How does drinking high quality alkaline ionized water improve your health part 2
How does drinking high quality alkaline ionized water improve your health part 2
Acclaimed Scientist Dr. Robert Young – Author for the PH Miracle, Talks on the value of Alkaline PH Ionizer Water for Disease and Cancer Free Health Vitality.
Dr. Mercola, an accomplished Alternative Health Doctor and peer of mine in Holistic Health Research discusses PH Alkaline Ionizer Water Systems and their benefits with Houston Tomasz. The conversation covers the Pros and Cons of various water ionizers. This is due to the wide spectrum of quality and PH generation ability in the Water Ionizer industry.
Dr. Mercola and Houston Tomasz in part 2 of this revealing discussion on PH Alkaline Ionizer Water Systems and the Pros and Cons of the wide variety systems available. In General – You get what you pay for…
Some Words of Advice on PH Alkaline Ionizer Water Systems ~
Do remember 1 thing – There are PH Alkaline Ionizer Water Systems out there costing $4,000.00 and up that do not deliver the quality I personally recommend. So the priciest in this case, is not the best. There is a lot of junk out there also. I know and I almost bought one that cost a bit less. Then I looked at the Specs. The exotic materials and computer components do not come cheap… An analogy is a True Diamond Ring – does Not cost $149.00 Make sense?
I have done extensive research into the PH Alkaline Water Systems available on the market today. If you are serious about getting a PH Alkaline Ionizer Water System for yourself and your family, expect to spend $2,495.00 and up on the specific brand I recommend. If you are interested – Call me personally at 407-745-1699 and I will get the best one out to you based on your budget and specific needs.
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How does drinking high quality alkaline ionized water improve your health part 1
How does drinking high quality alkaline ionized water improve your health?
Today, we want to share some quick tips to make it easy to incorporate drinking water into your life if you’re not already in the habit.
How much is enough? The rule of thumb is 8×8 or eight eight-ounce glasses a day, but we recommend that as an absolute minimum.
The Institute of Medicine has determined that the average man should drink three liters (about 13 cups) per day and the average woman 2.2 liters, or about 9 cups. However, if you are overweight, active physically or sweat a lot from living in a hot climate or other reasons, you should drink even more.
Thirteen cups a day can seem like a tall order but with these tips you can do it effortlessly!
1) Start the day with two giant glasses of water before eating breakfast- your body has been using water in its various processes throughout the night and will welcome the replenishment!
2) That could equal about 4 cups, and you’re already ¼ the way there on your daily water intake. It has the added benefit of clearing out your system since you’ll be drinking the water on an empty stomach. If you suffer from constipation, try this before anything else, it works wonders
3) Keep a glass of water or water bottle at your desk or workplace
4) If you keep water handy, you can sip throughout the day. You will feel more refreshed by doing this than by relying on coffee to get you through the day! Staying adequately hydrated prevents fatigue and keeps you sharp.
5) Bring your alkaline, ionized water to work in a BPA free water bottle. BPA is a toxic substance found in some bottles. You can research BPA free bottles on the internet, I recommend this water bottle which is both BPA free and is insulated, so it’s suitable for Hot Beverages as well..
Thermos Nissan FBB1000 34-Ounce Stainless-Steel Vacuum Insulated Briefcase Bottle
6) Cut down on coffee, caffeinated tea, and soft drinks.
7) These can cause dehydration. If you do drink any caffeinated drinks, have a glass of water right after.
8 Drink a glass of water to every glass of another beverage
9) Bring a large water bottle with you and try to drink it on your way to work. If you don’t finish it on the way there, finish it on the way home!
10) Don’t drink soda. Diet Soda is ever worse for your health!
11) Check the color of your urine; it should be clear or nearly clear. If it is too dark you need to up your water intake!
Developing a Taste for Water
Maybe you are a big soda or juice drinker and the idea of a glass of water seems totally bland and unappealing to you. Here are some tips to develop your taste for water, so you can start giving your body more of what it needs.
1) Water ionizer owners agree that their machines produce superior tasting water, so get yourself some healthy antioxidant filled water from a water ionizer to start your water habit.
2) Remember Pavlov’s training experiments on dogs? Even if you don’t you can condition yourself to drink more water by looking at a pleasant image, listening to music you like, or thinking of a special person every time you drink water. That way drinking water will elicit peaceful and happy thoughts in you!
3) Try adding some lemon or lime to add some kick to your agua.
