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Jackie: Surely this isn't the Jeffrey Smith, world expert on GMO to whom you refer. Hopefully the Jeffrey Smith you are citing has better credentials to speak on the subject. Gordon.by ggheld - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Shannon said: "In any event, I hear you and agree that its a real shame the greed factor seems to invade all fields in which an easy buck can be carved out of a good story. But again, don't automatically assume its all bunk because of a few shameless apples in the barrel. " True, but we all know that if you leave even a few rotten apples in a barrel it doesn't take lonby ggheld - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Alex: I think many Functional Medicine physicians have discovered that the way to richness is to market a patented line of supplements and hype them to the sky. Of course these supplements are either, "medical foods", or Fair Traded so they can't be sold by normal discount channels. Or they prescirbe a bunch of tests that are by New Age labs that aren't covered by insuranceby ggheld - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
From Forbes Magazine Yesterday: 4/27/2015 How To Talk To Anti-Vaccine Advocates Without Your Head Exploding Trying to talk with people who are self-righteous, certain and profoundly wrong is a toxic conversational mix. In fact, such conversations just might make your head explode. Unfortunately, the current risk of exploding heads is high because anti-vaccine advocates have mobilized to sby ggheld - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
From Today's NY Times: Interesting that they say those who do 10 times the recommended weekly dose of exercise have no increased death rate; especially considering that many of us think afib rates are much higher among high performance athletes. Perhaps afib isn't listed as a cause of death could be one reason no relationship is reported. Gordon The Right Dose of Exercise forby ggheld - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Pacemakers, to the best of my knowledge, don't convert battery energy, (direct current), to alternating current as hearing aids do so I think there's no real comparing those two. Also, a pacemaker is much further away from the brain. It seems that most are concerned about the frequencies of energy near the brain, the power of it and the time of exposure. Certainly hearing aidsby ggheld - AFIBBERS FORUM
I wonder how Dr. Sinatra and others of his ilk feel about battery powered hearing aids that many of us now wear or will wear sometime. Maybe the 20 to 30 years it takes to develop brain cancer from these sources won't be within the lifetimes of those of us who have the need? Gordonby ggheld - AFIBBERS FORUM
Jackie: It is a fact that people are living perhaps 3 times as long nowadays as the Paleo's. Perhaps that's one of the reasons people are getting all these degenerative diseases. You don't think the Paleo's would have got them, too, if they' have lived as long as we're doing? Certainly all the negative references to processed foods that take the nutrition out iby ggheld - AFIBBERS FORUM
The current trend to blame grains for everything except profits in selling books against grains certainly isn't universal among medical people. Here's an excerpt from from a UC California Berkeley newsletter the seems to make good sense There's also a squib in their April, 2015, edition referring to the December, 2014 "Quuarterly Review Of Biology", saying theirby ggheld - AFIBBERS FORUM
Maryann: My wife and I have been fans of Dr. Fuhrman for several years now. We followed his diet, (love the 10% free food part particularly), each lost over 10% of our body weight over 6 months and I cut my blood pressure medication in half or more. We did not buy any of the foods sold on his website as they're easier and cheaper to get on the outside. It's one of the easier dieby ggheld - AFIBBERS FORUM
Travis: I like as many of my supplements as possible in powder form so I can mix a month's worth together with enough filler to take a tablespoon full dissolved in water twice daily. No coloring, no filler, no glue, no capsules - and less money. I get the beta sitosterol powder from: How can you tell if a specific protocol produced faster recovery? I recovered well within the timeby ggheld - AFIBBERS FORUM
Travis: I took mixed sisterols, including beta, throughout my afib process, including pre and post ablation. My physicians, including Dr. Natale, all saw the list of what I was taking and nobody complained. Nobody complained about the 2g of Carlson's fish oil or the curcumin, either. Of course, Elquis wasn't available then, 2007, and I was taking Coumadin, so perhaps different proby ggheld - AFIBBERS FORUM
Liz: My wife has similiar problems with lower back and leg pains. She has found pure emu oil to be of enough help to continue and has a physician prescirbed topical cream that actually does cut the pain enough to allow her to resume sleep in the middle of the night, the primary time those pains occur. Its composed of ketoprofen, prioxicam and ketamine. The first two are NSAIDS and the ketamby ggheld - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Liz: One of the top anti-inflammatorys is Theracumin. Its been well studied and is considered safe. There are lots of cumin, (tumeric), supplements but the enhanced cumin has a much better absorption rate. There are several manufacturers of it, some with slightly different names. Gordonby ggheld - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Travis: From one who also takes a lot of supplements, I like as many of my supplements as possible in powder form because there are no fillers, no dyes, no bindings or capsules and its easy to mix a month's worth at a time with the other supplements I buy in powder form. Then I just have to scoop out a portion twice daily and mix with water, minimizing the number of pills involved. Theby ggheld - AFIBBERS FORUM
