Sunday, November 30, 2014

Ebola cases being hidden from public as government stockpiles survivors' blood before epidemic resurgence by: J. D. Heyes from Natural News

Ebola cases being hidden from public as government stockpiles survivors' blood before epidemic resurgence

Sunday, November 30, 2014 by: J. D. Heyes
Tags: Ebola cases, survivors, blood banks

(NaturalNews) Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, plans to begin stockpiling blood plasma from Ebola survivors, leading some observers to question whether the government is merely being prudent or is expecting a widening of the current outbreak inside the U.S.

As reported by Wired, the plasma comes from survivors who were "treated with a pathogen inactivation system that's never been used before in the United States."

Thus far, the news site noted, the U.S. has had remarkable success in treating Ebola infections -- indeed, in curing the disease -- and that is quite possibly due to the experimental plasma treatments.

The plasma is taken from survivors and comes "enriched in antibodies that could help to fight off the disease," Wired reported. But in addition, the plasma also has an ability to carry other diseases, such as malaria, that are extremely common in regions like West Africa, where the current Ebola outbreak originated.

Expecting more infections?

How Your Oral Health Contributes to Your General Health and Wellbeing

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Many people do not realize how their oral health can impact their total body health. But the truth is, it's very difficult to achieve high-level physical health if your dental health isn't effectively addressed.
Dr. Gerry Curatola, founder of Rejuvenation Dentistry, has over 30 years' experience in biological dentistry.
For Dr. Curatola, dentistry was a calling since childhood, but unlike most dentists, he really wanted to be "a physician of the mouth." So, after graduating from dental school in 1983, he enrolled in the country's first master's program in holistic health.

"My desire and my focus have always been to look at the mouth as the gateway to total body wellness," he says.
"Beyond that, I became very disturbed that I was a member of a profession—its organized component, the American Dental Association—that is still saying it's okay to put mercury in teeth.
In addition to that, all of the research that was emerging about fluoridation made it very clear that this wasn't the panacea for all dental problems. As a matter of fact, it's responsible for a lot of other problems that we're dealing with today."

How Your Oral Health Impacts Your Systemic Health

Thousands of studies have linked oral disease to systemic disease. Inflammation is well-known as a "ravaging" and disease-causing force, and gum disease and other oral diseases produce chronic low-grade inflammation in your body.

Libya Then and Now: An Overview of NATO’s Handiwork

By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

Global Research, November 22, 2014

New Dawn Magazine - Special Geopolitical Edition

Region: Middle East & North Africa

Theme: Crimes against Humanity, Culture, Society & History, US NATO War Agenda

In-depth Report: NATO'S WAR ON LIBYA

In 2011, as the entire world watched the Arab Spring in amazement, the US and its allies, predominantly working under the banner of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), militarily overran the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.

The peaceful civilian protesters they claimed to be intervening to protect were not really what the US and its cohorts presented to the world. Many of these so-called “protesters” were armed, and when this became apparent they eventually began to portray themselves as “rebel forces.” These so-called “rebels” in Libya were not a military force that emerged spontaneously for the most part, but an insurgency movement cultivated and organised before any opposition activities were even reported in Libya.

After Libya’s rapprochement with the US and the European Union, it was unthinkable to many that Washington and any of its allies could even have been preparing to topple the Libyan government. Business and trade ties between Libya and the US, Britain, Italy, France, Spain, and Turkey had bloomed since 2003 after Colonel Muammar Qadhafi opted for cooperation with Washington. No one imagined that Saif Al-Islam Qadhafi’s “New Libya” with its neo-liberalism could be on a collision course with NATO.

Yet, the US and its EU partners for several years made preparations for taking over Libya. They had infiltrated the Jamahiriya’s government, security and intelligence sectors. Longstanding imperialist objectives existing since the Second World War, aimed at dividing Libya into three colonial territories, were taken out of government filing cabinets in Washington, London, Paris and Rome, and circulated at NATO Headquarters in Brussels.

