RecoveringNicholas.com

This round brought another set of good gains which we saw throughout this past weekend. I hope to have my update on Nicholas post done soon…..

As an American, I refuse to buy mandatory health insurance that supports corrupt conventional medicine
http://www.naturalnews.com/027870_health_reform_insurance.html
January 05, 2010
by Mike Adams

“Why should I be forced to pay money to a system that I know to be largely based on fraud…? If I had a choice, I would buy insurance that covers alternative and naturopathic care, where doctors respect the healing ability of the human body and try to work with the patient instead of assaulting him with chemicals and surgeries. Obama’s health care reform bill gives me no such choice. I cannot choose to direct my money into a system of medicine that I WANT. . Instead, I am being forced to pay money into a system that is morally corrupt and scientifically fraudulent.”

I could not agree more, Mike.

Read the whole article here: http://www.naturalnews.com/027870_health_reform_insurance.html

Note: For info on these supplements including where to buy them, visit my Supplement Directory page.

Changes since the last update are:

I had stopped and re-introduced Acetyl-L-Carnitine and L-Carnosine to see if we would get another good speech boost (we did!)

Slightly increased zinc as he started biting on my shirt at times, the zinc stopped that immediately

Re-introduced Adrenal Cortex - his prior dose was way too high - I give him one cap per day along with his Armour Thyroid

Changed his version of Magnesium to a triple mag complex from Swanson

Re-introduced biotin at a smaller dose

Increased Enhansa from 1200mg to 1800mg

Ran out of Klaire’s Biotagen and have not reordered — not seeing any negatives

Ran out of Living Streams Probiotic and have not reordered - no negatives seen yet

Ran out of Mannatech Ambrotose - have not seen any negatives - will probably not reorder

Vitamins & Minerals
Lee Silsby ASD Pure Vitamin/Mineral formula - 6 Capsules per day
MB-12 Injections
BioTech Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) - 5000 IU
Swanson Vitamin E Mixed Tocopherols - 800 IU
Klaire’s Micellized vitamin A - 5 drops per day
Swanson’s Triple Magnesium Complex - 1 cap per day
AMLA - 3-4 caps per day
Swanson vitamin C - 3-4 caps per day
Swanson Biotin - 5mg caps

Omega Fish Oil / Cod Liver Oil / Essential Oils & Fatty Acids
Nordic Naturals Complete Omega 3-6-9 - 3 gelcaps

Probiotics & Prebiotics
Culturelle - 2 capsules per day
Klaire Detox Probiotic - 2 capsules per day

Amino Acids
Custom Blend from Metabolic Maintenance - 3-9 size 00 capsules per day
ProThera Acetyl-L-Carnitine - 1 capsule 3x per day (1500mg total)
Now L-Carnosine - 1 capsule 2x per day (1000mg total)

Anti-fungals & Anti-bacterials, Anti-Virals, yeast-fighting, etc.
Enhansa from Lee Silsby - 1800mg per day — give No-Fenol with Enhansa if child has phenol issues (red cheeks/ears)

Enzymes
Houston Nutraceuticals No Phenol - given with Enhansa only now
Houston Nutraceuticals Tri-Enza - with meals

For the liver
Liver life (2 dropperfuls per day)

For constipation
Oxypowder - (to keep his bowels moving) - only as needed (this stuff is fantastic!)

Other
4Life Transfer Factor Tri-Factor Formula – 200mg – 2 capsules 3x per day
Georges Always Active 100% Aloe Vera - about 2-4 ounces per day
Integrative Therapeudics Inc UBQH Patented Stabilized Reduced Ubiquinol - 100mg 1 cap per day

There are so many of us who were way ahead of you, Harvard - where’s our complimentary degree?

Harvard Takes it Back and Says Swine Flu was Oversold
Dr Mercola - January 2, 2010

A new analysis from Harvard University, using H1N1 deaths in the U.S. in the spring and projecting likely outcomes for this fall, suggests that the swine flu “pandemic” has been oversold.
The new paper suggests swine flu was unlikely to create a severe epidemic. In light of this, officials have taken many steps that may have been unnecessary, including mass vaccinations.

