wakingtimes--2020-02-08--Largest Milk Producer In US Files For Bankruptcy As Industry’s Profits Fall

The largest milk producer in the United States , Dean Foods , has filed for bankruptcy .
The dairy industry has seen declining profits in recent years as fewer people are drinking cow ’ s milk , but 2019 was one of the worst years on record for the industry , especially for Dean Foods , which saw a 14 % reduction in profits this year , as well as an 80 % drop in its stock price .
Dean Foods is not a particularly recognizable name , but they actually own many of the popular brands that fill the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ US , such as TruMoo , Dairy Pure , and Land O ’ Lakes milks .
The company admitted in a recent statement that their financial woes were the result of an “ accelerated decline in the conventional white milk category.
” The consequences of the trend were felt even harder for Dean Foods after losing a contract with Walmart when the company decided to build its own dairy plant .
According to CNN Business , traditional milk sales have been dropping steadily in the past four years .
For example , sales @ @ @ @ @ @ @ around $ 12 billion globally , which is roughly $ 3 billion less than the $ 15 billion made by dairy companies in 2015 .
Recent reports have indicated that the industry lost another billion dollars in value last year .
Meanwhile , sales continue to increase for alternatives to traditional dairy .
For example , sales for oat milk have increased by 636 % , to $ 53 million in the past year alone .
Euromonitor estimates that the market for traditional dairy alternatives will be worth more than $ 18 billion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ However , despite the problems that the dairy industry has had in recent years , they are still expected to bring in around $ 120 billion globally this year , and they are still behind the vast majority of the products that end up on store shelves .
John Vibes is an author and journalist who takes a special interest in the counter culture , and focuses solutions-oriented approaches to social problems .
He is also a host of The Free Your Mind Conference and The Free Thought Project Podcast .

Largest Milk Producer In US Files For Bankruptcy As Industry’s Profits Fall
John Vibes, Truth Theory
Waking Times
The largest milk producer in the United States, Dean Foods, has filed for bankruptcy. The dairy industry has seen declining profits in recent years as fewer people are drinking cow’s milk, but 2019 was one of the worst years on record for the industry, especially for Dean Foods, which saw a 14% reduction in profits this year, as well as an 80% drop in its stock price.
Dean Foods is not a particularly recognizable name, but they actually own many of the popular brands that fill the shelves in most grocery stores throughout the US, such as TruMoo, Dairy Pure, and Land O’ Lakes milks.
The company admitted in a recent statement that their financial woes were the result of an “accelerated decline in the conventional white milk category.”
The consequences of the trend were felt even harder for Dean Foods after losing a contract with Walmart when the company decided to build its own dairy plant.
According to CNN Business, traditional milk sales have been dropping steadily in the past four years. For example, sales for the entire industry last year are around $12 billion globally, which is roughly $3 billion less than the $15 billion made by dairy companies in 2015. Recent reports have indicated that the industry lost another billion dollars in value last year.
Meanwhile, sales continue to increase for alternatives to traditional dairy. For example, sales for oat milk have increased by 636%, to $53 million in the past year alone. Euromonitor estimates that the market for traditional dairy alternatives will be worth more than $18 billion by the end of the year.
However, despite the problems that the dairy industry has had in recent years, they are still expected to bring in around $120 billion globally this year, and they are still behind the vast majority of the products that end up on store shelves.
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About the Author
John Vibes is an author and journalist who takes a special interest in the counter culture, and focuses solutions-oriented approaches to social problems. He is also a host of The Free Your Mind Conference and The Free Thought Project Podcast.


wakingtimes--2020-02-08--Today’s World Calls for a Radical New Approach to Detox

Toxicity plays an enormous role in today ’ s exploding rates of autoimmunity , neurodegenerative disease , and obesity .
The links between cumulative environmental exposure and autoimmune illnesses is complex because our bodies are exposed to countless mixtures of toxins over time .
Sadly , our inundation with these exposures essentially amounts to a massive public health experiment–and one you may be paying for with your health .
The statistics speak for themselves .
Besides cancer and other serious illnesses , exposure to industrial chemicals , heavy metals and other toxins have been linked to autoimmune disease , placing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ throughout the body .
[ i ] The autoimmune condition Hashimoto ’ s thyroiditis is a prime example , accounting for up to 90 percent of hypothyroidism cases .
[ ii ] Between 2013 and 2015 , 54 million Americans–nearly a quarter of the population–were diagnosed with some form of arthritis , gout , lupus , or fibromyalgia .
[ iii ] More than one-third of Americans are obese , and the incidence of type 2 diabetes is through the roof .
We can detox our liver and blood , and our intestinal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ahead of it unless we cleanse and rebuild our cells .
The cell is where everything happens , whether you ’ re talking about immunity or brain health , or stoking your metabolic fires .
If your cells are toxic , you have what I refer to as toxic metabolism , and no diet in the world will work .
Your tap water may be poisoning your thyroid .
Fluoride intake blocks iodine receptors in your thyroid gland , which shuts down your body ’ s thyroid hormone production .
Your thyroid gland @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hormone ” that triggers fatigue , depression , weight gain , and even hair loss .
Making matters worse , this hormone charlatan poses as thyroid hormone in blood tests making deficiencies almost impossible to detect .
Then there ’ s glyphosate .
Glyphosate is the primary chemical in the notorious weed killer Roundup and is extremely damaging to the body by several different mechanisms .
Besides being carcinogenic , it ’ s an endocrine disruptor and major metal chelator–it binds tightly to metals such as mercury and aluminum and carries them directly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ weight loss resistance , endocrine disrupting chemicals ( EDSs ) shut down your thyroid and trick your body into storing excess fat .
Endocrine disruptors are SO good at this that they ’ ve earned the nickname “ obesogens.
” Increased body fat means more toxins can be stored–but it gets worse .
Glyphosate makes other chemicals even more toxic by blocking certain enzyme pathways in your liver that detoxify harmful compounds .
These blocked pathways also prevent your liver from converting vitamin D into its active form , thereby contributing to vitamin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ endocrine disruptor–we are exposed to many others each and every day .
Science has shown that immune-neuro-endocrine alterations , such as those caused by EDCs , precede the onset of autoimmune disease .
[ iv ] Your cell phone , smart meter , computer and other tech may be intensifying the problem .
A number of modern-day diseases have been scientifically linked to physiological disruptions from man-made electromagnetic fields ( EMFs ) .
These fields cause cell membranes to lose calcium ions , which leads to neurotransmitter misfirings and disrupted hormone communication .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , which increases the production of stress hormones cortisol and adrenaline .
High cortisol leads to elevated blood In the face of all these toxic assaults , you need a secret weapon–so I will give you one right now : bitter foods .
Besides being the antidote to “ sweet addiction , ” bitters are an important but forgotten detox food and it ’ s beyond time to bring them back !
A surprising number of your favorite foods are classified as “ bitters ” –artichokes , asparagus , grapefruit , and dandelion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
One thing making bitters such a nutritional boon is that they help restore gallbladder , and even more importantly , healthy bile flow .
Gallbladder disease is often a symptom of a more serious problem : congested bile .
The reason so many people are losing their gallbladder is they ’ ve developed thick , sludgy , congested bile that literally mucks up the works .
Why is bile important ?
It ’ s a crucial detox vehicle–and hardly anyone is talking about it !
Bile binds with and carries a multitude @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the intestines–heavy metals , drugs , excess hormones , chemicals , food preservatives , pesticides , flame retardants and the like .
Bile is what flushes away the toxins your liver collects .
An alarming number of people have bile and gallbladder issues but are completely unaware .
Among other things , toxic bile can drag down your thyroid .
One Finnish study showed that hypothyroidism is seven times more likely in people with reduced bile flow .
[ v ] It ’ s no surprise that sluggish bile and accumulation of body @ @ @ @ @ @ @ your bile is thick and not flowing freely , all that sludge remains in your system and the excess toxins get parked in your fat cells .
And you ’ ll have plenty of those because , without adequate bile , your digestive tract can not properly break down fats into forms your body can use , so it has no choice other than to store them .
Today ’ s toxic world calls for a radical new approach .
My latest book Radical Metabolism ( released August 28 , 2018 ) addresses @ @ @ @ @ @ @ health problems such as Hashimoto ’ s , type 2 diabetes , and others–tackling the problem at the level of the cell .
Radical Metabolism brings back the healing power of bitters and “ forbidden ” fats that specifically repair cellular and mitochondrial membranes .
The book addresses how to fuel three metabolically active tissues you didn ’ t even know you had , each with different nutritional requirements .
Today , it is impossible to avoid all health-compromising agents , but with diligence and increased awareness , you can substantially reduce your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is never too late !
Regardless of your age , health status or situation , your body wants to be healthy and possesses an immense capacity for self-healing .
Even small changes made consistently over time can make a world of difference .
Ann Louise Gittleman , PhD , CNS , is a New York Times bestselling author of more than 30 books , including the newly released Radical Metabolism .
She is a time-honored nutritional visionary and trendsetter on the frontlines of nutrition .
For more information , please visit her website @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ 4 Autoimmunity and Hypothyroidism.
” Baillières Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism2 , no .
3 ( August 1988 ) : 591-617. doi:10.1016/s0950-351x ( 88 ) 80055-7 .
[ v ] Laukkarinen , J , Sand , J , and Nordback , I .
“ The Underlying Mechanisms : How Hypothyroidism Affects the Formation of Common Bile Duct Stones–A Review , ” HPB Surgery 2012 ( January 2012 ) : 1-7 , doi:10.1155/2012/102825 , accessed June 23 , 2017 .