The Image of the State: How History Becomes Propaganda… and Doesn’t Make Sense

By Paul Rosenberg

Casey Research
A FREE-MAN’s TAKE

November 29, 2014

As much as I love history now, I found it a confused jumble when I was in school. I was able to memorize the dates and events (for whatever that was worth), but I could find no depth to anything I was taught: it had no meaning, no purpose, no clarity.

I spent decades digging through books and museums before I located the problem, which is this: The history you were taught in school wasn’t exactly a lie, but it was selectively presented. Useful facts were presented to you and less useful facts were excluded.
The big question, of course, is this: Who decided what was “useful”?
In the case of schoolbooks, the answer to the “who decided” question is simple: The group that paid for the books.
As a result, textbooks present the history that makes government look good. The government pays for all those books, after all. And since private schools typically end up using the same books, their students are affected right along with the kids in government schools.
The truth is that history books are written to justify the rulership of their place and time. That’s precisely the wrong way to write history, of course: mandating that the past must justify our current way of life, then fitting facts into that framework.
In other words, nearly all textbooks support a specific political conclusion. And since most authors and editors dare not deviate from the norm, privately produced history books usually toe that same line.

Psychologists Explain 9/11 Denial Despite Hard Scientific Evidence

Posted by clnews September 11, 2014 in 9/11, Videos with 9 Comments

Seven psychologists plus author David Ray Griffin, Ph.D., provide insights on why so many people are in total denial regarding the truth about 9/11 despite “nine years of hard scientific evidence that disproves the government theory about what happened on September 11.” Trauma, fear, pride, and cognitive dissonance (information that contradicts beliefs about our worldview) are among the reasons given for why people can’t handle the truth about 9/11.
Below is a transcript of the key parts of the video:
Why are people resistant to looking at the hard evidence regarding 9/11?
Marti Hopper, Ph.D (Licensed Clinical Psychologist):
At this point, we have nine years of hard scientific evidence that disproves the government theory about what happened on September 11. Yet, people continue to be either oblivious to the fact that this information exists or completely resistant to looking at this information. So, the question becomes: Why?
Why is it that people have so much trouble hearing this information? From my work, I think we would be remiss not to look at the impact of trauma…
As we know, the horrors of what happened on 9/11 were televised all over the world. They were televised, in fact, live. We witnessed the deaths of almost 3,000 of our fellow Americans. We know that this had a very severe and traumatic impact on a majority of the population. I, myself, cried for weeks after September 11.
A friend of mine, who is a psychologist in practice here in Boulder, said that her case load increased tremendously after 9/11. People who she had not seen in ten years were coming back into her practice.
So, I think it’s safe to say that collectively, as a nation, because of what happened on September 11, we experienced trauma.
9/11 Truth Conflicts with Our Worldview, Causing Cognitive Dissonance

The memory of water by Philip Ball from Nature

The memory of water

The life and work of Jacques Benveniste taught us valuable lessons about how to deal with fringe science, says Philip Ball.

Philip Ball

Benveniste’s paper seemed to validate the claims made for homeopathic medicines.© Getty

Jacques Benveniste, who gave the world the 'memory of water', died in Paris on 3 October. He will certainly be remembered for the phrase his work inspired, which has become the title of a play and a rock song, as well as a figure of everyday speech.

But his controversial career also highlighted the tricky issue of how to deal with research on the fringes of science, a question with which Nature itself became intimately entangled.

In France, Benveniste was a celebrity, and it is not hard to see why. He was a charismatic showman who knew how to wield a rhetorical foil. His talk of witch-hunts, scientific priesthoods, heresies and 'Galileo-style prosecutions' played well with those inclined to regard science as an arrogant, modern-day Inquisition.

He conjured up images of a conservative orthodoxy, whose acolytes were scandalized by a ground-breaking discovery that demolished their dogmatic certainties. He was, he suggested, a Newton challenging a petty-minded, mechanistic cartesianism.

