How To Meditate – What is the Infinite Power of Meditation for Healing – How Can it be Used to Heal part 3
How To Meditate – What is the Infinite Power of Meditation for Healing – How Can it be Used to Heal? part 3
The epiphany I had as a result of Dr. Vitale’s fateful e-mail was I instead focus entirely on dissipating the hurricane itself…
I decided to do focused meditations combining mind over matter with my energy healing and meditation training.
With 23 hours to go before hurricane Rita would make landfall in Houston Texas, my plan was to specifically:
1) Manifest a reduction in wind speed of the hurricane.
2) Manifest a much lighter rainfall instead of the typical severe flooding.
3) Manifest a much higher soil absorption rate of the water.
4) Manifest calmer seas.
5) Manifest a powerful clock wise rotation on the hurricane’s “eye wall” *(the Inside) to counteract the counterclockwise rotation of the hurricanes forceful winds.
I did these focused hurricane dissipation meditations for 45 min. took a 15 min. break and continued for another 45 min. I did this over the next 23 hours.
I empowered myself by mentally envisioning being actually in the center of the hurricane’s eye.
At the time I did not have any satellite photos of Hurricane Rita so I used Hurricane Katrina as a focal point.
This is a satellite photo of the devastating category 5 165 mph Hurricane Katrina.
I applied all of my unleashed passions to save lives combined with my extensive mind over matter and energy healing training to manifest my 5 desired intentions and to calm the massive turbulence with healing vibrations of vivid positive visualization.
One of the focused positive visualizations I unleashed by hurricane Rita besides my 5 desired manifestations was of a hurricane dissipation into a vividly beautiful day of inspiration – an entirely different alternate reality….
At the end of 23 grueling hours – it was a measurable success! Hurricane Rita started out as 165 mile an hour category 5 monster that was actually larger and potentially more deadly than Hurricane Katrina. Within only 23 hours left before landfall, I was able to achieve a remarkable 60+ mile-per-hour reduction in wind speeds. This resulted in the critical difference between considerable flooding, or absolute wiped off the map destruction even more so than Hurricane Katrina.
The following was just a handful of incredible breakthrough examples made possible through the infinite powers of healing meditation.
Meditation for healing can be used to drastically improve the healing of virtually any disease. Meditation is also one of the finest ways to improve mental focus, alleviate depression and re-center a person’s state of being with a feeling of clarity, vibrant wellness, spiritual enlightenment and blissful inner peace.
At this moment I would like to pay a sacred spiritual homage to the man that gave me the inspirations of infinite possibility through healing meditation – the late Maharishi, founder of Transcendental Meditation.
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How To Meditate – What is the Infinite Power of Meditation for Healing – How Can it be Used to Heal part 2
How To Meditate – What is the Infinite Power of Meditation for Healing – How Can it be Used to Heal? part 2
Author: Glen B Stewart
As I mentioned, I was on a unbridled passionate quest to find a solution to end even the deadliest hurricanes – forever ~
My background as an accomplished martial artist and energy healer were to serve me in yet unfathomable ways in the next few weeks…
As the world’s fastest martial artist with an incredible 8 punches in .97 seconds *Less than a Second! I have reached the pinnacle in athletic performance.
I studied a form of martial arts training called “Mind Over Matter” since I was 15. This amazing yet very forward thinking style of training began when I 1st observed my black belt neighbor breaking a cinderblock with his bare hand. I was stunned and absolutely fascinated with this remarkable achievement. A few years later I was invited to compete In Madison Square Garden’s felt forum in a international martial arts competition. It was there that my perceptions on what is humanly possible were stretched to previously unimaginable lengths.
The impeccable talents of the martial artist worldwide at the event were indeed astounding. But what fascinated me the most in terms of human performance ability live beyond the stationary forms competition and the fighting competitions.
My fascination? It was the absolutely stunning Mind Over Matter exhibitions later that evening…
A black belt came onto the center stage for all of us to watch. The removed his karate Gi top (uniform). Several assistants came onto the stage and laid out a large drop cloth. Several others came up with a garbage can filled with glass bottles of all shapes and sizes. Next an accomplished bodybuilder came up with a huge 16 pound sledgehammer. This bodybuilder began to smash down on all of the glass bottles that were placed inside the large metal garbage can.
The events that took place next defy human comprehension entirely ~
The hugely muscled bodybuilder finished breaking up the glass bottles in the garbage can. He then poured out the broken glass onto the drop cloth in a rectangular pile. Next several other assistants brought up a flatbed cart loaded with 4 300 pound slabs of ice.