Today’s World Calls for a Radical New Approach to Detox
Ann Louise Gittleman, Green Med Info
Waking Times
Toxicity plays an enormous role in today’s exploding rates of autoimmunity, neurodegenerative disease, and obesity. The links between cumulative environmental exposure and autoimmune illnesses is complex because our bodies are exposed to countless mixtures of toxins over time.
Sadly, our inundation with these exposures essentially amounts to a massive public health experiment–and one you may be paying for with your health. The statistics speak for themselves.
Besides cancer and other serious illnesses, exposure to industrial chemicals, heavy metals and other toxins have been linked to autoimmune disease, placing targets on the backs of healthy cells throughout the body.[i] The autoimmune condition Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is a prime example, accounting for up to 90 percent of hypothyroidism cases.[ii] Between 2013 and 2015, 54 million Americans–nearly a quarter of the population–were diagnosed with some form of arthritis, gout, lupus, or fibromyalgia.[iii] More than one-third of Americans are obese, and the incidence of type 2 diabetes is through the roof.
We can detox our liver and blood, and our intestinal tract, but we will never get ahead of it unless we cleanse and rebuild our cells. The cell is where everything happens, whether you’re talking about immunity or brain health, or stoking your metabolic fires. If your cells are toxic, you have what I refer to as toxic metabolism, and no diet in the world will work.
Dangers Lurk in the Darndest Places
Your tap water may be poisoning your thyroid. Fluoride intake blocks iodine receptors in your thyroid gland, which shuts down your body’s thyroid hormone production. Your thyroid gland uses fluoride to make an “imposter hormone” that triggers fatigue, depression, weight gain, and even hair loss. Making matters worse, this hormone charlatan poses as thyroid hormone in blood tests making deficiencies almost impossible to detect.
Then there’s glyphosate. Glyphosate is the primary chemical in the notorious weed killer Roundup and is extremely damaging to the body by several different mechanisms. Besides being carcinogenic, it’s an endocrine disruptor and major metal chelator–it binds tightly to metals such as mercury and aluminum and carries them directly into your brain.
In terms of weight loss resistance, endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDSs) shut down your thyroid and trick your body into storing excess fat. Endocrine disruptors are SO good at this that they’ve earned the nickname “obesogens.” Increased body fat means more toxins can be stored–but it gets worse. Glyphosate makes other chemicals even more toxic by blocking certain enzyme pathways in your liver that detoxify harmful compounds. These blocked pathways also prevent your liver from converting vitamin D into its active form, thereby contributing to vitamin D deficiency.
Glyphosate is only one endocrine disruptor–we are exposed to many others each and every day. Science has shown that immune-neuro-endocrine alterations, such as those caused by EDCs, precede the onset of autoimmune disease.[iv] Your cell phone, smart meter, computer and other tech may be intensifying the problem.
A number of modern-day diseases have been scientifically linked to physiological disruptions from man-made electromagnetic fields (EMFs). These fields cause cell membranes to lose calcium ions, which leads to neurotransmitter misfirings and disrupted hormone communication. EMFs produce oxidative stress and damage DNA, which increases the production of stress hormones cortisol and adrenaline. High cortisol leads to elevated blood
sugar and insulin and increased abdominal fat.
The Bitter Truth About Detox
In the face of all these toxic assaults, you need a secret weapon–so I will give you one right now: bitter foods. Besides being the antidote to “sweet addiction,” bitters are an important but forgotten detox food and it’s beyond time to bring them back! A surprising number of your favorite foods are classified as “bitters”–artichokes, asparagus, grapefruit, and dandelion tea, and even coffee and cacao.
One thing making bitters such a nutritional boon is that they help restore gallbladder, and even more importantly, healthy bile flow. Gallbladder disease is often a symptom of a more serious problem: congested bile. The reason so many people are losing their gallbladder is they’ve developed thick, sludgy, congested bile that literally mucks up the works. Why is bile important? It’s a crucial detox vehicle–and hardly anyone is talking about it!
Bile binds with and carries a multitude of toxins out of the body via the intestines–heavy metals, drugs, excess hormones, chemicals, food preservatives, pesticides, flame retardants and the like. Bile is what flushes away the toxins your liver collects. An alarming number of people have bile and gallbladder issues but are completely unaware. Among other things, toxic bile can drag down your thyroid.
One Finnish study showed that hypothyroidism is seven times more likely in people with reduced bile flow.[v]
It’s no surprise that sluggish bile and accumulation of body fat go hand in hand. If your bile is thick and not flowing freely, all that sludge remains in your system and the excess toxins get parked in your fat cells. And you’ll have plenty of those because, without adequate bile, your digestive tract cannot properly break down fats into forms your body can use, so it has no choice other than to store them.
Today’s toxic world calls for a radical new approach. My latest book Radical Metabolism (released August 28, 2018) addresses toxicity as a prime factor in chronic health problems such as Hashimoto’s, type 2 diabetes, and others–tackling the problem at the level of the cell. Radical Metabolism brings back the healing power of bitters and “forbidden” fats that specifically repair cellular and mitochondrial membranes. The book addresses how to fuel three metabolically active tissues you didn’t even know you had, each with different nutritional requirements.
Today, it is impossible to avoid all health-compromising agents, but with diligence and increased awareness, you can substantially reduce your exposure–starting right where you are. It is never too late! Regardless of your age, health status or situation, your body wants to be healthy and possesses an immense capacity for self-healing. Even small changes made consistently over time can make a world of difference.
About the Author
Ann Louise Gittleman, PhD, CNS, is a New York Times bestselling author of more than 30 books, including the newly released Radical Metabolism. She is a time-honored nutritional visionary and trendsetter on the frontlines of nutrition. For more information, please visit her website.
References
[i] Schmidt, CW. “Questions Persist: Environmental Factors in Autoimmune Disease,” Environmental Health Perspectives. 2011;119(6):A248-A253, Doi: 10.1289/ehp.119-a248
[ii] Amino, Nobuyuki. “4 Autoimmunity and Hypothyroidism.” Baillières Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism2, no. 3 (August 1988): 591-617. doi:10.1016/s0950-351x(88)80055-7.
[iii] “Arthritis-Related Statistics,” CDC, August 01, 2018. Accessed August 12, 2018. http://www.cdc.gov/arthritis/data_statistics/arthritis-related-stats.htm
[iv] Jara, Luis J. “The Endocrine System and Autoimmunity.” Advances in Pediatrics. July 18, 2013. Accessed August 12, 2018. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK459473/.
[v] Laukkarinen, J, Sand, J, and Nordback, I. “The Underlying Mechanisms: How Hypothyroidism Affects the Formation of Common Bile Duct Stones–A Review,” HPB Surgery 2012 (January 2012): 1-7, doi:10.1155/2012/102825, accessed June 23, 2017.


