The following is from W.C. Douglass, M.D. and if you have never subscribed to his newsletter you should because he has a unique perspective and a touch of realism that most medical gurus do not.

I read today’s entry and nearly laughed except I am sure Lord Stern, who was quoted in the Guardian UK is not being funny he actually thinks it would be better to fill our earth with fields of soy bean plants and all the chemicals that go with that, all the land leaching that occurs when you grow soy not to mention the resources used to power the gigantic machines that are used to plant and harvest this so-called miracle food.In other words, he thinks we should all be vegetarians.

Think again just for one minute or even two. Just one example of natural and green is roaming cattle and/or sheep on grasslands? All that is needed to raise beef for example is otherwise useless land that is covered with grasses. The cattle are put out to pasture, they stay healthy, they are happy, some are used for meat, some are used for reproduction and it is a very natural eco friendly way to feed the earth and its inhabitants. If we want to talk about green house gases just think of the fossil fuels burned every day by farmers and then there are the chemicals they put in our earth to grow soy, it is a travesty.

Do not be fooled by Stern’s appeal to the good citizens of Earth. Let it be known that governing bodies all over the world are trying very hard to put the small eco-friendly farmer out of business. Even as I write, and as close as 50 miles from my home in east central Minnesota, Wisconsin state officials are putting a good farm that supports two to three families out of business and there are at least three other farms that have been shut down. They have criminalized the cow share program that so many of us were privileged to be part of and I can imagine if the Lord Sterns of this planet we call home have their way we will all be eating soy burger, wrapped in soy flour buns, drinking soy milk and our little boys will be growing breasts.

If you need to be awakened to the problem then the story W.C. Douglass published may be just the ticket. Enjoy!

“UK climate weirdo’s strange demand

Of all the screwy ideas I’ve heard lately, this one takes the cake: A British “authority” on global warming says that in order to save the planet, we all need to become vegetarians.

“Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better,” Lord Nicholas Stern told the Times of London.

Don’t you love the titles they give themselves over there? He’s also known as Baron Stern of Brentford… but as far as I’m concerned, he’s the baron of baloney – or at least the soy equivalent of it.

If mass vegetarianism changes the impact humans have on earth, it’ll be because this deadly lifestyle would reduce the number of people on the planet. I’m sure that would thrill the self-hating humans behind the climate police.

But the question you should be asking is: how? How in the world does Lord Stern plan to convert the entire global population to vegetarianism? The answer is both simple and alarming… through cost-hikes and brainwashing.

Stern said that if the upcoming Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is successful, it’ll lead to “soaring costs” of meat and other foods they deem bad for the planet.

In other words, if people won’t voluntarily shun meat, no problem! They’ll just make it impossible for you to afford it. Problem solved.

But if all goes according to plan, you won’t even want to eat meat once he’s done with you. He’s made it very clear that his goal is to shift your attitude towards meat over time.

He said, “I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible.”

That’s right folks, he’s comparing meat eaters to drunk drivers.

So along with your generous portion of rice and beans, you can have a health dose of a guilt trip on the side.

I think these nobles should save their high horses for fox hunting.

Why a fringe wacko like this even gets the time of day, much less the attention of a major newspaper, is beyond me – but don’t let the climate bullies lord over your dinner table.

I don’t care if you listen to Lord Stern, Lord & Taylor, or the Lord of the Rings… the fact is, we NEED meat. Most vegetarians need a shelf full of supplements and protein powders to get by, and it’s no wonder. Our bodies simply can’t function properly without the healthy fats, proteins, and minerals we get from this vital food source.

Don’t be alarmed by this radical control freak.

Eat your meat, and enjoy the weather.”
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I thought the following article might be of interest to some and a good follow-up to yesterdays entry regarding the joy of doing an Iodine Loading test. I have to say that collecting voids all day and early this morning was not the highlight of the 24 hours but now that it is packaged up and ready to go whenever FedEx arrives I am anxious to see what the test reveals.

