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"It is linked with the energetic imprint of viruses and prions, which are aberrant proteins that fold bizarrely and turn into disease-causing agents. prions are most familiar to the public as the cause of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease. Energetic Terrain 5 Energetic Terrain 5 is associated bioenergetically with the skin and lungs and links to the energetic template of a btoad spectrum of viruses, including the many strains of human papilloma virus and the Bunyavirus family, particularly herpes-related and wart-related viruses." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"Leake didn't seem to understand that prions didn't cause and transmit TSEs; PrPres, or "abnormal" prions, were believed by some scientists to be the culprits. And who were the scientists sent on the wild goose chase to see if they could find abnormal prions in samples that had already tested negative? "A USDA scientist who carried out one set of tests said several of the animals had proved positive—and her results had been independently confirmed by another scientist using a different technique." Here was a science writer who had not verified his facts. Dr." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.)

"These so-called slow viruses known as prions are made of proteins rather than DNA or RNA, as are most viruses, and cause such conditions as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, kuru, scrapie, and the infamous mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy). Prions were discovered by the American scientist Stanley Prusiner in the 1980s and have been found to cause spongiform encephalopathies?brain pathology marked by small holes in brain tissue." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"It is linked with the energetic imprint of viruses and prions, which are aberrant proteins that fold bizarrely and turn into disease-causing agents. prions are most familiar to the public as the cause of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease. Energetic Terrain 5 Energetic Terrain 5 is associated bioenergetically with the skin and lungs and links to the energetic template of a btoad spectrum of viruses, including the many strains of human papilloma virus and the Bunyavirus family, particularly herpes-related and wart-related viruses." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"One of the most well-known examples of dangerous misfolded aggregated proteins are prions (proteinaceous infectious particles), responsible for mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) and the deadly Creutzfeld-Jacob disease in humans. prions cause other healthy proteins to also become misfolded. Over time, they cause holes in the brain, severe dysfunction, and death. prions survive cooking and are believed to be transmittable to humans who eat meat from infected "mad" cows. The disease may incubate undetected for about two to eight years in cows and up to 30 years in humans." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"According ro Stanley Prusiner, PhD, professor of neurology and biochemistry at the University of California and a 1997 Nobel Prize recipient in medicine, "Prions are an infectious protein without detectable DNA or RNA [Ribonucleic acid]."1 It is believed that prions cannot be destroyed by cooking, freezing, ionizing, radiation, autoclaving, sterilization, bleach, or formaldehyde. Some scientists theorize that the changes in the rendering process—lower temperarures and lack of solvents—may have contributed to the spread of BSE." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"It was quite an accomplishment, and, though the race isn't won (newly emerging viruses and prions, like those causing mad cow disease, still threaten), it's amazing to consider that the bubonic plague of the Middle Ages that killed a quarter of the world's population is something medicine can easily treat today. Fast-forward to 1942, when something new and distinctly different happened: the word stress first entered the medical lexicon as a way to refer to something purely psychological that also had profound physical effects." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"Eventually prions completely clog the infected brain cells. The cells misfire, work poorly, or don't work at all. The structure of the brain itself becomes visibly and grossly deformed. In 1996, British scientists reported that the prions found in vCJD patients were remarkably like those of the mad cows. prions are notoriously difficult to destroy. They appear to survive incineration and the heat of medical autoclaves. They also appear to have the ability to persist in the soil of a given place indefinitely." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"Over time, they cause holes in the brain, severe dysfunction, and death. prions survive cooking and are believed to be transmittable to humans who eat meat from infected "mad" cows. The disease may incubate undetected for about two to eight years in cows and up to 30 years in humans. Although we do not fully understand prions, it is not expected that protein from bacteria, viruses or plants can infect humans or animals. Therefore, it is unlikely that misfolded proteins in current GM food crops would pose such a threat." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"Microbes or bugs (bacteria, yeast, parasites, viruses, prions, etc.) The Good Stuff This is what you need to add to your diet, lifestyle, and environment to rebalance your systems. 1. High-quality food (proteins, fats, carbohydrates, fiber, phytonutrients) 2. Vitamins, minerals, and conditionally essential nutrients (and occasionally bioidentical hormones) 3. Water, air, and light 4. Exercise/movement 5. Sleep 6. Deep relaxation 7. Rhythm 8. Love, community, connection, meaning, and purpose Much of this is incorporated into the basic six-week UltraMind Solution outlined in Part III." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Using digital recording, we could uncover those pathogens like prions, which have no reliable means of detection, and no longer waste precious laboratory resources in determining whether antigens are present in the body and whether the body has mounted antibodies to them. It also may mean that when we are ill, we may not need to take drugs. We could get rid of unwanted parasites or bacteria just by playing an unfriendly frequency. We could use electromagnetic means of detecting dangerous microorganisms in our agriculture or use them to find out whether foods have been genetically modified." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"Scientists had first identified prions in the 1970s, however, it was not until about 1987 that prions were connected to BSE or any of the TSE diseases. The British government, as well as all Tenderers internationally, assumed that rendering destroys this disease. Who Disposed of the Diseased Animals? Seven thousand mink died at this ranch in Wisconsin. How were they disposed of? The cattle injected with the infected mink brains also died. How were they disposed of? These are two important questions that apparently no one has delved into. The U.S." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"If they think a 2 percent chlorine solution would denature any possible abnormal prions," I said sarcastically to Larry, "we could have just run the sheep through our hot tub every night!" Our solar barn had to be disassembled and that meant moving Freddie. I was not the only one who was depressed. Freddie refused to come out of the barn, even to graze. He spent day and night laying in the barn, waiting for his flock to return. No amount of prompting or promises of "treats" could convince him to leave the barn. So we fenced in a paddock behind our house to put him closer to the family." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.)

