What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Children's Vaccinations

Posted by Cate Crow, 2 years ago

Written by a medical pediatrician...a must read for any parent, especially new ones. I wish I had a copy of this book before my son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. I wish my neighbour had this book before her son was diagnosed with ADHD. I wish my cousin had this book before her son was diagnosed with autism. I wish my friend had this book before her daughter was diagnosed with severe asthma and allergies.

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VITAMIN D miracle ??

Posted by A Prairiegirl ♫, 3 years ago

Everywhere you turn there is more information on Vitamin D. and the benefits of it. What is your NEWS item, or good BOOK on the subject ??...This is just one of the newest books we sell at Chapters. I am now reading it and will post a review later.

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Essiac - A Native Herbal Cancer Remedy

Posted by Cate Crow, 3 years ago

Essiac - A Native Herbal Cancer Remedy

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Highly recommended book for anyone with cancer or who knows someone going through it. The Ojibwa natives gave this herbal recipe to Canadian nurse Rene Caisse in 1922. Thousands claim (even to this day) that this recipe made from 4 safe, readily available, non-toxic herbs boiled into a tea and taken daily eased their suffering or ended it entirely and restored them to full health when all else had failed. For over 55 years Rene fought the medical establishment and the cancer industry who wanted to outlaw the herbal formula that was actually curing people. "A Native Herbal Cancer Remedy" book even includes the missing herbal ingredient from the original Essiac formula which was only added for very stubborn cancer tumours. It also includes the full Essiac recipe with step by step instructions on how to make it, use it and store it. Dr. Frederick Banting, who discovered insulin, found this formula equally helpful for diabetic sufferers as well. A remarkable story and "tea".

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Which Vit C grown Where ???

Posted by A Prairiegirl ♫, 4 years ago

As anti-oxidants are under attack lately, I wanted to post this information about Vit C and some interesting findings about it.
But first: .....Vitamins are not individual molecular compounds. Vitamins are biological complexes. They are multi-step biochemical interactions whose action is dependent upon a number of variables Vitamins cannot be isolated from their complexes and still perform their specific life functions within the cells. When isolated into artificial commercial forms, like ascorbic acid, these purified synthetics act as drugs in the body. They are no longer vitamins, and to call them such is inaccurate. If you use high levels of Vit C from Ascorbic acid, it will cause certain symptoms to appear in your body, that will not occur if you use Vit C derived with BioFlavinoids. So when Vit C is discussed, there are tangents of differences and I am never certain which was used for their "experiments".

"David Tenenbaum writes:.....
Vitamin C is called an antioxidant because it can de-activate free radicals, which are atoms or groups of atoms that can damage molecules like DNA. If antioxidants can protect DNA, they would seem able to fight cancer and maybe prolong life.

But early enthusiasm over antioxidants has dimmed after long-term, large-scale and expensive studies failed to show much benefit, if any. And now comes a research group from Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions reporting that several antioxidants, including vitamin C, actually do fight cancer in mice.
Although the antioxidants are indeed destroying free radicals, they do not fight cancer by protecting DNA from damage.

The new report comes from a team directed by Chi Dang, a Johns Hopkins professor of medicine, cell biology and oncology. Dang had been looking at the role of free radicals and antioxidants in cancer, and he knew that antioxidants can inhibit some tumors.
But even though the free radicals had contributed to the cancers, the expected DNA damage was absent.

"Clearly, if DNA damage was not in play as a cause of the cancer, then whatever the antioxidants were doing to help was also not related to DNA damage."

HIF is a "survival protein" that cells use to stay alive when the oxygen level plummets, and it's particularly helpful for fast-growing tumor cells, which deplete local oxygen stores as they burn sugar to produce energy. "When a cell lacks oxygen, HIF-1 helps it compensate," explains Dang, by allowing it to "convert sugar to energy without using oxygen."
Most cells constantly make both HIF and an enzyme that degrades it. But when the oxygen level is low and free radicals are present, the degrading enzyme fails, so the HIF level rises.

Thus free radicals promote cellular survival in the low-oxygen zone. This is normal and normally good -- except when a cancer cell is getting the survival benefit.
So Dang confronted a paradox - free radicals cause cancer, but they don't always start the process by damaging DNA. Antioxidants fight both free radicals and cancer, but how does that work if the free radicals did not affect the DNA in the first place?
Then Dang learned that vitamin C could help degrade HIF. Could that explain the inhibition of cancer?

The experiments showed that the antioxidants were indeed jump-starting the destruction of the survival protein HIF, forcing the tumors to stop growing.
If antioxidants fight cancer indirectly by reactivating the enzyme that destroys HIF, it's helpful that most common cancers show some degree of oxygen shortage, and thus may need HIF for survival.

