Link between environment and genetics in triggering multiple sclerosis: Discovery points to personalized treatments

Environmental and inherited risk factors associated with multiple sclerosis — previously poorly understood and not known to be connected — converge to alter a critical cellular function linked to the chronic neurologic disease, researchers have discovered.

How vitamins and minerals may prevent age-related diseases

Severe deficiency of the vitamins and minerals required for life is relatively uncommon in developed nations, but modest deficiency is very common and often not taken seriously. New research, however, may change this thinking as it examines moderate selenium and vitamin K deficiency to show how damage accumulates over time as a result of vitamin and mineral loss, leading to age-related diseases.

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Land around Fukushima now radioactive dead zone; resembles target struck by atomic bomb

(NaturalNews) It is nothing short of astonishing that the nuclear catastrophe we’ve all been told was “no big deal” has now escalated into the worst nuclear disaster in the history of human civilization. It’s so bad now that soil samples taken from outside the 12-mile exclusion zone (the zone considered safe enough by the Japanese government for schoolchildren to attend school there) are higher than the 1.48 million becquerels a square meter limit that triggered evacuations outside Chernobyl in 1986. In other words, the radiation level of the soil 12 miles from Fukushima is now higher than the levels considered too dangerous to live in near Chernobyl. This is all coming out in a new research report authored by Tomio Kawata, a fellow at the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan. That same report also reveals that radiation from Fukushima has spread over 230 square miles . What we’re facing here, folks, is a Fukushima dead zone where life will never return to its pre-Fukushima norms. Radiation levels similar to nuclear bomb test site Bloomberg is now reporting, “Tetsuya Terasawa said the radiation levels are in line with those found after a nuclear bomb test, which disperses plutonium. He declined to comment further.” (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-30/japan-risks-chernobyl-like-dead-zone-as-fukushima-soil-radiation-soars.html) One soil sample taking 25 kilometers away from Fukushima showed Cesium-137 exceeding 5 million becquerels per square meter . This level, of course, makes it uninhabitable by humans, yet both the Japanese and U.S. governments continue to downplay the whole event, assuring their sheeple that there’s nothing to worry about. By their logic, since all the people are sheeple anyway, as long as the area is safe enough for sheep, it’s also safe enough for the human population. Both Japan and the U.S. have made huge efforts to raise the limits of allowed radiation exposure in foods and beverages. This was, of course, a deceitful tactic to try to reclassify radiation contamination as somehow magically being “safe” by redefining it. The outright lying and tactics of deception that have been used to try to downplay the severity of the radioactive fallout from Fukushima are nothing less than despicable. In a time when radiation threatens the safety and food supply of hundreds of millions of people, we are getting nothing but a Fukushima whitewash . Fukushima is now far worse than Chernobyl ever was and yet we’re all being told it’s no problem and that the government has it all under control. I ask: How is 5 million becquerels per square meter not a problem? It’s amazing that we even got this information, considering how frequently TEPCO claims its sensors and meters aren’t working (basically any time they get a reading that’s “too high”). The Japanese government can’t wait to corral the sheeple back onto the radioactive soil, by the way. “Basically, the way in which the current zones have been drawn up aren’t a concern in terms of the impact on health,” said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano. “Using Mr. Kawata’s report as a guide, we want to do what we can to improve the soil, so people can return as soon as possible.” (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-30/japan-risks-chernobyl-like-dead-zone-as-fukushima-soil-radiation-soars.html) Barely two weeks ago, TEPCO finally admitted Fukushima suffered multiple core meltdowns in the hours following the tsunami strike (http://www.naturalnews.com/032378_nuclear_meltdown_TEPCO.html) (http://www.naturalnews.com/032437_Fukushima_nuclear_meltdown.html). This was the first time TEPCO openly admitted to something the alternative media had been reporting for months. What has become perfectly clear in the reporting on Fukushima is that: • Governments lie to the people • Mainstream media lies to the people • Only the alternative media was correct in reporting the severity of the core meltdowns and the release of radioactive material into the environment. That’s why more and more people are turning away from traditional sources of (mis)information and instead relying on the alternative media to get accurate information about world events.

