Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Killer: Cancer or Chemo?

This is the choice that far too many patients face with our conventional medical system.

FDA-approved cancer treatments like chemotherapy are poisoning patients. A recent analysis found that cancer drugs are themselves killing up to 50% of patients within thirty days, indicating that chemotherapy was the cause of death, not the cancer. Of course, chemotherapy can kill patients over the long-term as well.

Chemo can shrink tumors, but it doesn’t eradicate them. It also kills healthy cells in the process. Additionally, cancer can re-emerge in patients still undergoing chemotherapy. Researchers think this is because tumors are fueled by cancer “stem cells” that are largely immune to chemo.

It is also incredibly expensive for the consumer (which is key for the drug companies), costing around $10,000 a month.

Sadly, chemotherapy remains the go-to treatment for cancer in the US. This is the system we have: dangerous, ineffective treatments that are consistently prioritized over safer, natural (or otherwise unpatentable) treatments, because the latter are not cash cows for Big Pharma (for more on this, see our companion article this week). Then, to keep money flowing to the drug companies, the FDA does what it can to limit consumer access to natural medicine and severely restrict what can be communicated to consumers about its benefits.

Clearly, our health system favors pharmaceutical profits over finding treatments that can cure that most dreaded of diseases, cancer.

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

Cancer, C, and Hope

C: Will Cronyism Kill a Natural Treatment for Sepsis?

Candy Consumption = Weight Loss—Say Candymakers

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Cancer, C, and Hope

This vitamin attacks the root of cancers.

Exciting new research found that vitamin C is ten times more effective at targeting and disrupting cancer stem cells than a pharmaceutical cancer drug.

Vitamin C is cheap, safe, and natural—but it won’t make money for drug companies, so don’t expect to hear anything about it from the conventional medical establishment.

Read the full story here.

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

Killer: Cancer or Chemo?

C: Will Cronyism Kill a Natural Treatment for Sepsis?

Candy Consumption = Weight Loss—Say Candymakers

 

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C: Will Cronyism Kill a Natural Treatment for Sepsis?

New evidence on this crucial vitamin gives hope to patients with sepsis—but it won’t make money for drug companies.

Sepsis—the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms or their toxins—kills more people in hospitals than any other disease. Of the million people that get sepsis every year, it kills 300,000, in part because doctors haven’t found an effective treatment.

That could be changing. After reading a study that showed moderate success in treating sepsis with intravenous (IV) vitamin C, Dr. Paul Marik of Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Virginia began treating sepsis patients with a combination of IV vitamin C, thiamine, and a low dose of corticosteroids—with stunning success. Of the forty-seven patients he treated, only four died, and all the deaths were of the underlying disease, not from sepsis. When Dr. Marik compared this record to forty-seven patients the hospital treated before using his new treatment, he found that nineteen of them had died.

So far, Dr. Marik has treated 150 patients, and only one has died of sepsis.

Despite this success, other researchers are quick to point out that more study must be done to validate IV vitamin C as a treatment for sepsis—meaning randomized, double-blind controlled trials that cost millions of dollars to conduct.

As we mentioned in the previous article of this week’s Pulse, this will likely expose the shameful limitations of our crony medical system. Drug companies will not invest their resources into studying this treatment because vitamin C cannot be patented and the company will make very little money from it.

This means that researchers will have to wait for government grants to fund trials, though we know that the FDA is hostile toward natural medicine and IV vitamin treatments, so government grants will likely be hard to obtain. All of this means that a potentially effective (and inexpensive) treatment for a deadly disease will not receive the attention it deserves, and even more patients will suffer.

This story also provides a good case study into how medicine should work: doctors use their knowledge and experience—as well as the work of their colleagues—to test new treatments for intractable diseases, and then determine what works. The government has time and time again proven itself incapable of determining whether the drugs it approves are effective, and the FDA is, of course, susceptible to the self-interested manipulation of scientific research carried out by Big Pharma. The question of efficacy should be left to doctors and patients.

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

Killer: Cancer or Chemo?

Cancer, C, and Hope

Candy Consumption = Weight Loss—Say Candymakers

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Candy Consumption = Weight Loss—Say Candymakers

Remember the Golden Rule? Whoever has the gold makes the rules! The same can hold true for a “scientific study.” Whoever foots the bill dictates the results!

This sad reality was seen recently when the National Confectioner’s Association funded a “scientific” paper which found that kids who eat candy tend to weigh less than those who don’t. This survey was as unbiased as it was “scientific”—the study was riddled from start to finish with procedural gaffes and absurd conclusions. And it was co-written by a former cereal company exec whose primary focus is product marketing.

Big Food will try anything to peddle their sugary wares to the public. Remember Coca-Cola’s (now disbanded) Global Energy Balance Network? It was a nonprofit that promoted the idea that obesity is caused by lack of exercise rather than a poor diet. So, Americans could drink all the sugar they wanted!

Read the full story here.

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

Killer: Cancer or Chemo?

Cancer, C, and Hope

C: Will Cronyism Kill a Natural Treatment for Sepsis?

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Killer: Cancer or Chemo?

This is the choice that far too many patients face with our conventional medical system.

FDA-approved cancer treatments like chemotherapy are poisoning patients. A recent analysis found that cancer drugs are themselves killing up to 50% of patients within thirty days, indicating that chemotherapy was the cause of death, not the cancer. Of course, chemotherapy can kill patients over the long-term as well.

Chemo can shrink tumors, but it doesn’t eradicate them. It also kills healthy cells in the process. Additionally, cancer can re-emerge in patients still undergoing chemotherapy. Researchers think this is because tumors are fueled by cancer “stem cells” that are largely immune to chemo.

It is also incredibly expensive for the consumer (which is key for the drug companies), costing around $10,000 a month.

Sadly, chemotherapy remains the go-to treatment for cancer in the US. This is the system we have: dangerous, ineffective treatments that are consistently prioritized over safer, natural (or otherwise unpatentable) treatments, because the latter are not cash cows for Big Pharma (for more on this, see our companion article this week). Then, to keep money flowing to the drug companies, the FDA does what it can to limit consumer access to natural medicine and severely restrict what can be communicated to consumers about its benefits.

Clearly, our health system favors pharmaceutical profits over finding treatments that can cure that most dreaded of diseases, cancer.

