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Thursday, March 31, 2011

[AlternativeAnswers] Re: Blood Pressure

Allergic Reaction - High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)

Blood pressure is affected by 17 known variables. Smoking, overweight, salt consumption, stress, use of oral contraceptives, exposure to lead and cadmium – these among others factors, are all possible causes of hypertension. To that list we may eventually add allergy.

A few years ago, Lloyd Rosenvold, M.D., of Hope, Idaho, noticed that some of his patients developed high blood pressure from allergy to certain foods. Another doctor, George Fricke, M.D., of Sacramento, California, studied a group of twelve hypertensive people – some with blood pressure as high as 219/140 – in whom elimination of allergic foods brought blood pressure down to normal.

And in a study of food allergy and migraine, Dr. Ellen Gant, a neurologist in London, discovered that when a group of 15 hypertensive people avoided migraine producing foods, their blood pressure also returned to normal (Lancet, May 5, 1979). Surprising findings? Not really. High blood pressure is more than a simple matter of getting too much salt in the diet.

After all, we all know someone who salts his or her food heavily and has normal blood pressure. Whether blood pressure rises or not seems to be a matter of individual sensitivity to many factors, some of which doctors haven't yet identified clearly. Allergy, it seems, is one of those factors, and it's presence could help to explain why certain foods or habits raise blood pressure in some people but not others.
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> For a complete cure have sarpagandha. In Homeopathy it is called rauvolfia serpentina, 20 drops twice daily in half a cup of water before meals should cure you in some time. Healthy lifestyle, weight control would be good
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> Hi group, first time I have had to ask a question...I do enjoy the site,
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[AlternativeAnswers] Safety of potassium iodide supplements

How safe is iodine supplementation and at what level? My FIGHT program
synopsis by Scott Forsgren on page 14 recommends iodine and explains why and
what dose. It is available free on my website.

You need to be aware that this excellent attorney Mark Ullman defends
nutritional companies from FDA but the attached blog reveals his serious
reservations about the hype surround iodine today based on media hype about
radiation exposure from Japan. In my estimation this is such a small problem
next to the pollution from lead, mercury and organic chemicals found in
everyone today. I try to use this hysteria to focus everyone on the need for
appropriate responses: start lifetime detoxification now!

Don't wait for something to happen. Watch the eight+ hours of webinars
found on my website that I have produced to support the value of my Fight for
Your Health program.

The article linked below will hopefully cause you to consider the
potential for harm when we prescribe iodine, as there are people that are very
sensitive. Those may need to start with the recommended microgram doses widely
available from kelp in health food stores and work up gradually but I only
use 50 mg a day for a month or so and for long-term I use 12.5 mg, as
found in the Japanese diet.

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

http://newhope360.com/reg
ulation-and-legislation/grappling-safety-potassium-iodide-supplements

Grappling with the safety of potassium iodide supplements

To me, marketing of dietary supplements with doses in the milligram level
rather than in micrograms, much less at levels matching the 130mg found in
FDA-approved drugs, has the potential for serious ramifications in terms of
an adverse effect on public health.
As the Japanese continue to struggle to bring the already disastrous
situation under control at the Fukushima nuclear power facility, and reports
surface of radiation spikes in the Tokyo water supply, FDA has reacted swiftly
to issue an import alert on all food coming into the United States from
areas that have potentially suffered from excessive radiation exposure. This
seems to be an important and prudent reaction to the situation designed to
protect the health of the American public.

At the same time, we are seeing a proliferation of dietary supplement
products purporting to offer protection from radiation poisoning. One company
marketing such a product proudly issued a press release announcing that its
resveratrol "provides resistance before and after exposure to hazardous
radiation." FDA, again acting appropriately, has also warned the public to be
wary of these products and their claims.

Other companies marketing products labeled as dietary supplements are
offering 130mg doses of potassium iodide, which not coincidentally matches the
dose available in the three FDA-approved potassium iodide OTC drugs with
approved indications relating to protection of the thyroid gland from
radioactive iodine. These products come onto the market in the face of two food
additive regulations establishing that the maximum safe level for use of
potassium iodide (21 CFR 172.375) or elemental iodine from kelp (21 CFR
172.365) in food is one which will "not result in daily ingestion of the additive
so as to provide a total amount of iodine in excess of 225 micrograms" for
adults and 105 micrograms for children under 4 years of age. These
regulations both note their applicability to dietary supplements.

While I might be able to successfully construct a technical legal argument
that a food additive regulation purporting to apply to dietary supplements
is a nullity, the 225 microgram level for total safe dietary intake
remains. The consequences of iodine poisoning can be extremely serious, and
include seizures and shock.

