Fluoride Reduces Children's IQ Levels

Harvard Study Confirms Fluoride Reduces The IQ Of Children!

A recently-published Harvard University study has concluded that children who live in areas with highly fluoridated water have “significantly lower” IQ scores than those who live in low fluoride areas.

There are so many scientific studies showing the direct, toxic effects of fluoride on your body, it’s truly remarkable that it’s NOT considered a scientific consensus by now. Despite the evidence against it, fluoride is still added to 70 percent of U.S. public drinking water supplies.

It amazes me that the medical (and dental) communities are so stubbornly resistant to connect the dots when it comes to the skyrocketing increase of cognitive decline in adults and behavioral issues in children (ADD, ADHD, depression and learning disabilities of all kinds). In fact, there have been more than 23 human studies and 100 animal studies linking fluoride to brain damage.

Fluoride has been linked to to:

• Increased lead absorption
• Disrupts synthesis of collagen
• Hyperactivity and/or lethargy
• Muscle disorders
• Thyroid disease
• Arthritis
• Dementia
• Bone fractures
• Lowered thyroid function
• Bone cancer (osteosarcoma)
• Inactivates 62 enzymes and inhibits more than 100
• Inhibited formation of antibodies
• Genetic damage and cell death
• Increased tumor and cancer rate
• Disrupted immune system
• Damaged sperm and increased infertility

Read the rest of the story to find out how you can protect yourself and your family from being poisoned.

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Root Canals: A Risk Factor For Future Cancer

Root Canals Link To Cancer

We health practitioners familiar with the principles of biological dentistry have long known about the link between dental problems and degenerative disease, including cancer. When there are problems in the teeth, mouth, or jaw, they can have far reaching negative affects throughout the body. When pathogens, such as bacteria that cause tooth decay, cause a chronic immune mediated inflammatory response this can alter the body's immune system in such a way to allow for diseases to happen anywhere within the body. Poor oral health can also lead to the deterioration of organs or organ complete systems because due to the these various dental factors. Such deterioration, if left unchecked, may even lead to cancer!

One of the first physicians to recognize this fact was the late Dr. Josef M. Issels. Dr. Issels was the first physician to integrate conventional and alternative treatments into a comprehensive treatment program that not only focuses on the cancer cells and tumors but also, with the same importance, on the regulatory, repair and immune mechanisms of the cancer afflicted person as a whole.

In his more than 40 years of treating terminal, end-stage cancer patients, Dr. Issels found that 97% of them had root canals! So convinced was he of the link between root canals and the problems they caused that he would not begin his successful treatments until all root canals had been removed from his patients. 

Dr. Weston Price, DDS, a leading holistic dentist whose research dates back to the early 20^th century. Dr. Price was the first dentists to warn of the bacteria that are in and around root canals. According to Dr. Price, the primary bacteria found in root canals include streptococcus, staphylococcus, and spirochetes, all of which can seriously negatively impact your body’s immune system. A weakened immune system, in turn, can cause cancer. In addition, these bacteria, once it enters the blood stream, travels to organs and tissues, causing further harm. 

Rather than acknowledging Dr. Prices pioneering work in this area, the American Dental Association (ADA)... Read The Rest Of The Story Here

Importance Of The Gut – Brain Connection Video

Did you know that your brain and your gut talk to one another? Yes, it's true, the brain sends and recieves vital information from the gut and the same goes for the gastrointestinal system. This is what's known as a Bi-directional pathway.

Find out more by watching this short video that explains how your brain's health is intricately dependent on the health of your gut. Meaning that poor gut health has been implicated in a vast number of diseases such as autoimmune diseases, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and more...

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Animation: Immunology in the Gut Mucosa

The gut mucosa is the largest and most dynamic immunological environment of the body. It’s often the first point of pathogen exposure and many microbes use it as a beachhead into the rest of the body. The gut immune system therefore needs to be ready to respond to pathogens but...

