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Well, it’s official. Our home is microwave-free. Just another step towards a healthier life for us and Nicholas.

I have been disliking microwaves for quite some time now - and have been waiting to toss it until I could afford to spend some extra money on a new toaster oven - and since the Santas in my life were quite generous this year - I just picked this up from Williams Sonoma (along with my new juicer - but I’ll save that for another thread!)

Breville Countertop Convection Oven

I’m going to come back and add the info on Microwaves I found when I have a chance. I couldn’t even read through it all, it just made me ill.

Another one bites the dust!

I guess we can now say that the Nobel Prize is “one less” award that actually means something in this world.

AstraZeneca’s Financial Ties to the Nobel Prize Foundation Raise Suspicions

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, December 28, 2008
Key concepts: Nobel Prize, AstraZeneca and Financial ties

Questions are being raised about a web of financial ties between the drug maker AstraZeneca and the Nobel Prize Foundation. According to reports from Pharmalot and Discover Magazine, AstraZeneca has financially sponsored two of the Nobel Foundation subsidiaries and maintains strong financial ties to decision makers who actually award the Nobel Prize.

But that’s not all: A member of the Nobel Committee serves on the AstraZeneca board, and another top representative of the Nobel Committee received money from AstraZeneca in 2006.

Why is this suspicious? Because the 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to a scientist who discovered the human papillomavirus (HPV), for which AstraZeneca’s subsidiary, MedImmune, holds valuable vaccine patents. Glorifying HPV through a Nobel Prize award also provides valuable publicity about the virus, resulting in direct financial gains for the HPV vaccines sold by drug companies.

Is there no institution in medicine that has not been hijacked by Big Pharma’s agenda? With drug companies now running the med schools, the medical journals, the mainstream media and the lawmakers, I suppose it was only a matter of time before they took over the “prize” institutions as well. It’s all part of a deeply corrupted system to try to legitimize an industry of death built on deceptions and junk science.

But the HPV award may not be the only one that’s suspect: The Nobel Prize for medicine was also given this year to the discoverers of HIV. And guess what? Nobel Prize spokesperson Jan Andersson has been on the GlaxoSmithKline payroll since 1999 and is the founder of a Swedish company that sells HIV vaccines.

It’s a lot like the race for class president at your local high school: “You nominate me, and I’ll nominate you!”

I never thought I’d be calling the Nobel Prize Foundation a whore, but then again, I never thought I’d see it handing out prizes that directly benefit the financial interests of the very same drug company it has so many suspicious ties with.

There goes my own hope of ever receiving a Nobel Prize, huh? I guess I can stop working on my secret lab project where I was trying to discover what part of the human brain is responsible for all the corruption in modern medicine. The work has been exceptionally difficult because it turns out these people have no brains!

Did they really think nobody would notice all the favoritism behind the awarding of a Nobel Prize?

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Now that we’re seeing some great speech coming from the increased dose of the DMG, I have been ramping up his daily dose of Acetyl-L Carnitine since he’s been at a very low dose since I introduced it.

By December 31st, we will be up to 635mg twice a day provided he does okay between now and then.

On 12/27, 1 1/2 pinches total = 238 mg
On 12/28, 2 pinches total = 317.5 mg (so far, so good)
On 12/29, 3 pinches total = 476 mg
On 12/30, 1/4th tsp which equals 635mg
On 12/31, 1/4th tsp 2x which equals 1270mg

We’ll see how he does on this dose and will back down as needed.

Update: 12/31/2008: We’re holding steady at 317.5mg for right now. The brand I had purchased tastes extremely bitter and sour, so mixing this with anything has been an absolute chore. I just ordered some from ProThera (Klaire) - and they’ve told me the taste on this is neutral - so it should be easier to mix with his juice.

So, by 1/4/2009, I’m hoping to have him taking 500mg 3x per day. We’ll see.

Update: 1/2/2009: 500mg - he drank this with NO problem, thank goodness! The ProThera tastes a bit lemony-like, but nothing like the taste of the NOW brand we were using.

1/3/2009: 1000mg
1/4/2009: 1500mg

Update 1/4/2009 - so far so good on the 1500mg. Today’s been a wonderful day. We’re just hanging out at home cleaning, watching TV, etc - and Nicholas is helping me clean and hang clothes, playing Wii with daddy - just a great, lazy day - and his behavior has been incredible.