Prof. Keith Scott-Mumby's Total Health Newsletter #22. Week ending Oct 18th, 2009
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1. The Big "Virtual Medicine" Sell-Off
2. Are Liposome-Encapsulated Preparations Safe?
3. Bisphenol A Causes Aggression In Young Girls
4. Me Interviewed On The Byte Show
5. What Can A Bird With No Foot Teach Us?
6. Should Doctors Disclose Their Finanical Involvement?
7. What's In A Word?
8. This Week's Quote

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1. The Big "Virtual Medicine" Sell-Off!

If you didn't get to hear, a printer's error led to me having a lot of copies of the previous edition of my book "Virtual Medicine". I decided to sell them off very cheaply: $4.95 (plus shipping) in fact. So if you don't yet have a copy of this paradigm-bending book, now is your chance. There are still a few left but hurry. We sold over 400 in the first day alone!

You need to be quick, we've sold masses and we have less than 100 copies left!

To get a copy, follow one of these links:

If you live in the USA or Canada, go here

If you live in any other territory, go here

Remember, this is NOT the current edition; it does not have a couple of the recent chapters, including the one on "Biology After Death" and the one on Rife technology.

That reminds me, there is a free eBook for you all which you may not have obtained yet, which documents the remarkable fact that Rife's amazing cancer-curing machine has gone mainstream. It's just that they don't acknowledge Rife. They call it something else but they are getting similar results. You can download the Rife Machine Revisited here.

2. Are Liposome-Encapsulated Preparations Safe?

A subscriber recently raised an interesting point. How do we know for sure that nano-particle liposomes are safe to swallow? We don't. It's an act of faith. But as my correspondent says, how can we tell, when these are new and, essentially alien substances that do not occur in Nature?

I think she was concerned that nano meant something unnatural. It's a modern word, that's for sure. But don't forget, atoms and molecules are way below "nano" scale and yet our bodies can handle them.

Well, this is what we do know. The usual liposomal encapsulation substance is phosphatidyl choline (PC). It makes an ideal carrier, because it is absorbed and goes straight to the liver, where most of the good stuff our body needs is made or processed anyway (vitamin C, for example).

Posphatidyl choline has fabulous properties in its own right. It protects against:

To me, that's the stuff you WANT anyway! So taking it as a vehicle for something like vitamin C gives you a lot of additional benefits.

But the small nano-particles of PC make sure it is exceptionally well absorbed. In the case of vitamin C this is particularly helpful because oral absorption of this vital vitamin is very poor. When lipo-encapsulated, it is absorbed more than ten-fold. So one gram becomes the equivalent of 10 grams by mouth. Morever there is no bowel disturbance (no cramps, no diarrhea). And the vitamin C is delivered right to the liver, which grabs the PC, so releasing the vitamin C, which puts it into circulation! Neat, huh?

I take lipo-encapsulated vitamin C from Livon Labs and I recommend it to you as the nicest and most efficient way to take vitamin C. This is not an affiliate link. I get no commissions: just the satisfaction of knowing you are all doing well!

Livon Laboratories is here

3. Bisphenol A Causes Aggression In Young Girls

Unless you’ve lived on Mars these last few years, you’ll know the mounting concern over bisphenol A, a primary ingredient in plastics. In Letter From Serendipity issue #14 I reported on a straight bribe to get it through safety challenges with the FDA (#Corruption).

Nobody in their right mind could possibly interpret the current science as showing bisphenol A (BPA) is safe. Abundant studies have shown it to be deadly. But of course the FDA will almost certainly ignore the science and follow the money (bribes).

Now a new study has shown that it is associated with hyperactivity and aggression in young girls [Oct. 6, 2009 online edition of Environmental Health Perspectives].

Of course the chemical lobby, with its total disregard for human health and safety, responded in the time-honored way, by rubbishing the study."This type of study has no capability to establish cause and effect, only associations." garbled Steven Hentges, executive director of the polycarbonate/BPA global group at the American Chemistry Council, which represents the chemicals industry.

He’s right in one respect at least: thanks to the chemical industry and its ways, more than 90% of people in the United States have detectable levels of BPA in their urine. The picture is becoming very murky.

The usual phoney assertion is that it’s present only as parts per billion and so can be safely ignored. ‘Scuse me? Where did that fake science come from? Hormones are active in parts per TRILLION. That’s at 1/1,000th of the concentration of bisphenol A.

Independent researchers in dozens of studies have linked trace BPA exposures in animal and test-tube experiments to conditions involving hormone imbalances, including breast and prostate cancer, early puberty and changes in brain structure, particularly for exposures during key points of fetal or early neonatal development.

Canada's regulatory body, Health Canada, is the first in the world to declare Bisphenol A dangerous, the first step towards a ban.

Meanwhile the FDA has declared BPA safe at current levels and said the chemical poses no serious health risks to humans. The FDA is so out of line with scientific findings that its criminally reckless ruling was disputed by a different US federal agency, the National Toxicology Program of the Department of Health and Human Services, which concluded there was definitely reason to be concerned that BPA may cause developmental problems in children’s brains and hormonal systems.

Even as the FDA committed this sin, a study was published the same week showing that bisphenol A tripled the chances of a heart attack and more than doubled the chances of getting diabetes. This was in patients with levels less than the FDA says is safe!

These are basically inflammatory processes and I have been saying since the early 1980s that chemical pollution is one of the main causes of the epidemic of inflammatory diseases: atherosclerosis, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, arthritis, ADD and fibromyalgia (ME to the Europeans) are all basically inflammatory in character.

