FREE COLD/FLU REMEDY!

"By the proper intake of vitamins and other nutrients, and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by 25 or even 35 years. A benefit of increasing the length of the period of well-being is that the fraction of one's life during which one is happy becomes greater."
--Dr. Linus Pauling, at his death at age 93, the only human being to have two unshared Nobel Prizes, one in chemistry

Each year-end, one or more mutated cold/flu viruses, created either by God, Omniscient Mind, or a consortium of multinational pharmaceutical companies greedy for remedy-profits (est. annual U.S. market, $4 billion, plus another $10 billion in lost wages and productivity, not to mention 36,000 deaths annually--mainly the elderly), sweeps our planet like a plague, sooner or later adding to nearly everyone's annual Misery Index. Literally hundreds of different viruses from several viral families cause colds. For example, approximately 40% of all colds are caused by rhinoviruses, which attack primarily in Fall and Spring. On the other hand, microbes such as syncytial viruses normally attack in the heart of Winter.

Is it just my own imagination, or does the most dangerous strain each year seem to have been first isolated, classified and named (by the World Health Organization) in some country the U.S. is at odds with? During the Cold War, most all of us annually sneezed, wheezed, felt pained and drained by headaches and stomachaches very often produced by viruses carrying Russian names we all learned to despise. Since then, they've often been Chinese: Shanghai, Guizhoa, Shengdong, Nanchang, Szechuan, Beijing, Hong Kong, Wuhan and Fujian, all annually leading to deadly complications in the most vulnerable among us: the very old, the very young, and the very sick, particularly those with weakened immune systems. Such flus can cause pneumonia and other respiratory problems, heart failure, and heart-muscle inflammation in infants.

For instance, during the 1998-1999 influenza season, the CDC recommended that all U.S.-based vaccinations contain the following: an A/Wuhan/359/95(H3N2)-like strain; an A/Bayern/7/95(H1N1)-like strain, and finally, a B/Beijing/184/93-like strain--again, the unfailing, overwhelming Chinese contribution to international misery. During the 1999-2000 winter season, according to the World Health Organization's global influenza surveillance network, the A/Beijing strain was still causing misery, worldwide, just as A/Fujian would again in 2005-2006. Of the 17 influenza isolates (10 influenza A, 7 influenza B viruses) collected by Center for Disease Control labs across the U.S. during the latest season, wouldn't you know the Shanghai and Hong Kong strains are predominant in causing America's flu misery.

As no one is immune, some take these flu shots (another high-profit measure), which may 1) protect, 2) infect, or 3) fail one altogether. (For example, Atlanta's CDC--Centers for Disease Control--noted in 1998 that only 50% of U.S. flu vaccines protected against the A/Sydney flu virus, which would fell 40% of U.S. flu victims that year.) Others resort to expensive antibiotics, which everyone knows are powerfully effective medicines for dealing with bacterial infections, but as research published in l996 sadly revealed: "Effect of antibiotics on viruses--none. Number of antibiotic prescriptions written by American doctors for cold viruses annually--four million." (The same study also noted that colds/flus are the second most common reason Americans visit their doctors.)

Andrew Weil, a Harvard-trained M.D. and botanist, writes in his superb 1995 book, Natural Health, Natural Medicine, pp. 267-8: "Upper respiratory viral infections sometimes move down to the chest, causing bronchitis that can last for weeks. This is also a common complication of influenza, which establishes itself in the chest to begin with. Regular doctors often jump right in with antibiotics to treat these problems, but that is not a good idea, unless there is proof or good reason to suspect that a bacterial infection is present. Bacterial bronchitis, or a secondary bacterial infection following a cold or flu, will generally produce a lot of phlegm and mucus, often discolored dark yellow, green, or rusty brown, along with fever. A sputum culture will confirm the diagnosis. If bacterial infection is not present, I do not recommend taking antibiotics."

