Saturday, January 17, 2015

13 Evidence-Based Medicinal Properties of Coconut Oil

While coconut oil has dragged itself out of the muck of vast misrepresentation over the past few years, it still rarely gets the appreciation it truly deserves. Not just a "good" saturated fat, coconut oil is an exceptional healing agent as well, with loads of useful health applications.

Some examples of "good" saturated fat include

Fat-burning: Ironic, isn't it? A saturated fat which can accelerate the loss of midsection fat (the most dangerous kind). Well, there are now two solid, human studies showing just two tablespoons a day (30 ml), in both men and women, is capable of reducing belly fat within 1-3 months.
Brain-Boosting: A now famous study, published in 2006 in the journalNeurobiology of Aging, showed that the administration of medium chain triglycerides (most plentifully found in coconut oil) in 20 subjects with Alzheimer's disease or mild cognitive impairment, resulted in significant increases in ketone bodies (within only 90 minutes after treatment) associated with measurable cognitive improvement in those with less severe cognitive dysfunction.[i]
Clearing Head Lice: When combined with anise spray, coconut oil was found to be superior to the insecticide permethrin (.43%).[ii]
Healing Wounds: Coconut has been used for wound healing since time immemorial. Three of the identified mechanisms behind these healing effects are its ability to accelerate re-epithelialization, improve antioxidant enzyme activity, and stimulate higher collagen cross-linking within the tissue being repaired.[iii] Coconut oil has even been shown to work synergistically with traditional treatments, such as silver sulphadizine, to speed burn wound recovery.[iv]
NSAID Alternative: Coconut oil has been demonstrated to have anti-inflammatory, analgesic and fever-reducing properties.[v]
Anti-Ulcer Activity: Interestingly, coconut milk (which includes coconut oil components), has been shown to be as effective as the conventional drug sucralfate as an NSAID-associated anti-ulcer agent.[vi]
Anti-Fungal: In 2004, 52 isolates of Candida species were exposed to coconut oil. The most notorious form, Candida albicans, was found to have the highest susceptibility. Researchers remarked: "Coconut oil should be used in the treatment of fungal infections in view of emerging drug-resistant Candida species."[vii]
Testosterone-Booster: Coconut oil was found to reduce oxidative stress in the testes of rats, resulting in significantly higher levels of testosterone.[viii]
Reducing Swollen Prostate: Coconut oil has been found to reduce testosterone-induced benign prostate growth in rats.[ix]
Improving Blood Lipids: Coconut oil consistently improves the LDL:HDL ratio in the blood of those who consume it. Given this effect, coconut oil can nolonger be dismissed for being 'that saturated fat which clogs the arteries.'
Fat-Soluble Nutrient Absorption: Coconut oil was recently found to be superior to safflower oil in enhancing tomato carotenoid absorption.[x]
Bone Health: Coconut oil has been shown to reduce oxidative stress within the bone, which may prevent structural damage in osteoporotic bone.[xi][Note: Osteoporosis is a Myth, as presently defined by the T-Score]

Sunscreen: Coconut oil has been shown to block out UV rays by 30%. Keep in mind that this is good, insofar as UVA rays are damaging to the skin, whereas UVB rays are highly beneficial (when exposure is moderate).[i] Make sure to check this list of other sun-blocking oils.

Of course, when speaking about coconut oil, we are only looking at one part of the amazing coconut palm. Each component, including coconut hull fiber,coconut protein and coconut water has experimentally confirmed therapeutic applications.

