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“The canary in the coal mine.”

Posted on February 17, 2020 by Ken

*https://naturalsociety.com/study-flight-attendants-have-higher-levels-different-types-cancer-4775/*

Something or someone who, due to sensitivity to his, her, or its surroundings, acts as an indicator and early warning of possible adverse conditions or danger. A *canary in a coal mine*
is an advanced warning of some danger. The metaphor originates from the times when miners used to carry caged canaries while at work; to detect if there was any methane or carbon monoxide in the mine, the canary would die before levels of the gas reached those hazardous
to humans. The canary had little control over its fate, but it continued to sing the miners knew they were safe. In one sense, living this way indicates a willingness to experience life’s dangers without compromise and if the canary died, they’d evacuate the miners.
In case where a person or event is described as a canary in a coal mine, it usually means that they are being unwittingly used in some experiment. Like the first person to try to walk across a rickety rope bridge, mine field or a test pilot. The ‘canary’ has no training, isn’t equipped to handle their environment, has no choice and may not realize the task they are attempting is extremely high risk. You may want to compare this to ‘cannon fodder’ who is considered important and are sent into war without their leaders worrying if they die.

Flight attendants are exposed to a wide range of carcinogens ~ Flight attendants may face higher than average risks of breast and skin cancers, a new study finds, though the reasons why aren’t yet clear. Harvard researchers found that compared with women in the general
U.S. population, female flight attendants had a 51% higher rate of breast cancer.
Meanwhile, rates of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers were about two to four times higher, respectively. The ongoing Harvard study which began in 2007 and included over 5,300 U.S. flight attendants, isn’t the first to find heightened cancer risks among airline crews.
But it’s one of the largest and most comprehensive to look at the issue, according to *lead researcher Eileen McNeely.* However, because it’s what’s called an observational study, it could not prove cause and effect. https://www.fahealth.org/team/

**Contact with a number of chemicals…**
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**1/3** Flight crews have a number of exposures that could potentially play a role, said McNeely,
an instructor in environmental health at the Harvard School of Public Health. “There’s been a lot of speculation about exposure to cosmic ionizing radiation,” she said. That refers to radiation that comes from outer space. At flight altitudes, people are exposed to higher levels of it. The US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) says that of all US workers exposed to radiation, aircrew have the highest average levels. However, no one knows for sure whether cosmic radiation is to blame for flight attendants’ higher cancer risks, McNeely said. Radiation is all around us, and when you travel by plane, you’re exposed to cosmic radiation. So what does this mean for our health? Does air travel expose us to unsafe radiation levels? Check out this episode Hosted by: Michael Aranda to see how flying among cosmic rays affect us in the sky.

Aircrews can also come in contact with a number of chemicals, she noted. And before smoking bans went into effect, they were habitually breathing in secondhand smoke.
Plus, McNeely said, flight crews deal with constant time-zone changes and irregular sleep schedules, which means many disruptions to the body’s circadian rhythm, or “internal clock”. Also Checkout Second Shift Nurse Breast Cancer Study?

“It’s hard to tease out which of those factors might be more important than others, or whether it’s a combination of all of them,” McNeely said. However, it’s also possible there are factors unrelated to flight attendants’ jobs, said Dr. Paolo Boffetta, a professor of oncology and environmental medicine at Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine, in New York City.
“For example, they may have more UV [sun] exposure because of their opportunity to travel,”
said Dr. Boffetta, who was not involved in the study.

**The longer on the job, the higher the cancer risk!**
In addition, he said, women on aircrews may put off having children or have fewer kids, compared with other women. And reproductive factors like that are associated with the risk
of breast cancer. Still, McNeely said, her team found some evidence that the longer flight attendants had been on the job, the higher their cancer risk was. Among women, the risk of non-melanoma skin cancer rose in tandem with job tenure. That supports the theory that job exposures are the culprit, McNeely said.
Overall, 3.4% of female attendants had been diagnosed with breast cancer, versus 2.3% of other US women. Meanwhile, 2.2% had been diagnosed with melanoma, compared with just under 1% of other women. The biggest difference was seen in rates of non-melanoma skin cancers, which are highly curable. Over 7% of female flight attendants had been diagnosed with those cancers, compared to just under 2% percent of other women.
Male flight attendants had higher rates of skin cancers than other men. According to McNeely, the findings will “not be news” to aircrews. They’ve long been aware their occupation may be linked to increased cancer risks.

**Causes Unclear**
The question is, if the causes are unclear, what can be done? McNeely noted that the European Union has already taken a step, requiring aircrews be monitored for their radiation exposure. If it reaches a certain level, their work schedules are adjusted. There are no official radiation limits for US aircrews, according to NIOSH. Dr. Boffetta said that regardless of the reasons, the higher rates of skin and breast cancers among flight attendants underscore an important point: They should get recommended cancer screenings. The potential risks to flight crews
bring up another question: What about passengers who fly frequently?
McNeely said it’s not clear whether they face any health risks. “We study workers first, because they have the greatest exposures,” she noted. ” Always remember exception to this adage, Doctors gave little cancer sufferer Skye Savren-McCormick only a 10% chance of survival –
but two years later she was the flower girl at her bone marrow donor’s wedding.”

**2/3** A study has found that American flight attendants are more likely than the general population to develop several cancers, including breast and uterine cancer, melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer. American flight attendants have a higher prevalence of several forms of cancer, including breast, uterine, gastrointestinal, thyroid, and cervical cancers, when compared with the general public, according to new research from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The analysis, one of the largest studies of cancer among cabin crew members to date, is the first to show that U.S. flight attendants also have an elevated rate of non-melanoma skin cancer.
The findings are “striking given the low rates of overweight and smoking in our study population, which highlights the question of what can be done to minimize the adverse exposures and cancers common among cabin crew,” said Irina Mordukhovich, a research fellow at Harvard Chan School and the corresponding author of the paper. The study was published online in Environmental Health on Monday. Flight attendants are exposed to several known and probable cancer risks, including cosmic ionizing radiation, disrupted sleep cycles and circadian rhythms, and chemical contaminants. Moreover, cabin crews are exposed to the largest effective annual ionizing radiation dose relative to all other U.S. radiation workers because of both their exposure to and lack of protection from cosmic radiation.
Despite these known risks, flight attendants have historically been excluded from Occupational Safety and Health Administration protections typically granted to U.S. workers. Protections instituted in 2014 are limited. The Harvard researchers began studying flight attendants’ health more than a decade ago, launching the Harvard Flight Attendant Health Study. The new findings are based on a 2014–15 survey in which 5,366 U.S. flight attendants were asked about health outcomes and symptoms, work experience, personal characteristics, and employment history. The researchers compared the prevalence of cancers among the flight attendants with similar information from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, an annual study of approximately 5,000 citizens that is conducted by
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Flight attendants had a higher prevalence of every cancer that was examined, especially breast cancer, melanoma, and non-melanoma skin cancer among women, echoing multiple U.S. and European studies. Job tenure was linked to non-melanoma skin cancer among women, with borderline associations for melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer among men. The findings suggest that additional efforts should be made in the U.S. to minimize the risk of cancer among flight attendants, including monitoring radiation doses and organizing schedules to minimize radiation exposure and circadian rhythm disruption, according to the researchers.
“The E.U. already evaluates radiation exposure among flight attendants, which our findings show may be an important step toward lowering cancer risk among this work population,” said study author Eileen McNeely. Other Harvard Chan School authors were Brent Coull, Sara Gale, Steven Staffa, and Samuel Tideman. Funding for the study came from the
Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute.

**3/3** According to Alice Park of *Time*, the report, published in the journal *Environmental Health*, is based on data collected by the Harvard Flight Attendant Health Study (FAHS), which was launched in 2007. The researchers behind the study sought to shed light on an understudied occupational group. Though flight attendants are frequently exposed to a number of possible
or probable cancer-causing factors—like sleep disruptions, radiation, and pesticides and other chemicals in the cabin—the long-term effects of this exposure have not been well documented.
Between 2014 and 2015, researchers studied 5,300 flight attendants through surveys that were disseminated online, via mail and in person at airports. The surveys asked respondents about flight schedules and cancer diagnoses. The researchers then compared the responses to the health status of 2,729 non-flight attendant adults with similar socioeconomic backgrounds, using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES),
which surveys around 5,000 Americans each year.

The comparison revealed higher rates of uterine, cervical, breast, gastrointestinal, thyroid and melanoma cancers among flight attendants. The disparity was especially pronounced with breast, melanoma and non-melanoma cancers. Flight attendants had more than double the risk of developing melanoma, and more than quadruple the risk of developing non-melanoma cancers. They were also 51 percent more likely to develop breast cancer than the general population. To the researchers’ surprise, they found a higher risk of breast cancer in female flight attendants with three or more children; typically, a woman’s risk of breast cancer decreases as she has more children.

“This study is the first to show higher prevalences of all cancers studied, and significantly higher prevalences of non-melanoma skin cancer compared to a similarly matched U.S. sample population,” lead study author Eileen McNeely of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health tells Lisa Rapaport of Reuters. McNeely also notes that “[n]on-melanoma skin cancer among women increased with more years on the job, suggesting a work-related association.”
The study suggests a number of factors that could be contributing to higher cancer risks among flight attendants. As Jen Christensen of *CNN* points out, flight attendants are often exposed to known or possible carcinogens like pesticides, jet fuel and fire retardants. Because they often cross time zones, flight attendants also could also be dealing with disrupted circadian rhythms, and irregular sleep patterns have been shown to increase the risk of cancer development.
Poor air quality inside the cabin is also a concern.

Another risk factor could be flight attendants’ exposure to cosmic ionizing radiation, high-energy particles from outer space that collide with particles in the Earth’s atmosphere, “causing a chain reaction of particle decays,” according to NASA. Humans are protected from cosmic radiation on the ground, but there are increased chances of exposure at high altitudes. The WHO has found that exposure to ionizing radiation can lead to increased risk of cancer in humans; the CDC says it is investigating specific links between cosmic ionizing radiation and cancer. Click here to learn about how lung cancer rates are now higher in young American women than men.
The European Union requires that flight attendants’ schedules be arranged so that they do not exceed a certain amount of ionizing radiation each year. But there are no official dose limits for flight crew in the United States. Study co-author Irina Mordukhovich, a research associate at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, tells Park of *Time* that going forward, the study’s results will need to be replicated to confirm possible risks. But she hopes the current study calls attention to the potentially grave health hazards flight attendants face on the job.
Vitamin C helps prevent cancer?

https://fox6now.com/2018/
06/26/study-flight-attendants-
get-more-uterine-thyroid-and-other-cancers/

Q&A: What is your daily routine? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHDALlN20jw
“We have known carcinogens that flight crews are exposed to,” she says, “and we’re hoping
that this study allows people to start thinking about what should be done to implement protections.” So as you can see the canary in the coal mine theory (an Alaskan Glacier melting quicker than normal can signify future trouble. Much like one group in an occupation can
be studied for troubling facts about cancer. Many business and political analysts use this phrase to describe a harbinger of the future. One small event in an isolated area may not seem especially noteworthy, but may offer the first tangible warning of a larger problem developing.
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The Cumulative Effect 0f Pollutants

Posted on February 16, 2020 by Ken

Can Global Warming ~ Climate Change Cause Lasting Devastation !!!!

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A Turtle symbolizes Mother Earth, motherhood, and that opportunities are awakening.
Be mindful of the cycle of give and take, as to give back to mother earth as she has given to us. Turtle’s hard outer shell. like that of Mother Earth, reminds us that we also have shields that can protects us from the harmful words and actions of others. It also teaches of the art of grounding, helping to overcome adversity. With turtle, its time to recognize that there is abundance out there for you which doesn’t have to be gotten for you quickly or immediately. Take time to allow the natural flow of things and remember that to much to soon can upset the balance. So, today, align yourself with Mother Earth and ask for her assistance and abundance will follow.
Air pollution in the cities, that it is a product of human activities, especially radon gas a silent gas that has a negative impact on people’s health. These effects go from short time effects such as eye and nose irritation and sore throat to chronic respiratory diseases and cancer. Poison regression was then applied to determine the cumulative effect of air pollutants including particulate matter 10 (PM10), **PM2.5**, **nitrogen dioxide** (NO 2 ), **sulphur dioxide** (SO 2 ) and **ozone** (O 3 ) on AECOPD, of which the seasonal variation was further explored.
This video does not challenge the fact that CO2 causes climate change and is about the Milankovitch cycles which are only one of many factors influencing climate. The Milankovitch cycles are important over long very long periods of time: tens of thousands of years. It has little effect over decades or centuries. There is strong evidence that C02 and other greenhouse gases powerful affect our climate. The Milankovitch Cycles are changes in the Earth’s orbit and rotation that cause the Earth’s climate to change over hundreds of thousands of years.

The Effects of Too Much Carbon Dioxide in the Blood Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a gas that’s always present in your blood. It is the waste product generated as your body uses up oxygen, and it is expelled from the lungs when you exhale. It is produced when the body uses oxygen to break down glucose for energy. As blood circulates, carbon dioxide is excreted through the lungs and more oxygen gets into your blood.
**The process is continuous and normal.**
However, Carbon dioxide becomes a poisonous gas when there is too much of it in the air you breathe. Besides the effects it can have on the planet and atmosphere, carbon dioxide poisoning can lead to central nervous system damage and respiratory deterioration in humans when your blood contains excess carbon dioxide, there is danger of adverse effects, including permanent damage or even death.

Global Temperatures: (2500 BC to 2040 AD) – The Man Made Global Warming Hoax.
It took all of human history **up to 1804** for the world’s population to reach 1 billion. But the next billion came only 100 years later, in 1927. And after that, the rate of growth accelerated,
3 billion in 1959, 4 billion 1974, 5 billion 1987, 6 billion 1999, 7 billion 2012 In demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently living on planet earth, and was estimated to have reached 7.7 billion people as of **April 2019** [update] and now 7.8 billion. According to World Population Prospects as assessed by United Nations, it is likely to reach
8 billion by **2024-2025**. By the turn of the century it may be over 11 billion.
Animation: How temperature has changed in each country since 1900.
The United States Population — back in 1776 was 2,500,000 — then in 1790 — 3,**929,214 and you can see how it has steadily increased through out the years…**1880 — 50,189,209 **1900** — **76,212,168 1950** — **152,271,4177 2000** — **281,421,906 2010** — **308,745,538 2015** — **321,418,820 2020** — **331,002,651**

From the 1880 to the 1920s, blue and green shades dominate the chart, signaling cooler than normal temperatures in that era. Then, from the 1930s to the 1970s, warmer yellow, oranges, and reds shades ooze in, balancing the cooler shades. But since the 1970s, the blue and green shades rapidly erode and oranges and reds take over, dramatically. The rapid warming at the northern high latitudes, will especially jumps out in recent decades, also reflecting on “Arctic amplification” or more intense warming in the Arctic. Although the warming is most pronounced up north, it is apparent at almost every latitude.
After analyzing data from the 1950s through 2019, an international team of scientists determined that the average temperature of the world’s oceans in 2019 was 0.075 degrees Celsius ( .135 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the 1981–2010 average. ) That might not seem like a significant amount of warming, but given the massive volume of the oceans, an increase even that small would require a staggering influx of heat — 228 sextillion Joules’ worth, according to the scientists’ study, which was published in the journal
*Advances in Atmospheric Sciences* on Monday.

That’s a hard number to contextualize, so one of the scientists behind the study did the math
to put it into an explosive frame of reference — by comparing it to the amount of energy released by the atomic bomb the United States military dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.“The Hiroshima atom-bomb exploded with an energy of about 63,000,000,000,000 Joules,” author Lijing Cheng from the Chinese Academy of Sciences said in a press release. “The amount of heat we have put in the world’s oceans in the past 25 years equals to 3.6 billion
Hiroshima atom-bomb explosions.”
That averages out to four Hiroshima bombs’ worth of energy entering the oceans *every second* for the past 25 years. But even more troubling, the rate isn’t holding steady at that alarming figure — it’s increasing. In 2019, ocean warming was equivalent to “about five Hiroshima bombs of heat, every second, day and night, 365 days a year,” study author John Abraham,
from the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, told *Vice*.
And in case atomic bombs are still too abstract of a comparative unit, the 2019 rate
is equivalent to every person on Earth constantly pointing 100 hair dryers at the oceans, Abraham told *Vice*. “The less technical term is: It’s a s***-ton of energy,” he said — and it’s already having a huge impacting the environment. Ice is melting faster, causing sea levels to rise. Dolphins and other marine life are dying because they can’t adapt quickly enough. Even the increase in the amount of water evaporating into the atmosphere due to the heat is negatively impacting on our planet.

Could the brown stain in the earth atmosphere 12 miles upward be causing global warming?
The troposphere extends to **20 kilometers (12 miles**) above the Earth’s surface. The vast majority of the Earth’s weather occurs in this layer, which contains 75 percent to 80 percent
of the atmosphere’s mass. The **Indian Ocean brown cloud** or **Asian brown cloud** is a layer of air pollution that recurrently covers parts of South Asia, namely the northern Indian Ocean, India, and Pakistan. Viewed from satellite photos, the cloud appears as a giant brown stain hanging in the air over much of South Asia and the Indian Ocean every year between January and March, possibly also during earlier and later months. The term was coined in reports from the UNEP Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX).

