The New Medicine of Dr Hamer
by Walter Last
Dr Hamer had an exceptionally high success rate with his cancer therapy, by
far the highest I have seen of any therapy. During one of several trials of
the persecuted Dr Hamer the public prosecutor (Wiener-Neustadt in Austria) had
to admit that after 4 to 5 years 6,000 out of 6,500 patients with mostly advanced
cancer were still alive. That is over 90%, almost a reversal of the results
to be expected after conventional treatment of advanced conditions.
Dr Hamer started his cancer research when he developed testicle cancer after
his son was shot dead. He wondered if his son’s death was the cause of
his cancer. Subsequently he investigated and documented over 15,000 cases of
cancer and always found the following characteristics to be present, which he
termed the Iron Rules of Cancer.
*The Iron Rules of Cancer*
1. Every cancer and related disease starts as a DHS that is a
Dirk Hamer Syndrome, which is a serious, acute-dramatic and
isolating conflict-shock-experience. It manifests simultaneously
on three levels, psyche, brain and organ.
2. The theme of the psychic conflict determines the location of the focus or
HAMER Herd in the brain, and the location of the cancer in the organ.
3. The course of the psychic conflict correlates with the development of the
HAMER Herd in the brain, and the course of the cancer in the organ.
At the moment of the conflict-shock a short circuit occurs in a pre-determined
place of the brain. This can be photographed with computed-tomography (CT) and
looks like concentric rings on a shooting target or like the surface of water
after a stone has been dropped into it. Later on, if the conflict becomes resolved,
the CT image changes, an edema develop, and finally scar tissue.
How specific and precisely located these brain lesions are may be seen from
the following. After a professional lecture a doctor handed him the brain CT
of a patient and asked to explain it. From this Dr Hamer diagnosed the patient
to have a fresh bleeding bladder carcinoma in the healing phase, an old prostate
carcinoma, diabetes, an old lung carcinoma and sensory paralysis in a specific
area, in addition to the corresponding emotional conflicts.
Amazingly, Dr Hamer was able to show that at the same time as the concentric
brain lesion appears also the target organ CT may show such a concentric lesion.
According to Dr Hamer this happens instantly when the psychic shock hits the
subconscious level and this same second is the start of cancer. However, also
other diseases can be caused by the same mechanism. How severe a disease becomes
may depend on other psychological, energetic and nutritional factors but its
nature and location are determined by the content of the conflict shock.
Hamer believes that the correlation between key emotional shock events, the
target brain areas and the related organs has developed as an adaptation of
our human evolution from similar programs in the animal world. When we unexpectedly
experience emotional distress, an emergency repair program is set in motion,
a biological conflict program with the aim of returning the individual to normal.
Such programs can even apply to families or other groups.
Hamer gives the following example. A mother sees her child in a bad accident.
In evolutionary terms small children recover faster when they receive extra
milk. Therefore, the biological conflict program tries to stimulate milk production
by increasing the number of breast cells. If the mother is right-handed, that
will instantly cause the appearance of a Hamer Herd in a specific part of her
right brain, which in turn relates to the left breast. When the child is well
again, conflict resolution begins and extra milk is no longer needed. The mother
gets a benign form of tuberculosis in that breast which breaks up the excess
breast cells. However, if the mycobacteria required for this are lacking, then
the area may just calcify and remain as a dormant tumor.
The same process applies also to animals. A sheep that loses its lamb to a
wolf is prone to develop teat cancer; the side depends on whether it is right
or left footed. However, commonly the sheep resolves this conflict by bearing
another lamb.
The following example may illustrate the original survival value of this mechanism.
Lets assume a lion chases an antelope. The antelope must immediately mobilize
all its resources to survive. The sympathetic nervous system takes over and
in addition a specific brain center becomes active that stimulates lung activity.
After the successful escape the animal rests and the parasympathetic nervous
system becomes dominant for a while to normalize body functions.
If instead a human gets a cancer diagnosis, even if the diagnosis is wrong,
the same biological program is set in motion by the same fear of death that
helped the animal to escape. The stress level jumps and the brain-lung connection
is activated but now there is nowhere to run.
Until the conflict is resolved, which may take years, there will be constant
stress as well as brain-induced stimulation of lung activity, which now takes
the form of increasing lung capacity by the incessant division of cells.
This process can only be stopped by switching off the trigger in the brain
through defusing the original conflict shock. This happens when the patient
subsequently has surgery or natural therapy, which he or she fully believes
will lead to a cure. However, the same procedure in a patient who has doubts
about its effectiveness will leave the conflict unresolved and the disease to
progress. Thanks to Dr Hamer’s work, this is no longer just an unsubstantiated
assumption but rather scientific fact that can be verified anytime with a CT
brain scan.
The selection of the conflict focus occurs by subconscious association.
For instance biological conflicts involving water but also other fluids, such
as milk or oil, lead to kidney cancer, fear of death to lung cancer and psychologically
swallowing a bigger chunk then we can digest to stomach or intestinal cancer.