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

Cancer, C, and Hope

C: Will Cronyism Kill a Natural Treatment for Sepsis?

Candy Consumption = Weight Loss—Say Candymakers



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Cancer, C, and Hope

This vitamin attacks the root of cancers.

Exciting new research found that vitamin C is ten times more effective at targeting and disrupting cancer stem cells than a pharmaceutical cancer drug.

Vitamin C is cheap, safe, and natural—but it won’t make money for drug companies, so don’t expect to hear anything about it from the conventional medical establishment.

Read the full story here.

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

Killer: Cancer or Chemo?

C: Will Cronyism Kill a Natural Treatment for Sepsis?

Candy Consumption = Weight Loss—Say Candymakers

 



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C: Will Cronyism Kill a Natural Treatment for Sepsis?

New evidence on this crucial vitamin gives hope to patients with sepsis—but it won’t make money for drug companies.

Sepsis—the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms or their toxins—kills more people in hospitals than any other disease. Of the million people that get sepsis every year, it kills 300,000, in part because doctors haven’t found an effective treatment.

That could be changing. After reading a study that showed moderate success in treating sepsis with intravenous (IV) vitamin C, Dr. Paul Marik of Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Virginia began treating sepsis patients with a combination of IV vitamin C, thiamine, and a low dose of corticosteroids—with stunning success. Of the forty-seven patients he treated, only four died, and all the deaths were of the underlying disease, not from sepsis. When Dr. Marik compared this record to forty-seven patients the hospital treated before using his new treatment, he found that nineteen of them had died.

So far, Dr. Marik has treated 150 patients, and only one has died of sepsis.

Despite this success, other researchers are quick to point out that more study must be done to validate IV vitamin C as a treatment for sepsis—meaning randomized, double-blind controlled trials that cost millions of dollars to conduct.

As we mentioned in the previous article of this week’s Pulse, this will likely expose the shameful limitations of our crony medical system. Drug companies will not invest their resources into studying this treatment because vitamin C cannot be patented and the company will make very little money from it.

This means that researchers will have to wait for government grants to fund trials, though we know that the FDA is hostile toward natural medicine and IV vitamin treatments, so government grants will likely be hard to obtain. All of this means that a potentially effective (and inexpensive) treatment for a deadly disease will not receive the attention it deserves, and even more patients will suffer.

This story also provides a good case study into how medicine should work: doctors use their knowledge and experience—as well as the work of their colleagues—to test new treatments for intractable diseases, and then determine what works. The government has time and time again proven itself incapable of determining whether the drugs it approves are effective, and the FDA is, of course, susceptible to the self-interested manipulation of scientific research carried out by Big Pharma. The question of efficacy should be left to doctors and patients.

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

Killer: Cancer or Chemo?

Cancer, C, and Hope

Candy Consumption = Weight Loss—Say Candymakers



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Candy Consumption = Weight Loss—Say Candymakers

Remember the Golden Rule? Whoever has the gold makes the rules! The same can hold true for a “scientific study.” Whoever foots the bill dictates the results!

This sad reality was seen recently when the National Confectioner’s Association funded a “scientific” paper which found that kids who eat candy tend to weigh less than those who don’t. This survey was as unbiased as it was “scientific”—the study was riddled from start to finish with procedural gaffes and absurd conclusions. And it was co-written by a former cereal company exec whose primary focus is product marketing.

Big Food will try anything to peddle their sugary wares to the public. Remember Coca-Cola’s (now disbanded) Global Energy Balance Network? It was a nonprofit that promoted the idea that obesity is caused by lack of exercise rather than a poor diet. So, Americans could drink all the sugar they wanted!

Read the full story here.

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

Killer: Cancer or Chemo?

Cancer, C, and Hope

C: Will Cronyism Kill a Natural Treatment for Sepsis?



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Tuesday, March 21, 2017

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Chemicals Making us Sterile, Dumber

Over the last seventy-five years, men have seen a sharp reduction in reproductive capacity, and evidence suggests that commonly found chemicals are to blame.

If that news isn’t stark enough for the future of humankind, these chemicals are also making us dumber.

A recent piece in the New York Times drew attention to an important issue: endocrine-disrupting chemicals in everyday consumer products are killing or disabling sperm and making men sterile.

The numbers are extremely troubling. Scientists say that approximately 90% of sperm in a typical young man are misshapen, meaning they are unable to swim correctly. Additionally, sperm counts have decreased sharply over the last seventy-five years. As one researcher bluntly stated, “Not everyone who wants to reproduce will be able to.”

Our grandfathers may not have been able to understand our smart phones, but their ability to produce offspring vastly outpaced our own.

There’s a great deal of evidence to suggest endocrine-disrupting chemicals are the major cause of this problem. They’re found in plastics, pesticides, and many other products. Quite simply, these chemicals disrupt the proper functioning of hormones. One study by Canadian scientists found that adding endocrine disruptors to Lake Ontario turned male fathead minnows into intersexual fish (fish with both male and female characteristics), which are unable to reproduce. Unfortunately, it is far from the only study positing a link between chemicals and infertility.

The mayhem caused by these chemicals appears to happen in utero, when endocrine disruptors mimic certain hormones and confuse the biological process that turns a fetus into a male.

Chemical exposure, unfortunately, affects far more than just reproductive health. A recent study discussed in The Atlantic details the damage that certain environmental contaminants—including endocrine disruptors, but also lead, ethanol, mercury, arsenic, and more—can have on the brain. These effects include lower IQs, ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, and more.

“Our very great concern,” the authors of the new study write, “is that children worldwide are being exposed to unrecognized toxic chemicals that are silently eroding intelligence, disrupting behaviors, truncating future achievements, and damaging societies.”

The authors also note that genetic factors account for only 30 to 40% of all cases of brain development disorders. They suggest that environmental exposures to industrial chemicals are causing a “silent pandemic of neurodevelopmental toxicity.”

What are federal regulators doing to deal with the rise in infertility and this “silent pandemic” of brain disorders? Not much. Humans have made, found, or used over 50 million unique chemicals, yet federal regulators have tested only 200. And only five of those were deemed harmful enough to be subject to new regulations.

This isn’t simply a case of federal agencies being asleep at the wheel. Sometimes it’s plain old corruption, as we’ll see in the next piece in this week’s Pulse of Natural Health.

