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So many friends of mine have been asking me for this famous recipe which can aid in getting rid of stones in your gall bladder.  I will post this here for easy reference as sometimes it takes time for me to search through my hard drive.
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<p><img hspace=5 vspace=5 align='right' src='http://www.pixplugin.com/images/your-epsom-down-stones-drink/your.jpg'><p>So many friends of mine have been asking me for this famous recipe which can aid in getting rid of stones in your gall bladder.  I will post this here for easy reference as sometimes it takes time for me to search through my hard drive.</p>
<p>I paid a fortune some years back just to have this exact cleansing program.</p>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-274" title="anatomy_liver1" src="http://spaandwellnessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/anatomy_liver1.gif" alt="anatomy_liver1" width="300" height="250" /></span></strong></p>
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<p><strong>INGREDIENTS:</strong></p>
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<p>4        TABLESPOON – EPSOM SALT</p>
<p>½   CUP LIGHT OLIVE OIL</p>
<p>1              LARGE OR 2 SMALL PINK GRAPEFRUIT, ENOUGH TO SQUEEZE 2/3 CUP JUICE.  WASH TWICE WITH HOT WATER.</p>
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<p><strong>CHOOSE A DAY LIKE SATURDAY FOR THE CLEANSE SO THAT YOU CAN REST</strong> <strong>THE NEXT DAY</strong>.</p>
<p>Take <strong>no</strong> medicines, vitamins or pills that you can do without; they could prevent success.  Stop the parasite program and kidney herbs, too, the day before.</p>
<p>Eat a <strong>no-fat</strong> breakfast and lunch such as cooked cereal, fruit, fruit juice, bread and preserves or honey (no butter or milk).  This allows the bile to build up and develop pressure in the liver.  Higher pressure pushes out more stones.</p>
<p><strong>2:00 P.M.  Do not eat or drink after 2 o’clock</strong>.  If you break this rule you could feel quite ill later.</p>
<p><strong>Get the Epsom salts ready</strong>.   Mix 4 tbsp in 3 cups water and pour this into a jar. This makes four servings, ¾ cup each.  Set the jar in the refrigerator to get ice cold (this is for convenience and taste only).</p>
<p><strong>6:00 P.M</strong>.   Drink one serving (3/4 cup) of the ice cold Epsom Salts.  If you do not prepare this ahead of time, mix 1 tbsp in ¾ cup water now.  You may add 1/8 tsp vitamin C powder to improve the taste.  You may also drink a few mouthfuls of water afterwards or rinse your mouth.  Get the olive oil (ozonated, if possible) and grapefruit out to warm up.</p>
<p><strong>8:00 P.M</strong>.  Repeat by drinking another ¾ cup of ?Epsom salts.  You haven’t eaten since two o’clock but you won’t feel hungry.  Get your bedtime chores done.  The timing is critical for success.</p>
<p><strong>9:45 P.M</strong>.  Pour ½ cup (measured) olive oil into the pint jar.  Wash grapefruit twice in hot water and dry; squeeze by hand into the measuring cup.  Remove pulp with fork.  You should have at least ½ cup, more (up to ¾ cup) is best.  You may use part lemonade.  Add this to the olive oil.  Close the jar tightly with the lid and shake hard until watery (only fresh grapefruit juice does this).  Now visit the bathroom one or more times, even if it makes you late for your ten o’clock drink.  Don’t be more than 15 minutes late.  You will get fewer stones.</p>
<p><strong> 10:00 P.M</strong>.  Drink the potion you have mixed.  Drinking through a large plastic straw helps it go down easier.  You may use oil and vinegar salad dressing, or straight honey to chase it down between sips.  Have these ready in a tablespoon on the kitchen counter.  Take it all to your bedside if you want, but drink it standing up. Get it down within 5 minutes (fifteen minutes for very elderly or weak persons).</p>
<p><strong> Lie down immediately</strong>.  You might fail to get stones out if you don’t, the sooner you lie down the more stones you will get out.  Be ready for bed ahead of time.  Don’t clean up the kitchen.  As soon as the drink is down walk to your bed and lie down flat on your back with your head up high on the pillow.  Try to think about what is happening in the liver.  Try to keep perfectly still for at least 20 minutes.  You may feel a train of stones traveling along the bile ducts like marbles.  There is no pain because the bile duct valves are open (thank you Epsom salts!)    <strong>Go to sleep</strong>, you may fail to get stones out if you don’t.</p>
<p><strong>Next morning</strong>.  Upon awakening take your third dose of Epsom salts.  If you have indigestion or nausea wait until it is gone before drinking the Epsom salts.  You may go back to bed.  Don’t take this potion before 6:00 am.</p>
