At least 29 schools in Bangkok have suspended some of their classes or shut down their whole facilities in the wake of the hand, foot, and mouth disease – or HFMD outbreak.

“In Bangkok, most patients are young children aged not over four years old,” Dr Wongwat Liewlak said yesterday. He is head of Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s (BMA) Communicable Diseases Control Division.

According to the Public Health Ministry, some 12,581 people got the disease in Thailand between January 1 and July 9 this year. There is no report of any deaths.

Prof Yong Poovorawan, a virus expert from Chulalongkorn University (CU), said the most common strain of HFMD spreading in Thailand now was CA6 (Coxsackie A6) – not CA16 anymore.

“At this point, it seems the incidences of HFMD are the highest in three decades,” he said.

In Bangkok alone, 2,322 people had caught the disease. All up 18 schools in the capital have totally shut down, while 11 others have had to suspend some classes.

The prestigious CU demonstration primary school is among schools being closed temporarily due to the spread of HFMD among its students.

“We have found that 22 students came down with the disease,” the university’s president Dr Pirom Kamol-Ratanakul said yesterday.

The school closure – which started yesterday – will run till Friday including two days closed for CU’s commencement ceremony.

“I believe the temporary closure will not hurt children’s studies,” Pirom said.

FOUR STUDENTS DIAGNOSED

The school’s director Assoc Prof Supranee Jiranarong said four students were diagnosed with the disease on July 12, and four days later 18 more students caught the same disease.

“So, we have decided to close down the school temporarily and contacted a nearby public-health service centre to spray proper disinfectant across classrooms,” she said.

Pirom urged the public to not get panicked about the spread of HFMD.

“If we follow the Public Health Ministry’s guidelines, we will be |able to control the situation,” he said.

The HFMD has raised serious concerns lately because a recent outbreak in Cambodia claimed more than 50 lives.

However, Thai officials have explained that the HFMD strain in Cambodia was more dangerous than the one commonly found in Thailand.

According to Deputy Government Spokesman Anusorn Iamsa-ard, the Public Health Ministry has now called on nurseries and schools to strictly maintain hygiene standards at their facilities.

Yong said department stores should clean playground zones more often too so as to reduce |the incidence of HFMD.

“There is no medicine and vaccine available to cure this disease. We can only prescribe the medicine to ease symptoms,” he said.

According to him, 60 per cent of Thai children aged under five have no immunity against the disease. But most Thais aged over 12 years old do have immunity against the disease.

“A ‘war room’ must be set up at a provincial level with the provincial governor as the chair if there are more than 10 cases of HFMD found each day,” Anusorn said.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/29-schools-in-Bangkok-cancel-classes-30186408.html

They have produced guidance on how to examine the risk posed to the environment by genetically modified fish, insects and animals.

Critics fear the new consultation document will ‘open the floodgates’ to the widespread farming of GM animals and crops across Europe.

Details of the plans have been revealed  by the European Food Safety Authority.

The watchdog – which sets policy for all EU member states including the UK – states: ‘The document … outlines the specific data requirements and methodology for the environmental risk assessment of GM animals.’

The new regime will examine how best to check the suitability of applications to farm genetically modified salmon, insects, mammals and birds.

But last night critics attacked the European food watchdog’s stance.
GeneWatch director Dr Helen Wallace warned: ‘The EU is  set to open the floodgates not only to expand the import  and growing of GM crops but also to approve GM insects, fish and meat and milk from GM farm animals.

‘Rules on GM imports will be relaxed, and risks to the  environment ignored.

‘GM fish and insects would be impossible to recall if anything goes wrong and impacts on British wildlife and food markets could be devastating.’

In fact, a number of applications are already in the pipeline. One British company, Oxitec, has developed a GM sterile strain of male diamond back moths which it claims will reduce the number of pests that damage cabbage and cauliflower crops.

Oxitec has approached the Department for Agriculture  with plans to run field trials in the UK.

The GM moths are designed to mate with wild females without producing any offspring, so causing the population to fall sharply. The same company has developed a GM mosquito, which it claims will help to control the spread of dengue fever across the developing world.

