H1N1

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Permalink Reply by che on October 28, 2009 at 11:48pm

Don't read the news. All these stories about people catching swine flu are fake. Their just trying to trick you. Just take a look around you. I'm willing to bet that you probably haven't met one person in real life who has actually caught the swine flu. I haven't really been eating healthy. The only healthy practice i've really been keeping up with is drinking bottled water since i can't stand tap. I haven't caught it. I don't know anyone who has. The side affects from getting vaccinated are far worst than you could ever get from catching a flu. Getting vaccinated = possible lifetime of illness and brain damage. Not getting vaccinated = possible 10 days of being sick. I'd rather get sick. Those vaccines serously kill brain cells and are mostly responsible for autism. If your still not convinced go to youtube and type in swine flu cheerleader.

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Permalink Reply by Jason on October 29, 2009 at 3:01am

Vitamin D is the most important in fighting flus. Take 10,000iu per day. I get mine from www.vitamin-d-max.com
Also take Jutrian Rx GREEN from www.foodgradehp.com
And if you can, add in some vitamin C complete with bioflavanoids, best brand is from www.livonlabs.com

Those three things will immunize her from the H1N1.

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Permalink Reply by Melissa Wagner on October 29, 2009 at 6:57pm

Thanks for the info guys. I have heard of Vitamin D being good........I'm just not sure how much I should be giving my 3 year old daughter. I've also been giving her 3 tsp of colloidal silver every day. I unfortunately DO know a couple of people that have confirmed cases of H1N1 and are in the ICU on respirators. I'm trying not to let the scare tactics get to me but when I start thinking about my daughter it's hard not to get concerned. My cousin's 10 year old daughter has had a 105 fever for 5 days now and she caved and got her the shot. I know she didn't want to........but when it's your kids that are sick, it's a scarey thing.

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Permalink Reply by SteveSega - Free HCG Coach on October 30, 2009 at 2:37pm

As well as vitamin D, take echinacea, white cedar, wild indigo, and vitamin C to prevent the flu. If you get the flu, then also add elderberry for the symptoms.

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Permalink Reply by Jacqueline on October 29, 2009 at 9:45pm

I have a 3 and 7 year old -- they've both had swine flu this week. The 3 year old actually got it first. She's fine now. The fer was much worse than actually getting it.

As for prevention, I have been doing my best to sty swine flu free... Here are some of my favorite resources:

Natural Swine Flu Prevention (from Women to Women)

and

Foods and herbs for boosting immunity and respiratory health

Good luck!!

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Permalink Reply by EYES WIDE OPEN INTERNATIONAL on October 29, 2009 at 10:03pm

How Much Vitamin D Do You Really Need to Take?
October 10 2009 | 99,144 views


On November 3 at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, noted doctors Cedric Garland and Tracey O'Connor are running a seminar on how vitamin D can be used to prevent breast cancer -- as well as infectious diseases, type 1 diabetes, hypertension, colon cancer, and falls in the elderly.

Presenters will include some of the best known vitamin D researchers/practitioners, such as Robert P. Heaney, Reinhold Vieth, John White and Susan Whiting.

It is estimated that 25 to 50 percent of any healthcare budget could be saved with adequate vitamin D serum levels.

The conference will look at the current research and practice with vitamin D to enable everyone to take action today based on what's known to solve the deficiency epidemic, and to start the prevention of many diseases.



Sources:

Grass Roots Health

As more and more scientific evidence emerges, confirming that currently recommended daily allowances (RDA) of vitamin D are grossly insufficient for young and old alike, many have asked me to clarify the recommended dosages, especially as it pertains to children.

General Information about Adult Vitamin D Requirements

Before I begin, I want to emphasize that under summer conditions it is frequently possible to generate about 20,000 units of vitamin D by exposing your skin to the sun. That fact makes these recommendations seem more in line with reality.

Currently, the U.S. RDA for vitamin D is 400 IU (international units) for the majority of the population. (IU is frequently shortened to just "units.") This dose was recommended to prevent rickets, which works well, but does nothing to give the far more important protection from cancer, heart disease and infections.

To achieve the healthy blood levels in the graph below, most adults will need about FIVE THOUSAND units of vitamin D every day. Interestingly, the majority of people I see in my travels that are taking vitamin D are taking 1,000 units, and they believe they are taking "high" doses. Don't fool yourself, as an adult, you likely need about 5,000 IU's a day.

Some also worry that if they are in the sun that they will overdose on vitamin D.

However this is not typically the case, and here's why: When you're exposed to the sun, the UVB rays cause vitamin D to be produced in your skin while the UVA rays in the sunlight will tend to destroy excessive levels of vitamin D circulating in your body. It is somewhat of a natural failsafe mechanism that prevents overdosing.

