Category: Holistic Health

Naturopathic, alternative medicine and chiropractic health care

  • FOOD HEALS:Children With Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis Reach Remission

    FOOD HEALS:Children With Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis Reach Remission

    HFI: We are not as surprised as the doctor’s in Seattle in the fact the food can be healing. Here is an example of another child whose symptoms were treated but her body needed diet changes to allow her to heal.

    …
    Can diet alone be used to treat Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis (UC)? It’s a question Dr. David Suskind, a gastroenterologist at Seattle Children’s, has been researching for years.

    Today, he finally has the answer: yes.

    In a first-of-its-kind-study led by Suskind, published today in the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, diet alone was shown to bring pediatric patients with active Crohn’s and UC into clinical remission.

    “This changes the paradigm for how we may choose to treat children with inflammatory bowel disease,” said Suskind.

    In the small, prospective study, patients were put on a special diet called the specific carbohydrate diet (SCD) for 12 weeks as the sole intervention to treat their Crohn’s or UC. SCD is a nutritionally balanced diet that removes grains, dairy, processed foods and sugars, except for honey. The diet promotes only natural, nutrient-rich foods, which includes vegetables, fruits, meats and nuts.

    At the end of the 12 weeks, eight out of the 10 patients who finished the study showed significant improvement and achieved remission from the dietary treatment alone.

    Food heals and a life changed

    addy-with-mom

    Today, Adelynne has been in clinical remission for more than two years. She’s a healthy, happy and thriving 11-year-old girl.

    “I can’t believe how far we’ve come. When we first walked into Seattle Children’s, she was an 8-year-old girl who was barely heavier than our 4-year-old. Now, she’s growing and foods are no longer an enemy.”

    Adelynne and her family have embraced shopping local for natural, nutrient rich foods. And although it’s been an adjustment, the family now says the diet is just part of their every day life.

    “Her lunch doesn’t look much different than other kids at school,” said Kittelson. “There are so many options out there. We haven’t felt like we’ve had to sacrifice. We’ve even adjusted holiday traditions to fit into our new lifestyle. Instead of candy for special occasions, we swap them for other things.”

    For Adelynne and her family, SCD was the right treatment option. It’s helped Adelynne get back to her normal life and find a love for food again.

    This article originally appeared at: http://pulse.seattlechildrens.org/novel-diet-therapy-helps-children-with-crohns-disease-and-ulcerative-colitis-reach-remission/.
  • If your mainstream doctor doesn’t have answers…

    If your mainstream doctor doesn’t have answers…

    HFI notes: “If your mainstream doctor doesn’t have answers, look elsewhere.”
    Listening to the Wise Traditions podcast it was encouraging to hear this message repeated across the county as thousands of families are reaching out to find answers for health and healing for themselves and their children. At Health Freedom Idaho we work diligently to protect our liberty and freedom to access to a variety of health care options. Without choice, we have no opportunity to investigate the what will best for our individual family.  

    Natasha’s story ended up in the “Best of 2016” episode of the Wise Traditions podcast, where it is paired with the story of holistic doctor Dr. Tom Cowan and dairy farmer Charlotte Smith. Each of them, in their own way, basically gives the same message that Natasha gives: “If your mainstream doctor doesn’t have answers, look elsewhere.”

    These three distinct stories have one cohesive message. Do not passively accept what anyone tells you. When it comes to your health, be skeptical, like “doubting Thomas” (as Dr. Cowan dubs himself). Dig deeper. Ask questions. Educate yourself. Listen to the episode here that highlights these three individuals who did just that. And then continue on your journey to improved health.

    LISTEN HERE TO THEIR INSPIRATION:  “Best of 2016” episode of the Wise Traditions podcast

    This article originally appeared at: https://chispablog.wordpress.com/2016/12/27/if-your-mainstream-doctor-doesnt-have-answers/.

