Breakthroughs Are Exploding -- How Do You Keep Up?

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garyt1992 — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:55:33 GMT

It's interesting that there is actually a war going on between the chemical medicine industry and the natural medicine. When enough of the truth finally shows up and is accepted by the living public the desperate behavior of corporate medicine will become violent. We likewise have to be prepared for this as well.
I am surprised that there hasn't been a law firm go after the drug manufacturers that produced the depressants that were involved in the Virginia Tech incident.

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Nathan_203 — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:29:46 GMT

Hi Dr. Mercola,
I admire your determination and the huge risks and the motivation you had to succeed, and the way you cut through the confusion that exists all around us regarding our health.

I am a cancer recoverer, who doesn't believe in Chemo or Radiotherapy, and initially started to promote my views about fasting, canola oil, fluoride etc., on my Cancer Support website
www.friendswithcancer.com.au when I was advised to "tone it down" which I have done.

I now ,slowly slowly, use questioning techniques, only put my point across if asked, and lead by example, in a positive practical way.
It's a sad state of affairs, but it is so easy to be shut down these days,
I am making headway, it is frustrating though, I figure if I can save one person from unneccesary trauma, it's all worthwhile. Kind regards, Nathan

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helpingheart — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 06:08:28 GMT

Dr Mercola -

You have been the BREAKTHROUGH in my life! Because of you and your mission to deliver the TRUTH, you have saved my life!

Just the tip-of-the-iceberg, I found out from your site that Splenda/sucralose was CHLORINE, equivalent in chemical structure to DDT. I was so very blinded by the advertising for this toxic poison, and discovered the TRUTH when I Googled Splenda and found your AWESOME web site! Also of course I have learned so much more, and you offer terrific products and books in your store!

Thank you Dr Mercola, you are # 1 and the BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EG

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sucram — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:14:05 GMT

P.s. The book I read about trophology from (the tao of health, sex and longevity) actually recommended metabolic typing as a part of ones overall nutritional plan. He also recommended eating as much of your food organic, whole and raw as possible and warned against consuming grains. Just thought i'd let all you dr.mercola groupies know that trophology does not contradict his wisdom :p

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sucram — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:55:54 GMT

continued...
In the case of milk, as much of a potent health food as raw milk is, it has to be said that humans are the only animals in existance that consume milk after their stage of infancy and also the only animals that consume milk from another species. The virtual dissapearance of the enzyme lactase after maturation is more evidence that milk is not meant to be a staple part of our diet. Asian cultures have traditionally avoided milk (Except as a purgative due to its potent healing benefits) because it combines poorly with almost every other food. This wisdom was once known in the west as well, as evidenced by moses's strict regulation that meat should never be combined with milk. Jehovah instructed moses "at evening ye shall eat flesh and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread" in other words dont combine starch with meat.
Many so called primitive cultures have unconsciously followed the rules of tropholoy by simply exluding incompatible food groups from their diet. For instance the swiss ate alot of dairy while excluding most other foods, the eskimos ate meat but very little carbs, many healthy cultures ate no grains or dairy at all.
I'm still unconvinced about trophology myself but until I hear anything scientific to refute it i'm going to be weary about combining starch with meat, and eating fruit on a full stomach.

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sucram — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:54:20 GMT

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sucram — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:41:54 GMT

To adress some of the replies on my post about trophology...
First of all i'm not saying that Dr.Mercolas dietary guidelines in terms of metabolic typing and reducing grains has no merit. Trophology isnt a dietary plain in itself, its one aspect of a dietary plan and without taking in any other nutrtitional considerations it has very little merit. Theres no reason why you can't both follow Dr.mercolas diet and the rules of trophology concurrently.
Secondly im not sure about this fit for life diet, I got most my information from philip days books (which have some good points and some dubious points) and from the tao of health, sex and longevity.
In answer to Scott v's qoute "As far as I know, no population has ever lived under these food combining principles", well firstly let me say that the biggest culinary offender in trophology is combining grains (starch) with meat (protein). Numerous tribes and cultures of longevity, as well as most of mankind before civilization subsisted on diets in which grains were completely absent. So by default they were already adhering to the number 1 rule of trophology by not combining starch with protein. Since grains are the only food that can't be eaten raw and for most of history they wernt apart of the human diet, in all probability we were never really meant to eat them and this may explain why they combine poorly with other foods.
Animals instinctively do not combine carbs with meat. It is also theorized that humans were originally (going a long way back) vegetarians who then developed the ability to consume meat out of neccesity which may explain why meat combines poorly with some foods, fruit for instance. (to be continued)...

