Author: Health Freedom Idaho

  • When Cancer Strikes

    April 3rd, 2016, our world was turned upside down with the word –
    CANCER. Our precious 4 1/2 yr old had entered the fight of his life.
    Coral, a Certified Holistic Nutritionist from Reimagine Healing shares briefly about her family’s journey through the pediatric cancer diagnosis of her young son and the steps she took to support her son’s healing.

    You have just had the rug yanked out from beneath your feet. What you thought you knew has been thrown into a pile out behind the barn of your mind as the manure one chucks from a barn floor. The hopes and dreams you had for your precious child become expectation fodder as you grasp for your next breath.

    The Diagnosis

    Your child has just been diagnosed with cancer. Now what?

    Very quickly your world fills up with “white coats”, as I call them. Roadmaps of treatment are thrust at your chest like arrows, piercing your heart and shaking you to the core. There is much mentioned about what has to be done… what is going to happen… and for most of it, you have little to no input. Those white coats visit you frequently yet you constantly feel like you have no new information.

    The Dangerous Question

    When you finally catch your breath, regain strength in your knees, and have the first clear thought… you start to ask yourself

    “Is this how I want to treat my child?”
    This is a dangerous question. Why?

    • A) you are on shaky ground when you question the standard of care
    • B) if you find you don’t want to do it their way you have little to no resources to pull from.

    That was my experience.

    I quickly realized how ill-equipped the medical system is for actually healing human bodies.

    Nutrition Ignored

    As a Certified Holistic Nutritionist, I was shocked when the white coats, right out of the gate, told me “Let him eat whatever he wants.” Say what?! That is never good advice for anyone… ever, let alone a small child who has entered the fight of his life. Having this huge chasm between them and myself led me to remain cautious throughout the journey.

    Standard of Care Inconsistent

    The standard of care made NO SENSE to me. Why are they treating cancer with known carcinogens (cancer-causing agents)? Why are they using steroids if I can’t get the same answer from three different MDs? Why would my son endure an extra year of treatment compared to his female counterparts when the study that decision was based on hasn’t been challenged in over 40 years?
    (*Since my son started treatment the COG – Children’s Oncology Group – has since looked into and decided to change this protocol.)

    Many Protocols “Just-in-Case”

    I would ask a ton of questions. Most of the answers were never sufficient for me. Mainly because I didn’t think this was the best way to treat my son. I mean, let’s be real, he didn’t have a chemotherapy deficiency (he was given 10 different chemotherapy drugs). Nor a steroid deficiency. He was never constipated yet they gave him Miralax and Senna daily (until I woke up!). Miralax is not intended for use in children and is not intended for extended use but they would give it to my son DAILY as a prophylactic – a just-in-case medication. Once I realized certain things were not required, I had them change the instructions for all of those items to “as needed” because I got tired of refusing them.

    The Talk and Threat of CPS

    Then came The Talk… you’ve heard about it, but until you have been in the room having it you just don’t get it. It’s the conversation where they gently threaten you with CPS should you decide to not comply with the required treatment. People still think this doesn’t happen. I’m telling you IT DOES. When you are new to the ways of the medical system it is scary, overwhelming, and you feel your power lessen.

    My husband and I certainly didn’t have the finances to lawyer up and fight and there are no organizations providing pro bono lawyers either – at least not in our area. So, I bolstered what courage I could, wrapped it in anger, hit my knees in prayer, and suited up to fight for my son the best I could. Since I couldn’t protect him from the drugs themselves I opted to prime and protect his body from the side effects.

    Power of Knowledge

    With each new phase of treatment, we were given cheat sheets about the drugs that would be included in that phase. I’m sure you’ve received a cheat sheet before. It’s the single 8.5×11 sheet of paper with the drug name, its intended use, and a few side effects listed to help you feel informed. What a load of crap. When you hop on your computer, open your search engine of choice, and type in the name of the drug on the page, you quickly realize the side effects are a mile long and some of the intended uses would simply blow your mind. Yet, I found each of these cheat sheets to be a road map to hope and empowerment.

    I took those sheets, inputted the information in a search engine, and when that mile-long list of side effects was spit out I categorized them according to the body system. Once categorized I would open my holistic bag of tricks and find what was necessary to both prime and protect my son’s organs and systems.

    Restricting Natural Supplements

    Remember, their nutritional advice was “let him eat whatever he wants” and that was followed up shortly with “no supplementation” along with the fact that “we don’t believe essential oils work”. So, you could see what I was up against. *insert eye roll here* Knowing their stance on supplements, and this not being my first rodeo, I asked this question: What are his whole food restrictions? I was told not to supplement him so I figured there would be some restrictions when it came to whole food. Nope. Not a single restriction regarding whole food. Not one? Not one. He could eat as much fish as he wanted. He could eat as many grapefruits as he wanted. He could eat as much spinach, chard, kale, lettuce, butter, chicken, eggs, milk, etc as he wanted.

    Sweet! That means he can have the supplements we use since they are whole foods from the human food chain that have been juice extracted and dehydrated with no fillers and tested for over 200 toxins to an acceptable limit of zero.

    Food the Ultimate Support and Defense

    I had already made up my mind that they could not control what I fed my son and that meant I would supplement him. Why? Because there is no way his little body could physically consume, process, and absorb all the nutrients he would need to kick cancer’s butt. He would HAVE to have supplemental concentrates to help his body fight and win against leukemia. So, that is what we did. I made a supplemental regimen for him and he soared through treatment. No negative side effects to the myriad drugs he was given – each with their mile-long side effect list. Yes, he lost his hair, but I don’t count that as a negative since it grew back as quickly as it left.

    With that fact in the books, NO DOCTOR ASKED WHAT WE WERE DOING. The closest we got to doctor’s inquiring was when an incredible palliative care oncologist looked at my son’s numbers, pointed to his liver enzymes, and remarked, “Whatever you’re doing, keep doing it.” That was all the validation I needed to keep doing what we were doing.

    Essential Oils

    Then came the use of essential oils. Once again it was me versus them. I know essential oils work – my whole family has benefitted from them for years. So, while we were in-patient, I brought a diffuser to the hospital room. I also had roller bottles of specific oils to apply topically. We used oils that would support his body as it made new marrow, encouraged apoptosis of sick cells, worked to keep any digestive issues at bay, helped him manage his emotions, and much more. We would even detox bathe him while being infused (Epsom salt, baking soda, issue-specific oils). I began to notice that nurses lingered in our room. The CNAs would comment on how wonderful the room smelled. More employees seemed surprised at how joyful my family was despite living on the oncology floor for a month.

    More than Food and Oils. The Power of Faith!

    It wasn’t just the oils and whole foods. Our faith played a huge role in our journey. I believed in my heart that the Lord is good. I know in my head that he never changes his character. I had to reconcile the fact that my son’s cancer was part of a perfect plan. A perfect plan, yes, but not perfect by my standards. When the shock wore off (it took a few weeks) I was able to switch from the question of “Why my son?” to one of “Why not my son?” Why not my family to shed light on the goodness of God and the benefits of holistic modalities? That children’s hospital quickly became a mission field and we planted not only seeds of spiritual value but also of health, wellness, alternative thinking, and hope.

    Not Going Back

    My family was so different than the majority of patient families that we made nurses cry. We weren’t mean, let me explain. When we were being discharged at the end of Induction we were told that we would be back at the hospital for a whole host of issues – flu, fever, nausea, vomiting, constipation, diarrhea, neuropathy, fatigue, mucositis, and more. These, of course, are all normal and to be expected on a cancer journey. When the nurse finished listing what was expected and telling us we would be back… I thought to myself, “The hell we will!” I meant it.