Although Dang is excited to see vitamin C attacking cancer, he is not promoting mega-dose vitamin C therapy. And in that respect, he parts company with Linus Pauling, the brilliant chemist whose theories and textbooks were bedrocks of chemistry during the 20th century, but whose claims for vitamin C have lain in disrepute for so long.
And how would Pauling react to evidence for his radical claim that vitamin C fights cancer? "I think if he is looking down, he has at least a smirk," says Dang. "He was probably right, but through a mechanism that was not recognized at the time."
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Linus Pauling is My Champion

Posted by A Prairiegirl ♫, 4 years ago

LINUS PAULING INSTITUTE
Micronutrient Research for Optimum Health

"When Linus Pauling died on Aug. 19, 1994, the world lost one of its greatest scientists and humanitarians and a much respected and beloved defender of civil liberties and health issues.

Because of his dynamic personality and his many accomplishments in widely diverse fields, it is hard to define Linus Pauling adequately. A remarkable man who insistently addressed certain crucial human problems while pursuing an amazing array of scientific interests, Dr. Pauling was almost as well known to the American public as he was to the world's scientific community. He is the only person ever to receive two unshared Nobel Prizes — for Chemistry (1954) and for Peace (1962).

He is recognized as one of the two greatest scientists of the 20th century,
After Pauling entered the field of chemistry as a professional in the mid-1920s, his work, grounded in physics, has affected the work of every chemist. He is also often considered the founding father of molecular biology, which has transformed the biological sciences and medicine and provided the base for biotechnology.

He wrote numerous articles and books for the general public — on science, peace, and health. Popular books in which Linus Pauling detailed his nutritional recommendations are Vitamin C and the Common Cold, Cancer and Vitamin C , and How to Live Longer and Feel Better. He was perennially sought as a speaker for conferences, political rallies, commencements, and media programs.

His landmark book The Nature of the Chemical Bond is frequently cited as the most influential scientific book of the 20th century.

In 1934 he investigated the magnetic properties of hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying molecule in red blood cells. He then studied the roles of antigens and antibodies in the immune response, one aspect of the important phenomenon of specificity in biochemical interactions.
Vitamin C

Fascinated with the multifaceted role of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) in maintaining health, he began combing the scientific and medical literature for experimental and clinical evidence as to its importance. From published studies, from physiological and evolutionary reasoning, and from his and his wife's own experiences, he became convinced of the value of vitamin C in large doses as a prophylactic or palliative for the common cold. In 1970 he wrote the book Vitamin C and the Common Cold, which became a bestseller and brought wide public attention while creating a huge and continuously increasing demand for this micronutrient.
Later he became convinced of ascorbate's value in combating the flu, cancer, cardiovascular disease, infections, and degenerative problems in the aging process. He added other micronutrients, such as vitamin E and the B vitamins, to his list of helpful supplements and published two other popular books and a number of papers, both scientific and popular, on nutritional therapy. As happened during his earlier efforts in awakening the public to the dangers of nuclear weapons, Pauling's pronouncements on the subject of nutritional medicine were often assailed by physicians and physicians' organizations that ignored his long and insightful involvement with the biochemistry of human health and much of the published studies. They often dismissed his ideas as quackery."


Please visit the Micronutient Research Centre for his complete biography, and up to date information on health and micronutrients.

lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/foods/cruciferous/index.htm

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Balance

Posted by A Prairiegirl ♫, 4 years ago

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Susan Macdonald wrote this book after being diagnosed with 4th stage lymphoma. Given 6 months to live, she decided she would find out all there was to know about her disease, and how to get better. She is in her 6th year of being cancer free.

This book is about her life, but mostly filled with information about alternate techniques available to everyone to make healthy changes.

She is from Nova Scotia, and often makes author visits, telling her story and encouraging everyone to make healthier choices in life.

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This book is definitely a marriage of information

Posted by A Prairiegirl ♫, 4 years ago

A Wholistic New Way of Life For Fighting Cancer.

Diet does have a lot to do with fighting cancer. The book is "Anticancer - A New Way of Life" written by Dr. David Servan-Schreiber.

After being diagnosed with a brain tumor, Dr. Servan-Schreiber made a study of human genes, and what makes cancer cells thrive as well as what inhibits them. He practices what he preaches - a specific non-Western diet ,getting rid of refined sugars and using meat sparingly, (mainly for taste), lower stress, heal emotional wounds, do proper exercise, and live in a cleaner environment. Dr. Servan-Schreiber has been in remission for 15 years, beating a relapse of brain cancer, and traveling the world in search of answers, which he shares with us. He does not advocate the avoidance of standard cancer treatments, but offers these lifestyle changes to strengthen your inner defenses.

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