Hippie
	A Hippie is a person who was raised under the ideological system that came out of the tumultuous 1960's in North America and western Europe. They are either of the flower-child/baby boomer generation or that generations' subsequent offspring. They possess a core belief set revolving around the values of peace and love as being essential in an increasingly globalized society, and they are oftentimes associated with non-violent anti-governmental groups. There is a stigma of drug abuse attached to the hippies that is prevalent to this day, specifically the use and abuse of marijuana and hallucinogens. Many rock movements, poets, artists, and writers from the 1960's to today have associated with this movement, most prominently The Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, and Phish. There are others too numerous to name. The movement, then and now, is considered a sub-culture by sociologists that associates itself with the left in all its political opinions. The conservative right often berates and abuses the opinions of people who associate themselves with the hippie movement and/or lifestyle, as they consider it dangerous and degenerative to a society to favor liberalism to such an extent.

  

Origins

The first signs of modern "proto-hippies" emerged in fin de siècle Europe. Between 1896 and 1908, a German youth movement arose as a countercultural reaction to the organized social and cultural clubs that centered around German folk music. Known as Der Wandervogel ("migratory bird"), the movement opposed the formality of traditional German clubs, instead emphasizing amateur music and singing, creative dress, and communal outings involving hiking and camping.  Inspired by the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Goethe, Hermann Hesse, and Eduard Baltzer, Wandervogel attracted thousands of young Germans who rejected the rapid trend toward urbanization and yearned for the pagan, back-to-nature spiritual life of their ancestors. During the first several decades of the 20th century, Germans settled around the United States, bringing the values of the Wandervogel with them. Some opened the first health food stores, and many moved to Southern California where they could practice an alternative lifestyle in a warm climate. Over time, young Americans adopted the beliefs and practices of the new immigrants. One group, called the "Nature Boys", took to the California desert and raised organic food, espousing a back-to-nature lifestyle like the Wandervogel. Songwriter Eden Ahbez wrote a hit song called Nature Boy inspired by Robert Bootzin (Gypsy Boots), who helped popularize health-consciousness, yoga, and organic food in the United States.

Like Wandervogel, the hippie movement in the United States began as a youth movement. Composed mostly of white teenagers and young adults between 15 and 25 years old, hippies inherited a tradition of cultural dissent from bohemians and beatniks of the Beat Generation in the late 1950s. Beats like Allen Ginsberg crossed over from the beat movement and became fixtures of the burgeoning hippie and anti-war movements. By 1965, hippies had become an established social group in the U.S., and the movement eventually expanded to other countries, extending as far as the United Kingdom and Europe, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Mexico, and Brazil. The hippie ethos influenced The Beatles and others in the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe, and they in turn influenced their American counterparts. Hippie culture spread worldwide through a fusion of rock music, folk, blues, and psychedelic rock; it also found expression in literature, the dramatic arts, fashion, and the visual arts, including film, posters advertising rock concerts, and album covers. Self-described hippies had become a significant minority by 1968, representing just under 0.2% of the U.S. population before declining in the mid-1970s. 

Along with the New Left and the American Civil Rights Movement, the hippie movement was one of three dissenting groups of the 1960s counterculture. Hippies rejected established institutions, criticized middle class values, opposed nuclear weapons and the Vietnam War, embraced aspects of Eastern philosophy, championed sexual liberation, were often vegetarian and Eco-friendly, promoted the use of psychedelic drugs which they believed expanded one's consciousness, and created intentional communities or communes. They used alternative arts, street theater, folk music, and psychedelic rock as a part of their lifestyle and as a way of expressing their feelings, their protests and their vision of the world and life. Hippies opposed political and social orthodoxy, choosing a gentle and non doctrinaire ideology that favored peace, love and personal freedom, expressed for example in The Beatles' song "All You Need is Love". Hippies perceived the dominant culture as a corrupt, monolithic entity that exercised undue power over their lives, calling this culture "The Establishment", "Big Brother", or "The Man". Noting that they were "seekers of meaning and value", scholars like Timothy Miller have described hippies as a new religious movement

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The Future of Music

Through the history of mankind music has stuck with us. It started out with just drums, and rhythms, but grew into the masterful works of today. From Mozart to Beethoven to Liszt to John Williams, music has made huge bounds with its complexity and beauty. Now, the question arises: How much farther CAN music actually go? 

