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Last year my son called me after a fishing trip in Tasmania.  He told me they’d caught plenty of fish but some of them had the strangest tongues - he’d caught a fish with the parasite Cymothoa Exigua.  This parasite enters the fish through the gills and attaches itself to the base of the fish’s tongue preventing any further blood flow.  The tongue atrophies and the parasite becomes the tongue, feasting on the host’s blood and mucus. About fifteen years ago at a second-hand bookstore in Ventura, California, I bought a book on Medical Biology.  The book had been written by a Scots doctor and he emphatically made the point that parasites are a substantial threat to the wellbeing of mankind, adding that if nothing significant was done abou...

Life:  The Next Step “What we do in life ripples through eternity” Marcus Aurelius If we were watching a Sesame Street programme, the twentieth century would have been brought to us by the letter ‘O’:  OIL. In the past 100 years the quest for oil has caused the current guardians of this amazing planet to squander millions of years of natural resources created by the remnants of animals and residue of plants that once lived here.  Karmic stuff indeed! Yet instead of building on the knowledge and wisdom gained by our forefathers, our self-styled business leaders and politicians are ignoring their responsibilities and are burning up the world’s resources faster than before. Our future has become a colossal ‘EVERYTHING MUST ...

Treatments of: Cancer, Radiation Exposure, Neurological Conditions, Autism, Pain, Stress, and Emotional Upset by Dr Mark Sircus This book champions the use of marijuana in clinical practice for adults and children for a wide range of diseases including cancer and diabetes. Medicine needs cannabinoids to fight in the front lines against serious diseases as well as stress and emotional upset. Medical marijuana is an especially safe and effective treatment for cancer and a 2007 Harvard Medical School study showed that marijuana cuts lung cancer tumor growth in half. I've just bought a copy from Dr Sircus' site www.imva.com  and am impressed with what I've read so far. Table of Contents 1 - About This Book 2 - About the Author 3 ...

Blotting Brushes: Weapons of Plaque Destruction By Dr Elmar Jung and Graeme Dinnen We've done it. We finally got our act together and finished the book we started way back when lizards were fish.  Someone called us downright lazy; we called it selective creativity! Pats on the back all round to those who helped us get our act together. That was Phylipa. We would of course like to thank everyone who contributed, telling us how boring the first draft was (hey! - it was only the first draft), proofreading the pages over and over, cooking superb meals (while we opened the wine), finding wonderful images to keep readers stimulated as they read, and making cups of tea & flapjacks.  Not to forget of course our parents for having us, the...

New U$5 Bank Note: Careful where you point that thing! A trusted County Notary in the USA sent me this advice in a recent email:  “Thomas McFadden says that the new FIVE DOLLAR BILL is printed using HIGHLY Magnetic Ink and circulated to Reduce Your Physical Strength.  Take an older FIVE DOLLAR BILL and hold it your stronger arm/hand and hold it straight-out in front of you and have someone push down on your hand - and see how much effort is required to push your hand down,,, then do the same thing with a NEW FIVE DOLLAR BILL and you will see that your strength is being drained from you,,, and it will be easier for you to lower your hand yourself....  Do not carry them around - in your front pocket.  Seriously, do NOT carry the new ...

Are you one of those people who reads the labels on any ready-made foods that you buy?  Have you noticed that sugar is in almost every one - not perhaps in Marmite but definitely in peanut butter! There is a mass production of sweet and sugar laden foods which is fuelled by our addictions. The addictive personality is something that is so prevalent that we don't even notice or worry about it anymore. In fact, we even love our addictions and addictive behaviour patterns because they are familiar and make us feel safe. Society even supports these patterns by providing the perfect environment for us to live.  Apart from the sugar laden processed foods, we have a compulsion to make more than enough money to cover our continually increasing...

We have started a lending team with the purpose of lending money to enterprising people in their countries: Footprints in the Sand Here’s the background: It’s Saturday morning, you’ve parked your car and you’re walking to the shops.  You notice an elderly person rattling a tin for a well-known charity and you feel you should give them something.  A pound, a couple of pounds, maybe even more because you know someone who died from that particular disease, or just in case you catch it yourself.  Whatever you give it makes you feel better that you helped…..somehow. Have you ever thought where that money really goes? Would it surprise you to know that much of it goes in administration expenses, even 5-star hotels and first class airfa...

One of the biggest fears of many humans on this planet is their own self-worth. Most people who really want to know themselves want to hear that they are better than others, that they are needed; that they have value.  They want to leave a legacy and be remembered. The idea of living for our three score years and ten, or more it seems these days, is that we can look back on a life that has been well lived with a story that is worthy of a book. And it is my belief that most of us do have a story that has value and is fascinating to others.  So how do we find that story? Only by being true to ourselves; only by finding out and living who we really are; only by letting go of that huge expectation on us to be someone, to be something, ...

Indium: turn back your biological clock Indium is an exciting discovery that was somehow minimised. In his book "Indium" Dr. Robert Lyons wrote, "Let Indium turn back your biological clock. Researchers believe that Indium may help you look and feel years - even decades - younger."  I’ll list the health benefits of taking Indium later on, but that’s not the point of this article.  The real key is that Indium helps us improve the way in which we absorb the VIP minerals such as magnesium, copper, manganese, chromium, potassium, iodine, selenium. zinc and others.  In that sense Indium is like the doorman at a hotel, opening the door to allow important guests to enter! How Indium really works is by managing the vital functions perfor...

Survival In response to a reader’s request that I address the subject of survival and what to do in the event of a societal collapse, I am offering you my thoughts. No doubt I was expected to write about what dehydrated foods to stock up on and what to do when the going gets tough.  If that’s the case I didn’t do a very good job. To my way of thinking survival is a state of mind. The reason we are persistently challenged is so that we can finally learn that NONE of life’s challenges are bigger than us. Survival is a state of mind A few years ago I woke from an intense dream.  In the dream I was at a zoo with my daughter who was only a few years old.  We were by a tiger pit and my daughter fell over the wall onto the floor of the pi...