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About The Supplements And Safety NPR Doc of January 19
About The Supplements And Safety NPR Doc of January 19
Date: 2/8/2016 1:11:27 PM ( 8 y ) ... viewed 1043 times
FEB. 8, 2016
INTRO
I worked on this #PlantYourDreamBlog for more than a week in late January-early February 2016.
THE COMPOSITE #PLANTYOURDREAMBLOG IS HERE
http://www.curezone.org/blogs/fm.asp?i=2301223
I have divided it into subsections on different Curezone Blogs:
SUPPLEMENTS AND SOIL HEALTH
REFLECTIONS AND RESEARCH ABOUT THE SUPPLEMENTS AND SAFETY NPR DOCUMENT THAT AIRED FIRST JANUARY 19, 2016
http://www.curezone.org/blogs/fm.asp?i=2302431
This includes references to the core problem of soil deficiency that leads to plant deficiency and human health deficiency. I make reference to links about the FDA and the Health pioneers who worked tirelessly against all odds and suppression to tell the truth as they knew it regardless of the consequences to their personal livelihood.
You'll find links here to some of my favorite literature that needs to stand with the work of other #rareseeds whose souls are a gift from eternity to their moments in time when they expressed themselves here on earth.
My Health Picture
PLEASE GO HERE FOR THE FULL #PLANTYOURDREAMBLOG
ON THIS SECTION
I am approached my health for many years of my adult life as a educational opportunity both for myself and others. I had Hip Replacements in 1975 and Hip Revisions in 2001. I saw “Getting Hip” in 2001 as an opportunity to help Health Care “Get Hip” to being all it could be. I have been drawn over decades to outstanding Nature Cure advocates who were the health pioneers of their day. My intent is through my own legacy to “Keep The Dream Alive!” that Nature Cures when given an opportunity.
http://www.curezone.org/blogs/fm.asp?i=2302410
iNTRO:
THE MEDICINE OF TOMORROW IS NOW THE MEDICINE OF TODAY!
This is a picture of key leaders of the Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine #AIHM16 at the #ScrippsNatSup conference, January 27-31, 2016. I believe Healthy Health Care is coming in through the heart and soul of its leaders and health practitioners healing the call. Look at the love! Left to right, Seth Romanoff, Communications Director; Dr. Mimi Guarneri, president of the Academy; Nancy Sudak, co-Ceo of the Academy for Integrative Health & Medicine. Photo by Leslie Goldman
THIS HISTORIC MOMENT
How timely that within ten days of the Scripps Natural Supplement Conference January 27-31, 2016, NPR unleashed its documentary Supplements and Safety January 19. My assessment is that the Natural Product & Supplement Industry has policed itself and do so even stronger now. There will be much discussion about regulation and oversight both within the industry and within government. The natural products industry will continue to flourish because it is one of the best alternatives we have for improving health. The benefits from natural supplements far outweigh their potential risks. The same cannot be said of pharmaceutical drugs that are basically a war against nature, although sometimes necessary.
This “Supplements and Safety” documentary points out that more than 50 people have been harmed by supplements with contaminated ingredients and suggests that more government oversight is the answer, and making sure that supplements in the US follow the trend in Europe to make them basically impotent to do what they can do in the hands of those who need them.
I want to take a moment in silence to grieve the loss of the fifty or more innocent lives that were reported harmed in this NPR documentary, as well as grieve the thousands upon thousands harmed by Pharmaceutical Drugs. They are not mentioned in this one sided documentary.
Truly, we will regain balance and move forward through the contributions of doctors willing to dedicate themselves in evidence-based science, as well as become healers and practitioners who are studied in the Book of Nature and the 1000's of years of experience in the way natural healing works. This history of natural healing is our legacy from the past to the future. Much of that experience is available to the students of medicine. Some of this knowledge is accessible on the Internet.
My sense is that the marketplace will continue to be driven by more and more people wanting to reclaim their health who recognize that something is deeply amiss in our modern Health Care system. More and more people are recognizing that government supports this imbalance as well as the good. Now is the time that we as voters correct this imbalance.
