YOUR DIGESTION

Metamucil was recommended as a good form of insoluble fiber. But what is in it?  That description of Metamucil says that it is BOTH a laxative and a fiber supplement.  A laxative purges.  I don't want that.  A fiber supplement regulates you: that's what I want.

Here is another description from Drugs.com.

Metamucil contains psyllium husk (from the plant Plantago ovata), a bulk forming, natural therapeutic fiber for restoring and maintaining regularity when recommended by a physician. Metamucil contains no chemical stimulants and does not disrupt normal bowel function. Each dose of Metamucil powder and Metamucil Fiber Wafers contains approximately 3.4 grams of psyllium husk (or 2.4 grams of soluble fiber). Each dose of Metamucil capsules fiber laxative (5 capsules) contains approximately 2.6 grams of psyllium husk (or 2.0 grams of soluble fiber). Inactive ingredients, sodium, calcium, potassium, calories, carbohydrate, dietary fiber, and phenylalanine content are shown in the following table for all versions and flavors. Metamucil Smooth Texture Sugar-Free Regular Flavor and Metamucil capsules contains no sugar and no artificial sweeteners; Metamucil Smooth Texture Sugar-Free Orange Flavor contains aspartame (phenylalanine content per dose is 25 mg). Metamucil powdered products and Metamucil capsules are gluten-free. Metamucil Fiber Wafers contain gluten: Apple Crisp contains 0.7g/dose, Cinnamon Spice contains 0.5g/dose. Each two-wafer dose contains 5 grams of fat.

Dr. John Kiel does a nice job of covering the benefits and explaining why psyllium fiber husks are used in Metamucil.

ACTIONS

The active ingredient in Metamucil is psyllium husk, a natural fiber which promotes elimination due to its bulking effect in the colon. This bulking effect is due to both the water-holding capacity of undigested fiber and the increased bacterial mass following partial fiber digestion.  These actions result in enlargement of the lumen of the colon, and softer stool, thereby decreasing intraluminal pressure and straining, and speeding colonic transit in constipated patients.  

What does this mean?  

Is Metamusil the best fiber for regularity?  I don't know.  Let's see what other sites say, like HealthWyze.  

HOW TO FIX A HIATAL HERNIA

Check out Dr. David William's site.  Here is his YouTube channel. Here he recommends a digestive enzyme.      

Here are some other, related videos to repairing a hiatal hernia.   Here is Dr. David Williams' website.

How to Self-Adjust a Hiatal Hernia by Dr. Lorn Allison.

I found this article and thought that some of it is helpful for anyone suffering from a hernia rupture, protrusion, or splaying of the fascia tissue, fat and muscle from either getting hit or straining the abdominal cavity and wall. Just knowing the terms is an advantage, since it gives you the terms that you can use as reference if you decide to see a doctor.  I've searched forums and Google searches and it is not easy to find reliable information on the best remedies, food, therapy, exercises or otherwise, to treat and fix a hernia.  the article is good because it lists different treatments.  Treatments are no cures, unless, you know, they do cure.  But the first treatment the article refers to are belts.  You might have called them girdles or braces.  If you searched the terms at Amazon, I am sure that you would have found your way back to belts.  Like I said, having the terms of use points you in the right direction.  It points out that the belts "apply pressure on the hernia and keep it from popping out."  What if you're intestines are already popping or sagging?  The article points out that the  belts are "relatively inexpensive."  You can make that determination for yourself given your budget.  And that the belts "may provide some temporary symptomatic relief."  Talk about being vague regarding maybes, "may provide."  Just as not all belts are created equal, not all hernia respond well to the use of hernia belts.  The author says "[The belts] are most effective for inguinal hernias and least effective for all other types of hernias."  Not sure why.  Is it because the belts when used to pull up a protruding tissue works against gravity better than having to pull in?  The author offers some decent advice, "Make sure you purchase from a company with a liberal return policy."  But won't that be a little pricey?  When referencing your anatomy, doctors will use different terms to locate your problem.  In the case of a hernia, inguinal means that it's a hernia in your groin area.  Epigastrium refers to a hernia between your navel and breastbone.  The diagram below helps you locate your hernia.  There are umbilical hernias on or near your navel. There are epigastric hernias above your navel, and hypogastric hernias below your navel.  Knowing what these terms refer to will not only help you find things for yourself, but can establish a nice rapport with your physician or surgeon when discussing options. Knowledge helps buyers in any market.  And believe me, medicine and its salesmen, i.e., doctors, is a marketplace all unto its own with doctors wanting to sell you every procedure in the book.  So as a buyer you've got to play it smart, particularly in the medical field because so much is at stake.  Lives are literally at stake, often your own. That, or ill health for a very long time.  I recommend treading very lightly. When the doctor tells you this is the best procedure, as, yourself "Compared to what?"  It just makes you a smarter buyer.  He or she may not like it.  So what . . . it's your body. 