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Antibiotics Cause Long Term Damage To Good Gut Bacteria

Gut Biota Never Recover from Antibiotics: Damages Future Generations

The misuse of antibiotics is not only causing new, never-before known diseases like E. coli and MRSA, the flesh-eating bacteria, it's also destroying the gut biome with devastating effects on our ability to deal with infections and destroying our ability to absorb nutrients from food.

Emerging research shows that the harmful effects of antibiotics go much further than the development of drug resistant diseases. The beneficial bacteria lost...Read More HERE

Allergies In Infants Reduced By Parental Pacifier Sucking

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Decreases In Asthma, Eczema and Sensitization To Allergies.

Parents who clean their baby’s pacifier by sucking on it may be protecting their infants from developing allergies, according to an article published online May 6 in Pediatrics.

Children whose parents sucked their pacifiers to clean them before giving them to the children were less likely to have asthma, eczema and sensitization to potential allergens at 18 months of age than children whose parents did not suck the pacifiers.

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MS Patients Increasingly Use Alternative Treatments To Improve Lives

Although they often don't let their mainstream medical doctors know it, large numbers of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) use alternative treatments such as dietary supplements, acupuncture and herbal medicine to improve their lives. Thanks to researchers at the University of Copenhagen, for the first time a major research project has been undertaken to map the use of these alternative therapies by MS patients. It's a subject of special importance to Denmark which has highest incidence of the disease worldwide.

The results of a new study were just published in two scientific journals, the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health and Autoimmune Diseases. The researchers gathered information over the course of three years from 3,800 people with MS in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland.

"There is a lot of talk about 'self-care competence', in other words patients helping themselves to get their lives to function. Here, many people with a chronic disease find they benefit from using alternative treatments, so we should not ignore this possibility," head researcher Lasse Skovgaard said in a media statement.

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Stop Inflammation Naturally

Stop Inflammation Naturally

Inflammation is a necessary temporary immune reaction to help heal a wound or fight off infectious pathogens that have collected in any physiological area. The key word is "temporary."
If inflammation becomes chronic, it generates a multitude of autoimmune diseases. An autoimmune disease is one where the immune system's attack against pathogens or toxic invaders becomes a chronic attack on healthy tissue.

Dr. Russell Blaylock, retired neurosurgeon and author of Excitoxins: The Taste that Kills and other books cites the cytokine storm from vaccinations as a source of disabling reactions from vaccinations.
The toxic adjuvants and preservatives in vaccines, coupled with the dead or not-quite-dead viruses can create an overwhelming immune response that turns against the vaccination recipient.

There are many examples of this ranging from Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) to autism spectrum disorders and childhood allergies. Of course, only about five percent of those are officially reported as issues connected to vaccinations.

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BPA Toxin: How To Detox Your Body From The Poison.

Considering the serious health implications of Bisphenol A, it’s understandable we want to minimize risk. Food packaging is our number one source of BPA exposure.
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Inflammation Is Killing Us!

“Inflammation is the body’s response to immune system stimulation. A chronically stimulated immune system leads to chronic inflammation. Chronic Inflammation has been linked to Autoimmune Diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis, Type 1 Diabetes,  Rheumatoid Arthritis and others. Inflammation is the root cause of cancers as well. If a person’s body is under chronic inflammation then that person can have all types of health issues that go along with their body’s pro inflammation state of being.” Dr. Walter K. Crooks

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What Is Gluten and Why Is It Bad For You?

Click the link to read  My Answer To: What Is Gluten And Why Is It Bad For You?

Gluten/gliadins are a form of lectin which are glycoproteins.

Glycoproteins are proteins having covalently attached carbohydrates (sugars).

They are found in all living organisms, in both soluble and insoluble forms with diverse functions and properties.

Glycoproteins can broadly be classified into three types based on the function of the attached carbohydrates.