 

We have created billions of songs, how many more can we possibly create? Recently Vsauce, the Youtube science phenom, has recently tried to answer this question. It would take us twelve hundred years to just get through all the music we have in store via itunes, soundcloud, myspace, etc. But, like anything else in life, everything comes down to numbers. We have heard songs that sound very similar. But don't fret music enthusiasts! It would take thousands of years for us to run out of 'new' music.

But how about the actual future of music? In just the past ten years we have seen a tremendous shift in the genres of music we listen too.

"We, ten years ago, weren't licensing hardly any digital," says Bryant,CEO of BMI Publishing. "Today we're licensing it, it's the fastest growing sector or our income in percentage points. We will cross $30 million in this year."

We are starting to listen to more electronic/digital music. This may come to a surprise to avid classic rock fans, and classical music enthusiasts such as myself. We are now seeing genres like: Dubstep, Drum and Bass, Ambient, etc. Trained musicians are having to learn new styles which can come to be a hard switch.But for music lovers will be a change from the usual. We can only see for ourselves as time passes. But there is one point I will make clear. Music WILL never die, but will become more diverse and beautiful.

A Collection of Thoughts for the Audience.

MOMENTS

If I had only an hour to remember, the greatest moments of my life,

the answer would be simple, those moments burning bright.

For I can live through those amazing moments

as if they were moments ago. These experiences have changed me,

yet day to day, I haven't slowed.

A day spent with friends, good music turned up way too loud.

Grasping the very world beneath our fingertips,

searching for what is to be found.

These moments, although rare...

have formed an image in my mind

of better days, and better yet to come.

Heading West, on a wild blowing wind.

STATUS QUO

The World is all a stage, and as the drama unfolds, the actors come clean. Wandering. Walking. Seeking. Waiting.

Seven years, too long to wait. Truth is a gentle absence in the face of uncertainty and we wallow in our former reality.

Holding onto the way, the path through the Universe. Destiny was never closer. We found the way of Truth and Honor in an oath of Darkness and Death.

To see both sides of the war and to stand at the edge is all we can ask of ourselves. To expect better from within by far is the least we can do.

Demons and desperation are mere temptations, adversity a far clearer measure of wisdom than experience could find. These pains are worth the pleasure. The scars are worth the story.

Maintaining. Moderating. Discipline and delusion. Found the worn path so that I may lose myself again.

Trip: State of a Dream
Facets of time, states of mind. Transcend the imagined boundaries.
Push past the walls that we put in place.
Head west and get lost, find yourself.

Truth and trust are our only allies.
Be your brother's keeper, walk the fine line between
sanity and salvation.
This world isn't meant for us to save.

Empathy and ecstacy
The worlds in our heads.
When the light goes out,
All the Earth will be still.

All just a pleasant dream
Walking with the dead.
And with the sharp edge of a thought
The continuum dissolves.

The strength of a God
hides from within.
Finding the courage to muster it
and we all begin again.


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Pieces of our minds, held together with strings and twine,
hold the Universe as it always was.
And those pieces, small pieces are part of the Whole
which some surmise as a piece of the Past.
Looking for God in all the wrong places,
hoping for a dream that may never come true.
I sit, I wait for the breeze to come through
so that I think I may see if the Sun shines again.

Elegant prose and weightless fancies,
driving a mind blind, driving a mind blind.

Formless and free, no anchors to hold me down.
Broken chains dragging far behind.
The warm hands of Fate around my mind
driving rain, pouring pain.

Majesty's mind in a humble way
Painting portraits with colors of the Soul.
On canvasses of silken white
Parades of salt and grey.

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All the world's a stage and we're all in the race.
Fighting for air, running further in place.
No magick or might can overcome truth in trust.
At the very end, this stage will remain rocks and rust.

The price of feeling human is a price paid in blood,
a cost, well worth the war Gods die for.
We're one in the same, emanations from above.

Tools of mass media, meant to confuse,
manipulative reason upon mind's bruise.
Impervious to pain, forged by flame.
Like a rock n' roll superstar
nothing to lose, everything to gain.

