Essential oils are a hot topic today. Just consider all the TV ads for air fresheners and aromatherapy candles which are nothing more than synthetic perfume oils at best. Here is an interesting tidbit from history about plagues and thieves and how through aromatherapy a bunch of thieves almost got away with robbing the dead and dying. In the Middle Ages, thanks to the caravans from the East and the returning Crusaders, Europeans were exposed to many of the “perfumes of Arabia.” It is recorded in history that when Europe was besieged with the plague (Black Death), the herbalists, spice merchants and perfumers seemed to be immune. When the plague was in full swing, it was discovered that certain thieves could go among the dead and dying in order to rob them and never contracted the plague. When forced to tell how they did it, they confessed that they lathered themselves with a concoction that included clove and rosemary and many other aromatic oils. Their secret was made public and posted for all to see.

Aromatics seemed to be the best antiseptic available to the people at that time against the plague. They used perfumed candles to burn in their sickrooms. Their churches and other public building were fumigated twice a week with sulphur, hops, pepper and frankincense and aromatic plants were strewn on their streets. Fires made with pine or woods that gave out a pungent smell were set in the streets every twelve hours. It was believed that these measures would help clear the air of the plague.

The Four Thieves Vinegar appears in the museum of old Marseille:

“Take 3 pints of strong white wine vinegar, add a handful each of wormwood, meadowsweet, wild marjoram and sage, 50 cloves, 2 ounces of campanula roots, 2 ounces of angelica, rosemary, and horehound and 3 large measures of camphor. Place the mixture in a container for 15 days, strain and express, then bottle. Use by rubbing it on the hands, ears, and temples from time to time when approaching plague victims.”

Thieves(TM) is an oil blend containing the oils of clove, cinnamon, lemon, eucalyptus, and rosemary inspired by the thieves in this Medieval story. This oil was tested at Weber State University in 1997 for its potent antimicrobial properties. It was found to have 99.96 percent kill rate against airborne bacteria. Wow! Here is a story from the past that we can profit by in our modern world that is still beset by plagues. Most noteworthy is MRSA. This is the antibiotic resistant deadly disease that is spreading throughout hospitals nationwide. How can you protect yourself from this modern-day plague? Take heed from this story and protect yourself with medicinal or therapeutic grade essential oils. Educational courses in aromatherapy can help you understand the science behind therapeutic grade essential oils. We can arm ourselves with protection against deadly diseases.

Did you know that emotional affairs actually have a lower rate of recovery than normal, physical affairs do? That’s right, if your spouse is committing emotional infidelity with another person, your relationship is less likely to ever return to the way it once was.

But wait! I don’t want you to despair…Where there’s a will, there’s a way, right? But before I can tell you more about how to catch or heal from an emotional affair, we first need to understand exactly what it is that distinguishes an emotional affair from a physical one.

And that’s really the question, isn’t it?

What IS an Emotional Affair?

An emotional affair is, to put it bluntly, when your husband or wife crosses the threshold of loving someone besides you.

As soon as they conscientiously admit to themselves that they LOVE someone that’s not you, then congratulations…

You’ve got yourself an emotional affair.

What an Emotional Affair is NOT

What’s unique about emotional cheating is that about 50% (or more) of the time, there will be absolutely NO sexual intercourse between the two cheating persons. As you might have guessed, this is the primary difference between a normal affair and a purely emotional one.

I know, crazy right?

Very often emotional infidelity will become overwhelming to your spouse, and this is how you’ll be able to tell something’s up…They’ll always be in their own little world, debating who they should stay with.

What You Need to Know About Men/Women in These Affairs

Basically, one of the biggest differences between men and women in normal affairs and men and women in emotional affairs is that when involved emotionally with someone else, your spouse will spend much more time gazing off into space, and that type of thing. Day dreaming, if you will.

Many times a spouse who’s cheating on their partner will justify it to themselves by saying…”Oh, it’s just sex, it’s totally meaningless so I’m not doing anything that wrong, right?”

Of course, this thinking is totally deluded, but none the less…Emotional cheaters have no such luxury.

There is not justification for falling in love with another woman or man. Your spouse knows that, and they will spend a great deal of time trying to identify exactly what the RIGHT thing for them to do is.

I know, it’s kind of twisted, isn’t it? That the men and women who are actually having sex don’t become guilty, but the ones who abstain physically but not emotionally don’t.

Of course, I’m sure you’ll run into the odd man out every now and then, but the general pattern remains.

What you should take away from this article is that there’s more than just one type of affair…Emotional infidelity is no joke, and many times it’s actually more devastating than a physical affair.

The 14th century was a dark time. This is when the outbreak of one of the most devastating pandemics in human history – the Black Death first hit the UK. ‘The Black Death’ was the name that had been given to what we now know as the bubonic plague. It was caused by fleas (carried by rats) injecting their victims with the disease causing boils on the body mainly under the armpits and groin, but most seriously it quickly lead to the victims death. Originating from central Asia, it spread through Europe and the Mediterranean killing 30-60% of the population. The reason why the disease dispersed so quickly was because in towns and cities people lived close together, knowing nothing about the contagious disease. The filthy streets meant that the rats had a perfect environment to breed and therefore increased the volume of rats. Additionally, when disposing the bodies of the victims, those who handled the dead did little to protect themselves from the disease.

Although the plague first hit England in the 14th Century, the worst outbreak in Hull was not until 1635. It was thought that it had been brought to the city by merchants and sailors who had travelled from Europe.

Public health was a main concern in Hull at this time and led to drastic changes to try and eradicate the disease. A street cleansing and sanitary order was put into action to clean up the streets. This meant that every Saturday the people of the town cleaned dirt away from their doors, streets and gardens. Another scheme that was put into place was to make the supply of water fresher. This resulted in new water works being built and a new piping system in order to supply the city with clean and fresh drinking water.

