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Dear Dan,

We can't take you off of the list. If you would like to unsubscribe, just look at the bottom of one of your messages that was sent to you. Hit the link "unsubscribe". It might take a while, and you might need to do it a few times.

My best

Aletha

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Please take me off your list. Thanks Dan -- Live life with a smile on your face, tell everyone close to you that you love them, deal with what ever problems you may have with a positive attitude, and leave the rest to god!

[Guest guest]

I find it very disturbing that members of the list take attacks at other

members.   We are all dealing with kids with disabilities.  Some have apraxia

and some have apraxia and autism, sensory integration, mental retardation etc. 

 

I have been on this list awhile and what I have observed is that parents whose

kids solely have the apraxia dx are very, very defensive and don't want their

children lumped into any other category.

 

 I truly understand this; however I find it very insenstive to call children

with MR kids who can't do anything,or to attack kids with autism.  I have no

idea what the percentage of this list is with just the apraxia dx, but I feel

more sensitivity to ALL disabilities is needed.    I don't think the point of

this group is to make other parents feel badly about their child's disability or

their approach to getting their kid's needs met.  Perhaps can shed some

light on the population of the listserv, but I personally feel that if the

parents don't become more sensivite, the children never will.  

 

I don't want to live in a society where the only people who are valued are

people who are perfectly functional and exactly like the next person in

abilities, and looks.

 

Let's all cut each other a break here.   I don't know Toni Braxton either, but I

did go to her concert 2 years ago and she is trying to bring awareness to

autism.  She does NOT have to do this .  It is a personal issue, and she does

not have to become the spokes person for autism, yet she has chosen to do so. 

Yes, she made misstakes, but she is human and not a medical professional.  I

personally would rather have someone hear the word apraxia and go research it on

line or go to the pediatrician and ask if their child has apraxia, even with her

errors, than to have silence on the topic.

 

 

sharon 

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Subject: [childrensapraxiane t] Re: GMA, Savage and local SD Autism mom

@groups. com

Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 9:05 PM

There is outrage over what MS said because there is compassion for

autism and for sure people know what it is. My original point still

stands in that there is an over diagnosis of autism just like there

was an over diagnosis of ADHD and it appeared that was the attack and

not on those that really have autism.

Deb from this group used to have a really good way to deal with

people that stared at her autistic child when he acted up in

public " Please don't stare at me I'm just a child trying to deal with

my disability " Her other son used to hand them out.

You want to know the sad truth is that there is no apraxia in

the eyes of the autism world as it's all autism so in fact he did

call my son a brat too. And...if MS was to say apraxic children are

brats it wouldn't create outrage from anyone. How do I know?

Because Toni Braxton's " autistic " son who was diagnosed as apraxic

was dismissed by her on Larry King when she called apraxia a " fancy

word for a speech delay "

BRAXTON: Oh, my son Diezel is three years old now. And we found out

he was autism -- he was diagnosed, actually, last year, September, in

Vegas. We had to...

KING: What were the signs?

BRAXTON: For me, he wasn't developing like his older brother. He

wouldn't do eye contact. We took him to the doctors, the

developmental pediatricians, and they said oh, he has something

called apraxia, which is a fancy label for a speech delay.

We put him in O.T. occupational therapy and speech, everything we

needed to do. But things just weren't right. He just -- he didn't

talk. He stopped saying words. Just -- he just wasn't different than

his brother.

http://transcripts. cnn.com/TRANSCRI PTS/0703/ 21/lkl.01. html

There are around 400 hits if you google " Toni Braxton " and apraxia -

and none from the media- just blogs or posts from people on the net

in response to Toni saying apraxia is just a fancy word for speech

delay. Yet if you google " Savage " and autism you get

550...thousand -that's 400 hits to 550,000 hits.

Does it bother me? Yes it does that everyone thinks apraxia is

autism. It's not. I don't know Toni Braxton nor her child but I do

know many misdiagnosed apraxic children and they need a voice. And

let me make it clear that nobody will fight with you over your

child's diagnosis. If it bothers you if people question it then

that's you taking it personal. Your child is autistic -we get it.

