Monday, February 22, 2016

Notes on Ayurveda



As a Christian woman who is serious about faith, this part of my journey is to see if Ayurvedic Philosophy can mesh with Christian Principles.  So far, so good.  

Ayurveda is a holistic system of medicine that is indigenous to and widely practiced in India. The word Ayurveda is a Sanskrit term meaning "science of life." Ayu means "life" or "daily living" and Veda is "knowing."

Ayurveda was first recorded in the Vedas, the world's oldest extant literature. This healing system has been practiced in daily life for more than 5000 years.


One thing that has brought me back to Ayurvedic principles over the years is this underlying philosophy:

"A basic principle of healing in Ayurveda holds that one may create balance in the internal forces working in the individual by altering diet and habits of living to counteract changes in his external environment"

Look at your health today. If you and your family are not thriving, make a change.

Quote from Dr. Vasant Lad

New Directions for our family



We  have been taking a step back to assess this year, last year and where we should be heading next in the days the Lord has allotted to us.

On the vaccine front, unless necessary I will discontinue studying the negative affects. I am convinced, after untold hours of study, prayer, thought and more study that there is NOTHING good in vaccines. At all. Ever. My conclusion and opinion is that they are Hellborn concoctions designed to destroy your natural immune system. I have not found ONE good thing about them in all of the study I have done.

They have been sold to us, part and parcel, using propaganda, fear based techniques and ruthless marketing strategies. Entire regulatory agencies, educational and medical systems are set up to make "vaccinate" the default. I find NOTHING of God in this. Nothing. At. All. I do find a vested financial interest for corporations in creating an endless and captive market of unhealthy people.

So, I am going to stop looking at them. If you want to talk to me about vaccines, ask. The only reason that this vaccine default works is because we have abdicated much of our child rearing responsibility to state entities who have much funding from corporations who have a vested interest in the outcomes of health we currently see in our country and world.

Please know that to choose to step away from the cage that you are in, you must accept both the freedom and the responsibility in that decision. You must refuse to allow your family to be part of the system. Then you must make decisions on how you now should live. Please think.... you are stepping away from the national default. What are you going to replace it with?

For our family, we are going to begin looking forward to replacing the default with something else. To this end, Joey and I are working jointly on two different directions. Joey is working hard on the Jefferson movement, a constitutional request (demand) that Northern California either be allowed to become a separate state or have the representation that was stripped from us by a court decision be reinstated.

For me, I am going to begin studying Ayurvedic health systems. Why Ayurveda? It is the closest to what I know to be true. That is why. Yes, I will have to be prayerful as I go forward, but this is the base system that we have been using casually for years. I am going to begin studying it more in earnest.

We will also continue to build and grown our family farm with purpose and intent. This is designed to provide the highest quality nutrition available to our family. The answer to the overprocessed default in this country is to build a different system. We are not there yet, but we work toward that goal.
What we focus on is where we go. I have focused almost exclusively on the vaccine issue for a good 18 months. There is nothing good to find there. My focus is now shifting to something that can have positive impact.

Cindy

People of Faith, Vaccines and Abortions

Because the battle on the vaccine front continues, I am revisiting the issue of abortions and vaccines and people of faith.  I did this as a series of 7 posts and will just put those posts here in their entirety.  It is long and, to many of you, repetitive.  having said that, please be aware that this is a current issue.  You may want to review the information.
I cannot counsel anyone, but my heart says that once I am aware of the connection, I cannot justify participating in the abortion industry in any way.
Two things are stirring this up right now.  One of them is the book I am currently reading, "Plague" by Judy Mikovits.  This is a discussion of the presence of retrovirus in the blood and vaccine supply.   It is connected to using human and animal tissue.  The more we know, the more we know what we don't know
The other is the debate currently going on locally within the Christian community over whether or not vaccines, in balance, are good, lifesaving and life giving.  I absolutely am on one side of this debate, weighted down as far as I can go.  That does not mean that there is not another side. 

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#1 of 7 - People of faith, vaccines and the abortion industry.

People of faith, please hear my heart.  Please choose not to be offended, but listen.  If you disagree, please, let's talk or message privately. 

The abortion industry and the vaccine industry are linked together.  For me personally, as a person of faith, EVEN IF vaccines were safe, effective and absolutely did what the pharmaceutical industry claims WITHOUT ANY side effects EVER ..... For me, I cannot participate.  My children cannot participate.  Even if there were no other issues. 

The Bible does not ever, to my knowledge, justify child sacrifice.  If I am wrong, I am willing to be publicly and privately corrected.  

The vaccine industry needs human cells for two things that I am aware of.  Again, I am absolutely willing to be corrected if I am in error.

Need one:  a medium to grow virus in.  (Specifics in a further post)

Need two:  the subject of this paper.  Humanized lab animals for testing and maybe other things.

I am not going to lie to you.  I don't like studying, thinking about or discussing this.  I know a little too much about the process and it drives me to my knees in sorrow and grief.

People of faith, Please, please study this.  If I am in error, let me know.

From this paper:  "Recent developments and comparative aspects of human immune system mice.

Improved human antibody and cellular immune responses in new generation humanized mice.

New transgenic immunodeficient mice expressing HLA class I and II, human cytokine and growth factors to generate improved humanized mice.

Vaccine testing and generation of human monoclonal antibodies in humanized mice.