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Islander — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:54:11 GMT

Arrrrr...SharpReader does not support Macs. And when I click on your button, I get reams of what looks like source code. I'm using OS 10.3.9. Can anybody help? Any suggestions?

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Phantom O Banjo — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:20:06 GMT

By George I think I got it. Lets call it foundation medicine!

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RoxieW — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:02:56 GMT

Thank you Dr. Mercola for everything you do. I love the videos and all the vital vote information. I had a wellness presentation at my house and I couldn't even get people to come down the street or walk next door and participate. I think the biggest challenge we have is to get people to care about their health and make it a priority. I don't know what is will take.

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realitycheck — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:31:28 GMT

What about the other 90 % of profits. Do they still go back into keeping up the site?

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Lex_203 — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:57:00 GMT

I think we all need to work to take the best of original, natural, alternative (whatever we'd like to call it) medicine and also the best of what's currently called conventional medicine. I think we do a disservice making one the good guy and the other bad. Unfortunately, they both have gotten to a place of trying to make money above all else so they are getting more similar all the time. But, they both have incredible value and important service to offer. Because we're consumers we actually hold the power over both if we focus on taking responsibility for health and wellness and demand quality and efficacy of both traditions, they will come around...slowly I know...but the more we build a cause of demanding the best, the sooner we will meld the best of both.

Harley, in response to your question about the codex being sent around by natural solutions foundations. i went to the FDA website and then got to question the head of the FDA himself when he was interviewed on national public radio last week. The message being sent around by Natural Solutions turns out to be completely incorrect and sensational. The FDA does not even have the power to do those things...only congress. Hope that helps.

Thanks Dr. Mercola for helping us educate ourselves.

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fellowservantinchrist — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:03:09 GMT

Thank you, thank you, thank you---Dr. Mercola! Thanks for ALL the work you do to provide this site. The amount of information I have at my fingertips is AMAZING!
I recommend this site to all my friends when they have a question about health and nutrition!
Thanks again. May the Lord greatly bless you and all your work!
Anita

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kennyg — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:13:08 GMT

I would be interested to read how that figure was calculated. Does it include all books, all broadcasts and all data transmissions? If it refers only to new data created and stored then it can't be right. Unless I am mistaken, 1.5 exabytes saved to hard drives amounts to 2 000 000 000 000 (2 x 10 to the power of 12) 750 GByte hard drives. That is several orders of magnitude more drives than will actually be manufactured this year.

Sure, 1 terabyte drives are just starting to appear, but 750 gigabytes is the practical largest size right now.

That quantity of data amounts to more than 300 x 750 gigabyte hard drives per person on the planet. I for one am way below my quota for the year so far. I have not bought any hard drives yet this year, but I will be upgrading soon, but not to 225 terabytes just yet!

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sucram — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:25:36 GMT

While we're on the subject of too much information for people to keep up with...
Does anyone know anything about trophology the science of food combining? What it basically boils down to is that, any given ingredients regardless of their purity or nutrtitional quality can be healthier or less healthy depending on how they are combined. For instance, its proposed that starch shouldn't be combined with meat because the alkaline enzyme ptyalin pours into the food as its chewed in the mouth. When the food reaches the stomach, digestion of starch by alkaline enzymes continues unabated, thereby preventing the digestion of protein by pepsin and other acid secretions. Bacteria in the stomach are thus permitted to attack the protein and putrefication commences, rendering nutrients in the protein food largely useless to you and producing toxic wastes and foul gases, including such poisons as indol, skatol, phenol, hydrogen sulphide, phenylpropionic acid and others.
It also says that fruits (especially acid fruits) shouldnt be eaten with meat because they will ferment rather than digest, and they shouldnt be eaten on a full stomach.
It affirms that milk curdles immediately upon entering the stomach , so if there is other food present the curds coagulate around other food particles and insulate them from exposure to gastric juices, delaying digestion long enough to permit the onset of putrefication.

Any thoughts? I don't know whether to worry about this stuff or not but it seems to make sense.