Sleep good for arteries

Last updated: Wednesday, December 24, 2008

A good night's sleep may be just what your arteries need.

So finds a new five-year study in which middle-aged people who had an extra hour of sleep each night were less likely to have artery-stiffening calcium deposits.

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But the study results shouldn't send people off to bed prematurely or have them popping sleeping pills, cautioned Diane Lauderdale, associate professor of health studies at the University of Chicago Medical Centre, who led the study.

"We don't know why there is an association," Lauderdale said. "And until we know why, we can't tell whether it is a causal association."

The report was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Calcification may cause heart disease
Lauderdale and her colleagues have been following a group of young adults for years, studying their heart arteries from a number of angles. The latest report linked the sleeping habits of 495 participants, ages 35 to 47, with the incidence of artery calcification, measured by CT scans.

Calcium deposits can make the coronary arteries less flexible and ultimately lead to heart disease. None of the participants had detectable calcium deposits when the study began, but five years later, 61 (12.3%) did.

After adjusting for lots of potential risk factors, such as sex, race, and smoking habits, the researchers found that one more hour of sleep a night decreased the risk of calcification by a third. That's about as much as a 16.5-point reduction in blood pressure, the researchers said.

Possible explanations
"Nothing came out of the study as appearing to explain the association," Lauderdale said. But she believes that there are three possible explanations.

One is that another factor, such as socioeconomic status, was the connection here. A second is that a stress-related hormone, cortisol, which has been tied to decreased sleep and increased calcification, is the link.

"Finally, sleep is related to blood pressure, and that is a coronary artery disease risk factor," Lauderdale said. "It's possible that for people who were sleeping more, their 24-hour blood pressure was lower than their daytime blood pressure."

Sleep deprivation alters physiology
Whatever the link, it was to be expected, said Kathy P. Parker, a sleep expert who is dean of the University of Rochester School of Nursing.

"We know that sleep deprivation does alter the physiology of numerous body systems, so it is not surprising that another health problem, or symptom or sign, should be related to sleep length," Parker said.

There is no precise formula for the length of sleep that is best for a given individual, Parker said. "There is considerable variation in sleep needs," she said. "On average, an individual needs between 7 and 8 hours of sleep. There is an increase in health problems with five hours or less or nine hours or more."

Regular sleeping habits
The best advice, said Parker, who is one of only five US nurses certified by the American Board of Sleep Medicine, is "go to bed at a regular time, wake up at a regular time, pay attention to whether you feel refreshed and alert during the day, [and] avoid too much caffeine and alcohol."

As for sleeping pills, they are "appropriate in certain situations," such as times of acute psychological stress or jet lag or for "certain sleep disorders," Parker said.

"It's really important to wait until this finding is confirmed in another study population," Lauderdale cautioned. "Also, until we know the mechanism, it is premature to base clinical advice on this information." – (Ed Edelson/HealthDay News)

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December 2008

Cold virus manipulates genes
Sneezing, runny nose and chills? You might blame the human rhinovirus (HRV), which causes 30 to 50% of common colds. But in reality, it's not the virus itself, but HRV's ability to manipulate your genes that is the true cause of some of the most annoying cold symptoms.

For the first time, researchers have shown that HRV hijacks many of your genes and causes an overblown immune response.

The research, published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, is the first study to comprehensively review gene changes caused by HRV.

"The study's findings are a major step toward more targeted cold prevention and treatment strategies while also serving as a valuable roadmap for the broader respiratory science community," said Professor David Proud of the University of Calgary, and lead author of the study.

Proud added that while colds are usually considered to be minor infections of the nose and throat, they can have much more serious health repercussions. "Rhinovirus is the major cause of the common cold, but it is also an important pathogen in more serious conditions, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)," he said.

"Advances in our understanding of the biology of the common cold may eventually lead to improvements in treatment or methods for prevention of colds," said Dr Ron Turner, of the University of Virginia, one of the study's authors.

Methodology
The researchers recruited volunteers who were inoculated with either HRV or a sham inoculation and obtained cell scrapings from the nasal passages eight and 48 hours after inoculation and assessed the genetic changes by microarray.

After 8 hours, there were virtually no differences between the control and the HRV-inoculated group, but by the 48-hour mark, more than 6 500 genes had been significantly up- or down-regulated in the HRV subjects - many of the more highly up-regulated genes fell into two major categories: genes making antiviral proteins, including viperin; or genes making pro-inflammatory cytokines.

"This is the first comprehensive picture to identify several groups of genes that are likely to contribute to the pro-inflammatory and antiviral response," said Proud.

Unexpected results
The researchers also found that viral titre more than doubled in cells that had had the viperin-producing gene "knocked down," showing that HRV replication was hampered by viperin. "This had never been examined during rhinovirus infections," said Dr Proud. "Some evidence existed that this protein (only discovered a few years ago) had effects on influenza, but nothing was known about its role in rhinovirus infections. So it was a bit unexpected."

"Overall these data provide new insights into the host response to HRV infection and identify several novel candidate genes that require further study to clarify their role in disease pathogenesis," said Proud. "This may identify pro-inflammatory, or host defence pathways that could be targeted for drug development, not only as treatments for colds but also for viral exacerbations of asthma and COPD.

The fact that genes associated with structural remodelling or the airways were also altered, supports further study of the role of rhinovirus infections in airway remodelling in asthma." � (EurekAlert!)

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October 2008

Definition

Depression, also known as depressive disorders or unipolar depression, is a mental illness characterized by a profound and persistent feeling of sadness or despair and/or a loss of interest in things that once were pleasurable. Disturbance in sleep, appetite, and mental processes are a common accompaniment.

Description

Everyone experiences feelings of unhappiness and sadness occasionally. However, when these depressed feelings start to dominate everyday life without a recent loss or trauma and cause physical and mental deterioration, they become what is known as depression. Each year in the United States, depression affects an estimated 17 million people at an approximate annual direct and indirect cost of $53 billion. One in four women is likely to experience an episode of severe depression in her lifetime, with a 10–20% lifetime prevalence, compared to 5–10% for men. The average age a first depressive episode occurs is in the mid-20s, although the disorder strikes all age groups indiscriminately, from children to the elderly.

There are two main categories of depression: major depressive disorder and dysthymic disorder. Major depressive disorder is a moderate to severe episode of depression lasting two or more weeks. Individuals experiencing this major depressive episode may have trouble sleeping, lose interest in activities in which they once took pleasure, experience a change in weight, have difficulty concentrating, feel worthless and hopeless, or have a preoccupation with death or suicide. In children, major depression may appear as irritability.

While major depressive episodes may be acute (intense but short-lived), dysthymic disorder is an ongoing, chronic depression that lasts two or more years (one or more years in children) and has an average duration of 16 years. The mild to moderate depression of dysthymic disorder may rise and fall in intensity, and those afflicted with the disorder may experience some periods of normal, nondepressed mood of up to two months in length. Its onset is gradual, and dysthymic patients may not be able to pinpoint exactly when they started feeling depressed. Individuals with dysthymic disorder may experience a change in sleeping and eating patterns, low self-esteem, fatigue, trouble concentrating, and feelings of hopelessness.

Depression also can occur in bipolar disorder, an affective mental illness that causes radical emotional changes and mood swings, from manic highs to depressive lows. The majority of bipolar individuals experience alternating episodes of mania and depression.

Cholera death toll rises

Last updated: Friday, December 19, 2008

The cholera death toll in Zimbabwe has risen above 1 000, the United Nations said Thursday, as one expert warned that the country is ill-prepared to deal with outbreaks of other diseases.

A total of 1 123 cholera deaths was recorded by Wednesday, an increase of 133 in two days, the UN humanitarian office in Geneva said.

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The latest figures, which are compiled by the World Health Organisation, show that the number of cases has risen to 20 896 since the start of the cholera outbreak in August. On Monday, health officials had tallied 18 413 cases and 978 deaths.

Aid workers have struggled to keep up with the spread of the disease, partly because reports of new cases have been slow to come in from rural Zimbabwe. One WHO cholera expert, Dominique Legros, said a new command and control centre that opened this week will speed up reporting of outbreaks, but the lack of basic communications equipment in outlying areas remains a problem.

Other outbreaks expected
Legros warned that Zimbabwe's fragile health system means the country is ill-prepared at the moment to deal with other health emergencies.

"We can expect other outbreaks of infectious disease such as measles occurring in the near future," he told The Associated Press, adding that vaccination programs and HIV treatment have also come to a virtual standstill.

WHO says cholera is spreading in Zimbabwe because of badly maintained sanitation systems, rampant inflation that has hit doctors and nurses, and a lack of clean drinking water.

"Ghost hospitals
Unlike many other African countries, Zimbabwe has modern laboratories and well-trained health workers, said Legros. But according to WHO, many cannot survive on the meagre pay they receive, with some unable even to afford the cost of travelling to work.

"For the last few months everything has basically stopped," said Legros. "There are ghost hospitals."

The outbreak of cholera, which spreads through contaminated water, has hit Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, the hardest, the agency said. It warned that supplies of intravenous fluids, used to treat the disease, could run out early next year unless new stocks are brought in.

Spreading to neighbouring countries
The problems have spread to neighbouring countries. South Africa is caring for hundreds of Zimbabwean cholera victims at the border. In Mozambique, health authorities said Thursday that cholera cases had been detected in six of that country's 11 provinces, and that in provinces bordering Zimbabwe the source was believed to have Zimbabweans or Mozambicans who had travelled to Zimbabwe. Cholera, though, crops up in Mozambique regularly due to poor sanitation and lack of clean drinking water. - (Frank Jordans/Sapa)

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December 2008

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Fructose linked to obesity: study
Consuming too much fructose - a sugar found in foods ranging from cookies to candies and soda - can block the appetite-controlling hormone leptin from doing its job and increase the risk of obesity, a University of Florida study of rats suggests.

Leptin resistance has long been linked to obesity, and a number of studies have shown that overconsumption of fructose may be an important factor in the United States' obesity epidemic. This new study is the first to link fructose and leptin resistance.

The researchers found that rats became leptin-resistant after being fed a high-fructose diet for six months. There were no visible signs that leptin resistance was occurring, but the fructose-fed rats gained considerably more weight than rats that never received fructose when both groups of rats were switched to a high-fat diet.

The study was published in the American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology.

Condition causes obesity
"Leptin resistance is a condition that leads to obesity in rats when coupled with a high-fat diet. The surprising finding here was that increasing the amount of fructose in the diet without increasing the amount of calories led to leptin resistance and later exacerbated obesity when paired with a high-fat diet," study senior author Philip J. Scarpace, a professor of pharmacology and therapeutics in the College of Medicine, said in a university news release.

"[Fructose] blocks leptin action most likely by blocking leptin entry into the brain," study author Alexandra Shapiro, an assistant scientist in the department of pharmacology and therapeutics, explained in the news release.

"If these findings are applicable to humans, then there could be consequences of eating a diet high in fructose, but only if you also consume an excessive amount of calories," Scarpace said. - (HealthDay News)

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October 2008

Deadly new Ebola strain found

Last updated: Friday, November 21, 2008

Scientists said Friday an outbreak of Ebola that killed 37 people in Uganda last year was sparked by a hitherto unknown species of one of the world's most notorious viruses.

The strain - provisionally named Bundibugyo ebolavirus after the district where the outbreak occurred - joins four other known species of the pathogen, they said.

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More than one in three of patients infected with Bundibugyo died, according to their study, appearing in the US journal PLoS Pathogens, published online by the open-access Public Library of Science (PLoS).

Causes hemorrhagic fever
Ebola and the Marburg virus are the two main categories of so-called filovirus which causes haemorrhagic fever (VHF), a disease dubbed a "slate-wiper" for its extreme lethality. The early signs of VHF are usually a high temperature, exhaustion, dizziness, watery diarrhoea and muscle ache. These symptoms are often mistaken for other fevers, such as flu or yellow fever, because VHF is rare.