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EPA: Carcinogens Are OK with Us

Recently unsealed court documents show that the EPA is more focused on protecting big business than on protecting Americans from cancer.

A group of citizens found this out the hard way when their lawsuit (the People vs. Monsanto, claiming that glyphosate caused their non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma) was undermined by officials at the Environmental Protection Agency.

The judge in that case recently unsealed documents showing that a top EPA official, Jess Rowland, promised Monsanto he would quash an effort by the Department of Health and Human Services Department (HHS) to conduct its own review of glyphosate. He was successful—the HHS review never happened.

Brought to light only because of this brave band of citizens, this is the latest and most damning evidence of the collusion between Monsanto and the EPA. Other documents obtained by the plaintiffs show that it went further.

A letter from a former EPA employee dying of cancer accused Rowland of having intimidated staff, compelling them to change reports to make them favorable to Monsanto. The letter also argues that the research on glyphosate supports categorizing it as a probable human carcinogen.

Sadly, Monsanto appears to have been rigging the game every step of the way in the government’s review of glyphosate, and there doesn’t seem to be any shortage of compliant government cronies willing to help them accomplish their goals.

Read the full story from the New York Times.

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

Chemicals Making us Sterile, Dumber

Want Alzheimer’s? Keep Consuming Sugar

New Budget Puts the FDA Even Further into the Pocket of Big Pharma

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Want Alzheimer’s? Keep Consuming Sugar

A new study shows a strong link between sugar consumption and Alzheimer’s, but cronyism will likely keep many Americans from hearing about it. Action Alert!

A study by British researchers has identified a link between a diet high in sugar and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. High blood sugar levels appear to damage a key enzyme in the inflammatory response in the disease’s early stages.

The researchers found that glycation—the reaction that occurs when glucose is broken down into its components, which can damage proteins in cells—alters the function of an enzyme that mediates the immune response.

In the US, one in ten people aged 65 and older have Alzheimer’s, totaling about five million people. By 2050 that number is expected to climb as high as 16 million.

Unsurprisingly, government nutrition policy isn’t helping.

Remember that the FDA recently rolled out its new Nutrition Facts Label, which now has a 10% daily reference value, or DRV, for added sugars (that is, sugars not originally in the food but added during processing). Daily reference values, also known as daily recommended values, normally refer to what we should be eating. As we noted at the time, food companies and the general public will regard this as a recommendation to consume added sugar—the last thing many of us need.

Reducing your risk of Alzheimer’s isn’t the only reason to avoid sugar. There are many, many other serious health conditions that have been linked with sugar.

Any integrative doctor or nutrition professional worth his or her “salt” will advise patients (in most cases) to strictly limit their sugar intake and to eliminate added sugar completely—in particular, artificial sweeteners and highly processed forms like high fructose corn syrup.

Dr. David Williams doesn’t mince words: “I can’t put it more plainly: sugar kills.” (Alternatives Newsletter, June 2010).

The status quo is unacceptable. The FDA should not be tacitly encouraging Americans to eat sugar when the negative health effects of doing so are well documented.

Action Alert! Write to the FDA and tell them to reverse their DRV for added sugar. Please send your message immediately.

 

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

Chemicals Making us Sterile, Dumber

EPA: Carcinogens Are OK with Us

New Budget Puts the FDA Even Further into the Pocket of Big Pharma

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New Budget Puts the FDA Even Further into the Pocket of Big Pharma

This isn’t the way to fix American healthcare.

Last week, the Trump administration released its proposed 2018 budget. The document includes a proposal to increase the user fees the FDA collects from pharmaceutical companies to $2 billion—twice as much as in 2017, according to the president’s budget.

The rationale provided in the budget for this change is to speed the approval of new drugs.

User fees are connected to the FDA’s mandate to ensure not just the safety but also the efficacy of drugs. This was instituted following the passage of the Kefauver-Harris Amendment in 1962. We believe this was a wrong turn. The agency has never shown itself qualified to handle the task of proving that the drugs it approves are effective. This system also caused the cost of approval to soar, because it required effectiveness to be demonstrated through outrageously expensive double-blind random-controlled trials (RCTs).

When drug companies pay the FDA to review drugs, there is obviously a tremendous conflict of interest, and many opportunities for cronyism. The result is the approval of a huge number of dangerous drugs, which have been responsible for thousands of deaths—not to mention the glacial pace of approving substances or devices already proven safe.

We shouldn’t be doubling down on this system by having drug companies give even more money to the FDA. We should be doing the exact opposite by dismantling the current drug regime—by eliminating the requirement for the government to prove the efficacy of drugs. Once a drug has been deemed safe, effectiveness should be worked out by the medical profession, not by unqualified government employees whose salaries are covered by Big Pharma.

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

Chemicals Making us Sterile, Dumber

EPA: Carcinogens Are OK with Us

Want Alzheimer’s? Keep Consuming Sugar

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Chemicals Making us Sterile, Dumber

Over the last seventy-five years, men have seen a sharp reduction in reproductive capacity, and evidence suggests that commonly found chemicals are to blame.

If that news isn’t stark enough for the future of humankind, these chemicals are also making us dumber.

A recent piece in the New York Times drew attention to an important issue: endocrine-disrupting chemicals in everyday consumer products are killing or disabling sperm and making men sterile.

The numbers are extremely troubling. Scientists say that approximately 90% of sperm in a typical young man are misshapen, meaning they are unable to swim correctly. Additionally, sperm counts have decreased sharply over the last seventy-five years. As one researcher bluntly stated, “Not everyone who wants to reproduce will be able to.”

Our grandfathers may not have been able to understand our smart phones, but their ability to produce offspring vastly outpaced our own.

There’s a great deal of evidence to suggest endocrine-disrupting chemicals are the major cause of this problem. They’re found in plastics, pesticides, and many other products. Quite simply, these chemicals disrupt the proper functioning of hormones. One study by Canadian scientists found that adding endocrine disruptors to Lake Ontario turned male fathead minnows into intersexual fish (fish with both male and female characteristics), which are unable to reproduce. Unfortunately, it is far from the only study positing a link between chemicals and infertility.

The mayhem caused by these chemicals appears to happen in utero, when endocrine disruptors mimic certain hormones and confuse the biological process that turns a fetus into a male.

