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Warning to Glenn Beck: Don’t Drink Diet Coke
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
October 9, 2010
On Friday, Glenn Beck announced on his radio show that he will be taking a brief leave of absence for medical reasons. “There is something wrong with my voice, and we’re not sure what it is,” Beck said, according to a transcript on his website. “They’re going to be doing CAT scans and MREs or MRIs and PET scans and they’re going to be doing blood work like crazy.”
Click to View...(SHOCKING VIDEO) Glenn Beck’s Health Problem: Is The Neurotoxin Aspertame Posioning Him? And You Too…http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/shocking-video-glenn-becks-health-problem-is-the-neurotoxin-aspertame-posioning-him-and-you-too/
In July, the Fox News host admitted that he is suffering from macular dystrophy, an eye disorder that causes vision loss. “Yes, I have a problem with my eyes,” Beck told an audience of 6,000 in Salt Lake City. “A couple of weeks ago, I went to the doctor because I can’t focus my eyes … So I went to the best doctor I could find… he did all kinds of tests, and he said I have macular dystrophy.”Warning to Glenn Beck: Don’t Drink Diet Coke
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For several years I have postulated that marijuana is not, in the strict sense of the word, an intoxicant.
As I wrote in the book Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink? (Chelsea Green, 2009), the word ‘intoxicant’ is derived from the Latin noun toxicum (poison). It’s an appropriate term for alcohol, as ethanol (the psychoactive ingredient in booze) in moderate to high doses is toxic (read: poisonous) to healthy cells and organs.
Of course, booze is hardly the only commonly ingested intoxicant. Take the over-the-counter painkiller acetaminophen (Tylenol). According to the Merck online medical library, acetaminophen poisoning and overdose is “common,” and can result in gastroenteritis (inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract) “within hours” and hepatotoxicity (liver damage) “within one to three days after ingestion.” In fact, less than one year ago the U.S. Food and Drug Administration called for tougher standards and warnings governing the drug’s use because “recent studies indicate that unintentional and intentional overdoses leading to severe hepatotoxicity continue to occur.”
By contrast, the therapeutically active components in marijuana — the cannabinoids — appear to be remarkably non-toxic to healthy cells and organs. Further, they mimic compounds our bodies naturally produce — so-called endocannabinoids — that are pivotal for maintaining proper health and homeostasis.
In fact, in recent years scientists have discovered that the production of endocannabinoids (and their interaction with the cannabinoid receptors located throughout the body) play a key role in the regulation of proper appetite, anxiety control, blood pressure, bone mass, reproduction, and motor coordination, among other biological functions.
Just how important is this system in maintaining our health? Here’s a clue: In studies of mice genetically bred to lack a proper endocannabinoid system the most common result is premature death.
Armed with these findings, a handful of scientists have speculated that the root cause of certain disease conditions — including migraine, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, and other functional conditions alleviated by clinical cannabis — may be an underlying endocannabinoid deficiency.
Now, much to my pleasant surprise, Fox News Health columnist Chris Kilham has weighed in on this important theory.
Are You Cannabis Deficient?
via Fox News
If the idea of having a marijuana deficiency sounds laughable to you, a growing body of science points at exactly such a possibility.
… [Endocannabinoids] also play a role in proper appetite, feelings of pleasure and well-being, and memory. Interestingly, cannabis also affects these same functions. Cannabis has been used successfully to treat migraine, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome and glaucoma. So here is the seventy-four thousand dollar question. Does cannabis simply relieve these diseases to varying degrees, or is cannabis actually a medical replacement in cases of deficient [endocannabinoids]?
… The idea of clinical cannabinoid deficiency opens the door to cannabis consumption as an effective medical approach to relief of various types of pain, restoration of appetite in cases in which appetite is compromised, improved visual health in cases of glaucoma, and improved sense of well being among patients suffering from a broad variety of mood disorders. As state and local laws mutate and change in favor of greater tolerance, perhaps cannabis will find it’s proper place in the home medicine chest.
