Good post Refreshed!
Some comments about the flu and vaccinations:
There is no doubt in my mind that alkalizing help prevent or fight the flu. In one of my testimonials I talked about the last winter. In the area I work most got the flu, and it was a very tough one to get rid of.
http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1387117#i I was probably the only one who did not get it. And I did not get the seasonal flu vaccine. I never get it.
You may find other testimonials from others like imaxfli, or JustinL
From moreless
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--Untold story of Vaccines--Frankenstein--
Hi Ya'll,
What many may not know is that vaccines are grown on a media.
Many times this may be a Protein media from a plant or worse an Animal source.
What could be wrong with this?
Animals have Different frequencies for their body Tissues!
This means that when these scientist or Doctors inject Humans with a vaccine grown on animal proteins, we now may end up with a Frankenstein!
Consider the chicken Flu virus!
The Only way a person can get a chicken virus may be that this person has been injected with body fluids of a Sick and Diseased chicken!
One may become infected if they handled Sick and Diseased chickens and had an open wound and the chicken fluids could enter this way also.
Thus chicken flu vaccines grown on chicken protein automatically infects each person who takes this vaccine!
Why should it be any different with a Swine flu vaccine?
These Crimminals are trying to Exterminate the public!
Reminds me of one of those who worked with these vaccines, when asked if he would be willing to be injected with the vaccine: Absolutely Not was his reply!
Frankenstein Medicine!
Cause and Effect!
Smile Tis your choice.
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Vitamin D
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--Flu shots--is there a Better option ?--
Hi Ya'll,
In the Fall of the year many people line up to get Flu shots, "WHY" ?
"WHY" do people have more problems with Flu as Fall time comes around ?
What is Different between the Fall and Winter and the Spring and Summer ?
Could it be that people may get Less sunshine in the Fall and Winter months, than in the Spring and Summer months ?
What does Sunshine have to do with the Health of the body ?
Could it be that the Sunshine provides the body with Vit D, which helps the body to utilize Calcium Better ?
So, could it be that because the Vit D enables the body to utilize Calcium Better, that then you do not have to take so much Calcium, "IF" you are getting enough Vit D ?
What is Vit D ?
Could it just be an Acid which is bound with oils ?
So where can you get Vit D in the months of the year when you do not have Sunshine ?
Where did the Eskimos get their Vit D from when they would not get Sunshine for months at a time ?
Could it be that you can get Vit D from Wild Cold water Ocean Fish, and thus supply yourself the Vit D needed along with the Calcium from the Fish ?
So, you may take all the Calcium you want, but "IF" you are not Causing it to be able to React against some Acid, then you may not get any use from it !
The Moreless Alkalizing Drink may provide some weak Acids from the ACV and Lemon juice to react against the Lime water to provide you with Electro-magnetic Energy of the Calcium form and you may take some Vit D, if you need an extra Boost or have in the past had problems with getting the Flu, and you may eat some Wild Cold water Ocean Fish like Sardines and Alaskan Salmon as canned fish, which may provide you with the Vit D in oil form !
So, "IF" you learn to increase you Calcium uptake during the Winter months or the time period of the year when you may have more problems with the Flu, then you may learn to avoid getting the flu, without worrying with Flu shots, which may not be the Best choice to make !
I know of several people around 75 years or older who used to get their flu shots each year and now have changed to seeing about getting more Vit D to go along with the Calcium they are getting and they have not been having "ANY" problems with flu like everyone else, for the past several years !
Are you willing to see that your body may get the needed Calcium during the winter months, even by taking extra Vit D if you need to, so that your body may be able to utilize the Calcium you are taking ?
The body needs Natural oils of some kind, and "IF" you are not willing to eat a small amount of Wild Cold Water Ocean Fish like Sardines or Salmon each day, then maybe you should consider some form of Vit D to enable your body to be able to utilize your Calciums better ?
Smile Tis your choice.
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Edgar Cayce
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P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Gertrude Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 11:10 to 11:55 A. M. Eastern Standard Time.