Shannon: Your investigative, research and logical thinking processes, talents and skills will certainly continue to serve you well in developing the best options for Magdalena's treatment, then helping her choose the most appropriate for her. Your priorities at this time are certainly approriate. Be sure to spend some time taking care of yourself. You have to be in good shape yourselby ggheld - AFIBBERS FORUM
Indeed, a medium Hass avocado, the size of those that stores usually sell in bags, has 750mg of potassium. Tastes better than potassium powder.by ggheld - AFIBBERS FORUM
Reference Shannon's post above on avocados: As you old timers know, I grow Haas avocados commercially here on the California Central Coast and have for the past 15 years. Since they are always harvested green, the attached article has some worthwhile tips on how to; select them, ripen them faster and hold them once they become ripe. Once ripe they will keep up to a week or so in the reeby ggheld - AFIBBERS FORUM
I think we'd all be wise to grade the thoroughness, accuracy and credibility of the institutions involved in the various studies on this issue; ie., follow the money trail of who benefits how much by the varying results before leaping to such far reaching conclusions. You'll find that the CDC, UC Davis and President Obama benefit very little, if any, from going through all this. Canby ggheld - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
My wife has collagenous colitis and her Functional Medicine physician recommended VSL3 sachets, half of one first thing in the morning and the other half just before bed. Note there are 4 strains of bacteria with over 450 billion of them per sachet. Although they are a medical food they're readily available over the Internet. Gordonby ggheld - AFIBBERS FORUM
Jackie: Doesn't track in you drawing the conclusion that the University of California at Davis, a major ag college, is publishing such a significant report with a slant toward business. How did you come to that conclusion? Gordonby ggheld - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
UC Davis has a new comprehensive study of a trillion meals that concludes there isn't any controversy; just charlatans making a lot of money trying to create one: Gordonby ggheld - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
From time to time we have had discussions on power lines and EMF in general causing cancer. Some even reporting having grounding pads on their beds to deflect EMF. There is new data out as late as 2013 confirming that past studies linking EMF and cancer have been skewed or not scientifically done while those studies by true scientific organizations, like the World Health Organization, haveby ggheld - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Jackie: And, from reading Bland's book I now know what epigenetics and methylation mean and what they do. Now, to be able to harness them to make my body and mind better may be a bigger challenge. Having learned all that, I may have to read another book soon. :-) So happy so see you back posting regular general information again. Did you do the 23 And Me testing? Gordonby ggheld - AFIBBERS FORUM
GeorgeN: I'm in the process of reading, "Disease Delusion", by Jeffrey Bland, MD. On page 62 of his book he addresses the gene's effect on developing Alzheimer's. Here's an excerpt: "---this gene does not create Alzheimer's disease by itself; rather it describes a susceptibility to the disease that the individual's choices of lifestyle and dietby ggheld - AFIBBERS FORUM
We used 23 And Me for different a different purpose for my wife but found that the wealth of information back from it is worth far more than the $29 cost. <Geneticgenie.org> is a good website for getting the data back but still takes some intrepretation. It helps if you can donate the $15 when getting their processing. We have an appointment with our Functional Medicine MD Tuesday to rby ggheld - AFIBBERS FORUM
Jackie: Too bad your body doesn't respect your wishes all the time. You have to look at that bout of afib and the cardioversion as part of your post-op recovery process. You probably remember from 11 years ago that recovery is a cyclic process. Hang in there. Gordonby ggheld - AFIBBERS FORUM
Slim: Whether or not you're in afib, which it doesn't sound like you are, you definitely have anxiety, which is not surprising. My cardiologist said that a quick simple way to check for afib is to use a home blood pressure machine and if the pulse rate indicator won't read, you may be in afib, but if it does give you a regular reading you're probably not. Obviously yourby ggheld - AFIBBERS FORUM
Interesting that Amiodarone and Digoxin were the first drugs prescribed about 10 years ago for me by my Internist and ratified by my cardiologist and pre-Natale EP. I, too, stopped the Digoxin after reading Hans' material and wish I'd have switched to Flecainide at the same time, before the Amiodarone sent me into a hyper then hypo thyroid condition. I thought big rule of medicineby ggheld - AFIBBERS FORUM
Jackie: You've done everything possible to heal yourself as age and other things are catching up with you so now is definitely the time to get the Natale involved, before something else might happen to you that could preclude him doing some things. You know you're in the best possible hands. You're making a timely good decision and here's wising you a smooth and easy succby ggheld - AFIBBERS FORUM