Prof. Keith Scott-Mumby's Total Health Newsletter #15. Week ending Aug 30th, 2009
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1. Quinton Fraud Warning
2. Get Ready For Gruesome Images On Cigarette Packets
3. What Is Ortho-Immune?
4. Michael Wood, The Great Historian And Storyteller
5. Handwaving. This could be in "What's In A Word?" (but isn't)
6. Antibiotic Prescriptions Down sounds like good news, but is it?
7. What's In A Word?
8. This Week's Quote

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1. Quinton Fraud Warning

If you have followed my writing for any length of time, you will know I have been raving about Quinton Marine Plasma. I especially featured it as something every home should have in their medicine cabinet (it's in mine!). It's BETTER than antibiotics and is certainly one route to beating cancer (restoring our internal milieu or Pischinger's matrix).

See "How To Survive In A World Without Antibiotics" and "Cancer Confidential".

Historically it has cured (yes, cured) just about every mean disease, including some heavies like tuberculosis, typhoid, syphilis and cholera.

Today I met with Robert Slovak, who is charged with bringing Quinton to the world, and his team in Buena Park, California. I was impressed.

But: shock horror!!! They told me there is a bogus Quinton out there and I am VERY concerned that any of you, my subscribers, should end up with a junk product. I know some of you will go off Googling for a cheaper deal (why not?) and you may bump into the UNofficial website in Canada.

I want to clearly identify their product and make sure that you don't buy it by mistake. This is not politics and commercial jealousy. The REAL Quinton is made in a very special way: crucially, it is not heat treated, which would kill its amazing properties. The bogus product is heat-treated and a worthless fraud by greedy, dishonest people.

They have been calling themselves PlasmaQuinton (plasmaquinton.com). Due to being brought into line legally, they have started calling their stuff "Bioceanplasma". But Googling Quinton plasma still takes you there. Just don't buy it, OK?

They fraudulently trademarked the name in Canada and, although the real Quinton people now seem to be winning their trademark battle in the Canadian courts, it is taking years and there is still dishonesty going on. Fortunately, due to the process that lawyers call "discovery", the fraudsters have now been finally forced to admit in court they heat treat their supposed "Quinton". It's just pasteurized sea water!

This is a civil action, incidentally, but I hope the legal authorities take over and the couple responsible get jailed for fraud before this is over. Even though they are elderly, they are clearly accomplished liars.

Meantime, get the real thing, one of the most amazing healing substances ever discovered, from www.originalquinton.com. Joke is: the prices are absurdly low!

That's good news for us all.

[I make NO commission for Quinton sales. I just love it!]

2. Get Ready For Gruesome Images On Cigarette Packets

Joke: Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. —Author Unknown

Warnings don’t work, it seems. People still smoke. They just don’t get it.

But there is a new era coming. Concerned investigators are claiming that putting hideous images on the packets, showing real damage caused by the smoking habit, prompts more people to quit. Hopefully it will also stop kids ever starting.

Very few people read the health warnings on cigarette packets, I conclude. But everyone is affected by the power of an image. You can’t escape it: the picture of a rotten mouth, with teeth dropping out, or a disfiguring facial cancer every time you whip out the packet for a light up MUST, surely, cause a smoker to hesitate!

Now new federal regulations are planned in the USA and will be in force within 3 years. That means shocking images will start appearing on cigarette packets here. They appeared today (27th August) for the first time in the UK. Other governments have been enforcing their use for some time.

Over the last decade, countries as varied as Canada, Australia, Chile, Brazil, Iran and Singapore, among others, have adopted graphic warnings on tobacco products. Some are downright disturbing: in Brazil, cigarette packages come with pictures of dead babies and a gangrened foot with blackened toes.

If U.S. regulations are modeled after those already in place in Canada and other countries, the warnings will be hard to look at. Though shocking, the more graphic the image, the more effective in discouraging smoking, says Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and director of the university's Center for Tobacco Control, Research and Education.

Doubters have suggested that images which are too stomach-turning may backfire because people eventually ignore them. In fact current research shows this is not the case: the most graphic images pack the most emotional impact and seem to be working.

When I say working; well, Canada, for example, where 13% of the population smoked, has had a gratifying 5% drop since the graphic warnings were adopted in 2000. That’s not a lot, until you translate it into lives saved.

But a measly 5%? Smokers just don’t get it! But then, you have to be dumb to start smoking in the first place… Isn’t that true?

My readers probably don't smoke. But you too might soon be exposed, inadvertently, to these rather disturbing images. 

3. What Is Ortho-Immune? (good-immune)

Actually, it's a silly word I invented for a piece I wrote in 1995, while living in Spain. I found it on an old hard drive and thought I would share some of it with you (this message never goes out of date).

Generally you live about as long as your immune system allows you to. When you can’t defend yourself any longer, you die. Either pathogenic organisms will vanquish you (more common in former times) or cancer will invade and have a ball inside your tissues. You won’t be able to resist.

Full-blown AIDS is a frightening reminder of what it would be like when your immune system crashes. AIDS patients seem to age very rapidly. Truly this terrible affliction has taught us a great deal. It has been said that you are as old as your immune system. Now we understand with vivid clarity that body ageing (as opposed to mental ageing) is really about deterioration of the immune system and other key defences.

The real disease is the patient’s life, the illness is just the result.

Fortunately, most of us don’t get AIDS. But according to world-expert Professor Sam Epstein more than one in three people will contract cancer in Western society [it's now progressed to 1:2 males]. That’s a pretty awful toll. It is important to think of cancer as a disease of the immune system, because it is now clear that we all have malignant cells in our body from time to time; however the immune system picks them off and destroys them - if it is working properly. You need to do everything in your power to keep your immune system functioning optimumly.  Everything you do to support and enhance your immune system will increase your chances of a long and healthy life.

