Earthing

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I have been earthing for about 6 months now. I started with the full fitted king size bed sheet. I can’t say there has been any crazy results BUT i certainly do sleep better using the earthing sheet. So that in it’s self is pretty significant I guess.

Just recently I had a friend call me and he said he was earthing up to 20 hours a day. I was like how do you do that. He has the earthing sheet plus an earthing mat and earthing mouse pad. Also when he goes out side he tries to go outside in his bare feet so he is getting the benefits from the earth.

By using the earthing mat and mouse pad and walking in his bare feet outside he is able to get close to 20 hours a day. This is when he really started noticing some big time results from earthing.

So I just recently bought the earthing mat and mouse pad. I am on the computer a lot. So now I am grounded when i am on the computer:) This should help me with EMF’s and also get be grounded 15-17 hours a day.

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Earthing Benefits

  • so simple, safe and natural
  • improves health in general,
  • improves immunity
  • eliminates the causes of inflammation and chronic inflammatory diseases such as arthritis
  • improves relaxation and sleep
  • reduces stress while increasing energy
  • relieves tension in muscles
  • improves blood flow

In other words, it promotes optimal health and body function.

Earthing Products

There are many different type of earthing products to help you get grounded. Below are a few

  • earthing sheets
  • earthing pad
  • earthing mat
  • earthing bed pad
  • earthing connection universal mat
  • earthing shoes
  • earthing mouse pad

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GcMAF studies presented at IACFS/ME meetings in Ottawa

At he IACFS/ME meetings in Ottawa, Canada in September, 2011, three studies on GcMAF therapy in CFS cases were presented by Kenny DeMeirleir MD, PhD out of Belgium and by Paul R. Cheney MD, PhD out of NC.   GcMAF is a partially deglycosylated vitamin-D binding protein also know as Gc protein.  The functional change in the Gc protein caused by serial deglycosylation is known as GcMAF or Gc Macrophage Activating Factor. GcMAF is made naturely in the body under certain conditions of immune activation but can also be made outside the body by chemical or laboratory means and by the use of certain probiotics in a Yogurt-like mixture in your own kitchen.   GcMAF is extremely potent and will at very low concentrations activate, regulate and expand macrophages which are the central processing unit of the immune system and capable of modulating and controling both the innate and cognate immune systems.

Three GcMAF studies presented in Ottawa showed improvement in CFS symptoms using a similar patient-centered assessment instrument.  Dr. DeMeirleir, using an injectable (IV or SQ) chemically derived GcMAF given at 100 ng on a weekly basis, showed at 63% response rate (68/108) over 5-40 weeks of therapy.  Dr. Cheney used a similarly manufactured chemical GcMAF in 19 patients treated at 100 ng every 5 days over 8 weeks by SL route but he also used, in a separate study, a novel probiotic-based GcMAF given by oral daily route (MAF 314) developed by Prof’s Ruggiero and Pacini out of Florence, Italy.  The SL chemical GcMAF demonstrated a response rate of 79% (15/19) over at least 8 weeks while the probiotic-based oral GcMAF (MAF 314) demonstrated a 76% (16/21) response rate over only 28 days.  Given the lower numbers and shorter time frames in Dr. Cheney’s two studies, there was likely no significant difference between the three studies in terms of overall response rate in CFS patients.  However, there appeared to be differences in the chemical GcMAF response rate that depended on the patient’s vitamin-D VDR polymorphisms that was not seen in the probiotic GcMAF (MAF 314) and positive response rates were generally seen much quicker in the probiotic GcMAF (MAF 314).  There were mild to moderate side effects seen in all three studies and generally responded to dose reduction as well as other measures.  GcMAF, given by a number of different routes, appears to be an effective therapy for well defined CFS patients.

Chronic Diseases: Who’s killing us, and how?

Covering the stunning fall of Judy Mikovits, researcher of XMRV and chronic fatigue

In 2010, we published a story about an amazing scientific finding that had caused enormous waves in medicine. Researchers reported finding a link between a retrovirus called XMRV and chronic fatigue syndrome, a frustrating disorder with no proven explanation and no cure. The findings were reported in a paper in one of the most prestigious journals in the world – Science.

What grabbed our attention was what some of the scientists involved with the paper did after its publication in 2009. The lead researcher, Judy Mikovits, began making sweeping unsupported statements about the finding, including tying XMRV to autism without publishing any data to support that statement. Some CFS patients began taking potent antiretroviral drugs meant to treat HIV.

The problem with all of this was that in science, findings don’t mean much until they are replicated. Scientists are often wrong, even when they publish in prestigious journals. And in this case, soon after the Science paper came out, independent teams were unable to replicate the findings. They could not find evidence of XMRV in the blood of CFS patients – or anyone else for that matter. Talk of contamination – a not-unheard-of problem in virology labs – arose.

Mikovits adamantly denied contamination had anything to do with her results.

[Trine has written about this back-and-forth on Trib Nation before, and you may have joined her for a livechat on the topic in December 2010. We covered a lot of ground in that discussion. -- Eds.]

Recently, we reported that the journal Science had launched an investigation into whether a figure in Mikovits’ 2009 paper had been manipulated. Soon after, Mikovits was fired from the Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Diseases, the Reno, Nev., non-profit created by the parents of a daughter with CFS. Last week, WPI filed a civil lawsuit against Mikovits, accusing her of taking lab notebooks and a computer that belonged to WPI.

On Nov. 18, Mikovits was arrested in Ventura, Calif., as a fugitive.

