NEWS LETTER & TESTIMONIALS
HEALTH MATTERS
November 2009
Be Ready for the Cold and Flu Season
For Prevention, Do the Following Every Day:
· Take 2 teaspoons of Silver Shield liquid internally twice a day.
· Every 5 hours, apply Silver Shield Gel in your nostrils. Seventy percent of all germs that cause infections enter the body through the nose and the Gel will kills those germs before they can set up housekeeping.
· Apply Silver Shield Gel to your hands after you use the bathroom and after you wash your hands.
For Treatment at the First Sign of Infection (You must have these products on hand!):
· Take a minimum of ½ bottle of Silver Shield liquid in the first 24 hours, spreading out the dosages. Continue with ¼ bottle every 24 hours until you are “on the mend.”
· Spray Silver Shield liquid up your nostrils.
· Take VS-C Concentrate or liquid, Olive Leaf Extract, CC-A, and/or Sinus Support EF for the infection. FV will help control the vomiting.
Silver to the Rescue Once Again
“We received a call while at Convention that Dusty, our little Pomeranian, has one eye stuck shut with matter. I suggested that our dog sitter put a couple of drops of Silver Shield liquid in her eye every 4 hours. Within 24 hours, her eye was back to normal. A large vet bill was saved by using Silver Shield!” --Kay
“Lyka, my beautiful German Sheppard, developed a red, hard, swollen lesion on the inside of her lip. I had her drink about ½ ounce of Silver Shield liquid every 3-4 hours. Almost immediately the redness disappeared and within 4 days the lesion was totally gone. I was so happy not to have to spend hundreds of dollars at the vet!” --Lorna
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Boomerang Improves Air Quality and Sleep
“My husband woke up during the night feeling stuffed up and not breathing well. I got the Boomerang and placed it in our bedroom. Quickly his breathing improved and he fell into a deep sleep. The next night when we went to bed, I again moved the Boomerang into our bedroom when we and we slept GREAT! The “white noise” it emits is soothing and the improved breathing is great. We are very, very impressed and ready to buy a second one so we don’t have to keep moving it around.” Gloria Leavenworth
She Broke Her Personal Marathon Record
Arlene reports that she added Cordyceps and Collatrim to her daily nutritional regimen when she was training for a recent marathon. She completed the marathon 26 minutes faster than she ever has done before and only 14 minutes slower than her daughter. Pretty great for a gal in her 50s!
Epidemic Influenza and Vitamin D
The Vitamin D Newsletter, October/November 2006
In our recently published paper, Epidemic Influenza and Vitamin D, we document the evidence that epidemic influenza, and even some of the viruses that cause the common cold, may be prevented by adequate doses of vitamin D. Medical News Today was kind enough to print a detailed article about how the observations were made, the theory developed, and the paper written.
Vitamin D Deficiency Season
When you think about it, the flu and cold season is Indistinguishable from the vitamin D deficiency season. Every autumn, as vitamin D levels plummet, the incidence of colds and flu skyrocket. After vitamin D levels bottom out during the darkest days of the cold and flu season, vitamin D levels rise again in the spring and the incidence of colds and flu steadily decrease until they virtually disappear during the vitamin D rich summer. It may be quite simple. Your body's innate Immunity, especially the production of innate natural antibiotics called antimicrobial peptides, goes up and down every year with your vitamin D levels. (Acquired Immunity is quite different. Those are the antibodies you slowly develop after an infection or a flu shot.) Maintaining summer-time vitamin D levels in the winter by taking adequate amounts of vitamin D (5,000 IU) may help prevent colds or the flu by stimulating Innate Immunity. Preventing some of the one million deaths in the world every year from flu related illnesses is exciting enough; an equally exciting possibility is that large doses of vitamin D may be useful In treating the flu - as well as other infections.
Acquired Immunity vs. Innate Immunity
Long ago, American flu experts fell in love with Acquired Immunity (boosting antibodies with flu shots), while ignoring Innate Immunity (the body's inherent ability to immediately attack and kill the flu virus). American influenza experts failed to notice that Innate Immunity went up and down with the seasons of the year.