Oxitec insists its GM insects will benefit the environment by replacing insecticides.

However, Dr Wallace is not convinced.

‘Changing one part of an ecosystem can have knock-on effects on others in ways that are poorly understood,’ he said.

‘This could include an increase in different types of pest,’  she said. ‘Wildlife that feeds on insects could be harmed if there are changes to their food supply.

GM insects that bite animals or humans could cause allergies or transmit diseases and new diseases might evolve.’

Previously, the European food watchdogs have given approval, in principle, for the sale of meat and milk from the offspring of clones despite concerns from consumers.

Separately, the US authorities are evaluating the safety of GM salmon, which have been modified in the lab to grow at a super-fast rate on fish farms.

In China, scientists are working on cows that have been genetically modified to create milk that is high in Omega 3, which is commonly found in  fish oils, or free of lactose,  which some people find hard  to digest.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2173416/Frankenstein-meat-ahead-EU-Safety-fears-use-GM-animals.html#ixzz20jSPdOgs

PUNTA del ESTE, Uruguay, July 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Bowing to pressure from the Coalition for Mercury-free Drugs (CoMeD, Inc.) and other organizations, the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed its 2004 guidelines on eliminating, reducing, and replacing Thimerosal in vaccines to public health officials worldwide.

WHO made its disclosure before the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) where it met unprecedented resistance to its defense of the use of neurotoxic mercury in vaccines.  ”This is a huge development,” says CoMeD’s Vice President, David Geier, while speaking at UNEP’s INC4 meeting.

INC4 met June 27-July 2 in Uruguay, to negotiate a global treaty on mercury.  CoMeD and other nongovernmental organizations who participated strongly opposed the use of mercury in human medicines. More importantly, entire continents and many individual nations expressed their desire for mercury-free vaccines.

Moreover, CoMeD is putting intense pressure on the World Health Organization by actively assisting nations in banning Thimerosal-preserved vaccines. One of these nations, Chile, became the first developing country to stop this use of mercury in 2012.

Cristina Girardi, a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile, addressed the opening session of INC4 gathering.  While speaking, she warned, “… to keep the mercury in vaccines is to endanger the vaccine program in a misguided effort to protect a known neurotoxin.”

Rev. Lisa K. Sykes, CoMeD’s President, brought the danger vaccine mercury represents to a historic level of understanding.  Rev. Sykes counseled, “The de facto, economic prioritization of mercury-free vaccines … constitutes a double standard in vaccine safety.  This disparity must be corrected rapidly … and preference … must shift to mercury-free vaccines globally, if we hope to avoid accusations of discrimination … in regard to global immunization policy.”

Sykes also cited the support of the global United Methodist Church, representing 11.5 million, and the U.S. National Health Freedom Coalition, representing 20 million.  Both these groups support a ban on the use of mercury in vaccines and uphold the right of informed consent for all persons.

The objective of this treaty on mercury is to “to protect human health and the global environment from the release of mercury and its compounds by minimizing and, where feasible, ultimately eliminating global, anthropogenic mercury releases to air, water and land.”

SOURCE Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs (CoMeD)

RELATED LINKS
http://www.mercury-freedrugs.org/

The foundation tested vegetables from 14 supermarkets in Bangkok for pesticide contamination.

The 14 samples included cabbage, Chinese cabbage, Chinese broccoli, yard beans, morning glory, parsley and bird chilli peppers (also known as “bird’s eye chillis”).

The quality of seven of the samples was certified by the Department of Agriculture, while the rest were house-brand vegetable products.

The samples were tested by the Public Health Ministry’s Medical Science Department in March. It was found that five samples – Chinese broccoli, two samples of yard beans, parsley and bird chilli pepper – were tainted with harmfully high levels of pesticide.

The parsley and yard beans were found to contain pesticides at a level that exceeded European safety standards.

Parsley sold at Siam Paragon Department Store’s Gourmet Market was found to contain Chlorpyrifos at a level of 0.84 milligram per kilogram.