In the past I have had quite a negative reaction to Lugol’s solution and thus was a little hesitant about taking a large dose of Iodoral. However, I seemed to handle the Iodoral just fine with no side effects, so if I had to guess the test will prove my need for supplemental iodine and I will take Iodoral for several months to get my levels up to normal.

Read the article I have attached if you have an interest in learning more about Iodine and its effect on your body and take the test, after all to void is not so bad, to collect quite easy and to mail, FedEx. Enough said.

Are You Getting Enough Iodine?.

This is the day of saving all voids which is a nice way of saying catching all of one’s urine in a cup and transferring it to a large container. I am doing as my functional medicine doctor recommended eons ago; checking my iodine levels. How and why I am doing this will fill the next few paragraphs.

If you have never done an Iodine Loading test the procedure is quite simple but I am happy to have the house to myself as it makes it even easier. If you are prescribed an Iodine Loading test you will be sent or given a box with the instructions, a medium size cup, a large plastic container, Iodoral or some form of iodine and a vial and packaging to send all this back via FedEx. Then it is left to you to pick a day that is convenient to collect all voided urine for 24 hours, starting after you take your mega dose of Iodoral. The only special instruction is to avoid all Iodine containing food for 48 hours prior to the test.

Why would a person do an Iodine Loading test? Simply put, most Americans are deficient in Iodine but there is much more to the story and I will try to summarize as best I can (actually not something I excel at). First of all, we live in a world full of toxins and one toxin that has become increasingly more prevalent is Bromide. Bromide is present in the food we eat (some breads and some soft drinks), computers, fabrics, dyes, mattresses and furniture, hot tub cleaners, some cosmetics, some hair products,  prescription drugs,cell phones,fabric softeners, car interiors, televisions, and the most toxic form is found in fire retardants. When I look at that list I realize that I am in contact with Bromide nearly every day although it would not be in the food I eat as I do not ingest industry tainted food or sodas. The real problem is that Bromide will displace Iodine if a person is consuming inadequate amounts of Iodine.

If a person has a normally functioning thyroid and healthy levels of Iodine, they will maintain a  good Bromide-Iodine ratio and Bromide might not present a problem. However, if your thyroid is under functioning and you are not getting enough Iodine in your diet this Bromide poisoning may contribute to dis-ease. Science has found a strong link between breast cancer and low levels of Iodine and Bromide may be a contributing factor to the low levels of Iodine.

Depleted soil may also be a contributing factor to hypothyroidism and low levels of Iodine. In the 1920’s it was found that people living in Michigan had consistently low levels of Iodine and high incidence of goiter and thyroid problems. It seems that the soil in that part of the country was very low in naturally occurring Iodine. The solution was to add Iodine to table salt in 1924 (iodized salt like Morton’s). However, it has been found recently that most Iodine added to salt evaporates quickly, so that may not be as useful a source of Iodine as once thought. I personally do not want to eat chemically treated salt like Morton’s and sea salts have very little to no Iodine despite being high in other necessary minerals. Add to that the fact that a lot of misguided doctors recommend low salt diets which means people use Lite Salt or no salt and you are down to very little Iodine being ingested.

Sea vegetables are high in Iodine but Americans eat very little vegetables from the sea. The country that eats the most sea vegetables is Japan and they have the lowest incidence of breast cancer in the world. All in all, we Americans ingest very low levels of Iodine, so supplementation may be necessary to maintain a healthy level.

That is where the Iodine Loading test is valuable. A person should excrete 90% of the Iodine you ingest, so the doctor will give you a product like Iodoral in a specific dose. During the subsequent 24 hours you should excrete 90% of the amount prescribed and if it is less a formula can help determine how much Iodine you need to get your levels to a more normal and thus healthy level. “Iodine supplementation alters the competitive bromide-iodine relationship causing bromide excretion. Thus, bromide dominance is diminished and proper iodine enzyme metabolism may be restored.” The Iodine Loading test also can be used to check levels of Bromide and Fluoride both of which if too high contribute to dis-ease. I have opted to just check my Iodine levels because the treatment if my levels are too low will be the same (Iodoral daily) whether we check my Bromide and Fluoride levels or not and the test is about $200 less.

