Stress is the biggest killer of all, and they don't make a drug for that one. Cancer responds well to Vitamin D, but stress is frequently the original cause of that condition.
Accidents are the best use of allopathic medicine. Degenerative disease is best treated before it becomes overwhelming. Preventative steps include proper nutrition, encouraging proper elimination of the body's metabolic waste products, keeping stress levels under control, etc. And even when degeneration takes place, there are gentle approaches that address the original cause.
This is the substance that can't be patented, is free for most of the year, cures cancer, prevents the flu, etc etc. Vitamin D single-handedly makes high-priced medicine as archaic as bloodletting and quicksilver.
Sunlight has lots of other benefits as well, not the least of which is you're probably exercising instead of playing WoW all day.
Human skin synthesizes Vitamin D when exposed to the sun. Vitamin D is anti-cancer, anti-rickets, anti-birth-defect, anti-flu (flu season takes place when the sun goes away for the winter), etc.
So basically, Vitamin-D is the Medical-Industrial Complex's worst enemy.
With that said, regular sunburns aren't good. It's usually best to stay out of the sun during the hottest parts of the day, approx. 12-2pm, and avoid sunscreen no matter what (which prevents the synthesis of Vitamin D).
creepy is just a way of saying your gut tells you somethings wrong. My gut keeps me out of a lot of bad situations. It's a good enough reason for me. My gut tells me I don't want to be implanted with something that can track me like an animal.
Our guts don't get nearly the credit they're due. Old medical literature talked about the body having three distinct nervous systems: brain/central nervous system, the heart, and the abdominal brain. How could paraplegics digest food if the digestive organs didn't have their own control system?
And the abdomen is, of course, the seat of intuition in the body. There's much more to 'gut feelings' than we commonly appreciate.
inability to obtain funding from others -- Westinghouse, for example, refused to fund Tesla's development of a broadcast-power system after Tesla admitted that there would be no way to determine how much power any given end-user consumed, so there would be no way to bill them for it.
As I understand it, the real demon in the Tesla saga was John Pierpont Morgan, who broke both Westinghouse and Tesla. Here's what Wikipedia has to say:
Tesla
In 1900, Morgan financed inventor Nikola Tesla and his Wardenclyffe Tower with $150,000 for experiments in radio. However, in 1903, when the tower structure was near completion, it was still not yet functional due to last-minute design changes that introduced an unintentional defect. When Morgan wanted to know "Where can I put the meter?" Tesla had no answer. Tesla's vision of free power did not agree with Morgan's worldview; nor would it pay for the maintenance of the transmission system. Construction costs eventually exceeded the money provided by Morgan, and additional financiers were reluctant to come forth. By July 1904, Morgan (and the other investors) finally decided they would not provide any additional financing. Morgan also advised other investors to avoid the project.
Not only did J.P. Morgan suppress Tesla's most revolutionary work (by halting the flow of money), he also had a role in designing the field of electrical engineering so young engineers wouldn't be tempted to build on Tesla's work:
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In 1892, there were no electrical engineers at all, because it (electrical engineering) had not been born yet -- but technical engineers were now needed to design, build, work on, and maintain the new AC power systems etc. given us by Nikola Tesla. Maxwell was already dead (he died in 1879), and everyone hated quaternions. There were only about three dozen PHYSICISTS on earth who understood something of electrodynamics, and that was it. To provide the new Tesla AC power technology, which was to be taught in our universities and called "electrical engineering", Lorentz was preparing the equations for the mathematical model to be used. He was using Heaviside's original vector equations, which were still ASYMMETRIC and thus included asymmetric Maxwellian systems.
Tesla had discovered in the late 1880s and early 1890s how to build ASYMMETRIC systems which could take and use all the EM energy one wished, from the "active medium" (Tesla's term) and without consuming fuel. And Tesla was briefing technical societies to that effect. (See rigorous proof that Tesla could have given us free EM energy from the seething active medium: See T. W. Barrett, "Tesla's Nonlinear Oscillator-Shuttle-Circuit (OSC) Theory," Annales de la Fondation Louis de Broglie, 16(1), 1991, p. 23-41. Barrett rigorously shows that EM expressed in quaternions allows shuttling and storage of potentials in circuits, and dissipation of the energy in those regions desired. The quaternion electrodynamics also allows additional EM functioning of a circuit that a conventional EM analysis using the symmetrized Heaviside-Lorentz vector equations cannot reveal. Barrett shows that Tesla's patented circuits did exactly this]
We also strongly note that Barrett is a very noted (though quiet) electrodynamicist and one of the cofounders of ultrawideband radar, along with Harmuth.
All this was known to the ruthless financier J. P. Morgan, still angry and smarting at his own backing of Edison and DC power systems being soundly defeated by Tesla's much more practical AC power systems. So he was already setting up the total suppression of Tesla, by first breaking his backer Westinghouse (which he did) and then deliberately breaking Tesla (which he did also).
Morgan had already had his technical advisors check the work
I lost the last phalanx (joint including) of my right middle and right ring fingers. I am impatiently waiting for the tech to get here so i can get my fingers back...
Dude cuts off his the end of his finger (base of nail -> tip) with the help of a model airplane propeller. A doctor said to get a skin graft to cover the stub. The amputee called up his brother, who sent him some powdered pig extract, and the fingertip regrows over the next few weeks.
So the guy didn't lose the joint like you, but this is a starting point for you...
For one thing, it's not completely clear what happened inside Lee Spievack's finger.
The broad outline is pretty straightforward. The powder is mostly collagen and a variety of substances, without any pig cells, said Badylak, who's a scientific adviser to ACell. It forms microscopic scaffolding for incoming human cells to occupy, and it emits chemical signals to encourage those cells to regenerate tissue, he said.
