A LIFE WORTH LIVING

For those of you that follow my ravings you’ll recognise the theme of this post. Cholesterol is vital for the body to function correctly and we are falsely pushing it down because someone somewhere long ago thought it was a good idea based upon some flawed work.

Dr Kendrick in his book exposes yet again the errors in this strategy and why it is causing more harm than good to drive down cholesterol levels with Statin type drugs. To read more about the cholesterol con go to this page or get the book.

I’m not sure if my wife was trying to say something the other day by sending me this article (published in the daily mail online) by Hillary Freeman but as I read it she made such sense of a mysterious subject clouded with poor understanding and myth and untruths. In it she brings clarity that I’ve rarely seen elsewhere and rarely from a medical doctor (sadly).  This article is of such value that I’ve decided to reproduce it in it’s entirety but i give full credit to the author Hilary Freeman and the contributors DR SHIRLEY BOND and DR CECEILIA TREGEAR

What really excited me was the proactive stance they take regarding preparing for peri-menopause in your 30s rather than leaving it to hit you like a train in your late 40s and 50s. It is also interesting to see the linkage between attitude and the ageing process. Ok I’m going out on a limb here and my wife may kill me but what my obituary may read like – well I’ll not be around to read it.

Hot flushes,mood swings – it’s the change every woman dreads. But the menopause doesn’t have to be an ordeal, say experts – as long as you start getting ready for it early…

Though it’s not something we like to think about, much less talk about, it will happen to all women sooner or (hopefully) later: the menopause.

The average age for a woman to go through the menopause in Britain is 52, so if you’re in your 30s or 40s that might seem like a long time away. Surely you can forget about it until then  -  or can you?

New research suggests many of the problems we encounter during this change in our bodies can be avoided if we start preparing for it in our 30s.

We may not be able to prevent the menopause, but we can certainly ease our way through it. We spoke to two women’s health experts for tips on how to prepare our bodies and minds for a problem-free menopause.

Dr Shirley Bond is a private GP specialising in women’s health, while Dr Cecelia Tregear is a specialist on anti-ageing and hormone therapies.

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Cases of Colon Disease have never been more Prevalent.
According to the highly reputable Merck Manual, colon degeneration and disease is on the rise.  More specifically, the incidence of diverticulosis, a type of hernia, has increased dramatically over the past 40 years.  In 1950, only 10% of Americans had this disease, but that number had already grown to nearly 50% by 1987.

• Colon Cancer Kills 400% more People than AIDS.

• It also kills even more American men and women than breast and prostate cancer.

• Just this year alone, 60,000 Americans will Die from Colon-Rectal Cancer.

• An additional 125,000 cases of the disease will be diagnosed, as well.

• Up to Half of All Americans have Polyps in their Colon.  The majority of these polyps will eventually mutate into malignant cancer tumors.

You have a Choice – You do NOT have to become a Statistic!
By drinking alkaline water you can help counteract the acids in the foods and drinks you consume.  By having more balanced pH levels within your body, you can then increase your chances for maintaining optimal health.

But don’t just take our word for it…watch the following video made by Dr. Hiromi Shinya, a renowned colon specialist and creator of the fundamental principles of the colonoscopy procedure.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words and that couldn’t be more true in this case.  Just take a look at the dramatic before and after shots of patients that starting drinking Kangen water over a 90-day period.
Dr. Shinya has performed over 300,000 of these procedures and currently practices medicine on East 55th Street in New York City.
Watch “Colon Cleanse” by Dr. Shinya.
It is widely recognized in the medical profession that a healthy & clean colon is one of the most important precursors to good health and that the great majority of body ailments and diseases originate in an acidic and dirty colon.

This is an ongoing discussion about avoiding using chemicals in the home – both for cleaning and by accident. Please put your comments in the box below this post.

Cholesterol is a bit like Cinderella -  she came in for some unwarranted attention from the ugly sisters and the same can be said of Cholesterol except in the case the ugly sisters were the pharmaceutical lobby and governments. Heart disease and obesity, according to the Pharmaceutical companies (the ugly sisters), was the bad boy in town in terms of health. Get your cholesterol levels down and then heart health would improve and people would have fewer heart attacks and that would be a done deal.

Sadly, from what I’ve seen, the evidence is does not support what the drug companies and the governments want us to believe. The correlation in low cholesterol and reduced heart disease is very poor indeed and it may well be that the drug companies will be exposed once again as having ‘fixed’ the results for commercial benefits.

What is key is the understanding that the reason there is excess cholesterol (of the LDL variety) in your blood stream may well have more to do with your diet of highly processed foods, carbohydrates and sugars. These raise the blood glucose levels which trigger the body to produce Insulin (if it can – see diabetes) which drives the glucose out of the blood stream into the cells.

In the meantime the acidity of the blood stream has increased and that in turn leads to the calcium in bones being leached out into the blood. Now the problem comes when you recognise that the plaque that clogs the arteries is not cholesterol alone but primarily calcium which has been leached out of the bones and has nowhere to go so the body sticks it to the inside of the artery walls and uses cholesterol like a cement to hold the calcium bricks in place.

