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While doctors may know more about the enzymes that work in your gut or the anatomy of your organs, only you know what’s best for your own body.

Your body is indeed your business. So listen to your intuition and trust what it tells you.

Illness is often a wake-up call. What is going on in your life to drive that illness, or those messages? If an unfilled job, constant deadlines, or a toxic relationship is the root, it’s time to make a change in that area of your life.

Here are some important questions to ask yourself:

  • Is this serving me and my body?
  • Do I feel ownership of my life and choices regarding my health?
  • What does my body need in order to heal?
Once you have awareness around your body’s needs, you get to write the prescription to your own health by taking charge!

You are the boss of your health care and as a woman, you get to create a self-guided action plan toward optimal health!
 

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The Cancer Therapy So Effective They
“Had” to Ban It from America

They did it to protect you. Or so they said.

Mind you, it’s a nutrient found in food that the FDA is “saving” you from!

A nutrient that’s one of the most popular and best-established alternative cancer treatments yet discovered. It’s simple and highly effective, with cancer curing success clinically proven in studies by Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute and the National Cancer Institute.

So why on earth is it banned in America and many other places?

Laetrile is the trade name of a nutrient that also goes by a number of other names -- B17, nitriliside, amygdalin, or sometimes, apricot kernels. It’s part of a large family of natural compounds known as cyanogenic glycosides. They’re found in high amounts in apricot seeds, among other nuts and seeds.

Researchers report that Laetrile acts against tumors because cancer cells have 3000 times the level of beta-glucosidase enzymes found in healthy cells. When a cancer cell comes in contact with Laetrile, these enzymes break down the Laetrile molecule into hydrogen cyanide and benzaldehyde.

The cyanide—yes, deadly cyanide-- destroys the cancer cell, while the benzaldehyde half of the molecule, when released, actually gives pain relief. Normal cells contain a different enzyme, called rhodenase, which renders Laetrile harmless. Thus, Laetrile only releases cyanide to kill cells when cancer is present, so it kills only cancer cells, not healthy cells.

The FDA puts Laetrile in its crosshairs

Over the last 50 years, the FDA has received numerous studies proving Laetrile’s safety and efficacy. Some of the research dates all the way back to 1921, when a British doctor discovered that members of a remote tribe that consumed diets high in Laetrile were virtually cancer-free.

In the early 1950s, Dr. Ernst Krebs, Sr., M.D. and his son Ernst Jr. became the first American doctors to use Laetrile to treat cancer patients. Their success inspired other doctors, like Dr. John Richardson, to also use Laetrile to treat cancer patients. By the 1970s, Laetrile was a popular alternative cancer treatment in the United States.

But remember, this is a naturally occurring substance that cannot be patented. So, it won’t surprise you to discover that as Laetrile rose in popularity, the FDA, on behalf of Big Pharma, worked tirelessly to discredit Laetrile’s success healing cancer.

In fact, in the 1970s, the FDA opposed Laetrile testing – unless conducted by those with an agenda to disprove Laetrile’s efficacy. Then, on September 1, 1971, the FDA announced it had found “no acceptable evidence of therapeutic effect to justify clinical trials…”

Consequently, Laetrile could no longer be promoted, sold, or even tested in the U.S.1

Manufacturing the coverup

From 1972 to 1977, Dr. Kanematsu Sugiura of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, who was a highly respected senior lab researcher with over 60 years of experience, meticulously studied Laetrile. From his research, Laetrile was found to:

  • stop metastasis (cancer spread)
  • improve general health
  • inhibit the growth of small tumors
  • relieve pain
  • prevent cancer cells from growing to begin with.
The official report also stated, “Dr. Sugiura has never observed complete regression of the tumors in all his cosmic experience with other chemotherapeutic agents.”2

To that point, Dr. Sugiura had published hundreds of scientific papers. A Russian cancer researcher famously quipped, “When Dr. Sugiura publishes, we know we don’t have to repeat the study, for we would obtain the same results he has reported.”

When Dr. Sugiura’s report on Laetrile went public, the cancer drug cash flow was more seriously threatened by Laetrile than ever before. Nearly everyone within Memorial Sloane-Kettering Cancer Center and the FDA was bent on proving him wrong, come hell or high water.