Originally, in the animal world, it really was a big chunk of food, but for
us it may be a financial over-commitment or any other obligation that we have
taken on and cannot fulfill. However, the target focus is not determined by
the event itself, but rather by the psychological significance that it has for
us at the time of the event.
Hamer illustrates this with another example, a woman who finds her husband
in bed with another female. As a sexual frustration conflict it causes uterus
cancer. If she instead experiences it as a partner conflict, then in a right-handed
woman it leads to cancer of the right breast. If the conflict feeling is fear
and revulsion then it causes hypoglycemia and with lack of self-worth cancer
may develop in the pubic bone.
If the lack of self-worth had been due to a failure in sportsmanship rather
than being sexually related, then the problem would have arisen in an arm or
leg instead or possibly in the fingers or shoulder.
Other typical situations that may lead to biological conflicts are loss situations,
loss of a loved one, of a job, a valued possession or a territory.
Dr Hamer believes that most metastases or secondary tumors are caused by the
cancer-fear or death-fear resulting from the patient given the cancer diagnosis
or a negative prognosis. However, also in this case the resulting conflict shock
may not be fear of death but rather anger, resentment or a separation conflict
from partner or children and then tumors would appear in different places. Also
a diagnosis of colon cancer commonly leads to liver cancer because of a subconscious
fear of starvation.
Generally hopelessness, despair and meaninglessness create chronic stress,
which prevent the healing from cancer and other diseases but they are not the
cause. According to Hamer the real cause of cancer and other diseases is an
unexpected traumatic shock for which we are emotionally unprepared. The following
list shows some of the relationships between conflict emotions and target organs.
Adrenal cortex - Wrong direction, gone astray
Bladder - Ugly conflict, dirty tricks
Bone - Lack of self-worth, inferiority feeling
Breast milk gland - Involving care or disharmony
Breast milk duct - Separation conflict
Breast, left (right-handed) - Conflict concerning child, home, mother
Breast, right (right-handed) - Conflict with partner or others
Bronchials - Territorial conflict
Cervix - Severe frustration
Colon - Ugly indigestible conflict
Esophagus - Cannot have it or swallow it
Gall Bladder - Rivalry conflict
Heart - Perpetual conflict
Intestines - Indigestible chunk of anger
Kidneys - Not wanting to live, water or fluid conflict
Larynx - Conflict of fear and fright
Liver - Fear of starvation
Lung - Fear of dying or suffocation, including fear for someone else
Lymph glands - Loss of self-worth associated with the location
Melanoma - feeling dirty, soiled, defiled
Middle ear - Not being able to get some vital information
Mouth - Cannot chew or hold it
Pancreas - Anxiety-anger conflict with family members, inheritance
Prostate - Ugly conflict with sexual connections or connotations
Rectum - Fear of being useless
Skin - Loss of integrity
Spleen - Shock of being physically or emotionally wounded
Stomach - Indigestible anger, swallowed too much
Testes and Ovaries - Loss conflict
Thyroid - Feeling powerless
Uterus - Sexual conflict
The conflicts for some other diseases are as follows:
Diabetes and hypoglycemia: A right-handed female develops hypoglycemia
from anxiety and revulsion, if left-handed she develops
insulin-dependent diabetes. A right-handed male develops
insulin-diabetes from a conflict of resisting or struggling against
something, if left-handed he develops hypoglycemia.
*Heart infarct: *fight for territory or its content.
*Hemorrhoids:* both, a right-handed woman with an identity conflict and also
a left-handed man with territorial anger in the healing phase will get hemorrhoids.
*Multiple sclerosis *and* Paralysis:* inability to escape or continue on or
to hold on to or not knowing what to do.
*Facial paralysis:* fear of losing face, having been made a laughing stock.
*Psoriasis* involves separation conflict concerning mother, father, family,
home, friends or pets.
*Psychoses *of all kinds have one or more active Hamer Herds in each of the
two parts of the brain.
Vitiligo, Leukoderma: ugly or brutal separation conflict.
In regard to *AIDS* Dr Hamer observes that no one ever died of AIDS
without having previously been told that they are HIV positive or
believe that they are. The implication is that just as with cancer, it
is the negative perception associated with AIDS that causes its
devastating effect.
Left-handed individuals develop problems on opposite sides to genuine
right-handed individuals. Handedness can be tested by observing which
hand is on top when clapping; this is the leading hand. With
right-handedness all muscles at the right side of the body are involved
with partners and possibly other individuals and all left-sided muscles
with children or the own mother. These conditions may change with
hormonal changes as with the birth control pill or menopause.
The Healing Phase
The start of a DHS or conflict-shock experience is different from other
conflicts that we experience in our daily lives. It causes a continuous
stress resulting in a tendency to develop cold hands and feet, lack of
appetite and weight loss, sleeplessness and dwelling all the time on the
conflict content. If the conflict does not become resolved soon, the
long-lasting stress will lead to specific symptoms and the development
of cancer or another disease.
When the conflict resolves, the patient is no longer occupied with the
conflict content, the appetite returns, hands are warm again and also
normal sleep returns, but there may also be weakness, fatigue and a need
to rest. These effects show that the parasympathetic nervous system is
now in control. This is the beginning of the healing phase, which can be
long and difficult.
