Prof. Keith Scott-Mumby's Total Health Newsletter #18. Week ending Sep 20th, 2009
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- What Is Our Maximum Age?
- Smart Meters Are Plain Dumb
- Treating Gum Disease May Save Your Life
- A Revolutionary Understanding Of Alzheimer's
- SCENAR Cosmetology Call
- Could Mold Be Causing Your Problem?
- What's In A Word?
- This Week's Quote
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1. What Is Our Maximum Age?
This topic needs a book. But I'm conscious of the fact that many (most) of you surf the Net, looking for information. You probably read lots of books.
Yet in some areas there is MUCH falsehood, delusion and plain lousy research.
One of the topics that rattles me is to hear "experts" stand in front of an audience and say the oldest recorded life is Jeanne Louise Calment, a French woman, who lived to 122 years 164 days. Wikipedia makes this mistake (wikipedia, of course, is edited by the public, who make plenty of mistakes). Lots of what passes for "science" is just people passing around mistakes they have heard or read somewhere.
It's bunk. It's also racist snobbery and conceit, meaning only "our" records count.
John Robbins makes a common mistake (actually a hubris) in his book HEALTHY AT 100. He ignores any evidence of people older than he thinks (Calment) and says there is no evidence of anyone older than Calmet! He claims your maximum is 120. It's just phoney science.
So what about the article in Jan 1973 of National Geographic? A team of US scientists under Dr. Alexander Leaf MD, went to Azerbaijan and Georgia, in the USSR as then was. They found very old people, fit and well (not like crumbly Calment). One man of 117 climbed a steep hill carrying a burden and left the scientists panting up behind him.
But the star of their report was a woman they researched and found for sure was at least 130 years old and for sure not more than 140 years old. This is a perfectly legitimate way to present figures: indeed all science is presented with upper and lower limits of scrutiny.
This lady had worked in the tea plantations (full time) until she was 111 years old. She held the record as the fastest picker! Even at 130 plus, she walked and would catch a bus and travel to nearby towns. I know Westerners who couldn't climb on to a bus at the age of 70!
The funniest part of the report is her full page photo in Nat Geo (after all, a very prestigious no-nonsense journal): she's sat in a chair on the deck with a cigarette in one hand! She drinks a glass of vodka every day, like all these supercentenarians (people over 110)! She even tippled back some wine with the visiting scientists and was perfectly compus mentis. We have babbling demented people here at the age of 60 plus. Some Alzheimer's start in the 50s!
Dr. Leaf cites Shirali Muslimov, who the Soviets documented to be 168 years old at the time. Muslimov (sometimes spelled Mislimov) died later that year. Western scientists just ignore the case. What's wrong with Soviet science? It's no shabbier than the junk and crooked science here...
But the oldest life BY FAR, is Dr. Li Ching-Yuen, from the Western hills of China (Tibet). He lived to be 260 years old. It's not exactly authenticated- but close; the Chinese government gave him a certificate every 50 years. Since they don't give these out to teenagers but just to very old men, I think we can safely say he was close on 250 years, at least. And maybe much more, of course. Who knows?
Dr. Li's obituary appeared in The Times and The New York Times in 1933. This incredible figure was born before the American Revolution and died well into the 20th century. James Hilton read Li's obituary and that was his inspiration to write "Lost Horizon", the book about Shangri-La, where people lived on and on and on...
Yet all you read from "experts" is "He couldn't have lived that long, therefore he didn't..." But remember the "experts" said we could never split the atom and heavier-than-air machines could never fly...
2. Smart Meters Are Plain Dumb
Sent by:
Shivani Arjuna
www.LifeEnergies.com
Phone: 920-9994-4082
Electric, gas and water utilities in the USA and other developed nations are installing radio-broadcasting "smart" meters nation, replacing the present meters.
I've received calls and e-mails from electrically sensitive people who had these attached to their homes, who are experiencing debilitating symptoms corresponding in time with the placement of the meters. I certainly didn't want one attached to my own home, yet made no progress in conversation with WE Energies, our elecricity provider here in Wisconsin. Their attitude towards those of us protesting placement of these meters, included "If you don't like it, get your electricty elsewhere," and a threat that power would be turned off.
Catherine Kleiber, hostess of www.electricalpollution.com suggested that I contact the local group of The National Council For Independent Living. The man I spoke with there assured me that he'd take care of that problem, no worry. To my surprise, he did.
At least, it seems so. He says that the utility company agreed to leave my present meter in place, and that if they bring the subject of a RF meter up again he will take care of it then, too.
American electrically sensitive individuals who want to avoid placement of such a meter on their home, or get an already-installed one removed can call the National Council For Independent Living and ask for contact information of the nearest affiliate group in their own area.
It remains to be seen how well this approach will work for those who are concerned about how the radiation from the meter would affect them, but who have not had a "defining experience" regarding how EMR/EMF affects them personally. However, once a number of individuals have been expempted on grounds of health concerns, it certainly opens the door to others being exempted, as well. And there is certainly research showing good cause for concern regarding such exposure.
3. Treating Gum Disease May Save Your Life
People with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are eight times more likely to have gum disease than people without this autoimmune disease. Inflammation may be the common denominator between the two. Making matters worse: people with RA can have trouble brushing and flossing because of damage to finger joints. The good news is that treating existing gum inflammation and infection can also reduce joint pain and inflammation.
Tooth Loss and Kidney Disease
Adults without teeth may be more likely to have chronic kidney disease than those who still have teeth. Exactly how kidney disease and periodontal disease are linked is not 100% clear yet. But researchers suggest that chronic inflammation may be the common thread. So taking care of your teeth and gums may reduce your risk of developing chronic kidney problems.
