Innholdsfortegnelse for August/September 2020 i What Doctors Don't Tell You Australia/NZ

A s many states and countries are beginning to emerge from lockdown, media outlets around the world continue to dwell on the numbers: the total number of cases and deaths; the R numbers and whether individual countries have brought infection rates down to acceptable levels; a nation’s total stockpile of test kits and personal protective equipment; the number of businesses kitting out with all the new protective gear; the fresh totals of the unemployed and firms going to the wall as a result of the virus. And, largely based on these numbers, we’ve all made the automatic assumption that we’re going to suffer a second peak, and so must rush to put in place track-and-trace and immunity passports, and fast-track anything that might turn out to be the miracle drug…

Walking up to 12,000 steps a day reduces your risk of a premature death and lowers your blood pressure. And it’s all to do with the number of steps you take, and not the speed and intensity of your walking, two new studies have found. Although the standard step rate seems set at 10,000—and some researchers have seen little benefit beyond walking 8,000 steps a day—new research suggests that 12,000 is the optimum for increasing your chances of a long and healthy life. Looking at 4,800 people whose daily walking was monitored for seven days, and whose health was assessed around 12 years later, the researchers found that those walking 10,000 steps a day had a 51 percent lower risk of premature death compared to participants who walked only 4,000…

The pro-vaccine camp thinks it has finally found a way of “reaching out” to anti-vaxxers following the results of a psychological study. The study claims anti-vaxxers think differently from the rest, seeing threats and dangers that aren’t as likely as they fear. Researchers from Texas Tech University say they are excited by their findings. “It could end up being a way of reaching this diverse group,” said lead researcher Mark LaCour. They asked 158 people to estimate the likelihood of various bad experiences, ranging from an animal bite to having a car crash. Those who estimated a high chance of an adverse vaccine reaction thought there was a higher probability of other bad life experiences, too. But just “educating” the anti-vaxxer won't work. A better way to convey the idea…

People eating an unhealthy diet of processed foods will increase their chances of developing a chronic disease, such as heart problems, cancer or dementia—but it’s not quite as simple as that. Researchers have discovered that how we combine unhealthy food options on the same plate plays as big a part in their risk of illness as the food choices we make. At the heart of the problem is processed meats, such as sausages, which almost everyone who went on to develop dementia, at least, were eating regularly. But what they were eating with the meats seemed to affect the risk just as much, say researchers at the University of Bordeaux in France. In a study of 209 people with dementia, whose diets were compared against 418 people without the disease,…

It’s a secret oncologists rarely share with their patients: around 25 percent of all cancers are untreatable, and the prognosis is worse for colon (colorectal) and lung cancers, with half of cases immune to chemotherapy. But the untreatable may soon be very treatable with a new therapy that blends two approaches that have always been relegated to the fringes of medicine: fasting and high-dose vitamin C, given intravenously. Both have had hit-and-miss research results when used independently, but combining the two seems to have a super-charging effect that kills these hard-to-treat cancer cells without affecting the surrounding healthy cells. The therapy is still in its early stages. It’s been tested on lines of colorectal cancer cells in the laboratory with“remarkable effects,”saysleadresearcherValterLongo at the University of Southern California’s Longevity Institute. Each…

Big Pharma twice as profitable as other industries The pharmaceutical industry is twice as profitable as any other industrial sector. The average gross profit margin of a drug company is around 76 percent of revenues, compared to just 37 percent of a typical large conglomerate listed on the S&P 500 Index. Researchers at Bentley University in Massachusetts compared the revenues and profits of 35 of the largest drug companies with 357 companies of similar size in other industries. The pharmaceutical industry is twice as profitable as any other sector A typical large pharmaceutical firm was outpacing other companies across several financial measures: earnings were 13.8 percent against 7.7 percent for other industry sectors, gross profit margins were 76.5 percent and 37.4 percent, respectively, and earnings before interest and tax were…