4) Cut out sugary drinks altogether, at least for a little while. Drinking water after a super-sweet juice could leave your taste buds feeling unsatisfied. After you get to liking the taste of water and drinking ample amounts, introduce your old drinks back in, in moderation, if you’d like. You might find they are even too sweet for you with your newly acquired taste for water!
Can You Have Too Much of a Good Thing?
Is there such thing as drinking too much water? Yes, drinking large amounts of water could lead to water intoxication if it upsets the balance of electrolytes. This is normally only found in infants and athletes. As long as you are drinking water steadily throughout the day you should be ok! It is recommended not to drink more than 1 to 1.5 liters (2 to 3 pints) per hour.
We hope you enjoyed these tips and are incorporating them into your daily routine!
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Frustrated with Being Over Weight and Finding Yourself Always Exhausted part 1
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Depression – Are Everyday Foods In Your Kitchen Crippling Your Life
Depression – Are Everyday Foods In Your Kitchen Crippling Your Life part 1
Millions of people in the Western world suffer from severe depression everyday.
Yet if we go to our doctor, typically we will be given a prescription for antidepressants. Sadly these antidepressant drugs are not the solution and many times can make depression even more severe.
In holistic or natural healing practice the practitioner is taught to identify the source of the health ailments instead of masking the symptoms with a pharmaceutical drug.
What are the sources of depression?
Depression is typically manifested by one of 5 things.
1) Tragic or unfortunate life experiences.
2) Drug or prescription side effects.
3) Food allergies.
4) Food and pesticide toxicity.
5) Man-made toxin reactions.
In this brief article I will reveal in further detail the research behind depression and the toxic and allergenic foods we eat on a daily basis.
What I’m about to share with you will indeed surprise you, please do not take these well researched findings lightly. I am saying this to prepare you properly because many of the foods you dearly crave are in fact highly toxic to your body. The startling truth is that allergenic foods are also highly addictive, in fact you will be shocked to know that most allergenic foods are more addictive than heroin.
It is critical however that once these foods are revealed to you that you totally eliminate them from your diet completely. The 1st 2 to 3 weeks will be the toughest in fact doing this elimination process. Your body and your mind will experience withdrawal symptoms from eliminating these toxic foods.
You will experience mild to severe mood swings, inability to focus, irrational and perhaps even temporarily violent behavior. In addition you may feel weak and overcome with flulike symptoms. I encourage you to persevere through these trying moments because when you do the results will be truly life-changing.
The fact is that depression, anxiety, violence, inability to focus, frequent colds, vulnerability to disease and even cancer is directly associated with food allergies and toxic foods.
What is happening is that many of these foods that are wrecking havoc with your emotions and health are considered comfort foods. Comfort foods meaning when you are experiencing bouts of anxiety or depression you seem to feel temporarily better after you have gorged yourself with these foods.
As a tragic consequence however the same comfort foods are re-creating yet more allergic reactions that re-manifest themselves as anxiety, depression and the severe immune system disorders I mentioned.
So how does one eliminate this nightmare of mood swings and acute depression along with severe health problems?
Eliminate the following highly allergenic and toxic foods from your lifestyle completely:
1) Wheat – either whole grain or white flour, pasta, noodles, breads, bakery sweets etc.
2) Corn – corn on the cob, canned corn and “high fructose corn syrup” which is in many processed foods.
3) All other gluten containing grains such as rye and barley etc.
4) Potatoes
5) Shellfish
6) Eggs
7) Milk and milk products such as butter and cheese.
8 Rice and other grains.
9) Commercially raised grain fed beef, chicken and pork.
10) Commercially grown vegetables which are heavily sprayed with pesticides.
11) Genetically modified foods or GMO foods which are highly allergenic and toxic.
Now you know why I mentioned the severe implications of allergenic and toxic foods before I mention the particular health stealing suspects. This was because these foods are typically primary foods of your daily life. I know how you feel.
It is not your fault.
The horrible truth is the fact that these allergenic foods are much more severe in their devastation to the human body than they were back in the 50s and 60s. What is happened is that the commercial food industry has created genetically modified foods which are highly toxic to the human body. This was done to eliminate crop damage from pests. It was also devised for these particular crops to be pesticide and weed herbicide resistant to being chemically sprayed with the Roundup weed killer products. In addition these grains in the livestock eating these grains are producing pesticides themselves.