At the time there was no national health service so if people wanted to see a doctor they had to pay for one to come visit them. For this reason, people tried to cure themselves using ancient remedies which involved mixing natural ingredients and drugs together. It has since been found that some of the drugs used are in fact poisonous and addictive.

The town gates were shut in the 17th century when the city was put into quarantine. They also put a stop to public gatherings which meant that schools and churches were shut. The idea of these drastic actions was to stop the disease from spreading. In one year (between 1637-1638) 749 people were buried in Holy Trinity Church. Overall, it is thought that the Black Death had killed at least half of the population.

There is not a concrete explanation as to why the plague ended, although some theories argue that it was because of the quarantine which meant that people stayed out of the path of infected fleas and rats. It could have also had something to do with the increased level of hygiene displayed by the survivors. Drinking water was boiled and people washed themselves more regularly. Additionally instead of burying people in mass graves which allowed the disease to spread, bodies were piled and burnt as it became a more efficient way of disposing the mass amount of bodies. This may have contributed to the diseases demise.

As the Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.) loomed with the worsening of the cold war between Athens and Lacedæmonia (Sparta), an ancient oracle was said to have provided a warning to Athens and inspiration to Lacedæmonia: “A Dorian war shall come and with it death… “When the god was asked whether they (Lacedæmonia) should go to war, he answered that” if they put their might into it, victory would be theirs…”[1] At the time Athens was in its golden age (479-431 B.C.) under the enlightened leadership of Pericles (495-429 B.C.) who had introduced the world’s first form of democracy under which individual rights, literature and the arts thrived.

According to Thucydides (460-400 B.C.), an Athenian general, political critic and historian, enthusiasm and support for the Peloponnesian War among Athenians “was high” when the conflict erupted. Many, especially the young, “saw it as an adventure and a potential source of profit.”[2] However, support and enthusiasm for the war quickly waned when Athens was hit by misfortune (the Peloponnesians led by Lacedæmonia invaded Attica committing some of the “worst ravages”[3]) and the plague that decimated much of the City’s population.

As the Attica countryside was overrun in April 430 B.C., Athenians following Pericles’ instructions – “bring all the people… into the city”[4] took shelter in “parts… that were not built over and in the temples and chapels of the heroes… and other such places as were always kept closed” including the Pelasgian citadel (just south of the Acropolis) where residence “had been forbidden by a… Pythian oracle which [read]: ‘Leave the Pelasgian parcel desolate, Woe worth the day that men inhabit it!’”[5] The Attica countryside was abandoned to Lacedæmonian destruction, which targeted “not merely [Athenian] corn and fruits, but even the garden vegetables near the city, [which] were rooted up and destroyed”[6] as Athenians placed sole reliance upon the supremacy of their navy to provide “food and other necessities.”[7] As crowds packed within Athens’ confines, the city’s existing “sanitation and drainage” infrastructure could not accommodate the bloated population, creating “appalling” conditions[8] on top of those left in the wake of 431-430 B.C. winter as described by Greek historian Diodorus Siculus (90-30 B.C.):[9]

As a result of heavy rains… the ground had become soaked with water, and many low-lying regions, having received a vast amount of water, turned into shallow pools and held stagnant water, very much as marshy regions do; and when these waters became warm in the summer and grew putrid, thick foul [vapors] were formed, which, rising up in fumes, corrupted the surrounding air, the very thing which may be seen taking place in marshy grounds which are by nature pestilential.

In addition, the immune systems of Athenians were also compromised due to the lack of quality food within the City. “Contributing to the disease was the bad character of the food available; for the crops which were raised that year were altogether watery and their natural quality was corrupted,” Diodorus Siculus stated. In short, the situation was optimal for the outbreak of a deadly epidemic.

“Not many days after [the arrival of the Peloponnesians] in Attica the plague… began to show itself among the Athenians. It was said that it had broken out in many places previously in the neighborhood of Lemnos and elsewhere; …first… it is said in the parts of Ethiopia above Egypt, and thence descended into Egypt and Libya and into most of the king’s country [as well as in parts of the Persian empire]… but a pestilence of such extent and mortality was nowhere remembered. Suddenly falling upon Athens, it first attacked the population in Piræus – which was the occasion of their saying that the Peloponnesians had poisoned the reservoirs, there being as yet no wells there – and afterwards appeared in the upper city, when the deaths became much more frequent.”[10] The plague attacked all regardless of “class, sex, or age,”[11] Thucydides wrote.

As the outbreak began, physicians, including Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.), often referred to as the “Father of Medicine,” and priests rushed to the aid of the stricken. Yet their efforts were futile. Thucydides recounted their heroic efforts – “Neither were the physicians at first of any service, ignorant as they were of the proper way to treat it, but they died themselves the most thickly, as they visited the sick most often; nor did any human art succeed any better. Supplications in the temples, divinations, and so forth were found equally futile, till the overwhelming nature of the disaster at last put a stop to them altogether [when it was shown that ‘the oracles had no useful advice to offer’[12] and prayers went unanswered].”[13]

Per Diodorus Siculus, “Athenians… ascribed the causes of their misfortune to [Apollo, a] deity. Consequently, acting upon the command of a certain oracle, they purified the island of Delos, which was sacred to [him] and had been defiled, as men thought, by the burial there of the dead. Digging up, therefore, all the graves on Delos, they transferred the remains to the island of Rheneia, as it is called, which lies near Delos. They also passed a law that neither birth nor burial should be allowed on Delos. And they also celebrated the festival assembly, the Delia, which had been held in former days but had not been observed for a long time.” Yet the plague continued unchecked, leading to panic and great despair.

