Posts Tagged ‘Sleep’

The erosion of choice in healthcare

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Those who frequent the Yahoo Helminthic Therapy forum will know that, in early November, 2009, the US Food and Drug Administrtation moved against Autoimmune Therapies, the company that supplies therapeutic doses of hookworm and whipworm to individuals who wish to use these organisms as a treatment for allergy and autoimmune disorders.

By declaring these natural ‘probiotics’ to be pharmaceuticals, the FDA effectively ended AIT’s production and shipping of helminths from within the US but, with no other company anywhere in the world able to supply these particular organisms to the scores of very sick individuals who need them, Jasper Lawrence and his colleagues were determined to continue to meet their obligations to customers, so Jasper was left with no option but to abandon his home, and leave family and friends in order to relocate in haste to another country.

Shortly after this event, I heard of two somewhat similar cases in which small companies selling completely natural products have been prosecuted by government agencies.

A small US farmer selling unadulterated, raw milk – as drunk by humans since animals were first domesticated – was prosecuted after a sting operation by a local Health Department, and a small UK firm selling a sleep-aid made solely from common grasses was prosecuted by local Trading Standards officials in Wales.

Unfortunately, these are not isolated incidents, but just further examples of the steady – one might even say stealthy – erosion of the choices available to individuals who prefer alternative or natural approaches to healthcare. And, sadly, the vast majority of citizens in the US and Europe are blissfully unaware of what is taking place.

Those who are not already aware of the situation will find enlightenment in these two blogs by Jon Barron – Alternative Health – Now You See It, Now You Don’t and Nutritional Freedom, the Frog in the Water.

I feel sure that, one day, justice and common sense will prevail and consumers will assert their right to have whatever form of healing they choose for themselves, but it could be a long time yet before this happens and things may well get much more difficult in the meantime.

Those who ask what can be done about this situation might care to examine the work of Dr Joseph Mercola, whose website has been the most visited natural medicine site in the world for the last seven years, and is now also in the top ten most visited general health sites.

In the last year, mercola.com has been instrumental in educating the public about the truth behind the Swine Flu debacle. In partnership with the National Vaccine Information Centre, mercola.com helped avoid the use of squalene in the H1N1 vaccine in the US, as well as helping to prevent mandatory H1N1 vaccination, and saving the majority of US citizens from being duped by the massive PR media campaigns into accepting an unsafe and ineffective vaccine.

This is just one example of what can be achieved when individuals are appropriately informed and enabled by the internet to make a stand against scheming corporations and a clueless government, and I urge everyone who cares about maintaining freedom of choice in healthcare to join the Mercola online community and/or to bookmark the Mercola Natural Health Newsletter (or RSS link) and the Mercola Vital Votes Blog (or RSS link).

This will keep you up to date with the latest news on health and provide sound, impartial advice on how to maintain your well-being by the most natural means possible. It will also keep you abreast of the activities of those who would sacrifice your health for dubious motives. The latter are clearly stealing some of the skirmishes but, if they go on to win the war, it will be because we have let them!

As for the three companies mentioned above, the prosecution of the Bechard family by the Missouri State Milk Board and Attorney General for selling raw milk in contravention of state regulations is ongoing. The Welsh sleep-aid manufacturer is now getting back on its feet following its prosecution, and has already picked up an award for its reformulated product, Asphalia, which I can personally vouch for as a remarkably effective and side effect-free sleep-aid. Autoimmune Therapies, meanwhile, have completed the relocation of their production department and should begin shipping hookworm again this week, with whipworm to follow in a few weeks time.

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Rhinitis can ruin your sex life, but a few worms may restore it!

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Many of us who suffer from nasal allergies have long known that even the simple act of kissing can be compromised by frequent sneezing, a blocked nose and, worst of all, by post-nasal drip. Now, at last, research has finally caught up with reality and confirmed our experience.

When polled for this new study, 83 percent of people with allergic rhinitis said it affected their sexual activity at least sometimes, with almost 18 percent of those affected saying that their allergies nearly always got in the way of a satisfying sex life.

Itchy eyes and other allergy symptoms can be extremely distracting and make a person feel less than sexy and, if embarrassment caused by many of the other aspects of rhinitis doesn’t cramp one’s style, tiredness from chronic loss of sleep, induced by nasal blockage, almost certainly will.

A friend of mine who spent many years trying unsuccessfully to get help from the UK medical profession for his rhinitis and the problems that it caused, finally found that the only solution was a small dose of tiny worms!

Dave (not his real name) had had rhinitis from childhood, but had managed to live with it well into adulthood before it began to have a major impact on his life. His nose would physically swell up and block, and this prevented him from sleeping and left him extremely exhausted.

He tried everything that his GP offered, but the latter finally told him he would just have to live with the problem! Only after constant baggering of the GP was an appointment arranged for Dave to see a specialist, but this proved to be just another dead end, as did several further consultations with private specialists.

Dave struggled valliantly to hold down his job, although his work inevitably suffered because of his constant tiredness. His performance in other areas also suffered, and his wife eventually left him. At that point, he felt he had nowhere to turn and nothing left to live for, so took an overdose. Fortunatley, this was discovered in time and, as this type of acute problem is something the medics are good at dealing with, he survived.

Shortly after this, I told Dave about my recent therapeutic inoculation with hookworm and how this had completely cleared my own nasal congestion. He didn’t hesitate, despite the significant cost of the treatment, and promptly ordered a dose of hookworm from Autoimmune Therapies.

