Subject: Related: pharmaceuticals in h2o supply, resistant
organisms, myco toxins, TB de
Water, Health, Sustainability
Elements of this email
required for community sustainability: - water supply -
mechanism for getting problems / obstacles on the table and dealt
with, "social ingenuity" - manageable healthcare costs
This
is part of a submission to the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
It began as an email to my son who has some skin problems in his
scalp.
The weird connection to scalp problems is at the end. What
comes before is the building of a solid foundation for my conclusions.
If I've made errors, PLEASE let me know. I don't want to give the
College ammunition for the charge that I am a
lunatic!
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CONTENTS (1)
PREAMBLE (2) OBSTACLES TO ADDRESSING THE CAUSES OF DISEASE (most
of you know this & will skip it) (3) HUGE PROBLEMS FOR SOCIETY
FROM PHARMACEUTICALS: (a) THE DRUGS ENTER OUR WATER SUPPLY. WE
ARE WATER. (b) MICRO-ORGANISMS EVOLVE TO BECOME RESISTANT. IT
DOESN'T TAKE LONG. (TB example) (c) THE PATHWAY OF A
LUNATIC (4) MUST FIND A DIFFERENT PATH (5) CREATED MY OWN
UN-DOING (6) A GREEN ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY EMERGES WHEN EXTERNALITIES
AND MULTIPLIER EFFECTS ARE ADDRESSED (7) CONNECTION TO SCALP
PROBLEMS (8) ANOTHER LINK: INCREASE IN FUSARIUM (A FUNGUS) FOUND IN
FOOD CROPS TREATED WITH HERBICIDE (9)
REFERENCES
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(1)
PREAMBLE
In the beginning I didn't know whether to have confidence in
the naturopathic Dr. Amell, but I believe that in life you have to be open
to trying different ways, IN SOME CASES, and IF the information you have
tells you that current ways are not working. It's called effective
problem solving!
(2) OBSTACLES TO ADDRESSING THE CAUSES OF
DISEASE
Western (called "allopathic") medicine has developed very good
tools for diagnosis - using me as an example, the diagnosis of
tuberculosis. But they are off-base in treating the SYMPTOMS of illness
(using drugs) with little of addressing the CAUSES of illness.
It is
difficult to get western medicine back on-base because there are very large
financial interests in the status quo (in addition to normal human resistance
to change): - the drug companies are among the world's richest
companies. - (WRONG.) Medical practitioners make lots of money and
don't have to face the challenge of changing the status quo. I
don't think that's the problem. The system is not working well; the way
it's designed, medical practitioners are under enormous pressure to churn a
burgeoning load of patients through the turn-style. Change requires
support, motivation, time to update your information base and to experiment
with alternatives. If the workload is stressful, it is draining.
If you are drained, you cannot summon the energy required to motivate
yourself to deal with change. If you have the energy to deal with
family matters, the balancing of other personal necessities for health,
you are doing extremely well. There's nothing left to energize the
change required in the workplace. We know that is the case for doctors,
but we don't do effective problem solving to change it. (The subject of
another email, we lack "Social Ingenuity"!) - As long as you continue to
treat symptoms and not causes, there is a guaranteed and growing flow of
money through the growing number of patients. Ironically, GDP (Gross Domestic
Product) increases, the more illness we have (high expenditures on medicare,
drugs and healthcare). - There has just been an article in the Globe &
Mail - cancer will soon overtake heart as the leading cause of death,
confirmation that our "address the symptoms" approach does not deliver the
goods.
What we see: under the pharmaceutical or drug approach to
healthcare, disease has risen significantly. Under the use of
pesticides, the amount of "weeds" has risen. We use more drugs and more
chemicals and the problems escalate. ?? Smart?
In this network
we fight hard to try and force Governments and disease organizations to deal
with CAUSE. Unfortunately there is little money to be made by vested
interests if we accomplish our goal (it is largely lip service that is given
to "preventive medicine" as evidenced by the failure around pesticides at the
Federal and Provincial levels, including some municipal
levels).
Dealing with cause is a huge threat to the profitability of
the pharmaceutical companies because they own the chemical companies,
and together they are the biotechnology companies. They ALL have a lot
to do with the CAUSES of disease. They are corrupt companies that
corrupt the Government. But good news! in spite of the vested interests, we
are beginning to see the results of our work. It's
coming.