Integrative Medicine is Taking Hold
Integrative Medicine is now taking hold in the lives of a generation of Health Practitioners. I have been a witness to this growth since the early1980's, having lived in San Diego, California, one of the birth places of the modern Holistic Movement. In recent years, I have attended the annual Scripps Natural Supplement #ScrippsNatSup Conference, held each January, and @AIHMGlobal #AIHM16 conferences, held in late October-November. I have been invited to Plant Dreams at this events. it touches me that the Sacred work I intend to bring is welcomed. Please put these dates on your Calendar and spread the word.
The intent of Integrative Medicine is pure of heart. It is open to receive. It will catch up with the wisdom and knowledge that many in previous generations have understood about medicine. We will live to see a day when the foundation of Medicine is no longer defined by the Supplement and/or the Pharmaceutical Drugs that we take to Survive This Day. Ffragmentation of Soul and Nature is prevalent now. The choice is ours to either thrive through taking personal self-care initiatives, or continue to look to others how to live.
We will always need doctors.
We will always need others wiser than ourselves
The doctor the future is a teacher as has been demonstrated through our pioneering health history.
It's amazing the resiliency and will to survive. I see as necessary the return to our earth connection. In this the declared United Nations Year of the Pulses 2016, I am encouraging each practitioner and each #RareSeed I meet to Plant Your Dream and begin this process of reconnection.
The Return of the Doctor of the Soil
Doctors of the Soil wielding plows, replenishing the soil through a harmonious relationship between animals and heirloom seeds, and encouraging a new generation of youth to enter farming will continue to grow Regenerative Agriculture. More and more home Gardeners planting Heirloom Seeds will be our keys to unraveling the fragmentation on our plates now. I want to contribute, to participate, and to witness through this #PlantYourDreamBlog to the evolution of Medicine.
The Remedy for a "Dis Ease" Grows Close to the "Problem"
Dr. Bernard Jensen, pioneer of the natural healing arts, quoted an Armenian saying that the "Remedy" for any health "Problem" grows right next to the imbalance. This is a law of nature. As much as the documentary Supplements and Safety pointed out a real Problem--they need to ensure quality of ingredients that we can trust-- the Scripps Natural Supplement Conference was pointing out numbers of the Remedies and Solutions to the problems within Health Care as we know Health Care today.
I am here to foster this natural growth. How Fast Can a Dream Grow? As Fast as a Blade of Grass!
--Leslie Goldman
Your Enchanted Gardener
#PlantYourDreamBlog
HASHTAGS TO NOTE:
#PlantYourDreamBlog is seeding the growth #Integrative Medicine through support of @AIHMGlobal #AIHM16 @paradisepointSD @sandiegoplaces Oct 30-Nov 3, 2016 #ScrippsNatSup 2017, Feb 9-12. https://twitter.com/EHSymposium2016 March 6-8. #ExpoWest & #HeirloomExpo (Sep 6-8, 2016) and the #SanDiegoHeirloomSeedSwap March 20.
How fast can a dream grow? As fast as a blade of grass! Plant your dream at #AIHM16 with Leslie Goldman Your Enchanted Gardener #plantyourdreamblog FYI #RareSeeds Grow @RareSeeds! Welcome to the International Year of the Pulses #IYP2016.
https://www.aihm.org/the-academy-news-february-2016/
Takeaways from the #ScrippsNatSup Conference Jan 27-31, 2016
http://www.curezone.org/blogs/fm.asp?i=2301223
The Hastag #ScrippsNatSup #ScrippsNatSup was used throughout The Scripps Natural Supplements 2016 event of January 27-31, 2016. I would like to call these hashtags to the attention of my friends in Washington D.C. and to our President @POTUS and First Lady @FLOTUS, and to researchers.
Scripps Health Conference Services & CME
https://www.facebook.com/ScrippsCME
SOIL AND SUPPLEMENTS
I want to address the subject of soil health and supplements. Our deficiency in minerals, our building blocks according to Dr Bernard Jensen, were a cause and concern to the early health pioneers who turned to food as medicine and saw food no longer capable of helping to reverse disease.
The early pioneers who came up with our supplements had specific quality controls in mind. Their supplements were made from natural ingredients. They were not synthetic in origin.