During the first part of the healing phase we see water retention and
inflammations but the tumor stops growing. This eventually leads to a
healing crisis, which Hamer calls an epileptic or epileptoid crisis
because it is caused by an edema in the Hamer Herd brain lesion. It
shows unique symptoms for each illness.
After this the body starts to expel the accumulated water, the patient
gradually regains strength and body functions become normal. Now the
connective tissue in the brain, the glia, starts repairing the Hamer
Herd. This may be interpreted by conventional radiologists as a
fast-growing brain tumor and treated accordingly. Hamer writes that real
brain tumors do not exist, as nerve cells in the brain cannot divide.
Hamer estimates that 99% of brain events, such as strokes, bleeding into
the brain, cysts and tumors are due to healing events of Hamer Herds and
with this temporary and self-limiting unless there is inappropriate
medical intervention. The most important support in these situations is
the reduction of any brain edema.
During the healing crisis the patient may for a short time re-experience
the original psychological conflict with cold hands and cold sweat. This
serves to suppress and eliminate the edema in the brain lesion, which
then allows other body conditions to normalize. The main danger point is
just before the end of the healing crisis when it will become apparent
if the body is strong enough to eliminate the disease. In difficult
cases with long or strong conflict duration massive brain edema may
develop for which Hamer uses cortisone injections. In natural therapy we
use an assortment of urea and anti-inflammatory therapies instead.
Urea has strong diuretic properties and an excellent effect in cases of
dangerously high fluid pressure in the brain. Generally 20 g of urea are
used 2 to 5 times daily. One life-threatening case has been described of
a massive “brain tumor” re-growth that completely disappeared within
2
hours after receiving 256 ml of 30% urea (described in /Your Own Perfect
Medicine/ by Martha Christy, Future Med). This report clearly shows that
the presumed brain tumor in fact was a massive edema as postulated in
the New Medicine.
What Hamer calls the epilepsy crisis may be experienced by the patient
as a heart attack, lung embolism, hepatitis or a lung infection.
Generally, during the healing phase, the patient will have more
discomfort than when the tumor was actively growing. In the first part
of the healing phase most problems are due to water retention,
inflammations and swelling of tissues that can cause a lot of pain.
Hamer regards edema, whether found in the brain or in an organ, as
positive, a sign of healing.
Tissue Repair
After the healing crisis adeno-carcinomas are removed by fungi and
mycobacteria while hepatitis virus may in addition help to regenerate
the liver. At this stage, bacteria, viruses and fungi that help to break
down the tumors and repair damaged tissues also cause inflammation, pain
and fever.
If you find it odd that Hamer regards microbes as essential friends and
helpers in the healing of cancer, he has made an even more surprising
discovery. In his ontogenetic system of tumors and cancer equivalent
diseases he distinguishes between two opposite processes during the
active conflict phase. Depending on the location of the Hamer Herd in
the brain, there may be either cell proliferation or cell destruction.
The first group has cell proliferation and tumor growth during the
conflict phase and then removes excess cells with the help of microbes
during the healing phase. The other group causes cell destruction during
the conflict phase resulting in ulcers, necroses and tissue holes
affecting for instance bones (osteoporosis), kidneys, spleen or ovaries.
During the healing phase, this second group tries to fill in the created
holes through cell proliferation. Tissue necroses and osteolyses
(dissolved bone) are now repaired by bacteria that first form abscesses,
which are then filled in with scar tissue and later with granulating
tissue to form osteosarcoma, lymphoma, fibroma and healing cysts. Also
leukemia commonly occurs during the healing phase, as after bone marrow
damage from radiation, chemicals or bone cancer.
According to Hamer these conditions are generally self-limiting and only
get out of control when additional conflict shocks occur or the body is
too old or weak or through the methods of conventional medicine. In
contrast, natural healing methods aim to support body and mind during
this trying time. Most healings proceed without major problems, but
about 10% need the full support of an experienced therapist, especially
at the time of the healing crisis.
*Healing the Psychic Conflict*
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The main task in every case of cancer is to find the original emotional
shock experience and make sure that it has been healed or is being
healed. In many case it will have corrected itself and the patient
suffers from an effect of the healing phase.
For instance, someone may have lost a farm or business but has now
started another satisfying venture or hobby. As after-effect there may
now be a tumor that gradually becomes dormant or eventually
disintegrates. About 40% of tumors discovered during routine medical
investigations are said to be old and harmless, that is dormant and
calcified. However, complications may still arise if medical
intervention now instills a fear of death conflict shock that induces
the same or another tumor to grow.
Nevertheless, in other cases the original conflict may still be active
or there may be a second active conflict. As we do not know, we have to
probe in every case to find the original and any other conflicts. We
need to think back, especially one to two years before our problem
started and analyze our emotional history during this time as well as
before and after. Also meditation and regression therapy may be useful
to discover conflict shocks.
If we still have a strong emotional response when we discover the
content of the conflict, then we can be sure that it is still
unresolved. If at all possible it is best to solve it in a natural way.