<p><strong>2 hours later</strong>.  Take your fourth (the last) dose of Epsom salts.  You may go back to bed again.</p>
<p><strong>After 2 more hours</strong> you may eat.  Start with fruit juice.  Half an hour later eat fruit.  One hour later you may eat regular food but keep it light.  By supper you should feel recovered.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-272" title="BeforeAfter60" src="http://spaandwellnessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/BeforeAfter60-300x203.jpg" alt="BeforeAfter60" width="300" height="203" /></p>
<p><strong>How well did you do</strong>?  Expect diarrhea in the morning.  Use a flashlight to look for gallstone in the toilet with the bowel movement.  Look for the green kind since this is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">proof</span> that they are genuine gallstones, not food residue.  Only bile from the liver is pea green.  The bowel movements sinks but the gallstones float because of the cholesterol inside.  <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Count them</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">thoroughly,</span> whether tan or green.  You will need to total 2000 stones before the liver is clean enough to rid you of allergies  or bursitis or upper back pains <span style="text-decoration: underline;">permanently.</span> The first cleanse may rid you of them for a few days, but as the stones from the rear travel forward, they give you the same symptoms again.  You may repeat cleanses at two week intervals.  Never cleanse when you are ill.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-273" title="hand180" src="http://spaandwellnessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/hand180-300x204.jpg" alt="hand180" width="300" height="204" /></p>
<p>Sometimes the bile ducts are full of cholesterol crystals that did not form into round stones.  They appear as a “chaff” floating on top of the toilet bowl after.  It may be tan colored, harboring millions of tiny white crystals.  Cleansing this chaff is just as important as purging stones.</p>
<p>How safe is this program?   It is very safe.  My opinion (Dr H. Clark) is based on over 500 cases, including many persons in their seventies and eighties.  None went to the hospital; none ever reported pain.  However it can make you feel quite ill for one or two days afterwards, although in every one of these cases the maintenance parasite program had been neglected.</p>


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Last month,  since I had an appointment in Marikina I went in to see Jaime Dy Liaco in his residence, finally!
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<p><img hspace=5 vspace=5 align='right' src='http://www.pixplugin.com/images/sugar-take-he-glasses-water/sugar.jpg'><p>Last month,  since I had an appointment in Marikina I went in to see Jaime Dy Liaco in his residence, finally!</p>
<p>I live in paranaque down south so up north is quite far.  However I see him when I attend seminars of PCAM and that is where I usually request him to check on me.  I know for a fact that he has a long list of clients, counting months in his appointment book so I actually just took my chance.</p>
<p>I get my supply of minerals from him for my diabetes via a messenger so this time I wanted to be the one to get it myself and see if the good healer can check on me.</p>
<p>I sent him a my handwritten list of ailments as his assistant requested some months back.  He read it and did a muscle test.  He said my sugar is way up at 240!  I was not able to monitor my sugar for two weeks.  I ran out of funds to buy the test strips.</p>
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<p>He then told me to take these:</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-262" title="holland_red_pepper" src="http://spaandwellnessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/holland_red_pepper-300x225.jpg" alt="holland_red_pepper" width="180" height="135" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-80" title="bowl-rock-salt_u17060491" src="http://spaandwellnessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/bowl-rock-salt_u17060491.jpg" alt="bowl-rock-salt_u17060491" width="130" height="97" /></p>
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<p>His helper brought me 3 pcs of red pepper, one raw saging na saba, rock salt and three glasses of water (mineral) to bring my sugar down.</p>
<p>Oh boy the pepper was really hot!  I had to take salt for every three glasses of water so as not to dehydrate me (otherwise I will just urinate all of them).  The banana will provide potassium which one loses each time he or she urinates.</p>
<p>I had to get two more glasses of water in the kitchen as my tongue was on &#8216;fire&#8217;.  The doctor told me not to worry,  my tongue wont feel the scorching heat in five mins.</p>
<p>After around 15 mins, he muscle tested me again and my sugar went down to 78!</p>
