Mark Hyman, MD

Wow, I am not familiar with Dr. Hyman's work, but his article, Why Current Thinking about Autism Is Wrong, is eminently sensible...getting beyond the old blindered it's the genes! It's the parents! ideas behind autism and considering what might be REALLY behind this epidemic. Check out his theories and what we can do to prevent further harm to our kids.

Also, it appeared on the Huffington Post, which is fairly mainstream, so that's also exciting.

We watched this video last night, The Beautiful Truth, and while its execution was a little silly, it brought together many of the strands of healthful thinking that is now informing our family health. It was about cancer (which J has had) and not autism...but it's all part of the same vector, as you'll see.

Haha, it also explores MSG--I recently got in a fight at an academic conference over the MSG headache as a "cultural construct." When I tried to argue MSG is a real neurotoxin...well, I got my own headache from people yelling at me and telling me my problem was that I was a health alarmist and didn't enjoy life and needed to eat MORE MSG and all my problems would be solved. It was all a little hostile, and mean, like these debates about alternative health seem to get...but I'm happy and grateful our son's example has basically pushed us to rethink our lifestyles, which we thought were pretty darn healthy. There you go.

Netflix it! See the trailer here.

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How's your Baby CHI?

Hello! Hope everyone had a great summer. I have a piece today in FertilityAuthority.com on how to improve your fertility (and your life) with FENG SHUI: click here.

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Gone fishing

Hello,

We are on summer hiatus so I can work on my novel! Thanks for reading.

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Milk and Cancer and Monsanto and our manipulated News

Please please watch this--and you'll never think, "Oh, if it's on the market, it must be safe" EVER EVER AGAIN.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL1pKlnhvg0

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Did Toxic Chemical Cause Iraqi Vets Death and Disability?

From the AP:

Larry Roberta's every breath is a painful reminder of his time in Iraq. He can't walk a block without gasping for air. His chest hurts, his migraines sometimes persist for days and he needs pills to help him sleep.

James Gentry came home with rashes, ear troubles and a shortness of breath. Later, things got much worse: He developed lung cancer, which spread to his spine, ribs and one of his thighs; he must often use a cane, and no longer rides his beloved Harley.

David Moore's postwar life turned into a harrowing medical mystery: nosebleeds and labored breathing that made it impossible to work, much less speak. His desperate search for answers ended last year when he died of lung disease at age 42.

What these three men — one sick, one dying, one dead — had in common is they were National Guard soldiers on the same stretch of wind-swept desert in Iraq during the early months of the war in 2003.

These soldiers and hundreds of other Guard members from Indiana, Oregon and West Virginia were protecting workers hired by a subsidiary of the giant contractor, KBR Inc., to rebuild an Iraqi water treatment plant. The area, as it turned out, was contaminated with hexavalent chromium, a potent, sometimes deadly chemical linked to cancer and other devastating diseases.

read more here.

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AP: VA in Penn. botched cancer treatments

Is this how we treat our vets? Almost all of them who went into this VA hospital for treatment suffered horrible malpractice.

This idea of planting radioactive seeds into people doesn't make sense to me, in that what keeps you from irradiating your loved ones, pets, etc? Strange to me how they are prosecuting parents whose children refuse cancer treatment. I think for some people, it would have been better to say no to this one (the Johns Hopkins-degreed doctor accidentally put the seeds in people's bladders, rectums, etc. Oops!) because even after the horrific mistakes were found, what did they do? Covered it up. It's also unclear if this doc is still practicing or not. Yikes!

From the AP:

PHILADELPHIA – Ninety-two veterans were given incorrect radiation doses in a common surgical procedure to treat prostate cancer during a six-year period at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia, according to newspaper reports Sunday.

A hospital team that performed the procedure botched it on 92 of 116 occasions and continued the treatment for a year even though monitoring equipment was broken, The New York Times said. The Philadelphia Inquirer said treatment errors occurred in 92 of 114 cases.

The cases involved brachytherapy, in which implanted radioactive seeds are used to kill cancer cells. Most veterans got significantly less than the prescribed dose while others received excessive radiation to nearby tissue and organs.

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