  • We avoid the Stomach Bug with this essential that’s ALWAYS stocked in my “medicine bag”

    We avoid the Stomach Bug with this essential that’s ALWAYS stocked in my “medicine bag”

    I am a mom of many and I can not stand the sight or smell of puke. There is a lot of nasty stuff moms have to deal with, but the stomach bug is something I can’t handle well. Fortunately, we found a remedy that has been a sanity saver in my household. Activated Charcoal and Gripe Water are ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL for your medicine cupboard. This isn’t one of those things you can wait until you get sick and run to the store and get it.  You must have it ON HAND for the stomach flu. From our experience, there is a small window of opportunity to get it into you system to help reduce and even eliminate symptoms altogether.
    Our family “discovered” activated charcoal after many bouts of vomiting due to my youngest child’s sensitivities to chemicals and pesticides on his food. Unfortunately, even organic foods were making him ill. It was an internet search, that led me to a blog, and out of desperation we tried charcoal at the first sign of a food reaction. Amazingly, we reduced the vomiting from days and days to a couple hours and eventually timed it better to avoid any vomit at all.
    This is how OUR family uses it.
    2 capsules broken open into a teaspoon of gripe water (our favorite is Mother’s Bliss). The gripe water helps sometimes to settle the tummy just enough to allow the charcoal to stay down and start absorbing. We try to have a SIP of water to get the grit out of the mouth but sometimes all we could do is just that teaspoon full of the gripe water charcoal mix. Every 15 minutes a teaspoon full and within an hour he was feeling well enough to sit up in bed and watch a show. Two hours later, and a couple more teaspoons and gradual sips of water he was back to his happy self. No more ‘throw ups’ for a sensitive little guy.
    The Stomach Flu BANISHED!
    We had the opportunity to try it on the stomach flu that struck our house and YES! It worked with that as well. Unfortunately, the first two kids suffered the entire 3 days because we just didn’t catch it in time, but the other four of us got queasy, but nothing more. Same protocol every 15 minutes until nausea subsided…then adding spoonfuls of water.

    So, who does it work?

    Here’s the history that I found from an article at http://articles.perfectorigins.com/activated-charcoal-health-benefits/.

    The year was 1831.

    Professor Tourey stood before an auditorium packed with his esteemed colleagues at the French Academy of Medicine.

    He held up a glass filled with a murky gray liquid and announced that this potion contained 15 grams of the deadly poison strychnine — ten times the lethal dose.

    Then Professor Tourey did something that stunned and terrified his peers: he gulped down every drop of this lethal cocktail.

    The auditorium at the French Academy of Medicine erupted in frantic shouts and screams. Men stormed the stage, prepared to drag Professor Tourey to the nearby hospital… or the morgue.

    But remarkably, Professor Tourey wasn’t harmed by this apparently suicidal stunt. Why? Because he’d mixed the strychnine with activated charcoal.

    What Is Activated Charcoal?

    Activated charcoal is one of the world’s oldest and trusted detoxification methods.

    activated_charcoal

    It’s been used since ancient times in Chinese and Ayurvedic traditions as a potent antidote for poisons. Today, you’ll find activated charcoal in hospital ER rooms around the world.

    When a patient is rushed to an emergency room because of poisoning or a drug overdose, nurses and doctors give them activated charcoal.  Millions of lives have been saved because of this amazing detoxifying agent.

    But activated charcoal has health benefits that reach way beyond the ER room.

    If you’re interested in better digestive health, less gas and strong protection against nasty foodborne illnesses, then activated charcoal could be a good fit for your lifestyle.

    How Does Activated Charcoal Work?

    To understand how activated charcoal works you must first understand how it is made.

    You make activated charcoal by burning a carbon source such as wood, peat or coconut shells at extremely high temperatures (1,700 — 1,800 °F). This creates char. The char is then heated in a furnace at even higher temperatures in the presence of steam.

    The charcoal is “activated” because this process causes it to have a very fine particle size. These ultra-fine particles are peppered with millions of tiny pores. And these pores are the secret to activated charcoal’s amazing detoxifying properties.

    Activated charcoal works by adsorbing (trapping) poisons, heavy metals, and intestinal gasses in these pores. But it doesn’t absorb these toxins.

