The Swine Flu

Jo, thank you for your wisdom.

I am not buying the fear either.  The return on investment is exponentially more fear.  Simply stated, not worth the investment.

Listen with your heart,

- Laurie

Thanks so much for posting this Jo.  it is good to connect again.

I posted something on Realizing Health pod  from Dr. Wlm. Douglass
based on Mercola.com report.  It is great to get all of these views open to all.  I will let my groups know too.  I know Big Pharma is behind this.  The news thrives on sensationalism and keeping people in fear. 

Thanks for the website on Miracle Mineral & Nutra Medix

When people are ill, even with communicable diseases, people often do not isolate themselves or seek proper treatment.  This, as you can easily see, tends to put you at risk.  Insist that when someone is ill that he or she takes proper precautions and gets proper care.  Washing hands and bathe daily to get rid of germs.  You are within your rights to insist that people bathe regularly and wash their hands.  It is inevitable that one gets dirty working or exercising so clean up afterwards.  Eat properly and get rest.  Look around your environment and notice things that are not threatening and stay in an upbeat positive mood.  To know yourself is to know life.  Follow your body talk and set a good example.  These things I mention are known, but I add them as a reminder to share with others.

Jo, You are an angel… Thank you for posting this…
The media tells only as much as they want us to hear and hardly any of the facts. This does nothing but cause fear and panic,chaos and mahem(sp) and this is what they seem to thrive on… for me, it has gotten so rediculious that I hardly ever even watch the news anymore. Its like watching a soap opera …as you have said, lets put the music behind it and pop up the popcorn.
Smiles, love and Blessings

Thanks so much for posting this Jo!
I have been an advocate of what you speak of for most of my life. The media is big money. News brings in big money for the networks. It has been proven that people get addicted to fear based programming. They love to live the drama to squeeze out some attention for themselves. I rarely watch the news and never read the paper. Its all bs and plays on our fears.the more intune we are with ourselves the more intune we are with whats going on in the world. THe more we can then make a difference. Most don't want to sustain the effort. Sometimes its that last inch of a race that makes all the difference. Remember the summer olympics, a certain swim race where  a certain winning swimmer never gave up, not even for an instant and ended up winning by the smallest fraction possible, he never gave up. I wonder how many people adapted that to their life that day, my guess is none. Most don't want to look any deeper than they have to. That is why we have polititians now, to make the decisions for us because we are to lazy and now it is out of control. Well this is what your blog spurred in me, I hope your happy! lol just kidding. But thanks. You hit a spot near and dear to me.
Love and Blessings
Craig J Klodzinski
swami dharmamurti

I agree, WHO and the CDC is being prudent and cautious as it should, the media is as usual feeding into everyones fear. People like tuning into fear and hysteria for some odd reason. It must make them feel more alive in a twisted way from their numb hum drum.
On the other hand don't play with your health. If you feel its necessary see your doctor, or God forbid, go to the emergency room if need be. Use your common sense. Know yourself but don't let mass hysteria get the best of you either.

In 1974 on sept 13th, which was a friday, I was admitted to the hospital with a mysterious disease. The doctors determined that after about a month or so of being there that I had gullium-barre syndrom. They said it was due to drug abuse and being exposed to toxic chemicals. After 3 months of rehab I did get better and regained my feeling and strength in my legs. In 1996 I started seeing an allergist for my allergies, of course. He took my history and noticed the gullium-barre and the year that I had it. It was a swine flu year and and epidemic immunizations for the swine flu. He said that being exposed to people who had had the immunization caused me to get gullium-barre. The CDC knows that there are at least 500 known cases that were recently caused by these immunizations. I went through 20 years of my family blaming me for being a fool for doing drugs and getting sick. Yes I was a fool for doing drugs, but to not be told the truth by the medical community  that is outrageous. I am just a small bit in the big picture, there are many infants and children who are killed by immunizations every year. Where and when will it stop. Or can it be stopped? Do we sacrifice a few calfs to save the herd?
With love and respect
Craig

As a Holistic Health Practitioner, Jo asked me if I would throw in my two-cents on things we can do to build our immune systems.  Food is something we have to ingest every day.  As such, it is one of the most simple, convenient and effective ways.  With that in mind, here is a list of the top foods that boost the immune system (purchase organic when possible). 