Those signals don't specifically say "make a finger," but cells pick up that message from their surroundings, he said.
I'd bet that "surroundings" is the body's electric field, but what do I know? You may be able to chop off the scar tissue at the end of your shortened digit and apply the powder. ?
If you are going to claim that a government agency is defrauding you,
The "Federal" Reserve is NOT a government agency: it's a public-private partnership. The Senate confirms the board of govenors. Member banks own the Federal Reserve's stock, and earn 6% per year return. It wasn't until the 1960's that excess profits were turned over to the Department of the Treasury.
For the government, the difference between borrowing credit created with accounting entries from a private bank and borrowing the same sort of credit from the Federal Reserve is that borrowing from the Fed is nearly interest-free. That is true today, but it has not always been true. Congressman Wright Patman, Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, wrote in a 1964 treatise called A Primer on Money:
“The Federal Reserve Banks create money out of thin air to buy Government Bonds from the U.S. Treasury . . . [creating] out of nothing a . . . debt which the American people are obliged to pay with interest.”
Patman was outraged at the inequity of this practice and boldly agitated for Congress to nationalize the privately-owned Federal Reserve, a move that would have allowed the government to issue the national money supply directly. Needless to say, however, this proposal met with strong opposition. Nationalization did not happen, but the Fed did have to compromise. According to Jerry Voorhis:
“As a direct result of logical and relentless agitation by members of Congress, led by Congressman Wright Patman as well as by other competent monetary experts, the Federal Reserve began to pay to the U.S. Treasury a considerable part of its earnings from interest on government securities. This was done without public notice and few people, even today, know that it is being done. It was done, quite obviously, as acknowledgment that the Federal Reserve Banks were acting on the one hand as a national bank of issue, creating the nation’s money, but on the other hand charging the nation interest on its own credit – which no true national bank of issue could conceivably, or with any show of justice, dare to do.”
I've read that Dr. Palmer (founder of chiropractic) was an early student at Dr. Still's school of Osteopathy. Palmer left after a year to found chiropractic.
I probably shouldn't say that misaligned spinal vertebrae cause the muscle tension; correlation is not causation, and it's equally possible that the muscle tension causes the misalignment.
Dr. Still's guiding philosophy was that muscles move bones, and nerves control muscles. His profession of doctors were fantastically successful before they got seduced by pharmaceutical-based medicine (look up the 1918 flu fatality rates for Osteopathic hospitals vs. M.D. hospitals - here's a pdf: Osteopathy and Influenza).
While there is a time and a place for everything, drugs should be used temporarily for the immediate survival of the patient, not as maintenance-en-perpetuity.
There are injuries where bones need to be realigned.
The real defect in chiropractic education is that it focuses on bones. But muscles move bones, nerves control muscles, and consciousness influences nerves. There's a huge difference between putting a vertebrae back in place and calming the nerve that controls a muscle that's spasming and pulling the vertebrae out of position.
With that said, some chiropractors move beyond what they learn in school, and really do help a lot of people. Some interesting forks of chiropractic philosophy include Craniopathy and Network Chiropractic.
While chiropractors are good for some people, I prefer other hands-on philosophies for myself and my family. See my other post in this thread, or read the story about how I fixed my dad's dog's accident-induced limp with manual therapy.
Every time I hurt, my wife suggests I go to a chiropractor. But I don't -- because I don't know who I can trust.
I hurt for a long time. It started when I was in college, so I went to the campus health center. The Physician's Assistant said I didn't have carpal tunnel syndrome, gave me double-strength ibuprofen, and said to exercise. A few weeks later I went back to see the M.D., who said there was nothing wrong with me that a little exercise wouldn't fix, and offered to write a prescription for occupational therapy (to evaluate my posture while using teh computer, I think).
While I was very thin, I was hardly sedate. I upped my physical activity, but it only made the inflammation and shooting pains worse.
I took myself to a chiropractor. Crack crack crack, then her assistant applied a mechanical massager, "see you next week". I saw no improvement after the second or third visits, so I didn't go back to her.
I had double health insurance, so I went to another M.D. nearby. He said there was nothing wrong we me. I went to a third M.D., who said there was a chiropractor nearby who got good results for many of his patients.
I went to that chiropractor, who did a form of light-force manipulation. I saw him once, and knew he couldn't help my case.
Over a period of 7 years I had appointments with over 7 chiropractors, at least 4 M.D.s, dozens of massage therapists and other non-doctor body-workers, and over 7 D.O.s.
The first body-worker I ever went to did an intense form of massage with her thumbs that caused my body to completely relax - it was as if I melted into her table. I felt fabulous for a week and a half, then the burning all-over pain returned, with a vengeance. I went back to the same woman when I got home for the summer, but she wasn't able to repeat the effect. Years later I figured out what happened...
The 18th doctor put it well: “All some people need is any kind of touch – this is why people love their masseuse or their chiropractor. The rest of us just look for the specific kind of touch we need.”
How do you find that "really skilled person" and know you have one of those "very specific problems in the back?"
I've written a few things on this topic. I just put one of my opt-in emails on my website. It's a story about how I fixed my father's dog's accident-induced limp with hands-on therapy. Feel free to send me an email (to the address at the bottom of that page) if you have any questions.
Wikipedia's article on the Flexner Report is also helpful, particularly the section on the report's consequences. Note that almost all small medical schools that were not affiliated with a university closed in the early 20th century. From the article: *The Report is now remembered because it succeeded in creating a single model of medical education, characterized by a philosophy that has largely survived to the present day" (emphasis added).