As the virus spreads, the feverish patient often starts to bleed under the skin and in severe cases, from the mouth, ears and eyes. Blood loss, shock and organ failure lead to coma and delirium and, in many cases, to death, within three to seven days after onset of symptoms.

Some strains more deadly
Ebola first came to light in 1976 in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and is named after the Ebola river with which this outbreak is associated. Approximately 1 850 cases with over 1 200 deaths have been documented since the virus was discovered, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The deadliest strain, Zaire ebolavirus, inflicts a death rate of 80-90%, followed by Sudan ebolavirus, with a mortality of 50-55%. The least harmful are the Cote d'Ivoire ebolavirus, which was discovered in the Ivory Coast in 1994 and so far has caused only a single, non-fatal case of VHF; and the Reston ebolavirus, identified at a US research facility in 1989, which spread from imported lab monkeys to at least four people, none of whom fell sick.

The newly-discovered species came to light after VHF erupted in the townships of Bundibugyo and Kikyo in November 2007, says the study, authored by US and Ugandan doctors.

The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tested 29 blood samples, which were negative to high-sensitivity tests tailored to the three known strains of Ebola virus. But the samples tested positive in an older, broad-spectrum antibody assay. Intrigued, investigators pulled apart the pathogen's genetic code to see what they had snared. Using ultra-fast sequencing technology, they decoded the virus' genome in a matter of days, finding a variation of 32% compared with the three existing strains.

36% mortality rate
Of the 149 suspected cases of Bundibugyo ebolavirus, 37 were fatal, translating into a mortality rate of 36%. The wide genetic divergence between the strains has major implications, the authors say.

It will require the invention of new diagnostic tools to detect outbreaks and could complicate the quest for vaccines and treatments. US scientists working in a Pentagon-backed programme successfully tested a vaccine among monkeys in 2005 and 2006, but trialling this formula on humans remains a distant goal.

In the absence of a shield or a cure, the only solution is the time-honoured method of isolating the patient, providing barrier protection (rubber gloves, gowns and goggles) for health workers and rigidly observing hygiene procedures.

Ebola is also lethal for non-human primates, killing thousands of gorillas and chimps in recent years and endangering those who butcher or handle their meat.

The natural reservoir for the Zaire ebolavirus has been found in three species of fruitbat in the rainforests of central and western Africa. The wildlife host for the three other strains is unknown. – (Sapa)

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November 2008

15 December

Unto Us a Child is Born, Unto Us a So is Given

Consider this. We live in a galaxy called the Milky Way. At one time when man tried to count the stars with the naked eye, he believed there was no more than a  thousand stars in the sky. Today with our modern day telescopes we now know that our galaxy contains more than 100, 000, 000 stars. On top of that scientists have discovered at least another million galaxies just like ours. They found that the universe is much bigger than they had thought. They also discovered that it is orderly, as if it was put together by a Master designer. Well I have news for them. Good news. It was!

The bible says in Genesis 1:1; In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth. God created all we see and then He created man (Genesis 2). But man disobeyed Him and sin, which separates us from God, was brought into the world(Genesis 3). Sin damns us to a place called hell that God only prepared as punishment for the devil and his demons. Payment for sin required a sacrifice. A blood sacrifice. But God had a plan all along. He would come to earth as one of us. He would be born in a manger in Bethlehem as a baby to a virgin named Mary and would have to face life like the rest of us. He subjected Himself to all the things that we face. The Creator and Ruler of this vast universe would come and live on this tiny speck of dust. He would be our Saviour. He is Emmanuel, which means God with us. He would become the ultimate sacrifice to bridge the gap that sin had created. Thirty-three years later He did just that and was crucified on a Roman cross just outside Jerusalem. He died and His blood was shed for us on Calvary. But three days later, He conquered death and the grave.

He is alive today and He is the reason we celebrate Christmas. His name is Jesus and He loves you so much that when He was dying on that cross He had you in mind. He came to earth and died for you. He knew you before you were in your mother’s womb. He knew and knows every single human being that has ever existed. He knows your every thought. The Bible says in John 3:16 that; "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever would believe in Him would not perish but have eternal life." Why not make this Christmas special and ask Jesus to be your Saviour. All you have to do is confess that you are a sinner and ask Him to come into your heart. That my friend would be the best Christmas present you can ever possibly receive. Life everlasting and joy beyond measure.

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6 (KJV)  {Thanks Gerry}

08 December

God With Us

Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel. Isaiah 7:14

No single life has affected the human race and it’s history as much as Jesus Christ has. He lived a short 33 years on this world and yet more lives have been impacted by Him than anyone else ever. You either love Him or you hate Him. There is no middle ground when it come to Him. Christmas is the season we celebrate His birth, but for the Christian it is a year long celebration. Everything we are and do must celebrate who He is and what He has done for us. Without Christ there is no hope for the human race.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. John 1:1-2

Christ has always existed. He was not a created being and John 1:1 makes this very clear. He is the Living Word, without beginning and without end. He is also equal with the Father. Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. Philippians 2:6-7 Every other religion and cult will try to take away from His deity and it is Christianity alone that knows Him as being fully God. This is what sets The Way apart from every other belief system.

Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made. John 1:3

When you gaze up at the stars and see the vast universe and consider that Christ is the one who created all we see. He created it not only for His glory but for our pleasure. We are the crown of His creation. The jewel for which He Himself paid a very high price. He is the one that breathed the breathe of life into us. He is not only the Creator but the Sustainer of all things. He is the one that holds this world and this universe together. Hebrews 1:3

In Him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it. John 1:4-5

Because of sin it is our very nature to want to gravitate towards darkness. But Christ came to set us free from that darkness. 1 Peter 2:9 says to those who have come to know Him: But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Sinful people hate the Light because it exposes their sin. They will try everything they can to extinguish that light but will always fail. It is something they can’t understand. The Bible says that the god of this world (satan) has blinded them to the truth. But once you come to the place where you live in that Light, it is a place you never want leave.

There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning that Light, so that through him all men might believe. He himself was not the Light; he came only as a witness to the Light. The true Light that gives light to every man was coming into the world. He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him. He came to that which was His own, but His own did not receive Him. Yet to all who received Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God. John 1:6-13

Could you imagine walking into your home one day and your spouse and children not recognizing you. Even your faithful family pet snarls at you as if you were a stranger. You tell them over and over again: "Look it’s me!" Don’t you recognize me? I have always loved you and provided for you. I have sent you little love letters and notes to let you know how much I care about you and you tell me you don’t know who I am?" Finally they call the police on you and you are hauled off to prison. This is what Jesus faced when He came to earth as a man. God had made Israel His chosen people. He had sent many prophets and signs. He had given them His Word and promises about His coming to them and yet when He came they did not recognize Him. As a matter of fact they wanted to kill Him because it went against their religion that they had created from the law which God had given them.

Even today the Jews are still looking for their Messiah. They missed His coming. But through their rejection, God through Christ opened the door to anyone who believed in Him. We the gentiles are not of natural decent. We have been grafted into the vine and have become His children as much as the Jews. Does that mean because the Jews rejected Christ that He has rejected them. Not at all. There is coming a time during the Tribulation when many Jews will turn to see that Jesus was the true Messiah that they had been searching for all the time. Zachariah 12:10-11 says: And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on Me, the One they have pierced, and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son. On that day the weeping in Jerusalem will be great, like the weeping of Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14

God Himself took on flesh. He loved us so much. Our redemption had been planned out even before we were created. If you are a parent you know the lengths you would go to rescue your child from trouble. When you think about the creator becoming a helpless baby and having to be cared for by His creation. He had to be fed and changed and be reliant upon Mary and Joseph. It is an awesome thought. He was fully God and fully man. In taking on our flesh, He made himself venerable to all we face. Every temptation and every passion. He had to learn how to walk and talk just like the rest of us. Hebrews 2:17-19 says: For this reason He had to be made like His brothers in every way, in order that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that He might make atonement for the sins of the people. Because He himself suffered when He was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted. But there was one difference. He never gave in to the temptation and became the only sinless person who ever walked the face of this earth and because of that He became the perfect sacrifice. God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. 2 Corinthians 5:21

We Christians as believers have a lot to be thankful for. The Christmas season should not have to remind us of this.  We need to get back to the place where we celebrate not only His birth at Christmas and His death and resurrection at Easter but celebrate His life everyday. You see Immanuel literally means God with us. Though He is not physically on this earth, the promise of the Word remains true because For He Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." Hebrews 13:5b Christ desires to be with us His bride and loves us with a love we will never be able to completely understand.

Rejoice oh highly favoured one. The Bridegroom is coming to take you into His chambers. Will you be ready? He is!

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You spoke about His greatness in your Christmas story and made me think about the DVD of Lous Giglio about the universe, "Indescribible"and the second one, "How Great is God." If you have not seen these I can recomend them. It brings a new awareness of how truly great God is and how small we realy are. It is an evangelical tool, everyone should see. greetings, Marieta.

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From the desk of Dr Jonathan V. Wright

NUTRITION & HEALING

Reverse vision-loss in as little as 4 weeks

Dear Health-Conscious Friend,
Vision loss is not a natural consequence of ageing. But that’s what Sam believed when he first came into my office. Let me explain…
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■ He has degrees from Harvard University (cum laude) and the University of Michigan, but unlike some “gurus,” he doesn’t like or need to trumpet his academic credentials...
■ Because his medical breakthroughs speak for themselves. He’s the doctor who introduced bio-identical hormone replacement therapy for women. Developed the first successful treatment to reverse macular degeneration...
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■ HUSH UP #2: Standard HRT uses molecules never before found in human bodies. In fact, the best-selling “HRT” contains horse hormones extracted from horse urine.
■ HUSH UP #3. When you flood your body with molecular gunk that nature never intended to be there, damage is virtually guaranteed.
You may as well pour molasses into your car’s gas tank. At this point, some patients ask “But aren’t horse hormones natural?” Sure they are, and they’re fine for mares. But do you wear a saddle?
Let’s look at what’s actually in this stuff - A best seller HRT on the market, of which the main ingredient is a horse hormone called equilin, was the one tested by the Women’s Health Initiative. Now nature never put a speck of equilin in any human woman, and for excellent reason.
Its effects on your uterine lining are 1,000 times stronger than human oestrogen. No wonder it has been linked to an increased risk of cancer! Yet it’s the best-selling drug of our time! The second component of the tested HRT drug is an artificial molecule patented in the 1940s and it’s not even natural to horses. It has been linked to heart problems.
But the problem isn’t just this one drug on the market.
More than 25 other so-called “HRT” products have been approved by the FDA*. Some call themselves “natural,” but even these do not replicate the oestrogen of a healthy woman.
Here’s why...
Human oestrogen is actually a blend of many different molecules...
Chief among these are oestriol, oestrone and oestradiol. (Tough to pronounce, but remember them— these three little words could save your life!) And they’ve got to be properly balanced or you’re inviting big trouble.
Women with breast cancer tend to be:
• LOW on oestriol
• HIGH on oestradiol
Yet many patented “HRT” products are HIGH in oestradiol! Want to guess what they’re likely to do?
But Dr Wright’s “alternative” is THE REAL THING
It’s called BIO-IDENTICAL HORMONE THERAPY. And it’s not an “alternative” at all—because it replicates the exact same oestrogen balance that’s been keeping women healthy for 90,000 years.
Dr Wright has been using it in his practice for 20 years, prescribing it for thousands of women. His patients have reported incredible relief following its use.
After all is said and done, isn’t the safest, sanest treatment always the one that’s friendliest to your body?
So why aren’t YOU getting Dr Wright’s therapy?
You easily could. Your FREE BONUS Library of Food and Vitamin Treatments will provide you with more details on this remarkable remedy. Yet your doctor may not have heard about it...
Because that’s the way our drug centered health system works.
Mainstream doctors prescribe what drug companies promote. Drug companies won’t promote what they can’t patent—and your body chemistry can’t be patented. This is also why Dr Wright’s heart breakthrough remains a well-kept secret...