If he's progressing in therapy that is all that matters. I'm here to

bring a voice to all those with communication impairments and that

includes autism but it not limited to just autism. Again not all

children that are not talking with sensory issues are autistic and

it's cruel to the children that are misdiagnosed as well as to those

that really have autism. If you read the defense MS says that's his

point is against misdiagnosis and in defense of those that really are

autistic. Nobody is defending an attack on autism -but some of us

are saying we need to question why there is so much misdiagnosis

because again...autism therapy is not appropriate for apraxia and can

be detrimental. In reality there are far more apraxics than

autistics -and most autistics have underlying undiagnosed speech

impairments including apraxia while the average apraxic child is not

autistic.

So while autism therapy can be detrimental to misdiagnosed as

autistic children that are really apraxic -apraxia therapy will

probably benefit many autistic children.

Jeannie Buesser who is a moderator here and who has one child with

apraxia and one child with autism is very vocal about why she does

all her outreach for apraxia- she too as the parent of a child who

has each disorder is sick of the lack of awareness about autism.

So actually I take it back -I hope that MS does call apraxia brats.

I wish it would bring apraxia into the spotlight -that would be

awesome . MS call apraxic children brats...please! !! The kids

need a voice already. (insert cricket sound here whether he does or

doesn't)

That (again) is my point. Sorry if it offends you.

=====

[Guest guest]

Sharon,

I completely agree. Actually, I found nothing offensive in Toni Braxtons words

and have actually used a similar phrase to explain apraxia/dyspraxia myself to

people who were not at all attuned to neurodevelopmental disorders!

It is very easy to take a small comment that a parent uses to quickly put across

the message of their child's illness..... and to blow it out of proportion

because " we " want more attention to be paid to it. Sometimes a parent just uses

the most expedient words as possible.

For instance, when asked about Mark's dyspraxia in the past by casual

acquaintances, I would merely explain it as a muscle issue. Now, we know that

this is a complete misstatement for dyspraxia is far, far more than that! But

at the time, it was an easy way of explaining his differences.

Yesterday, my son had two friends stay over at the house; they are twins and one

child has a nut allergy. I joked to the dad as he dropped off the boys sleeping

bags that I needed to be cautious as Mark can only eat nut products! My house is

full of them and we have no starchy carbs in the house at present (only Almond

Milk, nutty cereals etc.) He asked why? I told him briefly about our issues

with foods and milks and that milk makes my son really dopey and slurs his

speech. I didn't go into the issues of intestinal permeability or all of the

other cofactors such as yeast and bacteria or speak about his digestive system.

I just said that he gets a delayed IgG reaction which results in " dopiness " !

It was nice of the dad to comment to me that he never saw any issues with either

Mark's speech or his abilities at any time that he was over at their house.

That was so nice to hear! Music to my ears in fact.....

Personally, I wish that I had known about the relationship between dyspraxia and

ASD many, many years ago since I realize that my son has many of the identical

medical issues of the children with ASD. I now see that he is slightly ASD.

But in truth, his condition could have been diagnosed as mild CP as well and I

really can see very little difference between those two diagnosis either. All

of these neurodevelopmental delays that are not physical in nature (i.e.. brain

damage or Trisotomy 21 which I don't know much about) are intertwined and

connected in my viewpoint and experience.

Quite frankly..... what is MR? To me, it is just a catch all label that doesn't

tell you the root issue of what a child is experiencing. When Mark was in grade

2, he was diagnosed as 'borderline' mentally handicapped but with the therapy to

overcome his auditory processing issues, this has disappeared and he has no

intellectual issues whatsoever anymore. His IQ is completely normal! Did his

slight MR go away? NO! He never really had it! It was just that his senses

were not processing information correctly and his output wasn't what it should

have been given his age on a particular day of testing. We fixed the sense that

wasn't working and voila..... he was able to process information accurately! So,

I don't quite understand exactly what MR is! That label doesn't seem to tell

you much, imo.

People tend to be frightened of what they don't understand but I now see that

there is a little NDD in ALL of us! Our differences create this wonderful, vast

and rich world that we live in.