It's clear that one of the key factors in the recent NPR supplements and safety documentary was doing all they could to give the natural supplement industry a black eye.
One rebuttal cited below says that there was a pharmaceutical company that aim to benefit from its sale of fish oil products was poised to release a new website in conjunction with the airing
of the program.
Quality control standards need to be in place. There are voices within the natural supplement industry and the herbal Industry that have been pointing out that we cannot turn to places like China for our ingredients unless those choosing these supplements are carefully monitoring the companies where they make their relationships.
Regarding the FDA, the Food and Drug Administration, The history of the FDA reveals decades of problems with trusting this agency of the federal government to look out for the public good.
The FDA has a clear bias, as does big business and government, to support the companies who are invested in the pharmaceutical and agricultural industries whose foundation is far from natural principles necessary to bring health.
There are very good people in all agencies of the federal government. I've met them.
Some of my most enlightening conferences that I attended with press credentials, have been the Biotechnology Industry event, as well as the annual conference of the AAAS, our national lead science group.
The leaders that are now rising up within the integrative medicine movement will find their place within the AAAS, an organization that goes back a number of hundred years to the time of Benjamin Franklin who had a relative in the founding of the group.
I saw the interactions between government leaders, industry leaders and science at AAAS. Most science research as we know it today has certain foundational principles contrary to the laws of nature, at least The laws of nature that can return health.
I can show you photographs and books that are still extant from Dr. Bernard Jensen where Nature Cure applied in a natural environment can reverse and improve chronic conditions snd show positive results.
For the kind of natural healing that Dr. Bernard Jensen did and others in the school of thought it take slowing down to the speed of nature and natural healing.
The history of the muckrakers who went out to uphold natural principles is still available. It takes is a good guide to be shown where some of this material can be found. Some of it is available on the Internet.
Dr. Bernard Jensen, 1907-2001, studied with the elder statesman of natural health from the time he was a youth to the time he was an elder.
Integrative medicine is turning to evidence-based research science research to validate now the top of the iceberg of what the natural wisdom keepers of health history knew.
There are also a lot of evidence-based research coming through organizations I support, such as the organic farming research foundation and the organic center that are validating both the problems as well as the solutions.
Many of the giants over the last hundred years were hunted down and their reputations destroyed because they stood up against the trend and accepted practices as now defined by conventional medicine today.
We cannot go far from nature without experiencing health bankruptcy and economic bankruptcy.
The recent supplements and safety documentary points out not only conditions that need to be improved but with careful study shows how deeply we need a dialogue between science, ethics, and food and all those from every point of you.
I'm giving you a few keys and links here in this series of plant your dream blogs,
I am profoundly grateful for the benefits of conventional 20th century medicine and surgeries that have allowed me to walk again after crippling arthritis the came into my life and began to develop from teenage years.
I've experienced both the best and some of the less than the best in the world of the medical doctor.
i've seen with my own eyes and experienced in my own body miracles of healing that go far beyond what science will be able to document.
I'm more than willing to continue to play a role in the evolution of the 21st-century Medicine. I am grateful for what I have received from the goodness of those who've wanted to fulfill the principles of democracy and government service.
May the story we fully told in this the United Nations year of the pulses. May we all watch our own Pulse growing as we come individually into the arms of nature.
Pulse Growing, February 10, 2016
Links for further study and supplemental materials
A LOOK AT THE DOCUMENTARY SUPPLEMENTS AND SAFETY THAT AIRED FIRST JANUARY 16. 2016
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/supplements-and-safety/
GAME CHANGER
This #PlantYourDreamBlog shares some of those insights explaining why supplements have become necessary; and yet beyond this, we need to return our soil and our food to a quality that can not only help us Survive This Day, but help us Thrive. Survive This Day, is a book I helped write for Dr. Bernard Jensen in 1976.
The Supplements & Safety doc can help launch The Pure Food Revolution to greater heights. The one-sided broadcast will help correct aspects of the supplement industry. I want to see it bring to light the sad state of Big Pharma in America that can hurt as much as help, as well as point us in the direction we need to go to restore Medicine and Soil Health.
