Often scorned by those of the medical mainstream ethos, manual kinesiology testing for evaluating patient organ functions, infections, toxic burdens, and nutritional deficiencies is one of the most valuable techniques utilized by alternative medicine doctors. Practiced in various forms, these specialized techniques (often referred to as muscle testing) have the potential to provide significant insight into the patient’s state of health by identifying underlying causes behind symptoms that would otherwise be difficult, if not impossible, to determine through laboratory testing alone. 

Comprehensive laboratory testing is the medical standard for providing quantitative assessments of an extensive range of important biological markers. Test results reveal the health status of organs, glands, and body systems as to whether they possess relatively normal healthy functions or are metabolically hampered by toxic burdens, infections, disease, and poor lifestyle habits. Besides its vital role in emergency medicine, laboratory testing serves as an overall screening process for new patients, alerts doctors to critically out-of-range test values, and provides a means for assessing patient progress. Having this complete overview is a clear advantage laboratory testing offers. 

Patient concerns arise, however, when laboratory test results cannot detect or confirm the cause of their illness. It is not that institutions such as Mayo Clinic, Children’s Mercy Hospital, and other high-profile clinics do not possess the technology and capability to perform the most comprehensive evaluations to test every cell in the body. So, how does this happen? 

In my view, there are two reasons for these medical cold cases. First, it is due to the limited nature of laboratory testing. It is simply impossible to detect every underlying toxin in the body from blood analysis because many toxic substances disrupting metabolic functions are firmly integrated within cellular structures. Second, medical doctors are, for the most part, skilled technicians with pharmaceuticals but often lack knowledge of the intricacies of functional human chemistry and physiology. This absence of functional medicine is largely due to the influence of their medical training which primarily focuses on drug therapy to the exclusion of investigating suspect causes, especially those that diverge from the accepted medical narrative.

Testing by a skilled kinesiologist, on the other hand, provides qualitative assessments of cellular environments and the integrity of metabolic pathways of organs as prioritized by the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS). Much like your computer, these systematic procedures use the ANS as a “search engine” to find priority dysfunctional organs and access their “files.” Through various techniques, the specific toxic burdens handicapping optimal functions are extracted from these “files.” These additional findings complement laboratory test results by providing greater context to patient symptom profiles, minimizing misinterpretations, and improving the specificity of nutritional protocols that result in improved patient outcomes. 

The point to emphasize is that laboratory testing measures (quantifies) the levels of biological markers but may not necessarily indicate the underlying cause to explain why lab values are deviating outside their normal ranges. In other words, laboratory testing generally measures the aftermath of organ dysfunctions, whereas a skilled kinesiologist can more readily identify underlying causes of organ dysfunctions.

Why then is there so much resistance to kinesiology techniques by the medical mainstream? One reason is alternative approaches can often appear contradictory, confounding, or unscientific to trained linear-thinking minds. For instance, consider the theory of homeopathy where “like cures like,” meaning a substance that causes a symptom can be made into a remedy to treat the same symptom when prepared in various dilutions. Adding to the bewilderment, the more dilutions a remedy undergoes the deeper and more powerfully it acts on the body—definitely counterintuitive. How do you explain that to a linear thinker? Similarly, the procedures of kinesiology testing can appear unscientific to those uninformed, both regarding how neurophysiological testing works and the scientific research and clinical results validating its effectiveness and reliability.

However, another reason for the resistance is the pharmaceutical industry (Big Pharma). It is not a secret that Big Pharma owns the medical science. The industry largely funds and controls a major portion of the research contracts of academic medical centers—hospitals that train doctors and conduct medical research—which means they control the data and the medical training used to promote pharmaceuticals. Thus, alternative approaches such as kinesiology testing, which can accurately identify underlying causes of illness and provide treatment protocols without drugs, are a clear threat to a medical paradigm that exploits a system of health care to promote and normalize the excessive use of—and long-term dependency on—often toxic and health-damaging drugs. 

Part 2 will cover several clinical cases to help emphasize why kinesiology testing is an important diagnostic tool for revealing underlying causes that elude laboratory testing.

© 2024 Stephen C. L’Hommedieu, DC 

March 15, 2024

Nutritional and herbal supplements to the functional medicine practitioner are analogous to the surgical instruments of the surgeon. Without these indispensable tools, little can be done to correct or alter an inevitable path toward system pathologies. Therefore, providing quality supplements is of the utmost importance for the patient in order to achieve safe and effective treatment results.

You would think every practitioner would be providing quality supplements for their patients and, indeed, most believe they are, but you would be wrong. Practitioners rely on industry standards such as the current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP). The purpose of these recommended guidelines is to confirm the identity, purity, strength, and composition of ingredients, and to ensure they are free of contamination. Documentation is required at each stage of testing, and manufacturers are subject to unannounced FDA inspections. However, cGMP is a principle-based framework providing recommendations for quality standards. This provides a false sense of confidence because it does not guarantee the biological or therapeutic effectiveness of nutritional and herbal supplements.

The next higher standard is the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) adopted by some manufacturers. ISO is a standard-based framework with established specifications and requirements, not just recommendations. There are some supplement manufacturers that have an ISO certified laboratory facility that implements these standards for their nutrients, which is why their nutritional supplements consistently test well in my clinical practice. This quality standard is much more reliable, but it is still not a guarantee that a nutritional or herbal supplement will be of high therapeutic value.

The concern—and the point of this post—is how, throughout my 27 years of clinical practice, I have often experienced frustration with numerous good quality nutritional and herbal supplement lines that were suddenly altered in some manner which ruined the therapeutic value.

Sometimes this occurs due to the original manufacturer making changes in production or substituting with inferior ingredients that technically pass the purity test. However, significant declines in therapeutic quality are assured when companies that manufacture exceptional supplements are acquired by larger manufacturers and/or venture capitalists. New operation managers always seem to tinker with original manufacturing processes and raw materials sourcing to be more profitable, but they do not understand or care how their alterations can diminish the therapeutic value of the original processes.

Just recently, a prominent herbal company whose extracts I have been using in my practice for many years was recently taken over by a larger herbal contract manufacturer. It was sudden and without any previous warning. This manufacturer advertises 30 years of experience using artisanal methods hundreds of years old and is cGMP compliant and FDA inspected. I was assured by the new representatives that the company would be implementing the same processing procedures. But as it turned out, this was not the case.

For 6 months the milk thistle seed extract was out-of-stock, which is the equivalent of a Chinese food restaurant running out of rice. When I finally received the new product, it was a different formulation. This new extract had a 75 – 85% alcohol content, higher than the original 55 – 65% alcohol content I used for years. Initially, I did not believe it would be an issue knowing extracts of milk thistle seed require a high alcohol content. I was actually expecting a superior product. However, I was disappointed and very concerned to find it tested poorly against my original product test samples, and would not be suitable for my patient nutritional protocols.

When I called to complain, the representative told me I was sent the wrong milk thistle extract, claiming they were trying something new. Would you buy that explanation? I shipped it back. Guess where that inferior milk thistle extract is going to wind up? Back on the market for someone else. I asked her to send me samples of the new product to test before shipping my order to avoid the immense hassle of returning a large quantity of liquid extracts. When I received the samples of the new “original” formulation, I was stunned to find it tested even more poorly than the other! Guess what they are going to do with all of that milk thistle extract?

At this point I felt it was necessary to speak to the production manager. When I called, I was transferred to the director of operations. He tried to assure me that it was made at the same facility and processed in the same manner. I asked if I could speak with the herbal formulator of the original company, to which was followed with a long pause, and then, “Well, we work with a team.” Uh huh. So, there you have it. It is not the same herbal formulator or process, but it is all cGMP compliant and FDA inspected.

This was then followed by an event with a patient who had been using a bottle of a different herbal extract from their new production. It resulted in causing her severe low back pain because it did not provide the same therapeutic support for her kidneys. Keep in mind, this is not an isolated occurrence. It is representative of the general nutritional and herbal quality the public purchases from health food stores, grocery stores, online discount brands, and even some doctor lines. In my view, in terms of therapeutic quality, cGMP recommendations amount to a good-enough-for-government-work standard by which these large-scale manufacturers are allowed undeserved high standing within the supplement industry. It has become the equivalent of USDA Organic. What does that mean exactly? Not as much as you would think. That is why it is important to incorporate higher standards of therapeutic testing through an experienced kinesiologist who specializes in testing nutritional and herbal supplements, because you may not be getting what you think.

Fact: “Vaxxed” is not an anti-vaccination movie. It covers the investigation of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine research revealed by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researcher and whistleblower William Thompson, who discovered a very high statistical correlation between MMR vaccine given before 3 years of age and the subsequent development of autism in the black population. It details how critical data were intentionally suppressed to preserve the MMR program, and the trail of corruption to the very top of the agency.

Fact: Andrew Wakefield did not falsify vaccine research for his own gain. He wrote a clinical report regarding 12 children who developed autism accompanied with severe gastrointestinal inflammation after receiving the MMR vaccine. The clinical research of Wakefield and Professor John Walker-Smith discovered the same MMR measles strain in the intestines of these children. The report only hypothesized the possibility that MMR could be harmful and suggested further research.