The only HRT used safely for
over 90,000 years

For more than 20 years, experts in natural medicine have been praising Dr Wright’s therapy as the effective and safest method of hormone replacement. Because it’s the only one that replicates the oestrogen formula nature gave you. Women have been using it safely for over 200,000 years!
How Dr Wright made his brilliant discovery  In the early 1980s, a patient came to Dr Wright complaining that her doctor had prescribed a hormone replacement therapy containing horse urine extracts. She insisted she wasn’t a horse (I’m not kidding) and asked if there was anything better available. There wasn’t! So then and there...
He set out to chart nature’s “recipe” for healthy human oestrogen...
After painstaking research, he discovered that of the literally dozens of oestrogens present in the body cancer-free women exhibit an abundance of oestriol, along with smaller quantities of oestradiol, and oestrone.
Yet existing conventional “HRT” products contained no oestriol at all!
This finding proved key to the development of Dr Wright’s breakthrough formula—called Bio-identical Oestrogen. His formula uses oestriol and these other oestrogens identical to those found in the human body.
Without the added horse hormones found in conventional HRT treatments! Now, Dr Wright’s successful Bio-identical Oestrogen therapy is used by thousands of forward-thinking doctors—on tens of thousands of patients—to precisely replicate the delicate oestrogen balance that keeps women healthy and cancer-free!

WHAT ABOUT SOY?

Soy enjoys a charming image, but the reality isn’t so rosy. Soy is not a bunch of flower children dancing around a tree and sharing a bag of granola. Soy is a huge, multi-billion dollar, chemical intensive industry that spends big money to obtain its favourable PR.
THE FACTS. Freshly picked soybeans are HIGHLY TOXIC and can only be rendered edible by chemical processing and acid baths. To improve the taste of powdered soy, various additives often come into play, including MSG and preservatives. Even all this processing can’t remove the unusually large quantities of trypsin inhibitors that have been linked to cancer.
Soy burgers and frozen tofu are about as “natural” as ice-cream. Even more importantly, the oestrogen-like compounds in soy foods are not the same ones nature gave you.
Doesn’t it make more sense to stick with the hormones you’ve been using all your life? Get full details about Dr Wright’s Bio-Identical Hormone Therapy in your FREE BONUS Library of Food and Vitamin Treatments.

Seven Times stronger than statin drugs and safer than a sugar pill...

Dr Wright uncovers the surprising secret that helps improve the health of your heart without the use of dangerous cholesterol drugs
CHOLESTEROL DRUGS may poison your liver, but at least they prevent heart attacks...right?
Not so fast. In one of medicine’s strangest ironies, it now appears that cholesterol-lowering “statin” drugs may weaken the human heart.
As Dr Wright warned his readers years ago, statin drugs block your body’s production of coenzyme Q10. And this nutrient is so critical to your cellular “energy engines”...
Your heart can’t beat without it!
That’s right! If you desperately wanted to keel over from heart failure, you could hardly pick a quicker way than to deplete your CoQ10 levels. And that’s exactly what you’re encouraging every time you pop a statin pill.
But Dr Wright has been successfully treating his patients with a common herbal substance. In fact, when independent researchers tested it against costly statin drugs like prevastatin, lovastatin and simvastatin…
It proved seven times more effective...
While statin drugs simply cut cholesterol, clinical studies now confirm that Dr Wright’s discovery could...
1. Slash LDL cholesterol by a whopping 25%...
2. Cut TOTAL cholesterol as by much as 17%...
3. Yet raise “good” HDL cholesterol by over 29%...
4. Reduce dangerous TRIGLYCERIDES by up to 18%...
5. Lower both systolic and diastolic BLOOD PRESSURE...
6. Slash the risk of deadly BLOOD CLOTS, without any need for aspirin...
7. All without blocking your CoQ10...
Getting the picture? A tiny dose of just 15mg a day...
Gives your entire circulatory system A NEW LEASE ON LIFE
So what is this awesome new powerhouse? Some ultra-risky drug that still needs years of testing and tinkering? Something we’ll have to pay thousands of rands for when it finally appears?
Not at all! This new wonder is made from nothing more dangerous than...
SUGAR CANE EXTRACT
And it’s not even the sugar component, but the part we’ve been throwing away!
In fact, this extract has practically zero carbohydrate content. It’s so harmless that even type II diabetics can use it without raising their blood sugar. And when scientists tested it for any other bad side-effects...
It proved even safer than the placebo! It’s available right now, at low cost and without a prescription. And there’s even more good news about this lifesaving discovery, as you’ll learn in your FREE BONUS Library of Food and Vitamin Treatments.
Yet this is just one instance of how his astonishingly simple new solutions are providing effective alternatives to synthetic drugs.
Just consider what he’s doing for men over 40...

What’s your heart-health worry?

• HIGH CHOLESTEROL? Ron’s was well over 10, despite three years on a low-fat diet. Yet Dr Wright’s easy solution dropped his cholesterol 6 points...and his triglycerides plummeted by a staggering 14 points.
• HARDENING OF THE ARTERIES? Hernando’s blockage was so advanced, he could barely hobble across a room! He said “I’m just waiting around for things to get bad enough so I can have my legs amputated.” Yet thanks to Dr Wright, he was walking “at least 3kms, three times every week, without sitting down once!”
• HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE? Fred K. couldn’t get his BP below 170/110, even after cutting out salt, caffeine and alcohol! He wasn’t even 50, but his blood pressure drugs were making him feel like an old man. Yet Fred soon dropped his blood pressure to normal, threw out his drugs, and Dr Wright will show you how you could do the same!
• ANGINA? John’s vanished in just 10 days. His pain was so intense, that his doctor was urging bypass surgery, but Dr Wright’s natural solutions cleared it up in just over a week!
• CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE? Mrs. Livingston’s lungs were filled with fluid and she couldn’t even sleep without being propped up. But Dr Wright soon had her sleeping like a baby and feeling so strong, she even started gardening again!
The delicious discovery that...
SLASHES STROKE RISK BY 40% JUST ABOUT EVERYONE LOVES IT and Dr Wright has been urging us to eat more of it for decades.
Now, a massive 12-year study confirms what he’s been saying. If we ate just one more serving per day of this delicious food, it could prevent 40% of all strokes from ever happening! That’s because it’s rich in a powerful nutrient that could strengthen and rejuvenate every blood vessel in your body.
You’re probably having some tonight. Just eat a little more.
Full details in your FREE BONUS Library of Food & Vitamin Treatments
Reply right now to get yours!

Could today’s top prostate drug actually be
CANCER FERTILISER?

That’s what new research suggests! But Dr Wright’s prostate breakthrough reverses swelling while switching on your anti-cancer genes...
PROSTATE DRUGS can flatten your sex life, but at least they’re good for your prostate...right?
Are you sitting down?
Researchers at the University of Southern California recently tested this assumption, and the results couldn’t have been more alarming.
As recorded in the British Journal of Cancer, they studied 52 men with high PSA...
First they gave the men baseline biopsies to make sure there were no signs of cancer...
Then they gave 27 of the men a one-year course of finasteride, the standard drug for benign prostate problems. The other 25 were given nothing.
When the year was up, researchers gave each man a second biopsy. Guess what they found?
Nearly 30% of the men taking finasteride DEVELOPED PROSTATE TUMOURS
Yet tumours were found in only one of the 25 men taking nothing. Which raises the obvious question...
HOW CAN THIS BE? How could our “best” prostate drugs turn out to be so harmful?
The reason is more alarming still...
As Dr Wright told his readers years ago, these drugs are literally turning men into women.
You see, finasteride works by blocking the normal “pathway” of your testosterone. Ordinarily, some of your testosterone turns into a slightly different hormone, called DHT (dihydrotestosterone)... and swollen prostates often contain high levels of DHT. So drug firms assumed DHT was causing the trouble.
They developed powerful drugs like finasteride to suppress DHT production. Sound like a good idea?
Maybe, until you consider what else happens when you block this process. When your body can’t make DHT...
Lots of testosterone turns into OESTROGEN!
Yes, oestrogen! The female hormone! Now, scientists have known for decades that the human body creates oestrogen out of testosterone.
(That’s how women’s bodies make it.) And a little oestrogen is normal in men. But when a man’s oestrogen ratio gets too high...
The entire male edifice crumbles
Your erections wilt, your libido sinks; you could develop a form of diabetes, your heart risk rockets...
Is it really any wonder you’re at higher risk of getting cancer too? Yet drug firms continue to make billions selling these stealth sex change pills. Even though Dr Wright has pioneered a much more powerful way to...
TURN OFF your prostate swelling and TURN ON your cancer-fighting genes!
You’ll find Dr Wright’s famous programme for fighting benign prostate swelling in your FREE BONUS Library of Food and Vitamin Treatments. It’s breathtakingly simple.
As you’ll see...
You may be wasting your money on SAW PALMETTO...
Sure, it can bring some relief, but it doesn’t correct the cause of the problem. No man on earth ever suffered from a saw palmetto deficiency.
But plenty of men are short on a couple of common nutrients. They cost little, yet they’re all you may need to shrink swollen tissue and urinate like a teenager.
Then, Dr Wright will show you how adding just one more inexpensive mineral to this incredibly simple programme can virtually armour-plate your prostate against cancer...
Is prostate cancer a NUTRITIONAL DISEASE?
Some so-called experts scoffed when Dr Wright suggested this. Just as scurvy is caused by a vitamin C deficiency, Dr Wright wondered if prostate cancer might be triggered by a selenium deficiency.
Too easy to be true? But just months ago, researchers at Indiana University provided stunning confirmation. They showed that selenium activates and protects a gene called p53. And this gene instructs your cells to repair damaged DNA! If a deficiency knocks this gene out of action, cancer could become far more likely.
This selenium discovery is so powerful it could also be a key to preventing lung, breast and colon cancer too, all for just a few rands. Are you starting to see how simple and safe the world’s most powerful natural treatments can be? And thanks to Dr Wright, now it’s equally easy to defeat any kind of pain…
Relive your glory days—without risking cancer
Dr Wright’s research has shown that simply boosting your testosterone levels could not only reverse impotence, but solve a huge range of other “male menopause” problems, including:
• Low libido
• High LDL cholesterol or triglycerides
• Potbelly and flabby muscles
• Osteoporosis
• Very possibly, even senility and Alzheimer’s disease!
But before you swallow just any testosterone-boosting herb...
Watch out! In older men especially, much of that extra testosterone can turn into oestrogen. And this could raise your prostate cancer risk.
Smarter idea. In an exciting new breakthrough, Dr Wright has found a botanical that balances your hormones—raising testosterone while lowering oestrogen levels. Full details in your FREE BONUS Library!
Aaron was facing the surgery all men should dread...
But Dr Wright saved his sex life
After 4 years of painful BPH, Aaron couldn’t bear it anymore. His doctor was saying “surgery,” but his wife was horrified! “Aaron,” she said, “haven’t you heard enough from your brother about what surgery does? A good thing he’s a widower.”
Now both Aaron and his wife are happy and fulfilled again. His prostate has shrunk, his pain is gone and he says “I don’t have a problem anymore.” Perish the thought of surgery! Just follow Dr Wright’s simple recommendations in your FREE BONUS Library of Food and Vitamin Treatments.

Could those costly new painkillers be causing BACK PAIN?