    Absorption is when a fluid permeates a solid or is dissolved by a liquid. Adsorption is a chemical reaction where elements bind to a surface.

    Once activated charcoal enters the body it acts like a “toxin magnet”.

    Because activated charcoal has a negative electrical charge it attracts and binds positively charged toxins like heavy metals and industrial toxins before they have a chance to cause harm.

    Importantly, the human body cannot metabolize activated charcoal. It passes through the digestive system like a million microscopic magnets, grabbing toxins as it goes.

    Eventually, this activated charcoal and its toxic payload is harmlessly passed out of your body when you use the bathroom.

    Your Turn: Have you ever used activated charcoal? If so, what did you think? Share in the comments below! 

    Portions of this article originally appeared at: http://articles.perfectorigins.com/activated-charcoal-health-benefits/.

    Dr. Charles is a Board Certified Chiropractic Physician who has certifications in wellness, nutritional response testing and killmode training protocols. Dr. Charles is a best selling author whose #1 weight loss book, “Fat Loss Factor”. has taken the Internet by storm in several countries around the world. His newest book, “Dare to Succeed”, was co-written with “Chicken Soup For the Soul” author Jack Canfield and has hit best seller status in 5 categories.

  • Dirt is NOT Dirty – How Playing in the Dirt Benefits the Immune System

    Dirt is NOT Dirty – How Playing in the Dirt Benefits the Immune System

    At present, our culture is overly obsessive about germs, cleanliness, and hygiene. Parents are constantly washing their children’s hands, using antibacterial soap, alcohol tinged wipes or changing them the second they have dirt on their clothes.

    I don’t know about you, but when I was a child I liked to make mud ‘tea’ with flower petal garnish, walk around barefoot and climb any tree I could find. Instinctively I craved to immerse myself in the natural environment.

    When I had my own children I reminded myself of this as they tasted dirt, licked rocks or a leaf. It is natural for children to be as close to nature as possible. Well, now research into the connection between getting dirty and a immune system health has found that this modern obsession with germs and cleanliness might be leading to the rise in allergies, asthma and inflammatory bowel disease.

    What is it About a Child’s Attraction to Dirt?

    Wrote Mary Ruebush:

    “What a child is doing when he puts things in his mouth is allowing his immune response to explore his environment. Not only does this allow for ‘practice’ of immune responses, which will be necessary for protection, but it also plays a critical role in teaching the immature immune response what is best ignored.”

    Children who grow up on farms and are exposed to all sorts of bugs, worms and natural elements have demonstrably less allergies and autoimmune problems than urban children who spend most of their time indoors. Playing outside barefoot every now and again and digging in the dirt more often would do wonders for the health of today’s youngsters.

    Playing in Dirt Builds a Strong Immune System

    By no means am I suggesting that you feed your child spoonfuls of dirt. However, you can stop worrying about dirt and germs and place your energy elsewhere. People are so worried about their children catching a cold or flu that they are obsessively focused on whether their child is clean and germ-free. However, this seems to work against the natural rhythm of life. Science has proven that exposure to dirt is beneficial to a child’s life. They love dirt because they instinctively know it is good for them in order to grow up with strong immune systems.

    Dirt Fights Allergies and Asthma

    In 2012 researchers at Harvard Medical School published a  study showing the health benefits of dirt. Studying two groups of mice—one that had been exposed to microbes and one that had been raised in germ-free environments—they found that the group with early-life microbe exposure had significantly lower numbers of inflammatory immune cells in the lungs and colon, giving them a better chance at avoiding asthma and inflammatory bowel diseases later in life.

    Said researcher Dr. Richard S. Blumberg in a press release: “These studies show the critical importance of proper immune conditioning by microbes during the earliest periods of life. Also now knowing a potential mechanism will allow scientists to potentially identify the microbial factors important in determining protection from allergic and autoimmune diseases later in life.”