To circumvent most of this unnecessary, annual suffering, Nobel chemist Dr. Pauling incurred the wrath of both Symptomatic Medicine and the Pharmaceutical Industry (as has Dr. Weil and countless other avant-garde U.S. physicians practicing the more practical and cost-effective Integrative Medicine--combining the very best ideas and practices of both conventional and alternative medicine, into the new paradigm currently emerging from America's postmodern Healing Revolution) by recommending a safe, inexpensive, simple alternative: megadosing powdered Vitamin C (crystalline ascorbic acid, or sodium ascorbate, or Bronson Pharmaceutical's buffered or reduced-acidity versions. . .available at 1-800-235-3200, Trader Joe's, or your local health-food store or organic supermarket; all produce some intestinal gas, or methane, in many individuals, so kindly pass it discreetly). Nobelist Pauling suggested we take 20-to-30 grams a day at the first symptom (or, if already set in), until all symptoms are gone.

Know that this is what such megadosing CAN sound like, to one who's been virus-plagued far longer than most. . .a Leominster, England, "former top-class cyclist and healer, world-famous for treating cancer," 39, who began his 60-day Program at 5' 10", 176 lbs., wanting "to lose 25 unnecessary lbs.; detox. my body; shift a low-level virus that has taken my strength for 9 mos.; boost my immune system, and revitalise myself--physically, mentally and emotionally," adding: "I found you by searching Google; after many days of visiting sites and looking at links, your site was obviously the only one to engage with!":

         "I took your advice, Dennis, regarding megadoses of vitamin C, and started 21 days ago. My sore throat, which I have had for a year, vanished within two hours, and for the next seven days, I didn't cough up any mucus. On day eight, my breath was awful. On day nine, I started coughing up mucus again, but started to regain my strength. I am now back to about 80% strength on my bike, and feeling very strong and fit, unlike the last two years. Also massive increases in strength and weights lifted in the gym; eg., for an increase on the leg-extension from 191 lbs. to 223 in one session! Thats ridiculous! Best wishes, (confidential)."

Way back down on the scale of cold/flu 'normalcy,' an FCI client recently got this newest misery from China, with his wife. He instantly megadosed C, kicking it in three days without losing work. She didn't, suffering heavily for two weeks, including several days flat on her back, slowly developing a subliminal yet serious 'attitude' toward all things Chinese.

REMEDY:

1 level teaspoon = 4 grams. Taking more at one time can give most the runs, except before bed, when most can take 2-to-3 times that, as you're prone, while sleeping. The laxative-effect differs with individuals, so find your own tolerance.

Mix in one-third glass of water or juice. Stir until dissolved, as it is water-soluble. Drink down--chasing with water or juice if the aftertaste bothers you--between meals, or at their end (reduces gas/laxative-effect in some).

Repeat every 2 or 3 hrs., until you've taken 20-30 grams each 24 hrs. (no toxic dose).

NOTE: By short-circuiting the cold/flu in this way, your body does not build sufficient antibodies. Thus, the virus can come back on you later in the season, if you're once again out-of-balance. Simply repeat the remedy, knowing that C is also the finest detox vitamin, helping remove poisons from your system. As human bodies don't produce C, Dr. Pauling took 12 g./day as a maintenance dose (after discovering that this amount is what animals his size do produce daily in their own bodies), outliving most all of his symptomatic critics, finally passing away at 93. I take five.

   Also, know that your mother was right when she told you to cover your head when going outside on a cold day. As much as 80% of body heat that's lost during cold weather goes out through the top of your head. This, of course, overworks your body's heater, lowers your resistance, and can throw you sufficiently out of balance to allow this latest Made-In-China Misery to get all the foothold it requires. So, hat up, my friends; these latest mutated viruses from Asia ain't just foolin' around, as Sheryl Crow phrased it!--Dennis Paulson, FCI Founder/Director

P.S. Influenza viruses are always mutating (changing). You body's immune system is capable of adapting to small, incremental changes by producing new antibodies after an infection. However, viruses continually achieve significant, dramatic mutations which leave us ALL unprotected (this happens almost every year) and thus, can create epidemics in a population, or spread around the world into full-blown pandemics. The last such global outbreak was in 1968, but the deadliest was the 1918 pandemic which killed 50 million people, worldwide, including 675,000 in the U.S.

