Modern Day Propaganda: Top 10 Pieces – Part 2 (Health Propaganda)

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Makia Freeman

June 23, 2017

Top 10 Pieces of Modern Day Propaganda – Part 2 (Health)

Looking to Big Pharma-Western Medicine to solve all your health problems is dangerous. Health propaganda is bad for your health!

Health propaganda

is pervasive. There are many misconceptions, omissions, distortions and lies surrounding the issue of health and medicine. Many are propagated by those who own Big Pharma (i.e. the Rockefellers and their ilk) who set the platform for Allopathy or Western Medicine to assume a monopoly and dominate healthcare (or more accurately “health management”) at the start of the 20th century (this article The Flexner Report: How John D. Rockefeller Used the AMA to Take Over Western Medicine reveals how they did it). Unfortunately, much of this disinformation is unwittingly propagated by well-meaning parents who want their children to be healthy but simply don’t know how to see through all this health propaganda. The result is a population which has been trained to look outside of itself for healing, to depend on Government and Big Pharma to take care of its health, and to unquestioningly accept the opinion of their (Western) Doctor. Meanwhile, epidemics of cancer, diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases (Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and dementia) rage throughout the US, Australia and many Western nations.

With that in mind, here is a collection of the top 10 pieces of modern day propaganda in the area of health, part 2 of a series (click here for part 1).

1. Your health is just dependent on chance and/or genetics. Gotcha! How many people have fallen for this one? The common themes behind both of these beliefs are fatalism and finding an excuse not to take responsibility. If you’re fated or destined to get disease, what’s the point trying to live healthfully? If you frequently succumb to bad luck with your health, why try? It you’re stuck with “bad genes” and that’s just the way it is, what’s the point? It is true that genetics indicate tendencies and proclivities, but those tendencies and proclivities still have to be activated. Consider the groundbreaking work of Dr. Bruce Lipton on epigenetics, which affects how genes are read by cells and subsequently how they produce proteins. This website gives a good introduction to the topic of epigenetics:

“Epigenetics Controls Genes. Certain circumstances in life can cause genes to be silenced or expressed over time. In other words, they can be turned off (becoming dormant) or turned on (becoming active).

Epigenetics Is Everywhere. What you eat, where you live, who you interact with, when you sleep, how you exercise, even aging – all of these can eventually cause chemical modifications around the genes that will turn those genes on or off over time. Additionally, in certain diseases such as cancer or Alzheimer’s, various genes will be switched into the opposite state, away from the normal/healthy state.

Epigenetics Makes Us Unique. Even though we are all human, why do some of us have blonde hair or darker skin? Why do some of us hate the taste of mushrooms or eggplants? Why are some of us more sociable than others? The different combinations of genes that are turned on or off is what makes each one of us unique. Furthermore, there have been indications that some epigenetic changes can be inherited.“

The point is this: you have control over which genes get expressed (activated) or suppressed (become dormant). In a sense, life is fragile. At the same time, you’re not just some powerless little speck of dust that has no choice or control over what happens – although it certainly suits those in authority for you to believe you are.

Health propaganda: are you waiting around for the “magic pill”?

2. You can be always be cured by a magic pill from Big Pharma. False. This is a corollary from the first point above. If you fall into the trap of not taking responsibility for your health – and I mean all aspects (physical, mental, emotional and spiritual) – then you may tend to see the body like a machine or vehicle that needs repairing by a doctor-mechanic. You may also tend to believe the lie that Big Pharma has a magic pill for everything, that this magic pill can solve all of your problems (without any side effects) and that even if Big Pharma doesn’t have a magic pill now, they’ll have one in the future. However, one need only look at the shocking count of iatrogenic deaths (deaths caused by Western doctor and Western medical methods – around 225,000 per year according to Dr. Starfield in her 2000 study which makes it the #3 leading killer of Americans) to realize that Western Medicine is causing a lot of grave damage at the same time it treats people.

How can Big Pharma and Western Medicine ever create the “perfect cure” or the “cure for everything” when they are based on limited and materialistic scientific models that fail to understand the holographic and energetic nature of reality?

Besides, by buying and suppressing genuine cures, Big Pharma has shown that cares more about “treating” and “managing” disease (which is more profitable) than curing it (or healing it which is a whole other level).

3. Cancer is a terminal disease and isn’t curable. False! How many cancer survivors out there contradict his piece of modern day health propaganda? The number of effective and successful natural cancer remedies, cures and protocols is piling up. There are so many now: laetrile/amygdalin/vitamin B17 (usually from apricot kernels), DCA, cannabis oil, salvestrols, graviola/soursop, the maple bicarbonate treatment, intravenous injections of sodium bicarbonate (or baking soda) as pioneered by the Italian Dr. Simoncini, the Budwig diet, cesium chloride, the Gerson Therapy, the Hoxsey Cure, Essiac Tea, the anti-neoplaston treatment of Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski and others. CancerTutor.com is a great resource for those investigating it. Yes, getting cancer may be scary, but it’s important to know there are natural options outside of toxic chemotherapy and radiation where the cure is deadlier than the disease.

4. “Heart-Healthy Foods™” are good for your heart and your health. Not always – and sometimes they are atrocious for your heart! This kind of toxic health propaganda is particularly insidious, since it fools people into thinking they are doing something good for themselves when they purchase packages with the symbol on it. Heart-Healthy Food is a creation of the AHA (American Heart Association) who used the faulty research of Dr. Ancel Keys, the guy who rose to prominence in the 1950s (and was on the front cover of Time magazine) for promoting the false idea that saturated fats caused heart disease. For the background to this health propaganda, read the article Plastic Oils vs. Saturated Fats: Busting the Propaganda. AHA has dutifully spouted out the same line of disinformation ever since, claiming that because all saturated fats are “bad”, it’s therefore better to eat margarine instead of butter. This is equivalent to saying that hydrogenated and trans fats are healthier than natural fats from animal (e.g. dairy) and plant (coconut) sources. Yes, the AHA also advocates a variety of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and nuts and legumes, but its information has been skewed by the corporations funding it, who hawk “vegetable” oils (a deliberate misnomer which really means industrial seed oils).

