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By Dr. Greg Fors, DC / Board-certified Neurologist There is a tragedy unfolding today, an epidemic that goes underdiagnosed and in many times improperly treated! Today approximately 50 million Americans or 20% of the population suffer from autoimmune diseases and 75% of those affected are women. Could you be one of them?

In today’s modern world of poor diets, increased stress and environmental toxins, autoimmune diseases are on the rise. This epidemic is preventable because one of the primary causes is the type of foods we are putting into our gut and the damage it is causing, more on this later.

If you are experiencing chronic health problems with a combination of any the following symptoms you may have an autoimmune disorder: chronic joint and/or muscle pain, chronic fatigue, difficulty concentrating or focusing, weakness, numbness or tingling in the hands or feet, recurrent rashes or hives, sun-sensitivity, a butterfly-shaped rash across your face, dry eyes, mouth or skin, abdominal pains, blood or mucus in your stool, diarrhea or mouth ulcers, multiple miscarriages or blood clots.

Autoimmunity is the result of a misdirected immune system that causes one’s own immune system to attack the self. Even though they are a very common disorder most individuals with chronic symptoms rarely get tested for them.

Researchers have now identified over 100 different autoimmune diseases, possibly you’ve already been diagnosed with one. They come with wide variety of strange names such as: Hashimoto’s and Graves’ thyroiditis, lupus, MS, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, Sjögren’s, reactive arthritis, IBD, FMS, and CFS. Because they come with so many different names and symptoms there is a misunderstanding among the medical community and general public that these are separate disease disorders. At their core they all involve systemic inflammation from an immune response leading to an attack on your own tissues.

There is evidence of an underlying genetic component; however, these genes only get expressed or turned on by specific environmental triggers. I explained it to my patients this way, “you were diagnosed with this autoimmune disorder when you were 48, yet you had the same genes since you were born. What was the trigger that made you manifest this disease now, and not when you were in your 20's for example?”

Think of it this way, your immune system is your Homeland Security, there to protect you from any foreign invaders by targeting them with inflammation and specific antibodies. In an autoimmune disease it is as if some of the agents of your Homeland Security have gone rogue and are attacking the Homeland and wreaking havoc on good tissues and organs.

Factors that can trigger this autoimmune response are many. An autoimmune response may occur when your genetic predisposition is turned on by toxins from heavy metals like mercury and lead, mycotoxins from molds, and chronic viral infections such as herpes simplex and Epstein-Barr.

As previously mentioned, a primary triggering event for an autoimmune response is an unhealthy gastrointestinal system. This can eventually manifest as a damaged and “Leaky Gut”, leading to food allergies and nutritional deficiencies such as vitamin D3. Very recent research has now established that this “Leaky Gut” is the primary driver of systemic inflammation and autoimmune responses. Conditions known as SIBO or small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, not only lead to irritable bowel symptoms but also can damage the G.I. lining leading to “Leaky Gut”.

The conventional medical response to autoimmune disorders is to prescribe drugs that suppress your immune system. They may turn down the inflammatory response and some of the symptoms for a while, but taking them comes at a tremendous cost. Remember, your immune system is your Homeland Security keeping you safe from cancerous cells and infectious invaders, therefore, taking these drugs may increase your risk for certain cancers and chronic infections. Other common side effects are rashes, more G.I. disorders which can be toxic to the liver or bone marrow.

A better approach would be to go after your personal environmental factors that triggered the autoimmune response in the first place. FACT: 70% of the immune system lies in our G.I. tract and there are specific laboratory tests to identify if you have systemic inflammation, SIBO and a “Leaky Gut”.

This is standard testing for all my new patients along with screening for autoimmune disorders. And, once identified, there are specific gastrointestinal healing programs that can be implemented to reverse the condition and improve your immune response. There is also a profound link between food allergies and autoimmune diseases, so many times the autoimmune response can be reduced by identifying and removing a patient’s food allergies discovered through a sophisticated Alletess IgG food allergy test for 184 foods.

