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NaturalNews Store announces holiday season specials on salt lamps, EMF meters, superfoods and more

(NaturalNews) There’s a lot of gift-giving going on this holiday season, but much of it is unfortunately founded in toxic gifts that actually cause cancer. Perfumes and colognes, for example, contain over 20 cancer-causing chemicals. Holiday meats and sausages almost always contain a chemical that causes cancer and diabetes. See the complete write-up of this in an accompanying article here on NaturalNews. If you’re giving gifts this holiday season, why not consider healthy gifts that people can enjoy without getting cancer or diabetes? Give the gift of happiness and health, not cancer and death. (Kinda makes sense, eh?) To help in this effort, we’ve put an solid selection of health-promoting gifts together for you at the NaturalNews Store. Click here to see the specials. These gifts include: • Himalayan Salt Lamps – an incredibly practical gift because they function both as a lamp and an emergency supply of full-spectrum salt that you can actually eat! On sale right now at the best price you’ll find on the ‘net. • Tri-Field Meters – they show you the electromagnetic pollution impacting your health. Turn this on near your circuit breaker box and you’ll be astonished. Or check the EMF pollution levels of your microwave, your coffee maker, your computer and your television. (Or check out your cell phone, if you dare…) • B-12 Energy Patches – using the high-end form of B-12 (methylcobalamin), these patches support the skin absorption of this critical nutrient that’s missing from the diets of many people, especially those who eat less meat. • Organic Sun-Cured Vanilla Bean Powder – this is the vanilla bean powder I use, and it’s so potent and unique that just 1/16th of a teaspoon will drastically improve the taste of almost any fruit smoothie or superfood blend. This is the real stuff, and we’ve got it at a far lower price than you’ll find anywhere else. • Himalayan Crystal Salt – a smart barter item and a thoughtful gift. It’s a full-spectrum salt that’s hand-mined from ancient salt caves. This is the real deal. Not processed or bleached out. Great for cooking as well as preparedness for uncertain times. • REJUVANTE Berries and Herbs superfood – we’ve got Rejuvenate and lots of other superfoods on sale right now at the NaturalNews Store! These are the superfoods I personally use to make smoothies, support healthy brain function, and provide superior nutrition in an age where most people are eating nutrient-depleted processed junk foods. • MegaFood vitamins – these are food-based nutritional supplements that deliver key nutrients such as selenium and zinc in a food format (not just ground-up rocks and minerals). • Astaxanthin, chlorella, Dragon Herbs, Chia Seeds, Coconut Oil and much more… the specials at the NaturalNews Store are greater than ever! We’ve even got stainless steel water bottles, Bear Fruit Bars and a whole lot more. It’s the largest collection of on-sale items we’ve ever offered. 116 health-enhancing products on sale NOW at the NaturalNews Store In all, we’ve got 116 items on sale right now. Check them all out at the following link: http://store.naturalnews.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=100370 Or just click here to see the list of specials . All sales help support NaturalNews and our efforts to continue bringing you hard-hitting news about health freedom, dangerous pharmaceuticals, personal preparedness, green living and much more. Thank you for your support!

NaturalNews Store announces holiday season specials on salt lamps, EMF meters, superfoods and more