HOWEVER, please understand that about 10 percent or more of the people reading this needs significantly more than 5,000 units. I have seen people requiring over 30,000 units of vitamin D a day to reach therapeutic levels of 25 hydroxy D in their blood..

Please remember that the ONLY way to know for sure is to get your blood level tested, which I'll go over in just a moment.

Current RDA Guidelines for Vitamin D are Outdated in Light of New Research

At the end of 2008, the American Academy of Pediatrics doubled its recommended dose of vitamin D for infants, children and adolescents, raising it from 200 to 400 units per day.

Unfortunately this is still a woefully inadequate recommendation for children.

Recent research reveals children may need ten times that amount in order to receive the health benefits that optimal vitamin D levels have to offer.

As of right now, the conventional RDAs are only:

400 IU for infants, children and adolescents

200 IU for adults up to age 50

400 IU for adults aged 51 to 70

600 IU for seniors over 70

Recommended Daily Intake for Optimal Health

Based on the most recent research, the current recommendation is 35 IU's of vitamin D per pound of body weight.

So for a child weighing 40 pounds, the recommended average dose would be 1,400 IU's daily, and for a 170-pound adult, the dose would be nearly 6,000 IU's.

However, it's important to realize that vitamin D requirements are highly individual, as your vitamin D status is dependent on numerous factors, such as the color of your skin, your location, and how much sunshine you're exposed to on a regular basis.

So, although these recommendations may put you closer to the ballpark of what most people likely need, it is simply impossible to make a blanket recommendation that will cover everyone's needs.

So how do you ensure optimal vitamin D levels for yourself, your child, and aging parents?

Blood Testing is the ONLY Reliable Way to Determine How Much Vitamin D You or Your Child Needs

Yes, the only way to determine the correct dose is to get your blood tested since there are so many variables that influence your vitamin D status.

I recommend using Lab Corp in the U.S. If you get it done by Quest, you'll need to divide your result by 1.3 to get the "real" number.

For your convenience, by year's end we hope to offer a blood test that those in the U.S. can do locally and does not require a doctor's order.

Step 1: Make Sure You Use the Correct Test

Getting the correct test is the first step in this process, as there are TWO vitamin D tests currently being offered: 1,25(OH)D, and 25(OH)D.

The correct test your doctor needs to order is 25(OH)D, also called 25-hydroxyvitamin D, which is the better marker of overall D status. This is the marker that is most strongly associated with overall health.

Step 2: Determine Your OPTIMAL Level of Vitamin D

Here again it's important to realize the difference between what conventional medicine considers to be "normal," versus what is optimal.

The "normal" 25-hydroxyvitamin D lab range is between 20-56 ng/ml. As you can see in the chart below, this conventional range is really a sign of deficiency, and is too broad to be ideal.

In fact, your vitamin D level should never be below 32 ng/ml, and any levels below 20 ng/ml are considered serious deficiency states, increasing your risk of as many as 16 different cancers and autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis, just to name a few.

The OPTIMAL value that you're looking for is 50-65 ng/ml.

This range applies for everyone; children, adolescents, adults and seniors.

These ranges are based on healthy people in tropical or subtropical parts of the world, where they are receiving healthy sun exposures. It seems more than reasonable to assume that these values are in fact reflective of an optimal human requirement.

It's worth to clarify here that ng/ml are U.S. units of measure. Much of the world uses nmol/l. If your test results are measured in nmol/l, simply multiply the above values by 2.5 to get the correct ranges.



Keeping your level in this range, and even erring toward the higher numbers in this range, is going to give you the most protective benefit. And the way you maintain your levels within this range is by getting tested regularly - say two to four times a year in the beginning, and adjusting your vitamin D intake accordingly.

Are Oral Vitamin D Supplements Your Best Choice?

The best way to optimize your vitamin D levels is through appropriate safe sunshine or safe tanning bed exposure. However, there are many times when it can be nearly impossible to get enough sun.

The darker your skin is, the farther away from the equator you are, and the further away you are from the summer months, the less likely it is that you will produce adequate vitamin D levels from sun exposure alone.

In these cases, supplementing with vitamin D is acceptable, but I strongly recommend you monitoring your blood levels regularly when taking oral vitamin D supplements to make sure you're staying within the optimal range.

Only Supplement with the Right Kind of Vitamin D

There is one other thing you need to be aware of if you choose to use an oral vitamin D supplement and that is that there are basically two types - one is natural and one is synthetic.

