Innholdsfortegnelse for April/May 2022 i What Doctors Don't Tell You Australia/NZ

Over the Christmas period, we both had Covid. We didn’t die or go to a hospital, despite not being in the first flush of youth. It was a flu/cold by any other name, and we both got fully better within a few weeks without much more than vitamin C, vitamin D and a salt pipe with iodine. It being Christmas, we were both fascinated during our convalescence to witness two wildly different interpretations from clergymen about the pandemic and what Jesus might have made of it all. First, there was none other than the Archbishop of Canterbury, JustinWelby, whomanaged, in one extended ITV News soundbite, to suggest both that those who refuse to get jabbed were“immoral”and that he was taking his cue about whether to get a vaccine from Jesus.…

Stop taking aspirin if you’re over 60 Anyone over the age of 60 should stop taking an aspirin a day to prevent heart disease—the risks of stomach bleeding outweigh any benefits. Current guidelines recommend those over 60 should take an aspirin as part of their daily health regime to reduce their chances of cardiovascular disease, heart attack and stroke. But the US Preventive Services Task Force has said the risks of serious—and possibly life-threatening—stomach bleeding are too great, and only those who have already had a heart attack or stroke should continue taking the medication. The benefits of daily aspirin are marginal in people over 50 and offer only a small benefit to those who are in their 40s. The task force is an independent group of researchers who have…

Sometimes I find it useful to consider the state of the world from a big picture, bird’s-eye perspective, especially when I’m 40,000 feet above the Earth’s surface, as I find myself now for the first time in nearly a year and a half. With just two hours of sleep in the bag, I didn’t have the energy to try to take on an airport, then an airline, over the scientific senselessness of being forced to wear a piece of woven fiber across my face. So I am muzzled as I write this, and two hours in, it’s the longest I’ve worn a mask since an experimental oxygen saturation test showed my O2 saturation dropped 2 percent with a mask on. The air quality in these aluminum cigar tubes is always…

Men don’t usually think of their prostate until it starts acting up. An obscure little gland—often compared to a walnut—it lies under the bladder, quietly and thanklessly performing its endless and vital task of mixing enzymes and ingredients into the seminal plasma to allow sperm to flow freely, until one day a man may notice that he’s suddenly making trips to the toilet in the middle of the night, or that his stream just isn’t as powerful as it used to be. For Kevin McNamara, he suddenly noticed that it was a bit of a wait and an effort to urinate in the morning, which seemed odd. He went to the doctor. McNamara went through mainstream medicine’s prostate protocol. He had a PSA blood test (see box, page 30) and…

Ingredients: Roughly half a bowl of rolled oats Flaxseeds Lemon Half an orange Organic wheat germ oil Boiled water Banana (optional) McNamara pours about a half a bowl of rolled oats, sprinkles about a quarter cup of flaxseed on top, pours on the juice (and pulp) of half a fresh orange and a full lemon, drizzles on the wheat germ oil, mixes and lets the bowl set overnight. In the morning, he boils the kettle, pours hot water to heat the porridge and slices a banana on top. “I call it magic,” he says. “It shrinks your prostate. It did for mine.”…

Sooner or later your child will get an acute febrile (feverish) illness, cough or cold. Welcome this—coughs, colds and fevers are a desirable and essential part of training the immune system—but first be prepared with what I call ‘Groundhog’ regimes. Because I constantly refer in my practice to the same approach, which I believe is fundamental to the treatment of all infections, and by inference to the avoidance of the major killers (cancer, heart disease, dementia), which are all driven by chronic infection, I call it Groundhog. In the film Groundhog Day, the protagonist is caught in a time loop where the same day is repeated again and again until there is a shift in his understanding. My Groundhog regimes represent another sort of loop that bears constant repetition. Groundhog…

When Richard Gordon was 24, he was not in good health. He had irritating skin rashes, lung problems and intestinal issues that resisted treatment by regular doctors. “They basically said,‘Nothing’s bad enough yet to treat. Why don’t you come back when you get worse, and we’ll see what we can do for you?” Feeling lost and rather insulted, he decided to attend a holistic health school in New Mexico, where he learned a technique called Polarity Therapy. Then he met the man who would change his life, an energy healer named Bob Rasmusson, who had created a healing modality called Regenesis. “When I first met him, I thought he was full of it, talking about healing a grapefruit-sized tumor and having a child’s fractured leg heal to the point he…