On a wild steel horse, heading West, no doubt.
Into the great exhaustive expansive of Life.
A life so cold in the deep unknown
no wonder I'm chasing the Sun.

Water under the bridge, on the Well.
Dying to be burned again, phoenix rises.
Like ice in my veins, chilling to the bone.
If this evil don't kill me, so be it.

Alternative Energy: An Essential Pursuit

There's a lot of discussion (and, sadly, controversy) about what we call 'alternative energy.' To begin with, the very term alternative energy carries a connotation that makes it seem fringy, and that falsely lends an air of legitimacy to doubts about the great value alternative energy can provide for us all.

This unfortunate state of affairs occurred because the explosion of fossil fuel energy use during mostly the 20th Century not only made advances in what human civilization could accomplish  possible -- advances that had never been possible before -- but by doing so granted vast power and wealth to the petroleum industry and to others who had a hand in controlling this valuable source of energy. Moreover, since it was and is in the best interest of these Petroleum Barons in terms of profit to marginalize the very notion of any energy source aside from fossil fuels (hence the term 'alternative energy'), they have applied a great deal of their power and wealth to doing just that. Unfortunately, they have done this with surprising success.

If you want details or proof, you can can find them in  Corrupted Science: Fraud, ideology, and politics in science  by John Grant, and  Merchants of Doubt  by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway.

The fact is that, although there is a lot that fossil fuels have done for us, there is also a lot we now know that we didn't know when we began using them. An honest look at the consequences of our near-total reliance on fossil fuels therefore compels the intellectually honest person to admit at least the following:

1. There's nothing fossil fuels can do for us that another form of efficently used energy can't also do for us -- in many cases, better and with considerably less harm. 


2. Fossil fuels are finite and non-renewable. Some people point out that they are technically renewable, but given the geologic spans of time needed to produce crude petroleum (millions of years), for all practical purposes, this is nonsense. If nothing else, having all of our eggs in just the fossil fuels basket is foolish because the basket will inevitably be empty sooner or later. What then?


3. The by-products of fossil fuel combustion accumulate as toxic pollution, which destroys the water we drink, and even the air we breathe. As probably the most important example, what we now call greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere and cause a steady rise in the mean annual temperature of the planet. This in turn dramatically alters weather patterns (most importantly by increasing the severity and frequency of weather extremes) and heavily damages the ecosystems on which we depend for our very lives. Joseph Fourier discovered the elementary physics by which this takes place in 1824, and we call it the Greenhouse Effect. It has been well understood for many decades, despite the claims of climate deniers.  

So, the long and short of it is that, when we take honest stock of the data, we can see that developing alternative energies is not only a good idea, but it is vital to the survival of our civilization. We must put aside the notion that so-called "alternative energy" is somehow a fringy, impractical pipe dream.

What smarter ways of producing power exist as an alternative to are fossil fuels. And fossil fuels are not only poisoning the one home we have access to (Earth), but they are also finite and in the process of running out. What smart investor would stake the future of their business on a single, dwindling resource that was growing more expensive by the day when they could include resources that provided the same benefit in a way that was steadily declining in cost and that didn't destroy the facility in which the business existed?

That's a rhetorical question.

Discrimination

        Do people today want to see others hurt? Do people want to see them feel as if they have to hide themselves from the rest of the world, hibernate, and never come out?  Terrorism. What does terrorism really mean? When people think of terrorism, the first thing that comes to mind are Muslims and the Middle East. Ever since September 11, 2001, millions of Muslims across the world are ashamed to identify themselves as what they are.
       
   Society today is quick to think that if one is a Muslim or from the Middle East then you are a terrorist or somehow in association with a terrorist group. Discriminating against Muslims just because a couple of extremists decide to turn a city of innocence into a city of terror and conflict, and blaming the whole race is an ignorant and ridiculous idea.

