Alternative Medicine: Pseudoscience or Real Science

Alternative medicine has been described as pseudoscientific. The National Science Foundation has conducted surveys of the “Public Attitudes and Public Understanding” of “Science Fiction and Pseudoscience”, which includes studying the popularity of alternative medicine. It considers belief in alternative medicine a matter of concern, defining it as “all treatments that have not been proven effective using scientific methods.” After quoting the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry‘s listing of alternative medicine as one of many pseudoscientific subjects, as well as mentioning the concerns of individual scientists, organizations, and members of the science policymaking community, it comments that “nevertheless, the popularity of alternative medicine [with the public] appears to be increasing.” “At least 60 percent of U.S. medical schools devote classroom time to the teaching of alternative therapies, generating controversy within the scientific community.” It has been reported that universities are “increasingly turning their backs on homoeopathy and complementary medicine amid opposition from the scientific community to “pseudo-science” degrees.” Degrees in alternative medicine have been described as “‘pseudo-science’ degrees”, “anti-scientific”, and “harmful”. Wikipedia

It looks like medical schools are voting that alternative medicine is useful if 60% of them devote classroom time to teaching alternative therapies. Or it is just because Americans are voting with the pocketbooks. More out of pocket money is spent on alternative medicine than on conventional medicine. Is that because Americans are stupid or is it because they know more than you think.

Let’s take an example of Wikipedia “pseudoscience” from a recent clinical trial published in a leading medical journal.

Source: Yin J, et al. Efficacy of berberine in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Metabolism 2008 May; 57(5):712-717 (Courtesy of Dr. Whitakers Health & Healing newletter)

This clinical trial shows clearly that a herbal extract is as good as a leading drug in regulating glucose metabolism. It actually did more as it lowered triglycerides by 35.9%, LDL cholesterol by 21 percent, and total cholesterol by 18% compared to no significant reductions with the drug. Other recent research shows that berberine has a role in cancer treatment and prevention.

The problem with alternative medicine here is that it is much cheaper and more effect than drugs. And last year there was not a single death from a supplement, yet medical error, primarily from drug effects, continues to be one of the leading causes of death.

Now if the evidence in the medical literature does not support your business plan you accuse all competitors of engaging in “pseudoscience”. This is an ad hominem argument that requires no data to support it. And you hire people to manipulate the information Wikipedia.

The fact that Wikipedia supports this nonsense shows that their information is corrupted by vested interests. Of course the medical journals do no better. You can read a summary of how medical journal are often complicit in the corruption of medical data here.

U.S. Patent for Determining Resonant Frequency of DNA

There is substantial research on frequency effects on cells and pathogens. Unfortunately, none of it seems to get back those manipulating Wikipedia as most alternative approaches to conventional medicine, including frequencies, are asserted to be pseudoscience on Wikipedia without supporting evidence or with careful selection of limited evidence to support a biased position.

Unfortunately, the military suppresses thousands of patents, some of them highly relevant to advanced frequency applications for security reasons. Some of this work has come into the public domain through useful devices such as the Advance Biophoton Analyzer (ABPA). Fortunately, there is a fundamental patent below, published by the U.S. Patent Office that everyone interested should read. In addition, there are more than a dozen supporting approved patents that are worthy of further study.

Medical applications do not move into the clinical trail stage until very late in the process and the majority of new treatments and medical devices are not yet in the clinical trial stage. For some treatments and devices, clinical trials are not appropriate. About 85% of conventional treatment today has not been through the clinical trial process. Even worse, data is regularly compromised in the leading medical journals because of drug company sponsorship of research. Those who read the journals will have read the scathing editorials on this subject, for example, in the New England Journal of Medicine.

There is however, one useful patent in the public domain and those Wikipedia writers asserting this is pseudoscience would implement this patent and test it in their own labs if they were not funded by vested interests that do not want this research to come to light. Many university researchers have published positive results on using frequencies and some of this research is scattered throughout this blog.

Charlene Boehm has a patent on calculating resonant frequencies of DNA strands. She has provided some of the frequencies for certain pathogens that have been added to Frequency Foundation documents and has a web site now with frequency sets. See DNA Pathogen Frequencies.

United States Patent 7,280,874
Charlene Boehm, October 9, 2007
Methods for determining therapeutic resonant frequencies

Abstract

Methods are provided for readily and efficiently determining resonant frequencies that can be used therapeutically or beneficially, for debilitation of specific types of genomic materials, including DNA and/or RNA, genes, and gene sections. The methods can be used in a variety of circumstances related to various human and animal diseases and conditions. Methods allow determination of therapeutic resonant frequencies for use in various media having different refractivities. Therapeutic or beneficial resonance frequencies thus determined are adapted for use with currently available frequency-emitting devices by shifting resonant frequencies to electromagnetic ranges capable of generation by such devices.