Under the European Union Food Standard, Chlorpyrifos should not exceed 0.005 milligrams per kilogram. However, Thai authorities do not designate a standard for Chlorpyrifos contamination in food products.

Exposure to high levels of Chlorpyrifos, which is used to control many different pests, can cause runny nose, tears and increased saliva production or drooling, headache, nausea, dizziness, vomiting, abdominal muscle cramps and loss of coordination.

Yard beans produced by Doctor Company were tainted with Carbofuran at a level of 0.007mg per kg. The EU prescribes a safe level of Carbofuran as not exceeding 0.02mg per kg. Thailand National Bureau of Agricultural Commodity and Food Standards designated that the level of Carbofuran in food products should not exceed 0.1 mg per kg.

Carbofuran contamination causes symptoms such as nausea, dizziness, confusion and at very high exposures can case respiratory paralysis and death.

Foundation for Consumers manager Saree Ongsomwang said her agency would send the results of the tests to the Food and Drug Administration and urge it to call on food producers to improve their product quality.

Meanwhile, Vitoon Lianchamroon of the Biothai Foundation has demanded the government ban four pesticides – Carbofuran, Methomyl, Dicrotophos and EPN – for use on agricultural crops, as the pesticides pose serious health risks to people.

The pesticides are banned in the European Union, US, United Kingdom, Finland, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Vietnam, and Myanmar.

Vitoon said there had been an effort by a large pesticides importer to force the Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry to register Methomyl and legally import it for widespread use in this country.

“Allowing these pesticides to be used in the country puts people’s health at risk,” he said.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Dangerous-levels-of-pesticides-in-veggies-at-high–30185981.html

Do you believe that your mind-soul is part of your body, or that it is a separate entity from the physical body? 

Science and life experiences support both theories.  Hippocrates was 1st to say that the mind is in the brain, while Aristotle postured that the mind was in the heart. The fact is, your mind-soul is in every part of you.  It is thought to come into the physical body at birth and emanates from a very sensitive point that is just past the eyes, and directly in between your ears.

As babies, we begin to mimic what people around us do.  If we as parents smile, our baby smiles, …but do they really comprehend?  Babies don’t understand what we say to them, they understand our inflections, our tone-of-voice and the energy behind the words and behavior that we mirror to them. The same is true for our animal friends. Your new puppy (or pony) can’t understand, nor will they ever comprehend the words you are using.  The good news is that how you say (what you want to get across), and your behavior is what matters when communicating with animals or infants.

Then something happens when we humans turn 2 years old.  The left hemisphere of our brain changes and it grows in a different way than the right hemisphere of our brain.  It begins to analyze details more carefully and the content of words.  It begins recognizing names, numbers (and as time goes on) the deeper meaning of what we hear verbalized.

Hemispheres in the brain are highly interconnected while processing information and distributing it. The right hemisphere of the brain supports us to function creatively and the left hemisphere of the brain supports us verbally.  Both sides of the brain work in unison; helping us communicate and make sense of what is going on around us.

Your right hemisphere of the brain controls your left side of the body and your face. Your left hemisphere of the brain controls the right side of the body.

Left Brain       Right Brain

When you look directly at someone, it is the mirror opposite.

Right Brain   Left Brain

The left-hemisphere of the brain governs  

• language, content of words, literal meaning
• what’s rational, logical
• name recognition
• math
• analyzing facts and details
• content
• one-after-the-other and in a sequential, in a linear fashion
• masculine – yang energy

The right-hemisphere of the brain is known to be

• the supportive hemisphere
• feminine – yin energy
• seat of feelings and emotions, Eros
• supporting ones athletic abilities due to spatial & perceptual skills
• musical and artistic abilities
• helps memory, recognize faces, pictures, patterns, and intonations of voice
• circular or curvilinear
• helps synthesize parts into a whole

When things go wrong

When a persons brain has been damaged through an injury, where brain lesions develop, or if the corpus callosum connecting the two hemispheres has been severed, the human brain cannot communicate and function at it’s best.  Adults who have had trauma in their childhood are often challenged with learning, as well as making everyday decisions.  They may have been born to parents who where alcoholics, suffered from an injury relating to abuse; injured in an accident or fallen down a staircase when they were learning how to walk. Emotional abuses and witnessing traumatic events cause future challenges as well.

