A new Study published HERE in the Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics claims to be the first to discover that a common supplement, Alpha Lipoic Acid, lowers cholesterol levels.
 

 
I find it interesting that they seem to think that this is a novel idea that no one has ever thought of before when there are PLENTY of studies that have already shown this. Like This Study done in Malaysia, This Study from China, This Study and This Study as well as This One done in the US.

 
 
Along with the cholesterol lowering effects that have been noted in Alpha Lipoic Acid, known as ALA, many other beneficial effects were noted such as a reduction in already formed plaques in the heart and the aorta as well as liver protective effects and a lowering of blood sugars in diabetics.

 
 
In NONE of these studies was there a mention of ANY Side Effects from the ALA!
 

So, why is it that doctors constantly prescribe dangerous ‘statin’ drugs to lower cholesterol when there are perfectly safe and natural alternatives to these drugs?
 
 
Call it Big Pharma.
 
 

Some other Natural Cholesterol Lowering Agents are:

Exercise
A Mediterranean Diet
Red Yeast Rice
Omega 3 Fatty Acids

So the next time that you are in the doctor’s office and you are prescribed a cholesterol lowering statin drug, you may want to ask your doctor about possible alternatives to these dangerous drugs. As part of your doctor’s job, he is required to inform you of the risks, benefits and alternatives of any drug that he prescribes you. However, the sad fact is that your doctor may not even KNOW about the potential dangerous effects of the statin drugs that he is prescribing and may not even know of any alternatives.
 
 

So it is  up to you to be informed of your alternatives and take action about your own health.
 
 

 
 
Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune Queen

Functional Medicine Practitioner

http://www.easy-immune-health.com

 
Yet another study shows that Chronic Pain is a Symptom of Vitamin D Deficiency.

This study, this time from the renowned Mayo Clinic, states that people with low Vitamin D levels use almost twice as much pain medicine as those who have normal Vitamin D levels. This is only one of MANY STUDIES that show the relationship between chronic pain and Vitamin D levels.
Many studies have even shown effective TREATMENT OF CHRONIC PAIN conditions by increasing Vitamin D levels to within the normal range.
 

Many researchers are even implicating Vitamin D deficiency as The Cause of Fibromyalgia and that many with this elusive condition can be effectively treated simply with proper high dose Vitamin D supplementation! Yet, it’s unlikely that this study will change policy in the Conventional Medical Field. There are a few doctors who are now starting to check Vitamin D levels for various reasons, yet most still are clueless about the MANY diseases that Vitamin D deficiency can improve and even cure.

Unfortunately, most of health care is driven by education from Pharmaceutical Companies- and Vitamin D doesn’t have any scantily clad representatives running around to doctors offices giving out samples so that awareness of it’s benefits increases. If you suffer from Chronic Pain, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Low Thyroid, Obesity, Fibromyalgia, Periodontal Disease, High Blood Pressure or any type of cancer- you owe it to yourself to get your Vitamin D Level Tested. I can help you to decide an appropriate dosage of this essential Vitamin- as well as helping you overcome any other chronic medical problems that you are suffering from.
 
 

“Stop Managing your health problems and Start Getting Well..”
 
 

I can help you to Finally Be well again!

Kerri Knox, RN

Functional Medicine Practitioner

http://www.easy-immune-health.com

More good news about Vitamin D AGAIN!
 

With March being National Deep Vein Thrombosis Awareness Month (I’m not making this up!), you would think that  This Study would have garnered more attention than it did. But for most of National Deep Vein Thrombosis Awareness Month, Big Pharma had it’s showcase, trotting out examples of people who have died from DVT and how THEIR drugs would have saved them.
 
 

Blood clots in the legs, also known as Deep Vein Thrombosis- or DVT’s- are most often acquired by people who are inactive for long periods of time, women who smoke and take birth control pills and hospitalized and post surgical patients. DVT’s in and of themselves are generally not dangerous and will often resolve on their own. But the BIG risk is that the clot in the leg will break off and go into the lungs causing a life threatening situation called a Pulmonary Embolism- or PE.

For people who are at high risk, anti clotting drugs are often given- sometimes for long periods of time. But the above study shows that a completely drug free- and in fact ENTIRELY FREE – option exists for the prevention of up to 30% of DVT’s- moderate sun exposure.
 
 

Researchers concluded that Vitamin D is the reason behind the preventative effects of the sun exposure.
 