To summarize, the only way to become a Medical Doctor is to go to one of the Medical Cartel's medical schools. The Cartel teaches its doctors to think and act in a certain way - not because it's the most effective way to help patients, but because they need salesmen to push the use of their products (patent drugs, patented medical equipment, etc).
A few doctors break out of the mold. For example, Andrew Weil, M.D., has some passages in Spontaneous Healing about the weakness of the training he received at Harvard Medical School. I'm not a big fan of Dr. Weil's books/etc, but he does have some good points.
Also, your analysis of how 'bad' flora take over isn't terribly accurate.
Writing posts for slashdot is a fine art. Finding a balance between being concise, informative, interesting, inflammatory, etc isn't always easy. Especially when the poster can't come out and say openly that the commonly-accepted course of action is wrong.
PLEASE never recommend anyone apply yogurt to their vagina. That just seems... cruel and unusual.
Have you ever read any forum posts from women who suffer from Bacterial Vaginosis? Let me find one for you...
Wrong Diagnosis has a thread with hundreds of posts on Bacterial Vaginosis. Some say that the antibiotics worked for them, others report success with using the probiotics, and other posters report that nothing works.
Why start with an antibiotic when probiotics successfully treat for many BV sufferers?
One adequate course, taken correctly, will most certainly clear up candidiasis. In more than two thirds of women, they'll never experience another bout of vaginal candidiasis in their lifetime.
What about the other 1/3 - are they left out in the cold?
Cruel and unusual is treating a lack of beneficial symbiotic bacteria with antibiotics (which can have potent side effects of their own), when a comprehensive treatment with the right kind of bacterial preparation is what they really need.
Alternative medicine is trying natural remedies first, and only using synthetic remedies (antibiotics/etc) when all else fails, or for the immediate survival of the patient.
The medical establishment turns to synthetic remedies first, and mention "tricks" that anyone can do without their permission as an aside.
And the studies that show that while we've generally eliminated the bacteria that cause stomach ulcers, we've also caused some downstream problems because those bacteria were part of a balancing act in the ecosystem in there.
Maybe the problem is that stomach ulcers are not directly caused by bacteria. About 50% of the population has the H. Pylori bacteria in their system, but only a fraction of those people have ulcers. And of the people who do have ulcers, only a small percentage are helped by antibiotics. Why is that? I know, but you probably wouldn't believe it if I told you.
I hadn't heard about the mouthwash, but I did notice a new product at the vegetable/bulk food superstore: Probiotic Smile
One of my animal-loving friends has horses, chickens, dogs and cats at her house. Usually the dogs get all the horse manure they desire, but she recently had to separate one of her dogs from it's vegetable supply. She quickly noticed that the dog who wasn't getting his daily pre-digested vegetable ration had a lot of tartar on his teeth. She then mentioned some research that's been done about how the horse manure has a specific strain of bacteria that prevents tartar buildup...
When I was at the Natural Food store the other day, I noticed a probiotic in the refridgerator display called femdophilus. This product has two strains of lactic acid-producing bacteria that are well suited to colonizing the vagina.
I have an anecdote about conventional medical thought on bacteria, fungi, and the vagina. I took a late trip home a few months back, and Loveline came on the radio. I listened fairly regularly a long time ago, so I 'tuned in' for old times' sake.
One caller asked Dr. Drew what he could do about his new girlfriend's horrible vaginal odor. Dr. Drew & Crew were like, "what can you do? Bacterial Vaginosis is hard to treat. Don't say anything."
A later caller wanted to know what she could do about recurrent yeast infections. She'd tried any number of pharmaceutical anti-fungal medications, but the yeast didn't give up.
Knowing a bit about so-called "alternative" medical technology, I picked up the cell phone and called. While I was on hold, another caller came on to say that she had good luck with dealing with teh yeast by using only polyester underwear.
I asked Dr. Drew if it was safe to use yogurt in the vagina. He was like, "sure, but why bother? It's not going to help. These people have tried the most powerful antifungals available, and still have problems. What can yogurt do that drugs cannot?" (this was his sentiment, if not the exact wording).
While Yogurt is a sub-optimal probiotic solution, at least it's getting to the root of the problem. Yeast infections and bacterial vaginosis are caused when "bad" bacterial and fungi are able to establish themselves. No matter how many of these "bad" bacteria/fungi the antibiotic/antifungal is able to take out (99.9999% is not enough), the survivors will be able to quickly reestablish themselves once the pills are stopped.
In alternative medical thinking, "good" bacteria are used to coat the digestive system / skin / vagina with a protective film. When "bad" bacteria come along, there's no room available, so they can't establish a colony.
I don't know if there's been any research about probiotics & gonorrhea. But it'd be an interesting study...
I don't buy it because it is more expensive, but I don't buy regular HFCS Coke either - I drink Coke Zero instead because I don't want to gain more weight than I already have and I consume too many calories as it is:)
One day my brother was drinking a Coke Zero while studying (medical school stuff). His stomach rumbled, and produced shooting pains. He heard my voice in his head, "you shouldn't drink that stuff, it causes problems." Coke zero was the only contents of his stomach. He felt betrayed, and doesn't drink it anymore.
Here's the symptoms, in his own words: "GI symptoms, pain in stomach, bloating and loose stools"
Actually, you (and everyone else, for that matter) has the right and the responsibility to avoid paying as many taxes as you can. Tax evasion is another matter, however.
Wikipedia has an article:
Tax avoidance is the legal utilization of the tax regime to one's own advantage, to reduce the amount of tax that is payable by means that are within the law. By contrast, tax evasion is the general term for efforts to not pay taxes by illegal means. The term tax mitigation is a synonym for tax avoidance. Its original use was by tax advisors as an alternative to the pejorative term tax avoidance. Latterly the term has also been used in the tax regulations of some jurisdictions to distinguish tax avoidance foreseen by the legislators from tax avoidance which exploits loopholes in the law.
