Next Stop for NHF – Bad Soden, Germany December 2012 By Katherine A. Carroll, Associate Editor, Health Freedom News, NHF

Last Year National Health Federation Represented Your Health Freedom Here As We Will This Year

The first week of December 2012, the National Health Federation will take its seat at the Codex table and prepare to represent those who are dedicated to health and health freedom. As many of you know, I have volunteered for over a year in many positions, my latest as Associate Editor of Health Freedom News for the National Health Federation. As I’ve shared before, it’s quite humbling to learn – after the fact – that someone has been protecting and watching over you and your loved ones’ health freedom before you were even aware. NHF has been there since 1955 doing just that. It’s such an honor now, after learning how much NHF has been doing for me and my family, to be a part of the largely-volunteer team representing true health freedom at this week-long meeting.

Some Of My Large Family And Myself, Grateful For NHF's Work Protecting Us When We Weren't Aware Especially!

Yesterday I revisited a few earlier blogs I’d posted on Codex and NHF’s role in the World to prepare for my first radio interview. The links are all posted at the end and it might be a good refresher for you to review them too as well as listen to my first interview on the radio talking about Ractopamine, Codex, NHF and our role in the World, and a little on Macular Degeneration as well.

We’re in a busy holiday season, yet taking time out to focus on protecting the nutrient levels in our supplements – making sure they don’t fall further, or, as in the case of fluoride, become classified as a nutrient when it is simply industrial waste . . . well, it’s an important investment of time when there seems to be no extra time. Thank you to those who have supported the vital, ongoing work of NHF for this trip and over the years. Please, don’t stop now!! We have fats and oils in Malaysia to speak on in March 2013. Codex’s use of “junk science” to support reduction of saturated fats is simply disconnected from current research and the differentiation of a good saturated fat like coconut oil versus a lesser quality fat has not been made. After that in Beijing, contaminants in foods are decided upon. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want ANY contaminants in my food. I certainly don’t want melamine in baby’s formula and trans-fats…These are real issues. It is vital that we attend.

“I can’t talk yet but I hope you tell them I don’t want trans-fats & melamine please!”

NHF speaks good, old-fashioned common sense at Codex, with a healthy dose of up-to-date studies from independent researchers backing up every statement NHF makes. There are NO OTHER HEALTH FREEDOM ORGANIZATIONS speaking for you. I mean that literally. NHF is the ONLY health freedom organization able to speak, submit paperwork (which President Scott Tips already has- three separate papers in anticipation of the Nutrition Codex meeting in Germany), and correct the entries to the final report. Another health-freedom organization has claimed that they are going to this upcoming Codex meeting to speak for you, but the truth is that they cannot speak out at the meeting as NHF does.  They are simply an individual member of a country delegation and are actually forbidden to speak to other delegates unless it is to parrot the U.S. party line.  There are no substitutes for NHF at this meeting.

NHF President Scott C. Tips and Past President Charles Crecelius

As in the Canadian meeting, NHF will attend the final meeting not leaving until the report is considered complete and closed. Do you know how many attend to the “bitter end?” Not many, I can assure you. NHF demonstrates time and again real service and dedication to the truth; our right to decide what goes into our body, what practitioner we will employ, etc.  Volunteering the last year or so has changed my life and the lives of many! And it all began because I read an article – just one article by President Scott Tips…

This Was the "Magic Bullet" for My Transition Into Activism for Health Freedom

What can you do today to help? Consider these action steps if you please:

·        Visit www.thenhf.com and get behind current issues by signing petitions you’re passionate about.

·        Support by clicking the donate button on the website or our FaceBook pages.

·        Consider monthly support, as some of our members provide, to ensure your representation at every Codex      meeting and not just the ones we can ‘afford’.

·        Consider mentioning NHF in your Will to ensure your investments in health freedom don’t stop.

·        Be persistently vocal. Don’t stop with one interaction. Call your representatives, visit them in person, write a letter to the editor, blog, share a passionate email with your contact list, and leverage it by asking them to share it with theirs too.

·        Start a chapter meeting in your town to raise awareness and fight for the issues that are near to your heart.

·        Volunteer to host a table at a Health Expo, Health Freedom Fair, etc.

·        Practice your passion: if you’re a writer- write! A speaker? Speak! A singer? Sing!

We can’t do it without each one of you!

I Wear Many "Hats"...I Love Them All, Am Passionate About Protecting Health Freedom!!