    Dirt Is Good for Skin

    A 2009 study from the University of California at San Diego discovered that bacteria on the surface of our skin play an important role in combating inflammation of the skin when we’re injured. According to the researchers, the bug, called staphylococci, works by dampening down overactive immune responses from the body, which can lead to rashes or cause cuts and bruises to be become swollen and painful. Said Professor Gallo, who led the research: “These germs are actually good for us.”

    Dirt is Good for Memory & Healing

    A 2008 study at the University of Michigan found that memory performance and attention spans improved by 20 percent after subjects spent an hour out in the nature. Another study from University of Pennsylvania found that hospital patients recover faster and need less pain medication when they are in rooms with views of the trees instead of plain walls or brick. It’s clear we all need regular doses of the outdoors, children most of all.

    We can now relax and trust that our children will actually be healthier the dirtier they get. Take a deep breath and enjoy watching the joy your child experiences playing in dirt while knowing that they are building their intuitive instincts and a strong immune system.

  • Study: Manuka honey kills more bacteria than all available antibiotics

    Study: Manuka honey kills more bacteria than all available antibiotics

    Australian researchers have found one type of honey, called Manuka honey, to be better than all known antibiotics.

    Manuka honey is produced by bees that forage on the nectar of Leptospermum Scoparium, or New Zealand’s Manuka bush, as well as tea trees, native to Australia and New Zealand only.

    This remarkable type of honey not only effectively kills bacteria, but none of the bugs killed by it have been able to build up immunity. In a world where many of the last resort antibiotics are failing against antibiotic-resistant superbugs, Manuka honey may hold the key to fighting resistance issues, saving thousands of lives worldwide.

    Manuka honey fights superbugs

    Dr. Dee Carter from the University of Sydney’s School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences noted that antibiotics not only have short shelf lives, but the bacteria they attack quickly become resistant as well, making them useless over time.

    The report, published in the European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, claimed that Manuka honey killed almost every bacteria and pathogen it was tested on. Unlike all antibiotics available on today’s market, none of the bugs tested were able to survive the honey treatment.

    According to Dr. Carter, there are particular compounds, like methylglyoxal, in the Manuka honey that cause multi-system failure in the bacteria, killing them before they are able to adapt and build up immunity.

    What Manuka honey can do for you

    Manuka’s biological properties range from antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antiviral, antibiotic and wound healing, to immune-stimulatory. However, what separates Manuka honey from the rest is that its antibacterial powers challenge even the toughest superbugs, such as the life-threatening methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

    Read the rest of this article at: http://www.naturalnews.com/2016-12-20-study-manuka-honey-kills-more-bacteria-than-all-antibiotics-available.html.

  • Otter Vetoes Bill To Allow CBD Oil To Be Used To Treat Sick Idaho Kids

    Otter Vetoes Bill To Allow CBD Oil To Be Used To Treat Sick Idaho Kids

    IDAHO:  Gov. Butch Otter has vetoed SB 1146a, the bill that would have allowed parents of Idaho children with an intractable form of epilepsy to treat their kids with cannabidiol, a non-psychotropic oil that’s an extract of cannabis and can halt the children’s repeated, extended and life-threatening seizures. The bill passed after lengthy and emotional hearings during this year’s legislative session. “Of course I sympathize with the heartbreaking dilemma facing some families trying to cope with the debilitating impacts of disease,” Otter wrote in his veto message; you can read it here. But he said there were too many questions about the bill, including from law enforcement and his administration’s Office of Drug Policy, which raised concerns that the bill would open the door to legalizing medical marijuana.

    “It ignores ongoing scientific testing on alternative treatments,” Otter wrote. “It asks us to trust but not to verify. It asks us to legalize the limited use of cannabidiol oil, contrary to federal law. And it asks us to look past the potential for misuse and abuse with criminal intent.”

    “As an alternative to this legislation, I soon will issue an Executive Order authorizing the Department of Health & Welfare to study, and implement as it deems appropriate, an expanded access program for treatment-resistant epilepsy in children,” Otter wrote. “That program has been approved by the Food & Drug Administration.”