So what are you up against? One shocking example would be the fact that eating just 3 grams of wheat has a toxic effect on the human brain. There are 28 g to an ounce!
In essence this highly toxic effect on the human brain is numbing your brain and part of the experience is the “comfort food affect”. Unfortunately as I mentioned this temporary brain numbing experience has absolutely catastrophic effects on your mood, bouts of depression and ultimately the ability to survive disease and cancer.
In a follow-up to this food and depression series on my globally acclaimed blog I will delve further into this nightmare that the majority of the Western world is now facing. In addition I will share the 10 commercial vegetables and fruits to avoid because they contain the highest amount of pesticides. These fruits and vegetables you would definitely want to consume only if they were grown organically.
In closing, find comfort in realizing it is not your fault that you are experiencing depression. I have been there myself and as a child doctors did not have an answer for me. I had to repeat 1st grade twice in fact due to extreme food allergy related illnesses.
Fortunately as I have revealed depression can be dissipated and even eliminated through self-help and life transforming changes. If you know the value of living a depression free lifestyle and wish to transform yourself away from these highly allergenic and toxic foods, become a subscriber to http://healer2.com. You will discover many delicious alternatives to suffering from depression because of choosing the wrong foods to eat.
Glen B. Stewart
Glen B Stewart is the globally acclaimed author of “Visions Of A Champion” available on Amazon. Glen transforms the lives of people from world-class athletes and children in sports to disease ridden and cancer stricken individuals worldwide.
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Organic Foods – What are the Critical Differences Between Organic Foods and Commercially Grown Foods part 2
Organic Foods – What are the Critical Differences Between Organic Foods and Commercially Grown Foods part 2
So is it Healthier to Eat Meat?
From a clinical standpoint, I do believe virtually everyone benefits from some animal protein. However, this doesn’t have to be meat, as there are other healthy animal proteins like raw organic dairy and organic pastured eggs. The evidence suggests that raw organic milk is actually one of the healthiest options as it has the highest biologic value and utilization of any protein. The only caution is that it is loaded with lactose, which can disrupt insulin sensitivity, so I would advise to consume it cultured in yogurt or kefir where the bacteria will predigest the lactose and also help optimize your gut flora.
If you are sincerely objective and honest in seeking to understand what diet is best for you it will be important to trust your body to guide you. It is my recommendation to abandon any previously held convictions you might have about food and instead carefully listen to your body as you experiment with different food ratios and including or excluding animal foods.
So let me make it clear that I’m not advocating that everyone should, or even needs to, eat meat. However, there are health consequences of abstaining from animal protein entirely.
Further, if you do eat meat one of the primary questions you need to ask is how was it raised? This makes all the difference in the world when it comes to nutritional content and the health benefits of meat.
There’s no question in my mind that we should all avoid factory-farmed meat from CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations), as the harm likely outweighs the benefit for most. Factory farming is not only inhumane in the extreme, but it also produces inferior meat. Organically raised, grass-fed and free-range meats are a whole other animal. Nutritionally, they’re just not the same. And you certainly cannot compare the stress- and disease levels between a pastured cow and one stuck in a feedlot.
So, when eating meat the following three factors need to be considered:
How it’s raised, i.e. factory farmed or raised organically. Conventional meat is loaded with pesticides, hormones, antibiotics and other chemicals and should be avoided.
Whether or not it’s grass-fed. This is an essential requirement of healthy meat.
Whether or not it contains nitrates, preservatives linked to cancer. Processed meats are not a healthful choice for anyone and should be avoided entirely, according to a review of more than 7,000 clinical studies examining the connection between diet and cancer.
Next, how you cook the meat will also influence its health benefits because any time you cook meat at high temperatures, dangerous chemicals are created, including:
Heterocyclic Amines (HCAs): These form when food is cooked at high temperatures, and they’re linked to cancer. In terms of HCA, the worst part of the meat is the blackened section, which is why you should always avoid charring your meat, and never eat blackened sections.
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs): When fat drips onto the heat source, causing excess smoke, and the smoke surrounds your food, it can transfer cancer-causing PAHs to the meat.
Advanced Glycation End Products (AGEs): When food is cooked at high temperatures (including when it is pasteurized or sterilized), it increases the formation of AGEs in your food. When you eat the food, it transfers the AGEs into your body. AGEs build up in your body over time leading to oxidative stress, inflammation and an increased risk of heart disease, diabetes and kidney disease.
