TRANS-GENDER.....WHAT ABOUT IT?

TONIGHT  I  WATCHED  ON  CBC [CANADIAN  BROADCASTING  COMPANY]  A  NEW  DOCUMENTARY  ABOUT  TRANS-GENDER!

I'VE  NOT  SPOKEN  ON  THE  TOPIC;  NOW  I  NEED  TO  DO  SO.

IT  IS  POSSIBLE  A  VERY  VERY  SMALL  PERCENTAGE  OF  THIS  RATHER  ODD  AS  SOME  WOULD  CALL  IT,  MOVE  OR  SOMEONE  NOT  KNOWING  WHAT  SEX  THEY  REALLY  ARE,  MAY  BE  DUE  TO..... WELL  THE  FUNCTION  OF  THE  BODY  NOT  BEING  CORRECT.  CHEMICALS  MESSED  UP  IN  THE  BODY  AND  BRAIN.

THE  REST  OF  TRANS-GENDER  IS  A  MENTAL  OUTLOOK  ON  THE  PHYSICAL.

MOST  TRANS-GENDER  PEOPLE [SOME  FROM  VERY  YOUNG  AGE;  3  OR  4  YEARS  OLD  EVEN]  HAVE  RELATIVELY  EARLY  ON,  THE  MENTAL  ATTITUDE THAT  THEY  SHOULD  NOT  BE  THE  SEX  THEY  ARE,  AND  INDEED  MENTALLY  ARE  MUCH  HAPPIER  AS  THE  "OTHER  SEX"  THAN  WHAT  THEY  WERE  BORN  WITH  AS  FAR  AS  PHYSICAL  GENITALS  IS  CONCERNED.

THERE  IS  NO  DENYING  MOST  OF  THEM,  THE  VAST  MAJORITY,  ARE  VERY  HAPPY  BEING  THE  SEX  THEY  WERE  NOT  BORN.

SOME  CHILDREN  AT  A  VERY  YOUNG  AGE,  WELL  BEFORE  AGE  10,  TELL  THEIR  PARENTS,  THEY  WANT  TO  BE  THE  OPPOSITE  SEX  THAN  WHAT  THEY  WERE  BORN [GOING  ON  GENITALS].

SOME  OF  THESE  PARENTS  SAY,  "OKAY,  WE  UNDERSTAND  AND  WILL  HELP  YOU  BE  HAPPY"  -  THEY  GO  ALONG  WITH  IT.

ALSO  WATCHING  SUCH  A  DOCUMENTARY  ON  THIS  SUBJECT,  YOU  SOON  SEE  THAT  SUCH  INDIVIDUALS  HAVE  TO  TAKE  HORMONE  THERAPY  TO  BE  THE  OTHER  SEX.  THEN  STILL  OTHERS  GO  INTO  THE  PHYSICAL  OPERATION  DOMAIN.

ANOTHER  POINT  THIS  DOCUMENTARY  MAKES  CLEAR  BY  SEEING  THESE  INDIVIDUALS,  NOW  THE  OTHER  SEX  THAN  BEFORE,  IS  THE  FACT  THAT  MEETING  THEM  ANYWHERE,  AT  WORK,  OR.... WELL  JUST  ANYWHERE,  YOU'D  NEVER  KNOW  THEY  ARE  TRANS-GENDER.  

THE  VAST  MAJORITY  OF  TRANS-GENDER  PEOPLE  ARE  IN  A  MIND-SET,  THAT  HAS  TAKEN  HOLD  OF  THEM  -  THEY  ARE  VERY  UN-HAPPY  AS  THE  SEX  THAT  THEIR  BODY  IS.  SO  IT  BEGINS  IN  THEIR  MIND.

AT  THE  END  OF  THIS  DOCUMENTARY  WE  GOT  THE  STRAIGHT  UP-FRONT  OPEN  TALK  OF  WHAT  THE  TRANS-GENDER  COMMUNITY  WANT..... IN  THE  WORDS  OF  ONE  OF  THEM  IT  WAS,  "THERE  IS  REALLY  NO  SEX;  THERE  IS  NOT  JUST  TWO  SEXES,  THERE  IS  REALLY  NO  SEX."

THE  BOTTOM  LINE  IS  THE  TRANS-GENDER  COMMUNITY  WANTS  THE  WORLD  TO  BE  "NO  IN-BORN  SEX"

EARLIER  IN  THE  PROGRAM  IT  WAS  PUT  VERY  WELL  BY  A  MOTHER  OF  A  TRANS-GENDER  CHILD.  SHE  SAID  THAT  WHEN  SOMEONE  SAYS  WE  ARE  HAVING  A  BOY  OR  HAVING  A  GIRL,  SHE  THINKS  TO  HERSELF  "WELL  MAYBE  AND  MAYBE  NOT."

THE  TRANS-GENDER  COMMUNITY  WANTS  TO  HAVE  THE  WORLD  IN  A  MIND-SET  THAT  THERE  IS  REALLY  NO  SEX  PER  SE.

NOW  FROM  THE  BIBLE  WE  SEE  THAT  GOD  CREATED  MALE  AND  FEMALE.  99.9  PERCENT  ARE  EITHER  MALE  OR  FEMALE  -  WELL  THE  TRANS-GENDER PEOPLE  WOULD  DISAGREE.... THEY  WOULD  SAY  YOU  ARE  THE  SEX  YOU  WANT  TO  BE,  EVEN  IF  IT  DOES  TAKE  HORMONE  DRUGS  AND  OPERATIONS  TO  BE  WHAT  SEX  YOU  WANT  TO  BE.