Land around Fukushima now radioactive dead zone; resembles target struck by atomic bomb

(NaturalNews) It is nothing short of astonishing that the nuclear catastrophe we’ve all been told was “no big deal” has now escalated into the worst nuclear disaster in the history of human civilization. It’s so bad now that soil samples taken from outside the 12-mile exclusion zone (the zone considered safe enough by the Japanese government for schoolchildren to attend school there) are higher than the 1.48 million becquerels a square meter limit that triggered evacuations outside Chernobyl in 1986. In other words, the radiation level of the soil 12 miles from Fukushima is now higher than the levels considered too dangerous to live in near Chernobyl. This is all coming out in a new research report authored by Tomio Kawata, a fellow at the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan. That same report also reveals that radiation from Fukushima has spread over 230 square miles . What we’re facing here, folks, is a Fukushima dead zone where life will never return to its pre-Fukushima norms. Radiation levels similar to nuclear bomb test site Bloomberg is now reporting, “Tetsuya Terasawa said the radiation levels are in line with those found after a nuclear bomb test, which disperses plutonium. He declined to comment further.” (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-30/japan-risks-chernobyl-like-dead-zone-as-fukushima-soil-radiation-soars.html) One soil sample taking 25 kilometers away from Fukushima showed Cesium-137 exceeding 5 million becquerels per square meter . This level, of course, makes it uninhabitable by humans, yet both the Japanese and U.S. governments continue to downplay the whole event, assuring their sheeple that there’s nothing to worry about. By their logic, since all the people are sheeple anyway, as long as the area is safe enough for sheep, it’s also safe enough for the human population. Both Japan and the U.S. have made huge efforts to raise the limits of allowed radiation exposure in foods and beverages. This was, of course, a deceitful tactic to try to reclassify radiation contamination as somehow magically being “safe” by redefining it. The outright lying and tactics of deception that have been used to try to downplay the severity of the radioactive fallout from Fukushima are nothing less than despicable. In a time when radiation threatens the safety and food supply of hundreds of millions of people, we are getting nothing but a Fukushima whitewash . Fukushima is now far worse than Chernobyl ever was and yet we’re all being told it’s no problem and that the government has it all under control. I ask: How is 5 million becquerels per square meter not a problem? It’s amazing that we even got this information, considering how frequently TEPCO claims its sensors and meters aren’t working (basically any time they get a reading that’s “too high”). The Japanese government can’t wait to corral the sheeple back onto the radioactive soil, by the way. “Basically, the way in which the current zones have been drawn up aren’t a concern in terms of the impact on health,” said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano. “Using Mr. Kawata’s report as a guide, we want to do what we can to improve the soil, so people can return as soon as possible.” (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-30/japan-risks-chernobyl-like-dead-zone-as-fukushima-soil-radiation-soars.html) Barely two weeks ago, TEPCO finally admitted Fukushima suffered multiple core meltdowns in the hours following the tsunami strike (http://www.naturalnews.com/032378_nuclear_meltdown_TEPCO.html) (http://www.naturalnews.com/032437_Fukushima_nuclear_meltdown.html). This was the first time TEPCO openly admitted to something the alternative media had been reporting for months. What has become perfectly clear in the reporting on Fukushima is that: • Governments lie to the people • Mainstream media lies to the people • Only the alternative media was correct in reporting the severity of the core meltdowns and the release of radioactive material into the environment. That’s why more and more people are turning away from traditional sources of (mis)information and instead relying on the alternative media to get accurate information about world events.

Join massive dance protest this Saturday at Jefferson Memorial, Washington D.C.