With the medical efforts, “the usual remedies”[14] being administered in Athens to no avail and the plague spreading north, the Thessalians grew fearful. “No remedy was found that could be used as a specific; for what did good in one case did harm in another.”[15] Out of desperation they urged Hippocrates to return to Thessaly with promises of unlimited riches as recounted by Hippocrates’ son in the “Speech of the Envoy:”[16]

In the time in which the plague was running through the barbarian land north of the Illyrians and Pæonians, when the evil reached that area, the kings of those peoples sent to Thessaly after my father [Hippocrates] because of his reputation as a physician, which, being a true one, had managed to go everywhere. He had lived in Thessaly previously and had a dwelling there then. They summoned him to help, saying that they were not going to send gold and silver and other possessions for him to have, but that he could carry away all that he wanted when he had come to help. And he made inquiry what kind of disturbances there were, area by area, in heat and winds and mist and other things that produce unusual conditions. When he had gotten everyone’s information he told them to go back, pretending that he was unable to go to their country. But as quickly as he could he arranged to announce to the Thessalians by what means they could contrive protection against the evil that was coming.

Hippocrates had good reason to avoid Thessaly. “Physicians were among the first to die, since they contracted the disease from its earliest victims.”[17] “…the mortality among [physicians] was unusually high, because they most frequently came into contact with the disease.”[18]

When the plague began, despite word of similar outbreaks in North Africa, Persia and Rome, the latter in about 446 B.C., it was still unexpected by Athenians. “That year then is admitted to have been otherwise unprecedentedly free from sickness; and such few cases as occurred all eventuated in this. As a rule, however, there was no ostensible cause; but people in good health were all of a sudden attacked by violent heats in the head, and redness and inflammation in the eyes, the inward parts, such as the throat or tongue, becoming bloody and emitting an unnatural and fetid breath,” Thucydides began. “These symptoms were followed by sneezing and hoarseness, after which the pain soon reached the chest, and produced a hard cough. When it fixed in the stomach, it upset it; and discharges of bile of every kind… ensued, accompanied by very great distress. In most cases… an ineffectual retching followed, producing violent spasms, which in some cases ceased soon after, in others much later. Externally the body was not very hot to the touch, nor pale in its appearance, but reddish, livid, and [breaking] out into small pustules and ulcers. But internally it burned so that the patient could not bear to have on him clothing or linen even of the very lightest description… What they would have liked best would have been to throw themselves into cold water; as indeed was done by some of the neglected sick, who plunged into the rain tanks in their agonies of unquenchable thirst… though it made no difference whether they drank little or much. Besides this, miserable feeling of not being able to rest or sleep never ceased to torment them. The body meanwhile did not waste away so long as the distemper was at its height, but held out to a marvel against its ravages; so that when they succumbed, as in most cases, on the seventh or eighth day to the internal inflammation, they had still some strength in them. But if they passed this stage, and the disease descended further into the bowels, inducing a violent ulceration there accompanied by severe diarrhea, this brought on a weakness, which was generally fatal. For the disorder first settled in the head, ran its course from thence through the whole of the body, and even where it did not prove mortal, it still left its mark on the extremities; for it settled in the privy parts, the fingers and the toes, and [even the] eyes,”[19] he added. Generally, even though there were survivors, including Thucydides, as well as some who “were seized with an entire loss of memory on their first recovery, and did not know either themselves or their friends,”[20] the disease was fatal. “Seven to nine days the disease lasted, and when it passed it left behind it a terrible weakness, so that many perished of exhaustion.”[21]

To compound matters, Athenian soldiers were also hindered by the outbreak as Diodorus Siculus wrote – “As for the Athenians, they could not venture to meet [the Lacedæmonians] in a pitched battle, and being confined as they were within the walls, found themselves involved in an emergency caused by the plague; for since a vast multitude of people of every description had streamed together into the city, there was good reason for their falling victim to diseases as they did, because of the cramped quarters, breathing air which had become polluted.”[22] As an indicator of the plague’s severity and the adverse impact it had on the Athenian military, Pericles had “started with 150 triremes (ancient ships utilizing three banks of oars and sails for mobility) and a large number of hoplites and horsemen” to attack the Peloponnesus states when it initially broke out. After being joined by plague-infected reinforcements, this Athenian force returned a few years later “in a pitiable condition” having suffered a great loss of life.[23]

~Continued In Part 2~

[1] Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War. c. 400 B.C.

[2] Sayaret. The Plague in Athens During The Peloponnesian War. Jelsoft Enterprises, Ltd. 2006. 22 July 2006. http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-28767.html

[3] Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War. c. 400 B.C.

[4] Sayaret. The Plague in Athens During The Peloponnesian War. Jelsoft Enterprises, Ltd. 2006. 22 July 2006. http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-28767.html

[5] Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War. c. 400 B.C.

[6] Telemachus T. Timayenis. A History of Greece from the Earliest Times to the Present. (D. Appleton & Co. 1883) 312.

[7] > Sayaret. The Plague in Athens During The Peloponnesian War. Jelsoft Enterprises, Ltd. 2006. 22 July 2006. http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-28767.html

[8] Arthur James Grant. Greece In The Age of Pericles. (John Murray. London, UK, 1893) 261.

[9] David Noy. 9. Plagues. University of Wales, Lampeter, UK. 2002. 27 July 2006. [http://www.lampeter.ac.uk/~noy/Medicine9.htm]

[10] Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War. c. 400 B.C.

[11] Telemachus T. Timayenis. A History of Greece from the Earliest Times to the Present. (D. Appleton & Co. 1883) 313.

[12] Arthur James Grant. Greece In The Age of Pericles. (John Murray. London, UK, 1893) 262.

[13] Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War. c. 400 B.C.

[14] Arthur James Grant. Greece In The Age of Pericles. (John Murray. London, UK, 1893) 261.