Chemical exposure, unfortunately, affects far more than just reproductive health. A recent study discussed in The Atlantic details the damage that certain environmental contaminants—including endocrine disruptors, but also lead, ethanol, mercury, arsenic, and more—can have on the brain. These effects include lower IQs, ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, and more.

“Our very great concern,” the authors of the new study write, “is that children worldwide are being exposed to unrecognized toxic chemicals that are silently eroding intelligence, disrupting behaviors, truncating future achievements, and damaging societies.”

The authors also note that genetic factors account for only 30 to 40% of all cases of brain development disorders. They suggest that environmental exposures to industrial chemicals are causing a “silent pandemic of neurodevelopmental toxicity.”

What are federal regulators doing to deal with the rise in infertility and this “silent pandemic” of brain disorders? Not much. Humans have made, found, or used over 50 million unique chemicals, yet federal regulators have tested only 200. And only five of those were deemed harmful enough to be subject to new regulations.

This isn’t simply a case of federal agencies being asleep at the wheel. Sometimes it’s plain old corruption, as we’ll see in the next piece in this week’s Pulse of Natural Health.



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EPA: Carcinogens Are OK with Us

Recently unsealed court documents show that the EPA is more focused on protecting big business than on protecting Americans from cancer.

A group of citizens found this out the hard way when their lawsuit (the People vs. Monsanto, claiming that glyphosate caused their non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma) was undermined by officials at the Environmental Protection Agency.

The judge in that case recently unsealed documents showing that a top EPA official, Jess Rowland, promised Monsanto he would quash an effort by the Department of Health and Human Services Department (HHS) to conduct its own review of glyphosate. He was successful—the HHS review never happened.

Brought to light only because of this brave band of citizens, this is the latest and most damning evidence of the collusion between Monsanto and the EPA. Other documents obtained by the plaintiffs show that it went further.

A letter from a former EPA employee dying of cancer accused Rowland of having intimidated staff, compelling them to change reports to make them favorable to Monsanto. The letter also argues that the research on glyphosate supports categorizing it as a probable human carcinogen.

Sadly, Monsanto appears to have been rigging the game every step of the way in the government’s review of glyphosate, and there doesn’t seem to be any shortage of compliant government cronies willing to help them accomplish their goals.

Read the full story from the New York Times.

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

Chemicals Making us Sterile, Dumber

Want Alzheimer’s? Keep Consuming Sugar

New Budget Puts the FDA Even Further into the Pocket of Big Pharma



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Want Alzheimer’s? Keep Consuming Sugar

A new study shows a strong link between sugar consumption and Alzheimer’s, but cronyism will likely keep many Americans from hearing about it. Action Alert!

A study by British researchers has identified a link between a diet high in sugar and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. High blood sugar levels appear to damage a key enzyme in the inflammatory response in the disease’s early stages.

The researchers found that glycation—the reaction that occurs when glucose is broken down into its components, which can damage proteins in cells—alters the function of an enzyme that mediates the immune response.

In the US, one in ten people aged 65 and older have Alzheimer’s, totaling about five million people. By 2050 that number is expected to climb as high as 16 million.

Unsurprisingly, government nutrition policy isn’t helping.

Remember that the FDA recently rolled out its new Nutrition Facts Label, which now has a 10% daily reference value, or DRV, for added sugars (that is, sugars not originally in the food but added during processing). Daily reference values, also known as daily recommended values, normally refer to what we should be eating. As we noted at the time, food companies and the general public will regard this as a recommendation to consume added sugar—the last thing many of us need.

Reducing your risk of Alzheimer’s isn’t the only reason to avoid sugar. There are many, many other serious health conditions that have been linked with sugar.

Any integrative doctor or nutrition professional worth his or her “salt” will advise patients (in most cases) to strictly limit their sugar intake and to eliminate added sugar completely—in particular, artificial sweeteners and highly processed forms like high fructose corn syrup.

Dr. David Williams doesn’t mince words: “I can’t put it more plainly: sugar kills.” (Alternatives Newsletter, June 2010).

The status quo is unacceptable. The FDA should not be tacitly encouraging Americans to eat sugar when the negative health effects of doing so are well documented.

Action Alert! Write to the FDA and tell them to reverse their DRV for added sugar. Please send your message immediately.

 

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

Chemicals Making us Sterile, Dumber

EPA: Carcinogens Are OK with Us

New Budget Puts the FDA Even Further into the Pocket of Big Pharma



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New Budget Puts the FDA Even Further into the Pocket of Big Pharma

This isn’t the way to fix American healthcare.

Last week, the Trump administration released its proposed 2018 budget. The document includes a proposal to increase the user fees the FDA collects from pharmaceutical companies to $2 billion—twice as much as in 2017, according to the president’s budget.

The rationale provided in the budget for this change is to speed the approval of new drugs.

User fees are connected to the FDA’s mandate to ensure not just the safety but also the efficacy of drugs. This was instituted following the passage of the Kefauver-Harris Amendment in 1962. We believe this was a wrong turn. The agency has never shown itself qualified to handle the task of proving that the drugs it approves are effective. This system also caused the cost of approval to soar, because it required effectiveness to be demonstrated through outrageously expensive double-blind random-controlled trials (RCTs).

When drug companies pay the FDA to review drugs, there is obviously a tremendous conflict of interest, and many opportunities for cronyism. The result is the approval of a huge number of dangerous drugs, which have been responsible for thousands of deaths—not to mention the glacial pace of approving substances or devices already proven safe.

We shouldn’t be doubling down on this system by having drug companies give even more money to the FDA. We should be doing the exact opposite by dismantling the current drug regime—by eliminating the requirement for the government to prove the efficacy of drugs. Once a drug has been deemed safe, effectiveness should be worked out by the medical profession, not by unqualified government employees whose salaries are covered by Big Pharma.

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

Chemicals Making us Sterile, Dumber

EPA: Carcinogens Are OK with Us

Want Alzheimer’s? Keep Consuming Sugar



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Saturday, March 18, 2017

Paul Ryan’s Health Bill Is Disappointing

It will not fix healthcare. In some ways, it will make it worse.