There is too much information out there to share in one post on the subject of Iodine and dis-ease but that is a brief and hopefully an understandable summary of my day full of urine and containers, the whys and wherefores. If you think you would benefit by taking an Iodine Loading test contact your physician, tell them you will even pay for the test if insurance won’t cover it (mine was $120 including postage) and proceed from there. After all, you are in charge of your body and you can make the choice to have dis-ease or vibrant health. Yes you can!

One more thing, I just viewed a great selection of photos from the London Telegraph. I enjoyed most of them tremedously. However, the world wide photos of people with surgical masks on to “protect” themselves from the flu are an abomination. Has the public really been convinced that covering their nose and mouth is sufficient? What are they doing about their very delicate and vulnerable eyes? Will we next see goggles on everyone in a public park or metro station along with rubber gloves? If not, they might as well leave the masks at home unless they themselves are sneezing or have a runny nose.

“‘Recently, Dr. Otis Brawley, ACS chief medical officer, stepped up and said the most astonishing thing to the New York Times: “I’m admitting that American medicine has overpromised when it comes to screening. The advantages to screening have been exaggerated.”

That last sentence is the kind of thing you expect to hear from, well…me, but NEVER from ACS.

“The advantages to screening have been exaggerated.’”

That is a paragraph or two from HSI Research’s Jenny Thompson and I find them amazingly powerful. Is it possible that the American Cancer Society is admitting that they have been overscreening for cancers, possibly detecting tumors that might actually heal on their own? What, you say? What, to which question, that they have admitted overscreening or that some cancers can heal themselves if left alone. I believe both are true and the research is out there to prove the latter statement.

For instance, many breast cancers are now found when they are very small and everyone flies in to a panic but out of the other side of their mouth they talk about how great it was that it was found while small. However, that small tumor may have been an aberration, basically a few cells gone off course that would with a healthy immune system soon right their course and all would be well. Unfortunately, for the woman or man involved now that small, harmless tumor has been smashed by numerous mammograms (they must take many) exposed to radiation that would kill a horse and the unhealthy, aberrant cells have been spread throughout the breast tissue. What joy is there in that? None.

Whether PSA screenings or mammograms sometimes, and make no mistake I stress the sometimes, the screening or the results of the screening do more harm than good. We have been literally brain washed by our current allopathic nightmare of a medical system in to believing that lives have been saved, cancers cured when what we really want is cancer prevented and dis-ease of the body squelched.

I am reveling in my latest “try-it you might like it” Five Finger Vibram’s. However, this recommendation comes with a warning: you must keep a very open mind and have a willingness to try that which your mother would not approve of (or possibly your spouse) walking in the woods in your bare feet.

What are Five Finger Vibrams? They are a clever little pair of shoes that you can wear anytime and anywhere. They are defined by the company as “barefooting: the exhilarating joy of going barefoot without leaving yourself exposed; 2. any activity requiring unconventional foot wear offering the protection of a thin flexible Vibram skin; 3. an intelligent way to deepen your connection with your natural surroundings. …Our customers report an increased sense of balance, an expanded range of motion, and visibly improved posture.” I have to say that at times I found myself thinking this is deliciously naughty because I would never walk this trail in my bare feet yet it felt as if I were doing just that.

My test for my FFV shoes included shopping this morning for about 2 hours with the Injinji socks on my feet as well as it is 45 degrees here in Minnesota today. Since that worked just fine for me, I donned them again and took them out on rougher terrain for a 45 minute hike. They not only went through mud and over rocks they handled holes, pine needles and even the hard surface of my paved driveway. I am more pleased than I can say because taking this same walk on Wednesday in conventional walking shoes (Merril trail shoes) I actually turned my ankle more than once due to the uneveness of the walking path. Today my feet gripped the earth and other than the slippery feel of the occasional muddy patch they came through everything with flying colors. I can feel a little stress in my calves  but otherwise my feet don’t hurt and better than that the one toe that always screams after a long hike has no comment today other than “ahhhh!!”

