Flu Fighting Liquid Vitamin D-3?

The swine flu news is everywhere and to bring you a healthy perspective this article will clarify what researchers are getting very excited about in fighting the flu with a unique vitamin, plus, I have a major announcement at the end of this article.

So here’s the story…and more!

Influenza broke out at Atascadero State Hospital, CA, with the exception of the ward run by Dr. John Cannell.

Even though the flu jumped from ward to ward all around them, none of the patients in his ward became infected.

Strange indeed.

After much investigation, it was determined that the only difference between the wards was that the patients in Dr. Cannell’s ward had been getting 2,000 iu of Vitamin D every day for months.

Recent scientific studies have proven that vitamin D increases the body’s production of broad-spectrum antimicrobial peptides, peptides that quickly destroy the influenza virus while simultaneously preventing the immune system from releasing too many inflammatory cells called chemokines and cytokines into infected lung tissue.

An excess of inflammatory cells would otherwise damage the lungs.

The detrimental effects of excess inflammatory cells was proven in 1918 when medical scientists did autopsies on some of the fifty million people who died during the 1918 flu pandemic.

They were amazed to find destroyed respiratory tracts; sometimes these inflammatory cytokines had triggered the complete destruction of the normal epithelial cells lining the respiratory tract.

It was as if the flu victims had been attacked and killed by their own immune systems.

Severe Inflammatory Reaction That Vitamin D Has Recently Been Found to Prevent

The Public Health Agency of Canada has been so impressed with these findings, it is recruiting participants for a large-scale clinical trial to see if vitamin D will effectively protect against the swine flu.

The agency is basing its study on a large body of evidence that shows vitamin D reduces the risk of upper respiratory infections, especially in the summer when people have adequate levels from the sun.

It should also be noted that in countries where there is year round exposure to the sun, there are little or no upper respiratory infections.

Taking note of all the evidence, Canada is pursuing a common-sense healthy solution that could protect people from the swine flu altogether or dramatically reduce its severity — without any long-term side effects.

Doesn’t that sound like something US lawmakers can learn from?

Unfortunately we are not that blessed.

Law Suit Filed Against the U.S. Government To Stop Swine Flu Vaccines

Our government bureaucrats in Washington have ignored these proven findings and can’t move fast enough to get the swine flu vaccine to market — even though it means bypassing the clinical trial that would determine whether  there are serious long-term side effects from the vaccine itself.

Fortunately there are organizations and people who are willing to take action to fight for our rights and have filed a suit seeking an immediate injunction against the government to prevent the distribution of these four untested swine flu vaccines.

The following are URLs that describe these law suits and also a plea that you pass this on to as many people as you can.

Make as much noise as you can by calling, emailing, or faxing your government representatives to stop this insane action by the government that could results in untold deaths or brain damage:

Link to Complaint: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=3619

Link to Brief: 
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=3624

Read more: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=3617

Squalene: Be Very Afraid I: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=3582
Squalene: Be Very Afraid II: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=3592

Flu Prevention Questions You Should Be Asking

1. Why the flu predictably occurs in the months following the winter solstice, when vitamin D levels are at their lowest,
2. Why it disappears in the months following the summer solstice,
3. Why influenza is more common in the tropics during the rainy season,
4. Why the cold and rainy weather associated with El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which drives people indoors and lowers vitamin D blood levels, is associated with influenza,
5. Why the incidence of influenza is inversely correlated with outdoor temperatures,
6. Why children exposed to sunlight are less likely to get colds,
7. Why cod liver oil (which contains vitamin D) reduces the incidence of viral respiratory infections,
8. Why Russian scientists found that vitamin D-producing UVB lamps reduced colds and flu in schoolchildren and factory workers,
9. Why Russian scientists found that volunteers, deliberately infected with a weakened flu virus – first in the summer and then again in the winter – show significantly different clinical courses in the different seasons,
10. Why the elderly who live in countries with high vitamin D consumption, like Norway, are less likely to die in the winter,
11. Why children with vitamin D deficiency and rickets suffer from frequent respiratory infections,
12. Why an observant physician (Rehman), who gave high doses of vitamin D to children who were constantly sick from colds and the flu, found the treated children were suddenly free from infection,
13. Why the elderly are so much more likely to die from heart attacks in the winter rather than in the summer,
14. Why African Americans, with their low vitamin D blood levels, are more likely to die from influenza and pneumonia than Whites are.