[15] Carl J. Richard. Twelve Greeks And Romans Who Changed The World. (Barnes & Noble Publishing. New York. 2006) 90.

[16] David Noy. 9. Plagues. University of Wales, Lampeter, UK. 2002. 27 July 2006. [http://www.lampeter.ac.uk/~noy/Medicine9.htm]

[17] Carl J. Richard. Twelve Greeks And Romans Who Changed The World. (Barnes & Noble Publishing. New York. 2006) 90.

[18] Arthur James Grant. Greece In The Age of Pericles. (John Murray. London, UK, 1893) 262.

[19] Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War. c. 400 B.C.

[20] Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War. c. 400 B.C.

[21] Arthur James Grant. Greece In The Age of Pericles. (John Murray. London, UK, 1893) 262.

[22] David Noy. 9. Plagues. University of Wales, Lampeter, UK. 2002. 27 July 2006. [http://www.lampeter.ac.uk/~noy/Medicine9.htm]

[23] Telemachus T. Timayenis. A History of Greece from the Earliest Times to the Present. (D. Appleton & Co. 1883) 316.

The following vital information is, frankly, frightening, as it means that we have entered into a new world of disease never before imagined. This is not a conspiracy theory. When you read what follows, you will understand why this issue may already be known by a select few, but kept from the public domain.

The issue has to deal with obesity and type 2 diabetes. Over the last several decades, obesity and diabetes have become epidemic. Children, adults, poor people, wealthy people, Americans, Africans – all over the world people are becoming obese and developing diabetes. We are concerned that the current epidemic of obesity and diabetes may be caused by a new problem, never before considered because it never before existed.

Of course, when you think of the cultural/lifestyle causes of obesity and diabetes, the answer quickly comes that these people need to eat less and exercise more. Our lifestyles have become sedentary, and people have become more spectators, and less doers. And catering to this “market” is a large supply of dietary products, weight loss methods, and pharmaceuticals, like insulin.

It is this insulin that plays a key role in the new crisis.

Insulin, of course, is a hormone. It is active in very minute concentrations. All hormones are chemical messengers and facilitators that allow our body’s organs to keep integrated and modulated as they perform their vital functions. Insulin is a very important hormone, responsible for getting sugar (glucose) from the bloodstream absorbed by the cells, which need the sugar for energy. The cells have receptors for insulin on their cell membranes, which act as “locks” for which the insulin is the “key”, turning on the cell to take up the life-supporting sugar.

Without the effect of insulin, the cells would not be able to drink up the sugar from the bloodstream, and would starve. The blood “spills” the sugar out in the kidneys, and into the urine. This condition of reduced insulin activity and sugar in the urine is called diabetes.

Type 1 diabetes is a rarer form of the disease, in which the pancreas, the organ that manufacturers and releases insulin into the bloodstream, reduces or stops its insulin production. These people can die without insulin being provided in drug form. Type 2 diabetes constitutes 90% of diabetes cases, and is typically associated with overeating and obesity. It is often cured by dietary and other lifestyle changes.

However, not all people recover. There are also other conditions that can lead to obesity and diabetes. One is having too much insulin. If you have too much insulin in your bloodstream, it will cause your cells to take up so much sugar that it lowers your blood sugar level, a condition called hypoglycemia. This makes you hungry, so you would eat more to raise you sugar level back up. But the high insulin quickly sends that new sugar into the cells for storage as well, along with water to help keep the sugar in solution. This makes the cells swell, as well as make fat cells convert the sugar into more fat, ultimately leading to obesity. Since the cells also become less sensitive to insulin because of the high levels, it also causes diabetes.

Hyperinsulinemia, then, causes obesity and diabetes. This condition is also epidemic, and parallels the current diabetes and obesity trends. More and more people are developing these problems every day, at an alarming rate. It is as though diabetes and obesity were contagious, spreading from person to person, like some germ plague.

Actually, this is what we are afraid may be happening!

It has to do with genetic engineering, and the production of human insulin in certain species of bacteria and yeast. There was a time when diabetics needing insulin would receive insulin from a pig’s pancreas. As you can imagine, taking injections of pig insulin could lead to allergic reactions. Far better, some thought, to have human insulin to give to humans. But there was simply no source of human insulin. Until genetic engineers found a way!

Insulin is a protein, even though it is a hormone. Some hormones are steroids, like estrogen and testosterone. These are produced in the cells by a metabolic process that starts with cholesterol and, through a series of enzymatic reactions, produces the final steroid hormone. Other hormones are proteins, directly coded for in the DNA of the cell’s genes. Other protein hormones are growth hormone, and glucagon.

We all have genes that code for these protein hormones. Genetic engineers have been able to find these genes, and cleanly cut them out of the section of DNA in which they are normally located. They took the human gene for insulin and placed it into the DNA chain of a bacterium. This makes the bacterium “part human”, so to speak, in that the bacterium now makes human insulin. All you have to do is extract the insulin from the bacterium, and you have a relatively inexpensive source of human insulin.

The idea is simple to state, but it took science decades to develop this technology of splicing genetic information from one organism and putting it into another organism – of another species! The possibilities are endless. But like all technology, there is also a cost. Every new invention that changes the world has its advantages and disadvantages, its rewards and its risks, its successes and its failures.

The bacterium chosen to be the recipient of this human gene is the commonly found, and well studied, E. coli. Our intestines team with trillions of E. coli bacteria. Some E. coli strains cause disease, and are the leading cause of food poisoning. Most are benign, and are our constant intestinal companions. Why use this particular bacterium for genetic engineering? It has to do with its genetic make-up, and the ease with which E. coli DNA can be manipulated, even with foreign DNA.

The company that developed genetically engineered E. coli that makes human insulin was Genentech. They did this in 1978. Eli Lilly, another drug company, purchased the license for this process, and is now the producer of human insulin from E. coli.

