Why are some people more affected than others?  As one researcher noted, perhaps the incidence in older people is because their immune systems are weaker.  What were the recommendations?  Education is one and that makes sense.  Inform people that they need to use “protection” for oral sex just as they do for intercourse.  It is possible that the HPV vaccines would be helpful, for boys and for girls, even though we don’t know if they will work for oral cancers.

To this I say “Wait a minute!”  Please understand that I am sympathetic to anyone who is experiencing an illness, including cancer.  My idea of prevention, however, is NOT vaccination.  Vaccines are not without their side effects.  I assume, people being who we are, that oral sex has been around just about as long as humans have existed.  Why now are we seeing more oral cancer?  Why now have we identified more virulent strains of HPV?

Instead of using the FEAR argument: “if you don’t take this vaccine, you are more likely to get cancer,”  how about approaching this from the “love” argument?  I don’t mean more sex.  Sex is not the same as love.  Here I mean love for one’s body.  I mean respect for the intelligence of our body.  We don’t expect our car to last many years without properly caring for them.  The same goes for our body.  People, especially young people, nowadays are not as healthy as previous generations for several reasons.  The food we are eating is not as nourishing, our diets are lousy, we are assaulted by a multitude of new chemicals and toxins humans never had to deal with before, and we don’t get enough sleep.

When people are not healthy, they are more vulnerable to getting cancer.  On that basis, when people practice healthier life styles, they are less vulnerable to getting cancer.  It seems to me, therefore, the answer to the problem of the increased rate of cancer is to take a serious look at how we are treating our body and make the changes we need to in order to become strong again.

What is the matter with phthalates?  They are likely to be carcinogenic.  They affect sexual development in experimental animals.  They may even be associated with still births.  The CDC has confirmed that we have body burdens of phthalates.  And the burden might be greater in young children because of their tendency to put anything in their mouths and their custom of chewing on anything.   This is one instance where the precautionary principle should apply.  By that I mean we would be better off if we really tested all new chemicals for toxicity thoroughly before allowing them to be used where we can absorb them.

This is another good reason to do some form of detoxification regularly, eg every 6 months.  The degree of detoxification should vary according to your general level of health and energy.  For a quick overview about detoxification, please see my video www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDZBiw4m9DM.  Consider consulting a knowledgeable health practitioner to support you through a more strenuous detoxification process.

Finally, even though we don’t commonly know what is in the products we eat and drink, continue to read labels.  Be aware as much as possible.  Educating ourselves is essential for good health for us and for our loved ones.

If you are not already familiar with this website, I highly recommend the Alliance for Natural Health which provides useful practical information as well as serving as one of our watchdogs in Washington, DC.

So, after you read this article, stand up and walk around for a few minutes.  http://www.anh-usa.org/too-much-sitting-killing-us/

Many of my patients complain of and experience symptoms when they are too close to electrical appliances eg cell phones and wifi.  Lest you think this is limited to people who are severely ill, think otherwise.  I had one lady whose insomnia improved greatly when she moved her cordless phone away from her bedside table.  Many people who are “ok” tell me they can feel a buzz from their cell phone when it is on.  I suspect that people are becoming used to their symptoms from all the electrical exposure just as they have become accustomed to their symptoms from food and chemical sensitivities.

Smart meters are amongst the latest concern because of the number of complaints coming after their installation.  People who had been well are complaining of headaches, dizziness, lethargy, tinnitus to name a few of the symptoms.  In part this is because the smart meters are associated with “dirty electricity” in the home.  What is this?  Dirty electricity is the leakage of electric fields outside of the wiring and conduit in your home.  This can have major health effects on the inhabitants because our bodies are electrical, but at different frequencies from the electricity in our home.  Thus the nervous system and the heart – both very “electrical” systems – are especially sensitive.

My thanks to Oram Miller who specializes in these issues.  Oram has a wonderful website, http://www.createhealthyhomes.com/index.php, full of  information about this topic.

Best wishes for a fully healthy 2012.

One of the latest articles is about toxicity in the home from cleaning agents.  Many people do not realize that the air in our homes is generally much more toxic than the air outside.  This is due to chemicals in our furniture that outgasses, cosmetics we spray, gas combustion or volatilizing of chemicals from some electric appliances, and especially from cleaning agents.  Thus the need for “cleaner cleaners.”  The link to this article follows.  http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/12/21/are-you-slowly-killing-your-family-with-hidden-dioxane-in-your-laundry-detergent.aspx?e_cid=20111221_DNL_art_1

Some of the comments I have received are: “I have been wondering if that food disagreed with me and now I know.  How helpful this is”  or “Since I stopped eating the bananas, I no longer have my daily headache” or “I got through the winter without getting sick since I stopped drinking milk.”

