Free Speech: FDA Goes on the Attack Again

The real target: your ability to buy supplements of your own choice. Action Alert!

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released a “guidance” describing the substantiation needed by infant formula products to make structure/function claims. In the guidance, the FDA “recommends” that double-blind randomized controlled trials (RCTs) be used to substantiate structure/function claims on these products.

In other words, infant formula should be treated like drugs.

This latest move has implications far beyond infant formula products. The FDA is putting all natural health food producers on notice: to make any health claims, you’d better have RCTs to back them up.

Where is this coming from? You’ll remember that the Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) could not require two RCTs for implied disease claims on POM Wonderful’s pomegranate juice—but that requiring one might be OK. The FDA seems to be emboldened by this precedent, and now wants to broaden it by requiring at least one RCT for structure/function claims.

Structure/function claims are statements such as “calcium helps build bones.” Their purpose is to alert the consumer to the general area the supplement or food is targeting. Without them, the consumer wouldn’t have a clue what anything is for.

This category of claim must be truthful, not misleading, and must never directly talk about curing a disease, which under current law is reserved for FDA approved drugs.

In a recent case, the FTC attacked POM for making claims about its pomegranate juice. Never mind that POM spent millions of dollars on peer-reviewed research that substantiated its claims. The charge was that the company had made disease claims. In order to do that, the FDA says the company must take the product through the full FDA approval process and thus turn it into a drug.

The agency has taken the same position with walnut and cherry producers. Presumably the FDA would threaten fines and jail even if someone claimed that water could be used to cure illness-related dehydration. Water would first have to be turned into a drug at a cost of many billions of dollars! The current system is, of course, a great set-up for drug companies. The government gives them two monopolies: first a patent, then an exclusive drug license. After that the company can charge whatever it wants. Just imagine what water would cost under this system!

Are government officials at the FDA and FTC crazy? Not at all. They are just part of a crony system set up to protect Big Food and Big Pharma.

RCTs are incredibly expensive, and the FDA and FTC know full well that natural product companies—which by law cannot patent-protect their products—wouldn’t be able to afford one, let alone two, RCTs. Additionally, as we have long noted, RTCs are a terrible match for food (or supplement) research. A drug molecule can be better isolated in its effects than food can—but even with pharmaceuticals, interactions with other drugs are largely ignored, which leads to many deaths.

Foods and supplements are, by contrast, simply part of our diet, and how they are used by the body depends on co-factors. For example, supplemental calcium should not be taken without supplemental K2. Vitamin D is also important to getting calcium into your bones and not into your blood vessels. But isolating calcium for an RCT would miss all of that.

In addition, the effect of a food or supplement will depend on whether the subject is deficient in that nutrient in the first place. No one is nutritionally deficient in a drug. The random choice of participants for a food or supplement study is therefore just one more way the FDA defies logic.

Action Alert! Write to the FDA and tell them their RCT standard is an attack on your right to buy natural foods. Please send your message immediately.

Other articles in this week’s Pulse of Natural Health:

Did Big Pharma Cause Hillary’s Pneumonia?

Key Brain Health Herb about to Disappear

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Did Big Pharma Cause Hillary’s Pneumonia?

It could be caused by acid blockers, but there are plenty of other possibilities.Most of Hillary’s symptoms could be side effects of drugs she is taking.

Hillary Clinton’s recent pneumonia diagnosis followed her collapse after the 9/11 memorial service. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) revealed this month that he too had been diagnosed with pneumonia.

Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs—specifically, inflammation of the alveoli—which can be caused by bacteria, fungi, or viruses. Secretary Clinton’s doctor has said that hers is bacterial.

Acid blockers have been identified even by mainstream medicine as a leading cause of pneumonia. Why? They work, of course, by shutting off acid in the stomach, which allows more pathogens into the rest of the body. Normally, strong acid could kill the bugs. Without it, they can make their way into the lungs.

Acid blockers can also inhibit immune cells, reducing the body’s ability to fight off infection. In fact, acid blockers can shut off acid production in every cell in our body, as recent research has shown.

Ironically, for most people—especially people over 40 or 50—the cause of their stomach problem is very likely to be insufficient acid production, as we have pointed out here, here, and here. Low stomach acid—also called hypochlorhydria—affects about half of the population. Even young people can have insufficient acid, especially if they have a bacterial H. pylori infection (the bacteria shut off acid for their own protection) or a viral Epstein-Barr infection, best known as the cause of infectious mononucleosis (“mono”).

And, yes, acid blockers often make the original problem—stomach pain—worse. Too little stomach acid is more often than not the culprit behind indigestion and stomach pain. Taking acid blockers in these cases offers temporary relief but over time just makes the problem much worse.

Pneumonia is just one of a long list of serious illnesses linked to acid blockers. Others include chronic kidney disease, acute kidney disease, dementia, heart attacks, heart palpitations, muscle cramps, convulsions, weak bones, and more. Some of the problems may be linked to the difficulty we have assimilating and using protein and minerals when we deliberately reduce the stomach acid (as we do with these drugs). We need the acid either for digestion or for producing enzymes necessary for digestion.

Hillary Clinton has also had a cough for many months on the campaign trail. A cough can be caused by a host of factors, very commonly by acid reflux. Either before or after the cough, a doctor could very easily have prescribed her an acid blocker to give relief. Steroids are also commonly prescribed to treat a cough. Bill Clinton relied on them heavily when he was running for president in 1992 and almost lost his voice. The problem is that they also suppress the immune system and thus make the body more susceptible to illness.

There is another reason to suspect that both Sen. Schumer and Secretary Clinton have been on acid blockers. Acid blockers are the third–largest class of drugs in the country, accounting for more than 110 million prescriptions and $13.6 billion in sales for the Big Pharma companies peddling them. They are prescribed for almost anything, sometimes even for reflux during pregnancy, even though both mother and child really need the stomach acid to be sure that food is not just ingested, but digested.