5. Eating raw is bad, unhealthy and dangerous. Not true. The demonization of raw food makes sense when you consider that the forces running the world are pushing you away from natural, juicy and vibrant ways of eating and living to synthetic, dry and dead ones. When fear of a pathogen gets out of control, government authorities often respond with a sledgehammer where a fine tooth comb was needed. Look at how California is now required to pasteurize all their almonds by law. Yes, eating raw increases your chances (although still tiny) of picking up some harmful bacteria, but it also increases your probability (to a level of certainty) of getting more nutrition and vitality out of your food! The raw diet is not for everyone, however there is little doubt that introducing more raw food into your diet will increase your health.

6. Fasting is dangerous. False. There are many ways to fast, from doing intermittent fasting (an eating pattern where you have cycle between periods of fasting and eating throughout the day) to doing 3-day, 7-day, 10-day or even longer fasts. Some people do the Master Cleanse (consuming only a lemon juice-maple syrup-cayenne pepper drink), other people do a vegetable juice fast and still others do a water-only fast. Fasting is not for everyone, especially children or pregnant women. It is best to get guidance from others who have done it and to start slowly, but evidence shows that by giving your body a break from digestion, you can achieve many health benefits. You allow your body to repair and regenerate in a way it cannot do if it is digesting food all the time.

More health propaganda: most supplements are useless and may actually be doing you harm.

7. Most supplements are great for your health. False. Many of them are made of synthetic vitamins, stuffed with fillers and even contain GMO ingredients. It is preferable to get all your nutritional needs straight from food, however if you are going to take supplements, use ones which are derived from wildcrafted or organic herbs, plants and other sources. Calcium supplements are especially dangerous since they are composed of ground up fossils and can lead to calcification. Lots of people suffer calcification in many areas of the body, e.g. the eye (cataracts), mouth (plaque), bones (arthritis), heart (heart attack) or brain (stroke). Calcium deposits obstruct the internal flow of energy, cause inflammation, shut down the pineal gland and can lead to cancer.

For more information on the stark differences between synthetic and natural vitamins, see the research of people like Dr. Theil.

8. Homeopathy is quackery and doesn’t work. False. More arrogance that comes from ignorance. Homeopathy is based on an entirely different (and deeper) understanding of reality that the purely rationalistic, materialistic Western Medicine which cannot bring itself to accept that we live in a holographic world where thought forms and energy are powerful forces that shape our lower physical reality.

Here’s how homeopathy works in a nutshell. There are 2 fundamental approaches to diseases. You can follow the Law of Contraries, where if someone has pain, you provide a substance that counteracts (acts opposite to) that pain. Alternatively, you can follow the Law of Similars, where you use a substance which would produce symptoms in a healthy person but actually cures those same symptoms in a sick person! Homeopathy works using the latter law. It takes substances that would be poisons, then shakes and dilutes, shakes and dilutes, until the remaining water or pellet contains only a fraction or imprint of the poison – enough when ingested that it stimulates the body to correct the imbalance. It also takes substances that are healthy and non-toxic and dilutes them in the same way.

Homeopathy recognizes the body is the ultimate healer; it is designed to stimulate the body’s healing mechanisms, rather than suppress symptoms or provide temporary pain relief like Allopathy. In 1890 in the US (before the Flexner Report), around 25% of doctors were homeopathic, including John D. Rockefeller‘s personal doctor and the doctors of the British Royal Family.

As David Icke writes in the Phantom Self (see my review of the book here):

“Homeopathy is a healing technique ridiculed by Mainstream Everything for the same reason – ignorance … Homeopathy is based on the fact that everything is information whether it’s a plant or a drop of water … The Aerospace Institute in Stuttgart, Germany, is [a] center for information in water research … they put a flower in a tank of water in one experiment and when it was removed they photographed the droplets. What they discovered confirmed two major truths about reality. One was once again the holographic principle with information of the whole flower found in every droplet. The second was that even when the ‘physical’ flower was removed the information from the flower was retained in the water. I have but one thing to say … homeopathy.”

Modern day health propaganda insists that homeopathy is quackery – however it only dismisses homeopathy due to sheer ignorance.

9. FDA approved drugs are safe. Not even close to being true. The FDA has long been bought off by Big Pharma and functions as its lapdog, not its guard dog. Did you know that, according to this recent Natural News article, a staggering 33% or one third of FDA approved drugs turn out later to have serious side effects and health problems – so serious that they are pulled off the market? How could anyone trust the FDA’s approval process with failure rates like that?

10. Vaccines are safe. No way! Vaccines are among the chief weapons of modern day health propaganda, and there are movements afoot all over the world to make them mandatory, which is nothing less than medical tyranny or medical fascism. Year after year, the victims of vaccine damage pile up, whether it be people suffering from fever, infertility, paralysis, brain damage and death. In the US, Big Pharma achieved the deft legal and political maneuver of having a law passed that exempts them from being sued for vaccine damage in normal courts. Meanwhile, the system that has been set up (Vaccine Injury Compensation Program [VICP]) is a quasi-court that favors the vaccine manufacturers. To quote from another Natural News article,

“… the government has paid out over $3 billion in awards and legal fees for families and persons that have been affected by vaccine damage between the years of 1989 and 2015. In total, 3,937 cases have resulted in the awarding of financial compensation via the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). And those are just the ones who managed to convince the court that a vaccine damaged their child or themselves. Nearly 10,000 people have had their cases dismissed by the court …

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Robert Moxley, a former vaccine attorney, writes, “From the passing of the legislation in 1986, the process has been rigged, one major step at a time, in favor of the vaccine-industrial complex.” … the VICP protects the vaccine industry, rather than the humans harmed by their inoculations … “The injuries continue, and awards continue to be made, practically in secret,” he states … the cases of vaccine injury continued to pile up, the government, rather than hold manufacturers accountable, chose to revise their standards for claims regarding vaccine injuries — making it all the more difficult for claims to pass through the system.”

Conclusion: Health Propaganda

As with geopolitics (part 1 of this series), there is a lot of modern day health propaganda around. In this case, what you don’t know can kill you. It is vitally important to educate yourself about health, nutrition, natural cures, remedies, medicines and protocols, the strengths and weaknesses of different medical systems and the nature of Big Pharma. Still more important is your mindset; yes it’s great to cut through the health propaganda, but best of all is to take full responsibility for your state of health. Stay tuned for part 3.