History reflects that it’s better to have a stroke or damage to the left hemisphere of the brain rather than the right hemisphere. Jan Berry, from the legendary duo Jan & Dan suffered traumatic brain injury to the left hemisphere of the brain in a car collision.  He was famous for some of the greatest surf hits of the 60′s -  Dead Man’s Curve and The Little Old Lady From Pasadena. What’s notable is that while he was recovering he could no longer speak the words to the songs that made him so well known.  He could only sing them with the help of the healthy and supportive right-brain hemisphere.

Disturbances in the asymmetry of the brain are another factor and key to psychopathology.  The degree of lateralization of the brain (or a loss of cerebral asymmetry) is found in people with Schizophrenia and remains striking in all psychotic illnesses. Perhaps this populations sensitivity and ability to perceive goes beyond what we are able to comprehend.

We are much more than our brain

In the material world, our sense of objects is not necessarily the truth under the best of circumstances. We may stare up at the ceiling, frozen in fear while thinking “spider,” when it may in fact be a harmless smudge of paint.  Sometime in the 1600′s French philosopher Rene Descartes coined the term, I think, therefore, I am!  He went on to say, “I can doubt my senses, (and perceptions) but I cannot doubt the I who is thinking them.”  This is one way that we differentiate our mind-soul from our brain.  Can you think of others?

Source: http://lifedr.com/articles/2012/7/10/mind-soul-vs-brain.html?fb_comment_id=fbc_10151004146193930_22878673_10151005996368930

It is easy to feel helpless in the fight against malnutrition when you hear about the 925 million* men, women and children who are facing this devastating crisis today. But there is something you can do about it, and it begins with what you choose to put our your own dinner plate.

This video from the Evolve! Campaign summarizes some startling facts from 2010 about how a plant-based diet and vegan choices could END world hunger. While this may sound too good to be true, you may be surprised to find out that the amount of grain produced globally today is enough to feed the world TWICE over, but instead the majority of it is being fed to farmed animals!

If you’re concerned about animal rights, water conservation, clean air and health then you may already be on the road to becoming vegan – so why not take five minutes and find out how veganism could end world hunger?

*This video is from last year and states that 840 million people were going hungry at the time it was made. New statistics have been released to date demonstrating that over 925 million people are now going hungry and 55% of the 12 million childhood deaths recorded each year are due to malnutrition.

Cialis, Viagra & Levitra

Cialis, Viagra, and Levitra are drugs known as phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors (PDE5 inhibitor).  These drugs are widely used and therefore serve as excellent examples to learn about why they work, what that implies about your health, what their actual risks are, and what you should be doing to naturally improve your health.

Upon sexual stimulation blood vessels within the penis release friendly nitric oxide (eNOS), helping blood flow into the penis. In turn, eNOS stimulates the production of another compound called cGMP (cyclic guanosine monophosphate), further enhancing blood flow into the penis and supporting the relaxed muscle function within the penis needed for an erection.  These two compounds interact synergistically to significantly increase nitric oxide, dilation of the arteries into the penis, and supply enough blood to produce an erection.

The arteries into the penis are small, yet they must accommodate a rapid 80 percent dilation in order for enough blood to flow into the penis to enable an erection.  No other part of the body requires such an extreme dilation for normal function (10 percent – 20 percent is common in other areas).  This is why the penis is so sensitive to general circulatory issues.

While eNOS is the on switch for cGMP there is also a natural off switch, an enzyme called phosphodiesterase type 5, which will take cGMP apart. Cialis, Viagra, and Levitra all work by deactivating the enzyme that is trying to take cGMP apart, helping in many cases to produce and sustain an erection by prolonging the existence of cGMP and thus eNOS.  This biochemistry activity occurs in men who “need it” or not, which is why the recreational or performance-enhancing use of these drugs is rampant.