Fact: Other researchers did come to the same conclusion. Two other researchers discovered the same correlation between gut inflammation and autism in seven children. In 1996 they presented their findings in “Enterocolitis and Disintegrative Disorder Following MMR.” Also, Wake Forest University found 70 of 82 autistic children in their study had the same MMR measles strain in their intestines.

Fact: Walker-Smith won his appeal against the British General Medical Council – de facto exoneration for Wakefield.

– Stephen C. L’Hommedieu, Wichita

Published June 21, 2016

October 1, 2012

Is Fluoride a Nutrient?

Among the flood of misinformation perpetuated by fluoridation proponents is the concept of fluoride as an important nutrient. Despite the fact that fluoride has never been proven to serve any role in human nutrition whatsoever, for some perplexing reason, proponents believe ingesting a hazardous industrial waste is the answer to reducing tooth decay in children. Considering how the increasing toxic burdens affecting our children’s health have resulted with over 50% of U.S. children suffering at least one chronic illness, and approximately 20% are developmentally disabled, does it really make sense to add more pollutants to our water supplies?

Fluoridation proponents simply ignore toxicological data and refer to fluoride as a mineral. This leads the public to an incorrect assumption that all minerals are nutrients. This isn’t the case with fluoride. Most elements of the periodic table are minerals, including lead and arsenic — very toxic minerals. Obviously not all minerals are safe or play an important role in providing optimal health, and fluoride is one of them.

Advocates for water fluoridation claim: “Numerous scientific studies and reviews have recognized fluoride as an important nutrient for strong healthy teeth.” — fluoridefreekansas.COM spoof site.

Think About This: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) classifies fluoride as a pollutant, yet the EPA’s Office of Water (OW) provides water fluoridation protective status by substantiating the presumed benefit of fluoride for dental health. The OW had even gone as far as to assert that fluoride was a nutrient. This misrepresentation of fluoride was eventually rejected by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Institute of Medicine (IOM), the National Institute for Health (NIH) and National Research Council (NRC). Each organization was eventually forced to acknowledge that fluoride plays no role in human nutrition and is unnecessary for optimal growth and development.

To scientifically prove a substance is an essential nutrient, or important for specific biological functions, requires starving an animal of the substance to observe the symptoms and disease processes that result from the deficiency. It is an almost impossible task to produce a diet entirely free of fluoride for control groups. The most reliable early animal studies conducted with nutritionally adequate diets reduced fluoride levels to a range of 0.005 to 0.007 ppm. Fluoride at these negligible levels demonstrated no impairment of heart, liver and kidney function or increase in dental caries in animals when compared with groups fed water containing fluoride. [1] To this day, there is not one biochemical process known to require fluoride and no milligrams/day requirement has been established in human nutrition.

Aliss Terpstra, CNP nicely summarizes criteria required to qualify fluoride as a nutrient: “[F]luoride would have to contribute to calories for energy, contribute to optimal tissue growth, organ functions, structures of maintenance of life and health; be required as a co-factor for enzymes or vitamins; provide antioxidant protection; or be essential for body metabolism, growth, reproduction, and normal development of the fetus and child… Fluoride does none of these.” [2]

The European Commission in a 2010 report stated, “Plasma fluoride concentrations are not homeostatically regulated, but rise and fall according to the pattern of fluoride intake. In adults, plasma fluoride levels appear to be directly related to the daily exposure of fluoride.” [3] This indicates fluoride is unnecessary for the maintenance and function of biological processes in the body. Fluoride when consumed is either readily excreted or accumulates in the body, mostly within bone and connective tissue, but also within certain organs and endocrine glands. Essentially, your body becomes a storage vessel for this hazardous industrial waste.

In addition to the absence of scientific evidence supporting fluoride as a nutrient, research describes how fluoride targets various organ, endocrine and nervous system tissues to interfere with and damage biological mechanisms — even in low doses. [4]

There is no doubt that technological advancements of modern dentistry and medicine have greatly improved the quality of crisis care and our understanding of disease processes. Yet, endorsements for water fluoridation by these organizations stand among their other ironic and unfortunate examples of preventive health care programs that are absent of common sense and the fundamentals of chemistry and nutrition.

Elapsed from the pre-medicine education memory of these dentists and physicians who promote water fluoridation are the chemical properties of fluoride they should have learned from their basic sciences — fluoride is highly electronegative, a strong oxidizer and hungry for hydrogen bonds. This means fluoride has the ability to induce oxidative stress, alter gene expression and act as an enzyme inhibitor by breaking hydrogen bonds critical for maintaining the functional integrity of cellular components, nucleic acids, and protein structures of enzymes.

Disruptive to numerous biochemical processes, fluoride’s strong negative charge acts overtly antagonistic toward positively charged essential minerals to interfere with their important roles for growth, development, maintenance and function. Among the list of essential minerals whose roles in human nutrition are metabolically impaired or altered by the action of fluoride include essential nutrients such as boron, calcium, iodine, iron, lithium, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, potassium, sodium, zinc and other essential macro and trace minerals.

Altered mineral metabolism also includes greatly enhanced absorption of toxic minerals such as aluminum. Aluminum fluoride has been shown to increase beta amyloid plaque formation in the brain — the benchmark of Alzheimer’s disease. [5] The aluminum fluoride-treated water for the Varner (1998) study was only 0.5 ppm. Think about how much aluminum fluoride you will be consuming when simmering fluoridated water in aluminum cookware.

Destructive to bone, cardiovascular and nervous system health, fluoride robs minerals from bones, increases calcification of arteries, increases risk of cardiovascular events, alters neurological function, and depletes vital antioxidants and vitamins C, D and E. [6] [7]

If you are still undecided as to whether fluoride is hazardous substance to human health or an important nutrient, next time we’ll examine fluoride from the perspective of the EPA. The EPA plays a vital role in preserving the water fluoridation program.

Help Keep Water Fluoridation Out of Wichita, Kansas

Protecting Wichita’s water quality, public health, environment and our civil and constitutional liberties is our responsibility. Although some believe water fluoridation is in the best interests of our children, informed citizens of Wichita, KS are spreading the facts and need your support.

The Kansas Health Foundation and other private and corporate special-interests have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars for the promotional advertising, media coverage, advertising agency, law firm and hired help to promote water fluoridation in Wichita. If Wichitans knew the truth about water fluoridation they would be outraged by this science that only money can buy.

Don Landis is the spokesperson and action coordinator for the new non-profit community outreach organization, www.WichitansOpposedToFluoridation.com. He also coordinates efforts with www.WichitaPureWater.com and many volunteers who are contributing resources and organizing important events to reach the public with the facts being withheld by the dental and medical communities and media.

If you would like to donate your time, talent and financial support, you may contact Don directly by e-mail at dlandis1@cox.net or call 316.990.1471. It’s important to educate the Wichita community since the many surrounding communities that will be affected cannot vote on this referendum on November 6th.

More information on fluoride and water fluoridation can be obtained at the following links:

1. www.fluoridealert.org (Founded by Paul Connett, Ph.D.)

2. www.fluorideresearch.org (Editor Albert W. Burgstahler, Ph.D.)

3. www.nofluoride.com

4. www.fluoridedebate.com

Protect public health and your right to refuse unwanted medication: Say NO to fluoridation on November 6th!

NOTES:

[1]  George L. Waldbott, M.D., Albert W. Burgstahler, Ph.D. & H. Lewis McKinney, Ph.D. (1978): Fluoridation: The Great Dilemma, Coronado Press, Inc.

[2]  Aliss Terpstra, CNP (2012): Does Water Fluoridation Cause Heart Disease? The Institute of Holistic Nutrition: Nutrition Research. http://www.instituteofholisticnutrition.com/nutrition-research/

[3] Critical Review of Any New Evidence on the Hazard Profile, Health Effects, and Human Exposure to Fluoride and the Fluoridating Agents of Drinking Water. European Commission: Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER), May, 2010.

[4]  Barbier O. et al: Molecular Mechanisms of Fluoride Toxicity. Chemico-Biological Interactions 188 (2010) 320-328.

[5]  Varner J.A. et al: Chronic Administration of Aluminum-Fluoride and Sodium-Fluoride to Rats in Drinking Water: Alterations in Neuronal and Cerebral Vascular Integrity. Brain Research 1998 Feb 16;784(1-2):284-98.

[6]  Yuxin L. et al: Association of Vascular Fluoride Uptake with Vascular Calcification and Coronary Artery Disease. Nuclear Medicine Communications 33:14-20 (2011).

[7]  Susheela A.K. (2007): A Treatise on Fluorosis, Revised 3rd Edition. Fluorosis Research and Rural Development Foundation, Delhi, India.

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By Dr. Stephen C. L’Hommedieu

October 1, 2012

Advocates for water fluoridation claim: “Fluoride occurs naturally in water, though rarely at optimal levels to protect teeth. That’s our goal: getting just enough to help all of us keep our teeth longer… Fluoride is a safe and natural way to prevent tooth decay.” —fluoridefreekansas.COM spoof site.

Think About This: Fluoride does occur naturally in the water in simple ionic form as calcium fluoride. Due to its low solubility, calcium fluoride is normally present at very low concentrations. It’s considered relatively harmless in the low concentrations present in Wichita’s water at 0.3 parts per million (ppm). Even naturally occurring calcium fluoride, however, is capable of exhibiting toxic effects of fluorosis in human populations with fluoride concentrations of 1 ppm and even less.