Healthcare of the Future: More than twice as much for less than half the cost!

Moore’s Law Leads to $1000 Genome Device

POSTED BY: SAMUEL K. MOORE / TUE, JANUARY 10, 2012, IEEE Spectrum

Carlsbad, Calif.-based Life Technologies plans to introduce today a machine that can map a person’s entire genome for just $1000. One thousand dollars per genome has been a longstanding goal, because it should make the whole genome sequencing useful for medicine and drug discovery.

The machine, the Ion Proton Sequencer, is based on a chip. When the company first reported the sequencing of a person’s genome with it in Nature in July, it was none other than Gordon Moore’s genome they sequenced. Read more …

Dirty Electricity – The Solution

For many years I have measured electrical flunctuations and gauss levels in my homes and used multiple technologies to minimize the damage. Dr. Milham is an epidemilogist who shows that significant modern diseases are caused or aggravated by the impact of chaotic frequencies on human cells.

Dale Fawcett has identified a commercial solution that no only corrects this problem in an entire building, but reduces electrical consumption by about 20% and sometimes more. It pays for itself so give Dale a call or connect via email [email protected].

Feds May Be Coming to Your Church Soon

If You Go to Church, Heed This Warning

Posted By Dr. Mercola | December 06 2011

Story at-a-glance

The CDC and HHS held an “off-the-record, not-for-press-purposes” phone conference with church and community leaders.
They want to administer flu vaccines in churches, synagogues and mosques.
They are encouraging church leaders to “influence” people to get the shots through clinics run by Walgreens, which would send pharmacists out to places of worship to mass-vaccinate people in the church/synagogue/mosque.

Recently the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, held an invitation-only call.

The call was co-sponsored by the U.S. Health and Human Services, the Office of Minority Health, and CDC.

Conspicuously, the end of the invitation read:

“This call is off the record and is not for press purposes” — but it became public when it showed up on the HHS website.

Fortunately one of our staff was able to get on the call.

The focus of the call was on getting faith-based organizations to sponsor flu clinics with Walgreens.

Basically, they want to move inside your church, mosque or synagogue, and set up shop, with your pastor, priest, imam and rabbi on hand to convince you to get a flu shot.

As an example, they cited a priest who stopped in the middle of mass to roll up his sleeve and get vaccinated, inspiring the rest of his parish to line up behind him.

Update on Fluoride

Tampa, FL eliminated flouride in the water supply in October, 2022.

Fluoride is an extremely toxic carcinogen and induces neurological damage even in small doses. It should not be in our food and water. Children are being overdosed with flouride when they drink the water and add fluoride from toothpaste. Overdose means exceeding EPA standards which are not low enough. Just as in the case of radiation, no amount no matter how low is safe.

Fortunately, many scientists are banding together in the Fluoride Action Network to educate the public and they are having a significant effect.

Has fluoridation met it’s Waterloo? Since the October 25, 2010 victory in Waterloo, Ontario approximately 1,180,500 people have been freed from fluoridation by a city council or referendum vote ending the practice. There have been victories in every month of 2011 so far, and since August victories have become a weekly event. Clearly, the momentum is building to a head, and we may have finally reached fluoridation’s tipping point.

Over the last year these communities (with approximate populations) have stopped adding fluoride to their drinking water:

–Palmer, Alaska (8,428)

–Lawrenceburg, Tennessee (11,000)

–Churchill, Manitoba (1000)

–Pinellas County, Florida (700,000)

–College Station, TX (100,000)

–Slave Lake, Alberta (7,000)

–Hohenwald, TN (4,000)

–Philomath, OR (4,500)

–Spring Hill, TN (30,000)

–Pottstown, PA (15,500)

–Taber, Alberta (6,500)

–Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan (5,000)

–Taumarunui, New Zealand (5,000)

–Fairbanks, Alaska (30,500)

–Mount Clemons, Michigan (17,300)

–Lago Vista, TX (6,500)

–Marcellus, MI (1,100)

–Independence, Virginia (1000)

–Calgary, Alberta (103,000)

–Yellow Springs, OH (3275)

–Vercheres, Quebec (5240)

–Schuylkill Haven, PA (5,500)

–Sparta, North Carolina (2,000)

–Tellico, TN (900)

–Naples, NY (2,400)

–Spencer, Indiana (2,500)

–Waterloo, St. Jacobs, and Elmira, Ontario (103,000)

In the past week, three more North American communities stopped water fluoridation. The first was in the Canadian community of Churchill, Manitoba. On October 18th, a referendum vote was held and 58% of residents voted to stop the addition of fluoride to the water supply. The vote was a result of three years of campaigning by local citizens along with the group Churchill No Fluoride. While the referendum was non-binding, the Town Council is expected to follow the will of the majority and end the practice officially.

