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Warning: The use of Oral Contraceptives may be dangerous to your health

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It is interesting and quite alarming how powerful the marketing of oral contraceptive drugs pills are.  I’m currently witnessing first hand an ecstatic drug user who is on the paleo diet.  How the paleo diet becomes just another fad diet and that drugs presently masking symptoms seem to be heaven sent.

Marika shares her studies that point to “Women who use oral contraceptives apparently don’t need as high an RDA for iron”.

Probably studies backed by multi-million dollar drug companies to support their blockbuster products.  Who else would spend  for these studies?

So I come up with,

How about just dropping these poisonous contraceptive drugs / hormones altogether and be a natural paleo human being?

There are better natural birth spacing alternatives that do not take a toll on health: various natural family planning techniques are very effective.

And Marika replies with,

I love my oral contraceptives! I’ll never stop taking them. They’ve changed my life! I used to have debilitating pain not just a week a month during menstruation but then again at the “middleschmertz” too. And I was a hormonal roller coaster. Every month I was completely non-functional, in tears, writhing in agony. I’d take tons of ibuprofen for the pain and still couldn’t work or do anything but cry.

DH says “Please don’t ever stop taking them!!” (because he had to deal with all that, and it was really, really horrible.) And I agree with him, I am happy, healthy and enjoy life so much more now!

and I reply with

Strange to hear that “lovable” side effect of these drugs.  In our healing circles, oral contraceptives are the cause of many, many, diseases women regret later on.  You reap what you sow.

Maybe you can find in the paleo diet and paleo lifestyle a combination that will surpass the “lovable” side effects of your drugs so you eventually drop the drugs because you no longer need them as a crutch.

Shell_Piece has some Emotional Freedom Technique advice,

Marika, try doing some EFT if your menstruations are too painful. Those pills won’t do a body any good. Here are some written examples…

http://www.emofree.com/Pain-management/menstrual-cramps-relief-linda.htm

http://www.emofree.com/Pain-management/pain-menstrual-periods.htm

http://www.emofree.com/Pain-management/menstrual-pain-uterus.htm

http://www.emofree.com/Pain-management/cramps.htm

http://www.emofree.com/Pain-management/scaldpain.htm

Marika says she has done her research.  Probably all research funded by companies in the business of selling oral contraceptives.

I don’t see any reason to stop taking oral contraceptives since they have improved my life so greatly, why try to fix what isn’t broken?  Everyone around me (husband, co-workers, family, all my customers) can attest that I am much, much happier, healthier and very much more enjoyable to be around! I’m not at all interested in returning to a life of unhappiness and misery!

I have done plenty of research (as you can tell I love research!). I found that high-level oral contraceptives (which were common previously) DID have negative effects. But I have found no research on the new, low-dose ones, that would convince me that their few negative effects outweight their many positive effects. If you have research that you’d like to share, let me know!

How about research where people take zero drugs and on the original human diet? I reply with,

No drugs… no possible side effects… paleo women did not need drugs.

Maybe you can find in the paleo diet and paleo lifestyle a combination that will SURPASS the “lovable” side effects of your drugs so you eventually drop the drugs because you no longer need them as a crutch.

Marika shows that she lives in the present with,

If I had any negative side effects, I might consider discontinuing them. But as I’ve had nothing but positive effects, I have no reason to discontinue, you know what I mean? … there are so many advantages for me (and no disadvantages) that there’s really no reason to think of discontinuing in my instance!

I had to keep my replies short and concise as elated people in this mindset may not bother reading the downside of their drugs,

Karlin,

Nobody is restricting CHOICE on Marika, Shell_Piece and I are just presenting BETTER CHOICES.

My wife had painful periods in her younger days but she never took the drug route.

I’m happy for your PRESENT condition. It’s your FUTURE I’m worried about.

Young people will make mistakes all the time, they will learn from their mistakes… but do we have to let the young make potentially FATAL mistakes by drugging them for years and years? Marika is so elated about her symptom suppression she cannot be bothered by BETTER CHOICES.

This is a classic case where MONEY feeds all the DRUG STUDIES… what results would you expect other than a favorable outcome for their blockbuster drugs?

Follow the original discussion at the caveman forum http://cavemanforum.com/index.php?topic=1348.0

Intro to cooked meat paleo diet / caveman diet for health

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Here is a beginners video for those who want a better diet, better results, less diseases, more health, more happiness.  It’s called the paleo diet, the caveman diet.  Here is a short entertaining video with the introduction:  “Maybe the Caveman were on to something. Karney Hatch shows us that their diet, unsullied by artificial flavors and high fructose corn syrup, might be just the thing.”