Here is the article:

TREAT SYMPTOMS or CURE CAUSE?

If you cannot afford the cure, which is hernia surgery, you may look into other hernia remedies. As a policy, we [the No Insurance Surgery] do not recommend any of these because they are not the medical standard of care but we understand that the information may be of some value to you.

TRUSSES, BELTS, BRIEFS, and WRAPS

These are belts, appliances or garments that are designed to apply pressure on the hernia and keep it from popping out. They are relatively inexpensive and may provide some temporary symptomatic relief. They are most effective for inguinal hernias and least effective for all other types of hernias. If you are going to buy a hernia truss here is some advise: Make sure you purchase from a company with a liberal return policy. There are many styles shapes and sizes. The only way to know what will work best for you is to try on a few.

INGUINAL HERNIA TRUSS

This is a belt which goes around the hips and one of the thighs. It applies pressure directly to the internal spermatic ring which is where indirect inguinal hernias originate. In order to apply the truss, the hernia must be reducible. That is, you must be able to push a hernia all of the way back into the abdomen before applying pressure to a hernia. There is no value from the truss if you are not able to reduce a hernia. Once the hernia is reduced and the truss is applied the hernia will stay inside the abdomen until the truss is removed or dislodged. It is not secure enough to withstand heavy physical activity but it may work fine and keep you comfortable for long periods of standing or casual walking.

UMBILICAL HERNIA BELT

Umbilical hernia belts generally work pretty poorly and can worsen a hernia. The problem is that a belt around the middle of the abdomen actually increases intra-abdominal pressure and this pressure forces a hernia out with more force than what is applied directly to a hernia by the belt.

HERNIA EXERCISES

Hernias are not caused by weakness of abdominal muscles. Hernias are the result of the weakness of tissue called "fascia". Exercise will strengthen muscle but not fascia. Unfortunately, exercise also increases intra-abdominal pressure and this causes worsening of a hernia.

This fascia tissue is pretty important.  Michelle Schoffro Cook, DNM, DAc (i.e., acupuncture), author of a few books on nutritional support and a blog, states that the fascia tissue links all the components of the body together . . . .  It carries nerves, blood, and lymphatic vessels through it.  Fascia also helps to distribute the weight of the body during movement.

HERNIA MEDICATIONS

Medications are the mainstay of treatment for hiatal hernias. For all other hernias, they provide no more value than treating the pain and discomfort associated with a hernia.  Treating a hernia with medications is like fixing a broken chain with a good paint job.

NON-SURGICAL HERNIA TREATMENTS

Laparoscopic hernia repair is minimally invasive but the technique suffers from a high recurrence rate.  

Truth be told, this laparoscopic hernia surgical repair does not appear to be particularly “minimally invasive.” It opens the gut. The patient is under a general anesthesia. You’re out for the duration of the procedure. And the surgeon in this video seems to cauterize plenty of tissue.

It adds that . . . 
Yoga, radiation therapy, inversion boots (click there on "inversion boots": they allow you to hang from a horizontal bar, using gravity to decompress your spine: see here for inversion therapy), massage therapy and denial have all been shown to be of no value. We never discount the value of prayer but it probably works through a surgeons hands.

HIATAL HERNIAS

Sliding Hiatal hernias are a special case of hernias which are primarily treated without surgery. Surgery for this type of a hernia is only indicated if other treatments fail or if there is so much damage to the esophagus that a risk of cancer develops.  Most sliding Hiatal hernias are successfully treated with medication, diet, weight loss and abstinence from tobacco and alcohol.

