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Ebola fantasy and reality

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Sonoma Valley Sun

Once upon a time, I believed in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. Then, in second grade, I asked my parents if they really existed. After a pause, they admitted that adults made up these personalities in order to teach the joy of giving.

Later, during the heat of the Vietnam War, a little reading revealed more grown-up lies, while “unpatriotic” antiwar trouble-makers actually had the facts about our government’s falsehoods, from the Tonkin Gulf “attack” on an American ship to the “domino” spread of communism.

It boggled my naive teenaged mind— adults praise honesty yet here was the “best government in the world” lying to millions!

Still more of my beliefs have given way to the facts. Whistle blowing scientists show there is no valid science behind the claim that water fluoridation reduces cavities. Rather, the material added to public water supply is a toxic waste from refining phosphate fertilizer or aluminum.

I can’t remember whether my next Big Disillusionment was “America has the best diet in the world” or if it was “Pesticides are safe.” Whichever, merely asking questions labeled me a fringe nut. The response is predictable when the power structure is questioned: righteous indignation and ad hominem accusations.

Because Silent Spring so effectively revealed the harm from DDT, environmentalism is one minority view that eventually became the majority, although it did take a while to ban DDT and regulate other pesticides. Now, 50 years later we have organic sections in most supermarket produce departments and conventional farmers are converting to organic in ever-larger numbers.

In the Internet Age, Wikileaks and Edward Snowden showed Americans that our government is full of rot. Along with flouting our nation’s agreement to the Geneva Convention for treatment of prisoners or noncombatants of war, we discovered how hard our government works to ruin the environment and speed up climate change. The silver lining is that energy conservation, solar, and wind solve to our oil dependency and work better, cost less, and are far safer than profitable fake solutions like nuclear energy.

Which brings us to the latest example of fear mongering: the Ebola epidemic. There is plenty of research by scientists, including Nobel laureate chemist Linus Pauling, showing that vitamin C is a universal anti-oxidant. Since the toxins emitted by most infections cause oxidation (indicated by fever and inflammation), it’s worth investigating oral or intravenous vitamin C therapy to help people survive infection (or prevent it in the first place).

You probably know that humans, other primates, guinea pigs, and some species of bats, cannot make their own C. We must consume it. A rat the size of an adult human can make ten grams a day of vitamin C. But we can’t. Obviously, vitamin C supplements are easier than eating 200 oranges a day!

Furthermore, when stressed by disease or injury, that human-sized rat would make ten times that much.

Thomas Levy, MD, has decades of experience treating serious health problems with very high doses of vitamin C, both intravenous and oral. Dr. Levy’s book, Primal Panacea, lists hundreds of vitamin C studies, and he explains how it is used to treat infections like AIDS/HIV, the common cold, herpes, malaria, mono, polio, shingles, staph, strep, TB, and whooping cough.

There is also ample research showing C’s effectiveness with illnesses like Alzheimer’s, cancer, and high blood pressure. Vitamin C has a remarkable track record with removing heavy metals from the body, as well as dealing with drug overdoses, chemical exposure, radiation sickness, and venoms.

In short, Big Pharma’s symptomatic relief is no more true healing than the Tooth Fairy is a real person. Questioning authority and discovering alternative approaches to the Medical Industrial Complex might save the life of someone you love.

Lauren Ayers is a retired teacher and co-leader of the Sonoma County chapter of the Weston Price Foundation, westonaprice.org.




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