ATTEND THE NATIONAL HEIRLOOM EXPO
My opening ceremony sept 8, 2015 right before Vandana Shiva 🍎 at the National Heirloom Expo 2015 @heirloomexpo seeded this Pure Food Revolution to new levels. The next National Heirloom Expo is September 6-8, 2016 in Santa Rosa, CA. Please put this event on your calendar. It draws some of the leading voices in agriculture and good growing in harmony with Heirloom Seeds.
http://theheirloomexpo.com
SUPPLEMENTS AND SAFETY--TIMING OF THE BROADCAST
About eight days before the Scripps Natural Supplements Conference, NPR aired Supplements and Safety.
THE DOCUMENTARY SUPPLEMENTS AND SAFETY FIRST AIRED ON FRONTLINE AIRED JANUARY 19, 2016
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/supplements-and-safety/
HERE IS A REBUTTAL
There are a number of intelligent posts on the internet pointing out some of the flaws in this documentary.
http://www.anh-usa.org/has-pbs-become-a-front-for-big-pharma/
ANOTHER REBUTTAL OF THE SUPPLEMENTS AND SAFETY DOCUMENTARY MAKING MANY GOOD POINTS
http://drhoffman.com/article/frontline-gets-it-wrong-about-supplements/
DO WE NEED SUPPLEMENTS?
Why Natural Healing Practitioners Turned to Supplements
There was a time in natural healing history, when practitioners turned to vegetables and fruits to help the body return to balance and eliminate "dis ease" as Dr. Bernard Jensen called it.
Supplementation came in as a result of agricultural practices that no longer produced therapeutic quality food. There was an effort to supplement what was known to be needed.
An archival report on the state of soil deficiency and his effect on human health was read into the records of the 74th Senate on June 5, 1936 by Senator Fletcher. The article by Rex Beach was on the experiments of Dr. Charles Northen M.D. to build health from the ground up.
HERE IS THE SENATE REPORT #264 READ INTO THE SENATE RECORD ON JUNE 5TH
http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/modernmiraclemen.pdf
ATTRIBUTION
I want to thank this website for pointing me in the direction of the original article.
This website says:
http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/modernmiraclemen.pdf
The original document is on the US Senate website. (An HTML version is here.) It is an article from a family news magazine, The Cosmopolitan, which much later became the title we know today.
The article is called ‘Modern Miracle Men’ written by Rex Beach about Dr Charles Northen, a physician who went into soil replenishment to better nourish man and beast. He was based in Orlando, Florida, and could have been resident in Fletcher’s constituency. The article says that Northen was considered the most valuable man in the State.
From https://churchmousec.wordpress.com/2015/11/02/1936-us-senate-document-soil-deficiency-causes-sickness-part-2/
MORE ABOUT REX BEACH WHO WROTE THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE SUBMITTED TO THE US SENATE IN 1936
http://lib.rollins.edu/olin/oldsite/archives/150EBEACH.htm
SOIL BUILDING IS THE BASIS OF FOOD BUILDING TO ACCOMPLISH HUMAN BUILDING
Dr Charles Northen voiced the assertion that we must make soil building the basis of food building in order to accomplish human building. --from an article by Rex Beech, 1936 read into the Congressional Record. Document #264.
He also is reported to have said that the vegetables of that day and fruits did not have the trace minerals that they had generations before and could not feed us fully. If not then, What now?--my quote.
http://bioelectrichealth.org/MMM%201936.htm
DR MERCOLA SAYS:
Dr. Mercola reports,
Why Widespread Nutritional Deficiencies Are a Reality That Must Be Reckoned With
January 20, 2014 | 275,537 views
This article, by Dr. Mercola, contains one of my favorite quotes about the FDA:
The head of the Food & Drug Division of Nutrition, Dr. Elmer M. Nelson in a special Constitutional Court in Washington 1949 was quoted as saying:
'It is wholly unscientific to state that a well fed body is more able to resist disease than a less well-fed body. My overall opinion is that there hasn't been enough experimentation to prove dietary deficiencies make one more susceptible to disease.' (Washington Post, October 26, 1949.)
This is nothing new for Dr. Nelson. Ten years ago he, with his group of experts, testified in a similar court, that neither degenerative disease, infectious disease, nor functional disease could result from any nutritional deficiency.
