It's raining cats and dogs and the fish are on drugs. What's in your water?

Headline: Fish in U.S. Rivers Tainted With Common Medications "The common antihistamine diphenhydramine (Benadryl), an anticonvulsant and two types of antidepressants were among the seven types of pharmaceuticals found in the tissue and livers of fish from waterways in or near Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Orlando, Fla."

Fish depression? Fish allergies? So now we have detached fish with no allergic symptoms. Here are some of the major drug discoveries in local waterways:

• the cholesterol drug gemfibrozil (Lopid), which researchers say had never before been found in wild fish;
• diltiazem (Cardizem), a medication that helps control high blood pressure;
• carbamazepine (Tegretol), a drug used for epilepsy and bipolar disorder;
• norfluoxetine, an active ingredient in the antidepressant fluoxetine (Prozac);
• the antidepressant sertraline (Zoloft);
• galaxolide and tonalide, common odor-enhancing ingredients in soap and other hygiene products.

This is only a partial list.

Question: Where are the environmental groups petitioning at the gates of FDA and EPA, much less the gates of pharmaceutical manufacturers poisoning all life on planet earth? Apparently, they were too busy taking drug money to petition EPA to regulate colloidal silver as a pesticide.

Where do all the synthetic drugs and other ingredients go? Do they magically disappear into the ethers of outer space?

"Galaxolide and tonalide were found in the highest concentrations in the fish tissue, while the others were more concentrated in the liver, which processes foreign substances that enter the body."

If you still utilize the soaps of the synthetic chemical industry, it is likely that your tissues are now loaded with odor-enhancing compounds, too. It's great to know that you will not smell bad when you no longer need your body. It makes perfect sense why undertakers require so much less formaldehyde to embalm bodies nowadays.

Whose liver is not getting hammered by FDA approved ingredients and drugs? When medical pundits and pharmaceutical apologists claim that liver detoxification is quackery, force-feed them the tap water containing the drug compounds that accumulate in their liver. Let them cry to FDA and EPA when they develop cancer resulting from their denial of the dangers of government-approved biological toxins.

Will they declare us all EPA Super Fund sites? Then maybe they can attempt to clean us up with more harsh petrochemicals that will only add the original toxic burden.

Newsflash: Cleaning up the environment with the same toxic chemicals used to pollute it, is much the same as solving the problem of excess borrowing and spending by borrowing and spending even more. That's why I do not look to politicians to solve the very problems for which they are largely at fault.

That's also why I use Organic Orange TKO to clean up just about every mess I can think of...

"Beware the Media Hype on Winter Influenza" or "Why the Grinch Should Take Your T.V." (for health's sake)

Is there a pharmaceutical bias in the media?

Every winter the news media does a sensationalist job of frightening millions into believing that illness is the result of a pharmaceutical drug- or vaccine-deficiency. A recent study published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine [Vol 178. pp. 527-533, (2008)] reports that there is actually no statistically significant reduction in mortality between the elderly who get the 25 mcg-mercury-containing flu shot and those who do not. Where is the media's focus on good nutrition and quality supplementation instead? It makes you wonder if mainstream news reporters have ever stepped foot into a health food store before.

In reality, the reason that many people are more susceptible to flu and other respiratory conditions during the winter months is due to dietary insufficiency, not media fear-mongering about shots.

The holiday season brings with it ample opportunity for overindulgence in rich foods and excessive amounts of animal protein. The resulting digestive burden upsets the delicate intestinal balance responsible for much of the body's immune capacities. Undue digestive stress and the inevitable liver congestion that follows precipitates the "outbreaks" blamed on "what's going around." This is where we discover the critical difference in biological maturity evidenced in Antoine Béchamp's Law of the Terrain versus the immature and superficial concepts found in Louis Pasteur's so-called Germ Theory.

Which of the following is correct?

A. "It is the mere presence of, or contact with, a pathogen that results in disease."

B. "It is the terrain, milieu or environment that determines health or disease, NOT the pathogen."

If you chose "B" for Béchamp, go to the head of the class. Antoine is the wise elder who understood nature and Pasteur was the adolescent teenager tilting at microbes (at least until he recanted "germ worship" on his death bed - but that was much later).

Thankfully, there are some simple steps that you can take to keep your family healthy and happy during the coldest months of the year (actually, all year long as well). Reduce the stress on your liver and digestive system by going more natural and organic while simultaneously ingesting smaller portions. In other words, clean up that which goes into your body, so that it is no longer too exhausted to get rid of toxins that have been accumulating for many years.

Then, even if you do enjoy the occasional dessert, it will not be devastating (especially if you take your GTF Chromium). Again, quality is key. Organic treats will not be compounded with enzymatic disruptors from artificial additives such as synthetic preservatives, colorings, flavors and sweeteners.

If you happen to make a mess anyway, remember to clean it up with Orange TKO.

While shopping for the holidays, don't forget to stop by your neighborhood health food store and ask for digestion and liver support to get you through the winter months – and please remember the Sovereign Silver.

If your relatives are reluctant to consider a better lifestyle over the flu shot this holiday season, you might consider dressing up as the Grinch for Christmas and remove their television. Why? Perhaps the greatest gift you could give someone you love is to unplug them from the pharmaceutically-biased mainstream media.

They won't get the flu shot (Boo-hoo Julie Gerberding) and when their fear goes away, they will thank you.