Back in 1988, however, Benveniste was very much part of the establishment. He was the senior director of the French medical research organization INSERM's Unit 200, in Clamart, which studied the immunology of allergy and inflammation.

“A talk he delivered last June was a blinding blizzard of histograms.”

That was when he sent his notorious paper to Nature¹. In it, he reported that white blood cells called basophils, which control the body's reaction to allergens, can be activated to produce an immune response by solutions of antibodies that have been diluted so far that they contain none of these biomolecules at all.

Incredible result

Brainwashing saves a U.S. President

CHAPTER 24

I would venture to suggest that even after all my years of exposing Reese and his work; fully 95 percent of Americans don't know who he is or what harm he has done to the United States.
This substantial number of our citizens is even today totally unaware of how they have been manipulated and forced to accept "new ideas", "new cultures", and "new religions". They have been grossly violated and don't know it. They are still being violated and still don't know what is happening, especially when it comes to opinion making through polling.
To illustrate my contention, former President Clinton was able to survive scandal after scandal on the basis of the polls showing that the American people didn't care enough about his outlandish behavior to call for impeachment proceedings. Could this be right? Could it be true that people really don't care about public morals anymore? Of course not!
The situation is a contrived one taught by Tavistock Institute and every polltaker is trained in Tavistock methods of opinion making and manipulation of public opinion, so that the answers "come out right."
We can add President G.W. Bush to the "survivors". He has not been removed from office notwithstanding the blatant lies that were used to start an illegal (unconstitutional) in Iraq. It is unconstitutional because war was never constitutionally declared.
Also, there is no provision in the U.S. Constitution for the United States to attack another nation that has not committed acts of belligerency against it. How has President Bush got away with not being impeached? The answers lie in the Tavistock Institute and its mass brainwashing capabilities.
One of the early tasks undertaken by Tavistock after it launched total war on the U.S. in 1946 was to force acceptance of "alternate life styles" on the American people. Tavistock documents showed how the leaders of a campaign to force legal public acceptance of groups, whose behavior was until the changes were forced through by the Congress, recognized as a crime in almost every State in the Union, and in some States, remains as a crime. I am referring to the "gay lifestyle" as it has come to be known.

On Black Friday, Americans Confront the Walmart 1%: Pay Employees a Living Wage By Dreier Peter Global Research

On Black Friday, Americans Confront the Walmart 1%: Pay Employees a Living Wage

By Dreier Peter

Global Research, November 28, 2014

Common Dreams

Region: USA

Theme: Poverty & Social Inequality

Pickets, strikes, and protests are slated to sweep across the United States on Black Friday. (Photo: TwitPic/@WorkingAmerica)
“Last year Walmart made $16 billion in profits. The company’s controlling family, the Waltons, is the richest family in America with nearly $150 billion in wealth. That is more than the total wealth of 43% of American families combined.”

Walmart won’t pay its employees enough to afford Thanksgiving dinner, so they’re holding food drives for their employees. Seriously. It’s been reported that an Oklahoma City Walmart set up bins for underpaid associates to donate canned goods to other underpaid associates.
Walmart workers have a better idea: Pay us enough to put food on the table.
If you agree, please join Walmart workers in their fight for $15 and full-time work. Click on Black Friday Protests to find a rally near you. There will be protests at over 1,600 Walmart stories. Just plug in your zip code and you’ll find one or more protests in your area.
On Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year, tens of millions of Americans will travel to Walmart stores to look for holiday discounts on computers, toys, and cell phones as well as to buy groceries and basic household items. But at more than 1,600 of Walmart’s 4,000 stores, shoppers will be greeted by Walmart employees handing out leaflets and holding picket signs—“Walmart: Stop Bullying, Stop Firing, Start Paying” and “We’re Drawing a Line at the Poverty Line: $25,000/year”—protesting the company’s abusive labor practices, including poverty-level wages, stingy benefits, and irregular work schedules that make it impossible for their families to make ends meet.
The Black Friday rallies and demonstrations represent a dramatic escalation of the growing protest movement among employees of America’s largest private employer. But they also represent the vanguard of a sharp challenge to the nation’s widening economic divide and the declining standard of living among the majority of Americans.