1. GC: You will have before you the human ailment known as the common cold. You will give information, advice and guidance as to how people may so conduct themselves as to avoid the common cold, or - having contracted a cold - to cure it. You will then answer the questions, as I ask them:
2. EC: Yes.
3. As we find, much has been written in many places respecting such, and much has been given through these channels respecting the various stages and the cure - or helpful applications.
4. For, it is a universal consciousness to the human body. Thus it is almost as individual as all who may contract or even come in contact with such.
5. Each body, as so oft considered, is a law unto itself. Thus what would be beneficial in one for prevention might be harmful to another; just as what might have beneficial effects upon one might prove as naught to another.
6. The cold is both contagious and infectious. It is a germ that attacks the mucous membranes of nasal passages or throat. Often it is preceded by the feeling of flushiness or cold sensations, and by spasmodic reactions in the mucus membranes of the nasal passages.
7. Then, precautionary or preventative measures respecting the common cold would depend upon how this may be fully judged in the human body, or as to what precautionary measures have been taken and as to what conditions exist already in the individual body.
8. First: A body is more susceptible to cold with an excess of acidity OR alkalinity, but MORE susceptible in case of excess acidity. For, an alkalizing effect is destructive to the cold germ.
9. When there has been at any time an extra depletion of the vital energies of the body, it produces the tendency for an excess acidity - and it may be throughout any portion of the body.
10. At such periods, if a body comes in contact with one sneezing or suffering with cold, it is more easily contracted.
11. Thus precautions are to be taken at such periods especially.
12. To be sure, this leaves many questions that might be asked:
13. Does draft cause a cold? Does unusual change in dress? Does change in temperature? Does getting the clothes or the feet damp? Etc.
14. All of these, to be sure, AFFECT the CIRCULATION; by the depletion of the body-balance, the body-temperature or body-equilibrium. Then at such times if the body is tired, worn, overacid or overalkaline, it is more susceptible to cold - even by the very changes produced through the sudden unbalancing of circulation, as from a warm room overheated. Naturally when overheated there is less oxygen, which weakens the circulation in the life-giving forces that are destructive to ANY germ or contagion or such.
15. Then if there is that activity in which the body becomes more conscious of such conditions, this of itself USES energies oft that produces PSYCHOLOGICALLY a susceptibility!
16. Consequently, as we find, this is one of the most erratic conditions that may be considered as an ill to the human body.
17. Much at times may also depend upon the body becoming immune to sudden changes by the use of clothing to equalize the pressures over the body. One that is oft in the open and dresses according to the general conditions, or the temperatures, will be LESS susceptible than one who often wraps up or bundles up too much - UNLESS - UNLESS there are other physical defects, or such conditions in the system as to have reduced the vitality locally or as a general condition through the system.
18. So much, then, as to the susceptibility of an individual or body to colds.
19. Then, precautions should be taken when it is known that such tendencies exist; that is, weakness, tiredness, exhaustion, or conditions arising from accidents as of draft, dampness of clothes, wet feet or the like, or contact with those suffering with a cold.
20. As is known, all vital forces are activities of the glandular system; and these are stimulated by specific glandular activity attributed to the functioning of certain portions of the system.
21. Then, when exposed to such - under the conditions as indicated, or the many other phases of such that make up the experience of an individual, these would be the preventative measures:
22. The use of an ABUNDANT supply of vitamins is beneficial, of ALL characters; A, B, B-1, D, E, G and K.
23. Vitamins are not as easily overcrowded in the system as most other boosters for a general activity. For, these are those elements that may be STORED - as it were - in their proper relationships one to another, to be called into use when needed or necessary.
24. This does not mean that it may not be overdone as a preventative, or in cases where infection already exists. For, that which may be helpful may also be harmful - if misapplied, - whether by the conscious activity in a body or by an unconscious activity in the assimilating forces of a system. If this were not true, there would never be an unbalancing of ANY portion of the functioning system; neither would there be the lack of coordination or cooperation with the various organs in their attempt to work together.
25. It is true that the functioning system (assimilating, distributing and eliminating system) attempts to create that necessary for a balance. Yet it can only use that it has at hand. Thus, with a deficiency of any structural building, blood building or tissue building influence, it may cause weakness by drawing on that necessary to supply the needed conditions for the system's balance.