“Side effect” documented by manufacturers!
IT’S REALLY HAPPENING. You go to your doctor for back pain and he prescribes the widely hyped drugs Vioxx® or Celebrex®.
But despite them your pain actually increases... Are you just imagining it?
No! This nifty little side effect has been documented by the drug firms themselves. In a significant number of cases, both these Cox-2 inhibitors are linked to back pain...
So what good are they? Maybe they’re safer than previous painkillers?
That was the promise. The reason for their development was to find something safer than aspirin, ibuprofen or acetaminophen. But now, even the ultraconservative Journal of the American Medical Association warns that new studies “raise a cautionary flag about the risk of cardiovascular events.”
But who’s telling the PATIENTS?
Dr Wright, that’s who! In the pages of his newsletter Nutrition & Healing, he was among the first to warn about these dangers. This is also where he broke the shocking news that even when they don’t kill, these new drugs work no better than the humblest, cheapest painkiller in human history...
After 100 years of trying, drug makers still can’t beat TREE BARK
Maybe you knew that willow bark was the inspiration for aspirin, the grand daddy of synthetic analgesics. Aspirin doesn’t work any better—Bayer developed aspirin simply so they could patent it. But Dr Wright really rocked the boat when he published clinical data proving that even Vioxx can’t beat tree bark!
Check out the details in your FREE BONUS Library of Food and Vitamin Treatments.
Then discover Dr Wright’s revolutionary programme for real SUCCESS WITH ARTHRITIS...
Rest assured, Dr Wright’s programme consists of nothing more than taking a few nutrients and changing some eating habits. Yet it results in the most dramatic relief in the history of this stubborn condition. Plus, your FREE BONUS Library will show you...
How 6 years of chronic pain could VANISH IN 30 SECONDS
Susan had been suffering unrelenting, disabling pain, day and night for 6 long years. Until she went to Dr Wright’s Tahoma Clinic. Here, she received a nutritional “cocktail,” consisting of nothing more than common vitamins and minerals. And within half a minute, her pain was only a memory! Totally relieved and happy...
She got up from the treatment table and RAN ACROSS THE ROOM!
Amazingly, this kind of relief is more or less typical. You’ll learn the formula in your FREE BONUS Library of Food and & Vitamin Treatments, plus what your loved ones must know about...
Pain & cysts since she was a teenager...
RELIEVED IN JUST 10 MINUTES
Jenny B. had painful cysts in her breasts since she was 17. They hurt so much, she said “I can’t even sleep on my chest between periods.” Dr Wright found she had dozens of lumps in each breast, and swelling around the lumps. He gave her just two common minerals...
And 10 minutes after taking them, she could hardly believe the difference. “I’m better! I don’t hurt as much and I think the swelling is less, I think even the lumpy areas are smaller.”
Good things kept happening. Half a year later, she happily told him “I haven’t had any pain in two months now! All those lumps are a lot smaller and I think some of them are gone.” Full details about the treatment that healed her are in your FREE Library. Return your RISK FREE Trial Certificate today.

What’s hurting you?

✔ OSTEOARTHRITIS? Harry’s joints were so swollen, he needed a cane to get out of his chair. But thanks to Dr Wright, 10 years of pain and swelling soon vanished.
✔ RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS? Theresa was taking 12 pills a day and her joints were so deformed, she doubted she’d ever look “normal” again. But before long, both her pain and her deformities were almost entirely gone— and so were the drugs! Dr Wright’s success rate with this treatment is nearly 100%.
✔ MIGRAINE? Joan’s faded in just 3 minutes, thanks to Dr Wright’s revolutionary vitamin and mineral treatment.“I still can’t believe it,” she says. “Three minutes...I felt warm and the pain started to fade.” (Better still, thanks to his breakthrough programme, they never came back!)
✔ GALL BLADDER PAIN? Laura’s was gone in 3 days! Let Dr Wright show you how he eliminated it forever without surgery, in 99% of cases.
Let Dr Wright do the same for you!

35,000 PATIENTS CAN’T BE WRONG

How one courageous doctor overcame ridicule, hostility and even armed gunmen to change the future of modern medicine
“In 40 years, I’ve never healed a single patient,” says Dr Jonathan V. Wright, “They heal themselves.”
But he must be doing something right! More than 35,000 patients have visited his famed Tahoma Clinic in Washington State—so many, the wait to see him is now six months.
He’s considered a hero in Japan, a sought-after speaker in Europe and more than 3,000 medical professionals have put their careers on hold to attend his famous seminars. Why?
“What I do is very nearly nothing,” says Dr Wright with characteristic modesty...
But that’s exactly the genius of his approach. Instead of aiming a chemical howitzer at health problems, Dr Wright attacks them with the deft precision of a martial arts master...
A mineral here, a vegetable there and today’s most feared diseases collapse at his feet
Unlike other natural physicians, Dr Wright doesn’t even make heavy use of medicinal herbs. No need! His brilliant mind finds healing properties hidden in substances as harmless as cinnamon, mustard and sugar cane. In the process, he may be making the last 100 years of drug-centered medical wisdom look foolish. And turning former skeptics into believers.
They said you can’t reverse EMPHYSEMA...
But Erwin is living proof that you can! His face was blue from obstructive lung disease. Yet Dr Wright simply asked him to inhale a common nutrient and Erwin’s in the pink again! “The lung doctor can hardly believe how well I’m doing,” says Erwin. “He’s going to use [your treatment] for all his other patients.”
They said John would never be free of ANGINA...
Yet within just two weeks, John reduced his angina...and after six months he was off all medications and totally free of chest pain. Now he can run 3kms without a twinge! Let Dr Wright tell you what did it.
American School authorities said little Jeremy needed RITALIN...
No wonder! It turned out the school received nearly $1,000 in federal funds for each kid they put on the drug. But Dr Wright’s answer for hyperactive kids requires no drugs at all. Later, Jeremy’s teacher said, “[he’s] not hyperactive at all, just normal and bright.” Find out what he did!
In 4 years, 37 doctors couldn’t eliminate Doris’ CHRONIC FATIGUE...
But Dr Wright nailed the culprit in just a few minutes! Six months later, Doris reported feeling “just like my old self” and her problem hasn’t returned. If you’re feeling beat, this simple solution could transform your life!
For 7 years, doctors told Arthur he’d just have to live with IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME...
All the drugs they gave him offered no help. Yet Dr Wright soon fixed the problem for good with nothing more than vitamins, a few mealtime changes and peppermint!
Now let Dr Wright do the same for you. You don’t even have to visit his clinic...
Because right now, Dr Wright is inviting readers of this report to benefit from his latest and greatest breakthroughs. Return the RISK FREE Trial Certificate today and you’ll receive his comprehensive, updated Library of Food & Vitamin Treatments and his newsletter, Nutrition & Healing...with full details about all the remedies mentioned on these pages. You could start feeling the difference in mere months, days or just minutes.

He even braved 24 gunmen to save his patients!

With guns drawn, two dozen heavily armed men kicked down the door of Dr Wright’s clinic. One of them stuck a revolver in his receptionist’s face. And for 14 hours, they held Dr Wright and his staff at gunpoint.
They ransacked the clinic, destroyed medical equipment and pawed through confidential patient records. It was like some terrorist nightmare. But the truth was even scarier...
The terrorists were wearing government badges
They were sent to harass Dr Wright by the FDA. And what was his “offense?” Was he selling drugs illegally? Giving out phony prescriptions over the Internet? Oh no...He was using preservative-free B vitamins. (That’s it. B VITAMINS. Of course, no charges were ever filed.)
Are you starting to see why Dr Wright is such a hero to forward-thinking physicians? And how hard he’s willing to fight to find better treatments for you?
Reply now to benefit from hundreds more of his discoveries… RISK FREE!

Physicians honour Dr Wright with medicine’s first LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

“Dr Wright proved that a lone physician, whose cause is true, can prevail!”
“[Dr Wright] proved that a lone physician, whose cause is true, can prevail...Medical history will judge after this: ‘Wright makes might!’...Your scientific accomplishments are no less impressive: You were among the first physicians to embrace orthomolecular [natural] medicine and you write about it with intelligence...Your medical discoveries and applications are numerous... And your...newsletter, Nutrition and Healing, has kept the public abreast of the real progress in this field...Thank you, Dr Wright.” From the text of the Linus Pauling Award, given to Dr Wright by fellow physicians

Treat diabetes with
COMMON CINNAMON??!!

Many type II diabetics may never need drugs again
SOMEDAY SOON the threat of diabetes type II could be wiped out for millions of people. Because Dr Wright has shown us how to overcome and prevent it, using nothing more costly than table cinnamon.
NOTE: I’m not talking about some exotic variety, but the stuff that’s already in your cupboard!
Up until recently, type II diabetics thought they had no choice but to pay through the nose for dangerous drugs. Side effects from these drugs include extreme weakness, muscle pain, trouble breathing and even heart arrhythmia. But now, Dr Wright’s patients and readers have learned...
Success can be as simple as saying SUGAR & SPICE
How? It turns out that cinnamon contains a very powerful nutrient called methylhydroxychalcone polymer—MHCP for short. And new research has shown that MHCP closely mimics human insulin. Better still, it helps your own insulin control blood sugar much more efficiently.
Dr Wright will show you exactly how to use this incredibly easy breakthrough in your FREE BONUS Library of Food & Vitamin Treatments.
If any of your loved ones have type II diabetes, this could reduce or eliminate any need for drugs...
Even more importantly, you’ll learn how to spot a tendency that hasn’t yet become full-blown diabetes. (Just a glance at your skin could tell you if you’re “programmed” for diabetes.) And Dr Wright will show you how to keep the disease away forever.
It’s proving a huge help for type I diabetics too...
As type I diabetics know too well, injected insulin causes its own set of problems. But proper use of cinnamon may reduce the amount you have to use.
But before you start sprinkling it on...
Don’t even think of trying this before consulting your FREE BONUS Library of Food and Vitamin Treatments. Find out how much to use, how to work it safely into your current program—and how to remove the trace toxins found in natural cinnamon.
(No need to worry if you’re just flavouring foods with cinnamon, but anyone using more than 1/4 teaspoon daily should be “filtering” as Dr Wright suggests.)
Are you starting to see how simple, safe and quick it can be to heal just about anything? But keep reading, because I’ve saved a truly mind bending example of this for last...
Dr Wright shows us a herb that naturally GIVES BACK what diabetes takes away…
And allows vital insulin to do its job once again!
Time and again, type II diabetes sufferers under Dr Wright’s care actually regained their natural sensitivity to insulin—and their ability to better regulate blood sugar levels. This takes a huge burden off their already disease-taxed pancreases. In fact, controlled studies showed this wonder-herb slashed their need for supplemental insulin by 50%! More amazing still, lab tests on diabetic subjects show it can even…
Reduce insulin dependency in as little as 20 days
More research is needed, but this readily available, inexpensive herb could well prove to be the biggest adult-onset diabetes treatment breakthrough of our time. And unlike the mainstream’s prescription drugs, it carries with it no harmful side effects…
FULL DETAILS IN YOUR FREE BONUS Library of Food & Vitamin Treatments

“AFTER A MONTH...NO TRACE OF MACULAR DEGENERATION!”

Since 1985, Dr Wright’s breakthrough nutritional treatment has reliably saved 70% of all his patients with apparently “incurable” dry macular degeneration. Here’s what patients and doctors are saying about it...
“My eyes returned to normal”
“I consulted with two doctors at Eye Associates, and then two specialists at the Virginia Mason Clinic. They told me I had macular degeneration and there wasn’t anything that could be done...it would just be getting worse. Within a month of starting [Dr Wright’s treatment], my eyes returned to normal. When I went back to my eye doctor...he stated there was no trace left of macular degeneration.” —Joan P.
“As an added bonus, my hearing improved”
“Television was easier to see and reading became easier. I had to go back to using the glasses that I had a year earlier as they were not as strong. As an added bonus, I noticed that my hearing had improved some...I had to turn the TV volume down several notches.” —Gertrude G.
“Dr Wright’s secret saved the eyesight of my patients”
“Mostly they were told...that nothing can be done... the prognosis is hopeless. I can testify from clinical experience I have that about seven out of ten of the patients who have come in with this diagnosis...benefitted substantially...what a boon it is to save one’s vision!”  —Dr Tom Dorman
Now it’s your turn. If you know anyone with this heartbreaking condition or any other age-related degenerative problems, don’t wait another day for things to get worse.
Do something now while there’s time. Get full details in your FREE BONUS Library of Food & Vitamin Treatments!