To sum up, eating factory farmed, grain-fed beef that’s been charred to a crisp will NOT improve your health.In order for meat to be its healthiest, it should be organic and grass-fed, and it should be cooked as little as possible. You can, for example, quickly sear the meat on both sides, leaving the inside quite rare. This gives the illusion that you’re eating cooked meat, while still getting many of the benefits of raw.
Can You Get Enough Dietary Sulfur if You Don’t Eat Animal Protein?
It’s important for your heart health to have adequate dietary sulfur, and this comes almost exclusively from dietary protein. As such, high-quality (organic and/or grass-fed/pastured) beef and poultry are ideal complete sources, but if you don’t eat meat you can also get sulfur from coconut oil and olive oil. Other dietary sources that contain small amounts of sulfur IF the food was grown in soil that contains adequate amounts of sulfur, include:
Organic pastured eggs
Legumes
Garlic
Onion
Brussel sprouts
Asparagus
Kale
Organic Foods – What are the Critical Differences Between Organic Foods and Commercially Grown Foods part 1
Organic Foods – What are the Critical Differences Between Organic Foods and Commercially Grown Foods part 1
So – What are the critical differences between organic foods and commercially grown foods?
A very popular question in the resurgence of health awareness today. To answer that question, I share the well researched findings of two very respected pioneers in the alternative health community, Dr, Mercola and Jordan Rubin.
Dr. Mercola Shares his research on the value Eating an Organic Based Diet consisting of Organic Vegetables and Grass Fed Beef:
“Eating Only Plant-Based Foods Might be BAD for Your Heart” by Dr. Mercola
Plant-based foods like vegetables are obviously excellent for your heart and your overall health, so there is absolutely no reason to worry if you eat loads of plant foods as this is a healthy goal that most of us should ascribe to. The risks come in if you also exclude all animal proteins from your diet, as these are also valuable sources of nutrients that cannot be obtained elsewhere.
Research published in Nutrition shows that people who eat a strictly plant-based diet may suffer from subclinical protein malnutrition, which means you’re also likely not getting enough dietary sulfur. Sulfur is derived almost exclusively from dietary protein, such as fish and high-quality (organic and/or grass-fed/pastured) beef and poultry. Meat and fish are considered “complete” as they contain all the sulfur-containing amino acids you need to produce new protein.
Needless to say, those who abstain from animal protein are placing themselves at far greater risk of sulfur deficiency and its related health problems.
Sulfur also plays a vital role in the structure and biological activity of both proteins and enzymes. If you don’t have sufficient amounts of sulfur in your body, this deficiency can cascade into a number of health problems as it will affect bones, joints, connective tissues, metabolic processes, and more. As Dr. Stephanie Seneff, senior scientist at MIT, discusses in the video above, areas where sulfur plays an important role include:
1) Your body’s electron transport system, as part of iron/sulfur proteins in mitochondria, the energy factories of your cells.
2) Vitamin-B thiamine (B1) and biotin conversion, which in turn are essential for converting carbohydrates into energy.
3) Synthesizing important metabolic intermediates, such as glutathione.
4) Proper insulin function - The insulin molecule consists of two amino acid chains connected to each other by sulfur bridges, without which the insulin cannot perform its biological activity.
5) Detoxification - Researchers also concluded that the low intake of sulfur amino acids by vegetarians and vegans explains the origin of hyperhomocysteinemia (high blood levels of homocysteine, which may lead to blood clots in your arteries — i.e. heart attack and stroke) and the increased vulnerability of vegetarians to cardiovascular diseases.
Heart Disease May be a Cholesterol Deficiency Problem…
The other misconception plaguing the vegetarian community (and actually conventional nutrition recommendations as well) is the notion that animal foods are bad for your heart because they contain cholesterol. Conventional medicine tells us that heart disease is due to elevated cholesterol and recommends lowering cholesterol levels as much as possible, including in your diet. But according to Dr. Seneff, it’s difficult to get “too much” cholesterol in your diet, particularly in the standard American diet. But you may very well be getting too little, especially if you eat only plant foods, and that can cause problems.
She states:
“Heart disease, I think, is a cholesterol deficiency problem, and in particular a cholesterol sulfate deficiency problem…”
She points out that all of this information is available in the research literature, but it requires putting all the pieces together to see the full picture. Through her research, she believes that the mechanism we call “cardiovascular disease,” of which arterial plaque is a hallmark, is actually your body’s way to compensate for not having enough cholesterol sulfate.
