What Supplements Might be Missing from your Health Regimen?

A frequent topic that Dr. Mercola covers is what vitamins, supplements, herbs, foods etc. might be missing from our health regimens for optimal health.
Here is one I had not considered, which seems to be quite important.

The Most Important Health Factor You May Be Missing 
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
4/3/22
https://www.bitchute.com/video/loOIO220Etae/

Source: https://www.bitchute.com/video/loOIO220Etae

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/a...rid=1451214218

"Depending on the cell, each can have as many as 2 million mitochondria. Your mitochondria produce energy, but they're also a critical recycling center and a literal factory that creates water for your metabolism. To function properly, they need this, but it's been the No. 1 nutrient deficiency for 80 years.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE
Minerals play a crucial role in the activation of enzyme pathways, which are responsible for metabolism.
This, in part, is what makes minerals so foundational for good health.
If you don’t have the required minerals, the “batteries” of your cells, the mitochondria and the nuclei, won’t work.
Inflammation is poor energy production, and the reason goes back to mitochondrial dysfunction.
Iron and copper are highly interdependent and need to be considered together.
If you don’t have copper in your diet, hemoglobin production becomes impaired, along with many other aspects of iron metabolism.
So, being anemic does not automatically mean that you’re iron deficient.
You may be deficient in copper.
Anemia typically relates to iron dysfunction or dysregulation, not deficiency
The best way to lower excessive iron is to donate blood, one to four times a year.
Most adult men and postmenopausal women have high iron and could benefit from regular blood donation, as high iron is extremely toxic and destroys health.
An even better strategy is to remove smaller amounts of blood every month and a recommended schedule is providedTo raise your copper level, you could use a copper supplement, but foods like grass-fed beef liver, bee pollen and whole food vitamin C are better
If you’re a farmer or grow your own food, the best way to put copper back into the soil, to get it into the food, is to add copper sulfate.
Before you plant, simply spray the soil with copper sulfate, 10 to 15 pounds per acre

Morley Robbins, MBA, CHC,1 founder of the Magnesium Advocacy Group and best known as the Magnesium Man, has also written a book called “Cu-RE Your Fatigue: The Root Cause and How to Fix It on Your Own.”

In this book, he goes well beyond magnesium into other nutrients such as copper, iron, vitamins A and D and more, and his Root Cause Protocol2 is the implementation of that information. I’m impressed with the book because Robbins covers every basic cause for disease that I am aware of. Most people who write about health will miss a few, but I believe he really nails all of them.

The Importance of Copper
Minerals play a crucial role in the activation of enzyme pathways, which are responsible for metabolism. This, in part, is what makes minerals so foundational for good health.

If you don’t have the required minerals, the “batteries” of your cells, the mitochondria, won’t work properly. In a nutshell, good health depends on ample and robust energy production and utilization, and for that, you need copious amounts of highly-functioning mitochondria that have limited oxidative stress.

Robbins describes mitochondria not as a power plant but as a factory. And what goes on in a factory? Of course, there’s activity that depends on an energy source, but there’s also movement of raw materials, the production and movement of end products, and the recycling of them.

“People don't think about that — and the fact that the mitochondria are connected to both the endoplasmic reticulum and the lysosomes,” Robbins says. “Well, suddenly you've got lysosomes being the recycling center and the endoplasmic reticulum being where the proteins are going to get made. It's like a completely different idea.

We all have this image from our high school biology class of what the picture of a cell looks like, and it has one or two mitochondria. Well, I've come to realize that that picture was drawn by Walt Disney, because it's a complete distortion of reality.

The average cell has 500 mitochondria; the average liver cell has 2,000 mitochondria; kidney cell, 4,000 mitochondria; heart cell, 10,000 mitochondria. The mature eggs in a woman's body have anywhere from 100,000 to 600,000 mitochondria.

And then the brain region, the substantia nigra, it has 2 million mitochondria per neuron. That's a game changer, when you begin to understand the concentration of activity.”

As an example, Parkinson’s disease is rooted in defective mitochondrial function in this area of the brain. According to Robbins, by the time you get a diagnosis of Parkinson's, 66% of those neurons are dead. Multiply 66% times 2 million mitochondria per neuron, and you realize we're talking about a massive loss of mitochondrial energy.

Conventional medical doctors will typically prescribe L-DOPA to treat Parkinson’s, but that actually makes the situation much worse in the long run, and in no way, shape or form addresses the loss of these mitochondria. “This whole concept of energy production is so essential, and it's overlooked,” Robbins says.

Inflammation Is a Lack of Energy
Another description of “lack of energy” is inflammation, Robbins says. Inflammation is poor energy production, and the reason goes back to mitochondrial dysfunction. He likens mitochondria to a two-stroke engine with two copper centers, Copper A (two Copper atoms) and Copper B (with one Copper atom).

Copper A is the easy stroke that produces hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), which is a source of oxidative stress. The hydrogen peroxide then needs to be turned into two molecules of water (H2O). If your body keeps producing H2O2 rather than water, it’s because you don’t have enough copper to achieve the transformation into two molecules of H2O.

This typically implies that the Cytochrome c Oxidase enzyme in Complex 4 of the mitochondrial electron transport chain is not doing its job. And as hydrogen peroxide builds, you end up with loads of free radicals that results in mitochondrial oxidative damage.

“We live on a planet that has two very active elements, oxygen and iron, and we know they don't mix well, because they create rust,” Robbins says. “Yet the terminal destination for both iron and oxygen are the mitochondria. That's an important thing to understand. And so, inside these organelles, these factories, are a series of proteins that are loading electrons onto oxygen and hydrogen.

The term used in the literatures is we're activating oxygen and hydrogen to create water. The mitochondria are water wheels, they're the source of water in our metabolism. And when minerals are in optimal levels, we can make water.

And once we make water — which implies the pH of 7, because that's when water exists — that releases the precursor to energy, called ADP. ADP goes over to another complex to become ATP. And, as many people might know, those proteins, ADP and ATP, actually have magnesium in them to give them structural integrity. It's a very important aspect of energy dynamics.”

The Role of Mitochondrial Complexes
Inside the electron transport chain (ETC) in the mitochondria are five complexes. Complex 1, 3 and 4 work together as a unit and are known clinically as the “Respirasome.” Complex 4, also known as Cytochrome c Oxidase (CcOX), is an electron shuttle that has multiple elements of copper in it. It’s actually a dimer, so that means there are actually six atoms of copper, and the job of those copper atoms is to turn oxygen into water.

“Here's where I think it gets really fascinating. Every kitchen has a stove, right? And they're usually made of iron, steel, and they're cooking something. But does the stove run itself? Does the stove know what food to put into the pot? What temperature? How long to keep it on?

Of course not, it needs a chef. I call them Cuisine artists, so we can see the symbol for copper, Cu, and I for iron. And so, inside Complex 4, there is a stove, and it's called heme a3. It holds oxygen.

And then Copper B comes along and slices and dices, it lets the electrons and hydrogen flow through, and voila, we have water. Then, that releases ADP to go over to Complex 5, which is called ATP Synthase, and it's like a rotor, a little motor inside the mitochondria. These are stacked like pancakes. We don't really know how many Complex 5s are in one mitochondria, it could be hundreds, it might be thousands.

But they're each spinning at 150 revolutions per second, and every time it goes around, it's releasing three Mg-ATP. Just think of the vortex of thousands of these little rotors inside one mitochondria, much less thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions. The sheer elegance of the design of human physiology is absolutely amazing.”

Complex 4, or CcOX, is an electron shuttle, and needs retinol (vitamin A) to function. Robbins explains there’s a four-part component called the Signalosome, but:

“... if retinol isn't there in adequate levels, it's going to set the stage for what's called the Warburg effect. And that's going to take us down a whole different bunny trail, but whoever knew about retinol being critical for energy production? That's not something typically discussed in clinical circles.”

