Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Water with a twist of Prozac
As reported in the LA Times, Los Angeles County has suddenly discovered what I've been warning about for years: their drinking water is contaminated with prescription drugs. Gee, didn't anybody think about where all these synthetic chemicals end up after they leave the bodies of patients?
Apparently they end up right back in the water supply. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The CIA places a chemical in the drinking water supply of the FDA headquarters in Washington, D.C. to see whether it is possible to spike drinking water with LSD and other substances (Cockburn and St. Clair, eds.).
In a study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers inject pregnant women with radioactive cortisol to see if the radioactive material will cross the placentas and affect the fetuses (Goliszek).
The U.S. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 Parasites and bacteria are start drinking water. By the time in higher-than-acceptable concentrations in some areas of this country's you feel thirsty, you are likely to water. be mildly dehydrated. Regular
The optimal solution is to install a reverse-osmosis system in your water intake throughout the day home or drink distilled water. Have your drinking water tested by a js encouraged, certified water-testing company in your area. You can also contact the
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Environmental Protection Agency Safe drinking water Hotline (1-800-426-4791 or www.epa. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 There is chlorine in our drinking water, in our showers, in our swimming pools, and in the water used to irrigate our crops. It is highly recommended that you use a water purification system not only on your drinking water tap, but for the whole house, and if out to eat, avoid drinking restaurant tap water.
Were chlorine and fluoride the only chemicals we had to worry about, that would be bad enough. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 In 2001, for example, the United States Environmental Protection Agency lowered the maximum level of arsenic permitted in drinking water from 50 meg per liter to 10. That means they were previously allowing 400 percent the amount they now know to be "okay." Who knows how many other toxins are currently in our water at levels now considered "safe" that will later be found to be much too high? |
Ron Garner
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 I have found it to be a very useful, convenient, and effective remedy to have in my kit when traveling out of the country, to other parts of the world where one might be exposed to harmful bacteria in food or drinking water that can cause intestinal upsets and diarrhea. Two to five drops in a glass of juice or water, taken as needed until the problem is under control, can be helpful.
Olive Leaf Extract
Olive leaf extract has been referred to as one of the oldest remedies around.27 Researchers have determined that it has strong bactericidal, virucidal, and anti-parasitic properties. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 I have heard my American physician colleagues say things about statins like "They ought to put that stuff in the drinking water." It therefore shouldn't be a surprise that American guidelines for who should take statins (which are written by American doctors), if followed by everyone, would have more of us on statins than any other country in the world. In fact, U.S. guidelines would have one out of four Americans on a statin. If this was helpful you would expect that we would have fewer deaths from heart attacks than other countries. |
| Indeed, our massive exposure to antibiotics in the meat that we eat and in the runoff from farms into our drinking water, in addition to the antibiotics we are given for a variety of disorders (which may or may not be responsive to antibiotics) may have contributed to the current epidemic of obesity. Data presented at a conference of the Emory Predictive Health Institute showed that depletion of helpful colonic bacteria by antibiotics caused changes in concentrations of hormones that directly influence appetite, like leptin. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 The connection is so strong that the government required grains to be fortified with folic acid much as drinking water is fortified with fluoride. And there's been a corresponding decrease in diseases, such as spina bifida, that are related to folic acid deficiency in pregnant women.