 Societies today are like robots; they are programmed to think that anyone who grows a beard or wears a headscarf are terrorists. Where does society really hear or get these preconceived notions? Unsurprisingly, most people get their information from the false stories they hear from the media. Muslims in America are afraid to act and dress the way the religion is taught due to the discriminative comments that they have to tolerate. There should be no shame when it comes to the religion you practice. There is no shame in standing up for Islam even though thousands of lives were lost and injured during the horrific and heartbreaking day of 9/11. Yes, those terrorists were Muslims. But these small amounts of extremists that take violence in the name of God are not and cannot be a Muslim. Is it reasonable that a small group of extremists that do not represent the religion’s teachings correctly and instead, manipulate it; represent all 1.5 billion Muslims in the world? Not only is that ridiculous but it shows how the world today is forced to believe what they hear. Just people’s ignorance leads them to the idea that Muslims are terrorists, when in reality they are not.
The Quran (the Holy Book of Islam), states that one is not to harm another. In Islam, the Quran declares that man shall not worship God (Allah) by ending his life. If it is done, then it is going against everything that is being preached by Islam. In Islam, people are taught about the importance of life and how it is such a blessing to actually be alive and be able to follow the word of Allah.  Life is such a cherished aspect to the human race. Any person would think that no matter which religion they follow, a person must live in order to obey and carry out these teachings. Any person that practices Islam truly knows that they are not supposed to kill innocent civilians similar to how those extremists did in that horrid month of September. People were terrified that day, including Muslims. The air was composed of fog and smokiness, soot and dirt, smut and dust. That day, hundreds of families were torn apart. That day, hundreds of lives were lost due to the cruel and indecent act of those so-called ‘Muslims’. That day, America marked the beginning of an endless discrimination towards Muslims for the rest of their lives; in misery and in shame due to the misinterpretation of those inhumane and immoral terrorists. People who translate and ‘mistakenly’ manipulate the words of the Quran are the ones who seem to believe that killing is ordained in Islam. How can killing be a fundamental practice in Islam if the people who are trying to translate the words aren’t even Muslim, and don’t even understand the context of the passage? Muslims practice Islam all over the world. The term ‘Muslim’ stands for two meanings “one who submits to God” and “peace”. This itself proves that Islam is the furthest thing from violence and terrorism.

Most people associate Islam with terrorism because the majority of terrorists claim to be Muslims and defend their actions as a religious right; however this does not truly mean that all Muslims are terrorists. Therefore, standing up for the religion of Islam is an important action in the life I live. To my personal understanding, the person who commits terrorist acts and claims to be Muslim is in fact the furthest thing possible from a Muslim. Muslims are taught from early childhood to late adulthood to not harm yourself or others. If this is one of the main teachings of Islam, then how can people blame Muslims as a whole and call them terrorists and extremists? It’s like representing one Christian or one Jew (which turns out to be a terrorist) out of the entire religion. Does this mean that Christianity or Judaism are confined as terrorist and extreme religions? Of course not! This idea is just beyond irrational, it’s ridiculous that people actually believe it.

One of the most famous terrorists of our time is Osama Bin laden. In his case, I would not even dare call him a Muslim because of his misinterpretation and manipulation of the word of God (Allah) to mean whatever he wants. However, his interpretation of God’s word is going against everything that Islam stands for. If something is being taught to everyone, but it is being misinterpreted and falsified, then shouldn’t one clarify that the information wrong? If a teacher made a mistake and a student found it, but didn’t correct her or say anything to her to realize her mistake, then that is just building upon false information. And in the end, you get the wrong answer. People have conveyed the wrong message of Islam and the results that we’ve perceived are insulting and hideous to the eyes of the whole rest of Islam.

Unfortunately, in recent history there have been many different types of inhumane occurrences that have happened. Many of which are done by people who have claim to be of the Muslim faith. As said before, Muslims who kill themselves in the name of God is an outrageous and ridiculous request from any one, especially if was demanded by God. Today, Islam is one of the fastest and largest practiced religions in the world. However, many Muslims wear a mask because they are afraid to reveal themselves beneath the cover as Muslims due to the hatred and ignorant discrimination. This is a situation in my daily life that I personally face every day. Unfortunately, I have been called a terrorist a couple of times. At times, it feels like I am the only living breathing creature in this world, as if I am a bee being kicked out of the hive. At times, it is as if I am trapped in a room being yelled at for just simply being Muslim. If you look at me, I mean look at me; I am a teenage American Muslim who looks and acts like every other teenager. So what makes me the definition of a terrorist? What other than my religion makes me so different from society?