Fortunately, one group of Memorial Sloane-Kettering employees rose up in righteous indignation after discovering that their employer was stifling Dr. Sugiura’s results. They began circulating a series of open letters to the public under the name Second Opinion.

That’s when Big Pharma lackeys doubled down, performing more rigged studies aimed at convincing the public that Laetrile didn’t work. In an interview with Science magazine, Laetrile’s opponents straight up admitted that their intent was not to advance science, test a possible cancer cure, or find the truth of the matter. It was to “answer the laetrilists.”

A whopping 82% of patients helped!

In 1978, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) launched a study to debunk the Laetrile movement once and for all.

Of 93 available cases demonstrating that Laetrile was effective, the NCI rejected all but 22. Despite this, they still found that 18 out of 22 – a whopping 82%! – showed some kind of beneficial response.

Very few “approved” anticancer drugs can come close to claiming that.

Still, the NCI reported, “These results allow no definite conclusions supporting the anticancer activity of Laetrile.”3

Regardless, by 1978, 70,000 American cancer patients had used it to help heal cancer. Among them were some famous Hollywood actors, like Steve McQueen.

The REAL story of Steve McQueen’s death

In 1980, actor Steve McQueen made headlines when he traveled to Mexico for Laetrile and other untraditional cancer treatments.

He died four months later, and the press had a field day telling Americans that Laetrile is a fraud.

But they didn’t report the whole story. Here’s what they left out…

McQueen was desperate for an effective cancer therapy after treatment in the U.S. proved unsuccessful. Laetrile did succeed against McQueen’s cancer, and only a non-cancerous abdominal tumor remained. (Remember, most tumors are a combo of cancer and non-cancerous tissue.)

McQueen felt great, but decided to have the bulge removed for cosmetic reasons. He was, after all, an actor.

He died of a complication from that surgery – not from cancer.

Yet his cancer recovery was never reported… reinforcing Big Pharma's lie that Laetrile was just another crackpot theory.
 

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Part Two

Brand-new research underway

Though Laetrile was officially banned from the U.S., research continues in other countries.

Recent studies show benefits – including one showing that it stops the proliferation, migration, and invasion of cancer cells. However, officially, animal studies failed to back that up, according to the National Cancer Institute.4

Other recent studies suggest that Laetrile inhibits tumor cell migration, invasion, and adhesion… and, at higher doses, Laetrile also inhibits cancer cell growth in renal cell carcinoma, breast, bladder, prostate, and non-small cell lung cancers.5,6,7,8,9

Other studies – mostly from Asia – conclude Laetrile is a relatively inexpensive and effective antitumor treatment with few side effects.

Still, most reports you’ll find online claim that Laetrile is ineffective, if not downright dangerous. Not surprising, given the pressure applied to cover up alternative therapies of all kinds.

This leaves you with two possibilities if you or a loved one would like to undergo Laetrile therapy:

  1. Travel to Mexico (one of the few places it’s available) to get Laetrile therapy in their cancer clinics, where it’s usually administered by injection.
  2. Eat foods that are high in amygdalin. Epidemiological studies show that where these foods are common, cancer rates are very low. Choice foods include:
  • Raw nuts – bitter almonds, raw almonds, and macadamia nuts
  • Veggies – carrots, celery, mung beans, lima beans, butter beans, and bean sprouts
  • Seeds – millet, flax, and buckwheat
  • Pits – from apples, apricots, plums, cherries, pears, and berries
Here in the States, we usually throw away the fruit’s pit, which could be the most nutrient-rich part.

In some places, it’s practically a national disgrace to throw the pit away. In the remote tribal area of the Hunza in Asia, if you toss a fruit’s pit, people will follow you, retrieve it, smack it to release the inner seed, and eat the seed.

There’s virtually no cancer among the Hunza people. Their traditional diet contains about 200 times as much nitriliside (Laetrile) as the standard American diet. In fact, wealth there is defined by the number of apricot trees one owns! And the most prized food of all is – you guessed it – the apricot seed.

