Category: Toxins

The facts about chemicals, pesticides, and clean water.

  • Why Poison the Lawn When You Can Have Wildflowers At Your Feet

    Wildflower seeds are carried on the wind, on the coats of wild animals and in the digestive tracts of birds. Anybody who’s paying attention would see them for the gifts they are: flowers that arrive, through no effort at all, to feed the bees and the butterflies.

    But Americans generally aren’t paying attention. Too enraptured with the idea of a lawn that unrolls from the street to their very door, a carpet of green that remains green even when grass is supposed to be dormant, they see these homely little wildflowers as intruders, something to be eradicated.

    Maybe the whole question seems like nothing more than a matter of personal preference — I like wildflowers, and other people like grass. To each her own. That would be a fair assessment of the situation if grass grew naturally under shade trees in suburbia and if homeowners killed the unwanted plants in their yards by pulling them up or mowing them down.

    Neither is true. Grass requires a lot of chemicals and a lot of water to thrive. The wildflower seeds that are carried on the wind to my uncultivated yard are also carried on the wind to my neighbors’ highly cultivated grass. Instead of weeding, it’s easier to use chemicals to keep seeds from germinating, and to kill the ones that germinate anyway with more chemicals still.

    But let’s be clear here: “Chemical” is just another way of saying “poison.” 

    Have you ever wandered down the yard-care aisles at a big-box store? Giant bags of fertilizer and gallon jugs of Roundup are stacked warehouse floor to warehouse ceiling, and the foul chemical stink they emit, even in sealed packages, will give you a headache if you linger long.

    No surprise, the chemicals that give you a headache in Home Depot are bad for the environment, too. Fertilizer runoff ends up in our waterways, causing algae blooms that starve fish and other aquatic wildlife of oxygen. Pesticides and herbicides end up there, too, but first they poison us.

    Last week, a federal jury ordered Monsanto, the maker of Roundup to pay $2 billion in damages to a couple who both had cancer. Last month, a federal jury ordered Monsanto, the maker of Roundup, to pay $80 million in damages to a California man with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a form of cancer. It was the third time an American jury had found for a plaintiff with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and Bayer, which now owns Monsanto, has once again vowed to appeal. This could be the beginning of the end for Monsanto’s carcinogenic product that dominates the market as more juries hear how Monsanto manipulated its own research, colluded with regulators and intimidated scientists to keep secret the cancer risks from glyphosate.

    Nature has been trying to make this point for a while now. Next time you walk around a suburban neighborhood, take a mental wildlife census of the yards you pass. What you’ll invariably find is that the pristine lawns have almost no insects living there — no bees or butterflies, no beetles, no grasshoppers or crickets, no lacewings, no spiders, no roly-polys. And where there are no insects, there are also no tree frogs, no toads, no turtles, no bats, no songbirds. A staggering 96 percent of songbirds, even those that subsist on seeds and berries as adults, rely on insects to feed their young: A growing body needs protein, and for birds the best source of protein is a bug. And birds don’t know when a bug is sick with poison.

    We tend to think of nature in terms of its resilience. A rat snake eats all the redbird babies, and the parents build another nest somewhere else and try again. A tree dies in the forest, and all the little woodland creatures make a feast of the insects that live in the deadwood.

    But just because we can’t see something doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. We hear birds singing in springtime, and we assume that all is well, despite our chemicals, despite the heat we are generating with our fossil fuels, despite the forests we are laying waste to. 

    But we are wrong: The North American bird population is in steep decline, and the news is even worse for insects and amphibians: “Apocalypse” is the word scientists most often use to describe what’s happening to those populations.

    Gerard Manley Hopkins didn’t live to see the havoc wreaked by the chemicals that poison us now, but he knew something about the vulnerability of the natural world:

    What would the world be, once bereft
    Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
    O let them be left, wildness and wet;
    Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

    As individuals, we too often feel powerless in the face of the corporate and political forces that drive our culture, but in this matter we are not powerless. We can change our preferences and train our eyes to see the “perfect” American lawn for what it is: a field of poison. We can put away our chemicals, make a haven of our own yards and welcome the wildflowers.

    Change your own habits and request the cities eliminate toxins: Sign our petition:Stop the toxic sprays at schools and playgrounds

    Margaret Renkl is a contributing opinion writer who covers flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South.  She is the author of the forthcoming book “Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss.” @MargaretRenkl

    This article originally appeared at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/opinion/nature-lawns-environment.html.

  • $2 Billion Verdict Against Monsanto/Bayer for Cancer Causing RoundUp Product

    A jury in Oakland, California, has awarded a couple $2 billion in punitive damages after concluding that sustained exposure to Monsanto Co.’s popular Roundup weed killer led to their cancer diagnoses. The couple will receive an additional $55 million for pain and suffering and to cover medical expenses. This is the third case the courts ruled that Monsanto’s product caused cancer in an individual. The court also found that Monsanto spent millions of dollars on covert public relations campaigns to finance ghostwritten studies and articles aimed at discrediting independent scientists whose work found dangers with Monsanto’s herbicides. 

    “The cloud hanging over Bayer will only grow bigger and darker, as more juries hear how Monsanto manipulated its own research, colluded with regulators and intimidated scientists to keep secret the cancer risks from glyphosate.” 

    R. Brent Wisner, said in a statement sent to CBS News. “Instead of investing in sound science, they invested millions in attacking science that threatened their business agenda.”

    A jury in Oakland, California, has awarded a couple $2 billion in punitive damages after concluding that sustained exposure to Monsanto Co.’s popular Roundup weed killer led to their cancer diagnoses. The couple will receive an additional $55 million for pain and suffering and to cover medical expenses. 

