The Liberation War?

Please read my latest entry on The Liberation War and post your comments here:

http://pensionpulse.blogspot.com/2010/04/liberation-war.html

Thank you,

Leo Kolivakis

Comments

[exportbank]

Leo, thanks for this post - I sent it to a friend.

Big fan of Vitamin D - I understand the best one is called "D.day" and is an oral spray (1,000IU per spray) and it has 365 sprays per bottle. I got it at Zellers and I heard it will soon be at Rexall. I take 5,000IU a day.

[Carpe Ductum]

Thanks Leo....Duly forwarded.

[bullchit]

As a "prequal" to the whole thing.....why does ones veins block up in the first place.
"The China study" should be required reading and on every school curriculum. You might have to clean it up first though.
Couldn't let the kiddies know how the cock-sucking globals are poisoning them for dollars, or with-holding life saving information to fund junior's Ferrari.
Regards.

[carbonmutant]

Leo, Good Stuff.

[Lux Fiat]

Interesting article, particularly as I know someone with MS.

Re your comment "...the other travesty is how the medical community and big pharma have hijacked all other promising MS treatments (and other treatments) that do not involve chronic drug therapy (and big profits). How many expensive drugs that are "statistically significant" but "clinically insignificant" do we have to go through before we realize that the cost to society is prohibitively high?".  

While there have been a lot of beneficial developments due to big pharma, it can come at a cost in other areas, as you point out.  It took a while for news to spread about treatment of some forms of sepsis with steroids.  No company wanted to put money into trials as there is virtually no money to make on the drug end of this treatment.  And yes, I suspect that the profit calculus of cures versus long-term treatments comes into play in determining what goes to clinical trial.

[Rick64]

I saw an interesting piece on Jim Abrahams(Naked Gun) . His son had epilepsy and it got so bad that he was having dozens of siezures everyday. Abrahams had plenty of money so he could afford the best doctors, but no matter what they did they couldn't relieve the siezures. If the siezures continued they would cause brain damage. Well he started researching and found a diet (ketogenic)which would relieve the siezures. It was known in the old medical journals(85 yrs. ago), but never used. It worked almost immediatly. He started a foudation called the Charlie Foundation.

I said this to show that diet has a huge effect on our bodies and minds, and many times there are cures and alieviations of diseases that are not profitable for the medical community thus not in their interest. This is unexcusable.

Wish the best for you Leo

[DormRoom]

Thanks Leo for this post.

There will be a live web forum with Dr. Zamboni on April 14, 2010.  To sign up for the forum, go here:

http://www.nationalmssociety.org/research/intriguing-leads-on-the-horizo...

http://register.mediasite.com/?nd=login&setsite=15

[wake the roach]

Asian half price "liberation" holidays?

[Bolweevil]

American Journal of Medicine 2007 states medical bills are responsible for 62% of all bankruptcies (sure it wasn't any better in '08-'09?). Way to go realitybiter, I have friends in the PNW who got hammered by H1N1.  There are doctors, health care professionals and practitioners out there who will help you with insurance, without insurance, in spite of insurance, on a sliding scale, by trade, barter...  Many medical doctors are caught by the short-and-curlies due to dogma, programming, contract or school loans so sometimes you must look outside the establishment for your answer. Disclosure: I'm no doctor, but I play one on TV. Thanks Leo. 

[realitybiter]

For as long as I can remember, I have gotten colds, which have evolved into bronchitis every Winter.  I used to just wait the 3 or 4 weeks until the bronchitis set in heavy before I went to the doc and got antibiotics.  Then, too save money, and go ugly early, I simply bought the meds from Canada and self-administered...it worked okay, but I still was getting sick.  Last Summer I read about vitamin D.  This Winter, living in Oregon, I took 6000 IU every day...the costco D3.  It cost about 12 dollars for the entire Winter.  I have three little kids in school and a wife.  We went through the Swine Flu!  I caught nothing.  Unfreakin believable.  I don't know if it is the vitamin D, but it certainly seems plausible.  

[Leo Kolivakis]

realitybiter,

This is not your imagination. A new study suggests that taking vitamin D supplements during the months when we're most likely to be deficient could reduce the risk of seasonal flu and asthma flare-ups. I didn't take the H1N1 shot even though I was suppose to since I am at high risk of opportunistic infections, but I got nothing this winter (I take close to 20,000 IUs of D a day now, before it was 6,000 IUs). There is no doubt in my mind that vitamin D protects against the flu (as does washing your hands often). 

Another study showed that high levels of vitamin D are linked with a lower risk of colon cancer, one of the most common cancers. A connection between rheumatoid arthritis and vitamin D deficiency has been established by a new study led by a researcher from Boston University School of Public Health.Extra vitamin D is also needed for Crohn's disease. Yet another study found that boosting vitamin D in blood cuts heart-disease risk. I can go on and on and find you the benefits of vitamin D in almost every disease, including breast cancer, diabetes, and prostate cancer.

