Adapt or Die!

September 22nd, 2005

Adaptation is the process by which a stressed system attempts to regulate itself in response to a new set of factors in order to achieve balance and harmony (often called “homeostasis”). Countries adapt, plants and animals adapt, social organizations (like cultures) adapt and so do we humans.
In fact, health promoting substances called “adaptagens” (which enhance regulation) are used in natural medicine because they help the body increase or decrease whatever is out of balance.

The good news, then, is that we are, individually and collectively, wondrously adaptable. Up to a point. Please prepare yourself and click here to see a graphic and heartbreaking example of what happens when we stretch the adaptive rubber band so far that it snaps. Because that is what we are doing with our bodies by exposing them to hundreds of thousands of toxins never encountered by any living thing prior to the last hundred years including deadly pesticides, radiation at levels unknown in nature, toxic, untested chemicals, new organisms and weird DNA.

How much can an organism, a child, a gene, an organ, a marriage, a brain or a society take before its adaptive abilities are overwhelmed and the stress is greater than the compensation for the stress that the system can manage. The result? Damage to the ability of the organism to function, self protect and self correct. If the stress is great enough to show, we call it by the name of some illness or another: cancer, social decay, infertility, depression, skin eruptions, rising crime rate, looting, suicide, drought, autism, monster storms. If the damage is greater still, the result is death of the society, the child, the mind, the heart, the planet. The disorder and dysfunction (and the diagnosis) depends on the system being stressed but the principle is the same.

What can you do about it? Reduce the load. Reduce the number of stressors that the system has to adapt to and give the adaptive systems help, support and nutrition. That means Read labels!
1. Eat organic food. Yes, it costs more. Think of what your will save on co-pays and hospital bills!
2. Eat non-GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) food. We are building our new website, www.EatSafeEatSmart.info so you can come to the site for healthy alternatives to familiar choices.
3. Avoid trans fats. Use pure, unrefined organic coconut oil or extra virgin organic olive oil) for cooking.
4. Take adequate amounts of high potency, pure vitamins and minerals. Cheap one a day nutrients are not worth much (and that’s what they cost, too, because they do not compare at all to the high quality, high potency nutrients you really need.
5. Use all natural, non-toxic cleaning products for your house, your clothes and yourself.
6. Quit smoking
7. Drink adequate water and avoid carbonated beverages. Fizzy drinks will make your body more acid, setting you up for toxic events.
8. Do a supervised detoxification program with nutrients, sauna (if possible) and herbs so that you can remove the built up toxins from your body. This is not a do it yourself procedure.
9. Do not drink liquid from a plastic bottle which is soft enough to change its shape when you squeeze it. That means that it has phthalates in it. Phthalates act like unopposed estrogen and wreak havoc with the entire body of both born and unborn people.
10. If you identify contaminants or dangers in your home, office, car, etc. please take the action necessary to remover it (or remove yourself if that is the only way to protect yourself).
11. No perfume, no fragrance no matter what. In aother blog I will discuss the importance of NOT using perfumes if you are trying to reduce the toxic load of your body to give it more adaptagenic potential than it has now because of the toxic load you are carrying.

In order to get and stay healthy, there is no doubt in my mind: we need to enhance our ability to adapt by removing the things that keep us from doing well adaptively.

Remember, property and habits are much less important than health and health freedom. You can replace the first, but you can never replace the second.

Yours in irreplaceable health and freedom,
Dr. Laibow

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September 22nd, 2005

Adaption is the process by which a stressed system attempts to regulate itself in response to a new set of factors in order to achieve balance and harmony (often called “homeostasis”). Countries adapt, plants and animals adapt, social organization such as cultures adapt and so do we humans.
In fact, health promoting substances called “adaptogens” (which enhance regulation) are used in natural medicine because they help the body increase or decrease whatever is out of balance.

The good news, then, is that we are individually and collectively wondrously adaptable. Up to a point. Please prepare yourself and click here to see a graphic and heartbreaking example of what happens when we stretch the adaptive rubber band so far that it snaps. Because that is what we are doing with our bodies by exposing them to hundreds of thousands of toxins never encountered by any living thing prior to the last hundred years including deadly pesticides, radiation at levels unknown in nature, toxic, untested chemicals, new organisms and weird DNA.

How much can an organism, a gene, an organ, a marriage a brain or a society take before its adaptive abilities are overwhelmed and the stress is greater than the compensation for the stress that the system can manage. The result? Damage to the ability of the organism to function, self protect and self correct. If the stress is great enough to show, we call it by the name of some illness or another: cancer, social decay, infertility, depression, psoriasis, rising crime rate, looting, suicide, drout, autism, monster storms. The disorder and dysfunction (and the diagnosis) depends on the system being stressed but the principle is the same.