Immuno-enhancement approaches on the basis of interfering with PD-1 pathway.
The new humanized mouse models with a transplanted human immune system have a capacity for de novo multilineage human hematopoiesis and generate T cells, B cells, macrophages, dendritic cells and NK cells. Of the two current leading humanized mouse models, the hu-HSC model is created by human hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) engraftment whereas the BLT mouse model is prepared by co-transplantation of human fetal liver, thymus and HSC. Humoral and cellular immune responses are seen in both models after immunization with antigens or infection with hematotropic pathogens such as EBV, HIV-1 and dengue viruses. While consistent antigen specific IgM production is seen, IgG responses were found to be generally feeble which is attributed to inefficient immunoglobulin class switching. BLT mice permit human HLA restricted T cell responses due to the autologous human thymus contributing to T cell maturation. Use of HLA Class I and II transgenic hu-HSC mice recently demonstrated that the HLA restriction deficiency could be overcome in this model. However, the overall vigor of the immune responses needs further improvement in both the models to approach that of the human. Towards this goal, supplementation with human cytokines and growth factors by transgenesis to improve human cell reconstitution and their homeostatic maintenance are beginning to yield improved mouse strains to create more robust human immune competent mice for immunoprophylaxis studies.

Human immune responses and potential for vaccine assessment in humanized mice


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#2 of 7  - People of faith, vaccines, abortion

This is intended to be a series.

Again, people of faith, please hear my heart.  This is not fun.  It is critically important. 

They have a term for these humanized lab animals.  It is "chimera". Part animal, part human.  Human babies are needed to create these chimeras.  Another term I ran across is Hu-Mice.

This article describes in detail how to make chimera.  I have read any number of bioethics papers on this entire process.  There are a lot of big words to justify the practice and a lot of big words to condemn it.

Nowhere in scripture can I find a justification for the use of sacrificed children to make your life or your children's life better.

We do not belong to this world.

From the paper:  "Seventeen to 22 week gestational tissues (Advanced Biosciences Resources) were prepared in a biological safety hood by cutting the tissues into 1-2 mm3 pieces and placing them in a covered petri dish on ice in matrigel,” the scientists wrote.

Each mouse would get a piece of thymus and a piece of liver taken from the same 17-to-22-week gestational age human baby. The part of the liver not cut into small pieces and transplanted under the kidney capsules of mice was cut into small pieces and processed to make stem cells that were injected into the mice after they underwent their transplantation surgeries.

“The tissues were divided to give the surgeons approximately the same amount of liver tissue as thymus,” the scientists wrote. “The remainder of the liver was used to isolate hematopoietic stem cells for injection following recovery from surgery.”

“A section of liver sufficient for transplantation was set aside and the remaining liver was cut into very small pieces, dissecting out any obvious connective tissue, the gall bladder and the bile duct,” the scientists said in the part of the paper where they described how they derived the stem cells from the human fetal liver.

When the researchers were ready to transplant the human fetal liver and thymus fragments into the mice, they formed a sort of surgical assembly line.

“We used a team of at least four people to perform surgery, each member at a dedicated station,” the government researchers wrote. “One member performed prep and anesthesia, one performed surgery, one closed the incision, and one handled anesthesia reversal and recovery.

“An additional team member prepared stem cells in the lab while surgery was being performed,” they said.

“A single piece of tissue approximately 1-2 mm3, each from the thymus and liver, was then pressed into the pocket under the [kidney] capsule using a similarly altered sequencing pipette,” the scientists said. “Care was taken not to tear the capsule and to ensure that the tissue was placed securely in the capsule pocket.”

U.S. Government Made ‘Humanized’ Mice With Tissue from Babies 17- to 22-Weeks Gestational Age

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#3 of 7 - people of Faith, abortions and vaccines

Well, this workshop summary speaks for itself.

"Investigation of the human hemato-lymphoid system, host-pathogen relationships, autoimmunity and transplantation has in the past been limited to in vitro assays and in vivo large and small animal models. A clear advantage of large animal models such as dogs, sheep, horses and non-human primates is their genetic closeness to humans and the large number of cells that can be obtained. However, ethical, practical and financial considerations greatly limit their use for research purposes. Although more genetically distant to humans, small animals such as mice do share substantial similarities with humans in terms of physiological parameters and genetic diversity; an added advantage is our ability to alter their genome almost at will. A wide variety of mouse models have indeed been instrumental in understanding human physiology, especially the human immune system. Nonetheless, the differences remaining between human and mouse are significant enough to warrant the creation of chimeric mouse models bearing partial or intact human physiological systems. This is accomplished by engrafting human cells and/or human tissues into immunodeficient mouse strains incapable of rejecting these xenogeneic grafts.The majority of the existing models are of mice that carry a partial or a potentially intact immune system. These models run a wide gamut, and include mice that express human genes in certain blood cell types, mice repopulated with human peripheral blood cells and mice given the complete complement of progenitor cells with the potential to reconstitute the entire immune system. In addition, experimental systems using other human tissue grafts have been created in order to study host/pathogen interactions, vascular regeneration, and transplantation tolerance. Clearly, combining these humanized tissue graft models with the models carrying a complete human immune system holds great promise for the development of improved vaccines and immunotherapeutics.This workshop provided a general overview of the state of research in the development of a variety of humanized mouse models as outlined below.

BIODEFENSE WORKSHOP SUMMARY HUMANIZED MICE


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#4 of 7 - People of Faith, vaccines and abortions.

So, in this educational paper, we cover the scientific justification for the use of "hu-mice".

After all, it's just good business.

People of faith, can you participate in this?

From the paper:  "The new humanized mouse models with a transplanted human immune system have a capacity for de novo multilineage human hematopoiesis and generate T cells, B cells, macrophages, dendritic cells and NK cells. Of the two current leading humanized mouse models, the hu-HSC model is created by human hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) engraftment whereas the BLT mouse model is prepared by co-transplantation of human fetal liver, thymus and HSC. Humoral and cellular immune responses are seen in both models after immunization with antigens or infection with hematotropic pathogens such as EBV, HIV-1 and dengue viruses. While consistent antigen specific IgM production is seen, IgG responses were found to be generally feeble which is attributed to inefficient immunoglobulin class switching. BLT mice permit human HLA restricted T cell responses due to the autologous human thymus contributing to T cell maturation. Use of HLA Class I and II transgenic hu-HSC mice recently demonstrated that the HLA restriction deficiency could be overcome in this model. However, the overall vigor of the immune responses needs further improvement in both the models to approach that of the human. Towards this goal, supplementation with human cytokines and growth factors by transgenesis to improve human cell reconstitution and their homeostatic maintenance are beginning to yield improved mouse strains to create more robust human immune competent mice for immunoprophylaxis studies."