She explains:
“The macrophages in the plaque take up LDL, the small dense LDL particles that have been damaged by sugar… The liver cannot take them back because the receptor can’t receive them, because they are gummed with sugar basically. So they’re stuck floating in your body… Those macrophages in the plaque do a heroic job in taking that gummed up LDL out of the blood circulation, carefully extracting the cholesterol from it to save it – the cholesterol is important – and then exporting the cholesterol into HDL – HDL A1 in particular… That’s the good guy, HDL.
The platelets in the plaque take in HDL A1 cholesterol and they won’t take anything else… They take in sulfate, and they produce cholesterol sulfate in the plaque.
The sulfate actually comes from homocysteine. Elevated homocysteine is another risk factor for heart disease. Homocysteine is a source of sulfate. It also involves hemoglobin. You have to consume energy to produce a sulfate from homocysteine, and the red blood cells actually supply the ATP to the plaque.
So everything is there and the intent is to produce cholesterol sulfate and it’s done in the arteries feeding the heart, because it’s the heart that needs the cholesterol sulfate. If [cholesterol sulfate is not produced]… you end up with heart failure.”
So, in a nutshell, high LDL appears to be a sign of cholesterol sulfate deficiency—it’s your body’s way of trying to maintain the correct balance by taking damaged LDL and turning it into plaque, within which the blood platelets produce the cholesterol sulfate your heart and brain need for optimal function.
There is Nothing that Creates More Anxiety and Fear of the Unknown Than Being Told – You Have Breast Cancer part 11
There is Nothing that Creates More Anxiety and Fear of the Unknown Than Being Told – You Have Breast Cancer part 11
DM: I want to go exactly there in a moment. But if someone is interested in participating in this public health trial that they could sponsor and get enormous benefit because they’ll know what their levels are and literally you only do this test a few times and you kind of know what your dose should be. It’s really beneficial. It’s a win-win for everyone. How would they get involved and what does it look like? What do they do for a test? How frequently is the test? How long is their participation?
CB: First of all, the simplest thing they can do is log on to our website which is Grass Roots Health. Right there, bold front, it says, “Join D action.”
That’s wide open to anybody in the world. The study protocol is that people will do a vitamin D test. We mail them a test kit they can do at home.
DM: So you don’t have to go to a blood drawing center.
CB: They don’t have to do a blood draw.
DM: The blood is not drawn. It’s just a little pin prick.
CB: It’s just finger prick which hurts.
DM: We want to be honest. We need a drop of blood.
CB: They have to answer an online questionnaire with various health questions twice a year, each six months. After the first six months, we send them a reminder saying it’s time for the next one so forth and so on. People can be a sponsor for one time only but
14the real desire is to have people choose to stay in the process for five years so we can really see what the health outcomes are.
DM: What is the cost for each test?
CB: The cost for each one if they are in the five year study is $60 or $120 a year plus shipping. That’s it. And they are helping sponsor the study.
DM: Terrific. It’s just great.
CB: We very much appreciate it.
DM: If you’re watching this and this is something that will interest you, I would strongly recommend you consider doing that. We know that the test being used pinch your finger? It is an accurate test. We looked very carefully at the methodology as I’m sure you did.
CB: Yes we do.
DM: There are two lab companies in the country that do this test for vitamin D that do the blood test and one that we recommend is LabCorp. The other, we don’t recommend. This other test, the third test, the pin prick test is actually more accurate than the other company from our experience. I haven’t looked at it for a few years. They may have changed their methodology but they are seriously over reporting the numbers. So if you got a high number, it would actually be 40% lower. So test works. That is the end point of that.
CB: We validate it regularly as well as the company that performs it.
DM: That’s great.
CB: It’s very good.
DM: You’ve had 8000 people enrolled in trial. What other observations or analyses have been able to identify at this time?
CB: In terms of analysis of the data itself within about a year’s time it’s pretty short to look at the health outcomes but we’re paying attention to that. Hopefully, within the next 12 months we’ll have enough data to really talk about health outcomes which is like how many people – what their average blood pressure, so forth and so on.
DM: Are you looking at cancer too?
CB: Of course.
DM: Have had any initial observations? I’m particularly curious because I still don’t believe that oral vitamin D works really well for the treatment of cancer. I mean if you didn’t have any choice, I would use it in a heartbeat. Does it really work? (indiscernible 37:46).