Any and all triggers must be identified and removed to conquer the cause and misery of autoimmune diseases. This can be and has been achieved with proper laboratory testing.

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► On Oct. 23, 42 B.C., Marcus Brutus, a leading conspirator in the assassination of Julius Caesar, commits suicide after his defeat at the second battle of Philippi. Caesar’s assassination had plunged the Roman world into civil war.

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U.S. citizenship to Puerto Ricans in 1917. â–ş On Oct. 24, 1931, the six-lane George Washington â–ş On Oct. 17, 1973, the Arab-dominated Organization Bridge over the Hudson River between New York and of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announces New Jersey is dedicated. In 1946 two more lanes were it will cut oil exports to the United States and other built, and in 1958 six lower-level lanes were added. nations that provided military aid to Israel. In Today the bridge carries 106 million cars per year.

December, a full oil embargo was imposed against the U.S. The oil cartel was founded in Baghdad in 1960 by â–ş On Oct. 29, 1948, killer smog hovers over Donora, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Venezuela.

Pennsylvania, trapping the sulphuric acid, carbon monoxide and other pollutants released by steel mills â–ş On Oct. 22, 1992, Red Barber, the legendary and a zinc smelting plant. By the time rain washed the announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers, dies. Barber’s air, 20 people had perished and thousands were ill. baseball broadcasting career began with the Cincinnati Reds in 1934, when the 26-year-old announcer called â–ş On Oct. 25, 1983, President Ronald Reagan, citing the first major-league game he had ever seen. the threat posed to Americans in Grenada, orders the Marines to invade. Nearly 1,000 Americans were on the â–ş On Oct. 30, 1864, the town of Helena, Montana, is island, many of them students at a medical school. In a founded by four gold miners who strike it rich at the week, Grenada’s government was overthrown. “Last Chance Gulch.â€? Eventually, Last Chance Gulch would prove to be the second biggest gold deposit in â–ş On Oct. 28, 1998, President Bill Clinton signs Montana. into law the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The DMCA explicitly authorized copyright holders to â–ş On Oct. 26, 1881, in a shootout that lasts all of 30 issue “takedownâ€? notices to individuals or companies seconds, the Earp brothers face off against the Clanton- believed to be engaging in infringing use of a McLaury gang in a legendary shootout at the OK copyrighted work.

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â–ş On Oct. 19, 1781, hopelessly trapped at Yorktown, Virginia, British Gen. Lord Cornwallis surrenders, effectively bringing an end to the American Revolution.

Pleading illness, he did not attend the surrender ceremony. â–ş On Oct. 21, 1797, the USS Constitution, a 44-gun U.S. Navy frigate built to fight Barbary pirates off the coast of Tripoli, is launched in Boston Harbor. The Constitution would later win its enduring nickname “Old Ironsidesâ€? after shots merely bounced off her sides, as if the ship were made of iron rather than wood. â–ş On Oct. 18, 1898, one year after Spain granted Puerto Rico self-rule, American troops raise the U.S.

A PLANETARY PEST • Warm climates and tropical countries are home to the most species of cockroach. Cold places have the least.

Florida is the roach capital of the U.S. with 27 different species, and Texas comes in second with 15. Compare this to Costa Rica with over 150 kinds. Most of Canada is roach-free, with the exception of some large metropolitan areas. The states of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming have no native species of roach. • According to records kept by the makers of cockroach control products, people who live in Los Angeles buy the most insecticides, followed by New York City, Houston, Miami, and Dallas.

Roaches live in volcanic steam vents of Alaska 2,000 feet (610 m) underground, and in coal mines in England. • In 1969 a worker preparing the Apollo XII command module Yankee Clipper for liftoff saw one inside the capsule. No one ever knew what became of the bug. It might have traveled all the way to the Moon. • One of the largest roach species comes from Colombia and is just under 4 inches (10 cm) long. The heaviest comes from Australia and weighs about as much as an AA battery. One of the smallest species is about the size of half a peppercorn and it lives alongside

social insects such as ants, bees, wasps, and termites, living off their food stores evidently in exchange for keeping the area clean.

