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Healthy? |
by Phil Bate PhD |
http://drbate.com/Ref/Article/healthworse.doc
Everybody with more than 3 brain cells knows (or
should) that each generation is less healthy than
the one before. What's happening to us? And,
even more important - what can we do about it?
The percentage of autistic and ADD/ADHD kids is
growing at an alarming rate. And worst of all,
these are usually the brightest of our kids.
Why is this happening to us? . There are several
factors:
1. Each generation has children born with more
allergies, particularly food types.
2. Each generation gets less and less actual
nutrition, and more and more food that tastes
good, but isn't good for us.
3. Our food supply deteriorates as it is
changed by radiation, and other new techniques
into a different form that is actually bad for us.
Corn is a good example, and other foods are
similar. Mother Nature does know best!
4. Overuse of antibiotics and steroids in our
meat and milk supply create even more problems
than they solve, including many bacteria becoming
resistant to such.
5. General deterioration of our environment by
man made toxic pollutants such as carbon dioxide,
mercury in the sea and our water supplies, man
made pesticides that kill much more than was
thought, ad nauseam.
6. The thoughtless use of mercury (Thimerosal)
in vaccines given to babies which has proved to
be a major factor in "mental problems" of all
kinds, particularly the ADD-autism continuum.
Add the "thoughtless" use of drugs for all kinds
of problems.
7. The thoughtless overuse of antibiotics.
Antibiotics have done great work in bacterial
diseases and infections, BUT they can do
tremendous harm to the digestive system unless
provisions are made.
8. Corporate greed producing unhealthy products
and suppressing evidence for money reasons that
would remove them. All too often, new drugs are
not tested over time for long term effects, and
the FDA is manipulated into approving them
without this needed testing, The FDA is now more
interested in protecting Big Pharma than
consumers! (Did you know that more than half the
"approval" board" for new drugs is composed of
people in the industry - Big Pharma? Vested
interest - you think?)
Generational deterioration: This is a downward
spiral effect. As the nutrition of each
generation gets worse, the "leaky gut" syndrome
appears more and more. This leads to more and
more allergic persons, who pass on some of this "
tendency" at least to their children. I have
come to believe that the gut becomes more and
more permeable in the attempt to obtain more
necessary nutrition. This leads to longer chains
of protein amino acids instead of simple digested
chains of 3-5 ones. These longer chains "look
more" like invading bacteria or virus or fungus
or even parasites to our immune systems. Our
immune systems list this chain from this food as
an allergen, and a symptom (warning) is developed.
Before a child is born, the mother should be
getting sufficient nutrition for at least 10
months prior to birth. The father needs good
nutrition as well for at least 2 months prior to
conception. After that, he's done until the next
time.
Without really good nutrition, the first baby
deletes the mother's body (baby has priority
generally). If she has another baby shortly
after, this baby (and the mother) will be "
shorted" even more. And the downward spiral
continues.
Even MD's with their poor knowledge of nutrition
in general are now giving expectant mothers
vitamins and minerals. (Not nearly enough for
what they really need however.)
It's a fact that "we are what we eat". As an 80
year old male, I can remember eating foods as a
young person that were quite different from what
young children eat today. I would have been ADHD
had I been able to eat what kids today eat.
Candy and other sweet foods were limited, and we
ate naturally ripe garden produce in season, and
without pesticides. The meat was often local,
and steroids and antibiotics weren't in the food
chain.
We have changed some foods by various "
scientific" methods. Some of these provide
faster (more profitable) foods, and some of this
has been good, or at least "not bad". However,
all too often, the profit motive is stronger than
the health motive. The "new and improved" corn
turned out to be a horrible mistake. There's a
law that prohibits it from being fed to humans,
and supposedly it is only being fed to the food
animals. (And the jury is still out on whether
this could be another mistake. Why is it that we
always seem to err on the profit side, never the
public health side?
So, what's the answer? Unfortunately, there's
not much we can do about a lot of the problems.
At least the mercury has been taken out of the
baby vaccines, and the lead has been taken out of
the gasoline, and we've started to stop
pesticides in this country at least. But, we're
still at risk! Food from other countries is
coming in with little or no control, and we
suffer. Even our animals are dying from this! (
Look at the Chinese pet food recall, and we are
buying more and more human food from China!)
The old cliché about "you can get all the
nutrition you need from the supermarket" is very
false. Today, in this ever worsening world,
everyone needs vitamin and mineral supplements.
Vitamin/Mineral Supplementation
For the last 25 years of my 80 year old life, I'
ve gradually changed my vitamin/mineral regimen.