    I wasn’t about to come back to this place that had flipped my world upside down, threatened me with CPS, and completely ignored thousands of years of wisdom for healing the body. I was gonna show them! And I did. It was six months before my son was required to go back to the hospital for Interim Maintenance (four 4-day stays with ten days in between each stay). When we were finally back at the hospital several nurses saw him and cried happy tears.

    Why is this such a big deal? Well, you see, they hadn’t seen hide nor hair of him in MONTHS. They assumed the worst had happened. They were elated that he was alive, happy, “healthy”, and full of energy. It was the first chance we’d had to water the seeds we planted months prior.

    Key things we did throughout his treatment: Prayer, Organic food, cooked and prepared at home. Whole food supplementation. Essential oils. Acupuncture. Exercise: running, trampoline, bike riding, Detoxing (mainly baths)

    Fast forward 864 days.

    By this point, we opted to move our family on faith, without jobs lined up, out of one state and into Idaho. We found a wonderful oncologist at St. Luke’s! From the moment we met him I was talking about ending my son’s treatment early. My husband wasn’t 100% ready to commit to that when we moved but a mere five months later he was and we ended our son’s treatment 1,026 days after it began. That was still 193 days ahead of schedule according to the “plan”. HALLELUJAH!!

    Fear and Regrets?

    Do we have any regrets? Absolutely not! Do we have any fear? A little. Cancer brings so many emotions to the forefront. Remember, everything we knew, or thought we knew, had been yanked from beneath us. That messes with you, to say the least.

    Forever Changed

    People think that just because our son’s treatment is finished that our lives magically return to the normal we knew prior to diagnosis. IT DOESN’T WORK THAT WAY. We are forever changed. We are now in our third “new normal”, at least. Every little ache, every little mysterious symptom sends us hurtling back to that night in the ER when our lives took a dark turn. The PTSD is real and sadly it seeps into almost every day.

    Triggers need to be addressed, avoided, and dealt with regularly. We can no longer carefreely enjoy birthday parties or restaurants as we have to remain diligent with our food quality. Our bank account is still being squeezed because of the whole food supplementation we provide our son because we are still in another year of firsts post-treatment. We plan to give his body the best possible chance at healing, detoxing, and repairing whatever cancer or treatment did to it. Suffice it to say we now live in a state of “new”.

    Mentor Business Born.

    Your Guide through the Cancer Journey.

    My goal through my business (which came out of the journey with my son) is to bridge the gap between what white coats tell you and what your intuition tells you. As a Momma Mentor with an incredible non-profit, I seek to encourage moms (dad’s too) who are on this journey and wish to incorporate more holistic/ natural elements into their child’s treatment.

    I am now in the business of showing people how to do just that – a sort of one-stop-shop or cancer tour guide walking alongside you as YOU craft your own healing journey by discovering a broader view of healing and the myriad of options available to you.

    Coral Kenagy, CEO of ReimagineHealing

    I utilize the non-profit’s 7-point action plan that focuses on food, exercise, rest, community, meditation, positive thoughts, and lessening toxin exposure. In short, I have become the guide that I needed when my son started his cancer journey. Why? Because there is a need and I plan to fill it in order to give these families THE BEST chance for healing, hope, and THRIVERSHIP. Through education, encouragement, and empowerment I know that the stigma and hopelessness surrounding cancer can change.


  • Pesticides: the Big Picture

    Pesticides are used all around us, in homes and gardens, schools, parks and agricultural fields. All too often, these chemicals are allowed onto the market before their impacts are fully understood — and harms to our health and the environment are discovered years later. The science is increasingly clear that even low levels of exposure can harm human health, and children are particularly vulnerable.

    Our national rules governing pesticide use are surprisingly weak. Yet as public concern continues to grow, alternative approaches to managing pests are increasingly available and gaining ground in homes, schools and agricultural fields across the country.

    Below is a brief overview of the problem; explore our campaigns and key issue pages to find out more about how PAN and our partners are building a healthy, thriving system of food and farming — and how you can help.

    What are pesticides?

    Insecticides (bug killers), herbicides (weed killers), and fungicides (fungus killers) are all pesticides; so are rodenticides and antimicrobials. Pesticides come in spray cans and crop dusters, in household cleaners, hand soaps and swimming pools.

    Insecticides are generally the most acutely (immediately) toxic. Many are designed to attack an insect’s brain and nervous system, which can mean they have neurotoxic effects in humans as well. Herbicides are more widely used (RoundUp and atrazine are the two most used pesticides in the world) and present chronic risks. This means ongoing, low-level exposures can increase the risk of diseases or disorders such as cancer, Parkinson’s disease or infertility and other reproductive harms. Fungicides are also used in large amounts; some are more benign, some are not.

    Pesticides are also sometimes broken down into chemical classes and modes of action. For example, fumigants are pesticides applied as gases to “sterilize” soil, and systemics work their way through a plant’s tissue after being taken up at the root. Major chemical classes include: carbamates, organochlorines, organophosphates (mostly developed 70 or more years ago for chemical warfare) and triazines. Newer classes include pyrethroids and neonicotinoids, synthesized to mimic nature’s pest protection. For more details on specific pesticides, visit our online database at www.pesticideinfo.org.

    What is the “pesticide treadmill?”

    Farmers get caught on the treadmill as they are forced to use more and more — and increasingly toxic — chemicals to control insects and weeds that develop resistance to pesticides.

    As “superbugs” and “superweeds” develop in response to widespread and continous use of chemicals, a farmer will spend more on pesticides each year just to keep crop losses at a standard rate.

    The recent introduction of crops genetically engineered for use with the herbicide 2,4-D provides a clear example of the pesticide treadmill. Widespread planting of RoundUp Ready crops and the associated application of RoundUp prompted weeds to develop resistance to the product. Resistant strains of “Pigweed” for instance, reportedly now grow with such vigor in southern cotton fields that the weeds can “stop a combine in its tracks.” Farmers are forced to return to use of 2,4-D — an antiquated, drift-prone chemical clearly linked to cancer and reproductive harms.

    Overall, pesticide resistance is increasing. In the 1940s, U.S. farmers lost seven percent of their crops to pests. Since the 1980s, loss has increased to 13 percent, even though more pesticides are being used. Between 500 and 1,000 insect and weed species have developed pesticide resistance since 1945.

    Rachel Carson clearly predicted the treadmill phenomenon in her 1962 book Silent Spring.

    There is another way. Agroecology is the science behind sustainable farming. This powerful approach combines scientific inquiry with place-based knowledge and experimentation, emphasizing approaches that are knowledge-intensive, low cost, ecologically sound and practical. Home use of pesticides — which on a per acre basis outpaces use on farms by a ratio of 10 to 1 — puts families across the North America at unnecessary risk. Alternatives are available to manage home, lawn and garden pests without toxic pesticides.

    Which rules govern pesticides?

    In the U.S., the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has primary authority to register and regulate pesticides. The agency’s oversight of pesticides is authorized by the following federal laws:

    The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act allows EPA to register pesticides using risk/benefit standards (how much risk is balanced by how much benefit);

    The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act aims to increase protection for children and infants, including setting tolerances (maximum residues on food);

    The Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA) amends previous laws by establishing a single safety standard for tolerances to increase protection of children from aggregate exposures (dietary, water and residential); and

    The Endangered Species Act of 1973 which requires that pesticides that will harm these species will not be registered.

    Some states have additional, stricter rules restricting pesticide use, and in a handful of states, local cities and counties can put even stricter rules in place.

    Internationally, pesticides are regulated through two treaties that PAN played a formative role in creating:

    • Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs treaty) addresses toxins that persist, move around the world on wind and water, and bioaccumulate (DDT, for example)and
    • Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent (PIC treaty) gives countries the right to refuse the import of highly hazardous toxins.

