Fifth Estate defends wheat
“No, Congressman, there is no evidence that cigarette smoking is associated with cardiovascular disease and cancer.”
Such was the testimony offered by Big Tobacco executives during Congressional hearings on the subject throughout the 1980s and 1990s, denying even to this day that nicotine is addictive, that they increased nicotine content to encourage addictiveness, and that they crafted marketing strategies, such as the Joe Camel cartoon, to target children.
So it should come as no surprise that the Fifth Estate uses similar tactics in what amounts to a defense of the wheat and grain industry.
To say that th...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 28, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle gluten-free grains Source Type: blogs
Epic Response to Jennifer Hibben-White’s Rant About Unvaccinated Children
This open letter, written by Stephanie M. Curry, is a response to Jennifer Hibben-White's rant about unvaccinated children.
My open letter to Jennifer Hibben-White:
I feel your concern that your son may have been exposed to measles. However, I am angry! I’m angry as hell that you blame the unvaccinated people for this exposure.
Your words: “I won’t get angry at or blame the person in the waiting room. I would have likely done the same thing…you get sick, you go to the doctor. I have no idea what their story is and I will never know.”
My response: I’d like to help you out he...
Source: vactruth.com - February 20, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Jeffry John Aufderheide Tags: Human Jeffry John Aufderheide Top Stories Jennifer Hibben-White measles vaccine injury Source Type: blogs
Infectious agents with no genome
If the reader does not believe that viroids and satellites are distinctive, then surely prions, infectious agents composed only of protein, must impress.
The question of whether infectious agents exist without genomes arose with the discovery and characterization of infectious agents associated with a group of diseases called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). These diseases are rare, but always fatal, neurodegenerative disorders that afflict humans and other mammals. They are characterized by long incubation periods, spongiform changes in the brain associated with loss of neurons, and the absence of host re...
Source: virology blog - January 30, 2015 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information bovine spongiform encephalopathy cervid wasting disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Fatal familial insomnia mad cow disease prion scrapie Stanley Prusiner transmissible spongiform encephalopathy TSE viral Source Type: blogs
How NOT to have an autoimmune condition
Autoimmune conditions are becoming increasingly common. Estimates vary, but it appears that at least 8-9% of the population in North America and Western Europe have one of these conditions, with The American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association estimating a higher value of 14%. They are conditions that involve an abnormal immune response directed against one or more organs of the body. If the misguided attack is against the thyroid gland, it can result in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. If it is directed against pancreatic beta cells that produce insulin, it can result in type 1 diabetes or latent autoimmune diabetes o...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 16, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle autoimmunity colitis gluten-free grains lupus rheumatoid thyroiditis Source Type: blogs
“I ate one cookie and gained 30 lbs”
I’ve discussed this before, but it comes up with such frequency that it’s worth discussing again.
Say you’ve been wheat- and grain-free for the past 3 months. Your son or daughter is celebrating a birthday with a big, beautiful birthday cake and a cheesy pizza. The aromas alone are intoxicating! What’s the harm in having a bite of birthday cake or just a single darned slice of pizza? You tell yourself that you’ll make up for it by being good all weekend, even exercising an extra half an hour.
You experienced Wheat Belly followers all understand that this triggers re-exposure phenomena typica...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 11, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle appetite Gliadin gluten opiates Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Machado Joseph disease
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Source: neurologyminutiae - October 9, 2014 Category: Neurologists Source Type: blogs
Phenocopy Diseases: Their Relationship to Rare Diseases and Common Diseases
In June, 2014, my book, entitled Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs: Keys to Understanding and Treating the Common Diseases was published by Elsevier. The book builds the argument that our best chance of curing the common diseases will come from studying and curing the rare diseases. Phenocopy diseases are medical conditions that closely mimic a genetic disease, but are caused or triggered by an environmental factor. In many cases, phenocopy diseases are non-hereditary and acute. In some cases, the phenocopy disease is reversible when the environmental trigger is removed or when an appropriate treatment is applied. Here is j...
Source: Specified Life - July 5, 2014 Category: Pathologists Tags: arrhythmia common disease complex disease disease biology genetic disease heart block orphan disease orphan drugs pathogenesis phenocopy disease rare disease Source Type: blogs
Poison dew drops
Last night I dreamed of airplanes. Again. Every night I dream of airplanes. Every night for the last seven nights, anyway. Big ones. Little ones. New ones. Old ones. But my dream planes aren’t soaring high and wild in blue skies like they were built to do. There’s always something wrong with them. They’re broken down. Out of fuel. Victims of weather. My dream planes are trapped, barred from their natural environment. In my dreams, they are prisoners of the ground. This morning as the fog of dreams lifted, I put it all together. My subconscious is processing the fact that I, too, am a prisoner.Oh, Lord, where to even ...
Source: LifeAfterDx--The Guardian Chronicles - January 5, 2014 Category: Diabetes Authors: Wil Source Type: blogs
Dogs And Cows And Toxic Vials, That’s What Vaccines Are Made Of!