    (Press Conference)

    Among the many revelations that have emerged from the trials:

    • Monsanto never conducted epidemiology studies for Roundup and its other formulations made with the active ingredient glyphosate to evaluate the cancer risks for users.
    • Monsanto was aware that the surfactants in Roundup were much more toxic than glyphosate alone.
    •  Monsanto spent millions of dollars on covert public relations campaigns to finance ghostwritten studies and articles aimed at discrediting independent scientists whose work found dangers with Monsanto’s herbicides.
    • When the US Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry sought to evaluate glyphosate toxicity in 2015, Monsanto engaged the assistance of EPA officials to delay that review.
    • Monsanto enjoyed a close relationship with certain officials within the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), who have repeatedly backed Monsanto’s assertions about the safety of its glyphosate products.
    • The company internally had worker safety recommendations that called for wearing a full range of protective gear when applying glyphosate herbicides, but did not warn the public to do the same.

    Cancer causing RoundUp used in Residential Landscaping

    Seventy-six-year-old Alva and 74-year-old Alberta Pilliod used Roundup for about 30 years for residential landscaping, which the jury believed played a “substantial factor” in their development of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Alva was diagnosed in 2011; his wife, Alberta, received the same diagnosis four years later. They are both in remission.

    This is the third lawsuit related to Roundup that Monsanto has lost in the state of California. Wisner co-represented plaintiffs in the prior two lawsuits as well. In the first, school groundskeeper Dewayne “Lee” Johnson was ultimately awarded $78.5 million. Johnson was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2014 and regularly spraying a high-concentration version of Roundup known as Ranger Pro as part of his job from 2012 to 2016.

    A California federal court jury awarded more than $80 million to Edwin Hardeman, who was diagnosed with non-Hodgekin’s lymphoma in 2015. Hardeman had used Roundup for more than 25 years on his Sonoma property.

    “Finally,” wrote a Facebook com mentor, “we might just see all the cancer causing weed killer products off the shelf! Not just roundup, but all containing glyphosate!” 

    What About the Farmers

    As a state filled with agriculture as a main livelyhood we feel deeply for the vulnerable farmers who were sold the lies of Monsanto with GMO roundup ready seeds & pressured to use as well as the pre-harvest spraying of crops with Roundup to desiccate the crop for “easier” harvesting. We truly hope they are the next to be compensated! 

    How will our agriculture will find a way back from the lies & control of Monsanto? We believe it can with the support of the consumer! 

    ACT NOW TO STOP THE SPRAY OF Cancer Causing Toxins on our schools and parks 

    Eliminate Glyphosate Petition – Health Freedom Idaho

    LEARN MORE ABOUT GLYPHOSATE – ROUNDUP

    Alternative to RoundUp for Weeds

  • From DDT to Glyphosate

    The dangers of glyphosate (Roundup) in our food supply are clear and present. Why are industry and government not acting as they should? Just as was the case in the 1950s with DDT and tobacco, we are on the brink of disastrous damage to health worldwide. This short film begins to explain why, and what we can do.

    Balance of nature is built in a series of interrelationships between living things and their environment. You can’t step in with some brute force and change one thing without changing many others. – Rachel Carson

  • Second Jury Finds Monsanto Glyphosate Causes Cancer

    A second U.S. jury on Tuesday found Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer caused cancer. The case was only the second of some 11,200 Roundup lawsuits to go to trial in the United States. The jury from the first trial eight months ago issued a $289 million verdict. Johnson vs Monsanto.  

    The previous jury found unanimously that Monsanto’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer caused Mr. Johnson to develop NHL, and that Monsanto failed to warn of this severe health hazard. Importantly, the jury also found that Monsanto acted with malice, oppression or fraud and should be punished for its conduct.  (see internal documents from Monsanto revealed during court proceedings)

    Monsanto Co. continues to refuse to warn consumers of the dangers of its multi-billion-dollar product Roundup despite the world’s foremost authority on cancer—the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)—listing glyphosate as a probable carcinogen in 2015.

    Quick Stats on Glyphosate

    • Glyphosate has contaminated our planet, and is now found in our children’s urine, mother’s milk, our bloodstreams, and our food and water. 
    • In 2015 the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization found that glyphosate “is a probable human carcinogen”.
    • In July of 2017 the California State Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) added glyphosate to its prop 65 list of known carcinogens.
    • In October of 2017, after over 1 million Europeans requested a ban, 72% of the Members of the European Parliament voted to BAN glyphosate and EU Member states have refused to renew the license.
    • Four countries have banned glyphosate: Malta, Sri Lanka, The Netherlands, and Argentina. 
    • Many U.S. school districts and cities have already discontinued the use of glyphosate.

    Glyphosate has been found in VACCINES: (5) vaccines were sent out for testing and came back positive for #glyphosate 

    #influenza shot for FLU 

    #MMR. Combo shot for Measles, Mumps, Rubella

    #TDap. Combo shot for Tetanus, Diphtheria, & Pertussis 

    #HepB. For Hepatitis B

    #Pneumococcal for pneumonia

    New Study Shows Link between herbicide and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma

    The noose is tightening on Bayer/Monsanto’s glyphosate herbicide (commonly sold as  Roundup), as yet another epidemiological study has found a link between exposure to the herbicide and a type of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma called diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). See the abstract and key points below.

    This study is published as the jurors in the Roundup cancer litigation in the US are deliberating their verdict.