I am a realist not a racist: The term *atmospheric brown cloud* is used for a more generic context not specific to the Asian region. In an 2008 report addressing global concern of warming and concluded that the brown clouds have masked 20 to 80 % of greenhouse gas forcing in the past century. The report suggested that air pollution regulations can have large amplifying effects on global warming. Another major impact is on the polar ice caps. Black carbon (soot) in the Asian Brown Cloud may be reflecting sunlight and dimming Earth below but it is warming other places by absorbing incoming radiation and warming the atmosphere and whatever it touches.
Black carbon is three times more effective than carbon dioxide—the most common greenhouse gas—at melting polar ice and snow. Black carbon in snow causes about three times the temperature change as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. On snow—even at concentrations below five parts per billion–dark carbon triggers melting, and may be responsible for as much as 94 percent of Arctic warming
Even the increase in the amount of water evaporating into the atmosphere due to the heat
is negatively impacting on our planet. It makes hurricanes and typhoons more powerful, and
it makes rainfall more intense,” Abraham told Vice. “It puts our weather on steroids.”
And remember, the rate is increasing — meaning that every moment we delay taking action to slow or reverse the warming, will the situation only going to get worse ? The key to answering this question is in the oceans – that’s where the vast majority of heat ends up.
If you want to understand global warming, you have to measure ocean warming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_hurricanes
Which contradicts the severity of canes cyclical in seasons.
“This measured ocean warming is irrefutable and is further proof of global warming. There
are no reasonable alternatives aside from human emissions of heat trapping gases to explain this heating.” —  **This article originally published by Futurism. Read the original article.**
**READ MORE:** ‘5 Hiroshima Bombs of Heat, Every Second’: The World’s Oceans Absorbed Record-Level Heat Last Year [*Vice*] **More on ocean warming:**
*Scientists: Warming Oceans Will Lead to “Catastrophic” Future*
Rain Forest Depletion: Its hard to pin down the exact facts and figures about how much rainforest is being destroyed each day around the world, and for what purpose(s)? Here’s a quick guestimate would be 80,000 acres of tropical rainforest daily, and significantly degrading another 80,000 acres every day on top of that. Along with this loss and degradation, we are losing some 135 plant, animal and insect species every day—or some 50,000 species
a year—as the forests fall.
The Causes and Effects of **Rainforest Depletion** — are known but pinning down exact reasons are nearly impossible, However, most experts agree that we are losing some 135 plant, animal and insect species every day—or some 50,000 species a year—as the forests fall and will have
a lasting effect on humanity.
Sciences (CAS). The international team of 14 scientists from 11 institutes across the world,
call for action to reverse climate change that produces global warming. The researchers used a relatively new method of analysis to account for potentially sparse data and time discrepancies in instruments that were previously used to measure ocean warmth specially from the ocean surface to 2,000 metres deep. If you want to learn more about these numbers, David Roberts has several articles and an — excellent video — explaining this concept.
**Climate change: Scientists find another threat to Greenland’s glaciers**
**lurking beneath the ice.** By Gisela Crespo.
How does ocean water rise when ice melts but it doesn’t in a glass of water?
Scientists have long known that higher air temperatures are contributing to the surface
melting on Greenland’s ice sheet.
But a new study has found another threat that has begun attacking the ice from below:
Warm ocean water moving underneath the vast glaciers is causing them to melt even more quickly. The findings were published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience by researchers who studied one of the many “ice tongues” of the Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden Glacier
— known as the 79° North Glacier — in northeast Greenland.
An ice tongue is a strip of ice that floats on the water without breaking off from the ice on land. The massive one these scientists studied is nearly 50 miles long.
The survey revealed an underwater current more than a mile wide where warm water from the Atlantic Ocean is able to flow directly towards the glacier, bringing large amounts of heat into contact with the ice and accelerating the glacier’s melting. “The reason for the intensified melting is now clear,” said Janin Schaffer, an oceanographer from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany who led the team of researchers, in a release about the findings. The scientists also found a similar current flowing near another of Greenland’s glaciers, where a large ice tongue
had recently broken off into the ocean.

What Happens If All The World’s Ice Melts?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0I4re0XUXU

How Will Earth Change If All the Ice Melts?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIxRVfCpA64

Huge ‘tower block’ of ice splits from Antarctica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrjRur7uckA
The strength of the solar cycle is not expected to have noticeable effects on the weather, but research has shown that during the solar minimum, which we are in now, we tend to see more zones of high pressure at the high altitudes, which tend to slow down the progress of weather systems. For example, research has shown strong high pressure over Greenland, sometimes called the Greenland Block, is more prevalent during solar minimums. Greenland Blocks are known to favor periods of cold, snowy weather in the eastern United States and during winter. During the last solar minimum in 2010, a measure of the strength of the Greenland Block, known as the negative phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation, hit a record low. “It was pretty impressive during that window,” said Capital Weather Gang’s Matt Rogers, a long-range forecasting specialist.
Mass loss from Greenland’s ice sheet is currently the single largest driver of sea level rise globally, and according to a study published in December in the journal Nature, Greenland’s
ice sheet is currently melting seven times faster than it was in 1992.This ice sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by more than 24 feet. Much of the Arctic experienced record temperatures last summer, which caused Greenland’s ice sheet to lose 11 billion tons of surface ice to the ocean in just one day, scientists said. That is the equivalent of 4.4 million Olympic swimming pools. In July alone, Greenland’s ice sheet — lost 197 billion tons of ice, the equivalent of around 80 million Olympic swimming pools, according to Ruth Mottram,
a climate scientist with the Danish Meteorological Institute.
   https://www.wrcbtv.com/story/
41647492/scientists-find-
another-threat-to-greenlands-
glaciers-lurking-beneath-the-ice

Many people have wondered what would happen if all the glacial ice on the planet melted. Some believe that it would be a water world with no land in sight, while others think that could never happen. But the Earth is changing in more ways than you might think on its own. Many might wonder how much of the Earth’s current global warming trend is affected by humans. Regardless of who is to blame, whether the planet is just going through a natural phase in its evolution, or if we are responsible, the evidence shows that the planet is getting warmer and warmer every year. But just how much of the planet could end up covered in water if all the glacial ice melted?     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0QwdJ37Y38
I hope you enjoyed the video.
Do you have an idea on how we could stop global warming?

In a March 2010 report entitled, “Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What Do We Do,”
a presidential panel concluded the true burden of environmentally induced cancer has been grossly underestimated. The report’s authors wrote in a letter to President Obama, “The panel urges you most strongly to use the power of your office to remove the carcinogens and other toxins from our food, water, and air that needlessly increase health care costs, cripple our Nation’s productivity, and devastate American lives.”
Speaking of the Environmental Cancer Report…Dr. Jennifer Lowry, a medical toxicologist at Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City, Mo., said, ” the report finally lends a voice that could be heard that the environment does play an important role in the health of all people of every age.” We believe there are many lifestyle factors that contribute to America’s cancer problem, but if there were no environmental factors cancer death rates would be more evenly distributed across the country than they are.
We agree with the panel…environmental factors have been poorly investigated in the
past and strongly support more rigorous testing in the future. We have prepared a special “Cancer Cluster Map” that suggests where you live can have a strong influence on your likely hood of dying from cancer. It makes no attempt to identify environmental issues, but it does indicate where one might want to take a look:
Select any state by clicking here: then mouse over the state and click onto the state?
When you review States in the U.S. with the highest incidence of cancer to no ones surprise
its the densely populated area’s along the East Coast and into the Ohio and Mississippi River Basin border states?
This map looks at the rate of new cancer cases by state per 100,000 people.
This is specifically looking at 2013, last year worked.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, some states are more prone to binge drinking than others. In a recent study, the states with the highest prevalence of binge drinking amongst Adults included: North Dakota, Wisconsin, Washington D.C., Montana, Iowa and Illinois. Excessive alcohol consumption costs states billions of dollars every year.
In states like Colorado, the cost per capita is over $1000 due to excessive drinking.
Binge drinking can have consequences and may be a matter of life and death for some people.
Binge drinking is defined as:
A man who consumes 5 or more drinks on an occasion
A woman who consumes 4 or more drinks on an occasion
The states with the highest intensity of excessive alcohol consumption include: Arkansas,
West Virginia, Missouri, Kentucky, Alaska, Ohio and North Dakota. Intensity is defined by the “average largest number of drinks consumed by binge drinkers on any occasion. In the states with the highest intensity of binge drinking the average number of drinks consumed
on any occasion is 7.3 to 8.3.
The CDC regularly gathers information through surveys such as the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). The BRFSS was established in 1984 and collects information through telephone surveys conducted in all 50 states. The data is used to look at the prevalence of health-related issues and the trends amongst adults by state. According to the data, excessive alcohol use is still a problem. Over 1/5 of the adults surveyed admitted to binge drinking or heavy drinking in the last 30 days.
Adverse smoking-related health outcomes are also more common in the states with
the highest smoking rates. The three states with the highest smoking rates — West Virginia, Kentucky and Arkansas — are the same three states with the highest incidence of heart disease, the highest lung cancer death rates, and highest rates of heart attack history. All three states are in the top five of states with the most residents who have had a stroke and report being in poor health.
No Surprise: This map shows a parallel affect (drinking & smoking = cancer.)

**UN Warning: Just 3 YEARS Left to Save the Earth!**
https://www.newscats.org/?p=10196

Meanwhile 9 Years Later: The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (福島第一原子力発電所, Fukushima Daiichi Genshiryoku Hatsudensho) is a disabled nuclear power plant located on a 3.5-square-kilometre (860-acre) site in the towns of Ōkuma and Futaba in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. The plant suffered major damage from the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunamithat hit Japan on March 11, 2011. The chain of events caused radiation leaks and permanently damaged several reactors, making them impossible to restart.

While the **Chernobyl** **disaster** was **worse** **than** the **Fukushima** **disaster** in several respects, recent evidence suggests cancer rates from the latter debacle trump the former. Just this month, the Japanese government made its first admission that radiation exposure caused a worker to develop cancer, following decontamination work after the **disaster**.
Cancer rates spike in Fukushima Prefecture
This first official cancer diagnosis is likely to be one of many within the days to come.
A recent scientific study found a 30-fold excess of thyroid cancer among over 400,000 young people below the age of 18 at the Fukushima Prefecture.
“The highest incidence rate ratio, using a latency period of 4 years, was observed in the central middle district of the prefecture compared with the Japanese annual incidence,” said the researchers.
In the first screening among 298,577 young people four years after the disaster, thyroid cancer occurred 50 times more among those who lived in irradiated regions than those who didn’t.
In the second screening conducted in April 2014, 106,068 young people living in less irradiated regions were assessed. Results show that cancer was twelve times more common
than the general population.
The authors of the paper went on to note that thyroid cancer rates at the Fukushima Prefecture are higher than at the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, and that many more cancer cases
will likely develop.
“In conclusion, among those ages 18 years and younger in 2011 in Fukushima Prefecture, approximately 30-fold excesses in external comparisons and variability in internal comparisons on thyroid cancer detection were observed in Fukushima Prefecture within as
few as 4 years after the Fukushima power plant accident. The result was unlikely to be fully explained by the screening effect.
“In Chernobyl, excesses of thyroid cancer became more remarkable 4 or 5 years after the accident in Belarus and Ukraine, so the observed excess alerts us to prepare for more potential cases within a few years.”

More radiation released than previously believed.
To make matters worse, scientific studies of the Chernobyl disaster have found that thyroid cancer rates don’t decrease over time. There is no noteworthy decrease in thyroid cancer rates for people exposed to certain radioactive isotopes. Given the recent spike in cancer thyroid rates, however, the researchers believe radiation released from the Fukushima site may have been greater than previously believed.

“Furthermore, we could infer a possibility that exposure doses for residents were higher than the official report or the dose estimation by the World Health Organization, because the number of thyroid cancer cases grew faster than predicted in the World Health Organization’s health assessment report,” the researchers wrote.

Humans are a plague on this planet!
So humans are like virus’s we destroy the earth: https://youtu.be/T-8VunPdGXQ
They use its resources cause man made disasters then when earth dies we move to the next world and destroy it over a few thousand years probably splitting up and infecting several planets. Look what we’re doing to it, and to the animals
we share it with!
Prepare to witness the explosion that formed planet Earth, and travel back in time to explore the evolution of the Earth we know today. We’ll see new technologies that allow today’s geoscientists to strip back layers of the Earth, to see what previously could only be imagined. ***This is episode 1 of the 4 part Faces of Earth series.***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-cc8fs3xYY

Every minute of every day, the face of Earth changes – sometimes right before our eyes.
Go inside tectonic events, watching earthquakes rumble, volcanoes explode, and land transformed. **This is episode 2 of the 4 part Faces of Earth series.** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWezU1P6dM0

From the Pacific Northwest to the shores of the Atlantic seaboard, the breadth and scope
of America is like no other place on Earth. Travel with geoscientists and explore how time
and the forces of nature have shaped the continent and influence the life in the United States.
***Episode 3 of the 4-part Faces of Earth series.***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iTUAUmF-N4

Earth has shaped human evolution and now humans are shaping Earth. We will see how geologic and climatic changes have shaped human development, even sparked human migration around the globe as ice sheets advanced and retreated. Humans have become a force of nature in themselves, but is it a mistake to think human innovations have put humankind and Earth on an equal footing?
***This is episode 4 of the 4 part series Faces of Earth***.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkrsKC0QI-s

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Living Life Cheating Death

Posted on February 15, 2020 by Ken

***Soyez fort et courageux dans ce combat, Dieu sera avec vous et vous gagnerez.***
(Be strong and courageous in this fight, God will be with you and you will win.)

Neuroscientist David Servan-Schreieber on how he beat brain cancer.
His story was featured in the nation’s leading weekly French magazine,
Le Nouvel Observateur. Interview by Eve Roger –
I translated article via Google translation tool. You get the jist …
https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=fr&tl=en
( French to English translation.)

– I tell them that it is legitimate for them to ask the question.
Personally, I have no doubt that the methods of “Anticancer” have a major impact on strengthening the body’s natural defenses against the disease, and many others elsewhere. The science behind it is solid. But we must know two things. ***The first*** is to never promised miracle cure. There is no miracle cure against cancer, which is a very difficult disease.
***The second*** is never believe that diet is enough, its not 100% effective, but they are critical because they reduce the spread of the disease, and even set back, sometimes dramatically. And it’s not because we have a friend in whom chemotherapy did not work we will begin to shout across the chemo does not work! Finally I tell them that we must cling to the end because there are treatments that slow the cancer process […].

Dr. David Servan-Schreiber, a cancer patient, challenges fact-based medicine on
nutrition and exercise for cancer prevention_^.
Dr. Servan-Schrieber was 31 and ambitious when his world imploded. With French blueblood coursing through his veins, he was a founding member of Doctors Without Borders and a rising star in neuropsychiatry. But when a volunteer for a brain scan experiment didn’t show up, he slid into the scanner himself—and discovered a malignant tumor nestled deep in his brain. After surgery & chemotherapy, he asked his oncologist what he should change. “Nothing,” replied the oncologist.
So Servan-Schrieber continued living his life as he had before, eating a diet high in sugar and red meat, exercising little, and abandoning an earlier interest in meditation. When the tumor returned a few years later, he used his medical training to investigate how best to prevent cancer. The result was remission—and a bestselling book called Anticancer:
A New Way of Life. ~Jay Dixit

The experience formed the background to his book “Anticancer: A New Way of Life”
“Anticancer: A New Way of Life” (2007) in which he examined the benefits of a healthy diet and a balanced lifestyle — nutrition, exercise, emotional well-being and environmental awareness — in preventing and combating cancer. Eating “anticancer products” like vegetables, olive oil, garlic and green tea was crucial, he maintained. “If we all have a potential cancer lying dormant in us,” he wrote in “Anticancer,” “each of us has a body designed to fight the process of tumor development.”

**The Evolution of the Medical Narrative: an Interview with Dr. Abigail Zuger**

https://blakecharlton.
wordpress.com/2008/02/16/the-
evolution-of-the-medical-
narrative-an-interview-with-dr-abigail-zuger/

Some doctors and cancer experts said Dr. Servan-Schreiber’s methods were simplistic and not supported by scientific evidence. “Extracts of garlic, onions and leeks, for instance, will demolish all kinds of cancer cells in a culture,” the journalist and physician Dr. Abigail Zuger wrote in The New York Times in 2008 in a review of the book. “Whether these vegetables are still active in the busy metropolis of the body, with thousands of cellular processes going on at once, is another question: once the leek is chewed, swallowed, demolished by intestinal enzymes and absorbed into the blood, how likely are its molecules to brush up against a cancer cell, let alone engage it in armed combat? No one knows.

Speaking of armed combat it may not surprise you that a Chimpaneze’s lifespan is similar to that of humans. A chimpanzee can live for about 40-50 extremely healthy without disease years in the wild and 50 – 60 years in captivity. Where as in humans life expectancy can depend on a lot of different factors. Generally it is between 60 and 70 years old. Being advance age can be detrimental to getting cancer life expectancy can play a part?