1. Typical Glycoprotein- Lectins, Immunoglobin G, Snake Venom, Thyroid Stimulating Hormone, Blood Cell Membrane glycophorin, Interferon are all types of Typical Glycoprotiens. 
2. Glycosaminoglycans- Hyaluronate which is in synovial fluid and cartilage, Heparin-an anticoagulant in our blood, Chondroitin sulfate located in connective tissue/cartilage, Kerato sulfate within cartilage and arterial walls
3. Collagen- found in skin and connective tissue, used for support.

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How the FDA is Recklessly Abandoning Drug Safety

Shocking Story Reveals FDA Not Concerned With Drug Safety

 In the wake of shocking reports on how the FDA, terrified of being outed for its questionable practices, spied on its own employees in the hopes of rooting them out before they could become whistleblowers, a new story has emerged on how deep the deceit goes. From marginalizing safety reports to not reading them at all―and then going ahead and approving the drugs in question―the FDA once more stands accused of being little more than a rubber-stamping agency for Big Pharma.

Explosive revelations of an intensive spy operation by the FDA on its own scientists emerged last month. Using sophisticated spy software, the agency tracked and logged every move made by the targeted individuals. The program even intercepted personal emails and copied documents on their personal thumb drives.
The targeted scientists had expressed concern over the agency's approval of dangerous medical imaging devices for mammograms and colonoscopies, which they believe expose patients to dangerous levels of radiation. Now, another whistleblower has stepped forward, and what he has to say about the agency's drug safety reviews is shocking even to the jaded...

Former FDA Reviewer Speaks Out About Systemic Suppression of Safety

Ronald Kavanagh was a drug reviewer for the FDA in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research from 1998 to 2008. In a recent interview he reveals how the FDA bypassed or ignored safety issues on major drugs approved during his employment. In an interview for the online news magazine Truth-Out, he tells Martha Rosenberg¹:

"In the Center for Drugs [Center for Drug Evaluation and Research or CDER], as in the Center for Devices, the honest employee fears the dishonest employee.
There is also irrefutable evidence that managers at CDER have placed the nation at risk by corrupting the evaluation of drugs and by interfering with our ability to ensure the safety and efficacy of drugs. While I was at FDA, drug reviewers were clearly told not to question drug companies and that our job was to approve drugs. We were prevented, except in rare instances, from presenting findings at advisory committees.
In 2007, formal policies were instituted so that speaking in any way that could reflect poorly on the agency could result in termination. If we asked questions that could delay or prevent a drug's approval - which of course was our job as drug reviewers - management would reprimand us, reassign us, hold secret meetings about us, and worse. Obviously in such an environment, people will self-censor."

According to Kavanagh, people would be shocked if they knew just how malleable safety data is. As examples, he points out that human studies are typically too short and contain too few subjects to get a clear picture of potential risks. In such a scenario, even a single case of a serious adverse event must be taken very seriously, and data from other longer term safety studies also need to be carefully analyzed. Kavanagh claims he has seen drug reviews where the medical safety reviewer completely failed to make such evaluations prior to the drug's approval.

How the FDA is Recklessly Abandoning Drug Safety

Common Infection Often Misdiagnosed In Americans!

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The Deadly Dangers Of The Intestinal Parasite, Strongyloides.

Study published: Clinical and Molecular Allergy 2006, 4:8

By: Dr. Walter K. Crooks

October 13, 2012

Strongyloides are tiny parasitic worms that like to dine on humans.  

People with Strongyloidiasis have the worms until they die, unless they
 receive effective treatment. The worm may persist for 40 years or more in the small intestine, and it can also be spread as a sexually transmitted disease.

Stronglyoidiasis is fairly common in America, however it is not often diagnosed because, if chronic, the symptoms are mostly mild or mistaken for some other disease process.  In a great many instances, people found infested with strongyloides have
 usually been infested for years, even decades before being diagnosed and treated.

An infection of strongyloides can be difficult to eradicate completely mainly because of the specialized ability of these worms to autoinfect their host.

