conway ‘s micro-diffusion container. Fecal free-glucose was assayed by the oxygen method after extraction by hot water. Analysis of free amino acids contained in cecal contents was conducted by the Waters PicoTag amino acid analysis system. Test results and analyses No difference was found in the rats’ weight gain, water and feed intake and feeding efficiency, nor was any particular distinction in appearance identified. The length of the small intestines and colon plus rectum tended to decline in AIW groups. PH value of cecal contents was higher and the amount of fecal free-glucose tended to be lower in AIW groups than the control group. Since there was no difference in fecal discharge itself, the amount of free-glucose discharged per day was at a low level. The amount of discharged free-glucose in feces is greater when intestinal fermentation is more intensive, which indicates that intestinal fermentation is more inhibited in AIW groups than the control group. Ammonium concentration in cecal contents tends to drop down in AIW groups (Fig. 1). This trend was most distinctive in case of fresh feces of one of AIW groups with pH 10 (Fig.2) AIW uptake was found to be inhibitory against ammonium production. In order to study dynamics of amino acids in large intestines, we examined free amino acids in the cecal contents to find out that cysteine level is low in AIW groups whereas isoleucine level is high in one of AIW groups with pH 10, although no significant difference was identified for other amino acids. Bibliography Adequate fluid replacement helps maintain hydration and, promotes the health, safety, and optimal physical performance of individuals participating in regular physical activity Med Sci Sports Exercise American College of Sports Medicine position stand. Exercise and fluid replacement. Convertino VA, Armstrong LE, Coyle EF, Mack GW, Sawka MN, Senay LC Jr, Sherman WM. It is the position of the American College of Sports Medicine that adequate fluid replacement helps maintain hydration and, therefore, promotes the health, safety, and optimal physical performance of individuals participating in regular physical activity. This position statement is based on a comprehensive review and interpretation of scientific literature concerning the influence of fluid replacement on exercise performance and the risk of thermal injury associated with dehydration and hyperthermia. Based on available evidence, the American College of Sports Medicine makes the following general recommendations on the amount and composition of fluid that should be ingested in preparation for, during, and after exercise or athletic competition: 1) It is recommended that individuals consume a nutritionally balanced diet and drink adequate fluids during the 24-hr period before an event, especially during the period that includes the meal prior to exercise, to promote proper hydration before exercise or competition. 2) It is recommended that individuals drink about 500 ml (about 17 ounces) of fluid about 2 h before exercise to promote adequate hydration and allow time for excretion of excess ingested water. 3) During exercise, athletes should start drinking early and at regular intervals in an attempt to consume fluids at a rate sufficient to replace all the water lost through sweating (i.e., body weight loss), or consume the maximal amount that can be tolerated. 4) It is recommended that ingested fluids be cooler than ambient temperature [between 15 degrees and 22 degrees C (59 degrees and 72 degrees F])] and flavored to enhance palatability and promote fluid replacement. Fluids should be readily available and served in containers that allow adequate volumes to be ingested with ease and with minimal interruption of exercise. 5) Addition of proper amounts of carbohydrates and/or electrolytes to a fluid replacement solution is recommended for exercise events of duration greater than 1 h since it does not significantly impair water delivery to the body and may enhance performance. During exercise lasting less than 1 h, there is little evidence of physiological or physical performance differences between consuming a carbohydrate-electrolyte drink and plain water. 6) During intense exercise lasting longer than 1 h, it is recommended that carbohydrates be ingested at a rate of 30-60 g.h(-1) to maintain oxidation of carbohydrates and delay fatigue. This rate of carbohydrate intake can be achieved without compromising fluid delivery by drinking 600-1200 ml.h(-1) of solutions containing 4%-8% carbohydrates (g.100 ml(-1)). The carbohydrates can be sugars (glucose or sucrose) or starch (e.g., maltodextrin). 7) Inclusion of sodium (0.5-0.7 g.1(-1) of water) in the rehydration solution ingested during exercise lasting longer than 1 h is recommended since it may be advantageous in enhancing palatability, promoting fluid retention, and possibly preventing hyponatremia in certain individuals who drink excessive quantities of fluid. There is little physiological basis for the presence of sodium in n oral rehydration solution for enhancing intestinal water absorption as long as sodium is sufficiently available from the previous meal. Electrolyzed-reduced water scavenges active oxygen species and protects DNA from oxidative damage Biochem Biophys Res Commun. Shirahata S , Kabayama S, Nakano M, Miura T, Kusumoto K, Gotoh M, Hayashi H , Otsubo K, Morisawa S, Katakura Y. Institute of Cellular Regulation Technology, Graduate School of Genetic Resources Technology, Kyushu University , Fukuoka , Japan . sirahata@grt.kyushu-u.ac.jp Active oxygen species or free radicals are considered to cause extensive oxidative damage to biological macromolecules, which brings about a variety of diseases as well as aging. The ideal scavenger for active oxygen should be ‘active hydrogen’. ‘Active hydrogen’ can be produced in reduced water near the cathode during electrolysis of water. Reduced water exhibits high pH, low dissolved oxygen (DO), extremely high dissolved molecular hydrogen (DH), and extremely negative redox potential (RP) values. Strongly electrolyzed-reduced water, as well as ascorbic acid, (+)-catechin and tannic acid, completely scavenged O.-2 produced by the hypoxanthine-xanthine oxidase (HX-XOD) system in sodium phosphate buffer (pH 7.0). The superoxide dismutase (SOD)-like activity of reduced water is stable at 4 degrees C for over a month and was not lost even after neutralization, repeated freezing and melting, deflation with sonication, vigorous mixing, boiling, repeated filtration, or closed autoclaving, but was lost by opened autoclaving or by closed autoclaving in the presence of tungsten trioxide which efficiently adsorbs active atomic hydrogen. Water bubbled with hydrogen gas exhibited low DO, extremely high DH and extremely low RP values, as does reduced water, but it has no SOD-like activity. These results suggest that the SOD-like activity of reduced water is not due to the dissolved molecular hydrogen but due to the dissolved atomic hydrogen (active hydrogen). Although SOD accumulated H2O2 when added to the HX-XOD system, reduced water decreased the amount of H2O2 produced by XOD. Reduced water, as well as catalase and ascorbic acid, could directly scavenge H2O2. Reduced water suppresses single-strand breakage of DNA b active oxygen species produced by the Cu(II)-catalyzed oxidation of ascorbic acid in a dose-dependent manner, suggesting that reduced water can scavenge not only O2.- and H2O2, but also 1O2 and .OH. PMID: 9169001 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] The mechanism of the enhanced antioxidant effects against superoxide anion radicals of reduced water produced by electrolysis Biophys Chem. 2004 Hanaoka K, Sun D, Lawrence R, Kamitani Y, Fernandes G. Bio-REDOX Laboratory Inc. 1187-4, Oaza-Ueda, Ueda-shi, Nagano-ken 386-0001, Japan . hanak@rapid.ocn.ne.jp We reported that reduced water produced by electrolysis enhanced the antioxidant effects of proton donors such as ascorbic acid (AsA) in a previous paper. We also demonstrated that reduced water produced by electrolysis of 2 mM NaCl solutions did not show antioxidant effects by itself. We reasoned that the enhancement of antioxidant effects may be due to the increase of the ionic product of water as solvent. The ionic product of water (pKw) was estimated by measurements of pH and by a neutralization titration method. As an indicator of oxidative damage, Reactive Oxygen Species- (ROS) mediated DNA strand breaks were measured by the conversion of supercoiled phiX-174 RF I double-strand DNA to open and linear forms. Reduced water had a tendency to suppress single-strand breakage of DNA induced by reactive oxygen species produced by H2O2/Cu (II) and HQ/Cu (II) systems. The enhancement of superoxide anion radical dismutation activity can be explained by changes in the ionic product of water in the reduced water. PMID: 14871602 [PubMed - in process] Comparison of electrolyzed oxidizing water with various antimicrobial interventions to reduce Salmonella species on poultry [ Top ] Poult Science Fabrizio KA, Sharma RR, Demirci A, Cutter CN. Department of Food Science, The Pennsylvania State University , University Park 16802 , USA . Foodborne pathogens in cell suspensions or attached to surfaces can be reduced by electrolyzed oxidizing (EO) water; however, the use of EO water against pathogens associated with poultry has not been explored. In this study, acidic EO water [EO-A; pH 2.6, chlorine (CL) 20 to 50 ppm, and oxidation-reduction potential (ORP) of 1,150 mV], basic EO water (EO-B; pH 11.6, ORP of -795 mV), CL, ozonated water (OZ), acetic acid (AA), or trisodium phosphate (TSP) was applied to broiler carcasses inoculated with Salmonella Typhimurium (ST) and submerged (4 C, 45 min), spray-washed (85 psi, 25 C, 15 s), or subjected to multiple interventions (EO-B spray, immersed in EO-A; AA or TSP spray, immersed in CL). Remaining bacterial populations were determined and compared at Day 0 and 7 of aerobic, refrigerated storage. At Day 0, submersion in TSP and AA reduced ST 1.41 log10, whereas EO-A water reduced ST approximately 0.86 log10. After 7 d of storage, EO-A water, OZ, TSP, and AA reduced ST, with detection only after selective enrichment. Spray-washing treatments with any of the compounds did not reduce ST at Day 0. After 7 d of storage, TSP, AA, and EO-A water reduced ST 2.17, 2.31, and 1.06 log10, respectively. ST was reduced 2.11 log10 immediately following the multiple interventions, 3.81 log10 after 7 d of storage. Although effective against ST, TSP and AA are costly and adversely affect the environment. This study demonstrates that EO water can reduce ST on poultry surfaces following extended refrigerated storage. PMID: 12412930 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Inactivation of Escherichia coli (O157:H7) and Listeria monocytogenes on plastic kitchen cutting boards by electrolyzed oxidizing water [ Top ] Venkitanarayanan KS , Ezeike GO, Hung YC, Doyle MP. Department of Animal Science, University of Connecticut , Storrs 06269 , USA . One milliliter of culture containing a five-strain mixture of Escherichia coli O157:H7 (approximately 10(10) CFU) was inoculated on a 100-cm2 area marked on unscarred cutting boards. Following inoculation, the boards were air-dried under a laminar flow hood for 1 h, immersed in 2 liters of electrolyzed oxidizing water or sterile deionized water at 23 degrees C or 35 degrees C for 10 or 20 min; 45 degrees C for 5 or 10 min; or 55 degrees C for 5 min. After each temperature-time combination, the surviving population of the pathogen on cutting boards and in soaking water was determined. Soaking of inoculated cutting boards in electrolyzed oxidizing water reduced E. coli O157:H7 populations by > or = 5.0 log CFU/100 cm2 on cutting boards. However, immersion of cutting boards in deionized water decreased the pathogen count only by 1.0 to 1.5 log CFU/100 cm2. Treatment of cutting boards inoculated with Listeria monocytogenes in electrolyzed oxidizing water at selected temperature-time combinations (23 degrees C for 20 min, 35 degrees C for 10 min, and 45 degrees C for 10 min) substantially reduced the populations of L. monocytogenes in comparison to the counts recovered from the boards immersed in deionized water. E. coli O157:H7 and L. monocytogenes were not detected in electrolyzed oxidizing water after soaking treatment, whereas the pathogens survived in the deionized water used for soaking the cutting boards. This study revealed that immersion of kitchen cutting boards in electrolyzed oxidizing water could be used as an effective method for inactivating foodborne pathogens on smooth, plastic cutting boards. PMID: 10456736 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] The bactericidal effects of electrolyzed oxidizing water on bacterial strains involved in hospital infections [ Top ] Artificial Organs 2004 Jun;28(6):590-2. Department of Physiology of Microorganisms, Biology Faculty, Moscow State University, Lenin Hills 1/12, Moscow 119992, Russia. nvvorobjeva@mail.ru The study is designed to investigate bactericidal actions of electrolyzed oxidizing water on hospital infections. Ten of the most common opportunistic pathogens are used for this study. Cultures are inoculated in 4.5 mL of electrolyzed oxidizing (EO) water or 4.5 mL of sterile deionized water (control), and incubated for 0, 0.5, and 5 min at room temperature. At the exposure time of 30 s the EO water completely inactivates all of the bacterial strains, with the exception of vegetative cells and spores of bacilli which need 5 min to be killed. The results indicate that electrolyzed oxidizing water may be a useful disinfectant for hospital infections, but its clinical application has still to be evaluated. PMID: 15153153 [PubMed - in process] Effect of electrolyzed oxidizing water and hydrocolloid occlusive dressings on excised burn-wounds in rats [ Top ] Chin J Traumatol . Xin H, Zheng YJ, Hajime N, Han ZG. Department of Thoracic Surgery , China – Japan Union Hospital , Jilin University, Jilin 130031, China . xinhua7254@yahoo.com.cn OBJECTIVE: To study the efficacy of electrolyzed oxidizing water (EOW) and hydrocolloid occlusive dressings in the acceleration of epithelialization in excised burn-wounds in rats. METHODS: Each of the anesthetized Sprague-Dawley rats (n=28) was subjected to a third-degree burn that covered approximately 10% of the total body surface area. Rats were assigned into four groups: Group I (no irrigation), Group II (irrigation with physiologic saline), Group III (irrigation with EOW) and Group IV (hydrocolloid occlusive dressing after EOW irrigation). Wounds were observed macroscopically until complete epithelialization was present, then the epithelialized wounds were examined microscopically. RESULTS: Healing of the burn wounds was the fastest in Group IV treated with hydrocolloid occlusive dressing together with EOW. Although extensive regenerative epidermis was seen in each Group, the proliferations of lymphocytes and macrophages associated with dense collagen deposition were more extensive in Group II, III and IV than in Group I. These findings were particularly evident in Group III and IV. CONCLUSIONS: Wound Healing may be accelerated by applying a hydrocolloid occlusive dressing on burn surfaces after they are cleaned with EOW. PMID: 12857518 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Use of Ionized water in hypochlorhydria or achlorhydria [ Top ] Prof. Kuninaka Hironage, Head of Kuninaka Hospital “Too many fats in the diets, which lead to the deposition of cholesterol on the blood vessels, which in turn constrict the blood flow, cause most illnesses such as high blood pressure. In accordance with the theory of Professor Gato of Kyushu University on Vitamin K (because vitamin K enables the blood calcium to increase ) , or the consumption of more antioxidant water, the effectiveness of the increase in the calcium in high blood pressure is most significant. The consumption of alkaline antioxidant water for a period of 2 to 3 months, I have observed the blood pressure slowly drop, due to the water’s solvent ability, which dissolves the cholesterol in the blood vessels .” Effect of electrolyzed water on wound healing [ Top ] Artif Organs. 2000 Dec;24(12):984-7. Yahagi N, Kono M, Kitahara M, Ohmura A, Sumita O, Hashimoto T, Hori K, Ning-Juan C, Woodson P, Kubota S, Murakami A, Takamoto S. Department of Anesthesiology, Teikyo University Mizonokuchi Hospital , Tokyo , Japan . naokiyah@aol.com PMID: 11121980 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Decoposition of ethylene, a flower-senescence hormone, with electrolyzed anode water [ Top ] Biosci Biotechnol Biochem. Harada K, Yasui K. Department of Research and Development, Hokkaido Electric Power Co., Inc., 2-1 Tsuishikari, Ebetsu, Hokkaido 067-0033, Japan. kharada@h1.hotcn.ne.jp Electrolyzed anode water (EAW) markedly extended the vase life of cut carnation flowers. Therefore, a flower-senescence hormone involving ethylene decomposition by EAW with potassium chloride as an electrolyte was investigated. Ethylene was added externally to EAW, and the reaction between ethylen and the available chlorine in EAW was examined. EAW had a low pH value (2.5), a high concentration of dissolved oxygen, and extremely high redox potential (19.2 mg/l and 1323 mV, respectively) when available chlorine was at a concentration of about 620 microns. The addition of ethylene to EAW led to ethylene decomposition, and an equimolar amount of ethylene chlorohydrine with available chlorine was produced. The ethylene chlorohydrine production was greatly affected by the pH value (pH 2.5, 5.0 and 10.0 were tested), and was faster in an acidic solution. Ethylene chlorohydrine was not produced after ethylene had been added to EAW at pH 2.6 when available chlorine was absent, but was produced after potassium hypochlorite had been added to such EAW. The effect of the pH value of EAW on the vase life of cut carnations was compatible with the decomposition rate of ethylene in EAW of the same pH value. These results suggest that the effect of EAW on the vase life of cut carnations was due to the decomposition of ethylene to ethylene chlorohydrine by chlorine from chlorine compounds. PMID: 12784619 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Allergies and Ionized Water [ Top ] Prof. Kuninaka Hironaga, Head of Kuninaka Hospital “Mr. Yamada, the head of Police Research Institute, suffered from severe allergy. He was treated repeatedly by skin specialist, but with no success. Then he started consuming antioxidant water. The allergy responded very well and was soon completely cured. No relapse had occurred, although he had taken all kinds of food. He was most grateful and excited about this treatment. As for myself, I had also suffered severe allergy. Ever since I began to consume antioxidant water, the allergy has recovered. Since then, I started a research on the effectiveness of antioxidant water. I discovered that most allergies are due to acidification of body condition and is also related to consuming too much meat and sugar. In every allergy case, the patient’s antioxidant minerals are excessively low which in turn lower the body resistance significantly. The body becomes overly sensitive and develops allergy easily. To stabilize the sensitivity, calcium solution in injected into the vein. Therefore, it is clear that the antioxidant water has ionic calcium, which can help alleviate allergy. The ionic calcium not only enhances the heart, urination, and neutralization of toxins but controls acidity. It also enhances the digestive system and liver function. This will promote natural healing power and hence increase its resistance to allergy. In some special cases of illness, which do not respond to drugs, it is found, it is found to respond well to antioxidant water.” Digestive Problems and Ionized Water [ Top ] Prof. Kogure Keizou, Kogure Clinic of Juntendo Hospital “The stomach is readily upset both by diseases affecting the stomach and by other general illnesses. In addition, any nervous tension or anxiety frequently causes gastric upset, vague symptoms when This information is under some strain. The important role of antioxidant water in our stomach is to neutralize the secretion and strengthen it s functions. Usually, after consuming the antioxidant water for 1 to 3 minutes, the gastric juice increase to 1½ times. For those suffering from hypochlorhydria or achlorhydria ( low in gastric juice ) the presence of antioxidant water will stimulate the stomach cells to secrete more gastric juice. This in turn enhances digestion and absorption of minerals. However, on the other hand, those with hyperchlorhydria ( high in gastric juice ), the antioxidant water neutralizes the excessive gastric juice. Hence, it does not create any adverse reaction. According to the medical lecturer from Maeba University , the pH of the gastric secretion will still remain normal when antioxidant water is consumed. This proves that the ability of the antioxidant water is able to neutralize as well as to stimulate the secretion.” Use of Ionized water for gynecological conditions and treatments [ Top ] Prof. Watanabe Ifao, Watanabe Hospital “Ionized alklaine antioxidant water improves body constituents and ensures effective healing to many illnesses. The uses of antioxidant water in gynecological patients have proved to be very effective. The main reason for its effectiveness is that this water can neutralize toxins. When given antioxidant water to pre-eclamptic toxemia cases, the results are most significant. During my long years of servicing the pre-eclamptic toxemia cases, I found that the women with pre-eclamptic toxemia who consumed antioxidant water tend to deliver healthier babies with stronger muscles . A survey report carried out on babies in this group showed intelligence