CB: The thing that I would say to support that it’s bound to work somewhat – I wouldn’t call it treatment of cancer but I would call it prevention of cancer…
DM: They are two different things.
CB: I understand. I’m talking about prevention though. I am not talking about treatment.
DM: Okay.
CB: With regards to prevention, I’m very convinced it works as a result of a randomized trial that was done in which results were published in 2007 by Joan Lappe out of Creighton University where they had a group of about 1100 post menopausal women who started out with no cancer and they had their control groups. One of them had vitamin D and one of them of course you have a placebo.
DM: Oral vitamin D.
CB: Right, oral vitamin D. At the end of four years, there was a 77% difference between those that had the vitamin D and calcium versus the placebo. So something is working.
DM: That is powerful.
CB: It was on all cancers. So something happens.
DM: I would agree with that. Oral vitamin D seems to work for prevention but when you get to treatment that’s my question.
CB: I don’t know that. More to come.
DM: Is it possible that your study would be able to (indiscernible 39:00)?
CB: It is very possible because we have quite a number of people in the study who have had and do have cancer right now. One of the things that’s interesting to observe right now is something I can see right now is what happens like they’ve got their vitamin D level and then between test 1 and test 2 or 2 and 3 or something like that. In that time period there, they get diagnosed with cancer.
What is interesting is the behavioral observation. We’ve had a few people who have had been diagnosed with breast cancer and two out of – I think four or five of them – two out of them immediately, the diagnosis was here and all of a sudden they say they have reduced their intake of vitamin D. I guarantee you that came from the physician telling them no don’t take that.
There is Nothing that Creates More Anxiety and Fear of the Unknown Than Being Told – You Have Breast Cancer part 10
There is Nothing that Creates More Anxiety and Fear of the Unknown Than Being Told – You Have Breast Cancer part 10
DM: That was earlier this year?
CB: That was November of 2010.
DM: So last year. Their revised report on vitamin D.
CB: Yeah. They stated in their report that 10,000 International Units a day is called a no observed adverse event level. In other words, even the IOM didn’t see anything wrong. They couldn’t find anything. The process for going to well anybody can take is a little bit better than throwing a dart. But they’re throwing a dart said, any adult can take 4000 IU a day and that’s considered the upper limit.
DM: Even though there were no reported adverse effects for below 10,000?
CB: Right. But they added a safety factor. On the good side that means if somebody just is totally – you know, I’m not going to test. I’m not going to do any of these sorts of things. I can’t afford to. I don’t want to whatever, go take 4000 IU a day.
DM: But more or likely it should be closer to 8000 or 6000.
CB: If we’re aiming again at that serum level, our data showed that it’s going to take
about 8000 a day for the majority of the population to get above 40.
DM: That’s interesting. This is the data from your study.
CB: It is.
DM: Is this still open?
CB: This is published.
DM: Is it still open?
CB: Sure. We’re running it ongoing. That was just the first paper. It was published in February.
DM: How many people are enrolled in the study currently?
CB: Currently, we have 8000.
DM: That’s a lot of people.
CB: Yes. We want lots of people.
DM: So this trial of 8000 people, you are able to provide some very beneficial data. I wasn’t aware that you had published that, that 8000 is the dose that most people need to a therapeutic level.
CB: To get to 40 nanograms. So that you can say it as a population level, don’t worry about testing almost everybody.
DM: That is a very profound recommendation maybe one of the highlights of this interview. The new dose is 8000. Can you tell us a little bit more about your trial? We’ve been promoting people to enroll in it.
CB: Thank you.
DM: Curiously, it just kind of shocks me that people objected to the fact that they had to pay for their test. They thought it was some type of revenue generating when all they are being charged for was the wholesale cost of the test which is less than what they would pay for if they went to the doctor. It’s just kind surprising to me since everything else in the study has been funded.
CB: Most studies – and people come in with this mindset – most studies that people get involved in scientific studies are funded by the government or some external thing. We have no government funding.
DM: Right. This is all privately.
CB: This is all funded either by yours truly. All of these participants…
DM: Are people who are donating to the project.
CB: Yes, exactly.
DM: So there is no government funding at all.
CB: That is right. The funding has to cover the test cost. It has to cover the publication and the writing and the consulting fees that we have to pay to get the thing out the door which are substantial.
DM: So this is not a profit generating…
CB: No. We are a non-profit in more ways than one.