<p>I also told him I used to take the raw pig pancreas to bring down my sugar but noticed I got dizzy so stopped it.  He muscle tested me again and said I got dizzy not because of the pancreas but because I was dehydrated and my blood pressure was low.  High blood pressure will make your head ache but low blood pressure may make you dizzy.  He warned me about dehydration and to make sure I take 15 glasses of  mineral water a day with rock salt.</p>
<p>I never had to take any insulin or prescription drugs for diabetes.  I was able to control my sugar except during my recent stressful period.  I just needed to share this knowledge hoping it will help other diabetics who are still hooked on prescription drugs.</p>


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<p><img hspace=5 vspace=5 align='left' src='http://www.pixplugin.com/images/from-swine-died-mild-pandemic/from.jpg'><div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">On June 11 the World Health Organization (WHO) warned 194 member nations to expect up to 1/3 of the population to be infected with the swine flu. However they also reinforced that this is a mild illness in the majority of cases.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">The KEY here is to recognize that absolutely nothing has changed from when I first posted my major update on Swine Flu on April 29 that has now been viewed over one million times.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">This promotion to Stage Six is still fear mongering, plain and simple. While it certainly qualifies for a pandemic in the strict definition of the term, they are using that term to instill fear in the population.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">All a pandemic implies is that the infection is spread across the world.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">It is important to note that even the fear spreading WHO is still stating the disease is mild, and the latest stats support this. As of June 12 only 145 deaths have occurred in the entire world. Mexico has the majority of the deaths at 108 and the US has had 27 deaths.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">While any death is tragic, let me put these numbers in perspective for you. If you believe the CDC, 35,000 people die every year in the U.S. alone from the regular flu. That means that in the last six weeks when 27 people died from wine flu, there were over FOUR THOUSAND people who died from the regular flu. That is 150 times as many people dying from regular flu as swine flu.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Time magazine adds to the fear mongering by stating that:</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">“The last pandemic — the Hong Kong flu of 1968 — killed about 1 million people. Ordinary flu kills about 250,000 to 500,000 people each year.”</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">If you use those numbers, the statistics for the swine flu are even worse.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Let’s assume the midpoint of 375,000 people die every year from ORDINARY flu. That means that 43,000 people have died from ordinary flu in the last six weeks and only 145 from swine flu. So nearly 300 times more people died from ordinary flu than swine flu, further confirming that swine flu is a relatively MILD disease for the vast majority of people.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">The WHO announcement is simply more of the same. NOTHING has changed.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">It is no surprise that more people have died or will continue to die. The major point is that this is a mild illness that will have virtually no major impact on death rates. It is not the Flu Pandemic of 1918 that killed 20 million people worldwide.</div>
<div><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-252" title="swine-flu-image-1" src="http://spaandwellnessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/swine-flu-image-1-300x193.jpg" alt="swine-flu-image-1" width="300" height="193" /></div>
<div>All you see all over thew news are the so called growing number of people affected by the H1 N1 virus.  WHO has raised the alert to an alarming level.</div>
<div>However I would like to present another side of this.  Related to my <a href="http://spaandwellnessblog.com/2009/05/01/the-swine-flu-pandemic-–-fact-or-fiction/">previous post</a> quoting <a href="http://www.mercola.com">Dr. Mercola&#8217;s</a> analysis. I would like to again, quote his recent analysis to provide another perspective and a more positive one.</div>
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<div><em>On June 11 the World Health Organization (WHO) warned 194 member nations to expect up to 1/3 of the population to be infected with the swine flu. However they also reinforced that this is a mild illness in the majority of cases.</em></div>