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Makia Freeman is the editor of alternative media / independent news site The Freedom Articles and senior researcher at ToolsForFreedom.com, writing on many aspects of truth and freedom, from exposing aspects of the worldwide conspiracy to suggesting solutions for how humanity can create a new system of peace and abundance.

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How To Curb All Inflammation In Your Body

Source: How To Curb All Inflammation In Your Body

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Caroline Williams

June 22, 2017

Coping with modern life can sometimes feel like a remorseless treadmill. Many of us end up exhausted, with a vague feeling that all this pressure can’t be doing us any good. But we do it anyway, driven by the notion that stress is for wimps. And there’s always a glass of wine and a takeaway to look forward to at the end of the week. Big mistake. Far from being for wimps, physical and psychological stress are major triggers of a modern scourge that has been linked with every malady from heart disease, depression and chronic pain to neurodegenerative diseases.

That scourge is inflammation. Until recently, we have known little about how what starts as a protective immune process in the body goes awry, and there have been frustratingly few evidence-based suggestions on what we should do about it. But now we are starting to learn more about how the process works, how it connects body and mind, and what we might do to keep it in check. This new understanding is leading to treatments that may finally let us douse this constant fire — not by stopping it from happening, but by turning it off when it is no longer useful.

Such treatments could benefit the millions of people around the world who have chronic inflammatory conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, asthma and celiac disease. They could also assist those of us who want to have our cake, eat it and not end up inflamed. Finding a way to manage inflammation could help prevent modern life from damaging our long-term physical health.

“There’s no question, inflammation is everything,” says Charles Serhan, an immunologist at Harvard Medical School. “In the post-genomic era, understanding inflammation is the next frontier.”

Inflammation is the body’s first line of defense. Without it, we would be at the mercy of every pathogen going. When the body’s protective barrier has been breached by injury or infection, the classic inflammatory response brings redness, heat, swelling and pain. First, damaged cells secrete chemicals known as cytokines, which increase blood flow to the affected area and alert the rest of the immune system to prepare for a fight. Heat comes as a side effect of increased blood flow, redness as blood vessels dilate, bringing blood closer to the surface of the skin, and swelling happens as blood vessels become more permeable, allowing fluid and white blood cells to leak out and flood the tissue. These cells then attack and gobble up any invading pathogens, and later clear up the debris.

This basic response comes in different flavours, depending on what challenge the body is facing. If you sprain your ankle, for example, the joint swells and becomes hot, painful and difficult to move. If you have a cold, it is the blood vessels in the airways that swell, blocking the nose while inflammatory histamines stimulate mucus production, which in turn sets off coughs and sneezes. If you have flu, you get all of this, plus inflammation spreads throughout the body, causing joints and muscles to ache.

Throughout our evolutionary history, acute inflammation has mostly worked just fine, flaring up, tackling the problem and dying away again when the danger has passed. But now modern life is stacked against this delicate balance. Obesity, stress, pollution, bad diet and ageing can all tip us into a low-level state of inflammation that, rather than being confined to a specific tissue, keeps the entire body in a perpetual state of readiness for a threat that never comes.

This persistent background inflammation might not always make us feel ill, but it can store up problems for the future, from heart disease to type 2 diabetes and neurodegenerative disease. In 2008, immunobiologist Ruslan Medzhitov of Yale University dubbed this “para-inflammation” and argued that it is an unfortunate consequence of our longer, calorie-rich lives.

Stress is a particular problem. The hormone noradrenaline, which is released in anticipation of an impending life-or-death situation, sets off the same chain of events as an infection or injury. Yet although stresses passed quickly in our evolutionary past, these days many of us are walking around with a ticking time bomb of stress-induced inflammation that never quite goes away. “Chronic, low-grade inflammation is being discussed in our field as one of the main pathways linking stressful life conditions with disease,” says Nicolas Rohleder of Brandeis University in Massachusetts. Over the past few years, for example, Rohleder has found that the long-term strains of caring for a seriously ill family member, and a series of short-term stresses, both increase levels of inflammatory markers in otherwise healthy people.

Obesity is another inflammation-inducing modern disease. A small amount of body fat is healthy, and in fact necessary for regulating not just the immune system, but also appetite, mood and metabolism. Once the scales tip past 25 to 30 per cent body fat, however, the balance shifts. Body fat stores large quantities of inflammatory cytokines, and if there is too much fat on board, particularly around the organs, they can seep out, leading to ongoing, low-level inflammation. “Fat in large amounts is an inflammatory tissue,” says Derek Gilroy, an immunologist at University College London. “So you can envisage that lifestyle — eating the wrong food — throws these checks and balances out of kilter.”

Modern, high-sugar diets can also lead to gum disease. This can push the body into an inflammatory state that has been linked to an increased risk of atherosclerosis: fatty deposits in the arteries that are one of the main risk factors for heart attacks and strokes.

The longer these inflammatory markers hang around, the more likely they are to cause problems. These can be relatively minor, prolonging colds by keeping up the response when it is no longer needed, for instance. Or they can be life-threatening. A recent study of nearly 300 people found that inflammation is directly linked to the early stages of heart disease. Over the course of three years, people with higher levels of reported stress and stress-related brain activity, not only had higher levels of C-reactive protein, a marker of inflammation, but also had a greater risk of cardiovascular disease. It seems that when there are higher levels of white blood cells in circulation, they get attracted to any fatty plaques accumulating in the arteries, making these more likely to build up and eventually rupture. This can lead the vessel wall to bleed and form a clot, which could go on to cause a heart attack or stroke.

Chronic inflammation might also increase the risk of depression. Many of the psychological symptoms that come with such inflammation — tiredness, malaise and a loss of appetite — look a lot like depression. Some people are beginning to wonder if a rumbling level of inflammation is behind at least some cases of depression and other mental health problems. This might be the reason why antidepressant drugs, which don’t reduce inflammation, are often ineffective.
The key then seems to be to keep the life-saving properties of the acute inflammatory response without allowing it to become chronic. But how?