    The PIC treaty attempts to redress the dumping of obsolete or banned pesticides on the developing world. While only 25 percent of global pesticide use takes place in developing countries, 99 percent of acute pesticide-related fatalities occur there.

    Exposure & impacts

    Pesticide exposure depends on where you live and what you do.

    Each year, an estimated one billion pounds of pesticides are applied to U.S. farms, forests, lawns and golf courses. More than 17,000 pesticide products are currently on the market — with many of them approved through “conditional registration,” a regulatory loophole that allows products on the market quickly without thorough review.

    GLYPHOSATE MAKER to pay BILLIONS IN DAMAGES TO INDIVIDUALS WITH CANCER

    Pesticide applicators, farmers and farmworkers, and communities near farms are often most at risk, but studies by the Centers for Disease Control show that all of us carry pesticides in our bodies. Golf courses use pesticides heavily, as do some schools and parks. Consumers also face pesticide exposure through food and water residues. For instance, the herbicide atrazine is found in 94% of U.S. drinking water tested by the USDA.

    This widespread, long term use of pesticides has had tremendous ecological impacts over the years, from pest and weed resistance to environmental contamination and honey bee declines.

    In terms of human health, pesticides are now linked to a range of health impacts, including increased risk of cancer, Parkinson’s disease and neurodevelopmental effects like autism and ADHD. As we highlight in our A Generation in Jeopardy report, the science shows that infants and children are most at risk.

    LEARN MORE ABOUT PESTICIDES healthandenvironment.org/environmental-health/environmental-risks/chemical-environment-overview/pesticides

    This article originally appeared at: http://www.panna.org/pesticides-big-picture/pesticides-101

  • Swine Flu Fiasco of ’76

    It behooves us to review history, watch the trends and realize that the ‘threat of pandemic’ has been the ever-looming threat that reinforces the government vaccination program. If you are old enough you might remember the swine flu scare of 1976. That was the year the U.S. government told us all that swine flu could turn out to be a killer that could spread across the nation, and Washington decided that every man, woman, and child in the nation should get a shot to prevent a nation-wide outbreak, a pandemic.

    46 million obediently took the shot, and now 4,000 Americans are claiming damages from Uncle Sam amounting to three and a half billion dollars because of what happened when they took that shot. By far the greatest number of the claims – two-thirds of them are for neurological damage or even death, allegedly triggered by the flu shot.

    It all began when a young recruit at Fort Dix in New Jersey died from what was believed to be swine flu. Several other soldiers there also became sick. When officials at the Centers for Disease Control got wind of the news, they sprang into action, urging mass vaccinations. President Gerald R. Ford threw his support behind the drive.

    He was even photographed in his office receiving the shot from the White House doctor. Emotional commercials from 1976, which can be seen on YouTube, reveal the scare tactics the government used to get Americans vaccinated. The shots began on Oct. 1, with people lining up at schools, clinics, and shopping malls.

    However, the vaccine came with a hidden — and even deadly — threat. By mid-December, 54 cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome, a paralyzing neuromuscular disease, were reported as a result of the vaccine. Eventually, that number swelled to about 500, and 25 of those died. The shots were abruptly halted, but only after roughly 46 million Americans were immunized.

    Due to the urgency of creating new immunizations for a novel virus, the government used an attenuated “live virus” for the vaccine instead of a inactivated or “killed” form, increasing the probability of adverse side effects among susceptible groups of people receiving the vaccination.

    What’s more, the “pandemic” anticipated by officials never materialized. It’s believed that only about 200 Americans contracted that particular strain. Today, that hasty vaccination program is often referred to as the swine flu “fiasco,” which is addressed in the 1978 book The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease.

    It was the pandemic that never was. The New York Times went so far as to dub the whole affair a “fiasco,” damning one of the largest and probably one of the most well-intentioned public health initiatives by the US government.

  • Gut-Wrenching Dangers of ROUNDUP

    Systemic pesticides are in the plant, not on it. When we make the plant itself poisonous to predators, one has to wonder what (or who) else it’s poisoning.

    Glyphosate is the active ingredient in the pervasive herbicide and pesticide Roundup®.  The same Roundup used as to control dandelions in your yard and weeds growing in the cracks of your walkways is sprayed on your food and you consume it on a regular basis. Monsanto, Roundup’s manufacturer, convinced the U.S. regulatory agencies over four decades ago that glyphosate is practically nontoxic to humans.

    A study published in the journal Environmental Sciences Europe reveals that Americans have applied 1.8 million tons of Roundup since its introduction in 1974. It’s enough to spray nearly half a pound of Roundup on every cultivated acre of land in the world. This is a staggering amount, says Charles Benbrook, study author.

    The sheer quantity of herbicide applied on our planet makes its contamination inescapable! It is in our soil, our water, 75% of the rain samples in the Midwest tested positive for it, it contaminates least 75% of the foods in our grocery stores (probably more). Its found in umbilical cord blood, breast milk, and all the childhood vaccines. <Glyphosate testing results Moms Across America>

    No Protection from Regulatory Agencies

    Glyphosate formulations are often claimed to be safe by industry-linked sources.However, these claims are based on outdated and largely unpublished studies on the isolated ingredient glyphosate, commissioned by manufacturers in support of their application for regulatory authorization. In 2013, Monsanto requested and received approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for increased tolerance levels for glyphosate. <6>  Recent court findings show that the corporation Monsanto ghost wrote research, bought off and lied to regulatory agencies to increase the usage (and profits) of their product. <Monsanto Confidential Internal Documentation> And because of its perceived nontoxicity, the government has put minimal effort into testing residue levels in the foods that we put on our table. The crops that are engineered to resist glyphosate are highly contaminated because they take up the glyphosate and incorporate it into their tissues. <1>

     Systemic pesticides are chemicals that are actually absorbed by a plant when applied to seeds, soil, or leaves. The chemicals then circulate through the plant’s tissues, killing the insects that feed on them. Use of these pesticides on food crops began in 1998, and has steadily increased.  Unlike with traditional insecticides, you can’t wash or peel off systemic pesticide residues.
    – Mother Earth News

    You can’t wash or cook off the glyphosate residue. Contaminated crops include corn, soy, canola, alfalfa, and sugar beets. As well, many grains, legumes, and other crops are sprayed with glyphosate right before harvest as a desiccant or ripener. These include sugar cane, wheat, barley, and oats, among others. Even non-GMO crops use glyphosate just before harvest. While the FDA has a regulated ‘safe level’ limit on glyphosate contamination, they fail to take into account that it bioaccumulates in our bodies.

    Miniscule amounts of RoundUp in the parts per trillion are shown to increase the growth of breast cancer cells. Regardless of FDA limits, the reality is that there is no safe level of glyphosate consumption.

    One study out of Norway looking at Roundup Ready soybean crops confirmed the presence of glyphosate inside the beans themselves, and even Monsanto itself admits that some glyphosate remains on and in food crops like canola, cotton, and corn that are heavily sprayed with it. This means that animals and people are literally eating glyphosate in unknown amounts on a regular basis.

    Leading Researchers Agree on the Dangers of Glyphosate

    Over 100 peer reviewed papers have been published by Don Huber, Emeritus Professor at Purdue University and senior scientist on USDA’s National Plant Disease Recovery System, and other scientists on the detrimental effects of glyphosate. Glyphosate increases disease in plants (as well as animals), prompting Huber to write to the Secretary of Agriculture. Respected scientific studies show that there is a strong correlation between Glyphosate and Glyphosate formulations and serious health and environmental hazards, including disruption of hormonal systems and beneficial gut bacteria, damage to DNA, developmental and reproductive toxicity, birth defects, cancer and neurotoxicity. <6>


    How Does Glyphosate Damage the Human Body?