(NaturalNews) Organized by Adam Kokesh, the host of Adam vs. the Man on RT America (www.RT.com/usa), a dance protest last Saturday attracted dozens of people who engaged in silent dancing inside the hall of the Jefferson Memorial. But even as they swayed in silence, the D.C. police viciously assaulted them, choking Adam Kokesh around the throat, then picking him up and violently slamming his body to the ground (http://rt.com/news/arrest-police-usa-kokesh/). This is the new standard of violent government oppression in America: The mere fact that your body is moving rhythmically is now enough to get you violently assaulted by law enforcement. That this is taking place inside the memorial of Thomas Jefferson is, all by itself, an insult to what the memorial itself stands for: Freedom. If anything, Jefferson would have welcomed the idea of people dancing, singing, speaking and even dissenting in the hall of his memorial. Thomas Jefferson, after all, was the most famous anti-government revolutionary in U.S. history. And it was he who warned about the rise of corporate fascism and runaway government power. I’ve posted the video of the D.C. police violence against the protestors at NaturalNews.TV: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=7A89D7EC8565C50E29B2901589E0D547 You’ll be arrested, but we won’t tell you why… Here are some of the words exchanged between police and the protestors, before the arrests began: D.C. Park Police: If you come out here and you demonstrate by dancing, you will be placed under arrest. Does everybody understand that? … and you will spend the weekend in jail. Citizen: But sir, that’s illegal. What would we be charged with? D.C. Park Police: You are too far away from the city to allow citation to reappear, therefore they lock you up and hold you. Citizen: What exactly would be the violation? D.C. Park Police: You’ll find out. Citizen: What law is that? D.C. Park Police: I’m just giving you the warnings right now. Citizen: You’re telling us you’ll arrest us, but you’re not telling us under what law or under what authority… D.C. Park Police: If you’re dancing in here, we’re gonna [unintelligible]… [walks away] After this exchange, the police begin violently assaulting the dancers, including place them in choke holds and body slamming them onto the concrete floor. [Heard in the background] “Dancing in a public area is now a crime!” Adam vs. the Man Adam Kokesh hosts a program on RT America, and his website is http://www.adamvstheman.com He’s sometimes described as a “left-leaning radical” but what I see in Adam is a person who isn’t afraid to assert his freedoms and challenge the status quo. That makes him more of a liberty-oriented individual in my book. I’m actually scheduled to be on his show in about two weeks, during which we will share the word about health freedom and the FDA war on nutrition and healing. If you’d like to help support my appearance on Adam’s show, simply go to this page and vote for “Mike Adams”: http://www.adamvstheman.com/suggestions Adam is making waves with his protests and his challenges to federal tyranny, and we intend to cover his upcoming events here on NaturalNews (see below). Join the massive dance protest this Saturday, June 4th, at the Jefferson Memorial NaturalNews urges its readers who are within driving distance to D.C. to join the massive dance protest that’s now forming up for Saturday, June 4th. In response to the violent arrest of dancers last Saturday, Adam Kokesh is organizing this repeat dance protest this Saturday, which aims to attract hundreds of people to come dance at the Jefferson Memorial. It’s called the Dance Party at TJ’s! The page describing this upcoming event is: http://www.adamvstheman.com/video-contest And the Facebook page is: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=150453268357946 Dancing commences at exactly twelve noon . Importantly, you do NOT have to risk being arrested if you don’t want to… just dance outside the memorial (on the steps) in a show of support. If you wish, you can dance inside the memorial and risk being arrested or even violently attacked by the vicious D.C. park police who somehow think they have the right to physically attack American citizens right inside the Jefferson memorial itself! Bring your video cameras to record the protest, and bring a backup camera in case they seize your first one! Who is Adam Kokesh? By the way, I don’t yet know Adam Kokesh in person, so I can’t say whether I agree with everything he advocates, but that’s not important right now. What I really admire about Adam is his courage to engage in a public display of civil disobedience much like we saw in the civil rights movement. By daring to dance at the Jefferson Memorial, he is giving the finger to the police state and engaging in precisely the kind of freedom of speech that we should all be exercising. That is no doubt why the D.C. park police choked him and body slammed him to the ground… to send a warning message. This is the way government thugs operate: Through the threat of violence. They have no respect for freedom, no respect for the Bill of Rights and no respect for individual citizens. They use fear, force and violence to protect their interests, usually at the expense of the very public they falsely claim to be serving. By dancing at the TJ memorial, Adam is exposing the existence of the police state in America . Think about it: If they can’t allow you to even silently move your body in rhythm , what chance do you think there is of them allowing you to speak your mind? The fact that they are arresting dancers at the Jefferson memorial perfectly parallels the reality that the TSA is reaching down your pants at the airports: It’s all a symptom of the rising police state that respects no freedom of expression and no law whatsoever. Join the dance protest this Saturday and bring your cameras! Get this footage on the record, because this will become part of the historical record of the American police state and its response to peaceful protest at the memorial of one of the most important anti-government revolutionaries in our nation’s history: Thomas Jefferson. Again, the website to learn more is: http://www.adamvstheman.com And be sure to vote for “Mike Adams” so we have more support to be on Adam’s show: http://www.adamvstheman.com/suggestions Watch for more breaking news about this protest on June 5th!

