Stephen Hawking’s Universe

Posted on March 25, 2018 by Ken

Hawking's Universe Image.jpg                               Stephen William Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018)

Stephen Hawking completed a theory outlining his prediction for the end of the world    just two weeks before his death, it has emerged.

The world-famous physicist, who died at age 76, was a co-author to a mathematical paper in which he sought to prove the so-called “multiverse” theory,  and according to a report  by U.K. newspaper The Sunday Times. His theory imagines the existence of many separate universes other than our own.

Hawking’s final work — titled “A Smooth Exit From Eternal Inflation” — is being reviewed by a leading scientific journal. In it, he predicted how our universe would eventually fade to darkness as the stars run out of energy.

Alongside Professor Thomas Hertog of Belgium’s KU Leuven University, Mr. Hawking         also proposed a way in which scientists might be able to find alternate universes by using probes on space ships. This would allow humans to attain a more accurate understanding of our own universe, decipher what else is out there and ultimately realize our place in the cosmos.

“He has often been nominated for the Nobel and should have won it. Now he never can,” Hertog told The Sunday Times in an interview published Sunday.

‘Intelligent life may be watching’

Hawking, who was perhaps best known for his work on black holes and the theory of relativity, had previously posited the idea that Earth would turn into a giant ball of fire     by 2600. Therefore, humans would eventually need to colonize another planet or face extinction, he said.

In 2015, Hawking joined Russian billionaire Yuri Milner to launch a project that aimed     to use high-powered computers to listen for aliens. The project, known as Breakthrough Initiatives, supports SETI@home, a scientific experiment based at the University of California, Berkeley. It uses computers to scan the skies to look for life.

“Somewhere in the cosmos,  perhaps,  intelligent life may be watching these lights of        ours aware of what they mean,” Hawking said. “Or do our lights wander a lifeless cosmos, unseen beacons announcing that here on our rock, the universe discovered its existence?”

The probability for a state of the universe at the present time is given by adding up the amplitudes for all the histories that end with that state. But how did the histories start? This is the Origin question in another guise. Does it require a Creator to decree how the universe began? Or is the initial state of the universe, determined by a law of science? In fact, this question would arise even if the histories of the universe went back to the infinite past. But it is more immediate if the universe began only 15 billion years ago.
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The problem of what happens at the beginning of time is a bit like the question of what happened at the edge of the world, when people thought the world was flat. Is the world a flat plate with the sea pouring over the edge? I have tested this experimentally. I have been round the world, and I have not fallen off. As we all know, the problem of what happens at the edge of the world was solved when people realized that the world was not a flat plate, but a curved surface. Time however, seemed to be different. It appeared to be separate from space, and to be like a model railway track.
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 If it had a beginning, there would have to be someone to set the trains going. Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity unified time and space as spacetime, but time was still different from space and was like a corridor, which either had a beginning and end, or went on forever. However, when one combines General Relativity with Quantum Theory, Jim Hartle and I realized that time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions. This means one can get rid of the problem of time having a beginning, in a similar way in which we got rid of the edge of the world.
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Suppose the beginning of the universe was like the South Pole of the earth, with degrees   of latitude playing the role of time. The universe would start as a point at the South Pole. As one moves north, the circles of constant latitude, representing the size of the universe, would expand. To ask what happened before the beginning of the universe would become a meaningless question, because there is nothing south of the South Pole.

Time, as measured in degrees of latitude, would have a beginning at the South Pole, but the South Pole is much like any other point, at least so I have been told. I have been to Antarctica, but not to the South Pole. The same laws of Nature hold at the South Pole as in other places. This would remove the age-old objection to the universe having a beginning; that it would be a place where the normal laws broke down.

The irregularities in the early universe will mean that some regions will have slightly higher density than others. The gravitational attraction of the extra density will slow the expansion of the region, and can eventually cause the region to collapse to form galaxies and stars.  So look well at the map  of the microwave sky.  It is the blue print for all the structure in the universe. We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe. God really does play dice.

We have made tremendous progress in cosmology in the last hundred years. The General Theory of Relativity and the discovery of the expansion of the universe shattered the old picture of an ever existing and ever lasting universe. Instead, general relativity predicted that the universe, and time itself, would begin in the big bang. It also predicted that time would come to an end in black holes. The discovery of the cosmic microwave background and observations of black holes support these conclusions.

This is a profound change in our picture of the universe and of reality itself. Although the General Theory of Relativity predicted that the universe must have come from a period of high curvature in the past, it could not predict how the universe would emerge from the big bang.

Thus general relativity on its own cannot answer the central question in cosmology: Why is the universe the way it is? However, if general relativity is combined with quantum theory, it may be possible to predict how the universe would start. It would initially expand at an ever increasing rate.

During this so called inflationary period, the marriage of the two theories predicted             that small fluctuations would develop and lead to the formation of galaxies, stars, and      all the other structure in the universe.  This is confirmed by observations of small non uniformities in the cosmic microwave background, with exactly the predicted properties. So it seems we are on our way to understanding the origin of the universe, though much more work will be needed.

A new window on the very early universe will be opened when we can detect gravitational waves by accurately measuring the distances between space craft. Gravitational waves propagate freely to us from earliest times, unimpeded by any intervening material. By contrast, light is scattered many times by free electrons. The scattering goes on until the electrons freeze out, after 300,000 years.

Despite having had some great successes, not everything is solved. We do not yet have         a good theoretical understanding of the observations that the expansion of the universe    is accelerating again, after a long period of slowing down.

Without such an understanding, we cannot be sure of the future of the universe. Will it continue to expand forever? Is inflation a law of Nature? Or will the universe eventually collapse again? New observational results and theoretical advances are coming in rapidly. Cosmology is a very exciting and active subject. We are getting close to answering the age old questions. Why are we here?

 “Where do we come from? How did the universe begin? Why is the universe the way    it is? How will it end?
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“All my life,  I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to     find scientific answers to them. If, like me, you have looked at the stars, and tried to make sense of what you see, you too have started to wonder what makes the universe exist. The questions are clear, and deceptively simple. But the answers have always seemed well beyond our reach. Until now.

“The ideas which had grown over two thousand years of observation have had to be radically revised. In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.

And our galaxy itself is just one of billions of galaxies, in a universe that is infinite and expanding. But this is far from the end of a long history of inquiry. Huge questions remain to be answered, before we can hope to have a complete picture of the universe we live in.

“I want you to share my excitement at the discoveries, past and present, which have revolutionized the way we think.  From the Big Bang to black holes, from dark matter to      a possible Big Crunch,  our image of the universe today  is full of strange sounding ideas, and remarkable truths. The story of how we arrived at this picture is the story of learning to understand what we see.”

What will happen to our planet in the next 200 years? The most famous scientist since Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, who has made profound and inspiring discoveries, predicted an extremely dark and pessimistic future to the Earth and its inhabitants. Here are some of Hawking’s most terrifying predictions on how and when our world will meet its demise.

Since scientists started toying with genetically engineered viruses to treat human illnesses, they’ve also discovered other possible uses for them.Nowadays, pharmacists are even combining several deadly viruses into a single shot and doing some weird stuff with DNA mixing. Hawking was a firm believer in extraterrestrial life, and he was convinced that they will eventually invade our planet. And no, unfortunately, they probably won’t come in peace.

In his final work, A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation, completed just two weeks before he died, Hawking predicted that our universe will eventually fade into darkness as all the stars run out of energy.

Although Hawking’s life basically depended on artificial intelligence, he didn’t trust it at all. He once said that it might just be “the worst invention in the history of our civilization” because it’ll probably replace humans altogether. Hawking added that global warming will make the conditions on Earth similar to those on Venus. To save ourselves from problems like overpopulation (and the scarcity of resources that comes with it), pandemics, and pollution, we have to discover new worlds and become a multi-planetary species.

Preview  Stephen Hawking’s 7 Predictions of Earth’s

Demise in the Next 200 Years

Seeing Is Believing. Stephen Hawking’s Universe Episode 1 of 6. Professor Stephen Hawking explains the history of mankind’s quest to explain the Universe.        He shows how advances in technology have brought a greater understanding of the cosmos.   https://documentaryvine.com/video/stephen-hawkings-universe/
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  Much like Stephen Hawking’s Universe: The book titled  The Answer to Cancer: Is Never Giving It A Chance To Start 1st Edition by Hari Sharma. Provides answers into the mystery of cancer.
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This book provides the public with the first clues on how to prevent cancer. This offers effective prevention if people follow the guidelines.” -Christopher S. Clark, M.D.The Raj – Maharishi Ayurveda Health Center”Charming and fun to read. It is not just a cancer book, it gives people an opportunity to learn simple, yet powerful techniques for staying fit without tough diets or impossible workout programs.”-Jay Glaser, M.D. Medical Director, Lancaster Ayurveda Medical Center. Simple, natural things are the answer to cancer! Sound too easy? Here a Western research physician teams with an Eastern Ayurvedic to explain how ancient “secrets” — make it difficult for cancer to ever get started that you   can do from home! —
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Where there is desire
There is gonna be a flame
Where there is a flame
Someone’s bound to get burned
But just because it burns
Doesn’t mean you’re gonna die
You’ve gotta get up and try, and try, and try
Gotta get up and try, and try, and try
You gotta get up and try, and try, and try!!

Thank you for listening to me.

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I Walked All Over Cancer This March

Posted on March 25, 2018 by Ken
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I wanted the information in this  post to be more than  Shannon Knight, Carl O. Helvie,  Ivelisse Page or cancer survivor stories.  Two important keys that Carl taught me through time is the importance of German Quark for the Budwig Protocol and Latriel Injections is still probably the most effective cancer treatment Dr Contreras does at his clinic in Mexico.
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I wanted information in this post to be what everybody needs to help them make a better decision. I hear so often, “I would try this or that.  I am also perplexed, overwhelmed and   don’t know what to do next.” 
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SO Always remember acomplete understanding of the treatment that you feel is right for you. . . will bring confidence and happiness!!!  Depression,  Anxiety  and Panic Attacks are NOT signs of weakness, they are signs of trying to remain strong for far too long. Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of. Neither is talking about it.  WE, as a society, need to talk about it more!

Laughter makes you feel good and triggers healthy physical changes in the body.
 When you live a joyful life your whole body benefits, especially your heart and mind. In fact, research shows that joyful individuals have less chance of having a heart attack and are more likely to have healthier blood pressure, lower cholesterol, weight management, and decreased stress levels. Humor and laughter also strengthen your immune system, boost your energy levels, and help diminish pain. Your sense of humor is one of the most powerful tools you have to make certain that your daily mood and emotional state support your overall health. Read more in Dr. Cynthia Thaik’s recent Huffington Post article “A Joyful Life Supports Good Health,” you will find ways to add more joy to your life for better health and well-being.
Laughter is contagious and it makes you feel good. Have you laughed today?
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Not only that, but being happy also triggers healthy physical changes in the body.
In fact, your sense of humor is one of the most powerful tools you have to improve your daily mood and emotional state, which supports your overall health. When you live a joyful life your entire body benefits, especially your heart and mind. Research shows that joyful people have less chance of having a heart attack (link is external) and are more likely to have healthier blood pressure, lower cholesterol, weight management, and decreased stress levels. Humor and laughter also strengthen your immune system, boost your energy levels, and help diminish pain.

Learn to fill your life with  joy for better health and well-being. Start by incorporating more humor and laughter in your daily life. Eventually, you’ll want to incorporate more joy into the fabric of your life, finding it naturally in everything you do.Find out more helpful ways on how to add happiness to your life by reading Dr. Cynthia Thaik’s full article “A Joyful Life Supports Good Health,” on Huffington Post.

For more by Dr. Cynthia Thaik on her website, click here (link is external).

Her new book, Your Vibrant Heart, includes many more insights about how to nurture and care for your heart on both a physical and emotional level. I encourage you to order your copy today at  https://www.amazon.com/Your-Vibrant-Heart-Restoring-Strength/dp/0989104125

The pursuit of it was written into the Declaration of Independence,

but finding the causes and effects of that elusive “it” – happiness – has been notoriously difficult.

Whatever brings you happiness, be it large breasts, lots of money, respect from your peers, a large bar of chocolate or even semen, it’s hardly controversial to say that happy people are generally healthier than unhappy ones. That conclusion might be intuitively obvious, but just why are happy people healthier?

That’s what researchers at University College London’s Department of Epidemiology and Public Health are interested in. They have found that the functioning of certain key biological processes is improved by happiness.

“Psychosocial factors are vital to health,” said Michael Marmot, professor of epidemiology and public health at the university and director of the International Centre for Health and Society. “In people who have their basic needs met – clean water, sufficient food and shelter – a crucial determinant of health is how circumstances affect the mind. That is, psychosocial factors.”

Other studies have shown a connection between happiness and longevity. In 2001, Deborah Danner,  at the University of Kentucky’s Center for Gerontology, analyzed the handwritten autobiographies of 180 nuns of mean age 22, and also compared the positive emotional content of the writings with the nuns’ health six decades later. It turns out that sisters who used words like “joy” and “thankful” lived up to 10 years longer than did those who expressed negative emotions.

Marmot and colleagues, including health psychologist Andrew Steptoe, wanted to know what causes these differences. What is the mechanism that helps happy people live longer?

We’ve all experienced downward spirals, in which dark emotions lead to destructive behavior that damages our health, strains our relationships, and leaves us feeling even worse than when we started. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was an uplifting equivalent to that destructive chain of events?

Newly published research suggests there is. What’s more, this delightful dynamic helps explain the well-documented link between joy, appreciation, and good health.

quotes on happiness and laughter. Quote about Happiness                                                       “Positive emotion, positive social connections, and physical health influence      one another in a self-sustaining,  upward-spiral dynamic,” concludes a research team led by psychologist Bethany Kok of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences. It found upbeat emotions inspired by a meditative practice led to greater feelings of connectedness with others, which positively impacted “a biological resource that has been linked to numerous health benefits.”

In the journal Psychological Science, Kok and her colleagues describe a nine-week experiment featuring 65 participants, all faculty or staff members at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Two-thirds of the participants were women; their median    age was 37.5.

Bethany Kok, Instructor and Doctoral Candidate in the Psychology Department at UNC Chapel Hill talks about her experiences using Sakai for student blogging.

The researchers began by analyzing each participant’s heartbeat data to obtain a baseline measurement of vagal tone. That allowed them to discern the level of activity in a key part of the nervous system—one that regulates the internal organs and reacts to emotional stress.

For the next 61 days, they filled out a daily report, reporting how strongly they had been feeling 20 different emotions, ranging from love and serenity to contempt and disgust. In addition, they rated “the three social interactions in which they had spent the most time that day,” assessing the degree to which they felt close to, or “in tune with,” the people they were dealing with.

During this period, 1/2 the participants attended 6 weekly sessions on loving-kindness meditation, which focuses on developing “feelings of love, compassion, and goodwill toward oneself and others,” the researchers note.

During these sessions, they were encouraged to meditate regularly and were shown how meditation can be used to deal with everyday stresses.

Finally, at the end of the nine weeks, each participant’s vagal tone was measured again. Those readings, along with their daily self-reports, provided evidence for the aforementioned upward spiral.

“Participants who reported greater increases in positive emotions over the course of         the study,  who were mostly the ones assigned to the loving-kindness meditation group, also exhibited greater increases in social connections, which were in turn associated with larger increases in vagal tone,” the researchers report.

In other words, being in a positive emotional state led to at least the perception of stronger bonds with the people they dealt with, and this positively impacted bodily function, as measured by vagal tone. This provides further evidence that humans truly are social animals; the ease of our interactions with others has a measurable effect on our bodies.

So, in addition to “physical activity, improved nutritional intake, and reductions in tobacco and alcohol use,” this research reveals another technique we can use to improve or sustain our health: meditation,  or any other mood-enhancing activity that will boost our sense of connectedness.  “Recurrent momentary experiences of positive emotions,”  Kok and her colleagues conclude, “appear to serve as nutrients for the human body.”