    Pesticide use and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoid malignancies in agricultural cohorts from France, Norway and the USA: a pooled analysis from the AGRICOH consortium
    https://academic.oup.com/ije/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ije/dyz017/5382278

    Contaminated Foods

    There is NO level of safe glyphosate -Because glyphosate has been shown to bioaccumulate, and has been shown in the parts per trillion, to increase the growth of breast cancer cells, regardless of what the EPA and Monsanto say is NO safe level. http://www.stopsprayingnb.ca/resources/42.pdf

    GOOD NEWS

    Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) introduced legislation March 15, 2019 to dramatically limit American children’s exposure to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller, in food. The bill would not only ban pre-harvest spraying of glyphosate on oats but also require the federal government to test foods popular with children for the herbicide, which has been linked to cancer.

    Key provisions in DeLauro’s bill include:

    • Prohibiting the spraying of glyphosate as a pre-harvest drying agent on oats.
    • Lowering by 300-fold the permissible level of glyphosate residues on oats, restoring the legally allowed level to just 0.1 parts per million, or ppm.
    • Requiring the Department of Agriculture to regularly test fruits, vegetables and other foods routinely fed to infants and children for glyphosate residues

    Read more on this legislation at Sustainablepulse.com

    MORE RESEARCH RESOURCES:

    Why we must detox from Glyphosate

    Organic Foods Contaminated with Glyphosate

    Petition against Glyphosate :Glyphosate use poses a significant threat to the health of our planet and the people on it..it’s high time that the EPA prohibits the pre-harvest use of glyphosate on every farm across the country”https://buff.ly/2ybW4Dm

    RoundUp Toxicity is NOT just the Glyphosate

  • Toxins Impact on Our Children

    “In Canada, and the United States, chemicals are used in consumer products and released into the environment before they are tested for toxic effects. By allowing children to be exposed to toxins, or chemicals of unknown toxicity, we are unwittingly using our children as part of a massive experiment.”

    That’s correct.

    The same goes with ALUMINUM adjuvants in vaccines.

    They have NEVER been proven safe. On the contrary, there’s so much evidence in the scientific literature to conclude that they are NOT safe. Yet the medical system is injecting them into newborns, infants, and children during critical neuro-developmental stages of their lives… repeatedly.

    When will our governments stop turning a blind eye to this? 

    Even though aluminum is not considered to be a heavy metal like lead, it can be toxic in excessive amounts and even in small amounts if it is deposited in the brain. Many of the symptoms of aluminum toxicity mimic those of Alzheimer’s disease and osteoporosis. Colic, rickets, gastrointestinal problems, interference with the metabolism of calcium, extreme nervousness, anemia, headaches, decreased liver and kidney function, memory loss, speech problems, softening of the bones, and aching muscles can all be caused by aluminum toxicity. 

    Learn more about Aluminum in Vaccines

    The Impact of Toxins on the Developing Brain

  • Negative Effects of Fluoride On Your Health

    Almost SIXTEEN years ago it was determined that fluoride doesn’t have dental benefits. This begs the question, “WHY IS FLUORIDE STILL PROMOTED TO HELP PREVENT TOOTH DECAY?”

    In fact, a report from the world’s oldest and most prestigious medical journal, The Lancet, has officially classified fluoride as a neurotoxin — in the same category as arsenic, lead and mercury. 

    The news was broken by author Stefan Smyle, who cited a report published in The Lancet Neurology, Volume 13, Issue 3, in the March 2014 edition, by authors Dr. Phillippe Grandjean and Philip J. Landrigan, MD. The report, which was officially released in 2014 and published in the journal, can be viewed by clicking here.

    We are forcibly being medicated with fluoridation of our tap water in cities across the US, even though fluoride is a non-pharmaceutical, chemical waste and the main ingredient in rat poisons and many pesticides. 

    If you swallow toothpaste, you are urged on the tube itself to call the Poison Control Center immediately, but somehow if you drink eight glasses of fluoridated water, it’s fine? Where is the logic in that? There’s information out there to show that the amount of fluoride in a serving of toothpaste is the same as a glass of fluoridated water (if the water doesn’t have MORE).

    If you’ve ever noticed the warnings on toothpaste labels you probably know just how serious fluoride poisoning can be, especially for children if they swallow too much at one time.

    Because of this threat, many parents have begun eschewing fluoridated toothpaste brands altogether and are using more natural brands such as Earthpaste, Desert Essence, Uncle Harry’s Toothpaste Dr. Bronner’s toothpaste line, or even making their own from a combination of ingredients such as coconut oil, organic neem leaf powders, essential oils like peppermint or cinnamon, and other natural ingredients.

    CLICK IMAGE FOR THE 10 Facts about fluoride

    Concerned about fluoride added to your water? 

    Many communities in Idaho have fluoride added to the water. Click here to find out if YOUR water contains the neurotoxin fluoride.  

    MORE RESOURCES ON FLUORIDE

    FLUORIDE HISTORY (Regularly Updated!) by Peter Meirs

    Fluoride Action Network

    Keepers of the Well

  • 5G, Coming Soon to a Light Post Near You!

    Proponents of 5G claim it will revolutionize the way we live our daily lives.  An integral part of the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT), it promises to deliver lightning fast download speeds, provide streamlined maintenance of all appliances in your home, bring more efficient and cutting-edge medical services to the marketplace, enable driverless cars, integrate entire cities into ‘Smart Cities’, and a whole lot more most of us can’t even comprehend.

    But at what cost will these conveniences come?  What consideration has there been on blanketing our towns with these millimeter waves of radiation? 