DM: You have run many businesses and you know how to earn a profit. The design and intention of this project is nothing to do with revenue generation, absolutely nothing. You have done that. You’ve been there. You have generated that revenue you need to, to live a healthy life.
CB: I think people don’t understand that what they are paying when they help do this is they really are helping sponsor a major public health effort as opposed to paying for a test. Paying for a test who cares. Alright, I can complain about that. But we really wanted to reframe that and to helping people realize that their sponsorship and their doing this test and answering this questionnaire is helping us carry this message to the next step, to really change public health practices around the world.
We don’t need more clinical trials or yes, you can need more clinical trials but what really is needed right now is exactly what we’re doing which is a massive population trial where you get lots of people taking higher doses, getting more sunshine and getting their levels higher. So you can see what’s going to happen. We track the outcomes very seriously in all the time and we do pay attention on any adverse events. There haven’t been any.
There is Nothing that Creates More Anxiety and Fear of the Unknown Than Being Told – You Have Breast Cancer part 9
There is Nothing that Creates More Anxiety and Fear of the Unknown Than Being Told – You Have Breast Cancer part 9
DM: Because of your educational efforts both professionally and in a lay version, the demand for that test started skyrocketing because people understood how important it was.
CB: Sure. And the science is there.
DM: They obviously don’t have an unlimited budget so they decided to put the breaks on that and they stopped paying for it.
CB: They had stopped paying for it. This is not the same in all the provinces though. We are still making considerable headway with keeping the provinces in charge. We’re alsostartingtorunsomemajorresearchprojectsinotherprovinces. Wehavejust started one in Calgary. We will be starting another one soon in Vancouver where groups of doctors get together both in Calgary and in Vancouver. They’re working with our breast cancer prevention study to demonstrate very clearly that if we get women’s vitamin D levels up, the breast cancer rate is going go to go down but we have to document this.
One other thing I might add though, one of my ongoing passions, what drives you or whatever is – I’ll call it a sense of freedom. The minute that I feel constrained and I can’t do what I think is best for me or something like that, I start breaking the bounds and starting my own businesses. Dr. Banner again from Canada, his group out of the Ontario Medical Association, the college of surgeons, have recently issued a document aimed at the Complimentary Medicine Association section saying, you can’t do anything. You can’t do any procedure that hasn’t had a randomized clinical trial to support it. The call is on to save the complimentary medicine people in Canada. It’s grotesque.
DM: Using that as an illustration, you have to wonder what they would recommend to someone who was in an airplane that was crashing and had a parachute because you know to the best of my knowledge there has not been a randomized controlled trial that says using a parachute will decrease your risk of dying when you’re jumping from a plane. It’s just insane that they can’t use common sense.
CB: I know. It is insane. In that particular situation it’s also insane because just in general practice, a regular physician, not a so-called complimentary medicine, they do all kinds of things that don’t have randomized trials. They use drugs off label. They do all kinds of things.
DM: Sure. Standard protocol.
CB: There is this going on.
DM: It’s a double standard.
CB: It is very much so but it’s active.
DM: I strongly agree with your promotion of getting vitamin D testing and having Canadians do that. Canada is particularly important because as most people know, it’s north of the United States. They have far less therapeutic window probably four months where they can actually get significant vitamin D from exposure and even less the further north you go in Canada. Really, the solution for this to not use testing is just get the sun. But Canadians can only do two to four of the year so they can’t but for those who don’t want to do testing – essentially I don’t think you can’t overdose from the sun. As far as I know, you can’t.
CB: That’s what the science says.
DM: There may be some people who will argue that but practically it’s almost impossible because the UVA will actually lower excess of vitamin D. You have just to be concerned about the sunburn of course.
If you’re going to take the pills, well, then you can’t do it without the testing but you’re going to need at least 4000 probably close 6000 and maybe 8000 to 10,000 for most people test. It’s still even really low risk at those doses of overdosing. Because a few years ago even when Dr. Cannell was one of the leaders who started this. He was so careful. He tested hundreds of people before he would even go over 1000 units a day, you know, just stepping over because of the flawed research that most of us believed that was done in India that brought this concern about vitamin D toxicity from oral supplementation.
CB: Part of that research is something that Grassroots Health has now contributed to along with its thousands of people that are participating in the action study. We just published our very first paper thanks to all these beautiful participants in February. We have people in this study now that are taking 50,000 IU a day and they’re not reaching a potential toxicity level of 200 nanograms per milliliter. The study reported data on about over 3500 people.