The importance of the vagus nerve (10th cranial nerve) is enormous in health and well being (physical and psychical.)
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   “I have a lot to say about this matter but before going in depth on this subject let me right now state that each time I release totally my vagus nerve I pass immediately in a matter of 3 to 6 minutes from he’ll (devil) to paradise !!! it affects all your mood and all your body functions how and why ? what is the scientific and spiritual basis ? the basis is modern neurology , the autonomic nervous system (ortho parasympathetic and ortho sympathetic accelerates all functions of the body including mental pressure, stress and fight or flight reactions while parasympathetic slows down all functions of all organs of the body and manifests by profound relaxation and tranquility and an immediate more enlightened perception of your whole world ! I know it is difficult to believe !!” as stated by  George Benichou 10 months ago
 

I am a strong believer in the power of comedy. I believe that making someone else laugh  or smile is what life should be all about.

Now you may think that a laugh or a smile is just a laugh or just a smile, but I believe that there is so much more to     “just a laugh” or “just a smile.”

I believe that making someone else feel good by laughing or smiling not only makes themselves feel good, but it makes me feel good as well. The feeling of sharing a joke and having all of the people laughing around you is like seeing that light at the end of the tunnel for the very first time. Everything that you may be feeling prior to telling that amazing joke to the people you love just disappears.

You are left with a feeling of relief, satisfaction, pride, and of course, happiness.

Your reaction to that light at the end of the tunnel passes on the people around you as   they are laughing their asses off because they believe that you are hilarious. The feeling     of happiness that is felt because of the power that comedy possesses can cure just about anything.

For example, you may accidentally fall down one day and get a little boo-boo on your knee. Instead of crying about it and bringing yourself and the people around you sorrow, you can laugh about it and bring yourself and the people around you happiness as you guys laugh about how clumsy you are.

You may also forget that there is a test on Monday morning and you didn’t study for it. Instead of freaking out about it, you can laugh about it and then fill in “C” for all of the multiple choice questions, and write “Jesus” for all of the open ended questions. Then you can just pray to the Comedic Gods as you keep your fingers crossed and hope for the best.

Or, you are looking for a last minute birthday gift for your friend’s birthday that’s tomorrow. Instead of procrastinating and giving your friend something crappy, you can laugh about it by giving them something from the heart.

The power of comedy opens up all of your positive emotions and memories about the people that you love. So laughing about not buying your friend a birthday gift earlier will help you think about all of the good times that you guys have cherished together. Then you can give your friend a cute gift based off of all of those memories that you guys have shared thus far.

However, even though the power of comedy can most certainly cure some things, unfortunately, the power of comedy cannot cure everything. For example, I tend to laugh whenever I am feeling really nervous, anxious, or uncomfortable; as I’ve explained before, laughing and smiling gives me the most incredible feeling in the world and I strive to look for happiness in life because I ultimately want to live a long, healthy, and happy life.

So one day, my college had an event for the victims who have died in the Holocaust.

Obviously, this event was not the time to laugh or smile. But since I can’t help but laugh whenever I am feeling nervous, anxious, or in this case uncomfortable, I was laughing to myself to make myself feel better when one of the survivors was talking to the students.

This event was just way too emotional for anyone to handle since the Holocaust was such   a traumatic event that will hopefully never, ever happen again because absolutely no one deserves to have witnessed all of the pain, torture, and suffering that these survivors have witnessed with their own eyes.

Nothing can cure absolutely everything in this messed up world, but happiness can easily make all of those negative feelings that you’ve been having on your bad day disappear. That is why I cherish those moments whenever myself, my friends, or one of my family members makes me laugh or smile. Because happiness is the best medicine and the best kind of people in this world are the kind who have a good sense of humor.

Laughing does wonders to reduce tensions…
You wouldn’t be surprised if we told you that laughter relieves stress.
But what if we told you that just anticipating laughter does the trick too? Researchers have found that the anticipation of a positive humorous laughter experience reduces potentially detrimental stress hormones.

Dr. Lee S. Berk is a pioneering medical researcher studying the neuroendocrine and immune effects of positive emotions. He is an associate professor of Health Promotion and Education, School of Public Health, and associate research professor of Pathology and Human Anatomy, School of Medicine, both at Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, California. Dr Berk is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Association for Integrative Medicine.
In earlier work, Berk and his colleagues discovered that the anticipation of “mirthful laughter” had surprising and significant effects. Two hormones – beta-endorphins (the family of chemicals that  elevates mood state) and human growth hormone (HGH; which helps with optimizing immunity) – increased by 27% and 87 % respectively in study subjects who anticipated watching a humorous video. There was no such increase among the control group who did not anticipate watching the humorous film.

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I repeat Lee Berk, DrPH, and his team at Loma Linda University found that the anticipation of “mirthful laughter” positively affected two hormones: beta-endorphins, which alleviate depression, and human growth hormone, which helps with immunity. The results were significant, increasing the hormone levels from 27 to 87 percent.

In the latest research, the good news continues: The same anticipation of laughter significantly reduced the levels of three stress hormones — cortisol (“the stress hormone”), epinephrine (also known as adrenaline) and dopac (which helps produce epinephrine). Based on the findings, it’s clear that a great way to reduce stress is to seek out experiences that might make you laugh, even if you don’t actually giggle.

Neuropsychologists write…
Renowned physicians have scientifically documented that smiling, literally using our facial muscles to put on a happy face, triggers specific brain neurotransmitters to shift the balance of the brain’s feel-good chemicals to overcome unhappiness.  “And, that’s just with smiling”.  Imagine what’s happening when people are rolling around laughing and saying “I feel great!”  They’ve just hit a whole other level of fantastic well-being!
 

No-one can ever overdose on Happiness!

Fact…
When you’re happy you are alive and buzzing with “happiness juices,” they are the very real chemicals in your body and brain that are the foundation of positive experiences.  That’s what energizes and compels people to see a more positive side of life when they are surrounded by so many negative energies.

Getting energized is quite literally, addictive…
There are no drugs more powerful than the natural happiness enhancing ones that are available in your brain right now.

We all have:

  • Endorphins, the brain’s painkiller that is 3 times stronger than morphine.  many poor people may need that to kick out all the negative thoughts and sometimes nightmarish predictions in their heads.  Essential for people living in difficult circumstances, wouldn’t you say?
  • Serotonin, which naturally calms anxiety.  It’s also very beneficial for people who are constantly struggling to survive, don’t you think?
  • Oxytocin, a bonding chemical which is often called the “happy hormone.”  It’s elevated when people are really connected, totally present.  What human being doesn’t value that?
  • Dopamine, which promotes alertness and a feeling of enjoyment, and also propels us to continually learn and grow.  Always present with the people that receive the Gift of Happiness from us.
Why Music Can Be The BEST Medicine
 
What better way to improve your health than through the healing sounds of classical music? Learning, healing, mental health … it really seems that music can be the best medicine of them all. Get tickets to the best show on earth!!! http://bit.ly/2oDDr4o ?Subscribe for more videos! http://bit.ly/2smHQyF ??FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA!?? Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/thefriendlybrain Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefriendlybrain ? MUSIC ? Nicolai Heidlas – Pacific Sun www.hooksounds.com/royalty-free-music/pacific-sun/ —— SOURCES: https://peerj.com/articles/830/ https://academic.oup.com/brain/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/brain/awl234 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/health/20prof.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-08/uot-mih081202.php http://www.academia.edu/1276346/Music_during_lectures_Will_students_learn_better

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Umi says: “– “The power of music is that music is more beautiful if it              is played for someone rather than yourself.” In a mix of talk and performance, Umi showcases skillfully and beautifully a little part of her immense talent.

Hailed by The Huffington Post as “a budding musical genius,” 13-year-old American pianist Umi Garrett is gaining acclaim from all over the world for her exquisite musicality, emotional and mature sound, flawless technique and virtuosity, and gracious stage presence filled with poise and charm.

Of her performance of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Winnipeg Symphony,        the Winnipeg Free Press wrote  “In addition to displaying bravura technique,  the young soloist also possesses an extraordinary musicality.” Umi’s performance with the Pasadena Symphony Orchestra was praised by the Crescenta Valley Weekly: “Garrett is the real thing.”

A winner of the First Prize at the 13th Osaka International Music Competition in Japan, the Chopin International Competition Chopin Plus in Budapest, Hungary, and the Grand Prix award at the Chopin International Competition in Hartford, Connecticut, Umi was recently granted a prestigious title of the Young Steinway Artist. Umi is studying piano with Professor John Perry and Mrs. Mina Perry  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmF_HbP-jd0

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Dr. Michael B. Schachter is a magna cum laude graduate of Columbia College, and also received his M.D. degree from Columbia’s Physicians & Surgeons in 1965.  Being originally trained and Board Certified in Psychiatry,  Dr. Schachter devoted most of his professional career to treating patients, using a complementary and alternative or integrative approach. He is also a Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS), and has achieved Advanced Proficiency in Chelation Therapy from the American College for Advancement in Medicine — ACAM.

Back in 1974, Dr. Schachter, along with a partner, established one of the first nutritionally oriented orthomolecular, integrative, complementary and holistic practices in the tri-state area, in Nyack, NY.  In 1991, the practice was moved to Suffern, NY and became known as the Schachter Center for Complementary Medicine.

Active in a number of professional organizations, Dr. Schachter was past president of      the American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM)  and  has  been on    the ACAM Board of Trustees or an Advisor to the Board since the 1970’s. He is also a past president of the former Foundation for the Advancement of Innovative Medicine (FAIM) and has been included in several publications of Marquis Who’s Who.

As a recognized leader in orthomolecular psychiatry, nutritional medicine, chelation therapy for cardiovascular disease, and alternative cancer therapies, he is frequently   called upon to lecture at conferences and workshops on cardiovascular disease, cancer, and psychiatric conditions.

Co-author of The Food Connection (1979) and Food, Mind and Mood (1980, 1987) and author of The Natural Way to a Healthy Prostate (Keats, 1995), Dr. Schachter was a major contributor to Alternative Medicine’s Definitive Guide to Cancer (Future Medicine, 1997).  His latest book is What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Depression (Warner, 2006).

Several years ago, he wrote the introduction to the book, The Cancer Survivors, by Judith Glassman and his methods and views are discussed in Nancy Bruning’s book, Coping with Chemotherapy. A major review paper entitled Integrative Oncology for Clinicians and Cancer Patients was published in the Journal of the International Society of Integrative Medicine in July 2010.

Aside from his appearances as a lecturer, Dr. Schachter is often a guest on radio and television, speaking about health and related topics.

Preview Health Hero Dr. Michael Schachter MD

Inducted into the HealthyDoctors Hall Of Fame

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Health-Shattering News

Posted on March 25, 2018 by Ken
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Chris Pedersen and her husband live in the beautiful Sierra foothills in California.

Chris turned an awesome career of writing technical material from manuals and  magazine articles—into writing for children  and crafting non-fiction stories. . . . in a children picture book, The Prisoner of Carrot Castle, In addition, Chris also conquered cancer with diet and blogs about her heart passion, at Healthy Journey Café where she dishes out recipes and tips to achieve optimum wellness: http://www.healthyjourneycafe.com

Diagnosed with genetic colon cancer in 2008, Chris Pedersen chose her own way of treating the condition (MYH-Associated Polyposis) instead of the recommended removal of her colon. Today, her modified vegan diet and alternative protocol has proved effective at keeping cancer away.  Chris is wife, also mother of two and grandmother of three living in Northern California. She blogs about her journey and posts delicious recipes that follow her diet at healthyjourneycafe.com.
 

Fast forward to the fall of 2008 at my first colonoscopy. Twenty six polyps were removed — 25 precancerous and one with cancer. Genetic testing also revealed I had a recently discovered gene for colon cancer (MYH-associated polyposis) inherited from my parents. The doctors recommended I have my colon removed to which I replied, “No! That’s barbaric!”

The experience sent me into a time of grieving and research —

I mourned the loss of my health (so I thought) and buried myself in learning all I could about the condition. Meanwhile, I continued to have colonoscopies every three months. Fifteen more precancerous polyps were removed in December 2008. Another eight just three months later. It rocked my world.

My gastroenterologist urged me again to have my colon removed. I would not.

I was even denied health insurance because I made a choice against my doctor.

The Beginning of Change

Through a fog of lingering anesthesia, I heard the doctor say, “Your colon was clear… no polyps.”

No polyps? Did I truly thwart a genetic verdict?

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In 2008 my world crashed when tests revealed I had a rare genetic defect that put me at risk for colon cancer. I was so stunned.  I ate a nutritious diet, ran two to three miles four days a week and maintained a positive outlook on life.  Colon cancer was never on my radar.  However, bad genetics is non-discriminating.  It’s part of your DNA—there’s nothing you can do. Right?

The identified gene (MYH-Associated Polyposis [MAP]) had promoted the growth of twenty-five precancerous polyps and one the size of a large marble with cancer. Fortunately the cancer was in situ meaning it had not spread beyond the polyp walls.

God had spared me from a more serious outcome.

The Bible records (2 Kings 20) that King Hezekiah suffered from a deadly ailment, but       it did not stop him from approaching God in prayer. God heard his prayer and granted Hezekiah fifteen more years of life. As verification, he received a sign—the sun’s shadow  on the stairway retreated ten steps as if the sun had reversed direction.

The fall of that year was a daze as I grieved the loss of my health. Facing a vulnerability that brought me to my knees, I sympathized with Hezekiah who curled up in the corner and wept for his life. My pride was shattered.
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It freed me to speak about my disorder and ask people to pray for me.
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I felt privileged and humbled that people regularly approached the throne of God.
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My doctor scheduled me for frequent screenings, and over the next year.
I had 3 more colonoscopies and thirty-five additional polyps removed.
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Following my second colonoscopy, doctors suggested my colon be removed to avoid getting colon cancer. The thought of losing my colon was unthinkable. I was not willing to sacrifice an otherwise perfectly healthy colon. I felt that removing my colon was over reactive and even barbaric.
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One day my husband Bob came home with a book on cancer-fighting foods.
“What did you get that for?” I asked.

“I think you might want to look at making some changes in your diet.” He put his arm around my shoulder.

I reached for the book and thumbed through it. “I just don’t know if I can do it.”

My voice quivered and tears welled in my eyes.

“But you have to try!”
Spurred on by a determination to not let genetics dictate my health, I began a rigorous diet change. I reasoned that my already healthy diet had spared me from a grim outcome at my first colonoscopy.
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My new diet included eliminating all meat (except wild-caught fish), all dairy (except goat), and no more Starbucks’ mochas—no sugar allowed. Bob also lost his wine tasting partner for good. I added more unrefined grains, nuts and seeds and focused most of my diet on eating raw organic vegetables.
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The new me stated, “I’m responsible for my health, and in that respect, I’m reaping        the benefits of what I’m taking responsibility for… that is my diet.”

Shortly after starting my new eating regimen, a friend gave me a bottle of herbal extract called Vitae Elixxir.  He said his father-in-law took it to eliminate his prostate cancer  and he’s now cancer-free. I began taking the herbal extract daily.

I also take B17, mostly known as Amygdalin or Laetrile, Vitamin D3, digestive enzymes, iodine, seaweed and thyroid glandulars.

At a follow-up appointment after my third colonoscopy, the GI doctor expressed concern for my health. “I’ve been doing some research and found a study showing the probability of getting colon cancer to be 100% for those with your genetic condition,” she said.
I didn’t like hearing that.
She went on. “The screenings are not perfect. It’s sometimes difficult to see everything, especially tiny polyps. I can’t promise you I can get them all.”
“Oh, of course. I understand,” I said. “I want you to know I am the one responsible for my health,” pointing to myself. “I’m doing all I can to see that I don’t get colon cancer. You’re not responsible for my health. I am.”
The doctor’s face relaxed. “Doctors don’t hear that kind of statement from their patients.”