Sodium fluoride is another simple ionic form, although it’s far more water soluble and, therefore, far more toxic than calcium fluoride. Naturally occurring sodium fluoride is fairly rare in nature. All sodium fluoride used for water fluoridation purposes is an industrial grade hazardous waste. However, relatively few cities still use this compound for water fluoridation purposes today.

Sodium fluoride is also manufactured in tablet form under strict Current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) regulations enforced by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The resulting compound is 99.97% pure sodium fluoride. This is the pharmaceutical grade version of the hazardous waste that fluoride advocates give their children. The FDA classifies sodium fluoride for ingestion as an unapproved new drug. There are no double blind studies that have demonstrated either the safety or effectiveness of ingesting sodium fluoride to prevent tooth decay.

In sharp contrast to these simple ionic forms, the synthetic fluoride chemicals used for water fluoridation are sodium hexafluorosilicate and hydrofluorosilicic acid, collectively called hexafluorosilicates or, the more general term, fluorosilicates (and sometimes silicofluorides). Although fluoridation advocates will tell you it’s the “safe and natural way to prevent tooth decay,” there’s nothing safe and natural about them. These hexafluorosilicates used in water fluoridation are highly toxic and are listed as hazardous wastes by many environmental protection administrations. Hexafluorosilicates are not identical to or chemically interchangeable with the form of fluoride naturally occurring in our water. In fact, there’s no known chemical compound present in nature similar in structure to hexafluorosilicates.

The main source of this “fluoride” is derived as an industrial waste by-product through the phosphate fertilizer industry called fluorosilicic acid. This highly corrosive industrial waste is produced by treating phosphate rock with sulfuric acid. Sodium hexafluorosilicate is produced by treating fluorosilicic acid with a highly caustic metallic base sodium hydroxide (lye), sodium carbonate or sodium chloride. Both hydrofluorosilicic acid (25% solution) and sodium hexafluorosilicate are the major chemicals utilized for water fluoridation programs.

There are other chemical by-products present in these industrial grade fluorosilicates. The list includes unevaluated levels of chlorides, amines (derivatives of ammonia), diesel fuel, kerosene, sulfides (aggressive corrosives), reagent compounds such as lye (used for inducing chemical reactions), phosphorus, oil-based defoamers with possible dioxin containing contaminants, polymers, petroleum products, naphthalene, and Synspar, the multi-function synthetic coolant used in phosphate rock processing operations.[6]

Fluorosilicic acid is evaluated to contain a minimum of 18.22% fluorine and 0.02% heavy metals such as lead, arsenic, cadmium and mercury, along with trace amounts of uranium 238 and the highly radioactive radium, which are all known carcinogens (cancer causing).[7]

In addition, there are two uranium decay by-products, radon-222 and polonium-210, which are even more carcinogenic. Polonium-210 emits 5000 times more alpha radiation than radium. As little as 6.8 trillionths of a gram can be carcinogenic when consumed internally. Radionuclides can lay dormant in your body to eventually decay into one of these highly carcinogenic forms.[8]

Fluorosilicate compounds used for water fluoridation are misleadingly promoted as simply providing more “fluoride” to what is already naturally present in the water. Interestingly, the use of fluorosilicate compounds has still not been acknowledged by our city officials for the proposed fluoridation program. The public doesn’t understand that the toxicity of fluoride will vary significantly with different compounds. The simple calcium fluoride present naturally in our water is far removed from the chemical properties of hexafluorosilicate compounds.

Since the vast majority of fluoride research pertains to sodium fluoride within controlled laboratory environments using pure distilled water, concerns regarding the toxicity of fluorosilicate compounds should be an important issue. But according to environmental expert Declan Waugh, BSc, C.Env, MCIWEM, MIEMA, MCIWM, “No toxicological studies have been done to determine the toxicity of fluorosilicates on human health.”[9]

The concern of many scientists is the potential for harm associated with the special chemical properties of fluorosilicates: Dissociation, bioavailability and possible toxicities of fluorosilicates vary with the pH of its environment. All test results on fluorosilicates have been at city water pH levels. No consideration has been given to the extremes in pH environments the water will be exposed to through cooking processes and ingestion. Consider that 50% of the fluoride in your stomach at pH 3 (the pH range of stomach acid is 2 to 3) is in the form hydrofluoric acid. Hydrofluoric acid is highly corrosive and can penetrate tissues more rapidly than other mineral acids.[10]

Hexafluorosilicate is stabilized at a pH of 2.6. It’s now believed that incomplete dissociated fluorosilicate residues can reassociate in the stomach and during food preparation to produce exposures to a variety of toxic forms including silicon tetrafluoride—a known hazardous substance.[11]

Differentiating fluorosilicate compounds from sodium fluoride, and certainly from calcium fluoride, is absorption and processing within the body. This was known even before the U.S. Public Health Service endorsed sodium hexafluorosilicate in 1950 as a cheaper alternative to sodium fluoride with a biological equivalence in absorption. However, in strong contrast to this endorsement were the results of earlier animal studies. When equivalent amounts of these fluorides were ingested, more of the fluoride from sodium fluoride was eliminated through the feces, whereas there was a three-fold increase of the amount of fluoride from hexafluorosilicate eliminated through the kidneys. The higher blood levels of fluoride suggest hexafluorosilicate is processed differently by the body and/or absorption is greater.[12]

Help Keep Water Fluoridation Out of Wichita, Kansas

Protecting our water quality, public health, environment and the personal freedom of all citizens should be the priority of our city leaders. Although some believe water fluoridation is in the best interests of our children, informed citizens of Wichita, KS need your support to prevent this polluting of our city water that will endanger public health and the environment.

The Kansas Health Foundation and other private and corporate special-interests have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars for the promotional advertising, media coverage, advertising agency, law firm and hired help to promote water fluoridation in Wichita. If Wichitans knew the truth about water fluoridation they would be outraged by this science that only money can buy.

The Fluoride Free Kansas (FFK) website is developed and operated by co-founder Travis Crank. You can visit FluorideFreeKansas.org for the latest fluoride information and details about future meetings and support activities.[13]

Donations are needed to support the costs of important electronic efforts to reach the masses, website upgrades and other campaign expenses. If you believe it’s important to prevent the polluting of our drinking water with a hazardous industrial waste, please show your support by donating to Fluoride Free Kansas.[14] Achieving success in Wichita will send a clear message across Kansas and to other cities in the country: A corporate-driven science that promotes the dumping of hazardous waste into our drinking water is not welcome!

Don Landis (not directly affiliated with FFK) is the spokesperson and action coordinator between FFK and a number of private and group efforts being organized to reach the public with the facts being withheld by the dental and medical communities and media. If you have a talent, Don can use your help! Donations of your time and talent to support this community effort would be greatly appreciated.

You may contact Don directly by e-mail at dlandis1@cox.net or call 316.990.1471. It’s important to educate the Wichita community since the surrounding communities that will be affected won’t be able to vote on this referendum on November 6th.

If you would like a speaker to attend a group meeting or an event in this area, please contact Don Landis or Fluoride Free Kansas to inquire about possible arrangements.

For those who live in Kansas, take a quick moment to sign the petition.[15] When you do, please include ALL information so signatures are verifiable, otherwise they will not be counted.

Spread the word: Say no to fluoridation on November 6th!

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Footnotes:

1. “Why EPA Headquarters Union of Scientists Oppose Fluoridation;” NTEU Chapter 280, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Headquarters.
2. Dental Professionals Profit from Fluorosis Treatment.
3. Fluoride in Milwaukee’s Water Unsafe, Unnecessary, and Unhealthy: Alderman Jim Bohl Proposes Legislation to stop Milwaukee’s Fluoridation Program. Statement from Alderman Jim Bohl May 22, 2012.
4. Civil Rights Leaders Call for Halt to Water Fluoridation.
5. Communities Which Have Rejected Fluoridation Since 1990. Fluoride Action Network
6. Over-Exposed to Fluoride. Presented by Emily Kalweit, Director of Washington Action For Safe Water.
7. Sodium Hexafluorosilicate and Fluorosilicic Acid: A Review of Toxicological Literature (Oct. 2001).
8. Fluoride and the Phosphate Connection, by George Glasser; The Pure Water Gazette.
9. Declan Waugh, B.Sc. C.Env. MCIWEM. MIEMA. MCIWM. Misrepresentation of Scientific Facts and Current Scientific Knowledge on Silicofluorides and Fluoride by the Irish Expert Body on Fluoride and Health (June 2012).
10. Ciavatta L, et al. Fluorosilicate Equilibria in Acid Solution: Polyhedron Vol 7 (18);1773-79; 1988
11. Ricks GM et al. The Possible Formation of Hydrogen Fluoride from the Reaction of Silicon Tetrafluoride with Humid Air: Am. Ind. Hyg. Assoc. J. (54); 272-276; 1993
12. Kick CH et al. Fluorine in Animal Nutrition: Bulletin 558, Ohio State Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster OH (Nov. 1935).
13. Fluoride Free Kansas Home page.
14. Fluoride Free Kansas Donations.
15. Fluoride Free Kansas Petition.