    Chronic toxicity—the effects of continually ingesting glyphosate residues in food—is cause for concern. Glyphosate interferes with fundamental biochemical reactions and may predispose humans to a host of health problems.

    Glyphosate performs two primary functions in agriculture – it robs plants of vital nutrients and weakens their immune defenses, resulting in their systematic destruction and eventual death.

     

    How does that affect the human body?

    1. MINERAL CHELATOR 
     
    Glyphosate was first patented as a chelator, a ‘magnet’ for drawing out metal ions in 1964 by Stauffer Chemical Co.

    In the case of plants, it binds to trace minerals and nutrients like manganese, magnesium, zinc, calcium, and iron, among many others. It does this in order to disrupt the physiological and enzymatic processes plants require for growth and life, ultimately destroying them. <8>

     According to Dr. Huber, an award-winning scientist and professor emeritus of plant pathology at Purdue University for the past 35 years, “It’s important to realize that glyphosate is not ‘just’ an herbicide. It was first patented as a *mineral chelator*. It immobilizes nutrients, so they’re not physiologically available for your body.”<3>

    Glyphosate chelates essential minerals iron, cobalt, manganese. Thus plants have fewer nutrients if glyphosate has been used on the field, and you absorb less of the existing nutrients that the food has if there is glyphosate residue. <7>

    Indirectly, glyphosate damages both food crops and soils, depleting them of the nutrients our bodies need for health. Manganese, which I mentioned earlier as being a chelating target of glyphosate, is an important trace mineral that governs multiple essential functions within the human body.

    For instance, manganese protects the integrity of mitochondria, the energy centers of our cells, against degradative oxidative damage. It also protects bone integrity, gut balance, bile acid homeostasis, neurological function, as well as a number of other vital life systems.

    If glyphosate’s broad-spectrum chelating ability to strip not only manganese but a host of other vital nutrients from plants and soils is enough to kill them, imagine what it’s doing to our bodies when we consume the nutrient-deficient foods derived from them! <7>

    2. HERBICIDE ‘WEEDKILLER’

    It was patented by Monsanto and introduced as an herbicide in 1974 –that’s how it is most commonly known. It kills weeds by attacking the “immune system” of the plant. The metabolic pathway it effects is called the shikimate pathway. It disrupts that pathway, thus killing the plant. Humans do not have that pathway, so it was at first thought to be safe for humans. The pathway is found in bacteria, however, and humans depend on bacteria in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract to synthesize the essential amino acids.

    By interfering with the biochemistry of bacteria in our GI tract, consumption of glyphosate depletes essential amino acids and predisposes humans to a host of chronic health problems. Specifically, glyphosate depletes the amino acids tyrosine, tryptophan, and phenylalanine, which can then contribute to obesity, depression, autism, inflammatory bowel disease, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s.

    There is also evidence that Roundup® inhibits cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes in plants[iii] and mammals[iv].  The CYP enzymes help to detoxify foreign chemicals (such as pesticides), regulate levels of vitamin D, and control cholesterol in humans.

    Dr. Huber says, ” When you take the good bacteria out, then the bad bacteria fill that void because there aren’t any voids in nature. We have all of these gut-related problems, whether it’s autism, leaky gut, C. difficile diarrhea, gluten intolerance, or any of the other problems. All of these diseases are an expression of disruption of that intestinal microflora that keeps you healthy.”

    Chronic disease and less nutritious foods are clear ramifications of upsetting the balance of microorganisms naturally occurring in soil and plants, related to our gut microbiota. Glyphosate causes the villi in the intestines die, leading to the leaky gut syndrome, which is associated with all autoimmune diseases. Furthermore, leaky gut leads to “leaky brain”–a breakdown of the blood-brain barrier.

    3. ANTIBIOTIC/Microbial Agent

    Glyphosate is a registered anti- microbial agent that annihilates organisms, both good and bad. When it enters your gastrointestinal tract, glyphosate not only destroys protective organisms like bacillus and lactobacillus, it also inhibits the growth of new protective organisms, leaving your body vulnerable to pathogenic invaders and bowel diseases like leaky gut syndrome.

    Dr. Huber further explains: “When you take the good bacteria out, then the bad bacteria fill that void because there aren’t any voids in nature. We have all of these gut-related problems, whether it’s autism, leaky gut, C. difficile diarrhea, gluten intolerance, or any of the other problems. All of these diseases are an expression of disruption of that intestinal microflora that keeps you healthy.” <5>

    Direct Evidence of Harm

    A study examining the effect of glyphosate on bacteria that grow in the GI tract of chickens found that beneficial bacteria were susceptible, and harmful bacteria were resistant, to glyphosate. The growth of four types of beneficial bacteria—Lactobacillus, Bacillus, Bifidobacterium, and Enterococcus—was reduced at low concentrations of glyphosate. [viii] The same types of beneficial bacteria inhabit the human GI tract, and they are sold over the counter as a probiotic supplement. Some strains are also found in yogurt.

    When exposed to the same levels of glyphosate that harmed the beneficial bacteria, several harmful bacteria, including Salmonella, grew successfully. The authors concluded that ingestion of glyphosate can disturb the normal microbial community and predispose chickens to carrying high levels of Salmonella or other harmful bacteria.

    4. MOLECULAR MIMICRY

    Glyphosate also replaces an amino acid called “glycine” in our protein chains. However, because it’s a bigger molecule, it causes the protein chains to fold in on themselves in such a way that they can no longer function properly.

    STEPHANIE SENEFF, Ph.D. says, “My recent research, inspired by Anthony Samsel’s conjecture, leads me to strongly suspect that glyphosate is getting into proteins by mistake in place of glycine. This has huge consequences to our health, because the human proteins contaminated with glyphosate don’t work properly in their function in the body, and the glyphosate-contaminated food proteins tend to resist proteolysis, sticking around and causing autoimmune disease through molecular mimicry. This feature easily explains the epidemic we see in allergies to foods that are likely to contain high amounts of glyphosate contamination, such as gluten, casein, and soy.” <1>

    5. ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR

    Glyphosate has been shown in several recent studies to be an endocrine disruptor. According to the National Institutes of Health, endocrine disruptors could have long-term effects on public health, especially reproductive health. And the “dose makes the poison” rule does not apply to endocrine disruptors, which wreak havoc on our bodies at low doses.

    Not Enough Safety Tests

    Roundup and other glyphosate herbicide formulations as sold and used have been found in studies to be more toxic than the isolated ingredient, glyphosate. However, only glyphosate alone is tested in long-term safety tests for regulatory authorizations. This is a fundamental problem affecting all pesticide authorizations.

    The ‘safe’ dose for Roundup exposure set by regulators is not based on up-to-date objective evidence. So, current regulations do not protect the public.

    The chemicals used in the GM model of farming are toxic, and the model of farming itself is unsustainable and damaging to the environment – with an increase in herbicides significantly increasing pollution and health risks for citizens, and contributing to biodiversity loss. The only people who stand to gain from this model are those that produce the herbicide-resistant crop the chemicals required to grow them.

    Take Local Action

    Perhaps NOW is the time to systematically SHUT DOWN the use of Roundup in our everyday spaces. While it will take much more to get the farms to switch, we could start small and unravel it bit by bit.

    Irvine got them to stop spraying in their parks. We can get it stopped around our schools/daycares. Its easier on a city level you have to change the minds of a few on the City Council instead of 100’s in the State legislature.