A Link Between Bat Deaths and Pesticides?

(NaturalNews) The US Fish and Wildlife Service published a plan in May of 2011 to prevent the spread of white-nose syndrome (WNS) in bats. The fast-spreading disease has killed more than one million bats in the US and Canada since it detection in 2006. The new plan is meant to coordinate multiple governmental and research groups in a “swift national effort to avoid irreversible losses to bat populations”. WNS derives its name from the whitish fungus which typically appears on the nose and/or wings of infected bats. However, not all infected bats display these visual symptoms. The disease causes bats to engage in atypical behaviors such as flying during periods when their prey is unavailable, such as sub-zero temperatures in daylight hours. Infected bats will also cluster around the entrances to their hibernacula (caves and other dark places in which they can safely spend the winter months). Once the disease attacks a colony of bats, it spreads quickly and typically wipes out 90% of those sharing a hibernation dwelling. The highly respected journal Science published a study in August of 2010 in which researched predicted that WNS would result in local extinction of some bat species within two decades. Since bats play a vital role in ecosystems, both as pollinators and through their consumption of insects harmful to crops, this could have a devastating effect on the economy. The April 2011 issue of Science included an article reporting on another study looking at the financial impact of potential bat extinction. Researchers estimated that the loss of bat populations could cost the US agriculture system more than $3.7 billion per year. Some scientists predict the bat die-off may require more extensive use of pesticides to compensate for fact that insects destructive to crops will no longer be subject to predation by the night-flying mammals. This is ironic because many environmental experts point to pesticides, along with GMO crops, as a possible culprit contributing to the epidemic threatening the continuation of the bat species. At the same time that one arm of the federal government, US Fish and Wildlife Management, works to contain the disease, other branches continue to rubberstamp their approval of an increasing number of pesticides and genetically modified Frankenfoods whose safety has not been verified. Bats are one of the species serving as canaries in the coal mine of the toxic chemical stew in our environment. Their unique combination of long lifespan (up to three decades) and small size (a little brown bat weighs about 8 grams) makes them especially vulnerable. Boston University bat researcher and PhD candidate Marianne Moore notes, “That’s a lot of time to accumulate pesticides and contaminants. We know they are exposed to and accumulate organochlorines, mercury, arsenic, lead, dioxins but we don’t understand the effects.” Independent research, free of corporate influence, is needed to investigate the link between WNS and pesticides. Sources for this article include: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13438594 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/13/bat-disease-pesticides_n_848556.html http://e360.yale.edu/feature/behind_mass_die_offs_pesticides_lurk_as_culprit/2228/ http://whitenosebats.wordpress.com/about/

