Five days is not much time to see results when you change your diet. So the remarkable study by Chensheng Lu of Emory University in Atlanta is all the more astounding. Lu and his colleagues recruited 23 families in suburban Seattle which had children between 3 and 11 years old and showed that in just 5 days on organic foods, the levels of deadly pesticides in the children dropped so low they were undetectable! Prior to the study, all of the children ate conventionally grown and produced food (that includes produce with 5 number codes on the little tags that begin with either a “4” [grown with pesticides] or “8” [genetically modified]).
The study consisted of 5 days during which the 23 test families and their children, between 3 and 11 years old, substituted organic fruits, vegetables, fruit juices, cereals and pastas for conventional ones. The families made the same meals that they would have with conventional foods and followed the same dietary habits, just substituting the organic foods supplied by Lu and his team.
The results showed that in those 5 short days, the levels of two dangerous organophosphate pesticides became undetectable in the children’s urine. Parents collected two daily urine samples from their children to allow researchers to see what the impact of the change in diet was on the pesticide levels. Both before and after the test period, when they were eating conventional food, the pesticides were detectalbe in the children’s urine.
The researchers were interested in the levels of two dangerous organophosphate pesticides routinely used in food, called “malithion” and “chlorpyrophos” which are, unfortunately, legal in this country for use on conventional food crops. Organophosphates have numerous well established, serious negative impacts on health including profound and often irreversible neurological, psychological, immunological and skin problems. Malathion, for example, is neurotoxic: “The main target of malathion toxicity in children is the nervous system, the same as in adults.
So when children were given a rest from pesticides for just 5 days, their bodies were able to detoxify and get rid of those dangerous chemicals. Perhaps it would take adults longer, since these toxins build up in fats, but doesn’t it seem reasonable to cut down the toxic burden of your body when you know that the toxins are poisonous, nerve poisons, in fact?
Is organic food worth the approximately 25% price premium? You tell me: what is your Central Nervous System worth? How about your child’s (or your mother’s or your brother’s) brain and nerves? And given that the cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and other epidemics which are making us so sick and killing us so rapidly are primarily the result of toxins in the food supply and environment, doesn’t it seem reasonable to eat as much clean, safe, smart food as possible? Think of what you will save on medication and hospital co-pays later on!
Of course, that means that the organic food supply must be worth spending that extra money on. We pushed back the degraded organic standards shamefully being pushed by the major corporate interests in the Organic Trade Association last week. The OTA wanted a rider attached to the Agricultural Spending Bill which would have allowed many, many contaminants in the organic food supply with no notification to consumers about what they were buying or consuming. Our letters and those of other activists succeeded, with the help of Sen. Patrick Leahey of Vermont, in putting the matter before the Secretary of Agriculture “for further study”. Let’s help with that study: write a quick letter to your Congressional delegation and let them know how important maintaining organic standards is to you.
And take a suggestion from a doctor who knows what the health impact of organophosphate pesticides is: spend the extra money on organic food. It’s your life, your body, your health and your choice! Do it before there’s a diagnosis of cancer, heart disease, dementia, seizures, etc. in your family. Prevention really is the best medicine. And if there is already a health problem for you or a loved one, going organic will make things better by lowering the toxic burden the body has to struggle with.
Watch for our new website, www.EatSmartEatSafe.info to help you make those healthy choices!
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
It’s Pink Ribbon time when we are all urged do our best to walk and talk for a “Cure”. That’s right; it’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month again. Never mind that the last thing the “cancer cure industry” wants is a cure for cancer. After all, cancer is the single most economically productive disease in the history of mankind. Never mind that valid, successful and inexpensive cures for cancer are ruthlessly suppressed by the cancer industry, including the shameful performance of my profession, organized medicine. Pink Ribbon Season means well crafted messages to maneuver women all over America to have mammograms and undergo dangerous and often unnecessary treatment for it in the common event that the diagnosis of breast cancer is wrong.