Coca-Cola’s Plastic Secrets

What do the soft drink brands Sprite , Fanta and Dasani all have in common ?
They are all owned by The Coca-Cola Co. , the soft drink monolith that makes 500 different brands amounting to nearly 4,000 drink choices .
Coca-Cola ’ s top brands , including Coke and Diet Coke , generate more than $ 1 billion a year in sales .
But as those of us who are environmentally conscious know , they also generate much of the world ’ s plastic pollution .
A riveting 2019 documentary by the German public broadcaster DW , “ Plastic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exposes how Coca-Cola deceives customers and environmentalists about its plastic pollution .
Last year , James Quincey , president and CEO of The Coca-Cola Co. , announced a “ World Without Waste ” campaign to “ collect and recycle the equivalent of every bottle or can it sells globally by 2030.
” While the PR spin sounds believable , the DW documentary depicts Coca-Cola ’ s glib nonchalance about actually reaching its stated antipollution goals , the origins of its profit-oriented plastic bottle push and how its plastic pollution is a blight on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ may not remember but as late as the early 1980s , in some locations in the U.S. , Coke was not sold in the plastic , single-use polluting bottle we see today .
It was sold in glass bottles for which the customer paid a deposit and which the customer had to return .
I can personally remember seeing people washing out their used glass Coke bottles and returning them , usually in a six-bottle cardboard holder , to the store where they were bought for a new “ six pack.
” When @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Coke bottles were the essence of recycling .
But not for long .
By 1975 , Coca-Cola was already running TV ads extolling the virtues of the single-use plastic Coke bottle which was “ so light ” compared with the old , soon-to-be-outdated glass bottle and presumably more pleasing to the consumer .
Soon “ no deposit/no return ” Coke soft drinks were the norm with no thought or plan of how to deal with their mass disposal .
Why did Coca-Cola switch to plastic ?
The answer should surprise no one .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ their pollution costs ” says Bart J. Elmore , author of Citizen Coke , who is interviewed in the documentary .
Plastic bottles allowed , and continue to allow , outsourcing of the problem and the costs to consumers and taxpayers .
The public pays for the plastic pollution .
Arsen Darnay , a former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency employee who was the first engineer in the world to investigate the ecological impact of Coca-Cola bottles , was also interviewed in “ Plastic Tide : Choking on Coke.
” Darnay was one of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Institute , a group hired by Coca-Cola in the spring of 1970 to look at how glass bottles affected the environment , compared to metal and plastic containers .
Recounting how he discovered that “ returnable glass pollutes significantly less ” than plastic , Darnay said , “ We put this together for them , and they didn ’ t publish it … They were not interested in having the public see the total picture.
” Then , he said , he “ watched them slowly introduce the plastic bottles.
” Shifting the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ launching the more profitable single-use plastic bottles to its call for more consumer involvement with pollution , Coca-Cola has continually and successfully shifted the problem of its plastic pollution onto consumers , says Elmore .
Back in the 1970s , when its switch to plastic bottles began , Coke partnered with Keep America Beautiful , to position itself on the side of environmentalism and subtly imply that litter , and especially plastic litter , was somehow the consumer ’ s fault and problem , Elmore adds .
Few realize Coca-Cola was behind the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Tide : Choking on Coke ” shows an old Keep America Beautiful TV ad that shamelessly uses a Native American man , belonging to a demographic associated with environmental purity , to plead for the public not to pollute .
Nowhere in the ad is there mention of the industrial producers like Coca-Cola that contribute to such pollution .
It is all the consumers ’ fault , the PR campaign and continual campaigns imply .
From a PR standpoint , Coca-Cola wants to appear conscientious and environmentally responsible .
For example , this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his 2018 op-ed titled “ Why a World Without Waste Is Possible : ” Yet , the reporters contributing to “ Plastic Tide ” unearthed some embarrassing documents that show a very different side to Coca-Cola .
The documents , from Coke ’ s lobbyist in Brussels , recommend the company strongly fight recycling legislation as well as restrictions on advertising to children and caffeine in their drinks .
When confronted with the lobbyist recommendations in the documentary , Michael Goltzman , Coca-Cola ’ s vice president for social impact and global policy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they are no longer Coke ’ s “ strategy.
” Though the report is only 2 years old when Goltzman dismisses it , he could not name when the strategy was changed or point to any updated documents when the interviewer asked .
He admits Coca-Cola is still using the same lobbyist .
The African country of Tanzania is supposed to be one of the most beautiful and pristine locations in the world .
But “ Plastic Tide ” shows how plastic pollution has impacted and seemingly altered forever the country ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the U.S. , Coca-Cola replaced glass bottles with single-use plastic in Tanzania .
The documentary includes an interview with a foreman at a Coca-Cola bottling warehouse who directs the distribution of what looks like millions of single-use plastic bottles to be sold .
He assures the “ Plastic Tide ” interviewers that the bottles are what consumers want and present no problems .
“ It ’ s all good , ” he says .
Then viewers see a 50-year-old woman scavenging for plastic along plastic-strewn areas in Tanzania , adding each discarded piece @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to contain them .
We are told she does this every day to feed her family and earns about 2 Euros a day for her effort .
There is little money in collecting plastic anymore , she tells the interviewer ; the market for plastic has really fallen off .
The impoverished woman living on pennies from plastic waste is no doubt referring to the world wide implications of China refusing , in 2017 , to accept any more of the world ’ s plastic waste .
Having no place to sell plastic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rich countries alike .
No Recycling System in Place , Admits Coca-Cola Official When a documentary representative shows him photos from plastic-polluted Tanzania , Goltzman again has no clear answers .
“ I don ’ t like looking at those clips , ” he admits , but adds that he is not aware of any systems for addressing Coke ’ s plastic pollution in Tanzania .
He ’ s not even aware of why such a system is not in place .
He sounds baffled .
“ We don ’ t see a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the same time he tries to assure that Coke has a plan in place , but not yet implemented .
Nor was Goltzman able to answer why a commitment in a Coca-Cola document in 2008 to have all Coke bottled beverages contain 25 % recycled plastic by 2015 was not met .
Further chipping away at the credibility of the soft drink giant , Helene Bourges of Greenpeace says in “ Plastic Tide : Choking on Coke ” that despite the company ’ s claim that 12 % of their product is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ % actually is .
Clearly , Coca-Cola , which sells 120 billion plastic bottles a year , according to the documentary , is playing fast and loose with the truth .
Plastic Is a Threat to Life Everywhere Plastic pollution is pervasive , infiltrating water and food supplies and adversely affecting the environment , on which humanity depends for food , water and natural resources , and the solution to this problem can not be placed solely on consumers “ doing the right thing ” with the plastic products they buy .
Clearly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the facts as well — and at bare minimum live up to its own promises .
Plastic can take up to 1,000 years to break down .
Researchers estimate a single plastic coffee pod may take up to 500 years , the duration of the Roman Empire .
While the impact of plastic tends to be focused on manufacturing and/or disposal , a report by the Center for International Environmental Law , in partnership with six other environmental organizations , finds : The report associates plastics with numerous forms of cancer , neurological @ @ @ @ @ @ @ well as diabetes , organ malfunctions and a significant impact on eyes and skin .
Although it appears plastic is cheap and convenient , Graham Forbes , global plastics project leader for Greenpeace , points out that the true cost is reflected in how : Only 8 % of plastic is ever recycled , and even then , some of the items tossed in the recycling bin may never make it to the recycling center .
Some end up contaminating entire loads of recyclables that would otherwise have gone on to other uses @ @ @ @ @ @ @ verify guidelines for your local facility , anything smaller than a Post-it note can not be sorted properly , so unless you screw on bottle tops it ’ s better to throw them away .
Bubble padded envelopes , wax paper and diapers are not recyclable .
Paper cups with shiny coatings or paper food bowls with plastic lining will not be accepted .
For ways to become a recycling expert , see my previous article , “ Top 11 Tips to Become an Expert at Recycling.
” What Can You Do to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recycling is part of the answer , it ’ s unlikely to be enough .
The use of plastic needs to be reduced at the front end as well .
Companies like Coca-Cola would do well to return to glass bottles , for example , rather than insisting on plastic bottles .
Even if all glass is not recycled , it ’ s an inert substance that is not going to poison the earth for centuries to come .
Aside from urging Coke and other beverage makers to use glass bottles , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can also have a positive impact on plastic pollution by :