·        My first radio interview for NHF. Kind of like riding a roller-coaster…scary-fun!!  It starts at the 7:11 minute mark:  http://kcaaradio.celestrion.net/kcaa-podcasts/about/20121128.html

·        http://www.thenhf.com/blog/2012/06/codex-first-time-firsthand-the-fortieth-session-of-the-codex-committee-on-food-labelling-ottawa-canada-may-2012-by-katherine-a-carroll/

·        http://www.thenhf.com/blog/2012/04/the-national-health-federation-is-the-fulcrum-that-tips-the-world-by-katherine-a-carroll/

·        Contact: contact-us@thenhf.com

·        1.626.357.2181    or write to: National Health Federation, P.O. Box 688, Monrovia, CA 91017

·        https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/dMZya

Our Book- A Must Read To Understand the Reality  of Codex www.amazon.com

Immune Mechanisms In Allergic Eye Diseases: What Is New?

We've had requests to blog on health, nutrition, and alternative therapies including orthomolecular medicine- using supplements vs. drugs to create a healing influence. Yesterday we created a new blog, medicalvisioncenter.blogspot.com that is really just a culmination of years of studies, consults with patients, and finding solutions for ocular disease and issues like dry eye or allergy eyes- both common complaints and the launching off point for the Medical Vision Center blog. You can sign up at that address for updates and you'll save yourself many trips to the eye doctor by implementing some of the suggestions. Also you'll see the latest studies supporting protocols we've developed for use with patients at both clinics. 

If you need more information or particular brand names (and we ARE particular having found the brands that have integrity and the ones that don't) then email me at katacarroll@gmail.com and I'll be happy to help. In addition to the other hats I wear with Adytum Sanctuary and as Associate Editor for Health Freedom News, I still maintain a private practice doing nutritional consults at both clinics and by email. We're committed to this lifestyle and to finding solutions in nature. Just say 'no' to drugs and you'll stand a winning chance of truly solving your problems because there is ALWAYS an answer in diet, lifestyle, supplementation, attitude, intention, and prayer.

In 2011-2012, Dr. Donald Carroll performed the first office trial on using a proprietary blend of red wine extract with wet and dry macular degeneration patients. The study involved review by Dr. Stuart Richer who pioneered the treatment for this blinding disease using supplements to restore vision. Their joint paper will publish soon and the results are great! Medical Vision Center in Morton, Washington, our main practice where Donn's worked for 32 years and myself for 17 years, is now a designated Macular Degeneration Research Center. 

I hope you enjoy this departure from the usual Adytum Sanctuary Life blogs as we discuss treating ocular allergies with probiotics and enjoying not only relief from symptoms, but a chance for healing.

Aside from dry eye syndrome, the most common complaint at the clinics is itching, burning, excessive tearing, grittiness, and irritation. This often makes comfortable contact lens wearing out of the question. It isn't confined to any particular season either. Unfortunately many people think that medicines like Pataday will eliminate allergy symptoms for good and, like eliminating dry eye, it isn’t going to resolve with a topical medication. It takes working from the inside out.

The gastrointestinal tract and the liver are intricately related to eye health and vision. When people get jaundice, a liver ailment, it shows in yellow-tinged eyes. When people can’t stop rubbing their itching, watery eyes, it can often be traced back to a GI tract overrun with yeast, bad bacteria, and an imbalance of ‘friendly’ bowel bacteria.

A healthy digestive system is filled, from one end to the other, with nearly five pounds of good bacteria and microbes. We usually think of the GI tract in terms of digestion, but 60% of our immune system is found here in the form of Peyer’s Patches making this the logical place to start eliminating allergic eyes by strengthening the immune system.

Basically the GI tract is also a lymphoid organ with lymphoid follicles called Peyer’s Patches similar to lymph nodes. They are responsible for immune function at this level. “The lumen of the gastrointestinal tract is outside of the body and much of it is heavily populated with potentially pathogenic microorganisms. It is thus important that the immune system establishes and maintains a strong presence at this mucosal boundary, and indeed, the digestive tube is heavily laden with lymphocytes, macrophages and other cells that participate in immune responses.” Here’s a good explanatory link where the quote originated from:http://www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/digestion/basics/gi_immune.html

Peyer's Patches

In order for this system to function at its peak it requires the proper balance of bacteria. We include not only probiotic capsules in our diet (taken on an empty stomach with cool water) but we also eat cultured fermented vegetables like sauerkraut, cultured almond-milk yogurt, kim chi, and drink kombucha, etc. Staying off sugar is wise. We also teach a 4-R program to restore the GI tract. Homeopathic solutions like Similacin work well as a topical agent.