That's a wonderful thing—but it may not be the whole story. Our understanding of epigenetics is so immature we have to be wary about unintended consequences. We just don't know what other genes may be influenced by pumping methyl donors into the food supply, and we probably won't know for years. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Chinese researchers found that fruit flies, which generally live only fifteen days, stay alive a stunning forty days when jasmine tea is added to their drinking water. (Imagine the equivalent: the average human life span of seventy years would be extended to 186 years!) Japanese researchers at the Nagasaki University School of Medicine had similar results in an experiment with rats. When rats were given EGCG in their water, their life span was considerably prolonged. |
| When green tea extract is added to the drinking water of animals, their intrinsic antioxidant defense system becomes more effective. This is evidenced by an increase in antioxidant enzymes, including superoxide dismutase, glutathione reductase, glutathione peroxidase, catalase, quinone reductase, and glutathinone S-transferase. The improvement in antioxidant enzyme levels occurs throughout the body, but most notably in the lung, lower intestine, liver, and skin.16
The antioxidant function of green tea extract underlies almost all of the health benefits of green tea. |
| In retrospect, it seems likely that the reason for this recommendation was to ensure that the men would be drinking water that had been boiled, rather than to provide them with the possible antibiotic properties of tea, since those effects are weak. In a review of the antimicrobial properties of tea, Dr. J. M. T. |
| When polyphenols are added to their drinking water, animals develop far fewer cavities and accumulate less plaque. Researchers from the Department of Oral Microbiology at Osaka University in Japan say that fewer cavities develop because the polyphenols block production of glucosyltransferase by the bacteria.7
Another investigation conducted by the same research group examined the effects of tea polyphenols on plaque deposition in human subjects. |
| Today it is a recognized fact that tooth decay is less prevalent in areas where fluoride occurs naturally or is added to the drinking water. The fluoridation of municipal water supplies, which began in the 1950s, now covers more than half of the United States population. Experts recommend one part per million of fluoride in water as a health-enhancing level. When fluoride levels are too high, harmless but unattractive brown stains can appear on the teeth. Levels of fluoride in excess of eight parts per million can result in the discoloration of teeth and, possibly, in bone abnormalities. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 One study showed that high amounts of lead and barium in drinking water caused an increased risk of miscarriages.133 Elevated lead in the body has also been linked to preeclampsia134 and lower birth weight.
Mercury has received perhaps the most attention of any of the pesticides and heavy metals. Methylmercury crosses the placenta and can impair the development of the central nervous system in the fetus. As a result, the federal government has issued guidelines regarding fish intake for pregnant women and for all age groups. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| The researchers presented preliminary data showing that Tahitian noni juice mixed in drinking water for one week was able to prevent carcinogen-DNA adduct formation and suggested that the antioxidant activity of noni juice may contribute to its cancer-preventive effect.
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One study found that constituents of the fruit inhibited the oxidation of LDL ("bad") cholesterol. (Remember that cholesterol only becomes a problem in the human body when it is oxidized. |
Ron Garner
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| We do this by drinking water that has been filtered, showering and bathing in filtered water, avoiding the use of hot tubs with chlorine-treated water, and not using, or being very careful when using, cleaning products that contain chlorine.
Fluorine
Fluorine is considered the most chemically active non-metallic element of all the elements. It is never found in nature uncombined, yet humans have created it as a separate element. Our bodies can handle it in the naturally combined forms, but not when it is isolated. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Animals were given either aloe (100 mg/kg body weight) in their drinking water for two months or 2 5 percent aloe vera cream applied directly to wounds for six days. Aloe had positive effects in both cases. The size of wounds decreased 62 percent in the animals taking oral aloe compared to a 51 percent decrease in the control group. Topical aloe produced a 51 percent decrease in wound size compared to a 33 percent decrease in the control group.
Aloe decreases surgical recovery time, according to a report in the Journal of Derm otologic Surgery and Oncology. |
Ray D. Strand
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 Department of Public Health warned us that 85 percent of American drinking water is contaminated. And I can hardly believe things have gotten better over the past decade. More than fifty thousand different chemicals now contaminate our water supplies. Here's a frightening fact: the average water treatment plant can test for only thirty to forty of these chemicals. In addition heavy metals such as lead, cadmium, and aluminum contaminate most of our water supplies. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The dose eaten by the test subjects is 83 times the safe dose of perchlorate set by the State of California, which has perchlorate in some of its drinking water. This Loma Linda study is the first large-scale study to use human subjects to test the harmful effects of a water pollutant and is "inherently unethical," according to Environmental Working Group research director Richard Wiles (Goliszek, Envirnomental Working Group). |
Patricia Bragg and Paul C. Bragg
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 Millions of innocent people have been brainwashed by the aluminum companies to erroneously believe that adding sodium fluoride (their waste by-product) to our drinking water will reduce tooth decay in our children. Americans get sodium fluoride in their drinking water without thinking about it. Sodium fluorine, a chemical "cousin" of sodium fluoride, is used as a rat and roach killer and a deadly pesticide. Yet this deadly sodium fluoride, injected almost by government edict into drinking water in the proportion of 1. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Manhattan Project begin the most extensive American study ever done on the health effects of fluoridating public drinking water (Griffiths and Bryson).
