Vitamins for Wellness

Gary Kenneth Archer :

Chelation Therapy was first used during world war one by the British as a result of arsenic based poison gas used indescrimitively in that war. An organic dithio compound was used to bond with the arsenic in the bloodstream and exiting the body through the kidneys and liver. This therapy reportedly had severe side effects.

During world war two the United States military used chelation therapy on navy personnel who acquired lead poisoning from paint used on navy vessels. EDTA (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid a natural amino acid) was used as the chelation agent. Later in the 1960’s the chelation agent of choice was DMSA (Dimercaptosuccinic acid is also called succimer and is sold under the brand name Chemet.) for treating arsenic, mercury and lead poisoning.

As with all chelation agents and there are many the underlying purpose and the end result is a chemical bond with metal ions in the bloodstream making the ions less chemically active resulting in a water-soluble solution that is then naturally eliminated via the bloodstream.

Chelation therapy is now widely used to treat toxic metal poisoning. EDTA chelation, which is USDA (United States Drug Administration), approved is the chelation agent most used by our medical industry.

Chelation therapy can be introduced into the body intramuscularly, orally, or intravenously.

As shown chelation therapy is nothing new and has been used extensively throughout the world by many nations including U.S.A., Great Briton, and Russia (Soviet Union). Also conventional medicine has and continues to use chelation therapy albeit on a limited basis.

Chelation Therapy and Alternative Medicine:

I believe it is fair to say that conventional medicine and alternative medicine have been at odds for many years for various reasons and too many to mention here. Having said that both sides of medicine use chelation therapy, the difference is in the agent used. Alternative medicine uses natural agents found in herbs, vitamins, minerals and natural sources. This includes EDTA, which is in fact the standard FDA approved chelation agent used for treating lead, mercury, aluminum, and cadmium poisoning.

Of course there are no patents on naturally found agents such as EDTA thus drug companies have little interest in promoting this type of health procedure. EDTA is the chelation agent most often used by alternative medical practitioners although there are many other agents also used none of which are approved by the FDA.

Alternative medicine uses chelation therapy for a variety of ailments but primarily for treating cardio vascular disease most notably cleansing of arteries.

The U.S National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine is presently conducting a trial of efficacy concerning alternative medicine chelation agents and will be completed in 2009. The FDA and traditional medical institutions such as the American Heart Association are inalterably opposed to this trial calling it “dangerous and unethical”.

Another controversial use of chelation in the alternative medicine world is for treating children with Autism. The theory is that heavy metals in the bloodstream may inniate symptoms of Autism. Recently the alternative medicine community has proposed a link to Thiomersal a vaccine preservative, which contains mercury as a possible if not probable ‘switch’ to igniting Autisim. The traditional medical industry is quick to point out that there is no scientific data to support the claims. Mercury is indisputably a heavy metal that creates havoc in the bloodstream. Thimerosoal the mercury poisoning drug has now been removed from ‘most’ childhood immunizations.

As you would expect, the alternative medicine community cites positive reports from some parents with Autistic children who have participated in some form of chelation therapy. Conversely traditional medicine debunks the use of chelation therapy for treating Autism and points to two (2) children dying due to hypocalemia and cardiac arrest after being administered chelation therapy. Traditional critics also say that prolonged use of some chelation agents may cause liver damage, kidney problems, blood pressure drops, and other health risks. However it is important to note that there is no mention of the risks or side effects of prescription drugs and surgical procedures traditional medicine routinely use in treating patients.

Comparatively new to chelation therapy is its use for treating some cancers. Proclaimed by some as a last hope therapy, this is highly controversial and not without critics on both sides of the proverbial fence. There have been ‘favorable reports’ of “miraculous” reductions in cancer cells and shrinkage of cancerous tumors in some patients. No studies have been conducted to legitimize these claims. The alternative medicine world relays heavily on personal testimonies from individual patients, whereby traditionalists conduct studies and trials often funded by drug companies or institutions that have a vested interest in a favorable outcome.

In Conclusion:

The medical world has begun a paradigm shift from traditional to alternative medicine. Chelation therapy has its pros and cons but undeniably it is now more then ever a viable alternative to surgery and traditional drug prescriptions. Chelation therapy should only be administered by a licensed medical practitioner and only after a thorough physical. Before deciding on any method of treatment for any ailment it is wise to seek out an abundant amount of information and points of view.