His right arm hurt so much he couldn’t lift it. Twelve hours after the shot, he spiked a fever of 103°F (39°C) and felt “more sick than he ever has.” People at the clinical trial told his girlfriend to call 911. He went to an urgent care facility and was sent home, where he fainted. Ian Haydon, 29, was one of three volunteers in a 45-person clinical trial for Seattle-based Moderna Therapeutics’ COVID-19 vaccine who experienced a serious systemic adverse reaction. He recovered the following day and went on CNN and CNBC to say he was fine and he’d even be deliberately exposed to COVID to test the effectiveness of the vaccine, which uses a novel genetic platform. He didn’t mention his negative reaction to the vaccine on the major…

Dr Sarah Myhill’s advice: Take 10 grams of vitamin C (as ascorbic acid powder) in 17 ounces (500 mL) of water hourly until you get diarrhea—this is called “bowel tolerance.” Inhale Lugol’s iodine every two hours. Isolate and go to bed to let your body fight it. Holistic physician David Brownstein’s advice: Take 100,000 units of vitamin A daily for four days. Thereafter, or if you’re not ill, 5,000 units a day (note: take vitamin A, not beta carotene). However, pregnant women should avoid such high doses, says Dr Brownstein, and talk to an experienced practitioner to find the right dosage for them. Take 50,000 IU of vitamin D3 daily for four days. Eliminate refined sugar. “Refined sugar has been shown to negatively alter the functioning of the white blood…

This sequence starts on the ground to enable loosening of the tissues without the full effects of gravity, then moves to strengthening and restorative standing poses to ease the flow of blood to the heart and encourage lymphatic movement. Ending by positioning the hips above the head further aids the lymphatic flow, which relies on our movement and gravity, by allowing fluids that can easily pool into the legs to move back up the body. All fours • From all fours, move in any way that feels good through the shoulders, hips, neck and ribs. Also move your face and jaw, letting out any sighs, yawns, noises or other expressions of nervous system release that feel good. • From all fours, rotate the tailbone for a few minutes in each…

Make sure to eat plenty of: Green, red and orange vegetables. These are rich in antioxidants that boost collagen production, protect collagen against damage and help to repair collagen when it does get damaged. Sulfur-containing foods. Sulfur plays a critical role in the collagen production line. Sulfur-rich foods include onions, garlic and brassica vegetables (bok choy, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower and related vegetables). Hydrating foods, such as chia seeds, cucumbers and iceberg lettuce. Chlorella. This nutrient-rich superfood binds to toxic heavy metals, helping the body to remove them. Healthy fats, such as nuts, seeds and avocados.…

“ The body has an inducible state of quietude, which allows it to repair damage done by the fight-or-flight response” Although it’s common knowledge now, as recently as the 1960s, it was heresy for a doctor to suggest that stress and disease were linked. In fact, nobody even linked diseases like hypertension to stress, even though the word “tension”is right there in the diagnosis. Doctors knew that patients tended to run higher blood pressures when they visited the doctor’s office—they called it“white coat hypertension.” But somehow, nobody thought through the implications of the fact that visiting the doctor can be anxiety-provoking, and such stress resulted in a blood pressure elevation that dropped once the patients went back home and relaxed. Curious about whether there could be a link between stress…

Dr Damien Downing, a specialist in allergy, environment and nutrition, is current president of the British Society for Ecological Medicine, on the editorial board of Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, Chief Medical Advisor of cancer charity Yes to Life (www.yestolife.org.uk), and author of numerous books including The Vitamin Cure for Allergies. Dr Michel Odent, a French-trained surgeon and obstetrician, is a pioneer of the natural birth movement, emphasizing home and water birth. Founder of the Primal Health Research Centre in the UK, he has written some 50 scientific papers and 11 books. Dr Sarah Myhill has worked in the UK National Health Service and private practice since 1981. Honorary Secretary of the British Society for Ecological Medicine for 17 years, she is a frequent lecturer and author of Sustainable Medicine and…