The black belt with his Gi top off lied on top of the rectangular pile of broken glass.
I could not believe my eyes!
All of the assistants on stage began to place the for 300 pound slabs of ice on top of the lying prone black belts bare chest. This man must be hemorrhaging to death under all of that weight on the broken glass I thought!
Next it got REALLY freaky!
The huge bodybuilder with his 16 pound sledgehammer began to smash the ice on the black belts chest with 4 massive blows!
I was absolutely speechless!
Next the assistants cleaned off the black belts chest from the remaining ice pieces. They helped him up and wiped off his chest.
Totally amazing not a single bruise!
Then the black belt turned around and they wiped the glass pieces off his back…
Holy !!!!!! Not a Single Cut on his entire back!
That is the amazing power of mind over matter applied towards injury prevention…
Less than a month after deadly Hurricane Katrina struck the city of New Orleans with absolute devastation Hurricane Rita came storming up the Gulf of Mexico…
I got an e-mail from Dr. Joe Vitale of “The Secret” fame. Its headline read:
Help me stop Rita!
Dr. Vitale went on to describe the fact that Hurricane Rita was only 23 hours away from the town of Houston Texas. the doctor and I have been casual friends for half a dozen years or so. On occasion I would receive e-mails from him.
In this now fateful e-mail, Joe went on to describe rather fascinating proposition he had for me. He mentioned the late Maharishi’s breakthrough work with crime rate reduction in Washington DC in 1972. I was familiar with this fascinating research. The doctor propose that we use the power of positive thinking in a meditation to calm the now frantic crowds trying to flee the city.
I instantly had a Life Saving and now Life Transforming Epiphany…
How To Meditate – What is the Infinite Power of Meditation for Healing – How Can it be Used to Heal
How To Meditate - What is the Infinite Power of Meditation for Healing – How Can it be Used to Heal?
Author: Glen B Stewart
Meditation is used in many ways by virtually all cultures across the globe today.
Meditation has its cultural roots going all the way back to the ancient Atlantean civilization. This civilization was far more advanced than ours currently today. The Atlantean’s in fact were known to live a life span of 200 to 250 years of age. Even more incredible was the fact that their youth had somehow been preserved to resemble a person of 30 to 50 years of age. This is just one example of the infinite possibilities available through meditation.
Meditation was carried forward to the ancient yogis from the Atlantean race many thousands of years ago. The yogis used this form of spiritual practice to become “one with the spirit” and to vastly enhance their mental and physical well-being on virtually every level.
Today the sacred practice of meditation is enjoyed within virtually every culture worldwide on 6 continents.
Meditative practice has been used for thousands of years to heal all sickness and disease both mentally and physically. Today this highly evolved spiritual practice has been used to optimize everything in the universe literally. For example in 1972 the late Maharishi combined a group of his highly trained meditators to perform breakthrough experiments in crime reduction. He and his group focused their projected meditative intentions towards reducing the crime rate in Washington DC. Washington DC has one of the highest crime rates in the USA.
The results of this milestone experiment were astounding.
When the Maharishi’s experiment was concluded all of the police precincts within a radius Washington DC were extensively interviewed. When the results came back it was jaw-dropping. Because this now legendary experiment had produced an astounding 16% reduction in crime rate throughout Washington DC…
The Maharishi was known for his groundbreaking “Transcendental Meditation” style of meditative healing. back in the 60s and early 70s his teachings became legendary. Even Hollywood movie stars and world-famous musicians gravitated towards his work on meditation. This star-studded list included the likes of none other than Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Donovan, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and John Lennon of the Beatles.
The world can thank the late Maharishi for bringing forward to the Western world the gift of spiritual enlightenment through meditation. He was also the first one to combine this sacred practice with amazing scientific research to back up the results that previously had to be experienced to be fully understood and appreciated. We all him a tremendous amount of divine gratitude.
The PEAR that bore the fruit of projected positive intention
Another breakthrough example of the infinite powers of meditation for healing could be found within the PEAR project at Princeton University. This project focused on the mental capabilities of the human consciousness in many areas. One of these studies was on the ability to influence a random effects generator to make more zeros then ones.
The PEAR became most famous for something far more truly extraordinary. On graduation day University of Princeton holds their graduation ceremonies outdoors. This is done simply because they cannot host these ceremonies for 15,000 graduates inside. Rain or shine, the graduation festivities continue on.
What about the possibility of rain or thunderstorms?