above average.” Toxin Neutralization with the Use of Electrolysed Water [ Top ] Prof. Kuwata Keijiroo, Doctor of Medicine ” In my opinion, the wonder of antioxidant water is the ability neutralizes toxins, but it is not a medicine. The difference is that the medicine can only apply to each and individual case, whereas the antioxidant water can be consumed generally and its neutralizing power is something which is very much unexpected. Now, in brief, let me introduce to you a heart disease case and how it was cured. The patient was a 35 years old male suffering from vascular heart disease. For 5 years, his sickness deteriorated. He was in the Setagays Government Hospital for treatment. During those 5 years, he had been in and out of the hospital 5 to 6 times. He had undergone high tech examinations such as angiogram by injecting VINYL via the vein into the heart. He consulted and sought treatment from many good doctors where later he underwent a major surgical operation. Upon his discharge from the hospital, he quit his job to convalesce. However, each time when his illness relapsed, the attack seemed to be even more severe. Last year, in August, his relatives were in despair and expected he would not live much longer. It so happened at that time that the victim’s relative came across antioxidant water processor. His illness responded well and he is now on the road to recovery.” In the United States , cardiovascular diseases account for more than one-half of the approximate 2 million deaths occurring each year…. It is estimated that optimal conditioning of drinking water could reduce this cardiovascular disease mortality rate by as much as 15 percent in the United States Eczema and the Effects of Ionized Water [ Top ] Prof. Tamura Tatsuji, Keifuku Rehabilitation Center “Eczema is used to describe several varieties of skin conditions, which have a number of common features. The exact cause or causes of eczema are not fully understood. I many cases, eczema can be attributed by external irritants. Let me introduce a patient who recovered from skin disease after consuming the antioxidant water. This patient suffered 10 years of eczema and could not be cured effectively even under specialist treatment. This patient, who is 70 years of age, is the president of a vehicle spare parts company. After the war, his lower limbs suffered acute eczema, which later became chronic. He was repeatedly treated in a specialist skin hospital. The left limb responded well to treatment, but not so on the right limb. He suffered severe itchiness, which, when scratched led to bleeding. During the last 10 years, he was seen and treated by many doctors. When I first examined him, his lower limb around the joints was covered with vesicles. Weeping occurred owing to serum exuding from the vesicles. I advised him to try consuming antioxidant water. He bought a unit and consumed the antioxidant water religiously and used the acidic water to bathe the affected areas. After 2 weeks of treatment the vesicles dried up. The eczema was completely cleared without any relapse after 1½ month.” Diabetes and the Effects of Ionized Water [ Top ] Prof. Kuwata Keijiroo, Doctor of Medicine “When I was serving in the Fire Insurance Association, I used to examine many diabetic patients. Besides treating them with drugs, I provided them with antioxidant water. After drinking antioxidant water for one month, 15 diabetic patients were selected and sent to Tokyo University for further test and observations. Initially, the more serious patients were a bit apprehensive about the treatment. When the antioxidant water was consumed for some time, the sugar in the blood and urine ranged from a ratio of 300 mg/l to 2 mg / dc. There was a time where the patient had undergone 5 to 6 blood tests a day and detected to be within normal range. Results also showed that even 1 ½ hour after meals, the blood sugar and urine ratio was 100 mg/dc: 0 mg/dc . The sugar in the urine has completely disappeared.” NOTE: The greatest increase – 76 percent – occurred in people age 30 to 30. …. From: U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, October 13, 2000 Fact Sheet. Use of Ionized water in treating Acidosis [ Top ] Prof. Hatori Tasutaroo, Head of Akajiuiji Blood Centre, Yokohama Hospital , Faitama District ” Due to a higher standard of living, our eating habits have changed. We consume too much proteins, fats and sugar. The excess fats and carbohydrates are in the body as fats. In the present lifestyles, Americans are more extravagant on food compared to the Japanese. Due to this excessive intake obesity is a significant problem. Normally, one out of five males and one out of four females is obese. The degree of “burn-out” in food intake largely depends on the amount on intake of vitamins and minerals. When excessive intake of proteins, carbohydrates and fats occurs, the requirement for vitamins and minerals increases. However, there is not much research carried out pertaining to the importance of vitamins and minerals. Nowadays, many people suffer from acidification that leads to diabetes, heart diseases, cancer, live and kidney diseases. If our food intake can be completely burned off, then there is no deposition of fats. Obviously, there will be no acidification problem and hence there should not be any sign of obesity. The antioxidant water contains an abundance of ionic calcium. This ionic calcium helps in the “burn-off” process. By drinking antioxidant water, it provides sufficient minerals for our body. As a result, we do not need to watch our diet to stay slim. Hence, antioxidant water is a savior for those suffering from obesity and many adult diseases, providing good assistance in enhancing good health.” Reduced Water for the Prevention of Disease [ Top ] Dr.Sanetaka Shirahata 6-10-1 Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan. It has long been established that reactive oxygen species (ROS) cause many types of damage to biomolecules and cellular structures that, in turn result in the development of a variety of pathologic states such as diabetes, cancer and aging. Reduced water is defined as anti-oxidative water produced by reduction of water. Electrolyzed reduced water (ERW) has been demonstrated to be hydrogen-rich water and can scavenge ROS in vitro (Shirahata et al., 1997). The reduction of proton in water to active hydrogen (atomic hydrogen, hydrogen radical) that can scavenge ROS is very easily caused by a weak current, compared to oxidation of hydroxyl ion to oxygen molecule. Activation of water by magnetic field, collision, minerals etc. will also produce reduced water containing active hydrogen and/or hydrogen molecule. Several natural waters such as Hita Tenryosui water drawn from deep underground in Hita city in Japan, Nordenau water in Germany and Tlacote water in Mexico are known to alleviate various diseases. We have developed a sensitive method by which we can detect active hydrogen existing in reduced water, and have demonstrated that not only ERW but also natural reduced waters described above contain active hydrogen and scavenge ROS in cultured cells. ROS is known to cause reduction of glucose uptake by inhibiting the insulin-signaling pathway in cultured cells. Reduced water scavenged intracellular ROS and stimulated glucose uptake in the presence or absence of insulin in both rat L6 skeletal muscle cells and mouse 3T3/L1 adipocytes. This insulin-like activity of reduced water was inhibited by wortmannin that is specific inhibitor of PI-3 kinase, a key molecule in insulin signaling pathways. Reduced water protected insulin-responsive cells from sugar toxicity and improved the damaged sugar tolerance of type 2 diabetes model mice, suggesting that reduced water may improve insulin-independent diabetes mellitus. Cancer cells are generally exposed to high oxidative stress. Reduced water cause impaired tumor phenotypes of human cancer cells, such as reduced growth rate, morphological changes, reduced colony formation ability in soft agar, passage number-dependent telomere shortening, reduced binding abilities of telomere binding proteins and suppressed metastasis. Reduced water suppressed the growth of cancer cells transplanted into mice, demonstrating their anti-cancer effects in vivo. Reduced water will be applicable to not only medicine but also food industries, agriculture, and manufacturing industries. Shirahata, S. et al .: Electrolyzed reduced water scavenges active oxygen species and protects DNA from oxidative damage. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 234, 269174, 1997. Clinical Impovements Obtained From The Intake Of Reduced Water [ Top ] Extracts from ” Presentation At The Eight Annual International Symposium On man And His Environment in Health And Disease” on February 24th 1990, at The Grand Kempinski Hotel, Dalls, Texas, USA by Dr. H. Hayashi, M.D. and Dr. M Kawamura, M.D., on : - Since the introduction of alkaline ionic water in our clinic in 1985, we have had the following interesting clinical experiences in the use of this type of water. By the use of alkaline ionic water for drinking and the preparation of meals for our in-patients, we have noticed : Being confirming clinical improvements, we have always observed changes of stools of the patients, with the colour of their feaces changing from black-brown colour to a brigher yellow-brown one, and the odour of their feaces becoming almost negligible. The number of patients complaining of constipation also decreased markedly. The change of stool findings strongly suggests that alkaline ionic water intake can decrease the production of putrefield or pathogenic metabolites. Devices to produce reduced water were introduced into our clinic in May 1985. Based on the clinical experiences obtained in the past 15 years, it can be said that introduction of electrolyzed-reduced water for drinking and cooking purpose for in-patients should be the very prerequisite in our daily medical practices. Any dietary recipe cannot be a scientific one if property of water is not taken by the patients is not taken into consideration. The Ministry of Health and Welfare in Japan announced in 1965 that the intake of reduced water is effective for restoration of intestinal flora metabolism. Clinical evaluation of alkaline ionized water for abdominal complaints: Placebo controlled double blind tests [ Top ] by Hirokazu Tashiro, Tetsuji Hokudo, Hiromi Ono, Yoshihide Fujiyama, Tadao Baba (National Ohkura Hospital, Dept. of Gastroenterology; Institute of Clinical Research, Shiga University of Medical Science, Second Dept. of Internal Medicine) Effect of alkaline ionized water on abdominal complaints was evaluated by placebo controlled double blind tests. Overall scores of improvement using alkaline ionized water marked higher than those of placebo controlled group, and its effect proved to be significantly higher especially in slight symptoms of chronic diarrhoea and abdominal complaints in cases of general malaise. Alkaline ionized water group did not get interrupted in the course of the test, nor did it show serious side effects nor abnormal test data. It was confirmed that alkaline ionized water is safer and more effective than placebos. Summary Effect of alkaline ionized water on abdominal complaints was clinically examined by double blind tests using clean water as placebo. Overall improvement rate was higher for alkaline ionized water group than placebo group and the former proved to be significantly more effective than the other especially in cases of slight symptoms. Examining improvement rate for each case of chronic diarrhoea, constipation and abdominal complaints, alkaline ionized water group turned out to be more effective than placebo group for chronic diarrhoea, and abdominal complaints. The test was stopped in one case of chronic diarrhoea, among placebo group due to exacerbation, whereas alkaline ionized water group did not stop testing without serious side effects or abnormal test data in all cases. It was confirmed that alkaline ionized water is more effective than clean water against chronic diarrhoea, abdominal complaints and overall improvement rate (relief of abdominal complaints) and safer than clean water. Introduction Since the approval of alkaline ionized water electrolyzers by Pharmaceutical Affairs Law in 1966 for its antacid effect and efficacy against gastrointestinal disorders including hyperchylia, indigestion, abnormal gastrointestinal fermentation and chronic diarrhoea, they have been extensively used among patients. However, medical and scientific evaluation of their validity is not established. In our study, we examined clinical effect of alkaline ionized water on gastrointestinal disorders across many symptoms in various facilities. Particularly, we studied safety and usefulness of alkaline ionized water by doubleblind tests using clean water as a control group. Test subjects and methods 163 patients (34 men, 129 women, age 21 to 72, average 38.6 years old) of indigestion, abnormal gastrointestinal fermentation (with abnormal gas emission and rugitus) and abdominal complaints caused by irregular dejection (chronic diarrhoea, or constipation) were tested as subjects with good informed consent. Placebo controlled double blind tests were conducted using alkaline ionized water and clean water at multiple facilities. An alkaline ionized water electrolyzer sold commercially was installed with a pump driven calcium dispenser in each of the subject homes. Tested alkaline ionized water had pH at 9.5 and calcium concentration at 30ppm. Each subject in placebo group used a water purifier that has the same appearance as the electrolyzer and produces clean water. The tested equipment was randomly assigned by a controller who scaled off the key code which was stored safely until the tests were completed and the seal was opened again. Water samples were given to each patient in the amount of 200ml in the morning with the total of 50OmI or more per day for a month. Before and after the tests, blood, urine and stool were tested and a log was kept on the subjective symptoms, bowel movements and accessory symptoms. After the tests, the results were analyzed based on the log and the test data. Test Results 1. Symptom Among 163 tested subjects, alkaline ionized water group included 84 and placebo group 79. Background factors such as gender, age and basal disorders did not contribute to significant difference in the results. 2. Overall improvement rate As to overall improvement rate of abdominal complaints, alkaline ionized water group had 2 cases of outstanding improvement (2.5%), 26 cases of fair improvement (32.1%), 36 cases of slight improvement (44.4%), 13 cases of no change (16%) and 4 cases of exacerbation (4.9%), whereas placebo group exhibited 4 (5.2%), 19 (24.7%), 27 (35.1%), 25 (32.5%) and 2 cases (2.6%) for the same category. Comparison between alkaline ionized water and placebo groups did not reveal any significant difference at the level of 5% significance according to the Wilcoxon test, although alkaline ionized water group turned out to be significantly more effective than placebo group at the level of p value of 0.22. Examining overall improvement rates by a 7, 2 test (with no adjustment for continuity) between the effective and noneffective groups, alkaline ionized water group had 64 (79%) of effective cases and 17 cases (21%) of non effective cases, whereas placebo group had 50 (64.9%) and 27 (35.1%) cases respectively. The result indicated that alkaline ionized water group was significantly more effective than placebo group at the level of p value of 0.0.48. Looking only at 83 slight cases of abdominal complaints, overall improvement rate for alkaline ionized water group (45 cases) was composed of 11 cases (242%) of fair improvement, 22 cases (48.9%) of slight improvement, 17 cases (44.7%) of no change and 3 cases (6.7%) of exacerbation, whereas placebo group (38 cases) had 3 (7.8%), 17 (44.7%), 17 (44.7%) and 1 (2.6%) cases for the same category. Alkaline ionized water group was significantly more effective than placebo group according to the comparison between the groups (p value = 0.033). 3. Improvement rate by basal symptom Basal symptoms were divided into chronic diarrhea, constipation and abdominal complaints (dyspepsia) and overall improvement rate was evaluated for each of them to study effect of alkaline ionized water. In case of chronic diarrhoea, alkaline ionized water group resulted in 94.1% of effective cases and 5.9% of non effective cases. Placebo group came up with 64,7% effective and 35.3% non effective. These results indicate alkaline ionized water group proved to be significantly more effective than placebo group. In case of slighter chronic diarrhoea, comparison between groups revealed that alkaline ionized water group is significantly more effective than placebo group (p=0.015). In case of constipation, alkaline ionized water group consisted of 80.5% of effective and 19.5% of non effective cases, whereas placebo group resulted in 73.3% effective and 26.3 non effective. As to abdominal complaints (dyspepsia), alkaline ionized water group had 85.7% of effective and 14.3% non effective cases while placebo group showed 47.1% and 62.9% respectively. Alkaline ionized water group proved to be significantly more effective than placebo group (p=0.025). 4. Safety Since one case of chronic diarrhoea, in placebo group saw exacerbation, the test was stopped. There was no such cases in alkaline ionized water group. Fourteen cases of accessory symptoms, 8 in alkaline ionized water group and 6 in placebo group, were observed, none of which were serious. 31 out of 163 cases (16 in alkaline ionized water group, 15 in placebo group) exhibited fluctuation in test data, although alkaline ionized water group did not have any problematic fluctuations compared to placebo group. Two cases in placebo group and one case in alkaline ionized water group have seen K value of serum climb up and resume to normal value after re testing which indicates the value changes were temporary. Conclusion As a result of double blind clinical tests of alkaline ionized water and clean water, alkaline ionized water was proved to be more effective than clean water against chronic diarrhoea, abdominal complaints (dyspepsia) and overall improvement rate (relief from abdominal complaints). Also, safety of alkaline ionized water was confirmed which clinically verifies its usefulness. Treatment of Escherichia coli (O157:H7) inoculated alfalfa seeds and sprouts with electrolyzed oxidizing water [ Top ] International Journal Food Microbiology Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Pennsylvania State University , University Park , PA 16802 , USA . Electrolyzed oxidizing water is a relatively new concept that has been utilized in agriculture, livestock management, medical sterilization, and food sanitation. Electrolyzed oxidizing (EO) water generated by passing sodium chloride solution through an EO water generator was used to treat alfalfa seeds and sprouts inoculated with a five-strain cocktail of nalidixic acid resistant Escherichia coli O157:H7. EO water had a pH of 2.6, an oxidation-reduction potential of 1150 mV and about 50 ppm free chlorine. The percentage reduction in bacterial load was determined for reaction times of 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, and 64 min. Mechanical agitation was done while treating the seeds at different time intervals to increase the effectiveness of the treatment. Since E. coli O157:H7 was released due to soaking during treatment, the initial counts on seeds and sprouts were determined by soaking the contaminated seeds/sprouts in 0.1% peptone water for a period equivalent to treatment time. The samples were then pummeled in 0.1% peptone water and spread plated on tryptic soy agar with 5 microg/ml of nalidixic acid (TSAN). Results showed that there were reductions between 38.2% and 97.1% (0.22-1.56 log(10) CFU/g) in the bacterial load of treated seeds. The reductions for sprouts were between 91.1% and 99.8% (1.05-2.72 log(10) CFU/g). An increase in treatment time increased the percentage reduction of E. coli O157:H7. However, germination of the treated seeds reduced from 92% to 49% as amperage to make EO water and soaking time increased. EO water did not cause any visible damage to the sprouts. PMID: 12915034 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Dr. Robert O. Young states: Alkaline Water is the common consumer term for ionized water, or ERW (electrolyzed reduced water). In the lab, however, there a many ways to make water alkaline that is done chemically and not by eletrolysis, such as adding sodium or potassium bicarbonate to the water. Here are some additional references of scientific studies validating the efficacy of alkaline water in the prevention and reversing dis-ease and diseases. It is important to note that several of the conclusions from these scientific papers make reference to the powerful antioxidant properties of alkaline water or ERW.