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CNN panelist: Trump is the MLK of health care

WHEN THEY HEAR IT? IT IS A NEGOTIATING TACTIC AND IT SCARS PEOPLE. >> ALISYN, I WANT TO SAY SOMETHING HERE THAT WILL DRIVE SYMONE CRAZY. THINK OF PRESIDENT TRUMP AS THE MA MARTIN LUTHER KING OF HEALTH CARE. >> JEFFERY. >> WHEN I WAS A KID, THE PRESIDENT DIDN'T WANT TO IN INTRODUCE THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL BECAUSE HE DID NOT HAVE THE VOTES FOR IT. DR. KING KEPT PUTTING PEOPLE IN THE STREETS IN HARM'S WAY TO PUT PRESSURE ON FOR THE BILL TO BE PUT FORWARD. >> YOU UNDERSTAND THAT DR. KING WAS MARCHING FOR CIVIL RIGHTS BECAUSE PEOPLE THAT LOOKED LIKE ME WERE BEING BEATEN. DOGS SICED ON THEM. MERELY BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF THE SKIN. LET'S NOT EQUATE DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. TO THE VAGINA-GRABBING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. >> SYMONE, YOU WENT THERE. >> THERE IS NO SIMILARITY. WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS DOING IS HE IS IN OVER HIS HEAD. HE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND HEALTH CARE IS A COMPLICATED ISSUE.

Cumin seeds Health Benefits and Side effects - Tamil Health Tips

Cumin seeds Health Benefits and Side effects Tamil Health Tips I have come with a wonderful news about Cumin seeds as "Prevention is better than cure" What are side effects of eating Cumin seeds? Cumin seeds are unavoidable in Spicy foods we prepare. Because it increases the digestion It flushes out toxins and reduces gastric trouble Many people drink cumin seeds water its nothing wrong. But if you wish to use it as medicine for ailments then you should take it as per doctor's advice Some people chew cumin seeds often. It is wrong because its spiciness may cause harmful effects If we eat more cumin seeds it causes heart burn You would or would not have noticed. It is better to use it in moderate levels if you have acidity problems When we eat more cumin seeds it causes burp Prolonged use can cause liver problems As the oil in cumin seeds evaporate quickly it may damage liver and kidney If pregnant ladies eat more cumin seeds sometimes it cause abortion or Premature birth If we eat cumin seeds it causes stomach bloating,Nausea, vomitting If we take more cumin seeds during menstrual period it increases bleeding So it is better to avoid cumin seeds during this times Cumin seeds helps to reduce the sugar level in the blood Diabetic patients with controlled sugar level should avoid more intake of cumin seeds If you take cumin seeds at moderate you can remain healthy and increases you life span

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The shocking truth about your health | Lissa Rankin | TEDxFiDiWomen

What's the most important part of your health? What do you think? Is it eating a balanced, mostly plant-based diet, balancing your hormones, daily exercise, getting enough sleep -- What do you guys think? Taking your vitamins, seeing your doctor for regular check ups? (Laughter) These things might all seem like important, even critical, factors to living a healthy life, but what if I told you that caring for your body was the least important part of your health? What do you think? I'm a physician, so if you'd told me that five years ago, that would have been total sacrilege. I mean, I spent 12 years training, because the body is supposed to be the foundation for everything in life. But what if I told you that the medical profession had it all backwards, if the body doesn't shape how we live our lives? What if the body is actually a mirror of how we live our lives? Think about it for a minute. Think about a time in your life where you weren't living the life you were supposed to be living. Maybe you were in the wrong relationship; or you were in some hostile work environment doing what you thought you should do; or you were creatively thwarted, you felt spiritually disconnected. And what if you started getting little inklings from the body, little physical symptoms? You know, the body's trying to tell you something and you ignore it, 'cause you're supposed to do what you're doing. And then the body totally decompensates. Can you think about a time in your life where something like that has happened? Yeah, I see a lot of noddings. Yeah, me too. Same thing happened to me. So this is what the body does, the body is brilliant this way, the body speaks to us in whispers. And if we ignore the whispers of the body, the body starts to yell. Millions of people in this country are ignoring the whispers of the body. We are suffering from an epidemic that modern medicine has no idea what to do with. People suffering from this epidemic are fatigued, they're anxious and depressed, they toss and turn at night, they've lost their libido. They suffer from a whole variety of aches and pains, so they go to the doctor, 'cause something is wrong. And the doctor runs a whole battery of tests, and the tests all come back normal, so the patient gets diagnosed as "well". Only the patient does not feel well. So she goes to another doctor and she starts the whole process over again, because something is clearly wrong. And it is wrong, it's just not what she thinks. I used to work in a really busy managed care practice, I was seeing 40 patients a day. And I would get so freaking frustrated with these patients. They would come in and it was so obvious they were really suffering. And I'd run the tests, everything would come back normal, I'd diagnose them well, and they'd look at me like: No, I'm not well, something's wrong. And I felt so frustrated because I couldn't come up with a diagnosis. And they just wanted, please God, give me a pill. And there was no pill, there's no pill to treat it, there's no lab test to diagnose this epidemic, there's no vaccine to prevent it, no surgery to cut it out. It wasn't until years later that I realized I was suffering from the same epidemic my patients were. By the time I was 33 years old, I was your typical physician. I had succeeded in everything I ever wanted to achieve in my life, I thought. I had all the trappings of success, the ocean front house in San Diego, the vacation home, the boat, the big fat retirement account, so I could be happy one day in the future. I was twice divorced by that point. I had been diagnosed with high blood pressure. I was taking three medications that failed to control my blood pressure and I had just been diagnosed with precancerous cells of my cervix that needed surgery. Even more importantly I was so disconnected from who I was, so totally disillusioned with my job, so completely spiritually tapped out, that I didn't even know who I was any more. I'd covered myself up with a whole series of masks. I had the doctor mask, like when you put on the white coat, stand up on a pedestal, pretend you got it all together, you know it all. And I am also a professional artist, so I had the artist mask, where you've got to be, you know, dark and brooding, mysterious -- starving, that wasn't me either. And then I had gotten married a third time, you know, third time is a charm. So now I've got this dutiful wife mask I've gotta wear, where I've got to get dinner on the table and make sure that I've got the right sexy lingerie on. And then I got pregnant and all of sudden there's this huge mummy mask you're supposed to wear, right? You guys know the mummy mask. You're supposed to instantly inherit the gene that makes you capable of baking the perfect cupcake. That's where I was, wearing all those masks, when my perfect storm hit. And at this point in my life, it was January 2006, and I gave birth to my daughter by C-section, my sixteen-year-old dog died, my healthy young brother wound up in full-blown liver failure from the antibiotic Zithromax, and my beloved father passed away from a brain tumor, all in two weeks. I had just started to take a breath, when my husband, who was the stay home for my newborn, cut two fingers off his left hand with the table saw. Yeah -- They say when your life falls apart, you either grow, or you grow a tumor. Fortunately for me I decided to grow, there was something in me. SARK called it my "Inner Wise Self", which I call your inner pilot light. It said, "It's time to take the masks off. It's time to stop the madness. It's time to stop doing what you should, and start doing what you feel." And in that moment I knew I had to quit my job. Now, this was a huge deal, right? I spent 12 years training to be a doctor and hundreds of thousands of dollars and we had all the trappings, you know, the house, the mortgage, all the doctor stuff, right? My husband was not employed and I had a newborn. I also had to pay a malpractice tail to buy my freedom, a six-figure malpractice tail, in case I ever got sued in the future. So I decided to do it, and God bless my husband, who said let's jump together. And I quit my job and I had to sell my house and liquidate my retirement account and move to the country; and I spent a few months painting and writing and licking my wounds. (Laughter) (Applause) It wasn't until about nine months later, everybody was like -- nine months! I'm an OB/GYN! Nine months later I realized you can quit your job but you can't quit your calling. And I had been called at a very young age, I was seven years old, to the service, the practice, the spiritual practice of medicine; and that calling hadn't gone away. I had gotten so wounded by the system that I didn't even notice it anymore; but it came back after I had rested and healed after a little while. But I knew I couldn't go back, I couldn't be seeing 40 patients a day, 7,5 minutes with my patients, that wasn't why I went to medical school. So it began this quest, that turned into an almost five-year quest now, to rediscover what I loved about medicine. So that also meant I had to figure out what I hated about medicine. So I started by blaming everybody: it was the ambulance chasing malpractice attorneys; it's big pharma; it's managed care medicine; it's the insurance company's fault. Then I thought, oh no, it's the reductionist medical system, we're so, so sub-specialized, you know? I'm an OB/GYN, so I was seeing these patients that had pelvic problems. But I knew that there was something bigger than the pelvis that was causing their issues. But I hadn't been trained to really look at that. So I thought that's the problem, like you go to your doctor, your pinky finger hurts and he says, "I'm sorry, I'm a thumb doctor." (Laughter) Nobody's looking at the whole picture. So I thought integrative medicine was the answer. And so I joined an integrative medicine practice, and it was so much better; I got a whole hour with my patients. I really got to listen to my patients, we didn't accept managed care medical insurance, so it was really so much better. And then I still kept bumping up against something though, because now if you came in and you were depressed we were giving you herbs and amino acids instead of Prozac. If you had other physical symptoms -- but it was still this allopathic model, where the answer was outside of you, and I had to give you something that you could take. So I thought maybe that's not the problem, maybe I need to look outside of that and find new tools for my healing toolbox. So I started working with all these complementary and alternative health care providers, whom I love, acupuncturists, naturopaths and nutritionists. And I started treating my patients with needles in their energy meridians and raw foods, and that was great. But I kept bumping up against the same thing: patients would get better from one symptom and if we didn't treat the root cause of why they had that physical symptom in first place, they just wound up getting a new symptom. So at this point I was both really frustrated and really curious, and I started down this path of trying to figure out what really makes a body healthy, and what really makes us sick. And I dug into the medical literature and spent a year researching all of the randomized controlled clinical trials out there. And I decided this is it, I'm going to figure it out, I'm going to find the answer. And I spent hours in the library, researching, reading, studying. What I found blew my frigging mind, stuff nobody ever taught me in medical school. All the things we think of as health, all the things we think matter, they do. It matters that you exercise, it matters that you eat well, it matters that you see the doctor. But nobody taught me that what really matters is healthy relationships, having a healthy professional life, expressing yourself creatively, being spiritually connected, having a healthy sex life, being healthy financially, living in a healthy environment, being mentally healthy, and of course all the things we traditionally associate with health, also matter, all the things that nurture the body. The data on this is unbelievable. Lots of it is not in the traditional journals that you read, that doctors read, a lot of its in the psychological literature, the sociological literature. But if you look deep, this is in The New England Journal of Medicine, it's in The Journal of the American Medical Association, it's coming out of Harvard and Yale and Johns Hopkins. This is real data proving that these things are just as important, if not more. I have this patient, she's a raw vegan, she runs marathons, she takes 20 supplements a day, she sleeps eight hours a night, she does everything her doctor tells her, she's got a chart this fat, and she's still got multiple health problems. So she had heard about my philosophy I had started practicing with my patients, and I have an intake form that's about 20 pages long and it asks about all those things, relationships, work life, spiritual life, creative life, sex life, all of these things that make you whole. So she came and she filled out her form and she said, "Doctor, what's my diagnosis?" And I said, "Honey, your diagnosis is you're in a freaking abusive marriage. You hate your job, you feel creatively thwarted, you're spiritually disconnected, and you haven't let go of that resentment you have against your father who molested you as a child. Your body is never gonna get well until you heal that." So if taking care of the body isn't the most important part of being healthy, what is? It's caring for the mind, caring for the heart, caring for the soul, tapping into what I call your inner pilot light. Now your pilot light is that part of you, that essence, that authentic, deep, true part of you, that spiritual, divine spark that always knows what's right for you. You're born with it, it goes with you when you die, and it always knows the truth about you and your body. It comes to you and whispers; it's your intuition; it's that beautiful part of you that is your biggest fan; the part that writes you love letters. And that is the biggest healer you can tap into, better than any medicine, better than any doctor. So based on everything that I learned, I developed a new wellness model. And it was based, not on the pie charts and pyramids that many of the wellness models I had studied were based on. I based it on the cairn. Have you guys seen these things around San Francisco? These stacks of balanced stones, I love them, I've always loved them. I'm an artist, so it appeals to me visually. But I love the interdependence. Every stone is dependent on the other; you can't just pull one stone out without the whole thing crumbling. And the stone that's most precarious is the one on top. That's the body, that's where I think of the body. The body is the stone on top. When any of the facets of what makes you whole get out of balance, the body is the first to start whispering, and the foundation stone is your inner pilot light, that true essence of you, that vulnerable, transparent part of you. So based on that, I created this model, that I call the whole health cairn. And this is what my next book is about. An it's taking all of the facets of what makes you whole; it's about self-healing from the core, and once you recognize this, then you have all the tools you need to start your own healing journey. So all of the facets of what makes you whole are surrounded by what I call the healing bubble. This is love and gratitude and pleasure. And science proves that all of those things are good for your health as well; they are the glue that hold everything together. So I challenge you. If you have any physical symptom, if you're suffering from the epidemic that plagues the developed world, I want you to ask yourself, "What's the real reason I'm sick or suffering, what's out of balance in my whole health cairn?" What's the real diagnosis and what can you do about it? How can you be more transparent? How can you open yourself up to more possibility? How can you be more honest with yourself about what you need and who you are? If any of you were lucky enough to see Brene Brown's awesome TEDTalk about the power of vulnerability -- I feel a lot of nodding heads, I love it -- it's so fabulous, but it talks about the science behind being true, being vulnerable, being transparent. It generates love and intimacy which increases oxytocin and endorphins, and reduces harmful stress hormones like cortisol and adrenalin. When we let our true self be seen, when we let our inner pilot light radiate, we heal from the inside out and it's more powerful than anything medicine can give you from the outside. So I challenge you to write the prescription for yourself. No doctor can do this for you. We can give you drugs, we can give you surgery, and sometimes you need that, that's the jump-start of the self-healing process. But to heal to the core, so that you don't develop new symptoms, so you don't need another surgery -- you gotta write your own prescription. So I ask you, "What is it that you need, what does your body need to get healthy? What is it that you need to change, What needs to be tweaked in your life?" If you knew that stripping off all of your masks and letting us see that beautiful light within you, was the solution to your health problems, would you be willing to do it? I dare you. It just might make your body right for miracles. Thank you. (Applause)

Health Headlines: Prediabetes

O EBB NEXT WEEK. KRISTEN: OK, KEVIN, THANK YOU. MOST PEOPLE HAVE PROBABLY HEARD ABOUT DIABETES AND LIKELY KNOW SOMEONE WHO HAS IT. THERE ARE SEVERAL DIFFERENT CAUSES OF DIABETES, BUT WHAT MOST OF US DON'T REALIZE IS THAT PREDIABETES IS A SERIOUS CONDITION THAT AFFECTS 1 IN THREE ADULTS IN THE U.S. NEW HAMPSHIRE'S STATE EPIDEMIOLOGIST, DR. BEN CHAN, JOINS US NOW. GOOD AFTERNOON TO YOU, DOCTOR. LET'S START BY TELLING WHAT PREDIABETES IS. DR. CHAN: IT IS A CONDITION WHERE A PERSON DEVELOPS HIGHER THAN NORMAL BLOOD SUGAR LEVEL. WHEN WE CONSUME FOOD, OUR BODIES ABSORB THE SUGAR INTO THE BLOODSTREAM SO THAT THE CELLS AND TISSUES IN THE BODY CAN USE THAT SUGAR IS ENERGY. IN ORDER FOR THE CELLS TO TAKE UP A BLOOD SUGAR, HORMONE CALLED INSULIN IS REQUIRED, WHICH IS NATURALLY PRODUCED IN THE BODY IN AN ORGAN CALLED THE PANCREAS. DIABETES AND PREDIABETES ARE DISEASES WERE A PERSON EITHER DOESN'T PRODUCE ENOUGH INSULIN OR THEIR BODIES HAVE BECOME RESISTANT TO INSULIN AND CAN'T USE IT CORRECTLY. THIS IS NORMALLY A PROCESS THAT DEVELOPS PROGRESSIVELY OVERTIME AS THE PERSON'S BODY DEVELOPS AND THE RESISTANCE TO THE INSULIN, MANAGEMENT BY OBESITY BY THE WAY -- MAINLY DRIVEN BY OBESITY, BY THE WAY, SOMEBODY'S BLOOD SUGAR BEGINS TO RISE . PREDIABETES IS A TRANSITION ZONE BETWEEN SOMEBODY WAS NORMAL BLOOD SUGAR AND WHEN THEY DEVELOP OVERT DIABETES-LEVEL PLEASURES. KRISTEN: OK, WHAT ARE SOME RISK FACTORS FOR PREDIABETES AND TYPE 2 DIABETES? DR. CHAN: TYPE IS THE PROCESS I WAS DESCRIBING TH -- BEFORE. THE MEN MODIFIABLE RISK FACTORS FOR DIABETES AND PREDIABETES ARE OBESITY AND PHYSICAL INACTIVITY. DIABETES AND PREDIABETES THEMSELVES ARE RISK FACTORS FOR OTHER SERIOUS HEALTH COMPLICATIONS, SUCH AS HEART DISEASE, STROKE, KIDNEY FAILURE, BLINDNESS, LEG APPLICATIONS. KRISTEN: HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE PREDIABETES? DR. CHAN: THE CDC HAS ESTIMATED THAT MORE THAN ONE IN THREE ADULTS IN THE UNITED STATES HAVE PREDIABETES. THE MAJORITY DON'T KNOW WHEN. FOR THIS REASON IT IS IMPORTANT TO MAINTAIN ROUTINE HEALTH CARE CHECKUPS AND FOR CLINICIANS TO CHECK BLOOD SUGAR LEVELS AS AN EARLY WARNING SIGN AGAINST THE MOMENT OF DIABETES AND PREDIABETES. KRISTEN: CAN WE PREVENT IT? DR. CHAN THE MAIN PREVENTION IS LIFESTYLE MY VACATION -- DIET, EXERCISE, WEIGHT LOSS TO WEIGHT LOSS IS AS EFFECTIVE IF NOT MORE EFFECTIVE THAN STARTING A MEDICATION TO CONTROL BLOOD SUGAR. WITH LOSS IS A MAINSTAY OF THERAPY. THERE ARE NATIONAL PROGRAMS AVAILABLE, LIKE THE NATIONAL DIABETES PREVENTION PROGRAM LED BY THE CDC, WHICH PROVIDES TRAINED LIVESTOCK WHICH IS TO HELP PEOPLE IN THIS REGARD. WE ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO TALK TO THEIR HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS. YOU CAN ALSO VISIT THE WEBSITE.