As a personal testimony, I have used oral chelation for many years as a form of preventative medicine since heart disease is prevalent in my family, with no apparent side effects. In my opinion chelation therapy is an effective alternative to surgery and is an effective choice in preventing cardiovascular disease by boosting your immune system and effectively cleansing the arteries. Always use any ‘natural supplement’ in moderation and always check with a reputable licensed natural practitioner before implementing any natural supplement regiment. Additionally be sure to consult with your pharmacist concerning interactions with prescription drugs.

Kaede S. Cruise asked:

Dr. Joseph Mercola has been practicing natural healing methods for over two decades. His website, Mercola.com is known as one of the most popular natural health websites in the world.

Mercola.com provides the latest developments in the world of medicine, including the most controversial issues.

One of those creating the most buzz is Bill C-51, a new bill proposed by the Canadian government earlier this year which is threatening to drastically affect the neighboring country’s health climate.

Among the questionable changes Bill C-51 will bring if passed into law include shortening the process for approving new drugs. Also, with the current rate of drug licensing failure in Canada, around 70% of natural health products will be illegal, allowing government agents to sanction those who are merely sharing a “therapeutic product” with someone else.

So if you’re an American, why should you care?

If Canada adopts C-51, it will allow trade agreements, like the Codex Treaty, to be passed into law without approval from the Parliament. The United Nations-supported Codex Alimentarius Commission has classified nutrients as toxins. The United States has backed Codex to use a Risk Assessment, branch of toxicology, to determine the maximum level of a substance, including nutrients, which may be ingested without any visible biological effects.

Codex has been working to impose a universal maximum “safe” level on every legally produced, used and sold food supplement – vitamins, minerals, herbs, etc. – with “safe” signifying a level with NO physical effect.

The safety of supplements is likely to become evaluated using the toxicology scale if Codex guidelines become part of Canadian law through Bill C-51, putting pressure on the U.S. and Mexico to adopt the same regulations.

The domino effect sparked by Canada’s possible adoption of this bill may lead to millions of Americans not being able to use natural products to improve their health and treat certain illnesses.

Can you imagine not being allowed to use products like garlic, a therapeutic food, or Vitamin C tablets if the U.S. was to follow Canada’s lead?

Read more about this topic and other issues at Mercola.com or send your questions and reactions at Ask Dr. Mercola.

Tibor A. Palatinus asked:


Vitamin C supplements and other Natural Health Products — NHP used by the majority of Canadians, would have questionable access to Canadians due to C 51.

C 51 would force many nutrients and health supplements to be banned from Canada because of impossible to pass regulations that C 51 introduce. Bill C 51 also permits other countries with trade to Canada, to ban medicines and supplements from sale in Canada through the Codex Alimentarius. (see bottom link to articles and Video on the International Trade Commission of Codex Alimentarius)

I educate people about natural health supplements and have been using Natural Health Products (NHP) for 30 years. I almost never get sick and I always feel great. These are the benefits of inexpensive NHP to Canadians before C 51.

Vitamins supplements and nutrients are now available to Canadians at low prices and are accessible to any Canadian. C 51 would prevent Canadians to buy many natural medicines, herbs and supplements. C 51 will also make my favorite vitamins, minerals and super foods very expensive and not accessible to me. C 51 endangers my personal health.

C 51 Will Reduce Canadians Access To NHP

I use NHP freely in Canada and don’t require drugs to improve my health, the few times I wasn’t feeling well. I know the key to health is in my own choices to live and eat right. C 51 assumes that I don’t know what is right for me. Health Canada via Tony Clement, Health Minister proposed C 51 wants to deny my freedom to choose my health plan.

C 51 has the goal of putting NHP out of the reach of Canadians. C 51 will result in banning the sale and distribution of many NHP.

C 51 proposes to put ALL Natural Health Products, Chinese Medicine, healing devices through required expensive tests and authorizations which are not accessible to Canadians. The access is either through foreign countries, or by very expensive testing.

Who Benefit$ By Passing C 51?

The only individuals who stand to financially gain are those who want more people sick, using drugs, dieing or dead. That means anti-social individuals and groups may think they profit when more people start dieing. Pharmaceutical drug pushers lead by psychiatrists pushing made-up psychiatric disorders could financially gain by C 51.

The cost of NHP and Chinese Medicine could skyrocket with C 51. (See the article in Vitality Magazine via website at bottom link).