In one year, doctors removed sixty-one polyps during four colonoscopies.

The size, number and severity of the polyps were reduced with each screening.

At the fifth screening, I heard those words, “No polyps.” God answered prayer despite      the impossible nature of the request.

I’ve learned to enjoy my new diet and continue to take Vitae Elixxir every day.

Surprisingly there has been little fanfare by the doctors involved in my treatment. Never mind what the doctors might say about the experience, I’m doing my part. And thank you very much—I’ll keep my colon.
My Contact Information:  via email or follow Chris  on Twitter or Facebook.
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“For nothing is impossible with God.”
Luke 1:37 (NIV)

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Introduction to Spiritual Healing

Posted on March 24, 2018 by Ken

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Spiritual Healing is about working with illness, dis-ease, and dis-harmony                       from multiple angles.

When using spiritual healing to address illness, we focus on bringing harmony                 back to reinforce a person’s whole body-heart-mind health.

Healing vs. Curing

In modern society, we expect quick fixes. Western medicine focuses on curing people through surgery, also pharmaceuticals and other medical interventions.  If you have a bacterial infection, western medicine provides the cure, antibacterial medicine.

Many treatments exist in western medicine. Treatments focus on curing symptoms.        For example, medications are used to treat symptoms of depression and pain. Treatments can be beneficial in acute situations.  However,  long-term reliance on only treatment can inhibit healing,  create a dependence on the treatment and even create additional illness and disease. For example, antibacterial medications often create an imbalance in the gut.

Healing goes beyond medical treatment. It includes spiritual growth, intellectual expansion, physical cures and other interventions. Healing requires digging deeper into why you got a bacterial infection in the first place and why you have depression and pain.

What is Spiritual Healing

Healing is usually a mixture of interventions – physical medical and non-medical, energetic interventions and mental interventions. When we transform the cause of illness/disease and grow beyond the problem, we are then focused on healing.  Healing is a whole package deal. Addressing only one element of an illness rarely leads to healing.

In spiritual healing, we create a medicine story for ourselves that includes both a curing process and a healing destination.  We create a spiritual prescription for the body, heart, and mind and then embark upon a healing journey.

Spiritual healing is a path of transformation, a journey that connects the body, heart and mind to free the soul.

The Spiritual Healing Journey

A spiritual healing journey addresses physical, emotional, mental and spiritual toxins.  In this way, we eliminate toxins that undercut the soul. We then release motion that splits a person away from themselves.  Doing both allows a person to heal and become whole.

Healing the soul is the combined healing interventions for the body, heart, and mind.  Many of us think of one action and then act upon another. For example, I may think I want to write today and then physically go to the beach instead.  Or, we feel strongly about one need and yet physically move in a different direction.  It happens all of the time, every day, for most of us.

One of my teachers, Gabrielle Roth, says it this way in her book Maps to Ecstasy,

“We need to do right by our body, purify our relationships, use our mind for creative freedom and not enslavement, free the soul from the ego, and undertake the spiritual journey.”

So, what does doing right by our body mean?

Spiritual Healing: Do Right by Our Body

Check in with your body on a daily basis.  How does it feel?  Does it have any complaints?

  • Eat Healthily.  What does this mean for us now? Can we eat less sugar?  Are we still eating fast food?  Do we drink enough water?  Find small ways to improve dietary habits.  Eat more vegetables.  Eat more local and organic foods. Learn more about diet.  Choose one thing and move forward!
  • Exercise.  Finding exercise we enjoy and can easily integrate into our daily life is one of the biggest challenges many people face.  Try dancing, walking, surfing, jumping rope, swimming, yoga – try whatever calls to you – until you find an exercise that you feel like practicing! Taoist Longevity and Lifestyle
  • Care for Your Body.  Get a massage or have a spa day with a friend.  Go to the chiropractor or physical therapist.  Find a circle of healers who will care for your body and address any complaints it might have proactively.
  • Sleep. Are we getting an appropriate amount of sleep? Do we feel rested? Create an evening sleep ritual. Turn off the TV. Take an evening soak by candlelight. Listen to a favorite audio meditation or put on some relaxing music.

Typically, when we take care of the body, we are also taking care of the heart and mind!  Remember to start and build body practices in a way that can be easily sustained and expanded over time. There is always something we can do for our body!

Spiritual Healing: Purify Our Relationships

What does it mean to purify our heart, relationships, and personal energy field?

  • Balance Giving and Receiving.  Are we giving and receiving in our close relationships?  Or, are we mostly giving?  Or, only receiving? Read more about The Yin and Yang of Support
  • Practice Loving without Judgement.  No heart can be pure if it is constantly comparing and judging others right or wrong. Find a supportive coach or counselor to help you release judgment.
  • Increase Awareness around, Build & Maintain your Energy.  We are exposed to toxic energy at work, in relationships, and from the TV/internet. First, begin reducing the negative energy you receive on a daily basis. Then, find an enjoyable practice that helps build and maintain energy.  Qigong, light visualization, and acupuncture are a few of our favorite energy practices.

Spiritual Healing: Use the Mind for Creative Freedom

How do we free our mind and use it to grow and create a life we love?

  • Practice meditation.  There are so many wonderful meditation practices to help keep our mind clear. Casey has a morning meditation he teaches and loves. There are numerous styles of meditation. Try several and practice the one that resonates the most for your body-heart-mind!
  • Pursue intellectual challenges. Read, take a course, pursue a degree and find ways to challenge your mind to grow.
  • Tell stories. We are our story: so talk story and write out your stories. In Remapping Your Mind: The Neuroscience of Self-Transformation through Story, Lewis Mehl-Madrona talks about how stories help us rewire our neural pathways and transform our life.

Spiritual Healing: Free the Soul from the Ego

How do we free our soul up?

  • Practice.  Soulful people have a connected body, heart, and mind. They aren’t fighting themselves. So, by finding the practices you love for your body, heart and mind you will free the soul. You will experience more moments where your thinking is aligned with your feelings and the physical motion of your body.
  • Build Mana. Be willing to build your spiritual power, so you have a strong body without complaint, energy to fulfill your dreams and a clear mind able to make choices in the present moment without doubt and distraction. In this way, you will free your soul to create a life you love!
  • Revisit and Practice Daily. Check-in to be sure your practices are still resonating for your body-heart-mind. Are you starting to feel like a zombie going through the motions? Maybe it’s time to try a new practice or deepen your practice!

Spiritual Healing: Undertake the Spiritual Journey

While we practice keeping our body healthy and happy, our emotions and energy balanced, our mind clear and sharp, sometimes there are spiritual aspects of illness, dis-ease, and disharmony. Our medicine story may benefit from a spiritual intervention.

  • Regain Power. In shamanic cultures, it is important to be full of power. Power gives us the ability to be the authors of our life (rather than a character being directed by others). One way to restore power to a person, family or community, is through a power animal retrieval.
  • Remove misplaced energy. There is no good or bad energy. There is simply energy that is stuck, not where it is supposed to be and often simply needs to be moved. The energy practices you adopt will help with this. However, it can be helpful to have a shamanic practitioner help you move energy that has been misplaced in your body.
  • Retrieve lost soul parts. When we experience trauma in life, a part of us leaves to protect us from experiencing the trauma full on. This is called soul loss in shamanic cultures. And, a soul retrieval is a shamanic method for bringing back lost soul parts so that we may be whole again.
  • Reconnect with your ancestors. Know your Mountain. We stand on the shoulders of others, and it is important to be rooted in this. Otherwise, we risk becoming ruthless. Being connected to our ancestors, family, and friends who love us is critical to all medicine stories. Ancestral healing, with ancestors who have passed on in the last 100 years, often helps physical issues that won’t resolve.
  • Be the Light.  Healing with Spiritual Light is a cross-cultural spiritual healing technique that helps transmute negativity and toxins within and around us. As your body, heart, and mind come more into balance and harmony, removing stones that have accumulated in your bowl of light over time, you find that you can hold your core in a strong, energy-filled way. You can walk through life filled with light, shining bright and inspiring others to be in their light more and more! 

Spiritual healing involves healing the body, heart and mind so that the soul can be whole.

Often, it takes more than one intervention for us to heal, as well as daily practice. This is the path of our destiny, creating a bigger story for ourselves and our loved ones, so that we may move through life in a connected, fulfilling way.

Spiritual healing is about being the author of your very own medicine story.

Jewelie has completed Sandra Ingerman’s Soul Retrieval Training and is listed as a shamanic practitioner. She offers Long-Distance Soul Retrievals and Spiritual Healing sessions. Contact us for more information and to schedule a spiritual healing or coaching session!

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Healing Your Broken Confidence

Posted on March 24, 2018 by Ken

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1. Work On Releasing Your Old Emotional Pain

It’s when we start becoming confident that real learning begins. Learning something new can be challenging. We tend to forget that we once had to learn everything we now take for granted — walking, talking, feeding ourselves, riding a bike, etc. Sometimes we can become disheartened by how long it’s taking to learn that new knowledge or skill, and it seems like we will never get there — until the day we do.

The experience of life creates a multitude of situations, events and encounters and we all respond to these experiences in our own way. Unpleasant experiences can lead to negative emotions, and when we don’t fully accept and allow the emotion to flow through us, we are left with the energy of this negativity living within our own energy bodies.

This negative energy can accumulate over time, and we continue to carry it with us. This negative energy has an impact on the way we think and behave, including the way we think about ourselves.

For example, my own father was highly critical of everything I did and never gave praise, only negative comments – no matter how great my achievements. I spent much of my childhood (and even adult life) trying to impress him and gain his approval, but of course it never came.

The emotional pain this created stayed with me and obviously affected the way I thought myself. But this is just one example. Everyone’s life path is different and your energy pain-body will be different to mine. But we can all benefit from doing emotional release and healing exercises, and that is exactly one of the things I did.

Emotional healing exercises can help us to accept and then release old negative emotions (and even new ones) from our energy system, allowing our true selves to begin shining through. I have created a whole section on my website about emotional healing, so click here on my link, scroll down and discover some of my favourite emotional healing exercises.

2. Examine Your Thoughts And Your Mind Chatter

Humans have a habit of focusing on the negative, and the negative energy from withheld emotional pain that I spoke about above further encourages this. Most of us have so many negative thoughts stream habitually through our heads all day that most of the time we don’t even notice it.

So what thoughts go through your head as you go about your day? And, more importantly when you have low self esteem, what are you saying about yourself to yourself?

Do you make a mistake and mumble “stupid idiot” under your breath before you even realise it? Do you look in the mirror and suddenly have a stream of negative comments about your appearance flash through your mind automatically?

Negative mind chatter will focus on anything negative about anyone and anything – including yourself. I believe it’s vital to become aware of and begin addressing your negative self talk if you are to heal, expand and grow – and begin overcoming     low self esteem.

I have done a lot of work on my own self talk, and I encourage you to do the same if you want to build your self esteem.

Please have a look at my section on self talk, where I teach you about the ways I began to turn my own self talk around for the better.
3. How To Increase Self Esteem By Nurturing Yourself

What have you done for yourself today? And I don’t mean brushed your teeth or brought   a new toaster. What have you done that brought you joy and helped you feel good?

If you have low self esteem, then you probably don’t do much self nurturing because you feel you don’t deserve it. But if you begin to make it a regular habit to do things just for yourself that bring you joy, then you get into that feeling of allowing yourself this time because you are worthwhile.

Click here for my list of little things you can do to nurture yourself and start overcoming low self esteem.

4. Keep A Notebook Of Positive Things About Yourself

Buy yourself a small notebook or journal that you find attractive. Now it is your task to write at least one thing in that journal everyday – no matter how small.

Everyday, think of at least one positive quality that you have or one positive thing you    did that day. Most of us feel awkward appreciating and acknowledging good things about ourselves, so you may find it hard to get started. If it helps, you can ask someone you trust what they think is one of your positive qualities.

Here are some examples to get you started:
– I always smile when I pass a stranger in the street – I performed my job to the best of my ability today
– I like to make people laugh
– I comforted my child when he felt scared
– I am proud of my honesty.

Getting into the habit of allowing yourself to acknowledge and accept your positive qualities will help train your mind to focus on your favorable aspects rather than on those you consider to be negative. And it feels good to feel good about yourself.

Here are some ways to improve your confidence right now, and get back on track to being the best you can be!

1. Praise yourself. Acknowledge and appreciate your talents, qualities and abilities. Do you ever praise yourself, or just spend your precious time belittling yourself? Right now:

  • Write down 5 things you are good at. Even if it’s a small talent or ability, acknowledge it.

  • Remind yourself of the times that you were complimented… however you shrugged it off     as “nothing.” Now, think back to that situation and say “THANK YOU” with a big smile on your face.

2. Be your own best cheerleader. It’s easy to be your own worst critic, but there are so many people out there who are willing to be your worst critic – the haters, the jealous ones, the ones who just don’t believe you or like you… so let them voice their opinions (because what they say is NOTHING more than opinion)… and don’t beat yourself up   over mistakes and failures.  Mistakes and failures DO NOT EXIST as negatives if you   learn and grow from them!

3. Change your self-talk to be more confidence-inspiring… by applying the “but” principle. Except instead of taking a positive statement and adding a “but… something negative” to it, add “but… something positive” to ALL of your negative self-talk. Example: “I didn’t get the result I wanted, BUT I learned so much from this experience.” Or, “I haven’t sold a painting yet BUT I’m expanding my marketing efforts and constantly working on my craft.” If you constantly tell yourself you’re no good… then that will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. The same will happen if you constantly tell yourself that you’re amazing. Verbally cheer yourself on, silently and out loud! “Come on, you can do it!” “You’re doing great, keep it up!” “Go for it!” “YES!!!!!”
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4. Quit taking things personally. So, someone hates your photograph. So, someone dismisses your well-researched report as make-believe. So, someone thinks you’re using performance-enhancing drugs just because you had a day in the Zone. There will always be people whose sole mission is to bring others down. Ignore them. It’s just noise. Block out the negative noise and only allow yourself to absorb constructive criticism (an opportunity to improve) and praise (acknowledgement). Don’t give your personal power away to the haters. Don’t allow another person to dictate how you feel about yourself.

5. Don’t compare yourself to others. It’s so unproductive! There will always be someone better, faster, smarter, prettier… and who cares?  The more focus you put on them, the   less energy you have to focus on yourself. Focus on being the best YOU can be. Let others inspire you, but put your own spin on what you do.

6. Leave your baggage at the last station. Your past is irrelevant. Start to think of yourself as a “rags to riches” story and RIGHT NOW, leave the past behind. Rewrite your “Story of Me.” The past is history… and aren’t reruns boring?

7. Every day, do a little bit. Of course your grand goals are overwhelming. You’ll never      get there without action. Take tiny steps every day and you’ll a) look back and see how    far you’ve come and b) you’ll be closer to your goal (and soon, beyond it).  Commit to         15 minutes a day of working on your dreams.

8. Clear your solar plexus chakra. Your level of self-esteem can be the difference between success and frustration so uplift yourself daily, spend time in the sun, fill your space with light and bright colors (yellow in particular) and focus on your passions and dreams.

9. See failure and mistakes as signs of progress. If you’re taking action, chances are you’re messing up, too. As long as you’re learning from your mistakes and failures, you are progressing and building your self-confidence in the process!

10. Do it anyway. Fear of failure, rejection, pain, and even success, can paralyze you.       But whatever horrible catastrophe you’re imagining is just that – imagination. You can also choose to imagine the best-case outcome. So do that, and take action.

11. Surround yourself with people who inspire, uplift and support you… and create an empowering environment: read books that educate you, watch TV shows that inspire you, listen to music that uplifts you… you get the picture.

12. Visualize! Elite athletes all do this: they visualize the moment of success, but also every movement in the process.  LIVE what you want in your imagination and heart, before you take your first step!  Always visualize success and the positive emotions that go with it – and remember to visualize the delightful and challenging moments that make up a great experience. Visualize yourself as the hero(ine) of your own mental movie!

