July 2009

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The pharmaceutical industry gets rich making drugs that “manage” rather than “heal” disease. But a licensed M.D. had astounding success with real healing using a simple food substance from nature: Grass-fed Raw Milk. He wrote a book about his work. Another man, a nutritionist, healed himself using the milk diet and went on to build upon and modify it.

Milk Diet As A Remedy For Chronic Disease by Charles Sanford Porter, M.D

Milk Diet As A Remedy For Chronic Disease by Charles Sanford Porter, M.D

First, do no harm. Dr. Charles Porter practiced medicine at the turn of the 20th Century. He took to heart the words in the Hippocratic Oath “to obstain from doing harm.” We know these words better as “First, do no harm.” This phrase reminds us of another popular one: “sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.” The problem with this latter phrase today is that modern medical cures don’t typically cure but only manage the disease so one can live more comfortably and perhaps with it: diabetes, heart disease, cancer, etc. But the  dictionary definition of “heal” is “to make healthy, whole, or sound; restore to health; free from ailment.” Free from ailment. Our modern drugs don’t, as a rule, free us from ailments; they modify symptoms: i.e. blood pressure, etc.  But once one stops taking the ‘medication” the effect stops too. So one is not healed of the problem for which the drug is taken.  Worse, the side effects can include possible damage to the organs. If you have never looked through the Physicians Desk Reference, do so. Take a look at the possible side effects for any drug. It is not a small matter.  However, a rarely mentioned side effect of most every drug is that of nutrient depletion. These drugs do not just go in and do their job; they tend to deplete the body of nutrients — vitamins, minerals, etc. Now how is it possible to heal the body while depleting it of nutrients? “Do no harm”?

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How To Choose Real Foods

by Charles on July 24, 2009

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In a recent post, Want Real Health? Real Food Is the Key, we defined “real  health”  and made the connection between real health and real food. Today we offer you some specific guidelines on how to choose real foods, not fake foods.

turkeys-in-woods06The guidelines offered herein are based on the findings of Weston Price. Weston Price was a dentist who traveled the world in the 1920’s and 30’s in search of the dietary practices of those native peoples with perfect teeth and mouth formations. He concluded that the health of the mouth is a window into the health of the rest of the body and that the key to good dental health is a real food diet. Though certain specifics of native diets differed one from the other, there were many common characteristics and it is those we are posting today. More information is available at http://www.westonaprice.org/.

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All Things Vitamin D

by Charles on July 14, 2009

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It’s Summer. Are you hiding from the sun? If so, you are missing out on the all important nutrient Vitamin D which has been so much in the news lately.

TropicalIt is critical to maintaining good health and can be very helpful in healing a variety of ailments. Perhaps then, you should be at least as afraid of Vitamin D deficiency as you are of getting some good sunshine. Herein, a primer: everything you always wanted to know about what Vitamin D can do for you. Following the riveting post on Child Abuse? or Vitamin D Deficiency Rickets, we offer a guide to using Vitamin D. Courtesy of the Vitamin D Council.

This is a very long newsletter. I will answer questions about oil versus water-soluble Vitamin D, depression, mental clarity, malignant melanoma, Crohn’s disease, an imagist poet, multiple sclerosis, sun-exposure, high-intensity red light and collagen repair in the skin, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, influenza, the 1918 influenza pandemic, statins, the new Food and Nutrition Board, thyroid disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, athletes, the upcoming 14th Vitamin D Workshop, prostate cancer, the wrong blood test, pregnancy, autism, Alzheimer’s disease, soap and sebum, asthma, sleep, the co-factors vitamin D needs to work (all contained in spinach), and—my favorite—UVC light and Vitamin D.

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