Here are four big flaws:

  • It leaves government in charge of the design of health insurance policies. Consumers should decide what they want covered (and what they do not want covered!) in their own policy. As it stands, the bill leaves intact the Obamacare requirement that everything imaginable be covered except for one glaring omission—integrative care. Adding integrative care would not, however, solve the problem. One-size-fits-all policies need to go. No one wants them and no one can afford them. Government does not know best, and its attempts to dictate health insurance policies are bankrupting everyone.
  • The bill includes subsidies for insurance companies. This is just more crony capitalism.
  • The bill introduces yet another government price-fixing scheme. Government price-fixing never works. Consumers need to set prices through their buying decisions. That is the only way to stop the massive healthcare cost inflation and bring prices down.
  • The bill keeps poor people in a medical ghetto called Medicaid. Medicare’s actual coverage varies enormously from state to state, and it is increasingly hard to find doctors willing to take you as a patient if you’re on Medicare. Why do we handle medical and food assistance so differently? If people are eligible for food assistance, they receive a card that looks like another credit card and can be used in any grocery store. Why should it be any different in healthcare?

Here is an example of how crazy current healthcare is. The son of an ANH-USA board member recently went to an out-of-state emergency room for food poisoning. The bill came in at over $8,000. The family’s insurance company knocked it down to about $4,000. How fair is that? An uninsured person would have been liable for the full amount, and might even have faced bankruptcy for failure to pay it.

ANH-USA lobbied for a provision in Obamacare preventing hospitals for charging the uninsured more than the insured. The Obama administration opposed it. Why? Because the idea upset the hospitals. They wanted to be able to continue to exploit the uninsured.

None of this will be improved by the Ryan bill. If we really want to change healthcare, we need to put the consumer back in charge of it.

Prices can never be reduced by price controls, much less by price controls on government-imposed monopoly prices. Most people do not realize that the government, through Medicare, has fixed medical prices for half a century, and the results speak for themselves. At the same time, the government has fed these price increases by protecting monopolies established by the drug companies and the American Medical Association. This is what the government always does, and it wrecks any sector of the economy where this crony capitalist system is applied.

The only way to get prices down is to get supply up. That automatically does the job. The only way to get supply up (and improved supply as well) is to create a system in which all sellers—and this includes qualified nurses in addition doctors and other practitioners—are allowed to compete with one another for the dollar of the consumer. To make this work, the consumer must be in charge—not the insurance companies and other agents of government. Only a consumer-controlled market can do this.

Paul Ryan talks about the need for the consumer to regain control of healthcare. But his bill is not consistent with his rhetoric.

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

Vaccines May Cause Brain Disorders

Myth, Busted: We Do NOT Need Pesticides to Feed the World

Feds Renew Attack on Raw Milk

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Vaccines May Cause Brain Disorders

This is according to startling new research from Yale and Penn State. State-based Action Alerts!

In a new study, researchers from Yale and Penn State found that the onset of certain neuropsychiatric disorders—obsessive-compulsive disorder, anorexia, tic disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), depression, and bipolar disorder—appears to be related to childhood vaccination.

Absurdly—and flying in the face of their own findings—the researchers who did the study still encourage parents to adhere to the CDC’s vaccination schedule!

This is a hallmark of the debate over vaccination. A great deal of scientific evidence demonstrates the harm vaccines may cause; this study is merely the most recent example. The government’s own Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has paid out billions of taxpayer dollars over the last few decades to families who have been damaged by vaccines. Yet vaccine advocates turn a blind eye to this evidence and continue to recite the mantra that vaccines—and the CDC schedule—are safe, and there’s no reason to worry.

The truth would seem to be that what is safe for one person is not safe for another. We are all different in differing ways, and these blanket statements are not consistent with good science. Studies like this one show that vaccines are especially unsafe for some children with certain genetic predispositions and polymorphisms.

To combat this blatant disregard for the facts, our colleagues at ANH-International have started a petition to stop health authorities from saying that vaccines are “safe.” We encourage ANH-USA members to add their name to the petition. As the description states, the petition is not pro- or anti-vaccination. Rather, the goal is to demonstrate the public’s desire for more honesty over the communication of scientific knowledge about vaccine safety—before consent for vaccination is given.

In sharp contrast, we have organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics—an official AMA-affiliated group of pediatricians heavily tied to and financed by the pharmaceutical industry and other companies—advising their members to “fire” patients who do not do as they’re told in following the CDC’s vaccine schedule. No starting at a slightly older age! No avoiding so many shots on a single day—even though it is acknowledged that concentrating so many shots in one day is done for the convenience of the doctor and to ensure better compliance by parents, not because it is better for the child!

What is better for the child is honest talk of the scientific information available about vaccination, instead of coercion and intimidation. It seems clear what the more reasonable position is.

Here are some more reasons to be skeptical about claims that vaccines are “safe”:

  • A recent analysis found that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) hold an astounding fifty-six vaccine-related patents. This means that both the government and the vaccine producers profit when more vaccines are sold. It should give us pause that government officials are, in effect, encouraging us to buy vaccines—and, at the state level, requiring them.
  • The FDA has set a limit on the amount of aluminum that can be in vaccines, but this number was based on the amount of aluminum required to enhance the effectiveness of the vaccine. The agency has not empirically determined the safest amount of intramuscularly injected aluminum, relying instead on the mere hope that current levels are safe.
  • The national vaccine schedule has never been rigorously evaluated for safety. This was the determination not of some “anti-vaxxer” group, but of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine), which advises the government on issues relating to medicine and health. In a 2013 report, the Academy concluded, “Key elements of the schedule—the number, frequency, timing, order, and age at administration of vaccines—have not been systematically examined in research studies.”
  • One study that compared vaccinated to unvaccinated boys found that vaccinated boys were 155% more likely to have a neurological disorder, 224% more likely to have ADHD, and 61% more likely to have autism.
  • A Dutch study found that vaccinated children had higher incidences of a number of illnesses and other health indicators compared to unvaccinated children in the first five years of life. Vaccinated children had high incidences of chronic eczema, allergic reactions, ADHD, ear infections, throat inflammation, and were more likely to be sickly.
  • A study in New Zealand found similar results, with vaccinated children having higher incidences of asthma and eczema, and an astonishing tenfold increase in tonsillitis.

In light of these facts, it is crucial to preserve the right of parents to refuse vaccination for their children through philosophical, personal belief, or religious exemptions, or to modify the schedule. A number of states are moving to remove these exemptions, or to mandate certain vaccines for school children. We cannot let this happen.