13. Love yourself by choosing to be confident. Confidence means you aren’t afraid to “fail” because you know you’ll bounce back stronger than before. Confidence means that you aren’t afraid to try because you will not be diminished in any way if things don’t go as planned. Loving yourself means allowing yourself to give full expression to your life and use your talents and time in the best possible way… not hiding and regretfully wishing while others live magnificent lives.

Go for it!

Visualize... and FEEL success!

It’s okay to have insecurities, we all do and it’s crucial for us to observe and understand the impact these insecurities have on the quality of our lives. It’s our responsibility to learn how to control these insecurities and not let them control us.   “Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.” ~ Wayne Dyer
 

If you are open and willing to shake your limiting beliefs and insecurities a little bit so that you can regain the power and control over your life, these 7 steps will help you do just that.

1. Accept the truth – “no one can make you feel inferior without your consent”

Nobody knows your struggles better than you do; nobody knows your life experiences better than you do. Whether you’ve been through a lot or not in your life by now and whether you feel like a victim, whether you feel like people treated you rightly or not,      it’s important for you to realize, “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt..

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt was a wise woman who inspired many during her life and after             her death. While there are many to pick from, one of my favorite Roosevelt quotes is:     “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

It is so easy to let the opinions of others matter more than they should, the only thing     that gives someone else’s opinion true weight is you. If you can find a way to ignore the negative opinion of others, think how much better your life would be.  Take it from me,  it’s much easier said than done, but that is why Roosevelt’s words are so important.

Every morning, look in the mirror and tell yourself, “no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.’ You won’t believe how much better you feel when you start to accept that small, simple truth.

Oh, and by the way, you’re kind of amazing… try to remember that!

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2. Let the healing process begin

People have insecurities not because they were exposed to too much positivity, encouragement, and happiness but rather because those close to them criticized them because they were exposed to destructive behaviors. Usually, insecurities come from a time when you were hurt and injured emotionally.  Somebody said/did something to     you that made you sad/hurt and often these insecurities originate in childhood. See if     you can go back in time, see if you can remember how it all started, where it originated. This practice is really therapeutic and will help you heal most of your wounds and insecurities. Let go of the old you and allow fresh new positive thoughts to enter your mind.

“You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, however, we’re     not.  We always have the power of our minds. . . .Claim and consciously use your power.” ~ Louise L. Hay

3. Ask questions

Whenever you have a thought that is not beneficial to you pop in your mind,                      just ask yourself questions like:

“Do these thoughts have any real foundation?

Will they matter 10 years from now?

Are they helping me in any way?

Why do I think this way?

Where do these beliefs originate from? Are these beliefs mine?

Do I really want to pollute my mind in this way?”

Ask questions in order to find the answers, for in these answers you’ll discover                that you don’t have to believe everything you think.

“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.”~ Indira Gandhi

4. Be willing to change your mind

Having the same thoughts over and over again will do you no good. The same old thoughts will lead to the same old behaviors and the same old behaviors will lead to the same old results. If you are not happy with where you are and what you have, be willing to embrace change, be willing to change your mind.

No matter how old you are, no matter what part of the world you are living in, no matter what your religion is, no matter what skin color you have, it’s never too late to change your mind. It’s never too late to let go of who you think you are in order to allow yourself to become what you could be.

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” ~ Albert Einstein

5. Envision the end result

What are the attitudes you want to embody, what are the skills you want to master? What do you want people to recognize you for? What is the envisioned result of your thoughts, decisions, and actions? Know where you want to be and who you want to be and start taking action.

“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.” ~ Japanese Proverb

6. Look into your mind’s eye – visualize to materialize

Once you know what you want to achieve, once you know the person you want to      become the level of confidence you want to master, things will start to fall into place and by using the power of visualization things will get a lot easier.  It’s  important for you to look into your mind’s eye  and  visualize the desired outcome,  to see yourself as already being the person you want to become and as already having achieved all the  things you want to achieve.

I really love how George Kohlrieser talks about this in his book, Hostage at the Table:  How Leaders Can Overcome Conflict,  Influence Others:  “The power of imagination is incredible. Often we see athletes achieving unbelievable results and wonder how they did it. One of the tools they use is visualization or mental imagery… they made the choice to create their destinies and visualized their achievements before they ultimately succeeded.”

7. Get emotional

You want to make sure that in the end all of the things you envisioned will eventually materialize, and by assuming the feelings that come from having the things you want         to have and by feeling the feelings that come from being the person you want to be,         you will accelerate the manifestation process, and you will help bring into form the     things you need even faster.

“The emotions aren’t immediately subject to reason, but they  are always immediately subject to action.” ~ William James  http://www.healing-with-eft.com/gaining-self-confidence.html

~LOve, LIfe  This is one of the strongest deliberate complete message I’ve heard.         On point. Thank you Abraham ❤️ 💞

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How Cannabis Helps the Body HEAL

Posted on March 21, 2018 by Ken
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Even in states where cannabis is legal, about a quarter of people will never      use it while some people will use the drug regardless of its legal status.

There’s a lot of confusion in the industry, agrees Ronan Levy, the director and general counsel for Canadian Cannabis Clinics, which since opening a location on Turner Road in Windsor last September has seen more than 1,000 local patients seeking medical marijuana. He said people think they can buy marijuana at        the clinic. With the most perplexing question being best strains for cancer?

What the clinic does is take referrals from local doctors, set up an appointment with a clinic doctor, go through all the paperwork required to show the patient has a condition that medical marijuana can help and that he’s already tried conventional treatments.

Then the clinic doctor meets with the patient and if it’s warranted, provides a prescription that goes directly to one of the licensed providers. The package is delivered to the patient’s home.

Levy said the public don’t understand the difference between clinics like his and a dispensary, which many people believe are legally allowed to sell medical marijuana.         A few months ago police in Toronto raided a number of dispensaries, however, many reopened within days. So there’s a misperception that the medical marijuana system           is wide open, he said.

The second-largest licensed producer in Canada, Leamington-based Aphria, recently announced the start of a $10-million expansion that will more than double its greenhouse space (from 43,000 square feet to 100,000) and its sales (from more than 2,600 kilograms annually to 6,000 projected once the approvals arrive and the product it ready next year).

Jack Kungel, a Kingsville man who credits cannabis with rescuing him from terminal cancer and years of miserable poor health brought on by a major workplace injury, diabetes, overweight and being on more than 22 medications. Today, at age 64, he says he’s the healthiest he’s been in his life. http://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/medical-marijuana-landscape-described-as-the-wild-west.

While he can’t sell or supply others, he said he helps with tips on the right strains to order from the licensed producers for their particular condition, and advice on converting the product into products like cookies, oils and even suppositories that don’t get you high.

“What it’s allowed me to do is function,” Kungel said, describing the decades-long efforts to make it illegal the biggest lie on the planet. “It’s medicine,” he said.

In Windsor, there are currently no dispensaries, but many people seeking medical marijuana are getting it from black market suppliers, according to marijuana advocate  Jon Liedtke,  who earlier this year opened Higher Limits,   a medical marijuana lounge      on Ouellette Avenue. He said “every day” he gets people coming in thinking they can buy medical marijuana there. http://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/medical-marijuana-landscape-described-as-the-wild-west

“There’s a lot of confusion for patients as well,” he said.

Jack Kungel Beat Cancer Naturally 2 Times and is Eager to Share How He Did It!

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– Jack Kungel, Cancer Survivor       http://jackkungel.com/jacks-story.html

Jack Beat Cancer (oh, and diabetes and other dis-eases) with Cannabis

Jack has beaten cancer twice and has been cancer-free for over 5 years!

In the early 90’s he had a devastating accident and was immediately put on a long list of medications – many for pain management.

Not only was he left with a debilitated body from the accident, he suffered life-altering side effects from the medications; particularly vomiting (for 20 years 15-20 times a day) which wore down his teeth, caused breakage of ribs and pain on top of pain. He realized that he was in chemical toxicity from all of the medications.

With his first diagnosis of bladder cancer which also affected the prostate, the doctor left him with the option of surgery. Jack took some time to think things over, time that was becoming increasingly more valuable.

“I took 28 days from the 3 or 4 months they said I had after being diagnosed with cancer, and began to educate myself.” – Jack Kungel, Cancer Survivor

Jack mentions that he had a serendipitous meeting in which a man introduced him to the healing powers of cannabis. He began taking in this medicinal plant in every way possible immediately: smoking, vaporizing and ingesting.

The therapeutic effects of cannabis allowed him to easily wean from his medications; from 22 medications a day to zero in a matter of a couple of months.

When he was cleared of cancer he dramatically reduced the cannabis protocol he was following. But, the cancer came back.

“Your body is the computer and the cannabis is the anti-virus. You take it and goes to where the body needs to heal… We are hardwired for this plant.” – Jack Kungel, Cancer Survivor

What it Took to Beat Cancer Again

This time Jack took a “no holds barred” approach. He not only aggressively began his cannabis regimen again, he drastically changed his diet to eliminate all meat, dairy and sugar. He now eats a mostly vegan diet consuming eggs only about once every 4-5 months and using bone broth regularly. He says he eats a lot of veggies and nuts and only whole fruits.

Jack explains from what he learned along his healing journey that cancer cells feed off of sugar and an amino acid called methionine. Methionine is predominantly in animals products, which is why Jack avoids these foods.

In the interview Jack explains the healing components of cannabis and dispels the belief that CBD (the non psychoactive component of the plant) is just one aspect of the healing component of the plant. He confirms that THC not only is the part of the plant that knowingly produces the “high” but is the most healing.

Well, it’s a fun and lively conversation… and there’s so much more!

“We want full plant medicine… You need the THC-delta-9 to heal… CBD just addressed the symptoms.” – Jack Kungel, Cancer Survivor

“I couldn’t walk before. Now I walk four or five miles a day.” – Jack Kungel, Cancer Survivor

Other topics we talked about:

  • Endocannabinoid System
  • CBD1 and CBD2 receptors
  • Decarb cannabis (baked, dried cannabis at 240 degrees) which converts THC 8 to TCH delta 9 which is curative
  • How cannabis extended the life of Jack’s dog with hip dysplasia
  • Why cannabis became illegal
  • Evolution of cannabis becoming legal in Canada
  • What we can do in the US to legalize cannabis
  • Friends with Osteoarthritis and Multiple Sclerosis sufferer can thrive due to cannabis.
  • Run From the Cure (video that Jack mentions)
  • How high estrogen cancers needs to be treated differently
  • Bone marrow (bone broth) boosts the T-cells
  • How a friend helped him figure out that his intense skin reactions was acidic reaction (burns)
  • The perspective of gaining LIFE!
  • How quantum hypnosis helped
  • How a friend with glioblastoma (an aggressive cancer that begins in the brain) has survived 2 years (when given only 2 weeks to live!)
  • How Jack deals with negativity
  • Why not to say “My (disease)”
  • The role of Methionine and Serrapeptase

Watch or Listen  http://weightfreewellnesspodcast.com/jack-kungel-beat-cancer/ 

There are so many nuggets!

Joy Smith appeared on the show on Tuesday March 13, where she explained how she was diagnosed in July 2016 with ovarian cancer, stomach and bowel cancer.
In August 2017 she was given six weeks to live after it was discovered that the cancer has spread to her stomach and bowel.
But now she’s in remission and claims cannabis oil cured her terminal disease. Research Consultant Matthew Atha explains why the research into cannabis oil    has been so limited. Here she reveals why she feels cannabis oil is curing her disease. After being told she had six weeks to live, Joy claims she’s on the road to recovery thanks to cannabis oil during her treatment, calling for it to be legalized. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zpli7sWZW4         http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5489775/Woman-52-cured-terminal-cancer-cannabis-oil.html

Corrie Yelland, a Victoria, British Columbia native, has a story that most people cannot imagine. In May 2007, she had a heart attack and afterward a double bypass surgery. As a result of the surgery, she experienced chronic pain from a maligned sternum and post-sternotomy neuralgia syndrome. Yelland constantly took pain killers to try to ease the pain, but nothing seemed to work.    https://cbd-international.net/cannabis-oil-helps-cancer-treatment-kill-cancer-cells/

Fast forward four years, Yelland was diagnosed with anal canal cancer and was coping with two spots of skin cancer on her collar bone. After two surgeries, the doctors told her that they were not able to get all the cancer and that she would have to go through radiation. She researched the procedure and discovered that there was potentially for permanent damage and she would suffer second- and third-degree burns.  There was also a good possibility that the affected areas    would fuse shut from the burns and subsequent scaring.

Hesitant about the radiation treatments, she asked for some time to think about it. Her doctor then told her that she had 2-4 months to live, at most 6, and that she should highly consider the radiation treatment.

But instead, she decided to start exploring the use of cannabis oil for cancer treatment.

At the age of 10, Deryn Blackwell was diagnosed with leukaemia and two years    later developed a rare form of cancer called Langerhans cell sarcoma.
After four unsuccessful bone marrow transplants he was given just days to live,
but Deryn battled his way back from the brink and has since made a full recovery. Deryn’s mother Callie revealed that she had been giving him medicinal cannabis and credits it with saving Deryn’s life  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqvJOAV7oAc

Mykayla Comstock

In the fight for cannabis treatment, a family forced to face the dire consequences of choosing between what doctors tell them, or what they know to be right, shares their story with the world. As adults, we have the right to choose our treatment options when it comes to healthcare. For a child, however, neither you or your parents have much choice in the matter. If parents go against doctors wishes in the treatment of their child, the can face child endangerment and neglect, loss of custody, and worse. In the fight for cannabis treatment, a family forced to face the dire consequences of choosing between what doctors tell them, or what they know to be right shares their story with the world.

In May of 2012, then 7-year-old Mykayla developed a cough, body aches, fever, night sweats, and a rash on her legs. When her family took her to the doctor, he suspected strep throat and put her on antibiotics. Her condition only worsened. Her second doctor found a “basketball” sized mass in her chest pushing against her internal organs.

Mykayla endured spinal taps and bone marrow biopsies before finally being diagnosed with aggressive T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

This disease accounts for 15-18% of all childhood leukemia cases. It originates with a change in the DNA, causing the bone marrow to produce leukemia white blood cells.  https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/health/960190/i-give-my-8-year-old-cannabis-every-day/

The painful path

Chemotherapy failed to treat the leukemia, so doctors decided they wanted to blast her entire body with radiation and perform a bone marrow transplant. However, the mass was so large that doctors refused to sedate her for risk of death from pressure on her esophagus and heart.

Faced with their daughter suffering one of the most painful medical procedures one can possibly endure, Mykayla’s parents refused. During her chemotherapy, they chose to treat her with cannabis oil and a healthy diet, and decided to continue this course of treatment instead.

In rapid fashion, her tumor began to shrink, and Mykayla was soon in remission. Almost four years later, she is still cancer free. She is the youngest patient in Oregon to receive cannabis for her condition.

Fighting doctors

Mykayla’s mother credits cannabis with saving her daughter’s life, but in the beginning, she had to fight to get the treatment her daughter deserved.  Mykayla’s biological father, Jesse Comstock, feared that his daughter would become addicted to marijuana and worried about the effects on her brain. Her step-father, Brandon Krenzler, was enthusiastic in how quickly her use of cannabis baked into brownies using cannabutter or in pill form brought her out of her pain and depression.

Their first doctor at Legacy Emmanuel’s Randall Children’s Hospital opposed medical cannabis, and so her mother, Erin, changed doctors. Associations like  Leaders of the American Academy of Pediatrics drafted and signed a resolution stating their opposition to medical marijuana use for children. Dr. Sharon Levy of the academy stressed that “marijuana isn’t medicine“.  Dr. Stephen Sallan of the Dana Faber Cancer Institute in Boston also believes that “pot does not cure childhood leukemia”.