Liquid Vitamin D-3 Available Soon From Good Health Supplements

More and more doctors, heath workers, and nutritionist, are refusing to take these vaccines, and are advising others not to take them either.

I and my family will not take flu shots.  They are obviously too dangerous.

We take large doses (10,000 iu) of liquid vitamin D-3 to protect ourselves.

Why vitamin D-3?

Because your body gets vitamin D from the sun and converts it into D-3. As a supplement, we take D-3.

If you are taking a supplement, read the label.  If it says vitamin D-2, do not take it. They are a cheap form of vitamin D and are ineffectual.

Because of its importance, within the next several weeks we will be adding a more effective form of liquid vitamin D-3 to our Good Health Supplements product line.

Our D-3 will be embedded with energy enhancing scalar waves to further increase its effectiveness.

To help determine the size of our first batch, we are taking pre-order requests now.

Orders will be shipped first in, first out.  Shipping date will be announced within the next three-four weeks.

Protect yourself — protect you family —- put your name on the order list.

A month’s supply is $32.50 plus S&H.

Simply go to the Good Health Supplments contact us form and submit your request, with your contact details, to be added to the list for order notification.

Past history of flu pandemics have led to severe illness and, or, death.

There is no reason for you or your family to expose yourselves to the ravages of the swine flu and possible death when the threat can be easily avoided.

Protect yourself with the best vitamin D-3 supplement your money can buy and put your mind at ease.

Remember what Hypocrites said — “Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can cure your patient with food.”

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2009 – All Rights Reserved

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Health Reform?

Health Care Reform? – If it wasn’t so tragic, it would be a joke!

What is health care reform anyway?

It would appear to me that health care reform would mean ways to keep people from getting sick. Ways to keep people healthy.

That to me is real health care reform.

Instead we have the whole country battling over drugs and medical care while every year the number of people who develop a chronic disease grows larger and larger.

What is wrong with our Presidents — past, present, and probably future?

What is wrong with our senators and members of congress?  Do they all have their heads buried in the sand or is it all about greed and self-interest?

This is not a Democrat, Republican, or Independent issue— it’s about everyone!

We the people are being ripped off royally by our representatives in support of lobbyists, large food producers, pharmaceutical companies, the USDA, the FDA, the Medical and Dental professions, medical insurers (whose monopolistic practices are also protected by the government) — and we do nothing about it except argue about the next drug and our medical reimbursement plans.

We the people allow ourselves to be led and directed exactly where our government wants us to be — totally under their control to protect the huge amounts of money they receive from the drug and food giants for their political election campaigns.

The current public town-hall meetings are all about the verbiage of the new so called “reforms” of our health care laws that the President is working overtime to shove down our throats.

If he would spend as much time getting us freedom of choice, when it come to our own health care, instead of forcing us to be under the constraints of our medical system and FDA, my sense is we would all be healthier and far better off.

There are many ways to nutritionally heal ourselves that are far more effective, and much, much, less expensive then drugs.

These cures are forbidden to us by our government making the use of these cures illegal and even criminal in some cases.

Our government does a great job in protecting the profits of our medical professionals and drug companies, but not our health or our wallets.

Think about this.

Your government is controlling your body when it comes to health care and you have nothing to say about it!

The only way for you to keep the government from controlling your body is to travel to a foreign country for treatment of your own choice.

Your only other option is to never get sick.

Why is it so difficult to see that real health care starts with the food we eat?

Why is it so difficult to understand that healthy food creates healthy bodies, and that healthy bodies don’t need medical care?

Why is it so difficult to understand that if we cleaned up our food supply, and by that I mean the heavily pesticide-ridden farm grown fruits and vegetables, corn, slop, hormone and anti-biotic fed meats, fish and poultry — we would eliminate over 80% of the diseases in this country within a short period of time?

Think my number is ridiculous?

Go back 60, 70 years. Type 2 diabetes did not exist.  Neither did lupus, fibromyalgia, or chronic fatigue syndrome.

Heart disease, cancer, and diabetes were at considerably lower levels.  Few people talked about obesity or fad diets.

We may have not been number one in longevity at that time, but we were nowhere near 38th on the list as we are today.

Knowing how bad our conventional food supply is, I eat mostly organic.