    How to Detoxify Your Body from Glyphosate Exposure …. https://biofoundations.org/how-to-detoxify-your-body-from-glyphosate-exposure/

    Learn More:

    <1> Glyphosate in Collagen – The Weston A. Price Foundation. https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/environmental-toxins/glyphosate-in-collagen/
    <2> News from Organically Grown – Week of February 22. http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs123/1104797399382/archive/1123807793233.html
    <3>Glyphosate was first patented as a chelator in …. https://gmoanswers.com/ask/i%E2%80%99ve-read-glyphosate-was-first-patented-chelator-1964-stauffer-chemical-co-it-was-patented
    <4> What’s In Your Food? A Look at Food Fraud | Food Safety News. https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2015/04/whats-in-your-food-a-look-at-food-fraud/
    <5> Dr. Huber: Things You Need to Know About GMO and Roundup. https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/10/06/dr-huber-gmo-foods.aspx
    <6> https://content.sierraclub.org/grassrootsnetwork/sites/content.sierraclub.org.activistnetwork/files/teams/documents/The_Unintended_Consequences_of_Using_Glyphosate_Jan-2016.pdf

    <7> https://detoxproject.org/glyphosate/glyphosate-chelating-agent/

    <8> https://www.cornucopia.org/2014/03/gut-wrenching-new-studies-reveal-insidious-effects-glyphosate/

    <9> https://thetruthaboutcancer.com/glyphosate-dangers/

    Learn More: 

    Detoxing Glyphosate

    Monsanto Loss $289 million due to fraud and maliciousness

    Contaminated Foods

    http://www.i-sis.org.uk/USDA_scientist_reveals_all.php

    Dr Seneff video interview: https://youtu.be/CmAsTrsUjBc

    http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/15/4/1416/htm

    https://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/2016/Seneff_Stephanie_052516.pdf

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0300483X09003047

    http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/iarcnews/pdf/MonographVolume112.pdf

    https://biofoundations.org/how-to-detoxify-your-body-from-glyphosate-exposure/

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5823954/

    https://www.academia.edu/30440130/Glyphosate_pathways_to_modern_diseases_V_Amino_acid_analogue_of_glycine_in_diverse_proteins

    https://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/food-policy/gmo-debate-continues-as-herbicides-reveal-health-problems-zwfz1307zsal

    https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/environmental-toxins/glyphosate-in-collagen/

    [i] Samsel, A., and Seneff, S. 2013. Glyphosate’s Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases. Page 1443. Entropy, 15, 1416-1463; doi:10.3390/e15041416

    [ii] Samsel, A., and Seneff, S. 2013. Glyphosate’s Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases. Page 1443. Entropy, 15, 1416-1463; doi:10.3390/e15041416

    [iii] Lamb, D.C.; Kelly, D.E.; Hanley, S.Z.; Mehmood, Z.; Kelly, S.L. Glyphosate is an inhibitor of plant cytochrome P450: Functional expression of thlaspi arvensae cytochrome P45071b1/reductase fusion protein in Escherichia coli. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 1998, 244, 110–114.

    [iv] Hietanen, E.; Linnainmaa, K.; Vainio, H. Effects of phenoxyherbicides and glyphosate on the hepatic and intestinal biotransformation activities in the rat. Acta. Pharmacol. Toxicol. 1983, 53,  103–112.

    [v] Kim, Y.H.; Hong, J.R.; Gil, H.W.; Song, H.Y.; Hong, S.Y. 2013. Mixtures of glyphosate and surfactant TN20 accelerate cell death via mitochondrial damage-induced apoptosis and necrosis. Toxicol. In Vitro, 27, 191–197.

    [vi] Kim, Y.H.; Hong, J.R.; Gil, H.W.; Song, H.Y.; Hong, S.Y. 2013. Mixtures of glyphosate and surfactant TN20 accelerate cell death via mitochondrial damage-induced apoptosis and necrosis. Toxicol. In Vitro, 27, 191–197.

    [vii] Clair, E.; Linn, L.; Travert, C.; Amiel, C.; Séralini, G.E.; Panoff, J.M.  2012.  Effects of Roundup and glyphosate on three food microorganisms: Geotrichum candidum, Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris and Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus. Curr. Microbiol. 64, 486–491.

    [viii] Shehata, A.A.; Schrödl, W.; Aldin, A.A.; Hafez, H.M.; Krüger, M. 2013. The effect of glyphosate on potential pathogens and beneficial members of poultry microbiota in vitro. Curr. Microbiol. 66, 350–358.

    [ix] Krüger, M.; Shehata, A.A.; Schrödl, W.; Rodloff, A. 2013. Glyphosate suppresses the antagonistic effect of Enterococcus spp. on Clostridium botulinum. Anaerobe 2013, 20, 74–78.

    [x] Samsel, A., and Seneff, S. 2013. Glyphosate’s Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases. Page 1443. Entropy, 15, 1416-1463; doi:10.3390/e15041416

    [xi] Federal Register, May 1, 2013, page 25396. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-05-01/pdf/2013-10316.pdf

  • What Happens to Your Body When You Sleep

    Sleep is more than a luxury. It’s a pillar of your health that’s just as valuable as diet and exercise. Your body needs it for daily maintenance, hormone balance, and to fight off infection. Yet many people get far less than the seven to nine daily hours needed. Your body isn’t shutting down when you sleep. It’s shifting into a different mode. One that you need to stay mentally and physically sharp. 

    In a typical night, your body goes through four to six 60 to 90-minute sleep cycles. Within each of these cycles, you pass through five sleep stages. You move through stages I through IV while also spending time in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep where active dreaming takes place.

    However, your sleep isn’t linear. Within each cycle, you bounce back and forth between light and deep stages. Your body needs to spend time in each of the sleep stages to fully recover from a day’s worth of work.

    The Brain

    The glymphatic system, the brain’s cleaning system, boosts its activity by 90 percent when you’re asleep. This system flushes spinal fluid through the tiny spaces in the brain to cleanse them of leftover waste. Without it, communication within the brain slows because toxins clog your communication pathways.  

    Your Muscles

    When you enter stage III sleep, the first of the deep sleep stages, your body releases human growth hormone. This hormone floods muscle tissue and stimulates healing and rebuilding. Whether you’re a bodybuilder or not, your body needs to repair itself from damage and injury on a daily basis. 

    The Immune System

    Sleep gives your immune system time to recharge and strengthen itself. T-cell levels drop when you sleep and redistribute themselves in the lymph nodes. At night, your risk of infection is relatively low, so it’s the perfect time for the immune system to pump up its defenses. Once all your defenses are in place, they’re ready and waiting for deployment once you’re up and moving. 

    Help Your Body with Better Sleep

    All of these vital functions get disrupted if you don’t get enough sleep. Consequently, your health suffers. The length and quality of your sleep cycle, in part, depends on your habits and behaviors. The right ones will help you sleep soundly while others can leave you tossing and turning. 

    Do:

    • Go to bed at the same time every day. Your body adapts to your schedule so keep one it can predict. 
    • Follow a bedtime routine. A routine reduces stress before bed and helps your brain recognize the start of the sleep cycle. 
    • Eat healthy meals at regular intervals. The timing of your meals influences your sleep cycle. Keep your meals consistently spaced and stick with a well-balanced diet for optimum nutrition. 
    • Make your bedroom sleep supportive. Dark, cool, and quiet should describe your bedroom. You should also have a mattress that caters to your weight and preferred sleeping position. This keeps your spine aligned and reduces morning aches and pains.  