The solution to someone’s symptoms may be as simple as avoiding a food.

In the spirit of the holidays, therefore, I am offering a special evaluation.  I will test 10 of the most common foods to which people are sensitive for only $50.00  This normally takes no longer than 15 minutes in my office.  The offer will expire the end of December, 2011.

Take advantage of this opportunity to address health issues in this safe way.  We look forward to seeing you.

The first is celiac disease.  This is the inherited disorder in which people are totally unable to tolerate any gluten grains (wheat, spelt, kamut, rye, and barley; oat technically is not a gluten grain except that the oats in this country have been contaminated and now are a gluten grain).  The proteins in gluten grains act like a rake to the insides of the intestines of these people.  They strip away the intestines ability to function.

Many people do not have the inherited disorder, but they still do not digest gluten grains very well.  The reasons for this are the topic of a long lecture, so I won’t go into that here.  The medical community has had a difficult time accepting this “in between” situation.  And the range of tolerance of these grains is wide.  Some people simply don’t tolerate wheat.  Others do not tolerate any of the gluten grains, yet they do not test positive for the gluten disorder, and others don’t tolerate any grains at all.  Acknowledging this intolerance and avoiding the offending grains can be tremendously beneficial for most because doing so eliminates their symptoms (or at least many of them).

The other example is cancer.  The diagnosis of cancer connotes a death sentence for many of us.  This is not necessarily the case however.  We all have small amounts of cancer in our bodies which, when our bodies are working properly, are kept under control or eliminated by our immune systems.  You can think of the immune system as our housekeeping system.   When our bodies become depleted or overwhelmed by toxins of various sorts, that is when cancer progresses beyond the “small” stage.  Again, there is a range of disease, a range of responses, and a range of outcomes with cancer.

The question, then, is why do we see the world only as “either/or.”  My teacher, Dr. Terry Preston discusses this very question in 3 videos we made.  Here are the links:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWHJPHAfCwE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXHNVyHhaKs&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofQw0WvQdsg&feature=relmfu

Watch them and give us your comments, and spread the word.  The more open we become in our thinking the better we can relate to each other and improve our world.

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The government is proposing an even more aggressive vaccination protocol.  Please read about this at http://www.anh-usa.org/new-federal-vaccine-plan-and-a-bad-state-bill/ on the Alliance for Natural Health website.  It gives an excellent quick summary of the current state of affairs and of some of the scientific bases against vaccinations like Gardasil and others.

Forcing all children to have multiple vaccinations as are being proposed is my idea of an imprisoning government.  Each child is very different from every other child.  Some children are definitely harmed by vaccinations.  We need to have room for tolerance and for not forcing dangerous “treatments” onto people just because the “government” says so.  We know how corrupted some of these policies have become as influenced by the monetary power of the pharmaceutical and vaccine industry.

Let your representatives and senators know how you feel.

This story is all too common.  Is it the vaccinations or isn’t it?  Here is the problem with that question.  We are not looking at the individual.  In fact, in our society these days, we are trained to believe that individuality does not matter.  What is important is the statistics about the general population.  An individual’s response is not important when one relies on statistics.  This is how medicine is practiced today.  It means that someone gets treatment for their general symptoms, not for their own individual body.

Many of us in the alternative medical community do otherwise.  We recognize that each individual is different from every other individual.  There is no “one size fits all.”  Whether it is homeopathy, acupuncture, naturopathy, the good practitioner recommends method for each individual person according to that person’s characteristics.  This message is hard to get across because of the general approach used by most of society.

For this boy and his family, for example, the family was repeatedly told that the vaccinations had nothing to do with his reactions, because according to the literature vaccinations don’t cause these problems.   “Balderdash” I say.  (I am being polite.)  Finally, when the child had to be hospitalized because his reaction was so severe to one vaccination, the pediatrician agreed that he should not be vaccinated any more for now.  Obviously, there is something about this boy’s physiology that makes him so vulnerable to the vaccines!  For this child and so many like him, I suspect the problem is a combination of genetics, nutritional needs, toxin exposures, the vaccinations, and who-knows -what-else.

As we learn about genetic differences between people, I hope the message from this knowledge will come with that information that 1)we don’t know everything there is to know yet, 2)each of us is different and unique, 3) what helps one person may be poisonous for another, and 4)the best treatment can only come when we respect the unique characteristics and needs of each individual.

I am grateful to my teacher, Dr. Terry Preston, for helping me with this information.  If you have not seen her videos, I highly recommend checking out the following links:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWHJPHAfCwE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXHNVyHhaKs&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofQw0WvQdsg&feature=relmfu.