    5G is the fifth generation of communication technology.  Currently, we use 4G.  So when your cell phone connects to the cell tower, that’s 4G technology.  5G will use radio frequency radiation in a significantly higher magnitude and will be able to communicate with nearly everything that works on wireless communications (think Wi-Fi, driverless cars, your phone, smart appliances, and new technology like robotics, smart pavement, systems that connect entire buildings, and much more).  Check out this short video to learn the basics.  

    While all this may sound impressive, thousands of scientists, medical doctors, and researchers around the world are expressing grave concern over this rollout.  There is no shortage of documentation linking EMF exposure of these types with a plethora of health effects.  Refer back to this article if you need a primer on EMF’s and how they affect our biology.  

    Currently, our cell phones use frequencies in the 800MHz or 2700MHz range.  For reference, our bodies own electromagnetic frequency is around 60-70Hz (hertz).  Our Wi-Fi routers use frequencies from 900MHz-5.9GHz.  That’s 900Megahertz up to 5.9Gigahertz of radiation that we are voluntarily exposing our bodies to around the clock.

    It really should be common sense that exposing our bodies to radiation 24 hours a day is simply NOT a good idea, yet our addiction to this technology is strong. 

    If you need more evidence, check out this study where Dr. Martin Pall lays out compelling evidence for the neuropsychiatric effects of EMF’s.   Or perhaps you’ve heard about cell phone use and the risk for brain tumors.  This ten-year study found a 40% increase in glioma among cell phone users.  In this video, Dr. Devra Davis highlights numerous health implications resulting from EMF’s, including breast cancer, infertility, cognitive decline, fetal development, and even environmental impacts and damage to honeybees.   The bottom line is, excessive exposure to our modern technology is causing negative health symptoms for millions of people across the world not to mention the environmental impact.  

    And when 5G is up and running, our exposure will increase to a degree we can’t even fathom. 

    5G will use higher frequency millimeter waves; because these waves are shorter, they will not be able to travel very far.  Because of this, millions of ‘small-cell’ antennas will need to be installed for connectivity and to reach the devices inside your home.  This means installing several antennas on each residential block, potentially on every light post on your street.  The obvious problem here is that you will not be able to avoid this exposure.  These high levels of radiation will be able to penetrate your home, whether you consent to it or not.  Everywhere you go you will be blanketed in these frequencies.  Right now, 5G plans to use frequencies from 24-86GHz (depending on what source your read, frequencies could be higher or lower).  As we approach this millimeter wave range, the biological impact it has on our bodies is of even greater concern than the already problematic frequencies we use for cell phones and Wi-Fi.

    If many of us are already having health problems from our cell phones and Wi-Fi, what will happen when we’re exposed to 5G frequencies in this millimeter wave range that we will be unable to avoid?  In addition to the plethora of health problems we already face from our EMF exposure, we will likely see significant increases in severe eye and skin conditions due to the way millimeter waves behave.  See this article and this scientific study for more information.  We will also see an increase in the symptoms and health issues we face from our already excessive radiation exposure.

    This should cause alarming concern for anyone that is at all concerned with their health or their civil liberties.  With the proposed ‘smart-cities’ and intertwined IoT, there will be literally nowhere on earth we can go to avoid this exposure.  This will impact each and every one of us directly.  Dr. Martin Pall does an excellent job of summarizing 5G as ‘absolutely insane’ to the National Institutes of Health in this video.  We would have to agree.

    We cannot wait around from ‘someone’ to do ‘something’.  There is too much at stake.  We must act NOW if we want to protect ourselves from this atrocity.  It will take all of us to stand up against the communications industry if we want to have a chance.  We CAN do it, but we need your help.

    The first thing you can do is call your City and State officials and express your concern about the sheer lack of safety research done regarding 5G. There has in fact, been NO safety research done on 5G technology. While the industry claims that ‘safety is paramount’, they admit to conducting no research on the safety of the proposed technology.  Watch this video of Senator Blumenthal questioning industry representatives.   If you haven’t done so already, send a letter to your congressperson expressing your concern over 5G here: http://advocacy.nlc.org/app/onestep-write-a-letter?0&engagementId=495854

    Second, you can download the 5G ‘What You Need To Know’ information sheet to learn more, and if possible, distribute the 5G neighborhood flyer to raise awareness in your neighborhood. 

    Lastly, a group a concerned citizens from the Boise area has formed to talk about 5G and implement strategies to prevent it from being installed in residential areas.  If you would like to be part of this group, please contact us and we will send you information about the next meeting.   This may feel overwhelming for you now, but when we come together, we can affect change!

    Before Small Cells – sample letter for sending to neighbors to raise awareness

    5G: What you Need To Know information sheet

  • Decline of Mental Wellness

    We have an adult health crisis. According to the CDC, approximately half of all adults in the United States have at least one chronic disease, ranging from cancer to diabetes to heart disease.  About 80 percent of all health care spending nationally is due to chronic disease.  As if that wasn’t overwhelming enough the United States is facing a new set of epidemics: Shocking statistics from the CDC have shown that the national suicide rate has been increasing over the last decade, jumping by more than 25% from 1999 to 2016. In the latter year, we lost nearly 45,000 lives to suicide. However, deaths from suicide are not the only rising statistic related to a growing problem of despair in the United States. If current trends continue, drugs, alcohol and suicide could kill an estimated 1.6 million Americans between 2016 and 2025, according to a new analysis conducted by the Berkeley Research Group (BRG) for this report. That’s a 60 percent increase.

    That equates to 350 deaths per day, 14 deaths per hour or one death every four minutes.

    Our nation is facing a mounting crisis related to alcohol and drug misuse as well as a mental and behavioral health crisis that can be glimpsed in the rising suicide rate. In 2016, U.S. life expectancy decreased for the first time in two decades, and these three public health crises have been major contributing factors to this shift.