PHILADELPHIA, PA Lauren, now age 39, from Philadelphia, PA, had severe scoliosis and had been going to doctors and chiropractors since she was 19. It was hard for her to sit for very long because of the pain. Clothes didn’t fit right because of the spinal curvature and the fact that the right side of her body and ribcage were torqued upward at an angle. “The doctors and chiropractors told me I was going to have to get treatments for the rest of my life and that I would always be like this,” she says. “I couldn’t expect any change, and there was never an option of getting better.” Stumbling across a TV broadcast that featured an energy healer, she was intrigued. Her mother was sick with fibromyalgia, had back…

“Supplementing with antioxidants like vitamins E, C and A is important and may be useful for slowing down the progression of cataracts” Q Jake, our 10-year-old American Cocker Spaniel, has developed cataracts. Can you suggest any alternatives to surgery or ways to stop them getting worse? P.L., via email A Cataracts are when cloudiness develops in the lens of the eye, which is usually clear. They’re not the same as nuclear sclerosis, which is a normal age-related condition resulting in a hazy appearance to the eyes and seen in most old animals. The eyes of pets with cataracts look cloudy to milky, and in most cases, the lens looks solid white even to the naked eye. This is a result of biochemical changes occurring in the proteins that are present…

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…

Covid vaccine safety trials hid reports of serious side-effects Researchers testing the safety of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine before its worldwide launch falsified data and hid some of the worst cases of adverse reactions. A whistleblower at one of the test centers was fired the same day she alerted the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to the bad practices that were hiding data on the vaccine’s dangers. Brook Jackson, a regional director at Ventavia Research Group, a clinical research company contracted by Pfizer, has now voiced her concerns to the press to reveal the company falsified data, ‘unblinded’ patients to staff members regarding whether they had received the vaccine or a placebo, and was slow to follow up on adverse reactions to the vaccine. In short, poor safety trials underpinned…

Cover-ups have brought down leaders before. Watergate was one. It involved the exposure of break-ins to opposition offices, bugging and other clandestine activities designed to steal power and control from political opponents. Nixon resigned as a result—having had his administration’s dirty laundry hung out to dry during a lengthy impeachment process. What’s been happening under the Biden administration, or that of Boris Johnson, Justin Trudeau, Emmanuel Macron, Jacinda Ardern or any other head of state who has imposed radical measures justified by Covid-19 makes Nixon’s antics seem quite innocent by comparison. The imposition of authoritarianism that has stripped millions of their liberties, often hard-won by their forebears, has caused innumerable citizens around the world to lose their jobs or be sent into a spiral of mental health challenges. Then there’s…

The Covid epidemic and its treatment have put vaccination back in the limelight. They’ve also created new labels for people who ask questions: “antivaxxer,” “vaccine denier” or just plain “conspiracy theorist.” However, in the 31 years that WDDTY has been publishing and covering vaccination, we’ve discovered that all vaccines carry a sliding scale of risk and benefit. What’s beneficial for one person may be detrimental to another. To make an informed decision about vaccines, asking questions is essential and the right of every person, particularly every parent. In our view, there are three main questions to ask of every vaccine before submitting to it: •How necessary is it? •How effective is it? •How safe is it? In Vaccine Watch, our new series, we do the asking for you. Pertussis, or…

An American doctor, who prefers to remain anonymous, treated a boy of four. He said the boy suddenly started to display characteristics of autism within days of receiving the fourth in a series of childhood vaccines, which included DPT, Sabin polio and hepatitis B. He had suffered fevers after the first three vaccinations, but nothing worse. Until the fourth vaccine, his parents said he was very bright and affectionate and had a vocabulary of 25 words. But after the fourth, he suffered vomiting, fever, lethargy and excessive sleepiness. After three days, he had an episode of inconsolable, high-pitched screaming (symptoms typical of the cri encephalique— see main text). Immediately after this episode, he stopped talking, and there was a rapid change in his sociability. He also displayed repetitive behavior and…