Retinol is not the same as beta-carotene. There are no plant sources of retinol, it only comes from animal sources, which is yet another profoundly good reason to regularly include animal foods in your diet. Butter, heavy cream, egg yolks, liver and CLO are particularly high in retinol. Your body can make retinol from beta-carotene, but ONLY if you have adequate copper in the tissue to activate BCMO enzyme.

Why Sun Exposure Is so Important
Another important point to understand is that while sun exposure is important for making vitamin D, it is also crucial for transforming retinol into its active metabolites, called retinoids. There are nuclear receptors and retinoic acids, which are hormones, that are incredibly important. The nuclear receptors allow your thyroid to work, for example, by binding TR (Thyroid Receptor) to RXR (a key Retinoid X Receptor. With absent adequate RXR, the condition is called hypothyroidism.

Infrared radiation from sunlight also triggers the production of melatonin in your mitochondria. So, when you’re getting sun exposure, you’re accomplishing three very important things.

You’re activating vitamin D, you’re converting vitamin A to its active form, which allows vitamin A to perform its many regulatory functions, and you’re producing melatonin in the mitochondria, which radically reduces oxidative stress in the mitochondrial factories.

As explained by Robbins, vitamin A is a light sensor and vitamin D is a light filter. “It’s a fascinating concept to think of those as parallel yin-yang functions,” he says. “They need to be considered together.”

Being anemic does not automatically mean that you’re iron deficient. You may be deficient in copper. Anemia is really iron dysfunction or dysregulation.
Similarly, iron and copper need to be considered together. “Iron serves at the pleasure of copper enzymes,” Robbins says. If you don’t have copper in your diet, you can’t make hemoglobin and you cannot properly metabolize Iron. So, being anemic does not automatically mean that you’re iron-deficient. You may be deficient in copper. Anemia is really iron dysfunction or dysregulation.

If you’re a farmer or grow your own food, the best way to put copper back into the soil, to get it into the food, is to add copper sulfate. Before you plant, simply spray the soil with copper sulfate, 10 to 15 pounds per acre. Most farmers merely use NPK (nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium) fertilizer and NPK blocks copper uptake in the plants, which was highlighted by Andre Voisin, Ph.D., in his 1957 classic (which, sadly, is now out of print): “Soil, Grass & Cancer.”

Iron Toxicity Is Likely Your Biggest Health Danger
Unfortunately, the focus on iron loading can be disastrous, as excess iron increases oxidative stress. Robbins explains:

“Iron dysregulation is the elephant in the room. It is front and center of why we have metabolic dysfunction. When we go back into the mitochondria, again, they're not just making energy. They are critical recycling centers. Again, if iron has a terminal destination in the mitochondria, that means it needs to be recycled.

What's it's supposed to be recycled into? It's either going to become a heme group or it's going to become iron sulfur clusters. Those are the two principal sources of using iron in the body, beyond the dominance that hemoglobin plays.

It turns out that to make heme and to make iron sulfur clusters, we've got to have copper. Four of the eight enzymes to make heme are copper dependent and found within the mitochondrial matrix, and the rate limiting variable in making iron sulfur clusters, Glutaredoxin-5, requires copper.

If, in fact, there is a deficiency in copper — which I would argue exists because farming and food processing have lowered copper's presence in the soil and in the food — by virtue of that, the concentration of copper in the mitochondria has changed.

It is lower today than it was 90 years ago. It's been the No. 1 nutrient deficiency on the farm for 80 years. At the same time, what the World Health Organization will tell you is that iron deficiency is the No. 1 nutrient deficiency. Well, those two are connected and they don't know that ...

There are 50,000 atoms of copper in each mitochondrial matrix. That's a big deal. If the copper's not there, then the heme enzymes and the iron sulfur cluster enzymes are not going to work right. Iron is going to start to build in the mitochondria and then ultimately into the tissue.

It's going to go into what's called mitoferrin, a storage locker in the mitochondria, and then it might spill out into the ferritin inside the cell itself. When that starts to build, it's called the labile iron pool (LIP), and labile does not mean happy. It does not mean free. It means REALLY reactive.

It's important to understand what that word means. As that iron is rising, there can be a 40% loss of energy, a 60% loss, 80% loss up to a 94% loss of energy [because] it’s damaging the ETC [electron transport chain] — Complexes 1, 3 and 4. It’s also affecting the ability to work with oxygen. There's just a wholesale breakdown.

In simple terms, it’s rust ... Complex 4 must turn oxygen into water. If that doesn't happen, you're going to create super oxide. That's an oxygen molecule with an extra electron. It's not super, it's actually Hyper-oxide. You're going to create hydrogen peroxide. You're going to create the hydroxyl radical [*OH].

These are violently reactive, and ... it begins to increase the acidity inside the cell. When the cell becomes more acidic, it can't make energy. And that's ultimately what iron is doing. It’s causing this increased acidity because of its reactive nature with oxygen and these proteins in the ETC.”

Why Blood Tests Aren’t Dependable
As noted by Robbins, there’s a big difference between iron deficiency in the blood and iron dysregulation in the mitochondria and in the cell. This is something that’s not adequately understood.

In 2004 biochemist Bruce Ames determined there’s 10 times more iron in the cell than in the blood.3 This means the blood tests we rely on are not accurate. They don’t reveal the whole story of iron metabolism. You need to measure iron activity in several ways, such as:

CBC

Serum zinc

Serum copper

Serum ceruloplasmin

Transferrin percent saturation

Ferritin, Total Iron Binding Capacity, serum iron and hemoglobin

Serum retinol

Where Is Most Iron Stored?
So, where is most of the iron in the body, and what is the most accurate reflection of that? According to Robbins, inside your body, the ideal ratio of iron to copper is, on average, 50-to-1. Ideally, you would have about 5,000 milligrams of iron and about 100 mg of copper in your body.

The highest concentrations of iron, 70%, is in the hemoglobin. So, ideally, in your blood you would have about 3,500 mg of iron, but there is only 1 mg of copper. Now, inside your bone marrow, where blood is actually made, you’d have about 24 mg of iron and 47 mg of copper. Your body is very dependent on copper to make that blood. When copper is deficient, your hemoglobin level will decline.

Robbins cites 2021 research by Yohan Kim and Rocio Perez-Gonzalez that showed when you eliminate copper, iron loading takes place in the liver, and the gene responsible for that is a gene that’s affected by loss of copper.

High Ferritin Is Not a Sign of Iron Sufficiency
So, getting back to the issue of anemia. What does that actually mean? Where is the iron? As explained by Robbins, the iron is stuck, because it can't properly recycle. Ideally, iron isn’t stored but rather continuously recycled. Ferritin is an iron storage protein, which measures iron in the tissues, but not when it shows up in the serum, which is far more important.

Years ago, Robbins asked Dr. Douglas Kell, a world-renowned iron researcher, “What is the ideal ferritin level for a human?” His answer: Zero. Robbins thought he was joking, but he was not. Kell told him, “Rising ferritin is not a sign of iron vitality. It's a sign of organ pathophysiology.”

Unfortunately, few doctors understand this. In conventional medicine, anyone with a ferritin level of 20 is assumed to have iron deficiency. So, how can you properly diagnose what’s going on? Robbins explains:

“Here's how I explained it to the Amish farmers to make sure they understood it. I said, ‘If you want to know how many bales of hay you have in your barn, would you go out in the field and start counting them?' And they went, ‘No.’ Well, that's what they're doing with blood tests.

The ferritin protein is designed to be inside the cell. What Dr. Kell was pointing out is that under intense inflammation, there's a change in how the lysosomes work to break down the ferritin protein and then allow for the recycling of the iron.

We're getting at some really esoteric physiology and I'm going to try to keep it really simple. The narrative is that serum ferritin is an accurate indication of ferritin in the cell. No, it’s not. This idea that looking inside the blood is going to be an indicator of what's happening inside the cell is a leap of faith.

My sweet spot is between 20 and 50. When Dr. Kell said zero, I said, I don't think people would believe me if I said zero. So, I went back into the research and 20 to 50 seems to be an acceptable tolerance. What I've learned is that, in the blood testing, when the serum ferritin for a woman gets above 150, that's when the red flag goes off for women. And when it gets above 300, that's when the red flag goes off for men.