THE HEADLESS WONDER • The cockroach has a collection of nerve cells resembling a primitive brain in its head and also in its tail. The two nerve centers are connected and help the insect react quickly when disturbed. However, they are able to operate separately from each other. Because of this, cockroaches can live for weeks after being decapitated, eventually dying of dehydration or starvation. • One scientist suspended cockroaches over a salt solution. If a roach extended its leg it would get wet, which completed an electrical circuit, delivering a shock to the bug. It took the cockroaches about half an hour to learn to keep their legs up to avoid the shock.

The researcher then tried the experiment using decapitated cockroaches and found they were able to learn just as quickly. • A test performed in 1957 showed that female roaches with access to water but no food could live 42 days before dying of starvation. Those given no food and no water lived two to three weeks.

Thus, they are ideally suited for travelling and can be shut up for long periods of time while being accidentally shipped from one area of the world to another, whether it’s in a soldier’s duffel bag, a ship full of timber, or a truckload of produce.

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They mate for life. Together the male and female chew into wood making a series of small chambers where they live with their family for the rest of their lives. About a year after the male and female bond, their first offspring are born and both parents tend the young. Families usually consist of less than half a dozen youngsters. The families stick together for three or four years while the young mature.

COCKROACH LANGUAGE • Cockroaches are able to make noises in the same way crickets and katydids do, by rubbing body parts together. The sound is similar to running a finger over the teeth of a comb. They are also able to emit a squeak when captured which is loud enough to sometimes startle the predator into dropping them.

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KILLING COCKROACHES • 400 rads of radiation can kill a human — but it takes 3,200 rads to kill a cockroach, and some can survive 10,000 rads. That means that some cockroaches survived Hiroshima. So how can you eradicate a roach? Through chemical warfare. One of the cheapest and most reliable methods of roach control is powdered boric acid. Boric acid is commonly used as an eyewash and is available at any drug store. It’s also called Borax and found in the laundry aisle of the supermarket. Roaches that walk through this will groom themselves, ingesting the powder which collects in their gut, eventually killing them. • Spray a roach with Raid and a chemical dissolves the creature’s exoskeleton, a truly horrible way to die. • The labs at the S. C. Johnson Corp. breed and raise around 80,000 roaches each week for the express purpose of finding new ways to kill them.

The company manufactures insecticides such as Raid, so a full-time staff works to provide experimental victims. • When a recipe for controlling roaches appeared in a “Hints from Heloiseâ€? article in 1982, the editors of the column were swamped with over 40,000 requests for copies. • Roaches provide food for various animals that prey on roaches, supplying three times as much protein as chicken meat.

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by Freddy Groves VA Spends Big to Speed Disability Exam Claims --The Department of Veterans Affairs has just announced the awarding of $6.8 billion in contracts to improve the Medical Disability Examination process and get veterans' disability claims handled more quickly.

Let's look at the five companies it chose: --VetFed Resources, Inc., Virginia, a veteran-owned small business.

--Logistics Health, Inc., Wisconsin, has a national network of "medical, dental and behavioral health providers" that offer annual physical exams and periodic health assessments.

--Medical Support Los Angeles has dozens of clinics scattered around three states.

--QTC Medical Services, Inc., California, appears to have a full complement of medical associates in seven big-city locations and has done exams since 2000.

--Veterans Evaluation Services, Inc., Texas, is another veteranowned company.

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disability claims handled faster.

However, anyone can build a website and say anything on it, as well as skew facts on an application. One way to evaluate a company is to check the employer review sites on the Internet. You'll find both positive and negative reviews anywhere you look, but the devil is always in the details.