One of the consequences of C 51 that would operate under the trade conditions of Codex Alimentarius is the banning of food into countries. It’s interesting that recently thousands of pounds of high density nutritional biscuits were banned from entering Myanmar (Burma) as a relief effort to prevent survivors from starving to death. (Watch full video on bottom link to find out why)

Please share this information to any Canadian that values their natural health and benefit by unrestricted access to food and NHP. Phone your MP and tell him/her to protect your rights of free choice to your NHP and vote against C 51.

Henk Mutsaers :

What if Codex Alimentarius is implemented in the United States of America? Therapeutic dosages of vitamins and minerals, and many more nutrients soon to follow, will become unavailable because they will literally become illegal.

We all need to protest against the Codex Alimentarius: Here’s to your health River Zydeco Band feat. Henk Mutsaers

The Food and Pharmaceutical industry both have one item on their agenda: Trying to imitate nature and patent the products that originate from that. With the Codex Alimentarius, soon high doses of natural supplements are forbidden, and with that, the basic condition of the Maslow pyramid: Our Right on Natural Food.

Step by step people got used to the use of artificial fertilizers with farming while far better free alternatives are at hand with sea farming. After that followed by GMO patented seeds. At this moment, 80 percent of the supermarket shelves are filled with unnatural products, referring to these products as food is a sham, for while they may fill you up, they totally fail to nourish you. Lots of people still have the idea they eat a healthy mix of vegetables and fruits , unfortunately most of this produce has been a long time away from where it was grown, therefore, much of the vitamin and mineral content is no longer present. Grown on depleted , over fertilized soil , then irradiated after harvest to extend shelf life, is what supermarket shoppers are conditioned to accept as fresh produce..

Most diseases from witch people suffer from are attributed to the aging process, and science tells us that it’s all in our genes. Almost everybody in the modern civilized Western world is suffering from a lack of essential vital nutrients. Do we have to illegally import nutritional supplements ourselves in about a year or are we forced to grow our own vegetables and fruits? You and Me, we’ve got a powerful tool to vote with; Our Wallet! Act Now.

Q. Are Americans protected by DSHEA? Blind compliance goes hand-in-hand with lack of activism.

Henk Mutsaers

Henk Mutsaers :

We always hear and read the stories about new medical breakthroughs for a certain disease. What we don’t hear is, how many of those stories are really telling the truth?

Here are some shocking facts!

The answer came after a nice chat in hardly five minutes. A disrupted acid ~ base balance (pH). Never heard of it, but as I found out later, every farmer knows about it! It sure is the biggest secret to improve your health in a short period of time. After nearly three years my problems vanished in eight weeks with only a strict diet.

This is where my journey started. I read all the articles in the newspapers I used to skip before. Magazines, TV, international seminars and off course the Internet. Step by step I started to make some small changes in my diet, started to use supplements and most important: measuring my results! It became a rollercoaster ride. From a school figure 9.3 to a 3.8 on the downside. Living healthier isn?t easy with the temptations of all those processed foods!

On one off the presentations I met Dr. Robert Verkerk from the Alliance of Natural Health (ANH). He presented the danger of the coming Codex Alimentarius for natural health freedom. Isn’t it funny that they seek evidence about supplements and double blind controlled studies done with vitamins. Why funny? Because an article published in the British Medical Journal showed me some interesting facts about medicines.

Didn?t you hear all those stories about quackery lately when it comes to vitamins and minerals? Here are the facts about the medication the doctor uses to cure diseases. 13% is proven to be beneficient to help overcome a health problem. 46%! Yes, you read that right, from 46% they haven?t got a clue what it?s doing inside your body. The remaining 41 percent is sometimes a benefit; sometimes the side effects are worse than the complaint itself; sometimes it even has the potential to kill! After I had the time to really think about those figures, it sounded like a Russian roulette to me. Played in the doctor?s office and most off the patients not knowing about it! And the doctor; Does he or she knows the truth, or is he or she brainwashed by the pharmaceutical marketing machine.

I consider myself lucky, having the knowledge and putting my trust in natural medicine. People, who change their diet and use supplements, avoid dangerous foods, are looking younger, are feeling better and will have more energy that’s doesn’t sound strange to me. Looking around I would like to shout it from the top of the roof: ?Hey folks, don?t you know?? But I learned that people don?t react most of the time on the voice of a stranger. That?s why I try to encourage you to learn more about it and help me spread the message.

Veggiegirl asked:


INVESTIGATE BEFORE YOU VACCINATE!
Federally recommended vaccinations ensure that a baby will be injected with a total of 51 viral and bacterial antigens by the time it is 6 months old! Included with all these germs are preservatives, adjuvants and antibiotics proven highly toxic to a baby’s brain and nervous system. The federal government’s vaccine injury data base contains names of thousands of dead and disabled babies and children who were healthy just prior to vaccination.

