The “body burden” is a term used to signify an individual’s exposure to and absorption of toxic influences related to the pollution of our environment. One of the most insidious and ubiquitous toxins is pesticides. After all, these are chemicals which are designed to be deadly. What kills fungi, insects, plants, rodents may not kill humans, but could severely disrupt the function of the digestive, hormonal and neurological systems as well as disturb cellular metabolism. Citing research performed and published by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Environmental Protection Agency, the public information organization Environmental Working Group has disseminated much useful information about the pre valency of pesticides.
Psora, Psornium, Cancer
This is a headline you should but aren’t going to be seeing splashed across any major newspapers anytime soon: SURVIVAL RATE FOR SOME CANCERS IMPROVES DRAMATICALLY WITH HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT. The fact is that two studies presented at the 2009 and 2010 Annual Conference of the American Society of Clinical Oncology have shown just that.1 What makes these reports even more remarkable is that the research was done with patients suffering from some of the most lethal types of cancer.
Radiation
The Great Kanto Earthquake hit Tokyo and surrounding areas at noontime on September 1st, 1923. It lasted for somewhere between 4 to 10 minutes with a strength of 7.9 on the Richter scale. Upwards of 100,000 people were killed, the Imperial Palace burned and even the massive 93 ton, 40 feet tall ‘Great Buddha’ statue, which had sat placidly for nearly 700 years some 60 miles from the epicenter, slid forward several feet. The most lethal consequence of the quake were the fires that spread from domestic hearths, in use for food preparation at that time of day, to quickly engulf the wooden structures that housed them. Fanned by high winds, they developed into a huge firestorm that engulfed much of the city.
The Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tusnami of March 11, 2011has yet to prove as lethal with some 13,000 confirmed dead and over 14,000 as yet unaccounted for. Because of the tsunami and absence of open fires, fire was not such an issue this time around. But, the interesting parallel with Kanto Earthquake is that, in the end, the most deadly aspect of the disaster might very well end up being the destruction of another energy source – the nuclear reactors that provide the electricity that has replaced fire.
The Dirt on Dirty Electricity
Up until recently, the term ‘Dirty Electricity” evoked in me images of the smoke stacks from coal fired power plants, open pit mines and mazes of huge erector-set like structures stringing power lines across the countryside. But the overt pollution of air, water and land resulting from the generation of electricity is only one meaning of the term. The other meaning of ‘Dirty Electricity’, though, specifically refers to one type of electromagnetic frequency called ‘high-frequency voltage transients’. A less visible is a form of pollution that does not appear on the agenda of the environmental movement hardly at all, it may turn out to be just as significant a form of pollution.
The Great Prostate Mistake
From the NY Times Op-Ed Page, March 9,2010 By RICHARD J. ABLIN
EACH year some 30 million American men undergo testing for prostate-specific antigen, an enzyme made by the prostate. Approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1994, the P.S.A. test is the most commonly used tool for detecting prostate cancer.
The test’s popularity has led to a hugely expensive public health disaster. It’s an issue I am painfully familiar with — I discovered P.S.A. in 1970. As Congress searches for ways to cut costs in our health care system, a significant savings could come from changing the way the antigen is used to screen for prostate cancer.