No bread, no rice, no pasta, no potatoes, no legumes, no no no no no!

Paleo diet is animal meat / innards / fat + vegetables + fruit. The beginners can begin with cooked. Get better with all organic / wild food. Get to be the best with all raw with high amounts of raw organic fat.

A fully raw paleo diet will let you achieve levels of health you never thought possible. This is what I’m experiencing and I’m just so happy I want all of you to experience it too.

There is a support forum for the beginners who still eat cooked animal food at http://www.cavemanforum.com

For those who wish to achieve higher levels of health by eathing RAW ANIMAL MEAT / INNARDS / FAT  go to the raw paleo forum at http://www.rawpaleoforum.com

You will notice the wide difference between cooked meat and raw meat eating.  Raw meat eating is vastly superior.  So superior there is no need for vitamins and supplements and drugs of any kind on the raw paleo forum.

Teach your kids to stop sticking out their heads and hands out the car

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My 8 year old boy is growing up and has his own antics like sticking out his head and arms out of the window of a moving car. To get fresh air? To feel the cool breeze? Very dangerous. Just today a 20 year old woman stuck her head out of a moving car:

Pinellas Park, Florida – Pinellas Park Police say a 20-year-old Ocala woman died early this morning when she was leaning out a moving car and her head hit a mailbox.

Probably show your kids this short news article.

Visit http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=109506&catid=8

Here come the Mandatory Swine Flu H1N1 Vaccinations: Hide your Children

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This is it! The press association says the UK plans to vaccinate all 50 million of its citizens: “Health chiefs are preparing to vaccinate the entire population against swine flu. In what would be the biggest vaccination programme of the last 50 years, experts are already drawing up a priority list of patients to be given immunity before the bug becomes more virulent. It comes after the first British patient without underlying health problems died from the disease, taking the number of swine flu-linked deaths in the UK to 15.” and “Reuters and WHO Say: Call for Mandatory Swine Flu Vaccine Likely to Come This Week”

The big doom is coming. And the big doom is in the form of a supposedly H1N1 vaccine which may instead injure or even kill you. It’s time to be on red alert. If your school is going to force vaccinate your childern, you must know, you must protest as a concerned parent. If your school or government wants to vaccinate all of you like dogs without choice, it’s time to hide your children.

If you think you are a responsible parent by letting strangers inject your child with an experimental drug, that’s your problem. Just leave my kids alone.

In the meantime, my advice to parents is to LIE and LIE and LIE that your children have already been vaccinated. Teach your children to LIE. Make a mock vaccination visit to a mock doctor in a white gown and get a syringe for small children to “think” they’ve been injected so they can lie. If you have nannies, teach them to lie as well.

Remember that the zombie masses and the health official employees are mostly zombies who just follow orders blindly. The trick is to probably blend in and say you’ve been vaccinated. If you resist they may hunt you down and lay siege to your home. Probably spray paint your gate with an X to show you refused vaccination. It will be hysteria all over again.

That coffee craze gone mad whipping everyone to work even when tired

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When your body tells you you are tired, you had better believe it and take a rest.  But what have we done to our workers?  We whip them to get the most out of them without a care for their health.  Just like the horses in Baguio City, when tired, they are fed a sugary mix to keep them going.  Humans take coffee breaks and even take their morning coffee to get them jump started.

Coffee drinking is a rotten self abusing culture I once embraced.  I used to be a coffee drinker until the day came it hit me and blood / oxygen wasn’t reaching my brain and I had to be hospitalized. I was in the hospital and I thought to myself I was going to die and I still didn’t have any kids yet.  Then I had chronic fatigue syndrome, elevated heart rate at rest, and I was only able to cure it by stopping the consumption of all forms of caffeine.

Maybe since I had my horror stories with all things caffeine, my mind will be forever scarred by that experience.  I hope me sharing my experience with coffee and all things caffeine like coffee and coke will scare you out of your wits.   Usually you won’t be scared out of your wits until you experience it personally.   So if you survive your caffeine ordeal, which I hope you do, I told you so.

Here is another bit of the story why I really chose to cut out all forms of caffeine… because the alternative was worse!  The heart doctor I was seeing, the same heart doctor my dad was seeing told me that I would have to take beta blocker drugs… but the side effect was you lose your erection!

That doctor did not tell me to give up all forms of caffeine, I figured that out for myself.  LOSE YOUR ERECTION vs GIVE UP CAFFEINE???  The choice was obvious.  See?  It’s all a matter of motivation.