Para-esophageal Hiatal hernias are a rare form of Hiatal hernias which require surgery. This is because they can cause strangulation of the stomach which is not a risk of the sliding type of a hiatal hernia.

HERNIA SURGERY

Most hernias result from a weakness in the abdominal wall that you are born with. Over time and with stress the weakness enlarges and allows the bowel to poke out.

A hernia is a protrusion of intestines through the strength layer of the abdominal wall. The strength layer of the abdominal wall is called fascia. Fascia is the tough outer lining of muscle that gives structural strength to muscles and the abdominal wall.  The abdominal wall is composed of ten layers of membranes, fascia, muscles, fat, and skin. The outermost layers, the subcutaneous fat and the dermis have no strength or ability to contain the contents of the abdominal cavity. 

When there is a defect of the deeper strength layers of the abdominal wall intestines or other abdominal organs protrude and create a budge under the skin. The danger is that the intestines will become trapped and strangulated in the narrow neck of the defect. This is a bowel strangulation which leads to bowel obstruction and bowel gangrene. Bowel gangrene is a surgical emergency which requires emergency repair of a hernia and removal of the gangrenous bowel. Gangrene of the intestine is very dangerous if not diagnosed and treated early. Severe pain or vomiting is the primary symptom of this serious occurrence.

Hernias are repaired to eliminate the dangers of potential strangulation, obstruction and gangrene of the intestine. Expert knowledge of the layers of the abdominal wall is required for expert repair of hernias. The science of hernia repair has advanced by requiring less expertise to repair a hernia and by easing recovery but the recurrence rates have remained the same.

Mesh repairs are the most common repairs and are easily performed by novice surgeons. Mesh repairs are an application of a patch to the hernia defect.  Anatomical repairs such as the McVay or Basinni repairs are less commonly done and require more expertise. There are relative advantages and disadvantages of all of the types of repairs. The anatomical repairs tend to produce the best long-term results. The mesh repairs, also known as tension-free repairs have faster recovery but occasional patients develop an allergic reaction to the mesh which is permanent. We have long been aware of the potential downside of mesh repairs and prefer anatomical repairs for this reason.  

Laparoscopic repairs have the fastest recovery and also have the highest failure rate.

Generally speaking, a patient is better off picking a surgeon rather than picking a repair. Most surgeons are trained in all forms of hernia repairs. Surgeons will perform the repair that in their experience gives the best results. One type of repair may not be the best for all patients. Surgeons that tailor the repair to the specific anatomical needs of their patient make a decision at the time of surgery about how to repair a hernia. The specific nature of a hernia cannot be determined until the time of surgery.

A proper hernia repair is meant to provide a lifetime of security and comfort. This result is achieved in over 95% of the cases.

As to food remedies, you want to seek out foods high in quercetin, like apples and onions.  Onions have 3 times the amount of quercetin as apples.  Though Bill Sardi's article is unrelated to a hernia, he does point to quercetin and resveratrol to burn fat,  Garlic, too, can remedy most stomach issues.  

Ultrasound Hurts Your Baby and Damages Your Tissue 

First let me say that when the ultrasound technician places the sonar probe on top of your stomach, they usually add a gel to facilitate transmission of sound inside your abdominal cavity through the ultrasonic transducer.  The technician, or sonographer, tends to keep the transducer in one place instead of moving it around on your abdomen. Because they're using the transducer to generate a picture, they will keep it in place until a picture emerges, the same way that a ham radio operator might hold the channel to pick up another operator.  So because the sonographer keeps the transducer in one place for too long, combined with the fact that the ultrasound produces ultra high frequency sound waves, the two forces generate heat.  The heat is deep; it is not topical, so you won't feel a burning sensation on your skin.  You will get dressed, leave the room, and exit the office.  But within 30 to 60 minutes or more you will begin to feel penetrating, residual burn deep inside your abdomen.  But where?  Which organs are affected?  Most likely your intestines.  It could be other organs too.  It's hard to know.  That residual heat is cooking one or two or more organs inside your abdominal cavity. This is dangerous. 

What's so bad about a little heat?  It's not just heat that you're feeling. That heat is cooking, burning, perhaps singeing organ tissue in a kind of cauterizing effect.  That can't be good.  It's got to interrupt your organ's functions.  