I know organic food is more expensive than conventional food, but what I found was that when I switched to organic food, I ate less.

I satisfied my hunger on much less food because organic food is about 40% to 60% more nutritious than conventional food.

Conventional food is grown using heavy doses of pesticides.

Here is a list of the 12 most pesticide-ridden crops that lead to eventual cancer and other diseases:

Nectarines – Peaches – Apples – Celery – Sweet Bell Peppers – Strawberries – Cherries – Lettuce – Grapes – Pears – Spinach – Potatoes

Can you prevent your body from ever getting cancer and other chronic diseases?  You surely can.  Only buy these foods listed above if they are organic.

Buy local and buy at a health food store.

Make sure you buy organic and you will reduce your exposure to pesticides by up to 90%.

Even with organics, it may be wise to wash your fruits and produce in a dilution of food-grade peroxide available at your local health food store.

Only you have the power to make changes in our food supply.

If you don’t buy these pesticide-ridden fruits and vegetables, the big farm corporations will be forced to bring healthier food to the market place or go out of business.

You have immense power in your hands.

Learn to use it for a better, healthier life while sending a message to our politicians.

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2009 – All Rights Reserved

It's Your Choice!

Most of the public never gets to hear about the many proven ways to heal ourselves  because our medical profession is an antiquated dinosaur bound to drugs.

Our FDA does not, and will not, recognize “so called” alternative ways.

In fact, the FDA has made it illegal to claim that a nutritional product or alternative way can heal you. If it is not a drug approved by the FDA, your cure claims will subject you to heavy fines and or jail.

Over the past decade it has been made very clear the strong influence Big Pharma has over our FDA.  Sometimes you would think they were running the FDA.

To make our health conserns even worse, our USDA, who should be insuring that we get safe, nutritional food to eat, is highly influenced by giant food processors allowing them, through over processing, to destroy much of the nutrients in the packaged food sold in our food markets.

Most all of these nutrient deficient foods also contain preservatives, dyes, and taste enhancers that are proven carcinogens  and permitted by the USDA.

Most of these processed foods also contain additives that our USDA, in their wisdom, says the food companies do not even have to tell us about.

Our populace is slowly being poisoned and that is ok so long as the money keeps pouring in.

The USDA also allows our crops and farm land to be poisoned with insecticides and other chemical sprays, and allows the use of Genetically Modified (GMO) crop seeds which contain imbedded insecticides that cause neurological damage to humans.

And that is not all.

The USDA allows the existence of inhuman animal factory farms where the inhumanly packed together animals wallow in their filth and must therefore be loaded with antibiotics to minimize sickness.

These are the cows, pigs, chickens and eggs that are sent to your local food market for your consumption.

Then there are the milk cows that are quietly loaded up with growth hormone that winds up in the milk you drink and give your children.

Sounds like a disgusting nightmare, doesn’t it?  Well it is!

Now you know the real reason our country is the sickest developed country in the world.  It is all about the food and drink made available to the citizens in this country.

Even the Food Pyramid, promoted as a healthy way to eat by our USDA, is a fraud perpetrated on an unsuspecting public.

Instead of being an honest evaluation of what we need to eat and drink nutritionally to maintain good health, it is a token program toward good health designed to appease the large corporate food processors and corporate farms.

In addition we are hindered from hearing about the alternative ways to heal one’s self or prevent disease without the use of drugs.

If you had 1,000 or 10,000 people change the way they eat, and add nutritional supplements, and heal themselves of congestive heart disease, like I did, or heal themselves of some other diseases, you could not say, write, advertise, or promote that you sold an alternative to drug cure without the FDA having you arrested and thrown in jail because you did not follow the FDA’s drug testing protocol and get FDA approval — even though the cure is real!

It matters not that so many people are healed with no side effects.

What matters to the FDA is the protection of pharmaceutical company’s profits and the public be damned!

Anything you do write when merchandizing must be accompanied by a disclaimer that states your product is not meant to diagnose, cure, etc. etc.

Did you know that there is, and has been since 2006, a cure for breast, lung, and liver cancers without the use of drugs, radiation and surgery?

You can check it out at: www.cancercured.org.

You can get cancer cured at a cost less than 10% of the cost of conventional cures and have no side effects.

These people even know the source and will guarantee you won’t get a re-occurrence of the cancer if you follow their protocol.