5 Things Your Nails Can Say About Your Health

don't health not just for decoration they protect your fingers and toes and help you pick up tiny things like splinters of that piece of spinach stick between the teeth after lunch and they can also tell you a lot about your health nails are collections of dead cells that grow from the root cause of matrix hidden just beneath your cuticle the lighter crescent shaped area at the base the matrix constantly makes news cells called plate cells in each layer pushes the old dead plate sells out of the cuticle and they'll start to grow differently or even change color it usually means that there's something wrong with the matrix or with the surrounding tissue working backward you can often figure out what's doing the interfering and in the process may be learned something about what's going on in your own body those lines for example are horizontal ripples on the surface of the nail they look like little waves they form when the matrix stops producing new cells for a while the major start making new cells again they pushed the nail out as usual but there's an indentation marking the spot where it stopped kinda like a trier and there's a reason why the matrix would have hit the pause button probably it wasn't getting enough nutrients from the bloodstream usually that means that the person has an infection or some other kind of serious illness about a shift its nutrient flow away from low priority activities like growing nails and towards high priority activities like not dying people who have high fevers for a while often develop those lines a month or so afterwards citadel's are another potential matrix issue with a nail services have indentation is that look like very small potholes parents are linked to skin disorders like psoriasis and eczema which can cause inflammation of the matrix and inflamed matrix produces new plate cells unevenly so you end up with depressions on the nail surface areas can also change color something you've probably noticed if you've studied your nails on a cold day and I realized that they were blue generally that means that your extremities are not receive enough oxygen blood with low oxygen is darker and reflects light differently through your skin making your nails look bluish it could just be a body reacting too cold by constructing your blood vessels that a person whose blood is in receiving enough oxygen could have a respiratory illness like asthma or emphysema who knows can also be a sign of of Raynaud's disease or disorder marked by spasms in a person's blood vessels that narrow them in narrowing reduces blood flow to the extremities so they get blue nails all bloomingdale's it's not a true the nail changing color to the bed underneath it but now you can also turn yellow and that's actually the nail changing color this can happen for a lot of different reasons most cases it's caused by a fungal infection known as a nickel mycoses mold set up shop within the actual nail plate turning yellow doesn't smell too great either other times lol mean something more serious like yellow nail syndrome which doesn't sound super serious but it happens when the matrix does produce new plates house but very slowly so they pile up and create a thicker yellowish nail plate but like Beau's lines yellow nail syndrome is caused by something else it could be a chronic respiratory disease which would reduce the nails oxygen supply and slow growth or it could be a sign of an issue with the lymphatic system which distributes protein-rich fluids throughout the body usually that issue is cancer or AIDS a black or brown streak at a nail can also be super serious or nothing at all the people that treat can signal sublingual melanoma a form of skin cancer that affects the nail bed which is the skin underneath the nail plate doesn't often changes the color of the skin including the skin under nails and intrigue also might be harmless if you have a darker complexion it's completely normal and one study seventy-seven percent of black people over the age of 20 reported having a darker streak in their nails or something or it could be nothing which is why if you're worried about the color look at your nails here's a tip don't get all your medical device from the internet these changes can mean more than one thing so talk to a real doctor before jumping to any conclusions we are not a real doctor which was brought to you by our patrons unpatriotic who give us money so that we can do this which is really nice if you want to help support this year I'm not com slash sideshow.

What is Turmeric Good For? 10 Turmeric Health Benefits

What is Turmeric Good For? 10 Turmeric Health Benefits Lots of people use the turmeric herb in their cooking. The main signs of turmeric are its pepper- like smell, sharp taste, and golden color. Turmeric is known to stop swelling, kill bacteria and viruses, as well as many other things. It is also full of nutrients, like protein, dietary fiber, niacin, Vitamins C, E, and K, calcium, potassium, copper, iron, magnesium, and zinc. Because of this, turmeric is a great thing to use to cure health problems. Here are the top ten things turmeric can be used for: • Prevents Cancer Turmeric can block prostate cancer and even kill cancer cells. It can also stop tumor cells from growing, so it can guard the body from getting cancer in the first place. • Relieves Arthritis Because turmeric brings down swelling, it’s great to use for osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. It also kills germs that harm body cells. People with rheumatoid arthritis who eat turmeric all the time have gotten much rest from pain and joint swelling. • Controls Diabetes Turmeric can help cure diabetes, by keeping insulin at normal levels. It also helps with sugar control, and makes the medicine used for diabetes work. But if used with strong medicines, turmeric can cause low blood sugar, so make sure to ask your doctor before you take turmeric capsules. • Reduces Cholesterol Levels Using turmeric as a spice can bring down cholesterol levels. Because high cholesterol can cause other health problems, it is important to stay on top of it to stop heart disease. • Immunity Booster Turmeric helps keep the body’s immune system going. It also helps strengthen the immune system, because it kills bacteria, viruses, and fungi. This stops you from getting colds, coughs, and the flu. To help you feel better if you do get sick, mix one teaspoon of turmeric in a glass of warm milk and drink it once a day. • Heals Wounds Because turmeric naturally kills germs and bacteria, it can be used to clean wounds. If you have a cut or burn, sprinkle some turmeric powder on it to help it heal quicker. It can also help treat psoriasis- itchy, dead skin- and other skin conditions. • Weight Management Turmeric powder can help keep the body at a proper weight, by helping break down fat. Someone who wants to lose weight or treat obesity and sicknesses that come with it, can have one teaspoon of turmeric with every meal. • Prevents Alzheimer’s Disease Swelling of the brain is one of the main reasons for cognitive disorders, like Alzheimer’s disease. Turmeric can keep the brain healthy, by helping oxygen flow. This can also slow down or totally stop Alzheimer’s disease. • Improves Digestion Turmeric can help with digestion, by lessening bloating and gas. It can also help treat inflammatory bowel disease. But be careful, because if you suffer from a gallbladder disease you should not take turmeric, as that can make it worse. Also, if you have a digestive problem, it is best to eat raw turmeric, and not capsules. • Prevents Liver Disease Turmeric is a natural way to force poisons from the liver. The liver takes poison out of the blood, and turmeric helps make the enzymes that keep it working. It also helps strengthen, and better blood flow. All of this helps to keep the liver healthy. Because of all the ways turmeric can help your health, adding this herb to your diet is a great idea. If you like the video, give it a thumbs†up and share it with your friends!

Lawmakers head home after health care fail

WHEN THEY COME BACK THEY'VE ONLY GOT A FEW DAYS TO KEEP THE GOVERNMENT UP AND RUNNING. TAX REFORM, SOME SAY THEY WILL TRY TO COME BACK TO OBAMACARE. SOME SUGGEST THAT THE PROBLEMS WE SAW A WEEK OR TWO AGO ARE COMING BACK. >> ABSOLUTELY. ONE THING YOU WILL SEE AS THEY TRY TO MOVE FORWARD IS NEGOTIATIONS. THEY'RE GOING TO TRY TO KEEP THE GOVERNMENT OPEN BY CUTTING A DEAL WITH DEMOCRATS, NOT WITH JUSTIN AND THE HOUSE FREEDOM CAUCUS. THEY'RE GOING TO TRY TO GET THE BILL THROUGH THE HOUSE AND SENATE AND GET BIPARTISAN S SUPPORT. ON SPENDING ISSUES, NO RIDER ON PLANNED PARENTHOOD OR CONSTRUCTION OF THE WALL, THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO GET THIS DONE TC TC . IT SOUNDS LIKE THAT'S VERY POSSIBLE. SOMETHING MORE POSSIBLE ALONG PARTY LINES, LIKE TAX REPAIR, WHERE THEY NEED THOSE OF THE WORLD, IT'S GOING TO BE DIFFICULT TO GET REPUBLICAN AND CONSERVATIVE POLICY THROUGH, NOT JUST IN THE SENATE WHICH IS ALWAYS DIFFICULT, BUT ALSO THE HOUSE BECAUSE A LOT OF THESE FOLKS ON THE HOUSE FREEDOM CAUCUS AND OTHERS JUST DO NOT BELIEVE THAT SPEAKER RYAN IS DOING -- PUSHING LEGISLATION THAT THE CONSERVATIVES PROMISED WHILE THEY CAMPAIGNED. >> I'M SURPRISED AND A BIT IMPRESSED THAT WE HAVE RETURNED TO OUR PREVIOUSLY SCHEDULED REPUBLICAN CIVIL WAR. I WAS IN THE HOUSE ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE SESSION WHEN THEY UNANIMOUSLY REELECTED PAUL RYAN AS SPEAKER AND THAT SEEMED TO BE SHOWING THAT NOW THAT THEY HAD A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT, THEY WERE GOING TO BE MUCH MORE UNIFIED AND THE FREEDOM CAUCUS WAS HELL NO CAUCUS WHEN THERE WAS A DEMOCRAT IN PROGRESS BUT NOW THAT THERE WAS A REPUBLICAN THEY COULD COME TOGETHER. THAT TURNED OUT NOT TO BE TRUE BECAUSE THESE GUYS BELIEVED THIS IT TURNS OUT. AND THEY ARE GOING TO STAND ON PRINCIPLE ESPECIALLY ON MATTERS OF SPENDING. >> YOU SAY IF THEY TRY TO WORK WITH THE DEMOCRATS AND THEY DROP PLANNED PARENTHOOD, THEY DROP FGT OTHER THINGS, THAT MOOD WILL CONTINUE. THEY DIDN'T GET WHAT THEY WANT IN THE OBAMACARE FIGHT. YOU HAVE INTEREST GROUPS ON ABOUT EVERY SIDE OF THE DEBATE. RUNNING ADS, SOME TARGETING HOUSE MEMBERS, THESE TARGETING SENATORS. >> PEOPLE WHO KNOW HEALTH CARE THE BEST SAY THE REPUBLICANS HEALTH CARE REPEAL BILL IS THE WORST. THE COUNTRY'S TOP NONPARTISAN EXPERTS SAY 24 MILLION MORE AMERICANS WILL BE UNINSURED. 14 MILLION NEXT YEAR ALONE. TELL SENATOR HELLER VOTE NO ON THE REPUBLICAN PLAN TO TAKE AWAY YOUR HEALTH CARE. >> AGAIN, THOSE BEING RUN AGAINST THREE SENATORS WHO HAVE VIEWED MORE ON THE MODERATE SIDE WHO WOULD OPPOSE IF SOMETHING CONSERVATIVE CAME OUT OF THE HOUSE. THE BIGGER QUESTION FROM MY VIEW, IF YOU'RE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND YOU'RE HIS TEAM AND YOU'RE 82 DAYS AND YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE 100 DAYS AND YOU FAILED ON OBAMACARE AND YOU'RE TRYING TO GET A FEW MORE THINGS DONE, THAT CLIMATE HAS TO TELL YOU THIS IS TOUGH. >> IT ALSO GOT TOUGHER WITH GOING THE NUCLEAR OPTION ON SUPREME COURT NOMINEE. >> A BIG WIN BUT AT A PRICE. >> I THINK THERE WAS A CHANCE FOR THE PRESIDENT TO WORK WITH DEMOCRATS. I THINK HE COULD HAVE NIGHTED THEM. HE COULD HAVE FORMED AN ALLIANCE. TRUMP IS NOT CONSERVATIVE -- HE HAS DEMOCRATIC VIEWS AS WELL AND A LOT OF DEMOCRATS IN THE WHITE HOUSE. SO THERE REALLY COULD HAVE BEEN A CHANCE TO WORK WITH DEMOCRATS, BUT THEY DIDN'T REACH OUT SOON ENOUGH AND NOW THIS TOXIC ENVIRONMENT WITH THE NUCLEAR OPTION, WITH THESE ADS RUNNING IN THEIR ZIDISTRICT, I DON'T SE HOW THEY COME TOGETHER. >> THE PRESIDENT KNOWS THIS DEBATE IS GOING ON. HE WATCHES A LOT OF CABLE TELEVISION. LISTEN TO HIM THIS MORNING. A MEETING WITH CEOs, HE KNOWS PEOPLE ARE BUILDING THEIR 100 DAY LIST. HERE'S THE PRESIDENT'S TAKE. >> AT THE TOP OF OUR AGENDA AND THE CREATION OF GREAT HIGH PAYING JOBS FOR AMERICAN WORKERS WHO HAVE MADE A LOT OF PROGRESS. YOU SEE WHAT'S GOING ON. YOU SEE THE NUMBERS. WE'VE CREATED OVER 600,000 JOBS ALREADY IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME AND IT'S GOING TO REALLY START CATCHING ON. >> THAT'S JUST A LITTLE FACT CHECK FOR THOSE OF YOU GOOD AT MATH AT HOME. OUR COUNT IS 315,000 JOBS SO FAR DURING THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. STILL NOT A BAD NUMBER. COUPLE MONTHS INTO OFFICE. HE'S COUNTING SOME JOBS FROM THE LAST MONTHS OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION. TO THE POINT THE PRESIDENT IS WANTING YOU TO OBJECTTHINK THE Y IS DOING WELL, HE'S TRYING TO SAY THE STUFF THAT MATTERS MOST I'M DOING FINE. >> I THINK WE UNDERESTIMATE HOW MUCH FGORSUCH MATTERS. PLUS SOME OF THE ECONOMIC MESSAGING IN WORKING WITH THESE CEOs AND LOOKING FOR BUSINESS FRIENDLY IN THESE DEALS, I THINK THOSE CAN SUSTAIN HIM FOR LONGER THAN MANY PEOPLE IN D.C. THINK THEY CAN SUSTAIN HIM. EVENTUALLY SOMETHING HAS TO HAPPEN IN CONGRESS. AND IT HAS TO LOOK DIFFERENT THAN IT DID ON HEALTH CARE. I THINK RYAN'S OFFICE KNOWS THAT AND IS ATTEMPTING TO MAKE SOME CHANGES. BUT YOU STILL HAVE A TIMETABLE THAT IS REALLY, REALLY TOUGH FOR THESE GUYS TO GET SOMETHING MAJOR THROUGH. AS FAR AS WANTING A NEW SPEAKER, DON'T NOBODY WANT THAT JOB. THAT'S THE PART OF THIS THAT ALWAYS CRACKS ME UP. RYAN HIMSELF I CONTEND HAS ALWAYS BEEN LIKE THE GUY IN "CLERKS" I WASN'T EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE HERE. >> ROTATING A . >> STOCK PRICES ARE UP ON THE HOPE AND PROMISE OF WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAID HE WOULD DELIVER, ON TAX REFORM, ON INFRASTRUCTURE, ON A BORDER TAX. THAT'S WHY THE MANUFACTURING COMPANIES ARE SAYING. IF YOU CAN'T DELIVER ON THAT, FORGET ABOUT IT. THEY'LL GO OPEN THE PLANT IN MEXICO. THEY'RE NOT GOING TO HIRE MORE JOBS IF THEY DON'T THINK THEY'RE GETTING THEIR CORPORATE TAX RATE CUT. >> AND IF THEY DON'T GET TAX REFORM DONE, THEY DON'T GET THE BORDER WALL WELL AND THINGS HE SAID HE WOULD DO IN THE.