It is not clear how H1N1 will act in the coming months, but swine flu cases seem to have already hit their peak.

If you really need to read more, click here: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/01/02/Harvard-Takes-it-Back-and-Says-Swine-Flu-was-Oversold.aspx

Sugar May Be Bad, But This Sweetener Is Far More Deadly
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/01/02/HighFructose-Corn-Syrup-Alters-Human-Metabolism.aspx

Scientists have proved for the first time that fructose, a cheap form of sugar used in thousands of food products and soft drinks, can damage human metabolism and is fueling the obesity crisis.

Fructose, a sweetener usually derived from corn, can cause dangerous growths of fat cells around vital organs and is able to trigger the early stages of diabetes and heart disease.

Over 10 weeks, 16 volunteers on a controlled diet including high levels of fructose produced new fat cells around their heart, liver and other digestive organs. They also showed signs of food-processing abnormalities linked to diabetes and heart disease. Another group of volunteers on the same diet, but with glucose sugar replacing fructose, did not have these problems.

Click over to Dr Mercola’s site to watch the videos and keep reading: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/01/02/HighFructose-Corn-Syrup-Alters-Human-Metabolism.aspx

Why Skeptics Love to Hate Homeopathy
http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2009/12/09/Why-Skeptics-Love-to-Hate-Homeopathy.aspx

by Amy L. Lansky, PhD

www.impossiblecure.com

Perhaps the most derided of alternative medicines is my own favorite — homeopathy. Over the past few years, detractors have focused their efforts in the United Kingdom and have succeeded in crippling homeopathic hospitals and clinics funded by the National Health Service, as well as the practices of many homeopaths. A few well-placed editorials in prominent newspapers have done the trick, despite the fact that Prince Charles and the rest of the royal family are ardent supporters of homeopathy.

It now seems that some of these folks are taking their show on the road. Two key UK players, Michael Baum and Edzard Ernst have published a commentary in the November 2009 issue of the American Journal of Medicine [2] in which they state, “a belief in homeopathy exceeds the tolerance of an open mind. We should start from the premise that homeopathy cannot work and that positive evidence reflects publication bias or design flaws until proved otherwise.”

Not surprisingly, their commentary also reflects a complete ignorance of homeopathy and the range of studies that support its effectiveness. For example, their article incorrectly uses the term “potentation” instead of “potentization” for the method used to create homeopathic remedies (more on this later). The authors also insist on citing a single negative meta-analysis study that has already been shown to be methodologically flawed [3], while ignoring many positive studies in respected publications, including two other meta-analyses that showed positive results [4-9].

So why do the skeptics love to hate homeopathy? Perhaps because it is one of the most threatening alternative modalities — financially, philosophically, and therapeutically. Actually, homeopathy has been a threat to allopathy ever since the 1800s, when German physician Samuel Hahnemann developed the homeopathic system.

Founder of Homeopathy

Hahnemann, a respected doctor and chemist who helped to pioneer the importance of hygiene as well as homeopathy, was forced to move frequently during his life because the local German apothecaries objected to the fact that he created his own medicines rather than use theirs. A fierce battle was also waged against homeopathy in the United States during the 1800s, where homeopathy had achieved a strong presence by 1840. In fact, in 1847, the American Medical Association (AMA) was formed specifically to fight the battle against homeopathy.

Most homeopaths of the 1800s were former allopaths who had abandoned their brethren because they found Hahnemann’s system to be more successful in battling cholera, typhus, yellow fever, diptheria, influenza, and other epidemics of the 1800s. In retaliation, the preamble to the AMA’s charter forbade its members to associate with homeopaths or to use their medicines, and many doctors were expelled for failing to comply.

But does homeopathy really pose such a threat to conventional medicine today? To see how the little David of homeopathy could take down the Goliath of big pharma, we need to take a closer look at what homeopathy is all about.