(NaturalNews) There’s a lot of gift-giving going on this holiday season, but much of it is unfortunately founded in toxic gifts that actually cause cancer. Perfumes and colognes, for example, contain over 20 cancer-causing chemicals. Holiday meats and sausages almost always contain a chemical that causes cancer and diabetes. See the complete write-up of this in an accompanying article here on NaturalNews. If you’re giving gifts this holiday season, why not consider healthy gifts that people can enjoy without getting cancer or diabetes? Give the gift of happiness and health, not cancer and death. (Kinda makes sense, eh?) To help in this effort, we’ve put an solid selection of health-promoting gifts together for you at the NaturalNews Store. Click here to see the specials. These gifts include: • Himalayan Salt Lamps – an incredibly practical gift because they function both as a lamp and an emergency supply of full-spectrum salt that you can actually eat! On sale right now at the best price you’ll find on the ‘net. • Tri-Field Meters – they show you the electromagnetic pollution impacting your health. Turn this on near your circuit breaker box and you’ll be astonished. Or check the EMF pollution levels of your microwave, your coffee maker, your computer and your television. (Or check out your cell phone, if you dare…) • B-12 Energy Patches – using the high-end form of B-12 (methylcobalamin), these patches support the skin absorption of this critical nutrient that’s missing from the diets of many people, especially those who eat less meat. • Organic Sun-Cured Vanilla Bean Powder – this is the vanilla bean powder I use, and it’s so potent and unique that just 1/16th of a teaspoon will drastically improve the taste of almost any fruit smoothie or superfood blend. This is the real stuff, and we’ve got it at a far lower price than you’ll find anywhere else. • Himalayan Crystal Salt – a smart barter item and a thoughtful gift. It’s a full-spectrum salt that’s hand-mined from ancient salt caves. This is the real deal. Not processed or bleached out. Great for cooking as well as preparedness for uncertain times. • REJUVANTE Berries and Herbs superfood – we’ve got Rejuvenate and lots of other superfoods on sale right now at the NaturalNews Store! These are the superfoods I personally use to make smoothies, support healthy brain function, and provide superior nutrition in an age where most people are eating nutrient-depleted processed junk foods. • MegaFood vitamins – these are food-based nutritional supplements that deliver key nutrients such as selenium and zinc in a food format (not just ground-up rocks and minerals). • Astaxanthin, chlorella, Dragon Herbs, Chia Seeds, Coconut Oil and much more… the specials at the NaturalNews Store are greater than ever! We’ve even got stainless steel water bottles, Bear Fruit Bars and a whole lot more. It’s the largest collection of on-sale items we’ve ever offered. 116 health-enhancing products on sale NOW at the NaturalNews Store In all, we’ve got 116 items on sale right now. Check them all out at the following link: http://store.naturalnews.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=100370 Or just click here to see the list of specials . All sales help support NaturalNews and our efforts to continue bringing you hard-hitting news about health freedom, dangerous pharmaceuticals, personal preparedness, green living and much more. Thank you for your support!

Health benefits of broccoli require the whole food, not supplements

New research has found that if you want some of the many health benefits associated with eating broccoli or other cruciferous vegetables, you need to eat the real thing — a key phytochemical in these vegetables is poorly absorbed and of far less value if taken as a supplement.

LA Times pinkwashing reaches new low by pushing "preventive" chemotherapy drugs for women

