Bruce West made 2008 a very good year for learning.  Here is Decembers issue.  Here is what I hope you learn from it.  For the full issue, just download the PDF at the end.

Heart Disease

According to the New England Journal Of Medicine (Apr.2007) “mortality from cardiovascular disease causes is expected to increase by 90% by 2020, as compared to that of 1990.  This fact alone should be disturbing, but alas, no one in the medical community sees the problem.

A work horse needs food or it weakens and falters.  You can whip it for a few more days of work, but soon it will die.  Most cardiovascular patients are the same as the horse.  Characteristically the heart is starved of B vitamins.  Drugs can never feed a heart just whip it.

Synthetic vitamins will not work either.  To strengthen the heart it needs B vitamins, C vitamins (not ascorbic acid), minerals, unsaturated fatty acids, and more.

Strong Kids

Kids are very much out of shape compared to when I was a kid.  Kids need 1/2 hour of strength training per week.  They benefit with increased bone and muscle strength, better endurance, better coordination, better blood sugars, and a better metabolic rate.
Dr. Altman here…When my wife and I workout, our 11 year old voluntarily comes down and works out with us.

Broken Hips…Thanks to the osteoporosis drugs.

All the current drugs interferes with the bodies ability to clear away old, brittle, dead, diseased bone and replace it with new strong bone.  Bone density and strength are NOT the same thing.  Billions of dollars in sales keeps this info locked away.  The lawsuits are starting because these drugs can cause permanent rotting of the jawbone.
The Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma (May/June 2008) reported that Fosamax caused spontaneous, severe hip fractures in women who took the drug for more than 5 years.  Almost all occurred while standing or walking.  Read the whole newsletter to fix it.

Cancer Research,  Whoops wrong place to look

This is a must read for breast cancer.  For a past quarter century almost all breast cancer research has been based on one particular cell line.  Think BILLIONS of dollars and countless research papers. (The Scientist Sept, 2008)  They reported through genetic testing that these test cells are NOT composed of breast cancer cells at all.  Ouch!

It makes all those science only cures look a little sheepish.  It is this kind of thinking that really bothers me.  To say that only science based cures are acceptable and everything else is pure quackery is nonsense.  Cancer research has been looking in the wrong place.

The good news.  People who survive cancer either have strong immune systems or they take an active movement in strengthening their own immune systems.  It doesn’t matter what type of cancer.   The human immune system if strong enough can eradicate it.

Synthetic Supplements = $$$Urine

If your vitamin’s say “high-potency, or high-dose” you’re in trouble.  A watch can’t tell time without a mainspring.  It only needs one to work.  If I have a shipment of 1000 mainsprings I can’t tell time any better, nor are they needed.  “high-potency” vitamins are NOT natural no matter what the sales label says.

Why Dr. West and Myself Do Not Own A Microwave.