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/…/19887722 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/…/19477216 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/…/12857518 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/…/11121980 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/…/19003114 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/…/18175936 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/…/16244454 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/…/17576297 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/…/17159237 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/…/16760903 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/…/12846769 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/…/11068076 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/…/19954569 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/…/19546159 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/…/19065312 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/…/15617863 Jack A. Barber states: In the war of the waters, alkaline water zealots not only shamelessly promote the benefits of alkaline water but take shots at both distillation (D) and reverse osmosis (RO). They believe that drinking DRO water is actually harmful because it can be slightly acidic. The truth is the unique properties of mineral free, ultra-pure drinking waters actually makes the pH measurement meaningless in the body. It is important to note that de-ionized, rain and many spring waters also have the same properties that make them acidic. Dr. Robert O. Young: There is no war on water except for those who are holding on to old out dated and no longer valid science. Distilled water is electrical neutral water and a wonderful catalyst for delivering alkalizing minerals or hydroxyl ions if added. Drinking distelled reverse osmosis water is not harmful it is just a waste of time. It would be like in the past developing film that had never been exposed. Distilled reverse osmosis water can only be helpful to the body when it is a carring agent for electrons for providing energy and buffering excess dietary and/or metabolic acids. As per rain water there is no such thing as deionized rain. All water, including rain water carries a charge and can be measured in milli-volts (mV). That charge can be either positive or negative. Positively charged water is acidic water and negatively charged water is alkaline water. The charge of water is important because that is what the body is made up of and what the body runs on. I call it the spark of life – which is the electrical charge of water or more specifically the electron. Explanation of pH and why it matters To better understand how the body renders this debate meaningless, it is necessary to have a basic explanation of pH. The pH level is a quantitative measure of the hydrogen ions representing the acidity or alkalinity of a solution. The acidic solution has more free hydrogen ions and the alkaline solution has fewer free hydrogen ions. Any substance that lowers pH is an acid and any substance that raises it is a base. Buffers are substances that enable water to resist pH change when an acid or base is added. The pH scale ranges from 0 to 14 with a pH of 7 being neutral. A pH less than 7 is acidic and a pH greater than 7 is alkaline. The pH scale is logarithmic so for every one unit of change in pH there is a tenfold change in ion concentration. This means a solution with a pH of 3 is 10 times more acidic than a solution with a pH of 4 and 100 times more acidic than one with a pH of 5. The effects on the pH scale from drinking DRO water Jack A. Barber states: Highly purified DRO water is neutral with a pH of 7. Since there are virtually no dissolved solids (TDS) in this water, there is nothing to influence the pH change in either the alkaline or acid direction or to act as buffers to resist change. Dr. Robert O. Young states: Highly purified DRO water is not electrical neutral. It’s oxidative reduction potential measures between +150mV to +285mV which makes this water enervating and acid. That means drinking DRO water will acidify the blood and tissues as well as deplete stored energy in the body. Jack A. Barber states: That degree of purity makes DRO water extremely sensitive so adding the slightest amount of acid or base will easily change the pH. Even a small amount of carbon dioxide from the air will combine with DRO water to lower the pH to about 6. For the same reason, just a speck of an alkalizing substance like baking soda will immediately raise the pH of a glass to over 7. In contrast, it would require considerably more acid or base to change the pH of mineral water. The difference is the presence of buffers or dissolved solids making it resistant to change. In other words, the pH of DRO water is like a pendulum that can be moved easily with a feather compared to high mineral water that requires a mallet. Dr. Robert O. Young states: There is more to water than just purity to consider. There are other important considerations of a good healthy drinking water and that is electrical charge and molecular structure. When I speak of electrical charge I am referring to the charge that is carried on the surface of the water molecule. In most distilled, reverse osmosis or distilled reverse osmosis water, H2O molecules tend to cluster together in groups of 10 to 20. Electron activity occurs on the surface of a molecule, and as molecules cluster together, the total surgace area decreases, thereby decreasing electron activity or electrical charge. Conversely. the smaller the clusters formed, the higher the electron activity. Furthermore, arge clusters of molecules as found in distilled reverse osmosis water cannot permeate the cell membranes very well, and so can’t hydrate the cells from the inside. The smaller the size of the cluster of molecules, the better able the water is to hydrate the cell and the more oxygen it can provide. Your water should have no more than 3 to 5 molecules clustered together. Ideally you would watn monomolecular water – each molecule stands as an individual, without clustering. There are two cutting-edge processing methods that can provide you with the properly structured water. One is is plasma-activated water which uses electromagnetic fields and ultrasound and UV radiation to breakdown the molecular clusters and thus incrase the electrically potential of distilled, reverse osmosis or ordinary tap water without chemicals or heat, creating a highly electrically charge with smaller molecule clusters of one to two molecules. The second cutting-edge processing is micro-ionization which passes water over titanium electrodes breaking the molecule clusters apart and creating a highly electrically charge with smaller molecule clusters of three to five molecules. Water like this will NOT come out of your tap, you cannot create this water using reverse osmosis filters or through distillation and you CANNOT buy this kind of water in a bottle. But investing in a micro-ionization machine you can create this extraordinary healthy water that has a pH of 9.5, a oxidative reduction potential of -250mV, and rH2 factor of 22 or less and a water with NO impurities. Jack A. Barber states: Therefore, when you drink slightly acidic DRO water, it immediately combines with the slightly acidic digestive enzymes in saliva and seconds later with very acidic digestive enzymes and gastric juices in the stomach without affecting your pH in any way. In short, the extremely sensitive DRO water pH immediately adjusts to your body rather than your body adjusting to the DRO water pH. The much stronger hydrochloric acid in the stomach with a pH of 1 is about 100,000 times more acidic than any slightly acidic DRO water with which it combines. That renders the pH of DRO water completely irrelevant. Dr. Robert O. Young states: Therefore, when you drink acidic DRO water, the salivary glands begin secreting sodium bicarbonate to increase its acidic pH which in turn activates the cover cells of the stomach to begin producing sodium bicarbonate to alkalize the toxic water you just ingested. This robs the body of valuable alkaline buffers and in addition valuable electrons for energy needed to buffer the toxic water consumed. There is no benefit in drinking DRO water because it does NOT add additional electrons for energy nor does it buffer acids or hydrate the body. Reasons not to drink alkaline water Jack A. Barber states: According to Dr. Bob Arnot M.D., who is a well-known author and nutritionist, in a recent Men’s Health Journal article, “Say no to alkaline water, it’s a scam. Your body is designed to adjust to its optimal pH balance no matter what you ingest. For instance, once alkaline water enters your stomach, your body simply pours in greater amounts of acid to neutralize it.” Dr. Robert O. Young states: Once you ingest alkaline water the stomach does NOT have to produce the alkaizing compound of sodium bicarbonate thus preserving energy and alkaline buffers. To learn more about the physiology of the stomach please read, “The Real Truth About the Stomach” by Dr. Robert O. Young at: http://articlesofhealth.blogspot.com/2012/04/real-truth-concerning-physiology-of.html Jack A. Barber states: Since the stomach is designed to be acidic, it must produce more acid every time you drink alkaline water to compensate for the dilution of gastric juices. In a previously healthy gut, the constant ingestion of alkalized water can create an abnormal digestive condition. Even drinking alkalized water along with meals can dilute the natural acidity of the digestive tract and interfere with digestion. Dr. Robert O. Young states: Since the stomach is designed to produce sodium bicarbonate to buffer the acids from the foods you eat and the liquids you drink – drinking alkaline water prevents the production of sodium bicarbonate and its toxic acidic waste product of hydrochloric acid. The chemical equation is: NaCl + H2O + CO2 <=> NaHCO3 + HCL. To learn more about the true function of the stomach and the alkaline buffering system of the body please read: http://articlesofhealth.blogspot.com/2012/04/real-truth-concerning-physiology-of.html Jack A. Barber states: Maintaining normal stomach acidity is also necessary to protect against bacterial and viral infections. The acidic environment destroys pathogenic organisms that may be ingested in both food and water. Altering this acid environment leaves you wide open to intestinal infections. At least half of everyone over 60 suffers from some level of low stomach acid. This condition can be compounded by the consumption of alkaline water. Dr. Robert O. Young states: Maintianing normal stomach alkalinity is necessary to protect against bacteria, yeast and mold. The alkaline environment in a healthy normal stomach prevents the biological transformation of body and plant cells into bacteria and/or yeast. By drinking alkaline electron rich monomolecular water you avoid so-called infections. It is when you eat acidic foods and drinks that you activate the stomach to produce sodium bicarbonate to buffer the acids coming from the food. It is gastrointestinal acid that causes disease and drinking distilled or reverse osmosis water or acid water will only compromise the alkaline design of the gut. For more information on the physiology of the gastrointestinal system read: http://articlesofhealth.blogspot.com/2012/04/real-truth-concerning-physiology-of.html Jack A. Barber states: As a Harvard Medical School graduate, nationally known author and nutritionist Dr. Andrew Weil is eminently qualified to evaluate the health claims of alkaline water. He said, “The health claims for water ionizers and alkaline water are bogus. Save your money. You should consider the fact that alkaline water is common throughout the western states, but to my knowledge, it has not protected anyone from the diseases and disorders that occur elsewhere in the U.S.” Dr. Robert O. Young states: Dr. Andrew Weil is NOT qualified to evealuate the health claims of alkaline water and has NEVER provided any credible scientific research to refute the health benefits of drinking alkaline water. Jack A. Barber states: Nutritionist and pure water advocate Dr. A. True Ott noted, “Water that is rich in hydrogen measures 5 or 6 on the pH scale (acidic), while alkaline water is actually dehydrating. In my experimentation and research, there is a direct correlation with water purity levels and hydrogen content. Thus, one should strive to consume the purest water possible, water rich in free hydrogen ions. Why then are people often tricked into thinking that drinking water with high TDS contaminants such as ionized water is actually a wise and healthy thing to do? Science and logic scream otherwise.” Dr. Robert O. Young states: Any water rich in hydrogen ions or H+ is acidic water and will activate the alkaline buffering systems, especially the stomach to begin producing the akaline compound sodium bicarbonate to nuetralize the free hydrogen ions. Water with high TDS can be acidic and the TDS does NOT determine the electrical charge or the molecular structure of water. Don’t fall for the easy way out Jack A. Barber states: In spite of all the warnings, most people want the best health without the sacrifices needed to achieve it safely. We all love the idea of a quick fix. What better way to correct years of poor nutrition, zero exercise and chronic dehydration than by simply drinking alkaline water? Savvy marketers prey on these consumers, selling useless products that may cause severe long-term side effects. Using nothing more than sales fiction, they have beguiled trusting consumers and created a thriving market for expensive alkalizing gizmos known as ionizers. Dr. Robert O. Young states: Drinking electron rich, monmolecular water with a pH of 9.5 and an oxidative reduction potential of at least -250mV will be the single most important thing you can do to prevent disease, slow the aging process and to achieve and maintain a healthy, fit, and vibrant body. Jack A. Barber states: These popular ionizers, according to scientists, are not only medically baseless and worthless, but also possibly dangerous. Four Japanese studies have been published in peer journals and independently verified showing that alkaline water caused pathological changes in heart cell muscles and increased the risk of heart attack in laboratory animals. Dr. Robert O. Young states: There are thousands of published research papers on the health benefits of drinking alkaline electron rich water. Please refer to the above referenced published scientific articles above. Jack A. Barber states: Normal cells die under extremely alkaline conditions. A study published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry found that alkalosis (rising cellular pH) causes alkaline-induced cell death as a result of altering mitochondrial function. These results raise very serious doubts about the safety of alkaline water. Dr. Robert O. Young states: Healthy normal body cells including blood cells begin to transform and die in waters with a pH of 6.9 or less. It is dietary and metabolic acid that destroys life. Healthy cells can live perfectly in an alkaline environment, even a high alkaline pH envirnoment. All body fluid alkalosis is the result of tissue acidosis caused from an acidic lifestyle and diet. To learn more read: Jack A. Barber states: Dr. David Brownstein, author, international lecturer and foremost practitioner of holistic medicine, said, “I disagree with the claims made about alkaline water. The claims about the benefits of drinking alkaline are made with no supporting evidence. The best way to optimize your pH is to eat a healthy diet full of minerals and vitamins. Eating refined foods like white flour, sugar and salt promote acidity.” Dr. Robert O. Young states: Please refer to the published scientific articles above concerning the benefits of drinking alkaline water. Jack A. Barber states: The wide range of pH values needed throughout the body is exquisitely balanced, primarily through a complex system of buffering and breathing. There are, however, some simple things you can do to maintain a naturally healthy pH. Eating more fruits and vegetables, practicing deep breathing and drinking plenty of pure hydrating water will enable your body to more easily remove toxins and acid metabolic wastes. Dr. Robert O. Young states: The single most important thing you can do to remove acidic toxins and acidic metabolic waste products is to drink liberal amounts of alkaline electron rich alkaline water. By liberal amounts I mean one liter per 30 kilos of weight. Jack A. Barber states: Other factors, such as lack of exercise, emotional stress, medication, coffee, alcohol and smoking, can adversely affect the internal pH of your body over an extended period of time. Thus, improved health is not a quick-fix but a slow, cumulative process consisting of numerous lifestyle choices. Dr. Robert O. Young states: There is only one sickness, one disease and one health. The one sickness and disease is the over-acidification of the blood and tissues due to an inverted way of living, eating and thinking. The one health is to maintain the alkaline design of the body with an alkaline lifestyle and diet. To begin the process of maintaining the alkaline design of the body, drink electron rich alkaline water with a pH of 9.5 and an ORP of -250mV in a small clustered not to exceed 5 molecules. Jack A. Barber states: It is my sincere hope that this combination of scientific studies, expert advice and common horse sense settles the pH debate so we can all freely enjoy the pure, oxygen-rich elixir of life without any pH paranoia. Dr. Robert O. Young states: I want to thank Jack for his article for he made it possible for the reader to hear the right side of truth.
The following is an article written by Jack A. Barber on his understanding of acid/base bio- electro/chemistry. Jack has postulated a theory that drinking ionized alkaline water does not have health or fitness benefits. His theory is contained in the following article and his explanation of how alkalizing or over-alkalizing with ionized water can be harmful to health. I have commented after each of his statements to help people better understand my research and experience with acid/base bio-elector/chemistry, the “New Biology”, using hyperalkalization in the prevention and treatment of dis-ease and disease and the need to maintain the alkaline design of the body for extraordinary health, energy and fitness.
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Bytox: Can This Patch Prevent a Hangover?
Earlier this month, a PR representative emailed this magazine to pitch a story about an exciting new product. Usually, I send those type of communiqués straight to the trash bin. But this pitch concerned a personal and professional interest of mine. “With holiday season approaching, people will drink a ton,” the email reads. “The Bytox patch helps to replenish the necessary levels of vitamins and nutrients your body loses when consuming mass quantities of alcohol."
Within minutes, I have replied with the address of my office requesting a sample of the patch—a hangover prevention remedy that claims to deliver, among other things, 10,000 percent of one’s daily value of vitamin B1 directly to the bloodstream over a night of drinking. The PR representative tells me he’ll send ten patches immediately. He also has a “well-spoken, good looking doctor” on hand to “discuss how the patch works.” Would I like to speak to him?
I Google “Dr. Leonard Grossman” and arrive at the page of a New York plastic surgeon. Two phrases are conspicuously bolded in his online bio. They are both “Breast Augmentation, in NYC.”
On the phone, Grossman tells me that he agreed to come on as an “adviser” and "co-developer" of the product partially due to his medical appreciation of vitamins, which he says help shepherd his breast augmentation patients through their recovery period. For those not recovering from surgery, a constant stream of vitamins could help us consume alcohol without feeling bad later. “We didn’t do any real testing to the product,” Grossman tells me. But anecdotal reviews from partiers and Grossman himself have been positive. “I’m certain that you will enjoy them," he says. "They really work amazingly well.”
How well? “I would not recommend anybody that they drink a lot, that’s number one,” Grossman says. “I don’t know what your limits are, but I'm betting people could drink probably twice the normal amount and still not have a hangover,” he continues. "Know your limits," he instructs me. Then, “bend them a little bit. Do it in a safe way.”
The patches arrive shortly before the commencement of GOOD's annual holiday party (the bar will be open). In lieu of real, scientific testing of Bytox, I decide to try a little experiment of my own. I select 10 colleagues I predict will produce interesting results. At 6:15 that evening, I instruct them to deploy the patches (Grossman has recommended the forearm as an optimal access point).
We head to the bar, and bend our limits.
8 a.m the next morning. I awake to a text message from my carpool buddy, another recipient of the hangover patch. “Hangover patch fails,” it reads.
“I can’t move,” I reply.
“Me neither,” she texts back. “But I want a breakfast burrito or bagel so much."
“Where burrito."
“This is the greatest text message. I don’t know where.”
I squint and take a tour of my phone. The previous night, I had sent one text message (“Where u??," 1:23 a.m.) and one unsent draft “Haha. Cat n fidev”—presumably, I had tired before completing the name of the bar I was in). I am impressed with myself. It was the kind of night that usually leaves a long trail of digital evidence. The worst of the damage is contained within my apartment: An untouched bowl of pasta sits on my bedside table. Except for the patch, I am completely naked. After arriving home, I had decided that I needed carbohydrates, before quickly reversing course: I needed a bath, one executed with one arm draped over the side of the tub to keep the patch from getting wet.
9 a.m. More reports from the field. “These patches don’t work for shit,” another colleague texts. “I feel terrible, and maybe a little depressed?” The last time I saw him, I was shouting “Goodbye, handsome idiot!” from the back window of a cab as he was led to the curb in a Santa hat he had recovered from the bar. Earlier in the evening, we had argued about whether there exists a popular perception that attractive people are also dumb, an exchange that culminated in him aggressively shouting compliments at me (“You don’t look like a man”).