The powerful truth

However Mykayla is just one of thousands of cancer patients who have seen fantastic results using whole plant extracts of cannabis, and the numbers are growing daily. When the government itself owns patents on a medicine it says is not a medicine, and pharmaceutical companies make medicine from a plant that “has no medical value“, how do we not stand up and fight for the truth?

This little girl is, and she even made a video in 2014, almost 2 years after her ordeal, to share her story with the world. If you want to know more about her, and her victory, you can follow her on Facebook or on their website: www.bravemykayla.com.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Yzn27ps0I

Doctors for Cannabis Regulation  is the first and only national physicians’ association dedicated to the legalization and effective regulation of cannabis.  Until our launch —  many physicians were reluctant to publicly voice opposition to the war on cannabis,  lest they appear to condone recreational cannabis use and violate their ethical responsibility to “do no harm.” But through daily immersion in anecdotal patient experience and scientific evidence, knowledgeable American physicians now recognize: https://dfcr.org/            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N8QMeIsX2c

The cannabis plant (also known as the hemp plant) has been used in just about every culture for centuries. In fact, cannabis is included in the 50 fundamental herbs within the cornucopia of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It has been cited in ancient texts as having a healing effect on over 100 ailments. In recent years in the United States, the collective mood is changing in regards to cannabis/hemp (aka “marijuana”).

Personally, I prefer to use the term “hemp” or “cannabis” since those are proper names for the plant, and the truth is that the term “marijuana” (derived from the Mexican slang “marihuana”) was popularized in the early 1930s by the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (which later became the DEA) in order to make this amazing plant sound sinister and to elude the public’s existing familiarity and comfort level with the plant and the medical application of cannabis/hemp tinctures. “Marijuana” was not a commonly smoked recreational drug at the time.

Currently there are 25 states where it is legal for patients to use “marijuana” for medical purposes. Pending federal legislation may open up opportunities for federally-funded medical research, including human clinical trials. This will further prove cannabis’ track-record when it comes to healing a number of disease conditions − including cancer.

Cannabis and The Endocannabinoid System

In the mid-1990s, renowned Israeli researcher Dr. Ralph Mechaoulam, professor of Medicinal Chemistry at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, made an exciting discovery that would forever change how we look at our biological relationship to plant medicine. Dr. Mechaoulam discovered a subtle system within the body that seemed to have a balancing effect on every other system. He called it the Endocannabinoid (EC) System and it can be found in all mammals, including humans.

The EC system consists of a series of molecular receptors that are designed to receive cannabinoids. In particular this includes cannabidiol (CBD) and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) as well as other related substances such as cannabigerol (CBG) and cannabinol (CBN).

Prior research in the 1980s led Mechaoulam and others to pinpoint two main receptors for cannabinoids − cannabinoid 1 (CB1) and cannabinoid 2 (CB2). Researchers at the time also defined the natural substances called endocannabinoids, which our body produces on its own in a similar way it produces endorphins. Phytocannabinoids (namely THC, CBD, and their variants), on the other hand, come directly from the cannabis plant.

Cannabinoid receptors CB1 and CB2 are designed by the body to be specific targets for THC, while our natural endocannabinoids help to synthesize it. The process of THC-cannabinoid receptor binding and what this does for the body is what researchers have been studying for over two decades. They are doing this in order to find out exactly how cannabis works in healing cancer.

Microbiologist Dr. Christine Sanchez of Compultense Univeristy in Madrid, Spain has been studying cannabinoids and cancer since the early 2000s. She was the first to discover the antitumor effects of cannabinoids.

“We now know that the endocannabinoid system regulates a lot of biological functions such as appetite, food intake, motor function, reproduction and many others and that is why the plant has such a wide therapeutic potential,” says Dr. Sanchez in a video interview for the web-based cable channel Cannabis Planet.

Cannabis and Cancer Tumor Growth

“We observed that when we treated [astrocytoma, a type of brain tumor] cells with cannabinoids, the THC…was killing the cells in our Petri dishes,” Dr. Sanchez says. “We…decided to analyze these components in animal models of breast and brain tumors. The results we are obtaining are telling us that cannabinoids may be useful for the treatment of Breast Cancer.”

Sanchez and other researchers have confirmed that the most potent effects against tumor growth occur when THC and CBD are combined.

Cannabidiol, or CBD, which does not have a psychoactive effect, has long been    known as a potent anti-cancer agent. This is because of its ability to interfere with cellular communication in tumors as well as in its ability to instigate apoptosis, or programmed cancer cell death. Some research studies, including in vitro and animal-based trials conducted by San Francisco-based researchers at the California Pacific Medical Center, have also shown that CBD may affect genes involved in aggressive metastasis. It does this by helping to shut down cellular growth receptors.

Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (i.e. THC), the psychoactive counterpart to CBD, has been shown to reduce tumor growth as well. It has also shown to have an effect on the     rate of metastasis, including for non-small cell lung cancer − the leading       cause of cancer deaths globally. A 2007 study on THC and highly-aggressive epidermal growth factor receptor-overexpressing (EGF-expressing) lung cancer conducted by Harvard Medical School found that certain EGF lung cancer cells express CB1 and CB2 cannabinoid receptors. They found that the presence of THC effected metastasis of these cells by reducing the “focal adhesion complex,” which plays a vital role in cancer migration.

Studies have also been conducted on the combined effect of CBD and THC on lung, prostate, colon, pancreatic, liver, bladder, cervical, blood-based, brain, and other forms of cancer. These studies lend increasing evidence to the fact that cannabinoids are not only antioxidant phytonutrients but powerful “herbal chemo” agents.

Says Dr. Sanchez: “One of the advantages of cannabinoid-based medicines would be     that they target specifically tumor cells. They don’t have any toxic effect on normal non-tumoral cells. This is an advantage with respect to standard chemotherapy that targets basically everything.”

If You Use Cannabis for Cancer, Do it Right

Because cannabinoid therapy is relatively new in the mainstream, a current challenge      for patients regarding its use is lack of regulation. This may change, however, with the possible passing of the Compassionate Access, Research Expansion, and Respect States (CARERS) Act, which has the support of 37 members of Congress.

CARERS would remove “marijuana” from the Controlled Substances Act Schedule I drug category, where it has been since 1970 − on par with heroin and cocaine. This classification is ridiculous since, by definition, Schedule I drugs have “no currently accepted medical uses” and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) holds a patent (U.S. Patent 6630507) on cannabis oil for medical use!

Think about it. How can HHS hold a medical use patent for cannabis oil if there are      no medical uses for cannabis? OK, enough of the logic lesson. Let’s just say that there are some serious logic deficiencies in these laws.

If “marijuana” is rightfully removed from a Schedule I drug, this would open the door      for more targeted, federally-funded research as well as increased patient access to this amazing healing plant.

In the meantime, if you are on a cancer-healing path and are considering using cannabinoids, here are some general guidelines that experts agree      are worth considering:

  1. Do your own research. The best way to learn about the power of cannabis in healing cancer is to start digging. There are approximately 500 articles on Pubmed alone relating to cannabis and cancer. Learn about strains, qualified targeted research studies, what method of administration may be right for you, and the importance of balancing the Endocannabinoid System.
  2. Know your source. Unfortunately, because the medical cannabis industry is  also   largely unregulated, charlatans selling bogus products definitely exist. You should not have to    pay exorbitant amounts of money for any cannabis product that you buy from regulated pharmacies or online. Also, make quality a priority for you. Be sure that your product comes from an organic source and that you know that the plant has not been grown or processed using pesticides.
  3. Stick with natural cannabis products. Synthetically-produced cannabinoids    such as Marinol are commercially available. However, anecdotal evidence has found that these do not work as efficiently as natural substances do.
  4. Work with a professional healthcare provider trained in cannabinoid therapy. These professionals are out there in increasing numbers, especially in states where the medical cannabis industry is well established or growing, such as California and Colorado. Reach out to a patient advocate group online if no qualified professionals are in your area.
  5. Make cannabis therapy an important part of your overall cancer-healing toolbox. A well-rounded naturally-based cancer healing protocol involves working with the body’s own healing mechanisms through a variety of means.  For you, this may mean changes to your diet and lifestyle,  reducing stress,  getting quality sleep, moving your body, also intense detoxing protocols,  and using other supplements      and proven natural methods in addition to the powerful healing power of cannabis.

To get cancer, one has to collect a pool of negative energy, which moredn society is always ready to supply! – which works as cancer fuel. Cannabioids also have deeper acsess to human emo layers, than non-“narcotics” possessing closer to opioids depth of actin, being much safer in terms of addiction at the same time. One thus gets opportunity to reach the most hidden levels of emo/mental aspects, plus get a natural effect of activation and unblocking of these. After which it depends on a person, if one can mount this wave and make things sorted out, relative to one’s cancer origin, or being passive and obtaining just partial release.This also explains the universal action of cannabis, because it’s evident, there’s only ONE cancer disease at fundamental level and by fundamental mechanisms, and it’s location resulting in breat, colon, brain etc. tumors, depending on individual weak points and Constitution.

Credit: https://thetruthaboutcancer.com/cannabis-and-cancer/

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Invite the Light Into Your Being

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Ken

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Eckhart Tolle is widely recognized as one of the most original and inspiring spiritual teachers of our time. He travels and teaches throughout the world.

Eckhart is not aligned with any particular religion or tradition, but excludes none. His profound yet simple and practical teachings have helped thousands of people find inner peace, healing and greater fulfillment in their lives. At the core of his teachings lies the transformation of individual and collective human consciousness – a global spiritual awakening.

Eckhart Tolle is the author of The Power of Now, a #1 New York Times Bestseller, which has been translated into 32 languages and become one of the most influential spiritual books of our time.

In his most recent book, A New Earth, he shows how transcending our ego-based state     of consciousness is not only essential to personal happiness, but also the key to ending conflict and suffering throughout the world.

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Ossama Suleiman’s 8 Year Glioblastoma Survivor

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Ken

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This ‘Dying’ Person’s Advice: Living Will Give You Reasons To Love Your Life

They say you don’t value things till you lose them– life isn’t an exception either.

It’s easy for us to say that we take life for granted. We crib about insignificant things and fail to notice         the beauty in everything around us. You know what serves as a wake-up call? The realization of the fact    that we’re all here for a very, very limited time. We’re all like cartons of milk with an expiry date!

Step back and look at things from a humbling perspective because life is indeed too short and frankly,         you never know when things could start going downhill.

A Quora user asked an existential question – As a dying person, what is your advice to the living? While all of us were expecting normal answers like travel as if there is no tomorrow, finish your bucket list, be nice to people etc, there was one answer that’ll bring tears to our eyes.

User Ossama Suleiman narrated his story — how he battled with cancer, doctors gave up on him and                how he gave up on life. 8 years later, he’s still alive to tell his story and how he found the meaning of life      all over again.   https://www.facebook.com/ossama.suleiman

Diagnosed with glioblastoma, a grade 4 brain cancer, Ossama Suleiman was only given a couple of months to live, a year if he was lucky, but that was eight years ago.

 What changed?  He decided to do things that made him happy/ He worked on himself, travelled, exercised, met friends, gave up on people who didn’t make him happy, spent time with family and worked really hard. He writes, all doctors have is stats, but aren’t we all living in a time frame anyway? Live like there’s no tomorrow.

Ossama Suleiman’s  8 Year Glioblastoma Brain cancer Survivor story *.

In 2014 I was diagnosed with stage IV metastatic lung cancer that had already spread to lymph nodes and pleural sac. I started with some nasty chemotherapy that wiped out my white and red blood cell counts. I developed some major and minor infections including a lung abcess that required a hospital stay. I had several blood transfusions. My fatigue was terrible and I had to go on medical leave from work a couple of months after starting treatment. The treatment worked and soon I felt almost normal. Went back to work.       I’ve had numerous treatments since then; some worked some didn’t.

I’ve run out of options that insurance will cover for chemo or immunotherapy treatment and the cancer has spread very aggressively to my brain and I get zapped by radiation beams frequently (which works 80–90% of the time). Still the brain begins to resemble Swiss cheese and at some point vital tissue will be eaten by cancer or killed by the rads.

I’ve lost about a quarter of the feeling and function in my feet and had to adjust to that.  No footraces for me 🙂

I left work a few months ago because with the brain issue I thought my function would degrade and I didn’t want to be a burden to my co-workers and I was so encouraged by   upper management to focus on my illness with their blessing. I work for the best rated technology company to work for in the US as ranked by Fortune Magazine and they deserve it.

What I have is 100% terminal. I am now in the 2% percentile for survival with the brain metastases alone.

I go into such detail to outline my situation.

I have always been the type of person who sees adversity as a challenge, like a game to be won. It’s just my personality. I take it pretty lightly most of the time; it’s a fun way to be.

When this first started I was a bit pensive and reflective. I’ve always been agnostic so           I didn’t re-examine my beliefs or ask God for help – just not wired that way. I then tried     to live as normally as possible.  I have a wife and three grown children who rely on me     and a focus has been making sure I can be there for them now and after the inevitable.

Oddly I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve been scared. Concerned, yes,     and I consider the side effects a pain in the rear.  But I’m not scared and I don’t act that way and it’s not an act. I question myself all the time about this. I make dark jokes all the time and respond to cancer issues with jokes. Examples: A guy who sells flowers sold me some flowers that I was concerned would wilt quickly.

A few days later I was going to lunch with friends and the seller got into the elevator       and asks “Not dead yet?” We all stared silent at him and he turned white and started stammering an apology. I just started laughing and told him it was OK and my friends slowly started to laugh and take the faux pas lightly. The tension passed. Recently an old friend told me she thought something I had written was smart and would continue to be for other writings. I replied “Not for long :-)” A joke but reality.

I am a bit debilitated and everyone knows it. I know the deal with protected medical privacy but except for very private issues I’m very open with all aspects of my disease      and treatment and effects.  I’m not embarrassed…. to ask for help or accommodation       when I need it. And I think partially because of my attitude everyone jumps to help          me out.

As I mentioned I recently left work on leave which would have become permanent this week. Top management at the company considers me brave. Maybe the casual attitude. Maybe the jokes. I don’t know why. But they have bent over backwards. They have decided to keep me on the roles as active with full pay and benefits. I didn’t ask for that but it allows me to live my same lifestyle and not be driven broke by medical costs.

In fact everyone is in awe of my attitude and think that I’m incredibly brave. It’s embarrassing. I’m not brave. I’m just wired this way like people you hear about who run into a burning building without a thought or the guys who rushed armed terrorists on a train barehanded. They chuckle and act sheepishly in interviews when told they’re are brave heroes they are and I suspect that it’s because they don’t understand the whole bravery thing. They just reacted. I just react.

I pulled some financial tricks that netted us enough money to supplement the lifestyle        a bit. Helping our grown children. Buying little things we’ve needed or wanted.

And you know? Like Ossama said once you’ve settled and have relieved yourself of    concerns outside of your health it’s great! I can tinker all day with a computer issue            or order a weird kitchen appliance and play with or play a complex and time intense computer game or binge watch a Netflix series with my wife.

We recently took a road trip for a weekend at the Kennedy Space Center. The night we     got there we ate dinner at a beachside little bar and grill with a funny and snarky 1-man band and it was the most fun out we’d had in ages. We had to skip the KSC tour because    of a family crisis but still that trip is a very fond memory for both of us.   And the crisis worked out OK.

Avoiding boredom is the only real problem but I’ll solve that one real soon 🙂 I mentioned I am competitive? This is my video game; Me versus cancer and I’m shooting for a high score. Because I’m “brave” lol.

But I’m not a robot. I get short-tempered and cranky at times. I know deep-down some part of me is depressed because I show signs that I recognize from a period of clinical depression I had many years ago. I tear up at hokey contrived scenes in movies. Stuff like that.

The title question is a bit vague. Advice on how to cope with finding out you’re dying or how to treat people who are? Or something more metaphysical which I suck at?