One clue came in 2000 when Serhan and his team revealed that inflammation has an off switch. Until then, the reaction was thought to peter out as the immune cells that secrete cytokines gradually reduced in number and their effects became diluted. In fact, Serhan found that neutrophils and macrophages, the types of white blood cell that kick off the process, actively change tack once it has got going, releasing a second set of chemicals — called resolvins — that help mop up any remaining cytokines and sweep away any debris.

Broken switchThis made Serhan and others wonder whether chronic inflammation might be caused not by the on signals being turned up too high, but by a problem with the off switch. In the years since, he has been studying resolvins and related chemicals to see if there is a way to harness or mimic their actions.

One fly in the ointment is that there is so far no way to tell the difference between the various stages of acute inflammation — from a cut or cold, perhaps — and more troublesome chronic, low-level inflammation. That’s partly because immune cells and cytokines circulate around the body all the time, so any snapshot of the blood or tissues might make them seem inflamed when actually they are healthy.

Serhan thinks that looking at levels of circulating resolvins might be a better option. He has found that people with type 2 diabetes tend to have higher levels of cytokines in circulation, but lower levels of resolvins. This is relevant because the same white blood cells that kick-start the inflammation response should also step in to secrete resolvins to end it. So if someone has lots of cytokines but few resolvins, it is a sign of chronic inflammation — and a problem with the off switch. “I think that this can start to be diagnostic,” Serhan says.

He has also been working with periodontal researcher Thomas Van Dyke of the Forsyth Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on a mouthwash containing resolvins. In rabbits, the mouthwash not only cleared up their inflamed gums, it also reduced inflammatory markers for cardiovascular disease. Human trials are now under way.

As well as finding ways to diagnose and treat low-level inflammation in healthy looking people, researchers are searching for drugs to stimulate the body to resolve inflammation in those with chronic conditions like arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease. The current generation of anti-inflammatory drugs, including steroids and non-steroidal anti-inflammatories such as ibuprofen and naproxen, inhibit the onset of inflammation, but do nothing to bring it to an end. Taking these drugs can reduce painful swelling in the joints, but by turning down the immune response, they leave people more vulnerable to recurring infections and less able to fight off a virus or recover from an injury.

“Chronic inflammation may be a main pathway linking stressful life with disease”

Increasing resolvin levels would help to solve the problem, rather than just mask its effects. Resolvins actively assist in ridding the body of bacteria and viruses, says Serhan, “so there is little to no chance for immune suppression or becoming vulnerable to recurring infections like there is with a lot of the current drugs”. It’s a win-win situation.

Although trials of new treatments are under way, the only drug currently available that has some resolvin-like effects is aspirin. It does block pro-inflammatory mediators, but Serhan’s group has found that low-dose aspirin has another unique ability: to trigger the production of more stable versions of natural resolvins. With currently available drugs, there is only one thing you can do to jump-start resolution of inflammation. “Take low-dose aspirin,” Serhan says.

That may soon change, however. Gilroy and his team are trialling a new drug called anabasum that mimics natural painkillers called cannabinoids in the body. So far, it is proving to work as well as a steroid at preventing inflammation but with fewer side effects. It also actively clears bacteria from wounds. “No matter how effective your drug is, if you don’t clear the antigen then inflammation won’t resolve,” says Gilroy. “It’s showing, at least in a healthy group of individuals, a pro-resolving effect that we simply don’t see and have never seen in any other drug.” The experiments he has done so far have been with skin inflammation, but the drug has since been tested in cystic fibrosis with promising effects.

Pain-relieving drugs could also benefit from a new understanding of how inflammation comes to an end. Resolvins have been found to regulate pain, and their receptors have been identified in the dorsal root ganglion, a kind of junction between the sensory nerves and the spinal cord. “If they can be harnessed therapeutically they could, in the future, replace opioids as a pain-control mechanism and one that would not lead to addiction,” says Serhan.

Gilroy, however, warns against getting too carried away with the resolvin story. The reason that inflammation seems to be the root of all health problems, he points out, is because it is not one thing, but many.

“The inflammation that we have in diseases like Alzheimer’s, cancer, autoimmune diseases like osteoarthritis, all of these are very different inflammatory processes,” he says. “It is hard for me to understand, given that there are many ways that a disease occurs, that they can resolve by the same mechanism.”

A Moving TargetThis was demonstrated in recent experiments where Gilroy’s team injected bacteria under the skin of people with osteoarthritis — a painful condition characterised by chronic inflammation often due to autoimmune disease. Their osteoarthritis-related inflammation remained, but they had no problems in shutting down the skin-based inflammation that followed the injection. The two types of inflammation, and their resolution pathways, seemed to be completely different. This is also true for the same disease in different people, as well as for different tissues in the same person, says Gilroy. Then there are gender differences in susceptibility: for some unexplained reason, women are far more likely than men to get autoimmune diseases. “Inflammation is not inflammation,” says Gilroy. “The requirements to resolve that process will be, I think, disease, organ and circumstance specific.”

Pinning down the solutions — and even figuring out which to use in which instance — won’t be simple. “It’s like you walk into a bar and there is a great big bar-room brawl, but you don’t know who is involved, and you don’t know who started it and how it’s going to end up,” says Gilroy. “Teasing and separating these separate factions will make it much easier to understand the processes going on.”

While we wait for these insights, there are simple things we can do at home to keep inflammation at bay. All of the resolvins so far identified are made in the body from omega-3 essential fatty acids. These aren’t produced in the body to any great extent, so can only come from the diet, the richest source being oily fish. Making sure we get the recommended three weekly portions of oily fish, or equivalent, might help ensure that our bodies have enough raw material to wind down inflammation, says Serhan. The link between omega-3s and the resolution of inflammation might explain why a diet rich in these is associated with a lowered risk of heart disease.

Studies also link diets containing more fat and sugar to inflammation. This, combined with research suggesting that pigments found in fresh fruit and vegetables help to regulate inflammation, indicate that the standard advice about eating well applies here too: consume fewer processed foods and plenty of whole grains, fruit and vegetables.

