Statins–beneficial or big money maker?

Statin drugs are a multi-billion dollar industry, despite the fact that study after study questions their use and safety.

Surely if your medical doctor understood healing the body at the cellular level; the method of action of statin drugs; and the enormous amount of lawsuits resulting from their use —he would not even consider them a viable option.

Hormones are chemical messengers that tell every cell, organ, system, etc. what to do. All hormones are made from cholesterol. In order to carry out the hormonal commands on time and correctly, every hormone has specific enzymes and co-factors that must be present. One of those cofactors for the production of cholesterol is Coenzyme Q10.

There is no such thing as good or bad cholesterol. If cholesterol is made in your liver—then logic would tell you that the quality of that cholesterol would be dependent upon what type of oil you put into your liver. You wouldn’t put used junkyard oil in your expensive sports car would you? If you put oil from a junkyard in your expensive sports car, you could expect it to stick to the valves and eventually burn out your engine. And yet—many people eat bad oil like five-day-old French fry grease on a daily basis and wonder why they have clogged arteries and inflammation. Good oil, on the other hand, produces healthy cholesterol, which is critically necessary for every cell in your body to run smoothly and is the precursor to all your hormones. Good oil, like coconut, avocado, fresh pressed olive oil in glass bottles—will produce good cholesterol.

Statins have absolutely nothing to do with producing good oil that lubricates or bad oil that inflames. Statins work by blocking the coenzyme factor Q10 that is necessary to produce all cholesterol in the liver. The reason being, that by blocking all cholesterol, you block “bad” for sure.

Isn’t that like giving every kid at the lunch table after school detention because one kid was talking? Statins are flawed science. Why are they still being prescribed to millions of humans?

“Lipitor is by far the most profitable drug in the history of mankind among all pharmaceutical products, let alone being the most profitable cholesterol drug before its patent expired at the end of 2011. Sales to date from this one particular cholesterol-lowering statin drug have exceeded $ 140 billion.” (Health Impact News listed below)

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Resources:

https://metabolichealing.com/cholesterol-your-body-is-incapable-of-making-hormones-without-it/

http://complete-health-and-happiness.com/big-pharma-suffers-another-major-blow-as-study-debunks-high-cholesterol-myths-admitting-statins-are-totally-worthless/

http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/thousands-sue-for-damages-against-cholesterol-drugs-as-big-pharma-defends-billion-dollar-industry/

Statins–beneficial or big money maker?

Junior was a London Paralympics Games Maker. Don’t talk to him about ‘legacy’ | Frances Ryan

Exactly four years ago, surrounded by placards saying “Equality” and “Rights”, Junior Sterling was performing to millions of people in London’s Paralympic opening ceremony. But despite all the talk of the Games’ legacy for disabled people in Britain, the 55-year-old, who was born with a muscle-wasting disease and club foot, has been left to live in a kitchen covered in mould and with a bucket for his bathroom.

In his one-bed council flat in Shepherd’s Bush, west London, Junior talks avidly about London’s Paralympics in 2012. He was a volunteer Games Maker, working as a steward at the wheelchair tennis, and part of the famed “Spasticus Autisticus!” segment of the opening ceremony. In the run-up to the Games, Junior even had his photo taken with Sebastian Coe after creating a sign spelling out 2012 in braille. What no one realised, however, was that after spending his day around Paralympians, as Junior puts it to me: “I’d go back to my home infested with bugs.”

Junior has been in this flat for 20 years; his first home after eight years of, in his words, “living in cardboard boxes” on London’s streets. The flat is on the top floor of the block, up three flights of steps and there’s no lift, which isn’t ideal for someone who struggles to walk. But Junior took the flat, afraid that if he didn’t he’d be sent to the bottom of the council’s housing list.

‘The toilet in his bathroom flushes but because of the damp and the smell, he’s afraid to go in there.’

The problems inside the flat started several years later, in 2002. At first it was a simple problem with his shower. By the time of London 2012, the plumbing had got so bad through the whole flat it had flooded Junior’s downstairs neighbour causing their shower tiles fall off. Filter flies, drawn to drains and sewage, contaminated his bathroom.

Since then, little has changed. In fact, it’s got worse. As of this summer, Junior has been without a working bathroom or kitchen for five years. The shower is disconnected and the bath has a panel missing. Damp and mould cover the ceiling and walls. The housing association responsible for the accommodation, Peabody Trust, got rid of the fly infestation but the stench remains, Junior says. The kitchen sink is still bust; Junior’s been told by the manager of his housing block not to use it (water leaks down the walls of the neighbour beneath him).