World's oldest computer is more ancient than first thought: Antikythera Mechanism was created in 205 BC, study claims By Ellie Zolfagharifard for MailOnline

World's oldest computer is more ancient than first thought: Antikythera Mechanism was created in 205 BC, study claims

This is according to Argentinian scientists who found eclipse calendar
The calender included a solar eclipse that happened on May 12, 205 BC
Previous radiocarbon dating analysis of had dates mechanism to 100 BC
The study suggests the maths it uses is based is Babylonian arithmetic
It predates other known examples of similar technology by 1,000 years

By Ellie Zolfagharifard for MailOnline

The rusty bronze fragments of the Antikythera Mechanism, the world's oldest computer, are 100 years older than scientists previously thought.

This is according to Argentinian researchers who found that an eclipse prediction calendar - a dial on the back of the mechanism - includes a solar eclipse that happened on May 12, 205 B.C.

Previous radiocarbon dating analysis of the remarkable mechanism had provided a later construction date of around 100 to 150 BC.

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The Mechanism (pictured) was recovered from a Roman cargo shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera. Previous studies have shown it was used to chart the movement of planets and the passing of days and years. Scans in 2008 found that it may also have been used to predict eclipses

The study, by the National University of Quilmes, suggests that the process in which the computer predicts eclipses is Babylonian arithmetic, rather Greek trigonometry.

This ancient device 'predates other known examples of similar technology by more than 1,000 years,' according to a report by John Markoff in the New York Times.

The highly complex mechanism, made up of up to 40 bronze cogs and gears, was used in ancient times to track the cycles of the solar system.

It was recovered in 1900 from the Antikythera wreck - a Roman cargo shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera.

A Fragment of the Antikythera Mechanism reconstructed in 3D

Scans of the mechanism in 2008 found that it may also have been used to predict eclipses, and record important events in the Greek calendar, such as the Olympic Games.

The scans also revealed the mechanism was originally housed in a rectangular wooden frame with two doors, covered in instructions for its use.

At the front was a single dial showing the Greek zodiac and an Egyptian calendar.

On the back were two further dials displaying information about lunar cycles and eclipses. The calculator would have been driven by a hand crank.

Rosemary's Story ROSEMARY JACOBS Life's Lessons with Argyria

Rosemary's Story
ROSEMARY JACOBS
Background

For forty years I tried to blend into the crowd, but when I discovered that the quacks were back, I knew that I couldn't do that anymore. I had to stand up and shout, "Look at me! I'm gray." I had to warn the public. A local newspaper broke my story with the headline, "The silver woman from Long Island. The face that no one forgets."
I wasn't always gray. I was born white in Brooklyn, New York, in 1942. When I was eleven years old, my mother mentioned to an MD -- an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist on Long Island -- that I always had a cold. He told her that it had to be allergies and prescribed nose drops that contained silver with instructions to take them "intermittently as needed."

with mom

Rosemary, Mom, the family dog Diagnosis
Right after starting high school at the age of 14, my friends and I volunteered to work in the local hospital as "candy stripers." The hospital was run by a Catholic order of nursing sisters who required that all new volunteers attend a class at their convent once a week on Saturday mornings. The nun who gave the course was also a nurse and a pharmacist. One morning when I walked in she was very startled by my appearance.
"Why are you that color?" she asked. What color? No one had noticed that my color was weird until then. She repeated, "Why are you that color? Ask the doctor." Suddenly everyone noticed. I was slate-gray. We had a family friend, a general practitioner, who made an appointment for me to see a dermatologist. Meanwhile, Saturday rolled around again and I went back to class. This time Sister greeted me with, "You're taking nose drops, aren't you?" I told her I was. "Stop," she said. "They have silver in them. That's why you're gray."

