Bird flu

March 24, 2005

Gosh, wouldn't it be good if people in Asia would begin to treat their

birds and other animals in a more humane way. it could be stated that

Asia's new found penchant for eating critters thus the industries have

risen up to supply that 'meat' are responsible for this disaster. it's

a shame that the industrialized world has been such a bad example...

next these people will be driving SUV or Hummers. Ross

Get healthy now to prepare your immune system for bird flu outbreak

by Mike Adams Wednesday, March 23, 2005

http://www.newstarget.com/005652.html

When taking a look at the potential threat of the bird flu virus,

it's difficult to get an accurate perspective. For many people in the

United States, Canada or the UK, the bird flu virus is just some

other strange disease in Asia that's killing pigs or birds, and the

implications don't really hit home. But then there's the World Health

Organization, which is raising the alarm over the bird flu virus and

becoming increasingly concerned with each passing week. And there's

the CDC, which has called the bird flu virus the single greatest

threat to humanity. That's a serious statement. And that goes right

along with the World Health Organization's advice that countries

should literally stockpile vaccines for the virus.

And yet, the vaccines aren't even out of the testing phase yet. So

how do you stockpile a vaccine when it hasn't been safety tested or

approved? Right now, the only thing that countries can stockpile is

antiviral drugs such as Tamiflu. And, by the way, Tamiflu is

anti-viral, but even it is not nearly as strong as the combination of

antiviral herbs and various nutritional supplements

http://www.nutritionfactor.org/001245.html

as outlined in my free downloadable book called " How To Beat The Bird

Flu Virus. "

http://www.truthpublishing.com/survivinginfluenza.html

So even though some countries are stockpiling Tamiflu, people would

actually be far better protected by acquiring potent antiviral herbs,

minerals and supplements as a protection against the bird flu virus.

But knowing the way most people think, few will actually prepare for

this. And frankly, they might get away with it. There is a real

possibility that the bird flu virus could be a bust. Maybe it will

never become a pandemic. But history has taught us that the minute we

get too comfortable thinking that all the pandemics are over or that

we as modern scientists have conquered nature, then nature will turn

around and slap us in the face with a hard lesson that wipes out tens

of millions of people around the world. Historically, we've seen this

scenario return like clockwork. These pandemics occur on a regular,

predictable basis. The bird flu virus is well positioned to be the

next chapter in that saga of global epidemics.

A lot of people ask me, " So what should I do to prepare for the bird

flu pandemic? What's reasonable versus overreacting? " To answer that,

let's take a look at the behavior of the general population. Most

people will do nothing to prepare until it becomes a problem in their

local area. When USA Today or CNN starts warning people about the

virus and people start seeing their friends or coworkers die from it,

then they will suddenly realize that they need to take some action.

At that point, of course, it will be too late. At that time, the

vaccines will be depleted; supplies will be severely restricted and

there simply won't be enough to go around.

The World Health Organization has already warned countries about the

coming vaccine shortages. By the time people really need the vaccine,

it won't be there for them. That means if you're going to prepare for

the bird flu pandemic, you have to do so ahead of time. One of the

smartest things you can do to prepare is to improve your health right

now. A strong immune system will help defend against the bird flu

virus. And if you want a strong immune system, you've got to stop

poisoning your body right now through foods, prescription drugs,

environmental toxins and chronic stress.

http://www.healthfactor.info/001267.html

If you wait for the virus to hit, it's going to be too late. You

can't reform your immune system in 24 hours. You can't just change

your diet one day and expect to be healthier the next day or the next

week or even the next month. It takes many months of healthy eating

and wise lifestyle choices to make strong, lasting changes in your

health and immune system function. You'd better start now if you want

to be in peak health by the time the bird flu virus comes around.

And, in the worst case, if you were wrong, if you prepared for

nothing, then you will at least have a healthy immune system even if

there's no bird flu virus.

And that could just save you from plenty of other diseases like

cancer.

http://www.healthfactor.info/000876.html

Come to think of it, if the bird flu virus really becomes a pandemic,

it could turn out to be a selective killer of millions. With

organized medicine basically sidelined by the virus, the people most

likely to survive will be those who lead healthy lifestyles to begin

with. Let's face it: people who live day to day in an immunosupressed

state are basically just asking to be infected or killed by this

virus. When a person eats junk food, avoids taking nutritional

supplements, refuses to exercise, and keeps popping over-the-counter

medications and prescription drugs, they are just as culpable as the

bird flu virus itself, in my opinion. I'm tired of hearing people

whine about being victims when they won't lift a finger to do a

single healthy thing for themselves.

In 1918, during the last major pandemic, at least people had an

excuse for being unhealthy. Many lived in extreme poverty. Healthy

foods weren't available. Nutrition (see related ebook on nutrition)

http://www.truthpublishing.com/7laws.html

was poorly understood. But today, it's different: nearly everyone in

industrialized nations has access to healthy, nutritious foods and

medicinal herbs. And yet many people refuse to make healthy

decisions, leaving them no better off than the malnourished victims

of 1918. Remember: most Americans today are malnourished -- even as

they are obese and diabetic from consuming empty calories. The

malnourished, I believe, are going to have a very tough time

surviving the bird flu virus if it goes global.