**More Clues About Why Chimps and Humans Are Genetically Different.**
New insights into why humans are more susceptible to cancer and other diseases.

How did this happen? Chimps are known to be active while humans began to domesticate, became sedentary and then began to consume red meat, We then picked up pathogens found in these species. Each place we moved, we picked up more new pathogens from new species we interacted with. a.k.a Rabbits, Chicken, cows, and pigs have all donated to us what ailed them. Then, a whole new group of pathogens evolved, pathogens that depended on our living in enormous groups (cold viruses for instance). As a results, humans and chimpanzees are really no longer that similar. The differences in the species are associated with, our parasites and pathogens (and also our love an the agricultural species), which are the biggest differences between us and them ~ chimps and humans. Read More:

Dame Jane Morris Goodall DBE, formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall,
Born: Apr 03, 1934 (age 85) London, England. Is an English primatologist and anthropologist. Considered to be the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her over 55-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees since she first went to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania in 1960. “Dr. Jane Goodall is a true pioneer who exemplifies how one person can make a huge difference in the world.”
http://www.wildlife-film.com/features/f9.html
Ever since 1971, when she published In the Shadow of Man, her groundbreaking field study of chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania, Jane Goodall has been the best known primatologist on the planet. In the decades since, she has remained an indomitable campaigner and conservationist, and now at the age of 83 she sits atop a naturalists’ Olympus that she shares perhaps only with David Attenborough.

“Our run away population: We Are A Plague on the Earth.
It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so,” warns David Attenborough in an interview. “It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde,” says the natural history broadcaster. Attenborough believes humans must find ways to curb their spread or face the consequences: “Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now,” he says. “a.k.a. famine in Ethiopia; that’s what’s happening. Too many people there. They can’t support themselves – and it’s not an inhuman thing to say. It’s the case. Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a coordinated view about the planet it’s only going to get worse and worse.”

In 1999, after almost 40 years visiting the Chimps of Gombe, Jane co-authored a letter to Nature, in which she sought to calibrate the use of the world “culture” in relation to wild chimpanzees. Multiple long-term studies, she and her colleagues wrote, showed “significant cultural variation” between colonies. “The combined repertoire of these behavior patterns in each chimpanzee community is itself highly distinctive,” the letter concluded, “a phenomenon characteristic of human cultures but previously unrecognized in non-human species.” Our understanding of what chimpanzee “culture” might mean took a further turn last year, thanks to another paper published in Nature. *https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2017146*

The study, led by Christophe Boesch of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (one of Goodall’s co-authors on the 1999 letter), reported that in several chimp colonies males had been observed banging rocks against particular trees and then piling them up in a fashion “reminiscent of human cairns”. This, the authors suggested, amounted to “ritualised behavioural display”. Ritual, it was noted, implied abstract and conceptual thoughts, necessary components of lore, of perhaps propitiating spirits. Could chimpanzees, mused some of the commentators, actually hold religious beliefs? “I’ve never really spent a lot of time thinking about that,” says Goodall. My favorite documentary of all time! I had read her first book, “In the Shadow of Man.” This documentary mesmerized me – as the fascinating book actually “came alive.” You are an amazing…. Thank you Jane Goodall!
The Magnificent lives of the Chimpanzees || Full Documentary with subtitles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0HnQBUOvf4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vibssrQKm60

Does despair undermine the body’s ability to cope? They say, “Don’t cry, you’re making the cancer grow!” That’s not what happens. It’s the chronic sense of desperation—feeling stuck and powerless—that’s dangerous. In fact a good cry is a way to get beyond that chronic sense of despair, especially when it’s being heard by a mate or friend or intimate partner.
This kind of intimacy is a strong protective factor. How should we manage stress?
The first line of defense against stress is physical exercise. Jogging three times a week has the same effectiveness as an antidepressant, but much more lasting benefits. Plus yoga, qigong, and meditation—the so-called relaxation response. It’s so easy and so simple based purely on concentration of attention and breathing. But it is not taught in medical school and it’s not part of our health system in spite of the well-documented and powerful effects. Are you suggesting that our default state is to develop cancer? Yes. One hundred percent of people over 50 have cancer cells in their body. That the majority of people don’t develop cancer proves we have defenses in the cells of it ever becoming an illness.

Is American culture disproportionately exposing Americans to cancer? Every single place where American diet has spread has seen massive increases in obesity rates and cancer rates. Japan is increasing consumption of red meat and dairy products and seeing an enormous increase in obesity and great increases in prostate cancer and breast cancer, which were extremely rare before. Who would you be today if he hadn’t gotten cancer? I don’t want to misjudge the young man I was. Maybe he would have wised up anyway.
For the full version of this interview, click here.

When David Servan-Schreiber, a dedicated scientist and doctor, was diagnosed with brain cancer, his life changed. Confronting what medicine knows about the illness and the little-known workings of his body’s natural cancer fighting capacities, and marshaling his own will to live. Servan-Schreiber found himself on a fifteen-year journey from disease and relapse into scientific exploration and, finally, to health. Combining memoir, concise explanation of what makes cancer cells thrive and what inhibits them, and drawing on both conventional and alternative ways to slow and prevent cancer.
Its a moving story of a doctor’s inner and outer search for balance; radical in its discussion of the environment, lifestyle, and trauma; and compelling and cautionary in its proposal that cancer cells lie dormant in all of us and that we all must care for the “terrain” in which they exist. Advocating a sea change in the way we understand and confront cancer, Anticancer is a radical synthesis of science and personal experience, an inspiring personal journey, and certainly a guide to “a new way of life.” Anticancer is revolutionary.
Anticancer tells us:
◊ Why the traditional Western diet creates the conditions for disease and how to develop a science-based anticancer diet
◊ How and why sugar and stress feed cancer and ways to achieve life balance and good nutrition to combat it
◊ Why the effects of helplessness and unhealed wounds affect our ability to restore health ◊ How to reap the benefits of exercise, yoga, and meditation
◊ How to minimize environmental toxins
◊ How to find the right blend of traditional and alternative health care

Dr. Servan-Schreiber’s remarkable story as a cancer survivor and a scientist:
https://translate.google.com/#
view=home&op=translate&sl=fr&tl=en

https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=xfddD6keYq0&feature=emb_title

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YntkxKePFg

“In the end Dr Servan Schreiber believed Death is part of the life process; everyone goes through it,” he said in one of his last interviews. “It is very reassuring in itself.” Living with a Love One with end stage cancer is an experience. You just have to live through it and learn, and cope, the best you can.” Calls were put out to extended family members, his many uncles, aunts and cousins scattered throughout France, all of whom made prompt pilgrimages to David’s bedside. “The whole family came together and we lived through it all together, not as something horrible – although of course it was – but as something we could share,” says brother Emile. David spent his final months in a hospital room crowded with well-wishers.

There were many all-night vigils. David, the empathetic doctor, strove to keep the mood light, and encouraged those closest to him not only to come and say a final goodbye, but, should he still be alive the following week, to come and say goodbye again. He spent as much private time with his wife as he could, and with his two younger children, Charlie, then aged two, and Anna, who was six months, keenly aware that they would grow up with no physical memory of him. He had planned, says Emile, to leave a series of video messages for the children, but never quite had the energy:
“What he did have, he wanted to use writing his book.”
Emile wrote the moving epilogue about his brother’s courage.
That was his way.”
***Dr. David Servan-Schreiber’s memoir:***
Not the Last Goodbye: On Life, Death, Healing, and Cancer
“Those of us who had the privilege of taking care of him, of accompanying him in his ordeal, often had the feeling that it was he who was taking care of us. He would meet our clumsiness with limitless patience; he would dissipate with a grateful gaze any embarrassment caused by his extreme physical dependence on us. David was not afraid of death. He believed it would transport him to a kingdom of love, through the famous tunnel of light so often described by those who have had a near-death experience. “May it be so, my brother.”
David died as he hoped he would, with his family by his side.

The people who come into your life can be explained by these 6 Cosmic Reasons:
#1 – They are sent to remind us. Have you ever lost sight of a goal or dream only to have someone remind you of it later? These people are specifically sent to help us recall why we were travelling the path that we had chosen, and where we intend on going in this life.
#2 – They are sent to hold space for us. While some people in our lives are sent with big, life-changing roles before them, others are far more subtle. These people may only be in our lives for a short moment, providing companionship before moving on such as the person you sit next to on the bus, or the woman you have a conversation with while waiting in line at the grocery store. While their role in our life is short, they still hold meaning.
#3 – They are sent to awaken us. We all fall for this trip at one time or another in our lives – we become so comfortable with where our life is currently at that we fall into autopilot. Once actively engaged in where our life is heading, we now sit back and just ‘let it happen.’ At this time the Universe sends people into our lives to help encourage change, opening our eyes to new possibilities.
#4 – They are sent to encourage us. There are times in this journey that you may find yourself feeling discouraged, faced with challenges that may feel insurmountable or impossible. At these times, the Universe sends people to us to encourage us, motivate us and help us to find our footing. They may not be in our lives for long, but their encouragement is felt for years to come.
#5 – They are sent to help us grow. In order to reach our goals in life, we are going to have to experience times of growth and change, leaving old versions of ourselves behind and becoming the person we ultimately need to be. This growth can sometimes come from an internal trigger, but often it starts with the influence of a third-party sent into our lives to start the process.
#6 – They are sent to stay, holding a long-term role in our lives. Not everyone that is sent to us in this life is sent to stick with us for the long haul. Those that do, however, are a rare and precious gift that should never be taken for granted. This includes your life-long best friend, your immediate family members and even your soulmate. Their impact on your life will be significant and ongoing as they help to guide you and join
you on your universal path. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNIXJPxD8_g

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Life is a Mystery To Be Lived

Posted on February 13, 2020 by Ken

When My Father was going through cancer they always made a big deal about
his selenium insufficiency

But wouldn’t tell him why it was a concern then I learned it enhances immunity. In cases of selenium **deficiency** and with the resulting impaired function of glutathione peroxidases destructive **hydrogen peroxide.** Which breaks down into even more dangerous hydroxyl radical which damages cell membranes and cell DNA eventually leading to serious **disease**
.I will repeat: This maybe the root cause of cancer? In cases of selenium deficiency and with the resulting impaired function of glutathione peroxidases destructive hydrogen peroxide breaks down into even more dangerous hydroxyl radical which damages cell membranes and cell DNA eventually leading to serious disease.
A single nutrient that holds great power for the prevention of disease and disability.
A remarkable study on Selenium was published in The Journal of the American Medical Association in 1996. It reported a group of 1312 people in Arizona who were not deficient in selenium. Half were given 200 micrograms of selenium per day. After only five years, compared to those not given the supplement, there were:
17% fewer deaths overall
52% less cancer deaths
37% less cancer, especially lung, prostate and colon – each of which was cut by about 50% [1]
This is dramatic and impressive, considering that no other nutrient or treatment can boast such numbers. Not even chemotherapy!
Selenium is a micronutrient that gets little attention. Since the Recommended Daily Allowance is only 55 micrograms per day, it is thought that Americans get enough in the diet. Indeed, The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) reported that over 99% of US participants had sufficient blood concentrations. It suggests selenium supplementation is not needed. [2] Thereby, nutrition professionals and physicians may not recognize any need for selenium supplementation.
The times when we need additional immune support often hit us by surprise. Whether it is waking up with a sore throat and the sniffles or leaving work early with a fever and the chills, we often don’t see illness coming until it is upon us full bore. In retrospect, we may associate an illness with the coughing passenger on a recent flight, the kids being back at school, or the sick patients coming in and out of the office. The body’s immune system is also challenged by stress and/or sleepless nights, with cortisol impacting it as well.
Although we often reflect that hindsight is 20/20, there are many times in life when we are able to sense the stress on our immune system prior to the development of a full-blown infectious illness or other immune system challenge. In these instances, support from substances such as the ones detailed in this article may help to mitigate or prevent the untoward changes
to our healthy state.

https://www.
clinicaleducation.org/
resources/reviews/selenium-
shrooms-astragalus-and-andrographis/

**Selenium (Se) is an essential micronutrient**
That is important for various aspects of human health, including proper thyroid hormone metabolism, cardiovascular health, prevention of neurodegeneration and cancer, and optimal immune responses. Very low (deplete) or very high (toxic) levels of Selenium intake can be detrimental or possibly fatal. Extreme deficiency or toxicity is not commonly found in humans, but selenosis has been reported in cases of miscalculated supplement formulations, suicides, accidental overdose, or intentional poisoning (150, 177, 238). That said, less overt changes in Se status within an individual may still affect inflammation and immune responses.
The biological effects of Se are mainly exerted through its incorporation into selenoproteins, and selenoproteins are involved in the activation, proliferation, and differentiation of cells that drive innate and adaptive immune responses. Dietary Se and selenoproteins are not only important for initiating or enhancing immunity, but they are also involved in immunoregulation, which is crucial for preventing excessive responses that may also lead to autoimmunity or chronic inflammation. It should be noted that most studies in the literature involve modifications to dietary Se, and insights into mechanisms often are not clear, but roles for individual selenoproteins and mechanisms are discussed when data are available.
On a cellular level, dietary Se may influence various leukocytic effector functions including adherence, migration, phagocytosis, and cytokine secretion. Several members of the selenoprotein family regulate or are regulated by cellular redox tone, which is a crucial modulator of immune cell signaling and function. There are also important links between selenoproteins and calcium (Ca²⁺) flux, which is regulated by and regulates the oxidative burst required for optimal immune cell activation. New insights have been gained into specific roles for individual selenoproteins in modulating immune receptor-mediated signaling pathways linked to Ca²⁺ flux and oxidative burst, inducing cytokine production, migration,
and other cellular processes.
This article will describe redox-based mechanisms that affect these cellular processes during inflammation and immunity, and how Se and selenoproteins are involved in those processes. The impact of Se on immune-related human physiology and pathophysiology is also discussed, with emphasis placed on disorders related to immunity and chronic inflammation. It should be noted that health issues such as hypertension and cardiovascular diseases have been extensively covered in other reviews (141, 183, 245), and are not included in this article. Finally, issues are raised as to how Se supplementation may be best utilized to enhance or modulate certain types of inflammation and immune responses.

**BENEFITS OF SELENIUM IN CANCER PREVENTION**
Selenium can be converted into various metabolites in the body. In fact, there is at least
a dozen selenoproteins, other than glutathione peroxidases, that perform various functions
in the body. Two of them, selenodiglutathione and methylselenol, play an important role
in cancer prevention.
Selenodiglutathione (SDG) is formed when the inorganic dietary form selenite is joined with
a glutathione molecule inside cells. In his book *“Selenium. Are you getting enough to reduce your risk of cancer?”* Edgar N. Drake, Ph.D. states that “selenodiglutathione kills cancer cells so effectively that its sterile solutions have been patented for direct injection into cancer cells”.

At the same time a 2006 study concluded, when activated, SDG produces large concentrations of oxidative stress and depletes glutathione levels in cells. This is a promising pathway for killing off cancer cells but may be harmful for healthy cells, especially if they are low on glutathione. The authors noted: “The finding that SDG cytotoxicity is, at least in part, dependent on ROS generation further suggests that this compound may be directly genotoxic. SDG is not currently available in a form that can be administered to patients.” (*The activity of methylated and non-methylated selenium species in lymphoma cell lines and primary tumours.* Last K, Mahraj L et al. Ann Oncol. 2006 May;17(5):773-9. Epub 2006 Feb 9).

Most common, organic dietary forms of selenium (e.g. amino acid forms selenomethionine, selenocysteine, methylselenocysteine) produce methylselenol but not selenodiglutathione, according to Professor Drake. Methylselenol is considered a safer, however,
less potent anticarcinogen.
There is also clinical evidence suggesting that selenium “may be an anti-metastastatic element in addition to being a cancer preventative agent”. (*Is selenium a potential treatment for cancer metastasis?* Chen YC et al. Nutrients. 2013 Apr 8;5(4):1149-68. doi: 10.3390/nu5041149.)

**BENEFITS OF SELENIUM FOR IMMUNE RESPONSE**

Because of its critical role in antioxidant defense through glutathione network, selenium is
also important for maintaining resistance to many diseases – all the cells of the immune system require protection from free radicals, including white blood cells.
By protecting white blood cells from free radicals that these cells produce themselves in their fight with infections, selenium increases these cells’ effectiveness.
Benefits of selenium for immune response include improved lymphocyte proliferation, stimulation of antibody production and increase in the activity of the helper T cells, cytotoxic
T cells and natural killer (NK) cells boosting both the cell-mediated and humoral immunity.
Some of the metabolites of selenium are believed to be involved in the immune and inflammatory responses through the mechanisms not yet fully understood. (*Selenium in the environment, metabolism and involvement in body functions.* Mehdi Y, Hornick JL et al. Molecules 2013, 18, 3292-3311; doi: 10.3390/molecules18033292).
http://www.benbest.com/nutrceut/Selenium.html

All this evidence proves how essential selenium is for proper glutathione function, strong immune defenses and the protection from diseases including cancer. RDA for selenium is set at 70 mcg for men and 55 mcg for women. However, it is believed that these amounts are set to merely prevent complications from selenium deficiency.
Summarizing numerous studies in his above mentioned book Professor Edgar Drake concludes that the safe daily amount of selenium which is the most effective in cancer prevention ranges between 200-500 mcg a day depending on a person’s location, diet and individual response to supplementation.
Since selenium carries well documented toxicity called selenosis, adverse effects may manifest at as low as 250 mcg a day and become a serious problem above 1,000 mcg a day. Symptoms include hair loss, nail deformities, breath with garlic odor, gastrointestinal and neurological disorders.