I must be complete in my review of my FFVs and mention the cons. They were not the best in mud as it felt slightly slick underfoot. However, that said, I never fell or even slipped it was just the feeling of mud on your “barefeet” that was off putting. I occasionally looked down to see little flowers between my toes or a piece of straw but I never actually felt the flowers. The straw was poking me in the leg thus caught my attention but even that made me smile, so not much of a “con”.  Another possible negative is they are a bit hard to put on the first few times as you must assist each toe in to its finger but that is getting much easier and I have only put them on three times now.

Sizing was pretty true to your shoe size but you need to know what size you would wear if you bought a shoe that was made in Europe. For instance if you wear a woman’s 10-10 1/2 you need to order a 41 and the socks will fit if you buy a medium.

All in all, the shoes get a “thumbs up” from this nascent FVV wearer. It felt so good to exercise “barefoot” that I almost felt like dancing, only a certain amount of modesty held me back.

I am starting my autumn parasite cleanse and will also treat the dogs. I tincture Black Walnut hulls from green walnuts in late summer while the fruit is still soft and almost gel like. Tansy grows wild in most pesticide free fields and Wormwood grows in the wild in Minnesota, so both of those are picked fresh, crushed in to jars to the rim, vodka added to the very top (no air in jar) and sealed. The clove tincture can be made with cloves in a ratio of 1 ounce clove to 4 ounces of vodka according to Susun Weed. I have now added Peppermint tincture to the cleansing tincture and make it according to the fresh herbs listed above but that is my own recipe not to be attributed to Hulda Clark or Susun Weed.
I initiate the tincture process under the new moon and bottle approximately 6 weeks later but under a full moon. These also can be kept in bottles with the herbs for as long as you wish or until you need the tincture.
Once your tinctures are ready you can take them several different ways but I will list two that I have tried or am trying. Hulda Clark suggests building up to 2 tsp a day of the parasite cleanse tincture and her capsules for two weeks. I have never taken the tincture at that strength and I use all tincture and no capsules. However, this time I am trying the Hulda Clark method of 2 teaspoons a day of the tincture. I did gradually  start with a dropper three times a day for two days before starting 1 teaspoon and then upped it to the 2 teaspoons for the remainder of the 2 weeks. Years ago my naturopath suggested a dropper three times a day for 10 days. I have used this method many times with no adverse side effects just a general feeling of wellness, so hopefully I will be able to decide which method I prefer after this cleanse.
When I start the cleanse for my pups it will be one dropper per day on their food or with a bit of kefir which they slurp up with relish. I am going to add a bit of parsley water per Hulda Clark to their food as she says it cleanses the kidneys of the dead parasite detritus. Even if it doesn’t, parsley is a good tonic for anyone and helps with bad breath, so once again what doesn’t hurt might help.

I think in this season of flu and colds (and general panic on the part of the public being initiated by the media) a good cleanse can only help keep us healthy and fighting fit.

I am sad today because I just heard that the son of a person I used to work with is in the hospital on oxygen. He is a bright and cheerful 6 year old who has just started kindegarten and I pray he will survive the pneumonia that has put him in the hospital. Of course, he becomes an H1N1 statistic because it allegedly started with the  H1N1 virus but really he is a victim of an uninformed, very proud mother.

Mother, as I will call her, boldly asserts when asked if she has breast fed her babies “breasts are for playing with not for feeding” and she has refused to breast feed her two children. They start from day one on soy formula, a known “poison” for babies that weakens their immune systems and has had that affect on both of her children. She always refers to both of them as healthy but she is living in a make believe world. Both children, one boy and one girl, are constantly ill with every bug that goes around. Her daughter is only two years old and has spent countless nights in ER with dehydration from a strange disorder that causes her to start throwing up and she cannot stop. She is now on acid reflux meds and somehow that just seems perfect to me as that will most assuredly set her up for a life of weakened immunity. Her son has had nightly erections since he was tiny and I can only assume the hormones in everything he eats and drinks from the day he was born have had this effect on his poor little body. (yes, I do know that little boys have erections but not with this regularity and severity)

Mother, in all her wisdom has had her children inoculated against influenza which, again, increased the likelihood of her little boy being struck down by H1N1, the flu. It is known that the flu vaccine often diminishes otherwise healthy immune systems. Will anyone mention the vaccines he has already had at his tender age? No, they will only repeat and repeat that this little boy is in the hospital with H1N1 and isn’t getting enough oxygen to his brain without help. Dammit! I am too sad.