Serious vaccination side effects discussed in medical literature include: sudden infant death syndrome, asthma, leukemia, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, encephalopathy, blindness, bowel diseases and neurological disorders. According to vaccine packet inserts, the shots for hepatitis B, MMR, DPT, chickenpox and HIB can cause EAR INFECTIONS in susceptible children. A child loses 7% of his hearing each time a tube is inserted to drain the ear. Many children are vaccine-damaged, but only a small percentage of their parents apply for compensation. These few parents see only one of their children in four awarded a federal compensation.

Three vaccine manufacturers have recently been found by the FDA to be in violation of sterility, testing and documentation requirements. Scientific studies confirm that commercial vaccines often contain pathogenic animal and human viruses, bacteria and mycoplasma, which escape the filtering process during manufacture.1 Some of these pathogens take years to become obvious. The deadly monkey virus SV-40 contaminated early polio vaccines. Now SV-40 is being found in human bone and brain cancers and in Hodgkin’s lymphomas.

Cancer researchers say that the synthetic vitamin K shot routinely given to newborns may significantly increase the risk of childhood cancer. Only 1 in 10,000 babies are at risk of vitamin K deficiency.

The genetically engineered hepatitis B vaccine given to newborns and toddlers is very dangerous. According to the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), the risk of a serious reaction may be 100 times greater than the risk of the disease itself. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) produced an internal memo suggesting a “possible association between the vaccine and multiple sclerosis.” AAPS calls for a moratorium on hepatitis B vaccination, pending proper clinical studies. 2

The MMR vaccine, given to children at age 18 months, is derived from aborted fetal cells. It is now definitively linked to America’s explosive epidemic of autism by researchers at Utah State University. 3 Autism is a devastating condition involving brain damage, severe abdominal cramping and hyperactivity. During the 2001 congressional autism hearings, Congressman Dan Burton condemned U.S. health agencies for not withdrawing MMR vaccine from the market.

AAPS says these dangerous vaccines continue to be slapped into our kids because committee members recommending these vaccines have “incestuous ties with agencies that stand to gain power, or manufacturers that stand to gain enormous profits, from the policy that is made.” Furthermore, states have been given a $100 federal bounty for each fully vaccinated two-year old child.

Vaccines often prove INEFFECTIVE in preventing disease. During North Idaho’s 1997 whooping cough epidemic, 81.5 percent of sick children had all four of their DPT vaccinations. The CDC recently reported that 23 children in daycare –previously vaccinated against varicella– contracted chicken pox anyway. Measles epidemics among measles-vaccinated kids are very common. And kids vaccinated for measles can later develop atypical measles with serious complications.

Neither vaccine profiteers nor government agencies have EVER conducted long-term studies on genetic damage and the probable cancer-causing effects of vaccines. Vaccine makers have no incentive to conduct expensive clinical control studies on vaccine safety since federal law protects them from liability if a child is severely injured or killed by a vaccine. Private insurance companies won’t touch vaccine damage.

Idaho Statute 39-4804 states that before your child is vaccinated you must be informed that vaccinations are NOT MANDATORY and MAY BE REFUSED on medical, religious or philosophical grounds. The law also says you are entitled to an accurate explanation of the many complications known to follow vaccinations. Washington state law also allows for medical, religious and philosophical exemptions from vaccination (RCW28A.210.090).

Visit our web site for information you need to protect your child from medical experimentation and political exploitation. We post exemption forms you can use for school in many states. Our site offers well-referenced articles and studies, not only on each of the vaccines, but on keeping kids healthy.

Vaccination Liberation
P.O. Box 457,
Spirit Lake, Idaho 83869-0457
888-249-1421

http://www.vaclib.org

1. What is Coming Through That Needle? The Problem of Pathogenic Vaccine Contamination by Benjamin McRearden. This shocking article includes 116 references to medical studies and is available at www.industryinet.com/~ruby/vac_coming_thru.html

2. The AAPS web site is: www.aapsonline.org

3. Vijendra K. Singh, Department of Biology and Biotechnology Center, Utah State University. See “U.S. Researcher Links MMR to Autism” on our web site.
www.vaclib.org/basic/linkmmr.htm
Children that are not vaccinated are very healthy, if not healthier than vaccinated children.
The website is www.vaclib.com and it is stated there.