State-based Action Alerts! Check for your state below, and send a message to your state lawmakers telling them not to force injections of toxic substances upon our children or health workers. Please send your message immediately.

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

Paul Ryan’s Health Bill Is Disappointing

Myth, Busted: We Do NOT Need Pesticides to Feed the World

Feds Renew Attack on Raw Milk

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Myth, Busted: We Do NOT Need Pesticides to Feed the World

It’s a bad PR day for the chemical poison industry.

A new United Nations report calls out the Dows and Monsantos of the world, saying they have sold the world on the lie that pesticides are needed to feed the world’s seven billion people. This sounds similar to the claim that we need GMOs to feed the world, with supposedly increased crop yields, doesn’t it? How did that pan out? Oh, right. It didn’t.

Not only are pesticides not needed to feed the world, they also cause an estimated 200,000 deaths a year from acute poisoning—especially in the third world, where pesticides are poorly controlled—in addition to “catastrophic effects on the environment.”

Read the article from The Guardian.

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

Paul Ryan’s Health Bill Is Disappointing

Vaccines May Cause Brain Disorders

Feds Renew Attack on Raw Milk

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Feds Renew Attack on Raw Milk

The misinformation campaign continues. State-based Action Alerts!

The Montana and Idaho legislatures are currently considering bills that would loosen restrictions on the sale of raw milk. The Montana bill has already been approved by the state’s House of Representatives and is now being considered by its Senate.

Apparently the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) think consumers aren’t qualified to make this decision for themselves. In response to the Montana bill, the CDC issued the following warning:

Raw milk can contain harmful germs, such as bacteria, viruses, and parasites, which can make you very sick or possibly kill you. If you’re thinking about drinking raw milk because you believe it has health benefits, consider other options.

This is nothing new; it’s been the position of government health officials for years. The FDA in particular has taken an aggressive stance against purveyors of raw milk.

The vendetta against raw milk is completely unjustified. As our friends at the Weston A. Price Foundation point out in their campaign for “real milk,” raw milk has a proven safety record and has shown to be superior to pasteurized milk in protecting against infection, diarrhea, rickets, tooth decay, and tuberculosis. Children drinking raw milk also have better growth rates than those drinking pasteurized milk.

ANH–USA believes consumers should have the right to access non-processed foods, and farmers should be able to offer these products directly to consumers. Americans should be able to educate themselves about any risks versus benefits, and make their own decisions without being hassled by the government.

Why the hostility toward raw milk? The way we see it, the FDA prefers to concentrate food and drug production in the hands of a few large companies with which the agency has close ties. But favoring large producers over family and artisanal producers does not make our food any safer. On the contrary, it just makes it less safe, less nutritious, and also invites more corruption of the government by powerful companies growing rich from government-created monopolies.

State-based Action Alerts! Montana and Idaho residents, write to your legislators and tell them to support your state’s raw milk bills. Please send your message immediately.

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

Paul Ryan’s Health Bill Is Disappointing

Vaccines May Cause Brain Disorders

Myth, Busted: We Do NOT Need Pesticides to Feed the World

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HPV Documentary Preview: Robert Verkerk, PhD

This interview is taken from our upcoming documentary on the HPV vaccine (coming this spring).

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Federal Quarantine Powers Quietly Expanded without Congressional Approval

Your right to be left unthreatened in your own home could be at risk. Here’s what you need to know. Action Alert!

In January of this year, on the last day President Obama was in office, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a final rule that expands its authority to apprehend, isolate, and quarantine individuals suspected of having any of nine diseases on the US quarantine list: cholera, plague, diphtheria, smallpox, yellow fever, infectious tuberculosis, viral hemorrhagic fevers (like Ebola), severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and varieties of influenza that may cause pandemic.

This is the first time the quarantine rules have been updated since the 1940s. Under the old system, the CDC’s authority to quarantine was limited primarily to those entering the country or crossing state lines. And even then, in practice, the feds typically deferred to state and local health officials to contain the spread of infectious diseases.

Under the new rules, the CDC can detain people anywhere in the country without getting approval from local health officials. The definition of “ill persons” has also been broadened, which means that the agency can detain a broader group of people it thinks are exhibiting the symptoms of infectious disease—symptoms as common and as wide-ranging as headaches, cramps, and fevers. Airline and ship crews are required under the new rules to report overt signs and symptoms of sick travelers to the CDC.

Additionally, the CDC can quarantine you for seventy-two hours before the case is subject to a review—and that review is conducted by (you guessed it) the CDC.

Some health authorities fear that the CDC’s power grab will have the opposite effect. Fearing new draconian quarantine rules, as well as surveillance from a flight crew, sick people will likely take additional measures to hide an illness.

The final rule stipulates that when a person is quarantined, medical examinations and treatments can only be performed with prior informed consent. This was only won through a vocal backlash of concerned citizens. But if you have been forcibly removed from your home, how much freedom of medical care choice do you have left?

The rule specifically mentions measles and pertussis, and allows the CDC to monitor travelers displaying common symptoms of those illnesses. Note that measles and pertussis are non-quarantinable diseases—for now. But state health officials can quarantine individuals for certain communicable diseases, depending on state law. Massachusetts has perhaps the most harshly authoritarian law of this kind that we’ve seen. The state can remove you from your home pretty much anytime they want to do so.

While stopping the spread of deadly infectious diseases is laudable, it is unacceptable to pursue this goal at the expense of Americans’ most basic civil liberties, such as the right to remain in their homes unmolested by government.

Action Alert! Send a message to the CDC (with a copy to Congress) telling them that the final quarantine rule is unacceptable and must be amended to respect our most basic rights, and that such rule changes should only be made with congressional approval—and not by bureaucrats. Please send your message immediately.

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

Useless Procedures, Needless Death

Antibiotics Linked to Lung Disease in Newborns?

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Useless Procedures, Needless Death

Conventional medical doctors are lagging behind on the science, and it’s costing lives.

A new report from ProPublica details how conventional doctors continue to use certain drugs and medical procedures long after their appropriateness has been contradicted by research. This means that patients are receiving treatments that are proven to be ineffective or even dangerous.

Consider heart stents, for example. Stents are small metal mesh tubes that are used to prop open an artery. Every year, more than 500,000 Americans undergo this procedure, called an angioplasty, but many patients—especially those with stable coronary artery disease—see little or no benefit.