<div><em><br />
</em></div>
<div><em> The KEY here is to recognize that absolutely nothing has changed from when I first posted my major update on Swine Flu on April 29 that has now been viewed over one million times.</em></div>
<div><em><br />
</em></div>
<div><em> This promotion to Stage Six is still fear mongering, plain and simple. While it certainly qualifies for a pandemic in the strict definition of the term, they are using that term to instill fear in the population.</em></div>
<div><em><br />
</em></div>
<div><em> All a pandemic implies is that the infection is spread across the world.</em></div>
<div><em><br />
</em></div>
<div><em> It is important to note that even the fear spreading WHO is still stating the disease is mild, and the latest stats support this. As of June 12 only 145 deaths have occurred in the entire world. Mexico has the majority of the deaths at 108 and the US has had 27 deaths.</em></div>
<div><em><br />
</em></div>
<div><em> While any death is tragic, let me put these numbers in perspective for you. If you believe the CDC, 35,000 people die every year in the U.S. alone from the regular flu. That means that in the last six weeks when 27 people died from wine flu, there were over FOUR THOUSAND people who died from the regular flu. That is 150 times as many people dying from regular flu as swine flu.</em></div>
<div><em><br />
</em></div>
<div><em> Time magazine adds to the fear mongering by stating that:</em></div>
<div><em><br />
</em></div>
<div><em> “The last pandemic — the Hong Kong flu of 1968 — killed about 1 million people. Ordinary flu kills about 250,000 to 500,000 people each year.”</em></div>
<div><em><br />
</em></div>
<div><em> If you use those numbers, the statistics for the swine flu are even worse.</em></div>
<div><em><br />
</em></div>
<div><em> Let’s assume the midpoint of 375,000 people die every year from ORDINARY flu. That means that 43,000 people have died from ordinary flu in the last six weeks and only 145 from swine flu. So nearly 300 times more people died from ordinary flu than swine flu, further confirming that swine flu is a relatively MILD disease for the vast majority of people.</em></div>
<div><em><br />
</em></div>
<div><em> The WHO announcement is simply more of the same. NOTHING has changed.</em></div>
<div><em><br />
</em></div>
<div><em> It is no surprise that more people have died or will continue to die. The major point is that this is a mild illness that will have virtually no major impact on death rates. It is not the Flu Pandemic of 1918 that killed 20 million people worldwide.</em></div>
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<p><img hspace=5 vspace=5 align='left' src='http://www.pixplugin.com/images/your-vitamin-like-some-immune/your.jpg'><p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-240" title="garlic" src="http://spaandwellnessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/garlic-128x150.jpg" alt="garlic" width="128" height="150" /><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-241" title="excersie2" src="http://spaandwellnessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/excersie2.jpg" alt="excersie2" width="94" height="123" />Again, I am quoting the article below from <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/29/Swine-Flu.aspx" target="_blank">Dr. Mercola</a>. I chose to separate this post from the previous one since I want us all to focus on preventing this so called pandemic flu.  It is really simple and you will not need a vaccine for this.</p>
<p><em>For now, my point is that there are always going to be threats of flu pandemics, real or created, and there will always be potentially toxic vaccines that are peddled as the solution. But you can break free of that whole drug-solution trap by following some natural health principles.</em></p>
<p><em>I have not caught a flu in over two decades, and you can avoid it too, without getting vaccinated, by following these simple guidelines, which will keep your immune system in optimal working order so that you&#8217;re far less likely to acquire the infection to begin with.</em></p>
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<p><em>Optimize your vitamin D levels. As I&#8217;ve previously reported, optimizing your vitamin D levels is one of the absolute best strategies for avoiding infections of ALL kinds, and vitamin D deficiency is likely the TRUE culprit behind the seasonality of the flu &#8212; not the flu virus itself.</em></p>
<p><em>This is probably the single most important and least expensive action you can take. I would STRONGLY urge you to have your vitamin D level monitored to confirm your levels are therapeutic at 50-70 ng.ml and done by a reliable vitamin D lab like Lab Corp. </em></p>
