Building a better baby includes proper Vitamen D supplementation in pregnancy

You don't need to know everything there is to know about vitamen D to be able to make a large and sustained improvement to your health or to the health of your children.

Can you imagine a world where almost none of our children got juvenile diabetes, or other autoimmune disease or cancer? Well it may be possible as even supplementing 1000 iu's of Vitamen D, in pregnant women, has shown an  85% reduction of type 1 diabetes in their 7 year old children compared to pregnant women who did not supplement vitamen D.

That was just one condition studied and there are studies that show the prevention of many other chronic diseases including osteomalacia, rickets, multiple sclerosis, celiac disease, schizophrenia, heart disease, type 1 diabetes, and cancer. These studies are reviewed here in these two links.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20974417

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20646224

 

So you're pregnant and you ask: how much vitamen D should I take that is safe and effective?

I recommend, during pregnancy, to take 10,000 iu's of vitamen D per day, with a good multivitamen which contains at least 1 mg of folic acid. It's perfectly safe and has the potential to protect your child's health into their adult years.

Yours in health.
Dr. Barbara

 

 

How to Rid Your Body of Heavy Metals: A 3-Step Detoxification Plan

Dr Mark Hyman, a physician who calls himself a "functional medicine practitioner" as he looks at the  whole body and looks for the cause of disturbed health, recently wrote about mercury and it's toxic effects. It's clear that mercury and particularly almalgum dental fillings and in some persons, vaccines are causing significant health problems. You are hearing conflicting information. In this article from his blog he will explain and give you information to help you interpret this information about mercury and especially it's links to autism. 

The bottom line is: is mercury hurting you? It doesn't matter if mercury is safe for most people, you are a unique individual and it might be part of the picture of the cause of your problems.

If you should decide that mercury is part of your problems, then here is a 3- step detoxification plan.

Dr Hyman writes "AFTER MY RECENT BLOG ON MERCURY, I’m sure many of you are depressed and discouraged about mercury and its toxic effects. The bad news is today I am going to review more of mercury’s toxic effects and expand on what I learned at the medical conference on mercury I mentioned in my last article on mercury …
But the good news is I will provide you with a clear, three-step plan to help your body detoxify from mercury and other heavy metals and recover your health. I have used this same plan successfully and safely with hundreds and hundreds of patients over the last 10 years — and it’s the same process I used myself to overcome mercury toxicity!
But first, let’s look at the data presented at “The Impact of Mercury on Human Health and the Environment” conference.
Read......http://drhyman.com/how-to-rid-your-body-of-mercury-and-other-heavy-metals-a-3-step-plan-to-recover-your-health-523/

To your health
Dr. Barbara

A dying bioethicist warns of the peril of euthanasia

Here is a most poignant letter by a medical bio ethicist who himself is receiving palliative care.
He successfully argues against legalized euthanasia. Here he states:

"The fear of being a burden is a major risk to the survival of those who are chronically ill.  If euthanasia were lawful, that sense of burden would be greatly increased for there would be even greater moral pressure to relinquish one’s hold on a burdensome life.  Seriously ill people do not need euthanasia. We need better provision of palliative care services aimed at managing symptoms and maximising function, especially as we approach death.  Rather than help to die, the cause of dignity would be more greatly helped if more was done to help people live more fully with the dying process...

The proposal to make provision for a terminally person who is suffering to request, and a doctor to provide, assistance to die makes it less likely that adequate efforts will be made to make better provision for palliative care services.  Legalized euthanasia would give those responsible for funding and providing palliative care a political “out” in that respect...
In other places, such as the United Kingdom, for instance, which have adopted very liberal policies on other social policies, such as reproductive technology, gay unions and abortion, the Parliaments have strongly opposed euthanasia because euthanasia cannot be made safe for people who are seriously ill and thus vulnerable.  It is worth noting that jurisdictions such as the Netherlands and Belgium that legalized euthanasia, lacked the availability of the kind of palliative care services that developed in the UK.

Read the whole letter here         http://www.mercatornet.com/careful/view/8335/