References

[i] Mark A Reger, Samuel T Henderson, Cathy Hale, Brenna Cholerton, Laura D Baker, G S Watson, Karen Hyde, Darla Chapman, Suzanne Craft . Effects of beta-hydroxybutyrate on cognition in memory-impaired adults.Neurobiol Aging. 2004 Mar;25(3):311-4. PMID: 15123336

[ii] Ian F Burgess, Elizabeth R Brunton, Nazma A Burgess . Clinical trial showing superiority of a coconut and anise spray over permethrin0.43% lotion for head louse infestation, ISRCTN96469780. Eur J Pediatr. 2010 Jan ;169(1):55-62. Epub 2009 Apr 3. PMID: 19343362

[iii] K G Nevin, T Rajamohan . Effect of topical application of virgin coconut oil on skin components and antioxidant status during dermal wound healing in young rats. Skin Pharmacol Physiol. 2010 ;23(6):290-7. Epub 2010 Jun 3. PMID: 20523108

[iv] Pallavi Srivastava, S Durgaprasad. Burn wound healing property of Cocos nucifera: An appraisal. Indian J Pharmacol. 2008 Aug;40(4):144-6. PMID: 20040946

[v] S Intahphuak, P Khonsung, A Panthong. Anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antipyretic activities of virgin coconut oil. Pharm Biol. 2010 Feb;48(2):151-7. PMID: 20645831

[vi] R O Nneli, O A Woyike. Antiulcerogenic effects of coconut (Cocos nucifera) extract in rats. Phytother Res. 2008 Jul;22(7):970-2. PMID:18521965

[vii] D O Ogbolu, A A Oni, O A Daini, A P Oloko. In vitro antimicrobial properties of coconut oil on Candida species in Ibadan, Nigeria. J Med Food. 2007 Jun;10(2):384-7. PMID: 17651080

[viii] Graciela E Hurtado de Catalfo, María J T de Alaniz, Carlos A Marra.Dietary lipids modify redox homeostasis and steroidogenic status in rat testis. Phytother Res. 2010 Feb;24(2):163-8. PMID: 18549927

[ix] María de Lourdes Arruzazabala, Vivian Molina, Rosa Más, Daisy Carbajal, David Marrero, Víctor González, Eduardo Rodríguez. Effects ofcoconut oil on testosterone-induced prostatic hyperplasia in Sprague-Dawley rats. J Pharm Pharmacol. 2007 Jul;59(7):995-9. PMID:17637195

[x] Lauren E Conlon, Ryan D King, Nancy E Moran, John W Erdman.Coconut Oil Enhances Tomato Carotenoid Tissue AccumulationCompared to Safflower Oil in the Mongolian Gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus).J Agric Food Chem. 2012 Aug 7. Epub 2012 Aug 7. PMID: 22866697

[xi] Mouna Abdelrahman Abujazia, Norliza Muhammad, Ahmad Nazrun Shuid, Ima Nirwana Soelaiman. The Effects of Virgin Coconut Oil on Bone Oxidative Status in Ovariectomised Rat. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2012 ;2012:525079. Epub 2012 Aug 15. PMID: 22927879

Thursday, January 15, 2015

ABC: CDC and Health Officials Tell 26 Year Old Woman She Gets Quarantined and Measles Vaccine or "goes to Jail" - Health Nut News

Monday, January 12, 2015

US hospital kidnaps disabled teen patient for profit

US hospital kidnaps disabled teen patient for profit

Sunday, January 11, 2015
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Tags: medical kidnapping, Isaiah Rider, child abuse

The medical kidnapping of Isaiah Rider

Isaiah was kidnapped by the hospital after his mother requested a second opinion on a medical diagnosis and treatment plan. Because Isaiah has a disability, the federal government pays extra for "treatments." Isaiah, like many children in America today, quickly became a cash cow for the hospital which was working in conspiracy with state officials to act as the new "parents" for Isaiah.

While Isaiah was held against his will under the custody of the state, here's what happened, according to the report on MedicalKidnap.com:

Isaiah reports that a man he had never seen before confronted him and held a gun to his head. He forced him to chew a white pill, and as Isaiah was becoming dizzy, the man forced himself on the boy, sodomized him, and did other things to him, calling him a "pretty boy." He passed out. When he woke up, he was extremely sore. The man was gone, but he was surrounded by other people who were laughing. The terrified child found his way back to the foster home, but he didn’t tell anyone.