“Im very depressed,” I text back. “Where is the best breakfast burriti [sic].”
9:30 a.m. I have risen, showered, put on the dress in my closet that most resembles pajamas, and lined its pockets with ibuprofen, my more trusted hangover remedy. I peel the patch from my forearm and take in its sticky, scaly underbelly. As instructed, I have removed it eight hours after my last drink. My hangover is just beginning. If the patch works, what sort of nightmare would I be living right now had I not applied it?
I exit my house and sit on the curb, waiting for my coworker to scoop me up in her car. We have needs: The aforementioned burrito, and the kind of sparkling apple juice they sell at the 24-hour doughnut place by the Payless. On our way into the office, we see a coworker at a bus stop wearing the same clothes he wore last night. “I am extremely hungover,” I tell him when he enters the car. Due to an unfortunate series of events, he has not been home since the previous night. He had not been wearing the patch.
10 a.m. The office is littered with half-eaten breakfast burritos. Several intraoffice email threads begin debating the patch's effectiveness. To my surprise, there is no consensus: “I think it worked!”; “I feel like I got run over by a truck”; “I need a second run with a patch to confirm this, but I do think it’s a wonder drug.” Our control group fails to illuminate the situation further: “I didn't have mine on and I think right now I'd honestly rather be dead. Just FYI,” one coworker writes from inside the office, while wearing sunglasses.
10:30 a.m. A body of evidence mounts.
“Its obviously tough to know how i would feel had i not had the patch on last night,” writes one user. “i think i do feel about 5-10% better than i might have otherwise predicted i would."
“I feel pretty good today, and I did mix up my drink order, drink a lot, and also went to bed on a empty stomach, which is all recipe for disaster," another weighs in. "The patch might have done something for me, because I woke up with no headache, sickness or aches usually associated with a heavy night of drinking, and I'm not pregnant and have not stopped smoking.”
“I went into the whole affair last night with a false sense of security,” another writes in an email accompanied by a YouTube video for Lil Wayne’s “I Feel Like Dying.” “I figured the patch would work so I drank a ton more than I would have otherwise. Perhaps I drank so heroically I destroyed any chance the patch would have had at being effective. Either way, when I woke up I was very disappointed with myself, I felt sick, and looking at the patch resting there on my forearm just made me angry and ashamed. I sat down in the shower and let the water fall on my drooped head for a few minutes. I never sit down in the shower. Just pathetic. Sorry if this is too stream of consciousness.”
Days earlier, I had sent a series of desperate emails to the PR representative. "I haven't received the samples yet; were they sent? I'd love to have them to try out for our holiday party next week," I wrote. "Let me know if the samples were sent out—would love to use them Wed.," I wrote again. Hours before the open bar begins, a bright orange envelope turned up in my inbox containing 10 patches. There was much rejoicing. “Thank God,” one colleague announced.
But our joy soon bred hubris. "I'm going to push my limits," I told everyone who would listen.
11 a.m. Another patch recipient enters the office. By the time I had selected him to be a part of our little experiment the previous afternoon, I had had the opportunity to fully inspect the patch's packaging. "THESE STATEMENTS HAVE NOT BEEN EVALUATED BY THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION,” a disclaimer read. ”THIS PRODUCT IS NOT INTENDED TO DIAGNOSE, TREAT, CURE OR PREVENT ANY DISEASE. INDIVIDUAL RESULTS MAY VARY. DO NOT USE IF YOU ARE PREGNANT OR NURSING, OR IF YOU ARE TAKING MEDICATION AND/OR HAVE A MEDICAL CONDITION.” ("That disclaimer would appear on almost any product you buy," Grossman had assured me earlier).
Meanwhile, another colleague had performed an exploratory Google search for “B vitamin overdose.” I was beginning to get nervous about distributing the products in a work environment, but I pressed on. "Would you like to try a non-FDA approved patch you apply to your skin that claims to mitigate a hangover?" I had asked a coworker. “[Expletive] the FDA," he replied. "[EXPLETIVE] THE FDA," we all repeated.
Now, he has arrived in the office with a puncture wound on the palm of his hand. After "putting the patch through its paces" with a night of Guinness ingestion, "I think my dart wound hurts more than my head," he concludes. "Do they have a patch that prevents you from stabbing yourself in the hand with a dart?"
Noon. After a breakfast burrito, a large styrofoam cup of soda, water, ibuprofen, and endorphins released from a morning of spontaneous laughter concerning events of the previous evening, things are looking up. Commiserating with others about the patch’s effectiveness also seems to help. We formulate a plan for crushing the hangover once and for all.
1 p.m. Inside the closest Roscoes Chicken and Waffles location to the office, we pull from every corner of the hangover food pyramid—waffle, fried chicken, maple syrup, Sriracha, gravy, butter, Coke. Cee Lo arrives. This is the best hangover of my life.
2 p.m. I Google image search Brett Favre. He is not nearly as handsome as I had drunkenly asserted the evening before.
3 p.m. Success: I have made it to our daily editorial meeting, the last work commitment for which I am expected to be physically present in the office. I inform my colleagues that my Bytox story will be coming in late, for reasons that require no explanation. “This is the worst hangover I’ve ever had in my entire life,” one editor says when the meeting concludes. “I am going home,” I announce.
4 p.m. I secure rations for the evening at a convenience store—chips, salsa, a six pack of beer—turn off all the lights in my apartment, and lay on my bed to begin my review. "The most interesting people in the world remember what happened the night before," Bytox's promotional materials read. “Do you?"
I am the most interesting person in the world. I remember administering highly sophisticated relationship advice to a wide variety of people; debating the merits of journalism awards and the Arizona immigration bill; instructing a friend on the handsomest quarterbacks in the NFL; being overcome with the urge to hug everyone in the bar; informing co-workers from the furthest reaches of the office that we will totally hang out after this; pulling out my credit card to keep it all going after the open bar had closed. I remind a colleague of something he had told me the night before. “I don’t remember that," he tells me, "but I stand by it.”
Results: Inconclusive.
Bytox: Can This Patch Prevent a Hangover?
Earlier this month, a PR representative emailed this magazine to pitch a story about an exciting new product. Usually, I send those type of communiqués straight to the trash bin. But this pitch concerned a personal and professional interest of mine. “With holiday season approaching, people will drink a ton,” the email reads. “The Bytox patch helps to replenish the necessary levels of vitamins and nutrients your body loses when consuming mass quantities of alcohol."
Within minutes, I have replied with the address of my office requesting a sample of the patch—a hangover prevention remedy that claims to deliver, among other things, 10,000 percent of one’s daily value of vitamin B1 directly to the bloodstream over a night of drinking. The PR representative tells me he’ll send ten patches immediately. He also has a “well-spoken, good looking doctor” on hand to “discuss how the patch works.” Would I like to speak to him?
I Google “Dr. Leonard Grossman” and arrive at the page of a New York plastic surgeon. Two phrases are conspicuously bolded in his online bio. They are both “Breast Augmentation, in NYC.”
On the phone, Grossman tells me that he agreed to come on as an “adviser” and "co-developer" of the product partially due to his medical appreciation of vitamins, which he says help shepherd his breast augmentation patients through their recovery period. For those not recovering from surgery, a constant stream of vitamins could help us consume alcohol without feeling bad later. “We didn’t do any real testing to the product,” Grossman tells me. But anecdotal reviews from partiers and Grossman himself have been positive. “I’m certain that you will enjoy them," he says. "They really work amazingly well.”
How well? “I would not recommend anybody that they drink a lot, that’s number one,” Grossman says. “I don’t know what your limits are, but I'm betting people could drink probably twice the normal amount and still not have a hangover,” he continues. "Know your limits," he instructs me. Then, “bend them a little bit. Do it in a safe way.”
The patches arrive shortly before the commencement of GOOD's annual holiday party (the bar will be open). In lieu of real, scientific testing of Bytox, I decide to try a little experiment of my own. I select 10 colleagues I predict will produce interesting results. At 6:15 that evening, I instruct them to deploy the patches (Grossman has recommended the forearm as an optimal access point).
We head to the bar, and bend our limits.
8 a.m the next morning. I awake to a text message from my carpool buddy, another recipient of the hangover patch. “Hangover patch fails,” it reads.
“I can’t move,” I reply.
“Me neither,” she texts back. “But I want a breakfast burrito or bagel so much."
“Where burrito."
“This is the greatest text message. I don’t know where.”
I squint and take a tour of my phone. The previous night, I had sent one text message (“Where u??," 1:23 a.m.) and one unsent draft “Haha. Cat n fidev”—presumably, I had tired before completing the name of the bar I was in). I am impressed with myself. It was the kind of night that usually leaves a long trail of digital evidence. The worst of the damage is contained within my apartment: An untouched bowl of pasta sits on my bedside table. Except for the patch, I am completely naked. After arriving home, I had decided that I needed carbohydrates, before quickly reversing course: I needed a bath, one executed with one arm draped over the side of the tub to keep the patch from getting wet.
9 a.m. More reports from the field. “These patches don’t work for shit,” another colleague texts. “I feel terrible, and maybe a little depressed?” The last time I saw him, I was shouting “Goodbye, handsome idiot!” from the back window of a cab as he was led to the curb in a Santa hat he had recovered from the bar. Earlier in the evening, we had argued about whether there exists a popular perception that attractive people are also dumb, an exchange that culminated in him aggressively shouting compliments at me (“You don’t look like a man”).
“Im very depressed,” I text back. “Where is the best breakfast burriti [sic].”
9:30 a.m. I have risen, showered, put on the dress in my closet that most resembles pajamas, and lined its pockets with ibuprofen, my more trusted hangover remedy. I peel the patch from my forearm and take in its sticky, scaly underbelly. As instructed, I have removed it eight hours after my last drink. My hangover is just beginning. If the patch works, what sort of nightmare would I be living right now had I not applied it?
I exit my house and sit on the curb, waiting for my coworker to scoop me up in her car. We have needs: The aforementioned burrito, and the kind of sparkling apple juice they sell at the 24-hour doughnut place by the Payless. On our way into the office, we see a coworker at a bus stop wearing the same clothes he wore last night. “I am extremely hungover,” I tell him when he enters the car. Due to an unfortunate series of events, he has not been home since the previous night. He had not been wearing the patch.
10 a.m. The office is littered with half-eaten breakfast burritos. Several intraoffice email threads begin debating the patch's effectiveness. To my surprise, there is no consensus: “I think it worked!”; “I feel like I got run over by a truck”; “I need a second run with a patch to confirm this, but I do think it’s a wonder drug.” Our control group fails to illuminate the situation further: “I didn't have mine on and I think right now I'd honestly rather be dead. Just FYI,” one coworker writes from inside the office, while wearing sunglasses.
10:30 a.m. A body of evidence mounts.
“Its obviously tough to know how i would feel had i not had the patch on last night,” writes one user. “i think i do feel about 5-10% better than i might have otherwise predicted i would."
“I feel pretty good today, and I did mix up my drink order, drink a lot, and also went to bed on a empty stomach, which is all recipe for disaster," another weighs in. "The patch might have done something for me, because I woke up with no headache, sickness or aches usually associated with a heavy night of drinking, and I'm not pregnant and have not stopped smoking.”
“I went into the whole affair last night with a false sense of security,” another writes in an email accompanied by a YouTube video for Lil Wayne’s “I Feel Like Dying.” “I figured the patch would work so I drank a ton more than I would have otherwise. Perhaps I drank so heroically I destroyed any chance the patch would have had at being effective. Either way, when I woke up I was very disappointed with myself, I felt sick, and looking at the patch resting there on my forearm just made me angry and ashamed. I sat down in the shower and let the water fall on my drooped head for a few minutes. I never sit down in the shower. Just pathetic. Sorry if this is too stream of consciousness.”
Days earlier, I had sent a series of desperate emails to the PR representative. "I haven't received the samples yet; were they sent? I'd love to have them to try out for our holiday party next week," I wrote. "Let me know if the samples were sent out—would love to use them Wed.," I wrote again. Hours before the open bar begins, a bright orange envelope turned up in my inbox containing 10 patches. There was much rejoicing. “Thank God,” one colleague announced.
But our joy soon bred hubris. "I'm going to push my limits," I told everyone who would listen.
11 a.m. Another patch recipient enters the office. By the time I had selected him to be a part of our little experiment the previous afternoon, I had had the opportunity to fully inspect the patch's packaging. "THESE STATEMENTS HAVE NOT BEEN EVALUATED BY THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION,” a disclaimer read. ”THIS PRODUCT IS NOT INTENDED TO DIAGNOSE, TREAT, CURE OR PREVENT ANY DISEASE. INDIVIDUAL RESULTS MAY VARY. DO NOT USE IF YOU ARE PREGNANT OR NURSING, OR IF YOU ARE TAKING MEDICATION AND/OR HAVE A MEDICAL CONDITION.” ("That disclaimer would appear on almost any product you buy," Grossman had assured me earlier).
Meanwhile, another colleague had performed an exploratory Google search for “B vitamin overdose.” I was beginning to get nervous about distributing the products in a work environment, but I pressed on. "Would you like to try a non-FDA approved patch you apply to your skin that claims to mitigate a hangover?" I had asked a coworker. “[Expletive] the FDA," he replied. "[EXPLETIVE] THE FDA," we all repeated.
Now, he has arrived in the office with a puncture wound on the palm of his hand. After "putting the patch through its paces" with a night of Guinness ingestion, "I think my dart wound hurts more than my head," he concludes. "Do they have a patch that prevents you from stabbing yourself in the hand with a dart?"
Noon. After a breakfast burrito, a large styrofoam cup of soda, water, ibuprofen, and endorphins released from a morning of spontaneous laughter concerning events of the previous evening, things are looking up. Commiserating with others about the patch’s effectiveness also seems to help. We formulate a plan for crushing the hangover once and for all.
1 p.m. Inside the closest Roscoes Chicken and Waffles location to the office, we pull from every corner of the hangover food pyramid—waffle, fried chicken, maple syrup, Sriracha, gravy, butter, Coke. Cee Lo arrives. This is the best hangover of my life.
2 p.m. I Google image search Brett Favre. He is not nearly as handsome as I had drunkenly asserted the evening before.
3 p.m. Success: I have made it to our daily editorial meeting, the last work commitment for which I am expected to be physically present in the office. I inform my colleagues that my Bytox story will be coming in late, for reasons that require no explanation. “This is the worst hangover I’ve ever had in my entire life,” one editor says when the meeting concludes. “I am going home,” I announce.
4 p.m. I secure rations for the evening at a convenience store—chips, salsa, a six pack of beer—turn off all the lights in my apartment, and lay on my bed to begin my review. "The most interesting people in the world remember what happened the night before," Bytox's promotional materials read. “Do you?"
I am the most interesting person in the world. I remember administering highly sophisticated relationship advice to a wide variety of people; debating the merits of journalism awards and the Arizona immigration bill; instructing a friend on the handsomest quarterbacks in the NFL; being overcome with the urge to hug everyone in the bar; informing co-workers from the furthest reaches of the office that we will totally hang out after this; pulling out my credit card to keep it all going after the open bar had closed. I remind a colleague of something he had told me the night before. “I don’t remember that," he tells me, "but I stand by it.”
Results: Inconclusive.
Why Girlfriends = Health
It’s been said that “one of the best things a man could do for his health is to be married to a woman, whereas for a woman, one of the best things she could do for her health was to nurture her relationships with her girlfriends.” Women’s need for connection with other women is built in to our DNA – it’s part of our biological makeup. Expert Louann Brizendine wrote about how women find biological comfort in one another’s company in her book “The Female Brain.” Our brains just work differently than men’s, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
We get energized by our own “happy” hormones when we respond to stress with nurturing, fun activities and the creation and maintenance of protective social networks. (That’s why women are the most active users on Facebook and Twitter!) That means we actually feel better and become healthier when we connect with supportive girlfriends. Quality “girl time” physically and mentally helps us create more dopamine, a neurotransmitter that controls and kicks on the brain’s reward and pleasure centers. Bonding between babes and mamas, as well as between trusting girlfriends, is cemented with the attachment hormone, oxytocin. Yeah, we actually bond with our girlfriends as we do with our offspring, creating a chemical love cocktail between us when we share and support.
What’s strange is that, as a society, we’re experiencing a decline in girl time and connection. A major national survey jointly-conducted by Duke University and University of Arizona in 2006 found a big dip in friendships. More people are feeling more isolated, and this lack of social ties creates mental and physical health problems, on a big scale. It’s basically the same as the risks we see from being overweight or smoking cigarettes—that’s how bad it is. See, most women need connection to maintain their health like they need sunlight to create vitamin D.
When us girls get together, start sharing worries and experiences, talking about our feelings, and unveil our souls with our sisters, our bodies feel as rejuvenated as if we had gone to the gym, and our brains are filled with those happy, anti-depressant neurotransmitters that make life so juicy. Rather than feeling guilty for hanging out with our friends, we should give ourselves a squeeze and a “yeehaw!” for doing something that is so good for our health, hormones and outlook. We women are very lucky – when we indulge our true desires for connection and girl time, we actually promote within ourselves the ability to heal.
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Join Alex in the Reboot & Refresh program starting April 5! Not only will you have life-changing experiences as you open yourself up to self-exploration, but with the community and quality girl time we’ll share each week, you’ll be taking really good care of yourself as you get a nice mega-dose of serotonin. Now that’s something sweet to chew on!
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Testing Taboos: The 50 Topics Banned From Standardized Exams
American schools have a long history of banning controversial books, but it turns out that standardized tests ban words, too—and not just the four-letter kind. According to The New York Post, that city's Department of Education maintains a list of more than 50 words and topics that are prohibited from appearing on standardized tests administered to the city's students (see the full list below).
Some of the words, like pornography, simply aren't age-appropriate. The idea that references to Halloween or birthday parties might offend students who don't believe in celebrating those holidays seems more of a stretch. And then there are the topics—including rap and rock music, junk food, and television—that all modern students are pretty familiar with, yet they're not allowed on the tests either. Nothing referencing poverty or homelessness, either, which seems patently absurd for kids growing up in New York City.