And conventional medicine?

http://www.badmedicine.info/001896.html

Helpless against the bird flu. When the hospital beds fill up, the

message to everyone else will be, " Go home and die. "

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our

government

is to function it must have dissent. - Henry Commager

0o0o0o0o0o0o0o00o0less Bush, more trees0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain

occasions,

that I wish it always to be kept alive. - Thomas Jefferson

March 19, 2006

Ashok - did you see this? If you like it can you send it to all the lists

you're on - it looks good to me

Jane

Please Pass This Along To Everyone You Care About

How to Protect Yourself and Your Family

by Rima Laibow

Worried about Avian Flu? Don't be. As a physician and a scientist, I

want to share the best news of this flu season: You can prevent or treat

the Avian Flu (IF it develops the ability to infect humans) easily,

simply, cheaply, safely and naturally. And I know that there are things

you can do to make the problem much, much worse. The choices are yours.

Please share what you are about to read with everyone you know. This

information could save huge numbers of lives.

Please remember, though, that this information is not a diagnosis or a

treatment plan. It is educational material intended to help you develop

your own personalized disease prevention or treatment strategy. You

might want to consult a nutritional professional or natural physician to

help you personalize it for you and your family.

How does the Avian Flu do its damage? Birds (or humans if the virus

mutates spontaneously - or is mutated in a lab) die because the H5N1

virus depletes Vitamin C stores so quickly that the cause of death is

fulminate scurvy. Scurvy is the same disease that killed seamen on long

voyages because unless we get enough Vitamin C from our diet or our

supplements, we get sick or die. Humans cannot make Vitamin C but we

need it for a great many vital processes including immune function and

vascular integrity. This particular type of virus uses up Vitamin C

stores so quickly that the immune system is overwhelmed and the blood

vessels lose their structural integrity: they leak so badly that

infected animals literally bleed to death through those damaged vessels.

Prevention? Vitamin C: lots and lots and lots of Vitamin C.

Treatment? Lots and lots and lots of vitamin C.

Vitamin C is not toxic. Under stress (like a viral infection), your need

for Vitamin C is increased. When your body has had enough, your body

will tell you by soft stools or diarrhea. This is not a sign of

toxicity: it is a sign that you have reached " Bowel Tolerance " (BT).

Once you get there (and it can be at 1 gram or 20 grams: your body will

tell you), cut back to 75% of the dose that represents BT for you and

keep taking that dose EVERY DAY.

Write down each of the 4 daily doses of Vitamin C that you take each day

because you will be increasing your intake gradually until you find the

amount that you need for immune support. This dosage information is

important enough that it could literally save your life so it is worth

taking the time to record this information carefully and stick to the

dosing schedule precisely. If you mess up, don't quit, but do make your

best effort to stick to it.

You will start with 1 gram per dose so, for example, on Day 1, suppose

that you take 1000 mg (= 1 gram) of Vitamin C every 6 hours for a total

of 4 grams. On Day 2, increase the first dose to 2 grams and then take 1

gram for your other 3 doses. (You will take 4 doses per day). On day 3,

take 2 grams for your first and second doses and 1 gram for the

remaining two doses.. On Day 3, you would take 2 grams for the first

three doses and 1 gram for the next dose. You would continue increasing

your dosage in that way until your body lets you know via your GI tract

that you've reach the level you need. Now multiply that total daily dose

by 0.75 and you've got your daily dose.

For example, suppose you reach Bowel Tolerance at 10 doses. Multiply by

0..75 and you now know that you need 7.5 grams of Vitamin C a day for

immune system support. You would do well to take reasonable doses of

Vitamins E and A along with Zinc and reduced L-Glutathione since they

work together with Vitamin C. How much? That depends upon your weight,

health, etc. I would also recommend that you take a good Multivitamin

along with the preventive levels of Vitamin C described above. The

Multivitamins I recommend have so much in them that a full adult dose

requires 6 capsules or tablets to get all the nutrients in. A single

multivitamin cap is just not potent enough to provide serious immune

support, no matter what the company tells you.

And I hope it goes without saying that the more processed foods you eat,

the more chemicals, flavors, preservatives, pesticides, sugar and

artificial sweeteners, in short, the more junk you put into your body,

the more acidic your body will be and the less resistant to viral

infection it will be. So now would be a great time to switch over to a

diet rich in fruits, dark and brightly colored veggies, free range

animal protein and organic everything. Those are food choices that build

your immune capacity, not bang it around.

Selenium blocks deadly mutations in the Avian Flu virus (J American

College Nutrition 20: 384Ã‹â€ 88S, 2001; FASEB Journal 15: 1846-48, 2001;

Journal Nutrition 133: 1463-67S, 2003) while elderberry syrup has been

shown to be an effective flu remedy (J International Med Research

32:132Ã‹â€ 40, 2004; Israeli Medical Assoc Journal 4:919-22, 2002; European

Cytokine Network 12:290-6, 2001; J Alternative Complement Medicine

1:361-9, 1995). Garlic is a highly effective anti viral substance which

should be part of your diet (Planta Medica 58:417-23, 1992).