SATAN  THE  DEVIL  SURE  WOULD  LIKE  THE  WORLD  TO  BE  ANYTHING  BUT  "STRAIGHT"  MALE  AND  FEMALE.  HE'S  ALREADY  GOT  MOST  OF  THE  WORLD  TO  ACCEPT  AS  NORMAL  HOMOSEXUALITY  AND  LESBIANISM.  ALL  THAT  IS  NOW  YOUR  CHOICE,  OR  AS  THEY  WOULD  SAY,  "WE  ARE  JUST  BORN  THAT  WAY"  -  SO  THEY  HAVE  THE  WORLD  MORE  AND  MORE  AGREEING  IT  IS  SO,  AND  SUCH  A  CHOICE  IS  PERSONAL,  HENCE  SHOULD  BE  ACCEPTED  AS  JUST  "ANOTHER  FORM  OF  NATURAL  LIVING."

OF  COURSE  SUCH  NATURAL  LIVING  MOVES  OVER  INTO  THE  "FAMILY"  SPHERE,  AND  HENCE  HOMOSEXUAL  AND  LESBIAN  COUPLES  CAN  NOW  HAVE  CHILDREN  TO  RAISE  AS  PART  OF  "THEIR"  FAMILY.

ALL  OF  THAT  FLIES  IN  THE  FACE  OF  THE  ETERNAL  CREATOR  AND  HIS  CREATION  OF  MALE  AND  FEMALE  AND  MARRIAGE.

SO  IT  IS  ALSO  WITH  THE  TRANS-GENDER  GROUP  -  IT  FLIES  IN  THE  FACE  OF  GOD'S  CREATION  OF  MALE  AND  FEMALE.

SATAN  AND  THE  DEMONS  ARE  HAVING  A  FIELD-DAY -  THEY  ARE  MESSING  WITH  THE  MINDS  OF  CHILDREN,  TEENS,  ADULTS  -  THEY  ARE  LITERALLY  PUTTING  INTO  THE  MIND  OF  SOME,  THEY  ARE  NOT  THE  SEX  THEY  WERE  BORN,  THEY  ARE  NOT,  OR  SHOULD  NOT  BE  HAPPY  BEING  THAT  SEX  -  THEY  SHOULD  DO  WHATEVER  [PHYSICALLY]  TO  BE  THE  "OTHER  SEX."

IT  IS  TRUE  A  LOT,  MOST,  THE  VAST  MAJORITY,  ARE  HAPPY  BEING  THE  OTHER  SEX;  AS  BEFORE  STATED,  YOU'D  NEVER  KNOW  THEY  ARE  THE  OTHER  SEX  FROM  WHAT  THEY  WERE  BORN,  IF  YOU  MET  THEM  AT  WORK,  ON  THE  STREET,  IN  THE  "CLUB"  YOU  AND  THEY  BELONG  TO.  SO  BY  AND  LARGE  IT  DOES  NOT  HAVE  THE  AFFECT  ON  SOCIETY  AS  OPEN,  AND  "MARRIED"  HOMOSEXUALS  AND  LESBIANS  HAVE.  THE  TRANS-GENDER  LOOK  AND  ACT  LIKE  THE  OTHER  SEX  THEY  NOW  ARE,  IN  THE  MOVING  OF  LIFE  IN  THE  SOCIETY  THEY  ARE  IN.

FOR  NOW  THE  TRANS-GENDER  WORLD  IS  NOT  THE  THREAT  TO  SOCIETY  THAT  THE  OPEN  AND  MARRIED  GAY  COMMUNITY  IS,  IN  RESPECT  TO  MARRIAGE  AND  CHILD-REARING.  THE  TRANS-GENDER  IS  HAPPY  TO  BE  IN  LOOKS  AND  ACTIONS,  THE  OTHER  SEX  THAN  THEY  WERE  BORN.

BUT  IT  DOES  NOT  STOP  THERE.  AS  STATED  ABOVE  THEY  REALLY  WANT  THE  WORLD  TO  MOVE  FULLY,  MENTALLY,  INTO  THE  MIND-SET  OF  THE  TRANS-GENDER.....  THERE  IS  NO  SEX  REALLY.  AND  THEY  CLEARLY  TEACH  AS  THIS  DOCUMENTARY GAVE  US,  THEIR  OWN  WORDS  OF  SAYING,  QUOTE, "THERE  ARE  MORE  TRANS-GENDER  THAN  BEFORE,  AND  THERE  WILL  BE  MORE  IN  THE  FUTURE,  THAN  THERE  IS  TODAY."

IT'S  ALL  A  PLOT  BY  THE  GREAT  DECEIVER  THE  DEVIL,  TO  MUDDY,  AND  ULTIMATELY,  ABOLISH  THE  IDEA  THAT  THERE  IS  MALE  AND  FEMALE;  THAT  THERE  ARE  TWO  SEXES;  THAT  MARRIAGE  IS  BETWEEN  A  MAN  AND  WOMAN.