City education officials say they make these words and topics off-limits because they're controversial or may appear "biased against (or toward) some group of people." A homeless student might be distracted by answering a question containing the word "homelessness" or referencing the topic, and no one wants a child whose parents are going through a divorce to start bawling if she has to find a synonym for that word.
But if the pressure of those tests is so extreme that such scenarios are likely, maybe the exams themselves are the problem. Kids feel anxious over taking them, and only 7 percent of teachers believe in giving them. As Valerie Stauss of The Washington Post writes, "What is there to say about people who think up words to keep off tests to avoid upsetting people, when it is the very tests themselves—and the high stakes put on the results—that people actually find so offensive?"
Banned words and topics:
Abuse (physical, sexual, emotional, or psychological)
Alcohol (beer and liquor), tobacco, or drugs
Birthday celebrations (and birthdays)
Bodily functions
Cancer (and other diseases)
Catastrophes/disasters (tsunamis and hurricanes)
Celebrities
Children dealing with serious issues
Cigarettes (and other smoking paraphernalia)
Computers in the home (acceptable in a school or library setting)
Crime
Death and disease
Divorce
Evolution
Expensive gifts, vacations, and prizes
Gambling involving money
Halloween
Homelessness
Homes with swimming pools
Hunting
Junk food
In-depth discussions of sports that require prior knowledge
Loss of employment
Nuclear weapons
Occult topics (i.e. fortune-telling)
Parapsychology
Politics
Pornography
Poverty
Rap Music
Religion
Religious holidays and festivals (including but not limited to Christmas, Yom Kippur, and Ramadan)
Rock-and-Roll music
Running away
Sex
Slavery
Terrorism
Television and video games (excessive use)
Traumatic material (including material that may be particularly upsetting such as animal shelters)
Vermin (rats and roaches)
Violence
War and bloodshed
Weapons (guns, knives, etc.)
Witchcraft, sorcery, etc.
Photo via (cc) Flickr user – Slavin
Testing Taboos: The 50 Topics Banned From Standardized Exams
American schools have a long history of banning controversial books, but it turns out that standardized tests ban words, too—and not just the four-letter kind. According to The New York Post, that city's Department of Education maintains a list of more than 50 words and topics that are prohibited from appearing on standardized tests administered to the city's students (see the full list below).
Some of the words, like pornography, simply aren't age-appropriate. The idea that references to Halloween or birthday parties might offend students who don't believe in celebrating those holidays seems more of a stretch. And then there are the topics—including rap and rock music, junk food, and television—that all modern students are pretty familiar with, yet they're not allowed on the tests either. Nothing referencing poverty or homelessness, either, which seems patently absurd for kids growing up in New York City.
City education officials say they make these words and topics off-limits because they're controversial or may appear "biased against (or toward) some group of people." A homeless student might be distracted by answering a question containing the word "homelessness" or referencing the topic, and no one wants a child whose parents are going through a divorce to start bawling if she has to find a synonym for that word.
But if the pressure of those tests is so extreme that such scenarios are likely, maybe the exams themselves are the problem. Kids feel anxious over taking them, and only 7 percent of teachers believe in giving them. As Valerie Stauss of The Washington Post writes, "What is there to say about people who think up words to keep off tests to avoid upsetting people, when it is the very tests themselves—and the high stakes put on the results—that people actually find so offensive?"
Banned words and topics:
Abuse (physical, sexual, emotional, or psychological)
Alcohol (beer and liquor), tobacco, or drugs
Birthday celebrations (and birthdays)
Bodily functions
Cancer (and other diseases)
Catastrophes/disasters (tsunamis and hurricanes)
Celebrities
Children dealing with serious issues
Cigarettes (and other smoking paraphernalia)
Computers in the home (acceptable in a school or library setting)
Crime
Death and disease
Divorce
Evolution
Expensive gifts, vacations, and prizes
Gambling involving money
Halloween
Homelessness
Homes with swimming pools
Hunting
Junk food
In-depth discussions of sports that require prior knowledge
Loss of employment
Nuclear weapons
Occult topics (i.e. fortune-telling)
Parapsychology
Politics
Pornography
Poverty
Rap Music
Religion
Religious holidays and festivals (including but not limited to Christmas, Yom Kippur, and Ramadan)
Rock-and-Roll music
Running away
Sex
Slavery
Terrorism
Television and video games (excessive use)
Traumatic material (including material that may be particularly upsetting such as animal shelters)
Vermin (rats and roaches)
Violence
War and bloodshed
Weapons (guns, knives, etc.)
Witchcraft, sorcery, etc.
Photo via (cc) Flickr user – Slavin
Cancer is Preventable and Reversible NOW!
Introducing Dr. Robert O. Young and the “pH Miracle” I am very excited to introduce you to the work of the leading nutritional microbiologist in the world today— Dr. Robert O. Young.
Over the past two and a half decades, Dr. Robert O. Young has been widely recognized as one of the top research scientists in the world. Throughout his career, his research has been focused at the cellular level. Having a specialty in cellular nutrition, Dr. Young has devoted his life to researching the true causes of “disease,” subsequently developing The New Biology™ to help people balance their life.
THE NEW BIOLOGY
Dr. Young’s scientific findings have led him to a new science he calls The New BiologyTM.
In contrast, the ‘old’ biology (based on the work of Louis Pasteur in the late 1800s) stems from the idea that disease comes from germs and bacteria which invade the body from the outside.
Simply put, the New Biology states that there is only One Sickness and One Disease, and that this one ‘sickness’ is the over-acidification of the body due primarily to an inverted way of living, thinking, and eating.
This over-acidification leads to the over-growth in our body of micro-organisms (such as yeast and fungi) whose poisons produce the symptomologies that medical science refers to as “disease”.
Based on Dr. Young’s theory, there’s only one sickness, and there can therefore be only one remedy and treatment, and that is to alkalize the body and break the cycle of imbalance, thus allowing us to experience the energy, vitality and true health we’re all meant to have.
What’s more, Dr Robert Young is a man for whom I have immense respect and admiration. If you are familiar with my work (through my books, eBooks, and seminars), you know that I’m definitely not one who easily buys into “miracle cures” – nor am I easily swayed by other people’s opinions or anecdotal reports. I’m extremely wary of exaggerated health claims provided by individuals or enterprises that stand to make huge profits from the proliferation of those claims.
But the more I expanded my research into this New BiologyTM, the more I was dumbfounded by the mountains of evidence showing that this therapy has already been used by so many health practitioners who have adopted Dr Young’s protocol to heal cancer and every conceivable disease.
My skepticism turned to conviction when I realized that this cure is . . .
…the only healing therapy that finally eliminates the REAL cause of cancer!
Specifically, my skepticism melted away when I saw the overwhelming evidence consisting of thousands of people that were healed of cancer once and for all. This is BY FAR the simplest, most effective and most powerful therapy for curing cancer and creating optimal health. It is also the secret that both the American pharmaceutical industry and the medical establishment don’t want you to know.
That’s because this simple cure for virtually all diseases threatens the livelihood and the trillion-dollar earnings of the pharmaceutical and health care industries – not to mention the medical centers and physicians that make a great living from providing expensive drugs, complex medical procedures and long hospital stays.
The simple protocol which is detailed in this book represents the biggest threat to the revenues of the pharmaceutical and medical industries. It’s a bigger threat than all the alternative healing therapies, nutritional supplements, natural foods and products COMBINED.
I believe it’s the definitive answer to the cause, prevention and cure of cancer and of a great many diseases that plague the world today.
Therefore I am deeply honoured, thrilled and excited to introduce you to a research scientist who is not only a genius in his field, but a man with an immense heart. Dr Young is a man who truly cares deeply, and I am certain his knowledge and caring can make a difference not only in your life, but in the lives of all your family and loved ones. So let the journey of transformation begin!
The pH miracle for cancer by Dr. Robert O. Young
We’re very, very grateful to be able to share this research – this New BiologyTM – what I (Rob) refer to as a new way of living, a new way of eating, a new way of thinking.
Some of the questions we’ll be covering in this chapter include:
The focus will be on the alkaline pH of the body. The key I believe is to obtain sustainable energy.
Most of the last 25 years of my research has been focused on what is happening to the cells as it pertains specifically to the environment around those cells. And I love this quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” So the focus of my research has been on specifically what lies within us and, more specifically, how the internal fluids affect the health, energy, and vitality of the human cell. Dr Benjamin Rush, eminent physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence, said: “Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an underground dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic.”
As I think about my vision, the relative purpose of medicine I believe must include not just the treatment but also the prevention of illness and the promotion of health and fitness, rather than just focusing all of our attention on a specific diagnosis or even the treatment of disease. Because disease is an illusion, in reality disease is the body trying to prevent fermentation or break down of the tissue. It’s the body in preservation mode trying to maintain the homeostasis of the internal fluids of the body, which are alkaline. I believe that the ultimate purpose of medicine is to help people discover something fundamental within themselves. And that is an awareness of the true source of wellbeing, the true source of joy, the true source of contentment that we all seek which lies in one’s mind and in one’s heart – which are the emotions and the spirit. And this is important so that we can all begin to be free from the process of grasping for happiness on a physical world.
To support this approach, this theory, I believe we must begin to embrace a more spiritual vision of ourselves and of humanity as a whole, while at the right time providing great love, care, and attention to the physical body. Then, and only then, will medicine (or the treatments that medicine is current performing) help people discover this non-physical, spiritual dimension of themselves. And when this happens I believe that we can live and work with less fear. Rather than working in fear we can work in its opposite – we can work in faith. We’re going to have less stress grasping to preserve the physical body at all costs, then I believe we can truly be happy, energetic, and free.
Last year Shelley and I (Rob) had the opportunity to have a wonderful experience with Dr Carter who is the caretaker of the estate of Martin Luther King and also the protégé of M. L. King, and there he honoured Shelley and I. And the most important thing that I learned about Dr Carter was his openness to not just thinking outside the box, because we talk a lot about thinking outside the box, I would like to suggest rather than thinking outside the box as we contemplate these new theories that I am going to be presenting to you on the pH Miracle for cancer, but making the box bigger. We don’t have to think outside the box, we just need to make the box bigger to allow new technologies, new biologies, new protocols that are effectively making the difference, specifically in the prevention and treatment of cancer.
“We must be the change we want to see.” - Ghandi
If we want to see the cure for cancer, I believe we must be change we want to see. We’ll have to look at it differently, not outside the box but inside the box making it bigger. Expanding our views and our perspective as it relates to cancer.
Now before we start exploring the pH Miracle for cancer, I must start up by saying what is a pH miracle. And I would suggest that a pH miracle is a natural phenomenon that is not understood currently by medical researchers, specifically in the cause and effect relationship. What is the cause? Is cancer a cause for disease? I say no, cancer is the body attempting to maintain homeostasis and cancer is the body in preservation mode trying to maintain the alkaline design of the human organism. So first we must understand that cancer is unequivocally not a disease, but a symptom or better yet an effect of gastrointestinal and metabolic acids that have built up in the blood and then these acids are thrown off into the tissues poisoning and suppressing our immune system making it increasingly difficult to maintain the alkaline pH of the internal fluids of the body. So these acids destroy the white cells’ ability to remove acids and the cells which they spoil.
What I’m simply suggesting is that cancer is not a cell, but an acidic liquid that spoils our cells that make up our tissues and organs when those acids are not properly eliminated through urination, perspiration, respiration or defecation. Let’s now look at the current medical definition of cancer. What is it? Cancer is a group of diseases characterized by uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells. If the spread is not controlled it can result in death. Cancer is caused by both external factors, some of which are known and are common in our society such as tobacco, chemicals, radiation (from our cellular phones) and internal factors: hormone imbalances, immune deficiency and gene mutations – which is what they’re suggesting. These factors may act together in a sequence to promote what is called carcinogenesis. This is the classical definition of cancer, taken directly from the American Cancer Society.
So what is being suggested by current medical science is that the cancer is some mutating cell that – a transmutation of the genes – triggered by internal or external factors, this is true but what is not understood is these internal or external factors are the acids themselves. So when we’re dealing with any symptom or an effect, we need to look at the cause. Whether externally or internally, the focus traditionally has been to look at the matter rather than look at the environment around the matter. And to understand the cause is very simple just like the treatment. And the New Biology® explains the cause and effect of all sickness and disease and specifically cancer as well as how to improve the quality and quantity of life without chemical therapy, radiation or surgery.
Let me give you an example. Enervation (ie, lack of energy), muscle weakness, you’ve probably seen the commercials on television, it’s a new disease they call restless legs syndrome (RLS) for which there are drugs that supposedly treat the syndrome. They want to put everything in a disease modality – a nice little box – that has a specific treatment. Yet restless legs syndrome is weakness or loss of electrical power. It’s not a disease. But by causing a flagging of the toxic elimination from the tissue, the blood becomes charged with these metabolic acids and when it’s charged with these metabolic acids the blood has to purify itself by throwing these metabolic acids into the tissues to maintain its delicate pH balance of 7.365. This is what I call the body in preservation mode which leads to what I refer to as latent tissue acidosis. This is poison in the blood, and if that poison is not eliminated through urination, perspiration, respiration or defecation, the body has to purify itself so it throws this poison into the connective tissue. This is the disease, or is it? Not even skin challenges when the acids accumulate beyond the toleration point a crisis takes place which means that the poison or the acid is being eliminated through the skin.
Looking at the 2006 statistics for cancer, this year in America we’re looking at 1,400,000 new cases of cancer. By the way, this statistic doesn’t even include skin cancer which is actually bigger than lung cancer, breast cancer or prostate cancer. And prostate cancer is known to be the leading cause of death in men while lung cancer being the leading cause of death in women. And yet when we look at cancer, the new incidents of cancer and the new diagnoses are skin cancers because skin is the third kidney – the elimination organ. And if acids are not properly eliminated through the elimination channels, then those acids are thrown out into the tissues and this is what’s not currently recognized by medical science.
This is the reason why the blood maintains its pH by either eliminating acid through urination or throwing it into the colloidal tissue which leads to this crisis, this poisoning, this elimination through the skin, again the third kidney! And this is not a disease. The only disease is systemic, because acids flow out through your whole body. They are the waste products of metabolism. Our bodies are like cars, they’re constantly on though 24/7 and they require energy and when energy is being used, a waste product like carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide or lactic acid is being created. So acid is constantly being created which has to be eliminated. So when energy is being used to think, to move, to breathe, at the same time an acid is being created and acid needs to be eliminated. If the acid is not eliminated, it is thrown out into the colloidal connective tissue. It is our tissue that becomes the colloidal acid catcher in order to maintain the purity of the blood. The blood has to maintain the purity and this is why the blood has a constant pH. If it varies of even just one point you can have ill effects. The proper balance is 7.365. If it starts dropping or if it starts going up, the body will do whatever it can to maintain that delicate pH. This is very significant in order to understand cancer and why it’s not a cell but the spoiling of the cell and tissue by metabolic acids which are not properly eliminated through elimination because we have enervation, we don’t have the energy to move the acid out to maintain the purity of the blood, so it is then sent out into the colloidal connective tissue.
When this elimination takes place through the mucus membrane of the nose for example it’s called a cold – catarrh of the nose. And when these crises are repeated for years the mucus membrane thickens and ulcerates, and the bones enlarge, closing the passages. At this stage hay fever, asthma develops. When the tonsils or any other respiratory passages become the seat of the crisis of acidity (because the acids were not properly eliminated) then we have tonsillitis, laryngitis, bronchitis, asthma, pneumonia, and cancer. You see, it’s progressive, it’s the same thing. All that’s happening is different progressions of the same thing – just different levels of states of acidosis. When this acid is located in the cranial cavity we have dementia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, muddle thinking, forgetfulness. If the acids accumulate in the digestive area, we end up with irritable bowel syndrome, gastro intestinal problems, stenosis, colitis. And when the acids locate in the pelvic tissue, or in the breasts, we end up with micro calcifications as the body, in preservation mode, is using one of these alkaline buffers such as calcium to neutralize the acids and that’s why we have these micro calcifications in the pelvic area and in the breast. This always precedes the rotting of the tissue. Even in prostate cancer.
Hence all cancers are the expulsion of acids from the blood and then the tissue at different points and are essentially the same character evolving from the same cause, namely systemic acidosis – a crisis of toxaemia. The description can be extended to every organ of the body: the lung, the liver, the pancreas, the bowls, the brain, including the largest organs which has the highest incidents: the skin. Any organ that is enervated below the average standard (from stress of habit, from overstress at work, from worry, anxiety, fear, injury, etc.) may become the location of the crisis of systemic latent tissue acidosis. The symptoms presented differently depending upon which organ is being affected. Which is what makes it appear as if every symptom complex is a separate and distinct disease. But we need to not think outside the box, we need to think inside the box, we just need to make the box bigger.
I give thanks to this new light shed upon nomen culture naming disease by the philosophy of The New Biology, every symptom complex goes back to the one and only cause of all so called cancers, namely systemic latent tissue acidosis. To find the cause of all symptomologies – lung cancer, breast cancer, brain cancer, bowl cancer, prostate cancer – we start with colds and catarrh, and watch the pathology and is it travels from irritation to catarrh to inflammation to induration to ulceration and then to cancer: nothing more than rotting tissue. And what is causing the transformation (and not gene transmutation) is the spoiling of the cell due to the acids.
Have you ever opened a refrigerator and smelled the spoiling foods at the back? These are the acids! It’s not some germ, it’s not some virus, it’s not some mold that’s breaking this down, it’s the acids that are breaking the tissue down and giving rise to the symptomology. Mold is like a smoking gun, the bullet being the acid. And yet it’s not the bullet or the acid that kills, and surely not the smoke or some gene mutation, or some bacteria or virus, but it is the person himself or herself that is pulling lifestyle and dietary trigger which then releases the acid that then tenderizes or spoils the tissue in the weakest parts of the body.
Nature’s order is interfered with by innovating habits until acidosis is established. A vaccination as evidenced by the Spanish flu epidemic or an infection, in truth it’s literally an out-fection from the same source causing the most vulnerable organ, specifically the bowls, to take on organic changes. The organ however has nothing to do with the cause, and directing treatment to the organ is actually compounding the problem. You cannot treat disease when in reality disease is the body in preservation trying to re-establish homeostasis in a state of systemic acidosis that’s localized at the weakest part of the body.