My Advice to the Living, as a Dying Person!!!

Treat your nurses and administrative staff like family. Bring them chocolates and snacks and little things from time-to-time. They deserve it. They become emotionally involved with your treatment and are more open and honest with you because of it. Just don’t expect nor ask for special treatment. Be open and friendly with your doctors. Ask them about and keep up with as much of their lives as they’ll share. Spouses names, children’s names, likes/dislikes. Study up and learn as much as you can about your condition so that you can ask intelligent questions. It’ll promote honesty and they won’t be afraid to sugarcoat things.

Do not become a burden to friends and family if you can help it. Stay light-hearted. Talk about your condition openly and honestly if asked. Don’t obsess over it. Do everything you can to change focus to other things. When they stop treating you different you know you’re doing something right. When your spouse starts yelling at you for forgetting an item at the grocery store you’ve got it down.

If someone shows genuine concern and you know it’s bothering them make a joke.

Like Ossama said keep busy. Do things that you love to do “off the clock”. Meaning do what you love, adopt a hobby but make sure no one depends on your deliverables or there are hard timelines or other conditions. Make no hard commitments unless you are 100% able to do them. I had to miss a friends wedding because I was physically unable to do it and it tore my guts out. I committed when I should have been “maybe” all along.

Treat everyone better and go overboard in that with close friends and family. Better to be remembered as “that nice guy” then “nasty bastard”.

Ensure to the best of your ability that those who rely on you will be taken care of, preferably in a way that is normalized as closely as possible to what you do now.

Don’t just dump money on them; I’ve seen people who didn’t handle that well and the   end result was not good. Organize small one-time charity or help charitable groups for people who suffer what you do.

For example I asked my co-workers and friends for donations to buy snacks and treats     for people stuck in a chair for hours during chemo  (and those helping with them as well because they often have to skip meals and breaks).  There are few decent snack foods at hospitals because they frown on salty or sugary treats. I delivered the purchased results     to the head of the chemo room and she was so thrilled and told me later it made a lot of people happy. It cost me little money or time and the return on investment was awesome.

Get rid of things that will become burdens or dangers to your loved ones.  I drove a        high-performance car that my wife was scared to death of  and her car was drowned in Hurricane Irma. I traded mine in for a cute little two seat sports car that lacked the scary parts. We both love it and when I go it won’t be a problem for her. Never show them if it bothers you to do these things. Make it sound like you were happy to do something because it made you happy.

Be a good person. That’ll give folks comfort and fond memories long after you stop caring.

My short advice to those who are healthy dealing with a close one who isn’t is to pick up clues on how to treat them from how they act. Don’t press. Friends and family want to travel to visit and I know they think it’s a last chance or whatever. I hate that but others might appreciate it. Pick up on the emotional clues.

I’m sorry I’ve been so long-winded but after four years I’ve learned a lot about coping. How to deal with others. How to prepare. I’ve just scratched the surface; books have been written on this topic by experts and I’m no expert.

Hope this was informative. It was cathartic for me to write it. Thanks for the question.
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The Centenarian Mindset

Posted on March 17, 2018 by Ken

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For more than a decade, author Dan Buettner has been working to identify hot spots of longevity around the world.  With the help of the National Geographic Society,  Buettner set out to locate places that not only had high concentrations of individuals over 100 years old, but also clusters of people who had grown old without health problems like heart disease, obesity, cancer, or diabetes. 

His findings—along with easy steps you can take to live more like these cultures—can be found in his book, The Blue Zones Solution.

1. Ikaria, Greece
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  This island eight miles       off the coast of Turkey in the Aegean Sea has some of the world’s lowest rates of middle-age mortality and dementia. Research links their increased longevity with their traditional Mediterranean diet, which is heavy in vegetables and healthy fats and contains smaller amounts of dairy and meat products.

2. Okinawa, Japan

  The largest island in a subtropical archipelago controlled by Japan, Okinawa is home to the world’s longest-lived women. Food staples like Okinawan sweet potatoes, soybeans, mugwort, turmeric, and goya (bitter melon) keep Okinawans living long and healthy lives.

3. Ogliastra Region, Sardinia

  The mountainous highlands of this Italian island boast the world’s highest concentration of centenarian men. Its population consumes a low-protein diet associated with lower rates of diabetes, cancer, and death for people under age 65.  In this magnificent Mediterranean island people are living longer than anywhere else.  Also the number of residents over 100 years old is unusually high. For the last 10 years researchers have tried to find the secrets of their outstanding physical and mental health.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COwvDq_HBgI

4. Loma Linda, California

 This community has        the highest concentration of Seventh-day Adventists in the United States, and some residents live 10 more healthy years than the average American by following a biblical diet of grains,  fruits, nuts, and vegetables.

 5. Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica

  In this region of       Central America, residents have the world’s lowest rate of middle-age mortality and the second highest concentration of male centenarians. Their longevity secret lies partly in their strong faith communities,    deep social networks, and habits of regular, low-intensity physical activity.

                                            “I may give out, but I never give up”

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  ALSO in a  poll in 2010 found that just 16% of Czechs say they do believe       in a God, which is the lowest rate among all European Union countries.

The current population of Czech Republic is 10,623,193 as of Thursday, March 15, 2018, based on the latest United Nations estimates. The Czech Republic population is equivalent to 0.14% of the total world population.  However,  673 centenarians in the small country where  64% of     Czech Republic’s population is Czech,  followed by Moravians (5%), Slovaks (1.4%), Poles (0.4%) and Germans (0.2%).  https://www.tasteofprague.com/pragueblog/traditional-czech-food-in-prague-what-to-have-and-where-to-have-it    http://czechrepublic.wikispaces.com/Czech+eating+habits

   People who reach the age of 100 years or more, are currently the fastest growing  part of the population. You have learned a little about where they live, how they live, and have taken away maybe one or two of their secrets.

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So you may now be wondering just how many centenarians are there currently living on this planet we call home? Current estimates put the figure of total centenarians worldwide at about 450,000. Exact numbers may be difficult to determine, since many centenarians live in developing or outlying areas, where census data is not often available. However the numbers of centenarians in industrialized nations are still rather impressive.

The West

In total numbers the United States has the most centenarians with currant estimates as high as 72,000. If the population of centenarians continues to increase at its current rate of expansion there could be close to 1 million people of 100 years of age or more by 2050 residing in the US. In the UK while the overall numbers of centenarians are much smaller the trend is the same. The Office of National Statistics reports around 9000 centenarians today in The UK and Wales, a 90-fold increase since 1911, a 7% plus increase since 2005. At the current rate of expansion, UK’s centenarian population could reach over 40,000 by 2031. As in other parts of the industrialized world people over 90 are the fastest growing segment of the population in the UK.

The East

In total numbers of centenarians Japan is second to the US, with a current population of about 30,000. However that number has almost quadrupled in the last 10 years, making the centenarians population in Japan rising more dramatically then anywhere else. At its current rate of expansion Japan’s population of centenarians may rival that of the United States in sheer numbers in the years ahead. Certainly by 2050 Japan proportionally will have the most centenarians in the world.

In direct proportion to its large population China does not have a high percentage of centenarians, about 7000 officially in the least census. However with the rate of expansion of the population in general in China, and also  number of centenarians increasing proportionally,  it is estimated that in total numbers China will actually lead the world population of centenarians by 2050, with over 450,000. Since the death of Dominica’s “Ma Pampo”, the “official” world’s oldest person currently resides in Japan, Yone Minigawa at 114.

Everywhere Else

The are many other places in the world that sport high populations of centenarians,    many of them claiming to have the  “Most Centenarians” (based on their population) in    the world. The most recent such claim goes to the Czech Republic where a just completed census says that it has 673 centenarians in the small country.  Other countries with large centenarian populations include:

  • Spain – 10,000
  • France – Over 3000
  • Canada – Roughly 5000
  • Italy – 4500 – 5000

https://www.aplaceformom.com/blog/2013-9-6-places-america-people-live-longest/

In the United States a growing number of Americans are living to age 100. Nationwide, the centenarian population has grown 65.8 percent over the past three decades, from 32,194 people who were age 100 or older in 1980 to 53,364 centenarians in 2010, according to new Census Bureau data. In 2014, there were 72,197 Americans aged 100 or older, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That number is up 44 percent from 2000, when there were only 50,281 centenarians.

One-quarter of what you eat keeps you alive.
The other three-quarters keeps your doctor alive.
(Hieroglyph found in an ancient Egyptian tomb.)

So how do you know if living right pays off?

It is widely accepted that regular exercise, keeping your weight right and avoiding tobacco all reduce health risks across the board.  Vegetarian meals and vitamin supplements also carry clear benefits. But what do you say to the almost inevitable comment that so-and-so did everything wrong and still lived to the age of 96?

Having heard this one before, I offer this response. Outside of positive mental attitude, fortunate heredity and the grace of God, for every one who broke the laws of nature and lived, I can show you hundreds more buried in neat rows. An elderly, healthy priest was asked if you could still get into heaven if you ate junk food. “Yes,” he said, “And a lot more quickly, too.”

It is likely that you personally know precious few old persons who are in good health after a lifetime of bad habits. A relative of mine broke all the rules of nutrition and logic by smoking, drinking, being overweight, and eating lard spread on bread. Yes, he lived into his mid-nineties. But no, he was hardly the picture of health, and had been completely dependent on others and in continual discomfort for many years. Length of life is not quality of life.

It is just amazing how tough the human body can be, sometimes. Beggars in India were found to have fewer, yes fewer, dental cavities than well-fed persons in most wealthy Western countries.  In one study of 160 beggars, carious teeth were noted in only two.

The overall health of the beggars was remarkably similar to that of a comparison group of 80 medical students. “Clinically, the physical status of the two groups did not vary much… 94 percent of the beggars were free from symptoms and signs of avitaminosis or hypovitaminosis (vitamin deficiency disease)”. (Pathak, C. L. “Nutritional Adaptation to Low Dietary Intakes of Calories, Proteins, Vitamins and Minerals in the Tropics,” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 6, No. 2, March-April, 1958, pp 151-158.)

Please do not hurry to catch the next boat to Calcutta just to try to stop Mother Theresa’s workers from helping the destitute. The truly poor and the sick need all the help they can get. Still, there is a puzzle here.  Is it what the beggars ate, or what they didn’t eat, that enabled them to survive in impossible nutrition conditions?

Pathak’s above study indicated that beggars ate less and “were always underfed.”

There: the overweight connection. The medical students were perhaps overfed, however, undernourished, eating more sugar and processed foods. The study also proposed that the beggars had better intestinal flora, or friendly digestive tract bacteria, to synthesize more of certain B-vitamins for them.  That would figure,  for  beggars  would  receive  far fewer courses of antibiotics than “properly” cared for students. At the very least, I think we are left with the suggestion that we should eat less in general, eat less sugar in particular, and eat some more yogurt.

We’ve tried a few impromptu nutritional experiments in our house. My son had a gerbil that ate fresh seeds, grains, nuts and garden vegetables. We also fed the gerbil fresh, raw bean sprouts. There definitely were times when my son forgot to feed the animal at all.  The gerbil’s name was Mister Chubb, and don’t ask why from a boy who invented a dish called dogstocket. In round numbers, Mr. Chubb lived six and one half years. That is very, very old for an animal whose heart rate is hundreds of beats per minute. Oh, I do wish I’d contacted the Guiness Book of World Records on this one, but who would have thought to have certified the birthdate of a rodent?

We’ve also had some rather long-lived cats, and even a catfish that is surely eligible for a pension. The cats get raw egg yolk and what the catfish eats is indescribable. Our dog gets carrot pulp left over from the juicer mixed into her dog food, and has never needed to go  to the vet except to be spayed. My wife raised an amazingly ancient parakeet. It would eat sprouts, too. (Hey, everybody in this family eats sprouts!)

There is, presumably, a point to all of this show-and-tell, and here it is: the common thread connecting all these species of pets is that we have systematically underfed them.

I do not mean that they have been starved, but they are seldom allowed to eat their fill.

All our pets are a little hungry. In nature, this seems to be the rule by necessity. With pets, and their keepers, it is a healthy rule by design: planned undereating promotes longevity.  The best exercise is still to push yourself away from the table. Or the dog dish.

UCLA Medical School professor Roy L. Walford has written a book detailing how he has “added 40 percent to the normal life span of mice and … kept fish alive 300 percent longer than normal” (Zucker, M. Of mice and men: eating less and living longer. Let’s Live, May, 1983, p 44). The book is called Maximum Life Span (W. W. Norton), and is all about “undernutrition without malnutrition.”

The beggars in Pathak’s study provide some confirmation for this idea. Now: would they have been healthier with a better balanced diet and vitamin supplements? Sure. I think we all would be. But with many vitamins, the B-complex in particular, vitamin need parallels food intake. If you avoid unnecessary calories, your vitamin need can actually decline.

This also means that if you over eat, your vitamin need is going to be higher. Unfortunately, just eating more of the Standard American Diet (our SAD, really SAD diet) full of empty calories from foodless foods does not provide healthy quantities of vitamins. Eating more of the wrong thing is no solution.

We all know that eating right is important. Eating less may accomplish more. As expressed in the vedic literature of ancient India:

 “Hunger is not the cause of death, for death comes to the man who has eaten.”

“Eat less? Eat right? Why bother, when you are just going to be run over by a bus someday anyway?” Aside from the fact that statistics show that few people are done in so spectacularly, while well over half of us do indeed die from diet-related disease, this is really a question of self-image. If I don’t care, then I don’t have to act. If students declare to anyone who will listen that they “didn’t study, and didn’t even read the chapter,” then they have prefabricated an excuse for the bad test grade that they are about to create. If “everything causes cancer, so don’t tell me what to eat” is part of your personal code, then why bother? Avoid the rush: buy a box now, and climb in.

An ounce of prevention is still worth a pound of cure, and at today’s prices, probably tons of it.

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Now for “The Best Health and Longevity Bargains Ever.” May I have the envelope, please. The best health bargains ever are:

  1. The don’t-stuff-yourself Vegetarian Diet, or as close as you can manage it
  2. The High-Potency, Natural Multivitamin-Multimineral Supplement
  3. The use of Extra Vitamin C and Extra Vitamin E Each Day
  4. Eating lots of Raw Foods (like salads and sprouts) and Fresh Raw Vegetable Juices

How do you prove that this will work? Medical and nutritional research proves it over and over again. So do the many millions of Americans who take vitamin supplements each day.  Here are seven secrets they cite for living a long and happy life.

  1. A Positive Attitude Trudi Fletcher of Tubac, Ariz., a lifelong artist, remains an innovative painter at 100 and recently had a gallery exhibition showing off her new style. She credits her creative longevity to “attitude, attitude, attitude.” Almost all of the centenarians we spoke to \believe a positive yet realistic attitude is critical throughout one’s life and described themselves as optimistic people.
  2. Diet Here’s diet advice you may not have heard before: Eat like it’s 1960. Our centenarians were critical of today’ssupersized portions; the majority advised just eating nutritious food in moderation. Only 20 percent said they had ever been on a specialized diet plan, although some had become vegetarians. Lillian Cox, 107, of Tallahassee, Fla., confided that in her 50s she became “quite heavy” but resolved to lose the weight, did so and kept it off by just eating less. The stylish former dress shop owner says, “I was a good advertisement for the merchandise I selected on my frequent buying trips to New York.”

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  1. Exercise “Move it or lose it,” says Louise Caulder, 101. “I don’t leave my bedroom before doing 30 minutes of stretches. Later, I walk a mile. Three times a week I play bridge. You’ve got to exercise your mind as well as your body — everyone knows that, but I wonder how many are actually doing it.” A few centenarians who successfully maintained their athleticism or gained new skills in later years have competed in the Senior Games. “I always thought of myself as an ordinary guy, but once I was in my 90s, I looked around and realized I was the oldest one at the lanes and I could still keep up my score,” says bowler George Blevins, 100. “So I entered the Senior Games and have enjoyed winning several medals, even at 100.”

