Marjorie Steakley, author of
assumetheopposite.com has published her '95 Theses' calling for a radical reformation of medicine and healthcare. Those theses are named after the famous numbered articles Martin Luther nailed to the door of Wittenberg Castle's church in October of 1517, calling for reformation of the corrupt and greedy Catholic Church of Rome.
In a similar way, Marjorie calls for debate and reformation of western medi…
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Added by Sepp on August 3, 2009 at 11:00pm —
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by Beldeu Singh
The Codex Alimentarius Commission was created in 1963 by FAO and WHO to develop food standards, guidelines and related texts such as codes of practice under the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Program. Its stated main purposes of this Program are protecting health of the consumers and ensuring fair trade practices in the food trade, and promoting coordination of all food standards work undertaken by international governmental and non-governmental organizations.
The propaganda may…
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Added by Sepp on July 1, 2009 at 7:13pm —
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Hanne Koplev is a veterinarian who lives in Denmark. She was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease but, unlike many others, she did not give up hope when told that Parkinson's was incurable and destined to get progressively worse.
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Added by Sepp on March 11, 2009 at 1:02pm —
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A paper co-authored by Beatrice Golomb, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and director of UC San Diego's Statin Study group cites nearly 900 studies on the adverse effects of HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (statins), a class of drugs widely used to treat high cholesterol.
The result is a review paper, currently published in the on-line edition of American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs, that provides the most complete pi…
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Added by Sepp on January 28, 2009 at 9:00am —
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National health authorities support pharmaceutical intervention in public health at every turn, as witnessed by the increase in the number of recommended and sometimes obligatory vaccinations and by schemes to pay for or subsidize pharmaceutical medicines and expensive diagnostic tests.
Legislators, both national and European, have done everything to facilitate western medicine at the expense of nutrition-based prevention and other, non-toxic cures that aren't based on the pharmaceutical paradi…
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Added by Sepp on December 10, 2008 at 3:00pm —
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by Beldeu Singh
The article - How Yeast Can Create Havoc in Your Life and How to Address it (Dr Mercola, December 2, 2008) correctly points out that "most conventional doctors do not recognize the symptoms of Candida overgrowth, and are clueless about how to cure it". There are similar problems with protozoal infections, especially in detection and when the symptoms are subclinical.
Psoriatic skin conditions are often lumped together as psoriasis but blood investigations may show fungus or hea…
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Added by Sepp on December 4, 2008 at 11:47am —
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Some of you know that I have been vacationing on the island of Terceira in the Azores, these months of July and August. The island is like a second home, a place with a character just about diametrically opposite to the busy bustle of Rome, the eternal city. One of those paradise-like places one might fantasize to escape to because of the deteriorating conditions seen everywhere else.
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Added by Sepp on August 24, 2008 at 2:00pm —
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"Codex Alimentarius is an industry-sponsored international legislative forum that promotes corporate interests in a globalized market rather than consumer health and fair trade."
There is a lot of discussion about Codex Alimentarius and what it will do to our ability to source healthy food and effective nutritional supplements, but it seems an overview is missing.
Here is my attempt to put the data on Codex together in a simple, understandable way and point to where - in my view - the s…
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Added by Sepp on August 8, 2008 at 2:30pm —
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Janne Larsson has done it again.
He has dug up data the health authorities should have made available but haven't. A majority of suicides as reported in Sweden are connected with the person having received psychiatric drug treatment in the time preceding their death.
There is a law in Sweden that mandates reporting of suicides and analysis and publication of the data. While the reporting is going on, the analyses performed seem very shallow, and no effort is being made to publish the data or t…
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Added by Sepp on August 6, 2008 at 7:57pm —
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A friend in Canada forwarded a message from Jens Jerndahl, on how to get ourselves out of the mess we're in. Since he is spot on in his assessment of the major trouble spots and he points to steps we all can take to eventually change things, I would like to share this message here.