It usually correlates with liver inflammatory activity. And there's some dysregulation, some stressor. It might be diet, it might be just environmental stress, it could be a number of factors ...

And I would argue [iron metabolism] is the most complicated, most sophisticated and least understood part of human physiology. It is not a dipstick function. Iron is not low or high. Iron is either dysregulated or it's functional. And if it doesn't have adequate supplies of copper, you don't have “functional” iron metabolism.

The fact is these two metals don't have separate metabolism. They are joined at the hip of the master antioxidant protein, Ceruloplasmin. That's what gives the metals their integrity. Ceruloplasmin expresses many enzymes but the most important ones are the ones that regulate iron and oxygen.

Copper's the only element on the planet that can manage the two most reactive elements in our body. All the others are kind of the observers, if you will. And so, copper is central to the process of keeping oxidative stress at a moderate level but optimizing energy production.

That's the magic sauce — making sure there's a healthy balance between energy and exhaust, just like there is in our car. We're going to produce exhaust. And so, it's like we've got to be able to optimize both the energy and the exhaust.”

My Clinical Experience
I first became aware of the danger of excess iron over 30 years ago when I diagnosed my dad with hemochromatosis. His ferritin level was close to 1,000. I learned the danger of iron through health and science journalist and radio personality Bill Sardi, who recently passed away. Sardi had recommended an iron chelator called IP6, but I found it was worthless and the only thing that lowered my dad’s ferritin was for him to do blood donations.

My dad had beta thalassemia, which predisposed him to iron accumulation. I inherited that from my father and my ferritin was also in the 100s in the 1980s. Thankfully, I have been relatively aggressive about lowering my iron through regular blood removal, but Robbins helped me understand that there is a huge gap here and we need to be hyperdiligent about keeping our iron levels low.

I used to measure serum ferritin on all my patients and nearly everyone was over 100, which is consistent with Robbins’ observation that this is a major issue for nearly everyone. I used to regularly mention this in my newsletter but have neglected it in recent years. Thanks to Robbins, I now understand just how important this is and will be doing additional articles on how you can lower your iron.

Why Removing Iron Is so Important to Stay Healthy
I had read Robbins’ book and listened to many of his interviews but never really appreciated the main crux of the problem of iron storage. What is typically taught is that you have 5,000 mg (5 grams) of iron in your body. But this number does NOT include iron stored in your tissues.

Robbins explains that we accumulate about 1 mg of iron every day (based on the research of leading Iron biologists), and unless we lose blood, we retain that amount. This is largely related to many of the processed foods being supplemented with dangerous forms of iron like iron fillings. So, by the time you are 65, you may have accumulated over 20,000 mg of storage iron.

This storage iron will radically increase the oxidative stress and tissue damage in your body. It also is one of the most common causes of fatigue because of how it impairs the mitochondrial production of energy.

When you donate a pint or half a liter of blood, you are actually removing 250 mg of iron from your tissue iron. Donating four pints a year is far more than most people do but you can see that if you had 20,000 mg of storage iron, it would take you 20 years of donating blood four times a year to get it down to normal levels.

Although blood donation is one highly effective way to lower your iron, it is not the ideal, as losing 10% of your blood in one sitting can be a problem for many. It is far easier on your system to remove blood in smaller amounts once a month on the schedule I have listed below. If you have congestive heart failure or severe COPD, you should discuss this with your doctor, but otherwise this is a fairly appropriate recommendation for most.

Men

150 ml

Postmenopausal Women

100 ml

Premenopausal Women

50 ml

Most Will Benefit From Blood Donation
As I mentioned above, most adult men and postmenopausal or nonmenstruating women, have excessive iron levels. Fortunately, there’s a simple remedy. Simply donate blood one to four times a year. The more the better. However, four pints is an aggressive schedule and an easier approach to your system is to do it monthly at your home.

I will be doing a future video on this, but all it requires is hiring a phlebotomist to come to your house and drain the appropriate amount of blood as per the chart above. This could be pricey, but if you expand your network of family and friends you may be surprised that you already know someone who is a trained phlebotomist.

According to Robbins, people who donate blood a few times a year wind up living a lot longer because it reduces their iron and associated pathology. Can you imagine if you were donating the equivalent of four pints a year? In my view, it may be the single best way to improve your health.

Your body has no enzyme, no hormone, no active mechanism to address excess iron, other than blood loss, which allows it to leave your body. It's a profoundly basic principle. Robbins cites a famous iron biologist at Indiana University, the late Eugene D. Weinberg, who wrote an influential 2010 article in which he stated that at the first onset of not feeling well, he would donate a pint of blood and invariably feel better.

“What is aging?” Robbins asks. “It's iron accumulation in our eyes, in our hearing, in our hair, in our heart, our liver, our joints. All these conditions of old age are just iron accumulation. Why is it accumulating? Because it's not being recycled. And what's falling as we age? Critical minerals: magnesium drops, copper drops and retinol gets stored.

Retinol is not available in our metabolism. Why? Because it gets stuck in our liver because it's not being attached to the retinol binding protein, so it stays as retinyl esters in the liver and it has no function then.

The other connection that people need to know about is the connection between iron and sugar. There are two axes that run the body: Copper and fat, and iron and sugar, and never the twain shall meet ...

I've read a lot of articles. How many have I found that actually talk about the metabolism of fat in the mitochondria? One. And I think the mitochondria actually are fat organelles. They really prefer fat, but we've been corralled into a diet based on sugar, which is really toxic with iron. Most people don't know that. It's amazing what it does to the chemistry of the cell.”

Summary
To summarize some of the key points, ferritin can generally be used as a crude assessment tool for iron status, with the understanding that it’s not reflective of intercellular iron stores, which is the more important parameter. So, if your ferritin is between 20 and 50, you’re probably in the ballpark.

That said, Robbins warns that ferritin alone should never be used as an assessment of iron status. A far more powerful indicator is to measure your hemoglobin, as it’s a bigger pool of iron and is constantly recycled. High hemoglobin would be suggestive of higher iron content.

If your ferritin is below 20, there may be some serious problems afoot, typically parasites. So, don’t just jump to the conclusion that you have iron deficiency and start taking iron supplements, because iron is one of the most toxic supplements there is. Excessive iron is one of the easiest ways to destroy your health, and most of the iron added to processed foods are problematic as they can be carcinogenic.

“If people understand the importance of lowering the iron footprint and increasing the copper footprint, that produces this access to vitality and longevity that very few people talk about,” Robbins says.

It is important to understand you still need to seriously consider depleting your high iron stores. The only ones who may be safe are those who have been regularly donating blood; probably donating over 20 pints would get you in the safe range.

As for raising your copper intake, it’s best to get your copper from food and not a supplement. Good sources include bee pollen, grass fed beef liver and other organ meats. You also want plenty of saturated fats in your diet, as copper is a fat-soluble mineral. If you don't have fat in your diet, your ability to absorb copper plummets.

Whole food vitamin C can also be helpful, as vitamin C contains an enzyme called tyrosinase, which has 2 atoms of copper in it. Acerola cherry is one excellent source. A single acerola cherry contains about 80 mg of whole food vitamin C. Ascorbic acid is prooxidant, while vitamin C complex is actually an antioxidant. Anything that has copper is going to be antioxidant.

As noted by Robbins, “The antioxidant enzyme capacity is really dependent on available copper, so food-based forms are very important.”

More Information
For more information, be sure to listen to the interview in its entirety, and pick up a copy of “Cu-RE Your Fatigue: The Root Cause and How to Fix It on Your Own.” The book is available in paperback, ebook and audio. You can also learn more on his website, TheRootCauseProtocol.com.

“If people can just lower their iron footprint and increase their focus on nutrient dense food, with a special bias towards the copper, as we've discussed today, it's going to have a significant change in how your body generates energy, and how you feel,” Robbins says. “And if you want to get into the real depth of it, both the book and the website go into more detail.”