Joe Meyser, 102, took up golf at 70, got pretty good and began competing in the Senior Games himself. “I drove to wherever they were holding them that year in my camper,”      he says. “It was fun. I gave up the camper when I was 97, but won a gold medal at 100.”

  1. Faith It came as no surprise to us that almost all centenarians we spoke to said that their faith has sustained them. Most believe they will be here as long as God has a purpose for them. “Perhaps we are here to be an example to others in hard times,” says Roberta McRaney, 101, whose original home was struck by lightning and burned to the ground, as did her rebuilt house.
  1. Clean Living Harry Adler, 101, says it’s this simple: “Just stay out of trouble.” Everyone’s interpretation of that advice may vary, but many centenarians told us it means doing what you know is right and following your conscience. Also, almost 75 percent of the centenarians we surveyed never smoked; most of the others stopped between the ages of 40 and 70. And while some never drank, most said they enjoyed only an occasional cocktail or a glass of wine; some still do.
  2. A Loving Family Family was universally important to centenarians. They enjoy their roles as matriarchs or patriarchs and many spoke of the pleasure of watching younger generations grow and flourish. One respondent credited her longevity to “a wonderful and loving family, the good Lord and a rum and Coke every afternoon.”
  3. Genetics All of the secrets mentioned so far reflect lifestyle choices that can influence longevity to varying degrees, but our genetic makeupmakes a difference as well. “I picked the right parents and genes!” says Andy Weinandy, 100. Until medical science devises new ways to help us work with the genes we’ve been dealt, the secret is that some of us will be more prone to longevity than others. But there’s no reason to be discouraged: A large percentage of centenarians we surveyed said their parents and grandparents were not especially long-lived.

Despite the inevitable ups and downs, the biggest secret these centenarians shared is that living to 100 is worth the effort. Like climbing a mountain, we should aspire to reach that height, not just because it is there, but because the view from the top is unsurpassed.

Lynn Peters Adler, J.D., is the co-author, with Steve Franklin, Ph.D., of the new book, Celebrate 100: Centenarian Secrets to Success in Business and Life. She is founder and director of the National Centenarian Awareness Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to celebrating centenarians and combating ageism.

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Delphine Gibson  (née Tucker;  born 17 August 1903)  is  also  a validated American supercentenarian who is the oldest living American resident. She has been the oldest living person in the United States  since the death of 114-year old Adele Dunlap  on  5 February 2017 and the oldest living American citizen since the death of American emigrant Marie-Josephine Gaudette, who lived in Rome, Italy, on 13 July 2017. She is also the last known surviving person in the USA born in 1903.

On 1 September 1980, Taylor passed away at the age of 88 and Delphine became widowed. A few years after his death, she became blind. In 1998, it was reported that she was granted a handicapped parking space for her and her caretaker due to her blindness. In 2004, she moved to the Huntingdon Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.

At the time of her 110th birthday, it was reported that Gibson used a wheelchair but was in good spirits. For instance, she was hymning ”Oh How I Love Jesus” as well as joking about receiving presents for her special milestone.

To honour Gibson’s 112th birthday, the mayor of Huntingdon declared the week of her birthday as ”Delphine Gibson

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The Social Acceptance of Cannabis

Posted on March 16, 2018 by Ken

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What is the first recorded use of cannabis?

The Scythians were a barbaric group of pre-Common Era nomadic tribes who are a fascinating example of an ancient cannabis using group. The Scythians played a very important part in the Ancient World from the seventh to first century BC. They were expert horsemen, and were one of the earliest peoples to master the art of riding and      using horse-drawn covered wagons.
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This early high mobility is probably why most scholars credit them with the spread of cannabis knowledge throughout the ancient world. Indeed, the Scythian people travelled and settled extensively throughout Europe, the Mediterranean, Central Asia, and Russia, bringing their knowledge of the spiritual and practical uses for cannabis with them.
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Cannabis was an integral part of the Scythian cult of the dead, wherein homage was paid to the memory of their departed leaders. After the death and burial of their king, the Scythians would purify themselves by setting up small tepee-like structures which they would enter to inhale the fumes of hemp seeds (and the resinous flower calyxes surrounding the seeds) thrown onto red-hot stones.

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‘Regarding the Scythian cannabis saunas and seeds. I’m not sure if you are familiar        with the botany of the cannabis plant. But basically the cannabis product that is sold for smoking purposes these days is the flowers of the female plant that usually produce seeds. These are the most potent part of the plant. These flowers (buds), become even stronger if they are forced to grow without pollination, thus producing more of the ‘resin’ that contains the thc and cannaboids that get you ‘stoned’. Modern growing technology and botany have got this down to a fine art, producing a potent, compact product that is easy to sell. and consume. So when Herodotus mentions cannabis seed being thrown onto the hot rocks.
I am sure he is talking about the seed producing flowers of the plant. Even if the female flowers have been pollinated by the male flowers and are producing seeds, it is still the most potent part of the plant, with enough of the good stuff to make you ‘shout with joy’. Did the scythians separate the male and female hemp plants,thus producing a much stronger smoke for their saunas? This will be interesting to try and research.
While marijuana is a very effective medicine for many things, promoting the embrace of “pothead”, criminal culture seems detrimental to our youth as well as an attempt to divert the effort to educate non users on the REAL medicinal benefits of marijuana.  An old market opportunity; In fact, one of the oldest. However, it’s sole recorded use 10.000 years ago was for the hemp. The oil and seeds were commonly in use a couple thousand years later, and medicinal uses are recorded beginning between 3.000 – 2.000 BCE. Bathhouses in the Middle East had steam saunas utilizing marijuana. In most recent history for America, hemp was still a valued agriculture and was grown on farmlands, including that of George Washington and family.
Only female plants will produce enough THC to be used as medicine,  they won’t create much if they become fertilized. With the pistol is meant to attract pollen. If it gets it, it will create a seed, and all the plants energy and nutrients will be spent making seeds, not making big, THC-full buds. Your female plants are the only ones that will produce a crop, but only if they stay away from the males. Currently it is easy to determine which seeds are male or female, and since only the female plants produce weed, male plants are usually made legal for the production of hemp. Of course, the female plants are at least needed to create male seeds, but have the potential to produce much more.  
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Actually, assume its gender isn’t far off, considering a good growing female plant can       take on stress and hermaphrodite giving you seedy pot without the need for pollination.
Hermaphodites females can grow seeds under stressed conditions without pollen….aren’t void of the flowers and they are still useful, Hermies…. they are female but being able to pollinate themselves makes them She-males. But you will probably want to eliminate the seeds and seed pods before making medicine, they will make it taste even worse than it does regularly.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3IhmPDLRvM
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     The chemicals behind the high are THC and CBD, both with unique properties that reveal themselves differently dependent on the method of use. THC is what makes you giddy or, potentially, paranoid – THC intensifies emotional feeling. CBD, however, works as a muscle relaxant; and, can be ingested for a pain relieving effect or applied topically onto sore muscles to help ease sourness/stiffness (since the most effective method of obtaining CBD is by extracting the oil from the female plant which has a high CBD content). Hopefully, the medicinal properties of the marijuana plant can continue to be discovered as the plant is easy and cheap to grow, and produces a lot of resources.
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Cannabis: Myths and Realities

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By Kaylynn Chiarello-Ebner

January 20, 2016

Learn what this growing market segment has to offer. Shoppers are increasingly interested in cannabis, and industry companies are developing more and more products  to fill this need. But, not everyone (and every store) has accepted this burgeoning market with open arms. Confusion about the facts and realities may be the source of some of this hesitation. Here, several cannabis experts clarify some top myths about this herb and products sourced from it.

Myth: Hemp and Marijuana Are the Same Thing

While hemp and marijuana can both be derived from Cannabis sativa, marijuana can     also come from other varieties of the same plant. Both products have unique and distinct compositions and usually come from different parts of the plant.  Confused?  You’re not alone.

Since both agricultural hemp and marijuana are Cannabis sativa, “many people interchangeably consider hemp as marijuana and vice versa. This is not true,” states Sarah Syed,  director of marketing at CannaVest Corp.,  San Diego, CA.       “The classification of the two related species make it hard for people to see that they        are different.”

Jane Wilson, director of program development at the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA),  Silver Spring,  M.D., points out that there is actually a lot of        diversity in the overarching title of  “cannabis.”  Hemp varieties of cannabis are low             in tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and can be used to make textiles, rope and building materials. “The oil from hemp seed is a nutritionally dense source of essential fatty      acids and complete protein,” she states. The same cannot be said of marijuana.

And, Syed makes the point that the plants from which hemp and marijuana are derived have quite different characteristics, even though they are both Cannabis sativa. “Marijuana plants are short and bushy, and have high-THC in the flower,” she explains. “Agricultural hemp grows like bamboo, and has low levels of THC.”

To understand industrial hemp versus marijuana, it’s key to talk about some of the     recent history about the sale of hemp-derived products. On October 9, 2001, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) published an Interpretive Rule about the sale of  hemp in the Federal Register banning the sale of any hemp products with trace amounts    of THC in them.  Patent No. 6,630,507: Why the U.S. government holds a patent on cannabis plant compounds 

The Hemp Industries Association and others filed an “Urgent Motion of Stay” and after much back and forth, a key decision was made by the Ninth Circuit in the case of Hemp Industries Assn., vs. Drug Enforcement Admin., 357 F.3d 1012 (9th Cir. 2004), which recognized that “non-psychoactive hemp [that] is derived from the ‘mature stalks’ or is    ‘oil and cake made from the seeds’ of the Cannabis plant,…fits within the plainly stated exception to the [Controlled Substance Act] definition of marijuana.”

In other words, the DEA cannot completely ban hemp products with THC, if they are derived from the stalk and stem of hemp grown outside the United States.Will Kleidon, CEO and founder of Ojai Energetics LLC, Ojai, CA, adds that there may be some changes to these rules in the future, however. “Some people are saying that the 2014 Farm Bill redefines hemp as the whole plant,” he states, adding that using the flowers and parts of the plant outside the stalk and stem may only be legal for research purposes and not for interstate commerce yet.       https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/cannabis-research-studies/

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The cannabis plant has more than 80 cannabinoid constituents. In fact, most of them cause no psychotropic effects at all. Says Nicole Smith, founder and CEO, Mary’s Medicinals & Mary’s Nutritionals, Denver, CO, “A common misconception is that all cannabis ‘gets you high.’… Most of the therapeutically beneficial compounds that we can extract from cannabis will not cause any psychotropic effects…It is important that retailers understand that there is a lot more to the cannabis plant than just THC.”

One specific cannabinoid, THC, is vital to understanding the cannabis market, however. Wilson explains this compound is responsible for marijuana’s psychoactive effects. “Retailers in states with medical cannabis laws and/or adult use laws can provide or sell products containing THC, but it remains a substance prohibited under federal law by the Controlled Substances Act,” Wilson states. “Retailers electing to sell products containing THC must have an excellent understanding of the licensing and compliance requirements in their state, as well as to whom they can legally sell or provide products under state law.”

THC content is restricted in legal products like CBD oil. Robert LoMacchio, president of Only Natural, Inc., Island Park, NY, believes that THC is not well understood at all, with some believing CBD oil has psychoactive or intoxicating effects. “The truth is, it is believed to have an anti-psychotic effect and could actually be used for anxiety and stress support. In some individuals, it may have a calming effect on the mind and body,” he states.

According to Kleidon, “The psychoactive threshold is set at 0.3% THC, based on the Farm Bill and interstate standards for hemp.”

Conventional hemp-based CBD oils, LoMacchio adds, are standardized to contain less than that legal limit.
To put this trace amount into perspective, Richard Rose, executive director of the Medicinal Hemp Association, states that marijuana’s THC content can be as high as 25%.

Kleidon notes that 0.3% THC may be a fairly conservative percentage threshold, as some research shows psychoactive thresholds at 1% THC or even higher. Nonetheless, his firm actually uses a far lower threshold in its products: 0.03%. He says his company has a patented technique for turning the fat-soluble ingredient into a water-soluble one, thereby improving absorption rate and bioavailability (estimated at 10x). Therefore, less THC is required.

Kleidon believes that having some THC in hemp-derived CBD oils is key for a product’s bioavailability and efficacy. He is suspicious of CBD oils that are void of any cannabinoids with the belief that it may not be efficacious.

Another interesting point comes from Rose, who says THC is actually not psychoactive      in its raw form.  “It is not psychoactive until heated  (“decarboxylated”)  and converted      to psychoactive THC,” he states, noting that raw marijuana is about as psychoactive as potatoes or corn. “Same with cannabis. Eat and also juice it freely for whole plant acid cannabinoids without the high,” he states.

Myth: Regulators Have Outlawed the Sale of CBD Oils as Supplements

According to Rose, “There has never been one raid or arrest for selling CBD in any store, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has never said it was illegal or couldn’t be sold.”

But that doesn’t mean FDA has been completely silent about CBD oils sold as dietary supplements. In February 2015, FDA sent several warning letters to several companies telling them that the CBD oils were making unsubstantiated disease claims or they did    not contain any CBD at all (according to testing conducted by the agency).

Wilson says it is not unusual for companies selling supplements that are out of compliance to receive warning letters, and no, “The warning letters did not otherwise address the legality of CBD supplement products.”

Syed says that many CBD companies are new to the dietary supplements industry            and are unfamiliar with DSHEA and the legal parameters of selling supplements.

She states, “Many CBD companies have been touting health benefits that legally                 we aren’t able to say based on laws established by the FDA, even if they may be true.”

Syed says her company’s strategy is to focus on education. “We have to help guide             the standards of this new category. We are doing what we can to help make sure we         can all remain in this space together, touting benefits we know that are appropriate         and legal to say.”

What may have caused some industry members to believe FDA doesn’t like the idea of CBD oils being sold as supplements  is  its Question and Answer webpage  on medical marijuana.  Here,  says Wilson,  “[FDA] stated its position that CBD is not a dietary ingredient because of the filing of Investigational New Drug (IND) applications and ongoing clinical trials for its use as a registered pharmaceutical. AHPA is not aware of     any enforcement action taken by FDA against marketers of CBD supplement products since that position was made public.”

WholeFoods has spoken to some companies that feel this opinion is clear enough to make them reposition CBD-containing dietary supplements to food products instead. LoMacchio’s interpretation of FDA’s viewpoint, for instance, is “Hemp-based CBD oils must be marketed as a nutritional foods or food additives, not as dietary supplements.”  He is hopeful that with additional research, regulators will show full support of the use      of CBD oils as dietary supplements.

Smith’s company also chooses to market its products outside the supplements realm. “While industry lawyers have indicated that the referenced letters and Q&A posting are  far from a final determination on this issue, we are not offering any CBD supplements or medicines.  We never make any claims about these products,” she states, noting that her firm’s products are classified as cosmetics or food products that are rich in high-quality CBD.

It is also possible that FDA’s opinion has made some companies shift from a CBD focus     to “hemp oil” or “hemp extract.” Wilson suggests that some CBD oil companies may also have chosen to sell their products in states that have legalized marijuana for medical and adult-use purposes or through licensed dispensaries in these states.

Still others, like Ojai Energetics, believe the sale of CBD oil as a supplement falls         within the regulatory framework, provided it is made following FDA’s GMPs for dietary supplements, appropriate analytical testing is conducted and no unsubstantiated disease claims are being made. Ojai Energetics sells CBD oils as supplements and as foods in places like natural products stores and licensed dispensaries.

Rose believes one could make that case that CBD is grandfathered in as a legal dietary ingredient “just like hempseed oil and whole hempseed as a food, and ironically even more-so than shelled hempseed, which was introduced after DSHEA.  But just like hempseed and oil, or echinacea and gingko for that matter, companies make health   claims at their peril.”