Certain kinds of exercise seem to help, too. In recent experiments in rats with inflammation of the back, stretching the affected muscles twice a day stimulated the release of resolvins within the muscle, which enabled the rats full to regain movement and heal more quickly than control rats. The team that did this work, led by Lisbeth Berrueta of Harvard Medical School, is investigating whether this “yoga experiment” works in human volunteers.

Exercise in general certainly seems to tackle inflammation. Admittedly, it causes a spike of the cytokine IL-6 in the muscles and blood, which is often taken as a sign that inflammation is on its way. Yet according to Mark Febbraio of the Garvan Institute in Sydney, Australia, who discovered the effect in 2008, in this case, IL-6 works as an anti-inflammatory molecule, peaking only briefly before signalling to the liver to metabolise fat and remove excess IL-6 from the blood. So, Febbraio says, unless it leads to injury, there is no amount of physical activity that will push you into an inflammatory state. “Exercise is completely anti-inflammatory. Even in heavily trained athletes, most of the time IL-6 is [very low],” he says.

But you don’t need to be training for triathlons for exercise to help tamp down inflammation. Researchers have found that even a 20-minute stroll can be enough to make a difference.

Beyond advice to eat well and exercise, these days it seems everyone from celebrity chefs to pop stars has a quick-fix tip for how best to fight inflammation. So is there a sliver of substance to endorsements of basil-leaf infused bubble baths or turmeric lattes? The jury is out. Curcumin, the active ingredient in turmeric, has anti-inflammatory properties in cells in a Petri dish, but clinical trials in humans have so far been underwhelming. This might be because most of it passes through the body without being absorbed. Likewise, quite how the basil in your bath is supposed to infuse into your body is anyone’s guess. On the other hand, if it helps you unwind — and as long as following the latest fads doesn’t become a source of stress on its own — go for it. In the fight against chronic inflammation, every firefighter helps.

World Renown Heart Surgeon Speaks Out On What Really Causes Heart Disease

Cannabis phytochemicals found to be effective in destroying leukemia cells

Source: Cannabis phytochemicals found to be effective in destroying leukemia cells

http://www.newstarget.com

CannabisCures.news.

By: Frances Bloomfield

Date: June 11, 2017

Researchers from St. George’s, University of London have confirmed that cannabinoids are effective in destroying the cells of leukemia, a cancer of blood-forming organs. When used in conjunction with chemotherapy treatments, cannabinoids, the active chemicals in cannabis, results against the blood cancer cells improved significantly. The new findings, which have been published in the International Journal of Oncology, suggest that lower doses of chemotherapy can be administered to patients.

The researchers set out to test the efficacy of existing chemotherapy treatments alongside cannabinoids, and to determine whether the order of the drugs had any impact on potency. Different types of cannabinoids, such as tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD), were then paired up and used in combination the chemotherapy drugs vincristine and cytarabine. Based on their results, the researchers determined that using cannabinoids after chemotherapy improved the chances of cancer apoptosis, or programmed cell death. The outcome was less favorable when the order was reversed and the cannabinoids were given prior to chemotherapy. 

“We have shown for the first time that the order in which cannabinoids and chemotherapy are used is crucial in determining the overall effectiveness of this treatment,” lead author Dr. Wai Liu said of the study. “Studies such as ours serve to establish the best ways that they should be used to maximise a therapeutic effect.”

The researchers noted that more tests would be needed before this practice can be implemented on a larger scale. Liu also pointed out that the team didn’t use the entire plant during their study; instead, he and his team utilized cannabis extracts. “These extracts are highly concentrated and purified, so smoking marijuana will not have a similar effect,” Liu told the DailyMail.co.uk.

Regardless, the results of the study are very promising. Chemotherapy has numerous severe side effects such as hair loss, mouth sores, and an increased risk of infections. If combined with cannabinoids, then chemotherapy dosages could be greatly diminished.

Moreover, the news could not have been more timely. Ireland is poised to legalize the use of cannabis for treating certain medical conditions such as severe epilepsy and multiple sclerosis in order to offset the damaging effects of chemotherapy. Simon Harris, the Irish Health Minister, has expressed his support for medical cannabis, especially in cases “where patients have not responded to other treatments and there is some evidence that cannabis may be effective.”

Meanwhile, Australian actress Olivia Newton-John revealed that she will be using cannabis oil and “other natural remedies” after her second breast cancer diagnosis. Newton-John’s daughter, Chloe Lattanzi, stated that her mother opted to use cannabis oil in addition to modern medicine. “My mom and best friend is going to be fine. She will be using medicine that I often talk about. CBD oil! (Cannabis has scientifically proven properties to inhibit cancer cell growth) and other natural healing remedies plus modern medicine to beat this,” said Lattanzi. (Related: Cannabis oil (CBD) CURES 12-year-old girl of life-threatening seizure)

Though controversy still surrounds cannabis, its healing effects are gaining more attention, and its medical potential is gaining traction. What Liu and his colleagues have unearthed has opened the door to for cannabis, and like Liu said: “Cannabinoids are a very exciting prospect in oncology.”

Read up on more stories that are just like this one by visiting CannabisCures.news.

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Tiger Woods’ life is on the line: where is his doctor?

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Source: Tiger Woods’ life is on the line: where is his doctor? « Jon Rappoport’s Blog

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by Jon Rappoport

June 11, 2017

Tiger Woods’ life is on the line: where is his doctor?

Can someone break through the wall of Tiger Woods’ protectors and let Woods know what has really been happening to him?

It isn’t just his golf career that’s on the line. It’s his life.

On May 29, Tiger Woods, sleeping in his car, was charged with Driving under the Influence (DUI). He now states he was taking Xanax, an anti-anxiety drug.

According to golf.com, “The police report also lists Vicodin, Solarex, Vioxx, and Turox as drugs that he had been prescribed…Xanax is usually prescribed to treat anxiety and depression. The American Addiction Centers warns against mixing benzodiazepines like Xanax with opiates like Vicodin, because of the high risk of addiction, overdose and impairment. Benzodiazepines ‘enhance the high from opioid painkillers,’ and the two types of drugs combined can increase sedation and depress breathing.”

In other words, the drug combination is life-threatening.

Where is the doctor (or doctors) who prescribed these drugs and is supposed to be monitoring Woods? No word on that.