An additional note on pneumonia: mainstream doctors advise getting vaccines to prevent this illness, yet Clinton’s doctor said she is up to date on all vaccinations, including the pneumonia vaccines (Prevnar and Pneumovax). The efficacy of these vaccines has been challenged, and Clinton’s case reaffirms that they may not work.

There are other questions about the extent to which Clinton’s health problems are caused by mainstream medicine. We know, for instance, that Clinton is taking Coumadin, a blood thinner. Side effects for this drug include sudden dizziness, headache, weakness, and weak bones, among a host of other conditions. This is a dangerous drug. Clinton’s doctor said it was used to dissolve her brain clot from an earlier health episode, but Coumadin does not dissolve clots. It does, however, prevent new clots from forming. Was Coumadin involved in Clinton’s health problems on September 11? No one knows.

Being famous can be a double-edged sword when it comes to medicine. We all know that a variety of physicians wanted the honor of treating George Washington during his last illness, but together they killed him. One has to wonder whether many of Hillary’s health issues are not themselves being caused by the drugs she is being given.

Other articles in this week’s Pulse of Natural Health:

Free Speech: FDA Goes on the Attack Again

Key Brain Health Herb about to Disappear

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Unless we act now, the FDA will hand this supplement over to drug companies. Action Alert!

We told you recently that the FDA is set to yank vinpocetine from the shelves, even though it had been previously approved as a new dietary ingredient (NDI), that is, a new supplement. Why? Two reasons. Because the agency all of a sudden found that an investigational new drug application (IND) had been filed in the 1980s—meaning that a drug company was researching vinpocetine for use in a drug. When an IND has been filed before an NDI has been filed, that substance can no longer be marketed as a dietary supplement. It doesn’t matter if the IND was dropped.

The second reason is that the FDA decided that vinpocetine wasn’t a dietary ingredient—a perplexing conclusion since the agency said it was a dietary ingredient when it approved NDIs for vinpocetine in the late 1990s.

This is an extremely bad precedent. It is absurd that the FDA can retroactively and unilaterally decide that a supplement is not a dietary ingredient, after it has already said that it is. If this ridiculous precedent is allowed to stand, what other supplements will the FDA retroactively decide are not dietary ingredients and yank from the shelves? Presumably any supplements that Big Pharma wants to turn into synthetic drugs! Using this precedent, the FDA could decide years down the road that vitamin D isn’t actually a dietary ingredient, and move to pull it off the shelves.

Additionally, INDs are confidential, meaning that supplement companies have no idea which substances are being investigated as drugs. The FDA apparently expects companies to spend the time and resources to prepare an NDI notification and bring a new supplement to market on the mere gamble that there is no IND on file. Even if the FDA accepts your NDI, but then finds an IND on that substance twenty years later (as in the case of vinpocetine), the agency can still pull the supplement!

That this arrangement is a pay-off to drug companies shouldn’t surprise us, since they pay the FDA’s bills. It isn’t clear that the FDA has the legal authority to do so. That’s why we’re asking Congress to step in and put an end to this.

Action Alert! To fight back against this FDA maneuver, ask your members of Congress to write to the FDA, asking them where they get the authority to remove a supplement from the market once an NDI has been granted. Also ask your representative to urge the FDA to extend the comment period on vinpocetine, and we’ll send a copy of the message to the FDA as well. Please send your message immediately.

Other articles in this week’s Pulse of Natural Health:

Free Speech: FDA Goes on the Attack Again

Did Big Pharma Cause Hillary’s Pneumonia?

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Free Speech: FDA Goes on the Attack Again

The real target: your ability to buy supplements of your own choice. Action Alert!

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released a “guidance” describing the substantiation needed by infant formula products to make structure/function claims. In the guidance, the FDA “recommends” that double-blind randomized controlled trials (RCTs) be used to substantiate structure/function claims on these products.

In other words, infant formula should be treated like drugs.

This latest move has implications far beyond infant formula products. The FDA is putting all natural health food producers on notice: to make any health claims, you’d better have RCTs to back them up.

Where is this coming from? You’ll remember that the Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) could not require two RCTs for implied disease claims on POM Wonderful’s pomegranate juice—but that requiring one might be OK. The FDA seems to be emboldened by this precedent, and now wants to broaden it by requiring at least one RCT for structure/function claims.

Structure/function claims are statements such as “calcium helps build bones.” Their purpose is to alert the consumer to the general area the supplement or food is targeting. Without them, the consumer wouldn’t have a clue what anything is for.

This category of claim must be truthful, not misleading, and must never directly talk about curing a disease, which under current law is reserved for FDA approved drugs.

In a recent case, the FTC attacked POM for making claims about its pomegranate juice. Never mind that POM spent millions of dollars on peer-reviewed research that substantiated its claims. The charge was that the company had made disease claims. In order to do that, the FDA says the company must take the product through the full FDA approval process and thus turn it into a drug.

The agency has taken the same position with walnut and cherry producers. Presumably the FDA would threaten fines and jail even if someone claimed that water could be used to cure illness-related dehydration. Water would first have to be turned into a drug at a cost of many billions of dollars! The current system is, of course, a great set-up for drug companies. The government gives them two monopolies: first a patent, then an exclusive drug license. After that the company can charge whatever it wants. Just imagine what water would cost under this system!

Are government officials at the FDA and FTC crazy? Not at all. They are just part of a crony system set up to protect Big Food and Big Pharma.

RCTs are incredibly expensive, and the FDA and FTC know full well that natural product companies—which by law cannot patent-protect their products—wouldn’t be able to afford one, let alone two, RCTs. Additionally, as we have long noted, RTCs are a terrible match for food (or supplement) research. A drug molecule can be better isolated in its effects than food can—but even with pharmaceuticals, interactions with other drugs are largely ignored, which leads to many deaths.

Foods and supplements are, by contrast, simply part of our diet, and how they are used by the body depends on co-factors. For example, supplemental calcium should not be taken without supplemental K2. Vitamin D is also important to getting calcium into your bones and not into your blood vessels. But isolating calcium for an RCT would miss all of that.

In addition, the effect of a food or supplement will depend on whether the subject is deficient in that nutrient in the first place. No one is nutritionally deficient in a drug. The random choice of participants for a food or supplement study is therefore just one more way the FDA defies logic.