  • Idaho business selling CBD oil opposes ban

    Idaho business selling CBD oil opposes ban

    NORTH IDAHO – A North Idaho businessman is concerned the government is trying to prevent him from selling one of his more popular health products – CBD oil.

    Marijuana is not legal in Idaho. The oil is made from the cannabis plant, but it does not contain any THC – the compound in the plant that makes people high.

    Kurt Wilson is that owner, and he said the people who have bought CBD oil from him have seen great results.

    “There’s over 6,000 years of recorded history of this oil being used,” Wilson said. “It’s plant!”

    The store is called Survival Enterprises. Wilson caters to customers who want to live a lifestyle of being self-sufficient. He had everything for sale from knives to nutrition. Part of that nutrition is Cannabidiol, or CBD for short.

    “This stuff helps them not to be nauseous after chemotherapy,” Wilson said. “And they don’t have to get goofy by smoking dope or anything like that.”

    CBD is oil that comes from industrial hemp. Wilson said it does not contain any THC. Most CBD’s contain less than one percent of THC anyways, he said.

    Wilson said because of that, he said they are legal to sell.

    “I can give you a gallon of it to drink, and it’s just going to mellow you out a little bit and that’s it,” Wilson said. “So there’s no drug involved there in any way shape or form.”

    Wilson said he sells around 30 to 40 bottles a month of this stuff, but it is technically a controlled schedule 1 substance by federal standards.

    According to an article on leafly.com, a marijuana trade website, the US Drug Enforcement Administration clarified and reinforced their position that all cannabis extracts, like CBD, are illegal.

    The DEA action did not bring about any major change in law, but rather reinforced their position.

    Wilson said CBDs are an alternative for his survivalist customers who do not want to purchase medicines from big pharmaceutical companies.

    “What’s occurring here is that, again, we don’t have government,” Wilson said, “we have corporate representatives. And the corporations have told government we can’t really have competition.”

    In Idaho, CBDs are in somewhat of a gray area, Wilson said. In 2015, Governor Butch Otter vetoes a state bill that would have allowed Idaho parents to treat their epileptic children with CBD.

    Over however issues an order directing the state to study the effectiveness of the substance. Although federally illegal, Wilson said this is simply the byproduct of a plant.

    He wants to keep selling it to those who need it.

    “Now they’re going to start doing that to little guys like me selling a couple of jars of this stuff,” Wilson said.

    (© 2016 KREM)

    This article originally appeared at: http://www.krem.com/news/local/kootenai-county/idaho-business-selling-cbd-oil-opposes-ban/371319299.
  • ACTION ITEM! CBD Prohibition

    ACTION ITEM! CBD Prohibition

    The empire strikes back: DEA quietly announces “Schedule I” status for CBD extracts to comply with United Nations demands… CBD Prohibition? Hemp industry disputes

    Friday, December 16, 2016 by: Mike Adams

    ACTION ITEM: Sign the petition that asks the incoming Trump administration to legalize CBD supplements nationwide.

    Meaning an extract containing one or more cannabinoids that has been derived from any plant of the genus Cannabis, other than the separated resin (whether crude or purified) obtained from the plant.

     In effect, the DEA has, completely outside any act of Congress, created an entirely new “Schedule I” controlled substance it calls “Marihuana Extract” (note the spelling with an “h” rather than a “j”). This “Marihuana Extract” is, according to the DEA, any extract containing “one or more cannabinoids…”

    CBD is, of course, a non-psychoactive cannabinoid. It’s just one of over a hundred cannabinoids found in hemp extracts, which also include CBD-A, CBG, CBC, CBN and so on.

    Sign our petition at this link to ask the Trump administration to protect access to CBD products and keep the DEA’s hands off natural medicine from Cannabis.

    The sky is not falling! Hemp Industry Association responds…

    From the Hemp Industry Association, here’s a thoughtful response on all this, which insists the DEA’s new classification is not a show-stopper:

    Yesterday the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued a Final Rule on the coding of marijuana extracts. Unfortunately some misleading media stories and social media postings lead quite a few people to panic at reports that CBD was being banned under this new rule. 