 

Vitamin D seems to be nearly constantly in the news lately, with this being the newest study in the glut of news coverage about this amazing Vitamin. While new Vitamin D research continues to get almost weekly news coverage in its amazing ability to prevent and treat a vast array of diseases from Multiple Sclerosis to Periodontal Disease, it is still being pretty much ignored by the medical industry. Doctors, who should be on the forefront of implementing this research in order to protect the public, remain virtually clueless about the importance of testing Vitamin D levels and giving patients the proper dosage.
 

With nearly 80% of the population Vitamin D deficient, you would think that the myriad effects of Vitamin D on the prevention of diseases would have the medical world hopping. But sadly, few seem to care and insurance companies are often slow to pay for anything that is not  ‘standard medical treatment’. So the various ‘modern illnesses’ that could be prevented with proper Vitamin D Supplementation are continuing unabated despite the knowledge being out there for those who care to look for it. For those who want to take advantage of cutting edge Vitamin D research in the search for the best health possible, I offer

and help with determining your proper dosage of Vitamin D based on the most current recommendations of those in the forefront of Vitamin D research.
 
 

Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune System Queen
Functional Medicine Practitioner
Immune System

PS: If you found this website helpful, please consider using the
Easy Immune Health Product Store the next time you purchase your supplements online. Your support allows me to keep this site running and educating as many people as possible. Thank you!

Kerri Knox, RN
The Immune Queen

On The Oprah Winfrey Show today, Oprah and Dr. Mehmet Oz talked about the Calorie Restriction Diet and how the concept of long term calorie restriction as the number one keys to Longevity and slowing down the aging process.
 
 

While there IS incontrovertible evidence that chronic calorie restriction DOES increase life span- not only in animal models, but in humans as well- is it REALLY the lack of calories that are responsible for the longer life span?
 
 
The ‘typical’ calorie restriction diet is NOT simply about calories, but about nutrition and feeling full. So, the diet does not restrict calories by eating nothing but potato chips and Coke!
 
 

It does this by maximizing fiber and nutrients and eliminating anything that doesn’t do that.
 
 
What does the Calorie Restriction Diet Eliminate:

Sodas
Juices
Alcohol
Most Breads and Grains (not all)
Junk food
Processed and Refined Foods
Refined Sugar
Fatty Meats
Most Dairy products

 
 
So, not only does the diet eliminate junk foods and empty calories, but it ALSO (virtually) eliminates wheat and dairy- the main Food Allergens that contribute to health problems.
 
 
It’s also approximately 70-80% Raw Food.
.
 
 
So, while this diet IS calorie restrictive, a large part of its health benefits may not be from the calorie restriction aspect, but rather from its emphasis on:

antioxidants
high quality lean protein
high quality fats
large amounts of fiber

 
 
Sounds like a diet that the vast majority of us would benefit from, wouldn’t you think?
 
 

Really, this is  a ‘back to basics’ common sense type of eating plan.
Most  people don’t realize that their diets are making them SICK. The US has enormous amounts of :

Heart Disease
Diabetes
Stroke
Obesity
High Blood Pressure
Arthritis
Depression

 
 
The vast majority of these illnesses could be practically eliminated with an eating plan like this! These illnesses are NOT the result of ‘bad genes’ or bad luck. They are a result of decisions that have been made throughout your life. If you have health problems, you can make the CHOICE to change them AT ANY POINT! Why not choose NOW!
 
 

 
 


Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune System Queen
Functional Medicine Practitioner
Immune System

PS: If you found this website helpful, please consider using the
Easy Immune Health Product Store the next time you purchase your supplements online. Your support allows me to keep this site running and educating as many people as possible. Thank you!

Joshua Tucker, The Tendonitis Expert

In ‘Got Inflammation…Part 1′ we learned that Inflammation is a Process that kicks in -any- time the body feels pain.

And we learned that pain causes the body to tighten muscles and release a chemical that enhances your sensitivity to pain…which makes you feel more pain which makes the body increase the Process of Inflammation.

Today we are going to talk about how that works in a situation like Tendonitis and Repetitive Strain Injury.

Next time in ‘Got Inflammation…Part 3′ we’ll discuss what this means when you have a larger and even systemic inflammatory state which can be caused by such issues as Gluten Intolerance, H Pylori overgrowth, and similar issues.

So let’s say you spend a lot of time at a computer keyboard.  And/or you knit, crochet, or do some other hand intensive motion repeatedly day after day.

Over time, the muscles get tighter, and shorter.

When muscles are tight, they are like a half squeezed sponge.  They have a hard time getting waste product and old fluid out, and a hard time getting new blood and new nutrition in. Then you feel some ache, but it goes away. Then it returns, and stays a while longer, but goes away.