Janice

Mother of Mark, 13

[childrensapraxiane t] Re: GMA, Savage and local SD Autism

mom

@groups. com

Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 9:05 PM

There is outrage over what MS said because there is compassion for

autism and for sure people know what it is. My original point still

stands in that there is an over diagnosis of autism just like there

was an over diagnosis of ADHD and it appeared that was the attack and

not on those that really have autism.

Deb from this group used to have a really good way to deal with

people that stared at her autistic child when he acted up in

public " Please don't stare at me I'm just a child trying to deal with

my disability " Her other son used to hand them out.

You want to know the sad truth is that there is no apraxia in

the eyes of the autism world as it's all autism so in fact he did

call my son a brat too. And...if MS was to say apraxic children are

brats it wouldn't create outrage from anyone. How do I know?

Because Toni Braxton's " autistic " son who was diagnosed as apraxic

was dismissed by her on Larry King when she called apraxia a " fancy

word for a speech delay "

BRAXTON: Oh, my son Diezel is three years old now. And we found out

he was autism -- he was diagnosed, actually, last year, September, in

Vegas. We had to...

KING: What were the signs?

BRAXTON: For me, he wasn't developing like his older brother. He

wouldn't do eye contact. We took him to the doctors, the

developmental pediatricians, and they said oh, he has something

called apraxia, which is a fancy label for a speech delay.

We put him in O.T. occupational therapy and speech, everything we

needed to do. But things just weren't right. He just -- he didn't

talk. He stopped saying words. Just -- he just wasn't different than

his brother.

http://transcripts. cnn.com/TRANSCRI PTS/0703/ 21/lkl.01. html

There are around 400 hits if you google " Toni Braxton " and apraxia -

and none from the media- just blogs or posts from people on the net

in response to Toni saying apraxia is just a fancy word for speech

delay. Yet if you google " Savage " and autism you get

550...thousand -that's 400 hits to 550,000 hits.

Does it bother me? Yes it does that everyone thinks apraxia is

autism. It's not. I don't know Toni Braxton nor her child but I do

know many misdiagnosed apraxic children and they need a voice. And

let me make it clear that nobody will fight with you over your

child's diagnosis. If it bothers you if people question it then

that's you taking it personal. Your child is autistic -we get it.

If he's progressing in therapy that is all that matters. I'm here to

bring a voice to all those with communication impairments and that

includes autism but it not limited to just autism. Again not all

children that are not talking with sensory issues are autistic and

it's cruel to the children that are misdiagnosed as well as to those

that really have autism. If you read the defense MS says that's his

point is against misdiagnosis and in defense of those that really are

autistic. Nobody is defending an attack on autism -but some of us

are saying we need to question why there is so much misdiagnosis

because again...autism therapy is not appropriate for apraxia and can

be detrimental. In reality there are far more apraxics than

autistics -and most autistics have underlying undiagnosed speech

impairments including apraxia while the average apraxic child is not

autistic.

So while autism therapy can be detrimental to misdiagnosed as

autistic children that are really apraxic -apraxia therapy will

probably benefit many autistic children.

Jeannie Buesser who is a moderator here and who has one child with

apraxia and one child with autism is very vocal about why she does

all her outreach for apraxia- she too as the parent of a child who

has each disorder is sick of the lack of awareness about autism.

So actually I take it back -I hope that MS does call apraxia brats.

I wish it would bring apraxia into the spotlight -that would be

awesome . MS call apraxic children brats...please! !! The kids

need a voice already. (insert cricket sound here whether he does or

doesn't)

That (again) is my point. Sorry if it offends you.