Find me a medical doctor who will do that for you!

And here are some other outstanding realities:

Most diet drugs do not work.

Others cause side effects and some can cause death.

People who do lose weight, due to diet or drugs, regain the weight as soon as they go off their diet and stop taking diet pills.

BUT – you can permanently lose weight, whether you are just overweight or obese, by just making some changes in the food you eat and what you drink.

You don’t need weight loss drugs, herbs, or starvation diets to shed the pound off your frame permanently.

All it requires is a small lifestyle change.

I’ll tell you how in my next newsletter.

The government’s health care program and health care reform is a total farce.

It is all about sick people and preparing to supply medical and drug treatment to all the millions the government expects will get sick, instead of focusing on our food supply and teaching people how to heal themselves and how to prevent people from getting sick in the first place.

Our government needs to stop subsidizing large corporate farms that supply us with chemical laden fruits and vegetables and start subsidizing only those farms that produce organic produce.

The same for producers of meat, chicken and fish, plus all dairy products.

Only you can make this happen.

You need to let your congress men and women and senators know that unless they change the laws to bring healthy food to market, they will be out of office.

You need to stop buying conventional produce and “so called” natural foods, processed foods, and sodas, and switch to organic food and drinks.

If you vote with your dollar, you will win.

The law of supply and demand is the only thing big corporations understand.

You are the ones who are creating the demand by your purchases.

Stop buying garbage food and the demand will dry up.

Buy only healthy food and the supply will expand.

You and you alone are in control.  Just band together.

Good health, which starts at the cellular level, can only be obtained with healthy food.

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2009 – All Rights Reserved

The mind is a many splendid thing, and slowly losing it — can be devastating beyond belief.

Alzheimer’s is a very scary disease.

There is no cure and the signs that you are on the road to developing the disease are often not very clear.

Until recently, people with signs of dementia were diagnosed as having either Alzheimer’s or vascular dementia.

Experts used the term “vascular” in relation to dementia when they found signs of a stroke, mini-strokes, or clogged arteries.  All three of these factors can kill the brain’s nerve cells (neurons) by cutting off their oxygen supply.

Autopsy studies show that many people have both types of dementia.

“When you look at pathology in the brain, it’s the rare person who doesn’t have both Alzheimer’s and vascular disease, “says professor of epidemiology, Mary Haan, at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health.

Those studies led researchers to ask whether people who were diagnosed with either Alzheimer’s or vascular dementia had other things—-like high blood pressure, diabetes, or clogged arteries—-in common.

“As we started to look at risk factors for vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, lo and behold, we found that they overlap,” says David Knopman, professor of neurology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota.

“We realized that vascular risk factors contribute to Alzheimer’s disease pathology,” says Mary Haan.

Researchers say it looks as though Alzheimer’s may somehow be triggered or sped up by high insulin levels, high blood pressure, inflammation, and clogged arteries—some of the same risk factors that cause heart attacks, strokes, and diabetes.  (Lancet 363: 1139, 2004).

“Diabetes is a strong risk factor for dementia,” says David Knopman.

Five years ago, the Rotterdam Study in the Netherlands found that people with diabetes had nearly double the risk of dementia.  (Neurology 62: 66. 2004.)

Two years prior to those studies, this study was reported: HOMOCYSTEINE IS A STRONG RISK FACTOR FOR ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE New England Journal of Medicine. 2002 Feb 14; 346:476-483 .

SUMMARY: Subjects from the “Framingham Study“, were examined over an eight-year period to determine whether the amount of homocysteine in the blood is a cause of dementia or Alzheimer’s Disease, or is the homocysteine the result of vitamin deficiencies that occur in people with dementia-related illnesses.

TEST: A total of 1092 adults, who did not have dementia, were measured to find out whether the amount of homocysteine in a person’s blood could predict who would develop dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. Eight years later 111 of those tested were diagnosed with dementia including 83 with Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s Disease nearly doubled in subjects with a high level of homocysteine.

CONCLUSION: The study concluded that an increased homocysteine level is a strong, independent risk factor for the development of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

What other risk is high homocysteine level known for?

Arterial wall damage and the formation of arterial clogging plaque that block blood flow and reduce the amount of oxygen that reaches the heart and brain, which we now know can put you at severe risk of getting Alzheimer’s as well as a heart attack or stroke.