When we realize that breast cancer is the leading cause of death in women and that these fatty tissues (breast areas) are being used by the body to bind or collect the acids in order to protect the organs that sustain life. And by the way when one does a mammogram and sees these microcalcification of the breast, this is an indication of a state of acidosis – the body’s defensive mechanism to relieve or remove or neutralize acidity that hasn’t been properly eliminated though urination, perspiration, respiration or defecation.
If we’re dealing with prostate, we’re dealing with localized acidity. If we’re dealing with lung cancer, we’re dealing with localized acidity that can be caused by external or internal forces but everything comes from within. As we take in tobacco smoke, there are acids and toxins and poisons – one being sugar which breaks down to acetaldehyde which tenderizes this tissue. Tobacco smoking is not an addiction of nicotine, it’s an addiction of sugar which causes excess acidity in a localized area. So cause is constant, ever present, always the same, only the effects change. To illustrate, a catarrh of the stomach presents first irritation, then inflammation, then ulceration and finally induration and cancer. Cancer is not at the first, it’s the culmination of deteriorating or broken tissue spoiled by an overacidic stomach.
Most Americans are challenged with the symptomology of indigestion which can include acid reflux, bloating, heartburn, burping, diarrhea, or even constipation. The proper way to study disease is to study health in every aspect. Disease is perverted health. Cancer is perverted health – any influence that lowers energy becomes disease producing.
There’s an important question now to answer. Why do we crave sugar? It’s interesting when doing an MRI or a CAT scan. What is used but radioactive sugar that is taken up by the acidic cells – not cancer cells because we don’t have cancer cells, we have acidic cells or cancerous cells: cells that have been spoiled by the environment in which they live. So sugar cravings are the body’s needs for sustainable energy. And energy can only be transported through a matrix of salt. Therefore sugar cravings are the body’s needs for salt, not sugar. And I suggest that sugar is an acid of cellular transformation – a waste product – not a product of energy by a by-product of what the body truly uses which is electrical potential in the form of electrons.
The body doesn’t use carbohydrates, the body uses electrons to run. The body is electrical. And sugar is nothing more than a waste product of cellular breakdown and transformation. Isn’t that what happens to the banana? As the banana moves from irritation to inflammation to induration and then to cancer, going from green to yellow to brown getting its “liver spots” the same way you get liver spots, through excess fermentation and rotting. We do not say the banana has cancer, we say the banana is spoiling. In the same way we shouldn’t say that the lung has cancer but rather that the lung is spoiling – it is cancerous. Cancer is not a noun but an adjective expressing the process of cellular transformation. Again, sugar is the waste product. In fact, that’s why it gets sweeter and sweeter as it ferments. Consistently in my research I see that we have a release of sugar from the breakdown of tissue. And to overcome sugar craving we don’t have to eat sugar, we need to eat more salt. And the secondary metabolites of this primary acid or sugar areacetaldehyde and ethanol alcohol. So cravings are the body’s signal that the body needs more sustainable energy. We need energy to remove the acids of metabolism – the body utilizing electrons for energy purposes. Food, drinks, sun, minerals, vitamins, drugs… are common choices made by us to achieve sustainable energy, but yet what we’re looking for are the electrons from these sources. And our choices will determine whether or not our cravings will lead to true sustainable energy which maintains the integrity of the fluids of body and therefore the integrity of the tissues, or gives us false energy which creates this over-acidic state that leads to latent tissue acidosis which begins the process of spoiling of the tissue.
Sugar stimulates and gives the body a deceptive quick-fix – it’s illusionary – whereas salt provides the matrix and gives our body the rise in sustainable energy, over a long period of time, without the high and extreme lows that come from eating an acid – whether it be sugar or any other acidic foods or drinks.
It is the skin that suffers, because if the body can’t eliminate the acids that are created through energy consumption, it throws them out of the tissues and into the lymphatic system, and that’s why the lymphatic system is so critical in the prevention of cancer and in the treatment of cancer, because it is the lymphatic system that is the vacuum cleaner of the acids that are in the interstitial fluids of the body, pulling these acids out in order to maintain the integrity of the tissue through diaphramic breathing and perspiration (that is if we’re perspiring, which is one of the most important things we need to do on a daily basis). If we can’t eliminate our acids through urination then our body urinates through the skin – which is why there is over a million cases of skin cancer a year in the United States and probably you didn’t even know that. It’s not talked about. Why? Because the etiology of skin cancer is not understood. It is unknown. Scientists don’t know what causes basal cell carcinoma, melanoma, they do not understand it because they don’t understand latent tissue acidosis and the importance of the lymphatic system as the vacuum cleaner to move the acids out via the kidneys and through perspiration. But we’re not exercising, and this is why obesity and a lack of exercise have been associated with cancer – yet when we’re moving our body we’re moving the acids out of the tissue because the lymphatic system, unlike the circulatory system, does not have a pump (the heart), it actually flows through movement. It is the diaphragm muscle that acts as a pump for the lymphatic system that moves the acids through the system – out through perspiration or back in the general circulation to be eliminated through urination.
If you don’t want cancer, if you wan to prevent it, you have to pee or eliminate your acids through urination or perspiration. And if you are a cancer sufferer you have to pee your way to health. Because cancer is not a cell, but a poisoning acidic liquid. A cancer cell is a cell that is spoiled or poisoned by the metabolic acids and gastrointestinal acids that are produced internally, or may be breathed in. That’s when the body goes into protection mode by forming fibrous materials which cross-link to encapsulate the spoiled cells and thus forming the tumour. Hence tumour is the body’s protective mechanism to encapsulate spoiled or poisoned cells from excess acids which have not been properly eliminated through urination, perspiration, defecation, and respiration. The tumour is the body’s solution to protect healthy cells and tissues. So the tumour is not the problem. Let the tumour go. Let it do its job. The focus must be placed not on the tumour but on the environment around the tumour which is full of acids, and one of the common acids which is in higher concentration around all tumours that are in an acidic body is lactic acid, because lactic acid is a by-product of sugar metabolism when we’re in a state of oxygen deprivation. So cancer is a system acidic condition that settles in the weakest parts of the body, not a local problem that metastasizes. You see metastasis is localized acids that spoil other cells much like a rotten apple spoiling the bushel of other healthy apples.
There is no such thing as a cancer cell. A cancer cell is in reality a cancerous cell, it’s anadjective expressing the spoiling cell that’s spoiling in an over-acidic environment. A cancerous cell was once a healthy cell that has been spoiled from an over-acidic lifestyle and diet and the body’s inability to move these acids through the proper channels of elimination. The only solution to the acidic liquids that poison our body cells causing the effect that medical doctors call cancer, is to change the environment. It has to be a contextual approach. We must maintain the alkaline design of the human body. This has been the great discovery of the 21stcentury – that the human organism is alkaline by design (every part that makes up every anatomical element that makes up our genetic material that makes up our cells, every single part has to be bathed in an alkaline fluid which needs to be changed every 48 hours).
Early in the 19th century, beginning on January 17, 1912, a famous French physiologist of the Rockefeller Institute and Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Alexis Carrel, removed a very small piece of heart muscle from an unhatched chicken embryo—still warm and living—and placed it in fresh nutrient solution in a glass flask of his design. He transferred the tissue every forty-eight hours, during which time it doubled in size and had to be trimmed before being moved to its new flask. And every time he moved it he would put it into an alkaline saline solution with the appropriate alkalizing minerals. Thirty years later the tissue was still growing. Keep in mind that the average chicken lives for 5 – 7 years. So after getting bored of singing “Happy Birthday” to the chicken heart for over thirty years he decided to pull the plug and not change the fluids every 48 hours and the heart died.
This is a very important discovery which very few people know about because it answers the question about why cells live. You see, the life expectancy of the human cell is infinite. It just becomes compromised. Once we understand that matter cannot be created nor can it be destroyed it can only change its form or function, then we realize that the environment is everything, the terrain is everything, and the cell is subservient to that. The secret to Dr. Carrel’s chicken heart surviving for thirty years lies in this knowledge, this new biology, this new way of living and thinking as we expand the box not think outside the box, that the cell is only as healthy as the fluids it is bathed in. The heart is only as healthy as the cells. If you have lung cancer, that is an expression of the environment. And the cell as it’s breaking down is the smoke of the gun.
Carrel’s experiment brought us to the modern new biology, the new understanding, the new expansion, and the new definition of cancer – that the composition of our body fluids that bath the outside of our cells must be controlled very carefully from moment to moment and day to day with no single important constituent varying more than a few percent. This can be controlled and you can do it yourself!
In 1932 Otto Warburg received his Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering the cause of cancer. He described it as a cell changing its mode of respiration, its mode of metabolism – from respiration to fermentation. He suggested that cancer was the result of acidic environment, a state of oxygen deprivation. Warburg also wrote a paper entitled, “The Prime Cause and Prevention of Cancer.” He states: “There is no disease whose prime cause is better known. Over acidity.”
When we understand this we realize that all conditions of cancer potentially can be reversed if the treatments are focused on the fluids not the cell. Therefore it doesn’t matter what the cancer is, because cancer is not the cause but the effect of an over-acidic lifestyle and diet which isthe cause. It’s the person pulling the lifestyle and dietary trigger.
After 25 years of doing blood research, after looking at thousands and thousands of cancer patients, I’ve never seen healthy blood or an alkaline environment – whether testing the pH of the saliva, or the urine, or the blood, or the sweat, or the tears – they are all acidic in an over-acidic environment. And after 25 years I’ve learned that the human organism is alkaline by design and acidic by function, and if we but maintain this alkaline design of our body through an alkaline lifestyle and diet we will prevent all cancers. For the cure of cancer is not found in its treatment, because again cancer or a cancerous condition is the body in preservation mode trying to maintain alkalinity, so the cure is going to be found not in its treatment of the tissue but in maintaining the alkaline design of the human fluids of the body. As Thomas Edison said: “The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise.”
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Introducing Dr. Robert O. Young and the “pH Miracle"
Introducing Dr. Robert O. Young and the “pH Miracle”
I am very excited to introduce you to the work of the leading nutritional microbiologist in the world today — Dr. Robert O. Young.
Over the past two and a half decades, Dr. Robert O. Young has been widely recognized as one of the top research scientists in the world. Throughout his career, his research has been focused at the cellular level. Having a specialty in cellular nutrition, Dr. Young has devoted his life to researching the true causes of “disease,” subsequently developing The New Biology™ to help people balance their life.
THE NEW BIOLOGY
Dr. Young’s scientific findings have led him to a new science he calls The New BiologyTM.
In contrast, the ‘old’ biology (based on the work of Louis Pasteur in the late 1800s) stems from the idea that disease comes from germs and bacteria which invade the body from the outside.
Simply put, the New Biology states that there is only One Sickness and One Disease, and that this one ‘sickness’ is the over-acidification of the body due primarily to an inverted way of living, thinking, and eating.
This over-acidification leads to the over-growth in our body of micro-organisms (such as yeast and fungi) whose poisons produce the symptomologies that medical science refers to as “disease”.
Based on Dr. Young’s theory, there’s only one sickness, and there can therefore be only one remedy and treatment, and that is to alkalize the body and break the cycle of imbalance, thus allowing us to experience the energy, vitality and true health we’re all meant to have.
What’s more, Dr Robert Young is a man for whom I have immense respect and admiration. If you are familiar with my work (through my books, eBooks, and seminars), you know that I’m definitely not one who easily buys into “miracle cures” – nor am I easily swayed by other people’s opinions or anecdotal reports. I’m extremely wary of exaggerated health claims provided by individuals or enterprises that stand to make huge profits from the proliferation of those claims.
But the more I expanded my research into this New BiologyTM, the more I was dumbfounded by the mountains of evidence showing that this therapy has already been used by so many health practitioners who have adopted Dr Young’s protocol to heal cancer and every conceivable disease.
My skepticism turned to conviction when I realized that this cure is . . .
…the only healing therapy that finally eliminates the REAL cause of cancer!
Specifically, my skepticism melted away when I saw the overwhelming evidence consisting of thousands of people that were healed of cancer once and for all.
This is BY FAR the simplest, most effective and most powerful therapy for curing cancer and creating optimal health. It is also the secret that both the American pharmaceutical industry and the medical establishment don’t want you to know.
That’s because this simple cure for virtually all diseases threatens the livelihood and the trillion-dollar earnings of the pharmaceutical and health care industries – not to mention the medical centers and physicians that make a great living from providing expensive drugs, complex medical procedures and long hospital stays.
The simple protocol which is detailed in this book represents the biggest threat to the revenues of the pharmaceutical and medical industries. It’s a bigger threat than all the alternative healing therapies, nutritional supplements, natural foods and products COMBINED.
I believe it’s the definitive answer to the cause, prevention and cure of cancer and of a great many diseases that plague the world today.
Therefore I am deeply honoured, thrilled and excited to introduce you to a research scientist who is not only a genius in his field, but a man with an immense heart. Dr Young is a man who truly cares deeply, and I am certain his knowledge and caring can make a difference not only in your life, but in the lives of all your family and loved ones. So let the journey of transformation begin!
The pH miracle for cancer by Dr. Robert O. Young
We’re very, very grateful to be able to share this research – this New BiologyTM – what I (Rob) refer to as a new way of living, a new way of eating, a new way of thinking.
Some of the questions we’ll be covering in this chapter include:
- What is cancer?
- What’s the cause of all cancer? (Is cancer a mutant cell, a virus, a mould? Or is cancer an acidic liquid?)
- Is cancer a noun or is it actually an adjective that explains what’s happening to the cell?
- Are tumours bad or good?
- What role does the lymphatic system play in all this?
The focus will be on the alkaline pH of the body. The key I believe is to obtain sustainable energy.
Most of the last 25 years of my research has been focused on what is happening to the cells as it pertains specifically to the environment around those cells. And I love this quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” So the focus of my research has been on specifically what lies within us and, more specifically, how the internal fluids affect the health, energy, and vitality of the human cell. Dr Benjamin Rush, eminent physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence, said: “Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an underground dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic.”
As I think about my vision, the relative purpose of medicine I believe must include not just the treatment but also the prevention of illness and the promotion of health and fitness, rather than just focusing all of our attention on a specific diagnosis or even the treatment of disease. Because disease is an illusion, in reality disease is the body trying to prevent fermentation or break down of the tissue. It’s the body in preservation mode trying to maintain the homeostasis of the internal fluids of the body, which are alkaline. I believe that the ultimate purpose of medicine is to help people discover something fundamental within themselves. And that is an awareness of the true source of wellbeing, the true source of joy, the true source of contentment that we all seek which lies in one’s mind and in one’s heart – which are the emotions and the spirit. And this is important so that we can all begin to be free from the process of grasping for happiness on a physical world.
To support this approach, this theory, I believe we must begin to embrace a more spiritual vision of ourselves and of humanity as a whole, while at the right time providing great love, care, and attention to the physical body. Then, and only then, will medicine (or the treatments that medicine is current performing) help people discover this non-physical, spiritual dimension of themselves. And when this happens I believe that we can live and work with less fear. Rather than working in fear we can work in its opposite – we can work in faith. We’re going to have less stress grasping to preserve the physical body at all costs, then I believe we can truly be happy, energetic, and free.
Last year Shelley and I (Rob) had the opportunity to have a wonderful experience with Dr Carter who is the caretaker of the estate of Martin Luther King and also the protégé of M. L. King, and there he honoured Shelley and I. And the most important thing that I learned about Dr Carter was his openness to not just thinking outside the box, because we talk a lot about thinking outside the box, I would like to suggest rather than thinking outside the box as we contemplate these new theories that I am going to be presenting to you on the pH Miracle for cancer, but making the box bigger. We don’t have to think outside the box, we just need to make the box bigger to allow new technologies, new biologies, new protocols that are effectively making the difference, specifically in the prevention and treatment of cancer.
“We must be the change we want to see.”
- Ghandi
If we want to see the cure for cancer, I believe we must be change we want to see. We’ll have to look at it differently, not outside the box but inside the box making it bigger. Expanding our views and our perspective as it relates to cancer.
Now before we start exploring the pH Miracle for cancer, I must start up by saying what is a pH miracle. And I would suggest that a pH miracle is a natural phenomenon that is not understood currently by medical researchers, specifically in the cause and effect relationship. What is the cause? Is cancer a cause for disease? I say no, cancer is the body attempting to maintain homeostasis and cancer is the body in preservation mode trying to maintain the alkaline design of the human organism. So first we must understand that cancer is unequivocally not a disease, but a symptom or better yet an effect of gastrointestinal and metabolic acids that have built up in the blood and then these acids are thrown off into the tissues poisoning and suppressing our immune system making it increasingly difficult to maintain the alkaline pH of the internal fluids of the body. So these acids destroy the white cells’ ability to remove acids and the cells which they spoil.
What I’m simply suggesting is that cancer is not a cell, but an acidic liquid that spoils our cells that make up our tissues and organs when those acids are not properly eliminated through urination, perspiration, respiration or defecation. Let’s now look at the current medical definition of cancer. What is it? Cancer is a group of diseases characterized by uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells. If the spread is not controlled it can result in death. Cancer is caused by both external factors, some of which are known and are common in our society such as tobacco, chemicals, radiation (from our cellular phones) and internal factors: hormone imbalances, immune deficiency and gene mutations – which is what they’re suggesting. These factors may act together in a sequence to promote what is called carcinogenesis. This is the classical definition of cancer, taken directly from the American Cancer Society.
So what is being suggested by current medical science is that the cancer is some mutating cell that – a transmutation of the genes – triggered by internal or external factors, this is true but what is not understood is these internal or external factors are the acids themselves. So when we’re dealing with any symptom or an effect, we need to look at the cause. Whether externally or internally, the focus traditionally has been to look at the matter rather than look at the environment around the matter. And to understand the cause is very simple just like the treatment. And the New Biology® explains the cause and effect of all sickness and disease and specifically cancer as well as how to improve the quality and quantity of life without chemical therapy, radiation or surgery.