All the while, the hospital was raking in massive profits by exploiting the boy's body in more ways than one.

This is all described in excruciating detail by the boy's own mother, Michelle Rider, who spoke with Dave Hodges in this interview. You may not be able to stomach listening to it, as Michelle goes public with horrifying details of the abuse of her son under the "medical care" of hospital authorities and staff.

"Many have speculated that Isaiah's condition, which is receiving federal grants to treat, is the primary reason that Isaiah was taken from his mother," writes Dave Hodges of The Commonsense Show. [1] "He was worth too much money to the hospital. Since CPS receives federal money for children taken away from their parents, and even more compensation is granted for children with disabilities, like Isaiah, all the authorities in this case are motivated by the almighty dollar."

MedicalKidnap.com documents the growing medical abuse of children in American hospitals

A website called www.MedicalKidnap.com documents many of these cases, and the story describing this medical kidnapping and abuse of Isaiah is found at this link. [2]

There, Terri LaPoint from Health Impact News writes that Isaiah "has come forward publicly with devastating information about the trauma that he experienced as a ward of the state of Illinois. While he was in a Chicago foster home, he was raped and sodomized. Though this has been reported to his social worker, his guardian ad litem and the authorities, nothing is being done about it according to the family."

See the full coverage of this shocking, devastating story of medical abuse at this page on MedicalKidnap.com.

EpicTimes.com has also covered this story with radio host Robert Scott Bell, who heads the show of the same name on the Natural News Radio Network.

Modern medicine is a mafia racket

As this example demonstrates yet again, modern medicine functions as a criminal mafia medical racket that preys upon children and teens in order to generate obscene profits at the expensive of massive human suffering.

The complicit mainstream media, buoyed by never-ending pharmaceutical ad revenues, almost always covers up these stories, pretending this isn't happening in America. Even while cancer doctors routinely fabricate false diagnoses in order to profit from expensive chemotherapy treatments, the mainstream media usually remains silent.

We are witnessing not just horrific crimes against children being committed in the name of medical profits; we are also witnessing the nationwide complicity of a propaganda media that functions primarily as a network of corporate puppets and White House propaganda parrots. (Kudos to those few local media outlets that do have the courage to cover this story, but as those local reporters know, anyone who dares mention this is happening in America is immediately attacked and threatened. Censorship of medical truth is in full force across the U.S. media...)

Institutional pedophilia and medical abuse of children is widespread in America today

Sadly, in the sick, depraved culture of modern America, the systematic abuse of children by the wealthy elite almost seems to be some sort of deviant fetish or pastime. Pedophilia is alive and well at the highest levels of medicine, government and even college sports -- remember Penn State? It's rare that the truth ever comes out at all, especially when children and teens are so easily tormented with psychological and physical abuse to the point where they're too afraid to speak out at all.

In covering many of the outrageous and criminally-minded misdeeds of the medical, biotech and vaccine industries in America today, I'm convinced there is nothing these people won't do for profit or power. They have no morals, no ethics, no compassion and no boundaries. They rape and pillage under the banners of "science" and "medicine" even while the Obamacare system that steals money from the working middle class financially rewards medical kidnappers and pedophiles.

The whole corrupt system is so insanely sick and downright demonic that it defies understanding by anyone with genuine compassion for fellow human beings. What kind of system is so deeply infected with evil intent that it would kidnap and rape a teenage boy in order to rack up medical bills for profit?

That system is called "modern medicine," and it's the same system that wants you to take useless flu shots (containing mercury), blindly eat GMOs that aren't labeled and dope up your children on a dozen mind-altering medications. That system is an insult to human dignity and a parasite feeding on human productivity. Much like pure evil from actual Hell, modern medicine is a system that feeds on the pain and suffering of innocent human victims. It is a soul-sucking institution so driven by the desire for profit that it will allow young boys and girls to be kidnapped and raped while calling it "medicine."