SATAN  HATES  THE  PLAN  OF  GOD  TO  PRODUCE  CHILDREN  THROUGH  A  MAN  AND  WOMAN  -  TO  HAVE  CHILDREN  BROUGHT  UP  BY  A  MOTHER  AND FATHER.  SATAN  HATES  THE  CONCEPT  THAT  GOD  IS  TEACHING  US  THROUGH  MARRIAGE  BETWEEN  A  MAN  AND  WOMAN,  TO  RAISE  CHILDREN,  AS  GOD  IS  ALSO  REPRODUCING  HIMSELF  VIA  HAVING  CHILDREN  THROUGH  HUMANS,  WHO  CAN  ONE  DAY  BE  LITERALLY  IN  THE  FAMILY  OF  GOD.

THE  DEVIL  IS  DELIGHTED  IF  HE  CAN  MUDDY  THE  WATERS  ON  MALE  AND FEMALE.  HE  WILL  TRY  EVERY  TRICK  UP  HIS  SLEEVES  TO  GET  THE  NATIONS  ALL  MESSED  UP  ABOUT  WHY  GOD  CREATED  MALE  AND  FEMALE.

HE,  THE  DEVIL,  IS  DOING  PRETTY  GOOD  WITH  GETTING  A  NICE  BIG  BALL  ROLLING,  WITH  HOMOSEXUALITY  AND  LESBIANISM  AND  SAME  SEX  MARRIAGE;  NOW  THAT  THAT  IS  ROLLING  ALONG,  PICKING  UP  SPEED;  NOW  IT'S  TIME  TO  GET  THE  TRANS-GENDER  THING  ROLLING  ALONG.

JESUS  SAID  THAT  BEFORE  HE  COMES  AGAIN,  EVIL  WOULD  ABOUND;  AND  IT  IS  INDEED,  IN  MANY  WAYS,  ABOUNDING.

SO  WE  CONTINUE  TO  PRAY,  "THY  KINGDOM  COME,  THY  WILL  BE  DONE  ON  EARTH  AS  IT  IS  IN  HEAVEN."

WE  LONG  FOR  THE  DAY  WHEN  HUMAN  KIND  WILL  BE  FREE  FROM  DECEPTIONS  AND  SIN,  AND  ALL  FALSE  CONCEPTS  AND  IDEAS.  WE  LONG  FOR  THE  DAY  WHEN  SATAN  AND  THE  DEMONS  WILL  BE  CHAINED  UP;  WHEN,  AS  IT  IS  WRITTEN,  THE  KNOWLEDGE  OF  THE  LORD  SHALL  COVER  THE  EARTH  AS  THE  WATERS  COVER  THE  SEA  BEDS.
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THE GREAT VITAMIN C !!!.....Dr. Mercola

Was Linus Pauling Right About Vitamin C’s Curative Powers After All?

November 23, 2015

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By Dr. Mercola

Vitamin C is one of the most well-established traditional antioxidants we know of, and its potent health benefits have been clearly demonstrated over time, especially for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.

A perfect example of the healing power of this antioxidant vitamin is the drbiochamatic case of Allan Smith, who contracted a serious case of swine flu, and was brought back from the brink of death using a combination of IV and oral vitamin C.

While most animals have the ability to produce vitamin C internally, three species cannot. Guinea pigs, primates, and humans must obtain their vitamin C from their diet.

Vitamin C has numerous functions in the human body,¹ including acting as an essential cofactor in enzymatic reactions.

In this way, it plays a role in your body's production of collagen, carnitine (which helps your body turn fat into energy), and catecholamines (hormones made by your adrenal glands).

Vitamin C is also used by your body for wound healing, repairing, and maintaining the health of your bones and teeth, and plays a role in helping your body absorb iron.

A powerful antioxidant, vitamin C also helps prevent damage caused by free radicals. Over time, free radical damage may accelerate aging and contribute to the development of heart disease and other health conditions.

It's through this antioxidant effect that it's thought vitamin C may play a role in protecting heart health.

Linus Pauling — 'The Vitamin C Man'

One of the most famous forerunners of high dose vitamin C treatment for colds and other disease was Linus Carl Pauling (1901-1994), a physical chemist and peace activist who won two Nobel Prize awards; one in chemistry in 1954, followed by a Nobel Peace Prize in 1962.

The New Scientist magazine ranked him as one of the 20 greatest scientists to ever live. He almost won a third Nobel, but Watson and Crick narrowly beat him to the discovery of the structure of DNA.

Despite being a well-respected scientist, his views on vitamin C were all firmly rebuffed by the medical community.

He detailed his discoveries in a series of books, starting with Vitamin C and the Common Cold in 1970, followed by Vitamin C, the Common Cold and the Flu (1976), Vitamin C and Cancer (1979), and How to Feel Better and Live Longer(1986).

Many felt Pauling was too far out of his field of expertise with his research into nutrition, and he was largely ignored by mainstream medicine and nutritional science.²

Was Pauling Right About Vitamin C After All?

While the recommended daily allowance (RDA) for vitamin C had been established at 40 to 60 mg per day — an amount more than sufficient to prevent scurvy — Pauling advocated amounts of 1,000 mg or even higher.

Pauling himself is said to have taken 12,000 mg per day. He noted that veterinarians recommended far higher doses of vitamin C for primates than what was recommended for people.

So he initially extrapolated the dosages from monkeys, and determined that humans likely need a minimum of six grams per day — 200 times more than the RDA.