What can you do? Not a lot. Avoid plastic wrap, cling film and especially plastic water bottles as much as you can. Get a stainless steel re-usable bottle (NOT aluminium) and fill it with filtered or reverse-osmosis treated water. Buy water bottled in glass if you can source it.

This type is good- it has a metal cap insert. Avoid plastic caps!

4. Me Interviewed on The Byte Show

On Tuesday of this week I was an interviewed guest on GeorgeAnn Hughes' radio "The Byte Show".

She was a good interviewer and got me through a surprising range of subjects (more than I bargained for!) If you'd like to listen to the interview (it's quite long, over 90 minutes), you can do so by clicking on this link:

http://www.thebyteshow.com/Audio/Mumby/drKeithScottMumby_NaturalAlternatives_14Oct09_TBS.mp3

5. What Can A Bird With No Foot Teach Us?

My wife and I were sat in Starbucks and just beyond the window, we espied a little hen Brewer's blackbird. She had no toes on her left foot. She looked like a human would, when walking on just the ankle.

I might say she looked cheerful and well-fed and wasn't likely to die any time soon. Certainly during the summer months she would have had plenty of outdoor drinkers who spilled crumbs from their cakes and muffins and now looked plump and ready for winter (a purely relative term, here in southern California!)

Our hearts warmed to her. We talked about her affliction. So what can a crippled little bird teach us about health and healing?

I think she showed us, yet again, that Nature has formidable powers of healing. I do not know what took off her foot; a car, maybe a cat, maybe she got it caught in strands of synthetic thread. Fishing line, for example, is the bane of many birds and animals, who get it round a limb (or the neck) where it pulls tighter and tighter, until it causes an amputation.

But the open wound obviously healed pretty quickly, before sepsis set in. See, most creatures can make themselves lots of vitamin C, which is a great natural anti-viral and anti-biotic. It is very rare indeed to see animals in the wild with infections, because they make their own vitamin C in the liver and it protects them. Humans and other primates are among a small number of creatures that cannot make vitamin C. Ironically, we have the right enzyme in our genes, but it doesn't "express", as we say (a Nobel prize waiting for someone who figures out how to switch that gene on, I'll be bound).

There would be no blood, as I explained to Vivien. Arteries are naturally elastic and will spring back, bunched up, once severed. Only what's called a "seven eighths" (7/8) would allow a bleed out. Because a tiny piece (1/8th) of the artery wall stays attached, the two halves can't separate and recoil, so bleeding continues indefinitely. In her case, this obviously didn't happen.

There is an automatic dressing applied, in the form of serum exudate, which dries to a crust. Leucocytes rush to the scene, like the paradmedics, and get to work, cleaning and healing the would. Fibroblast cells appear and start to mutate to different tissues needed. The whole repair operation goes like clockwork, even while she is walking on the stump, and here is the little bird, limping but alive - without bandages, bedrest, antibiotics or a transfusion!

She's a credit to Nature!

a healthy Brewer's blackbird hen, with both feet!

6. Should Doctors Disclose Their Financial Involvement?

It seems obvious to most of us, who are honest dealing people. Not to a large proportion of doctors, it seems!

A report is published in the Oct. 8, 2009 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine found that almost 30% of the doctors failed to disclose direct financial arrangements with product companies, and 50% didn't disclose payments that indirectly related to their seminar presentations. That's a LOT of doctors hiding their unscrupulous involvement.

There is nothing wrong in being paid to represent a product, of course, provided you tell others, who can then add slant to your enthusiasm.

But money is still a major way drug and product companies pay for favourable reports. To give you an idea of the scale of this, consider the 2008 annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. A total of 344 doctors who presented papers at the meeting had received payments from industry.

Not much inbiased science at that conference, I would say!

The study did note that doctors who received $10,000 in fees or more or were given gifts were more likely to disclose payments. Presumably, $10,000 is the upper limit of honesty then?

The most likely excuses for omitting to mention a financial interest, researchers found, were that the payment was not related to their presentation, they didn't understand the disclosure requirements or disclosure of the payment was missing from the conference program.

What's In A Word?

Sardonic

Sardonic grin is something I first learned at med school: the effects of strychnine poisoning. The person dies in spasms, with a twisted, bitter, rather scornful smile.

But it goes back over 2,000 years. The phrase "sardonic grin" has its roots in a highly poisonous plant indigenous to the Mediterranean island Sardinia, according to new research.

Phytochemical analysis revealed that toxic alcohols in the plant can cause facial muscles to contract, sometimes contorting into a sinister smile.

According to ancient reports, the plant Oenanthe crocata, or hemlock water-dropwort, a perennial that thrives near Sardinian ponds and rivers, was used in pre-Roman Sardinia for the ritual killing of elderly people who were unable to support themselves.

A burden to society, the people "were intoxicated with the sardonic herb and then killed by dropping from a high rock or by beating to death," according to writers from Cagliari University in Sardinia, in the latest issue of the U.S. Journal of Natural Products.

A bit rough, wouldn't you say? Maybe these dreadful doings spread to Sicily. That might explain the Mafia, having deep and despicable roots that go down a long way...

I tried to find a picture of a sardonic smile on Google but couldn't. Strangely enough, this shot of Michael Jackson is almost it (96%).

This Week's Quote:

There is an almost sensual longing for communion with others who have a larger vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendships between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality almost impossible to describe.
            ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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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