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The swine flu: A sinister threat or nothing to fear?
by Roger French (5 May 2009)
In April 2009 American health officials declared a public health emergency as cases of swine flu were confirmed in the US, having arisen in Mexico. Health officials across the world feared that there could be a global pandemic.
In the early days of the hysteria over about swine flu, Mexico reported 165 people having died of the disease, but when proper tests were conducted, the true figure was only 16. In countries outside Mexico, there has been only one death (a Mexican girl in the US) and doctors are surprised that the virus is having only mild effects.
Among all the pronouncements by medical authorities, there has been not a single mention of the other key factor in disease, the condition of the human body. This missing half plus the suspicious origin of the new virus are the two issues that we are most interested in.
Public warnings and sensational media coverage are arousing mass fear. Australia’s politicians are doing no better. In telling us not to panic, they are in reality telling us to panic. All of this may simply be governments preparing us for draconian measures to combat a pandemic, including mandatory vaccinations.
Mercury and other dangerous heavy metals – detoxification for this modern plague
With special reference to autism spectrum disorder
By Michael Sichel, ND, DO, PhD
The common toxic ‘heavy’ metals include mercury, aluminium, arsenic, lead, cadmium, and antimony. Sometimes essential minerals, e.g. copper and iron, can also accumulate and become toxic.
These toxic metals can have wide-ranging and devastating effects on normal behavioural, cognitive (thought processing), speech/language and co-ordination functions.
Coal is a prolific source of these toxic metals, especially mercury, lead and antimony. Our clinic is on the edge of the Hunter Valley, where huge amounts of coal are both mined and burned to generate electricity for some 85% or so of the power needed for New South Wales. We see children and adults from those areas whose toxic metal levels are extremely high. I specialise in childhood disorders and late-onset regressive autism. Dealing with heavy metals is a major part of restoration for these autism spectrum (ASD) children.
But these days, everybody is excreting heavy metals, including healthy children. This is accomplished in the body by a biochemical pathway called ‘chelation’ (from Greek ‘to claw’).
In ASD children, heavy metals tend to accumulate. An example of toxic metal contamination is the case of a six-year-old boy who lives under the flight path near Tullamarine Airport outside Melbourne. His family have a market garden under the flight path, and eat the vegetables. His hair analysis result showed that he had been drenched with toxic metals.
(In this article, Michael goes on to explain how to bring about chelation.)
On Digestion: An amazing tale of early scientific discovery
By Roger French
This tale is truly out of the history books, yet much of it is still useful information today. It is the story of a Canadian man whose stomach was shot open in a freak gun accident that resulted in permanent access to the contents of his stomach. A US army doctor recognised the research opportunity this provided and carried out hundreds of experiments on the stomach and its workings. The results were published in 1833 in a book entitled, Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion, and the book has been resurrected by Google.
Perhaps the most significant discovery by the doctor, William Beaumont was that the stomach dissolves food with remarkable speed and efficiency, but if a person has a fever, food in the stomach is as indigestible as lead. Food eaten by a feverish person causes widespread ill effects, and this has major implications for how best to treat acute illness.
This article explains – in plain language – some of the most interesting and useful points in Dr Beaumont’s book, Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion.
It looks closely at the workings of the stomach and causes of indigestion.
Having trouble sleeping?
By Roger French
Early to bed and early to rise keeps one healthy, wealthy and wise. Thisis so true! Or put another way, an hour’s sleep before midnight is worth two hour’s sleep after midnight – roughly speaking.
Yet we don’t do it. A good night’s sleep is losing out to late night television, the internet, emails and other distractions. In his book, Sleep Thieves (Free Press, Simon & Schuster), Stanley Coren asserts that we are eating into our sleep requirements to such a degree that we are chronically under-functioning and running around in a state of reduced alertness. This erodes our wellbeing and health as well as threatening the safety of other people through accident. Lack of sleep can result in poor performance at work and at play, in irritability and in hazardous behaviour like going to sleep at the steering wheel.
Stanley Coren, who is Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia, allocates the blame for our sleep deprivation squarely on electric light, which makes it possible for us to be as active during the night as during the day. In earlier centuries, humans went to bed with the sun.
Roger outlines the health problems associated with sleep deprivation, causes of insomnia and how we can get to sleep without pills.
Colds and flu are difficult to ‘catch’
by Roger French
“I’ve picked up a bug” is the standard comment when a person is feeling off-colour with the sniffles or a dose of ’flu. As we all know so well, winter is the season for colds and flu, although they can occur any time of the year.
We are all ’catching’ disease-associated germs all the time, but most of the time we are not sick. Why?
Orthodox medicine assumes that these and other self-limiting ailments are caused by a combination of infection with a virus (or bacteria) caught from other people, and lack of immunity due to the absence of prior contact with that particular strain of virus. The medical answer is to vaccinate in an attempt to provide immunity. But virus strains are changing constantly, so this is somewhat ineffective. It is also risky, because, as with most invasive medical procedures, there can be side effects. In fact, whether clinical or sub-clinical, toxic effects are almost inevitable due to the preservatives and sensitising agents that are decidedly toxic chemicals. For some insight into these adjuvants, see Michael Sichel’s article, ‘Mercury and other dangerous heavy metals – detoxification for this modern plague’, elsewhere in this issue of NHVL.
The popular conception that our immune systems protect us is only part of the answer. There is much more to the cause of illness than merely lack of immunity. And what causes our immune systems to fail in the first place?
Find out more by reading the full article in this issue.
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