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I'm still a believer in the say that "Big Pharma creates customers, not cures."
You're right on the money - as usual - doc. All of us really live and die at the cellular level - even sub cellular if you look at the mitochondrial poisoning and oxidative stress tie. If you can keep your mitochondria and cells working at high level - your tissue remains healthy. If the tissue remains healthy, then the organ will maintain health. Of the organs can maintain health, the system will be healthy. It's like a building - the smallest components of the building blocks have to be strong or the building will tumble.
I posted this in another post and thought It would bear repeating.
Pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) has been shown to activate cell signaling pathways which can cause the cell to actually create new mitochondria. PQQ can also protect the brain against neurotoxins - including mercury!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrroloquinoline_quinoneI've just started on 10 mg a day - going to try it for 90 days and see how things go. I really believe that this coupled with a redox supplement to help reduce the oxidative stress in the body could be a good one-two punch for my immune sytem and overall health.
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If I can throw my hat into the ring. If you do a little research on the above named items, you will see that they all create oxidative stress in the system overall. There are a couple there that are even worse though.
Aspartame is shown to cause changes on the celular level to brain cells, inducing the cells to "sucide" more frequently than they should.
"This study provides a scientific evidence to conclude that aspartame is toxic to the body system and particularly in brain it increases the free radicals and triggers the apoptosis."
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213231714000640Prolonged exposure to MSG has been shown to be toxic to brain neurons - again primarily by - you guessed it - oxidative stress.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2802046/
These 2 are really culprits for killing off the mitochondria in the cells also. I've talked about those "little powerhouses" a lot, but just recently ran into something that I've just started taking (I mean just yesterday)
Pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) has been shown to activate cell signaling pathways which can cause the cell to actually create new mitochondria. PQQ can also protect the brain against neurotoxins - including mercury!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrroloquinoline_quinone
I've just started on 10 mg a day - going to try it for 90 days and see how things go. I really believe that this coupled with a redox supplement to help reduce the oxidative stress in the body could be a good one-two punch for my immune sytem and overall health.
Diet, exercise and breathing - of course - also play great roles, but I'm thinking these 2 supplements could be game changers for chronic illnesses associated with oxidative stress.
"Overproduction of free radicals can cause oxidative damage to biomolecules, (lipids, proteins, DNA), eventually leading to many chronic diseases such as atherosclerosis, cancer, diabetics, rheumatoid arthritis, post-ischemic perfusion injury, myocardial infarction, cardiovascular diseases, chronic inflammation, stroke ..."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2724665/-
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As I understand it - with the Bryan Pagliano being given immunity to testify - this means that a federal judge had to be involved. This could point to a grand jury already being in place - not 100%, but that's the way it's normally done.
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Finally taking the plunge, picked up a stupid expensive juice blender.
Reading about how more nutritious the peels are than the actual fruit, figured to save time, save waste, and get the best bang for the buck.
Mixed the following without peeling
2 Kiwi's
1 grapefruit
1 mango
1 banana
5 strawberries
1 naval orange
1 slice watermelon (no rind)
1 double shot moca frapp powder scoop
1 energy greens scoop
1 protein powder scoop
2 raw eggs
handful spinach leaves
cup of distilled ice cubes
20 oz. well water
mix on high until lights kitchen lights stop blinking and counter top stops rumbling.
taste
Question;
Are the muscle convulsions that started at the first taste, and instantly spread to include jaw, face, and forehead compression with eye lid twitches normal?
Are the above mention contractions my body's way of telling me to stay the heck away?
Why does that happen every time?
Am I going to die now?
That's nothing.....Wait until the kidney stones kick in....
I'm only partially kidding....
http://drcherylkasdorf.com/2015/02/16/green-smoothie-dangers/
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James Doohan has become really become one of my idols - for more than being Scotty. He is a true war hero -
Landed on Juno Beach with the Canadian forces on D-day, took out 2 snipers as he led his platoon through a mine field, and was then wounded by friendly fire - which resulted in him having a finger amputated. He also had a bullet lodge in the silver cigarette case he was carrying - which could have killed him had it not been there. Great story!
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I guess I'd recommend the same thing I would for a snake bite...good old whiskey! (Actually as a disinfectant on the bite would be good...)
In seriousness - for just about any wound I get anymore I use a redox gel. Helps the skin heal faster, it's disinfecting, and has only 4 non-toxic ingredients.
Since you don't have that - I've heard that Vitamin E and B gels can be good. Also have a friend that makes a golden seal compress.
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I like hot mustard or wasabi - wait - rat bite....I was thinking a bit of rat....(couldn't resist)
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And - here is some food for thought along with that....
"According to UN projections, Sweden will be a much poorer country by 2030, much worse than what anyone in the Swedish government indicates.
The UN report HDI (Human Development Index) predicts a significant decrease in Swedish prosperity, unlike their Nordic neighbors, who will retain their top positions and even strengthen them globally in the long run.
In 2010 Sweden had the 15th place in the HDI rankings but according to UN forecasts, Sweden will be #25 in 2015, and in 2030 on the 45th place.