Action Alert! Write to the FDA and tell them their RCT standard is an attack on your right to buy natural foods. Please send your message immediately.

Other articles in this week’s Pulse of Natural Health:

Did Big Pharma Cause Hillary’s Pneumonia?

Key Brain Health Herb about to Disappear

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Did Big Pharma Cause Hillary’s Pneumonia?

It could be caused by acid blockers, but there are plenty of other possibilities.Most of Hillary’s symptoms could be side effects of drugs she is taking.

Hillary Clinton’s recent pneumonia diagnosis followed her collapse after the 9/11 memorial service. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) revealed this month that he too had been diagnosed with pneumonia.

Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs—specifically, inflammation of the alveoli—which can be caused by bacteria, fungi, or viruses. Secretary Clinton’s doctor has said that hers is bacterial.

Acid blockers have been identified even by mainstream medicine as a leading cause of pneumonia. Why? They work, of course, by shutting off acid in the stomach, which allows more pathogens into the rest of the body. Normally, strong acid could kill the bugs. Without it, they can make their way into the lungs.

Acid blockers can also inhibit immune cells, reducing the body’s ability to fight off infection. In fact, acid blockers can shut off acid production in every cell in our body, as recent research has shown.

Ironically, for most people—especially people over 40 or 50—the cause of their stomach problem is very likely to be insufficient acid production, as we have pointed out here, here, and here. Low stomach acid—also called hypochlorhydria—affects about half of the population. Even young people can have insufficient acid, especially if they have a bacterial H. pylori infection (the bacteria shut off acid for their own protection) or a viral Epstein-Barr infection, best known as the cause of infectious mononucleosis (“mono”).

And, yes, acid blockers often make the original problem—stomach pain—worse. Too little stomach acid is more often than not the culprit behind indigestion and stomach pain. Taking acid blockers in these cases offers temporary relief but over time just makes the problem much worse.

Pneumonia is just one of a long list of serious illnesses linked to acid blockers. Others include chronic kidney disease, acute kidney disease, dementia, heart attacks, heart palpitations, muscle cramps, convulsions, weak bones, and more. Some of the problems may be linked to the difficulty we have assimilating and using protein and minerals when we deliberately reduce the stomach acid (as we do with these drugs). We need the acid either for digestion or for producing enzymes necessary for digestion.

Hillary Clinton has also had a cough for many months on the campaign trail. A cough can be caused by a host of factors, very commonly by acid reflux. Either before or after the cough, a doctor could very easily have prescribed her an acid blocker to give relief. Steroids are also commonly prescribed to treat a cough. Bill Clinton relied on them heavily when he was running for president in 1992 and almost lost his voice. The problem is that they also suppress the immune system and thus make the body more susceptible to illness.

There is another reason to suspect that both Sen. Schumer and Secretary Clinton have been on acid blockers. Acid blockers are the third–largest class of drugs in the country, accounting for more than 110 million prescriptions and $13.6 billion in sales for the Big Pharma companies peddling them. They are prescribed for almost anything, sometimes even for reflux during pregnancy, even though both mother and child really need the stomach acid to be sure that food is not just ingested, but digested.

An additional note on pneumonia: mainstream doctors advise getting vaccines to prevent this illness, yet Clinton’s doctor said she is up to date on all vaccinations, including the pneumonia vaccines (Prevnar and Pneumovax). The efficacy of these vaccines has been challenged, and Clinton’s case reaffirms that they may not work.

There are other questions about the extent to which Clinton’s health problems are caused by mainstream medicine. We know, for instance, that Clinton is taking Coumadin, a blood thinner. Side effects for this drug include sudden dizziness, headache, weakness, and weak bones, among a host of other conditions. This is a dangerous drug. Clinton’s doctor said it was used to dissolve her brain clot from an earlier health episode, but Coumadin does not dissolve clots. It does, however, prevent new clots from forming. Was Coumadin involved in Clinton’s health problems on September 11? No one knows.

Being famous can be a double-edged sword when it comes to medicine. We all know that a variety of physicians wanted the honor of treating George Washington during his last illness, but together they killed him. One has to wonder whether many of Hillary’s health issues are not themselves being caused by the drugs she is being given.

Other articles in this week’s Pulse of Natural Health:

Free Speech: FDA Goes on the Attack Again

Key Brain Health Herb about to Disappear

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Unless we act now, the FDA will hand this supplement over to drug companies. Action Alert!

We told you recently that the FDA is set to yank vinpocetine from the shelves, even though it had been previously approved as a new dietary ingredient (NDI), that is, a new supplement. Why? Two reasons. Because the agency all of a sudden found that an investigational new drug application (IND) had been filed in the 1980s—meaning that a drug company was researching vinpocetine for use in a drug. When an IND has been filed before an NDI has been filed, that substance can no longer be marketed as a dietary supplement. It doesn’t matter if the IND was dropped.

The second reason is that the FDA decided that vinpocetine wasn’t a dietary ingredient—a perplexing conclusion since the agency said it was a dietary ingredient when it approved NDIs for vinpocetine in the late 1990s.

This is an extremely bad precedent. It is absurd that the FDA can retroactively and unilaterally decide that a supplement is not a dietary ingredient, after it has already said that it is. If this ridiculous precedent is allowed to stand, what other supplements will the FDA retroactively decide are not dietary ingredients and yank from the shelves? Presumably any supplements that Big Pharma wants to turn into synthetic drugs! Using this precedent, the FDA could decide years down the road that vitamin D isn’t actually a dietary ingredient, and move to pull it off the shelves.

Additionally, INDs are confidential, meaning that supplement companies have no idea which substances are being investigated as drugs. The FDA apparently expects companies to spend the time and resources to prepare an NDI notification and bring a new supplement to market on the mere gamble that there is no IND on file. Even if the FDA accepts your NDI, but then finds an IND on that substance twenty years later (as in the case of vinpocetine), the agency can still pull the supplement!