 Sources and References-
1, 2 The Root Cause Protocol, Morley Robbins
3 Antioxid Redox Signal. 2003 Oct; 5(5): 507–516

this is really interesting...

blood letting was common in the old days as a treatment for all sorts.

it might be worth looking into colloidal copper as a supplement, its as easy to make as colloidal silver, and presumably bio available in that form,

My grandma used to donate her blood to the bank for couple decades of her life as far as I’m aware of and she’s been always strong in her spirits, hard worker, in service to the family and community for life.

On my own life path-as we are all different- I found that my state of perfect and natural health depends mostly on things I can “do without” and the remaining few I can “do with” each time rather than on some elaborate dietary list and list of supplements to add.

Tried the other method too but it may also resolve nearly nothing.

Most of our generation predecessors suffered and died from obesity at some point in their life causing severe metabolic disbalance and further complications to the cardio vascular system.


Sometimes it’s too late to lament. But even people in their 60s and 70s can change and return to state of health IF they consciously choose to do so.

Even then, the condition of overweight bears more severe health impact on every organism longer it lasts, the risks are multiplying.

While current “Big Pharma” attacks custom pockets again and again, ignoring their offers for fast improvement,

I advise categorising your food to “medicinal units” instead
and applying them cautiously in order of the day.


With or in case of increasing air temperatures
hot drinks and foods should be abstained from during the day
to prevent overheating
and may be better eaten in small quantities after sunset hours or later in the evening.


Against all book advice and under extreme weather conditions
follow the temperature read cautiously especially with babies and vulnerable individuals, avoid direct sun exposure if possible.

The ratio of liquids to solid food should not exceed 2 litres: 200 grams of solids
especially during heat waves.

In gist and unless your body is severely adjusted otherwise,
we probably don’t need much more than that.


There is very good meaning in returning to the “essential items” list whenever you feel so inspired. Munching on whatever does not stop you from any kind of work and it should be also invigorating, inspiring and generally the most uplifting form of nourishment.


It’s down at the bottom of your cell metabolism to find what it really needs, to remember it’s last healthy cycle and restart itself “from scratch” and in order to make it happen,
try to remove most of the “outer influences” you’ve or that were given to it during your life time including spices, traditional grains and cereals, milk and diary and so forth.

Once you found your “bottom line “ or “native function” again, start adding items cautiously following your old/new natural tastes and body intelligence, only this time act with better precision - since you have times more information now.

Repeat this process as many times as necessary , don’t give up on patience , as long as you can grab for your healthy native function at the end of the process,
it was worth all the risks and saved thousands of dollars.

In the rather improbable case that you break down in the middle of the process and end up in acute surgery ward, I beg it had to happen anyway and it better happened while you were also prepared and could be saved.

Food has turned to drug and curse of the modern age, followed by health foods and supplements market , they still play us the Hunger Games.

In between the lines I guess

we are still sound & safe.



😀

Here's the basic Supplements recommended by Dr Lawrence Wilson who's protocols I have followed for quite a few years. He is self funded and has dedicated his life to nutrition and wellbing. Not all supplements are equal - the purity and quality is very important but not easy to identify.

Basically we should pretty much flood our body with nutrients because of poor quality food due to intensive farming practices. Monsters like Gates wants to ban vitamins and minerals - I wonder why

BASIC SUPPLEMENTS
https://www.drlwilson.com/Articles/S...ENTS-BASIC.htm

Often overlooked...water.
I believe without adequate hydration, none of the aforementioned vits and minerals would be able to do their job because your body wouldn't be able to assimilate them properly.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...ries_for_Water

Great idea for a thread! I'm not sure what is missing yet from my healthy regimen and probably everyone is different. But when learning about something helpful I would like to say most of us would be trying it out. That's why I started taking Glucosamine and should have started sooner. Amazing how it helps with joints & bones. If your older please check it out.

Glucosamine Chondroitin is the form I've been taking for years, and it makes a huge difference in how I feel. I don't know what I'd do without it.
I sustained lots of damage to my bones and joints in a NDE accident decades ago, so that has been a real issue for me.
I've also been teking fermneted turmeric (from Dr. Mercola) to help with chronic pain; so much safer than BigPharma pain killers!
I have to do it consistently, so I take 2 caps in hot tea at night with lime juice and honey.
Two more of my old standbys are Spirulina (from New Phoenix Rising) --a real superfood,, and fresh aloe vera gel in my morning smoothies (great for inflammation, also anti-viral, anti-fungal and anti-bacterial, partly due to all the oxygen in it).
Plus of course, all the supplements we need especially nowadays since the Plandemic started--Vitamins C & D, Zinc, iodine, NAC & Quercetin.
I'm doing pretty well for somone pushing 75, though I think I have a urinary tract infection now which I got from stupidly buying chicken from my local health food store which is non-GMO, but not organic.
I was too trusting that would be safe, and I think even with all the preventative measures I take, I was still vulnerable to the god-awful infection from chickens. .
The article I posted recently from Dr. Mercola explains why factory farm chicken has become so dangerous, and why the infections it produces are so hard to get rid of.
See: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1491198
Stay well everyone!

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Great idea for a thread! I'm not sure what is missing yet from my healthy regimen and probably everyone is different. But when learning about something helpful I would like to say most of us would be trying it out. That's why I started taking Glucosamine and should have started sooner. Amazing how it helps with joints & bones. If your older please check it out.

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Really appreciate the insight and want to check out your mention of Spirulina as adding more greens would be great. I havent done smoothies but that also sounds really good. For a month now have been on an elliptical daily and shedding fat and recently started focusing on diet. It's awesome, so far no symptoms of my type 2 diabetes.

Spirulina has so much chlorophyll in it naturally, that if you were to buy as much chlorophyll itself, it would cost much more.
The company I buy from is staffed by a lot of people who were in the original Light Force Spirulina company, which was founded by my late mentor, Dr. Christoper Hills, who first brought spirulina and chlorella to the US, so they know their algae!
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hills
I was getting my aloe leaves for awhile from a local Mexican Market, but something has gone wrong down the line somewhere, and the leaves haven't been fresh, and are therefor less potent.
But I just placed an order with Aloe Labs in Harlingen, Texas, for a 32 lb. box of organic leaves to be shipped to me.
It's pricey buying that way, but I was assured the leaves are fresh and that makes all the difference (I've bought them there before, and they've always been great).
They will keep a month or more if refrigerated, and I wrap them in cotton rags to keep them dry, stacked all together on one shelf.
I don't think the processed aloe products are nearly as effective, though certainly more convenient....
I can practically make an aloe smoothie in my sleep by now...
Here's a quick demo:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z4fyDZXSRwc

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Really appreciate the insight and want to check out your mention of Spirulina as adding more greens would be great. I havent done smoothies but that also sounds really good. For a month now have been on an elliptical daily and shedding fat and recently started focusing on diet. It's awesome, so far no symptoms of my type 2 diabetes.

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Magnesium, no more nighttime leg / thigh cramps, nothing like waking up to a cramp in the middle of the night knowing you have 5 minutes of hell about to start. Magnesium stopped that,

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Great idea for a thread! I'm not sure what is missing yet from my healthy regimen and probably everyone is different. But when learning about something helpful I would like to say most of us would be trying it out. That's why I started taking Glucosamine and should have started sooner. Amazing how it helps with joints & bones. If your older please check it out.

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I agree about the thread.

I learned of and tried glucosamine back when I was regularly hurting my joints doing athletic hobbies. Didn’t work, maybe because joint problems might be different if caused by impact.

I do want to share something else, even though this didn’t seem to work for me either, Moth Lentils. When I messed up my hip joints in my latter 30’s, getting out of kilter on fast downhill runs on pavement, a lady working at a small pizza joint noticed my tortured gait and suggested that. Said that in India, where she was from, they fed that (proportion, dunno) to livestock that had joint problems. Took me 10+ years to check that out, still hurting myself so remembered that, asked an Indian lady what “Mote lentils” are lol.