Stephen C. L’Hommedieu, DC currently resides in Wichita, Kansas with his wife Nikki. For sixteen years Dr. L’Hommedieu has practiced natural medicine, chiropractic, acupuncture, and specializes in Advanced Kinesiology and nutritional therapies.

In 1992 he graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park with a Bachelor of Science in Biology with an emphasis in physiology. He completed a second Bachelor of Science in Human Anatomy and received a Doctor of Chiropractic from Parker College of Chiropractic in Dallas, Texas in 1996.

His unique and intelligent approach to health care has served to restore the health of many individuals with unusual and difficult to treat health disorders. His clinical specialty is the development of safe protocols for effective detoxification and management of heavy metals and toxic chemicals.

He believes God’s hand in our healing works through both His physical and Spiritual laws. He promotes the principles of natural health care based on authentic science and supports our freedom of choice in health care. He presents lectures and articles on various nutritional and health topics.

For comments or questions you may contact Dr. L’Hommedieu at his website: www.AdvancedAlternativesForHealth.com.

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By Dr. Stephen C. L’Hommedieu
September 5, 2012
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Once again, Wichita’s municipal water system is the targeted kingpin to topple as it continues to stand among the largest cities in the U.S. remaining fluoridation-free. This time formidable allies of water fluoridation mounted pressure to ram their fluoridation measure through the Wichita City Council meeting on August 22. Despite the $250,000 pledge by the United Methodist Health Ministry Fund and a commitment for $800,000 more from other donors to assist with start-up costs, the measure still failed to gain a majority of Council votes. Strong public opposition to the water fluoridation measure was clear—this is for the public to decide. The measure will appear on the November 6th ballot.

Political momentum behind the strong media push to fluoridate Wichita’s water supply was largely initiated by the not-for-profit Kansas Health Foundation (KHF) and the American Dental Association (ADA). There’s also a long list of medical endorsements including the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), American Medical Association (AMA), Kansas Academy of Family Physicians (KAFP), Kansas Health Institute (KHI), state and federal health agencies, and many spin-off dental and medical associations, foundations, clinics and care units, and the United Methodist Church and its health ministries (strong promoters of water fluoridation).

In addition to the full and half page ads and news articles featured in The Wichita Eagle during the initial surge, KHF financial resources helped to aggressively promote the pro-fluoridation message through television, radio, billboard ads, social media and websites. Two of these websites are designed to spoof the opposition, creating pro-fluoridation websites FluorideFreeKansas.COM and WichitansForPureWater.com to counter the opposing independent scientific research and information presented on FluorideFreeKansas.ORG and WichitaPureWater.com.

The pro-fluoridation initiative also included door-to-door solicitations. The 11,000 plus signatures exceeded the requirement for introducing the fluoridation referendum to the Wichita City Council to force immediate compliance or a public vote.

Everyday Wichitans are exposed to the pro-fluoridation message: Fighting tooth decay through water fluoridation is “beyond dispute” as an effective way to help protect our children’s teeth. Adding to the incentive is the theoretical $4.5 million savings in dental care every year. Let’s face it, how could anyone disagree when every major dental and medical association and public health agency glorifies water fluoridation as one of the great health achievements of our time?

Despite the fanfare, the history and science behind water fluoridation is extremely controversial and far from being beyond dispute. There are numerous leading health and independent research experts throughout the world who are alarmed by the influence of this corporate brand of science dominating the water fluoridation paradigm. Immersed in conflicts of interest, fluoridation science has been heavily criticized for its poorly conducted research studies. Independent experts, including the EPA’s own scientists,[1] stand strongly opposed to water fluoridation and warn that the advertised health and financial benefits being sold to Wichitans don’t add up.

During the initial pro-fluoridation rally at GraceMed Clinic on July 12th, pediatrician and water fluoridation advocate Dr. Larry Hund stated, “We have the science on our side…It’s a no-brainer.” The science behind water fluoridation may be a “no-brainer” for some like Dr. Hund, but the science on their side is a corporate-driven science that strives to defy, ignore, redefine and reinterpret objective findings and conclusions of legitimate independent scientific research. Thus, the scientific reliability of studies that “prove” the benefits and safety of water fluoridation have been called into question since the beginning.

Those benefiting most from the science supporting water fluoridation just may be the extractive industries that manufacture super phosphate fertilizer and aluminum. For these industries, the water fluoridation program is certainly “beyond dispute” as the greatest achievement for disposing of the tens of thousands of metric tons produced every year of the highly toxic industrial waste—fluorosilicic acid.

Similar to other highly questionable practices that plague the medical establishment, the science behind water fluoridation is far more political than scientific. Although many fluoride advocates have sincere intentions of helping children’s teeth, they’re completely unaware of the strong political influences underpinning fluoridation science. The real threat to our community’s health isn’t fluoridation opponents and their “junk science,” it’s the water fluoridation paradigm reducing legitimate science to junk.

The studies and references presented throughout this review are by no means all-inclusive. Those selected are among the volumes of studies, research and information available to provide insight and, for the most part, understandable points of interest. This series of articles considers a number of critical arguments and statements used by fluoridation advocates to support their views.

Have Wichitans Been Longing for Water Fluoridation?

Advocates for water fluoridation claim: “The citizens of Wichita have been waiting a long, long time for their city government and their community leaders to provide them with a proven form of health prevention.” —Sara Meng, DDS, The Wichita Eagle, July 12, 2012.

Think About This: Dr. Meng shares a common belief held by many of those within her profession, but there are many more who don’t share her fluoridation belief system. Having practiced chiropractic and natural medicine in Wichita, KS for sixteen years, I have never heard anyone complain about the lack of fluoridation in our city water. In fact, the water fluoridation issue has been soundly rejected in the 1950s, 1964, 1978 and 2000. Apparently, no one explained to Dr. Meng or her patients that there was no need to wait—they could use sodium fluoride tablets.

The idea that Wichitans have been waiting for this “great health achievement” to come pouring out of our faucets just isn’t reality. Allies of fluoridation, however, are working hard to create this public perception. Dr. Meng, who chairs Wichitans for Healthy Teeth, posted the KWCH Channel 12 “scientific” survey on their website to display the results: 53% of the surveyed audience was in favor for fluoridation, 33% opposed fluoridation and 13% were not sure. How scientific was the survey? It doesn’t matter; the impact on public perception was the goal. The intent is to build the perception of how water fluoridation must be a really good thing because everyone who knows the science wants it, except for, you know, those crazy people with their “junk science” claiming it’s poison.

Knowing the importance of public perception, Dr. Meng quickly “updated” her website to remove the word “fluorosis” from her services page. Fluorosis is a discoloring of the teeth caused by fluoride toxicity that can occur even at levels less than 1 part per million (ppm) in our water. The retraction was to avoid an obvious question: If you are promoting water fluoridation, and fluoride causes fluorosis, are you promoting water fluoridation to increase your business? This notable change was brought to public attention in an open letter that included before and after images of the website page.[2] Attempts to deliberately mislead the public and obscure the facts are the mainstay for the success of the water fluoridation movement.

Dr. Meng and others believe that Wichita is far overdue for fluoridating its water. According to Vice Mayor Janet Miller, Wichita needs to “join the 21st century.” But even if the City Council did vote to immediately climb on board the “F” Train, ironically, they would have found themselves still out of step with the times—more and more cities have abandon or are fighting to end this out-dated mode of health care. Hundreds of cities have continued to reject, have ended, or are presently pushing for legislation to end fluoridation programs because of numerous health concerns, freedom and informed consent issues, and simply because it doesn’t work. Here are some recent developments over the past year:

1. Fairbanks, Alaska voted 5 to 1 to stop their fluoridation program on June 6, 2011 (population 80,000). Fairbanks required fluoridation since 1959.

2. Albuquerque, NM stopped fluoridating their water last year (population 500,000). This year Santa Fe, NM was fighting to end their fluoridation program, but eventually lost with a reversal of the initial vote to end fluoridation.

3. College Station, Texas voted 6 to 1 to stop fluoridating their water in September of 2011 (population 100,000). College Station had been fluoridating their water since 1989.

4. Pinellas County, FL stopped fluoridating their water supply last year that serves nearly a million residents.

5. Alderman Jim Bohl of the City of Milwaukee, WI proposed legislation calling for the immediate cessation of any fluoride products introduced into the water.[3] This is another clear sign of how water fluoridation is losing credibility among decision-makers in public office.

6. Phoenix, AZ is one of the largest cities in the nation and the latest Valley city to reassess its controversial water fluoridation policy that affects 1.4 million people. This follows the cities of Page in 2006 and Flagstaff in 2001, both of which rejected fluoridation three times.

7. New York City Councilman Peter Vallone has been pushing legislation since 2010 to remove water fluoridation that supplies 8.2 million residents.