***But forget, for the moment, the horrific effects of the drugs when COMBINED. Let’s just look at the SEPARATE effects of two of the drugs—Vicodin and Xanax.

Vicodin is an opioid. As I’ve been writing recently, this class of drugs has been causing a national epidemic of death and severe debilitation. 47,000 deaths in 2014.

The state of Ohio is presently suing five drug companies for false and deceptive marketing of opioids—between 631 and 793 million pills a year have been prescribed in Ohio. This is nothing less than the creation of untold numbers of walking zombies.

Xanax, another drug Woods said he was taking, is a benzodiazepine. Doctor and psychiatrist, Peter Breggin, the author of Toxic Psychiatry, writes: “The brain-disabling or toxic effects of the benzodiazepines in general can be divided into several somewhat overlapping categories…Cognitive dysfunction, ranging from short-term memory impairment and confusion to delirium…extreme agitation, psychosis, paranoia, and depression, sometimes with violence toward self or others…”

“Withdrawal [from the drug], in which the individual experiences a continuum of symptoms from anxiety and insomnia after routine use to psychosis and seizures after the abrupt termination of long-term, larger doses…Rebound, an aspect of withdrawal, in which the individual develops anxiety, insomnia, or other serious emotional reactions that are more intense than before drug treatment began. Withdrawal can take place between doses during the routine administration of benzodiazepines, especially the short-acting ones…”

“Unlike the experienced alcohol user, the trusting benzodiazepine user has little reason to anticipate losing control. Expecting to be helped, and not harmed, by the drug, the patient is less able to understand or manage potentially overwhelming feelings of anger or violence, or other untoward emotional responses…”

“Antianxiety benzodiazepines have been reported to release bizarre uninhibited behavior in some users with low levels of anxiety; hostility and rage may occur in others. Paranoia, depression, and suicidal ideation occasionally also accompany the use of these agents…”

“The APA [American Psychiatric Association] task force report on benzodiazepines (1990, p. 18) presents a table of discontinuation [withdrawal] symptoms. The complete list of frequent discontinuation symptoms includes anxiety, insomnia, restlessness, agitation, irritability, muscle tension. Among many symptoms that are common but less frequent, it lists depression and nightmares, as well as lethargy. Clinical experience indicates that the combination of anxiety, insomnia, restlessness, agitation, irritability, nightmares, and depression can produce a spectrum of behavioral abnormalities, including suicide and violence…”

Dr. Breggin exposes the dark side of the “research” on Xanax that led to its approval by the FDA:

“Even in the short run, Xanax often makes people worse than they were before starting the drug. As I first documented in Toxic Psychiatry (1991, pp. 252-254), the original studies for panic disorder showed that at 8-10 weeks of exposure [to Xanax] the patients were more phobic, more anxious, and had a 350 percent increase in the panic attacks for which they were being treated. Upjohn, the manufacturer, promoted the first four weeks of the study without indicating that patients were worse than ever at eight weeks. When these studies for panic disorder were published in the AMA Archives of General Psychiatry, the editor-in-chief, himself on the Upjohn payroll, permitted the misleading research to be published without comment.”

Are you getting that? The 8-10 week study of the drug, which showed the very dangerous effects of Xanax, was ALTERED to include only the first four weeks. Criminal fraud. And that’s putting it mildly.

Tiger Woods is another casualty of the US medical system, a person who has put himself under the control of doctors, who are prescribing highly dangerous drugs. Woods is apparently unaware of the full range of the effects of the drugs.

He believes they are only dangerous in combination. This is patently false.

Woods’ state of extreme debilitation is not an accident. It’s a standard result of ingesting these toxic medical compounds.

There are untold numbers of people who, taking the drugs, have responded as Woods has—or have responded in far more dire ways.

Woods must be VERY careful if he withdraws from Xanax. As Dr. Breggin warns: “Most psychiatric drugs can cause withdrawal reactions, including life-threatening emotional and physical reactions. So it is not only dangerous to start psychiatric drugs, it can also be dangerous to stop them. Withdrawal from psychiatric drugs should be done carefully under experienced clinical supervision.”

Breggin is the author of the book, Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: A Guide for Prescribers, Therapists, Patients and Their Families.

Again, who are the doctors prescribing drugs to Tiger Woods? Do they have any idea what they’re doing to him? Are they, in essence, keeping him captive to the horrific effects of the drugs? Are they going to withdraw him from the drugs? If so, do they know how to do that correctly with the best chance of safety?

The answers to these questions may well determine Woods’ future and life.

Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29^th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.

What’s Happening In The Brains of Autistic Children, According To The “Edgar Cayce of our Time”

Once again the brain-gut connection is talked about.

Source: What’s Happening In The Brains of Autistic Children, According To The “Edgar Cayce of our Time” – Collective Evolution

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Arjun Walia

June 6, 2017

Anthony William, commonly known as the “Medical Medium,” has helped thousands of people of all ages heal from various ailments, including those who have been misdiagnosed or ineffectively treated by their doctors.

He’s done this by “listening to a divine voice that literally speaks into his ear, telling him what lies at the root of people’s pain or illness and what they need to do to restore their health.”

This may seem a little out there to some readers, but substantial research into parapsychology exists to support claims like these, and I encourage you to remain open-minded while reading this article. If this topic interests you and you’d like to learn more, a great place to start is with the Institute of Noetic Sciences, where you’ll find plenty of peer-reviewed research.

Anthony has been doing this for more than two decades, and the people he’s helped claim that what he does is several decades ahead of current medical science. His abilities have earned him the trust and love of thousands worldwide, among them celebrities, professional athletes, successful entrepreneurs, best-selling authors, and many more.

For example, Ann Louise Gittleman, a New York Times best-selling author of 30 books on health and healing, has called him the Edgar Cayce of our time, describing how Anthony can read the body “with outstanding precision and insight.” She says he “identifies the underlying causes of diseases that often baffle the most astute conventional and alternative health-care practitioners.”

Numerous doctors have written glowing reviews of his book as well, including Dr. Alejandro Junger, another best selling author. He says, “within the first three minutes of speaking with me, Anthony precisely identified my medical issue. This healer really knows what he’s talking about. Anthony’s abilities as the Medical Medium are unique and fascinating, and his book makes complex diseases that confuse even many doctors easy to understand and address. Highly recommended.”