Human immune responses and potential for vaccine assessment in humanized mice

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#5 of 7 - Christians, vaccines and abortions

This is intended as a series. 

The original use of sacrificed human babies for the vaccine industry rests on the need to grow human virus on human cells.

Again, even if there were NO issues of safety and effectiveness, does scripture give us guidance on using sacrificed babies to make your or your children's lives easier, safer or more comfortable?

If I have misunderstood any part of this, I am open to correction.

This article goes into the history and use of fetal cells in the vaccine industry.  It is a decent overview.  To be honest,  I actually disagree about their premise of the effectiveness of vaccines, but that is a science based disagreement.

From the article:  "The vaccine process works by collecting samples of the actual virus, then growing and altering them in the laboratory to make a weakened strain of the disease. The weakened strain is put into a serum and administered into the body (usually by injection). The body’s immune system is more capable of attacking and destroying the weakened virus, and thus develops the ability to effectively fight off the actual disease should the person ever be exposed to it. The advent of vaccines was a major milestone in medicine, saving millions of lives and saving many others from the devastating effects of diseases like polio and diphtheria.

In order to develop the weakened viral strain, there must be a medium or “cell culture” to grow it in. The virus invades the culture cells, feeds off the cell, matures, and multiplies. The cell cultures are a single type of cell that multiplies itself in a predictable fashion and can be sustained in a laboratory setting for years, even decades. These long-lasting cell cultures are called “cell lines.” The original cells that start these cell lines have been taken from a wide variety of sources, from monkey embryo and kidney cells, to chicken and rabbit embryos, and tragically, from aborted human babies.

The issue of concern is that many common vaccines were developed using cell lines that originally were cells taken from electively aborted babies. The vaccines themselves do not contain fetal cells, but there are significant “residual” biological components from the fetal cells that have been assimilated into the vaccine, including cell proteins and measurable portions of fetal DNA."

Vaccines, Abortion & Fetal Tissue

#6 of 7- People of Faith, vaccinations and abortions.

This is a series.  Please read them all.

Please take these ideas of abortion and vaccination as ideas to take to the Lord in prayer.  No matter your religion, if your heart is grieved, please genuinely repent, go to the Elders of your faith, ask for prayer and healing oil. 

We serve a mighty and just God who is quick to forgive.  Our bodies were beautifully created to heal, given the right conditions or a creative miracle.

This exemption should be adequate for any school or institution.  If the school will not accept it, no matter the cost, is this a place that you want molding your child?

You can change the wording to reflect your faith.  I would not have it notarized, but ask the Pastor or Elders to sign it.

Parenting is a the job.  Do it well.

To all concerned parties:
This letter is to serve as notification that ____________________________ and ___________________________, the parents of __________________________, born __________, ___, 20___, are exercising our right to a religious waiver on all future childhood vaccinations because we find them to be in extreme violations of our personal religious beliefs.
The following are ways in which these violations manifest themselves in the vaccinations recommended by the Center for Disease Control.
The use of cells, cellular debris, protein, and DNA from willfully aborted human children found in Adenovirus, Polio, Dtap/Polio/HiB Combo, Hep A, Hep A/Hep B Combo, MMR, MMRV Pro Quad, Rabies, Varicella, and the Shingles vaccines violate the very basic commands found in Exodus 20:13 and Deuteronomy 5:15 which instructs us to not murder. The following ingredients were derived from no fewer than 107 human souls who were sacrificed for social reasons and then used in past and ongoing vaccine research: PER C6, HEK293, WI-38 (RA 27/3), WI-1, WI-2, WI-3, WI-4, WI-5, WI-6, WI-7, WI-8, WI-9, WI-10, WI-11, WI-12, WI-13, WI-14, WI-15, WI-16, WI-17, WI-18, WI-19, WI-20, WI-21, WI-22, WI-23, WI-24, WI-25, WI-26, WI-27, WI-38, WI-44, and MCR-5 plus many other ingredients obtained from human children not required to be listed by FDA guidelines. Supporting vaccinations and vaccination developments is an endorsement of the sacrifice of those and the continuing sacrifice of other human souls.
Genesis 4:1, 17 and Jeremiah 1:5 demonstrate that the deceased children used in the aforementioned vaccinations were recognized by God as human souls from the point of conception in the same way that we, as parents, recognized our child as a human from the moment we were aware of his/her presence in his/her mother’s wombs.
Genesis 1:27 - 28, 4:1, 2 Kings 17:17-18, Psalm 22:10-11, 106: 35, 37-38, 113:7-9, 127:3, 139:13-16, Amos 1:13, Matthew 18:1-4, and Matthew 19:13-15 are just a few verses that illustrate the aforementioned children as blessings from God that are valued and loved by him, their Creator, in whose image they were created and that their killing is condemned and causes God's destructive anger to burn against their murderers and those complicit in those murders.
Exodus 20:13, Leviticus 18:21 & 20:2-5, Deuteronomy 5:13, 12:30-32, 18:10, 2 Kings 16:3, and Psalm 106:38 illustrate that all child sacrifice is condemned with no exception clauses allowing for the greater good or public exception clauses found anywhere in the sacred scriptures.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 and 10:31 remind us that we are to regard our bodies a temples of God's Holy Spirit and that we are to honor God, our Creator and possessor of our very bodies by not defiling them. Notwithstanding the presence of socially sacrificed human cells and debris in vaccinations, we firmly believe that the presence of neurotoxins, hazardous substances, attenuated viruses, animal cells, foreign DNA, albumin from human blood, carcinogens, and chemical wastes is in strict violation of our imperative to treat our bodies as holy temples of the very Spirit of God.
Genesis 9:4, Leviticus 17:10-11, 17:14, Deuteronomy 12:23, Acts 15:20 and 29 informs us that blood represents the life force of human and animal species and that human blood was to be kept pure under all circumstances and free from contaminants such as animal cells, parts, and blood.
We thank you for respectfully adhering to our first amendment rights guaranteed as citizens of the United States of America by her great Constitution and reinforced on a state level by the fourteenth amendment without prejudice.
Maternal Parent printed name:____________________________________________________               
Maternal Parent signature:_______________________________________________________
Date signed:___________________
Paternal Parent printed name:____________________________________________________               
Paternal Parent signature:_______________________________________________________
Date signed:___________________
                       
