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People who have incurable diseases - by the standards of today's Medical Orthodoxy - never simply just give in. They look for hope in emerging therapies. 60 Minutes - the famed TV News Magazine - did an expose on Stem Cell charlatans Sunday April 18th. Their focus was a sting operation that focused on a scam artist who offered a liaison to a stem cell clinic that could cure ALS disease. Overall the piece was quite slanted in my humble opinion.

The experts who spoke on behalf of the Stem Cell scientific community as a whole made it sound like just about ALL stem cell therapies offered today - especially outside of the US - are risky at best and a total scam at worst. I had "Kathy" on my show several months back who went to Costa Rica for stem cell therapy for crippling Rheumatoid Arthritis and was - in her own words - completely cured of the disease. I had the pleasure of having lunch with Kathy and at first was skeptical about her story. Once I was able to see the remnants of her disease - proud bulging knuckle joints in her hands that are the hallmark of RA - it was obvious to me that she was telling the truth. She was not able to walk unassisted prior to her stem cell therapy. When we met she walked as effortlessly as you or I. Other than the knuckles of her hands, she was completely without ANY symptoms and was in a joyous mood.

There ARE legitimate Stem Cell therapies out there. Some, here in the US but are operating a little below the radar for certain reasons. In fact the FDA is close to approving one shortly for Parkinson's Disease. I have promised not to disclose this until they are finished.

Interestingly enough, the physician behind this uniquestem cell therapy is associated with a world renowned University - BUT- chooses to do the majority of procedures in Mexico. I'm sure that once the FDA waves it approval wand over the procedure it will all move back across the border.

Every business - including medicine - has its share of thieves. If we avoided physicians in general due to the number of quacks out there doctors would not have patients.

Stem Cell therapy is no different. You have to do your research. You have to visit the facility before you agree to use them. This idea that good medical care is only available here in the USA is ridiculous. There are great hospitals and institutions maned by caring, brilliant doctors in all developed countries today. Mexico, China, Japan, we don't hold the patent on brilliance in medicine. The USA is no longer the brain trust of the world.

If you are seeking Stem Cell therapy outside the USA you must be able to visit the facility and see it first hand. You must speak to patients that have had the procedure you are seeking -and I don't mean one or two - many. And I would want to speak to patients who have had the procedure several years back to see of the disease comes back. You have to also use your critical thinking skills.

I spoke to a physician I found on the Internet who has a Stem Cell clinicin Mexico and asked him lots of questions about his procedure. A few things he said just didn't ring true to me. The procedure sounded a little too simplified to put it kindly. Also legitimate physicians will NEVER guaranty success. This should be a red flag. Chances are if it doesn't sound right its not.

You still have to be your own advocate.. buying a car or Stem Cell therapy.

During the show I did with William Thomas about the negative effects of your microwave oven it was discussed that simply microwaving water - which is probably how most people use their microwave oven - to reheat beverages - changes the water so dramatically that if you water a plant with water that had been previously microwaved, over a short time the plant would wilt and die.

Some individuals emailed me and also posted comments in the show comments section saying this was ridiculous. I figured I'd find out for myself.

I went to Walmart yesterday and purchased two Bell Pepper plants. I chose these for two reasons. They were robust looking plants and they were tall-standing plants. It would be easy to see if one began to wilt and die. I took them home and watered them and allowed them to sit over night so they could acclimate after the drive home.

I opened a brand new gallon jug of Kroger's Spring Water, poured some off into a Pyrex bowl and microwaved it till it began to boil. Then I allowed to to sit till it cooled to room temperature. I then poured this back into an empty gallon jug and marked it with the letter "A". Each plant also has a letter indicator - "A" and "B". The un-microwaved water remains in its original jug and is marked "B".

These plants require a minimum of 6 hours of direct sunlight each day as indicated by the growing instructions that they came with so I've moved the plants to a table in my back yard. I will continue to water them both with un-microwaved water for the rest of today and begin the experiment tomorrow.

I will do daily updates with pictures so we can all see what happens. If you have any suggestions about this experiment please post them in the comments section here.

We all see people walking and jogging along side roadways as we drive past in our cars. Many of us may participate in this style of cardiovascular activity because its known that aerobic exercise is good for our bodies and our heart. One of the reported benefits of  aerobic exercise is lowered blood pressure. Well, where you perform your aerobic exercise may be as important as actually performing the exercise as it relates to lowering blood pressure and decreasing the risk of heart attack.

Joel Schwartz of the Harvard School of Public Health presented a study to the American Heart Association showing that exposure to the particulate matter from automobile exhaust has a direct effect on raising blood pressure by activating the Alpha Adrenergic system. The study followed 939 participants in the Normative Aging study every 4 years from 1995 through 2006. Participants were corrected for age, BMI, smoking, use of cardiovascular medication, alcohol, and day of week and season of clinical visit. Their exposure to automobile exhaust was assesed based on their home address proximity to busy thoroughfares and roadways over the entire follow-up period and for the year preceding each visit.

The results were an increase in systolic, diastolic and mean arterial blood pressure that coincided with their exposure to automobile exhaust pollution.

If you love to jog along busy roadwasy  or in the heart of downtown USA you may want to rethink this approach because it may be negating the cardiovascular benefits of aerobic exercise. In fact, due to the accelerated respiratory patterns that are experienced during a moderate to intense jog, you may be inhaling a large enough amount of particulate matter to increase your risk of a heart attack!

Choose a park-like or country setting with lots of trees around if you like to jog out doors and avoid busy roadways and areas with high automobile exhaust fumes. If you have no choice but to jog in areas where there are lots of automobiles, then choose a time of day when traffic is at its lowest.

