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7 Steps to Stop Knee Pain for Good .......... 1

“I Have Hope Apart from Surgery” ......... 3

How Your Gut Affects Your Brain ............... 4

How to See Your Inner Voice .............. 7

New Name, Same Danger .................. 11

Coming Next Month ................... 12

7 Steps to Stop Knee Pain for GoodBy Jesse Cannone, CFT, CPRS, MFT

Knee pain may not be terminal, but it can sure make life

miserable. If you’re familiar with my background from my book, “The 7-Day Back Pain Cure,” you know my journey of finding natural ways to end pain started after my left knee buckled in the middle of a grocery store following a run. After numerous X-rays, MRIs and cortisone shots as well as months of visits to doctors, chiropractors and orthopedic surgeons, I finally gave in and scheduled knee surgery to “clean out” the joint.

I never went through with it. And chances are, if you are contemplating knee surgery to

deal with knee pain, you may be able to skip surgery like I did if you’ll follow my advice. I’ll tell you where to get more help in each step below – many free to you on your member website at www.losethebackpain.com/lpf.

FIVE STEPS TO RECOVERY

1) Reconsider Arthroscopic Surgery

The type of knee surgery I was scheduled for was arthroscopic lavage and debridement, which is intended to remove any dead tissue and flush out the joint with saline. Studies reported in The New England Journal of Medicine in 2002 and 2008 show it’s no better than placebo for relieving arthritis pain. There are rare exceptions, but get a second opinion and use surgery only as a last resort if recommended. At least put any surgery on the back burner until you explore all your options for relieving pain naturally.

Learn More: Former Knee Surgeon: Pass on Arthroscopic Surgery for Arthritis by Dr. Bill Stillwell (November 2010)

2) Protect Your KneesKnee pain is often a result of stress, strain and the cumulative effect of wear and tear, so you should immediately take action

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od to protect your knees from further damage as you work to find and eliminate the underlying causes of knee pain. You’ll also want to take a break from any activities with a high impact on your knees. If you must kneel, use a foam board to rest your knees on or wear knee pads. And ladies, ditch the high heels. A 2012 study published in Gait Posture found high heels increases your risk of joint degeneration and osteoarthritis in the knee, with your risk increasing with the height of the heel.

3) Use Natural Pain Relievers and Anti-InflammatoriesThe fact you’re reading this means you likely appreciate the dangers of over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription painkillers. But you need something to help you through the pain. Here are my top three “quick pain relief” strategies for knee pain:

1. RICE – Rest, Ice, Compress and Elevate. When you overdo it, take a break for a day or two, apply some ice to your sore knee, wrap it in an ACE bandage and elevate it as long as possible while resting.

2. Rub On Relief® – Pain creams work great for fast relief of minor aches and pains. My favorite is Rub On Relief® which has all natural pain relievers proven effective even on tough arthritis pain.

3. Heal-n-Soothe® – Post-workout soreness, especially after an intense Muay Thai training session, means taking a few extra capsules of this powerful natural supplement full of powerful inflammation-busting enzymes and other natural pain relievers.

Try It: Rub On Relief® and Heal-n-Soothe® (Find current sales on the Shop page at www.losethebackpain.com)

4) Correct Muscle ImbalancesI was able to cancel my knee surgery thanks to this step alone (read the whole story in my book). An imbalance in the muscle tightness between the left and right sides of my body had caused me to carry the majority of my weight on my left leg. The 12-mile run I had undertaken right before my knee buckled was just the last straw. Thankfully, I was shown a simple stretch a few days before my surgery that had me 80% better within three days and completely pain-free in a week. The rest is history – starting with my comprehensive program on correcting muscle imbalances, The Lose the Back Pain® System.

Free Book: The 7-Day Back Pain Cure book (Special Reports and Bonuses folder)

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jesse Cannone, CFT, CPRS, MFT

MANAGING EDITOR Steve Coombes

Advisory Board

Steve Hefferon Sports Massage Therapist Co-founder, The Healthy Back Institute

Dr. Brian Paris Doctor of Chiropractic Care Certified Athletic Trainer

Dr. David Hanscom Orthopedic Spine Surgeon

Dr. Robert Thompson Obstetrician / Gynecologist Clinical Nutrition Specialist

Dr. Mark Wiley Doctor of Oriental Medicine Ph. D. in Alternative Medicine

Brad Walker Flexibility Expert Founder, The Stretching Institute

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90% of patients complete treatment with their cartilage back and pain and inflammation gone

Free Trial: Lose the Back Pain® System (www.losethebackpain.com/ltbpfreetrial)

5) Rebuild Your KneesYou can’t build – or rebuild – anything without the proper building blocks. When it comes to knees and surrounding bone, you need to give your body the essential ingredients to rebuild bone and cartilage. You won’t find a better support supplement for that than Super Joint Support®. Its exclusive formula goes far beyond glucosamine and chondroitin by providing the full range of vitamins, minerals and other nutraceuticals to help regenerate bone and cartilage.