What Your Body Odor Reveals About Your Health

Believe it or not, but your body odor can tell you a lot about your health. It can tell you if your personal hygiene is a bit off, if you're ingesting something you shouldn't — and can even be a marker for certain diseases. No need to panic, however. The best thing to do is to be informed, and if you have a smell on you — or coming out of you — that's a bit iffy, get yourself to the doctor. Here are some of the most common body odors and what they could mean about your health. Consistent bad breath Nobody wants halitosis — the term Listerine invented for "bad breath." But while the word may have been a mad-up marketing ploy, bad breath is real...and it stinks. People who spend lots of time worrying about it buy gum, mints, breath spray and more to combat it. But if you have consistently bad breath, it could be a sign of something more than just a bad breakfast choice. Research says that in 90 percent of cases of people who have consistently bad breath, the cause comes from the oral cavity — better known as your mouth. This can be because of bacterial buildup on the tongue, or actual tooth decay can cause a bad smell. And when people have poor oral hygiene or a propensity for it, they develop gingivitis and periodontitis. So unless you want this to happen in the next staff meeting ... "You have bad breath caused by gingivitis" …remember to brush and floss regularly, avoid tobacco, and see a dentist twice per year for cleanings and to check the health of your gums. If none of that helps, the smell might be coming from sinus issues, or even from gastrointestinal problems. When in doubt, have a doctor check it out. Sweet breath If your breath is sweet, you could have a different problem altogether. "All gone Homie." "Aw… ah…" "Could I at least smell your breath?" Fruity-smelling breath can be a sign of diabetic ketoacidosis, a condition that occurs when the body's unable to break down glucose as fuel because of a lack of insulin. The body uses fat as fuel instead, which releases ketones into the bloodstream. High levels of ketones are dangerous and life-threatening. Have your doctor check your sugar and insulin levels to make sure you're not diabetic. It's worth noting that another sign of diabetes is sweet-smelling sweat. Some people report a maple syrupy smell because there's actually sugar that builds up on the skin. If your breath is sweet and kind of musty, it's a bad sign that you could have liver problems. Doctors are now using breath analysis to try to detect liver problems. If you have this symptom, schedule a liver test with your doctor to make sure you're in the clear. Sour or rancid sweat Everyone knows that some body odor is normal, especially after a slackening of ordinary hygiene routines. "I haven't taken a shower since we got here." "I know. You stink. I love it." If your body odor is worse than usual, you could be due for a change in your diet, or your hormones might have something to do with it. Drink plenty of water to avoid this embarrassing issue, and see your doctor if you start having night sweats for no reason. That may be a sign of infection or disease. Also, if you start sweating way more than normal with no clear reason, this might be an indicator of hyperthyroidism. And if you start to smell bleachy, you should really get a medical opinion immediately because that could be an indication of a liver or kidney problem. Foul urine odor Urine usually has no scent, and when it does, it's usually a bit ammonia-like. If it has a stronger smell, the top culprit is dehydration. Drink lots of water and it'll clear right up. However, if your urine smells even more like ammonia than usual, or it smells sort of sickly sweet, you could be getting a urinary tract infection. This will be accompanied by discomfort when you urinate, so get to a doctor right away to get an antibiotic. Speaking of which … Having some amount of genital discharge is normal, but when it's accompanied by a smell, it's time to go to the doctor. Yeast infections, sexually transmitted diseases, and other infections like bacterial vaginosis can all cause smells "down there" — and all require a doctor for treatment. Of course, there are some nether region battles that affect everyone. Unusually foul-smelling flatulence Everybody has flatulence. It's a normal part of digestion. In fact, most people pass gas 10 to 20 times every day. It never smells great, but if it's particularly foul, you could be facing a digestive absorption issue, lactose intolerance, or even a bacteria or virus in your gut. "Well, you have milk in the taters, milk in the gravy, parmesan crust, your lactose intolerant boyfriend will turn into a gas-filled Macy's day balloon! " So, if the foulness becomes unidentifiable and intolerable, it's probably best to rule out any potential digestive problems, just in case. Fishy odor If someone smells like fish all the time, it's likely they have fish odor syndrome, or trimethylaminuria. Yes, this is a real thing. It's rare, but there is a genetic condition that makes people smell like rotting fish. It might not affect a lot of people, but when someone does suffer this off-putting condition, it tends to take a major toll on their social and romantic lives. Know what's normal We can't smell like fresh flowers or soap all the time. Even healthy bodies can smell a little funky sometimes. "You're a fat loser and you have body odor." "Alright!" Our natural pheromones are part of what makes us who we are. However, if you have body odors that concern you, it's a good idea to see a doctor. There's a fine line between your natural "stink" and a health problem that is displayed with a particular odor. The good news is that your nose knows the difference between what's ordinary...and what's not. Thanks for watching! Click The List icon to subscribe to our YouTube channel. Plus check out all this cool stuff we know you'll love, too!

Health Benefits of Watermelon - Tamil Health Tips

Health Benefits of Watermelon Tamil Health Tips Watermelon is a boon given by god to tackle with summer and reduce our body heat Many of us long for summer to eat watermelons. During summer everywhere you can see vendors selling watermelon and pieces of watermelon in bowls kept in a glass box Even though this fruit is cheap it gives us number of benefits We are going to see what are the numerous benefits we get from this watermelon It prevents dehydration when we take watermelon as it contains 90% of water content. It is rich in Potassium An antioxidant named Lycopene is rich in Watermelon so it reduces problems caused by Free Radicals It keeps our heart young and reduces the chances of getting heart And regulates the heart beat People with high blood pressure can control it by eating watermelon Vitamin B6 is present in Watermelon A chemical secretion in brain is responsible for the mood and behaviour of a man Watermelon helps for the better secretion of this chemical Some people may experience stress related problems. Their stress will be decreased if they eat wtermelon The lycopene present in watermelon protects our bones and protects us from osteoporosis Eating watermelon helps to improve the functioning of kidney and flushes our ammonia from kidney Some people have kidney stone problem. If they grind the dried seeds of water melon, mix it with hot water and drink it once it is cooled By doing this you can prevent kidney stone problem Vitamin C is present in Watermelon and it increases immunity power It has the property to heal the wounds fast. To prevent cancer eat watermelon As lycopene is present, it can prevent the attack of cancer in breast, Lungs,Uterus, Large intestine. Anti-oxidant, Beta carotene, Vitamin C, Lutein, are rich in this fruit So it prevents Night blindness and Glaucoma and keeps our eyes healthy Watermelon is rich in water and fibre so helps to get rid of constipation But if you exceeds the limit it can cause diarrhoea. Watermelon is rich in water content and contains low calorie So it helps in weight loss and it is good for our hair and skin Beta Carotene present in it changes into vitamin A and good for hair and skin As it has anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties we can apply the seeds on our skin and prevent pimple problem Asthma is caused by Vitamin C deficiency. As watermelon is rich in Vitamin C the chances of getting asthma will reduce If you have heartburn eat 4-5 pieces of watermelon and get rid of it.

10 Health Benefits of Drinking Warm Water

We all know that water is essential to our daily lives. It helps us to feel good, look good and helps our body to function properly. Research has shown that water helps to rid your body of toxins, keeps you healthy and keeps you looking young. It is recommended that you start your day with a fresh glass of water each morning. Doctors recommend consuming a class of warm water in the morning for best results. It is up to you if you choose to add some lemon juice for a better taste. Today we will discuss the top ten health benefits of consuming warm water: 1. Relieves Constipation Drinking warm water on an empty stomach on a regular and consistent basis can help to regulate your bowel movements and relieve constipation. Warm water helps your digestive system to work properly. It helps to breakdown food and makes your bowel movements smooth and pain-free. It can also help to reduce any swelling in your stomach, as well as any pain and discomfort. In order to relieve constipation, consume a glass of hot or warm water each morning on an empty stomach. You can also add honey or lemon juice prior to consuming it. 2. Improves Digestion As we previously discussed, warm water helps your body’s digestive system. Warm water stimulates your digestive gland to begin working. It will help your body to break down the food in your stomach and relieves some of the work that your digestive system must do. In that, it uses less energy to breakdown the food. Also, as your body gets rid of the harmful stomach acids, it neutralizes your digestive juices in your gut. 3. Treats Nasal Congestion Warm water can even help to treat nasal congestion. When you consume warm water, it breaks up the mucus in your nasal cavities and in your respiratory tract. Because this is not sitting in your nose, it lowers the chance that a virus or a bacteria will begin to grow in your nasal cavity. The water will also help your body to get rid of harmful toxins and speed up healing. 4. Soothes Sore Throat Sore throats are a common issue experienced by many people that suffer from a cold, flu or allergies. Yet, warm water can help soothe your sore throat and relieve any discomfort. The warm water will also help to breakdown the thick mucus and make it leave your respiratory tract. Along with warm water, consuming warm liquids, such as herbal teas, will help this. You can also gargle a mixture of a half teaspoon of salt with warm water to heal your sore throat and a throat infection. 5. Detoxifies Your Body As we discussed earlier, warm water can help to clean your body of any harmful toxins. When you consume a few glasses of warm water, it raises your body temperature. As a result, your body begins to sweat in order to cool down. The toxins will leave your body through your sweat. Consuming warm water on a regular basis will clean your skin of harmful toxins and leave your skin healthy and smooth. This holds true for the rest of your body. We recommend adding a bit of lemon juice to a warm glass of water for best results. 6. Sheds Excess Pounds Many health and fitness professionals will recommend that you consume water on a regular basis to lose weight. However, consuming warm water instead of cold water will accelerate this process. The warm water will increase your body temperature and increase your metabolism. As you likely know, when your metabolism is increased, you will burn more calories at a quicker rate. The warm water will even break down the fat deposits within your body. Adding lemon juice in your warm water each morning will provide you with an added benefit, as well as breakdown your body fat. Also, the pectin in the lemon juice will control any food cravings to help you make better food choices. 7. Improves Blood Circulation Water helps to improve the circulation of your blood, which helps to deliver oxygen and nutrients to your tissues and organs in your body more efficiently. Proper circulation is essential for your muscles and your nerves. Consuming warm water will melt fat deposits within your body and breakdown fat deposits in your nervous system. 8. Alleviates Menstrual Cramps Warm water can even help to prevent uncomfortable menstrual cramps. The water relaxes the muscles within your uterus and provides you with relief. The water will also keep your body from retaining water and relieve any uncomfortable bloating that you may experience. Along with this, you can also place a hot water bottle on the lower section of your abdomen for further relief. 9. Induces Sleep Warm water can also help you sleep more peacefully and soundly. Since the warm water raises your body temperature, you feel more relaxed and sleepy. The warm water also fills your stomach so that you do not experience late-night food cravings. It will instead leave you feeling well-rested in the morning. Always drink warm water, as drinking hot water can damage the tissues in your mouth and esophagus. 10. Slows Down Aging Warm water is excellent for your skin, as it helps to flush out toxins from your body and leaves your skin looking healthy and young. The water also helps to repair and replenish the cells in your skin and improve your skin’s elasticity. To improve the detoxification process, add the juice of one half of a lemon to your warm water prior to consuming it. If you like the video, give it a thumbs up and share it with your friends! For more recipes and tips, Comment to website me!