**Due to selenium’s toxicity supplementation with selenium and the doses should be discussed with your doctor.**

Good dietary sources of selenium (organic forms) include Brazil nuts, organ meats, muscle meats, poultry, fish, oysters, rolled oats and wheat flour. For more information about dietary selenium and list of the best food sources visit our page **High Selenium Foods.**
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3277928/

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**Low levels of selenium** are present in meat and seafood. Selenium is not found in plants unless it is in the soil. Plants will also include selenium in their proteins only if they are grown in areas where the mineral is abundant. But, soils depleted of selenium are not replenished because selenium isn’t necessary for the plant to grow, or bear fruit. Thus, the intake of selenium from food is highly dependent on the place it is grown, and not on the type of food.

**What Does Selenium Do?**
Selenium is part of a group of proteins that regulate three known actions:
Activating thyroid hormones
Regenerating glutathione, the “king of anti-oxidants”
Regulating immune function
Though it is needed in tiny amounts, each of these actions has a very large effect on your body.

**Selenium to Stay Young All Your Life**
Many of the diseases we face in the modern world are due to inflammation, including cancer, heart disease, arthritis, and diabetes. Selenium can improve function and **prevent degeneration,** or aging by lowering inflammation. We are told that it is normal to “get old” and have memory loss, diabetes, arthritis, or even heart disease. Actually, we don’t have to decline in function; we can continue to improve if we care for our bodies well.
By removing inflammation inside the cells, they function better, and are more able to regenerate, preventing aging. Selenium even prevents the peroxides in hair cells that cause us to get gray hair.
Getting adequate selenium is an important part of any anti-aging program.
https://www.healthresource4u.
com/selenium-are-you-getting-enough.html

**Selenium for the “Big C”**
Selenium has a very big effect on cancer. Not only can **selenium help prevent cancer**, as noted above, but it can also treat an already existing cancer. Cancerous cells reproduce indefinitely. But selenium programs them to die. This is called apoptosis, essentially triggering a suicide gene in the cancer cell. Control is taken away from the cancer cell by blocking the protein that protects the cancer cell.[3]
Source: Dr. Scott D. Saunders, M.D. is a practicing physician, specializing in preventative health care, who utilizes eclectic health care for the whole family, including conventional, orthomolecular and natural medicine. He is also the medical director of The Integrative Medical Center of Santa Barbara in Lompoc, CA. He went to UCLA medical school and is board certified in family medicine. View natural remedies with Dr. Saunders at:
**http://integrativemedicinecenters.com/** https://www.homecuresthatwork.
com/19846/the-amazing-power-of-selenium/
**Selenium supplementation should be included in any cancer regimen.**
*How a Trace Mineral, Maitake Mushroom, and Adaptogenic Herbs Offer Comprehensive Immune Protection by Carrie Decker ND.*
*https://primalherb.com/maitake-natures-powerful-immune-mushroom/ https://www.carriedecker.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56wr5gugkGU*

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🔥 “Fan the Flames” of Inflammation 🔥

Posted on February 12, 2020 by Ken

I REMEMBER SOON AFTER LOSING MY FATHER BACK ON APRIL 3RD 2006.
https://www.holistichealthshow.com/tag/ken-goubeaux/

FINDING DR RICHARD BECKER. Listening – watching – wondering why he was prescribing almost all the same supplements to all his call in guest then thinking maybe his aim was correcting gut flora. Alpha Lipoic Acid, Cordycep Mushrooms, Curcumin, Grapeseed Extract, Olive Leaf extract and a healthy dose of antioxidant spices and omega 3s in your diet. Along with knowing the importance of forgiveness and stress reduction in your lifestyle because your body can’t heal properly when chronic inflammation.
Warriors know it a Heartless World: you have to persist for yourself because
NOBODY ELSE WILL FOR YOU!!!
Between 2007 and 2020, the number of deaths is expected to go up 15.2% in men and 8.1% in women, although the rate of cancer deaths per 100,000 people in the United States is expected to keep going down. We expect cancer death rates to drop most for—
Prostate cancer (26.4%).
Colorectal cancer (23.4%).
Lung cancer (21.3%).
Female breast cancer (19.6%).
Cancers of the oral cavity and pharynx (16.0%).
Cervical cancer (12.5%).
Melanoma (7.4%).
Between 1975 and 2009, the number of cancer deaths went up in both white and black Americans, mostly because of an aging white population and a growing black population. The cancer death rate began to drop in the early 1990s, mostly because of a decline in deaths from lung and prostate cancer in men, breast cancer in women, and colorectal cancer in both sexes.
According to estimates from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC),
in 2020 there were 17.0 million new cancer cases and 9.5 million cancer deaths worldwide. By 2040, the global burden is expected to grow to 27.5 million new cancer cases and 16.3 million cancer deaths simply due to the growth and aging of the population. The future burden will probably be even larger due to increasing prevalence of factors that increase risk, such as smoking, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, and fewer childbirths, in economically transitioning countries.
Between 2010 and 2020, the United States Population went from 308,745,538 to the current population of 329,064,917. In 2010, there was an estimated 1,529,560 new cancer cases diagnosed and 569,490 cancer deaths in the U.S. or 1,500 people a day. With the number increasing up about 24% in men to more than 1 million cases per year, and by about 21% in women to more than 900,000 cases and. 609,640 people dying which is equivalent to 1700 deaths each day.

With a one year jump from 2019’s 1,762,450 new cancer cases diagnosed and 606,880 cancer deaths in the United States.)
Current cancer incidence and mortality are occurring at an alarming rate through early detection and treatment.
Although with a contradiction with Government statistic with mortality rates.
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   http://pressroom.cancer.org/Statistics2019
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What will an oncologist do if he himself gets a tumor? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by David Chan, MD from UCLA, Stanford Oncology Fellowship, on Quora:
https://www.quora.com/What-will-an-oncologist-do-if-he-himself-gets-a-tumour
Oncologists get cancer and die of cancer at the same rates as the general population.
There are a number of very famous academic oncologist who have died from cancer, ironically in some cases from the cancer for which they were considered world experts.
I’ve treated or participated in the treatment of oncologists with cancer.
They take the same treatment as everyone else, including surgery, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy and all the various kinds of radiation. What I’ve never witnessed or heard about, is an oncologist with cancer who decided to not take appropriate treatment but instead attempt any of the homeopathic or alternative “treatments” in vogue for that year. I have had oncologists decline treatment when it’s appropriate to not treat. I recently had the misfortune of treating a very well known experienced oncologist and personal friend who’d I had treated for a couple of decades through three different kinds of cancer.
On the fourth cancer, he’d had a widespread cancer found late and of a type poorly treated by anything. After all the testing, I met with him and his family and went through the options. At the end of a very extensive discussion of the situation and options available for treatment, several of his children urged him to take chemotherapy which I had explained that in his situation would not be curative and of minimal effectiveness. My oncologist friend made up his mind by saying that he greatly appreciated my thoughts on his situation. He very kindly and with a small smile complemented me on a discussion well done. He then turned to his family and told them why he wasn’t going to take treatment. He’d been through a lot with his previous cancers which had successfully treated. He didn’t want to do much more this time around.
He decided on hospice and I agreed.
New research suggests that CANCER KILLING compounds are abundant in the Mediterranean diet that takes away cancer cells’ “superpower” to escape death. By altering a very specific step in gene regulation, this compound essentially re-educates cancer cells into normal cells that die as scheduled. One way that cancer cells thrive is by inhibiting a process that would cause them to die on a regular cycle that is subject to strict programming. This study in cells, led by
Ohio State University researchers, found that a compound in certain plant-based foods,
called apigenin, could stop breast cancer cells from inhibiting their own death. READ MORE
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A review of the evidence and a guide to adherence.
By Michelle Qaqundah, ND, FABNO
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Michelle Qaqundah, ND, FABNO, is a naturopathic oncology specialist and Italian-trained chef, currently practicing in Lucca, Italy. She is the founder of Mediterranean Life Wellness Retreats, which offer participants the opportunity to learn how to cook the Mediterranean diet with her while enjoying Tuscan excursions. Dr. Qaqundah is the past Director of Naturopathic Medicine at Cancer Treatment Centers of America and the past president of the Oncology Association of Naturopathic Physicians. Read More:
Learn from Dr. Qaqundah, naturopathic oncology specialist, about the Mediterranean Diet for prevention of cancer and cancer recurrence and hear about the Mediterranean Diet for Cancer and Prevention™ Retreats in the beautiful hills of Tuscany.
Please go to www.mediterraneandietforcancer.com for more information regarding our retreats.
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In this video: Kristen Trukova, MS, RD, LDN and Clinical Oncology DietitianDebrah Harding (ND, FABNO) Naturopathic Oncology Provider at Cancer Treatment Centers of America speak about nutrition and diet.
Gut health is a foundational key for optimal health and wellbeing.
https://fitness.mercola.com/
sites/fitness/archive/2014/07/04/exercise-gut-bacteria.aspx

Inflammation Can Strike Anyone Anywhere And In Any Part Of The Body! https://www.bing.com/search?q=anywhere&FORM=HDRSC1

When it strikes your gut, it can be very problematic.
How does it get started? Usually by the foods you eat.
Yet, if you still suffer from heart disease or any number of serious health threats—or worry about an impending diagnosis—consider this your fair warning. It’s possible…. Chronic Inflammation Could Be Sending You To An Early Grave! All told, chronic inflammation is responsible for seven out of the top 10 leading causes of death in the United States And hundreds of studies and scientific reviews now prove it. However, the health dangers of inflammation doesn’t stop there. The evidence suggests chronic inflammation may trigger or worsen autoimmune diseases, autism, neuropathy, celiac disease, carpal tunnel syndrome, arthritis, food allergies, and more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cisPN5hXzvs
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5 Ways to Reduce Inflammation & Heal Your Gut.
Chronic inflammation is a major source of pain, suffering and disease.
There are 5 factors that cause inflammation.
Many are in our control and capacity to change and limit:
1. Diet
2. Environmental
3. Allergies & Chronic Infections
4. Exercise
5. Stress

Of the 5, stress is the most caustic to the system. Chronic stress causes chronic cortisol which in a chronic state slows down the lymphatic system and causes swelling and inflammation around joins, organs and glands. Dr. Melissa Gallagher, is a Naturopath with over 12 years of clinical expertise. A few of my specialties are working with individuals dealing with chronic illnesses, lymphatic disorders, hormone and gut imbalances and anyone sick and tired
of being sick and tired. https://naturalhealthresources.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQkOm6wm2-E
When does stress make you stronger and more resilient,
and when does it start to break you down?
How do you know when the stress you’re experiencing is helpful to your growth?
Stress is often called the disease of the modern world – and no wonder,
when so many of us live completely out of sync with the natural rhythms of our bodies and nature.
In the second half of my series on stress, I help you discern between the experience of stress at your growth edge, and types of stress that invite you to reset your habits and bring your life back into alignment.
I also explore the remedies for stress – addressing the disease pattern at the levels of body, mind, and spirit with practices you can integrate both on and off the mat.
How can you move beyond the stress pattern?
How can you truly be free?
Tune into the podcast and learn more…
Cate Stillman
Founder, Yogahealer
Author of Body Thrive, and soon to be released Master of You
P.S. I invite you to take the Ayurveda Habits Challenge – all it takes is one simple habit shift to get better sleep, wake up refreshed, and feel more energy and resilience throughout
your day. https://yogahealer.com/
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How to Prevent, Control, Reduce, & Eliminate Inflammation from bodily pollutants. Especially in different parts of the United States where pollutants are higher than other parts of the U.S. https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/world-life-expectancy-map

https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cancer-clusters-in-america

https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/usa/cancer
How many times have you set out to start a new business, lose weight, exercise more, etc. but over time that fierce drive and fire start to fizzle. Stop calling yourself a failure or believing you don’t have what it takes to be successful. This is the time to reflect on your why. The definition of an epidemic, as used by those who study the phenomenon, is more cases of an illness than one would normally expect to see, based on previous experience. In many cases the word epidemic describes a disease that creates a threat to the general public and that kills many people. So according to the first definition, two cases …
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I know a farmer that thought he needed a hip replacement and started to pound vitamin D
and within two months his pain went away.

Speaking OF WHICH In the agriculture business:
Farmers have to do what they have to do to feed their family and turn a profit. Even if that means giving hogs, chickens or cows. Medicine or growth hormones to prevent a virus, disease or improve their value at market. I myself prefer to eats a 90/10 ( plant based/ meat ) diet that prevents my gut flora from becoming off balance and create inflammation in my body.
I feel when gut flora is unbalanced: it can cause chronic inflammation which can offset your immune system.
Which can cause the tissues in our body to break down faster and is considered to be the root cause of many diseases, including cancer. Watch nutrition expert Shawn Talbott, PhD, explain why it’s so important to get inflammation under control. Inflammation is our bodies’ natural response to injury or illness, helping us to survive. It’s what helps kill an invading bacteria or virus, for instance. In today’s world, we are at the mercy of too much inflammation all around. An overreactive inflammatory response is what triggers allergies and some autoimmune diseases, like arthritis. The response can be misdirected, causing more skin damage and pain instead of less. To make matters worse, the presence of excessive free radicals, AGEs, and cortisol combined is like coarse salt in the wounds, leading to so-called hyperinflammation.
https://www.sharecare.com/
health/inflammation/what-are-negative-effects-inflammation

Seven Foods That Promote Inflammation:
Inflammation can strike anyone and in any part of the body. When it strikes your gut, it can be very problematic. How does it get started? Usually by the foods you eat. It is very important to pay attention to what you’re putting into your body. These are just a few of the foods that cause damage and inflammation.

1. Processed foods with trans fats
Many processed foods, especially sugary treats like muffins and cakes, contain trans fats which are very damaging to the body. You need to check the ingredients labels to see if it lists hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils.
These trans fats have been proven to promote inflammation because they damage the cells that form the lining in your blood vessels. There are far more nutritionally wholesome foods to be found in another aisle of the store.
A healthy alternative: Avoid processed foods altogether. You can find great information on whole foods and also gluten-free baking recipes at The Alternative Daily.

2. Refined sugars
This cannot be emphasized enough: Sugar is deadly! Processed sugars and starches that are high on the glycemic index promote inflammation throughout the body. They can also cause swelling, redness, and pain. As explained by CNN, “High amounts of sugar in the diet increase advanced glycation end-products, or AGEs, a protein bound to a glucose molecule, resulting in damaged, cross-linked proteins.
As the body tries to break these AGEs apart, immune cells secrete inflammatory messengers called cytokines. Depending on where the AGEs occur and your genetic predisposition, they could eventually result in arthritis, cataracts, heart disease, poor memory, or wrinkled skin.” A healthy alternative: Instead of choosing foods with refined sugars, use honey or coconut crystals in healthy recipes of your own.

3. Refined grains
Grains that have been processed generally have a higher glycemic index than whole grains, and this leads to inflammation, as we discussed above. However, pesticides are also a concern. Pesticides are heavily sprayed on whole wheat, both when the crop is growing and during the refinement process to produce flour for breads and baked goods. Lastly, the gluten in and of itself is a real hazard for inflammation in the gut.
Even for people that do not have celiac disease, a gluten intolerance can cause all kinds of painful inflammation symptoms and can lead to illness. A healthy alternative: If you must have grains, then always choose gluten-free options and preferably organic if they are available.
A great option is making your own food items with quinoa,
which is gluten-free and full of protein.
It can be used in cooking and baking recipes.

4. Animal fats
You may feel the desire for an occasional cheeseburger, but be aware it will come back to haunt you. A 2006 Australian study found that the flora or gut bacteria of participants actually changed after they had consumed saturated animal fats. Research published in Scientific American explained, “As the balance of species shift, it can trigger an immune response that results in inflammation and tissue damage.” Also of note is the method of cooking.
By grilling your meats over high heat, you can bring about the creation of inflammatory carcinogens in the food. A healthy alternative: If you are a die-hard meat lover, be sure to look for grass-fed beef. And don’t forget about the healthy omega-3s from dishes prepared with wild-caught fish like salmon.

5. Dairy products
More than half of the global population is unable to digest milk. The allergens in milk can cause a number of uncomfortable inflammatory symptoms such as diarrhea, constipation, hives, and skin rashes. Dairy products are not always as obvious as cheese and milk. There can also be dairy content in cookies, cream sauces, breads, and crackers. A healthy alternative: Kefir is a fermented food that contains a multitude of beneficial flora for your gut. Other dairy alternatives that you might want to try are almond milk and coconut milk. To protect your health, prevent disease, and feel your best, it is important to watch your diet and eat wholesome, nutritious food. Avoid anything pre-packaged, as well as any foods with added sugars, preservatives, or food coloring.
Dairy should be one of the foods to eliminate from your diet if you suffer from
hemorrhoids and rheumatoid arthritis. Perhaps it does seem like a rather unlikely culprit.
But the truth is that dairy products represent not only a potential allergy-forming ingredient, but also can be particularly harmful to the intestines, due to its’ acid-forming capabilities. Arguably the worst offender among the variety of dairy products is that of ice cream, in-part due to the milk element, but also because of the amount of additives that are very frequently used in its’ make-up. carrageenan is capable of causing inflammation. This is the bad news. We know that chronic inflammation is a root cause of many serious diseases including heart disease, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, and cancer.