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There has been no consistency among the Du Pont family members in the spelling they have employed to write their name.
The correct variations in spelling the Du Pont name are as follows: Dupont, DuPont, du Pont, duPont, Du Pont, and du Pont de Nemours. In English the second syllable is accented. In French, neither syllable is accented. The name has tended to be spelled du Pont for the family and Du Pont for business.
I decided for this article to standardize the spelling in line with this tendency.

A DYNASTY OF SATANIC ROYALTY
Sitting down to write about the du Pont's reminded me of two other families.
Recently, John Coleman, a researcher on the elite, commented to me that when he had researched the Queen of Denmark he had discovered that the royal danish family was slipping away secretly from everyone and they were going to Satanic rituals. It is also noteworthy that 5 modern kings of Denmark have been the leaders of Freemasonry in Denmark, and the Danish royal family, princes etc. have been active Masons.
John Dale wrote a book The Prince and The Paranormal which goes into the secret occult activities of the British royal family, especially Prince Charles, but also many other royal family members too. Besides the secret occult activities of the British Monarch, they have been openly leaders of Freemasonry ( see the Appendix of Be Wise As Serpents for a detailed chart on this.) The du Ponts are similar to these families in that they too are a dynasty, they too have a very public image, and they too have a totally hidden life. In fact, the du Ponts have better control over the press’s coverage of them than the British Royal Family.

Nearly 100 Indian women die after being 'forced' into government-run sterilization camps by: J. D. Heyes from Natural News

Nearly 100 Indian women die after being 'forced' into government-run sterilization camps

Wednesday, November 26, 2014 by: J. D. Heyes
Tags: mass sterilization, population control, laparoscopic tubectomies

(NaturalNews) The relatives of Indian women who died following a state-operated mass sterilization campaign went terribly awry have told local media they were forced by government health workers to attend.

As reported by Britain's The Guardian newspaper, more than 80 women recently underwent surgery for laparoscopic tubectomies at a cost-free government-run camp in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, in the central part of the country. Around 60 of the women became ill following the procedure, officials said, and more than dozen had died, with a dozen more in serious condition.

"The [health workers] said nothing would happen, it was a minor operation. They herded them like cattle," Mahesh Suryavanshi, the brother-in-law of one woman who died, told the Indian Express newspaper.

India frequently holds women-only sterilization camps to control population

Fluoridation Effects on Skeletal and Dental Health: A United States and International Review Kimberly Draper RN, BSN, Veronica Farrell RN, BSN, Kathleen Fitzgerald RN, BSN, James Kirby RN, BSN, and Robert Nelson RN, BSN

Fluoridation Effects on Skeletal and Dental Health: A United States and International Review

Kimberly Draper RN, BSN, Veronica Farrell RN, BSN, Kathleen Fitzgerald RN, BSN, James Kirby RN, BSN, and Robert Nelson RN, BSN

Abstract

Introduction

Since its conception fluoridation of the water supply has been a controversial issue. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cites water fluoridation as one of the ten most important public health achievements of the 21^st century in regards to the decrease in dental caries (CDC, 2013). However, some still question its effectiveness, morality and safety. There are two governmental bodies that oversee water fluoridation: The Environmental Protection Agency and the CDC (CDC, 2013). The EPA’s role is to assure that the fluoride concentration in the drinking water remains under the maximum contaminant level goal, this is the level at which no adverse health effects from fluoride are estimated to occur (National Research Council, 2006). This was decreed by the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974. It is not the role of the EPA to determine the level of fluoride necessary for caries prevention (National Research Council, 2006). The level of fluoride correlated with decreased caries is determined by the CDC (CDC, 2013).