Try It: Super Joint Support®. (Check for sales on the Shop page at www.losethebackpain.com)

2 MORE STEPS FOR “TOUGH CASES”

6) Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM)

This painless treatment is amazingly effective for a wide array of disorders. It delivers microcurrent electricity to tissue at a frequency best suited to stimulate healing by increasing ATP production and lowering inflammation in the affected area. Ending knee pain is just one of its many frequencies proven effective. Practitioners around the world have now started offering FSM to patients after being trained by Dr. Carolyn McMakin, who I interviewed several years ago. As she likes to say, “It can’t hurt; it might help.”

Learn More: Super Charge Healing Through Frequencies by Dr. Carolyn McMakin (January 2011) and Dr Carolyn McMakin – Formerly Ille-gal Treatment Reverses Pain in Minutes (Audio)

7) Prolozone TherapyI introduced readers of Live Pain Free® to the most exciting new treatment for arthritis sufferers in a generation when I interviewed Dr. Frank Shallenberger about his new Prolozone

Therapy several years ago. A combination of prolotherapy, ozone therapy and a numbing agent, Prolozone Therapy is a virtual knee replacement that stimulates your body to quickly regenerate cartilage. In fact, 90% of patients complete treatment with their cartilage back and pain and inflammation gone. No knee replacement necessary!

Learn More: A Permament Cure for Arthritis by Dr. Frank Shallenberger (July 2010) and Dr. Frank Shallenberger – Prolozone Therapy (Audio)

Now all you have to do is put what I’ve told you into practice. And please, send me an email at editor@livepainfree.com to share your results.

ReferencesBarkema DD, Derrick TR, Martin PE. Heel height affects lower extremity frontal plane joint moments during walking. Gait Posture. 2012 Mar;35(3):483-8.

“I Have Hope Apart from Surgery”

“Jesse, thanks, I have been going thru this excruciating pain on my knee and it’s as if my knee bone will break any moment. I was thinking of knee replacement surgery but now I guess I have hope apart from surgery. Thanks.”

~ Abosede Obayomi

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By Robert Keith Wallace, PhD

I have spent much of my life studying how experience changes our brain, but I never

realized that one of the most influential experiences is the activity of our gut bacteria. Our brain is incredibly dynamic. Everything we do, everything we see, everything we feel, changes its wiring. And our brain is especially flexible and sensitive when we are young. Studies show that the quality of the early environment can even determine the number of connections in the brain and its chemical makeup. It has only recently been discovered, however, how important the state of the digestive system is to the wiring of the human brain.

In her book, “Gut and Psychology Syndrome,” Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride states that in her clinical experience she has yet to meet a child with autism, hyperactivity, inability to learn, or mood and behavioral disorders, who does not have some gut abnormalities. The digestive system, she states, holds the key to a child’s mental development. Other doctors and scientists have also made this important observation.

Most of the autistic children she treats in her clinic develop fussy eating habits early in their lives. They end up with a very limited diet, which includes only a few food groups, often sweet and starchy. These children tend to have diarrhea or constipation, as well as flatulence and bloating. Autistic children have difficulty communicating, so these symptoms can go unnoticed or untreated. As she explains, it was not until about 20 years ago that doctors first started to research the connection between autism and gut problems. What they noticed at the time were inflamed lymph nodes in parts of the gut wall resembling ulcerative colitis. Comprehensive studies have now documented the widespread occurrence of digestive disorders in autistic patients.

In 2013, it was estimated that Autism Spectrum Disorder or ASD affects over 20 million people, and this number keeps growing. It is present in boys about five times more often than girls. ASD affects how the brain processes information, and its main symptoms include difficulty in social interactions, language impairment and repetitive behavior.