Inflammation is another causative which also damages arterial walls causing the formation of arterial clogging plaque that can lead to dementia, a heart attack or stroke.

Researchers and the medical profession tell us they have no cure for Alzheimer’s or vascular dementia.

Drugs have been developed to slow the progress of dementia, but the best are effective, according to research findings, for no longer than 18 months when they no longer exhibit any beneficial affect for the patient.

As with all major diseases, researchers concentrate on drug cures.

That’s where the money is.

Researchers and the medical profession have totally ignored the results from the above research studies.

The results demonstrate if you keep your arteries clear of arterial clogging plaque, keep your homocysetine and C-reactive protein (inflammation) at normal levels, plus increase the release of your own natural growth hormone from your pituitary, (growth hormone helps reverse cognitive decline which, regrettably, the researchers have not addressed), your chances of getting Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia, as well as losing you cognitive capabilities, are slim to non-existent.

There are no miracles here.

Take care of your vascular system and you take care of your brain.

It’s all done with natural nutritional supplements, healthy eating, and some exercise.  No mirrors, no voodoo, no drugs!

Contrary to what the researchers and the medical profession believe, there is a cure for Alzheimer’s or vascular dementia.  It’s called Prevention!

Dementia sneaks up on you, and then it’s too late, so practice prevention and prevent such a horrible fate.

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2009 – All Rights Reserved

What Big Pharma Doesn’t Want YOU To Know

The war on cholesterol by Big Pharma and the Main Stream Medical Profession is being successfully orchestrated through misinformation and twisted truths mainly by the marketing divisions of Big Pharma.

Clearly with science taking a back seat, marketing’s main objective is Big Dollars and Be Damned with Good Health and Lives.

Understand that Big Pharma doesn’t want you to know what you are about to read.

Before reading the informative excerpt on cholesterol from the book: “Lipitor, Thief of Memory”, by Graveline and Richardson, ask yourself this question: If Big Pharma and the Medical Profession are so right about cholesterol, statin, beta-blockers and blood thinner drugs, why is heart disease STILL the number one killer?

Excerpt:

“There is no doubt that the present notoriety of cholesterol has all but obscured its physiological importance and necessity in our bodies. Cholesterol is not only the most common organic molecule in our brain, it is also distributed intimately throughout our entire body. It is an essential constituent of the membrane surrounding every cell. The presence of cholesterol in this fatty double layer of the cell wall membrane adjusts the fluid level and rigidity the proper value for both cell stability and function. Not all that bad for a substance so maligned in today’s media world that we can use the word to frighten small children.

Children take heed for without cholesterol they would not even be here. Cholesterol, a steroid in its chemical structure, is metabolized into other essential body steroids known as the steroid hormones and is therefore the sole substrate within our bodies for the formation of the very powerful chemicals that determine our sexuality, control the reproductive process and make possible our very existence. This same substance that society has been taught to fear happens to be our sole source for androgen, estrogen and progesterone. Researchers marvel at the remarkable similarity in chemical structure these sex hormones have with each other and with the original cholesterol parent from which they were derived. One might say the glaring family resemblance attests to the mighty power of a methyl group here and a carboxyl group there. The destiny of us all is marvelously controlled by such seemingly minor changes.

This same notorious cholesterol substance is also the parent of a pair of steroid hormones called aldosterone and cortisol. They are of adrenal origin and we could not exist without them. Aldosterone protects the body from excessive loss of sodium and water and is known in scientific circles as a mineralocorticoid. It is absolutely vital for life. Without an adequate supply of aldosterone we would be like an ill-prepared desert traveler destined to die of thirst and dehydration under the glaring rays of a merciless sun as water and salt escape from his body. Cortisol is known as a glucocorticoid because of its effect on glucose metabolism, but it also has powerful mineralocorticoid and immune system functions and is fundamentally involved in the biologic response to the stress in our lives. Both of these vital substances are created in the cortex, the outer shell of the adrenal glands. When the adrenal cortex is destroyed by accident, surgery or disease, death is inevitable within days unless another source of aldosterone and cortisol can be substituted. Like the sex hormones mentioned above, there can be no aldosterone or cortisol unless an adequate supply of the parent substance, cholesterol, is available. So much of our life is dependent on this remarkable substance.

