"Vitamin B6 Therapy -- The Deficiency of the Mainstream Media and Pharmaceutical pseudo-Science" by Chris Barr

Wrong again!

"B vitamins fail to cut heart risk in study," declared a headline some months back from the rotten Reuters mainstream (polluted stream) news service – 2nd largest in the world.

The story cited a study featured in the Journal of the American Murderousedical Association (JAMA) allegedly on the effect of some B vitamins against heart disease.

An accompanying JAMA editorial questioned the value of the nutritional approach as “wrong again”.

Wrong again indeed…

Well designed study?

First, the study included women in their 40s at which age there is going to be a lesser likelihood of heart problems in which to make a difference.

Second – and more importantly – the study used 50 milligrams of the vitamin called B6. That is half (or less) the amount already published more than a decade ago as making a tremendous difference in another clinical study some years before the current study was begun.

Furthermore, synthesized 'nutrients' concocted by man were used rather than 100 per cent whole food nutrients. There is a difference and your body knows the difference.

This JAMA published study was well designed for failure.

A genuine, expert source

Dr. John Ellis, M.D. wrote the book on vitamin B6 -- literally. 'Vitamin B6: The Doctor's Report' by Dr. Ellis is the classic book on the subject of this nutrient. Ellis took 200 milligrams of vitamin B6 daily from 1961 until his recent death at nearly 90 years of age.

The last time I spoke with Dr. Ellis before his death was after another study in the news using a similar amount of vitamin B6. The good doctor had not heard of that study yet but laughed vigorously when I told him of it. "Sounds like a cardiologist who doesn't want somebody getting in his field," Ellis responded.

His newest book, 'Vitamin B6 Therapy' is an update from his earlier classic work a quarter century earlier.

The newer book cites the study already noted above. That study used a minimum of 100 milligrams of vitamin B6 with individuals in their 60s, 70s and 80s already afflicted with heart disease. There were 74 per cent less heart disease events than those who did not take vitamin B6 in that five-year clinical study. The study was conducted by Dr. Ellis and Dr. Kilmer McCully who served many years as a Harvard University professor.

The currently cited “news report” is about a study using much less than an amount previously determined to be very successful.

"'Vitamin B6 Therapy' is a report full of information that I stand 100% behind and wouldn't take a word of it back," said Dr. Ellis.

“Elderly people who had taken 100 to 200 milligrams of vitamin B6 daily for long periods and died from myocardial infarction lived eight years longer than those who did not take vitamin B6,” wrote Dr. Ellis in his book ‘Vitamin B6 Therapy’.

The long-term, tried and true successful approach from the medical and nutritional giant of Dr. Ellis dwarfs the pitiful, pathetic JAMA study well designed for failure.

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.

"Hearty 'heave-ho' Given Good Heart Health Research" commentary by Christopher C. Barr

“Vitamin pills don’t prevent heart disease,” prominently declared the AP (Associated Propagandaess) “news” headline representative of other “news” coverage given an annual meeting of the American Hurt, er, uh, I mean, Heart, Association.

Heart disease has primarily to do with mineral deficiencies – notably of chromium, selenium, silicon and magnesium – so well grounded nutrition researchers wouldn’t be looking in the direction of vitamin pills.

Specifically, the study noted in the report was on vitamins C and E. Very few nutrition researchers would look to vitamin C for heart help. A few more would look to vitamin E though that would be misguided.

The study much ballyhooed by the mainstream press in general is – to quote the bard – much ado about nothing, or at least not very much at all. It was funded by the National Institutes of Health – your tax dollars at work and a wasted work at that.

Barely getting any attention at all was another study presented at the same meeting disclosing that daily aspirin therapy did not provide any benefit against heart problems. The AP “news” service made not so much as a mention of it.

Aspirin studies that show heart benefit do not use plain aspirin – they use buffered aspirin. The buffering agent in buffered aspirin is a hefty dose of magnesium – one of the primary minerals of which deficiency contributes to heart problems.

The benefit of magnesium supplementation to individuals with active heart problems was first documented half a century ago before the first buffered aspirin heart studies were conducted.

Aspirin as a benefit for the heart is a very old canard indeed.

Round and round and round it goes …

The AP article linked above did in its conclusion report that another study with vitamins B-12 and folic acid showed no benefit to the heart.

The vitamins B-12 and folic acid reverse homocysteine to the amino acid methionine.

Homocysteine is a long time demonstrated heart risk indicator though it was long ignored until recent years.

Tragically, more often ignored to this day is that the key to homocysteine issues are pyridoxal compounds commonly known as vitamin B6.

Homocysteine builds up when there is insufficient vitamin B6 to properly metabolize the essential amino acid methionine.

In other words, using vitamin B-12 and folic acid to reverse homocysteine to methionine without addressing the vitamin B6 deficiency that caused the problem in the first place means that homocysteine will form again. The homocysteine problem never really goes away but rather comes and goes back and forth in a not so merry-go-round and round robin of bird-brained medical minds lacking much in nutrition knowledge even as so many are lack much in nutrition.