Writing for Natural News, Megan Heimer explains that ultrasound 

heats surrounding tissues and bones up to six degrees higher than the maximum determined level of safety and can cause cavitation, where gas pockets in tissues and body fluid collapse. 

Okay, so there's evidence that ultrasound produces cavitation in your tissue.  It can't do this without the heat expanding your tissue and that same heat getting trapped inside your tissue.  This may sound like some kind of microscopic process.  It could be.  But the problem are the symptoms of this heat.  That cavitation causes gas to roam in your tissue. I felt lightheaded and discombobulated with a loss of balance.  Even Wikipedia admits that 

Ultrasound treatments and/or exposure can create cavitation that can potentially "result in a syndrome involving manifestations of nausea, headache, tinnitus, pain, dizziness, and fatigue."

That's not good.  What's disturbing is that I shared my concern with a surgeon, a general physician, and an acupuncturist.  The surgeon shook his head while telling me that he'd literally done a thousand ultrasound and never had a single case of burning.  So when you go out and talk with your doctor, know that he is not your advocate.  He is committed to the regulatory boards that govern that allow him to stay in business and pay his staff.  That is who you are facing when you go to your doctor looking for help and to be healed.  I don't know what good a doctor is any more.  Don't think I've ever had one, a good doctor that is.  I've had health insurance most of my adult, working life.  Perhaps they can identify problems.  But too often for that they have to subject you to horrendous diagnostic exams that nobody likes.  The general physician was surprised to hear that ultrasound causes burning or dizziness or any of the symptoms listed by Wikipedia.  So was the acupuncturist.  So all three were surprised.  That's because they're all relying on what they've READ about ultrasound and not about what they've experienced.  Big, big difference, folks.  Big difference.

Apparently, cavitation also provides some benefits.  Could have fooled me.  All I experienced was that dizziness and fatigue and nausea.  Ugh. But apparently, is can also play a role in destroying kidney stones.

Cavitation plays an important role for the destruction of kidney stones in shock wave lithotripsy.  Currently, tests are being conducted as to whether cavitation can be used to transfer large molecules into biological cells (sonoporation).  Nitrogen cavitation is a method used in research to lyse cell membranes while leaving organelles intact.  Cavitation plays a key role in non-thermal non-invasive fractionation of tissue for treatment of a variety of diseases.  Cavitation also probably plays a role in HIFU, a thermal noninvasive treatment methodology for cancer.  

Find more on the risks of ultrasound from Natural News here.

This broad acceptance on the benign affects of utlrasound does appall me.  It's just an innocent, harmless tool used only to divine any problems getting in the way of your best, strongest self.  Look, even Gwen Stefani used it with her baby!  Awwww.  And then ZAP!!!  BURN!!!  And then when you complain that it burned you, these physicians and healers all look at you as though you're speaking Russian or Swahili.  And the one surgeon to whom I did complain and he claimed that he'd done a 1000 ultrasounds without a single complaint, he did happen to have his assistant in the room as witness or denier, whichever would be most expedient in a lawsuit.  

And if Natural News and Wikipedia are not damning enough, there are reports in other countries, like China.  Against the horrific fallout from the one-child policy, even the Chinese know of the hazards of ultrasound. 

Confirmed in China:

Unknown to Western scientists, the hazards of ultrasound have been confirmed in China since the late 1980s, where thousands of women, volunteering for abortion, thousands of maternal-fetal pairs, were exposed to carefully controlled diagnostic ultrasound and the abortive matter then analyzed via laboratory techniques.

From these human studies, Professor Ruo Feng, of Nanjing University, published guidelines in 2000:

Commercial or educational fetal ultrasound imaging should be strictly eliminated. Ultrasound for the identification of fetal sex and fetal entertainment imaging should be strictly eliminated. For the best early pregnancy, avoid ultrasound.”

Feng is very clear. He is also gentle. He could have written bluntly, “For a lesser quality pregnancy, use ultrasound.” He could have written “fetus” or “child” instead of “pregnancy”.

Ultrasound may not burn your skin but it definitely cooks your organs.  And that cooking causes DNA damage that seems irreparable for a few generations in your family lineage.  So beware and be aware as to what you're dealing with. Doctors won't tell you.  Doctors can't tell you.  They rely on what the industry manufacturer tells them--reports that come directly from salesmen or from a brochure.  It is this bad.  Do not expect anything better.  Do not expect your doctor to be as informed as you would think a doctor might be or could be. They're not.  They have a business to run.  

