"Grow Bone Skeletal Integrity" podcast link

Grow Bone Skeletal Integrity -- Over-emphasis on calcium has made millions of women susceptible to pharmaceutical propaganda, convincing them that they suffer from a drug-deficiency disease. I assure you, osteoporosis is not evidence of the lack of Boniva and Fosamax. The musculoskeletal system requires a symphony of trace elements from living food sources in order to maintain (much less regain) its integrity.

Jordan Rubin returns to let us know how to get one of 35,000 Grow Bone Systems that will be given away for FREE on October 10^th at 10AM. What is the role of strontium, vanadium, magnesium and silica in bone health? Have you checked into the Weston A. Price Foundation yet?

More updates on the upcoming Rethinking AIDS Conference November 6-8, 2009. Hope to see you there!

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Podcast link here: http://askrsb.podbean.com/2009/10/08/bone-up-skeletal-integrity-1042009-hour-1/

Bisphosphonates: The New Jawbreakers for Adults

Headline: Osteoporosis Drug Prompts Increase in Certain Bone Cells "Use of bisphosphonates has been associated with other problems in the past, including an increased risk of atrial fibrillation (a type of abnormal heart rhythm), unusual fractures of the thigh bone and inflammatory eye disease."

I have been warning Sally Field about this but she must have the cotton balls from the numerous Boniva pill bottles she is peddling stuffed in her ears.

What pharmaceutical drugheads fail to realize is that in nature, everything has a purpose. Just because a drug can stop normal cellular bone breakdown from occurring does not mean that it is a good idea.

Rather that stopping needed cellular breakdown, scientists should study and try to understand why new bone cells are not being created appropriately in osteoporosis sufferers. Since there is no drug that can promote legitimate and healthy bone growth, don't look for such a study to appear anytime soon.

Courtesy of the Robert Scott Bell Show, here's your scientific shortcut: Silica, Magnesium, Potassium, Boron and other critical nutrients deficient in osteoporosis sufferers can never be synthesized to have the positive effect that they have in their naturally occurring, food-grown nutritional state.

Sally Field, step away from the Boniva and pick up some dietary supplements.

Headline: Study Links Osteoporosis Drugs to Jaw Trouble ... the finding "does not mean that women should stop taking the drug if they're on it. It does mean that there may be more frequent side effects than was previously known."

Of course, if Magnesium caused severe jaw disfigurement, Dick Durbin, Henry Waxman and the FDA would call for its immediate withdrawal from the market. I wonder if then we could get any celebrity endorsements for nutrients over drugs?

Fossy Jaw (and I do not mean Bob Fosse's jaw) is a growing problem in women relying upon drugs instead of nutrition to prevent and reverse osteoporosis. Perhaps they could just repackage Fosamax as a chewable by putting it in a hard candy ball with loads of sugar and multiple artificial colors and flavors.

Truth in labeling would make it the Jawbreaker to end all Jawbreakers. Granted, it may be harder to market to Sally Field...

"Hide 'n' don't seek?" NATURALLY Speaking by Christopher C. Barr

This column marks the eighth year of NATURALLY Speaking with combined experience going back to the 1980s for this columnist regarding print and broadcast journalism on the subject matter of health.

A pattern has emerged that news in the mainstream (a polluted stream if ever there was one) often publishes stories on holidays and weekends that the mainstream would rather not get too much attention. People generally are paying less attention to news and more attention to leisure on holidays and weekends.

Stories hidden away in this fashion could be a good news item of which too much notice is not desired, or it could be a bad news item of which too much notice is not desired.

Never was this popular mainstream media game ever more evident than on this past, long, New Year’s holiday weekend with not either but rather both a multiple of good and bad news stories involved.

Good news

First, there was a great “good news” item appearing very late New Year’s Eve about grape seed extract killing cancer cells. Though surprising to see in a mainstream news report it was not at all surprising news to me as I have more than a little knowledge and experience with this dating back at least 20 years.

This current report was based on a study conducted at the University of Kentucky and published in the science journal Clinical Cancer Research.

More good news

At the very same late hour New Year’s Eve another “good news” item appeared on naprapathy which is a not well known alternative medical system of healing. This report noted superiority of naprapathy for pain relief compared to regular medical approaches.

Specific mention was made of “nutritional counseling” as part of the benefit offered by naprapathy. Specific mention was made of relief regarding connective tissue matter in general with singling out of back pain, neck pain, knee strain, sciatica, shoulder pain and tennis elbow.