    Don’t:

    • Look at electronic screens before bed. Bright blue light can suppress sleep hormones. Turn them off two to three hours before bedtime. 
    • Drink stimulants in the late afternoon or evening. Caffeine and similar stimulants stay in your body for hours. Stop consuming them early in the day to prevent them from blocking sleep hormones. 
    • Eat high fat, heavy meals before bed. Discomfort and indigestion don’t make good bedfellows. 

    Adequate sleep gives you energy, keeps you well, and lets your mind stay clear and sharp. Make the change to better sleep and your body will thank you. 

    Stacey L. Nash is a Seattle area writer for Tuck.com whose insomnia led her to research all aspects of sleep. With a degree in communications from the University of Puget Sound, she helps put sleep into the forefront of the health and wellness conversation. When not researching and writing about sleep, she spends time with her husband and four children on their heavily-wooded, twelve-acre piece of heaven.

  • Vaccine Science, Safety and Assumptions with Del Bigtree

    Del Bigtree produces one of the fastest-growing programs in the natural health arena. Why are people so fascinated with this controversial topic of vaccine safety? Perhaps its because mainstream media makes him out to be a monster or a liar so curiosity draws people in. Quite possibly it could it be because he is one of the only programs that ask the tough questions of the pharmaceutical industry and seeks to find the answers to the questions as they refuse to respond. Many parents have seen the damage caused by vaccines and been dismissed. Now people are beginning to realize the impact of vaccines on the health of their children and themselves and seeing highly educated individuals sharing their knowledge on the topic of these liability-free medical products.

    https://youtu.be/56o6Nlc7YCI
    • Learn why Hirewire Radio and Icandecide.org are striking such a chord with the people, who are driven by both curiosity and concern
    • Why Bigtree believes that what’s the heart of the state vaccine mandate laws is really about the right to sovereignty or body autonomy. Do we have the right to own our bodies? Or are we simply the property of the United States government?
    • Discover how the winning lawsuits against both US government agencies Health and Human Services and National Institute of Health prove that there is no science showing vaccines are safe and effective.
    • Learn how there is not really an anti-vaxxer movement it is in fact, driven by those who believed in the vaccine program until it destroyed the life of someone they love or themselves.

    Informed Consent Action Network challenged Health and Human Services with lawsuits to show the safety studies that measure the way we test the vaccines. Every other drug made requires a trial of one group get the drug the other groups it’s a sugar pill or saline injection if the product is injectable. They have finally admitted that they never ever tested any of the childhood vaccines on our schedule compared them to a placebo group, which means they have no scientific way to state unequivocally that vaccines are safe.  That is a lie,  there is no science behind that. That is a belief,  an assumption and I think its failing.

    Del Bigtree

    RESOURCES:

    Lack of Safety Testing experts from Icandecide.org

    Plotkin Godfather of Vaccines Experimented on Orphans and Disabled

    Del Bigtree Irrefutable Argument Against Vaccine Safety Claims

    Vaccine Adverse Reaction Automated Tracking

  • EMF Radiation from Cell Phones Proven Harmful to Health!

    Is there proof of harm due to long-term exposure to wireless radiofrequency electromagnetic (RF-EMF) radiation? On this episode of HealthMade radio, Dr. Michael Karlfeldt discusses electromagnetic fields and radiation with Dr. David Carpenter MD, co-editor of the 2012 BioInitiative Report BioInitiative Report that Issues New Warnings on Wireless and EMF.

    Dr. David Carpenter is the director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University of Albany, and the author of the Bioinitiative Report, one of the very few publications to evaluate the safety concerns associated with cell phones. He received his degree at Harvard Medical School and has decades of experience studying public health and environmental contaminants, with more than 360 peer-reviewed articles bearing his name.

    On this episode of HealthMade radio, Dr. Michael Karlfeldt discusses electromagnetic fields and radiation with Dr. David Carpenter MD, and co-editor of the 2012 BioInitiative Report BioInitiative 2012 Report Issues New Warnings on Wireless and EMF.

    There is now much more evidence of risks to health affecting billions of people world-wide.   The status quo is not acceptable in light of the evidence for harm.“

    Dr. David Carpenter
    bioinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/BioInitiativePressRelease1-1-2013.pdf
    • How are we exposed to electromagnetic frequencies?
    • What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
    • What is an electrosensitivity?
    • What are the effects on the human body?
    • Could I be electromagnetically sensitive?

    THIS JUST IN: Verizon launches top-tier 5G service in New York City… and Boise – https://boisedev.com/news/2019/09/26/verizon-launches-top-tier-5g-service-in-new-york-city-and-boise/

    Did you agree to be a test subject?

    “There has been no premarket testing of this technology or the mix of frequencies we will be exposed to. There are no protective regulations to assure monitoring of radiation levels for each antenna or a registry to document reported health effects.” ~Physicians For Safe Technology
    https://mdsafetech.org/5g-telecommunications-science/

  • Vaccine Hesitancy it’s the unanswered questions.

    Why do they shut down the dialogue, censor the conversation and skirt the concerns of parents hesitant about the ‘greatest medical advancement’ -vaccines? Why are they immediately discredited, name called, labeled an anti vaxxer” & dismissed if they dare ask questions about vaccines?

    Why does the government want to mandate that a healthy child be injected vaccines with ingredients that they assume no responsibility for? Why does my doctor immediately become defensive when I ask him a question about vaccines?

    We are entering a time in history where we are not even allowed to ASK. Vaccine hesitant parents have questions. They not only want to silence the discussion completely, instead of answering our questions, but they’re also going the extra mile to learn how to combat our hesitancy.

    Isn’t it easier to just… answer the question?

    Oh, that’s right… kinda hard to convince people who are awake to the LIE – that poison is suddenly not poison just because it’s in their FDA-approved syringe. It’s hard to convince a parent who has seen the vaccine driven damage done to their children and family members. As those who profit from vaccines the number of ‘recommended’ and mandated injections, so does the damage. Don’t be afraid of the answers, be afraid of not asking the questions #justasking

    •Why have there been ZERO safety studies on the vaccine schedule in over 30 years (illegally) by the HHS, or on giving multiple vaccines at once?
    #justasking

    •Why does a 6 -month-old baby receive as many vaccines as some have received in their lifetime? #justasking

    Why doesn’t my doctor know what is in the vaccine he just recommended injected into my child? <vaccine ingredients>

    Why are there toxic ingredients in vaccines? Have they been tested synergistically?

    •Of the billions of diseases in the world, why are we only afraid of the 16 we vaccinate for? <see Diseases you should fear>
    #justasking

    •Why are our doctors that we are supposed to trust with the health of our babies learning NOTHING about vaccine safety, science, risk factors, and adverse reactions in medical school? Ask your doctor these vaccine dangers questions before you vaccinate!  The answers to these questions are profoundly important so that you understand the risks to your child or yourself from vaccines.
    #justasking

    •Why is it “unethical” to conduct a true third party, double-blind study using an inert placebo, but totally ethical to administer vaccines to pregnant women and infants that have never been tested in a true third party, double-blind study using an inert placebo?
    #justasking

    Why were there 23 doses of vaccines on the CDC recommended schedule in 1986 and now a minimum of 68 recommended doses, and why haven’t they been tested individually and for a cumulative effect?
    #JustAsking

    •How do you expect diseases to be eradicated when we are constantly injecting our children with live viruses?
    #justasking

    •What happens when you inject female DNA from an aborted fetus directly into your son? Or male DNA from an aborted fetus directly into your daughter? <aborted fetal DNA remains in vaccines>
    #justasking

    •What are the effects of injecting DNA from animals such as cows, pigs, monkeys, chicken, etc? <vaccines aren’t vegan>
    #justasking

    •Why are doctors getting massive bonuses from pharmaceutical companies for vaccinating a certain percentage of their patients? <Blue Cross Bonus>
    #justasking