Besides E. coli, scientists have also done a great deal of genetic research and manipulation with another micro-organism – Saccharomyces cerevisiae, also known as Baker’s yeast. That’s right, the same yeast used to make bread, wine, beer, and other foods. It wasn’t long after Genentech’s E. coli success that another company, Novonordisk, developed a Baker’s yeast engineered to produce human insulin. Both these GMO’s – the E. coli and Baker’s yeast that both produce human insulin – are now virtually the only sources of insulin for diabetics. Animal insulin manufacturers can not compete with this cheap, genetically engineered human insulin supply.

It may sound like a good idea to have all this genetically engineered insulin cheaply available, given the epidemic of obesity and diabetes. But what is the price of having these GMO’s making human insulin?

The price, we believe, is that these GMO’s are causing the obesity and diabetes epidemics!

Just as with all new technology, there are accidents. Novonordisk reports several accidental spills of genetically modified, human-insulin producing Baker’s yeast! For example, in one case in 2004, according to Novonordisk, “During the cleaning process, 10 litres of media containing GMO were discharged directly into the sewage system. Normally the media would be discharged into a tank. When the operator saw the accidental release, the discharge of the media was stopped and the sewage system was disinfected.”

There have been other such incidents over the years. Eli Lilly admits to many dozens of “serious environmental events”, in fact, 29 such events between 2003 and 2005. These events include,

The effect of these organisms on the environment is an experiment in the making. While these companies say their E. coli and Baker’s yeast are too weak from laboratory conditions to survive and compete in the wild, the fact is that they don’t really know what will happen until it actually does happen. It’s all so new, that the impacts of a spill are still considered a mystery.

Obviously, the “Precautionary Principle” is not in effect here.

But if these GMO’s did get out, the manufacturers assert, they are harmless to humans. Of course, since there are no published scientific studies of what happens when a human is infected with these GMO’s, this is another optimistic assumption by these manufacturers. What would happen? One can make some educated guesses based on known medical knowledge. What would happen if you had bacteria and/or yeast in your intestines that were producing insulin?

Your intestinal fluid would be high in insulin, produced by the genetically modified microbes. Some of that insulin would be absorbed into the bloodstream. This would make your blood high in insulin, causing hyperinsulinemia. Over time, this would make you obese and diabetic, a known outcome of hyperinsulemia!

Since GMO’s would be producing insulin in your intestines, your pancreas would reduce its insulin production, since more is not needed. This would eventually create dependence on the GMO insulin absorbed from your intestines. The level of GMO’s in your intestines will rise and fall depending on your diet and intestinal health. Some times, if the level is high, the insulinemia would be higher. Other times, the GMO’s can virtually disappear, causing a shortage of insulin, catching the pancreas by surprise, before it has time to reactivate its insulin production. It would be as though you were taking varying doses of insulin medication at erratic times. Your blood sugar and metabolism would be a mess. You would be obese, diagnosed as a diabetic, and ironically prescribed more insulin!

Are these GMO’s as harmless as their manufacturers claim? We may just be starting to see just how harmful they can be.

It is not only insulin that is produced in E. coli and Baker’s yeast. Human Growth Hormone is also manufactured this way. What would happen if GMO’s making growth hormone colonized your intestines? Excessive growth hormone would be absorbed into your bloodstream, and over time this can lead to in excessive body growth, arthritis, carpel tunnel syndrome, excessive snoring from enlarged throat, impaired vision, headaches, fatigue, menstrual disorders, high blood pressure, and – diabetes!

Then there is the hormone glucagon, which has the opposite action as insulin. That is, this hormone raises blood sugar by making the cells give up their sugar stores. This hormone is also manufactured in genetically engineered E. coli and Baker’s yeast. Having these GMO’s in your intestines would also cause havoc to your blood sugar level and metabolism.

So here is the crisis. There are drug companies making human hormones in the most common bacterium that humans live with – E. coli – and in the yeast commonly used for our food supply – Baker’s yeast. Both of these genetically modified microbes have entered the environment. These GMO’s constitute a new threat to human health, as our intimate contact with them may lead to their colonization of the human intestinal flora.

Besides accidental releases of these GMO’s there is the deliberate selling of old GE yeast to pig farmers. Once the yeast is used to make insulin, the yeast is heated to inactivate it, and the resulting slurry is sold for animal feed. However, yeast (and E. coli) are known to make very heat stable spores, which can theoretically survive the heating process. A few surviving spores out of trillions of yeast cells is statistically insignificant. But those spores can enter the environment and reproduce, and possibly enter the food chain and human (or animal) intestines.

Of course, before everyone gets alarmed that a new plague has come, there needs to be more research. If these GMOs have contaminated our environment and are causing diabetes and obesity, then it should be possible to take intestinal samples from some obese, diabetic people and find the offending, rogue microbes. Ideally, this is something that the manufacturers of these GMOs should be paying for. However, these manufacturers should not be doing the research themselves. It is not wise to trust research into a GMO leak with the company that makes the GMO. If insulin, growth hormone, glucagon, and other hormones are being produced in human intestines, causing a pandemic of obesity and diabetes and who knows what else, then the results would be too important and damaging to the manufacturer to trust it to anyone but a third party.

But who would that third party be? Government regulation of the genetic engineering industry is minimal. Lobbying by GE companies is extensive, and effective. The attitude of the government has been that, since the GE industry could be harmed by safety regulations based on the precautionary principle, we must all accept the technology now to let the nascent industry get established, and wait for an obvious disaster before making any impositions. As a result, the industry is policing itself, which is as big a mistake as letting these corporations tinker with these microbes in the first place.