(NaturalNews) Check this out: The LA Times is pinkwashing their entire website masthead with a pink ribbon set behind the word “Angeles,” which of course means “angels.” See it for yourself in this Fair Use screen shot: http://naturalnews.com/images/LATimes-PinkRibbon.jpg If that’s not enough pinkwashing, the LA Times website also has a pro-vaccine stance that may surprise you. Its “news briefs” section isn’t named “News Briefs” or “News Updates.” Instead, it’s called “booster shots.” I’m not kidding. They actually call it “booster shots,” which is of course a phrase used to refer to vaccine injections. Check it out in this screen shot (it’s the title of the center column): http://naturalnews.com/images/LATimes-BoosterShots.jpg Just to blow your mind even more — get ready for this one — the LA Times also ran an article entitled The puzzle of why more women don’t take preventive drugs . This article — and I’m not making this up — actually claims that the way to prevent breast cancer is to take chemotherapy drugs as prevention even when you don’t have breast cancer! The writer of this article, a reporter named Melissa Healy, never even mentions nutrients as prevention measures. The entire article is expressing puzzlement over why millions of women don’t sign up to start taking toxic chemotherapy drugs even though they don’t have cancer! And the logic goes like this: (here are a few paragraphs straight out of the story for purposes of commentary and public education) “The millions of Americans who take a pill each day to drive down their cholesterol or blood pressure do not generally think of themselves as “sick.” They believe that they are treating one thing — high cholesterol or blood pressure — and helping to prevent something worse: a heart attack or stroke. For women who worry about becoming the oft-quoted “1 in 8″ who will develop breast cancer in her lifetime, two well-established drugs can do for breast cancer what statins and blood pressure drugs do for heart attacks and strokes: drive down their odds of happening. Cardiovascular medications are aggressively advertised, widely prescribed and talked about freely among friends and co-workers. [But] breast cancer prevention drugs are virtually invisible on the American pharmaceutical landscape.” The article goes on to suggest that more women should be taking tamoxifen and raloxifene as preventive drugs that will somehow keep them healthy. The article then goes on to quote poison-peddling doctors with quotes like this one: “These medications have been underutilized to this point by anyone’s standards…” And then there’s this quote which expresses bewilderment at why patients wouldn’t trust drug companies to tell the truth: “The hatred and mistrust of the pharmaceutical companies was just astounding.” Gee, really? You mean after all the lies about HRT drugs, statin drugs and antidepressant drugs were exposed? You mean after all the fraud, the bribery, the faked clinical trials and the massive chemical toxicity experienced by people on Big Pharma’s drugs, that people don’t trust the drug companies anymore? Naw… how could that be? The entire article, by the way, makes absolutely no mention of vitamin D (which prevents 77 percent of all cancers) (http://www.naturalnews.com/021892.html), selenium, green tea or other nutrients that reduce breast cancer risk far more effectively and safely than any pharmaceutical that has ever been concocted in a lab. (http://www.naturalnews.com/016446.html) It sort of makes you wonder if the LA Times is actually trying to inform people or just repeat the same propaganda that Big Pharma dishes out on a daily basis. To write about breast cancer today without even referncing the mountain of research on vitamin D is highly irresponsible and in my mind, it brings into question the journalistic credibility of the writer who penned this particular story (Melissa Healy). I’m not linking to the original story in the LA Times, by the way, because I don’t want to give them any link popularity points, but you can easily find it by searching for the article title on Google. Scammy “tiny belly” acai weight loss ads Oh, and it gets even better. For months, the LA Times has been running ads promoting a scammy acai berry weight loss company that uses fake news websites to trick people into turning over their credit card details. These credit cards then get charged a “membership fee” (which is non-refundable after 7 days) for the privilege of being charged every month for a shipment of non-remarkable acai berry tablets. These are the illustrated ads that say things like “shrink your belly using this one weird tip.” This whole acai berry operation is run by an offshore company engaged in dubious e-commerce transactions, and it has generated an avalanche of consumer complaints. Why would the LA Times continue to run ads for scammy weight loss schemes that are so deceptive? As a courtesy, by the way, I emailed the LA Times myself to let them know about this, just in case they haven’t noticed all the complaints. Maybe they’ll do the right thing and ban the ads. Will the LA Times pursue the real story here? In any case, the LA Times is clearly a paper that appears to be strongly aligned with breast cancer pinkwashing — not just in terms of promoting pink ribbon propaganda but also with highly questionable editorial coverage that almost reads like it was written by the drug companies themselves and then repackaged as an LA Times article. I suppose if you want the pro-pharmaceutical version of breast cancer lies, read the LA Times. If you want the truth, however, read NaturalNews. Better yet, read my free special report which reveals even more lies about the breast cancer industry: http://www.naturalnews.com/Report_Breast_Cancer_Deception_0.html Also, read these 10 facts about the breast cancer industry you’re not supposed to know: http://www.naturalnews.com/024536_cancer_women_brst.html By the way, I’m sure the LA Times editorial staff will probably be forwarded this article, so here’s a message to all of you who work there: If you really want to cover a huge story about breast cancer, there’s probably a Pulitzer prize waiting for any determined journalist willing to dig up the real truth about pinkwashing scams and where the money is actually going that’s raised from all these pink ribbon events and products. Follow the money, my friends, and you will uncover a wildly different story from the one you’ve been reporting. If you need some leads and tips, contact me through NaturalNews and I’ll be happy to get you started on the real story behind the cancer industry scams. If you wish to contact me through back channels, I will assure your privacy and promise to keep your identity a secret until such time as you give me permission to make it publicly known (such as when you publish an article or a book that you want to make public). There’s a huge story here, folks. And it’s not the story line that Big Pharma is feeding you. The real story is that the cancer industry non-profits are pulling off the biggest money laundering scam of the century, and they are operating with absolutely no accountability because no one is asking the obvious questions such as “Where is this money really going and how is that supposed to find a cure for cancer?” Or the really big question, “If you find a cure for cancer, will you give it away for free? Will you make that pledge right now?” You see, there are huge questions about the breast cancer non-profit industry that no one seems to be asking in the mainstream media. And then there are the questions about why no one in the MSM is even asking these questions in the first place. That’s why more and more people are turning to websites like NaturalNews.com because they know they can find honest, skeptical reporting without the usual layer of corporate B.S. that seems to dominate the newsrooms of the top newspapers (and news websites) in America today. In any case, I harbor no ill will against the LA Times. I just hope they wake up and realize they’re being hoodwinked by the pinkwashing arm of the cancer industry so that they can change course and start reporting the truth about breast cancer. Because the truth, it turns out, is the biggest story of all.