Breast Cancer is a largely preventable disease on an epidemic rise and is now the leading killer of woman between 45 and 55, according to Preventing Breast Cancer. The Story of a Major, Proven, Preventable Cause of This Disease. by Dr. John Gofinan. There is no doubt that finding and treating a malignant breast tumor early increases survival by at least 17 % according to the [highly suspect, Big Pharma dominated] American Cancer Society.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month is, simply put, a corporate strategy , sponsored by, among others, Astra Zeneca, which makes Tamoxifen. Every word, walk and wink associated with the ubiquitous pink ribbon must pass their approval process. Perhaps you have noticed that, under their guidance, “prevention” has become “early detection” and early detection means, pure and simple, mammograms.
But do mammograms detect cancer? Well, no, not particularly well. In fact, 70 to 80 percent of all positive mammograms do not, upon pathology examination, show any presence of cancer.. How’s that? After an invasive technique like mastectomy (removal of a breast), lumpectomy (removal of a lump) or biopsy (sample material removed from the area for study), the false positive rate is between 70 and 80%? Right. But the cost is anywhere between $250-$500 per woman per year. You do the math. Industry can well afford to support those “Walk for the Cure” Events. Except they should be renamed “Walk for the Profit”.
Well, when a mammogram says there is no cancer, that’s correct, isn’t it? Actually mammograms are shockingly bad at finding cancers that really are there. Dr. Samuel Epstein in his book, The Politics of Cancer, notes that the false negative rate is, according to the National Cancer Institute, about 40 percent among women ages 40-49. The National Institutes of Health says that mammograms also miss 20 percent of malignant tumors in women.
But at least they can’t do any harm, right? Wrong. Mammograms currently deliver about 1 rad per breast per screening for a glandular dose of 0.1 rad per breast or a total glandular dose of 0.2 rad.. The National Cancer Institute estimates that each rad in a woman between the ages of 35 and 50 increases the risk of breast cancer by 1% so a bilateral mammogram each year increases a woman’s rate of breast cancer by 20% over each decade of screening! This is not a negligible risk.
But wait! There’s more.
Since mammography was introduced, Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS), the most common form of breast cancer has increased by 328% and 200% of this increase may be largely caused by mammography! Radiation, like that delivered by mammography equipment, is associated with sharp increases in breast cancer. In fact, Dr. John W. Gofman, an expert on the health impact of ionizing radiation, believes that 75% of breast cancer can be prevented by avoiding ionizing radiation altogether! Now, that’s good for us, but it’s not good for the people who make mammography equipment. Prevention is, unfortunately, very bad business if you make detection equipment or treatment options for a preventable condition like breast cancer. And there are a host of studies showing that mammography is, at best, a major question and, at worst, a serious problem.
Mammography also may spread existing cancer because, during the procedure, massive, and painful, pressure is applied to the breast. This may cause existing cancer cells to spread before immune processes can kill them (which a healthy immune system does routinely).
And, if you are unlucky enough to carry predisposing genes (Oncolgene A-T, BRCA1 and BRCA2), you are particularly susceptible to even small amounts of radiation and will perhaps be among the estimated 10,000 women who will succumb this year to breast cancer directly caused by mammography.
These are not unknown, controversial facts touted by obscure researcher. Dr. Gofman analyses NCI data showing that among women under 35, mammography can induce 75 cases of breast cancer for every 15 it identifies. Canadian National Breast Cancer Study Canadian study tracking outcome showed that woman40-50 who had mammograms had a 52 percent increase in breast cancer mortality (that is, death) compared to similar woman who did not and that they were more likely to die of breast cancer if they were screened regularly than if they were not!