For all these years, he [Nelson] has battled for the maker of devitalized foods, tried to stem the tide of public opinion against the use of white flour, refined sugar, pasteurized milk and imitation butter by vigorous prosecution of any maker of any dietary supplement designed to abate the consequences of using such devitalized food, basing his arguments on the thesis that there were no such things as deficiency diseases.
Dr. Mercola here is quoting from an article, "The Battlefront for Better Nutrition,” by Dr. Royal Lee (Props to my old friend Stepanie Anderson of Selene River Press for https://www.seleneriverpress.com/historical/battlefront-for-better-nutrition/ )
Dr. Mercola continues: "It clearly shows that these problems are not new, because although it was penned more than 60 years ago, the information is as applicable today as it was back then. In fact, besides changes in names of the key characters, the storyline is one we're all too familiar with. “
Consider this excerpt from "The Battlefront for Better Nutrition:”
https://www.seleneriverpress.com/historical/battlefront-for-better-nutrition/
"These commercial interests have the United States Government on their side, ever since they ousted Dr. Harvey W. Wiley from his job as head of the Food & Drug Administration in 1912.
Truly, as Dr. Wiley sadly remarked in his book The History of a Crime Against the Pure Food Law (1929), the makers of unfit foods have taken possession of Food & Drug enforcement, and have reversed the effect of the law, protecting the criminals that adulterate foods, instead of protecting the public health.”
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/01/20/food-nutrients-vitamin-supplements.aspx
Here is some background from my investigation. Marketplace Canada ran a story about Supplements on November 12. This story said that Vitamin C was making illegal claims.
Parts of this story were later removed, as retesting proved that their original statements against these products incorrect. The information they gave in the article potentially damaged certain companies. Marketplace apologized.
PARTS OF THE ARTICLE THAT PUT DOWN VITAMIN C AND MORE FOLLOWED BY A LINK TO THE RETRACTION
Health claims break rules
Even though more than half of Canadians who take Vitamin C believe that it helps fight off a cold, Health Canada does not allow manufacturers to make that claim.
That's because that is a myth that the science doesn't back up, says Dr. David Agus, best selling author of The End of Illness, and a professor of medicine at University of Southern California.
"If you have Vitamin C, a cold will last seven days. If you don't have Vitamin C, your cold will last a week," he says.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/marketplace-vitamins-supplements-claims-1.3312957
RETRACTION TO ONE OF THE STORIES THAT WAS USED AS AMMO IN THE DOCUMENTARY "SUPPLEMENTS AND SAFETY"
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/marketplace-vitamins-supplements-claims-1.3312957
Parts of this story were retracted in an article January 21 with an apology.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/marketplace-vitamins-protein-powders-lab-testing-1.3412760
Here is a story about Marketplace being sponsored by Monsanto. I am curious what the current relationship is.
LINK TO THE DOC
The Supplements and Safety Documentary appears to have been influenced by some of the erroneous information reported in the Marketplace report.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/supplements-and-safety/
From the PBS COMMENTS
Lots of comments putting down the documentary:
Since the best defense is a good offense, there is reason to believe that pharmaceutical industry interests are well served by casting aspersions absolutely anywhere but at themselves. And a competing industry makes a fine target. I hope Big Pharma made some really large pledges to PBS. The Frontline documentary looks to be as much an infomercial for them as it is an embarrassment for supporters of public television.