Now the interesting thing is that the process is reversible. Keep the blood alkaline and the calcium is removed from the plaque and reabsorbed by the bones. That means the cholesterol is then not needed as the cement and is too removed.

It is the dream WIN-WIN-WIN:

You win because the calcium goes back to where it needs to be.

You win because the blood vessels open up and blood pressure drops

You win because your cholesterol levels begin to drop quite naturally (it may take 3 months)

So what do you do:

1. cut out bread, rice, pasta, potato and anything with flour in it
2. drink more water 2 litres is about right
3. use a good quality food matrix vitamin and mineral to help the adjustments along

Not sure if you can do it – ask us to help you stay on track – just mention support in the subject line

Oh and best of all it needn’t cost a fortune.

Every once in a while you find a well written resource that everyone should have. This is just one of those types of resources – I wish I had written it but that’s another story. Health issues that you and your family need to be aware of.

Subjects include:

• toxins in water from plastic bottles
• cancer – alternative treaments
• pharmaceutical and government cover ups
• global regulations
• vaccinations

Please be aware that the magazine is a marketing tool and you buy from them at your own risk.

For almost 10 years I’ve been concerned about the effects of Statin drugs (simvastatin etc) because I sensed that something wasn’t right in the medical approach. The evidence that was being put forward by the government and the pharmaceutical companies just didn’t seem right. The more i read the less comfortable i became until after being on these drugs for over 10 years I came off (against my GPs wishes and instructions) and no manage my levels within a healthy range by diet alone.

The side efects of Statin use are becoming more obvious as time goes on and there are plenty of good books out there on the subject. However, the best ones are by a NASA Doctor Duane Graveline and his books are available at Amazon or any good bookseller.

This latest report by Peter H. Langsjoen, M.D which clearly suggest that high levels of serum CoQ10 (ie in the blood) help prevent and protect from heart disease.  As we age the ability to make CoQ10 decreases so that by the time we are 30 years old we rely on getting it in our diets. So the question is where do we get CoQ10 from in our diet.

Primary dietary sources of CoQ10 include oily fish, organ meats such as liver, and whole grains. A diet rich in unprocessed grains and fish should suffice for most people but those with health challenges may need to increase thier intake by supplementation.

For mor information on the relationship of CoQ10, Statins and Cholesterol please read on.

Paul barton

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James Turner, the chairman of the US national consumer education group Citizens for Health, has expressed shock and outrage after reading a new report from scientists outlining the dangers of the artificial sweetener Splenda (sucralose).

In animals examined for the study, Splenda reduced the amount of good bacteria in the intestines by 50 percent, increased the pH level in the intestines, contributed to increases in body weight and affected P-glycoprotein (P-gp) levels in such a way that crucial health-related drugs could be rejected.

The P-gp effect could result in medications used in chemotherapy, AIDS treatment and treatments for heart conditions being shunted back into the intestines, rather than being absorbed by the body.

According to Turner, “The report makes it clear that the artificial sweetener Splenda and its key component sucralose pose a threat to the people who consume the product. Hundreds of consumers have complained to us about side effects from using Splenda and this study … confirms that the chemicals in the little yellow package should carry a big red warning label.”

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This article from 2000 came across my desk just this last week and it really saddens me that in 2000 we had reached such levels of medical control and academic ignorance. I wonder how differnet things are just 8 years on?

In this peer reviewed paper by a school student in (Canada in 2000) she surveyed the many medical doctors about their knowledge and use of probiotics. In amongst the data there is a very telling figure that 24% of doctors felt that probiotics were unnecessary, 31% felt there was insufficient research, and 31% were not familar with probiotics – they didn’t even know what they were.

In this series we will try to look at the evidence surrounding the health benefits of probiotics and where we are in 2009.

Paul barton

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In the early 1900s, experiments were conducted where rabbits were fed very large amounts of (synthetic – and easily oxidised) dietary cholesterol every day Their blood cholesterol rose from a normal of 100mg to 20 times that level. In a short time the soft plaque formed in their blood vessels and when they stopped feeding the rabbits the plaque disappeared.

They concluded, in error, that high dietary levels of cholesterol is the cause of high blood cholesterol and atherosclerosis (the Hard Plaque).

The mistake they made, that has been compounded over the ensuing years, is that they have assumed that rabbits metabolise dietary cholesterol the same way humans do. BIG MISTAKE. Rabbits are herbivores and if you feed them animal fats they can die.

The effect of feeding the dietary cholesterol to humans would result in less than a 1% increase compared to the massive rise in the rabbits.

The whole foundation for reducing heart disease and arterial disease is wrong and any scientist worth the name will find the same (unless they are employed by the pharmaceutical companies or work for the Government) – the failure to admit the error is bad enough but the continued insistence by the health-care industry that they are right is downright fraud and has to be exposed.

Probably the best book on the subject is by Judith A. DeCava and is entitled Cholesterol Facts & fantasies.

I suggest that you owe it to yourself and your family to check out this long held myth.