Strongyloides are unique and dangerous because of the following specialized characteristic features they employ:

 

1.    Autoinfection: This is an important characteristic feature of this worms life cycle. Upon penetrating the intestinal wall or skin around the anus, the larvae enter the bloodstream and reach the pulmonary circulation.

They then penetrate into the lung tissue’s membrane so that they may do one of two things:

a)   Become airborne to infect others.

b)   Travel up the bronchial tree, causing irritation, which in turn causes the infected person to cough thus allowing for the larva to be swallowed into the gastrointestinal tract to begin the infection process all over again.

2.    Hyper-infection: The hyper-infection syndrome happens when there is an enormous multiplication and migration of infective larvae. This especially happens to a person that is in an immunosuppressed state, such as patients that are on long-term corticosteroids.

Symptoms include mainly asthma-like complaints such as cough and wheezing, along with possible pneumonia and pulmonary hemorrhage.

Rare conditions like eosinophilic pleural effusions and eosinophilic granulomatous enterocolitis have also been reported in strongyloidiasis.

One factor that has been attributed to these sudden parasite population explosions is the chronic use of immunosuppressive drugs like, systemic corticosteroids (cortisol, hydrocortisone), organ transplants and other infections such as kala-azar.

3.    Disseminated Infection: In patients that are taking immunosuppressant drugs such as exogenous cortisol (hydrocortisone), Fatal Disseminated Infections are known to occur.

In patients that are malnourished or have been victims of chronic infections, there is an 87% chance of death with this infection.

The high mortality rate associated with hyper-infection syndrome and disseminated diseases are frequently due to a secondary bacterial infection.

Corticosteroids and Strongyloidiasis

Multiple case reports indicate a potential increase in the frequency of fatal hyper-infection or disseminated infection with corticosteroid therapy in patients with asymptomatic or mild strongyloidiasis.

Corticosteroids have been shown to affect a patients immunity by increasing the apoptosis (programed cell death) of immune system Th2 cells, reducing the eosinophil count and inhibiting the mast cell response which leads to hyperinfection or disseminated infection.

It is also believed that corticosteroid therapy increases ecdysteroid like substances (these are naturally occurring sterols with non-hormonal anabolic effects) in the body, mainly in the intestinal wall.

Unfortunately, when these steroids are in the presence of the stronglyoides worm they produce substances that act as a molting (reproduction) signal to the larvae, which leads to hyperinfection and disseminated infections.

Research conducted by Siddiqui et al., has found that there are corticosteroid receptors on Strongyloides. These receptors could also play a role in hyperinfection syndrome along with the systemic disseminated infection associated with corticosteroids.

Conclusion

Strongyloidiasis is a nematode infection with a tendency to become chronic with fatal complications of hyperinfection syndrome and disseminated infection along with a host of other potential complications like gram-negative bacteremia and meningitis.

Due to the fact that most cases of hyperinfection syndrome and disseminated strongyloidiasis happen in immuno-compromised individuals, especially those who are taking systemic corticosteroids, like hydrocortisone, physicians should be aware of the bizarre manifestations of the disease that can mimic other diseases leading to misdiagnosis and medical errors.

If you or someone you know are infected with the Strongyloides nematode and are taking corticosteroides (hydrocortisone, ect. ), it is imperative that you speak to your physician at once and ask that they review the facts associated with Strongyloidiasis and hydrocortisone therapy.

In health,

Dr. Walter K. Crooks

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The Shocking Truth About Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple Sclerosis Questions Answered

What I’m about tell you about Multiple Sclerosis is going to shock you and probably make you mad that no has told you what I’m going to tell you.
People diagnosed with MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS that take immuno-therapy drugs…many (if not most of them) just don’t get better.

Don’t believe me?

Take a few hours and join some different online discussion groups and chat rooms for people diagnosed with MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS. If you haven’t done this…you’re in a for a rude awakening.