Secret to Health by Dr. Group

- [Presenter] For over 20 years, he has passionately studied the art and science of natural healing and made it his mission to spread the word of health and wellness to the global community. Since founding Global Healing Center in 1998, he has led the research and development team in formulating groundbreaking nutraceuticals designed to promote internal cleansing and good health. His approach is based on the understanding that disease is caused by an accumulation of toxins within the body. Tonight, Dr. Group will be sharing with you his expert opinion on how you, too, can discover the secret to health. Dr. Edward Group is a doctor of chiropractic, a naturopathic physician, certified clinical nutritionist, a holistic health practitioner, certified clinical herbalist, and a diplomat of the Chiropractic Board of Clinical Nutrition. A published author, frequent radio and television guest, and internationally known speaker his accomplishments in science and natural medicine have garnered worldwide recognition. Under his leadership, Global Healing Center has become one of the world's most respected natural and alternative health resources. His passion and integrity truly solidify his position as a modern-day renaissance man. Please join me in welcoming to the stage. Dr. Edward F. Group. [applause] - [Dr. Group] Thank you. Thank you. Thank. I appreciate that. I don't know about renaissance man, more like renegade man. Thank you so much for coming out and listening to this tonight. This is very important, and it's close to my heart because originally I wanted to be a medical doctor, and ended up meeting somebody that got me into natural medicine and kind of had an argument with him. The way I was trained really was that medicine is everything. It wasn't until I actually went and started looking and breaking down the prescription medications, really, and found that was just a band-aid. It was just putting something over a symptom but not addressing the root cause of disease. That's what led me to develop the secret to health, because really disease is not something that people should be fearful of. Right now, 10 out of 10 people, pretty much, are suffering from something, whether it's a headache once a week or joint pain or muscle pain. It's not something that everybody needs to run to their doctor for. Even when I was going through training and trying to learn everything I can about natural medicine, still, even when I was meeting with medicine men or if I was going through chiropractic, or I was going through naturopathic or whatever. It still didn't teach me the root cause really. Still, all of that was . . . Okay. Well, instead of prescribing a medication, let's prescribe white willow bark for your headache or something like that. Now chiropractic is awesome because there's so much that it does to reactivate all the organs and everything, but what I wanted to do was figure out what is it that causes all negative health conditions. What is the root cause of all disease? That's what I'm gonna share with you tonight. So basically everything is in simplicity. You can look for all the answers out here for years and years and years. I had a degenerative disease clinic because cancer was really something that I wanted to focus on. That was . . . I'm the type of person that I want the hardest thing, and then I want to learn every single thing about it. If nobody in the world knows how to cure cancer, I want to figure it out. Myself and a few other people just dove really deep into that, years ago, while we were studying all this, and said, "We're gonna figure out how to teach people," because everybody has a self-healing mechanism inside their body." That's what's not being taught. The best medicine and the best doctor is you, but you're supposed to listen to your body, and you're supposed to listen to your symptoms that the body gives you, because the body will always give you symptoms. That headache is not your body telling you, "Run to get some ibuprofen." That's your body telling you you ate something wrong. You slept wrong. Something is malfunctioning within your system. I was young and getting out of school. We just . . . I went down. We trained with all the doctors in Mexico because they have to go down there, because you're not allowed in the United States to heal disease or teach somebody how to heal disease. Anybody that starts to become successful will get run out of town, or they'll get raided or anything like that. Some of the stuff that I'm gonna talk to you guys about, hopefully a lot of you already know it. But if you pick someone off the street, and you start going into a lot of the stuff we're gonna share tonight, you have to have an open mind, because some of this stuff . . . Every single thing that I'm gonna tell you tonight is 100% true. Whether you agree with it or not is up to you, but what I say is I've spent 20 years doing research on every single one of these topics that I'm gonna share with you tonight. If you want some of that research, feel free to contact me, but I always recommend people do their own research because that's what really changes you. Somebody can come up to you and say, "Yeah, gluten is bad for you." Maybe that person will believe them, but I'm the type of person that I want to see all the research behind it. So when we felt comfortable with our theories and with what we had learned, we opened up a degenerative disease clinic and cancer clinic, even though everybody told me not to, in 1999, here in Houston, actually. It got so big, so fast, because we had such good success rates. When the patients would come in, and we would talk to them, I would say . . . We ended up having people from all over the world flying in, with all different types of diseases, that had already seen 10, 15, 20 different doctors, even natural doctors that still couldn't figure out what was wrong with them. So they would come in and look me in the face, and they would usually be upset. They would say, "Well, what are you gonna do that none of the other doctors did?" I said, "Okay. Well, what's wrong with you?" "Well, I have cancer." "Okay. Well, tell me why you have cancer. Explain to me why you have cancer." They said, "Well, I don't know. My doctor just said I had cancer." I said, "Well, don't you think that you need to understand why you have cancer first, before you learn how to get rid of your cancer? Did any of your doctors explain to you the root cause of your cancer?" They would say, "No, nobody ever did." I said, "So what did any of those doctors do to take two steps back and cleanse you and detoxify you, because obviously your body is already toxic, before they put you on chemo and radiation and before they put you on all kinds of natural stuff?" They would say, "Well, nothing." I said, "Okay. Well, that's what we're gonna do that's different than everybody else." Then we would take them through a two or three-hour lecture. It's not only cancer. Every single thing here that you're gonna learn in an hour and a half is more than all the medical doctors know out there, the majority of them and majority of people out there. You'll have all the answers that you need, and you'll totally understand what causes disease and negative health conditions. We were really successful with that clinic, until the word got out. Then we ended up getting raided and was told that we couldn't do what we were doing, here in the United States. Basically I had to shut down, and they still come in my office two times a year. Matter fact, they were just in last week, the FDA, for five hours, harassing us about what we're trying to do, because we're trying to help people. So first, I want to start off by giving you a little background about how health came about and science came about. From Christ to the 1600s, the mission of science before the modern era . . . This is before pharmaceuticals . . . was to gain an understanding of the natural order, so we can live in harmony with it. But then we had the scientific revolution up to 1643, and that was the start of the man made science. Nature had to be bound into service and made a slave. She was to be put in constraint. The aim of the scientist was to torture nature's secrets from her. Since that time, everything has been going downhill. The new mission statement, after 1643 to the present, is to obtain knowledge that can be used to dominate and control nature. You see everybody across the world right now who's suffering from sickness, but what a lot of people don't know is the whole world is suffering from sickness. We're losing 200 species a day, that are eliminated forever. The Earth is just as sick as everybody else is. So what's the difference between modern medicine and natural medicine? Modern medicine is that an organism is controlled from inside the cell, that the genes control the organism, and heredity passes the traits, which is called genetic determinism. That means if your mom had breast cancer, you might have breast cancer. What's crazy right now is that you have women that are going in and getting double mastectomies because their doctor told them that they have a chance to get breast cancer, because their mom had breast cancer, but that is not true. That's actually been proven by a guy named Dr. Bruce Lipton, who's a cellular biologist. He once made one of the greatest discoveries of all time, that natural medicine is an organism, being us or any organism, a tree or something, is controlled from outside the cell. The environment controls the organism, which is called genetic adaptation. So we're basically going to adapt to what we're exposed to. That's what makes sense. Obviously if we drink a bunch of gasoline or something, that's gonna affect us. What exactly is a gene? A gene is a DNA segment that determines your individual traits, characteristics, or susceptibility to disease. Now if we look at it in natural medicine, the way that it's supposed to be, that the genes get the signals from outside of the cell, that all the commands and body function is determined by the energetic reading of the environment, either the internal environment and the external environment. It comes from the outside, in. We smell it. We taste it. We're exposed to EMFs or something like that. Modern medicine is just the opposite. It says that the genes get signals from inside of the cell, which is impossible, really, if you think about it. All the commands and body mechanics start in the nucleus of the cells. Right? How many times have you heard the nucleus is the brain of the cell? That's where everything starts. Well, Dr. Lipton wanted to prove that wrong and actually removed the nucleus, the brain, from the cell, and the cell still was alive. The cell still lived. It respirated. It went to the bathroom. It couldn't replicate, but it was living. It still lived. So that means that modern medicine is completely wrong, that the outside of the cell, the cell membrane, is really the brain of the cell, because when he removed the cell membrane, it'd be like removing your skin. Then the cell died. The reason I'm explaining that is because all disease starts at the cellular level, or all malfunction starts at the cellular level. We have 100 trillion cells. Cells clump together to make tissues. Tissue clumps together to make organs. Organs work to develop systems in the body. Then all of that together is the human body. So what really causes malfunction or what really causes disease is the perception in alterations in cellular function from the internal and external environment, what you're exposed to, the air you're exposed to, the environment you're exposed to, if you live in a big city as opposed to out in the woods. That would be your external environment. Words that are coming in at you, the people that you meet, those are all external things that would affect you and stress you out or cause some negative harm. The internal environment is really the majority of stuff we're gonna be talking about today, is how the internal environment affects you. That's gonna be through the foods, the beverages, the heavy metals, the drugs. Physical and emotional stress is gonna be an external. Microbial infestation, parasites would be an internal. Negative belief patterns, blocked elimination routes, which is one of the reasons why we have too many toxins coming into the body on a daily basis and not enough coming out, where your cells become confused and start malfunctioning. Now if you look at the way that life is, in general, every living substance or every organism, living organism, is composed of at least 80% water, minimum. The Earth itself is composed of 80% water, minimum. The cells are filled with water. Your cells are filled with water, and around your cells is water. It's very close to sea water, actually. It's almost identical to sea water, but it's water. What happens is the water in your cell and the water surrounding your cell starts to become toxic, and your self-healing mechanism that you were born with, the one that's the most powerful that you have, starts to fall down. Your self-healing mechanism can't be activated. It's hard to activate your self-healing mechanism. I talked about how your body is water. This is very interesting, because there was a guy named Masaru Emoto, who did a lot of research on water structure and function. He found that the water can change by toxin exposure, your thought patterns, belief, the frequency, exposing the cell to potentially dangerous conditions, or it can change when you expose the cell to healthy conditions as well. So this is some of the findings that he found in the structure of water. So what a perfect, clean water should look like, the slide on the left. It's a crystalline structure, just like your cell membrane is a crystalline structure, when it's normal and it has everything it needs. Because as a crystal, it acts as a semiconductor. It has gates and channels that open and close, and it can receive frequencies or signals and send frequencies and signals. That's exactly what you want. So what he did was he took two vials, one with pure, clean water and another vial which was contaminated with toxins. He looked at it under a microscope, and this is what he saw. So you can see that the one that's contaminated with toxins is altered and is malfunctioning. One vial, he put the word "thank you" on it, with clean water, and the other vial he wrote, "You make me sick. I will kill you." Then he tested the water again, and that's what he came out with. He then wanted to see how sound affected your water. So you can see that Bach's "Air for the G String" has a six-sided crystalline structure, where heavy metal music completely breaks the structure of water. It can't function properly. So even though the sound and the music that you listen to is very important. After he did all that, which were external factors on the water, trying to figure out how that was gonna affect water, then he said, "Well, I wonder if we can affect water just by thinking, just by thoughts." So there was a pond, and this pond was heavily contaminated. He took a sample of it, the water, which is on the left, before offering a prayer. There was like three or four monks, I think, with them. He took a sample of it, and then they went to the pond. They sat around, and they all thought positive thoughts, like love and blessings and all this stuff, into the water for like 15 or 20 minutes. Then they took another reading, and that's what happened to the water. So that is pretty amazing when you can think, put good thoughts into something, and have it go from that contamination to a perfect, angelic-looking crystal right there. The one thing that I'm gonna be talking about this a lot later, that really worries me and a lot of the physicians, the natural physicians that are out there right now that are seeing this in their practice, is electromagnetic radiation. What worries me is when you can't see something and you can't feel something, but it's there, bombarding your body in a negative way, and you really don't have any choice to get away from it. That's electromagnetic radiation. What he found was the water was the worst with electromagnetic radiation, because on the right, you see water influenced by electromagnetic waves, continue to be broken because of the waves. They can't reform themselves into crystals. That's what TV, cell phones, electromagnetic waves, and other different types of frequencies, microwave radiation, etc. Looking at all the different types of toxins, all the different things that can cause disease, after so many years, we actually went through so much testing. I had over 300 different nutritional supplements that we were using with people. But again, I only did that for a while because I realized that there was something even simpler than that and simpler than that and simpler than that. I'm not talking about stuff that you get at Vitamin Shoppe. We had individual supplements that were really high-tech, coming from Germany and Switzerland and all different areas of the world. We started researching. It was like, "Why is this stuff not taught?" What's going on here? So we looked at all these toxin-exposure pathways and said, "Okay. We know that the air, the food, the water, blah, blah, blah are coming into the body. But how are they getting into the body?" So then we looked at all the exposure points and realized that about 95% . . . Even the toxins that you breathe in through your respiratory system, a lot of times, still get caught in your mucus membranes. That's why you have the little nose hairs and all that. You secrete mucus, and then it drains down into your stomach to protect the lungs, really, from breathing in a lot of stuff. Although, you still do get toxins in through your skin and your lungs, probably about 5 to 10%. But we really realized the most important area, where 90, 95% of these things were entering your body, was the intestines and the colon. It's how most of the disease-causing, emotional-disrupting, cellular-malfunctioning things happen. That's the first exposure point. I put "closely guarded secret by big pharma" because when we realized that the target point was the intestines, I started asking all the gastroenterologists. I started calling around, figuring out what the training was like. I realized that they really didn't have any training in the gastrointestinal tract. Even the gastroenterologists really didn't know about any type of toxins. That led me to thinking, "Well, why is it that we have, supposedly, the best scientists in the world, in the medical arena, and they still don't know what the appendix is? That doesn't make sense." You know? Still, to this day, the medical profession does not know what the appendix is. So I started trying to find out what the appendix was. There's really not a lot of information out there. We ended up tracking down and translating information from German and Russian documentation. They know. Germany is way ahead of us, as far as natural medicine goes. Found out that the appendix is really the brain of your body. It's really your micro computer chip. It's not up in your brain, like what we thought before, the nucleus of the cell was the brain. Then we learned it's not. Now we learned that the appendix is the brain of the body, and the reason why it is is because your appendix is located at the juncture of your small and large intestine. Why wouldn't the micro relay center of the brain of your body . . . Why would it not be located in the intestines? That's where every single thing comes in. The appendix actually helps regulate every single system in your body, the neurological, the endocrine system, because it knows and reads what you put in your system. It's gonna read the acid/alkaline base. It's gonna read what your probiotics is like. It's gonna tell your liver what to prepare for. It's gonna tell your brain and your hormones and your endocrine system what hormones to produce. It's gonna relay every single thing that you've given it. Either you've given it unhealthy stuff, and it's gonna relay that to your body, or you've given it healthy stuff. It's gonna tell you . . . Your water, all that stuff . . . So it just goes to show you, again, how important the intestines and the colon is. You have 30 feet or so of intestinal lining, about 20 feet or so of the small intestine, and then you have 10 feet in the colon. A lot of people focus on the colon, which is very important, but a lot of people don't focus on the small intestine. That's really where, a lot of times, you're gonna get a lot of absorption of toxins. So you can see on the left, this would be a healthy colon. A toxic colon would be anybody suffering from gas, bloating, diverticulitis, colon polyps, colitis, any type of impaction, strictures, anything like that. I put on there, "If the average person knew that regaining their health was as easy as cleaning their intestines and the environment they expose themselves to, then we wouldn't need prescription drugs." So kind of touched on this, but this is kind of the map that we put together to show how disease really takes effect inside the system. So if you take . . . These numbers are probably a lot under, actually, than what you would do, just depending. Everybody lives in a different environment. That's so important about the environment that you create yourself. That's why you can't say that . . . That's why there's really no such thing as clinical trials, if you think about it. Because in order to do an accurate clinical trial, you would literally have to clone 40 people because everybody's biochemistry is different. Clone 40 people. Have them exposed to the same diet every single day, same liquids consumed every day, same emotional and physical stress levels every day. It is technically impossible to do an accurate clinical trial. Let's say that you're taking in 200,000 toxins from air on a daily basis, 200,000 toxins from food on a daily basis, 200,000 from beverages, 200,000 from microbes because microbes take your nutrients and secrete acids in their waste in your body. Microbes is fungus, candida, worms, viruses, bacteria, micoplasms, you name it. Then you add the physical and emotional stress. That's one of the biggest ones that your body starts breaking down right away. The EMFs or the frequencies, the negative frequencies that you're exposed to, heavy metals, prescription medications if you're on them. The last one is blocked neurological feedback. If you've had trauma or been in accidents or spinal malfunction, your organs . . . Even if one of your bones is out in your back that goes to the nerve that goes to your liver, your liver might not be functioning at 100%. It won't be. It might be functioning at 80%. So how's your liver gonna detoxify all those toxins coming in if it's not correct? So many people have blocked neurological feedback. Pretty much everybody does. So to explain the disease process, there's no such thing as a separate disease for diabetes and arthritis and cancer and all the millions of diseases, the hundreds of thousands of diseases that they have labeled out there, fibromyalgia and all that. It's all just one thing. It's just too many toxins coming in and not enough coming out. So let's say you have 2.1 million toxins coming in on a daily basis. Your body can only handle 1 million toxins on a daily basis. What happens to that additional 1.1 million toxins? Well, everybody has ways to eliminate these toxins from their body on a regular basis. If your liver is functioning good, you can detoxify. Great. You still have to eliminate them, though. Women have five ways to eliminate toxins. Guys have four ways. You can eliminate this through respiration. You're gonna breathe them out if you're doing heavy activity, and you're sweating at the same time. That's 50% of your elimination routes right there. You're gonna breathe them and sweat them out. The problem is everybody has become a sedentary . . . We've become a sedentary society, a sedentary world with computers. Nobody is exercising that much anymore. Next is gonna be urination and defecation. You're gonna defecate it out. Women obviously have their menstrual cycles. Women have five ways to eliminate. It might be one of the reasons why they live longer. Men have four ways to eliminate toxins from their body. Most people aren't drinking enough water. Matter of fact, the studies that we did, we found that 90% of Americans are chronically dehydrated because they drink coffee, colas, alcohol, wine, beer, tea. Nobody likes to drink water. So they're not urinating all the toxins out anymore. They're not defecating the toxins out either because they're not having their two to three bowel movements a day or at least two bowl movements a day. They're having maybe two bowel movements a week. So this is a basic understanding of how . . . It all boils down to: are you taking in more toxins than you're relieving on a regular basis? So now I want to start going in to some of these, because I believe that you have to learn where these things are. But at the same time, I'm not just gonna sit up here and say, "Oh, yeah. This is all the stuff. Goodbye," because you wanted to have solutions to all this, too. So it's about . . . I don't believe there's such things as problems, but there's always situations, and there's always a remedy for the situations. So the body toxins from air that we're dealing with continue to get worse and worse and worse. What's happened is the . . . If you look 100 years ago, we had 28% oxygen in the air. Right now, oxygen is a key component. Oxygen and water is what drives your body. Right now in some cities, it's down to 6% because of all the trees that are being cut down. Everything is being poisoned. We're losing our oxygen levels. So that . . . When you don't . . . Oxygen is a natural detoxifier. You hear all this stuff about the ozone and ozone this and ozone that. Ozone is actually a good thing. You can't breathe it directly in, but we've used ozone with incredible results, going with ozone directly into the blood, ozone insufflations. It's an amazing healing substance, and you can read a massive amount of clinical research on the effects of ozone in the body. We take about 30,000 breaths every single day. So out of those 30,000 breaths, oxygen and air quality is one of the most important things for our body, in order for us to heal properly. Down here, you have a lot of mold of mildew. If you have pets, you have pet dander. Home building sickness syndrome is huge, which means that most of the homes and the buildings that people work in are actually sick. We have smoke, ozone and pollution, dirty AC filters, chem-trails. This is a controversial issue. We've done a lot of research on it. I'm sure you guys have seen all the trails in the sky lately. VOCs, volatile organic compounds. All this you add up, and these are the things that you're breathing in to your body on a daily basis. As a matter of fact, playing and crawling on a typical floor exposes babies to fumes from contaminants such as mold, mildew, and dust mites. One day of exposure introduces the equivalent of four cigarettes to an infant's lungs. The carpet has a lot of what's called volatile organic compounds, fire retardants, stuff like that, and chemicals on it that outgas and just all the dust and everything else that falls onto the carpet. Sick building syndrome and house syndrome, you have up in the attic usually. Most people have toxic things. You can see the couch, the rug, even the car. You might have paints and stuff in there. There's usually a lot of toxic things. We were doing a reality show called Dr. Detox, where we actually went into people's homes and started . . . Even when we had our clinic, we would go into people's homes because everybody will tell you, "I don't have anything that's toxic. Everything is fine." You walk in, and you go through the kitchen. This is toxic. This is toxic. You go through the whole house, and then you end up seeing all these things that are exposing people. We had a cancer patient that was 18, one time. We couldn't find what was going