Despite the writing of Dr. Campbell-McBride and others, the evidence that ASD is caused or influenced by diet or abnormal gut bacteria is still controversial. Most scientists believe that ASD is the result of genetic and environmental influences. There are many animal studies, however, that strongly implicate gut bacteria as an important factor.

In one animal model, autistic-like behavior was induced by injecting pregnant mice with an immune system stimulant. Babies born from these abnormal mothers displayed several autistic characteristics. They had peculiar social interactions, spent less time in an open space, had repetitive behavior, were more easily startled by sounds and produced fewer vocalizations. They also had gut disorders. When the bacteria Bacteroides fragilis was given to these mice, their gut problems and autistic-like behavior went away.

In another study, female mice were given a high-fat diet in order to induce autistic behavior in the offspring. When the over-fed mothers bred and bore offspring, the babies showed behavioral traits similar to autism, spending less time with other mice and displaying abnormal social interactions. Investigators then looked at the composition of the gut bacteria, and found clear differences in those fed a high-fat diet compared to healthy mother mice.

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The researchers looked at several ways by which the babies might be cured of the autistic symptoms. First, they put the autistic baby mice in with other normal mice. Typically, mice eat each other’s poop — a common practice among some animals, called coprophagia. When the autistic mice ate the poop of the healthy mice, it acted like an oral fecal transplant and their behavior became normal.

Second, the researchers gave the autistic mice the probiotic Lactobacillus reuteri, one of the good bacteria. When the mice consumed this bacteria, several important aspects of their social behavior became normal. It was also found that L. reuteri increased the production of oxytocin, the “bonding hormone,” as well as restoring abnormal changes in reward centers of the brains of these mice.

In one study on humans, the species Lactobacillus plantarum was given to children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Half of these children were randomly given the probiotic and half were given a placebo. The parents of the children taking the probiotic noticed many positive results, and decided that the happiness of their children was more important than the study. These parents refused to switch their children to the placebo group, and the study had to be discontinued because there were simply not enough control subjects.

The data is not all in on other neurological disorders, but initial results are provocative. Consider Parkinson’s disease. Like autism, it has been noted for many years that patients with Parkinson’s have constipation and other digestive problems. In many cases, digestive problems have been reported from up to 10 years before the actual onset of symptoms of the disease. Studies show that people with

Parkinson’s have a different composition of gut bacteria from that of healthy adults. When a group of researchers placed gut bacteria from human Parkinson’s patients into germ-free mice, the animals quickly deteriorated with Parkinson-like symptoms.

In the case of Alzheimer’s sufferers, gut bacteria have also been implicated. Recent studies show that the gut bacteria can cause the blood-brain barrier to become more permeable to unwanted substances, such as microbes. This could lead to the following sequence of events: increased risk of infection, activation of the brain’s immune system, and the resulting deposit of beta-amyloid plaque found in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. One study also

has shown that intestinal bacteria can accelerate the development of Alzheimer’s disease in mice. Intestinal bacteria was transferred from diseased mice to germ-free mice, with the result that the mice developed more beta-amyloid

plaques in the brain compared to controls.

Many experts consider multiple sclerosis, or MS, to be an autoimmune disease. In MS, immune cells attack the fatty sheath or myelin that covers and protects nerve fibers. Myelin allows nerve cells to transmit information at a high speed. When it is destroyed, the nervous system can’t function properly, leading to many debilitating physical and mental symptoms.

In studies on mice with an MS-like disease, it has been shown that altering the gut microbiome produces changes in the immune system and reduces symptoms of the disease. Mice were also prevented from getting the MS-like disease in the first place by receiving a

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Exploratory human studies demonstrate that patients with MS have a different composition of gut bacteria, with fewer good bacteria. These studies, as well as others, have led some scientists to suggest that altering gut bacteria may be a cure for MS and other autoimmune diseases that affect the brain.

ReferencesArticle excerpted from Chapter 12 of Gut Crisis: How Diet, Probiotics, and Friendly Bacteria Help You Lose Weight and Heal Your Body and Mind by Robert Keith Wallace, PhD and Samantha Wal-lace, Dharma Publications, US, 2017.