Notary public witness:
State of _________________________________, ________________________ County
I,_________________________________, a Notary Public for said County and State, do hereby certify that ____________________________ and _________________________________personally appeared before me this day and acknowledged the due execution of the foregoing instrument.
Witness my hand and official seal, this the ______ day of ______________, 20 ____.
Notary
Signature:__________________________________________________________________

VACCINE - Religious Exemption with scriptural support

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#7 of 7
Hopefully you can hear my heart of love in this. I am not saying any of this to condemn, I am speaking a necessary but unpleasant truth.
So, for us, question number one on this list of questions is enough. We don't actually need to go further. We are simple people.
Our family cannot knowingly participate in the industry of vaccination and/or abortion. Unless someone can show me scripturally where it is acceptable to God to use sacrificed human babies to grow our virus' for vaccinations; to use sacrificed human babies to turn into lab animals for better testing, research, development or study.....
We just do not think that it is ok to sacrifice babies so that our lives can be better, healthier, more convenient, more comfortable.... I think I will stop here.
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Vaccines are a permanent chemical alteration of your child. Please genuinely research before you vaccinate. Research both sides with integrity until you are comfortable.
Do not allow laws, pharma bullies or scare tactics to dissuade your research. Once administered, the vaccine can never be undone. Make sure you are 100% comfortable with your decision.
YOU have a responsibility for the child in your care. Choose parenting. Sometimes (always) it is work. Research well.
Some questions to consider in your search for truth:
Was any part of this vaccine grown in human fetal cells acquired through abortion? If so, is this a problem for you in your faith? Be prayerful about this important decision.
Is there any mercury in this vaccine?
Is there more than the safety margin of the allowed daily maximum dose of aluminum in this vaccine? (Daily maximum dose is approximately a limit of 25 mcg per day OR 3-4mcg per kilogram per day) Dr. Sears has an outstanding explanation on this.
Are there any other ingredients that you are concerned with?
Would you give this to your child to drink?
Are there any genetically altered ingredients in this vaccine (GMO's)? Is this important to your family?
What are the known potential side affects of this vaccine? (Suggestion, look at the manufacturer insert, not the CDC handout)
Can you access any double blind, placebo based trials showing safety and efficacy for this vaccine? (Trials against a true placebo, not a placebo with the adjuvants)
Can you access any double blind, placebo based trials showing safety and efficacy with multiple doses of true vaccines together?
Do you have an accurate risk/reward vision? Do you know the risks of both the vaccine AND the childhood ailment?
Can you find natural remedies for the childhood ailments that are proven to be successful?
Can you access accurate damage / death statistics for both the childhood ailment AND potential vaccine injury.
Do you know who is liable if your child is injured or dies as a direct result of the vaccination?
Be purposeful in your choice.

The Great Vaccination Debate

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

The Great Vaccination Debate



Letter in PDF Format Letter in PDF format

Vaccines are a permanent chemical alteration of your child. Please genuinely research before you vaccinate. Research both sides with integrity until you are comfortable.

Do not allow laws, pharma bullies or scare tactics to dissuade your research. Once administered, the vaccine can never be undone. Make sure you are 100% comfortable with your decision.

YOU have a responsibility for the child in your care. Choose parenting. Sometimes (always) it is work. Research well.

Some questions to consider in your search for truth:

Was any part of this vaccine grown in human fetal cells acquired through abortion? If so, is this a problem for you in your faith? Be prayerful about this important decision.

Is there any mercury in this vaccine?

Is there more than the
safety margin of the allowed daily maximum dose of aluminum in this vaccine? (Recommended dose is approximately a limit of 25 mcg per day OR 3-4mcg per kilogram per day) Dr. Sears has an outstanding explanation on this.

Are there any other ingredients that you are concerned with?

Would you give this to your child to drink?

Are there any genetically altered ingredients in this vaccine (GMO's)? Is this important to your family?

What are the known potential side affects of this vaccine? (Suggestion, look at the manufacturer insert, not the CDC handout)

Can you access any double blind, placebo based trials showing safety and efficacy for this vaccine? (Trials against a true placebo, not a placebo with the adjuvants)

Can you access any double blind, placebo based trials showing safety and efficacy with multiple doses of true vaccines together?

Do you have an accurate risk/reward vision? Do you know the risks of both the vaccine AND the childhood ailment?

Can you find natural remedies for the childhood ailments that are proven to be successful?

Can you access accurate damage / death statistics for both the childhood ailment AND potential vaccine injury.

Do you know who is liable if your child is injured or dies as a direct result of the vaccination?

Be purposeful in your choice.


Cindy


Letter in printable format



Sunday, June 28, 2015

Hormone disruptors and potential problems

This post is because of the Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage all over the United States.  One thing that may have not been considered by many is the amount of hormone disruptors that pregnant women and babies are exposed to and potential consequences.  This entire post is geared to the potential damage to baby boys.  Baby girls also can have damage, but it is different damage.