When a man “needs” one of these drugs in order to have a satisfactory sexual experience it is a symptom of a larger cardiovascular problem; i.e., risk factors for cardiovascular disease are already established and typically progressing in the wrong direction.  An ED problem existing alongside extra body weight and low testosterone is especially predictive of cardio risk.  You might say that sexual problems are a red flag for cardiovascular problems, as the penis is very sensitive to the progression of general circulatory issues.

Ironically, blood pressure medication often starts ED or makes it worse.  Such drugs force less circulation and since the penis is a rather sensitive endpoint of the circulatory system its blood supply is reduced and existing struggles are then magnified, not improved.  On the other hand, circulatory problems that are driving up blood pressure also cause ED.  In medical literature these chicken and egg issues are hotly debated, which is why you need to understand the actual nature of the problem so you can truly fix it.  Quite frankly, the medical profession’s treatment paradigm is lacking, if not dangerous.

The side effects of Cialis, Viagra, and Levitra are worth understanding, since they are relatively easy to manage.  And heaven forbid that a man should get an erection lasting more than four hours.

While the goal of these drugs is to inhibit the phosphodiesterase type 5 enzyme, they also inhibit other phosphodiesterase enzymes.  This may adversely affect eyesight or hearing, especially in people with structural issues in these body parts.  The risk of this type of side effect is considered minimal for most people.

The more common side effects are headache and backache, which researchers think is mostly caused by excessive inappropriate dilation of your general circulatory system.  This means that the blood-brain barrier becomes leakier; potentially allowing compounds in your circulation to enter your head that should not necessarily get in.

What the researchers do not seem to understand and report on is that significantly increasing the pool of nitric oxide with these drugs can have rather unpredictable results.  This is because nitric oxide can be both anti-inflammatory (friendly eNOS) or pro-inflammatory (unfriendly iNOS).

In practical terms, what happens after you take the drug will likely determine what kind of nitric oxide you get.  For example, if sexual stimulation and pleasure occurs then it is likely that eNOS will be made at high levels.  But what happens if you unfortunately have an argument with your partner after taking the drug?  Now you will get a lot of iNOS. When that is combined with increased permeability into your brain you expose your head to an excitotoxic buzzsaw.

The moral of the story is, don’t ever take these drugs unless you are going to be really nice and planning on a good time.  Also, avoid stress while the drug is in your system, and avoid excess alcohol.

Cialis has been approved at a lower dose for daily use.  Some researchers suggest that this can have general anti-inflammatory effects on the circulation and even be used to manage blood pressure.  Unfortunately, the issue is not so simple.  I have explained these drugs can readily turn pro-inflammatory.  Why on earth would anyone want that drug in his system when dealing with the day-to-day pressures of work?

It is possible to guard against the issues of excess vascular permeability into your brain and the unwanted production of unfriendly iNOS.  I would suggest that any man who uses these drugs also take nutrients that help eNOS while protecting the vascular system from excess dilation.  Top choices include grape seed extract, resveratrol, hawthorn berry, and horse chestnut.

There is no arguing that these drugs can be helpful for many men, as a temporary remedy for a system that is in distress.  Indeed, the stress of a sexless relationship can be traumatic for both men and women, having a significant negative overall health impact.  My interest in explaining all of this is to hopefully encourage men to actually fix their health.  After all, wouldn’t you like to live longer with a high quality of health so you have more opportunities for pleasure?

Boosting Friendly eNOS and Lowering Inflammation

As can be understood from the previous section, activating and sustaining cGMP and eNOS levels are major keys to erectile function.  It makes sense that by correcting the reasons cGMP and eNOS levels are being depressed, the normal erectile function will then return or be improved.

Two critical issues to improve and achieve this result:
1. Boost levels of eNOS, which stimulate the formation cGMP in the first place.
2. Reduce levels of inflammation, which cause excessive activity of the enzyme phosphodiesterase type 5, and take cGMP apart too fast.