The video above features the late Pauling and his controversial claims about the curative powers of vitamin C, which included cancer and heart disease — the latter of which he claimed was a form of pre-scurvy.

Pauling died of prostate cancer in 1994 at the age of 93. However, interest in vitamin C certainly did not die with him.

On the contrary, there's been an explosion of research into the properties of vitamin C, and newer evidence suggests there might be something to Pauling's heretical claims after all. In fact, a lot of the scientific literature published on vitamin C in the two decades since Pauling's death support his claims.^3,4

UCLA Researchers Confirm Vitamin C Protects Against Heart Disease

For example, the video features Dr. Balz Frei, a researcher at Harvard University's Department of Nutrition.

According to Dr. Frei, interest in vitamin C was renewed when it became known that many degenerative diseases involve oxidation, "and it is clear that vitamin C can very effectively prevent many of these oxidation processes, because it is a very strong antioxidant," he says.

A large, decade-long research study led Dr. James Engstrom at the UCLA also found that men who took 800 mg of vitamin C per day — which is more than 10 times the RDA — had less heart disease and lived up to six years longer than those following the conventional guideline of 60 mg/day.

Another study⁵ that included nearly 11,200 elderly people, published in 1996, found that seniors who took high-potency vitamin C and E had an overall reduced mortality rate of 42 percent.

Low potency "one-a-day" multiple vitamins had no beneficial effect on mortality. About 40 studies have also shown that people who eat vitamin C-rich diets have a lower incidence of cancer.

Vitamin C Shown to Be Selectively Cytotoxic to Cancer Cells

Total Video Length: 0:56:35 Download Interview Transcript

Five years ago, I interviewed Dr. Ronald Hunninghake about his experience with high-dose vitamin C treatments. He's an internationally recognized expert on vitamin C who at the time had personally supervised more than 60,000 intravenous (IV) vitamin C administrations.

He got his start in this field some 27 years ago when he teamed up with Dr. Hugh Riordan, who conducted research on intravenous (I.V.) vitamin C for cancer patients.⁶ Dr. Riordan discovered that most cancer patients are deficient in vitamin C, especially those in advanced stages of cancer.

Dr. Riordan carried out a 15-year long research project called RECNAC (cancer spelled backwards). His groundbreaking research in cell cultures showed that vitamin C was selectively cytotoxic against cancer cells. The mechanism for this is summarized in an article by Dr. Hunninghake on Orthomolecular.org:⁷

"Cancer cells were actively taking up vitamin C in a way that depleted tissue reserves of C. PET scans are commonly ordered by oncologists to evaluate their cancer patients for metastases (cancer spread to other organs).

What is actually injected into the patient at the start of the scan is radioactive glucose. Cancer cells... depend upon glucose as their primary source of metabolic fuel... [and] employ transport mechanisms called glucose transporters to actively pull in glucose.

In the vast majority of animals, vitamin C is synthesized from glucose in only four metabolic steps. Hence, the molecular shape of vitamin C is remarkably similar to glucose. Cancer cells will actively transport vitamin C into themselves, possibly because they mistake it for glucose. Another plausible explanation is that they are using the vitamin C as an antioxidant. Regardless, the vitamin C accumulates in cancer cells.

If large amounts of vitamin C are presented to cancer cells, large amounts will be absorbed. In these unusually large concentrations, the antioxidant vitamin C will start behaving as a pro-oxidant as it interacts with intracellular copper and iron. This chemical interaction produces small amounts of hydrogen peroxide.

Because cancer cells are relatively low in an intracellular anti-oxidant enzyme called catalase, the high dose vitamin C induction of peroxide will continue to build up until it eventually lyses the cancer cell from the inside out! This effectively makes high dose IVC a non-toxic chemotherapeutic agent that can be given in conjunction with conventional cancer treatments.

Based on the work of several vitamin C pioneers before him, Dr. Riordan was able to prove that vitamin C was selectively toxic to cancer cells if given intravenously. This research was recently reproduced and published by Dr. Mark Levine at the National Institutes of Health."

Vitamin C As an Adjunct to Cancer Therapy

Most recently, researchers at the Lewis Cantley of Weill Cornell Medicine in New York published a paper⁸ showing that high doses of vitamin C help kill and eliminate colorectal cancer cells with certain genetic mutations. According to the International Business Times:⁹

"Since over half of the colorectal cancer cases in humans are linked to mutations in the KRAS and BRAF genes, the researchers believe that their study findings call for more research into the therapeutic use of vitamin C for colorectal cancer cases."

According to the National Cancer Institute,¹⁰ other studies have shown high-dose vitamin C can help slow the growth of prostate, pancreatic, liver, and colon cancer cells. The institute also recognizes human studies showing IV vitamin C can help improve symptoms associated with cancer and cancer treatment, such as fatigue, nausea, vomiting, pain, and loss of appetite.

Despite all of these benefits, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved IV high-dose vitamin C for the treatment of cancer or any other disease.

A More Potent and Foundational Treatment for Cancer

The treatment of cancer, neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, ALS, and Parkinson, and anti-aging have become one of my new passions. Why? Because they all share the same primary metabolic defect — dysfunctional mitochondria. Dr. Otto Warburg was an M.D., Ph.D. and most experts consider him to be the most brilliant biochemist of the 20th century.