So ultrasound cooks your organs, and it cooks your fat as it produces pockets that trap gas and heat within your intestines, thereby interfering with and disrupting the normal function of neurotransmitters within your intestines.  The neurotransmitter damage to your stomach will register with your mind.  Your thinking will be altered.  

Your abdominal cavity is the most important part of your body.  Did you know that when dolphins anticipate a shark attack they turn their stomach away from the shark's jaws and instead present him with their dorsal fin.  They can afford to lose part of a dorsal fin, but they cannot survive with a huge bite in their stomach.  That kind of injury is fatal.  My point? Don't agree to do an ultrasound and don't let the monsters in white coats conduct a test on you that they tell you is harmless.  Perhaps you need more evidence that ultrasound is a real hazard.  Doctors tell us that ultrasound is harmless. The pop culture gets a hold of that notion and associates it with childbirth.  They do this so that any objection to anything associated with childbirth is thought of as anti-life or worse, abortion.  Manufacturers benefit from this as well. They get to tag their product with the adorable awwww's, purity, and innocence of babies.  Pop culture reinforces this by entertaining us with ultrasound X-rays.  Here's a super example:




Gwen Stefani, whose songs I like, promotes and represents on behalf of ultrasound technologies without a word or note of caution on what the high frequency soundwaves produce. They cause a lot of heat.  A lot.  A hell of a lot.  Ouch a lot. No, the ultrasound is not hot to the touch.  You don't feel the burn or the cooking when it is happening.  Some may.  But generally it is an after-effect.  So a day or two later when you find yourself a little furmished, you start asking yourself "Is that because of the ultrasound the other day?  But my doctor said it was harmless."  Why can't Gwen stop and make the smallest of concessions about the damaging effects of ultrasound? Would that somehow cut into record contracts? Would you subject your baby to this:

Further evidence that the heat generated by ultrasound is terrible:

Fetuses are not the only ones effected by the possibly damaging effects of ultrasound.  One of the most well known effects of ultrasound is that as Ultrasound waves pass through a tissue they tend to heat it up. (Are you listening?) The tissue can easily be warmed to 40 degrees Celsius. Although in vivo the heat is usually easily carried away by blood circulation or simply dissipated into surrounding tissues, this regiment can be applied in a technique called Ultrasound therapy where this heat is used to stimulate repair to damaged internal tissues.  Another well known effect of Ultrasound are cavitations. Cavitations are small bubbles of gas that are released upon exposure to extreme pressure. These bubbles can cause cells or even tissues to rupture.  This effect is used in a form of non-invasive liposuction, in which adipocytes are burst suing ultrasound waves. Although Ultrasound cannot be heard by humans, at high decibels it can still cause direct damage to human ears.  [That can't be good.]  Ultrasound in excess of 120 decibels may cause hearing damage. Exposure to 155 decibels causes heat levels that are harmful to the body.  180 decibels may even cause death.

The landing page for General Electric's Ultrasound states:

Extraordinary images.  Specialized systems. Innovative solutions.  Every GE Healthcare ultrasound system is designed with you, your specialty, and your patients in mind.  You're devoted to providing the best patient care.  We're committed to providing technologies to help you excel every day.  

That doesn't tell us much.  It's a sales page.  And anyone living long enough knows these are empty statements and broken promises.  But apparently doctors don't.  The machines are cheap, starting from $1,000 and up from there. 

How else will a doctor get an X-ray without an ultrasound? Good question.   Ask them "When was the last time they had an ultrasound?"  

If they say they have never had one, then ask them "Then how do you know it's harmless?" You have to defend yourself with reasoning.  Use this reasoning.  Doctors are not above other professionals who have a penchant for saying things without knowing things. They can't know the reactions of all drugs.  Have they tried all the drugs that are available?  I hope not.  Same thing then with any medical procedure.  You are defending your life.  No one else can do that for you like you can.    