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• Worldwide, there are about 6,000 species of worms. Of those, 180 live in North America. A third of those are invasive species, including the popular night crawler. • In areas that were covered by glaciers during the last ice age, all worm life was eliminated. When the glaciers melted, the northern forests evolved in an ecosystem devoid of worms. When worms were introduced, either by wellmeaning gardeners, as ballast in ships, or in root balls of imported plants, the ecological balance was thrown off. • Worms eat and digest duff, the slowly rotting top layer of dead leaves that the trees depend on, making nutrients harder for the tree to acquire.

When the duff has been digested, all that remains is the hardened soil layer underneath which sapling tree roots cannot penetrate. Insects and other small creatures whose lifecycles revolve around duff are stressed by the loss. Worm holes allow rainwater to flow away faster instead of retaining the moisture. In some places, oak forests were subsequently overrun by buckthorn and barberry due to the arrival of the worms and the loss of the duff. • In other areas where glaciation did not scrape the soil away and kill off all worms, worms evolved along with the ecosystem. In these places they provide invaluable services: they “plowâ€? the soil, loosening it and creating channels where tree roots can grow, where oxygen can flow, and where water can percolate. They mix nutrients in, making the soil more fertile. Worm poop, called “castingsâ€? has a higher level of nutrients than normal dirt. • Aristotle called worms “the intestines of the earth.â€? Even Cleopatra recognized the value of earthworms and declared them to be sacred.

• Worms are hermaphrodites, meaning they can be either male or females, yet they still need another worm to mate. • Every earthworm has a band that looks like a collar encircling its body. After the worm mates, the ring hardens, and the worm crawls out of it.

As it is crawling through the ring, the worm deposits eggs and sperm inside the ring, which then falls off. The ends of the ring are sealed off and the ring turns into a cocoon for the developing worm babies which emerge, fully formed but very tiny, several weeks later. • Worms come to the surface during heavy rains because the damp earth facilitates movement and makes it easier to find a mate. • A robin can eat up to 14 feet (4 m) worth of worms in a day. • The largest earthworm ever found was in South Africa and measured 22 feet (6.7 m) long. • The maximum lifespan of an earthworm in captivity is about six years. • There are over 1 million earthworms in one acre of soil. • They can burrow up to 15 feet (4.5 m) below ground. • Earthworms are 82% protein.

T-bone steak is only 32% protein.

Worms are high in omega-3 fats. • Earthworms have no lungs.

They breathe through their skin. • Composting with worms occurs four times faster than normal composting. • Charles Darwin, who studied earthworms extensively, said, “It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures.â€?

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► It would take 34 days (and nights) to ride a horse around the world. If you didn’t stop for sleep, of course.

Or bathroom breaks, or food. And if you were provided a fresh horse whenever the one you were riding began to tire. And if those horses could gallop across water.

► You might be surprised to learn that of the 6 million parts that make up a Boeing 747, half of them are categorized as fasteners.

► A researcher named Joel Achenbach says that the red in the occurrence of red eye in some photographs is actually blood. The color comes from the flash reflecting off the blood vessels in the back of the eyeball.

► The snapping turtle is the only modern reptile that can breathe underwater, and then only if it stays put on the bottom. If it starts to swim, it has to surface to breathe.

► Those who study such things claim that, generally speaking, the more money a man makes, the less alcohol he drinks. With women, though, the opposite holds true: The more money she makes, the more alcohol she drinks.

► The Hawaiian Islands didn’t have mosquitoes until the 1820s, when a ship evidently brought the pests along with the people.

► It was 20th-century American journalist and author Sydney J. Harris who made the following sage observation: “Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.”

► The game of billiards first appeared in the New World in St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the contiguous United States. It was in 1565 that Spanish explorers started playing the game here.

► Have you ever wondered why the green room -- the waiting area just offstage where actors stand-by before and after stage appearances -- is green? Well, evidently it’s believed that the color green is soothing to eyes that have been exposed to the glare of stage lights.

► Those who study such things say that size does matter -- at least to proboscis monkeys. It seems that among these primates, females show a significant preference for males with larger noses.

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