WONDER MINERAL tackles everything  from acne to arteriosclerosis!

If I told you a “magic potion” existed that could:
• Make germ-infested water safe to drink...
• Take care of stubborn bladder infections...
• Help painful ovarian cysts disappear...
• Help heamorrhoids vanish overnight...
• Even help dissolve built-up cholesterol...
You’d probably call me nuts. But such a treatment actually exists—Dr Wright recently revealed it to his Nutrition & Healing readers! And the best part is this: It’s available without a prescription…
So what is this overlooked over-the-counter wonder treatment? It’s a special form of…
ORDINARY IODIDE!
No, it’s not the stuff you put on a cut—but a closely related Iodide compound called SSKI that Dr Wright has demonstrated is actually one of nature’s most incredible treatments. He’s found dozens of amazing uses for it and he’ll pass along these secrets to you in your FREE BONUS Library of Food and Vitamin Treatments. Lest you think I’m making this up, let me explain how some of them work right here...
SURPRISE 1
Dr Wright has a physician friend who drank contaminated water for 30 years, while ministering to African villages...and the water was typically so foul, he had to strain out the scum with a cheesecloth! Yet he never got sick even once. All he did was add a few drops of SSKI iodide to the water a few minutes before he drank it. Presto, it was drinkable.
SURPRISE 2
Ever get sick after an airline flight? Dr Wright makes sure he doesn’t. Before he boards the airplane, he simply drinks water mixed with a few drops of SSKI (he’ll explain what it is in your FREE Library). The iodide rapidly travels to your nose, throat and sinuses. There it proceeds to zap hoards of bacteria and viruses floating around in that foul-smelling cabin air. Abracadabra, you’re bug-proof!
SURPRISE 3
Women know how painful bladder infections can be... and they always seem to flare up when your doctor isn’t available. But Dr Wright has shown his loved ones how to end the problem all by themselves, with nothing more than an eyedropper and that trusty iodide bottle. According to Dr Wright, it’s close to 100% effective.
SURPRISE 4
Ovarian cysts can be so agonising that....many women gladly go under the knife just to be rid of them. Yet Dr Wright has made them disappear for dozens of women, including his own daughter. No scalpels were required, just that bottle of SSKI iodide! (Benign breast cysts could vanish just as easily with a similar treatment.)
SURPRISE 5
Wake up to no more heamorrhoids A colleague of Dr Wright’s has found that heamorrhoids really could vanish overnight when you simply mix iodide with a common vegetable oil and apply at bedtime. A similar technique could flatten enormous scars.
SURPRISE 6
Dissolve cholesterol? Really? Honest. As a student at Harvard, Dr Wright never forgot a demonstration by famed chemistry professor Louis Feiser. Professor Feiser used iodine to dissolve all manner of oils, fats and waxes—and it so happens that cholesterol is a wax. He urged his students to remember this trick in their medical practices... Dr Wright did just that. And now he’s using it in a breakthrough artery clearing therapy. If you know anyone with arteriosclerosis, this could save his or her life. How do I know...? Photographic proof! Doctors actually took photographs of patients’ retinal arteries before and after a similar therapy. The published photos show a significant lessening of cholesterol-laden artery clogging.
CAUTION: Do not try these before reading Dr Wright’s instructions!
SSKI iodide has enormous potential benefits, but you do need to know how to avoid the hazards. Please wait until you receive your FREE BONUS Library. He’ll give you instructions for all the tricks above and explain the fascinating biochemistry that makes it work so wonderfully. He’ll even show you how you could...
SURPRISES 7, 8 AND 9.
Eliminate life’s most embarrassing complaints You can also zap unsightly new acne zits in 24-48 hours, treat stubborn cases of toenail fungus, wipe out the cause of flatulence...and more, all with that one little SSKI bottle. So isn’t it time you sent for your own FREE BONUS Library of Food and Vitamin Treatments? This is where you’ll also discover how to...
Why was Vincent leaving his socks in the fridge?
Incredibly common cause of “senility” is treatable!
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Could your stomach be robbing your memory?
If you’re over 50, it’s likely. Just as we perspire less over the years, our stomachs produce less acid. And Dr Wright has shown that this “minor” problem is an incredibly common cause of memory loss, hearing loss and many other diseases of ageing too. But now it’s easily reversed with a solution that costs just a few rands a day. Just ask Vincent. He’s sharp as a tack now!

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Awesome as they are, Dr Wright’s discoveries will not be mainstreamed if the drug establishment has its way. Bear in mind these vested interests could lose hundreds of billions of rands if his amazingly inexpensive and simple solutions replaced costly drugs. And unthinkable as it sounds...
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Because it’s the real stuff. The first place where you’ll learn what new breakthroughs are coming down the road from natural medicine’s living legend. Everything’s reported in crystal-clear language, telling you exactly how to go out and do it. But Nutrition & Healing gives you all the science too. So if your doctor ever questions any remedy you read about here, just pull out your newsletter and produce the proof. Any truly objective doctor can’t help being impressed with the quality of Dr Wright’s research. (Warning: your doctor may ask to keep the issue!)
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Bone marrow graft curbed HIV

Last updated: Thursday, November 13, 2008

Doctors at a Berlin hospital say they appear to have held back the Aids virus in a patient by using bone marrow keyed to a genetic shield against HIV, but stressed it was an unusual case that needed further investigation.

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"This is an interesting case for research," said Rodolf Tauber, a professor at the Charite university clinic, where the work was carried out. "But to promise to millions of people infected with HIV that there is hope of a cure would not be right," he said in a statement.

The patient, a now 42-year-old American living in the German capital, came to the clinic three years ago suffering from leukaemia, for which he was given chemotherapy and other treatment. He had also been HIV-positive for a decade.

T-cells, a key component in the immune response and which HIV attacks, are derived from bone marrow. Acting on a hunch, doctors replenished the patient's bone marrow after the treatment by using marrow from a donor carrying a specific genetic variant known to confer some protection against HIV. This mutation, already identified in previous research, occurs in 1- 3% of the European population.

20 months later, no sign of HIV
Known as Delta 32, it occurs in a gene called CCR5, on Chromosome 3. It reduces the number of docking points, called CCR5, on the surface of so-called T immune cells targeted by the virus, thus lowering the risk of cell penetration by the pathogen.

The bone marrow donor had a double copy of the Delta variant in his genome, meaning he had inherited a copy from both his mother and his father, rather than from just one parent. The patient was told to stop taking his HIV medication during the process, a move that would normally cause levels of HIV to rise sharply within a short time.

"Today, more than 20 months after the successful transplant, there is no sign of HIV in the patient," the statement said. But the case should not lead to "false hopes", Gero Huetter, one of the members of the medical team, stressed.

"This process is not adapted for the treatment of patients with HIV, neither today nor in the near future," Huetter said.

Previous research involving HIV drugs has shown that when HIV is reduced to below detectable levels, the virus holes up in refuges in the body, such as in dormant memory T cells in lymph nodes. It rebounds when treatment is stopped. The Berlin case has not yet been submitted to a peer-reviewed journal for publication. – (Sapa, November

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6 Bathroom products that could kill you…

Most of us know the main causes of cancer. Don’t smoke, don’t spend too much time in the sun, limit stress. However, cancer-causing ingredients, known as carcinogens, can be found in these unexpected places too...
A recent American study proved ingredients in cosmetics range from the harmless to dangerous carcinogens. Some of these carcinogens are absorbed in the skin in miniscule amounts, while others can be easily absorbed into the skin and penetrate into the blood vessels. The risk may sound small, but consider that the average adult uses nine personal care products per day!
1. Three studies have shown that talc, used by millions of women in their genital area during their reproductive years, can increase your chances three to four fold of getting ovarian cancer.
2. A common ingredient in many shampoos, including baby shampoo, sodium laureth sulphate, was shown to cause liver and kidney cancer when applied to the skin of mice. Now think of the consequences if you apply it to your scalp three times a week for years on end…?
3. Unbelievably, fluoride in toothpaste can be very bad for you. It has been linked to bone cancer. It is also particularly dangerous for kids if they swallow toothpaste regularly.
4. Permanent dark hair dyes that contain paraphenylin diamine dyes have been cited as causes of multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, among other cancers.
5. Ingredients, such as DMDM hydrantoin, used in toiletries such as shaving cream, can in themselves be harmless, but can break down in the tube or bottle to cause formaldehyde. Formaldehyde is also one of the leading causes of dermatitis and stinging eyes.
6. Besides these ingredients mentioned above, be on the lookout for the following on labels:
* Bronopol
* Quarternium 15
* Diethanolamine (DEA)
* Triethanolamine (TEA)
* Coal tar dyes, especially Blue 1 and Green 3, are often contaminated with arsenic and lead.
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* Cancer Remedy #1: Why these two common foods could create a powerful cancer-busting combination so powerful you’ll want to start eating it – right away.

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* And MUCH, MUCH more.

Dear Friend,

I'm going to tell you about a cancer treatment that an American doctor found decades ago. European research scientist Dr Johanna Budwig, a six-time Nobel Award nominee, discovered a totally natural formula. It not only protects against the development of cancer, but fights existing cancer as well. People all over the world who were diagnosed with incurable cancer and sent home to die have greatly benefited from this research and now many lead normal lives—thanks to this amazing formula.

After 30 years of study, Dr Budwig observed that the blood of seriously ill cancer patients was deficient in certain nutrients. It was the lack of these nutrients that allowed cancer cells to grow out of control.

By simply eating a combination of two natural and delicious foods (found on page 134) not only could cancer be prevented—but in case after case it was actually healed! “Symptoms of cancer, liver dysfunction, and diabetes were completely alleviated.”

Remarkably, what Dr Budwig discovered was a totally natural way for treating cancer

However, when she went to publish these results so that everyone could benefit – she was blocked by drug manufacturers who stood to lose a lot of money. Natural substances cannot be patented and therefore drug companies won’t make money by marketing them. For over 10 years now her methods have proved effective – yet she is denied publication – blocked by the giants who don’t want you to read her words.

What’s more, the world is full of expert minds like Dr Budwig who have pursued cancer remedies and come up with remarkable natural formulas and diets that work for hundreds and thousands of patients. How to Fight Cancer and Win author William Fischer has studied these methods and revealed their secrets for you – so that you or someone you love could be spared the horrors of conventional cancer treatments.

As early as 1947, Virginia Livingston, M.D., isolated a cancer-causing microbe. She noted that every cancer sample analysed (whether human or other animal) contained it. This microbe is a bacteria that is actually in each of us from birth to death—multiplies and promotes cancer when the immune system is weakened by disease, stress, or poor nutrition. Worst of all, the microbes secrete a special hormone protector that short-circuits our body’s immune system— allowing the microbes to grow undetected for years. No wonder so many patients are riddled with cancer by the time it is diagnosed. But there is hope even for them...

Turn to page 82 of How to Fight Cancer and Win for the delicious diet that can help stop the formation of cancer cells and shrink tumours.

They walked away from traditional cancer treatments... and by natural means, beat the odds!

Throughout the pages of How to Fight Cancer and Win, you’ll meet real people who were diagnosed with cancer – suffered through harsh conventional treatments – turned their backs on so-called modern medicine—only to miraculously beat the odds by natural means! Here is just a sampling of what our US readers have to say about the book.