That this arrangement is a pay-off to drug companies shouldn’t surprise us, since they pay the FDA’s bills. It isn’t clear that the FDA has the legal authority to do so. That’s why we’re asking Congress to step in and put an end to this.

Action Alert! To fight back against this FDA maneuver, ask your members of Congress to write to the FDA, asking them where they get the authority to remove a supplement from the market once an NDI has been granted. Also ask your representative to urge the FDA to extend the comment period on vinpocetine, and we’ll send a copy of the message to the FDA as well. Please send your message immediately.

Other articles in this week’s Pulse of Natural Health:

Free Speech: FDA Goes on the Attack Again

Did Big Pharma Cause Hillary’s Pneumonia?

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Glyphosate in Vaccines as Well as Food?

New evidence says yes. Action Alert!

A report published last week found glyphosate in a number of childhood vaccines. Now more study is needed to learn more about the presence of other weedkiller ingredients in both our vaccines and our food.

Keep in mind that absolutely no studies have been done on the toxicity of weedkiller when injected into children. The US Environmental Protection Agency analyzed Monsanto’s self-serving safety studies on the effects of ingesting glyphosate, but not the effects of injecting it. EPA documents studying how the body metabolizes glyphosate found that glyphosate shows up in bone marrow thirty minutes after injection.

We are also starting to understand more about why glyphosate is linked to so many health problems. Glyphosate is chemically very similar to glycine, an essential amino acid. This is important because glyphosate may be displacing glycine when our cells create proteins. This would result in proteins not being formed properly and not being able to perform their usual functions. Researchers think this mechanism may be a factor behind the modern world’s explosion of disease, including obesity, diabetes, autism, mitochondrial disorders, liver disease, cancer, and autoimmune diseases.

Glycine is a critical component of bone, cartilage, and collagen, which helps explain why glyphosate shows up so quickly in bone marrow and in gelatin products.

Glyphosate may be changing the biochemistry of our bodies, and this may happen at very low concentrations. One part per billion of glyphosate is 3,561,000,000,000 molecules of weedkiller, and each one of those molecules is capable of altering a protein’s structure.

The report finding glysophate in childhood vaccines was sponsored and released by Moms Across America. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in the weedkiller Roundup and other herbicides. The results showed that a DTap vaccine, a flu vaccine, a Hepatitis B vaccine, and a pneumonoccal vaccine all had levels of glyphosate. The MMR II vaccine had levels up to twenty-five times higher than the other vaccines.

These findings were corroborated by Anthony Samsel, a researcher who works with Dr. Stephenie Seneff of MIT. This team has been researching the effects of glyphosate for years. Not only did Samsel find detectable levels of glyphosate in vaccines, he also found it in products containing gelatin, such as gummy vitamins for children, protein powders, and Jell-o.

Top scientists questioning GMO, such as professor of molecular biology Gilles-Eric Séralini, have also pointed out that so-called inert ingredients used with glysophate are anything but inert. The government has ignored them because of the manufacturer’s claim that they are inert, but some of them may be much, much more toxic than even glyphosate. If glyphosate is getting into vaccines and foods, what about these other, barely studied ingredients?

As our own testing of common breakfast foods for glyphosate showed, this weedkiller is increasingly permeating our entire food system. How much more evidence must accrue for regulators to do some credible testing of their own?

Action Alert! Call on the CDC to check vaccines for glyphosate, as well as for other ingredients used with glyphosate noted in the EPA’s study. Please send your message immediately.

Other articles in this week’s Pulse of Natural Health:

When Does Crony Medicine Become Fascist Medicine?

Will Monsanto Now Try To Hide?

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Glyphosate in Vaccines as Well as Food?

New evidence says yes. Action Alert!

A report published last week found glyphosate in a number of childhood vaccines. Now more study is needed to learn more about the presence of other weedkiller ingredients in both our vaccines and our food.

Keep in mind that absolutely no studies have been done on the toxicity of weedkiller when injected into children. The US Environmental Protection Agency analyzed Monsanto’s self-serving safety studies on the effects of ingesting glyphosate, but not the effects of injecting it. EPA documents studying how the body metabolizes glyphosate found that glyphosate shows up in bone marrow thirty minutes after injection.

We are also starting to understand more about why glyphosate is linked to so many health problems. Glyphosate is chemically very similar to glycine, an essential amino acid. This is important because glyphosate may be displacing glycine when our cells create proteins. This would result in proteins not being formed properly and not being able to perform their usual functions. Researchers think this mechanism may be a factor behind the modern world’s explosion of disease, including obesity, diabetes, autism, mitochondrial disorders, liver disease, cancer, and autoimmune diseases.

Glycine is a critical component of bone, cartilage, and collagen, which helps explain why glyphosate shows up so quickly in bone marrow and in gelatin products.

Glyphosate may be changing the biochemistry of our bodies, and this may happen at very low concentrations. One part per billion of glyphosate is 3,561,000,000,000 molecules of weedkiller, and each one of those molecules is capable of altering a protein’s structure.

The report finding glysophate in childhood vaccines was sponsored and released by Moms Across America. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in the weedkiller Roundup and other herbicides. The results showed that a DTap vaccine, a flu vaccine, a Hepatitis B vaccine, and a pneumonoccal vaccine all had levels of glyphosate. The MMR II vaccine had levels up to twenty-five times higher than the other vaccines.

These findings were corroborated by Anthony Samsel, a researcher who works with Dr. Stephenie Seneff of MIT. This team has been researching the effects of glyphosate for years. Not only did Samsel find detectable levels of glyphosate in vaccines, he also found it in products containing gelatin, such as gummy vitamins for children, protein powders, and Jell-o.

Top scientists questioning GMO, such as professor of molecular biology Gilles-Eric Séralini, have also pointed out that so-called inert ingredients used with glysophate are anything but inert. The government has ignored them because of the manufacturer’s claim that they are inert, but some of them may be much, much more toxic than even glyphosate. If glyphosate is getting into vaccines and foods, what about these other, barely studied ingredients?