Music can be the perfect medicine after a heart attack. Listening to 30 minutes of soothing music every day lowers the chances of having a second one, researchers have discovered. Music therapy can play a key role in helping someone survive a heart attack, say researchers from the University of Belgrade School of Medicine. As well as cutting the likelihood of a second attack by 23 percent, it reduces the rate of heart failure by 18 percent, lowers the risk of coronary artery bypass surgery by 20 percent, and the lessens the chances of cardiac death by 16 percent. Around one in nine heart attack survivors suffers chest pains and anxiety attacks for the first two days afterward, but patients who listen to soothing music they have chosen themselves for…

Longo recommends going on a vitamin C “feast” for a few weeks every six months, when up to 6 g should be taken every day, or up to the level of bowel tolerance. Beyond that, the vitamin can cause diarrhea. But therapeutic doses for treating cancer and other chronic problems can be higher still. Doses given in clinical trials have ranged from 0.15 g to 0.7 g per kg of body weight every day. At the upper level, a person weighing 140 lb (63.5 kg) would be taking nearly 10 g a day. That’s 50 times the highest recommended dose of 200 mg, and a far cry from the recommended daily allowance of just 95 mg.…

W e like to feel empowered in the knowledge we have control over our own destiny. But this idea has been somewhat shaken by the events of the last few months. We are all now highly aware of the level of control that governments can have over our lives—in many cases these powers having laid dormant within various laws, only to be enacted once a state of emergency has been declared. That happened on March 11, when the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. For many of us, it’s the first time in our lives that such an emergency has occurred, though it was something many of our parents or grandparents experienced, such as during WorldWarII. When a government decides to lock down its population to ostensibly…

At least they got the name right. “OperationWarpSpeed” is the Trump Administration’s code name (from the science fiction series Star Trek) for the colossal government-corporate partnership, with bottomless public funding and satellites across the globe, that boldly aims to be able to inject every person on the planet with a coronavirus pandemic vaccine at breakneck speed. “That means big and it means fast,”Trump said, launching Warp Speed in April with Dr Anthony Fauci, head of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, standing at his side, wearing a face mask and adjusting his tie. “A massive scientific, industrial and logistical endeavor unlike anything our country has seen since the Manhattan Project.” The Manhattan Project was the secret government program that developed the atom bomb, which killed nearly a quarter of a…

Vitamin D. Vitamin D levels fall in winter, which is a factor in seasonal respiratory illnesses. An April 2020 review of the literature recommends high-dose vitamin D to prevent COVID infection.1 Recommended dose: 5,000 IU/day, reducing to 2,000 IU after two weeks, or 10,000 IU/day for those most at risk. Ideally, check blood levels and adjust dose for an optimum vitamin D level of 60–80 ng/mL Vitamin A. Maintaining sufficient levels of vitamin A is critical to lung health.2 Recommended dose: 3,000 IU (900 mcg)/day (equivalent to 18,000 IU beta carotene) N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC). This nutrient bolsters levels of glutathione, a potent antioxidant, anticancer, antiviral and anti-aging molecule that is significantly reduced in a number of diseases. NAC has been shown to bolster immune function and to reduce inflammation in lung…

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The exercises that follow are designed improve breathing by: • Supporting easeful oxygenation with full exhalations that allow full release of CO2 • Supporting healthy posture to encourage nasal rather than mouth-breathing (countering modern tendencies to push the head forward from the shoulders) • Supporting full movement of the diaphragm and intercostal muscles for ease of breathing motions • Loosening the shoulders and jaw, which also releases tension through the ribs and diaphragm. Space into the shoulders out from the chest It’s helpful to start opening the shoulders and chest lying on the ground, where you don’t have the effort of lifting up from gravity. 1 Lying with your head supported on one side, knees bent, settle into the shoulders here and reach the top arm forward. 2 Inhale to…

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In 2015, when researchers at Beth Israel Medical Center examined a patient’s bile duct with a special tissue-illuminating laser and sensors, they saw something they didn’t expect: a series of interconnected cavities that didn’t match any previously known anatomy. Later, when another doctor made slides of the dead tissue, the mysterious cavities had disappeared. Eventually the researchers realized what had happened: the spaces in the biopsy slides, previously dismissed as tears in the tissue, were actually the remains of fluid-filled compartments—fascia—that collapsed after death.1 In the years following this discovery, medical scientists have discovered that the fascia isn’t just inert “filler.” Instead, it’s a single, interconnected web of tissue that surrounds and penetrates every organ, every muscle, every bone. We now know that fascia runs throughout the entire body and…