Now they came up with 3 in 1 coffee, 5 in 1 coffee, 8 in 1 coffee and maybe 100 in 1 coffee… who cares?  Taste? Taste?  Who cares about taste?  Give me my erection.

Fluoride is Poison, Unsafe and Kills Healthy Enzymes

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It’s a sad state to see whole industries, the mass media, the medical and dental industry, everyone who works in those industries and their followers swear allegiance and worship at the feet of the fluoride scam.

Imagine all those dental fluoridation appointments allegedly to make your teeth harder. Then all those fluoride toothpastes sold. Those drugs and even green tea with lots of fluoride in them.

My personal run-ins with fluoride are people I’ve advised with kidney problems. Seems this fluoride is a kidney killer.

Rami Nagel, author of the book Cure Tooth Decay has a nice page why fluoride is bad for you.

Fluoride is Poison

The chemicals – fluorosilicic acid, sodium silicofluoride, and sodium fluoride – used to fluoridate drinking water are industrial waste products from the phosphate fertilizer industry.

A larger study has been conducted in New Zealand. There, the New Zealand National Health Service plan examines the teeth of every child in key age groups, and have found that the teeth of children in non-fluoridated cities were slightly better than those in the fluoridated cities. (Colquhoun, J. “Child Dental Health Differences in New Zealand”, Community Healthy Services, XI 85-90, 1987).

In 1995, neurotoxicologist and former Director of toxicology at Forsyth Dental Center in Boston, Dr. Phyllis Mullenix published research showing that fluoride built up in the brains of animals when exposed to moderate levels. Damage to the brain occurred and the behavior patterns of the animals was adversely effected. Offspring of pregnant animals receiving relatively low doses of fluoride showed permanent effects to the brain which were seen as hyperactivity (ADD-like symptoms). Young animals and adult animals given fluoride experienced the opposite effect — hypoactivity or sluggishness. The toxic effects of fluoride on the central nervous system was subsequently confirmed by previously-classified government research. Two new epidemiological studies which tend to confirm fluoride’s neurotoxic effects on the brain have shown that children exposed to higher levels of fluoride had lower IQs.

Source: Holistic Medicine
Fluoridation is UNSAFE because

1) It accumulates in our bones and makes them more brittle and prone to fracture. The weight of evidence from animal studies, clinical studies and epidemiological studies on this is overwhelming. Lifetime exposure to fluoride will contribute to higher rates of hip fracture in the elderly.

2) It accumulates in our pineal gland, possibly lowering the production of melatonin a very important regulatory hormone (Luke, 1997, 2001).

3) It damages the enamel (dental fluorosis) of a high percentage of children. Between 30 and 50% of children have dental fluorosis on at least two teeth in optimally fluoridated communities (Heller et al, 1997 and McDonagh et al, 2000).

4) There are serious, but yet unproven, concerns about a connection between fluoridation and osteosarcoma in young men (Cohn, 1992), as well as fluoridation and the current epidemics of both arthritis and hypothyroidism.

5) In animal studies fluoride at 1 ppm in drinking water increases the uptake of aluminum into the brain (Varner et al, 1998).

6) Counties with 3 ppm or more of fluoride in their water have lower fertility rates (Freni, 1994).

7) In human studies the fluoridating agents most commonly used in the US not only increase the uptake of lead into children’s blood (Masters and Coplan, 1999, 2000) but are also associated with an increase in violent behavior.

8) The margin of safety between the so-called therapeutic benefit of reducing dental decay and many of these end points is either nonexistent or precariously low.

Fluoride Action Network

Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, and Switzerland do not fluoridate their water.
Fluoride Kills Healthy Enzymes

Did you know that there is an enzyme in saliva that remineralizes soft spots in teeth using calcium in food?

This enzyme is killed by fluoride and it cannot work even in the absence of fluoride if the teeth are covered by glycerin, a major component of toothpaste.

Note that the fluoride and clorine in water and the bromine in food aggravate an existing widespread iodine deficiency in the U.S.
See http://www.helpmythyroid.com.

However, after decades of water fluoridation, virtually all Americans consume a fluoridated food and/or water supply. Yet, ‘dental spending outpaces economic growth, continuing a trend,’ reports the American Dental Association(11)

New York State is 70% fluoridated but two very populous counties, Nassau and Suffolk (Long Island) are totally fluoridation free. In New York State 18.3%, lost 6 or more teeth due to decay or gum disease(13a) while only 16.2% of Long Islanders did.(13b)

New York City is 100% fluoridated, yet 20.9% of Brooklyn(14a) and 19.9% of Queens(14b) residents lost six or more teeth, more than non-fluoridated Long Island and partially fluoridated New York State.

