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Residents in and around Bessemer are furious over Project Marvel, a plan to build a 4.5-million-square-foot data processing facility on 700 acres of wooded land. Public officials have been sworn to silence.
With food, most with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome think about Histamine Intolerance. Although many also experience Salicylate intolerance...
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Testing Carpets, Mattresses, and Pets for Environmental Mold Issues when you have Mast Cell Activation Syndrome or Histamine Intolerance
There are a lot of hidden sources of mold in our homes — some that you’d never even think of.
Pets are a huge mold contributor. To test pets, you can do a “tap test.” Order a petri dish from immunolytics.com. On their website, they show you how to do a tap test.
You’re basically going to take that agar plate, tap it four times on your pet, wrap it up, and send it to the lab. Then they’re going to analyze what molds, if any, are growing on that pet. It’s amazing how much mold can grow in a pet’s fur.
It’s the same thing with your bed, your pillows, and your couch.
Mattresses are one of the worst places. If your mattress is more than eight years old, it’s time to get rid of it. And if there was a major mold intrusion in your house, it’s a good idea to start over with a new mattress.
It’s also a good idea to start over with pillows every two years. It is amazing how much you sweat and drool into those.
Many of us believe firmly in a Star Trek world to come, where technology and science would eventually have an answer to every problem we face today: from cancer to infinite growth on a finite planet…
A stock without dividends is a Ponzi asset. It’s not how equity instruments were designed to work historically and not how ownership instruments are supposed to work logically.
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How will you cook your food when the power goes out? In this video, we will share with you our top 5 methods for cooking when the grid goes down. Plan to cook both indoors and outdoors!
"when you have hidden information you can COMPLETELY manipulate a large group"
In this powerful and unfiltered talk, Shahid Bolsen breaks down the colonial reality of Zionism, exposing it as an extension of Western imperialism rather than a purely Jewish movement. He challenges the narrative that America is merely a puppet of Zionist interests, highlighting the long history of U.S. genocides and occupations around the world.
Bolsen also dissects the demographics of Israel, questioning the Jewish identity of its settler population and how the label "Jewish" is being used to shield the true architects of Western domination in Palestine.
" all you have to do is turn on the radio to know this"
Why is revolution impossible in the United States? In this hard-hitting talk, Shahid Bolsen dissects the psychological, political, and economic forces that ensure American society will never rise up—despite deep inequality, exploitation, and systemic injustice.
From the illusion of democracy to the paralyzing comfort of consumerism, Bolsen exposes the mechanisms that keep Americans compliant and disorganized. He explains why even the most radical voices ultimately serve the status quo—and what this means for global change.
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Matt Cook here, and aspirin is an amazing substance.
It can lower the risk of most common chronic diseases – including colorectal cancer.
One of the things aspirin does is inhibit an enzyme called COX-2.
This has led to studies showing that COX-2 inhibitors can reduce colorectal cancer.
But many other COX-2 inhibitors are not as safe as aspirin…
Studies have shown that using the COX-2 inhibitor celecoxib to reduce colorectal cancer can double your risk of cardiovascular problems.
This treatment is also used for acute pain, ankylosing spondylitis, dysmenorrhea, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and migraines.
The human research was carried out at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. This paper was published in Circulation.
The researchers looked at data from trials on the ability of the COX-2 inhibitor celecoxib to reduce adenomatous polyps.
These are growths in the colon or rectum, usually benign, but they can develop into colorectal cancer over time.
The researchers analyzed data from studies that used different doses of celecoxib or placebo over a long period.
The studies tracked all sorts of health metrics – including serious cardiovascular events.
The researchers found that higher daily doses of celecoxib were associated with greater cardiovascular problems.
Taking 400mg of celecoxib once a day was associated with a 30% increase in cardiovascular issues.
Taking 400mg twice daily was associated with a 240% increase in cardiovascular issues.
Taking this treatment was associated with a near doubling of major cardiovascular risk!
The researchers also found a significant increase in blood pressure in people taking these treatments.
Again, higher doses were associated with a greater increase in blood pressure.
The longer people use these treatments, the greater the increase in blood pressure.
Inhibiting COX-2 very likely decreases the risk of colorectal cancer. It's a good thing to do.
But it's important to pay attention to the method.