This was the intended result of actions taken by the medical-industrial complex.
One consequence of the Flexner Report (1910) was the closure of most "substandard" medical schools. State medical boards were established in the late 1800's, and before long the medical monopoly shut down any medial school that wasn't affiliated with a university.
By 1965 there was much hand-wringing about a doctor shortage.
Today the problem with medicine is not one of insurance, but lack of imagination. My disabled father-in-law came to visit recently, and brought a bag of pills with him. I believe he'd be better off with some proper nutrition (no soda, no white bread, no candy, more vegetables, more protein, etc) than drugs to manage the condition, but his doctors don't know any better because they were indoctrinated in a pharmaceutical-based approach to medicine.
These two articles should be required reading for anyone who wants to discuss health care today:
The last few paragraphs of the fine article validate my post above. Here's a quote:
So what of the future? Another of Bueno de Mesquita's recent predictions addresses the future of climate change negotiations up to 2050. Depressingly, he predicts that although the world will negotiate tougher greenhouse gas reductions than in the Kyoto protocol, in practise these are likely to be abandoned as Brazil, India and China rise in power in relation to the European Union and the US.
One 'black swan' that Bueno de Mesquita's prediction dosen't take into account are technological developments which solve the energy problem.
Suppose a backyard inventor develops a thermodynamics-compliant engine/transmission that gets 3x better fuel economy with 1/100 as many parts (conventional reciprocating piston engines have 1000's, this invention has 25 or so), and allows for mechanical storage of 95% of a stop's kinetic energy in a hydraulic pressure tank.
Or what if there is a worldwide surge of volcanic activity in the 2030's, which makes human production of CO2 insignificant?
I, for one, am Not impressed. 'tis time for me to go to bed - maybe I will have some prophetic dream tonight.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Uses Games To See the Future
Having read the fine links, it seems Mr. de Mesquita doesn't actually "see the future". He gathers data and throws it into his computer, which applies game rules to determine the most likely outcome. To me, "seeing the future" implies predicting the unpredictable - assasinations, a meteor taking out a major area, the abdication of a king (so he could marry his American sweetheart), etc.
Indeed, here's a quote from the New Scientist article:
According to political scientist Nolan McCarty of Princeton University, this is the real strength of the approach. "I suspect the model's success is largely due to the fact that Bueno de Mesquita is very good on the input side; he's a very knowledgeable person and a widely respected political scientist. I'm sceptical that the modelling apparatus adds as much predictive power as he says it does."
Methinks Mr. de Mesquita's method works because he meticulously gathers excellent data. If his data was sloppy, his rate of successful "predictions" would be much lower than it is.
Sometimes events which are 'unpredictable' happen. In retrospect we say, 'oh yes, this event was the only logical event to have taken place'. But such an event is typically unthinkable before it happens. Mr. deMesquita's model doesn't allow for the unpredictable, and is therefore NOT 'future seeing'.
I have a book on seeing the future. Here's a quote from the first couple pages that I typed up for a 2008 election prediction poll on K5 a while back:
Like many others, I've had good reasons during my life to assume that the future can be seen. But if I had any doubt it would have vanished as a result of an astonishing forty-five seconds when I found myself in Detmold, then in West Germany, in the spring of 1988.
Detmold is near the beautiful Teutoburger Forest and a famous pre-Christian shrine, Horn-Externstein, which is a pile of towering rocks riddled with sonorous caves. Until the time of Charlemagne it is said that Nordic kings came to Horn-Externstein to consult seers about the future.
I was invited to Detmold by Herr Manfred Himmel in April 19988 to give a series of lectures about psi research. This was Herr Himmel's fifth "esoteric" conference, and it was well attended by several hundred people. Herr Himmel was ardent about psychic matters, and the talks of his other speakers were interesting to me. Some of these speakers were also practicing psychics who were busy giving individual "readings" and making predictions about the future.
I was billed as the famous American superpsychic who had "astonished scientists" since my first formal laboratory experiments in 1970. But I have never given individual "readings," and I never made predictions about the future.
Many of Herr Himmel's conference attendees were visibly disappointed that I did not give the expected readings and did not foresee the future. Although I had studied "prophecy" and predicting for many years and had even experienced some novel insights about it, I was well aware that most predictions turn out to be wrong. I felt I had a scientific reputation to protect, which would be damaged if I accumulated a list of erroneous predictions. Moreover, I didn't view myself as a future-seer in any professional sense, and I though that predicting should be left to those who were or at least tried to be.
I gave several lectures and workshops at the conference, as well as the keynote address. I had worked hard at preparing this address, entitling it "Revising Psychic Research Methods and Expectations in the New Age," and even gave the opening statements in German before continuing
Humans use their minds to recognize traps. There aren't a lot of us who know how to avoid the 'genetics' hook, but it is possible...
I think even the most coldhearted persons must admit that your genetic makeup is something you cannot influence
I may be the most coldhearted person you'll never meet (the man who used to train mercenaries said I missed my true calling), and I do a damn good job of influencing my genes.
I mean, the weak link would definitely be the seal (one would think).
I, for one, think that the weak link would be the compressors. Most gas pumps just aren't especially efficient. If only someone would invent a pump that's better than current designs, the world's energy problems could be quickly solved.
Here's what the N.Y. Times article said:
The McIntosh plant uses an electric motor and a compressor to pressurize an underground chamber of 19 million cubic feet -- 220 feet in diameter and 1,000 feet tall -- to 1,100 pounds per square inch. The pressure may sound high, but it is only about one-fifth of what the chamber could withstand.
