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"Natural Progesterone Facts Though progesterone was discovered more than seventy years ago, it has only recently been making headlines in scientific journals. An eloquent 2007 article in Endocrine Review summarizes its many beneficial effects, such as its ability to reduce brain damage, limit stroke, and prevent Parkinson's disease, seizures, depression, memory loss, and even alcohol addiction. Here are some highlights from this and other scientific journals: • Natural progesterone is made in a woman's brain throughout her lifetime." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"And even as I wrapped this up, there were examples of food synergy flooding in from scientific journals on an almost daily basis. We, my friends, are on to something here . . . something very special. Sure, some examples might be considered only "suggested" or "possible" food synergy partnerships, requiring more research. But what you'll find as you take the food synergy journey with me is that even if some of the information is preliminary, Food Synergy basically brings us back to eating more whole foods, eating more plant foods, and eating more in balance." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"It may also attract attention and dollars for the publishers of scientific journals. According to Propping, "A critical observer might comment that the scientific journals have been the big winners, with their increased impact factors caused by repeated citations in the non-replication studies. Through this mechanism psychiatric genetics has certainly raised the impact of the high-ranking journals." - Jay Joseph, The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes (Get the book.)

"Zaven Khachaturian, hired by Butler to establish the Neurobiology of Aging program, realized how vital the media would be in spreading and normalizing the disease myth, and put together a systematic strategy for disseminating information to journalists: Around here [in Washington] Congress tends to pay more attention to popular media than scientific journals . . . part of the strategy was to inform the public, using the media, about major scientific accomplishments in Alzheimer's disease research and the implications of the scientific findings in terms that lay people could understand." - 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.)

"These data can be contrasted with recently published data in the scientific journals Archives of Neurology and Experimental Neurology, which showed that much higher doses of ubiquinone were required to obtain comparable blood CoQIO levels. Specifically, the studies with ubiquinone used 1,200 mg per day to achieve blood concentrations of 3.96 mcg/mL and 2,400 mg per day to reach blood levels of 7.25 mcg/mL. Scientists have long known that CoQl 0 levels decrease with age and that there is a clear association between that decline and age-related problems related to energy production in cells." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Similarly, a correlation has been reported and debated in scientific journals for years between the hepatitis B vaccine and multiple sclerosis as well as rheumatoid arthritis. Other evidence links the measles vaccine to multiple sclerosis and the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) and hepatitis B vaccines to rheumatoid arthritis. Many scientists also believe strong anecdotal evidence exists between receiving the hepatitis B vaccine and developing lupus." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"A couple of months after Virginia died, Rosemary drove to Iowa's State Medical Library in downtown Des Moines to find what had been published on Vioxx in the scientific journals. It was on her second trip to the library that she discovered a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine in November 2000 and completed months before Virginia started taking Vioxx in August of that year. The study had been paid for by Merck and was published under the names of thirteen physicians, who called themselves the VIGOR Study Group." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Prominent medical and scientific journals begrudge what they see as ill-considered enthusiasm for such 'heterodox' or 'alternative' therapies, and mourn the lost lustre of orthodox medicine.1 Many orthodox practitioners berate patients for their 'flight from reason', while a smaller group adopts aspects or styles of alternative practice themselves. And indeed, since the 1970s, there has been an extraordinary rise in the availability and visibility of'alternative', 'complementary', and 'cross-cultural' medicines. But is the astonishing popularity of heterodox medicine novel?" - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"The Microflora and Intestinal Diseases Probiotic research studies have been published in a wide variety of scientific journals including those focusing on pediatrics, gastrointestinal health, pharmaceuticals and nutrition. Probiotic research involves an unusually wide range of disciplines: pediatrics, gastroenterology, nutrition, immunology and microbiology. This is what makes this new area of health so fascinating—it affects your entire body at every stage of life! Some of the most promising areas of research on probiotics relates to inflammatory intestinal disorders." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Here are some highlights from this and other scientific journals: • Natural progesterone is made in a woman's brain throughout her lifetime. In menopause, even though blood levels of progesterone fall to very low levels, brain levels fall by only 50 percent. • Natural progesterone is metabolized into a metabolite (allopreg-nanolone) that improves insomnia, anxiety, depression, and mood changes associated with PMS symptoms, and protects the brain from degenerative diseases. Synthetic progesterones do not make this metabolite and consequently do not provide these same benefits." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Scientists rely on a system of self-policing to prevent science from being turned into science fiction. Most scientific journals employ this safeguard, which is known as peer review. Editors at the journals select a group of scientists to review each article before it is published. The reviewers are often some of the top academic experts in the subject, who scrutinize the study's design, statistics, and conclusions. The reviewers ask questions, demand changes, and often advise the journals' editors that the study is not worthy of being published." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Furthermore, the studies are regularly published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and so must meet some level of scientific rigor and critical scrutiny. The sheer bulk of the research argues compellingly that a force outside the understanding of orthodox science might be at work. But even if the results are legitimate, the TM studies, like the REG data, mostly concern group attention. In many instances, the meditators are not people who maintain a focused intention to change something else." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"The two researchers, David Healy and Dinah Cattell, both of the University of Wales in the United Kingdom, set out to find how many of the eighty-five articles proposed by Current Medical Directions were ultimately published in the world's scientific journals. They found fifty-five articles, including three that had been published in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association. The articles described twenty-five clinical trials, all of which had results that were favorable to selling Zoloft." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Publishing his work in more broadly read scientific journals, LaBerge became strongly identified with this exciting discovery and a leader in its continued research. Back in Kansas, each night before I went to sleep I would look at my hands and remind myself that I wished to see my hands in my dreams. Of course anyone who tries this will soon discover that staring at your hands for more than ten seconds is quite boring. When you already feel sleepy, it takes real effort to concentrate." - Robert Waggoner, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self (Get the book.)

"Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) In continuation from Chapter 8, various studies published in professional scientific journals are excerpted here, along with a few comments summarizing the findings. This list is by no means complete. Note that mutagenic means 'causing mutations', and carcinogenic means 'causing cancer'. Mutagens are typically carcinogenic. 48. "Advanced Maillard reaction end products are associated with Alzheimer's disease," Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 7 June 1994, Vol. 91 (12), pp. 5710-5714." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "He went through scientific journals and was shocked to learn that hundreds of studies around the world have shown that MSG is both toxic and addictive. He learned that MSG is injected into rats and mice to make them obese when overweight rodents are needed for experiments since these animals are not naturally obese. The presence of MSG triples the amount of insulin the pancreas secretes, and insulin is a hormone that causes fat storage. In his book The Slow Poisoning of America, John exposes the food industry for getting people addicted to their food by adding this known poison." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "Appendix D summarizes a number of informative studies published in professional scientific journals that demonstrate the toxicity of cooked food and support the claims made above in this section. Toxic Cookware As if the poisonous byproducts of cooked food were not enough, there is ample evidence that cookware creates additional toxicity. Iron skillets are not recommended for people who have too much blood iron. Aluminum pots and pans may contribute to Alzheimer's disease." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"In 1997, scientific journals throughout the world published the results of something that traditional physicists say shouldn't have happened. Reported to over 3,400 journalists, educators, scientists, and engineers in more than 40 countries, an experiment had been performed by the University of Geneva in Switzerland on the stuff that our world is made of—particles of light called photons—with results that continue to shake the foundation of conventional wisdom.20 Specifically, the scientists had split a single photon into two separate particles, creating "twins" with identical properties." - Gregg Braden, The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief (Get the book.)

"While the beta-endorphin response to these behaviors is documented in scientific journals, I imagine that your own experience can easily confirm their findings. I added dancing and being with puppies and kitties because the response surely feels like beta-endorphin. It does seem interesting that the things which are associated with being "high on life" are the beta-endorphin things. It may well be that we were given beta-endorphin to push us to do the things associated with wholeness and happiness." - Kathleen DesMaisons, Potatoes Not Prozac: Solutions for Sugar Sensitivity (Get the book.)