Perhaps. Or maybe at the very least society will cease classifying cannabis as a ‘toxic’ substance when its more appropriate role would appear to more like that of a supplement.For several years I have postulated that marijuana is not, in the strict sense of the... more
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http://www.biogetica.com - This video discusses the cure controversies across different systems of medicine. Natural medicine systems like Ayurveda and Homeopathy rarely get into the duality of whether a certain ailment can be cured. Allopathy on the other hand often does and lands up in a situation where very few ailments or diseases can be cured. Is it productive or counter-productive to focus on finding cures? Is it better to focus on curing people or keeping them well? IF you were no longer bothered by herpes cure HPV cure HIV or any other ailment would you consider yourself cured? Is having anti-bodies in your blood proof that an ailment is not cured or does it not tell us anything meaningful other than the fact that the person once had the infection present?http://www.biogetica.com - This video discusses the cure controversies across... more
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http://www.biogetica.com - biogetica Fibromyalgia is a complex multi-faceted auto immune disorder with physical energetic mental and emotional components. Biogetica's holistic approach to Fibromyalgia uses sarcodes (energetic/informational imprints of optimal functions) to bring the tissues nerve endings and the immune system back to normalcy. This is possibly the only guaranteed Fibromyalgia therapy available today. Biogetica sysntesizes wisdom from allopathy ayurveda new homeopathy and quantum physics to treat Fibromyalgia in a manner that addresses all mind body and soul related root causes.http://www.biogetica.com - biogetica Fibromyalgia is a complex multi-faceted auto... more
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http://www.biogetica.com - This Video discusses how the presence of Anti-bodies is linked to Viruses. Antibodies are created by your body to fight a virus. These specific anti-bodies are tell tale signs of past or present viral infections or vaccinations. Blood tests do not actually detect the virus; instead they look for antibodies (the body's immune response) in the blood. The presence of life long anti-bodies is now used to label viruses as incurable. Once you've had a certain virus you will most likely have anti-bodies for it. However this does not neccesarily mean that you are still infected by the virus. Furthermore antibody tests tell us little about the true condition a person...http://www.biogetica.com - This Video discusses how the presence of Anti-bodies is... more
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"The pain that is the hallmark of the condition called fibromyalgia doesn't show up on images and scans of muscle and bone -- a fact that has led many sufferers to be dismissed as hypochondriacs. But it is there in the brain for all to see -- all, at least, who happen to have a Single Positron Emission Computed Tomography imaging machine (and who know how to use it).
Pain researchers in Marseilles, France, writing in the November issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, report that SPECT imaging revealed significant differences in the brain function of 20 women diagnosed with fibromyalgia and 10 healthy women used as controls. The SPECT technology allows precise measurements of blood flow to different parts of the brain -- and hence, of electrical activity. And in women with fibromyalgia, the parts of the brain responsible for discriminating degrees of pain were significantly more active than among normal, healthy women. Fibromyalgia sufferers had far lower levels of activity in the parts of the brain widely believed to process emotional responses to pain, the French researchers found. The more severe the subject's reported symptoms, the more pronounced were the differences in cerebral blood flow, the group found.
Dr. Eric Guedj, lead author of the study, said his findings reinforce the growing acceptance of fibromyalgia as "a real disease/disorder," and suggested that the disorder "may be related to a global dysfunction of the cerebral pain-processing."
While symptoms of depression or anxiety are frequent among fibromyalgia sufferers, the French researchers found that the abnormalities in brain function they found appeared to be present whether or not the subject experienced depression and/or anxiety as well.
Fibromyalgia -- characterized by chronic muscle and joint pain, fatigue and depression -- is thought to affect as many as one in 50 Americans, and is one of the most common causes of pain and disability. From 80% to 90% of those diagnosed are women.
The FDA recently approved the prescription pain medication Lyrica for those diagnosed with the syndrome -- a first medication approved for that indication. Researchers last year found that the anticonvulsant drug gabapentin can be successful in treating its symptoms. In addition to yielding clues to fibromyalgia's origins, Guedj and his colleagues suggest that SPECT imaging will help in the development and testing of new drugs to treat the disorder.""The pain that is the hallmark of the condition called fibromyalgia doesn't... more
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