Gut and Psychology Syndrome by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, MD, Medinform Publishing Cambridge, UK, 2010

Chaidez, V et al., Gastrointestinal problems in chil-dren with autism, developmental delays or typical development. Journal of autism and developmen-tal disorders. 2014; 44(5):1117-1127

Krajmalnik-Brown, R et al., Gut bacteria in children with autism spectrum disorders: challenges and promise of studying how a complex community influences a complex disease. Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease 2015; 26:10.3402/mehd.v26.26914

Hsiao, EY et al., Microbiota modulate behav-ioral and physiological abnormalities associated with neurodevelopmental disorders. Cell 2013; 155:1451–63

Buffington, SA, et al., Microbial Reconstitution Re-verses Maternal Diet-Induced Social and Synaptic Deficits in Offspring. Cell Jun 2016; 165(7):1762-75

Parracho, H et al., A Double-Blind, Placebo-Con-trolled, Crossover-Designed Probiotic Feeding Study In Children Diagnosed With Autistic Spec-trum Disorders, International Journal of Probiotics and Prebiotics 2010; 5, 2, 69-74

Braniste, VA et al., The gut microbiota influences blood-brain barrier permeability in mice. Science translational medicine. 2014; 6(263):263ra158

Harach, T et al., Reduction of Abeta amyloid pa-thology in APPPS1 transgenic mice in the absence of gut microbiota. Scientific Reports, 2017; 7:

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“In My Language.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnylM1hI2jc)

Robert Keith Wallace is a pioneering researcher on the physiology of consciousness. His work has inspired hundreds of studies on the benefits of meditation and other mind-body techniques, and his findings have been published in Science, American Journal of Physiology, and Scientific American. After receiving his BS in physics and his PhD in physiology from UCLA, he conducted postgraduate research at Harvard University.

Dr. Wallace established the first Maharishi Ayurveda clinics in America. He initiated the first master’s degree program in Maharishi Ayurveda And Integrative Medicine in the US.

He is the founding President of Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa and now serves as a Trustee of the University and as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Physiology and Health. Dr. Wallace is the author of several books, including “Gut Crisis: How Diet, Probiotics,” and “Friendly Bacteria Help You Lose Weight and Heal Your Body and Mind,” coauthored with his wife Samantha. He has given hundreds of lectures around the world on consciousness and health.

Did you know? Gut bacteria play a crucial role in virtually every area of health including gene expression.

Learn more from your member archives:

Interview: Matt Reimann – Epigenetics: Your Personalized Key to Health

Article: Want to Get Healthy? Get Personalized by Matt Reimann (August 2017)

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How to See Your Inner VoiceBy Bernie Siegel, MD

Our society tends to separate conscious thinking from unconscious thinking

and assumes that conscious thought is more important, pointing to our spectacular technological advancement as proof.

I believe that the unconscious mind is not separate from the conscious mind and far from being inferior, has a great deal of power on our perceptions of ourselves as we go about our lives. It plays a leading role in the Mind-Body Connection that is recognized as essential to healing as well as to living fully.

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is no inner conflict over choices which are made about anything in one’s life, from cancer therapy to which job you should take.

By creating drawings to describe how we see events in our lives, other people, and ourselves, we can actually see our inner voice rather than just trying to verbalize our perceptions. Feelings often defy description by words, but can be expressed in a drawing.

Before reading on, take a box of crayons or colored pencils and draw a picture of yourself on a sheet of paper. Then come back and compare your drawing with some of the insights below.

Patient Drawing #1A woman came in to see me. Her clothing left a masculine impression as if she did not want to appear vulnerable. When she talked about experiences in her life, she chose the word “failure” consistently. She had undergone cancer surgery and then saw a plastic surgeon for repair of the wound. Her voice rose and an angry look crossed her face as she related that she had “yelled at my plastic surgeon for making me ugly!” Another failure. As we talked, she shared that her parents had both committed suicide. It became clear to me that her inner voice had convinced her that their suicides were because she had been a failure as a child. This traumatic failure had colored her whole life with that perception of herself.

Patient Drawing #2I asked a man to draw himself as he thought he looked today and looked 25 years ago. He drew himself as many people might—just showing a few signs of aging like weight gain, wrinkles, and loss of hair. But in the drawing

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of his younger self, his arms are raised as if greeting life and he is smiling. Contrast that to his drawing of himself now. His arms are coming out from mid-body and look as if they are in a slightly forward position as if

to hold back what may be approaching. Most strikingly, his frown looks almost like a grimace, perhaps from pain. The joy he felt as a young man seems to have disappeared.