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Just say "NO!" to pharmaceutical drugs

Dear friend,

Every single year, hundreds of thousands of people, just like you and me, die from the very drugs that were supposed to be curing them! You've heard the shocking news about some of them...like Vioxx, Celebrex or even Tylenol... the list goes on and on (and on!)

Astonishingly, only heart disease and cancer claim more lives every year! To me, that's crazy! Before you take your next scheduled dosage of prescription meds, or before you pop your next over-the-counter pill, you owe it to yourself to take a few minutes to read on. You'll be stunned by what you find. I sure was! You see I’d like to introduce you to our advocate for REAL healing…

HIS NAME IS JONATHAN V. WRIGHT, M.D. and they awarded him the very first Linus Pauling Award for Lifetime Achievement in Natural Medicine...

Because Dr. Wright isn't just respected by his peers, he's a hero. In many ways, he's the reason we now have the life-giving miracle called natural medicine.

He championed it against all odds, braving ridicule, hostility and even a band of armed thugs sent to trash his clinic. (No kidding, keep reading.) And because he fought so hard, now it really is possible to:

ü Outdo cholesterol drugs...

ü Outfight failing antibiotics ...

ü Eliminate your need for painkillers ...

With new breakthroughs that do much more, yet are as natural and non-invasive as SUGAR and MUSTARD. Incredible as it sounds, it's really happening - because Dr. Wright's brilliant mind is constantly pushing the envelope:

• While others attack just one symptom of heart disease (high cholesterol), Dr. Wright thinks bigger... and shows us how a sugar cane extract can correct more than five deadly heart problems at once.
• While old-style cancer research gives us poisons that temporarily shrink tumours... Dr. Wright comes forth with a mustard extract that erases up to 50% of this type of very early cancer.
• While the latest drugs dull your pain for just a few hours... Dr. Wright gives us a food remedy that can eliminate joint pain and swelling forever.

Hard to believe? Check out the proof in this special report. As you'll see, Dr. Wright's famed 'food and vitamin treatments' have been carefully tested in many different studies. They're already reaping fantastic results for tens of thousands of patients...

And they can happen for you too RIGHT NOW...

In the following paragraphs, you'll learn about just a few of these breakthroughs... discoveries so profound, they'll totally change the nature of what doctors can do for you in years to come.

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Whether you want to restore your own health, or help a parent, spouse or loved one...

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SUGAR SHOCKER
SHAKES MEDICAL WORLD

They've told you that all sugar is bad, but SURPRISE...

Dr. Wright has discovered that, much like fats, there are 'bad' and 'good' sugars, and the difference can transform your health in days - or even minutes.

'BAD' sugars attract dangerous germs...

You see, sugar isn't just sweet for us - germs love it too. The sugar in your body sends out chemical signals that draw them like moths to a flame. By reading the 'sugar code' on your cell walls, these pathogens target cells all over your body. But what if you could turn that secret code against your microbial enemies? Incredibly, now you can, with...

'GOOD' sugars that disable germs

These 'exotic' varieties aren't found in table sugar, but they do show up in small quantities in certain fruits, like cranberries. Their molecules are just a little different, but it makes a huge difference to germs...

Instead of just waiting to be eaten, these good sugars overwhelm germs by jamming their chemical 'radar' and blocking the cellular receptors these pathogens grab hold of (kind of like coating your cells with Teflon). Suddenly, germs have a hard time even finding your cells - but if they do manage to locate a few, they're too slippery to cling to. Because they can't hang on, your body fluids then wash these germs away harmlessly. Too good to be true? WRONG. Dr. Wright has found sugars that do exactly this.

Take 'Sugar X', for example. Also known as xylitol, it looks and tastes a lot like ordinary table sugar, but actually disables bacteria...

What better place to test a 'good' sugar than in your mouth?

To start with, researchers created a gum made from Xylitol. Amazingly, people who chewed it got 80% less tooth decay, even though they didn't change their eating habits. But it gets better...

CONQUER tooth decay with sugar? Strange but true...

In addition to washing out germs, it apparently works the same magic on pollutants, pollen grains and other allergens that attach to your mucous membranes, triggering hay fever and asthma attacks. Suddenly, all those micro-particles get 'unstuck' and slip away.

Can the same thing work for more serious diseases?

BIG YES.

For example, researchers placed Sugar X in a nose spray and gave it to people with chronic ear and sinus infections. Lifelong sufferers were shocked to find...

Sinus and ear infections SLASHED BY 93%

Yes, this same sugar 'unsticks' the germs in your nose, sinuses and ear canals! Spray it in, wait a bit, blow your nose, and away go the bacteria.

You better believe I've tried it myself. You can feel the difference in minutes. If you're a sinus sufferer, or know a child tortured by ear infections, think of what this means. Instead of being doomed to a lifetime of antibiotics and all the nasty side-effects they bring...no more diarrhoea and cramps, no more yeast overgrowths, no more fatigue, no more suffering, period.

But that's just the start, because now...

Sugar X proves equally miraculous for ASTHMA AND HAY FEVER SUFFERERS

In addition to washing out germs, it apparently works the same magic on pollutants, pollen grains and other allergens that attach to your mucous membranes, triggering hay fever and asthma attacks. Suddenly, all those micro-particles get 'unstuck' and slip away.

And there's similar sweet news about BLADDER AND URINARY INFECTIONS....

If you or your spouse have ever suffered these painful attacks, I don't have to tell you what antibiotics can't do. They can't keep the infection from bouncing back as soon the drugs stop.

Worse, the germs quickly gain immunity to the antibiotic. Drugs like penicillin that used to work well must now be taken at triple the old dosage. In a frightening number of new cases, they can't kill the bugs at all...

'Sugar M' washes out bugs that resist THE MOST POWERFUL ANTIBIOTICS...

The scientific name for this miraculous sugar is D-Mannose. And it has already proved a godsend for hundreds of patients at Dr. Wright's clinic, and readers of Nutrition & Healing who have tried it themselves. In most cases, patients are infection free in less than 48 hours. The bacteria become so slippery they can no longer cling to your cell walls. You literally flush them down the toilet.

More good news. These healing sugars even taste delicious, yet...

They don't make you fat, because they 'slip-slide' right through your digestive system.

They can even help you lose weight...

Are you starting to see why so many doctors are starting to study Dr. Wright's theories? His solutions don't just stave off disease, they wipe it out for good.

Yet all this is just the beginning. Think even bigger. Like heart disease ...

'What? Cut cholesterol with SUGAR CANE??!!'

Actually, it's even more astonishing than that...

EVEN IF YOU'VE BEEN BLISSFULLY IGNORING your doctor's advice for years, drinking, eating the wrong foods, not getting enough exercise...

Maybe you won't have to pay the piper after all. To a stunned world, Dr. Wright recently revealed details about an all-natural sugar cane extract that's now doing patients more benefit than the latest cholesterol-controlling statin drugs.

Unlike dangerous drugs that simply lower cholesterol, this harmless extract does just about everything your heart could desire. Several studies show that it can:

• Cut TOTAL cholesterol as much as 17%...
• Slash LDL cholesterol by 25%...
• Raise HDL ('good') cholesterol up to 29%...
• Drop dangerous triglycerides as much as 18%...

Getting the picture? Your whole circulatory system just got a second chance...

No drug known to science can match this

Skeptical? So were a lot of scientists. They proceeded to test the sugar cane extract against top prescription drugs - substances with some very dangerous side-effects. In three different double-blind, placebo-controlled studies, they put it up against prevastatin (Prevachol®), lovastatin (Mevacor®), simvastatin (Zocor®)...

The sugar cane miracle whomped them all. More benefits, no side-effects, and all at a slender fraction of the cost. The results leave little room for doubt...

Yet it's so safe, even diabetics use it with NO HARMFUL SIDE-EFFECTS

In fact, it's been carefully tested on people with type II diabetes and has proved totally safe, with no adverse impact on glucose control.

Yes, even though it's a sugar cane extract. Because this remarkable substance has practically zero carbohydrate content. (Technically, it's not even a sugar.) And this most amazing of 'sugar treatments' has even more tricks up its sleeve...

For example, it reduces blood clot risk without aspirin...

Meaning you get the lifesaving benefit without the risk of intestinal bleeding and osteoporosis that aspirin therapy carries. But there's even more it can do for you, as you'll learn in your FREE BONUS Library of Food & Vitamin Treatments . And in case you're wondering...

Why didn't my own doctor tell me about this?

Great question. That's exactly why thousands of caring physicians - alternative and traditional-minded doctors alike - are flocking to Dr. Wright's seminars and subscribing to Nutrition & Healing.

Because he's always pushing beyond medicine's old 'comfort zone.' Challenging smug assumptions. Coming up with dazzling new solutions to puzzles that have eluded tradition-bound doctors for years.

This is also where many doctors found out for the first time about...

'MUSTARD MIRACLE' makes these female cancers vanish

You knew vegetables can stave off cancer, but eliminate it?

SUDDENLY, A DOOR JUST OPENED into a brand new world where miracles are possible even for cancer patients.

This stuff is so harmless, you could (and probably should) take some every day just to be on the safe side. Yet it's so powerful, even I was blown away when Dr. Wright delivered the breathtaking news...

A POTENTIALLY DEADLY SEX-ORGAN CANCER HAS BEEN WIPED OUT
in nearly 50% of cases by an extract from vegetables you eat for dinner

Thirty women with a deadly form of cervical cancer took part in this breakthrough research. And within just 12 weeks...

Nearly half the women who ate the extract became TOTALLY CANCER-FREE

The results shocked nearly every researcher who saw them, except Dr. Wright.

He had already been advising his patients to devour these veggies with gusto. They're commonly called the mustard family - mustard, broccoli, cauliflower, bok choy, cabbage and brussels sprouts all belong to the club.

They contain lots of good stuff, but their best secret is THE MIRACLE MOLECULE I3C

And ending cervical cancer is just the start of what I3C could do for us. It may also prove to be...

A long-sought key to combatting

• BREAST CANCER...
• UTERINE CANCER...
• OVARIAN CANCER...

And every other kind of cancer that feeds on female sex hormones . Instead of attacking cancer cells, I3C reverses their ability to convert your oestrogen mix from 'bad' to 'good.'

Yes, there's 'bad' and 'good' oestrogen! (This has nothing to do with progesterone.) Dr. Wright is famous for having written about this long ago. And he confirmed they've got to be balanced , just like good and bad cholesterol, because...

• BAD OESTROGEN feeds cancer in your breasts and sex organ tissues...
• GOOD OESTROGEN inhibits this out-of-control cell growth...

It's a big reason why some women are more prone to cancer than others. It's the type of oestrogen in your body that makes the difference. You'll find full details on how to check and correct your own oestrogen balance in your FREE BONUS Library of Food & Vitamin Treatments , so please do take the opportunity to subscribe now.

Here's where you'll also find the shocking secret that could save millions of men from prostate cancer...

How standard prostate therapy is encouraging cancer and

TURNING MEN INTO WOMEN

Nearly all men get prostate cancer if they live long enough.

Know why?  The truth may appall you...

IT'S COME TO THE POINT where they're telling men that prostate cancer is normal. Autopsies on a frightening number of American men are showing traces of prostate cancer and many authorities are simply admitting defeat.

But not Dr. Wright. For years, he's been warning us that established theories are dead wrong and the latest research reveals he was right all along. Contrary to popular wisdom...

SURPRISE! The bad guy is not just your testosterone...

How could it be? As Dr. Wright has long maintained, prostate cancer rates soar in men exactly at the age when their testosterone production plummets. What's more...

It may not even be your DHT testosterone...

Some authorities argued that a special kind of testosterone is to blame - so-called 'bad' testosterone or DHT. They blamed DHT for causing both prostate cancer and benign swelling.