Also in Canada, the City Council of Moncton, New Brunswick will be making a decision regarding fluoridation in the next month. The campaign against fluoridation is being led by Fluoride Free Moncton. The New Brunswick town of Saint John will also be taking up the fluoride issue in the near future. If you live in New Brunswick, now is the time to get involved in these two campaigns!

The Second victory this past week was in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. On October 20th, the board of directors for the Lawrenceburg Utility Systems voted unanimously to discontinue fluoridation, saving the city $22,000 a year. The board’s decision was influenced by a letter recommending an end to fluoridation submitted by Tennessee State Representative and Doctor, Joey Hensley. Dr. Hensley has sent the same letter to every water director in his state, which is highlighted in this TV news interview.

The third victory was in Palmer, Alaska. On October 25th, the City Council voted 6-1 to adopt an ordinance prohibiting the addition of fluoride to the water supply. The decision came after months of discussion, and consideration of the growing opposition to fluoridation in Alaska after Juneau and Fairbanks recently rejected the practice. Bethel, Alaska is currently reviewing a similar ordinance banning fluoridation, and is also expected to make a decision within the next month.

Going into hospital far riskier than flying: WHO

A surgeon washes his hands before enter in an operating room at a hospital in Marseille, France, April 3, 2008. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier

By Stephanie Nebehay

GENEVA | Thu Jul 21, 2011 2:23pm EDT

(Reuters) – Millions of people die each year from medical errors and infections linked to health care and going into hospital is far riskier than flying, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.

“If you were admitted to hospital tomorrow in any country… your chances of being subjected to an error in your care would be something like 1 in 10. Your chances of dying due to an error in health care would be 1 in 300,” Liam Donaldson, the WHO’s newly appointed envoy for patient safety, told a news briefing.

This compared with a risk of dying in an air crash of about 1 in 10 million passengers, according to Donaldson, formerly England’s chief medical officer.

“It shows that health care generally worldwide still has a long way to go,” he said.

Hundreds of millions of people suffer infections linked to health care each year. Patients should ask questions and be part of decision-making in hospitals, which must use basic hygiene standards and WHO’s checklist to ensure safe surgical procedures were followed.

More than 50 percent of acquired infections can be prevented if health care workers clean their hands with soap and water or an alcohol-based handrub before treating patients.

Of every 100 hospitalized patients at any given time, 7 in developed and 10 in developing countries will acquire at least one health care-associated infection, according to the United Nations agency.

“The longer patients stay in an ICU (intensive care unit), the more at risk they become of acquiring an infection,” it said. Medical devices such as urinary catheters and ventilators are associated with high infection rates.

‘HIGH-RISK BUSINESS’

Each year in the United States, 1.7 million infections are acquired in hospital, leading to 100,000 deaths, a far higher rate than in Europe where 4.5 million infections cause 37,000 deaths, according to WHO.

Cancer Cell Glucose Metabolism Version 1.1

Deeper understanding of cell metabolism in cancer can result in innovation frequency strategies for eliminating altered cells. Frequency data are provided to Frequency Foundation subscribers in a private blog that regularly updates frequency sets for researchers. The cancer cell metabolism program is a good indicator of abnormal cells. A positive muscle test when running this program indicates premalignant or malignant cells.

Altered metabolism in cancer
Jason W Locasale and Lewis C Cantley

Locasale and Cantley BMC Biology 2010, 8:88
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/8/88
See also research article: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1752-0509/4/58/

Abstract
Cancer cells have different metabolic requirements from their normal counterparts. Understanding the consequences of this differential metabolism requires a detailed understanding of glucose metabolism and its relation to energy production in cancer cells. A recent study in BMC Systems Biology by Vasquez et al. developed a mathematical model to assess some features of this altered metabolism. Here, we take a broader look at the regulation of energy metabolism in cancer cells, considering their anabolic as well as catabolic needs.