The big question is, if the results showed that this nightmare of infectious obesity and diabetes, spread by GE bacteria and yeast, is, indeed, a reality, then will the public be told? You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to see that the truth may be untold. Of course, perhaps not surprisingly, the result of an insulin-producing GMO spill would be increased cases of diabetes, and this would translate into higher sales of insulin. Those responsible for the problem would be the first to benefit from it.

Perhaps these organisms could be called GERMs, or Genetically Engineered Rogue Microbes. We believe there needs to be a broad discussion of this threat posed by GERMs to human health. Endocrinologists will have to work with gastroenterologists, nutritionists, and epidemiologists as they explore this new form of disease – contagious hormonal disease. Public health experts will have to advise the public and institutions on ways to minimize the spread of these GERMs. There should be a department at the Centers for Disease Control that is dedicated to GERM Surveillance and epidemic control.

How do you personally take precautions against a coming GERM plague, especially when it will probably be emphatically denied by these companies and their government accomplices? How will medicine meet the challenge of diagnosing and treating diseases caused by GERMs? Is there any way to put this genie back into its bottle?

Whether or not it is too late remains to be seen. Research is desperately needed, along with continuous monitoring of commercial Baker’s yeast supplies for food production, and peoples’ intestinal contents for signs of GERMs. Our food and our homes may be contaminated with GERMs. Some E. coli and Baker’s yeast have been modified to produce, not hormones, but drugs and enzymes. Obesity and diabetes may only be the beginning of a series of health problems that confuse doctors, disable and kill patients, and are spread from person to person in a handshake or in a piece of bread or a glass of beer.

We have been sold the advantages of Genetic Engineering. The creation of new GERMs, and the havoc they cause, may be the high price we are forced to all pay for this awesome, terrifying technology.

Oops! An accident killed off one third of the world.

A germ warfare attack got out-of-control and grew into the Black Plague. Within three years, one third of the known world’s population had perished.

The 1347 Tartar siege of the city of Kaffa started it. Kaffa was an Italian trading port on the Crimean Peninsula in the Black Sea. Their host Tartars alternately tolerated and proscribed its commerce, depending on who was Sultan (and, no doubt, on the size of the tributes paid.) After recent Tartar problems, the Italians fortified their town with two walls. Those held the Tartar enemy at bay in an attack of 1343. An Italian army vanquished the besieging Tartars.

A large Tartar army returned in 1345 and laid siege to Kaffa again. An army is more than a group of soldiers. Caravans of personnel, equipment and supplies to maintain the army are part of its entourage. Vermin hitchhike on any such large-scale project. Rats, mice and bugs are unavoidable companions.

Some of the rats following this expedition hosted fleas carrying the Bubonic Plague germ. They had come from rural areas where there were few people, so they had primarily infected the rats. The crowding of an army at siege offered a supply of human targets. Human infection followed. No surprise: losses to disease were expected.

The disease spread quickly through the Tartar ranks. Bodies piled up. The danger of dead bodies was well known; they spread the disease. Those dead bodies were viable biological weapons. Hurl them over the walls and infect the population within. The Tartars had plenty of bodies to throw. Try for the water supply, and hope for the worst. Those cleaning up and disposing of the remains picked up their fleas, and the plague entered the city.

Under siege with a deadly disease running rampant, Kaffa was Hell on Earth. The city was a port. Rich merchants were able to escape by ship. They crossed the Black Sea to Constantinople. The plague broke out there. Their ships’ rats had brought the disease with them. The merchants continued on home to Italy. The plague followed them there.

The plague followed the trade routes west to Spain and then north to involve most of Europe. In three years, it had reached Scandinavia. Bodies piled up. One in three died and no one knew why. The Jews were merchants. They followed those trade routes. This must be part of a Jewish pact with the devil to wipe out Christianity. Certainly one more good reason to persecute the Jews… and persecute them they did. Depopulation changed European society forever.

Meanwhile, back at Kaffa, the plague had decimated the Tartar army. The remaining troops could no longer sustain the siege. They broke it off and returned home-carrying the plague back to most of Asia.

In three years time, one third of the population of Europe, Asia and North Africa had died from a germ warfare attack that had gotten out-of-control. It could happen again. Germs are hard to control, and quarantines are hard to enforce.

One of the most popular and interesting stories that came out of the Black Death plague centered around four thieves and their incredible mixture of aromatics used.

These spice traders were not allowed to continue sailing due to the outbreak of this plague, so they turned to robbing the bodies of the dead and dying. They never got sick.

This was hard to believe since almost 30% of the population at the time, in Europe, were killed by this sickness. It was caught from the living and the dead, so anyone who cared for the sick or the bodies of the dead were susceptible to this disease.

Because these spice traders came from a long lineage of apothecaries, they had a few tricks up their sleeve, so they were able to make a concoction of these herbs and oils to increase their immunity and prevent death. When this mixture was rubbed over their body, it protected them from contracting this deadly disease. They were later arrested and tortured for their secret recipe.

Essential Oil expert Dr. Jean Valnet states, “In recent years both doctors and the public have rediscovered the medical value of essential oils, but the idea of using their properties to maintain or regain health goes back to antiquity… The Romans had their knowledge of essential oils from the Greeks, who in turn had received it from the Egyptians… Hypocrites for example, tackled the plague epidemic in Athens by fumigating the whole city with aromatic essences of plant oils. Later in the 19th century, it is known that perfumery workers always showed an almost complete immunity during cholera outbreaks.”

There are many who would argue that essential oils today are not the same as what was used then, but there is no argument against the immune stimulating and antimicrobial properties of these aromatics that compete with and even surpass many of today’s antiseptic medicines and antibiotics.

So what was included in this recipe and why would it work so well? Let’s briefly look at the ingredients that are included in many of the stories.