The availability of eNOS in the penis is subjected to the overall availability and status of eNOS in your circulatory system.  The most important form of exercise to develop better eNOS function is aerobics.  If you don’t do aerobics two to three times per week you simply will not turn on genes that activate eNOS production.  Supplements can still help eNOS in the absence of exercise, but their result is much better if combined with aerobics.

Many supplements can help you boost the production of friendly eNOS.  Top choices include grape seed extract, resveratrol, Q10, L arginine, panex ginseng, quercetin, and magnesium.  These may help to some extent if taken before sexual activity, but they do not work like the drugs that force chemistry reactions.  Rather, nutrients along with exercise help to build the pool of available friendly nitric oxide.  As you improve your fitness and eNOS status you will eventually reach a point where your eNOS supply is adequate for normal erectile function.  Thus, these supplements should be used regularly, including before exercise, while also working to improve factors that deplete friendly eNOS.

Friendly nitric oxide levels are depleted by stress of any type and especially by weight gain.  If you are overweight you must engage in the process of weight loss for any truly long lasting improvement in friendly nitric oxide status, sexual function, and reduction in cardio risk.

Excess body weight, high stress, and toxins are all inflammatory in nature.  It is interesting that research on the sex drugs has actually demonstrated that high levels of inflammatory TNFa increase the activity of the enzyme phosphodiesterase type 5, which deteriorates cGMP status and makes erections more difficult.

For example, many men experience an occasional erectile issue following a period of high stress or a traumatic stressful event.  As the stress issues dissipate then the erectile issues also improve.  This is a common example of high stress temporarily taking its toll on cGMP.

Excess body weight is a huge issue in this regard, since white adipose tissue will constantly release excess TNFa into the bloodstream, eventually taking its toll on cGMP.  While it may take a while for excess weight to interfere with sexual function, once it does the problem is fairly stubborn to solve.  A man must become committed to a much healthier lifestyle.

Every supplement mentioned above not only helps the production of friendly eNOS, but also helps multiple aspects of inflammation.  Many other nutrients, especially DHA, are vital for proper ongoing reduction of inflammation.  How many you will need to take depends on your health status, lifestyle, exercise, diet quality, how much sleep you get, and how you manage any other factors that affect your health.  You want to establish a combination program for yourself that involves improved aerobic fitness, stress and inflammation management, proper diet, weight loss (if overweight), and rejuvenation of your overall cardiovascular system.  The side effect of this approach is eventually a male sexual system in good working condition.

Testosterone as a Foundation

Testosterone is the foundation of male sexual function.  Everything I just wrote about eNOS, inflammation, and cGMP will be improved when testosterone status is good.  Conversely, it will deteriorate or be hard to correct when testosterone status is bad.  Unfortunately, testosterone levels decline with age; many factors speed up their decline.

One factor is weight.  When a man has inappropriately high blood levels of leptin due to being overweight, he automatically forces his testosterone levels down.  Leptin and testosterone are synergistic opposites.  Thus, losing weight is the first thing a man should do to correct low T.

On the flip side, weakened states of health are associated with leptin that is too low, as well as low testosterone.  While this issue is mostly associated with frail health conditions, it can also be produced by trying to lose weight too fast via starvation.  To lose weight in a healthy way, follow the Leptin Diet.  I should point out that extra zinc may be needed during weight loss to prevent a slide into worsening testosterone status (meaning your sex drive leaves you whenever you try to lose weight).  It is vital to lose weight the right way to optimize your potential testosterone levels.

Just as aerobics turn on genes that condition better eNOS function, so it is that strength training or demanding sports turn on genes to enhance testosterone production.  If you don’t use your muscles intensely several times a week then you are failing to take one of the most basic actions that can drastically improve your testosterone status.

Dietary supplements can also help normalize testosterone levels, improve drive, and help improve performance.  Three of the better studied nutrients in this category include panex ginseng (up to 2,000 mgs per day), acetyl-l-carnitine (2,000 mg per day) and saw palmetto (320 mg per day).