For instance if it was caused by losing a partner, then find someone
new; if you lost a child, become pregnant again or adopt a child or buy
a pet. Cancer does not continue to grow after the third month as
pregnancy has priority.
If a natural solution is not possible, then use guided imagery either on
your own or with the help of a partner or a suitable therapist. In a
relaxed and meditative state re-create and re-experience the conflict as
intensely as you can but then substitute a desirable or acceptable
outcome. Create and experience this new outcome as vividly and detailed
as possible, see it, feel it and possibly even hear and smell it. The
original experience may also have imprinted you with the memories of
unrelated details of your ordeal (tracks) to which you may now react
with allergies. You may try to overcome these in the same way with
guided imagery.
If neither of these methods is possible because you feel that you have
to continue your present duties or ordeal for whatever reason, then only
increased spiritual understanding and acceptance may be able to help. In
either case, be aware of your vulnerabilities and avoid any further
conflict shocks but if one does happen, get it out of your system is
soon as possible.
In addition, I firmly believe that all active conflicts will be
terminated and the healing phase begin when we are able to strongly feel
love and forgiveness within ourselves and then radiate it to all others
but especially to anyone who we feel might have wronged us. We can
further ease the healing phase by expecting it to be short and mild and
lead to full recovery.
It is my perception that full recovery requires a two step program to
heal this conflict. The first step involves appropriately expressing the
emotional shock experience. When losing a loved one, this means feeling
and expressing the inner grief or sadness; when losing a job, asset, or
business, this means feeling and expressing the anger, frustration, or
disappointment felt at the time. The second step involves repairing the
external damage, such as finding another partner, pet, job, business or
hobby.
According to Hamer, animals in the wild get cancer from the same shock
programs as we do. However, 80 to 90% survive and do not notice much
because the healing phase can take its natural course. Those that die
are mainly old animals that cannot resolve a conflict, such as regaining
their territory from a rival or replacing a lost cub.
It is different in our society as the natural healing process is
routinely interfered with. It starts with getting tranquilizers or
antidepressants during the active conflict phase, which prevent us from
fighting back and regaining our territory. This may then lead to a
cancer diagnosis that causes an additional active conflict and ends with
morphine, which totally disables our healing responses.
While Hamer does not believe that health foods, remedies, cleansing or
healthy living in general can cure cancer, these certainly can be
important in order to survive the ordeals of the healing phase.
Actually, Hamer regards all diseases as consisting of two phases,
initially with active conflict followed (if possible) by a healing phase
that reverses the conflict program. He does not call them diseases
anymore but rather special biological programs. In all he is stated to
have worked with over 31,000 patients and found his theories confirmed
in every single case without exception. Hamer claims that overall the
New Medicine has a 95% success rate with cancer.
Persecution
Siemens, the manufacturers of the CT equipment have independently
verified the existence of the Hamer Herds in the brain. Furthermore,
their diagnostic significance was confirmed in 1998 at the University of
TRNAVA in Slovakia. Nevertheless, Dr Hamer faced exceptional persecution.
Under German law the right to practice medicine can be withdrawn if the
doctor has diminished mental abilities. This law was used in 1986 by a
German district court to withdraw his right to practice. As proof of
Hamer’s inadequate mental condition the court stated that he was not
wiling to retract his theories and swear allegiance to the principles of
orthodox medicine. Even worse, the court had discovered evidence that he
was incapable of converting back to the principles of orthodox medicine:
he tried to convince a group of prominent professors of the correctness
of his theories only one month before the court case! One year later the
same court requested a psychiatric assessment of his mental abilities,
which Hamer refused. A court-appointed psychiatrist, without ever seeing
him, diagnosed him anyway as being a psychopath.
In 1997 Dr Hamer was arrested and jailed for 18 months under an obscure
natural therapy law introduced under Adolf Hitler to suppress Gypsies.
His crime was that he had given free health advice to some individuals
who had asked him for his opinion. The public prosecutor had openly
stated that all means must be used to remove Hamer from society. Compare
this to a delay of the court case for 13 years and then a sentence of
only 6 months on probation for the killer of his son. This mild sentence
may have something to do with the accused being the Prince of Savoy, the
son of the last King of Italy.
Since 1999 Dr Hamer lives in Spain because courts in Germany, Austria,
France and Switzerland now want to try him for any cancer patient who
died following his advice. According to this reasoning he is a mass
murderer because he denied cancer patients the supposedly safe and
effective treatment offered by orthodox medicine. There is also a
private court case pending against him for a large sum of money because
he advised a patient against having chemotherapy. This means that every
medical practitioner is now on notice to offer chemotherapy or face
financial ruin. This witch-hunt has been compared to the fate of Dr
Semmelweis who at the age of 47 died in a mental asylum for suggesting
that surgeons wash their hands before operations.
Dr Hamer survived 8 assassination attempts, and the mass media in
Germany treat him as a deranged criminal. While many individual doctors,
including professors of medicine, have verified the principles of the
New Medicine, so far no German university has agreed to test them,
despite a court order that the University of Tubingen conduct such tests.