Coca-Cola’s Plastic Secrets
Dr. Mercola, Guest
Waking Times
What do the soft drink brands Sprite, Fanta and Dasani all have in common? They are all owned by The Coca-Cola Co., the soft drink monolith that makes 500 different brands amounting to nearly 4,000 drink choices.
Coca-Cola’s top brands, including Coke and Diet Coke, generate more than $1 billion a year in sales. But as those of us who are environmentally conscious know, they also generate much of the world’s plastic pollution.
A riveting 2019 documentary by the German public broadcaster DW, “Plastic Tide: Choking on Coke,” exposes how Coca-Cola deceives customers and environmentalists about its plastic pollution.
Last year, James Quincey, president and CEO of The Coca-Cola Co., announced a “World Without Waste” campaign to “collect and recycle the equivalent of every bottle or can it sells globally by 2030.”
While the PR spin sounds believable, the DW documentary depicts Coca-Cola’s glib nonchalance about actually reaching its stated antipollution goals, the origins of its profit-oriented plastic bottle push and how its plastic pollution is a blight on poorer countries in particular.
Coca-Cola’s Cagey Switch to Plastic Bottles
Younger people may not remember but as late as the early 1980s, in some locations in the U.S., Coke was not sold in the plastic, single-use polluting bottle we see today. It was sold in glass bottles for which the customer paid a deposit and which the customer had to return.
I can personally remember seeing people washing out their used glass Coke bottles and returning them, usually in a six-bottle cardboard holder, to the store where they were bought for a new “six pack.” When you think about it, the deposit/return Coke bottles were the essence of recycling. But not for long.
By 1975, Coca-Cola was already running TV ads extolling the virtues of the single-use plastic Coke bottle which was “so light” compared with the old, soon-to-be-outdated glass bottle and presumably more pleasing to the consumer. Soon “no deposit/no return” Coke soft drinks were the norm with no thought or plan of how to deal with their mass disposal.
Plastic Bottles Made Coca-Cola More Money
Why did Coca-Cola switch to plastic? The answer should surprise no one. Returnable bottles forced Coca-Cola to “internalize their pollution costs” says Bart J. Elmore, author of Citizen Coke, who is interviewed in the documentary. Plastic bottles allowed, and continue to allow, outsourcing of the problem and the costs to consumers and taxpayers. The public pays for the plastic pollution.
Arsen Darnay, a former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency employee who was the first engineer in the world to investigate the ecological impact of Coca-Cola bottles, was also interviewed in “Plastic Tide: Choking on Coke.”
Darnay was one of two principal researchers working for Midwest Research Institute, a group hired by Coca-Cola in the spring of 1970 to look at how glass bottles affected the environment, compared to metal and plastic containers.
Recounting how he discovered that “returnable glass pollutes significantly less” than plastic, Darnay said, “We put this together for them, and they didn’t publish it … They were not interested in having the public see the total picture.” Then, he said, he “watched them slowly introduce the plastic bottles.”
Shifting the Blame for Plastic Pollution Onto Consumers
From launching the more profitable single-use plastic bottles to its call for more consumer involvement with pollution, Coca-Cola has continually and successfully shifted the problem of its plastic pollution onto consumers, says Elmore.
Back in the 1970s, when its switch to plastic bottles began, Coke partnered with Keep America Beautiful, to position itself on the side of environmentalism and subtly imply that litter, and especially plastic litter, was somehow the consumer’s fault and problem, Elmore adds. Few realize Coca-Cola was behind the Keep America Beautiful campaign.
“Plastic Tide: Choking on Coke” shows an old Keep America Beautiful TV ad that shamelessly uses a Native American man, belonging to a demographic associated with environmental purity, to plead for the public not to pollute.
Nowhere in the ad is there mention of the industrial producers like Coca-Cola that contribute to such pollution. It is all the consumers’ fault, the PR campaign and continual campaigns imply.
PR Document Exposes Coca-Cola Lobbying Hypocrisy
From a PR standpoint, Coca-Cola wants to appear conscientious and environmentally responsible. For example, this is what CEO James Quincey wrote in his 2018 op-ed titled “Why a World Without Waste Is Possible:”
“Consumers around the world care about our planet. They want and expect companies like ours to be leaders and help make a litter-free world possible… Through our ‘World Without Waste’ vision, we are investing in our planet and in in our packaging to help make the world’s packaging problem a thing of the past.”
Yet, the reporters contributing to “Plastic Tide” unearthed some embarrassing documents that show a very different side to Coca-Cola. The documents, from Coke’s lobbyist in Brussels, recommend the company strongly fight recycling legislation as well as restrictions on advertising to children and caffeine in their drinks.
When confronted with the lobbyist recommendations in the documentary, Michael Goltzman, Coca-Cola’s vice president for social impact and global policy, disavows the stated goals and says they are no longer Coke’s “strategy.”
Though the report is only 2 years old when Goltzman dismisses it, he could not name when the strategy was changed or point to any updated documents when the interviewer asked. He admits Coca-Cola is still using the same lobbyist.
Tanzania Is a Casualty of Coca-Cola’s Plastic Pollution
The African country of Tanzania is supposed to be one of the most beautiful and pristine locations in the world. But “Plastic Tide” shows how plastic pollution has impacted and seemingly altered forever the country’s economy and natural beauty. As in the U.S., Coca-Cola replaced glass bottles with single-use plastic in Tanzania.
The documentary includes an interview with a foreman at a Coca-Cola bottling warehouse who directs the distribution of what looks like millions of single-use plastic bottles to be sold. He assures the “Plastic Tide” interviewers that the bottles are what consumers want and present no problems. “It’s all good,” he says.
Then viewers see a 50-year-old woman scavenging for plastic along plastic-strewn areas in Tanzania, adding each discarded piece to a huge bag she is carrying to contain them. We are told she does this every day to feed her family and earns about 2 Euros a day for her effort.
There is little money in collecting plastic anymore, she tells the interviewer; the market for plastic has really fallen off. The impoverished woman living on pennies from plastic waste is no doubt referring to the world wide implications of China refusing, in 2017, to accept any more of the world’s plastic waste. Having no place to sell plastic waste for recycling has affected poor and rich countries alike.
No Recycling System in Place, Admits Coca-Cola Official
When a documentary representative shows him photos from plastic-polluted Tanzania, Goltzman again has no clear answers. “I don’t like looking at those clips,” he admits, but adds that he is not aware of any systems for addressing Coke’s plastic pollution in Tanzania. He’s not even aware of why such a system is not in place. He sounds baffled. “We don’t see a world without plastic,” he admits at the same time he tries to assure that Coke has a plan in place, but not yet implemented.
Nor was Goltzman able to answer why a commitment in a Coca-Cola document in 2008 to have all Coke bottled beverages contain 25% recycled plastic by 2015 was not met.
Further chipping away at the credibility of the soft drink giant, Helene Bourges of Greenpeace says in “Plastic Tide: Choking on Coke” that despite the company’s claim that 12% of their product is made from recycled plastic, only 7% actually is. Clearly, Coca-Cola, which sells 120 billion plastic bottles a year, according to the documentary, is playing fast and loose with the truth.
Plastic Is a Threat to Life Everywhere
Plastic pollution is pervasive, infiltrating water and food supplies and adversely affecting the environment, on which humanity depends for food, water and natural resources, and the solution to this problem cannot be placed solely on consumers “doing the right thing” with the plastic products they buy. Clearly, companies like Coca-Cola need to face the facts as well — and at bare minimum live up to its own promises.
Plastic can take up to 1,000 years to break down. Researchers estimate a single plastic coffee pod may take up to 500 years, the duration of the Roman Empire. While the impact of plastic tends to be focused on manufacturing and/or disposal, a report by the Center for International Environmental Law, in partnership with six other environmental organizations, finds:
“… that each of those stages interacts with others, and all of them interact with the human environment and the human body in multiple, often intersecting, ways.”
The report associates plastics with numerous forms of cancer, neurological, reproductive and developmental toxicities, as well as diabetes, organ malfunctions and a significant impact on eyes and skin. Although it appears plastic is cheap and convenient, Graham Forbes, global plastics project leader for Greenpeace, points out that the true cost is reflected in how:
“Plastics are harming or killing animals around the globe, contributing to climate change and keeping us dependent on fossil fuels, entering our air, water, and food supplies, and seriously jeopardizing human health throughout their lifecycle.”
Recycling Is Vastly Underutilized
Only 8% of plastic is ever recycled, and even then, some of the items tossed in the recycling bin may never make it to the recycling center. Some end up contaminating entire loads of recyclables that would otherwise have gone on to other uses.
While it’s best to verify guidelines for your local facility, anything smaller than a Post-it note cannot be sorted properly, so unless you screw on bottle tops it’s better to throw them away. Bubble padded envelopes, wax paper and diapers are not recyclable.
Paper cups with shiny coatings or paper food bowls with plastic lining will not be accepted. For ways to become a recycling expert, see my previous article, “Top 11 Tips to Become an Expert at Recycling.”
What Can You Do to Reduce Your Use
Still, while improved recycling is part of the answer, it’s unlikely to be enough. The use of plastic needs to be reduced at the front end as well. Companies like Coca-Cola would do well to return to glass bottles, for example, rather than insisting on plastic bottles.
Even if all glass is not recycled, it’s an inert substance that is not going to poison the earth for centuries to come. Aside from urging Coke and other beverage makers to use glass bottles, and avoiding beverages sold in plastic, you can also have a positive impact on plastic pollution by:


wakingtimes--2020-02-10--The Lawyer Who Fought Chevron for ‘Chernobyl of the Amazon’ is Now a ‘Corporate Political Prisoner’

Last year the world was shocked by the devastating fires which tore through the Amazon rainforest .
People from all corners of the globe voiced their sadness and support on social media , celebrities came forth with pledges of support , and Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro become the public face of the ruin of the rainforest .
With all the concern over the situation , however , those who truly care about the rainforests of South America missed an important development in the multi-generational fight against the corporations most responsible for deforestation and oil drilling in the earth ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Donziger has been fighting for indigenous land rights and social justice in South America for over 25 years , and is celebrated as the lawyer who stood up to and won a $ 9.5 billion dollar settlement against Chevron in 2011 for polluting Lago Agrio , Ecuador with cancer-causing chemicals , poisoning many indigenous groups in the region .
“ For more than two decades Steven Donziger has taken on one of the largest and most important fights for corporate accountability in history on behalf of indigenous and rainforest communities .
His ability @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vicious corporate attacks in history is nothing short of astounding and serves as an inspiration to untold numbers of people around the world.
” ~Paul Paz y Miño , Associate Director , Amazon Watch Since then , Chevron has waged a long war of targeted harassment against Donziger , hiring private investigators and an army of lawyers and law firms to make his life a living hell and bankrupt his family .
On August 6th , 2019 , Donziger was placed on house arrest in his home in New York City , after @ @ @ @ @ @ @ court for refusing to turn over his personal computer and phone for review by Chevron lawyers .
Chevron ’ s extraordinary campaign against Donziger has resulted in him being disbarred , having his personal bank accounts frozen , lien against his personal residence , and outrageous fines against him .
Chevron , on the other hand , with market capital in the hundreds of billions of dollars , has already beaten the $ 9.5 billion in fines , and is clearly using this case to make both a public example and a legal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to hold corporations responsible for wanton environmental damage .
The Intercept recently wrote an in depth explanation of Donziger ’ s persecution by Chevron , which is worth reading in its entirety , but of particular note is the significance this case will have on the future of environmental activism .
“ Donziger ’ s current prohibition from working , traveling , earning money , and leaving his home shows how successful Chevron ’ s strategy has been .
But even as his fate hangs in the balance , Donziger ’ s case @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one lawyer .
“ It should be nothing short of terrifying for any activist challenging corporate power and the oil industry in the U.S. , ” said Paul Paz y Miño , associate director of Amazon Watch , an organization devoted to the protection of the rainforest and Indigenous people in the Amazon basin .
“ They ’ ve made it clear there ’ s no amount of money that ’ s too much to spend on this case , ” he said of Chevron .
“ They will stop at nothing.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the plaintiffs in the Amazon , who never received their judgment despite being left with hundreds of unlined waste pits and contaminated water and soil from millions of gallons of spilled crude oil and billions of gallons of dumped toxic waste .
Everything that ’ s happened to Donziger “ is small potatoes compared to the fact that Kaplan has rendered the damage the company actually did as totally irrelevant , ” said Nesson.
” [ Source ] Donziger is organizing a desperate effort to raise funds for his legal defense , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pink Floyd , and author of Economic Hitman , John Perkins , among many other prominent advocates of environmental and social justice .
As noted by Sophia Rokhlin , anthropologist and author of When Plants Dream : Ayahuasca , Amazonian Shamanism and the Global Psychedelic Renaissance :