Patient Drawing #3This boy came into my office and drew a picture of himself that filled the page. Because of the purple, I could see that he’s a spiritual guy, but in his picture he has no legs. I didn’t notice that he’d written the word over on it. So I said, “What’s the matter? You don’t

have any legs. Are you feeling stuck or trapped?” And he said,

“Turn the page over.” On the other side of the paper, there he is with support under his feet. I fill one page when I draw myself, but this guy needs two pages. There’s no need to worry

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about his self-esteem. If he takes two pages and has support, he’ll make it. This drawing tells me he’s doing okay.

Patient Drawing #4Connections between significant or traumatic memories and one’s present state of health are often revealed in the drawings. Once they are made visible, the person can give much-needed attention to the past affliction and the soul. This is never about blaming the patient, but about how our emotions create our internal chemistry and affect our genes and health.

A good example is this nonbelieving reporter who asked me for an interview. Right away I could see that this very intellectual person lived in her head, not her heart. I realized it wasn’t going to be a pleasant interview, so I had to do something to change her perspective right at the start. I said to her, “While I finish up with the last two patients, please draw a picture of yourself.” She agreed to do so, and when she handed me her drawing, I saw a figure with a big head, so I realized my diagnosis of her attitude was correct. Her drawing also contained a clock with one hand pointing at twelve.

The safest question for me to ask her would have been: Why is 12 important to you? She might have responded, “Twelve months ago my house burned down.” But I wanted to really shake her up, so I took a chance and, pointing to the clock, asked, “What happened when you were 12 years old?”

“It means I don’t like deadlines.”

“But there’s only one hand on the clock. What happened when you were 12 years old?”

She burst into tears and told me that at 12 years of age she had been abused. That’s the part that always impresses me – numbers in drawings are no accident. From that moment on, it was a different interview. The reporter understood that her inner wisdom was telling

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attention to the feelings of the traumatized inner child, to stop hiding from the memory by living in her head and to seek therapeutic help.

Patient Drawing #5Patient drawing 5a was drawn on the folded-in sides of a sheet of paper, so that the person you see here opens up like a book. The colors of the outer image are healthy and have energy, but the person’s hands are mostly tucked in (the artist can’t “handle” what she’s facing), and the feet are turned in opposite directions (she’s indecisive). The shoulders are wide, as if she’s carrying a burden by herself. The image fills the page, so her self-esteem is good. When I asked the artist why she had folded the page, she opened it. Now see what’s inside: In drawing

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5b, her body is depersonalized. The artist is shown getting chemotherapy, which is yellow (representing energy), and it’s going straight to the tumor, a good thing (fewer side effects). But look at her – she doesn’t have a head, doesn’t have hands, her feet are aimed in opposite directions, and her body is red, so I’d say she’s feeling totally helpless and doesn’t know what to do. Somebody else prescribed the treatment, and she thinks she has to go through with it.

Her treatment should be the result of her own decision and not about the doctor prescribing it. Yet she has hidden her misgivings under the folded page. I recommended that the patient either quit the treatment or change her attitude toward it. If you’re going through hell, speak up; don’t hide it from people. Take care of yourself and ask others to support you. What she needed to do was to empower herself and do the treatment only because it was her choice, not someone else’s. That way she would have far fewer problems. Ten times a day for three or four minutes, she should visualize herself getting treatment, having a beautiful result with no side effects, and going home rejuvenated and healthy. When you feel helpless, or feel as if you’re being poisoned by your treatment, you create the worst possible result.

Change Your Thoughts to Change Your LifeI was watching something on public TV once in which a psychologist discussed a research project that involved volunteers undergoing a functional brain scan that registers brain activity as it happens. In each trial they would hold up a hand in front of the person and watch which parts of the brain registered activity on the monitor. When the hand was taken away, the activity stopped in those areas. The psychologist noted that if you took the hand away and said to the person, “Close your eyes and imagine a hand,” the brain on the imaging screen would light up in the same areas as before, showing the same activity, just as if the person were looking at an actual hand. So when you picture yourself getting treatment and doing well, it’s as if you are. It makes an enormous difference.

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Editor’s Note

Dr. Bernie Siegel’s book, “The Art of Healing: Uncovering Your Inner Wisdom and Potential for Self-Healing,” de-scribes in great detail how to use draw-ings like these to tap into your body’s potential to heal, including 70 full-color drawings with analysis. Order it on Ama-zon then visit www.losethebackpain.com/bernie to watch a great short video where Dr. Siegel explains his process of evaluating a picture.