So what do I, as a woman, as a physician and as a health advocate suggest? First of all, I recommend finding, and using regularly, another screening technology called “thermography” which detects cancer sooner, far more accurately and with no harm at all to the body since it relies on heat emitted by your body and takes a sensitive heat picture of your body. Because malignancies grow extra blood vessels, they emit more heat so they are detectible early and without danger. So, from where I sit,
1. Women under 35 are not well served by mammograms as a screening tool and should not allow mammograms to be performed
2. Although the American Cancer Society advocates mammogram screening for woman 40-49 every two years, I suggest thermography, not mammography, for all women of all ages along with any one of several high sensitivity biochemical tests for cancer. Please note that many experts, especially those whose incomes depend, directly or indirectly, on mammography and treatment for cancers –even false positive cancers — do not agree with my conclusions. Although many experts feel that the risk of breast cancer for women under 35 is not high enough to warrant the risk of radiation exposure, many feel that for women over 55 the risk is high enough to warrant the significant risk of mammograms.
In 1997, NIH appointed a consensus panel to evaluate the risk of mammography. They found no evidence that mammograms for this age group save lives and may do more harm than good. Rather than coming to a conclusion, the panel advised women to weigh the risks with their doctors and decide for themselves.
I do not have mammograms. I also do not have the approval of the Pink Ribbon people to tell you this. (Tamoxifen is another, sad, deadly story. We’ll talk about it another time.) In the mean time, walk for a cure because exercise reduces the risk of breast cancer. Eat for a cure because sensible, natural diets reduce the risk of breast cancer. Laugh for a cure because stress and loneliness reduce immune competence. Pray for a cure because people with sincere religious convictions live longer and healthier than those without them.
Yours in radiation-free health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Adaptation is the process by which a stressed system attempts to regulate itself in response to a new set of factors in order to achieve balance and harmony (often called “homeostasis”). Countries adapt, plants and animals adapt, social organizations (like cultures) adapt and so do we humans.
In fact, health promoting substances called “adaptagens” (which enhance regulation) are used in natural medicine because they help the body increase or decrease whatever is out of balance.
The good news, then, is that we are, individually and collectively, wondrously adaptable. Up to a point. Please prepare yourself and click here to see a graphic and heartbreaking example of what happens when we stretch the adaptive rubber band so far that it snaps. Because that is what we are doing with our bodies by exposing them to hundreds of thousands of toxins never encountered by any living thing prior to the last hundred years including deadly pesticides, radiation at levels unknown in nature, toxic, untested chemicals, new organisms and weird DNA.
How much can an organism, a child, a gene, an organ, a marriage, a brain or a society take before its adaptive abilities are overwhelmed and the stress is greater than the compensation for the stress that the system can manage. The result? Damage to the ability of the organism to function, self protect and self correct. If the stress is great enough to show, we call it by the name of some illness or another: cancer, social decay, infertility, depression, skin eruptions, rising crime rate, looting, suicide, drought, autism, monster storms. If the damage is greater still, the result is death of the society, the child, the mind, the heart, the planet. The disorder and dysfunction (and the diagnosis) depends on the system being stressed but the principle is the same.
What can you do about it? Reduce the load. Reduce the number of stressors that the system has to adapt to and give the adaptive systems help, support and nutrition. That means Read labels!
1. Eat organic food. Yes, it costs more. Think of what your will save on co-pays and hospital bills!
2. Eat non-GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) food. We are building our new website, www.EatSafeEatSmart.info so you can come to the site for healthy alternatives to familiar choices.
3. Avoid trans fats. Use pure, unrefined organic coconut oil or extra virgin organic olive oil) for cooking.
4. Take adequate amounts of high potency, pure vitamins and minerals. Cheap one a day nutrients are not worth much (and that’s what they cost, too, because they do not compare at all to the high quality, high potency nutrients you really need.
5. Use all natural, non-toxic cleaning products for your house, your clothes and yourself.
6. Quit smoking
7. Drink adequate water and avoid carbonated beverages. Fizzy drinks will make your body more acid, setting you up for toxic events.
8. Do a supervised detoxification program with nutrients, sauna (if possible) and herbs so that you can remove the built up toxins from your body. This is not a do it yourself procedure.