=====

[Guest guest]

hi, what is NDD,MR,CP, & ASD?? i have wondered this for a while being on here and

never asked.-darcy

[Guest guest]

MR = mental retardation

CP = cerebral palsy

Not sure what the other two are yet!

in Ohio

>

> hi, what is NDD,MR,CP, & ASD?? i have wondered this for a while being

on here and never asked.-darcy

>

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NDD neurodevelopmental delay

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> >

> > hi, what is NDD,MR,CP, & ASD?? i have wondered this for a while

being

> on here and never asked.-darcy

> >

>

[Guest guest]

Dear Virginia,

Along with you, there is not a day that goes by that I am not grateful for

my 13 years (July '96) of survivorship, but it didn't start out that way. It

was chaos, self pity and ignorance, of not knowing what the future held and that

life sucked. Even if I am sick today, I feel tomorrow I have another chance to

start over. Without a doubt, there will be a cure and I want to be around to

learn about it for those who come after me.

Blessings,

Lottie

[Guest guest]

,

I am, as always, in awe of what you do and the time you give to those who cannot

pay, or don't have the money to pay fully.

I wish I had a way to help you remain open as a non-profit. But all I can say

is that I have told my family that if I were to recur and end up at a later

stage, then please get me to immediately.

I suppose there are no easy answers for your clinic right now. I do wish you

the best of luck.

ar

[Guest guest]

,

Your comment about the FDA made me laugh out loud. Oh goodness.

And you are right. I believe we Americans are wasteful and health care costs

are far too high. It scares me, actually.

And I hope the health care mess gets straightened out before November because

that's when my unemployment runs out and I will have to choose between buying

food and having water and electricity, or paying my Cobra payment.

I'm not very good at thinking up names, but perhaps something along the lines of

's Snake Oil Emporium and Miraculous Medicine Shop would work to drum up

some business.

All my best.

ar

>

> Hello Ar,

>

> I do want the whole Center to be a worldwide community effort. One

> list member, Judy, has rounded up donations of tons of hospital

> surplus equipment and soon-to-expire supplies. We reallocate this to

> Mexican Clinics. On occasion we have had a parade of people walking

> across the border each carrying a Santa Claus size bag of syringes,

> catheters, dressings, spinal tap trays, etc. This is a lot of fun

> for the docs to paw through. You would be absolutely amazed at the

> wastefulness of US hospitals.

>

> I pay Kaiser $18,000 per year for insurance for my four-member

> family. I hate it, but we all need emergency protection. What if

> the FDA accidentally ran over me as I crossed the street? We don't

> need US healthcare run by big corporations or by the government. We

> need US healthcare operated by a Mexican clinic. Those guys know how

> to save money.

>

> One of our participants has just returned from a two-month stint in a

> Chinese hospital: the Guangzhou Armed Police Hospital. I need to

> come up with a cool name like that. He paid maybe 5-10% of what he

> would have to pay in the US and he was able to use top-of-the-line

> equipment operated by English-speaking oncologists. I will get a

> full report today.

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

,

I don't have too much of an idea of what you do since most of it seems to

involve a lot of chemistry, which has never exactly been my strong point. I do

hope you are able to keep your clinic open. It has seemed to me that people as

a whole in the US have the mindset that doctors are gods. They say that

alternatives are great and then when they have a health crisis such as cancer,

the only paradigm they will consider is mainstream " therapies " . A lady I know

recently told me that she had breast cancer. She had one breast removed 10-15

years ago. I told her about some possibilities but she is set on going to

radiation/chemo route.

GB

>

> List,

>

> My organization is a non-profit. I have tried to build it up like a

> club so that difficult-to-understand and hard-to-obtain therapies are

> available to anyone who sees fit to use them. For over 25 years I

> have synthesized hundreds of such meds and formulated or extracted

> thousands. Virtually none of these have been approved by authorities

> nor applied by conventional practitioners so in this respect almost

> all are alternatives. I don't market them though I do try to do what

> I can to help make them available. When chemistry is involved I have

> offered free teaching sessions. At the retreat center we have free

> guest lecturers from around the world. We had Manju Ray from India

> visit twice to give free public lectures on methylglyoxal. I do free

> consultations four mornings a week. This is much to the

> consternation of my secretary as she knows what our budget is. Some

> of the more expensive meds such as antineoplastons I would make and

> give away free. I provide a free place to stay in the mountains for

> anyone with cancer. This is a $24,000 annual personal donation

> without a tax benefit.