Sweden is one of few countries with such a sharp deterioration from what it had in 2010."
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Salts in an electrolyte solution - something about that sounds familiar.....*LOL*
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Wow - some really neat breakthroughs it sounds like. I especially like the NK therapy and the laser therapy.
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We may not always see eye to eye - but I'm with you on this on Shab's.
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Thanks for the vote of confidence Divemaster. I didn't mean to start a donnybrook here - just doing what I do best, and that is unbiased research.
If I may follow up on one thing though. It is not necessary that both parents be US citizens for a foreign born child to be given natural born citizenship - nor does the birth have to take place on a military installation. If a child is born in Germany to a couple where the father is a US citizen who has lived in the US for the last 5 years in a private hospital, the child is still as US citizen at birth.
"If the parents are married to each other, the child is a U.S. citizen if:
Both parents are U.S. citizens, and at least one of the parents lived in the U.S. at some point before the child was born; or
One parent is a U.S. citizen, and the U.S. citizen parent lived in the U.S. for at least five years prior to the child's birth, at least two of which were after the age of fourteen. Time spent serving the military or as a military dependent overseas counts as "time spent in the U.S." for this purpose.
If the parents are not married to each other, the child is a U.S. citizen if:
The mother is a U.S. citizen, and spent at least one year in the U.S. prior to the child's birth; or
Only the father is a U.S. citizen, and the father lived in the U.S. for at least five years prior to the child's birth, at least two of which were after the age of fourteen (time spent in the military counts for this purpose). The child's paternity must be established according to the laws of the resident country or through the father's written acknowledgment. DNA testing may be required. In addition, the father must agree in writing that he will financially support the child. Citizenship must be applied for before the child reaches 18.
After the parents have determined that their child is a U.S. citizen, they need to apply for a Consular Report of Birth Abroad at the nearest U.S. consulate. The parents will need to submit an application, along with documentation proving the parents' citizenship and the record of the child's birth from the resident country. The Consular Report of Birth Abroad can be used later as proof of the child's U.S. citizenship, and may be used to obtain a U.S. passport for the child."
As for dual citizenship -
Section 101(a)(22) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) states that “the term ‘national of the United States’ means (A) a citizen of the United States, or (
a person who, though not a citizen of the United States, owes permanent allegiance to the United States.” Therefore, U.S. citizens are also U.S. nationals.The concept of dual nationality means that a person is a national of two countries at the same time.Each country has its own nationality laws based on its own policy. Persons may have dual nationality by automatic operation of different laws rather than by choice. For example, a child born in a foreign country to U.S. national parents may be both a U.S. national and a national of the country of birth.
A U.S. national may acquire foreign nationality by marriage, or a person naturalized as a U.S. national may not lose the nationality of the country of birth. U.S. law does not mention dual nationality or require a person to choose one nationality or another. Also, a person who is automatically granted another nationality does not risk losing U.S. nationality. However, a person who acquires a foreign nationality by applying for it may lose U.S. nationality. In order to lose U.S. nationality, the law requires that the person must apply for the foreign nationality voluntarily, by free choice, and with the intention to give up U.S. nationality.
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Happy Birthday Thuggie!! The best clown in the business....
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if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
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"Also, please remember, all US military bases, and ships at sea are in fact soverigin territory of the USA."
Contrary to popular belief, military bases are not considered "U.S. soil" for citizenship purposes. Therefore, the only way children born abroad can acquire citizenship at birth is through their parents. -
See more at: http://military.findlaw.com/family-employment-housing/military-children-born-abroad.html
In fact - doing a little more digging - only US Embassies are considered sovereign territory - consulates are not.
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hile some constitutional issues are truly difficult, with framing-era sources either nonexistent or contradictory, here, the relevant materials clearly indicate that a “natural born Citizen” means a citizen from birth with no need to go through naturalization proceedings. The Supreme Court has long recognized that two particularly useful sources in understanding constitutional terms are British common law
(Smith v. Alabama, 124 U.S. 465, 478 (1888)).and enactments of the First Congress. (*Wisconsin v. Pelican Ins. Co., 127 U.S. 265, 297 (1888).)Both confirm that the original meaning of the phrase “natural born Citizen” includes persons born abroad who are citizens from birth based on the citizenship of a parent.
As to the British practice, laws in force in the 1700s recognized that children born outside of the British Empire to subjects of the Crown were subjects themselves and explicitly used “natural born” to encompass such children. (United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649, 655–72 (1898).) These statutes provided that children born abroad to subjects of the British Empire were “natural-born Subjects . . . to all Intents, Constructions, and Purposes whatsoever.” ( Ann., c. 5, § 3 (1708); also British Nationality Act, 1730, 4 Geo. 2, c. 21.)
The Framers, of course, would have been intimately familiar with these statutes and the way they used terms like “natural born,” since the statutes were binding law in the colonies before the Revolutionary War. They were also well documented in Blackstone’s Commentaries,a text widely circulated and read by the Framers and routinely invoked in interpreting the Constitution.