8. The cities of Lawrence and Salina, KS are fighting to end their water fluoridation programs.

9. Georgia fluoridates 96% of their water supplies and ranks 25th in the nation in dental health. Andrew Young, former U.N. Ambassador and former Atlanta mayor, along with Reverend Dr. Gerald Durley, Pastor of Providence Baptist Church in Atlanta, have been urging Georgia legislators to end the mandatory water fluoridation program. Statistics show “61% of low-income Georgia third graders have tooth decay compared to 51% from higher-income families—and 33% and 20%, respectively, have untreated cavities…” Ambassador Young wrote, “We also have a cavity epidemic today in our inner cities that have been fluoridated for decades.”[4]

The state of Tennessee also fluoridates 96% of their water supplies, yet ranks far behind Georgia placing 47th in dental health.

10. According to Fluoride Action Network, more than 300 hundred communities in the U.S. and Canada have stopped or rejected the practice of water fluoridation since 1990.[5]

If fluoridation is a “proven form of health prevention” that Dr. Meng claims, why are rates of tooth decay at epidemic levels in cities fluoridated for decades? And why are more and more communities fighting to stop the “benefits?” The examples of Georgia and Tennessee are among many others that demonstrate the dichotomy between fluoridation presented as a “proven form of health prevention” and the statistical realities. The public is quickly learning that there are far more effective and safer options for preventing tooth decay. They emphasize the importance of a nutritious diet absent of junk food and excessive carbohydrates, nutritional supplements and better dental oral care and education.

Rather than being pro-fluoridation activists, dentists and medical physicians may want to consider becoming teeth brushing activists and promote Teeth Brushing Awareness campaigns. Educate children and parents to the importance of brushing and flossing their teeth after meals. Better yet, become nutritious food activists and teach children how sugar, soda and processed foods contribute to tooth decay. Practicing real health care may not be as profitable or politically correct, but it would serve to produce overall healthier children with decay resistant teeth. For part two click below.

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Footnotes:

1. “Why EPA Headquarters Union of Scientists Oppose Fluoridation;” NTEU Chapter 280, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Headquarters.
2. Dental Professionals Profit from Fluorosis Treatment.
3. Fluoride in Milwaukee’s Water Unsafe, Unnecessary, and Unhealthy: Alderman Jim Bohl Proposes Legislation to stop Milwaukee’s Fluoridation Program. Statement from Alderman Jim Bohl May 22, 2012.
4. Civil Rights Leaders Call for Halt to Water Fluoridation.
5. Communities Which Have Rejected Fluoridation Since 1990. Fluoride Action Network
6. Over-Exposed to Fluoride. Presented by Emily Kalweit, Director of Washington Action For Safe Water.
7. Sodium Hexafluorosilicate and Fluorosilicic Acid: A Review of Toxicological Literature (Oct. 2001).
8. Fluoride and the Phosphate Connection, by George Glasser; The Pure Water Gazette.
9. Declan Waugh, B.Sc. C.Env. MCIWEM. MIEMA. MCIWM. Misrepresentation of Scientific Facts and Current Scientific Knowledge on Silicofluorides and Fluoride by the Irish Expert Body on Fluoride and Health (June 2012).
10. Ciavatta L, et al. Fluorosilicate Equilibria in Acid Solution: Polyhedron Vol 7 (18);1773-79; 1988
11. Ricks GM et al. The Possible Formation of Hydrogen Fluoride from the Reaction of Silicon Tetrafluoride with Humid Air: Am. Ind. Hyg. Assoc. J. (54); 272-276; 1993
12. Kick CH et al. Fluorine in Animal Nutrition: Bulletin 558, Ohio State Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster OH (Nov. 1935).
13. Fluoride Free Kansas Home page.
14. Fluoride Free Kansas Donations.
15. Fluoride Free Kansas Petition.

Stephen C. L’Hommedieu, DC currently resides in Wichita, Kansas with his wife Nikki. For sixteen years Dr. L’Hommedieu has practiced natural medicine, chiropractic, acupuncture, and specializes in Advanced Kinesiology and nutritional therapies.

In 1992 he graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park with a Bachelor of Science in Biology with an emphasis in physiology. He completed a second Bachelor of Science in Human Anatomy and received a Doctor of Chiropractic from Parker College of Chiropractic in Dallas, Texas in 1996.

His unique and intelligent approach to health care has served to restore the health of many individuals with unusual and difficult to treat health disorders. His clinical specialty is the development of safe protocols for effective detoxification and management of heavy metals and toxic chemicals.

He believes God’s hand in our healing works through both His physical and Spiritual laws. He promotes the principles of natural health care based on authentic science and supports our freedom of choice in health care. He presents lectures and articles on various nutritional and health topics.

For comments or questions you may contact Dr. L’Hommedieu at his website: www.AdvancedAlternativesForHealth.com.

Originally published on: https://www.newswithviews.com/L’Hommedieu/stephen105.htm

By Dr. Stephen C. L’Hommedieu
September 5, 2012
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Last year KVR’s initial attempt to introduce the conscientious exemption into the Kansas legislature didn’t carry much weight, but this year may be a different story. Now with almost 500 signatures strong supporting their petition and rapidly growing, KVR is becoming a powerful platform for parents who believe they should have the right to exempt their children from one or more or all state vaccination mandates required for attending Kansas schools.

Health agencies present persuasive arguments to strongly encourage mass vaccinations. But there is a growing number of educated parents who are not convinced, and for good reasons. In spite of sincere assurances by health officials regarding vaccine safety, there is an unprecedented epidemic of chronic illnesses and disabilities hitting U.S. children. As a result, parents are becoming more proactive in their children’s health care decisions and are questioning the science behind medical and government health agency recommendations rampant with conflicts of interest.

Although KVR emphasizes parental rights with respect to vaccinations, it is important to remember that KVR is NOT an anti-vaccination organization. KVR was initiated with the purpose for providing parents the right to fulfill their parental responsibility for their children’s health care. Vaccination mandates abrogates this parental responsibility and at the same time exempts related medical, pharmaceutical and government health entities from liability when adverse events result in serious injury, permanent disability or even death.

Presently, the state of Kansas allows for only two exemption options for parents, but these do not satisfy the needs of many parents.

The first option is the medical exemption. This requires an annual written statement signed by a licensed physician stating that tests or vaccinations would seriously endanger the life or health of the child. The first issue is that it is often impossible to know if a vaccine will seriously endanger your child’s life until after the fact. The other issue is the difficulty getting a medical physician to sign off on the exemption. The main reason for this is medical physicians are not trained to recognize vaccine adverse events and injuries, and many believe vaccines carry minimal risks. But there are countless testimonies from parents who know, without a doubt, that their child experienced an adverse reaction or regressive behavior within minutes to hours and sometimes days after being vaccinated, yet the tending physician minimized or ignored the parent’s concern. With the next vaccination series the child experiences another, often more serious, reaction that pushes the child over the edge into a developmental disorder, chronic illness or worse — severe neurologic regression. It happens, and it is not that rare.

The second option is the religious exemption. The religious exemption requires a written statement signed by one parent or guardian that the child adheres to a religious denomination whose teachings are opposed to such tests or inoculations. The religious exemption as it is presently worded in the Kansas Statute is actually a misnomer. This more accurately describes a religion exemption. This applies to religious denominations whose fundamental teachings, traditions or regulations oppose elements of vaccinations or medical care in general. However, this exemption actually excludes the majority of religious denominations including biblically-based Christians.

Neither the medical or religious exemptions address the parental responsibility, moral or freedom of choice issues. The present religious exemption as it stands does not provide freedom to exercise personal spiritual beliefs and practices for all individuals equally, which is a form of religious discrimination. This is why passing the conscientious exemption is so important

All 50 states offer both the medical and religious exemptions. Conscientious exemption is already offered in nineteen states representing 48% of the U.S. population. To this day there has not been any direct correlation reported between exemption rates and disease rates.

If you value freedom of choice in health care decisions for your children in Kansas go to www.gopetition.com/petition/42105.html and sign the petition to show your support for the conscientious exemption option in State-Mandated Vaccinations HB 2094. Those from out-of-state may also sign the petition. Although Kansas legislators will consider only those residents in Kansas, it sends a message to other states who will be watching.

You can visit KVR’s website at www.kansansforvaccinerights.com or join them on Facebook for regular updates at https:/www.facebook.com/kansansforvaccinerights.

It is important for Kansans to act quickly by contacting their respective State representatives. Tell them you want to protect parental rights, informed consent and freedom of conscience and to support the conscientious exemption in State-Mandated Vaccination HB 2094. Become a member of KVR. Even more, show our representatives how important this legislation is by attending the hearing. Numbers ARE important! The hearing will be held in the Docking State Office building, 915 SW Harrison (10th & Harrison), Topeka, Kansas in Room # 784 at 1:30 p.m.

Protecting your freedom of choice in your children’s health care decisions depends on you.

© Dr. Stephen C. L’Hommedieu

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By Dr. Stephen C. L’Hommedieu

January 4, 2012

Joan was an individual of uncompromising integrity with an unwavering faith in God and to His leading in her life. To those who knew her, she will be remembered as a most gracious lady and an incredibly devout patriot and servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. For sixteen years, Joan relentlessly carried the message of truth to preserve and defend our God-given freedom and the Constitution of our Nation against the immoral and tyrannical rule of an all-consuming world government, even so while defending her own body against the ravages of cancer.