Clove is a powerful anti-bacterial and is a known to help reduce pain, while also providing anti-allergenic properties to the body making it ideal in balancing the autonomic nervous system and subduing hypersensitive nerve pain. *Don’t apply to skin undiluted.

Lemon is known to dramatically impact the endocrine system and function as a cleaner, scrubber, detoxifier and renewal resource for the proper function of this vital system. Can also aid in stimulating the immune system by helping to regulate white blood cell production.

Mandarin Orange has constituents that act as an anti-depressant, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antiseptic, antibacterial-and can help to clean the lymphatic system, lower blood pressure and build the immune system.

Lime has many of the above properties that are associated with the other citrus oils.

Ravensara has constituents that target the endocrine system with a special emphasis on the respiratory function as it’s able to battle harmful bacteria and viruses including those ailments which have been endured long-term.

Cinnamon Bark is highly anti-viral, thus it primarily boosts the immune system while it subdues inflamed tissues. In addition, It’s also known for it’s mucolytic action (drying properties) which makes this oil ideal for battling mucus congestion throughout the body. I also acts as an antibacterial, antiseptic, and analgesic.

Eucalyptus directly affects the respiratory system. It can attack viruses that create mucous in the body and assists with opening the lungs.

Thyme is primarily known as the proven as a formidable foe against Anthrax and other like immune busting invaders. In recent studies, this essential oil was found to be a key player to any first-aid kit as a result of the immediate benefits it can have on the body in a time of crisis. It is an expectorant and cough suppressant.

Oregano possesses key constituents which are powerful antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, and antimicrobial making it vitally useful against many common disorders caused from bacterial, viral, fungal, and microbial infections. It’s trademark “heat” is indicative of it’s ability to fight corrupted or compromised cells, destroy them and then assist in the eliminated of them from the body. These powerful constituents are even capable of killing parasites.

When you combine the powerful properties from each of these plants into one blend, it is extremely effective at strengthening immunity and fighting infections.

There are many companies that have put together a blend of herbs or essential oils to try to copy the original recipe. Please make sure the essential oils you choose are 100% therapeutic grade and approved for internal consumption, E.O.B.B.D guaranteed. Essential oils that don’t pass this standard can cause more harm in your body instead of being helpful. Synthetic, chemically extracted essential oils are not safe for therapeutic or medicinal use.

Our favorite blend, called Spice of Life has been tested at George University and was found to have a 99.968% kill rate against airborne bacteria after only 12 minutes of diffusing.

In the last hundred years, our society has had to endure an ever-increasing plague affecting the lives of millions. Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) in the form of ‘Occlusive Cardiovascular Disease’, which is also known as ‘Atherosclerosis’ or ‘plaquing’ of the arteries is affecting younger and younger people with each passing generation. The disorder leads to the majority of our heart attacks, strokes and the spiraling costs of healthcare. It remains today as the leading cause of death by disease in the developed world.

Medical treatment of choice continues to be cholesterol-lowering drugs (statin drugs). Add to this the prescriptions for chest pains, high blood pressure, blood thinners, calcium beta-blockers, triglyceride etc. and you have a toxic cocktail mix taken by millions of people with only a poor prognosis to show for their efforts.

What can we do?

A world-renowned biochemist Linus Pauling PhD (1901-1994), two-time unshared Nobel Prize Laureate, and recipient of more than 40 honorary degrees is regarded by many of his peers as one of the world’s greatest scientific minds of the 20th century. In his last interview with the British journal of the Institute of Optimum Nutrition he spoke these prophetic words:

“I think I know what the answer is… we can get almost COMPLETE CONTROL of cardiovascular disease, heart attacks and strokes by the proper use of this therapy …even cure it.” — Linus Pauling (1992)

The “therapy” he spoke about was formulated after decades of scientific and clinical research and introduced following issues of his patents (1990 and 1991) for the reversal of ‘Occlusive Cardiovascular Disease’. Add this to his 1989 ‘Unified Theory” of heart disease and we have an effective way of eliminating the majority of suffering caused by this major scourge of our times.

Medicine’s silence is deafening!

Mainstream medicine and big Pharma continue to remain silent as to Pauling’s discovery and one might be inclined to believe that their focus on profits might be the motives for their suppression of his research. Heart disease is big business.

How does Pauling’s formula work? It’s rather quite simple. It starts with the scientific facts that CVD is predominantly a Vitamin C deficiency disease. Also lacking is, a couple of key amino acids L-lysine and L-proline. Add to that a few supportive A, B, & E vitamins, minerals like magnesium and selenium, a little CoQ10 and plenty of Omega 3 oils, and there you have it. A formula which when taken therapeutically, can stop, reverse and help the body heal the majority of CVD cases.

Following up on 1985 Nobel Laureates Brown and Goldstein’s scientific work of the early 1980’s, Pauling re-confirmed that all plaque in the arteries is laid down as temporarily repair material for damaged or injured blood vessels. This sticky cholesterol plaque, which the body uses to seal up the cracks and fissures, is a “special” kind of cholesterol made in our livers and not the cholesterol we ingest from fatty foods. LP(a) cholesterol plaque is manufactured as a necessary emergency ‘secondary response tissue’ to deal with the damaged blood vessels. This happens only when the body is malnourished.

The ‘primary’ healing tissue for blood vessels is “collagen”. Collagen needs high levels of Vitamin C and amino acids such as lysine, proline, to be properly and adequately synthesized. Also, L-lysine and L-proline act as LP(a) binding inhibitors.

So there is hope for the majority of those who suffer with this chronic degenerative disease. The results of using the Pauling protocol are predictable and measurable.

Start by getting a full blood profile for heart risk factors. Once you have your ‘numbers’, start taking a well formulated ‘Pauling formula’ product (Cardioflex Q10) up to three times a day with juice or water. (Water only if you are diabetic) You will start to notice a difference in your wellbeing within only a few days to a few weeks.