Since I’m talking about impact to joints, all I have from experience to recommend is to use those joints. The harder and more often, the better. The only time that strategy didn’t work out for me was after I damaged soft tissue adjacent to one of those by-then-OK hip joints, and that was self-imposed too. By the time I got an interview with the doc who subsequently did my replacement, that side was 1/2 in. shorter than the other. He called it “fused”, but it still moved enough to act as the pushing leg for cruising the skateboard.....though walking was 90+ y.o. style. ~8O

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Magnesium, no more nighttime leg / thigh cramps, nothing like waking up to a cramp in the middle of the night knowing you have 5 minutes of hell about to start. Magnesium stopped that,

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If you have trouble with taking magnesium tablets, as they can alcalise your stomach making digestion difficult for some people, or just don't seem to absorb them, try adding raw cocoa into your diet, it really works. It will give you very absorbable magnsium as well as many other minerals and amino acids.

• I use pure & raw biological (non-GMO) CBD oil pills (does anyone know what nutrients CBD oil has?) ... And I use Curcumin (aka Tumuric) 1 thee-spoon in a glass of mineral source-water I drink when I just woke up on an empty stomachache ... Bit of Maca powder added in most of my meals ... Many people do not know that Raw Cacao contains enough natural Magnesium if you drink or eat it once a day! ... I use pink Himalayan Salt and Cayenne Pepper every day added to my meal.
  

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CBD oil contains a number of beneficial nutrients. In addition to containing all of the cannabinoids found in the hemp plant (if the extraction level is full spectrum), CBD oil also contains beneficial terpenes and amino acids. Other nutrients in CBD oil include thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, pyridoxine, folate, vitamin E, calcium, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, copper, iron, zinc, and manganese. CBD also contains healthy fats, such as Omega 6 fatty acid.

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I wonder if there are any Avalonians that also uses all the above ... or am I alone in that?

cheers,
John

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Magnesium, no more nighttime leg / thigh cramps, nothing like waking up to a cramp in the middle of the night knowing you have 5 minutes of hell about to start. Magnesium stopped that,

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If you have trouble with taking magnesium tablets, as they can alcalise your stomach making digestion difficult for some people, or just don't seem to absorb them, try adding raw cocoa into your diet, it really works. It will give you very absorbable magnsium as well as many other minerals and amino acids.

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I can vouch for that - I eat (good) dark chocolate - 85% cocoa solids almost everyday. If that's too strong, then 70% should do it. Has other wonderful benefits too. It has knocked those agonising leg cramps for six.

Me too, John, except I don't use Cayenne ( hot spices give me acid reflux) and I use Real Salt (from ancient salt beds in Utah) instead of Himalayan.
Avalonian Dennis Leahy, who is an organic famer, did some research on CBD and the best source he found is Lazarus Naturals. https://www.lazarusnaturals.com/product-guide
...which is where I've been getting my CBD.
(They also have a program for low income customers, which I doubt many other vendors do.)
I recently started taking Chaga mushroom from Dr. Mercola. Clif High has been saying lots of good things about Chaga.

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• I use pure & raw biological (non-GMO) CBD oil pills (does anyone know what nutrients CBD oil has?) ... And I use Curcumin (aka Tumuric) 1 thee-spoon in a glass of mineral source-water I drink when I just woke up on an empty stomachache ... Bit of Maca powder added in most of my meals ... Many people do not know that Raw Cacao contains enough natural Magnesium if you drink or eat it once a day! ... I use pink Himalayan Salt and Cayenne Pepper every day added to my meal.
  

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CBD oil contains a number of beneficial nutrients. In addition to containing all of the cannabinoids found in the hemp plant (if the extraction level is full spectrum), CBD oil also contains beneficial terpenes and amino acids. Other nutrients in CBD oil include thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, pyridoxine, folate, vitamin E, calcium, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, copper, iron, zinc, and manganese. CBD also contains healthy fats, such as Omega 6 fatty acid.

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I wonder if there are any Avalonians that also uses all the above ... or am I alone in that?

cheers,
John

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Terpentine Oil Dr. Jennifer Daniels turpentine discovery .
As she was studying slavery with her children, a cure-all was mentioned. This perked her curiosity. She knew if the slaves had access to a cure-all, it had to be cheap and readily available. She continued to research to find this mystery cure.
https://www.healbygod.com/dr-jennife...ls-turpentine/

Dennis is an organic farmer? I had no idea. That's awesome!

One supp that's really made a huge change in my life is molecular hydrogen. It's a dissolveable tablet. Just drop it in some water and wa-la...

Nat suggested it. I use the Mercola brand, for what it's worth.

My energy - mental and physical - has really improved. My sleep. My strength. You name it.

Of all the supps I've used over the years, with the exception of coq10, it's had the most impact on my life

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Dennis is an organic farmer? I had no idea. That's awesome!

One supp that's really made a huge change in my life is molecular hydrogen. It's a dissolveable tablet. Just drop it in some water and wa-la...

Nat suggested it. I use the Mercola brand, for what it's worth.

My energy - mental and physical - has really improved. My sleep. My strength. You name it.

Of all the supps I've used over the years, with the exception of coq10, it's had the most impact on my life

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Never heard of this before and only think of hydrogen in gas or very cold in liguid form... Can you help explain the benefits?

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Dennis is an organic farmer? I had no idea. That's awesome!

One supp that's really made a huge change in my life is molecular hydrogen. It's a dissolveable tablet. Just drop it in some water and wa-la...

Nat suggested it. I use the Mercola brand, for what it's worth.

My energy - mental and physical - has really improved. My sleep. My strength. You name it.

Of all the supps I've used over the years, with the exception of coq10, it's had the most impact on my life

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Never heard of this before and only think of hydrogen in gas or very cold in liguid form... Can you help explain the benefits?

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Hi Mojo, this link here offers some pretty good info: https://myemail.constantcontact.com/...id=nn1c4r1npfk

thanks Mike very interesting ie.this part,

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Molecular Hydrogen Summary:
Neuroprotective
Most powerful and effective antioxidant known to man
Anti-inflammatory
Protects organs
Lowers cholesterol and blood sugar
Improves a wide variety of diseases

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Me too, John, except I don't use Cayenne ( hot spices give me acid reflux) and I use Real Salt (from ancient salt beds in Utah) instead of Himalayan.
Avalonian Dennis Leahy, who is an organic famer, did some research on CBD and the best source he found is Lazarus Naturals. https://www.lazarusnaturals.com/product-guide
...which is where I've been getting my CBD.
(They also have a program for low income customers, which I doubt many other vendors do.)
I recently started taking Chaga mushroom from Dr. Mercola. Clif High has been saying lots of good things about Chaga.

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• I use pure & raw biological (non-GMO) CBD oil pills (does anyone know what nutrients CBD oil has?) ... And I use Curcumin (aka Tumuric) 1 thee-spoon in a glass of mineral source-water I drink when I just woke up on an empty stomachache ... Bit of Maca powder added in most of my meals ... Many people do not know that Raw Cacao contains enough natural Magnesium if you drink or eat it once a day! ... I use pink Himalayan Salt and Cayenne Pepper every day added to my meal.
  

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CBD oil contains a number of beneficial nutrients. In addition to containing all of the cannabinoids found in the hemp plant (if the extraction level is full spectrum), CBD oil also contains beneficial terpenes and amino acids. Other nutrients in CBD oil include thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, pyridoxine, folate, vitamin E, calcium, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, copper, iron, zinc, and manganese. CBD also contains healthy fats, such as Omega 6 fatty acid.

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I wonder if there are any Avalonians that also uses all the above ... or am I alone in that?

cheers,
John

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Well, I've used CBD oil for years (great for a decent night's sleep, too) Also turmeric in cooking, great for inflammation, cayenne pepper, smoked paprika for my fibro/arthritis, I always use Marldon (the best!) sea salt (never 'table salt) and, as stated before, high percentage (85%) chocolate for magnesium and cos I love it. :bigsmile:

FDA Dangles the Axe over NAC--Action Alert from Alliance for Natural Health
4/6/22
https://anh-usa.org/the-latest-on-nac/
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"Two important updates on the future of NAC, a critical antioxidant supplement—and why we need to keep fighting for access. Action Alert!