Also doctors and natural therapists in Europe who practice according to
the principles of the New Medicine face persecution. In Austria,
Belgium, France, Germany and Spain authorities had started proceedings
against such doctors to take away their right to practice. Court cases
have been going on for years. Only courts in Spain adopted the
enlightened position that it was not their role to decide between
conflicting medical theories and therapies. This vicious response of the
establishment is understandable because widespread knowledge and
application of the New Medicine would mean the end of the
medical-pharmaceutical complex.
However, in 2001 a prominent neurologist openly defended Dr Hamer by
publishing a book about the New Medicine and demanding that his theories
be officially tested. Because Dr Therese von Schwarzenberg also belongs
to the high nobility, the mass media are in a bind on what position to
take on this. Until now they have only reported about Dr Hamer in the
most derogative ways and here is now that high profile personality who
claims that Hamer is right and deserves a Nobel Price! Nevertheless, the
official response of prominent oncologists still remains that it is
totally absurd to assume emotions could be important in the cause and
cure of cancer and, therefore, Dr Hamer’s claims must not be tested.
Comment
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My own understanding and experience leave no doubt about the primary
importance of our emotions and beliefs in the cause and cure of our
diseases. Furthermore, the writings of Dr Hamer give the impression of a
serious and meticulous researcher whose findings have been confirmed by
various scientific institutions and medical practitioners, including
professors of medicine. Only those continue to denounce him who refuse
to look at his evidence.
Therefore I have no doubt about the validity of his basic premise,
namely that specific diseases and in particular cancers are associated
with visible lesions in specific locations of the brain as well as
specific psychological experiences. His postulated two-part disease
process in which the healing phase is a reversal of the original disease
conditions is a basic concept of natural therapies.
However, Dr Hamer appears reluctant to consider extending or modifying
his theory to take other possibilities into account. Basically Dr Hamer
postulates a one-way communication from psyche to organ via the brain. I
suggest instead a two-way communication from psyche to organ as well as
from organ back to brain and psyche.
I like to explain this on an example. I understand that the rate of
death from breast cancer in China is one in 10,000 compared to about one
in 10 in most Western countries. Professor Jane Plant realized that
unlike western and westernised women, the Chinese do not use animal milk
or related products. At this stage she had the fifth occurrence of her
breast cancer and had been given up to die. As soon as she avoided all
milk products her tumour disappeared and for 13 years she is now free of
cancer (/Your Life in Your Hands/ by Jane Planet, published Virgin, UK
2000).
As the Chinese have normal rates of some other cancers, there needs to
be a special factor that causes these low breast cancer rates. Assuming
that it really is milk, I would apply the following reasoning.
Milk is high in insulin growth factor, IGF-1, which stimulates breast
tissue to grow during puberty and pregnancy. IGF-1 is also present in
the meat of dairy cows and apparently also stimulates other
hormone-related cancers, including prostate cancer. Assuming that this
causes constant low-level stimulation of breast tissue and the related
brain area in milk-drinking or dairy-consuming women, there are now 2
possibilities.
1. The sensitized brain areas will cause the woman to have a much
stronger emotional response than normal to any child or partner
conflict, and this causes milk-drinking women to develop more
frequent breast cancers.
2. The second possibility is an existing sub-acute conflict situation
or past event that is still subconsciously active. The persistent
combined stimulation by a sub-acute conflict in addition to IGF-1
may cause the /gradual/ development of a Hamer Herd or
alternatively its sudden appearance when a certain threshold is
reached.
In this way any environmental factors can be taken into consideration
for creating Hamer Herds in combination with psychological conflicts.
Most people presently have a very unhealthy lifestyle in addition to a
poor quality of inherited genes. It may well be that really healthy
individuals will not develop a Hamer Herd in response to an unexpected
emotional shock or that it will be a mild and self-healing event.
In a similar way may appropriate natural therapy directed to a diseased
organ give a message to the associated brain area that helps healing the
Hamer Herd, and in time also leads to a resolution of the emotional
conflict.
A confirmation of the suggested interconnectedness between emotions,
nutrients, brain and organs can be found in kinesiology. Research in
muscle testing has revealed a relationship between different nutrients
and emotions with specific muscles and organs transmitted through the
system of acupuncture meridians. However, a surprising finding was the
direct involvement of the brain. When an isotopically labeled nutrient
was placed in the back of the mouth within seconds the isotope was also
detected in the brain.
I suggest that conflict resolution may also happen in unspecific ways.
Assuming a patient receives a conflict shock due to a diagnosis of
cancer, then this conflict but possibly also the original conflict shock
may possibly be resolved if the patient fully believes and expects that
the subsequent treatment will be curable. Other possibilities have been
suggested under the heading /Healing the Psychic Conflict/.
The official English-language website of Dr Hamer is at
www.newmedicine.ca <http://www.newmedicine.ca/>. However, much more
information is on the German website www.pilhar.com
<http://www.pilhar.com/>. Dr Hamer has written several books of which
one is available in English under the title /Summary of the New Medicine/.
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B12 (Parental Discretion Required)
*(THIS POST WAS GIVEN TO ME AS AN EMAIL FROM A FRIEND)*
B12 deficiency can take years to develop, but it can cause permanent brain damage.