    The Sky is NOT Falling. The Final Rule published by DEA did not change the legal status of CBD. This can only be done by a scheduling action which has NOT occurred. 

    HIA has carefully reviewed this with our legal advisers and discussed it with industry experts. While there are some differing opinions on the effect of the rule, there is general agreement that yesterday’s ruling did not change the status of CBD. Here are some important facts to know:

    • Cannabidiol is not listed on the federal schedule of controlled substances
    • Sec. 7606 of the Farm Bill defines hemp as distinct from marijuana and does not treat it as a controlled substance when grown under a compliant state program
    • Despite these facts, DEA has stated that CBD is a controlled substance previously
    • HIA strongly disagrees with the DEA position and is ready to take action to defend should DEA take any action to block the production, processing or sale of hemp under Sec. 7606
    • The Final Rule published on December 14th was not a scheduling action but rather an administrative action related to record keeping
    • The code assigned to “marihuana extract” in the rule is “Administration Controlled Substances Code Number” for the purposes of identification of substances on registration forms 
    • The rule was originally published as a proposed rule in 2011 BEFORE the Farm Bill and didn’t mention CBD or hemp
    • DEA confirmed to a reporter from the Denver Post that this was an administrative action and did not change the status of CBD in federal law

    So what does this all mean? We believe the DEA rule on “marijuana extracts” was not directed at hemp derived CBD products and has been in the works for 5 years. We also believe there is no imminent change in DEA policy regarding hemp derived CBD products. 

    For now, we want to urge everyone to calm down and continue with your businesses. We also hope that in future, reporters will take the time to get the facts before posting misleading stories about hemp and CBD.

    …
    The industry plans to fight the absurd DEA classification with lawsuits and petitions

    The CBD industry, naturally, is planning on waging a fierce battle to keep CBD products legal in all 50 states. Via Leafly:

    Robert Hoban, a Colorado cannabis attorney and adjunct professor of law at the University of Denver, raised the notion that the rule itself may not be lawful. “This action is beyond the DEA’s authority,” Hoban told Leafly in an interview late this afternoon. “The DEA can only carry out the law, they cannot create it. Here they’re purporting to create an entirely new category called ‘marihuana extracts,’ and by doing so wrest control over all cannabinoids. They want to call all cannabinoids illegal. But they don’t have the authority to do that.”

    The CBD industry, in fact, has been looking for an opportunity to challenge the DEA in court, and it looks like that time has arrived.

    SIGN THE PETITION at this link, asking the Trump administration to protect consumers’ access to CBD products.

    The complete article originally appeared at: http://www.naturalnews.com/2016-12-16-dea-quietly-announces-schedule-i-status-for-cbd-extracts-prohibition-begins-january-13-2017.html.
  • Freely Choosen Medicine

    Freely Choosen Medicine

    We believe that as American citizens, we should have the liberty to freely choose our medicine and source of health and well being. In addition to conventional medicines that places its emphasis on physicians, science and chemistry, we believe that individuals should have access to an integrative approach to healing that emphasize nature and the individual. There are a myriad of therapies that support the bodies natural ability to heal and address the whole body, not just symptoms.
    Common therapies and brief description of their focus/intent as provided by the Minnd.org Handbook:
    Nutrition assess and analyse individual needs and develop personalized nutrition plans using nutrient therapy, dietary and life style approaches.
    Naturopathy treats the patient’s mental, emotional and physical state, by supporting the body to repair itself with nutrients, diet, and a range of natural therapies.
    Chiropractic Treatment assumes that the body is a self regulating organism and that good health is dependent upon a normally functioning nervous system, especially the spine and nerves extending from the spine to all parts of the body.
    Osteopathy treats the whole person and places emphasis on the relationships between the body’s structure, framework and function appreciating the body’s ability to heal itself.
    Homeopathy recognizes that all symptoms of ill health are expressions of disharmony within the whole person and that it is the patient who needs treatment not the disease. Emphasis is placed on supporting natural immunity. . Acupuncture uses hair thin needles and/or electrodes to redirect obstructed energy through the meridians, resulting in a positive shift in the energy of organ systems and its overall function, thereby restoring health. Kinesiology uses the muscle feedback system to determine how the nervous system exerts control over organ systems and helps the body to heal itself by normalising its internal functions.
    Craniosacral Therapy is a hands-on energy healing technique gently mobilizing spinal fluid within and around the central nervous system which is believed to create a vital body rhythm.
    BRAIN GYM is a program of physical activities that develops the brain’s neural pathways the way nature does: through movement. This enhance learning, concentration, memory, reading, writing, organizing, listening, physical coordination, and more.
    Other therapies that can be effective include; Herbal Medicine, Emotional Freedom Technique, Flower Essences, Bowen Technique, Hyperbaric Therapy, Intermittent Hypoxy Therapy
  • Cures Act Kills Informed Consent