FDA Denies NAC Citizens Petition

Last week, the FDA denied two Citizens Petitions from the supplement industry requesting the agency reach a determination that N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC) is included in the definition of a dietary supplement. Recall from our previous coverage that the agency has stated in warning letters to supplement makers that NAC does not meet the definition of a supplement because it was approved as a drug first in 1963.

We, and many others, believe there are many issues with the FDA’s legal arguments that NAC is not a supplement. We think it has a lot to do with recent excitement about NAC in the drug industry: a drug company is investigating NAC as a treatment for a rare genetic disorder that damages the myelin sheath, which insulates nerve cells in the brain. The Phase 1 trial was completed in March 2020. There are 17 trials looking at NAC, in both drug and supplement form, in the treatment of COVID. Additionally, there are over 50 trials looking at NAC for a variety of other conditions. Given these facts, it seems reasonable to assume that the FDA is setting the stage for a new NAC drug to come to market by removing the competition from much cheaper NAC supplements.

FDA Dangles the Axe over NAC

In the same Constituent Update denying the Citizens Petitions, the FDA said it is “considering exercising enforcement discretion” regarding NAC supplements as it decides whether to issue a rulemaking allowing NAC to be a legal supplement. Translation: NAC supplements may be safe from FDA enforcement…for now. But until the legality of NAC supplements is established, the FDA could act at any time to remove them from the market.

Despite this tentative determination, much damage has already been done. Last year Amazon announced its plans to remove NAC supplements from its website. We’ve also heard reports that PayPal will not process payments that contain NAC supplements.

We cannot wait for the FDA to act. We must continue to push Congress to take action to protect NAC.

Action Alert! Tell Congress to protect NAC supplements. Please send your message immediately. https://anh-usa.org/the-latest-on-nac/

(More Medical Tyranny!! Many credible sources of health info have been recommending NAC for protection from COVID and from what the jabbed are transmitting.)

• What would be the best way to detox yourself from nano-tech? (like graphene oxide)?

Conclusions in 2016:

In the past few years, GFNs have been widely utilized in a wide range of technological and biomedical fields. Currently, most experiments have focused on the toxicity of GFNs in the lungs and livers. Therefore, studies of brain injury or neurotoxicity deserve more attention in the future. Many experiments have shown that GFNs have toxic side effects in many biological applications, but the in-depth study of toxicity mechanisms is urgently needed. In addition, contrasting results regarding the toxicity of GFNs need to be addressed by effective experimental methods and systematic studies. This review provides an overview of the toxicity of GFNs by summarizing the toxicokinetics, toxicity mechanisms and influencing factors and aimed to provide information to facilitate thorough research on the in vitro and in vivo haemo- and biocompatibility of GFNs in the future. This review will help address safety concerns before the clinical and therapeutic applications of GFNs, which will be important for further development of GFNs in biological applications.

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I wanted to thank a member that mentioned Magnesium stopped his muscle cramps. I have been taking that supplement for a few months now and realized havent suffered from those agonizing painful calf spasms since starting it. Also I added Quercetin for a few months now. I'm hoping it will be effective against Covid & flu since Ivermectin is still hard to get.

Action Alert!! Alliance for Natural Health USA
https://anh-usa.org/fdas-major-food-...Ex71kJVORkJKNk
4/18/22

"An in-depth analysis reveals deep, structural problems that prevent the FDA from adequately ensuring the safety of our food—so why is the agency attacking supplements? Action Alert!

A major investigation into the FDA’s food safety work from Politico shows a profoundly broken agency unable to do the jobs it has been tasked with.

Some major takeaways from the report include:

The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition lacks clear leadership, “suffers from a deep-seated culture of avoiding hard decisions and has a near paralyzing fear of picking serious fights with the food industry,” (emphasis added).
The FDA has not put standards in place for the water used to grow fresh produce, which were part of a 2011 food safety bill.
The agency has dragged its feet in regulating heavy metals and other contaminants in baby food.
This confirms what ANH has been saying for some time. The FDA defers to the interests of Big Food and Big Pharma, and works to protect their interests. This means undermining and attacking dietary supplements, which compete with drugs. That’s why we see dangerous policies being pursued like mandatory product registration for supplements.

Our previous coverage details everything wrong with mandatory product registration for supplements. The problem is that many of your elected officials in Congress still think this proposal is completely harmless. Even though we know the bottom line is that if it gets approved, more than 41,000 supplements could be removed from the market.

Supporters of this proposal are working quickly behind the scenes so there is no time to lose!

Action Alert! Write to Congress and tell them to oppose “mandatory filing” for supplements. Please send your message immediately. Please also forward this alert to three friends and ask them to act. We need all hands on deck to defeat this proposal being pushed by Senator Durbin!"
https://anh-usa.org/fdas-major-food-...Ex71kJVORkJKNk

One of the most important things for the body to function properly is to have a healthy gut. I take ION BIOME. It used to be called Restore. This is an ancient soil messenger for healthy gut bacteria and closes the tight junctions against Glyphosate to allow the body to detoxify. It was developed by Zac Bush and it is very effective.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Glf6hSaINY4

Supplement Bombshell Coming
From Alliance for Natural Health-USA
04/26/2022
https://anh-usa.org/supplement-bombshell-coming/

"Senator Durbin’s (D-IL) supplement regulation threatening 41,000 supplements is moving forward, and on multiple fronts. We must respond immediately. Urgent Action Alert!

For months now, we’ve been telling you about Sen. Durbin’s plan to impose new requirements on dietary supplements. These new requirements threaten more than 41,000 products on the market. If we want to preserve access to the supplements we rely on to stay healthy, we must contact our elected representatives immediately and tell them not to support this policy.

Here’s what we know. Senator Mike Braun (R-IN) has agreed to join Sen. Durbin in introducing a bill to require mandatory product registration for supplements; this morning, Sen. Durbin gave a speech introducing the bill on the Senate floor. But that’s not all. Separately, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, is independently moving forward with plans to attach mandatory product registration for supplements to the reauthorization of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act that must pass by the end of September. This is a common tactic in Congress to enact policies that could not pass on their own; simply sneak the policy into must-pass legislation and hope no one is paying attention.

As we mentioned previously, powerful forces on multiple fronts are converging to get this policy across the finish line. With Senator Braun, it now has bipartisan support; Senator Murray, HELP Committee Chair, supports it; President Biden supports it; and we know the FDA wants it. Only with a powerful grassroots response can we hope to stop this terrible policy in its tracks.

Our previous coverage details everything wrong with mandatory product registration for supplements. The problem is that many of your elected officials in Congress still think this proposal is completely harmless. Even though we know the bottom line is that if it gets approved, more than 41,000 supplements could be removed from the market.

Why are more supplement regulations such a priority for these federal authorities? Supplements are overwhelmingly safe. According to the FDA, in 2021, the agency received 2,400 adverse event reports related to dietary supplements. To put this in context, according to the FDA’s adverse event database, in 2021 FDA received a total of 2,333,453 adverse event reports. That means that dietary supplements make up 0.1% of the adverse event reports to the FDA. National reports consistently show zero deaths from dietary supplements; according to the FDA’s database, in 2021 alone drugs killed 187,750 Americans. That supplements are the products getting federal attention speaks to the power of the drug industry lobby and the willingness of elected officials and FDA officials to do their bidding.

Your House and Senate members need to hear from you, their constituent, that this proposal is an enormous waste of taxpayer dollars that you don’t want. We need to flood their inboxes with this message to be sure they hear it. Please share this action alert with others who care about natural health and access to supplements and ask them to also reach out to Congress and tell them to oppose this policy!

Supporters of this proposal are working quickly behind the scenes so there is no time to lose!