Autism According to the Medical Medium

In America alone, the CDC estimates that 1 in 50 kids will receive an ASD diagnosis. Scientific publications have been raising countless questions every single year regarding this spike and its relation to things like vaccine ingredients, aluminum in the environment, glyphosate and other pesticides, iPad and cell phone usage by/near babies, and much more.

Anthony’s take on this issue is unique. He begins by mentioning that ASD kids (and other co-morbid labels that come with it like ADHD and Aspergers) are gifted, and that their conditions come with both upsides and downsides:

Children with these conditions often have a high level of intuition, are exceptionally creative, possess an extraordinary ability to see beneath the surface, and—though this goes against traditional thinking—actually have the ability to “read” people easily. Kids with ADHD and autism often think faster, feel more deeply, and are more intuitive and artistic than the norm, in part because of their limited patience for doing things in the “standard way.”

He then goes on to suggest that children with ADHD and autism are producing new generations of children who will grow up better equipped to solve our problems and chart the best course for humanity. He mentions Indigo Children here, brilliant children with exceptional  gifts of intuition and, in some cases, paranormal skills like telepathy.

Too often are conditions like these discussed in a negative light, as though they are something people must suffer through rather than are gifted with. There are many examples of autistic savants who can do extraordinary things that are beyond our understanding. As far as ADHD goes, there are several studies showing that people who show characteristics of ADHD are more likely to reach higher levels of creative thought and achievement compared to those who don’t show these characteristics. (source)(source)(source)(source)(source)

“Our brightest, most creative children and adults are often being misdiagnosed with behavioral and emotional disorders such as ADHD, Oppositional-Defiant Disorder, Bipolar, OCD, or Asperger?s. Many receive unneeded medication and inappropriate counseling as a result. Physicians, psychologists, and counselors are unaware of characteristics of gifted children and adults that mimic pathological diagnoses.” (source)

These authors believe we need to stop wasting the lives of misdiagnosed gifted children, and start creating more awareness on the inappropriate treatment that often follows misdiagnosis.

Recent work in cognitive neuroscience has revealed that both creative thinkers and those with an ADHD diagnosis show difficulty in suppressing brain activity that comes from the “Imagination Network.” (source)(source) There are no school assessments that provide evaluation on creativity and imagination, as these are hard to draw up and measure and accordingly receive little attention in our education systems. And the sad reality is that most children with these labels are shut out of gifted school programs. You can look at some more studies and see some statistics in this CE article.

In his book, Anthony says that, “While being different makes life harder for indigo children—as well as for their families—it also increases  their chances of living extraordinary lives.” 

And he asserts that“autism is essentially a more advanced and complicated form of ADHD.”

What Causes ADHD and Autism, According to the Medical Medium

Anthony also offers his theory on what causes autism, saying it’s partly the result of a poor intestinal environment, a topic gaining increasing attention in science today. But, he says, the true underlying cause is heavy metal exposure: “Specifically, ADHD and autism are born from (primarily) mercury, plus aluminum, that settles in the brain’s midline cerebral canal, which divides the left cerebral hemisphere from the right.”

Anthony argues that the medical community is due for a massive wakeup call when it comes to mercury contamination. A recent joint press conference presented by activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who recently launched the World Mercury Project, and actor Robert De Niro, sought to bring this issue to the forefront. At that conference, they presented approximately 100 studies showing serious cause for concern with regards to injecting mercury into young children via multiple vaccinations within a short period of time. On the other hand, they offered $100,000 to any doctor, scientist, or journalist who could provide one study that shows it’s safe to inject one of the world’s most toxic substances into babies.

You can read that article and watch the full press conference here.

Here is a quote from Dr. Jose G. Dores, a professor at the University of Brasilia’s Department of Nutritional Sciences who recently published a study in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. In the study, he offers the following observation: “Despite their long use as active agents of medicines and fungicides, the safety levels of these substances have never been determined, either for animals or for adult humans—much less for fetuses, newborns, infants, and children.”  (source)

It’s the same thing with aluminum. Numerous studies have linked aluminum to several neurodegenerative disorders, but there are no studies showing it’s safe to inject into babies. In fact, many people remain unaware that appropriate safety assessments (toxicity studies) have not been conducted for the administration of vaccines containing aluminum as an adjuvant. Government health authorities have been putting aluminum in vaccines based solely on the assumption that they are safe. Because vaccines have been perceived as non-toxic substances for decades, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not attempted to prove the safety of this particular vaccine ingredient. Considering billions of dollars have been paid to families of vaccine injured children, I think it’s fair to say this is an alarming state of affairs. (source)

Anthony mentions that these substances eventually make their way into the brain, and science has already shown this to be true.

Injected aluminum does not enter the body or leave the body in the same way as environmental aluminum. It doesn’t come into the same mechanism of excretion, and that’s the whole point of adjuvants; they are meant to stick around and allow that antigen to be presented over and over again. It can’t be excreted because it must provide that prolonged exposure of the antigen to your immune system.

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No Longer a Conspiracy Theory: Elite Openly Paying to Ingest the Blood of the Young

Source: No Longer a Conspiracy Theory: Elite Openly Paying to Ingest the Blood of the Young | The Daily Sheeple

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Matt Agorist

June 5, 2017

Once the talk of conspiracy theorists — the rich ingesting the blood of the young to foster longevity — is now a reality and an actual business in the United States. Not only is it a business but billionaires are actually admitting their interest in it.

“I’m looking into parabiosis stuff, which I think is really interesting. This is where they did the young blood into older mice and they found that had a massive rejuvenating effect,” Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal and adviser to Donald Trump told Inc. magazine. “I think there are a lot of these things that have been strangely under-explored.”

But it’s no longer an experiment with just mice. The startup company by Jesse Karmazin, Ambrosia, is doing this with humans, and the rich are lining up to get the blood of the young.

As Vanity Fair reports, Ambrosia, which buys its blood from blood banks, now has about 100 paying customers. Some are Silicon Valley technologists, like Thiel, though Karmazin stressed that tech types aren’t Ambrosia’s only clients and that anyone over 35 is eligible for its transfusions.