Drug firms developed powerful blockers (like Proscar®) to suppress DHT, and promoted them with huge ad campaigns, even though they're known to cause impotence in many men.

So if DHT testosterone causes cancer, these 'wonder' drugs should prevent it, right? But guess what? When researchers at the University of Southern California studied men at high risk for prostate cancer...

Men taking the drugs were 800% more likely TO GET A CERTAIN TYPE
OF PROSTATE TUMOUR

So if testosterone isn't the problem, what is? How about this for an eye-opener:

Today, many American men over 60 have more OESTROGEN in their
bloodstream than a 60-year-old WOMAN!

OESTROGEN! The 'female' hormone! Now, it's natural for men to have a little oestrogen in their bodies, just as healthy women need a little testosterone. But too much oestrogen isn't just bad for a man, it's catastrophic.

Suddenly, it all makes sense. Prostate cancer and benign prostate
swelling and so-called 'male menopause'...

Is it any wonder the prostates of so many men are swelling and growing tumours?

Is it any wonder that millions of strong, healthy, alert men are changing into frail, chronically ill, mentally dull, old codgers who haven't had an erection in decades and couldn't care less if they did?

But where is all this excess oestrogen coming from? Strange as it sounds, studies now confirm that if you're a man over 40...

Much of your testosterone may be TURNING INTO OESTROGEN

Weird as it sounds, testosterone-to-oestrogen conversion is a well-known chemical process. It's very normal and desirable for women and again, a little oestrogen is normal in men, but in way too many cases it's out of control.

Part of the problem could be the well documented effects of literally dozens of common pesticides and herbicides. Another part could be oestrogen-mimicking 'health' foods that men and women are being told to eat. But at least one other culprit is to blame...

FACT: Prescription drugs for BPH encourage testosterone-to-oestrogen conversion. Men who take them have even been known to grow female breasts!

Of course, this can't be the only cause. Other drugs and foods may be guilty, and more research is needed...

But there's no need to put up with this plague for even one more day. Dr. Wright has been leading the charge in male hormone research for many years, and in your FREE  BONUS Library of Food & Vitamin Treatmrnts he'll show you a blessedly safe and simple way to defeat this secret enemy...

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STUNNING 'STOMACH CURE'

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HOLD A COIN IN FRONT OF EACH EYE. Don't move your head. Then try to read...

That's what the world looked like to Sam P. when he first visited Dr. Wright. His macular degeneration had gotten so bad, he didn't even feel safe driving his car anymore.

'My eye doctor says that since the vitamin and mineral pills he gave me don't make any difference, there's nothing left to do,' Sam worried. 'I can't face going blind.'

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HIS EYES WERE BETTER IN A MONTH and 8 years later he's still doing great

HOW? What on earth did Dr. Wright do that never even occurred to Sam's eye specialist?

Something incredibly strange-sounding. He checked the acid levels in Sam's stomach.

WHY? Because, years ago, Dr. Wright made a revolutionary discovery...

Nearly half of all Americans over 50 lack the stomach acid to digest their food fully,
let alone absorb vitamin pills

That's right. Drug companies have cast your stomach acid as a villain, but it's the very foundation of good nutrition. Bear in mind that a healthy stomach needs enough acid to reduce all the solids you eat to soup...

Otherwise your gut simply can't handle what's passing through. You may as well be throwing your veggies and vitamins in the trash...

And this is why so many people are growing misty-eyed forgetful and creaky before their time

Now I know what you're probably wondering. 'Not enough stomach acid? How could this be? What about all the heartburn we've got? What about all the commercials for antacids and acid-blockers?

'Everyone knows that heartburn's caused by too much acid...'

But hold it right there. Just how do they know? Has anyone actually measured the acidity of your stomach? For that matter, have you ever heard of any doctor measuring stomach acidity?

Well, Dr. Wright does measure it, and he's kept careful figures on patients who complain of heartburn and other stomach ailments. Guess what. Over 90% of them don't have too much stomach acid, but too little...

And when they take supplements to increase the acid, the heartburn goes away forever

Wild, huh? But there's a logical explanation, as you'll see in your FREE BONUS Library of Food & Vitamin Treatments. And when ailing patients correct this 'minor' problem... often everything else clicks into place.

Their vision, memory - and good spirits - all come rushing back

Makes sense, doesn't it? If you can't break down your food, medically speaking, you're starving to death. You could be eating six meals a day, you could even be overweight, yet if your stomach acid isn't up to snuff, most of the nutrients never get absorbed. But when you restore healthy acidity...

Vision problems disappear, because at last all those veggies and vitamins can go to work.

Memory problems and depression vanish, because healthy stomach acid also breaks protein down into essential amino acids that power your nerve cells. Suddenly, your brain is wired and working again!

You don't get sick as often because healthy stomach acid kills off dangerous parasites and bacteria...

And, in fact, as you'll see in your FREE BONUS Library of Food & Vitamin Treatments, there's hardly any 'disease of ageing' that can't be helped to a surprising extent by correcting this simple problem.

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...she was merely worried. But then he came back from a fishing trip minus the fish, his boat and his dog, they both decided to see Dr. Wright. Vincent thought he was 'losing it,' but it turned out he was actually missing the stomach acid he needed to break down his food. And without it, his brain cells weren't being 'fed' the nutrients they depend on. He's sharp as a razor now!

Hernando's arteries were so badly diseased, he could barely walk...

He told Dr. Wright, 'I'm just waiting around for things to get bad enough so I can have my legs amputated.' But Dr. Wright found that Hernando had very low stomach acid and when they corrected it, Hernando's arteries got younger. Now he says he hikes 'at least two kms, three times a week, without sitting down once!'

Harry's knees were so swollen, he needed a cane to get out of a chair...

And his neck, spine and knuckles all throbbed with osteoarthritis too. But when Dr. Wright fixed his digestive problem, Harry bounced back like a new rubber ball. He felt better in just four weeks, and not long after, all the pain and swelling ceased. Ten years of agony vanished just like that and never came back.

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'I KNOW THERE AREN'T ANY CURES,' Theresa C. told Dr. Wright.

'I don't expect some of my joints will ever look normal again.'

But Theresa was wrong and is she ever happy for that! Before long, her pain and her joint deformities were almost entirely gone. She stopped her 12 daily pain pills because she just didn't need them.

Astonishing? But to Dr. Wright, this 'miracle' was quite routine. For years, he's seen the same treatment for inflammatory arthritis heal patient after patient...

HIS SUCCESS RATE IS NEARLY 100%

That's almost unheard of in medicine - and new research now confirms Dr. Wright is onto yet another huge breakthrough. He's recognised the healing potential in a little known discovery by Dr. James Breneman - the secret culprit hiding behind a large percentage of joint pain and more than 50% of all undiagnosed illness...

It's called low-level food sensitivity. And what it means is that your body can't tolerate certain foods. Oh, you won't break out in hives, but they will trigger immune reactions. Before long, you come down with a full-blown autoimmune condition, like arthritis, lupus, asthma, colitis, Graves' disease, chronic fatigue...

Yet if you simply stop the offending food, the problem melts away like snow in the spring. Want proof? Dr. Wright's track record is quite convincing by itself, but now there's plenty more evidence too...

'Incurable' lupus eliminated in 100 patients

An Australian colleague of Dr. Wright's - Dr. Christopher Reading of Sydney - treated 100 people with so-called 'incurable' lupus. All of them had full-blown symptoms (which include joint pain, fever and skin rash) and they weren't just imagining it. They all tested positive for lupus in blood tests.

Yet soon their symptoms vanished and five years later all blood tests came up negative.

And all they really did was take some vitamins and cut a few foods from their diet...

Eliminating all grains except rice and corn. You see, these lupus sufferers all shared a  sensitivity to gluten, a protein contained in wheat, rye, barley, spelt and oats, but not in corn or rice. And now, a brand-new study reveals it's...

The secret tormentor of 90 million people

A brand-new, landmark book just published this year links this same grain sensitivity to joint pain, cancer, depression, brain disorders...even osteoporosis. The study estimates that as many as 90 million people are suffering without even suspecting the cause...

And genetic research clinches it...

Cutting-edge research reveals that many people with autoimmune diseases share certain genetic commonalities that are known markers for extreme gluten intolerance.

And Dr. Wright has found that when he treats the food intolerance, the other problems fade away...without any need for prednisone or other immune-system destroying medicines. The results are fantastic.

Is YOUR PAIN from grain?

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The amazing stem cell windpipe
Health news world-wide was dominated this week by a landmark windpipe transplant in which the recipient's own stem cells were used to help grow the new pipe.

After a donor windpipe was stripped of its cells, the remaining "scaffold" was seeded with adult stem cells from the recipient's bone marrow. After some complicated coaxing in the lab, it grew into a functioning windpipe that could be transplanted into the recipient.

The fact that the recipient's own cells were used means that a lot of the rejection problems associated with most transplants was eliminated. As such, the transplant offers a remarkable glimpse into the potential uses of adults' stem cells.

The procedure is roughly similar to one used recently in which rat hearts were stripped of their cells, and then seeded with stem cells eventually to produce a beating heart.

Traditional meds plan challenged
On a very different note, we reported this week that the department of health's plans to integrate traditional health practitioners into the public health system is being challenged by Doctors for Health International (DFL).

DFL called for the prohibition of African Traditional Medicine that cannot be subjected to transparent and objective scientific tests. They said that they are not ignorant of the role plants and herbs have played in the development of useful, safe and effective medicines, but pointed out that untested compounds should be subjected to proper scientific scrutiny.

They said that more than half of poison-related fatalities at one Pretoria hospital were due to traditional medicines.

The issue of the integration of traditional healers into the public health system is bound to remain a hot topic for the foreseeable future. Quite apart from the lack of scientific testing of traditional medicines, the water is muddied by cultural sensitivities, and a widespread distrust of mainstream medicine.

Effectively navigating this complicated quagmire of political correctness, culture, and hard science is one of the toughest challenges facing health minster Barbara Hogan.

Vitamins fail cancer test
And in some bad news, we heard this week that vitamin C and E supplements are of no value in preventing cancer. The results come from the same massive US study that last week found these vitamins to be useless for the prevention of heart disease.

Whereas much of the previous research was done in the lab or in animal models, the new study was the first large-scale (over 14 000), randomly-controlled, long-term (eight years) test of the specific supplements in a real-world setting.

"Well-conducted clinical trials such as this are rapidly closing the door on the hope that common vitamin supplements may protect against cancer," Marji McCullough, nutrition chief at the American Cancer Society, told reporters. "It's still possible that some benefit exists for subgroups that couldn't be measured, but the overall results are certainly discouraging.