Action Alert! Write to Congress and tell them to oppose “mandatory filing” for supplements. Please send your message immediately.
Please also forward this alert to three friends and ask them to act.
We need all hands on deck to defeat Durbin." Send letters here: https://anh-usa.org/supplement-bombshell-coming/

The only zupplements that I keep coming back to. Are detox herbs. It makes sense when one is living in a place full of toxins

Durbin Bill Signals End of High-Dose Supplements
By ANH-USA On 05/05/2022
https://anh-usa.org/durbin-bill-sign...e-supplements/
Alliance for Natural Health ACTION ALERT

"Powerful forces, including Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), Bill Gates, and the National Academies, are working to bring about supplement bans. We must stop them. Action Alert!

Relative to the rest of the world, the US consumer has access to a wide range of supplements at a variety of dosage levels. This includes higher doses which are often used by integrative doctors to regenerate our health. That could all change if Sen. Durbin’s newly-introduced mandatory product listing bill for supplements gets enacted by Congress. History has shown that Sen. Durbin’s end game is to target high-dose supplements because he tried to do this in previous versions of this bill. This is in line with supplement bans being devised in the European Union, which is setting draconian restrictions on the maximum level of nutrients supplements can deliver. We must act now to avert this disaster.

An analysis of a previous iteration of Sen. Durbin’s bill in 2013 is telling. It had two sections. The first was similar to his current bill, mandating that supplement companies register all of their products with the FDA, submitting a description of each product, a list of ingredients, and a copy of the label. But the second section called on the Department of Health and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) to create a list of supplement ingredients that could cause “potentially serious adverse events.”

NASEM, known previously as the Institute of Medicine, has already developed levels above which they believe nutrients can cause adverse events (referred to as tolerable upper levels, or “ULs”). This was done decades ago. It seems obvious, then, that Sen. Durbin intends for his bill to be used to eliminate high-dose supplements; this second section was omitted in the current bill, but we believe his intent and long-term plan is the same. In fact, the new version of the bill specifically requires companies to submit the amount per serving of ingredients and the percent of the daily value of each ingredient, if such information is required by other regulations.

It’s a one-two punch: companies are required to register all their products with the FDA, giving the agency a list that can be referenced when maximum levels of nutrients are set for supplements under the guise of preventing “potentially serious adverse events.” The FDA can then eliminate these products at the drop of a hat.

The situation in Europe provides the blueprint. Europe’s march toward banning high-dose supplements has been going on for decades. The intention of EU law is to implement EU-wide, harmonized limits on maximum levels of vitamins and minerals in supplements. While EU authorities pursue that goal, individual member countries have issued their own restrictions on high-dose supplements. For example, Germany has decreed that magnesium supplements cannot contain more than 250mg of magnesium. Similar maximum limits have been created for a number of other nutrients in several countries, including Italy, France, Ireland, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

If you think that this can’t happen in the US, think again. The maximum permitted levels in nutrients created by European authorities are derived from ULs. The framework is already in place for US regulators to do exactly what some European countries have done in restricting dosages based on ULs. “Harmonization” of nutrient levels permitted in supplements is coming. All of the pieces are falling into place to eliminate the supplements that compete with drug companies.

This isn’t just speculation. In 2018, at the request of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, NASEM convened a workshop to “assess methodological approaches that could be applied uniformly across countries in setting nutrient intake recommendations.” The big players, like the pharmaceutical giants and the supplement companies they own, want global harmonization because it makes it easier to do business. These discussions are being had, hidden behind layer upon layer of bureaucracy. This is a very real threat.

Why should we care about maximum permitted levels, like magnesium being capped at 250mg in supplements? Magnesium supplements in the US are very commonly sold at dosages above 250mg; 400 and 500mg capsules are routinely available. Without these higher dosages, it would be difficult to take advantage of the many therapeutic effects of high dose magnesium. Take hypertension, for example. A meta-analysis found supplementation with magnesium at an average of 410mg a day for 11 months significantly reduced blood pressure, with an even greater effect at higher doses.

Additionally, Germany’s limit on magnesium was devised without consideration of the different forms of magnesium, the different effects they produce, and with a flawed risk assessment model that ignores benefits—subjects we will return to in the future.

All of this signals the main purpose behind these ridiculous supplement restrictions: governments, beholden to pharmaceutical interests, do not want consumers using affordable, safe natural products for disease prevention and treatment; they want you buying expensive and dangerous drugs that make you sick but lots of other people very rich.

We cannot emphasize this point enough. If European-style standards come to the US, thousands of products would immediately be banned, a project made even easier by Sen. Durbin’s bill. This would be a disaster for public health. As we will elaborate in future articles, high-dose supplements are required to derive therapeutic benefits from nutrients. Government regulators seem unable, or unwilling, to grasp this fact.

The threat of Durbin’s mandatory FDA registration is urgent. Members of Congress do not understand the problems stemming from this mandate. They are currently considering attaching this proposal to the must-pass prescription drug user fee legislation. This could become law in a matter of a couple months if we don’t ensure that Congress understands why this is such a bad idea. We need to act now to preserve our freedom to stay healthy, naturally.

Action Alert! Write to Congress and tell them to oppose Sen. Durbin’s bill and mandatory product listing for dietary supplements. Please send your message immediately."

https://anh-usa.org/durbin-bill-sign...e-supplements/

I had a small bruise on my right bicep and it wasn't healing. I stopped taking my morning vitamins and protein drink and it healed quickly. I'm thinking that whatever they've done is having an opposite effect. About 25 years ago I purchased a powdered product called Ricotrine (not sure of the spelling and I couldn't find a reference to it on the net). It was a green powder derived from rice husk. Women in Indian would go to the factories to get the husk if their babies got sick. It's loaded with vitamins and nutrients.

The possibility of someone infiltrating the food industry is maybe 98%? The same with the companies making baby formula, it is even worst. I do not doubt that the evil cabal POS are on a mission to depopulate the World and if they created a poison jab they will do anything. And, Bill Gates is big into PHARMA & FOOD supply. We absolutely need to clean out the institutions and get better oversight. Yet I will not live in fear, my journey with supplements started a year ago and personally know some have helped greatly. Our food supply has lost nutrient values for sure so I guess what I changed is reading the bottles of the supplements better and finding out where they are made. Used to have Spring Valley supplements until finding out they were made in China. One of the greatest changes realized personally is that Magnesium supplement stopped my muscle cramps.

You do have to be careful of what brands you use.
(Anything that WalMart carries is likely to be junk.)
I get most of my supplements from Vitacost.
They have a huge variety of brand names and items to choose from, and if you buy $49 worth, you get free shipping.
Their prices are much better than buying locally, and I can usually get everything I need with one monthly purchase, including various consumables, personal care and household products as well.
Their service is excellent, and they have frequent sales.
If you sign in, load up your shopping cart and then just leave it for a few days, they will email you with a 10% discount offer if you make the purchase.

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FDA Backs Glutathione Ban
By ANH-USA
05/19/2022
https://anh-usa.org/fda-backs-glutathione-ban/

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"The threat to this critical medicine deepens. We have to act fast to protect glutathione. Action Alert! Sign here: https://anh-usa.org/action-center/

Ahead of the June 8th meeting of an FDA advisory committee, the FDA has released its own recommendation for whether glutathione should be permitted to be made at specialized pharmacies for individual patients—and the news isn’t good. The agency has recommended that compounded glutathione be banned from pharmacy compounding. We need to work fast to make sure the FDA and its committee knows that patient health will be harmed if we do not have access to compounded glutathione.

In its materials released ahead of the June 8th meeting of its Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee (PCAC), the FDA explains its reasoning for backing a ban on compounded glutathione. The FDA cites safety issues with glutathione, including hepatoxicity, or damage to the liver. Huh? Is the FDA aware that n-acetylcysteine (NAC), which tells the body to make glutathione, is the standard treatment for acetaminophen poisoning—which causes liver injury? What is the FDA thinking?

