They put into words what a celiac goes through with the *cough* medical profession….clueless doctors who charge $$ to tell you that it’s all in your head.
I like the one who told the patient she couldn’t feel pain in the gut…say what??
I’d like to see the Wisconsin Tea Party legislators tangle with these gals. Pass the popcorn. (Ooh, wait, what was I thinking??…Um, pass the gluten free snack. 🙂 Still not used to the idea of not having some things…<sigh> )
A poster on the mercury poisoning support group had posted an alarming letter–s/he was talking about being depressed and not seeing beyond the depression fog that goes with this horrible poison’s effects.
That was April 6th. I first replied that what the poster was experiencing was typical of heavy metal poisoning and that most of us have been *there*. I begged her/him not to give up.
When the poster did not reply to any of us (several of us replied trying to help the poster see beyond the immediate feelings of despair), I tried again and asked the poster to let us know that s/he was okay.
No reply. No response at all. I’m afraid that this horrible poison has taken another life. Shit.
(I’m hoping that they’re still there, but not able to post at this time.)
I’m watching Kathleen Sharp on BookTV (yay, Book TV) that has written a book called Blood Medicine about a cancer drug, Epo, that did a great job of helping red blood cells to grow….
….unfortunately, it also helps cancer cells to grow.
Yes, yes, it is freaking amazing that this drug is on the market with serious issues such as suspected of killing people.
The operation was a success. But the patient died.
Sharp describes a cancer patient was helped by the drug with his cancer fight, but died because he began bleeding out the nose and mouth.
Sharp is adamant against pharmaceutical companies being able to advertise on Tv. I believe she said that we and perhaps another country are the only developed countries that allow these commercials.
In Communications, they go to great lengths in order to sell the product. Advertising agencies will do a study of the targeted audience to see how to construct the message for the best impact — i.e., to get the target audience to request it from their doctors. or perhaps I should say demand it from their doctors. They are convinced by slick advertising that *this* drug will help them get healthy again. As someone who has been *there*, it really doesn’t take much in convincing if you’re so ill that you would do almost anything to regain your health. Sharp didn’t even touch on the fact that these doctors who are prescribing these drugs, may be invested in these companies, and therefore, have a financial interest to prescribe these drugs. I’ve seen how pharma works –they are not legally supposed to buy doctors lunches and other gifts….so they have “information sessions” and just happen to have it during the lunch hour….and have lunch brought in. Ahem.
A sunshine law is part of the Obama health plan. We’ll see if it does any good. I’m pessimistic because the whole culture surrounding the FDA and the pharm industry and the billion dollar lobbying by Big Pharma…
More history here.
And here. How can we forget Bush appointment, Dr. Hager, and his ex-wife’s allegations of marital rape?
Sharp mentions the revolving door between the pharm industry and the FDA.
A man calling himself John calls in and is identifying himself as a neonatalogist whom immediately states that Sharp has “poorly researched” her book. (red flag that this guy is perhaps an industry exec or someone tied to the billion dollar industry). She states that there are some uses for the drug, but the consumers are not aware of the dangers and that needs to change.
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While researching this, I found this link. People were protesting Monsanto back in 1994….but Bill Clinton was busy in the Oval Office….something about an intern with a blue dress…
I came across this book that links meniere’s disease with heavy metal poisoning. It’s a known fact among us in the support group that heavy metal poisoning affects all your senses–sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell. Ringing in the ears is common, as are earaches. I have had both along with dminished hearing at times (although is pretty good now–just rare occasions where I’m affected.) With the recent migraine, the left side of my face swelled, and it seem to be affected my ear as well. I turned over in bed to a wave of dizziness–which is also a marker of heavy metal poisoning. The swelling went down a day after the migraine, and the dizziness went, too. It’s just fascinating how this poison affects one’s body.
This site mentions low zinc as a factor. Since heavy metal poisoning interferes with zinc absorption, it goes that a person would have low zinc. Since folks are more able to absorb liquid zinc, I would recommend it. I personally take Now Brand’s Zinc Glycinate. And no, I don’t get paid to say that, nor do I have an investment in their company. The site also mentions low B12 (methylcobalamin is best because it’s the active form of B12), and a gluten free diet as a factor. Spot on–these are all connected to heavy metal poisoning. I don’t know about the homeopathic remedies being recommended—I personally haven’t had much luck with them.
I thought I’d pass this along for the info.