Landmark case could allow injured persons to once again sue vaccine makers

(NaturalNews) Vaccines are implicated in causing all sorts of health damage, from neurological disorders like autism and Alzheimer’s disease to intestinal problems like ulcerative colitis and Chron’s disease — and everything in between. And a vaccine injury case currently before the Supreme Court could be the landmark decision that once again allows those injured by vaccines to sue vaccine manufacturers for damages, a course of action that has been barred since 1986 because of special federal protections enacted to immunize vaccine manufacturers against having to abide by the rule of law. Nearly 25 years ago, the U.S. Congress passed the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which exempts vaccine manufacturers from being liable for damages caused by their vaccines. The Act established an entirely new “legal” system to deal specifically with vaccine injury cases, handling each one in a special “vaccine court” that essentially just dismisses most cases as unwarranted. The Act is entirely unconstitutional as no company or entity can legally be exempted from due process within the real legal system, but it was enacted anyway and has served as a shelter for vaccine companies to hide behind in order to avoid costly litigation. And since the medical industry as a whole continues to deny a link between vaccines and autism, for instance, the “vaccine courts” can just automatically go along with the notion and arbitrarily reject all autism-related vaccine cases as unsubstantiated. But all that could change, depending on how the Supreme Court handles a case currently before it involving a young lady whose parents say she became permanently injured by a diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus (DPT) vaccine called Tri-Immunol that she received when she was a child. The Bruesewitz’s say that Wyeth, the manufacturer of the DTP vaccine, knew about a safer version of the vaccine, but continued to sell the dangerous one anyway. Now their daughter Hannah requires costly, specialized care for the rest of her life. The case was first rejected in “vaccine court” when just a month before the case was to be heard, the court removed all the reported severe injuries from the list of compensatory items. After then taking the case to civil courts, the Bruesewitz’s were told that the case was automatically invalid because of the federal Vaccine Act. So now the case sits before the Supreme Court where, if determined in the Bruesewitz’s favor, will set a new precedent whereby vaccine manufacturers will no longer be able to avert the rule of law. The illegitimacy of ‘vaccine court’ Much like the phony Internal Revenue Service (IRS) “tax courts”, “vaccine courts” have no justifiable basis anywhere in the law. They serve as nothing more than a way for drug companies to avoid having to bear responsibility for the harm caused by their vaccines. Any other person or company must go through the standard legal process, but the federal Vaccine Act literally grants special legal immunity to vaccine makers that nobody else receives. There are a few cases where “vaccine courts” have ruled in favor of plaintiffs, but such cases are likely just a ploy to trick the public into thinking such courts are legitimate and lawful. Most cases are rejected by “vaccine court” and, even though plaintiffs can then take the case to civil courts, the process has been made very difficult because of the federal Vaccine Act. Even though $154 million was paid in 2010 for “vaccine court” cases, that amount is a mere fraction of the overall profits vaccine companies rake in every year. And truth be told, vaccine manufacturers do not even pay such settlements. Vaccine companies don’t even injury settlements, the public does! Of the few cases that are actually ruled in favor of injured plaintiffs in “vaccine courts”, not a single one of them is paid for by the vaccine manufacturers that cause the harm. A special excise tax is collected when vaccines are sold to the public, which is later used as settlement compensation. This means that insurance companies and ultimately the public end up paying for vaccine settlements while the vaccine manufacturers get off scot-free! So not only are vaccine manufacturers essentially exempted from the real legal system, but the mock legal system set up in their favor actually guards them from having to pay a single cent for damages caused by their products. It’s time to end the vaccine racket Proponents of special legal protection for vaccine manufacturers say that it is necessary to protect them from “undue” litigation. But that is precisely what the real court system is for in the first place: to evaluate cases and determine whether or not a defendant is liable for damages. Setting up special “vaccine courts” that bypass due process is tyranny in the name of medicine, and it is simply unacceptable. Because of “vaccine courts”, the idea that vaccines are in any way related to causing autism has been dismissed all across the board, even though numerous studies and research data continue to suggest a connection (http://www.naturalnews.com/027178_autism_vaccines.html). And in the case of Hannah Bruesewitz, the system permits gross negligence on the part of vaccine manufacturers to go unpunished, unless of course the Supreme Court decides to do the right thing. Sources for this story include: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/12/health/12vaccine.html?_r=1&ref=health http://www.aboutlawsuits.com/supreme-court-vaccine-immunity-13439/