And where would we be without calcitrol? Another offspring of cholesterol, this remarkable steroid hormone is charged with the responsibility for maintaining the proper level of calcium in our bodies. Just as sodium must be maintained at proper levels for us to function, so must serum calcium be maintained within a very narrow range. Without calcitrol the calcium we ingest would pass through our bowels unclaimed. The calcium in our teeth and bones would be rapidly depleted, leading to advanced osteoporosis, skeletal weakness and fractures. The interference with nerve transmission to our muscles would result in a hyper-excitable state. We have all seen cartoons and movies where a doctor gets an exaggerated knee jerk response while checking a patient’s reflexes. In a state of sufficiently low serum calcium there could result not only brisk reflexes but massive seizures of muscles, incompatible with life, in a condition known as generalized tetany. Such is the power of a simple element like calcium on our bodies if homeostatic levels are violated. These observations reflect the labyrinthine complexity of physiologic inter-relationships as more and more of nature’s secrets are discovered. As we refine our research techniques and our microscopes probe ever more deeply into the molecular chemistry of cholesterol, we discover far more mystery, puzzles and questions than we find answers.

Again, cholesterol is the basis of all these steroid hormones without which life, as we know it, would not be possible. But, by no means is the list of cholesterol’s contributions to body function exhausted, for there is another class of cholesterol’s steroid offspring without which our metabolic well-being might be in serious jeopardy: the production of bile acids. Secreted by the liver and stored in the gall bladder these steroids make it possible for us to emulsify fats and other nutrients enabling them to be digested and absorbed as food. In the absence of sufficient bile acids we would all be like those unfortunate souls whose intestinal villi are rudimentary or deficient, which causes them to produce voluminous stools of undigested material while they slowly starve.

The pharmaceutical industry would lead us to believe that rapidly bottoming out our natural cholesterol levels through the use of their highly touted statin drugs is a relatively innocuous process of definite benefit to society. But as we learn more each day of this ubiquitous and unique substance, we must question the veracity of their medical advisors. Cholesterol is perhaps the most important substance in our lives. Researchers everywhere are learning how extraordinarily complex and often surprising are the pathways that produce and metabolize cholesterol in our bodies. Admittedly, even after decades of study of this remarkable chemical, we still have much to learn.

On 9 November 2001 a research news release from the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science announced to the world the discovery of the identity of the elusive synaptogenic factor responsible for the development of highly specialized contact sites between adjacent neurons in the brain known as synapses. For years the nature of this magic ingredient had been sought. Not surprisingly to specialists in the field, the synaptogenic factor finally was shown to be the notorious substance cholesterol!

The so-called glial cells of the brain, long suspected of providing certain housekeeping functions, were shown to produce their own supply of cholesterol for the specific purpose of providing nerve cells with this vital synaptic component. As many of you may know, the neuronal synapse of the nervous system is the basis of neurotransmission connecting the brain with the rest of the body. The brain cannot tap the cholesterol supply in the blood, since the lipoproteins that mediate the transport of cholesterol, including both LDL and HDL, are too large to pass the blood-brain barrier, explains Dr. Frank Pfrieger,1 leader of a research group which also included the National Center for Scientific Research in Strasbourg, France. The brain must depend upon its own cholesterol synthesis, which the glial cells provide.

This should be sobering news for those in the pharmaceutical industry developing drugs, which interfere with cholesterol biosynthesis, the mechanism of action of the newer statins. One wonders how anyone knowing the mechanism of brain cholesterol synthesis can seriously challenge the inevitability of cognitive side effects from statin drug use. The only surprise is that there are not more reported cases of memory impairment, amnesia, confusion and disorientation. But even that, we suspect, is due to the almost complete lack of physician awareness of the possibility of cognitive impairment from the statin class of drugs. When confronted with these complaints by an anxious patient on a statin drug, he almost always reassures them that they are older now and should expect senior moments, early senility or perhaps a touch of Alzheimers.

This strikingly positive information about cholesterol is heady stuff, indeed, for a substance with such a bad press. When and if the industry finally vindicates cholesterol, it will not be unlike posthumously elevating Al Capone to knighthood.