I first discovered this for myself in a roundabout way while dealing with allergy patients. As you probably know, allergies are caused by a dysfunctional immune system (AIDS usually starts with allergy symptoms before it progresses). While putting people on regimes to help their allergies, I noticed that the patients all looked and felt MUCH YOUNGER. The cancer patients lived longer and in fact the vast majority went into remission and seemed to go on more or less indefinitely. So much so that for some years I even speculated that having allergies might mean you had a better chance with cancer, because you had an over-active, rather-too-keen immune system.

Nowadays it is quite clear that these patients did well because of their allergy treatments, not because of the actual allergies. They were put on detoxes, better diets, chemically and electrically safer environments,  nutritional supplements, anti-Candida plans, and, last but not least, a psychological clean up.

From this I developed my Ortho-Immune Therapy System (ortho- is simply a Greek term meaning good or balanced). It works for allergies, cancer and anti-ageing prophylaxis. The broad outline doesn’t vary, just the individual steps required for each unique patient. It has been said, wisely, that: The real disease is the patient’s life, the illness is just the result. I’m afraid we do get it pretty wrong in our society; we create our own disease and demise.

5 key steps to supporting your immune system, next week...

4. Michael Wood, the great historian and storyteller

One of the greatest of all TV history presenters is Michael Wood (UK). Here is a short but really telling introduction to the kind of TV histories he produces and stars in:

If you've ever been irritated by those telephone call centers from India, ponder this: their civilization predates ours by thousands of years and by all showings will still be there when the USA has gone back to a primitive barbarism...

5. Handwaving? This could be the "What's In A Word?" (but isn't!)

The term handwaving is an informal term among scientists and mathematicians that describes either the trick of failing to rigorously address an argument in a sneaky attempt to bypass the argument altogether. It's a strong criticism and implies deliberate B*S* or prevarication, to use last week's word.

It arose in correspondence with one of my subscribers, who was earnest in pursuing scientific truth. She asked my opinion about this paper, which supposedly records a scientific study of zappers against Candida. The pdf even, cheekily, claims to be a "scientific study" in it's web link. That's just to fool people.

It's wall to wall hogwash, clearly paid for by the Medikzap people. There are no untreated controls, which would show all broth solutions lose viable organisms through time, anyway. Furthermore there are no attempts at a statistical evulation (p= number), to show whether the supposed "difference" is statistically meaningful, which it clearly isn't. (If we toss a coin together and I get 3 heads and you get 2, I have 50% more than you! BUT IT HAS NO STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE, do you see?).

This is fraudulent science, to try and sell zappers to a trusting public. Handwaving is too kind a word for it [any paper citing Hulda Reger Clark as a contemporary "physician" is a hoax anyway].

6. Antibiotic Prescriptions DOWN!

Doctors aren't writing prescriptions for certain antibiotics to treat children's respiratory tract infections as much as they used to, so trumpets the Journal of the American Medical Association.

I thought, Hooray! They’ve been reading my report How To Survive In A World Without Antibiotics.

But actually, they are just prescribing something else instead! The researchers used national data to see if antibiotic use was still declining, a trend that began in the 1990s.

Well, there was an 18% drop in antibiotic prescriptions in people with respiratory tract infections. That includes a 36% drop in the antibiotic prescription rate for respiratory tract infections among U.S. kids younger than 5.

But this isn’t because doctors are more responsible. It’s because of fewer doctor visits! (patients don't trust MDs and don't want antibiotics).

Also, there was a drop in prescriptions of certain antibiotics, such as penicillin and amoxicillin, to treat children's respiratory tract infections. But – here’s the killer --  prescription rates shot up for other antibiotics! For instance, azithromycin's prescription rate for respiratory tract infections among children younger than 5 rose NINEFOLD between 1995-1996 and 2005-2006!

Prescription rates for quinolones (another type of antibiotic) also rose for people aged 5 and older. And antibiotic prescriptions for respiratory tract infections weren't down among people aged 50 and older.

So, doctors are NOT getting the message.

SOURCE: Grijalva, C. JAMA, Aug. 19, 2009; vol 302: pp 758-766.

What's In A Word?

Recondite.

I'm putting this in here because my wife Vivien asked what I meant when I used the words "abstruse" and "recondite". OK, these are not common words any more. But still valid and good workhorses for those who know what they mean!

Recondite means abstruse, which means obscure! More exactly, recondite is "beyond the grasp of the ordinary mind or understanding" (that's Webster's and sounding very pompous). It means profound, deep, difficult.

Abstruse is virtually interchangeable and Webster's gives: hard to understand, deep, recondite!

Tricky corners of quantum physics or legal details (in any country) could be called recondite or abstruse...

This Week's Quote:

I think we should finish with humor and here is a howlingly funny quote from the Swami Beyondananda (my friend Steve Bhaerman):

"Irony deficiency has been called a social disease because it is often transmitted through the mass media. For example, it is now known that sleazium, a key elements found in daytime television, interferes with our ability to utilize irony. Not only that, but the constant barrage of information most of us get through television, radio, junk mail, junk faxes, email etc., allow many ironies to pass through our system undetected and unused. Irony deficiency is quite common among infomaniacs--people so addicted to information that they can't go more than an hour without getting some. Your typical infomaniac will notice no irony in spending all of his waking hours finding out more about life instead of actually living it."

--from "Duck Soup For The Soul" (a lot funnier than Chicken Soup For The Soul, which is supposed to make you cry. This is supposed to make you laugh!)

So, that's all for this week!

Be well; find the sacred in all you do, otherwise don't do it!

Prof.

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