These doctors that allow all this to take place are not really people. They are demons. They have already sold their own souls... and now they are greedily feasting upon others, all under the authority of Illinois state medical licenses and FDA-approved toxic chemical treatments.

Join the rally against medical kidnapping this Tuesday, January 13 in Chicago

As MedicalKidnap.com writes:

There is another court hearing on Tuesday, as well as a support rally for the Riders at 1 pm on Tuesday, January 13, at the Cook County Juvenile Court at 1100 S. Hamilton, Chicago. The public is invited to attend and show support for the family.

I encourage all Natural News fans in the Chicago area to attend this rally and show support for this latest victim of medical kidnapping.

Also, visit the Team Isaiah Facebook page at:
http://www.facebook.com/TeamIsaiahRider

Sources for this article include:
[1] http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2015/01/07...

[2] http://medicalkidnap.com/2015/01/10/missouri...

[3] http://mediaarchives.gsradio.net/commonsense...

[4] http://www.naturalnews.com/048239_cancer_doc...

Learn more:http://www.naturalnews.com/048255_medical_kidnapping_Isaiah_Rider_child_abuse.html##ixzz3OebhfCMl

Sunday, January 11, 2015

Connecticut Girl Forced to take Chemo

The Flexner Report - Stopping Holistic Treatments in 1910

The Flexner Report^[1] is a book-length study of medical education in the United States and Canada, written by Abraham Flexner and published in 1910 under the aegis of the Carnegie Foundation. Many aspects of the present-day American medical profession stem from the Flexner Report and its aftermath.

The Report (also called Carnegie Foundation Bulletin Number Four) called on American medical schools to enact higher admission and graduation standards, and to adhere strictly to the protocols of mainstream science in their teaching and research. Many American medical schools fell short of the standard advocated in the Flexner Report, and subsequent to its publication, nearly half of such schools merged or were closed outright. Colleges in electrotherapy were closed. The Report also concluded that there were too many medical schools in the USA, and that too many doctors were being trained. A repercussion of the Flexner Report, resulting from the closure or consolidation of university training, was reversion of American universities to male-only admittance programs to accommodate a smaller admission pool. Universities had begun opening and expanding female admissions as part of women's and co-educational facilities only in the mid-to-latter part of the 19th century with the founding of co-educational Oberlin College in 1833 and private colleges such as Vassar College and Pembroke College.

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Background to the report[edit]

In 1904 the AMA created the Council on Medical Education (CME) whose objective was to restructure American medical education. At its first annual meeting, the CME adopted two standards: one laid down the minimum prior education required for admission to a medical school, the other defined a medical education as consisting of two years training in human anatomy and physiology followed by two years of clinical work in a teaching hospital. In 1908, the CME asked the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to survey American medical education, so as to promote the CME's reformist agenda and hasten the elimination of medical schools that failed to meet the CME's standards. The president of the Carnegie Foundation, Henry Pritchett, a staunch advocate of medical school reform, chose Abraham Flexner to conduct the survey. Flexner was not a physician, scientist, or a medical educator, although he held a bachelor of arts degree and operated a for-profit school in Louisville, Kentucky.^[2]

At that time, the 155 medical schools in North America differed greatly in their curricula, methods of assessment, and requirements for admission and graduation. Flexner visited all 155 schools^[3] and generalized about them as follows: "Each day students were subjected to interminable lectures and recitations. After a long morning of dissection or a series of quiz sections, they might sit wearily in the afternoon through three or four or even five lectures delivered in methodical fashion by part-time teachers. Evenings were given over to reading and preparation for recitations. If fortunate enough to gain entrance to a hospital, they observed more than participated." The Report became notorious for its harsh description of certain establishments, for example describing Chicago's 14 medical schools as "a disgrace to the State whose laws permit its existence... indescribably foul... the plague spot of the nation."