Dispensary and Tech Office

Donna Gates wrote The Body Ecology Diet (http://bodyecology.com/)which gives a good understanding how to build healthy bowel flora in the GI tract. The Gaps Diet, Gut and Psychology Syndrome: Natural Treatment for Autism, Dyspraxia, A.D.D., Dyslexia, A.D.H.D., Depression, Schizophrenia by Natasha Cambell-McBride, is another.

We all know antibiotics kill good bowel bacteria, so many of us use garlic instead. But stress is often the overlooked culprit in reduction of good bacteria and generally damaging the GI tract. An October 2012 study show “rats subjected to heat stress damages intestinal mechanical and mucosal immune barriers, and reduces immune function of the intestinal mucosa and mesenteric lymphoid tissues, leading to bacterial translocation.”  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23094661. 

The bottom line is that ocular and overall health is gained when we establish and maintain friendly bowel bacteria. Studies follow taken from PubMed:

Medical Vision Center in Morton, WA- We were the first to add Nutritional Therapy

Improvements in seasonal allergic disease with Lactobacillus plantarum No. 14.

¹We conducted two randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind studies of Lactobacillus plantarum No. 14 (LP14) in female students with seasonal allergic diseases. We also examined the mitogenic activity and cytokine inducibility of LP14 using Peyer's patch cells and mesenteric lymph node cells of swine. For subjects who took 8.7×10(8) of LP14, a significant improvement in ocular symptom-medication score was observed. In the placebo group, the T helper type 1 (Th1)/T helper type 2 (Th2) ratio tended to decrease after a 6-week intake period, while in the LP14 group, the percentage of Th1 cells significantly increased. Post-intake eosinophil counts significantly increased in comparison to those at intake cessation in the placebo group, but it appeared to be suppressed in the LP14 group. There were no changes in fecal microflora. LP14 strongly induced the gene expression of Th1-type cytokines. This study indicates the clinical effects of LP14 on seasonal allergic diseases.

Clinical efficacy of probiotic Bifidobacterium longum for the treatment of symptoms of Japanese cedar pollenallergy in subjects evaluated in an environmental exposure unit.

BACKGROUND:

Japanese cedar pollinosis (JCPsis) affects nearly one in six Japanese. Oral administration of Bifidobacterium longum BB536 has been shown to be effective in relieving JCPsis symptoms during the pollen season.

METHODS:

This double- two-way crossover study was designed to evaluate the efficacy of BB536 on reducing symptoms in JCPsis patients exposed to Japanese cedar pollen (JCP) in an environmental exposure unit (EEU) outside of the normal JCP season. After a 1-week run-in period, subjects (n=24) were randomly allocated to receive BB536 powder (approximately 5x1010) or placebo twice a day for 4 weeks. After a 2-week washout period, subjects were crossed over to another 4 weeks of intake. At the end of each intake period, subjects received controlled JCP exposure for 4 hours in the EEU. Symptoms were self-rated 30 minutes before and every 30 minutes during the exposures. From the first day of exposure through the next 5 successive days, participants self-rated their delayed symptoms and medication uses. Blood samples were taken before the exposures. The mean JCP levels for exposures were 6500 to 7000 grains/m3 air.

RESULTS:

In comparison with placebo, BB536 intake significantly reduced the ocular symptom scores during JCP exposures. Evaluating delayed symptoms after exposures indicated that scores for disruption of normal activities were significantly lower in the BB536 group compared with the placebo group. Prevalence of medication use was markedly reduced by BB536 intake.

CONCLUSIONS:

These results suggest the potential beneficial effect of BB536 in relieving symptoms of JCP allergy.

¹http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20834165Biosci Biotechnol Biochem. 2010;74(9):1869-77. Epub 2010 Sep 7. Nagata Y, Yoshida M, Kitazawa H, Araki E, Gomyo T. Source, Momoya Co., Ltd., Saitama, Japan. y.nagata@momoya.co.jAbstract

²Allergol Int. 2007 Mar;56(1):67-75. Epub 2007 Jan 29. Xiao JZ, Kondo S, Yanagisawa N, Miyaji K, Enomoto K, Sakoda T, Iwatsuki K, Enomoto T. Source,Food Research and Development Laboratory, Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd., Kanagawa,Japan,j_xiao@morinagamilk.co.jp Abstract