“Anyone who doesn’t try this,” he said, “isn’t suffering enough!”

After the few weeks that it took for his worms to mature, he began to improve, and I began to get almost daily excited phone calls with updates about his progress.

To cut a long story short, his life has been transformed. He can now once again breathe freely through his nose and he sleeps like a baby – right through the night. His job is going really well and he now also has a new girl friend. In short, he’s ‘full of the joys of Spring’, and all thanks to a few little buddies living in his gut!

This remarkable new treatment, which can turn lives around but which most doctors still know nothing about – and a few are violently opposed to – is called Helminthic Therapy, and involves aquiring a small, controlled dose of tiny (less than a centimetre long), harmless intestinal worms that have co-evolved with our own species for millions of years and which are therefore fully adapted to us – and we to them – but which our modern sanitation practices effectively banished from our lives several decades ago.

Dave and I have both found that having these amazing little creatures back inside us is a simple but very effective long-term solution to nasal problems as well as other forms of allergy, with none of the harmful side effects of regular medical treatments, which, in both our cases, had proved ineffecitve anyway.

Now that we have realised the remarkable benefits of hosting a few carefully selected beneficial organisms, neither of us will ever willingly be parted from our new ‘old friends’.

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Probiotics with your sweetener

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Medical News Today report that Heartland Sweeteners have introduced the first sweetener to include a probiotic – Nevella® with Probiotics.

What a neat idea to ensure a steady supply of good bugs, but what a pity that, in this case, the beneficial bacteria have been paired with an artificial sweetener of very dubious safety – sucralose (Splenda)!

Like aspartame, sucralose has been found by independent researchers, particularly in Europe, to be harmful to human health, linking it to weight gain, disruption of sleep patterns, sexual dysfunction, increases in cancer, multiple sclerosis, lupus, and diabetes. The problem appears to be that the body does not recognize these sweeteners as a source of nutrition, and therefore struggles to process them, resulting in their storage in vital organs such as the brain and liver, where they can form the basis for eventual cell mutation. 

More lowdown on sucralose.

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Autoimmune & biotherapy news 2009/7/9

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Narcolepsy confirmed as an autoimmune disorder

The long-held suspicion that narcolepsy is an autoimmune disease has been confirmed by a Stanford University School of Medicine scientist, raising the prospect that a worm infection may benefit those who have this condition.

Alzheimer’s disease may be triggered by inflammation

According to this research, inflammation may be the factor responsible for preventing the removal of amyloid beta protein – the substance scientists believe is responsible for Alzheimer’s disease – from the brain. The medical solution proposed to correct this inflammation is, not surprisingly, a drug, but if inflammation really is the culprit, then an infection with helminths might offer a drug-free solution.

This finding may also mean that those of us who are already hosting helminths may be able to look forward to a dementia-free old age as an additional bonus to the effects we already enjoy in terms of a reduction in symptoms from our respective autoimmune conditions.

The risk of developing autism is up to three times greater in children whose mothers have an autoimmune disease

New findings support the theory that autism is somehow associated with disturbances in the immune system.

This is an interesting development in view of the fact that children with autism have shown improvement in their condition when exposed to parasites.

Bees ‘milked’ for their anti-inflammatory venom

A New Zealand honey producer milks honeybees using electric milking machines (no, don’t check the date – it’s not 1 April!) to obtain venom which is then added to honey for sale to people with arthritis.

The article points to a lack of scientific evidence to support the claim that the ‘bee sting honey’ has any therapeutic effect, but there are people who swear by bee stings as a source of relief from their arthritis.

Maggots on trial

Clinicians at Cardiff University in Wales are teaming up with a commercial producer of larvae to assess whether maggots really can deliver their anecdotally renowned wound cleaning abilities.

The UK’s National Health Service spends 3-5% of its budget on wound healing, so the team hope that maggots may provide substantial savings by cutting the length of hospital stays and reducing the number of expensive dressings used.

However, the study team may have difficulty finding willing volunteers – as the team on the Nottingham Hookworms for Crohn’s trial did – due to the strong repulsion response which such creatures cause in many people.

When a few maggots were found on the floor of a UK hospital operating theatre this week, the incident generated national headlines.

and the story ran for several days, until the carcass of a chick was found in pipes above the theatre and removed.

Bugs as good as drugs

Researchers examining antimicrobial treatments for bacterial vaginosis concluded that intravaginal lactobacillus is as effective as oral metronidazole.

But medicine can’t take its eyes off the ‘chemical universe’

Small chance of interesting medical clinicians in natural treatments like bee venom, lactobacillus, or even tried-and-tested worms, when they have their eyes set on a projected 970 million chemicals suitable for study as lucrative new drugs!

Better sleep without drugs that may affect your worms

Researchers at the University of Virginia have developed a unique Internet-based intervention, based on well-established face-to-face cognitive behavioral therapy techniques, that has shown remarkable results in improving patients’ sleep.

Alternatively, a simple meditation technique can have a profoundly beneficial effect on sleep, as I have found myself, although this isn’t a quick fix. Regular practice will certainly deliver improved sleep quality, and provide many other health and performance benefits as well.

Teenager diagnoses own Crohn’s disease in science class

If you thought you could rely on your doctor’s diagnostic skills, this report may shatter your illusion.

A teenager, who had suffered pain, diarrhoea, vomiting and fever for eight years, but whose pathologist had insisted she didn’t have Crohn’s disease, found evidence herself confirming the diagnosis when she looked through a microscope at slides of her own intestinal tissue during a high school science class.

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