The natural one is D3 (cholecalciferol), which is the same vitamin D your body makes when exposed to sunshine

The synthetic one is vitamin D2, which is sometimes called ergocalciferol

Once either form of the vitamin is in your body, it must be converted to a more active form. Vitamin D3 is converted 500 percent faster than vitamin D2, and is clearly a better alternative.

Vitamin D2 also has a shorter shelf life, and its metabolites bind with protein poorly, making it less effective. Studies have even concluded that vitamin D2 should no longer be regarded as a nutrient appropriate for supplementation or fortification of foods (although it continues to be used). So if you choose to use vitamin D supplements make sure it is in the form of vitamin D3.

Please be aware that nearly all the prescription-based supplements contain synthetic vitamin D2, so if you receive a prescription for vitamin D from your doctor, you're most likely receiving the inferior vitamin D2.

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Permalink Reply by EYES WIDE OPEN INTERNATIONAL on October 29, 2009 at 10:43pm

Magnesium is the Underrated Master Mineral AND more about Vitamine D...below

Tuesday, August 04, 2009 by: Paul Fassa, citizen journalist


Magnesium is a very underrated, virtually ignored mineral for our diets, yet it is the most crucial and essential to over 300 bodily biochemical and cellular metabolic processes. It has been called the "Master Mineral" because of its central importance to so many cellular functions and proper body glucose balance. Because of poor topsoil conditions and poor eating habits, almost everyone is magnesium deficient to some extent.

The mineral that gets the most attention for supplementation is calcium. Yet without magnesium, calcium synthesis into bones and teeth is drastically impaired. Cardiovascular and neurological issues are also prone to surface. It's estimated that most people have a ratio of calcium to magnesium at 3 to 1or higher, but the ideal ratio is close to 2 to 1, actually 10 to 4. In other words, your body should have about half as much magnesium as calcium.

So How Do You Know If You Are Low?

All the symptoms related to magnesium deficiency can overlap with other health issues. So it is confusing to determine magnesium deficiency by symptoms alone.

Weakness, inappropriate fatigue, irritability, muscle spasms or twitches, muscle aches, light or sound sensitivity, chronic constipation, and "restless leg syndrome", where either the legs or arms have weird sensations that can only be relieved by often changing their position, are usually directly related to magnesium deficiency.

Indirectly, fibromyalgia, arrhythmia and other heart conditions, asthma, and hypertension along with high blood pressure can also be at least partly due to insufficient magnesium in our cells. And within the cells is where the action is mostly with magnesium as a catalyst and synthesis agent for approximately 80% or our biochemical processes.

That's why Dr. Otis Woodward, MD, a holistic physician, recommends a red blood cell (RBC) test over a simple blood test to determine magnesium levels. It can look good in your blood, but if it is not in your cells you won't get the benefits. RBC testing is not as good as white blood cell testing, but it is easier to obtain, less expensive, and sufficient.

Applied kinesiology or muscle testing by a skilled holistic healer can also help determine your need for magnesium. But let's face it, if your health can be better and your diet is not so great, considering that almost everyone is magnesium deficient should motivate you to look into how to increase your magnesium level.

Increasing Your Magnesium Intake With Foods

Lots of sugar, processed table salt and processed foods, especially those made with bleached flour will deplete your magnesium by a sort of leeching process. So avoiding or minimizing that part of your diet will be a good start. You can replace processed table salt with real organic sea salt or Himalayan salt to eliminate the poisons inherent in table salt and add magnesium to your diet.

Stress is another magnesium burner. Indulging in some humor and handling stress by being more upbeat in general will help conserve your body's stored magnesium.

Vegetables with leafy greens, whole grains, many legumes including peanuts, and raw nuts are good sources of magnesium. But all is not so good with commercially grown agribusiness crops. It has been determined that organic crops contain up to 10 times the magnesium of regular supermarket foods.

However, it's the depleted topsoil that is the problem. So organic should include that the crops are rotated and the topsoil is regenerated for optimum mineral and magnesium content. Simply not spraying with pesticides does little to improve the topsoil.

Sugar cane roots go much deeper than topsoil and those roots have access to minerals not available in the topsoil. Ironically, the "waste" from processing table sugar produces a super food for minerals known as black strap molasses. The unsulphured variety is the best. Mostly known for it's high iron content, unsulphured black strap molasses is also high in magnesium.

Another super food very high in magnesium is fulvic (not folic) acid. A good fulvic acid liquid is said to contain all the minerals and elements a body needs. Fulvic acid minerals in solution are purported to be highly bioavailable.