Yohimbine is one nutrient in this category that I do not recommend because it is also a stimulant that can drive up blood pressure.  Since many men seeking improved sexual function also have cardio issues, this is not a safe combination.

Many of the testosterone supporting aphrodisiac herbs have a long history of folk use in traditional medicine of various cultures.  None of these raise testosterone abnormally high.  Rather, they may have a rejuvenating effect on a tired out testosterone system.  Two of my favorite herbs in this category are muira puama and tribulus terristrus.

Muira puama, also called “potency wood,” is a small tree native to the Brazilian Amazon. It has been used traditionally as a tonic for muscles, an aide for weak digestion, and a sexual stimulant. Early explorers, noting the aphrodisiac properties of muira puama, brought it back to Europe where it has been part of herbal medicine.  Tribulus is an herb that has been used for centuries in India as a male system tonic and aphrodisiac.

In my way of looking at health, trying to replace testosterone with a drug to boost your levels can be done, but it would be my last choice after working on all of the above.  As you get older testosterone metabolism is more unpredictable, especially if you have other health problems that frequently occur with erectile dysfunction.  For example, testosterone can fuel prostate cancer even though levels are lower in older men.  This is because of all the other hormonal confusion going on in a man who is not fit and is overweight.  It is far safer to correct health issues that impede testosterone production than to take testosterone with multiple health issues.  If all of your health issues are moving in the right direction and your testosterone levels are still low, then trying a drug at the lowest dose is workable, if it seems to help, while you make every effort to get your body into better shape.

A Comment on Cardiovascular Disease Progression

Unfortunately, the longer health problems remain in place the more difficult they are to solve.  In the context of this article, that means there can be a progressive accumulation of damage in the walls of the arteries leading into the penis.  Plaque forming in penile arteries, which is common during aging, will make the issues more difficult to resolve.

Such problems can and should be fixed, but they take some time.  Some men may need more comprehensive cardio support than I have outlined in this article.  Simply taking some nutrients or improving your diet does not automatically fix the plaque that has accumulated.  Importantly, you must first create a personalized program that enables you to quit forming plaque.  Once on track, you have created an environment wherein your body can begin to undo plaque from your arteries, including your penile arteries.  This is a slow and steady process that requires you to be consistent doing healthy things for many months.  There are no quick fixes.  Drugs for cardiovascular health are Band-Aids that often make your health worse.  You aren’t trying to manage numbers, you are actually trying to be healthy.  Your sexual performance is a direct predictor of your cardio health.

On the positive side, your body considers sex to be one of the most important functions in terms of survival of the human race.  This means that your body will make every effort to help you restore natural and healthy sexual function – if you give it the chance to do so.

Source: http://www.wellnessresources.com/health/articles/a_review_of_supplements_for_male_sexual_performance/

It what is now the largest criminal fraud settlement ever to come out of the pharmaceutical industry, GlaxoSmithKline has pleaded guilty and agreed to pay $1 billion in criminal fines and $2 billion in civil fines following a nine-year federal investigation into its activities.

According to U.S. federal investigators, GlaxoSmithKline (http://www.naturalnews.com/036416_GlaxoSmithKline_fraud_criminal_char…):

• Routinely bribed doctors with luxury vacations and paid speaking gigs
• Fabricated drug safety data and lied to the FDA
• Defrauded Medicare and Medicaid out of billions
• Deceived regulators about the effectiveness of its drugs
• Relied on its deceptive practices to earn billions of dollars selling potentially dangerous drugs to unsuspecting consumers and medical patients

And this is just the part they got caught doing. GSK doesn’t even deny any of this. The company simply paid the $3 billion fine, apologized to its customers, and continued conducting business as usual.

By the way, in addition to bribing physicians, GSK has plenty of money to spread around bribing celebrities and others who pimps its products. The company reportedly paid $275,000 to the celebrity doctor known as “Dr. Drew,” who promoted Glaxo’s mind-altering antidepressant drug Wellbutrin (http://naturalsociety.com/top-radio-doctor-paid-by-glaxosmithkline-to…).
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/036417_Glaxo_Merck_fraud.html#ixzz20Cm6CgUa

See that False Claims Act document at:
www.naturalnews.com/gallery/documents/Merck-False-Claims-Act.pdf

According to Stephen Krahling and Joan Wlochowski, both former Merck virologists, the Merck company engaged in all the following behavior:

• Merck knowingly falsified its mumps vaccine test results to fabricate a “95% efficacy rate.”