This is where the extraordinary comes into play. The University of Princeton has never had rain wash out their graduation ceremonies… How could this be possible? Influenced by their PEAR project classmates, the University of Princeton students consciously project the positive expectation of no rain for on graduation day. When this phenomenon was measured in a radius around the University, miraculously scientific studies prove there was very little to no rainfall on that given day for over 40 years…
0 More Katrina!
In 2005 Hurricane Katrina crushed the beloved city of New Orleans with absolute disaster. I found myself searching for an answer to end deadly hurricanes forever. I called my passionate quest “0 More Katrina”.
Cancer Survival – What You Do Not Know About A Deadly Cancer Causing Lifestyle Can Kill You part 8
Cancer Survival – What You Do Not Know About A Deadly Cancer Causing Lifestyle Can Kill You part 8
“Less than a month after U.S. Senator Trent Lott and other local leaders helped officially open Rapiscan Systems’ new Ocean Springs factory,” Lott’s office announced in a news release in late 2006, “the company has won a $9.1 million Department of Defense contract.”
But Rapiscan still hadn’t landed a major contract to roll out its X-ray body scanners in commercial airports. Indeed, in 2007, with new privacy filters in place, the TSA began a trial of millimeter-wave and backscatter machines at several major airports, after which the agency opted to go with the millimeter-wave machines. The agency said health concerns weren’t a factor.
But with the 2009 federal stimulus package, which provided $300 million for checkpoint security machines, the TSA began deploying backscatters as well. Rapiscan won a $173 million, multiyear contract for the backscatters, with an initial $25 million order for 150 systems to be made in Mississippi.
Three other companies — American Science & Engineering, Tek84 Engineering Group and Valley Forge Composite Technologies — make X-ray scanners, but none are used by the TSA.Peter Kant, executive vice president for Rapiscan, said the company expanded its lobbying because its business was increasingly affected by the government.
“There’s a lot of misinformation about the technology; there’s a lot of questions about how various inspection technologies work,” he said. “And we needed a way to be able to provide that information and explain the technology and how it works, and that’s what lobbying is.”
The lawmakers either declined to comment or said the lobbying, campaign contributions and local connections had nothing to do with the TSA’s decision to purchase Rapiscan machines. The TSA said the contract was bid competitively and that the winning machines had to undergo comprehensive research and testing phases before being deployed.
While the scanners were appearing in more and more airports, few passengers went through them, because they were used mostly for random screening or to resolve alarms from the metal detector.
That changed on Christmas Day 2009, when a Nigerian man flying to Detroit tried to ignite a pouch of explosives hidden in his underwear.
Following the foiled “Great Balls of Fire” suicide bombing, as the New York Postdubbed it, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ramped up plans to roll out body scanners nationwide. Members of Congress and aviation security experts also pushed heavily for the TSA to install more machines that could detect explosives on passengers.
Harman sent a letter to Napolitano, noting that Rapiscan was in her district.
“I urge you to expedite installation of scanning machines in key airports,” Harman wrote in the letter, which was first reported by the website CounterPunch. “If you need additional funds, I am ready to help.”
Michael Chertoff, who had supported body scanners while secretary of Homeland Security, appeared frequently on TV advocating their use. In one interview, he disclosed that his consulting firm, Chertoff Group, had done work for Rapiscan, sparking accusations that he was trying to profit from his time as a government servant.
Despite the criticism, little has been revealed about the relationship. Rapiscan dismissed it, asserting that the consulting work had to do with international cargo and port security issues — not aviation.
“There was nothing that was not above board,” Kant said. “His comments about passenger screening and these machines were simply his own and was nothing that we had engaged the Chertoff Group for.”
In a statement, the Chertoff Group said it “played no role in the sale of whole body imaging technology to TSA” and that Chertoff “was in no way compensated for his public statements.”
A public records request by ProPublica turned up empty: The Department of Homeland Security said it could not find any correspondence to or from Chertoff related to body scanners. DHS also said Chertoff did not use email.
The TSA plans to deploy 1,275 backscatter and millimeter-wave scanners covering more than half its security lanes by the end of 2012 and 1,800 covering nearly all the lanes by 2014.
According to annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, OSI Systems, the parent company of Rapiscan, has seen revenue from its security division more than double since 2006 to nearly $300 million in fiscal year 2011.
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There is Nothing More Devastating and Fear Inducing Than Hearing That – You have Pancreatic Cancer part 4
There is Nothing More Devastating and Fear Inducing Than Hearing That – You have Pancreatic Cancer part 4
The Natural Art of Qi Gong ~ Proven benefits for Pancreatic Cancer
With the worst survival rate of all cancers and the devastating side effects of chemotherapy and radiation therapy alternative treatments for pancreatic cancer are the more sought after option. One such alternative is Qi Gong…..