    The Obvious Source of the Decline of Mental Health

    Nowadays a wide range of medications are available for treatment of various mental health issues.Many psychiatrists match the symptoms to a medication and, sometimes, recommend psychotherapy. However, if these medications are really effective as they are marketed to be, why do statistics show increased number of mental health problems and diseases? An obvious, but over looked factor in the decline in mental wellness is the increase chronic inflammation and the toxicity of our environment.  

    “There is certainly an epidemic of adverse mental health symptoms today and there is one very prominent reason why: the toxic food and water we ingest and the environment we live in.” biosanctuary.com

    Nutrient Deficiencies

    When humans act out, it could be a sign of micronutrient mineral deficiencies. There are 40 essential nutrients that need to be balanced according to someone’s individual biochemistry. 11
    A person out of balance might experience symptoms including cutting/self-harm tendencies, hair-pulling, skin picking, autistic “stimming”, eating disorders, and most mental health disorders.

    In the US most people aren’t psychiatric because they aren’t more than 80% depleted nutritionally. The fact that we are seeing more cases of mental instability could be due to our depleted soils, processed food addiction, leaky gut, lack of probiotic & healthy gut microbes that help assimilate nutrition, and the genetic deficiencies that can actually be passed down.1,6  

    Prescribing pills perpetuates the chemical imbalances caused by toxicity and inflammation in addition to causing undisclosed side affects. Even natural herbal supplements that affect brain processed and mood can  alter brain chemistry that simply addresses symptoms and avoids getting the root cause. 

    “Medications can be quick,” says Jonathan Prousky, ND, MSc, editor of the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine. “They will quickly subdue someone and make them docile, which makes people think they’re getting better. But they’re not getting better. I’ve never met a patient on an antipsychotic medication who was living a thriving, flourishing life. I’ve never seen it.”

    Nutrition is an oft-ignored — yet incredibly effective — way to manage mental illness, including schizophrenia, bipolar and other diagnosis-es. 

    Why? Because Psychiatric/Pharmaceutical Industry is Making a Killing—$84 Billion Per Year. There isn’t a profit in healing the patient with a ‘prescription’ of nutrient dense foods.

    A review of clinical studies conducted by T. S. Sathyanarayana Rao from Department of Psychiatry, JSS Medical College in Mysore, India had some interesting findings. For example:

    • Low glycemic index (GI) foods like fruits, vegetables, whole grains etc. are more likely to provide moderate, yet lasting effects on brain chemistry, mood, and energy levels
    • Deficiency of Omega 3 fatty acid is associated with heightened depression symptoms
    • Consumption of Vitamin B-rich foods is linked with improved mood
    • Low levels of folate are, also, connected with depression
    • Iron deficiency is strongly associated with ADHD.

    Two-time Nobel Prize winner, and molecular biologist, Linus Pauling, Ph.D.,coined the term “Orthomolecular” in his 1968 article “Orthomolecular Psychiatry” in the journal Science. Orthomolecular medicine describes the practice of preventing and treating disease by providing the body with optimal amounts of substances which are natural to the body. 10

    Toxic Exposure

    Neurotoxicity of Pesticides Used on YOUR Food that Cause Adverse Brain Function Abnormalities, & Adverse Mood, Focus, Intellectual and Behavioral Changes

    Today we have epidemic anxiety, panic attacks, ADD, and depression as well as hyperactivity and deterioration of mental functions as a result of toxins and their accumulative effects.  6821 pounds of toxic chemicals are released into our environment each second these include cancer causing, neurotoxic and endocrine chemicals that are found in our air, water, on our food and absorbed by our skin . 

    Most Common Neurotoxic and Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in our Environment 

    • Pesticides & Herbicides 
      These neurodegenerative neurotoxins such as organophosphate pesticides found in all conventional foods and many water sources
      • Glyphosate Herbicide a known cancer-causing agent. In the nearly 20 years of intensifying exposure, scientists have been documenting the health consequences of Roundup and glyphosate in our food, in the water we drink, in the air we breathe and where our children play. In Johnson vs Monsanto, court documents revealed that Monsanto was aware of the toxicity of Roundup on human health. 
    • Hormones, drugs, antibiotics
      Conventionally-raised meat come from animals fed drugs, antibiotics and hormones. 80 percent of all reported antibiotic are fed to livestock.
    • Food Chemicals found in Processed foods-
      • food dyes, 
      • artificial sweeteners such as splenda, NutraSweet, 
      • MSG, 
      • refined sugar
      • the 2000+ other Chemical additives
    • GMOs
      • Conventionally grown produce, meat and processed foods. There is no longer term testing of the effects on human health
    • Fluoride, Chlorine, Psychiatric Drugs, Chromium-6 
    • BPA (Bisphenol-A), Parabens & Phthalates 
      • Food & water containers are the major source, however, these endocrine disruptors can be found in children’s toys, common household wares, most anything plastic.
    • Mercury /Aluminum & other Heavy Metals  
      • vaccines (Excipient list from CDC)
      • amalgam tooth fillings 
      • high fructose corn syrup 
      • fish 
      • nose sprays, eye drops, cosmetics 
    • Mold and Fungus 
      •  Found in our classrooms, homes and in our air

    Each and every one of toxins has a potential to cause adverse mental health symptoms, however, the story is not fully explored until you consider the cross contamination and added the potential for disease and mental health decline caused by these reactive chemicals in the same environment – your body.