The mineral nutrient silicon (or silica) is the key nutrient for connective tissue and has a long history of successful use with regard to these very areas singled out in the news story.

Shifting gears

Following the two “good news” reports were two “bad news” reports and each regarding the same substance – the drug Fosamax.

The first of the two “bad news” reports on Fosamax was in the middle of New Year’s Day. Is anybody paying attention to news in the middle of New Year’s Day?

Shifty gearings

The first of the Fosamax reports was a sneaky bit of propaganda titled, ‘Osteoporosis Drug Prompts Increase in Certain Bone Cells’.

The title makes this sound like a positive finding though it is actually positively deceptive.

Since osteoporosis is bone loss then increase in bone cells sounds good.

The story named Fosamax right out at the very beginning and continued its mention repeatedly.

Yet, if you read the story carefully it was noted well into the story that this was not necessarily (if at all) a good thing.

Too many Americans dumbed down by government sponsored education and government certified refined, denatured ‘foods’ that have been robbed of their nutrients would see this as a positive story about the government approved Fosamax drug rather than the negative story about Fosamax that story actually is.

Bad news and worse news still

The final item was at almost midnight at the end of New Year’s Day.

Is anybody paying any attention to any new (or anything else) after New Year’s Eve followed by a full day of New Year’s Day activities leading well into a four-day weekend?

This news item noted very bad news about Fosamax that could not be manipulated into any kind of positive spin.

However, this news story did disguise the Fosamax connection by speaking in generic chemical terms and only noting the name ‘Fosamax’ very far down into the story.

A problem with jaw disintegration from use of osteoporosis drugs – including (especially) with Fosamax – was noted in the new Journal of The American Dental Association.

This has been referred to as Fossyjaw for a very long time by those of us in the know though the story made no mention of either this term or this fact.

The story did admit that the problem “may be much higher than previously thought”.

“This is more frequent than everybody would like to think it is,” the story quoted from the dentist who authored the newly published study.

The story noted an increase from one case per year to one to four cases per week. If you do the math (which the news story did not) that is an increase of from more than 5,000 to almost 21,000 per cent! That should be phenomenal news if not state-of-emergency news rather than buried-where-and-when-nobody-is-paying-any-attention news.

Another aspect of Fosamax that is barely mentioned in the story regards an increase in esophageal cancer with its use. However, the story considerably plays this down.

Readily admitted is that there is a decided increase in GERD (acid reflux) among users of Fosamax.

Do you happen to know that one of the primary medical concerns regarding GERD is that it substantially increases risk of esophageal cancer? This wasn’t mentioned in the news stories on Fosamax.

Oh what a tangled web the mainstream media weaves when it pretty much constantly practices to deceive.

Saving the best news for last

For the record, osteoporosis and bone loss is not caused by a deficiency of Fosamax – or a deficiency of any other drug for that matter.

A gross nutritional deficiency of the mineral nutrient silicon (or silica) earlier mentioned in another regard is the predominant factor in osteoporosis.

Christopher C. Barr writes Naturally Speaking from Arkansas: The Natural State … naturally! You may write him at P. O. Box 1147, Pocahontas, Arkansas 72455 or by e-mail at servantofYHVH@hotmail.com.

"Diabetes and Heart Ailments – Weight or Wait Problem?" by Christopher C. Barr

The much ballyhooed connection of overweight and even obesity issues to illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes have been brought into question by two studies in this week’s Archives of Internal Medicine.

More than half overweight and nearly a third of obese adults in a national health/nutrition survey had healthful figures for such risk markers as cholesterol including the so-called “good” high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, triglycerides, blood pressure, and blood sugar, as well as insulin sensitivities.

By contrast, almost one quarter of those recognized as having normal weights had unhealthful figures for the same risk markers.

“A considerable proportion of overweight and obese U.S. adults are metabolically healthy, whereas a considerable proportion of normal-weight adults express a clustering of cardiometabolic abnormalities,” wrote Judith Wylie-Rosett, Rachel Wildman and colleagues in their published report.

Wylie-Rosett of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York oversaw one study and according to Reuters News said in a telephone interview, “We really don’t know as much about obesity as we think we do.”

No kidding.

“Her team did not look at people’s diets,” stated the Reuters News report.

To ignore (the root of the word ‘ignorance’) “people’s diets” is to miss the most important part of the equation.

Size doesn’t matter

The often rotund peoples on traditional Mediterranean diets such as in Greece and Italy have been well documented for less coronary artery disease than skinnier western counterparts in studies dating back more than half a century.

These studies are neither small nor obscure. The Framingham studies were large and long-term through four decades and well renowned.