See the picture above?  See how the two are smiling?  That propaganda.  That's an increase in the number of ultra sound machines to the local hospitals.  That ultrasound is an X-ray machine.  Just with this X-ray machine, you don't get to wear a lead vest; instead only get a thin layer of gel that facilitates the sounds and increases the amount of heat that penetrates through your gut.  What, your doctor didn't tell you that? Hmm.  

HOW DOES ULTRASOUND GENERATE HEAT?

Ultrasound wave energy (phonons) injected into a substance causes the substance's molecules and or atoms to vibrate more rapidbly.  This produces more friction generating new phonons of higher energy producing a higher temperature.

That picture not only makes ultrasound appear harmless but entertaining.  These are not high-frequency or mid-range frequency sound waves.  These are ultra-high-frequency sound waves that penetrate through the tissue that is the lining of your stomach.  That lining is vitally important for your ability to stand up, to bend down to pick something up, for sitting painlessly, and to protect your abdominal cavity, and your doctor doesn't know any better.  
Shame on him! 
Shame on her!! 
Don't get an ultrasound.  Like most things in medicine, they are unnecessary.  Doctors love prescribing diagnostic tests. They rely on the tests and don't do the hard work of looking at a constellation of markers.  They've surrendered the genius of analysis, of intuition from assessing different marker. Instead, they rely on electrical machinery.  Tools are valuable. Don't get me wrong, but when the tools you use begin harming people, then you need to discard them for something NOT HARMFUL.  Not less harmful but completely harmless.  Why do we allow medicine to be bad for us? "We may not like our vegetables but they're good for you." Okay, but couldn't you put them in a sauce, like butter and garlic, to make them taste better?  Cough syrup, same thing. 

Note, too, in the picture how the technician is pointing away from where the ultrasound comes into contact with the expectant mother and throws pictures in your face, pictures that you can't make out and certainly aren't qualified to read. But the technician is there to narrate what is happening for us.  I get that it's a photo-op, a commercial.  It's not supposed to show accurate use of an ultrasound machine. This is the kind of picture that would get used in a brochure advertising the latest in ultrasound technology.  

Technicians care only about themselves.  They're not medical doctors.  All they're trained to do is read data from a machine.  They fashion themselves very smart but they know nothing and certainly aren't capable of telling the uncomfortable truths of ultrasound and their holy hardware. 

Everywhere you go or everything you see regarding ultrasound make it sound like it is an ordinary, effective, and harmless machine to examine an unborn baby and inside the mother's stomach.  We see ultrasounds advertised through movies and television series we watch on our favorite shows.  It's almost serves the function of a midwife, showing us at first the baby's sex then spotting, if any exist, foreseeable problems.  And we are to assume that no harm is done to baby or mama.  Harmless?  Hardly.  It damages the muscle tissue that covers your abdominal cavity.  It weakens it.  It compromises your tissue.    

each scan heats [. . . ] tissues and bones up to six degrees higher than the maximum determined level of safety and can cause cavitation, where gas pockets in tissues and body fluid collapse.

Did you get that?  

Gas generated from the ultrasound gets trapped in tissue.  Your tissue becomes porous or cavitation develops and fluids get trapped in their. Does this make your lymphatic system work harder to drain these fluids? I can't say with certainly but my guess would be yes.  Here is the article.

(NaturalNews) It is common for a pregnant woman to undergo several routine ultrasounds during her 40-week pregnancy. What many don't know, and despite what popular medical and government websites state, ultrasound scans have never been proven safe for pregnant women or babies and aren't recommended for routine use and non-high risk pregnancies.

An ultrasound is a diagnostic scan that emits ultra-high-frequency sound waves at tissues or bones. As the echo waves return to the machine, a picture is created. In the 1970s it was thought that ultrasounds were safe for pregnant women because of the very low scanning intensities; however, since 1993 the FDA has allowed high-output machines to scan babies at eight times the tolerable level without conducting any epidemiological studies. In addition, each scan heats surrounding tissues and bones up to six degrees higher than the maximum determined level of safety and can cause cavitation, where gas pockets in tissues and body fluid collapse. This can lead to a disruption in cell function and permeability, bleeding, and can have adverse effects on early fetal development.

Ultrasound studies done on animals have shown cell abnormalities to several generations, brain hemorrhages, lung damage, slow locomotor and learning abilities that worsened with longer exposure, and neuronal migration abnormalities consistent with autism and dyslexia in humans. Mice exposed to 600 minutes of ultrasound survived no longer than ten days.

