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Dysbiosis, the gut-brain and the heart brain part two
HEARTMATH There is a group of rather obtuse characters located in Boulder Creek, nestled deep in the dazzling redwoods within the Santa Cruz Mountains. We used to go to the Boulder Creek Festival every year especially because you could bring your dog. It’s a small mountain town that at any given time is 20 degrees […]
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DYSBIOSIS AND GUT HEALTH part 1
“All diseases begin in the gut” “…death sits in the bowels…” “…bad digestion is the root of all evil….” Hippocrates Just three pages from now I’ll start discussing some truly fascinating things about no, not the gut, but the heart. Huh? This is a chapter on gut health so what’s going on? You’ll see in […]
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The Panic Virus Review
ENTER SETH MNOOKIN Now along comes a book entitled The Panic Virus The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy. It was given to my sister by her pediatrician as a way of offsetting what I’m sure he feels is a gaggle of dumb, soccer hens clucking madly about a non-issue of vaccine induced brain injury. […]
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The degree of fear and paranoia regarding the sun is at its zenith
MEET AND GREET THE ELITE The degree of fear and paranoia regarding the sun is at its zenith (ha ha) within the academic halls of dermatology. Picture this: pots of church incense and wafts of sweet smoke, a small group of cloistered, fully frocked, “priests” donning freshly laundered lab coats so long that tiny, highly-trained, […]
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A tan is the absolute best skin protector there is and ever will be
THE DREADFUL TAN As it turns out a tan is the absolute best skin protector there is and ever will be. We have evolved over millions of years a special sunscreen portfolio of several types of skin melanin of which eumelanin the black-brown pigment found in black and brown hair and brown eyes […]
Sunscreen use may actually increase the risk of cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM).
This weeks blog will feature the relationship between sunscreen use and malignant melanoma (MM or CMM). In the last few years compelling data have confirmed what many scientists have been saying for decades now. That sunscreens are anything but safe. That they may actually be causing the one deadly cancer that their intended use is […]
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THE RELATIONSHIP OF MALIGNANT MELANOMA TO SUNSCREEN USE
THE RELATIONSHIP OF MALIGNANT MELANOMA TO SUNSCREEN USE. There is a table which lists the recommended serum levels of vitamin D3 for optimal health from a study published in Autoimmunity Reviews 9 (2010) 709–715. Here in my book (not here in the blog) I listed 8 of the 25 scientists who participated in the study: […]
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Universal intake of up to 40,000 IU vitamin D per day is unlikely to result in vitamin D toxicity
Here’s what Dr Garland’s study found: Results: Serum 25(OH)D rose as a function of self-reported vitamin D supplement ingestion in a curvilinear fashion, with no intakes of 10,000 IU/d or lower producing 25(OH)D values above the lower-bound of the zone of potential toxicity (200 ng/ml). Un-supplemented all-source input was estimated at 3,300 IU/d. The supplemental […]
The Hallowed IOM’s Conclusions and Recommendations on Vitamin D Intake.
Sometimes the bias is transparent like in the hallowed IOM’s conclusions and recommendations on vitamin D intake. The committee suggested that a serum level of a miserable 20 ng/ml (50 nmoles/L) covered the needs of nearly everyone (97.5%) right down to the half percent. Yet they only addressed adequate for everyone for bone health. […]
THE DEADLY CANCERS THAT SUNLIGHT/VITAMIN D PROTECT US FROM
THE DEADLY CANCERS THAT SUNLIGHT/VITAMIN D PROTECT US FROM To infer causality is to satisfy certain stringent requirements called the Bradford Hills Criteria. Dr Gillie explains to us that the Bradford Hill requirement is met in regard to low vitamin D3 levels and certain cancers: establishing that insufficient vitamin D3 and/or insufficient sunlight is […]