In a situation like this, it is like branding a person something that they are not, like falsifying a person’s character and cheating themselves to think that we are low and inhumane. I guess it is some type of human flaw to question and bring down things that are not understood. So next time you or anyone is quick to judge, or pass judgments on a person, fully think about what the word ‘terrorism’ really means, and think about the affect of a comment like that could have on a person. There are many different ways that the word discrimination can be defined and used. However, there is one thing in common among all of these definitions, and that is judging; labeling someone or something without a true test of character to back this accusation. Islam, as for many other people, is what makes me the person I am, so society can rest assure that this is a cause and situation that I will stand up for.

Happy Birthday Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus



Copernicus is said to be the founder of modern astronomy. His observations were the first to place the sun, not the Earth, at the center of what is now known as the solar system. By 1514, at the behest of the Catholic church, he was involved in working to improve the calendar and in 1530 produced a major piece of research, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres).

Nicolaus Copernicus was born on 19 February 1473, the youngest of four children of Nicolaus Copernicus, Sr., a well-to-do merchant who had moved to Torun from Cracow, and Barbara Watzenrode, the daughter of a leading merchant family in Torun. The city, on the Vistula River, had been an important inland port in the Hanseatic League. However, fighting between the Order of the Teutonic Knights and the Prussian Union in alliance with the Kingdom of Poland ended in 1466, and West Prussia, which included Torun, was ceded to Poland, and Torun was declared a free city of the Polish kingdom. Thus the child of a German family was a subject of the Polish crown.

The father died in 1483, and the children's maternal uncle, Lucas Watzenrode (1447–1512), took them under his protection. Watzenrode was a very successful cleric — he was to become bishop of Warmia (Ermland in German) in 1489 — and he both facilitated his nephew's advancement in the church and directed his education. In 1491 Copernicus enrolled in the University of Cracow. There is no record of his having obtained a degree, which was not unusual at the time as he did not need a bachelor's degree for his ecclesiastical career or even to study for a higher degree. But the University of Cracow offered courses in mathematics, astronomy, and astrology and Copernicus's interest was sparked, which is attested to by his acquisition of books in these subjects while at Cracow.

Astrology was taught in the medical schools of Italy. “The importance attached to the study of the stars in medieval medical education derived from a general and widely held belief that the heavenly bodies play an intermediary role in the creation of things here below and continue to influence them throughout their existence. The actual uses of astrology in medical diagnosis and treatment by learned physicians were many and various. ‘Astrological medicine’ is a vague and unsatisfactory term that can embrace any or all of the following: first, to pay attention to the supposed effect of astrological birth signs or signs at conception on the constitution and character of one's patients; second, to vary treatment according to various celestial conditions…third, to connect the doctrine of critical days in illness with astrological features, usually phases of the moon; and fourth, to predict or explain epidemics with reference to planetary conjunctions, the appearance of comets, or weather conditions”. It is true that astrology required that medical students acquire some grounding in astronomy; nevertheless, it is likely that Copernicus studied astrology while at the University of Padua.

Copernicus began to work on astronomy on his own. Sometime between 1510 and 1514 he wrote an essay that has come to be known as the Commentariolus that introduced his new cosmological idea, the heliocentric universe, and he sent copies to various astronomers. He continued making astronomical observations whenever he could, hampered by the poor position for observations in Frombork and his many pressing responsibilities as canon. Nevertheless, he kept working on his manuscript of On the Revolutions. He also wrote what is known as Letter against Werner in 1524, a critique of Johann Werner's “Letter concerning the Motion of the Eighth Sphere” (De motu octavae sphaerae tractatus primus). Copernicus claimed that Werner erred in his calculation of time and his belief that before Ptolemy the movement of the fixed stars was uniform, but Copernicus's letter did not refer to his cosmological ideas.

In 1539 a young mathematician named Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514–1574) from the University of Wittenberg came to study with Copernicus. Rheticus brought Copernicus books in mathematics, in part to show Copernicus the quality of printing that was available in the German-speaking cities. He published an introduction to Copernicus's ideas, the Narratio prima (First Report). Most importantly, he convinced Copernicus to publish On the Revolutions. Rheticus oversaw most of the printing of the book, and on 24 May 1543 Copernicus held a copy of the finished work on his deathbed.