<p><em>For those of you in the US we hope to launch a vitamin D testing service through Lab Corp that allows you to have your vitamin D levels checked at your local blood drawing facility, and relatively inexpensively. We hope to offer this service by June 2009.</em></p>
<p><em>If you are coming down with flu like symptoms and have not been on vitamin D you can take doses of 50,000 units a day for three days to treat the acute infection. Some researchers like Dr. Cannell, believe the dose could even be as high as 1000 units per pound of body weight for three days.</em></p>
<p><em>However, most of Dr. Cannell&#8217;s work was with seasonal and not pandemic flu. If your body has never been exposed to the antigens there is chance that the vitamin D might not work. However the best bet is to maintain healthy levels of vitamin D around 60 ng/ml.</em></p>
<p><em>BUT to keep this in perspective the regular flu, not the swine flu, has killed 13,000 in the US since January. But there is strong support that these types of figures are grossly exaggerated to increase vaccine sales. However, the fact remains that the regular flu at this point in time is FAR more dangerous than the swine flu and were you worried about the regular flu before the media started talking this up?</em></p>
<p><em><strong>Avoid Sugar and Processed Foods</strong>. Sugar decreases the function of your immune system almost immediately, and as you likely know, a strong immune system is key to fighting off viruses and other illness. Be aware that sugar is present in foods you may not suspect, like ketchup and fruit juice. </em></p>
<p><em><strong>Get Enough Re</strong><strong>st</strong>. Just like it becomes harder for you to get your daily tasks done if you&#8217;re tired, if your body is overly fatigued it will be harder for it to fight the flu. Be sure to check out my article Guide to a Good Night&#8217;s Sleep for some great tips to help you get quality rest. </em></p>
<p><em><strong>Have Effective Tools to Address Stress </strong></em><em>. We all face some stress every day, but if stress becomes overwhelming then your body will be less able to fight off the flu and other illness. </em></p>
<p><em>If you feel that stress is taking a toll on your health, consider using an energy psychology tool such as the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), which is remarkably effective in relieving stress associated with all kinds of events, from work to family to trauma. You can check out my free, 25-page EFT manual for some guidelines on how to perform EFT. </em></p>
<p><em><strong>Exercise</strong>. When you exercise, you increase your circulation and your blood flow throughout your body. The components of your immune system are also better circulated, which means your immune system has a better chance of finding an illness before it spreads. You can review my exercise guidelines for some great tips on how to get started. </em></p>
<p><em>Take a good source of animal based omega-3 fats like Krill Oil. Increase your intake of healthy and essential fats like the omega-3 found in krill oil, which is crucial for maintaining health. It is also vitally important to avoid damaged omega-6 oils that are trans fats and in processed foods as it will seriously damage your immune response.</em></p>
<p><em>Wash Your Hands. Washing your hands will decrease your likelihood of spreading a virus to your nose, mouth or other people. Be sure you don&#8217;t use antibacterial soap for this &#8212; antibacterial soaps are completely unnecessary, and they cause far more harm than good. Instead, identify a simple chemical-free soap that you can switch your family to.</em></p>
<p><em><strong>Eat Garlic Regular</strong><strong>ly</strong>. Garlic works like a broad-spectrum antibiotic against bacteria, virus, and protozoa in the body. And unlike with antibiotics, no resistance can be built up so it is an absolutely safe product to use. However, if you are allergic or don&#8217;t enjoy garlic it would be best to avoid as it will likely cause more harm than good.</em></p>
<p><em><strong>Avoid Hospitals and Vaccines</strong> In this particular case, I&#8217;d also recommend you stay away from hospitals unless you&#8217;re having an emergency, as hospitals are prime breeding grounds for infections of all kinds, and could be one of the likeliest places you could be exposed to this new bug. V<strong>accines will not be available for six months at the minimum but when available they will be ineffective and can lead to crippling paralysis like Guillain-Barré Syndrome just as it did in the 70s</strong>.</em></p>


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		<title>The Swine Flu Pandemic – Fact or Fiction?</title>
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I would like to reproduce some parts of Dr. Mercola&#8217;s timely article regarding the Swine Flu pandemic which is gripping many countries right now.