on. Healthy kid, ate pretty good. We went to his house. Sure enough, he had testicular cancer. Sure enough, right where he slept, on his bed was a geopathic fault line, and it was producing this negative energetic field coming up, right where his testicles were. So we moved his bed to another room, and then he started to get better. It could be something that simple. In the last 10 years, respiratory disease in the US has moved from eighth to the third-highest cause of death. Of course, the number one leading cause of death is medical mistakes. The average bed is home to anywhere from 100,000 to 10 million dust mites, and you can't see them. Eighty-percent of the material you can see floating in a sun beam is actually human skin flakes. Indoor air may have toxic chemical concentrations of up to 100 times higher than outdoor air, and 50% of all illness, according to the American College of Allergies, is caused or aggravated by indoor air pollution, because they're building all these buildings and homes so tight and energy-efficient, that nothing is . . . They're building it with toxic materials too, that are coated in fire retardants, formaldehyde, and all kinds of chemicals. Talked a little bit about chem-trails, but I feel it's very important because what's happening is . . . We've done a lot of research into this, and it's a controversial kind of conspiratory subject, but the fact is it's true. If you do the research, you'll find the same thing. There's been tests and people going to test the snow and everything out there. You can read the government documents actually. They say, them self, that they're spraying high levels of aluminum nano particles in the atmosphere. That's why a bunch of stewardesses and flight attendants are being ill. They actually have aerotoxic syndrome now because the pilots are quitting, and they're all becoming severely ill. I know that because Southwest Airlines contacted me and wanted me to help them out with some of their health stuff because their expenses are getting so high, because all their flight attendants . . . Well, what they're doing when you fly is they're sucking this air in from the outside. What they're spraying in the air, according to preventing global warming, is high levels of aluminum nano particles. The aluminum nano particles . . . That's the main one, but there's all kinds of other things. They found desiccated human red blood cells in there. They found uranium particles in there, pathogens, pesticides, all kinds of stuff. All this stuff is falling down on us. Thank God Houston is not really a heavily sprayed city, but in other parts of the United States, they're spraying every single day. It's affecting the soil. It's killing plants, etc. So I'd highly recommend that you do some research on that and maybe help join the revolution on trying to get them to stop. So what do you do? And how do you breathe clean air? One of the things I like is telling people to put live plants in their home, at least two plants, and the office too, because plants produce oxygen, and they absorb toxins, actually. They process them. They also suck in carbon dioxide. Taking walks in nature, near water, is always really good. The ions in the air are really good around waterfalls or the ocean. Oxygen supplements are available out there. Changing your air filters regularly in your home is really important. You can also use aroma therapy diffusers. That's where you put essential oils in a diffuser. It just kind of goes through your air and helps clean the air. Crystal salt lamps work good as well. The HEPA filtration is okay. The one I recommend and the one I use is the REME unit, and the reason why is when the SARS epidemic broke out in China, the Chinese government hired a team of scientists to find what was the best air purification system in the world, that they could use for their hospitals and put in all their buildings that would kill the SARS. They looked all over the world and tested a bunch of them. It ends up it was a company in the United States that had the best unit. They sell a unit called the REME unit, and it produces ionized hydroperoxides. What I love about it is it actually fits into your HVAC or your main air conditioning system. So a lot of those air purification systems just turn and on your floor. They only grab and ionize stuff this high while you're up here, breathing this air. Then it falls to the ground. This actually goes through all your ducts and comes down and cleans all the air in your home. The bedroom, I put on there, is really the most important part if you want to take this slow and start cleaning up your air, because you want to be able to sleep sound for eight hours every night. That's when your body heals. You want to be able to breathe clean air when you sleep. So it's really important. Anybody that has memory foam mattresses . . . The first thing we would do is we would go into the person's bedroom and say, "This is what we need to fix first. You have memory foam mattress in here, which is outgassing stuff that you're breathing all night long. Switch to an organic mattress. Switch to organic bedding. Switch to organic pillow." You have your cell phone plugged in right here. Get rid of that. Let's put some plants in here. Let's clean up this place where you sleep and make your sleeping environment really nice and clean, because you're gonna be sleeping there and breathing that air in all night long. So it has to be clean. Most of the time, every time we did that, a lot of their symptoms would just start going away already, just for that eight hours of breathing pure, clean air. Next, we're gonna move on to body toxins from food. Genetically modified foods are something that are extremely serious because they're everywhere, but these are the things you want to look out for from food. Most food has pesticides, has herbicides in it. Meat has hormones, antibiotics, dairy, soy. Soy is high in phytoestrogens. Most of it's genetically modified, but we have a major hormone disruption syndrome going on in the United States. Some of that is due to soy. White flour, table salt, MSG, which just makes everything taste better, gluten, microwaved foods. The Russians actually outlawed microwaves in the '70s because they were so bad. Think about it. You're gonna take a food and put it in a box, and you're gonna put microwave energy through that food. It heats it from the inside, out. It rips and tears through all the nutrients. So you could put a hamburger in the microwave and take a hamburger out of the microwave. It might look like a hamburger, smell like a hamburger, but what it is is radiated toxic mass that you're putting inside your system. So really what you want to do is you want to have live food instead of dead food. Anything that's dead doesn't have a life force to it, as opposed to live food. Daily toxins from food maybe 200,000. Here's what's happening with GMOs. We've made a big stride with genetically modified organisms, but it's really scary because the BT toxin . . . The BT toxin is actually engineered into plants, and it's called the bacillus thuringiensis. What it is, it's a bacteria. It's actually a pesticide/insecticide bacteria, but the plants are manufacturing it now. So how it's designed to work is when the bugs come on the plants, and they eat the plant or the apple or whatever, it produces the BT toxin. They get it in their body, and it ruptures their stomach and intestinal lining, and it blows up. The bug dies. So they don't have to use a bunch of pesticides and insecticides. What's happening is the bee population is dying off because they're going to pollenate, and they're getting the BT toxin in their stomach and blowing up. The butterfly population is decreasing because the butterflies are getting the pollen on them from the plants with the BT toxin, and their stomachs are blowing up. The whole ecosystem . . . What scares me even more is what's happening to the kids right now. I have two little kids. Kids are way more vulnerable to these things than adults are. When you have kids that are . . . Any time you go out to a restaurant, you have corn chips, a Mexican restaurant. You have anything made with soy. Just look in your cabinet, and you're gonna see a bunch of stuff in there that has soy in it or has corn in it, which is genetically modified and probably the BT toxin. That's why allergies in children is skyrocketing now. One out of every three children is suffering from rashes and allergies and everything else, because the BT toxin will burn tiny holes through the intestines. Then you will get severe leaky gut syndrome. All of these particles and toxins will leak into the bloodstream and cause an immune reaction immediately. It'll cause the immune system to attack it. So 80% of processed foods right now contain GMOs. The GMO plants that don't have the BT toxin are requiring more pesticides and insecticides, and it's really, really damaging the world. We have a lot of videos and a lot of research on that if anyone is interested to just contact us, and we'll provide that information. The next thing that's really damaging, that's contributing to the root cause of disease, is excitotoxins. Russell Blaylock is a doctor who actually termed "excitotoxins" because he saw so many problems in the brain. Excitotoxins affect parts of the brain that control behavior, emotions, and sleep cycles. Okay. Guess what. Artificial sweeteners, food dyes and colorings, extremely toxic. You ever had your kid go to a party? Most of the food dyes are in all the different types of food for kids. Then all of a sudden, they're just going through the roof. You can't understand what's going on. You're thinking, "Oh, yeah. This is probably the sugar," which probably a lot of it is. ADD, rash, depression. MSG is a dangerous neurotoxin and excitotoxin. It's not . . . All the artificial sweeteners are, and those are things that you really, really want to avoid. You know? All the medications that are prescribed for emotional disorders or whatever you have really are not necessary, because these are all the things that are causing those conditions. When you go into the doctor and say, "I'm depressed," the doctor is not saying, "Okay. Are you eating excitotoxins? Are you exposing yourself to heavy metals?" All the things that are gonna cause malfunction in the brain tissue, that are gonna cause your depression and your anxiety and everything else. That's why, also, you see kids on Ritalin and Adderall and all these drugs. There was such a demand from people to take MSG off, that they just . . . The FDA and the USDA allowed the companies with the big lobbyists to use and hide MSG under a bunch of different terms. Have you ever seen hydrolyzed vegetable protein on your label and thought it was okay? What about hydrolyzed plant protein? That sounds good. Sodium caseinate, calcium caseinate, textured protein, natural flavoring. This is everywhere. They really get by with the natural flavoring. Chicken flavoring, soy protein, whey protein concentrate. You know? Those are all the different terms and more that they hide MSG. In combination with the GMOs and all the digestive issues that we're seeing . . . Your intestinal tract starts to malfunction before anything else in your body does. Really started looking into gluten. What I've found and what all the people that I've talked to and all the doctors, all the allergists and all the specialists . . . They all say the same thing. Get all your patients off of gluten. Get all the kids off of gluten. You see amazing things happen when you get them off of gluten and a lot of grains too. Gluten is the protein found in wheat, barley, rye, and spelt and kamut. Eighty-percent of people are turning out to be gluten or wheat-intolerant and don't even know it. Personally if you look at the chemistry behind it, the body is not meant to process gluten. So I would say 100% of the people are. You might not feel it. You might not feel all this stuff. Some people are more sensitive than other people, but I guarantee you that every single person cannot break down gluten properly. It's bad for everybody. There's 250 symptoms associated with gluten-intolerance, 250 symptoms. Gastrointestinal celiac, allergies, fatigue, joint pains, mood swings, unhappiness, depression, skin problems. The list goes on and on. But also, all these things, like I said, contribute to different things. Another thing that we're seeing with all these chemicals leaking through the blood stream is hormone disruption, your endocrine system, which controls all the hormones in your body. When I was growing up, there was no such thing as a fertility clinic. Now there's a fertility clinic on every single corner. Men and women are having problems because all of these things cause you to become sterile, lower your sperm count, have an effect on your endocrine system. These are endocrine disruptors, phthalates, plastics, BPA. Those are anything that's in a plastic container. Medications are hormone disruptors. Antidepressants, fluoride, pesticides. There's low sperm counts. Estrogen-disrupting chemicals are having gender-bending qualities. They're finding frogs now and fish that have both male and female sex organs, because all these things are being dumped in the water. It's causing sterility, the phytoestrogens in soy and even personal care products. When your hormones are disrupted, it's hard for anything to function in your body. How do we eliminate toxins from food? Well, eat fresh fruit, vegetables, raw seeds. Limit your meat intake. The most important thing is to just eat organic. You can eliminate the majority of this stuff if you just go to organic. Throw away your microwave. Avoid GMOs, soy, table salt. You can replace your table salt with Himalayan crystal salt. Avoid refined sugar, white flour, all processed, boxed, canned foods. Avoid gluten and avoid the excitotoxins, MSG, artificial sweeteners, food dyes, stuff like that. All the food dyes, by the way, all seven of them, the blue, the yellow, the orange, the green and all that . . . You would be amazed if you pull up some YouTube videos on those dangers of food dyes and the research that has been done on food dyes. They're actually banned in most other countries, except for the USA, because they're so toxic. They actually cause symptoms of ADD, ADHD, and hyperactivity in children. So instead of looking at what your child is exposed to or what you're exposed to, people are looking at the symptoms. That's why people are being drugged. We talked a little bit about water, but the body toxins from water that's coming in . . . Water is definitely the key to life. Everything functions around the water. Ninety-percent of the population is dehydrated, chronically. Fluoride, chlorine, arsenic. They're finding so many things at high levels in the water. I didn't put it up here, but even with the fracking that's going on, which is damaging the Earth. People are getting natural gas in their water that they're drinking, pesticides. Prescription medications . . . The antidepressant residue that's showing up in the water supply over in Europe right now is so high. It's almost equivalent of you taking an antidepressant if you drink about a half-gallon of water a day, out of the tap. Parasites in the water, bacteria, heavy metals in the water. Another controversial issue is fluoride. Fluoride is the second-most common toxic agent known to man, just behind arsenic. Dental fluorosis is so common right now in children because children are drinking fluoridated water, tap water. Any time you go to a restaurant, they're using tap water the majority of the time. You go to a coffee shop in the morning. They're probably using tap water for that. Any time that you have any . . . At a restaurant, you eat any meals, most likely it was cooked with some sort of water. Fluoride toxicity is everywhere. It's one of those things where you pretty much can't avoid it. One of the things that it does is it calcifies the pineal gland. If any one of you have heard of your third eye, it's the pineal gland in the middle of your head. It's what, according to scientists or researchers in spiritually, say that's your connection with God. You can actually take and dissect the pineal gland, and it's made of rods and cones, just like your eyeballs are. Pineal gland is the organ that sucks in fluoride the most and the fastest of every organ in the body. Also, the pineal gland helps regulate your hormones, serotonin, melatonin, all your feel-good hormones. Basically what you have with fluoride is a calcification of the pineal gland, which actually ends up making you lethargic. It makes you almost like a zombie walking around. It dumbs people down. It lowers the IQ in children. I highly suggest you do tons of research on the effects of fluoride in your body. Mental retardation is another thing. It's a byproduct of the fertilizer and aluminum manufacturing, and it's used severely. Again, most of the countries in Europe have banned fluoridation, and Dallas actually just banned fluoridation. So how to eliminate toxins from water? Water purification system . . . If you have the money, you could do it for the whole house, but make sure that you get a unit that will eliminate fluoride. I do have some of those units available. If you contact us, I'll give you some of that information. But a lot of people don't realize that they wash their clothes in tap water. They wash their dishes, all that stuff. We're soaking up the fluoride. They take a shower. A seven-minute hot shower is the equivalent of you drinking about four to five glasses of tap water. What I always recommend is to drink purified or distilled water with organic apple cider vinegar. I like distilled water, but distilled water is kind of a dead water. It's clean. The fluoride and everything is out of it. Even the purified water still might have some fluoride in it. But when you drink distilled water, it's fine to drink for a short period of time because it'll actually help you detoxify. It'll grab things because it's hungry, but then it might actually start taking some of your minerals or nutrients from your body. So I always recommend to add a little organic apple cider, raw apple cider vinegar into it. That puts the minerals, the life force back into it, the nutrients. Organic apple cider vinegar, raw apple cider vinegar, is probably the cheapest, best healing agent that I can think of, that everybody should be on, because it's just so good for you. There's like 150 different health uses for organic apple cider vinegar. Rain water is good if you live in a good place, if you let it rain for like 15 minutes first and then collect it. It's pretty clean, if you're into rain water. It has a real high energy content to it, but 80% to 100% of your daily liquid intake should be water. The body, like I said, and the Earth is made of water. After you're done breast-feeding, your body doesn't tell you and cry out for colas and alcohol and all the other stuff. The only thing your body needs and wants is water. If you do have a pool, and you're soaking in a chlorine pool or something, I would look into getting a salt or a copper ozone-type pool system to prevent the chlorine. Next, we look at the body toxins that you're gonna be exposed to from different beverages, colas, juices, energy drinks, bottled beverages, refined sugar, high fructose corn syrup. High fructose corn syrup is actually genetically modified. It's made from genetically modified corn, and recent tests have shown that it's high in metals, especially mercury. So look at the label. Actually they're trying to relabel right now. The lobbyists are trying to relabel high fructose corn syrup under different names, like natural corn sugar and stuff like that, because so many people were looking at high fructose corn syrup. The artificial sweeteners, again, sucralose, aspartame, saccharin. Those are the ones that you want to avoid. Those are the ones that, for sure, have been documented to cause brain damage and all different types of symptoms. Coffee, alcohol, tea, milk. I'm not saying that you need to completely give up everything in your life, because . . . I'm just gonna say that now, before I get too far into this, because it's really about moderation. It really is. When you do things constantly, the body is amazing. If you want to have a cup of coffee, just make sure it's organic coffee, made with good water. The toxins in coffee are because 80% of the world's coffee supply is heavily pesticide. If you ever talk to or been to a coffee plantation, they'll always tell you the worst thing is the bugs. They can never control the bugs. They spray the coffee beans heavily with pesticides. So you're taking the pesticide toxic coffee, and you're replacing it with organic, nontoxic. All you're doing with all this is you're just eliminating the toxic things. You're replacing the toxic processed foods with organic foods. Now if you drink five shots of espresso, seven shots of espresso a day, and you do it every single day, then that might become a problem in your body, but everything is in moderation with your body. That's the way it works. That's why some people you see, that look healthy, get sick, and some other people that you would think should be sick as can be are not sick. Really that has to do with their emotional state, which we'll get into, because that was one of the puzzling things that we had to research, a project that we did years ago. This is what goes into a normal cow, vaccines, rendered food. You don't even want to know what rendered food is. Most of the food . . . It's all dead animals and all kinds of stuff. They mix it up, and they put it in, mix it in with the dry food, and they feed it hormones, pesticides, antibiotics. They actually feed cows sometimes even other cow blood. So milk is extremely dangerous if it's not organic. You can look up. . . They just tested regular milk, and they found something like 300 puss molecules per glass of milk, because all the cows . . . Their nipples are inflamed and infected because they all have mastitis when they . . . They use those machines. So a bunch of pus gets into the milk. They found over 50 pesticides in the milk too. They found, actually, radiation in there and all kinds of stuff. Milk is one of those things that's just not good for the body anyway, unless it's raw goat's milk or raw range-fed, organic cow's milk. Going into some aspartame, this is the scary thing about aspartame. So many people drink diet drinks. Aspartame breaks it down into methanol, which is wood alcohol in your body. Then the methanol converts to formaldehyde in the body. Aspartame accounts for over 75% of all the adverse reactions reported to the FDA. Those are reported. Who in here has ever reported anything to the FDA, an adverse reaction? Nobody. Over 75% of the adverse reactions FDA . . . People say, "What's the one thing I could do that's gonna make a difference?" I say, "Well, first, you have to clean up your air. Second, you have to get off artificial sweeteners because they're so damaging." Here's what happens. The formaldehyde then causes gradual and eventually severe damage to the neurological system, the immune system, and causes permanent genetic damage at extremely low doses. It's approved for human consumption. How do you eliminate toxins from beverages? You reduce all the toxic beverages. You drink purified, distilled water with organic apple cider vinegar, herbal teas, organic herbal teas because now they're finding high fluoride and chemical content in the teas coming from China. Start using hemp milk, almond milk, coconut milk. Those are great milks. You can even experiment and mix them together. Raw goat's milk . . . Or if you need to have cow's milk, then you can use organic, raw cow's milk if you an find somebody to provide it to you. Better yet, just fresh vegetable juice, fruit juice, not the processed pasteurized stuff, but the fresh vegetable juice and fruit juices. You can even buy these at some of the new organic food stores and stuff like that already in a bottle. Next, to move on to the body toxins from microbes and parasites. This is a big problem. Every single person that we tested for every disease was overgrown with candida, yeast, fungus, micoplasms. Definition of a parasite is any harmful organism that lives off a host organism, which means that it's bacteria, virus, fungus, you know, anything. What they do is they take your nutrients, and then they go to the bathroom inside your system. What do these organisms secrete? They secrete isopropyl alcohol, formalin, formaldehyde-type compounds, which ultimately keep your body acidic. Your body should be slightly alkaline. Ninety-percent, I would say, are infested. Louie Pasteur. He's the one that came up with the germ theory, saying that the germs are what caused disease, years ago, and everything like that. It's all about the germ, the germ, the germ. Basically that's what modern science and pathology has been based on. Still to this day, that's what it's based on. On his death bed, he said, "There's something that I have to tell everybody, and that is the germ . . . I was wrong. All these years, I was wrong. The germ is nothing. The terrain is everything," and they didn't publish what he said and kept it the same. It's all about the terrain. The germ can't live in the body or in a terrain that's healthy. It's not the germ that's making you sick. It's the terrain that's making you sick. This is a tapeworm right here. How does that look? Experts estimate up to four out of five people may have parasites living in their body and don't even know it. If you eat sushi, you probably have some of these cruising around in your systems. That's why it's so important to make sure that you're . . . You're going to be exposed to these things. That's the life that we're living right now. So how do you eliminate the microbes from your system? First, look at that. Tapeworms in sushi and other raw fish attach to the wall of the intestine and can lay up to 1 million eggs a day. So you do it by adjusting the terrain, and you do that with good probiotics. There's one probiotic out there, which is called bacillus laterosporus strain. You can't find it anywhere because there's only a small company in California that has the patent on it. That thing works. We tested a bunch of different probiotics. That one works really good to repair. I like the soil-based microorganisms too, but pH regulation . . . Worms and stuff don't like to live in an acid . . . They do like to live in an acid pH, actually. They don't like when it becomes alkaline. Then silver works really good, colloidal silver. I like an atomic silver or plasma silver, oregano oil. I actually developed a product specifically for parasites, just because there wasn't anything out there that I could put my name behind and sell. It was all organic, and it was processed the right way. Then just boosting the immune system . . . Boost your immune system by cleansing. Do a parasite cleanse once a year or two times a year, whatever. It's not that hard. We've come a long way. Years ago, when we were talking about cleansing the body, it was just taboo. There was no way. You had to mix all these shakes and these concoctions that were so thick you couldn't even swallow them. It was horrible. But now, it's gotten a lot better. So body toxins from physical, emotional, and spiritual stress now. This is huge because all the negativity on TV and just people's lives and stress in the workplace. It's all about fear, fear, fear this, fear that, fear, fear, fear. Fear automatically drops your immune system by 50%. Anger, depression, anxiety, jealousy, resentment, negativity, the lack of exercise, which makes you more vulnerable to stress, lack of sleep, negative emotions. Negative emotions cause constipation and cause problems in the bowel. Stress will put you in a sympathetic state. There's two types of states your body can be in. You can be in a sympathetic state, which is a fight-or-flight. That means that your body stops digestion. It stops all the working of all the organs. It puts blood into your legs and your heart and everywhere you need to run as fast as you can, because it's a serious situation, and you need to get out of there. Here's what we found. We looked all over and started talking to people I just put this information up about six months ago. Practically 75 to 90% of the people are living the majority of their life in a sympathetic state. Your body can't heal when it's in a sympathetic state. When you eat, it's so important. People are eating in front of the TV. Sympathetic. They're eating when they're driving. Sympathetic. They're eating in front of their computer while they're working. Sympathetic. All of these things, when you eat in a sympathetic state, your body cannot . . . Your digestion stops. When you're in sympathetic, your digestion stops. One of the easiest and fastest things I can tell everybody to do right now, that will make a world of difference, is to take nine deep . . . Calm yourself down. Take nine deep breaths. It's proven. Then we looked at what's the fastest way to get your body from sympathetic to parasympathetic. Nine deep breaths. They studied it. Meditation is awesome. But before you eat at night, you sit down at the dinner table. Don't eat while you're driving, all that stuff. You need to be able to process and digest your foods, and you need to be in a parasympathetic state. If you have kids, get them used to it now. Sit around the dinner table and just hold hands and say, "We're just gonna relax a little bit. Take nine deep breaths. Now we can all say something positive and bless our food. Blah, blah, blah." Then eat. I guarantee you'll notice a big difference. You won't get that bloating. You won't be all strained and all that. So how do you eliminate toxins from physical, emotional, and spiritual stress? No, not take antidepressants. You do things that are exciting. You know what? I used to ask the patients that came in to see us. I'd be like, "So what do you do for fun?" They would just sit there and start crying. Seriously. They would be, "I don't know." I say, "What makes you happy?" They would say, "I don't know." That is why they're sitting there sick, because they have no excitement and happiness and love in their life. That's the best healing medicine you can get right there. Here's some of the things, exercise, massage, sunlight. These are the things that actually cause you to decrease stress naturally, anxiety, having fun, hobbies, doing stuff like that, music, relaxation, meditation, learning about self, setting goals, adequate sleep. That's huge. That'll affect your stress levels, big time. What it all boils down to is your health, because if you think back to the time in your life where you were the most self-confident when you looked in the mirror, and you were like, "Wow. I look good today. I'm gonna have fun." Usually I ask people that, and they're like, "Yeah, that was when I was like 14 or 12, something like that." I was like, "Yeah, you had a lot of self confidence then. Didn't you?" Yeah. I was like, "You could just do anything you put your mind to back then. Huh?" They're like, "Yeah." Well, health . . . They were healthy back then. Health equals self-confidence, and self-confidence equals success. That's how you're successful in your life. This is something that I hope everybody takes, because I deal with these phone calls every single day, and it's getting worse and worse. The DSM is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual that the psychiatrists use to label mental illness. There's never been any proof of mental illness. There's currently 943 pages that lists out 374 mental disorders. That's a $330 billion industry. Psychiatric drugs kill an estimated 3000 people every month. 