Despite convincing evidence in animals that ultrasounds are dangerous, few studies have been conducted on humans, most of which are from other countries who limit ultrasound use. These studies have shown the following adverse effects including preterm labor, miscarriage, low birth weight, poorer birth condition, perinatal death, dyslexia, inner ear damage, and delayed speech development. An Australian randomized Doppler study involving high-risk mothers found more fetal distress in labor and lower APGAR scores at birth. Another Australian study showed that babies given five or more ultrasounds during pregnancy were 30 percent more likely to develop intrauterine growth retardation consistent with the findings in animal studies.

The American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine advises patients to make an informed decision concerning possible adverse risks. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecology recommends scans only for specific reasons, and along with the FDA, discourages the use of ultrasounds for non-medical purposes. A review in the U.S Journal of Epidemiology suggests that continued research is needed to evaluate the potential adverse effects of ultrasound exposure in pregnancy. Unfortunately, women are led to believe that ultrasounds are harmless and properly studied. This is clearly not the case.

Article originally appeared at Natural News. 

The great Jon Rappaport cites James West's findings on ultrasound.  This is a must-read.    

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New Alzheimer’s treatment fully restores memory function.

As convoluted as all of the twisting axons and dendrites and glial cells, so goes the findings and research and reporting of the human brain. It's true that brains get tired, but they also get revived . . . by exercise.  Alzheimer's foundations and brain researchers the world over fail to include this in their reports let alone acknowledge in print.  They remind me of high school kids who learn a new word or phrase outside of the classroom where they and use it with full force in the vein that the state prefers it used: to scare and control one another.  For a high school kid who is being bullied to finally step into his teacher's classroom and shout out, "Sir, you got Alheimer's!" just feels good.  Anyway, here is the article by Bec Crew.  

Australian researchers have come up with a non-invasive ultrasound technology that clears the brain of neurotoxic amyloid plaques - structures that are responsible for memory loss and a decline in cognitive function in Alzheimer’s patients.

If a person has Alzheimer’s disease, it’s usually the result of a build-up of two types of lesions - amyloid plaques, and neurofibrillary tangles. Amyloid plaquessit between the neurons and end up as dense clusters of beta-amyloid molecules, a sticky type of protein that clumps together and forms plaques. 

Neurofibrillary tangles are found inside the neurons of the brain, and they’re caused by defective tau proteins that clump up into a thick, insoluble mass. This causes tiny filaments called microtubules to get all twisted, which disrupts the transportation of essential materials such as nutrients and organelles along them, just like when you twist up the vacuum cleaner tube.

As we don’t have any kind of vaccine or preventative measure for Alzheimer’s - a disease that affects 343,000 people in Australia, and 50 million worldwide - it’s been a race to figure out how best to treat it, starting with how to clear the build-up of defective beta-amyloid and tau proteins from a patient’s brain. Now a team from the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) at the University of Queensland have come up with a pretty promising solution for removing the former.

Publishing in Science Translational Medicine, the team describes the technique as using a particular type of ultrasound called a focused therapeutic ultrasound, which non-invasively beams sound waves into the brain tissue. By oscillating super-fast, these sound waves are able to gently open up the blood-brain barrier, which is a layer that protects the brain against bacteria, and stimulate the brain’s microglial cells to activate. Microglila cells are basically waste-removal cells, so they’re able to clear out the toxic beta-amyloid clumps that are responsible for the worst symptoms of Alzheimer’s.

The team reports fully restoring the memory function of 75 percent of the mice they tested it on, with zero damage to the surrounding brain tissue. They found that the treated mice displayed improved performance in three memory tasks - a maze, a test to get them to recognise new objects, and one to get them to remember the places they should avoid.

"We’re extremely excited by this innovation of treating Alzheimer’s without using drug therapeutics," one of the team, Jürgen Götz, said in a press release. "The word ‘breakthrough’ is often misused, but in this case I think this really does fundamentally change our understanding of how to treat this disease, and I foresee a great future for this approach."

The team says they’re planning on starting trials with higher animal models, such as sheep, and hope to get their human trials underway in 2017. 

You can hear an ABC radio interview with the team here.