Currently more than 204 million Americans consume fluoridated water in concentrations thought to be effective in preventing dental caries (CDC, 2013). The current recommendations are for a fluoride concentration of 0.7 to 1.2milligrams/liter (CDC, 2013). Adding fluoride to the water supply was thought to be an easy, cost-effective measure in reducing caries rates, especially in marginal populations (CDC, 2013). It is important to note that the concept of water fluoridation affects a multitude of people in the United States; understanding its effect on the human body is an important public health issue. It is impossible to know the weight, water, other beverage

African Americans are Finally Awakening from an Almost Two Decade Long Sleep. Resistance to Oppression is a Human Right!

Darren Wilson Non-indictment

By Ajamu Baraka

Global Research, November 27, 2014

Black Agenda Report

Region: USA

Theme: Culture, Society & History, Law and Justice, Police State & Civil Rights

African Americans are finally awakening from an almost two decade long sleep
Barack Obama, the obsequious errand boy for the financial and corporate plutocrats who own the U.S. government, made a pathetic appearance on national television to try to persuade the “natives” to remain peaceful in response to the non-indictment of the Ferguson killer-cop. His inane comments extolling the value of non-violence and the rule of law seemed strangely incongruent with the militaristic rhetoric and policies of his administration over the last few years.
Yet, Obama’s positions on law and violence are not as contradictory as they might appear when these positions are resituated within the context of imperial logic and the framework of power. Legitimate violence is always determined by history’s dominant powers and employed as a weapon to maintain and extend that dominance. Over the last five hundred years Europe emergedfrom the backwaters of history and cultural backwardness to predominance as a result of genocide and land theft in the Americas, the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and colonial/capitalist development. The violent establishment of capitalism, racism, and heteropatriarchy enabled the West to impose its definitions of legitimacy, including “legitimate” violence.
Thus when Palestinians resist the theft of the their land and the killing of their people by Israeli colonists, their response is defined as illegitimate violence that sparks support for Israel’s “right to defend itself.” When Africans waged national liberation struggles to free themselves from European colonial domination in places like Kenya, Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa, the West condemned their efforts as illegitimate. Furthermore, because those struggles were determined to be illegitimate, colonial powers felt justified to viciously attack those efforts with the support of the U.S. government. And when African Americans organized against police violence and for self-determination and our own definitions of liberation in the 60s, our efforts were deemed illegitimate. We were brutally suppressed with the full range of state terror tactics including beatings, deaths, infiltration, surveillance, and the jailing of activists for decades.
The fight for human dignity and human rights is what makes us human

“Justifiable Homicides” by Police at Record High: Notes on Police Violence in America

By Tom Hall
Global Research

November 28, 2014

FBI data released over the past month reveals that so-called “justifiable homicides” reached a record high last year, while the number of officers killed in the line of duty fell to its lowest level in decades.

According to the data, which appeared in a Monday article on theWashington Post web site, 461 American civilians were killed by on-the-job police officers in 2013, while 27 police officers were killed by civilians.
The article notes the correlation between the record killings and the militarization of American police over the same period, “fueled by a glut of surplus military equipment heading home from Iraq and Afghanistan.” The FBI’s “justifiable homicide” figures increase steadily around 1998, the year after the start of the US Government’s Defense Logistics Agency’s 1033 program, which parcels out surplus military equipment to state and local police.
The FBI figures for “justifiable homicide,” defined by the agency as “the killing of a felon by a law enforcement officer in the line of duty,” is widely acknowledged to be an undercount, according to thePost, because the methodology is not uniform from state to state. There are no comprehensive nationwide statistics on police brutality, despite the government being required to do so by the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act passed in 1994. However, a Facebook page titled “Killed by Police,” which posts links to news stories on police killings, has counted more than 1,450 killings by police officers since its launch on May 1, 2013.
Los Angeles police kill two more over replica weapon

THE PROMISE OF AMERICAN LIFE

CHAPTER I

I

WHAT IS THE PROMISE OF AMERICAN LIFE?