The chamber in Alabama could hold 5,500 psi, but the pump is only capable of 1,100 psi. Design a better pump, and the cavern could store significantly more air.
I don't have the money to properly study the device yet. It helps me relax like nothing else (see my other reply). I only recently started selling the Appliance, and everyone who uses theirs loves the effect.
You dismissed the Appliance as a placebo, but don't give the phenomenon the credit it's due. There has been some very good research on placebos in the past few years - how they trigger the same pathways in the brain as the actual drug...
Imagination Medicine: "Brain imaging reveals the substance of placebos. Expectation alone triggers the same neural circuits and chemicals as real drugs"
... But when Kirsch compared the improvement in patients taking the drugs with the improvement in those taking dummy pills--clinical trials typically compare an experimental drug with a placebo--he saw that the difference was minuscule. Patients on a placebo improved about 75 percent as much as those on drugs. Put another way, three quarters of the benefit from antidepressants seems to be a placebo effect.
Or maybe your miracle box works, your "quantum energy filter" based on SECRET KNOWLEDGE revealed by the sleeping prophet. Done any good double blind studies lately ?
Marketing the device to a skeptical audience can be challenging. Especially so when I can't very well explain in sciencey-type terms how exactly it works. I know a physicist who can explain the quantum principles involved, but I haven't had a chance to visit & get a recording yet.
Thanks for the response. I was trying to avoid getting adversely moderated, so I tried to craft my words carefully. Oh well.
Learn to meditate. It may take alot of practice with patience and diligence.
My body was always too distracting to get anywhere with meditation. I couldn't get comfortable in a chair, so I always tried lying flat. The first thing I'd notice was some part of my body being tight. I'd try to relax it, but was usually not successful.
I spent about 8 years trying to meditate and hypnotize myself (1998-2006). I achieved momentary 'flashes' of physical relaxation or clear thinking, but the flash was never longer than a moment, and mostly I just hurt all the time - inflammation in my arms, shoulders, neck and spine, and I was stiff like a 2x4.
I thought I had a repetitive strain injury, because the pain was exacerbated by using the computer. correlation != causation, etc etc.
I found a doctor (in 2005) who was able to help me remove stored trauma from a head injury. Some mornings after the treatments I felt blissfully relaxed, but this feeling did not last longer than a day or two.
I built my first Radial Appliance because I trusted the Edgar Cayce readings, and thought that Cayce might have recommended one for me (and there used to be a website that said Baar's "Radiac" was improperly built).
The Radial Appliance relaxes me like nothing else I've ever done (massage, float tanks, exercise, etc). It has truly been the "missing puzzle piece" in my quest for health.
The other pieces are covered in my reports. I've spent $20,000+ figuring them out, and if someone can't afford a couple bucks for my reports (thereby saving time and money), they can't afford to follow the treatment guidelines I've provided either.
Thanks again for taking the time to respond. I hope I've clarified a few things here. If you haven't clicked to my website yet, you might find something interesting there - click on 'homepage' above.
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Stress is the biggest killer of all, and they don't make a drug for that one. Cancer responds well to Vitamin D, but stress is frequently the original cause of that condition.
Accidents are the best use of allopathic medicine. Degenerative disease is best treated before it becomes overwhelming. Preventative steps include proper nutrition, encouraging proper elimination of the body's metabolic waste products, keeping stress levels under control, etc. And even when degeneration takes place, there are gentle approaches that address the original cause.
I recommend this book: Healthy Medicine: A Guide to the Emergence of Sensible Comprehensive Care
HTH, HAND.
This is the substance that can't be patented, is free for most of the year, cures cancer, prevents the flu, etc etc. Vitamin D single-handedly makes high-priced medicine as archaic as bloodletting and quicksilver.
Sunlight has lots of other benefits as well, not the least of which is you're probably exercising instead of playing WoW all day.
Human skin synthesizes Vitamin D when exposed to the sun. Vitamin D is anti-cancer, anti-rickets, anti-birth-defect, anti-flu (flu season takes place when the sun goes away for the winter), etc.
So basically, Vitamin-D is the Medical-Industrial Complex's worst enemy.
With that said, regular sunburns aren't good. It's usually best to stay out of the sun during the hottest parts of the day, approx. 12-2pm, and avoid sunscreen no matter what (which prevents the synthesis of Vitamin D).
creepy is just a way of saying your gut tells you somethings wrong. My gut keeps me out of a lot of bad situations. It's a good enough reason for me. My gut tells me I don't want to be implanted with something that can track me like an animal.
Our guts don't get nearly the credit they're due. Old medical literature talked about the body having three distinct nervous systems: brain/central nervous system, the heart, and the abdominal brain. How could paraplegics digest food if the digestive organs didn't have their own control system?
And the abdomen is, of course, the seat of intuition in the body. There's much more to 'gut feelings' than we commonly appreciate.
inability to obtain funding from others -- Westinghouse, for example, refused to fund Tesla's development of a broadcast-power system after Tesla admitted that there would be no way to determine how much power any given end-user consumed, so there would be no way to bill them for it.
As I understand it, the real demon in the Tesla saga was John Pierpont Morgan, who broke both Westinghouse and Tesla. Here's what Wikipedia has to say:
Not only did J.P. Morgan suppress Tesla's most revolutionary work (by halting the flow of money), he also had a role in designing the field of electrical engineering so young engineers wouldn't be tempted to build on Tesla's work:
I lost the last phalanx (joint including) of my right middle and right ring fingers. I am impatiently waiting for the tech to get here so i can get my fingers back...