He received his Nobel Prize in 1931 for discovering that virtually every cancer cell does not use oxygen to create energy, but it ferments glucose to provide all its energy.

Interestingly, this use of glucose may contribute to a relative vitamin C deficiency since it is produced from glucose, and may explain some of its benefits in the treatment of cancer. However I am firmly convinced that vitamin C does not treat the primary defect responsible for most cancers, which is mitochondrial dysfunction.

The best way to address this mitochondrial damage that I am aware of is a ketogenic diet. This is achieved typically by a reduced calorie and carbohydrate diet that limits all sugars, grains, and most fruits. I am currently in the process of connecting with the leading experts in the world on this and will greatly expand on this exciting news in the near future.

Vitamin C Deficiency May Be an Independent Risk Factor for Stroke

While scurvy is the most well-known side effect of vitamin C deficiency, French researchers have also reported that those with vitamin C deficiency are at an increased risk for a lethal hemorrhagic stroke.¹¹ According to the authors, vitamin C deficiency "should be considered a risk factor for this severe type of stroke."

They also pointed out that previous studies have found vitamin C may help regulate blood pressure, and that higher blood levels of vitamin C have been found to reduce stroke risk by more than 40 percent.

A 20-year long prospective cohort study¹² in Japan found that those with the highest serum levels of vitamin C had a 29 percent lower risk for stroke compared to those with the lowest serum levels. Moreover, people who ate vegetables six to seven days a week had a 54 percent reduced risk of stroke compared to those who only ate vegetables two days or less per week.

A common denominator here is the way vitamin C affects your blood vessels. Vitamin C helps dilate blood vessels, and is required for the biosynthesis of collagen, which helps keep your blood vessels strong and intact. Lack of vitamin C can therefore lead to a weakening of your blood vessels, resulting in scurvy symptoms like subcutaneous bleeding, or the lethal hemorrhaging associated with hemorrhagic stroke.

Vitamin C Performs Many Functions That Boost Health

Vitamin C has two major functions that help explain its potent health benefits. First, it acts as a powerful antioxidant. It also acts as a cofactor for enzymatic processes. In addition to that, vitamin C is a "reducing agent," which means it donates electrons to other molecules, thereby reducing oxidation. As explained by the Linus Pauling Institute:¹³

"Vitamin C is the primary water-soluble, non-enzymatic antioxidant in plasma and tissues. Even in small amounts vitamin C can protect indispensable molecules in the body, such as proteins, lipids (fats), carbohydrates, and nucleic acids (DNA and RNA), from damage by free radicals and reactive oxygen species (ROS) that are generated during normal metabolism, by active immune cells, and through exposure to toxins and pollutants..."

Vitamin C also helps regenerate vitamin E from its oxidized form, and is involved in the metabolism of cholesterol to bile acids, the latter of which may help reduce cholesterol and gallstones. Vitamin C also boosts your body's ability to absorb iron from the foods you eat, and plays a role in detoxification, as it helps neutralize and eliminate a range of toxins from your body.¹⁴

Signs and Symptoms of Vitamin C Deficiency

In the U.S., serious vitamin C deficiency is rare; however many people do have low levels. If you're elderly, for instance, you may have higher requirements for vitamin C, as aging may inhibit absorption. Smokers may also require more vitamin C due to the increased oxidative stress from cigarette smoke. Signs that you may need more vitamin C include:

Dry and splitting hair	Nosebleeds	Decreased wound-healing rate	Bleeding gums
Rough, dry or scaly skin	Gingivitis (inflammation of your gums)	Decreased ability to ward off infection	Easy bruising

What's the Best Way to Optimize Your Vitamin C?

The ideal way to optimize your vitamin C stores is by eating a wide variety of fresh whole organic locally grown foods, primarily vegetables and fruits. A number of people, primarily with the naturopathic perspective, believe that in order to be truly effective, ascorbic acid alone is not enough. They believe it's the synergistic action of the ascorbic acid in combinationwith its associated micronutrients, such as bioflavonoids and other components that produce the full range of benefits.

Eating a colorful diet (i.e. plenty of vegetables) helps ensure you're naturally getting the phytonutrient synergism needed. Particularly rich sources of vitamin C include those in the following list. One of the easiest ways to ensure you're getting enough vegetables in your diet is by juicing them. For more information, please see my juicing page. You can also squeeze some fresh lemon or lime juice into some water for a vitamin C rich beverage.

Sweet peppers	Chili peppers	Brussels sprouts
Broccoli	Artichoke	Sweet potato
Tomato	Cauliflower	Kale
Papaya	Strawberries	Oranges
Kiwi	Grapefruit	Cantaloupe

What You Need to Know About Vitamin C Supplements

In some cases, it may still be wise to take supplemental vitamin C. The most effective form of oral vitamin C supplementation is liposomal vitamin C, which I was introduced to by Dr. Thomas Levy, who is one of the leaders in this area. Liposomal vitamin C bypasses many of the complications of traditional vitamin C or ascorbic acid (such as gastrointestinal distress), thereby allowing you to achieve far higher intracellular concentrations.

There are also other forms of vitamin C on the market, such as buffered forms of sodium ascorbate. One example would be Ester-C. These buffered forms are also effective and do not cause the gastrointestinal distress associated with conventional ascorbic acid.