Source: Presentation: P293 - Long-Term Exposure to Traffic Particles Is Associated with Increased Blood Pressure

I tend not to be a very "Religious" person but Easter is one of those days that just about everyone celebrates. Chocolate Bunnies, Easter Eggs, Marshmallow Peeps.. all favorites regardless of whether you buy into the whole Christian/Catholic rhetoric.

To me this day is about tolerance. Something we need a lot more of. One need only look at all of the broken families in this country to understand that tolerance is no longer tolerated.

Looking at each other with a grading system. Holding people to standards based on ones own expectations is something that has replaced tolerance in society. Its much more popular to burn a bridge than to see the other person's position.  I remember the first time I heard the term "throw away society" as it pertained to today's culture. It really is true. And we do it to people as well.

Whether you buy into Easter as being a religious holiday or just another reason to celebrate.. try practicing tolerance today. When you feel yourself digging your heels in to embark on a battle with a fiend or family memberask yourself if the battle is really worth the effort. Are you protecting valuable ideals or just feeling the need to be right and win? Is winning really that important to you? If it is, and winning at all costs is more important than the potential destruction of friendly and family ties you should reevaluate your position.

If you find that you are not tolerant of others it may speak to your inability to be tolerant of yourself.  Eric Hoffer wrote "The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves."

Practice tolerance with yourself. Practice tolerance with others.

Vitamin B and all of its forms have been identified as supporting energy production in the human body. Almost all forms of Vitamin B are water soluble. One particularly important form of Vitamin B - B1 or Thiamine - can be found in both a water soluble and fat soluble form. Thiamine and its fat soluble brother Thiamine Tetrahydrofurfuryl Disulfide - or TTFD as its better known - has piqued the interest of many scientist for some time now.

Thiamine is well known to support carbohydrate metabolism - an important issue in today's diabetes-prone carbohydrate-centric society. There have been many theories explored as to how Thiamine supports carbohydrate metabolism, but like most scientific studies, the more one digs the more it keeps unfolding.

Thiamine's benefits as a glucose supporting agent are so sure that even the US Government's established RDA is based upon a 0.5 Mg per 1000 calories of dietary consumption as opposed to a milligram-per-pound-of-body-weight like other vitamins.

Thiamine, and more importantly -TTFD, helps to regulate blood glucose by effecting the production of ATP which is the fuel for cellular energy (remember the KREBS Cycle from middle school biology???). Recent research has shown that TTFD may be a superior form of B1 and its benefits might be just what we need to help so many pre-diabetics, diabetics and athletes achieve something that they all share in common - superior glucose management and excess glucose disposal.

Some studies with a synthetic form TTFD have been shown to enhance glucose utilization and glucose oxidation in both resting and athletic performance settings. This fat soluble form of B1 is absorbed easily by the body, leads to higher blood levels of Thiamine than frank Thiamine supplementation and appears to pass the blood-brain-barrier effectively. Since the Brain requires precise glucose utilization those suffering from CNS-related disease like Alzheimer's Disease should pay attention to this form of B1. Non-caffeinated energy drinks would also do well to pay attention to this form of B1 since its effects on alertness and cognition may outperform their favorite form of Thiamine. And ergoneic supplement formulators out there may do well to add TTFD to their Creatine / Beta Alanine blends as this form of B1 should have a complimentary effect on performance and staving off fatigue.

TTFD has also been shown in some limited experiments to have an positive effect on Autistic children who are well known to have digestive and nutrient assimilation issues. In one study 8 out of 10 Autistic children saw improvement in their symptoms with doses of 50 Mgs twice daily for 2 months.

As we age Thiamine appears to have greater importance. Both its absorption and its enzymatic contributions diminish. Getting adequate amounts of B1 - and perhaps it superior form TTFD - may be essential to healthy aging. A naturally occurring food source of TTFD can be found in Garlic where this fat soluble form of B1 was first discovered. TTFD is released when the Garlic is sliced or crushed - "That's a spicy meat-ah-ball-ah"  .

Start paying attention to your B1 intake if you eat a high-calorie or high-carbohydrate diet and pay special attention to the form of Thiamine you're getting. Perhaps, if we start to ask for Thiamine Tetrahydrofurfuryl Disulfide, supplement manufactures will start using this form of B1 in their blends. Trust me.. if Big Pharama has its way they'll try and make it a by-prescription-only form pharmaceutical drug. Can anyone say Lovaza? 

 

 

Lovaza is a trademarked name of by-prescription-only form of fish oil by GlaxoSmithKline

Nutr Res. 2009 Dec;29(12):867-72.; Thiamine tetrahydrofurfuryl disulfide improves energy metabolism and physical performance during physical-fatigue loading in rats.; Nozaki S, Mizuma H, Tanaka M, Jin G, Tahara T, Mizuno K, Yamato M, Okuyama K, Eguchi A, Akimoto K, Kitayoshi T, Mochizuki-Oda N, Kataoka Y, Watanabe Y.; Department of Physiology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka 545-8585, Japan.

J Nutr Sci Vitaminol (Tokyo). 2010;56(1):9-12. ;A Thiamin Derivative Inhibits Oxidation of Exogenous Glucose at Rest, but Not during Exercise.; Masuda H, Matsumae H, Masuda T, Hatta H.; Department of Sports Sciences, The University of Tokyo.

Treatment of autism spectrum children with thiamine tetrahydrofurfuryl disulfide: A pilot study
Derrick Lonsdale 1, Raymond J. Shamberger 2 & Tapan Audhya 3