Joan especially had a heart for the Christian community, but held great concerns over the ignorance and complacency among many Christians to the assimilation of the global agenda into this country as a result of worldly compromised Christian leadership. According to Joan, “My grave concern is that the Christian Community — at the time in history when it should “stand in the gap” — will be unwittingly processed through the Hegelian dialectic into world government without even realizing it.” True enough, yet she maintained a steadfast hope that from the Christian community a remnant will hear their call to remain faithful and “stand in the gap.”

There are those who would let their professional achievements overshadow the true source of their strength and abilities, but not Joan. She knew her spiritual walk with God was the most important part of her life and her source of strength and guidance for her life’s work. It was at the age of thirteen when she accepted Jesus as her Lord and Savior, which was followed with her remarkable calling to dedicate her life to the will of God. As a testimony to the Lord’s faithfulness in her life, He opened extraordinary doors for this ordinary woman of short stature to carry her to top levels of international government among the world’s elite leaders; interviewing and asking key questions of presidents, kings, princes, prime ministers and heads of state. So it was that God used Joan in an incredible way, because she was willing to do it God’s way.

As a credentialed international journalist, Joan was all about asking “bottom-line” questions in effort to extract the truth from those whose primary objective was to contain public disclosure of sensitive information. So much so that other journalists at these international conferences began to take notice that often when it came time for Joan’s questions, interviews would abruptly end. Many journalists often commented that they were curiously aware of how she was being by-passed for questions. This was the Joan Veon strategy behind her “bottom-line” questioning: to elicit revealing statements from world leaders confirming the global agenda and to draw the attention of other international journalists to make them aware that something is very wrong.

In spite of the global agenda, Joan had an agenda of her own: it was to bring the word of God to these spiritually depraved United Nations conferences. Once she strategically placed Arabic versions of the bible throughout a conference for the attending members. She noticed some would pick them up, some would move to another seat. During breaks if they were untouched she would reposition them in hope that someone would receive the truth of the word of God. She once approached a Saudi prince with one of the bibles and asked if he would accept her gift. He accepted her gift with deep appreciation explaining that he had read the bible in English when he went to school in the United States, but he had always wanted to read it in his own language. He graciously thanked her. That was the incredible boldness of Joan Veon as she walked with God.

Joan had an incredible mind and was a powerhouse of determination. In addition to her first career as a Certified Financial Planner and the opening of Veon Financial Services, Inc. in 1986, she is also accredited with a long list of other professional accomplishments. She began her second career as a credentialed, international journalist covering over 103 United Nations and United Nations-related conferences, she was a brilliant author and lecturer, a guest speaker on hundreds of radio talk shows, the founder of The Women’s International Media Group, columnist with NewsWithViews.com(see articles), and a renowned expert on environmental, social, and economic issues relating to the United Nations’ global agenda and Sustainable Development.

As an astute financial expert who had studied and analyzed financial trends that eventually led to her recognizing indications of a world currency, she prayed for God to show her the truth. He answered her prayer with her first attendance to a United Nations’ conference in Cairo, Egypt, in 1994, on population control. Although highly respected professionally and considered well informed on local government issues, it was at the Cairo conference where she was struck with the realization that she knew nothing about the government at the international level. Soon she discovered how Americans were being intentionally “dumbed down” so average citizens would not be in a position to understand or question international policies being imposed upon them until it was too late.

Meticulously compiling numerous details from her exhaustive research over the years, Joan masterfully laid out the global agenda behind Sustainable Development, Agenda 21 and the United Nations in two major publications.

Joan’s first book, Prince Charles: The Sustainable Prince, published in 1997, exposes those who have been the major powers behind the world scenes and Prince Charles’ worldly philosophies and global projects. She reveals how the “signing of the United Nations’ Charter is the forum that will bring America back under the control of the British Empire and into world government,” and exposes Sustainable Development, the core philosophy behind the United Nations’ Agenda 21 program, for what it really is: a global agenda to control the world’s resources, much like communism, under the pretense of “protecting” the world’s resources.

The second book, The United Nations’ Global Straight Jacket, published in 1999, is a comprehensive handbook on world government. Here she helps the reader connect the dots to understand how international treaties and planned crisis events are created for the covert dismantling of international economic, social, political and electronic boundaries while at the same time constructing a new global infrastructure. It is an extensive resource of accurate, factual information and provides the foundation for understanding the machinations of United Nations’ global governance and its pervasive global authority that is regulating every aspect of our lives at the local level without our knowledge.

Also to her credit, she was one of the first to recognize that there would be a transition of power from the national government level to the international governance level through the United Nations. Another recent effort of this transition was associated with the 2008 financial crisis, which was intentionally created as a plan to dismantle the final global financial barriers. Joan covers the details in her DVDs, When Central Banks Rule the World, and 2008 Credit Crisis: The Final Transfer of America’s Financial Sovereignty.

It was a privilege and a blessing to know Joan, if only for a short time. Joan had so much more she wanted to accomplish in her life on earth, but on Monday October 18th her most important work was completed when the Lord called Joan home. Now she will receive her glorious servant’s crown with His words of commendation: “Well done, good and faithful Servant!”

© Dr. Stephen C. L’Hommedieu

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By Dr. Stephen C. L’Hommedieu

October 23, 2010

On the front lines of this battle for your mind, unrestrained organized efforts of major media are employed to discourage the public from investigating principled scientific research and alternative approaches in health care. Their intimidation and obstructive tactics include ridicule, discrediting, lying, deception, and selective media coverage. Their concern is that if people were to be presented with accurate scientific evidence on health issues, they would soon realize much of what they thought to be real science was, in fact, only an image of scientific authenticity. The vital role of major media is to preserve that image.

Not surprisingly, Medical and Science reporter Trine Tsouderos exemplifies this role as one of major media’s perpetrators of scientific integrity and truth with her latest piece of intellectual poverty titled OSR#1: Industrial Chemical or Autism Treatment? Unfortunately, this type of disgraceful reporting is what most of us have come to expect from today’s biased ‘journalism.’ It is junk food journalism guaranteed to tantalize the nerve buds within the minds of the uninformed and those who lack analytical thinking.

The Tsouderos style of ‘journalism’ is easily recognized by her unprincipled, relentless attacks against ethical researchers and doctors who stand by the integrity of sound science and their clinical results. Not exempt, her capacity for degeneracy also extends to bashing parents utilizing alternative approaches, dietary supplements, websites, such as Age of Autism, or any autism support organization that provides accurate scientific information and research analysis. When the battery of disparaging comments are not enough she will then rebuke them with the sacred words established by the false prophets of The ‘Science’ she worships: “The ‘Science’ says…” However, with regard to vaccines, autism, alternative approaches and dietary supplements, The ‘Science’ is riddled with black holes of willful ignorance, insidious assumptions, false evidence, contrived statistics, billions in special interest investments and large financial remunerations for the players.

Relevant questions I pondered about Trine Tsouderos were: How did she escalate from food and restaurant columnist magnifique to crack Medical and Science reporter; and how did she suddenly become an authority on OSR#1, chelation, autism and vaccines? Could it be she operates in collaboration with undisclosed biased personal connections with an agenda? Investigative research posted on the Age of Autism website by “beyond disgusted” provides some insight. Here are partial quotes:  
“…William Egan, former vaccine chief at the FDA who attended Simpsonwood, defended thimerosal to two House Committes on Government Reform, and served on the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices while children’s vaccines contained thimerosal.

“Connect just a few dots: Trine’s sister, Danielle, has co-authored several studies with the FDA’s Robert Ball who was the lead author in one of those studies. This is the same Robert Ball who acknowledges and thanks Egan in his “No Evidence of Harm” Pediatrics article about thimerosal. Egan later presented that paper WITH Ball at an IOM Workshop.

“Danielle [Danielle Emig, MPH] is not only in public health, but her senior research associate, Robert Ball, is an ardent and vocal defender of thimerosal in vaccines.”

Could this explain Tsouderos’ miserable disposition toward OSR#1, Boyd Haley, Ph.D., and alternative health care?

With respect to Tsouderos’ assault on the safety and efficacy of OSR#1 and the integrity of Boyd Haley, Ph. D., I felt compelled to present the facts conspicuously absent and misconstrued in Tsouderos’ drivel seeing as I am quite experienced with chelation, OSR#1, its clinical applications, and acquainted with Boyd Haley, Ph.D.

First, for Tsouderos to classify OSR#1 an “industrial chemical” is simply a combination of stupidity and gross ignorance, if not intentional misrepresentation. Like other compounds used for industrial/agricultural and human purposes such as EDTA (biological chelator), acetic acid (commercial vinegar), ammonium chloride (gastrointestinal acidifier/digestive aid), rat poison (drug Coumadin/Warfarin), etc., there is a vast difference between the manner in which these materials are synthesized and purified for human consumption. The following is Dr. Haley’s detailed explanation, which Tsouderos conveniently overlooked:

“OSR#1 is made under cGMP [code of Good Manufacturing Practice] conditions and purified and synthesized in a manner similar to the Atwood patent [the agricultural product], but using a quite different process to make a pure product. Our purification process produces a product that is over 99.9% pure compound. The Atwood process does not. This is important for passing as a pure dietary product. For example, EDTA is FDA approved for treating lead toxicity is also used as an industrial compound to prevent calcification of equipment. The difference between the two is that one is made under stringent cGMP conditions as required by the FDA to insure purity and safety. With cGMP synthesis we have to use the purest starting materials and monitor each step with two chemists present signing off on all the analytical steps and sending the finished product for both purity and confirmation of structure. We have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars confirming the lack of toxicity of OSR and its antioxidant properties and efficacy. The industrial process does not have these restrictions or requirements.”