The FDA doesn’t appear to be concerned about the common drugs on the market that can also lead to liver injury, like many antibiotics (amoxicillin-clavulanate, flucloxacillin, sulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim, and erythromycin) and NSAIDs (diclofenac, Ibuprofen). In fact, the FDA has an entire database of drugs known to cause liver injury with over 1,000 entries.

This exposes what a sham the FDA’s process is. The precursor to glutathione is used to treat drug-induced liver injury in hospitals, and glutathione is being banned…because it damages the liver? It doesn’t pass the sniff test. This supports our theory from the start: the FDA is doing whatever it can to protect drug industry profits. We reported previously on the wide range of uses for glutathione—and that’s the problem. Because it is so useful for such a variety of conditions, it competes with and threatens the financial viability of lots of different drugs. Here comes FDA, once again, to save Big Pharma’s bacon and the expense of patients.

Your ability to use individualized glutathione to stay healthy is in jeopardy. An FDA committee that has already voted to ban many natural medicines from being made at specialized pharmacies is meeting soon to help decide the fate of glutathione. A glutathione ban would be a disaster. It has a wide variety of medical applications, and there is no commercially available glutathione drug, so a ban would mean loss of access.

The FDA and the Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee (PCAC) need to hear from patients about why we need to have access to this critical treatment. Write to Congress, the FDA, and PCAC, urging them to retain consumer access to personalized glutathione!
We need a strong response from patients to show the FDA and PCAC that people care about and need access to this medicine. We encourage advocates to add a personal story if you have one when filling out the action alert below

Action Alert! Post a message to regulations.gov defending glutathione; you will also send a message to the FDA, PCAC, and Congress. Please send your message immediately. GO TO:
https://anh-usa.org/action-center/

Turmeric and Curcumin are discussed starting here: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...=1#post1499939

Action Alert--Feds Colluding Against Supplements/ FDA: No More Detox
5/26/22
From Alliance for Natural Health USA via votervoice.net https://anh-usa.org/what-if-durbin-gets-his-way/
Go here to read more and take action here: https://anh-usa.org/action-center/
"A well-organized, coordinated campaign from the FDA and Big Pharma is threatening access to the supplements you depend on. Using the false premise that supplements are unsafe, the FDA is working to gain more power over the regulation of supplements in order to further solidify Big Pharma’s monopoly over medicine. These efforts must be opposed.
Write to Congress and tell them to oppose efforts to establish a "mandatory filing" for supplements."
https://anh-usa.org/action-center/

Just crushed my finger trying to repair my elliptical. The muscle and bone exposed. Is there any herbs for trauma & healing tissue?

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Just crushed my finger trying to repair my elliptical. The muscle and bone exposed. Is there any herbs for trauma & healing tissue?

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Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) is used for muscular and bone trauma. And among the Bach flowers remedies, Star of Bethlehem is the choice.

Hoping your quick recovery

LAST CHANCE to Protect Glutathione!
By Alliance for Natural Health-USA
06/03/2022
https://anh-usa.org/last-chance-to-protect-glutathione/

"The clock is ticking for us to demonstrate massive grassroots opposition to a ban on compounded glutathione. Act now! Action Alert!

On Wednesday, June 8th, an FDA advisory committee is meeting to discuss whether glutathione can continue to be made at compounding pharmacies. The FDA has already suggested that the committee recommend a ban. The deck is stacked against glutathione and other natural medicines; we have to mount a substantial grassroots response to protect this critical antioxidant.

Our previous articles over the last few weeks detail the tremendous health benefits of glutathione. It helps with cancer treatment, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, pulmonary disease, immune enhancement, autism spectrum disorder, COVID-19, headaches, detoxification, and more. The main reason glutathione can have help with such a diverse array of conditions is its role in reducing oxidative stress—an imbalance between free radicals and antioxidants.

Compounded glutathione is especially critical. Glutathione is not absorbed well when taken in oral supplement form; that’s why many integrative doctors opt for compounded forms which can be delivered through intravenous, intranasal, or sublingual administration. There are no commercial versions of glutathione in these forms, so an FDA ban would mean loss of access to all of these forms.

In detailing its reasoning for backing a ban on glutathione, the FDA cites safety issues. The FDA cites safety issues with glutathione, including hepatoxicity, or damage to the liver. Is the FDA aware that n-acetylcysteine (NAC), which tells the body to make glutathione, is the standard treatment for acetaminophen poisoning—which causes liver injury? What is the FDA thinking?

Further, the FDA’s adverse event reporting system lists 114 total adverse events from glutathione between 1991 and 2022. That’s an average of just under 4 adverse events per year. As with any medicine, there is always the possibility of side effects, particularly when that medicine is used irresponsibly. But 4 adverse events a year? What FDA-approved drug can boast such a safety profile? Tecfidera is considered a safer drug for multiple sclerosis; it averages 11,789 adverse events per year. Tylenol, for which there is adverse event data all the way back to 1970, averages 462 adverse events per year.

We cannot let this happen. If the FDA’s advisory committee votes to ban glutathione, it is a certainty that the FDA will issue a proposed rule to ban glutathione along with other natural medicines it doesn’t like. As we’ve argued elsewhere, we believe the FDA is doing all of this to protect drug industry profits. Glutathione is a threat to the drugs that treat the disease conditions mentioned above. In fact, there are several clinical trials that are looking, or have already looked at, glutathione to treat Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, type 2 diabetes, cystic fibrosis, HIV infection, COVID-19, and more.

Action Alert! Go to the link to post a message to regulations.gov defending glutathione; you will also send a message to the FDA, PCAC, and Congress. Please send your message immediately."

https://anh-usa.org/last-chance-to-protect-glutathione/

Action Alert! Senate Committee Passes Bill with Mandatory Supplement Listing
Alliance for Natural Health
06/16/2022
https://anh-usa.org/senate-committee...ement-listing/

"Supplement restrictions are moving forward in Congress. Lawmakers need to hear that this is a bad idea. Action Alert!

This week, the Senate HELP Committee voted to approve its FDA user fee bill with mandatory dietary supplement product listing attached.

Requiring supplement companies to register all of their products with the FDA sounds innocuous but will have far-reaching, negative effects on your supplement access. This policy is being spear-headed by Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), and we believe his ultimate goal is to eliminate higher dosages of supplements, as is being done in Europe. You can read more about the damage this policy will do to your supplement choices here, here, here, and here.

During the committee markup, Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) offered the only supplement related amendment, which aimed to ensure this unnecessary regulatory burden wouldn’t expose supplement company trade secrets. Unfortunately, the amendment failed as committee Republicans supported it and Democrats opposed it. We expect the bill to receive a full Senate vote soon, so it is critical to let your Senators know we do not want mandatory supplement listing included.

The House has already passed its version of the FDA user fee bill, which does not include mandatory supplement listing. As a result of the differences, the House and Senate will have to reconcile their bills.

ANH will be letting Congress know we want to follow the House version and do not want mandatory supplement listing included in the final bill.

We have to oppose this terrible policy that will restrict consumer choice.

Action Alert! Write to Congress and tell them to oppose mandatory product registration for supplements. Please send your message immediately."

Take action here: https://anh-usa.org/senate-committee...ement-listing/

This is the message that will be sent:
"I urge you to oppose S.4090 and attempts to attach supplement mandatory product listing to drug user fee reauthorization legislation.

The FDA wants to register all supplements with dosage information so they can easily identify and wipe out high-dosage supplements as has been done in Europe. These doses are needed so consumers can reap the benefits of vitamins and minerals.

If anyone doubts this, look at the previous version of the bill. It is spelled out there.

"Registration" can also easily lead to pre-approval. Then supplements will cost as much as drugs.

There are also jail sentences for non-compliance. Why criminalize health products?

The NIH has already spent tens of millions of taxpayer dollars creating its own supplement product label database. If only a database is wanted, why another?

Supplements are already regulated. The FDA can withdraw any for real cause. They are also overwhelmingly safe. In 2021, the FDA received 2.3mm adverse event reports. Only 0.1% related to supplements. They are also an American growth industry.

Please oppose mandatory dietary supplement product listing."