Drug pushers protect their turf

Having drug pushers conduct nutrition research is like having foxes guarding chickens.

A straw man argument is when one sets up an argument, assigns it to another, and then burns up that argument while claiming to have discredited another who didn’t even believe that in the first place.

Straw man arguments are the stock in trade of medical men when they argue about nutrition.

Medical men push drugs that you have to appear before them and pay tribute (office vi$it) to get permission to access. You don’t need their permission to access nutrition so they have no motivation for making use of nutrition.

Another case in point is the story this week that purports to extend statin drug usage even to those without high cholesterol levels.

Statin drugs are already the number one selling drug in America and the new push by these drug pushers would increase that almost 50 per cent. Yet the study noted numerous side effects from the statins including higher levels of diabetics occurring in those taking the statins … oh, and by the way, diabetics have three to five times as much heart disease as non-diabetics.

Yet, for considerably less than half the cost of statins the ingestion of the essential mineral chromium in a 100 per cent whole food form in hearty (pun intended) amounts results in a decrease of LDL (“bad”) cholesterol that statins provide plus an increase of HDL (“good”) cholesterol that statins do NOT provide with none of the many serious side effects that statins provide.

No permission or tribute to doctors needed for a hearty nutritional approach.

Finally, at the same time as all these other storied medical studies comes word that the AMA has come out in support of trans fats bans. No mention is made that the common place use of trans fats resulted from rigorous recommendations for many decades from the AMA for their use. Meanwhile nutrition people who have cried out against trans fats these many decades that AMA has recommended them do not even get a mention.

The AMA declared that stopping use of trans fats would prevent 100,000 deaths per year in the United States alone. If that is true then the AMA has just admitted liability for 100,000 deaths per year in the United States alone based upon their many decades recommendations of trans fats.

Read in NATURALLY Speaking about simple, plain truths years – even decades – ahead of the mainstream.

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.

Medical "Houses of Horrors!" Naturally Speaking by Christopher C. Barr

This is the time of year when many pay to enter "haunted houses" to be "scared to death". People expect surprises at these places and are ready for a good scare. These are set up for a brief time annually at this season of the year. It is all for fun.

Meanwhile, many daily enter "houses of horrors" all year round where they (or their loved ones) unwittingly pay later. The price ends up being frightfully high. These permanent places are real life -- or more precisely real death far too often. People not expecting death or ready for it at all find an unexpected end in these places. Even those who survive seldom have fun.

Trick or Threat

The late Ivan Illich opened his book Medical Nemesis in 1976, "The medical establishment has become a major threat to health." He wrote of "iatrogenic disease" -- doctor-created illness -- that it is rampant and growing in modern medicine. He and his book were roundly criticized and largely ignored.

Almost 25 years later the Institute of Medicine (IOM) made headlines with its admission that almost 100,000 deaths annually occur from medical errors in hospitals -- "houses of horrors". The IOM is the voice of modern medicine and its confession was seen as largely conservative. The figures were based on self-reporting that was noted by many medical experts to be much less than half of actual cases.

Other estimates at that time put the number of deaths from medical errors at higher figures. The highest figure then of 300,000 came from consumer advocate Ralph Nader.

Scarier numbers

Only a few years following the IOM study another report noted figures twice as high as the IOM report with almost 200,000 deaths annually due to medical errors in hospitals. This report came from a company within the medical field. It also excluded obstetric admissions, so again, it was certainly a conservative figure.

Scarier still

Another exhaustive review of medical journal articles, after all the others previously noted, was conducted by a group of doctors that detailed medical hospital errors totaling 783,936 deaths annually. Heart disease is generally recognized as the leading cause of death in this nation with less than 700,000 deaths annually. The review titled, 'Death by Medicine' therefore indicates that medical, hospital errors are the number one cause of death in America!

The 'Death by Medicine' report noted that it used the minimal figures from the studies it found and that the annual death figure could easily top 1,000,000 due to medical, hospital errors.

Yet almost 10 years after the IOM admission from admittedly low self-reporting by medical professionals, there is still no outside policing or regulatory protocol set up to address these preventable errors that may now be the number one cause of death in America!

That should be a great big, scary BOO to every American. Countless millions have boohooed their lost loved ones who in reality needn't have died. Modern medicine has ballyhooed these truths for decades. Who will hold them accountable now? Certainly not Barack McCain Obama.

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.

Attack of the FTC -- Hide Your Supplements! Plus, Where to Start on the Road to Health on Radio

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"Wrong again!" NATURALLY Speaking Guest Commentary By Christopher C. Barr

"B vitamins fail to cut heart risk in study," declared the headline of the rotten Reuters (polluted) mainstream news service – 2^nd largest in the world.

The story cited a study featured in the Journal of the American Murderousedical Association (JAMA) allegedly on the effect of some B vitamins against heart disease.

An accompanying JAMA editorial questioned the value of the nutritional approach as “wrong again”.

Wrong again indeed…

Well designed study?