(3) HUGE PROBLEMS FOR SOCIETY FROM
PHARMACEUTICALS:
(3a) THE DRUGS ENTER OUR WATER SUPPLY. WE
ARE WATER.
Treating symptoms with drugs is creating huge problems that
affect the whole population, other species and the environment:
pharmaceuticals, in enormous quantities are entering our water
supply.
Saskatoon gets its water from the South Saskatchewan River.
Calgary is upstream, along with Medicine Hat and other communities - Outlook,
SK for example. The Calgary area, alone has a million people.
Many people are on drugs, lots of different ones: birth control pills,
hormone replacement drugs, ritalin, anti-depressants, insulin, heart pills,
chemotherapy drugs, ... the list is long. Those drugs go through our
bodies, some remains in the body, but large quantities exit through
urine. Urine goes through the sewer lines, through the water (sewage)
treatment plant, and back into the River.
Because research "in the
public interest" in North America has been increasingly under funded (due to
the influence of the pharmaceutical/chemical/biotech companies not only in
Government but also in our universities) we do not have the body of research
available in Europe - they have decades-long documentation of the
pharmaceuticals in the water supply. In Canada there are studies of the
lake water near some northern communities that show the ingredients of
aspirin in the water. And through one study by the DFO (Dept of
Fisheries & Ocean) we know that fish downstream from sewage treatment
plants are "feminized" (sterile), which tells you that the pharmaceuticals
and chemicals are not all removed by "water treatment". Water keeps
recycling through the rain-evaporation cycle and through our bodies.
What went through people two thousand years ago is still cycling through
us. What we put into the water is profoundly important.
Drugs
are chemicals; they, along with the chemicals enter the water
supply (think of what goes down the drain from latex paint, to chemicals that
are strong enough to dissolve body hair or tree roots in sewer lines, to
run-off from agriculture and lawns.)
We know what is happening to the
water supply. If there isn't enough evidence in North America, there is
in Europe. We have to resolve this, not only for the human species but
for the sake of other species. We are all totally dependent for life on
the gift of water. If we poison it, it has no option but to poison
us.
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/may2000/958588306.An.r.html "Different
people have different percentages of their bodies made up of water. Babies
have the most, being born at about 78%. By one year of age, that amount drops
to about 65%. In adult men, about 60% of their bodies are water. However, fat
tissue does not have as much water as lean tissue. In adult women, fat makes
up more of the body than men, so they have about 55% of their bodies made of
water. Fat men also have less water (as a percentage) than thin
men."
As David Suzuki says, water IS us, we are water. You can't
separate us out.
We must develop the SOCIAL INGENUITY to remove the
obstacles that are blocking effective problem-solving. This is my
contribution to that attempt. Put it out on the table. Stop
hiding it.
(3b) MICRO-ORGANISMS EVOLVE TO BECOME RESISTANT.
IT DOESN'T TAKE LONG.
The second large problem with the drugs is that
organisms evolve to become resistant to the current drugs. The
development of TB strains that are resistant to current drug protocol is a
rising threat in the world. The drug companies are in a race to be the
first one out with a more potent drug that can kill the newly evolved TB
micro-organisms now found in Africa, Eastern Europe, and
elsewhere. The fact that I (not from a "vulnerable" population)
have TB is to me, an indication that yes, TB is definitely on the rise, and
there is a lot of money to be made in the future in treating TB. But I also
know that world-wide there won't be the money available to buy the drugs to
treat Africans, Eastern Europeans and others. Many, but not all North
Americans and western Europeans will have access to the drugs. (The race to
find a "cure" for TB and the corruption in the drug companies and Governments
is the subject of John Le Carre's recent book, made into a movie - "The
Constant Gardener". Le Carre is the author of thriller spy
and espionage novels, based in a very real world.)
The "treat the
symptom" drug approach is of course, quite stupid. It is as obvious as
my nose that more and more potent drugs, over time, guarantee the development
of yet more virulent organisms. It is the way of Nature. If you
think of the TB drugs, just the current ones make some people nauseated and
sick. That is natural - the drugs required to kill the TB organisms
is potent. The drug required to kill the evolved MORE VIRULENT TB
organism is obviously going to make us sicker than the current drug protocol,
because it is MORE POTENT. The organisms will continue to evolve - we
are in a deadly spiral.