New Name, Same DangerBy Steve Coombes, Managing Editor

Monsanto, one of the “most hated companies in America,” completed a

merger this summer with German drug maker and chemical company Bayer. Known for its often controversial and harmful products including DDT, PCBs and Agent Orange as well as its involvement in the creation of numerous genetically modified foods, Bayer is wisely eliminating the name “Monsanto” from its updated portfolio as it absorbs Monsanto’s product lines into its business.

However, consumers should be aware the name change is only that. You’re at as much risk today as ever from many of the former company’s products which Bayer plans to continue producing. One of those products you should continue to beware of is their popular herbicide, Roundup.

On August 10, Monsanto lost a major lawsuit brought by a former groundskeeper with terminal non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He had filed a lawsuit against the company for knowingly exposing him to cancer-causing agents through its Roundup herbicide. The jury verdict awarded $39.2 million in compensatory damages and $250 million in punitive damages for failing to warn consumers.

Monsanto/Bayer plans to appeal, continuing to argue glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup) is not proven to cause cancer. However, it was the exposure of carefully guarded internal company documents that led to the loss of their case and the heavy damages imposed.

Experiment with tapping into your unconscious perceptions by drawing an event, another person, your pet or yourself (now or at some other time in your life). Don’t worry about your skill level as an artist. You are creating a way to see your inner voice instead of just hearing it!

Bernie S. Siegel, MD, retired from general and pediatric surgical practice in 1989 and has since dedicated himself to humanizing the medical establishment’s approach to patients and empowering patients to induce their own healing. His books, “Love, Medicine and Miracles” published in 1986, “Peace, Love and Healing” in 1989, and “How to Live Between Office Visits” in 1993, broke new ground in the field of healing. Bernie’s efforts have now turned toward humanizing medical care and medical education, and he continues to travel

extensively with his wife Bobbie, to speak and run workshops, sharing his techniques and experiences. You can find his numerous books, CDs and videos and many free resources on his website at www.berniesiegelmd.com.

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Coming Next MonthWhile the conventional medical establishment continues to villify some of the safest natural foods and supplements around it continues to push dangerous prescriptions including one common painkiller with HALF of its reported adverse events resulting in death. Full details to be exposed in the next issue. Don’t miss it!

issues and increased risk to thyroid disease, kidney failure and cancer. Here, we propose that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide,

Roundup®, is the most important causal factor in this epidemic.”

The full study goes on to carefully outline the close relationship between the increased use of Roundup-ready GMO crops and spraying of Roundup on those crops over the past two decades with likely linked health maladies on the rise including autism, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, obesity and death rates from intestinal infection.

How do you best protect yourself? Avoid eating GMO-based foods, which are more likely to have been sprayed with glyphosate, and eat organic whenever possible. And, of course, don’t use Roundup on your lawn and garden!

ReferencesBrodwin E. After a $66 billion merger, Monsanto is disappearing — sort of. Business Insider. 2018 Jun 7.

Stebbins S, Comen E, Stockdale C. Bad reputa-tion: America’s Top 20 most-hated companies. USA Today. 2018 Feb 1.

Law B. Monsanto to Pay $289.2M in Landmark Roundup Lawsuit Verdict. Organic Consumers As-sociation. 2018 Aug 10.

Samsel A, Seneff S. Glyphosate, pathways to mod-ern diseases II: Celiac sprue and gluten intolerance.

According to Brent Wisner, one of the groundskeeper’s attorneys on the case, “We were finally able to show the jury the secret, internal Monsanto documents proving that Monsanto has known for decades that glyphosate and specifically Roundup could cause cancer. Despite the Environmental Protection Agency’s failure to require labeling, we are proud that an independent jury followed the evidence and used its voice to send a message to Monsanto that its years of deception regarding Roundup is over and that they should put consumer safety first over profits.”

In addition to cancer risks, glyphosate also wreaks havoc in your gut. The rapid rise in gluten intolerance and celiac disease among many other diseases may be directly attributable to Roundup’s widespread use. A study on these health trends published in the December 2013 issue of Interdisciplinary Toxicology points a finger directly at the weed killer right from the start of its abstract:

“Celiac disease, and, more generally, gluten intolerance, is a growing problem worldwide, but especially in North America and Europe, where an estimated 5% of the population now suffers from it. Symptoms include nausea, diarrhea, skin rashes, macrocytic anemia and depression. It is a multifactorial disease associated with numerous nutritional deficiencies as well as reproductive