The effects of the damp then spread into the front room. The carpet is cut up – a scrap left in the middle of the floor – and a loaf of bread, tinned milk, tuna, and corn flour are stacked on the furniture. The water and mould in the kitchen means Junior has to keep the food where he sits, but flies are attracted to it, especially when it’s hot.

Junior has contacted Peabody housing association repeatedly over the years – he shows me a journal he’s kept of it all, 10 pages going back over a decade – but says he’s barely heard a whisper back. Still, they keep collecting the rent: £129 per week, paid straight from Junior’s council. He says when he does hear back from them, Peabody claims it’s not been able to get in touch with him. “They make so much money, but this? They can’t sort this.”

‘With no working shower, if he wants a shave, he gets water from a hose.’

A Peabody spokesman offered to put the wheels in motion to sort the problems out, stating that the team had already tried to resolve them, but that the last contact they had with Junior was in March 2015. “Prior to that we worked extensively with the council and our contractors to draw up a specification of works. These were unable to be completed as the contractor was repeatedly refused entry by the tenant,” he added. “Mr Sterling has declined to deal with us directly, insisting that all communication went through his solicitor. If Mr Sterling would like our contractor to make fresh inspections and carry out repairs, he will need to get in touch and let them into the home.”

Junior says someone from Peabody​ came to take pictures of his flat but he is unaware of anyone trying to the carry out the necessary work. He had a solicitor to help him for three years, but without legal aid he was unable to take the case to court. In the meantime, he can barely keep clean. The toilet in his bathroom flushes but because of the damp and the smell, he’s afraid to go in there. Instead, a toilet for Junior is now “a bag and a box”. With no working shower, if he wants a shave, he gets water from a hose outside the flat. Two buckets for when he needs a wash.

Because of the kitchen leak, it’s the same routine each time he has a hot drink. “If I want tea or coffee, I have to fill up a water bottle,” he says. “Go down [to the hose]. Fill it up with water. And then do it again.”

Anyone’s health would get worse from living like this, but when you’re disabled, it’s devastating. Junior’s two stone lighter now (“I can’t eat in the flat”) and the mould gives him recurring chest infections. Not being able to shower or bathe for years has led to him losing his hair through dry skin, and his feet – already vulnerable – are now covered in callouses.

Junior still has his London 2012 Paralympic band around his wrist. “I can’t tell you the tears I’ve cried,” he says. “I may as well be homeless again.”

Junior was a London Paralympics Games Maker. Don’t talk to him about ‘legacy’ | Frances Ryan

Meals Waste Fuels Growth for Biochemical Maker Blue Marble

Blue Marble Biomaterials is out to exchange petroleum-derived chemicals in the meals, beverage, and personalized care markets with natural, organic biochemicals although guaranteeing aggressive and secure charges. Food waste, a major feedstock for their goods, fuels their speedy growth and worldwide growth.

Final quarter marked the launch of their very first revenue cycle for the 7 12 months-previous Missoula-based Blue Marble Biomaterials, a subsidiary of Blue Marble Power. In the past sixteen months, they have grown from 9 to 24 workers, improved their daily processing capability from three to fifty-five tons of feedstock, and now count dozens of new clients.

Using a procedure that mimics nature, they aim to be the normal option to Dow Chemical. “Nature is really efficient—it does not produce waste,” mentioned Colby Underwood,Blue Marble’s Chief Business Officer and Co-CEO. “We imagined about how to replicate nature, how do we cease employing waste in our provide chain, how do we turn into a a lot more effective species by minimizing the sum of so named “waste” we’re throwing away every year.”

Their timing is right—consumers have grow to be a lot more conscious about the supply of merchandise, governments are investing a lot more in clean technology and creating green-collared jobs, and businesses are moving away from relying on politically unstable regions for power sources. In contrast to the fluctuating price of crude oil or petroleum, Blue Marble can promise pricing for eight to 18 months, making it less complicated for consumers to price range for the future. Underwood said that less than 20% of all chemical offered in the US are renewable or sustainable and that there are forecasts from the USDA that by 2025, 45% of all chemical substances will be renewable.

 “Pink Peppercorn” vs. Petroleum

Petrochemicals are chemical merchandise derived from petroleum and they are everywhere. Thousands of client goods include one particular or much more petroleum derived chemical compounds and most of these petrochemicals are produced by massive companies such as Dow Chemical. They are in our chewing gum, perfume, skin lotions, sunscreen, and beverages. They taste and color our foods and give farmed salmon its pinkish hue.