Reserve your screen names now for the launch of NaturalNews.TV video sharing site

(NaturalNews) The NaturalNews.TV website is the new, up-and-coming community video website that lets you upload, share and promote videos on topics like natural health, green living, natural foods and much more. It will be officially launched in less than two weeks. Nearly 1,500 members have already joined the site even before we announced it! That’s why you may want to know about this right now: You can reserve your own screen name on NaturalNews.TV right now by simply joining the site as a member (it’s free). To get the screen name you want, join as soon as possible before our public launch. This will give you control over your screen name. For example, if your nickname is “Jungle Guy” then you’d want to reserve the screen name “JungleGuy” so that your NaturalNews.TV home page would be www.NaturalNews.TV/JungleGuy You can reserve screen names that represent your real name, your nick name, your company name, organization name, product name or anything else. We do, of course, ask that you do not reserve trademarks terms unless you are the trademark holder or have some natural right to that term. So don’t register “McDonalds” unless that happens to be your real last name. (We reserve the right to cancel accounts that attempt to squat on trademarked names or that attempt to reserve names with the intent of selling them for profit.) Some of these screen names will one day be extremely valuable, and it’s in your interests to reserve your own name right now. It’s free, of course, and once you do that, you can upload videos, share them, post them on your website, link to them and much more. Videos get promoted across the site Better yet, once your video is uploaded and approved (we review and approve all videos before they appear on the site), it will automatically begin to appear in the “Related Videos” column located on the right of each video play page. So if you upload a video about yoga, for example, and someone else also has a video on yoga, when their video plays, your video may be recommended on the right. NaturalNews.TV gets even more exposure for your videos using an unprecedented video distribution system that we’ll be announcing shortly after the official launch of the site. We anticipate this resulting in millions of video views each month. These could be YOUR videos getting views, meaning your message can get out to a focused audience of people who are genuinely interested in healthy living, sustainable living, environmental protection, health freedom, natural medicine, foods and recipes, healthy pets and much more. To get started, just JOIN as a new member at www.NaturalNews.TV and enter the screen name you want to reserve. You can only reserve one screen name per email address you use to sign up, so pick your screen name carefully. Once you join, you can start uploading your videos. They’ll usually be approved in 12 hours or less, and they’ll appear on the NaturalNews.TV home page! We’ll have more exciting announcements about NaturalNews.TV coming soon! About NaturalNews.TV NaturalNews.TV is a multi-lingual, global video sharing community website serving the natural health and green living community with quality video content created by members. All uploaded videos are reviewed by real people before being published, and the site restricts content to relevant videos that serve the interests of its members. Behind the scenes, NaturalNews.TV is driven by a global network of servers located in over two dozen key cities around the world, including New York, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Sydney, London and more. This provides fast, reliable streaming of video content with the built-in scalability to deliver thousands of terabytes of video data each month, almost anywhere in the world. NaturalNews.TV was co-created by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews.com, with the purpose of providing a quality video site without all the noise and pollution of more popular video sites. All the videos on NaturalNews.TV are approved with the intention of supporting happier and healthier lives through education, how-to videos, instruction and commentary. The site supports free speech for the natural health community and strives to share information that can help people increase their health and happiness through knowledge empowerment.