"It´s a fundamental insight and wisdom that in order to replace something bad with something better, one should not waste resources and time attacking and destroying what one wants to replace, but buil
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Added by Sepp on July 31, 2008 at 9:30pm —
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Martin Weatherall of the
Hese Project says that apart from pesticides and other possible causes, a basic weakening influence on the bees leading to colony collapse may well be the thousandfold increase in technical radiation, particularly from mobile phones, in recent years.
Weatherall cites a letter from the German Kompetenzinitiative, a group campaigning
for the Protection of Man, Environment and Democracy t…
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Added by Sepp on May 4, 2008 at 1:30pm —
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This was passed along by John Graham of the UK.
(I invited him to join us here)
Guardian 24.4.08
Many blood transfusions may increase risks, doctors warn
Over half of blood transfusions may do more harm than good, with some patients facing a 6-fold greater risk of dying following surgery, because they've had a transfusion.
This is leading some doctors to recommend that transfusions should only be given…
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Added by Sepp on April 25, 2008 at 3:59pm —
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Lexi Johnson wrote a little
article in the North Central Illinois News Tribune, pointing out some of the well known problems with the artificial sweetener that…
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Added by Sepp on April 23, 2008 at 11:00am —
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Recently, Robert Verkerk (
www.anhcampaign.org) pointed to the publication of an article by Edzard Ernst (see separate post on
qualifications challenged) regarding complementary medicine in Germany:
Complementary medicine in Germany.
Ernst E.
Complementary Medicine, Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter & Plymouth, UK.
Generally speaking, complem…
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Added by Sepp on April 17, 2008 at 12:30pm —
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As have several countries, the UK has its own nemesis of natural medicine. He is called the UK's only professor of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Edzard Ernst has the media's attention when placing stories that are in fact derogatory of natural medicine and homeopathy.
After a recent egregious article promoting a book critical of CAM, Louise Mclean who runs the Zeus Information Service, challenged Ernst's qualifications with the following communication:
Dear Professor Ernst,
In…
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Added by Sepp on April 17, 2008 at 12:30pm —
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Here is another essay by
Spacedoc Duane Graveline:
PHYSICIANS UNABLE TO PROVIDE INFORMED CONSENT TO STATIN DRUG TREATMENT
At the very heart of the patient/clinician relationship there should be trust that the doctor is fully informed about the drug he or she is using or preparing to use. This seems elementary yet our medical community appears almost completely uninformed about statin drug side effects. How then can these same physicians be trusted…
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Added by Sepp on April 17, 2008 at 8:01am —
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This is an article by 'Spacedoc' Duane Graveline, who experienced nasty side effects from statins first hand and has become an untiring voice of warning on statin drugs.
His website:
http://www.spacedoc.net/
I've invited the doc to join our network.
Statins are the most prescribed class of drugs in the world, and there is a bias against reporting of adverse cognitive effects. This bias originates in the lack of awareness of our medical community of the…
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Added by Sepp on April 16, 2008 at 8:30am —
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Today, a friend sent a link to an article in which two US-based researchers - Alexey Lobanov and Vadim Gladyshev of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Dolph Hatfield of the National Institutes of Health - are quoted as arguing that an evolutionary change in history lessened our dependency on selenium as an essential mineral. Consequently, they argue that
Selenium-containing proteins evolved in prehistoric times. Several human disorders have been associated with a deficiency i
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Added by Sepp on April 7, 2008 at 12:30pm —
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Why mobile phone masts can be more dangerous than the phones
Abstract
Living cells have a range of negative feedback mechanisms that sense non-thermal radiation damage and use it to trigger various defence systems. These systems are expensive in energy and resources and also reduce metabolic efficiency. The object therefore has to be to keep this damage within ’tolerable’ limits…
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Added by Sepp on March 30, 2008 at 1:28pm —
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Martin Walker's last essay before the General Medical Council hearing on 27 March 2008
"For my final essay for Cry Shame before the big demonstration on March 27th I have gone back to the beginning of the GMC fitness-to-practice hearing . For the first time, I discuss the role of the complainant, the journalist Brian Deer, the pharmaceutically funded agency Medico Legal Investigations and the New Labour Government as well as the GMC in laying the complaint against Dr Wakefield, Profess…
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Added by Sepp on March 26, 2008 at 4:11pm —
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