Hydration expert Dana Cohen has plenty of tips for managing liquid intake: “Front load” your water. Start every morning with a 16-ounce glass of water. Keep your electrolytes balanced. With every couple glasses of water, add either a commercially available electrolyte replenishment or a pinch of salt and maybe a little lemon. (Use sea salt, Celtic salt, rock salt or Himalayan salt rather than table salt.) During the day, aim to drink about half your body weight (in pounds) in ounces of still or sparkling water (equivalent to a liter for every 30 kg)—so a 140-lb woman should drink about 70 oz of water per day. Drink other beverages throughout the day like bone broth and tea. Even coffee is not dehydrating as long as you consume fewer than than…

(From Herbert Benson’s The Relaxation Response) 1 Pick a focus word, short phrase or prayer that is firmly rooted in your belief system, such as “One,” “Peace,” “The Lord is my shepherd,” “Hail Mary, full of grace,” “Shalom,” or “Om.” 2 Sit quietly in a comfortable position. 3 Close your eyes. 4 Relax your muscles, progressing from your feet to your calves, thighs, abdomen, shoulders, head and neck. 5 Breathe slowly and naturally, and as you do, say your focus word, sound, phrase or prayer silently to yourself as you exhale. 6 Assume a passive attitude. When other thoughts come to mind, simply say to yourself, “Oh, well,” and gently return to your repetition. 7 Continue for 10 to 20 minutes. 8 Continue sitting quietly for a minute or so,…

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Melissa Thomas* was skeptical when she first went to see London-based craniosacral therapist and homeopath Amal Alaoui in 2012, but eight years later she is still a regular client and credits Amal with helping her to cope with her incredibly stressful job as a child safeguarding nurse and all the other life stresses she has to manage as a woman in her 50s—going through menopause, caring for elderly parents and dealing with her children leaving home for university. Melissa had never really considered stress as something she needed to seek help for. But when an osteopath she was seeing suggested that her chronic neck pain may be related to stress, it made perfect sense to her. “I’ve had arthritis in my neck for years,”says Melissa. “There are times when it…

Originating from the work of osteopath William Sutherland in the early 1900s and developed in the 1970s and ‘80s by osteopathic physician John E. Upledger, craniosacral therapy focuses on the craniosacral system, comprising the membranes, fluid and bones that surround the brain and spinal cord. The craniosacral rhythm that therapists work with is measurable via magnetic resonance imaging and other imaging techniques, although Gez Lamb notes that “no one knows where it comes from.” Some refer to it as the body’s inherent life force. According to Gez, the rhythm can be felt as a subtle motion almost like a tide through the bone. “When you first train, you’re feeling for it with your hands,” says Gez. “But as the years go on, you tune into the craniosacral rhythm with your…

Spread the word Every issue of WDDTY contains an amazing amount of useful health information, so it would be good if more of us readers could share this around. After I’ve read it, I always lend my copy to a friend, and I tell others by email about some of the useful facts it contains. However, it’s hard to know how to get more people to know about this publication. I’ve kept all my copies over the years for future reference, and I’d hate to think of people throwing their copy away. It could perhaps be left in waiting rooms, etc., but then you have lost the copy yourself. Has anyone got any tips on what they do to let others know about WDDTY and the amazing wealth of ground-breaking…

It’s never too late to adopt a healthier lifestyle—and it can still have a big impact on your health in later years. Women who take up a better diet in their fifties reduce their risk of a stroke 20 years later, a new study has found. The risk falls by as much as 30 percent, say researchers at the Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health in Boston, who tracked the health and lifestyles of nearly 60,000 women for around 26 years. The average age of the women was 52 at the start of the study, and they were urged to adopt healthier lifestyles, such as giving up smoking, exercising and eating a better diet, including more fish, nuts, whole grains, fruits and vegetables and eliminating processed meats. During…