While low doses of the COX-2 inhibitor aspirin can be beneficial and safe, other COX-2 inhibitors like celecoxib can have major side effects.
Using this treatment regularly seems to double the risk of major cardiovascular problems.
The treatment also clearly increases blood pressure.
This can cause further problems, as doctors may try to deal with the increase in blood pressure by using other harmful treatments.**
Aspirin is a very useful treatment. But it's out of patent, extremely cheap, and not profitable.
Big Pharma is always trying to replace aspirin with patentable treatment.
But every time they do this, they come up with something that fits a narrow biochemical definition but has disastrous health consequences.
-Matt Cook / malehealthcures.com
Matt Cook here, and disease states which are usually reversible lead to the narrowing and tightening of blood vessels.
This changes blood flow – restricting its movement around the body.
Inadequate blood flow starves every part of the body – including the penis.
When blood flow becomes more difficult, the body increases blood pressure to try and force more blood to the muscles and organs.
This is one of the reasons why high blood pressure is associated with poor rockiness.
It’s not blood pressure that causes the problem – blood pressure is just a side-effect.
That’s a topic for another time – I have covered it in detail in my newsletters.
But there is another factor that can cause penis problems…
It seems that the treatments commonly used to treat high blood pressure also cause poor rockiness – or make it worse.
At least some of them do..
The human research was carried out at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. This paper was published in The Journal of Clinical Hypertension.
Rockiness problems and other sexual problems have been linked to both high blood pressure and blood pressure treatments.
This worries doctors and researchers because if these treatments affect your sex life people are less likely to take them.
The optimal solution is to solve the issue causing high blood pressure so you don’t need the treatments…
…not to suppress the symptom with treatments which cause other problems.
This research paper was written to inform doctors about the effects of different blood pressure treatments on sex life…
…so they can recommend treatments that men are more likely to take.
Blood pressure treatments can often cause sexual problems – so changing treatments can solve that issue – at least for a while.
The research involved analyzing a lot of previous studies on different blood pressure treatments.
The authors also looked at lots of reports from men using these treatments.
Numerous studies have shown that men who use blood pressure treatments often report sexual side effects – not good ones.
But some blood pressure treatments seem less harmful to libido and sexual performance.
One blood pressure treatment called losartan actually seemed to improve the sex life of men with high blood pressure.
A number of human studies showed that losartan actually improved rockiness, sexual satisfaction, and frequency of sexual activity in men.
Blood pressure treatments like losartan might actually improve sexual function – quite the opposite of most blood pressure treatments.
Losartan lowers blood pressure by acting on an enzyme called angiotensin II.
This enzyme also affects the ability to get rocky.
Losartan changes how the penis handles blood flow.
You should always work closely with your doctor regarding your treatments.
If you’re having these problems your doctor might be interested in changing your treatments to one which has fewer side effects.
I think the best solution is to reverse the problems causing poor blood flow in the first place…
Because these problems are the root cause of high blood pressure and rockiness problems.
-Matt Cook / malehealthcures.com
If you ask men about their top 5 health fears, high cholesterol and prostate cancer will probably be on that list.
These 2 health issues shouldn’t be a worry for most men.
High cholesterol does not cause disease – although it can indicate underlying health problems.
Forcing cholesterol levels down with statin treatments doesn't improve outcomes because cholesterol isn’t the problem.
Statin treatments can also have very troublesome side effects.
And in the case of prostate cancer, it’s massively overdiagnosed and massively over treated.
But there are some rare cases of “high-grade” prostate cancer which can be worrying.
A number of studies have shown that taking statins increases the risk of being diagnosed with high-grade prostate cancers.
The human research was carried out at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. The findings are published in the European Journal of Cancer. (PMID: 25727881)
A number of different treatments have been proposed to alter prostate cancer risk.
This study was designed to analyze some large datasets to see if the researchers could find any relationship.
The researchers used data from Swedish public health records.
In the dataset, over 185,000 Swedish men had presented for a PSA test.
The PSA is a blood test which looks at a protein related to inflammation of the prostate.
Of these men, a further 18,500 men’s PSA test results identified them (probably incorrectly) as at risk of having prostate cancer…
…so they went for a prostate biopsy.
The PSA test identifies many men who are not at risk of having prostate cancer as targets for further investigation.
The prostate biopsy can cause infection of the area – leading to hospitalization and other serious repercussions.
