Short Lesson in Medicine
In modern medicine everything is defined as toxic so they obsess
with the idea that the dose makes the poison. The problem is that not
everything is poisonous. Is water? How about clean air, organic food?
Well sure one can drown in water and eat too much good food but does
that make them poisonous?
Is Coke poisonous? Is it toxic? A New Zealand coroner has linked
the death of a 31-year-old woman to her Coca-Cola addiction. The
coroner concluded that the sugar and caffeine she got by drinking more than 2.6 gallons of Coca-Cola Classic per day was “a substantial factor” in her death.
The woman’s partner said she would get headaches and act moody
without her Coke fix. Close friends said she would “get the shakes” and
other withdrawal symptoms. Her heart would race, her liver was swollen,
and her rotting teeth had to be removed. But, said the report, “the family did not consider that Coke was harmful due to the fact of it having no warning signs.”
Dr. Christopher Holstege, chief of medical toxicology at the
University of Virginia in Charlottesville, said anything can be toxic in
large enough quantities. “In toxicology, everything comes down to
dose. And it sounds as though she was certainly taking an excessive
dose,” he said, adding that drinking two gallons of soda per day with
limited amounts of food can cause a dangerous imbalance in
electrolytes. “You’re also not getting essential nutrients when you’re
only drinking Coke. You’re basically getting sugar, and you’re going to
be deficient in vitamins, minerals and other essential nutrients.”
When you look at all the science that shows that tumors are pH sensitive moving more rapidly and aggressively into low pH (acid) conditions one has to wonder if Coke and Pepsi cause cancer. Both
of these drinks are incredibly acidic working to destroy peoples'
health slowly through time. I personally know the son of the
ex-president of Coke Cola Company here in Brazil and his grandfather
told him to never take a sip. He never did!
Selenium
I am putting together a book (for me booklet size) called Selenium Medicine
and it will include information on related topics like glutathione,
sulfur, garlic, selenium nuts (I love them in smoothies), spirulina and
mercury, which by the way is the only poison in this sentence.
In this book I am proposing high dose selenium therapy
for cancer and other serious diseases. Shouldn’t you be afraid to take
high dosages of such a toxic mineral such as selenium? After all it has
a bad reputation for being dangerous! Right?
Wrong!
Using aspirin is considerably more dangerous than using selenium;
aspirin kills thousands of people a year in the United States alone
and we don’t have medical doctors going around telling people not to
take aspirin. And we don’t have doctors going around telling people not
to drink Coke.
The July 1998 issue of The American Journal of Medicine said:
“Conservative calculations estimate
that approximately 107,000 patients are hospitalized annually for
non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID)-related gastrointestinal
(GI) complications and at least 16,500 NSAID-related deaths occur each
year among arthritis patients alone.” (Singh Gurkirpal, MD, “Recent
Considerations in Non-steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug Gastropathy,” The American Journal of Medicine, July 27, 1998, p. 31S)
Common over-the-counter painkillers such as aspirin kill around 20,000
Americans every year, and another 100,000 end up in hospital as a
result of taking the drug, new research reveals. Painkillers known as
NSAIDs (non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drugs) are far more dangerous
than people have been told and can cause life-threatening
gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding, stomach perforations and ulcers. More
than 14 million Americans regularly take an NSAID for their arthritis
pain alone, and around 60% of these will suffer gastrointestinal side
effects—and will probably never blame the drug, researchers from the
Eastern Virginia Medical School estimate.
Selenium is Safe
An online search reveals only one reported death from selenium. In 2006 an Australian man
died after swallowing 10,000 times the daily dose of selenium. The
75-year-old mistakenly purchased sodium selenite powder used primarily
as a supplement for livestock and swallowed 10 grams.
Selenium toxicity is rare in the U.S. The few reported cases have
been associated with industrial accidents and a manufacturing error
that led to an excessively high dose of selenium in a supplement. The
Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences has set a
tolerable upper intake level (UL) for selenium at 400 micrograms per
day (ug/day) for adults to prevent the risk of developing selenosis.
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