No doubt informed by this longstanding tradition, just three years after the drafting of the Constitution, the First Congress established that children born abroad to U.S. citizens were U.S. citizens at birth, and explicitly recognized that such children were “natural born Citizens.” The Naturalization Act of 17908. Ch. 3, 1 Stat. 103 (repealed 1795). provided that “the children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens: Provided, That the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States . . . .”
The actions and understandings of the First Congress are particularly persuasive because so many of the Framers of the Constitution were also members of the First Congress. That is particularly true in this instance, as eight of the eleven members of the committee that proposed the natural born eligibility requirement to the Convention served in the First Congress and none objected to a definition of “natural born Citizen” that included persons born abroad to citizen parents.
http://harvardlawreview.org/2015/03/on-the-meaning-of-natural-born-citizen/
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So - if you feed GMO corn to GM rats, do they get healthier? Like ladyGrace'sDaddy said - do the math. Negative times a Negative equals a positive - right?
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This is an article from The Lancet. It is one of the world's oldest and best known general medical journals,and has been described as one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world.
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2813%2962365-X/abstract
"Physical exercise has long been widely regarded as essential to human health.1 Yet, we do not know how exercise-stressed skeletal muscle cells that generate reactive oxygen species such as hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) delay—if not prevent—the occurrence and severity of diseases such as type 2 diabetes (as well as dementias, cardiovascular disease, and some cancers). Also unexplained is the recent finding that metformin—the most commonly used drug to treat type 2 diabetes2–4—and physical exercise seem to be beneficial for several of the same diseases, including cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and cardiovascular disease."I postulate that there is a need for ROS (reactive oxygen species) to trigger the body to make it's own antioxidants - glutathioine, catalase, SOD and lipoic acid. This is why taking too many antioxidants can be a bad thing. It suppresses the production of these key factors. It's all about balance and homeostasis.
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I sure hope crawfish ain't bad, I boil up over a 150 lbs a month....I do share some with my family LOL. Probably another 100 lbs of blue crabs as well.
The only reason it's bad is because you haven't invited me!!!
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dang it Moose - you got my eyes sweating again....
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Too funny - Here's one I heard years ago -
If you tell them to "Secure that building."
The Marines will set up a perimeter, send in a fire team clear the rooms, then leave a squad as they move to the next building.
The Army will set up inner and out perimeters, send in mutliple squads to clear the rooms, and leave a platoon inside the building
The Navy will go room to room, make sure all the lights are off and all the doors are locked.
The Air Force will have the contracting office set up a 10 year lease with an option to buy.
Actually - I have to say, as a former grunt, when I was in Iraq, there were 2 things I wanted to hear anytime we got ready to go outside the wire. You have priority of fires (gotta love the artillery) and you have air support!!!
We may all tease each other - but we all understand we are all on the same team. One team - one mission.
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Yes Tankdude!!! Houston does have a diversity of restaurants and some can be hazardous to your health. LOL!!!
In fact Mr. Angel and I went this weekend for some Ethiopian food. I have to say its not bad, tad spicy, but not as spicy as India food in which we had the weekend before. Enjoyed both very much and the cultural atmosphere was a delight.
How we control our diet is solely the responsibility of the individual. No one else is responsible for our health. Not the doctors, not your mother etc.. until that thought process sets in, we will always see all diseases run rampant.
It took cancer to wake me up in how I take care of myself. A blessing in disguise for me. I've learned to care for myself starting at the cellular level. If you don't understand the biology of the body, and how it works, I suggest you do some deep research regarding Cellular health.
Eliminate/reduce oxidative stress and you'll have a healthier life.
Tankdude, love your caption below, "Have you had your Molecules today?" YES!!!!
Thanks Patty! Yes - health really is a personal responsibility. Nothing wrong with eating out from time to time (and personally I love Indian food)
You are so right on the oxidative stress too. It is tied to over 95% of all chronic conditions. It is either a direct cause or an exacerbating factor. It is is thought to be involved in the development of Asperger syndrome, ADHD, cancer, Parkinson's disease, Lafora disease, Alzheimer's disease, atherosclerosis, heart failure, myocardial infarction, fragile X syndrome, Sickle Cell Disease, lichen planus,vitiligo, autism, chronic infection, and chronic fatigue syndrome. It's nice that we have found a way to reduce that!
Not sure if you heard the latest news - but the redox supplement has been shown clinically reduce oxidated LDL, and even DNA markers! For those that understand the science behind how cells create energy and use the resulting signaling molecules created in that process to heal themselves - this is huge!
So glad you and the hubby became early adopters! Next time I'm in Houston - dinner is one me!
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I've been to Houston and can understand it - they have some fantastic restaurants. Patty Angel can confirm that one!
It sad that so many can't see that the choices they make can make such an impact on them. I'm not perfect either, but it seems to me that - at least in America - the idea of "will power" is kind of disappearing. A sad commentary on how our socialization of "me" and "now" appears to be taking over.
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"Life Triumph"
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Happy Anniversary!
Amen Patty. God is good...
Life Triumph - Now i understand a bit more about your website name...