    These chemicals were not tested in living organism with their own chemical structures in addition to typically three hundred plus exogenous toxic chemicals coming into contact with each other. This reality expresses a whole new level of concern.

    The decrease of mental well being and increase of self-medication

    Exposure to neurotoxins and endocrine disruptors can create addictive biochemistry and be the root cause of addiction to any legal / illegal drug or alcohol. When a person is chronically symptomatic psychologically, physically or emotionally they will reach out for relief.

    Some will go to a doctor who will hand out a toxic pharmaceutical that will cover the symptoms, add side effects and fail to address the underlying cause of the imbalance.  

    Remember, a drug is a drug under the skin – the body does not care if a man has legalized it, it is still toxic, and it will be destructive to the biochemical processes that sustain life – your life.

    One must find the root cause of the symptoms, which is most of the time toxicity – diet and environment related and remove the cause of the symptoms to correct the metabolism and heal addiction.

    Support your mental healing with your diet and environment.

    Trusted authorities are keeping you sick and confused. But with the right knowledge and tools — combined with the right support — you can hit the reset button and awaken the person you were meant to be. Naturally. You can heal yourself.- Aspen Marrow medfreebipolar.com

    If you are symptomatic, your quest for health in today’s toxic world would be better served if you started your healing journey by considering what you sare putting in your mouth.

    • Eliminate refined sugar, refined grains, and all processed foods.
    • Switch to organic foods including grass-fed meats
    • Increase your intake of raw vegetables and fruits to 75% or more of your diet. *A simple way is to juice raw fruits and veggies once a day. Some people find it easier to switch over using dehydrated concentrated raw fruits veggie powders (watch the ingredients, however!)
    • Support your system with fermented foods: Top 3 are kombucha, keifer and saurkraut.
    • Seek out Support and Surround yourself with happy people.

    Patients and their families shouldn’t be shy about pushing their clinicians to look beyond the latest wonder drug and try to incorporate some orthomolecular whole body strategies for treatment.

    -Andrew Saul, PhD, editor in chief of the peer-reviewed Orthomolecular Medicine News Service,

    Natural Support for Mental Health Wellness

    Resources for this Article Include:

    1 Med Free BiPolar https://medfreebipolar.wordpress.com/category/what-it-means-to-be-med-free-bipolar/natural-cures-mental-health/

    2 Our Toxic World http://biosanctuary.com/our-toxic-world/

    3  Organophosphate Pesticides: On the Brain: The Environmental Factors Behind Parkinson’s Disease at http://dujs.dartmouth.edu/winter-2009/pesticides-on-the-brain-the-environmental-factors-behind-parkinsons-disease . Another very well researched study is published here regarding how organophosphates dysregulate dopamine signaling, glutamatergic neurotransmission, and induce neuronal injury markers in the striatum area of the brain http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21848865#

    4 Illinois Dept of Public Health

    5 Glyphosate Health https://www.ecowatch.com/15-health-problems-linked-to-monsantos-roundup-1882002128.html

    6 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2738337/

    7 https://thefern.org/2013/05/whats-causing-the-rise-in-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria/

    8 https://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/04/08/10-scientific-studies-proving-gmos-can-be-harmful-to-human-health/

    9 https://diet234.com/nutrition-for-mental-health-than-medication/

    Sited Statistics http://wellbeingtrust.org/-/media/files/well-being-trust/tfah2018painnationupdatebrief.pdf?la=en

    10 http://orthomolecular.org/nutrients/index.shtml

    11 https://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-drugs/people-taking-psychiatric-drugs/ 
    To read all drug regulatory agency warnings & studies on psychiatric drugs, visit CCHR’s Psychiatric Drug Side Effects Search Engine.

  • 5G Will Use the Same Frequencies as Pain-Inflicting Military Weapon

    What does the 5G network and a non-lethal weapon developed by the military have in common? The Department of Defense has developed a non-lethal crowd control device called the Active Denial System (ADS). The ADS works by firing a high-powered beam of 95 GHz waves at a target—that is, millimeter wavelengths.  Anyone caught in the beam will feel like their skin is burning. The burning sensation stops once the target leaves the beam. This weapon operates on 95GHz waves and 5G will operate on the same frequencies. 

    Today’s cellular and Wi-Fi networks rely on microwaves – a type of electromagnetic radiation utilizing frequencies up to 6 gigahertz (GHz) in order to wirelessly transmit voice or data. However, 5G applications will require unlocking of new spectrum bands in higher frequency ranges above 6 GHz to 100 GHz and beyond, utilizing sub-millimeter and millimeter waves – to allow ultra-high rates of data to be transmitted in the same amount of time as compared with previous deployments of microwave radiation.

    Now a US weapons that relies on the capability of this electromagnetic technology to induce unpleasant burning sensations on the skin as a form of crowd control is being rolled out. 

    Millimeter waves are utilized by the U.S. Army in crowd dispersal guns called Active Denial Systems. Dr. Paul Ben-Ishai pointed to research that was commissioned by the U.S. Army to find out why people ran away when the beam touched them. “If you are unlucky enough to be standing there when it hits you, you will feel like your body is on fire.” The U.S. Department of Defense explains how: “The sensation dissipates when the target moves out of the beam. The sensation is intense enough to cause a nearly instantaneous reflex action of the target to flee the beam.” 

    See the video below for the 5G frequency weapon in action: So, what we’re talking about with 5G technology is being exposed to the same kind of waves day in and day out, only at a lower power than the ADS. Have safety studies confirmed that such exposure is safe? No.