Despite the glowing reports statin drugs receive in the press for their risk reduction in stroke and heart attack, strong evidence exists that they do so independently of cholesterol manipulation despite the past 35 years of vilification of this substance. Ravnskov summarizes that statin drug therapy is reported to be almost as effective for women as for men despite the fact that most studies have shown cholesterol not to be a significant risk factor for women. Additionally the elderly are protected just as much as younger individuals, although all studies have shown that cholesterol is only a weak risk factor, if at all, for men older than fifty. Another result mitigating against a cholesterol explanation for statin effectiveness is the consistent observation that strokes are reduced after statin therapy even though high cholesterol is known as only a weak risk factor for stroke, if indeed it is a risk factor at all. Further burying a possible cholesterol effect mechanism for statins is the fact that they protect regardless of whether the patient’s cholesterol is high or low.

Clearly mechanisms other than cholesterol change must be invoked to explain statin drug effectiveness in strokes and heart attacks. Possibilities include such anti-inflammatory action as platelet inhibition and smooth muscle blockage but this paradoxical action of the statin drugs still remains to be explained. Meanwhile the war against cholesterol continues unabated apparently oblivious to the fact that scientific justification for such steadfast focus has all but vanished. As McCully has firmly established, homocysteine elevation and subtle vitamin deficiency states now are taking center stage as factors intrinsic to the development of arteriosclerosis. The role of cholesterol is now seen to be rather a passive one, dragged into a plaque only in its toxic, oxidized form quite alien to the natural substance making up so much of our brain.

More and more research results are accumulating that argue against the merits of excessively low cholesterol in the public at large. The lower the better for serum cholesterol no longer seems to be a valid statement. Certainly this seems to be the case for the cognitive side effects, which Doctor Beatrice Golomb reports are far more common when cholesterol values plummet. Paul Rosch, well-known researcher and spokesman for the scientific community, cites recent disquieting evidence from statin studies on animals that there is a carcinogenic consequence of artificially low cholesterol and a personal conviction that such findings may well become evident in humans after sufficient follow-up time. We can be certain only that we do not yet know the long-term consequences of artificially lowered serum cholesterol through the use of statin drugs. In light of current evidence, for most of us, our present almost day-to-day preoccupation with serum cholesterol values appears misguided.

If cholesterol is our enemy, it is a strange enemy, indeed, for without abundant and immediate cholesterol reserves in our bodies, life is impossible. Our true enemy is arteriosclerosis, the product of other nutritional factors, hypertension, diabetes, smoking and increasing sedentary existence. The end result of this process is plaque formation with inflammation, ulceration and thrombus formation. Cholesterol can be drawn passively into this process but even in the absence of cholesterol elevation, the process continues. C-reactive protein, the product of this inflammatory and ulcerative process, not cholesterol, now is recognized by all to be our most consistently accurate predictor of strokes and heart attacks to come.

Although this information is now common knowledge among those researchers in the field, the overwhelming majority of practicing physicians and lay public still regard cholesterol as public health enemy #1 – such is the effect of thirty-five years of a powerful but misdirected war against fat and cholesterol in our national diet. Truly, much work remains to be done in the field of public health education for cholesterol is not our enemy, it is our indispensable friend! Remember – you cannot live without it!”

By Duane Doc Graveline, M.D.

Most people don’t want to hear that cholesterol is not the cause of their problem. Their expert doctor, and the expert drug company television, newspaper and magazine advertising told them that it was, and who should know better then them?

It amazes me that with all that their doctor tells them and with all that advertising assuring them that cholesterol control is the answer to heart disease, they don’t stop and ask themselves…

“If what my doctor and the drug companies say is really true, then why is heart disease still our number one killer?”

Actually the answer is simple.

The three major causes of heart disease are not curable by drugs, stents or bi-pass surgery. These three major causes of heart disease are easily cured by nutrition.

Big Pharma can’t patent nutrition and that means no money, they can only patent drugs, which mean big money. Their Billions come from selling you, and keeping you, on drugs.

Big Pharma wants you on drugs the rest of your life and if you are on drugs, then you must be constantly monitored by a doctor. Nice cozy money making relationship.

Besides, the main stream medical profession hasn’t got a clue when you start talking about nutrition and honestly believe that drugs and surgery are the only way to go. Don’t believe me? Go ask your cardiologist about curing arterial (heart) disease with nutritional supplements and he/she will laugh at you. No money prescribing nutritional supplements, but drugs and surgery make him/her rich.