To me, marketing of dietary supplements with doses in the milligram level
rather than in micrograms, much less at levels matching the 130mg found in
FDA-approved drugs, has the potential for serious ramifications in terms of
an adverse effect on public health. I cannot fathom any basis for
expecting dietary supplements marketed at these levels to be safe for consumer use.
I'd love to hear from anyone associated with any company marketing a
product like this on how they determined it was appropriate to sell these
supplements other than in order to take advantage of a scared public.

Byline: Marc Ullman
Publication date: Wed, 2011-03-23 (All day)

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[AlternativeAnswers] Closely Spaced Pregnancies Linked to Autism Risk

Maternal nutrition ties to autism? My plan for healthy babies takes on a
new sense of urgency with this latest research!! Please read if you have
anyone that might go through a pregnancy this year; they need to know this.

This new study about children born less than 1 year after the last child
having three times the incidence of autism suggests to me that maternal
nutrition is compromised after one child. The second pregnancy following too
closely does not give the needed time to
replete nutrients lost during the last pregnancy.

I point out that all planned pregnancies ideally need to be preceded by
ideally a year of detoxification. But, now we can see that also we need to
build expectant mothers up nutritionally with far higher levels of nutrients
found in today's totally outmoded prenatal supplement formulas.

Just more vitamin D alone would reduce this tragic incidence of autism. My
preferred prenatal is Beyond Chelation Improved, as that way we also get
the essential fatty acids and the total spectrum of useful minerals while
gently chelating out toxins with things like garlic and dl methione and oral
EDTA, which alone has 507 references about its efficacy in lowering lead
levels even in occupationally exposed workers on my www.gordonresearch.com
website.

Ideally I always also recommend my "power drink" using organic greens and
Beyond Fiber and Maca and BioEn'R-G'y C, one slightly heaping tsp of each
in 10+ ounces of good mineralized water like Pellegrino. And, for those
willing, add Quinton Marine Plasma to that program. Then you can expect to have
the healthiest possible baby known as Quinton babies, as putting in ultra
trace minerals found only in this sea water based nutrient mineral drink
has been shown to save lives of very sick babies so let them get it from
their mother while in-utero too.

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

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•JANUARY 10, 2011, 12:02 A.M. ET

Closely Spaced Pregnancies Linked to Autism Risk

By JENNIFER CORBETT DOOREN
WASHINGTON -- Closely spaced pregnancies were associated with an increase
in the odds of a second child being diagnosed with autism, according to a
study involving California children.

The study, which the journal Pediatrics published online Monday, showed
the sooner conceptions followed the prior birth of a sibling, the greater the
likelihood of the second child having an autism diagnosis.

The study looked at more than 660,000 second-born children in California
between 1992 to 2002. The study measured the time the second child was
conceived relative to the first child, and then looked at autism diagnosis of the
second sibling.

The study found that second children who were conceived less than 12
months after the first child's birth were three times more likely to be
diagnosed with autism than children spaced further apart. Second children conceived
less than two years after the first had almost twice the odds of receiving
an autism diagnosis.

Autism diagnoses were determined by looking at records of the California
Department of Developmental Services, However, researchers cautioned that
additional studies need to be done to confirm the findings.

Still, one of the researchers, Peter Bearman, a sociologist at Columbia
University in New York, said "we see this really profound association" that
remained when other factors, such as the age of the parents were looked at.

"We don't know what causes this," he said.

One possibility is that closely spaced pregnancies deplete the mother of
important nutrients. But the other possibility is that parents are more
aware of the development of a second child and can spot when the child seems to
be delayed compared to the first, Bearman explained. This might allow a
child with autism to be diagnosed sooner.
But the actual number of autism cases seen in the study was less than 1%,
with 3,137 cases out of the 662,730 second-born children that were in the
study.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that as many as 1
in 110 U.S. children have an autism spectrum disorder, which includes
autism, Asperger's syndrome and pervasive developmental disorders.

There's no known cure for autism, which is characterized impairments in
social interaction, communication and unusual behavior and interests, but
therapy and medication can improve symptoms.

Bearman's study didn't include first-borns with autism. Other research has
suggested people who already have a child with autism have a higher risk
of having another child with autism or an autism spectrum disorder.

Bearman explained that several environmental, social and genetic factors
likely play a role in the development of autism.

The debate about one factor - childhood vaccines - still remains. Last
week researchers further discredited a 1998 paper that linked the measles,
mumps and rubella vaccines to autism, saying the paper was based on falsified
data.

Pediatrics' study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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