Q I’m pregnant with my first child and worried about preeclampsia, as my mother and sister both developed it during late pregnancy. Is there anything I can do to help prevent it? I’m not overweight and don’t have high blood pressure. P.C., via email A Preeclampsia is one of the most common medical complications of pregnancy, affecting some 2–8 percent of pregnancies.1 It’s typically identified by the onset of high blood pressure, excess protein in the urine and edema (swelling due to water retention), usually after the twentieth week of pregnancy.2 Other symptoms include headaches, excessive weight gain, vision problems and pain below the ribs. Preeclampsia can have serious consequences for both mother and child, but there’s plenty you can do to reduce your risk. Ideally, work with an experienced…

Although much can be accomplished in an impromptu five- to ten-minute session, a proper in-depth Quantum Touch session averages from 45 minutes up to 75 minutes after there’s been a thorough intake conversation covering both physical and emotional components of a client’s presenting condition. Sessions are conducted with the client fully clothed and usually lying on a massage table. Both Gordon and Grant say that at the beginning, the healer might feel nothing in their hands. “Usually, it takes about five minutes before your hands start to really vibrate,” says Gordon. “After maybe 20 minutes, they’re vibrating like crazy because the client’s body is entraining to your vibrations and the energy is moving. At the end of the session, you might notice that the sensation in your hands has gone…

Vegetable confusion Thank you for one more compelling issue of your journal. I read the Feb/Mar issue from covertocover. Thearticle“Your starters for 10”on page 34 bothers me. In the ‘70 Plus’ column, there is only one vegetable, not counting the two juices and the possibility of ceviche as a complete recipe. I have been teaching that three cups of vegetables and two cups of fruit are highly recommended. This is fortified with some recent research. Of course, there are some qualifications regarding choices. Then to confuse readers more are two articles further in the journal telling us veggies are superfoods, and we should try them to meet the suggestions of the rainbow diet, Mediterranean diet and keto diet. I guess the intermittent fasting diet just cares if you eat by…

Has anybody in your family refused the Covid vaccine? Have you socially shunned them and not invited them to family gatherings? Or perhaps you’re an ‘anti-vaxxer,’ and you’ve fallen out with friends and family who blame you for Covid’s continued spread. Families are being torn apart—and it’s because they are being told a very clear message that Covid is a killer and that vaccines are the only way out of this. As the saying has it, truth may be the first casualty of war, but it’s also taken quite a knock in another type of conflict: our battle against Covid-19. Forgetting conspiracy theories, reliable and trusted sources reveal that the number of deaths directly caused by the virus is much lower than official figures suggest, and adverse reactions and deaths…

Treatment-related regret is common among men with localized prostate cancer, especially those who have their prostate surgically removed, according to a new study. Researchers at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada, conducted a population-based, prospective cohort study that included 2,072 men with prostate cancer and asked them about their satisfaction with the treatments they underwent, five years after their diagnosis. Of these, 279 men (13 percent) reported regretting their choice. For men who underwent surgery, the regret was highest, at 16 percent. For those who had radiation therapy, 11 percent regretted the decision, as did seven percent of men who opted for active surveillance (with repeat testing and diagnostics). Sexual dysfunction was significantly associated with regret, according to the study, although lasting pain and incontinence are recognized factors as well.1…

In the US, vaccine reactions are reported to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), a passive surveillance system established in 1986. A search of the database on November 12, 2021, yielded 197,354 reports associated with diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis-containing vaccines (DTP, DTaP, Tdap, Td and combination vaccines) including 3,280 deaths, 4,033 life-threatening episodes, 23,443 hospitalizations (including 1,076 cases of prolonged hospitalization) and 3,599 cases of permanent disability. Documented side-effects to pertussis vaccines include: • Encephalopathy (brain inflammation) within 7 days • Seizures within 3 days • More than 3 hours of persistent, severe, inconsolable screaming or crying within 48 hours of the injection • Collapse or shock within 48 hours • Temperature of >=40.5°C (104.9°F), unexplained by another cause, within 48 hours • Immediate severe or anaphylactic reaction to…