"Now, the anti-raw/anti-vegan nutritionists (and even some raw/vegan ones)
will tell us that the problem is that plants contain B12 analogs. But meat also
contain analogs, multivitamin tablets and B12-fortified food contains analogs.
B12 in a plant (or supplement) is destroyed by sunlight, but it seems that a plant
that is grown in soil that contains the correct bacteria/microorganisms/cobalt
will get new supplies of B12 as long as it is alive.
Since we are exposed to so many ways to reduce B12 levels, the only way to be
safe, in my opinion, is to test yourself (and not only for B12, MMA and homocsyteine
is also needed). To believe that eating enough B12 is all that's needed is an
illusion, because there are millions of meat eaters out there who eat way more
B12 than we need, and still develop B12 deficiency en masse. Why?
Because, most likely, they
...drink chlorinated water (chlorine is reducing B12 not only in water, but
might also continue to destroy microorganisms in out digestive system. B12 is
made by microorganisms).
...they might drink tea/coffee, alcohol or smoke.
...they might spend time driving a car. Nitrous oxide from cars may cause B12
deficiency
...maybe they use microwave ovens, which kill B12.
...they cook food, which reduce B12 levels.
...they probably use a lot of sugar.
...they have been exposed to mercury from eating fish, or have mercury fillings
in their teeth, or may even use a deodorant containing mercury. Mercury is far
from B12-friendly.
They might also have a history of using various medicines, like sleeping pills
or oral contraceptives (the list of chemicals that disturb B12 is long).
They might lack calcium which is needed for B12 absorption.
The plants they eat (and the plants that the animals they eat eat) are grown
in a soil that contains only half the nutrients it did half a century ago. B12
has a negative reaction to acid/alkali, and even if the plants they/we eat weren't
exposed to chlorinated water, acid rain is still a problem.
It might show up one day that consuming a lot of B12 from animals might cause
deficiencies later in life. Looking at the ideal levels of B12 absorption (when
it's best absorbed), these levels look like exactly the amount of B12 we could
get from plants that were not destroyed by pesticides and artificial fertilizers
and so on.
The problem with assuming that organic/raw food contains enough B12, is that
it is in many cases only an assumption. Even organic / raw food may be exposed
to chlorinated water and acid rain, and the people who consume organic/raw food
might have some similarities with the meat eaters that eat way too much B12
and still become B12 deficient. If they are not, they may have been exposed
to B12 troublemakers in the past, like mercury, tapeworm from fish or parasites,
which unfortunately doesn't disappear the day someone vegan/raw."
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"Any and everyone should have their B12 checked no matter what diet --
lifestyle they follow.
Urine MMA B12 is more accurate than a B12 blood serum check.
Testing B12 status
A blood B12 level measurement is a very unreliable test for vegans, particularly
for vegans using any form of algae. Algae and some other plant foods contain
B12-analogues false B12 that can imitate true B12 in blood tests while actually
interfering with B12 metabolism. Blood counts are also unreliable as high folate
intakes suppress the anaemia symptoms of B12 deficiency that can be detected
by blood counts. Blood homocysteine testing is more reliable, with levels less
than 10 mol/litre being desirable. The most specific test for B12 status is
methylmalonic acid (MMA) testing. If this is in the normal range in blood (less
than 370 nmol/L)or urine (less than 4 g /mg creatinine) then your body has enough
B12. Many doctors still rely on blood B12 levels and blood counts. These are
not adequate, especially in vegans. Is there a vegan alternative to B12-fortified
foods and supplements?
If for any reason you choose not to use fortified foods or supplements you
should recognise that you are carrying out a dangerous experiment - one that
many have tried before with consistently low levels of success. If you are an
adult who is neither breast-feeding an infant, pregnant nor seeking to become
pregnant, and wish to test a potential B12 source that has not already been
shown to be inadequate, then this can be a reasonable course of action with
appropriate precautions. For your own protection, you should arrange to have
your B12 status checked annually. If homocysteine or MMA is even modestly elevated
then you are endangering your health if you persist.
If you are breast feeding an infant, pregnant or seeking to become pregnant
or are an adult contemplating carrying out such an experiment on a child, then
don't take the risk. It is simply unjustifiable.
Claimed sources of B12 that have been shown through direct studies of vegans
to be inadequate include human gut bacteria, spirulina, dried nori, barley grass
and most other seaweeds. Several studies of raw food vegans have shown that
raw food offers no special protection.
Reports that B12 has been measured in a food are not enough to qualify that
food as a reliable B12 source. It is difficult to distinguish true B12 from
analogues that can disrupt B12 metabolism. Even if true B12 is present in a
food, it may be rendered ineffective if analogues are present in comparable
amounts to the true B12. There is only one reliable test for a B12 source -
does it consistently prevent and correct deficiency? Anyone proposing a particular
food as a B12 source should be challenged to present such evidence. "
By Vegfamily...
"My homocysteine and B12 blood/serum lab levels were fantastic but my
urine MMA test was high......
I've been eating living-foods for 6 years now and in the last 2 years I could
tell something wasn't right (fatigued, dry skin, twitching muscles, soreness,
poor digestion, etc...) and I found out my B12 was off...