The Lawyer Who Fought Chevron for ‘Chernobyl of the Amazon’ is Now a ‘Corporate Political Prisoner’
Dylan Charles, Editor
Waking Times
Last year the world was shocked by the devastating fires which tore through the Amazon rainforest. People from all corners of the globe voiced their sadness and support on social media, celebrities came forth with pledges of support, and Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro become the public face of the ruin of the rainforest.
With all the concern over the situation, however, those who truly care about the rainforests of South America missed an important development in the multi-generational fight against the corporations most responsible for deforestation and oil drilling in the earth’s most biologically diverse natural ecosystems.
Steven Donziger has been fighting for indigenous land rights and social justice in South America for over 25 years, and is celebrated as the lawyer who stood up to and won a $9.5 billion dollar settlement against Chevron in 2011 for polluting Lago Agrio, Ecuador with cancer-causing chemicals, poisoning many indigenous groups in the region.
“For more than two decades Steven Donziger has taken on one of the largest and most important fights for corporate accountability in history on behalf of indigenous and rainforest communities. His ability to stare down one of the most vicious corporate attacks in history is nothing short of astounding and serves as an inspiration to untold numbers of people around the world.” ~Paul Paz y Miño, Associate Director, Amazon Watch
Since then, Chevron has waged a long war of targeted harassment against Donziger, hiring private investigators and an army of lawyers and law firms to make his life a living hell and bankrupt his family. On August 6th, 2019, Donziger was placed on house arrest in his home in New York City, after a judge held him in contempt of court for refusing to turn over his personal computer and phone for review by Chevron lawyers.
“I’m like a corporate political prisoner… They are trying to totally destroy me.” ~Steven Donziger
Chevron’s extraordinary campaign against Donziger has resulted in him being disbarred, having his personal bank accounts frozen, lien against his personal residence, and outrageous fines against him. Chevron, on the other hand, with market capital in the hundreds of billions of dollars, has already beaten the $9.5 billion in fines, and is clearly using this case to make both a public example and a legal precedent for those who would dare attempt to hold corporations responsible for wanton environmental damage.
The Intercept recently wrote an in depth explanation of Donziger’s persecution by Chevron, which is worth reading in its entirety, but of particular note is the significance this case will have on the future of environmental activism.
“Donziger’s current prohibition from working, traveling, earning money, and leaving his home shows how successful Chevron’s strategy has been. But even as his fate hangs in the balance, Donziger’s case matters far beyond the life of this one lawyer. “It should be nothing short of terrifying for any activist challenging corporate power and the oil industry in the U.S.,” said Paul Paz y Miño, associate director of Amazon Watch, an organization devoted to the protection of the rainforest and Indigenous people in the Amazon basin. “They’ve made it clear there’s no amount of money that’s too much to spend on this case,” he said of Chevron. “They will stop at nothing.” The Chevron case may be most devastating for the plaintiffs in the Amazon, who never received their judgment despite being left with hundreds of unlined waste pits and contaminated water and soil from millions of gallons of spilled crude oil and billions of gallons of dumped toxic waste. Everything that’s happened to Donziger “is small potatoes compared to the fact that Kaplan has rendered the damage the company actually did as totally irrelevant,” said Nesson.” [Source]
Donziger is organizing a desperate effort to raise funds for his legal defense, endorsed and supported by Roger Waters of Pink Floyd, and author of Economic Hitman, John Perkins, among many other prominent advocates of environmental and social justice.
As noted by Sophia Rokhlin, anthropologist and author of When Plants Dream: Ayahuasca, Amazonian Shamanism and the Global Psychedelic Renaissance:


wakingtimes--2020-02-10--The 10 Dogmas of Science

The 10 Dogmas of Science

The belief of conventional science is that it ( as an over-arching organisation ) already understands the nature of reality in principle , leaving only the details to be filled in .
And , as we know , that is where the Devil resides .
1 .
The assumption that Nature is mechanical , or machine-like .
Animals are machines , plants are machines and we are machines , our brains being the equivalent of genetically programmed computers .
2 .
Matter is unconscious .
The Universe , Nature , our bodies , are all made of unconscious matter .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ conscious , and that is a major problem for materialist science .
Consciousness should not exist .
3 .
The laws of Nature are fixed , from the Big Bang ( the first explosion ! )
until the end of time when all dissolves back into nothing .
4 .
Nature is purposeless .
There are no purposes in animals , in plants and in Life as a whole .
The entire evolutionary process has no purpose , other than self-increase and survival .
It has all come about by blind chance .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ and energy is always the same .
Again , ever since the Big Bang until the end of time .
6 .
Biological inheritance is only material , it is all genetic or epigenetic .
7 .
Memories are stored as material traces inside the brain .
All your memories are inside your head , stored in nerve endings or phosphor related proteins .
No-one knows how , but the assumption is that they are all in the brain .
8 .
Your mind is inside your head , it is only an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ brain .
9 .
All psychic phenomena is illusory .
It appears to exist , but it doesn ’ t .
The mind is inside the head and can not have any effect on the outside world .
10 .
Mechanistic medicine is the only kind that truly works .
Alternative and complementary therapies may appear to work , but that ’ s only because people have got well anyway , or it ’ s due to the placebo effect .
But these dogmas are not facts , though they are treated as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Also , they have only come about in the last 200 years .
But they are accepted as real because of the seeming success of technology , and people are generally content to live by their rules as it appears to make their lives a lot easier and more comfortable .
Plus , it generates vast amounts of revenue in this materialistic system .
It is easier for people not to question , to leave that to the so-called experts , so they can get on with enjoying their toys and frivolous distractions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
Up until the Cartesian revolution of the Seventeenth Century the general belief taught in the universities of Europe , and through the Roman church , was that Nature was alive – the Earth was alive , animals and plants were alive , they all had souls – bestowed upon them by the Breath of God .
This was the doctrine of Aristotle , and Christianised by Saint Thomas Aquinas .
Everything was alive and infused with Spirit .
Anima , the root of the word animal , means the Spirit which animates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tended to obscure this original meaning .
But the crux of the Seventeenth Century revolution was that it said : no , this is not a living world , it is a dead world , made up of unconscious machinery , not conscious organisms .
Descartes , the major player in the formulation of this philosophy , proposed that Nature is split into 2 parts : matter , that is unconscious and mechanical , and makes up the whole of Nature ; and Spirit or mind , which is conscious and only to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Mathematics and science are adaptations of the rational mind , which being in the head , is immaterial , not existing in space and time .
Also , mind is confined to humans , angels and God .
So there was created a radical split between the Spiritual , seen as the rational mind in humans , and Nature , seen as spiritually dead and mechanical .
This in turn created the split between body and mind , humans and the rest of Nature , and between religion and science .
More @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Earth .
In the Nineteenth Century this Cartesian dualism devolved into full-blown materialism where matter was made the only reality , and Spirit confined to the imagination .
What is not material therefore doesn ’ t exist , so spirits , angels and gods are instantly abolished to the realm of fantasy or delusion .
The human mind becomes nothing but the effluvium ( invisible emanation , from the Latin ‘ to flow ’ ) of the activity of the brain .
The uncomfortable consequence of this materialistic assumption is that , with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be conscious ourselves .
It is considered an epiphenomenon , like a shadow of the brain ’ s processes , just an illusion .
But it is an illusion that has created all the civilizations of humanity .
Today , at least , we have progressed to the stage where some scientists are admitting that there is some kind of mind or consciousness inherent in , not just human brains , but in all matter .
Even to the point where atoms and electrons are said to have some kind of mental aspect @ @ @ @ @ @ @ called Pan-psychism , the idea being that there is a psyche or mind in everything that exists .
Open-minded scientists , such as Rupert Sheldrake , believe that this is the only reasonable way forward .
Elva Thompson was born in England in 1947 and moved to Rosebud Lakota reservation in 1987 .
She is the author of the Heartstar Series ; Book One : The Key made of Air , and Book Two : The Gates to Pandemonia .
Her other interests include organic gardening , ancient phonetic languages , sonic sound @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
She is also a medical intuitive and teaches sonic re-patterning using sound , colour , and essential oils .
Elva Thompson is on Amazon Author Central @ amazon.com/author/heartstar