>

> Someone expressed some resentment that I said I'm not a fan of any

> conventional or alternative meds. I am not, not even of the things I

> make. This is intentional. Krishamurti called this " creative

> dissatisfaction. " Nothing will ever get better when people are too

> easily satisfied.

>

> I think that nothing is ever going to change in conventional

> medicine. The money is just too great. On the other hand holistic

> practitioners generally have to scuffle to get by. Because their

> services are undervalued they often make ends meet by selling the

> latest health fad. They tend to believe the advertising

> themselves. In three months it is going to be another product, and

> then another product.

>

> Because they don't see enough cancer patients of any type of cancer,

> they rarely get an understanding of what is realistically likely to

> save the day. To the extent that they are not allowed to use

> conventional meds they deride conventional meds. This further

> polarizes the two camps, which can't be in the best interest of the patient.

>

> Neither camp has the stomach for criticizing their own school of

> thought or their own meds or their own economics. Both conventional

> and alternative practitioners take advantage -- wittingly or not --

> of their patients' belief systems. This is actually a major part of

> helping a person get well. Sometimes belief alone will cure, as long

> as natural healing mechanisms aren't undermined by toxic meds.

>

> Naturopaths/holistic practitioners have one distinct advantage over

> conventional medicine. Philosophically they pay obeisance to the

> cruelest and most mindless authority -- nature. The conventional

> paradigm conducts hundreds of thousands of experiments mostly

> dedicated to making money from the misery of others. On the other

> hand, everything nature does, the almost infinite number of events,

> seemingly serve one goal: to breed resilient survivors. I like to

> remind our program participants that they have a right to feel proud:

> every one of their millions of ancestors survived long enough to

> reproduce -- every last one of them.

>

> There just aren't many problems that nature hasn't solved, and it is

> still solving them. In the past it has fostered life through the

> Great Oxygen Event (2.3 billion years ago), through the

> Permian-Triassic extinction (251 million years ago), through the

> Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event (65 million years ago), through

> innumerable ice ages, and now life will find a way to survive the

> Great Technological Suicide.

>

> I don't apologize that we do well with cancer. I have easier access

> to many professionals, clinics, and meds than is convenient for most

> people, but my methods are not way of the future. My methods tend to

> be those of moderately high technology that I try to make available

> for people to do themselves. I try to do what Thomson did in

> providing herbs and instructions for farmers during the early 1800s,

> only I do it in ways that are appropriate for a world that is

> technologically developed.

>

> As I said, this is not the way of the future. It is still too

> dependent on laboratory equipment and chemicals. We won't be able to

> step back from cancer till we pay close attention to nature. I have

> tracked cancer rates and observations of primitive inland cultures on

> every continent. During the 19th and early 20th centuries there was

> virtually no cancer. Simple cultures didn't have access to trade

> routes or what we think of as civilization. They were very poor and

> meat was a rare luxury. They had virtually no salt. Salt during

> this period was one of the world's highest-priced commodities. Those

> who had salt deficiencies could eat meat, but even that was expensive

> and reserved for rare special events. Salt was the cudgel by which

> the British controlled India, a country where beef was taboo and much

> salt was lost through perspiration in the hot climate. It was only

> Ghandi's strategy of civil disobedience that motivated people to make

> or collect their own salt (risking steep fines and imprisonment) that

> finally liberated India from the Brits.

>

> With the need for massive amounts of salt in chemical production and

> manufacturing, salt went from being one of the worlds most expensive

> and rare commodities to one of the cheapest. Salt started appearing

> everywhere in foods and snacks, and this is throughout the world.

>

> What does this have to do with cancer? It has been known since the

> early 1970s that the rate of cell division is inversely proportional

> to the membrane potential. By the over consumption of salt and the

> reduction in vegetables we are greatly distorting the

> potassium/sodium ratio and reducing the membrane potential. Our

> minimum sodium requirement is 400mg/day. We tend to consume ten

> times this -- 4 grams per day. Contributing to the problem we

> consume about half as much potassium as we need. Our ancestors had a

> K/Na ratio of about 16:1. Our average diet has a K/Na ratio of about

> 0.6:1. This imbalance is especially reflected in the greater number

> of stomach and colon cancers that are strongly associated with our

> sodium consumption.