Here's my old summary from Sounds like magic: Doctors try to regrow fingers:
Dude cuts off his the end of his finger (base of nail -> tip) with the help of a model airplane propeller. A doctor said to get a skin graft to cover the stub. The amputee called up his brother, who sent him some powdered pig extract, and the fingertip regrows over the next few weeks.
So the guy didn't lose the joint like you, but this is a starting point for you...
I'd bet that "surroundings" is the body's electric field, but what do I know? You may be able to chop off the scar tissue at the end of your shortened digit and apply the powder. ?
If you are going to claim that a government agency is defrauding you,
The "Federal" Reserve is NOT a government agency: it's a public-private partnership. The Senate confirms the board of govenors. Member banks own the Federal Reserve's stock, and earn 6% per year return. It wasn't until the 1960's that excess profits were turned over to the Department of the Treasury.
Nothing good comes from letting private banks create the money supply.
ESA will go to the moon instead.
... Because they don't already know what they'll find.
My favorite lines ever spoken on Art Bell's Coast-to-Coast program go exactly like this:
There's a reason we haven't been back...
I've read that Dr. Palmer (founder of chiropractic) was an early student at Dr. Still's school of Osteopathy. Palmer left after a year to found chiropractic.
I probably shouldn't say that misaligned spinal vertebrae cause the muscle tension; correlation is not causation, and it's equally possible that the muscle tension causes the misalignment.
Dr. Still's guiding philosophy was that muscles move bones, and nerves control muscles. His profession of doctors were fantastically successful before they got seduced by pharmaceutical-based medicine (look up the 1918 flu fatality rates for Osteopathic hospitals vs. M.D. hospitals - here's a pdf: Osteopathy and Influenza).
While there is a time and a place for everything, drugs should be used temporarily for the immediate survival of the patient, not as maintenance-en-perpetuity.
There are injuries where bones need to be realigned.
The real defect in chiropractic education is that it focuses on bones. But muscles move bones, nerves control muscles, and consciousness influences nerves. There's a huge difference between putting a vertebrae back in place and calming the nerve that controls a muscle that's spasming and pulling the vertebrae out of position.
With that said, some chiropractors move beyond what they learn in school, and really do help a lot of people. Some interesting forks of chiropractic philosophy include Craniopathy and Network Chiropractic.
While chiropractors are good for some people, I prefer other hands-on philosophies for myself and my family. See my other post in this thread, or read the story about how I fixed my dad's dog's accident-induced limp with manual therapy.
Every time I hurt, my wife suggests I go to a chiropractor. But I don't -- because I don't know who I can trust.
I hurt for a long time. It started when I was in college, so I went to the campus health center. The Physician's Assistant said I didn't have carpal tunnel syndrome, gave me double-strength ibuprofen, and said to exercise. A few weeks later I went back to see the M.D., who said there was nothing wrong with me that a little exercise wouldn't fix, and offered to write a prescription for occupational therapy (to evaluate my posture while using teh computer, I think).
While I was very thin, I was hardly sedate. I upped my physical activity, but it only made the inflammation and shooting pains worse.
I took myself to a chiropractor. Crack crack crack, then her assistant applied a mechanical massager, "see you next week". I saw no improvement after the second or third visits, so I didn't go back to her.
I had double health insurance, so I went to another M.D. nearby. He said there was nothing wrong we me. I went to a third M.D., who said there was a chiropractor nearby who got good results for many of his patients.
I went to that chiropractor, who did a form of light-force manipulation. I saw him once, and knew he couldn't help my case.
Over a period of 7 years I had appointments with over 7 chiropractors, at least 4 M.D.s, dozens of massage therapists and other non-doctor body-workers, and over 7 D.O.s.
The first body-worker I ever went to did an intense form of massage with her thumbs that caused my body to completely relax - it was as if I melted into her table. I felt fabulous for a week and a half, then the burning all-over pain returned, with a vengeance. I went back to the same woman when I got home for the summer, but she wasn't able to repeat the effect. Years later I figured out what happened...
The 18th doctor put it well: “All some people need is any kind of touch – this is why people love their masseuse or their chiropractor. The rest of us just look for the specific kind of touch we need.”
How do you find that "really skilled person" and know you have one of those "very specific problems in the back?"
I've written a few things on this topic. I just put one of my opt-in emails on my website. It's a story about how I fixed my father's dog's accident-induced limp with hands-on therapy. Feel free to send me an email (to the address at the bottom of that page) if you have any questions.
But if it helps for you to have a "medical establishment" bogeyman out there...
I think this point (which was brought up several times in this post) is the core of the matter.
Here is an article about how the Medical Establishment was formed: 100 years of Medical Robery
The followup article is also very good: Real Medical Freedom
Wikipedia's article on the Flexner Report is also helpful, particularly the section on the report's consequences. Note that almost all small medical schools that were not affiliated with a university closed in the early 20th century. From the article: *The Report is now remembered because it succeeded in creating a single model of medical education, characterized by a philosophy that has largely survived to the present day" (emphasis added).
To summarize, the only way to become a Medical Doctor is to go to one of the Medical Cartel's medical schools. The Cartel teaches its doctors to think and act in a certain way - not because it's the most effective way to help patients, but because they need salesmen to push the use of their products (patent drugs, patented medical equipment, etc).
A few doctors break out of the mold. For example, Andrew Weil, M.D., has some passages in Spontaneous Healing about the weakness of the training he received at Harvard Medical School. I'm not a big fan of Dr. Weil's books/etc, but he does have some good points.
HTH, HAND.
Also, your analysis of how 'bad' flora take over isn't terribly accurate.
Writing posts for slashdot is a fine art. Finding a balance between being concise, informative, interesting, inflammatory, etc isn't always easy. Especially when the poster can't come out and say openly that the commonly-accepted course of action is wrong.