As The Free Thought Project reported in January, a study published in Science and Nature Medicine revealed that transfusing young mouse blood into old mice can actually prevent the symptoms of aging. This groundbreaking discovery could lead to medical breakthroughs and the development of new medicines. However, a report from the Vice health news outlet “Tonic” has pointed out far more sinister applications for this knowledge.

It was suggested in the report that aging elites are using the blood of young people as a type of youth serum. Now, we know that they actually are using it.

A similar claim was made by journalist Jeff Bercovici last year, after he conducted several interviews with Silicon Valley aristocrats including Peter Thiel, and learned about this transfusion procedure called “parabiosis,” where the blood of young people is used to prevent aging.

“There are widespread rumors in Silicon Valley, where life-extension science is a popular obsession, that various wealthy individuals from the tech world have already begun practicing parabiosis, spending tens of thousands of dollars for the procedures and young-person-blood, and repeating the exercise several times a year,” Bercovici reported.

In his article, Bercovici also expressed concerns about a developing black market for young people’s blood.

While there is certainly nothing wrong with willing young adults selling their blood to the elite, the underlying theme of this practice has strong roots in the occult.

In most modern cultures, mass murder and human sacrifice still takes place out in the open under the cover of warfare, while many argue that cannibalism also still takes place but behind closed doors.

It is only in the past few hundred years that the practice of cannibalism among royals has not been publicized. In Europe, around the time of the American Revolution “corpse medicine” was very popular among the ruling class, Charles II even brewed his own.

Dr Richard Sugg of Durham University has conducted extensive research into the practice of corpse medicine among the royalty.

“The human body has been widely used as a therapeutic agent with the most popular treatments involving flesh, bone or blood. Cannibalism was found not only in the New World, as often believed, but also in Europe,” Sugg said.

“One thing we are rarely taught at school yet is evidenced in literary and historic texts of the time is this: James I refused corpse medicine; Charles II made his own corpse medicine; and Charles I was made into corpse medicine. Along with Charles II, eminent users or prescribers included Francis I, Elizabeth I’s surgeon John Banister, Elizabeth Grey, Countess of Kent, Robert Boyle, Thomas Willis, William III, and Queen Mary,” he added.

If this wasn’t strange enough, the current royal family of England claims to be direct descendants of Prince Vlad III Dracula of Wallachia (modern Romania). This was the sick and depraved ruler, Vlad the Impaler, who was known as a butcher and who eventually became the inspiration for the most famous vampire stories in history.

Aside from the gruesome historical and occult background of such practices, there is a lack of data that suggests the process even works. Despite Karmazin’s claims that “young blood is causing changes that appear to make the aging process reverse,” scientists have yet to identify a link between blood transfusions from the young and any tangible health benefits.

“There‘s just no clinical evidence [that the treatment will be beneficial], and you‘re basically abusing people‘s trust and the public excitement around this,” Stanford University neuroscientist Tony Wyss-Coray, who conducted a 2014 study of young blood plasma in mice, told Science magazine last summer, as reported by Vanity Fair.

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MEMORY HOLE: U.S. scientists have developed a “memory wipe” enzyme that can erase memories forever

Source: MEMORY HOLE: U.S. scientists have developed a “memory wipe” enzyme that can erase memories forever – NaturalNews.com

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by: Isabelle Z.

June 05, 2017

 Are there any bad memories in your life that you wish you could simply erase? Researchers might have found a way to do exactly that thanks to the discovery of the enzyme in the brain that plays a pivotal role in storing long-term memories. They believe that this enzyme could be targeted in order to essentially wipe distressing memories out of the minds of people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, like many things that sound too good to be true, this development is raising red flags left and right.

Scientists have long known that creating new memories and storing old ones involve the creation of proteins in the synapse, where two brain cells meet. For this process to be successful, genes must be expressed in the nucleus of the cell, and this is where a key enzyme can turn genes on or off as new memories are formed. It’s also believed that this enzyme, which is known as ACSS2, plays a role in the memory impairment that is seen in neurodegenerative disorders.

In the study, the researchers found that lowering ACSS2 levels in mice reduced the expression of memory genes, thereby stopping the formation of long-term memories. Mice who had reduced enzyme levels showed no interest in a ball they saw the previous day, whereas those with normal levels of the enzyme were interested in the ball.

Now the researchers are hoping to use this knowledge to stop traumatic memories from forming in people with PTSD simply by blocking the brain’s ACSS2. This might sound like a good idea to those of us who are haunted by some sort of trauma, but there’s also the potential for this to be used for more sinister reasons.

Another convenient form of mind control

For example, what’s to stop an agency like the CIA from erasing highly inconvenient memories from people’s minds? The police state could use it as a way to deal with people who it deems to be “anti-establishment.” A journalist who uncovers damning evidence about something like vaccines or GMOs could easily be made to forget that information before they are able to report on it. The possibilities are as endless as they are disturbing.

Of course, there’s also the fact that some of our bad memories likely serve a very good purpose. If we erase our memories of mistakes we’ve made, for example, what will stop us from repeating them later? If you wiped the memory of being stalked by someone, the next time you encounter that person, you might even invite them into your house!

This approach is also unnecessary if their stated goal is merely to help the traumatized and there are no ulterior motives at play here. PTSD sufferers can be helped with a number of techniques, such as healing touch with guided imagery and cognitive-behavioral therapy.

Creating false memories

On the flip side of this coin, it’s also possible to give people memories of incidents that never took place. It’s hard to say which scenario is more frightening. Psychologist Julia Shaw has demonstrated the ability to make a person remember committing a crime they did not have a hand in, even going so far as to provide vivid details about the imaginary event.

While it’s hard to imagine why a criminal psychologist would want to convince a patient they did something they hadn’t, it does raise a lot of interesting questions. If she can do it, it’s hardly a stretch to imagine that others, including law enforcement and governmental agencies, also possess this capability. If so, there really is nothing stopping them from using it to convince those who oppose them or speak out against them that they committed a crime and lock them up.

Sources:

DailyMail.co.uk

ScienceDaily.com

NaturalNews.com