Past news releases show that New York City poor children have more tooth decay than the national average.(15a,b)

Actually, dental crises appear in many fluoridated cities. (See: Cavity Crises In Fluoridated Cities http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof2/_pgg5.php3)
“George W. Heard, D.D.S.
Box 346
Hereford, Texas

March 15, 1954

Mr. Roby C. Day
112 Lewis St.
San Diego, Calif.

Dear Mr. Day:

Hereford, Texas has been called the town without a toothache. This is not true. But the phrase has been used effecively by the people interested in marketing “sodium fluoride” all over the country.

I have practiced dentistry here for years. The native population of Hereford and Deaf Smith County have remarkably good teeth. The incidence of caries or tooth decay was very low. I finally succeeded in getting some members of the dental profession to come to Hereford to find the cause of the exellent dental health of our people.

After considerable research, it was suggested that the relatively high content of natural fluorine in our water supply was responsible. I accepted this conclusion for a time. The people who had great quantities of sodium fluoride and sodium silico fluoride as by-products of the aluminum and fertilizer industries decided that when these by-products were added to city water supplies, they would produce the same type of dental health which existed here with the natural fluorine. They widely publicized “the town without a toothache.” They are, I believe, still doing it.

As the years went by I continued to study the local situation. I observed that, as the town grew and more people began to live on processed foods, such as canned goods, white fluor products, soft drinks, etc., tooth decay increased. This increase of decay occurred, even though they were drinking the same fluorinated water we had always been drinking. I am now fully convinced that good natural food is the preventive of dental caries as well as other diseases.

I believe that fluorine does in a mild way retard caries, but I also believe that the damage it does if far greater than any good it may appear to accomplish. It even makes the teeth so brittle and crumbly they can be treated only with difficulty, if at all.

The dental investigators who came to our County some fifteen years ago did, in my opinion, make a serious misstake when they gave to fluorine the credit for our good teeth, and overlooked the quality of food grown in our rich, well mineralized soil. Every person I found who had no dental caries, consumed much milk.

Why use a poison, when correct food will maintain our bodies free from diseaases and tooth decay. It is hellish and un-American to put poison in city water supplies and force citizens to drink it.

I sincerely hope that at least some of your dentists are co-operating with you in getting the real truth about tooth decay over to your citizens.

If I can further assist you, please call on me.

Cordially yours,

George W. Heard “

From http://www.curetoothdecay.com/Dentistry/Fluoride.htm

If all you are looking for is how to cure your tooth decay, then buy Rami Nagel’s book at http://www.curetoothdecay.com

You can preview what Rami Nagel has to say about curing tooth decay in his 3 videos here http://www.myhealthblog.org/2008/07/11/cure-tooth-decay/

Eating cooked animal foods is a bad habit that makes people sick and must be stopped

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I have come to the conclusion that eating cooked animal foods every single day is a bad habit that contributes to people being sick. What is worse, is people usually cook animal food in the most atrocious manner, frying with vegetable cooking oil and barbecuing over charcoal. To make matters even worse, they eat that thoroughly cooked animal food with a starch like rice or potatoes or bread which requires opposite digestion. And they do this every single day.

The only reason people like cooked animal foods is because of the condiments, the artificial flavors put in them. This culinary art of making meat taste in various ways is a degeneration causing hobby. People’s sense of taste and smell are thwarted and confused because of artificial taste. Rotten meat, undeserving meat passes through your lips because it has been masked by the chef. Take the simple egg, a rotten raw egg will not pass by the scrutiny of your sense of smell and taste; but cooking the same rotten egg and you greedily consume the cooked rotten egg.

How to eat more raw animal food and seared food?

People should try eating plain cooked animal foods without condiments in them. This is the first step. Then you cook your animal food less and less. Sear your steaks on a pan without oil, not over charcoal or flame as these are highly polluting methods. Essentially, anything inside the steak is raw. Eat your animal food alone with its fat, some 20% visual raw / seared fat. Enjoy. Hold the condiments. Eat plain. This is real, natural animal food. Let your body, your taste adjust over the weeks. So you know how much you really need and crave for. Let the truth come out. Raw proteins are body builders while cooked proteins can be killers.

Eventually, completely raw beef / raw fish doesn’t taste so bad and you look forward to it. And the convenience cannot be beaten. No more slaving away at the kitchen.