As our own testing of common breakfast foods for glyphosate showed, this weedkiller is increasingly permeating our entire food system. How much more evidence must accrue for regulators to do some credible testing of their own?

Action Alert! Call on the CDC to check vaccines for glyphosate, as well as for other ingredients used with glyphosate noted in the EPA’s study. Please send your message immediately.

Other articles in this week’s Pulse of Natural Health:

When Does Crony Medicine Become Fascist Medicine?

Will Monsanto Now Try To Hide?

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When Does Crony Medicine Become Fascist Medicine?

It’s when the attorney general of California tries to stop medical exemptions for vaccines.

The California law requiring 100% compliance with the government vaccine schedule (including what, when, and how the child receives the vaccine) in order to be allowed to enroll your child in public or private school, and even daycare (depending on the child’s age when enrolling) became effective on January 1, 2016. When passed, the law abolished any philosophical or religious exemption. The sponsor of the bill, state senator Richard Pan (D-Sacramento), promised that the only remaining out—the medical exemption—would not be tampered with. Apparently Sen. Pan was lying.

Dr. Bob Sears, a Southern Californian pediatrician, now faces charges of gross negligence from the attorney general of California, who is representing the California Medical Board, for daring to write a letter recommending that a two-year-old be excused from vaccinations based on the mother’s description of serious adverse reactions to previous immunizations. The mother told Dr. Sears that her child experienced a “shutdown [of] stools and urine” and became limp “like a ragdoll” for 24 hours after the last shot.

The California Medical Board, however, is alleging that Dr. Sears failed to back up his recommendation with sufficient evidence, and did not provide an “evidence-based recommendation for future immunizations.” The board is also claiming gross negligence because Dr. Sears did not keep a copy of the letter exempting the child from future vaccines.

Other charges include not performing certain neurological tests when the toddler reported having a headache from head trauma, and treating the child with garlic for an upper respiratory illness. It is clear that the real aim is to chill any and all medical exemptions from vaccines.

(Note also that garlic is widely used by integrative physicians, most commonly with a foodborne bacterial illness, but also with viral illnesses. Garlic is more effective if chopped or crushed, but that isn’t feasible if you have food poisoning and are likely to throw up. In that case, an effective method is to cut the fresh garlic into a supplement capsule shape and take it whole, since eating anything under those circumstances is too difficult, and fresh garlic is too hot to chew.)

Dr. Sears is scheduled to meet with the board on September 20 for a settlement conference. If no settlement is reached, the case will go before an administrative law judge, who will make a recommendation to the board. The ultimate decision for punitive action, however, lies with the board.

If this sounds like a system in which a single party acts as prosecutor, judge, and jury, that is exactly what it is. And it works this way in other states too. It is possible to appeal—but very, very few judges will bother to take such cases on appeal, viewing the matter as something to be handled within the medical profession, which it manifestly is not.

To us, the writing on the wall is clear. The government of California intends to mandate vaccines for ALL children—no exceptions. If a child experiences adverse reactions from vaccines, even serious ones, even death, well . . . too bad.

All doctors in California have essentially been put on notice: anyone thinking of giving a medical exemption to vaccination should think again. Not only will they be attacked for providing the exemption; the state medical board will look for every opportunity to bring other charges for paperwork discrepancies and similar bureaucratic nonsense. Under these circumstances, what doctor would dare to jeopardize all those years of education and training in order to grant a medical exemption?

Proving an adverse reaction to a vaccine is further complicated because effects might not be seen for days or weeks after the shot. If a doctor cannot rely on a parent’s report of serious adverse events just one day after a shot, what bar must be met for medical boards to be satisfied that a vaccine has caused an adverse event? It seems that the California Medical Board will stop at nothing to impose its vaccination agenda on Californian children—no matter what the cost.

So far, the California Medical Association (the state’s chapter of the American Medical Association) has been silent on this issue. No surprise there. We reported last week that the AMA, along with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), are calling for the elimination of non-medical exemptions while taking very substantial sums of money from the vaccine industry.

Meanwhile, close to 4,000 students in Baltimore County will be banned from school until their parents provide documentation that their child received the mandated vaccines on the demanded schedule. And Maryland has not even passed the same law as California.

Other articles in this week’s Pulse of Natural Health:

Glyphosate in Vaccines as Well as Food?

Will Monsanto Now Try To Hide?

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A $66 billion buyout by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Bayer could make it harder for consumers to avoid products from the biotech behemoth. Action Alert!

The number of companies controlling our food supply is about to shrink even further now that Bayer has bought Monsanto for $66 billion in cash, creating the world’s largest seed and pesticide company. The new megacorporation will control 25% of the world’s seeds and pesticides.

Syngenta, another of the world’s largest seeds companies, is set to merge with ChemChina, a state-owned Chinese company. The Treasury Department’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the US, which has the power to stop such mergers if they threaten national security, has approved the deal. China will now own a company that supplies one-fifth of the world’s pesticides and 10% of soybeans to US farmers.

Dow Chemical and DuPont are also merging.

The Monsanto buyout comes at a convenient time for Monsanto. As the first, second, or third most-hated company in the US (only Bank of America and British Petroleum sometimes beat it, depending on the survey), Monsanto could benefit substantially from rebranding itself, although it isn’t yet clear what will happen with the name.

These mergers mean that three companies will control the lion’s share of the world’s agricultural services, from seed production, to the herbicide and pesticide sprays that go on them, to the biotechnology used to produce them all. Monsanto/Bayer, Dow/DuPont, and Syngenta/ChemChina will sell 59% of the world’s seeds and 64% of the world pesticides.

There are still some regulatory hurdles to be cleared, but the prognosis isn’t good. These companies, for whom genetic modification and powerful herbicides and pesticides are essential moneymakers, are set to monopolize our entire food supply—and likely drive up input costs for small farmers. If and when these mergers are approved, it will likely become harder for consumers to avoid these products.

Weren’t we taught in school that government is supposed to protect us from business monopoly and predation? These days, it seems that the government is protecting the monopolies, not breaking them up!

Action Alert! Write to the Federal Trade Commission and urge them to block the Monsanto/Bayer merger. Please send your message immediately.