Read more here: http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2009/12/09/Why-Skeptics-Love-to-Hate-Homeopathy.aspx

Dr. Klinghardt’s Treatment of Lyme Disease
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/08/04/Dr-Klinghardts-Treatment-of-Lyme-Disease.aspx
Dr. Mercola
August 04 2009

Excerpted From the Writings of Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, Ph.D., edited by Eve Greenberg, LPC, CN, Explore Staff Reporter and Director of the Klinghardt Academy of Neurobiology

In the last decade the majority of outcome-oriented physicians observed a major shift: we realized that it was neither the lack of vitamins or growth hormone that made our patients ill. We discovered that toxicity and chronic infections were most often at the core of the client’s suffering.

We watched the discussion, which infection may be the primary one: mycoplasma, stealth viruses, HHV-6, trichomonas, Chlamydia pneumoniae, leptospirosis, mutated strep, or what else?

The new kid on the block is Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) and some of us have looked at it for a long time as possibly being the bug that opens the door for all the other infections to enter the system. Another one is Lyme disease, which has become a buzzword in the alternative medical field.

Since none of the recommended treatments are specific to either one of the microbes, we can never assume that we really know what we treated once a patient has recovered.

Microbiologist Gitte Jensen, PhD, had shown that the older you get, the more foreign DNA is attached to your own DNA. Somewhere along the line, pathogenic microbes invade the host’s DNA and become a permanent part of it. Since you use only 2 percent of your DNA, it may not be a problem. In fact, it may make you who you finally become. It may also cause a number of symptoms and chronic illness.

Genius Guenther Enderlein’s discoveries take us off the hook: if one microbe can change into another given the right environment, why bother to find out who we are infected with? The book “Lab 257” suggests that Bb is an escaped man-made US military bio-warfare organism (just like myoplasma incognitus and HHV 6).

Other authors suggest that different subtypes of Borrelia, which cause illness in humans, such as B. afzelii and B.garinii have probably existed longer than B.burgdorferi and occur naturally and have been with us for a long time, maybe centuries or much longer than that.

Continue Reading here:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/08/04/Dr-Klinghardts-Treatment-of-Lyme-Disease.aspx

Double-Blind Study of Glutathione, Vitamin C and Cysteine in Children With Autism and Severe Behavior Problems
http://localclinicaltrials.com/NCT00889538/Double-Blind-Study-of-Glutathione,-Vitam.html?ref=twitter&q=Autism

Summary
This is a double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of glutathione alone or glutathione, vitamin C and NAC treatment in children with autism who also have severe behavior problems.

Our hypothesis is that children with autism will show improvement in both learning capabilities and behavior with either glutathione, or glutathione, vitamin C and NAC therapy.
Condition / Disease
Autism
Severe Behavior Disorder

Therapy
placebo
glutathione
glutathione, vitamin C and N-acetylcysteine

Study Outcomes
Improvement in both developmental skills and behavior with either glutathione or glutathione, Vitamin C and N-acetylcysteine therapy as compared to placebo therapy. Subjects will also be monitored using clinical and laboratory safety parameters.
Response to glutathione (changes in behavior) will correlate with the glutathione level (GSH) and GSH:GSSG ratio

Description
This is a prospective, single center, double-blind, randomized pilot study in children and adolescents with autism and severe behavior disorders. All subjects will undergo initial screening procedures to determine eligibility. They will then be randomized to either 8 weeks of placebo or 8 weeks of glutathione or glutathione, vitamin C and N-acetylcysteine. They will receive intravenous treatment weekly and will have ongoing behavioral studies during this period. Following 8 weeks of therapy, they will have a week without treatment then will cross-over to the alternate therapy for weekly intravenous infusions and behavioral testing. In addition to baseline hematology and chemistries, baseline oxidized and reduced glutathione will be measured. These parameters will be repeated at the end of each 8 week course of therapy.