Nevertheless, several schools received praise for excellent performance, including Case Western Reserve, Michigan, Wake Forest,McGill, University of Toronto, and especially Johns Hopkins, which was described as the 'model for medical education'.^[4]

Recommended changes[edit]

When Flexner researched his report, many American medical schools were "proprietary", namely small trade schools owned by one or more doctors, unaffiliated with a college or university, and run to make a profit. A degree was typically awarded after only two years of study. Laboratory work and dissection were not necessarily required. Many of the instructors were local doctors teaching part-time, whose own training left something to be desired. The regulation of the medical profession by state governments was minimal or nonexistent. American doctors varied enormously in their scientific understanding of human physiology, and the word "quack" flourished.

Flexner carefully examined the situation. Using the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine as the ideal,^[5] he issued the following recommendations:^[6]

Reduce the number of medical schools (from 155 to 31) and poorly trained physicians;
Increase the prerequisites to enter medical training;
Train physicians to practice in a scientific manner and engage medical faculty in research;
Give medical schools control of clinical instruction in hospitals
Strengthen state regulation of medical licensure

Flexner believed that admission to a medical school should require, at minimum, a high school diploma and at least two years ofcollege or university study, primarily devoted to basic science. When Flexner researched his report, only 16 out of 155 medical schools in the United States and Canada required applicants to have completed two or more years of university education.^[7] By 1920, 92 percent of U.S. medical schools required this of applicants.^[8] Flexner also argued that the length of medical education should be four years, and its content should be what the CME agreed to in 1905. Flexner recommended that the proprietary medical schools should either close or be incorporated into existing universities. Medical schools should be part of a larger university, because a proper stand-alone medical school would have to charge too much in order to break even financially.

Less known is Flexner's recommendation that medical schools appoint full-time clinical professors. Holders of these appointments would become "true university teachers, barred from all but charity practice, in the interest of teaching." Flexner pursued this objective for years, despite widespread opposition from existing medical faculty.

Flexner was the child of German immigrants, and had studied and traveled in Europe. He was well aware that one could not practice medicine in continental Europe without having undergone an extensive specialized university education. In effect, Flexner demanded that American medical education conform to prevailing practice in continental Europe.

By and large, medical schools in Canada and the United States have followed Flexner's recommendations down to the present day. Recently, however, schools have increased their emphasis on public health matters.

Consequences of the report[edit]

To a remarkable extent, the following present-day aspects of the medical profession in North America are consequences of the Flexner Report:

A physician receives at least six,^{[citation needed]} and preferably eight, years of post-secondary formal instruction, nearly always in a university setting;
Medical training adheres closely to the scientific method and is thoroughly grounded in human physiology and biochemistry. Medical research adheres fully to the protocols of scientific research;^[9]
Average physician quality has increased significantly;^[6]
No medical school can be created without the permission of the state government. Likewise, the size of existing medical schools is subject to state regulation;^{[citation needed]}
Each state branch of the American Medical Association has oversight over the conventional medical schools located within the state;^{[citation needed]}
Medicine in the US and Canada has become a highly paid and well-respected profession.^{[citation needed]}

The Report is now remembered because it succeeded in creating a single model of medical education, characterized by a philosophy that has largely survived to the present day. "An education in medicine," wrote Flexner, "involves both learning and learning how; the student cannot effectively know, unless he knows how." Although the report is over 100 years old, many of its recommendations are still relevant—particularly those concerning the physician as a "social instrument... whose function is fast becoming social and preventive, rather than individual and curative."

Closing of many medical schools[edit]

Flexner sought to reduce the number of medical schools in the U.S. to 31, and to cut the annual number of medical graduates from 4,400 to 2,000.^[8] A majority of American institutions granting MD or DO degrees as of the date of the Report (1910) closed within two to three decades. (In Canada, only the medical school at Western University was deemed inadequate, but none were closed or merged subsequent to the Report.) In 1904, there were 160 M.D. granting institutions with more than 28,000 students. By 1920, there were only 85 M.D. granting institutions, educating only 13,800 students. By 1935, there were only 66 medical schools operating in the USA.