Blood pressure drugs make COVID-19 virus lethal Blood pressure medication is one factor that’s making the COVID-19 virus lethal. The drugs increase the chances of viral pneumonia and fatal respiratory failure, new research has discovered. People who are taking an ACE inhibitor or an ARB drug for heart problems should stay at home and not meet up with people, say researchers from Louisiana State University. Dr Malcolm Kendrick, a family doctor in the UK, estimates that people taking one of the drugs are four times more likely to die from the virus. The drugs also increase the chances of catching the virus in the first place. ACE (angiotensinconverting enzyme) inhibitors in particular increase the levels of receptors around the lungs that the coronavirus binds to. Many taking the medication are…

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In a 2020 meta-analysis, researchers found that vitamin C shortened the time patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) were dependent on a ventilator. They pooled data on clinical outcomes from 685 critically ill patients treated in eight separate studies. Overall, vitamin C reduced the patients’ time on a ventilator by 14 percent. But the patients it helped the most were also the sickest. For the 471 patients who had been on a ventilator for more than 10 hours—that is, the most severe cases—vitamin C shortened the ventilation treatment time by 25 percent.…

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Let’s be honest, motivating ourselves to train in winter can be tough. The temptation of hitting your snooze button can loom large with the thought of bracing the conditions. With a national shift trending towards working from home coupled with shorter daylight hours, you can find yourself dealing with darkness on both sides of your work schedule. Before you shelve your exercise regime for the next few months, it may be worth giving the idea of an outdoor winter workout a second thought. Here are my top six reasons for moving your training outdoors this winter: 1 You’ll burn more calories: Yep, it’s true! As the body works harder to regulate its core temperature among the elements, you’ll burn a few more calories during your wintry workout compared to one…

One possible reason for the mood-enhancing effects of fascia therapy is that your fascia contains receptors for endocannabinoidssubstances produced by your body that have biological effects similar to marijuana.1 One study showed that after subjects received osteopathic manipulation, their serum levels of anandamide—a neurotransmitter classified as an endocannabinoidincreased by 168 percent.2 REFERENCES 1 Eur J Histochem, 2016; 60: 130–34 2 J Am Osteopath Assoc, 2005; 105: 283–9…

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“This is vital not just as a treatment for illness but for the prevention of it” In his latest book, Timeless Healing: The Power and Biology of Belief, Herbert Benson provides a simplified method to elicit the relaxation response. All you need to do is the following: • Repeat a word, sound, phrase, prayer or muscle activity • Passively disregard everyday thoughts that inevitably come to mind and return to your repetition This can be done while exercising, making art, cooking, shopping, driving . . . in fact, whenever.…

Like many cases of flu, the first stage of COVID-19 is often just a sniffle, a fever and a general sense of feeling unwell—along with an understandable sense of anxiety and panic. During stage 1, Jeremy Sherr says that taking a few doses of Aconite (Aconitum napellus) has helped his patients cut the whole thing short and make symptoms more bearable. “Aconite is able to stop it in the onset stage,” agrees Los Angeles-based homeopath Anna Cox. “Aconite is useful in the first stage of any kind of febrile condition. Now we just watch to make sure the person who has it is resolving it over the next 48 hours.” Aconite is not the only useful remedy in stage 1. Phosphorus, Arsenicum album, Kali muriaticum, Bryonia and Antimonium tartarkum are…

Health agencies and governments are clinging to the hope of a COVID-19 vaccine as a Catholic would to his rosary. Only when a vaccine is found can we safely run through the sunlit uplands we once used to enjoy. At the time of writing, more than 100 candidates have entered the race, headed by those funded by billionaire Bill Gates and his beneficent foundation. The reward for them is far more than the warm glow of freeing the people from their lockdowns, and billions upon billions will be heaped into their offshore accounts. It’s puzzling why so much hope has been pinned on a vaccine. For one, epidemiologists don’t think infection provides long-term immunity, and it could last for mere months; for another, the virus is mutating, as all viruses…