As your muscles get tighter and tighter, and you continue to perform repetitive motions, you start to get tiny wear and tear injury to the tissue of the tendon and other connective tissue. This can turn into true tendonitis, as scar tissue begins to form, fibers continuously laying down on top of each other. Structurally, scar tissue is not as strong as the original tissue…..so fibers rip and tear off easily…..which tells the body there is an injury and something  needs to be done about it.

Something like……INFLAMMATION!

You ache, and then hurt.  It still comes in waves, but starts to return faster and hurt more.

You body compensates for this as long as it can.  You generally don’t feel the tightness or notice the inflammation and its effects until the dynamic is firmly entrenched.
This continues until you really start to worry about it.  Maybe even do something about.
Predictably, at some point, your body gives up the fight and goes “I’ve done all I can!  Now it’s YOUR problem!”

At which point you are suddenly in A LOT of pain.  Even disabling pain. This is when most people decide that it’s time to go see the doctor. The way inflammation works with your body, it is important to understand that you were actually in a lot of pain before that, but your body just wasn’t telling your conscious brain about it. Localized inflammation is insidious.  It’s constantly present in all the tissue in the area, and the tissue is constantly sending signals to the brain that it is pain.  And the brain responds in the way it thinks is best…..with more tightness and more inflammation.
For the most part, localized inflammation just stays in a specific area, like the forearm/hand, shoulder, neck, feet/ankle, etc.

And the worse the inflammation is, the more chemical gets dumped into the area, and this can begin to spread to neighboring tissue, making that hurt/sore too. There are some important functions of Inflammation, like sending in scar tissue to heal damage and an army of white blood cells to help the immune system fight invaders.

'The Carpal Tunnel Treatment That Works'

This is good.

But inflammation also tells the body that there is pain, and the chemical from inflammation makes you hurt more, and the body responds to this by tightening muscles and increasing the Inflammatory Response. This creates a feedback loop, a Downward Spiral of tightness and pain.
The human body is incredibly amazing in a lot of ways.  Inflammation is not one of them.

And that’s just in one body part.  What happens when you have Systemic Inflammation?  And how does that affect your Immune System?

Joshua Tucker, B.A., C.M.T.

The Tendonitis Expert

www.TendonitisExpert.com

Myth #1: Most vaccine reactions get reported

Vaccine Reactions are actually very common occurrences. Yet, it is estimated that only about 1% of all vaccine reactions are actually reported.
 
 
Only 1%
 
 
Yet vaccine manufacturers, doctors, the FDA and people rely on vaccine reporting to determine the safety of these vaccines.

But unless the vaccine reactions are reported, there is no way to know if these pharmaceutical drugs are safe.
 
 

Myth #2: Only serious illnesses are considered reactions…

ANYTHING unusual that occurs after a vaccine can be considered a vaccine reaction. From severe pain from the shot itself to death should be considered a vaccine reaction. Even things that happen weeks to months after the shot should be considered a vaccine reaction if you suspect that it was caused from the vaccine.
 
 

Myth #3: If I tell my doctor about the reaction, the office will report it

Unlikely. There are many reasons why hospitals and doctor’s offices don’t report vaccine reactions most of the time.

1. Doctors offices and hospitals are busy places and reporting vaccine reactions is not their priority
2. The doctor doesn’t agree with the parent or patient that the problem reported is actually due to the vaccine
3. The doctor felt that it was to minor a reaction to report
4. The reaction was taken care of at home and the child didn’t go to the doctor or hospital so doctors never became aware of the problem

Myth #4: Only Medical personnel can report vaccine reactions

Anyone can report a vaccine reaction

Nope.

ANYONE CAN!

It is not common knowledge that ANYONE can report a vaccine reaction- quickly, easily and anonymously. Most people believe that their doctor or the hospital has to report the vaccine reaction.

To report a vaccine reaction, go to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System Website and fill out the quick, anonymous form to report a vaccine reaction.

Reporting a vaccine reaction is extremely important. Many people claim that they have certain reactions to vaccines, but these “anecdotal” claims get discarded if they are not reported.

If everyone would report vaccine reactions- even if they only SUSPECT it is a reaction, then we would have much better information about these drugs that culd make a big difference in their safety and prevent people getting hurt in the future.

So  do the right thing, pass this along to everyone you know so that EVERYONE becomes aware that they CAN report these reactions themselves.
 
 

Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune System Queen
Functional Medicine Practitioner
Immune System

PS: If you found this website helpful, please consider using the
Easy Immune Health Product Store the next time you purchase your supplements online. Your support allows me to keep this site running and educating as many people as possible. Thank you!

Joshua Tucker The Tendonitis Expert

For those of you that don’t know me, my name is Joshua Tucker, The Tendonitis Expert.