What can you do about it? Reduce the load. Reduce the number of stressors that the system has to adapt to and give the adaptive systems help, support and

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Please Protect Your Children From Teen Screen

September 21st, 2005

Teen Screen. Sounds friendly, helpful, upbeat, right? Well, it’s not. It is a marketing technique to addict and control our children by using bogus “suicide screening” questions and then, if a child identifies some of these universal experiences as their own, they are sucked into a vortex of procedure and misuse of professional words and ideas to make sure that huge numbers of children are doped and made dopey. Make them dopey enough, and you will make them damaged and dead, too. Oh, by the way, there is no need to have parental approval for this doping and dieing in more and more places, by the way. Object and you can loose your children to the power of the state. The list of abominations goes on and on and on here. Let me remind you that these psychoactive drugs are dangerous toxins and have never been tested for long term effects in human, especially not on the developing brains of children Six to 13 weeks is about average for a test protocol for psychoactive drugs despite the fact that these horrific substances are addictive and used for years on end on children. They are often used in combination, too, despite the absolute lack of clinical testing to assure anyone at all that these are safe procedures.

In case I did not mention it, I am a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist by training as well as an Adult Psychiatrist. I know whereof I speak because I practiced out-patient psychiatry without drugs for more than 35 years before I closed my practice in order to take on the Body Politic: health freedom. I know first hand what these drugs do and I know first hand what is, and is not, known about the use and damage of these powerful mind altering chemicals and their impact on brains in development. I also know with the certainty of long practice that orthomolecular psychiatry, NeuroBioFeedback, clean food and psychotherapy are powerful, non-toxic, empowering tools to help with real issues of cognition, affect and attention.

I know, too, that these techniques are not very good for the biggest, and meanest, business in the world, Big Pharma. Not good at all. How much does a bottle of B3 (Niacin) cost compared to any of the dangerous doping compounds the patent medicine companies have convinced us are essential for life and health? You do the math. Or, if you’d rather look at some really interesting math done by some pretty smart people, take a look at the real story on Teen Screen and, scrolling down, take a look at the $30B which the Teen Screen poisoning of our children’s brains and bodies will result in for Big Pharma!

Here is my advice for you if you have kids: Do Not Allow Teen Screen Anywhere Near Your Child. Teach your child to resist the blandishments, the Video coupons and the Pizza Parties that are used as inducements for this diabolical program. Just Say No! and teach your kids to say “NO!”, too.

If a child is mentally ill, there are ways to screen and to help him or her that do not involve blandishments and enticements and treatments that do not involve poisoning your child’s developing brain. Love your child. Keep him/her free of mind-bending poisons with addictive and other dangerous potentials. Please.

Yours in health and freedom from profitable poisons,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director

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Sharing the Wealth – Yours!

September 20th, 2005

We have reached Day 19/30 of the Natural Solutions Foundation Fund Raising Drive and your generosity has brought us $7923. Thank you, one and all.

General Stubblebine and I are totally dedicated to protecting, preserving and defending our health freedom. We eat, sleep, drink and breath health freedom. It’s that important to us to make sure that we all have the opportunity to make whatever health choices we think best. In fact, we closed our medical practice to work on this full time (or rather full time plus!)

You probably know that we need your help with Congressional letters, sharing information via email, organizing meetups and the like. When we ask for it, your response is fantastic! And you probably also know that we depend upon you for your generous donations so that we can continue this battle for your health freedoms and for ours.

Since we are asking you for money, it seemed only right that we take a few minutes to share the 12 top reasons that make it a great idea to give generously to the Natural Solutions Foundation.
Remember, you can make your donation by credit card, PayPal or check. (If you want to make a tax deductible donation you may do so by making your check out to NISLAPP [which stands for National Institute for Science, Law and Public Policy] and writing “Natural Solutions Foundation” on the memo line. Mail it to:

Natural Solutions Foundation
P.O. Box 722
Maryville, MO 64468
U.S.A.

So here are my top twelve reasons that it makes sense to support health freedom and the Natural Solutions Foundation:

1. Every single penny you donate to the Natural Solutions Foundation goes directly toward the health freedom fight. There are no salaries and no overhead costs like rent and utilities, etc., because they are donated.

2. General Stubblebine and I are experienced health and freedom fighters so we know how to fight this war through strategic alliances and international collaboration.

3. The Natural Solutions Foundation is beholden to nothing but the truth and no one but our supporters.

4. The Natural Solutions Foundation carries your battle everywhere: to the airwaves, the internet, Congress, the International Community and anywhere else it needs to go without ceasing. Last week, for General Stubblebine and I were interviewed on 15 national and 2 local radio shows and 1 web cast.

5. The Natural Solutions Foundation is broadly focused on ALL the health freedom issues confronting us and was the first health freedom organization to alert the public to the fact that Codex was about much more than just vitamins and minerals.

6. The Natural Solutions Foundation is willing to tackle the toughest issues fearlessly whether others agree with us or not. They usually come around after we have been breaking ground for a while.

7. General Stubblebine and I travel extensively wherever we can shed light on the issues. We reported on the Codex Alimentarius Commission in Rome, attend and speak at Public Hearings, lecture to lay and professional groups all over North America and bring the latest news and information back to you. We’ll be going to Bonn for the Codex Nutrition Committee meeting in November.

8. The Natural Solutions Foundation investigates and dissects disinformation, spin and propaganda for you and then offers you the truth as we understand it. We tell you everything we know: there are no secrets and no hidden agendas.