6. Cooking Oils
Canola oil can be heated to a variety of temperatures, and it has a neutral taste. This makes it a favorite cooking oil for many. Canola oil is widely considered to be a healthy oil as it’s low in saturated fat and high in monounsaturated fat. With a smoke point between 212 F and 300 F, olive oil is best used for sautéing over medium heat or baking. On the other hand, canola oil has a relatively high smoke point of more than 375 F.
Because of this, it wins the canola oil vs. olive oil battle when it comes to grilling, frying or other high-heat cooking. Corn, cottonseed, and soybean oil are three other popular cooking oils. However, all three are grown from GMO plants in the U.S. (25) While these oils have a high smoke point, they are also very high in pro-inflammatory omega-6 fatty acids. Some people will tell you Coconut Oil or Avocado oil are the best two cooking oils.

7. Ex-ci’-to-tox-in
A substance added to foods and beverages that literally stimulates neurons to death, causing brain damage of varying degrees. Can be found in such ingredients as monosodium glutamate
, aspartame (NutraSweet ®), cysteine, hydrolyzed protein, and aspartic acid. Citing over five hundred scientific studies. Excitotoxins explores the dangers of aspartame, MSG, and other substances added to our food. This is an electrifying and important book that should be available to every American consumer. This video was a lecture given about: The hidden dangers of excitotoxins hidden in your food by neurosurgeon, Dr. Russell Blaylock as given at Modern Manna’s Health and Healing Crusade.

Research also shows that inflammation plays a role in obesity, heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Signs of chronic or acute inflammation have been demonstrated in most cardiovascular diseases of multifactorial pathogenesis, including atherosclerosis and chronic heart failure, according to studies. Chronic inflammation may be a causative factor in a variety of cancers. Inflammation, which is often described as redness, swelling, warmth, and pain in certain parts of the body, is a natural process through which body heals after an injury. It’s how the immune system protects you from viruses and bacteria.
The problem is when the immune system is overactive, swelling gets out of control and it leads to pain, tiredness and damaged blood vessels. Public health concerns such as arthritis, heart disease, diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), to name a few, all have inflammation in common. It triggers symptoms for other diseases as well. Some foods such as processed meat and refined grains are known to be pro-inflammatory. This is Exactly What Happens to Your Body When You Eat a Ton of Sugar

Click here to see the 20 best foods that reduce inflammation

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When inflammation strikes your gut, it can be very problematic. How does it get started?
Usually by the foods you eat. It is very important to pay attention to what you’re putting into your body. Processed food and refined sugars are far and away the two worst contributors of chronic inflammation. Many processed foods, especially sugary treats like muffins and cakes, contain trans fats which are very damaging to the body. This cannot be emphasized enough: Sugar is deadly!
Processed sugars and starches that are high on the glycemic index promote inflammation throughout the body.
However, these are just two of the many foods that cause damage and inflammation.
They can also cause swelling, redness, and pain.

Time Magazine Declared Inflammation
To Be “The Secret Killer.”

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Inflammation can damage the thyroid gland and, as a result, cause it to become underactive (hypothyroidism) or overactive (hyperthyroidism).
With chronic inflammation being at the root of so many diseases, it’s no wonder a large number of modern treatments center around suppressing the inflammatory process. https://www.bing.com/videos/
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Inflammatory Effects in Your Body with so many safe and effective natural remedies and health recommendations like: 12 specific “superfoods”
to add to your daily diet. These are all easy to find at your local grocery store, economical, and in small amounts, can help you prevent or manage type 2 diabetes. You’ve probably heard of superfoods that work to promote good health, but you may not be aware of what they are. There are numerous everyday food items that offer great health benefits that are affordable and you can easily incorporate them into your daily diet. Read More

If you want to start nourishing your body and improving your health, you’ll want to include the following superfoods into your everyday diet.
If you’re already eating these superfoods on the regular, then great—you’re well on your way to good health. If you aren’t, then at least you’re aware of which foods can work to improve your health.   https://www.belmarrahealth.
com/16-superfoods-healthy-heart/
One “sneaky” but toxic ingredient added to every day foods. Manufacturers refer to it by fifty-six different names, and even add it to products they label as “healthy.” Check out our long list of “watch-out” foods.   https://www.thecandidadiet.
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Six “healthy” foods that actually trigger inflammation.
When combined with stress, they can cause certain digestive disorders. But no need to stop consuming them. We’ll show you a dietary “trick” that makes them 100% healthy!

Six tried-and-true anti-inflammatory herbs and spices to fight fibromyalgia… a disease with strong ties to inflammation. We’ll show you how easy it is to add these foods to any meal and help you stop fibromyalgia at its source. How to reduce exposure to dozens of inflammation-causing toxins in and around your home. We’ll tell you where to look for them and what you must do to stop them from growing deadly tumors inside your body.

A simple technique to reduce stress and lower blood pressure.
It takes only seconds each day, and you can even add it to any of your favorite daily exercise routines to boost your body’s ability to fight inflammation. Now, you can access and use every one of these proven and totally safe solutions—and many, many more—to start getting healthier, even as you age. But it’s not all bad news. Because I want to assure you, other research shows it’s possible to…

Prevent—Even Reverse—Most Major Diseases by “Turning Off” Inflammation!
That’s why it’s more important than ever to know whether you’ve got chronic inflammation raging inside your body. So you can find ways to fight it before destroys your health.
In fact, if you’re at all concerned you may be at risk for developing any number of serious health conditions — or even if you have already received a confirmed diagnosis from your doctor — you can reduce your risk or rid yourself of disease completely by taking some simple steps to control the damaging effects of chronic inflammation.

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The links below demonstrate how diet affects Autism (especially in children.)

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Stem Cell Breakthrough

Posted on February 9, 2020 by Ken

Should Trump release this stem cell breakthrough that Big Pharma wants covered up?

“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. One person can make a difference, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
~ Steve Jobs ~
SUNRISE ( CBSMiami ) The clinic, U.S. Stem Cell, has also faced scrutiny after several patients say they were blinded or suffered significant vision loss following treatments at the facility.Jeannine Mallard is one of those patients. She recently spoke to CBS4 News and said she flew from her home in France to South Florida in 2015 to get treatments for macular degeneration. Clinical trials can be inherently risky. “I could not wait doing nothing and
I expected this to improve,” she said.
Mallard says she came to the Hollywood Eye Institute clinic in Cooper City to be treated by Kristin Comella and Dr. Shareen Greenbaum. Mallard paid several thousand dollars to participate in a clinical trial run by a company called Bioheart, the precursor to US Stem Cell. “They said it was sure,” Mallard said. “They said the worst that could happen is there would be no effect so I could not imagine what would happen next.”
What happened next, according to Mallard and her attorney Andrew Yaffa, is a cautionary tale. Immediately after the procedure Mallard began to experience inflammation and pain. According to the Mallard and Yaffa, the procedure involved taking Mallard’s stem cells from her fat tissue, treating the stem cells and injecting them directly into her right eyeball and behind her left eyeball. Mallard said Greenbaum reassured her about the pain she was having. “She said it’s just inflammation, to not last,” Mallard said. “It’s normal.”
It wasn’t normal. Mallard is now blind in her right eye and she suffered significant vision loss in her left eye. Her right eye is noticeably shrinking. “It’s becoming smaller,” Mallard said. “So small it’s dead right now.” CBS 4 News tried to reach Dr. Greenbaum through calls to her office, emails and a visit to her office. She did not respond to our requests. And Mallard is not alone. Attorney Yaffa sued on behalf of two other women who underwent similar procedures
at US Stem Cell.
Court records and a report in the New England Journal of Medicine show that those other patients and a fourth woman experienced similar significant vision problems. Court documents show that in those cases the parties settled the claims. Yaffa alleges in his lawsuit and in an interview with CBS4 News that US Stem Cell preyed on Mallard who feared losing her vision to macular degeneration. “This is human experimentation and they are exploiting patients that are so desperate and vulnerable that they are looking for any hope at all,” Yaffa said.
The Food and Drug Administration is taking action. Last month, the FDA filed a lawsuit to have US Stem Cell stop marketing stem cell therapies that do not have FDA approval. The lawsuit says, “An injunction is necessary to prevent Defendants from experimenting on patients with adulterated and misbranded drugs.” The agency sent Kristin Comella at US Stem Cell a warning letter last year, saying the procedures the clinic is doing need to be regulated
by the FDA like a drug.
The FDA says in this warning that unproven stem cell therapies need to be regulated because if cells are manipulated by a significant amount after their removed, there is a risk of contamination of the cells. But in a series of online videos and speeches, Kristin Comella,
the Chief Science Officer at U.S. Stem Cell, makes it clear she disagrees with the FDA. “We have helped thousands of patients harness their own healing potential and it would be a mistake to limit these therapies for patients who desperately need them,” Comella said.
Comella, who is not licensed medical professional according to the state of Florida and whose background, according to her online biography is in chemical engineering and regenerative medicine with advanced degrees in chemical engineering and stem cell biology, pitched stem cell therapies as a wonder cure, treating everything from serious brain and spinal cord injuries to hair loss. She touts numerous success stories.
“We’ve had patients who were wheelchair bound come out of their chairs,” she said in an online video. “We’ve had patients who were unable to speak able now speaking full sentences telling us about the day they were injured.” But in her speeches there was little discussion of patients like Jeannine Mallard who suffered serious eye damage. We requested an on camera interview with Comella through her public relations firm but we were denied. So, we tracked Comella down in Weston to ask her about the allegations. She said she believes the government should not interfere in a patient’s right to utilize their stem cells.

{ My Cells My Choice }
“It is our goal to protect the rights of patients to use their own stem cells that exist inside their body to promote healing,” Comella said. We asked her specifically about Jeannine Mallard, and others, who suffered vision loss through macular degeneration. “These poor women cannot see,” a reporter said. “They have significant vision loss and they trusted the clinic to do the work for them. Nothing to say to that?”
Comella did not respond and did not want to comment on the Mallard case, citing an ongoing lawsuit filed by Mallard’s attorney. In fact, Comella didn’t want to talk about much — including the FDA lawsuit and the work at U.S. Stem Cell. “So, you don’t want to answer these questions about the clinic and the work that’s being done there and whether it’s safe?” a reporter asked. Comella responded, “I’m gonna ask you to meet with our PR people and continue to reach out to them for additional comments. I’m gonna ask you to turn the cameras off.”
In a statement sent to CBS4 News from the PR company, Comella said, “My entire career has been dedicated to studying and developing treatments utilizing the body’s own natural ability to heal, and I am devoted to helping others achieve optimal health through therapeutic procedures. It is my life’s work to pioneer regenerative medicine and educate the public about its healing potential. I remain steadfast that no government agency should deprive individuals of their right to harness the cells that exist in their body.” The company also sent us a link to a page on the U.S. Stem Cell website directly responding to the FDA lawsuit.
You can find that by clicking here.
Dr. Thomas Albini, Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami, treated Mallard and co-authored the New England Journal of Medicine paper on three other patients from US Stem Cell that sustained permanent eye damage from the stem cell procedure. He believes much more study needs to be done before performing
these treatments on people.
“I think it’s really wrong to offer these types of therapies to people when they’re very dangerous and people aren’t aware of the risks involved,” Albini said. “It’s not that there’s something wrong with stem cells or stem cells and eye disease. Stem cells may very well wind up being the cure for a lot of eye diseases. It was the way in which it was studied and the amount of clinical study that went into doing it before it was offered to patients.”
Albini also offered several important pieces of advice for people who might be looking at
stem cell therapies for treatment.
One, if you enroll in a clinical trial you almost never have to pay for it. Patient funded research is seen as a conflict of interest in the medical field, and two, you should ask if the doctor treating you and recommending stem cell therapy has the appropriate medical background to treat the disease or condition you have. “I think its paramount to require clinicians who are going to be doing these types of therapies to have conducted research ahead of time,”
Albini said.
According to the FDA, they have the authority to regulate stem cell products in the U.S. and in most cases, the agency works to “determine the safety and effectiveness of products in well-controlled human studies.” Currently, the FDA says that the only stem cell products that they’ve approved for use in the U.S. are derived from cord blood. The FDA suggests you ask your health care provider if the FDA has approved the stem cell treatment they are recommending for you before agreeing to it.
Jeannine Mallard says she learned of the US Stem Cell clinic through a clinical trial posted on the National Institutes of Health website. Mallard believed that gave the trial legitimacy. There is a disclaimer on the site that the trials listed have not been vetted by the government but Mallard still believes it’s wrong for it to be posted on a government website.
“What makes me really angry is to find this on the National Institutes of Health,” she said. “How can this be listed on such official site, website? I still don’t understand that.” Mallard says her life is vastly different now. She can’t read and relies on friends and family for nearly everything. She recalls often the past two years of doctors in France trying to repair her eye and being unable to. “They did their best but now they could not save it,” she said.

Since the late 1990s, adult stem cells used therapeutically
were not under the control of the FDA and the adult stem cell movement took off. There were complaints from some MDs that the adult stem cell practice should be regulated by the FDA.
The Panama College of Cell Science responded to those outcries with this statement:
The motive in opposing adult stem cell therapy is money. The big institutions want to keep federal funding of embryonic stem cell research at a high level with the promise that cures are “just around the corner” despite the fact that embryonic stem cells will never be useful in any way for patient treatment because they immediately cause tumors when transplanted. (Source)

Dr. Kristin Comella: Stem Cells — An Idea Whose Time has Come!
Adult stem cell therapy is an autologous treatment method. The stem cells are not lab-created. They are only isolated and purified after extracting them from the patient being treated. Injecting them back into that patient powers up the body’s own healing mechanism to overcome chronic ailments. The FDA didn’t and shouldn’t have anything to do with regulating stem cells from one’s own body. That situation has recently been arbitrarily and
suddenly changed.
Around 2014, the FDA started tweaking their guidance rules for stem cell therapy with the purpose of getting new rules made into laws through Congress that could be interpreted according to FDA whims and enforced arbitrarily. Their agenda is to consider adult stem cells as FDA-regulated drugs. During our phone conversation, Dr. Comella explained how the FDA ignored testimonies from adult stem cell practitioners during their 2015 public hearings regarding new guideline proposals.
Then they arranged to create new rules behind closed door meetings that included pharmaceutical industry allies and insiders. The result was that by 2017, the FDA’s hands-off policy with adult stem cell therapy came to a sudden halt after years of highly successful stem cell practice. By 2018, the FDA got nastier with the “the most influential clinician on the subject of adult stem cell therapy” as its target. The FDA started doing inspections of Dr. Comella’s South Florida clinic that are designed for labs that manufacture drugs.
The standards for hospitals and clinics are not as strict as drug manufacturers. Those inspections were inappropriate for a clinic. But those inspections made it easier to create damaging reports. When the inspectors came by, they demanded to go into rooms while treatments were taking place with semi-nude or nude patients, which Dr. Comella prohibited. The inspectors also demanded to view patient medical records. She allowed that after redacting their names on the copies she gave them.
For her actions to protect patients’ privacy, inspectors allegedly cited Dr. Comella for resisting and obstructing FDA inspections. Soon after the inspections, the FDA served Dr. Comella with a lawsuit for practicing medicine with unapproved drugs. The “drugs” were only those stem cell solutions drawn from patients to be used on them. The FDA has allegedly offered to drop the lawsuit if Dr. Comella signed an agreement to stop doing adult stem cell therapy and
no longer promote it.
She refused. She said she has witnessed people leave their wheelchairs for good from this therapy. If Dr. Comella loses this court case, adult stem cell therapy in the USA may be forced out of the country and only be available to those who can afford medical tourism.
In This short 3-minute video was produced interviewing Dr. Comella and some of her patients.

Examining and Comparing the Different Types of Stem Cell Therapy.
Human embryonic stem cell (hESC) therapy has received most of the media’s attention and government support. But it is the most controversial because it involves extracting tissues from terminated human embryos, aka aborted fetuses. In addition to moral and ethical issues, human embryonic stem cell (hESC) solutions create cells so rapidly where they’re injected they lead to cancerous tumors. To avoid that, researchers have to use immuno-suppressant drugs to curb the embryonic stem cells’ tendency toward cancer.

Using pharmaceutical drugs to curb hESC cancer side effect issues leads to other unexplored and unexpected side effects from those patented stem cell solutions. But the profit motive for embryonic stem cell therapies was strong and a lot of government funds had been put into its research. Pharmaceutical companies were motivated because they could patent stem cells created from embryonic tissues.