These multiple sclerosis groups and chat rooms are littered with hundreds and thousands of lost souls—who are taking the drugs just like they’re supposed to….and still have all the same symptoms—plus some new ones.

Such As:

• Crushing
• Fatigue
• Stiffness
• Incredible Pain
• Slurring Words
• Brain Fog
• Clumsiness
• Can’t Find Words (Words On Tip Of Their Tongue)
• Memory Loss
• Urinary Incontinence
• Dizziness and Vertigo

And don’t bother quoting multiple sclerosis research statistics from studies funded by drug companies. The REAL drug trials happen when hundreds of thousands of MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS sufferers get prescribed these things.
Be honest with yourself…how many different drugs have you been on? 3? 5? 7?
Isn’t that why you’re reading this right now? You know you need to do something different about your multiple sclerosis.
Look, I understand that you’re scared…
I know what happens when you’re first diagnosed with MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS.
I’d bet a thousand dollar bill that your medical doctor put the fear of God in you, didn’t he?
Did he tell you you’d be in a diaper if you didn’t take the drugs? You’d be in a wheelchair in a matter of months if you didn’t do exactly as he said?
So of course you’re terrified of NOT taking the drugs for multiple sclerosis. But if the drugs were really the key, then why do you STILL have the symptoms of MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS?
As a side note--I do believe that these multiple sclerosis doctors believe that they are doing the right thing, but the sad truth is that many so-called multiple sclerosis experts know absolutely NOTHING about how to help MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS without drugs. Zilch. Zero.
That was the bad news. Here’s the good news…
In the next few minutes I’m going to reveal some closely guarded secrets to you they can help solve the puzzle of MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS …using my Program.
Why am I able to help people with multiple sclerosis, when you’ve been told just to live with it? Or “try THIS drug, maybe it will work better than the others you’ve tried?”
Pretty simple. I do things differently.
What makes my approach different?
To begin, what makes me different from every other neurologist, rheumatologist, Internist and GP you’ve see to try to feel good again is my treatment philosophy…

Treat the person, not their diagnosis.

Why would I say that?
Well people are mis-diagnosed every day with everything from cancer to strep throat.

And you should know, autoimmune conditions like MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS are some of the most mis-managed, misunderstood and flat-out bungled problems in health care.

The second reason I say Treat the Person no their diagnosis is that a “diagnosis” is just a label. It’s generic—and really not helpful, as you’ll see in just a second.
A traditional diagnosis label of “Multiple Sclerosis” just isn’t good enough.
Think about it, all that multiple sclerosis label is saying is that you have a set of symptoms….the label is not describing WHY you have the symptoms. …its NOT explaining what has gone wrong.
Haven’t you ever wondered.. “Why is my body acting this way?”
It's just like if you came to me and said, “I’ve been diagnosed with Migraine headaches. Help me.”
Ok, great. There’s about 50 reasons you could have migraine headaches. That label gives us a place to start. The label is the beginning, not the end.
It’s not like I can turn to the “migraine” page in a book and know exactly what to do.
And you can’t just turn to the multiple sclerosis chapter of a book and see the 3 things to do for every person.
I know that sounds silly…but that is EXACTLY how you’ve been treated, isn’t it? Get an MRI. Take this drug. How do you feel? Get an MRI. Take a different drug…keep repeating for drugs 3, 4,5,6 and 7.
My practice is different.

---In my practice I take a functional approach…I make a functional diagnosis.

Here’s what I mean…Multiple Sclerosis is an IMMUNE SYSTEM problem…so I want to determine exactly HOW your immune system is working. How is it functioning? Or mal-functioning? What caused your multiple sclerosis?
Fortunately, you CAN test your immune system and find out.

—I have a program—a drug free program—that can help you….finally give you the relief you’ve been longing for. It’s very simple, there are 4 parts to my program.