Remember the leafy greens suggestion? At the core of chlorophyll is magnesium. So any of the super foods that are green, such as spirulina and especially chlorella, are high in magnesium as well as other nutrients. Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, recommends 10 grams of spirulina or 5 grams of chlorella daily. It's easier, more absorbable, and more economical if you use the powdered form mixed in a suitable liquid of your choice.

Since most of us who grew up on processed and agribusiness non-organic foods have impaired digestive systems, it is suggested by most health experts that you include some sort of digestive aid to increase the bioavailibility of the magnesium in those foods and super foods.

Investigate probiotic sources or high intestinal flora kefirs and kombuchas to see what suits your fancy and budget. You can even make your own kefir or kombucha, or use sauerkraut that is home made with organic foods. There is a tasty Korean dish known as Kimchi for a daily diet to enhance probiotic production in your intestinal tract. Here is an article link that contains a Kimchi recipe:
http://www.bodyecology.com/07/02/01...

Supplements, an Adjunct, and Extreme Measures

Of course there are supplements as well. The better ones are in powdered form to be dissolved in water or juice. Often they are in conjunction with calcium. So make sure the ratio is around 2 to 1 calcium to magnesium. If your diet is high in calcium sources, using just magnesium as a supplement or a cal/mag with a lower ratio is recommended. Magnesium oxide is not as endorsed by doctors and holistic healers as much as magnesium citrate or magnesium citrate malate. Read your labels.

Holistic physicians often use magnesium injections or intravenous feeds for patients with severe deficiency problems. They will then prescribe oral magnesium supplementation along with vitamin B6 as an adjunct when that intense therapeutic event is completed. If you add B6 to your oral supplementation of magnesium, it is recommended that you include a full B complex supplement to prevent a B vitamin imbalance.

NOTE: Important Caveats!

People with kidney and heart problems are advised against magnesium supplementation unless they consult a physician. Also, magnesium supplements tend to be alkaline, so too much of the magnesium supplements can impair digestion unless tempered with organic apple cider vinegar in water. Otherwise, too much alkaline can lead to poor absorption and disrupt your pH balance. Dr. Len Horowitz recommends fresh lime or lemon squeezed into your water to cheaply maintain pH balance. Even too much of the transdermal applications listed below can alter your skin's pH balance. This caveat does not apply to food and super food sources.

Transdermal Applications You Can Do Yourself

Transdermal simply means applied to unbroken skin, as creams and lotions are. This implies that you may ensure bioavailability of the magnesium regardless of any digestive impediments. Lately, magnesium oils have sprouted onto the health supplement market that can simply be applied to your skin. The body then absorbs the magnesium through the skin where it is applied.

If you prefer sitting and soaking over standing and showering, you are in luck for increasing your magnesium intake. Magnesium salts are available for your bath.

A more available and economical transdermal source of magnesium is Epsom salt. Yes, you can soak in Epsom salts to ease your aches and pains while absorbing magnesium through your skin. Epsom salt is essentially magnesium sulfate. Two cups of Epsom salt in a standard sized bathtub, soaking for 12 minutes three times a week should be sufficient.

Again, it is advised to stay within that protocol and not exceed it.

Magnesium Needs To Be Nurtured

Awareness of your magnesium level and what you're doing for it is more essential to good health than is commonly realized. It is also essential to the synthesis of glutathione, which is considered the master antioxidant that controls all other antioxidants!

This should be enough data to motivate your nurturing magnesium levels. But if you need an even more comprehensive, detailed report on magnesium, go to the first source link below.

Sources:

That Incredibly Comprehensive and Detailed Magnesium Article
http://www.naturalnews.com/024847_m...

The Body Ecology
http://bodyecology.com/07/06/08/mag...

Dr. Sahelian About Magnesium:
http://www.raysahelian.com/magnesiu...

Magnesium the Master Mineral (Dr.Otis Woodward, MD)
http://otiswoodardmd.typepad.com/my...

Body Ecology Kimchi Recipe
http://www.bodyecology.com/07/02/01...

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Vitamin D Deficiency Reveals an Instant Health Care Reform Solution
Tuesday, August 04, 2009



It's official: Vitamin D deficiency is so widespread in U.S. children that it poses a huge threat to the future health of an entire generation. A new study published in the journal Pediatrics paints a disturbing picture of vitamin D deficiency across the population of children aged 1 through 21. Three-fourths of young African American children, for example, are deficient in vitamin D. Much the same pattern holds true for Mexican American children. Even white kids, with their fairer skin and greater vitamin D production, hit the charts with 50% - 60% deficiency, depending on the age group.