PLEASE never recommend anyone apply yogurt to their vagina. That just seems... cruel and unusual.
Have you ever read any forum posts from women who suffer from Bacterial Vaginosis? Let me find one for you...
Wrong Diagnosis has a thread with hundreds of posts on Bacterial Vaginosis. Some say that the antibiotics worked for them, others report success with using the probiotics, and other posters report that nothing works.
Why start with an antibiotic when probiotics successfully treat for many BV sufferers?
One adequate course, taken correctly, will most certainly clear up candidiasis. In more than two thirds of women, they'll never experience another bout of vaginal candidiasis in their lifetime.
What about the other 1/3 - are they left out in the cold?
Cruel and unusual is treating a lack of beneficial symbiotic bacteria with antibiotics (which can have potent side effects of their own), when a comprehensive treatment with the right kind of bacterial preparation is what they really need.
Alternative medicine is trying natural remedies first, and only using synthetic remedies (antibiotics/etc) when all else fails, or for the immediate survival of the patient.
The medical establishment turns to synthetic remedies first, and mention "tricks" that anyone can do without their permission as an aside.
And the studies that show that while we've generally eliminated the bacteria that cause stomach ulcers, we've also caused some downstream problems because those bacteria were part of a balancing act in the ecosystem in there.
Maybe the problem is that stomach ulcers are not directly caused by bacteria. About 50% of the population has the H. Pylori bacteria in their system, but only a fraction of those people have ulcers. And of the people who do have ulcers, only a small percentage are helped by antibiotics. Why is that? I know, but you probably wouldn't believe it if I told you.
I hadn't heard about the mouthwash, but I did notice a new product at the vegetable/bulk food superstore: Probiotic Smile
One of my animal-loving friends has horses, chickens, dogs and cats at her house. Usually the dogs get all the horse manure they desire, but she recently had to separate one of her dogs from it's vegetable supply. She quickly noticed that the dog who wasn't getting his daily pre-digested vegetable ration had a lot of tartar on his teeth. She then mentioned some research that's been done about how the horse manure has a specific strain of bacteria that prevents tartar buildup...
HTH, HAND.
When I was at the Natural Food store the other day, I noticed a probiotic in the refridgerator display called femdophilus. This product has two strains of lactic acid-producing bacteria that are well suited to colonizing the vagina.
Here's another one: http://www.gynophilus.ca/
I have an anecdote about conventional medical thought on bacteria, fungi, and the vagina. I took a late trip home a few months back, and Loveline came on the radio. I listened fairly regularly a long time ago, so I 'tuned in' for old times' sake.
One caller asked Dr. Drew what he could do about his new girlfriend's horrible vaginal odor. Dr. Drew & Crew were like, "what can you do? Bacterial Vaginosis is hard to treat. Don't say anything."
A later caller wanted to know what she could do about recurrent yeast infections. She'd tried any number of pharmaceutical anti-fungal medications, but the yeast didn't give up.
Knowing a bit about so-called "alternative" medical technology, I picked up the cell phone and called. While I was on hold, another caller came on to say that she had good luck with dealing with teh yeast by using only polyester underwear.
I asked Dr. Drew if it was safe to use yogurt in the vagina. He was like, "sure, but why bother? It's not going to help. These people have tried the most powerful antifungals available, and still have problems. What can yogurt do that drugs cannot?" (this was his sentiment, if not the exact wording).
While Yogurt is a sub-optimal probiotic solution, at least it's getting to the root of the problem. Yeast infections and bacterial vaginosis are caused when "bad" bacterial and fungi are able to establish themselves. No matter how many of these "bad" bacteria/fungi the antibiotic/antifungal is able to take out (99.9999% is not enough), the survivors will be able to quickly reestablish themselves once the pills are stopped.
In alternative medical thinking, "good" bacteria are used to coat the digestive system / skin / vagina with a protective film. When "bad" bacteria come along, there's no room available, so they can't establish a colony.
I don't know if there's been any research about probiotics & gonorrhea. But it'd be an interesting study...
here's an article about probiotics & Urinary tract infections: Specific probiotic strains are effective for genitourinary infections, Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, Nov, 2006 by Alan R. Gaby
I don't buy it because it is more expensive, but I don't buy regular HFCS Coke either - I drink Coke Zero instead because I don't want to gain more weight than I already have and I consume too many calories as it is :)
One day my brother was drinking a Coke Zero while studying (medical school stuff). His stomach rumbled, and produced shooting pains. He heard my voice in his head, "you shouldn't drink that stuff, it causes problems." Coke zero was the only contents of his stomach. He felt betrayed, and doesn't drink it anymore.
Here's the symptoms, in his own words: "GI symptoms, pain in stomach, bloating and loose stools"
You don't have a right to avoid taxes.
Actually, you (and everyone else, for that matter) has the right and the responsibility to avoid paying as many taxes as you can. Tax evasion is another matter, however.
Wikipedia has an article:
The problem is the lack of doctors.
This was the intended result of actions taken by the medical-industrial complex.
One consequence of the Flexner Report (1910) was the closure of most "substandard" medical schools. State medical boards were established in the late 1800's, and before long the medical monopoly shut down any medial school that wasn't affiliated with a university.
By 1965 there was much hand-wringing about a doctor shortage.
Today the problem with medicine is not one of insurance, but lack of imagination. My disabled father-in-law came to visit recently, and brought a bag of pills with him. I believe he'd be better off with some proper nutrition (no soda, no white bread, no candy, more vegetables, more protein, etc) than drugs to manage the condition, but his doctors don't know any better because they were indoctrinated in a pharmaceutical-based approach to medicine.
