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Several months ago we had the pleasure of introducing heart surgeon, Dr. Dwight Lundell to our readers. The response to his highly controversial two-part article was overwhelming. Dr. Lundell has taken the courageous stand of exposing the mainstream myth that high cholesterol is the cause of heart disease.

Now in this revealing interview, he explains why this great lie was perpetuated for so long and how the medical profession actually made heart disease and diabetes a national epidemic.

Melanie: Dr. Lundell, you had a very impressive and successful medical career as a cardiac surgeon. You certainly were steeped in traditional medicine. You made a change from repairing hearts every day to being a crusader of truth in medicine. Why did you take this step?

Dr. Lundell: There’s a great quote by Albert Einstein, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.” I was beginning to feel like that when patients kept returning for second operations and some were returning multiple times. Most of these repeat patients had normal cholesterol levels. So cholesterol couldn’t be blamed for blocked arteries and heart attacks. Something wasn’t quite right with the accepted thinking.

Most of us in the alternative health field have reservations about the government’s rush to inoculate nearly everyone with the swine flu vaccine this fall and winter. With the possibility of adverse effects from the vaccine itself and the heavy metals that are used as preservatives, we must continue to ask ourselves, “What is the greater risk… the flu or the vaccine?”

Read on to learn more about why these concerns continue to mount…

Last week Dr. Jonathan Fielding, Los Angeles County’s health officer remarked at a news conference that three shots of the vaccine may be needed for adequate protection of the swine (H1H1) flu. He also urged medical personnel to sign up for the vaccine before treating the public.¹

Meanwhile, the CDC is recommending that the most at-risk populations receive the vaccine first. These groups include pregnant women, healthcare workers, parents and caregivers for children under 6 months old, people ages 6 months to 24 years, and those ages 25 through 64 with chronic health disorders or compromised immune systems.

It sounds like a well-thought out plan — provide sufficient vaccine to cover all strains of the flu and protect the most vulnerable. That is, until you read an August 15 article from a major British newspaper, with the following headline:

Are the President and Congress cooking up a plan to dump helpless seniors and disabled persons into “medical homes” in order to reduce costs to Medicare and HMOs?

That’s the worry of some private citizens and healthcare professionals including the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest (CMPI).

Buried in the Obama health care reform bill is a proposal to establish a “medical home pilot program” to care for elderly and disabled citizens. As pitched by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the plan would provide a medical home for every citizen while the country transitions from a sickness-based to a wellness-based health system.¹

While it may sound compassionate at first glance, the medical home would be run by nurse practitioners and physician assistants who would dole out treatment to residents without the supervision of a physician. Instead, they would follow the guidelines of EBM (evidence-based medicine) — a formulaic approach that is based on statistical and clinical research.

According to CMPI, while EBM is a valuable tool in the hands of an experienced practitioner, it is now being “distorted by government bureaucrats and HMOs in ways that impose top-down, one-size-fits-all restrictions on patients and their healthcare providers.” ² In other words, cookie-cutter medicine will be practiced by partially trained medical personnel in order to save the government and private insurance companies money.

Despite your mother’s admonitions to the contrary… you’ve always suspected it.

And it’s true:

Appearance DOES matter.

Now, I know as well as you do that the way you look isn’t the most important thing in life.

But there are many appearance-altering health issues that can affect your self-confidence, your happiness, even your livelihood.

Imagine walking into your next business meeting with a gaping red sore on your neck…

Or comforting a child who doesn’t understand why classmates taunt and tease him about the acne on his face…

Or getting turned down for a date or a job because of the severe psoriasis on your hands…

These kinds of appearance-altering issues happen more often than you think. And when they do, you want the wounds to heal - and you want them to heal RIGHT NOW.

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Do you often worry about Alzheimer’s or dementia striking in your later years? Perhaps you are even a caregiver for a parent who’s already been affected. If so, I’d like to share with you my own family’s personal story. It may give you some insight into a little-known cause of mental decline in the elderly and even the hope for recovery.

My mother — intelligent, funny, a great conversationalist — and in pretty good health for her 80 years on earth. That is until the early fall of last year, when she seemed to be going downhill at an alarming rate.

Her short term memory which was fine a few months before, was now almost gone — she couldn’t remember what you told her 5 minutes earlier. Her walking was slow and shuffled — she couldn’t seem to pick up her feet. Our frequent long distance phone calls which always lasted 30 to 45 minutes were now less than 5 minutes long and always initiated by me.

She seemed to be losing interest in life and spent far too much time every day napping. When I would ask her if she took her daily blood pressure medicine, a routine she followed religiously for nearly 40 years, she couldn’t remember.

“You have to know where your food is coming from.” These words of warning were spoken by biologist and plant expert, Arpad Puszati at a gathering of concerned citizens in St. Catherine’s, Ontario earlier this year.¹

As far back as 1998, Dr. Puszati’s research at the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland showed that genetically modified potatoes caused health problems in rats, including a weakened immune system and abnormal growth. For blowing the whistle on Big Agra, he was dismissed from his job.