Effect of Flu Shots "Modest" at Best
American influenzologists continue to believe that flu vaccines, which stimulate acquired immunity or viral specific antibodies, will protect us from the coming pandemic. They have spent their lives plumbing the depths of acquired immunity, trying to develop a better flu vaccine. Unfortunately, a recent meta-analysis in the British journal, the Lancelet, concluded, "In elderly Individuals living in the community (influenza) vaccines were not significantly effective against influenza, Influenza-like illness, or pneumonia.”
The authors concluded the overall effect of flu shots is "modest," at best. "Modest" is a complicated medical term that means "not much." Edwin Kilbourne, the grandfather and reigning godfather of American influenzologists said it better, "The effect of current vaccination programs on morbidity is insignificant, and that on mortality marginal." Jefferson T, Rivetti D, Rivetti A, Rudin M, Di Pietrantonj C, Demicheli V, Efficacy and Effectiveness of Influenza Vaccines in Elderly People: a Systematic Review. Lancet. 2005 Oct 1;366(949~):1165·74. Kilbourne E.Influenza.1987, Plenum Press, New York, p. 291
British influenzologists have not been as Infatuated with acquired immunity as their American counterparts. The roads first diverged between British and American virologists many years ago when three Brits (Andrews, Laidlaw, and Smith) were credited with discovering the influenza virus; the Yanks thought Shope (who had earlier isolated the virus in pigs) should have had the honor. Then, in 1976, British experts warned the United States not to embark on the mass immunization of 43,000,000 Americans with the swine flu vaccine. The Americans ignored the British warning, which proved prophetic when swine flu failed to appear, but an outbreak of immunization-related Guillain-Barre' Syndrome did. The program was halted and the director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) fired. For a fascinating set of papers on influenza that deals with these and other Issues - available for free - go to the CDC website.
Influenza's Most Remarkable Aspect
When you read these papers, you'll see American virologists continue to ignore the most remarkable aspect of influenza - it kills us in the winter but virtually disappears in the summer. In 1992, the British epidemiologist, Edgar Hope-Simpson, wrote that understanding influenza's "seasonal factor may be of critical value in designing prophylaxis against the disease." In effect, he was reminding his American colleagues that the key to influenza may not be down the road of boosting acquired immunity by flu shots but rather through better understanding innate immunity. Among the last sentences Hope-Simpson ever published, he pleaded that "it might be rewarding if persons who are in a position to do so, will look more closely at the operative mechanisms that are causing such seasonal behavior." That was a plea to American Influenza experts to look more closely at innate immunity. They ignored his plea and continued down the "road more traveled by." For those who like scientists who took the other road, "the road less traveled by,” Hope-Simpson's 1992 book, The Transmission of Epidemic Influenza (The Language of Science), is a masterpiece.
Not only were Hope-Simpson's words ignored, some American influenzologists ridiculed his "seasonal factor” as evidence of British scientific naiveté. Now, fifteen years after Hope-Simpson's plea, U.S. influenzologists are preparing for another mass flu immunization, this time against bird flu, to stimulate acquired immunity while ignoring her innate immunity.
John Jacob Cannell M.D, Executive Director
The Vitamin D Council
Are You Deficient in Vitamin D?
(Taken from a presentation by Dr. Oz on ABC News, October 6, 2009)
As the cold and flu season arrives in the U.S., it is critical that you keep your Vitamin D levels at the optimum point to keep your immunity at peak performance levels. The only way to know your level is with a simple blood test. Next time you visit your doctor, ask to have this test done. The results should be interpreted as follows according to Dr. Oz:
Above 50 = Good level (although many natural health experts recommend 80+)
30-50 = Supplements of Vitamin D3 are needed
Below 30 = Critically low - Supplements of Vitamin D3 are needed
People who are dark skinned or overweight are more at risk for having low levels of vitamin D. Dark skin slows the absorption of Vitamin D from the sun. The fat cells in overweight people suck up the Vitamin D, requiring more sun exposure to reach the optimum levels.
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