(3c) THE PATHWAY OF A LUNATIC
It
is obvious lunacy, the behaviour of a maniac, to continue along
this pathway. Yet Western medicine does it. Influential,
respected, authoritative, credentialed members of our community do it - many
of them out of ignorance bred of a lack of curiosity. (Which makes you
wonder about an "educational" system that apparently turns out a majority of
graduates who have successfully had their innate sense of curiosity (which
leads to learning) deadened. There would be no need for me to be
writing this if it were otherwise; we wouldn't have the problem we
have. A very small amount of curiosity would have led them all to
figure out resistant organisms, pharmaceuticals in the water supply, and the
role of the pharmaceutical companies long ago. If the educational
system left ingenuity intact, we would by now be well along a new path,
instead of still trying to force problem solving to find a new
path.)
(4) MUST FIND A DIFFERENT PATH
SO! the
information I have leads me to think that we must find a
different path. We will never find the path if we don't search for
it.
I saw Dr. Amell. His analysis is that the reason I have TB is
most likely because I have a fungal infestation in my body that is producing
a large load of myco toxins (a form of toxaemia, I believe). The
infestation is not visible of course. I am uncertain about the
familiarity of allopathic doctors with the production and role of myco
toxins in health. My experience with TB suggests there is an
information gap.
The evidence to date says that Dr. Amell is right.
Four months after taking anti-fungal and supporting treatment and diet, I no
longer suffered the symptoms of the TB. And my vitality
returned.
IMPORTANT: I am very fortunate. In my case the TB
is "encapsulated" and therefore not contagious at this point. I cannot
infect other people at this stage.
(5) CREATED MY OWN
UN-DOING
When the TB was over-powered it felt so good to have my energy
and vitality back, and there is so much that I want to do with my work, that
I began to neglect the treatment. The diet says no sugars because
Yeast is a fungus. From making bread you know that without sugar the yeast
can't grow. The diet works with the treatment: an anti-fungal
kills the yeast, and you cut off its food supply so there is nothing to feed
what doesn't get killed. The diet says no alcohol because in similar fashion
it feeds the yeast. Well, when I go to conferences or weddings (not at
all usual, I've been at 2 weddings and 3 conferences lately!), I go off the
diet. I ate desserts loaded with sugar, drank some wine, coffee
(caffeine). And I don't get the rest needed to enable my body to have
extra resources for fighting the fungus and TB. The weather is such
that I can no longer lay out in the healing sun. Coincidentally I ran
out of the anti-fungal, etc, treatments and didn't re-stock
immediately. Although I felt energetic, there was obviously still
fungus and TB organisms floating around inside because the symptoms of the TB
are back again. Damn! It is nothing to mess around with - a
million people world-wide die of TB each year and the number is rising if the
disease incidence is rising. (If you would argue that my lack of
discipline is proof that the drug treatment should be used, I counter with
the argument that there are many people who contract TB and are prescribed
drug therapy who never complete the 8 month drug protocol which is known to
then contribute to the evolution of resistant TB strains because incomplete
treatment leaves only the strongest organisms behind. There has to be
experimentation with alternatives, and like it or not, I am in a position to
provide research information.)
I go back to the TB Control Centre,
November 3rd, for x-rays to see where the TB is at. I expect it will
show that I have a small amount yet to deal with, significantly down from
where it was during my last visit. Then I will see Dr. Amell on
November 7th. Working with both allopathic and alternative
practitioners will work if I maintain discipline. It is sooo easy to
let down your guard, especially when confronted by a chocolate brownie, or
the sociability of a glass of wine. Easy and also stupid
(I admit!).
(6) A GREEN ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY EMERGES WHEN
EXTERNALITIES AND MULTIPLIER EFFECTS ARE ADDRESSED
My
Grandmother-in-law, from Brandon, MB had tuberculosis in the 1940's.
She spent 2 years at the sanatorium in the Qu'Appelle Valley in Saskatchewan
and was cured of the disease without the use of drugs. She lived a
healthy life into her 80's. I doubt she was given any anti-fungal
treatment. With anti-fungal treatment, I believe it will turn out that
in my case, the disease could have been overcome in, say 6
months.