When foods manufacturers make items from natural matter such as beer, coffee, baked goods, pasta, sauces, cheese, and so on, they also produce what most men and women think about to be waste (feel of the coffee grounds you throw out every single morning right after brewing your pot of coffee). Blue Marble feeds a cocktail of trade secret polyculture bacterial cassettes to that biomass feedstock to generate distinct organic biochemicals.  Blue Marble’s solution line reads far more like a homeopathic catalog than a record chemical substances since their biochemicals derive from organic merchandise like pink peppercorn, cardamom seeds, and Western Red Cedar. The feedstock for these biochemicals is comprised of byproducts that would typically finish up in our landfills, compost centers, or burn piles.

Fermentation Tanks at Blue Marble Biorefinery. Crude oil is designed by stress, heat, biomass and naturally happening bacteria deep underground. “We are essentially replicating what transpires deep in the Earth in our fermentation tanks to create the biochemicals,” mentioned Colby Underwood, Blue Marble’s Chief Business Officer and Co-CEO. (Blue Marble Facebook Page, 5/five/14).

Pivot from biofuels to biochemicals

Blue Marble’s Co-founder and President James Stephens explained he commenced collecting microbes as a teenager and he has tens of 1000′s of samples now. Following operating in numerous biotech companies, Stephens found power generation to be extremely inefficient and imagined “there need to be a way to harness all-natural systems” rather.

He discovered a way. With Kelly Ogilvie, Stephens co-founded Blue Marble Power in 2007 in Seattle. The company started out as a biofuel business, converting algae into biofuels.

“We produced an effective eco-system primarily based approach to make renewable energy making use of algae,” said Stephens. “A handful of many years later, we recognized that the chemical substances becoming created in the method have been a lot a lot more valuable.”

The founders approached Underwood in 2007 to join the group as employee no. 4. Underwood assisted them identify the organization opportunity in focusing on creating biochemicals. In 2008, the business pivoted from creating biofuels to biochemicals.

Stephens created the patented processes that develop the biochemicals as effectively as found the parent bacteria that catalyzes the process. Stephens, who like “any excellent scientist,” has a lab at residence to tinker with experiments, said “there was no Eureka moment” in establishing the technology.

“It has been an incremental approach to learn how to make the chemical substances. Every single biochemical is produced in a diverse eco-technique with 1000′s of various organisms doing work together in a certain way,” said Stephens. “It’s like directing a rain forest.”

Underwood explained, “From our personal investigation, we’re the only organization in the globe to patent this variety of fermentation process to generate GMO free, all natural, drop in substitute chemicals for the flavor, fragrance and personal care markets.”

Meals Waste Fuels Growth for Biochemical Maker Blue Marble

Mario Kart 8 Proves Nintendo Is The Game Maker For Grown-Ups

I think Mario Kart eight is just about the most mature game I’ve played this 12 months. I know readers won’t like this post. They’ll disagree. For some cause it appears to have become amazing to hate Nintendo. I’m alone in my adoration and it is primarily since I publish from a father’s viewpoint. I’m confident my premise will seem to be absurd to most readers. How could I call the game maker that can make ‘kiddie’ video games mature? I’ll describe.

A blister has practically formed on my thumb from pressing down the accelerator button. My children and I have been giggling and playing together nonstop. Mario Kart eight is intergenerational bliss. Parents and kids ought to all play this game collectively.

Ordinarily, I’d cite some research. I’ve written many posts (like this 1) explaining the benefits that come from mothers and fathers and little ones playing video video games together. But I’m not creating that this time. This is not about analysis.

I also really do not want this to be a overview of the game reviewer is really not within my talent set. Besides, Erik Kain has currently written the only assessment you want to read through about this extremely anticipated game. His review, and the others about the net, are overwhelmingly optimistic. Despite the truth that the recent trend in game journalism seems to be negative on Nintendo, number of writers can deny that this eighth iteration of the classic go-kart racer has stunning artwork and top-notch controls. Even the negative evaluations appear to be complaining about what’s been removed because the final version. Paradoxically, they are reviewing what’s not there. It is virtually as if we all comprehend just how excellent Nintendo is at generating video video games. So a lot so that we get the achievements for granted.

The greatest achievement here is that Mario Kart 8 is just as considerably fun for me to play as it is for my six year previous, my eight yr outdated, and absolutely everyone else who has visited my residence given that we downloaded our review copy (like my adolescent teenaged nephew). Contemplate that for a moment. This game is challenging ample for me that I want to perform, but nonetheless basic ample for my six year outdated that he stays stimulated.

We snuggle up subsequent to each and every other on the sofa, controllers in hand, playing with each other. We talk about our favored race tracks, the very best motor vehicle modifications, and how this model compares to Mario Kart seven. There is one thing truly particular about the expertise. I feel like a father when I perform.