According to the large Swedish study mentioned above, acellular vaccines appeared to carry the same side-effects as the whole-cell vaccine, including convulsions and HHEs, but at a lower incidence rate.1 The package inserts for DTaP vaccines (Daptacel and Infanrix, Section 6.2 Post-Marketing Experience) report a laundry list of adverse events including: lymphadenopathy (swollen lymph nodes) , thrombocytopenia (low blood platelet count), cyanosis (skin turning blue from lack of oxygen in the blood), nausea, diarrhea, injection site nodule/mass, extensive swelling of injected limb (including swelling that involves adjacent joints), hypersensitivity, allergic reactions, angioedema (swelling of tissue under the skin), erythema (reddening of skin), pruritus (itching), urticaria (hives) and other types of rash, hypotonia (low muscle tone), headache, ear pain, apnea, fatigue, somnolence (sleepiness), syncope (fainting) and SIDS.2 Package inserts for Tdap…

Herbalist Meilyr James, owner of the Herbal Clinic in Swansea, Wales (www.herbalclinic-swansea.co.uk), recommends the following herbal recipes for improving circulation and helping with Raynaud’s. Rosemary and cinnamon hand/ foot bath Ingredients 0.7 oz/20 g fresh rosemary 2 medium cinnamon sticks Optional: 5 drops black pepper, clove or nutmeg essential oil diluted in 1 tsp (5 mL) of olive oil Note: This recipe can be adapted using other warming circulatory herbs you have available, such as thyme or fresh ginger. Directions 1 Place the herbs in a teapot with 4 cups (1 L) of boiling water. Let this stand for 5 hours or overnight. Once ready, strain the liquid into a hand or foot bath and add 8 cups (2 L) of very hot water and the essential oil (if using).…

Q I’ve been feeling quite low over the past six months or so. I don’t really feel like meeting people or going out much, and I feel tired and unmotivated a lot of the time. My doctor said I have a mild case of depression and wants to keep an eye on me. I don’t want to end up on antidepressants. Are there any effective drug-free ways to help with depression? C.C., via email A You’re not alone. Depression is the leading mental health problem worldwide, and rates have soared since the start of the pandemic. One recent study reported that the global prevalence of depression is seven times higher now than in 2017.1 The usual prescription is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), but these drugs come with serious…

LON DON When Joanna Gregory, a resident of London, was 25, she visited her father in Spain. Although there had never been any physical or sexual abuse, she’d grown up feeling unsafe around him. “His life experience is rooted in the Holocaust era, so I know that there are genetic and emotional things he’s dealing with,” she says. “But when I visited him, he was in a very angry space and feeling suicidal. He had bought a couple of kittens, and they happened to be infested with fleas. I stayed in the room where those kittens had been and was bitten from head to toe every night. It was terrible, but I was too afraid to tell my dad. When I got back to London, I had a huge panic…

Nordic walking is brilliant exercise in general, and near-perfect for people with cancer. It worked for me during my recovery from breast cancer, acting as a steppingstone from gentle walking to running again. I’m convinced that it helped reduce the postsurgery swelling and helped get my arm moving fully again. Based on cross-country skiing, Nordic walking is an outdoor activity that will work your whole body without impacting too much on your back, knees and ankles. This is exercising at a level at which you can chat, have a giggle and at the same time become stronger and get a real sense of satisfaction. Nordic walking works the whole body. What’s more, it’s hard enough, but not too hard—it can be adapted to suit everyone’s individual fitness levels. For most…

What’s in a name? A rose may smell just as sweet, but in medicine—and its drive for immediate diagnosis—the name takes on its own power and life. Several of our friends recently had debilitating chemotherapy—and, in one case, a full mastectomy—after they had been diagnosed with breast cancer, or so they thought. While we would have counseled caution and other less aggressive approaches first, we completely understood the women had been shocked into immediate, aggressive action. The very word “cancer” can have that effect even on the best of us. The trouble was that our friends didn’t have cancer at all. They had DCIS, or ductal carcinoma in situ. It’s also sometimes called intraductal carcinoma—there’s that dreaded word again—but it is in fact a noninvasive or pre-invasive breast cancer, often…