26. For instance, if there is a bone fracture the body of itself creates that element to knit this fracture or broken area. Yet it does not supply or build as much of such element during the periods when the fracture does not exist. Hence when it exists, unless there is an abundant supply of that needed - by or from that assimilated - other portions of the body will suffer.
27. Know that the body must function as a unit. For, one may get one's feet wet and yet have cold in the head! One may get the head wet and still have cold in the head! The same is true in any such relationships. For, the circulation carries the body forces in same, in the corpuscles, the elements or vitamins needed for assimilation in every organ. For, each organ has within itself that ability to take from that assimilated that necessary to build itself. One wouldn't want a kidney built in a lung; neither would one want a heart even in the head (yet it is necessary to function mentally that way often!).
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THE COMMON COLD
The information contained in the Edgar Cayce Health database should not be regarded as a guide to self-diagnosis or self-treatment. The cooperation of a qualified health care professional is essential if one wishes to apply the principles and techniques described in this database.
I. Physiological Considerations
The common cold - also known as coryza, rhinitis, and upper respiratory infection - is an acute infection of the upper respiratory tract by a filterable virus, which is then often followed by invasion of the respiratory tract by pathogenic organisms. It is considered to be highly contagious, although it is usually mild, of short duration, and endemic. The onset is marked by a chilly sensation followed by sneezing, watering of the eyes, nasal discharge, cough, and is often accompanied by a mild fever. Much has been written about this most common of all diseases.
In the Cayce readings much has also been given respecting the common cold, including a complete reading, 902-1, which is included in this File. It is an excellent commentary and worthy of study.
The balance of the body probably plays the most important part in preventing the beginning of a cold. Although Cayce stated that "it is a universal consciousness to the human body" (902-1) - yet a cold develops in the presence of an acid condition within the body and nearly always only when that condition pertains. An alkalizing effect is destructive to the cold germs themselves. The question of acidity-alkalinity is discussed in another Circulating File and seems to be a difficult concept to understand fully. Yet Cayce answered the question whether there were any special precautions to be taken against colds by the simple words, "keep alkalized." (480-45)
Whenever the fine balance of the body in its acid-base relationship is disturbed, then an individual is susceptible to a cold. Any condition - draft, wet feet, change in temperature, or any similar condition - that causes a change in circulation through affecting the body balance, the body temperature or the body equilibrium, can cause a cold if the body is susceptible. Susceptibility comes when there has been extra depletion of the vital energies of the body, which in turn produces a tendency for an excess acidity. Or, psychologically, if an individual becomes aware of a detrimental change in body temperature or environment, this uses energies and makes him thus more susceptible. Loss of sleep; excess emotional turbulence, such as anger, resentment or contention; excess activity leading to extreme tiredness - all these create either a marked depletion of the body's energies or a pouring out of poisons from the glandular system into the lymph circulation, preparing the system so that it blocks the circulation to the eliminating channels, creating again an acidity and a disturbance which predisposes to a cold.
The glands, of course, secrete according to impulse from the emotional system. With anger these secretions poison the body. "Thus you can take a bad cold from getting mad. You can get a bad cold from blessing out someone else, even if it is your wife." (849-75)
An Acid-reacting diet - such as too much of meat and starches - creates a susceptibility to colds within the body. Likewise, incorrect eating does the same thing. Food should be thoroughly masticated. "Bolting food, or swallowing it by the use of liquids produces more colds than any one activity of a diet." (808-3) 1
Overheated rooms, for instance, lessen the oxygen available which weakens the circulation of life-giving forces that destroy any germ. Tiredness, overacidity, or overalkalinity all contribute at times to the production of a cold.
Physiologically we can see that each body is indeed a law unto itself, due to the varying activities of physiological processes which are brought about by the many factors playing a part in each person's body. "Consequently, as we find, this [condition, the cold] is one of the most erratic conditions that may be considered as an ill to the human body." (902-1)
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Scientific Articles
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Effect of M1 protein and low pH on nuclear transport of influenza virus ribonucleoproteins.