People and organizations like NC Research Associates, who have demonstrated through digital infrared thermal imaging that the nutritional supplement GHS Plus™, not drugs, dissolves arterial plaque reversing and preventing heart disease, are totally ignored by the medical profession and are vilified by Big Pharma.

Although GHS Plus™ lowers your cholesterol as part of nutritional balancing in your body, it cannot lower cholesterol like statin drugs do, nor would we want it to.

GHS Plus™ lowers your homocysteine and C-reactive protein levels and protects you from the effects of free radical damage to your arterial walls, the real causes of heart disease, which statin drugs cannot do.

Also, did you know that when you get rid of your arterial plaque you usually lower your blood pressure as well?

Also, listen to a Health Matters Minutes podcast titled Your Cholesterol…Friend or Foe? to discover the shocking truth your main stream medical doctor and the big drug companies don’t want you to know about. Audio length 9:22.

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2009 – All Rights Reserved

A lot of women are under the impression that the risk of heart disease is higher for men. But it is not so. Women are more vulnerable than men when it comes to heart disease.

Due to this misconception, while having a heart attack, women tend to react differently than men. They tend to delay emergency treatment as they find it hard to believe that they are having a heart attack.

If you are a woman, there are some very important things you should know about heart problems and what you should do in case of an emergency.

Studies show that women, on average, are about ten years older than men when they have a heart attack. What this means is that…they are likely to have several other health problems like high blood pressure, diabetes, and congestive heart failure.

In other words, a heart attack, for a woman, is a lot more serious problem than it is for a man. So, it is very important for women to seek emergency treatment as quickly as possible in case of a heart attack.

The symptoms and causes of a heart attack are something that everyone should be aware of. Heart disease is the number one killer of people across the country today and it is true even more so in the case of women.

More women die of heart disease than do men. The following symptoms should be taken very seriously.

Classic Symptoms of a Heart Attack:

Squeezing chest pain or pressure; Shortness of breath; Sweating; Tightness in chest; Pain spreading to shoulders; neck or arm; Feeling of heartburn or indigestion with or without nausea and vomiting; Sudden dizziness or brief loss of consciousness.

Symptoms More Likely in Women:

Indigestion or gas-like pain; Dizziness, unexplained lightheadedness, possible blackouts. nausea or vomiting; Unexplained weakness, fatigue; Discomfort/pain between shoulder blades; Recurring chest discomfort; Anxiety–unusual nervousness, sense of impending doom; Fluttering–rapid heartbeats, palpitations; Feeling of heaviness, such as pressure-like chest pain between the breasts that may radiate to the left arm or shoulder.

In the year 1900 the cause of death from heart attacks were less than 8%. Today, heart attacks are the leading cause of death at 45%.

One of the main factors that will initiate a heart attack is the buildup of abnormal plaque, in the arteries, plaque that gradually hardens through calcification. Blockage most often occurs in the large arteries feeding the heart or the brain.

Inflammation (C-reactive protein) will usually also cause blockages. In fact, a new view of coronary artery disease is that it is an inflammatory process, characterized by cycles of irritation, injury, healing and re-injury inside the blood vessels.

This inflammatory response is actually a defense mechanism that helps the body heal but when the inflammatory process goes awry, plaques may rupture, provoking clots that lead to heart attacks.

Lifestyle of bad eating habits, smoking, excess alcohol consumption, soft drink consumption and lack of exercise — which lead to diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity — are your major causes of plaque build-up and are leading causes of heart attacks.

It has been proven, however, that your risk of having a major heart attack can be minimized or eliminated—without the use of drugs—by lifestyle changes that will rid your body of inflammation and plaque build-up.

A healthy diet that will alkalize your body, drinking lots of good plain water, taking natural nutritional supplements, and exercising, will, within a few short months, bring your body back to a healthy state.

In conclusion: Until such time as your body is again in a healthy state, we offer the following caution.

If you are experiencing symptoms that could be signaling a heart attack or if you see someone else with these symptoms, call 9-1-1 immediately and summon an ambulance.

Do not attempt to drive yourself as only paramedics and trained fire department personnel have the necessary equipment to revive you if your heart has stopped beating.

If she or he stops breathing, start CPR.

Above all, get to the hospital as quickly as possible because the longer a heart attack goes untreated, the more badly damaged your heart will be.

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2009 – All Rights Reserved