9. Do not drink liquid from a plastic bottle which is soft enough to change its shape when you squeeze it. That means that it has phthalates in it. Phthalates act like unopposed estrogen and wreak havoc with the entire body of both born and unborn people.
10. If you identify contaminants or dangers in your home, office, car, etc. please take the action necessary to remover it (or remove yourself if that is the only way to protect yourself).
11. No perfume, no fragrance no matter what. In aother blog I will discuss the importance of NOT using perfumes if you are trying to reduce the toxic load of your body to give it more adaptagenic potential than it has now because of the toxic load you are carrying.
In order to get and stay healthy, there is no doubt in my mind: we need to enhance our ability to adapt by removing the things that keep us from doing well adaptively.
Remember, property and habits are much less important than health and health freedom. You can replace the first, but you can never replace the second.
Yours in irreplaceable health and freedom,
Dr. Laibow
We have reached Day 19/30 of the Natural Solutions Foundation Fund Raising Drive and your generosity has brought us $7923. Thank you, one and all.
General Stubblebine and I are totally dedicated to protecting, preserving and defending our health freedom. We eat, sleep, drink and breath health freedom. It’s that important to us to make sure that we all have the opportunity to make whatever health choices we think best. In fact, we closed our medical practice to work on this full time (or rather full time plus!)
You probably know that we need your help with Congressional letters, sharing information via email, organizing meetups and the like. When we ask for it, your response is fantastic! And you probably also know that we depend upon you for your generous donations so that we can continue this battle for your health freedoms and for ours.
Since we are asking you for money, it seemed only right that we take a few minutes to share the 12 top reasons that make it a great idea to give generously to the Natural Solutions Foundation.
Remember, you can make your donation by credit card, PayPal or check. (If you want to make a tax deductible donation you may do so by making your check out to NISLAPP [which stands for National Institute for Science, Law and Public Policy] and writing “Natural Solutions Foundation” on the memo line. Mail it to:
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So here are my top twelve reasons that it makes sense to support health freedom and the Natural Solutions Foundation:
1. Every single penny you donate to the Natural Solutions Foundation goes directly toward the health freedom fight. There are no salaries and no overhead costs like rent and utilities, etc., because they are donated.
2. General Stubblebine and I are experienced health and freedom fighters so we know how to fight this war through strategic alliances and international collaboration.
3. The Natural Solutions Foundation is beholden to nothing but the truth and no one but our supporters.
4. The Natural Solutions Foundation carries your battle everywhere: to the airwaves, the internet, Congress, the International Community and anywhere else it needs to go without ceasing. Last week, for General Stubblebine and I were interviewed on 15 national and 2 local radio shows and 1 web cast.
5. The Natural Solutions Foundation is broadly focused on ALL the health freedom issues confronting us and was the first health freedom organization to alert the public to the fact that Codex was about much more than just vitamins and minerals.
6. The Natural Solutions Foundation is willing to tackle the toughest issues fearlessly whether others agree with us or not. They usually come around after we have been breaking ground for a while.
7. General Stubblebine and I travel extensively wherever we can shed light on the issues. We reported on the Codex Alimentarius Commission in Rome, attend and speak at Public Hearings, lecture to lay and professional groups all over North America and bring the latest news and information back to you. We’ll be going to Bonn for the Codex Nutrition Committee meeting in November.
8. The Natural Solutions Foundation investigates and dissects disinformation, spin and propaganda for you and then offers you the truth as we understand it. We tell you everything we know: there are no secrets and no hidden agendas.
9. We support you fully when we ask you to do something (such as organize a Health Freedom Meetup), we are there with support, phone-in participation, information and anything else you tell us would be helpful to you.
10. We work very hard to keep the website current so that you have up-to-the minute information to make decisions with.
11. The Natural Solutions Foundation offers meaningful, well-thought-out action steps at the local and national levels so we do more than just tell you where the dangers are. We tell you how to combat them.
12. The Natural Solutions Foundation brings easy activism which can save your life with initatives like the
to help you say “NO!” to GMOs and make healthy food choices for yourself your family.