Note: Check regularly with your doctor as to the continued need for your prescription drugs. Within 6 to 18 months, the majority of patients should be off most of their heart drugs and will have reduced by up to 80-90% all of their CVD risk factors identified in the blood tests.

Adopting a healthier diet and a regular exercise routine accelerates the process and puts you on a fast tract to a lifetime free of heart disease.

You no longer have to be a casualty of the CVD plague.

Dr. Gerry Bohemier DC

From Mediaeval times until the mid-1800s, it was generally believed that diseases were caused and spread through a corruption of the air or ‘miasma’. This belief probably arose because of the foul smells associated with illness and the lack of hygiene common at that time. When it came to preventing or treating such diseases, a lack of any knowledge of modern science or medicine meant that people had only the beliefs and practices of their ancestors to rely on. While some of these, mainly herbal, remedies have been since found to be effective (e.g. wormwood for stomach complaints and lungwort for respiratory problems), most were totally ineffective when the Black Death swept across Europe in the 1300s.

The most common form of the Black Death was the bubonic plague, characterized by the appearance of black-coloured buboes in the groin, neck and armpits, which oozed pus and blood, together with fever, headaches, painful aches in the joints, nausea and vomiting. It was highly contagious and usually fatal. The Black Death was universally feared – it spread ferociously fast, and death could occur within a couple of hours of the onset of symptoms. Between the 14th and 17th centuries, Europe suffered a series of attacks from the plague, and the consequences were enormous. Between 1348 and 1350 alone, the Black Death is estimated to have killed between one- and two-thirds of the population of Europe.

The plague was associated with a characteristic stink – the huge number of victims together with the rapid and high death rate associated with the plague would have given rise to an extraordinarily strong stench. This reinforced in most people’s minds the idea that the disease was carried in contaminated air. Among the more obvious remedies that were proposed, therefore, were those based on aroma – the aim was to counter the bad air with sweet-smelling agents, which were thought to have the power to overcome the harmful evil odours. Herbs and spices were most popular, though generally anything that smelt good was considered useful.

Those who could afford it burned a range of aromatic herbs – such as rosemary, juniper, laurel, pine and beech – in their houses, to help ward off bad smells and purify the air. Camphor and sulphur were also thought to be effective. Sweet-smelling herbs, such as lavender, sage, thyme, meadowsweet and winter savoury, were dried and strewn on the floor, sewn into cloth bags or carried as posies. Cloths infused with aromatic oils, such as camphor, rosemary or laurel, that were used to cover the face when going out were a more expensive option. Vinegar was also thought to be an effective deterrent.

Even wealthier people could afford pomanders. These consisted of pierced metal cases containing resin or wax embedded with a multitude of expensive aromatic spices, including nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves. Held to the nose, the pierced casing allowed the scent to escape, thus (supposedly) offering the owner protection from the air-borne pestilence. The attractions of the aromatic spices, nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves, are perhaps obvious, but ambergris, a waxy secretion of the intestinal tract of the sperm whale, was also used in pomanders. Unlikely as it may seem, ambergris has a pleasant sweet fragrance and is still used today by the perfume industry. Only the very rich could afford to carry ambergris pomanders, and these were considered to be more potent against the plague than other pomanders.

In Elizabethan times there are reports of many ‘cures’ for the plague: here are two of those based on herbal remedies…

“Take yarrow, tansy, featherfew, of each a handful, and bruise them well together, then let the sick party make water into the herbs, then strain them, and give it the sick to drink.” (The belief that drinking your own urine is a panacea for all ills is a relatively common one even today.)

“Take of sage, rue, briar leaves, elder leaves, of each a handful, stamp them and strain them with a quart of white wine, and put thereto a little ginger, and a good spoonful of the best treacle, and drink thereof morning and evening.“

Although the remedies available at this time were totally ineffective at treating people who developed the plague there is a possibility that some may, strangely enough, have actually been of some help in preventing the spread of the plague. Wormwood, rosemary, feverfew and tansy, in particular, are today recognized for their flea-repelling properties (indeed wormwood was used as a flea deterrent during the plague years) – and fleas and the rats that carried them are now generally thought to have been responsible for carrying and spreading this devastating disease.

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In the year 1347, an epidemic disease arrived in Europe. Close to a century before, soldiers from the Mongolian Empire raided China, and upon their return, they unwittingly brought back foreign fleas carrying deadly bacteria embedded on their horses. Within decades, the virus began to take form and spread throughout the Silk Road, a merchant route running to the Black Sea. The Pandemic swept into Europe through rats and fleas which carried the deadly virus.

Several factors made the expansion of the virus possible. The flea that carried them lived on common rats that people generally see in their homes and cities. Trade ships entering northern Europe from the Mediterranean carried these rats into every port. Finally, the disease spread swiftly in Europe because of the heavily condensed population there.

The plague spread west from Constantinople and slowly went north. From Sicily, it infected France and crossed into the English Channel. Finally, it turned east, back towards Scandinavia and Russia. The Black Plague killed nearly 90 percent of all people it came in contact with. The exact number of deaths caused by the plague is not known. Historical records were not reliable and not always stored, but it is believed that nearly one-third of the entire population of Europe was exterminated.

Within a decade after this epic disaster, the human population came went through a rapid recovery. Though the plague was not over, birth rates were significantly high. In 1361, the plague returned but it particularly affected the younger generation, as they were never exposed to it before. Over the next century, the plague reoccurred every 5 to 10 years. Although they killed fewer people, it had stumped the human population and as a result, there was a decline in population between the 1350 and 1450. The Black Plague nearly prevented population growth and caused massive suffering. But, in a few decades, the population would rise back to its previous size.