For the first few years I was on top of the world and now I'm in a world of
hurt!!!!
Don't wait too long as I thought B12 would never have an affect on me."
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raw girls .. swallow :)
" Without embarrassment, this is a subject that needs
to be discussed. I am past the point of being disgusted
by know-it-all vegetarian and vegan nutritionists and
dieticians who believe that one must take artificial
supplements derived from cow intestines, containing
Vitamin B-12 in order to maintain good health. The fact
that vegans have B-12 in their bloodstreams is evidence
enough that we're somehow obtaining it. Low dose, high
dose, it really doesn't matter. Fact is that we need
just a few micrograms of B-12, and a five-year supply
is stored in the average human liver. That fact alone
negates the scare tactics of those who criticize the
pure vegan diet, or dispense supplements as a part of
their self-sustaining practices.
Vegan blood contains some B-12. In that, there is no
debate. Vegan semen and vaginal secretions contain many
times more Vitamin B-12 than does human blood.
The solution? Make love. Enjoy oral sex. The ingestion
of sexual body secretions from your lover will insure
good health for you.
In addition to the usual frogs, snails, and puppy
dogs tails, what are little boys made of? What exactly
is in semen?
Ten percent of semen consists of sperm cells, up to
500 million per ejaculate. It takes only one sperm
cell to fertilize an egg. I often wonder why the other
499,999 are necessary.
What constitutes the other 90% of semen? In addition
to enormous amounts of vitamins, enzymes, and amino
acids, semen contains up to 20 times the level of
Vitamin B-12 as does human blood serum. Vaginal fluids
contain a similar makeup, rich in B-12.
Scientists knew this nearly 20 years ago, but had no
socially-tactful way to transmit this information to
the lay person. (Yeah, I know, you love my use of the
English language).
As early as March of 1984, Carmel Bernstein and a team
of investigators published evidence in the Journal of
Clinical Investigations (73;3, Vitamin B-12 in human
seminal plasma) revealing that blood has one-tenth the
amount of B-12 as does male semen.
Eight years later, the Scandanavian Journal of Clinical
Laboratory Investigations (Hansen, 1992 Nov;52(7):647-52)
determined that B-12 levels in human semen run as high as
20 times that of blood. Similar amounts of B-12 have been
found in vaginal secretions.
Many people have an aversion to oral sex because of the
taste or smell. Can that often be justified? Absolutely.
Long ago, in the days before artificial modern-day perfumes
and deodorants were used to mask human odors, people
enjoyed body smells. Don Juan would keep handkerchiefs
under his armpits and wave them in front of ladies' noses.
That action was designed to bring them to arousal from his
own natural essences and bouquet which contained pheromones,
chemicals containing natural sexual messengers that
communicate instinctual feelings shared by all mammals.
Truth revealed: Why does a male dog mount and hump a human
female leg, thrusting his pelvis as if in the act of copulation?
It's not because he smells your puppy, ladies. It's because
he smells your very own pheromones which trigger a genetically
pre-determined fixed action pattern in Fido's brain.
On to the olfactory bouquet from your own essences.
Dairy farmers know that if their cows eat onions or
garlic less than 30 minutes before milking, those powerfully
offensive smells will be included in their body secretions
which are then transmitted to their milk. A similar event
occurs with human body fluids. You are what you eat. Deer
know when meat-eating humans walk into the woods. Vegans
have a way with denizens of the forest. Vegans do not eat
other living creatures. Deer can tell by human smells.
So can dogs and other mammals possessing keener olfactory
senses than humans.
For many years, non dairy-using Japanese people called
Americans "butter-people," for the rancid smell that
would seep out of our pores. I can smell butter people.
I am amazed at the number of people calling themselves
vegan who are actually dairy users. I can smell the
aftermath of pizza 24 hours after a vegan eats one by his
or her offensive odor. The mozzarella turns rancid from
within. Its smell lingers on a user's breath. Milk the
cow and get the garlic or onion milk. Milk the human and
get Kentucky-fried chicken essence.
Humans who eat meat ingest large amounts of sulfur-based
amino acids. That is one of the qualities of meat protein.
The sulfur becomes a part of their own smell and taste. Eat
large amounts of methionine and you'll taste quite rancid.
I have met many vegans who relate anecdotal evidence
of how other vegans make better lovers because they
"taste better." Where are Masters and Johnson when you
need them? The good that comes from this column will
result in two lovers enjoying a large meal of fresh
pineapple before their next bout of foreplay. Gourmets
and epicurians of the world, unite. Your next dose of
love will contain the best vitamin pill in the world.
Was it Mary Poppins who sang, "Just a spoonful of sugar
helps the medicine go down"?
Remember, for B-12, make love, and do so with good taste. "
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http://www.veganhealth.org/b12/raw
http://www.remineralize.org/don.php
i would be interested to know davids' take on the B12 issue >>?!
also, maybe you should have a MMA B12 urine test - it may help to shed some
light on your pins and needles?!