The Colon Cleansing & Constipation Resource Center asked:

What Is Chlorella?

Dubbed as one of the world’s most influential organisms over the course of it’s three and a half billon year lifespan, chlorella was the first link in the food chain and has continued to be one of the world’s “most powerful foods.” Chlorella was discovered in early twentieth century Germany, where German scientists were on the forefront of invoking the idea of making food from chlorella into action. The initial interest in the power of chlorella plant lied with it’s capabilities to be a reliable food source. In the late-fifties it was discovered that chlorella could not be a reliable source of food due to a low level of digestibility. Researchers then turned their sights on using chlorella as the ultimate promoter of superior health.

Chlorella, packing a combination of sixty percent essential amino acid proteins, has become a popular health supplement, Japan began using chlorella as a food supplement in the mid-eighties following more than three decades of studies involving chlorella cells. In fact, the Japan Chlorella Research Center was founded in 1957 and went on to become largest facility for cultivating chlorella. In 1975, one of Japan’s foremost publications on health, Japanese Journal of Nutrition, published the results of study that pointed to the link between a diet including chlorella and a lowered level of blood and liver cholesterol.

With the emergence of the twenty-first century, the United States and Europe begun pointing to the potentially helpful health hints offered up by chlorella plant cells and supplements. Chlorella cells draw their energy from the light of the sun, the cells then begin to demonstrate a characteristic trait that has been dubbed the Chlorella Growth Factor (CGF). The CGF trait divides the chlorella cell and increases it’s reproduction value. The Chlorella Growth Factor urges strong growth in children and provokes the repair of tissues that have been damaged. When chlorella is ingested, the body is believed to pick up some of the natural elements of the sun.

Chlorella and Constipation

Amongst it’s list of purported health benefits, chlorella’s chlorophyll contents from which chlorella draws it’s name, which are high in dietary fiber, are influential in preventing constipation. The chlorella plant contains more chlorophyll in just one gram than any other plant in the world. Chlorophyll is the one of the most reliable food sources for cleansing not only the bowel, but the blood and liver, as well. Chlorella has also been proven to help the body emit heavy metals and poisonous substance from it’s midst-and these detoxification effects can be paramount in hoisting consistent constipation. Chlorella is a union of green algae composed of a edible outer shell and a inner nucleus filled with fiber. The plant’s blood cleaning abilities is an important step of carrying waste away from the body’s tissues.

The Japanese medical community has become interested in chlorella for it’s solid abilities as a detoxifier. One of nature’s resident cleaners, chlorella stimulates and reinvigorates the constipated bowel by prompting the growth of a colon cleaning bacteria known as lactobacillus. Couple lactobacillus with chlorella’s resident acting agent, chlorophyll and the bowel has found itself a concoction to lead heavy metals and out of the intestinal tract. Oxy-Powder is a supplement that, like lactobacillus, works as the colon sweeping approach to curtailing constipation. Chlorella aides constipation in four essential ways:

Reinstates regular movement of the bowelsNormalizes bowel scentsDetoxifies the bowelAssist with the repair of damaged bowel tissue

Chlorella’s Health Benefits

Chlorella supplements have become a source of biological essentials like vitamins, and chlorophyll. But the so-called “green blood cell” has a lot in the way of capability to knotch on it’s belt. Available in the form of powder, tablets, capsules, and granules, chlorella features a wide array of health related benefits. For starters, the chlorella growth factor in chlorella cells and supplements have been linked to an ability to promote metabolism. A nourishing source of chlorophyll, that element of chlorella is cited to be helpful in the healing of wounds. Chlorella contains the power of a combination of anti-oxidants with beta-carotene, vitamin C, and vitamin E. Some of the other chlorella health benefits are:

An increase of control over anemia due to the chlorophyll, iron, folic acid, and vitamin B12 contents of chlorella. Prompting the body’s immune systemReducing cholesterol Protects the liver, kidneys, and bronchial systemsImproves skin conditionsCleansing the blood stream, which can be beneficial in preventing the developement of high blood pressure

Chlorella studies have shown the plant’s cells are proactive in stimulating T-cells, and largely improving the immune system’s ability to ward off the formation of diseases like cancer, hypoglycemia, and bacteria. Chlorella’s high concentration of chlorophyll has been cited to eliminate halitosis in a matter of just days. And after reversing constipation, chlorella can improve the stink of heavily accented stools. There has also been some evidence that chlorella features anti-aging agents.