Other articles in this week’s Pulse of Natural Health:

Glyphosate in Vaccines as Well as Food?

When Does Crony Medicine Become Fascist Medicine?

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It’s when the attorney general of California tries to stop medical exemptions for vaccines.

The California law requiring 100% compliance with the government vaccine schedule (including what, when, and how the child receives the vaccine) in order to be allowed to enroll your child in public or private school, and even daycare (depending on the child’s age when enrolling) became effective on January 1, 2016. When passed, the law abolished any philosophical or religious exemption. The sponsor of the bill, state senator Richard Pan (D-Sacramento), promised that the only remaining out—the medical exemption—would not be tampered with. Apparently Sen. Pan was lying.

Dr. Bob Sears, a Southern Californian pediatrician, now faces charges of gross negligence from the attorney general of California, who is representing the California Medical Board, for daring to write a letter recommending that a two-year-old be excused from vaccinations based on the mother’s description of serious adverse reactions to previous immunizations. The mother told Dr. Sears that her child experienced a “shutdown [of] stools and urine” and became limp “like a ragdoll” for 24 hours after the last shot.

The California Medical Board, however, is alleging that Dr. Sears failed to back up his recommendation with sufficient evidence, and did not provide an “evidence-based recommendation for future immunizations.” The board is also claiming gross negligence because Dr. Sears did not keep a copy of the letter exempting the child from future vaccines.

Other charges include not performing certain neurological tests when the toddler reported having a headache from head trauma, and treating the child with garlic for an upper respiratory illness. It is clear that the real aim is to chill any and all medical exemptions from vaccines.

(Note also that garlic is widely used by integrative physicians, most commonly with a foodborne bacterial illness, but also with viral illnesses. Garlic is more effective if chopped or crushed, but that isn’t feasible if you have food poisoning and are likely to throw up. In that case, an effective method is to cut the fresh garlic into a supplement capsule shape and take it whole, since eating anything under those circumstances is too difficult, and fresh garlic is too hot to chew.)

Dr. Sears is scheduled to meet with the board on September 20 for a settlement conference. If no settlement is reached, the case will go before an administrative law judge, who will make a recommendation to the board. The ultimate decision for punitive action, however, lies with the board.

If this sounds like a system in which a single party acts as prosecutor, judge, and jury, that is exactly what it is. And it works this way in other states too. It is possible to appeal—but very, very few judges will bother to take such cases on appeal, viewing the matter as something to be handled within the medical profession, which it manifestly is not.

To us, the writing on the wall is clear. The government of California intends to mandate vaccines for ALL children—no exceptions. If a child experiences adverse reactions from vaccines, even serious ones, even death, well . . . too bad.

All doctors in California have essentially been put on notice: anyone thinking of giving a medical exemption to vaccination should think again. Not only will they be attacked for providing the exemption; the state medical board will look for every opportunity to bring other charges for paperwork discrepancies and similar bureaucratic nonsense. Under these circumstances, what doctor would dare to jeopardize all those years of education and training in order to grant a medical exemption?

Proving an adverse reaction to a vaccine is further complicated because effects might not be seen for days or weeks after the shot. If a doctor cannot rely on a parent’s report of serious adverse events just one day after a shot, what bar must be met for medical boards to be satisfied that a vaccine has caused an adverse event? It seems that the California Medical Board will stop at nothing to impose its vaccination agenda on Californian children—no matter what the cost.

So far, the California Medical Association (the state’s chapter of the American Medical Association) has been silent on this issue. No surprise there. We reported last week that the AMA, along with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), are calling for the elimination of non-medical exemptions while taking very substantial sums of money from the vaccine industry.

Meanwhile, close to 4,000 students in Baltimore County will be banned from school until their parents provide documentation that their child received the mandated vaccines on the demanded schedule. And Maryland has not even passed the same law as California.

Other articles in this week’s Pulse of Natural Health:

Glyphosate in Vaccines as Well as Food?

Will Monsanto Now Try To Hide?

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A $66 billion buyout by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Bayer could make it harder for consumers to avoid products from the biotech behemoth. Action Alert!

The number of companies controlling our food supply is about to shrink even further now that Bayer has bought Monsanto for $66 billion in cash, creating the world’s largest seed and pesticide company. The new megacorporation will control 25% of the world’s seeds and pesticides.

Syngenta, another of the world’s largest seeds companies, is set to merge with ChemChina, a state-owned Chinese company. The Treasury Department’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the US, which has the power to stop such mergers if they threaten national security, has approved the deal. China will now own a company that supplies one-fifth of the world’s pesticides and 10% of soybeans to US farmers.

Dow Chemical and DuPont are also merging.

The Monsanto buyout comes at a convenient time for Monsanto. As the first, second, or third most-hated company in the US (only Bank of America and British Petroleum sometimes beat it, depending on the survey), Monsanto could benefit substantially from rebranding itself, although it isn’t yet clear what will happen with the name.

These mergers mean that three companies will control the lion’s share of the world’s agricultural services, from seed production, to the herbicide and pesticide sprays that go on them, to the biotechnology used to produce them all. Monsanto/Bayer, Dow/DuPont, and Syngenta/ChemChina will sell 59% of the world’s seeds and 64% of the world pesticides.

There are still some regulatory hurdles to be cleared, but the prognosis isn’t good. These companies, for whom genetic modification and powerful herbicides and pesticides are essential moneymakers, are set to monopolize our entire food supply—and likely drive up input costs for small farmers. If and when these mergers are approved, it will likely become harder for consumers to avoid these products.

Weren’t we taught in school that government is supposed to protect us from business monopoly and predation? These days, it seems that the government is protecting the monopolies, not breaking them up!

Action Alert! Write to the Federal Trade Commission and urge them to block the Monsanto/Bayer merger. Please send your message immediately.

Other articles in this week’s Pulse of Natural Health:

Glyphosate in Vaccines as Well as Food?

When Does Crony Medicine Become Fascist Medicine?