    •If vaccines are so safe, why are their manufactures free from all legal liability? <liability-free medical products>
    #justasking

    •Why does section 13.1 of every insert state that this vaccine has never been evaluated for carcinogenic or mutagenic potential, or potential to impair fertility, but it’s also assumed that the steep rise in childhood cancer and infertility is completely unrelated? #justasking <Read section 13.1>

    •Why are we vaccinating pregnant women when section 8 of every vaccine insert states they have NEVER been tested for safety and unknown if it will cause fetal harm?
    #justasking

    •Why have the last cases of polio in the over 40+ years caused by the vaccine? #justasking

    •If herd immunity works, why are there outbreaks in 100% vaccinated populations?
    #justasking

    Why haven’t parents been told that Congress placed vaccines in the category of “unavoidably unsafe.”
    #JustAsking

    Why does CDC say vaccine injury is “rare,” when an HHS report estimates less than 1% of adverse events are reported and Former FDA Commissioner David A. Kessler has estimated that VAERS reports currently represent only a fraction of the serious adverse events?
    #JustAsking

    Why are most pediatric vaccines licensed based on inadequate clinical trials, including follow-up periods too brief to capture adverse outcomes, and illegitimate placebos (e.g., other vaccines instead of an inert/saline placebo)?
    #JustAsking

    Why has there not been a Congressional investigation to question whistleblower Dr. William W. Thompson, a Senior Scientist and Epidemiologist at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Immunization Safety Branch), about his claim of fraud and scientific malfeasance at the CDC?
    #JustAsking

    Why am I a good mother when I read the back of a cereal box for ingredients but a CRAZY mother when I read the list of vaccine ingredients?
    #JustAsking

    How is the church not outraged by the use of aborted infants in the manufacturing of vaccines?
    #JustAsking

    When I was a child I got maybe 4 vaccines and everyone I knew had the chickenpox and measles, why has the vaccine schedule exploded to more than 72 doses of vaccines?

    Why does the US give the chickenpox vaccine, when the UK and many other countries don’t, because it’s been proven to cause shingles?

    Why isn’t the Vaccine Safety Datalink data available to the public?

    Many studies have been done, including Minnesota’s own Dr. Poland, that shows as MMR vaccine uptake has risen, measles will never be fully eliminated and vaccinated people will still get measles. What do you think about that?

    Many scientists have raised the alarm on the amount of aluminum in vaccines. Why doesn’t the CDC address their concerns?

    Why did the ACIP committee recently approve the new Hep B adjuvant despite the safety signal of the myocardial infarction?

    Why are all four major vaccine makers (Merck, Sanofi, GSK and Pfizer), who are all convicted of fraud, given a free pass when it comes to vaccines? Merck created Vioxx and is currently being sued for both the Shingles vaccine and Gardasil, and yet their products can be mandated for school entry?

    Why do we not do genetic testing before vaccinating?

    Why do vaccines contain known neurotoxins & document poisons?

    Why do you need to censor free speech and mandate a product if it’s so great?

    Who is responsible when my child suffers an adverse reaction to a procedure performed at this appointment? ME! Will the doctor or manufacturers take full liability if the product you are pushing causes harm to my child? Nope. Was I given any relevant information to vaccine reactions when I vaccinated my children? NO.

    Are there risks with vaccines? Yes. 4 billion has been paid out only a small percentage of families who suffered death or injury from vaccines.

    Most will look at this and think it is a vigil in remembrance of 9/11, sadly it is not.
    This is a vigil was held at the CA state capital in remembrance of the lives taken and children left with permanent disabilities or injuries caused by vaccines.

    Does this look like 1 in 1 million to you?

    A Harvard study found that less than 1% of vaccine injuries are ever reported. <harvard study>

    In most cases, the doctors and nurses do not even know about VAERS or just omit sharing it with their patient. <VAERS>

    Can you imagine how many more victims are out there?!?

    If you have been vaccine injured or your child, even if your doctor says ‘that’s a normal reaction’ file a report with VAERS.

    Just because doctors are classifying these injuries or adverse reactions as common it DOES 👏🏼 NOT 👏🏼 MEAN 👏🏼 IT 👏🏼 IS 👏🏼NORMAL 👏🏼

  • CPS Medical Kidnap Protest Idaho’s Kootenai Health

    Public protest regarding CPS and Kootenai Health drew 85 concerned citizens and the attention of local media. Health Freedom Idaho has received many reports of Kootenai Health coercing parents into keeping their children in the hospital longer and agreeing to treatments or testing for their children that they would otherwise have declined. Some parents have reported being treated differently if their child is not vaccinated according to the CDC schedule. They strong-arm parents into complying by threatening to call Child Protective Services (CPS) if the parents don’t agree with the suggestions of the medical staff in relation to the medical care of their child. Even when the parents comply, CPS is still frequently called, and the parents are often visited by CPS social workers and police at their homes within days of discharge. #parentsrights #KootenaiHealth

     

    families protest coercion of Kootenai Health CPS Medical Kidnap

    Concerned citizens came to Kootenai Health to publicly protest the policies and practices of Kootenai Health. This hospital has frequently been coercing parents into accepting their advised medical treatment of their children under the threat that if they do not, Child Protective Services will be called. When the parents, out of fear, accept the treatments, Kootenai Health still frequently has called CPS.

    Kootenai Health calls CPS on parents
    closed as unsubstantiated case
    families protest coercion of Kootenai Health CPS Medical Kidnap

    The families return home to face visits from a CPS social worker, and usually, uniformed police officers. The social workers and police officers who demand a home inspection and observation of the family, and interview all of the children in the home. This is always done without a warrant. The consent parents give to allow these government officials to enter the home and interview children is frequently obtained under duress.


    Kootenai Health has claimed that their hands are tied by Idaho Code. They believe that they must contact CPS every single time there is the possibility of medical neglect. But, medical neglect is not clearly defined in the statute. Having questions about treatment, wanting a second, independent opinion, wanting to wait for test results, and wanting to explore alternatives does not constitute neglect.
    There are many hospitals in Idaho working with the same statutes that are not frequently threatening the parents of their patients with CPS, so the laws are hardly the problem. The problem appears to be a disregard for building trust in the doctor/patient/parent relationship. The hospital frequently resorts to coercion, extortion, and bullying, which destroys, rather than builds trust.

    families protest coercion of Kootenai Health CPS Medical Kidnap


    Also, there is the totality of Idaho Code, which includes the following statutes passed in 2015: What the laws ALSO say:
    32-1010. INTENT OF THE LEGISLATURE — PARENTAL RIGHTS. (1) The interests and role of parents in the care, custody, and control of their children are both implicit in the concept of ordered liberty and deeply rooted in our nation’s history and tradition. They are also among the unalienable rights retained by the people under the ninth amendment to the constitution of the United States.
    32-1011. PARENTAL RIGHT TO THE CARE, CUSTODY, AND CONTROL OF CHILDREN. Parents who have legal custody of any minor child or children have the fundamental right to make decisions concerning their care, custody, and control.

    CASE AFTER CASE OF UNSUBSTAINATED CASES OF CPS
    CALLED IN BY KOOTENAI HEALTH

    Another case of an unsubstantiated claim made by Kootenai Health 
    mother of a child with significant disabilities 
    Kootenai Health using CPS to enforce compliance midwife/parent advocate discusses
    Kootenai Health ‘policy’
    Attempted Medical Kidnap after parent refuses unnecessary spinal tap on infant
    @ Idaho Kootenai Health


    Parents and children from the Coeur d’Alene area took time out of their busy schedule to send a message to Kootenai Health on September 11th, 2019.

