Showing posts with label Fat-Soluble Vitamin A. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fat-Soluble Vitamin A. Show all posts

Monday, January 29, 2024

The measles vaccine was introduced in 1963 AFTER the death rate in the USA plummeted to 0.2 in 100,000 in 1960

The measles death rate (deaths per 100,000 people) in the United States was:

  • 1900 – 13.3 (about 7000 deaths)
  • 1910 – 12.4
  • 1920 – 8.8
  • 1930 – 3.2
  • 1935 – 3.1
  • 1940 – 0.5
  • 1945 – 0.2
  • 1950 – 0.3 (468 deaths)
  • 1955 – 0.2 (345 deaths)
  • 1960 – 0.2 (380 deaths)
  • 1963 – first measles vaccine licensed
  • 1965 – 0.1 (276 deaths)
  • 1970 – 0.0 (89 deaths)
  • 1975 – 0.0 (20 deaths)
  • 1980 – 0.0 (11 deaths)
  • 1985 – 0.0 (4 deaths)

That’s not surprising though. The general death rate had dropped from 17.8 in 1900 to 7.6 in 1960. For infants under age 12 months, the death rate dropped from 162.4 in 1933 to 27 in 1960.

This simply reflects that vaccines were not the only medical technology that helped to save lives in the 20th century and not that measles was already disappearing. Penicillin, insulin, vitamin D, blood typing (allows transfusions of blood that has been typed and cross-matched), dialysis machines, and mechanical ventilators were all discovered in the early 1900s. 

Here is one reason it is so hard to find helpful healthful remedies to different conditions.  For measles, NCBI states

There is no specific antiviral therapy for measles; treatment is primarily supportive. Control of fever, prevention, and correction of dehydration, and infection control measures including appropriate isolation form the mainstay of therapy.

The WHO recommends the administration of daily doses of vitamin A for 2 days and more days for malnourished children. Measles complications should be identified early and appropriate therapy initiated. 

It literally says there is no treatment.  That's a lie.  There is a treatment, and that treatment is vitamin D3 and fat-soluble vitamin A.  They say merely that "The WHO recommends the administration of daily doses of vitamin A for 2 days and more days for malnourished children" but fail to mention that it is fat-soluble A, not beta-carotene A.  That statement by the CDC also says "malnourished," and that has problems.  Out of guilt, a mother or parent would never admit to their children being "malnourished" and so might think, "Hey, my kid doesn't need vitamin A.  Do you see the deceit of these articles if you're a young parent looking for help?  I had measles as an adult, and I showed the doctor the red scarring and mumps.  He had no idea what to do, so I left.  

Monday, March 21, 2022

Remineralize your teeth with magnesium, D, and A. Dump the Xylitol

For years I'd been looking for just the right treatment for healthy teeth. I initially thought that fluoride-free toothpaste was a good place to start, so I used that for a few years only to find years later a couple if cracked teeth and loose fillings that fell out.  I don't know that I am in a better position today, but I think I am.  One product I'd read about early on was Xylitol, a sugar-free substitute that also fought oral bacteria to keep cavities to a minimum.  So I began chewing Xylitol gum.  It was refreshing but, truth be told, I really didn't like the funny film it left in my mouth and on my teeth.  I began the Xylitol on the recommendations of Dr. Ellie Phillips.  But the problem with focusing on just your mouth or just your teeth is that you ignore the connection that the biome in your mouth has with the biome of your digestive tract, of which your mouth is just the beginning.  So I stopped consuming the Xylitol after a week but saw it advertised everywhere and included in all mints, gums, and more, which I assume he was eating on behalf of a score of others throughout the day.  It wasn't until I saw this that it confirmed my concerns.  Though the target audience is dogs, it is also directed at dog owners:

Then there's this.


Here is the link to Nourishing Our Children.  

The guy who really came to my rescue was Bill Sardi, who the world lost recently.  He was such a loving, careful, but fearless guide.  With his "34 Ways to Stay Healthy," Bill pointed me to Dr. Carolyn Dean, MD, ND. who recommends brushing your teeth with magnesium.  I'd had other conversations will Sardi regarding teeth.  No one was more helpful than Bill.  It was like having your own private doctor whom you could get a reply to any health-related question you had. And he was a workhorse.  Writing articles for publication at LewRockwell, conducting interviews with Martie Whittekin at HBN, doing hours of strenuous research online, and then answering everybody's emails.  I loved him, and I miss him.  

Last year, I asked him, "What can I take to keep more teeth in my head?  Thank you."  His reply was, "Boost testosterone.  12mg boron," then added not one but two articles linked in the email. Just amazed that he would go to such effort to help me, which I presume he was doing with a score of others throughout the day.  A true Christian man.  What's interesting is that I had considered boron a tooth enamel supplement but was waved off that conclusion a year earlier by someone else. 

Monday, March 14, 2022

YOU NEED FAT-SOLUBLE VITAMIN A IF YOU'RE CONSUMING HIGH AMOUNTS OF PROTEIN

Retinol is the fat-soluble vitamin A; Retinol Palmitate is the esther form of it.  

PROTEIN & VITAMIN A

We need look no further than Chris Masterjohn’s article, “Vitamin A, The Forgotten Bodybuilding Nutrient” (Wise Traditions, Fall 2004). As Masterjohn explains, “The utilization of protein requires vitamin A. Several animal studies have shown that liver reserves of vitamin A are depleted by a high dietary intake of protein, while vitamin A increases in non-liver tissues. One explanation for this is that adequate protein is necessary for vitamin A transport. In one study, researchers fed radioactively-labeled vitamin A to rats on low-protein and high-protein diets, using the amount of radioactivity present in exhaled gases, urine and feces as a measure of the metabolism of vitamin A, and found that vitamin A is indeed used at a higher rate on a high-protein diet.”

Masterjohn continues, “Vitamin A is not only depleted by a high intake of protein, but it is also necessary for the synthesis of new protein, which is the goal of the bodybuilder. Rats fed diets deficient in vitamin A synthesize protein at a lower rate than rats fed adequate vitamin A. Cultured skeletal muscle cells increase the amount of protein per cell when exposed to vitamin A and D, but not when exposed to vitamin D alone.”

In other words, eating lean meat or taking a protein powder sends a signal to the liver: “Send me vitamin A!” Protein consumed in the absence of fat, with its precious cargo of fat-soluble vitamins, including vitamin A, is an effective way of rapidly depleting your liver of vitamin A stores.

What happens when the liver becomes depleted of vitamin A, so that none can be made available to the body when needed?

Vitamin A is key to almost every process in the body—the concert master, so to speak—not only for protein synthesis, but also for hormone production (including sex hormones like testosterone, and thyroid hormone); vitamin A is also key to immune system function, critical for healthy vision and hearing, plays a role in bone health, and works in tandem with vitamins D and K2 for everything from the prevention of heart disease to the production of feel-good chemicals. A diet of lean meat, or one that incorporates protein powders, is a recipe for hormone disruption, fatigue, depression, bone problems, auto-immune disease, vision and hearing problems, heart disease and even cancer.