This information is provided for purposes of risk assessment for families.  This was a short series that I did on Facebook.   I hope it is helpful.

#1 - Appropriate for this week. Not making judgments. Just providing information.
This study covers the problem of mercury exposure in male ibises.  It causes many odd behaviors in the Ibises population.  From the article:  "Birds exposed to any mercury displayed courtship behaviour less often than controls and were also less likely to be approached by females when they did. As the level of mercury exposure increased, so did the degree and persistence of homosexual pairing. Males that engaged in homosexual parings were also less likely to switch partners from year to year, which Frederick says ibises tend to do if they have been unsuccessful in mating during their first breeding season."

Some of the main mercury exposures in the United States today in utero: Amalgam fillings, vaccinations and fish consumption by mama.  Also, living downwind of a coalfired plant or exposure to medical waste.

Mama... be cautious of your little boys developing systems. Trace amounts of mercury from Mama during pregnancy can be damaging for a lifetime.

One of the main mercury exposures before a child is two years old is vaccinations.  Although it is supposed to have been removed from all childhood vaccinations, it is still listed as being in several in trace amounts.  Very, very tiny amounts are all that is necessary for endocrine disruption.

One of the other problems associated with permanently changed sexual tendencies in boys is unfermented soy, exposure either in utero or from formula.

Mercury causes homosexual behavior in male Ibises



#2 -  So... more on developing sexual tendencies. Soy. Again, I am not making judgments, just providing information that I hope you can use to make better risk/reward assessments for your family. I am sad if this information brings you sorrow, but not discussing it helps nothing. My apologies to mamas who could not breastfeed and to vegan mamas who use unfermented soy as a protein substitute. I promise that I am not targeting anyone. Really just giving information regarding homosexuality / vaccinations / heavy metal and other toxicity. Please note the aluminum issue with soy based formulas near the end of the article.
 
From the article: "Male infants are also adversely affected by phytoestrogens. Male babies undergo a testosterone surge during the first few months of life, when testosterone levels may be as high as those of an adult male.

During this period, baby boys are programmed to express male characteristics after puberty, not only in the development of their sexual organs and other masculinity traits, but also in setting patterns in the brain characteristic of male behavior. Flooding his system with female hormones during this time can have severe ramifications on his development, including potentially smaller testes and significantly reduced testosterone levels........

.........Nearly 20 percent of U.S. infants are now fed soy formula, but as demonstrated in the featured study, the estrogens in soy can cause serious long-term harm to your baby's sexual development and reproductive health. It's important to realize that feeding your baby soy formula is like giving her an estimated four to five birth control pills' worth of estrogen every day. Infants fed soy formula have up to 20,000 times the amount of estrogen in circulation as those fed other formulas!.......

......Aside from harmful endocrine disrupters, soy infant formula can also contain over 1,000 percent more aluminum than conventional milk-based formulas. Aluminum is a potent neurotoxin that has been implicated in the development of Alzheimer's disease and other brain disorders. According to a study in Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics4:

"Aluminum is now being implicated as interfering with a variety of cellular and metabolic processes in the nervous system and in other tissues."

But that's not all. Many soy foods also have toxic levels of manganese. Soy formula contains up to 80 times more manganese than is found in human breast milk, and according to recent research, high concentrations of manganese can lead to brain damage in infants and altered behaviors in adolescents.5"




 Plant Estrogens in Soy and how it might decimate the health of your unborn baby and the fertility of future generations

#3 - For those who wish to further study the soy danger issue, the following page has quite a few really interesting links.

Please do not think this information is a personal judgment on anything. It is just to arm families with appropriate risk/reward information as they navigate a toxic world.



Soy and reproductive issues with boys. To the church and to Christian families I want to gently, gently, GENTLY say.... the feminized boy in your class/family may be that way by choices mama made before, during and after pregnancy. Please love this child for who they are, not who you want them to be. Not every boy exposed to soy/heavy metals in utero / early childhood will become feminized.... but some of them will.

Be aware that mama's mercury laden fillings, fish and pregnancy vaccinations, other heavy metals in these products AND/OR soy and other hormone inhibitors may have permanently changed this boy before he was two years old. Please use this biological information as you deal with this topic that is so "in your face" to the Christian church in general.

Please note: I am not telling anyone what to do or think. I am not suggesting you walk away from scripture. I am suggesting that these boys were inherently changed before they could make any choice in the matter. Please take this information into consideration as you deal with these boys in your life.

From the article: "We now have an impressive body of work on the issue of phytoestrogens and male reproduction. These studies have spanned three generations and have taken into account both the human and the rat model of endocrine function. In summary, males exposed to genistein have a shorter ano-genital distance and testis size, and delayed preputial separation. Perinatal exposure to genistein also contributes to long-term dysfunction in reproductive behavior. Adult male rats exposed to genistein are less likely to mount, intromit and ejaculate during mating tests. Male rats exposed to genistein also have lower testosterone concentrations in adulthood. Perinatal genistein exposure resulted in transient and lasting alterations in masculinization of the reproductive system.
The best way to avoid complications in the reproductive health of male offspring is to avoid foods and chemicals that act as estrogen mimics. This starts with mothers, prenatally limiting their exposure to estrogen-containing products in their diets, from birth control pills and from other sources such as pesticides. During pregnancy, the mother’s diet should be quite restrictive of phytoestrogens and therefore of soy-based products. Once the child is born, the best form of nutrition which can be given to the child is breast milk. While breast feeding, mothers should continue to avoid birth control pills and soy foods. Most importantly, soy-based infant formula should be avoided. These formulas, despite common claims to safety, are dangerous to the reproductive health of the male infant.......


...... “We should be thinking at this point of our children and grandchildren. What are we going to tell them if they are sterile or have an altered sexual development?”27........


