FDA Over the Moral Wall
By Mark Schauss | December 18, 2008
In a stunning indictment, the Environmental Working Group, a Washington D.C. pro-environment lobby group, lambasted the FDA (Federal Drug Administration) for a recent uncovered secret document that stretches the imagination. The email that EWG sent out yesterday stunned even a jaded person like me. It read:
“On Friday, December 12, the Environmental Working Group made public internal government documents disclosing the Food and Drug Administration’s secret plans to reverse federal warnings that pregnant women and children limit their fish intake to avoid mercury, a neurotoxin especially dangerous to the fetus and infants.”
I read this and at first, I was so blown away, I couldn’t speak. Then, the anger grew in me to a point of fury. This is infanticide and homocide. First pointed at unborn children, secondly at pregnant women. This is moral terpitude that goes beyond anything this administration has ever done. To put unborn children at risk of neurological damage due to mothers eating mercury laden fish because the government, despite all scientific knowledge to the contrary is a low point which even I cannot fathom. Everytime I think they have reached the bottom of the moral barrel, they amaze me and they go lower. This though, is the true bottom.
There is absolutely no reason for this except to willingly wanting to cause harm to the citizens of the United States of America. This is an act as henious as the attacks of September 11th, 2001. The vaccinations that were laden with the mercury compound thimerasol damaging thousands and thousands of children were one case of wanton carnage. This is another. My hope is the incoming administration will prosecute these people.
Go over to my podcast site later today, to hear my latest rant about this important issue.
Topics: autism, brain nutrition, Environment, Food, Health, heavy metals, Life, Mercury, Neurological Disorders, Opinion, Politics, Research, Toxicity | No Comments »
More Bad News About Bisphenol A
By Mark Schauss | December 8, 2008
I know, I’m piling on BPA, but darn it, bisphenol A deserves a beat down. Every month I find yet another article in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives that shows how it affects human health but this article about BPA and chemotherapy deserves a recognition. Seems that BPA can interfere with the effect of chemo as it stops the cancer cells from dying.
As I’ve mentioned in the past, bisphenol A is a money making machine for industry as estimates say that it generates $100 million dollars an hour in revenue worldwide. Still, the public has to ramp up the demand to remove this product from the market. Other safer alternatives are available and industry knows it, they just have to be forced to do so before any more damage is done.
Then again, our brilliant FDA thinks that there is insufficient evidence that bisphenol A is harmful to human health.
Topics: Environment, Health, Toxicity | 2 Comments »
Paradise Unpaved
By Mark Schauss | December 6, 2008
While Stumbling around the net, I came across the blog site of Franke James entitled, My Green Conscience. In it there was a page on unpaving her driveway in North York (Toronto), Canada. It was such a cool idea that I had to share it with everyone.
Imagine the impact if we decided to reduce the concrete in front of our houses and replaced them with gardens like Franke’s? Makes you think doesn’t it?
Topics: Environment, Global Warming, Opinion, Websites | No Comments »
LEAP MRT – A Tech Sheet on What the Test Does
By Mark Schauss | December 5, 2008
As anyone who has read my book or been to my other blog site – markschauss.com, knows, the LEAP MRT test by Signet Diagnostics helped save my daughter Tasya’s life. It was such an important tool in helping her not only control her seizures but in also helping to control her temper tantrums. We will be posting her newest test there as soon as it’s available in the next week or so (she got her blood drawn this past Wednesday).
Because of the help that this test has given the Schauss family, I continue to espouse its many uses at almost all of the lectures I give around the world. Because of this, I have been asked to post some additional information about it, explaining what it does and how it works. You can download the Word document and read about the LEAP MRT test. Go to my other blog site today.
Topics: brain nutrition, Epilepsy, Food, Health, Laboratory Tests, Neurological Disorders, Websites | 4 Comments »
Household Toxins – What to Avoid
By Mark Schauss | November 14, 2008
Here is a link to a list of toxins people should be getting out of their homes. Most are simple to do, but will require some investment. Good health is an investment in your life as well as your families. Small price to pay in my opinion.
Topics: Environment, Health, Opinion, Petrochemicals, Websites | No Comments »
Reducing Inflammation – Part I
By Mark Schauss | November 13, 2008
Since this blog site is entitled, Toxic World Blog, you might imagine that I would discuss the issue of environmental toxicity and inflammation first and you would be right. It’s the obvious first choice and one that needs to be addressed in both a global as well as personal way. Not only do we have to press for a better environment in our world by forcing our government to increase regulation of toxic chemicals but we have to look at our homes and work spaces and do whatever is necessary to lower our use of toxins.
There is little doubt that common toxins like xylene, toluene, benzene, mercury, lead, cadmium and arsenic can cause an increase of inflammation. Avoiding them is difficult in today’s world but a concerted effort is a more cost effective process than taking Crestor. Get the book Home Safe Home by Debra Lynn Dadd and learn how to create a healthy home environment. Get my book, Achieving Victory Over a Toxic World to find out where sources of inflammation causing chemicals exist around you and how to help detoxify yourself.
In my next blog, I’ll talk about other ways to reduce inflammatory reactions.