Children's doses should be titrated the same way taking the weight of

the child into account.

That part is even more important: at the very first indication of

anything that might be viral disease, increase your Vitamin C

immediately. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE IF THINGS GET WORSE! INCREASE YOUR

VITAMIN C TO YOUR NEW BOWEL TOLERANCE LEVEL. That level might be very,

very high. Vitamin C is not toxic. Unlike drugs, which poison enzymes

and are thus capable of severe toxicity, nutrients, especially water

soluble ones like Vitamin C, have no meaningful level of toxicity. Your

body knows what you need. Pay close attention to it.

In the event that you think you may have the flu, take the amino acids

l-lysine, l-proline and l-glycine. An average size adult can take up to

3 grams of each one 4 times a day since they help prevent the spread of

the virus in your body.

My personal regimen for immune health includes high dose Vitamin C and

Vitamins A and E along with zinc and L-Glutathione:

I travel with Olive Leaf Extract, Oil of Oregano (not to be taken by

pregnant women since it can cause abortions), goldenseal, Echinacea,

curcumin (from turmeric), probiotics, B complex, fish oil and alpha

lipoic acid. I drink organic green tea and I do not eat any sugar

whatsoever.

If you do become ill, the best thing you can do is contact a physician

who practices natural and nutritional medicine and begin a regimen of

Intravenous Vitamin C treatments (you may need between 100 and 200 grams

(not milligrams) for a short time since the Avian Flu is so good at

using up your urgently needed Vitamin C.

Here's what not to do:

Do not take Tamiflu (oseltamivir).

The widely touted antiviral drug (like its cousin Relenza or zanamivir)

produced drug resistant viruses in 18% of children treated with the drug

and a drug resistant strain has been found in a Vietnamese girl treated

with the drug. A drug resistant strain would be a far more dangerous

virus than one which had not learned how to evade the drug's effect.

Viruses can not become resistant to Vitamin C.

Do not take FluMist

FluMist is a live virus vaccine which introduces between 10 and 100

million viruses into the nose. Those viruses are not the same as the

Avian Flu and therefore do not confer immunity against it since only the

identical virus could do that. FluMist is based on last years viruses

which were not effective against last year's viruses. They are certainly

not effective against the Avian Flu virus which has not yet become

infective to humans so no vaccine exists against it in its infective form.

However, once treated with FluMist, people shed live, infective viruses

for up to 3 weeks which can give people flu. In fact, immuno-compromised

people, nursing babies, people with eczema, HIV, taking steroids,

chemotherapy, radiation treatment (or the 60% of the American population

which is chemically immuno-suppressed) are at significant danger if they

come into contact with anyone who has been inoculated with FluMist.

FluMist is delivered into the nostrils by a forceful squirt. This puts

infective viruses very close to the brain where they can pass through

the thin cribiform plate at the top of the nostrils and enter the brain.

It is not known if such treatment causes encephalitis. Only time will

tell but the risk is a serious one considering the morbidity (sickness)

and mortality (death) caused by encephalitis.

Each of the three viruses in FluMist can mutate and can cause mutations

in the Avian Flu. Those mutations can supply the Avian Flu virus as it

currently exists with the genetic sequences it needs to become a

pandemic virus. The FluMist live virus nasal inoculation can assist the

much feared Avian Flu virus to transform into the very pandemic we are

being told to fear.

Flu Vaccines for a pandemic version of the Avian Flu do not exist. The

only way to make a vaccine against a particular virus is to have the

virus available and then make a toxic brew filled with poisons (mercury,

aluminum, squalene), foreign particles (egg, chick, and other proteins)

and contaminants (stealth viruses, etc.)That flu virus does not yet

exist, we are told. Assuming that it is not already manufactured and

waiting for release in a lab somewhere, it would be 6 months before an

Avian Flu vaccine could be ready. Vaccination with anything else would

not help a bit with the Avian Flu strain which we are supposedly facing

disaster from.

But, assuming that we already had a vaccine for the right flu strain,

and assuming that vaccines were safe enough to use (which I do not

believe they are since vaccines are very dangerous treatments which

should be approached with the gravest reservations) the fact is that

they do not produce immunity most of the time. We have been ballyhooed

and misled about the efficacy and safety of vaccination.

It is neither efficacious nor safe. And to ask the American people to

submit to vaccinations which are infective (because they spread live

vaccines), ineffective (because they are not vaccines against the real

danger which does not exist yet and vaccines take 6 months to make) and

dangerous (disease rises sharply with vaccination) and for which

manufacturer liability is being removed is not good medicine, good

policy or good sense.

Please safeguard your life and that of your loved ones. Pass this

information to everyone you know so that they can delve further and make

their own choices.

And please visit HealthFreedomUSA.org to sign the new Citizen's Petition

which contains the Revised Vitamin and Mineral Guideline which can make

the US Codex Compliant and preserve your rights to optimal health

through nutrition. If you have signed it before, you can sign it again

since the original Citizen's Petition has been revised.

Yours in health and freedom,

Rima E. Laibow, MD

Medical Director, Natural Solutions Foundation

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March 19, 2006