I wish I had started it much earlier. I also
wish I had never smoked. I might live forever in
better health if so. What we do in our
thoughtless youth comes back to haunt us in older
age.
The following regime is recommended as a MINIMUM
for everyone over 17.
Solgar VM-75 (or equivalent- read quantities on
label) 1/day w/meal
4000mg of vitamin C split into at least 2 doses (
4 is better)
If there is a problem with vitamin C, it may
indicate a corn allergy. Try switching to
Calcium Ascorbate. If this causes no problem,
check for probable corn allergy.
Babies: Breast feed as much and as long as
physically possible. Breast feeding has proved
to give the baby much more protection against
diseases. Babies also come with a lot of built
in immunity, and breast feeding continues this.
Children from 3-12: You can use the generic type
of one a day vitamins for most children. B and C
vitamins do not accumulate in the body. Avoid
those with very much A and D vitamins, .Avoid
sweetened and so-called "child vitamins",
Children from 12-18: ½ VM-75, or similar. 2000
mg of vitamin C,
Preventing Digestive Problems
A major problem here is that antibiotics kill all
bacteria, and our digestion was designed to use "
friendly" bacteria occurring in nature to help in
the digestion of food, AND to actually produce
some much needed materials there. If the
friendly bacteria are killed by antibiotic action,
then yeast and/or fungus colonies take over the
friendly bacteria spots. This means that several
"known" actions don't take place or are severely
curtailed. These are:
1. B12 isn't transported into the body as well.
2. Some other nutrients aren't digested as well,
and this leads to the "leaky gut" in the attempt
to gain more needed nutrition.
3. Vitamin K which is manufactured in the gut
doesn't get made.
So, what's the answer? It's actually pretty
simple. Avoid taking antibiotics needlessly! If
you have an infection or bacterial disease, take
them of course - and take them for the entire
time needed, NOT just until you feel better).
When you finish taking the last antibiotic pill
or capsule, on the following day, take 10-20
Acidophilus capsules. Take the same amount every
other day for at least 5 times, until your feces
turns a light color for at least 2 days, and any
methane gas expelled has virtually no smell for
two to three days. If you have severe gas and
cramping after the first day, it's because your
gut is loaded with yeast and fungus, and it's
being killed off, and rotting. How's that for a
nice picture?
Another gut problem is too little fiber. For
years all the doctors knew that we didn't digest
sugar formed into cellulose or fiber, so they
thought we didn't need it. They were all wrong.
Nature (and evolution) uses what is there always,
even if we aren't smart enough to see that.
Do you eat a lot of leafy green veggies? If so,
you may be getting enough fiber. If not, you
might get in trouble. The two primary things
that leafy green veggies supply are:
Fiber
Magnesium
Yes, they also supply folic acid, a B vitamin,
and maybe Popeye needs it, but to me the most
important are the other two. (I have always
hated leafy green veggies, so I have to be sure
to intake both fiber and magnesium from other
sources. Folic acid is in the
VM-75.
Look at your stool. Does it float or sink? What
color is it? If consistently light colored and
not that smelly, you're probably in fair to good
shape for friendly bacteria.
Solving Mental Allergy Problems
About 85-90% of the ADD-autism continuum is
caused by "unknown" allergies (unknown to the
sufferer). We also know that this same
percentage of children (and many adults) can
become either "normal", or close to such using
EEG Biofeedback (aka Neurofeedback Training) or
Neuroliminal Brain Wave Training.
Since this is such a striking "co-incidence", I
first proposed the theory that "raising the SMR
brain wave somehow changes the affect on the
brain of allergens". This theory has lots of
anecdotal evidence to support if at this time,
and there is no other working theory extant.
In addition to the ADD-autism continuum,
Neuroliminal Training solves insomnia in over 90%
of all persons tested to date, and 85% of all
depressive tested to date. This compares
favorably to EEG BF in success rate, and offers
an affordable alternate to both dangerous drugs (
Ritalin, Xanax, et al), and expensive EEG BF.
More info at:
http://drbate.com.
We can't reverse what we've done to our food
supply and our bodies as a result of poor and
corrupt science, but we can prevent more of the
same, and the above will help you and yours to
somewhat better health. In one class where I
gave out free samples (30 each) of the Solgar VM-
75, well over half the 55 students reported
feeling much better the next week.
I get no money or even a professional discount
from Solgar or any other supplement company. My
wife and I and most of my family have used the
above recommendations for well over 20 years. (
Side note - neither my wife nor I have ever
noticed any difference over a week of taking any
of the "miracle" liquids such as mangosteen, noni
juice, etc. We believe that people who do are
malnourished!)
Good luck and health to you and yours. Courtesy
of
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