    There’s more! Research from a team of Israeli physicists has found that there are new problems to consider with exposure to millimeter waves. When the wavelength of the energy approaches the dimensions of our biological structures, i.e. our skin and sweat ducts, previous assumptions about the safety of energy radiation are no longer valid. The research shows that, with millimeter waves, our sweat ducts actually act like little antennas, which means we would absorb more of this energy into our bodies. Other research has demonstrated that short-term exposure to low-intensity millimeter waves affects human cell membranes and could even result in the proliferation of multi-drug resistant bacteria.

    Seeing as there has been virtually no research on long-term exposure to millimeter waves, the large-scale deployment of 5G technology is a massive experiment, and we’re the guinea pigs.

    There’s no opting out of 5G—in fact it will become more ubiquitous than wireless technology is right now. As Verizon boasts on its website, the “Internet of Things” will thrive on 5G technology. The Internet of Things refers to the expanding number of devices, appliances, utilities, and other technologies that collect, transmit, and share data through the internet. Essentially, many processes that have not previously relied on the internet will start to once 5G roles out: switching lightbulbs on or off with a smartphone app, driverless cars—even “smart cities” that will use wireless networks to collect and analyze data about the environment, traffic, water, transit, lighting, waste management, security, and parking.

    “The use of sub-terahertz (Millimeter wave) communications technology (cell phones, Wi-Fi, network transmission antennas) could cause humans to feel physical pain via nociceptors, ” stated Dr. Yael Stein, MD, who wrote a letter to the Federal Communications Commission about 5G Spectrum Frontiers.

    Devra Lee Davis Founding Director of the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology of the U.S. National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, Founding Director of the Center for Environmental Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute says

    I love my devices as much as anyone else but I don’t want to the health of my grandchildren at risk. I don’t want to put them in harm’s way. We now know that the skin, our largest organ does respond to 5g, and in fact our sweat ducts they can act as antennas that can receive signals. 5G has not been tested for safety. The fact that it can interact with our sweat ducts may have much more profound meaning for our overall health and well-being. The idea that we’re going to saturate this country with a network that has never been tested is appalling. I am joining with many other scientists from around the world now to express concerns. We must evaluate these things before we roll out the technology  no matter how attractive it is for us to have faster downloads of video games, pornography or virtual reality. The question we have to ask ourselves is it worth endangering the health of our children?

    Dr. Davis’ group – Environmental Health Trust – explains:

    Israeli research studies presented at an international conference reveal that the same electromagnetic frequencies used for crowd control weapons form the foundation of the latest network – branded as 5G – that will tie together more than 50 billion devices as part of the Internet of Things. Current investigations of wireless frequencies in the millimeter and submillimeter range confirm that these waves interact directly with human skin, specifically the sweat glands. Dr. Ben-Ishai of the Department of Physics, Hebrew University, Israel recently detailed how human sweat ducts act like an array of helical antennas when exposed to these wavelengths. Scientists cautioned that before rolling out 5G technologies that use these frequencies, research on human health effects needed to be done first to ensure the public and environment are protected.

    [Dr. Davis notes] “This work shows that the same parts of the human skin that allow us to sweat also respond to 5G radiation much like an antenna that can receive signals. We need the potential adverse health impacts of 5G to be seriously evaluated before we blanket our children, ourselves and the environment with this radiation.”

    Research studies from the Dielectric Spectroscopy Laboratory of the Department of Applied Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, headed by Dr. Yuri Feldman, indicate that millimeter and sub-millimeter waves may lead to preferential layer absorption. The number of sweat ducts within human skin varies from two million to four million. The researchers pointed to replicated peer research of these biological effects in laboratory research conducted in other countries and considered this mechanism of action well-proven.

    There are now many thousands of peer-reviewed medical and epidemiological studies that show, illustrate or correlate, adverse biological effects with use of mobile phone technology or WIFI. Using frequencies even higher than 5 GHz (and up to 100 GHz) will compress the timeframe in which cancers and other biological effects show themselves within society. It is anyone’s guess on what might happen in terms of biological safety yet it is clear to see that the pulsed nature of these high frequency, high signal intensity signals do not harbor good news for humanity, particularly in relation to the functioning of our DNA.

    Millimeter-wave-emitting devices will saturate our environment, and the fact that we’re plunging head-first into deploying this technology without knowing the health consequences is shocking.  

    RESOURCES:

    https://ehtrust.org/key-issues/cell-phoneswireless/5g-internet-everything/20-quick-facts-what-you-need-to-know-about-5g-wireless-and-small-cells/

    https://www.sott.net/article/345599-5G-networks-will-use-the-same-frequencies-as-pain-inflicting-crowd-control-weapons

    http://www.anh-usa.org/what-do-crowd-control-burning-skin-your-street-corner-and-superbugs-have-in-common/

  • Toxic Heavy Metals Found in Organic Chocolate

    A study by As You Sow found levels of cadmium and lead, two toxic heavy metals, in 45 of 70 chocolate bar samples (including some organic brands) at levels higher than what is considered to be safe in drinking water. While you would have to eat an enormous amount of chocolate to be affected, if this was the sole source of exposure.  Its one of many places we are bombarded by toxins unfortunately, heavy metals are in a lot of food products. Unfortunately, heavy metals accumulate in the body ingested and injected over time these toxins build up. Cadmium and Lead are neurotoxic and carcinogenic. Current regulations for cadmium are based on threats to adults, and the kidneys have been considered the most sensitive organ to its toxic effects. Classified as a known human carcinogen, it is linked to lung, kidney and prostate cancer in workers.

    A study in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry examined the levels of lead and cadmium in white, milk, and dark chocolate sold in Brazil. They concluded that dark chocolates had the highest amounts of lead and cadmium.