Lance Armstrong used illegal doping substances, says a second ex-teammate

(NaturalNews) Tyler Hamilton, who is no stranger to doping, alleges Lance Armstrong and other U.S. Postal team members used EPO, testosterone and other banned substances. These accusations come one year after Floyd Landis, another U.S. Postal rider with a history of doping, released emails detailing the alleged use of banned substances by Armstrong and other teammates. Hamilton made the accusation during a “60 Minutes” interview, part of which aired May 19 on the “CBS Evening News”. Hamilton and Armstrong were teammates on the U.S. Postal Service team in 1999, 2000 and 2001. Hamilton said in the interview that Armstrong used EPO, which is used to boost the number of oxygen-carrying blood cells thereby improving stamina, during the first of his seven Tour de France victories in 1999, and again to prepare for the 2000 and 2001 races. (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-20/cyclist-tyler-hamilton-hands-in-2004-olympic-gold-medal-to-doping-agency.html) “[Armstrong] took what we all took … the majority of the peloton,” Hamilton told CBS reporter Scott Pelley. “There was EPO … testosterone … a blood transfusion … I saw [EPO] in his refrigerator. I saw him inject it more than one time like we all did, like I did many, many times.” Armstrong spokesman Mark Fabiani responded with a statement that said: “Hamilton is actively seeking to make money by writing a book, and now he has completely changed the story he has always told before so he could get himself on ’60 Minutes’ and increase his chances with publishers.” Armstrong response came in a post on Twitter that said: “20+ year career. 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case.” Armstrong defenders say that Hamilton’s own history with doping puts his credibility in question. Hamilton, like Landis, had been suspended for doping in the past. He tested positive for blood doping twice in 2004. In 2006 he was accused of using EPO, growth hormone, testosterone and cortisone in the Operation Puerto blood doping inquiry. After a two year ban, he returned to cycling but retired after another failed test in 2009. (http://blogs.wsj.com/dailyfix/2011/05/20/another-day-another-doping-charge/) Hamilton also returned his gold medal May 20 for the 2004 Olympic time-trial. The medal was already marred by a positive blood doping test that was later overruled on a technicality. The United States Anti-Doping Agency said that Hamilton returned it, after the International Olympic Committee said it could strip him of the medal. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/may/20/floyd-landis-tyler-hamilton-lance-armstrong) Hamilton’s allegations are different from previous accuser Landis’ in that they are part of a federal investigation into blood doping led by the Food and Drug Administration that began last spring and add up to a little more than their dismissal as “just another disgraced rider looking to make a quick buck”. (http://blogs.wsj.com/dailyfix/2011/05/20/another-day-another-doping-charge/) Armstrong is the focus of the investigation, which aims to prove that Armstrong and his associates committed fraud against the government, among other crimes (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/21/sports/hamilton-surrendering-his-gold-medal.html?partner=rss&emc=rss). Investigators subpoenaed several former U.S. Postal riders. Until that moment I walked into the courtroom, “I hadn’t told a soul,” Hamilton said in an email to family and friends. “My testimony went on for six hours. For me it was like the Hoover dam breaking. I opened up; I told the whole truth and nothing but the truth. And I felt a sense of relief I’d never felt before – all the secrets, all the weight I’d been carrying around for years suddenly lifted. I saw that, for me personally, this was the way forward.” http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/may/20/floyd-landis-tyler-hamilton-lance-armstrong The U.S. criminal investigation is not aimed at prosecuting rank-and-file riders who used performance-enhancing drugs during their careers, according to the Wall Street Journal. Rather, it is designed to bring charges against any team leaders and team directors who may have facilitated or encouraged doping by their riders. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704904604576334021352733148.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Allegations against Armstrong The FDA investigation of Armstrong should finally provide a definitive legal answer. (http://www.bicycling.com/news/pro-cycling/you-jury) The following list of allegations from bicycling.com, allegations which have all been rebuffed by Armstrong, are some of the allegations under investigation in the federal inquiry: In a July 2010 Wall Street Journal article, Floyd Landis said Johan Bruyneel told him that Armstrong’s team sold some sponsor equipment to finance doping. In accounts published in two books, Motorola racer Stephen Swart says Armstrong was the central agitator pushing riders to dope. In arbitration between Armstrong and SCA Promotions (over the payment of a bonus he was due for winning the Tour), former teammate Frankie Andreu and his wife, Betsy, said under oath that in ’96 Armstrong admitted to medical staff that he had doped with EPO , growth hormone, testosterone and other drugs. In a Sports Illustrated story in January, Armstrong is said to have returned at least three tests in the 1990s that indicated testosterone doping. When requested by the USOC to confirm the results by testing the B samples, Don Catlin, the anti-doping scientist whose laboratory performed the procedure, was allegedly unable to confirm two. The result of the third was not addressed by Catlin in the materials the SI reporters discovered. Former Armstrong soigneur Emma O’Reilly told journalist David Walsh that, in ’99, the team forged a backdated prescription to explain a positive test in Stage 1 of the Tour. In the e-mails to cycling officials obtained by the Wall Street Journal and other publications, Landis alleged that Armstrong told him that Bruyneel and Armstrong flew to UCI headquarters in Switzerland to make a financial agreement with UCI president Hein Verbruggen to suppress a positive test result Armstrong generated at the Tour of Switzerland. SI reported in January that Armstrong obtained the blood substitute HemAssist, which had been pulled from clinical trials. Sources for this article include: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-20/cyclist-tyler-hamilton-hands-in-2004-olympic-gold-medal-to-doping-agency.html http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-lance-armstrong-20110520,0,2130490.story http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/21/sports/hamilton-surrendering-his-gold-medal.html?partner=rss&emc=rss http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/may/20/floyd-landis-tyler-hamilton-lance-armstrong http://blogs.wsj.com/dailyfix/2011/05/20/another-day-another-doping-charge/ http://www.bicycling.com/news/pro-cycling/you-jury