The 10 Dogmas of Science
Elva Thompson, Contributor
Waking Times
The belief of conventional science is that it (as an over-arching organisation) already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in. And, as we know, that is where the Devil resides.
The 10 dogmas are:
1. The assumption that Nature is mechanical, or machine-like. Animals are machines, plants are machines and we are machines, our brains being the equivalent of genetically programmed computers.
2. Matter is unconscious. The Universe, Nature, our bodies, are all made of unconscious matter. For some strange reason our brains became conscious, and that is a major problem for materialist science. Consciousness should not exist.
3. The laws of Nature are fixed, from the Big Bang (the first explosion!) until the end of time when all dissolves back into nothing.
4. Nature is purposeless. There are no purposes in animals, in plants and in Life as a whole.
The entire evolutionary process has no purpose, other than self-increase and survival. It has all come about by blind chance.
5. The total amount of matter and energy is always the same. Again, ever since the Big Bang until the end of time.
6. Biological inheritance is only material, it is all genetic or epigenetic.
7. Memories are stored as material traces inside the brain. All your memories are inside your head, stored in nerve endings or phosphor related proteins. No-one knows how, but the assumption is that they are all in the brain.
8. Your mind is inside your head, it is only an aspect of the electrical activity of the brain.
9. All psychic phenomena is illusory. It appears to exist, but it doesn’t. The mind is inside the head and cannot have any effect on the outside world.
10. Mechanistic medicine is the only kind that truly works. Alternative and complementary therapies may appear to work, but that’s only because people have got well anyway, or it’s due to the placebo effect.
But these dogmas are not facts, though they are treated as such, they are merely assumptions. Also, they have only come about in the last 200 years. But they are accepted as real because of the seeming success of technology, and people are generally content to live by their rules as it appears to make their lives a lot easier and more comfortable. Plus, it generates vast amounts of revenue in this materialistic system. It is easier for people not to question, to leave that to the so-called experts, so they can get on with enjoying their toys and frivolous distractions.
So how did this come about? Up until the Cartesian revolution of the Seventeenth Century the general belief taught in the universities of Europe, and through the Roman church, was that Nature was alive – the Earth was alive, animals and plants were alive, they all had souls – bestowed upon them by the Breath of God. This was the doctrine of Aristotle, and Christianised by Saint Thomas Aquinas. Everything was alive and infused with Spirit. Anima, the root of the word animal, means the Spirit which animates us. Sadly, Jungian psychology has tended to obscure this original meaning.
But the crux of the Seventeenth Century revolution was that it said: no, this is not a living world, it is a dead world, made up of unconscious machinery, not conscious organisms. Descartes, the major player in the formulation of this philosophy, proposed that Nature is split into 2 parts: matter, that is unconscious and mechanical, and makes up the whole of Nature; and Spirit or mind, which is conscious and only to do with reason, and rational thought. Mathematics and science are adaptations of the rational mind, which being in the head, is immaterial, not existing in space and time. Also, mind is confined to humans, angels and God. So there was created a radical split between the Spiritual, seen as the rational mind in humans, and Nature, seen as spiritually dead and mechanical. This in turn created the split between body and mind, humans and the rest of Nature, and between religion and science. More importantly, it removed God from the Earth.
In the Nineteenth Century this Cartesian dualism devolved into full-blown materialism where matter was made the only reality, and Spirit confined to the imagination. What is not material therefore doesn’t exist, so spirits, angels and gods are instantly abolished to the realm of fantasy or delusion. The human mind becomes nothing but the effluvium (invisible emanation, from the Latin ‘to flow’) of the activity of the brain. The uncomfortable consequence of this materialistic assumption is that, with matter being unconscious, we should not be conscious ourselves. It is considered an epiphenomenon, like a shadow of the brain’s processes, just an illusion. But it is an illusion that has created all the civilizations of humanity.
Today, at least, we have progressed to the stage where some scientists are admitting that there is some kind of mind or consciousness inherent in, not just human brains, but in all matter. Even to the point where atoms and electrons are said to have some kind of mental aspect to them. This is a philosophy called Pan-psychism, the idea being that there is a psyche or mind in everything that exists. Open-minded scientists, such as Rupert Sheldrake, believe that this is the only reasonable way forward.
About the Author
Elva Thompson was born in England in 1947 and moved to Rosebud Lakota reservation in 1987. She is the author of the Heartstar Series; Book One: The Key made of Air, and Book Two: The Gates to Pandemonia. Her other interests include organic gardening, ancient phonetic languages, sonic sound and their application in the healing arts. She is also a medical intuitive and teaches sonic re-patterning using sound, colour, and essential oils. Elva Thompson is on Amazon Author Central @ amazon.com/author/heartstar