Topics: Drugs, Environment, Health, Healthcare, heavy metals, Mercury, Opinion, Petrochemicals, Research, Solvents, Toxicity | No Comments »
Crestor Jupiter Study – Problems, Issues and Solutions
By Mark Schauss | November 11, 2008
The recently reported study JUPITER, which shows that the drug Crestor, aka rosuvastatin, would help reduce inflammation in the arteries which would help reduce the number of heart attacks has got me puzzled. What struck me was the amazed reactions by physicians who were shocked, shocked that C-Reactive Protein, a marker for inflammation, was a factor in coronary heart disease. I’ve known this for years as have many of my colleagues. How could they be so suprised?
Anyone who has been to one of my lectures over the past few years can attest to, I have been touting the issue of inflammation over and over again. While it is an important mechanism in triggering immune responses, and helping to rebuild damaged tissue. As defined by this article pulled from the University of Stony Brook, inflammation isn’t all bad – The process of inflammation is designed to dilute, destroy, or otherwise inactive the agent that caused the injury in the first place. Ultimately, the goal of inflammation is to restore damaged or infected tissue to its original state, insofar as possible.
It is acute and chronic inflammation that is the problem though, not the beneficial type I just described. Constant injury to tissue through stress, infection, drugs (both legal and illegal) and environmental toxins that causes the bad type of inflammation that can lead to heart disease (amongst others). Lowering your exposure to these things will lower inflammation. But easier said than done. How do we accomplish this?
Over the next few posts, I will discuss a number of easy to do, economical and effective ways to lower inflammatory reactions that won’t cost $500,000 per person as Crestor will cost to reduce one heart attack. Instead of paying $10 billion a year to prevent 28,000 heart attacks, the methods I will discuss will save a lot more and cost less than 5% of that outrageous figure.
Topics: Drugs, Health, Healthcare, Laboratory Tests, Opinion, pharmaceuticals, Research, Toxicity | No Comments »
Doing Your Bit To Save Our World
By Mark Schauss | October 22, 2008
In the most recent New Scientist magazine (October 18-24, 2008), its special topic was “The Folly of Growth: How to stop the economy killing the planet” The issue focuses on how our constant need to have things and push constant economic growth is killing our world. In one article, Susan George talks about we can “transform our shattered exonomics and halt runaway climate change” by thinking big.
But what struck me was a column within the article was quotes from a number of people on how we can take action and do our parts. Here they are:
“Buy less stuff. And join and support Friends of the Earth.” – Herman Daly, ecological economist, University of Maryland.
“Vote. Or better yet, get involved in politics at any level and advocate green economics.” – Julia Marton-Lefevre, director general of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
“In a speech in April 1967, Martin Luther King called on the US to shift from a ‘thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society’. It is a message that resonates with today’s challenges.” – John Beddington, chief scientific adviser to the UK government.
“Go outside much more and connect with the environment, and cut your personal consumption of meat in half.” – Gus Speth, dean of the school of forestry and environmental studies at Yale University.
“Pick an aspect of the crisis you are interested in, join an organization that tries to do something about it and build alliances with others.” – Susan George, chair of the board, Transnational Institute.
“Buy strategically: products that not only do their job more sustainably, but send market signals back through the economy.” – Alex Steffen, executive director, Worldchanging.com
“Sign up to take monthy actions at onehundredmonths.org, do a simple survey at happyplanetindex.org and join a Transitition Town Initiative.” – Andrew Simms, policy director, New Economics Foundation.
What we have to do is something. We need to begin slowly or all in, but we need to get going. The citizens of this world cannot continue to consume at the present level. The question each of us has to ask of ourselves, what are you willing to do to save our world? Whatever it is, start right now.
Topics: Environment, Global Warming, Life, Opinion, Our World | No Comments »
Cutler Interview
By Mark Schauss | October 16, 2008
Ealier this year, I did an interview with Andrew Cutler, PhD talking about his thoughts on autism, mercury, and porphyrin testing. You can listen to it on my podcast site by clicking this link. Just recently, Michael Ross, did a transcript of the interview that you can download and read for yourself. Thank you Michael for the work. You can download the pdf file here.
Topics: autism, Drugs, Health, Healthcare, heavy metals, Laboratory Tests, Mercury, Neurological Disorders, Opinion, Podcast, Research, Toxicity | 1 Comment »
Recent Klinghardt Interview
By Mark Schauss | October 11, 2008
Just wanted to tell you that I just completed a 1+ hour interview of Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt. It was an amazing hour listening to him talk about the newest findings in medicine (his personal findings), autism and a 15 minute answer to my question about the stressful times our world is finding itself in. While he is a very controversial figure, he has an amazing heart and truly cares about making this world a better place in which to live in. The podcast will be posted in three parts. Part one can be found here, at my podcast site, www.labinterpretation.podhoster.com. The second and third segments will be posted in the next week. After that, I will have two further interviews, one with Mark Newman of ZRT Laboratories and Dr. Richard Lord, one of the researchers I highly respect, from the Metametrix Institute. Please go to my podcast site and leave comments, suggestions and thoughts about my topics and interviews. It’s starting to get a real following and I’d like to build the audience up to help inform people about what is out there.
Topics: Health, Healthcare, Mercury, Neurological Disorders, Opinion, Podcast, Research, Supplements | 1 Comment »