These two articles should be required reading for anyone who wants to discuss health care today:
100 years of Medical Robery
Real Medical Freedom
There are options for achieving better results, but the debate doesn't talk about them.
The last few paragraphs of the fine article validate my post above. Here's a quote:
One 'black swan' that Bueno de Mesquita's prediction dosen't take into account are technological developments which solve the energy problem.
Suppose a backyard inventor develops a thermodynamics-compliant engine/transmission that gets 3x better fuel economy with 1/100 as many parts (conventional reciprocating piston engines have 1000's, this invention has 25 or so), and allows for mechanical storage of 95% of a stop's kinetic energy in a hydraulic pressure tank.
Or what if there is a worldwide surge of volcanic activity in the 2030's, which makes human production of CO2 insignificant?
I, for one, am Not impressed. 'tis time for me to go to bed - maybe I will have some prophetic dream tonight.
From the /. story headline (emphasis added):
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Uses Games To See the Future
Having read the fine links, it seems Mr. de Mesquita doesn't actually "see the future". He gathers data and throws it into his computer, which applies game rules to determine the most likely outcome. To me, "seeing the future" implies predicting the unpredictable - assasinations, a meteor taking out a major area, the abdication of a king (so he could marry his American sweetheart), etc.
Indeed, here's a quote from the New Scientist article:
Methinks Mr. de Mesquita's method works because he meticulously gathers excellent data. If his data was sloppy, his rate of successful "predictions" would be much lower than it is.
Sometimes events which are 'unpredictable' happen. In retrospect we say, 'oh yes, this event was the only logical event to have taken place'. But such an event is typically unthinkable before it happens. Mr. deMesquita's model doesn't allow for the unpredictable, and is therefore NOT 'future seeing'.
I have a book on seeing the future. Here's a quote from the first couple pages that I typed up for a 2008 election prediction poll on K5 a while back:
Humans use their minds to recognize traps. There aren't a lot of us who know how to avoid the 'genetics' hook, but it is possible...
I think even the most coldhearted persons must admit that your genetic makeup is something you cannot influence
I may be the most coldhearted person you'll never meet (the man who used to train mercenaries said I missed my true calling), and I do a damn good job of influencing my genes.
DNA Is Not Destiny (Discover Magazine)
Why Your DNA Isn't Your Destiny(Time Magazine)
Why do some people with the "bad gene" develop a given disease, while other people do not? Epigenetics FTW! :)
Eat right, productively deal with your stress, balance your nervous system, indulge in creativity, etc, and you won't have to worry about your genes.
I mean, the weak link would definitely be the seal (one would think).
I, for one, think that the weak link would be the compressors. Most gas pumps just aren't especially efficient. If only someone would invent a pump that's better than current designs, the world's energy problems could be quickly solved.
Here's what the N.Y. Times article said:
The chamber in Alabama could hold 5,500 psi, but the pump is only capable of 1,100 psi. Design a better pump, and the cavern could store significantly more air.
Done any good double blind studies lately ?
I don't have the money to properly study the device yet. It helps me relax like nothing else (see my other reply). I only recently started selling the Appliance, and everyone who uses theirs loves the effect.
At least one double-blind studies has been done by others: Improvement of Circulation Using The Radial Appliance
You dismissed the Appliance as a placebo, but don't give the phenomenon the credit it's due. There has been some very good research on placebos in the past few years - how they trigger the same pathways in the brain as the actual drug...
Imagination Medicine: "Brain imaging reveals the substance of placebos. Expectation alone triggers the same neural circuits and chemicals as real drugs"
The Depressing News About Antidepressants: Studies suggest that the popular drugs are no more effective than a placebo. In fact, they may be worse.
Or maybe your miracle box works, your "quantum energy filter" based on SECRET KNOWLEDGE revealed by the sleeping prophet. Done any good double blind studies lately ?
Marketing the device to a skeptical audience can be challenging. Especially so when I can't very well explain in sciencey-type terms how exactly it works. I know a physicist who can explain the quantum principles involved, but I haven't had a chance to visit & get a recording yet.
hi,
Thanks for the response. I was trying to avoid getting adversely moderated, so I tried to craft my words carefully. Oh well.
Learn to meditate. It may take alot of practice with patience and diligence.
My body was always too distracting to get anywhere with meditation. I couldn't get comfortable in a chair, so I always tried lying flat. The first thing I'd notice was some part of my body being tight. I'd try to relax it, but was usually not successful.
I spent about 8 years trying to meditate and hypnotize myself (1998-2006). I achieved momentary 'flashes' of physical relaxation or clear thinking, but the flash was never longer than a moment, and mostly I just hurt all the time - inflammation in my arms, shoulders, neck and spine, and I was stiff like a 2x4.
I thought I had a repetitive strain injury, because the pain was exacerbated by using the computer. correlation != causation, etc etc.
I found a doctor (in 2005) who was able to help me remove stored trauma from a head injury. Some mornings after the treatments I felt blissfully relaxed, but this feeling did not last longer than a day or two.
I built my first Radial Appliance because I trusted the Edgar Cayce readings, and thought that Cayce might have recommended one for me (and there used to be a website that said Baar's "Radiac" was improperly built).
The Radial Appliance relaxes me like nothing else I've ever done (massage, float tanks, exercise, etc). It has truly been the "missing puzzle piece" in my quest for health.
The other pieces are covered in my reports. I've spent $20,000+ figuring them out, and if someone can't afford a couple bucks for my reports (thereby saving time and money), they can't afford to follow the treatment guidelines I've provided either.
Thanks again for taking the time to respond. I hope I've clarified a few things here. If you haven't clicked to my website yet, you might find something interesting there - click on 'homepage' above.
Have a nice day. :)