The primary healthful differences came down to the type of oil – olive oil – and whole grains.

Much has been made of the olive oil.

That’s great.

Not so much has been made of the whole grains.

That’s too bad.

Simple breakdown

The biggest difference between whole grains and refined grains are three minerals that just happen to figure prominently in all of the observed markers and characteristics of the recent study.

The minerals silicon, selenium and chromium are abundant in whole grains and almost entirely absent in refined grains.

Chromium nourishes and strengthens muscle (like the heart) as well as offering some level of protection of the tissues. Chromium also manages cholesterol. Abundant chromium levels result in an abundance of the “good” HDL cholesterol. Low chromium levels result in low HDL and high “bad” LDL (low density lipoprotein) cholesterol.

Selenium provides protection of heart tissues from free radical damage, and assists with heart energy levels by way of production of Coenzyme Q10. Selenium also assists chromium with cholesterol management.

Silicon (or silica) is responsible for both strength and elasticity of arteries and other tissues.

One more study

The other study noted that the liver may be the key.

Unseen fatty accumulations in the liver were noted as a more accurate indicator of heart risk than easily seen fat.

Both selenium and chromium were established as nutrients essential for life 50 years ago in liver studies.

Coincidence?

A wait problem … not a weight problem

Almost 100 years ago the minerals chromium, selenium and silicon began to be routinely removed more than 90 per cent from whole grains by refining and bleaching processes. This was ruled a violation of the Pure Food & Drug Act by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1915 yet the practice continued – and continues today.

It is the wait for government to enforce the law and for food providers to follow the law that is the key to heart health – and diabetes as well (chromium was specifically cited as essential for blood sugar metabolism by the National Institutes of Health 50 years ago).

The people await the all too serious wait problem of the government and food providers to be addressed as a far more weighty issue than the weight of the people.

Christopher C. Barr writes Naturally Speaking from Arkansas: The Natural State … naturally! You may write him at Post Office Box 1147, Pocahontas, Arkansas 72455 or by e-mail at servantofYHVH@hotmail.com.

Alzheimer's Drug Deficiency Evidence of Researchers' Nutritional Deficiencies

Study Shows Alzheimer's Hits Earlier in Smokers, Drinkers "The best advice is probably to lighten up and have a drink a day -- but don't drink more than that," Denis Evans, a researcher at Rush University Medical Center says. In the entire article about this study, there was not even one mention of nutritional deficiencies. NOT ONE. Considering that the primary behaviors referenced in this Alzheimer's prediction study deplete the body of essential minerals, especially those that would protect against neurological degradation, I would have to say that it proves something that they did not intend.

It is proof positive that pharmaceutical research, no matter what the findings, must be reported in such a way as NOT to link true cause with the effect (disease), lest consumers realize that they do not suffer from a drug deficiency. What nutrient takes the big hit due to poor lifestyle choices such as smoking and drinking? Perhaps the most important one when it comes to preventing degradation diseases, including cancer and even Alzheimer's: Selenium.

Without selenium, how do you expect to deal with the cadmium from cigarette combustion? How do you expect that your liver can function at full capacity to detoxify from the self-inflicted auto-intoxication resulting from a destructive lifestyle? Do the medical experts at large (particularly those on the Taxpayer dole) recommend organic food, essential fats, mineral supplementation and proper hydration -- or are they still looking for a "miracle" vaccine or drug for brain degradation?

While I am on the subject of brain and neurological health, I would be remiss if I did not remind you about the importance of Silicon, found as Silica in food grown supplement form. Along with essential fats, silica may be the most important overlooked nutrient for neurological integrity.

You can go on believing that Alzheimer's is caused by cholesterol, but then you'll probably take a drug that would precipitate it. The only upside I can see is that at least you will not remember the mistake you made relying on the medical establishment for your health in the first place. It's still sad to consider such a reality, but that does not mean I will resort to SSRI medication. If you are still scared of the "C" word, try GTF Chromium to boost HDL cholesterol levels.

I suppose I took the red pill a long time ago.

I always did have trouble waiting for stupid people to give me permission to do things which I already know to be true. The thing is, their permission was never required, unless I had intended to wait for a pharmaceutical Godot which never comes, even if I had a prescription.

Don't wait for Alzheimer's or you will forget that it's already too late to rely upon pharmaceutical integrity. Or, go ahead and take the blue pill and you can go on believing in that which never existed. As for me, you can be sure I'll be taking my Silica, Selenium, GTF Chromium and essential fats...