John Muir's Farseeing Nature
Investor's Business Daily
Friday September 23, 7:00 pm ET
Joanne Von Alroth
John Muir didn't know what he wanted to do with his life. Until he blinded himself.
As a youth, he loved wandering the hills and woods around his native Dunbar, Scotland. He had a passion for doing the same in the Wisconsin countryside where his family settled after emigrating to the U.S.
But exploring wasn't a job. And despite his intelligence and an inventive streak, he didn't have a clear career direction.
Then, while working for an Indianapolis carriage maker in 1867, Muir accidentally stabbed himself in the eye with a file. The remaining eye lost its sight too, plunging Muir into total darkness and depression.
Some months later, Muir's uninjured eye regained its vision. Feeling as if he'd been reborn, he vowed to spend the rest of his life gazing at the natural beauty he'd been denied while recuperating from his injury.
His aim established, Muir (1838-1914) devoted the rest of his life to preserving and conserving that natural beauty on a large scale. His efforts led to the formation of the U.S. National Park System and the U.S. Forestry Service. He also founded the Sierra Club, a grass-roots organization for protecting wilderness and the environment. He headed it until his death.
Stamina Building
Muir spent his childhood preparing to be the inventor, naturalist, explorer and writer he became as an adult, he wrote in his 1913 book, "The Story of My Boyhood and Youth." While sweating in the fields for his father, Muir built the stamina he'd later rely on during his travels. He watched the natural world and mentally filed his observations: The way mice scurried as they stole the grain that fell from his reaper, the tang of the autumn air.
Innately curious, Muir loved to learn. He had little formal schooling after age 11, but that didn't matter: He lobbied his father to let him get up at 1 a.m. -- hours before the rest of his family -- so he could read. He also tinkered with his inventions, such as the "early-rising machine" he built that tipped him out of bed.
"I had gained five hours, almost half a day! Five hours to myself!" Muir wrote in one of his notebooks. "I can hardly think of any other event of my life, any discovery I ever made that gave birth to joy so transportingly glorious as the possession of these five frosty hours."
Muir's first journey after recovering from his injury was a 1,000-mile walk from Kentucky to the Gulf Coast, and he intended to keep walking down to the Amazon.
But after catching malaria while in Florida, he decided to explore by sea and eventually found his way to San Francisco. He asked directions to the most beautiful area: On the advice of a stranger, he walked through waist-high brush and wildflowers in the San Joaquin Valley to Yosemite.
Its magnificent vistas captured his heart immediately. "It seemed to me the Sierra should be called not the Nevada, or Snowy Range, but the Range of Light ... the most divinely beautiful of all the mountain chains I have ever seen," he wrote.
Muir took jobs in Yosemite as a sheepherder and a sawmill hand to learn as much as he could about the area, biographer Don Weiss noted in a 1997 Ecology Hall of Fame article. Muir spent his days working and studying; at night, he carefully wrote down his observations and thoughts in a series of notebooks.
The Industrial Revolution was chugging ahead full steam: Muir feared that the hunger for more resources would strip the natural world of its wonders like Yosemite. It wasn't just conservation: Muir believed that humans needed to connect with nature for mental, physical and spiritual health, noted biographer Harold W. Wood, Jr.
"Keep close to nature's heart ... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods," Muir wrote. "Wash your spirit clean ... Come to the woods, for here is rest."
He scaled numerous peaks, riding an avalanche down a mountain and hunting out the source of waterfalls.
When Muir wanted to draw more attention to the devastation wrought on the Sierra by sheep and cattle, he wrote a series of articles for the then-influential Century magazine called "Studies of the Sierra." He also wrote to public officials, urging them to help.
But the best way to sway others was Muir's full-immersion treatment. Mother Nature would do most of the talking.
"He told me that when (Ralph Waldo) Emerson came to California, (Muir) tried to get him to come out and camp with him, for that was the only way in which to see at their best the majesty and charm of the Sierras," President Theodore Roosevelt recalled in "Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography."
The Great Communicator
Muir didn't just encourage philosophers and world leaders to come camping. He held camping trips for Sierra Club members to show them what they were working to save.
Once he had someone by the campfire, Muir started talking. He underscored the importance of conservation, relying on solid scientific facts he'd researched but avoiding strident or harsh tones.
"Muir bore himself with dignity in every company. He readily adjusted himself to any environment," Century magazine publisher Robert Underwood Johnson wrote in a 1916 Sierra Club Bulletin.
The approach worked like a charm. After a three-day camping trip, Roosevelt and Muir devised a conservation plan. During his term, Roosevelt established 148 million acres of national forest, five national parks and 23 national monuments, including Yosemite, Sequoia, Grand Canyon and the Petrified Forest.
"John Muir talked even better than he wrote. His greatest influence was always upon those who were brought into personal contact with him," the 26th president wrote in Outlook magazine in 1915.
While thousands lauded his efforts, Muir preferred to downplay his influence. "Muir saw himself as an ordinary citizen of the universe, and in fact wrote his address as 'John Muir, Earth-Planet, Universe,'" Wood wrote.
Muir felt the credit belonged elsewhere, said Wood. "To some, beauty seems but an accident of creation: to Muir it was the very smile of God."
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