BROCCOLI
Broccoli is well established as an immune-system building food.  Broccoli contains some 3% of protein and is one of the richest vegetable sources of calcium, iron and magnesium.  Moreover, broccoli is very rich in Vitamins A and C, exceeding even oranges in the concentration of the latter.  Broccoli has incredible antioxidant properties.   Additional health benefits of broccoli include:


Skin Care - The credit for keeping your skin glowing and young goes to the enormous helping of anti-oxidants.  These also help sun-damaged skin. 
Significant reduction in heart disease risk

Eye Care & Cataract - Broccoli is very good for ocular health.  It contains substances that protect eyes against Macular Degeneration, cataracts, and it helps to repair damage from UV radiations.
 
Detoxification - it helps remove free radicals and toxins like uric acid from the body.

Stomach Disorders - it is very high in fiber (roughage).  This helps to eliminate most stomach disorders by curing constipation (constipation being the root cause of almost all stomach disorders).

Heart Diseases - Broccoli helps reduce bad cholesterol.  It also keeps the heart functioning properly by regulating the blood-pressure.

Immunity - The substances responsible for the green and purplish color of broccoli are terrific immune strengtheners.  They protect you from numerous infections.
 
Bone Health - Being very rich in calcium and other nutrients, eating broccoli is beneficial to anyone who is prone to osteoporosis, weakening of bones, teeth, and/or a deficiency of calcium.
 
High Blood Pressure - An important mineral - chromium - found abundantly in broccoli, helps in proper functioning of insulin and regulates blood sugar, thereby regulating blood pressure. 
 
Anemia - Anemia is directly related to lack of iron and certain proteins.  Broccoli is rich in both of these - an excellent remedy for anemia!
 
Pregnancy - Broccoli is extremely useful during pregnancy.  One cup of broccoli offers 94 mcg of folic acid - the most common deficiency in the world!


TOMATOES
Besides loads of vitamin C, tomatoes are one of the richest sources of the flavenoid lycopene - which gives them their red color - which has shown to defend, in study after study, against cancers of the lungs, cervix, prostate and mouth.  Tomatoes are also one of the chief ingredients of “The Mediterranean Diet,” now well known for the many important health benefits it conveys.

BLUEBERRIES
In addition to plenty of flavenoids - the rich pigment of the berries - which has repeatedly shown to protect against several cancers, blueberries may also hold “The Secret of Youth.”  In a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, investigators found that elderly rats fed the human equivalent of at least 1/2 cup of blueberries per day, improved in balance, coordination and short-term memory.  A normal serving consists of one cup.  Like other fruits and vegetables - and particularly so the “dark” ones - blueberries contain chemicals that act as antioxidants, now believed by scientists to protect the body against “oxidative stress,” one of several biological processes that cause aging.

RED CABBAGE
All cabbages - including their kin broccoli, cauliflower, kale, brussel sprouts, boy choy, and so forth - are not only rich in calcium, but recent research has shown that they are also extremely rich in anti-cancer flavenoids, the source of the purple color of the red cabbages.  But the red cabbage tops them all; it is the richest source of flavenoids among all vegetables, besides red beets, of course.
 
RED BEETS
Dr Ferenczi in Csoma hospital in Hungary has been using raw beets to boost the immune system to cure cancer, and nothing else since the late 1950s. The only problem is the same one as you get with heroic injections of vitamin C. If you eat too much raw beetroot, it can kill the cancer faster than your liver can dispose of the waste products. So if you have a large cancer, start with small quantities of beetroot, and gradually increase them until you start to feel unwell, and then back off the amount. You may get a fever if your liver is being asked to work too hard.

You could probably get the same results with vitamin C injections, but having to increase the quantity gradually would mean multiple injections, whereas raw beetroot tastes good.

The maximum benefits are obtained with red beets are eaten raw without peeling them. You might be surprised by how sweet they are when raw, but remember that sugar-beet is a major source of refined sugar. Grate them for a salad, or blend them into a fruit and vegetable drink.