Origins of Qi Gong
Qi gong can be translated as ‘qi’ ~ vitality, life energy/force and ‘gong’ ~ meaning diligent practice, cultivation or refinement….
Therefore the meaning of Qi gong ~ ‘cultivating and refining your life force energy through diligent practice’……
Originating in China Qi Gong (also known as Chi-Gung) is based upon a set of health promoting practices. It includes special forms of breathing, meditation and postures.
Scientific Studies Prove Benefits of Qi Gong for Pancreatic Cancer over Conventional Medicine
The Tientsin Chinese Medicine Academy (TCMA) has researched the effects of Qi Gong when applied to different medical conditions.
It has shown that even 20 minutes a day for mild diseases and up to 3 – 4 hours a day for serious conditions make a significant difference.
The TCMA’s studies revealed different results in patients with pancreatic cancer ~ for those who practice Qi Gong and those who only received chemotherapy.
The rate of “unscheduled DNA synthesis” (DNA repair) of peripheral blood lymphocytes in Patients who practiced Qi Gong for three months were compared with those who only received chemotherapy.
Both groups were also compared with a third control group without cancer.
Qi Gong Shown to Repair DNA
Although both groups with cancer had lower DNA repair rates than those without cancer, the Qi Gong group with cancer had a significantly greater improvement in their DNA repair rate than those who only had chemotherapy.
In addition a significantly greater proportion survived for five years in the group who practiced Qi Gong and took prescribed herbs (36%) compared with herbs alone (26.1%), chemotherapy alone (25.1%) or no further treatment (20.8%).
Qi Gong Exercises can Boost the Immune System for Pancreatic Cancer
Many of the reported benefits of Qi Gong were published in medical journals and include improvements in:
Immune function ~ Sleep ~ Appetite ~ Weight gain ~ Strength ~ Reduced diarrhea ~ Normalized blood counts ~ Improved overall health and less side effects following chemotherapy or radiotherapy.
Further Studies show more impressive results of Qi Gong & Pancreatic Cancer
The largest study (1648 patients) did not have any control groups. The hospital in which it was conducted combined Qigong with other forms of conventional cancer therapy and reported better five-year survival rates than other hospitals.
Further studies showed the positive effects of Qi Gong on cancer cells with the inhibition of tumor growth and killing of malignant cells.
Which Type of Qi Gong is best for Pancreatic Cancer?
With over 5,000 types of Qi Gong ~ different histories and teaching methods, there is a richness of knowledge to choose from. Your Qi Gong experience will be a personal journey with a teacher whom you connect deeply with.
One highly recognised type of Qi Gong is Taijiquan (ty chee chuan) ~ developed as a ‘soft form’ of martial arts around 300 years ago. This is a gentle form of Qi Gong and ideal for those with more advanced medical conditions.
Taijiquan works with the energy and is distinctive for it’s slowly moving meditative exercises or posture changes that flow from one form to another. Many of these postures have been paralleled after the movements of animals and are often described as “swimming in the air”.
“I Used Qi Gong to Beat Cancer ~ A personal story”
By Ben Ellal ~ A Survivor
The inspiring story of Ben Ellal who used Qi Gong to beat his cancer and is still going strong over 12 years later………
“In 1991 I was diagnosed with cancer and at the age of just 32, given 6 months to live. My sons were aged 2 and 6 months, we had just built a huge house on a lake and my writing career was taking off…I had everything to live for. Death was NOT in my plans!”
I decided I was going to see my sons grow up into men ~ that I would beat this disease. So I got to work. I researched everything I could about patients who had survived terminal illnesses.
A common thread emerged; meditation and visualisation. Survivors utilized the mind/body connection to bolster their immune systems.
I started to meditate and visualise 5 or 6 times a day and started to see the benefits. I decided I needed help to go deeper into the mind/body connection and contacted a Kung Fu Master. He taught me the secrets of Qi Gong, or energy work, Chinese mind/body exercises used for health and martial arts.
I learned a standing meditation called Embrace the Tree, in which you stand, feet shoulder-width apart, sacrum tucked, head level and arms held in an arc in front of the chest.
The Chinese believe you can absorb energy from the atmosphere into a cavity on the top of the head, and energy from the earth from cavities on the soles of your feet. Holding your arms in an arc stimulates the thymus gland. The thymus kicks out T-cells, your body’s natural cancer killers….