.......We owe it to our children to offer them the reproductive health that will allow them to have a normal sex life and to father children, simply by limiting amounts of organic estrogens in their diets. Above all else, we owe it to ourselves to be the best possible parents in truly caring for the future of our children by ensuring that our children, and therefore we, truly have a future."

Thursday, June 4, 2015

Vaccinations, peanut allergies, gut health

This post is a series of Facebook posts.  It is too difficult to find things on there, though... so here they are.  I will add another portion later covering the bacteria that is needed to  help resolve the peanut allergy problem.

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If you or someone you know has a peanut allergy, this article covers some of the possible reasons.
There is some promising research which shows a bacteria present in many raw milk cultures may lower the risk of anaphylaxis.

It is important to consider all potential reasons... No matter how uncomfortable it makes you.
From the article: "But with the newfound research, the medical profession will do what they always must do – bury it. Protect the companies. So no money will be ever allocated from NIH to study the obvious connection between vaccine excipients and peanut allergy. That cannot happen, primarily because it would require a control group – an unvaccinated population. And that is the Unspoken Forbidden."

Video highlights of the last Congressional Hearing on Autism. Vaccines and the Peanut Allergy Epidemic by Dr Tim O'Shea www.thedoctorwithin.com Have you ever wondered why so many kids these days are allergic to peanuts? Where did this allergy come from all of a sudden? Before 1900, reactions to pean…
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So... From this excellent article... this is what every man, woman and child needs to know about vaccines: "Vaccine manufacturers do not have to disclose all vaccine ingredients to consumers.

It is important to note that in 1973, when peanut allergies were still relatively rare, a study was conducted on the effects of peanut excipients in vaccines. Not long after it was published; however, government regulators decided that vaccine manufacturers no longer had to label peanut excipients in vaccines, which means pediatricians, parents, and others who wanted to avoid peanut excipients for safety reasons could no longer effectively do so.

“What is listed today in the Physicians Desk Reference in each vaccine section is not the full formula,” adds Dr. O’Shea. “Suddenly that detailed information was proprietary: the manufacturers must be protected. They only had to describe the formula in general.”

Since that time, peanut allergies have only gotten more prevalent and more severe, and the vast majority of the population has no idea that peanut excipients still used in vaccines are largely responsible. Will this ever change? Only if government regulators and medical authorities suddenly develop consciences will this monumental medical fraud be widely exposed and properly addressed.

In his book The Doctor Within, Dr. Tim O’Shea argues that vaccines are largely responsible for both the advent and increased prevalence of peanut allergy, noting that many vaccines and even antibiotic drugs contain excipients derived from peanut oil. Since it is a relatively inexpensive oil to produce, refined peanut oil became widely adopted as an excipient of choice in the production of vaccines during the 1960s, and it is still widely used today for this purpose."




More than one million children living in America today suffer from peanut…
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This is what is on the FDA website regarding peanut oil. Although I am still looking, I believe it is grandfathered in as law. As far as I can tell, it appears that This means it does not have to be listed as an ingredient or process and can be protected by trade secret laws.
From the FDA review : "Based on these considerations, the Select Committee concludes that: There is no evidence in the available information on coconut oil, peanut oil, and oleic acid that demonstrates, or suggests reasonable grounds to suspect, a hazard to the public as they are now used in paper and cotton packaging material for food at levels now current or as they might reasonably be expected to be used for such purposes in the future. There is no evidence in the available information on linoleic acid that demonstrates, or suggests reasonable grounds to suspect, a hazard to the public when it is used as a nutrient or dietary supplement at levels now current or that might reasonably be expected in the future."

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An overview of the GRAS process. From the paper : "You see, Doctor, we understand that vaccine manufacturers are protected by trade secrets and are not obliged to reveal all the ingredients in vaccines, even to doctors. These secret substances are termed “GRAS” (short for “Generally Recognized As Safe”). One of them is peanut oil:

“The exact composition of vaccines cannot and will not be disclosed under an exemption that protects business information with the Access to Information Act in Canada and the Freedom of Information Act in the US. Similarly, trade secrets are also exempt under the British Freedom of Information Act. Thus the guidelines to label refined peanut oil/moral obligation to label peanut oil are in conflict with laws protecting trade secrets. Full disclosure of excipients was not and continues not to be general practice in the US or Canada.” [1]"

Can a food manufacturer determine that an ingredient is generally recognized as safe (GRAS) and maintain trade secrets information on that ingredient? 
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From the article: "It would be nice to think that experts who sit on the committees that approve vaccine safety and licensing would make note of the rise in allergies to these foods in the general population, and be able to make the link that the development of these allergies is due to the body's immune rejection of ingested food proteins resulting from a prior immune reaction to injected vaccine food proteins. It would also be nice to think that at least the proper safety studies would be done to see if the injection of these food proteins manifests in a clinically significant way in humans. Many clinicians, and parents, are already seeing this connection. I believe, however, that these experts are not doing their due diligence, and are looking right past the evidence. There seems to be a concerted effort to avoid doing the studies that would solidify our scientific knowledge. Until then, I support the precautionary principle."

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This is a clinical trial using adjunct 65-4 (a peanut oil derivative) .... Why am I posting this? Because as I research I see where all pro vax sources swear up and down there is not now, nor has there been, peanut oil as an adjunct. This clinical trial says otherwise.

Always, always, always follow the money.

They use this oil because it makes vaccines effective for a longer period of time. I do not know what name it goes by.... But someone here is not being honorable. I would suggest industry has the ethical issues.

A comparison was made of the antibody response and subjective reactions to zonally-purified influenza vaccine in aqueous suspension and in peanut oil adjuvant 65-4. Both preparations contained 700 CCA units of A/Aichi/2/68, and...