wakingtimes--2020-02-10--Cancer and the New Biology of Water

Cancer and the New Biology of Water

Dr. Thomas Cowan is a practicing physician , founding board member and vice president of the Weston A .
Price Foundation .
I ’ ve previously interviewed Cowan on a number of different topics , including the link between vaccines and autoimmune disease , the use of low-dose naltrexone for autoimmune disease and novel treatments for heart disease .
Here , we discuss his latest book , “ Cancer and the New Biology of Water.
” “ I wrote a series of three books .
The first one on the heart , the second one on vaccines and autoimmunity and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I got into it , I realized it was all about water , ” Cowan says .
“ The first book was basically two premises : One is that the heart doesn ’ t pump the blood .
The reason for the movement of the blood in your body is not because there ’ s a propulsion by the heart [ but ] because of the dynamics of water … Then I got into the vaccine book and what childhood illness means .
That took me deeper into what cells are made of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whole problem of cancer is a cytoplasmic , i.e.
, water problem .
It became like the culmination of this series of writing and thinking about human biology , biology in general , and how wrong we have the whole thing , basically.
” Cancer and the Biology of Water In 1971 , President Nixon declared war on cancer .
As noted by Cowan , we had just discovered the oncogene at that time , which was thought to be the reason for why people had cancer .
In the decades since , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on cancer research .
Were oncogenes the correct target , the war on cancer should have been won by now , yet we ’ re no closer to a cure today than we were back then .
Cowan cites research by the Australian government , which concluded that improvement in cancer statistics as a result of chemotherapy is 2.3 % .
“ That ’ s an abysmal return on a $ 500 billion investment … Probably the costliest endeavor humans have ever undertaken , except maybe war , ” Cowan says .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ problem I submitted in the book is that cancer is not a problem of oncogenes .
It isn ’ t even a problem of the DNA .
It isn ’ t even a problem of the nucleus … There have been a number of studies over the years where they transplant the nucleus from a healthy cell into another healthy cell and the progeny are normal , as you would expect .
But then they take the nucleus out of a cancer cell , where these oncogenes [ are ] , the DNA @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that into a healthy cytoplasm , the progeny are normal .
When they take a normal nucleus and put it into the cytoplasm of a cancer cell , it turns the progeny cancerous .
That simple experiment tells you exactly where in the cell the problem of cancer lies , which is in the cytoplasm .
The cell has two parts .
Basically , it ’ s a lipid biomembrane that has a nucleus and a cytoplasm .
The cytoplasm is basically structured water or a gel .
Now we know that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The events in the nucleus are a consequence of degeneration of the cytoplasm , not the other way around .
When these researchers did this , and identified clearly that the site of the cancer problem is in the cytoplasm , they postulated that something in healthy cytoplasm must be able to heal the mutations of the DNA in the nucleus , which there ’ s no evidence for.
” Cowan argues that the real problem in cancer lies in the structured water of the cell , i.e.
, the cytoplasm .
Similarly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I ’ ve interviewed on this topic as well , believes the studies Cowan mentioned above reveal the problem is rooted in the mitochondria , which also reside in the cytoplasm .
Mitochondrial dysfunction is certainly one aspect , Cowan admits , but more specifically , he believes mitochondrial defects are an integral part of the breakdown of the structure in the water , which then triggers the formation of cancer .
Oftentimes , cancer can be palpated ( provided the tumor is large enough ) .
The tumor turns into a palpable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is too high , Cowan says .
The cells are essentially clumped together , and they ’ ve lost their normal spatial orientation .
All cells have a certain spatial orientation because there ’ s an electrical charge around the cell .
When two cells start coming together , the charge repels them apart .
This allows all the cells to remain at an appropriate distance from each other .
This distance varies depending on the cells and organs in question , but all tissues have a spatial orientation that allows the tissue @ @ @ @ @ @ @ medicine says that the charge around each cell comes from the distribution of sodium and potassium across the cell membrane .
However , Cowan points out that experiments by cell physiologist and biochemist Gilbert Ling , performed more than three decades ago , showed that for the sodium-potassium pump to be responsible for the creation of this charge , the cell would need about 30 times the energy at its disposal .
So , according to Cowan , this belief , while being a cornerstone of modern biology , is little more than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ charge , but what ?
Cowan answers that question with the following explanation : “ It comes about because in the cytoplasm is a mesh network of water , which , by some genius of nature , is so constituted that it , by itself , it traps potassium and excludes sodium … The proper healthy grid , mesh or structuring of the water , in itself , is the pump .
No energy needed , just like the heart .
The whole idea of a stupid pump pushing is ridiculous .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ water .
The charge distribution , the spatial orientation of a cell , is because of the structuring of the water .
That ’ s one .
The second thing is the other hallmark of cancer cells : They all have an abnormal number of chromosomes .
It ’ s called aneuploidy , as opposed to a diploid cell , which means humans have 46 chromosomes .
If you get an abnormal number , that ’ s an abnormal cell we call cancer .
How does that happen ?
It happens because of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the two chromosomes apart and makes new copies of mitosis .
It doesn ’ t happen properly because the milieu in the cytoplasm , that structured water , is disturbed .
Therefore , you get all these errors of mitosis , and the energy used for mitosis is deficient .
That ’ s because of the mitochondrial problem .
You get errors in chromosome replication called aneuploidy .
When you get an aneuploid cell that has an abnormal spatial orientation , that ’ s called a cancer cell.
” How to Restructure the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the importance and influence of the cytoplasm , the structured water inside your cells , in the development of cancer , the next question becomes : How do you restructure that water ?
A significant portion of Cowan ’ s book covers this important topic .
To illustrate how structured water is made , he compares it to Jell-O .
Jell-O is made by mixing gelatin proteins with water and then adding heat .
The heat unfolds the proteins , exposing their hydrophilic surfaces , which then grab onto the water .
As @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gel , “ which is basically identical to the state that the cytoplasm is in , ” Cowan says .
To structure the water in your cells and basically mimic this Jell-O making procedure , you can : • Eat a cyclical ketogenic diet — When fats are metabolized in your mitochondria , they create deuterium depleted water ( DDW ) , which is hydrogen-rich .
The more hydrogen you get , the more ATP your cells generate , which in turn allows your cells to create more structured water • Regularly expose @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Regularly expose your skin to near-infrared light , such as a near-infrared sauna or a heat lamp bulb .
Not only does it restructure water , but it also detoxifies your cells by creating sweating , which purifies the cytoplasm • Expose yourself to the biofields of other biological entities , such as the touch of other humans and animals Now , ATP is instrumental for protein unfolding — which is an integral part of the process of creating structured water — and if you have an ATP deficiency , “ as happens @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s like trying to make Jell-O without heat , ” Cowan says .
Another alternative is hyperbaric oxygen therapy , although this is not something most people will be able to do at home .
By providing more oxygen to the tissues at increased partial pressure , the oxygen is pushed into the mitochondria , allowing them to generate more ATP , which in turn allows your cells to create more structured water .
In his book , Cowan also discusses mistletoe therapy , which he recommends almost universally for his cancer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of this therapy as follows : “ Cancer is growing and parasitizing you , sucking your nutrients , just like the mistletoe sucks the nutrients from the oak tree .
But there ’ s a central difference , which is the mistletoe has learned to cooperate with the oak tree , and so each do better together than they would do alone , whereas in cancer , the tumor has parasitized you and you do worse .
What we need is a situation where we bring back that cooperation … This is not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s not how it works in nature .
Nature is a cooperative venture … Mistletoe tells you to see it like that .
Now , that ’ s the metaphor .
[ Mistletoe ] stimulates fever response , so it is an immunostimulating medicine .
It stimulates white blood cells .
It stimulates all these aspects of immune response .
It stops cells from growing , so it works like a chemo drug , as well … We want the simulation , the purification , the detoxification that happens with fever therapy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that fever is a healing aid goes back to a cancer treatment developed in the 1890s by William Coley , a bone surgeon .
The treatment , which involves giving isolated proteins from the erysipelas bacteria at a specific dose to induce a fever , is known as “ Coley ’ s toxin.
” “ Around 1989 , for I don ’ t know what reason , I get in the mail a book from Coley ’ s granddaughter about 2,000 cases he treated and the results — about 60 % of them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of cancer were cured by Coley ’ s toxins .
It ’ s very well documented .
It was the main adjunct of cancer therapy in the United States for a couple of decades .
It was used up until the ’ 60s .
Many , many papers written about it , peer-reviewed journals .
There ’ s no doubt that it was more effective than any adjunctive therapy for cancer we have today .
In a sense though , it ’ s a blueprint .
When you talk about hyperthermia , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as well as Coley ’ s toxins .
I think the reason for that is [ hyperthermia ] doesn ’ t turn on your innate cellular immune system .
It ’ s just heating up your cells .
I ’ m not saying that something good doesn ’ t happen from heating up your cells , but it ’ s not the same .
Coley ’ s was a way of internally generating the temperature , and so is mistletoe , although mistletoe isn ’ t as dramatic as Coley ’ s toxins @ @ @ @ @ @ @ toxin ] is not available anywhere .
It ’ s very sad .
There should be a way of stimulating fever .
I had occasion to use it a little bit years ago .
You could basically generate any temperature you want .
It ’ s pretty rigorous therapy .
You get shakes and chills and not everyone wants to do that .
But if you do that , you have a dramatic detoxification-purification response … None of these strategies are a magic bullet .
The point I ’ m trying to make @ @ @ @ @ @ @ basically a structured water gel , that ’ s the key focus … All those [ factors discussed earlier ] contribute to the quality of the gels that you ’ re going to produce .
That ’ s what good health is.
” Cowan ’ s book ends with the story of Sleeping Beauty .
“ It ’ s what we tell children to teach them how the world works , ” he says .
Sleeping Beauty , a princess , is bewitched by an evil witch , which in fairytales always illustrates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ When you ’ re bewitched by materialism … you fall into chaos and disrepair has happened in the story .
Something has to come along to wake you up , not to a new way of seeing , as they say in the story , but to your true nature .
That ’ s where we ’ re at now .
We ’ re living out the story of Sleeping Beauty .
We ’ re bewitched by materialism and we can ’ t see our true nature .
That ’ s become a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that matrix involves ] an interesting combination of all these techniques that we ’ re talking about … Cyclical ketosis , sunlight , walking in the ocean , infrared saunas … fever therapy , bringing back therapies like Coley ’ s toxins .
There ’ s another side too , which is to change our minds … Somehow , we have to change our mind and … see the world as it is .
I often tell people and patients , ‘ If you see the world from a materialistic point of view @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ re talking about is made of atoms , which are , themselves , 99 % space , just empty , so how does that work ?
It ’ s an illusion.
’ Once we see that we ’ re essentially crystallized energy , then you start to wake up .
The most hopeful thing I think I can tell people is that once you begin to open your mind , there ’ s more out there than was taught in school or that your doctors tell you .
Somehow the world seems @ @ @ @ @ @ @ clues as to where to go next .
You don ’ t need me to tell you what to do or where to go next .
Somehow it just happens .
I don ’ t know if you would agree , but in my life , once you open yourself to this possibility , to me , it ’ s like the spiritual world comes in to offer a hand .
The next thing you know , you meet this person .
Next thing you know , you [ learn ] things that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ You just keep opening your mind .
If we keep doing that , we can build a different world .
You don ’ t have to do anything .
You just have to stop not doing things , believing that there ’ s nothing there.
” To learn more , be sure to pick up a copy of Cowan ’ s book , “ Cancer and the New Biology of Water.
” I definitely recommend it and all the resources in there .
It ’ s a great read .
Cowan tells a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ easy to digest .
“ I hope that it catalyzes some institution , some person — somebody — to say , ‘ We ’ ve got to do things differently because this isn ’ t working , ” Cowan says .