Second, Tsouderos made several statements undermining the public’s perception of the safety and efficacy of OSR#1, emphasizing erroneous information and speculating OSR#1 was not properly and thoroughly tested for human consumption. Tsouderos stated that, “The Food and Drug Administration told the Tribune that Haley had not submitted sufficient information” explaining how his new dietary ingredient could be reasonably expected to be safe.

According to Dr. Haley, “We submitted a huge amount of animal safety data where OSR#1 was found not to be toxic at levels several thousand times higher than what would be recommended for humans, and the fact that OSR#1 was tested and found not to be mutagenic. However, the FDA never even mentioned this data in their response letter. The legal code they listed as implying OSR#1 ‘may be adulterated’ had as its line that OSR#1 ‘was not tested on humans.’ This is a “Catch 22”— how could we test it on humans before we did the 75 day premarket notification submission?”

Immediately after the premarket submission Dr. Haley went on to fund a 10 person study where over 200 blood/urine tests were performed at 0, 30, and 60 days on OSR#1. Dr. Haley said, “We looked at everything, including OSR#1’s effect on essential minerals. This project was done on the relatives (children, parents, spouses) of two medical doctors who also treat autistic children, as well as older individuals, and whose children also had ASD problems. No blood or urine test indicated any adverse effect. However, the glutathione results improved dramatically. We obtained an IRB (Institutional Review Board) to evaluate these results and this also showed no adverse effects of OSR#1.”

Tsouderos then ensued with negative criticisms by select experts. First, environmental expert Ellen Silbergold commented how the use of OSR#1 as a supplement for children was “appalling.” This was followed by pharmacologist and antioxidant expert Dr. L. Jackson Roberts expressing concern about any supplement given “to a small child that hasn’t been scrutinized for both safety and efficacy by the FDA.” Apparently, Tsouderos never made them aware of the safety and efficacy studies already conducted, as Dr. Haley explained in his interview.  

Tsouderos mentions the interview stating, “In an interview, Haley said that the compound had been tested on rats and that a food safety study was conducted on 10 people. Asked to provide documentation of the studies, he stopped communicating with the Tribune.” Of course, this was phrased to cast clouds of skepticism upon the safety and efficacy of OSR#1, as well as to discredit Dr. Haley. However, the reason for refusing to release the studies to the Tribune is because of their obvious contempt toward him and OSR#1. It was his intention to protect the reputations of the medical physicians involved in the trials from being scandalized, just as the Tribune has attacked other physicians in the past for treating autism and implementing alternative approaches. Dr. Haley would be pleased to release the IRB approved results to principled individuals.

Then the question was brought up: is OSR#1 an antioxidant or a chelator? The answer: it is both. Here again, Tsouderos introduced sufficient misinformation to create the perception that all chelators are drugs and carry significant risks, which are certainly not true. Some drug chelators, such as DMPS, do carry significant risks, and I am not an advocate of DMPS. The fact is there are many antioxidants that also act as chelators such as glutathione, citric acid, products of the Krebs cycle, certain amino acids and other dietary supplements with free sulfur group(s) that carry metal chelating properties without risk. OSR#1 is simply a more effective antioxidant and chelator. Its uncharged nature strongly binds to specific heavy metals, such as mercury, cadmium, lead and renders them harmless to the body. Dr. Haley never concealed that fact. Also, OSR#1 has no affinity for essential elements such as calcium, magnesium, and manganese; and food safety studies indicated it did not decrease the levels of other essential metals such as zinc, copper and iron.

Although Tsouderos, the champion of insidious assumptions, advocates the influence of toxic metals as “wild theory,” “pseudoscience” and nonsense without scientific evidence of an autism connection, consider this: the EPA limit for mercury in drinking water is 2 ppb (parts per billion); mercury destroys neurite membrane structures (connections between nerve cells) at 20 ppb; the EPA classifies mercury-containing liquids as hazardous waste at 200 ppb; and the current preservative level of mercury in the multi-dose vial flu vaccine is 50,000 ppb! Even the reduced-Thimerosal flu vaccine containing 0.0002% mercury is equivalent to 2000 ppb – 10 times the EPA’s hazardous waste classification! To independent thinking minds not associated with the FDA, CDC, AAP and Big Pharma, these are irrefutable facts implicating mercury as a valid cause of vaccine-induced autism; as such, OSR#1 offers valid practical application.  

On that note; Dr. Arthur Grollman, pharmacologist and director of the Laboratory for Chemical Biology at State University of New York at Stoney Brook, stated that toxic metals related to autism are “scientifically unfounded,” and chelation “offers no benefits.” How is it possible that an “expert” in the study of biological systems is unable to comprehend that mercury is a biological disaster? Does willful ignorance compel his conclusions? Authentic scientific research has demonstrated that low level mercury exposure can turn off specific sets of receptors within the central nervous system and initiate a molecular chain reaction that causes the cells to shut down and stop dividing. Essentially, this study illustrates biochemical and resulting neurodegenerative processes bearing an unmistakable resemblance to the neurological regression observed in ASD children.

Dr. Haley, however, makes no claims to its chelating property for the reason that the FDA is not concerned about what the compound is, but what he claims it is in his advertisement. Dr. Haley commented, “OSR#1 is a combination of two natural products (benzoates found in cranberries and cysteamine found in all mammalian cells and a component of Co-enzyme A) with excellent ORAC test scores (demonstrates excellent scavenging of free radicals); OSR#1 is without detectable toxicity in test animals at high levels and in human at lower levels. OSR#1 has pharmacokinetics that show it penetrates all cells of the tissues of the body tested and is effectively secreted within 24 hours. OSR#1, when added to human liver homogenates and the resulting metabolites evaluated by mass spectrometry shows the first two major products produced are OSR#1 with two and three oxygen atoms attached, as expected for a free radical scavenger.”

OSR#1 is strictly marketed for its antioxidant property with studies proving its ability to increase glutathione levels.For Dr. Roberts to assert that it is “absurd” to believe OSR#1 scavenges hydroxyl free radicals begs the question as to how the Tribune phrased their question to him; or is he just incompetent in antioxidant chemistry? Any chemist looking at the structure of OSR#1 could recognize that it has two sulfhydryl groups very similar to glutathione. Glutathione is the master antioxidant of the body.

With respect to the question about why Dr. Haley changed the name of his company from Chelator Technologies, Inc. to CTI Science, it was to ensure nothing would be suggestive to the effect that OSR#1 was marketed as a chelator. Dr. Haley has completely followed FDA regulations, completed extensive safety and efficacy studies and, most importantly, has provided an extremely safe and beneficial dietary supplement with the potential to reduce oxidative stress.

That’s the real story.

References:

1) “OSR#1: Industrial Chemical or Autism Treatment?” by Trine Tsouderos; Chicago Tribune / Health, January 17, 2010.

2) “Tribune Watchdog or Tribune Skunk? Part 2” by Teresa Conrick; Age of Autism, comment section, January 20, 2010.

3) “Risk Assessment of Thimerosal in Childhood Vaccines” by Leslie K. Ball, MD,  Robert Ball, MD, MPH, Sc.M.,  Douglas Pratt MD, MPH,  William Egan Ph.D.; IOM Workshop July 16, 2001. 

4) Boyd Haley, Ph.D., Curriculum Vitae
http://www.toxicteeth.org/old_web_site/haley-CV.html

5) “Les Incompetents: My Open Letter to the American Academy of Pediatrics” by K. Paul Stoller, MD; MEDICAL VERITAS Vol. 5, Issue 1 (April, 2008) pp.1708-1709: References on mercury levels.

6) “Lead, Mercury Inhibit Critical Cell Function” at Science Daily (Feb. 21, 2007)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070206095749.htm  

7) CTI Science website
 https://www.ctiscience.com/CTIScience/

© 2010 Dr. Stephen C. L’Hommedieu 
Stephen C. L’Hommedieu, DC resides in Wichita, Kansas. His practice, Advanced Alternatives for Health, specializes in many difficult to treat health conditions. His clinical expertise is in developing safe and effective methods for treatment of toxic metals and chemicals. These he considers being the most insidious substances to human health, and a component of all chronic health issues, such as allergies, asthma, autism, etc. He has the ability for uncovering and explaining the unexplainable underlying reasons behind complex health disorders. 
Dr. L’Hommedieu graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1992 with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and an emphasis in physiology. He went on to complete a second Bachelor of Science in Human Anatomy, and in 1996 received a Doctor of Chiropractic from Parker College of Chiropractic in Dallas, Texas. His postgraduate and personal studies emphasize areas of kinesiology, therapeutic nutrition, acupuncture, chiropractic, biochemistry and organic chemistry. 
As a Christian, Dr. L’Hommedieu stands on the whole truth of scripture, and believes God’s hand in our healing works through both His physical and Spiritual laws. Dr. L’Hommedieu is a purveyor of education in health care, and readily defends the truth of real science, alternatives in health care and our freedom of choice. He presents lectures and articles on various nutritional and health topics.
 For comments or questions you may contact Dr. L’Hommedieu at his website (presently under construction) at www.AdvancedAlternativesForHealth.com.