Bone marrow stem cell therapy was among the first to depart from flawed hESC (human embryonic stem cell) therapies developed over the past two decades. Bone marrow stem cell therapy was the segue into the adult stem cell therapy movement. Bone marrow extractions
are painful, requiring general anesthesia. It’s relatively difficult and expensive compared to adipose (fat) tissue stem cell harvesting. Bone marrow’s high white blood cell count also encourages inflammation, making it counter-productive for patients already suffering from chronic inflammation or autoimmune disorders.

Most importantly, adipose (fat) tissue yields up to 500 times more mesenchymal stem cells than bone marrow sources, according to Dr. Comella. These are potent stem cells that can differentiate into a wide variety of other cell types. Furthermore, the adipose white blood cell count is lower than bone marrow matter. Overactive, confused immune responses attack organs continually and create chronic inflammation and autoimmune diseases. The lower white blood cell count automatically lowers the risk of further inflammation among patients already suffering from chronic inflammation and autoimmune diseases.

The outpatient treatment involves creating a very small and shallow incision that won’t require stitches on an area of skin covering adipose tissue (fat). From there, liposuction can withdraw a portion of the fat. This part of the procedure requires only a local anesthetic. Then what is extracted is spun at high speed in a special centrifuge to isolate the stem cells which are then purified for IV drip delivery or injection into the same patient from whom it was extracted. Total costs range from five to ten thousand dollars or more in some cases.

Dr. Comella and her colleagues’ mission is to get adult stem cell therapy available for everyone. Private and government health insurance providers cover medical treatments that are much more expensive. Why not cover one that would save money with its lower expense and fewer side effects?

Over the years, there have been nearly 12,000 adult stem cell therapies performed in the United States with an over 90 percent success healing rate for mostly joint and spinal conditions as well as heart and lung issues. But the three known adverse side effect cases continually get all the media attention. The Panama College of Cell Science, which helped launch Kristin Comella’s research and development, had this to say about her:

Perhaps the most influential clinician on the subject of adult stem cell therapy, Dr. Comella has been able to quietly develop patient treatment protocols and treat patients via collaborating physicians and health care providers using legal patient-specific FDA guidelines, including studies permitted by Institutional Review Boards, patient-specific stem cell clinical trials, and direct treatments using the patients own stem cells that are harvested and re-injected for therapeutic purposes.
Through Dr. Comella’s leadership, she and her team have trained and certified more than 700 physicians worldwide in adult stem cell therapy. Lori Gregory and Dr. Kristin Comella, world-renowned expert on regenerative medicine using a patient’s own stem cells join to talk about the federal government’s unprecedented attempt to regulate our bodies. This new treatment holds amazing potential, which is why government & industry want to control your body, your healthcare, your informed choice and your liberty.

The interviews below allows the energetic Dr. Kristin Comella to give a thorough and upbeat description of adult stem cell therapy. https://stemcells.nih.gov/info/Regenerative_Medicine.htm

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America in an Orwellian State of Mind

Posted on February 7, 2020 by Ken

Historians define the Founding Fathers of USA in many ways.

Some say that the men who attended the First Continental Congress and the Second Continental Congress were all Founding Fathers. This is believed by most people. Some historians limit the Founding Fathers to 55 people who participated in the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Others further limit them to the 39 people who signed the famous embossed copy of the U.S. Constitution.
So there is no clear 100%definition of the Founding Fathers.

Role of Founding Fathers During the American Revolution
During the American Revolution which began in 1765, Founding Fathers led the Thirteen Colonies. After Britain imposed a lot of taxes and angered the colonies, they decided to unite together and launched protests against the taxes.
In 1774, the Founding Fathers who represented the Thirteen Colonies came together at the First Continental Congress. Famous figures at this Congress included George Washington, John Adams, Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry.
The Congress decided to appeal to the British crown to repeal the taxes and give colonies their rights. The Founding Fathers at this congress also decided that they would boycott Britain if their demands were not met.
By 1775, Britain had refused to heed to their demands and imposed further taxes. This led to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War the same year. The Founding Fathers once again met in 1775 at the Second Continental Congress. This is where they took important steps towards American Independence.

Founding Fathers and American Independence
At the Second Continental Congress in 1775, the Founding Fathers adopted the Declaration of Independence. This declaration stated that the Thirteen Colonies were now free from British rule and considered themselves as independent. The declaration also said that all men are created equal and must have access to the rights of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
The Founding Fathers became the national government of the united Thirteen Colonies. At the time, the Revolutionary War was still going on. The Founding Fathers made important decisions such as developing a war strategy, appointing generals, raising armies and establishing ties with other nations such as France. Famous new figures at this Congress included Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris, John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson and John Witherspoon. All of them were later regarded as among the Founding Fathers.

Role of Founding Fathers After the American Revolution
By 1783, the American armies under the supreme command of George Washington had defeated Britain. The Revolutionary War culminated in the Treaty of Paris signed in 1783. The treaty was negotiated by three notable Founding Fathers including Benjamin Franklin, John Jay and John Adams. Britain accepted American independence in this treaty. Once the Thirteen Colonies were free from British rule, the Founding Fathers played a very important role in creating the constitution and determining the political direction of the country.

Founding Fathers and American Constitution
In 1777, the Second Continental Congress approved Articles of Confederation. This was the first constitution of the American colonies, drafted by the Founding Fathers. All the 13 states ratified the articles by 1781 and it became the constitution of the union of the 13 independent states. Later when the Revolutionary War was over, the Founding Fathers realized that a new and more detailed constitution was needed. So the Constitutional Convention took place in 1787. At this Convention, the Founding Fathers discussed important matters such as the status of slavery in the newly born USA, the representation of the states at the Congress, and the extent to which the federal government should have power over the states. They debated and discussed these issues. Once agreements were reached, they were made a part of the constitution. This came to define the nature and structure of the USA government.
Famous Founding Fathers
A large number of Founding Fathers were members of the First Continental Congress and the Second Continental Congress. Of these, some of the most famous were George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and Roger Sherman.
Here are brief biographies of each.
George Washington fought for the British, serving as a commander in the French and Indian War. A prosperous Virginia farmer who owned hundreds of slaves, he came to resent the various taxes and restrictions being imposed on the colonies by the British crown. Once the Revolutionary War broke out in 1775, he was placed in charge of the Continental Army and quickly suffered a near-disastrous defeat at the Battle of Brooklyn. More defeats followed—all in all, Washington lost more battles than he won. Nonetheless, he kept his ragtag troops together even through a freezing winter at Valley Forge and, with the help of his French allies, was able to expel the British by 1783.
Benjamin Franklin was a skilled author, printer, scientist, inventor and diplomat despite a formal education that ended at age 10. When not designing bifocals, harnessing electricity, playing music or publishing Poor Richard’s Almanack, he worked constantly on civic projects to improve his adopted city of Philadelphia. In the beginning stages of the American Revolution, Franklin was appointed to the five-member committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence. He then traveled to France, where he secured French assistance for the war effort and helped negotiate the 1783 Treaty of Paris, the official end to the conflict.
Thomas Jefferson was a Virginia lawyer and politician who came to believe the British Parliament held no authority over the 13 colonies. In 1776, he was given the immense task of writing the Declaration of Independence, in which he famously declared that “all men are created equal” and “that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights,” such as “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” (A lifelong slaveholder, he did not extend these concepts to African-Americans.) As secretary of state under Washington, Jefferson clashed constantly with Hamilton over foreign policy and the role of government. He later served as vice president to John Adams prior to becoming president, himself, in 1801.
Alexander Hamilton emigrated as a teenager from the British West Indies to New York. Rising to prominence as an aide-de-camp to Washington during the Revolutionary War, he became an impassioned supporter of a strong central government. After attending the Constitutional Convention in 1787, he wrote the majority of the highly persuasive Federalist Papers, which argued for the Constitution’s ratification. Washington then tapped him to serve as the first U.S. treasury secretary, a position he used to push for the creation of a national bank. Later immortalized on the $10 bill, Hamilton was killed in an 1804 duel with his bitter rival
Aaron Burr, the sitting vice president.
John Adams became a relatively early proponent of the revolutionary cause. Just like Franklin, he served on the committee that wrote the Declaration of Independence, journeyed overseas to secure French military aid and helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris. He chaired other key committees as well and even found time to draft the Massachusetts Constitution (which is still in use). After about 10 years of diplomatic service abroad, Adams returned home in 1788 and subsequently became vice president under Washington. Following Washington’s two terms, he was then elected president, serving from 1797 to 1801. In a striking coincidence, Adams and his friend-turned-rival-turned-
friend Thomas Jefferson both died on the same day, July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary
of the Declaration of Independence.
Samuel Adams was a political firebrand who drummed up immense opposition to British policies in Boston, a hotbed of the resistance. Believing that the colonists were subject to “taxation without representation,” he joined the Sons of Liberty, an underground dissident group that at times resorted to tarring and feathering British loyalists. Adams likely planned the 1773 Boston Tea Party, and in 1775 his attempted arrest helped spark the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first skirmish of the Revolutionary War. Unlike many of the Founders, Adams was staunchly anti-slavery. He signed the Declaration of Independence and went on to serve as governor of Massachusetts.
John Jay nonetheless played a pivotal role in the creation of the United States. A lawyer, he originally preferred reconciling with Britain rather than fighting for independence. Once war broke out, however, he wholeheartedly joined the side of the colonists, serving, among other roles, as a diplomat to Spain and linking up with Franklin and Adams to negotiate
the Treaty of Paris.
James Madison likewise grew up on a Virginia plantation and served in the state legislature. At the 1787 Constitutional Convention, he proved to be perhaps the most influential delegate, developing a plan to divide the federal government into three branches—legislative, executive and judicial—each with checks on its power. This plan, which was largely adopted, earned him the moniker “Father of the Constitution.”

Thomas Paine
was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and Famous writer
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Robert R. Livingston ‘Chancellor of New York’ was a member of the ‘The Committee of Five’ who wrote the famous Declaration of Independence in 1776…
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Roger Sherman was one of the ‘Famous Five’ Founding Fathers of America, Roger Sherman helped finalize the first draft of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
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Additional Founders
Many other figures have also been cited as Founding Fathers (or Mothers). These include John Hancock, best known for his flashy signature on the Declaration of Independence; Gouverneur Morris, who wrote much of the Constitution; Thomas Paine, the British-born author of Common Sense; Paul Revere, a Boston silversmith whose “midnight ride” warned of approaching redcoats; George Mason, who helped craft the Constitution but ultimately refused to sign it; Charles Carroll, the lone Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence; Patrick Henry, who famously declared “Give me liberty, or give me death!”; John Marshall, a Revolutionary War veteran and longtime chief justice of the Supreme Court; and Abigail Adams, who implored her husband, John, to “remember the ladies” while shaping the new country.
https://american-history.net/founding-fathers/

An Orwellian society, as describe by George Orwell, is the destruction of the welfare of a free society. In which there is an invasion of privacy by constantly monitoring its citizens. Moreover, it is the encouragement of “doublespeak” which refers to misleading the masses to accept inconsistent policies. A great example of this is seen when the American people gave up their civil liberties and freedom in the name of national security. On December 31, 2011, while many Americans celebrated bringing in the New Year, President Obama was busy signing into law the $662 billion funded National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which focuses on the defense of the United States and its overseas interests.

Although the NDAA addresses US national security programs and the Department of Defense health care costs, it becomes controversial when addressing counter-terrorism. Title X, Subtitle D, Section 1021 of the NDAA, which is labeled counter-terrorism, authorizes the military to detain US citizens indefinitely without trial if the government suspects their involvement with terrorism or connection to a terrorist organization. To date, there has been no law in the legislative history of the United States other than the Patriot Act which has given the President such unlimited power.

As a result of this provision the act has been seen as both a violation of international law and the laws of war. In defense of the Act, the President has assured that his Administration will not engage in any sort of unjust citizen detention. At the signing of NDAA the President stated,
“I want to clarify that my Administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens.” He further went on to state, “My Administration will interpret section 1021 in a manner that ensures that any detention it authorizes complies with the Constitution, the laws of war, and all other applicable law.” However, such statements do not prevent future Heads of State from acting in a different manner, and may result in America in fact being one step closer to becoming an Orwellian society, whereby a totalitarian government will dominate and oppress our civil liberties by fighting an endless war on terror.

The NDAA also gives the military the power to exercise firm and repressive control over the population, which in turn gives the military the power to operate outside the boundaries of our Constitution by constantly monitoring citizens’ activities to seek out persons of suspicion. Similarly, during the Bush Administration’s war on terror, the issue of detaining suspected terrorist for an indefinite period of time was brought before the US Supreme Court. The Court held that no government has the power or the legal premise to hold a person for an indefinite period of time. It becomes apparent that the signing of the NDAA goes against the very philosophy of our Founding Fathers who purposely created a system of checks and balances to ensure that no one governmental branch supersedes the other.

With the NDAA authorizing the President and military to exercise an unprecedented amount of power unopposed, that system is rendered ineffective. Realizing that such legislation is unjust, the Virginia Senate has taken the opportunity to stand up against the unreasonable application of government authority by passing a bill that prevents state agency from participating or assisting in the detention of US citizens.

Ultimately, although the NDAA was designed with national security in mind, it may be a grave mistake to allow the executive branch of the government to have such an unprecedented amount of power and authority. If such legislation remains, one can only imagine the abuse of power of future leaders who would allow America to closely mimic countries that use policies and mass surveillance to control their citizens. Thus, if this Act is left unchallenged we can only expect the slow destruction of our welfare, and the systematic eradication of our
basic freedom and civil liberties, inevitably.

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Rediscover Health and Happiness

Posted on February 6, 2020 by Ken

How Can You Be Yourself, If You Don’t Know Yourself. 🙂

I took a 9 month sabbatical. Here’s how I did it â€” and 4 reasons –
I recommend it to everyone. Sarah Blinco is a communications and digital media consultant specializing in travel, wellbeing, and healthcare content for SMBs and start-ups. She publishes a popular lifestyle blog, travellivelearn.com; you can find her on Instagram and Twitter.
Sarah and her husband Cooper decided they wanted to rediscover their own health and happiness – now, six months into her nine month sabbatical from work, they’ve never been happier. To make it work, they saved up about Â£5,000 each, freelance while traveling, and house-sit around the world. My partner Cooper and I are Aussie expats living in England.
Our time in London has been amazing. But big city opportunities come with big pressures.
I don’t remember jumping on the hamster wheel, but sure knew when we were caught on it! We’d lost sight of our goals, and the situation was taking a toll on our wellbeing.
Mental health is something we’re talking more about these days, and for good reason. According to the World Health Organization, depression and anxiety alone cost the global economy $1 trillion in lost productivity every year. With one in four in the U.K. experiencing
a mental illness in any one year, it’s getting tougher for employers to retain talent, and is obviously a struggle for us as a workforce.
We wanted to rediscover our own health and happiness, and decided on a change.
My employer offers (unpaid) sabbatical leave for anyone with who’s been there three years.
I applied, citing the desire to travel and developing my personal and professional skillset
as key reasons for the time off. We put a realistic time frame on the plan, which gave us nine months to tie-up commitments and save money (about Â£5,000 each) we set off in August 2019.
Research published by Lonely Planet found that 92% of us see travel as an opportunity to make a positive change. We agree that it’s possible. After six months on the road, here are four great reasons that might inspire you to pursue a similar path.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9_p-evpiGc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flIa2MsxzHA

Travel changes your perspective!!!
The first months of our time away included visits to Ireland, Spain, Malta, and France. As time passed, we shook off negative feelings from the past year and focused on the “now.” We ended up on all sorts of foreign adventures: a clifftop paella cooking class in Spain, sunrise yoga on a secret beach in Ibiza, and lining up with locals to collect freshly baked bread each morning
in a tiny French village. (Where My Ancestry Originated 4 Generations Ago.) Note: kg-me 😉
These happenings are blessings, daily reminders that there is life outside of what we’re told we “should” be doing. Through the experience of language, culture, and a shaken-up routine, what was previously stressful had simply become stuff that happened.
All part of “life’s rich tapestry,” as my father would say.

Fascinating new friends will inspire you
Our dream was to travel more and slower. Saving money alone wouldn’t cover us,
which is when we turned to house-sitting.
To succeed on a competitive house-sitting site, you need experience and reviews (it works like Airbnb). I developed a strategy and an effective application process, and successfully filled our blocks of travel time. We’ve subsequently been asked by colleagues and friends for advice on how to make this lifestyle a reality and have created guides to help others .

So far, we’ve cared for over 20 dogs, two horses, and a cat a dream for animal lovers. Benefits we had not anticipated included discovering places we would never have otherwise known about (like beautiful Balbriggan by the sea an hour outside of Dublin, or small villages like Duras in France), and meeting an array of people who have renewed our faith in humanity.
We’ve received so much kindness and hospitality. Then, there’s the stories: Fellow travelers who share relics, memories, and lessons on whiskey! Our English and Canadian expat friends, who pass on their passion for what it means to “be French.” In Malta we stayed with an ex-British Airways flight captain and his wife, an international squash champion, plus their nine dogs! This pair have created a Facebook community, “Adopt a Sicilian Stray,” through which they’ve re-homed hundreds of rescue dogs from terrible circumstances.

To walk in local shoes on their home turf is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,
and one that has inspired us to look at our lives differently.