Chicago Tribune has a piece up on the dangers of dental amalgams. Sweet Progress. 🙂
(Taking time out for a quick post. Mom is doing better at the moment….but not out of the woods yet)
I asked permission to post this story of the recovery of a GAPS support group member:
Hi you guys
I wanted to encourage all newbies. My son age 4/12 was non verbal when we started this diet. He also had no social skills and he didn’t respond to his nameWe have been on the diet for two years now. It has been a rough road to say the least. Not only was he nonverbal he also had extreme behavioral problems. Taking out high candida foods, like fruit, nuts and honey helped tremendously. We also have a Laura V from the group Gaps practitioner and Naturopath ND helping us.
Eli had a wonderful day at the park yesterday. My heart was overwhelmed with joy watching him play with other kids. He saw a little guy his age. He walked over to him and asked if he wanted to play. The other kiddo said yes. They played on the swing, they played tag and ran around. The other kid saw a friend he knew at the park. The friend also played with Eli. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Not to long Eli would shy away from kids. He use to act so strange around them. Perhaps because he couldn’t speak
He is also talking using sentences, asking questions and making comments on things that he hears and sees. We thought we would never see this happen
To all newbies stay the course. This diet can be stressful at times but the benefits of healing is so worth it. Dr NCM talks about adding cherries on top if you don’t see healing within a year or so. We had to get additional help. In addition to the diet. Eli is on homeopathic remedies to address his faulty detox system, his over exposure to antibiotics and his chronic gut issues due to the meds that was given to him as a baby. My doc is in the process of becoming gaps certified. I will post his info as soon as that happens
Hugs
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I can’t add anything to this. It’s just absolutely stunning how diet can impact one so profoundly. God Bless Regina for being the kind of Mom who acts on her intuition and asks questions until she finds the answer.
As if these folks don’t have enough to deal with–Haiti is in serious trouble with food shortages due not only to the after-effects of the 2010 earthquake, but from drought and flood… Good Grief. (Incidentally, I first read about this on a Guardian blog which is “supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation”–I refuse to link to it because of the so-called “doomsday seed bank” which is a megalomaniacal venture. Playing God with seeds–and you can bet it won’t be the “little people” who will partake in the seed distribution if “doomsday” occurs…if you want to read the Guardian article, you’ll have to search for it yourselves.)
I know it sounds so “out there” reading the above link—but Monsanto has a proven record of destruction, not production. And the Rockefellers have put money into eugenics. Given Bill Gates’ business practices (by requiring a monopoly of his products, he shut out better operating systems, therefore acquiring his millions by false means–not true capitalism where the best product gets the market share.)
I couldn’t believe what I was reading in the article about corn being engineered to contain spermicide. So…I looked on the web and found this by Alternet. Wow.
This was an interesting quote:
Scientists and corporations alike embrace biopharmaceuticals with glee: “Imagine being able to harvest enough globulin (a compound that fights arthritis) for the whole world in all of fifty acres?” writes Dr. William O. Robertson for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. “Imagine being able to find the protein healthy people use to prevent arthritis or breast cancer and being able to produce it in large quantities in rice and tobacco.”
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It’s just stunning how myopic these scientists are—especially with the knowledge that GM corn and other products are suspected of causing gut inflammation from GMO intolerance?? Destroying the immune system….to make people…better?? Note that he includes tobacco in products to be used by folks….yeah, now there’s a healthy product. /snark
As Brian Tokar brings up in the article, there are too many unknowns–it’s always an oversight by scientists to consider the effects to all of nature and how much humans’ health is affected by nature.
Here’s another article on pharming….and it’s in Indiana, where you can get away with anything while the press and politicians look the other way: popsci.com/scitech/article/2005-06/pharming-underground
And another article here…also in Indiana: intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/8124/21291/338465.html
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Okay, back to Haiti (sorry, got a little off topic there–am detoxing and I’m ADD a little more than usual. 🙂
The Guardian article brings up getting seeds to Haitians (and Africans)—which I thought was a great idea…until I saw the Gates Foundation and Monsanto supporting this….not hard to see that it is a propaganda piece to benefit them. It can’t be just “coincidence” that they are in a deal with Monsanto and now promoting this idea of seeds to Haiti. My fear is that these poor vulnerable folks are the guinea pigs for the Gates/Rockefeller/Monsanto venture. Disaster capitalism, my friends.
The misspent donations in Haiti. Glad to see that people are still trying to help Haiti recover. Haiti has to be the poster country for disaster relief mismanagement!
From the article:
In March 2010, UN countries pledged $5.3 billion over two years and a total of $9.9 billion over three years in a conference March 2010. The money was to be deposited with the World Bank and distributed by an internationally controlled fund called the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission Fund (IHRC). The IHRC was co-chaired by Bill Clinton and Jean-Max Bellerive, then the Haitian Prime Minister. 41 The IHRC was created by executive order of Haitian President Preval to exist for a period of 18 months beginning on April 21, 2010.42
This money effectively bypassed all the Haitian public governmental bodies. 43
By July 2010, Bill Clinton reported only 10 percent of the pledges had been given to the IHRC.