Gerbers likes to say, “Babies are our business, our only business”. We modify it to say, “Health Freedom is our passion, our only passion”.
Please support the Natural Solutions Foundation with generous donations. We look to you to tell us how important our work is to you by participating in the action steps and by donating the money we need to keep operationg.
Perhaps you might consider making an on-going contribution. The credit card form allows you to do that.
Perhaps you just want to give a one time gift. Either way, please give generously so that we can continue to work for you and your health freedom.
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
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Big Pharma can be a great friend or a terrifying enemy. It depends whether you play ball with it or not. If you are a Drug Or Compound Trade Optomizing Responder ( a”DOCTOR“) Big Pharma loves you because you are an open spigot dispensing highly profitable (and largely unnecessary) drugs for things that don’t respond very well to them. And those drugs may not be the safe (!), effective (!) and necessary (!) compounds magnificent advertising, purchased “research” and carefully manipulated press lead you to think that they are.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I know that drugs have a place in medicine. When something goes wrong on a short term, crisis basis, you want a short-term, crisis response and drugs are very good for short, sharp interventions. Anesthesia, drugs to get the heart pumping properly, drugs to stop seizures, drugs to treat brain hemorrhages, acute asthma and other “Right NOW!” situations are near miraculous when they are used properly. But that’s not where the money is for the Big Pharma. So that’s not where their energy is, and not where the action is.
But to be marketed a drug must be approved by the FDAs of the world. And clinical trials are expensive, especially when they don’t come out right. And that’s where John Le Carre’s brilliant novel and Fernando Mierelles’ brilliant adaptation of “The Constant Gardener” comes in.
It is a masterfully told, visually stunning tale of ordinary men and women dealing with extraordinary events in exotic places to create a graphic, chilling and vitally important film. The story is simple, the events complex and the moral clear. Based on a true story, “The Constant Gardener“chronicles a web of complicity and avarice which engulfs and murders a decent couple (along with unwitting experimental subjects) but cannot kill the truth.
“The Constant Gardner” lays bare Big Pharma’s clinical drug trial protocols which force dangerous, untested drugs onto unsuspecting Africans. Falsified documentation makes it appear that these drugs are safe leading to FDA and other national agency approvals, global distribution and immense profits.
This is a movie every one who cares about truth and health freedom should see. In fact, this movie is so important that I want you to see it as my guest. Here’s how: Eileen Dannemann, the Director of the National Coalition of Organized Women (NCOW) has arranged with the film’s producer to make free tickets available to everyone who is willing to pass out flyers about the film and its vitally important message!
To get your free tickets and download the flyers, print at least 100 copies of the movie-goers’ flyer (the fist one) , Tessa Lives, http://tinyurl.com/agf7m, and fax copies of the second flier to your Congressmen and women, http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/ .
Next, get your free ticket, http://tinyurl.com/cu83h, and take your 100 (or more) fliers with you to the theater. Hand them out to people who are leaving the theater (who are usually somber and quiet as they absorb what they have just witnessed and learned). It is a wonderful time to give them information. Ask them to take action and hand them the flier.
If you want to do more to make sure that the vital message of this powerful film reverberates throughout our society, visit The Progressive Convergence site, http://tinyurl.com/7wv2u. You will find press releases and other material you can distribute.
In fact, why not take these fliers to a Health Freedom Meetup in your area. If there isn’t one yet, I suggest you become the organizer and use the site and your email network, health food store, etc., to let people know that your local Meetup will be gathering at the time and location of your choice on a particular date. Pass out the Tessa Lives flyer and suggest that others at the meeting share the message at the theater playing “The Constant Gardener” in your neighborhood. Of course, there’s lot’s more to talk about at the meetup and, if you let me know that you are organizing it, I will provide material for your meeting which will help organize it.
I urge you to see this outstanding film. We are deeply fortunate that we have this vehicle for education and truth created by such outstanding talents.
Yours in health, freedom and art in the cause of truth,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director