M Bui, G Whittaker, and A Helenius
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA.
Abstract
Influenza virus enters its host cell by receptor-mediated endocytosis followed by acid-activated membrane fusion in endosomes. The viral ribonucleoprotein particles (vRNPs) delivered into the cytosol then dissociate from the matrix protein, M1, and from each other, after which they are individually imported into the nucleus via the nuclear pores. For some time, it has been believed that the low pH in endosomes may, in some way, trigger the capsid disassembly events necessary for nuclear transport. This report provides direct evidence that the association of M1 with vRNPs is sensitive to mildly acidic pH within the infected cell. Recombinant M1, expressed in cultured cells, was found to associate with vRNPs and inhibit their nuclear import. Brief acidification of the cytosolic compartment eliminated the interfering activity and allowed the incoming vRNPs to enter the nucleus. Newly assembled progeny M1-vRNP complexes in the cytosol of infected cells were also dissociated by brief acidification. Acidic pH was thus found to serve as a switch that allowed M1 to carry out its multiple functions in the uncoating, nuclear transport, and assembly of vRNPs.
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The influenza hemagglutinin precursor as an acid-sensitive probe of the biosynthetic pathway.
F Boulay, R W Doms, I Wilson, and A Helenius
Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510.
Abstract
The hemagglutinin of influenza virus (HA), an acid-activated membrane fusion protein, is synthesized in the endoplasmic reticulum and transported through the Golgi complex to the cell surface of infected cells as an uncleaved, fusion-incompetent precursor, HA0. The mature, proteolytically activated HA is known to undergo a rapid, irreversible, acid-induced conformational change which mediates membrane fusion and virus penetration. On the basis of antigenic modifications and the acquisition of trypsin susceptibility, we demonstrate here that HA0, while unable to cause fusion, is acid sensitive. It undergoes irreversible conformational changes quite similar to those of HA at mildly acidic pH (pH less than 6.0). The ectodomain of HA0 does not, however, acquire hydrophobic properties and the changes occur in a less concerted manner (the pH dependence is much broader and the rate of conversion slower). These differences are likely to account for the inability of acid-treated HA0 to trigger membrane fusion. It was shown, moreover, that HA0 acquired its acid-sensitive properties immediately following trimerization in the endoplasmic reticulum. Since HA0 did not convert to the acid form at any point during its intracellular transport, we concluded that the trans-Golgi compartment, known to be more acidic than the cytosol and involved in constitutive membrane transport, is not likely to have a pH less than 6.0.
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Influenza Hemagglutinin
Eric Mazur and David Marcey
© 2005
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III. Membrane Fusion
After binding to sialic acid residues of receptor proteins on host cells, the influenza virus is brought into the cell by endocytosis. The low pH of the resulting endosome, between pH 5 and pH 6, activates a conformational change in the structure of the hemagglutinin molecule. This "fusion-active" state of hemagglutinin triggers the fusion of the viral membrane and the endosome membrane, releasing the viral nucleocapsid into the cytosol of the host cell.
A soluble fragment of hemagglutinin at low pH has been isolated and characterized (Bullough, et al., 1994). This fragment (TBHA2) is prepared at pH 5.0 by digestion with trypsin and thermolysin and contains the first 27 residues of HA1 and residues 38-175 of HA2. Although many of the original hemagglutinin residues are lost in this digestion, the major conformational change caused by the acidic environment in the endosome is clear when one compares the conformation of the original HA2 subunit (BHA-left) to that of TBHA2 (right). The subunits are colored in rainbow from amino to carboxy. Residues 55-76 in BHA are recruited to an a-helix in TBHA2 which extends the a-helix of residues 40-55 in BHA 100 Å towards the endosome membrane in TBHA2 (endosome membrane is up). The a-helix of BHA is also moved slightly away from the viral membrane in TBHA2 and the b-sheet/a-helix structure of BHA follows towards the endosome membrane. The functional consequence of the endosomal refolding is a translocation of residues at the end of the a-helix (not shown) to the endosome membrane, where they fuse with it. The resulting a-helix (110 Å) in TBHA2 is one of the longest known in any protein.
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