Eleven years later, as companies like Monsanto successfully silenced their critics, genetically modified organisms have gained a stronghold in taking over the world’s food supply — in spite of the fact that a growing body of evidence shows the alarming health effects that are being seen in people and animals who are consuming GM foods. But unlike years ago, concerned physicians and scientists are now banding together and advising their patients and the general public to avoid GM foods altogether.

Scientists have now proved what those of us into “alternative” medicine have known for years — taking multivitamins will help you live longer. And according to their research, it may be up to 5% longer than people that don’t take them.¹ That may not sound like much, but for the average US life expectancy, it’s 4 more healthy years.

A study led by Dr. Honglei Chen of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences evaluated multivitamin use and nutrient intake in 586 women between the ages of 35 and 74 in what was called the Sister Study. The researchers then studied the length of their DNA telomeres, a marker for aging. They found that the telomeres of daily multivitamin takers were 5.1% longer than non-takers.

The researchers believe that the antioxidants contained in multivitamins are in part responsible for this life extending benefit. Antioxidants, specifically vitamins C and D, benefit telomere length by reducing oxidative stress and inflammation — factors in the onset of most life-threatening diseases.

This research supports another recent study conducted by the National Cancer Institute and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Beijing.²

In this large-scale study known as the General Population Nutrition Intervention Trial, 29,584 residents of Linxian, China were given eight combinations of nine vitamin and mineral combinations from 1985 to 1991. The goal of the study was to evaluate the risk of cancer of the esophagus and upper stomach. Residents of Linxian have some of the highest rates of these types of cancer in the world.

Have you noticed that the media chatter regarding the expected flu pandemic has been ramping up lately? Could it be because pharmaceutical giants like Baxter and Novartis are moving full speed ahead to prepare for mass inoculations around the globe of H1N1 (swine) flu vaccines by this fall?

I hope the name Baxter rings a bell. In the April 15 issue of Undercover, I wrote about how Baxter’s seasonal flu vaccine had been contaminated with the deadly avian flu virus at one of their facilities in Austria. This “mistake” would very likely have resulted in millions of deaths if it was not caught in time by a lab in the Czech Republic.

Since I researched that article, I made a personal decision to avoid a flu shot at all costs. I have also warned friends and family that a mild case of the flu may ultimately be safer than the long term health effects of the vaccine.

But now I have some news to share that may even protect you from the flu itself, thanks to an enlightening article I recently read by John J. Cannell, MD.¹ Dr. Cannell is a psychiatrist at Atascadero State Hospital in California, a maximum security hospital for psychiatric patients. In 2005, an influenza A epidemic broke out in the hospital. One by one, each ward became infected as patients came down with chills, fever, cough, and severe body aches.

Only one ward in the hospital remained free of infection — Dr. Cannell’s. Why was this so? His patients intermingled with patients from other wards and were not noticeably different in their age, health, or medical treatment.

The only difference that could be discerned was that Dr. Cannell’s patients had been receiving a daily dose of 2000 IU of vitamin D for several months. That’s it. All of his patients took vitamin D and not one caught the flu!

Dr. Cannell’s research then led him to some remarkable discoveries about the effectiveness of vitamin D as a potent antibiotic and antiviral. Vitamin D boosts the body’s production of antimicrobial peptides, a class of proteins that quickly destroys the cell walls of bacteria, viruses (including influenza) and fungi. These peptides also keep the lungs free from infection.

Are food manufacturers and government officials so callous that they are actually using children as guinea pigs when it comes to food labeling?
Apparently so, according to the Chicago Tribune’s 2008 investigative report on hidden allergens found in popular food products.1 Hidden food allergens are part of the reason that an estimated [...]

Here’s a fact that the pharmaceutical companies will try to keep from hitting the mainstream media. Daily supplements of vitamins B6, B12, and folic acid were found to reduce the frequency, severity and disability of migraine headaches twofold.

The study conducted by researchers at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia found that the B vitamin combination lowered levels of the amino acid, homocysteine, which can be elevated in some people and lead to migraines.¹ Previous studies have found that elevated levels of homocysteine increase the risk of stroke and other coronary arterial diseases.

The Australian study tested 52 migraine sufferers with auras who were given either a placebo or a supplement combination of 2 mg folic acid, 25 mg vitamin B6 and 400 mcg of B12. After 6 months, the vitamin group had a 39% reduction in homocysteine and a reduction in the frequency of migraine disability from 60% to 30%. No changes were observed in the placebo group.

For the 28 million Americans who experience frequent migraines and rely on pain medications, this news couldn’t be better.

A study published in 2003 estimated that at least two-thirds of migraine sufferers who were prescribed triptans, the most popular migraine medication, delayed or avoided taking them and risked even more severe and longer-lasting headaches.