Prof. Keith Scott-Mumby's Total Health Newsletter #47. Week ending Apr 25th, 2010
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1. Plant Oils Highly Effective Against Drug-Resistant Bacteria
2. My Survey This Week
3. Thoughts About Science Hogwash (Cancer and Genes)
4. Tooth Brushes
5. Lights Go Out (Temporarily) During Passionate Sex
6. What's In A Word?

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This Week's Quote:

"Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value."

R. Buckminster Fuller

1. Study: Plant Oils Highly Effective Against Drug-Resistant Bacteria

If you have read my report “How To Survive In A World Without Antibiotics” you’ll know I have described the powerful antibacterial effects of everyday plants and their essential oils. Even culinary herbs and spices, like thyme and cinnamon, have antibiotic effects.

White tea extract actually outperforms two major antibiotics: tetracycline and vancomycin, for heaven’s sake!

New research, reported last week at the Society for General Microbiology meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland, has repeated everything I discovered and reported.

The study took place at the Technological Educational Institute of Ionian Islands in Greece. Researchers investigated the effects of plant oils against multi-drug-resistant staphylococcus aureas or MRSA, a bacterium that causes hospital-acquired infections and is dangerous because it frequently does not respond to a whole range of antibiotics.

Recently a strain of MRSA has emerged that is 5 times more deadly than before; it kills 50% of infected cases.

Professor Effemia Eriotou in charge of the research said, "We didn't know that essential oils were going to have that great an anti-microbial activity. And it's really amazing that they are killing all these bacteria and yeasts as well.” That’s great news for Candida and yeast sufferers!

Essential oils from eight plants were tested, including thyme, basil, peppermint and cinnamon. They all had significant anti-bacterial activity, but essential oil from thyme - a spice frequently used in Mediterranean cooking - killed almost all of the bacteria in a petri dish within an hour. Almost as effective was cinnamon oil.

Scientists had noticed that cheeses mixed with herbs had no bacteria, which were present when there were no herbs. So Eriotou started investigating.

You need more information like this. It will save your life some day. Antibiotics are failing now BIG time. It’s getting truly dangerous again, like it was 60- 70 years ago.

The most comprehensive catalogue to date, listing all known effective alternatives to antibiotics, is my report “How To Survive In A World Without Antibiotics”. Don’t wait till somebody gets sick: buy it NOW. More about How To Survive In A World Without Antibiotics

2. My Survey This Week.

Thank you all so much, who responded to my call. We are still collating the replies but it looks like outside the box "AntiAging" is the winner and also "The Lifetime Secrets Of The Number One Allergy Detective" will be much appreciated. Be assured you'll get all the eBooks mentioned; I'm just deciding what order would be good to publish them!

More than anything I want to thank those of you who sent in heartwarming words of congratulations and love. I'm really very touched that what I write means so much to so many of you. As I said, I never find writing a toil, but it's long hours, even with flying fingers at the keyboard, to turn out a book.

Please excuse me if it seems like I didn't reply to you personally. I think it would take weeks to reply to you all, so to be fair, I'm not going to pick out favourites. The very act of picking out certain ones seems to chafe against my sense of what's right and what's fair. So none of you will get a personal response. But you can be sure I read your words with care: you helped me, so that was the least I could do.

One correspondent seemed to sum up all the comments: "Whatever you do please keep writing! I really appreciate your newsletters, Serendipity, ebooks etc. It's great to get information about complementary therapies backed by real science and experience and free from 'secrets', eyewash, psychobabble etc!"

3. Thoughts About Science Hogwash (Cancer And Genes)

It's fashionable to believe in genes. Indeed, it's fashionable to try and attribute every aspect of disease to a "gene". We hear constantly about new genes discovered that "cause" certain diseases. Even homosexuality is supposed by some to be a gene (it isn't). Perhaps we'll find a skill-at-poker gene?

Aside from the fact that we don't have enough genes in our bodies to build a daffodil*, never mind type for cancer, heart disease etc. there are obvious flaws in this genes-for-everything supposition.

One of the simplest flaws is that twins exhibit widely divergent health trends, even though they have identical gene make-up. Twins vary greatly in their experience of cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, hypertension and rheumatoid disease. For example a study published in the New England Journal Of Medicine set out to test environment versus genes in the causation of cancer.
[Lichtenstein, P. et al (2000). "Environmental and Heritable Factors in the Causation of Cancer: Analysis of Cohorts of Twins from Sweden, Denmark, and Finland." NEJM, Vol. 343, pp. 78-85].

The study followed 44,000 pairs of twins. The results were clear. Genes had less effect than the environment! Genes were able to dictate what kind of cancer a person did get, if they got cancer at all. But modifiable environmental factors were really the determinants of whether a person would actually get cancer or no.

The truth is most cancer determinants are modifiable. It should be very rare to die of cancer, as it was up till 100 years ago. Cancer is preventable, as I keep saying. And if it strikes, it can be beaten.

You just need to know how to keep this disease in its cage, firmly locked away. That requires knowledge and that means get my report Cancer Confidential.

* a daffodil has more genes than a human!

4. Tooth Brushes

If you have read my book "Virtual Medicine", you will know the amazing science I brought forward about how teeth can really kill! Dentists bury a lot of their patients but never know it. Nobody asks!

When was the last time you went to the doctor sick and he/she asked you "Have you been to the dentist for some work recently?" Never, right?

Yet the dangers from gum and bone around hazardous teeth account for a lot of chronic illness and death. In this day and age of poor antibiotic response, a relatively minor infection in teeth and gums can spread to the brain and that's it: poof! Lights out.

Now one of my good friends and long time correspondents, Graeme Dinnen, of Resources For Life, has sent me some sample toothbrushes of the Phillips Blotting Technique style. There's a video, which I'll get formatted and post for you next week.

Meantime, go to Graeme's site and learn more. I've been trying these brushes for soaking up plaque and they do seem to be working!

www.ResourcesForLife.net

5. Lights Go Out (Temporarily) During Passionate Sex

Listen, sex can make us go a little crazy, know what I mean? But this time I'm being perfectly serious!

You might remember in issue #25 I shared with you my story, about sudden and disastrous mental incapacity, after passionate sex. I keep pushing this point because I think a lot of people have this problem and don't get properly diagnosed. It's a tragedy to miss the true diagnosis, because it's quite harmless and almost never recurs.

It's called transient global amnesia, or TGP for short.

If doctors miss the true story they may intervene with negative consequences or inadvertently label the patient as a vascular case, with imminent threat of a stroke. That can create an invalid, when none existed. No medication or treatement is required, beyond re-assurance.

Since so many of us boomers go on having fun in bed well into out 70s, it's something that will show up more and more. Make sure you are aware of this condition and sharing it with others can help alleviate alarm and suffering where is occurs.

What triggered this was another article in a British newspaper, about the same thing:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1266767/How-sex-stress-man-lose-memory.html

6. What's In A Word?

Whippersnapper

One of those 2-layered words or double entendre. It is commonly used to mean some presumptuous upstart or nobody, who thinks he's more important than he is. A brat, dummy, a jackstraw, little guy, malapert, punk, puppy, runt, saucebox, spoiled brat, squirt, a zero, zilch.

But the origins of the word, from 17th century English, means somone handy with his "whip" (penis), a whip snapper, and so it is basically a sign of jealousy, and why older men call younger men whippersnappers!

"Not a lot of people know that!" as Michael Caine is wont to say.

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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