David Getoff, CCN FAAIM • 22 days ago
For shame PBS. I have been reading research on nutritional supplements and lecturing on this topic for over 20 years to physicians, nutrition professionals, dentists and the public. . Although I do agree with a few actual facts that were covered, this one sided view is a disgrace to public broadcasting. If they had decided to take the exact opposite view, and to instead discuss and present some of the well done published research validating nutritional supplement's benefits, they could have found just as many researchers, PhD's and MD's to back up the other side. If they had decided to show that for every person during any given 10 year period, who was apparently harmed in any way by a nutritional supplement, there would be documentation of many thousands whom were actually KILLED by prescription drugs. That number, according to published research in mainstream medical journals, is about 120,000 to 160,000 per year at a minimum, from correctly prescribed prescription drugs. I believe that CDC figures for deaths due to aspirin averages 3,000 per year and Tylenol is the same, often requiring liver transplants. I am not saying that the nutritional supplement industry is perfect, nor that all of the manufacturers are completely ethical. I am not saying the there are not a great deal of supplements, which due in large part to CHINESE ingredients, do not accurately contain what their labels claim. I am however, saying that in comparison to pharmaceuticals, nutritional supplement are extremely safe and by all means, let the buyer beware in BOTH cases. If every time an article or TV special was done on a topic, they took the time to locate equal quality experts on the other side of their chosen issues, the public would be better informed and better able to understand the real facts on the issue being presented. They claim that they contacted the TV and Web personalities Dr's Oz, Mercola, and Weil. Poor choices. They should have investigated and located top researchers on the other side of their arguments and "facts", rather than celebrity physicians. I hope this lopsided misleading TV special will not do too much damage to those of us who know better. Sincerely, David Getoff, CCN, FAAIM, BCIM
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/supplements-and-safety/#comments
ABOUT FRONTLINE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontline_(U.S._TV_series)
WHERE THE FDA MAY VERY WELL STAND TODAY
The Agency where we turn to safeguard our Drug and Supplement Safety is the Food and Drug Administration, an agency of the Federal government.
This #PlantYourDreamBlog includes the research links they I found as I was looking at the subject of the NPR Documentary Supplements and Safety that aired January 19, 2016.
One of my favorite FDA historical quotes is from Dr. Elmer M. Nelson who in a special Constitutional Court in Washington 1949 said:
'It is wholly unscientific to state that a well fed body is more able to resist disease than a less well-fed body. My overall opinion is that there hasn't been enough experimentation to prove dietary deficiencies make one more susceptible to disease.' (Washington Post, October 26, 1949.)
That my friend, may very well be the position of the FDA today, no matter how much evidence to the contrary.
Some of the root issues that plague the FDA are pointed out in Dr. Harvey W. Wiley's Book "A History of Crimes Against the Pure Food Law of 1929. This book once disappeared from the shelves of most libraries, however through the concerted effort of the Selene River Press and extant documents from the works of pioneer elders in the natural healing arts, we get a sense and a depth of understanding about the trauma too many over the last hundred years or so since Dr. Wiley M.D. inspired the FDA in the first place. He had something else in mind than what we experience today.
Intro:
https://www.seleneriverpress.com/historical/history-of-a-crime-against-the-food-law/
The Book in its entirely appears in a number of places on the internet
http://www.whale.to/a/wiley_b.html
LINKS
HASHTAGS TO NOTE:
#PlantYourDreamBlog is seeding the growth #Integrative Medicine through support of @AIHMGlobal #AIHM16 @paradisepointSD @sandiegoplaces Oct 30-Nov 3, 2016 #ScrippsNatSup 2017, Feb 9-12. https://twitter.com/EHSymposium2016 March 6-8. #ExpoWest & #HeirloomExpo (Sep 6-8, 2016) and the #SanDiegoHeirloomSeedSwap March 20.
How fast can a dream grow? As fast as a blade of grass! Plant your dream at #AIHM16 with Leslie Goldman Your Enchanted Gardener #plantyourdreamblog FYI #RareSeeds Grow @RareSeeds! Welcome to the International Year of the Pulses #IYP2016.
https://www.aihm.org/the-academy-news-february-2016/
Takeaways from the #ScrippsNatSup Conference Jan 27-31, 2016
http://www.curezone.org/blogs/fm.asp?i=2301223
The Hastag #ScrippsNatSup #ScrippsNatSup was used throughout The Scripps Natural Supplements 2016 event of January 27-31, 2016. I would like to call these hashtags to the attention of my friends in Washington D.C. and to our President @POTUS and First Lady @FLOTUS, and to researchers.
Scripps Health Conference Services & CME
https://www.facebook.com/ScrippsCME
Kristen Gates @itskgates Jan 29
If you're at #ScrippsNatSup at @ParadisePointSD be sure to stop by the @AIHMGlobal booth & say hello! #AIHMFellowship @Seroya @Lowdogmd
https://www.aihm.org/the-academy-news-february-2016/
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