"Be sure that the list includes reports in scientific journals and not just reports at medical meetings. These latter have not received the careful, independent scrutiny of papers published in the scientific or medical literature. If the company Web site lists no studies or only a few reports at medical or scientific meetings, be skeptical about the company's claims. Without saying these products are absolutely bogus, I can at least point to the historical track record." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Next I tried the government-sponsored "Pub-Med" website, a database of several thousand scientific journals; but a comprehensive search there didn't yield any new information either. Then I went to the FDA website to see if I could find any unpublished data the agency had used in its decision to mandate Pharmacia's "Dear Healthcare Provider" letter." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"AstraZeneca -1,495 Aventis Ayerst Bayer Bristol Ciba Glaxo Hoffman-LaRoche Johnson & Johnson Lilly Novartis Parke-Davis Pfizer Pharmacia Roche Schering-Plough Warner-Lambert Wyeth As you just learned, all the major pharmaceuticals have teams of scientists who regularly publish articles in the scientific journals. Do you believe the drug research coming out of these companies is apt to be disinterested, unbiased and objective?" - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"Each of the featured fingerprints and harbingers is backed with a credible reference from scientific journals or news reports. Fingerprints include heat waves, ocean warming and rising sea levels, melting glaciers, and changes in the Arctic and Antarctic. Harbingers include such phenomena as reports of early nesting (reported in twenty out of sixty-five bird species studied in England), coral-reef bleaching, and the massive drought that struck the Korean Peninsula in 2001." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Literature reviews are frequently published by scientific journals to bring the reader up to date concerning what the most recent research studies have found on various topics being reviewed. In theory, those who publish the review articles are simply summarizing what other researchers have found. Their own bias should not result in any bias in the literature review. That is the theory. In real life, however, we are all more subtly influenced than we may realize—especially when our job or our income is on the line." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"But they never heard about Wright, nor he about them, though both had published in the most widely read scientific journals on earth, Nature and Physical Reviewl Jaklevic and Lambe were amazed to hear from me that their insight might after all have been right." - Luca Turin, The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell (Get the book.)

"Also note that I am not saying that until we saw the development of research published in scientific journals, we never took the right road. Tuke's Retreat was the right road. But we know it was the right path because they kept careful records on every patient that was admitted (and those records reveal their approach was very successful). In other words, research was conducted, and their research found moral treatment far more effective than Bedlam's vomits and purges. The research also reveals it was far more effective than today's mind drugs. (See Box #15-1, Moral Treatment—1954)." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"Courtney Van de Weyer, a researcher for Sustain's Food and Mental Health Project, said to me via phone from Great Britain that she and colleagues had reviewed around 500 research studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals to illustrate how changes in the food system—people eating few whole grains, mostly refined carbs, few vegetables and fruits, more sugar and salt, and so on—"may be partly responsible for the rise in mental health and behavioural problems at the same time." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"The ratio of rejected versus accepted articles is one of the highest among scientific journals. The International Journal of Health Services does not support or reject any of the conclusions reached by its contributors. Two well-regarded scientists who refereed Epstein's paper advised its publication. We will soon publish Monsanto's response and responses from other contributors regarding the issues raised in Epstein's article. NOTE Monsanto failed to accept the above invitation to publish a critique of my article. Congressional Reactions to Dr." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"Even specialized review articles in scientific journals rarely follow the past trails of evidence in order to track down how, when, and why a specific man-made illness may have first occurred and what attempts, if any, were made to control the disease at its initial outbreak. Coming on the same story told and retold again and again, albeit with a different cast of characters, I had to ask myself, Why is this the case?" - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"Findings such as that prompted more and more scientific journals to adopt conflicts of interest policies. Nowhere is this more needed than in psychiatry since no profession of its size has so much money seeking to influence it. Now that some of the psychiatric journals have adopted conflict of interest policies, we can get some idea about whether or not there are drug industry ties to the drug research. Are there? "Wow!" is the best answer. Here is the brief "declaration of interest" for one Psychiatric Bulletin article: D. T." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

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