The average American is nothing if not patriotic. "The Americans are filled," says Mr. Emil Reich in his "Success among the Nations," "with such an implicit and absolute confidence in their Union and in their future success that any remark other than laudatory is inacceptable to the majority of them. We have had many opportunities of hearing public speakers in America cast doubts upon the very existence of God and of Providence, question the historic nature or veracity of the whole fabric of Christianity; but never has it been our fortune to catch the slightest whisper of doubt, the slightest want of faith, in the chief God of America—unlimited belief in the future of America." Mr. Reich's method of emphasis may not be very happy, but the substance of what he says is true. The faith of Americans in their own country is religious, if not in its intensity, at any rate in its almost absolute and universal authority. It pervades the air we breathe. As children we hear it asserted or implied in the conversation of our elders. Every new stage of our educational training provides some additional testimony on its behalf. Newspapers and novelists, orators and playwrights, even if they are little else, are at least loyal preachers of the Truth. The skeptic is not controverted; he is overlooked. It constitutes the kind of faith which is the implication, rather than the object, of thought, and consciously or unconsciously it enters largely into our personal lives as a formative influence. We may distrust and dislike much that is done in the name of our country by our fellow-countrymen; but our country itself, its democratic system, and its prosperous future are above suspicion.
Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith. Englishmen return thanks to Providence for not being born anything but an Englishman, in churches and ale-houses as well as in comic operas. The Frenchman cherishes and proclaims the idea that France is the most civilized modern country and satisfies best the needs of a man of high social intelligence. The

Signs of Vitamin D Deficiency Most People Miss Healthy Living by Sarah TheHealthyHomeEconomist

Signs of Vitamin D Deficiency Most People Miss

Healthy Living

by Sarah TheHealthyHomeEconomist October 10, 2014

http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/vitamin-d-deficiency-signs-people-miss/1.6K

With flu season upon us and serious new viruses like Enterovirus D68 making the rounds, keeping blood levels of vitamin D at optimal levels can be truly lifesaving especially for children and the elderly.

Flu is actually vitamin D deficiency disease, not a happenstance occurrence in your life because you didn’t get a flu shot or sat next to a coughing person on the train to work.

Dr. John Cannell of the Vitamin D Council and one of the most preeminent Vitamin D researchers in the world today, has identified that vitamin D helps produce the antimicrobial peptides that protect against the flu. This is why people are more prone to the flu in winter when Vitamin D producing sunshine is minimal or nonexistent at some latitudes, or people are too bundled up to get enough skin exposed in the first place.

Bolstering Dr. Cannell’s suggestion that vitamin D deficiency is why people get the flu, a study published in the journal Nature Immunology further explains how vitamin D protects us by properly activating T cells, an important part of the immune system:

“When a T cell is exposed to a foreign pathogen, it extends a signaling device or ‘antenna’ known as a vitamin D receptor, with which it searches for vitamin D.

This means the T cell must have vitamin D or activation of the cell will cease. If the T cells cannot find enough vitamin D in the blood, they won’t even begin to mobilize.”

This is troubling given that vitamin D levels were reported by the Archives of Internal Medicine in 2009 to have plummeted for every single age, race, and ethnic group in the United States over the past two decades.

Vitamin D deficiency is such that it can lurk unnoticed until it is too late and you are already sick. Another challenge is that it takes time, usually at least several weeks, to raise vitamin D levels and so a few days of taking supplements is not going to cut it especially if you have a serious deficiency challenge to overcome or already have the flu.

Below are 10 signs that vitamin D is likely a problem and potentially a serious deficiency that needs to be addressed immediately. If any of these symptoms are an issue for you, a simple vitamin D blood spot test that you can order online can verify that this is the case.

If low levels do indeed need to be addressed, the best whole food based supplement to bring vitamin D levels into optimal range without the danger of overdosing (like with prescription vitamin D drops) is fermented cod liver or skate liver oils (where to find).

1. Chronic Pain

Fluoride Information