DM: This is vitamin D3 orally?
CB: Yes. Not all orally because the people can tan as well. The message in the study is get your serum level up not how. We have quite a number of tanners in the study.
DM: But the 50,000 units you referenced was.
CB: Of course. The 50,000 definitely is a supplement.
One very significant thing shown by this research was that even with taking the supplement, the curve for the increase in the vitamin D level does not go linearly. It is curvilinear and it curves down which is why it’s even hard to get toxic with a supplement. We had the first level at which there were any impending signs was when somebody who was taking 40,000 IU a day.
One more thing, the Institute of Medicine has been under great attack for their curious recommendation about intake but they stated in their report….
There is Nothing that Creates More Anxiety and Fear of the Unknown Than Being Told – You Have Breast Cancer part 8
There is Nothing that Creates More Anxiety and Fear of the Unknown Than Being Told – You Have Breast Cancer part 8
CB: It’s very inexpensive.
DM: It’s probably one of the least expensive supplements on the market.
CB: Right. It is inexpensive but I think the biggest answer probably again in a region of the world is going to be food fortification. That is one of my goals which is okay, let’s get ourselves supplemented. Let’s get up here and let’s make this a mass thing please. But I think that there needs to be a bigger push towards making the sun our friend again because it hasn’t been. It’s been scare tactics to make it, it’s the cancer creator of skin cancer. And yet the skin cancers that are associated with the sun; the basal and squamous cell can be cut off and burned off and we don’t even track them in the U.S. because they are so numerous.
DM: Right, and relatively non-dangerous.
CB: Right.
DM: I interviewed a Dr. Stephanie Seneff – you may or may not be familiar with her. She’s a full professor out at MIT for the last three decades and has recently become passionate about health and vitamin D and cholesterol. She theorizes that there maybe this interaction with the sun and vitamin D and sulfate and that when you get the vitamin D generated by UVB exposure, it actually interacts with the sulfate in your skin and forms vitamin D sulfate.
CB: Interesting.
DM: It’s a whole different mechanism of action which is not formed when you swallow it.
CB: No, of course not.
DM: She thinks that has a big role in it but there is just very little research on this.
CB: There is very little right now.
DM: That’s really one of the most exciting areas of this – this just goes back to the basics. For centuries, thousands of years, people have recognized the value of the sun. Certain cultures worship the sun. I’m not suggesting that we worship it but we should at least respect it and understand that it has an important influence on our own health personally instead of avoiding it like the plague.
CB: There are many cultural patterns where – in some Indian cultures, the first thing that happens with the newborn is the very first dawn, the grandmother has this role of taking that always naked infant out and holding the infant up towards the sun to be blessed by the sun. This is the first day of that child’s life. When you start walking across the country and you see these things – there are also some rituals that were described from early Egypt. They had devised meditation practices and religious practices out in the sun facing exactly the right way to get the UVB rays at exactly the right time of day for the right amount of time not to burn. These were religious practices.
DM: That is fascinating.
CB: It’s just like whoa. It’s time to re-look very definitely. I totally agree.
DM: You have been passionate about this for a number of years. One of your early projects actually involved working with Canada. They have a socialized health system compared to the U.S. In some ways there is certainly some benefits of that with respect to implementing projects on a large public health perspective scale. Can you share with us your experience with that and what happened in the current project.
CB: Sure. We’re doing lots of great things in Canada. Initially in Canada I have been on many speaking tours. I speak all over the U.S. and all over the world actually just talking about vitamin D and its importance. They have quite a cadre of very interested physicians there that are very interested in doing something about this. Dr. Robert Banner, who is chair of the Complimentary Medicine section of the Ontario Medical Association – actually, their group took a position endorsing our call to action saying, we as complimentary medicine people are going to endorse it because we want us to be healthy.
I worked with the government of Ontario to counsel with them. Their issue with vitamin D is the cost of the testing. Testing does cost money.
DM: A lot more than the supplements.
CB: Yes. They had a lot of people taking the test. They called it delisting the test or not paying for these tests anymore. I counseled with them about whether or not they really should be doing that. At the very least, keep the testing paid for and therefore some of your key conditions whether it’s pregnancy or infancy or heart disease, I mean, pick some diseases if you want to, whatever. But they have chosen to do otherwise. So I had that experience.
DM: So it was compensated for and no charge…
CB: It was being paid for but now no longer is.
DM: And just at the request of the individual.
CB: Yes.