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FYI... if you read this article to the end and wonder what is a great anti-viral... I will tell you my little secret.... (shhhh)... It is PINE NEEDLE TEA! Made with pine needles from your area. And hot water. And local honey. Yes, yes... I know... expensive beyond belief but there you go. (/sarc)

From the article: "For so many, the peanut allergy "phenomenon" is solved. It's your body's current hyper-immune response from being injected with peanut oil in vaccines for years. End the vaccination violence! There is NATURAL IMMUNITY available in Nature, hence the name. Do your own research."
Learn more:

Peanut allergy 'phenomenon' solved
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This one is a "blast from the past".... 1964 to be precise.  Near the beginning of peanut oil being used to maintain titers for longer. 



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From me: If I had a child with a peanut allergy, I would exercise a skeptical amount of overabundant caution regarding vaccinations. Certainly I would research it.

I have spent several hours looking at the "pro-vaccine" sites - especially regarding peanut allergy issues. All they seem to have is "it is not listed on the ingredients or in the process"...... and "they are not going to put something in that is not listed". Since I believe the first statement is irrelevant and the second statement to be untrue, I would be very very cautious regarding vaccines.

I am studying the best way to reduce the reaction to peanut allergies. The heart of this problem may be resolved with a bacteria commonly found in cultured raw milk products. Still researching though.
Food allergies and vaccines .... and a possible road to (either partial or complete) recovery using lacto fermented foods is generally the answer.

From the article: " research published in Heather Fraser’s 2011 book, The Peanut Allergy Epidemic, illuminates the vaccine connection much more specifically. Peanut oil is used as a vaccine excipient. And, this usage has become increasingly widespread until, by the 1980s, it was the preferred excipient. Prior to 1980, peanut oil was used occasionally, or not at all.

An excipient is defined as a component other than the original medication. This is a problem with vaccines, because it is so difficult to define the original “medication” in a vaccine. In general, excipients are the substances added to preserve, stabilize or otherwise dilute the viral antigens.3
Peanut oil (even the most refined) still contains some traces of intact peanut proteins. Intact proteins do not belong in the human body. The digestive system is designed to break down these antigenic substances into peptides and amino acids, non-allergenic building blocks of proteins, which your body then uses to build tissue.

This contamination with intact, allergy inducing proteins is why doctors are directed to inject vaccines intramuscularly, rather than intravenously in hopes of lessening the chance of reactions. However, it is obvious from the epidemic of peanut allergies that this measure has been inadequate..........

........So, our children are being injected with a substance that can cause life-threatening allergic reactions, and what was the government’s response? The first study of peanut allergies that focused on the use of peanut oil in vaccines was conducted in 1973. Soon afterwards, and as a result of that study, manufacturers were no longer required to disclose all of the ingredients in their vaccines, thereby limiting their liability. The detailed information became “proprietary” and the precise ingredient list was no longer disclosed.

However, childhood vaccination has become the sacred cow of pediatrics. Many of the parents in my practice, who do not wish to have their children vaccinated, are regularly abused by health care professionals, both doctors and nurses.




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On the subject of Peanut allergies, peanut oil as an adjuvant and vaccine labeling: Please exercise an abundance of caution in vaccinating if your child has peanut allergies.

So.... on to the labeling for vaccines. The question is "can vaccine ingredients and processes be protected by trade secrets?" I always find if you just go step, step, step, step and not shy away from what you find, eventually the truth becomes known.

My steps took me to several court cases between big companies (two equal adversaries). So far... trade secrets are alive and well in the pharma industry. As I am traveling this path, I see hints that as long as the FDA approves it, trade secrets rule, even on labeling. However, confirming that knowledge is further down the road for another day.

So, from two mega-giant pharma corporations fighting it out in court over the chickenpox vaccination:

From the records: "In the present case, Merck's initial disclosure described its entire process as a protectable trade secret. Then, following discovery, it narrowed that broad trade secret claim to fit the particular aspects of the production process Merck claimed were misappropriated by SmithKline. SmithKline was initially put on notice through Merck's broad disclosure but was subsequently informed well in advance of trial of the specific aspects of the trade secret Merck believed SmithKline misappropriated. It cannot be said SmithKline was prejudiced in any way........

......The term trade secret encompasses a process that “[d]erives independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to, and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by, other persons who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use; and is [ ] the subject of efforts that are reasonable under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy.” 6 Del. C. § 2001(4). Whether the trade secrets were generally known or readily ascertainable and whether Merck took reasonable precautions to protect their secrecy is a question of fact. See Injection Research Specialists, Inc. v. Polaris Indus., L.P., Fed. Cir., 168 F.3d 1320, 48 U.S.P.Q.2d 1719, 1726 (Aug. 13, 1998). Such a finding is reviewed for a determination of whether it is supported by substantial evidence, see Collins v. Burke, Del.Supr., 418 A.2d 999, 1004 (1980), and is not clearly erroneous. See Levitt v. Bouvier, Del.Supr., 287 A.2d 671, 673 (1972).

http://caselaw.findlaw.com/de-supreme-court/115896

SMITHKLINE BEECHAM PHARMACEUTICALS CO v. MERCK CO INC as heard in DE Supreme Court
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So... Adjuvants and allergies. CAN a pharma company use an adjuvant such as peanut oil or other things without listing it in their process or on their ingredient list?


This "money quote" is at the bottom of this very, very long page. I think it speaks for itself.


"*Includes only those formulations whose data are available in the public literature"

hhs.gov

Monday, January 19, 2015

Chronic Inflammation

Inflammation is the body's natural way to fight infection and respond to harmful organisms, irritants, damaged tissue or toxins.  In a healthy, well-nourished body, this natural response to this temporary problem should result in a system-wide "all clear" within a few days or weeks.

Food, stress levels and ongoing toxin overloads are some of the primary decision makers in whether your body uses inflammation, fever and other healing pathways for a short season, then subsides or whether your body goes into a state of chronic inflammation which brings in another level of trouble and poor health. 