    Cures Act Kills Informed Consent

    December 7, 2016
    The “21st Century Cures Act” just passed the Senate and heads to Obama, who will sign it.

    HR 6 – 21st Century Cures Act which looked to be dead in the water was secretly thrown into HR 34 at the last minute – a bill that was actually for tsunami detection, forecast, warning, research, and mitigation to create a 900+ page bill. We have a runaway government, who’s interest is not the safety of the public, that is clear. (see more about the evolution of this bill from NVIC )

    What does it really mean?

    Vaccines will be fast -tracked and require LESS safety testing

    HR 34 allows the approval of drugs by the FDA vaccines “with the least BURDENSOME means.” Drugs should require the MOST rigorous testing, not the least burdensome means.

    Now your child’s vaccines are going to be developed with even LESS testing than before, and will all be fast-tracked to production. Government mandated vaccines and an exponentially growing vaccine schedule the vaccine manufacturers will make lots and lots of money.
    Keep in Mind: The vaccine manufacturers having ZERO legal liability for their products, and 300 new vaccines in the development pipeline – the pharmaceutical industry literally cannot lose, no matter how many lives are destroyed.  

     “The 21st Century Cures Act is a drug company stockholder’s dream and a consumer’s worst nightmare,” said Barbara Loe Fisher, NVIC Co-founder and President. “Making experimental drugs quickly available for the sick and dying, who voluntarily choose to use them, is one thing, but Congress should not be greasing the skids to license experimental vaccines that government will recommend and legally require healthy children and adults to use. It is a prescription for disaster.”

    Medical testing no longer requires informed consent. 

    Even more ominous is the section 2263 the elimination of informed consent. What is informed consent ? Permission granted in the knowledge of the possible consequences, typically that which is given by a patient to a doctor for treatment with full knowledge of the possible risks and benefits.  Now all patients receiving treatment by any medical doctor may be, WITHOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE, enrolled in a clinical trial for drugs and devices as long as there is “minimal risk” to the patient and the practitioner, and as long as there are “safeguards”.  The effect of this act is to leave “safety” to guesswork and rationalization, and to allow the medical establishment to assess harm in drugs and devices in a manner in which

    (1) the patients are not informed that they are in a clinical trial, and
    (2) they have no right to say “No” to being part of an experiment.

    If they are harmed during the trial, they cannot know that they should sue because any ill effect of the experimental drug or device cannot be traced to the experiment. This allows the medical establishment to experiment on the population with impunity. 
    The act does not specify “minimal risk”.

    This provision makes no sense logically, or scientifically, and is dangerous. We use clinical trials not only to study the efficacy of drugs and devices, but also to determine their safety profiles.

    Please watch the video of Senator Elizabeth Warren speaking out against this bill (in the first comment of this post), for more information. 

    This bill along with Obama’s November 4th Executive Order, The Global Health Agenda and the CDC’S new proposed rule in October to detain and quarantine anyone, any city, indefinitely and to release them only conditionally are not coincidences. These are all movements against our Health Freedom, our Human Rights including the Nuremberg Code and they take away our Informed Consent.