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The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), hugely funded by vaccine makers, calls for a police-state approach to vaccination. State-based action alerts!

Last month, the Academy, in an article titled “Countering Vaccine Hesitancy,” called for the elimination of all non-medical exemptions to vaccinations, including religious exemptions, on the model of California.

Released alongside the article was a report, also from the AAP, bemoaning the increase in vaccine refusals. The report also endorsed doctors’ “firing” patients who refuse to follow the government’s precise vaccination schedule, and found the number of physicians who have adopted such a policy to have nearly doubled between 2006 and 2013.

This is a serious threat. When organizations like the American Medical Association (AMA) and the AAP call for the elimination of non-medical exemptions, lawmakers are “covered” and can do whatever the vaccine company campaign donors tell them to do. We’ve already seen an aggressive attempt in Virginia earlier this year, which was fortunately rebuffed with lots of grassroots help. At least ten other states introduced similar legislation as well.

The AAP does not make it easy to follow its deep ties with the vaccine industry. But some of the facts are available. Corporate members of the AAP’s Friends of Children Fund reads like a Who’s Who of the vaccine business: Merck, Pfizer, Sanofi Pasteur (the largest company in the world devoted entirely to vaccines), AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Meda Pharmaceuticals, Novo Nordisk, and others. In the program for the AAP’s October 2016 conference, more than 300 companies are listed as exhibitors, including familiar names like GlaxoSmithKline, Proctor & Gamble, Gerber, most of the above drug companies, and many more besides.

If that weren’t enough, a news report from 2011 concluded that “the vaccine industry gives millions to [the AAP]for conferences, grants, medical education classes and even helped build their headquarters. The totals are kept secret, but public documents reveal bits and pieces” (emphasis added).

Those “bits and pieces” include a $342,000 payment from Wyeth, maker of the pneumococcal vaccine, and a $433,000 contribution from Merck the same year the Academy endorsed Merck’s HPV vaccine Gardasil—which went on to earn Merck $1.9 billion in sales last year.

The AAP also receives money from the federal government, which has vested financial interests in selling vaccines. It’s no surprise that taxpayer money is being used to fund an organization calling for complete government control of what goes into our children’s bodies—and no doubt, in time, everyone’s body.

The stench of corruption here is unmistakable. In our view, the AAP is completely compromised by its conflicts of interest and has become a front group for Big Pharma. We do not believe that the drug industry is donating such large sums of money out of the goodness of its heart. Our children are paying the price. Just consider the HPV vaccine. More and more data shows how dangerous this particular vaccine can be—yet HPV vaccine advertising is in high gear.

Many Americans are rightly concerned about the how the payments doctors receive from pharmaceutical companies are influencing the types of medication the doctors prescribe. Yet when the discussion turns to vaccines, few critics acknowledge or seem concerned about the extent to which the vaccine industry influences vaccine defenders like the AAP, the AMA, and “experts” like Dr. Paul Offit, who famously said that babies could tolerate “10,000 vaccines at once.” Offit happens to hold a patent on a vaccine he developed with Merck, and holds a $1.5 million research chair position at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia—a position funded by Merck.

Given these facts—and, of course, legitimate scientific concerns about the safety of vaccinations, along with questions about why they cannot be made safer—it is imperative that parents’ right to make an informed decision regarding their children’s health is preserved. Shame on the AAP for shilling for vaccine manufacturers!

State-based action alerts! If your state is listed below, click the link to take action to protect vaccine choice! Please send your message immediately.

Ohio

New Jersey

Pennsylvania

Other articles in this week’s Pulse of Natural Health:

Vaccines Provide Herd Immunity?

FDA Set to Yank Brain Health Herb

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The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), hugely funded by vaccine makers, calls for a police-state approach to vaccination. State-based action alerts!

Last month, the Academy, in an article titled “Countering Vaccine Hesitancy,” called for the elimination of all non-medical exemptions to vaccinations, including religious exemptions, on the model of California.

Released alongside the article was a report, also from the AAP, bemoaning the increase in vaccine refusals. The report also endorsed doctors’ “firing” patients who refuse to follow the government’s precise vaccination schedule, and found the number of physicians who have adopted such a policy to have nearly doubled between 2006 and 2013.

This is a serious threat. When organizations like the American Medical Association (AMA) and the AAP call for the elimination of non-medical exemptions, lawmakers are “covered” and can do whatever the vaccine company campaign donors tell them to do. We’ve already seen an aggressive attempt in Virginia earlier this year, which was fortunately rebuffed with lots of grassroots help. At least ten other states introduced similar legislation as well.

The AAP does not make it easy to follow its deep ties with the vaccine industry. But some of the facts are available. Corporate members of the AAP’s Friends of Children Fund reads like a Who’s Who of the vaccine business: Merck, Pfizer, Sanofi Pasteur (the largest company in the world devoted entirely to vaccines), AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Meda Pharmaceuticals, Novo Nordisk, and others. In the program for the AAP’s October 2016 conference, more than 300 companies are listed as exhibitors, including familiar names like GlaxoSmithKline, Proctor & Gamble, Gerber, most of the above drug companies, and many more besides.

If that weren’t enough, a news report from 2011 concluded that “the vaccine industry gives millions to [the AAP]for conferences, grants, medical education classes and even helped build their headquarters. The totals are kept secret, but public documents reveal bits and pieces” (emphasis added).

Those “bits and pieces” include a $342,000 payment from Wyeth, maker of the pneumococcal vaccine, and a $433,000 contribution from Merck the same year the Academy endorsed Merck’s HPV vaccine Gardasil—which went on to earn Merck $1.9 billion in sales last year.

The AAP also receives money from the federal government, which has vested financial interests in selling vaccines. It’s no surprise that taxpayer money is being used to fund an organization calling for complete government control of what goes into our children’s bodies—and no doubt, in time, everyone’s body.

The stench of corruption here is unmistakable. In our view, the AAP is completely compromised by its conflicts of interest and has become a front group for Big Pharma. We do not believe that the drug industry is donating such large sums of money out of the goodness of its heart. Our children are paying the price. Just consider the HPV vaccine. More and more data shows how dangerous this particular vaccine can be—yet HPV vaccine advertising is in high gear.