This follows closely on work by Weston A Price, which I reported in my book VIRTUAL MEDICINE. Price found that transplanting teeth from disease rabbits into healthy animals would cause the recipient animal to develop the same disease as the donor beast. If the donor had arthritis, the recipient got it; if the donor had kidney disease, the recipient got that instead; it was surprisingly consistent.
Very strange. Clearly some kind of energetic signal was being transferred from animal to the other - and probably infectious organisms too. Can bacteria have a predilection for certain organs? We need to learn more.
Listen also to my audio track, which you can download here: hazards of dentistry
4. A Revolutionary Understanding Of Alzheimer's
Alzheimer’s isn’t amyloid plaque. The old theory is breathing its last, even as you read. It’s an inflammatory process, as some of us have been pointing out for years.
The evidence doesn’t stack up for amyloid. Remember guilt by assoication doesn't always work. Correlation is not necessarily causation, as the medical saying goes. Plaque reducing drugs (such as Celebrex and Aleve) just don’t work. On the other hand, taking systemic anti-inflammatories for arthritis and similar diseases, appears to hold Alzheimer’s in check.
Do the math!
Now a British research group in Southampton University have shown that Alzheimer’s patients who catch a cold, tummy bug or similar inflammatory episodes—or even if they just get a bump or bruise, in fact anything which adds to the inflammatory burden—will suffer a worsening of their Alzheimer’s.
What’s more, they don’t recover; they get worse and STAY worse.
The report is published in the Sept. 8, 2009, issue of the journal Neurology.
Researchers tracked a particularly important inflammatory marker called tumor-necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-a). It tends to rise in acute infections and can reach high levels, even in simple episodes.
For the study, researchers looked at blood tests and cognitive ability in 222 Alzheimer's patients. The researchers measured these factors at the start of the study and three more times during the trial.
In addition, caregivers reported any infections or accidental injuries suffered by the patients during that time.
Over the six months of the study, 110 people had an infection or injury that resulted in inflammation. These people had memory loss at twice the rate of those who did not have infections or injuries, the researchers found.
Memory loss among patients with high TNF-a levels at the start of the study was four times greater than among patients with low TNF-a levels.
What was worse, they found that for those whose TNF-a levels were high at the start of the study, an infection increased their memory loss 10 times (10X) over those who had low TNF-a levels,
The conclusion is clear. If you want to stay young and bright, with full faculties, right into old age, you had better cut down inflammation in your body.
The most successful way to do that BY FAR, is to work through the program I gave you in my book “Diet Wise”, which will reduce your food intolerance burdens and, even alone, can prevent or stall Alzheimer’s. Couple this with the “body load” healing effect I gave you in my eBook “How To Cure Yourself Of Any Disease” and you’ll see this is the best advice you’ll ever get!
5. SCENAR Cosmetology Call
We need connections!
You probably know the SCENAR as a magnificent healing tool. I've covered it extensively before.
What you may not know is that it had powerful cosmetic applications, and is great at getting rid of wrinkles and firming up tone.
Next month I am planning a teleclass with John and Lori Hache, my two experts on this device. We'll be talking pretty well exclusively about this machine and its cosmetology application (ironaically once called the Kosmed).
Ladies will want to watch out for the date of this call, when I post it. Please alert yoour friends for a coming call on a subject very dear to women. However, men too want to get rid of those wrinkles!
6. Could Mold Be Causing Your Problem?
You guys know I was a pioneer in the 80s and 90s. One of the things I learned (along with a few other MDs, like Marshall Mandell, from Connecticutt) is the appalling symptoms that can be caused by mold sensitivity.
Mold is everywhere and can have profound effects on brain function. LSD is a mold toxin; related to a compound found on ergot and probably the cause of the Salem "witch outbreak" (mass hallucinations). In olden days, people would eat rye affected by the ergot mold and go crazy - called St Anthony's Fire (more here on wikipedia).
I have seen the strangest symptoms in all of medicine from this cause: patients shake and sob uncontrollably, yet they talk normally and are relaxed. They can't stop it but explain they are not upset or depressed. It takes a bit of genius to investigate and "solve" these cases, I admit.
Well, the medical profession is as dumb as ever about it, even though I presented on TV in the 1980s. But the problem too is still with us. Check out this hard-hitting short movie from some people I met with at the Cancer Control Society annual conference this September.
http://www.blackmoldexposuremovie.com/
They also do lab work, so if you have a condition you can't fathom and your doctor cannot help, consider this possibility, I urge you.
What's In A Word?
Vicarous.
Not an easy word, actually. It means "second hand" or through another...
Webster's says: "Made or performed by substitution; suffered or done in place of another.." Also "enjoyed or felt by a person as a result of his imagined participation in an experience that is not his own". Hence vicarious gratification when you get fun from watching another or others perform.
Believe it or not, it's the same word as vicar, the person authorized to perform functions, especially religious offices, in the stead of another; a substitute in office. Hence "vicar of Christ" for the Pope and apostolic vicar for those who stand in stead of the Pope.
Thus vicarious sex (which is what porn really is) comes semantically close to the holy offices of some. Shhh!
This Week's Quote:
"I have enjoyed great health at a great age because every day, since I can remember, I have consumed a bottle of wine, except when I do not feel well. Then I have consumed two bottles."
--
Bishop of Seville Baron
"Wine is sunlight, held together by water" -
-- Galileo Galilei (Italian polymath scientist and mathematician 1564 – 1642)
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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