If you don’t own your own trees, you can buy apricot seeds, or kernels, online. Perhaps better, buy fresh apricots and smack the hard pit to release the softer seed, then consume it. But it does require a lot of apricots to get a clinical dose.

Answering the other “dire warning”

One of the “dire warnings” the press loves to report is the risk of “cyanide poisoning” from eating apricot seeds, or kernels.

Yes, apricot kernels produce small amounts of cyanide, which is believed to aid the remedy’s effectiveness against cancer.

But a concocted, overblown, and inaccurate cyanide scare in 1972 dealt a severe blow to the idea of Laetrile as an effective and safe cancer treatment.

As an aside, it’s one thing for a health agency to warn people against stupid actions – and quite another to deprive people of an excellent food that’s safe if ingested in a reasonable way.10

Apricot seed grower and seller, Apricot Power, suggests these general guidelines for eating apricot seeds at home: Eat no more than three seeds per hour and no more than ten seeds per day. When injected, as Laetrile is used at cancer clinics, cyanide poisoning is barely even a remote possibility, because this method of administration bypasses the GI system.

Patients on deathbeds live healthy for years

If you want to learn more about the politics involved, we recommend you read the book World Without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17 by G. Edward Griffin, available here.

This book details numerous case studies of patients who were on their deathbeds, were treated with Laetrile, and went on to live healthy, vibrant lives for many more years.

If movies are more your thing, watch Second Opinion: Laetrile at Sloan Kettering
 

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This Bug Bite Can Destroy Your Memory

Years ago, I reported on the case of the songwriter Kris Kristofferson who thought his mind and memory were being wiped out by Alzheimer’s disease when, in actuality, it was the result of an infection he’d picked up from a bug bite.

Well, the news about these bugs and the brain dangers of their bites isn’t getting any better! Experts now believe ticks transmitting Lyme disease bite more than 300,000 Americans every year. And every year about 30,000 or more of these folks suffer Lyme disease infection and long-term brain problems.

Brain Fog and Fatigue

According to researchers at Johns Hopkins, at least one in ten people who are treated successfully for Lyme disease with antibiotics complain of persistent fatigue and brain fog for years after the initial infection is gone. And brain scans indicate that this condition, which scientists call post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS), produces widespread brain inflammation.

Hopkins researchers scanned the brains of people with PTLDS and found inflammation in eight different parts of the brain.1

"We thought there might be certain brain regions that would be more vulnerable to inflammation and would be selectively affected, but it really looks like widespread inflammation all across the brain," says researcher Jennifer Coughlin.

Until now, many medical professionals believed that people who’d undergone successful Lyme disease treatment but still suffered from problems with brain fog and tiredness might have psychological problems. But the Hopkins researchers say they’ve shown there are inflammatory brain changes going on that are most likely the source of these problems.

"What this study does is provide evidence that the brain fog in patients with post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome has a physiological basis and isn't just psychosomatic or related to depression or anxiety," say researcher John Aucott.

How Can You Get Inflammation
from an Infection that’s “Cured”?


Dr. Aucott explains that the inflammation is linked to over-activity by immune cells in the brain called microglia and astrocytes. If patients are to enjoy a full recovery from Lyme, doctors will have to go beyond killing off the pathogen. Future treatments will have to be designed to cool off this neuroinflammation. Plus, more studies are necessary to better understand if particular types of microglia and astrocytes are to blame for the inflammatory condition.

Unfortunately, right now it’s not even easy to do a quick and reliable test for Lyme disease itself, much less its long-term side effects. As researchers at Arizona State University note, a bullseye-rash sometimes appears around the site of a Lyme-related tick bite, but often no rash forms.

And after you get infected, the typical symptoms of Lyme -- like muscle pain, fatigue, fever and/or headache -- can indicate a wide range of other problems besides Lyme. So, it can take quite a while to get a correct diagnosis. That’s bad news, because time is of the essence in treating this infection.

As the disease progresses, it can cause heart issues, nerve problems and even arthritic pain. I’ve heard stories of people diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, when in fact they suffered Lyme disease.