You can buy dried beetroot powder in many health food shops. That allows you to use large quantities, so remember the precaution.

Note:  do not become alarmed if your urine and bowel movements turn red.  There is no reason to panic – it’s just the abundance of the potent flavenoids in red beets.

SPINACH
Another of the “dark” vegetables, spinach is also a rich source of vitamin C, beta-carotene - both are potent antioxidants - as well as folic acid, now discovered to be so vital to our health the US Department of Health has mandated that it is be added to flour.  In several studies (University of Minnesota, Environmental Health Services, and others), it has been found that people who include two or more servings of spinach per week in their nutrition have healthier immune systems and lower lung and breast cancer fates.

GARLIC
Studies focused on garlic have shown again and again that this pungent onion kin lives up to its age-old reputation of being a powerful all-around health promoting food.  The sulfur compounds that give it its strong flavor have now been shown to protect against cancer by neutralizing carcinogens and slowing tumor growth.  In a recent Iowa Women's Health study, investigators found that women who consume garlic at least once a week also have healthier immune systems and a 32% lower incidence of breast cancer.  Garlic is, of course, also a major ingredient in the now well-known “Mediterranean Diet.”

ORANGES
Already well-known for their high vitamin C content, much recent research in the food sciences has shown that oranges are also rich in many other potent immune system boosting, anti-cancer compounds.  Investigators have now found that oranges contain more than 170 photochemicals, including more than 20 from the potent carotenoid family alone.  In addition, compounds called limonoids - which give citrus fruit their slightly bitter taste - appear to be highly active anti-cancer agents as well.  Regular consumption of oranges is associated with significantly lower lung and stomach cancers.

STRAWBERRIES
In a study tracking the diet and health of 1,271 people, researchers at the Harvard School of Health found that people who love strawberries have healthier immune systems and a 70% lower incidence of cancer.  But, and as many other studies have shown, the same holds true for all other colorful and deeply colored berries such as cranberries, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, red and purple grapes, and so forth.

BEANS
Much recent research in the food sciences has established that all kinds of beans boost the immune system.  How?  They are loaded with protease inhibitors, compounds that produce ‘T’ cells that make the immune system a strong and effective fighting machine.  “T” cells are the “teeth” of the immune system.  Fava beans are a great source.  They have also been shown to block carcinogens in the digestive tract.  Soy beans are especially rich in isoflavones, which appears to reduce the risk of breast cancer by blocking the tumor-growing influence of estrogen.  Lentils also belong to the bean family and are one of the tastiest, most versatile and easiest to prepare beans.

Listen with your heart,

- Laurie

Jo,
Thank your for posting this thought provoking blog.  Karl and I have recently changed the way we eat, and we have incorporated many of the foods that Laurie has spoken about, into our diet.  The media loves things like this new flu… it gives them fodder for the masses and I think that the media has really exaggerated the severity of the virus.  Maybe we need to pay closer attention to hygiene - like hand washing and using soap.  I know that plenty of my students along with some of my colleagues don't wash their hands on a regular basis.
Hugs!
-Susan

Laurie… you are simply wonderful for this amazing help flow.

I just got this from one of my opinion leaders:
NOTE: THIS IS A DOWN AND DIRTY FIRST DRAFT AND MAY CONTAIN TYPOS.  PLEASE LET ME KNOW OF ANY YOU FIND.  
ML,  DENNIS


This data is related to a vitamin D3 deficiency.  You can find out if you or some other members of your family are vitamin D3 deficient by doing a blood test called 25(OH)D3.  There are many symptoms of vitamin D3 deficiencies including rickets, osteoporosis (thinning bones), various infections, MS, lupus, over 80 autoimmune disorders, diabetes and various cancers: http://www.blogginglifeextension.com/?p=756

This is the start of what will probably turn into a series of write-ups on this subject, all due and related to the current outbreak of a pandemic being called “Swine Flu.”  The current outbreak is round two for the Type-A H1N1 virus, altered millions of times over, but which still remains a variant of the A-Type (bird) virus that killed hundreds of millions of people around the world in the winter of 1918 into 1919.  This is still a Type-A (meaning a bird virus) and that virus is vectoring into the human population through swine and back.  In a month, it has spread in pigs and humans, with cases currently showing up from South America, Mexico, Canada, across the Atlantic to Europe and across the Pacific to New Zealand, all in less than a month, all by travelers all unaware, much like the infected birds that originally spread that virus, world-wide as they traveled on their annual migratory flyways.