The pandemic possibility arose more seriously in 2005 when by year's end, Asian nations had documented more than 60 cases of a lethal strain of Avian flu (also called Bird flu) known as H5N1, although only one of those cases has been passed human-to-human. . .thus far. All other cases jumped to humans from birds. What worries the world's top disease experts, however, is that whereas the deadly SARS virus killed only 1 in 10 of its victims, Avian flu killed more than 40 of its first 60 human victims, moving one expert to label it "SARS on steroids!"

First detected in Asia in 1997, this H5N1 strain of Avian flu, by 2004, had already been identified in (primarily poultry) birds in 10 countries; had already killed millions of birds, and the virus had jumped species in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Indonesia, with thousands of humans having been exposed, prompting the World Health Organization's Klaus Stohr to warn: "This disease has never been so widespread at any time during the last century," adding that if this airborne virus were to undergo a genetic change making its transmission from person to person more efficient, "once it got into the global airport grid, that virus would travel around the world in less than 6 to 8 months."

Although no vaccine exists to protect humans from this H5N1 strain, the U.S. was already stockpiling 2 million doses of one vaccine then in clinical trial. . .in the event a pandemic broke out. However, warned Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control: "You have a very small window to get that vaccine off the ground," urging anyone traveling to western Asia to stay away from poultry markets.

By October of 2005, scientists had cited initial signs that the virus might be mutating into a form which could spread rapidly from human to human and possibly trigger a pandemic, prompting President Bush to warn that the risk of an outbreak was great enough to justify a more aggressive preparedness campaign. However, in light of the U.S. Government's criminally inept response to Hurricane Katrina the previous month--during which nearly a thousand New Orleans residents died, most of whom COULD have been saved, had the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency performed as it should have----Mr. Bush's words rang hollow in light of one critical factor which could AGAIN limit the scope of the U.S. response--the lack of domestic vaccine-manufacturing capacity, a problem underscored by the previous year's shortage of other flu vaccines. U.S. Health and Human Services Sec. Mike Leavitt didn't ease American's growing concern by adding: "What we're dealing with here is the need to rekindle an entire industry," prompting the U.S. Senate to vote to appropriate $3.9 billion to finance an expanded pandemic preparedness iniative. Stay tuned, and stay updated online, perhaps Googling 'Avian flu' or 'pandemic flu,' or starting at (http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian) or (http://www.pandemicflu.gov).

However, by February of 2006, the World Health Organization was easing fears of a pandemic with this update (http://www.who.int/csr/2006_02_20/en/index.html): "Since 1997, when the first human infections with the H5N1 avian influenza virus were documented, the virus has undergone a number of changes. These changes have affected patterns of virus transmission and spread among domestic and wild birds. They have not, however, had any discernible impact on the disease in humans, including its modes of transmission. Human infections remain a rare event. The virus does not spread easily from birds to humans or readily from person to person."

By January, 2007, the U.S. CDC (Centers For Disease Control and Prevention) had significantly lowered the threat and anxiety level by concluding (http://www.cdc.gov/travel/other/avian_influenza_se_asia_2005.htm) that: "Most cases of H5N1 influenza in humans are thought to have occurred from direct contact with infected poultry in affected countries. Contact with sick or dead poultry as well as with poultry that have no apparent symptoms should be avoided. Contact with surfaces that may have been contaminated by poultry feces or secretions should also be avoided. Transmission of H5N1 viruses to two persons through consumption of uncooked duck blood may also have occurred in Vietnam in 2005. Uncooked poultry or poultry products, including blood, should not be consumed. CDC remains in communication with WHO and continues to closely monitor the H5N1 situation in countries reporting human cases and outbreaks among birds. The public health threat of a pandemic arising from novel influenza subtypes such as influenza A (H5N1) will be greatly increased if the virus gains the ability to spread from one human to another. Such transmission has not yet been observed. However, a few cases of limited person-to-person spread of H5N1 viruses have been reported, with no instances of transmission continuing beyond one person."

Those responsible for alerting humanity regarding epidemics and pandemics all do so with this caveat, currently on the World Health Organization's website: "Given the unpredictable behaviour of influenza viruses, neither the timing nor the severity of the next pandemic can be predicted with any certainty." Comforting, eh, Mates?! :-)

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