    Cadmium is a heavy metal considered toxic for the human body. When ingested or inhaled, it is not well absorbed by the body, so it accumulates over time and can have detrimental effects on kidneys, lungs and bones and on the brain. This is why it is classified as a human carcinogen and can potentially increase the risks of cancer and considered neurotoxic.

    Children with higher cadmium levels are three times more likely to have learning disabilities and participate in special education, according to a study led by Harvard University researchers. Dr. Robert Wright, the study’s senior author, emphasized that the links to learning disabilities and special education were found at commonplace levels previously thought to be benign.  Some studies of adult workers have shown that high exposures can trigger neurological problems, and small, earlier studies of children found links to mental retardation and decreased IQs.

    Cadmium stays in the body for long periods, so tests measured amounts the children were exposed to over years.

    “One of the important points of the study is that we didn’t study a population of kids who had very high exposures. We studied a population representative of the U.S. That we found any [effect] suggests this is occurring at relatively low levels,” said Wright, an associate professor of pediatrics and environmental health at Harvard.

    Lead has been studied and regulated for many decades, leading to a large amount of evidence that it reduces children’s IQs at low concentrations and contributes to attention disorders and even violent behaviors. It interferes with the development of synopses, or connections between neurons, that allow a child to learn.

    Since cadmium is also a heavy metal, it might have similar effects on the brain, said Lanphear, one of the world’s leading experts on the effects of lead in children. But unlike lead, cadmium “is relatively understudied as respect to brain toxicity,”  said Wright, an associate professor of pediatrics and environmental health at Harvard.

    What’s Heavy Metal Doing in My Chocolate? 

    According to the As You Sow, the source of lead and cadmium is contamination through one of the various processing steps a bean undergoes after the harvest. These steps include fermentation, drying of the cacao bean, and manufacturing processes such as grinding, refining, and conching. Other opportunities for contamination are shipping, handling, and finally, packaging. Studies have shown that much of the “lead contamination in (chocolate) products occurs after the beans are harvested and dried, during the shipping of those beans and/or the manufacturing of cocoa and chocolate products.”.8, 9

    Cadmium and lead are toxic heavy metals that are released into the environment through manmade industrial processes including mining, burning fossil fuels such as coal or oil, incineration of municipal waste (plastics/batteries). It is also released by battery manufacturers, smelters, electroplating plants and other industries. It is one of the top chemicals reported in Superfund sites, found in virtually all of them, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention document.

    Cadmium and lead also enter soil through the disposal of sewage sludge, or the application of pesticides or phosphate fertilizers (which can contain high levels of cadmium).4, 7

    Once released into the atmosphere, respirable-sized airborne particles attach to dust, can travel long distances, and will be deposited onto the earth, where they move easily through soil layers and can be taken up into the food chain. Once mined and introduced into the atmosphere, these heavy metals can move from air to soil to water, but do not break down easily and will remain for decades.4, 7

    Its Regulated Right? 

    The FDA does not consistently monitor food for lead and cadmium contamination. California has the most health protective standards in the country for the presence of lead and cadmium in consumer products, and requires the manufacturer to warn consumers if a product contains chemicals known to cause cancer and/or birth defects or other reproductive harm, above the safe harbor level set by California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. They require a warning label on their products if they contain more than 4.1 mg of cadmium per daily serving. The latest news in the legal department is the introduction by the European Union of new limits on the amount of cadmium in cocoa products. They will be enforced starting 1 January 2019.

    As You Sow commissioned an independent state-certified laboratory to measure levels of lead and cadmium in over 120 chocolate products available at retailers across California. In 2018, As You Sow legal efforts culminated in a first-of-its-kind settlement with many of the world’s largest chocolate companies. Thirty-one chocolate companies, including Barry Callebaut (USA), Blommer Chocolate Co., Cargill, Inc., Guittard Chocolate Co., The Hershey Company, Lindt & Sprungli (North America), Mars Incorporated, Mondelez Global LLC, and Nestle USA, Inc, committed to funding an independent Expert Committee to investigate the sources of lead and cadmium in chocolate and find feasible measures to lower levels of these metals by 2025.

    While this work is ongoing, the chocolate companies have also agreed to provide interim warnings for their products if they exceed specified concentrations of lead and/or cadmium in their chocolates. These agreed upon warning levels range from 0.1 ppm to 0.225 ppm for lead and 0.4 ppm cadmium to .960 ppm for cadmium, depending on the percent of cacao contained in the product. These warning levels may be reduced based on the results reached by the Committee.  

    Can I avoid heavy metals and still eat chocolate? 

    CADMIUM & LEAD FOUND IN CHOCOLATE FROM SEES, TRADER JOES, HERSHEY & OTHERS! 

    Eating Organic doesn’t protect you! According to their testing results these are a few of the Organic Brand bars to avoid: 

    • Organic Chocolates such as Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate 73% Cacao Super Dark (organic),
    • Endangered Species Chocolate Natural Dark Chocolate – 72% Cocoa, 
    • Enjoy Life Eat Freely boomCHOCOboom Bar
    • Lily’s Extra Dark 70% Dark Chocolate Stevia Sweetened Vegan Non GMO
    • Theo Organic Fair Trade Coconut 70% Dark Chocolate
    • Tanzania Schoolhouse Project – 72% Cacao Organic Dark Chocolate
    •  Earth Circle chocolate 
    • Organic Ecuador Cacao Powder

    Find out if YOUR chocolate is toxic here

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-cadmium-as-dangerous-for-children-lead/

    https://thechocolatejournalist.com/cadmium-chocolate/

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