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<p><img hspace=5 vspace=5 align='right' src='http://www.pixplugin.com/images/virus-from-pandemic-strain-swine/virus.jpg'><p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-227" title="swine-flu-pig" src="http://spaandwellnessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/swine-flu-pig-150x150.jpg" alt="swine-flu-pig" width="150" height="150" />I would like to reproduce some parts of Dr. Mercola&#8217;s timely article regarding the Swine Flu pandemic which is gripping many countries right now.</p>
<p>It is a very long one and you will find the full length article <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/29/Swine-Flu.aspx#_edn11" target="_blank">here</a> but I chose to just focus on two main parts which I am quoting below.</p>
<p>As a natural wellness practitioner, I am concerned at how many people are in a panic to buy flu shots &#8220;just in case&#8230;&#8221; and the morning news reported that the drug stores are now out of stock of this so called precious vaccine.  Who benefits? Read on&#8230;.</p>
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<p><strong>Why a True Bird- or Swine Flu Pandemic is HIGHLY Unlikely</strong></p>
<p>While in my opinion it is highly likely factory farming is responsible for producing this viral strain, I believe there is still no cause for concern.</p>
<p>You may not know this, but all H1N1 flu&#8217;s are descendants of the 1918 pandemic strain. The reason why the flu shot may or may not work, however, from year to year, is due to mutations. Therefore, there&#8217;s no vaccine available for this current hybrid flu strain, and naturally, this is feeding the fear that millions of people will die before a vaccine can be made.</p>
<p>However, let me remind you of one very important fact here.</p>
<p>Just a couple of months ago, scientists concluded that the 1918 flu pandemic that killed between 50-100 million people worldwide in a matter of 18 months &#8212; which all these worst case scenarios are built upon &#8212; was NOT due to the flu itself!4</p>
<p>Instead, they discovered the real culprit was strep infections.</p>
<p>People with influenza often get what is known as a &#8220;superinfection&#8221; with a bacterial agent. In 1918 it appears to have been Streptococcus pneumoniae.</p>
<p>Since strep is much easier to treat than the flu using modern medicine, a new pandemic would likely be much less dire than it was in the early 20th century, the researchers concluded.</p>
<p>Others, such as evolutionary biologist Paul Ewald,5 claim that a pandemic of this sort simply cannot happen, because in order for it to occur, the world has to change. Not the virus itself, but the world.</p>
<p>In a previous interview for Esquire magazine, in which he discusses the possibility of a bird flu pandemic, he states:</p>
<p>&#8220;They think that if a virus mutates, it&#8217;s an evolutionary event. Well, the virus is mutating because that is what viruses and other pathogens do. But evolution is not just random mutation. It is random mutation coupled with natural selection; it is a battle for competitive advantage among different strains generated by random mutation.</p>
<p>For bird flu to evolve into a human pandemic, the strain that finds a home in humanity has to be a strain that is both highly virulent and highly transmissible. Deadliness has to translate somehow into popularity; H5N1 has to find a way to kill or immobilize its human hosts, and still find other hosts to infect. Usually that doesn&#8217;t happen.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ewald goes on to explain that evolution in general is all about trade-offs, and in the evolution of infections the trade-off is between virulence and transmissibility.</p>
<p>What this means is that in order for a &#8220;bird flu&#8221; or &#8220;swine flu&#8221; to turn into a human pandemic, it has to find an environment that favors both deadly virulence and ease of transmission.</p>
<p>People living in squalor on the Western Front at the end of World War I generated such an environment, from which the epidemic of 1918 could arise.</p>
<p>Likewise, crowded chicken farms, slaughterhouses, and jam-packed markets of eastern Asia provide another such environment, and that environment gave rise to the bird flu &#8212; a pathogen that both kills and spreads, in birds, but not in humans.</p>
<p>Says Ewald:</p>
<p>&#8220;We know that H5N1 is well adapted to birds. We also know that it has a hard time becoming a virus that can move from person to person. It has a hard time without our doing anything. But we can make it harder. We can make sure it has no human population in which to evolve transmissibility. There is no need to rely on the mass extermination of chickens. There is no need to stockpile vaccines for everyone.</p>
<p>By vaccinating just the people most at risk &#8212; the people who work with chickens and the caregivers &#8212; we can prevent it from becoming transmissible among humans. Then it doesn&#8217;t matter what it does in chickens.&#8221;</p>