Even the American Medical Association admits that one in ten elective angioplasties are completely inappropriate, and another third are questionable. Angioplasties can also be dangerous: the procedure can cause tears in blood vessel walls, major bleeding, and more.

Why, after good evidence says that a large portion of patients will not experience a benefit, do doctors and hospitals continue to administer this procedure? As is all too often the case in our crony medical system, it all comes down to money. Angioplasties are big business for hospitals, with each procedure costing around $30,000.

Angioplasty is just one example among many. A knee surgery called arthroscopic partial meniscectomy, or APM, is a widely used procedure: about 500,000 are performed per year, at a price tag of about $4 billion. APM is meant to relieve knee pain caused by tears to the meniscus, a crescent-shaped piece of cartilage that stabilizes and cushions the knee joint. It is one of the most popular surgical procedures in the hemisphere—but research shows that it does not work for most patients.

One study, for instance, showed that APM followed by physical therapy produced the same results as physical therapy alone. Another study showed that “sham surgery”—in which patients were taken to operating rooms where a fake surgery was performed on them—produced the same results as the real surgery.

Again, APM is a cash cow for hospitals. In about one-third of adults over 50, tears to the meniscus are visible in an MRI. Two-thirds will have no symptoms, and in fact would never know there was damage if it hadn’t been for an MRI. But once doctors and patients see the medical imaging, patients may end up having the unnecessary surgery.

We’ve already reported that the top-selling drugs don’t work for most people, and in fact expose them to often horrible side effects.

As we’ve been saying for many years, conventional medicine is simply not on the cutting edge. A paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that it took ten years for a large portion of the medical community to stop referencing popular procedures after their efficacy was completely debunked.

These are the consequences of a medical system mired in government over-control (with its resulting cronyism), and a one-size-fits-all approach to medicine. Medicine does not have to cost so many billions or create so many unintended side effects.

The ProPublica article points out that poor lifestyle habits—a diet full of processed foods, lack of exercise, smoking, etc.—are at the root of America’s most debilitating disease epidemics. An analysis of four studies that included tens of thousands of people found that patients who were at high risk for heart disease were able to cut that risk in half if they ate right, didn’t smoke, weren’t obese, and exercised once a week. These are stunning statistics, yet we aren’t likely to see these recommendations replace the overwhelming number of statin prescriptions doctors write each year. Why? Because there isn’t any money to be made from telling people to exercise and eat right.

This is true even though statins, like many other drugs, may cause more harm than good for most patients. Statins are notoriously hard on our muscles, often cause terrible muscle pain (by depleting CoQ10 and through other means)—and let’s not forget that the heart is a muscle. Is it any coincidence that heart failure is on the rise? And of course statins are also linked to diabetes.

The moral of the story is to be an informed consumer when it comes to your health. Ask questions; take advantage of Green Medicine and sites like Mercola.com or LEF.org; and do your research.

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

Federal Quarantine Powers Quietly Expanded without Congressional Approval

Useless Procedures, Needless Death

Antibiotics Linked to Lung Disease in Newborns?

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Antibiotics Linked to Lung Disease in Newborns?

A new study provides more evidence of the importance of gut bacteria in the health of newborn babies.

The study, conducted at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, suggests that exposure to antibiotics in the womb may permanently weaken the child’s immune system and increase the likelihood of lung disease. It does this by killing important gut bacteria in the mother—immune-building bacteria that would have been passed along to the infant during a normal birth. The researchers found that the bacteria release chemicals that tell the new lungs when to make immune cells, how many to make, and when to use them.

This study is now among a growing body of evidence that shows the damage that antibiotics may cause to newborns. Antibiotics are commonly given to women before a Caesarean section is performed, and at other times.

Research is showing that the health of the innumerable microorganisms that reside in the human gut are tremendously important. Too many “bad” bacteria and not enough “good” bacteria can throw off many different biological systems. Alterations in gut bacteria are thought to play a role in diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s—and other conditions like psychosis.

These developments are leading some in the mainstream press to conclude that “some probiotics could be beneficial after all.” Once again, conventional medicine is far behind what integrative doctors have been saying for a long time. Will we see conventional doctors start advising patients to look after the health of their gut with fermented foods, probiotics, and a diet rich in vegetables? Not likely, as these treatments do not make money for the drug companies.

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

Federal Quarantine Powers Quietly Expanded without Congressional Approval

Useless Procedures, Needless Death

Antibiotics Linked to Lung Disease in Newborns?

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  1. Open your web browser. Navigate to your company’s Barracuda firewall homepage.
  2. Click on the “Block/Accept” tab.
  3. Choose “Sender Domain Block/Accept.” Enter the domain name from office@anh-usa.org to whitelist. For example, you can enter aol.com to allow all AOL addresses. You may enter a comment to remind you why you allowed this domain. Click “Add.”
  4. Click your mouse on the “Email Sender Block/Accept” tab. Enter the email address of an individual sender that you want to whitelist, such as “office@anh-usa.org” Include a comment. Click “Add.” In the future, Barracuda will not block emails from this sender.

Cloudmark SpamNet back to top

  1. Select Cloudmark | Options… from the Cloudmark SpamNet toolbar in Outlook.
  2. Click Advanced.
  3. Go to the Whitelist tab.
  4. Click the Add button.
  5. Type: office@anh-usa.org
  6. Click OK.
  7. Click OK.
  8. Click Yes.
  9. Click OK.

Mailblocks back to top

  1. Click the Addresses tab.
  2. Click New.
  3. Type: office@anh-usa.org
  4. Make sure ‘Accept Mail From This Address’ is selected under Receiving Options.
  5. Uncheck ‘Display in People Picker’ under Other options.
  6. Click Submit.
  7. Click OK.

MailShield back to top

  1. Click Friends from the toolbar.
  2. Click Add.
  3. Type: office@anh-usa.org
  4. Click OK.

MailWasher back to top

  1. Click Tools, then Blacklist & Friends.
  2. Click Add… on the right, the Friends list side.
  3. Make sure Plain email address is selected.
  4. Type: office@anh-usa.org
  5. Click OK.
  6. Click OK.

Oddpost back to top

  1. Check your ‘Probably Spam’ folder.
  2. If you see that The Pulse of Natural Health was incorrectly filtered out
  3. Select it

Click the ‘Move to Inbox and Mark as Not Spam’ button.