Mother happily allows the children out in the sunshine but ignorantly only after they have been slathered with poisonous ingredients commonly referred to as “sunscreen”. She knows better than to let the sun shine on their unexposed skin because a “relative died of a skin cancer” (don’t even get me started), so they are covered from head to foot with clothing or lotion. I can only imagine what their Vitamin D levels are and though I have off offhandedly remarked several times to her that we are all severely lacking in Vitamin D I am sure her children have never seen a Vitamin D3 capsule and they certainly have never had a blood test to check their levels of D3.

Mother, is an educated person with a dental degree, so education is not the problem as I see it. Our world is the problem and our government insisting on the Food Pyramid that stresses anything but healthy whole food. Our world that puts raw milk dairy farmers out of business and thus removes healthy food from the tables of countless families. Our world where the President declares a national emergency for a strain of flu that is actually milder than most strains of flu and most experts agree we have already seen the worst of . However, this “emergency” allows for FEMA to put in to place the mandatory flu vaccine that we have so far escaped and many other rules and regulations should they so desire.  Our world where we have been very ill informed about the sun and its benefits; thus our children are severely low in Vitamin D and have little chance of fighting off anything much less the flu. How about instituting a national Vitamin D emergency and doing some real good.

As for Mother she needs to venture outside her very enclosed box of reality, her extremely small world of allopathic medicine and foolish government food pyramids. Firstly, her children need their mother on her days off to just play with them or read books and reduce their daily intake of stress. They need good wholesome home cooked meals not supper from a box or a drive-up where the hormone count mounts and their immune system is taxed just trying to fight all those nasty additives and preservatives. I pray to a higher power that this little boy gets to go home but more than that I pray that Mother will see the light and start all over again to raise her children in a healthier world than they have thus far experienced. It is never too late even if she can’t go back and breast feed them. Go ahead Mother turn over a new leaf and restore their immune systems making them fighting fit when the next so-called “pandemic” (check it out; WHO has redefined what the word means) strikes because I assure you it will, seasonal flu occurs every year.

I am studying. My continuing education subjects the past two days were Autoimmune Diseases and Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Inflammatory Gastrointestinal Disorders as researched and compiled by Mary O’Brien M.D.. Interestingly two things really struck me as important to know about IBS and you might be interested as well.
In a controlled study by Bensoussan et al (JAMA 1998) when Chinese Herbal medicine was used to help people with IBS the group receiving CHM had sustained improvement even 14 weeks after completion of treatment. Treatments, both CHM and placebo, lasted 16 weeks and were regularly evaluated by Chinese herbalists and gastroenterologists, all of whom were blinded to treatment groups.
Again a study regarding IBS but done in Italy (Cappello et al 2007) “tested the use of peppermint oil (Mintoil, two enteric coated capsules twice per day for four weeks) compared to placebo in 57 patients with IBS. They found that 75% of patients in the peppermint oil group showed a >50% reduction in total abdominal symptoms, compared with 38% of the patients in the placebo group who experienced this degree of improvement.”
Allopathic medicine would and does use pharmaceutical drugs that have pages and pages of negative side effects and unknown benefits. How can they ignore these very positive results using either an ancient medical treatment that has proven effective over hundred if not thousands of years or a simple peppermint oil? No not how can they, how dare they.

This morning’s headline yells “19 Children Dead from H1N1 Virus!” and I admit it raises some fear even in my mind but I have to take a deep breath and remember a few vital details.

First, it is true that more people are adversely affected by the flu vaccination than by the flu itself. According to an article by a Bill Sardi on Lew Rockwell.com “in 1993 the federal government hid a deadly flu vaccine that killed thousands of nursing home patients.” “The vaccine related mortality was so large that this set back the life expectancy of Americans for the first time since the 1918 Spanish flu!” This article, which is a must read, also points out that the vaccine administrated to children at the moment is a nasal spray of live virus. These children then go home and spread live virus amongst their family members and Bob’s your uncle, everyone has the flu. I’ll be damned.