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Continuing the Newburg study of 1945, the Manhattan Project commissions the University of Rochester to study fluoride's effects on animals and humans in a project codenamed "Program F." With the help of the New York State Health Department, Program F researchers secretly collect and analyze blood and tissue samples from Newburg residents. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| In this book he wrote that drinking tea confers many benefits, including curing lack of appetite, diseases caused by poor quality drinking water, paralysis, boils, and beri-beri (a B-vitamin deficiency). Eisai went so far as to claim that tea was a remedy for almost all health problems.
Eisai's confidence in the healing properties of tea was soon put to the test. A government official who was in danger of dying from the ill effects of gluttony asked Eisai to pray for his recovery. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 They work hard, have no electricity or running water in their homes, and walk long distances to bring in drinking water or to wash their clothes. They use no modern household devices; consequently, food preparation and household chores require extra effort by the women. In contrast, the Pima Indians of Arizona are largely sedentary and follow the dietary practices of typical Americans.
The differences are astounding. |
Charles Barber
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 They have been putting "Heavy Sodium" in the drinking water to numb out the population and make it, supposedly, happy and content. Dr. More uncovers the conspiracy, stops the placement of Heavy Sodium in the water supply, and thereby returns his patients to normal—their vitality, as well as their troubles, restored. In the place of Heavy Sodium, Dr. More calls for an authentic unmedicated human experience, however painful it may at times be. |
| Traces of Prozac and Valium were also reported to have been found in Lake Mead, the Nevada reservoir that supplies drinking water to Los Angeles and Phoenix.92 (One wonders if this extra supply of antidepressants explains why the citizens of those cities have a reputation for being particularly laid-back and mellow.)
It's a situation that would have made the late physician-novelist Walker Percy very unhappy. Well, actually, proud and unhappy. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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| Have your drinking water tested by a js encouraged, certified water-testing company in your area. You can also contact the
Drink before You Think
Environmental Protection Agency Safe drinking water Hotline (1-800-426-4791 or www.epa.gov) to get more information about water safety standards and testing. ccording to the Environmental Protection Agency, "Adverse effects of pesticide exposure range from mild symptoms of dizziness and nausea to serious, long-term neurological, developmental and reproductive disorders. |
Mark Lynas
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 As desperate villagers looked out onto baked mud instead of flowing water, the Brazilian Army was drafted in to ferry precious drinking water up the Amazon - by helicopter, since most of the river was too low to be navigable by boat. As the entire Amazon basin gradually dried out in the worst drought for forty years, massive forest fires began to lay waste to this formerly pristine tropical wilderness.
Yet this was not a natural disaster. 'The Amazon is a canary in a coal mine for the earth,' the ecologist Dan Nepstad told a reporter from Reuters. |
| The inhabitants of the coastal cities of Chimbote and Trujillo - the latter is home to more than a million people - also depend on the Santa for their drinking water.
Yet by 2050 the Cordillera Blanca's glaciers will have shrunk by 40-60 per cent, according to a second study by two of the same authors. Their model predicts a fall in glacial run-off of nearly half by the same date, which will reduce flows drastically during the dry season. By this stage the Peruvian authorities will be faced with some difficult choices. |
| The Colorado's water isn't just used to irrigate golf courses in Las Vegas; it also supplies drinking water and hydroelectric power to much of southern California and Arizona. Battles have broken out between different states: in August 2005 protesters in Salt Lake City took to the streets to oppose a plan by the Southern Nevada Water Authority to pump groundwater through 500 miles of pipes south to Las Vegas.
The San Joaquin River, its waters diverted to feed the fertile fields of California's productive Central Valley, also mostly fails to reach the sea down its old natural river bed. |
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