As a mother or father, I’m always striving to introduce my kids to things that I appreciated in my youth. I play them music. I present them films. I get them to the parks I loved. I introduce them to the comfort meals that come accompanied with fond memories. Most of the time it doesn’t perform. Times alter. Items age. What appeals to a single generation is hardly of interest to the following. But Mario is different.

Mario is like Star Wars. From the minute I showed the very first film to my little ones, they were hooked and I was flooded with recollections. Handful of motion pictures span generations like this. It is like LEGO. There’s a timelessness in the entertaining-element of the brick. Most toys wane with age. Mario, Luigi, and the gang be successful. And with Mario Kart 8, Nintendo masterfully builds a game that blends grown up nostalgia refreshed in a way that keeps it from feeling dated.

They’ve managed to do this again and once more in recent many years. New Super Mario Brothers. Super Mario 3D Globe. Yoshi’s New Island. Kirby Triple Deluxe. Each new title, one particular after the subsequent, stands out in the household group in approaches nobody else looks capable of matching. This is a mark of maturity.

Certain, these aren’t the video games we place the “M” rating on. But we live in a society that believes an adolescent perspective of violence, destruction, and fight is “mature.” Following all, the U.S. is founded on revolution. And we continue to be like perpetual youngsters, celebrating rebelliousness and the most simplistic iterations of the Oedipal struggle. Our most lauded folks are the “innovators” and “disruptors.” Cue the classic Apple Personal computer commercial in your head the dreamers, the misfits, the crazy ones, and so forth.

That’s teenaged things, a narrative of perpetual obsolescence—-too significantly plastic packaging and not ample recycling–that’s wasteful and unsustainable. The rebels of these days become the fathers of tomorrow, waiting to be disrupted by the subsequent generation. It is counterproductive. As a father, I don’t value new, shiny, provocative, and edgy in the identical way I worth sustainability, stability, mindfulness, and training. I’m seeking for fun. I’m looking for thoughtful. I’m hunting for options to bond with my kids. I’m seeking for anything that transcends generational idiosyncrasies. Generating games that accomplishes this impresses me.

This is the maturity that tends to make me consider Nintendo is foremost the pack in a game industry that’s just now crossing in excess of into adulthood. Just as numerous of the game producers and executives of the previous generation have grown up to begin operating on social affect and educational games (have you observed the trailer for In no way Alone that Alan Gershenfeld, former Activision executive is involved in?), I believe Nintendo continues to show unmatched maturity in their centered focus on family games–not games for little ones, but video games that the whole loved ones can take pleasure in together.

I motivate every single mother or father to play Mario Kart 8 with their little ones. At the really least, I consider you are assured a couple of nights exactly where you’re all staring at one particular display together instead of person personal screens alone.

Afterward, take a stroll, nature is the most mature game maker of all.

Jordan Shapiro is author of FREEPLAY: A Video Game Manual to Greatest Euphoric Bliss, and MindShift’s Guidebook To Games And Learning For information on Jordan’s approaching books and events click right here.

Mario Kart 8 Proves Nintendo Is The Game Maker For Grown-Ups

Farage lobbies for "remarkable" e-cigarettes in video following donation from maker

Ukip accepted a donation of £25,000 Pillbox 38, the Blackburn firm behind electronic cigarette brand Absolutely Wicked final May possibly. The get together then accepted a additional donation of £11,000 from Jason Cropper the founder of the group in July, the electoral commission register exhibits.

In the 90 second video Mr Farage attempted out a greater e-cigarette comparable to the type that Totally Wicked makes and then on an e-cigar.

Mr Farage says that smaller sized, non-refillable cigarettes that are not going to be banned by the commission are largely produced by the “big pharmaceutical lobby and by large tobacco.”

The Ukip leader described the greater cigarettes of the kind make by Absolutely Wicked which had been recommended for a ban, “remarkable” and produced by “a total host of entrepreneurs.”

Mr Farage continued: “I have to say, as a smoker, frankly I haven’t yet offered up but I could do very very easily and there are 1.eight million men and women in this nation utilizing these factors, it is cutting down tobacco use massively.

“Yet these are due to be banned… I want to see the British government stand up and say, we, underneath no situations, will we accept this.”

Following debate the European Commission made a decision to impose bigger health warnings on cigarette packets and cap the amount of nicotine allowed in e-cigarettes rather than impose a ban.

A Ukip spokesman stated: “The only response we’re offering is that Nigel Farage is properly identified for his libertarian views on such matters.” He added: “Nigel has always been campaigning on this type of issue.”

Mr Cropper’s brother Fraser, who took more than as chief executive of Pillbox 38 mentioned MEPs from other parties had been far more “tenacious” than Mr Farage in standing up for the organization in Brussels.

Farage lobbies for "remarkable" e-cigarettes in video following donation from maker