    • Diet
    • Lifestyle
    • Supplementation
    • Brain Based Rehab
-Diet simply means that you WILL have to change what, when and how you’re eating. If you’re not willing to do that…stop reading right now.
People accepted into my Program get extremely detailed guidance on diet. What to eat…what NOT to eat…shopping lists….menus…
-Lifestyle means sleep, how you handle stress, appropriate exercise…I guide my practice members by the hand and show the exactly how to get deep, restful sleep….how to teach their body to RELAX and de-stress….I show them exactly which exercises they should do, how much and how often..or even if exercise is appropriate at all.
-Supplementation means that I use very specific natural, drug-free supplements to help correct the imbalances and shift your body back to normal again.
-Brain-Based Rehab uses a large menu of sensory stimulations, cognitive activities and special physical movements to target and strengthen the specific parts of your brain and nervous system that have been weakened by the MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS.
Let me explain how and why I busted my butt to create this Multiple Sclerosis Program for people like you….
My first passion is Functional Neurology.
Functional neurology is a specialized approach to looking at the brain and nervous system.
Science has shown us in the last twenty years that if you give the brain the correct stimulation, it can improve, change, re-mold, grow new connections.

Here’s the great part…, it is possible to systematically diagnose specific areas of the brain that are weak, and change those weak areas through non-invasive rehabilitation.

For many years, I used this to exclusively treat people with chronic health problems.
By using this Brain-Based approach, we were helping people turn around their lives, giving them a chance to live a normal life again, even after countless doctors and specialists had given up.
Sounds great, right?
But there was one group of patients that kept seeking my help but I just didn’t get the same degree of stellar results…
You guessed it…people with MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS.
These people were desperate…I could instantly see it their eyes and on their faces.
The needed someone to listen to them. To take the time it was going to take to get to the bottom of their problem…finally.
Honestly, I got frustrated and ticked off. At myself and at all the so-called “specialists” these men and women had wasted their time with.
I vowed that I was going to find a way to help these souls who were in medical limbo.
This led me on a journey to find what I was missing.
A few days after I made that vow, I made an important personal discovery.
I looked at myself in the mirror one day and I realized I had been making a HUGE mistake….
As it dawned on me…I could feel it in the pit of my stomach (you know that feeling?). Something BIG was about to happen—
I was doing what everyone else was trying to do….
I was looking at the human body like it was a bunch of little compartments.
I was focused on symptoms…chasing them…but not really UNDERSTANDING how the immune system worked and how it could go wrong. And not just the immune system, but the GI system, endocrine, nervous system….all of them.
If I was going to live up to my word---and help these people (young and older) feel energetic, vibrant and fulfilled---I was going to have to understand and investigate ALL of these systems, AT THE SAME TIME.
So I spent thousands of hours studying , the immune system, the digestive systems, hormones, the nervous system…
It was this intense study of physiology, neurology, and immunology that led to my greatest discovery...
Multiple Sclerosis can’t be solved by taking medications.
I know…I felt like I was thinking something that was so “out of the box” –like blasphemy almost---so radical that the Medical Police would come and arrest me.
Well that never happened.
What did happen is that these people I had been struggling like hell to help…they got better. Their crushing fatigue, the depression, brain fog and memory loss...they all got better.
Here’s why you taking these multiple sclerosis medications is pretty much guaranteed to disappoint you and frustrate you and make you want to give up. And what I’m about to tell you totally confuses 99% of Medical Doctors and Alternative Medicine doctors…

Blood sugar levels, anemia, adrenal gland health, GI infections, food sensitivities, thyroid function, cortisol, inflammation—all of these affect Multiple Sclerosis.

Have your other doctors ever investigated ANY of these factors? If you were seeing an “Alternative” doctor, Maybe one or possibly two on that list got checked..and even then barely.
I check every ONE of those factors (and more) when I’m helping a person with Multiple Sclerosis.
Let me explain why the MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS medications are a dead end.
I’m going to help you understand how your immune system works and how it went wrong to cause you to have multiple sclerosis….
You’re about to get more multiple sclerosis education than most of the doctors you’ve been to. Just click on the link below...