Let me give you an example. Enervation (ie, lack of energy), muscle weakness, you’ve probably seen the commercials on television, it’s a new disease they call restless legs syndrome (RLS) for which there are drugs that supposedly treat the syndrome. They want to put everything in a disease modality – a nice little box – that has a specific treatment. Yet restless legs syndrome is weakness or loss of electrical power. It’s not a disease. But by causing a flagging of the toxic elimination from the tissue, the blood becomes charged with these metabolic acids and when it’s charged with these metabolic acids the blood has to purify itself by throwing these metabolic acids into the tissues to maintain its delicate pH balance of 7.365. This is what I call the body in preservation mode which leads to what I refer to as latent tissue acidosis. This is poison in the blood, and if that poison is not eliminated through urination, perspiration, respiration or defecation, the body has to purify itself so it throws this poison into the connective tissue. This is the disease, or is it? Not even skin challenges when the acids accumulate beyond the toleration point a crisis takes place which means that the poison or the acid is being eliminated through the skin.
Looking at the 2006 statistics for cancer, this year in America we’re looking at 1,400,000 new cases of cancer. By the way, this statistic doesn’t even include skin cancer which is actually bigger than lung cancer, breast cancer or prostate cancer. And prostate cancer is known to be the leading cause of death in men while lung cancer being the leading cause of death in women. And yet when we look at cancer, the new incidents of cancer and the new diagnoses are skin cancers because skin is the third kidney – the elimination organ. And if acids are not properly eliminated through the elimination channels, then those acids are thrown out into the tissues and this is what’s not currently recognized by medical science.
This is the reason why the blood maintains its pH by either eliminating acid through urination or throwing it into the colloidal tissue which leads to this crisis, this poisoning, this elimination through the skin, again the third kidney! And this is not a disease. The only disease is systemic, because acids flow out through your whole body. They are the waste products of metabolism. Our bodies are like cars, they’re constantly on though 24/7 and they require energy and when energy is being used, a waste product like carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide or lactic acid is being created. So acid is constantly being created which has to be eliminated. So when energy is being used to think, to move, to breathe, at the same time an acid is being created and acid needs to be eliminated. If the acid is not eliminated, it is thrown out into the colloidal connective tissue. It is our tissue that becomes the colloidal acid catcher in order to maintain the purity of the blood. The blood has to maintain the purity and this is why the blood has a constant pH. If it varies of even just one point you can have ill effects. The proper balance is 7.365. If it starts dropping or if it starts going up, the body will do whatever it can to maintain that delicate pH. This is very significant in order to understand cancer and why it’s not a cell but the spoiling of the cell and tissue by metabolic acids which are not properly eliminated through elimination because we have enervation, we don’t have the energy to move the acid out to maintain the purity of the blood, so it is then sent out into the colloidal connective tissue.
When this elimination takes place through the mucus membrane of the nose for example it’s called a cold – catarrh of the nose. And when these crises are repeated for years the mucus membrane thickens and ulcerates, and the bones enlarge, closing the passages. At this stage hay fever, asthma develops. When the tonsils or any other respiratory passages become the seat of the crisis of acidity (because the acids were not properly eliminated) then we have tonsillitis, laryngitis, bronchitis, asthma, pneumonia, and cancer. You see, it’s progressive, it’s the same thing. All that’s happening is different progressions of the same thing – just different levels of states of acidosis. When this acid is located in the cranial cavity we have dementia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, muddle thinking, forgetfulness. If the acids accumulate in the digestive area, we end up with irritable bowel syndrome, gastro intestinal problems, stenosis, colitis. And when the acids locate in the pelvic tissue, or in the breasts, we end up with micro calcifications as the body, in preservation mode, is using one of these alkaline buffers such as calcium to neutralize the acids and that’s why we have these micro calcifications in the pelvic area and in the breast. This always precedes the rotting of the tissue. Even in prostate cancer.
Hence all cancers are the expulsion of acids from the blood and then the tissue at different points and are essentially the same character evolving from the same cause, namely systemic acidosis – a crisis of toxaemia. The description can be extended to every organ of the body: the lung, the liver, the pancreas, the bowls, the brain, including the largest organs which has the highest incidents: the skin. Any organ that is enervated below the average standard (from stress of habit, from overstress at work, from worry, anxiety, fear, injury, etc.) may become the location of the crisis of systemic latent tissue acidosis. The symptoms presented differently depending upon which organ is being affected. Which is what makes it appear as if every symptom complex is a separate and distinct disease. But we need to not think outside the box, we need to think inside the box, we just need to make the box bigger.
I give thanks to this new light shed upon nomen culture naming disease by the philosophy of The New Biology, every symptom complex goes back to the one and only cause of all so called cancers, namely systemic latent tissue acidosis. To find the cause of all symptomologies – lung cancer, breast cancer, brain cancer, bowl cancer, prostate cancer – we start with colds and catarrh, and watch the pathology and is it travels from irritation to catarrh to inflammation to induration to ulceration and then to cancer: nothing more than rotting tissue. And what is causing the transformation (and not gene transmutation) is the spoiling of the cell due to the acids.
Have you ever opened a refrigerator and smelled the spoiling foods at the back? These are the acids! It’s not some germ, it’s not some virus, it’s not some mold that’s breaking this down, it’s the acids that are breaking the tissue down and giving rise to the symptomology. Mold is like a smoking gun, the bullet being the acid. And yet it’s not the bullet or the acid that kills, and surely not the smoke or some gene mutation, or some bacteria or virus, but it is the person himself or herself that is pulling lifestyle and dietary trigger which then releases the acid that then tenderizes or spoils the tissue in the weakest parts of the body.
Nature’s order is interfered with by innovating habits until acidosis is established. A vaccination as evidenced by the Spanish flu epidemic or an infection, in truth it’s literally an out-fection from the same source causing the most vulnerable organ, specifically the bowls, to take on organic changes. The organ however has nothing to do with the cause, and directing treatment to the organ is actually compounding the problem. You cannot treat disease when in reality disease is the body in preservation trying to re-establish homeostasis in a state of systemic acidosis that’s localized at the weakest part of the body.
When we realize that breast cancer is the leading cause of death in women and that these fatty tissues (breast areas) are being used by the body to bind or collect the acids in order to protect the organs that sustain life. And by the way when one does a mammogram and sees these microcalcification of the breast, this is an indication of a state of acidosis – the body’s defensive mechanism to relieve or remove or neutralize acidity that hasn’t been properly eliminated though urination, perspiration, respiration or defecation.
If we’re dealing with prostate, we’re dealing with localized acidity. If we’re dealing with lung cancer, we’re dealing with localized acidity that can be caused by external or internal forces but everything comes from within. As we take in tobacco smoke, there are acids and toxins and poisons – one being sugar which breaks down to acetaldehyde which tenderizes this tissue. Tobacco smoking is not an addiction of nicotine, it’s an addiction of sugar which causes excess acidity in a localized area. So cause is constant, ever present, always the same, only the effects change. To illustrate, a catarrh of the stomach presents first irritation, then inflammation, then ulceration and finally induration and cancer. Cancer is not at the first, it’s the culmination of deteriorating or broken tissue spoiled by an overacidic stomach.
Most Americans are challenged with the symptomology of indigestion which can include acid reflux, bloating, heartburn, burping, diarrhea, or even constipation. The proper way to study disease is to study health in every aspect. Disease is perverted health. Cancer is perverted health – any influence that lowers energy becomes disease producing.
There’s an important question now to answer. Why do we crave sugar? It’s interesting when doing an MRI or a CAT scan. What is used but radioactive sugar that is taken up by the acidic cells – not cancer cells because we don’t have cancer cells, we have acidic cells or cancerous cells: cells that have been spoiled by the environment in which they live. So sugar cravings are the body’s needs for sustainable energy. And energy can only be transported through a matrix of salt. Therefore sugar cravings are the body’s needs for salt, not sugar. And I suggest that sugar is an acid of cellular transformation – a waste product – not a product of energy by a by-product of what the body truly uses which is electrical potential in the form of electrons.
The body doesn’t use carbohydrates, the body uses electrons to run. The body is electrical. And sugar is nothing more than a waste product of cellular breakdown and transformation. Isn’t that what happens to the banana? As the banana moves from irritation to inflammation to induration and then to cancer, going from green to yellow to brown getting its “liver spots” the same way you get liver spots, through excess fermentation and rotting. We do not say the banana has cancer, we say the banana is spoiling. In the same way we shouldn’t say that the lung has cancer but rather that the lung is spoiling – it is cancerous. Cancer is not a noun but an adjective expressing the process of cellular transformation. Again, sugar is the waste product. In fact, that’s why it gets sweeter and sweeter as it ferments. Consistently in my research I see that we have a release of sugar from the breakdown of tissue. And to overcome sugar craving we don’t have to eat sugar, we need to eat more salt. And the secondary metabolites of this primary acid or sugar are acetaldehyde and ethanol alcohol. So cravings are the body’s signal that the body needs more sustainable energy. We need energy to remove the acids of metabolism – the body utilizing electrons for energy purposes. Food, drinks, sun, minerals, vitamins, drugs… are common choices made by us to achieve sustainable energy, but yet what we’re looking for are the electrons from these sources. And our choices will determine whether or not our cravings will lead to true sustainable energy which maintains the integrity of the fluids of body and therefore the integrity of the tissues, or gives us false energy which creates this over-acidic state that leads to latent tissue acidosis which begins the process of spoiling of the tissue.
Sugar stimulates and gives the body a deceptive quick-fix – it’s illusionary – whereas salt provides the matrix and gives our body the rise in sustainable energy, over a long period of time, without the high and extreme lows that come from eating an acid – whether it be sugar or any other acidic foods or drinks.
It is the skin that suffers, because if the body can’t eliminate the acids that are created through energy consumption, it throws them out of the tissues and into the lymphatic system, and that’s why the lymphatic system is so critical in the prevention of cancer and in the treatment of cancer, because it is the lymphatic system that is the vacuum cleaner of the acids that are in the interstitial fluids of the body, pulling these acids out in order to maintain the integrity of the tissue through diaphramic breathing and perspiration (that is if we’re perspiring, which is one of the most important things we need to do on a daily basis). If we can’t eliminate our acids through urination then our body urinates through the skin – which is why there is over a million cases of skin cancer a year in the United States and probably you didn’t even know that. It’s not talked about. Why? Because the etiology of skin cancer is not understood. It is unknown. Scientists don’t know what causes basal cell carcinoma, melanoma, they do not understand it because they don’t understand latent tissue acidosis and the importance of the lymphatic system as the vacuum cleaner to move the acids out via the kidneys and through perspiration. But we’re not exercising, and this is why obesity and a lack of exercise have been associated with cancer – yet when we’re moving our body we’re moving the acids out of the tissue because the lymphatic system, unlike the circulatory system, does not have a pump (the heart), it actually flows through movement. It is the diaphragm muscle that acts as a pump for the lymphatic system that moves the acids through the system – out through perspiration or back in the general circulation to be eliminated through urination.
If you don’t want cancer, if you wan to prevent it, you have to pee or eliminate your acids through urination or perspiration. And if you are a cancer sufferer you have to pee your way to health. Because cancer is not a cell, but a poisoning acidic liquid. A cancer cell is a cell that is spoiled or poisoned by the metabolic acids and gastrointestinal acids that are produced internally, or may be breathed in. That’s when the body goes into protection mode by forming fibrous materials which cross-link to encapsulate the spoiled cells and thus forming the tumour. Hence tumour is the body’s protective mechanism to encapsulate spoiled or poisoned cells from excess acids which have not been properly eliminated through urination, perspiration, defecation, and respiration. The tumour is the body’s solution to protect healthy cells and tissues. So the tumour is not the problem. Let the tumour go. Let it do its job. The focus must be placed not on the tumour but on the environment around the tumour which is full of acids, and one of the common acids which is in higher concentration around all tumours that are in an acidic body is lactic acid, because lactic acid is a by-product of sugar metabolism when we’re in a state of oxygen deprivation. So cancer is a system acidic condition that settles in the weakest parts of the body, not a local problem that metastasizes. You see metastasis is localized acids that spoil other cells much like a rotten apple spoiling the bushel of other healthy apples.
There is no such thing as a cancer cell. A cancer cell is in reality a cancerous cell, it’s an adjective expressing the spoiling cell that’s spoiling in an over-acidic environment. A cancerous cell was once a healthy cell that has been spoiled from an over-acidic lifestyle and diet and the body’s inability to move these acids through the proper channels of elimination. The only solution to the acidic liquids that poison our body cells causing the effect that medical doctors call cancer, is to change the environment. It has to be a contextual approach. We must maintain the alkaline design of the human body. This has been the great discovery of the 21st century – that the human organism is alkaline by design (every part that makes up every anatomical element that makes up our genetic material that makes up our cells, every single part has to be bathed in an alkaline fluid which needs to be changed every 48 hours).
Early in the 19th century, beginning on January 17, 1912, a famous French physiologist of the Rockefeller Institute and Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Alexis Carrel, removed a very small piece of heart muscle from an unhatched chicken embryo—still warm and living—and placed it in fresh nutrient solution in a glass flask of his design. He transferred the tissue every forty-eight hours, during which time it doubled in size and had to be trimmed before being moved to its new flask. And every time he moved it he would put it into an alkaline saline solution with the appropriate alkalizing minerals. Thirty years later the tissue was still growing. Keep in mind that the average chicken lives for 5 – 7 years. So after getting bored of singing “Happy Birthday” to the chicken heart for over thirty years he decided to pull the plug and not change the fluids every 48 hours and the heart died.
This is a very important discovery which very few people know about because it answers the question about why cells live. You see, the life expectancy of the human cell is infinite. It just becomes compromised. Once we understand that matter cannot be created nor can it be destroyed it can only change its form or function, then we realize that the environment is everything, the terrain is everything, and the cell is subservient to that. The secret to Dr. Carrel’s chicken heart surviving for thirty years lies in this knowledge, this new biology, this new way of living and thinking as we expand the box not think outside the box, that the cell is only as healthy as the fluids it is bathed in. The heart is only as healthy as the cells. If you have lung cancer, that is an expression of the environment. And the cell as it’s breaking down is the smoke of the gun.
Carrel’s experiment brought us to the modern new biology, the new understanding, the new expansion, and the new definition of cancer – that the composition of our body fluids that bath the outside of our cells must be controlled very carefully from moment to moment and day to day with no single important constituent varying more than a few percent. This can be controlled and you can do it yourself!
In 1932 Otto Warburg received his Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering the cause of cancer. He described it as a cell changing its mode of respiration, its mode of metabolism – from respiration to fermentation. He suggested that cancer was the result of acidic environment, a state of oxygen deprivation. Warburg also wrote a paper entitled, “The Prime Cause and Prevention of Cancer.” He states: “There is no disease whose prime cause is better known. Over acidity.”
When we understand this we realize that all conditions of cancer potentially can be reversed if the treatments are focused on the fluids not the cell. Therefore it doesn’t matter what the cancer is, because cancer is not the cause but the effect of an over-acidic lifestyle and diet which is the cause. It’s the person pulling the lifestyle and dietary trigger.
After 25 years of doing blood research, after looking at thousands and thousands of cancer patients, I’ve never seen healthy blood or an alkaline environment – whether testing the pH of the saliva, or the urine, or the blood, or the sweat, or the tears – they are all acidic in an over-acidic environment. And after 25 years I’ve learned that the human organism is alkaline by design and acidic by function, and if we but maintain this alkaline design of our body through an alkaline lifestyle and diet we will prevent all cancers. For the cure of cancer is not found in its treatment, because again cancer or a cancerous condition is the body in preservation mode trying to maintain alkalinity, so the cure is going to be found not in its treatment of the tissue but in maintaining the alkaline design of the human fluids of the body. As Thomas Edison said: “The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise.”
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Occupy Rikers: A Visit With an OWS Protester in Jail
To get to Rikers Island from my house, you take the B62 bus north and transfer to the Q100, helpfully labeled “To Rikers Island.” It seems odd that a normal city bus takes you to the world’s largest penal colony. The place seems so distant, ethereal. How could you just pay $2.25 and arrive to such a hellish place—an island—only 30 minutes later?
I was going to Rikers to see Ellis (aka Robert Nilon, aka Comrade El), who at that point had been in prison for about three weeks. Ellis and I had worked together on a few episodes of OWS Radio on WBAI, a community-supported radio station based in lower Manhattan. Even though we weren't very close, I figured he'd appreciate some company after being locked up for weeks.
I'd also been trying to track down another Rikers inmate, a man I met while we were both being held at Manhattan’s 7th precinct. I had been arrested on an Occupy Wall Street-related charge (I was held for 37 hours), and he had been arrested for criminal possession of 16 crack rocks. I didn't have his real name, just an alias—Diablo—and the arrest date. Turns out it's very difficult to get the county clerk's office to give you any information when you tell them, “I'm looking for Diablo.”
Ellis, he was easier to find. He was arrested at an Occupy-affiliated party in Williamsburg and charged with two felony counts: attempt to incite a riot and attempted assault of an officer. If convicted, he was facing seven years. Three others were charged with the same counts, but Ellis had been denied bail due to an unresolved case in Pennsylvania, where he used to live.
The bus pulled up to a big welcome sign, the kind you might see when you’re driving into a new state. “Is this where visitors get out?” I asked the bus driver. He shook his head and mumbled, “Last stop.” I went back to reading The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, a book I thought would be a good present for Ellis, conditions permitting.
My bus finally arrived at a small one-story building that could have been a welcome center for some kind of arboretum. The other 50 or so visitors rushed toward several rows of lockers lining the outside of the building, into which we were supposed to put our bags, backpacks, the stuff people normally carry that they can’t bring into jail.
“Fifty cents, fifty cents, fifty cents,” an officer shouted over the din of the crowd, informing us of the lockers’ price.
“I don't have fifty cents,” I said to no one in particular. I walked over to a guard and repeated, “I don't have fifty cents.” If he cared, he wasn't letting on. Eventually a smiley teenage girl appeared from behind the guard. “Here ya go!” she said in a thick Long Island accent, reaching over a chain-link fence to hand me two quarters. I was the only person left outside. I thanked her and threw my stuff in one of the lockers as she rushed to catch up with her two friends.
Another quick bus ride and two metal detectors later, and I was staring down a new set of lockers, this time inside what looked like a Greyhound terminal, complete with vending machines in the corner and five rows of plastic chairs connected by a metal beam. At that point, about 45 minutes into the screening procedure, I was starting to get re-accustomed to the New York Department of Corrections’ way of conducting business: You do what they tell you to do, when they tell you to do it. In a way it was comforting—like the inevitability of death.