FDA targets numerous supplement manufacturers, falsely accuses them of selling drugs

(NaturalNews) In the eyes of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), there is no difference between a legitimate, scientifically-backed health claim, and a phony, made-up claim, as it concerns food and dietary supplements. Only FDA-approved drugs, you see, provide real health benefits, according to the agency. And in its continued assault against health freedom, the FDA has sent warning letters to five different companies that produce natural treatments and cures for sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs) because those companies dared to make unauthoried health claims, many of which are backed by peer-reviewed, journal-published scientific studies. The companies being targeted — MedaVir, Herpaflor, Viruxo Anti-Viral Support, C-Cure, and Never an Outbreak — all made the mistake of telling their customers about the health benefits of their products without going through the laborious, multi-million dollar FDA drug approval process. As a result, the FDA has accused them all of selling unapproved drugs, and ordered them to withdraw the statements or face further regulatory action. What is worse, though, is the fact that the FDA has decreed that any food or dietary supplement that provides any sort of health benefit is automatically a “drug.” Ordinary foods like almonds, cherries, or walnuts literally become recategorized as drugs when accompanied by claims that they cure, heal, or prevent disease — and this is currently the law of the land in the US. “While some of the companies market these products as dietary supplements, these products are all drug products under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act), as they are offered for the treatment of disease,” stated the FDA in a press release about the STD supplements. “These drug products, which are offered for the treatment of STDs, may not be introduced into interstate commerce without an FDA-approved new drug application (NDA).” In other words, no food or supplement product can bear health claim labels without first gaining the FDA rubber stamp of approval, and being recategorized as a drug. It does not matter if scientific studies have verified that an herb, substance or food has health-promoting properties — if the FDA has not first been paid to approve it, then there is no place for it in the medicinal realm. This is why groups like the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) are urging those in the natural health community to support the Free Speech about Science Act (https://secure3.convio.net/aahf/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=698), which will end the censorship of legitimate science and restore freedom of speech to natural health. Sources for this story include: http://www.anh-usa.org/fda-accuses-supplement-manufacturers-of-selling-drugs/

Name The Greatest Sports Vitamins And What To Watch Out For.

Sports supplements can be for anyone who wants to perform better at a specific sport or when operating out. You can get tons, if not thousands of supplements, so how do you choose that ones to buy? If you want to take one or more that are visiting be useful, you’ve got to consider what [...]

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