The University of Nevada, Reno police issued an arrest warrant listing two felony charges: possession of stolen property and unlawful taking of computer data, equipment, supplies or other computer related property. Mikovits will be arraigned Tuesday afternoon in California.

New Scientific Study Supports Reality of Morgellons Disease

Connection Found Between Infectious Disease Afflicting Cattle and “Fiber Disease” Affecting Thousands of People Worldwide, Announces Charles E. Holman Foundation

The mysterious human illness known as Morgellons disease resembles a well-known infectious disease found in cattle, according to a new research report published Nov. 14 in the prestigious online journal Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology.This news is announced by the Charles E. Holman Foundation, a grassroots activist organization that supports research, education, diagnosis and treatment of Morgellons disease.

Studied since the 1970s, the veterinary disease known as bovine digital dermatitis, or hairy heel warts, can cause lameness, decreased milk production, weight loss and skin lesions just above the hooves of affected animals. Examination of these lesions by researchers has revealed fibers of varying colors found to be very similar to those seen on the skin of people worldwide who suffer from Morgellons disease.

A link to the free report, entitled “Filament formation associated with spirochetal infection: a comparative approach to Morgellons disease,” can be found on the home page of the Charles E. Holman Foundation website (http://www.thecehf.org).

Often labeled “delusional” by their medical care providers, Morgellons patients may soon be vindicated by this groundbreaking discovery.

“Morgellons disease and hairy heel warts both appear to be evolving illnesses characterized by the appearance of unusual filaments in skin lesions,” said co-author Dr. Raphael Stricker, a renowned Morgellons expert who has treated hundreds of people with this disease at his San Francisco, CA-based practice. “The similarity between the two diseases provides new evidence that Morgellons is an infectious illness–not a delusional disorder. Further comparison of these conditions may help shed light on the mystery of what Morgellons is, and eventually how to cure it.”

Principal author Marianne Middelveen, a veterinary microbiologist from Calgary, Alberta, is credited with finding the connection between the two diseases. She had heard about hairy heel warts from veterinarians, farmers and scientists, and knew they had looked for a cure by examining microorganisms in the afflicted cattle. Middelveen took a different approach by focusing her research on the fibers seen on the animals’ skin. After discovering that these unusual filaments showed striking similarities to those found in Morgellons patients, she contacted Dr. Stricker. Their joint research identified many common features in the composition and infectious associations of the fibers affecting both cattle and humans.

“We are getting closer to sorting out the mystery of Morgellons disease,” said Dr. Stricker. “Sometimes it takes a detective with a new perspective to solve a mystery.”

For more information or to schedule an interview, please contact Cindy Casey, R.N., by calling her at (415) 720-8752 or e-mailing her at info(at)thecehf(dot)org

Dr. Bradstreet, Nagalase, and the Viral Issue in Autism

JeffBradstreetBy Kent Heckenlively, Esq.

Although my daughter is not a patient of Dr. Jeff Bradstreet I’ve always had an enormous amount of respect for the good doctor.  I’ll usually go on his website once or twice a month to find out what has most recently attracted his interest.  Often it seems we’re looking at similar questions; which either means great minds think alike, or we suffer from some of the same delusions.

I was intrigued by his October 11, 2011 entry, “An Update on Viral Issue in Autism” since it dovetailed with some of my own recent investigations.

In the past months Dr. Bradstreet has become interested in nagalese, which he describes as an enzyme “produced by cancer cells and viruses.”  He thinks it unlikely that children with autism have undiagnosed cancers, and thus suspicion falls on a viral etiology.  Dr. Bradstreet writes, “Viruses make the nagalese enzyme as part of their attachment proteins.  It serves to get the virus into the cell and also decreases the body’s immune reaction to the virus-thereby increasing the odds of viral survival.”

Further on Dr. Bradstreet writes, “It is reasonable and likely that the nature of the immune dysfunction and the frequently observed autoimmune problems in autism are mediated by persistent, unresolved viral infections.”  He claims to have tested approximately 400 children with autism for the viral marker, nagalese, and found that nearly 80% have significantly elevated levels.  He hopes to publish soon on this study and believes this information “is one of the most important developments in the clinical treatment of children on the spectrum that I have experienced in the last 15 years.”

Dr. Bradstreet’s article got my attention because of my daughter’s own nagalese testing.  I had her tested back in May (when she’d endured three hospitalizations due to uncontrolled seizures) and her reading was 3.3 (reference range 0.35-0.95).  In desparation we tried the ketogenic diet (high fats and low carbs), and although there have been some rough patches since May we have avoided further hospitalizations.

And her stools normalized.

Yes, I know all of you realize how important that is.  We’re talking months and months of good stools.  Seizures down at least 80%.  So of course, your friendly neighborhood science teacher was interested in what her nagalese levels might be, so we did a retest in late September.  This time her reading was 1.7.  It was about a 50% drop, and while it’s still abnormal, it is progress.  It makes me wonder if a low-carb diet starves viruses of an energy source.

There are critics of nagalese testing.  Dr. Enlander, a specialist in chronic fatigue syndrome/ME, another disease which may be viral in origin, doesn’t believe the tests are sensitive enough to be of any value.  And he may be right.

Dr. Bradstreet also discusses a substance called GcMAF, which I don’t have enough information about to make an informed judgment, and that after viral clearance, the possibility of using neuronal stem cells which can cross the blood-brain barrier.  I really can’t comment on the advisability of either suggestion.

But if you are like me, still looking for that clue which might help your child join the ranks of the recovered, you might investigate nagalese.

Kent Heceknlively is a Contributing Editor to Age of Autism

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