Cancer and the New Biology of Water
Dr. Mercola, Guest
Waking Times
Dr. Thomas Cowan is a practicing physician, founding board member and vice president of the Weston A. Price Foundation.
I’ve previously interviewed Cowan on a number of different topics, including the link between vaccines and autoimmune disease, the use of low-dose naltrexone for autoimmune disease and novel treatments for heart disease. Here, we discuss his latest book, “Cancer and the New Biology of Water.”
“I wrote a series of three books. The first one on the heart, the second one on vaccines and autoimmunity and then this one on cancer. As I got into it, I realized it was all about water,” Cowan says. “The first book was basically two premises: One is that the heart doesn’t pump the blood. The reason for the movement of the blood in your body is not because there’s a propulsion by the heart [but] because of the dynamics of water … Then I got into the vaccine book and what childhood illness means. That took me deeper into what cells are made of. Somehow it hit me that the whole problem of cancer is a cytoplasmic, i.e., water problem.
It became like the culmination of this series of writing and thinking about human biology, biology in general, and how wrong we have the whole thing, basically.”
Cancer and the Biology of Water
In 1971, President Nixon declared war on cancer. As noted by Cowan, we had just discovered the oncogene at that time, which was thought to be the reason for why people had cancer.
In the decades since, vast sums of money have been spent on cancer research. Were oncogenes the correct target, the war on cancer should have been won by now, yet we’re no closer to a cure today than we were back then. Cowan cites research by the Australian government, which concluded that improvement in cancer statistics as a result of chemotherapy is 2.3%.
“That’s an abysmal return on a $500 billion investment … Probably the costliest endeavor humans have ever undertaken, except maybe war,” Cowan says. “What’s the problem? The problem I submitted in the book is that cancer is not a problem of oncogenes. It isn’t even a problem of the DNA. It isn’t even a problem of the nucleus …
There have been a number of studies over the years where they transplant the nucleus from a healthy cell into another healthy cell and the progeny are normal, as you would expect.
But then they take the nucleus out of a cancer cell, where these oncogenes [are], the DNA that supposedly cause cancer, and put that into a healthy cytoplasm, the progeny are normal. When they take a normal nucleus and put it into the cytoplasm of a cancer cell, it turns the progeny cancerous.
That simple experiment tells you exactly where in the cell the problem of cancer lies, which is in the cytoplasm. The cell has two parts. Basically, it’s a lipid biomembrane that has a nucleus and a cytoplasm. The cytoplasm is basically structured water or a gel.
Now we know that the cytoplasm is the site of cancer. The events in the nucleus are a consequence of degeneration of the cytoplasm, not the other way around.
When these researchers did this, and identified clearly that the site of the cancer problem is in the cytoplasm, they postulated that something in healthy cytoplasm must be able to heal the mutations of the DNA in the nucleus, which there’s no evidence for.”
The Cytoplasm’s Role in Cancer
Cowan argues that the real problem in cancer lies in the structured water of the cell, i.e., the cytoplasm. Similarly, Thomas Seyfried, Ph.D., whom I’ve interviewed on this topic as well, believes the studies Cowan mentioned above reveal the problem is rooted in the mitochondria, which also reside in the cytoplasm.
Mitochondrial dysfunction is certainly one aspect, Cowan admits, but more specifically, he believes mitochondrial defects are an integral part of the breakdown of the structure in the water, which then triggers the formation of cancer.
“When you look at what the function of the mitochondria is — which is essentially to produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP) — and you see what the role of ATP is and how integral ATP is to the structuring of the water in the cytoplasm, then you begin to see the connections between the mitochondrial dysfunction … [and the] deterioration of the cytoplasmic water that leads to cancer.”
Oftentimes, cancer can be palpated (provided the tumor is large enough). The tumor turns into a palpable lump because the density of the cells is too high, Cowan says. The cells are essentially clumped together, and they’ve lost their normal spatial orientation.
All cells have a certain spatial orientation because there’s an electrical charge around the cell. When two cells start coming together, the charge repels them apart. This allows all the cells to remain at an appropriate distance from each other. This distance varies depending on the cells and organs in question, but all tissues have a spatial orientation that allows the tissue to remain healthy and normal.
Structured Water Is Responsible for Cellular Charge
Conventional medicine says that the charge around each cell comes from the distribution of sodium and potassium across the cell membrane. However, Cowan points out that experiments by cell physiologist and biochemist Gilbert Ling, performed more than three decades ago, showed that for the sodium-potassium pump to be responsible for the creation of this charge, the cell would need about 30 times the energy at its disposal.
So, according to Cowan, this belief, while being a cornerstone of modern biology, is little more than a myth. Something else causes the charge, but what? Cowan answers that question with the following explanation:
“It comes about because in the cytoplasm is a mesh network of water, which, by some genius of nature, is so constituted that it, by itself, it traps potassium and excludes sodium … The proper healthy grid, mesh or structuring of the water, in itself, is the pump. No energy needed, just like the heart.
The whole idea of a stupid pump pushing is ridiculous. It’s done by the miracle of water. The charge distribution, the spatial orientation of a cell, is because of the structuring of the water. That’s one.
The second thing is the other hallmark of cancer cells: They all have an abnormal number of chromosomes. It’s called aneuploidy, as opposed to a diploid cell, which means humans have 46 chromosomes. If you get an abnormal number, that’s an abnormal cell we call cancer.
How does that happen? It happens because of events in the cytoplasm, which pulls the two chromosomes apart and makes new copies of mitosis. It doesn’t happen properly because the milieu in the cytoplasm, that structured water, is disturbed. Therefore, you get all these errors of mitosis, and the energy used for mitosis is deficient. That’s because of the mitochondrial problem. You get errors in chromosome replication called aneuploidy. When you get an aneuploid cell that has an abnormal spatial orientation, that’s called a cancer cell.”
How to Restructure the Water in Your Cells
Once you understand the importance and influence of the cytoplasm, the structured water inside your cells, in the development of cancer, the next question becomes: How do you restructure that water? A significant portion of Cowan’s book covers this important topic.
To illustrate how structured water is made, he compares it to Jell-O. Jell-O is made by mixing gelatin proteins with water and then adding heat. The heat unfolds the proteins, exposing their hydrophilic surfaces, which then grab onto the water.
As the mixture cools, it forms a gel, “which is basically identical to the state that the cytoplasm is in,” Cowan says. To structure the water in your cells and basically mimic this Jell-O making procedure, you can:
Eat a cyclical ketogenic diet — When fats are metabolized in your mitochondria, they create deuterium depleted water (DDW), which is hydrogen-rich. The more hydrogen you get, the more ATP your cells generate, which in turn allows your cells to create more structured water
Regularly expose much of your skin to sunlight
Regularly expose your skin to near-infrared light, such as a near-infrared sauna or a heat lamp bulb. Not only does it restructure water, but it also detoxifies your cells by creating sweating, which purifies the cytoplasm
Expose yourself to the biofields of other biological entities, such as the touch of other humans and animals
Now, ATP is instrumental for protein unfolding — which is an integral part of the process of creating structured water — and if you have an ATP deficiency, “as happens when you have mitochondrial disease, it’s like trying to make Jell-O without heat,” Cowan says.
“You get clumps of dysfunctional proteins with water that can’t be structured. That’s what you see with cancer cells … If you want to have properly structured water, which then creates healthy cell division and healthy spatial orientation in the cells, you need sunlight, earth and human touch — the biofields of other biological entities, especially those who wish you well, so to speak, like your dog.”
Another alternative is hyperbaric oxygen therapy, although this is not something most people will be able to do at home. By providing more oxygen to the tissues at increased partial pressure, the oxygen is pushed into the mitochondria, allowing them to generate more ATP, which in turn allows your cells to create more structured water.
Mistletoe Therapy
In his book, Cowan also discusses mistletoe therapy, which he recommends almost universally for his cancer patients. He expounds on the benefits of this therapy as follows:
“Cancer is growing and parasitizing you, sucking your nutrients, just like the mistletoe sucks the nutrients from the oak tree. But there’s a central difference, which is the mistletoe has learned to cooperate with the oak tree, and so each do better together than they would do alone, whereas in cancer, the tumor has parasitized you and you do worse. What we need is a situation where we bring back that cooperation … This is not a survival of the fittest … That’s not how it works in nature. Nature is a cooperative venture … Mistletoe tells you to see it like that. Now, that’s the metaphor. [Mistletoe] stimulates fever response, so it is an immunostimulating medicine. It stimulates white blood cells. It stimulates all these aspects of immune response. It stops cells from growing, so it works like a chemo drug, as well … We want the simulation, the purification, the detoxification that happens with fever therapy. Mistletoe does that.”
The idea that fever is a healing aid goes back to a cancer treatment developed in the 1890s by William Coley, a bone surgeon. The treatment, which involves giving isolated proteins from the erysipelas bacteria at a specific dose to induce a fever, is known as “Coley’s toxin.”
“Around 1989, for I don’t know what reason, I get in the mail a book from Coley’s granddaughter about 2,000 cases he treated and the results — about 60% of them, stage 4. All different kinds of cancer were cured by Coley’s toxins. It’s very well documented. It was the main adjunct of cancer therapy in the United States for a couple of decades. It was used up until the ’60s. Many, many papers written about it, peer-reviewed journals. There’s no doubt that it was more effective than any adjunctive therapy for cancer we have today. In a sense though, it’s a blueprint. When you talk about hyperthermia, the problem is it doesn’t work as well as Coley’s toxins. I think the reason for that is [hyperthermia] doesn’t turn on your innate cellular immune system. It’s just heating up your cells. I’m not saying that something good doesn’t happen from heating up your cells, but it’s not the same. Coley’s was a way of internally generating the temperature, and so is mistletoe, although mistletoe isn’t as dramatic as Coley’s toxins … [Today, Coley’s toxin] is not available anywhere. It’s very sad. There should be a way of stimulating fever. I had occasion to use it a little bit years ago. You could basically generate any temperature you want. It’s pretty rigorous therapy. You get shakes and chills and not everyone wants to do that. But if you do that, you have a dramatic detoxification-purification response … None of these strategies are a magic bullet. The point I’m trying to make is that healthy cytoplasm, which is basically a structured water gel, that’s the key focus … All those [factors discussed earlier] contribute to the quality of the gels that you’re going to produce. That’s what good health is.”
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Cowan’s book ends with the story of Sleeping Beauty. “It’s what we tell children to teach them how the world works,” he says. Sleeping Beauty, a princess, is bewitched by an evil witch, which in fairytales always illustrates the materialistic side of life.
“When you’re bewitched by materialism … you fall into chaos and disrepair has happened in the story. Something has to come along to wake you up, not to a new way of seeing, as they say in the story, but to your true nature.
That’s where we’re at now. We’re living out the story of Sleeping Beauty. We’re bewitched by materialism and we can’t see our true nature. That’s become a real problem. [Getting out of that matrix involves] an interesting combination of all these techniques that we’re talking about …
Cyclical ketosis, sunlight, walking in the ocean, infrared saunas … fever therapy, bringing back therapies like Coley’s toxins. There’s another side too, which is to change our minds … Somehow, we have to change our mind and … see the world as it is.
I often tell people and patients, ‘If you see the world from a materialistic point of view and you realize that the matter we’re talking about is made of atoms, which are, themselves, 99% space, just empty, so how does that work? It’s an illusion.’ Once we see that we’re essentially crystallized energy, then you start to wake up.
The most hopeful thing I think I can tell people is that once you begin to open your mind, there’s more out there than was taught in school or that your doctors tell you. Somehow the world seems to feed you information or give you clues as to where to go next.
You don’t need me to tell you what to do or where to go next. Somehow it just happens. I don’t know if you would agree, but in my life, once you open yourself to this possibility, to me, it’s like the spiritual world comes in to offer a hand. The next thing you know, you meet this person. Next thing you know, you [learn] things that you didn’t know before.
You just keep opening your mind. If we keep doing that, we can build a different world. You don’t have to do anything. You just have to stop not doing things, believing that there’s nothing there.”
To learn more, be sure to pick up a copy of Cowan’s book, “Cancer and the New Biology of Water.” I definitely recommend it and all the resources in there. It’s a great read. Cowan tells a good story, which makes his books easy to digest. “I hope that it catalyzes some institution, some person — somebody — to say, ‘We’ve got to do things differently because this isn’t working,” Cowan says.