Between 1910 and 1935, more than half of all American medical schools merged or closed. This dramatic decline was in some part due to the implementation of the Report's recommendation that all "proprietary" schools be closed, and that medical schools should henceforth all be connected to universities. Of the 66 surviving MD-granting institutions in 1935, 57 were part of a university. An important factor driving the mergers and closures of medical schools was that all state medical boards gradually adopted and enforced the Report's recommendations. In response to the Report, some schools fired senior faculty members as part of a process of reform and renewal.^[10]

Flexner viewed blacks as inferior and advocated closing all but 2 of the historically black medical schools. His opinions were followed and only Howard and Meharry were left open, while 5 other schools were closed. His perspective was that black doctors should only treat black patients and should serve roles subservient to white physicians. The closure of these schools and the fact that black students were not admitted to many medical schools in the USA for 50 years after Flexner has contributed to the low numbers of American born physicians of color and the ramifications are still felt more than a 100 years later.^[11]

Impact on alternative medicine[edit]

When Flexner researched his report, "modern" medicine faced vigorous competition from several quarters, including osteopathic medicine, chiropractic medicine, electrotherapy, eclectic medicine, naturopathy and homeopathy.^[12] Flexner clearly doubted the scientific validity of all forms of medicine other than that based on scientific research, deeming any approach to medicine that did not advocate the use of treatments such as vaccines to prevent and cure illness as tantamount to quackery and charlatanism. Medical schools that offered training in various disciplines including electromagnetic field therapy, phototherapy, eclectic medicine, physiomedicalism, naturopathy, and homeopathy, were told either to drop these courses from their curriculum or lose their accreditation and underwriting support. A few schools resisted for a time, but eventually all complied with the Report or shut their doors.^{[citation needed]}

Impact on osteopathic medicine[edit]

Although almost all the alternative medical schools listed in Flexner's report were closed, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) was able to bring a number of osteopathic medical schools into compliance with Flexner's recommendations and produce an evidence-based practice.^{[citation needed]} The curricula of DO and MD awarding medical schools are now nearly identical, the chief difference being the additional instruction in osteopathic schools of osteopathic manipulative medicine. This dramatic convergence of osteopathic and biomedical training demonstrates the sweeping effect of the Flexner Report, not only in the closure of inadequate schools, but also in the standardization of the curricula of surviving schools.

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Saturday, January 17, 2015

13 Evidence-Based Medicinal Properties of Coconut Oil

13 Evidence-Based Medicinal Properties of Coconut Oil

Some examples of "good" saturated fat include

13 Evidence-Based Medicinal Properties of Coconut Oil - Page 2

References

Thursday, January 15, 2015

ABC: CDC and Health Officials Tell 26 Year Old Woman She Gets Quarantined and Measles Vaccine or "goes to Jail" - Health Nut News

Monday, January 12, 2015

US hospital kidnaps disabled teen patient for profit

US hospital kidnaps disabled teen patient for profit

The medical kidnapping of Isaiah Rider

MedicalKidnap.com documents the growing medical abuse of children in American hospitals

Modern medicine is a mafia racket

Institutional pedophilia and medical abuse of children is widespread in America today

Join the rally against medical kidnapping this Tuesday, January 13 in Chicago

Sunday, January 11, 2015

Connecticut Girl Forced to take Chemo

The Flexner Report - Stopping Holistic Treatments in 1910

Contents

Background to the report[edit]

Recommended changes[edit]

Consequences of the report[edit]

Closing of many medical schools[edit]

Impact on alternative medicine[edit]

Impact on osteopathic medicine[edit]

Contributors