New study: amino acids could heal brain damage
Friday, January 01, 2010 by: S. L. Baker, features writer
http://www.naturalnews.com/027849_amino_acids_brain_damage.html

(NaturalNews) A head-on car collision, a stumble that slams your head to the ground, a wound from a military battle in Afghanistan, a violent criminal assault — these and other causes of sudden blows to the head can result in traumatic brain injury (TBI). According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), TBI can be mild, moderate, or severe, depending on the extent of the damage to the brain. And symptoms can range from dizziness, headaches and memory problems to difficulty thinking, coma or even a vegetative state.

Unfortunately, there is no effective medical treatment for TBI. Although doctors can relieve the dangerous swelling that occurs after a traumatic brain injury, there is currently no way to reverse the underlying brain damage that can lead to cognitive losses in memory, learning and other functions. But neuroscientists think that could change, thanks to a natural treatment. A new study recently published in the online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests natural amino acids hold the key to healing brain injuries.

For the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded research, neuroscientists fed amino acids to brain-injured mice. The results? The animals’ cognitive abilities were restored. That, the researchers stated in a media release, may set the stage for the first effective treatment for cognitive impairments suffered by people with TBI. If these results from animal studies can be translated to human medicine, the impact will be huge, they added — because every 23 seconds, a man, woman or child in the United States suffers a TBI.

“We have shown in an animal model that dietary intervention can restore a proper balance of neurochemicals in the injured part of the brain, and simultaneously improves cognitive performance,” said study leader Akiva S. Cohen, Ph.D., a neuroscientist at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, in a statement to the press.

For their study, the researchers used a mix of three branched chain amino acids (BCAAs), specifically leucine, isoleucine and valine. BCAAs are crucial to brain health because they are precursors of two neurotransmitters — glutamate and gamma-aminobutyric acid, or GABA. These neurotransmitters work together to balance brain activity. Specifically, glutamate excites neurons, stimulating them to fire, while GABA dampens down the firing of brain cells. A TBI can upset this balance and keep the brain from functioning normally.

Frequently, a TBI damages the structure deep in the brain involved in higher learning and memory known as the hippocampus. In their new study, the scientists discovered that an injury to the hippocampus reduces levels of BCAAs. That throws the critical balance of neurotransmitters in the hippocampus into disarray, causing some localized regions of the brain to be more excitable and others less excitable.

To test the idea that dietary BCAAs would restore the normal balance of neural responses to brain-injured animals, the scientists worked with mice that had been conditioned to fear a mild electric shock in their cage. The animals had developed a “freezing” response when placed in the cage because they anticipated a shock. Then the research team created brain injuries in one group of mice with this conditioned fear response and, a week later, compared this group to animals conditioned to the fear response that had no TBI. The injured mice had partially lost their memory of past shocks and so had fewer “freezing” responses.

However, when the brain-injured mice were given water to drink that contained BCAAs, the amino acid cocktail restored their learning ability and they regained the same normal responses as the uninjured animals. Moreover, additional experiments showed that BCAAs had restored the animals’ normal balance of neural activity.

Previous studies have revealed that people with brain injuries show mild functional improvements after receiving BCAAs through an intravenous line (IV). Dr. Cohen stated the new study suggests that BCAAs used as a dietary supplement could offer more sustained benefits than amino acids given through IVs. Early-phase clinical trials of dietary BCAAs in patients with mild to moderate traumatic brain injuries are expected to begin over the next year.

Editor’s note: NaturalNews is opposed to the use of animals in medical experiments that expose them to harm. We present these findings in protest of the way in which they were acquired.

For more information:
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/s…
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/…
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/tbi/TBI.htm

Vaccines: The Cause of Disease, More Proof
Posted on 03 January 2010 by C. Linderman Sr. - ATO Press
http://www.autismtodayonline.com/2010/autism/vaccines-the-cause-of-disease-more-proof/

In June of 2008, I participated in the Green Our Vaccines march on Washington D.C. The march had over 8,000 people attending and I still think fondly of the sight of tying up traffic in our nation’s capitol. We started the march at the Washington Monument and marched through the streets to the lawn of the Capitol building and as the head of the march was reaching the Capitol, 1.3 miles away, the rear of the line still had yet to begin marching through the streets, definitely a sight to behold. The tee shirts that most of us wore on the march stated “Green Our Vaccines” on the front of the shirt and on the back of the shirt was the mantra “Too Many Too Soon”.