(Marcus Low, Health24)

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“A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.“
- Abraham Lincoln

The discipline of reading

By Brian Tracy
Some things in life are optional, and some things in life are mandatory. Taking your next vacation to the Caribbean is optional. Building a personal library and becoming an avid reader is mandatory. It is no longer something you can choose to do. It is absolutely essential and indispensable for your success.
Some years ago, a young man came to me and asked for advice. Though he had managed to graduate from high school, he could barely read. Meanwhile, he was working at a dead-end job at minimum wage, and he had been there for two years. He was living in a small apartment on a limited budget. His friends from high school were in pretty much the same predicament. They all were working at low-level, low-skill jobs with no future.
He said he wanted to be successful at something that didn’t require reading. I told him that this was not a matter of choice. I told him that he had to learn to read, and read well. The only jobs that wouldn’t require him to read were the kinds of jobs he and his friends were already doing. And even those jobs soon would be done by younger, more eager people with better educations.
Much to his credit, he thought about what I said, and finally accepted the fact that he had to become a good reader. He began taking courses in remedial reading.
Eventually, he applied for entrance to a technical institute, and he got in by the skin of his teeth. Because of his poor high-school education, it took him almost three years to complete a two-year programme in biomedical engineering. He stuck in there and worked hard, and finally got the degree.
A small company hired him as a sales representative, to call on hospitals and clinics in a rural territory. It wasn’t much, but he took it and ran with it. He continued to read, studying sales and communications on his own. He started that sales job at R100,000 per year, and within two years he was up to R300,000. In his third year, he was hired away by a rival company and paid R400,000 per year. Two years later, an international company heard about his success in the marketplace and hired him at more than R500,000 per year, with a company car, an expense account, and substantial benefits.
In seven years, he went from being a semiliterate, minimum-wage worker to a highly paid biomedical technical representative. And he was back in the big city with a townhouse, a new car, a wife, children, and a great life. The interesting thing is that as he went around trying to renew his old friendships, he found that most of the people he had graduated with were still working at dead-end jobs.
Seven years seems like a long time, but it passes in a flash when you are busy doing something you enjoy and getting continually better at it.
Many people think it’s up to their company to educate them if they need additional training. Well, if your company provides training, you should take advantage of every minute of it. But if it doesn’t, and most companies don’t, you are still solely responsible for maintaining and increasing your value through continuous reading. There is no other way.
Let me share with you some ideas that helped me go from high-school dropout and dishwasher, working in the kitchen of a small hotel, to chief operating officer of a R265-million company. These practices have been shared by most of the successful men and women in the world. Their cumulative effect on the quality of your life can be amazing.
1. If you are not a good reader, make the decision, right now, that you are going to go any distance, pay any price, overcome any obstacle, and spend whatever amount of money it takes to become an excellent reader.
If you do not know how to read particularly well, stop everything else that you are doing outside of your work and dedicate yourself to reading. Spend every spare minute reading as if your future depends on it. Because it does.
It may take a week, a month, or a year to become a better reader. It may take even longer. But that doesn’t matter. Becoming an excellent reader will kick open doors of opportunity that you cannot now imagine.
2. If you are already a good reader, or when you become a good reader, learn to speed-read.
The Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics program is probably the best that has ever been developed. Also, many communities throughout the country offer speed-reading classes. Speed-reading is like touch-typing. In typing, you can use the hunt-and-peck method all your life, or you can learn how to do it right and increase your speed to 50 or 60 words per minute. In reading, you can take your speed from 50 or 60 words per minute up to 300, 400, 500, or even 1,000 words per minute, with no loss of comprehension. Speed-reading is absolutely essential to the success of really ambitious men and women today.
3. Build a personal library.

Although public libraries are extremely helpful for research, you should buy your own books.
Which books should you buy? Use the Law of Relative Importance to make your decisions. Buy the books that are most important to your life at the moment. The key word here is “relevant.” Adults learn best when what they are studying is extremely relevant to their needs, their work, their life, and their present situation. If you read material that is not relevant to you, you will find it difficult. You will not be drawn to the material, and you will forget most of it as you go along. But when you read material that is both relevant and applicable to your work, your mind sparkles with all kinds of ideas on how you can use this new information to be more effective. The prospect of learning new methods and techniques that you know will improve your life is both exciting and highly motivating.
It’s also a good idea to ask the most successful people in your field what books they would recommend. Then go straight to the bookstore and buy them.
Every professional should have a library in his field - and professionalism is a state of mind. If you are in sales, for example, you should have a library of sales books. You should be reading at least one hour per day in sales, one book per week, 50 books per year. You should be a consistent, persistent student of your craft. You should know more about the field of selling than anybody else within 500km.
You should set a goal to become so knowledgeable about sales that you would be able to give advanced classes in your profession within a few years. With this goal as your guiding star, you will find yourself learning and remembering far more than you would if you were just browsing through the material.
Should you buy hardcover books or softcover books? I recommend that you purchase any book, hardcover or softcover, that can help you. Some books cost R200 or R300. The average person complains that he can’t afford such a book. The superior person recognizes that the information contained in that book can save him a year or two of hard work.
Remember, it may have taken the author of that book 10 to 20 years to learn his subject. It may have taken him two to three years to write the book, and one or two years to get it published. By paying a few dollars for that book, you probably are getting the results of 20 or 25 years of effort by one of the smartest people in your field.
In one 22-year study of self-made millionaires, researchers found that a common characteristic of those special men and women who went from rags to riches was that they were absolutely fascinated by their work. They didn’t think so much about making a lot of money. They were more concerned about becoming better and better at what they did. Their work absorbed them completely.
In almost no time at all, because of their commitment to reading and self-development, they were paid more and more. And once they reached a high level of income, their fascination with their work still continued. Instead of drawing extra money from their businesses and spending it frivolously, they reinvested it in themselves and in their careers. As a result, they became more and more proficient and wealthier and wealthier.
Then, one day, they opened their eyes, looked around, and found that they were worth more than $1 million. And the continuous learning, the non-stop reading, was the key reason.
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25 November

Being Sexually Pure

“Everything is permissible for me"—but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"—but I will not be mastered by anything. "Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"—but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh."But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.

Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honour God with your body. 1 Corinthians 6:12-20

I spent my teen years growing up in the 60's and 70's. It was during the time of the sexual revolution. It was a time when it became the norm to have multiple sexual partners and if you didn’t you were considered weird. I was an incredibly shy young man who would blush even at the hint that a girl might like me. But that changed one day when the very attractive older sister of a friend of mine happened to say that she found me very attractive. I remember realizing how that if I applied myself I could get almost any girl I wanted and it was to this end I started to live. Having one girlfriend was not enough and many times I would find myself dating more than one at the same time. I became a womanizer and wound up in multiple sexual relationships. I hurt many and I got hurt many times as well. The bible says that in 1 Corinthians 6:16: Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh. Every time I had sexual relations with a woman I left a part of myself with her and she with me. I was on a very destructive course and if not for God’s intervention in my life I would probably being living the same way today.

The fact that I had multiple partners hurt my marriage as I would dream about past relations and found myself comparing my wife to these other women. It bothered me a lot because I found my wife to be the most beautiful woman I had ever known. None of these others compared to her and yet each one still was a part of me and it was interfering with our own relationship. My wife had never known another man and it was hard for her to understand what I was going through. It was only through the breaking of soul ties I had made with these women and much spiritual warfare that I was finally able to have the victory. And yet even today if I find I let my mind wander, these past relationships come back to haunt my thoughts and dreams.

We live in a day where nothing is hidden anymore. Things are shown and heard in the media that make even those like me who grew up in the sexual revolution blush. It is getting harder and harder to keep our hearts and minds pure. One of the most important factors in single Christian’s life is purity. We are called to holiness. 1 Peter 1:14-16 says: As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy." It is so easy to give into wrong desires and one of those things that drives us is loneliness. Many fall into sexual sin because they are trying to fill a need in their life which can never be filled by a human being. It can only be found in Christ. He has to be your complete satisfaction. When He is He will bring you that partner that He has for you.

There is a new movement that has started up in many schools and institutions lately. It is an abstinence movement in which young men and women are making a vow to abstain from sexual relations until they are married. I have been impressed as young Christian men and women such as American Idol winner Jordon Sparks and the Jonas Brothers have declared that they will keep themselves pure and wait until they are married before they have sex. Rebecca St. James is another that comes to mind. They are to be commended and prayed for as they are role models for much of the youth in today’s society. This movement is even gaining merit even among those who are not Christians. The fact is that there is a lot out there which is pretty scary to them such as AIDS and a host of other sexually communicable diseases which are too numerous to count. Those are the fruits of the sexual revolution. The fact is, your sexuality is meant to be a gift for the one whom God has chosen for you. Don’t spoil it. I regret I didn’t have the sense to keep myself until I met my wife. It is something I can never get back and it was the cause of problems in my home. Keep yourself pure. Be patient and keep your eyes on Christ. Your spouse will be pleased you did.

For those of you who like me fell into the trap of sex before marriage. Realize that there is forgiveness in Christ. He can wash away your sins and make you brand new. Renounce your past relationships and break the soul ties you have created with them. Surrender your life to Jesus and let Him take care of the rest.

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Q: Does white willow bark have the same risks for gastrointestinal bleeding as aspirin?
Dr. Wright: White willow bark offers all the same pain-relieving benefits as aspirin, but without the additional risk of gastrointestinal bleeding. However, if you're taking aspiring for its supposed heart-health benefits, there's a much better alternative - fish oil.
Both aspirin and fish oil reduce the inflammation in your cardiovascular system. But aspirin reduces your risk of heart attack by interfering with blood clotting, or platelet aggregation. Fish oil, on the other hand, reduces your risk of heart attack by literally doing a "lube job" on your platelets, so they can't stick together abnormally.
Fish oil also reduces your risk of sudden cardiac death, reduces abnormally high triglycerides, increases HDL ("good") cholesterol and decreases abnormally high levels of fibrinogen (another independent cardiovascular risk factor), and reduces your risk of "re-stenosis" (re-clogging) of your coronary arteries, if you've been unfortunate enough to have had coronary artery surgery.
For adults, I recommend at least 1 tablespoon of fish oil every day, and if your cardiovascular risk is elevated, take 1 tablespoon twice daily. I usually recommend cod liver oil, since it also supplies a substantial amount of vitamin D. Don't forget to take 400IU of vitamin E (mixed tocopherols) daily for each tablespoonful of fish oil. And make sure that the brand of fish oil you use has no heavy metals, especially mercury, and is free of other toxins.

In the name of good health,

Pascale Barrow
Managing Editor

Scientists explain epilepsy

Last updated: Monday, June 09, 2008

Researchers in the United States claimed they had found the key to a decades-old riddle over epileptic fits, helping to advance the quest for new treatments for this disabling condition.

Experiments in the last century found that by breathing carbon dioxide (CO2), an epileptic patient boosted acid levels in the brain and could terminate a fit, although the molecular switch for achieving this was veiled in mystery.

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In experiments on mice, scientists from the University of Iowa and the Veterans Affairs Iowa City Health Care System, reporting in a specialist journal, believe they have found the switch.

A channel known as ASIC1a, located on the surface of brain cells, opens up in response to higher acid levels and admits charged atoms known as ions. This in turn activates other brain cells that block the seizures, the investigators believe.

How the research was done
ASIC1a's linchpin role was uncovered thanks to experiments using genetically modified mice. The researchers used kainate, a chemical known to trigger convulsions, on rodents that either had ASIC1a or had been modified to lack the ion channel. The ASIC1a-deprived mice had seizures that were more severe, and lasted longer.

"We found that ASIC1a does not seem to play a role in how a seizure starts, but as the seizure continues and the pH is reduced, ASIC1a plays a role in stopping additional seizure activity," said investigator Adam Ziemann.

pH is a measure of acidity. The lower the pH index, the higher the acidity level. Among mice with ASIc1a, breathing CO2 caused brain pH to drop rapidly and protect mice from lethal fits.

"In seizures, ASIC1a appears to be activating inhibitory neurons," said co-author John Wemmie, quoted in a University of Iowa press release. "This is the first study to show that ASIC1a activation can have an inhibitory effect."

What the findings mean
The findings are good news, because they offer up a tempting target for drugs to activate ASIC1a and switch off seizures, although the researchers caution that a lot more work lies ahead before such a theory is confirmed.

Seizures are unleashed by abnormal, synchronised firing of neuron groups, which results in disruption to the central nervous system, causing spasms and convulsions, and in the worst cases, stopping breathing.

Approximately two to four percent of people will have a seizure at some point in their lives, while for epileptics, the experience can be repeated many times.

The vast majority of seizures stop by themselves, although in some cases, the fit develops into a highly dangerous condition called status epilepticus that has a mortality rate of up to 20 percent. The study appears in the specialist journal Nature Neuroscience. – (Sapa)

June 2008