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By Dr. Stephen C. L’Hommedieu
February 11, 2010

Destitute of any original purpose, the FDA is deeply immersed in its filth of corruption catering to the special interests of the Pharmaceutical Cartel and the AMA.  It is specifically called to intimidate, oppress, and eliminate any significant public awareness of and access to specialized dietary supplements, nutritional health information, qualified independent scientific studies, and alternative therapies that could undermine pharmaceutical profits and public confidence in conventional medical treatments.  If you think this is an exaggeration consider then even many of the FDA’s own scientists are in disgust over their corrupt managers who “coerce FDA experts to modify their scientific views, conclusions, and recommendations in violation of law.”   

FDA Backhanded “Legal” Action

Operating true to its agenda, our health freedom is under another “legal” attack.  Now it’s to dismantle the threat of the many health-promoting benefits provided by various chelating therapies.  The latest on the FDA hit list is a dietary supplement known as DMSA.  The FDA initiated action with a letter of warning to Enrico Liva, the president of Vital Nutrients, directing him to stop selling DMSA or suffer legal consequences. You can read this letter in its entirety on the FDA website.  For some interesting insight into FDA pressure tactics you can read FDA Running Extortion Racket.

What is particularly disturbing is how the FDA abruptly retracted the long-standing dietary supplement status of DMSA.  Their new position is DMSA is a drug but not a dietary supplement, even though it has been sold as a dietary supplement for at least 14 years since the passing of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) in 1994.  It is true DMSA is also considered a drug, which was approved for protection under the Orphan Drug Act in January 1991.  Under the FDA’s curious sudden shift of position, Vital Nutrients was no longer permitted to “legally” sell DMSA or provide factually correct information about intended uses on their website since it would apply to“conditions that are not amenable to self-diagnosis and treatment by individuals who are not medical practitioners.”  The FDA also considered Vital Nutrients’ website to be in violation of numerous other product descriptions indicating their usefulness for disease treatment and prevention.

Unfortunately, Vital Nutrients may have provided the window of opportunity needed for the FDA to subtly snatch DMSA off the shelf, which was probably the intended target from the onset.  Those among the numerous “drug-like” supplements such as Co Q10 and glucosamine sulfate, meaning their indications for use were described as treating and preventing various medical conditions, had only their health claims removed.  DMSA, however, was pulled altogether.

What Is DMSA?

DMSA (meso-2,3-dimercaptosuccinic acid or succimer) is one of a group of sulfur-containing chelating compounds known as dithiols.  Other related dithiols are DMPS (sodium salt of 2,3-dimercapto-1-propane sulfonic acid) and BAL (British Anti-Lewisite or dimercaprol).  Since the 1950’s DMSA has been an effective treatment for lead and mercury poisoning, and was approved in 1991 for pediatric lead poisoning.  Of the three dithiols mentioned DMSA has many advantages without the drawbacks of toxicity and redistribution of toxic elements to other organs and tissues.   

One of the main advantages of DMSA is its large therapeutic window.  This means there is a wide margin between the amount necessary to produce the intended result and the level that could potentially overload the patient.  This makes DMSA exceptionally safe under the supervision of a licensed health care practitioner.  To this day I am not aware of any adverse event report noting any deaths associated with the use DMSA.  DMSA is then even far safer than acetaminophen (Tylenol), which is responsible for 500 deaths per year and pharmacological atrocities such as Vioxx that is believed to have claimed the lives of an estimated 89,000 to 140,000 US citizens. 

Another great advantage of DMSA is its specificity for heavy metals such as lead, mercury, cadmium, gold, platinum, thallium, barium and strontium.  Although DMSA has the ability to chelate (bind to) half of the elements on the Periodic Table, it is this specificity for heavy metals where it truly shines.  I know of no other chelating agent that works so effectively for supporting patients with heavy metal induced health disorders than DMSA. 

What’s more, DMSA is more effective at supporting neurological disorders.  Unlike DMPS and BAL, DMSA has the ability to cross the blood-brain barrier.  Studies on mice have demonstrated this special application.  Although some references will claim it doesn’t cross the blood-brain barrier in humans, consider the fact that the FDA approved DMSA for removing lead from the brains of children.  Lead has a very high affinity for brain tissue, inhibiting enzymes needed for neurotransmitters resulting in hyperactivity and epilepsy, similar in effect to other heavy metals, such as mercury.  Other associated brain and psychological conditions induced by lead toxicity include abnormal brain function, anxiety, poor concentration, mental depression, hallucination, hyperkinesis, mental retardation, psychotic behavior, and schizophrenia to mention a few. 

What Prompted Sudden FDA Action?

Why is the FDA suddenly withdrawing availability of this dietary supplement from the public and non-medical health care practitioners?  Why now after at least 14 years?  Had some mistaken identity issue eluded them all this time?  Is DMSA now a danger to the public?  To shed some light on what may be the real reasons behind this abrupt status change requires some courage to look beyond the FDA legal spin.   

One of the most significant, controversial, and emotionally charged health issues at the forefront of public and media attention concerns the epidemic rise of ASD and ADHD in our children.  Yes, I’ve already heard.  There really isn’t an epidemic of ASD and ADHD; it’s just due to better diagnoses.  Well, whether it is due to an epidemic of “better” medical diagnoses or an epidemic of grossly excessive vaccination schedules, the fact remains that the families of the one out of every 150 children who have some form ASD have child care, emotional, psychological, and financial burdens unrelated to a “new and improved” medical diagnosis.  

Parents enraged by FDA dismissal of what can only be categorized as vaccine-induced onset disorders are now boldly stepping forward publicly.  They share similar experiences and growing concern over vaccine safety and the undeniable link to vaccine-induced onset of symptoms occurring within hours to days, and even several weeks, after vaccinating.  Since nationally recognized celebrity Jenny McCarthy publicly acknowledged her experience with their ASD child with decisive effect, a greater portion of the uninformed public is now beginning to put the pieces together for themselves.  You may want to visit McCarthy’s very informative website called Generation Rescue.  It could help empower you to begin thinking for yourself about what is really transpiring. 

All of this is not good news for the FDA, the Pharmaceutical Cartel and the AMA.  In spite of public pressure, they have all but dismissed any correlation between ASD and ADHD relative to being vaccine-induced.  Instead, every effort is made to intimidate or silence those who have observed similar onsets of symptoms.  The CDC is especially vigilant (never speak the “V” word and autism in the same sentence) with their presence noted on programs such as Oprah to make sure the public is steered clear of any “misunderstandings” and “anecdotal” evidence from the numerous medically unqualified and unscientific sources: the parents of these children.

What’s the DMSA connection?  The connection is to a mercury-containing constituent called thimerosal still used in a number of vaccines as a preservative.  Thimerosal has been hot in the limelight as one of the major triggers for the onset of ASD, ADHD, SMA and other vaccine-induced behavioral and autoimmune disorders.  As with lead, DMSA has a very high affinity for mercury, which can play an important role for its removal and control over these induced health disorders.

So the familiar pattern of FDA corruption continues with another “random” act of violence.  Now they are hastily working under legal pretense to completely pull DMSA accessibility from the public and non-medical health care practitioners. The strategy appears obvious: to prevent parents from gathering overwhelming “anecdotal” evidence that would correctly and consistently implicate mercury in vaccines as a potential health disaster.  Dumbing-down public awareness is essential for the proliferation of unnecessary and potentially harmful vaccines such as Hepatitis B, a thimerosal-containing vaccine now routinely administered to infants (VAERS Analysis).  An uninformed public is the key to successfully relinquishing parental control over their children’s health care. 

Keep in mind; even though thimerosal can often act as a trigger to induce these types of disorders, it is only one of many toxic substances capable of inducing the same effects.  I have occasionally seen children with neurological/behavioral disorders that never received a vaccine.  However, most often there will be toxic metal and/or chemical involvement relating to some type of exposure occurring prior to the development of symptoms.  To the FDA’s advantage, this demonstrates the ambiguity behind the cause of disorders such as ASD and ADHD.  Thus, it enables FDA officials to easily weasel out from underneath incriminating scientific evidence supporting the serious risks vaccines impose and then confuse parents with their ingenious waffling of the facts. 

If we are to have any hope of saving the physical minds of our children, we need to begin saving what is left of the thinking minds of the parents.  It would benefit many parents and their families to become informed about vaccine safety and aware of the corruption controlling their health care choices.  Educate yourselves to important beneficial alternatives.  When properly administered by an experienced licensed health care practitioner, DMSA is certainly at the top of the list of those beneficial alternatives.

Copyright 2009 Dr. Stephen C. L’Hommedieu – All Rights Reserved

Dr. Stephen C. L’Hommedieu has a private practice located in Wichita, KS, called Advanced Alternatives for Health.  Dr. L’Hommedieu specializes in the clinical detection and management of toxic heavy metal and chemical induced health disorders and other complex health issues. 

Website: www.advancedalternativesforhealth.com  

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By Dr. Stephen C. L’Hommedieu, DC
January 4, 2009