Copernicus died in 1543 and was never to know what a stir his work had caused. It went against the philosophical and religious beliefs that had been held during the medieval times. Man, it was believed (and still believed by some) was made by God in His image, man was the next thing to God, and, as such, superior, especially in his best part, his soul, to all creatures, indeed this part was not even part of the natural world (a philosophy which has proved disastrous to the earth's environment as any casual observer of the 20th century might confirm by simply looking about). Copernicus' theories might well lead men to think that they are simply part of nature and not superior to it and that ran counter to the theories of the politically powerful churchmen of the time.

Two other Italian scientists of the time, Galileo and Bruno, embraced the Copernican theory unreservedly and as a result suffered much personal injury at the hands of the powerful church inquisitors. Giordano Bruno had the audacity to even go beyond Copernicus, and, dared to suggest, that space was boundless and that the sun was and its planets were but one of any number of similar systems: Why! -- there even might be other inhabited worlds with rational beings equal or possibly superior to ourselves. For such blasphemy, Bruno was tried before the Inquisition, condemned and burned at the stake in 1600. Galileo was brought forward in 1633, and, there, in front of his "betters," he was, under the threat of torture and death, forced to his knees to renounce all belief in Copernican theories, and was thereafter sentenced to imprisonment for the remainder of his days.

The most important aspect of Copernicus' work is that it forever changed the place of man in the cosmos; no longer could man legitimately think his significance greater than his fellow creatures; with Copernicus' work, man could now take his place among that which exists all about him, and not of necessity take that premier position which had been assigned immodestly to him by the theologians.

His long-lost skeleton was located in 2005 under floor tiles near one of the side altars in the 14th-century Roman Catholic cathedral in Frombork. Forensic detective work has successfully matched DNA samples recovered from remains in a cathedral grave with hairs retrieved from a book the scholar priest is known to have owned.

The identification is the culmination of four years of investigation and centuries of speculation about the final resting place of the man who challenged the Bible and medieval teachings of the church.

Further Reading Material:
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Nicolaus_Copernicus
http://www.phy.pmf.unizg.hr/~dpaar/fizicari/xcopern.html
http://www.biography.com/people/nicolaus-copernicus-9256984

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Fluoride Detox: Ousted as Poison, Here’s How to Get it Out of Your System

Experts have been warning for years against the dangers of sodium fluoride, but recently more awareness has spread than ever before. Following the rampant success of essential news stories centered around fluoride, including a story I authored just three short days ago highlighting the horrendous amount of sodium fluoride in doctor recommended toothpaste (500,000% higher than fluoridated water), it’s now important to discuss how to actually get it out of your system through fluoride detox.

Even if you somehow managed to escape the ingestion of fluoridated water in your younger years, chances are you’ve been exposed to food items that actually can contain about 180 times the sodium fluoride content as fluoridated water according to fluoride expert Jeff Green. This has to do with how what’s known as aluminum fluoride, or Cryolite. Used as a pesticide due to its ability to kill bugs, conventional farmers will oftentimes spray excessive amounts of the sticky substance onto crops. As a result, the aluminum fluoride substance will reside unless thoroughly washed off of the produce.

In an interview with Dr. Joseph Mercola, Jeff explains the issue:

“Cryolite is actually sodium aluminum fluoride… This sodium aluminum fluoride is especially effective at killing bugs,” Green says. “It’s also very sticky, so when they spray it, it’s more likely to stick on your produce, unless you’re… really working at trying to get it off of it.”

Admittedly it’s not as high as the extra-fluoride toothpaste that is pushed on kids to treat their nonexistent ‘fluoride deficiency’ peddled by some dentists, however it is still a detrimental amount. Plus, it’s more than likely that you’ve been exposed to both fluoridated tap water and conventional fluoride-sprayed. So what can you do about it?

Fluoride Detox Protocol

The realm of fluoride detox, or fluoride detoxification, is often left untouched. After all, this poisonous substance is still considered perfectly safe by many despite even Harvard admitting that it completely wreaks havoc on IQ and brain development. But this article isn’t about the history of fluoride, it’s about getting it out of your system. Thankfully, a number of fluoride detox methods do exist that can help remove sodium fluoride from your body in addition to another of other concerning materials.