• In order to do this, Merck spiked the blood test with animal antibodies in order to artificially inflate the appearance of immune system antibodies. As reported in CourthouseNews.com:

Merck also added animal antibodies to blood samples to achieve more favorable test results, though it knew that the human immune system would never produce such antibodies, and that the antibodies created a laboratory testing scenario that “did not in any way correspond to, correlate with, or represent real life … virus neutralization in vaccinated people,” according to the complaint. (http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/06/27/47851.htm)

• Merck then used the falsified trial results to swindle the U.S. government out of “hundreds of millions of dollars for a vaccine that does not provide adequate immunization.”

• Merck’s vaccine fraud has actually contributed to the continuation of mumps across America, causing more children to become infected with mumps. (Gee, really? This is what NaturalNews has been reporting for years… vaccines are actually formulated to keep the outbreaks going because it’s great for repeat business!)

• Merck used its false claims of “95 percent effectiveness” to monopolize the vaccine market and eliminate possible competitors.

• The Merck vaccine fraud has been going on since the late 1990′s, say the Merck virologists.

• Testing of Merck’s vaccine was never done against “real-world” mumps viruses in the wild. Instead, test results were simply falsified to achieve the desired outcome.

• This entire fraud took place “with the knowledge, authority and approval of Merck’s senior management.”

• Merck scientists “witnessed firsthand the improper testing and data falsification in which Merck engaged to artificially inflate the vaccine’s efficacy findings,” according to court documents (see below).

US government chose to ignore the 2010 False Claims Act!

Rather than taking action on this false claims act, the U.S. government simply ignored it, thereby protecting Merck’s market monopoly instead of properly serving justice. This demonstrates the conspiracy of fraud between the U.S. government, FDA regulators and the vaccine industry.

Chatom Primary Care sues Merck for Sherman Act monopolization, breach of warranty, violation of consumer protection laws

Following the unsealing of this 2010 False Claims Act, Chatom Primary Care, based in Alabama, smelled something rotten. Three days ago, Chatom filed a lawsuit against Merck. That lawsuit record is available here:
www.naturalnews.com/gallery/documents/Chatom-Lawsuit-Merck-Mumps.pdf

It alleges, among other shocking things:

[Merck engaged in] …a decade-long scheme to falsify and misrepresent the true efficacy of its vaccine.

…the ultimate victims here are the millions of children who every year are being injected with a mumps vaccine that is not providing them with an adequate level of protection. And while this is a disease that, according to the Centers for Disease Control (‘CDC’), was supposed to be eradicated by now, the failure in Merck’s vaccine has allowed this disease to linger, with significant outbreaks continuing to occur.

Chatom Primary Care also alleges that the fraudulent Merck vaccine contributed to the 2006 mumps outbreak in the Midwest, and a 2009 outbreak elsewhere. It says, “there has remained a significant risk of a resurgence of mumps outbreaks…”

This investigation is only beginning

NaturalNews has only begun to investigate this incredible breaking news about Merck and the vaccine industry. We are pouring through the court documents to identify additional information that may be relevant to this case, and we plan to bring you that information soon.

For the record, Merck denies all allegations. Is anyone surprised?

Sources for this article:
NaturalNews wishes to thank CourthouseNews.com for its coverage of this story. Original article at: http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/06/27/47851.htm

Chatom Lawsuit against Merck
www.naturalnews.com/gallery/documents/Chatom-Lawsuit-Merck-Mumps.pdf

2010 False Claims Act against Merck, by two Merck virologists
www.naturalnews.com/gallery/documents/Merck-False-Claims-Act.pdf

Announcement of the lawsuit in the media:
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/lawsuit-claims-merck-overstated-mumps-v…