Drug treatment is a large drain on the economy of
Saskatchewan. All the profits are siphoned out of the province by
foreign transnational corporations. If you consider "the
externalities", - the cost of resistant organisms, - the cost of poisoned
water, - the cost of long term unknown side effects, AND - the cost of
very low multiplier effects ("multiplier effects" of keeping the money here
circulating and available in our own communities), - the opportunity costs of
lost meaningful jobs
you would conclude that a return to a
sanatorium-type cure, employing local care givers, would address the problems
effectively. Or you may have some other idea that would move us onto a
sound path forward. We need the debate and the experimentation.
It could lead to the establishment of model health care facilities that would
attract TB patients from around the world, just as my Grandmother-in-law was
attracted from Manitoba to Saskatchewan. Talk about opportunity and job
creation! You know the demand is rising. We COULD develop a world-class
treatment centre, attractive because: - it doesn't add to the problem of
resistant organisms - it demonstrates how it is possible to stop the flow of
pharmaceuticals into water supplies. Very innovative! I'd be
impressed.
It is unfortunate when Medicare promotes allopathic medicine
as a sole answer (it is almost unheard of not to take the drug protocol for
TB). In spite of the cost of going to alternative therapies, many
people find the money to use them. But then many are prevented because
they can't round up the funds. In my case, I view it that my "life"
depends on it. I could take the drug protocol, of course and right away
"save" my life (I might be nauseated for 8 or 9 months). But there will
have been no long term evaluations to see whether down-the-road I will suffer
from other maladies that become manifest only in the long term. If a
fungal overgrowth is the root of the problem, and goes unaddressed because
only the TB has been treated, it is pretty well guaranteed that I will have
recurring health problems.
Also, there is responsibility on my part to
force the issue, along with others who are doing the same. I am aware
of the consequences for my children and theirs if we do not exercise our
social ingenuity to remove the obstacles that prevent us from moving forward,
from addressing the issues of pharmaceuticals in the water supply and our
knowing contribution to the development of resistant
organisms.
(7) CONNECTION TO SCALP PROBLEMS
This, too,
potentially confirms that Dr. Amell's diagnosis regarding cause was
right.
(sent to my son) Dr. Amell said that it is likely I have had
the fungal infestation for a long time. If I had it when I was
pregnant, it could be passed along to my children. They would be born
with it.
I used to scratch my head compulsively, most of the time.
What I noticed - there may be a connection and maybe not - but when I had
"conquered" the fungus and felt so good, I no longer felt the compulsion to
scratch my head. That was so great! Now the fungus/TB has control
again, last night I couldn't stop scratching my head. I'm going right
back to the treatment and diet, so I'll have the opportunity to better
determine whether the scalp problems and fungus are connected. The book
(* below) on yeast/fungus says they are (page 57, "Seborrhea, Folliculitis,
and Scalp Problems"). I won't take time to type it up. This
recent experience of mine suggests that the book is right.
Depending
on what happens with my scalp in this next little experiment of returning to
the treatment and diet for fungal overgrowth, I know what's required and can
give it to you, if it turns out to be something you want to pursue. You
could try it, if it doesn't produce results, nothing will have been
lost. It is worth trying. The myco toxins in your body interfere
with many of the functions of your body. Unfortunately you can't see
the toxins and if you've had them in your body for a long time, you won't
even know their effect on you because you are in a "normal" state, the state
you have always known. Had I known about their presence in my body, I would
not now have tuberculosis which is a very serious disease. I am not at
risk at this point - there is no "imminent" threat! If things don't
work out, I can go on the drugs.
(8) ANOTHER LINK: THE
INCREASE IN FUSARIUM (A FUNGUS) FOUND IN FOOD CROPS TREATED WITH ROUNDUP
(GLYPHOSATE)
- The subject of another email.
(9)
REFERENCES
(a) * Some of my information and the diet is from the
book, "Complete Candida Yeast Guidebook, Revised 2nd Edition, Everything
You Need to Know About Prevention, Treatment & Diet" by Jeanne Marie
Martin with Zoltan P. Rona, M.D., (2000).
One problem with the
symptoms listed in the book, or maybe MY problem, is that the symptoms
experienced by different people are so many and varying that almost anything
could be a symptom! And of course, those symptoms could also be the symptoms
of many other illnesses. Other than that (which is likely MY problem) I found
the book to be very informative. (I suspect that the symptoms are many
because a fungal infestation in different parts of the body would create
different symptoms.)
(b) The information on the USDA web-site about
myco toxins in our food supply, so far as it is related, is consistent with
the information from
the book.
Cheers! Sandra
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