As an expert in the field of eliminating Tendonitis related issues like Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Wrist Tendonitis, and Tennis Elbow, I spend a lot of time looking at, learning about, and educating about the Process of Inflammation.
My primary focus is specific injury and general localized Inflammation.
Kerri Knox, my favorite Immune Queen, asked me to speak about my view on Inflammation and how it might relate to the physical issues that she deals with when helping her clients become pain free.
Let’s jump right into it.
Inflammation is a Process that the body kicks in EVERY SINGLE TIME your nervous system feels pain.

In the case of a Tennis Elbow injury, for instance, if there is a little bit of wear and tear injury, the body responds by kicking in a Process of Inflammation.

The Inflammation Response is designed to protect you.. It helps you heal, and it attempts to keep you from hurting yourself even more.

The problem is, the way it does this causes problems. I call it “The Downward Spiral”.

First there is a little bit of pain. The body wants to protect you, so it does the only thing it knows how to do: it kicks in an Inflammation Process, which traps fluid in the area and releases chemicals which enhance your sensitivity to pain (a.k.a., ‘the chemical’)

The Chemical makes your muscles tighten up, and they make your neuro-receptors MORE SENSITIVE, so you hurt more.

Tight muscles limit necessary circulation, which makes you hurt more. The Chemical gets trapped in the half squeezed muscles, and makes you hurt more. Things get tight, stay tight, and you hurt more and more.

Then, guess what? Remember what the nervous system does when it feels pain?  Yep, it kicks in inflammation, which tightens things up and releases chemical to enhances your sensitivity to pain.
This is an important concept: Your body’s response to tightness and pain is to create more tightness and pain….which builds on itself to create more tightness and pain.
It’s a Downward Spiral of ever increasing tightness and pain.

This is why Carpal Tunnel, Tennis Elbow, Wrist Tendonitis, etc, start to hurt, and then eventually continue to hurt, ultimately getting worse and worse.

The Carpal Tunnel Treatment That Works

As a general rule, Doctors don’t fully understand how inflammation works at the local, small injury level. They certainly don’t understand it at a deeper, systemic level. Whether it’s the entire system, or just one of the body’s systems having a problem, it’s incredibly useful to understand how all the variable parts fit together to form the bigger picture.

How does it work at the systemic level?

Stay tuned and find out.
Joshua Tucker, B.A., C.M.T..
The Tendonitis Expert
www.TendonitisExpert.com

 
I was talking to my mother the other day and she told me that she had already had the “flu” this year. Upon further questioning, it turned out that she had a gastrointestinal illness for a day or two.

Colds and Flu look like this!

A couple days later when I was working in the hospital Emergency Department, the paramedics called to say that they were bringing in a person who had “flu-like symptoms”.

It also turned out that she had a gastrointestinal illness.

So obviously there is much confusion, even in the medical world, about what the “flu” is.
 
 

The REAL flu is a virus called influenza.

When you contract influenza, you get “cold-like symptoms”: stuffy nose, joint aches, headache, coughing, fever and fatigue. It often seems like the flu except that you feel a LOT worse and it generally comes on VERY quickly.

When people get a “flu vaccine”, they are getting vaccinated against THIS virus- Influenza. When the news reports on the Avian Flu or the Bird Flu, it is THIS virus that they are talking about.
 

 
Now, when you get a gastrointestinal illness, usually accompanied by diarrhea and often nausea and vomiting, this is NOT influenza, but likely it’s some other virus… possibly the Norovirus.

Norovirus is a very contagious virus that causes nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. It often goes through a household or office with EVERYONE getting it very quickly. Many people think that they have food poisioning when they get the norovirus.
 
 

But it is NOT the flu
 
 There is no vaccine to prevent you from getting this uncomfortable gastrointestinal problem.

I hope that clears up any confusion about the flu for anyone who thought that gastrointestinal problems were somehow related to the influenza vaccine or the Bird Flu.
 
 

However, these two viruses ARE LINKED!

A poor immune system is responsible for BOTH of these diseases. While yes, they are “contagious”, you need not CATCH them from other people if your immune system is “bulletproof”.

It is a MYTH that someone else GIVES you a cold, the flu or the norovirus- YOU give it to yourself by not being able to fight it off.

Want to learn how to make your immune system “bulletproof”? I can teach you and you’ll stay healthy for the rest of your life.

Contact me for a free “quick consultation” to learn if I can help you to recover from most chronic health problems, improve your energy or just get your immune system bulletproof!
 