"Naessens discovered tiny bits of matter he called Somatids (tiny bodies, also cal led endobiant Spermits, Protits, and prions) as liquids inside Red blood cell erythrocytes that precurse DNA and enable pathologic cell division from colloid albuminoid Protits, into Symprotits, Chondrits and Fibrin, into bacteria, and then fungal forms aspergi 1 us niger and mucor racemosus. prions bridge the realms of energy and matter, and survive fire, chemicals, antibiotics, exposure to 50,000 REMs of radiation; when dried, even diamond-tip dril Is cannot destroy them." - Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.)

"And who were the scientists sent on the wild goose chase to see if they could find abnormal prions in samples that had already tested negative? "A USDA scientist who carried out one set of tests said several of the animals had proved positive—and her results had been independently confirmed by another scientist using a different technique." Here was a science writer who had not verified his facts. Dr. Schmerr s test was still in its experimental stage (the positive control tested negative, not positive), and Rubenstein's test was not validated." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.)

"Instead of resulting from infection by bacteria or viruses, CJD and its animal-infecting counterparts are diseases in which a group of proteins called prions, which are normally present in the brain, develop abnormal structures consisting of strange folds. When these misfolded proteins come in contact with normal prions they induce the normal proteins to assume abnormal shapes. Ultimately, enough abnormal prions accumulate to start to kill nerve cells." - Guy McKhann, and Marilyn Albert, Keep Your Brain Young: The Complete Guide to Physical and Emotional Health and Longevity (Get the book.)

"It is believed that prions cannot be destroyed by cooking, freezing, ionizing, radiation, autoclaving, sterilization, bleach, or formaldehyde. Some scientists theorize that the changes in the rendering process—lower temperarures and lack of solvents—may have contributed to the spread of BSE. The "BSE Inquiry," a group of doctors and scientists in the United Kingdom have other Theories. This group of doctors noted that the most puzzling aspect was that only one or two cattle in a herd became infected with BSE even though the entire herd was fed the same compound. " - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"Thought to replicate in the manner of crystals, abnormal prions malform neighboring prions upon contact, causing them to "fold" improperly and mutate their neighbors in a domino effect of devastation, until the host develops vacuoles in the brain, loses nervous system function, and dies. Unlike normal prions, mutants do not break down when meat is digested. The immune NOT A LIVING ORGANISM, THE ABNORMAL VERSION OF A PROTEIN KNOWN AS A PRION IS ABLE TO WITHSTAND CONDITIONS WHICH KILL ANY OTHER KNOWN PATHOGEN, REPRESENTING A BIOLOGICAL THREAT NEVER BEFORE SEEN ON EARTH." - The Disinformation Company, Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies (Get the book.)