17 million children are taking psychiatric drugs so dangerous, like antidepressants, for example, that cause suicide and hostility in children and adolescents. There are parents and moms that call my office and almost start crying when I talk to them. Their teachers recommended . . . They were acting up. They were depressed because they broke up with their boyfriend, 12-year-old-girl. Her mom took her in. They put her on antidepressants. Five days later, she committed suicide in her closet. That's one. Thousands it's happening to. FDA issued a warning about drugs, such as Adderall, Ritalin, Concerta, can cause suicidal, as well as violent, aggressive, and psychotic behavior and can cause heart attack, stroke, and sudden death. They have mental disorders now for like fingernail biting, looking at somebody the wrong way. Basically if you don't get a drug when you leave the psychiatrist's office, they have a code that labels you for mental ill because you didn't take the drug from the psychiatrist. Yes. You will be labeled with mental illness if you leave a psychiatrist's office without taking a medication. That goes on your record forever. So then if anyone ever pulls anything up right now . . . By the time our kids get to be 18, everybody is gonna have mental illness. They're gonna have a record of mental illness. Right now, there are children, five years old, committing suicide. That is on record. There are four-year-olds being put on psychotropic drugs. That is sick. So the next time a doctor tells you, or a teacher or somebody in the school, tells you something is wrong with your kid or that you're having problems, it's not you're having problems and you're mentally ill. What the problem is, you're eating GMOs. You're eating excitotoxins somewhere. You're consuming any one of these things, fluoride, all that stuff. You need to start looking at your environment, because I work with the Autism Association, too. A lot of times, the kids with autism are just toxic. That's it. So body toxins from electromagnetic and microwave radiation . . . Heavy users of cell phones displayed a 240% increased risk for a malignant tumor on the side of the head where they typically held the phone. You're gonna be exposed to EMFs and stuff a lot of different places, big screen TVs, computers, the WIFI in schools. They're taking WIFI out of schools in Europe because of so many complaints from the parents, because their kids are having a hard time concentrating. They're complaining of headaches. A child's skull is really thin. So they're half the size or more than an adult skull. So the frequencies pass easily into the child's brain, especially kids now that you see with cell phones that are 12 and under. Really you don't get the thickness until you're about 15 or 16, maybe even up to 18. There's plenty of documentation out there on this as well. You can just type in, "Dangers of WIFI in schools." Digital clocks, power lines. Smart meters is the new thing that's causing all kinds of damage. Smart meters . . . From what I hear, there's gonna be an opt-out option. But if you have a smart meter on your house, I would highly, highly recommend . . . They're gonna be bombarding high-level microwave frequencies throughout your whole house with those smart meters. They can tell exactly when you turn on the lights. They can tell exactly what appliances you're using. They want to learn every single thing about you, so they can sell it to the big companies and advertising and stuff like that. Fault lines, geopathic stress, sedentary lifestyle, mammograms . . . Ladies, please do not go get mammograms. Thermography is a better option. You don't want to radiate your breast tissue. CT scans. There's always better options. You can get an MRI, no contrast, which is a better option than a CT, when they inject you with all the radiation stuff. Please, the airport scanners, even though they tell you . . . The TSA says, "Oh, these airport scanners are safe," and everybody just walks through. You know? I go there. I'm like, "I cannot believe this." In order to see that high level of distinction, you get bombarded with ionizing radiation. They will not release any tests, because it's under Homeland Security and TSA and all that, that show, but I know people that work for the companies. They're saying they would never get inside of it. So if you go to the airport, all you have to say is, "Opt out. I want to opt out." You'll be able to opt out of that body scanner. Each time you go through that body scanner, what I've heard is the equivalent of 10 to 15 X-rays. Nuclear radiation. I put this on because it's definitely something that's not in the mainstream media, but we are getting calls every single day from parents and doctors, especially in California and the upper-northwest, from seeing birth defects. All kinds of stuff is happening from Fukushima. You can go to the National Oceanic website and actually see all the radiation in the water. But it's something that you need to be aware of. Actually there's some radiation particles. This is nuclear radiation. This is the stuff that has a serious effect on your DNA and on your genes. How to protect yourself from that . . . I'm actually coming out with a new product pretty soon, a pill that you can take, that will absorb strontium-90, cesium, and uranium particles. For the radioactive iodine, which is iodine-131, the best thing to do is take a nascent iodine. Everybody needs to supplement with their vitamins and minerals and stuff like that. I'm more about . . . Look. Let's address the root cause of why you have problems, and that's why a lot of the practitioners always recommend, "Go see your natural healthcare practitioner. Go see your chiropractor. You really need somebody to walk you through and help you with everything and kind of guide you. If you need some different types of supplements, that's fine." But first of all, the first thing you should always do is cleanse the body. A lot of times, after you go through a deep cleansing, 50% of your symptoms go away. Then the real stuff starts coming up. That's another thing that we found, was if a patient comes in, and you're looking at their symptoms right here . . . If you say, "What are your symptoms?" Well, doctors are gonna go right off of those symptoms. That's not really what's going on in your body. We found that out. I didn't even know that. We found that out because we would take a complete history, a detailed history, which the average time spent with physicians is less than seven minutes. How are you gonna find out what's wrong with somebody in that amount of time? We'd take like two-hour history of a patient. Yeah, where do you go? Do you go overseas? This, that. Find out everything about them. Then get their symptoms. Say, "Okay. The first thing we're gonna do is clean you out really good. You're 50 years. You've been damaging your body. Let's just clean you." Clean them out really, really good. Then we say, "Okay. Let's go back and do another health questionnaire after you're done cleansing." Those symptoms that were there to begin with . . . Most of them were gone. Then all of a sudden, maybe some new things popped up. It was like peeling an onion. That was the real stuff that was happening. So that means that all the people out there that are going to the doctor's office and telling them their symptoms . . . That's just what's on the outside. That's what they're being treated for, instead of being cleaned up really good and finding out what the real problem is. One thing, though, that I found, and other doctors will tell you the same thing if they do a bunch of tests, is that practically every single person is iodine-deficient. It is such a vital nutrient. It used to be in iodized salt, but they took it out a long time ago and replaced it with bromine. Bromine . . . This is why so many people are having endocrine and thyroid issues. This is why you can't lose weight and a million other things, because iodine is part of a halogen. That's bromine, chlorine, fluorine, bromide, and iodine. Look at all the chlorine out there. Look at all the fluoride out there. Look at all the bromine. They took iodine out and put bromine in white bread years ago and took it out of the salt in most cases. So basically what's happened is we've had a severe iodine deficiency going on. If anyone ever suffers from any type of cyst in the body, fibrocystic breast disease, breast cancer, ovarian cysts, polycystic ovaries, anything like that, fatigue, I don't care, any type of cyst, then most likely you're iodine-deficient. Dr. Brownstein, who wrote a book on iodine-deficiency, tested 9,000 or something patients, close to 10,000 patients, and found 98% of them had iodine-deficiency. So what's happening? Everybody has thyroid problems. Everybody is having all these cysts and all these problems everywhere. So iodine actually is a broad spectrum or a great substance that is absorbed in your thyroid, but it can't be in your thyroid to regulate your thyroid if all the other fluoride and everything is there, because that competes for the receptor sites. It also helps clean up your pineal gland. It protects against radiation. It goes . . . Iodine is used for every cell in the body. So I would definitely look into . . . It also regulates the immune system and helps detoxify things from the body. I would highly recommend iodine. Especially I recommend it to pregnant women, because it's linked to autism, even though that's also linked to vaccinations, but every single kid . . . A lot of the children right now are deficient in iodine. So it's very important to give iodine to your children. I recommend only nascent iodine. That's the best one. So how to eliminate toxins from electromagnetic and microwave radiation? Throw away your microwave. Yes, it's gonna take you a little bit of extra time if you want to cook your meals, but you can get maybe one of those fire infrared ovens. There's convection ovens or something like that. There's a bunch of cell phone radiation protectors, computer radiation protectors. We just finished . . . I hired a team because there's so much stuff out there, and we get this question all the time. What can I do about radiation? There's a bunch of, online, bunch of radiation cell phone protectors, stuff you wear. None of it really had scientific studies. I could take a reading of a cell phone, and I could put the thing on there and go back and take another reading, and it would be gone. So we contacted the company like, "We're still getting a reading." "Well, yeah. It's the geometric pattern in there. It's blocking it, but you can't really read it." So finally hired a team of people to do the research for three months to figure out and look at every single cell phone protector out there, every single computer protector, how to protect the house, your house from radiation, the best smart meter protectors, and everything you need, including clothing that you can wear if you're flying or whatever, or if you're gonna be close to some radiation or something like that. That will block it all. We just published it all on our website. I don't have it all here. It would take forever to go through it. But if you go to Globalhealingcenter.com, and you just type in the search bar, "Radiation," you'll see all the . . . I don't even sell those companies' products. I just do it for the better good of society. So you can go. I have them ranked. This is the best, second, third, fourth, whatever. So I highly suggest you do that. Turn off your appliances when not in use. Replace the fluorescent lighting and standard light bulbs in your home and office with full-spectrum or LED. Ladies of all ages should not wear wire bras or any wire-framed garments because the wire frame will pick up the frequencies and transmit it into your breast tissue. That's why we're also seeing a tremendous amount of cases of breast cancer increasing with cell phone use. I've actually seen women walking in the mall and stuff that are carrying their cell phone inside their bra. They walk around like that. So just those are the ways to protect yourself from the radiation. Detoxidine is the iodine product that I actually helped develop and use, which is in a vegetable glycerin base, because most of them out there are in alcohol. Alcohol, by itself, is an endocrine disruptor. So we had to kind of reinvent the wheel and figure out what we can do and how you can take healthy stuff instead of taking herbs in alcohol, ethanol, which is genetically modified and also an endocrine disruptor. So we do everything in a vegetable glycerin, which is safe, and it tastes good. It's great to use. Body toxins from heavy metals. These are kind of hard to find, but arsenic, cadmium, aluminum . . . Aluminum is everywhere, in your deodorant, aluminum foil, with the chem-trails, lead, foods, mercury. The reason I put this up is because I'm gonna talk to you later about doing a chemical and a heavy metal cleanse because it's really important. When you take, let's say, aluminum in the body . . . That's another thing with breast cancer, women putting on aluminum deodorant, and it's going into the breast tissue. Aluminum actually activates some of the mechanisms for cancer and mercury amalgams and stuff like that too, that you have in your mouth. When mercury comes in contact with aluminum, it's a violent reaction. See? So each one of these things that we're talking about today, these are all individual toxins. But a lot of times, if you mix two of these things together or mix four, 10, or 100,000 on a daily basis, who knows the reactions that's gonna take place inside your body and what's gonna happen. So I wanted to show everybody just a short video. This is what happens if anyone in here has any mercury amalgams or silver fillings in their mouth. Mercury is so dangerous. Just a tiny amount of the vapor can continually harm you over and over and over, and you can have fatigue and cancer. You can have brain problems and lymphoma and all different types of problems. - [video clip] All mercury silver fillings leak substantial amounts of mercury, constantly. The amount increases with any kind of stimulation. As a result, mercury from fillings produces the majority of human exposure to mercury. The International Academy of All Medicine and Toxicology is extremely concerned about the anecdotal claims of safety by manufacturers and dental trade associations. They're at variance with the published peer-reviewed scientific evidence to the contrary. The precautionary principle requires action once the possibility of harm exists. It does not require proof beyond a shadow of a doubt that, in the case of heavy metal and this antibiotic exposure. It's both nearly impossible and unnecessary, in our opinion. What you're seeing is mercury vapor coming off a 25-year-old silver amalgam filling in an extracted tooth. The background is a phosphorescent screen. The mercury vapor absorbs the fluorescent light, and you can see it as a shadow on the screen. This is mercury coming off a filling that was dipped in water that's the same temperature as the human body. This is a filling that was rubbed with a pencil eraser for just a few seconds, like going to the hygienist and having her clean your teeth. These are not small amounts of mercury. If you can see it, it's more than 1,000 times higher than the Environmental Protection Agency will allow for the air that we breathe. What about the last time you went to the dentist, and they drilled on your tooth? Here is the mercury vapor every time you raise the temperature to 110 degrees, with hot coffee or warm water or even chewed on. Mercury comes off fillings every time you stimulate them, and that stimulation causes the mercury to continue to leak out of the fillings for an hour and a half, at a minimum. Some people grind their teeth. Some people chew gum. The dentist might send an old gold crown to the dental lab to be welded. How about the dental personnel? They're not being given informed consent. - What happens is you're constantly absorbing that mercury vapor into your brain and into your bloodstream. Mercury accumulates in the liver. It accumulates in the kidneys, causes kidney disease. It's just one more thing that you're taking in on a regular basis. So I thought that was pretty shocking because . . . How many people do you know that drink coffee or grind their teeth or whatever? So I highly recommend getting your mercury amalgams taken out. But when you do it, you have to go to a professional dentist that knows how to do it properly. People are going down to Mexico and doing it, and they're getting paralyzed from the waist down, because mercury, if you breathe too much too fast, will paralyze you. So I like Dr. Glaros if you're in Houston. He's one of the best. He's Biologicaldentist.com. People come from all over the world to see him. He does all my work, but I don't have any mercury amalgams. So the next one is the body toxins from blocked neurological feedback. This is just when the body produces toxins from spinal malfunction, auto accidents. Everybody has had a fall, got jolted around before. They've had some trauma, or there's some surgery. Obesity causes this. Chronic tooth infection causes malfunction. These are . . . Any of this can cause blockages in the neurological system, in the spine or somewhere, to where you're not getting the proper signals from your nerves to your organs, so your organs can function properly. So how to eliminate toxins from neurological feedback? Chiropractic adjustments, massage, stretching. Chi-machine works pretty good, acupuncture, inversion table where you lean upside-down. Weight loss is one of the best ways. Just get that extra weight off you. Rebounding, yoga, pilates, keeping your mouth clean, no fluoride toothpaste. But one thing that I really like is oil-pulling. We've used that for a long time with either . . . I like to use sesame oil one day and then maybe mix in some coconut oil another day. Oil-pulling is great. It's where you just swish the oil around in your mouth, from anywhere from five to 20 minutes, and then you spit it out and rinse your mouth out. What it does is it takes and pulls all the toxins from your blood and chemicals and cleans your mouth and, in some cases, even whitens your teeth with coconut oil. Solutions to reactivate your self-healing mechanism, because that's really what we're all talking about, is the self-healing mechanism, is education. Find out about what's causing your self-healing mechanism to be suppressed. Then detoxification and cellular cleansing. This is the key because obviously. . . I talk to people, and they're like, "I don't have the money to do all that. I can't do all that stuff." It's always about money. I got to buy a water purification system and this. It's baby steps. Start doing one thing at a time. The next time you need salt, get Himalayan crystal salt. The next time you need constantly. . . It's like there's a big, long staircase of health. Okay. You're right here. Every day, are you going down one step of health, the stair of health? Are you staying there? Or are you going up one stair? One month, you say, "Okay. Well, I'm gonna replace . . . I'm gonna stop eating GMOs. I'm gonna do gluten. I'm gonna do that." Actually I don't recommend you do everything at once, because it's too traumatic. You just start slowly. Let's say this week, you're gonna eliminate artificial sweeteners from your diet. Boom. You just walked up three steps. This week, you're going to the store. You're gonna buy organic instead of going to your normal store. That's huge. You just went up like 1,000 steps. But it's all about making those changes. You know? Next weekend, take the whole family out to a plant store. Ask the person there, "What are good indoor plants that I can use for my area?" They'll say, "Okay. Yeah, these work really good. Does the sun come through the window?" "Yeah, I have one room there." They'll help you out. Then that weekend, put plants in your house. So all you're doing is all . . . Eventually you're getting healthier and healthier and healthier and healthier, and you're making all these changes. If you want to make all of them at once, go ahead and do it, but you have to continually cleanse your body. Do an intestinal cleansing, liver and gallbladder cleansing, kidney cleansing, chemical and toxic metal cleansing, parasite cleansing. The reason I put weekly intestinal cleansing on there is because that's where everything comes in. If you're constipated, that's what has to be cleaned on a weekly basis. You don't have to do it every day, but I'd recommend using oxygen-based cleansers because all the herbal-based cleansers out there, like the Sillium, Cascara, all that, can cause permanent damage to the bowel. The laxative industry is a billion dollar a year industry. It's one of the biggest industries that there is. So doing all those cleanses . . . We have our cleanses online, but research it. If your doctor has cleanses, that's great. I'm not saying you need to do all my stuff. All I'm saying is this is the key to health. This is the secret to health, right here. The Earth cleanses itself on a regular basis. You can look. We've lost all this. Okay. You take a shower every day to rinse the outside of your body. But what are you doing to rinse the inside of your body? Just think. If you were to take everything you eat for a day, the normal standard American diet, mix it up and blend it in a trash can, all the coffees, the 62-ounce cola, the cheesecake, all that, mix it in there, the bottle of wine, and then pour it all over the top of you. Do the same thing every day for 40 years. That's the kind of stuff that the inside of our body is having to deal with, but nobody is talking about cleansing the inside of your body on a regular basis. That is what . . . Once you cleanse your body and keep your body clean, then your self-healing mechanism starts to kick in. But it's about changing your environment and reducing your stress, supplementation and the external support, the chiropractic, the massage, then eating a healthy diet. Then the last thing is opening up your elimination routes, so you can get the stuff out of your system. The more healthy you eat, the more water you drink, is automatically gonna improve your bowel movements and your urination. You're gonna be exercising more. If you don't want to do hardcore exercise, use a rebounder. That's gonna make you breathe a little bit faster. It's gonna open up elimination routes. That's why a lot of women . . . Their menstrual cycles are irregular. This is a telltale sign that they're toxic, and they need to start cleaning themselves up. We had so many people that contacted us for fertility. They would say, "I spent $200,000 in the last four years. We can't get pregnant." I said, "You'll be pregnant in three months. Go through this intestinal plan. Go through this liver and gallbladder cleanse. Go through this parasite cleanse." I always use chemical and heavy metal cleansing for last because I don't want to pull too many chemicals and heavy metals out, unless the liver is already clean and can handle it. Every single time, not one case, after they just clean their body, they were pregnant within 90 days. Why do you think the body doesn't get pregnant? Do you think the body wants a child coming in that's toxic? No, it doesn't. It's that simple. We went over the elimination routes, how a healthy body eliminates toxins. People are waking up and doing more research, because they're going to the doctor, and they're not getting answers. Now, thank God for the Internet, because you can actually look up your symptoms and everything. People are going to the doctor and saying, "Well, can I take this herb with this medication? Or can I take this?" The doctor doesn't know. So doctors . . . You and everybody else out there are actually changing the world because doctors now are being forced into learning about . . . They're not learning this yet, but this was one of the biggest seminars for doctors that I just did out in California. There was 4,000 doctors in the audience that actually wanted to learn this information. That would have never happened 10 years ago. I did basically the same thing. I did the same thing today that I did there a couple months ago. So it's great that everything is working out. We're going into that, addressing the root cause of disease, instead of addressing the symptoms of disease.