First, for our purposes, I would like to start by down-grading the current government declared “state of medical emergency” to a “general human rights state of danger.”  I do this for those in the United States, Mexico, and soon other countries, not because we are in danger from this flu, but because we are in danger from the Governments that have declared their various states of national emergency.  


For those who have to live with these governments, this is a time for a heightened awareness of what our governments might be up to.  A “state of emergency,” as declared by governments today, gives those governments dictatorial powers to do things like institute quarantines, ban travel, close airports and harbors, seize crops and livestock and destroy them and to potentially force “medical” treatments on people, including psychiatric and various other treatments, including various drugs from vaccines to even mind altering drugs and the so-called antivirals on individuals, all in spite of and over any protests or refusals and in spite of any damage that may be done by such hospitalizations and/or treatments.  Further, such “emergencies” form an open excuse and invitation for governments to seize, through legislation or by edict, additional new powers which they would not otherwise attempt or be granted and which they could not otherwise seize and those governments may try to keep those powers long after the immediate “emergency” ends.  They always end.


HOWEVER, THE IMMEDIATE FACTS ARE, THAT WITH VERY FEW EXCEPTIONS, IF YOU DO NOTHING TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM THE FLU (WHICH I BELIEVE WOULD BE FOOLISH), NONE-THE-LESS, THE  CHANCES OF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW GETTING SICK FROM OR BEING INJURED BY THIS SO-CALLED SWINE FLU, ARE CURRENTLY SLIM AND NONE BUT IT STILL NEEDS TO BE TRACKED, JUST IN CASE THE GOVERNMENT OF SOME COUNTRY DOES SOMETHING STUPID TO THE VIRUS.


I WILL CONTINUE TO TRACK THIS, AS I HAVE BEEN TRACKING AND STUDYING THE VARIOUS MANIFESTATIONS OF THE FLU, FOR THE PAST TEN YEARS AND I WILL REPORT ANY CHANGES I SEE.


So much for this flu at this point in time but you may and perhaps should continue to follow the news if you really want to get sick from the lies and distortions that sell newspapers, magazines and TV time and don't handle dead birds or pigs in the back yard.


HOWEVER, WHEN IT COMES TO THE VARIOUS GOVERNMENTS INVOLVED, WATCH OUT FOR POWER GRABS AND WITH GOVERNMENTS WHICH FOLLOW THE BLATHERING OF PSYCHOLOGISTS AND PSYCHIATRISTS THAT, “MAN IS AN ANIMAL,” THEY ARE LIKELY TO FURTHER TREAT US LIKE A HERD AND CONTINUE DOING STUPID THINGS AS A RESULT. 


The “man is an animal” people insist on leading medicine down the path of studying the sick, dying and dead as their only source of “medical data.”


To paraphrase “Ole Doc Methuselah,” in the book, “Plague,” “The sick dying and dead have nothing to teach us, They have already lost.  It is those who continue to do well and remain healthy who have the answers.  These are never studied by the medicos because they are apparently less interesting (lucrative) and form a part of the normal, relatively healthy majority.”


DATA ON THE CURRENT PATHOGEN


What is currently being called a “swine flu” outbreak is actually an outbreak of a variant of the Type-A, H1N1 “bird flu” virus that caused the deaths of hundreds of millions of people world-wide in 1918-1919, including not only half of all pregnant women in the US but it also killed half of all the pregnant women on Earth at the time.  This is not that flu, though pregnant women should take some special precautions (as they normally do) to assure both their own and the future health of the child they carry.  We now know why pregnant women were so heavily hit.  They were among the most severely vitamin D3 deficient people in the populations around the world at large.  The great irony of this is that with exposure to sunlight in the previous summer when it was abundant and free.