Complicating matters, blood tests for Lyme are notoriously unreliable. However, a study at Arizona State points to a possible way of simultaneously testing for six separate biomarkers of the disease that, the scientists hope, will soon provide a faster, more dependable way to test for Lyme.2

At the same time, the scientists back at Hopkins believe they’ve come up with a combination treatment of three antibiotics that will help clear up many cases of Lyme disease that have been difficult to eradicate. In studies on animals, the antibiotic combo – consisting of daptomycin, doxycycline and cefoperazone – has successfully wiped out infections. But this treatment still needs to be tested on humans.3

So meanwhile, your best bet in the fight against Lyme is to stay away from places where you might be bitten by infected ticks. In wooded areas, stay on trails and don’t go into the brush. Stay out of tall grass. Pull ticks off immediately if you find them on your skin. And if you think you’re infected – start getting tested for the disease as soon as possible.

My Own Lyme Precautions

I live in a forested area in the northeast that is heavily infested with ticks, and it’s very common for people in this region to contract Lyme disease. I’ve known quite a few.

Personally, I don’t venture into woodlands or tall grass wearing shorts. I wear trousers, socks and shoes and tuck the trouser legs into the socks.

If I were bitten by a tick I would assume I may be infected and keep a sharp eye out for symptoms such as pain, headache, fever and of course the telltale “bullseye rash” at the site of the bite. If I thought there were any chance I was infected I would go to a doctor and get started on the antibiotics. Literally, every day matters in getting this disease under control.

I know seasoned hunters and burly outdoor workers who cover all their skin and spray with repellent during tick season. This isn’t sissy stuff. Lyme is a clear and present danger.
 

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Time To Bury The Statin Myth
Don’t Let It Bury You!

I’ve written to you many times before, pointing out the absolute worthlessness of statins. At best, they may help a man who has had a heart attack. Statins are of no value whatsoever for any woman, or for a man who has not had a heart attack. But the maneuvering and fabrication of science has continued apace. Big Pharma isn’t going to take it lying down!

There are numerous dangers, which are always ignored or lied about. It’s almost impossible to get real data because Big Pharma hides the evidence. The FDA is complicit in this.

But the fundamental folly is that—if statins do anything at all—they only lower cholesterol. There’s shaky and unimpressive proof of that. A number of articles show it. But probably as many articles show it’s not even very good at that.

What’s lacking is any proof that lowering cholesterol is valuable. We need cholesterol; PLENTY of it. Those in the highest 25% of cholesterol levels live longer!

The stupid thing is that you can change ALL measurable bloods for the better, by a significant change of diet and lifestyle.

Doctors are totally ignorant of such matters and even have the idiocy to say it doesn’t matter. Then there are the official government food “guidelines”, which will literally KILL you, so it would be foolish to follow them. The official government guidelines have led to a massive explosion in obesity, diabetes, heart disease and stroke.

I recommend you give up 97% of your carbs (bread, wheat, pastry, pasta, pizza, muffins, cookies etc.), no manufactured foods (NONE) because they sneak in corn, wheat, sugar and MSG. Eat more plant food and eat like a caveman or hunter-gatherer. That’s it, you’re done! Such a simple step has 10 times the beneficial effect that taking statins does.

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Give up most carbs. It’ll do more good than a ton of statins

Eat all the eggs you like but make sure they have the yolks intact; that’s where all the nutrition and goodness is, which will help preserve your eyes (age-related macular degeneration is another condition of epidemic proportions, as a result of government guidelines!)

Great for making you feel horny, by the way!

New Controversy
OK, I said all that, because there is new controversy around the use of statins for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease is once again in the news, with a new analysis suggesting that statin use in low-risk patients, which researchers say may be an example of low value care (having little benefit and potential to cause harm) in these patients and, in some cases, represent a waste of healthcare resources.

I need hardly add these are NOT American researchers, who are paid lackeys of the pharmaceutical industry. This information is from a cheery bunch at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and The analysis was published online in the British Medical Journal on October 16, 2019.

They point to the concern as to whether the “benefits” of statins outweigh the harms for primary prevention and whether widespread statin use can be justified from a societal perspective.