Certified organic whole vanilla bean powder on sale at the NaturalNews Store

(NaturalNews) As our readers well know, we’re always working hard at the NaturalNews Store to find and bring you incredible deals on healthy, delicious foods and food ingredients. (Actually, credit goes to Matt Monarch at The Raw Food World, which is technically the store behind our store.) And this week we have a really special item for you: Whole Vanilla Bean Powder at a fantastic discount of 40% off. This vanilla bean powder is the real deal — no artificial flavors or fillers. Just pure whole vanilla bean powder grown and harvested organically. Pick up a 4 oz. bag here: http://store.naturalnews.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=100370 Our vanilla powder comes from Madagascar and Papua New Guinea. It’s raw and Certified Organic, and it’s batch tested for microbial content and allergens, so it’s among the most pristine vanilla powder you’ll find anywhere. And the taste will put a perma-grin on your face, too! This is a rich, complex vanilla bean blend that adds delicious flavors to any smoothie, raw dessert or other recipe. Vanilla powder actually “ages” much like wine, and many people are surprised at how it gets better with time. It has a very long shelf life, too, and doesn’t require refrigeration. I actually thought about growing vanilla in Ecuador. That’s when I learned about how labor intensive this orchid plant really is: Each plant flowers for just one day and it has to be hand-pollinated on that exact day or else it won’t produce the vanilla bean “fruit” that’s later harvested. And yes, vanilla beans come from wild orchids . In fact, it’s the only orchid that produces edible fruit. It grows only in high-humidity, rainforest environments (usually at low altitude). Use real vanilla, not artificial flavoring Vanilla has been prized for centuries as one of the world’s most sought-after culinary flavors: It’s used in chocolate bars, smoothies and even pancake recipes. Artificial vanilla is a cheap, chemically-produced liquid, but real whole organic vanilla offers a far more complex and rich taste experience, much like a fine wine. The best chefs all know that when it comes to vanilla, you only use the real thing , not artificial vanilla. While supplies last, our 4 oz. bags of organic whole vanilla powder are 40% off. We think this is a great deal on an exquisite flavor that will tempt your senses and add a rich, enjoyable experience to countless recipes in your own kitchen! Pick some up at the NN Store: http://store.naturalnews.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=100370 Tip: I use vanilla powder in chocolate smoothies, along with just a pinch of Himalayan salt. The combination of vanilla plus a small amount of salt adds an amazing complexity to almost any chocolate smoothie, including chocolate avocado smoothies!

Heal yourself in 15 days by correcting your "nature deficiency" (part nine)