First, the study included women in their 40s at which age there is going to be a lesser likelihood of heart problems in which to make a difference.

Second – and more importantly – the study used 50 milligrams of the vitamin called B6. That is half (or less) the amount already published more than a decade ago as making a tremendous difference in another clinical study some years before the current study was begun.

Furthermore, synthesized 'nutrients' concocted by man were used rather than 100 per cent whole food nutrients. There is a difference and your body knows the difference.

This JAMA published study was well designed for failure.

A genuine, expert source

Dr. John Ellis, M.D. wrote the book on vitamin B6 -- literally. 'Vitamin B6: The Doctor's Report' by Dr. Ellis is the classic book on the subject of this nutrient. Ellis took 200 milligrams of vitamin B6 daily from 1961 until his recent death at nearly 90 years of age.

The last time I spoke with Dr. Ellis before he died was after another study in the news using a similar amount of vitamin B6. The good doctor had not heard of that study yet but laughed vigorously when I told him of it.

"Sounds like a cardiologist who doesn't want somebody getting in his field," Ellis responded.

His newest book, 'Vitamin B6 Therapy' is an update from his earlier classic work a quarter century earlier.

The newer book cites the study from more than a decade ago noted above. That study used a minimum of 100 milligrams of vitamin B6 with individuals in their 60s, 70s and 80s already afflicted with heart disease. There were 74 per cent less heart disease events than those who did not take vitamin B6 in that five-year clinical study. The study was conducted by Dr. Ellis and Dr. Kilmer McCully who served many years as a Harvard University professor.

The currently cited “news report” is about a study using much less than an amount previously determined to be very successful.

"'Vitamin B6 Therapy' is a report full of information that I stand 100% behind and wouldn't take a word of it back," said Dr. Ellis.

“Elderly people who had taken 100 to 200 milligrams of vitamin B6 daily for long periods and died from myocardial infarction lived eight years longer than those who did not take vitamin B6,” wrote Dr. Ellis in his book ‘Vitamin B6 Therapy’.

The long-term, tried and true successful approach from the medical and nutritional giant of Dr. Ellis dwarfs the pitiful, pathetic JAMA study well designed for failure.

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.

Coronary Calcification, Not Cholesterol Statin Stupidity

Headline: Coronary Calcification Predicts Future Heart Attacks and Coronary Death -- Cholesterol Not Found To Be A Significant Risk Factor "The New England Journal of Medicine report gives evidence of a major misdirection by modern medicine – the creation of cholesterol phobia in the population at large."

Uh-oh. How will they ever put the "cholesterol is good" rabbit back in the hat? I have been saying and writing it for many years: cholesterol is NOT a significant factor in the development of heart disease.

Oh yeah? Then why are Americans still spending BILLIONS in a futile effort to eliminate that which not only does NOT cause the disease for which they are worried, but the drugging to reduce it actually precipitates congestive heart failure, muscle wasting, cognitive decline, Alzheimer's and endocrine disruptions? Biological ignorance is not pretty, but that's what trusting government with your health gets you. So what's the problem, cholesterol or calcium?

"Among subjects whose coronary artery calcium score was zero, their risk for any adverse coronary event was only about one-half of 1%..."

The NEJM has spoken. It took them a while, but they finally agree with me.

Seeing as how it took the medical journals decades to report what was known for almost that long, they may take another ten years or so before they actually get around to answering another vital question.

How do we reduce calcification of the vascular system?"

I am a patient man, but I am not waiting for them to answer that which is already known. Now back to the inflammatory cascade...

What starts the process of calcification? Inadequate detoxification of the causes of inflammation and injury within the body's vascular pathways. This could be as simple as a metabolic waste such as uric acid. Although most doctors still think that uric acid can only cause gout, the reality is that it is equally inflammatory where there are no overt pain symptoms (that would be the arterial system).

Most indicated homeopathic remedy? Rhus toxicodendron. Why? Because it has an affinity for uric acid and other free radicals that cause vascular inflammation. Are you still confused about the cholesterol issue? You could always take a food grown GTF Chromium (at least 100 mcg three times a day) and elevate your HDL to such levels that LDL levels become somewhat inconsequential. Now back to the New England Journal of Medcine:

"About 50% of arterial plaque is calcium and only 3% is cholesterol."

Zero coronary calcium, nearly no risk of heart attack. Zero blood serum cholesterol? Death. Even low cholesterol results in less than optimal brain and neurological function, endocrine balance and adequate inflammation protection. Higher cholesterol levels correlate strongly with longevity and good brain health well into old age. Lower cholesterol levels? Earlier demise. Enough with the cholesterol mythology already. What more do you need now that the New England Journal of Medicine has chimed in? I mean, besides getting off statin drugs.

If it's too late and you already suffer congestive heart failure, how about some hawthorn berry syrup on your pancakes (organic whole grain of course). If you prefer the homeopathic form, ask for Crataegus, but you'll likely need a prescription.

Still afraid of cholesterol? Visit The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics and get over it already.