<p>Please remember that, despite the fantastic headlines and projections of MILLIONS of deaths, the H5N1 bird flu virus killed a mere 257 people worldwide since late 2003. As unfortunate as those deaths are, 257 deaths worldwide from any disease, over the course of five years, simply does not constitute an emergency worthy of much attention, let alone fear!</p>
<p>Honestly, your risk of being killed by a lightning strike in the last five years was about 2,300 percent higher than your risk of contracting and dying from the bird flu.6 I&#8217;m not kidding! In just one year (2004), more than 1,170 people died from lighting strikes, worldwide.7</p>
<p>So please, as the numbers of confirmed swine flu cases are released, keep a level head and don&#8217;t let fear run away with your brains. </p>
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<p><strong>Wher Strain Come From?e did This Mysterious New Animal-Human Flu Strain Come From?</strong></p>
<p>Alongside the fear-mongering headlines, I&#8217;ve also seen increasing numbers of reports questioning the true nature of this virus. And rightfully so.</p>
<p>Could a mixed animal-human mutant like this occur naturally? And if not, who made it, and how was it released?</p>
<p>Not one to dabble too deep in conspiracy theories, I don&#8217;t have to strain very hard to find actual facts to support the notion that this may not be a natural mutation, and that those who stand to gain have the wherewithal to pull off such a stunt.</p>
<p>Just last month I reported on the story that the American pharmaceutical company Baxter was under investigation for distributing the deadly avian flu virus to 18 different countries as part of a seasonal flu vaccine shipment. Czech reporters were probing to see if it may have been part of a deliberate attempt to start a pandemic; as such a &#8220;mistake&#8221; would be virtually impossible under the security protocols of that virus.</p>
<p>The H5N1 virus on its own is not very airborne. However, when combined with seasonal flu viruses, which are more easily spread, the effect could be a potent, airborne, deadly, biological weapon. If this batch of live bird flu and seasonal flu viruses had reached the public, it could have resulted in dire consequences.</p>
<p>There is a name for this mixing of viruses; it&#8217;s called &#8220;reassortment,&#8221; and it is one of two ways pandemic viruses are created in the lab. Some scientists say the most recent global outbreak &#8212; the 1977 Russian flu &#8212; was started by a virus created and leaked from a laboratory.</p>
<p>Another example of the less sterling integrity of Big Pharma is the case of Bayer, who sold millions of dollars worth of an injectable blood-clotting medicine to Asian, Latin American, and some European countries in the mid-1980s, even though they knew it was <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2006/08/05/bayer-sells-aids-infected-drug-banned-in-us-in-europe-asia.aspx">tainted with the AIDS virus.</a></p>
<p>So while it is morally unthinkable that a drug company would knowingly contaminate flu vaccines with a deadly flu virus such as the bird- or swine flu, it is certainly not impossible. It has already happened more than once.</p>
<p>But there seems to be no repercussions or hard feelings when industry oversteps the boundaries of morality and integrity and enters the arena of obscenity. Because, lo and behold, which company has been chosen to head up efforts, along with WHO, to produce a vaccine against the Mexican swine flu?</p>
<p>Baxter!11 Despite the fact that ink has barely dried on the investigative reports from their should-be-criminal &#8220;mistake&#8221; against humanity.</p>
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<p>According to other sources,12 a top scientist for the United Nations, who has examined the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa, as well as HIV/AIDS victims, has concluded that the current swine flu virus possesses certain transmission &#8220;vectors&#8221; that suggest the new strain has been genetically-manufactured as a military biological warfare weapon.</p>
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<p>The UN expert believes that Ebola, HIV/AIDS, and the current A-H1N1 swine flu virus are biological warfare agents.</p>
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<p>In addition, Army criminal investigators are looking into the possibility that disease samples are missing from biolabs at Fort Detrick &#8212; the same Army research lab from which the 2001 anthrax strain was released, according to a recent article in the Fredrick News Post.13 In February, the top biodefense lab halted all its research into Ebola, anthrax, plague, and other diseases known as &#8220;select agents,&#8221; after they discovered virus samples that weren&#8217;t listed in its inventory and might have been switched with something else.</p>
<p>Read rest of the article <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/29/Swine-Flu.aspx#_edn11" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>


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