>

> The deluge of sodium in our diets displaces lithium. As lithium is

> reduced the rates of viral infection, suicide, depression, and

> addictions all increase. Both the sodium and the chloride may be

> associated with hypertension. A great excess of chloride can throw

> off the balance of the other halides: iodine, fluoride, bromide each

> of which has its own " ism " or " osis " caused by excess.

>

> The people I see are mostly those for whom it is crunch time, but

> this is no way to practice healthcare. Unfortunately most

> naturopaths become purveyors of nutriceuticals which brings them down

> to the level of conventional physicians with their prescriptions for

> patent medicines from the pharmaceutical companies. As " medicines "

> are so much a part of our acculturation it would behoove all

> practitioners to solemnly issue placebos to their patients and then

> give them dietary and political prescriptions -- especially the

> latter. Learn from Gandhi's remedy and practice civil disobedience

> when big corporations trounce on our health. This is exactly what

> I'm doing when I teach organic synthesis and herbal extraction

> methods to those who want to achieve independence.

>

> If anyone wants to take over the non-profit, they are welcome to

> it. I have to raise $30,000 per month to keep the doors open and I

> am buckling under the strain.

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

The closest thing to a natural cure is cis-9-cetylmyristoleate

(CMO). You can price shop from different suppliers on

www.iherb.com.

At 09:50 AM 8/10/2009, you wrote:

>

>,

>

>My husband has ruematoid arthritis. Do you know any natural cures.

>Thanks,

>Robyn

[Guest guest]

Also

Glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate are effective in the management of

osteoarthritis

[Guest guest]

Dear and list,

I have known for over six years.

Visited him and his operation twice for visits that lasted several days each.

has been a close friend and my mentor all these years.

I have the outmost respect for as a caring compassionate witty human

being, as well as an outstanding professional in the field of cancer treatment.

I am indeed sorry to be witnessing the hardships that the non profit

organization is heading is currently facing. It is so regretful. I wish

for all this to be resolved for the benefit of the many more cancer patients

that can be helped in the future by him.

Gubi

[ ] List

List,

My organization is a non-profit. I have tried to build it up like a

club so that difficult-to-understand and hard-to-obtain therapies are

available to anyone who sees fit to use them. For over 25 years I

have synthesized hundreds of such meds and formulated or extracted

thousands. Virtually none of these have been approved by authorities

nor applied by conventional practitioners so in this respect almost

all are alternatives. I don't market them though I do try to do what

I can to help make them available. When chemistry is involved I have

offered free teaching sessions. At the retreat center we have free

guest lecturers from around the world. We had Manju Ray from India

visit twice to give free public lectures on methylglyoxal. I do free

consultations four mornings a week. This is much to the

consternation of my secretary as she knows what our budget is. Some

of the more expensive meds such as antineoplastons I would make and

give away free. I provide a free place to stay in the mountains for

anyone with cancer. This is a $24,000 annual personal donation

without a tax benefit.

Someone expressed some resentment that I said I'm not a fan of any

conventional or alternative meds. I am not, not even of the things I

make. This is intentional. Krishamurti called this " creative

dissatisfaction. " Nothing will ever get better when people are too

easily satisfied.

I think that nothing is ever going to change in conventional

medicine. The money is just too great. On the other hand holistic

practitioners generally have to scuffle to get by. Because their

services are undervalued they often make ends meet by selling the

latest health fad. They tend to believe the advertising

themselves. In three months it is going to be another product, and

then another product.

Because they don't see enough cancer patients of any type of cancer,

they rarely get an understanding of what is realistically likely to

save the day. To the extent that they are not allowed to use

conventional meds they deride conventional meds. This further

polarizes the two camps, which can't be in the best interest of the patient.

Neither camp has the stomach for criticizing their own school of

thought or their own meds or their own economics. Both conventional

and alternative practitioners take advantage -- wittingly or not --

of their patients' belief systems. This is actually a major part of

helping a person get well. Sometimes belief alone will cure, as long

as natural healing mechanisms aren't undermined by toxic meds.