Nevertheless, clinical guidelines have expanded the eligibility criteria over time, and in many countries the majority of people taking statins do so for primary prevention.

For their analysis, the researchers examined the effects of changes to European guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention from 1987 to 2016 using data from a national cohort of older people in Ireland.

Applying guideline recommendations from various times over the past 30 years to the Irish cohort, the researchers found that according to the 1987 guidelines 8% of their population would have been eligible for statins, but by 2016 the guidelines were recommending much greater use of statins so that 61% of the cohort were eligible for the drugs.

That’s a HUGE increase and a clear pointer to the way Pharma finagles and weaves it’s tricks, till it takes over all reason.

We don’t need this poison. It’ll potentially damage your heart, liver and kidneys and result in rhabdomyolysis and diabetes. And yet they claim it will benefit you by lowering your cholesterol.

Oh Yeah!

The Hoax
The hoax is that statins, or even low-fat diet changes, do any good at all.

In 1957 the Anti-Coronary Club was formed and in 1966 the results of its investigations were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). They had compared two groups of New York businessmen, aged 40 to 59 years. One group followed the so-called “Prudent Diet” consisting of corn oil and margarine instead of butter, cold breakfast cereals instead of eggs and chicken and fish instead of beef (in other words official government B*S* advice); a control group ate eggs for breakfast and meat three times per day.

The final report noted that the Prudent Dieters had average serum cholesterol of 220 mg/l, compared to 250 mg/l in the eggs-and-meat group. That’s insignificant—not worth the trouble dieting!

But guess what? There were eight deaths from heart disease among Prudent Dieter group, and none among those who ate meat three times a day (JAMA 1966 Nov 7;198(6):597-604; Bulletin NY Academy of Medicine 1968).

Now consider this: researchers at the Tulane University School of Medicine used electron beam tomography (EBT) to measure the progression of plaque buildup in heart-attack patients taking statin drugs. EBT is a very accurate way to measure occlusion from calcium in the arteries. Contrary to expectations, the researchers discovered that the increase in coronary artery calcium (one of the main markers for a heart attack) was significantly greater in patients receiving statins compared with event-free subjects despite similar levels of LDL-lowering.

[Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol, April 1, 2004]

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Calcified coronary arteries: severe danger! Statins make it WORSE!

Look At It Another Way
The researchers looked at what we call NNT – the number needed to treat, to prevent one episode. In this case, how many patients would you have to keep permanently on stains (at VAST expense) to prevent one single heart attack (cardiovascular event, not necessarily death).

The researchers calculated that back in 1994, using the guidelines of the time for use of statins, the number needed to treat (NNT) to prevent one cardiovascular event in the primary prevention population was 40. That’s not bad/not particularly impressive. (changing diet would be about 1 or 2).

But when applying the 2016 guidelines to the data, they found an NNT of 400. "So we are getting far less bang for our buck with the 2016 guidelines," the researchers noted.

The researchers give examples of two patients who would have very different absolute benefits of taking statins. One is a 65-year-old man who smokes, does not have heart disease, but has high total cholesterol levels, raised blood pressure, and an estimated 38% absolute risk of having a major coronary event in the next 10 years.

Such a man could expect an absolute risk reduction of about 9% (NNT = 11) from taking a statin.

The second example is a 45-year-old woman who does not smoke and has raised total cholesterol levels and slightly raised blood pressure. She has a 10-year risk of 1.4%, but her absolute risk reduction by taking a statin would be just 0.6% (NNT = 166).

In other words, a waste of time.

Amusingly WebMD has the following to say about statin use: Maintaining a healthy lifestyle while taking a statin can “improve the effectiveness of the drug”…

  • Eat a balanced, heart-healthy diet
  • Get regular physical activity
  • Limit alcohol intake
  • Avoid smoking
Isn’t that saying that these four interventions do all the work? What do they mean by “improves the effectiveness of the drug”? NO IT DOESN’T. It means the drugs are so INEFFECTIVE that these four simple changes produce a vastly better effect! Duh!

It’s time to bury these pernicious and costly drugs, before they bury you.
 

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