Many Americans are rightly concerned about the how the payments doctors receive from pharmaceutical companies are influencing the types of medication the doctors prescribe. Yet when the discussion turns to vaccines, few critics acknowledge or seem concerned about the extent to which the vaccine industry influences vaccine defenders like the AAP, the AMA, and “experts” like Dr. Paul Offit, who famously said that babies could tolerate “10,000 vaccines at once.” Offit happens to hold a patent on a vaccine he developed with Merck, and holds a $1.5 million research chair position at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia—a position funded by Merck.

Given these facts—and, of course, legitimate scientific concerns about the safety of vaccinations, along with questions about why they cannot be made safer—it is imperative that parents’ right to make an informed decision regarding their children’s health is preserved. Shame on the AAP for shilling for vaccine manufacturers!

State-based action alerts! If your state is listed below, click the link to take action to protect vaccine choice! Please send your message immediately.

Ohio

New Jersey

Pennsylvania

Other articles in this week’s Pulse of Natural Health:

Vaccines Provide Herd Immunity?

FDA Set to Yank Brain Health Herb

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Vaccines Provide Herd Immunity?

That’s the vaccine makers’ main argument. But it is false.

Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson recently reversed his opposition on mandatory childhood vaccination. When asked what caused him to make a U-turn and adopt what would seem to be an anti-libertarian position, he said,

I’ve come to find out that without mandatory vaccines, the vaccines that would in fact be issued would not be effective.…It’s dependent [on having]mandatory vaccines so that every child is immune. Otherwise, not all children will be immune even though they receive a vaccine.

This line of argument is one of the main pillars behind forcing parents not only to vaccinate their kids but to do so on the government’s schedule, which includes more and more vaccines given on the same day, plus a vaccination at birth aimed to prevent a sexually transmitted illness. But is the herd immunity argument true? No.

The herd immunity hypothesis states that a very high percentage of a community must be vaccinated in order to protect everyone (the herd) from a disease. This is supposed to work because there are not enough vulnerable individuals to allow the disease to spread. Those few who are unable to receive vaccines on medical grounds are then supposed to be protected by the inability of the infectious agent to spread.

This line of argument further states that a decision not to vaccinate is selfish because it threatens the health of those too vulnerable to be vaccinated against a disease. Johnson doubles down on this by suggesting that even immunized kids will not be protected if too many of the germs are circulating. This sounds completely illogical, but it has been proven that many vaccines do not work reliably. They are not in fact protecting kids who have been vaccinated.

The herd immunity idea simply isn’t supported by the facts. The argument was developed out of observations of natural immunity, not vaccination. Statisticians observed that populations were protected when sufficient members contracted the wild form of a disease, and subsequently acquired lifelong immunity.

With vaccines, however, the evidence plainly shows that unvaccinated children may catch infectious diseases from vaccinated children. The result is that vaccination, not failure to vaccinate, is spreading the disease. Moreover the children who do fall ill naturally then have strong immunity, while vaccinated children do not.

Russell Blaylock, MD, makes an additional point:

When I was in medical school, we were taught that all of the childhood vaccines lasted a lifetime. This thinking existed for over 70 years. It was not until relatively recently that it was discovered that most of these vaccines lost their effectiveness 2 to 10 years after being given. What this means is that at least half the population—that is, the baby boomers—have had no vaccine-induced immunity against any of these diseases for which they had been vaccinated very early in life. In essence, at least 50% or more of the population was unprotected for decades.

Of course, the medical establishment has a rejoinder to Dr. Blaylock’s point: just mandate repeated child and adult revaccination. Don’t be surprised if we start to hear the government talking about that, because it would produce enormous profits for Big Pharma.

The vaccine herd immunity theory is further undermined by the fact that not only infection but even epidemics can occur in vaccinated populations. In 1989, the CDC reported measles outbreaks occurring in schools with vaccination levels above 98%. The same has been true for whooping cough, a vaccine which has been “improved” but still may not work.

The herd immunity argument is also inconsistent. On the one hand, the theory goes, people who cannot receive vaccines for whatever reason are protected from the disease through a high level of vaccination within the rest of society. On the other hand, parents who don’t vaccinate their children put the health of the wider community at risk. How can a handful of people not getting vaccinated be protected from getting sick, while at the same time being so disease-ridden that they make others sick? This is not logical. Yet supposed health authorities on the subject, mindless media commentators, schools doing the government’s bidding, and parent-teacher associations waste no opportunity to bash parents over the head with this message.

We know that drug companies are today failing to produce profitable new drugs and are looking to vaccines to restore their profits. Big Pharma’s future without government mandates is beginning to look doubtful, as the wisdom of taking so many legal but risky drugs on top of vaccines is being questioned. We know that many of the ingredients in vaccines (mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, etc.) are not safe. We do not yet have any studies showing that taking so many legal, FDA-approved drugs together is safe.

Drug companies provide huge political funding, are a major power on Capitol Hill and in state legislatures, and provide a lifeline of advertising dollars that in many instances is keeping old media alive. Given the potential for corruption here, we need to be sure that arguments over vaccines are indeed science-based, not just crony capitalism operating under a mask of pseudo-science.

What we need here is honest science. We know that the safety record of vaccines differs tremendously. Some seem relatively safe. Some, such as the Gardasil vaccine for genital warts, have a record of horrific “adverse events” including death. Vaccine ingredients also differ tremendously: some include the very toxic substances such as aluminum and mercury we mentioned above; others don’t. The ever-expanding vaccine schedule at younger and younger ages—and insisting that the child receive so many vaccines the same day—violates common sense and has never received adequate study.

Vaccines are supposed to protect children, not harm them so that giant companies can make huge profits. The herd immunity theory does not hold up. But even if it did, much more research is needed to be sure that we are not recklessly harming the next generation.

Other articles in this week’s Pulse of Natural Health:

Corrupt Pediatricians Disgrace Themselves

FDA Set to Yank Brain Health Herb

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