You are forced to adopt and adapt to new routines
At first, we attempted to fill our digital nomad calendars (we’re freelancing as multimedia content producers while we travel) in the same way as a “normal” 9-5 workday.
However, between pet care requirements and short winter days with fewer hours of light, this didn’t work. We’ve learned to schedule tasks or deadlines around travel between house sits, and realized that we can design our day according to our needs.

To me, this is an important lesson. Cond Nast Traveller reported in 2019 that, by 2020,
roughly 50% of the UK and USA’s workforce would be freelance. It’s a staggering figure, but it represents larger societal changes that are prompting more people to adopt
a fresh approach to life and work.

Your values become clear, and so does your path If you’re unhappy with your situation, stepping away can be the best way to clear your head and gain perspective. And it is possible to achieve. Over the past six months we’ve enjoyed the freedom to exist in new places, get curious and motivated, and clear out brain clutter. It’s not come without challenges though we’re still asking, “What’s next?”

Pre-sabbatical, that question was tainted with anxiety and fear.
This year, it’s full of opportunity. We’ll make our decisions based on what we value, and now we can see those things more clearly.

In any case, the benefits of pausing to take a travel sabbatical completely outweigh the risks
we all worry about. Cooper and I always wanted to travel beyond a week here or there, but were stopped by the usual fears. What if the work world changed while we’re gone, or we ran out of money? But now we’re making it happen and we’ve never been happier.
Even though the trend of solo travelling is becoming more popular, it is agreeable that venturing alone without a companion is daunting. Luckily, there are clever tricks anyone yearning to be a lone traveller can make use of to feel more comfortable along the way. I believe everyone can benefit from trying on the ‘lone traveller’ hat at some point in life.

Many swear that travelling solo can be likened to experiencing religious enlightenment!
Not only are you able to fully rely on your own judgements and ideas, but as a lone traveler, you can do whatever you please all throughout your journey. A pretty liberating thought! Of course, with all the freedoms of being a lone traveler, come the drawbacks. Some of these, concern safety and overall wellbeing.
To make things easier, following are my practical tips which will empower you to book your solo trip. You might also enjoy our feature in Get it Magazine on how to choose your own solo adventure, including interviews with two of our fave bloggers. Read it here

Plan Ahead!!!
The very first tip after you have decided to venture out solo, is to remember to take some time and extra effort to plan the whole trip as thoroughly as possible.
Spontaneous travel is great, but when a co-pilot is not there to help you out, you will want to have a plan to fall back on.

Make a list of all the must-have items you cannot travel without. But remember, you’ll need to pack light. Heavy bags and luggage will slow you down, and it may be uncomfortable to carry extra through a crowded airport or bus station.

Next, double check the bookings, such as the taxi, the means of transportation and accommodation.

Something I was taught is to try and memorise maps as accurately as possible. It’s helpful so you don’t have to be reading a map in public (potentially looking lost), or if Google Maps fails, as sometimes it does.

Plan, book, and get ready for the time of your life. You inevitably make friends, whether you’re heading off on long term travel, a wellbeing retreat or city tours.
Do not be afraid of solo dining

Many people are anxious to dine alone. It’s common to feel like sitting solo in a restaurant makes you seem desperate or ‘sad’. But, it’s not uncommon to witness people sitting by themselves, enjoying a coffee or a meal and reading a book.

So, let go of the irrational fear and embrace solo dining! If it is too uncomfortable to go to a fancy dinner, consider a smaller coffee place or coworking cafe and opt for a counter seat or a seat at the bar.

To keep yourself occupied, take some reading materials with you or maybe a laptop to do some research about the local must-see things.
You might also enjoy…

All in all, travelling alone can be a truly empowering and a unique experience.
At the end of your trip, you will certainly feel like a changed person full of new experiences and interesting stories. https://histopten.blogspot.
com/2013/03/my-top-ten-paradise-songs.html

^ Courtesy of Sarah Blinco. ^

There is always two sides to every story.

Insights for this week… We can either focus on what is working for us or what is not.
Perhaps we could beat ourselves up for ‘breaking the rules’ and not getting it 100% perfect every day or move forward knowing that right now I’m doing more than I did last month to be healthy, I’m drinking more water, I’m eating more protein and veggies, I have reduced my crazy snacking at night by 90%, gaining more energy getting more done in a day, both in business and in your personal life. If your old ‘normal’ is now considered ‘going off track’ then it means you have already transitioned into healthier habits. Take a Load Off of your mind and acknowledge how far you have come!

I believe a strong foundation made through faith gives us all the strength to with stand any storm… When you make your mind up it’s amazing how everything fits into place.
The universal rule confirmed again s/he who has certainty wins over uncertainty in all areas of life. With all the self help guru’s out there and the positive vibes “do find what you love and love what you do and you will never work a day in your life”,… Self-doubt can weigh you down.
As I’m chipping away at my WHY’s I noticed that ‘self-doubt’ was a trigger. Self-doubt is a form of internal conflict where we have internal conflict as discovered in a previous post we tend to look for comfort and if eating is a form of comfort. Then we default straight to what works for us no questions asked no stop before you act it’s the automatic default.
Recognizing what was happening gave me the ability to consciously make a choice on how to balance this out. Deciding to work through it and getting to the root cause what was causing you to feel “self-doubt” and resolve THAT permanently. WILL help implement a new strategy for handling self-doubt while moving forward. #Insight It’s OK to have a bad day because they help you appreciate the good days and provide you the contrast to fine tune how you currently do things supporting longevity through balance.

Burnout can contribute to fatigue and over eating!!!
Burnout is feedback of unfair exchange in one or more areas of life. (Mental, Spiritual, Vocational, Financial, Familial, Physical, Social). We all experience burnout in some form or another with varying degrees. Some people experience burnout in Business and it impacts their health and well being. I ate junk food, wanted more savory and sweet foods, slept less and couldn’t concentrate. I even questioned if I was cut out to be in the business. As I am into helping others transform their lives. What I learnt over the years of transitioning my life is we must balance ourselves in order to serve others is we must first take care of ourselves.
You can stay stuck with excuses or impulses or you can move forward by looking for answers, the choice is yours

Principle: Fear is taught and can be neutralized, Fear can stunt your growth or drive your results. there is no such thing as a fear of the unknown because there must be content in the past to generate a fear of an imagined result in the future. When we are looking at emotions that weigh us down such as guilt and shame from unbalanced perceptions in the past, our mind can exaggerate the “problem” or magnify the self-resentment, shame or guilt we stack upon ourselves. When this happens our subconscious works against our conscious mind.
Getting to the root cause of what you fear may happen if you lose weight is one of the underlying key factors to moving forward. Guilt and Shame can weigh you down. Often we can weigh ourselves down with guilt and shame and not even realize we are doing it.

Examples:
Conscious: When Security and Family are high in your values.
Sub-conscious: When we stay at home and spend more time with the family we gain weight, and when we gain weight we have a tendency to stay home more because family is important to us, When we feel good about ourselves… we go out way more enjoying ourselves and tend to lose weight instead of staying home!

Conscious: When Career or Education is high in your values.
Sub-conscious: we tend to eat and have unhealthy thoughts. The need to get an assignment done or a deadline met, requires more sugary snacks, coffee, what ever it takes to get it done. You think I want to eat healthy but then I’ll look at eating healthy tomorrow

Conscious: Love and connection is of high in your values !!!
Sub-conscious: When we want to fit in with everyone else we have a tendency to eat and drink what is unhealthy. When Fitting in with everyone else is important to you, we eat what others eat, eat when they eat ~ it’s all about socializing and connecting.
This cause unbalance diets and irregularity!!

These emotions come from our deep seated ingrained moral compass and often a challenge
to overcome. 80% of our thinking is done at a sub-conscious level and only 20% at a conscious level. Find out where your moral rules originate because this is where the guilt comes from, you believe you have gone against yourself or someone else according to these rules.  First step is finding where your guilt of shame may lay… It could be religion, partners, parents, children, family, friends…
We are all perfectly imperfect and its okay to be perfectly imperfect to have an expectation on self to live a perfect obedient life and NEVER do anything wrong is setting yourself up to fail.
Fact: Your perceptions are the true causes and your reactions are the true effects of your life, where is the cause of your own effect. Take a load off by balancing your perceptions
(I use the Demartini Method to achieve this). No therapy is complete until cause equals affect.
We Must Live and Learn from Our Experiences!!!

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LESSON ON THE HUMAN SPIRIT

Posted on February 3, 2020 by Ken

Did Irene Ryan really pass away after singing that song about “It’s Time To Start Living?

Since I’m a self-taught blogger though the Will of GOD, I had no proper idea about drawing and things that are involved within it, I even had no idea that there’s something called doodle art, realizing only what a Google Doodle was when someone told me about and its what you see each day when you open your laptop. Then one day I got a message from a Facebook friend telling me “you’re a real doodler. “When I Googled “Doodler” I quickly realized its exactly what I’m doing and thought maybe that friend was just jealous that they don’t create time for what I do with my blog. However, I wouldn’t consider it a waste of time if your learning about self help and the rewards you gain from that. Some of the knowledge I have gain from my time researching cancer. Is that many times an untimely death of a close family member, friend
or sense of lost (over a job and retirement initiated the cancer) will never end.

Unless you change your outlook on the circumstances surrounding you!!!

Back in the late 60’s early 70’s it was so easy to get typed cast for Actors and Actress’ and break the pigeon hole of doing a television series. It was really sad to see Donna Douglas continued to be “Ellie Mae” even after the series ended. She kept the same Ellie Mae pigtails, hairstyle year after year decade after decade. She never seemed to let go of Ellie Mae. What a shame. She was so gorgeous; It was kind of scary. it’s too bad the only thing you’re known for is playing a little country bumpkin who only cared about one thing: critters.
Our Dear Irene Ryan Lived to the age of 70: Oct 17, 1902 – Apr 26, 1973 and did NOT die
during a performance. Nor did she finish her contract. Here’s the true story which I found on Broadwayworld.com, credited to John Rubinstein, who was starring in PIPPIN along with Ben Vereen, Jill Clayburgh, and Irene Ryan: Irene was lonely in New York City.
She missed her life and her friends in Los Angeles where she had lived for many years.
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In New York City the cold winter nights and the show schedule began to undermined her
spirit somewhat. But, being trouper that she was, she never missed a performance, however,
I started to notice she was beginning to look weak, or listless. I sat and watched her big number on stage every night, and I saw that she began to cut down on her moves, and to generally diminish the amazing energy that she would normally put out every time.
On opening night, she was the show stopper and when she was done performing she would stopped the show cold, and I had to stand there for about eight minutes waiting for the applause to die down before I could go on!
One Saturday matinee, she looked particularly drained, and I got worried that she might be sick. I was having dinner with Fosse at my house between shows; so I went to Ben Vereen and asked him to contact Stuart Ostrow (the producer) and have him come to the evening show, and I would ask Bob to do the same. I told Bob that I thought perhaps Irene needed a vacation, even though contractually she didn’t have one coming for some months; it might do her good to go to California for a while, and then finish up her contract when the weather was warmer.
Bob said he’d take a look at her in the next day or two. When I returned to the Imperial for the evening show, the call had just come through from Kennedy airport: Irene was on a plane to Los Angeles. She had had her bags packed before the matinee, and right after the show, with the help of Walter Willison, my friend and standby, she had left for the airport right after the afternoon performance. Her standby, Lucie Lancaster, went on that night, and then continued to play the part until Dorothy Stickney took over some weeks later. A question I have is why would they move her from NYC to Santa Monica?

It seems like her health would deteriorate having to make such a journey in poor health. The only reason I can think for the move is that maybe she wanted to be in familiar surroundings.   A very different recording of Ryan singing… No Time at All    Irene, upon landing in LA, was taken right to the hospital, diagnosed with malnutrition!! We all called and sent her cards and love and wishes to get better fast, but she basically wasted away over the next few days. I always I thought her behavior was like that of an old cat, who curls up under the bed and goes to sleep and just doesn’t wake up. Irene knew (either consciously or not) that it was her “time”. She stuck with her job as long as she could, and then, without fanfare, went home to die.
Earlier in the year, her friend and fellow Beverly Hillbillies cast member, Nancy Kulp, had tried to persuade her not to go to New York for the musical. She had been diagnosed with a brain tumor some time previously, but reportedly was never made aware of it.

Several days after she fell ill, Irene Ryan died on April 26, 1973. She was 70.
Please Note: Sharon Marie Tate (January 24, 1943 – August 9, 1969) played Kulp’s loyal secretary Janet Trego on the Beverly Hillbillies was probably a close friend to Irene Ryan
and who herself met a tragic “untimely” death at the hands of The Evil Charlie Manson family.
Pallbearers at Ryan’s California funeral included Hillbillies co-stars Buddy Ebsen and
Max Baer, Jr., along with Beverly Hillbillies creator Paul Henning. The funeral was also attended by Donna Douglas, Harriet E. McGibbon, Louie Nye, and others associated with the series. Her body was interred in a mausoleum crypt at the Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery in Santa Monica, California, beside her sister, Anna Thompson.
According to this YouTube channel, which purports to show Irene Ryan’s death certificate (albeit bifurcated into two different sections), the place of birth (1st part) is given as “Texas,” sadly if true, the second part, which may not be legit, otherwise why make it two different parts or sections, as a “glioblastoma” (a brain tumor), is given as primary cause of death,
with heart attack second. It is dated May 1, 1973 (in the bottom of the second section).

Summary:
Irene Ryan is best remembered for playing the role of ‘Granny’ on the CBS television sitcom “The Beverly Hillbillies,” which ran from 1962 until 1971. Her career spanned six decades and was one of the few entertainers who achieved success in
Vaudeville, radio, film, television, and Broadway. She was born Jessie Irene Noblett in El Paso, Texas. She began her career at the age of 11 after winning $3 for singing
“Pretty Baby” in an amateur contest
at the Valencia Theater in San Francisco.

When she was 20, she married writer-comedian Tim Ryan and they performed in vaudeville as a double act, known in show business as a “Dumb Dora” routine, billed as “Tim and Irene.”
They had their own series of short subjects in the 1930s for Educational Pictures, and later worked in feature films for Monogram Pictures. In 1936, substituting for comedian Jack Benny, they starred in “The Jello Summer Show” on NBC radio’s “Red” Network. In 1942 they divorced and she toured with Bob Hope’s United Services Organization troupe during World War II, making regular appearances on his radio show, and also played Edgar Kennedy’s wife
in two of his series of short films in 1943.
In 1946 she married Harold Knox (divorced in 1961) and continued to work in motion pictures of the late 1940s and early 1950s, generally playing fussy or nervous women. In 1944 she appeared in the film “Hot Rhythm,” in which she sang “Happiest Girl in Town.” In 1947 she appeared in the movie “Heading for Heaven.” In January 1955, Ryan made her first television sitcom appearance on an episode of CBS’s “The Danny Thomas Show.” She appeared with actor Walter Brennan in an episode of his ABC television sitcom, “The Real McCoys” and was cast in three episodes as ‘Cynthia Boyle’ of the 1960 to 1961 CBS television sitcom “Bringing Up Buddy.”
However it was 1962 when Irene was cast in her most famous role, as ‘Daisy “Granny” Bodine’ the matriarch of the Clampett clan, in “The Beverly Hillbillies,” for which she received two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 1963 and 1964. Her other television credits include “Mr. Ed” (1958) and “Petticoat Junction” (1963). After the cancellation of “The Beverly Hillbillies” she was offered a starring role in a proposed television series in which she would have played a character similar to that of ‘Granny’. While interested, she decided to put the project on hold so that she could fulfill her dream of performing on Broadway. I have a video of a television production of “Pippin” with Martha Raye as Berthe; she’s good (and the song is great) but she’s not Irene Ryan.
The attached link is the audio, but not the video, of the song. Irene Ryan’s song from Pippen.
In 1972 she helped create and starred in the role of ‘Berthe’ in the Broadway musical “Pippin,” in which she sang the number “No Time At All”, which mentions, “a man who calls me Granny.” On March 10, 1973, she suffered a supposed stroke during a performance of “Pippin” and returned California on her doctor’s orders and was hospitalized, where it was discovered that she had an inoperable brain tumor. She died the following month in Santa Monica, California at the age of at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, California at the age of 70.
In 1973, prior to her death, she was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Musical) for her performance in “Pippin”. In 1972 she started the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship awards scholarships to outstanding actors who participate
in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.

Walter Willison, John Rubinstein’s understudy for Pippin,
posted the following on YouTube in 2011:

“From her first preview performance in “PIPPIN” at The Kennedy Center to Opening Night on Broadway, which landed her a Motown recording contract the next day [at the time of her passing, under the guidance of producer Bob Crew, she had recorded half the songs for the unreleased album; two tracks, Stephen Schwartz’ “No Time At All” and “Time” by Bob Crew, were released on 45 and became number one singles], to her final matinee six-months later, Irene literally stopped the show eight times a week, receiving the kind of tumultuous,
five minute ovations reserved for only our most beloved stage performers.
Three days after receiving her Tony Award nomination, though undetected by the audience,
it was announce Irene Ryan suffered a stroke on stage during her final Saturday matinee performance. That evening she flew to Los Angeles and returned to her home in Santa Monica for one last day before being hospitalized that Monday, and operated on for a brain tumor
a few days later. She watched the 1973 Tony Awards from her hospital bed, and passed away
the following week. on April 26, 1973, just a month after her final Broadway performance.”
The description above is the most plausible one that I have read and ties together the various rumors in a reasonable way. It is consistent with John Rubinstein’s description.
As Mr. Rubinstein wrote, Mr. Willison was the person who apparently helped her get to
the airport and may have helped her pack. Where Irene immediately flew back to Los Angeles that evening, was hospitalized on Monday, and died a few weeks later.