Introduction to Public Health

Welcome to an introduction to public health. My name is Chen Panha. As a health education specialist at the CDC, I've worked in a variety of areas of public health, including children's health, infectious diseases, chronic diseases, and most recently public health workforce development. Public health is a dynamic and multi-disciplinary field as you'll see from this introductory course. This slide shows the outline for the course. We will begin by discussing the purpose of public health and a few key terms. We will then look at some events in history of public health. Next, we'll go through the public health approach and apply it to a public health problem. We will then cover the main functions and essential services of public health to show the broader context and identify different groups who have a stake in public health. Lastly, we'll discuss factors that determine health, and I'll present the health impact pyramid as a framework for influencing public health at different levels. This introductory course should enable you to achieve the learning objectives on the slide which align with the course outline that I just covered. So what is public health? CEA Winslow was a leading figure in the development of the modern study of public health. Read this definition of public health that he developed almost a century ago and consider key words or phrases in the definition that speak to you or tell you what public health is. You might notice that as a combination of science and art, public health offers many opportunities to be creative. Public health is not only about preventing and treating disease, but it's also about promoting good health. Winslow says this is done through organized efforts. So what are some examples of organized efforts? You might think about how national surveillance systems are set up, how our waste management infrastructure is built, or how the latest vaccination recommendations are developed and communicated. From Winslow's definition, you might note that public health gives people and organizations information to help them make choices that inform them and help them improve their health or the health of others. Public health also occurs at different levels. Individual, organizational, and community levels, and even more broadly at the city-state, national, and international levels. So here are two statements about the mission of public health. The Institute of Medicine says that there is a societal interest in ensuring conditions in which people can be healthy, and we'll come back to the concept of assurance later in the course. The World Health Organization, or WHO, says public health is about serving the greater good. The maximum benefit for the largest number of people. From these two statements, you can see that public health focuses on groups of people rather than only on individuals. And at the core of public health, there is this principle of social justice. That people have the right to be healthy and to live in conditions which support their health. So now that we know what public health is, let's review some common key terms. Clinical care is the prevention, treatment, and management of illness, and the preservation of mental and physical well being through health services. This is all also more commonly referred to as medical care or health care. A determinant, also known as a health determinant, is a factor that contributes to the generation of a trait, such as one's ethnicity or genetic makeup. But more broadly, the context of people's lives determines their health, and we'll go into more detail about health determinants also later in the course. Epidemic or outbreak, as you can see on the slide, is the occurrence in a community or region of cases of an illness or a specific health related behavior in excess of what you would normally expect to see in that area. An epidemic and outbreak are used interchangeably. However, epidemic usually refers to a larger geographic distribution of illnesses or health related events. It's basically an epidemic occurs when a disease spreads rapidly to many people. You might also hear the term pandemic, which is kind of an epidemic on steroids. It often has a global impact, which means people on multiple continents are affected by it, often crossing borders and going into different countries. A health outcome is the result of a medical condition that directly affects a person's life in terms of its quality or length. And think about the health outcomes for somebody who's living with HIV, for example, or who has diabetes. All right. So now we've come to a knowledge check, and I ask you to fill in the blank with the correct answer. Does public health aim to provide groups of people or individuals with the right to be healthy and live in conditions that support their health? The answer is groups of people. Public health focuses on populations rather than individuals. The next knowledge check is asking, what is a disease occurrence among a population that is in excess of what's expected for a given time and place? Is it pandemic, intervention, epidemic or outbreak, or prevention? And the correct answer is epidemic or outbreak. Now we'll take a look at a few historical highlights of public health through the four lenses of sanitation and environmental health, pandemics, disaster response and preparedness, and prevention through policy. So the first lens will look through encompasses the control of disease and promotion of health through sanitation to ensure a healthy environment. Here are three examples from around the globe of how public health has been implemented to contain infectious disease through environmental measures. So around 500 BCE, it's recorded that the ancient Greeks and Romans actively practiced sanitation measures. Fast forward approximately two millennia and we see the work begun long ago in Greece continuing in the United Kingdom through the passage of the Public Health Act of 1848, which established a central board of health and placed responsibilities for sanitation in the hands of burroughs. In 1970 in the United States, the administration of President Nixon established the Environmental Protection Agency, which still today protects our health by safeguarding air, water, and land. So next we'll explore pandemics, and you'll recall that these are similar to epidemics except that they affect even larger populations, often across countries and continents. So influenza, or the flu, has caused pandemics many times during both the distant past and in recent history. Almost a century ago, the Spanish flu infected 500 million people across the world, including in remote Pacific Islands and the Arctic. And it's estimated that it killed between 20 and 50 million people. More recently, the influenza pandemic in 2009 infected people in 214 countries, causing almost 19,000 confirmed deaths. And while 19,000 confirmed deaths is still many deaths too many, it's nowhere near the type of fatality rate that we saw 100 years or so ago when the Spanish flu ran rampant. So we have made tremendous strides in public health in terms of controlling influenza, but preparing for and controlling the effects of influenza will likely remain top priorities for public health. Historically, polio was a common and highly feared disease that caused severe illness, including paralysis and even death. Thousands of people lined up to receive the polio vaccine after it was introduced in 1955. An initiative to eradicate polio was launched in 1988 because of outbreaks in more than 125 countries. And because of those efforts, at this time, polio exists in only a few countries. Lastly, with our last example, during the 1980s, human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, emerged and spread rapidly across the globe. Public health has responded to this pandemic by developing new ways to diagnose and treat those who are infected. New infections of HIV are down 20% over the past 10 years, and that's a sign that the public health interventions are successful. So the third area we'll explore is public health's role in preparedness and disaster response, both for natural disasters and human made threats. The use the biological warfare to infect people and animals goes back centuries. One of the earliest accounts is the use of plague as a weapon of war during the Siege of Caffa in the 14th century AD. And Caffa is now an area where modern day Ukraine is. So back then, attacking Tartar forces likely catapulted dead bodies filled with the infection of plague into the city of their enemy. This contributed to the spread of the Black Death in that area. During disease outbreaks that could be related to bioterrorism today, the public health community is prepared to distribute lifesaving pharmaceuticals in antidotes, medical supplies, and equipment to locations across the country and even the world. In the wake of the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001, which I'm sure all of you remember, public health workers were on the ground at the World Trade Center and at the Pentagon to conduct surveillance to identify outbreaks of disease and health conditions that might have resulted from the attacks. Public health workers monitored occupational health of first responders and city residents as well as environmental conditions to detect health threats in the aftermath of the attacks. Public health also response to natural disasters. After Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, public health workers joined disaster relief agencies to provide emergency services and dispatched teams to conduct surveillance for illness and injury among residents in their homes and those who had been relocated to shelters. So the last lens we'll look through as we view public health history is health policy as a means of prevention. We implement a range of policies across areas of public health to support efforts on a societal level. So as far back as 1500 BCE, Leviticus, the third book of the Hebrew Bible, is believed to be the first written health code in the world. The book addresses personal and community responsibilities and includes guidance about bodily cleanliness, sexual health behaviors, and protection against contagious diseases, including the isolation of people with leprosy. You might recall hearing about leper colonies back then in history. So in recent decades, we've had tremendous movement in tobacco legislation. Laws banning smoking in the workplace, restaurants, and other public places have been passed to encourage smokers to quit while also protecting nonsmokers from the effects of secondhand smoke. Also, increases in cigarette taxes have been shown to be a deterrent for buying cigarettes. And you've probably heard the term obesity in the news. Approximately 60 million Americans-- nearly one third of all adults-- and about one in five children are obese. And doctors usually define obesity as a condition in which a person's weight is 20% or more above normal weight or as a body mass index measurement of 30 or more. Policies and laws related to food labeling, minutes of physical education and resource for children in schools, and even access to healthy foods and safe places to be physically active in communities. These are all examples of prevention through policy that can impact obesity in a positive way. So to summarize this section of the course, we work in public health to prevent epidemics and the spread of disease and injuries, protect against environmental hazards, promote and encourage healthy behaviors, and respond to disasters and outbreaks. All right. It's time for another knowledge check. Which of the following events in public health history have been pandemics? And just a hint. There's more than one answer. Also remember, pandemics are not the same as epidemics. So the correct answers are B and C. Both influenza and polio are examples of pandemic in the history of public health. So now let's talk about public health in the broader context. As we've seen, public health problems are diverse. They include infectious diseases, chronic diseases, emergencies, injuries, environmental health problems, as well as a multitude of other health threats. Regardless of the topic though, we take the same approach to a public health problem by following four general steps. First we ask, what is the problem? In public health, we identify the problem by using surveillance systems to survey and monitor health events and behaviors among a population. And then after we've identified the problem, the next question is, what is the cause of the problem? For example, are there risk factors that certain populations may have that make them more susceptible to disease? Maybe it's something in the environment or it's certain behaviors that people are practicing. Once we've identified the risk factors related to the problem we ask, well, what intervention works to address the problem? We look at what's worked in the past. Maybe in addressing the same problem with different populations we look to see if something might work with our population, and we look to see if a proposed intervention would make sense with our affected population. In the last step we ask, how can we implement the intervention? Given the resources we have and what we know about the affected population, will this intervention work? And this is a very simplified approach. Each of these steps can be spliced into more specific activities, but these are really just the general questions that must be answered to identify a response to a public health problem. Surveillance, risk factor identification, intervention evaluation, and implementation. Now to implement the public health approach, practitioners use and apply scientific methods that come from a series of core courses. These sciences include public health surveillance, which we use to monitor a public health situation, and epidemiology enables us to determine where diseases originate, how or why they move through populations, how they spread, and how we can prevent them. Public health laboratories have a very important role in supporting public health by performing tests to confirm disease diagnoses. And laboratories also support public health by conducting research and training that's valuable to the field. As far as informatics goes, as we continue to move from the use of paper documents more to electronic health records, public health informatics continues to increase in importance. Informatics deals with the methods for collecting, compiling, and presenting health information, and it enables us to use electronic data effectively when addressing a public health problem. And lastly, prevention effectiveness. This is closely linked to public health policy. Prevention effectiveness studies provide important economic information to decision makers to help them compare interventions and then choose one to implement. So together, these five core sciences can help us protect and promote the public's health by giving public health practitioners the answers that they need. Public health is better able to respond to a given situation or problem by using contributions from each of these sciences. So let's take a look at the public health approach and how can it can be applied to a historical example of an infectious disease. During the 1800s in London, cholera, an often fatal intestinal disease, was rampant, causing deaths of thousands of people within hours sometimes of first symptoms. So at that time, and this was before bacteria and viruses were recognized as the cause for many illnesses and diseases, popular opinion held that cholera was caused by bad air coming from rotting organic matter. This was known as the miasma or miasma theory. John Snow, a British physician during that time, he had a different opinion of cholera. He believed that the illness was spreading by way of a contaminated water supply because sewage was being routinely dumped into the Thames River and in cesspools near town wells. Because of his work tracing the route of the cholera outbreak, Dr. Snow's often considered the father of modern epidemiology, and his research changed the way we look at disease today. So let's apply the public health approach to Dr. Snow's research of cholera outbreak. So this is a slide of a neighborhood in London, and you'll recall that first we need to identify the public health problem. Snow conducted public health surveillance looking at where those people with cholera lived in London, and he saw that large clusters of cases were occurring in specific areas. So you'll note the red circle, and you'll see more black dots are in that circle and those represent cholera cases. So the concentration of cholera cases, you'll note, are surrounding the area of Broad. Street and the black dots represent the deaths from cholera. Notice the higher density of deaths around Broad Street. Snow was assisted back then by a local clergyman by the name of Reverend Henry Whitehead. He was very, very familiar with the neighborhood and people who lived there. So together-- kind of working separately but then their efforts combined together later on-- they were able to track down and interview surviving cholera victims and their families and geographically map the outbreak. And their efforts highlight the benefit of linking scientific inquiry with engagement of community stakeholders to build the shared ownership of health. So next, Dr. Snow examined the data and tried to identify risk factors. So that is he tried to determine the cause of deaths by using the pattern of where cases were occurring. So this slide illustrates the location of the water pumps in the neighborhood. These are the black boxes. So on the basis of his previous work, Snow believed that water was a potential source of cholera. So the map reveals that the larger number of cases occurred in areas near water pumps, and this observation prompted Dr. Snow to further research the distribution of water pumps in London. And he identified where people who had cholera were drawing their water. His findings showed that clusters of cholera cases were more commonly located around certain pumps, particularly the pump on Broad Street, smack dab in the center of that graph. So through this research, Dr. Snow concluded that drawing water from the Broad Street pump was a primary risk factor for becoming ill with cholera. So after identifying the likely risk factors, the next step in the public health approach is to evaluate potential interventions. With the water supply from the Broad Street pump identified as the risk factor, Snow then worked to identify interventions to address the problem. He did a lot of continuous research, and from that research he understood that the interventions required to control the cholera outbreak were basically two different interventions. One was to stop exposure to the contaminated water supply in the neighborhood, and then on a larger scale, to stop exposure to the entire supply of contaminated water in the area. So using the final step of the public health approach, Snow implemented the intervention by getting the handle removed from the Broad Street pump. And that prevented people from drawing their water from that pump because, again, he believed that the supply of water was the source of the contamination. That was a pretty simple but brilliant way of effectively stopping their exposure to the contaminated water supply. And then, after a very long battle with the politicians and the water companies in the area, Dr. Snow finally convinced the British government that water contaminated with sewage, and not smell or bad air coming from the waste itself, that it was the water that was the source of cholera and as well as other diseases. So this resulted in the implementation of policies and laws for water sanitation, and that was an intervention on a much larger scale than just eliminating the threat from any one single water pump. But both interventions had their importance. All right. It's time for another knowledge check. So this knowledge check just asks you to fill in the blanks with the correct answers. Each public health core science helps us to blank and blank the public's health by providing public health practitioners with the answers they need. So I'll give you a hint. The answers both start with P's. Public health core sciences help us protect and promote the public's health. But if you had anything remotely close to protect and promote we'll count that as correct. So with this knowledge check-- this is a matching one. And just match each component of the public health approach with the questions that they answer. So again, when we ask what is the problem, we're basically talking about surveillance. When we ask what is the cause, we're looking at risk factor determination. And then we want to know, well, what's going to work? What's going to help to solve this public health problem? That's when we're looking at intervention evaluations. Possible interventions that we might be able to implement with our particular population. And then lastly, by process of elimination, how do you do it? And that's where you basically decide what are you going to implement. So this section of the course introduces the core functions and essential services of public health. In 1988, the Institute of Medicine defined three core functions of public health agencies that must be carried out at all levels of government for the overall public health system to work effectively. The three core functions are assessment, policy development, and assurance. So assessment is knowing what needs to be done, and it's based on the collection and analysis of data. You have to have data before you can do anything else. Policy development is much broader than legislation for one. It can be guidelines, standard operating procedures, laws, rules, regulations-- all of that is encompassed by policy development. And policy development is based on the information that comes from the assessment function, and it provides the use of such information in policy and decision making. Assurance is making sure that policies and programs get implemented by providing public health services to those who need them. So if you'll briefly reflect on the mission statement that we discussed earlier of the Institute of Medicine, that public health is assuring conditions in which people can be healthy, this is what this core function is talking about. In this graphic, the three core functions are on the outside of the circle. You'll see assessment on the top right leads to policy development underneath and then assurance on the other side. The 10 essential public health services are grieved underneath these three core functions. These services are not a prescription for what public health agencies should do, but rather they're really intended to capture the field of public health and communicate what it provides. The strength of a public health system rests on its capacity to effectively deliver the 10 essential services of public health. So using the issue of tobacco use prevention, let's explore how the essential services can be implemented. Under the function of assessment, what are examples of number one, monitoring health for tobacco use prevention? So one example is to monitor health among segments of the population. For example, youth. Another example could be monitoring global tobacco use prevention by country. For number two, public health investigates risk factors associated with tobacco use, such as the risk of developing a certain kind of cancer. Assessing the problem provides more data to inform policy development, and that's the second core function, you'll recall, of public health. And that's, again, on the outside of the circle at the bottom right side. The third essential service, which is under policy development, is to inform, educate, and empower people about health concerns. So think of different ways that you hear about the danger of using tobacco. Do you hear it from your physician? So you see public service announcements maybe in magazines? So all of those are examples. People must be informed and educated before they become empowered to make changes, such as quitting tobacco use or never starting at all. On a larger scale, empowerment leads to community mobilization, which is number four. This might include the work of advocacy groups to rally support around banning smoking in restaurants. And that leads to number five, where policymakers then develop policies to do that work, to accomplish that work. So what other policies regarding tobacco use prevention can you think of? Often, people might say, well, raising tobacco taxes or not selling tobacco products to people under a certain age. Having a minimum age requirement and enforcing that in retail establishments. And those are all great examples of policies. After policies are enacted, they must be enforced to have an impact. If they're not enforced, they don't do any good. So enforcement is number six of the essential services of public health. And using our example, this might be fining someone for smoking on an airplane because smoking is not permitted on airplanes per federal legislation. Number seven is to link people to needed public health services. So an example is to refer smokers to tobacco quit lines or for counseling so that they can stop smoking. For number eight, we need to ensure that a competent public health workforce is in place to help people quit smoking. And for all of the interventions we develop, it is critical to evaluate them for their effectiveness, both during and at their end. And this is number nine. So we ask, did the anti-smoking campaign do what it was supposed to do? Did the tobacco cessation program achieve its intended objectives? How successful was the policy that we implemented to raise taxes on tobacco? Did it deter people from buying cigarettes and thus, help people stop smoking? So evaluation is critical throughout the entire process. The essential services of enforcing laws, linking to care, assuring a competent workforce, and evaluation, they fall under that core function of assurance on the left side of the circle. And you'll recall that assurance is ensuring provision of services to those who need them. Now you'll note in the middle of this graph there's research. So research is in the middle of all of these core functions and essential services because it's continually informing everything. So think about as new tobacco products are developed and there are new things coming out all of the time, CDC's laboratories are continuously conducting research on these new products to help us discover their potential negative health effects and help us to look at new products that are being marketed or sold and how we might combat those and battle the tobacco industry. One important point about these essential services is that while they're shown in a very nice graph and that they occur in a sequential order, they actually don't always occur that way in reality. You might have it where you are you doing a couple of the essential services and then you might skip around or you might skip a couple of essential services and move to a different one. Sometimes things just aren't neatly packaged. Sometimes you might do a few services and then actually loop back and do them over again. And again, with new research continually informing everything, that again prevents a nice chronological, sequential flow. But if you were to look at this in a sequential order, it does make sense that you'd start with monitoring health and then moving all the way through to insuring competent workforce to actually carry out whatever the interventions are that you've decided to implement to achieve better health of the population. So the core functions of assessment, policy development, and assurance, they must be carried out at all levels of the government for the public health system to function effectively. And this slide shows the core functions at the top and the three different levels of government at the left. So I'll just go through each level of government and give you the example of assessment, policy development, and assurance. So at the federal level, an example of assessment would be conducting national public health surveillance about tobacco. And then a policy, as we've already discussed, is that they've banned smoking on commercial airline flights. And then assurance is that the federal government, such as CDC, provides federal grants for anti-smoking research and tobacco use prevention cessation and control. At the state level, states also monitor tobacco use. States have autonomy for increasing tobacco taxes. If you look across all states, there are a whole bunch of different types of tobacco taxes. They're not all the same amount. That's completely up to the states to regulate that. And then lastly, assurance. An example of that may be a estate that has a proposition, such as Proposition 99-- I believe that was in California-- funding for campaigns to prevent smoking. At a local level, local communities also report on tobacco use. So that is a way that they conduct assessment to gather data and diagnose. Then that moves, again, to policy development. So you have county laws that prohibit smoking in bars and restaurants. Maybe in your county those are good things. And then assurance, at the last level, an example of that at the local level are resources that county or a local health department might develop to help people quit smoking. And they might put those resources in different languages that are representative of the populations of people who live in those communities. So again, very different levels, but each level has to have a role for all of these functions and services to work together and be successful. All right. So this brings us to a knowledge check. Which of the following is not a core function of public health? And hopefully you all got this right. The correct answer is authority. So assurance assessment and policy development are all functions of public health. So here's a second knowledge check. The essential health services of monitoring health and diagnosing and investigating disease relate to which core public health function? Is it assurance, assessment, or policy development? And remember, it's learning more about the health problem, and so you do that through assessment. And you have to do that before you can do anything else in a meaningful way. So the next section of this course is about the roles of different groups who have a stake in public health. The field of public health requires stakeholders with skills and intervention programs, policies, research, education, et cetera. Partners include governments, community groups, clinical care providers, employers and businesses, the media, academia. I could go on and on but those are the main groups, at least that this slide shows, in addition to the infrastructure provided by the government at all levels as we just covered. So what other sectors and fields can you think of that have a stake in public health? When I talk this over with other groups, some of the answers that they provide are transportation, housing, schools, city planning, law enforcement, faith based institutions. I mean, all of those are great examples of just other partners who have a stake in public health. And some of those are considered nontraditional partners, but our hope is that they will become more traditional and people won't think about only providing with health care providers, for example. Or that basically, we realize that there's a health and all policies approach, which I'll get to in a moment. Nongovernmental organizations, often referred to as NGOs, play a key role in public health, especially at the community level. NGOs serve many different purposes, from advocacy or education to emergency relief and economic development. [INAUDIBLE] types of NGOs include professional membership organizations, groups that focus on a specific health problem, citizen groups, advocacy groups, and foundations that support health projects and work at the policy level. So the column at the right just shows an example of each one of these types of organizations. Along with public health, health care plays a vital role in protecting and promoting the health of people. So while the roles of public health and health care are complementary, there are differences that are shown on this slide. Public health, as we've talked about before, focuses on populations while health care focuses on the individual patient, which is reflected in different guiding ethics for both those areas. Public health focuses on prevention. And while health care is concerned with prevention to some extent, its main focus is more on diagnosing and treating the problem. Each type of laboratory works jointly, yet public health interacts with the field on behalf of groups of people. And clinical laboratories work with health care providers on behalf of individual patients. And the last row of the table shows that while clinical sciences are of peripheral importance to public health, they are essential to the training of health care providers on the clinical side. So here are some of the other primary partners in public health. We're seeing the role these days of social media as a vehicle for public discourse on all matter of issues, including public health concerns. Whereas historically, it was more public health agencies and other partners that have educated the public and promoted healthy behaviors through news and entertainment media. But now, there is more of a self promotion as well as social media continues to take off. Employers and businesses, obviously. They contribute to the public's health by providing health insurance. Workplaces also have wellness initiatives, such as gym subsidies or workout facilities on site, and these can promote the health of their employees. Government agencies, such as the CDC-- they work in partnership with state, local, and tribal health departments. However, important contributions are made by other governmental agencies at all levels. City planning departments can include sidewalks and bike paths to promote and support safe places for people to be physically active. Education departments can ensure healthy food options in schools and in vending machines. Similarly, many other government agencies work as partners in public health by including health considerations in their policy development, and this is known as a health and all policies approach. There's just this concept that regardless of what you do as you're planning, think about how can impact public health. And so that's what I referred to earlier. It says health and all policies. And really, that opens up the opportunity for public health to partner with a variety-- there's really an endless number of different types of organizations. And lastly, but not leastly, academia educates and trains the public health workforce and conducts research that informs public health and provides a great service to the field. So we have another matching exercise for this knowledge check. You need to match each stakeholder to its role in public health. So for a vehicle for public health discourse, the correct answer is media. Newspapers, opinion editorials, social media, all media. Health in all policies, as I said, is something that the government definitely can have an active role in doing, as well as other organizations. But for the purposes of this knowledge check, the correct answer is C, government. Education and training are things that academia contribute to public health. And the stakeholder that provides wellness initiatives and employee benefits is employers and businesses. So the last section of this course covers determinants of health and explains how they affect public health. As we discussed earlier, certain factors determine a person's state of health. Scientists typically recognize the same general categories of health determinants for any population, and these are genes and biology, health behaviors, social or societal characteristics, and health services or medical care. So I would like you to think of some examples of each of these broad categories. What are some examples of genes and biology? You might think of a person's sex or age or immunity levels. For health behaviors it could be whether or not a person is a smoker. What are that person's eating habits? Whether or not a person takes medications that are prescribed for a chronic condition that person has. Social or societal characteristics. They can include one's ability to work, the quality of schools, where a person lives. What's the quality of air, water, and sanitation in that person's immediate neighborhood? And then, examples of medical care are insurance coverage and even one's proximity to getting quality health care. This chart is an estimate of how these four major categories of health determinants influence health at the population level. The chart shows that health care is not the major factor determining our health, yet it represents a substantial portion of the United States budget. Most of what determines our health you'll see at the population level are the social and societal characteristics, whereas genes in and biology, they have the least amount of influence. And then health behaviors, again, a pretty substantial amount. But it's really the social and societal characteristics and the ecology, including the person's environment, that has the greatest impact. To address the health determinants on this slide that we just discussed, we have to have a plan of attack. A means to effect change. The health impact pyramid describes such a plan. It shows the impact of different types of public health interventions. So as we move down the pyramid, the public health impact grows greater, and as we move up the pyramid, the amount of individual effort to achieve impact increases. So let's start at the top. When we start at the top and go down, we can provide counseling and education. We can provide ongoing direct clinical care. Next, we can provide clinical interventions that require a more limited contact but confer long term protection. That's kind of what preventive medicine does. We can change the context to make individuals default decisions be easy decisions but ones that are the healthiest. And at the bottom of the pyramid, that addresses the socioeconomic determinants of health. Interventions focusing on the lower level of the pyramid tend to be more effective because they reach broader segments of society and they require less individual effort. This isn't to say that what's at the top of the pyramid is not important because it is, but implementing interventions at all levels of the pyramid, that's what's going to achieve the maximum possible sustained public health benefit. And a point to emphasize here too is that there are trade offs. We have to sometimes give up resources in one area in order to have a larger impact in another. But let's take a look at some examples of each level of intervention. So the pyramid illustrates the impact of different types of public health interventions. And again, working our way from the top to the bottom. Counseling and education in clinical settings, public health settings-- they are regarded by some as the essence of public health action. I went to school and I actually majored in health education and promotion when I got my master's degree in public health. But being at CDC, I've learned a lot about how all of those other areas, including the area at the bottom, really make a substantial impact in interventions. But that's, again, not-- counseling and education-- they're not as effective as we would like. But that being said, there are times when counseling and education are the only forms of intervention that are available or appropriate. And when they're applied consistently and repeatedly, they can have a positive impact. So moving to clinical interventions, ongoing medical care for a health condition is an example. For example, in the case of cardiovascular disease, these interventions can have a considerable effect. But we're also limited by a lack of access to certain patients who need that type of care and a lack of adherence to medical instructions and taking prescriptions as prescribed in the real world. So again, that medical care has its limitations. So in the very middle of the pyramid looking at the intervention level of preventive medicine, let's talk about vaccinations as an example. Vaccinations prevent 2.5 million deaths among children around the world every year. So in this case, a single dose or instance of an intervention can have a lifelong effect. So this is an example of a long lasting preventive medicine intervention. The next level down on the pyramid is where we make decisions the default by changing the context in which behaviors occur. And it makes it more difficult to avoid the intervention. So for example, changing laws to require seat belt use. Making it easier for people to wear their seat belts because if you don't put your seat belt on, you get this really annoying beeping noise until you put it on, so you want to put it on and just make the noise go way. But it's much easier than it used to be to wear your seat belt. Banning smoking in certain public places is another example. Both of these examples and accomplishments in public health have had a tremendous impact and saved many, many, many lives. In another basic example, some of the buildings at CDC-- the newer buildings for example-- when you first walk in, the stairs are what you see before you see the elevator. And the stairs have windows and maybe have some plants or some music. So that makes it much more enjoyable and very easy for people to decide to take the stairs instead of going all the way around the corner to find the elevator. So that's a real basic example of making the healthy decisions the default. At the base of the pyramid are the public health interventions that affect socioeconomic factors. If we can improve the quality of life by helping people out of poverty, providing basic sanitation, improving access to education, helping them get jobs, providing healthy food, medical care, we can greatly improve a population's health. So it's time for another knowledge check, and I'd like you to just list four determinants of health. Now remember, it can be genes and biology, health behaviors, social societal characteristics, and health services or medical care. In our last knowledge check of the course, just fill in the blanks using the two choices. For number one, as we move down the health impact pyramid, the public health impact grows greater. Remember, the base of the pyramid is the socioeconomic factors. As we move up the pyramid, the health impact becomes greater in terms of the amount of individual effort that's required. Again, all levels of the pyramid are important, but it's just a nice framework for thinking about how interventions can be implemented at different levels. Within each of the topics we've covered in this course, underlying all of our actions and decisions is the application of the public health core sciences. I encourage you to build on this introduction to public health by learning more about these core sciences and how they contribute to the field of public health. Let's review the learning objectives for this session. The course provided content to help you describe the purpose of public health, define some key terms used in public health. You'll recall we talked about epidemics, health determinants. The course helped you identify prominent events in the history of public health. That's where we looked at a few historical highlights of public health through sanitation and environmental health, pandemics, disaster preparedness and response, and prevention through policy. The course helped you recognize the core public health functions-- those three functions-- and 10 essential services. You should be able to describe the role of different stakeholders in the field of public health, as well as to list some of the determinants of health. And lastly, you should recognize how individual determinants of health affect population health. Thank you for your attention today for the introduction to public health. To receive continuing education units, CEU credits, for today's webinar, please complete the webinar evaluation on CDC TRAIN by logging in and looking under My Learning. If you or one of your colleagues were not able to attend today's webinar, an archived version of this webinar will be available on CDC TRAIN in approximately two to three weeks. For further information on CDC webinars, please visit www.cdc.gov/labtraining. Again, thank you for participating in today's webinar. Have a positive and healthy afternoon.