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Feeling that they functioned solely as rubber stamps, the Haitian members complained of being “completely disconnected from the activities of the IHRC”; given no background information on the projects they are supposed to fund; given no time to “read, nor analyze, nor understand- and much less respond intelligently- to projects submitted”; no follow-up on the previously approved millions in funds; and not knowing the names of IHRC consultants nor their respective tasks.” As if to prove their point the IHRC meeting, held in the Dominican Republic, continued despite the absence of co-chair and Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive.
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(Once again, the Clintons screw things up. They say Reagan was the “teflon” president because nothing ever stuck to him…well Clinton ranks right up there with him.)
While typing, the chemtrails phenomenon popped into my head– I remember reading a connection between Gates and chemtrails and was wondering about their effects on rainfall. My thinking is that it can’t just be climate change that is creating the drought. I found this blog on it, but it was a general synopsis. Then I found this. It is an observation of the interference with rain clouds by chemtrails.
A side note~~ A petition against the Gates Foundation’s $27 million investment in Monsanto. Um-hmm…follow the money, folks.
I’ve touched on this previously, but wanted to put out the links I’ve found about the connection between Celiac and dementia. This really hits home because of my Mom’s suffering, which I am more and more positive comes from undiagnosed Celiac.
This is an interesting link about how someone might have Celiac, but the symptoms are neurological, not in the gut.
From the site:
British clinician, Dr. Maios Hadjivassiliou, a world renown authority on gluten, reported in The Lancet that gluten sensitivity can be at times exclusively a neurological disease.2 In other words, people suffering from gluten intolerance can have absolutely no digestive symptoms but will have issues with brain dysfunction.
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This is my Mom, in a nutshell.
Here’s another short and sweet site with a connection. Note that it says that the Celiac diet only helped one patient. I would question that because the sample is too small and it doesn’t state what exactly the person was eating. I have actually seen sites and cookbooks that claim to gluten free and they had gluten in the recipes. And I would also want to know if the diet contained GMO food, which is also suspect at causing Celiac.
Another site here. Note that they say they saw a reversal of symptoms…nothing short of miraculous!
They often talk about how our compromised gut allows Candida (yeast) to get waaaay out of control, which also affects brain function. They talk about it here on celiac.com and a post here on the NY Times site –-these are very good descriptions on what we go through–it’s also a good description of heavy metal poisoning sufferers. Note IrishHeart’s description of holding her husband’s sleeves when they went out–that shyness/autistic-like symptom. Been there, done that…still have *those* days…
Another neurological affliction linked to Celiac is Ataxia–your balance is off and you look like you’re drunk (walking sideways) when you walk. People have been mistakenly diagnosed with multiple schlerosis when their symptoms were from Celiac disease.
Remember the teacher who wanted to carry a gun in school? Remember the constant movement of her eyes?
From the site:
About 80% have problems with their eyes, in which their eyes move involuntarily back and forth.
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Now look again at that video here. I would say she’s probably a Celiac and has heavy metal poisoning. (That will be $100 for a diagnosis. :p )
Once again, I am in awe of our miraculous bodies and how the body will constantly try to fix itself….if only given the proper tools of organic (gluten free) diet, clean air, clean water, and exercise….
Here is a well written story on a child with leaky gut and a mother’s recognition that the professionals don’t know what the hell they’re doing….
Thank God she found the cause of her son’s pain.
…because companies will label their products “Gluten-Free” when they’re really not. It’s either conscious deception so they can get the $$$ gluten free market dollars, or they’re not really testing their product to be sure that it is gluten free. As I’ve posted before, even a little gluten for someone who is Celiac can mean a serious reaction. (hat tip to this blog.)
Watchdog mentions this organization that helps certify food. This makes food shopping sooo much easier–all you have to do is look for the logo and you are reasonably comfortable buying the product. There is this, too, which also has a logo to help shoppers identify gluten free food. There is a link to GF recipes on the main page.
Here is a webpage of the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness. They, too, help to certify GF foods. They use a third party to help certify products, which is a bonus. Here is a list of GF manufacturers. I always want to add a caution that everything can change in a moment’s notice and if a food affects one, whether it’s labeled GF or not, one should be cautious about eating it again. As they say on the support group–something may be gluten free, but it perhaps is an allergen for a particular person. Allergies can show up with the typical runny nose, or rash or headache or someone may just feel extra tired after eating a particular food. Your body will tell you what it needs and doesn’t need–one just has to pay attention.
Eagle 
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