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Positive Affirmations

Posted on February 1, 2020 by Ken

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail – Benjamin Franklin

We all know that once the water has run downstream we can’t get it back. Likewise when we are unprepared, we have lost the opportunity, squandered the moment. You may be asking yourself what is the point of this story, well I think the point I would like to make is that preparation is an essential, often neglected, part of life. Practicing the art of preparation allows us to hone four key skills in my opinion.
We know that life is spontaneous and seemingly random at times and there are many things that take us by surprise that we never see coming or that we can’t prepare for. I am also a firm believer in being flexible and not trying to control everything or being too rigid about things, but on the other hand, when we are well prepared, we can easily jump to Plan B if needed or practice flexibility and adapt when circumstances change. I encourage you to think about these four powerful benefits to being prepared and consider if you can implement them in your life in a consistent and sustainable way.

Being Prepared Enhances Self Discipline
In this sense, I am talking of the discipline of having a routine or habit, not the discipline to control or regulate, although forming a good habit is a form of self-control and regulation.
When we routinely prepare ourselves for the predictable or unexpected events in our lives, we enhance our own self-discipline. In my opinion, self-discipline is one of the foundations to living a happy life. The act of becoming prepared means that we discipline ourselves to make the time to prepare. We get over the feeling of “I don’t feel like doing this now”
we put off procrastination, we dump the excuses and we become mindful
with what we are doing and ourselves.
Being Prepared Enhances Our Strategic Thinking
If you’re like me, as you are preparing for that meeting, vacation, or dinner with a friend you are having an internal dialogue with yourself. You may be thinking of the meeting agenda, or the presentation you have to give, you may be thinking of what you need to prepare for your vacation all the tasks you need to complete, what to pack in your suitcase, check your travel insurance etc.
The more complex the task, the higher degree of strategic thinking is required. None of us is born master strategic thinkers; it’s a skill that is born through practice and experience. Regardless of what you are preparing for, you can hone this skill. Unbelievably as you look out your window each day before you dress, your brain has already thought a thousand strategic thoughts in preparation for getting you to your destination appropriately clothed, dry, on time and in one piece. We may not always recognise our thoughts as being strategic but each act of preparation is honing these skills.
Being Prepared Increases Our Flexibility
If you are self-disciplined and open to thinking strategically there is a possibility that your thought processes will expand with fluidity and flexibility. Not everyone who is self-disciplined and thinks strategically is able to be flexible in his or her behaviour,
but this is a skill that we develop.
So think about it. You are preparing for a customer presentation, you know what they expect, what you can offer and yet while hoping that it will run smoothly you are aware that problems may arise. Therefore, part of your preparation will be to look at those potential hiccups and do some scenario planning. As you work through different scenarios, you will prepare for different outcomes. This is flexibility and it is the foolhardy who are unprepared for change or unwilling to be flexible. By preparing to be flexible, we are also building a critical trait to have, namely resilience.
Being Prepared Develops Our Resilience
Resilience is that ability to become strong, healthy, or successful again after something bad happens. As we develop all our other skills, we often spend little time
developing that of resilience.
Unless you have done the preparation, thought it through, evaluated all the known scenarios you will always be shocked by the unforeseen or by failure. It is in preparation that we develop our mental resilience and it is through failure that we develop a life of resilience. We all know that not every plan leads to success and it is through failure that we reach success, but often being unprepared leads to a bitter taste in the mouth.
Having resilience allows us to stand up eight times after we’ve been knocked down seven and to continue on our course, making adjustments and realignments.
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success – Alexander Graham Bell
Take a moment to consider how you go about your daily life. Are you missing out on some wonderful opportunities because you are not preparing yourself sufficiently? Do you always repeat the same “mistakes” because you resist preparation?

Anita Moorjani was born to Indian parents!!!
Hargobind (father) and Neelu (mother) Shamdasani in Singapore. Shortly after her birth, her family moved to Sri Lanka, and then at age two, moved to Hong Kong, where she and her older brother Anoop grew up. Moorjani and her brother both studied in British schools. As an ethnic minority in a majority British school, Moorjani says she was often the victim of bullying.^[4] Moorjani’s parents are Indian, and because of her diverse cultural background, grew up multilingual, speaking Sindhi, Cantonese, and English simultaneously.
In February 2002, while living and working in Hong Kong, Moorjani was diagnosed with lymphoma after finding a lump on her neck. Initially, Moorjani rejected conventional medicine. She had watched several people close to her die of cancer, including her brother-in-law and her best friend, despite extensive conventional treatments. Over the months that ensued, Moorjani experimented with various alternative healing practices, but to no avail. She subsequently underwent several conventional cancer treatments. However, by that point, despite these treatments, her doctors informed her and her family that it was “too late” to save her life. The lymphoma had spread throughout her body and had metastasized.^[6]
Then on February 2 2006 was dying and Moorjani came out of the coma 30 hours later. During those 30 hours, Moorjani asserts that she experienced many characteristic details of a near death experience. Her account includes an out-of-body experience with observations and awareness of physical surroundings. Moorjani said she had a strong reluctance to return to her suffering and dying physical body, but was encouraged to return by her father and best friend who told her that she needed to return and to “live her life fearlessly.” ^[7]
Subsequent to coming out of her coma, Moorjani’s tumors shrank by about 70% within four days, and within five weeks, she was cancer-free and released from the hospital, although she had to spend a few months in physiotherapy to regain her strength and the use of all her muscles and limbs.

She submitted the description of her NDE and subsequent healing to the Near Death Experience Research Foundation (NDERF) website, a site owned and run by oncologist Jeffrey Long and his wife, Jody Long, a family law attorney.^[9]
Her story came to the attention of American self-help author, Wayne Dyer, who contacted his publishers, Hay House, asking them to locate Moorjani and suggest that she write a book, which they would publish.^[10]
Dying to be Me was published in March 2012, and hit The New York Times bestsellers list two weeks after its release. Moorjani was then invited to be on Wayne Dyer’s PBS special titled “Wishes Fulfilled”, and since then, has been interviewed on “Fox And Friends,” CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” National Geographic International, Karen Davila’s Headstart on ANC Philippines, among many others. Dying to be Me has subsequently sold over a million copies worldwide, and has been published in more than 40 languages.
On 15 April 2015, Deadline reported that the New York Times best selling book Dying To Be Me has been optioned to producer Ridley Scott‘s company Ridley Scott Films. In January 2016, Moorjani’s case attracted the attention of Dr. Oz, who scrutinized her medical records, and subsequently invited her to be on his show. Skeptics criticize the message that Anita speaks. Vicky Allen, journalist at The Herald Scotland, states “These people are at the centre of a disturbing approach to illness, and cancer in particular, that sees it as a disease to be tackled with the mind and positive thinking. It is a movement which many within the medical establishment believe is dangerous.” Peter Allmark of Sheffield Hallam University, co-author of A Critique Of Positive Thinking In Cancer Care,
denounces the approach as “quackery”.

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Anita Moorjani’s amazing near-death experience is described in her book Dying to be Me.
If you want a preview of what she describes in her book, check out this Ted Talk. In the video, Moorjani leaves her audience with five brief lessons from her NDE. I’ve quoted her main points below and added some of my ideas to each of her topics below.

Love should be the most important focus in life. You must love yourself and value yourself.
We teach others how to treat us. You should not allow others to bully or control you.
The more you love yourself, the more love you have to give to others.
Live life fearlessly. Love keeps you safe, not fear.
Humor, laughter, and joy are vital. Kids laugh and enjoy life all the time, but these states
of being get conditioned out of us. Joy is more important than any other spiritual power.
If our politicians learned to laugh, we’d have a different political climate.
Life is a gift, not a chore.
Always be yourself. Be as you as you can be. Shine your light as bright as you can.
Embrace being you.

Love More: Definitely choose love over fear but realize when something you are calling love
is not really love. Love is never manipulation, and manipulation can come in many forms. Someone can even tell you that you aren’t that spiritual for choosing not to be with them and love them. You might only be choosing to love yourself and choosing a love and life situation that fits your desires more than that person and situation fits what you need. This is o.k. You get to make all kinds of loving choices for yourself. You don’t have to do what others want you to do and call this love. You get to do what you want to do and know that it is love.
Life works better this way.
I think of love as kind gestures and moments when we simply choose to be our best self with someone. Being your best even when others are at their worst is difficult but loving. Love is something we do for ourselves and for others. We respect the boundaries of others, and this is a form of love as well. Other people do not have to take care of all our needs. We can take care of ourselves and cutting down on our neediness can be a way of being more loving.

Love is wishing the best for everyone, even when they have wronged us. Love is hoping others can always be their best selves. Love is expanding someone’s understanding, not letting them live in fear.   Love is many things, and I’m still learning about it. I do know that love is the opposite of fear. Love will be the subject of many more posts because most NDErs come back knowing that love is the most important thing we can do while in these bodies; love deserves lots of radio, television, and blog time.

Live Fearlessly: We mistakenly think that if we spend time fearing something we might come up with strategies which might prevent this thing we fear from occurring. Love is your greatest protector, and even when life happens—when the thing you fear most happens—keep loving yourself through it. This will help you heal faster.

When I’ve had the most success manifesting, I have clearly seen an image or outcome that I want and worked hard towards achieving that goal without letting negative ideas interfere with my progress. Then, I stayed the course, never doubting the inevitable positive outcome. Fear doesn’t play into the equation, not even a flicker of it. When I have failed at something, fears are always there multiplying and breeding in my mind and in my life.
200+ Self-loving Affirmations! (Rebuild a Brand New You!)
When I think of living fearlessly, I think of never shrinking away from a challenge, but diving in, willing to learn, grow, and succeed. I think of small moments as well—moments when we choose to talk with others around us instead of being silent and looking at our phones, moments when we make connections, share our thoughts and feelings, and allow our hearts to expand and include more people.

Laughter as Medicine: I wish I was funnier than I am. I can be goofy, and occasionally funny, but I wish I was hilarious. Luckily, I have friends who make me howl with laughter. May you find these people and talk with them often, and when you can’t find funny friends, watch funny videos and comedies. Years ago, I saw the movie What the Bleep Do We Know, and the clip about the woman who cured herself of cancer by watching funny movies resonated with me.

Laughter is literally healing. Surround yourself with people who make you laugh, and you will be happier and healthier. I’ve always thought that silliness is a form of soulfulness, an ability to not take one’s self or life too seriously. When all else fails, laugh at people who take themselves too seriously. They are so funny!

Life is a Gift:    Though I’ve had moments when I felt tired or discouraged after my NDE, I usually remember that life is a gift. Whenever I feel bored, I think about how to make a certain “boring” task more enjoyable or meaningful. Washing dishes becomes a moment where I meditate on all the ways that I need to clean certain negative ideas and images from my mind. Taking out the trash becomes a moment when I think of dumping all of my juvenile and immature behaviors in a dumpster and being done with them.

I take time to savor my food. Though I remember being overwhelmed at how amazing all food tasted after my NDE, I quickly realized that awareness helped me slow down and enjoy each meal instead of greedily rushing through it. Greediness in any area of life isn’t all that sexy. Your share can be wonderful and special without having to want everyone else’s share for yourself. Life is indeed a gift. The more you take time to realize it in certain moments, the longer and more beautiful the journey seems.

Be Yourself: I’ve learned the hard way that it isn’t any fun to diminish who I am to please others. In other posts, I’ve written about family member’s righteousness and insistence on being “right.” I’m not here to make them wrong. I’m here to express myself and who I am. I do this effortlessly in some areas of my life, and those areas of my life work well. The areas where I dim my light and become less of who I am are not the best areas of my life. I’m working on being more whole, more me, more true to what I believe and living aligned with these beliefs. I hope you do the same.

I hope you love your original, wonderful self, chase your dreams and goals fearlessly, laugh even when it is at yourself, and never forget that every moment here on earth is a gift, not a chore. Make your moments enjoyable.
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How the body can heal itself?
Part One http://cancershift.com/cancer-
shift-blog/2012/3/22/dying-to-
heal-anita-moorjanis-unusual-cancer-treatment-for-s.html

Part Two http://cancershift.com/
cancer-shift-blog/2012/3/31/
dying-to-heal-anita-moorjanis-
unusual-cancer-treatment-for-s.html

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Anita Moorjani surviving cancer example | Self-healing with Suzana

Visual Proof of Healing with the Mind
How fast can the mind really affect the body and its ability to heal?
What if I told you that we can affect it almost instantly when we address key factors in the subconscious mind?
Previously I thought it took a long time to heal with the mind. I thought I had to visualize over and over and then wait for my body to start healing itself; that I needed to relax, release my stress, and convince myself I was already healed. I was told those methods were “supposed to work.” So, I tried them for several hours per day for many years, while stuck in bed. I had been in an accident, became disabled, was in an extreme amount of pain, and could not find anything that would help within conventional or natural medicine.
I tried any alternative I could find, but nothing worked. I spent my days visualizing, listening to healing music and mind-programming CDs, smiled more to try to create endorphins, tried positive affirmations. Yet, nothing really worked. Prior to my injury I did network engineering/operations; my job was to troubleshoot, and I was good at it. When something was wrong, I understood how to look for the root cause. Therefore, I began to conduct my own research to deepen my understanding of the mind/body connection.
What I found was absolutely incredible.
I began to develop additional parts of my mind in a whole new way that provided the additional insight I needed to take the process to the next level. What I found was that when I addressed the key factors in the mind, everything changed.
Moreover, that is what I do today. I show people how to get results fast using only the power of their minds. I also show them how this information not only changes their health, but it also changes their lives.
For some, the results may seem unbelievable or impossible, which I understand because there was a time when I did not believe it was possible.
That is why I like to demonstrate these techniques for people so they can actually experience it for themselves.
When I am speaking to audiences, I ask for a volunteer and coach the person to use their own mind to relieve their chronic pain within minutes. In these live talks or teleseminars, everyone can witness the actual process and the volunteer gets to experience the pain releasing from their body.
Since this is a video recorded talk, I found the best way to demonstrate the results was to use medical thermography to show actual visual changes as evidence of the effectiveness of this process.
These same processes have been used for a variety of different ailments; however, I typically like to use pain because people can experience results as they are happening. Therefore, the audience can actively experience the results.
In this talk I reveal:
How to produce rapid and sustainable results in a never before seen way using only the mind.
The Key factors in the mind that need to be addressed to provide these rapid results.
Thermal medical scans have been taken of before and after images to visually show the changes that take place. Along with an explanation of the process I used.
I also discuss the process of using Quantum Entanglement to understand the patterns of the body.

Brandy Gillmore, HHP
Brandy Gillmore is a holistic heath practitioner and international speaker. She is best known for her breakthrough discoveries in healing with the mind. Her techniques enable people to experience noticeable physical results within minutes using only the power of their minds.   https://brandygillmore.com/contact/
Over the past four years, Brandy has lectured worldwide, sharing these tools and techniques. She has spoken at workshops, international teleconferences, retreats, and conferences, to a variety of audiences, including medical doctors, corporations, and non-profit organizations. She has been featured as a guest speaker on lectures given by other experts in this field including Dr. Lissa Rankin’s Whole Health Medicine Institute, which Rankin provides training for medical doctors on mind/body medicine.
Brandy’s cutting-edge discoveries started years ago with a desire to restore her health after a traumatic injury left her physically disabled. With more than a decade of research into healing, she was able to develop her own mind to expand its capabilities to use Quantum Entanglement as a process for greater insight. This provided her a unique, in-depth understanding of the mind and its effect on the body. By using her methods, “The Gillmore Freedom Method” and “The 3 Keys to the Subconscious Mind,” Brandy regularly demonstrates the healing power of the mind in front of live audiences.
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We are all on a Journey of learning to express our full potential. An expression or reflection
of the outside world to others what has happen to us!!! Unless you know this you will never find meaning in our life ~ Louise Hay 🙂

LET GO OF YOUR LIMITING BELIEFS!!!
View You Can Heal Your Life: the Movie in its entirety online. This entertaining and inspirational movie based on the best-selling book is hosted by author and teacher Louise L. Hay. This film gives penetrating insights into Louise’s fascinating personal story; and shows how her views on self-esteem, abundance, and the metaphysical causes behind physical ailments were developed. It also reveals how she applied these concepts to her own emotional, spiritual, and professional life.

A number of luminaries in the fields of self-help, philosophy, health, spirituality, and New Thought join Louise, giving their take on success, happiness, and the myriad ways in which people can heal their own lives. And there are also gripping firsthand accounts from others who have been positively affected by Louise’s work.
200+ Self-loving Affirmations! (Rebuild a Brand New You!)
Running time: 90 minutes https://www.veoh.com/
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