Naturopaths/holistic practitioners have one distinct advantage over

conventional medicine. Philosophically they pay obeisance to the

cruelest and most mindless authority -- nature. The conventional

paradigm conducts hundreds of thousands of experiments mostly

dedicated to making money from the misery of others. On the other

hand, everything nature does, the almost infinite number of events,

seemingly serve one goal: to breed resilient survivors. I like to

remind our program participants that they have a right to feel proud:

every one of their millions of ancestors survived long enough to

reproduce -- every last one of them.

There just aren't many problems that nature hasn't solved, and it is

still solving them. In the past it has fostered life through the

Great Oxygen Event (2.3 billion years ago), through the

Permian-Triassic extinction (251 million years ago), through the

Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event (65 million years ago), through

innumerable ice ages, and now life will find a way to survive the

Great Technological Suicide.

I don't apologize that we do well with cancer. I have easier access

to many professionals, clinics, and meds than is convenient for most

people, but my methods are not way of the future. My methods tend to

be those of moderately high technology that I try to make available

for people to do themselves. I try to do what Thomson did in

providing herbs and instructions for farmers during the early 1800s,

only I do it in ways that are appropriate for a world that is

technologically developed.

As I said, this is not the way of the future. It is still too

dependent on laboratory equipment and chemicals. We won't be able to

step back from cancer till we pay close attention to nature. I have

tracked cancer rates and observations of primitive inland cultures on

every continent. During the 19th and early 20th centuries there was

virtually no cancer. Simple cultures didn't have access to trade

routes or what we think of as civilization. They were very poor and

meat was a rare luxury. They had virtually no salt. Salt during

this period was one of the world's highest-priced commodities. Those

who had salt deficiencies could eat meat, but even that was expensive

and reserved for rare special events. Salt was the cudgel by which

the British controlled India, a country where beef was taboo and much

salt was lost through perspiration in the hot climate. It was only

Ghandi's strategy of civil disobedience that motivated people to make

or collect their own salt (risking steep fines and imprisonment) that

finally liberated India from the Brits.

With the need for massive amounts of salt in chemical production and

manufacturing, salt went from being one of the worlds most expensive

and rare commodities to one of the cheapest. Salt started appearing

everywhere in foods and snacks, and this is throughout the world.

What does this have to do with cancer? It has been known since the

early 1970s that the rate of cell division is inversely proportional

to the membrane potential. By the over consumption of salt and the

reduction in vegetables we are greatly distorting the

potassium/sodium ratio and reducing the membrane potential. Our

minimum sodium requirement is 400mg/day. We tend to consume ten

times this -- 4 grams per day. Contributing to the problem we

consume about half as much potassium as we need. Our ancestors had a

K/Na ratio of about 16:1. Our average diet has a K/Na ratio of about

0.6:1. This imbalance is especially reflected in the greater number

of stomach and colon cancers that are strongly associated with our

sodium consumption.

The deluge of sodium in our diets displaces lithium. As lithium is

reduced the rates of viral infection, suicide, depression, and

addictions all increase. Both the sodium and the chloride may be

associated with hypertension. A great excess of chloride can throw

off the balance of the other halides: iodine, fluoride, bromide each

of which has its own " ism " or " osis " caused by excess.

The people I see are mostly those for whom it is crunch time, but

this is no way to practice healthcare. Unfortunately most

naturopaths become purveyors of nutriceuticals which brings them down

to the level of conventional physicians with their prescriptions for

patent medicines from the pharmaceutical companies. As " medicines "

are so much a part of our acculturation it would behoove all

practitioners to solemnly issue placebos to their patients and then

give them dietary and political prescriptions -- especially the

latter. Learn from Gandhi's remedy and practice civil disobedience

when big corporations trounce on our health. This is exactly what

I'm doing when I teach organic synthesis and herbal extraction

methods to those who want to achieve independence.

If anyone wants to take over the non-profit, they are welcome to

it. I have to raise $30,000 per month to keep the doors open and I

am buckling under the strain.