While many doctors and researchers in the mainstream medical community continue to state that while there are indeed more vaccines on the mandated schedule in America, they claim that there are far fewer antigens (the actual viruses)in the vaccines, thereby making them far more safe than those of the past decades. This is disingenuous to say the least. While fewer antigens are in the vaccines now, we have never before vaccinated children with so many different antigens at one time. A mere cursory glance at the mandated CDC recommended vaccine schedule is enough to frighten most parents and concerned medical practitioners.

A recent study out of Japan once again brings these concerns that many of us in the natural health community have, to light. The study/research article entitled: Self-Organized Criticality Theory of Autoimmunity, was authored by Ken Tsumiyama, Yumi Miyazaki and Shunichi Shiozawa from the Department of Biophysics, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine and was published on December 31st 2009. http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0008382?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20plosone/PLoSONE%20(PLoS%20ONE%20Alerts:%20New%20Articles)%20

When we consider the onslaught of autoimmune diseases now permeating our society and destroying our children, we must consider the evidence that clearly shows that these diseases seem to rise in direct correlation with the added number of vaccines on the CDC’s recommended schedule. Another study that also seems to corroborate the findings from the Kobe University study is the Manitoba Canada study showing that by simply delaying the DtP vaccine by mere months reduced the diagnosis of asthma by more than 50%. Keep in mind, asthma is an auto immune disease and kills more than 6000 Americans a year. http://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(07)02379-2/abstract

There is no doubt in my mind that this is happening. The question of the century would then have to be: with all of the evidence pointing to vaccines as the culprit in the onslaught of autoimmune diseases in this country and abroad, why in the world is this still going on?

At the expense of sounding like a complete conspiracy nut, there really is only one explanation: PROFIT.

There is no doubt that governments throughout the world are at best, ‘influenced’ by the pharmaceutical lobbies that bring cash and power into the equation, and at worst, are in fact enslaved by the pharmaceutical cash cow. We have witnessed the Dr. Andrew Wakefield debacle going on in England through the General medical Council fitness to practice hearing. This hearing has been influenced by the pharmaceutical companies and is indicative of how all of our mainstream medical organizations are enslaved by the pharmaceutical industry.

The driving force behind this particular hearing has been The Sunday Times of London and a “free-lance” reporter named Brian Deer. While one would hope that journalists and newspapers would act responsibly, especially with such an important topic as vaccines, this is unfortunately not the case here. I find it hard to believe that the fact that James Murdoch, The Sunday Time’s editor, also happens to sit on the board of Glaxxo Smith Kline, the maker of the MMR vaccine in Europe, is not a point of interest to the media.

This unfortunately happens all too frequently and it must stop. There is little doubt that the growing number of auto immune diseases across the planet has become a veritable gold mine for the drug manufacturers, selling their poisonous and expensive drugs to those already affected previously by their poisons. The fact that all of our media is dependent upon advertising revenue from these very same companies can no longer go ignored. We are not only fighting a ravenous drug cartel that would make a Columbian cocaine kingpin look like a typical street pusher, we are also fighting a medical establishment and media that are bound by their masters to ensure that this information never becomes mainstreamed.

When brave researchers like those in Japan, Canada and England step up to the plate and attempt to tell the truth about the onslaught of diseases caused by these government mandated vaccines, it is our job to ensure that the information gets to the parents that so desperately need it. To do otherwise would be a crime and criminals seem to be prolific on the other side of the controversy.

The true criminals are not those impoverished young men and women sitting in our prisons for selling a dime bag on the street. The true criminals sit in our capitol buildings, Congress, the Senate and parliaments across the world. The true criminals are the editors, producers and journalists that sell their souls for advertising dollars and Euros at the expense of our children. The true criminals are the pharmaceutical companies that poison our citizenry for profit. It’s time we put a stop to this.