When taking an oral vitamin C, be mindful of your dosing frequency. A researcher with a Ph.D. in medical biophysics, Steve Hickey, wrote the book "Ascorbate", which shows that if you take vitamin C frequently throughout the day, you can achieve much higher plasma levels. So even though your kidneys will tend to rapidly excrete the vitamin C, by taking it every hour or two, you can maintain a much higher plasma level than if you take one mega-dose all at once (unless you're taking an extended release form of vitamin C).

As noted by the Linus Pauling Institute,¹⁵ experiments have demonstrated that plasma vitamin C concentration is controlled by three primary mechanisms: intestinal absorption, tissue transport, and renal reabsorption. You can expect a significant rise in plasma vitamin C concentration at doses between 30 and 100 mg/day.

At 200 to 400 mg/day, healthy young adults reach a steady-state concentration of 60 to 80 micromoles/L, and ingesting doses of 200 mg at a time has been shown to maximize absorption efficiency.

According to Dr. Andrew Saul, editor of the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, if everyone were to take 500 mg of vitamin C per day — the dose typically required to reach a healthy level of 80 µmol/L — an estimated 216,000 lives could be spared each year.

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THE LATEST ON HEART DISEASE.... Dr. Mercola

Statin Nation II: What Really Causes Heart Disease?

November 21, 2015 | 117,323 views

By Dr. Mercola

"Statin Nation II: What Really Causes Heart Disease?" is the sequel to the documentary "Statin Nation: The Great Cholesterol Cover-up." However, it stands well on its own, even if you didn't see the original film.

For many decades, the idea that saturated fats caused heart disease reigned supreme, and diets shifted sharply away from saturated animal fats such as butter and lard, toward partially hydrogenated vegetable oils and margarine.

However, as people abandoned saturated fats and replaced them with trans fats, rates of heart disease continued on a steady upward climb. And, the more aggressive the recommendations for low-fat diets, the worse this trend became.

Last year, butter consumption in the US reached a 40-year peak, and the resurgence of butter has been attributed to a shift in consumer preferences away from processed foods and back toward natural foods.

This is a positive trend, showing that the old myth claiming that saturated fat is bad for you is finally starting to crumble. People are also starting to recognize that refined sugar is far worse for your heart than dietary fat was, and processed low-fat foods are typically loaded with sugar.

The French Paradox

According to the film, the long held view that saturated fats and cholesterol caused heart disease came under closer scrutiny in the 1990s, when researchers like Kurt Ellison with the Boston University started taking notice of what became known as the French Paradox.

The French eat a lot more fat than many other nations, yet they don't have higher rates of heart disease.

For example, in the UK people on average eat 13.5 percent of their total calories as saturated fat, whereas the French eat 15.5 percent saturated fat, yet their rate of heart disease deaths is about one-third of that in the UK — just 22 heart disease deaths per 100,000 compared to 63 per 100,000 in the UK.

Icelanders also consume higher amounts of saturated fat — on average 14.6 percent, but their rate of heart disease deaths is also lower than the UK, just 34 per 100,000.

The film reviews a number of statistics from other countries, including Denmark, Lithuania, and Portugal, which defy the idea that saturated fat consumption is associated with heart disease. The data simply doesn't bear this out.

Here's another startling example. The American Heart Association recommends keeping your saturated fat consumption below seven percent of your total calories, ideally around 5 or 6 percent.

Lithuania is very close to being on target, with a saturated fat consumption rate of 7.7 percent of total calories, yet Lithuania has one of the highest heart disease mortality rates in the world — 122 per 100,000.

Cholesterol Is Not a Major Factor in Heart Disease

Like saturated fat, cholesterol has also been wrongly demonized despite the fact that 60 years' worth of research has utterly failed to demonstrate any correlation between high cholesterol and heart disease.

Despite this, many, even most health professionals still cling to the idea that cholesterol raises your risk for heart disease, and that strategies that lower cholesterol also lower your heart disease risk.

Fortunately, limitations for cholesterol will likely be removed from the 2015 edition of Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which would be a welcomed change.

Cholesterol is actually one of the most important molecules in your body; indispensable for the building of cells and for producing stress and sex hormones, as well as vitamin D.

It's also important for brain health, and helps with the formation of your memories. Low levels of HDL cholesterol have been linked to memory loss andAlzheimer's disease, and may also increase your risk of depression, stroke, violent behavior, and suicide.

What You Need to Understand About HDL and LDL Cholesterol

While cholesterol is typically divided into HDL/"good" and LDL/"bad" cholesterol," there's really only one kind of cholesterol. The division into HDL and LDL is based on how the cholesterol combines with protein particles.

LDL and HDL are lipoproteins, meaning fats combined with proteins. Cholesterol is fat-soluble, and blood is mostly water, so for it to be transported in your blood, cholesterol needs to be carried by a lipoprotein, which is classified by density.

Large LDL particles are not harmful. Only small dense LDL particles can potentially be a problem, as they can squeeze through the lining of your arteries. If they oxidize, they can cause damage and inflammation.

Thus, it would be more accurate to say that there are "good" and "bad" lipoproteins (opposed to good and bad cholesterol). Dr. Stephen Sinatra, a board certified cardiologist, and Chris Kresser, L.Ac., an integrative medicine clinician, have both addressed this issue in previous interviews.