Selenium

Selenium is one nutrient that oftentimes is the first answer given to those seeking to combat the existence of sodium fluoride in their bodies. As FoodConsumer reports, selenium has actually been found to help block the effects of fluoride as well as fluoride elimination. A great natural source of selenium is Brazil nuts, but is important to keep your intake in balance. I don’t recommend you start eating handfuls of Brazil nuts. Many in the field of natural health recommend a dose of 100 to 200 micrograms, though this does fall below the National Institute of Health’s ‘upper limit’ of 400 micrograms.

Brazil nuts vary in selenium content depending on a number of factors, but on average you can expect 70 to 90 micrograms per serving. Selenium is also found in fish, meat, and nuts. Don’t forget also that taking selenium along with high doses of vitamin C and zinc can actually inhibit proper absorption. Here is a useful list of foods that contain selenium that includes microgram count.

Nascent Iodine

Iodine is important in many ways even outside of fluoride detox, but the reality is that fluoride directly attacks the thyroid. The key here is that iodine, preferably nascent iodine which is the best quality, helps to remove sodium fluoride through the urine as calcium fluoride. I recommend and personally take Dr. Edward Group’s Detoxadine (as always, I was not paid to recommend this product — I actually take it and purchase it myself).

Tamarind

Have you ever heard of tamarind? It’s a staple in the ancient Ayurvedic medicine system, which is considered to be the ‘mother’ of natural medicine. In addition to yielding delicious teas when added to your favorite tea beverage, tamarind also helps expel fluoride through the urine.

Dry Sauna

As with many other toxic substances, a powerful dry sauna session can help to excrete sodium fluoride from fatty tissues. Be sure to drink up on purified water to replenish yourself afterwards.

Detoxifying fluoride from your body can be challenging, but it is a process that can help alleviate the massive build up of this toxic chemical sold to the public as ‘safe’ and ‘effective’ by pseudo-scientific fraudsters. While you cannot go back in time and avoid all exposure to fluoride, you can utilize these methods to detoxify it from within your body today.


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Study Finds Flame Retardants in 80% of Baby Products Read more

Sometimes things are so disturbing, we have to revisit them just to ensure our readers heard. An estimated 80% of baby products tested contain toxic or untested chemical flame retardants, according to a study conducted just a couple years ago. These flame retardants, some of them identified as carcinogenic, are found in children’s cribs, changing pads, car seats and more.

According to the study released two years ago and published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, children are being exposed to chemicals that are proven unsafe. One of those chemicals, called chlorinated tris, was removed from children’s pajamas in the 1970s because of concerns that it caused cancer. But it wasn’t banned, so we are now finding it in many other baby products.

The EPA says there is a “moderate level of concern” in regards to tris being linked to reproductive issues, cancer, and even developmental problems. The Consumer Product Safety Commission says tris “may pose a significant health risk.” But, we find it in countless children’s products.

According to the Environmental Working Group, children have three times the level of flame retardants in their bodies when compared with adults. This is largely because kids spend time on the carpet, among the dust, and often put their fingers in their mouths.

About 90% of Americans have flame retardants in their body.

Recent research has found that children exposed to these chemicals have a greater chance of neurodevelopmental delays—even if they are only exposed while in the womb. The children with mothers who were exposed to the most flame retardant chemicals while pregnant scored lower on IQ tests and evaluations for motor skills and attention spans.

So, why is the industry using all of these chemical? One reason is to comply with the laws of California. California represents such a large market, that many manufacturers make all of their products to comply with the strict fire safety standards of that state.

California, for its part, has backed off a bit, exempting some baby products from their required fire safety standards. The brands BabyLuxe Organic, Baby Bjorn, Orbit Baby and Boppy say they meet California standards without using chemical flame retardants.

Unfortunately, companies aren’t required to label their products with what flame retardants they used—another instance of the industry overlooking the harm to consumer health in favor of the all mighty dollar.

Additional Sources:
USA Today
SF Gate
http://naturalsociety.com/toxic-flame-retardants-found-in-80-of-baby-products/#ixzz2KPB78XEL

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