(NaturalNews) Do you suffer from a “nature deficiency?” If you’d like most people in modern society, you spend most of your 24 hours of the day indoors . You work under artificial fluorescent lights, you eat and sleep inside a house or apartment, you commute in the artificial environment of a car, bus or train. You rarely get outside and even when you do, it’s not real nature — it’s some artificial “planned” park with concrete sidewalks and maintained lawns. I suspect you may have a nature deficiency. I know because I’ve been there. Probably much like you, I spent a lot of time outdoors as a child, but in my adult years, I found myself spending more and more hours indoors . It didn’t take long to realize that breathing re-circulated indoor air and having little or no time in nature wasn’t a good recipe for lifelong health. Today, I’m a nature advocate . Time in nature is healing all by itself, and children are especially vulnerable to the negative effects of a nature deficiency. But few people in the field of conventional medicine embrace the idea that nature itself a healer , so the message of spending time in nature to improve your health doesn’t get much attention. However, I believe that not spending enough time in nature promotes depression, obesity and even cancer. In fact, I believe that nature is so important to lasting health that I took up permanent residency in a country where I have spring-like weather year-round, just so that I can be outside in nature every single day of the year! That’s not possible to do in most places, but wherever you are, more time in nature can help you heal . Here’s how: How spending time in nature helps you heal • Sunlight Sunlight supports all life on our planet. Without sunlight, we would simply have no life on Earth. Your body is designed to be exposed to sensible levels of sunlight, and that’s why experiencing a reasonable amount of sunlight directly on your skin makes good sense for your health. As you well know, sunlight also causes your skin to generate vitamin D — perhaps the most miraculous nutrient yet discovered in the modern world. Vitamin D prevents cancer, heart disease and diabetes. It boosts bone density and immune function, and it prevents infectious disease far better than vaccines could ever hope to. To get more vitamin D, simply spend more time in nature! • Natural sounds The natural sounds of nature are, in and of themselves, healing therapy. Simply surrounding yourself with the sounds of real nature causes a scientifically-provable reduction in stress levels and blood pressure. The most powerful healing sounds in nature seem to be those from water : Waterfalls, water running down a creek or stream, rain and thunderstorms, etc. You can mimic these sounds with “sound conditioning” devices that broadcast sound loops of natural sounds. They’re very effective machines, but still nothing equals the healing potential of real sounds experienced directly in the real world. • Colors The colors of nature are, scientifically speaking, different wavelengths of light striking your retina and being interpreted as colors by your brain. These different wavelengths are, in essence, a form of energy medicine . Light is energy, and what your body needs to be healthy is exposure to a diverse assortment of those energy wavelengths. That’s why looking at all the various colors of flowers, plants and animals is, by itself, a healing experience. It also stimulates the brain to become more active and more intelligent . Spending more time in nature allows your brain to explore a more diverse natural reality, causing it to function at a higher cognitive level. Dull people, in contrast, tend to spend a lot of time indoors where the scenery never changes. • Movement Being in nature makes physical movement almost mandatory. When you’re in nature, you’re often walking, running, biking or swimming. And yet because the scenery is so beautiful, it doesn’t feel like exercise! It simply feels like fun! The health benefits of all this movement are tremendous: A boost in circulation, increased bone density and muscle strength, increased flexibility, lymph fluid circulation and much more. And yet being in nature allows you to experience all these benefits without it feeling like hard work. • Air There’s something qualitatively different about fresh air versus indoor air . Indoor air is contaminated with chemicals that have been off-gassed from all the synthetic materials used in the construction of homes and buildings: Carpets, furniture, paints, glues, dyes and so on. Plus, you often get mold spores from indoor air ducts. The air in a living pine tree forest (or any forest) is refreshingly different! Some people attribute it to the “negative ions” in the air, but there’s much more to it than that. There’s something almost magical about fresh air in a natural environment — it’s “sweet” and energizing! The more time you can spend in nature, the more fresh air you can take into your lungs and enjoy as a healing experience. It’s an innate thing to desire “fresh air.” Every person on the planet intuitively knows that fresh air is better than indoor air. Ever wonder why this knowledge is so deeply imbedded in the human brain? • Microbes Western medicine believes that sterility is safety . They want people to live in a sterile environment, where all the microbes in your environment (or on your food) are killed by antimicrobial soaps and pharmaceutical drugs. But certain microbes are very important for your health! Exposure to microbes in the real world is hugely important for the healthy balance and functioning of your immune system, and the best place to have exposure to these microbes is out in nature! When I was a kid growing up, I played in the dirt. I swam in the pond. I camped out on the grass. Today, many parents would be horrified to allow their children to even touch dirt or swim in the “non-sanitized” water of a natural stream. This obsession with sterility is deeply misguided. Seek out nature and don’t be afraid to experience the real world even if it means getting your hands dirty. • Bio energy Beyond the light, the sounds, the air and all the other healing elements of nature, there’s also something less tangible: The bio energy of living systems. In some way that scientists still don’t understand, lush living ecosystems “recharge” the human body and mind. Spending time in nature rejuvenates your system, and when city life leaves you feeling depleted, nature can bring your energy back. Part of the magic of the bio-energy in nature depends on coming into physical contact with nature . Walk barefoot. Hug a tree. Touch a flower. Lie down on the grass. Touch nature as your body intended and you’ll create a closed circuit with the planet itself. Some people say that being electrically “grounded” with the earth (through barefoot walking) makes an important difference in reducing the electric “noise” that interferes with your health. There’s merit to this thinking. Your ancient ancestors didn’t walk around in Nike shoes . They walked barefoot, and they were healthier for it! Kids suffer from nature deficiency, too! Most modern children live their lives indoors, banging away on gaming consoles and social networking websites. Few children are offered opportunities to spend any real time outdoors, in nature. The idea of “going to camp” during the summer seems to have been lost on the current generation of children, most of whom spend their summers in air-conditioned environments that are highly detrimental to their health. One of the greatest gifts you can offer any child is time in nature . And the earlier you start teaching children about the joys of nature, the more success you’ll have in sharing outdoor experiences with them. Plus, introducing your children (or grandchildren) to more time in nature means that you get more time in nature, too . One way to encourage time in nature, by the way, is to get rid of the TV . Television is the enemy of the natural world, and the more time children (or adults) spend in front of the TV, the less time they tend to spend in nature. Once children spend enough time in front of the TV, they won’t even want to venture into nature at all. Their whole “world” becomes the virtual world broadcast into their brains from the television set. For teenage boys, time in nature has largely been replaced with time spent playing computer games and console games. While there’s nothing wrong with a little time spent gaming, when this act becomes the dominant focus of a child’s life, it is hugely destructive. What these children need is more time in the real world and a lot less time in virtual worlds. Seriously: I’ve often thought that somebody should launch a “nature camp” business that would offer rehab services for teenage boys who are addicted to gaming. It would be a hugely successful business given how widespread modern gaming addiction has become. In any case, whether you have kids or not, spending more time in nature will vastly improve your health! So make it a point to get outside, soak up some sunshine, breathe in the fresh air and get all the nature you can! You’ll be healthier, happier, more fit and even more intelligent for doing so! Previous articles in this 15-day “Heal Yourself” series Part One – Remove barriers to healing http://www.naturalnews.com/028053_self_healing_quality_of_life.html Part Two – Unleash your inner healing potential http://www.naturalnews.com/028060_self_healing_immune_system.html Part Three – You are what you absorb http://www.naturalnews.com/028067_self_healing_digestion.html Part Four – Transform your health by making new blood http://www.naturalnews.com/028075_blood_health_transformation.html Part Five – Experience the healing potential of living plant juices http://www.naturalnews.com/028100_self_healing_fresh_juice.html Part Six – Accelerate your healing with a 24-hour fast http://www.naturalnews.com/028117_self_healing_fasting.html Part Seven – Heal yourself by rejecting the mainstream crowd http://www.naturalnews.com/028136_self_healing_crowd_psychology.html Part Eight – Stop making disease http://www.naturalnews.com/028153_self_healing_disease.html