This virus in now vectoring (being passed on) through (minimally) both swine and humans and probably infects in both directions.  It is apparently spreading quickly and is, as far as avian viruses are concerned, moderately pathogenic: http://biosurveillance.typepad.com/biosurveillance/2009/04/swine-flu-in-mexico-timeline-of-events.html


Make no mistake about this point: The so-called “swine flu,” began as a bird influenza virus that has acquired via a genetic shift, the ability to infect not only birds but also humans and swine.   A Type-A virus is always a bird flu virus.  These bird viruses are problematic in humans and in other species when they shift genetically and acquire the ability to infect those other species which can include all mammals.  In humans, in swine or in any other mammal, Type-A viruses, generally never seen in other than birds, are extremely problematic due to the responses of the immune systems of those other species which treat the Type-A viruses as foreign tissue and work to destroy those “foreign invaders” and reject them as they would an organ transplant.  Such Type-A viruses pose a significant threat to mammals and at least one-third or more of any human population.  That is the third with the most beefed-up immune systems, such as found in pregnant women and people over the age of 2 years and under 45 years of age, the group in the general population that is usually the healthiest of human kind.  


So, when these most powerful of all immune systems begin the rejection process, their immune systems tear the body apart to get to the pathogen in the tissue that is inflamed.  It isn't necessarily spreading faster than other flu viruses such a Type-B viruses that we see as “usual” flu infections that appear during our usual “flu seasons.”  The way to damper or tune down this over response to the virus is to flush the body with D3.


There are also precautions to take such as more D3 and some concern is appropriate so if you find out that you know someone who has woken up dead from this flu, don't re-lick their postage stamps on any of their letter envelopes that may arrive.


Being a variant, Type-A virus originating from birds, not swine, and being a novel Type-A variant that may have never run in the human population, it poses its greatest threat to those humans between the ages of two years and forty-two.  The reason for this segment of the population has the most powerful immune systems within our overall populations and with these most powerful immune systems never having “seen” this variant before, the immune systems don't respond to the infections until quite widespread infection in the form of an invasion of multiple body tissues has occurred.  This widespread invasion causes widespread inflammation of the various tissues to which the immune system finally responds with its big guns in the form of a cytokine storm, the production of over 120 chemicals which flood to the infected cells like a run-away allergic response that attacks the body's own tissue and destroys the normal humanuman cells inflamed by the presence of the novel bird virus in an effort to rid the body of the unseen orpathogen. unrecognized pathogen.  Such inflamed tissues can include and usually does, all major internal organs.  With a new pathogen, apparently due to a lack of antibodies from previous contact with the pathogen, immediate recognition by stimulation of antibodies fails to occur and so, unimpeded by the usual fallout from the aftermath of previous infections, a significantly wide, unimpeded invasion of the body can occur.  In severely vitamin D3 deficient people, infections of various body tissue and organs, from the brain, through the respiratory system including organs like the heart, lungs, kidneys liver and muscle groups have been known to occur.  But the destruction of that tissue only occurs with a run-away auto-immune, cytokine storm like response. 


In spite of the fact that infection with a Type-A or “bird virus” can apparently occur at any age, it is within that segment of the population with the most powerful immune systems that the cytokine storm and others of the immune systems most powerful responses to infections do sufficient damage to vital organs to produce body death.  Such deaths are quite visible to doctors and coroners as they are generally hemorrhagic with the victims bleeding from all orifices of the body due to widespread tissue damage to lungs, heart, brain, and other vital organs and as well as muscle groups which cause a blackening of the extremities due to internal bleeding within these areas as the circulatory system is destroyed.  Thus, the pattern and progression of a highly pathogenic Type-A virus is easily tracked by medicos observing the general body condition at death.  People who bleed from every orifice of the body at death are usually noticed by them.                                                                                                                                             


PREVENTION AND TREATMENT: THIS DATA CAN SAVE LIVES


The current run of this pathogen “bug” will end in the Northern Hemisphere by the end of May and continue its run in the Southern Hemisphere through September.  Historically, it should reappear in the Northern Hemisphere in late September and do most of its damage in October.  This is based upon the usual run of a pandemic virus.  