SpamAssassin back to top

  1. Add the following entry to your user_prefs file, which is found in the .spamassassin subdirectory on your web/mail server
  2. whitelist_from office@anh-usa.org
  3. Save the user_prefs file or move the updated copy to your .spamassassin subdirectory.

SPAMfighter back to top

Highlight the email from Alliance for Natural Health USA with the email address office@anh-usa.org to Whitelist.

Click “More” in the SPAMfighter Toolbar and select “Whitelist”.

Here you can choose if you want to Whitelist the email address office@anh-usa.org or the whole domain.

To be sure that all emails from people in your Outlook contacts get through to you, you can import and Whitelist them.

To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Click “More” in the SPAMfighter toolbar.
  2. Then “Options”
  3. Then “Filter settings”
  4. Then “Blacklists & Whitelists”
  5. Then “Whitelist email address”
  6. Then “Import”.
  7. Select your ‘Address Book’ and click on “Check all”
  8. Click “Add”
  9. Click “Apply”

If you get a pop-up box offering you to upgrade to SPAMfighter Pro it is because you have exceeded the limit of 100 addresses. You can fix this by buying SPAMfighter Pro or by deleting some of the addresses in your Black/White list. If you want delete addresses, please go to:

  1. Click More” in the SPAMfighter toolbar.
  2. Then “Options”
  3. Then “Filter settings”
  4. Then “Blacklists & Whitelists”

ChoiceMail back to top

  1. Open ChoiceMail
  2. Click on the Senders tab
  3. Choose “Approve another Sender”
  4. Type in the sender email address office@anh-usa.org
  5. Click on OK

SpamButcher back to top

  1. Click the Configure button.
  2. Go to the Known Senders tab.
  3. Click Add under ‘Known Good Senders and Recipients’.
  4. Type: office@anh-usa.org
  5. Click OK.
  6. Click OK.

Spameater Pro back to top

  1. Click Filters from the sidebar.
  2. Click the Approved Senders tab.
  3. Click Add Filter.
  4. Type: office@anh-usa.org under Address.
  5. Choose ‘Full Email Address’ under Address Type.
  6. Select Email Domain.
  7. Click OK.

Spam Inspector back to top

  1. Select Spam Inspector
  2. Then ‘Manage Friends List’ from either the Spam Inspector toolbar or from the Outlook menu.
  3. Make sure Email is selected under ‘Add a New Friend’.
  4. Type: office@anh-usa.org
  5. Click the >> button.
  6. Click Close.

Spam Interceptor back to top

  1. Follow the Trusted link under > Authentication Lists.
  2. Enter the email address: office@anh-usa.org
  3. Click Add.

SpamPal back to top

  1. Click on the SpamPal system tray icon with the right mouse button.
  2. Click ‘Add to Whitelist’ from the menu.
  3. Type: office@anh-usa.org
  4. Click Add.

Spam Sleuth back to top

  1. Select File, then Configure.
  2. Go to the Friends category.
  3. Make sure Active is checked.
  4. Type: office@anh-usa.org on a line by itself in the entry field.
  5. Click OK.

Other Spam Filters Not List Above…. back to top

If The Pulse of Natural Health is being filtered, try adding office@anh-usa.org to your Address Book or Contact list.

If messages continue to be sent to your junk folder contact your ISP or spam filter application support and ask how to whitelist office@anh-usa.org.

Generate you own whitelist instructions here…

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Paul Ryan’s Health Bill Is Disappointing

It will not fix healthcare. In some ways, it will make it worse.

Here are four big flaws:

  • It leaves government in charge of the design of health insurance policies. Consumers should decide what they want covered (and what they do not want covered!) in their own policy. As it stands, the bill leaves intact the Obamacare requirement that everything imaginable be covered except for one glaring omission—integrative care. Adding integrative care would not, however, solve the problem. One-size-fits-all policies need to go. No one wants them and no one can afford them. Government does not know best, and its attempts to dictate health insurance policies are bankrupting everyone.
  • The bill includes subsidies for insurance companies. This is just more crony capitalism.
  • The bill introduces yet another government price-fixing scheme. Government price-fixing never works. Consumers need to set prices through their buying decisions. That is the only way to stop the massive healthcare cost inflation and bring prices down.
  • The bill keeps poor people in a medical ghetto called Medicaid. Medicare’s actual coverage varies enormously from state to state, and it is increasingly hard to find doctors willing to take you as a patient if you’re on Medicare. Why do we handle medical and food assistance so differently? If people are eligible for food assistance, they receive a card that looks like another credit card and can be used in any grocery store. Why should it be any different in healthcare?

Here is an example of how crazy current healthcare is. The son of an ANH-USA board member recently went to an out-of-state emergency room for food poisoning. The bill came in at over $8,000. The family’s insurance company knocked it down to about $4,000. How fair is that? An uninsured person would have been liable for the full amount, and might even have faced bankruptcy for failure to pay it.

ANH-USA lobbied for a provision in Obamacare preventing hospitals for charging the uninsured more than the insured. The Obama administration opposed it. Why? Because the idea upset the hospitals. They wanted to be able to continue to exploit the uninsured.

None of this will be improved by the Ryan bill. If we really want to change healthcare, we need to put the consumer back in charge of it.

Prices can never be reduced by price controls, much less by price controls on government-imposed monopoly prices. Most people do not realize that the government, through Medicare, has fixed medical prices for half a century, and the results speak for themselves. At the same time, the government has fed these price increases by protecting monopolies established by the drug companies and the American Medical Association. This is what the government always does, and it wrecks any sector of the economy where this crony capitalist system is applied.

The only way to get prices down is to get supply up. That automatically does the job. The only way to get supply up (and improved supply as well) is to create a system in which all sellers—and this includes qualified nurses in addition doctors and other practitioners—are allowed to compete with one another for the dollar of the consumer. To make this work, the consumer must be in charge—not the insurance companies and other agents of government. Only a consumer-controlled market can do this.

Paul Ryan talks about the need for the consumer to regain control of healthcare. But his bill is not consistent with his rhetoric.

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

Vaccines May Cause Brain Disorders

Myth, Busted: We Do NOT Need Pesticides to Feed the World

Feds Renew Attack on Raw Milk



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