Health Benefits of Ginger - What is ginger good for?

EAT GINGER EVERY DAY FOR 1 MONTH AND THIS WILL HAPPEN TO YOUR BODY! EAT GINGER EVERY DAY FOR 1 MONTH AND THIS WILL HAPPEN TO YOUR BODY! You may know that ginger is a common ingredient in Asian and Indian cuisine, but did you know that it’s been used for centuries for its healing properties? Ginger has a long history of health benefits, including relief from nausea, digestive issues and pain. The most commonly used part of the plant for medicinal purposes is the root or underground stem, known as the rhizome. It can be consumed fresh, powdered, dried as a spice, or used in the form of an oil or as juice. If you don’t use ginger in your kitchen, here are 8 reasons why you might want to start! 1. Ginger Relieves Digestive Issues The phenolic compounds in ginger have been shown to help relieve irritation in the gastrointestinal tract. They help to stimulate saliva and bile production while allowing food and fluids to move through the GI tract more smoothly. In a study of 24 healthy individuals, taking 1.2 grams of ginger powder before a meal accelerated emptying of the stomach, reducing indigestion by 50%. 2. Ginger Relieves Nausea Drinking ginger tea or even consuming raw ginger is a common and safe home remedy for nausea, especially during cancer treatment or pregnancy and morning sickness. A review of 12 studies that included a total of 1,278 pregnant women found that 1.1-1.5 grams of ginger significantly reduced nausea. 3. Ginger Can Relieve Pain A study conducted at the University of Georgia found that daily ginger supplementation reduced muscle pain by 25%. Ginger has also been found to reduce pain during menstrual cycles. Researchers also believe that ginger is effective at reducing the day-to-day progression of muscle pain. 4. Ginger Reduces Inflammation Osteoarthritis is a common health problem that involves the degeneration of the joints in the body, causing joint pain and stiffness. In a trial of 247 people with osteoarthritis of the knee, those who took ginger extract had less pain and required less pain medication. 5. Ginger May Reduce Risk of Heart Disease In a recent study involving participants with type 2 diabetes, researchers found that 2 grams of ginger powder each day lowered blood sugar and led to a 10% overall reduction over a period of 12 weeks. High blood sugar is a major risk factor for heart disease. With the effects of ginger on blood sugar, your risk of heart disease may be lowered by at least 10%. 6. Ginger May Lower Cholesterol Levels A 45-day study involving 85 people with high cholesterol concluded that 3 grams of ginger powder each day caused significant reductions in cholesterol levels. Researchers believe that ginger can aid in lowering cholesterol levels and reducing the risk of heart disease. 7. Ginger May Have Anti-Cancer Properties A substance in ginger known as 6-gingerol has been studied as an alternative treatment for several types of cancer. Research on this theory is still being conducted, but one study found that 2 grams of ginger extract each day significantly reduced pro-inflammatory signaling molecules in the colon. 8. Ginger May Improve Brain Function Oxadative stress and chronic inflammation are two factors that can accelerate the aging process, and become a key driver of Alzheimer’s disease and other age-related cognitive impairments. Some studies suggest that the antioxidants and bioactive compounds in ginger can inhibit inflammatory responses that occur in the brain. In a study of 60 middle-aged women, ginger extract was shown to improve reaction time and working memory, suggesting that ginger supports brain health in multiple ways.