Moreover, the U.S Center for Disease Control (CDC) found that most infants in the United States aren't getting enough vitamin D and should be given supplements. Obesity rates among kids are exploding as they stay indoors playing computer games and eating garbage instead of going outside to play and eating properly. (Do me a favor, take all the chips, soft drinks, cookies, sweets, and processed foods and chuck them in the garbage! Do not give that garbage to your kids. Give them carrots, apples, fruits and veggies to munch and let them drink good old water).

It's amazing how we spend so much time in school and nobody ever bothers teaching us about proper nutrition. There is a reason why the Mediterranean diet can boost your fertility (Omega 3 oil), protect against stomach cancer and lower your cholesterol and improve your blood flow.

But one last piece of advice I will give you, and this comes from my best friend's father who is a retired pathologist. He tells me to enjoy life and not be too strict with my diets. "Strict diets are stressful and stress kills. Enjoy your life and don't worry too much. In the end, we're all going to die from something." Sound advice from a man who has performed thousands of autopsies.

[Fish Gone Bad]

MS patients are an interesting bunch.  I know Celeste Pepe, she wrote this book http://www.amazon.com/Reversing-Multiple-Sclerosis-Effective-Recover/dp/... and I will be the first person to tell you, she did not reverse ANYTHING.  She is being consumed by that disease.  Anyone who wants to make money off of the suffering of others is the worst kind of asshole.  That said, this story on NPR was quite interesting http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/404/enemy-camp-2010 . Here is the downside: a person can develop anemia if they continue with this parasitic cure/infection.  Here is the escape hatch, if this parasitic cure does not work, it can be reversed incredibly easy with Vermox (http://www.getridofthings.com/get-rid-of-hookworm.htm).  If it does alleviate the MS, congratulations.  Let the guy in the story know he helped you out.

[Black Swan Lurking]

Nice one Leo. This one was a mindbender when it started to come to light a few months ago.

As usual, the establishment (medical in this instance) and the herd-mentality of its membership will keep them from acknowledging what is likely (I think) going to be the truth about MS treatment.

Dr. Zamboni will probably continue to relieve people's suffering while everyone else scratches their stay-squarely-inside-the-box ass and says, "Gee, the textbooks don't say that this procedure is a remedy..."

2 other very similar items spring to my mind.

1. G. Edward Griffin, author of "The Creature from Jekyll Island" once did some investigative reporting into laetrile (a.k.a. Vitamin B17, amygdalin, fruit seeds, etc.) as cancer therapy/treatment/possible cure. "World Without Cancer" good little film, haven't made time to read the book yet. But in the movie, he points out that the medical establishment took 200+ years to accept the fact that scurvy could be cured by boosting intake of vitamin C rich foods. That's a long time to change some minds, huh?
2. Listened to Dr. Bob Marshall on the radio talk about Quantum Reflexology a while back. Lots of people write off alternative/holisitic medicine as bullshit, but fuck 'em, let 'em stay locked in their narrow unchanging worldview. Anyway, he was talking about how the body's chi energy can deteriorate over time in the wake of an injury, and how it can lead to health issues later on. For example, you take a traumatic injury to your leg, and many years later you have problems with an internal organ, seemingly outta nowhere. Or a woman has an episiotomy during childbirth, and years later, has renal problems. The two events appear to be utterly and totally disconnected to a Western-thinking mind, but this is likely old news to students of Chinese medicine and their precepts about the importance of maintaining healthy chi flows throughout the body.

Hope you get better - keep exploring for the truth. On the topic of MS, you may have already found it.

"Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance."

-Albert Einstein

[jeff montanye]

here's another:  lady mary wortley montagu, wife of britain's turkish ambassador, introduced the turkish prevention for smallpox, essentially vaccination, in 1721.  although thousand tried it and it worked, the (male dominated) church and medical establishments eventually shouted her down and it wasn't until william jenner reintroduced the concept via cowpox inoculation in 1796 that it was finally accepted.  

particularly telling in leo's article is the observation that the drug companies are most interested in therapies that don't cure a disease and require taking expensive drugs.  and they wrote much of our current health care law.

[Mercury]

Regardless of it's effectiveness, this is the beginning of a US bull market in alternative medicine.

Obamacare will eventually end up rationing care ("Western-thinking" medical care) one way or the other. Either through government incentives or patients looking for quicker attention and treatment, alternative medicine will see more traffic and have the advantage of being outside the system.  It seems like there is a vibrant alternative medicine economy in London for instance and I think that has less to do with that city's rich multicultural fabric and more to do with the economics of living under the NHS system.

[wagefreedom]

"It seems like there is a vibrant alternative medicine economy in London for instance and I think that has less to do with that city's rich multicultural fabric and more to do with the economics of living under the NHS system." mmm interesting idea

[fuu]

Thanks Leo.

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