I borrowed another quarter from someone for the new set of lockers and stashed my winter coat, my watch, my wallet, my belt, and my shoes, then I got in line to pass through yet another metal detector.
“You know you don't have to put your shoes in there,” the young black woman standing behind me said. I looked down at my threadbare socks.
“Must be someone's first time,” said an older black man toward the front of the line.
That third metal detector screening included a thorough frisk as well. “Pull your shirt up.” “Flip the top of your pants down.” “Take off your socks to the ball of your foot.” “Lift up your tongue.” After my frisking I went into another waiting room, the final barrier before being allowed to see the inmates. It looked like a community center imagined by John Wayne Gacy. On one wall, painted over a familiar two-tone elementary school color scheme, was a crazed Daffy Duck, pupils dilated to different sizes, clinging to a street sign that read “Visitors.” Daffy always looks like a lunatic, but in prison his mania takes on a sinister quality. On the other wall was a giant painting of Pikachu, his wet eyes watching over us like a warden. A mother chased her three year old across the room.
“Oy, oy, oy oy oy,” the mother sighed.
“Oy, oy, oy oy oy,” the child repeated.
When I finally got into the visiting area, a spacious room filled with primary-color chairs and tables, I sat down and tried not to stare at anyone. A minute later, Ellis bounded up with a big smile on his face, and we hugged. His already scraggly beard had grown tremendously. He made Ted Kaczynski look like Don Draper. “Sometimes they call me Teen Wolf!” he laughed. “Wait, search for listening devices,” he joked as he sat down, running his fingers along the underside of the table.
Over the next hour and a half we talked about politics and daily life in prison. He'd recently come to the conclusion that the poorest 40 percent of Americans need to become the Occupy base. He talked about how ready the prisoners he'd spoken with were to be radicalized. He lit up when he talked about the Marxist study groups he'd established. “These guys love it, man,” he said. “A lot of them have stopped going to Bible study.”
According to Ellis, the guards saw he was organizing and wanted to put a stop to it. Ellis had recently been jumped by another inmate in the stairway, one of the few places in the complex not under video surveillance, and he believed the guards had put him up to it. Ellis was able to fight the guy off, and later in the cellblock, when a group of prisoners threatened to rip his attacker apart for consorting with the guards, Ellis intervened on his behalf, yelling, “Stop! I'm a pacifist!” He said they stopped.
The harassment didn't end there, though. The guards also moved him from cell block to cell block—Ellis called it “the wheel”—in an attempt to disrupt his efforts to organize. But wherever they put him, he started a new study group, like a Marxist Johnny Appleseed.
Occupy Wall Street was paying his commissary fees, which he mostly used to buy cans of tuna fish. Since being sent to Rikers, he'd put on weight, stopped drinking, and stopped smoking cigarettes, though he said all that stuff was easy to get. He told me he was doing well, and even though he seemed sincere, I knew he was giving me the version of prison with the most political benefit—“It's not the end of the world” and “You can handle it.” Like many protesters, Ellis believes that mayors throughout the country will begin escalating their crackdown on dissent, which could result in more felony charges and possibly prison time.
“If they keep me here for seven years, I'm going to be seeing a lot more familiar faces,” he said, voice thick with gallows humor.
When it was time to go, Ellis and I hugged again. “I’ll see you—” I said, and stopped. I was about to say, “I'll see you soon,” but I had no idea if that was true. Instead, I just repeated, “I'll see you.”
The only other people still in the room were a young black couple 15 feet away. The man stood up, dropping his wife or girlfriend's hand, and began walking toward the metal door that led back to his cell. “Tell my son I love him,” he said. “I love you, baby. Tell my son I love him. Tell my son I love him.”
The wife or girlfriend and I walked back to the batshit YMCA room and I thought about asking her how she was doing, but I didn't.
Several days after my visit, a judge granted Ellis bail.
The bus ride back from the visiting room to the intake area was packed to capacity, full of young women laughing and shouting. My terrifying experience was, for them, banal. Prisoners screamed out the windows of one of the nearby dorms, informing the women on board exactly how hard and in what capacity they would fuck them. One of the women did a parade wave and exclaimed, “I'm queen of the prison pageant!”
That America uses so many islands to house inmates is a metaphor so on the nose it's painful. The prison-industrial complex in this country is a national shame, one that we attempt to hide away, off the mainland, with no evacuation plan. It is a purposeful system. “No man is an island,” wrote John Donne, to which America has replied, “Then we'll turn our prison system into one.
I walked back to the locker that held my backpack, anxious to get on the Q100.
Photo via (cc) Flickr user Paul Lowry
Occupy Rikers: A Visit With an OWS Protester in Jail
To get to Rikers Island from my house, you take the B62 bus north and transfer to the Q100, helpfully labeled “To Rikers Island.” It seems odd that a normal city bus takes you to the world’s largest penal colony. The place seems so distant, ethereal. How could you just pay $2.25 and arrive to such a hellish place—an island—only 30 minutes later?
I was going to Rikers to see Ellis (aka Robert Nilon, aka Comrade El), who at that point had been in prison for about three weeks. Ellis and I had worked together on a few episodes of OWS Radio on WBAI, a community-supported radio station based in lower Manhattan. Even though we weren't very close, I figured he'd appreciate some company after being locked up for weeks.
I'd also been trying to track down another Rikers inmate, a man I met while we were both being held at Manhattan’s 7th precinct. I had been arrested on an Occupy Wall Street-related charge (I was held for 37 hours), and he had been arrested for criminal possession of 16 crack rocks. I didn't have his real name, just an alias—Diablo—and the arrest date. Turns out it's very difficult to get the county clerk's office to give you any information when you tell them, “I'm looking for Diablo.”
Ellis, he was easier to find. He was arrested at an Occupy-affiliated party in Williamsburg and charged with two felony counts: attempt to incite a riot and attempted assault of an officer. If convicted, he was facing seven years. Three others were charged with the same counts, but Ellis had been denied bail due to an unresolved case in Pennsylvania, where he used to live.
The bus pulled up to a big welcome sign, the kind you might see when you’re driving into a new state. “Is this where visitors get out?” I asked the bus driver. He shook his head and mumbled, “Last stop.” I went back to reading The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, a book I thought would be a good present for Ellis, conditions permitting.
My bus finally arrived at a small one-story building that could have been a welcome center for some kind of arboretum. The other 50 or so visitors rushed toward several rows of lockers lining the outside of the building, into which we were supposed to put our bags, backpacks, the stuff people normally carry that they can’t bring into jail.
“Fifty cents, fifty cents, fifty cents,” an officer shouted over the din of the crowd, informing us of the lockers’ price.
“I don't have fifty cents,” I said to no one in particular. I walked over to a guard and repeated, “I don't have fifty cents.” If he cared, he wasn't letting on. Eventually a smiley teenage girl appeared from behind the guard. “Here ya go!” she said in a thick Long Island accent, reaching over a chain-link fence to hand me two quarters. I was the only person left outside. I thanked her and threw my stuff in one of the lockers as she rushed to catch up with her two friends.
Another quick bus ride and two metal detectors later, and I was staring down a new set of lockers, this time inside what looked like a Greyhound terminal, complete with vending machines in the corner and five rows of plastic chairs connected by a metal beam. At that point, about 45 minutes into the screening procedure, I was starting to get re-accustomed to the New York Department of Corrections’ way of conducting business: You do what they tell you to do, when they tell you to do it. In a way it was comforting—like the inevitability of death.
I borrowed another quarter from someone for the new set of lockers and stashed my winter coat, my watch, my wallet, my belt, and my shoes, then I got in line to pass through yet another metal detector.
“You know you don't have to put your shoes in there,” the young black woman standing behind me said. I looked down at my threadbare socks.
“Must be someone's first time,” said an older black man toward the front of the line.
That third metal detector screening included a thorough frisk as well. “Pull your shirt up.” “Flip the top of your pants down.” “Take off your socks to the ball of your foot.” “Lift up your tongue.” After my frisking I went into another waiting room, the final barrier before being allowed to see the inmates. It looked like a community center imagined by John Wayne Gacy. On one wall, painted over a familiar two-tone elementary school color scheme, was a crazed Daffy Duck, pupils dilated to different sizes, clinging to a street sign that read “Visitors.” Daffy always looks like a lunatic, but in prison his mania takes on a sinister quality. On the other wall was a giant painting of Pikachu, his wet eyes watching over us like a warden. A mother chased her three year old across the room.
“Oy, oy, oy oy oy,” the mother sighed.
“Oy, oy, oy oy oy,” the child repeated.
When I finally got into the visiting area, a spacious room filled with primary-color chairs and tables, I sat down and tried not to stare at anyone. A minute later, Ellis bounded up with a big smile on his face, and we hugged. His already scraggly beard had grown tremendously. He made Ted Kaczynski look like Don Draper. “Sometimes they call me Teen Wolf!” he laughed. “Wait, search for listening devices,” he joked as he sat down, running his fingers along the underside of the table.
Over the next hour and a half we talked about politics and daily life in prison. He'd recently come to the conclusion that the poorest 40 percent of Americans need to become the Occupy base. He talked about how ready the prisoners he'd spoken with were to be radicalized. He lit up when he talked about the Marxist study groups he'd established. “These guys love it, man,” he said. “A lot of them have stopped going to Bible study.”
According to Ellis, the guards saw he was organizing and wanted to put a stop to it. Ellis had recently been jumped by another inmate in the stairway, one of the few places in the complex not under video surveillance, and he believed the guards had put him up to it. Ellis was able to fight the guy off, and later in the cellblock, when a group of prisoners threatened to rip his attacker apart for consorting with the guards, Ellis intervened on his behalf, yelling, “Stop! I'm a pacifist!” He said they stopped.
The harassment didn't end there, though. The guards also moved him from cell block to cell block—Ellis called it “the wheel”—in an attempt to disrupt his efforts to organize. But wherever they put him, he started a new study group, like a Marxist Johnny Appleseed.
Occupy Wall Street was paying his commissary fees, which he mostly used to buy cans of tuna fish. Since being sent to Rikers, he'd put on weight, stopped drinking, and stopped smoking cigarettes, though he said all that stuff was easy to get. He told me he was doing well, and even though he seemed sincere, I knew he was giving me the version of prison with the most political benefit—“It's not the end of the world” and “You can handle it.” Like many protesters, Ellis believes that mayors throughout the country will begin escalating their crackdown on dissent, which could result in more felony charges and possibly prison time.
“If they keep me here for seven years, I'm going to be seeing a lot more familiar faces,” he said, voice thick with gallows humor.
When it was time to go, Ellis and I hugged again. “I’ll see you—” I said, and stopped. I was about to say, “I'll see you soon,” but I had no idea if that was true. Instead, I just repeated, “I'll see you.”
The only other people still in the room were a young black couple 15 feet away. The man stood up, dropping his wife or girlfriend's hand, and began walking toward the metal door that led back to his cell. “Tell my son I love him,” he said. “I love you, baby. Tell my son I love him. Tell my son I love him.”
The wife or girlfriend and I walked back to the batshit YMCA room and I thought about asking her how she was doing, but I didn't.
Several days after my visit, a judge granted Ellis bail.
The bus ride back from the visiting room to the intake area was packed to capacity, full of young women laughing and shouting. My terrifying experience was, for them, banal. Prisoners screamed out the windows of one of the nearby dorms, informing the women on board exactly how hard and in what capacity they would fuck them. One of the women did a parade wave and exclaimed, “I'm queen of the prison pageant!”
That America uses so many islands to house inmates is a metaphor so on the nose it's painful. The prison-industrial complex in this country is a national shame, one that we attempt to hide away, off the mainland, with no evacuation plan. It is a purposeful system. “No man is an island,” wrote John Donne, to which America has replied, “Then we'll turn our prison system into one.
I walked back to the locker that held my backpack, anxious to get on the Q100.
Photo via (cc) Flickr user Paul Lowry
Infertility On The Rise In Canada
Infertility is on the rise in Canada, according to the first study in nearly two decades to measure the proportion of Canadian couples who are having difficulty conceiving. The researchers didn’t set out to discover why the numbers are increasing. But possible explanations range from the growing number of women who are pushing back pregnancy ever later in life, to rising rates of obesity and heavy drinking among women, to declining sperm counts in men — though experts aren’t convinced about that final factor. The use of assisted-procreation technologies has increased dramatically over the past decade, yet “little is known about the prevalence of infertility in the population,” the authors write in the journal, Human Reproduction. The research was supported by funding from Assisted Human Reproduction Canada, a federal agency. The lead author is from Statistics Canada. According to their estimates, up to 16 per cent of heterosexual couples where the woman is age 18 to 44 are experiencing infertility — a near doubling since the previous time infertility was measured in the nation in 1992. Not surprisingly, the older the woman, the higher the prevalence of infertility. Yet infertility appears to be rising among younger women as well, the study finds. In 1984, about five per cent of couples with a female partner age 18 to 29 were infertile. By 2009-10, the prevalence for the same age group ranged from seven to 13.7 per cent. For their analysis, researchers used data from a sample of 4,412 couples from the 2009-2010 Canadian Community Health Survey. Infertility ranged from 11.5 per cent, to 15.7 per cent. Those estimates are based on whether couples had reported becoming pregnant or not in the past 12 months, were not using any form of birth control within the past 12 months while having sexual intercourse, and had tried to become pregnant with their current partner. Regardless of how it was defined, each estimate represented an increase in infertility when compared with previous national estimates, said first author Tracey Bushnik, a senior analyst at Statistics Canada. In 1992, 8.5 per cent of women age 18 to 44 who were married or living common-law were considered infertile. In 1984, the figure was 5.4 per cent. Not only are the emotional, physical and financial costs to couples substantial, the researchers write, but the health system also has to bear the costs of caring for premature babies or multiple births born from asssisted reproductive technology. The new study “just confirms everything we’ve been gnawing on for the last little while,” said Dr. Roger Pierson, a world leader in research into ovarian physiology at the University of Saskatchewan. Canada’s pregnancy specialists have been sounding an alarm over the risks of deferred motherhood. The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada — which has just issued new guidelines to doctors on “advanced reproductive age” and fertility — worries that women are placing too much blind faith in high-tech fertility treatments to help them conceive once they’re ready to have a baby. For women over 40, the failure rate approaches 90 per cent. “We’re not miracle workers,” said Dr. Al Yuzpe, co-author of the new study and co-founder of the Genesis Fertility Centre in Vancouver, one of the largest in-vitro-fertilization clinics in the country. “We know that there’s a precipitous drop in conception rates as women get older,” he said. The other authors of the report were: Jocelynn L. Cook, of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Ottawa; Suzanne Tough, of the Departments of Pediatrics and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary; and John Collins, of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont. In addition to the well-documented impact of age, other factors affecting female fertility include obesity, alcohol use and sexually transmitted infections. While fewer women are smoking, more younger women are boozing heavily: reported rates of heavy drinking — defined as five or more drinks at a time at least once a month — among women age 20 to 34 increased from nine per cent in 1994, to 20 per cent in 2010. Reported rates of chlamydia and gonorrhea are also rising, with the majority of infections reported for women under 30. And obesity rates are climbing: In 2007-09, 21 per cent of women ages 20 to 39 in Canada were obese, up from four per cent in 1981. Obesity can interfere with a woman’s normal ovarian function. Obese men, meanwhile, have been found to have lower volumes of semen and a higher proportion of abnormal sperm. But just how much a role sperm count deterioration may be having on declining fertility is controversial. Yuzpe said the data are not convincing. “The question keeps coming up: Are men’s sperm counts getting worse?” he said. “There might be a slight overall reduction in sperm counts, but not from ‘normal’ to ‘abnormal’ sort of thing,” he said. Yuzpe said people are much more likely today to report difficulty conceiving than they would have been in the past, “because of the stigma associated with it,” but also because people didn’t seek help “because there wasn’t much we could do for them. “It’s only in the last 35 or 40 years that we’ve had anything of any significance that we could do for women, or for couples,” he said. Pierson said the study raises important individual and societal questions, including when is the right time to have a child? “If we were to suddenly stop ART (assisted reproductive technology) and say, ‘We’re going to support women having children in their early 20s,’ I would say that most of the infertility issue would go away. “That’s not our cultural reality,” Pierson said. “We have to come to a better understanding of our biological imperatives, and our social expectations.” http://www.canada.com/health/Infertility+rates+rising+Canadian+couples/6157547/story.html More Canadians say they’re having trouble conceiving, according to new research looking at infertility rates.
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Premature Death
Last week I wrote about Mental Illness Premature Death. One of the reasons they die early death is because of Metabolic Syndrome. Metabolic syndrome: “is a name for a group of risk factors that occur together and increase the risk for coronary artery disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes. Symptoms: Extra weight around your waist (central or abdominal obesity)”. A lot of the medication causes extra weight.
Pharmaceutical companies right now are not putting money into research for new and better medication that does not cause weight gain or even better medication to help with mental illness. I personally gain weight from Moban and older drug. Now that I am on Geodon I am losing weight through walking and exercise. There was another factor that also might have caused my weight gain. That was I quit smoking and yes food did taste better after I stopped. That is also factored in, although the medication played a role in my gaining weight.
I should have started exercising then although they did not put in exercise equipment in my previous place of residence until four years ago. My mental illness is Schizophrenia. I do not have some of the problems that some of my fellow suffers of this disease have. I am highly motivated and have been that way from the beginning of this disease. One of the reasons I read on the web is that I am a paranoid schizophrenic and they seem to have a better recovery rate.
One of the things that I read on the web is that a lot of schizophrenics have negative symptoms. These are symptoms that medication does not take away. Some of the symptoms are lack of motivation. How can you get off disability if you do not even have the motivation to look for a job? A lot do not know how to carry on a conversation with others. Their thoughts get jumbled. Or for some the voices did not stop with the medication and they might be trying to listen to you and the voices are saying something else. These negative symptoms really stop them from having a great life.
They try different remedies to try and stop these negative symptoms with no relief. Some say those remedies work. I can understand I would try anything to relieve those symptoms. Anxiety can’t sleep at night. That one bothered me to till I started working and now I do not have trouble falling asleep. I really feel for these people and just hope someday they will find something to help them.
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