Secondly, not one media source that I have listened to (and I admit I turn it off as soon as they start the vaccine hype) discusses what one can do to build up your immune system and thus avoid the flu. It is known that Vitamin D3 is very effective and I can tell you there is nothing easier to swallow than a D3 capsule or it even comes in a peppermint wafer that can be chewed. I personally meditate for 10 minutes every other day in front of my Sunsplash Renew Vitamin D lamps thus exposing my body to the benefit of Vitamin D producing rays.

If you don’t have the advantage of living near the equator or of possesssing a Sunsplash Renew Vitamin D lamp you need to take Vitamin D3. Generally the recommended amount of Vitamin D is 400 iu but this is simply inadequate to fight disease and increase your immunity to the flu and you should actually take 35 IU’s of Vitamin D3 per pound of body weight. That is for a child weighing 40 pounds about 1400 IU’s of Vitamin D3 and for an average adult male weighing 170 pounds the dose would be 6000 IU’s. When you expose your skin to summer sun 20,000 IU’s of Vitamin D are produced and there is no danger of overdose as your body can easily assimilate the unnecessary Vitamin D and or get rid of it. When taken in prescription form it is often Vitamin D2 which is much less effective and thus given in large doses in the range of 30,000 IU’s and 50,000 IU’s. In these cases the person has extremely low levels of Vitamin D3 and to prevent illness must get their levels up to at least 40 ng/ml. In any case, you need to have your Vitamin D levels checked with a simple blood test and then you want your levels to be between 50ng/ml and 65 ng/ml. If you are fighting cancer or a debilitating disease your levels should be closer to 90ng/ml.

Vitamin C is known to be very effective in building up your immune system. Vitamin C can be taken in large doses (to bowel tolerance) as what you don’t need will be removed in your urine. I know the joke about “all it does is produce expensive urine” but we know it helps you fight disease and if some is excreted so be it. I take 2500 mg of Quali-C every morning but it is a heart formula that also has L-lysine and L-proline. The Vitamin C Foundation sells a very high quality Vitamin C that is not sourced from corn and is made in the USA.

Selenium, is a trace mineral that if taken can  prevent the worst forms of H1N1 where the lungs fill up with fluid and you literally drown in your own fluid. Selenium can be found in nuts such as Brazil nuts but can also be taken in supplemental form. You want to closely monitor how much Selenium you take in any given day as it can have adverse effects if taken in excess of 250mg.

Lastly, when they scream “19 children have died” you must ask at least two other questions. “Were these children in any way compromised?” and “Were all these children from one state or from across the United States?” The favorite statement to make now is “and there were no underlying health problems”. Perhaps the child didn’t have asthma, or cancer or diabetes all of which could weaken their immune system but one they never like to talk about is that children fed a diet high in sugar, trans fats and simple carbohydrates (like Wonder Bread) have weakened immune systems and are unable to fight off simple illness much less H1N1 viruses. Perhaps they should inquire about the child’s diet to be totally accurate when reporting “no underlying causes”. Not to mention asking if they had been given Tamiflu and/or the H1N1 vaccine.

While I hate the thought of children dying  just like anyone else does the facts are children die. Children do die of side effects of the flu. 19 children isn’t even one per state and that is a death rate that is not considered abnormal or alarming and definitely not of pandemic proportions. When the media go on and on about such mundane statistics they are simply attempting to create a panic and they are most certainly pandering to the federal government because it is known that our government has invested billions of dollars in developing a vaccine and they don’t want those dollars wasted.

I think it is undoubtedly time to turn off the hype. If you want to be informed read your news, read it online, read it in the newspapers and magazines. Then open a dialogue with intelligent well informed people and discuss the pros and cons of vaccination. We do not become informed citizens by listening to McNews and falling prey to their hype. All you really have to do is keep a running tally of the commercials run during the morning and evening news and you will know precisely who has paid for the hype you just heard and then you can dismiss in its entirety.