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Flu Vaccines: What's in that Needle? |
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By Sherri J. Tenpenny, D.O.
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Each year, between January and March, an FDA advisory panel selects the three influenza strains it expects to be the most widespread during the upcoming flu season. Admitting that the process is an “educated guess,” the CDC sends the selected seed virus to the FDA for approval prior to distribution to the manufacturers for production.
The annual flu shot contains three separate strains: two influenza A strains and one strain of influenza B. Most commonly, two strains are ones that were included in the preceding year’s shot; one new strain is selected each year and then modified in the lab through the reassortment process before it is added to the seasonal shot.
Two viruses—the new strain expected to hit the population during the upcoming season and a second influenza virus known to grow well in eggs—are injected into fertilized chicken eggs. The genes from the two viruses “mix together” through the reassortment process, forming as many as 256 possible newly created genetic combinations. Researchers select the virus that has both the (H) antigen from the upcoming year’s virus and the internal genes from the virus that grows well in eggs. That new virus, along with the two strains from the previous year, make up the vaccine for the current season.
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Eat Your Way to Better Sleep |
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By Pauline Harding, M.D.
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Ultimately, to maintain a normal sleep rhythm, one must maintain a normal eating rhythm. Part of the reason for this linking of eating and sleeping is the body’s cortisol rhythm.
Normal Cortisol Rhythm—A Key to Better Sleep
Cortisol is a hormone produced by the adrenal glands, which are located above the kidneys. Cortisol helps regulate many body functions including activation of thyroid hormone, bone resorption, muscle strength, energy production, resistance to infection and cancer, resistance to auto-immune diseases, and intensity of allergic reactions. Cortisol is a strong determinant in how rejuvenating sleep will be.
Cortisol is produced in a cyclic fashion with the highest levels being released in the morning and the lowest at night. This 24-hour cycle is called the circadian rhythm, and an abnormal circadian rhythm of adrenal hormones can adversely affect multiple critical functions in the body, including energy production and immune surveillance. Any disruption in this rhythm can result in a tendency toward fatigue, easy bruising, infection, osteoporosis, low sex drive, infertility, migraine headaches, adult acne, abdominal bloating, and either low or high blood pressure. |
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Diabetes and How to Naturally Heal or Prevent It |
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By Tom Cowan, M.D.
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Diabetes is so common in America and other Western countries that its presence in any human group has become a marker for civilization. Ironically, in no other field of Western medicine has the promise of scientific breakthrough failed so poignantly as in the treatment of diabetes.
Diabetes is characterized by abnormally high levels of sugar or glucose in the blood, which spills into the urine, causing it to be sweet. The disease was first described by the Greeks who called it diabetes mellitus or “honey passing through.” Today there are at least 20 million diabetics in America, six million of whom must take shots of insulin daily. Scientists hailed the discovery of insulin in the 1920s as one of medicine’s greatest achievements—as, in fact, it was. Insulin is a pancreatic hormone needed for the transfer of glucose from the blood to the cells. When this system fails—when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or the insulin cannot get the glucose into the cells—then the sugar level in the blood remains abnormally high. This is the disease we call diabetes.
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Mom's & Informed Consent for Vaccines |
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By HMN Staff
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The Holistic Moms Network (HMN)—a national non-profit with more than 120 chapters across the U.S.—extends its support to the Poling family, whose daughter Hannah descended into autism within 48 hours of receiving 9 childhood vaccines. “The Poling case demonstrates that the ‘one size fits all’ approach to vaccinating children is unsound,” says executive director Nancy Massotto. She continues, “Every child has a unique physiology that will dictate their reaction to a drug or vaccine. We encourage parents to research the pros and cons of vaccinations, trust their instincts about their children’s health, and take the time they need to make their decisions; because ultimately, parents are the ones who will live with the consequences if something goes wrong, not the doctor and not the government.”
The Holistic Moms Network is not opposed to vaccination; rather the organization supports parents’ individual informed choice for all medical interventions and believes that more transparent and unbiased research into the safety and efficacy of vaccines is needed. Like some other HMN members, Laurie Cunningham in Fairfax, Virginia, decided to vaccinate her 9-month-old daughter after researching the issue. “We’re working with her pediatrician to come up with a schedule that is close to the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations, but we have chosen to limit the number of shots at each visit to 2, and we’ve decided to decline certain shots: |
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Healing through Happiness |
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By Steven E. Hodes, M.D.
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If sadness can be the source of enlightened healing, then surely happiness can.
In his book Stumbling on Happiness, Daniel Gilbert, a popular professor of psychology at Harvard, describes a plethora of ways and means by which the average person creates their own sense of reality from amongst the fragments of their life.
This form of “spinning” considers a series of circumstances that might appear to an outsider as extremely negative and demoralizing. Yet the affected individual might just choose to regard these events as temporary road blocks that may very well serve to inspire them to 1) re-empower their skills, 2) direct them along a somewhat different path, or 3) totally alter their life’s journey. Any one of these options can leave the individual full of energy and hope for the future. A similar set of circumstances, however, could totally depress and demoralize a different individual.
Tailoring our reaction to life’s events is a theme of neurolinguistic programming (NLP) practitioners. Although I am far from an expert on their positions and methods, I do know that they also emphasize changing the language by which we characterize events in our lives. Words and phrases are powerful signals to our conscious, as well as unconscious, minds. Seeing ourselves as failures, victims or losers in life’s game merely reinforces and exacerbates the negative energy, which can only cripple us further. It is unproductive, to say the least. |
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