"And if the USDA was concerned that the animals had abnormal prions and were in the early stages of a disease, they would have been detected by Dr. O'Rourke's IHC, or by the IHC performed by the National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Ames, Iowa. When all this testing was completed, the remaining tissue was then thrown in a freezer where it began to autolyze (enzymes within the cells begin the process of self-digestion). Eleven months later, blood from the same animals was tested with Dr." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.)

"In 1996, British scientists reported that the prions found in vCJD patients were remarkably like those of the mad cows. prions are notoriously difficult to destroy. They appear to survive incineration and the heat of medical autoclaves. They also appear to have the ability to persist in the soil of a given place indefinitely. It is believed that millions of Britons ate BSE-infected beef during the 1980s and 1990s. There has been a sustained rise in cases of vCJD into the early years of this century." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "They are not living organisms per se, not like bacteria, or even viruses (which are, arguably, mere bundles of RNA with a mission). prions are just proteins that are "folded" differently. They appear to have the odd characteristic of entering the bodies of animals and getting other proteins to fold the way they do: from alpha helical structures relaxed into looser beta sheets. Eventually prions completely clog the infected brain cells. The cells misfire, work poorly, or don't work at all. The structure of the brain itself becomes visibly and grossly deformed." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"One halogen, chlorine, can kill all life forms including viruses and even prions (short for "proteinaceous infectious particle," a nucleic-acid-free protein which can transmit infectious disease, and is responsible for such infamous conditions as mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease). Fluorine is the least dense and most active member of this chemical class: it can even displace oxygen from water. And, because it is so reactive, it never occurs uncombined in nature. Fluoride is also a byproduct of the aluminum, steel, and fertilizer industries." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"When human or animal genes are inserted into plants, however, the possibility that the proteins may become prions is more of a concern. This type of human/plant combination has been used with some experimental crops, including those designed to produce drugs. Transgenes may be altered during insertion earrangement ofthe .nucleotide sequence of a gene often occurs during the insertion of that gene into the genome of the recipient plant,.. . Even single nucleotide changes can alter a protein's amino acid sequence and affect the protein's properties. ..." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"All TSEs are caused by prions, including CJD. Between 1990 and March 2002 nearly ninety house cats have died of the feline form of mad cow disease, which is called feline spongiform encephalopathy (FSE). The first cat identified as having FSE was a Siamese cat in the United Kingdom named Max who died in 1990. Some veterinarians suspect that many more cats have died since then, but these deaths have not been recorded because owners either do not have autopsies performed on their cats' brains or the cats wandered off to die alone. Autopsies are the only way to determine if a cat died from FSE." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"Unfortunately, as the British found out, cooking and rendering do not get rid of misfolded prions. The result was a catastrophe for the diseased cattle, the British beef industry, and the unfortunate people who died years after eating meat from those cattle. Nevertheless, Canada and the United States took the position that "it can't happen here." They did not take even the most basic preventive step —a ban on the use of meat-and-bone meal as feed for cattle —until 1997." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"Called prions (pronounced pre'-ons), these proteins are folded in an abnormal way; when they come in contact with other proteins, they turn them into prions, setting off a chain reaction that eventually riddles the brain with holes. A cow can contract BSE by eating one gram of prion-infected tissue—the size of a peppercorn—from another cow. Unlike viruses or bacteria, prions can't reproduce and evoke no immune response. More frightening, they resist heat, ultraviolet light, radiation, and sterilization." - Madeline Drexler, Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections (Get the book.)

"They are infectious, however; prions can pass to humans and certain animals that eat the remains of infected organisms. The prions may incubate for years before beginning to destroy brain tissue, leaving parts of the brain porous and spongy and leading to dementia and loss of muscle control. The best-known TSE is bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)—so-called mad cow disease. In 1996 it was discovered that BSE can pass from infected meat to humans. The humans develop a disease similar to the TSE Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), called variant CJD (vCJD)." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

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