Sadly, we often look at health problems as something to be gotten rid of, not a warning signal that there is something amiss in our body, our environment or our mental state (meaning staying in a place of high stress and not addressing the cause).

Diets high in sugar, saturated fat and overprocessed foods can spur inflammation.  This can cause overactivity in the immune system, which can lead to joint pain, fatigue, and damage to the blood vessels, which is often step one, two and three in a downward spiral of poor health.

The typical Western diet – high in processed foods, refined starches, added sugars and animal fats and low in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and omega-3 fatty acids – fuels inflammation, according to a 2006 paper in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Choosing to apply toxic substances to our skin, hair and environment, breathing in toxic fumes, can all exacerbate the problem of inflammation as your system must be in overdrive all of the time.  Smog, pollution, dust, mold....  all problematic.
Living in a world of chronic stress... aka "the modern world" also brings its own set of damage inducing inflammation.  Lack of sleep, lack of quiet, lack of community, lack of being "unplugged" EVER..... some of the modern stresses so many of us deal with.
Perhaps today, make a different choice.  Choose to shut off some of the stress.  Choose to stay away from the chemical bath that the modern world offers us.  Look at your toothpaste, your shampoo, your soap, your lotion, your cleaning products.   If you would not eat them, don't put them on your skin or breathe their fumes.  Choose to eat wholesome, nutrient-dense, slow cooked, soaked, REAL food today.  Visit a farmer's market, talk to the small farmers about what they do to produce food.  They are almost universally knowledgeable.  Embark on a balanced exercise program, play, turn off and tune out for a while.  Allow your body to settle down and come to a more natural place.

Foods, spices, savory things and oils are a potent, long-term way to activate your immune system into a proper response and to provide a proper level of healing and long-term vibrant health.  The lists below are certainly not an exhaustive list, just some suggestions
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Some of the foods which can help minimize chronic inflammation, please note:  This is assuming that the foods are organic, non GMO and properly prepared in a nutrient dense fashion:
Avocado, dark leafy greens, soaked walnuts and almonds, sweet and hot peppers, olives, olive oil, coconut oil, sweet potatoes, beets, beet greens, unsweetened dark berries, cacao, red grapes, broccoli, tart apples, citrus, chia seeds, red cabbage, celery, whole, soaked grains, fermented foods and liquids, high quality, minimally processed sea or harvested salt, wild caught salmon, grass fed beef, poultry.
Some of the spices and savory things which can help with chronic inflammation:
Turmeric, ginger, basil, onion, garlic, oregano, mint, cumin, cilantro, parsley, rosemary, black peppercorn, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg.
Some of the oils which can help with chronic inflammation:
Oregano, fennel, clove, thyme, wintergreen, myrrh, frankincense, camomile, tea tree oil, lavender.
Remember, this is just a starting place.  Primarily it is important to remember that what we eat, breathe and put onto our skin is what fuels our body. Give it good fuel.  Avoid fuel that clogs up the system.  Go simple, go clean, go vibrantly healthy.
Blessings
Cindy

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Cream Nut Caramels

Calling all candy makers!!!  Here is my recipe for caramel.  Enjoy.

Cindy



Cream Nut Caramels

3/4 cup pecans
2 cups heavy cream
1-1/2 cups granulated sugar
1/4 cup light brown sugar
1 cup brown rice syrup
1/4 cup butter
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla

Measure all ingredients before you begin.

Line an 8-inch square pan with parchment and butter it generously.  Set aside.

Using a small saucepan, heat the heavy cream until warm.

Remove 1 cup of the warm cream.  Place it into a heavy 4-quart saucepan.  Add the sugars and rice syrup to the cream in the 4 quart saucepan.  Heat on medium for about 5 minutes, stirring with a wooden spoon  until the mixture begins to boil.  Add the remaining cream very slowly so the boiling does not stop.  Cook about 5 minutes more.

Place a candy thermometer into the saucepan and heat to 230 degrees.  Lower the heat to prevent scorching. Add the butter about 1 tablespoon - don't get legalistic,  just put it in a bit at a time to keep your temperature right - and continue heat to 245 degrees.

Remove the candy from the heat and stir in the salt, vanilla and chopped pecans.  Pour the mixture into the prepared pan.  Allow to set up at room temperature until firm.  Cut into 1 inch squares.

Yield:   64 1-inch pieces



Option One:  cut into squares, dip into chocolate, sprinkle with high quality salt.
Option Two:  Pour over granola, squish down and make granola/caramel bars!

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Pine Needle Tea

One of our families favorite remedies for any type of cold, lung congestion or viral infection of any kind is Pine Needle Tea.  I found this remedy in an old, old, OLD book on  natural remedies that I picked up at a thrift store.  We have found it incredibly useful.

I would very probably use pine needle tea liberally if I had ANY virus.

So, in a bullet point list, everything I know about Pine Needle Tea:
  • It is very cheap (free :)
  • It is easy to make
  • It is delicious
  • Don't drink it if you are pregnant or nursing.  Really.
  • It is full of Vitamin A and C (in a natural form so everything surrounding them is there, complete)
  • It seems to help your eyes 
  • It is an expectorant (if you drink too much it dries your nose out.  Not my favorite)
  • Our favorite is sugar pine (the one with the shorter needles)
  • You can put pine needles in your bathtub for various ailments.
Here is more detailed information from Dave's Garden.  I found it by a simple google search and his research appears to be solid.  No need for me to reinvent the wheel.  Just go there if you want more concrete info.

Here is how we make it:
  1. Pick pine needles
  2. cut them into smallish pieces
  3. put in container and pour boiling water over them
  4. cover and steep about ten minutes
  5. strain 
  6. add raw, local honey if necessary
  7. drink