Some groups, such as the National Lipid Association, are now starting to shift the focus toward LDL particle number instead of total and LDL cholesterol, in order to better assess your heart disease risk. But this approach has not yet spread into the mainstream.

Statins Are Prescribed Based on an Incorrect Hypothesis

Since the cholesterol hypothesis is false, this also means that the recommended therapies — low-fat, low-cholesterol diet, and cholesterol lowering medications — are doing more harm than good. Statin treatment, for example, is largely harmful, costly, and has transformed millions of people into patients whose health is being adversely impacted by the drug. As previously noted by Dr. Frank Lipman:¹

"[T]he medical profession is obsessed with lowering your cholesterol because of misguided theories about cholesterol and heart disease. Why would we want to lower it when the research² actually shows that three-quarters of people having a first heart attack, have normal cholesterol levels, and when data over 30 years from the well-known Framingham Heart Study³ showed that in most age groups, high cholesterol wasn't associated with more deaths?

In fact, for older people, deaths were more common with low cholesterol. The research is clear – statins are being prescribed based on an incorrect hypothesis, and they are not harmless."

Statins Can Wreck Your Health in a Number of Ways

The film points out that research shows statins promote calcification of your arteries, and even though arterial calcificationincreases heart disease, these studies seem to be largely ignored by mainstream health professionals. Sherif Sultan, a professor of Vascular and Endovascular surgery who is featured in the film, notes that many people have in fact improved their health by getting off statins.

That certainly doesn't surprise me, considering the fact that studies have discovered a wide variety of problems associated with statin use, and virtually all of these problems are being downplayed or ignored altogether by conventional medicine.

Odds are actually very high — greater than 100 to one — that if you're currently taking a statin, you probably don't need it. Based on my own review of the evidence, the ONLY subgroup that might benefit from statins are those born with a genetic defect called familial hypercholesterolemia. Dr. Sinatra believes males with obstructions in their left anterior descending coronary artery might also benefit. For all others, statins are more likely to do you harm than good.

For example, research shows that statins:

Deplete your body of CoQ10	Statins deplete your body of CoQ10, which accounts for many of their devastating results. Although it was proposed to add a black box warning to statins stating this, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decided against it in 2014. If you take a statin, you MUST take supplemental CoQ10, or better, the reduced form called ubiquinol.
Increase insulin resistance	Insulin resistance promotes chronic inflammation in your body, and inflammation is the hallmark of most diseases. In fact, increased insulin resistance can lead to heart disease, which, ironically, is the primary reason for taking a cholesterol-reducing drug in the first place. It can also promote belly fat, high blood pressure, heart attacks, chronic fatigue, thyroid disruption, and diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and cancer.
Increase diabetes risk	By raising your blood sugar, statins also increase your diabetes risk. When you eat a meal that contains starches and sugar, some of the excess sugar goes to your liver, which then stores it away as cholesterol and triglycerides. Statins work by preventing your liver from making cholesterol. As a result, your liver returns the sugar to your bloodstream, which raises your blood sugar levels. Drug-induced diabetes and genuine type 2 diabetes are not necessarily identical. If you're on a statin drug and find that your blood glucose is elevated, it's possible that what you have is just hyperglycemia — a side effect, and the result of your medication.  Unfortunately, many doctors will at that point mistakenly diagnose you with "type 2 diabetes," and possibly prescribe another drug, when all you may need to do is simply discontinue the statin in order for your blood glucose levels to revert back to normal.
Inhibit synthesis of vitamin K2	By inhibiting the synthesis and function of vitamin K2 in your body, statins can raise your risk for atherosclerosis, heart failure, stroke, and other health problems. If you take a statin, a vitamin K2supplement (MK7) is highly recommended.
Reduces squalene	Squalene reduction caused by the statin can also raise your risk of immune system dysfunction.
Interfere with the mevalonate pathway	The mevalonate pathway is the central pathway for the steroid management in your body.
Damage mitochondria	Statins are toxic to the energy centers of your cells, called mitochondria. They impair heart muscle mitochondria function, disrupt ATP production (adenosine triphosphate, the energy molecules of your body), and alter intracellular signaling proteins.
Interfere with selenium-containing proteins	Selenoproteins, such as glutathione peroxidase, are crucial for preventing oxidative damage in your muscle tissue. Blocking glutathione peroxidase unleashes free radicals and inflammation, which can damage muscle tissue, including your heart muscle.

What REALLY Causes Heart Disease?

Statins really have nothing to do with reducing your heart disease risk. In fact, this class of drugs can actually increase your risk for heart problems — especially if you do not take ubiquinol (CoQ10) along with it to mitigate the depletion of CoQ10 caused by the drug. Taking extra vitamin K2 is also advisable.

Statins decrease CoQ10 for the identical reason they lower cholesterol, they impair the pathway your liver uses to make both of them. I believe this is probably its greatest toxicity as CoQ10 is absolutely essential for mitochondrial health. My new passion is understanding this at a fine molecular level as I'm convinced it is the core for the treatment and prevention of most cancers and the slowing down of the aging process. So if you are concerned about these issues, then I couldn't warn you more strongly to avoid statins.

