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For almost FIFTY YEARS we’ve been fighting this war, and it’s one of the biggest piles of crap humans have ever wasted time and money on. Cancer is now killing 1 in every 2 men and 1 in every 3 women, numbers that are constantly and ridiculously on the rise.

Every year now you hear of a promising new treatment in the field of cancer, and then you NEVER hear about it again. They either get suppressed, or just blacked out of the media. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?! Oh right, I forgot, cancer is a trillion dollar industry and everyone’s in on it.

The food companies play their part by forcing all kinds of chemically laden garbage down our gluttonous gullets. “It doesn’t matter if it’s safe or not, we’ll just BRIBE those corruptible buggers at the FDA! CHA-CHING!!” They have their lobbyists and other politicos head off legislatures that are bad for their profit margins at the cost of YOUR health.

Then they pay off all kinds of scientists and other scholars to say their garbage is safe. “Oh science says NutraSweet is safe and good for you! Our studies prove it and the FDA signed off on it.” Well then why does everyone I know get horrible headaches from eating ANYTHING with that crap in it? “Oh cancer, obesity, and myriad other diseases are on the rise, but it can’t be OUR fault, the scientists we bribed/threatened to destroy said so.”

Then there are the medicos, I’m all for emergency medicine. If I have a pipe impaling me through the chest, I’d rather no one be there more than an ER surgeon or doctor of internal medicine, but for everything else? I’ll stick with alternative therapies thanks.

Consider the metric ass-load of evidence that alternative therapies DO work in scientific settings, not just the anecdotal evidence of literally billions of people that have been helped over time without “much needed” drugs and surgery.

“Doctor I have a headache.” “Oh you must have an aspirin deficiency.”

Sorry folks but that ain’t quite how it works, yet this is the type of conversation and thought process you can expect from most doctors. Now don’t get me wrong, I have friends who are docs and I respect anyone with the self discipline to go through med-school, but they are as corruptible and as human as anyone else.

New drug comes on the market, Doctors get sent info about the drug, what it’s supposed to do, and a fat bonus cheque for everyone they get to use it. So OF COURSE they’re going to suggest it to everyone who comes in with the problem said drug is supposed to fix, they’re people in business trying to make a buck just like you and me. Welcome to capitalism.

What needs to happen is change, REAL change. A charity or organization set up to actually look at and expand upon all these successful alternative therapies and treatments, not to mention the better treatments created by mainstream science and then suppressed.

Either that or the government that we elect as a democratic society, who are SUPPOSED to have our best interests at heart, need to actually grow a pair and stand up for their people. Maybe saying something to the American and Canadian Cancer Associations like “If significant results are not shown in the next 2 years to cure cancer, we are pulling ALL of your funding and giving it to people who can actually use it to help the world instead of just trying to bleed it dry.”

This isn’t just cancer either, AIDs is another big one, not to mention diabetes, I just focused on cancer because my big sister died of it in 96 and it’s had a large impact on my life. Things need to change people, WE need to change. I don’t want to raise my daughter in a world like this, but I can’t do it alone.

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Carnegie Mellon University, Kings College and Ben-Gurion University released a study this week identifying what they believe to be the cause of Congenital Prosopagnosia, commonly known as Face Blindness.

Face blindness is believed to affect roughly 2% of the population and is diagnosed when a person has total difficulty in recognizing someone’s face, no matter how familiar they are with said face. While finding a cure for this has the potential to help thousands of people, not to mention many more due to the further understanding of neurology this entails, it piqued my interest for a different reason.

Being able to control face blindness, toggling it on and off at will in other people, would be a great bonus for any mask-less superheroes out there. Heck even if they wore a mask it couldn’t hurt to not be recognized. I can see this being accomplished by some kind of transcranial magnetic stimulation. Temporarily simulating the brain damage caused by this actual impairment. Some kind of projected magnetic beam could work.

This could also aid Special Forces in the military on stealth missions, especially in urban environments, as well as spy missions. The down side is that if crooks ever got a hold of tech like this it could make their lives easier; imagine a rapist or mugger that couldn’t be identified, a scary thought.

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Reality TV is now causing psychoses. Known as Truman Syndrome, where people believe large parts, or indeed their entire lives, are fake and on reality TV, akin to the title character from 1998’s The Truman Show starring Jim Carrey.

Here is the source link from MSN. My favorite quote:

Researchers in London have published findings on a British patient – a 26-year-old postal worker who believed the world was unreal, and he was the hero it revolved around.

This should be made into a sitcom, or at least a comic book.

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The journal Cell Metabolism posted this week about a drug called SRT1720 which activates the SRT1 gene. This gene is believed to be heavily tied to the aging process, and the extension of life caused by calorie restricted diets in many animal studies.

When this drug was used on mice, it caused them to become virtually immune to weight gain even on a horrible high fat diet. It also effectively doubled their stamina when distance running. This is an amazing development with massive (pardon the pun) weight-loss potential.

Imagine being virtually tireless while running your tubby self on the treadmill and losing fat like some kind of…fat losing…machine…thing. All the while gorging yourself on whatever fast food junk you wanted. Sounds like the American dream to me!

Now this doesn’t mean you’d be healthy, filling your face with a limitless amount of chemically laden garbage and fried food, but you would be better off. A physically fit body can deal with the stress of a horrible diet far better than a roly poly one.

Here’s my question/theory; With all the “Mind Over DNA” research that’s come out of India in recent years, and is now taking place more in North America as well, the mind body connection is bigger than ever before. Manchester U proved that the mind can trick the body into thinking it’s exercised, and numerous studies point out that exercising activates different gene pathways so that connection is perfectly plausible.

What’s to stop an enterprising hypnotherapist or psychiatrist or EFT practitioner or whatever, from developing a course/program/mp3 downloads to trigger this SRT1 activation without the need for any drugs? I’m not talking about the “DNA Activation” BS that many people try to hawk, I’m talking about actual, science-backed, mind over body type stuff.

Of course some trials would have to be done to prove any of it actually worked, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t and it’d mean a cheap, drug-free way of having this advantage without having horrible side effects, or having to restock your supply.

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Yeshiva University recently released the results of a study that showed that over 92,000 people of all different denominations had an average of 20% reduced rate of mortality, which they linked to their attending religious services at least once per week.

They attribute it partially to the well documented evidence that being social (as religious groups are) makes people live longer, and also the joys of having a fun routine.

My thoughts on this are actually pretty simple; When’s the last time you saw a religious person shooting heroin?

People who are dogmatic enough to attend religious services, especially more than once per week, are usually also dogmatic enough to follow religious doctrines and suggestions such as: Don’t drink or do drugs, eat healthy, don’t overindulge, no sex before marriage etc.

Basically what I’m saying is, statistically, people who are religious are healthier than the people who aren’t not only due to the sociological ramifications such as those outlined in the study, but also due to just living more wholesome lifestyles.

Now I’m not trying to convert anybody to anything (I’m an agnostic, non-practicing Buddhist myself), but maybe there’s a reason why the top athletes always thank god in their acceptance speeches. If you’re not into religion or attending services, just take some time to be spiritual. Stop and take a deep breath of fresh air and enjoy the majesty of life once in while, preferably more than once a week .

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