Of course, in classic medical doublespeak style, health researchers don't actually call it "deficiency." (Because that would trigger a whole new urgency to correct the problem.) Instead, they call it "vitamin D insufficiency," while reserving the term "deficiency" for children who have virtually no vitamin D in their blood whatsoever.

Of course, "insufficient" means "deficient" in the real world, since kids who are now labeled as "insufficient" in vitamin D are, of course, actually quite deficient in the nutrient. And keep in mind that these frighteningly common vitamin D deficiencies exist even when the accepted standards of vitamin D levels in the blood are artificially low to begin with. If you use real numbers of the vitamin D levels required for peak human performance, the truth is that as many as 90 percent of U.S. children are chronically deficient in vitamin D.

"It's astounding," said Michal L. Melamed of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, in a Washington Post report (source below). "At first, we couldn't believe the numbers. I think it's very worrisome."

But why are American kids so deficient in vitamin D in the first place?


Sunlight deficiency is now at epidemic levels
The answer, of course, is because kids are sunlight deficient. And that's due to a few reasons: First, too many kids today spend most of their hours in front of computers, televisions or gaming consoles. The live almost like vampires, staying awake all night, sleeping during the day, living off the flesh of other creatures (beef jerky and hamburgers...).

Many of their parents, too, are part of the problem. Today's moms seem terrified that their kids might actually experience "the outdoors" for more than a few moments. They wait with air-conditioned cars at the school bus stops, then hustle their kids into pre-cooled cars to drive the quarter mile back to their artificially air-conditioned homes. Sunlight almost never touches these kids (they might turn to dust).

The sunscreen industry also shares some blame in all this, as it thrives on the silly idea that sunlight is bad for children and that all kids need to be smothered in sunscreen lotions before venturing outdoors. (Of course, they never admit their own sunscreen products are filled with cancer-causing chemicals in the first place...)

Above all, the medical establishment is to blame for vitamin D deficiency. Rather than teaching parents and children about the importance of vitamin D, they seem to have declared a blackout on most useful information about the nutrient, preferring instead to prescribe toxic pharmaceutical drugs to treat the symptoms of vitamin D deficiency. Osteoporosis drugs, in particular, are made virtually obsolete by vitamin D alone. That's why you don't see any drug companies talking about vitamin D -- it would destroy osteoporosis drug sales!


Why Vitamin D deficiency is big business for Big Pharma
The entire "sick care" industry (including Big Pharma) actually depends on widespread nutritional deficiencies in order to create repeat business. Vitamin D deficiency, of course, figures prominently in this equation: It promotes cancer, bone loss, obesity, depression and heart disease. It's no coincidence that these are some of the biggest profit earners for drug companies.

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Permalink Reply by roy on October 30, 2009 at 4:14pm

Dear Melissa,
There have been several replies here advising you against the H1N1 and I see that you are still not sure of your plan of action.
My advise to you would be to go ahead and get the vaccine and let us know the effects of it if you do.
We rely here on iformation which is against the vaccine and you could then shed some light as to what reactions would take place. If there was nothing known about the bad effects of vaccine, one has seen from past experiences that people would blindly trust all the "good" governments and countries are doing for us. Most world populaces have been taking vaccinations without questions and only in this 21st century are we going against some govt program. It is an individual call here to decide for or against the vaccine.
Before taking the vaccine please ask yourself the following questions -
a)Do you suppose the government is an entity or a group of individuals who come to power for the "GOOD" of its people?
b)Did the govt scientists doctors and top educated personel ever 'eradicate' any disease?
c) Have you in your lifetime encountered any politician who has kept his promises (which he made to the general public)?
There are several more questions but I think the answers to even these three will help you decide.

Love
Roy

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Permalink Reply by Karen on October 31, 2009 at 8:49pm

Hi Melissa,

I'm a firm believer that if you decide not to vaccinate your kids, you need a plan B to keep their immunity high. Before world war 2, and the advent of many vaccines, parents used to innoculate their kids with a dose of cod liver oil every day to keep diseases away, and their immunity high. Cod liver oil in its natural state is high in vitamins A and D, and essential fatty acids. The perfect food supplement for a child's immunity, and to build strong healthy bodies. Most parents started their babies on the cod liver oil at around 3-6 months old, and they continued throughout the child's life. These generations of children were also not plagued with ADD/Autistic and multi-allergic syndromes we have today.

So my advice, get a hold of some good quality cod liver oil, and start giving it to your kids. A teaspoon a day mixed with some juice is a good start. Green Pastures has excellent cod liver oil. www.greenpasture.org

Good luck,
Karen.

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Permalink Reply by Michael on November 1, 2009 at 1:22am

Vaccines: The Risks, The Benefits, The Choices 1/18

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