The prostate biopsy samples were analyzed in a standardized way.
Researchers look at them under a microscope to see if there’s any changes in the growth of prostate cells which could indicate cancer.
These biopsies analysis are then rated on something called a Gleason scale.
The samples which look more cancerous receive a higher score.
Most diagnosed prostate cancers are extremely slow-growing.
Men with these diagnoses will almost certainly die of something else if the cancer is untreated.
But for some men, men with a high Gleason score, prostate cancer can sometimes be a problem.
The study found that some treatments like aspirin were associated with a slightly lower PSA score.
Statin treatments were associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer diagnosis.
Low-grade prostate cancer is usually completely harmless…
But the diagnosis itself can lead to some very harmful and unnecessary treatments.
“Men using statins had a 16% increased risk of prostate cancer diagnosis.”
But most importantly, statin treatments are associated with a significantly higher risk of high-grade prostate cancer…
The rare, aggressive prostate cancer which can be a health risk in itself.
“Men using statins had a 25% increased risk of high grade prostate cancer.”
A significant increase in the risk of high-grade prostate cancer can be added to the list of problems caused by statin treatments.
Statins are used to force down blood cholesterol levels. Cholesterol has been associated with cardiovascular and other diseases.
But cholesterol has never been shown to be a cause of these diseases.
Quite the opposite – cholesterol is usually a protective factor in the context of another health problem.
Low thyroid hormones and low-grade bacterial infection are common causes of high cholesterol.
These underlying health problems are the cause of cardiovascular disease and other health problems which are linked to cholesterol.
The increase in prostate cancer diagnosis and high-grade prostate cancer in statin users underlines the importance of properly assessing the causes for high cholesterol…
…rather than simply treating the symptom by beating down cholesterol levels with statins.
-Matt Cook
About 805,000 Americans have a heart attack every year.
And about 1 in 5 of these heart attacks is silent.
That means that people have the heart attacks and all the damage associated with them, but the damage is permanent.
For most people, a heart attack is their biggest risk of death and about one person dies every 36 seconds from heart disease.
Many others have permanent physical and mental effects from having a heart attack.That means that preventing heart disease and protecting your heart if you do have a heart attack are critical to good health.
It looks like vitamin E might have potential in this area.In a mice study published in Redox Biology, researchers studied whether the administration of Vitamin E at the onset of a heart attack could potentially help decrease damage from the heart attack.
"One of the most effective anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory agents is vitamin E and its derivatives."
The goal is to find an inexpensive treatment that can be given on the way to the hospital that will help prevent damage.
"Our treatment regime reflects clinical conditions, where patients could receive their first application of vitamin E in the ambulance or upon their arrival in the emergency department, before reopening and stenting the blocked vessel and the following days in hospital before discharge."
In this study, mice were subject to cardio injuries and given vitamin E for three days. Then the researchers measured the heart function of the mice.
The cardioprotective effect of α-TOH treatment compared to controls was already significant at week 1 post-I/R injury (34.6 ± 8.3 vs 48.5 ± 5.7; **p < 0.01). Similar results were obtained at week 2 (32.8 ± 8.6 vs 45.9 ± 3.7; p < 0.01), week 3 (31.9 ± 11.4 vs 46.1 ± 3.8; p < 0.001), and week 4 (30.2 ± 11.8 vs 46.1 ± 3.3
The vitamin E significantly increased the heart health of the mice almost immediately and at 4 weeks out.
The measurements of fractional shortening, cardiac output, and stroke volume also showed significant cardioprotective effects of α-TOH
Because there are no treatments that can currently protect the heart in the case of a heart attack, if these findings transfer to humans it would be quite significant.
"As there is currently no ‘treatment’ available that can reduce the cardiac damage caused by an overshooting inflammation after reopening of a blocked coronary artery, the potential impact of our finding on cardiovascular health would be signi?cant," said Dr Wallert.
Personally, I love vitamin E -- particularly those with high gamma tocopherol, and those that are fully natural rather than made from petroleum.
Some of the best vitamin E today is made from wheat germ and has all the good phytonutrients in it. And no wheat or gluten either.
Vitamin E is pretty miraculous.
I’m hoping this research pans out, because if it works the way the scientists are hoping it could mean much better outcomes for thousands of people every year who experience a heart attack.
-Matt Cook