Knowing that saturated fat and cholesterol have nothing to do with heart disease finally frees you to take a serious look at what does cause this potentially lethal condition. While the film focuses on how things such as cortisol, stress, and telomeres can influence heart disease, for most people heart disease is a result of poor lifestyle choices; some of the most important of which include the following. All of these things are well within your control, and don't cost much (if any) money to address.

A diet too high in sugar, trans fat, and oxidized cholesterol, and too low in healthy fats	Added sugars, and processed fructose in particular, are a primary driver of metabolic dysfunction and heart disease. One recent 15-year long study, which included data for 31,000 Americans, found that those who consumed 25 percent or more of their daily calories as sugar were more than twice as likely to die from heart disease as those who got less than 10 percent of their calories from sugar.  On the whole, the odds of dying from heart disease rose in tandem with the percentage of added sugar in the diet regardless of the age, sex, physical activity level, and body-mass index.  Trans fat may promote heart disease to an even greater degree than sugar. Structurally, trans fats are synthetic fatty acids produced during the hydrogenation process. (They are not present in either animal or vegetable fats.) Trans fats prevent the synthesis of prostacyclin, which is necessary to keep your blood flowing. When your arteries cannot produce prostacyclin, blood clots form, and you may succumb to sudden death. Also, while dietary cholesterol is fine, oxidized cholesterol is not. Oxidized cholesterol forms when polyunsaturated vegetable oils (such as soybean, corn, and sunflower oils) are heated. This oxidizedcholesterol causes increased thromboxane formation — a factor that clots your blood.  So, if you want to protect your heart, avoid all hydrogenated oils and vegetable oils, and replace them with healthy saturated fats such as coconut and coconut oil, avocados, butter, animal fats like lard, and raw nuts.
Lack of exercise	Exercise protects against heart disease primarily by normalizing your insulin and leptin levels, and it is indeed potent medicine. A 2013 meta-review, which included 305 randomized controlled trials and nearly 339,300 people, found "no statistically detectable differences" between exercise and medications for heart disease, including statins.
Lack of sun exposure	Vitamin D is very important for reducing hypertension, atherosclerotic heart disease, heart attack, and stroke. In one study, vitamin D deficiency increased the risk of heart attack by 50 percent. What's worse, if you have a heart attack and you're vitamin D deficient, your risk of dying from that heart attack creeps up to nearly 100 percent. Ideally, you want to maintain a vitamin D level of 50 to 70 ng/ml year-round, or 70 to 100 ng/ml if you're trying to treat heart disease.
Lack of grounding to the earth	Grounding effectively alleviates inflammation because it thins your blood and infuses you with negatively charged ions through the soles of your feet. It also helps thin your blood by improving its zeta potential, which means it improves the energy between your red blood cells.  Research has demonstrated it takes about 80 minutes for the free electrons from the earth to reach your blood stream and transform your blood. Since heart disease is primarily caused by inflammation, regularly grounding yourself to the earth is a simple way to combat inflammation without spending a penny.

Identifying Risk Factors for Heart Disease

If you want to understand what causes heart disease, you have to look at what causes damage to your artery walls, interferes in disease processes, and causes blood clotting. When the endothelial wall is damaged, repair mechanisms are set into motion, creating a "scab." To prevent this scab from dislodging, the endothelial wall grows over it, causing the area to become thickened. This is what is called atherosclerosis.

There's no fat (cholesterol) "clogging the pipe" at all; rather the arterial wall is thickened as a result of your body's natural repair process. So what causes damage to your arteries?

One of the primary culprits is sugar and fructose in particular. So eating a high sugar diet is a sure-fire way to put heart disease on your list of potential health problems. Meanwhile, total cholesterol will tell you virtually nothing about your disease risk, unless it's exceptionally elevated (above 330 or so, which would be suggestive of familial hypercholesterolemia, which, in my view, would be about the only time a cholesterol-reducing drug would be appropriate).

Two ratios that are far better indicators of heart disease risk are:

• Your HDL/total cholesterol ratio: HDL percentage is a very potent heart disease risk factor. Just divide your HDL level by your total cholesterol. This percentage should ideally be above 24 percent. Below 10 percent, it's a significant indicator of risk for heart disease.
• Your triglyceride/HDL ratios: This ratio should ideally be below 2.

Additional risk factors for heart disease include:

• Your fasting insulin level: Any meal or snack high in carbohydrates like fructose and refined grains generates a rapid rise in blood glucose and then insulin to compensate for the rise in blood sugar. The insulin released from eating too many carbs promotes fat and makes it more difficult for your body to shed excess weight, and excess fat, particularly around your belly, is one of the major contributors to heart disease.
• Your fasting blood sugar level: Studies have shown that people with a fasting blood sugar level of 100 to 125 mg/dl had a nearly 300 percent increase higher risk of having coronary heart disease than people with a level below 79 mg/dl. I personally believe your fasting blood sugar should be below 80 and is something that you should regularly monitor. You don't need a doctor's order for it as you can easily purchase blood (finger prick) tests on Amazon. I personally check mine and my blood ketone levels on a regular basis.
• Your iron level: Iron can be a very potent driver of oxidative stress, so if you have excess iron levels you can damage your blood vessels and increase your risk of heart disease. Ideally, you should monitor your ferritin levels and make sure they are not much above 80 ng/ml. The simplest way to lower them if they are elevated is to donate your blood. If that is not possible you can have a therapeutic phlebotomy and that will effectively eliminate the excess iron from your body.

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