9. We support you fully when we ask you to do something (such as organize a Health Freedom Meetup), we are there with support, phone-in participation, information and anything else you tell us would be helpful to you.

10. We work very hard to keep the website current so that you have up-to-the minute information to make decisions with.

11. The Natural Solutions Foundation offers meaningful, well-thought-out action steps at the local and national levels so we do more than just tell you where the dangers are. We tell you how to combat them.

12. The Natural Solutions Foundation brings easy activism which can save your life with initatives like the

    Eat Safe, Eat Smart Buy-Cott

to help you say “NO!” to GMOs and make healthy food choices for yourself your family.

Gerbers likes to say, “Babies are our business, our only business”. We modify it to say, “Health Freedom is our passion, our only passion”.

Please support the Natural Solutions Foundation with generous donations. We look to you to tell us how important our work is to you by participating in the action steps and by donating the money we need to keep operationg.

Perhaps you might consider making an on-going contribution. The credit card form allows you to do that.

Perhaps you just want to give a one time gift. Either way, please give generously so that we can continue to work for you and your health freedom.

Yours in health and freedom,

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director

PS: Think for a moment what your natural health choices are worth to you. What would you pay to get them back if you lost them? Please donate now. REL

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Thinking About GMOs

September 18th, 2005

I have been thinking about what to write about in this blog all day. This week the Natural Solutions Foundation did 15 radio shows on Codex and the Eat Smart, Eat Safe Buy-cott. Most of the shows were call-in shows and I have told who-knows-how-many people about Codex? 1 million? 10 million? 25 million? I have no way of knowing.

So I am full up to the eyeballs with facts and particulars about GMOs and Codex protocols and procedures and so on. Instead of giving you more facts and figures, I thought that I would share two quotes which capture the issues with precision and beauty and one which is breathtaking in its arrogance and inaccuracy (“Fair and Balanced”?). We’ll go back to the hard facts and statistics tomorrow. But I believe that when we make our choices, move through life with clarity and let our minds and hearts reverberate to truth, it is useful to have more than facts.

Eileen Dannemann, President of the National Coalition of Organized Women has this to say about GMOs:

“The Genetic engineering of the nation and world’s seeds is the broadest and single most offensive stroke of aggressive and covert manipulation against womankind in the history of humanity. Biotech’s “terminator” and “exorcist” technologies seek to sterilize the reproductive value of Mother Nature Herself. To sterilize the reproductive nature of seeds is a violation of a principal law of nature, the Law of Abundance. The only outcome that can result from this kind of trend in thinking is scarcity. After being chemicalized, cauterized and sterilized, errant man dares to implant genetically manipulated, foreign life forms into Her womb. What can She yield? Any good woman would recoil at such an offense and have a spontaneous abortion. We are looking towards an imminent agricultural collapse and a global agricultural holocaust as long as Congress supports the economic plan for the United States to own the world food supply.”

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of Transcendental Meditation Technique, was aware of Biotechnology’s dangers and he offered a specific warning about it:

“Tell those who eat genetically engineered foods that their lives have been severely shortened. So tell them to meditate with the little time they have left on the planet”

And, now for something completely different: 3 of America’s leading scientists, Vernon Cardwell (ASA President), Ronald Phillips (CSSA President), Donald Sparks (SSSA President) have circulated among US scientists the following [astonishing] statement:

“Many biotechnology detractors gain public support for their cause through the use of misinformation and emotional appeals… In short, biotechnology, this incredibly powerful and valuable tool with seemingly limitless potential to resolve health problems, increase crop yields, and treat diseases, is at risk of serious setbacks.”

And, indeed, consumer opposition has lead to the cancellation of field trials of GMOs in England, the abandonment of Monsanto’s GMO wheat (when Japan and the EU threatened a boycott of US wheat, given that they buy 45% of all of our wheat) and over 3000 GMO free zones (2 in California).

In fact, the Biotech Bullies are encountering strong opposition from consumers. That’s you and me!

The Eat Safe, Eat Smart Buy-Cott needs your help to push them off the map. I am in the process of designing a web site for the campaign and need information on products.

We know that organic foods are GMO free. We also know that many supplement and food manufacturers are sourcing GMO materials for their products. We need to know who they are.

Here is what I would like you to do: email the companies that make the things that you like and use (including herbs and supplements) and ask them to provide information about the presence or absence of GMO materials in their products. Get it in writing! Once you have that email, please forward it to me at info@healthfreedomusa.org and I will make sure that the information is added to the site so that other people can make healthy choices based on that data, too.

If a company states that their products are GMO free, we will list them on the Eat Safe, Eat Smart Buy-Cott site. If not, we will mention that they did not provide that assurance. It is my hope that with your help we will quickly be able to provide a great deal of vitally important information to anyone who needs it.

Oh, one more thing: We have reached $7698 on day 18 of our fund raising drive! We have recieved large gifts and small ones and we are better than 3/4 of the way there in our goal to raise $10,000. But we are not there yet! Won’t you become part of the Freedom 400 and donate $25 or more to make sure that we can continute to work for your health and your health freedom?

We are depending on you.

Yours in health and freedom from GMOs,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director

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