    These are the demands of these concerned parents:

    • Kootenai Health IS using coercion of parents, threatening to call CPS, to get parents to keep their children in the hospital longer and accept treatments that may not be necessary for the health and welfare of the child.
    • Kootenai Health is using a limited view of Idaho Code to justify their threats and their calls to Child Protective Services even for parents that completely comply with the treatment recommendations.
    • Kootenai Health is not fostering a relationship of trust with the parents in the community. They should be operating from a position that trust must be earned and not extorted.

    The limited resources of Child Protective Services should only be necessary for criminal abuse and neglect and not to build business revenue for the hospital.

    letter to Kootenai Health CPS Medical Kidnap
    letter to Kootenai Health CPS Medical Kidnap pg 2
    Letter sent to the Kootenai Board of Health

    Kootenai Health preempted the protest with an email to their employees in which they claimed that the “protesters” have a history of “videotaping interactions and misrepresenting them to advance their opinions.”

    See the Kootenai Health email to their employees at IDAHOCPS.org
    Decide for yourself if they seem interested in healing the relationship of trust with these concerned parents, many of whom have had a personal and terrifying experience at Kootenai Health on the very subject of the protest.

  • Don’t California My Idaho

    Our hearts break for our friends in CA. 💔
    They have given everything they have to the fight against SB276 which was signed into law today by a corrupt governor.

    Shared from California. Their vaccine mandate bill that removes almost all medical exemptions passed the House today. The legislators voted to “ignore their rules” requiring a bill to be read 3 times. ”They called a “suspension of rules”. In the dark, the assembly heard SB276 and passed. Amendments added via another bill, they tore through the Assembly, and Senate will hear the bill, then rapidly signed by the governor. Segregation, degrading and demonizing our children. We are In distress #America!

    Yesterday in California, a bill went from
    Introduction
    through committee
    to the Assembly Floor
    to the Senate Floor
    to the Governor, who signed it

    In 8 hours
    Without a SINGLE public hearing.
    Despite THOUSANDS of constituents outside waiting their turn to speak, demanding the bill be stopped.

    55,000 medically fragile California school children will not be able to go back to school after next year.

    Children who have already suffered from these pharmaceutical products.

    Children who have lost a sibling or family member from these pharmaceutical products.

    Children who are immunocompromised and can’t tolerate those pharmaceutical products.

    Children who are genetically immunocompromised and cannot tolerate these pharmaceutical products.

    Now, any doctor who dares listen to his patients about their children having an adverse reaction will be persecuted, penalized, and investigated for writing more than 5 medical waivers.

    No doctor will be willing to help his patients with adverse reactions to vaccines now.

    Every single doctor who has ever tried to help his patients with vaccine adverse reactions prior to this draconian new law, is already being investigated and scrutinized as it is.

    SB276 makes a parent put their child through near death before they are granted a waiver, and it would only be good for 1 vaccine. So that child would still have to get all other vaccines including new ones (new ones are regularly added to the schedule).

    KCRA Reports on the Protests at the California State Capitol <VIDEO>

    With the passage of this bill, not even a Doctor can excuse a child from an injection that they feel may harm them. California parents have lost their ability to follow a doctor’s advice about vaccination.
    A state bureaucrat is now in charge of that decision. And if they say no, the child will be forced out of school.

    With the passage of SB 276 medical vaccine exemptions essentially no longer exist.

    No Fraudulent Medical Exemptions were Found

    The bill was written in the premise that fraudulent vaccine exemptions were being written. Some report that of the 4000 exemptions reviewed. The primary co-author of the bill confirmed that ZERO medical exemptions were found fraudulent.

    Z E R O!

    Pharma puppet is looking to vilify any doctor who writes medical exemptions- essentially stripping them away from medically fragile children. He is claiming “fake medical exemptions hurt kids”, all while there is 🚨NO EMERGENCY🚨. There is zero proof that the low amount of children who utilize a medical exemption because ❗️GASP❗️they actually qualify for one are a threat to others. This is the government interfering with the doctor-patient relationship and punishing doctors for doing what is in the best interest of their patients. California doctors will not write medical exemptions for children now for fear of backlash.

    “Under California’s SB276 your child would have to experience anaphylactic shock- a life-threatening reaction- to every vaccine, 8 times to qualify for a medical exemption.”

    Parents are now faced with the decision to homeschool their children or leave the state of California in order to protect their children from mandated medical assault.

    above comment via Mary Elizabeth is with Denise Marie.

    It’s NOT about Herd Immunity

    This is NOT about achieving herd immunity in order to protect the vulnerable… I have had people contact me saying that even when their child or a family member suffered IMMEDIATE life-threatening reactions to vaccines, that doctors STILL had “no idea” what was going on, and don’t consider the vaccines as the cause.

    https://edsource.org/kindergarten-vaccine-database/

    All pharmaceutical products can harm people in at least some cases. It’s foolish to believe that is not true for vaccines.

    This is about forcing EVERYONE to vaccinate, regardless of their health, regardless of being vaccine injured, regardless of if you lost a child to vaccines already.

    Herd immunity was based on a concept that only a percentage of individuals in a population (60% or even less) had to contract the infection for others to be protected…

    Vaccines cannot and never will allow us to attain herd immunity and California will continue to have outbreaks despite their goal of 100% vaccination rates in schools.

    THEY KNOW THIS.

    SB 276 is a clear example of government overreach, resulting in the unnecessary and inefficient use of taxpayer dollars. Since SB 277 eliminated both personal belief and religious exemptions (47 other states allow either or both), vaccination rates increased from 92.9 to 94.8 percent. Currently, less than 1 percent of California kindergartners have a permanent medical exemption. In addition, 96.6 percent of kindergartners have had the MMR to protect against the measles infection.

    Mary Holland Esq

    Who’s Next?

    They will come for adults next, with more and more boosters.

    But just so you know, more frequent boosters actually have been found to = less effectiveness, and the sicker and older you are, the less your immune system will respond appropriately to vaccines. 

    They don’t care, they will vaccinate you anyway!!

    – Ashley Everly

    Health Freedom Warriors WILL NOT STOP!

    I am so emotional today following what’s happening in Sacramento. My heart is breaking for them. California was my home. I know our time here in Idaho will come. The pharmaceutical industry has a stronghold on this nation. If you are leaving California in search of medical freedom, please get in touch with Health Freedom Idaho. We are working to gather a strong group of warriors who are willing to make the sacrifices needed to insure what happened back home, WILL NEVER happen here.

    Freedom must be protected at all costs. Keep your head up, keep educating, and keep fighting. This movement has come so far in just a few short years. I’m proud of the progress we’ve made. They may win this battle, but we will win this war.

    – Shalee via Facebook

    🔥Now is the time for Idaho to get ready for our upcoming legislative session.
    👉Become a member! It’s only $10 per year. Let’s be membership strong as we head to the capitol. 🙌🏻 We have bills getting prepared that need your support and we will have calls to action all session long. https://hfi.designbyparrish.com/donate/
    👉Get connected! Our Natural Health Symposium is Sept 21st. https://hfi.designbyparrish.com/nhs-2019/
    👉Donate! It takes money to fight medical tyranny and we need to raise funds. https://hfi.designbyparrish.com/donate/

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    RESOURCES ON HERD IMMUNITY /Vaccine Failure

    Impact of repeated vaccination on vaccine effectiveness against influenza A(H3N2) and B during 8 seasons.
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/25270645/

    Primary vaccine failure to routine vaccines: Why and what to do?
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4962729/

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    Mainstream media showed up to report on the New Civil Rights Movement.
    The cries of the mothers were heard in Miami
    https://www.miamiherald.com/news/article234705662.html