Conclusion
It is apparent that our vaccinations include some very strange and unsavoury ingredients. The three single vaccines were certainly not the only vaccines I came across containing parts of animals, humans and insects. In fact, I found a huge list of them on a PDF which I have included as extra research.
For some reason, many parents are perfectly happy to have their tiny babies vaccinated with everything from insect cells to pigs’ gelatin, without a moment’s hesitation, arguing that the vaccines are to protect their children and keep them strong and healthy. Others remain totally unaware of the vaccine...
Source: vactruth.com - December 18, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories Adverse Events adverse reactions Measles Vaccine Medi-Mumps MMR mumps vaccine Pavivac rubella vaccine truth about vaccines Source Type: blogs
Shawna K.
Shawna’s story is similar to what I hear from many individuals: family health history motivates them to learn more about disease cause and prevention. – Dr. Perlmutter
When my dad was about 55 years old (about 1975), he started having problems with his leg. It would kinda drag behind him and he would have a hard time picking it up and walking correctly. They assumed he had a stroke or had complications from when he broke his leg a few years prior.
Fast forward to 1985. He starts having serious balance problems and is diagnosed as diabetic. So he changes his diet and drops about 50 pounds. As the years go on t...
Source: Renegade Neurologist - A Blog by David Perlmutter, MD, FACN - October 26, 2013 Category: Neurologists Authors: gbadmin Tags: Success Cerebellar ataxia Grain Brain IBS Seizure wheat Wheat Belly Source Type: blogs
Gliadin: The Universal Human Poison
Autoimmunity is the process describing an immune response waged against our own organs. The complex collection of mechanisms consisting of T and B lymphocytes, antibodies, and others, meant to provide protection against viruses, bacteria, and other body invaders, is misdirected against proteins of the body’s organs, such as liver, pancreas, thyroid, or brain. Autoimmune conditions now affect 8% of the American population–it is increasingly looking like diseases of autoimmunity are out of control.
Dr Alessio Fasano was recently awarded the Linus Pauling Award, the highest award from the Institute for Functional...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 7, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Autoimmunity Gliadin Source Type: blogs
Predicting Survival After CPR: Can we GO-FAR?
JAMA Internal Medicine (JIM, you'll always be Archives of Internal Medicine to me) has published a study of an outcome prediction tool for in-hospital cardiac arrest. Specifically, a tool to predict the rates of neurologically intact survival after an in-hospital arrest. The developers of the tool call it GO-FAR (Good Outcome Following Attempted Resuscitation).
One could imagine ways of re-titling it FORe-GO, if one chose to spend one's time imagine such things.
This is the best tool of its kind that I've seen, although one needs to be very clear about what it's actually predicting.
The paper mostly describes, in d...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - September 12, 2013 Category: Palliative Carer Workers Authors: Drew Rosielle MD Source Type: blogs
Cases: Anti-epileptic Medicines for Pain Management
Discussion: Tri-cyclic antidepressants (TCAs), serotonin-norepinephrine
reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) and anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) are the mainstays
of adjuvant therapy for neuropathic pain.
This Case of the Month will focus on oral anti-epileptic neuropathic
pain analgesics. Due to lack of head-to-head data, evidence is presented as
numbers needed to treat (NNT) and numbers needed to harm (NNH). For instance,
an NNT of 5 for 50% pain reduction means for every 5 patients treated with a
drug, only 1 of them would achieve a 50% reduction in pain. Gabapentin (Neurontin)
and pregabalin (Lyrica) are considered firs...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - August 30, 2013 Category: Palliative Carer Workers Authors: Christian Sinclair Source Type: blogs
How quickly does wheatlessness unfold?
Wheatlessness: the happy, healthy state achieved by not eating wheat.
A frequently asked question: Once you eliminate wheat, how fast do the benefits occur?
Well, it depends. It depends on what health issue we are discussing, what organ system, and how far along the process of wheat destruction you were.
Nonetheless, there are a number of common patterns that develop once you decide to eliminate all things wheat in your life:
Gastrointestinal
Acid reflux, bowel urgency–5 days is typical for these conditions to reduce or go away entirely.
Ulcerative colitis, Crohns–These complex inflammatory conditions require...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 14, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat-ectomy Wheat-elimination success stories Source Type: blogs
Meet the Doctor Big Pharma Can't Shut Up
For the last 33 years, David Healy, an Irish psychiatrist and professor at Cardiff University School of Medicine in Wales, has written heavily researched university press books and academic journal articles on various aspects of psychopharmaceuticals. His output includes 20 books, 150 peer-reviewed papers and 200 other published works. He is not only well-pedigreed, with degrees and fellowships from Dublin, Galway and Cambridge medical schools, he is a widely recognized expert in both the history and the science of neurochemistry and psychopharmacology.Yet Healy says his output and reputation have ...
Source: PharmaGossip - June 3, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