Kerri Knox, RN
Functional Medicine Practitioner
http://www.easy-immune-health.com

I thought that you might get a good laugh out of this research study. It’s a research study on…. well, research studies. It shows that research studies don’t tell us ANYTHING!!!

“…it is more likely for a research claim
 to be false than true. ”
 John P. A. Ioannidis

 
I love articles that upset the status quo.

Kerri Knox, RN
Functional Medicine Practitoner
http://www.easy-immune-health.com

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John P. A. Ioannidis

There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false. The probability that a research claim is true may depend on study power and bias, the number of other studies on the same question, and, importantly, the ratio of true to no relationships among the relationships probed in each scientific field.

In this framework, a research finding is less likely to be true when the studies conducted in a field are smaller; when effect sizes are smaller; when there is a greater number and lesser preselection of tested relationships; where there is greater flexibility in designs, definitions, outcomes, and analytical modes; when there is greater financial and other interest and prejudice; and when more teams are involved in a scientific field in chase of statistical significance.

Simulations show that for most study designs and settings, it is more likely for a research claim to be false than true

Moreover, for many current scientific fields, claimed research findings may often be simply accurate measures of the prevailing bias.

Full article at the Public Library of Science

A worldwide Flu Pandemic was averted by just a HAIR when Baxter, an American Pharmaceutical Company, shipped flu vaccines to 18 different countries.
 
 

Baxter's Contaminated Flu Vaccine could cause Global Avian Flu Pandemic

The flu vaccines were “contaminated” with
LIVE AVIAN FLU VIRUSES!
 

By a stroke of luck or chance, a laboratory testing the vaccines discovered the contamination and alerted Baxter.
 
 

Supposedly, there were only approximately 35 people “exposed” to these vaccines- but no one has yet defined what the word exposure means in this case, so whether people were given vaccinations with these live viruses has yet to come to the public’s knowledge.

According to reports by Baxter in the past, they have extraordinarily high levels of security and hygiene in place that makes the contamination “Impossible”.
 

 

So, how did it happen?Baxter has commented only to confirm that the virus, was indeed, live and to state that it was a mistake.
 
 

A Mistake or a Bioterrorism Attack?

 
Interestingly enough, the Avian Flu virus that the vaccines contain cannot be transmitted from human to human (yet!), so a person infected with that strain poses little risk.

HOWEVER, researchers had put out a report last year stating that if the EXACT TWO STRAINS OF FLU that were found in the “contaminated” vaccines, were ever to infect the same person at the same time, the genetics of the two could combine and allow the Avian Flu to be as easily transmitted from person to person as the regular flu virus.
 
 

Coincidental?
 

Maybe. But the intense security measures making this an ‘impossible’ event and the fact that these are the EXACT two strains of virus that researchers said had the possibility to create a new global flu pandemic that could dwarf the 1918-1919 pandemic are making some question the idea of a bioterror attack by Baxter.
 
 

What Baxter has to gain by a Flu Pandemic…

 
Not only does Baxter have the live flu virus and the vaccine facilities that could be called upon to make millions of vaccines for distribution around the world, but Baxter could ALSO benefit from critically ill patients.

Not only does Baxter make vaccines, but it also supplies medical fluids, IV supplies and intravenously administered nutrition that are required by tens of thousands of critically ill patients that would be in the Critical Care Unit with the avian flu.
 
 

So Baxter could benefit from the prevention AND the treatment of a global pandemic of their making!!
 
 

They even stole the idea…

 
The IDEA of a pharmaceutical company STARTING the next flu pandemic is not even unique to Baxter. The novel Lazarus Strain
by Ken McClure outlines this nearly exact scenario!
 
 

Almost a grim joke.
 
 

So while the European equivalent to the CDC is ‘investigating’ this potential epic global disaster, why do I have a feeling that Baxter will get away with a hand slap!?
 
 

Why is the US media not covering this…

 
This is a scandal that could have started the biggest worldwide plague since the 1918-1919 flu pandemic.
 



 

In the 1990′s, ONE letter that contained Anthrax set off a nationwide panic: a nationwide manhunt, policy changes in the US postal system and warnings to all citizens.

Yet Baxter’s act of intentional or unintentional Bioterrorism hardly gets a PEEP! No news, no headlines, no planned investigations by the US government, no one warning us not to get flu shots until it is determined that our vaccines are safe from contamination.

Is American Media and the US government in the pocket of the Trillion dollar a year Pharmaceutical manufacturers?

You decide.
 
 

Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune System Queen
Functional Medicine Practitioner
Immune System

PS: If you found this website helpful, please consider using the
Easy Immune Health Product Store the next time you purchase your supplements online. Your support allows me to keep this site running and educating as many people as possible. Thank you!