Cancer is a disease of uncontrolled cell growth in which cells acquire genetic alterations that allow them to proliferate outside the context of normal tissue development. In the evolution of this transformation, cells acquire mutations that confer selective advantages for the growth of the tumor. Genetic alterations in many of the known oncogenes are selected to adapt cellular metabolism to meet the requirements of rapid cell proliferation as well as autonomous growth and survival in an environment absent of contact with extracellular matrix. Accumulating evidence indicates that almost every known oncogene regulates downstream targets that are directly connected to metabolic regulation. A detailed biochemical and systems-level understanding of precisely how oncogenes rewire metabolism is essential to understand tumor biology, but concomitantly requires an assessment of the metabolic adaptations required to support the proliferation of cancer cells. Understanding the consequences of this differential metabolism requires a thorough analysis of glucose metabolism and its relation to energy production in cancer cells.

In a majority of tumor types, an enhanced rate of glucose uptake is observed and serves as a reasonable starting point for understanding differential metabolism in tumors. Otto Warburg’s initial observation that tumors often metabolize relatively large quantities of glucose predominantly through a fermentative-like metabolism, resulting in lactate production in aerobic conditions (termed aerobic glycolysis), provided the phenomenological foundation for studying altered metabolism in cancer [2]. Rapid progress is being made towards a molecular understanding of why lactate production from glucose gives cancer cells a growth advantage. Paradoxically, cells that achieve high rates of aerobic glycolysis often show relatively small changes in the rate of oxygen consumption in response to changes in glucose uptake; that is, oxidative catabolic flux through the Krebs cycle leading to mitochondrial ATP generation is somewhat independent of glucose metabolism.

Sleeping Sickness Frequencies 1.0

Tsetse fly photo from microbewiki.
MicrobiologyBytes.com reports:
More than 66 million women, men and children in 36 countries of sub-Saharan Africa suffer from human African trypanosomiasis (HAT). There are two forms of African sleeping sickness, caused by two different parasites:

Trypanosoma brucei gambiense , which causes a chronic infection lasting years and affecting countries of western and central Africa
Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense , which causes acute illness lasting several weeks in countries of eastern and southern Africa

When untreated, trypanosomiasis gives no respite from suffering and ultimately ends in death. The parasite that causes sleeping sickness is called the trypanosome. It is transmitted to humans through the bite of a tsetse fly; of the genusGlossina.
Human trypanosomiasis is therefore a vector-borne parasitic disease. The vector is found only in Africa, between the fifteenth parallels north and south. Its favoured habitat is the vegetation along watercourses and lakes, forest edges and gallery forests, extending to vast areas of scrub savanna. The tsetse fly feeds on the blood of animals and humans. Once inoculated by an infected fly, the trypanosomes proliferate and gradually invade all the organs of the host.

Most of the parasites are effectively destroyed by the host’s natural defences, but some trypanosomes manage to evade the immune system by modifying their surface membrane, a process known as antigenic variation. The trypanosome can express thousands of variants, multiplying with each new surface change.At first, the main clinical signs of human trypanosomiasis are high fever, weakness and headache, joint pains and pruritus (itching). Gradually, the immune defence mechanisms and the patient’s resistance are exhausted.

As the parasite develops in the lymph and blood of the patient, the initial symptoms become more pronounced and other manifestations such as anaemia, cardiovascular and endocrine disorders, abortion, oedema and kidney disorders appear. In advanced stages of disease, the parasite invades the central nervous system. The patient’s behaviour changes; they can no longer concentrate and become indifferent to their environment. Sudden and unpredictable mood changes become increasingly frequent, giving rise to lethargy with bouts of aggressiveness. Patients are overcome by such extreme torpor that eating, speaking, walking or even opening the eyes call for an unsurmountable effort. At night they suffer insomnia and during the day are exhausted by periods of sleep-like unconsciousness. Finally, patients fall into a deep coma and die.
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Frequency Foundation has discovered low grade trypanosomiasis infections in the U.S. and Europe. Subscribers have access to frequencies for multiple strains of the parasite and for the wiggleworthia bacterium spread by the tsetse fly and should test themselves for the presence of these organisms.

Antidepressants increase risk of autistic children

The study is the first to look at the association between the use of antidepressants during pregnancy and the risk of autism.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

The study doesn’t prove taking SSRIs during pregnancy directly causes autism
The findings will need to be confirmed in future studies
Women should not be dissuaded from starting or continuing to take SSRIs
Untreated depression during pregnancy has its own risks, such as preterm birth

(Health.com) — Children whose mothers take Zoloft, Prozac, or similar antidepressants during pregnancy are twice as likely as other children to have a diagnosis of autism or a related disorder, according to a small new study, the first to examine the relationship between antidepressants and autism risk.

This class of antidepressants, known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), may be especially risky early on in a pregnancy, the study suggests. Children who were exposed to the drugs during the first trimester were nearly four times as likely to develop an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) compared with unexposed children, according to the study, which appears in the Archives of General Psychiatry.