Amino acids shown to be effective at treating brain injuries

(NaturalNews) Researchers from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have found in a lab study that amino acids are highly effective at restoring cognitive function and balancing neurochemical levels in those who have undergone brain trauma. Conducted on mice who had been inflicted with traumatic brain damage, the study holds promising potential for humans with similar injuries. The study appeared in the online journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In it, researchers fed brain-injured mice leucine, isoleucine, and valine, three branched chain amino acids (BCAAs) that have been shown to heal severe brain injuries. The result was that the brain-injured mice demonstrated a full cognitive recovery, visibly responding the same as uninjured mice following their treatment. The BCAAs used in the study are the precursors to two important neurotransmitters, glutamate and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) which jointly balance proper brain activity. Damage to the hippocampus, the portion of the brain that sustains memory and higher learning, is typical during a traumatic brain injury (TBI) and results in reduced BCAA levels. Supplementation with BCAAs has proven to rejuvenate the brain and restore it to normal function. Intravenous nourishment with BCAAs has been done before, however in this study the BCAA mixture was added to the mice’s drinking water. Dr. Akiva Cohen, Ph.D. and author of the study, recommends dietary supplementation with BCAAs for human TBI treatment. He believes oral rather than intravenous supplementation is preferable because, rather than flood the brain with too high a dose intravenously, drinking BCAAs will provide a more sustained dose with increased benefits. Comments by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger This is interesting research because it shows how dietary supplements can give the brain the raw materials it needs to heal itself. The fact that this process exists at all is considered utterly impossible by the FDA, which maintains the ridiculous position that there is no such thing as a nutritional supplement that has any therapeutic effect on the human body whatsoever. If BCAAs actually worked, the FDA says, they would be “drugs” instead of supplements. And they would be regulated and available only by prescription. The FDA cannot tolerate the existence of a nutritional supplement that actually works to accelerate healing while being freely available to anyone who wants to buy it. Reality, however, stands in contrast to the FDA. In the real world, nutrients do help the brain heal. In the real world, food is medicine . The FDA, to its own embarrassment, continues to deny this simple fact of human physiology. Sources for this story include: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/with-amino-acid-diet-mice-improve-after-brain-injury-78772612.html