Posted by Monica Stanton on October 12, 2009
Wash or Sanitize?
Here is an interesting article from Dr. Michael Grant, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado.
“The Daily Camera has recently reported on vigorous efforts to provide so-called ‘hand sanitizer’ gels and liquids to schools as a preventive measure for H1N1 viral spread and for general bacterial population suppression. I argue that this strategy has short-term advantages and long-term disadvantages with the latter being substantially more serious.
Just as current evolutionary theory predicted, we now have abundant data on what happens when we broadly distribute antibiotics or anti-virals into the environment (such as in schools): Resistant strains evolve and can no longer be controlled with those formerly effective tools.
As our society moved from the ‘wonder’ drug penicillin to methicillin, for example, strains of Staphylococcus aureus that were resistant to both became much more abundant and deadly, particularly in medical treatment environments. That steady evolutionary change increased the risk of fatal infections enormously. The Journal of the American Medical Association reported that in 2005, about 19,000 fatalities were attributable to MRSA (methicillin resistant S. aureus), more deaths than from HIV, AIDS or homicides.
Hand sanitizers often employ either Triclosan or alcohol in their solutions to serve as sanitizers. One major problem, implicit in the hand sanitizer strategy, derives from the prevalent view that alcohol is not an antibiotic chemical. It is. And microbial populations respond to it just as they respond to other antibiotics. Microbiologists have clearly shown that alcohol resistance traits can develop quickly becoming more widespread in microbial populations when alcohol becomes common in their environment in the same ways as MRSA (technical biochemical details differ).
For prevention purposes in healthy people, thorough washing with ordinary hand soap (without antibiotic additives!) constitutes the preferred strategy over widespread use of hand sanitizers. Michael Grant ”
We at Operation: Vitality! prefer a natural botanical hand wash that is non-toxic, pH balanced, and biodegradable. Here’s our choice. Now go wash your hands!
Posted by Monica Stanton on October 7, 2009
For the flu season, our choice is to supplement our family’s nutrition so we can fight the flu virus with our bodies’ own built-in weapon: our immune systems. And our choice is to go with something that is safe, natural, and proven to work.
It was encouraging to know that the immune booster recommended to us is patented (that means it has to work and you can’t get it anywhere else) and is the result of 40 years of research by the scientist who co-discovered interferon, Dr. Yasuhiko Kojima.
Interferon was first discovered by Dr. Kojima in 1954 while conducting research at Tokyo University. It is critical to a healthy immune system and is used today to help AIDS and cancer patients. But synthetic interferon has harsh side effects, so Dr. Kojima set out to find a natural compound that boosts the body’s natural production of interferon. And he did!
This immune booster proved itself to our family in two ways. First, it helped our daughter, whose immune system was so imbalanced by environmental pollutants it was attacking her kidneys (see “Hope for a Chemically-Laden World,” post on Oct 5, 2009). After only three weeks on this immune booster we saw drastic improvements in her blood and urine tests.
Second, after using this botanical blend myself for six months, I decided it was time to make myself a guinea pig and put this product to another test. I stopped using my steroid sinus spray — cold turkey. I’d been dependent on it for over 20 years for environmental allergies. I really wanted to get off the drug, but every attempt sent me spinning into a sinus infection and needing antibiotics. I did this in January 2009, when many were sick all around me. I wasn’t sure about the wisdom of my timing, but I’m happy to say this time I was successful and am completely off the Rx sinus spray – sans antibiotics – and I have no environmental allergy symptoms.
But don’t take my word for it. There are four clinical studies proving this immune booster works. Click here to see the science.
According to Dr. Stephen Chaney, Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Nutrition at the University of North Carolina Medical School at Chapel Hill, there is a fifth and soon-to-be-published study by world experts in the field of immunology at Cornell University. He reports:
“I can’t release all of the results of that study yet because the study has not yet been published. But I can tell you that the study showed that Nutriferon activates ‘natural killer cells’ when a flu virus infects lung tissue.
This is a significant finding because, as their name suggests, natural killer cells play an important role in ‘killing’ the flu virus. We already knew that Nutriferon helped fight viral infections, but we didn’t know how. This research is an important part of the proof that Nutriferon is effective.”
Now is the time to start building your immune system with this better than organic botanical supplement. Why “better than organic?” Because the ingredients in this supplement undergo over 350 tests. Even if a source is organic, there are many ways that organic botanical can be exposed to hazardous chemicals on the way to the manufacturer and through the manufacturing process.
We recommend this pure, safe, and proven natural immune booster supplement for year-round nutrition to help your body be ready when it needs to be.
If you have any questions or would like help creating a Natural Medicine Cabinet for your home, give us a call. We have information for all ages, including babies and nursing moms!
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Monica Stanton
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