I started doing the standing post for an hour, twice a day. Eventually the pain was gone and so was the cancer. That was over 12 years ago and I’ve been cancer-free ever since.
I practice Qi Gong every day to keep the wolves at bay. And my sons have grown into men.
I kept my promise………”
The Practical Exercises of Qi Gong ~ We look at practical Qi Gong exercises and Embracing the Tree separately. To be Continued….
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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.
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There is Nothing that Creates More Anxiety and Fear of the Unknown Than Being Told – You Have Breast Cancer part 7
CB: Thanks you.
DM: I had one specific question and I would like to dialog with you on it because it’s been a concern of mine. I couldn’t agree more. Obviously, I have been promoting vitamin D for a long time now and I share your passion. I think that’s the central issue.
CB: I know you do.
DM: Our approach is to educate people and share the message. I think we were really one of the central roles to help catalyze this at least from a media perspective. But what is obvious to me is that there is an important subset of this because the tendency in American culture is to take a magic pill for everything – a pill solves something. So it’s great because there is a vitamin D solution but that’s not the way that it occurs in nature. I mean, yes, you can get oral vitamin D. It definitely happens and we do have the ability to increase our levels that way.
But the way that we mostly get it is through exposure to the sun. That’s a different mechanism than swallowing a pill. I don’t think any expert would disagree that it’s better to get that vitamin D from the sun and then secondarily through a safe tanning bed which is still superior to a pill. But then if there is no resort of course then the oral. It seems to me there is something magical that occurs that is actually beyond the level of vitamin D which is used as an arbiter or as a measure.
The question that I have is it actually useful – I mean, certainly you don’t have any other choice but do you get the same benefit from getting your level to 40 to 60 from the sun as you do by swallowing a pill and especially as it relates to your major focus which is the impact on cancer. I’m concerned and I’m not sure that there is a (indiscernible 15:31) of treatment, maybe prevention but in the treatment I just don’t think it works. I could be wrong. That’s my fear.
So I really encourage – my new passion and mission is to get people away from swallowing those pills and if for any way, shape, or form to get to the real source, to get the UVB exposure. That’s a long-winded question but take as long as you want to respond to that.
CB: I think that it is obvious that the reason that we have this deficiency is because we have become an industrialized nation. That may sound like, but that was a long time ago. It wasn’t that long ago. What we’ve done is we’ve come inside. We cover up. Even in San Diego where I live, when they measured my level it was 18 nanograms per milliliter.
DM: Dangerous. For those who don’t know, San Diego is considered I think the sunniest city in the country.
CB: It’s pretty sunny.
DM: Or close to it. It’s definitely top.
CB: It’s very nice. When we did a scientific test of what it’s going to make body to get enough sun in San Diego with the weather we have with my age – age has a factor in how much you absorb – we came to a test conclusion that it was going take 15 to 20 minutes a day in the prime time of UV between 10 and 2 during the day, each and everyday – and here was the hooker for me – with 40% of my body exposed. For me outside that was just not going to happen because it was chilly. San Diego is chilly at least along the coast of it where I live. But that doesn’t change the question and the source.
I think there are two major questions that go through my mind. One is what else you’ll be getting from the sun? That’s the big one to me because I think that you can get your serum level up with supplements of some kind or another. You can get it up with the sun. I think at that level, we got to say, to me I think it’s the same. On the other hand, I think the UVB does other things. And there is only recently some new research coming out to say, what else does the sun do?
DM: Well, enlighten us.
CB: What else of course…I don’t know. It’s like it’s barely there. The scientists that do this kind of research with the skin are just starting to ask the question which is like, you know, there is probably more to the sun than vitamin D. I encourage people to take advantage of the sun. The only message I have about the sun is don’t burn. That’s it.
DM: Yeah.
CB: Other than if you want to get that UVB, you really have to be out between 10 and 2 not evening walks and stuff like that. I think that’s ideal.
DM: That’s the key. I noticed you are concerned about yourself going out there because of the temperature but in my observation is even though it’s chilly – I tend to go to subtropical areas in the winter to get the sun but there are still chilly days but I noticed that if the sun is shining on you, you can tolerate relatively low temperatures even low 60s to even high 50s if the sun is directly on you. So it’s not that uncomfortable.
CB: The other thing that I have a major question about which we have talked about with our scientist panel is, what’s the ultimate public health step? I mean, if you think about the world which has a very severe vitamin D deficiency epidemic yet you have taken supplements, it’s ludicrous. I mean, that’s people who can pay the money kind of job.
DM: It’s still pretty inexpensive.