There is another angle to the warning letters and Q&A page. Says Rose, “It appears       FDA agrees with what those of us have known for years:  Cannabidiol in hemp is not            a Controlled Substance. Period. Otherwise, FDA would be talking RICO organization    with multiple underlying felonies against the officers of the business.”

Reality: CBD Oil May Throw Drug Testing

According to Kleidon, it is possible that certain individuals who use large amounts            of  THC-containing products may test positive on urine drug tests.  He states, “People    who get drug tested and use large amounts of THC products should be careful and use      at their own discretion.”

Myth: Cannabis Products Are Only for Pain Relief

For starters, retailers cannot promote cannabis-derived products like CBD oil as pain relievers. This is a disease claim, and not an appropriate way to frame how cannabis products benefit the body.

But without question, supporters are convinced that hemp-derived products bolster optimal health in numerous ways. Kleidon attributes these effects to the human endocannabinoid (EC) system, which was discovered in 1988. “We now believe its  function is to regulate homeostasis for the entire body,” he states.

Syed adds that CBD “is capable of affecting nearly every biological process.”

How does THC affect behavior? It depends on where the CB receptors are in the brain.

Brain Structure Regulates THC Effect on User

Amygdala emotions, fear, anxiety panic/paranoia

Basal Ganglia planning/starting a movement slowed reaction time

Brain Stem information between brain and spinal column anti nausea effects

Cerebellum motor coordination, balance impaired coordination

Hippocampus learning new information impaired memory

Hypothalamus eating, sexual behavior increased appetite

Neocortex complex thinking, feeling, and movement altered thinking, judgment, and sensation

Nucleus Accumbens motivation and reward euphoria (feeling good)

Spinal Cord

transmission of information between body and brain altered pain sensitivity

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The EC system is a communications system in the brain and body, and it affects many bodily functions such as emotions, movement and more (1). The body naturally produces chemical messengers called cannabinoids to interact with the EC system in a unique fashion. Says Rose, “That means everyone is born to produce ECs naturally, so adding external cannabinoids is just adding more of what we already have in us. Mother’s milk, for instance, is very high in ECs naturally.”

When a postsynaptic neuron is activated, the body makes cannabinoids from certain fat cells present in neurons. When they are released, they travel backward to the presynaptic neuron and attach to cannabinoid receptors. This means cannabinoids can control what happens the next time these cells are activated, limiting how much neurotransmitter is released and how cells send, receive and process messages (1).

Syed believes that CBD can support numerous bodily processes for this reason. “Phytocannabinoids like CBD, of which well over 100 have been found to exist,                 are plant derivatives that ‘talk’ to just about every major organ system in the body             via the ECS, helping restore normal balance and physiologic homeostasis.”

According to Kleidon, cannabinoid receptors are present in the brain, organs, skin, bones, fascia, immune system and digestive system. “Their function is to support homeostasis for the entire body, which in my opinion, is one of the most important systems we have. It’s a master system for all the other systems,” he says.

Supplementing with CBD, he believes, boosts the body’s natural cannabinoid levels.        “In my opinion, it’s absolutely vital to supplement and raise natural cannabinoid levels     to make sure it’s promoting our bodies’ homeostasis effectively,” Kleidon states.

Smith shares a similar belief that cannabis products should be widely used, and says          it is a misconception that cannabis is only used by “a certain type of people.” She states, “Everyone from soccer moms to professional athletes and especially seniors are beginning to explore the benefits of cannabis for varied reasons. We sponsor an ultra-runner who uses our products while training for 100–200 mile marathons—so much for the stereotype of the lazy, out-of-shape stoner!”

Researchers continue to explore the benefits of CBD oil, which may include bone, digestive, eye, respiratory and cognitive health as well as healthy mood. Experiments     also suggest, Rose says, that CBD even induces apoptosis in cancer cells and generates   new brain cells,  though more research  is needed before  it  can  be considered to be a treatment. “Every adult human and animal can benefit from cannabinoids,” he believes.

Meanwhile, hemp seed, hemp seed oil and hemp-derived foods are already readily available at many retail stores, and provide “nutrient dense options for consumers interested in trying them,” says Wilson.

Reality: Product Testing Is Critical to this Category

All dietary supplements must be made according to GMPs and undergo responsible analytical testing. Hemp products are no exception.

Kleidon explains that the cannabis plant is a dynamic accumulator, meaning it pulls         up heavy metals.  If the plant is grown in toxic soil,  the plant “cleans the soil” and  absorbs  the impurities. “That’s not good for a consumption-based product,” he states.

Smith says that for this reason, organic crops from trustworthy suppliers are preferable since there is little chance of pesticides or environmental toxins contaminating the plants.

Kleidon says that it is very important for companies to do third-party testing per batch for heavy metals, microbes, volatile organic compounds as well as for the right cannabinoid and terpene content. “People should know exactly what they’re getting every single time,” he states.  The best strains of cannabis?

Teresa Masters ·

Brooklyn College
Breast cancer at 80, dietary change at 83, NED and healthier at 86. I added Hemp derived CBD Oil 15 MG CBD daily on my own for “Health Maintenance.” I also purchased CBDoil Balm 50mg CBDA/CBD which I apply initially on sore areas. More recently an MD/Sports Orthopedist treating a 2 year old walking issue, suggesting I massage the area. Previously I used Voltarin, he suggested I try CBD Balm as many of his patients related to him more success. I have for some time now massaged/rubbed CBD Balm into my leg/knee and yesterday realized that since January 2014, I am walking normally. Balance and distance are not yet there, but now can be developed without the pain which previously interfered.
 
 I was anti-high majority of my adult life. Nausea while drinking at 21 taught me well. The MD/Ph.D Cancer support Group leader said to a group of perhaps 30 regarding pain, “I would rather you take a toke than an opioid!” That startled me, and began my reversal of attitude regarding Cannabis. I am now a firm believer and Advocate. Many of my fellow support group members are now NED, years beyond terminal diagnosis. Spontaneous, maybe, but CBD Oil was a very expensive additive. I am referring every skeptical and fearful listener to Google Research Cannabis in Israel.  I will widely via email and social Media Share this hopeful report. I wish you all the success possible, closed minds are exceedingly difficult to penetrate, especially in Medicine.
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Aiming High: Israeli Scientist Attempts To Kill Cancer Cells With Cannabis

By Amanda Ngo, NoCamels August 21, 2017 15 Comments

These days, cannabis is about a lot more than getting high; a new Israeli study supports the idea that cannabis could be used to kill cancer cells.

Biologist Dr. David Meiri of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology is conducting cutting-edge research showing that combinations of different compounds in cannabis can be extremely effective in destroying specific cancer cells.

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cancer cells

Cancer cells

According to the World Health Organization, cancer is the second leading cause of        death globally, and resulted in 8.8 million deaths in 2015. The primary medical treatment, chemotherapy, can have unpleasant side effects such as hair loss and lethargy. However, an Israeli researcher claims that cannabis could offer an alternative to chemotherapy, without the harmful side effects.

The idea that cannabis could cure cancer is not new. However, much of the evidence           is anecdotal, and scientific research conducted in the past has not precisely identified which cannabis compounds kill which cancer cells, and why. “We realized that there is        a vacuum,” Meiri tells NoCamels. “People don’t know and understand the strains [of cannabis] enough.”

Along with his team of 30 researchers in the Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Cannabinoid Research, Meiri is working to remedy this. His solution is to identify the exact chemical composition of different strains of cannabis. By systematically applying these strains to different cancer cell samples, he has been able to determine which strains of cannabis kill specific cancer cells.

“Bringing back the ability of the cancer to commit suicide”

The mechanism is similar to chemotherapy. One of the defining characteristics of cancer cells is their inability to ‘die’ like normal cells. The natural process of self-destruction, termed apoptosis, is not occurring; as a result, the cancer cells spread and invade other parts of the body. What cannabis has the potential to do, according to Meiri, is “like bringing back the ability of the cancer to commit suicide.”

Meiri is optimistic about the potency of the drug. “We’re talking about very low dosages,” he tells NoCamels, “milligrams of extract that are killing the cells.” This is a similar dosage to what is currently administered for chemotherapy, and is small enough to not kill normal, healthy cells. It means that cannabis could be a viable drug to be prescribed for cancer in the future.

SEE ALSO: Cannabis Heals Bone Fractures, Makes New Bones Even Stronger

Cannabis is the name of the plant from which marijuana is derived. The plant itself is made up of different molecular families, such as cannabinoids, terpenes, and flavonoids. Discussions on cannabis often focus on the two most prominent cannabinoids: THC and Cannabidiol (CBD). THC is a psychoactive compound that gives the ‘high’ commonly associated with marijuana usage, while CBD is non-psychoactive. Both have been proven to have a wide range of medicinal benefits, from reducing epileptic seizures, to minimizing violence and anxiety in autistic patients.

Raphael Mechoulam is an Israeli organic chemist and professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. He is best known for his work (together with Y. Gaoni) in the isolation, structure elucidation and total synthesis of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol, the main active principle of cannabis and for the isolation and the identification of the endogenous cannabinoids anandamide from the brain and 2-arachidonoyl glycerol (2-AG) from peripheral organs together with his students, postdocs and collaborators.

Preview YouTube video ‘The Scientists’: the story of

Raphael Mechoulam and the endocannabinoid system

The Endocannabinoid System: A Fifty-Year Trip
The endocannabinoid system was discovered and we learned about its involvement in biological processes only over the last two decades – many years after the better known adrenergic, serotonergic or cholinergic systems. However, it has already been suggested that ” modulating endocannabinoid system activity may have therapeutic potential in almost all diseases affecting humans, including …neurodegenerative, inflammatory,…. pain, …psychiatric disorders, amongst many others ”  – as stated in a recent review.
Dr. Mechoulam will discuss the development of the endocannabinoid system – from the isolation and structure elucidation of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol in 1964, through the identification of the CB1 and CB2 receptors and the specific agonists anandamide and 2-AG, to the involvement of endocannabinoids and structurally related endogenous molecules in a long list of biological processes.

Recent progress in several areas will be discussed:

  • Endocannabinoids as endogenous neuroprotective agents, particularly in traumatic injury
  • The CB2 cannabinoid receptors as part of a general protective system
  • Acyl fatty acids as novel endocannabinoid-like compounds
  • Cannabidiol as a novel therapeutic entity

Presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQDJi6Jb8d4

Dr. David (Dedi) Meiri

Assistant Professor, Heads the “Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Cannabinoid Research”, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

Ph.D, Assistant Professor Genetics, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology researcher

Dr. Meiri’s scientific background is highly diverse; He holds a M.Sc. in Biochemistry       and a Ph.D. in plant biotechnology from Tel Aviv University. Dr. Meiri conducted his   post-doctoral fellowship at the Ontario Cancer Institute where he focused on the role         of the GEF-H1 protein in tumor invasion and metastasis.

During his post-doctoral studies, he expanded his knowledge in human biology and   cancer pathogenesis and succeeded within a very short timeframe, to receive worldwide recognition as an expert in the fields of G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) and small GTPases. Upon completion of his post-doctoral fellowship, Dr Meiri took a position at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, where he heads the “Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Cannabinoid Research”.

Presently, his lab is investigates the therapeutic potential of phytocannabinoids, the unique active compounds of Cannabis. On-top on few other studies conducting in the lab, the main focus is to determine the antitumor effects of cannabinoids, including the anti-metastatic and pro-apoptotic effects phytocannabinoids exert, on a spectrum of tumor cells.

Additional to ‘basic science’, Dr. Meiri collaborates with cannabis growers,    clinicians and major manufacturers and distributors of medical cannabis in the purpose of revolutionizing cannabis treatment. He is operating the “Cannabis Database Project” and his lab is currently involved in seven clinical trials covering diverse aspects of cannabis treatment, such as: colon disease, pain prevention, cancer treatment and epilepsy.

Welcome to the Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Cannabinoid Research at the Technion‘s Faculty of Biology. Although we are a new lab, in the past 2 years we have updated our lab to work with the most modern and innovative equipment, we recruited a multidisciplinary team of professionals,  we have established many local and international collaborations.

Collectively with access to these resources, we can ask and answer almost any question      in the field of medical cannabis and we are today one of the leading cannabis laboratories in the world. Our highly trained team of skilled professionals work in synergy and complement each other to achieve the highest level of results.

Presently our lab investigates the vast therapeutic potential of naturally-occurring chemicals,  called cannabinoids, in various Cannabis species.  In addition to the multitude of other studies currently being conducted in the lab,  our principal focus    is how  cannabinoids affect various types of cancer, epilepsy, and glucose metabolism (diabetes).

Our research also relies upon our exceptional abilities to characterize all cannabis components and are described in more details on this site. Our lab is also involved     in various other high-profile projects  and collaborations associated with cannabis.   We collaborate with cannabis growers, clinicians, and major local and international medical cannabis manufacturers and distributors to revolutionize cannabis treatment on all levels. We are operating the “Cannabis Database Project” and we are currently involved in eight clinical trials covering diverse aspects of cannabis treatment.

Contact Us
 The Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Cannabinoid Research
Phone: +972-77-8871681
Email: meirilab@technion.ac.il
Faculty of Biology, Room 401
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

Jim Tannlund ·

RSO Oils Does Not Kill All Cancers!  Please Do Not Waste Your Time & Money on Medical Cannabis if you have NSCLC Cancer. Over the last 3 years I have used High THC RSO Oils in Mega Doses (3 mils RSO Consitrated Oil per day) for 90 days, Micro Dosing and Height & Weight Measured Dosing 1/2 Mil of RSO Oil over 3 doses per day for 90 days.

I’ve seen Professional MC Practionairs in San Francisco, Marin County & Australia and the TRUTH BE TOLD by one of the most experienced Practionairs is most of their successes have been with tumours that are outside of a bodily organ. Tumours inside organs, like the Lungs the successes have been very few (if any) and they felt better results came when tried with some conventional western medicine (Radiation, Chemo & Immunotherapy.)

 

 I personally, would not do Chemo (Immune System Poison), but do whatever you need to do. I’m just being truthful with you so you don’t waste your money & time trying RSO Oil by itself on NSCLC Cancer. If your lung collapses like mine did, the doctors will tell you it will never reopen again after a few months closed. DO NOT BUY THAT CRAP. Take High Doses of Vitamin C daily at least 15,000 IU orally “California Gold” find it on Iherb.au, it’s only about AU$30 for 360 caplets of 1000 IU per. (In the store here in Australia the same bottle cost AU$75 – $80) I take 8 in the morning and 7 at night to get my 15,000 per day. That will help keep the lung healthy enough to reopen when that portion of your lung gets air. Mine reopened 10 months later after 3 – 4 doctors swore to me there was NO CHANCE that lung would reopen. It did and it still is.

I have NSCLC Cancer and I’m now at Stage 4 where the Cancer has spread to my Lymph Nodes and few other spots on my lungs. I was originally diognosed back in March 2015 from a CT Scan after vomiting Blood and since then I have narrowly escaped death twice (Once Drowning in My Own Blood, Couching it Up, While Bleeding from the Nose at the sametime & Once where I was Bleeding Out After Losing over a Litre of Blood in 8 hours Vomiting Blood and Bleeding out of my Nose)

   Since March 2015, I have  a proceedure where they De-Bulked the Tumour by ripping       off the top half, then cauterized everything to stop the bleeding and was given 36 rays of Radiation. I’ve had 1 round of Chemo and 1 years worth of Immunotherapy. 
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Unfortunately,  it has stated growing again (Very Slowly for Cancer), however,  the fact that it is progressing while on Immunotherapy now, their protocol is to remove me from the program (Very Expensive) when they see progression in a few scans, which they now have seen. (I’ve been given one last shot) They will keep me on the Immunotherapy, if I have one of my Lymph Node Cancers Radiated to decrease it’s size. (Probably, buying only a few more months), but who knows, maybe something else gets released before my time runs out. “Fingers Crossed’
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