The far Southern areas of South America, ANZO, South Africa and the far reaches of South Asia will likely be in for problems among the over 2 years and under 45 group, and particularly pregnant women through their return of summer there in September.  If you don't understand this, you probably are a medical doctor or work for the Food and Drug Association (FDA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or the World Health Organization (WHO) and too bad for you.


This phenomena is simply one of under-exposure to ultraviolate radiation from the sun.  In our winters, some among us, by virtue of our geographical locations and other more adjustible life style factors, lose sufficient UVB exposure to ward off viruses and other pathogens like TB and to govern and dampen the rejection-like resoponse or severe autoimmune-like response. 


It has been long known and recently “rediscovered” that Vitamin D3 (but not D2) prevents infection with and the progression of various infections, both bacterial (such as TB) and viral, (such as influenza).  Both the Vitamin D Society and the Vitamin D Council have data on this and their links are here:  http://www.vitamindsociety.org/;  http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/


Supplements of vitamin D3 (NOT D2) can do the job if necessary and proof up the body.  Between now and September, as in any year, it is highly recommended that we all get a minimum of ten to twenty minutes of whole-body sun exposure between the hours of 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM.  This is most true for prenant women as a general health measure that will benefit the child for a lifetime.  Nursing moms should supplement with at least 10,000 IU per day of D3 to get D3 to the baby.  Children should play and even dance in the sun, quite often.  No worries, the more D3 they and you get, the healthier they will be.


Anyone who exhibits signs of the flu of gets colds should take about 50,000 IU of D3 per day for 90 days and then get a 25(OH)D3 blood test to scientifically determin their blood levels which should be over 50 ng per mlto begin to handle the Type-A influenza.  The sufficiency or deficiency of this measurement is what determines one's daily need. 


Note: I personally have a 25(OH)D3 blood serum level above 80 ng per ml and take an average of 100,000 IU per week and I get mine from some sunlight as above and supplements that I get here: Biotech Pharmacal, Inc., Phone: (479) 443-9148, Fax: (479) 443-5643, Orders: 1-800-345-1199 or on the web here: http://www.bio-tech-pharm.com/catalog.aspx?cat_id=2

It is unlikely that either Relenza or Tamiflu will be found to be anything but useless.  These are both mind altering drugs that are known to do “drain bamage.”  Surprise!  


Vitamin D3 acquired from minutes of mid-day sunshine is perfectly safe.  The only danger of supplemental D3 capsules is underdose of D3.  If you do overdose, you will become nauseous.  Stop eating or cut back on the D3 till it goes away.


However, you do stand a chance of vitamin “A” overdose if you try to get all of your D3 from cod liver oil.


More later.


Dennis H. Clarke

Thanks Jo for posing and inviting true data on health.  This makes sense Laurie & ~kes to look at prevention.  I know of Dennis… good humanitarian.  Thanks Hawkeye, Susan #1, LittleDove and Eagle Hawk as this is a relief to read all of your postings too.

This is how it all began!

Hi Jo,
Kudos and Awards to this perfectly TRUE podcast.  You really did an amazing job and I hope it gets out there on the web for all to see.  I forwarded it to my groups.

Blessings to you for standing up for what is right.

Much love,
Kathy

Thank You Jo!
It's fear mongering, which I'm not buying into. Yes indeed…where is the coverage and intensity for all the other conditions which take more lives than this? Fear Tactics, my friends.
But…an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure LOL.
We can come through anything with the right nutrition and healthy practices.
Thanks so much for your very well done and informative and ProActive blog!

Yes, yes and yes. 
I would wonder why those in the media aren't helping us all to find natural ways to build our immune systems, but after looking into these things for years it is becoming fairly obvious.  In the wake of this oncoming/planned pandemic it sure seems like it would be helpful for us to be in optimal health. But why even try to change habits when all you have to do is take the new drug or get a shot (and make some people rich in the process.)  Maybe that is also why no one is telling us that viruses have no power in clean and healthy environments and that it is possible, actually not difficult at all, to create this for yourself.  

Thanks for posting~ those that are open to alternative solutions and ways of thinking will learn how to protect themselves from such obvious fearful onslaughts ~and quite possibly become radiantly healthy, joy-filled, and fully alive in the process.